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HUDSON VALLEY EDITION CONTENTS 11/07

NEWS AND POLITICS

HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING & GIFT GUIDE

26 FROM FORCED EVACUATION TO LIBERAL EDUCATION

86 GIFTS THAT KEEP GIVING

Senior editor Lorna Tychostup travels across Kurdistan, reporting on the squalid conditions inside an illegal displaced persons camp and the hopeful work being done in Sulaimaniyeh toward the founding of a liberal arts university.

32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC The final installment of Larry Beinhart’s series on the perils of government secrecy.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 THE POLAR BEARS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY Hillary Harvey spends time tracking climate change with the scientists and researchers at the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

38 FAIR LADY Ann Braybrooks visits Cecilia Dinio-Durkin of Women’s Work in Cold Spring, who specializes in fairly traded items from Africa and South America.

Why give Uncle Charlie another snowflake sweater? Francis Cruz offers alternatives to gift giving that put charity before consumption.

88 SPIRIT OF THE SEASON This holiday season, offer gifts that host and guest can enjoy together: wine.

Francis Cruz talks to local merchants and vinters about smart buying choices.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 94 THE HEALTHY BRAIN As we exercise our bodies, so we should perform mental calisthenics.

Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Gary Small recommend ways to nurture neurons.

98 INNER VISION: POWER OF THE GROUP Jeffrey Schneider explains the healing potential of group therapy.

BUSINESS SERVICES 75 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

90 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services.

100 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

Tips on cultivating brain health from Dr. Andrew Weill and Dr. Gary Small.

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ARTS & CULTURE

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

42 PORTFOLIO

56 SHORT STORY CONTEST

f-Stop Fitzgerald’s portraits of musicians.

44 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson reviews Jo Andres at Raintree Gallery and Keith Edmier at Bard’s CCS.

47 GALLERY AND MUSEUM GUIDE

Fiction by our short story contest winner, Timothy Tocher’s “Red Rover.”

60 BUT HOW DO I START THE MIDDLE? Gioia Timpanelli, Akiko Busch, and Janine Pommy Vega on the pitfalls of writing.

62 WELL MET! Hudson Valley writers relate encounters with notable literati.

64 POETRY Poems by Gary Beck, Brett Bevell, Richard Bronson, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Frank LaRonca, Marc Levy, James Richter Jr., Jo Salas, and E. P. Schultz.

50 MUSIC Peter Aaron interviews Graham Parker.

Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Courtenay Budd Sleep is Behind the Door Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

Trio Loco Jass Reviewed by DJ Wavy Davy.

Uncle Monk Uncle Monk Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren.

72 FOOD & DRINK Amy Giezentanner profiles Gary Allen, author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen.

140 PARTING SHOT

66 CHRONOGRAM’S CHOICE Best-reviewed books of the past year.

68 AUTHOR PORTRAITS Jennifer May takes aim at Hudson Valley writers.

70 LITERATURE, THE MUSICAL Readers take a shot at our humor contest, answering the musical question: What great work of literature would you turn into an all-singing-and-dancing extravaganza?

71 OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS Small presses and obscure publications advertise for content.

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THE FORECAST 116 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 113 Folk-rock songstress Dar Williams plays the Towne Crier in Pawling on November 4.

118 Tobey Carey screens Stanley’s House at Kingston’s ASK Arts Center on November 14.

121 Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour plays UPAC in Kingston on November 18.

125 Hudson River School paintings at the Putnam County Historical Society.

126 The photographs of Miguel Gandert at SUNY New Paltz’s Dorsky Museum.

128 Arts-in-the-schools initiative A Break from the Constant in Poughkeepsie.

129 Yosvany Terry’s Ye-dé-gbé Project plays two area shows this month.

PLANET WAVES 134 THE ROAD TO NOWHERE Eric Francis Coppolino examines the intersection of the personal and the global in his past. Plus horoscopes.

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Hudson Valley based sculptor Martin Puryear took a path into sculpture making that was anything but direct. Born in 1941, the African-American artist was raised in then still-segregated Washington, DC. Coming of age in the turbulent 1960s, he studied painting at Catholic University there before signing on to a two-year hitch with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone in 1964. Reconnecting with his (presumed) West African roots, he became acquainted with local craft traditions, the weavers and potters who produced primarily utilitarian objects—vessels, weavings, and other basic forms that later became essential to his approach in sculpture.

Before returning to the States, Puryear spent two more years studying printmaking in Stockholm, pursuing sculpture on his own. Thoroughly absorbing both the modernist aesthetic and the key construction techniques employed in the furniture factories of Sweden and Denmark, all the essential elements of his unique artistic style were in place when he came back home in 1968.

Using a vocabulary of the most simple, stripped-down forms, most often executed in wood, Puryear’s sculptures emphasize the manual process of their making.

Dense with psychological and intellectual references, these abstracted forms open surprising new windows on issues of identity, culture, and history. Partaking of truly global influences, yet always fundamentally grounded in the purity of its materials and the touch of its maker, Puryear has forged a bold body of work that both underscores and ultimately transcends his African-American heritage.

Ladder for Booker T. Washington began with the idea to play with forced perspective, to fool the eye into believing that the work continued much further in depth than it actually does. Puryear began by splitting a slender, 36-foot tall, ash tree that had taken on an unusual, zig-zag growth pattern, using the two halves of the tree as the side rails of the ladder. Connecting them with maple rungs, the ladder itself is balanced delicately atop a towering wall, leaving the rungs at the bottom floating suggestively a foot or so off the floor.

The title of the piece actually came after the work was made, as is most frequently the case with Puryear’s work. Reflecting on the metaphorical qualities made real in the finished piece, he recognized a connection to what he saw as “the kind of gradual, illusory notion of upward progress that Washington encouraged blacks to adopt in the nineteenth century against an overwhelming set of obstacles to our advancement.”

This comment appears in an interview by Richard J. Powell with the artist in the catalogue for his new, three-decade retrospective, which spans his career from his first solo museum show in 1977 to the present, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on November 4. On view in New York through January 14, 2008, this major exhibition will then travel to Fort Worth, Washington, and San Francisco.

—Beth E. Wilson

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CAPITAL REGION EDITOR Timothy Cahill tcahill@chronogram.com EDITORIAL INTERN Francis Cruz fcruz@chronogram.com PROOFREADERS Christopher Hewitt, Candyce Martin-Lynch CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Larry Beinhart, Ann Braybrooks, Jay Blotcher, Diana Bryan, Akiko Busch, Eric Francis Coppolino, Amber S. Clark, DJ Wavy Davy, Alison Gaylin, Amy Giezentanner, Amlin Gray, Hillary Harvey, Mikhail Horowitz, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Jennifer May, Sharon Nichols, Ron Nyswaner, Matt Petricone, Daniel Pinkwater, Janine Pommy Vega, Kim Scafuro, Edward Schwarzschild, Jeremy Schwartz, Jeffrey Schneider, Danny Shanahan, Sparrow, Gioia Timpanelli, Timothy Tocher, Nancy Willard, Beth E. Wilson, Carol Zaloom

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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS

Your holiday dinner shouldn’t be better dressed than you.

Akiko Busch has written about design and culture since 1979. She is the author of Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live and The Uncommon Life of Common Objects: Essays on Design an the Everyday. Her most recent book of essays, Nine Ways to Cross a River, a collection of essays about swimming across American rivers, was published in 2007.

She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years, and her essays have appeared in numerous magazines and exhibition catalogs. Currently, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday regional section. She lives in Dutchess County with her husband and two sons. Akiko’s essay in our Literary Supplement appears on page 60.

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Storyteller and writer Gioia Timpanelli is one of the founders of the worldwide revival of storytelling. Among the eight series of programs she created, wrote, produced, and broadcast for public television, she received two Emmy citations for a series on storytelling. Among her awards are the National Women’s Book Award and the Maharishi Award. Her short stories and essays have been published in anthologies in the US and Italy. In 1999, she won the American Book Award for Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily. Her novel What Makes a Child Lucky will be published in 2008 by W. W. Norton. Gioia’s essay in our Literary Supplement appears on page 60.

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CHRONOGRAM SEEN PHOTOS: CAFE CHRONOGRAM, MATT PETRICONE; KINGSTON ITALIAN FESTIVAL, EILEEN CARPENTER; WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL, JOHN MAZLISH; GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT, ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community. Here's some of what we saw in October: CAFE CHRONOGRAM IN BEACON / KINGSTON ITALIAN FESTIVAL / WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL / GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT

Clockwise from top left: Skip Piper (drums) and Stanton Warren (guitar and vocals) of Venture Lift play Cafe Chronogram at Muddy Cup in Beacon on October 13. The Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci, life-sized puppets from Mark Alexander’s Mortal Beasts and Deities troupe at Kingston’s inaugural Italian Festival on September 29. Producer/director/actor (and Boiceville resident) Larry Fessenden at the Woodstock Film Festival. Fessenden produced one film at the festival, Trigger Man, and acted in another, The Hunter, a short by Benjamin Gray based on a story by Tobias Wolff.

Zakir Hussain and Mickey Hart of the Global Drum Project at the Bardavon on October 14.

CHRONOGRAM SPONSORS IN NOVEMBER: RIVERFIRE (11/3); CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT MUDDY CUP IN POUGHKEEPSIE FEATURING BARUSHKA, JOHN ESPOSITO, AND PHILLIP LEVINE (11/9); GRAHAM PARKER (11/10); EATS, READS, AND LEAVES: CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT PARTY (11/29).

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FIRST IMPRESSION THEATRE Sophocles’ Antigone November 8–10, 15–17 at 8 p.m.

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detail of Félicien Rops Le Coup de la Jarretière, 1882 from the Ken Ratner Collection

Bird’s-Eye View: Woodstock Film Festival Recap Every year the Woodstock Film Festival gets better. I know. I went to the very first film of the first year, and it was dreadful. The film was Swimmers, directed

by Doug Sadler. Set on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, this listless story of a depressed 11-year-old girl was filled with bad alternative rock music. The biggest problem with the movie was its almost total lack of swimmers.

By contrast, this year’s festival (the eighth) began with The Fiddle and the Drum, a performance of the Alberta Ballet (of Canada) choreographed to the songs of Joni Mitchell. Twenty-five young, androgynous, multiethnic dancers performed, as the songs played. (The dancers were painted—smeared with pastel colors, on their hair and torsos, perhaps by Joni herself.) Almost all the music was from Dog Eat Dog, an obscure record from 1985 that now seems prophetic—the lyrics capture the unconscious imperialism and gratuitous lying of 2007.

The Fiddle and the Drum is a rock video for geniuses. Instead of the clichéd acting in most videos—the girlfriend walking out the door defiantly, the singer-boyfriend protesting his innocence—the arms and necks and thighs of these dancers move in intricate displays. (The choreography is by Jean Grand-Maitre.)

By the end of the movie, I was weeping.

After eight years of the Woodstock Film Festival, I finally understand their slogan (“Fiercely Independent”). It means they don’t show Hollywood films. Many festivals—even the ultrasnob New York Film Festival—eventually get sucked into the Hollywood Publicity Machine. The WFF, so far, has not.

I saw Oswald’s Ghost, Robert Stone’s captivating documentary about Lee Harvey Oswald. At the party afterward, I had an exclusive interview with the director, who told me that much of my “information” about the Kennedy assassination was mythical: dozens of people didn’t rush to the grassy knoll because they heard shots being fired; the parade route wasn’t changed at the last moment. The “Mr. X” whom Oliver Stone relied on for JFK was not credible at all. And Jim Garrison, the New Orleans DA who dramatically announced, “The CIA killed Kennedy,” had been in a mental institution.

Stone said it was impossible that Jack Ruby planned the murder of Oswald, because he left the house at 11:17, and Oswald was supposed to change cells at 10am.

The Warren Commission was covering up something—the fact that they knew Oswald was a threat, and didn’t properly track him. Also, they downplayed Oswald’s Marxism, to avoid a confrontation with Russia.

“Oswald’s mother is the key to Oswald,” Stone said. (In the film, we see her say: “My son has done more for America than anyone in the 20th century!”—after the assassination.)

Neal Cassady covers Neal’s life from the time he met Jack Kerouac in 1946 to his death on a railroad track in Mexico in 1968. Immediately after the film, arguments broke out around the theater. The man next to me turned to his friend and said: “At Wetlands, I saw a film compiled by Ken Babbs of footage by the Merry Pranksters—it was magical! The Pranksters in this film were just a bunch of dreary dopes!”

A group of five sexagenarians in the lounge shouted about Neal Cassady. “Some of us feel it’s the worst film we’ve ever seen, and others feel it’s just the worst film we’ve ever seen at a film festival,” reported a bearded man when I explained that I was the press.

“It’s very difficult for young people to understand the Beat era,” I observed.

(Noah Buschel, the writer and director of the film, is 29.) “It’s like the Napoleonic Wars to them.”

“But a young person could make a good movie about the Napoleonic Wars,” observed a female sexagenarian. “There was no one in this film you’d want to spend even a minute with!”

“I think Buschel has some grudging respect for Kerouac,” I put in.

“Yes, that’s a good word for the film. It was grudging,” she replied.

But the music was remarkable. There were three songs by Don Cherry, who played “pocket trumpet” for the original Ornette Coleman Quartet, two Thelonious Monk tunes, and two Pharaoh Sanders pieces. There’s one scene, toward the end, where Cassady visits his sleeping family in San Francisco. He’s crept into their house, after abandoning them. Instead of the melancholy violins you’d hear in any conventional film, Pharaoh Sanders is screeching joyously. Neal never wakes up his wife or children. He just stands there, listening to his interior jazz ecstasy.

I sleep poorly during the festival. Seeing six films a day is like traveling through Peru. At night, your mind is seething with the faces of all the farmers and orthodontists you’ve met.

—Sparrow To read Sparrow’s blogs from the Woodstock Film Festival, visit chronogram.com.

ESTEEMED READER The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

—Walt Whitman Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: When I was a young man working for a health supplement distributor, I won a car for my success in sales. I chose my dream car and was ready to pick it up when I was confronted with a problem. Because of my habit of hastiness and resulting speeding tickets, the insurance costs were greater than the car payments.

When I fully realized that I couldn’t afford the car, I offered it to my teacher. He graciously declined, but suggested I give it to my girlfriend, for whom the insurance costs were lower. I was overjoyed at this option as I fully expected to drive the car as much as I liked. So the three of us went to the dealership to take delivery. Drooling copiously, I made my way to the driver’s seat of the brand-new performance sedan.

My teacher came around to the window and waited for me to open it.

“You can’t drive this car,” he said.

“What? Why?!” I asked.

“You gave this car as a gift,” he said, “so you have to give it fully, with nothing attached.”

Seeing the truth of his words I skulked into the back seat for the ride home, and didn’t drive the car for the five years we owned it. Initially, riding in the passenger or backseat of my dream car was excruciating, but I gradually learned to quell my resentment, and learned a little more clearly what it means to truly give a gift.

Some months ago I was invited to a meeting at Miriam’s Well, a conference and retreat center in Saugerties, that was described as “a radical experiment in generosity.” Our host, a radiant man named Nipun Mehta, is the founder of an organization called CharityFocus that has the mission of giving and inspiring giving in the truest spirit of the word.

He began the meeting with these words: “Imagine walking down the street and a woman comes up to you and says, ‘Hello. I have an offering for you.’ Puzzled, you look up and in your palm falls a $7,500 check. ‘Why me?’ ‘Serendipity,’ she says. ‘What should I do with it?’

‘Whatever you want.’ ‘How did you decide on $7,500?’ ‘We sat in a circle of silence, wrote down a number on a piece of paper, and it averaged out to $7,500.’

And then she walks away. Now, that’s a pretty ridiculous story, but that’s what has brought us together here. Except that instead of running into this woman on the street, I ran into her on the Internet.”

Following Nipun’s introduction, the assembled group—included a doctor, an Internet entrepreneur, a professional soccer player turned Hollywood actor, a Zen Buddhist chaplain, and a TV news producer—shared experiences that reflected each person’s understanding of generosity. One man described finishing a bike ride on a busy Manhattan sidewalk. Out of nowhere a street vendor appeared with a chair for him to sit comfortably while he changed his shoes. The rider thanked the vendor who looked him in the eye and said, “You know, I don’t have much, but I have my freedom.”

A woman described sitting beside an elderly man on a bus trip and discovering in their conversation that he was a holocaust survivor. He had lost a daughter, who would have been the woman’s age had she survived. She was touched by the gift of his story and for having his shoulder for support while she slept during the long journey.

Most notable about all the accounts was the absence of anything to do with money. The feeling of gratitude for someone’s generosity arose from the perfection of what was given in the moment, and the absence of any attachment afterward. The gift was the flow of attention, meaning, and love from one person to another.

At the conclusion of the evening each person was presented with a blank check for $500 to dispense to a “generosity entrepreneur” who would use the money to further the chain of giving. I couldn’t just fold up this check and put it in my wallet. It felt like a sacred document, like when I was at synagogue as a child, carefully holding the prayer book, which couldn’t be placed on a chair or the floor because it contained the name of G-d.

After several months of waiting to see where the money should go, I finally found the right place for it. But in the spirit of giving I will keep those details to myself.

The experience gave me a glimpse of the power of being a catalyst for giving—for in this instance I was not the giver, but the messenger. From this I realized that in fact I am never the giver of anything. To think that I have anything to give is hubris. Whatever I manifest is just passing through, though I may be the agent of delivery. This, I believe, is not only the essence of generosity, but also the key to an abundant life, for if we see that the source of our insights, energy, and even money is limitless, we can behave in a manner that evokes the limitlessness in our lives.

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reader sent an e-mail recently asking: “Why doesn’t Chronogram do more stories about environmental issues?” The note was polite, concise, and laudatory. My correspondent explained that, in her opinion, the magazine had a strong track record of environmental stories, and was the perfect media vehicle for disseminating articles on sustainability and the “green lifestyle” to a community thirsty for information. She hoped we would become more vocal on sustainability in future editions of the magazine.

This question kicked off a meditation on what “environmentalism” currently means, how its definition has shifted in recent years, and where Chronogram stands in relation to it.

Time was, when you spoke about environmentalism, the issues were fairly broad—protection of endangered species, land conservation, alternative energy, waterway remediation—but the campaigns associated with the “environmental movement” were specific: save the whales, no power plant on Storm King, clean up the Hudson.

(The semi-pejorative “environmental movement” classification always left the door open for slippage into actual marginalizing monikers like tree hugger, spotted owl coddler, and solar sissy. It had yet to penetrate the corridors of power and the media 25 years ago that the environment was not something that one group sought to build a political base upon, like say, abortion, but rather the very air, soil, and water which supports life itself.)

Today, green is the new black. Chain supermarkets have expanded their organic aisles beyond the tofu/brown rice/carrot juice continuum to a wide variety of organic fare, from food to household cleaners to personal hygiene products.

Celebrities like Cameron Diaz and Will Ferrell drive hybrid cars. ExxonMobil touts its eco-friendly bona fides in expensive ads (thank you, petrodollars) on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Even the coal industry is getting in on the act, claiming that a new process, turning coal into a liquid fuel, will not only solve our dependence on foreign oil, but also reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our cars. (All we have to do is trap the massive amounts of carbon dioxide emitted by burning the coal at 1,000 degrees during the conversion process underground.

Suffice to say, whether underground CO2 sequestration will work is unclear.)

Environmentalism is no longer solely equated with tempeh-eating capitalist renunciators who’ve gone back to the land. It’s also about handbags, and tourism, and radiant floor heating. It’s now part of lifestyle packaging, and goes something like this: If you like the serenity of yoga, then you’ll love the less ecosystemdestructive feeling of driving a Toyota Prius to buy grass-fed beef on your way home from the acupuncturist. Marketers have developed a term that defines this demographic of consumers: LOHAS. It’s an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, a market focused on sustainable living, personal development, health and fitness, the environment, and social justice. And a powerful one at that—according to the International Journal of Consumer Studies, Lohasians spent an estimated $300 billion in 2006, approximately 30 percent of the total US consumer market. This is serious money; we’re not talking about peddling Birkenstocks to longhairs.

Chronogram was LOHAS before there was LOHAS. Since 1993, when the magazine was launched, we’ve covered issues of social justice, environmentalism, spirituality, and health in just about every edition, along with our robust local

cultural reportage. It’s been part of our brand from the very beginning, though it wasn’t called LOHAS then, and what Chronogram is isn’t quite LOHAS now either.

It’s a “whole is greater than the sum of the parts” equation. Yes, you’ll find articles on social justice in our pages (“Gifts That Keep Giving,” a guide to philanthropic donations this holiday season, appears on page 86); as well as pieces explicitly about environmental topics like global warming (“The Polar Bears of Dutchess County,” profiling the climate change research of the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, begins on page 34). But we don’t beat a drum about our coverage of these issues any more than a zebra would call attention to its stripes. It’s in our DNA and makes us what we are, and implicitly informs every story we write.

So when I’m asked a question like: “Why doesn’t Chronogram do more stories about environmental issues?” I realize that we’re not showing our stripes forcefully enough, not communicating the expanse of our vision clearly enough. (And, to take the simple answer, possibly not covering environmental issues as comprehensively as some readers would like.) For starters: Stay tuned next month for an interview with Catherine O’Reilly, a biologist at Bard College who worked on the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. And, of course, much more. *** My annual pitch encouraging print readers to subscribe to our weekly e-mail newsletter, the 8-Day Week: For the past six years, we’ve been sending out, every Thursday, an e-mail highlighting the most noteworthy events from the coming week. I think of it as a mini, digitized version of Chronogram, containing links to selected articles, as well as listings from our website calendar, updated daily. The 8-Day is not something we publicize much in the magazine, but for its 1,352 subscribers (as of October 23; you could be subscriber 1,353 if you hurry!), it’s a useful snapshot of what’s ahead on the cultural calendar, and what they may have missed in the paper version of this month’s edition, all discretely delivered to their inboxes.

One of the greatest benefits of subscribing to the 8-Day, however, is our weekly ticket giveaway. At the top of each newsletter we include a link to our website, where you can enter to win passes to the best of the area’s cultural offerings. Recent giveaways have included the Global Drum Project (featuring Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead), Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

If you sign up by November 7, you’ll be eligible to win tickets to an evening with Graham Parker at Muddy Cup in Kingston on Friday, November 9.

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LOCAL LUMINARY DEAN GITTER LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY

on the environmentally sensitive eastern portion of the property.) While not all parties are embracing the agreement—a new opposition group formed immediately following Gov. Spitzer’s announcement—politicians and environmental organizations are hailing the modified proposal as “infinitely more sensible and environmentally sensitive than the one unveiled seven years ago,” according to Eric Goldstein, a senior lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The man behind the plan is Dean Gitter, who has lived in the region for 40 years, first drawn to the area in the early 1970s as a follower of Swami Rudrananda. Gitter started a Kingstonbased regional TV station (WTZA), co-founded the Big Indian Spring Water Company, and runs Catskill Corners, including the Emerson Place Resort and Spa, in Mt. Tremper.

—Brian K. Mahoney

MATT PETRICONE

In early September, Governor Eliot Spitzer held a news conference announcing that a compromise agreement had been brokered to allow the development of Belleayre Resorts at Catskill Park, a 620-acre parcel on the western edge of the Belleayre Ski Center, straddling the municipalities of Middletown and Shandaken. The project has generated a fair share of controversy as environmental groups and some local residents deemed its size not only damaging to the fragile ecosystem of the Catskill Park (and within 20 miles of two of New York City’s largest reservoirs) but out of place with the rural character of the surrounding communities. (As originally planned, the resort would have sprawled over nearly 2,000 acres with two hotels, a few hundred detached housing units, and two golf courses. The compromise development will have 30 percent fewer housing units, 7.5 percent fewer hotel rooms, 60 percent fewer miles of new road, only one golf course, and no development

It took eight years of bureaucratic wrangling and a commitment to a significantly downsized development on your part to reach a compromise agreement about Belleayre Resorts at Catskill Park. Were there times when you thought the project would collapse?

I never thought the project would collapse, because it was the right thing for the region at the right time. There were times when I wondered whether I might collapse.

The compromise development agreement between Crossroad Ventures and New York State has been hailed by environmental lawyer Marc Gerstman as “a new paradigm for how large developments should be handled in New York.” You’ve said that you didn’t get everything you wanted in the agreement, but that you can live with it. What was the turning point in the process of negotiation?

Attorney Gerstman’s statement has already proven accurate: Other projected major development projects— particularly one in the Adirondacks—have petitioned the state government for mediation along the same lines of the process we just completed.

We had suggested a mediated process as long as four years ago. We even went so far as to explore possible candidates for mediator, people who had been key players in the negotiations of the 1995 Watershed Agreement. But, as is so often the case in international affairs, until both sides have exhausted themselves, there is little hope for meaningful peace talks.

The turning point for us was the arrival on the scene 22 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

of Eliot Spitzer, who, even while he was campaigning for governor, said, in a stopover in Kingston, that he was concerned for the economy of the region and felt that the Belleayre Resorts project had to be reconfigured into some form that allowed it to go forward. His designation of Judith Enck, his new deputy secretary for the environment, as chief mediator, was a masterstroke and she was brilliant.

What do you say to critics who state that even the scaled-down project will overwhelm the rural character of the region? How can a large-scale development of this type be reconciled with the existing character of a rural area?

Resorts significantly larger than ours exist all over the country without having disturbed the rural character of their neighborhoods. The Greenbriar in West Virginia springs to mind, but there are many others. The heritage of the Catskills is one of a tourism destination dating back more than a century. The resort is 11 miles from downtown Phoenicia and 8 miles from Middletown. Few of the hamlets are on Route 28, so aside from Highmount —which has no real center—and Fleischmanns, which is desperate for revitalization, it is hard to see the charge that this will overwhelm anything as valid.

As an enterprise which will have its own sewer and water, its own road system, its own security department and its own emergency medical staff, the resort will make no demands on public services while still contributing millions of tax dollars to the towns and the fire departments. As for the potential addition of new children to the school system, I am more worried about the current under usage of the school system,

the current climate of school closings and the fear that we are losing our young people. That’s a sure sign of the beginning of the death throes of a rural community.

What have you learned from the eight-year process of attempting to bring the Belleayre Resorts into being?

What mistakes were made? Knowing what you know now, what would you have done differently?

The objections to our planned development at Big Indian were incomprehensible to us, until it became clear—very late in the process—that the Ashokan Reservoir basin was in worse shape than any of us knew. Had we all established a working dialogue earlier on, we might all have spared ourselves time and resources.

If all goes well, you expect to break ground on the project in fall 2009 and open the hotels in 2010. After the resort is up and running, what’s next for Dean Gitter?

In 2010, I will be 75 years old. I came here 40 years ago to participate in the work of Swami Rudrananda—which I still teach—and perhaps, at the end of the day, I will simply pick up my begging bowl and take to the roads.

What would you like your legacy in the region to be?

Very few of my neighbors have children and grandchildren still living here. If we can provide career paths for young people and induce them to stay in the area after high school, or return to the region after college, we will have restored continuity to countless local families. That would be very satisfying.

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Rising cocaine prices indicate progress in Mexican and American anti-drug operations. Since March, 37 US cities have experienced significant jumps in the price of cocaine, nearly doubling the cost of the narcotic in some cities.

Between January and June the average cost of a gram of cocaine rose 24 percent ,to $118.70. Street supplies of cocaine and methamphetamine in America are at an unprecedented low. Mexico has cracked down on cartels and the US has extradited high-level cartel members. Mexican president Felipe Calderon sent 10,000 soldiers and federal agents into cartel-run cities to restore order since taking office last December. The federal efforts resulted in a late-September arrest of the so-called Queen of the Pacific, Sandra Avila Beltran, mastermind of the Sinaloa cartel, and Juan Diego Espinoza Ramirez, a top Colombian drug trafficker.

Source: New York Times

Following a September 16 incident that left 17 Iraqis dead and 24 wounded, the Iraqi government demanded that the private security contractor Blackwater USA be ejected from Iraq. According to the State Department, Blackwater USA was involved in 56 shootings during 1,873 convoy runs in Iraq during 2007 while guarding American diplomats. Blackwater USA employees have fired their weapons at a rate at least twice as high as competitors. In 2006, DynCorp International reported only 10 cases of weapons use in 1,500 convoy runs.

Source: Reuters A second US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that threatened to withhold $300 million in federal funding to Yale prompted Yale Law School to back down from policies that prevented the military from recruiting on campus. Since 1978, Yale Law School has required recruiters to sign a pledge of nondiscrimination. The Pentagon would not sign the pledge because of its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward homosexuals, resulting in the military’s exclusion from recruitment activities. In 2002, the military challenged the law school by use of the Solomon Amendment, a congressional statute allowing the government to withhold funding to colleges and universities that impede military recruitment on campus. The university complied, although 45 faculty members filed suit. In 2005, a federal judge in Connecticut ruled Yale had the right to deny the military participation in the interview program. Last year, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against 36 colleges and universities fighting to keep military recruiters off campus, a decision that brought about the latest appellate ruling against Yale. “The judges that hold office at the moment disagree with us,” said professor Robert Burt, the lead plaintiff in the case. “We must wait for history to vindicate our position.” Without the federal funding, the university’s medical research into cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses would suffer. The military argues that it needs to hire lawyers for projects related to Afghanistan and Iraq and their inability to recruit law students is hindering that process.

Source: Associated Press Despite varying figures, government and independent groups agree civilian casualties in Iraq have decreased since August. The Iraqi Interior Ministry recorded a 29 percent drop from August’s 2,318 deaths to September’s 1,654. A British-based nongovernmental group, Iraq Body Count, monitored 1,280 deaths, an even larger reduction from its 2,575 August count. Reuters reported a 50 percent plunge in deaths making September’s numbers the lowest for 2007 with 884 casualties. Another indication that violence in Iraq is on the decline: Casualties for American troops decreased from 84 in August to 63 in September.

Source: New York Times Common chronic health conditions plague more than half of Americans and cost the US economy more than $1 trillion a year, not only in treatment expenses but loss of productivity in workers through sick days and reduced performance, according to a Milken Institute report. Left unchecked, the economic blow could rocket to nearly $6 trillion annually by 2050. In 2003, $277 billion was spent on the treatment of chronic diseases but lost productivity cost $1.1 trillion. If steps are taken toward prevention, early detection, and improved lifestyles, $1.6 trillion may be saved and 40 million Americans may be spared chronic illness by 2023. The institute studied seven chronic diseases: cancer, asthma, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and mental disorders.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle In September, Republican senators blocked legislation to allow terrorism detainees the right to appeal their detention to federal courts. The proposal was an effort to reverse a 2006 anti-terrorism law that is before the Supreme Court. Opponents of the bill argue that by granting detainees appellate rights, the government would be jeopardizing national security. “Casting aside the time-honored protection of habeas corpus makes us more vulnerable as a nation because it leads us away from our core American values and calls into question our historic role as a defender of human rights around the world,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vermont), who backed the bill.

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A new study finds that Americans 50 years or older suffer from more diseases, especially obesity and smoking-related ones, than Europeans in the same age group. This disparity adds $150 billion per year to US health care costs. Americans have higher rates of cancer and diabetes, and nearly twice as much heart disease as Europeans. Arthritis and cancer were more than twice as common in Americans.

Diabetes was diagnosed in 16 percent of American seniors, compared to the 11 percent of European seniors. Fifty-three percent of Americans were present or past smokers and 33.1 percent were obese. While the higher cancer rates are likely due to more intensive screening in the US, the study concludes that obesity-related illnesses point to an unhealthy population. “If you look at the doctor-diagnosed rates of diabetes and other chronic diseases related to obesity, it’s just startling,” said Kenneth Thorpe, lead author of the report conducted by Emory University. Thorpe said the US health care system is part of the problem—it’s fiscally driven, not patient driven. “We wait for people to get sick. They show up. We treat them. And doctors and hospitals get paid.

That’s not a very good way for managing disease,” said Thorpe.

Source: Los Angeles Times Forty percent of the world’s languages are at risk of dying out, and two researchers have identified the most endangered. “The pace of language extinction we’re seeing, it’s really unprecedented in human history,” said Dr. David Harrison, author of When Languages Die. “And it’s happening faster than the extinction of flora and fauna. More than 40 percent of the world’s languages could be considered endangered, compared to 8 percent of plants and 18 percent of mammals.” Globalization and migration are the main causes for this trend. People move to cities and pick up the dominant tongue of the workplace when economic pressures force them out of their villages. As well, children shed their native languages quickly in school. The researchers discovered the last speaker of Amurdag, an aboriginal language of Northern Australia previously thought to be extinct, and recorded him reciting words like “aburga” (rainbow serpent). It would take between three and four years of detailed documentation of a language and over $400,000 to save it. With a tongue dying every two weeks and 3,500 languages spoken by only 0.2 percent of the world’s population, resources are limited in protecting them.

Source: Independent (UK) In September, environmental organizations petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission to investigate and more stringently regulate air fresheners, products expected to achieve $1.72 billion in sales this year. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Alliance for Healthy Homes, and the National Center for Healthy Housing claim the air fresheners—whether scented sprays, gels, or plug-ins—contain harmful chemicals linked to developmental problems in infants, cancer in laboratory animals, and breathing difficulties, especially in asthmatics. They commissioned independent laboratories to test popular brands of fresheners. Most of the companies identified in the report continue to stand by the safety of their products. Walgreens removed three brands of air fresheners from their shelves in 5,850 stores nationwide.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle In 2006, consumers worldwide spent about $2.2 billion on fair trade-certified products. This 42 percent increase from the previous year is evident in the rising demand for fair trade coffee, cocoa, and cotton. Dunkin’ Donuts serves fair trade espresso in all 5,400 of its stores and from 2005 to 2006 Starbucks doubled its order of fair trade coffee. Fair trade is defined, by the International Fair Trade Association, as “concern for the social, economic, and environmental well-being of marginalized small producers” and does not exploit them for profit. Farmers follow a list of rules for certification that cover pesticides, farming techniques, recycling, and even their children’s education. In return, they receive a premium price for their products. Fair trade coffee farmers in Brazil get paid $1.29 per pound, compared to the $1.05 per pound market rate.

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FROM FORCED EVACUATION TO LIBERAL EDUCATION Complexities and Contradictions in Iraq Text and photos by Lorna Tychostup

It is 12:45pm and the full force of the midday sun has already engulfed the rooftops and streets of Sulaimaniyeh within a steamy haze. The UNHCR representative, who, for security purposes I have given the name Omar, has just arrived at my place of residence. All sources of electricity—the city’s six-hour allotment, the community generator, and the house generator that comes on for selected periods when all else fails—are currently out of commission. Omar wipes sweat from his forehead as we sit in the darkened office where I am interviewing him. Following what I believe is the customary gender-related politeness, Omar is gently attempting to ward me off from visiting the Qalawa camp where 97 internally displaced (IDP) families who fled the violence of their home communities are now temporarily ensconced.

“The situation is not tolerable for you to stay there,” Omar warns. “We should not go there after 1pm because there is a very bad smell because they don’t have latrines and garbage is everywhere. We barely got permission from the governor’s office to do things on a temporary basis, like garbage collection and water distribution. The living conditions cannot be standed. It is very difficult.”

“Let’s go now,” I say, not knowing if I will get another opportunity to visit Qalawa before leaving Iraq. “I don’t mind if it smells. I’ve smelled bad things before.” Omar smiles and nods, “For me, too, it is okay.”

Hopping into the standard white SUV vehicle used by most NGOs (nongovernmental organization), an obvious and perfect target for terrorists in any other part of Iraq, I am once again reminded of the inherent safety here in the north. The drive through the trafficked streets lined with shops and new construction—signs of Sulaimaniyeh’s building boom that is severely taxing its infrastructure—is sharply contrasted by what at first looks like a leveled, rubble strewn pre-construction site. A moonscape sorts, of huge proportions. Closer inspection reveals a straggly line of makeshift tents tucked off in one corner of the property surrounded by heaps of trash and human waste. A singular “home” on the outskirts of this corner and lying in the shadow of a dusty four-story condominium block has been constructed entirely from gathered stones and pieces of broken cinderblock, scrap metal pieces, refrigerator doors and the like, empty and rusted industrial drums, and other trashed items.

Across the street inside the unofficial IDP camp of Qalawa, the “homes” are much more fragile. They have skins consisting of blankets and pieces of tarp wrapped 26 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

over wood pole skeletons. Depending on the number and size of family members able to help with construction, some are bigger and better constructed than others.

“These families have been living here since September 2006, almost a year ago,” says Omar. “They are illegal according to the authorities who say they are occupying private land. So it is considered a makeshift camp. Not a real IDP camp.”

As is all things regarding Iraq, the IDP situation in Sulaimaniyeh is complex. A contradiction in terms according to media reports that Sunni and Shiite are at each other’s throats, Qawala consists of a mixture of Sunni and Shiite (and at least one gypsy family), educated and uneducated living together peacefully under a vague and uncertain umbrella of safety. Termed “very vulnerable” in UNHCR lingo, these refugees have traveled from Baghdad, Diyala, and Baquba to escape insurgent and sectarian violence. To gain admittance here, all had to produce death certificates to prove that at least one family member had been killed in some violent way.

While Sulaimaniyan authorities allow fleeing families and individuals entrance to the region, the majority of IDPs entering the northern Iraq’s governorates have property or family to go to. Other IDPs are not as fortunate.

Like a nomadic tribe, the families at Qalawa are part of this smaller percentage of IDPs. The earliest arrivals set up camp on what looked like open space to them.

Others, catching word of a safe place to go via the ethers of the IDP communication system, continue to trickle in and take up residence. However, unlike nomadic tribes who use accessible water sources as a criterion for setting up camp, these families, perhaps more desperate in nature, lived without water in the early days of their arrival here. According to Omar, after many meetings between international relief agencies and the governor’s office, permission was recently given to the International Committee of the Red Cross to provide water. Another NGO, Solidarity, has mobile medical teams visiting Qalawa and is also coordinating garbage collection.

Lack of access to water is just one of many problems associated with the influx of IDPs. On the one hand, there are those who have arrived and have property or family in the region. They tend to fade into the Sulaimaniyan fabric of life.

Not only is this taxing an already fragile infrastructure in the region, but makes it very difficult for aid agencies such as the UNHCR and others to provide them with much needed health and humanitarian services. On the other hand, while the families who have congregated at what has been designated the Qalawa camp

INSIDE THE “ILLEGAL” QALAWA INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP IN KURDISTAN, WHERE 97 IRAQI FAMILIES LIVE AMIDST HEAPS OF TRASH AND HUMAN WASTE.

by these same international relief organizations—organizations that are attempting to provide them with basic services such as toilets, tents, and water—should hypothetically be easier to observe, evaluate, and be given services to than the first group due to their being gathered in one place (as opposed to those scattered across the region), this is not the case. Instead, the families at Qalawa are bombarded by a chain of politically motivated catch-22s that ultimately thwart the provision of these basic services.

To begin with, it has proven extremely difficult to determine the ownership of the property on which Qalawa is located. A series of letters written to the governing authorities of Sulaimaniyeh by the relief agencies asking for permission to provide services to the IDPs have been met with claims that the property is privately owned, making the occupation of it by the IDPs illegal. Therefore, no infrastructure—such as the digging of cesspools to allow for the construction of latrines—can be built without the permission of the landlord. Attempts by the relief agencies to identify the landlord have proven fruitless. Without this identification, there is no one to grant permission for the occupation of the property, the result of which is that the governing authorities have refused to allow the relief agencies to assist the families beyond deliveries of water, minor health care, and garbage collection. Requests by the relief agencies to provide minimal basic supplies have been continually ignored.

