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A wee bit of the Irish Take your pick of the St. Patrick’s Day parades in Kingston, Beacon and Goshen this weekend ou probably don’t need to be told that there are other ways to mark St. Patrick’s Day than imbibing an excess of green-dyed beer. Perambulating a city and contemplating life on its streets, like Stephen Dedalus in his odyssey across Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses, is certainly a time-honored Irish tradition worth reviving. Here are three mid-Hudson communities presenting appealing opportunities to do just that this coming weekend, in an organized fashion in the company of other perambulators: Kingston offers its city tour at two speeds on the same day, Sunday, March 12. Those who need to exercise off a surfeit of Irish soda bread, or who just prefer an athletic approach, can show up at Academy Green (across from the Governor Clinton Apartments at 1 Albany Avenue) between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to register for the annual Shamrock Run. Dedicated this year to the memory of Joyce Ellen Carey, the race heads down Broadway at 12:50 sharp. Wear your “running kilt” if you really want to get into the spirit of the thing. Visit www.shamrockrunners.org for information or to preregister. Just a few blocks away at the Kingston Plaza, pedestrians who prefer a pace more conducive to a sharing of the craic will assemble on Sunday morning for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, stepping off at 1 p.m. and ambling down Broadway behind the runners. Ulster County’s Ancient Order of Hibernians chapter supplies the hoopla, including marching bands, floats and bespangled local celebrities. Call (845) 338-6622, e-mail events@ulsteraoh.com or visit www.ulsteraoh.com for more info. The City of Beacon has a bit of catchingup to do, as this Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade of Green is only the event’s second annual outing. Participants will line up on Wolcott Avenue (Route 9D) from Main to Beekman Street, stepping off onto Main Street at 11 a.m. on March 11 and heading southeast as far as the “dummy light” just before the Fishkill

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Creek. To find out more, visit www. facebook.com/paradeofgreen. Celebrating its 40th outing in Orange County and its 15th in a row in the Village of Goshen, perhaps the most venerable such event in our region is the one that simply calls itself the Mid-Hudson St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Step-off is at 2 p.m. this Sunday, March 12. For information about the line of march and other details, contact the Mid-Hudson St. Patrick’s Parade Committee at (917) 453-3554 or visit www.facebook.com/ the-mid-hudson-st-patricks-paradecommittee-301827093207670.

History of hops in the Hudson Valley New York State was once the nation’s leader in hops production, but a combination of a mildew disease and Prohibition ended that era. The Pacific Northwest became the epicenter of the American hops industry, but recent changes to New York’s laws governing farm-based breweries, distill-

eries and cideries – not to mention the burgeoning popularity of hoppy IPAs among craft-beer enthusiasts – are reawakening interest in bringing hopsgrowing back to the Hudson Valley on a large scale. One of the movers and shakers behind this movement is agricultural consultant Justin Riccobono, the co-founder of Dutchess Hops, co-organizer of the New Farm Network and now head of Hudson Valley Hops. This “Johnny Appleseed of hops” will be giving a talk titled “History of Hops in the Hudson Valley” on Thursday evening at the Beacon Sloop Clubhouse, and admission is free. The latest installment of the Beacon Sloop Club’s 2017 winter lecture series begins at 7 p.m. on March 9. The Clubhouse is located at 2 Flynn Drive (adjacent to the harbor, across from the train station) in Beacon. To find out more, call (845) 463-4660 or (914) 879-1082 or visit www.beaconsloopclub.org.

Catskill Center’s “Catskill Cuisine” wild foods workshops Even if you cultivate a home garden for fresh produce, there’s no way to “eat local” more locally than by learning to forage and prepare the wild

edibles that are native to one’s neighborhood ecosystem. Beginning this month, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development will host a series of “Catskill Cuisine” culinary workshops taught by Rob Handel, executive chef of the Bee’s Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm in Preston Hollow. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to identify edible native spring greens, learn new cooking techniques like fermentation, infusion and pickling, learn best practices for wild foraging and enjoy a tasting session after each class. The first workshop, “Identifying Edible Spring Greens of the Catskills,” takes place at the Catskill Center in Arkville on Thursday, March 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. In his presentation, Handel will highlight some of the wild edible greens common in the Catskills and how to identify them. Possible lookalikes, other identification resources and simple ways to utilize them will be discussed. Samples of foods prepared with some of the greens mentioned will be shared following a question-and-answer session. The workshop fee is $15 per person. A follow-up session on how to cook with such ingredients, “Rethinking Wild Edibles,” is scheduled for Thursday, April 20 from 7 to 9 p.m., also at the Center and also costing $15. Handel will explain how

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nvironmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will give SUNYNew Paltz’s Distinguished Speaker address on Monday, March 13. The address, entitled “Our Environmental Destiny,” will provide a reminder of the role that natural resources play “in our work, our health and our national identity.” Kennedy will speak in Lecture Center Room 100 at 7:30 p.m. Kennedy is a well-known national figure whose reputation is closely aligned with local environmental issues that he has addressed over the years as chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. In 2010, he was named one of the “Heroes of the Planet” by Time Magazine for his success in both endeavors. Last year, Kennedy visited SUNYNew Paltz to eulogize his friend and mentor, Biology professor emeritus Heinz Meng. More recently, Kennedy gained national attention and triggered a national outcry for agreeing to chair a “vaccine safety and scientific integrity” commission at the request of president Donald Trump. Kennedy has long espoused discredited links between vaccines and neurological disorders such as autism; he has been particularly critical of the US Centers for Disease Control, which recommends that children be vaccinated on a regular schedule. The Distinguished Speaker Series is free to students. Advance tickets cost $10 for faculty, staff and community members. For further information and to reserve tickets, visit www.newpaltz.edu/speakerseries/ or call (845) 257-3880. Tickets may also be purchased at the Parker Theatre box office, which is open Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until March 12. Tickets will also be available in the Lecture Center lobby the evening of the event. – Jeremiah Horrigan

techniques like fermentation, infusions, pickling and more can unlock the rich and vibrant flavors of common weeds. During the summer and fall, the series continues further afield. “Foraging Walk, Talk and Tasting” workshops will be offered at the Thorn Preserve at 55 John Joy Road in Woodstock on Saturday, July 8 from 3 to 5 p.m. ($20 fee); at the Catskill Interpretive Center at 5096 Route 28 in Mount Tremper on Thursday, September 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. ($22); and at the Platte Clove Preserve at 2504 Platte Clove Road in Elka Park on Saturday, October 7 from 3 to 5 p.m. ($20). Attend them all, and you’ll be set to survive a zombie apocalypse no matter what season of the year it happens! All programs require preregistration by calling (845) 586-2611 or visiting http:// catskillcenter.org/events. The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development is located at 43355 Route 28 in Arkville.

Learn about the history of New Paltz and how it affects the town today The recent global refugee crisis has made many Americans more conscious of the fact that as descendants of immigrants ourselves, whether one generation removed or many, we have more in common with those seeking refuge in our country than we are unlike. In New Paltz, points out Carol Johnson, coordinator of the HavilandHeidgerd Historical Collection at the Elting Memorial Library, the entire town was founded by refugees. The word “refugee,” Johnson notes, was

actually coined in reference to the French Huguenots. Merriam-Webster confirms this, stating in their etymological guide that the word came from the French word, 'réfugié' with a very specific meaning, referring to the Protestant Huguenots who fled France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a document that for nearly a century had granted them religious liberty and civil rights. Over time, the word refugee in English began to be applied to anyone forced to flee to a place of safety, usually for reasons of political or religious freedom, and that place of safety was called a refuge. The refuge for the Huguenots that became the New Paltz we know today will be the subject of an eight-week PowerPoint presentation and lecture series about the history of New Paltz to be conducted by Carol Johnson with technical help from Margaret Stanne, her assistant in managing the historical collections at Elting Library. “The series will show who the Huguenots were and how much they still figure prominently in the lives of the people who live in New Paltz today, and how things from back then tied in to the future,” says Johnson. The series will be held in the library's Steinberg Reading Room of the library

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from 3-4:30 p.m. on consecutive Sundays beginning March 19. (The series will take a break for Easter Sunday on April 16, resuming the following week.) The cost is $50 per person, with all proceeds benefitting the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. Pre-registration is a must, as the series is limited to 50 people. Johnson has worked at the Elting Librar y for more than 30 years, becoming coordinator of the historical collections around 1999. She has written two books about New Paltz history for Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series and she contributes a monthly column to the New Paltz Times detailing daily life in New Paltz a century ago. Much of what is taught in New Paltz schools today about local history was not studied when Johnson was growing up here. “I didn’t know the word ‘Lenape’ until I came back from college,” she says. “We heard about the Algonquin and the Esopus, who signed the Indian Deed, but anyone who studied New York State history in the seventh grade back then studied the Iroquois. And we never knew about slavery in the north; we thought of that as being only in the south.” A lifelong resident here, Johnson says she finds New Paltz history so intriguing because it’s unique to other towns in Ulster County. She cites the way in which the Huguenots owned the land in common at first -- which amounted to 39,683 acres -- only dividing it up into 12 equal parcels (for the 12 original New Paltz patentees) as need be. “Then the original patentees,

in some cases, got other patents -- the Louis DuBois Patent, the Hugo Freer Patent -- that extended the area of New Paltz until it was much bigger.” Eventually Gardiner, the Town of Lloyd, parts of Esopus and Rosendale were broken off from this extended territory to make the Town of New Paltz what it is today, Johnson says, just under 22,000 acres. The original Indian Deed document signed on May 26, 1677, ceding to the Huguenot refugees nearly 40,000 acres of land (in exchange for two horses (one stallion and one mare), tools, knives, oars, woolen cloth and lace, stockings and shirts, blankets, a powder keg, wine, tobacco and 100 bars of lead), still exists in the archives of Historic Huguenot Street. One point of interest with regard to the Indian Deed, notes Johnson, is that it was signed by both male and female Native Americans, whereas the European signers were all male. That document, approved by New York’s Dutch governor Edmund Andros a few months later on Sept. 15, 1677, became the basis for the New Paltz Patent issued Sept. 29, 1677, making the tract an official township. The lecture series at Elting Library will mark 340 years since the historic events that started New Paltz on the path to being what it is today. Seats may be reserved by calling (845) 255-5030, extension 2. All sales must be completed at the circulation desk of the library. Checks and credit cards are accepted.

The word “refugee,” Johnson notes, was actually coined in reference to the French Huguenots.

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Our Other Blue Planet Friday, March 10 at 7 p.m.

Dr. David Strayer, freshwater ecologist at the Cary Institute, will give a special lecture on our planet’s inland waters and the rich diversity of life they support. We think of Earth as “the blue planet” because oceans cover 71% of its surface. But there are other waters on our planet—the innumerable lakes, ponds, marshes, rivers, streams, and ground waters that make up inland waters. Free and open to the public, the event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium, located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, NY. Seating is first come first served.

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England or elsewhere in the Northeast. Outside Mullingar, which debuted on Broadway in 2014, is the glaring exception: Set in the Irish countryside, it’s a lyrical rom/com about shy middle-aged suitors living on adjoining farms who don’t have many dating options in their rural community. Ellen Honig directs a new Performing Arts of Woodstock production of the fourcharacter play that opens this Thursday at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center and runs through March 26. John Adair, Joe Bongiorno, Adele Calcavecchio and Maria Elena Maurin are the stars. Shows begin at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, March 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 and 25, with 1:30 p.m. matinées on Sundays, March 12, 19 and 26. Tickets for Outside Mullingar cost $23 general admission, $20 for senior citizens for all these shows. There will also be a special preview performance at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 9, with tickets going for $15. For reservations and information, call (845) 679-7900 or visit www. performingartsofwoodstock.org. The Mescal Hornbeck Community Center is located at 56 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

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hile we give thanks that Ireland is nowadays tourism-friendly, the Irish Republican Army and its English overlords and their Protestant allies having worked out a cessation of hostilities that seems to be sticking, it’s impossible to appreciate Irish culture fully without an understanding of its long history of quashed rebellions. Born in Dublin in 1880 to Protestant parents, dramatist Sean O’Casey went on to become a socialist and an Irish nationalist, living through the Easter Rising and the War of Independence and capturing their tragedies and ironies in his plays. The second and third of his celebrated Dublin Trilogy – Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars – are wellknown, the first installment, Shadow of a Gunman, not so much. So it’s high time for a revival of Shadow of a Gunman, a tragicomedy of war whose protagonist – a bit like Brian in Monty Python’s Life of Brian – is a very ordinary man mistaken for someone more notorious, with ever-more-complicated consequences. Donal Davoren, a young poet living in a North Dublin tenement, assumes the role of an IRA gunman on the run, hoping that his unearned outlaw credentials will impress the beautiful Minnie Powell, who has thus far failed to notice him. Zach Gibson plays Donal Davoren, Andres Rodriguez his flatmate Seumas Shields and Jacqueline plays Minnie Powell in a new production of Shadow of a Gunman that opened last week at SUNY-New Paltz. Department

Jacquline Evans and Zach Gibson in SUNY-New Paltz's production of Shadow of a Gunman

of Theatre Arts chair Jack Wade directs. Remaining performances of Shadow of a Gunman will begin at 8 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday, March 9, 10 and 11, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 12 in the Parker Theatre on the SUNY-New Paltz campus. Tickets for Shadow of a Gunman cost $18 general admission, $16 for seniors (62+), SUNY-New Paltz faculty and staff and non-New Paltz students, and $10 for SUNY-New Paltz students. They can be purchased between 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Parker

box office, or online at www.newpaltz.edu/ theatre. For additional information, call (845) 257-3880 or e-mail boxoffice@ newpaltz.edu. – Frances Marion Platt

John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar this weekend in Woodstock When John Patrick Shanley’s plays don’t take place in the Bronx, they generally unfold not far away, in New

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ppallingly dysfunctional families striving to keep their nastiest secrets buried are the stuff of many, if not most, of the classics of American theater. The posthumous publication of Eugene O’Neill’s acknowledged masterpiece, the semi-autobiographical Long Day’s Journey into Night, left us with one of the most memorable ever staged. Over a 24-hour period, an alcoholic father, a morphine-addicted mother and their two sons – one a compulsive womanizer and the other about to be diagnosed with tuberculosis – air out the skeletons in the closets of their Connecticut seaside cottage, to devastating effect. Raw, powerful and disturbing for its time, the play is still regarded as one of the pinnacles of 20th-century drama. This weekend only at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Donna Betts directs a new production of Long Day’s Journey into Night, starring Lisa Lynds as Mary Tyrone, Lou Trapani as James Tyrone, Kevin Archambault as Jamie and Wendell Scherer as Edmund. Performances begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 12. Tickets cost $24 general admission, $22 for seniors and children. If not sold out, rush seats will be available at the door for $20. To order, call the box office at (845) 876-3080 between noon and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday or 1 and 5 p.m. on Saturdays, or visit www.centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308, 3.5 miles east of the Rhinebeck village center. – Frances Marion Platt

p.m. on March 12. Tickets cost $10 and can be reserved by calling (845) 7575106 or visiting http://kaatsbaan.org/ events.html. Kaatsbaan is located at 120 Broadway in Tivoli.

Reading/signing with Owen King in New Paltz Award-winning novelist and 2017 writer-in residence at SUNY-New Paltz, Owen King, will deliver a fiction reading followed by a book-signing at SUNY-New Paltz on Wednesday, March 15 at 5 p.m. in the Honors Center, located in College Hall. Sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing Program, the event is free and open to the public. Owen King grew up in Maine and earned a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia, Fordham University

and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. His books include the novel Double Feature (Scribner 2013) and We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories (Bloomsbury 2005). He is co-editor (with John McNally) of the short fiction anthology Who Can Save Us Now? (Free Press 2001) and co-author (with Mark Poirier) of the graphic novel Intro to Alien Invasion (Scribner 2015), optioned by Constantin Film AG. King’s other writing has appeared in publications such as Grantland, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times Book Review, Subtropics, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Best American Stories 2015 and One Story. Also the author of film and television screenplays, including the optioned television pilot Fadeaway, his next book, Sleeping Beauties, a novel co-authored with Stephen King, will be published by Scribner in 2017. For more information about the SUNYNew Paltz event, please contact Pauline

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If you’ve had even the remotest contact with the Hudson Valley art scene in the past few decades, you’ve been exposed to the playful works of boundary-straddling multimedia artist Franc Palaia. You may know him as a street muralist or a designer of illuminated sculptures, a curator, art historian and author, a TV producer or a maker of artists’ books. From light boxes to photo-sculpture, from Polaroids to panoramas, his photography has been catching the public eye since the 1970s. Palaia’s latest local exhibition, titled “100 Points of View” and running from March 6 to April 28 at the Montgomery Row Second Level gallery in Rhinebeck, focuses on his photographic works – specifically, 100 small-scale color prints from three decades of the artist’s travels through the US, Italy, France, Turkey, China, Cuba, Spain, Greece and Canada. The imagery in this large exhibition reflects Palaia’s eclectic visual points of view. The visitor will see bizarre street views, hand-colored SX-70 Polaroids, majestic Greek and Roman architecture, bold street art and graffiti, exotic murals, humorous and semi-surrealistic scenes and lush colors and textures that pop from the surface of the photographs. An artist’s reception will be held at the exhibition space on Saturday, March 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. Montgomery Row Second Level is located at Montgomery Row at 6423 Montgomery Street (Route 9) in Rhinebeck, and is open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. All works in the exhibition are for sale; contact the photographer at (845) 516-4758, (845) 505-3123 or francpalaia1@gmail.com for inquiries. For more info about “100 Points of View,” visit www.francpalaia.com or www.montgomeryrow.com. – Frances Marion Platt

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his weekend brings both the switch to Daylight Savings Time and the Full Moon. That means that, weather permitting, Sunday evening will be an auspicious time to watch the sun go down and the moon rise shortly thereafter from a lovely perch with a 360-degree view in a park that you may not yet have discovered. The highest point in the Town of Poughkeepsie, located at 34 Edgewood Drive, just off the Salt Point Turnpike, Peach Hill Park will be the panoramic destination for this Sunset Hike organized by the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club. The group will meet at 5:45 p.m. (still daylight!) on March 12 at the park entrance, and follow easy, rolling trails through an abandoned apple orchard to reach the summit. There the group will linger to read some short poems aloud, then watch the sunset before heading back by moonlight. (Bring a flashlight for the rougher spots.) For more info or to sign up, call AMC’s Sue Mackson at (845) 471-9892 or suemackson@gmail.com.

