D & H CANVAS June 2013

Your FREE Monthly Arts, Entertainment & Buy Local Guide

June 2013

Covering Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Beacon, Marlboro, Ellenville, & Walker Valley

art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

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by Barry Plaxen NO! STOP! Don’t throw this paper away.

Save it. There’s much to consider for your enjoyment and edification.

As John Adams says (in regard to a future for Americans free of British rule) in the musical 1776, “doesn’t anybody see what I see?”

I see the usual fabulous, wonderfully creative music, visual art, poetry, theatre, etc., for me and for you.

All day Music at Chester’s Castle Fun Center, and some more music in Newburgh, Milford and Beacon, too...

I see an 18 hour long music surreal concert...

And I think to myself...what a wonderful region this is.

I see all day Festivals in Livingston Manor, Walker Valley and Callicoon Center under skies of blue and clouds of white, Bright blessed High School and College Student Art Exhibits...

LETTERS

TO THE

EDITOR

Dear Barry, One of this things I like about this paper is that you never know what you're going to find in it. That May piece about auctions was fascinating - I had no idea the Babylonians auctioned off brides. Wonder how the women felt about it.

Joe Di Bello wrote a beautiful piece about Annette Funicello. It captured so much of the feel of the fifties, and it was a lovely bit of autobiography.

I see “The Outgoing Tide” is coming to Ellenville. I saw it off Broadway with the original cast, including Michael Learned (I’m a fan). It’s a powerful play.

Judith Wink, New York City

dark, surreal exhibits...

And I think to myself...what a wonderful region.

I see ads for kids camps and artists workshops, and I see an author communing with animals, Citywide celebrations, Art & Photography juxtaposed, Creative informative ads, Village, town and City Free Concerts in June (much information not available at press time), starting with a new series in Middletown (see page 8) Sweet Summer Sounds which kicks off during the Film Festival at the Paramount Theater thru June 6.

And I think to myself...what a wonderful region.

I see artists, kids, businesses, people, and governments shaking hands...sayin’, how do you do?

They’re really saying...Art, we love you.

Yes, I think to myself...what a wonderful region this be.

So, check the calendars carefully!

Many thanks to all the people who helped us gather information for this issue including, Tina Hazarian, Barbara Konvalin, Ted Waddell, Carolyn Bivens, Carolin Walton-Brown, June Henley, Kippy Boyle, William Noonan and Christina Bucala-Morgan. Apologies to anyone I left out. Oh yes, to Kate Hyden, who has no sense of humor.

CANVAS WRITERS’ TIDBITS Visit www.TheCatskillChronicle.com for J.A. Di Bello’s and Barry Plaxen’s opera, music and theatre reviews, and many other Sullivan County articles and news in this informative online newspaper.

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INSIDE...

CALENDARS ART & PHOTOGRAPHY CALENDAR ..............22 CATEGORY CALENDAR................................19 CHILDREN & TEEN’S CALENDAR ................18 LECTURE, DEMO, MUSEUMS ......................18 JUNE 2013 CALENDAR ........................20-21 MUSIC ......................................................18

COLUMNS COMMUNITY BUILDING THROUGH THE ARTS..14 MEET ME IN THE GREEN ROOM ..................11 MEET ME IN THE LIBRARY ........................39 THE CANVAS BEAT W/ TINA PIAQUADIO ....34 WHISPERING PINES CORNER W/ D. FREY ....23

STORIES 2 ALICES COFFEEHOUSE ............................25 AMERICAN YOUTH BALLET ........................33 ARTERY GALLERY ....................................13 BACHFEST ................................................38 BACK ROOM GALLERY ................................6 BARRY FOSTER & L. MANOR TROUT PARADE 5 BEACON RIVERFEST ..................................30 BLOOMINGBURG GARDEN TOUR ..................35 CATSKILL ARTISTS GALLERY ......................28 CATSKILL DISTILLING COMPANY ..................32 CORNERSTONE ARTS ALLIANCE ....................3 DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE ........9, 29 DELAWARE VALLEY OPERA ........................29 DOWNING FILM CENTER ............................17 ELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL EXHIBIT ......6

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EXPOSURES GALLERY ................................31 FORESTBURGH PLAYHOUSE ........................11 GREATER NEBWURGH SYMPHONY ORCH ......16 HELENA CLARE PITTMAN, AUTHOR ..............38 HIGHLANDS PHOTOGRAPHIC GUILD..............13 HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER ....................30 IN MEMORIAM: CLASKE FRANCK ................36 JESTER’ COMEDY CLUB ............................37 KAREN HUDSON RIVER BAND ....................25 KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM ..............17 LES PAUL & MARY FORD ....................32, 33 LUMBERLAND CULTURAL SERIES ..................8 MIDDLETOWN 125TH ANNIVERSARY ......26, 28 MID-HUDSON WOODCARVERS ......................29 MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE ..................17 MUSE EARLY MUSIC ................................16 NACL THEATRE ........................................12 NEWBURGH ILLUMINATED ......................14-17 NEWBURGH SYMPHONIC CHORALE ................7 NOBLE COFFEE ROASTERS: e’lissa jones ........8 OLD STONE HOUSE ..................................31 OCAC: ALL COUNTY HS STUDENT ART ....27 PIKE COUNTY ARTS & CRAFTS ..................13 SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ....4, 9, 37 SHADOWLAND THEATRE ............................12 SULLIVAN COUNTY COMMUNITY CHORUS ......7 SUMMERSTAR THEATRE................................3 SUNY ORANGE MIDDLETOWN ....................26 SUNY ORANGE NEWBURGH ......................24 SWEET SUMMER SOUNDS ............................8 TRESTLE INC. ............................................15 WALKER VALLEY OLD FASHIONED DAY..........4 WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL ..........................10 WEST POINT PLEIN AIR, HIGHLAND FALLS ....9 WILLY GILLY PRODUCTIONS ..........................3 WURTSBORO ART ALLIANCE ......................35

Theatre: Alive and Well in Goshen

Question: What do Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart, Daniel Webster, Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Ty Cobb and Jane Austin have in common?

Answer: Cornerstone Arts Alliance’s continued commitment to produce Biographical Theater.

An outgrowth of performances produced by Cornerstone’s co-artistic director Ken Tschan for the Goshen Public Library, the next play in the series features Evelyn Albino, (see photo) in the “bio-play” I Remain...Jane Austen, a drama by V. Glasgow Koste.

Through the power of theatre, Austen is alive and well and living in any place where she chooses to “body forth” at the flamboyant age of 218. This Jane’s ironic comic edge reveals a fiercely independent woman, speaking her mind and opening her heart.

A tour de force part for an actor of any age, this Jane wears whatever current clothes she fancies and “speaks American.” This is Jane not staled by custom or stereotype, facing death and the loss of love, laughing at herself, reveling in the sound and sense of language, burning with work, demanding, raging, discovering, still growing.

Cornerstone’s production, desined by Jackie Dion, runs from June 1-9 at the Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street.

For tickets: 845-294-4188.

Have we come a long way, baby? Are we less or more class-structured?

Austen wrote about British society and its 18th-19th century class structures. Donald Driver has written about 20th American society and its class structures. Now is our chance to see how far we haven’t come in the 21st century.

Driver’s Status Quo Vadis is Willy Gilly Productions’ first theatrical venture after a series of independent films, i.e: Collar (Rebecca DeMornay, Tom Sizemore, Richard Roundtree), for which they employed local production crews and actors trained by Actor/Writer/Director David Patrick Wilson (photo above).

Directed by Wilson, this revival of Driver’s play (which originally established Wilson’s successful career as an actor) is a timely, socially pertinent, hysterical look at everything in modern life At the First Presbyterian Church, 33 Park Place, Goshen from June 21-July 14.

See www.willygilly.com for information.

SummerStar Theatre: “God of Carnage”

SummerStar Theatre begins its 14th season this June when it offers six performances of God of Carnage, a “comedy of manners without the manners.” The show is funny, funny, funny, but deadly serious at the same time.

Written by French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter Yasmina Reza, God of Carnage centers around a playground fight between two boys which brings their parents together. It’s then we find adults have a much larger playground but just as many fights.

In 1987 Reza wrote Conversations after a Burial. In 1995, Art premiered in Paris. A few years later in the USA Art won the Tony Award for Best Play.

In September 1997, Reza’s first novel, Hammerklavier, was published and another work of fiction, Une Désolation, was published in 2001. Her 2007 work L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Evening or Night), written after a year of following the campaign of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, caused a sensation in France.

God of Carnage won Best Play at the 2009 Tony Awards. It starred Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden. The 2011 film Carnage was adapted from the play by director Roman Polanski and Reza, and starred Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.

Max Schaefer directs God of Carnage for

Cast of “God of Carnage” L-R, top: Terence Burke, Candice O'Connor bottom: Marie DuSault, Jim Quinlan

SummerStar and the cast includes Terence Burke, Jim Quinlan, Candice O’Connor and Marie DuSault.

Due to construction on the Middletown campus of SUNY Orange, SummerStar’s production of God of Carnage will not be performed on the Orange Hall Theatre stage, but will be performed on the stage of the Shepard Student Center, June 21 thru 30, on South Street diagonally across from Morrison Hall Mansion.

Table seating; light refreshments (fruit, cheese, cookies and beverages) will be served before the show. No intermission.

For more information, call 845-341-4790.

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Walker Valley’s Old Fashioned Day June 2

Walker Valley’s Old Fashioned Day was started in 1990 at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Walker Valley Fire Company. Throughout the past 24 years, the theme has been to bring people of all ages together for a day of fun and relaxation, and to see exhibits and participate in the events of days gone by. Everyone is invited to attend the event wearing old fashioned clothes.

There will be numerous exhibitors to demonstrate their crafts or explain their antiques or artifacts, including a blacksmith, wood carvers, dancers, the Walker Valley Band, quilters, Indian artifacts, fire companies showing equipment from old times to present, old time games such as 3 legged race, egg toss and hoop race.

Others will be bringing their antique artifacts and tools and explain how the equipment works.

Expect equipment ranging from the 1800’s to

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the present to show the progress over the last century or so. Specific examples are clothes washing, cooking, woodcutting, ice cutting, woodworking, and farm equipment.

The event is free and people and organizations from throughout the area are invited to join in the fun! Food will be sold basically at cost as in the past. Bring your historic and old time photos, records and memorabilia!

The Shawangunk / Gardiner Historical Society, Crawford Historical Society and the Cragsmoor Historical Society are also participating.

The event will be from 11:00am-5:00pm on June 2 at the Walker Valley Fire House, 3679 Route 52. There will be scheduled activities throughout the day and raffle tickets will be sold to defray costs of the event.

For information, call 845-744-2827.

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From NYC to Stockholm to Sugar Loaf

After World War II, the United States went through a great deal of change, due to the influence of mass media, the dissemination of information and new technologies, the rise of consumerism, the Vietnam War and, artistically, the emergence in the late 1940s and 1950s of Abstract Expressionism, a form of art characterized best by its emotional influence and subconscious, spontaneous creation.

The group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was part of this zeitgeist and wanted to foster collaboration between artists and engineers and further both communities’ self-interests. E.A.T. was inspired by an event produced by artists

Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman and Bell Lab engineers Willhelm Klüver and Fred Waldhauer in 1966.

In the early 1970s, the E.A.T. put together a collection of American art of the 1960s, with the aim of donating it to a museum. They chose 30 works in a variety of media and selected the Moderna Museet in Stockholm as the recipient because of its strong history of support for American contemporary art. It included some of the best art at that time, ranging from Andy Warhol to Donald Judd.

The New York Collection for Stockholm is that collection of works and it is coming to the Seligmann Center for the Arts in Sugar Loaf on June 15. (see ad page 8).

Trout Parade 2013: Remembering Barry Foster (1942 - 2013) Trout Parade 2012

This year’s Livingston Manor Trout Parade hosted by Catskill Art Society (CAS) is in dedication to Barry Foster. He was the Trout Parade’s master of ceremony for eight years since it’s inception and introduced all the acts that came down Main Street with the exuberance of a sportscaster with all bases loaded.

“We'll never forget Barry’s wonderful smile and way with people.” Ted Waddell Foster’s passionate personality was infectious. His love for educating children, for baseball, for his lifelong hometown and most of all for his family shone through in all he did in his life. His dedication to others through service was where he found his true happiness.

“Whenever Barry saw someone he knew walk into his store, he would give them whatever he had on their favorite team (unless they were a fellow Yankees fan), and never let

Barry Foster in his shop, Hot Corner Collectibles. photo courtesy of Ted Waddell

them leave empty handed.” Marge Feuerstein Barry graduated from Livingston Manor Central High School in 1960. He had a long and influential career as an educator in both Sullivan and Orange counties, teaching at Livingston Manor, Delaware Valley, Hancock and Fallsburg Schools. Barry was principal in the Pine Bush School District, and later in his career, moved to Fallsburg High School.

“I will always remember Barry’s jokes, his speeches, his company and the excitement of getting a gift certificate to Hot Corner in my stocking on Christmas morning. That meant I was able to take Grandpa to explore the world of Barry Foster, and his wonderful shop.”

Nathaniel DePaul, 7th grader in Livingston Manor Central School.

In his retirement years, Barry being the avid

Barry Foster serving as emcee for the Trout Parade, hugging Sharon Space-Bamberger

sports enthusiast, opened Hot Corner Sports Collectables and ran it for over 10 years.

“Livingston Manor has had it’s share of losses this year which is why it’s so important to come out and support Livingston Manor and pay respect to a man who encouraged the growth of this town with his vitality, humor and unrelenting encouragement,” says CAS Board member Carolin Walton-Brown.

Several businesses destroyed in November have reopened. Willow and Brown will reopen in time for the parade. The former Moose be Morning Coffee shop has reopened under the name Cafe 43.

Look for pre-parade entertainment to include stiltwalkers from NACL Theatre, performers from Catskill Puppet Theatre, and face painting by Miss Sunshine.

The CAS invites you to “Boogie Down” and take part in the region’s funkiest community parade and street fair, another very fishy event with wacky marching bands and funny floats on Main Street, June 8 from 11:00am-3:00pm, with the parade at 1:00pm, led by the Honorary Sturgeon General.

(And tell your friends to pick up a June copy of CANVAS at Madison’s Main Street Stand, Plunk, Wildlife, or CAS!)

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Beacon’s Back Room Gallery

New Paintings at Ellenville Regional

Veryal with one of her diptychs

Back Room Gallery

by Naomi Kennedy Veryal Zimmerman, owner of the Back Room Gallery in Beacon, is fascinated by the variety of artworks produced by artists. The gallery is always adorned with watercolors, acyrlics, oils, pastels, photography, mixed media, linocut prints, sculptures, unique handmade jewelry, or early 1900 vintage decorated crepe designs.

Thirteen years ago, Veryal found this high ceilinged gallery which had great appeal because it accommodated her large format paintings. She originally envisioned a

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showroom just for herself in the hope of selling her own artwork, but she decided to give other struggling artists the opportunity to also show their work by renting out wall space on a first come first serve basis.

In preparation for an exhibit, Veryal will offer her expertise to first time exhibiters who come into the gallery. “It is a great feeling knowing that one person can help another learn the tricks of the trade,” said Zimmerman.

Prior to opening the Back Room Gallery, she tried to exhibit her art but to no avail. “No one was interested in my work because it didn’t fit the subject matter that galleries often desired,”

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said Veryal. She is an oil and pastel artist. The medium she chooses depends on what inspires her at the moment. “Subject matter is usually inspired by nature which produces an ongoing series,” said Zimmerman.

For the month of June, thirty diversified artists will exhibit their work including: mixed media by Clairmonte Mapp; photography by Pat Augusta, Irv Suss, & John Wynn; watercolors by the late Mary E. Whitehill; acrylics by Marie Krajan, Ed Schurig, & teenager Dairy Velo; handmade jewelry by Judy Hearney, Rosemary Rednour, & Richard Rozner; oils & pastels by Veryal.

Miniature paintings and sculptures will also be shown. A reception will be held on June 8, 6:00pm-8:00pm.

The Gallery is located at 475 Main Street.

For information, call 845-838-1838.

“Fire Island” by Llyn Towning

As a life-long gouache painter, Llyn Towner was always willing to explore the properties of other materials such as plaster, wax and ink, and began to use pastel in earnest a few years ago.

Her paintings will be on solo exhibition at the Healing Arts Gallery at Ellenville Regional Hospital through June 21.

Ellenville Regional Hospital is located at 10 Healthy Way in Ellenville.

For information call 845-210-3043.

Requiem & Spirituals in Newburgh - Cantata & “L’Chaim” in Woodbourne “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest,” composer Gabriel Fauré told an interviewer. “It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience.

“As to my Requiem, perhaps I have also instinctively sought to escape from what is thought right and proper, after all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ! I know it all by heart. I wanted to write something different.”

Fauré finalized his Requiem in 1900. It consists of seven movements. Most famous is the soprano aria Pie Jesu, but the Sanctus (Holy), in contrast with other compositions of Mass and Requiem where it is often illustrated with great vocal and instrumental forces (particularly Verdi’s Requiem), is here expressed in extremely simple form. The sopranos softly sing in a very simple rising and falling melody of only three notes, which the male voices repeat, accompanied by arpeggios on the harp and a dreamy rising melody in the violins (sometimes just a solo violin).

For the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale’s

performance, “the choir will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra - two violas, two cellos, violin, bass, two horns, harp, and organ - mostly players from the GNSO,” explained conductor Peter Sipple.

“Soloists are Donald Boyer, baritone, and Amy Goldin, soprano, (see photos) both members of Kairos. Gordon Shacklett is playing the organ part on an electronic keyboard because it wouldn’t do to have him in the balcony with the rest of us on the floor. But Gordon thinks we can make it work. In the John Rutter edition we’re using the organ as basically an harmonic presence, and I hope that the sound of this keyboard will not make itself too obvious. We’ll have to see (hear),” Sipple concluded.