“On June 24th, we had a meeting with the governor regarding these families in Qalawa,” says Omar. “In a letter we proposed and asked for permission to distribute non-food items like tents, blankets, in addition to digging a cesspool for the latrines. So far there has been no answer. Right now, in the warehouse of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society of Sulaimaniyeh there are 97 packages, each includes a tent, blankets, plastic sheets, mattresses, kitchen sets…because these families are really desperate and have none of these items.” So far, no movement has been made to allow distribution of these basic necessities.

As we disembark from the UNHCR vehicle, residents of the camp immediately form a tight knit circle around Omar. Many are talking at the same time voicing various complaints. This leaves me free to tour the camp and take photographs. I, too, am eventually surrounded by Qalawa residents, children and

adults alike, some of whom invite me into their fragile structures. One woman holding a small boy by the hand persistently insists I look under his gown to see some medical issue he is having. I walk with her to their home, the last at the long line of makeshift tents. Once inside she lifts his gown to reveal a bloated testicle the size of an orange.

AN UNANNOUNCED VISIT Later Omar explains that the camp moqtar, or representative, was not present. The moqtar monitors the camp and reports all camp visits, occurrences, problems, and gripes to the relief agencies and authorities. He is also required to meet and greet any and all visitors. Since we did not go through the proper channels—anyone desiring to visit Qalawa, including aid representatives and journalists, must be approved by government security beforehand—not only is the moktar absent, but our visit is illegal.

In his absence, Qalawa residents inform Omar of issues he has not heard of before.

According to the residents, every weekend, police have been visiting Qalawa, gathering all the women, and recording their names. Returning a few days later, the police check if all the women are present and question the head of the family of the women who are not present. The IDPs questioned Omar as to why this might be happening, a question to which he had no answer. A second issue involved letters of recommendation written and distributed by the moqtar to each and every family stating that the person carrying the letter is an IDP residing in Qalawa. With this letter, Qalawa residents were free to leave the camp, free to find employment, even free to go back to their places of origin for family visits and then return to Qalawa. A few days earlier, camp residents claimed that a group of security personnel had collected the letters from all of the IDPs, leaving them unable to leave the camp to work, and if they leave Sulaimaniyeh to visit family outside they will not be allowed to return.

Some say this is part of a psychological war to put pressure on the IDPs to relocate. The government of Sulamaniyeh is already heavily taxed by the needs of its own population. Unemployment, lack of housing, and infrastructure inadequacies related to garbage collection, electricity, fuel, water needs, and other basic services are already creating huge problems due to the natural growth of 11/07 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 27

THIS FAMILY IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE A TENT AND AN AIR COOLER TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE DEBILITATING MIDDAY HEAT AS THEY EAT THEIR LUNCH.

the host population. A potentially explosive IDP influx would only exacerbate an already overloaded infrastructure where the typical two to three room living space, renting for approximately $250 in February 2006 now costs between $400 and $500. If government officials were to allow basic infrastructure to be put in to a camp like Qalawa, the fear is that a tented camp with basic services would soon turn into a permanent community, as have many communities that have started out as refugee and IDP camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and other parts of Iraq. And then there are claims of an increase in crime since the arrival of the IDPs. “According to reports—this is not my source—after the influx of IDPs here, the rate of crimes doubled,” says Omar. “Before there were no bag snatchings in Sulaimaniyeh but now this has spread. And begging has become common, as has prostitution.”

As we drive out of the camp, I point out a beautiful public garden with manicured lawns and flowers of many colors. There is not a scrap of garbage to be seen. “Does this work make you crazy?” I ask. “Believe me,” Omar says. “Look at my hair. It is gray now. I have been doing this since 2000.”

WELCOME TO THE FIRST AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF IRAQ My driver drops me off at what looks like a large nondescript one-story trailer attached to an industrial hangar. A few armed guards guide me inside where a modern interior of sparkling whites and clean architectural edges belie the drab exterior. These are the preliminary digs of the first American University of Iraq in Sulaimaniyeh (AUI-S). My friend Nathan Musselman, whom I met en route to Iraq in February 2004, is AUI-S’s prefect and deputy to the chancellor, an incredibly posh title for a very down-to-earth person. In addition to arranging for my letter of entry—required to gain admittance to Iraq—Nathan also introduced me to AUI-S chancellor Owen Cargol.

Freshly arrived from his former position as president of Abu Dhabi University, Cargol exudes excitement at his role in this new and historic endeavor. This is Iraq, after all. A place where, if you believe what the critics say, an American University would be the last thing Iraqis would want to see. But here in Kurdistan, America is seen as a friend and most definitely not a foe. In fact, many Kurds I have spoken with here opined they would like to see more American involvement and support to their region. These feelings are in part due to the protection the US provided Kurds from the rampages of Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, and in part due to a newly reinforced appreciation for the US after the most recent invasion. Thanks to the ousting of Saddam Hussein and the presence of the US in Iraq, economic growth in the north Kurdish governorates is expanding at higher than prewar levels.

The creation of AUI-S is one very visible sign of an American/Iraqi partnership.

And if this model in Sulaimaniyeh succeeds, plans are in the making for expansion involving the creation of two more American university centers—one in Baghdad 28 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

and another in Basra. Once, of course, Iraq’s security dilemma is solved. “In many ways this job, this university, is the most exciting higher education opportunity in the world today, says Cargol. “Because its brand new, its in Iraq, and its bringing to higher education an entirely new approach to having students and the university jointly involved in developing students in a way that they can provide leadership to Kurds and Iraqis by thinking about what they are doing rather than doing what they’ve been told to do. You have experienced the Middle East. You know that’s sort of the way—we have someone in charge. So long [as] he is in charge and he has the money, the power, the guns, the control, the family ties, then you do it.”

The idea of choice and student involvement is something new to Middle Eastern education. Historically, the education system in Iraq has been public and offered free of charge, but at the same time been extremely regimented and seemingly dictatorial. In order to enter public Iraqi universities, students must fill out a form and list their top 50 choices stating where they want to go to school and what they want to study. Where they end up—or not—is based on their scores on their 12th-grade national finishing exams. The influence of parents and economics play a large role. The choices of what students study are not always their own, or in areas that interest them. “If my parents decide medicine or dentistry is what I want, or needed or should do, and I list these sort of very competitive disciplines but my scores don’t qualify me to get into any of these top 50 choices, then the computer will randomly find something for me that matches my scores,” says Cargol. The end result is that these students graduate and go into fields that they have no interest in or perhaps even dislike.

“It’s a historical arrangement. If you are a bright student, the best-paying jobs, the most secure jobs, the jobs that kept you out of trouble were medicine, engineering, dentistry, where one could get a job and have a secure future for oneself and ones family. Civil engineering is one of those they want because they envision construction, simple engineering, a good job, not having to enter the military, not having to move, getting a job in their hometown. Maybe they care less about engineering, but they take it for those reasons.”

TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO QUESTION AUI-S is a private school, and students will follow a standard liberal arts education and be required to take a year and a half of general arts classes before choosing a major. During this time they will have the opportunity to explores their options, likes and dislikes, meet with faculty from different disciplines, investigate different major and minor possibilities—all new territory for a population that has existed within what Cargol states is an “acceptance of hierarchy structure.” He gives the example of the Koran. “There are no misunderstandings in the Koran.

There is only one way. You have to interpret it this way. You don’t think about whether or not something is logical. This is sort of a Middle Eastern approach.

So if a leader, someone in charge, says: ‘This is the way it is,’ they listen.”

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SULAIMANI AUTHORITIES REFUSE TO ALLOW DISTRIBUTION OF AID SUPPLIES—INCLUDING BLANKETS AND TENTS—TO RESIDENTS OF THE QALAWA CAMP.

In addition to Cargol, AUI-S’s Board of Regents includes a blue-ribbon panel of leaders: Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani as chairman; Iraqi vice-president and economist Adil Abdul-Mahdi; Sunni MP Hacem Al-Hassani; Iraq’s first CPAappointed interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi; former US Ambassador to Iraq and current US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad; and prime minister of the Kurdish Regional government Nechirvan Barzani.

In a September 2 column in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman quoted Barzani as saying that once Saddam was removed, the people of Kurdistan were given a “psychological hope for the future. Those who had even a limited amount of money started to invest, start small businesses or buy a car, because they thought they could see the future. The uncertainty was removed. We have to thank the American people and government.”

The brainchild and prime mover behind AUI-S is Dr. Barham Salih, a former prime minister and current deputy prime minister of Iraq. Working with some of the names mentioned above, and several other influential Iraqi Kurds, Arabs, and internationals since 2005, Dr. Salih engaged them with the idea of a university offering a complex and challenging educational philosophy that engenders freedom of choice, rather than the more simplistic mode of follow the leader. As president of the AUI-S Board of Trustees, Salih, is joined by a virtually all-male club of American, Sunni, Shiite, Lebanese, Iraqi-American, and Kurdish businessmen, neoconservatives, and neoliberal thinkers. The lone female is women’s advocate Dr. Rajaa Khuzai, an Iraqi physician and former member of the Iraqi National Assembly. John Agresto, the retired president of St. John’s University in New Mexico, is the sole American trustee. After arriving in Iraq in late 2003 and spending nine months working with the Coalition Provisional Authority, Agresto told the Washington Post, “I’m a neoconservative who’s been ‘mugged by reality’”—the title of his newly released book. He went on to say, “We can’t deny there were mistakes, things that didn’t work out the way we wanted. We have to be honest with ourselves.” Addressing Agresto’s candidness at a time when most neocons were still bearing the “you’re either with us or against us” cross, the Washington Post stated, “He is one of the few American officials here to speak on the record at length about the shortcomings of the occupation. In his case, the frustration comes from the sense of a missed golden opportunity: to reconstruct Iraq’s decrepit universities and create an educational system that would nurture and promote the country’s best minds.”

Agresto now has the opportunity to attempt to make up for the “missed opportunity” by helping to create the direction of AUI-S. A direction that will practice a more American mode of education, rather than the traditional Middle Eastern model. The thinking behind AUI-S is to create an American model institution where students will gain a liberal arts foundation for their undergraduate education.

Then they will obtain a major in their primary area of undergraduate interest, and a minor in a secondary area.

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bringing this project together is that under the former regime, there was only one way to think, one way to do things,” says Cargol. “So the country has lots of engineers, lots of mathematicians, lots of physicists. But it doesn’t have a history of having people who challenge ideas.” In order to foster this more problem-solving, questioning form of education, AUI-S will require less rote memorization and instead put students through the vigorous paces of critical thinking. Students will be required to bring their books to class, study intensely throughout the semester and not just in the few weeks before exams in order to memorize the material, and be allowed to open books and check notes during exams.

Using poetry as an example, Cargol says, “This is a memorization culture throughout the Middle East, where people just memorize and memorize. We’d like some future leaders for Kurdistan, Iraq, the Middle East, to go through an educational process where they are taught to challenge what comes from the teacher and the textbook and come up with their own ideas. It doesn’t mean their ideas are right and doesn’t mean the teachers are wrong, but they need to be able to defend why they think an answer is correct.”

At a ceremony held in Sulaimaniyeh in early September, Iraqi leaders came together to celebrate the groundbreaking for AUI-S. Construction is scheduled to start in November. Reportedly, donations were promised to the tune of $10 million. Other donations, including the $10.5 million pledged contribution of the US Congress total $40 million to date. The Italian government has pledged money to help set up an environmental studies center that will foster work it has already supported in conjunction with the Iraqi environmental NGO, Nature Iraq, regarding restoring southern Iraq’s Mesopotamian marshes. The University of Vermont will be holding joint videoconference “town hall” meetings with AUI-S between their respective political science classes where topics such as the separation of church and state and states rights versus federal rights will be explored.

All classes will be conducted in English in a donated space and should be in full swing by the time you read this. The initial class of students is small, 46, and the first classes taught will be the English as a Second Language requirement. It is hoped that by September 2008, AUI-S will be able to offer two degree programs in order to meet Kurdish economic development needs: business administration, and computer systems and information technology. Enrollment goals are to have 1,000 students by the year 2011 and 5,000 as of 2021.

I ask Cargol how it feels to be in at the ground level of the creation of such an institution. “Well, I founded the University of Abu Dhabi and did that for four years.

Last week, I was interviewed by a reporter from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

He said that that sounded like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And I said, ‘Yes, and coming here and founding AUI-S is a twice in a lifetime opportunity. This one is especially challenging, because in Abu Dhabi they have First World infrastructure, First World international opportunities, and more money than God. And here it’s a real challenge, to open an American University in Iraq for all of Iraq.”

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Beinhart’s Body Politic

SECRETS: PART III It was a dark and stormy night at sea on August 4, 1964.

Off the coast of North Vietnam, sailors on the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy saw “ghostly blobs.” Fearing that they were enemy torpedo boats, the American ships took evasive action and began firing.

Reports were radioed back to Washington. Told that American forces were being attacked, President Lyndon Johnson ordered air strikes against North Vietnam.

Johnson prepared to go to Congress to ask for a war powers act—very much like the one President Bush got for Iraq. The National Security Agency (NSA) went to work on the presentation of the proof that the bad guys had shot first.

The NSA’s careful analysis of North Vietnamese and American signal traffic revealed that the United States had not been attacked. The ghostly blobs were tricks of light and darkness. The NSA did not inform the president of the error. Instead, they doctored the documents and committed a series of small forgeries—changed some dates and used bad translations—to turn the mistake into an official lie.

Based on NSA evidence, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 416-0 in the House, 88-2 in the Senate, authorizing the war in Vietnam.

In 2001, NSA historian Robert J. Hanyok wrote it up for Cryptologic Quarterly, a classified publication. The article, “Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August, 1964,” reveals that Johnson wasn’t told about the deception for four years. When Johnson found out, he reportedly said, “Hell, those damn stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish.”

It was kept secret from us, the American public, for 31 years, until Hanyok’s article was declassified in 2005. (Available at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv.)

Secrecy, in the name of national security, is an invitation to lie. The offer is frequently accepted. Informants lie to agents who lie to bureau chiefs who lie to management who lie to cabinet officers who lie to the president who lies to us.

They do it to cover up failures: “For eight years, from 1986 to 1994 [the CIA] knowingly gave the White House information manipulated by Moscow and concealed the fact. To reveal it would have been too embarrassing. Ninetyfive of these tainted reports warped American perception of the major military and political developments in Moscow” (Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner).

For money: From the summer of 2002 through June 2004, the US made secret payments of $335,000 a month for intelligence about Iraq to a group run by Ahmad Chalabi. “Internal reviews by the United States government have found that much of the information…was useless, misleading, or even fabricated” (Richard A. Oppel, Jr., The New York Times, May 18, 2004).

To advance a political agenda: Chalabi’s bogus information was spread far and wide by Bush, Cheney, Tenet, and Powell to make the case for war. It was also leaked to the New York Times. The paper printed it as news and helped make the nonsense reputable.

There are a thousand reasons to lie. The impulse is normally kept under control by the threat of exposure. But in a culture of secrecy it is unchecked. The system necessarily becomes corrupt.

As the Vietnam War went on and on, the Department of Defense commissioned a secret study of the war. It showed that the government had lied about the war. It also made it pretty clear that we didn’t have a clue how to win it.

Naturally, the DOD wanted to keep that information to itself. They feared that if the public knew, they couldn’t continue to fight a war they couldn’t win.

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them to the New York Times, who began to publish them. The Nixon Administration sued to stop them, in the name of national security. “The Pentagon Papers” revealed little or nothing the “enemy” didn’t know. What the president wanted to hide under the cloak of national security were lies and incompetence.

The first of the three columns in this series examined the CIA’s track record in analysis. Statistically, their predictions are ranked lower than that of Maria, the storefront Gypsy on East 101 Street; tossing a coin; and asking Bill O’Reilly.

This happened for a reason. And the reason is the culture of secrecy, where lies and incompetence can grow like mold unexposed to sunlight.

On those rare occasions when they were right, it didn’t help. The administration could choose to ignore CIA analysis, as it did in the summer of 2001 with the warnings of an impending terrorist attack; or, put enough pressure on it to pervert it, so as to make the case that Saddam was linked to Al Qaeda and was concealing weapons of mass destruction. The administration could do so because the process was hidden under the cloak of national security.

In the second, we took a look at covert actions. There were many spectacular blunders—some very public, some very secret. There were some straight up successes that helped create stable democracies in Western Europe and Japan. Others led to establishing tyrants, torture, and death squads. Some had unintended consequences, notably, abetting the rise of militant Islam, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda.

The disasters—and the millions of deaths that ensued—were enabled because the planning and the execution took place in secret. There was no debate over whether, for example, it was better to risk a real democracy in Iran back in 1953, rather than put in a complacent, friendly despot. No debate over letting elected leftist leaders like today’s Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales try their experiments and let them run their course, rather than foment coups.

The Cold War was the Golden Age of spy versus spy. The Soviets were much better at it than we were. But the factors that made them better—their obsession with secrecy and a closed society—were factors that brought about their downfall.

Secrecy corrupts everything it touches. The more secret we become, the more inept and incompetent and noncompetitive we become. If an idea, an organization, or a plan is good, it will remain sound under scrutiny. If it’s bad, it needs the darkness of “state secrets” to grow and flourish.

The only governmental information that requires secrecy is tactics. The sort of things that we allow the police to keep secret in a democratic society, transferred to an international scale: who we are making a case against; the names of informants; when the raid will take place; how many agents or troops are involved, and so on.

It’s no secret that the government looks down on the world, in detail, from above. Google Earth does it too. It’s no secret that phone calls are listened to and e-mails and financial transactions are monitored. There’s no reason not to have courts oversee it. Or else we’ll be checking up on journalists, activists, and politicians an administration doesn’t like, as has been happening under most of our recent presidents and as—I’m hazarding a guess—we are doing now.

If we could go back over the last 60 years and throw out all our “secret intelligence” services and redo everything in public, it is likely we would have done better. Those things we have done most well, we’ve done mostly in public view.

As we go into the future, the more we do in public and the less that’s in the closet, the better off we’ll be.

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THE POLAR BEARS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY Text and photos by Hillary Harvey Amidst the hustle and bustle of global warming politics, there is an independent, cutting-edge, scientific research facility set in the tranquil woods outside the village of Millbrook. The Institute of Ecosystem Studies aims to place itself squarely in the midst of that debate. Debate may be the wrong word. As Jules and Maxwell Boykoff documented for Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (Extra!, November/December 2004), the practice of covering opposing sides in the case of global warming actually creates a superficial balance and informational bias. The vast majority of scientists are in agreement about the reality, causes, and potential effects of climate change. And with its newly appointed President, Dr. William Schlesinger, IES’s climate research is set for an increased focus on global warming and its intersection with politics.

The 2,000 acres of IES was originally the Cary Arboretum, a collection of 14 farms purchased by Standard Oil heiress Mary Flagler Cary and her husband, Melbert in the 1930s. The ensuing estate was left in trust in 1967 and bestowed to the custodial care of the New York Botanical Gardens in 1971. Recognizing its potential, the organization proposed establishing an ecology center on the site and began an international search for an appropriate scientist to head it.

Dr. Gene Likens, known for connecting the relationship between fossil fuel combustion with the concentration of sulfuric and nitric acid in precipitation, leading to the identification of acid rain in North America, was hired to direct the institute, in 1983. (IES still gets 44 percent of its funding from the Mary Flagler Cary Durable Trust; the other 55 percent comes from research and federal grants and private philanthropic gifts.) As its name suggests, IES research comprises an ecosystem approach. Initiated by Likens, IES’s 20 resident and visiting scientists look at the sources and fates of things as they interrelate in the environment, focusing, too, on human impacts within the larger interaction web.

THE MAPLE AS CLIMATE MARKER In fact, the Hudson Valley is facing an imminent extinction. Staying true to its mission to share its analysis, IES regularly hosts international visiting researchers who, as part of their tenure, lead Friday slide lectures, which are open to 34 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

the public. This past June a visiting researcher and naturalist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Jerry Jenkins, walked a group of Tupperware-toting scientists and laypersons through his research on the impacts of climate change in the Adirondacks. He outlined the ways in which plants and animals respond to changes in climate, first exhibiting increases and decreases in abundance and timing. Then, mobile southern species move north. “And maybe the last thing is that northern species start to go extinct,” Jenkins says. One of the issues all the scientists at IES are concerned about is the expected loss of maple trees due to climate change.

It was Mary Flagler Cary who first took a special interest in the maple trees on her property. Maples are an abundant species in the Hudson Valley at present, but the trees are finicky about climatic conditions and vulnerable to insect onslaughts. Die-back occurred in the southern ranges in the 1990s when acid rain decreased soil fertility, summer droughts produced strain, and then, once they were stressed, maples were vulnerable to insect attack. Insects were what John Broekema of Sugarbrook Maple Farm in Kerhonkson noticed. The forest tent caterpillars have been defoliating his maples for the past three years, as part of their natural population cycle, along with the gypsy moth and fall canker worm.

But he said what’s really doing them in is the weather. “We don’t have any normal weather anymore,” Broekema says. “We either have drought or tons of rain; warm weather or really cold. We’re getting extremes. And that’s really affected maple syrup production.” According to the “Indicators of Climate Change in the Northeast” report of 2005 published by Clean Air-Cool Planet and Cameron P. Wake of the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, this type of weather scenario is just what the scientific models have been predicting: “Climate change models suggest that a warming planet will likely experience increasing storm intensity and frequency.”

The ideal weather for maple sugaring has been the middle of February, when 40-degree days couple with mildly freezing nights. That fluctuation would bring on sap runs until the end of March. Some departures from that scenario could be tolerated, but once it gets above 50 degrees, the sap holes start to dry up, and

OPPOSITE: BRAD ROELLER, GROUNDS AND DISPLAY GARDENS MANAGER AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ECOSYSTEM STUDIES, INSPECTING COMPARATIVE TRIAL BEDS. ABOVE: DR. RICHARD OSTFELD SWEEPING THE FOREST FLOOR FOR TICKS, PART OF HIS ONGOING RESEARCH INTO LYME DISEASE.

the trees start to bud. “When the trees bud, the sap’s not fit for making maple syrup anymore,” Broekema says. With the unpredictability of the weather in recent years, Broekema’s had to tap the trees a week early, around February 7, to insure a productive sap run.

All the scientists at IES think there’s good reason to believe maple trees will cease to be a component of the forests in the Hudson Valley. They say it has little hope of keeping pace with the climatic shifts. Trees can’t pick up their roots and migrate. Their only means of relocating is limited to seed dispersal. Right now, the maples live in the Eastern Deciduous Forest (deciduous trees drop their leaves in the fall), which occupies the eastern half of the US and southeastern Canada. The northern boundary blends into the Northern Boreal Forest in New England and southern Canada, which is dominated by hardy, cold-loving conifers. As Jenkins points out, the boundary between the two is a deep one. “It’s a boundary between two different soil types, different amounts of rockiness. And it’s a boundary between species with very different ballgames, different ways of being a species.”

The affects of that change are really best-guess predictions, and those predictions are what fuel the debate on global warming. The culture of science is to ask questions, intended to encourage further study. This uncertainty can be capitalized on to create a media debate. For instance, Jenkins points out, “It may be that, for a tree, being out of equilibrium with climate has occurred for the major part of its geological history, rather than being a death sentence for it.

Being 500 miles from where you’d like to be for a slow-moving organism may be business as usual.” On the other hand, IES’s Dr. Richard Ostfeld expresses the pessimistic view that even if the sugar maple isn’t killed outright, as the climate warms, it will get out-competed by other tree species that are more tropically adapted. “Uncertainty exists,” he says. “We shouldn’t claim that it doesn’t. Our uncertainty, though, is about how bad global warming is going to get and, in the meantime, we don’t have the luxury of endless time.” As the polar bears’ vanishing habitat is to the Arctic, so the maples are the Hudson Valley’s best example of climate change impacts.

GLOBAL WARMING AND LYME DISEASE Ostfeld is a senior scientist and animal ecologist at IES. For the past decade and a half, he’s monitored the relationship between elements in the forest ecology and Lyme disease. Fifteen years—a very brief time on the ecological scale—is beginning to be a sufficient amount of time for Ostfeld to document real climate change in the interaction web he studies.

Every few years, the oak trees, which are dominant in the Hudson Valley, produce a bumper crop of acorns. White-footed mice, which are ubiquitous forest rodents, favor acorns as a food source. And the mice, it turns out, have a large impact on the ecology of their habitats. “They are the main source where ticks pick up the bacterium that causes Lyme disease,” says Ostfeld. So if there are a lot of mice, ticks are more likely to pick up the bacterium, and the risk to humans increases. “And where climate change comes in,” Ostfeld says, “is in possibly increasing the frequency with which these oak trees produce the acorns.”

There’s usually two or three years between acorn events. According to scientists’ calculations, it takes a certain length of time to store enough carbon through photosynthesis to have the energy to devote to reproduction—which is what acorns are. “If that carbon storage hypothesis is true,” says Ostfeld, “then almost certainly as the climate warms, we expect these acorn years to be more frequent or potentially more intensive when they happen.”

This year, for the first time in IES’s records, acorns were produced two years in a row, and mouse populations are at unprecedented levels. “Lyme disease seems to be growing fairly rapidly in Ulster County right now,” says Ostfeld, “but Dutchess and Columbia Counties have among the highest numbers of cases and rates of anywhere in the world.”

An additional component of the ecological web Ostfeld studies is forest fragmentation. By inserting housing developments, industry, and recreational facilities into fractured forests, people are placing themselves in the centers of highly risky environments. Increasing carbon emissions, excessive acorn production, and an exploding white-footed mouse population has created a “perfect storm” for the proliferation of Lyme disease.

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DR. WILLIAM SCHLESINGER, PRESIDENT OF IES, IN FRONT OF THE PLANT SCIENCES BUILDING AT THE INSTITUTE’S MILLBROOK CAMPUS.

This concerns Ostfeld not only from a public health standpoint, but also in terms of its self-perpetuating properties. IES’s scientists regularly engage in grant proposals, and Ostfeld described one he was writing for the National Science Foundation. Bringing together a team of natural and social scientists, the study seeks to investigate the questions: Does the imminent threat of Lyme disease influence human attitudes about nature? When faced with a natural threat, will people continue to find the environment ethically and aesthetically important to protect? Or will they experience a fear-induced alienation causing them to cease caring and even seek to destroy or undermine the natural world?

If the latter is true, then ongoing forest fragmentation and development could become a self-perpetuating outcome of climate change.

INFLUENCING POLICY One of Schlesinger’s major goals as director of IES is to push its research beyond the rarefied realms of science and into the world of public policy. “IES does impeccable work here and generally puts it into scientific literature and then moves on to the next project,” says Schlesinger. “It’s required advocacy groups to find it,” he told me. “Time is short for a lot of these problems, and so I’m going to try to encourage people to come out of their shells.” In May he testified in Washington at a House subcommittee hearing on the carbon cycle.

Schlesinger says it was discouraging to realize how dismally uneducated many politicians often are on environmental issues. Sometimes what the elected officials believe is whatever their staff comes up with. “So this one holds up a graph,” Schlesinger says, referring to a congressmen at the hearing, “and says, ‘Look at these fluctuations in CO2. They go back to the Pleistocene Era. Why are we worried about this?’ The graph was handed around, and it turns out that they had completely misread the axis on it. It wasn’t the absolute levels of CO2 through geologic time, but change per year. It didn’t support the point he was making at all.”

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reasons for high ozone levels in Dutchess County to a group of concerned residents. The suburbanized scenery (excessive landscaping and car use) and the prevalence of coal-fired power plants upwind generate ideal conditions for ozone formation. (Dutchess County consistently gets poor marks on ozone levels from the American Lung Association in its annual air quality report.

This year, the county received a C, a step up from 2006’s failing grade of F.) Volatile organic carbon (VOC) is naturally released from trees and shrubs.

Fossil fuel combustion, such as from car exhaust, releases oxides of nitrogen.

Together those elements, under ultraviolet light from the sun, produce lower atmospheric ozone. The reaction happens more in summer, when it’s warmer and the sun is out longer and its rays more direct. Schlesinger predicts that in a warming climate this reaction will be exaggerated. The summer growing season will be longer, and if the future contains higher levels of carbon from pollution, the VOCs will also increase as plants grow faster. Tropospheric ozone is a toxic air pollutant and, while unproven, impacts asthma and allergy rates. “There is at least one recent study that shows a direct link between ozone levels in cities and heart disease. And ozone is well-known to exacerbate various respiratory conditions,” Schlesinger explained. “The problem of ozone appearing in semi-rural areas is not unique to Dutchess County. Indeed, it’s quite widespread. But Dutchess is at the upper end of severity.”

As Schlesinger points out, most of the ecosystems on the planet are distributed based on the climate. Species have physiological tolerances resulting from long-term evolutionary selection. If the climate changes over millions of years, they could adapt. But in the case of maple trees, beyond eliminating the livelihood of maple syrup makers, a central component of the forest is disappearing. We have no idea what the environmental response will be.

“The climate change we’re talking about is likely to play out over decades to a century,” Schlesinger said. “So in historical comparisons, it’s very fast. We are essentially dramatically altering the long-term natural ecosystems that are in the Hudson River Valley. Is that ok?”

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ROCKERS SHOT ON STAGE! An exhibition of recent photographs of local music and musicians by f-stop fitzgerald with a special musical performance by Preferably Tapioca at the opening reception.

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THE ART OF BUSINESS

FAIR LADY Women’s Work

By Ann Braybrooks photos by Matt Petricone

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n 2003, when Cecilia Dinio-Durkin was working as a travel writer in Botswana, she accompanied a nonprofit worker on a crafts-buying trip to a San settlement in the Kalahari Desert. The San are southern Africa’s oldest inhabitants, and, until recently, had practiced hunting and gathering for tens of thousands of years. While many San still live in the desert, few subsist entirely on traditional methods of acquiring food.

For the trip into the desert, Dinio-Durkin and her guide brought everything they would need, which included a tent and their own food, water, and firewood.

During the bumpy, eight-hour drive across sand, during which Dinio-Durkin says her “whole insides were completely shaken,” she learned that they would be gone for three days. She remembers exclaiming, “Three days? We’re going to be out here for three days?”

Although Dinio-Durkin had moved to Botswana with her two young children and husband, Peter Durkin, a civil engineer and former Peace Corps volunteer, she considered herself to be a city girl, a New York City girl in particular.

She had agreed to go along with her husband, whom she calls the outdoorsy one, after he had seen a posting for a game-reserve manager on findajobinafrica.com.

Now she found herself traveling alone with a woman she had just met, across an endless flat landscape interrupted only by an occasional hut.

The next morning, Dinio-Durkin had what she calls a life-changing experience. It led to her working for the same nonprofit as her guide, the Kuru Family of Organizations, and ultimately to opening a crafts shop called Women’s Work in Cold Spring.

“We started boiling water in this tin pot for coffee,” she says, “and I look up, and women are coming from all directions. I don’t know how many hundreds of women surrounded us.” During the course of a year, Dinio-Durkin says, the nonprofit worker would rotate visits to 16 settlements, where she bought crafts to sell in the organization’s shop in Ghanzi, a town with about 30,000 residents.

“I was stunned,” says Dinio-Durkin. “So I sat there, and I had my camera, 38 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

and I was writing notes, and they would just come, and surround us, and pull out their crafts.” She says that the women had wrapped themselves in blankets and other garments, and from within the folds of their clothing, they pulled out jewelry, baskets, and other items. Many of the women were accompanied by young children.

“I couldn’t have been further away from the life that I knew, and I’m looking out at these women, and I’m crying,” she says. “And I didn’t even know I was crying until I realized that this little kid among the women looked exactly like my nephew. And that’s when it just overwhelmed me, [the knowledge] that we’re all the same. They only wanted what I wanted when I was in Cold Spring.”

In the mid ’90s, after their daughter was born, Dinio-Durkin and her husband left Manhattan and moved to Garrison, then Cold Spring. At first, she commuted to her job as a magazine editor, a job she loved, but the 11-hour days left little time for family. She quit and began working as a freelance writer, which also proved to be frustrating due to the short time frames and her inability to predict when the next assignment would arrive (typical of freelance work).

“To me, Cold Spring was this remote, desolate place, because I lived so far away from New York City and everything I knew,” says Dinio-Durkin. “I gave up my career so that my children could have a safe haven.” She adds, “These women [the San] could go into the cities and get jobs and make money [primarily as domestics], but they’d rather be home with their children. And if I could do something to help them stay home and raise their children and live with their husbands and have a life that they’ve always known, if all it took was for me to buy one of their bracelets so they could feed their family for a month, that’s what I needed to do.”

After the crafts-buying trip, she began working for the nonprofit. Her job was to help market the crafts and apply for grants. She says a series of incidents, plus the fact that the nonprofit survived mainly on a limited number of donations, prompted her to reach into her own savings to buy additional crafts from the women. She was buying “hundreds of cases of jewelry,” she says, and although

OPPOSITE: CECILIA DINIO-DURKIN POSES WITH A LUBA KIFWEBE MASK FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. ABOVE (CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT): ARRAY OF FAIRLY-TRADED TRADITIONAL CRAFTS, FROM BOTSWANA AND BEYOND; ONE OF MANY AWARD-WINNING BASKETS DINIO-DURKIN EXHIBITS AND SELLS; BRACELET MADE FROM SCRAPS OF BASKETRY AND FABRIC SITS ATOP AN OSTRICH EGG, A SYMBOL OF GOOD LUCK AND PROSPERITY.

she wasn’t quite sure when or where she was going to resell the items, she envisaged setting up a booth at a PTA meeting during a visit to the US. Meanwhile, she and her husband had begun worrying about the quality of their children’s education in Ghanzi, and they had also become concerned about the health of their mothers, both of whom lived in the US. Dinio-Durkin says the final push came after the family was away for a few days helping a friend with a fund-raising tour. Back at home, their dogs got loose, and a neighbor shot them because they had wandered onto his property.

“Our daughter [Macallan] was devastated,” says Dinio-Durkin. When Macallan, then 10 years old, and their son Markham, then 6, began having nightmares, she realized it was time to go. “Once your [sense of ] security and safety is shattered,” she says, “it’s time to leave. And that’s what we did, reluctantly.”

The family left Africa in November 2005. In September 2006, Dinio-Durkin opened Women’s Work. One of the most intriguing items in the shop is the jewelry made with ostrich-eggshell beads. The same process of transforming bits of broken eggshell into small, smooth, uniform beads using a drilling stick and a grooved board and polishing stone has been employed by the San for thousands of years.

Dinio-Durkin says that most of the jewelry displayed at Women’s Work is designed and crafted by the same women who make the beads. If the beads or designs are not up to par, she doesn’t return them. She says she wants to buy from all of the women, not just the young girls. She is working with designers in the US who will use the beads to create more contemporary, and thus saleable, items. She would like to see the finished pieces in boutiques like Barney’s, which is known for its unique jewelry.

Another item that she would like to see go national is marula oil. As far as Dinio-Durkin knows, she is the only importer in the US of cosmetic marula oil from Botswana. “It’s a great moisturizer, and it has healing properties,” she says. The oil is made from the nut of the drought-resistant, indigenous marula tree (related to mango, cashew, and pistachio). Dinio-Durkin would like to see

the essential oil, which is produced for a community trust by women, in stores like Whole Foods.

Other items in the Cold Spring shop include baskets, tableware, masks, furniture, paintings, rugs, pillowcases, duvet covers, and tablecloths. While most of the stock is from Botswana, there are also crafts from Zimbabwe and other parts of the world. A few necklaces were made by Dinio-Durkin’s mother, who was born in the Philippines (as was Dinio-Durkin, who moved to New Jersey with her family when she was four). Crafts from Peru include worry dolls, small boxes, whistles, and Christmas ornaments.

Dinio-Durkin says that she is a member of the Fair Trade Federation, which stipulates that craftspeople get a fair rate for what they’ve produced. “I’m for profit, and so are they,” she says. Her markup includes the cost of shipping from each country.

“I know how long it takes that bracelet [in Botswana] to be made,” she says.

“I know what the women should be paid. Regardless of that, all of the producer groups I have, they tell me what they want, and I pay them. I don’t haggle.”

She adds, “I believe I am paying fair-market value in the hopes that the women receive enough money to buy food and a sense of empowerment, respect, and acknowledgment of their skills.”

She says that she doesn’t worry about the craftspeople taking advantage of her. “It doesn’t happen,” she says. “They trust me. They want me to keep coming back. They know that I’m there to help them. They’re fair, and I’m fair. It’s a long-term relationship that we’re working toward. And one day I hope they don’t need me. They won’t need my little store, and everyone will see how wonderful their products are and want them.”

Dinio-Durkin and her family will be leading a crafts-buying trip to Botswana in summer 2008.

Women’s Work is located at 65 Main Street in Cold Spring. (845) 809-5299; www.womensworkbw.com.

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ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM

Consideration, Jo Andres, Rain Tree Galley, High Falls

LUCID DREAMING, p.44

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Portfolio F-STOP FITZGERALD

F-stop Fitzgerald has had a full career over the last 30 years in photojournalism, publishing, occasionally teaching, and even founding a gallery when he lived in San Francisco. He began his career there as a freelance photographer shooting music, art, and politics for various local publications. His images have appeared in over 100 periodicals, including Rolling Stone, Village Voice, LA Weekly, Publisher’s Weekly, GQ Japan, Variety, Darkroom, American Photographer, Spin, and many others. He has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1988, and has recently entered local politics, running for Rosendale’s Town Board in the current election.

An early chronicler of the punk scene in San Francisco, Fitzgerald has published six books about rock’ n’ roll culture, including contributing to X-Capees: A San Francisco Punk Photo Documentary. He returns to these roots this month, with an exhibition of photographs of recent performances at various venues in the Hudson Valley entitled “Rockers Shot Onstage!” at the Rosendale Cafe, through November 31. The opening reception—featuring a performance by son Weston’s band, Preferably Tapioca—will be held on Sunday, November 4, from 4-7pm.

—Beth E. Wilson

Above (left to right): Eddie Diehl playing at Backstage Studio in Kingston (detail), 2007; David Bowie at Oakland Coliseum, 1981.

F-STOP FITZGERALD ON HIS WORK The Rosendale Cafe show: It’s a body of new work, all digital, of local performers and performances. Everyone from an act like Big Sister, who’s been around here a long time, to some national acts like Graham Parker and Little Sammy Davis, the Cowboy Junkies at Clearwater, or Burning Spear and Bo Diddley.

It’s a range of musicians, an interesting range from folk to rock to jazz. All local performances, all shot within the last year or two. We’re lucky to have some really great venues here—Mark Morganstern does a fantastic job curating the musical program at the Rosendale Cafe, lots of historic bluesmen, and really talented newcomers as well. There are some other great places across the river, too.

I have a weird eye. I just can’t do tabletop photography, or things that stand still. After 30 years of shooting, this summer I shot the first acceptable landscape I’ve ever taken in my life, in Oregon. I can’t find images with stuff that’s static. So rock’n’roll performance, dance, theater, those are the things I work well with.

With performances, I like unusual compositions. I like to work with a diagonal a lot, and with blurred motion and light.

With the rock and roll stuff, it’s got to be well-focused, but in

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terms of content, I’ve seen so many shots of somebody with a microphone in front of their face, it just makes my stomach turn. I can’t deal with that at all. I like to try to get a smile, I like to get their eyes open, I like to try to find an unusual split second. Those are the things I’m looking for.

The Accidental Photographer I first picked up a Polaroid camera as a Boy Scout, and just played with it then. Later on, I went to SUNY Geneseo. My senior year, I just needed a gut course that I could get an A in, to raise my average, so I took photography. Then, when I moved to San Francisco (where I went to go to grad school in psychology), I discovered that City College—tuition-free at the time—had a film and still photography course. It wasn’t about art, it was really about technique, a two-year course. I did that as I was doing other jobs, just to learn the craft. It was no art school, but just about technique.