for inheritance. And themes of sexual violation, wounded honor and male vengeance for the desecration of their “property” are as deeply embedded in European literature as they are in that of the Middle East. More layers of irony and subtlety play out in the gradual unfolding of this cinematic tale. We know that Rana has been interrupted in her shower by a mysterious intruder; we know that she has been injured, and that bloody footprints lead away from the scene of the crime. But we don’t know exactly what the stranger did to her. Emad cannot bear to ask her point-blank if she was sexually assaulted, only “Did anything happen?” (Whether that vagueness is more a manifestation of Iran’s policies about the explicitness of screenplays or of a lack of trust and intimacy between husband and wife is unclear.) Rana may not know the answer herself; she has suffered a concussion, and is so afflicted with PTSD that she can no longer bear to be alone in the couple’s apartment. What we do know is that Rana adamantly does not wish to report the attack to the police. She says that she does not want to relive the incident; but here

and elsewhere in the story, it is implicit that her reputation as a “modest” woman is at stake, with potentially disastrous consequences (not to mention that law enforcement authorities bring more trouble with them than justice). Western women who have seen the way rape victims are blamed in our own culture, particularly when they seek to prosecute their attackers, will grok the universality of her fears. Though we never meet the apartment’s previous tenant, a prostitute whose belongings still lurk inside a locked room, she represents a specter of shame that hovers over the lives of women – and not just in the Islamic world. Ultimately, though, this is Emad’s story: an existential whodunit about a

proud man who internalizes the crime that his wife wants to forget and becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying Rana’s attacker and exacting some

humiliating retribution for this blot on the family honor. Hosseini’s acting is a marvel, exquisitely capturing the frustration and internal seething that Emad restrains behind a veneer of educated urbanity, expressed only in such brief spurts as when he improvises some hostile new dialogue while playing Willy Loman onstage. When it comes to the elemental conflicts in the battle of the sexes, this movie seems to say, the cultural context is necessarily not all that relevant. Men will hang onto their rage when women have moved on toward forgiveness. You don’t need to accept that as a universal truism to get a lot out of The Salesman (which winds up its run this week at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, moving to the Woodstock venue on Friday, and may yet get a victory lap at other theaters, thanks to that little golden statuette). You do need to have a little patience, as the narrative pace bogs down somewhat in the middle act. For all Farhadi’s skill at building suspense, conveying clues drip by drop, the film could have been 15 or 20 minutes shorter. It’s not quite the masterpiece that A Separation was. But it’s masterful nonetheless. And it will prod you to think new thoughts about what, exactly, makes Western culture more “progressive” than the Islamic world. – Frances Marion Platt

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MUSIC Old and on the road In which our intrepid middle-aged music critic samples the life of a young punk on tour

am, by 20 years, the oldest body in the van, and, in whatever units experience is measured, the least experienced by an equivalent margin. The life here is exactly as imagined and described: long, bumpy rides bookended by vigorous bursts of physical action, many of them in the predawn hours; odd-length swaths of downtime; accumulating grime and clothes that will not get less rumpled; intimacy of tight quarters; the dread certainty of poor food choices. One tries to resist the ubiquity, the opulence and the convenience of junk food; but in one domain of the mind, in the rationalized conscience, this crap doesn’t count against metabolism, for one is, metaphorically, in another country. And besides, the dream is dead. I am on tour (please hold applause), as short notice fill-in guitarist, in a rock band, in a spavined white van, a punk van, in California, writing now in a McDonald’s south of San Diego. I am playing bigger venues than I am used to, but not much bigger. I am making more money playing music than I am used to, but not a lot more. The crowds tend to be larger too, but that is not the important difference. It is in the texture of the experience. People in cities far away will buy tickets to see this group, and will show up knowing the songs. A positive assumption about the band and the music has already been won via the good records and tireless touring of my new bandmates: a kind of scaffolding that allows the show to begin at a higher level of trust and buy-in than what I am used to. It is, perhaps, my first experience of what smarmy industry types, in whatever hip costumes they might be wearing today, call “traction.”

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That said, I am the new guy, and the old guy, and the odd guy, imported from other genres, not innately fluent in the playing styles and common influences of this scene; and even though I have played hundreds and hundreds of shows in the last ten years, a “prove it” mentality is strong in me each night. The positive assumption may have already been won, but I damn well don’t want to be the one who squanders some of it with clueless, off-style old hippie playing and the bad optics of middle age. Words like jammy and jazzy are anathema here. I really have to watch what I say on guitar. Only Day Five, but so far it’s been a wild hit with me. The shows have been good in my opinion – the only opinion that doesn’t really matter, but it’s mine. My middle-

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aged body is holding up admirably. I find I have not only enough back to manage the somewhat punk rig I have been outfitted with (sweet blackface Bassman head, but a clunky 2 12” closed-back cabinet and absurdly heavy road cases), but also enough vim to assist the more acutely injured drummer as well. Insomnia was only an issue on Night One. Progress with regularity, too. Day Five and I don’t want this to end. I always knew I would take well to touring (my previous “long” was a mere four nights). Ask me again at the end of the month; but for now, no surprises, no disappointments, no swelling disenchantment, no homesickness. People with a few notches on their belts always tell you, “It’s not what you think it is.” How the f*ck do you know what I think it is? I like to play guitar and work on music by day and by night. Everything else except beer and friends is pretty much just a bother. Writing’s okay, but nothing special. My tolerance for Spartan conditions and mindless compliance, going where I am pointed, is high. I was made for this. Still marveling at the dates ahead, all the mountains and coast I will see but not explore, all the cities and towns I will have learned nothing additional about, for touring is a strictly focused kind of tourism. In fairness, I have one clutch advantage on this tour: The drummer is one of my dearest friends. That makes most things okay. Everyone in the band plus a driver/ merch guy (accomplished touring musician in his own right, and an utterly swell fellow) is smart, verbal, funny. They are old hat at this; it is just what they call “life.” They’ve been doing it for a third of their lives or more. Conversation subjects are various, but do incline naturally toward a shared past of road adventures and common friends that I

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am on the outside of. If I wanted to be a punk about it, I might pipe up every now and then with a “remember when...” and then recount something that happened last night or this morning. Fame (or the desire for glory, depending on the translation) is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise (or by the noble mind, depending on the translation). Could Tacitus even have imagined what a defining and disfiguring force the desire for glory would become in our age? Is that what this is: the last flailing of my desire for glory, looking for a scrap of narrative justification that I “mattered” in music in

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Ambassadors of song Yale Russian Chorus Alumni perform at Bard on Saturday

usical snapshot from 1958: A group of men stand on a summer street corner, singing a capella, drawing an amazed and delighted crowd. If that image conjures thoughts of streetcorner doowop groups like the Orioles or Skyliners doing their thing on the streets of Brooklyn or Harlem, think again: This particular snapshot was taken on a streetcorner in Moscow, in the depths of the Cold War, of a band of visiting college boys who were still discovering the joys of a musical tradition that had nothing to do with hot rods, mean parents or teenagers in love. These streetcorner serenaders were the Yale Russian Chorus (YRC), a group of

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male singers that had formed a few years before. On its first foray that summer’s day into what was then a very foreign, outwardly hostile land, the 20-o- so young shirted-tied-and-blazered choristers wandered the streets, bringing unheard-of American gospel music to such places as Moscow’s Pushkin Square while also stunning audiences of passersby with their renditions of Russian religious and secular music. The music would draw audiences of as many as 1,000 people. Though that memory is nearly 60 years old, it still burns brightly in the words of Kingston’s Ernst Schoen-Rene, who was a member of the chorus then and who remains so today. He and many of the men with whom he sang back then – members of the Yale Russian Chorus Alumni – will join the Bard College Georgian Choir in an evening of a capella Russian and Georgian music at Olin Hall on the Bard campus on March 11. Schoen-Rene grew up in Geneva, New York and came to Yale suffering from what he calls a poor education. Between Yale and his adventures in the YRC, he improved his education enough to enjoy a long career as a professor of English at California State College at Chico. He and his wife Betty now live in Kingston. Perhaps you need to have lived through the Cold War to realize how remarkable it was for Russians to stumble upon a band of American singers in downtown Moscow. These were bellicose years; the world’s two great emergent superpowers were militarily and politically at each other’s throat. The USSR had recently exploded a nuclear bomb – a fact that threatened, in American and Russian eyes, to turn the Cold War into a terminally hot one. Schoen-Rene remembers a grim and dreary environment filled with people who, by design, knew little or nothing about America, but were eager to learn. It was

some way? Perhaps, but I don’t care. About the age thing, I am radicalized. If someone looks at me and thinks, “Damn, he’s old for this,” I say: “What is it you think you are

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The Yale Russian Chorus singing in Red Square in 1958

also a place, he said, where Russians and members of the USSR’s satellite countries were mad to hear the Georgian songs that the group specialized in performing. “It was tremendously exciting,” he recalls. “And it was dangerous. Every now and then, someone would rise out of the crowd and curse us out. But the crowd had a way of producing this sort of zigzag motion that wound up pushing him to the middle and then the back of the crowd.” People would buttonhole the Americans after a performance and ask such questions as how many hours did a person have to work to buy a pair of shoes in America? And did he really have a refrigerator back home? Those and many other questions would often be asked and answered during vodka-fueled parties, where the political walls that stood between the two nations crumbled and fell amid and story and song. The YRC’s goodwill visits to the USSR continued throughout the years, as the club’s membership became alumni. No less an authority on Russian music than Soviet and Russian grandmaster cellist Mstislav Rostropovich has praised the group’s many tours. He thanked the group at the time of its 50th anniversary for its “work in propagating the wonderful choral music of Russia and for [its] idea of achieving understanding between our people through music.” The two countries have seen new walls fall and rise in the intervening years. The Soviet Union itself no longer exists. Russia’s political motives and activities are again on every Western radar and computer screen. But one aspect has remained constant throughout the decades of suspicion and turmoil: the belief, which SchoenRene shares with his fellow choristers, that music bridges every wall. The Yale Russian Chorus Alumni have witnessed and participated in the history of the two countries. They will perform with the Bard College Georgian Choir, whose members are students who have yet to make their mark on history. The two groups will spend three days together in rehearsal. Expect the culmination of that generational and cultural exchange to provide a night full of soaring musical bridges, high enough to surmount any wall. The concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 11 at Olin Hall. Admission is free, though there’s a suggested donation of $10, $5 for Bard students. – Jeremiah Horrigan

Perhaps you need to have lived through the Cold War to realize how remarkable it was for Russians to stumble upon a band of American singers in downtown Moscow.

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If you aren’t loving it at 50, chances are you didn’t really love it at 30 either. The more age-blind you can be right now, the more options and licenses you’ll be creating for your future self.” Here’s my future self right now, living my ass-backwards life (careers in my 20s and 30s, hardscrabble cobbling and gee-tar picking in my middle age). My bandmates are probably starting to stir in the Vagabond next door, and this pancake platter isn’t going to eat itself. I must be going. – John Burdick

Menegon debuts Blew by Blues at Senate Garage

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CONCERT Bassist and Composer John Menegon will be celebrating Blew by Blues, his new recording on Dot Time Records, featuring his new band Quartet East at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 9 at the Senate Garage, 4 N Front St, Kingston. Quartet East includes Joel Frahm (tenor and soprano sax); Nick Hetko (piano); John Menegon (bass); and Francisco Mela (drums). Also appearing will be special guest Panamanian trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and a jazz choral group made up of Teri Roiger, Judi Silvano, Maryanne de Prophetis and Sarah James. Blew by Blues consists of six of John's original compositions, as well as songs by Charlie Haden and Ornette Coleman.

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Last call for the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin performs this Sunday at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie

ou may have missed it, in the daily onslaught of craziness out of Washington, DC, but in early February, Aretha Franklin told a Detroit radio station that 2017 “will be my last year in concert. This is it.” The Queen of Soul announced one more forthcoming album, to be co-produced by Stevie Wonder, followed by a cessation of touring and recording, except for the occasional “special appearance.” It would be manifestly ungrateful to begrudge this peerless American musical icon the chance to sit on her laurels after such a long and illustrious career. The lady is 74 years old and has been singing for her living since 1960. But it’s still disheartening to think that we might never get a chance to see her perform live ever again. Oh, but…wait a minute…there’s the Bardavon Gala 2017 coming up on Sunday, March 12. And Aretha herself will be gracing the stage, right here in Poughkeepsie! Granted, Gala tickets are expensive: $275 for premier seating plus a post-show party at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, featuring food, drink and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus; $225 for just the concert. But it’s for a good cause (especially with government funding for the arts in immediate peril). Purchase your tickets at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, or via Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. The show starts at 7 p.m. For more info, visit www.bardavon.org.

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Louisiana swamp blues legend Tab Benoit visits the Bearsville Theater on Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m. Known for his distinctly bayou take on the blues, Benoit has released no fewer than 15 records since the early ’90s and is widely considered one of the young stars of the genre – the only genre in which a man who reaches 50 this year can be considered a bright young star. The only thing gutsier than his singing voice is his guitar tone. Tickets cost $40 for Gold Circle Reserve, $30 for reserved seating and $20 for general admission (standing). For tickets and additional information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

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March 9, 2017 on that campus, are encouraged to mix and match their areas of study across disciplinary lines, and the results sometimes defy immediate outside analysis as to how they connect. Take for example senior Obadiah Díaz Wright, whose original composition Paloma will be the centerpiece of the Conservatory Orchestra’s concert slated for 3 p.m. this Sunday, March 12 in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater. Besides studying Music Composition under John Halle, George Tsontakis and Joan Tower at the Conservatory, Díaz Wright is also pursuing a double BA in Chinese and Religion. He plays cello, harp and the traditional Chinese bowed stringed instrument called the erhu. The Silicon Valley native has conducted research in Fujian, Jiangxi and Yunnan Provinces with the Luce Initiative in Asian Studies and Bard’s Environment Program, learning about feng shui forests and their reflections in local art and music. His Senior Project explores the relationship among language, commerce and ritual within the medium of Daoist talismans. Oh, and he has also been helping to run Bard’s Tango Club for the past four years. Come check out the fruits of this eclectic young mind along with Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, performed by the Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Leon Botstein. Admission is by donation ($15 to $20 suggested) to benefit the Conservatory’s Scholarship Fund, and free to the Bard community. For tickets, call the box office at (845) 758-7900 or visit https://fishercentertickets.bard.edu.

Van Cliburn medalist Joyce Yang at Bardavon this Saturday

This Saturday, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (HVP) continues its 57 th season with a program at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House titled “Cliburn Silver,” conducted by music director Randall Craig Fleischer. The concert is dedicated to the memory of longtime HVP violinist and beloved string teacher Betty Jean Hagen, who passed away in December. Headlining the concert is Joyce Yang, who, at age 19, came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The widely traveled, much-lauded pianist will perform Rachmaninoff ’s formidable

ALMANAC WEEKLY Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30. The evening will also feature a 75th birthday tribute to composer, pianist and Vassar professor Richard Wilson, with a performance of his Revelry. Rounding out the HVP program are Prokofiev’s War and Peace Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #4 in F minor, Op. 36. “Cliburn Silver” begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 11 at the Bardavon, located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. Ticketholders may attend a pre-concert talk by Maestro Fleischer at 7 p.m. Tickets range in price from $34 to $57, with Student Rush seats available one hour prior to the concert for $20. To purchase, call the Bardavon box office at (845) 473-2072 or the Ulster Performing Arts Center box office at (845) 339-6088, or call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com. For more info, visit www.bardavon.org.

New McKrells, Clancy Tradition to play Beacon’s Towne Crier

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St. Patrick’s Day will soon be upon us, and there’s no finer way to celebrate it than a nice evening’s wallow in some upbeat Celtic music. A faithful keeper of the world-music flame in these parts, the Towne Crier Café will be the venue of choice for discerning Celtophiles next weekend, with the New McKrells heading in on Friday evening, March 17 and the Clancy Tradition stopping by on Saturday. The Crier seems to hold a special place in the heart of Kevin McKrell, whose previous Capitol District-based bands, the Irish folk group Donnybrook Fair and the original McKrells, who branched out into a sort of Celtic/bluegrass fusion, made regular appearances at its venues in Beekman, Millbrook and Pawling. In fact, after the McKrells broke up in 2006, they picked the Egg in Albany and the Crier for the only two gigs during their brief mini-tour in 2011. At the time, McKrell was calling the reunion a not-to-be-repeated fluke, but here he is again with a lineup that blends some new blood with some old. It features John Kribs on guitar and vocals, Orion Kribs on mandolin, Arlin Greene on bass and Doug Moody on fiddle. The New McKrells will perform beginning at 8:30 p.m. on St. Paddy’s Day itself, with tickets going for $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Many older fans of Irish music cut their teeth in the ’50s and ’60s on the recordings of the Clancy Brothers, none of whose original members, alas, are still among the living. Their legacy lives on in the form of their influence on other performers (notably Bob Dylan, who appropriated

several of their melodies) as well as in the persons of musical offspring Aoife, Dónal, Finbarr and Roisin. But things get a bit muddled when you consider that there’s a separate musical Clancy clan based in Westchester as well. Three brothers – one of them named Pat, not to be confused with the other Paddy Clancy – emigrated from County Tyrone to the US in the ’60s to form the group the Irish Ramblers. Two of them, Eugene and Pat, still perform along with some younger family members as the Clancy Tradition. If you’re confused about exactly which Clancy tradition the current group is celebrating, it’s probably fair to assume that the answer is “both.” If you liked the Clancy Brothers, you’ll enjoy the concert that the Clancy Tradition will be putting on next Saturday, March 18 at 8:30 p.m. at the Towne Crier, which is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door. To order, call (845) 855-1300 or visit www.townecrier. com.

native Steven Slade. The First Round of the competition will take place in Skinner Hall on Saturday, March 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the Semi-final Round from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, March 19. The three finalists will return to play full concertos in the Final Round beginning at 3 p.m. on Sunday. There is no admission charge, and the competition is open to the public. For more information, call the Bardavon 1869 Opera House box office at (845) 4732072 or visit www.bardavon.org.

Four Nations Ensemble this Sunday at historic Rhinebeck church

Melvin Seals & JGB play Bearsville on Sunday In his long-running and prolific solo career, the Grateful Dead’s guitarist Jerry Garcia worked with a number of foils in the keyboard chair. These include former Dead keyboardist the late Keith Godchaux, the late organist Merle Saunders and – a survivor – Melvin Seals, who now heads Melvin Seals and the JGB. Seals’ association with Garcia dates back to 1982’s Run for the Roses. He has also recorded with Elvin Bishop, Mickey Thomas, Jefferson Starship and the Marshall Tucker Band. The tireless Melvin Seals & JGB make a stop at the Bearsville Theater on Sunday, March 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the show. For tickets and additional information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

Vassar to host HVP String Competition Want to catch some classical music stars of the future on their way up? Come listen in at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall next Saturday and Sunday, March 18 and 19, as about 30 aspiring musicians from all over the world converge to compete in the 45th annual Hudson Valley Philharmonic (HVP) String Competition. Two past winners of the contest, violinist Hiroko Yajima (1967) and cellist James Kreger (1969), will join HVP concertmaster Carole Cowan as this year’s panel of judges. The 2017 First Prize winner will receive $3,000, a solo performance with the HVP during its 2017/18 season and, for the third time, a solo performance at the Musical Landscapes of Italy festival in August in San Quirico d’Orcia in Tuscany. The festival was founded by Poughkeepsie

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GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Subtropical stirrings Citrus fruits and avocados are budding in my greenhouse

ne spring day many years ago, my friend Bill looked out upon the daffodils blooming and other stirrings, and summed up the scene with the statement that “It’s spring and everything is wigglin’.” We haven’t yet come that far along, but things are wigglin’ – indoors. Most dramatic among the wigglin’s is the big fat flowerbud pushing up from the big fat amaryllis bulb. True, the goal of most people is to have the flamboyant red blossoms open for Christmas, which requires beginning a bulb’s dormant period in the middle of August. It’s cool temperatures – around 55 degrees Fahrenheit – and dry soil that put an amaryllis bulb to sleep. Then, in early November, warm temperatures and just a little water waken the bulb out of its slumber, with increasing watering, commensurate with its growth, bringing the bulb fully awake and ready to burst forth in bloom six weeks later. In mid-August, I’m more focused on harvesting tomatoes and peppers, readying endive for October harvests, making compost and other garden goings-on than on the amaryllis bulb that I tipped out of its pot and planted in the ground in late spring. And anyway, a few red flowers, even flamboyant ones, do little to counteract December’s grayness. So I let my amaryllis flower in its time, which should be within a couple of weeks or so, and add to the indoor late-winter wigglin’.