Five spirituals relating to the end of life, complementing the theology of the Requiem, including Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Ain’t Got Time to Die and Ride the Chariot, end the concert which takes place at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, on June 9 at 3:00pm. Phone 845-534-2864.

It is well-known that during the Holocaust classical composers such as Pavel Haas and Olivier Messiaen wrote non-programmatic music while incarcerated in concentration camps. But what about the music that was composed by the common man in these camps?

Music embraced by the whole community and passed secretly by aural transmission - music that carried with it powerful words revealing different aspects of camp life, or expressing the inmates’ innermost feelings, of mourning, resistance, or patriotism?

Donald McCullough spent one year on a journey through one of the cruelest chapters of the 20th century. His quest: to extract from the mammoth archives of the United States Holocaust Museum the material that forms the basis of the Holocaust Cantata. His compilation of texts will be performed by the Sullivan County Community Chorus in a program

entitled L’Chaim (to Life) along with folk, love and sacred texts in Hebrew, Ladino and English.

As with music for Christian texts, the words to be performed are set to a variety of musical styles, mostly classical, some traditional and folk by, among others, Bosnian-born Flory Jagoda a leader in the revival of Ladino music, former president of the Minnesota Opera Allan Naplan, Cantor/composer Erik L.F. Contzius, John Keavitt, and ubiquitous choral composer John Rutter.

One folk song, taken from Song of Songs by Moshe Dor and Josef Hadar, popularized in the 1960s by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, and Jerry Bock’s melodies for Fiddler on the Roof are also being performed.

Kevin J. Giroux leads the chorus and Keira Weyant accompanies at the Immaculate Conception Church, 6317 Route 42, Woodbourne on June 9 at 3:00pm.

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Music During Film Festival Week

e’lissa jones to perform at noble

Restaurant owners, Anna and Dave Madden are working with the City of Middletown and their program coordinator Darryl Wilbur to launch an exciting new music series entitled Sweet Summer Sounds.

The free outdoor acoustic concerts take place in the small city park adjacent to the Madden’s popular Middletown restaurant Something Sweet on North Street, a few yards from the corner of Main Street.

May 31-June 6 are the dates of the Hoboken Film Festival in the Paramount Theater and there are 7 different performers John Desibia, Jeanie Cassels & Alli Fox booked for that week. (See calendar page 18). perform on June 8, 6pm-8pm.

Then for the balance of the summer there does not permit.

Born into a musically gifted family, e'lissa will be acoustic music each Thursday evening It is a grassy area so bring either a blanket jones began singing and playing piano around from 6:00pm-8:00pm. As the performances or a lawn chair to enjoy the music. the age of five. are outdoor, they will be cancelled if weather For information call 845-551-6650 “At a very early age, my mother trained her girls to sing harmony and play the piano. At the cabaret acts,” and a “perfect age of 5 I remember my mother keeping us up The husband-and-wife musical ensemble,” Litt and late singing in thirds with one another. We were cabaret and songwriting team of David Alpher Alpher have delighted audiences to be the next ‘Jones Girls.’” e'lissa wrote her first song at the age of seven with cabaret shows that offer in(pianist/composer) and Jennie and began studying violin at the age of ten. At depth explorations of the Great Litt (singer/lyricist) started eleven, she was writing love songs and short American Songbook and their performing together on their classical works for violin and piano. While own “profound” originals. very first date, which they spent classically trained as a violinist, e'lissa is largely They are performing for the singing and playing great songs self-taught as a vocalist and guitarist.

Town of Lumberland Cultural

by Gershwin, Berlin, Rodgers, A professional singer, prolific songwriter, Series in the Town Hall, 1054 and Porter in a cabin in the New violinist, pianist, and guitarist, jones is an Proctor Road, Glen Spey on June 9 ast 3:00pm.

Hampshire woods. exceptionally talented artist who possesses a Recently hailed as “among the premier For information: 845-856-6372.

Cabaret Songs in Glen Spey

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dark and melancholy voice with a velvety quality reminiscent of jazz singers. Her songs embrace audiences with her powerful melodies and expressive lyrics. Influential styling ranges from jazz, rock, folk and country music in her catalogue of over 250 original songs.

This young artist performed background vocals with blues legend Wilson Pickett from 2001-2006 touring with Ray Charles, Al Green and many more. e'lissa in her Folk Music realm has also opened up for legend Pete Seeger, Steve Forbert, and has played violin for old favorites like Bobby Vee. e’lissa performs on her bluegrass violin at Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 NY Route 207 in Campbell Hall, June 14 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. For information: 845-294-1056.

“Anticipated Projects” at Seligmann Gallery “Art is the visual expression of the artist’s sense of life,” states mixed media artist Frank Shuback. “Sometimes I see it and then work on it. Other times I just work on it and then see it. I rely mainly on found objects made of wood, metal, plastic, and glass and incorporate them in my sculptures. I acquire most of my material from garage sales and antique shops in the area. I work for clarity and precision, yet the work must finally be mysterious and unusual.”

Shuback’s new work is at the Kurt Seligmann Gallery, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf, from June 4 - June 30 with a reception on June 8, 4:00pm - 6:00pm.

For information call 845-469-9459.

West Point / Highland Falls Plein Air

The Highland Falls Local Development Corporation is hosting the first Annual West Point Plein Air Paint Out and Auction where the teachers of the Wallkill River School of Art (WRS) will be giving free live demonstrations of painting and drawing techniques of landscapes and other scenic points at West Point and Highland Falls.

• Observe or paint along side a WRS artist with your own supplies or with those provided by the WRS. • Celebrate the history of the arts of the West Point Cadets.

Artists will have art supplies on hand for participants on a first come first serve basis. No prior art experience is necessary if you wish to join in and paint.

Participating WRS artists include Shawn Dell Joyce, Gena Bové (see photo), George Hayes, Mike Jaroszko, Mary Mugele Sealfon, Mickie MacMillan, Nancy Reed Jones, William Noonan, Marge Morales, Bruce Thorne and Lita Thorne.

Maps of the locations of the artists’ work stations will be at the staging area in Veteran’s Memorial Park. They’ll be painting landscapes, Work by Erica Hart historic buildings, street scenes, and other areas Above and Beyond is on display at Alliance of interest in their favorite medium. All artists Gallery, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg through teach professionally and will be offering free tips to visitors. If you have your own supplies, June 8. you are more than welcome to bring them. The For information, call 845-252-7576.

“Above & Beyond” at Alliance

Working with conceptual or symbolic images, Erica Hart often depicts body parts, particularly hands or eyes, to express an idea or emotion.

“The ambiguous nature of most of my pieces is my invitation to viewers to become actively engaged in interpreting the work.”

Hart’s national award winning work has been exhibited across the United States and at international venues.

She has lived in the Upper Delaware River Valley with her husband Howie for almost 25 years.

An exhibit of her mixed media works entitled

demo is free to the public, and all supplies are provided on a first come first serve basis. This event, June 15, 10:00am-2:00pm, is weather permitting. Any rain date will be posted the morning of the event on the www.westpointpleinair.com website.

A live auction of paintings and works created by the artists follows from 3:00pm-5:00pm.

For information: Susan Roth, Corporation Executive Director, at 845-893-0134.

This project is made possible, in part, with funds from Orange County Tourism and the County of Orange, and NYSCA through Arts in Orange.

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“Art Transforms Our World” at the Wallkill River School The June exhibit at the Wallkill River School (WRS) features the works of artists Naomi Genen and Sandy Spitzer in the Devitt Wing, with Emerging Artist Julisse River-Saltzberg.

Naomi Genen states, “For the past six years, I have been inspired to paint the beauty of the Hudson Valley region and the intercoastal region of Miami, Florida. I don't have to go far to see marvelous landscapes, wildlife, fauna and flora.

“I have always been interested in art. I majored in fine arts at Brooklyn College, and minored in education. I taught Junior High School art for twelve years in Brooklyn, and ten years at Round Hill Elementary School in Washingtonville. Having retired I can spend all my time painting. It is the activity I enjoy most. Most of my paintings are acrylic, and a few are oils. I enjoy using the vibrancy found in the acrylics. The medium accommodates my temperament in that it is fast drying and intense.

“I joined the Wallkill River School Plein Air painters, and I thoroughly enjoy capturing the essence of a landscape in a limited amount of time. Painting in New York and Miami has

Art work by Sandy Faland Spitzer shown me that even though there are vast differences in topography, each area has its unique beauty.

Sandra Faland Spitzer grew up in Brooklyn and currently lives in Orange County. Her artistic ability was noticed at an early age, and she was honored to paint backdrops for performances at Bay Ridge High School.

Spitzer studied painting in Europe, capturing the Norwegian landscape for many years. She was drawn home to the Hudson Valley where she continued her studies with notable workshop artists at the WRS, and joined a plein air painting group. Spitzer is

Art work by Naomi Genen currently represented by the Hansen Gallery in Honesdale, and the WRS. Her works have been exhibited in multiple group shows throughout the tri-state region.

Julisse Saltzberg is an aspiring painter who studies pastel with Linda Richichi, and acrylic with many teachers. She is being featured in her first solo show in Orange

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Art work by Julie Rivera-Saltzberg County in the Emerging Artist gallery.

The exhibit runs from June 1-June 30 with an opening reception on June 8 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.

The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery.

For further information call 845-457-2787.

To the mountains, to the mountains, to the mountains, he shouted. It's summertime! "The livin' is easy, fish are jumpin'" and the Forestburgh Playhouse is about to initiate its sixty-seventh year with the return of the prolific, ever-popular Bronx native, Neil Simon. His works, complete with chuckles, zingers and veiled innuendos remain a continuous delight for Forestburgh's theatre crowd. And so: (Bronx inflection, here) What's a summer in Forestburgh without Neil Simon?

With the best of intention, the season's opener is The Odd Couple, the familiar story of Felix and Oscar, one divorced and the other about to be divorced. With the casting complete, the production in rehearsal, all are preparing for the most humorous opening scene in modern American theatre. Students of theatre, especially comedic theatre, reference the scene as "the poker game." It's a classic! To maintain the hilarity at the anticipated professional level, accomplished actors Norman Duttweiler and Kevin Confoy portray the slovenly Oscar and the anal-retentive Felix, respectively.

Duttweiler's formative years were consumed

by Buffalo, a place where snow doesn't fall but is propelled horizontally, defiantly accumulating on battered brick walls. He remains a noted product of a strict Jesuit education (redundancy

of the Iguana, Murder is for emphasis), a 1973 Among Friends, Equus graduate of Fordham and FDR. University with a major Kevin Confoy's early in theatre arts. After years existed in an experiencing theatre as an inclusive environment. actor and stage manager, His mother, a successful Norman rounded off his high school teacher, may formal training by have had a subliminal earning an MBA in Norman Duttweiler & Kevin Confoy Information Technology Management from influence on Kevin's eventual attraction to and NYU and labored in that endeavor for the better love of theatre. A vibrant, successful teacher, part of a decade. Theatre beckoned and Norman especially at the high school level, is one who heeded her call, purchasing the theatre in is expected to deliver five stand-up shows a day.

Forestburgh in 1991. The training, culturing and And to survive, they'd better be good! A potent experiential episodes have produced the characteristic of this theatrical quality can be contemporary, multi-tasking man Forestburgh acquired by association, as it has the ability to "rub off." Those conditions were, according to attendees know as Norman Duttweiler.

As the curtain rises on this summer's theatre Kevin "...just a way of thinking and looking at season, aficionados will celebrate Norman's 22 things. Going into theatre was just a perfectly consecutive years as producer/managing normal extension or expression and I continued director of the Playhouse and the sixty-seven to grow my interests in high school and years of the playhouse's existence. During the college."

In addition to a fertile tilling of the soil, an past 21 years, he has presented more than 200 additional seed was firmly planted. As an productions and has appeared in: Lips Together, adolescent, Kevin was able to use to his Teeth Apart, I Do! I Do!, 1776, My Fair Lady, advantage the public transportation system. He La Cage aux Folles, The Full Monty, The Diary journeyed by bus into New York City from New of Anne Frank, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Jersey and witnessed an off-off Broadway Broadway Bound, The Producers, M. Butterfly, production of the early 70's musical Godspell.

Hairspray, Doubt, Inherit the Wind, The Night

Perhaps it was the Gospels, but more likely it was the production's staging and the atmosphere that most impressed Kevin. The show was not bound by the traditional Broadway proscenium.

It was open. It was "cool, funky, young and hip and the band was on a platform away from the stage!" Wow! It had all the characteristics necessary to impress a young teenager. In retrospect, Kevin knew then he'd crossed the Rubicon.

Kevin has appeared in more than fifteen productions at the Playhouse, in roles ranging from Zach in A Chorus Line, Professor Callahan in Legally Blonde to Dr. Scott in The Rocky Horror Show and Victor Velasco, opposite Loretta Swit, in last season's Barefoot in the Park, directed by Ron Nash. Furthermore, Kevin is the recipient of two grants from the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation for his direction of new plays.

In this, the Playhouse's sixty-seventh year, five musicals, two dramas, children’s theatre and seven cabarets await enthusiastic theatre goers. The Odd Couple will play from June 1116. The second presentation of the summer is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; it will play from June 18-30.

Call the Playhouse box office at 845-7941194 and see the Playhouse ad on page 31.

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John Cariani is Back at Shadowland

Jon Krupp & Jodie Lynn McClintock

James Glossman & John Cariani

Following a winter of major renovations, known for its eclectic mix of plays, Shadowland Theatre opens their season on May 31, with another new play, The Outgoing Tide, by Barrymore Award-winning playwright Bruce Graham. It stars Jon Krupp and Jodie Lynne McClintock and is directed by James Glossman.

This engaging drama chronicles a family patriarch, who must get the family to agree to his plan of forgiveness and self-determination, before it’s too late. It runs through June 16.

According to Shadowland’s Artistic Director Brendan Burke, the theatre has just completed major upgrades as part of their $1 million Light the Way Capital Campaign. “We’re excited to continue the improvements to our beautiful building. The ‘new’ Shadowland has an overhauled auditorium with a re-built stage, new and expanded audience seating, a new roof and facades, loading dock, upgraded and modernized equipment and utilities, and brand

new dressing rooms for performers.”

The new romantic comedy Love/Sick will be directed by its playwright, John Cariani, and runs from June 21 thru July 7.

Cariani, known for his hugely popular play, Almost Maine, is a Tony Award-nominated actor also known for his recurring role of Julian Beck on TV’s Law & Order.

Thrilled to return as part of Shadowland’s 29th season, “I am super excited to come back to Shadowland to work on my new play, Love/Sick. It just premiered at Portland Stage Company and it’s a dark, funny cousin to my first play, Almost Maine, which Shadowland produced in 2009,” says the playwright/director.

“It's also pretty cool to be a part of the first season in the newly renovated space.”

Season subscription pricing, group ticket sales and more information is available at the box office at 157 Canal Street, Ellenville, by visiting www.shadowlandtheatre.org or phoning 845-647-5511.

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“The Subtle Body” & DDT at NACL

Dorothy Abrahams & Daniel Piper Kublick

The Gold No Trade theater company, based in Brooklyn, was founded by two performers who met at the Lecoq school in Paris. Gold No Trade creates rich new works using simple means, stripping theater down to its most essential, combining language, narrative and striking visual imagery to ignite both passion and intellect.

The Subtle Body is a play in English and Mandarin (with subtitles) about the transmission of ideas across time and culture.

Developed in both Shanghai and New York, this historical comedy tells the story of an 18th century British doctor and his wife Charlotte who travel to China to research Chinese medicine. Charlotte falls in love with her husband’s Chinese translator, and both lovers are forced to reconsider their views of love and marriage.

After wowing audiences with their awardwinning 2008 production Floating Brothel,

Gold No Trade returns to NACL on June 15 at 7:30pm.

Inspired by quantum physics, insect mating rituals, texting emoticons, George Eliot’s Victorian novel Middlemarch, and a growing sense of disconnect, DDT, Wormholes or A Hypothetical Topological Feature of {19th century} Space/Time explores the question: what happens when we lose the ability to communicate?

The audience is a critical part of the play’s unfolding; the characters cannot go beyond the introductory scene unless the audience actively engages change from one portal to another by ringing a bell.

The NACL production features Dorothy Abrahams and Daniel Piper Kublick and is directed by Tracy Bersley. They will perform on June 23 at 4:00pm.

NACL is located at 110 Highland Lake Rd. in Highland Lake. For tickets: 845-557-0694.

ARTery Celebrates Milford Music Festival

Al Bialos joined The ARTery Gallery in 2004. His work portrays musicians and reflects the colors and sounds of jazz.

This month The ARTery celebrates The Milford Music Festival by exhibiting Bialos’ bold, rhythmic, and colorful paintings.

Preston Ehrler writes on the Milford Now! website: “Originally from Brooklyn, Al entered the service during the Korean War era, later attending The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan on the G.I. Bill. Later, Bialos worked in an art supply store that was across the street from the Art Students League, where he studied with “a couple of really well-known, important artists, back from the abstract expressionist days, like Theorodous Stamos.” Yet space was at a premium and Bialos needed more room to work.

“I didn’t have enough space to work and we came out [to Milford] to visit a friend, and looked around. We liked the place and it was easy to get to New York so we bought a small AFrame, but I have a big studio in the bottom of the A Frame, so it worked out nice.”

Describing his work, Bialos says that it is “mostly figurative” calling it “post-modern figurative.”

The exhibit will run from June 7 thru July 8.

Art work by Al Bialos

The reception is on June 8 from 6:00pm9:00pm. Come out for a free evening of art, music and food - Contemporary Jazz by Eric Hedick playing old standards, new standards and improvisation on the piano.

The Milford Music Festival is celebrated June 7, 8, 9. The festival is free to all who attend and features a wide variety of musical styles as well as a sidewalk shopping festival throughout the business district.

Music during the festival is sponsored by the individual business owners in the Milford Business District, presenting musical acts at their individual premises.

