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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar Ca l e n da r & C Classifieds l assifieds | Issue 2 | Jan. 11 – 18

It’s always tea time AT MILLERTON’S HARNEY & SONS, PURVEYOR TO PALACES

Go in snow Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club offers free cross-country ski lessons Page 2

Feat of clay Looking back at the once-mighty Hudson Valley brick industry Page 10

Barbara & the bats Artist/author talks about her year with the little brown myotis Page 7

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MLK Day celebration in Woodstock this Sunday The Mescal Hornbeck Community Center in Woodstock hosts the Town of Woodstock’s 28th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration on Sunday, January 14. Beginning at 2 p.m., the event features speeches and performance by Pastor G. Modele Clarke of the New Progressive Baptist Church, Pam Africa of International Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bill McKenna, supervisor of the Town of Woodstock and Debra Burger, folksinger, guitarist and songwriter. Also on tap is a sneak-peak preview of Michael Monasterial’s new play, Fragile Explosion: Nina Simone, a Celebration of a Life of Genius, a play within a concert featuring Evelyn Clarke, Steve Jones and Harvey Kaiser’s Kansas City Sound Band.

The Mescal Hornbeck Community Center is located at 56 Rock City Road in Woodstock. For more information, call (845) 679-7320.

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God of Carnage & Next to Normal in Rhinebeck Cabin fever starting to set in?

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck has a tonic double-feature for you. Every weekend for the entire month of January, you have the chance to dip in and out of the lives of two – well, really three – highly dysfunctional families onstage, one with songs and the other(s) without.

The two shows on offer are Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, which won the Best Play Tony Award for 2009, and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s Pulitzer-

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Go in snow Mid-Hudson ADK offers free XC ski lessons, busy winter outings calendar

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ot some holiday poundage to lose and a New Year’s resolution to become more physically active, but no network of outdoorsy buddies on hand to lend support and encouragement? You’re not alone; the Mid-Hudson chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) has plenty of organized outings to offer, even in the dead of winter.

With approximately 30,000 members statewide, the ADK was founded in 1922, with the mission of protecting New York State wildlands and waters while fostering their recreational use. The Mid-Hudson chapter got its start in 1947, the brainchild of Roosevelt Library archivist Ed Nixon, and included many Vassar College faculty members. The last living charter member, Madelene Pierce, is now 93; among the original active group was FDR confidante Margaret (Daisy) Suckley.

In time the group expanded its horizons well beyond Dutchess County and spun off a group of Catskills peak-baggers called the 3500 Club.

Year-round, each ADK chapter organizes outings that involve hiking, canoeing, kayaking, cross-country skiing, camping, backpacking, biking, mountaineering, snowshoeing and other “muscle-powered� outdoor activities. While it’s a membership organization – annual dues begin at the $25 level, plus $10 to affiliate with a local chapter – non-members are invited to check out some day outings for free before you decide to sign up. If you get serious, you will be asked to write letters in support of wilderness preservation efforts and may even want to participate in some volunteer trail maintenance days; but most folks are in it primarily for the jam-packed outings calendar.

For the Mid-Hudson group, the Shawangunks, Catskills, Taconics, Hudson Highlands, Harriman State Park, Hudson River estates and county parks are typical destinations, with activities determined by weather conditions. The chapter’s ever-evolving 2018 calendar lists 22 outings in January alone. Some are beginner-friendly day hikes to places like Mills-Norrie State Park or Peach Hill; others are more ambitious, like the eight-mile, 22,000-foot-elevation-gain hike or snowshoe from Big Indian to Eagle Mountain in the Catskills on Martin Luther King Day. There are also overnights to more distant sites, such as this weekend’s three-day cross-country ski expedition to the lake-effect snowfields of the Tug Hill Plateau.

Not ready for such a big leap? You can stick a tentative toe in the snow any Monday in January, as volunteer Marty Carp offers Beginner Cross-Country Ski Lessons in the Gunks beginning at 10:30 a.m. on January 15, 22 and 29. Park at the Mohonk Mountain House’s Gatehouse at 1000 Mountain Rest Road for this coming Monday’s lesson, taking place on flat Bonticou Road. The next two lessons will take place on Cedar Drive, so park at the Mohonk Preserve’s Spring Farm parking lot, off Upper 27 Knolls Road in High Falls. If you’d like to participate, contact the leader at martymcarp@gmail.com.