When I first moved back here [to NY], I applied to graduate school at Syracuse University. I went to the journalism school, and they said, “Your stuff is much too edgy, it’s not journalism.” Then I went to the fine art department,

and they said, “Your stuff is much too photojournalistic, it’s not fine art.” Which in a way was a validation that I’d found some place in the middle for myself. When I do a magazine job, more often than not, I’ll send in something that’s blurry, has motion to it, depending on the objective, just to see if they’ll go for it. I try to make it a little bit unusual. Sometimes they want the more straightforward images, so I’ll shoot those too of course.

The Genesis of “f-Stop” Back when I was taking that gut course at Geneseo, I was reading 20th-century American literature, so I invented it for myself—f-stop, F. Scott, why not? I did it as a joke, but when the punk scene came along, and people had names like Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious, it just made perfect sense. Today, most people don’t know my real first name, other than f-Stop. The town board campaign signs we have up now [listing him as “f-Stop Minissali”] are actually the first time I’ve intermixed them. The Board of Elections made me do it. They wouldn’t take Fitzgerald, so I’ll be listed as Richard “f-Stop” Minissali on the ballot.

Clockwise from top left: Margo Timmins of Cowboy Junkies at Clearwater Festival, 2007; Dead Kennedys at Bay Area Music Awards, 1979; Pete Seeger at Clearwater, 2007; Versus, San Francisco’s premier punk/fashionistas, 1976

The San Francisco Scene I saw some tremendous music back in those days [mid ’70s to late ’80s]. I saw the Police when they were an opening act, I saw U2 in a place that wasn’t much bigger than my studio here. I started shooting rock and roll just because I carried my camera with me in San Francisco, and I was always going to shows, to see the Grateful Dead in Golden Gate Park, that sort of thing. Then as the music changed [in the late ’70s], I was just documenting it. That late ’70s rock scene was fading, and there was this new thing, punk, coming in. I was there at the last concert by the Sex Pistols. I had an earache that night that really got painful. [Laughs.] It seemed appropriate at that show!

Then I collaborated on a couple of books, one called X-Capees, and a couple of my own books about the punk scene. I was kind of like the family photographer of the punk and New Wave scene in San Francisco. Saw some great music, shot a ton of stuff, and it’s been fun to get back into that sort of thing [with the current Rosendale Cafe show].

Digital Conversion I love the immediacy of digital [photography]. It’s great, being able to send it off to a magazine that day is tremendous. I feel pretty good about handling the camera, but after spending about 30 years in the darkroom, I can make an 8-by-10 for reproduction in seconds, and now it takes me three hours in Photoshop.

Now I have the new digital darkroom to work in—that’s the challenge.

I’m done [with film]. I’ve sold my 35mm film cameras, with the exception of a few that are museum pieces; gave away all my film. Most of what I do is book and magazine work, and the occasional exhibition, so I really don’t need film. My days as a silver engineer are over.

There’s always room for Jello One of the more memorable stories that happened was when I was covering the Bammies [Bay Area Music Awards] as the staff photographer for Bay Area Music Magazine. The Dead Kennedys were going to perform, and you can imagine, there was a lot of tension as far as what they were going to do. They showed up wearing white shirts and skinny black ties, looking like The Knack, and they asked me to sneak in some spray paint—they would’ve gotten busted for it if they tried to bring it in—and then they painted big dollar signs on their white shirts, with the tie going through it. It was great—they came onstage with these dollar signs on there, in this big music ceremony. It made quite a big scene.

I did a book on the Dead Kennedys but Jello and I didn’t see eye to eye. I asked them for permission to do an authorized biography, and they said yes. But that meant to Jello that he wanted it to be his biography. And I said, “No, I’m not going to do that,” so I deauthorized it, and I gave him a page at the end of the book to trash me. Which he did.

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Lucid Dreaming

BY BETH E. WILSON

STAR POWER In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false.

—Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle Andy Warhol is still the most immediately recognizable artist to the general public, I think it’s safe to say. (Ask an average Joe off the streets, and he’ll at least have an inkling of the soup can paintings, and will probably be able to identify a photograph of Andy from his “fright wig” period as well.)

Twenty years after his death, no one has managed to step into those prominent shoes. He did something that no one else has quite managed to accomplish since.

Andy—someone we seem to know on a first-name basis—didn’t just make art, he recrafted himself into a mass media icon. Having coined the infamous “15 minutes of fame” quip, he went on to linger much longer than that himself.

Celebrity is a strange issue in the context of contemporary art. As the thinker Walter Benjamin noted, the tradition of art making involves the creation of unique, singular works (paintings, carved marble sculptures, etcetera), whose attraction (“cult value”) depends upon their relative physical inaccessibility (what Benjamin called its “aura”). Seeing a poster print of the Mona Lisa is somehow not quite the same thing as fighting through the hordes of tourists to see her in person at the Louvre.

And yet in today’s world, it’s the cachet of “exhibition value”—you can call it buzz, a meme, or the 100th-monkey syndrome—that appeals to the mass market of ideas and images and that will put an artwork into the front ranks of both the public consciousness and the market.

Years ago, as I was cutting my teeth as an art writer for a gallery in New York, it fell to me to write the press release for the then relatively unknown photographer Andres Serrano, about a new body of work he’d done, photographing tanks of bodily fluids like blood, piss, and milk. But it wasn’t the artful wording of my press release that made the breakthrough for him. That happened several months later, when our esteemed Senator Al D’Amato ripped up a reproduction of Serrano’s Piss Christ on the floor of the US Senate, pulling it from a catalogue for a show that had received federal funding. The culture wars were on, and ultimately Serrano reaped an odd benefit—everybody now knew about his work. Media presence equals career kickoff.

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Something similar happened to artist Keith Edmier, whose retrospective is now up at the Hessel Museum at Bard College (but without the political controversy). I first caught wind of his work a few years ago, when he exhibited work from a collaboration with Farrah Fawcett (yes, of “Charlie’s Angels” fame). The project was spurred initially by Edmier’s childhood fascination with Farrah, and the final product is a pair of life-size sculptures: a carved marble of the television star (by him), and a bronze of the artist (by her). The buzz-worthiness of all this could be measured by the New York Times Magazine spread he garnered, a blurb in Artnet’s tightly policed news listings, as well as a spot on the Heavenly Angels fansite. It’s at this point that his art career really took off.

Ironically, the focus of Edmier’s work is, in fact, his complex relationship to memories of his mass-mediated suburban childhood. The Fawcett project grew quite naturally out of this work, which in turn had been influenced by his first professional foray in special effects in Hollywood. (It was working with makeup effects master Rick Baker that he first picked up sculpting in pink dental resin, still a favored material.)

Born in 1967, Edmier speaks to the median age demographic, people who were too young to really register much about the 1960s or Vietnam, and who grew up trained in the ways of mass consumption by television. As a result, his memories are, often as not, of celebrity icons like Fawcett (or Evel Knievel, Janis Joplin, or John Lennon, who appear as well). It’s the initial Pop Art insight, one or two generations removed; now less subversive than desublimated, and as a result, “always at the edge of the acceptable boundaries of artistic virtues and taste,” as Bard’s CCS Executive Director Tom Eccles puts it.

Of course it’s at the edge of acceptable taste—who would openly admit to enjoying the infamous Farrah Fawcett swimsuit poster as anything but a guilty pleasure? Edmier tries to pick up on that contradiction in the work, sometimes engaging it successfully, sometimes not.

In stark contrast to the ambitious, well-capitalized, glossy surfaces of Edmier’s exhibition (as appropriate as that mode might be to some of his subject matter), I can heartily endorse the emphatically humble, handmade cyanotypes of Jo Andres, now on view at Raintree Gallery in High Falls.

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Andres brings a wide-ranging background as creator of kinetic, film/dance/ light performances, a choreographer, and a filmmaker. About four years ago, she was introduced to the photographic medium of the cyanotype, familiar to anyone who’s ever used one of those “sun print” kits they make for kids. Andres sensitizes her own paper for the prints, and you can still make out the brushstrokes beneath the imagery, which focuses on an eclectic group of old dolls, figurines, close-ups of eyes, and odd implements.

Most of the works use two or more images within the frame, printed to leave space between the individual negatives. Sometimes it’s two versions of the same image, the negative flopped to make a mirror image; sometimes there are several close ups, taken from different angles, of the outlandishly painted doll eyelashes, or a particularly menacing pair of doll lips, sporting a row of fanglike teeth. The serial, framelike nature of the groupings gives them an almost cinematic flavor— and the fact that she’s using mass-produced objects (but from a different, very foreign-seeming era) marks a true Surrealist appreciation for the uncanny.

The elephant in the room here is the fact that Andres is married to actor/director Steve Buscemi, with the commutative property of star power undoubtedly one of the main reasons the opening reception was packed to the gills. (Ironically, she told me that when they met over 20 years ago, she was actually the better-known artist.) But the work itself is solid, and shows great promise, especially the recent prints made on cotton cloth, which heighten the tactility of the image, pulling the image into a markedly different relationship with the viewer.

Call me old-fashioned, but the presence—yes, the aura—of the work of art still seems important, even more so in an age when everything is in danger of being YouTubed. It seems we’re closer than ever to realizing Andy’s original “15 minutes” prediction. But what happens when celebrity is spread so thin everybody can see through it? We might just have to look at the world with our own eyes, for once, instead of only taking it as it is served up by People magazine.

“KEITH EDMIER 1991-2007,” WILL BE ON VIEW THROUGH FEBRUARY 3 AT THE CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AT BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ONHUDSON. (845) 758-7598; WWW.BARD.EDU/CCS. “DARKNESS & DELIGHT,” CYANOTYPES BY JO ANDRES, WILL BE ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 18 AT RAINTREE GALLERY, 107 MAIN STREET, HIGH FALLS. (845) 687-2685; WWW.JOANDRES.COM.

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EXPERIMENTAL ART COLLECTIVE

198 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-0522.

473 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0145.

345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 392-9620.

“Margaret Crenson & Billy Name Duo Exhibit.” New paintings

by Crenson, archival photographs by the famous Warhol-era Name. November 10-30.

“Red October.” Group show. Through November 25.

“New Works.” November 3-30.

Opening Saturday, November 17, 5pm-8pm.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 3pm-6pm.

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION FINE CRAFTS AND ART GALLERY 7950 MAIN STREET, HUNTER (518) 263-2060.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.

97 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON (845) 339-1550.

“Local Color.” Landscapes by Catskill artists. Through November 11.

“Our Pets.” Oil paintings by Carol Lieberman. Through December 30.

THE CATSKILLS GALLERY

Opening Friday, November 2, 5pm-12am.

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ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART

“Saul Steinberg: Illuminations.” A retrospective exhibit.

November 2-February 24.

106 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5552.

ARTS UPSTAIRS

“Works By Thomas Locker.” Through December 20.

GALERIE BMG

60 MAIN ST., PHOENICIA 688-2142.

“Worldly Wonders.” Works by The Phoeniciarts Group.

Through November 11.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Big Pictures.” Large scale color digital panoramic photographs. November 10-December 2.

Opening Saturday, November 10, 6pm-9pm.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

“Jane.” Works by Regan Stacey. Through November 19.

“Keith Edmier 1991-2007.” Through February 3.

“Remnants.” Works by Mary Daniel Hobson. November 23December 31.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

Opening Friday, December 7, 6pm-8pm.

59 TINKER ST., WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

“The Real Story of Superheroes.” Works by Dulce Pinzon.

November 10-December 23.

Opening Saturday, November 10, 5pm-7pm.

BCB ART GALLERY

CHISHOLM GALLERY

116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539.

3 FACTORY LANE, PINE PLAINS (518) 398-1246.

“Vice.” Group show. Through November 4.

“Angelica e Baiardo Paintings.” Paintings by Carlo Romiti.

Through November 8.

BE GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS 687-0660.

“Natural Elements: Women in the Woods.” Multi-media show expressing connections to the natural elements. Through November 5.

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

DONSKOJ & COMPANY 93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 331-8473.

GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY 5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104.

“Sytes.” Through November 4.

GREEN COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.

“RSVP.” Works by former directors at the Greene County Council on the Arts. Through November 10.

“Photographs by Marc Miller.” November 3-24.

“Salon 2007.” Small artworks in all media for sale. November 17-January 12.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-8pm.

Opening Saturday, November 17, 5pm-7pm.

THE BEACON INSTITUTE

EAST VILLAGE COLLECTIVE

199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

8 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2174.

“John Fasulo: The Hudson and Beyond--Photographs from Around the Bend and Across the Sea.” Works by this retired TV cameraman/producer. Through January 31.

“Fear and Loathing in Mexico.” Images by Al Satterwhite.

Through November 10.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068.

“Wire Mesh Sculpture.” Works by Karen Bamonte. Through November 18.

ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKS AND MORE

40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

347 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 966-4038.

“Kindred Spirits.” Watercolors by artists Pat Morgan and Janet Campbell. November 1-30.

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“Other Lives, The Photographs and Writings of William Gedney.” Through December 1.

Opening Saturday, November 10, 1pm-3pm.

“Size Matters: XS.” Recent small-scale paintings. Through November 10.

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THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK DULCE PINZĂ“N - The Real Story of the Superheroes Time Tracers - a group exhibition curated by Ariel Shanberg

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.

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“John Ruppert.� Sculpture that combines natural and man-made objects. Through November 4.

KIESENDAHL & CALHOUN CONTEMPORARY ART

“A Designed Life: Arts and Crafts of Byrdcliffe.� Through December 9. “Rituales de la Tierra y del Espiritu: Rituals of the Land and Spirit.� Photographs by Miguel Gandert. November 2-30.

Opening Friday, November 2, 6pm-8pm.

122 GREAT OAK LANE, PLEASANTVILLE (914) 844-6296.

“Urban Noir: LA- NY� Works by photographer Helen K. Garber. Through November 18.

November 10 - December 23, 2007 Opening reception: November 10, 5-7 with an artist talk by Dulce PinzĂłn at 5:30pm

“Home is Where the Art is.� Works by 11 unique artists. November 2-December 2.

59 TINKER ST. WOODSTOCK NY | 845.679.9957 | WWW.CPW.ORG

SHARADA GALLERY

Opening Friday, November 2, 6pm-8pm.

45 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4828.

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“A Group of Two.� Paintings by Jennifer Axinn-Weiss and Joanne Klein. Through November 9.

105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON WWW.KMOCA.ORG.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

“Sculpture by Emily Puthoff.� November 3-30.

207 ALBANY AVENUE, KINGSTON 549-8088.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-7pm.

“Windows.� Group exhibition. November 3-25.

LEO FORTUNA GALLERY 422 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 697-7907.

“Tuning.� Works by Ana Tiscornia. November 3-26.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 6pm-8pm.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 6pm-9pm.

TERENCHIN FINE ART 462 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 945-1808.

“Critical Mass.� Works by Frank Faulkner.

November 17-January 12.

Opening Saturday, November 17, 6pm-9pm.

M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP

“Interpreting Paradise: Views of the Catskills.�

Works by local artists. Through November 15.

60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.

“It Ain’t Just Paint.� Works by 20 artists in mixed media. Through November 12.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.

“Camera Vision.� Works by Maureen Gates.

Through November 11.

MUDDY CUP

TOWN OF ESOPUS PUBLIC LIBRARY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.

“Works by Claudia Engel.� Watercolors of the local Hudson Valley & Rondout area.

November 3-29.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-8pm.

305 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-1378.

“Jumbo.� Large-scale art in all media.

Through December 31.

UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482.

“Sacred Spaces.� Through November 24.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 506 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090.

“Photographs by Laura Gail Tyler.� November 3-December 17.

Opening Saturday, November 3, 6am-8pm.

UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Mexican Folk Art Exhibit.� November 4-25.

Opening Sunday, November 4, 6pm-9pm.

PEARL GALLERY

China Jorrin PHOTOGRAPHY

3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888.

917-449-5020 www.chinajorrin.com

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“Sound and Vision.� Works by Val Bertoia, Barbara Bash, Marty Carey, Jane Herold and Tim Rowan. Through November 25.

THE QUEST 3764 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-7963.

“Women & Books: Artist Books by Four Local Women Artists.� An exhibition of artist books in a range of styles and formats. Through November 4.

GEOFF MULDAUR

ERIC WEISSBERG

sat/november 3 | AN EVENING W/THE BANJO MASTERS Featuring: Bill Keith, Bruce Molsky, Tony Trischka and Eric Weissberg | A unique and special evening with four of the top banjo players in the country all under one roof performing solo and together.

sat/november 10 | AN EVENING W/GEOFF MULDAUR both concerts | 8pm | $25/general, $20/member The Banjo Masters is made possible by support from The New York State Music Fund established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Geoff Muldaur is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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“Richard Purdy: Encaustics 2000-2007.�

Through November 17.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“The Art of Haiti.� November 4-25.

Opening Sunday, November 4, 4pm-7pm.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995.

“Christie Scheele and Tom Christopher.�

Hudson Valley and New York City paintings.

Through November 5.

WALLKILL RIVER ART GALLERY 357 OLD FORGE HILL, NEW WINDSOR 689-0613.

“Orange County Bounty.� Paintings of local farms and restaurants. November 1-December 30.

Opening Saturday, November 10, 5pm-8pm.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Marilyn Price: Master Ceramicist.� Through November 5. “Buone Feste.� Holiday group show. November 10-December 31.

Opening Saturday, November 10, 4pm-7pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.

“Another Roadside Distraction, The Landscape of Vanishing Americana.� Works by Mary Anne Erickson. Through November 4.

Santa Claus as Christmas tree, 1949 or later Offset printing, black-and-white lineshot 7 x 5 in.

(17.8 x 12.7 cm) Published by The Museum of Modern Art Collection of Tom Bloom

Saul Steinberg Illuminations

November 2, 2007 - February 24, 2008 A retrospective organized by the

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

www.servcestation.com

845 657 9788

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Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York (845) 437-5632 http://fllac.vassar.edu Open Tuesday-Sunday, until 9:00p.m. on Thursdays

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Music

BY PETER AARON

STILL ANGRY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS GRAHAM PARKER The world of a rock ’n’ roll fan can be a strange and confusing place. Idols you assumed were immortal pass away, quit, or sell out. Songs you once held sacred and figured only a handful of other people even knew about end up being used on TV to hawk everything from cars to cruises, soap to Swiffers. And sometimes, if you happen to be a music journalist, it gets even stranger. You play the hell out of someone’s records in your bedroom—really loud, of course—to piss off your parents when you’re a teenager and, almost 30 years later, you’re sitting across a table from the person who made those records, sharing fragments of an oatmeal raisin cookie. Strange, but sweet.

Graham Parker was tossed in with the English punk and new wave eruption, but in truth his career predates it. His fiery first two albums, Howlin’ Wind and Heat Treatment (both released in 1976)—cited by Rolling Stone’s Greil Marcus as being “among the very finest of the decade”—actually preceded and influenced the debuts of his fellow enfant terrible troubadours, Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson.

Today, however, at 56, the gregarious father of two would no longer seem to be the quintessential angry young man of yore. He cracks jokes, shares eye-rolling war stories about being stuck opening for Journey and Lynyrd Skynyrd in the Midwest back in the day, talks about planning his current touring schedule around the soccer season (both he and his 11-year-old son play in local leagues). But his recent music tells a very different story.

On Parker’s latest album, the magnificent Don’t Tell Columbus (Bloodshot Records), tracks like the celebrity gossip-baiting “England’s Latest Clown” and the biting, darkly comical Bush-slam “Stick to the Plan” boil with as much merciless bile as any of the vitriolic tunes on his classic early LPs. And, this being the Noughties, Parker has also begun to pour out his trademark bitter spleen online, offering download-only tracks via his website, such as the now doubly and sadly outdated Iraq War commentary “2,000 Funerals” (released just last year) and the forthcoming “The End of Faith,” which was inspired by the religion-questioning writings of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. Rest assured, Parker still sounds pissed.

“Oh, there’s always something to get mad about,” says the wiry, perpetually sunglassed singer, who maintains that to him getting angry is “like falling off a log. The other [nonangry] stuff is the hard stuff to write.”

Gray, rainy London in the early 1970s was an easy place in which to be angry.

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Health (“The very place they just traced the recent foot and mouth disease epidemic to!” Parker says). And, on top of that, the prevailing music pretty much sucked.

“I had been a mod, into soul music, and then I went through the whole psychedelic thing,” recalls Parker, who grew up in the suburban village of Deepcut.

“But by ’73, ’74, it was all this terrible prog rock—Rick Wakeman and all of that crap. I was listening to The Band, the Stones, and Van Morrison instead, and I’d also rediscovered the Tamla/Motown stuff, which sounded a lot fresher than Yes. I was living with my parents, writing hundreds of songs.”

After sharpening his chops in a couple of cover bands, by 1975 Parker was shopping demos of his own tunes to labels. Future Stiff Records founder Dave Robinson got him a deal with Mercury and helped him put together The Rumour, a crack backing band comprised of musicians cherry-picked from various groups of the UK pub rock scene, the back-to-basics R&B-fueled movement that directly prefaced punk. “People write that I was part of the pub rock thing, but that’s not really true,” Parker says. “Pub rock was done by the time The Rumour started. It was more a case of ‘guilt by association,’ since [Rumour guitarists] Martin Belmont and Brinsley Schwarz and [keyboardist] Bob Andrews came out of that.”

With The Rumour, the rasp-voiced Parker worked up a brand of tough, lean rock ’n’ roll that combined his beloved soul/R&B, Van Morrison, and Rolling Stones influences with the accusatory edge of Bob Dylan (“Actually, early Dylan wasn’t that big of an influence—I didn’t really get into him until right around then, with [1974’s] Blood on the Tracks.”). After the Nick Lowe-produced Howlin’ Wind and Heat Treatment, Parker cut two more albums for Mercury before jumping to Arista. There, he made his flawless masterpiece, 1979’s Squeezing Out Sparks, which sold over 200,000 copies, is repeatedly acknowledged as one of rock’s finest albums, and contains his signature hit, “Local Girls.” The follow-up, 1980’s The Up Escalator, featured a guest appearance by fan Bruce Springsteen (who famously said Parker was the only artist he would pay to see), but it didn’t sell nearly as well. After two more shots with the Rumourless Another Grey Area (1982) and The Real Macaw (1983), Parker was dropped from Arista.

From there it was a bumpy ride through major-label hell. Parker bounced from one corporate behemoth to the next, along the way cracking the Top 40 with 1985’s “Wake Up (Next to You),” charting high on college radio with 1988’s “Get Started (Start a Fire),” and pleasing his fans—but still not moving enough units to keep the colossi happy. After 1991’s acclaimed Struck by Lightning (RCA), which featured guest work from The Band’s Garth Hudson, and 1992’s unheralded Burning Questions, the buck-chasing big leagues were done

with Parker and he was done with them. He made the leap to indiedom in 1994, releasing the return-to-form 12 Haunted Episodes (Razor & Tie) and a consistent string of other well-received discs.

So does he ever long for the high life of the majors? “Only their budgets,� he chuckles. “It was great to have, like, $300,000 to make an album. If you wanted, say, a horn section, you could get one. But, really, the amount of waste that went on was just unreal. Still, even though independent labels don’t have that kind of money, my records actually sound better for it—more down-to-earth, more immediate. Plus, [indie labels] let me do what I want and they really believe in what I do. Which is just fantastic.�

One of the labels that really believes is Chicago’s Bloodshot Records, with whom Parker has been enjoying an outright career renaissance starting with 2004’s rootsoriented Your Country and continuing with 2005’s Songs of No Consequence and Don’t Tell Columbus, albums trumpeted as his best since the glory days of The Rumour. “It’s really an honor to work with someone of the caliber of Graham Parker, who just has such an amazing history,â€? says Bloodshot owner Nan Warshaw. “Especially when he’s at the top of his game, like he is right now.â€? The relationship began when Parker teamed up with the Waco Brothers (featuring ex-Rumour drummer Steve Goulding) for a track on the label’s ďŹ ve-year anniversary sampler album. “When Graham had recorded Your Country, he thought we might want to put it out, since our label has been so involved in the underground country movement.

We loved it, and things just evolved from there.�

Another crew that’s honored and ecstatic to be working with Parker is Saratoga Springs-born power-pop quartet The Figgs, which has toured and recorded as Parker’s backup band on and o since 1996. “Playing with Graham is really great,â€? says Figgs guitarist and singer Mike Gent, 36. “He’s such an easy guy to work with.

He even lets me write the set list some nights, or make suggestions about which studios to use, stu like that. He seems to trust me because he knows I know his music—I mean, my dad had his albums when I was a kid. It’s really kinda cool.�

Besides backing Parker with The Figgs on Songs of No Consequence and 1997’s live The Last Rock N Roll Tour (Razor & Tie), the versatile Gent co-produced and played drums and guitar on Don’t Tell Columbus.

A Woodstock resident since 1988, Parker generally doesn’t bother with the local gigs. “There’s [usually] some weirdness that happens when I do a show around here,â€? he says. “Because there’s a lot of weekenders up here [who might not] even know there’s a gig happening, a show can fall between the cracks. It’s funny being able to pack out some place in an obscure part of New Jersey and only get half a crowd in your own backyard.â€? Nevertheless, a nature ďŹ end, he adores the region and compares it to the wooded village of his youth, his own modest plot to the grounds of an English lord. In the winters, he explores his newfound love of skiing, and cultivates a longer-held, music-rivaling passion: ďŹ ction writing.

The author of three books, The Great Trouser Mystery, Carp Fishing on Valium, and The Other Life of Brian, Parker ďŹ nds prose writing inďŹ nitely more challenging than songwriting. “A song is just one or two pages of words,â€? he says. “With ďŹ ction, it doesn’t have to rhyme, thank God, but I always end up going back over it, rewriting and reworking things. But when I hit a vein and get on a roll, that’s exciting.â€?

Some heady excitement arrived last year when the Bard himself, Bob Dylan, praised Parker’s songwriting on his “Theme Time Radio Hourâ€? XM satellite show. “It was a lot of fun hearing Dylan drawl my name and play ‘Back to School Days,’ but, as is typical of my career, something was a bit o about it,â€? Parker says with a laugh. “He played a demo version, not the studio one from Howlin’ Wind, and mentioned the names of The Rumour’s guitarists—but they didn’t play on the demo!â€? Parker’s atypical career is also the subject of a documentary, now in production, by Michael Gramaglia, who directed 2003’s stellar Ramones ďŹ lm End of the Century.

Looking back over that same lengthy, unusual career, is there anything Parker wishes he’d done dierently? “Well, sometimes I wish I’d done more to have a Top 10 hit or two,â€? he sighs. “At this point, those could be bargaining chips, so the promoters in Nebraska or Sioux City, Iowa, who also happen to be fans of my music can get people out to shows and not worry about losing their shirts. But I was too bloody-minded back then—I didn’t care as much about having hits as I did about making great rock’ n’ roll. “I never thought I’d still be [playing music] at my age, let alone making records as good as Don’t Tell Columbus. But I’m a better person for having not let my talent go to waste. It was too seductive to become like the people around me when I was growing up, to stay in some lousy job and end up sitting in a pub, drinking instead of writing songs.â€?

A world without the songs of Graham Parker? Now that would be something to be angry about.

Chronogram and WDST will present an evening with Graham Parker at Muddy Cup in Kingston on November 10. www.grahamparker.net.

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METAL/ROCK MASH-UP November 16. The tireless bookers at The Chance complex in Poughkeepsie have outdone themselves for this gig, which boasts a dozen stoked bands in just two of their three livemusic clubs. In the big room of The Chance Theater, local slayers Eradicate lead the horde, followed by the metal mayhem of Assault, Antipathy, Catacomb, Casimir, and Suffocation.

In The Loft, modern rock rules with Revel at Midnight, Steve Schultz, The Cringe, This Condition, Turncoat, and the London Souls. (Ulster’s own Underground Take Down rocks out on November 9, and don’t miss The MisďŹ ts on December 2.) 7pm, The Chance Theater; 8:30pm, The Loft. $7. Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-1966; www.thechancecomplex.com.

FRIENDS OF FIDDLER’S GREEN CONCERTS November 16 and 30. This folk concert series is being presented by the Hudson Valley Folk Guild and includes a great variety of nationally known and international performers in all genres of folk music. The guild’s season runs twice a month from September through December, then resumes in March through early June at the United Methodist Church in Hyde Park. The Straight Drive Bluegrass Band (November 16) features Terry McGill on banjo and vocals, Jen Larson on guitar and lead vocals, Ron Feinberg on ďŹ ddle and vocals, Jim Treat on bass, Ben Fraker on mandolin, and Dave Hampton on guitar and vocals. Bill Vanaver (November 30), music arranger and co-leader of the Vanaver Caravan, is widely known for his instrumental work on ďŹ ve-string banjo and many more exotic instruments and for his vast knowledge of traditional American and world music. 8pm. $8, $6 guild members. Hyde Park. (845) 483-0650; www.hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org.

JOHNNY UNSTOPPABLE November 24. Johnny Unstoppable is a post-emo band that began as a vehicle to take the songs of lyricist Chris Victor beyond the acoustic guitar he wrote them on.

This Oasis show supports an excellent new CD, Life with Two Feet on the Ground (Cricket Music, 2007), which stars Victor and his band mates, Chris Heitzman (guitar), Guthrie Lord (bass), and Andy Shutty (drums). Victor describes the quartet’s sound as “hitting that thing beating in your chest, that little place in your brain that makes you bob your head uncontrollably.� We’re so there. 11pm. $5. New Paltz. (845) 255-2400; www.myspace.com/johnnyunstoppable.

JIM WEIDER’S PROJECT PERCOLATOR November 24. Project Percolator is Weider’s trip into a powerful guitar-driven groove band (with an awesome 2006 CD to prove it). His blues/rock roots still show, but highlights of funk and jazz shine through and show Weider’s mastery of his Telecaster. The latest incarnation of the band includes Rodney Holmes on drums, Mitch Stein (of the Steve Kimock Band) on guitar, and Steve Lucas on bass (Bruce Cockburn). Weider, who for a time ably stood in Robbie Robertson’s guitar shoes in The Band, is among a select group of musicians with an endorsement from Fender. This jam is highly recommended. 9pm. $20, $25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. (845) 855-1300; www.jimweider.com.

Jim Weider’s Project Percolator will play the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling on November 24.

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CD REVIEWS COURTENAY BUDD SLEEP IS BEHIND THE DOOR INDEPENDENT, 2006

T Technically, these are lullabies, but a casual sspin of the latest from this world-class opeera singer and Poughkeepsie resident jjust sounds like good, old-fashioned chambber music. Upon closer inspection, you’ll d discover 25 sumptuous and eclectic tracks sung iin over a dozen languages—German, Spanish, E Eastern European—and even a Disney tune can bbe found among pieces by Strauss, Grieg, Dvorak, aand many lesser-known classical composers. So tthis album isn’t just for baby, it’s for anyone who eenjoys top-notch classical or opera. It’s also for tthe benevolent: All profits of the CD will support d domestic and international disaster relief, specificcally the continuing efforts on the Gulf Coast (the idea for the album was conceived immediately following the Asian Tsunami by a friend of Budd’s).

Produced by 17-time Grammy winner Max Wilcox, Sleep Is Behind the Door also features an outstanding throng of players on violin, cello, guitar, piano, flute, and clarinet, as well as three additional sopranos, a tenor, and a baritone. Whether you love classical music or are just feeling charitable, this CD is worth picking up just to hear this star of Carnegie Hall, who has been knighted “a voice for connoisseurs.” www.lullabiesfordisasterrelief.org; cdbaby.com/cd/courtenaybudd.

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“ “Jass” was the maiden term for jazz music when tthe form emerged from the streets and nightclubs oof New Orleans and St. Louis. The twinkling Trio Loco plays up the pun, as its music crosses easily L ffrom jazz to Latin and straight-up lounge—but iit’s all “jass” in the end. Fronted by über-crooner aand gutbucket bassist Studio Stu, this recording ffeatures composer and SUNY New Paltz jazz sstudies director Mark Dziuba on guitar and the dynamite Dean Sharp on all things percussive. d Engineer Paul Antonell of Rhinebeck’s Clubhouse E sstudio delivers a perfect mix, with Stu’s Studivarioous washtub bass sounding at times like a foursstring standup or Fender Precision, and Sharp’s drums d have h drive d but b never overpower. Dziuba b is at the top of his game, whether composing (i.e., the instrumental opener “Mobile Infirmary”) or running chords all over the neck on Pat Martino’s “The Visit.” All the selections are more fun than a barrelful of matzoh, with some standard schmaltz (the Peggy Lee hit “Fever”) mingled in with real gem arrangements (Johnny Mercer’s “I’m an Old Cowhand”). Jass delivers the jazz on Thelonious Monk’s “Epistrophy” (whose title means “a word or phrase that repeats itself”) with its ear-bending semi-tone melody. The farewell track, the trippy “oddNormal,” is remixed and looped by Sharp. Plan on spending many late, smoky nights with all this Jass. www.myspace.com/triolocojass.

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Three chords, no-frills recording, and a joyful d disregard of the mainstream: punk rock or oldttime string band music? Answer: both.

Uncle Monk is the eponymous release of Tomm my Ramone’s most recent musical offering to the world, and although he initially made his mark as w tthe first drummer—not to mention producer and m manager—of seminal punk band the Ramones, tthere is nary a drum on this CD. Alongside longttime partner Claudia Tienan, Ramone has traded iin glue for moonshine, the basement for the back porch, and jeans for…well, jeans. p In the ’70s, Ramone helped change the landsscape of pop, but with Uncle Monk, the skilled multi-instrumentalist—he sings and expertly lays m down fiddle dobro mandolin, mandolin banjo, banjo and guitar—has guitar h sown his considerable energy into deeper musifiddle, dobro, cal strata. The resulting harvest of 14 originals references everything from the Carter Family to Hank Williams Sr., but on the way up from those deeply sunken roots there are audible traces of the Velvet Underground, acerbic folk, and the singer-songwriter confessional.

Tienan—who also holds down bass and rhythm guitar—possesses a dusky, Leonard Cohen-esque alto, which underpins the rollicking “Emotional Needs” with a wry sensibility and casts shadows on the ironically titled “Urban Renewal.” Ramone’s more elastic vocals whoop, growl, and sob as he cavorts in the leaves in “Heaven” and mourns convincingly for a broken friendship in “Mean to Me.” Uncle Monk is a walk down a dusty two-lane blacktop with the lights of the big city glowing on the horizon—distant but still present. www.unclemonk.com —Robert Burke Warren 11/07 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 53

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FICTION CONTEST

RED ROVER

By Timothy Tocher Illustrations by Kim Scafuro

Chronogram received dozens of entries for this year’s Story Contest. The guest judge was Abigail Thomas, author of best-selling memoirs A Three Dog Life and Safekeeping, two novels, and two collections of stories.

She writes: “For First Prize, I chose ‘Red Rover’ by Timothy Tocher. I tend to read for voice, and if there’s a narrator I would keep turning pages for, I pay attention. Tocher’s narrator is fresh, funny, and sympathetic.

I’d follow this story anywhere, and not just because it includes a dog. The runner-up is ‘Falling From the Garden Into Wonder’

by William Sheldon. I’d also like to include for Honorable Mention two other stories I admired: ‘Happy Valley’ by Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang, and ‘A Partial Catalog of Harold’s Major and Minor Epiphanies’ by Brent Robison.”

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irst time I saw that dog, he was lying between the marble pillars that flanked the front of the Richardson house. I pushed aside some leaves and twirled the dial on the binoculars until he was in perfect focus, red coat gleaming in the summer sun.

“What kind is it?” I asked Eddie, tilting my head toward the higher branch where he was hidden. Eddie is only two years older than me, but for as long as I can remember, I’d looked to him for answers.

“The kind that’s in our way,” he snapped. “How are we supposed to rob the place with that dog there?”

The dog stiffened, then raced across the lawn. I swept the binoculars after him, making myself so dizzy that I almost fell out of the tree. I lowered the glasses and watched him speed for a squirrel that sat on the grass. The squirrel let him get within 20 feet, then zipped across the road to safety.

The dog gave a disappointed yip and headed back to the porch. I looked at Eddie. “Invisible fence,” he said. “Dog goes near the edge of the property, he gets zapped. There’s a sensor on his collar.”

I felt relieved. Maybe for once we could leave a town without doing something that would prevent us from ever coming back. I made the mistake of joking around.

“Too bad we can’t take the dog. He’s a beauty.”

Eddie leaned down and slapped me on the back so hard that my knees nearly lost their grip on the branch I straddled. “That’s it. I’ll bet Richardson will pay plenty.”

We returned after dark, creeping close to the front lawn. The dog sensed we were there, and started barking. I wound up and chucked a baseball-sized hunk of chopped meat toward the sound. In a split second, the dog was too busy inhaling beef to make noise.

The following night he bounded toward me, a happy woof his only sound.

I threw the meat closer to the sidewalk. While the dog bolted it down, I moved onto the lawn and squatted in a spot where I was screened from the house by a large tree.

The beef a fading memory, the dog trotted over to say thanks. He flopped on his back so I could scratch his belly. While one hand dug in and made his leg thump the ground, the other loosened his collar. When it came off in my hand, the dog shook free of my grip. He let loose a howl of pleasure, and streaked for the road. Before I could react, he was racing down the block, his long ears stretched out behind him.

A light came on in the Richardson house, and I took off myself, bent low, and keeping the tree between me and the front porch. I knew Eddie was somewhere nearby in his van. Two blocks ahead, he snapped on the headlights, and I caught a glimpse of the dog as it sped past him. The van pulled away from the curb and I ran after it. Eddie would expect me to go in the opposite direction, leading trouble away. I was too scared. All I could think of was climbing into the van and roaring out of town for good.

I heard a crash as the dog sent a trash can flying. The headlights showed that everything except his thrashing tail and hind legs had disappeared inside it. Eddie eased the van to the curb, got out, and opened its side panel door. I sucked in air and ran harder.

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Eddie circled behind the dog, hoping to grab him and wrestle him into the van. Before he could try, the dog backed out of the trash can and stuck his nose in the air.

Something in the van attracted him, for he scampered across the sidewalk and jumped inside. I piled in after him, sliding the door closed. Eddie hopped into the driver’s seat and gunned the engine.

The dog lay on the floor, happily nuzzling through the greasy potato chip bags and other garbage that had piled up during our weeks on the road. I went to wipe the sweat from my face and discovered that I was still clutching his collar. My eye was caught by a metal plate bolted to it. “Red Rover,” I read aloud.

The dog abandoned the trash, clambering across the seat to smother me in drool. Eddie slowed to a normal speed and headed the van toward our campground.

I was half drowned by a hot tongue coated with bits of garbage and greasy chips.

It made for a long ride.

Red Rover didn’t care much for the final mile, which was off road. The van lurched over rocks and bounced in and out of ruts. I should have gotten suspicious when he calmed and lay on the seat, his head in my lap. But it took me by surprise when he upchucked the meatball and everything else he’d eaten since he met us.

The smell was so bad that I almost lost it myself. Eddie cursed and cranked his window. Mine only went down halfway, but I stuck my nose out the opening and kept it there. The second we came to a stop, I was out of that van, stripping off my barf-covered clothes. My other jeans and T-shirt were hanging from a tree branch. They weren’t quite dry, but they were a big improvement on the set Red Rover had christened.

“Soon as you’re dressed, clean the van,” Eddie called. Typical. Eddie had stuck me with every dirty job that had come up since we took to the road. I’d cleaned fish, changed a tire, even dug the latrine for our campground. My folks thought we were traveling from farm to farm, picking crops—not that they really cared.

When Eddie told my dad his cock-and-bull story, he hadn’t asked for details.