The ARTery Gallery is at 210 Broad Street, Milford. For information: 570-409-1234.

PCAC’S Demo: Dana Drake’s Pottery

Potter and Pike County Arts & Crafts (PCAC) member Dana Drake will be demonstrating wheel thrown pottery on June 2 at 1:30pm in the Milford Borough Hall, 109 Catherine Street..

Dana will show how it’s done, explaining what the process is that turns a lump of clay into a beautiful object and allow people to try their hand at it. Her finished pieces will also be on hand to view and purchase.

See www.pikecountyartsandcrafts.org for more information.

Pottery by Dana Drake

Is it rock, jazz, country or blues? Would the sound be raucous, gentle or breathless? Would the music soothe, excite or arouse? A body of work combining two of life’s finer things: art and music. A collection of album cover art sparks conversation about the viewer’s interpretation of the type and style of music they think the cover artwork expresses. This show will “bring music to your mind; art to your eyes, and whisper to your soul” The Highlands Photographic Guild presents Julia Zimmermann’s The White Album from June 8-July 7. Opening reception: June 8, 5:00pm-9:00pm, 224 Broad Street.

“Murphy’s Law” by Julia Zimmerman

HPG Celebrates Milford Music Festival

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COMMUNITY BUILDING THROUGH THE ARTS with Susan Handler

Newburgh Illuminates its Faith in its People As a child, I read Thomas Edison’s biography. However, I did not really connect with him until 1985 when I visited his research lab in Fort Myers, Florida. I was amazed at his broad breath of interest and inventions, and the obscure data he collected.

Upon moving to Orange County, I read that the City of Newburgh was the second American city to be electrified, and that Edison oversaw the construction and wiring of the power plant. In fact, Edison lived right in the heart of this city at 116 First Street, adding to the rich heritage of Newburgh. The complex history of this great city provided the momentum that gave birth to the upcoming Newburgh Illuminated Festival.

A year ago Mayor Kennedy and her Counsel were participating in one of many brainstorming community meetings regularly held at the Newburgh Armory.

The purpose of these meetings is to build ongoing healthy relationships among residents, businesses, institutions, and the government, forming a collective vision for the benefit of the community. At this particular meeting, with an openness that has its roots in community-engagement, the Mayor asked, “What can we do for our City?” The City of Newburgh has many complicated issues. However, when this community makes a decision to use their social capital to work together and give back, they are a shining example of Civic Engagement.

Authentic community engagement provides its participants with a sense of contribution and helpfulness in solving community problems.

Settled in 1709, the City of Newburgh was a bustling thriving Hudson River Hub. Then came the disastrous 1960’s experiment in urban renewal. The impact of this Federal Government decision is still evident in Newburgh today. However, this special American city known for its landscape beauty, architecture, innovation and invention, and home to many of our country’s most gifted residents, must be recognized as a community that has faith in its people.

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Tom Kneiser’s exhibit The Valley After Dark at the Crawford House, June 22, Noon-4pm, illustrates the beauty of electric light against the night sky - just as Newburghers would have witnessed in 1884.

“Young Tom Edison”, an hour long musical celebration, written for young audiences will be staged on June 22 at 11:00am & 2:00pm in the Theatre at West Shore Station (pictured above).

Living History actors will portray Jefferson and Hamilton debating issues on the Washington's Headquarters lawn.

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social and financial capital to work together and give back, they are a shining example of Civic Engagement. Giving back to the community is an action not just an idea.

A fundamental participant of The Illuminated Festival is the region's electrical generating company, Central Hudson, one of the two-dozen companies who are working together with City of Newburgh residents, non-profits, and the local government to celebrate the City's past, present, and future.

Steven V. Lant, Chairman of the Board and Present and Chief Executive Officer of CH Energy Group, Inc., the parent of Central Hudson shared, "We're delighted to participate in this upcoming festival to celebrate Central Hudson's origins here in Newburgh."

Central Hudson has an exhibit and is also showing clips from Young Thomas Edison with Mickey Rooney on Montgomery and Second Streets, June 22 and 23, Noon to 5:00pm The upcoming festival illuminates Newburgh's special place in America.

Bravo-Brava to the City of Newburgh, New York!

Trestle, Inc’s “Murals Illuminated”

“Archways Illuminated” On June 22 a very special “display” will take place every 15 minutes beginning at dusk on Front Street at the Waterfront.

As part of its mission to promote the arts within the Newburgh community, in addition to lighting the recently repaired murals, Trestle, Inc. will be projecting thematic images of Newburgh’s past on the Trestle wall next to the three recently repaired Archways murals at dusk. This slide show will capture Newburgh’s history, culture, art and architecture.

Trestle, Inc Mural Project, designed by Garin Baker The evening festivities also include a discussion on Trestle, Inc.’s adjacent Brick Walkway which, at approximately 8:30pm, will be the scene of “A Conversation about the 300 Bricks”. People who participated in this amazing cross section of dedicated memorialbricks, fun-bricks, message-bricks, and other types of “quotes” creating a wonderful picture of Newburgh and its past and present history, will speak about their brick dedications. “The bricks are part of what we are trying to do to Debbie Nolcox-Herring admires her bring tourism to Newburgh,” Trestle, Inc. vice- daughter DaShawn's “Beacon Bridge” for president Kiki Hayden explained.

Trestle Inc.’s Father Bill Scafidi & “Young Palettes Envision the Hudson”. photo Times Herald-Record

Colden Street Illuminated An additional Trestle, Inc. display includes the “re-hanging” of the “Young Palettes Envision the Hudson” banners on Colden Street created by Newburgh K-12 students, that were

Kiki Hayden unveiling the brick walkway.

Family and friends of the late Michael Settino unveil a brick placed in his memory.

Settino was vice president of Trestle Inc. at the time of his passing in 2008. photo Times Herald-Record

Concert on June 22, note that Trestle, Inc.’s newly created Young Palettes artwork with K12 students’ envisioning of “Newburgh Illumination” will be on display in the Park beginning at 11:00am.

Prizes will be awarded by a judging panel on The Shelter House veranda, tentatively planned at presstime for 5:00pm, near the “Children’s Corner” where kids can face paint and do arts and crafts starting at 11:00am.

You can also stop by Front Street during the day and spend some time reading the bricks and admiring the murals. You’ll enjoy, for sure.

recently “reinforced” for better protection Newburgh.

Rain Plan against the wind. Though not actually “lit”, The “rain location” for Children’s Corner these wonderful artwork will, spiritually Downing Park Illuminated with Art speaking, permanently illuminate Colden Street, And if you are attending any of the Downing will be in the drill hall of the Newburgh Armory beautifying this gateway to downtown Park events, such as the all-day Electric Music Unity Center, 321 South William Street.

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Classical Music Illuminates the Newburgh Festival

by Philip Ehrensaft

It’s entirely appropriate that a grand concert by a full orchestra and full chorale kicks off the the Newburgh Illuminated Festival. Seven years before Thomas Edison’s newfangled electric power plant fired up in 1884, and Newburgh became the second American city to be electrified, Mr. Edison invented the phonograph that transformed the world’s musical landscape.

The Newburgh citizens of 1884 inhabited a very musical world, one where every middle class family aspired to have a piano in the living room, and the ability to play it. A grand concert as the vehicle for a double celebration of Edison’s invention of electric filament light bulbs and the phonograph would have been a natural reflex.

As would be a celebratory concert joining big orchestral and choral forces. Many if not most people in that 1884 audience would have been involved in choral groups, both religious and secular. Musical seventh heaven arrived when full orchestras joined big choruses: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the big sounds of Verdi’s orchestration for opera choruses, or, several decades down the line, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, the “symphony of a thousand.”

Americans would likely have been happier yet with a symphony of two thousand.

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Dr. Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass and currents from the 1950’s onwards.

Randall Thompson’s Testament of But not out of style among chorale Freedom are the core of the opening directors, both religious and secular, concert program assembled by Dr. and choral music educators.

Woomyung Choe, conducting the (Thompson, a New England Yankee Greater Newburgh Symphony personified, mentored a brilliant Orchestra, and Janiece Kohler, Harvard undergrad, obviously not conducting a chorus composed Dr. Robert Ray from a “proper” background, named mainly of singers from her own Leonard Bernstein.)

Classic Choral Society plus others I listened to Testament of Freedom, from (mostly) the Newburgh premiered in 1943, expecting Symphonic Chorale (see page 7) and wartime boosterism. Instead, I the Warwick Valley Chorale. discovered powerful settings of Robert Ray, a respected choral Thomas Jefferson texts written conductor, created his African- Dr. Woomyung Choe during the American Revolution, American setting of the Catholic explaining why Americans like mass thirty years ago, for an event himself, had been pushed into taking honoring Martin Luther King, up arms in order to be free citizens. I expecting it to be a one-shot affair. would have been more impressed if Instead, Gospel Mass is still Jefferson had freed his own slaves performed across the world - I’ve just before he died, but one cannot deny listened, via YouTube, to the power of his texts - and how Janiece Kohler performances from Taiwan and Thompson enhanced this power Germany. via music.

Randall Thompson (1899Hear them all on June 21 at 1974) was a distinguished 7:30pm in Aquinas Hall, American composer who won Mount St. Mary College on big awards like the Prix de Powell Avenue.

Rome and a tenured teaching At the other end of the scale, post at Harvard, but went out of MUSE perfomers Suzanne Clune because performing music as & Jennifer Ponzoni, 2010 style relative to composition opposed to just listening to

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music was the predominant norm in 1884 Newburgh, there was also great enthusiasm for small ensemble “chamber music.” MUSE, an early music ensemble based in Newburgh, focuses on the instrumental and vocal chamber music, plus accompanying dances, that were performed at home in eighteenth and nineteenth century America. YouTube offers a tantalizing sampling of MUSE performances.

Newburgh Illuminated offers two Don’t-Miss opportunities to experience MUSE performances of Be Glad Then America in the lobby of the Ritz Theater on June 22, 7:00pm and June 23, 3:00pm.

The MUSE concerts are dedicated to the memory of Donald L. Herron, one of Newburgh’s brightest artistic lights: artist, writer, story teller and preservationist.

Synchronicity Illuminated There is a historical marker in front of “The House that Don Lived In” figuratively stating “Edison Slept Here”.

Gustafer Illuminates Downing Groovy Gustafer Yellowgold is a little, yellow, cone-headed fellow, who came to Earth from the Sun and has a knack for finding himself neck-deep in absurd situations as he explores his new life. His best friend is Forrest Applecrumbie, the world’s last surviving pterodactyl, who staved off extinction with a sharp sense of fashion.

Gustafer has a pet eel named Slim (short for Slimothy) and a menagerie of woodland creatures who curiously gather to share Gustafer’s solar warmth and quixotic sense of adventure. For recreation, he enjoys punching cheese and jumping on cake.

Two films with Pop Art and Pop Tunes, appropriate for the whole family, will light up Creator Morgan Taylor and Gustafer the screen at Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street. Wide Wild World and Infinity Sock will 12:15pm, and on June 23 at Noon. be shown on June 22 at 11:00am and For reservations call 845-561-3686.

Desmond Campus Illuminated

Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus will be hosting an art show titled Light on Desmond, with an artist reception, highlighting some of the outstanding work done by students in adult art classes.

It is scheduled for June 22 from 1:00pm3:00pm at 6 Albany Post Road, in the Balmville area of Newburgh.

For information on the exhibit call 845565-2076, or see the ad page 15 which lists possible adult art and craft classes that take place at the Desmond Campus.

“Early Light” by Elaine Ralston

A varied exhibition, Light-HeARTed is a vital part of Newburgh Illuminated, the city’s celebration of its historic cultural heritage.

The work of about a dozen local artists, it represents the wide-ranging talents of creative workers in many visual media and includes depictions of subjects with themes that bring peace, joy, and happiness to the heart of each individual artist. This group show of local artists will run from June 1 - June 30.

During the three days of the city’s festival of light, master gardener Lily Norton will present the now traditional biennial event Art

in Bloom (see photo, left) from June 21 - June 23 This imaginative display coordinates Hudson Valley artists with local floral designers to create natural juxtapositions of original artwork and compositions in plant and flower arrangements inspired by and interpreting them.

A combined reception for the group art show (photo above) and the floral display will be held on June 23 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, at Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh.

For information, call 845-569-4997.

Flowers Illuminate Karpeles

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Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock/ Latin sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

Concerts Callicoon Center Band ..........................Route 121, The Gulf Road, Wednesdays, 8pm FREE Charlie Lang keyboard..........Something Sweet Park, Middletown, May 31, 6pm-8pm FREE Nuts in a Blender ..............................................Castle Fun Center, Chester, Jun 1, 5pm FREE Scott Test acoustic guitar ..Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jun 1, 1pm-3pm FREE Side By Side acoustic ........Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jun 1, 6pm-8pm FREE The Tall Boys ....................................................Castle Fun Center, Chester, Jun 1, 8pm FREE David Driver & Blythe Gruda Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jun 1, 8pm JB’s Soul ....................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 2, 10am-2pm Mike & Sue Conklin country/B’way......Something Sweet Outdoors, Jun 4, 6pm-8pm FREE Tom Quinn Irish &American folk ..........Something Sweet Outdoors, Jun 5, 6pm-8pm FREE Frank Sorvino 60s-90s ......Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jun 6, 5pm-7pm FREE Commander Cody w/Professor Louie’s Piano Boogie Woogie ........The Falcon, Jun 6, 7pm Milford Music Festival ............................................................Downtown Milford, Jun 7, 8, 9 Wicked Knee Hiroya Tsukamoto The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 7, 7pm Strings Attached vocal trio Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jun 8, 2pm-4pm FREE Chris Bergson Band............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 8, 7pm The Compact ............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 9, 10am-2pm “Sweet Summer Sounds” Something Sweet Outdoors, Thursdays, 6pm-8pm, begins Jun 13, FREE

Casey Erdman CD Release Event ..................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 13, 7pm Sex Mob does Fellini, The Kandinsky Effect ................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 14, 7pm “Twist & Shout” Beatles Tribute ....Castle Fun Center, Chester, Jun 14, 8pm, Buffet @ 7pm Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys Cajun, Talley & Sharp ......The Falcon, Jun 15, 7pm Celtic Woman ................................................................................Bethel Woods, Jun 15, 8pm Karen Hudson River Band CD Release Party ........Old North Branch Inn, Jun 16, 4pm-7pm Guy David Blues ..............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 16, 7pm Hot Tuna w/Jill Sobule ..................................................................Bethel Woods, Jun 20, 8pm Electric Music Concert 9 bands ................Downing Park, Newburgh, Jun 22, 11am-8:30pm Joan Baez & Indigo Girls..............................................................Bethel Woods, Jun 22, 8pm Saints of Swing swing, gospel, Latin, r&b klezmer, Motown ......Falcon, Jun 23, 10am-2pm Newburgh Illuminated Gospel Choirs............Broadway & Lander Street, Jun 23, 3pm-6pm Carmen Pascucci ..............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 23, 7pm Jeanne Jolly ......................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 26, 7pm Jim Campilongo blues, country, jazz, rock ......................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 27, 7pm Richard Thorne..............................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jun 28, 8:30pm Beacon Riverfest 2013 12 bands, three stages ......Riverfront Park, Jun 29, Noon-8pm FREE Cathe Ryan’s Celtic Band Kindred Spirits Arts ..................Milford Theatre, Jun 29, 7:30pm Mike Baglione, Anne Loeb & Friends folk ........Neversink Valley Museum, Jun 29, 7:30pm Banda Magda world, Latin, jazz, Tom Csatari’s Weathervane ......The Falcon, Jun 29, 7pm Carmine & Vinny Appice Drum Wars....................Castle Fun Center, Chester, Jun 29, 8pm Funk Junkies ....................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 30, 7pm

Open Mic & In-house music Open Mic w/Bob Keegan ..................Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown, Tues & Weds Open Mic w/Eric Callari ......................................Eddie’s Roadhouse, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic w/Mike & Ed ..............................Castle Fun Center, Chester, Wednesdays, 7-10pm Open Mic ........................................................................Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic ......................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, May 30, 6pm-9pm Open Mic ..................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 6 & Jun 20 7pm-11pm Songwriter’s Circle ....................Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Saturdays,. 3pm-5pm Marilyn Kennedy & Jake Lentz pop ..........Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fri & Sat, 6pm-9pm Tommy Caprino ..............................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall,May 31, 6pm-9pm Evan Teatum ........................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, May 31, 7pm-10pm “Die Hardz” Jack Higgins, Jim Ianucci, Jim Brogan, Tom Miletti........................................

Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jun 1, 6:30pm-9:30pm Still Hand ....................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 1, 8pm Travis Caudle ..................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 2, 2:30pm-5:30pm Evan Teatum ............................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 7, 7pm-10pm T.W.D. Band with Ken Nicastro ....Palaia Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jun 8, 6:30pm-9:30pm Molly Durnin ..............................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 8, 7pm Todd Wolfe Band..................................................Benji & Jakes, Kauneonga Lake, Jun 8, 9pm Rob Schiff ..............................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 14, 7pm-10pm Music for Humanity ........................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jun 15, 6pm-9pm Steve Wells ......................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 16, 2:30pm-5:30pm Al Westphal ............................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 21, 7pm-10pm Rock ‘n Reggae Festival ..........................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 22 TBA Groovy Tuesday! ........Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jun 22 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Doug & Ann O’Connor ................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 23, 2:30pm-5:30pm Jack Higgins ............................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 28 7pm-10pm “The All Star Band”........................Palaia Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jun 29, 6:30pm-9:30pm Anthony Fiore ................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 30, 2:30pm-5:30pm

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Children & Teens Calendar HHNM ......................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ..........Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC.................................................... Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

books Singing: “Lightning Odyssey” (8yrs-teens) Betty Ann Enos-Damms....

Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Jun 15, 1pm-3pm

CInema Gustafer Yellowgold Films ..........................................................................................................

Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jun 22, 11am & 12:15pm & Jun 23, Noon FREE

museums Meet the Animals .. ..........................................................HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm World of Bees and Brook Trout Exhibits ..........................HHNM-CoH, Fri, Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm Eco-Zone!......................................................................................................PEEC Jun 2, 9, 1pm-4pm

recreation-Lecture Nature Strollers babies, toddlers, young children..............HHNM Thursdays thru Jun 6, 10am “Bugs: The Good, The Bad and the The Ugly” ........................................HHNM Jun 8, 10am HHNM Aquatic Creature Feature ............Storm King Arts Center, Mountainville, Jun 9, 1pm Children’s Day......................................................New Windsor Cantonment, Jun 16, 1pm-4pm “Tour with Wally McGuire” ....................Storm King Arts Center, Mountainville, Jun 30, 1pm

theatre - Musical “Young Thomas Edison” ........Theatre at West Shore Station, Newburgh, Jun 22, 11am & 2pm “Rapunzel” ..............................................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 27 & 29, 11am

Lectures / demos / Museums calendar MSM-DC ....................................................Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC .................................................. Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Butterfly Walk Lance Verderame & Renee Davis Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, Jun 2, 9am “The Wallkill Guards: Middletown’s First to Fight for the Union” Ryan Conklin ........................

Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 2, 2pm “The Traveler’s Companion” John Albarino ................................................MSM-DC Jun 3, 10am “How to Overcome Procrastination NOW” Cary Bayer ..............................MSM-DC Jun 7, 10am DEMO “Art of Lacemaking” Lost Art Lacers of North NJ ........Grey Towers, Milford, Jun 8, 1pm ”Wanderings & Wonderings” w/Jory Rabinovitz ......................Storm King Art Center, Jun 8, 3pm “Flight of the Vin Fiz” Edward & Linda Dubin ..........Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 11, 6:30pm The Vin Fiz & Cal Rodgers Linda & Ed Dubin......................................Thrall Library, Jun 11, 7pm “Freedom’s Gardener” Myra Young Armstead..............................................MSM-DC Jun 13, 1pm “The Pledge of Allegiance” Paul Upham......................................................MSM-DC Jun 14, 10am Wild Edibles Walk................................................................................................PEEC Jun 15, 10am DEMO West Point Plein Air Paint Out & Auction ..........................................................................

Veterans Memorial Park, Highland Falls, Jun 15, 10am-2pm “Collection Conversation: David Smith” w/ Joan Pachner ....Storm King Art Center, Jun 15, 3pm “Zoonosis” John Albarino ............................................................................MSM-DC Jun 17, 10am “Ornamental Grasses” Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Ext. ....MSM-DC Jun 20, 10am DEMO “Solar Punch” Solar Powered Cooking & Sound Systems ................................................

Downing Park, Newburgh, Jun 22, 11am-5pm Celebration of Edison ..............Central Hudson on Montgomery St., Newburgh, Jun 22, Noon-5pm SCIENCE CAFE “Vitamin D” James Freeman ....Diana’s Restaurant, New Windsor, Jun 26, 7pm “Middletown in the Great War: The Men of Company I” Robert Polhamus ................................

SUNY Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown, Jun 27, 3pm

museums Sculpture Exhibits ....................................................................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum ....................................................................Ellenville, ongoing Brick House & Hill Hold Museums ....................Montgomery & Campbell Hall, ongoing Sullivan County History ..........................Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing Delaware Valley Settlers ..........................................Fort Delaware, Narrowsburg, ongoing Thomas Houseago & David Brooks sculptures......Storm King Art Center, Mountainville “Tunnels, Toil and Trouble: New York City’s Quest for Water & the Rondout-Neversink Story” Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, thru summer Fly Fishing Exhibit ..............................Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, thru sunmmer “Mark Twain” ........................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Sep 1 Florescent Mineral Exhibit ..........................................Museum Village, Monroe, thru Oct “Unpacked and Rediscovered” ................Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, thru Oct 27 “Electrifying Newburgh Industries” ..........................................Crawford House, Jun 22 & 23

CANvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation, Monroe

ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon Beacon Galleries..........Downtown Beacon, Jun 8, all day to 9pm Art After Dark ......................................................................Milford Galleries, Jun 8, 6pm-9pm

cabaret “Be Our Guest” Disney Songs ................................................Tavern at Forestburgh, Jun 11-15 “Don’t Tell Mama” Kander & Ebb ........................................Tavern at Forestburgh, Jun 18-29

Cinema Hoboken Film Festival ..........................................Paramount Theater, Middletown, thru Jun 6 “Trashed” Jeremy Irons documentary ..................Downing Film Center, Newburgh Jun 2 & 3 “Abraham Lincoln” dir: D.W. Griffith ....Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Jun 5, 7:30pm Reel Eclectic Film Series ..................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 6, 7pm FREE Monday Night Movie “Promised Land” ......................Newburgh Library, Jun 10, 6pm FREE “Precious Knowledge” ......................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jun 10, 7:30pm FREE “Starlet” ................................................................Greenwood Lake Library, Jun 11, 7pm FREE “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” ......................................Cornwall Library, Jun 12, Noon FREE “Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot” documentary..

Grey Towers, Milford, Jun 15, dusk “The Old Man and the Storm” documentary ................Cornwall Library, Jun 18, 6pm FREE Afternoon Movie ..............................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 19, 2pm FREE Surrealist Film Series ....................Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Jun 28, 7:30pm

Comedy Open Mic ............................................................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, second Friday Tommy Gooch ..........................................................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 8, 8pm Carmen Lynch, Lori Chase ..................................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 15, 8pm Tina Giorgi ............................................................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 22, 8pm Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling ......................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 29, 8pm

dance “Coppelia” NJ Ballet principals & American Youth Ballet ..........Sugar Loaf PAC Jun 9, 7pm

festival Greenfest 2013 Holistic ........................................Walden-Wallkill Rail Trail, Jun 1, 11am-3pm Castle Fun Center’s 20th Anniversary ..Castle Fun Center Event Grounds, Jun 1, 1pm-10pm Old Fashioned Day ................................................Walker Valley Fire House, Jun 2, 11am-5pm 10th Annual Trout Parade ................................................Livingston Manor, Jun 8, 11am-3pm “Audubon & Friends, Too” Craft Festival ..Fly Fishing Museum, L. Manor, Jun 15, 10am-4pm Day to Be Gay Festival........................Hills Country Inn, Callicoon Center, Jun 22, Noon-5pm

holistic UFO Support Group....................................Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesdays, 7pm Intuitive Medium Deborah..................................................Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Jun 4, 7pm

Magic Robert Harris....................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jun 13, 6pm-9pm

Music - broadway - opera - operetta - Tin Pan Alley - etc.

Janice Meyerson mezzo, Ronald Carbone viola, Lenore Fishman Davis piano, Opera/B’way ......

Delaware Valley Opera & Arts Alliance Benefit Private Home, Bethel, Jun 9, 2pm David Alpher & Jennie Litt cabaret songs ......Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, Jun 9, 3pm Broadway Concerts Direct “June, Moon, Spoon” ......Wurtsboro Community Church, Jun 15, 8pm

“Rags and Songs of Edison’s Era” Newburgh Chamber Music String Quartet ......................

Crawford House, Newburgh, Jun 22, Noon

Music - classical Amphion String Quartet Kindred Spirits Arts ..........................Milford Theatre, Jun 1, 7:30pm The Serenade Quartet..................................Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Jun 2, 2pm Greater NY Wind Symphony ..............................Railroad Green, Warwick, Jun 8, 7pm FREE Sullivan County Community Chorus ..Immaculate Conception Ch., Woodbourne, Jun 9, 3pm Newburgh Symphonic Chorale ............................St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Jun 9, 3pm Erik Satie Music for Plucked Instruments ....Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 9, 10am-4am “Summer Strings” NY Philharmonic Members ..Tuxedo Performing Arts Group, Jun 9, 4pm Hudson Valley BachFest ..................................Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jun 16, 3:30pm “Newburgh Illuminated” Choir & Symphony ........Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Jun 21, 7:30pm ‘Newburgh Illuminated” MUSE ..............Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Jun 22, 7pm & Jun 23, 3pm SkipLaPlante Music on Homemade Instruments ..................MISU Ellenville, Jun 26, 7:30pm

Music - jazz The Jazz Cats ........................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, Noon Ed Palermo Big Band ............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 1, 7pm Organik Vibe Trio..................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 5, 7pm Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio ............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 12, 7pm Les Paul Trio & Celebration (Exhibit-begins Noon) Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 15, 8pm Teri Roger Abbey Lincoln Tribute, “Juneteenth” Celebration ..........The Falcon, Jun 19, 7pm Indo Jazz-Fusion w/ Aashish Khan et al............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 20, 7pm Piet Koster ........................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jun 21, 6pm-0pm Winard Harper & Jeli Posse perform “CoExist” ............The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 22, 7pm Les Paul Trio ........................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 28, 7pm Eric Lawrence Quartet ............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 30, 10am-2pm

opera - livecast “Carmen” Bizet ................Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake, Jun 19, 7pm “Il Trovatore” Verdi ........Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake, Jun 26, 7pm

opera - video “Destination Mozart” Peter Sellars documentary ..........Cornwall Library, Jun 16, 1pm FREE

poetry & PRose reading Gary Whitehead Poetry on the Loose......Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 1, 3:30pm FREE Christopher Wheeling Poetry in the Gallery......................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jun 2, 7pm Chuck Tripi host, Robert Milby ..................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jun 6, 7pm Hudson River Poets ..........................................................Newburgh Library, Jun 6, 7pm FREE Christine Boyka Kluge, Dennis Bressack..............Howland Cultural Ctr., Beacon, Jun 7, 8pm “Communing with Animals” prose reading & book singing, “Moving to Completion” ..........

by John Fitzpatrick Howland Cultural Ctr., Beacon, Jun 9, 3pm Poetry, Beacon....................................................................................Beacon Yoga, Jun 19, 7pm “Poetry Illuminates” Hudson River Poets ..Newburgh Library, Jun 20, 5pm-8pm & Jun 22, 1pm-4pm Ted Gill gues host Robert Milby ............................Goshen Methodist Church, Jun 24, 7pm

recreation Country Western Line Dancing......................Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Thursdays, 7:30pm “Military Arts Day” ......................................Fort Montgomery Historic Site, Jun 1, 10am-4pm “First Person Tours”..................................Washington Headquarters, Newburgh, Jun 1, 2, 8, 9 Stewart State Forest Bike Tour ........................................Weed Road & Route 207, Jun 2, 9am “Crown Forces Day” ....................................Fort Montgomery Historic Site, Jun 8, 10am-4pm Historical Pipe Organ Tours Joseph Bertolozzi....................................................Beacon, TBD Victorian Tea Shawangunk Garden Club ........Terwilliger House Museum, Ellenville, Jun 8, Noon Revolutionary War Cannon Firings ....Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor, Jun 9, 1pm-4pm West Point Plein Air Paint Out ..Veterans Memorial Park, Highland Falls, Jun 15, 10am-2pm Bloomingburg Garden Tour ..................................Bloomingburg & Wurtsboro, Jun 29, 10am

Storytelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “France”..........................Florida Library, Jun 6, 7:30pm FREE

theatre - musical “Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” ..............Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 18-29

Theatre - Play “STRUCK” w/Tannis Kowalchuk ............................NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, thru Jun 2 “The Outgoing Tide” ............................................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Jun 16 “I Remain...Jane Austen” Cornerstone Arts Alliance....................Goshen Music Hall, Jun 1-9 “The Odd Couple” by Neil Simon ........................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 11-16 “The Subtle Body” Gold No Trade ................NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jun 15, 7:30pm “God Of Carnage” SummerStar Theatre SUNYO Shepard Student Center, Middletown, Jun 21-30

“The Miracle Worker” Sullivan Cty Dramatic Workshop....Rivoli Th., South Fallsburg, Jun 21-30 “Love/Sick” by John Cariani ..............................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Jun 21-Jul 7 “Status Quo Vadis” Willy Gilly Productions First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, Jun 21-Jul 14 “Wormholes or A Hypothetical Topological Feature of (19th Century) Space/Time” DDT..

NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jun 23, 4pm

June 2013

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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June EHT FAL HCC JCC MISU

MSM NACL NCR PT PV

= Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point = The Falcon, Marlboro = Howland Cultural Center, Beacon = Jesters Comedy Club, Chester = Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster, Ellenville

= Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh = NACL Theatre, Highland Lake = Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall = Paramount Theatre, Middletown = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

30 Cinema & Discussion...”The Holy Mountain” Cornwall Library, 6pm

Please check the schedule for Gallery Art & Photography Opening Receptions see page 22

Open Mic Musicians Gathering ....Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 6:30pm Recreation ..............Country Western Line Dancing ........JCC 7pm Music....Campilongo Trio w/Chris Morrisey & Josh Dion ......FAL 7pm Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm June 7, 5:00pm-8:00pm: Washingtonville Art Society solo show by plumber Bill Cypher at the Weathervane Clubhouse in Washingtonville.

Bill’s works are made with scrap metal discarded from plumbing jobs!

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Cinema “Promised Land” NFL 6:30pm

Cinema “Precious Knowledge” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 7:30pm

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Music Mike & Sue Conklin SSO 6pm-8pm Holistic Intuitive Medium, Deborah RTZ 7pm

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Cabaret “Be Our Guest” FP 6pm Cinema “Starlet” GLL, 7pm

Theatre-Play “The Odd Couple” FP 8pm

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Cinema “The Old Man & the Storm” Cornwall Lib. 6pm Cabaret “Don’t Tell Mama” FP 6pm Theatre-Musical “Joseph & ... Dreamcoat” FP 8pm

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Music Tom Quinn SSO 6pm-8pm

Poetry Reading Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Ch., 7pm

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Music ......................................Tommy Ca

Music ........................................Charlie L

Music ..........................Marc Black & Ha Music - Jazz....The Jazz Cats .............

Theatre - Play ........“STRUCK” w/Tann Cinema ..........................Surrealism Fi

Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoin

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Music ..............................Frank Sorvino ............SSO 5pm-7pm

Open Mic Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 6:30pm

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Music.......................Milford Music Fe Poetry Reading ..................Hudson River Poets ..................NFL 7pm Music ..........................................Steve W Poetry Reading ..........................Chuck Tripi ..........................NCR 7pm Music - Jazz............The Jazz Cats .....

Cinema ..............................Reel Eclectic Films ....................TL 7pm Theatre - Play.......“I Remain...Jane Au Recreation ..............Country Western Line Dancing ........JCC 7pm Music ....................Wicked Knee, Hiro

Cinema “Abraham Lincoln” NVM 7:30pm

Music..............Commander Cody/Professor Louie ..........FAL 7pm Music ......................................Evan Tea Storytelling...Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Library, 7:30pm Prose Reading.1st Friday Contemporar

Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoing Tide” ..................ST 8pm Poetry Reading......Christine Boyka Klug Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoin

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Cabaret ......“Be Our Guest” Disney Songs ..........FP 6pm

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Music - Bluegrass ......Elissa Jo Music - Acoustic“Sweet Summer Sounds” ..SSO 6pm-8pm Cinema Music - Jazz.....The Jazz Cats “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” Magic......................................Robert Harris ..............NCR6pm-9pm Music ................Sex Mob does Fellini, Cornwall Library, Noon Open Mic Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 6:30pm Music ........................................Rob Sc Theatre-Play Recreation ..............Country Western Line Dancing ........JCC 7pm Music......Twist & Shout Beatles Tribute “The Odd Couple” Music ....................Casey Erdman CD Release Event ......FAL 7pm FP 2pm & 8pm Theatre - Play ..........“The Odd Couple” Neil Simon ..........FP 8pm Theatre - Play ..........“The Odd Couple Cabaret Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoing Tide” ..................ST 8pm Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoin “Be Our Guest” FP 6pm Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Cabaret ....................“Be Our Guest” D

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Cinema Afternoon Movie TL 2pm

Theatre-Musical “Joseph &...Dreamcoat” FP 2pm & 8pm Cabaret “Don’t Tell Mama” FP 6pm Opera-Livecast “Carmen” SCCC 7pm

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Cabaret “Don’t Tell Mama” FP 6pm

= Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Hi = Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh = Seelig Auditorium, Sullivan Co = Sullivan County Dramatic Wor = Seligmann Center for the Arts

Music-Jazz Organik Vibe Trio FAL 7pm

Poetry Beacon Yoga, 7pm

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PVO RTZ SCCC SCDW SLG

Theatre-Musical “Joseph &...Dreamcoat” FP 2pm & 8pm Cabaret “Don’t Tell Mama” FP 6pm

Opera-Livecast “Il Trovatore” SCCC 7pm

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Cabaret ................“Don’t Tell Mama” ....................FP 6pm

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Music - Jazz ................Piet Kos Music - Jazz.....The Jazz Cats .

Open Mic ..............................Open Mic Night ............NCR 6pm-9pm Music ......................................Al Westp Open Mic Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 6:30pm Music - Classical..Newburgh Illuminate Music - Acoustic“Sweet Summer Sounds” ..SSO 6pm-8pm

Recreation ..............Country Western Line Dancing ........JCC 7pm Theatre - Play..“God of Carnage”..Shepa Theatre - Play..”Status Quo Vadis”..Fir Music ..................................Indo Jazz-Fusion ....................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play..................“The Miracle Music..................Hot Tuna w/Jill Sobule ..........Bethel Woods, 8pm Theatre - Play ..........................“Love/S

Theatre-Musical.”Joseph&Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” FP 8pm Theatre-Musical..”Joseph & the Amazing

Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Music - Bluegrass......Lost Ryd Music - Jazz..The Jazz Cats .