When the avocado ﬂower ﬁrst opens it is in the female phase, receptive to pollen; this phase lasts two to four hours.

Much more exciting are the less dramatic signs of growth on some of my potted subtropical trees. As subtropical plants, citrus trees push out multiple flushes of growth through the year. The first flush is about to begin on Meyer lemon, Golden Nugget mandarin and Meiwa kumquat. One or more of those citrus flushes also bears flowers, which lead to fruits. The kumquat typically flowers late. My Golden Nugget mandarin hasn’t yet ever flowered for me, so I’m not sure when to expect those blossoms. Wait! Do I see the tiny beginnings of a flowerbud on that nascent stem? Meyer lemon is famous for its free flowering. Looking closely, I see that some of the new growth includes flowerbuds. At the same time, I see that the lemon fruits that had their beginnings last year are now swelling more rapidly. I’m predicting to have new lemons forming even as I am harvesting ripe ones. Most exciting are the fat buds expanding on my potted avocado tree, grown from a seed that I planted a couple of years ago. I grafted this seedling with a stem of the Marcus Pumpkin variety of avocado that I got about this time last year from a friend in Florida. An avocado tree grown from seed would take many years (if ever, as a houseplant this far north) to reach maturity – that is, to be old enough to be able to flower and fruit. A stem taken from a fruiting plant is already mature, though, and remains so even if grafted onto a young seedling. The grafted stem of Marcus Pumpkin on my avocado

Spending some time at Time & Space, Ltd.

hen Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce brought the not-for-profit arts organization Time & Space, Limited (TSL) to the City of Hudson in the early 1990s, the matter at hand was a combination of artistic freedom and real estate. “We had issues in New York about space,” says Mussmann. “We wanted to find a community that could support what we wanted to do – and be able to own a building. In the City, we were always subject to being at the mercy of landlords.” She explains how their decision was also prompted by “the whole kerfuffle around censorship and Mapplethorpe.” “There was an awareness that political winds were not blowing in our favor.” In order to maintain creative integrity, TSL gave money back to the National Endowment for the Arts when that organization required the signing of an anti-obscenity pledge. “We were cutting a

lot of our funding out, and to this day we don’t receive money from NEA because of that. We wanted to secure a place we had more control over, to have a home, and survive in a better way through memberships and contributions and small foundations.” Landing in Hudson in 1991 was fortuitous. Bruce and Mussmann walked into an affordable building – a one-time bakery built in 1929 – and recognized its potential as an ever-evolving space for artists and community members to come together. Two massive areas house two theaters and a gathering room with tables and chairs and an attached snack bar. The large theater regularly seats opera aficionados when live performances of the Metropolitan Opera are streamed in by satellite. Or locals can enjoy the Bolshoi Ballet or plays mounted by Stage Russia or productions from the National Theatre in London. Classic and independent films are screened in both theaters. “In 1994, we started screening movies with a 16mm projector,” says Bruce. “Linda ran it and I did the popcorn. She would change the reel and I would up the light on the popcorn stand. We had hard wooden pews, and people would bring their own pillows. Over time we acquired another 16mm projector” – and more comfortable seating, rescued from old theaters, and new technology, such as the two satellite dishes mounted on the roof, making simulcasts of world programming available.

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tree is, in fact, about to burst into bloom! Much can happen ’twixt the bloom and the mouth; I’m guardedly hopeful to be guacamole-ing freshly plucked avocados in a few months. The problem is synchronous dichogamy, which may end up being more of a mouthful than my avocado fruit. The upshot of this mouthful is that each of an avocado plant’s gazillion flowers stays open for two days. When the flower first opens it is in the female phase, receptive to pollen; this phase lasts two to four hours. Day Two has the flower in its male phase, shedding pollen. The male and female flower parts being out of synch is good for avocado evolution, but bad for me as far as homegrown guacamole. Depending on the variety, avocado flowers might be Type A or Type B. Type A flowers are not ambitious, competitive or impatient like Type A humans. Or maybe they are, because the female parts are open and receptive only in the morning of the first day; these same flowers open as males in the afternoon of the second day. Type B flowers aren’t ready for action until the afternoon of their first day; then they open as males the next morning. The upshot of all this is that it’s best to have two different avocado varieties, a Type A and a Type B. The morning phase of Type B, as males, can pollinate the morning phase of Type A, which are females – and vice versa. Marcus Pumpkin is a Type B avocado. When I grafted it, I also grafted Lula, a Type A avocado, on another seedling. Although Lula failed to take, all may not be lost. My plan is to dab the Marcus Pumpkin flowers in the afternoon with an artist’s brush, tap the pollen into a Petri dish, cover it, and the next morning dab the brush from the collected pollen to the Marcus Pumpkin flowers in their female phase. Perhaps I’ll be harvesting fresh avocados in a few months. Perhaps I’ll be just buying fresh avocados in a few months. At any rate, as a Northern gardener, it’s very exciting to have my avocado tree about to flower. All is not so quiescent outside. After a couple of warm days, I see that winter aconites have spread their cheery yellow petals. – Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. To read Lee’s previous “Gardener’s Notebook” columns, visit his garden at www.leereich.com/blog.

Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce at TSL in Hudson

“We’ve been doing it for 11 years; we were the first to take it on,” says Bruce. “It’s how TSL has evolved. It’s such a great alternative spirit, and we’re always ready for whatever’s going on. When 16mm movies were phased out and we started screening on digital projectors – another piece of technology that didn’t exist when we came here – we were able to compete for movies that 20 years ago we couldn’t touch.” Today the two theaters are each outfitted with state-of-the-art digital

and HD projectors and Dolby surroundsound. “It’s probably acoustically one of the best places to see HD live,” says Mussmann. “And we are the smallest space the Met has on their roster. Half the ticket price goes to the Met, and we maintain everything else.” Everything else means administration and coordination of multiple programs at once, facility buildout and maintenance and, most importantly, responding to the needs and demands of the community.

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NIGHT SKY

The greatest aurorae Tips for seeing Fabulous Spectacle Number Two

eople are telling me where they plan to go this August 21. It makes me very happy. Folks are increasingly realizing that an unbelievable experience is about to unfold. You need no special equipment, no telescope; only a $1 filter to watch the partial phase safely. The first mainland-US total solar eclipse in 38 years merely requires that you place yourself in the path of totality. Go online and Google “2017 total eclipse” and you’ll see a zoomable map. Hotels in the eclipse path are sold out, but that doesn’t matter; you don’t need to sleep there. The eclipse happens at midday, so you can drive into the path that morning, and go to any park or library lawn. This comes to mind because I just returned from “Greatest Spectacle Number Two,” which is a vivid display of the aurora borealis. I just finished our yearly Northern Lights tour, and this time we had three successive nights of Level Four and Level Five displays, using the classification system from the University of Alaska. I was so glad for our group, which included a couple from Columbia County. We get nice aurorae right here, but it has now been a while: Our last vivid display was in the autumn of 2001. And we had a bright display one year earlier, in the fall of 2000. Before that, there was a brief overhead dusk display about five years earlier; I don’t remember what year that was. Before that, there were the now-famous all-night, all-sky, mind-boggling Northern Lights of March 13, 1989. In north central Alaska, there are bright displays every week (also in Iceland and Scandinavia, but it’s often cloudy in those places). Our science tour company, Special Interest Tours, keeps returning to our secret places, and I hope some of you will join us for one of those. If not, or if you’re willing to wait for the next time we get a good one here in the Hudson Valley, here’s a quick guide. A good aurora is the second-best spectacle the human eye can ever see. But what constitutes a major display? Most folks imagine that it involves lots of vivid colors. But that never happens. One of the world’s leading aurora experts, Neal Brown of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, once told me that “a deep-red aurora is a once-ina-lifetime experience.” I think he nailed it; I’ve only seen one in all these decades. And when a red aurora does appear, it’s an extremely high-altitude affair that shows itself as an enormous red blotch, without any shapes, formations or details. The minimum aurora – and the one we get most commonly around here – is a simple glow in the northern sky. Even in Alaska, most aurorae start out that way an hour or two after sunset. But as we approach midnight, when aurorae typically begin to become full-blown, everything changes. Here’s a checklist for a truly memorable display: The first criterion is size, or aerial extent. How large is it? Is it merely confined to the north, or is it directly overhead? Does it occupy a huge swath? The best ones spread themselves over vast tracts of sky. The second criterion is brightness. The better aurorae light up the ground and the surrounding countryside (this assumes you’re away from any city). You never need total darkness. A bright aurora can easily be seen when the Moon is out. Indeed, last Thursday, a gorgeous aurora conspicuously appeared over Fairbanks: a small city with roughly the same population as Kingston. A bright aurora lights up the mountains. The third criterion is color. Aurorae are commonly a pale green. This glow, from ionized oxygen at 5577 angstroms, is reliable. However, my own repeated surveys of our tour groups reveal that one-quarter of people do not perceive this color, and instead see it as gray. That’s because color perception requires that our retinas use their six million cone-shaped cells, which require a minimum brightness level of around 0.3 lamberts. People apparently have great individual variation as to where their colorblind, lowlight, rod-based scotopic vision gives way to full-color photopic vision. Two years ago,

A good aurora is the second-best spectacle the human eye can ever see. But what constitutes a major display?

It’s essentially a two-person operation, augmented by volunteers and interns who take up the slack in some tasks. The couple’s willingness to jump into the next great thing, to allow programs to morph into their own best form, reflects their beginnings as artists. “We’re theater people,” says Bruce. “In New York we used to do avant-garde, experimental stuff... not your regular ‘beginning/middle/ denouement/ending’ sort of theater. When we came up here, we looked out and saw that there’s a lot we could offer here. We were the first people who put together a full-time art space in Hudson, believing that people could use the kind of alternative art scene that we provided. We’re not your normal cup of tea. We insist that art be part of dialogues and conversations that change people’s lives.” To that end, TSL opens its doors to community organizations such as Planned Parenthood, which is doing an outreach program this month, and the Long Table Harvest, a gleaning program that collects and distributes unused food to needy

people. “We rent space out occasionally, or sometimes the community needs a place to meet for free, and both are available.” Over more than two decades, TSL’s youth programs have nurtured young people and introduced them to a level of art culture that was not formerly available to them. “Right now we have an apprentice program. Young people are working with us to learn different skills,” adds Mussmann. With an overarching mission to “encourage artistic expression in daily life,” Mussmann and Bruce invite individuals of all ages and families of all backgrounds to participate in the visual and performance arts, explore themes of local and global concerns and engage with the diverse populations in the region. The physical space, entirely unpretentious, invites interaction. Bruce notes how the gathering room with its “popcorn stand” at one end offers people the opportunity to talk about what they’re seeing and doing at TSL. “When we play the opera, we serve sandwiches and pastry because

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The view at Bob Berman's Alaskan aurora expedition in 2015

during an intensely green display, ten of our 40 people raised their hand when I asked who could not see the color. The other 30 were astonished. “You can’t see that green? Really? Really?” one asked incredulously. During some powerful displays, the green “curtains” have distinctly pink fringes, which may also appear purple or plum-colored, though these are usually subtle and pastel. The fourth criterion is detail. A good display is not merely a glow containing blotches, ovals and arcs. They can look like slowly rustling drapes. They have lines, twists and braids. They are highly detailed. My final criterion is motion. Aurorae commonly have a slow-moving grandeur. To see changes, you often have to look away for half a minute, then look back again. But this past week’s aurorae displayed rapid, jumpy motion. An aurora that is both bright and rapidly changing can even be captured in a video. (Check out one we took two years ago, on https://youtu.be/l3IhyL1sW0I. Aurora videos are usually created by splicing together separate long-exposure images. By “long exposure,” I mean tripod-mounted six-second shots at around f/ 1.6, using a high ISO or ASA setting. But two years ago we could simply shoot straight videos, with no processing. In all cases, a camera deepens the green color and brings out other colors that the eye does not see. So there’s your aurora guide. There’s your “Number Two Great Spectacle.” But first things first: Please try to see “Number One” this summer. You’ll be glad you went. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

it’s so long,” says Mussmann. Neither woman is originally from New York: Bruce grew up in Georgia and came to New York in 1969; Mussmann came from Indiana the same year. Both were eager to escape small-town America and stretch their creative wings in the environment of the City, but didn’t meet each either until 1976, by which time Mussmann had already founded TSL. “New York was the magnet for people like us who were on the outer fringes of American culture. We all gravitated to New York City. I was close to Chicago, but Chicago was limited; it didn’t have much in alternative arts.” Operating on the belief that art is what holds us all together as a human family, empowering us to grow and evolve as a species, Mussmann and Bruce live the dream. They celebrate great stories, great art, independent creative expression and all the hard work that goes with the territory. “We’re here all the time; we answer the phone, Claudia tends the parking lot and welcomes people in.

Many people of the opera community are older. They need access to a place that’s comfortable. So there are no steps in TSL; you can function with a wheelchair or walker or a cane, and simply get in and out quickly.” Bruce comments on the age span of their clientele: “The interesting thing about our younger crowd is that they come for the independent movies. And over the years, those groups [young and older] have commingled. The love of theater or the movies can translate to love of the ballet or opera.” With no national or state funding, but with tremendous ongoing support from members and other community businesses and organizations, TSL has become a valuable cultural resource. Check its website for upcoming performances and events. – Ann Hutton Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street, Hudson; (518) 822-8100, www. timeandspace.org.

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Lately, with talk about jump-overs and leaps, one might think that we’re talking about frogs; but this is the time of year when we see a plethora of Irish dance performances! On Friday, March 10 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., the Tivoli Free Library hosts an Irish Dance Workshop by the D’Amby Project, which is a dance company and school based out of Red Hook. This session includes an energized dance lesson and demonstration, and all ages and abilities are welcome. The Tivoli Free Library is located at 86 Broadway in Tivoli. For more information, call (845) 757-3771 or visit http://tivolilibrary.org. To learn more about the D’Amby Project, visit www.thedambyproject.com.

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Have you been looking for an engaging live show to introduce your little one to live theater? Here’s one that’s sure to please! At 2 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday, March 11 and 12, the New York Conservatory for the Arts (NYCA) Theatre for Children Company presents Cinderella! Cinderella! at the Woodstock Playhouse. Don’t be fooled by the name – this isn’t just another story about a damsel in distress who lost a high heel; this story has a twist, as Cinderella learns that magic isn’t the answer to her problems. The show lasts for 45 minutes, with no intermission. Tickets cost $10 for seniors and students, $12 for adults. The Woodstock Playhouse is located at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock. For tickets or more information, call (845) 679-6900 or visit www.woodstockplayhouse.org/ theatre-for-children.

Monster Intelligence at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck Do your kids enjoy funny things? Lots of different types of music? Notvery-scary creatures? Then get your reservations for Monster Intelligence, a puppet show about challenges, risks and dreams taking place this Saturday, March 11 at 11 a.m. at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Tickets cost $7 for children, $9 for adults. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http:// centerforperformingarts.org/familyseries/item/monster-intelligence-puppetshow. SUNDAY, MARCH 12

Experience “Purim in the Caribbean” in Poughkeepsie Brrrrrrrrrrr! A tropical getaway would sure be nice for warming up right now, wouldn’t it? You can leave your passport home for this one, though, because “Purim in the Caribbean” takes place right here in the Hudson Valley! On Sunday, March 12 at 4 p.m., head over to the Town of Poughkeepsie Senior Center for a Caribbean-style dinner, smoothie bar,

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Activist (Story) Hourâ&#x20AC;? for kids at Inquiring Minds in New Paltz Democracy is for all ages! But how can you connect with young children around activism? Chelsea Miller is making it easy, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Activist (Story) Hour,â&#x20AC;? geared for children ages 3 to 8 years, taking place this Sunday, March 12 at 10:30 a.m. at the Inquiring Minds bookstore in New Paltz. Kids will hear a story, be a part of the discussion and celebrate our worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commonalities and differences. Older children as well as parents will appreciate this time of inspiration, too! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Activist (Story) Hourâ&#x20AC;? is free and open to the public. Inquiring Minds is located at 6 Church Street in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-8300 or visit www.inquiringbooks.com or www. facebook.com/events/431086027228061.