He was busy figuring out how much money he’d save, not having to feed me all summer. Eddie promised my mother he’d bring me back by the time school started, and off we went.

Our crimes were petty. Eddie would cruise some little town after dark. We’d look for unlocked doors or windows on any gas station or convenience stores we came across. Surprisingly often, we found them.

But they were the kinds of places that didn’t have much worth stealing. We lived on the singles and coins people didn’t bother to take out of their cash drawers before closing up shop.

I’d never stolen before, and didn’t much like it. Eddie said that if folks were too dumb to lock up proper, they deserved to be ripped off. We were doing them a favor, teaching them to be more careful, and all it cost them was chump change.

I knew it wasn’t right, but sleeping under the stars with Eddie was a lot more peaceful than lying in bed at home listening to my parents fight.

Then our wanderings brought us across the state line to the Richardson place.

Once Eddie saw it, he was determined to break in. “We’ll clean up enough cash to take a couple of weeks off and enjoy ourselves,” he promised. I wasn’t tempted

by the vacation. I just didn’t know how to say no to Eddie.

By the time I had cleaned the van and rinsed my dirty clothes in the creek, Eddie had cooked hot dogs. I thought the smell would attract Red Rover, but he was nowhere to be found. “He took off two minutes after we got here,” Eddie said.

“How are we going to collect a ransom for a dog we don’t have?” I asked.

Eddie spun Red Rover’s collar on the end of his finger. “We send this with the ransom note, and Richardson will believe we’ve got the dog. We get the money without the trouble of returning him.”

I worried about Red Rover. That crazy dog would charge into anything and we’d turned him loose in the wilderness. He was liable to get killed. Hungry as I’d been an hour earlier, I couldn’t finish a single hot dog. I stuck half in my pocket in case I wanted it later.

I didn’t think I’d be able to sleep, but I must have dozed off. I awoke with a start when a huge set of choppers tried to bite through my jeans. Once my heartbeat slowed, I saw that it was Red Rover. Before he could eat my leg, I fished out the half hot dog I’d saved. He swallowed it whole, then set to licking my face. I felt twigs and brambles tangled in his coat and promised myself I’d comb them out in the morning. Red Rover walked in a circle three or four times, then settled down with his rear end in my face, and went to sleep.

Waking to the crash of thrown objects mixed with cursing made me think I was home. But it was Eddie causing the ruckus. He would have lobbed our frying pan at Red Rover, but I jumped between them. When the dog smiled his thanks, I noticed that his mouth was covered with something white.

“That fool ate our pancake flour,” Eddie fumed. “No breakfast this morning.”

I made coffee, filling the pot from the creek and setting it on a rock at the edge of the fire to perk. Red Rover was smart enough to stick close to me as I worked.

Before the coffee was ready, Eddie jumped into the van. “I’ll eat in town. I bet there’s lost-dog posters all over.”

Camp was peaceful without Eddie. I enjoyed combing the snarls out of Red Rover’s coat, even though I snapped most of the teeth off my comb in the process.

Only problem was, I was starving. I might have salvaged some of the pancake flour if Eddie hadn’t kicked the box around until it was empty.

I couldn’t stop myself from running over like a little kid when I heard the van. I hoped Eddie had brought doughnuts to celebrate our soon-to-be-made fortune. He

got out empty-handed, slamming the door and glaring at me. “There’s not a sign anywhere. I ate in the diner, and no one so much as mentioned a runaway dog.”

Eddie paced. I kept hold of Red Rover. Suddenly a grin spread across Eddie’s face. “Richardson must have figured out that someone took the dog. He didn’t find the collar, and knows the dog wouldn’t leave the property with it on. That’s it! He’s waiting for the ransom note.”

I tried to smile. “Well, go on,” Eddie said. “Write the note.”

“What do I write?” I asked. It figured that it would be my handwriting the police got to study.

“Keep it short,” he said, rubbing his chin. “At 10 tonight, leave $500 in the trash can near the O. Henry statue, or never see Red Rover again.”

I’d noticed the statue in the town square, a guy in an old-timey suit, wearing a derby. “Who was O. Henry?” I asked.

Eddie glared. “He invented the candy bar. Write the note.”

I was looking for something to write on when I noticed Red Rover’s collar on the ground. I pulled out my pocketknife and carved the letters on the inside of the collar. Then I blackened them with a stick from the fire.

It looked crazy enough to be a ransom note, and no way did the letters resemble my normal handwriting, especially with Red Rover bumping my elbow every few seconds as I worked. I handed Eddie the collar.

“Outrageous. Sometimes I think there’s hope for you yet.” I slumped to the ground, my back against a tree, scratching Red Rover behind the ears. “Get up, man. We’ve got a ransom note to deliver,” Eddie said.

“I’ll stay here with Red Rover.”

“We’re both going. What do you think—I’m going to park the van and ring the doorbell?”

I did what Eddie said, as usual. But I didn’t forget Red Rover. I used a length of rope from the van to tie him to a tree. He was so busy licking me that he didn’t realize he was a prisoner until I got into the van.

Eddie cranked the radio loud enough to drown out his howling, and off we went.

We circled Richardson’s block, trying to come up with a plan. Then we spotted the mail truck. It stopped in front of the house, and a woman snaked out an arm and stuffed his box with letters and catalogs. Soon as she was off the street, Eddie 11/07 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 57

pulled the van up next to the mailbox, and shoved me out the door. I wrapped the collar around a stack of envelopes, and jumped back into the van.

I watched the rearview mirrors all the way back to camp, but no one followed us. Eddie was in a great mood. He said we could go for coffee in the all-night place across from the park while we waited for the ransom. In the meantime, he’d make more hot dogs to keep us going.

Soon as we reached camp, I knew something was wrong. The rope drooped from the tree, but Red Rover was nowhere to be seen. The loose end was wet with saliva where he’d chewed through it. “Good riddance,” was Eddie’s comment.

He had more to say when he reached his bedding. Red Rover had torn through everything he owned. “That mutt never liked me,” Eddie complained. More likely, he had left the hot dogs hidden in his stuff, but I didn’t argue.

Camp was lifeless without Red Rover. Eddie was sulking, so there was no one to talk to. We had no food, and no prospects of getting any until we went to the coffee shop.

It was so quiet that I could hear Eddie’s stomach growl.

We passed the hot afternoon in an uneasy doze.

Then Red Rover pranced into the clearing, an animal of some sort dangling from his mouth. Eddie and I jumped up and I’m sure my jaw dropped as far as his. “I can’t believe it,” Eddie said. “Maybe this dog’s not totally useless after all.”

Red Rover came closer. The creature he held wasn’t the rabbit or squirrel I had expected, but a porcupine. Somehow he had clamped his jaws on its head before it had a chance to stick him. Eddie said, “Humph. I guess they’re edible.

Drop it, boy.”

Obediently, Red Rover dropped the porcupine at our feet. Eddie bent for a closer look. Whack! The porcupine’s tail whipped around and smacked him. A half dozen quills buried themselves in his forearm. Howling, Eddie grabbed the piercing quills. He succeeded in breaking them, driving their points deeper into his skin.

The porcupine shot up the nearest tree. Red Rover reared, his front legs against the trunk, paws scraping bark. But even a dog quick enough to catch a porcupine without getting stuck himself couldn’t climb a tree.

Eddie hopped in a circle, cursing a blue streak. I got the tool kit from the van.

Eddie wasted a few minutes trying to punish Red Rover who thought it was a game and effortlessly dodged Eddie’s kicks, tail wagging. Then I went to work with the pliers. I grabbed each quill as close to the skin as I could and pulled. Each time one popped free, leaving a blood-capped hole in Eddie’s arm, he punched me in the shoulder. It was no fun, but I wouldn’t have traded places with him.

By the time the last quill was removed and Eddie had worn himself to a frazzle chasing Red Rover, it was dark. He pulled on a sweatshirt to cover his chewed-up arm, and we headed for town. The thought of the ransom must have cheered him, because he stopped cursing by the time we reached the blacktop.

We left the van on a side street and walked to the coffee shop. A sign out front said “Open Mike Night,” and the place was packed. While Eddie was getting our order, I leaned against a wall and listened to a bearded guy who held a microphone in one hand and a glass coffee mug in the other.

“Thanks for turning out for this special event marking the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Heart of the West by the great O. Henry.

Many of the stories are set in our neck of the woods. In his honor, the poems read tonight will have a surprise or ironical ending, like an O. Henry story. Now I’m going to stop gabbing, and whoever picked number one will come up and start the program.”

I tried listening to a couple of the poems, but it was hard to concentrate.

Through the window I could see the statue of that O. Henry dude in the center of the square, lit by a full moon.

Eddie brought us slabs of pound cake and tall containers of black coffee. I loaded mine with cream and sugar. They had cinnamon you could sprinkle on top, but that seemed a little girly, so I didn’t try it. All the seats were taken. We stood at one of those tall tables that you lean on. It gave us a place to set our food, and we could see the statue from there.

A girl with tattoos peeking from every opening in her clothes was next. The only surprise ending that interested me was what the hidden extremities of those tattoos looked like. I was speculating on that when Eddie elbowed me. A silver SUV had stopped across the street. The driver got out, walked into the park, and tossed a brown paper bag into the trash. Then, looking as if he was laughing, he 58 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

got back in his car and drove away.

I took a step toward the door, but Eddie grabbed my arm. “Don’t be too eager. It could be a trap.” The girl with the tattoos brushed past us as a few people clapped. I was too distracted to study her. Eddie’s words had me expecting to hear sirens at any moment.

We stayed for two more poets—a man with a crew cut, who no one liked, and a chunky girl who read a poem about her dark, strong true love. When it turned out to be coffee, she got a few laughs. Eddie said, “I’ll get the van. Give me two minutes. Then grab the ransom and walk down the street. I’ll pick you up.”

Before I could argue, he was gone. I looked around, but no one was paying me any attention. All eyes were on the tattooed girl who was up for a second turn at the mike. I made for the door, fighting a knee wobble, she waved her arms over her head, exposing her belly. A tattoo of a hand reached from her waistband as if it was trying to pull down her shirt.

There was no traffic. Good thing, because I stumbled into the street without looking, intent on the trash barrel. It was one of those wire mesh baskets, and when I got close, I could see the brown bag, its top rolled, sitting on a pile of empty coffee containers.

I snatched the bag, spun, and walked to the street, my heart struggling to break through my chest. I refused to look back, convinced that I would see someone following me. I covered three blocks before Eddie pulled up beside me. Only then, as I climbed into the passenger seat, did I dare look over my shoulder. The street was deserted.

Eddie drove, drumming the wheel with excitement. “Did you look? Is it there?”

I opened the bag. There was a folded note, and underneath that, a stack of paper napkins. I dumped the bag on my lap and looked to Eddie for an explanation. “Are you kidding me?” he yelled. “Read the note.”

It read, “Dear Dognappers, Hope you’re enjoying Red Rover. He wrecked my house and sent my kids flying whenever they tried to play with him. My wife was too softhearted to get rid of him—until last night when she saw what it felt like to get a peaceful night’s sleep. Now she’s as happy as I am.” It was signed, “Forever in your debt, Ralph Richardson. P.S. I figured you could use some napkins to wipe off his slobber.”

We were quiet for a while, unless you count the things Eddie was mumbling under his breath. It was our roughest ride yet to the campsite, Eddie beyond caring if he broke an axle. When we pulled into the moonlit clearing, we spotted Red Rover, sitting on Eddie’s sleeping bag, a tattered T-shirt hanging from his mouth.

For a second, I was afraid Eddie might kill us both, trying to run him down. But he shut off the ignition and took deep breaths.

“Pack up. I’m going to see if there’s anything that dog hasn’t destroyed. We leave in five minutes.” Eddie got out, slamming the door.

Red Rover ran to my door. When I opened it, he put his big head in my lap and leaned into my fingertips. I scratched his snout. “Don’t let him in the van.

He’ll ruin that next,” Eddie called.

I got out, crossed the clearing, and sat on a boulder. “Hurry up, man. I’m not waiting for you,” Eddie said.

My voice was shaky. “You go on without me, Eddie. I’m staying here.”

Eddie froze, holding an armload of chewed-up clothing. He threw the stuff on the ground and said, “Get in the van. We’re leaving.”

“I’m staying with Red Rover.”

“Who’s going to tell you what to do—the dog?” He doubled over, laughing.

I was scared. I’d never been on my own. For just a second, I thought of giving in. All I had to do was go along, and Eddie would decide what we would do next.

Then Red Rover walked to the van. Staring at Eddie the whole time, he lifted his leg and relieved himself against the driver’s-side door.

Eddie grabbed a rock. By the time he cocked his arm, Red Rover was gone. I bolted too, crashing through brush in the darkness, ignoring the thorns that tore my bare arms. The dog was waiting alongside the creek. As I collapsed by his side, the van roared to life and bounced down the trail.

We watched the moon for a while, his hip pressed against mine. I didn’t know what the morning would bring. All I could think was to walk until we came to a farm, then ask for work. It wouldn’t be easy, but Red Rover needed me. We were a family now.

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But How Do I Start the Middle? Illustration by Carol Zaloom “There’s nothing to writing,” the great sports columnist Red Smith famously wrote. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” Smith’s era predated that of computers, but no doubt many an Option and Shift key bear traces of hemic substance. So for Chronogram’s 2007 November Literary Supplement, we asked three writers of different persuasions and blood types—Gioia Timpanelli, Akiko Busch, and Janine Pommy Vega—to tackle one aspect of writing’s unholy trinity: Beginning, Middle, and End. Their personal essays appear in that order.

Beginnings, Eros, and Work

By Gioia Timpanelli Begin, just begin. Each piece of writing finds its own way. I watched my parents, my family work together.

Every one of them worked with real satisfaction. For me writing is real work, a quiet inner thrill, a real passion. So I begin from this love, attraction, from this Eros.

It could begin with a sentence that comes out of nowhere, like these sentences from my story “Working for the Den: Miss Eugenia Amadeo’s Notebooks, December 22, 1905”: “I was once a teacher,” my Mother used to say, “I forget now for whom or exactly where.” I never believed that she had forgotten, but I knew she had her reasons for saying this.

Both my mother and father were students who “walked”—one didn’t say “studied”—with the Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus. Perhaps he was her grandfather or her great uncle. The school was in the same place where my mother lived, but for my father getting to the celebrated, but quite hidden, villa was another matter.

“I had to travel the length of Sicily twice, before I found it,” he always began, and then he would tell us stories of adventures and misadventures that we children loved, stories about Cyclopes and shepherds, sailors and flying machines, lost children and treasure boxes at the bottoms of dried wells. Although it took him years to find the ancient villa, when he arrived the teacher was waiting for him on the porch steps as if he were receiving a son that he had been expecting. Father had no introductions or credentials of any kind. “No one was ever sent away for foolish reasons,” Mother said, and then added, “Besides, he came like all travelers, tired and alert, with a black bear huffing at his back.”

Now this detail about the black bear is strange, but 60 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

every time I remind my brother of this bear he says he never heard my mother say such a thing, not even once.

But she did say it to me a number of times. Once, while preparing dinner, I was watching her go about her business with that absolute ease she had when working. Out of the blue, she turned to me and said, quite deliberately, “Did you know that Father came to our school with a black bear close at his heels?”

“Really? A black bear? I didn’t know we had black bears.”

“It was showing him the way.”

“Showing him the way? You said it was close on Father’s heels.”

“It turned out to be the same thing.”

“Out of the work comes the work,” says John Cage. Blessed work. A painting, a drawing, an image, a whole story; someone asks you to write something and there you are, you have to do it. At this starting point it is better to not care what those supreme critics, your Aunt and Uncle Titsufrie, will say. Words are not experience or life; they are beautiful play, an attempt to show the inner and outer worlds in as tricky and real a way as possible. They start from experience and with dream, reflection, imagination, lead you to a sentence, an image, a story. The cockroach’s leap and the mouse’s nibbling of a pear to its core—and there it is: Having been said, it is now the sudden exterior.

Once revealed, once written, there is no division— inner and outer in the very same place. And you didn’t have to drag your bags up and down stairs.

Franz Kafka wrote, “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

But you have to be willing to do the work, to write down the first words, to begin. I’ll skip the middle of my librarian’s journal entry, but here’s the ending: My dear father was a commentator on modern times.

All the talk about “progress” that was declared at the turn of the century he believed would bring humans to complete ruin. “Many people foolishly believe everything can be made into coin, but that is because they do not ‘see’ the invisible worth of every created thing. Remember, the invisible part that you serve by work cannot be accomplished by machines.” At which point he would laugh at the thought.

“It is essential not to become discouraged, but instead to hold the power of this invisible sight steady in front of you, for we all have real work that is ours, truly so.

Since all work must serve, it is essential that you know who it is you are serving with your work. But, like the seasons, this work can and often does change. To live one’s own real life. Ah!” Putting down the first words and sentences might be hard, but it is good, humbling work, from beginning, Eros and work around to work, Eros, and beginning.

Midstream

By Akiko Busch It’s common knowledge that the current is faster in the middle of the river than at the edges. The shifting contours of the bank, rocks, the shallow bed all work to slow the water at its edges, so it is in midstream that you come to know the river’s character. But the middle of the Housatonic River near Kent, Connecticut—on an afternoon in late August—is a quiet place, and the water seems to be moving as gently as it does near the banks. The current is barely perceptible.

The river is 50 yards across, maybe 75 in a few places, so there isn’t much to swimming across this river. Instead, my friend Karen and I have just decided to swim up the river as far as we care to, then back down. If it is possible to imagine that a river has a spine, this is the line we’re following, swimming up the fluid back of the river. The air is as quiet as the water; if there is any sense of movement at all, it is in the occasional leaf floating down to the surface of the water, nearly as languidly as the flow of the current itself.

For me, writing and swimming have long been parallel enterprises. In their elusive character, their shared mutability, the ease with which both can go from being transparent to opaque, words and water are natural colleagues. And whether in the middle of a page or midstream in a river, detachment is in the character of the place. Being in the river today affords a certain removal—even the willows, the tulip trees, the sycamores, and oaks seem remote, and the kayaker who paddles by us downstream now seems to occupy a different landscape—waterscape—as he is on the water, not in it. “Are you swimming all the way to Canada?,” he asks. We laugh. Maybe. We swim threequarters of a mile upstream, then back down—it is the same both ways, no pull or tug at all. The water temperature is in the high 70s, comfortable. A river midstream is always a place of suspension. You are a world away, but you are still right there.

It is easy for a body of water to accommodate our notion of change; transformation and the flow of water seem inevitably linked in the human imagination.

Now, that a change in the current can be so imperceptible comes as useful information. We commonly use the expression “sea change” to describe radical transformation, but on this particular afternoon, what I am thinking of instead is a “river change,” a more subtle adjustment of will or of direction or of intent.

A soft breeze ripples the current, suggesting what could be the vertebrae of the water, and if I can read the language in the backbone of this river, it has to do with those changes that are hardly noticeable.

It is in the middle of the river that you become intimate with its direction, its flow, its velocity, where it’s going and where it’s taking you. It is the place where you will find the essential information. Often, that information is offered indirectly. Swim in the Hudson River at slack tide and you’ll entertain the illusion that you are swimming in a wide, long lake. A couple of hours later, when the tide is taking you upriver fast, you’ll understand why it is common river lore that it will take a stick thrown into the river in Troy eight months to reach the mouth of the river.

Even the Mississippi River has moments of calm midriver, before the current seizes you and swings you back into the swift downstream flow. The strength of that river is such that you go wherever it’s taking you—to a scrap of muddy beach on the far side, a thin grove of willows, a bridge abutment. One seems as remote as the other, and there’s no telling where you’ll find yourself. That destination can only be imagined, not planned, is an idea that translates easily to other endeavors.

Midstream, words can come and go with a flow that’s hard to anticipate, a velocity and direction that can be hard to predict. A narrative of any sort has the same volatile shifts. No matter how carefully you believe you have plotted your course, the words can come in a sudden rush or change direction before you have a clue. Stillness can settle in just as unexpectedly.

This is what I love about being midstream: Whether it is a river or a story, you’re never quite where you think you are.

And it is exactly because writing and swimming have been parallel enterprises for so long that I know midstream is a place to just keep my eyes open, to keep looking around. And if a golden leaf from a tulip tree on the shore happens to drift my way or I happen to spot a blue heron swerving through the silver maples, I know this is my lucky day.

The End

By Janine Pommy Vega Just lop it off. That’s what a friend of mine, Bob Hershon, says about the ending of most poems or pieces of prose. The author of several books, the editor for 20 years of the poetry magazine Hanging Loose, and the publisher of Hanging Loose Press, he comes by his opinion honestly. Just lop it off. He says a good writer has already reached the reader and made his or her point known. Perhaps seized by doubt, the writer thinks, Maybe they won’t get it—and proceeds to sum up once again, or tack on a coda, and thereby distance the reader, an intelligent accomplice, who does not need the world spelled out to leap forward to the end. When in doubt, just lop it off.

I’ve labored over endings where I wanted to tidily wrap up the whole subject and send it singing into the heart of the reader (or the universe, whichever came first) and light up the night. Mostly I’ve been glad to acquit myself with enough workmanlike grace to not trip over my own feet. The interworkings of a piece absolutely determine the end: You have to follow every strand in the net to make sure it is firmly knotted if you want it to hold your fish—if you want the reader to believe you. If you alter the body or fins of the fish it will show up in the tail. Any change in the particulars or highlights of the tale or poem must be proved out in the end.

I am rarely surprised by how a piece ends. I knew all along where I wanted to go. But flatfooted writing is such a joyless thing. If I present no ins and outs, who will want to go there with me? Where will the “A-ha!” have got to, if all along we all knew where we were heading?

The worst, of course, is when the writer’s ego is married to an image or phrase that has really nothing to do with the piece, but which the writer feels bound to carve into the end like one of the faces of Rushmore; then a derrick is needed to pry it loose.

Here’s a case in point. In one story I had a woman in a church replete with patriarchal trappings, and she was singing songs to the mother goddess before a crowd. Naturally, she assumed there would be some reaction. A statue would fall from its niche beside the arch, someone would walk out in high dudgeon—but by the time she’d finished singing nothing had happened. Like Juan Ramon Jimenez’s poem remarks: Nothing happened? Or had everything

happened, and were we standing now suddenly in the new way?

My character tells us she wished people would suddenly get up and dance in a great circle with their eyes shining, but that didn’t happen. Nothing did.

Or had everything happened, as Jimenez said? And was she standing now like a woman in warm water up to her knees?

My editor called me up. A woman of infinite tact, she suggested that the last line had, er, nothing to do with the piece. I explained I didn’t know why it worked, but I felt it did. She said she had shown it to everyone in the office and no one got the warm water bit. What did it mean? I said I wasn’t sure, but felt that in time I would understand it.

“Just think about it,” she said.

To reassure myself, I called a friend I respected as a writer and editor. I read her the last few pages up to the end.

“Oh, I love it!” she said. “But what was that business with the water? What did that have to do with anything?”

And there it was. I’d stuck a private piece of internal shorthand that no one understood—not even me—in at the end because it felt good. I had sacrificed clarity to self-indulgence, the great no-no for any writer.

Be it memoir, nonfiction, poetry, interview, fiction, or anything else, the end is where we land—on one foot or two, and where the whole dance is somehow exemplified or held to light by the last posture on the page. Think of the main character in The English Patient who has been buried deep in a reverie of the past, and who comes to himself at the dinner table with enough presence of mind to catch the fork his daughter drops before it hits the floor. What a dance.

What cinematic bravura.

I’ve read pieces that tangoed brilliantly along, and then just stopped—an end by default—with no conclusive gesture. As though this is what the writer wanted us to know, and this is how we’re to know it, hanging over an abyss with no ultimate stance to latch onto. If the last paragraph has, as we hope, the shape of a hull, it can sail off into the reader’s mind and become something somewhere else. The envoi, the boat across the waters.

But finally, like a season of the year, or a relationship (which it is with the reader), or an era with definable characteristics, a piece of writing stops at the end because it has been emptied. There is nothing more to say.

11/07 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 61

Well Met! Hudson Valley writers relate memorable encounters with notable literati

Kurt Vonnegut and Daniel Pinkwater as envisioned by Danny Shanahan

I

was invited to give the keynote address (whatever that is) at a convocation of librarians. It was to be held at one of those resort/honeymoon palaces that they used to advertise on television. Just as people were getting seated an excited librarian whispered to me that there was a surprise guest. Kurt Vonnegut’s then girlfriend was getting an award for a children’s book, and Vonnegut would be joining us at the speakers table. I switched the place cards around. (“No, no! It has to be boy-girl-boy girl!” the librarian complained. I ignored her.) Vonnegut made my night by mentioning a fan letter I had sent him years before. We settled down to some serious brother-novelist chitchat... and drinking. I hardly drink at all. Vonnegut drank rather a lot. The waiters were all fans, and hovered around him. Every so often he would order a different mixed drink—for each of us. I got to experience a sloe gin fizz, a Manhattan, a crème de menthe frappe, and a zombie; I forget what the others were. I was not going to appear to be a sissy in the company of one of my heroes. I drank my drinks. “Oh, look!” Vonnegut said, moving a finger unsteadily down the program. “You are the distinguished speaker.” “Thash right…Kurt,” I said. “If I had known that, I wouldn’t have gotten you drunk,” the great author said.

“S’all right…Kurt,” I said. “What you gonna talkaboud?” “Dunno.” “Dunno?

Diddin’ you prepare?” “Nope, Kurt. I will wing it.” “Wing it? I prepare a week ahead for one of these.” At that moment I felt a twinge of fear, but for some reason it wore off in the next moment. I am told my talk lasted three minutes.

I don’t remember what I said. The librarians seemed angry at me for some reason, and it was 18 years before any librarians anywhere invited me to speak again. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a literary icon, and a great man, said it was the best damned speech he’d ever heard.

—Daniel Pinkwater Daniel Pinkwater is an author and illustrator responsible for more than 80 books, most of them excruciatingly funny. He is a mainstay of National Public Radio.

While I was a student at the University of Michigan, Robert Frost was invited to give a reading on campus. Twelve students, mostly writers, were invited to a dinner in his honor. Picture this: a long table set with fine linen and candles.

Frost sits at one end. Awe has silenced us; nobody says a word. Five minutes pass.

At last, Anne Stevenson, seated at the opposite end of the table, says, “Mr. Frost, what do you think of Pound’s latest canto?”

Frost could not hear the question; could we repeat it? Could we! It went up one side of the table like a game of telephone. Six times we heard it. What do you think of Pound’s latest canto?

“Never read it,” he said.

From then on, to our great relief, he told stories about himself.

—Nancy Willard Nancy Willard is the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a winner of the 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake’s Inn.

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I was an undergrad who loved to write fiction, but my parents were giving me the college education they’d never had and I was supposed to go to medical school. Then, one day, my writing professor took our class to hear Grace Paley read. The first thing I noticed was the silver hair that swirled atop her head like a halo. And she looked exactly like my bubbe, short and tough and wise. Then she started to read from Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and she sounded almost exactly like my bubbe. She read a handful of stories that day and I was enchanted throughout, drawn to her completely original yet strangely familiar voice. After the reading a few of us went up to meet her and she hugged me. I can’t remember why she hugged me and not the other kids standing around—did I say something? Did I remind her of her grandson the way she reminded me of my bubbe?—but her embrace was powerful, and it made me realize I wouldn’t be going to medical school after all.

—Edward Schwarzschild Edward Schwarzschild’s books include a new story collection, The Family Diamond, and the novel Responsible Men, both from Algonquin.

Gail Godwin’s reputation as formidable—in multiple connotations—came to mind in 2004 when Chronogram assigned me to profile the writer and she invited me to her Woodstock home. To prepare, I read roughly a third of this bestselling novelist’s output (nearly two dozen books), studying the pages for lessons in gentility, a favored Godwin motif.

Falling sick, my subject rescheduled our visit. On the newly appointed day, she graciously answered my knock, despite repressing sniffles. I proffered hostess gifts, explaining, “For your cold.”

In her sun-splashed kitchen, Godwin opened the first parcel. “Lapsang souchong tea!” she gushed. “Mother’s favorite! How did you know?” Seeming not to hear my reply—“From your fiction, of course”—she next uncovered a tray of cucumber sandwiches. I apologized for lack of watercress, the recipe otherwise lifted straight from Godwin’s A Mother and Two Daughters (1982). Disarmed, the author granted a two-hour interview.

—Pauline Uchmanowicz Pauline Uchmanowicz is the author of Sand and Traffic (Codhill Press, 2006).

When I was acting in New York, I went to an address where Maria Irene Fornes was holding auditions for her new play. I was impossibly young for the role, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to get my picture-and-rez in her files. She was reading people in her Lower East Side apartment. At the appointed time, I knocked. There was no answer, but I smelled smoke. The door was ajar. I went in. When Ms. Fornes returned with her sandwich, I was dousing a pot that had been burning on her stove in a kitchen now as full of steam as smoke. I didn’t get the part, but the next year, in other people’s plays that she produced, she cast me twice. —Amlin Gray Amlin Gray is the Obie-winning author of How I Got That Story.

Frank Pierson, the author of Dog Day Afternoon, directed my cable television ďŹ lm, Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Girl. Both ďŹ lms feature transgender characters and ours required actor Lee Pace to wear false breasts. Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;famous for his love of beautiful womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;supervised the building and testing of the prosthesis, criticizing early attempts for being too stiďŹ&#x20AC; or too much like Jell-O. At one point during a test run he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;That reminds me of a story about Marlene Dietrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nipples.â&#x20AC;?

And he told me a story about Dietrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversially pointed nipples as they appeared in the shimmering gown she wore for her concert comeback in the 1960s. The source of those points? Peanut shells. Frank refused to say how he had learned the secret, but his smile suggested a pleasant hour backstage with Marlene between shows. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ron Nyswaner

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Ron Nyswaner was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay Philadelphia, and won the National Board of Review Award for The Painted Veil.

I saw Joyce Carol Oates at Ulster County Community College in 2004. She had giant eyes, a receding chin, suspiciously brown hair with reddish highlights.

Her face slightly resembled James Baldwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Joyce grew up near Niagara Falls, she explained, and was familiar with towns like Horseheads, New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;which you probably never heard of.â&#x20AC;? After she ďŹ nished autographing books, I approached her in the reception room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;May I tell you something?,â&#x20AC;? I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes,â&#x20AC;? she answered, looking frightened. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to Cornell University, and I made a vow that I would only listen to country and western music,â&#x20AC;? I said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The radio station I listened to was in Horseheads, New York.â&#x20AC;?

She looked mystiďŹ ed. Perhaps she had forgotten mentioning Horseheads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you like bluegrass, also?â&#x20AC;? she asked, shyly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really like country and western music,â&#x20AC;? I answered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I only listened because I made my vow.â&#x20AC;? Joyce Carol Oates looked disappointed. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sparrow

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Sparrow is the author of America, a Prophecy. His poetry and his articles have appeared in the New Yorker, the Sun, the New York Times, and other publications.

As a mystery writer, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been to a lot of mystery writers conferences. When theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at conferences, most mystery writers like to drink. At one such conference, in Madison, Wisconsin, I had the honor of meeting Ken Bruen, the critically acclaimed Irish noir writer. Bruen is very thin and silver-haired, with sharp, intense features and a penetrating gaze. His prose is dark and soulful, and I expected his personality to be the sameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a sort of crime-ďŹ ction James Joyce. We were introduced by my friend Jason Starr, who has collaborated with Bruen on the novels Bust and Slide. We ran into each other at a bar (of course). Someone shouted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go to another bar!â&#x20AC;? and Bruen said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes!â&#x20AC;? And so we did.

Somehow, at around 3:30am, Jason, author Megan Abbott, Bruen, and I all wound up at a gay sports bar, where Bruen got up onstage beside the DJ and danced, very enthusiastically, to Frankie Goes to Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Relaxâ&#x20AC;? as footage from the Packers game played on the big-screen TV overhead. It was very surreal, to say the least. And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve laughed that hard, ever. I still love Ken Bruenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brooding prose, but now, I smile a little when I read it. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alison Gaylin Alison Gaylinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trashed was just published by Obsidian Books. Her Samantha LeiďŹ&#x20AC;er mysteries include the Edgar Award nominee Hide Your Eyes and You Kill Me. Back in 1994, Ed Sanders issued an invitation to a hundred or so poets, requesting new verses to that noblest of hymns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amazing Grace.â&#x20AC;? That November, a gospel choir performed a selection of the verses at St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church in the East Village, with solo turns by several of the contributing poets, who warbled their lines to the backing of a sanctiďŹ ed ensemble on organ, guitar, and bass. I made the trip down from Woodstock with Edâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Miriam, and got to croon my own contribution. But the star of the show was Allen Ginsberg, who had written not merely a new stanza, but a whole new set of lyrics to the tune.

After the gig, as we piled into my car for the short hop over to Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment, I mentioned that Emily Dickinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because I Could Not Stop for Deathâ&#x20AC;? scanned perfectly to the tune of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amazing Grace,â&#x20AC;? and started to demonstrate: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be-cause, I could, not stop, for Death, he kind-, -ly stopped, for me-eeee...â&#x20AC;? By the third line, Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich, shaggy baritone had joined in, and for two minutes in Eternity, we sang the poem together. It was a tiny bond, but I treasure it. Less than three years later, Death paid Allen the same courtesy as Emily, kindly stopping for him at 2:39am on April 5, 1997. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mikhail Horowitz Poet/performance artist Mikhail Horowitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent book is Rafting into the Afterlife (Codhill Press, 2007).

Mirabai PROFILES What was the last book youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read?

The Ascension Handbook by Tony Stubbs. It contained good meditations and information that resonated with me.

Deborah Walker Rhinebeck, NY

What, in your opinion, is the most sacred sound in the world?

The ocean.

What spiritual, mental or physical practices most enhance your well-being?

I do a walking meditation every day. It helps center me, gives me answers to questions and connects me with the Divine.

What author or teacher has most influenced your life?

Derek Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a spiritual teacher from Ireland whose teachings are to accept yourself the way you are and release judgment of yourself. He holds unconditional love in his heart for you, whoever you are.

What virtues guide your life?

Being honest with myself.

What word or phrase do you most associate with Mirabai?

Fun, for sure, as well as Guidance and Openings.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our December issue is November 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.

For our Annual Literary Supplement, we asked for work along a political theme.

NO YELLING —p

LOSING THE JOB

AMERICA NEEDS A WOMAN PRESIDENT

He’d thought nothing of it when he told his ten year olds the job of the Judicial Branch is choosing the President.

America needs a woman President giving birth to a new America embracing the world

Civics and government being what they are, he was trying to be funny.

You find small ways to amuse yourself, saying the same thing September after September.

He would’ve loved some future bureaucrat in the back row, “In the book it says interpret the laws.”

Then they could have discussed power and money, how America really works, or doesn’t.

He’d subtitle his lecture Discrepancy. He’d come up with analogies they could relate to, like the gap between who grandma thinks they are and who they were with their friends.

The poet in his mind fumbled for weeks with “tenure” and “secure,” but in the end they only rhymed, which was never enough.

What he’d wanted to say met what he’d been able to say each day and shook hands in the parking lot. Until now, he’d been sparing his family from having to be careful all over again.

Up ahead was the recovery he’d been coveting.

This long road home toward accuracy.

One final farewell to discrepancy.

—Frank LaRonca

America needs a woman President Open hearted Compassion is her greatest family value an intuitive President who can feel if the information is true before sending troops to war America needs a woman President scrubbing ears of advisors so they hear with their hearts not statistics America needs a Goddess in office Statue of Liberty who will care for the poor and huddled masses a teacher President who can read between the lines of NAFTA and GATT and will grade bully corporations accordingly a maiden President who acknowledges all life with supreme reverence beyond borders, colors or religion America needs a menopausal President unafraid to speak her mind without quivering to special interests A Grandmother President wise woman who admits past mistakes with great laughter America needs a woman President who can cry at what we’ve done to our forests America needs a Priestess President enchanting Congress with her speeches restoring those liberties lost in the wasteland of fear a mid-wife President who will teach us how to breathe during times of new birth that are painful an herbalist President drawing strength from nature’s goodness and offering free health care to all a medicine woman president who can see with the eyes of Earth and holds counsel with her ancestors America needs a woman president aware of her power to nurture

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a Mother president who understands the cycles of life and lets go America needs a woman president who trusts in the wisdom of the moon America needs a woman president who can listen when others are speaking —Brett Bevell From America Needs a Woman President (Monkfish Publishing, 2007).Printed with the permission of Monkfish Publishing.

ENEMY i raged on in the summers, believing the war would still be going strong so i could kill me some of those enemies. That was in ‘68, i was ten. By ‘71, at 13, i’d seen enough pictures of the enemy to have them resemble people. i can to this day recall the encapsulating emotion when first seeing that picture of the scared Vietnamese child running toward the camera with that massive Tet flame wall falling up, chasing. i didn’t know a person could run that fast with that much fear hanging from their face. i, at ten, didn’t know war so brutal. i, at ten, thought you just killed the enemy.

An afternoon walk to the post office handed me a draft registration. It stayed there. I at seventeen walked home, stood in the bathroom retracing an image in the mirror, that scared child being chased, running from that massive flame wall_____. ...feeling like the enemy...

—E. P. Schultz

OUR COMMON SOIL

GLOBAL WARMING

THE HOOD

This is my house These are my tall trees maple, locust, ash, white pine My neighbor’s field as wild as Maine, sweet with milkweed

Born in the desert, midwifed through labor of frightened men under impetus of war,

I am who I am I wonder if my neighborhood will get better I hear gunshots and sirens I see all the drug dealers and homies I want better for my neighborhood I am who I am I pretend nothing is ever wrong I feel like crap walking home to a dirty neighborhood I touch a piece of garbage I worry night after night I cry bullet after bullet I am who I am I understand it is rough in the hood I say to my Dad,” Will it get better?”

I dream nothing but god and family I try hard to clean up my garden, it’s a start I hope things will change I am whom I am, A Home Owner who cares

This is the road that leads to my house where on my walk today I saw more deer than cars, a scurrying chipmunk A slow-strutting wild turkey

wrenched from Nature’s secret heart, nurtured by fear, hatred, hubris, the nukes we are, bringing celestial fire to this mortal Earth.

This is my granite cliff guarding my valley late sun slanting over its shoulder

All nations fear us, love us, desire us, would acquire us.

This is my town where kids play drums and guitars on the stoops this year’s crop just like last year’s

From our flames come your deaths, from our ashes no rebirth.

This is my town where the answer to godhatesfaggots was All you need is love

Unwanted, unbidden, the prodigal son returns to murder the father.

But this is my country where cold-eyed men cattle-prod our fear to make us obey

Annihilation, cremation, damnation, dehumanization, demoralization, depredation, desecration, desiccation, domination, devastation, elimination, eradication, extermination, immolation, liquidation, mummification, mutation, negation, profanation, provocation, radiation, revocation, termination, tribulation, vaporization, victimization.

This is my country where decent people watch the murders they have paid for, and yawn, and go to sleep This is my country where nature crouches, terrified, under the sole tree in a new parking lot This is my country where greed has corrupted our common soil Generations will live and die before the taint leaves our blood

—Richard Bronson —Jo Salas

AT NINETEEN MORNING SONG The animals of man, dog, cat, roach, rat, guests, invaders, have been replaced by the chorus of machines who sing the songs of dawn.

—Gary Beck

The sudden shells plummet like great steel hornets Eager to bite. After the white bang flash they spit Quick poison which digs its way to gardens of flesh.

Our clever bullets tumble through skin and bone— The invisible wounds painful, death is slow.

The enemy AKs roar out, punch hard, enter, exit Knock us back. During the attack men slump or Shoot, I rush, run, rush, rip cloth, find deep wounds Press merciful white gauze that burns bright red.