Music - Acoustic ..........“Sweet Summer Sounds” ....SSO 6pm-8pm Music - Jazz ..........................Les Paul Open Mic Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 6:30pm Music ......................................Jack Hig Recreation ..............Country Western Line Dancing ........JCC 7pm Cinema ............................Surrealist Fil Music ..................................Jim Campilongo ....................FAL 7pm Theatre-Musical..”Joseph & the Amazing Theatre - Play ..........................“Love/S Cabaret ................“Don’t Tell Mama” ....................FP 6pm

Theatre-Musical.”Joseph&Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” FP 8pm Theatre - Play..“God of Carnage”..Shepa

Theatre - Play ..........................“Love/Sick” ..........................ST 8pm Theatre - Play..”Status Quo Vadis”..Fir Music-Classical Music on Homemade Instruments Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Play..................“The Miracle MISU 7:30pm Cabaret ..............................“Don’t Tell

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...Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel 7pm

nis Kowalchuk ........NACL 7:30pm

lm Series ..................SLG 7:30pm

ng Tide” ............................ST 8pm

estival ..........Downtown Milford, TBA

Wells ..........................NCR 6pm-9pm

...Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel 7pm usten” ......Goshen Music Hall, 7pm

oso Tsukamoto ................FAL 7pm

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ry Writers.Narrowsburg Lib. 7:30pm

ge, Dennis Bressack........HCC 8pm

ng Tide” ............................ST 8pm

= Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center (formerly Lycian Centre) = Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville = Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown = Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Orange, Newburgh = Orange Hall, OCCC, SUNY Orange, Middletown

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Recreation...........Military Arts Day ......Ft. Montgomery Historic Suite, 10am-4pm Holistic-Festival.......GREENFEST 2013 ......Walden-Wallkiil Rain Trail, 11am-3pm Recreation..“First Person” Tours ......Washington’s Hdqrtrs, Newburgh, 1pm & 3pm Festival.......20th Anniversary Festival ........Castle Fun Center, Chester, 1pm-10pm Poetry Reading ....................Gary Whitehead..........................................SLG 3:30pm Music ........................................Mighty Girl ..........................................NCR 6pm-9pm Theatre - Play ..............“I Remain...Jane Austen” ..............Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Theatre - Play ........“STRUCK” w/Tannis Kowalchuk..........................NACL 7:30pm Music - Classical ..........Amphion String Quartet ................Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Music......................................The Tall Boys............Castle Fun Center, Chester, 8pm Music...........David Driver & Blythe Gruda “On the Twentieth Century” ....TT 8pm Music ........................................Still Hand ..............Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoing Tide” ............................................ST 8pm

Recreation..............Crown Forces Day ....Ft. Montgomery Historic Suite, 10am-4pm Art Walk ..........................Second Saturday ......................Downtown Beacon, all day Festival ....................10th Annual Trout Parade ............Livingston Manor, 11am-3pm Music ..................................Milford Music Festival........................Downtown Milford, TBA Music ......................................Strings Attached ..........................................SSO 2pm-4pm Art Walk ....................................Art After Dark ......................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pm Recreation..................Victorian Tea ................Terwilliger House Museum, Ellenville, Noon Music ..................................Strings Attached trio ......................................SSO 6pm-8pm Theatre - Play ..................“I Remain...Jane Austen” ..................Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Music - Classical.....Greater NY Wind Symphony..............Railroad Green, Warwick, 7pm Music..........................................Molly Durnin Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 7pmTheatre Play ....................................“The Outgoing Tide”..................................................ST 8pm Comedy ....................................Tommy Gooch ....................................................JCC 8pm Music ......................................Todd Wolfe Band ....Benji & Jakes, Kauneonga Lake, 9pm

ones ......................NCR 6pm-9pm

= Thrall Library, Middletown = Tuxedo Perfornming Arts Group, Tuxedo Park = Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg = Theatre at West Shore Station, Newburgh = Wurtsboro Art Alliance

Recreation.Stewart State Forest Bike Tour..Weed Rd. & Rt. 207, 9am Festival..Old Fashioned Day ....Walker Valley Firehouse, 11am-5pm Music - Jazz.........The Jazz Cats ........Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Noon Cinema...............“Trashed” ..........Downing FIlm Center, Newburgh, 1pm Recreation..“First Person” Tours Washington’s Headquarters, Nwbrgh, 2pm Music - Classical......The Serenade Quartet ........Storm King Art Center, 2pm Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoing Tide” ..........................ST 2pm Theatre - Play........“I Remain...Jane Austen” ....Goshen Music Hall, 2pm Theatre - Play ........“STRUCK” w/Tannis Kowalchuk ............NACL 4pm Poetry Reading ..............Christopher Wheeling ......................WAA 7pm

Music - Jazz.........The Jazz Cats Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Noon Music..............Milford Music Festival ..........Downtown Milford, TBA Music - Classical.....Satie: Music for Plucked Instruments..SLG 10am-4am Recreation...Cannon Firings....Knox’s Hdqrters, New Windsor, 1pm-4pm Theatre - Play...“I Remain...Jane Austen” ........Goshen Music Hall, 2pm Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoing Tide” ..........................ST 2pm Music-Opera, B’wayDV Opera, Arts Alliance Benefit Private Home, Bethel 2pm Music - Classical.Newburgh Symphonic Chorale St. George’s Ch., 3pm Music..Sullivan Cty Comm. Chorus Immaculate Concptn Ch, Woodbourne, 3pm

Prose Reading, Book Signing..”Communing with Animals” ....HCC 3pm Music - Classical ........NY Philharmonic Members ................TPAG 4pm Music - Cabaret. David Alpher & Jennie LittLumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, 3pm

Dance ................................“Coppelia” Delibes ....................SLPAC 7pm

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Music - Jazz..The Jazz Cats ....Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Noon Craft Festival.“Audubon & Friends Too” ..Fly Fishing Museum, L Manor, 10am-4pm ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel 7pm Recreation.West Point Plein Air Paint OutVeterans Park,Highland Falls, 10am-2pm Opera - Video ..................“Destination Mozart” ....Cornwall Library, 1pm Music ................................Music for Humanity ..................................NCR 6pm-9pm Kandinsky Effect ..........FAL 7pm Cinema......”Seeking the Greatest Good: Pinchot Legacy” ..Grey Towers, Milford, dusk Theatre - Play ..................“The Outgoing Tide” ..........................ST 2pm hiff ..........................PV 7pm-10pm Theatre - Play“..................The Subtle Body” Gold No Trade ..............NACL 7:30pm Music ......................................Steve Wells ................PV 2:30pm-5:30pm Theatre - Play....“The Odd Couple” Neil Simon ..............................FP 8pm ....Castle Fun Center, Chester, 8pm Theatre - Play ....“The Outgoing Tide” ............................................ST 8pm Theatre - Play ..........“The Odd Couple” Neil Simon ..................FP 3pm Music - Jazz............Les Paul Trio ............Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Classical....Hudson Valley BachFest ..Cornwall Presby. Ch. 3:30pm e” Neil Simon ....................FP 8pm Music ....................................Celtic Woman ................................Bethel Woods, 8pm ng Tide” ............................ST 8pm Comedy ......................Carmen Lynch, Lori Chase......................................JCC 8pm Music.........Karen Hudson River Band ........Old North Branch Inn, 4pm-7pm Cabaret ....................“Be Our Guest” Disney Songs ..............................FP 10:30pm Music ..................................Guy David Blues ............................FAL 7pm Disney Songs ............FP 10:30pm

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Music ......................Saints of Swing ..................FAL 10am-2pm Cinema.....Gustafer Yellowgold....Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 11am & 12:15pm Music....Electric Music Concert 9 Bands ....Downing Park, Newburgh, 11am-8:30pm ster ........................NCR 6pm-9pm Cinema.Gustafer Yellowgold FIlms Downing Film Center, Noon Music..... .Rags & Songs of Edison’s Era........Crawford House, Newburgh, Noon Music - Jazz.........The Jazz Cats ........Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Noon ...Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel 7pm phal ........................PV 7pm-10pm Festival.............Day to Be Gay Festival....................Hills Country Inn, Callicoon Ctr, Noon-5pm Theatre - Play ..........................“Love/Sick” ..................................ST 2pm ed Festival Chorus MSM 7:30pm Music - Classical................MUSE Early Music “Newburgh Illuminated” ....................RTZ 7pm Theatre - Play.”Status Quo Vadis”..First Presbyterian Ch., Goshen, 2pm Theatre-Musical...........”Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” ........FP 2pm & 8pm ard Student Center, Middletown, 8pm Theatre - Play..................“The Miracle Worker” ....................SCDW 2pm Theatre - Play.................“God of Carnage” ..............Shepard Student Center, Middletown, 8pm rst Presbyterian Ch., Goshen, 8pm Theatre - Play.................”Status Quo Vadis” ....................First Presbyterian Ch., Goshen, 8pm Theatre - Play.“God of Carnage”..Shepard Student Center, Middletown, 3pm Worker” ....................SCDW 8pm Theatre - Play ........................“The Miracle Worker”................................................SCDW 8pm Theatre-Musical.”Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” FP 3pm ick” ..................................ST 8pm Theatre - Play ................................“Love/Sick” ..............................................................ST 8pm Music - Classical...MUSE Early Music “Newburgh Illuminated” ....RTZ 3pm

g Technicolor Dreamcoat” ..FP8pm Music ..................................Joan Baez & Indigo Girls ................................Bethel Woods, 8pm Music..Newburgh Illuminated Gospel Choirs B’Way & Lander St. 3pm-6pm

Mama” ......................FP 10:30pm Comedy ..........................................Tino Giorgi ............................................................JCC 8pm Theatre - Play ........................“Wormholes” ............................NACL 4pm Cabaret......................................“Don’t Tell Mama” ..................................................FP 10:30pm Music ..................................Carmen Pascucci ............................FAL 7pm

ders........................NCR 6pm-9pm ...Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel 7pm Trio ................................FAL 7pm gins ........................PV 7pm-10pm m Series....................SLG 7:30pm

g Technicolor Dreamcoat” ..FP8pm

ick” ..................................ST 8pm

ard Student Center, Middletown, 8pm

rst Presbyterian Ch., Goshen, 8pm Worker” ....................SCDW 8pm Mama” ......................FP 10:30pm

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Recreation.....Bloomingburg Garden Tour ..............Bloomingburg & Wurtsboro, 10am Music ......................Beacon Riverfest 2013 ......................Riverfront Park, Noon-8pm Theatre-Musical..”Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” ................FP 2pm & 8pm Music....Evan Teatum, Bruce Perone, Rob Schiff, Al Westphal, Ken Nicastro ..PVO 6:30pm Music - Celtic ......................Kathie Ryan’s Celtic Band ........................Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Music - Folk .........................Mike Baglione, Anne Loeb & Friends ......................NVM 7:30pm Music...............Carmine & Vinny Appice Drum Wars ............Castle Fun Center, Chester, 8pm Theatre - Play ................................“Love/Sick” ..............................................................ST 8pm Theatre - Play..............“God of Carnage” ................Shepard Student Center,, Middletown, 8pm Theatre - Play..............”Status Quo Vadis”..................First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, 8pm Theatre - Play ........................“The Miracle Worker”................................................SCDW 8pm Comedy ........................Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling ..........................................JCC 8pm Music ..........................................Richard Thorne ..........2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 8:30pm Cabaret......................................“Don’t Tell Mama” ..................................................FP 10:30pm

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Music - Jazz ......Eric Lawrence Quartet ....................10am-2pm Music.........The Jazz Cats ......Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Noon

Theatre - Play..”Status Quo Vadis” First Presbyterian Ch., Goshen, 2pm Theatre - Play ..........................“Love/Sick” ..................................ST 2pm Theatre - Play..................“The Miracle Worker” ....................SCDW 2pm Music ....................................Anthony Fiore ..............PV 2:30pm-5:30pm Theatre - Play..“God of Carnage” Shepard Student Ctr, Middletown, 3pm Theatre-Musical.”Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” FP 3pm Music......................................Funk Junkies ..............................FAL 7pm June 2013

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CANvas category calendar sponsored by The Wurtsboro Art Alliance & The Wallkill River School of Art

ART exhibits CAS ..........................................................................................Catskill Art Society Arts Center, Livingston Manor DAC ............................................................Alliance Gallery & Loft Gallery, Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg SUNYO-KH ....................................................................................................SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH........................................................................SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Gallery & Loft WRS ....................................................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Carolyn Duke pottery................................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa Strazza paintings ............................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints......Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing David & Joann Wells Greenbaum potter, paintings ................BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing Jacqueline Schwab, Mikey Teutul....................................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Kelly Patton ..............................................................................Caffe Macchiato, Newburgh, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ......................Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Sheila St. Lawrence ................................................................................Goshen Music Hall, ongoing Emily Adamo, Noah Powne & others ............................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, thru Jun 2 Diane Ouzoonian pastels, watercolors, oils..........................................Newburgh Library, thru Jun 2 “Togetherness & Family” art & photography ............................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, thru Jun 2 bau 100 + 1..........................................................................................bau Gallery, Beacon, thru Jun 2 Joe Diebboll & Alice Judson “Blending Old and New” ....RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Jun 2 Becky Yasdan & Rob Hickman ..........................................................The Forge, Milford, thru Jun 2 “Grateful for Spring” group show......................................The ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Jun 3 Erica Hart “Above & Beyond” mixed media ............................................................DAC thru Jun 5 “Ole!” Mexican-American artists ......................................Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Jun 8 Liberty HS Art Show ..............................................................................Liberty Museum, thru Jun 8 “Working Space” Objects for the Desk ......................................................................DAC thru Jun 8 Mike Jaroszko ........................................................................................Elant at Goshen, thru Jun 10 “Floral” WRS members ............................................................................................WRS thru Jun 14 “Audubon and Friends Too” art & photography ......Wulff Gallery, Livingston Manor, thru Jun 16 Art of the Imagination: Hudson Valley’s Children’s Illustrators ....................................................

Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, thru Jun 17 Llyn Towner ..........................Healing Arts Gallery, Ellenville Regional Medical Center, thru Jun 21 Sarah McHugh “Sublime Aspirations” ..................................WVFA Gallery, Warwick, thru Jun 28 Kit Jones, Barbara Zweig “Mist and Mystery” ..........................Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, thru Jun David Borenstein paintings..........................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, thru July 31 “Botanicals” River Valley Artists Guild ......................Town of Deerpark Hall, Huguenot, thru Sep 6 Karune McLaughlin “Birds, Barns, and More” ................Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, thru summer

New art Exhibits 10th Anniversary of Livingston Manor Trout Parade Exhibit ....................................CAS Jun 1-9 Doug Gilbert ..........................................................Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jun 1-27 Naomi Genen & Sandra Spitzer, Julisse Rivera Saltzberg ......................................WRS Jun 1-30 Goshen Art League ..................................................Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, Jun 1-30 Susan Hope Fogel ........................................................................Wisner Library, Warwick,. Jun 1-30 “Light-HeARTed” group show ............................................Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jun 1-30 “Down the Garden Path” group show ..........................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jun 1-30 Pine Bush HS Students..............................................Town of Crawford Gov’t Center, Jun 1-July 31 Middletown Art Group Spring Exhibition ..............................................SUNYO-OH Jun 4-Jul 12 Frank Shuback “Anticipating Projects” ............................Seligmann Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jun 4-30 Group Exhibit..........................................................................Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Jun 6-30 Bill Cypher Washingtonville Art Society ..........................Weathervane Clubhouse, Jun 7, 5pm-8pm Al Bialos “Bold- Colorful - Rhythmic” ....................................ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jun 7-Jul 8 Daisy DePuthod, Madelon Jones ..............................................Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, June 8-21 Betty Ann Enos “Far Away and Home Again” ....................Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Jun 8-30 Catskill Artists Guild ..............................................................................Liberty Museum, Jun 14-30 Matt Pozorski “We Few, We Happy Few” sculpture & drawings ......................DVAC Jun 14-Jul 6 New Hudson Valley Luminists ......................Old Courthouse, 123 Grand St, Newburgh, Jun 15-30 “Farms” WRS members ........................................................................................WRS Jun 15-Jul 14 CAS Summer Members Show ..............................................................................CAS Jun 15-Jul 14 “The New York Collection for Stockholm” ..................Seligmann Center for the Arts, Jun 15-TBA Nelly Bablunian ..................................................................ArtsWAVE, Ellenville, Jun 20, 6pm-8pm Group Show..............................................................Wulff Gallery, Livingston Manor, Jun 20-Aug 6 Art in Bloom fine art & floral design group show ............Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Jun 21-23 Michael Bloom, Shane Cashman ..........................................Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, Jun 22-TBD Barbara Lanza ......................................................................................Elant at Goshen, Jun 24-Jul 8 Elizabeth Castaldo, Carol Kronyak, Ella Guma....................................SUNYO-KH, Jun 27-Sep 6

photography exhibits HPG ..............................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown John Strazza ............................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Nat Baines ”Photography Around the World” ..................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Mike Culver “People, Places and Things”....................................................HPG Milford, thru Jun 2 James Luciana “Memento Mori - Missing Moments”..SUNYO CenterArts Gallery, Newburgh, thru Jun 14 Patricia Lay-Dorsey “falling into place: self-portraits............Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon thru Jul 7

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New Photography Exhibits Julia Zimmerman “The White Album” ....................................................................HPG Jun 8-Jul 7 Tom Doyle ..........................................................................................Elant at Goshen, Jun 10-Jun 24 Joe Statuto “Perhaps in a Dream”........................................................................DVAC Jun 14-Jul 6 Nick Zungoli “Tuscana” ..............................................Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jun 22- Jan 1

Art & photography receptions “Down the Garden Path” group show........................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jun 1, 2pm-4pm 10th Anniversary of Livingston Manor Trout Parade Exhibit ..............................CAS Jun 1, 4pm-6pm Doug Gilbert ......................................................Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jun 1, 5pm-7pm Bill Cypher Washingtonville Art Society ..................................Weathervane Clubhouse, Jun 7, 5pm-8pm Betty Ann Enos “Far Away and Home Again” ................Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Jun 8, 1pm-3pm Goshen Art League ..............................................Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, Jun 8, 2pm-4pm Frank Shuback “Anticipating Projects” ........................Seligmann Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jun 8, 4pm-6pm Daisy DePuthod, Madelon Jones ..........................................Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, June 8, 4pm-7pm Naomi Genen & Sandra Spitzer, Julie River-Saltzberg ........................................WRS Jun 8, 5pm-7pm Julia Zimmerman “The White Album” ....................................................................HPG Jun 8, 5pm-9pm Group Exhibit ......................................................................Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Jun 8, 6pm-8pm Al Bialos “Bold- Colorful - Rhythmic” ....................................ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jun 8, 6pm-9pm Joe Statuto “Perhaps in a Dream”........................................................................DVAC Jun 14, 7pm-9pm Matt Pozorski “We Few, We Happy Few” sculpture & drawings ......................DVAC Jun 14, 7pm-9pm Catskill Artists Guild ..........................................................................Liberty Museum, Jun 15, 4pm-8pm CAS Summer Members Show ................................................................................CAS Jun 15, 6pm-8pm Group Show........................................................................Wulff Gallery, Livingston Manor, Jun 20, TBA Nelly Bablunian............................................................................ArtsWAVE, Ellenville, Jun 20, 6pm-8pm Mount St. Mary Student Art Show “Light on Desmond”Desmond Campus, Nwbrgh, Jun 22, 1pm-3pm Michael Bloom, Shane Cashman ..........................................Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, Jun 22, 4pm-7pm New Hudson Valley Luminists....................Old Courthouse, 123 Grand St, Newburgh, Jun 22, 2pm-5pm Nick Zungoli “Tuscana” ..................................................Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jun 22, 7:30pm “Light-HeARTed” group show & “Art in Bloom” ........Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jun 23, 1pm-3pm Elizabeth Castaldo, Carol Kronyak, Ella Guma ....................................SUNYO-KH, Jun 27, 5pm-7pm Middletown Art Group Spring Exhibition................................................SUNYO-OH Jun 30, 1pm-4pm

books Book Lover’s Club............................................Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm Discussion “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”....................Cornwall Library, Jun 5, 7pm Tuesday at Two Book Discussion......................................................Newburgh Library, Jun 18, 2pm Scholars Book Discussion..................................................................Newburgh Library, Jun 19, 7pm Great Books Discussion “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell ............................