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10am-4pm Romance & Sports Book Sale. Romance, sports books on sale. Hard covers at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, & standard paperbacks at 10 cents. Boardman Road Branch Library,– book store is at the back of the building. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District Used Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie. Info: book_store@poklib. org, facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/ timeline.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, taraspayneuter.org. 10am-11am Women’s Yoga with Cory Smith. A variation of Gentle Yoga, this is a sacred space for women to deepen their spiritual practice while enhancing their health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8. 10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two. 10am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Current study: Book of Jeremiah. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information 845-246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties. 10:30am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Now starting The New Testament Book of Matthew. Meets in Parish Hall every Thursday. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information. 845-246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St., Saugerties. saugertiesreformed.org. 12pm-5pm Preview: Early March Antique Auction. Offering a variety of traditional American & Continental Antiques, Fine Art by listed artists, Estate Jewelry, Oriental Carpets & other items. Preview Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12-5pm; & Sunday 8am til sale. A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at carlsengallery.com. Info: 518-634-2466 or E-mail: info@carlsengallery.com. 9931 Rt 32, Freehold. 12pm-1:30pm Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga with Pepper Monroe. A Restorative and Yin Yoga inspired class geared toward easing the nervous system with a therapeutic approach to the poses. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 12:15pm-12:45pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for half-hour of silent sitting meditation. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Admission by donation. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/community-meditation. 12:30pm Old Dutch Village Garden Club Regular Meeting. Held the second Thursday of each month at 12:30pm. All meetings are free and open to the public, visitors welcome! St. John’s Reformed Church, 126 Old Post Rd N, Red Hook. Info: 845-758-1184, olddutchvillagegc@gmail.com. 1pm-2pm Talk for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing. Hearing Loss Support Group. Guest speaker Jeanine Byrnes, Program Director for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Taconic Resources for Independent Living will discuss devices and advocacy. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255 or nlane@rcls.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@ rcls.org. 1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and Cards are available--or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments. On-going every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red Hook. 1pm-4pm Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Rescue Squad Community Room, 222 Tinker St, Wood-

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acceptance of yourself. In this workshop we will discuss the different types of empathic abilities, the gifts and challenges within each type, and how to harness and work with these energies in a healthy and supportive way. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $25. 6pm-7pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing. Free and open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org. 6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com. 6:30pm-8:30pm Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night: Between Today and Tomorrow. DOCUMENTARY FILM, (今日と明日の間で), 2012. Directed by Junko Kobayashi, starring Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Megumi Nakamura, 89 mins. Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com. 6:30pm The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits. Investigative reporter, Karen Charman will host a free screening of Greg Palast’s movie. This real-life detective story is told in a film noir style with cartoon animations, secret documents, and hidden cameras. Greg Palast goes on location all over America from the deep south to the Arctic Circle. Free. Donations welcome. Info: 845-5862611. Catskill Center, 43355 New York 28, Arkville. catskillcenter.org. 6:30pm-8pm Reggae Yoga. This Vinyasa class uses reggae music to evoke the spirit of Jamaica to create an irie yoga time. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. Free, by donation. 6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. Info: 518-5895000, peacevillage@bkwsu.org, bkwsu.org. 7pm Lenten Study Series. The “Seven Deadly Sins” and Their Opposing Virtues – What do they mean in the modern world? Using religious traditions as a springboard to discussion, our focus will be on how to interpret various ancient and long-standing rules of conduct in terms of the our modern world. Come and join us. – All are welcome along with people of any religious background! Sixweek series. Info: 845-246-2867. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties. 7pm-8:30pm Meeting of MECR (Middle East Crisis Response). A group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Contact: 845-876-7906. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. mideastcrisis.org. 7pm You’re the Expert. Live recording of podcast game show . Host Chris Duffy leads a panel of comedians, including Josh Sharp and Gary Richardson, through game show segments and misguided guesses. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4375370, info.vassar.edu/news/announcements/20162017/170309-youre-the-expert.html. 7pm The Beacon Sloop Club’s 2017 Winter Lecture Series: History of Hops In The Hudson Valley. With Justin Riccobono. In 2013, inspired by a vintage photograph of a large-scale hop cultiva-

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Project. All Ages & Abilities welcome. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org/.

8pm-10pm Shadow of A Gunman. By Sean O’Casey. This tragic comedy is set in the 1920s as the Irish War of Independence rages. Two men’s lives change when one is mistaken for a IRA gunman. Parker Theatre, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3880, boxoffice@newpaltz.edu, newpaltz.edu/theatre. $18 general reserved, $16 reserved senior (62+) SUNY faculty/staff, $10 reserved SUNY New Paltz student.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Rejuvenating and supported postures that soothe the nervous system and alleviate tension. Lots of props and dim lights. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander,Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-3484.

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7:45am-8:45am Low-Cost Dental Clinic. TARA now offers low-cost dental cleanings for those in need. This service is for previously spayed/neutered dogs and cats only. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. 9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with increasing detail and a slower, flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 9:45am-10:45am Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 10am-4pm Saugerties United Methodist Church Annual Rummage Sale. Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-7802. 10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com. 11:30am-1:30pm Spring Soup Fridays. Homemade soups & salad offered. We will offer two different varieties of soup, with at least one vegetarian choice. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com. 11:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com. 12pm-5pm Preview: Early March Antique Auction. Offering a variety of traditional American & Continental Antiques, Fine Art by listed artists, Estate Jewelry, Oriental Carpets & other items. Preview Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12-5pm; & Sunday 8am til sale. A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at carlsengallery.com. Info: 518-634-2466 or E-mail: info@carlsengallery.com. 9931 Rt 32, Freehold. 12pm-2pm Men’s Group. 8 Sessions facilitated by Paul Lichtenberg. Please see website for details & to advance register: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/ men%e2%80%99s-group.html. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. 12:05pm-1pm Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvementof balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 12:30pm-6pm Crystal Tarot Readings and Chakra Clearing Sessions with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Friday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792100. $30/25 minutes. 12:30pm-1:15pm Rainbow Kids Yoga (Ages 4-6). Aims to improve children’s strength and flexibility while increasing self-confidence and emotional resilience. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10 for drop-in, $40 for 5-class series. 1pm-3:30pm New Bridge Group at Community Center. Free. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. Info: 617-308-9993. 3pm-8pm Vinyl Record Show. Three day show! Info: deepwater@mac.com. 291 Main St, Beacon. 4pm-6:30pm Dungeons & Dragons. Join your Dungeon Master Patrick to create and play characters for a Storm King’s Thunder campaign! Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail. com, http://tivolilibrary.org. 4pm “Knit Wits” Knitting Club. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 5pm Auction. Find country chic, mid-century, and charming antiques at auction house prices every Friday evening. Preview starts at 2pm. Goshen. countrypickinsny.com. 5:30pm-6:30pm Irish Dance Workshop - The D’amby Project. Irish Dance Workshop & Demonstration w/dancers & teachers from The D’amby

6pm Movie Night: Southside with You (2016). Relive the fateful first date in 1989 when a young Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson fall in love. Rated PG-13, 84 minutes. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. 6pm-8pm Gateway Annual $10,000 Raffle. 30 plus specialty gift baskets, cocktail hour including hors d’oeuvres. Info & tix 845-331-1261. 1 Amy Kay Parkway, Kingston. 6pm-7pm Bagpipes with Catskill Mountain Pipes and Drum. Learn how bagpipes work! They will be playing bagpipes in full regalia and answering any and all of your questions. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries. Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-6923, cdfcirone@ aol.com. 7pm-9pm Live Music & Noodles with VELVET TIDES. Jazz, Folk, Hip/Hop & Ambient, EVAN BISHOP - guitar, NO COVER Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com.

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11am-4pm Adams Fairacre Farm Food Show. Info:845-336-6300. Adams Fairacre Farm, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine. adamsfarms.com.

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8am Writing Group. This writing group will offer bi-weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique & the opportunity to share work-inprogress. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 8:30am-9:30am Vinyasa Yoga with Laura Olson. A fast-paced vinyasa flow class that works up a nice sweat while keeping things light and fun. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 9am-3pm American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider Course. 2 days. An advanced, instructorled classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large group sessions and small group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented. You must have a current BLS certification to take this course. Course completion results in a two-year ACLS certification from the American Heart Association. Text included. Preregistration and payment are required. Call 845-475-9742 to register. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. $225.

7pm-8pm Jazz in The Snow Series. 23Arts Initiative presents: Modern Gospel, Brianna Thomas Trio. Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main Street, Tannersville. mountaintoplibrary.org.

9am-1pm American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certiﬁcation. Call 845-475-9742 to register. This course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals with the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an automated external defibrillator and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner. Course completion results in a certification card from the American Heart Association valid for two years. This course is designed for doctors, nurses, EMTs, physical therapists, dentists, lifeguards and other healthcare professionals. For ages 16 to adult. Text included. Preregistration and payment are required. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. $65.

7pm Conversations at Boughton Place. Meets on the second Friday of each month at 7 pm. Event takes place on Moreno Stage. Boughton Place,, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. $5 /suggested donation.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9am. All welcome. No charge. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-3285.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845-6473902. $1.

9am Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

7pm Brianna Thomas Band. Featuring the Brianna Thomas Band. Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main Street, Tannersville. 7pm Live @ The Falcon: Charlie Hunter. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-2367970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7:30pm The Music Man. The Stissing Theatre Guild will present Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN. A family friendly Tony Award-winning musical comedy featuring familiar songs such as “Till There Was You” and “76 Trombones.” Come and see how a traveling salesman tries to con an Iowa town and ends up changing his tune. To order tickets call the Stissing Theatre Guild Box Office @ 518-398-1272 or go online. Pine Plains. stgboxoffice. seatyourself.biz. $13, $11/senior/student. 7:30pm Bard Dance Program: March Dance. Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter.bard.edu. 8pm Outside Mullingar. Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Outside Mullingar, by John Patrick Shanley, author of Doubt and Moonstruck. Ellen Honig directs four actors: John Adair, Joe Bongiorno, Adele Calcavecchio, and Maria Elena Maurin. A romantic comedy set in Ireland near the town of Mullingar,the play tells the story of two middle-aged neighbors living on adjoining farms who secretly pine for each other, but are held back by circumstance, acute shyness, and a startling secret. Shanley’s lively dialogue is a delight as the characters spar with each other and their parents. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. For reservations, call 845- 679-7900 or go to performingartsofwoodstock.org to reserve with PayPal. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 8pm Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Play by Eugene O’Neill. The story unfolds in a single day in the life of the Tyrone family where all four members are haunted by their failures and fears, which gradually overwhelm them. MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES. Info: 845-876-3080. The Center For Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org. $24, $22. 8pm Long Day’s Journey Into Night. One of the most lauded plays in the history of the American theater. Info: 845-876-3080 or eileen@centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts. org. $20. 8pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com. 8pm Tab Benoit. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Bearsville. BearsvilleTheater.com. 8pm-10pm Shadow of A Gunman. By Sean O’Casey. This tragic comedy is set in the 1920s as the Irish War of Independence rages. Two men’s lives change when one is mistaken for a IRA gunman. Parker Theatre, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3880, boxoffice@newpaltz.edu, newpaltz.edu/theatre. $18 general reserved, $16 reserved senior (62+) SUNY faculty/staff, $10 reserved SUNY New Paltz

9:30am-11am Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going. Everyone welcome. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8800. 10am-2pm Indoor Farmers Market. Who says you can’t get local produce and products before spring? An added bonus is seeing the inside of the vintage building. Tuxedo. tuxedofarmersmarket.com. 10am-1pm Saugerties United Methodist Church Annual Rummage Sale. There will be a bag sale on Saturday – all you can get in a bag for $2.00! Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-7802. 10am-4pm Romance & Sports Book Sale. Romance, sports books on sale. Hard covers at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, & standard paperbacks at 10 cents. Boardman Road Branch Library,– book store is at the back of the building. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District Used Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie. Info: book_store@poklib. org, facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/ timeline. 10am-12pm Saturday Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, you are welcome to join. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-0624, newbabynewpaltz@yahoo.com, newbabynewpaltz. com. 10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 10am-12pm Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845 687-7023, stoneridgelibrary.org/. 10am-9pm Candlewax Recycling Drop-off. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Ongoing. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 10:30am-1:30pm Cornwall Indoor Winter Farmers Market. Who says you can’t get local produce and products before spring? Check out the wide variety of goods available now. Info: 845-534-2070,. Cornwall. cornwallny.gov/departments/farmers-market. 10:30am-1pm NEW Parent Child Academy at the Hudson Area Library. Join the Parent Child Academy to support your child’s literacy. Free. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org/. 10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston. Info: 845-399-2805.

11am 2017 St. Patrick’s Day Parade of Green in Beacon. Main Street, Beacon. facebook.com/ ParadeOfGreen/. 11am-5pm Minnewaska Preserve/Sam’s Point: Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. Every Saturday through March, weather permitting. It is designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing as a new winter activity. Each session will be run by a Sam’s Point employee who will provide instruction on how to properly wear and adjust the snowshoes, as well as work with you until you are ready to head out on your favorite trail with confidence. The lesson may last up to one hour. Snowshoes are available to rent for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor. Info: 845-255-0752. 11am-1pm Teen Gaming. 3 computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 11am-4pm Winter Olana Tour. Friday-Sunday, first tour 11 am, last tour 3 pm. Olana, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. olana.org. 12pm-3pm A Sampling of ImmuneSchein Elixir. Strengthen your immunity naturally! Proudly handmade in the Hudson Valley. Be sure to check out our March Sales Event. Enjoy 40%-50% off select items in the Men’s Shop, Melina’s Boutique and Emerson Home & Garden. Shop our sidewalk clearance for 50-60% off select books, home décor and gifts. For more information, 845-688-2828. Emerson Country Stores, 5340 Rt-28, Mount Tremper. emersonresort.com. 12pm-5pm Preview: Early March Antique Auction. Offering a variety of traditional American & Continental Antiques, Fine Art by listed artists, Estate Jewelry, Oriental Carpets & other items. Preview Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12-5pm; & Sunday 8am til sale. A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at carlsengallery.com. Info: 518-634-2466 or E-mail: info@carlsengallery.com. 9931 Rt 32, Freehold. 12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Donations appreciated. Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. sarah@womenspowerspace.org. 12:30pm-6:30pm Tarot Readings with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes. 12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets. Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz. 1pm Book Reading: Elaine Khosrova. Author of the Butter: A Rich History. She will speak about butter and offer tastings. Guests are invited to come early to explore and shop the Kingston Farmers Market, which is also held in the church from 10am12pm. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston. 1pm-2:30pm The Messenger. A documentary film by Su Rynard. Henry A. Wallace Visitor & Education Center. The Messenger is a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of the imperiled songbird, and what it means to all of us on both a global and human level if we lose them. For more information contact Susanne Norris at 845-2296873. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 1pm-4pm Hudson Valley Sudbury School Open House. HVSS Open Houses are the best way to begin to get to know the school. Students, parents, alumni, and staff members will be in attendance to give tours of the campus, discuss the school, and answer questions. A panel discussion will begin at 2pm. 84 Zena Rd, Kingston. 1pm-4pm Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s La Traviata. A revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. Info: 413-5280100, info@mahaiwe.org, mahaiwe.org/LaTraviata. $25 / $18 Students. 1pm Sit and Knit. Bring a project or start a new one while sitting on the comfy couches in the Information Room window area. Meets every Saturday at 1 pm. All are welcome. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 1:30pm-4:30pm Embodying Bone Yoga Workshop with Kate Hagerman. This is the first in a 3-part series of yoga workshops in which we discover the interplay between the leverage offered by the bones and the flexibility offered by the joints between them. In this first workshop, we will focus on the lower limbs, learning how they articulate with each other and the vertebral column in yoga poses. Led by certified Embodied Anatomy & Yoga teacher Kate Hagerman. $50 for single workshop or $120 for three-part series (10% discount for members). Info: 845-679-8700 or woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. 2pm-4pm The Search for Meaning in the Midst of Life. A short film about William Segal (painter and spiritual teacher) by Ken Burns will be shown, followed by discussion. Refreshments provided. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St., Poughkeepsie. 2pm-4pm Congolese Cultural Celebration. The Badila family present an event of dance, music, stories and food of the Congo. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792,

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Outside Mullingar. Opens Friday, March 10 at 8 pm! Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Outside Mullingar, by John Patrick Shanley, author of Doubt and Moonstruck. Ellen Honig directs four actors: John Adair, Joe Bongiorno, Adele Calcavecchio, and Maria Elena Maurin. A romantic comedy set in Ireland near the town of Mullingar,the play tells the story of two middle-aged neighbors living on adjoining farms who secretly pine for each other, but are held back by circumstance, acute shyness, and a startling secret. Shanley’s lively dialogue is a delight as the characters spar with each other and their parents. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Road, Woodstock and continues on March 11,12,17,18,19,24,25 and 26 for three weekends, with evening performances at 8 pm and Sunday matinees at 1:30 pm. There is a preview performance March 9 at a reduced price of $15. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. For reservations, call 845- 679-7900 or go to performingartsofwoodstock.org to reserve with PayPal. What Everyone Should Know! Colon Cancer Prevention & Screening (3/14, 5:30-7pm). With Ari Goldstein, MD, board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He has recently joined the practice of Hudson Valley Gastroenterology P.C., a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth). He completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Goldstein was an attending gastroenterologist and clinical instructor of medicine at Harlem Hospital Center, an affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Snow date 3/21. HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary’s

Avenue Campus Administrative Services Auditorium,75 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. To register: HealthAlliance Oncology Support Program at 845-339-2071 or email oncology.support@hahv.org. Embodying Bone Yoga Workshop with Kate Hagerman (Saturday, 3/11, 1:30-4:30pm). This is the first in a 3-part series of yoga workshops in which we discover the interplay between the leverage offered by the bones and the flexibility offered by the joints between them. In this first workshop, we will focus on the lower limbs, learning how they articulate with each other and the vertebral column in yoga poses. Led by certified Embodied Anatomy & Yoga teacher Kate Hagerman. $50 for single workshop or $120 for three-part series (10% discount for members). Info: 845-679-8700, Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Star Mountainville Group Casting Notice. Headshots and resumes requested for Star Mountainville Group presentation of three staged readings in four nights in new space in Kingston. Directed by Glenn Laszlo Weiss. There will be two rehearsals and one night of performance for Programs 1 and 2 and two performances of Program 3. Dates will be May 5,6,12 and 13. Union & Non Union actors encouraged to submit. Email to starmountainvillegroup@ gmail.com. Teen Photo Contest. Elting Library is accepting applications for the annual Teen Photo Contest for photographers in grades 8-12. Photos can be black and white or color and must be taken in New Paltz. Categories include portrait, landscape, and “other.” Photos will be

brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org/. 2pm-4pm Tuning and Toning Your Nervous System with Tuning Forks: a workshop with author and sound therapist Dr. John Beaulieu. Come explore the science and practical applications of tuning forks and how you can stimulate specific pressure points for pain reduction. $20 if registered by March 9. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $25. 2pm Bard Dance Program: March Dance. Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter.bard.edu. 2pm Gardiner Library Music Lover’s Group Meeting. This free group meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2pm. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845 255-1255, gardinerlibrary.org. 2pm Free Meditation Instruction. Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. On-going. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5906, jan@ kagyu.org. 2:30pm-3:30pm Family Program: Celebrate Everything Green. Come celebrate & enjoy some green snacks, green crafts & wear your favorite green clothing! Prize for most creative green costume. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-4030, njackson@starrlibrary. org, starrlibrary.org. 3pm-8pm Vinyl Record Show. Three day show! Info: deepwater@mac.com. 291 Main St, Beacon. 3pm-7pm Clearwater Open Boat/Round Robin/ Potluck. Visit the Sloop Clearwater. Bring your instrument, voice, story, poem to the round robin. Potluck food. Event takes place in the homeport barn. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. Info: 845-706-0969, kingstonsloopclub@gmail.com. 4pm-7pm Corned Beef and Cabbage Supper. $13/ adults, $8/12 & under, free/5 & under. Free $50 from the dinner is donated to Claryville Reformed Church Food Pantry. 1500 Denning Road, clarvyille. Info: 845-985-2943, bungst01@gmail.com. 4pm-6pm Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Chili Take-out Sale. $8.00 for a quart of chili and two rolls (choice of meat or vegetarian). Fresh, homemade bake goods for sale. Reservations recommended but not required. Call Joanne: 845-246-7084. 173 Main St.,. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St., Saugerties. 4pm-5pm A History of American Women in Song. A performance by Linda Russell, illuminating of the role of women’s lives in society from the 18th century to the 19th Amendment. Historic Huguenot Street / Crispell Memorial French Church, 60 Huguenot Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452551660, media@huguenotstreet.org, huguenotstreet.org/ calendar-of-events/2017/3/11/a-history-of-american-women-in-song-a-performance-by-lindarussell. Friends, seniors, and military $22.50. General admission $25. 4pm-7pm Deacons Dinner. Half of the proceeds will go to the Deacons Fund which provides emer-