Medic! they hail in the swift calligraphy of pain.

I am a hive of mercy. I speak in tongues.

As the Medevac lifts I collect their names In the beat of my heart My body tattooed a hundred times The long lines patterned in constant sorrow.

After six months I am old at nineteen.

—James Richter Jr.

LAUNDERED IDEALS (with apologies to Gerald Stern and The Shirt Poem) The laundry room is the last bastion of segregation.

Whites sit apart from blacks, Lights stand separate from coloreds.

Blue jeans avoid those delicate, While intimates cuddle together.

Children’s clothes avoid the writhing masses of adult debauchery.

You know the clothes I’m talking about— Those R-rated ones that slither and gyrate, With his underwear sliding over hers suggestively As they breathlessly await the dryer.

But crossing a laundry line is seldom permitted.

Should a dark mingle too long with the whites, Or a rough rider tangle the fragile, We all know what happens— The damaged clothes are cursed and cast aside.

I say the stained shirts should stand tall, Proudly displaying their perceived flaws.

Brave pioneers in the fight against uniformity, They are but startling reminders of our own prejudice.

We could all be so brave; we should all be so flawed.

—Julie Bloss Kelsey

—Marc Levy

11/07 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 65

CHRONOGRAM’S CHOICE: THE BEST-REVIEWED BOOKS BY HUDSON VALLEY AUTHORS Chronogram has run reviews and Short Takes of over 100 new books since last November’s Literary Supplement.

Books Editor Nina Shengold offers a second look at some outstanding titles by regional authors.

FICTION

MEMOIR THE FUTURIST TH JAMES P. OTHMER (ANCHOR BOOKS, 2007, $13.95) JAM

“A wickedly deft satire that is by turns hilarious, touching, foreboding, frightening—and consistently brilliant. The novel fo ccuts a swath through political culture, national governments, ccorporate hegemony, religious fundamentalism, mass media, advertising, activism, fashion, Faith B. Popcorn, m Bill Gates, and assorted other major players....Othmer has B done a marvelous dissection of early 21st-century culture, d ttossed the pieces into a blender, and poured out a first-rate ssatirical novel in which tomorrow is to die for.”

CL CLIMBING THE MANGO TREES: A MEMOIR OF A CHILDHOOD IN INDIA MADHUR JAFFREY (ALFRED A. KNOPF, 2006, $25) MA

“ enchanting and heady mix of childhood stories and recipes from “An pre-Partition Northern India....Each person and place encountered by p JJaffrey is connected with a food described so explicitly, gracefully, and lovingly that reading this book literally makes the mouth water.” lo —Susan Piperato, 12/06 —

LAND OF STONE: BREAKING SILENCE THROUGH POETRY LA

—Kim Wozencraft, 6/07 —

KAREN CHASE (WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 2007, $15.95) KAR

“C “Chase begins her preface by calling Land of Stone ‘a story of silence and kinship.’ It is also a story about love, healing, and the si redemptive power of poetry, and it is unlike anything you’ll ever read. re In a time when hope is as hard to come by as affordable housing or a teenager without a cell phone, Land of Stone is singular in its power to inspire.…The narrative bravely explores the subtlely in p rrelationships—between silence and word, patient and therapist, tteacher and student.”

RUSSIAN LOVER RU JANA MARTIN (YETI, 2007, $15.95)

“A well-done short story feels miraculous, the selection of just the right moments and details to create an entire reality in a bite-sized handful of pages. Woodstock rea author Jana Martin gets it right. The reader knows au everything he or she needs to know; the characters ev breathe and sweat and could go on with their lives br for a novel’s worth of time, and we’d not be bored.... fo Martin’s rich imagery brings to vivid life the exotic side M oof the mundane, and reveals the mundane within the eexotic worlds of a dominatrix or a topless dancer.”

—Caitlin McDonnell, 9/07 —

THE LAST DEAD SOLDIER LEFT ALIVE TH RICHARD BOES (IUNIVERSE INC., 2007, $12.95) RIC

“A ripped-from-the-heart memoir of the years of struggle, substance ab abuse, and failed relationships that followed [Boes’] combat ex experience. It’s painful, yet richly rewarding. Imagine sitting down in a pub next to a slightly scary-looking fellow who buys you a round aand then begins to talk, his words spilling out in a heated rush, th things bottled within him flooding to the surface. And although ssome of what he is saying is hard to hear, it’s made compelling b by his wry, ironic perspective and stream-of-consciousness style, w which is akin to that of Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac.”

—Anne Pyburn, 9/07 —

THE SECOND COMING OF MAVALA SHIKONGO TH PETER ORNER (BACK BAY BOOKS, 2007, $13.99) PETE

“In chapters ranging from three pages to a single, muscular sentence, Goas, a school for farm boys in mu the middle of the drought-ridden South African veldt, shimmers and materializes before the eyes like a sh mirage. Bard Fiction Prize winner Orner possesses the m rare ability to craft irreverent, pithy last sentences ra that make The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo th impossible to put down.” im

— —Anne Pyburn, 6/07

NI WAYS TO CROSS A RIVER: MIDSTREAM REFLECTIONS ON NINE SWIMMING AND GETTING THERE FROM HERE SW

—Bri Johnson, 5/07 —

AKIKO BUSCH (BLOOMSBURY USA, 2007, $19.95) AK

“I the case of Dutchess County resident and design writer Akiko “In Busch, rivers invite her to enter the water, body and soul, to B experience the sensual pleasure of swimming, to speculate, to ex ponder, to dream. Her thoughtful volume chronicles nine swims p aacross eight rivers (she swam the Hudson twice) over the course of four years....Each crossing not only provides the occasion to recall fo details of the swim itself, but functions as a creative springboard d ffor meditations on a variety of diverse subjects.”

TRASHED TRA ALISON GAYLIN (OBSIDIAN, 2007, $21.95) ALIS

“A delightful romp though the sordid and deliciously sleazy world of the Hollywood tabloid media machine sle and the seriously neurotic, occasionally psychotic stars an who feed it, Trashed is funny, suspenseful, and oddly wh touching. It is both a thriller and a send-up of the genre, a tou giddy frolic through La-La Land with a cast of characters gi that leaves the reader smiling at human folly, and guessing th at whodunit until the very end.”

—Kim Wozencraft, 9/07 —

—Kim Wozencraft, 7/07 —

NONFICTION GE GENERATION ON FIRE: VO VOICES OF PROTEST FROM THE 1960S–AN ORAL HISTORY

TRESPASS TR

JEFF KISSELOFF (UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY, 2007, $34.95) JE

VALERIE MARTIN (NAN A. TALESE BOOKS/DOUBLEDAY, 2007, $25) VAL

“I giving these voices a venue, Kisseloff has created something more “In mind-expanding than any chemical. In and around the sex, drugs, and m rock’n’roll—which are pleasingly plentiful and unapologetic—there ro were heroes. There was hope. There were changes made. These things w aare possible, a hard thing to grasp in this Orwellian third millennium oof ours. Reading this book, one hopes that a new generation of believers—maybe regular folks like you and me—will be moved to sstand up and achieve dramatic results, throwing fresh sand in the gears of the death machine.”

“K “Keenly insightful, masterfully written...Trespass employs a broad canvas, but it isn’t just a political story. Valerie Ma Martin peels back big issues to reveal the bigger ones beneath, be like the difference between the frightening and the th truly dangerous, the possibility that our worst enemy lie within, and the absurdity of professing a liberal mind lies w without also having a liberal heart.”

— —Susan Krawitz, 10/07

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—Anne Pyburn, 3/07

CHRONOGRAM’S CHOICE: THE BEST-REVIEWED BOOKS BY HUDSON VALLEY AUTHORS

THE GLORIOUS MUSHROOM TH

REBEKKAH’S JOURNEY RE

WRITTEN AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY FRANK SPINELLI WR

ANN E. BURG, ILLUSTRATED BY JOEL ISKOWITZ AN

(CATSKILL PRESS, 2006, $35) (CA

(SLEEPING BEAR PRESS, 2007, $17.95) (SL

“F “From his forays into the ‘forests, rocks, and open fields’ that fringe his home in the Catskills, Spinelli has laden th these pages with a trove of toadstools, a cornucopia of th boletes, and an opulence of polypores....As delectable b for the eye and the mind as a brace of morels, braised fo in butter and lightly salted, is for the palate, this book iis a choice readable.”

“C “Created by a Rhinebeck writer and a Woodstock illustrator, the story is based on the little-known il true tale of 1,000 World War II refugees invited tr in 1944 by FDR to stay at an empty Army base in upstate New York....The illustrations, mostly iin tones of old-photo sepia, capture the story’s mood perfectly. Told with sincerity, restraint and m age-appropriate detail, Rebekkah’s Journey is a a sstrongly compelling tale.”

—Mikhail Horowitz, 2/07 —

—Susan Krawitz, 2/07 —

KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGS: PIECES, 1990-2005 KIL LUC SANTE (YETI, 2007, $17.95)

“A wide-ranging, entertaining, and thoughtful collection of essays....Sante is a great historian of our co era, and the best professor one could ask for in a crash er course on popular culture. Despite his preoccupation co with all things hip, he rarely affects the carefully w ccultured, world-weary tone so rampant among New York hipsters today. His attitude of interested delight, Yo eeven exuberance, splashes colorfully across his descriptions of musicians, politicians, criminals, d aartists, and himself.”

—Bri Johnson, 10/07 —

POETRY THIRST TH PATRICK CARRINGTON (CODHILL PRESS, 2007, $10) PAT

“T winner of Codhill’s inaugural poetry chapbook contest “The crafts poems of glistening simplicity, as clear, hard, and vivid cr as stained-glass church windows. Selected by series editor and Chronogram writer Pauline Uchmanowicz, Thirst slakes an the craving evoked by its title and Carla Rozman’s striking th cover, leaving the reader sated.” co —Short Takes, 7/07 —

PICTURE BOOKS A WORLDLY COUNTRY FABIAN ESCAPES FAB

JOHN ASHBERY (ECCO, 2007, $23.95) JOH

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MCCARTY WRIT

“T poems in [Ashbery’s] 26th collection, A Worldly “The Country, are dazzling thinking machines. Deeply C attentive to sound, the poems are playfully formal at (the title poem rhymes ‘hovel’ with ‘novel’; ‘Tweety (t Bird’ with ‘occurred’). If they were music, they’d be B jazz–improvisational, witty, whimsical, and uniquely ja American.”

A

(HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, 2007, $16.99) (HE

“H “Hondo the dog likes to nap and let the baby dress him up, while Fabian the cat would rather dr sneak out for a walk on the wild side. This sn sequel to Caldecott Honor-winning Hondo and se Fabian features fuzzily adorable illustrations Fa aand whimsical text. Perfect read-aloud fare from Rhinebeck author McCarty.” fr

—Caitlin McDonnell, 5/07 —

—Short Takes, 8/07 —

FIVE LITTLE GEFILTES FI WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY DAVE HOROWITZ WR (PUTNAM CHILDREN’S BOOKS, 2007, $12.99) (P

“ a creatively slanted take on a classic “In toddler rhyme, Horowitz combines folksy to Yiddishisms, goofy rhymes, cut paper, and Y paint to portray a charming, pushcartp sstrewn, two-cent pickle version of New York’s Lower East Side....It seems this Y meshuga book was as much fun to write as it is to read.”

YOUNG ADULT MA MAUDE MARCH ON THE RUN! OR, TROUBLE IS HER MIDDLE NAME OR AUDREY COULOUMBIS (RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, 2007, $15.99) AUD

“I this sequel to her acclaimed The Misadventures of “In Mad Maude March, part-time South Fallsburg resident M Couloumbis keeps the dust churning, the bullets zipping, Co and the wry wit flying....Readers can hope these gals will an hammer this trail yet again.” h —Susan Krawitz, 1/07 —

—Susan Krawitz, 2/07

TH NEDDIAD: HOW NEDDIE TOOK THE TRAIN, THE WENT TO HOLLYWOOD, AND SAVED CIVILIZATION WE MUSEUM TRIP M

DANIEL PINKWATER (HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2007, $16) DA

BARBARA LEHMAN (HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2006, $15) BA

“A epic tale that mixes disparate genres and “An elements in a way only the author of The Hoboken el C Chicken Emergency and Lizard Music could imagine. It’s a road trip, a buddy story, a comedy, im aan encyclopedia, and a memoir, all of it saturated w with grand mythological overtones and just plain ccrazy fun.”

“N a word is spoken in this graphically “Not striking, mind-bending tale of a boy who lags st behind his group on a class trip and enters b oone of the artworks. His journey through an intricate series of labyrinths satisfies on every in level. Hudson artist Lehman, a Caldecott le honoree for The Red Book, deserves to share h her hero’s medal.” h

— —Susan Krawitz, 4/07

—Short Takes, 1/07 —

11/07 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 67

AUTHOR PORTRAITS by Jennifer May

I was raised with a deep respect for literature and the writing life. In my family, there is no higher calling than to be a writer.

The Hudson Valley Authors Series began two years ago as a self-directed project.

After moving to the region years before, it seemed I bumped into authors—people who had devoted their lives to the craft—everywhere I went. They are here, doubtless, due to the close proximity to New York. I began sending e-mails inquiring if any would agree to be a part of a photo series, and the response was tremendous.

Some were curious, others wanted to be part of another person’s art project, and some, I think, saw it as a chance to work through a resistance to being photographed.

Authors, in general, are not overly photographed people, and when they are it is often in the context of a reading, an event, a party—not great opportunities for flattering photographs. It is no wonder many writers believe they are not photogenic.

I make sure to read at least one work by an author before we meet, and I let the author’s words set the tone. Sometimes I allow elements in an author’s environment to inform the portrait—such as Chiori Miyagawa’s zen-like writing sanctuary, or

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the ancient stone fireplace behind historian Russell Shorto. Other times I strip the composition to the barest elements—as in the portrait of children’s author Bobbi Katz and poet Kate Hymes. Author, chair, light.

A large camera and a lighting setup can intimidate even the greatest minds and my mission is always to help my subjects become comfortable, and to help them express some truth of who they are, despite the very self-conscious nature of the moment. I am losing track of the number of times I find myself in an admired writer’s closet, picking out clothes for the shoot, while he or she paces and sigh. I assure them it will be okay, and usually when I leave they tell me the experience was after all quite painless.

My Hudson Valley Authors Series continues and a stack of books by local authors beckons to me from my bookshelf. Meanwhile, I have been photographing authors for Poets & Writers magazine, Chronogram, and for literary agents in New York. I regularly post new portraits on my website, www.jennifermay.com.

—Jennifer May

11/07 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 69

OPPOSITE (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): SPARROW; NATON LESLIE; ABIGAIL THOMAS. RIGHT (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): BOBBI KATZ; CHIORI MIYAGAWA; KATE HYMES; RUSSELL SHORTO

HUMOR CONTEST

LITERATURE, the musical

Illustrations by Diana Bryan

Need tickets for the hottest show in town, the all-singing-and-dancing extravaganza based on The Inferno—“The Full Dante”? Care for some haute cuisine after a matinee showing of “Non, Non, Colette”? Is it true that for those of a Thoreauvian cast of mind, “Gentlemen Prefer Ponds”? For this year’s Humor Contest, Literary Supplement editors Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold invited readers to create titles for the Broadway musical versions of classic works of literature that Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, et al., have heretofore overlooked, and also provide (for extra credit) a few representative songs. A small but select group of contributors rose to the challenge, weighing in from as far away as Louisiana and Idaho. Herewith, the whipped cream of the crop.

GRAND PRIZE

Pest’cide Story Metamorphosis, the musical “Pretty Vermin” “Hey, Turn Me Over!”

“I Might Have a Thousand Eyes”

Our very first entry was a list of six howlingly funny musicals from the shared household of John Berryhill and William Levitt Jr. (one can only imagine the dinner conversation and original cast album collection at this address). The toughest editorial challenge was choosing the best of the best. John’s Brokeback Mountain musical “Oklahomo!” (“Getting To Blow You”) and William’s Mein Kampf musical “Herr!” (“Aryan, Madam Librarian,” “Puttin’ on the Blitz”) seemed a bit raw for a family publication like Chronogram (though perhaps not as sublimely tasteless as “Little Orphan Annie Frank” and “Eenie-Meenie: Sophie’s Choice, the Musical,” whose authors shall go nameless).

Much as we enjoyed John and William’s more spiritual offerings, “Hello, Dalai!” (The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the musical) and “Call Me Adam!” (The Old Testament, the musical), the Grand Prize for inspired concept and execution goes to:

Slow Boat The Odyssey, the musical “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eye” “Greece (is the word)!”

—William Levitt Jr., Red Hook

—John Berryhill, Red Hook

HONORABLE MENTION

Nevermore!

Comealot

My Fair Junkie

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, the musical “Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells Are Ringing” “Thump! Thump! Thump! Went the Floorboard”

The musical diaries of Anais Nin “C’est Moi (and Plenty of It)” “No Sexus, Please, We’re British” “June Is Busting Out All Over”

Naked Lunch, the musical “The Fury with the Syringe on Top” “Just ’Cause I’m Nodding Don’t Mean I Agree”

—Laura Covello, Ulster Park

—Karl Thropp, Germantown

—Djuna Millay, Coxsackie

Outstanding Musical Concept & Title

Best Concept

South Horrific Dracula, the musical —Sharon Cousins, Viola, Idaho

Eddie Puss The Cast of “Cats” sings and dances the world’s greatest tragedy —Amlin Gray, Bronxville

Heads Off! A Tale of Two Cities, the musical —Linda Freeman, Marlboro The Unsinkable Laura Brown The Hours, the musical —Diane Elayne Dees, Covington, LA 70 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

Nominees for Best Song

“I’m a Bad, Bad Berber” from “Sunday in the Casbah with Paul,” the Paul Bowles musical —Al Packer, Andes

“A Hell of a Way to Be Wounded” from “Bull!” (The Sun Also Rises, the musical) —Amlin Gray, Bronxville “It’s Just a Cigar” from “Id O, Id O!” (the Sigmund Freud musical) —Dora Jungsdottir, Yonkers

Best Song

“The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Duns’nane” from “It’s A Mad, Bad, Sad, Plaid World: Macbeth, the musical” —Laura Covello, Ulster Park All winners not deemed by the Nom de Folie squad to be intimate relatives of the judges will receive Chronogram T-shirts.

Thanks to everybody who entered!

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS AWARD-WINNING Parsippany Review is now reading poetry and fiction for its winter issue. We like work that is tightly constrained by form, but not airless; intellectually risky, but emotionally conservative; “literary,” but not lapidary; stark, yet fun. No haiku, sestinas, projective verse, metafiction, “new fabulism,” language poetry, concrete poetry, narrative poetry, lyric poetry, centos, or prose poems, and absolutely no alexandrines, villanelles, rondeaus, or anything else French. Please enclose SASE (we like stamps that commemorate people, rather than places or objects, and envelopes that are self-adhesive and don’t need to be licked). Send to Editor, Parsippany Review, 2 Picky Square, Whippany, NJ 07981.

ECHOLALIA seeks short fiction on the subject of short fiction for its annual short fiction issue. Submissions should be short and include cover letter, also short, and bio, ditto. Editors respond shortly. E-mail to shrtfctn@echolalia.echolalia.com.

New York Times

FROM THE DESK of Dr. Shelley Keats, Director, Poetry Implementation, Federal Ministry of Metaphor and Pathetic Fallacy—Strictly Confidential!

Dear Poet: Based on the information we have been gathered, we intend to solicit your assistance on this transaction with you on the assumption that you will not disappoint us. We have Twenty Five Hundred Thousand United States Poems which we have collected over time from discarded anthologies and bankrupt literature magazines. We are seeking your assistance and permission to remit these poetries into your account or any other nominated account you can provide for us. Your commission will be 20% of the total syllabic count, with 10% for allusive gratuities. The remaining 70% is for my colleagues, myself, and of course the Muse. Please acknowledge your acceptance of this transaction by sending to me a copy of this letter with your private ISBN and Library of Congress numbers.

I shall in turn inform you of the modalities for a formal application to secure the necessary approvals for the immediate release of these poetries into your account.

Yours faithfully, Dr. Shelley Keats, PO Box 711, Parnassus, Nigeria.

MUSE-OF-THE-FUTURE seeks author readings for its acclaimed International Podcast. The show has received nearly 100 downloads since first going online in April 2002. Established authors pay only $250 to read up to three minutes of their work, with additional minutes available at additional rates. Readings recorded over the telephone at author’s expense, plus $20 handling fee. This is a great opportunity for writers who don’t know how to promote themselves. Trust us. Break-and-entry forms ($50) available at our website: www.museofthefuture.not.

NICTITATE seeks flash microfiction written in 24 seconds or less. I.M. yr best syllable to—oops, over NONDISCERNIBLE MICROBIOINOCULATOR is looking for well-crafted replies to rejection slips from snarky magazines and snobby journals. Here’s your opportunity for sweet revenge—unless, of course, you suffer the double indignity of being rejected by us. Please affix your replies to the original rejection slips (nails OK) and send to Salon de Refusé Part Deux, Box 86, Santa Feh, NM 87508.

SUBMIT YOUR BEST work to Bonhomie. Our annual reading period is from September 1 to September 4; poems or fiction submitted before or after those dates will be returned unread, assuming that you have provided a SASE; if not, they will be shredded and used as mulch, or, depending upon our whim, laid in a pit, set afire, and peed on. We will then send you jpegs of the charred, micturitious remains, accompanied by mocking captions. Are we turning you on? Additional, stricter guidelines at poeminatrix.com.

VICT/him creates an empowering space for bitter, wise/wizened/Wiccan, and nurturant writings of womyn, transgendered indyvyduals, marine mammals of color, and crones who stomp to the beat of a different frame-drummer. Contributions may be hand-delivered, woven of fiber, or e-mailed with succor to grandmothersdugs@thenorns.mom. There are no rejections.

—Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold 11/07 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 71

Food & Drink

Consider the Herbalist FOOD ENCYCLOPEDIST GARY ALLEN

By Amy Giezentanner photos by Jennifer May

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ar flower, Arabian num-num, mugwort, buckbean. They sound like names from a magical potion out of Harry Potter, but they’re actually just a few of the herbal ingredients in culinary historian Gary Allen’s The Herbalist in the Kitchen (University of Illinois, 2007), an encyclopedic collection of herbal facts.

Allen researched herbs and compiled notes for 12 years, then organized them into a reference work containing 105 botanical families—from agavaceae to zygophyllaceae. The families are broken down into individual, varietal sections, and then each of the varieties are described in detail for ease of reference. YlangYlang, for instance, is a tropical tree with origins in Asia and Australia. Its extract has a sweet, flowery taste that contains benzoic acid, benzyl alcohol, cadinene, and eugenol. Ylang-Ylang extract is used in the kitchen for baked goods, icings, and candy, and can even be used in chewing gum. Some of Allen’s other herbal entries contain substitute suggestions: mugwort, for example, is sometimes used in place of hops when making herbal beers. He’s even listed nearly every name by which the herbs are known around the world. Mexican mint marigold, for instance, is known as Mexican tarragon, Spanish tarragon, sweet mace, and tzitziqi, just to name a few. Allen offers these other names to clear up possible confusion and provide a little background knowledge for his readers.

Allen’s always been interested in cooking, but his curiosity about herbs didn’t spark until about 15 years ago. “When I tried to find out more about them, I discovered that most books addressed the same two dozen or so herbs—essentially the same ones that have been used in European cookery for the past 500 years.

They didn’t reflect the kind of worldwide cooking we do today.” He decided that in order to learn more, he would conduct original research. He did much of it in his own herb garden, where Allen grew and studied many of the species he featured in his book. “When I first started, I lived in a different place—with

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much more space than I now have. I grew dozens then. Today I only have 10 or 12,” like the Chinese chives he now grows for his own kitchen.

Allen does all of the cooking at home and has learned some neat tricks incorporating herbs into dishes in novel ways. One of them is to use crisp, fried herbs as a garnish—basil, parsley, sage and tarragon work best. He also likes to use basil-flavored olive oil instead of butter for corn-on-the-cob. If you’re looking for an interesting way to grill shrimp, chicken or pork, he recommends using the woody stems of rosemary as skewers. Although Allen now uses herbs for cooking instead of primarily for research, his work on the book hasn’t ended.

As if its detailed listings weren’t enough, The Herbalist in the Kitchen will soon offer a Google-based index to help readers search the 483-page book for any words mentioned within. For instance, if a reader were to use a recipe calling for dog fennel, they could search the Google index to find the location of “dog fennel” in the book and learn that it’s also known as chamomile. A book with so many useful features will enhance any foodie’s library, but Allen recommends that buyers with less experience use it in conjunction with Craig Claiborne’s Herb and Spice Cookbook, as Claiborne’s recipes are written with experimenting novices in mind. It’s the sort of recommendation you’d expect from someone like Allen, who seems to enjoy using his work as a coaching vehicle for other food enthusiasts.

Allen’s an amiable fellow with a ready grin and sense of humor; it doesn’t take long in his presence to realize he enjoys people and has a curious mind. He’s also a man of many talents who began his early career as a painter. His painting led to jobs as an illustrator, graphic consultant, and art director for various publications, and organizations—including the Culinary Institute of America. He’s illustrated movie posters and films (including Woody Allen’s Zelig), children’s books, and dozens of textbooks over the years. He’s even collected accolades

OPPOSITE: STILL LIFE IN AN HERBALIST’S KITCHEN: GREEK OREGANO, SAGE, ROSEMARY, THYME, PARSLEY, GARLIC, SHALLOT, AND PUMPKIN SEEDS FOR ROASTING. ABOVE (CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT): BEFORE YOU CHOP, ADD SALT TO OILY HERBS SUCH AS ROSEMARY AND GARLIC. THE SALT (NOT YOUR CUTTING BOARD) CAPTURES THE RELEASED OILS; NUTMEG AND MACE; GARY ALLEN

ranging from solo and juried exhibitions to First Grand Prize in the Faber-Castell Drawing Competition. His successes as an illustrator couldn’t quash his curiosity and passion for food, though, and Allen wanted to sharpen his writing skills for the work he did at the CIA. Enrolling in correspondence classes at Empire State College, Allen earned a degree in Writing and Design of Gastronomical Literature. Thus began his official foray into food writing.

Allen hadn’t written any food books when he started classes at Empire State College. His advisor sensed that he would become a prolific food writer, so she recommended he write a “little directory” on resources for writers as an assignment. Allen jokingly recalls, “I think she thought I was going to do maybe a 15 page paper, and I came back with three 50 page papers.” These three pieces later became the basis of his first published book, The Resource Guide for Food Writers. The book is broken down into three main sections: one on sources of food information like library collections and Internet newsgroups, one on interviewing techniques for food writers, and a final section on proposals, publishing, and marketing. It was published in 1999, a year before Allen graduated.

Allen’s work on The Resource Guide for Food Writers didn’t stop at publication.

His mentoring spirit keeps him involved in the project through regular, monthly newsletters that contain 20 to 30 new websites each month. It sounds like a lot of work, but Allen feels his readers should have access to updates in the fast-changing world of food resources. He’s also an adjunct professor at his alma mater, where he teaches food writing and food and culture classes. Allen’s efforts to help others no doubt lends well to his teaching career, but the efforts started long before his teaching job. Robert del Grosso, Allen’s friend and former colleague at the Culinary Institute of America, recalls, “There always seemed to be someone in his office asking him for help with one problem or another.” It seems only natural that a “go-to” man like Allen would end up writing a “go-to” book.

Allen lives and works in the Queen Anne-era home he and his wife, Karen Philipp, are restoring in the Rondout area of Kingston. It sits in a quiet neighborhood, high enough on a hill to give a panoramic view of the Rondout Creek.

He does much of his work from his second floor study packed with books and memorabilia of his many jobs. The projects he works on in this crowded office reflect his particular interests in food, which focuses as much on the cultural context of food and food production as it does on the preparation of food itself.

“Gary is a polymath, he knows something about almost every branch of science, art, is self-schooled in the classics and is pretty familiar with all of the big ideas of the previous two or three thousand years of western civilization,” Del Grosso says, which helps explain the variety of topics and styles Allen chooses for his writing projects.

Since beginning his career, Allen’s written for Valley Table, written and edited for Leitesculinaria.com, co-edited an encyclopedia of the food business, and has contributed to various other books and publications. Allen doesn’t like to remain idle for long. He usually has several books in the works at any given moment.

He’s currently writing two separate books about different aspects of cannibalism, and he’s started another project that’ll take a humorous look at horrible homecooked meals. Both topics offer a clear but stimulating departure from herbal encyclopedias and writers’ resource guides.

Allen’s interest in food has produced works for all levels of cooks and segments of the food industry. He’s a creative man who knows how to capture information and make it entertaining and intriguing. The Herbalist in the Kitchen is simply the latest published example of this talent. There’s bound to be more on the way though. Keep your eye out for Allen, in just about any genre of food writing and food culture. You’re sure to see his name in print again.

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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.

Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.

RESTAURANTS Bear Creek Restaurant and Recreational Park Corner of Rt 23 A and Rt 214 Hunter, NY 518-263-3839 www.bearcreekrestaurant.com Certified Master NLP Life Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, former matrimonial legal assistant. 845-978-0548. FREE CONSULTATIONS.

Blockheads Burritos 3 Plattekill Ave., New Paltz, NY (845) 255-TACO Hefty portions of healthy and delicious San Francisco-style Mexican food at wallet-friendly prices. Enjoy frozen margaritas, Mexican beer and sangria, friendly service and great tunes, in our bright open dining room. Now serving Brunch Saturday and Sunday. FREE DELIVERY 7 NIGHTS per week. Conveniently open adjacent to municipal parking in the heart of village.

Catamount Banquet Center

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We all have so much to celebrate.

Raise a toast with Esotecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine selection of sparkling beverages.

Organic Apple Kosher Grape Black Cherry Cranberry and many more.

(845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event.

The Emersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Cata-

mount spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families, and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call us or visit us online.

Emerson at Woodstock 109 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7500 www.emersonresort.com Crave fresh seafood? Need your red meat fix? Have a hankering for slow-cooked pork chops, organic chicken, or right-offthe-farm vegetarian dishes? Experience the Emerson at Woodstock. Enjoy fine wines, micro-brews, or specialty drinks from the Emersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnificent bar while you enjoy the atmosphere of the transformed 19th century farmhouse. Surf the web at the Emersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new internet cafĂŠ with free wi-fi. Available for private parties, rehearsal dinners, and business functions.

Emerson Organic Spa CafĂŠ (845) 688-2828 Refreshing, organic veggie and fruit drinks. Made-to-order salads and wraps.

Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or for enjoying in the Asian-inspired design of the CafĂŠ. Servers will bring your selections to you on the wrap-around sundeck with views of Mt. Tremper and the Esopus Creek. Open for lunch every day, 11am to 4pm. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock.

Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 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!

Hana Sushi 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-4333 www.hana-sushi.com Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley! Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best authentic sushi with extended dining area. Sit at the counter or tables

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Celebrate Chronogram’s 2007 Literary Supplement at

Eats, Reads & Leaves: The Party featured readings and presentations by:

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Akiko Busch Nine Ways to Cross a River

Alison Gaylin Trashed

Amlin Gray How I Got That Story

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine Poor, On Tour, & Over 54

Luc Sante Kill All Your Darlings

Nina Shengold Clearcut

Abigail Thomas A Three Dog Life

Author Book signing sponsored by:

The Golden Notebook

Friday, November 29 at Blue Mountain Bistro, Rt. 212, between Woodstock & Saugerties

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Host Your Holiday Party in Style The Emerson Great Room Book your holiday party now for the Emerson Great Room. With the Emerson’s signature brand of outstanding service, innovative cuisine and luxurious décor, it is sure to be an event to remember.

Call Our Special Event Coordinator at (845) 688-2444

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Route 28 – Just 10 minutes from Woodstock EmersonResort.com | (877) 688-2828

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It’s hard to imagine something you can’t do with one of Cuisinart’s new blenders, stand mixers and hand mixers. Mix, stir, blend, purée, chop, whip, process, squeeze juice, and knead dough quickly and high in style. We stock an extensive selection of Cuisinart products. And Cuisinart is the perfect mix.

The Hudson Valley’s best selection of fine cutlery, professional cookware, appliances, serving pieces and kitchen tools. Expert sharpening while you shop. Great gifts. Cooking classes, fine spices, oils, coffees and teas.

and enjoy all your favorites from chicken Teriyaki and Udon to Yellowtail and special rolls. Eat-in, take-out, and private room are available.

Hickory BBQ Smokehouse 743 Route 28 (3.5 miles from NYS Thruway Exit 19.), Kingston, NY (845) 338-2424 www.hickoryrestaurant.com 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 freerange 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 night. Open daily for lunch and dinner.

Luna 61

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55 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 758-0061 www.luna61.com

6934 Route 9 Rhinebeck, NY Just north of the 9G intersection 845-876-6208 Mon–Sat 9:30–5:30, Sun 11–4:30 On the web at www.warrenkitchentools.com

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199 Stockbridge Road, Rt. 7, Great Barrington, MA 01230

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Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.

Osaka Restaurant 74 Broadway, Tivoli, (845) 757-5055 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 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. Visit our second location in Tivoli.

Soul Dog 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-3254 Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts, and many gluten-free items prepared in-house.

Redefining the hot dog experience!

Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375

Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant

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301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6478 www.machupicchurest.com 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.

232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com

Art without limits Art without borders

49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162

“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.

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Neko Sushi & Restaurant

Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products.

Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.

Mexican Radio 9 Cleveland Place, NYC, (212) 343-0140 537 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-7770 www.mexrad.com pmljs@ecoipm.com Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A Great Place for Parties!

Sukhothai Restaurant, located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available.

6426 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck NY www.terrapinrestaurant.com (845) 876-3330 We are passionately committed to providing our guests with a delightfully unique dining experience. As a Hudson Valley dining destination, we strive to consistently provide you with the freshest, highest quality food; celebrating the robust local bounty. Whether a quiet dinner for two or large family gathering, our staff is dedicated to creating a personalized experience served in a warm, yet elegant environment. From kitchen to table, our holistic approach to the dining experience compels us to be uncompromising in the quality of our product. Join us in celebration of food, family, and friends. We look forward to serving you soon.

The Phoenix 5340 Route 28, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 688-7700 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa. The area’s newest restaurant compliments the Silk Road design of the adjacent Inn. Chef Ross Fraser uses local ingredients and infuses spices from the Orient and India to create unique, mouthwatering dishes. Two dining rooms, a large bar area, and an expansive deck overlooking the Esopus Creek make the Phoenix a true Catskills dining destination. Tavern and children’s menu available. Open daily.

VOTED BEST OF HUDSON VALLEY 2005

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GIFTS THAT KEEP GIVING

By Francis Cruz

The air is crisp. Leaves crunch beneath bright rubber rain boots. Halloween costumes have been laundered, folded, and tucked away in drawers. Children are finally coming down from candy corn sugar highs and looking forward to a candy cane pick-me-up.

Yet when the last carol is sung, dreidel is spun, and party is done, the presents that just days earlier were the cause for celebration have lost their luster and are relegated to toy chests and closets. The lasting impact of the holidays is felt in the tons of trash dumped into landfills. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, households increase waste production by 25 percent. Altogether that adds an extra one million tons of garbage—food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons—each week.

There are alternatives that really can make a difference—not only toward reducing waste but by supporting organizations that address social and environmental issues from your backyard to oceans away. Consider the old holiday adage: ’Tis better to give than receive. Then give friends and family gifts they’ll never receive. Most charitable and nonprofit organizations accept donations in honor of a friend or relative and some even send personalized greeting cards detailing the contribution. It’s a stocking stuffer that doubles as a tax deduction for you.

Face it, you didn’t want to wrap all those presents anyway.

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Build a Community The holidays are not only a time to embrace family but also your entire community. One way to ensure the future of a thriving community is to support the organizations that keep children safe and active, help families find shelter, and lend a hand to the residents in need. In honor of those loved ones who care the most, give to a local organization that makes your hometown a home.

Almost every county has a United Way chapter that caters specifically to the needs of that region, funding programs tailor-made to its community.

Staff members and volunteers interview human service professionals from the education, criminal justice, and medical sectors to assess the community’s needs. The United Way of Ulster County, for instance, has identified affordable daycare, low-income housing, and family centered mental health as some of the target areas in the county. Like investing in the mutual fund of charities, donors can be assured that their money is serving the best interests of the community and supporting an array of programs, yielding highest philanthropic dividends. “We try to jump in when there are broad issues,” said Stacey Rein, president of the United Way of Ulster County, on her way to a meeting where she chairs a substance abuse prevention board the county started. “When we had flooding a few years ago we facilitated a task force to respond to that. We try to fi ll the leadership role when there is a variety of issues at stake and a variety of players because we know the business and human services communities so well.”

Habitat for Humanity aims at giving a hand up not a handout to lowincome families through homeownership opportunities. The Capital District affi liate of Habitat for Humanity has built 40 homes in its almost 20 years operating in Albany. The organization has set an ambitious goal of building another 40 homes over the next five years, many in the Southern Saratoga area. “If folks have any concern at all for the plight of the working poor and substandard housing and the opportunity Habitat provides for homeownership, then they should consider Habitat for Humanity,” said Steve Haggerty, executive director of the Capital District Habitat for Humanity. As little as $10 provides some bricks for construction and a Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa card for your recipient. Twenty-five dollars amounts to six bags of cement for a house that will cost $75,000 to build. Haggerty suggests writing checks out to the specific chapter of Habitat in the community you directly want to support.

Protect Local Resources This holiday reduce the amount of waste consumer products create by pledging not to purchase as many unnecessary presents. Instead support local environmental organizations in the name of the people you would have purchased scarves, ties, and perfume for. There are plenty of land, water, and critter-friendly groups that need extra help to keep New York green even in the winter.

Everyone has at least one neighbor they’d never mention nuclear power to when running late. Th is holiday season encourage that environmental passion by funding a Riverkeeper project. The organization works to protect the Hudson River, its tributaries, and runs campaigns to protect the New York City watershed and close Indian Point. You can donate to the general operations of Riverkeeper or directly to a campaign your neighbor has built his or her soapbox on. It will mean more than the gloves you would’ve bought—they’d probably get lost at the next protest anyway.

A family membership to the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater makes a perfect group gift. Clearwater works as an education and advocacy group for the Hudson River. The organization brings groups of all ages on the replica 18th-century Dutch cargo ship for three-hour sails, educating passengers on ecology, sailing, and navigation. For landlubbers, the Tideline Discovery Program brings students to an onshore facility where they can comb the beach, study the organisms in a drop of water, and still discover the mysteries of Muhheakantuck, the river that flows both ways. Clearwater’s environmental action team advocates for the river through legal action. For $55 you can purchase a family membership that is a gift to the whole valley. Your relatives will receive a quarterly newsletter and can even partake in any of the member sails leaving piers from New York City to Albany.

Development is an increasing concern in New York and open space is harder

to find each year. Land conservancy projects help maintain the natural landscape that makes our region unique. Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy (MHLC) serves Montgomery, Albany, and Schenectady counties. MHLC executive director Jill Knapp believes open spaces do make a difference in the community. “Many of our properties, although not all of them, do have public access so that people can go out and enjoy the land,” said Knapp. “Some of our other ones that don’t have public access are still providing a public benefit by either helping to protect a habitat or helping to protect water quality or protecting a beautiful scenery someone can enjoy.” Last year, the MHLC acquired a 138-acre parcel of land in Knox with several waterfalls, two streams, wetlands, and a complex trail system. The MHLC has smaller wooded areas in Delmar where local residents can walk through enjoying the birds, deer, and wild flowers.