Crawford Library, Monticello, Jun 25, 7:30pm Page Turners Book Club ..................................................................Florida Library, Jun 27, 6:30pm Book Chat & Chocolate “Private Life” by Jane Smiley ....................Cornwall Library, Jun 27, 7pm Great Books Discussion ..............................................................Newburgh Library, Jun 28, 11:30am

clubs Chess Club..................................................................................Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess ......................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch ..........................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” ..............Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays, 9am Knitters & Crocheters “Crochety Knitters” ..............................Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10:15am Knitting Club........................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays 2:30pm Knitting Stitch & Bitch ....................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Knitting Group................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knit/Crochet Club ......................................................................Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters ........................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Club ............................................................................Newburgh Library, Jun 11 & 25, 7pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org ......Last Sundays, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild ..........................................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop....St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ..................Cornell Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm Country Quilters Guild Stitch & Bitch ................................Walker Valley School House, Mondays Scrabble Mania ..............................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ..............................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Woodcarving Guild ......................................................Museum Village, Monroe, Wednesdays, 7pm

School & COnservatory All County HJigh School Student Art Celebration ......Galleria at Crystal Run, June 8, 10am-5pm Monroe/Woodbury All Night Graduation Benefit ....................................................................

Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jun 9, Noon-5pm Hudson Valley BachFest Young People’s Concert ........Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jun 15, 2pm Mount St. Mary College Student Art Show “Light on Desmond” Newburgh Illuminated..............

Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Jun 22, 1pm Music Performed on Homemade Instruments..........................MISU, Ellenville, Jun 30, 2pm

Whispering Pines Corner with Executive Chef Douglas P. Frey

The History of Fathers Day fathers.

Dr. Robert Webb held what is believed to have been the first Father's Day celebration at the Central Church of Fairmont, in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1908. Most likely this celebration originated from observations of Mother's Day, which also had its birth in West Virginia.

However, it was the efforts of Sonora Louise Smart Dodd that really led to instituting Father's Day as an official holiday in the U.S. Sonora lived in Spokane, Washington, and came up with the idea of Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Sonora's father, William Jackson Smart, was a Civil War veteran that had lost his wife as she bore their sixth child. William raised the six children on his own and Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous and a loving man.

Her father's birthday was in June and Sonora chose June 19, 1909 for the celebration to honor

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge wanted Father's Day to become a national holiday.

However, Father's Day did not become an official holiday in the U.S. until years later. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed the third Sunday in June be Father's Day. It is a Father's Day tradition to wear a red rose if your father is living, and a white rose if he is deceased.

These following recipes are in memory of my Dad, whom I miss dearly. And make sure you serve this with frosted mugs of Becks Dark Beer like my Dad always did.

Here's to you Dad! WIENER SCHNITZEL 6 veal cutlets • 2T worcestershire sauce • 2T dried mustard • 2T parmesan cheese • 1c flour • 1T Salt • 1T Pepper • 2 Eggs • 1 Bay leaf • 1c bread crumbs • 2T parsley • 1c tomato puree • ½c heavy cream • 1 celery stalk • 1 onion sliced

thin • 3 cloves of garlic • salt & pepper to taste • 1t chopped parsley • 1/4 t baking soda • 1 clove • Use meat tenderizing hammer to pound veal to about 3/8 inch thick fillets.

• Lay out fillets on wax paper, season with salt & pepper, brush with worcestershire sauce, sprinkle with dried mustard & parmesan cheese.

• Gently pound mixture into veal.

• Coat prepared veal pieces in flour.

• Beat eggs in shallow bowl.

• Dip floured veal pieces in egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

• Veal may be stored in fridge for up to 2 hours.

• Combine tomato puree, celery, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and clove in saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes.

• Strain through fine mesh sieve, pushing as much vegetable pulp through as possible.

• Return to saucepan and reheat.

• Sauté veal in a sauté pan with butter, turning

often until both sides are browned.

• Serve on heated platter with parsley garnish.

• Add baking soda to reheated vegetable puree, then whisk in the heavy cream.

• Serve with spaetzela.

SPAETZELA 2c flour • ½c water • 2 eggs • ½t ground nutmeg • ground white pepper to taste • 1t salt • 1 gallon hot water • 2T butter • 2T chopped parsley • Bring the water to a full boil.

• Mix together flour, salt, white pepper, and nutmeg.

• Beat eggs well, add alternately with the water to the dry ingredients.

• Mix until a soft dough is formed.

• On a wet cutting board, place the dough and cut into the boiling water with a sharp knife, little strips of dough.

• Cook approximately 5 minutes or until they start to float.

• Drain well.

• Toss with sweet butter and sprinkle chopped parsley on top, serve. Enjoy!

As always for all of your culinary questions, I may be reached at 845-647-1428.

SHOP PINE BUSH !

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“Aesthetic Aspirations” Exhibit Includes Walden Artist “A slight glimpse of the stuff that lurks deep down in my soul” is the description Walden resident Carol Ann Kronyak gives about her works.

Further she states, “letting it peek out for me is invigorating and slightly liberating.”

She is concerned about “the environment and future generations, and demonstrates these feelings through her ceramic pieces and mixed media constructions.

The exhibit, Aesthetic Aspirations, is actually a three-woman exhibit featuring the works of artists Kronyak, Elia Gurna of Beacon, and Elizabeth Castaldo currently of Atlanta, GA and originally of Montgomery.

The silkscreen on paper works of Elizabeth Castaldo “draw a parallel between the inner conflicts of the human mind and the inherent entropy of nature, creating a push and pull between nature and human nature, resulting in an atmosphere of harmony and discord within the same image.” She continues, “the work is about the resilience of nature and the ability for adaptation, despite a natural tendency toward disorder.”

Elia Gurna’s works ask questions about “the meaning and definitions of beauty and nature in a polluted and increasingly artificial world filled with war and destructive cynicism.” She explains this concept through her series of paintings and three-dimensional

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Work by Carol Ann Kronyak

Work by Elia Gurna

Work by Elizabeth Castaldo

construction-sculptures, toxicfantastic and photosynthetic flower paintings, which “explore the interface between the natural and the artificial, the man-made and the organic, and the way these two seemingly contradictory realms are intertwined and dependent.”

The exhibit is in the newly renamed Mindy Ross Gallery (formerly CenterArts Gallery) at SUNY Orange’s Kaplan Hall.

“Mindy has always maintained a deep personal and professional commitment to the greater Hudson Valley arts community,” says Dr. William Richards, SUNY Orange president. “When she assumed leadership of our Newburgh Extension Center in 2006, she

quickly invigorated that site with an array of cultural events. It was her desire to include a small art gallery into the construction and design plans for Kaplan Hall. She felt a dedicated art space would demonstrate the College’s commitment to the arts, while also instilling in our students a broader understanding and appreciation of arts and culture.”

Ross is retiring this summer after serving as an educator and administrator at SUNY Orange for the past 31 years.

Mindy Ross

The Mindy Ross Gallery is on the first floor of Kaplan Hall, located at the corner of Grand and First Streets, Newburgh, adjacent to the Student Services Central office suite and near the Kaplan Hall Great Room.

Free, secure parking is available in the Kaplan Hall underground parking garage accessible via First Street. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public.

Aesthetic Aspirations is on view through September 6, presented by Cultural Affairs to which questions may be directed: 845-3414891 and email, cultural@sunyorange.edu.

Summer gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 3:00pm, and by appointment.

June 2013

Thorne Rocks Out at 2 Alices

“Buddy Holly might have sounded something like this if he had migrated to the Village scene in the latter 1960s, as folk music was transforming into folk-rock - in other words into an intelligent, inner-directed, generally acoustic pop” This is how one critic described Richard Thorne and his music when reviewing his CD, Amalgam released in 2004.

Born and raised in Central Upstate NY, Thorne was fortunate enough to have been exposed to all styles of music. Consequently his influences and tastes are very broad, which is apparent in his song writing. He tends to borrow from many different genres, so that at times hints of anything from bluegrass and traditional country, to pop (in the older definition of that term) and even Tin Pan Alley can be heard in his compositions.

At age 10, he eagerly started playing the drums, and later at 18, he picked up his first guitar and took a tentative stab at song writing.

After pursuing a career throughout the Seventies in theater (acting) and dance, which included a brief scholarship at the New York School of Ballet, he returned to playing the drums for several "New Wave" bands.

In 1980, he made his debut as a guitar strumming singer songwriter at a folk club in Greenwich Village. He soon added an electric violin and bass to the mix, named the group Richard Thorne and The Side Effects and

Todd Wolfe Band Back in the USA Todd Wolfe and his band mates, Roger Voss on drums and Justine Gardner on bass, have returned from their Forty-Two Show European Tour and they’re back in North America this summer in time for Todd’s eighth release since his guitar-strumming, cowriting days with Sheryl Crow.

The band brings its bluesadelic sounds to Benji & Jake’s, 5 Horseshoe Lake Road, Kauneonga Lake on June 8 at 9:00pm.

For information, call 845-583-4031.

“Sonic Boom” Releasd in North Branch

preceded to write and play his quirky alternative pop/folk rock songs that crossed different genres and styles, and often confused many a listener along the way.

Incorporating the upright bass, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and the pedal steel into his sound, he recorded three CDs, “Undercover Overachiever “ (2000), “Amalgam” ( 2004) and “One Plus Six” ( 2007) .

Thorne will be playing his mix of quirky acoustic pop, urban folk rock and old country songs at 2Alices, 311 Hudson Street in Cornwall-on-Hudson. June 28, 8:30pm.

Phone: 845-534-4717

On her CD Sonic Bloom, Karen Hudson digs “deep down in the dirt” to exorcise some demons and give herself permission to blossom and thrive. With the first words of Late Bloomer, she dclares her intent: “Kicking out some rock, making room for roots.” The musical roots go deep—and broad. This is Americana with a heavy rock foot and some gnarly guitars, for people who keep the Byrds and the Stones next to Roseanne Cash and Patsy Cline.

The youngest child of five, raised on Long Island by a single mom, Hudson hammed it up in backyard plays and, later, sang Linda Ronstadt songs in acting auditions. She drew on years glued to her Toot-a-Loop transistor radio soaking up the sounds of Motown, Philly soul, and Top 40 hits to pen her own songs. After moving to NYC, she opened for acts like

Madeline Peyroux and Pete Seeger On Sonic Bloom, Hudson reckons with the important men in her life while firmly staking out her own territory as a grown woman. The Release Party is on June 17, 4:00pm-7:00pm at Old North Branch Inn, 869 North BranchHortonville Road. For info: 845-482-5925.

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Middletown Art & Anniversary Artifacts at SUNYO

“Mountaintop View” by Mitchell Saler

“O & W Station” by Mickie MacMillan

“Sunflowers” by Gulsen Beasley

“Suede High Heels” by Kristin Wetzel

The Middletown Art Group (MAG) celebrates 67 years as an art organization this year with its 2013 Middletown Art Group Members Exhibition June 4 through July 12 in SUNY Orange’s Orange Hall Gallery.

Simultaneously, the MAG show offers two significant events within the exhibit which join in the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Middletown. A show of paintings, photographs, and memorabilia entitled Eclectic Middletown will also be on display

in Orange Hall Gallery Loft.

Members of MAG not only come from Middletown; they also reside in other parts of Orange County as well as Ulster, Sullivan, Dutchess, Sussex, and Pike Counties. Exhibit co-chairs are Renee Buckheit and Catherine DeMaio both of Middletown. Jill Constantino is president of the art group.

The festive reception event takes place on June 30 from 1:00pm-4:00pm, the weekend of the 125th celebration. Bev Poyerd of

Washingtonville will play selections from contemporary and classical compositions.

In addition, throughout the reception, five MAG members each specializing in a different medium will offer minidemonstrations: Doug Milne - graphite; Marianne Taylor - colored wax pencils; Anne Kelly - pastels; Cynthia HarrisPagano - oils; Mickie MacMillan watercolors.

The exhibition will include nearly 100 artworks in a variety of media: oils, acrylics,

watercolors, pastels, graphite, wax pencils, collage, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Judging the show is awardingwinning artist Jim Adair of National Landmark Red Pump Studio, New Paltz.

Awards will be presented at the end of the reception. Admission is free and open to everyone, demos included.

Orange Hall Gallery is located at the corner of Grandview and Wawayanda Avenues, Middletown.

For more information, call 845-341-4891.

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Orange County Arts Council Presents All County Student Art Celebration

Artwork by Andrew Smatzler

“Spring Deer” by Marisa Hernandez

“Terrarium” by Gye Park

“Parrots” by Samantha Krunfol

The Orange County Arts Council's mission is to strengthen the arts in Orange County by providing educational, promotional, and information services. This is accomplished by coordinating and facilitating relationships among the arts, schools, businesses, government, and the public. The vision of the Arts Council is to make the arts accessible to all people.

Accordingly, The Orange County Arts Council is hosting the first All County High School Student Arts Celebration.

The fourteen high schools that will be providing visual art for this event are the BOCES Career and Technical Education Center, Cornwall Central High School,

Chester Academy High School, George F. Baker High School in Tuxedo, Goshen Central High School, James I. O'Neill High School in Highland Falls, John S. Burke Catholic High School in Goshen, John F. Flannery High School at Orange-Ulster BOCES, Middletown High School, Minisink Valley High School, Monroe-Woodbury High School, Pine Bush High School, Port Jervis High School and Warwick Valley High School. All visual art will be hung on panels kindly donated by the BOCES Career and Technical Education Center.

There will be over 100 works of art to view, as well as musical performances by a variety of talented high school musicians from

different school districts. The musical performances will include the Hudson Valley Conservatory performing selections from the Lion King, a Vibes Soloist from Washingtonville High School, two String Quartets from the Newburgh Free Academy, the Perfect 5th Jazz Ensemble from MonroeWoodbury High School and the Show Choir from Valley Central High School. Alto Music generously donated the sound system for this portion of the event.

"The Arts Council's Education Committee has wanted to do a county-wide student event for some time now. We hope to expand the event next year to include middle school students and perhaps incorporate some

workshops or presentations", says Dawn Ansbro, Executive Director of the Arts Council.

This remarkable event takes place in the Lower Level Center Court at the Galleria at Crystal Run in Middletown on June 8 from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

Anyone who comes to the Galleria on that day and has a chance to view the artwork will be able to vote for their favorite pieces. At 5:00pm, there will be a brief ceremony to announce the People's Choice Award winners and present Certificates of Appreciation to all the students who participated.

For more information, call 845-469-9168 or email dawn@ocartscouncil.org.

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Catskill Artists Gallery at Liberty Museum

what chemical reactions I can get.”

Liberty, New York, here we come.

She likes the fact that glass fusing Right back where we started from.

No, it’s not a Jolson song. It’s a allows her to make a whole range of message from the Catskill Artists pieces from the practical to the Gallery (CAG) members who were whimsical. formerly ensconsed in a storefront on Tom Kelemen’s interst in Main Street for over nine years. After photography started at an early age, CAG closed its “bricks-and-mortar” about 11 or 12, with his first box location they became a “gallery camera. Lately, with increased without walls” with a new location at leisure time and a computer, Tom has www.catskillartistsgallery.com gradually worked his way into digital CAG member, potter Kathy photography.

Jeffers is, “also experienced using a Fabric artist Buff McAllister relatively new technology to sculpt in Vase by Kathy Jeffers creates large fabric collages, pieced “virtual” clay, using FreeForm software and a and appliqued vests, and handwoven scarves Phantom Omni virtual sculpting hand-held and rag rugs. She also dabbles in personal device.” adornment items, weaving, spinning, and Mixed Media artist Nada Clyne says, “over knitting. time some of my work became so small, I found In recent years, photographer Hank myself creating “wearable art,” pendants that Schneider turned his creative interests in a new contain tiny beautiful scenes. I love the idea of direction: woodcraft. “I work with the grains art that doesn’t need a wall or table, just a chain and textures of dead or fallen trees and create and a person to wear it!” she comments. common items in an uncommon way, items Robert Friedman: “Color is very important such as waterproof wooden vases.” in my life and art. My sculptures combine strong CAG is back on Main Street, a few doors structural and curving shapes. Materials include down from its original location, at the Liberty diverse substances like metal, acrylic plastic, Museum & Art Center where they are wood and found materials.” exhibiting their art from June 14-29, with an Glass and jewelry artist Cate Gundlah: opening reception on June 15, Noon-5:00pm.