displayed in the library and reviewed by a panel of judges. A prize of $50 is awarded for each of the three categories. The submission deadline is 3/30. Submissions should be matted. A reception to announce the winners will take place 4/25 at the library. Join us to view the photos, hear the winners announced, and refreshments. International Call To Artists! Postcard Art Show in support of the Children of Aleppo. For details or questions visit:artforaleppo.org or email for info: info@artforaleppo.org Fundraiser & Reception April 22, 5-9pm at Catalyst Gallery in Beacon. Monday Night Tai Chi & Chi Gung with Michael (Mondays, 6:157:15pm). Michael has over 30 yrs experience. Build a total integrated mind/body fitness while cultivating life’s abundant healing energy(Chi). Cost $25 a month! Or $10 per class. More information at whitecranehall.com 845-663-1555. White Crane Hall, 77 Cornell St. Kingston #116. Platte Clove Artist in Residence Program Accepting Applications. The Catskill Center is accepting application for the 2017 Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Program. Applications are due by Friday, March 31, 2017. Artists working in all mediums are encouraged to apply. The application deadline is Friday, March 31. For more information and an application, please visit the Catskill Center web site at www.catskillcenter. org or contact Katie Palm at kpalm@ catskillcenter.org. New Kids Yoga Class. To meet on Fridays and Sundays. Woodstock Yoga Center is offering a new Rainbow Kids

gency cash for those in need. Community Church of High Falls, corner of Mohonk & Firehouse Rds, High Falls. Info: 845-687-0910, info@communitychurchofhighfalls.com, churches.rca.org/highfalls/. $13 for adults, $11 for seniors, $7 for children 6-12 and children under 5 years old are free. 4pm-5pm Ulster County Music Educators All County Band Festival. Listen to popular and classical music played by students from Ulster County school bands and orchestras at this annual concert. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. Tickets: $6 adults, $3 students/seniors. 4:30pm ACLU People Power Action Event- High Falls. You’re invited: Resistance Training. At the event, they’ll be unveiling a specific action plan. Then work to defend our communities from the worst abuses of the Trump administration. More than 1,800 volunteers nationwide are hosting local events to show the stream. High Falls. aclu.org. 4:30pm ACLU People Power Action Event- Port Ewen. You’re invited: Resistance Training. At the event, they’ll be unveiling a specific action plan. Then work to defend our communities from the worst abuses of the Trump administration. More than 1,800 volunteers nationwide are hosting local events to show the stream. Port Ewen. aclu.org. 4:30pm ACLU People Power Action Event- New Paltz. You’re invited: Resistance Training. At the event, they’ll be unveiling a specific action plan. Then work to defend our communities from the worst abuses of the Trump administration. More than 1,800 volunteers nationwide are hosting local events to show the stream. New Paltz. aclu.org. 4:30pm ACLU People Power Action Event. A livestream viewing of the ACLU’s launch of People Power. We’ll talk about next steps for organizing to resist Trump. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8000, info.goldennotebook@gmail.com, goldennotebook.com/event/ aclu-people-power-action-event. 5pm-7pm Opening Reception: Visions of Ireland. A new exhibition featuring fine art photographs by Linda T. Hubbard of Sherman, CT and pastel paintings by Gayle Clark Fedigan of Newburgh, NY. The beautiful landscape of Ireland is featured in this exquisite show – on view through April 2nd. Info: 845-416-8342. Bannerman Island Gallery (BIG), 150 Main St, Beacon. 5pm-7pm Vocalist Brianna Thomas. Joined by her band of top names in NYC’s jazz scene. 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook. millbrooklibrary.org/. 5pm-7pm St. Patrick’s Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner. Continuous servings. $13/adults, $11/srs, $6/5-12 yr olds, free/5& under. Walk-Ins Welcome! Take-Outs available. RSVP by calling 845-246-6312. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties. 5pm-7pm Art Exhibit and Reception: Counterpoints by Kate Kennedy. Exhibit on view thru March 30th. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-4030, njackson@starrlibrary.org, www.starrlibrary.org. 6pm The Kurt Henry Band. Singer-Songwriter. Info: 845-693-5322. Pickled Owl Gastropub Restaurant, 218 Main St, Hurleyville. pickledowl. com. 7pm-10pm Tom DePetris Quartet. Jody Sumberdrums, Charles Frommer-sax, Lou Pappas-bass and Tom DePetris-guitar/composer. Jazz~ blues~ funk~ lots of original music. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209,

Yoga class. The classes, led by certified Rainbow Kids Yoga instructor Scrap Wrenn, aim to improve children’s strength and flexibility while increasing self-confidence and emotional resilience. Each class nourishes creativity by offering a new sequence of group exercises that warm up the body, and allow kids to connect to one another, settle down into focus and develop an inner life that balances body and mind. Classes will run every Friday, March 3rd thru 31st. Ages 4-6 will meet from 12:30-1:15 pm, and ages 7-10 will meet from 4:00-4:45 pm. There will also be a Sunday class for ages 6-10, meeting twice a month from 12:45-1:30 pm, starting March 5th. Classes are $10 to drop-in, or $40 for a 5-class series. Please note that the Woodstock Elementary School bus will drop kids off at directly at Woodstock Yoga Center with a note from parents. Please contact the studio for more information. Info: Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, (845) 679-8700, www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Being At Your Best When Your Kids Are At Their Worst The Simplicity Parenting Approach to Emotional Self-Regulation (3/16, 6:30pm). Learn how to stay engaged on the often frustrating and unpredictable “family dance floor” while at the same time watching from the calm and loving “parental balcony.” Led by Kim John Payne , author of #1 Best Seller Simplicity Parenting©. Using the Extraordinary Power of Less To Raise Calmer, Happier and More Secure Kids.Advance sales by March 10th $15, $20/door. Call 845-255-0033. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz. Register Now! Pilates Open Level Mat Class. Led by Martina Enschede, master Pilates instructor. On-going classes Monday & Wednesdays, 2pm. $15, $150/10 class card , reduced rate for srs - $130/10 class card. Euphoria Yoga, 99 Tinker Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-678-6766 or Euphoriayoga.org.

Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-3673, mark@lydiasdeli. com, www.lydiasdeli.com. No cover charge but tips are welcome. 7pm-9pm Live Music & Noodles with Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fi’s. Cool Soulful Blues. BIG JOE FITZvocals/harmonica, MARK DZIUBA-guitar, ROBERT BARD-bass, JERRY TETERS-drums, No Cover. Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com. 7pm-8:30pm May the Gong Bring You Along with Lea Garnier. Feel your own body transform into a feeling of no body at all as the gongs do their work. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange. 7pm Yale Russian Chorus Alumni with Bard College Georgian Choir. A special evening of a cappella choral music from Russia and Georgia. Suggested donation of $10/ $5 for Bard students and employees. Bard College, 30 Campus Rd., Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. 7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: CeesarClassic R&R Show. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com. 7pm Live @ The Falcon: Soñando. Salsa. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-2367970, liveatthefalcon.com. 7pm-11:30pm Acoustic & Electric Evening of Music. Meets the Second Saturday of each month. Bring a plate and or beverage to share. The Gallery is open from 2- 11:30pm. Music formally begins at 7pm, ending at 11:30pm. Come earlyand tour the artwork! The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford. tim@ touhey.com. $5/donation. 7:30pm The Music Man. The Stissing Theatre Guild will present Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN. A family friendly Tony Award-winning musical comedy featuring familiar songs such as “Till There Was You” and “76 Trombones.” Come and see how a traveling salesman tries to con an Iowa town and ends up changing his tune. To order tickets call the Stissing Theatre Guild Box Office @ 518-398-1272 or go online. Pine Plains. stgboxoffice. seatyourself.biz. $13, $11/senior/student. 8pm Outside Mullingar. Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Outside Mullingar, by John Patrick Shanley, author of Doubt and Moonstruck. Ellen Honig directs four actors: John Adair, Joe Bongiorno, Adele Calcavecchio, and Maria Elena Maurin. A romantic comedy set in Ireland near the town of Mullingar,the play tells the story of two middle-aged neighbors living on adjoining farms who secretly pine for each other, but are held back by circumstance, acute shyness, and a startling secret. Shanley’s lively dialogue is a delight as the characters spar with each other and their parents. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. For reservations, call 845- 679-7900 or go to performingartsofwoodstock.org to reserve with PayPal. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 8pm Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Play by Eugene O’Neill. The story unfolds in a single day in the life of the Tyrone family where all four members are haunted by their failures and fears, which gradually overwhelm them. MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES. Info: 845-876-3080. The Center For Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck.

Marathon Married Couples, Step UP. The Office for the Aging is looking for couples who will be married 70 years or more at any point in 2017, to be honored at our Celebration of Aging on May 22. You may also know that you can find out more by getting in touch with outreach coordinator Brian Jones at bjones@dutchessny.gov and/or (845) 486-2555. If the couple you know would like to go but isn’t sure they can make it in May, reserve space for them now and they can decide later if they’d like to go. We haven’t yet opened up ticket sales for the event, if you were wondering. Also searching for long-married couples, Catholic couples in this case, is the Archdiocese of New York. If you know any such couples in the Archdiocese married 65 years or more, you can contact Izabella Nagle at (646) 794-3190 or izabella.nagle@archny.org. Their deadline is Jan. 20, 2017. Ongoing Open Call. Athens Laundry is seeking projects in art, writing and design for the arts and literary publication by Friends of D. R. Evarts Library in Athens. Print and Electronic editions • Visit athenslaundry.tumblr.com for more info • Email friends@drevartslibrary. org today . Washbourne House Shelter Seeks Volunteers! Info: volunteers@familyofwoodstockinc.org or 845-331-7080x157. Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. $95 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/ Neuter Mobile Clinic for Cats( call for location and dates). $70 per cat includes spay/ neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed by appointment only; & Low-cost vaccine & dental Clinics available. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Pl, Middletown. Info: 845-343- 1000, tara-spayneuter.org.

centerforperformingarts.org. $24, $22. 8pm-10pm Mayhem & Madness Comedy Invades The Arts Society of Kingston (ASK). A night of stand-up comedy hosted by Bob Greenberg; featuring local legend Jared Whiteford and Headliner Rich Shultis. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-338-0333, ask@askforarts.org, acebook.com/events/1725031724477380. 8pm-10pm Shadow of A Gunman. By Sean O’Casey. This tragic comedy is set in the 1920s as the Irish War of Independence rages. Two men’s lives change when one is mistaken for a IRA gunman. Parker Theatre, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3880, boxoffice@newpaltz.edu, newpaltz.edu/theatre. $18 general reserved, $16 reserved senior (62+) SUNY faculty/staff, $10 reserved SUNY New Paltz student.

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8am-3pm Books Alive! Elting Library’s Youth Advisory Group brings children’s books to life in a reader’s theater performance with refreshments and prizes. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-5030 ext. 2, .eltinglibrary.org/. 8:30am-3pm Hoops for Hope Women’s and Men’s Basketball Tournament. Hoops for Hope is a 3 on 3 charity basketball tournament with a mission to raise funds for the Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation. There are competitive and noncompetitive divisions. Marist College , McCann Recreation Center, 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-264-2005, hoops.milesofhope@gmail. com, hoops-for-hope.siplay.com/site/. 8:30am-9:30am Yoga Workout with Terry Fister. For those who want to get up and go on a Sunday morning. Combines traditional asanas with modern core exercises. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. 8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5906, jan@kagyu.org. 9am-3pm American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider Course. 2 days. An advanced, instructorled classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large group sessions and small group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented. You must have a current BLS certification to take this course. Course completion results in a two-year ACLS certification from the American Heart Association. Text included. Preregistration and payment are required. Call 845-475-9742 to register. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. $225. 10am Jewish Congregation of New Paltz Purim Carnival. Festivities will start at the synagogue, located at 8 Church St., at 10 AM with a reciting of the book of Esther. Every year, the Bar and Bat Mitzvah students come up with a fun twist on the original story that is always a hoot! Promptly after

22 the service (approximately 11 AM) the party will move to the Jewish Community Center, located at 30 N. Chestnut St. There will be hamantaschen (traditional Purim cookies) and bagels served on the house. In addition, knishes and drinks will be available for purchase. The carnival will include various games and prizes including flushing the infamous Haman down the toilet, face painting, and crafts. Costume wearing is encouraged! All are welcome! This event is free. 10am Annual Shamrock Run. This year’s run in memory of Joyce Ellen Carey. From Academy Green to the foot of Broadway. Followed by St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Check in across from Academy Green at Gov. Clinton Apartments, 1 Albany Ave., Kingston; Registration 10:00am-12:30pm; Run starts 12:50pm sharp. Academy Green Park. shamrockrunners.org. 10am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Willa & Co. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com. 10am-2pm Warwick Indoor Winter Farmers Market. Meats, maple syrup, vegetables, prepared foods, baked goods, gluten free products, jams, jelly, dried spices, beef jerky, & spirits. Warwick Indoor Winter Farmers Market, 115 Liberty Corners Rd, Pine Island. Info: 845-258-4998. 10am Behind the Scenes Winter Tours. Join us for the first ever Winter Tours at the Thomas Cole Site for a sneak preview into the installation of the Parlors Project. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. Info: 5189437465, eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-scenes-winter-tourstickets-30223910530. $10. 10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are well-practiced in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 10:30am-12:30pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video. Free and open to the public. Ongoing. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845-6588556, skylake.shambhala.org. 11am-12pm Conversations over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-2426546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail.com, facebook. com/ConversationsOverCoffee/. 12pm-3pm A Sampling of ImmuneSchein Elixir. Strengthen your immunity naturally! Proudly handmade in the Hudson Valley. Be sure to check out our March Sales Event. Enjoy 40%-50% off select items in the Men’s Shop, Melina’s Boutique and Emerson Home & Garden. Shop our sidewalk clearance for 50-60% off select books, home décor and gifts. For more information, 845-688-2828. Emerson Country Stores, 5340 Rt-28, Mount Tremper. emersonresort.com. 12pm-4pm Drawing and Painting Workshops for Teens/Pre-teens. Free drawing and painting workshops for ages 10-19, all materials are supplied. Instructor: Robert Lahm. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. Info: 518-945-2136, info@athensculturalcenter.org, www.athensculturalcenter.org. 12:30pm-6:30pm I-Ching and Tarot Readings with esoteric scholar and author Timothy Liu. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $60/1 hour, $30/25 minutes. 12:45pm-1:30pm Rainbow Kids Yoga (Ages 6-10). Aims to improve children’s strength and flexibility while increasing self-confidence and emotional resilience. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10 for drop-in, $40 for 5-class series. 1pm Kingston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Kicks off from the Kingston Plaza and proceeds down Broadway to the Rondout Creek waterfront district in Kingston. Numerous bands, floats and community organizations celebrate the “wearing of the green” at this annual fun-filled Irish celebration. Sponsored by Ancient Order of Hibernians Fr. Con. 845-338-6622; events@ulsteraoh.com; Kingston. ulsteraoh.com. 1pm-3pm Minnewaska/Sam’s Point: Loop around the Lake for Families. 3-mile snowshoe to view magnificent Lake Maratanza! Snowshoes may be rented at the Visitor Center office at a rate of $5 per person for the program. If there is insufficient snow cover, this program will be offered as a hike. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor. 1pm Sunday Program Series for Children: Hudson Valley Whaling and Scrimshaw. Listen to a story about whaling and have a treat, learn about the history of whaling in New York, and then carve your own scrimshaw in a bar of soap. Scrimshaw is the art of carving whale bone and was practiced by sailors to pass the time and make a little extra money. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. Info: 845-338-0071, hrmm.org. 1pm Gilded Age Tea & Talk Series: Underwhere? Learn about historic undergarments of the Gilded Age, along with a demonstration of all the required layers, presented by historic clothing seamstress and historian, Kjirsten Gustavson. Guests enjoy scones, tea sandwiches and the site’s unique and delicious tea, blended by renowned tea purveyors, Harney & Sons, while listening to a brief talk. on a Gilded Age history theme, delivered by staff and guest presenters. Reservations are required.