Winter is especially hard on the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.

Heating and cleaning the barn, feeding the animals more food, and providing medicine are expensive but necessary. Formerly abused goats are sore with severe arthritis needing medicine to walk and the steers eat twice as much hay as the rest of the year. The Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary provides a home for animals seized from abusive and neglectful farm owners and rescued from the streets by humane law. They become ambassadors for animals still used for production. “We educate visitors about factory farms, which are the big, mean, nasty farms that have thousands of animals living in a warehouse,” said Robin Henderson, an animal caregiver for almost two years. Donors can sponsor an animal, for a year and receive a personalized card with the picture and story of the animal for a monthly fee of $10 for a hen like Cora to $50 for a steer like Elvis. “The only difference between our animals and the animals at factory farms is our animals got lucky and found their way here,” said Henderson.

Think Globally During the holiday season it’s easy to get caught up in your own world but slow down, stop, and think about people living on the other side of the world. There are people living as close as the Caribbean with nothing to cook on and women as far away as Tibet lacking sterile instruments to cut the umbilical cord of their newborns. Worthy organizations make a difference around the globe.

One HEART utilizes three programs to improve the health of pregnant women and reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. The most popular, Skilled Birth Attendant Training, is a three-month course that teaches villagers, township and county doctors, and other health workers to deliver healthy babies. Graduates get a medical bag with supplies and even a bicycle to get from village to village. “We’re not going into Tibet to do a skill and just leave,” said Claire Osborn of One HEART. “We actually want to train the locals so they can then pass along those skills to future generations.” Pregnancy and Village Outreach in Tibet (PAVOT) recruits the female village leaders to provide pregnant women with accurate health information, like nutrition during pregnancy and the importance of prenatal vitamins. The last is a physician-training program where Western doctors educate Tibetan doctors on emergency obstetric procedures. A $50 donation will deliver a birth kit to an expecting mother and a card inside a handmade Tibetan cloth envelope to your honoree. A birth kit saves lives with its simple contents: sterile blanket, sterile string to tie off the umbilical cord, a resuscitation mask, prenatal vitamins, surgical gloves, sterile cloths to clean and dry the baby, baby blanket and hat, and a bar of soap.

One website is one-stop shopping for saving the world. Alternative Gifts International, www.altgifts.org, promotes 34 worldwide projects to support in honor of your loved ones. A fuel-efficient rocket stove can be purchased for a family in Haiti for $11. For the same price, you can feed a child living in the Gaza Strip milk and a school snack for a month. Ten dollars treats five clinic patients in Darfur. With so many important projects and 17 greeting cards to choose from, you should find everything you need to bring holiday joy to someone you love and someone you may never meet. If you just can’t decide between providing healthcare for Lepers in China or shelter for refugees in Lebanon, donate to the Where Most Needed category.

Once you have decided on a nonprofit to donate to, before you sign the check, look them up on www.guidestar.org to verify their legitimacy. For a complete contact list of the organizations and charities mentioned in this article, visit www.chronogram.com.

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SPIRIT OF THE SEASON WINNING WINES FOR THE HOLIDAYS

By Francis Cruz

On the holiday shopping crusade, after visiting the candle shop, toy store, and the electronics department, don’t forget to stop in at a wine merchant or local vineyard. For a festive, fun gift that keeps holiday spirits high, wine is so delightful it might be tough to part with. Buy it, give it, share it. Remember, it wasn’t the toga that made Dionysus the life of the party.

Choose a Merchant You Trust Casual wine drinkers may feel intimidated by all the varieties of wine and regions where they grow. They may only know that they prefer white over red. It’s a wineglass-half-full situation; take this opportunity to shop around for a knowledgeable merchant as well as a bottle. “If you have a good wine merchant, that person should be able to guide you well with a few pertinent questions,” says Peter Landolt, wine director of Viscount Wines and Liquor in Wappingers Falls.

“The Hudson Valley has many wonderful small and even large stores with great customer service that can aid you in what you want,” says Ken Maguire of In Good Taste in New Paltz.

Know the Person You’re Shopping For The most common mistake when purchasing wine for someone else is not knowing enough about that person. “Sometimes you don’t know them well enough,” says Maguire. “It could be your boss, a coworker, or a family member you haven’t seen in a while, so sometimes you buy something you might like.”

Michael Albin from Hudson Wine Merchants in Hudson helps personalize the wine. “It’s just about being thoughtful in the end because maybe the point about the person isn’t that they like red wine in general, but that their personality is very adventurous and maybe you want to get them something really different that they’ve never had because that’s what’s exciting to them,” Albin says. “Think about why you’re getting it and how it relates to your relationship with them.”

Starter Bottle Connoisseurs may wish to push full-flavored bold wines onto friends who are new to the spirit, but Landolt explains the process taste buds go through. “Most people’s palates evolve in a very very predictable way,” says Landolt. “Most people start with slightly sweet, low acidity wines and as time goes by their palate adapts to greater and greater flavor intensity, and dryer and dryer, and somewhat higher levels of acidity. It really is a predictable and inevitable evolution, and one should not rush it.”

Maguire suggests Pinot Noir or an Australian Shiraz to gently move white-wine drinkers into red. “If you’re trying to get people involved, buy something that is softer,” advised Maguire. “Not hard tannins, not something very spicy.”

Yancey Migliore of Whitecliff Vineyard in Gardiner recommends the Vidal Blanc as a lesser-known-light and refreshing white wine.

A Bottle They Wouldn’t Buy for Themselves Port, sherry, and champagne make excellent gifts. They are tasty, universally agreeable, and while people enjoy them, they’d rarely purchase a bottle on their own. Port and sherry last a few months, even a year or two, after opened because they are fortified with brandy and have higher alcohol levels. They are sweet and generally served in small portions after dinner, another reason a bottle can go a long way. It’s a gift enjoyed well after the holiday season is over.

Local Wine is Nothing to Turn Up Your Nose At The Hudson Valley is home to many vineyards so buying locally can provide a personal touch and you don’t have to skimp on the quality. An avid hiker might recognize that Whitecliff Vineyard’s Sky Island Red, a Bordeaux mix, is named after the Shawangunk ecosystem. Don’t think of local wineries as one-trick ponies, they have a large variety of whites, reds, and even ports.

“Local wines are a great gift around the holidays specifically because they are unique. Big producers go to great lengths to make sure the wines stay the same year after year,” says Migliore. “We don’t have to make wines that please everybody. We make wines to please the people who seek them out and are interested in something unique that represents the region.”

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Mix it Up If you are looking to buy more than one bottle for a person, a set or case of wine makes a lovely larger gift for the holiday. Stay away from ready-made gift sets.

“I really would discourage people from buying the commercial gift boxes,” says Landolt. “For the most part they are simple mediocre wines and the real wine lover likes the gift of a unique or unusual wine.” Take the chance to continue to personalize your gift and broaden the horizons of your recipient.

Ken Maguire often gets patrons who want to buy a $100 bottle of wine for their boss. He tries to steer them away by suggesting three $30 or two $40 bottles.

With quality $8 bottles coming out of Spain and Portugal, a case of wine may very well be within your budget. Having tasted nine-tenths of the wine at In Good Taste, Maguire can help you build your own gift set. “We can even write a critique or flavor profile of each wine,” says Maguire. He even suggests buying bottles and putting them in a basket with cheese, bread, and olives.

Spirits for the Earthy Wines are filtered and fined in a variety of ways, some using egg whites, bone charcoal, gelatin, and other animal products that pose a problem for vegetarians and vegans. When choosing wines for others, consider their dietary restrictions and buy accordingly. “Many years ago you had to choose between an earth-friendly wine or a good wine,” says Albin. “Not only is that not the case now, there are lots of earth-friendly, outstanding wines. But it turns out, a lot of the best wines in the world were very earth-friendly because they were doing things with such care from the beginning. It’s just that they didn’t market it that way.”

Once you’ve found an earth-friendly producer, you may wonder how to select a bottle for a vegetarian. The same rules apply. “If it’s lighter and more delicate, like vegetable fare, and not heavily spiced or seasoned you might go with white wine. If it’s earthy or full flavored and highly seasoned or spiced you turn to variety of red wines,” says Landolt. “It’s not as hopeless as people think. Vegetarian fare can be just as conducive to good wine.”

Don’t Break the Bank As with all gifts, spend what you think is appropriate. “There are quality wines at almost every price level, and the more you spend doesn’t guarantee equally increasing quality,” says Landolt.

Now that you’ve realized you could be an earthy, adventurous red; crisp, clean Vidal Blanc; or flirty blush, and you can make up for never having backpacked through Europe by tasting your way through Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula from your dinner table, you may find it difficult to part with your holiday gifts this year. But you can give your wine and drink it too. Have your new, beloved wine merchant help you pick out a case for your holiday dinner tour. For every dinner party you attend this season, bring a new and exciting bottle and enjoy it with your host.

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Earl B. Feiden Appliances 661 Broadway, Kingston, NY, (845) 331-2230 785 Route 9, Latham, NY, (518) 785-8555 A full-service appliance store with a long history in the community and pioneers of the home-appliance industry.

We provide premium products, premium service, and stock name-brand appliances. Our commitment to customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of our business.

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ARCHITECTURE EcoArch DesignWorks Woodstock, NY (845) 247-4620 Award winning design,harmonizing Spirit, Health and the Environment, Solar and Green design. Licensed in New York, New Jersey and California, EcoArch DesignWorks specializes in Planning, Architecture and Interiors for Single family or Multi-family homes, entertainment, retail or office environments. Recent projects in New York include the Oriental Emerson Spa, the Ram Dass Library @ Omega and numerous Private homes and Additions.

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ART CENTERS Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org

ART GALLERIES Center for Photography at Woodstock

Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

The Pearl Gallery 3572 Main Street, Stone Ridge (845) 687-0888 www.pearlartsgallery.com chrissy@pearlartsgallery.com The Pearl Fine Decorative Arts Gallery specializes in handcrafted furniture and sculpture by local artists and renowned 20th-century designers. The gallery also offers African and Native American Art, handmade jewelry, and hand-blown glass. Among other items featured are exceptional 20th-century prints, lithographs, and photography.

Van Brunt Gallery 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com 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 has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work.

ART SUPPLIES Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston (845) 331-7780 Woodstock (845) 679-2251 Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250 Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure - voted ‘Best in the Valley’ year after year.

Manny’s Art Supply 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902 Since 1962, big-city selection and small-town service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, craft and bookmaking supplies, as well as the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store.

R & F Handmade Paints 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com 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.

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BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com 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.

Oblong Books & Music 622 Montgomery St. Suite 6, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and most interesting books in all categories. Oblong is more than just a great bookstore, also offering the region’s best selection of music. Our CD club rewards you with a free CD with every 10 purchased. Open every day.

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CLEANING Merry Maids (845) 297-1009 One thing you can count on when the rest of the afternoon has let you down.

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JEWELRY AND GIFTS Jewel 21 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3775 Spectacular jewelry and clothing designers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are represented here with many one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Owners Ronny and Michael Widener are committed to providing an inspired and diverse collection of jewelry, accessories, and artwork for your pleasure. Open 7 days a week with extended shopping hours during the holiday season.

Pearldaddy 183 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0169 www.pearldaddy.net Pearldaddy’s newly relocated boutique and fine art gallery originally opened its doors in Manhattan in May, 2001.

Now in Beacon, they still offer handmade and custom freshwater pearl jewelry as well as CDs, clothing, bags and accessories handcrafted by local and international artists with six fine art exhibits a year. Mon. & Thurs. 11am - 5pm, Fri. 11am-6pm, Sat. 12pm - 6pm, Sun. 12pm-5pm.

KITCHENWARES Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY 12722 (845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium — a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; we have more than 1,000 different styles and sizes in stock.

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This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web.

Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz 92

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PERFORMING ARTS Lehman-Loeb Art Center / Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5902 befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu

MOVING & STORAGE Allways Moving & Storage 85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-5676 www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com Accurate — Free Estimates.

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PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years.

Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets.

Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 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.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org

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PHOTOGRAPHY Barbara Strnadova Photography Kingston, NY (917) 232-3623 www.dova-imagery.com Barbara can provide you with what you need. Product images, event coverage, wedding imagery, portraits and more. Studio set up available. Affordable rates, partial barters accepted. For more information please go to www.dova-imagery.com. (917)232.3623

622 Montgomery St. Suite 6, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and most interesting books in all categories. Oblong is more than just a great bookstore, also offering the region’s best selection of music. Our CD club rewards you with a free CD with every 10 purchased. Open every day.

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MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS McCoy’s Guitar Shop Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7467 Is your guitar or bass performing up to its fullest potential?

Do you have fret buzz? Is your action too high/ too low?

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McCoy’s Guitar Shop: Expert repairs, restoration, guitars and basses bought, sold and traded. Give us a call, you’ll be glad you did!

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(917) 449-5020 www.chinajorrin.com A Hudson Valley based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style.

While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability.

Michael Gold The Corporate Image Studios, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.michaelgoldsphotos.com Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional.

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PIANO Adam’s Piano (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326 www.adamspiano.com Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom. Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures at www.adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos!

PLUMBING AND BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6291 cloijas@nssupply.com

PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct (845) 896-0894 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.

SCHOOLS Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Maria Ferguson, Aesthetics School 256 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSAesthetics.com info@hvsaesthetics.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Rosanna Tudisco, Massage School 72 Vineyard Avenue, Highland, NY (845) 691-2547 www.HVSMassageTherapy.com info@hvsmassagetherapy.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.

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WEB DESIGN Curious Minds Media Inc. (888) 227-1645 www.curiousm.com Coding skills + design sensibility makes Curious Minds Media the right choice for your next project. We are the region’s premiere provider of new media services.

Catamount Banquet Center (845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event.

The Emerson’s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service.

Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families, and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call us or visit us online.

WINE AND LIQUOR Viscount Wine and Liquor 1173 Route 9 Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0555 www.viscountwines.com info@viscountwines.com Huge store selection and prices with small store warmth and service. We have 8,000 wines, a 15,000 bottle climate-controlled cellar, 150 imported Vodkas, 90 singlemalt Scotches, 75 Tequilas, and 50 Cognacs.

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SUNROOMS Four Seasons Sunrooms Beacon: (845) 838-1235 Kingston: (845) 339-1787 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com Hudson Valley Sunrooms has been selling and installing Four Seasons Sunrooms since 1984. We offer sales, skilled installation and service, as well as experienced consultation on residential and commercial sunroom projects. We welcome you to visit our showroom located just south of Kingston on Route 9W. We provide free in-home estimates.

TREE SERVICE AND LANDSCAPING Midavies Tree Service (845) 658-9507 www.midaviestreeservice.com For all your tree care needs. We are a small personalized business dedicated to our customers and their trees. Free estimates and consultations.

WRITING SERVICES CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 www.CenterToPage.com Invite your muse to visit every day.

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WRITING WORKSHOPS Wallkill Valley Writers (845) 255-7090 khamherstwriters@aol.com Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator.

Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.

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THE HEALTHY BRAIN Tips for Nurturing your Neurons You exercise your body, feed it well, and look for ways to keep it at optimal performance— but what about your brain?

by dr. andrew weil and dr. gary small illustrations by annie internicola

Who doesn’t want a healthier brain? We all want a brain that thinks clearly, works quickly, and concentrates intently through the years. We also want an agile mind capable of storing and processing vast amounts of information, from the everyday (your shopping list, the punch line to a joke, your ATM PIN) to the complex (balancing your checkbook, learning to tango, speaking Japanese). But while some people’s brains seem to have a natural capacity for remembering sports statistics, television trivia, or historical facts, most of us recognize that there’s some room for improvement where our cognitive capabilities are concerned.

A BRAIN-HEALTHY LIFESTYLE Not so long ago, scientists regarded memory problems and cognitive decline as inevitable consequences of aging. This view is changing, as more and more studies show that you can take steps to preserve your memory and keep your mind sharp throughout life. What’s more, it now appears that genetics account for only one-third of an individual’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Your environment and the lifestyle choices you make on a day-to-day basis account for two-thirds of the risk, giving you more control over your brain’s future health than you may have thought possible.

The earlier in life that you adopt brain-protective practices, the better, since the abnormal protein deposits (amyloid plaques) and tangles of nerve fibers that accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients may begin forming decades before symptoms first appear. Dietary and other lifestyle measures can address several factors that undermine brain health, including chronic inflammation (Alzheimer’s begins with inflammation in the brain), oxidative stress from free radicals, and chronically elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Healthy living can also help prevent cardiovascular disease, an all-too-common problem that can reduce blood supply to critical areas of the brain and frequently contributes to dementia.

Even your attitude toward aging can affect your memory: older people who were shown negative words about aging, like senile, before taking memory tests did worse than those who were shown positive words, like wisdom. Likewise, 94 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

in China and other cultures with a more positive view of aging than ours, older people performed better on memory tests.

MENTALLY EXERCISING YOUR BRAIN Engaging your brain appears to be a key protective strategy. The more education you have, the less likely you are to experience age-related cognitive decline or to develop Alzheimer’s disease. If you do experience these conditions, they’ll more likely appear later in life for you than for people with fewer years of education. The reason may have to do with “neural redundancy,” the number of extra connections between nerve cells in the brain. Learning creates new connections between brain cells, and many of these connections duplicate existing pathways. The more connection you have, the more you can afford to lose if some degenerative process should occur.

An advanced degree isn’t necessary. The important thing is to keep challenging your mind. Learning a new computer-operating system and learning a foreign language are two of the best ways to challenge your mind. Here are many more possibilities: • Solve crossword, Sudoku, or jigsaw puzzles.

• Play cards, chess, word games (like Scrabble), and knowledge games (like Trivial Pursuit).

• Join a book club or study group.

• Express yourself by writing, painting, making music, or dancing.

• Attend lectures, plays, and concerts.

• Visit museums.

• Travel to new destinations.

• Volunteer for a cause you care about.

• Take classes at a local adult-education center or community college.

• Start a new hobby, whether it’s collecting stamps, woodworking, or bird-watching.

• Do more math by making simple calculations in your head, balancing your checkbook without a calculator, or preparing your own taxes.

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FEEDING YOUR BRAIN AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET Because inflammation and oxidative stress can undermine brain function, eating an anti-inflammatory diet that is rich in antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids can help you keep your wits about you. To add “brain food” to your diet, you’ll want to consume more of the following: Omega-3 oils. People who eat fish regularly are less likely to experience cognitive decline or develop Alzheimer’s. The omega-3s in oily fish, such as salmon, sardines, herring, and black cod, help to reduce inflammation, and one of these healthy fats—DHA—is essential for normal brain function. Vegetarian sources of omega-3 fatty acids include walnuts, flax seed (preferably freshly ground), and hemp seeds.

Fruits and vegetables. According to a 2004 analysis of more than 100 foods by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture, berries and beans have particularly high concentrations of antioxidants. The pigments that account for the varied colors of vegetables and fruits have antioxidant properties, so it’s a good idea to eat fresh produce every day from as many parts of the color spectrum as you can.

Olive oil. This monounsaturated fat contains an anti-inflammatory substance called squalene and antioxidant compounds such as flavonoids and polyphenols.

Make extra-virgin olive oil your primary cooking oil; it’s less processed than other kinds of olive oil and has more antioxidant activity.

Turmeric. The low rate of Alzheimer’s disease in India may be partly due to daily consumption of turmeric there. The yellow spice, which is a major ingredient in Indian curries and American mustard, is a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. Consider flavoring more of your food with it.

Green tea. A recent study of some 1,000 Japanese people aged 70 or older found that those who drank at least two cups of green tea a day were 54 percent less likely to have cognitive difficulties than those who had three cups or fewer a week. The antioxidants in this beverage are probably responsible for its brain-protective effects.

Here’s a list of the top 20 food sources of antioxidants, based on their total antioxidant capacity per serving size: • Small red beans • Wild blueberries • Red kidney beans • Pinto beans • Blueberries • Cranberries • Artichoke hearts • Blackberries Prunes • • Raspberries • Strawberries • Red Delicious apples • Granny Smith apples • Pecans • Sweet cherries • Black plums Russet potatoes • • Black beans • Plums • Gala apples

usually because you are distracted, not interested, or multitasking. Look is a skill that involves all five senses, not just vision; hearing, smell, touch, and taste also contribute to effective learning.

Try this: Take out several frequently used objects (such as keys, eyeglasses, and a hairbrush), place them on a table, and stare at them, one at a time. Pay attention to details you never noticed before. You will find quite a few. (Tip: Think of your brain as a sponge—you want to absorb as many details as possible to augment your memory skills.)

Snap reminds you to create a mental snapshot or visual image of the information to be remembered. As you picture this image in your mind’s eye, add details to give the snapshot personal meaning—and thus make it easier to learn and recall later.

Try this: Visualize each of the following but alter them slightly so they become unusual in some way: football, rock star, orange, car. (Tip: To help develop effective learning and recall techniques, you need to rekindle the natural creative instincts you had as a child.)

Connect calls for lining up the visual images in a relational and meaningful way. These relationships are the key to drumming up memories when you want to recall them later. The ideas or images become part of a chain, starting with the first item, which is associated with the second, and so on.

Try this: For each of the following four objects, create a vivid, detailed, and personally meaningful image. Connect these images by creating a story that links them sequentially: an athlete, animal, drink, antique. (Tip: If you need to remember a long list of items, the link method is an elaborate way to connect mental shapshots by creating a story. The story’s visual images and flow provide the clues for retrieving information.)

The more vibrantly and creatively you visualize new information, the more effectively it will stick in your memory. Exaggeration and playfulness enhance your ability to store and recall information.

THE BRAIN-BOOSTING BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY A number of large studies show that older people who get regular exercise are more likely to keep their minds sharp. For example, a study of nearly 6,000 women age 65 or older found that those who walked the most blocks per week had a 34 percent lower risk of cognitive decline than those who walked the fewest blocks. Other research has found that exercise programs involving both aerobic exercise (like walking) and strength training produced better results on cognitive abilities than either activity alone. Exercise improves blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, and may spur the formation of new brain cells. For optimum health, include aerobic exercise, strength training, and flexibility and balance exercises.

MAXIMIZING MEMORY SKILLS Evidence shows that memory-training programs work. In the first study of its kind, carried out at the UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center, people improved their cognitive function and brain efficiency by making the kinds of lifestyle changes described in our Healthy Brain program, such as including physical activity, sensible eating, stress reduction, and memory exercises.

Look, snap, and connect are three foundational steps of the Healthy Brain memory techniques. Look reminds you to focus your attention, especially when new information is presented. Consciously absorb the details and meanings from a new face, event, or conversation. The most common explanation for memory loss is that the information never gets into your mind in the first place, 96 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

CONDITIONS AND DRUGS THAT CAN INFLUENCE MEMORY Alzheimer’s disease and normal aging aren’t the only causes of memory changes. Certain conditions (such as alcoholism, anxiety, depression, diabetes, hypertension, hypothyroidism, sleep disorders, and vitamin B-12 deficiency) can impair your ability to think and remember. If you’re having memory problems, your doctor may advise a medical workup to determine if one of these conditions is responsible.

Meanwhile, be aware that medications can also affect memory. Such medications include anti-anxiety drugs, antidepressants, antihistamines, antispasmodics, beta-blockers for hypertension, cimetidine (Tagamet) for ulcers, narcotic painkillers, Parkinson’s disease drugs, sleeping pills, and various forms of chemotherapy. If you suspect a medication is interfering with your memory, talk to your doctor about adjusting your dosage or switching to another drug.

BETTER WITH AGE? Scientists long believed that once you reached adulthood, you stopped growing new brain cells. But now we know that new brain cells do form throughout life, even though you don’t replace all the cells you lose. One particularly encouraging finding is that the hippocampus—the most important brain structure for memory—regularly generates new brain cells.

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Do some aspects of brain function improve with age? According to psychiatrist and gerontologist Gene Cohen, director of The Center for Aging, Health, and Humanities at George Washington University, the answer is yes.

In his book The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain (2005), he describes a number of beneficial changes: Wiser. Older brains have learned more than younger brains, and learning creates new connections between neurons. Although the neurons may lose some processing speed with age, they become more richly intertwined, reflecting both deeper knowledge and better judgment.

More flexible. Unlike younger adults, who tend to handle most tasks on one side of the brain or the other, older people are more apt to use both sides at once. This adaptation not only helps keep you sharp, but may also help explain why autobiographical writing and storytelling are common among older people. The rearrangement of brain functions “makes it easier to merge the speech, language, and sequential thinking typical of the left hemisphere with the creative, synthesizing right hemisphere,” suggests Dr. Cohen.

Greater equanimity. The amygdalas, two almond-shaped structures that serve as the brain’s emotional centers, appear to mellow with age. In brainimaging studies, older adults show less evidence of fear, anger, and hatred than young adults. Likewise, psychological studies show that older adults are less impulsive and less likely to dwell on negative feelings.

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KNOWING THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL CONNECTIONS Middle-aged and older adults with large social networks experience less cognitive decline as they age. People with an active social life may be more likely to stay involved in mentally challenging activities, and good social ties can be a powerful buffer against stress. Some experts believe that dancing may be particularly beneficial to the brain, because it combines social interaction, physical activity, and often the mental challenge of learning dance steps.

There are many other ways to stay connected. Spend time with family and friends, especially those who make you feel happier and more alive. Meet other people interested in healthy living by joining a walking or biking club or taking yoga or cooking classes. Consider getting involved at a local house of worship: There’s some evidence that religious attendance and personal spiritual practices are associated with slower rates of cognitive decline. Do some kind of service work by volunteering in your community or helping someone in need. And think about getting a pet: Caring for a companion animal can promote a sense of well-being, help manage stress, and make you smile.

Excerpted with permission from The Healthy Brain Kit by Andrew Weil, MD, and Gary Small, MD. For many more ways to boost brain health, and training exercises to improve your memory, consult the kit’s informational workbook, two audio CDs, and 35 “brain-training” cards; published by Sounds True, www.soundstrue.com; (800) 333-9185.

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POWER OF THE GROUP THE BENEFITS OF THERAPY IN A GROUP FORMAT

BY JEFFREY SCHNEIDER

In the 20 years that I have been facilitating therapy groups, there have been certain consistencies. One is that the experience is helpful, uplifting, and healing for most people who enter the process. I have had the honor of witnessing people utilize group therapy for such diverse benefits as leaving abusive relationships, entering healthy relationships, pursuing dreams, making career changes, breaking patterns of acquiescing to others, learning to identify and meet needs and goals, overcoming addictions, raising self-esteem, overcoming fears, and developing spirituality. Another consistency, however, is that people unfamiliar with group therapy have not understood this unique therapeutic form, and therefore have been reluctant to enter a group.

So, what is a therapy group? Simply stated, it is when a therapist works with several people at once for a common purpose, typically to address common challenges or problems. A group usually has five to ten people, but this can vary. Usually the group meets weekly, though I have also facilitated half-day and all-day groups that meet only once. Members of a therapy group agree that everything said will remain confidential and that the identities of those who attend will also remain confidential. They also agree to relate to one another in a respectful manner. These guidelines contribute to establishing trust and safety, 98 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

which creates an atmosphere where they feel more comfortable sharing.

Therapists will each facilitate their groups somewhat differently, but to give you a better understanding of what group therapy is like, here’s what I do. I usually start with a check-in, during which each member has about two minutes to say how he or she is, and what their week has been like. I encourage them to be concise and to focus on themselves rather than sharing excessive details.

The check-in gives a feel for who might be struggling and who is at ease. Next, participants share their reflections and insights from any previous group meeting, ask questions, and follow up on any unfinished business. I then “open the floor” to see who would like to describe a challenge that he or she is struggling with. Other group members then ask questions to help the person explore the problem, consider different viewpoints, and contemplate solutions. We might use role-playing as well.

Therapy groups can have a particular focus, such as healing from sexual trauma, eating disorders, substance abuse, and other topics. Or, the group can be open to address any challenges or problems that come up. (The latter approach is the one I prefer to facilitate.) Examples of the many issues that group members work on are relationship problems, depression, anxiety, anger manage-

ment, self-esteem, parenting challenges, sexual addiction, caring for aging parents, divorce, phobias, career difficulties, coping with illness of oneself or a loved one, overcoming procrastination, inability to identify and meet one’s needs, coping with a family member’s addiction, spiritual seeking, feeling unworthy and “empty,” and healing from trauma. Addressing any one of these often improves all aspects of one’s life.

The group process is different in several ways from individual psychotherapy. Here are some examples of what can emerge from the group process: Experimenting with new behaviors. The group can be utilized as a laboratory where people can try new behaviors to determine how effective they might be. For example, a person can practice different ways to be supportive, to express anger, to be assertive, or to be vulnerable.

Identifying strengths and weaknesses. Group members help one another discovering weaknesses and strengths. For example, some people believe they are poor communicators. Yet the group might give them input that they, in fact, communicate clearly and directly. This would help a person understand that a perceived weakness is actually a strength. Conversely, a person might believe they communicate clearly. The group might give them input that they are verbose and digressive, and that listening to them results in loss of attention and feelings of frustration. This would help a person to understand that a perceived strength is actually a weakness, and help them to modify their communication style. The group can also validate that one’s perception of strengths and weaknesses are accurate.

Learning conflict resolution skills. As in any group of people, conflict arises in the therapeutic group. By focusing on the group process in the present moment, members learn healthy conflict resolution skills. In fact, discussing the dynamics and tendencies of the group is often more valuable than discussing the specifics of situations the members bring to the sessions.

Normalizing feelings and problems. When a person talks about a painful struggle, an abusive past, or actions they aren’t happy about, others in the group often reveal similar stories or feelings. Clients repeatedly say, “I never knew others felt this way,” or “It’s such a relief to know I’m not alone.” This revelation decreases their sense of isolation and shame. Shame can be more damaging to the person than the problem that produced it.

Re-creating and working through patterns. Groups serve as a microcosm of society. How a person acts, communicates, and relates to others in a therapy group is very likely how they behave at work, at home, with friends, in their family, and so on. I have seen this many times. An example is a person who interrupts and talks over others. By identifying this behavior in the group, and hearing how it affects others, the person learns that this is a destructive pattern. The group session often reveals that interrupting is a manifestation of anxiety, or a strong need to be heard. The group and I will help the person learn to be more patient and to respond in healthy, respectful, and effective ways.

Discovering family roles. Groups are also like a family. Members tend to “play out” roles they have played in their family of origin (the one they grew up in). Someone who has grown up in a dysfunctional family has learned unhealthy behaviors and coping mechanisms. The group enables such a person to understand the role she or he plays, and to modify it as needed. Examples of this would be acting as caretaker, mediator, scapegoat, hero, victim, parent, or child. Or, the person may be overly aggressive/ assertive, or overly passive. It is fascinating to see how these roles carry through into daily life outside the family, and it is uplifting to see people modify them once they recognize the pattern.

Through the years of facilitating groups, I have seen how committed participants become to their own growth and development, as well as to that of the other group members. One reflection of this is that they come to hold others accountable while also taking responsibility for their own growth.

As a result, members attend sessions quite consistently. That increases the connection among them, which elevates their trust and willingness to share openly and honestly. They learn to give and receive honest and constructive feedback. They also learn important group skills, such as effective conflict resolution and negotiation skills, a willingness to try new things, and getting one’s needs met in a healthy manner. What’s more, the group therapy participants have been able to take these newly developed skills and insights back into their lives, and become happier and healthier people.

Jeffrey Schneider is a licensed therapist who has led a diversity of therapy groups for over 22 years. He has recently introduced a group therapy workshop that integrates psychotherapy and spirituality. (845) 255-4175; jschneiderlcsw@hvc.rr.com.

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ACTIVE RELEASE TECHNIQUES Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 Active Release Techniques (ARTÂŽ) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica.

ARTÂŽ is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up. ARTÂŽ doctors are trained in over 500 hands on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ARTÂŽ doctors attend yearly continuing education and re-certification by ARTÂŽ.

ART works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. ART treatment is like a deep tissue massage combined with patient movement and stretching. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than standard treatments. The average number of treatments for all conditions ranges between 6-12 visits per condition depending on severity and duration of symptoms.

ACUPUNCTURE Acupuncture Health Care Assoc.

108 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-7178 Peter Dubitsky, L.Ac., Callie Brown, L.Ac., and Leslie Wiltshire, L.Ac. Mr. Dubitsky is a faculty member and the Di-

rector of Clinical Training at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture, and a member of the NY State Board for Acupuncture.

Ms. Brown and Ms. Wiltshire each have years of acupuncture experience in private practice and in medical offices.

We are all highly experienced, national board certified, NYS Licensed acupuncturists. We combine traditional Asian acupuncture techniques with a modern understanding of acupuncture and Oriental medicine to provide effective treatments of acute and chronic pain conditions, and other medical disorders.

In addition to our general practice we also offer a Low Cost Acupuncture Clinic which is available for all people who meet our low income guidelines.

Dylana Accolla, LAc Kingston, NY (914) 388-7789 Dylana@mindspring.com 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.

Earthbound Herbs and Acupuncture (845) 339-5653 www.earthboundapothecary.com Creating health in partnership with nature. Our effective, informative natural healthcare services are based in the elegant and profound traditions of Chinese medicine. Apothecary specializes in Asian and native medicinal herbs (many local/organically - grown!), tinctures, teas, and more. Herbal Studies Classes begin in May. Main office, apothecary in Kingston; home office, gardens in Accord.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 For the past 18 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. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall.

Mid-Hudson Acupuncture — William Weinstein, L.Ac. 119 West 23rd Street, NYC, (212) 695-3565 218 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 255-2070 www.mhacu.com

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Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net See also Massage Therapy.

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Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor (845) 339-0589 www.adacitron.com Receive a clear introduction to the basics of Mantak Chia’s Healing Tao System and Chinese 5 Element Theory.

Learn the Six Healing Sounds which transform stress into vital energy, the Inner Smile and Microcosmic Orbit Meditations. Ada also studies with Master Li Jun Feng, Michael Winn, Sifu Fong Ha, Robert Peng, and James Shaw, and offers a variety of their standing and gently moving practices.

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Relief from headache, migraine, arthritis, carpal tunnel, TMJ/TMD, repetitive strain, rotator cuff injury, and stress-related syndromes stemming from the modern lifestyle. PAIN RELIEF IS OUR MISSION. Personalized, unhurried treatment tailored to your specific needs.

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.

CHIROPRACTIC Dr. David Ness

Transpersonal Acupuncture

(845) 255-1200

(845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com

Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people 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.

Transpersonal Acupuncture is the practice of Jipala Reicher-Kagan L.Ac. Jipala is a New York State licensed acupuncturist and a graduate of TriState College of Acupuncture. She has completed a three year post-graduate study in Alchemical Acupuncture, which specializes in psychological and spiritual healing. She has over eight years of experience working with a certified nutritionist and knowledge of Western herbology, homeopathic medicine, nutritional supplements and dietary/ lifestyle counseling. Her main goal is to restore balance and to facilitate the innate healing power within each of her clients. She focuses on connecting the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the self and breaking blocks that contribute to pain, disease, trauma, and lifestyle imbalances. She welcomes clients who are interested in relief from acute or chronic pain, Facial Rejuvenation treatments, and quitting smoking.

Please call to make an appointment or visit us online if you would like to learn more about Transpersonal Acupuncture and Jipala Reicher-Kagan.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Connie Schneider, Advanced Level I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1516 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. See display ad.

COOKING CLASSES APOTHECARY Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition Monarda Herbal Apothecary (845) 339-2562 www.monarda.net In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment

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organic ingredients including produce from local farms. At the end of each class we sit around the table to enjoy a delicious feast. So come on your own or grab a friend, and join us for a great class that is sure to spark creativity in your kitchen! Visit us online or call for a list of upcoming classes.

COUNSELING IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776. Fax: (845) 331-6624 www.ionedreams.org

Susan DeStefano

IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer and inter-faith minister, who is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Women’s Mysteries programs and leads retreats to sacred locations throughout the world. An author and playwright, her works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color and Listening in Dreams. Offices in Kingston and New York City.

Priscilla A. Bright, MA — Energy Healer/Counselor

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845.255.6482 Partners in Massage 4415 Albany Post Rd–Route 9 Just South of the Vanderbilt Mansion

HYDE PARK, NY, 12538 WE NOW OFFER Hot stone massage, Deep tissue, Medical and Swedish massage, Couples massage, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Cranio-Sacral therapy, Reiki sessions and training workshops. Think of us for your bridal or baby shower.

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Margaret Doner LMT, Chris Hanckel LMT, Carol Kaiser LMT, Aide Kopito LMT, Mark Pukmel LMT welcome you to experience the healing of mind, body and spirit at Partners in Massage.

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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 and New Paltz. Initial phone consultation no charge.

DANCE Barushka Belly Dance Kingston, NY (917) 232-3623 www.barushkadance.com Stretch, tone & learn fun and sumptuous movements: undulations, shimmies, hip bumps, snake arms & more. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. Take these sassy moves to the dance floor, as a soloist or in a troupe. For more information please go to www.barushkadance. com. Classes are Thursday Evenings, Kingston, NY.

DENTISTRY Philmont Family Dentistry 1078 Route 217, Philmont, NY (518) 672-4077 www.philmontfamilydentistry.com Caring, modern dental practice for year-round and second-home owners in Upper Hudson Valley (Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Albany, Rensselaer, Berkshire). A sophisticated urban practice in a beautiful rural setting, one mile from Taconic Parkway in Philmont.

Restorations (crowns, bridges, veneers, implants), cosmetic dentistry (whitening,

bonding), root canal, extractions, and emergencies. Call for appointment.

The Center For Advanced Dentistry — Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD; Jaime O. Stauss, DMD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com Setting the standard 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.

Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com With over 35 years experience, Tischler Dental is the leading team of dental care experts in the area. Dr. Michael Tischler is currently one of only two Board Certified Implant Dentists in the Hudson Valley Region of NYS and one of only 300 dentists in the world to have achieved this honor. Sedation dentistry, acupuncture with dental treatment, dental implant surgery, cosmetic makeover procedures and gum surgery are just a few of the many unique services Tischler Dental offers. Their practice philosophy is that each modality of dental treatment is performed by the practitioner that is best trained in that area. Working as a team, they deliver ideal dental care.

ENERGY HEALING Nancy Plumer, MS — Energy/ Spiritual Healing & Sacred Ceremony (845) 687-2252 Nancy is an intuitive healer, teacher, and guide. Integrates visualization, breath work and grounding with her hands-on touch to support physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. She has helped people with life-threatening illnesses as well as those who have chosen the path of higher levels of consciousness.

A certified One Light Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner, a long time Kripalu yoga teacher and a gifted intuitive. Offices in New Paltz and Stone Ridge, distance healings or telephone consultations. She also facilitates sacred ceremonies. Call for a consultation.

EQUINE FACILITATED HEALING Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor (845) 339-0589 www.adacitron.com Equisessions® with Ada, a life-long rider, are therapeutically oriented, equine facilitated encounters based on the

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by Linda Kohanov. Riding is involved in later sessions. This year Ada will present an all day pre-conference workshop for Region 1 of NARHA, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, on Chi Kung as a tool for mounted equine facilitated healing work. She will also present, for the second time, her Chi Kung for Horse People at the conference itself.

FITNESS TRAINERS Body Language â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jerome Downey 7 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 224-9173 www.bodylanguage.com Body Language is a personal fitness training studio offering personalized exercise plans, nutritional counseling, education for longevity, diet, correct posture, balance, pain management, stress relief, and healthy solutions for fatigue, chronic back pain, osteoporosis, and arthritis. You deserve a better body.

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES

(845) 255-3337 A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka Facials, Counseling, Restorative Yoga, and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork.

Call for an appointment.

HERBS Earthbound Herbs and Acupuncture

HYPNOSIS Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching 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.