“Beads are miniature works of art. I like playing Open Fridays and Saturdays, the Museum is with color and combining different colors to see located at 46 S. Main Street. 845-292-2394.

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Middletown’s 125th Anniversary

For Middeletown’s 125th anniversary celebration, a historic marker has been ordered by the City to commemorate the first landing of the Vin Fiz as it made its first coast to coast flight piloted by Cal Rodgers.

It will be held on June 26 at 7:00pm in front of 41/45 Dolson Ave. which is located between Bennett & Hoffman. This location on Dolson Ave. was the site of the first landing of Vin Fiz at what was then the Pleasure Grounds Racetrack. Vin Fiz “historians” Edward and Linda Dubin (see photo above) will also give a talk on the Vin Fiz and Cal Rodgers at Thrall Library on June 11 at 7:00pm where they will show the DVD they made for the 2012 100th anniversary Vin Fiz celebration.

“There will be many festivities in the City,” the Dubins explained. “There will be a very large Parade of Bands and Floats on June 29 at 3:00pm and the Vin Fiz model built in

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2012 by Professor Wolbeck, Chairman of the Engineering and Architecture Department at Orange County Community College, and his engineering students will be on a float in the parade.”.

Other events include a Historic Hustle 1.25 Run (June 29), the Opening of the City of Middletown Time Capsule at City Hall on June 28 at 6:00pm, fireworks at Davidge Park on June 29, and other Historical Exhibits and Lectures, church and school events, and free concerts in Festival Square.

For info: www.middletown-ny.com.

Mid-Hudson Woodcarvers Guild Gets Permanent Home at Museum Village

by Anna Lillian Moser

This summer, visitors to Museum Village in Monroe will get to experience firsthand the historic art of woodcarving thanks to the collaboration between the living history museum and the Mid-Hudson Woodcarvers Guild.

This past winter the guild, which has been in existence for 22 years, took over "the saltbox," one of the museum's many buildings, as the organization's workshop and meeting place, becoming a permanent fixture of the museum.

"I am always looking for partnerships," said Michael Sosler, Museum Director.

The museum's focus is the interpretation and preservation of 19th Century America, a time period in which woodcarving was not only seen as an art form, but as a legitimate trade, making the collaboration between Museum Village and the Guild a perfect fit.

"We're a hands-on, living history museum.

We've got the blacksmith, so people can come and see that. We've got the candle-making, we've got the broom shop; we've got the print shop, so it's very natural to also have the opportunity to see people working with wood as well," Sosler said.

One of the artists who will be featured at the museum is Robert Breur, who has been a guild member since 1995.

"The idea is two-fold. The museum is trying to get more interesting things for visitors to see and to attract more visitors, and we as a guild are looking to get more members," Breur said of the partnership, adding that unfortunately the guild's membership has been down due to members either passing away or moving.

Breur did not start woodcarving until after retirement, becoming familiar with the art form by way of another post-retirement pastime, furniture restoration.

"I was restoring furniture and finding that woodcarvings were typically broken off of antique furniture or missing and had to be repaired and replaced," Breur said. "In addition to that, I came to have an interest in sculpting and carving the human figure."

When creating a sculpture, Breur first begins by sculpting in clay, making maquettes - which are small scale sculptures or rough drafts - using human models, which he then copies to wood.

Lastly, Breur adds an antique, almost furniture finish to the pieces.

Breur said the process of first making a maquette helps because clay is more forgiving and can be modified far more easily than wood.

Sometimes Breur will even have a model change a pose in the middle of sculpting a maquette, which he says would be impossible if he were exclusively working with wood.

"I enjoy the very beginning and the very end

Robert Breur at work sculpting

of the process most. When I'm working directly with a person I enjoy seeking out the person's message and portraying that. And I enjoy the very end of the process where I'm applying the finish to the wood - which is a hand-rubbed finish - making it all silky satin smooth."

Breur said he wants to go in the opposite direction of how art is usually viewed, which is that it's okay to look, but don't touch. Instead, woodcarving is a tactile art form, and he invites visitors to the guild workshop to touch and feel the sculptures.

Breur said he prefers to sculpt the human form than anything else because he believes body language is an individual's true means of

communicating themselves to the world.

"I like the idea of what we express with our body language, so that's really what I try and do," Breur said. "I make each sculpture have a message that it portrays which is as close as possible to the message that a person portrays.

We have what I call our inner message which we present whether we know it or not. A great deal of what we express all the time is done with our attitude and with our body language even more so than our voice or written words."

Breur said he hopes visitors to the guild's workshop will come away with a greater appreciation for woodcarving, and the time and care that go into it.

"I hope they see things that are done by hand as having much more value than they're accustomed to seeing because we so much more often now see things made by machines and by computers," Breur said. "There's a great deal more to looking at a work of art that is an original, created by a person than something that is simply reproduced from a drawing by a machine, that's the human side of it, which I think is something I'm hoping to revive in people's interests."

Visit www.museumvillage.org to learn more about Museum Village. To learn more about the Mid-Hudson Woodcarvers Guild, see http://mhwcg.tripod.com and visit www.rgbreur.com to view Breur's work.

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Communing with Animals

Hudson Valley Author John thoughts on other relevant topics.

Fitzpatrick (see photo) will talk Fitzpatrick will also read from about communing with animals, his various sources about animals read from writings about them, on at the Howland Cultural Center, other issues, and excerpts from his 477 Main Street, Beacon June 9 book, Moving To Completion, at 3:00pm. which features selections, photos, Part of book cost to be donated and art work about animals. He to Howland Cultural Center. will speak on an energy of oneness Refreshments and music between nature’s spirit and the provided. A Question & Answer creative human spirit. He wants these period will follow. Books will be available, selections to entice those in the audience to cash only. Music will be presented by Kevin express through writing and other media, their McIntyre. own animal experiences and personal For more information: 845-876-5661.

Beacon’s Rockin’ RiverFest is Back!

Local 845 will present its fourth annual Beacon Riverfest outdoor music concert in the city’s Riverfront Park.

The 2013 line-up includes twice as many artists as last year! From Chicha Libre’s (see photo) Latin rhythms and psychedelic surf and B-movie sounds to Erin Hobson’s guitar grooves; from American rockers Hollis Brown to the hillbilly lampooning that is Van Hayride; from the electro-trombone and robot keyboard loops of local trio Pontoon to Tracy Bonham’s return to the Riverfest - they’ve got ever more

bands, more variety, more stages. Plus, the Kids and Family Tent returns with family bands, Imagination Playground equipment, face painting, Bubble Boy, and more.

It all takes place on June 29, Noon-8:00pm.

For information call 917-8061348.

DVO and DVAA Benefit

Mezzo-soprano Janice Meyerson has Opera Orchestra triumphed in opera houses and concert halls violist Ronald on five continents, bringing her rich tone and Carbone. dramatic characterizations to a wide-ranging The DVO is repertoire. preparing for its 2013 Since her professional debut as Brangäne season, Mischievous in Tristan und Isolde with the Philadelphia Magnificent Mozart, Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and the DVAA is she has appeared as soloist with many of the for Janice Meyerson preparing finest symphony orchestras, including the everything! - visual, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony literary, performing and Philadelphia Orchestra. arts, and film events, Meyerson’s impressive operatic biography as it is the Arts can be found by visiting Council for Sullivan www.janicemeyerson.com and her impressive County.

Tickets for the June voice can be heard LIVE! in a Savor the Arts benefit for the Delaware Valley Opera 9, 2:00pm-5:00pm (DVO) and the Delaware Valley Arts Lenore Fishman Davis concert are $25 and Alliance (DVAA). may be purchased in For the afternoon of “Music with an advance or at the door Opera/Chamber Music Flair” featuring works with your confirmed

by Brahms, Frank Bridge, Bizet, Saint-Saens RSVP. and others (some Broadway, too), Meyerson Hors d’oeuvres and who is opening her (and Ray Scheindlin’s) wine will be served. home in Bethel for the fundraiser, is to be For further joined by pianist Lenore Fishman Davis, information phone: founder New Jersey’s Arbor Chamber Music 845-252-7576.

Ray Carbone and American Ballet Theatre / Metropolitan

Shop & Dine Montgomery!

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“Where the Catskills Kiss the Hudson” Paintings that focus on the splendors of the Catskills, created through a lens of worldwide travel experience, will be on display throughout June at the Old Stone House of Hasbrouck in an exhibit titled Far Away and Home Again, the art of Betty Ann Enos-Damms.

Betty was born in Ellenville and raised in the Fallsburgh area, enjoyed a life filled with the diversity of cultures, languages and sights so keenly experienced by spouses traveling within a military family.

“Okinawa was my home for almost three years,” she says, and that opened the door to visiting South Korea and Hawaii. Another posting took her to Stuttgart, Germany, offering travel options throughout Europe, plus the chance to learn “enough German to find the important things, like food...and the bathroom.”

Still, some internal magnet kept drawing her back to her origins, something quite understandable since her own maternal ancestors had settled Traver Hollow, near the Shokan Reservoir. “Even though the snowcapped peaks of the Alps are magnificent,” says Betty, “I love our Cats, ‘Gunks, and ‘Dacks, and my heart stayed here, where the Catskills kiss the Hudson.”

And that’s why so many of her paintings feature those mountains readily visible from the roadways of Sullivan and Ulster Counties, and many nearby regions. In retirement, she devoted

Tuscan Café...in Sugar Loaf

“Heading Home” by Betty Ann Enos-Damms

more time to her oils and canvas, and more recently, her watercolors and paper.

Today she lives in a wooded area in Gardiner with her husband and two cats.

The June 8-30 exhibit has an an opening reception from 1:00pm-3:00pm AND a special treat, a second “opening reception,” this one on June 15 at 1:00pm.

The latter is to introduce her new young-adult book, Lightning Odyssey. This fun read for kids is a tale of time-travel-for-two that starts in New Paltz, involves an amateur scientist and a pesky lightning bolt, and teaches its readers the ultimate power of cooperation, and the need to keenly understand history.

The Old Stone House of Hasbrouck is located at 282 Hasbrouck Road (Woodbourne). See www.TheOldStoneHouseOfHabrouck.org for more information.

“Tuscana” by Nick Zungoli

No, it’s not a new branch or franchise of Warwick’s highly popular Tuscan Café.

Internationally recognized as the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since 1979 when he opened Exposures Gallery in the Art and Craft Hamlet of Sugar Loaf. To date he has sold over 50,000 original prints to a long list of collectors including celebrities such as Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones.

Additionally his work graces the corporate walls of Standard and Poor’s as well as many private and public institutions. He has been a contributor to National Geographic Magazine, the New York Times and Popular Photography and

has produced numerous exhibitions and books from his extensive travels.

“After popular demand I finally lead a photo workshop to Tuscany last September and I am delighted to share the fruits of my labor there,” said Zungoli. “‘Casey’ of Exposures Gallery’s will apply her interior design magic to transform the gallery into a “Tuscan” café for our opening reception on June 22 at 7:30pm. Music, refreshments and the Summer Solstice make this a lovely evening out.”

The exhibit runs through January 1, 2014. Exposures Gallery is located at 1357 Kings Highway.

For info: 845-469-9382.

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Les Paul: Gone But Not Forgotten

by Philip Ehrensaft

Celebrating Les Paul: Guitar Virtuoso, Electric Guitar Inventor, Recording Studio Pioneer If Les Paul had pursued only one of his three parallel musical careers, he would have a prominent place in musical history. Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1915, Paul’s extraordinarily nimble figures and matching musical imagination made him a central figure in the 1930’s Chicago jazz scene, and then in 1940’s New York and L.A. When Paul wasn’t paying the rent in the early days by playing country music as Rhubarb Red, he also backed Chicago blues singers with his mean acoustic guitar. He continued to perform right through his last, 94th year of life in 2009.

Paul’s blazing duos with Nat King Cole, a jazz pianist virtuoso before he became a pop crooner super-star, at the first Jazz At The Philharmonic concert in 1944 are rightfully legendary. Above all, Paul’s music went beyond virtuosity: the extremely rapid runs, fluttered and repeated single notes, and chunking rhythm support that the All Music Guide references established new paths for making jazz with the guitar.

The newly emerging electric guitar intrigued Paul, but he wasn’t satisfied with existing instruments, including the first experiments with

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solid-body guitars. So Paul created his own solid-body instruments for the Gibson guitar company, the iconic guitars that were to change jazz guitar playing and, especially, popular music.

The ever-curious Les Paul was also dissatisfied with the way music was captured in the recording studio, and began experimenting with multi-track recording using mono tape machines. Studio recording of every genre of music was to be transformed by those innovations. Not content to stop there, Paul experimented with building multi-layered soundscapes that pioneered new ways that musicians can create music, not just record it.

His landmark Les Paul Trio, which was

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actually a quartet, came to life in 1936, disappeared when Paul temporarily retired, and then sprang back to life, becoming a stalwart at a prime Big Apple jazz club, the Iridium. The quartet consisted of Paul on lead guitar accompanied by a trio of rhythm guitar, piano, and bass. Post-2000, that trio (see photo) included Lou Pollo on guitar, pianist John Colianno, and bassist Nicki Parrott.

On June 15, The Trio will perform a Les Paul birthday celebration concert in the tasting room of the Catskill Distilling Company in Bethel.

This treat comes to us via a close friendship between Les Paul and the Hudson Valley’s Gregory Ercolino, a high level multimedia system designer and system integrator.

Ercolino, working nationally and internationally from his home base in Bloomingburg, became close friends with Paul via a chance encounter in France. His team set up CBS’ systems for broadcasting the winter Paul & Ercolino Olympics from Albertville, France in 1992. A colleague there mentioned that he knew Paul.

Ercolino, a musician as well as audiovisual technology expert, asked if this colleague would arrange an introduction.

When Ercolino was a high school student in Middletown, he was lucky to have an innovative music teacher who had his pupils work with the mono tape machines that Paul used to invent new ways of recording and making music.

Ercolino wants the general public, especially teens, to have that experience too.

Preceding the Les Paul Trio concert, we’ll see and hear a traveling museum of music recording technology, ranging from wax cylinders through Paul’s pioneering of multi-track techniques.

Plus knock-down gorgeous solid-bodied Gibson guitars crafted by the master. The display will be available all day June 15 beginning at Noon.

The concert begins at 8:00pm.

Catskill Distilling is located at 2037 State Route 17B in Bethel.

For information call 845-583-3141.

Mary Ford: Gone and Forgotten

Coppélia - American Youth Ballet

by Derek Leet

Mary Ford (1924-1977), born Iris Colleen Summers, was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-andwife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford.

They put out 28 hits for Capitol Records between 1950 and 1957, including Tiger Rag, Vaya con Dios (11 weeks at #1), How High the Moon (nine weeks at #1), Bye Bye Blues and The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise. In 1951 alone, they sold six million records.

These songs featured Ford harmonizing with herself. They also used the now-ubiquitous recording technique known as close miking, where the microphone is less than six inches from the singer’s mouth, producing a more intimate, less reverberant sound than when the singer is a foot or more from the microphone.

The result was a singing style that diverged strongly from earlier styles.

Though Ford had more hits during the early 50s than did Jo Stafford, Kay Starr, Kitty Kallen, Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Teresa Brewer, Sarah Vaughan, Joni James, Eartha Kitt and Rosemary Clooney, she is not as well remembered as they are. And, interestingly, Patti Page was the only vocalist of the early 50’s who garnered more hits

than Ford - and Mockin’ Bird Hill was possibly the only song of the era that two singers (Ford & Page) recorded with 100% equal success.

Ford and Paul were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and they were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. After her 1963 separation from Paul and subsequent divorce, she sometimes performed with her sisters. She died of complications from diabetes in California at the age of 53.

Her birth year 1924 is engraved on her tombstone with the words “Vaya con Dios”.

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Coppélia is a comic ballet with music by Léo Delibes and a libretto based upon stories

by ETA Hoffmann. Eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Paris Opéra.

Modern-day productions are traditionally derived from the revivals staged by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in the late 19th century.

Giuseppina Bozzacchi (1853-1870) created the role of Swanhilda in Coppélia at the age of 16 in the presence of Emperor Napoleon III. In July an international dispute broke out between France and Prussia over the succession to the Spanish throne, and France declared war.

Bozzacchi danced Swanhilda for the 18th and last time on August 31 when the Paris

FOR ALL OF YOUR

Opéra closed for the duration of the FrancoPrussian War. The Opéra had stopped paying salaries, and Giuseppina, weakened by lack of food, contracted smallpox and fever, and died on the morning of her 17th birthday.

The American Youth Ballet, voted the Best Ballet group for 2012 by the readers of the Times Herald-Record, will perform Coppelia with guest Principle Dancers from the New Jersey Ballet Company who bring their magic to this classical ballet at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center (formerly Lycian Centre), Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf on June 9 at 7:00pm.

To purchase tickets e-mail AmericanYouthBallet@gmail.com or visit www.AmericanYouthBallet.com online.

HOLISTIC NEEDS!

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THE CANVAS BEAT: “DRUM WARS”

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with Tina Piaquadio On June 29, drum legends and brothers, Carmine and Vinny Appice, will be battling it out for drumming dominance at The Castle Fun Center!

The two drum sets (Carmine’s double bass and Vinny’s single bass) are set up in battle position when these two rock legends bring their powerful talent and competitive spirit to The Castle’s Event Room Stage. And Chester gets an even more exciting version of the show with a special tribute to the late Eric Carr, former KISS drummer.