ALMANAC WEEKLY Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-8851, staatsburghshs@parks.ny.gov. $30. 1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-7148, rizka@hvc.rr.com. 1pm-3pm Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm. Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette,Medusa Antique Center Building, 215 Main St, New Paltz. 1:30pm Outside Mullingar. Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Outside Mullingar, by John Patrick Shanley, author of Doubt and Moonstruck. Ellen Honig directs four actors: John Adair, Joe Bongiorno, Adele Calcavecchio, and Maria Elena Maurin. A romantic comedy set in Ireland near the town of Mullingar,the play tells the story of two middle-aged neighbors living on adjoining farms who secretly pine for each other, but are held back by circumstance, acute shyness, and a startling secret. Shanley’s lively dialogue is a delight as the characters spar with each other and their parents. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors and students. For reservations, call 845- 679-7900 or go to performingartsofwoodstock.org to reserve with PayPal. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 1:30pm-4:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: Two Views Snowshoe Hike. Two mile snowshoe outing in the Peter’s Kill Area featuring views of the Rondout Valley and Clove Valley from cliff top ledges. This program is recommended for physically fit adults and children older than eight years old. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Snowshoes may be rented at the Park Preserve office If there is insufficient snow cover, this program will be offered as a hike. Meet in the Peter’s Kill Area. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Gardiner. 1:30pm-3:30pm Elting Library Scrabble Club. Ages 18 & up please. All levels of play welcome. Scrabbles sets provided. Meets in the Study Room. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-5030 ext. 2, eltinglibrary.org. 2pm-3:30pm Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field with Ricarda O’Conner. Learn how to drop down and tune in, helping you focus your unique frequencies and increasing your potential to create positive change. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, hsageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange. 2pm Literary Topics. A Surrealist women presentation and reading with Susan Aberth and Melanie Nicholson. 845-469-9459. Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf. occitizensfoundation.org. 2pm The Music Man. The Stissing Theatre Guild will present Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN. A family friendly Tony Award-winning musical comedy featuring familiar songs such as “Till There Was You” and “76 Trombones.” Come and see how a traveling salesman tries to con an Iowa town and ends up changing his tune. To order tickets call the Stissing Theatre Guild Box Office @ 518-398-1272 or go online. Pine Plains. stgboxoffice.seatyourself. biz. $13, $11/senior/student. 2pm St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Pipes & Drums and Irish step dancers line up at 1pm with the parade starting at 2pm through the center of town. Info: 917-453-3554, Facebook: The Mid-Hudson St. Patrick’s Parade Committee. Goshen. 2pm Basic Seed Starting Class. The Bearfoot Gardener Russel Scheirer will share seed starting techniques and the steps that follow. Participants will also learn vocabulary to help choose seeds, including annual, perennial, heirloom, organic, open pollinated, hybrid, GMO. This is a hands on program for all ages. Refreshments are included. Time and the Valleys Museum, St. Rt. 55, Grahamsville. timeandthevalleysmuseum.org. $3. 2pm-4pm Shadow of A Gunman. By Sean O’Casey. This tragic comedy is set in the 1920s as the Irish War of Independence rages. Two men’s lives change when one is mistaken for a IRA gunman. Parker Theatre, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3880, boxoffice@newpaltz.edu, newpaltz.edu/theatre. $18 general reserved, $16 reserved senior (62+) SUNY faculty/staff, $10 reserved SUNY New Paltz student. 2pm Sunday Salon: Buried Treasure- Thomas Cole’s Decoration of Cedar Grove . Historic interiors experts – Jean Dunbar, of Historic Design, Inc.; Matthew Mosca, of Artifex, Ltd.; and Margaret Saliske, of IN SITU Furniture Restoration. Enjoy just a tour, or just a lecture, or enjoy the afternoon at the historic site and purchase tickets for both. Tickets for the Salons range from $10-12 and tickets for the Winter Tours are $10 at 1 & 3:30pm. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole.org/events. 2:30pm-3:30pm Bryn Cohn + Artists at Kaatsbaan- an UpStream Residency Workshop/Showcase. “Bryn Cohn has a brilliant mind..dynamic partnering, stunning moments of visual clarity, a cinematic exploration.. “ The Dance Enthusiast. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-5106, pgrkaats@bestweb. net, Kaatsbaan.org. All seats $10. 3pm Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Play by Eugene O’Neill. The story unfolds in a single day in the life of the Tyrone family where all four members are haunted by their failures and fears, which gradually overwhelm them. MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES. Info: 845-876-3080. The Center For Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org. $24, $22. 3pm Rosemary Jennings, “Daily Diamonds”. Jennings has used her experiences as both a clinical psychologist and a mother and grandmother to write 365 “daily diamonds.” The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8000,

info.goldennotebook@gmail.com, goldennotebook. com/event/rosemary-jennings-daily-diamonds.

March 9, 2017

3pm Saugerties Area Council of Churches: Lenten Services. Offerings from the Service will go to Vacation Bible School. Coffee hour will follow. Info: 845-532-5687. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties.

(kids only) 7:30pm (adults) Sunday March 12. 7:00pm (any age) Monday March 13. 7:00pm (callbacks) Tuesday March 14. Please prepare 32 bars of a song from the show. Sheet music will be provided. Actors will also read from the script and be asked to learn a basic dance combination. Performances will run June 2-25. For more information contact director Dorothy Luongo at dorothyluongo@gmail. com. Center for Performing Arts, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org.

3pm An Afternoon of Irish Music. Traditional Irish music as played by Brian Conway on fiddle and John Walsh on Guitar with vocals. 845-563-3600. Newburgh. newburghlibrary.org.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: The Trio of OZ with Omar Hakim & Rachel Z. Jazz Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

3pm-4:30pm Travel Series: Taiwan. Bill Fiero gives a Powerpoint presentation about his trip to Taiwan: history, culture, and especially the bird-life of this unique island. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@ rcls.org, facebook.com/events/425621644453932/.

7:30pm Audition: Oliver! Adults only. The Rhinebeck Theatre Society is seeking actors of all ages and ethnicities for our upcoming production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! Please prepare 32 bars of a song from the show. Sheet music will be provided. Actors will also read from the script and be asked to learn a basic dance combination. For more information contact director Dorothy Luongo at dorothyluongo@gmail.com. The Center For Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck.

3pm-8pm Vinyl Record Show. Three day show! Info: deepwater@mac.com. 291 Main St, Beacon.

3pm The Four Nations Ensemble. Performers of The Four Nations Ensemble: Tatiana Chulochnikova, Loretta O’Sullivan, Andrew Appel, Olivier Brault, Pascale Beaudin. 845-876-2870. The Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. rhinebeckchambermusic.org. 3pm Dance Film Sundays: Mr. Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance. Tomer Heymann’s MR. GAGA is a unique documentary experience that tells the story of the internationally acclaimed choreographer Ohad Naharin, who created the daring form of dance and “movement language” called Gaga. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $12/adults,$6 /children. 3pm-5:30pm London’s National Theatre in HD: Hedda Gabler. Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. Info: 413-528-0100, info@mahaiwe.org, mahaiwe.org/ NTHedda. $17. 3pm Conservatory Orchestra. Marcelo Lehninger MFA ’07 conducts Obadiah Wright ’17, Columbidae; Schumann, Cello Concerto in A Minor, with Peter Wiley, cello; and Tchaikovsky, Symphony No.4. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter.bard.edu. $20-$15 suggested donation.

8pm Melvin Seals & JGB. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Bearsville. Info: 845-679-4406, BearsvilleTheater.com.

Monday

3/13

8am-5pm Low-Cost Spay Neuter. Cats $70. Dogs $120 & up. All surgeries include rabies vaccine. By appointment only. 845-343-1000. tara-spayneuter. org. Multiple locations. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. 8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-679-5906. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. 9:30am Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. Info: 845-399-2805, ssipkingston.org.

3pm-6:30pm Swing Dance. Dance to La Familia Swing & Blues band. You’ll have a great afternooon! No partner needed. Beginner’s dance lesson 3:003:30pm. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, hvcd.info. $12 or 8 for full time students.

10am-3:30pm AARP Tax Preparation. Free tax services to low & moderate income taxpayers. Appt. required . Call 845-255-0791 between 10am and 3:30 Mon – Thurs and 10am & 1pm Fri. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, facebook.com/ events/222590634814171/.

3pm-5pm LGBTQ Task Force to Undo Mass Incarceration and Institutional Racism. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. Info: 845-797-7691.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

3pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Family oriented show. Doors open 2pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 5188284800, austin. helsinki@gmail.com, ticketfly.com/venue/25373club-helsinki/. $18,$12. 3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. Ongoing games -Sundays at 3pm. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Dr, Woodstock. WoodstockUltimate.org. 4pm Bard Dance Program: March Dance. Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter.bard.edu. 4pm-6pm Hudson Valley YA Society Book Launch: Jennifer Donnelly - “Beauty and the Beast”. YA Society favorite Jennifer Donnelly’s new novel tells an original story set in the world seen in the new Walt Disney Studios’ film, Beauty and the Beast. Free admission. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-8760500, helen@oblongbooks.com, oblongbooks. com/event/ya-society-jennifer-donnelly-beautyand-beast. RSVP Requested. 4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle. Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast on Woodstock 104 at 8pm. All drummers, dancers are welcome. Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga with Kate Hagerman. A gentle, supportive practice designed to bring stillness to the body and mind. A perfect way to wrap up the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 5:30pm Sunset Hike with Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club. Sunset/Moonrise walk at Peach Hill Park. Meet at entrance to Peach Hill which has easy up and down hill trails through an abandoned apple orchard. The site is highest point in Poughkeepsie and affords 360 degree views. Bring a short poem to share. Flashlight or headlamp will be helpful when leaving. Info: 845-4719892 or suemackson@gmail.com. 34 Edgewood Dr, Poughkeepsie. 6:30pm-7:30pm Audition: Oliver! Kids only. The Rhinebeck Theatre Society is seeking actors of all ages and ethnicities for our upcoming production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! Please prepare 32 bars of a song from the show. Sheet music will be provided. Actors will also read from the script and be asked to learn a basic dance combination. For more information contact director Dorothy Luongo at dorothyluongo@gmail.com. The Center For Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. 6:30pm Audition Notice: Oliver! 6:30-7:30pm

10am-12pm Senior Drama with Edith LeFever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792880. $1 donation. 11:30am-6:30pm Shamanic Doctoring Private Sessions with shamanic healer Adam Kane. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $75/1 hour session. 12:15pm Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting. Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill St, Rhinebeck. Info: 914 244-0333. 1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 2pm-6pm Information/Sign up: Free…New Ceramics/Painting Classes. For pottery, clay building, painting classes. Info: 718-404-3770 or merniebaker@outlook.com. 12 Market St, Ellenville. 2pm-4pm Senior Painting. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792880. $1 donation. 3pm-5:45pm Tech Time. Our Computer Fixer is here to answer your questions about devices, email, software programs - you name it! Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. 3pm-5pm Math Help. Get those pencils sharpened! Phyllis Rosato is here to answer all of your math questions, from kindergarten to calculus. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. 4pm-5:30pm GIRLS INC at Family of New Paltz. Girls ages 13-15 learn how to make Zines. Free. Family of New Paltz, 51 N Chestnut St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-7957, girlsinc.org. 4pm-5pm Muay Thai for Kids. For ages 5 to 13. Children learn the basics of the art of the eight limbs with our knowledgeable instructors. Build confidence and personal strength. Free ongoing class. Stockade, 302 Wall St, Kingston. stockademuaythai.com. 4:15pm-5:30pm Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12/class. 4:30pm-5:30pm Diabetes Prevention Classes.

March 9, 2017 Northern Dutchess Hospital will offer the National Diabetes Prevention Program for 16 consecutive weeks and bi-monthly follow-ups. The free educational program on modest healthy lifestyle changes is offered from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 6 to 7 p.m. This program is for people with type 2 risk factors such as excessive weight, lack of regular exercise, age 45 or older, family history of type 2 diabetes or a history of gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Seats are limited. To find out if you qualify for the program, call Amanda Sheffield at 845-871–4380 (TTY: 800-421-1220) or visit healthquest.org/ NDHdiabetes. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. healthquest.org/NDHdiabetes. 6pm-9pm Second Monday Night Go Club. A night of Japanese Go games. Beginners all welcome, Admission Free. Info: 845-255-8811. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com. 6pm-7pm Diabetes Prevention Classes. Northern Dutchess Hospital will offer the National Diabetes Prevention Program for 16 consecutive weeks and bi-monthly follow-ups. The free educational program on modest healthy lifestyle changes is offered from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 6 to 7 p.m. This program is for people with type 2 risk factors such as excessive weight, lack of regular exercise, age 45 or older, family history of type 2 diabetes or a history of gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Seats are limited. To find out if you qualify for the program, call Amanda Sheffield at 845-871–4380 (TTY: 800-421-1220) or visit healthquest.org/ NDHdiabetes. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. healthquest.org/NDHdiabetes. 6pm-7pm Meditation/Satsang. Each week will begin with 15 min of silent meditation and end with chanting. The rest is up to the leader. Check Facebook for more info. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. Free, by donation. 6:15pm-7:15pm Monday Night Tai Chi & Chi Gung with Michael. Class meets on Mondays, 6:15-7:15pm. Michael has over 30 yrs experience. Build a total integrated mind/body fitness while cultivating life’s abundant healing energy(Chi). Cost $25 a month! Or $10 per class. More information at whitecranehall.com 845-663-1555. 77 Cornell St #116, Kingston. 6:30pm-8:30pm Model Mondays; Life Drawing at Roost Studios & Art Gallery. Every Monday! Bring your own supplies. We provide the model, a facilitator. Music and great lighting in a beautiful space! Free donations welcome. Roost Studios and Art Gallery, 69 Main St, 2nd Fl, New Paltz. Info: 845-568-7540, Chirp@roostcoop.org, roostcoop. org. 7pm Audition: Oliver! Any age. The Rhinebeck Theatre Society is seeking actors of all ages and ethnicities for our upcoming production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! Please prepare 32 bars of a song from the show. Sheet music will be provided. Actors will also read from the script and be asked to learn a basic dance combination. For more information contact director Dorothy Luongo at dorothyluongo@gmail.com. The Center For Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. 7pm Gardiner Library Board Meeting. Open to the public. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls. org, www.gardinerlibrary.org. 7pm Live @ The Falcon: Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com. 7:30pm Hudson Valley Railroad Society History Night. HVRRS Business meeting at 7:30pm, followed by program at 8pm. Meets the 2nd Monday of each month. Hyde Park Train Station Museum, 38 River Rd, Hyde Park. Info: 845 229-8562, hydeparkstation.com. Tue Mar 14 2017 7:30am-9am Hatha I/II with Carisa Borrello. Early morning Yoga, a great class to transition from beginners to intermediate Yoga. Explore the finer points of postures and breathing exercises. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed.com, www.thelivingseed. com. 7:30am-8:30am Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation. For optional beginner instruction, please arrive at 7:20. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Donations welcome. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/community-meditation. 9am-10am Senior Dance with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise and celebrating life. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 9:30am-11am Level I Yoga with Jory Serota. Taught in the Iyengar style. The basis of the method is taught in standing poses and other fundamental postures. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 9:30am Serving and Staying in Place - SSIP/New Paltz. Regular Tuesday social breakfast meeting for seniors who want to remain in their own home and community. Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. Info: 845 255-0609. 9:30am The Saugerties Seniors Meeting. Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP)is a social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845 255-0609.

ALMANAC WEEKLY 9:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6pm-7pm Vinyasa Community Class with Selena Reynolds. An informative community class open to all levels. Reduced-price. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

10am-12:30pm Diabetes Self-Management Program. For six consecutive Tuesdays, through 4/11, in the hospital’s cafeteria conference room. The program is for individuals diagnosed with diabetes and their caregivers who are interested in learning more about brainstorming, problemsolving and action planning specific to diabetes. Seats are limited. For information, call 845-4548500 ext. 72112. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. healthquest.org/events.

6pm-7pm Weekly Sitting Meditation w/ Walking Meditation. Instruction available. On-going Tues, 6-7pm. Free & open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

10am-1pm Minnewaska Preserve- Tuesday Trek: Mossy Glen Snowshoe. Four mile roundtrip snowshoe outing. This route, which may be slippery in places, follows alongside the Peter’s Kill stream through a pristine forest. Snowshoes may be rented at the Park Preserve office at a rate of $5 per person. If there is no significant snow cover, this outing will be offered as a hike. This program will meet at the Awosting Parking area. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Gardiner. 10am-4pm Romance & Sports Book Sale. Romance, sports books on sale. Hard covers at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, & standard paperbacks at 10 cents. Boardman Road Branch Library,– book store is at the back of the building. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District Used Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie. Info: book_store@poklib. org, facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/ timeline. 10am-2:30pm Community Quilting - Project Linus. This group sews quilts for children who are homeless or gravely ill in Ulster County. Quilting experience not necessary. Free. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary.org. 10am The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley. Info: 845 744-3055. 10:30am-11:30am Together Tuesdays. Janice leads this story, craft, and play hour for kids birth through preschool. Come join the friendly gang of local parents. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. 10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com. 1pm-2pm Esopus Artist Group. Join this ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 3pm-6pm Weekly Community Acupuncture with Kristin Misik. For details and to schedule appointments: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/ accupuncture.html. Held in the Education Annex. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com. 5pm Spring Into Ireland! Introduction to Irish Language. First installment of a four week series exploring Irish language, culture, and history. The four week course will explore Ireland’s linguistic evolution and provide an introduction to Irish conversation. This program is free and open to the public, advanced registration requested by calling the library. 845-758-3241. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook. redhooklibrary.org. 5:30pm-7pm Colon Cancer Prevention & Screening with Ari Goldstein, MD. What Everyone Should Know! Colon Cancer Prevention & Screening with Ari Goldstein, MD, board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He has recently joined the practice of Hudson Valley Gastroenterology P.C., a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth). He completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Goldstein was an attending gastroenterologist and clinical instructor of medicine at Harlem Hospital Center, an affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Snow date 3/21. Meet in Mary’s Avenue Campus Administrative Services Auditorium. To register: HealthAlliance Oncology Support Program at 845-339-2071 or email oncology.support@hahv.org. Refreshments provided. Learn about different screening tests for colon cancer.How does lifestyle affect my risk? About the speaker: l Please join us for a presentation C. 75 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. 6pm-8pm The Restorative Power of Vibration with energy healer Amrita Eiehm. Every day we are surrounded by images, sounds, movements, words and thoughts that put vibrations into motion all around us. In this workshop, we will learn to effectively redirect the resonances and frequencies that we are exposed to by using tools such as meditation, visualization, mantras, crystals, sound, color and the wisdom received by John of God in her extensive training in Brazil. Learn to properly channel vibration in order to restore the balance and energy necessary to ascend, thrive and smile any time and any place. $20 if registered by March 12. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $25. 6pm-8pm Regional Dairy Quiz Bowl Contest Meeting. Mandatory Meeting for everyone wishing to compete at the regional Dairy Quiz Bowl Contest. Extension Education Center, 479 Rt. 66, Hudson. Info: 518-828-3346, Columbiagreene@cornell.edu, ccecolumbiagreene.org.

6:30pm The Body’s Inner Wisdom. Part of the Complimentary Half-Hour to Health series led by Dr. David Lester. Lester Chiropractic, 3 Paradies Ln, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-3300, Lester.chiropractic@gmail.com. 7pm-9pm Unatomized-Cinema. Meets every Tuesday, 7-9 pm. For more information and to show your film, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-689-2323. Free. 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org. 7pm-9pm The Tao of Money. Workshop facilitated by Joanne Leffeld, Moolah Doula & Dr. Marc Grossman, ODLAc. Fee $30. For details and to advance register: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/events.html. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. 7pm-10pm Woodnote’s Open Mic Nite. Hosted by Ben Rounds. No cover. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Route 28, Mt. Tremper. Info: 845-6882828, emersonresort.com. 7pm-8:30pm Singing Just for Fun! New Paltz Community Singers. Everyone welcome, everyone gets to choose songs. Going 20+ years. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, New Paltz. genecotton@gmail.com. 7pm-9pm Open Mic. On-going. Free admission. Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845-679-5906, jan@ kagyu.org. 7pm-8:30pm Weekly Opportunity Workshop. Learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Ongoing. Free to attend. Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln (across from Super 8), New Paltz. 7:30pm Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution. Author Frederic C. Rich will discuss his timely book on how the American environmental movement lost its way and how it can get back on track. His work is a rousing call for conservatives to reconnect with their long tradition of support for conservation and for the green movement to adopt the reforms necessary to restore bipartisan support for the environmental agenda. Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, 222 Hudson St, Cornwall-On-Hudson. Info: 845-5345506, hhnm.org. $8. 7:30pm The High Kings. Ireland’s Folk Band of the year, The High Kings perform traditional and original Celtic music, showcasing their incredible versatility and skills as multi-instrumentalists, and appear in support of their latest recording “Grace & Glory”. The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany. Info: 518-473-1845, theegg.org. $34. 8pm-9pm Student Honors Recital. The evening features outstanding performers in classical, vocal and jazz concentrations. SUNY New Paltz/Studley Theater, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-2700, newpaltz. edu/music. Tickets available at the door.