Carp – who, according to ADK’s Mid-Hudson Trails newsletter, likes to tell XC newbies to practice moving like a gorilla – also leads outings for more experienced skiers on the Mohonk Preserve on Tuesdays and Fridays. If snowshoeing is more your thing, become a member and you can sign up for a “quick response� e-mail notification list for short-notice snowshoe hikes.

To find out more about what Mid-Hudson ADK has to offer, call (845) 255-0531 or (845) 303-3764 or visit https:// midhudsonadk.org. – Frances Marion Platt

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performances will continue each Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. through January 28.

Lou Trapani directs God of Carnage, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;serio-comedyâ&#x20AC;? about two sets of uppermiddle-class urban parents who get together for a peace conference after the son of one pair seriously injures the son of the other during a playground altercation.

Civilized manners quickly degenerate as it becomes clear where the errant boys modeled their belligerent behavior.

Emily DePew, Melissa Matthews, Frank McGinnis and Thom Webb are the cast.

Next to Normal examines the effects on a suburban family of a motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bipolar disorder, and her hallucinations that her son who died in infancy is still alive.

The Center production is directed and

choreographed by Kevin Archambault, with musical direction by Matthew Woolever. It stars Maria Hickey, P. J. Kraus, Jim Nurre, Wendell Scherer, Cheyenne See and Emily Woolever.

Tickets for all performances of God of Carnage and Next to Normal cost $23, and can be ordered by calling (845) 876-3080 or visiting www.centerforperformingarts. org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is located at 661 Route 308, 3.5 miles east of downtown Rhinebeck.

Speakers & screening of Rikers: An American Jail in Hudson on Friday Time and Space Limited (TSL) in Hudson, in collaboration with the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice, presents Rikers: An American Jail, the award-winning documentary from Bill Moyers on the men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. Guest speakers will include Barry Cambell, a former prisoner at Rikers and special assistant to the CEO of the Fortune Society; Damien Stapleton, a formerly incarcerated criminal justice reform advocate and motivational speaker; and Francis Greenburger, president and founder of the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice.

The event takes place on Friday, January 12. Admission costs $5, with $10 suggested for supper. TSL members are admitted free. Supper is served at 6:30 p.m., followed by the screening at 7:15.

RSVP is encouraged at (518) 822-8100.

For additional information, visit http:// timeandspace.org. TSL is located at 434 Columbia Street in Hudson.

Hudson Valley Rail Trail Winterfest in Highland on Saturday The Hudson Valley Rail Trail Winterfest takes place on Saturday, January 13 at the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot at 101 New Paltz Road in Highland. The event includes a chili cook-off, a bonfire, roasted chestnuts, hayrides, games and more. It runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Admission costs $2. For additional information, call (845) 691-6313 or visit www.hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net.

panel discussion will be held on Saturday, January 20 at 2 p.m. (This is also the snow date for the reception.)

The four participating artists in the show each investigate how cloth retains, transmits and resonates with memories.

Croton-based artist and exhibit curator Mary McFerran prints old photos and census reports onto fabric to create family narratives. Red Hook artist Mimi Czajka Graminski embeds old doll clothes into crocheted patterns. Stanfordville artist Riva Weinstein works with everyday materials to celebrate and contemplate life and Dobbs Ferry artist Harriet Cherry Cheney “channels” her grandmother’s tales of her Ukrainian shtetl into art.

For more information, visit www. howlandculturalcenter.org.

MLK birthday screening on Monday in Rosendale The Rosendale Theatre observes Martin Luther King Day with a diverse and free community event celebrating the life, achievements and birthday of the influential American Civil Rights leader. The event was conceived to offer a meaningful way for families to come together on the Monday holiday: to provide – for those seeking this – something more than just a threeday weekend in January.

When, the organizers ask, was the last time you saw MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech in its entirety? On a big screen?

Surrounded by your neighbors? The screening of the speech will be followed by a short film by a local documentarian.

This will be followed by a sing-along of some beloved Civil Rights protest songs, and birthday cake for everyone, in honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday!

Marshall will also be screened, an acclaimed PG-13 film about the youth of the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.

This free event will take place on Monday, January 15 at the Rosendale Theatre, located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, visit www.rosendaletheatre.org.

“Cloth & Memory” exhibition in Beacon opens on Saturday Beacon’s “Second Saturday” is a citywide celebration of the arts held (naturally) on the Second Saturday of every month. Special events include art gallery openings and culinary tastings, with many galleries and shops open late.