LIFECOACHING Jeanne Asma, LCSWR Psychotherapist & Life Coach (845) 462-1182 www.JeanneAsma.com Certified Life Coach & Psychotherapist.

I specialize in helping people have more satisfaction in all areas of their lives.

Life coaching is a dynamic and exciting process that can help you achieve the life you dream about. Free initial phone consultation. Poughkeepsie area office or phone appointments available.

Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach

Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.

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John M. Carroll, Healer Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 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.

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org Omega Institute is in its fourth decade of awakening the best in the human spirit.

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Madhuri Yoga & Massage Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124 www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com Healingâ&#x20AC;Ś with a twist! A tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offering treatments and products based on ancient Yogic principles. Our signature Renewal Massage is 80 minutes of flowing, intuitive bodywork using organic oils and a personalized aromatherapy blend to bring body, mind & spirit back to balance. Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga for the Special ChildÂŽ, and master-level Reiki; 15 years experience. Gift Certificates available.

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(845) 687-BABY 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.

Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 womanway@gmail.com Since the 1970s Jennifer has been actively involved in childbirth. She is an expert in preserving natural birth and has attended over 3,000 births in hospitals, high-risk medical centers, birth centers, and homes. She is uniquely qualified to provide women with personal, safe, and supportive pregnancy & birth care in their homes. Certified Nurse Midwife & NYS licensed with excellent medical backup.

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Custom Massage therapy for all body types and conditions. Modalities include: Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swedish, Shiatsu. I also offer Aromatherapy massage using the purest grades of essential oils.

Come enjoy a therapeutic touch tailored to your specific needs. Gift Certificates available. Appointment only.

In addition to private sessions, our programs include cooking classes, teaching tangible ways to incorporate nourishing foods into your life. Shopping trips to natural food stores and local farms are part of our work together, as well as telephone classes and retreats. For the most effective and supportive nutrition counseling you will ever experience, call us or visit us online. Long- distance telephone clients welcome.

Graduate of the Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy. Licensed and practicing since 2001. Specializing in Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Swedish and Medical massage. Also available for corporate and event chair massage.

Gift certificates available. Massage by appointment.

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Jill Malden, RD, CSW 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 489-4732 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!

OSTEOPATHY Applied Osteopathy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700 3457 Main St, Stone Ridge, (845) 687-7589 257 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 256-9884 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

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.

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PHYSICIANS Integrated Health Care for Women Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Care Center Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496 Kingston (845) 338-5575 Empowerment through information.

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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.

PILATES Pilates of New Paltz (845) 255-0559 This studio offers caring, experienced, and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities. Each student receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energizing flow of the classical pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accommodate any schedule.

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PSYCHOLOGISTS Peter M. del Rosario, PhD 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (914) 262-8595 Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, 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. Free initial consult.

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PSYCHOLOGY Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt New Paltz, NY (845) 883-9642 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 insurances accepted. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. Free half hour consultation.

PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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Dr. Jemiolo is board certified in Family Practice and certified by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She has 25 years experience in patient care. She offers group sessions in meditation as well as individual treatment of stress-related illness. Sessions are designed to teach self-help tools based on mindfulness based stress reduction, guided imagery, Twelve Steps, Reiki and Qigong. Her individual practice combines traditional medical practice with an integrative approach in an effort to decrease dependency on medication. See display ad page.

Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone.

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Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 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 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.

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Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC. Short term counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy. Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma and dissociative disorders. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens.

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Stuck Overwhelmed Frustrated Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees. Located convenient to Woodstock, Phoenicia and Shandaken.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy.

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 679-5511x304 Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative hurdles.

Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy.

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Tara Star Center (845) 483-9388 Katrina Yahraes, LCSW-R Peace of mind directly correlates with spiritual well-being. Seekers are offered an integrated approach to obtain and utilize spiritual tools to achieve transformation and creative expression in each area of life. Learn to apply spiritual principals to resolve personal and relationship difficulties.

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Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 876-7600 Offering a variety of approaches, both short and long term to help you regain a sense of personal control, meaning, and connections in your life. Specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, abuse, addictions, loss, eating disorders, and relationship/communication difficulties. Serving individuals and couples; adults and adolescents.

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Curriculum includes: Asana instruction, Anatomy, Nutrition for Yoga, Sanskrit, Pre-Natal Yoga, Pranayama, & Yoga Philosophy.

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Discounts for Yoga or Pilates instructors as well as Massage therapists and College students.

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Jeanne Asma, LCSWR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Psychotherapist & Life Coach (845) 462-1182 www.JeanneAsma.com Individual, couples, and group sessions for adults. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues groups now forming. Specializing in relationship issues, improving self-esteem, binge eating and body image, life transitions including divorce and grief issues, trauma, and abuse. Many insurances accepted or sliding scale available. Office located in Poughkeepsie.

Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. (845) 679-7005 www.realizationcenter.com Offering traditional psychotherapy and EMDR for healing from trauma and changing limiting beliefs, breathwork for relieving stress and breathing difficulties, and Realization Process, a body-oriented meditation for deepening contact with oneself and others. For individuals and couples. NY State licensed. Offices in Kingston, Willow, and NYC.

Judy Swallow, MA, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama

The Sanctuary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reiki New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3337x2 Rev. Denise Meyer offers Usui Reiki treatments. Experience the benefits of deep relaxation and energetic releases through this method of healing touch.

Reiki energy supports and heals the mind, body, heart and spirit through the delivery of Light Energy into the energy field of the receiver.

SCHOOLS 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.

SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com There is a Silk Road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa. A place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies.

Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more well-known treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps.

Individually-tailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room and relaxation area... all included with your Spa visit. Day spa appointments available.

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Patricia Lee Rode, M.A. CCC-SLP

The single most important step an individual can take to help save the planet’s precious resources, improve and protect one’s health, and 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 daunting 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.

Integrative Health Care for Women Group Meditation and Individual Treatment Stress-related illness, chronic pain, anxiety/depression, insomnia, phobia, weight and smoking.

Using traditional medical practice, clinical hypnosis, and meditative energy healing.

Kristen Jemiolo, MD American Board of Family Medicine, Diplomate American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Certification Poughkeepsie (845) 485-7168

(646) 729-6633 Speech Language Pathologist with ten years experience providing diagnostic/ therapeutic services for children/adults with speech/language delays and neurological disorders. Specializing in Autistic Spectrum Disorders, PDD, ADHD, Apraxia, memory and language related disorders. Trained in P.R.O.M.P.T., and Hippotherapy. Offer individual therapy and social skills groups. Offices in NYC/ Rhinebeck.

Healing, Pathwork & Channeling

by Flowing Spirit Guidance (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com 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.

TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone. Also see ad.

VEGAN LIFESTYLES Andrew Glick — Vegan Lifestyle Coach (845) 679-7979 www.meatfreezone.org andy@meatfreezone.org

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Satya Yoga Center Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogarhinebeck.com 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.

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The Living Seed 521 Main Street (Rte. 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and post-natal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna and organic Yoga clothing.

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Myth and the Improvisational Moment A workshop for personal growth on the island of Tinos, Greece, using dreams, movement, and art in the context of mythic story. This is a chance to work with rich mythological material on both a personal and transpersonal level in the setting where it arose.

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Dar Williams plays the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling on November 4.

Live, Like a Refugee Dar Williams arrived in 1994 via her Athena-bursting-from-the-head-of-Zeus debut, The Honesty Room, on which she hit the ground running a line strung between unabashed pop melodicism and breathtakingly deep wordplay. From the start it was quite a show, as the Westchester native deftly wove a rich landscape of characters both observed and inhabited, often in the middle of situations rarely essayed by songwriters; in both the captivating darkness and the breezy humor of Williams’s work, folks wrestle with body image, depression, the complications of connection, and—her stock in trade—the web of family. Over the course of eight acclaimed albums, Williams has made the resulting smorgasbord accessible to a steadily growing fan base via an engaging stage presence, a wide-ranging palette of sonic textures, and the chops of an experienced traveling troubadour.

A lucky handful of that fan base can be seen—and heard singing along—on the recently released DVD Live at Bearsville Theater. Shot last spring at the venerable venue, the 16-song set visits every curve of the songwriter’s 13-year career path, including the previously unreleased manifesto “The Easy Way” and a rousing cover of the Grateful Dead chestnut “Ripple.” Solo raconteur Williams greets us in the first half, and, joined by her ace touring and recording band, a refreshingly raw and rockin’ Williams sees us through the second. When we spoke, she’d just listened to the new Radiohead CD, Amnesia (“It kicked my ass!”), in its entirety at an upstate cafe, and she was heading home to download it.

In support of Live at Bearsville Theater, Williams will alight at the Towne Crier in Pawling on November 4 at 8pm. (845) 855-1300; www.townecrier.com.

—Robert Burke Warren In the DVD, you talk about having a “crush” on Woodstock, likening the Bearsville gig to being on a dream date with a soccer player. Had you seen any shows there?

No. I knew it was closely allied with the Bearsville Theater, and everything I’ve done with WDST has been golden. It was a kind of homecoming for me; I lived in Red Hook and I would go over to Woodstock and just walk around and feel it.

I regret my hair [that night]. I meant for it to be as excited as I was, but it was a little taut. It was a little more geisha than I’d hoped for. [Laughs.]

I thought the hair was part of a new chapter in your life; you’re a mom now [Williams has a three-and-a-half year old son] and you’re taking a stand with the Echoes Initiative [Williams’s organization that allows local charities to set up at her gigs].

There’s a shift in your material that’s more socially conscious.

Yes. Still in the music, deeper than ever, but [the hair], may be a little less feral.

The arc of your career has taken place during a massive sea change in how people communicate and how they acquire music. Have you been able to gauge that in your audiences?

I benefited so much from the beginning of the Internet. It was a romantic period where a kid from Omaha could hear Dar Williams on a compilation from Kerrville [Folk Festival] and she could find a chat group; and that person can agitate and find someone in Lincoln and Wichita, and they could get a concert series going at their local cafe. These kids felt heard and understood for the first time. My career had an incredible populist wave.

A lot of things changed after 9/11. There’s a sad cynicism that’s part of the Bush administration that says, “We don’t need the live-music culture, stay home and watch the terror alert.” Even in the Reagan years, there was more of a tendency to get out and be social, certainly with Clinton.

There’s a line in Leonard Cohen’s “Anthem”: “Every heart to love will come / But like a refugee.” When you’re young, you think, “We’ll transform the planet to love.” But then you realize there are so many things that are telling you to stay home and watch TV. There’s a lot to weigh us down now, but I still see people coming out to hear music, almost as refugees. Refugees who have escaped their own living rooms!

Does your band [Mike Visceglia, bass; Ben Butler, guitar; and Steve Holley, drums] have a name?

No. May I suggest The Handsome Men? [Laughs.] Especially when I have my friend Julie, who’s a queer percussionist—no one, however they are oriented, looks at me. But, at the same time, the band is always giving the energy back to me. They are all gold. My song “The Mercy of the Fallen” is somewhat inspired by people like my drummer, Steve Holley [Wings, Elton John, Joe Cocker], who has seen it all.

You wrote a beautiful song about parenthood [“The One Who Knows,” featured in Live at Bearsville Theater] before becoming a parent. Does it feel different to play that now that you are a parent?

It does. I use it to check in and make sure all those things are still true, and they are. I don’t know if I could write that song now. I’m glad I wrote it then, because [parenthood] is so busy, so bureaucratic; it’s like being in a field of flowers instead of being able to pick one flower and look at it and describe how amazing it is.

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Thursday, November 8 10:30 a.m. Discussion with the author 7:00 p.m. Reading by the author, Vanderlyn Hall, Student Lounge Join Francine Prose, author of 12 inventive comic novels and one of America’s sharpest cultural satirists. Prose has been a National Book Award finalist and is currently a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Free.

SUNY ULSTER THEATER PRESENTS

THE FOREIGNER Hilarious American Comedy by Larry Shue November 15,16,17 at 8:00 p.m.

November 18 at 3:00 p.m. Quimby Theater Laugh at this “devilishly clever play” that demonstrates what can happen when a group of Americans must deal with a suspicious foreign stranger who they think knows no English.

For ticket information call 845: 688-1959.

CONCERT

SUNY ULSTER WIND ENSEMBLE Wednesday, November 28 7:30 p.m. Quimby Theater Enjoy a concert of outstanding wind ensemble selections performed by the Ulster County Community College Wind Ensemble under the direction of Victor Izzo, Jr. Free.

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY

ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY: ON THE BRINK

Friday, November 30, 5:00 p.m.

The exhibit opens with a reception from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and runs through December 21. Be inspired by the works of ten artists who are confronting current environmental problems through a variety of visual media. Free.

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Thursday, November 15, 1:00 p.m. Vanderlyn Hall, Student Lounge Three generations of Northeast fiddling hosted by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason along with friends and special guests. Suggested donation $ 8.

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THURSDAY 1

Celebration of the Day of the Dead

CLASSES

THEATER

5pm-6pm. One Book One New Paltz event. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Seeing Color and Light

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

9am-Sunday, November 4, 3pm. Karen O’Neil. $205.

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

ART Tools of the Trade

KIDS

11am-3pm. Small photographic trade show. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Music Together

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Woman of the Duat Call for times. Women’s mysteries retreats. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 338-6418.

Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class

10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location.

(203) 256-1656.

The Trapps

7:30pm. Dusan Tynek Dance Theater. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

8pm. $10. Community Arts Center, Voorheesville.

(518) 765-2815.

Call for times. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

EVENTS

Girlyman 8pm. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Zappa Plays Zappa

Community Yoga Class

8pm. $37.50-$52.50. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Vassar College Choir

Youth Group Retreat Weekend

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

9pm. Dance. Lava Lounge, Monticello.

(914) 794-4100.

Call for times. New York Folk Lore Society Voices of Belief conference and interfaith dialogue. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. (518) 346-7008.

Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-9760.

SUNDAY 4 ART

Mexican Folk Art Exhibit

8:30am. First Presbyterian Church, Wappingers Falls.

297-2800.

Folklore and the Sacred Arts

9am-1pm. 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

The Art of Haiti

Big Kahuna

7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-1162.

Geology of the Shawangunk Mountains

Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291x205.

Dutchess County Parents of Multiples Tag Sale

Learn to Dance

8pm. Presented by the Pawling Theatre Company. $17/$15 students and seniors. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

Call for times. An ancient Celtic fire festival. $5-$15.

Bridgewater Bar and Grill, Kingston. (518) 851-9670.

8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

SPOKEN WORD

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

RiverFire

CLASSES 7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

(917) 232-3623.

4pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.

6pm-9pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz, NY. 255-1559.

Kingston Farmers’ Market

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Sunday Morning Meditation

Fall Family Fiesta

10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

11am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Wine Tasting

CLASSES Euro Dance Classes for Seniors

Life Drawing Sessions

ReadNex Poetry Squad

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Call for times. $7. Holiday Inn, Fishkill. (800) 345-8082.

4pm-7pm. Featuring smaller production, agricultural wines. Partition Street Wine Shop, Saugerties.

(845) 246-7131.

Religions and Politics 12pm. Luncheon lecture series. $14/$12. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7235.

Art Show Benefit Gala

Art Of Henna Workshop

MUSIC

7pm-9pm. An evening of agri-culture- art, food, wine, entertainment. Call for location. 616-7824.

2pm-5pm. Covers history, application and care. $35.

Call for location. 795-4042.

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

THE OUTDOORS Mid-Week Hike

Coffee House 7:30pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Calling All Poets Series

Vampyre Ball 9pm. Gothic and industrial koas. $6. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

KIDS

8pm. Featuring George Wallace & Teresa Marta Costa. $4. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

297-9243.

A Night of Magic

Call for times. Easy to moderate difficulty. Call for location. 677-9909.

SPOKEN WORD

THEATER

Michael’s Surprise Show

Separation & Divorce Support Group

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

6:30pm-8:30pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.

8pm. Presented by the Pawling Theatre Company. $17/$15 students and seniors. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

11am. Puppet show. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Podiatry 101- How a Doctor’s Visit Can Help 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

Caring for Injured and Orphaned Wild Birds 7:45pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, CornwallOn-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Audience members’ stories brought to life by improv troupe. $6. Boughton Place, Highland.

691-4118.

WORKSHOPS THEATER Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Personal stories of audience members are brought to life. $6.00. Boughton Place, Highland.

691-4118.

WORKSHOPS Balkan Dancing 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Roma dancing. $10. Bard Student Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 453-4636.

FRIDAY 2

Entering the Stream: The Light of Anthroposophy in Adult Education

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations 5pm. A retrospective exhibit. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Rituales de la Tierra y del Espiritu: Rituals of the Land and Spirit 6pm-8pm. Photographs by Miguel Gandert. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Home is Where the Art is 6pm-8pm. Works by 11 unique artists. Kiesendahl & Calhoun Contemporary Art, Pleasantville.

(914) 844-6296.

MFA Open Studios 7pm-10pm. Ceramics, metals, painting, printmaking & sculpture. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Call for times. Presented by Pine Bush Cub Scout Pack 37. $12/$9. Circleville Middle School, Circleville.

744-5363.

MUSIC Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance. Lava Lounge, Monticello.

(914) 794-4100.

Uncle Rock U. CD Release Party 11am. $10/$7 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

DANCE UpStream I 2:30pm. Dusan Tynek Dance Theater. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

EVENTS Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Ladies Victorian Tea 1pm-3pm. $25. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon.

831-8172.

Friends of the Rosendale Library High Tea 1pm-3pm. Featuring local author Susan Richards sharing a selection from her book Chosen by a Horse.

Bywater Bistro, Rosendale. 658-3210.

Wine Tasting 3pm-5:30pm. Benefit The Community Playgroup. $40/$45. Waterfall House, Grandview. 359-9174.

Emanuel Ax in Recital Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

KIDS

Call for times. $100. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

The Colorado Quartet

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

3pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425.

Reading the Future: Literacy in the 21st Century

Flames of Discontent

2pm. Puppet theater with The Puppet People. $10/$3 children. Community Arts Center, Voorheesville.

(518) 765-2815.

2pm-Saturday, November 3, 2pm. Led by Dr. Linda Williams. $75. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge.

425-0055.

Sugarloaf Music

Moving On: Divorce Support Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. A group for women who need support through their divorce. Call for location.

679-2235.

6pm. Alternative Books, Kingston. 338-5984.

8pm. Appalachian Uprising Band. $25. The Pavilion at the Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 258-3019.

Borromeo String Quartet 8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

SATURDAY 3 ART Stewards of the Land & Canvas Call for times. Art show and gala. Stoutridge Vineyard, Marlboro. 236-7620.

Fall Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Presented by the Hudson Valley Artisans Guild. Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie.

463-7810.

New Works 3pm-6pm. Experimental Art Collective, Hudson.

(518) 392-9620.

Sculpture by Emily Puthoff 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

MUSIC Shanghai String Quartet Call for times. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

831-4988.

Anne Tormela

8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

2pm. Performing opera favorites. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Mannes College Orchestra

Songs of Weimar

8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

3pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425.

An Evening With the Banjo Masters

The Third Donald M. Pearson Memorial Organ Recital

Corinne West

ART

8pm. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Bill Miller with Steve Kirkman

3pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Clint Black

9pm. $25/$30 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

6pm. Country. $40-$80. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Flash & the Cornbread Brothers

Mexican Guitarist Zaira Meneses and Ana

10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THE OUTDOORS

THE OUTDOORS

Singles and Sociables Hike-High Peters Kill

Singles and Sociables Hike-Zaidee’s Bower

9:30am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

9am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Photographs by Marc Miller

SPOKEN WORD

SPOKEN WORD

CLASSES

5pm-8pm. Donskoj & Company, Kingston. 331-8473.

Legacy Farm Cohousing

Salsa Dance Classes

Works by Claudia Engel

Cool Communities/Living Economies: Building the Creative Green Economy

Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

5pm-8pm. Watercolors of the local Hudson Valley & Rondout area. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

DANCE

Tuning

DNE Fall Weekend

6pm-8pm. Works by Ana Tiscornia. Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson. (518) 697-7907.

Call for times. Dancing, meals, classes. Call for location. 658-8319.

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MUSIC

6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

7pm-8pm. For an introduction to yoga. $5. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

DANCE

Photographs by Laura Gail Tyler

Call for times. Conference with workshops and speakers. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 331-2670.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

Conversation with Miguel Gandert & Enrique Lamadrid 2pm-3pm. One Book One New Paltz event. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

EVENTS

6pm-8pm. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-5090.

Mother-Daughter Challenge Weekend

Windows

Shock, After Shock, Dealing with the Challenge of Cancer

Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291x205.

6pm-9pm. Group exhibition. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston. 549-8088.

5pm-8pm. With author Puja Thomson. Alternative Books, Kingston. 338-5984.

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12:30pm-4pm. Information session. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 943-9005.

Discusion Del Libro 2pm-3:30pm. Bendiceme, Ultima en Espanol. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Book Party to Celebrate Rafting into the Afterlife 3pm. With author Mikhail Horowitz. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

THEATER Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 3pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Veteran filmmaker Tobe Carey is perhaps best known for his documentary Deep Water, a clear-eyed but lyrically plaintive indictment of the human toll exacted by the 1914 construction of the Ashokan Reservoir, which is located near his Glenford home. Through his production company, Willow Mixed Media, Carey usually chases down a subject to amplify it cinematically. But for his latest film, Stanley’s House, which screens at The Arts Society of Kingston on November 14, the material clearly found him.

Call it beshert (Hebrew for “destiny”), but the facts are these: In 2003, a friend sent Carey a New Yorker article about the metropolitan water supply. Carey began skimming an adjoining profile of former United States Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, noting that the acclaimed man of letters had been raised, like himself, in Worcester, Massachusetts; specifically, in a 1918 triple-decker at 4 Woodford Street. The filmmaker’s heart leaped: He and Kunitz had shared a home, three decades apart.

“It was all a revelation to me,” Carey says. The information nagged at him for a year, prompting bittersweet memories of a rambunctious childhood in a longdisappeared Jewish neighborhood. Carey finally telephoned Kunitz to discuss his vision for a film about the old neighborhood. Extremely frail in his 99th year, Kunitz listened quietly. When he did speak, Carey recalled, his speech was halting and he repeated himself at times. “But he encouraged me to go ahead,” he said, “so I started researching.”

Stanley’s House is more than an exploration of parallel lives lived in the same house. Shooting in digital video, Carey has created a heartfelt meditation on how place forms the sensibility of an artist.

Carey encountered great resonance and recognition as he delved into the poet’s Worcester life and the verses they inspired, whether Kunitz had immortalized the local nickelodeon movie house, the ballpark, or the nearby Worcester Academy. “I was surprised by the common experience that I felt through some of his poems,” he recalls.

“Even though by the time I lived there, the neighborhood had changed greatly.”

Extensive footage of Kunitz—who died in 2006 at 100—captures the grayhaired sage in large glasses at public readings, looking like a small, wise turtle.

Carey creates montages of vintage images to illustrate these readings, ultimately exhuming a lost world through photographs, postcards, and home movies. In addition to his own voiceover memories, Carey enlists his relatives, a Kunitz scholar, and the couple who bought the house in 1979 and lifted linoleum and layers of paint to restore its original look. (It was this reborn house that Kunitz visited in 1997 during a tearful moment included here.)

While unabashedly sentimental, Stanley’s House is also harrowing. As Carey delved into Kunitz’s life, he unearthed several heartaches, chiefly the suicide of the poet’s father, Solomon, six months before Kunitz was born. The man’s palpable absence, and the mother’s lifelong refusal to discuss him, haunt several of Kunitz’s verses. Carey was puzzled, however, to find a surfeit of biographical information about Kunitz’s sisters. The poet claimed they both died young, and elegized them in a poem, but there is no evidence of the women in his collected papers at Princeton University. “The main unknown for me in this story,” Carey says, “is what really happened to his sisters.”

Stanley’s House screens at The Arts Society of Kingston on Wednesday, November 14, at 7pm. Admission $5. (845) 338-0331; www.askforarts.org.

—Jay Blotcher

WORKSHOPS

SPOKEN WORD

Portrait Photography Workshop

Mind Matters

2pm-4pm. With Val Shaff. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7223.

Affording College 6:30pm-8:30pm. Scholarships. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (800) 724-0833x5058.

MONDAY 5

Community Book Discussion 3pm-4:30pm. Bless Me, Ultima. The Village Tea Room, New Paltz. 255-3434.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Historical Archaeology of Palatines in the MidHudson Valley

Spirit Readings with a Psychic Medium

7pm. Christopher Lindner. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 752-2345.

Call for times. Receive messages from spirit guides. $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Breast Cancer Support Group 1pm-2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 339-4673.

WORKSHOPS Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75/$15 per session. Call for location. 679-8256.

CLASSES

WEDNESDAY 7

Swing Dance Class Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Capoeira Angola

Qigong

Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100/ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 8 to adult. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

CLASSES Capoeira Angola Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

EVENTS Northeast Center for Special Care Performers 7pm-9pm. Poets, musicians and artists. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

DANCE

KIDS

5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Movement & Music 10am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

Music Discovery 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

MUSIC Czechmates 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

SPOKEN WORD The Emerging Market of European Literature 6pm. Joseph Luzzi. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 752-2345.

Modern Dance

EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

FILM Like Water for Chocolate 7pm. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-4100.

KIDS Read with Joe Call for times. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

Community Book Discussion 10am-11:30am. Bless Me, Ultima. La Ninnola, New Paltz. 255-6000.

Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

Sudbury School Information Meeting 12pm-1pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.

MUSIC

THEATER

Music Alive!

La Cosecha / The Harvest

7:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7196.

7pm. Presented by Arm of the Sea. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-4100.

TUESDAY 6

SPOKEN WORD Hip and Knee Replacement: 2008

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

Adult Book Discussion

11am-12:30pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz.

339-4673.

7pm-9pm. Water for Elephants. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Tuesday Meditation

Elder Law and the Need for Advanced Directives

6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

7pm. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Breast Cancer Support Group 6:30pm-7:30pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville.

(518) 678-3357.

Dharma Gatherings 7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

WORKSHOPS Knitting 4:30pm-5:30pm. Lead by knitting teacher Theresa Kirby. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Lucky You

CLASSES An Appreciation for Your Hometown Eateries Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner. $119. Call for location.

339-2025.

6pm-9pm. A practical guide for bringing more good fortune into your life. $79. Institute for Human Development, Kingston. 339-6250.

THURSDAY 8

West Coast Swing Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

ART

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

4pm-8pm. Students can have portfolios reviewed by art schools. Henry J. Wallace Center, Hyde Park.

471-7477.

EVENTS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Roller Skating Lock-in

Tai Chi Chuan Classes

8:30pm. Overnight event for Girl Scouts. Skate Time 209, Accord. 626-7971.

THE OUTDOORS Nature Strollers 9:30am. Hike for families with young children.

Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506x204.

Regional Portfolio Day

Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

Reuse Read Chronogram then share it with a friend.

Reference Chronogram to ďŹ nd local businesses.

Recycle this magazine.

Community Yoga Class 7pm-8pm. For an introduction to yoga. $5. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

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My Numbness is Gone.

After I gave birth, my numbness was so bad I could barely change my newborn due to my carpal tunnel syndrome. Dr. Ness released the nerves from the muscles in my neck to my hands using Active Release Techniques, and within a few weeks, I was 90% better.

Christina Bark-New Paltz, NY

Transform Your Life

THEATER

7pm. Western Buddhist nun Gen-la Dekyong. Borders Books and Music, Middletown. 856-9000.

Harvey

CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

(917) 232-3623.

7:30pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

I Love My Wife 8pm. Takes a humorous look at romance, love and marriage, presented by Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Learn to Dance 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-1162.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

WORKSHOPS Visual Thinking Strategies 10am-1pm. Elementary school teachers. $30/$25.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

437-5632.

SATURDAY 10

EVENTS Exclusive Dinner Event

ART

Call for times. Taittinger’s Comtes de Champagne and a 6-course menu. $350. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-7900.

Kindred Spirits

MUSIC

Buone Feste

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

SPOKEN WORD Israeli Author Michal Govrin 7pm. On her novel Snapshots. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7110.

WORKSHOPS Getting Started in Freelance Writing Call for times. Lead by Erica Manfred. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Operation Stress Relief 1pm-2:30pm. A support group for military families who have a loved one deployed or about to be deployed.

Call for location. 339-9090x115.

CLASSES

plans and nutritional counseling

t Providing education for longevity, diet, correct posture, balance, pain management, stress relief, fatigue, chronic back pain, osteoporosis and arthritis.

7 Grand Street, Kingston NY Midtown (Across from the YMCA)

w www.bodylanguageny.com e jdowney@bodylanguageny.com

Big Pictures 6pm-9pm. Large scale color digital panoramic photographs. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.

Holiday in the Mountains

1:30pm-4pm. Presentation, visit, and portfolio review.

Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

CLASSES Autumn Weekend Cooking Classes Call for times. $140. Le Chambord, Hopewell Junction.

221-1941.

Still Life Painting in Oil

DANCE

EVENTS Girl Scout Adventure Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291x205.

FILM Mi Familia 7pm. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-4100.

KIDS 10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location.

(203) 256-1656.

MUSIC Women of Reggae Downbeat Sessions Call for times. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Back of the Moon 8pm. Music of Scotland. $7. Community Arts Center, Voorheesville. (518) 765-2815.

Popa Cubby Band 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

SPOKEN WORD ReadNex Poetry Squad Call for times. $7. El Coqui, Kingston. 340-1106.

Community Book Discussion 1pm-2:30pm. Bless Me, Ultima. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima: Chicanismo Magico

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5pm-8pm. Paintings of local farms and restaurants.

Wallkill River Art Gallery, New Windsor. 689-0613.

Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

8pm-10pm. Live jazz by John Esposito, tribal fusion belly dance by Barushka, and spoken word by Phillip Levine. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. www.muddycup.com.

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9am-Monday, November 12, 4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Café Chronogram

72 VINEYARD | HIGHLAND 845.691.2547 | www.HVSMassageTherapy.com

5pm-7pm. Works by Dulce Pinzon. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Salsa Dance Classes

Music Together

p 845.224.9173

The Real Story of Superheroes

Presentation: Columbus College of Art and Design

Call for times. The Bakery, New Paltz. 255-8840.

t Offering personalized exercise

5pm-7pm. Small artworks in all media for sale. Greene County Council on the Arts Catskills Gallery, Catskill.

(518) 943-3400.

7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Roma dancing. $10. Bard Student Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 453-4636.

Bless Me, Ultima Children’s Art Exhibit

Sports Medicine Certified

Salon 2007

Call for times. Craft exhibition and sale. GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham. (518) 734-3104.

ART

101 ways to exercise @

4pm-7pm. Holiday group show. Riverwinds, Beacon.

838-2880.

Balkan Dancing

FRIDAY 9

t Three times National Academy of

1pm-3pm. Watercolors by artists Pat Morgan and Janet Campbell. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville.

647-1497.

Contradance with Live Music 8pm. $10/$9 members/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Dance Folklorisimo 8pm. Music & dances of Georgia, Argentina & Spain. $25/ $18 for seniors, students & children. Paramount Theater, Middletown. 346-4195.

EVENTS Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Hudson Valley Doll Artists’ Guild Holiday Show and Sale 12pm-6pm. Robert Hite Studio, Esopus. 616-3414.

Sip and Sign 12pm-5pm. Holiday book signing with 25 authors.

Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook.

(800) 662-9463.

Wine Tasting 4pm-7pm. Featuring smaller production, agricultural wines. Partition Street Wine Shop, Saugerties.

(845) 246- 7371.

FILM The Opposite Sex: Rene’s Story 8pm. A Salute to Lincoln Center’s Latin Beat. $10/$7.50 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

KIDS Grace the Irish Pirate 11am. Experience the high sea adventure with Irish jigs, folktales and sea chanties. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

7pm. The Big Read Keynote Address by Dr. Margarite Fernandez Olmos. State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3727.

Flames of Discontent

Rumi Night

An Evening with Geoff Muldaur

7pm-9pm. World Poetry Cafe. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

8pm. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

8pm. Alternative protest music. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

MUSIC YOUSSOU N'DOUR IMAGE PROVIDED

Youssou N’Dour will play UPAC in Kingston on November 18.

N'Dour on Tour In the last 20 years, world music has carved out a substantial, if broadly defined niche in the American music market. The term has become as ubiquitous as adultoriented rock or some other such catchphrase.

That this is the case is due in no small part to the Senegalese vocalist Youssou N’Dour. If James Brown was the hardest-working man in show business, N’Dour has certainly given the Godfather of Soul a run for his money. With more than 25 albums to his credit, as well as countless guest appearances on other artists’ platters, the 48-year-old has reached levels of popularity that would be the envy of many recording musicians.

On November 18, N’Dour’s train makes a stop in Kingston with a performance at the UPAC. Popular music in Senegal has its roots in mbalax, a blend of the country’s traditional percussion and praise singing that combined with Afro-Cuban arrangements. This mix was updated with a dash of Senegalese dance rhythms, guitar and saxophone solos, and talking drum soliloquies.

Played by a generation of musicians steeped in the American rock and soul styles of Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, James Brown, and others, mbalax is both celebratory and raucously funky. The melting pot of the cosmopolitan capital of Dakar has served as the crucible for this music, and N’Dour has been at the forefront of introducing mbalax as a worldwide phenomenon as a bandleader, composer, and performer. He burst into the Western limelight through several high-profile guest appearances on records by Peter Gabriel, most notably their duet on the hit single “In Your Eyes.” The song was a watershed moment in world pop fusion.

N’Dour’s own band, the Super Etoile, certainly had hardscrabble beginnings, performing pirate gigs outside of Dakar’s nightclubs and relying on the benevolence of the Senegalese taxi drivers' fraternal association in France and a small group of supporters in England in order to launch its international career.

N’Dour’s distinctive tenor lends itself to storytelling, buttressed by his four-octave range. N’Dour increased his worldwide prominence through his involvement in the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour, on which he performed alongside such artists as Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, and Peter Gabriel. In 1988, he performed at Wembley Stadium at a birthday party concert for South African President Nelson Mandela.

Although N’Dour and the Super Etoile have spent the best part of two decades perfecting their distinctive blend of world-music crossover, his more recent work seems to be veering closer to the traditional sounds of West Africa.

On Egypt (Nonesuch, 2004), N’Dour delves more deeply into traditional Sufi spiritual music, employing the Fathy Salama Orchestra, a 14-piece traditional ensemble. In interviews, N’Dour has said that the music on Egypt expresses the tolerance inherent in Islam. When the record was released, N’Dour stated that “our religion has nothing to do with violence, terrorism.” Egypt won N’Dour a Grammy and further cemented his spot in the pantheon of world music performers.

Youssou N’Dour will perform at the UPAC on November 18 at 7pm. (845) 3396088; www.upac.org.

—Jeremy Schwartz

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Day visits Nature paths Bookstore C a f e Meditation Retreats E v e r y o n e We l c o m e !

Resident Teacher & Buddhist Nun Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong

Kadampa Meditation Center New York 47 Sweeney Rd., Glen Spey, NY 12737 845.856.9000 www.kadampanewyork.org

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MUSIC

Historical Archaeology of Palatines in the MidHudson Valley

Vassar College Music Colloquium 4:30pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

7pm. Christopher Lindner. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 752-2345.

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves

Book Discussion with Academic Panel

8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

11:30am-1pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2121.

Mind Matters

SPOKEN WORD

12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7223.

Separation & Divorce Support Group

Contemporary Masters: Pamuk and Tabucchi

6:30pm-8:30pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.

Community Book Discussion

7pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7439.

4pm-5:30pm. Bless me, Ultima. Mudd Puddle Cafe, New Paltz. 255-3436.

Contemporary Masters

A Fall Evening of Poetry

7pm. Lecture by Orhan Pamuk. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7439.

The Media and the Marketplace

7pm. Poetry in several languages by area poets and readers of poetry. Morrison Hall Mansion Music Room, Middletown. 341-4891.

7:15pm. With author Trudy Lieberman. SUNY Orange, Middletown. 341-4891.

THEATER

WEDNESDAY 14

The Foreigner 8pm. Larry Shue’s comedy. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT WORKSHOPS

Qigong Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

HANDLE WITH CARE

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Glassworks Group Exhibition Through December 29, 2007

CLASSES

Pairing Women, Business and Wine 5:30pm-7:30pm. $45. Umberto’s, Poughkeepsie.

226-8047.

Balkan Dancing 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Roma dancing. $10. Bard Student Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 453-4636.

FRIDAY 16

Capoeira Angola Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

Glen Abels | Suzan Etkin Brenden Fitzgerald | Nick London | Jill Reynolds Michiko Sakano | Daniel Spitzer

CLASSES DANCE

Salsa Dance Classes

Artist’s Reception: Saturday, November 17 6-9 pm

Modern Dance

Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Ann Street Gallery

5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

845.562.6940 x119 104 Ann St., Newburgh, NY Thur. – Sat. 11am – 5pm www.annstreetgallery.org

DANCE Zydeco Dance with Jesse Lege

EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Photo Credits:

ARTIST: Glen Abel TITLE: Kaleidoscopic Vision MEDIA: Fused & plate glass with granite base

Free Lesson at 7. Dance from 8-11pm. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. $12. 255-7061.

KIDS Music Together

5pm-7pm. Presented by the Ulster Chamber of Commerce. Citizen’s Bank, Kingston. 338-6200.

10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location. (203) 256-1656.

FILM

MUSIC

Stanley’s House

Sundad

5pm. With producer Toby Carey. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

7:30pm. World music. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Funtime Film Festival

Vassar College Women’s Chorus

10pm. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.

8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Business After Hours Membership Mixer

Patrick Street

SPOKEN WORD New Treatments for the Spine 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

A.S.K. About Writing

Woodstock MusicWork Concert 9pm. Featuring Bret Mosley, Michael Eck, Sophia Wortzel. $10. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

7pm. Tobe Carey. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

THE OUTDOORS

Community Book Discussion

Mid-Week Hike

8pm-9:30pm. Bless me, Ultima. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Call for times. Easy to moderate difficulty. Call for location. 677-9909.

WORKSHOPS

SPOKEN WORD

Knitting

ReadNex Poetry Squad

4:30pm-5:30pm. Lead by knitting teacher Theresa Kirby. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

THURSDAY 15 france-menk.com

8pm. Irish folk music. $15-$30. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559.

limited editions BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Call for times. $7. Holiday Inn, Fishkill. (800) 345-8082.

Community Book Discussion 3pm-4:30pm. Bless me, Ultima. 60 Main, New Paltz.

255-1901.

Educator’s Forum 6pm. Things That Set a Portfolio Apart. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THEATER

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

8pm. Larry Shue’s comedy. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Community Yoga Class

Harvey

The Foreigner

7pm-8pm. For an introduction to yoga. $5. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

8pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

CLASSES

WORKSHOPS

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

Moving On: Divorce Support Group

7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

(917) 232-3623.

6:30pm-8:30pm. A group for women who need support through their divorce. Call for location.

679-2235.

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7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-1162.

ART

Life Drawing Sessions

Critical Mass

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

6pm-9pm. Works by Frank Faulkner. Terenchin Fine Art, Catskill. (518) 945-1808.

5pm-8pm. New paintings by Crenson, archival photographs by the famous Warhol-era Name. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522.

WORKSHOPS Workshop for Historical and Cultural Group 9:30am-11am. Development and networking resources. Vintage Village, Highland. 691-6000.

CLASSES

SUNDAY 18

Reiki I and II Certification 10am-5pm. Call for location. 336-4609.

DANCE UpStream II 7:30pm. NOA Dance. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

EVENTS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sunday Morning Meditation 10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

CLASSES Reiki I and II Certification

Thanksgiving Dinner Dance

10am-5pm. Call for location. 336-4609.