Inspired by the days of Buddy Rich vs. Gene Krupa, Carmine and Vinny bring an edgy, rock style to the original concept, while incorporating some lighthearted comedic digs that only brotherly competition can yield. Together, the two drummers have decades of experience playing with some of the greatest rock bands of all time.

Carmine has backed Vanilla Fudge, Ozzy, Jeff Beck, and Rod Stewart - and that’s the short list. He has received numerous awards and is known as the first rock drumming educator.

He forged personal friendships throughout his career with artists like Jimi Hendrix and John

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The Appice Brothers

KISS drummer Eric Carr (1950-1991)

Bonham.

Vinny worked with John Lennon when he was sixteen, and moved on to bands such as Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven and Hell.

Like his brother, he has found great reward in the teaching aspect of drumming.

The event, titled Drum Wars, gives the audience an opportunity to experience the brothers delivering the songs that branded the Appice name on rock history while seeing the fun, personal side of Carmine and Vinny as well.

Their set list includes (but is not limited to) iconic classics such as Dio’s Rainbow in the Dark and Holy Diver, Ozzy’s Crazy Train and Bark at the Moon, Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules, and a heavy version of Rod Stewart’s Do Ya’ Think I'm Sexy, (the original, notably co-written

by Carmine himself.)

Eric Carr (born Paul Caravello) was selected

by KISS after their original drummer, Peter Criss left in 1980. He chose the stage name “Eric Carr” and took on the “Fox” persona in makeup and costume. He remained a KISS member for eleven years, until his death in 1991 at age 41 of complications from cancer. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, and is interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery in the Town of Newburgh.

Hosting this special tribute show is Charles Ventre, drummer for local musician Rob Canillo’s band Rob and Friends, and Carmine Appice’s personal friend. “When I found out they were coming into the area I called The Castle and arranged the show. Carmine was friends with Paul (Eric Carr) when he was in KISS, and I thought it would be a good chance to pay tribute, and they were all for it.”

Charles explains that, above and beyond the sensational performances from Carmine and

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Vinny, this show will offer salutes to Eric Carr with appearances by some of his family members, Appice AND Carr merchandising tables, historical KISS memorabilia worn and played by Eric, and personal video from Eric’s friends including former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick. They will even have ETRC THE FOX, an Eric Carr impersonator on hand in full makeup and costume to greet fans!

Purchase tickets for this not-to-miss event at: http://thecastle.pfestore.com (click on “Drum Wars”). This is an event for all ages. Doors open at 7:00pm; show starts at 8:00pm.

And get this: the “VIP Package” gives you the opportunity to hang out with Carmine and Vinny Appice and get photos, with front row tickets to the show and sound check, a free Drum Wars tshirt, autographed Drum Wars photos; photos of VIP ticket holders sitting behind Carmine and Vinny’s drum sets, and as if that’s not enough, VIP commemorative passes!

Check out the website for VIP package pricing.

Can’t wait till June 29? Twist and Shout, a fun Beatles tribute, will be on the Event Room Stage at The Castle on June 14.

The Castle Fun Center is located at 109 Brookside Avenue in Chester.

For more information call 845-469-2116.

“The Bus Came Over the Mountain” - Premiere Bloomingburg Garden Tour

“How excited we were when in mid-May we saw that big white bus coming up the mountain for a dry run to see if it could make the turns,” said Carol and Ron Weathers.

And excited they should be. The Weathers and Mamakating Town Councilman Robert Justus helped create the first Bloomingburg Garden Tour, a combined effort of Bloomingburg residents and Wurtsboro shops and eateries. The tour is hosted by SullivanArc and Sullivan Renaissance with support from the Wurtsboro Board of Trade – to benefit SullivanArc's programs for people with developmental disabilities.

This Fifth Annual SullivanArc Garden Tour will feature an exclusive look at private gardens in and around the Village of Bloomingburg as part of the Council’s support for beautifying the Town. Eight beautiful gardens will be featured on the bus tour. The idea came from a previous SullivanArc Livingston Manor-Roscoe Garden Tour. “Bob Justus and Ron and I were talking about having it for over two years,” Carol Weathers explained.

This exceptional collection of eight gardens includes: an eclectic country farm garden, a meandering herb garden, a unique architectural home, a home with an infinity pool and an infinite view, and more.

“Our garden formally took off when my

wife's mother passed away and Carol wanted a m e m o r i a l garden,” explains Ron (photo right).

“It was so satisfying that she then started to encompass our house and then the garage and so forth. The planning and planting of all the beautiful flora was a great comfort to her.

When Spring arrives each year, she maintains a focus on enjoying what she has created and plans for more projects. Some of the hostas are as old as she. Her mother saved them for years. What a great connection of life.”

The bus tour stops for lunch in Wurtsboro, where the Board of Trade will be hosting a Taste of Wurtsboro. It returns at day’s end for a complimentary wine and cheese reception for all ticket holders and garden owners and the opportunity to visit the Village shops.

Cost is $40 per person for the guided bus tour, which includes travel on a Rolling V coach bus, tip, guide, door prizes and snacks.

If the bus tour is not sold out, then self-guided tickets will be available on the morning of the tour for $25 per person (not per car) at Our

Lady of the Assumption Church, 17 High Street in Bloomingburg between 9:00am & 11:00am. The bus tour begins at 10:00am. Maps are distributed only on the morning of the tour, June 29.

Bus tour tickets are available at the Canal

Towne Emporium (see ad below) in Wurtsboro; by calling SullivanArc at 845796-1350 ext. 1050; or online by visiting www.sullivanarc.org - click on “Buy Tickets.” Tickets are limited.

SullivanArc is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to providing support and services to over 800 individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and to their families. Sullivan Renaissance is a beautification and community development program principally funded by the Gerry Foundation.

“Queen for a Day” by Janet Campbell

“Jefferson Street” by Roberta Rosenthal

“Down the Garden Path”

If you miss the June 1, 2:00pm-4:00pm June 1-30, catch these and other artworks opening reception for Down the Garden Path, during the lunch/shopping break (or after) of an exhibit featuring original works of art by the Bloomingburg Garden Tour. www.waagallery.org - 73 Sullivan Street. members of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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In Memoriam: Clara Maria Berndes-Van Der Drift (Claske) Franck A Personal Remembrance

by Lynn Hoins Born July 24, 1918 in The Hague, The Netherlands, Claske Franck, nee Clara Marie Berndes-van der Drift, died after a short illness, March 7, 2013.

Married on board the SS United States on July 15, 1960 to Dr. Frederick Franck, 1909 - 2006, artist, author and creator of Pacem in Terris, Warwick, the couple was bound for Gabon, Africa, where Claske worked with Frederick as nurse and dental assistant in the dental clinic he established in Dr. Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital.

Although they both were born in The Netherlands, Dr. Franck moved to the United States before they met. In 1955, he wrote his first book, Open Wide Please, en route to The Netherlands. Once there he was desperate to find someone to type it for him before he could no longer decipher his manuscript.

Upon recommendation, Frederick hired Claske, once known as the fastest typist in Holland, and dictated the book as her fingers flew across the keys. It was the beginning of their long collaboration together.

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dove cote built for window looking ring neck doves. directly into the She also had two dove cote. The coops and a fenced window in front of yard for rabbits and her desk upstairs hens. One would overlooked the open their Wawayanda River refrigerator and see and Pacem in tiny dove eggs Terris. On the wall nestled next to hens next to the window eggs. Sometimes was her hand she allowed the written sign: “Do doves to sit on their Not Complain.” eggs and enjoyed From this desk watching the babies she could keep an hatch and grow. eye on Pacem, as There was always a she answered resident rescued cat copious daily to keep down the correspondence. mice who nibbled Using postcards on everything made of her including art work. h u s b a n d ’ s Claske once had a drawings, she long desk thanked people for downstairs in what d o n a t i o n s , is now the Joyful answered questions “Claske” by Frederick Franck Gallery. She sat and kept in contact working at her ancient Macintosh computer with strangers who became friends. She and kept an eye on the doves through the wrote thousands of letters and remembered

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the most amazing details about hundreds of people. She also kept in touch with her family and personal friends. In an envelope one might find a bird feather, leaf, poem, article, suggestion of a book to read, a film to see. A loving note would accompany the gift often signed, “Be embraced.”

Claske loved her stepson, Lukas Franck, traveled the world with her husband and provided solitude for him to create.

Frederick always said Claske made everything he did possible. She was the heart of Pacem in Terris, the glue that held everything together. He once gifted her with a calligraphy scroll: “And yet, I know artists whose medium is life itself...they are the artists of being alive.” Claske was such an artist.

Be embraced, Claske.

Jackie Martling Jokes at Jester’s Author John DeBellis has written, “A few months back I was a guest on Jackie’s (Martling) radio show and quickly realized that one of the things that makes Jackie so funny is an inner child-like spark that he brings to the stage and his personal life. He reminds me of Red Skelton, in the sense that his act and stage presence is all about having fun.

Most of us know Jackie’s many credits: radio personality, stand-up comedian, comedy writer, singer-songwriter and eighteen years as a cast member and head writer of The Howard Stern Show. But I learned there’s a lot more to this very nice, very funny man. I recently learned that he’s involved with using humor to help special needs children, more specifically autistic children.”

Martling states, “I have a few kids’ joke gadgets that are really fun. And anything that gets kids moving socially, especially autistic kids, is invaluable. They’re very simple machines that play very simple jokes when you push the nose, and kids love them.”

Be sure that when Martling comes to Chester, those are NOT the kind of jokes you

will hear at Jester’s Comedy Club. Known for his “rapid-fire filthy jokes” which he is sure to perform at Jesters, Martling also ventures into the land of clean jokes once in a while, making it possible for us to print two.

A little kid sits on his grandfather’s lap and says, “Pop-Pop, would you make a noise like a frog?”

The old guy says, “Why?” The kid says, “Because Mom says when Grandpa croaks we’re all going to Disney World.”

Clean, yes. Sick? Your call. How about this: A guy walks into work, and both of his ears are all bandaged up. The boss says, “What happened to your ears?”

He says, “Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang and (holds iron to ear) ssss! I accidentally answered the iron.”

The boss says, “Well, that explains one ear, but what happened to your other ear?”

He says, “Well, jeez, I had to call the doctor!”

Martling closes the season at Jester’s, 109 Brookside Avenue, Chester, on June 29 at 8:00pm. Call 845-345-1039 for tickets.

Jester’s re-opens in September.

18 Hour Concert at Seligmann

Vexations is an example of “furniture music,” one of Erik Satie’s radical ideas and a precursor to ambient music - music that is heard but not listened to, music that can be a focus of concentration but also background sound for eating, working, or generally enjoying yourself.

With a meandering melody and chords that are difficult to memorize, Vexations is an experiment in duration and endurance for performers as well as the audience. The score, one page with 180 notes and instructions to repeat the score 840 times, was found in a trunk after Satie’s death in 1925.

Since 1963, Vexations has been performed several times, including an attempt by one pianist to play all 840 repetitions as a solo performance: he stopped after fifteen hours when he began to experience intense hallucinations!

The Seligmann Center for the Arts at the Citizens Foundation is presenting Vexations in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its legendary world premiere.

The 18-hour performance will feature the talent of local musicians who play plucked string instruments.

Guitarist Jeff Ciampa is recruiting and organizing the group of performers, which includes bassist

Mark Egan among others. Each musician or ensemble will play approximately 20 minutes at a time before the next performer takes over; each will perform several times during Portrait of Erik Satie the day.

by Suzanne Valadon All ages are welcome. Go and test your patience, contend with boredom, experience clarity, fall into a meditation, and enjoy the music. You can play in the sun and have a picnic as you experience Vexations. Food and drink will be available for picnics on the Center’s lawn.

Vexations will take place at the Seligmann Center on June 9 from 10:00am to 4:00am.

Admission is $5. Following the intention of composer John Cage at his premiere performance of Vexations, “to understand that the more art you consume, the less it should cost,” audience members will be refunded 5 cents for every 20 minutes they stay at the concert: Listen for all 18 hours and earn back $2.70! A surreal bargain!

A live stream recording of the performance will be available online.

The Seligmann Center is located at 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. Call 845-469-9459.

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Sullivan County Author at Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville, June 7

by Carol Montana

Author and artist Helena Claire Pittman has written and illustrated 17 published children’s books to date, and many of her stories have appeared in Cricket and Cicada Magazines.

Based on the author’s childhood, Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn is Helena Claire Pittman’s first novel for young adults and “for those others who remember their own childhoods, and so remain forever young,” according to the back cover description.

Ruthie Pincus lives with Mamma, Pappa,

sister Rebecca, and brothers the story I had to write...I Leon and Georgie on Crown envisioned a 10-year Street in Brooklyn. There she project.” A labor of love, she collects stuff - a key, nails, wound up working on the flattened jar tops and rusted book for 25 years before machinery for use in her art being satisfied, at one time projects - and listens to even putting it “on the shelf.”

Mamma sing opera while It didn’t stay there long. “It washing dishes. was alive and I started to Pittman remembers how carry it with me and stop she came up with the idea for along the way and write a the book: “I was writing in chapter.” my journal. I remember it Helena Clare Pittman photo by C. Montana A true family affair, the coming to me one day, and I realized this was book’s cover was created by the author’s son,

painter and jazz musician Galen Pittman.

“The root of the book is my childhood and my strong memories became my outline,” Pittman says. “Through Ruthie I was able to go very, very deep into memory...Ruthie Pincus is one of the best fruits of my life.

Who I am is in this book.”

Helena will appear at the next Local Author Evening sponsored by the First Friday Book Discussion Group at the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville on June 7 at 7:30pm.

For additional information call the Daniel Pierce Library at 845-985-7233.

“If you are over fifty, some member of an older generation, possibly a father or grandfather who grew up in rural environs, has tried to make you feel guilty over how hard life was in “those days”, and how, just to get to school required a long and treacherous sojourn over rocky cliffs and against driving winds. And how they cheerfully paid that price for an education.

“But, try walking two-hundred fifty miles.

“That, at least, is the Romantic picture some of Bach’s early biographers paint for us when it comes to the strange journey the lad made from his home church in Arnstadt to Lubeck, to hear for himself the great organist

Dietrich Buxtehude. If you are not familiar with Buxtehude, take Bach’s word, or rather actions, for it.

He was worth the long walk.” (www.pianonoise.com.)

The Hudson Valley Society for Music, producers Craig Williams of BachFest 2013 and West Point Cadet Chapel’s organist Craig Williams seem to agree, and they are including the music of Buxtehude in this year’s BachFest.

Bach will be even more in evidence when the Young Performers’ Concert takes place on June 15 at 2:00pm (free concert - donation

requested) and on June 16 at 3:30pm when Williams is joined by former concertmaster of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Szucs, (pronounced Sooch) who Nicholas Szucs returns to Orange County for a performance of a Bach solo violin work.

By the time Bach composed his set of Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin, the tradition of polyphonic violin writing was already well-developed in Germany, particularly by Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and the composers of the so-

called Dresden school. Bach’s solo violin works firmly established the technical capability of the violin as a solo instrument and have served as the archetype for solo violin pieces for generations of composers including Ysaÿe, Paganini and Bartók.

This is not Szucs’ first time performing solo locally. He has performed solo Paganini Caprices for the Greater Montgomery Chamber Music Series.

Additional performers, unknown at press time, will be announced.

BachFest events take place in the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. See ad on page 7.

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Meet Ray Bradbury: Author, Lover (1920 - June 6, 2012) A year ago this month few noticed his name in the obits. Those who did no doubt stopped and searched their minds, wondering how or why they recognized that name, Bradbury. For Ginny Neidermier, Director of the JosephineLouise Public Library in Walden, it understandably caught her attention. Her most memorable experience with Bradbury remains the allegorical collection of short episodes, contained in the novel Dandelion Wine, a rather successful attempt to take the pleasures and joys of a twelve year old boy and preserve them in a tightly sealed bottle. This is legend.

In addition to Bradbury's literary prowess as a writer of multiple genres, including mystery, fantasy and science fiction, Bradbury was a passionate, unyielding lover - a lover of libraries. Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times (6/09) wrote of Bradbury's efforts to rescue a library in an article titled A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library. She quoted Bradbury: "Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I

couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."

Everyone seems to love the days of summer, especially when you're twelve years old, but the real impact of Bradbury's work lies in the publication and various interpretations of his classic Fahrenheit 451, where the firemen are employed not to extinguish fires but to collect and burn books. The circumstances under which this work came into existence are a story worth telling and relates emphatically to Bradbury's passion for libraries.

As was the case during a significant portion of his young life, Bradbury needed things for which he could not pay. During the early part of the 50's he desperately needed a cost prohibitive office. In a letter to the Fayetteville Public Library, which was celebrating the publication of Fahrenheit 451, he described his regrettable circumstances. As he walked through the corridors of the UCLA Library, he heard the sound of typewriters, many typewriters, singing a beckoning call. The library, as was a custom at that time, had a room full of coin operated typewriters, 10 cents a half hour was the rate.

Collecting all his gear he moved into the library's basement typing room with a bag of

dimes ($9.80) to be exact and wrote a 25,000 word version of Fahrenheit 451, initially published in Gourmet magazine as a short story. All of his favorite writers Hemingway, Frost, Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Huxley, and Thomas Wolfe were on the shelves above him, cheering and summoning his creativity.

Although Bradbury took full advantage of the University’s library, he never attended college, initially due to the lack of funds.

Known universally for informing the world of the kindling point of paper, the novel has been subjected to wide and varied interpretations. The most accurate has to be the known purpose of the author, who emphatically stated it has nothing to do with McCarthyism or government censorship, and was not by any stretch remotely connected to George Orwell's 1984. He lamented on what he saw as the destination of society, an existence where individuals with short attention spans lack basic analytical skills and, with a disinterest in reading the printed word, are thus oblivious to reality, and forced to rely solely on a mesmerizing media.

This is legend, for the poor man, he saw it coming!

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