Wednesday

3/15

8am-5pm Go Native with the Master Gardener Fruit, Vegetable and Native Plant Sale in Kingston – Order Deadline Wed. March 15. The Master Gardeners are offering perennial fruit and vegetable plants to get your permaculture garden off to a good start. All proceeds directly benefit the Master Gardener Program of Ulster County. Items available this year include peach trees, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries, as well as asparagus, rhubarb, and horseradish plants. New this year is our ten-plant evergreen bundle consisting of five different evergreen trees. This year’s flowering native plant bundle is an affordable way to plant a variety of bushes in your yard and to also benefit birds and pollinators. The bundle includes two each of Black Chokeberry, Elderberry, Am. Cranberry, Juneberry, and Buffaloberry. Info: 845-340-3990 ext. 335 or email dm282@cornell. edu. tinyurl.com/2017-Seedling-Sale. 8am-5pm Community Orchestra: Rehearsing at Dutchess Community College. Wednesday evenings, looking for French horn, clarinet, cello and string players in preparation for May concert. For more information call Dottie at 845-876-2765, contact Dr. Christopher Brellochs at 845-431-8625, or email Christopher.brelloc@sunydutchess.edu. SUNY Dutchess, 53 Pendell Rd, Poughkeepsie. sunydutchess.edu. 9am-10am Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. A gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 9:30am-11am Vinyasa Yoga with Dr. Tammi Price. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@ thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com. $15. 9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with

increasing detail and a slower flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 9:30am-10:30am ACTing Up! Free weekly program for 2-4-year-olds and their adults Weekly sessions running through. Creative time of songs, stories, games and crafts all facilitated by Jessica Coons. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. athensculturalcenter.org. 10am-12pm Comforter Fiber Connection – Knit & Crochet Weekly Group. On-going every Wednesday, 10am-12pm. Reformed Church of the Comforter, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Info: 845-901-5330, dee@youandmeknit.com. 10:30am-11:30am Senior Strengthening with Linda Sirkin. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 12pm-2pm Kick Butts Day/ Kick Off Event. To celebrate Springbrook Village Apartments going Smoke Free! Springbrook is one of the many apartment complexes in Ulster County to adopt smoke free policy in 2017 – another step towards making Ulster the healthiest county in the state. A Resource Fair in their Community room will include 6 local community agencies, will provide information on smoking cessation and healthy lifestyle programs and activities. 3 Garraghan Dr, Kingston. tobaccofreeactioncommunities.org. 12pm-1pm Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. A series of SOFT foam rolling exercises designed to address excessive tension and soreness which can inhibit proper alignment. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 12pm Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellowship, lunch, and an informative and interesting presentation from a guest speaker. Meets every Wed at 12 noon. Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston. kingstonnyrotary.org. 12:30pm Woodstock Citizens’ Club Meeting. Corned Beef & Cabbage Luncheon. Info: 845-6798537. 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston. 12:30pm-2pm Esopus Stitchers. Cross-stitch, needlepoint, crewel and more- bring your current project or learn a new craft. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845-647-3902. $1. 2pm-3:30pm Mah Jongg. Learn to play this ancient Asian game. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 3pm-4:30pm Advanced Chess Club. For experienced adult players. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, librarian@ gardinerlibrary.org. 4pm-5pm Anger Management for Teens. A safe and confidential space for teens to talk about, identify, express and learn to manage their anger led by trained facilitator Jonas Bers. The Anger Management Program is a FREE five week, coed group for teens 13-18 who are having problems at home or school because of anger issues. If the weather is bad please call 845-331-7080 before coming in case they need to postpone. Family of Woodstock/Kingston, 39 John St, Kingston. Info: 845-331-7080x152. 4:30pm-6pm Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For more advanced students who are wellpracticed in Iyengar Yoga. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 4:30pm-5:30pm Art Hour. Fun for ages 3 to 103! From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. 5pm-6pm Beginner Muay Thai for Adults. For ages 14 to 65. Learn the ancient martial art of Muay Thai in this high intensity class. Students of all levels and abilities are welcome. Free ongoing class. Stockade, 302 Wall St, Kingston. stockademuaythai.com. 5:15pm-6:15pm Italian Conversation Class. Weekly class is designed for people who have some knowledge of the Italian language and would like to improve their conversational skills. Taught by Dr. Ornella Lepri Mazzuca. Held in the library community room. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@ rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org. 5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh. Info: 845 563-8043. 5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service. Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions. Everyone welcome. 845 679-9534. First Church of Christ Scientist, 85 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-9534. 6pm-7:30pm Vinyasa Yoga with Lisa Watkins. Strengthen mind, body and spirit. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@ thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com. $15, $11 senior, $10 Vet Discount. 6pm-7pm Tween Program. Includes 3-D Modeling Projects, Advisory Board, Robot Club, Games & even Pizza! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organized-

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6pm-7:30pm Creative Seed Support Workgroup. For artists to voice their works in progress in a supportive environment. For Songwriters, Playwrights & Actors.Held by Patrice Blue Maltas, Actress, Playwright, Musician and founder of Blue Healing Arts Center. Meets Wednesday nights, 6-7:30pm. Blue Healing Art Center, 107 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: Patricebluemaltas@gmail. com, bluehealing.co.

7:15pm Born in Flames. Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States socialist democracy. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@ rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $7/$5 members.

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com. 6:30pm Savvy Social Security Planning. FREE educational workshop. This informative seminar covers the basics of Social Security and reveals strategies for maximizing your benefits. Reservations are required for this workshop. (Please use Workshop Promo Code UFG1031517 when you register for this event.) If you would like to register by phone, or have further questions about the workshop, please contact Mary McCrindle at 845-338-6322, ext. 3315 or mary.mccrindle@ceterais.com. 1 Twin Maples Plaza, Saugerties. ulstersavings.com/workshops. 6:30pm-8pm Yin Yoga with Diane Davis. A slow, steady class that gently stimulates connective tissues to make them stronger, while cultivating mindfulness and awareness. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 6:30pm-7:05pm Learn Remembrance. A very holy and deep form of prayer (with roots in the Old Testament - Remember my name in the night) which connects you with the Divine within. All are welcome, RSVP please. Free /donations welcomed. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8989, Meetup.flowingspirit.com. 7pm Trivia Night. Calling all trivia nerds ~ Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes. Play solo or as part of a team while enjoying extended Happier Hour Specials. Think of it as “Jeopardy Night“ – Catskills style! For more information, 845-688-2828 or emersonresort.com. Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. emersonresort.com. 7pm Born in Flames . ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! 1983 feature movie by Lizzie Borden. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. rosendaletheatre.org. $7. 7pm-9pm Walk In and Dance. Dancers may bring playlist. Meets every Wednesday, 7-9 pm. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-689-2323. Free. 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org. 7pm Women in Politics: Asia vs. U.S. Rhinebeck resident Joyce Gelb will be speaking. She will review the history of gender equality policies in parts of Asia and the United States, differentiating between symbolic and meaningful policy changes. She will present data on the continued discrimination against women in the work place, the “bamboo ceiling,” and a comparative perspective of the place of women in politics. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-4030, starrlibrary.org. 7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: Petey Hop Hosts Roots & Blues Sessions. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com. 7pm Trivia Night. Calling all trivia nerds~Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes at our weekly Trivia Night! Play solo or as part of a team while enjoying extended Happier Hour Specials. Think of it as “Jeopardy Night“ – Catskills style! Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com. 7pm-11pm Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-9048. 7pm-8pm Meditation and the Spiritual Path of Cafh. Learn the Discursive Meditation, a technique designed to explore from within the fundamental and transcendent issues of our lives. A dialogue follows the meditation. Meets the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7-8pm. Cafh Retreat House, 146 Kerley Corners Rd, Tivoli. Info: 845 481-0580, CafhHudsonValley@gmail.com. 7pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. On-going. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 8/wk curriculum. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-

legal notice LEGAL NOTICE SUNY Ulster is requesting proposals to develop a scalable strategy and graphics for adult student recruitment to be implemented in-house using a combination of social media, print, and digital media that relate to and complement SUNY Ulster’s established identity protocols. Launch of campaign is scheduled on or about May 15, 2017. The college offers an evolving array of associate degrees, SUNY Certificates and credentials in practical growth fields, starting with Business. Programs are taught at times convenient for adult students – evenings, weekends, and online. In person classes taught at the Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster. Selected classes are in accelerated formats. Programs are backed by support services for student success – one stop service and advising. Proposals are due March 31, 2017 to SUNY Ulster Purchasing Department Att: StephenGallart, 491 Cottekill Road Stone Ridge, NY 12484. Complete RFP is at http://www.sunyulster.edu/campus_and_culture/about_us/jobs.php

7:15pm-8pm Silent Spiritual Practice. For people who would like to do spiritual practice together to increase the potency of the practice. For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please, Free /donations welcomed. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8989, Meetup.flowingspirit.com. 7 : 3 0 p m Chess Club. M e e t s e v e r y Wednesday,7:30pm. Free admission. Woodland Pond at New Paltz/ Performing Arts Center, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-2737, albiebar@aol.com. 7:30pm The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. All male a cappella group, that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight-reading not required. Meets every Wednesdays at 7:30pm. Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus. org.

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6:30am-8am Mysore Ashtanga Practice. Intended to help you build a personal, self-led practice. A teacher is on hand to guide you along. Meets every Mon-Thur, 6:30-8am. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 8am-9am Senior Feel Good Aerobics with Diane Collelo. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5906, jan@kagyu.org. 9am-9:50am Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John. Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels. A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8. 9:30am-10:30am Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Woodstock Town Hall. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 10am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Tony Furtado. Banjo Virtuoso. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. liveatthefalcon.com. 10am-4pm Romance & Sports Book Sale. Romance, sports books on sale. Hard covers at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, & standard paperbacks at 10 cents. Boardman Road Branch Library,– book store is at the back of the building. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District Used Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie. Info: book_store@poklib. org, facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/ timeline. 10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, taraspayneuter.org. 10am-11am Women’s Yoga with Cory Smith. A variation of Gentle Yoga, this is a sacred space for women to deepen their spiritual practice while enhancing their health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

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12:15pm-12:45pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for half-hour of silent sitting meditation. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Admission by donation. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/community-meditation.

6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. Info: 518-5895000, peacevillage@bkwsu.org, bkwsu.org.

1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and Cards are available--or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments. On-going every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red Hook. 1pm-4pm Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Rescue Squad Community Room, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation. 3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 4pm-7pm Heavenly Soups To Go. $4.50 per pint. Info: 845-331-7099. United Reformed Church, 11 Church St, Bloomington. 4pm The Pirate, the Princess, and the Pea: Crabgrass Puppet Theater. Pirate lore meets fairy tale in this swashbuckling pirate and princess adventure story from the Crabgrass Puppet Theater! Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7950 Main Street, Hunter. Info: 518-263-2000, cmf@catskillmtn.org, catskillmtn. org/events/performances/2017-03-16-crabgrasspuppet-theater-the-pirate-the-princess-and-thepea-940.html. $7 - $30 Ticket prices vary. 4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. 4pm Free Fitness Class. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30 pm & Thursdays at 4pm. Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 4:30pm-5:30pm Meditation Support Group. Meets at Mirabai every Thursday. Walk-ins warmly welcome. 845-679-2100. $3 suggested donation. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $3/suggested donation. 5pm La Dolce Lingua. Join native speaker Patrizia for free Italian language classes. This year’s class is geared towards beginners and advanced beginners For more advanced speakers who just want to practice conversation, Patrizia leads La Tavola Rotonda: Italian Conversation Club at 2 pm on Mondays. This class is free and open to all but registration is required. Please call the library to secure your spot. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook. Info: 845-758-3241, redhooklibrary.org. 5:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-658-2239, ulsterpilates.com. 6pm-8pm Write It Out! A four week creative writing program for parents, caregivers and educators of children with special needs. Local writing student, Diana Rush, will lead exercises and writing prompts designed to help participants use writing as a means of sorting through some of the unique challenges and victories of parenting and working with these special kids. Everyone is welcome and no experience is necessary. This will be a safe space to share and explore thoughts and feelings! Participants are encouraged to attend all four sessions and should bring a new notebook and something to write with. Thursdays, March 2, 9, 16 & 23 from 6p.m. - 8p.m. This program is free and open to all. Staatsburg Library, 70 Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-4683, staatslibrary@gmail.com. 6pm-7pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing. Free and open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two.

10am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Current study: Book of Jeremiah. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information 845-246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties.

6:30pm-8:30pm Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night: Porco Rosso. ANIME, (紅の豚), 1992. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, starring Shuichiro Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, 94 mins. Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com.

10:30am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Now starting The New Testament Book of Matthew. Meets in Parish Hall every Thursday. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information. 845-246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St., Saugerties. saugertiesreformed.org. 11:30am-1pm Third Thursday Luncheon. As part of Messiah’s Outreach Programs, each luncheon benefits a local organization to support its ongoing programs. The Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845 876-3533. $6/ donation, $7/take-out order donation appreciated. 12pm-1:30pm Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga with Pepper Monroe. A Restorative and Yin Yoga inspired class geared toward easing the nervous system with a therapeutic approach to the poses. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

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6:30pm Being At Your Best When Your Kids Are At Their Worst The Simplicity Parenting Approach to Emotional Self-Regulation. Learn how to stay engaged on the often frustrating and unpredictable “family dance floor” while at the same time watching from the calm and loving “parental balcony.” Led by Kim John Payne , author of #1 Best Seller Simplicity Parenting©. Using the Extraordinary Power of Less To Raise Calmer, Happier and More Secure Kids. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, 16 South Chestnut St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-0033, MountainLaurel.org. $20, $15/adv by 3/10. 6:30pm-8pm Reggae Yoga. This Vinyasa class uses reggae music to evoke the spirit of Jamaica to create an irie yoga time. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700,

6:30pm-9:30pm Astronomy Night. On the first and third Thursday of each month, Raj Pandya and Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New Paltz Department of Physics & Astronomy offer a free planetarium show. Followed by telescope observing (when the sky is clear) at the Smolen Observatory to the entire community including the general public. Tickets for the planetarium shows are required. They are available one week prior to show time. Tickets are NOT required at the Smolen Observatory. SUNY New Paltz/John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. Info: 845-2573818, pandyar@newpaltz.edu. 6:30pm Phoenicia Library Board Meeting. Meets the third Thursday of each month. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811. 7pm-9pm Your Stage. An evening of Short Plays (in development). Meets every Thursday, 7-9 pm.For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-689-2323. Free. 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org. 7pm-8:30pm Our Wetlands. Woodstock Land Conservancy and Woodstock Transition are hosting an educational evening on the importance of wetlands for flood control, water purity and habitat. The evening will include a showing of Jeanne Vitale’s documentary: Liquidity: The Value of Wetlands. Del Orloske, a sustainable land planner and teacher at The Ashokan Center will then present innovative solutions to design and protect wetlands in your own backyard, followed by a slide show of local wetland birds by photographer and birder Peter Schoenberger. This event is an open environmental discussion and attendees are encouraged to bring their questions, curiosity, and enthusiasm for learning. Info: 518-729-7733. Please note that shoes are not allowed inside Mountain View Studio; slippers are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Mountainview Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave, Woodstock. 7pm Movie Night: Heaven is For Real. Free will donation. Info: 845-331-7099. United Reformed Church, 11 Church St, Bloomington. 7pm Lenten Study Series. The “Seven Deadly Sins” and Their Opposing Virtues – What do they mean in the modern world? Using religious traditions as a springboard to discussion, our focus will be on how to interpret various ancient and long-standing rules of conduct in terms of the our modern world. Come and join us. – All are welcome along with people of any religious background! Sixweek series. Info: 845-246-2867. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties. 7pm-8pm PageTurners: The Association of Small Bombs. Monthly meeting of our PageTurners Book Club. This month we will be discussing “The Association of Small Bombs” by Karan Mahajan. Free and open to the public! Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. tivolilibrary.org. 7pm Live @ The Falcon: Bruce Katz Band. Blues Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. liveatthefalcon.com. 7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: bigBANG. Large Jazz Ensemble. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. liveatthefalcon.com. 7pm The Irish Harp: History and Magic. Harpist Julia Haines will explore the myths and meaning of Irish music with Celtic music and stories of the mystery of the Emerald Isle. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. olivefreelibrary.org. $12/suggested donation. 7pm The Addams Family. Presented by the Marlboro High School Drama Club. book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com. $12, $9/student. 7:30pm-9:30pm Souvenir: A Fantasia on on The Life of Florence Foster Jenkins. A wealthy soprano and her impoverished accompanist become the toast of Manhattan for all the wrong reasons. Bridge Street Theatre Speakeasy, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill. Info: 518-943-3894, contact@ bridgest.org, bridgest.org. $25, $10 for Students, Discount tickets available in advance from BrownPaperTickets.com. 7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Free, $5 donation welcome. All proceeds go directly to FOW. Ongoing. Family of Woodstock, 39 John St, Kingston. Info: 845-706-2183. 7:30pm Reading, Meditation & Discussion. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. Info: 845-679-8322, info@ matagiri.org. 8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions. Listen or read. Every Thursday, 8-10 pm. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-689-2323. Free. 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org. 8pm-11pm Bruce Katz Band “Out From The Center” Tour Comes to The Falcon. Bruce Katz Band, led by legendary Hammond B-3 organist/ keyboardist, plays the Live at The Falcon Concert Series on Thursday, March 16. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. liveatthefalcon.com. 8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander,Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-3484.

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SP Scientiﬁc located in Gardiner, NY is looking for multiple passionate, driven, and creative individuals to take the NY plant to the next level. The ideal candidates will have a willingness to learn, coupled with the ability to improvise, adapt and overcome problems. They must have a passion for Mechanical assembly, participating in cross-functional training and process improvements. These leaders’ primary responsibilities will be comprised of Mechanical assembly, completing work orders to ensure on time delivery, and maintaining a standard for quality workmanship, all while complying with all requirements of internal and external customers. Attention to detail, focus on meeting operational goals and communication are key behaviors required for success. Most importantly, these candidates embrace change and focus on continuous operational and process improvements that further enhance the customer experience with SP’s products and services.

How to Apply: In Person or By Mail: Electronically: SP Scientific Use our Online Employment Inquiry Form 815 Route 208, Gardiner, NY 12525 We will reply with detailed instructions for Attn: Human Resources Administrator submitting your resume electronically. Phone: 845-255-5000 x 2318 • Facsimile: 845-255-5311 SP will provide assistance to read an application to the visually impaired if necessary. EEO and Affirmative Action Statement: SP is an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis and takes affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities. It is our policy is to provide our employees and applicants with equal employment opportunities in accordance with applicable laws and not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identification, political belief, pregnancy, citizenship, handicap or disability, status as a veteran or member of the U.S. military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. SP's Affirmative Action Plan is available through the HR Department and may be accessed during normal business hours.