Call for times. Featuring music by Thunder Ridge.

Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge, Poughkeepsie. 489-5327.

Euro Dance Classes for Seniors

Free Public Tour of Proctors 10am-12pm. Meet outside the doors to The Arcade.

Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Dutchess County Arts Council’s 15th Annual Fine Art & Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. $5/$4 students and seniors.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222.

1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

DANCE UpStream II 2:30pm. NOA Dance. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Wine Tasting

EVENTS

4pm-7pm. Featuring smaller production, agricultural wines. Partition Street Wine Shop, Saugerties.

(845) 246-7371.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market

Metro Textural Quilting Exhibition

International Wine and Epicurean Arts Festival

21 new works by members of the Manhattan Quilters Guild. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-7900.

ThanksLiving Fundraiser

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

12pm-5pm. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 431-8707.

KIDS

1pm. Food, comedy, music, animal rights speakers. $75/$45 students and teens/$25 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Super Saturdays for Kids

Auction of Folk Music Memorabilia

10:30am. Featuring Bruce Lowder’s Animal Encounters. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

2pm-6pm. Fundraiser for the Heritage Music Foundation. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 338-8587.

Rumpelstiltskin 11am. Presented by Kids on Stage. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC

Sudbury School Information Meeting

Soovin Kim and Jeremy Denk

7pm-9pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston.

679-1002.

MUSIC The Visitors Call for times. The history, music and songs of the Adirondacks. $20. Community Arts Center, Voorheesville. (518) 765-2815.

Senior Recital 1:30pm. Vince Vincent. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Hurley Mountain Highway 7:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Czechmates 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Flames of Discontent 8pm. Alternative protest music. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. contact@muddycup.com.

Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

The Putnam Chorale 8pm. Two Cantatas by J.S. Bach. First United Methodist Church, Brewster.

Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Steve Forbert 9pm. $30/$35 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Long Neck Band 9:30pm. Country, southern rock. Junior’s Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-9237.

The Screws 10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

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Call for times. Violin and piano. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

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Take home Aveda gift sets, and gift cards for salon/spa services.

Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition 10am. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7196.

Duo Piano Arianna Goldina & Remy Loumbrozo

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2:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Laurel Masse Concert 3pm. Presented by Saugerties Pro Muscia. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.

The Putnam Chorale 3pm. Two Cantatas by J.S. Bach. First United Methodist Church, Cold Spring.

Two Cantatas by J.S. Bach 3pm. Presented by the Putnam Chorale. United Methodist Church, Cold Spring. 279-7265.

Vassar College & Community Wind Ensemble 3pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Ariel String Quartet 4pm. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.

Atlantic Brass Quintet 4pm. Works by Gabrielli, Monteverdi and J.S. Bach. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

Youssou N’Dour 7pm. World. $32.50/$27.50 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Youssou N’Dour 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike-Awosting Falls 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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Israel, Real & Imagined 11am. Woodstock Synagogue, Woodstock. 338-8131.

11am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

WORKSHOPS SPOKEN WORD

Introduction to Piano Tuning

James Gurney

12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Call for times. Author of Dinotopia. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

Portrait Photography Workshop

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club

2pm-4pm. With Val Shaff. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

MONDAY 19

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 8pm. Comedy, performance poetry. $18/$14 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Swing Dance Class

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Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

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8pm. Larry Shue’s comedy. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

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ART HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL COURTESY PUTNAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Crow’s Nest from Bull Hill, Victor de Grailly (1804-1889), oil on canvas, 24 x 29; part of “This Perfect River-View,” exhibited at the Putnam County Historical Society in Cold Spring through November 25.

Hidden Views In Edmund C. Coates’s Lighthouse, near Caldwell’s Landing, gentle hills rise like green breasts above two full-bellied sailboats. The Victorians had an erotic love of landscape. “This Perfect River-View: The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands,” now on view at the Putnam County Historical Society in Cold Spring, collects 43 lush paintings of the Hudson River.

Acting as art-detectives, curator Trudie A. Grace and her assistants found paintings and etchings hidden in private homes throughout the Highlands. Art dealers and antique store owners were their informants, and collectors knew other collectors. One anonymous couple, who have lived in the area for 37 years, lent 18 pieces from their collection.

The Highlands is a 15-mile stretch of the Hudson, from Peekskill Bay to Newburgh Bay. In the gallery, the images are arranged from the Southern Gateway to the Northern Gateway of the Highlands.

“When you look at the actual photographs from the late 19th century, you can see that the artists really emphasized nature’s beauty,” says Grace. “The drama is greatly exaggerated between the mountains and the river. They change the shapes of mountains, so that they’re much more peaked, much sharper, or sometimes more rhythmic in their movement, one behind the other.”

Also, the painters erased signs of human progress: the ferry landing at Garrison, the West Point Foundry, and the railroad along the shoreline. “One writer even notes that there was advertising painted on some of the rocky precipices of the Highlands, advertising all sorts of liquor and tobacco sold in New York,” Grace notes. These early billboards, of course, do not appear in these idyllic artworks.

Tourism, in the sense we now understand it, was just beginning. By 1840, over

100 steamboats traveled the Hudson. The Highlands, just 40 miles north of New York City, were an exotic destination, where steep mountains met the twisting river. Before America had produced great cities and industrial marvels, Americans were proud of the land itself.

West Point was a kind of 19th-century theme park. Tourists stayed at a hotel on the United States Military Academy grounds. In fact, the “perfect river view” is from West Point, facing north, according to Edward Livermore Burlingame in the book Picturesque America (1874).

Because the Hudson winds in the Highlands, the river sometimes appears like an elongated lake in these canvases. The poet William Cullen Bryant wrote of the area around Anthony’s Nose, “The good Hendrick Hudson, as he approaches it, thought for a time that his progress was finally brought to a close, and that the arm of the sea, of which he imagined that he was sailing, had ended here among the hills.”

By the 1860s, the Impressionists in France were bringing their easels outdoors, but Americans still painted in studios. Many of the artists in this show based their works on steel engravings, especially those from the two-volume set American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature (1840). Of course, the engravings lacked color, which the painters supplied, sometimes fancifully. The excellent catalog for this show compares the paintings with engravings, and also with photographs of the Hudson.

“This Perfect River-View” will remain at the Putnam County Historical Society in Cold Spring through November 25. (845) 265-4010; www.pchs-fsm.org.

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Clockwise from top: Caballeros y vaqueros: Horse men and cow boys, Alberquerque, NM, 1983; Campo santo: Holy ground, Valle de San Augustin, NM, 2006; Tres Generacions cantando: Grandfather’s song; Ranchos de Taos, NM, 1997

Visions of the Rio Grande New Mexican photographer Miguel Gandert’s “Rituales de la Tierra y del Espiritu— Rituals of the Land and Spirit” comes to the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art this month.

Gandert’s black and white images document the spiritual and secular rituals of Indo-Hispanic peoples living in the Rio Grande Valley. Whether it’s Comanche dancers in Talpa, New Mexico or a woman in Juarez, Mexico with a tattoo of La Virgen de Guadalupe running the length of her back, Gandert observes them with the same reverence, from anecdotal portraits to ornate ceremonial compositions.

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National Endowment for the Arts designed to stimulate reading in communities across the country.

A Day of the Dead-themed opening reception for “Rituales de la Tierra y del Espiritu—Rituals of the Land and Spirit” will take place on November 2 from 6 to 8pm.

Miguel Gandert will speak at McKenna Theater on November 3 at 2pm. Noted Anaya scholar Enrique Lamadrid will join Gandert in discussing his work and the book Bless Me, Ultima. The show runs until December 6. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz. (845) 257-3844; www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

—Francis Cruz

An Evening with Graham Parker

THE OUTDOORS

8pm. Venerable rocker in solo acoustic show. Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Giants Workshop

Vassar Mahagonny Ensemble

10am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Sloan Wainwright Band

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9pm. $20/$25 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Pam Munoz Ryan: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paint the Windâ&#x20AC;?

Thunder Ridge

1pm. Oblong Books & Music, Millerton.

(518) 789-3797.

9pm. Country. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston.

338-2424.

The Climate Project

The Backburners

2pm-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

Retrieving James: Problems, Prospects, and Proposals

THE OUTDOORS

3:30pm. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. 758-7235.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Millbrook 10am-2:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Historical Archaeology of Palatines in the MidHudson Valley 7pm. Christopher Lindner. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 752-2345.

DiscusiĂłn del Libro 4pm-5:30pm. Bendiceme, Ultima en Espanol. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Wisdom from the Earth 4pm-6pm. How Can Native American Models Help Us? $10/$5 students and seniors. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club

THEATER

10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

Harvey

Reading by Ledig House Writers Residency Program 5pm-7pm. Hudson Wine Merch, Hudson.

(518) 828-6411.

Call for times. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

WORKSHOPS Life Drawing Workshop

THEATER The Skin of Our Shorts Call for times. 10th annual 10-minute play festival. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-9760.

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5:30pm-7:30am. Shuster Studio, Hudson. (518) 8280188.

Portrait Photography Workshop 2pm-4pm. With Val Shaff. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Call for times. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

MONDAY 12

Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

CLASSES

Peter Pan 3pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Echoes of Ultima

Swing Dance Class Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

8pm. Hudson River Playback Theater. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2121.

Capoeira Angola

WORKSHOPS

People Are Singing

Craft Studio Felting Workshop: Scarves

5pm-6:30pm. Ages 8 to adult. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

Call for times. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge.

425-0055.

Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

KIDS

Lucky You 9am-12pm. A practical guide for bringing more good fortune into your life. $79. Institute for Human Development, Kingston. 339-6250.

Movement & Music

Life Drawing Workshop

Music Discovery

10am-5:30pm. Shuster Studio, Hudson.

(518) 828-0188.

4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

SUNDAY 11 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sunday Morning Meditation 10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Food As Medicine: A Macrobiotic Approach to Healing 2pm-4pm. Lecture and sample Macrobiotic meal. $10.

Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 334-3077.

CLASSES

10am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

SPOKEN WORD The Emerging Market of European Literature 6pm. Joseph Luzzi. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 752-2345.

What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason 4:30pm. From Sentimentalism to Romanticism: 18th-Century Theater. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

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WORKSHOPS Life Drawing Workshop

EVENTS

5:30pm-7:30am. Shuster Studio, Hudson.

(518) 828-0188.

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12pm-6pm. Robert Hite Studio, Esopus. 616-3414.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Unison Benefit Auction 1pm. Locust Tree Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-7888.

MUSIC Garage Rumble 3pm-8pm. Teen band battle. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Vassar College Madrigal Singers 3pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tuesday Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Dharma Gatherings 7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

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Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

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7:30pm. Anna Cheek & Kyle Esposito. Acoustic. Gloria Dei Episcopal Church, Palenville.

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Todd Mack 7pm. Acoustic. Gloria Dei Episcopal Church, Palenville. (518) 678-5536.

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Artistic pieces as diverse as dramatic fragments by a Pulitzer-winning playwright and a deadpan documentary about a ragtag local flea market and its colorful denizens comprise a new program for students at Poughkeepsie High School this month. In addition to working behind the scenes on the play, students will have an opportunity to discuss the work in class. And best of all, the provocateurs of this journey into self-expression are former area residents returning to share their visions.

Under the banner â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Break from the Constantâ&#x20AC;? this refreshingly bold arts-in-theschools initiative will take place November 1st through the 4th. It was conceived

by Dwayne Mann, a graduate of John Jay High School in Wappingers Falls and his partner Mary Rocco. In an era when afterschool programs are systematically dismantled by budgetary cutbacks, Mann and Rocco offer something unsettlingly different: four days of free theater and film. Cosponsors include the City of Poughkeepsie Police Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Juvenile Division and Youth Empowerment Project and The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Media Project, suggesting nothing less than a theatrical lifeline to youth in crisis.

Mann and Rocco, who have staged plays in Manhattan at the fearless Dixon Place, created their arts collective Keitrik Productionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nonsensical word,â&#x20AC;?

Mann admitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in 2004. Pressed to declare the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manifesto, Mann says they mount pieces that â&#x20AC;&#x153;explore identityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;identity that is ascribed from outside sourcesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as self-labeling. Then we try to blur those lines and mess with it as much as possible.â&#x20AC;?

Accordingly, the first part of this four-day program is an adaptation of the ambitious play cycle â&#x20AC;&#x153;365 Days/365 Plays.â&#x20AC;? The playwright is Suzan-Lori Parks, whose fiery, brash yet deeply humanistic works explore racism in America and the struggle for personal identity. (Her â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top Dog/Underdogâ&#x20AC;? brought her the 2002 Pulitzer.) Parks created a total of 365 plays which, launched in November 2006, will ultimately be performed by more than 600 theaters across America by November 12. Keitrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actors will tackle the seven pieces that comprise Week 51.

The second part of the program is a screening of Fish Kill Flea, about the rise and fall of the Dutchess Mall in Fishkill, once a shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mecca, and the scrappy flea market that grew from its ruins and now faces destruction. The hour-long meditation on the downside of urban renewal was directed by Brian Cassidy, Jennifer Loeber, and Aaron Hillis, all former residents of Dutchess County.

Now making the rounds of film festivals internationally, Fish Kill Flea was shot over a period of two years by the trio, who traveled up from Brooklyn every weekend.

Their persistence paid off; the tight-knit group of misfit vendors, selling everything from Star Wars dolls to Nazi memorabilia, came to trust their chroniclers. The film is full of confessional moments, and constitutes an elegy on a society hellbent on junking its heritage for the next big thing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;365 Days/365 Playsâ&#x20AC;? will be performed at Poughkeepsie High School, 70 Forbus St., Poughkeepsie. November 1, 2, 3 at 8pm and November 4 at 3pm. Fish Kill Flea screened November 3 at Poughkeepsie High School at 11am, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. Flea will be screened again November 4 at 7pm at Vassar Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rockefeller Hall. Free admission to all events.

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Yosvany Terry and the Ye-dé-gbé Project perform two area shows this month.

From Dahomey to Da Bronx In the West African Fon language, Ye-dé-gbé means with the approval of all the major forces. Cuban-born composer and saxophonist Yosvany Terry chose Ye-dé-gbé as the name of his latest jazz ensemble project which tangles the influences of the Afro-Caribbean Arará culture with the American jazz form.

The Arará traditions, originating in Dahomey (now Benin), have been carried down and disseminated by the West African diaspora in the Caribbean and the Americas.

Terry’s personal journey traversing his cultural and musical mosaic began in Camaguey, Cuba. His father, Eladio “Don Pancho” Terry, a violinist and leading chekeré player, was his first music instructor. Terry received his classical training at National School of Art and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory. Terry’s grandmother, Basilia Leon Charles, a Haitian who can trace her roots back to Dahomey, provided him his link to the Arará culture, including the rituals of the Vodou religion. Terry and his family are devout practitioners.

Terry is eager to share his music and heritage with communities that don’t commonly experience work like it. “It would be customary to see something like this in New York City, and even so downtown. That’s why I was interested in bringing it to the Bronx and Upstate to Ulster County. They are not so often exposed to projects that involve the legacies of a culture that came to the Caribbean more than 600 years ago,” said Terry.

The composition debuted on September 15 in Manhattan’s Central Park, and the Ye-dé-gbé Project followed up with performances at two Bronx high schools.

Following the Ulster County presentations the ensemble will record the work and it will be available for download on the project web site.

Terry’s New York performances are a project of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and the ensemble is supported by New York State Music Fund, established with the payola settlement money collected from Eliot Spitzer’s investigations into pay-to-play radio while attorney general. The fund was created specifically to expose New York State residents to diverse artists and non “radio-friendly” musical styles like Terry’s Ye-dé-gbé Project. The Center for Creative Education and Ulster County BOCES arranged the local performances and the two-hour masters jazz classes open to middle and high school students, instructed by the visiting musicians.

Terry will be accompanied by Cuban and West African artists living in New York, including Abou Disarrassouba (percussion), Mawuena Kodjovi (guitar), Pedro Martinez (percussion), Osmany Paredes (piano), Ernesto Simpson (drums), and Yunior Terry (bass).

“My inspiration for music comes from everywhere,” says Terry. “I could be inspired from going to an art exhibition, by going to a movie, reading a book, doing research on a specific culture, which is the case with the commission, by traveling, by going out in nature. The inspiration is just endless.”

Yosvany Terry and the Ye-dé-gbé Project will perform at Bailey Middle School in Kingston on November 9 at 8pm and the Center for Creative Education in Stone Ridge on November 10 at 8pm. (845) 687-8890; www.cce-kingston.org.

—Francis Cruz

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EVENTS

5pm-6:30pm. Ages 8 to adult. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

Nursing Information Sessions

EVENTS

3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Fiber Arts Sale 1:30pm-3:30pm. Town of Esopus Library Needlework Group Holiday Sale. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Cooking for Kids Call for times. Ages 9 and older. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

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Mudd Poets’ Poetry Series 7pm-10pm. Featured poets followed by open mike. $2. Mudd Puddle Cafe, New Paltz. 255-3436.

KIDS

Veg/Vegan Free-Range Organics Gluten-Free

SPOKEN WORD

Movement & Music 10am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

WORKSHOPS Knitting 4:30pm-5:30pm. Lead by knitting teacher Theresa Kirby. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

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Music Discovery 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes

MUSIC Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition 7pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196.

Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

SPOKEN WORD What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason 4:30pm. The Mark of Grandeur: Elitism and AntiRacism in Equiano’s Narrative. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

TUESDAY 20 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Support Group

Community Yoga Class 7pm-8pm. For an introduction to yoga. $5. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

(917) 232-3623.

Learn to Dance 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-1162.

Life Drawing Sessions

11am-12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan.

339-4673.

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Tuesday Meditation

EVENTS

6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Dharma Gatherings 7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

CLASSES West Coast Swing Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

SPOKEN WORD Hudson Valley Celiac Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 416-7629.

4th Annual Turkey Trot 9:30am. Benefit Family of New Paltz Food Pantry.

Water Street Market, New Paltz. 594-7524.

MUSIC Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

THEATER Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Operation Stress Relief 1pm-2:30pm. A support group for military families who have a loved one deployed or about to be deployed.

Call for location. 339-9090x115.

Balkan Dancing 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Roma dancing. $10. Bard Student Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 453-4636.

Mind Matters 12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7223.

Contemporary Masters 1:30pm. Discussion of Snow by Orhan Pamuk. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7439.

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Salsa Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Contemporary Masters: Pamuk and Tabucchi

DANCE

1:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7439.

Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Music by The Blue Rays.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

THEATER The Foreigner

EVENTS

8pm. Larry Shue’s comedy. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Lighting Ceremony and a Holiday Concert

WEDNESDAY 21 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

ENGLISH RIDING FOR ALL AGES

FRIDAY 23 CLASSES

5pm. Program of sacred arias and holiday songs.

Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

KIDS Music Together 10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location.

(203) 256-1656.

THE OUTDOORS CLASSES

Van Leuven Cabin Hike

Capoeira Angola

12pm-3pm. 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

SATURDAY 24

DANCE Modern Dance 5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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(845) 246-7131.

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Dharma Gatherings

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7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

11am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

CLASSES

MUSIC

Call for times. $45/$30 members. Warren Kitchen, Rhinebeck. 876-2194.

Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Singer/Songwriter Aliza Hava 8pm. $10. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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West Coast Swing Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

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Mind Matters

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club

12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7223.

10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

Gallery Talk 1pm. Gregory Williams on Imi Knoebel. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

SUNDAY 25

THEATER Nebraska Theatre Caravanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Christmas Carol 7pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong

CLASSES Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

CLASSES

EVENTS

Capoeira Angola

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market

Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

DANCE

MUSIC Thanksgiving Vivaldi Celebration Concert 3pm. $15. Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Stone Ridge. 687-9414.

Modern Dance 5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Dark Star Orchestra 7pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike-Castle Point 10am-3:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

PFLAG Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. The Kingston Chapter of PFLAG. LGBTQ Center, Kingston. 853-5798.

THEATER WORKSHOPS Portrait Photography Workshop 2pm-4pm. With Val Shaff. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 26 CLASSES Swing Dance Class Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

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Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

KIDS Read with Joe Call for times. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

WORKSHOPS Knitting 4:30pm-5:30pm. Lead by knitting teacher Theresa Kirby. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

THURSDAY 29 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 8 to adult. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

Tai Chi Chuan Classes

EVENTS

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class

Fiber Arts Sale

6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

1:30pm-3:30pm. Town of Esopus Library Needlework Group Holiday Sale. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Community Yoga Class

KIDS

CLASSES

Movement & Music 10am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

7pm-8pm. For an introduction to yoga. $5. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

Music Discovery

7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

(917) 232-3623.

4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 687-4855.

Learn to Dance

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7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-1162.

Scrabble Group

Life Drawing Sessions

6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC

Chamber Music Concert

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves

8pm. Presented by The Bard College Conservatory of Music. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7196.

8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

Helen Avakian

SPOKEN WORD

8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Community Book Discussion 12pm-1:30pm. Bless me, Ultima. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. 257-2904.

WORKSHOPS

Rory Block 8pm. Blues singer. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Vassar Camerata

Balkan Dancing

8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Roma dancing. $10. Bard Student Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 453-4636.

THE OUTDOORS

FRIDAY 30 CLASSES Salsa Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-3:30pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Legacy Farm Cohousing

DANCE

12:30pm-4pm. Information session. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 943-9005.

A Christmas Carol

Living with Bears

8pm. Presented by Ulster Ballet Company. $18/$14 students and seniors. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

EVENTS

7pm-8:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER On Golden Pond

International Holiday Theme Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291x205.

7:30pm. $10/$7 students and seniors. ColumbiaGreene Community College, Hudson.

(518) 828-4181x5513.

WORKSHOPS

KIDS Music Together 10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location.

(203) 256-1656.

Holiday Decorating Workshop 10am-2pm. $50. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

687-7023.

MUSIC Helen Avakian 7:30pm. Acoustic. $10/$8 students, seniors & HCC members. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

297-9243.

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Sunday Morning Meditation

7:30pm. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck.

876-0500.

10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

THEATER

CLASSES

On Golden Pond

Euro Dance Classes for Seniors

7:30pm. $10/$7 students and seniors. ColumbiaGreene Community College, Hudson.

(518) 828-4181 x5513.

1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

WORKSHOPS Holiday Decorating Workshop

DANCE A Christmas Carol

10am-2pm. $50. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.

Call for times. Presented by the Ulster Ballet Company. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Introduction to Clay Modeling

A Christmas Carol

2pm-Saturday, December 1, 2pm. Led by Lukas Zay. $75. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

2pm. Presented by Ulster Ballet Company. $18/$14 students and seniors. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Moving On: Divorce Support Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. A group for women who need support through their divorce. Call for location.

679-2235.

SATURDAY 1

EVENTS Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

MUSIC

DANCE

Family Holiday Concert

A Christmas Carol

3pm. Presented by the Putnam Chorale. First United Methodist Church, Brewster. 279-7265.

Call for times. Presented by the Ulster Ballet Company. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

A Christmas Carol 8pm. Presented by Ulster Ballet Company. $18/$14 students and seniors. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

High Meadow Songs CD Release Party Call for time.

Performances by Artie Traum, Elizabeth Mitchell, more.

High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

A Service of Lessons and Carols

EVENTS Wine Tasting 4pm-7pm. Featuring smaller production, agricultural wines. Partition Street Wine Shop, Saugerties.

(845) 246-7131.

A Winter Walk on Warren Street

7pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Too Blue 9pm. Bluegrass, swing, original. Mezzanine Antique Center and Cafe, Kingston. 757-2772.

THE OUTDOORS

5pm-8pm. Holiday street festival. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Copes Lookout

MUSIC

THEATER

Close Encounters with Music: Slavic Wonders Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

On Golden Pond 3pm. $10/$7 students and seniors. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181x5513.

Lidiya Yankovskaya 1:30pm. Piano. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

WORKSHOPS

The Bronx Opera

10am-2pm. $50. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.

7pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291x205.

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Planet Waves EMIL ALZAMORA

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n September 30, I drove down to New York City and then to Long Island on a mission to visit my parents and collect the bits of my property that were scattered around the New York area. After nearly a decade of living in many cities and countries, I have decided to make New York my home. When people say I’ve come back to New York, I politely correct them and say I’ve come forward.

It was the first time I had seen both of my parents on the same day since (as best I can reckon) the late 1970s.

As for New York, I was waiting for that moment when it would indeed be about a step ahead and not a step toward the past. That being said, I think my favorite thing about Kingston is that it’s soaked in Revolutionary War–era history.

Second favorite is that I’m living in Kingston down the street from Chronogram.

I don’t have to call or e-mail—I can take a break, go outside, and visit.

But the past seems to be coming back to me even if I am not going back to it. My mother had a box of dishes and cups for me; they were not from the old 134 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/07

days, but she has recently returned after a long and painful absence.

My friend Priya (who blogs daily for PlanetWaves.net) was keeping a huge plastic tub of my diaries, poems, and notebooks from between 1980 and 1997 (these had previously been stored in Woodstock, where they survived a flood).

My father had two boxes of my published materials, some of them going back to junior high school (a campaign poster from my run for ninth-grade class president), and also various things I had mailed to him over the years when my suitcases overflowed. Speaking of overflowing, these items, as well, survived a serious flood in his basement with minimal damage. Some were the only remaining copies of articles lost when Hurricane Floyd visited New Jersey in 1999.

Among these retrieved collections were many treasures. It was like finding everything that I had ever lost all at once. I still have only been through a portion of it. Memories of entire phases of my life, like distinct incarnations, return to my perception. I open a folder and am handling articles with my name on them that I don’t even vaguely remember writing. Others are artifacts of truly

stellar moments in my complicated trip as a writer, such as the series of articles that made the PCB and dioxin contamination at SUNY New Paltz a national story in the mid-1990s.

One item was a diary with notes from a dream I had in June 1986; the dream notes are recorded the first page of the journal, a thick black sketchbook titled in bold stencil lettering, “Wide Awake.”

That was the spring I graduated from SUNY Buffalo. I later learned that in that very month was my Chiron-square-Chiron transit. This is a key life transit that’s usually a time of huge transition (depending on when you were born, it occurs sometime between the ages of 7 and 23; kids today are getting it on the far younger end of the scale). It was a tumultuous moment of upheaval and nearly total uncertainty. At the time, Chernobyl was spewing radiation around the world. From that event, I knew that I would be an environmental journalist, but had no clue how I would ever get there, much less any concrete plan or conscious desire to do so.

I had also just started A Course in Miracles, and as most people who have done that project know, the first few weeks or months can be mysterious, melting one’s prior foundations of thought as if they were salt in the rain, and leaving you with a strange new perception of the world. Talking Heads had recently released a new album with the song “Road to Nowhere,” including the line, “The future is certain, give us time to work it out.” The drug Ecstasy had become available, and my friends and I were experimenting with it.

In the midst of all this, I had a dream. I was sleeping in a room in my last college house that was devoted exclusively to art and sex (real estate was cheaper back then). I was up to the course lesson, “God is the mind in which I think.” Here is the verbatim quote from my diary, describing the dream that morning: I descended past the sound of the rain and the prehistoric birds, past the soft roomlight and your gentle body-mist, past all attachment to madness, and I arrived at a window through which I could see—through which I could see the constellations— through which I could see all that is inside me, through which I could recollect my entire life, the doorway to love, the open window through which I hear the sound of rain and the prehistoric birds, not the perception of things, but knowledge. If this sounds familiar, perhaps it is because it is a universal, a common window through which we all may regard all. In my mind, I sit on the edge, gazing outward.

There is a sketch of me sitting on this window ledge, viewed from behind, looking out at the stars. I had no idea what an astrologer was at that point, much less that I would become one. But the dream seems to be a direct reference to the story of our lives being written or contained in the stars, and about how I would eventually have the ability to interpret that information. Or, it seems, I did in that moment.

For whatever reason, I had the foresight or presence of mind to record the time of the dream, and, 21 years later, I could cast the astrology for the first time. What stands out from the chart is that the Galactic Core is exactly on the western horizon, conjunct to one degree (it does this for just four minutes a day).

Whatever is near the western horizon or seventh house cusp is the thing we are relating to directly; the thing we are facing toward.

The galaxy, our home, our island in space (and, as for its core, the place that holds the mystery of God), is the astrological image of that window to the stars.

What is interesting about the way the symbol was presented in the dream is that astrology tells our individual stories collectively, and our collective story as a society. This is a key to understanding astrology. The same planets, stars, and calculated points describe events and provide information on several levels. We all share the same planets. We are part of one reality no matter how separate we may seem, and astrology is one of the most compelling testaments to that fact.

What is most interesting is the way that the personal and collective levels can intersect. For example, my Chiron square transit, a strictly personal event, arrived with an environmental crisis that redefined the world (Chernobyl) and a moment of deep personal crisis and personal transition (leaving my community in Buffalo, which was, in retrospect, a community of working artists, writers, and musicians—rare to find in this world).

Chernobyl granted me the inner recognition that I would be doing environmental journalism. I was also given a (subtle then, less subtle now) clue that I would be an astrologer. These transitions, really, total life metamorphoses, were described five and seven years ahead of their manifestation.

Then, somewhere down the mingled threads of time, we can go through a transition so profound that we forget the old life we were living. At times we literally forget and never remember, including not remembering that we had some visceral, documentable sense of the future way back in the distant spaces we once lived in. We knew ourselves then, even when we thought we did not.

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You seem to be struggling pleasantly enough with your quest to reconcile your private insecurities with those surrounding your role in the community. At first they may seem to have nothing in common, like a knife and a sharpening stone. But when you put the two together, you will see that they not only fit precisely, but each allows the other to be what it is. This is to say, your most private needs, desires and fears are intimately linked with your quest to be an individual in the world around you at the same time you honor that you are part of that world. It is true, you may feel you’re a long way from agreeing to the compromise you think you need to make. I suggest, though, that rather than striving for compromise, you work to explore the maximum tension between your inner and outer worlds; that is, go deeper into both. There is a factor developing that you have not considered, which will take you far beyond the limiting concepts that currently define your life.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) This is a powerful moment of relating for you; you seem to have broken free of your sense of being stuck to the past as if by the tentacles of an octopus, and stand in a rare space where communication and commitment are experiences that you have the power to relate with directly. However, I don’t suggest you simply count the past as over, as distasteful as some elements of it are to you. Rather, you need to persist in an ongoing, daily process of getting acquainted with what limits your ability to be spontaneous, creative and passionate in the moment. Taurus is one of the most physical and practical signs, and at the same time the sign that seems the most steadfastly devoted to living in its cerebral cortex. Listen to those thoughts and see if you can determine who is standing guard as you try to go into your bedroom, art studio, or healing space. The point is this: don’t negotiate. Tell them to get out of the way, because your passion is your passion.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) You no longer need that umbilical cord wrapped around your neck. You no longer need to live as if you were born out of your father’s head, possessed of all his thoughts and totally enamored of his approval. At a certain point, every healthy child recognizes that he or she is a distinct individual, with individual will, volition, desire and independent ideas. While there are certain factors that currently seem to be binding you to what you’ve always felt was expected of you, this time in your life has a certain daring quality that will give you many incentives to take risks that nobody in your family would ever dare. You need to beware of the potential self-judgment that what you are doing or desiring is “not real” or that if something is too much fun, it cannot be productive; it cannot be a real relationship. You could spend some time questioning where you learned those ideas, and where those people who taught you got their information—but not too much time, please. Once you determine something is not true, drop it fast, in favor of what is.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) What you express to yourself is what you have available to express in relationships. I suggest, therefore, that you be abundantly open with yourself and within yourself; keep absolutely no secrets about what you want, who you want, what you need, and who you need.

As you do this, you will obviously stumble into inner pockets where revealing your own feelings to yourself will have a daunting quality, as if the world might end if you admit some urgent necessity to yourself. You may feel self-righteous if you dare to claim your identity or your desire to be a certain way in the world. I would add that you may feel it’s unethical to concentrate so deeply on self-knowledge, because somehow that negates the existence or reality of others. I promise you, it does no such thing. The more you know yourself, the more you will know, love, and appreciate others. The freer you are with yourself, the more others around you will feel free, and the wider and brighter space they will have to love you.

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LEO (July 22-August 23) As I write, a very good Leo friend is getting ready to have her first child, and Jupiter and Pluto are working their way together on the Galactic Core—in your 5th solar house, the house of birthing and also of daring, creative ideas. For Leo, this is the time to take those ultimate creative risks that are characterized or symbolized by childbirth. The central reminder in the stars is that true creativity is something that comes through you, and generally not something you consciously do. The Jupiter-Pluto conjunction will take you to the core within yourself that puts you into contact with something all of humanity has in common. This commonality, the golden thread that weaves together all cultures, religions, races, wisdom, tradition and geographic locations, is the dominant force in your life right now. You are like the living soul of humanity, and you have the gift of being able to extend that soul energy. With the touch of your finger, the sleeping will awaken, awareness will stir to life and that which is created through you will draw its first breaths.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Events this month will point you to how much you’re working with, in both tangible resources and the ones that are sometimes less obvious: intelligence and ideas. The important thing to remember is that you have options for how you think of those resources, and how you apply them. There may be a number of occasions to reallocate money, concepts and people to different tasks or situations than you had originally thought of, and events early in the month (around when Mercury stations direct November 1) will provide you with ample opportunity to change your mind. Don’t make a drama out of this; simply make decisions. Remember that what you’re working with is indeed yours to work with, and I mean that in the most personal sense of the word. The process you’re in now is one of taking ownership of yourself. Commitments to others are not only a bit foggy at the moment, they are not what they seem. Focus on your own goals for a while and the ones that involve others will come into focus when they need to.

LIBRA (September 22-October 23) It’s as if you’ve become aware of something obvious that you knew all along but didn’t realize you knew. Is this not the story of life?

Awareness is often contained in layers, and we can’t always see through them all. What is revealed to you is another thin slice of reality. What you learn may seem subtle or insignificant at first, until you start to consider the context. Any time you learn something about yourself and are inclined to say, “Oh, that’s interesting,” and leave it at that, I suggest you make a mental note, or a note on paper, and work it through a few more times. Small truths lead to the bigger ones, and hunches can lead to truly significant revelations. Any time you change your opinion about yourself or something important to you, you access a level of your awareness that you can use to guide you deeper. Indeed, any point of decision can lead you to a major discovery, but you must proceed methodically, and remind yourself constantly to look for the meaning that events have right on their surface.

SCORPIO

(October 23-November 22)

You are confident, and you have faith in yourself. That confidence is leading you to make affirmative decisions that carry your life and your plans forward; you will need to have the same confidence if and when it comes time to reconsider a long-range plan or to slow down the process for long enough to work out the bugs. Your tendency to doubt yourself at critical times is no excuse to dismiss any doubt you may be feeling now; your intuition is sharp at the moment, and you are striving for nothing less than true innovation. Therefore, everything must be used as a means to that end. Part of the situation may involve a hunch that you need to plan shorter term and closer to home. Where there is a question of something happening at a distance, consider the environment where that thing is happening, rather than your own local environment. The best information will come from on the ground. Your most brilliant ideas will form gradually, which I know is contrary to how you usually proceed.

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You may, for the moment, not quite understand where a certain person is coming from or the agreements they need to live by, but you do seem destined to ďŹ nd out. You also have a sense that they speak for a hidden dimension of yourself that you wish would be more directly available, but diďŹ&#x20AC;erent people around us always give voices to diďŹ&#x20AC;erent aspects of our psyche. In any event, he or she has adopted a viewpoint that on one level seems unusual and on another level involves exploring the most basic questions of relationship. Here is the central diďŹ&#x20AC;erence between you: for them, the experiment is the central reward. For you, there is beauty in the secondary reward or recognition. What you have in common is that you are both obsessed with living in an elegant way. The beauty factor is essential, and there is beauty both in balance and in the process of working out the adjustments and chemistry that lead to balance. Then comes that mysterious moment when something that has been created takes on a life and message of its own.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) Facts only seem to add up to the truth. Actually, they are like the heat-resistant tiles outside the truth that have the same exterior shape, and which protect something sensitive inside. But they can just as surely prevent us from getting to that something, and they can also conceal its existence. You are now in possession of a wealth of information. The problem is that most of it is what you could call bad information, some is way too specialized for what you are doing, and there seems to be an issue about needing to analyze every fact until you really understand it. You can aďŹ&#x20AC;ord to be a little more reckless. You can also aďŹ&#x20AC;ord to credit yourself with the considerable experience and wisdom that you have gained, and not get bogged down in the microdetails that block something much more obvious. Here is a simple test to determine the truth of something. If it feels like wild animal, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably true. If it feels like cardboard box, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably false.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Be careful that you mean what you say and say what you mean where a signiďŹ cant partner is concerned. In addition to all of us having come through a delightfully slippery time as Mercury returns to direct motion early in the month, someone you care about is vulnerable to you in a way you may not see. You need to beware that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convey an injury or sense of weakness to someone who may be its unwitting recipient. Be honest about where you are hurting and what you are doing about it; be honest with yourself about how powerful you are, and how that may impact others. Of this you can be certain: There is no reason to doubt the people closest to you. They love you and have your best interests at heart; and that means they will put up with your difďŹ cult streak if they must. It would only be arrogant to presume you deserve that support; it is given freely, and through the gestures of love being oďŹ&#x20AC;ered to you now, you have the potential to go beyond what has proved to be a diďŹ&#x192;cult-to-transcend limitation.

PISCES (February 19-March 20) A topic of ongoing negotiation is ready to move forward. You will need to tread carefully over the next three weeks as the details are allowed to set and settle, and you need to make sure that you are both fair and conďŹ dent of the trustworthiness of others. Along the way, you are coming to terms with the views of a partner on a sensitive matter of relating and sexuality. You have pulled back from the raw emotional edge and have allowed yourself to become a visionary. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done all of this by not making up your mind about what is possible based on what you thought was possible in the past. Rather, you have taken others at their word and accepted their intentions at face value, and it turns out that they were on the level all along. What has remained a constant is that you are an ongoing source of one particular idea: that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to be free than in any other state. To be free, you have proven youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to be free of the inďŹ&#x201A;uences of others, which leaves you available to accept them when you feel both ready and willing. That time happens to be now.

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Parting Shot

Untitled, Laura Gail Tyler, silver gelatin print, 2007

Laura Gail Tyler’s solo show at the Nicole Fiacco Gallery this month features photographs from her “Houses” and “Castles” series. Tyler builds models of familiar architectural structures with unconventional materials. Gingerbread houses lean and buckle like old barns. Sandcastles crumble, paper towers burn, and pumpkin apartment communities bruise and rot.

The images are devastating, but merely recreations of what’s on TV daily: fires, floods, decay. “If you just watch the news, it’s what news imagery centers on, these tragedies,” says Tyler, whose television is tuned to CNN around-the-clock in her Tivoli home.

Tyler studied photography and sculpture as an undergraduate student at Bard College. Even then she incorporated architecture into her work, sculpting windows, walls, and other structural details. “I try to pick simple motifs so that gives them a long life-span,” said Tyler. “There is a lot of potential within each sort of architectural type that I choose to work on.” In “Houses” and “Castles” Tyler combines the two disciplines to create lasting images of impermanent work.

Tyler constructs small-scale structures, carts them outdoors, and stages them against simple, continuous backgrounds: water, snow, and sand. Tyler then destroys her work, setting them ablaze, waiting for the tide, letting nature take its course and photographing the breakdown process. The images capture the ramparts, slanted roofs, and walls where now playing cards float, pumpkin parts lay limp and dripping, and piles of sand and ash catch wind.

“Laura Gail Tyler: Photographs,” will be exhibited November 3 through December 17 at the Nicole Fiacco Gallery. An opening reception will be held on November 3, from 6 to 8pm. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090;www.modogallery.com.

—Francis Cruz

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