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BELLEAYRE LODGE SEEKING Ofﬁce Clerk & Housekeeping Professional Experience Necessary • Must Speak English Must Have Reliable Transportation Good References & Background Check Required $10-11/hourly Email resume LHC90515@gmail.com or call 845-254-4200

Carpenters - Helpers and Lead Carpenter Needed. Woodstock Based Construction company with emphasis on high end residential building seeks carpenters helpers and leads. Please send resume or make a request by email wwcemployment@gmail.

com to receive a job application. Or call (845)679-2130. This is a full-time position, serious inquiries only. Own hand tools, drivers license and transportation a must.

VETERINARY ASSISTANT/KENNEL ATTENDANT Part time-10-14 hours per week. Must be able to work weekends and holidays plus live locally and have reliable transportation. Must be able to work with a team as well as independently. No experience necessary, will train. Apply at Compassion Veterinary Center, 204 Plutarch Road, Highland, NY

P/T Office Help Needed in New Paltz. Must be tech savvy, know how to file, pleasant phone etiquette, ambitious and self-motivated. Approximately 16 hours/week and could grow into more. Prefer mature individual. Cell phone use in office is prohibited. Hourly rate will depend on experience and ability. Please send resume to cthr2016@ gmail.com

ULSTER PUBLISHING POLICY It is illegal for anyone to: ...Advertise or make any statement that indicates a limitation or preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, handicap (disability), age, marital status or sexual orientation. Also, please be advised that language that indicates preference (i.e. “working professionals,” “single or couple,” “mature...professional,” etc.) is considered to be discriminatory. To avoid such violations of the Fair Housing Law, it is best to describe the apartment to be rented rather than the person(s) the advertiser would like to attract. This prohibition against discriminatory advertising applies to single family and owner-occupied housing that is otherwise exempt from the Fair Housing Act.

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GET YOUR COMMERCIAL ON! In Saugerties NY. Centrally located on the industrial mile btwn. Mt. Marion & Saugerties, an excellent loc., 1 mile fr. the NYS Thruway and is a portion of a 16-acre parcel, w/2-lg warehouse bldgs. & ample pnkg. The lot is approx. 6-acres w/79,600sf steel warehouse bldg. There is municipal water, sewer already in place, and natural gas is within a half mile. the Village of Saugerties and close to Woodstock & the Catskill Mountains. There is plenty more info. but you need to call William or Norm ﬁrst!.......... 1,500,000 ANOTHER INDUSTRIAL MILE OFFER In Saugerties NY. Yes, you read the title right! This 2-acre level lot is fully paved & has lighting in place. Located only a mile fr. the NYS Thruway. Idea; it could be a trucking depot serving the surrounding industrial & commercial properties, or construct a building on a portion of the lot & have your parking lot as well. So many possibilities, but you will need to call William C. St. John or Norm Jette today for addtl. info.! ....................................................... $450,000

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KINGS HWY INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR In Saugerties NY. You will ﬁnd this 6.5-acre parcel which is a part of a 15.5-acre total & only 1.5 mi. away fr. Exit 20 on the NYS Thruway. The main bldng. has high ceilings & can be used for myriad of uses incl. manufacturing. The main warehouse bldng. is 9,600sf w/an ofﬁce & ba. The lot size can be adjusted to suit the buyer. A tenant currently occ. the 1,600sf bldng. in the rear, providing excellent income. Close to the Catskills, Woodstock & Kingston. So, William C. St. John or Norm Jette a call today! .........................$1,200,000

OFF THE BEATEN PATH In Esopus NY. The charm begins as you enter the main foyer w/its orig. varnished wdwrk & one of 2-staircases leading to the 2nd ﬂ. of this solidly built,1890s, 4-bdrm home. The main ﬂ. has a spa. LR w/a wood-burning FP & uniquely textured walls. The EIK has a doorway leads to the reno. full-ba. There is an over-sized yard that is perfect for entertaining, relaxing, or hours of family fun. A 1-car det. gar. perfect for storage. Centrally located between Kingston and New Paltz. Call Mike Maroney today!........................ $124,900

INDUSTRIAL LAND In Saugerties NY. This 7-acre level lot is located only about a mile from the NYS Thruway. There is municipal w/s & nat. gas are in place & available. There are numerous industrial & commercial properties located along this portion of Kings Hwy., so, this would be a great spot for building a new business. This lot is on a portion of a 15.5-acre parcel w/bldgs. & other improvements currently in place. You will need to call William C. St. John or Norm Jette for additional information today! .....................................$450,000 THE MOST FUN PAGE ON FACEBOOK

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300

HIGHLAND CSD VACANCIES • Speech Teacher 2017-2018 probationary position • RN leave replacement 9/1/17 – on or about 11/24/17 • RN and LPN substitutes needed ($100 per diem) • Groundskeeper II – FT position • School Bus Driver – FT position • Substitute School Bus Drivers and Food Service Workers Applications can be found at: www.highland-k12.org. Please submit resume, application, references, transcript, copy of certiﬁcate/license to: Deborah Haab, Superintendent, Highland CSD, 320 Pancake Hollow Road, Highland, NY 12528 Applicant deadline: 3/10/17. EOE.

Floral Merchandiser. Fun, creative immediate position for several locations in the Middletown and surrounding Hudson Valley areas. Morning hours, availability to travel a bonus. Contact Diane: 518-527-7720. PT Watershed Educator. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County is seeking a part-time, 24 hrs/wk, Watershed Educator to work with the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program in Shokan, NY. Seasonal position runs 24 wks. Benefits-eligible. Full description and how to apply at: http://ulster.cce.cornell.edu/jobs Farmworker Div Crops II Needed. Job starts 4/14/17 and ends 12/15/17. Will Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, and pack vegetable and fruit crops including; apples, peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, apricots, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,currants, gooseberries, blueberries, rhubarb, grapes, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, peas, and pumpkins. May apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers to crops. Thin and prune crops, set up and operate irrigation equipment, load trucks,operate farm equipment such as tractors etc. and general farm work. Will work outdoors in all types of weather. Must be able to lift. Must have three months verifiable experience in the above. Housing provided for all those that are not within commuting distance. Transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon 50% of the work contract. 10 temporary openings. $12.38 per hour, ¾ guarantee applies. Job is located in Highland, NY. Stop in your nearest one stop ctr or call 877-466-9757 and refer to job # NY1197573. Wanted: Experienced House Cleaner. $15/hour. Approx 5-6 hours every other week. References required. 845-255-5693

OFFICE HELP WANTED: Busy homebased office. Must have basic computer skills including excel; organization skills. Trustworthy, focused and friendly. Capable of prioritizing and multi-tasking. Must have reliable transportation, cell phone and a strong work ethic. Long-term commitment important. Contact hire12498@gmail. com Please include your resume and business card. Facilities & Grounds Foreman: Minimum 5 yrs. exp. in facilities, construction and/ or land mgmt req; incl. site work, snow plowing, landscaping, heavy equipment operation & maintenance, chainsaw use (certification preferred), small equipment operation & repair. Valid driver’s license, clean driving record; Class A CDL license pref. Computer competence, communication & writing skills req. Salary: high $30s/ low $40s based on exp.; excellent benefits. Cover letter, resume, 3 references by March 17 to Director of Land Protection & Stewardship, Mohonk Preserve, P.O. Box 715, New Paltz, NY 12561. Details: http://www. mohonkpreserve.org/jobs-fellowships-andinternships EOE. LANDSCAPERS, GARDENERS WANTED. Experience necessary. 16 to 40 hours per week. Trustworthy, reliable, strong with endurance. Own transportation. Would primarily work in Woodstock area. Email experience to hire12498@gmail.com (put landscaper/gardener in subject line) or call 845-679-7377. Delivery Driver. Now accepting applications for wholesale delivery drivers. Our trucks. Must have clean license. Knowledge of Ulster and Dutchess counties is a huge plus. Pack orders, load truck, drive truck, unload product, collect paperwork/payment, minor auto maintenance and have fun while doing it. Days are potentially flexible, but weekend availability is a must. Hours are anywhere from 8-10 a.m.-4-6 p.m. depending on the day and the run. Starting pay $11/ hr. Part-time or full-time possibilities. Send us an email @ gadaletosﬁsh@aol.com w/ your contact information and the reason why you are interested in the job, as well as why you would be the best candidate for the job. We will respond to your email with an authorization to run your motor vehicle records that you will need to download, sign and return either via email or fax. Computer Field Tech in Kingston. Entry Level. Perform maintenance, minor repair & installation on computers and computer related equipment. Install and set up hardware and software on computers &/or computer equipment. Must have 1-3 years exp. $11/hr. Email: resume14@beattys2.com Help Wanted; Part-Time Cashier. Apply in person. H. HOUST & SON INC., 4 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock.

/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

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Care Giver, 845-663-8760, seeks private duty case. Mature and experienced. References available. Ulster Co. area

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133

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STU’S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the pay. Airports are our specialty. Always ready to get you there. Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Going to LaGuardia Airport? There is limited parking. Call Stu’s Car Service for prices. Cell- 845-649-5350; stu@hvc.rr.com Look for me on Facebook.

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BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE SUMMER HOME, located on the north end of the Lake, 66 plus feet of Lake Front comes with this home. Watch the sun set from your expansive deck which encompasses 2/3 of this home. Three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen and full bath. 3 sliding glass doors looking directly to the lake. Basement for storage, all on 6/10 of an acre. As a bonus there is a commercial dock for your boat and others. Please call for more information and price 845-691-2770.

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Quick Sale: 1.5 acre wooded lot- was listed for $37,900. On sale for $29,000. Owner financing- $9,000 down, 3-yrs. to pay balance, $600/mo, no interest. Seven minutes north of New Paltz. Free building professional assistance. Call Sam 845-658-8168, leave message if no answer.

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Highly-visible commercial space located at 3180 Route 32N with ample parking available for $1425. Multi-use building is on an oversized lot, near the village of Saugerties and I87. Formerly a Country Clutter store. First month’s rent and security deposit required. No realtor’s fee. 646-8089523.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE 500 sq. ft. Can be Divided. Recently renovated building. Downtown New Paltz. 2 blocks from Main Street, 2 blocks to S.U.N.Y. Campus. Off-street parking. Available 4/1.

TEXT 3126 to 85377 FARMHOUSE CHARM - Classic clapboard gem c. 1850, smartly renovated for modern living on almost 6 acres with spring-fed POND & Mohonk views. Charming wrap around veranda welcomes you. Features include HW & pine floors, country kitchen w/ copper counters, main level BR/home office + 3 BRs upstairs, 1.5 baths, 2 decks, PLUS 30x40 garage/STUDIO w/ radiant heat, electric, loft & office, too! Add’l outbuilding adds value. REAL COUNTRY! ....$399,900

Contact Jeoffrey D. Devor, Assoc. R.E. Broker (845) 687-0232 ext. 126

3927 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 12484

845-255-1650 TOP AAA RETAIL LOCATION. Main Street, downtown village of New Paltz. For more info call Shoshana 845-417-7733. OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE. Two Separate Rooms available in a lovely Victorian building in New Paltz. All utilities and WiFi included. $415/ & $450/month. (845)2550559.

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OUTDOORS IS CALLING!! Spring is here and this house is the perfect location to enjoy all the things New Paltz has to offer. Take a leisurely stroll along Plains Rd into town for a morning coffee, or a shady afternoon bike ride under the green canopy of the rail trail for lunch at one of the villages many fabulous eateries. Return home from any number of outdoor adventures our are offers to the serenity of your own private backyard oasis. This is what living in our neck of the woods is all about!.......... $280,000

CARPE DIEM SELLERS! Current market conditions just may be optimal RIGHT NOW if you’re thinking of selling! Our exhaustive analysis of up-to-the-minute listing and selling data indicates a trend that can be hugely beneﬁcial to homeowners that are ready to move. With over 37 years of developing successful sales strategies, no one is better equipped than Westwood to advise you in taking advantage of this opportunity. Call a Westwood professional today for your personally designed marketing plan!

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ASHOKAN STORE-IT Ask About Our Long Term Storage Discount

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COTTAGE FOR CARETAKER(S) on large estate, near New Paltz. No rent but caretaking services required. Lovely wooded setting on over 200 acres. For more details e-mail: ALEXPS793@gmail.com

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New Paltz Rental; 1-BEDROOM at Village Arms. (Rt. 32 No.) Top floor, end unit, hardwood floors, bright, good closets, A/C. Washers/dryers on premises. $1000/month inc. heat, hot water, plowing & garbage. 1st, last, 1 month security. No Pets allowed, no smokers. Call owner/broker at 845-594-4433. SUNNY ROOM, center of New Paltz. In private, smoke-free home. For responsible, mature, professional with references. Walk

to bus station, SYNY, Rail Trail, etc. $500/ month utilities & WiFi included. Kitchen privileges. Please call owner 917-9920702.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available)

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WOODSTOCK ELEGANCE - Luxurious 4800+ SF combines classic detail and an open plan superbly crafted for intimate living and easy entertaining. Gracious first offering features 4 BRs incl. lavish 1275 SF MBR suite w/luxe bath, 4 full baths, fireplaces in 26’ LR, MBR and exceptional gourmet kitchen, grand 22’ DR, library, den/office, cathedral ceilings, skylights, red oak floors, French doors to stone patio and deck. Top quality finishes throughout. 2.3 parklike acres just moments to town. ....... $898,000

MODERN FARMHOUSE - Handsome Colonial style farmhouse (2006) nestled on 8+ private acres of lawn & woods. Sunwashed interior offers cook’s EI kitchen with granite & SS appliances, gracious living room with cozy fireplace, formal DR open to breezy screened porch for open air dining, ensuite MBR with walk-in closet, 2 add’l. BRs, 2.5 baths, hardwood & ceramic floors, finish full walk-out basement for more space! MOVE-IN READY! $399,000

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PRIVATE PARADISE - Enjoy total seclusion on 4+ Woodstock acres in a pristine country setting. This perfectly inviting contemporary styled home features a fabulous 30’ Great Room with soaring ceiling and walls of south facing glass, open plan dining space, eat-in kitchen with island & pantry, 2 main level BRs + full floor ensuite MBR with loft space for office or den. Full walk out basement with 3rd full bath adds value. GORGEOUS SETTING! ..................................... $575,000

HISTORIC STONE - Grandly proportioned 6000+ SF post–Revolutionary Stone gem c. 1825. Gorgeous original detail – wide board floors, 3 working fireplaces, massive chestnut beams, strap hardware- and modern convenience – 5 zone heat, fab gourmet country kitchen, updated baths. Features 6 bedrooms, 4 full baths, LR & DR, family room, room for den & home office. Large barn & studio w/ electric on 5.9 acres. RARE FIND! .................................$949,000

Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more! “Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

NEW PALTZ GARDENS APARTMENTS

21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts. Pets welcome! No security deposit option. 3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.

845-255-6171 Room for Rent in private home 3 miles outside of New Paltz. For single person only, preferably a professional. Share apartment w/adult single male w/monthly child visits. No smoking, drugs, parties or pets please. $550/month includes everything except cable and internet. No W/D. Please call 845518-2272.

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Specializing In Real Estate Throughout Ulster County & The Catskills y, Call: C (845) 338-5252 www.MurphyRealtyGrp.com Speak With An Agent today, STONE RIDGE CONTEMPORARY COLONIAL ON 24+ ACRES W/ POND

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Colonial w/ contemporary flare on 24+ private partially wooded, partially cleared acres, Trout stream, pond, barn, paddocks, tree lined lit asphalt circular drive, ample parking, inground heated pool, cabana w/wet bar, patio with fire pit, gazebo, garden areas, dog run, 4 car garage, back and front staircase, 9ft ceilings, custom kitchen cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, glass back splash, breakfast bar, gas burning stone and marble fireplace, french doors. First floor master ensuite w/ radiant flooring, guest quarters with kitchen plus bath. All framed with stone walls, too m much to list, call today! $749,000 0

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1-Bedroom Apartment, Village of New Paltz. Yard, off-street parking and garage space. $1100/month. Call 914-475-2833. The Ridge at New Paltz: Energy-Star 2-bedroom unit. Private entry leads into open-floor plan. Kitchen includes gas range, dishwasher, microwave & refrigerator. Living room w/sliding patio doors onto private deck, fireplace, ceramic tiled entry, kitchen & bath, washer/dryer connection, large windows & walk-in closet. Quiet country setting. Walking distance to village. Security & references required. No pets. No smoking. $1450/month plus utilities. 845-255-5047 or debbie@seakill.com Carriage House Available in New Paltz/ Gardiner area. Beautiful mountain views. 1-br, full bath, kitchen, living room, deck. $975/month includes electric. 914-474-5514 or 845-255-7326, please leave message. SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Fall 2017 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205.

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R Reminiscent of the classic Farmhouse, this is ttwo bedroom, one bath charmer is outfitted ed w g with beautiful beamed ceilings, shining h d hardwood floors, exceptional woodwork and g g great light! Formal dining room and living room serve as great gathering areas in addition to the traditional rocking chair front porch. The second floor bedroom includes an adjacent office or reading area. Additional pluses include central air conditioning, two car detached garage with electric, fenced yard, garden area and beautiful landscaping. Easy access to the NYC bus line! $169,900

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Near Rosendale; Efficiency Apartment, suitable for 1 person. Quiet park-like setting with pond, on beautiful Shawangunk Ridge, with hiking trails at your door. $725/month with utilities. First, last and security. Nonsmoker. No pets. 845-658-9332.

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1-BEDROOM/STUDIO, Kingston Uptown. On bus route, walk to Stockade area, shopping, conveniences. No smoking or pets. Heat & hot water provided. Security & references required. Call 845-338-4574.

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NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $480/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845-255-6029 or 845-419-2568, leave message.

Woodstock: Historic Stone House in the heart of town. Many spacious rooms, 3 fireplaces, completely renovated, ideal for office space or other, including dwelling. $2500/ month; option to purchase. 845-679-6877

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM UPSTAIRS APARTMENT. Very private. Large LR w/kitchen, full bath, glass doors open to large deck. View of fields & open woods. Off-street parking. Great location. Close to town. $1250/month plus utilities. (845)679-8259.

3-BEDROOM BARN/LOFT; Skyights, cathedral ceiling, wood floor, tiled bath, great light. 1870s barn. $1800/month includes all. Also, SMALLER 2-BEDROOM. Full bath. Newly renovated. $1100/month includes gas fireplace. Utilities extra. No dogs, cats, indoor smoking. 5 minutes by car outside village. Please call 845-255-5355 or text 256-8160.

RENOVATED 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. New appliances, freshly painted, fully furnished w/cable & WiFi. $1200/ month includes all utilities, garbage, water & sewer. Owner is Licensed RE agent 845802-4777.

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FABULOUS HURLEY SPLIT LEVEL

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1-BEDROOM in quiet Woodstock apartment complex off NYC bus route. Pergo/ ceramic floors, windowed eat-in kitchen/dining area. Renovated bath. $950/ month includes trash, water, sewer & plowing. 845-802-4777.

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