The first “Second Saturday” of the new year, on January 13, will include an opening reception at the Howland Cultural Center, located at 477 Main Street in Beacon, for the mixed-media fiber arts exhibition, “Cloth & Memory: Four Hudson Valley Artists Weave Memories into Fiber Art.” The reception takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. The show is on view from Sunday, January 7 through Saturday, January 27. Admission is free.

Gallery hours are Friday through Monday from 1 to 5 p.m. (closed January 14). A

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Upcoming Events:

Through The Storm: Developing Resilience, Trust & Love in Difficult Times Readings & Conversation with

Elizabeth Lesser & Ben Fleisher, LAc. Friday, Feb 2nd, 7pm, Kleinart James Center For The Arts a fundraiser for Woodstock Healing Arts ANNIVERSARY PARTY! FRIDAY, Jan 12th, 6-8pm Intro to Jin Shin Jyutso Jan 24th Onteora Teacher’s Appreciation Feb 7th Couples Massage Workshop Feb 14th Aligning With Your Inner Leader Feb 22nd Massage Therapy, Acupuncture, Naturopathy, Energy Work & much more MEMBERSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE! for details & reservations: woodstockhealingarts.com 845-393-HEAL (4325)

+++ AUDITIONS +++ Actors Theatre Of Woodstock announces auditions for it’s first production, the world premiere of the dark comedy

Shandaken Primitive Biathlon on Sunday We hope the temperature rises a bit for the 21 st annual Shandaken Primitive Biathlon annual winter sporting event. The biathlon offers competition in four age groups with prizes.

It takes place on Sunday, January 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Upper Esopus Fish & Game Club, located on Little Peck Hollow Road (off County Route 47) in Oliverea. For more information or to register, visit www. shandakenprimitivebiathlon.net.

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Mirabai of Woodstock Celebrating 30 Years Gif ts, Book s and Work shops for Serenit y, W isdom and Transformat ion.

Upcoming Events The Voice as Spiritual Practice w/ Peter Blum Sat. Jan. 27 2-4PM $20/$25* Ho’oponopono: Clearing with Forgiveness w/ Kristine Flones Tues. Jan. 30 6-8PM $20/$25* Straight Outta Hibernation: Algonquin Bear Cult Rituals w/ Evan Pritchard Sun. Feb. 4 2-4PM $20/$25*

By Anthony Giaimo Michael Koegel is slated to direct this dark comedy about two aging estranged brothers who reconnect when one of them reaches out to the other in a moment of personal crisis.

We will be putting together a staged reading with a small audience to get feedback on the play, prior to a full scale production at The Bearsville Theatre.

The reading will be performed at The Phoenicia Playhouse on February 10th.

The performance dates at The Bearsville Theater will be June 6-24.

This is a special performance contract with Actors Equity, but you do not need to be an Equity member to audition. All performers will be paid.

Auditions will be held at The Phoenicia Playhouse on January 19th and 20th at 6pm. Be prepared to read from the script.

— Character Breakdown — MYRON SANTANGELO mid 60s early 70s. Italian “Goombah” type. Always in trouble.

JERRY SANTANGELO mid 50s early 60s. Myron’s brother. Italian, educated, professional actor.

ROSEANNE DEPINO late 50s. Aging hooker. Has been in drug rehab most of her life. Myron’s friend.

GINA SANTANGELO late 20s to early 40s. Myron’s estranged daughter. One time latch key kid.

* Lower price for early reg./pre-payment made at least 48 hrs. in advance

Open 7 Days • 11 to 7 23 Mill Hill Road • Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 • www.mirabai.com

Please arrive on time.

Any additional questions please contact Anthony Giaimo at actorstheatrewdk@aol.com Michael Koegel at michael@phoenciaplayhouse.com

Hope to see you there!

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MUSIC Lake Street Dive’s Rachael & Vilray to play Helsinki Hudson

Club Helsinki in Hudson was early in as a forecaster of the impending breakout fame of Lake Street Dive, the jazz/roots/pop hitmakers who have carved themselves a unique place in the Americana musical landscape.

Now Club Helsinki gets some backend payback when Lake Street Dive vocalist Rachael Price revives an especially fine project from her past. The duo of Rachael & Vilray write and record contemporary songs that, in style, language and delivery, could pass for 60 years old or more. Lake Street Dive vocalist Rachael Price and longtime collaborator guitarist, songwriter and whistler Vilray met at the New England Conservatory of Music in the early 2000s, bonding over their love of standards, vocal jazz and prerock pop music, all of which Vilray still mines in his solo career.

Rachael & Vilray perform at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, January 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20 in advance and $25 on the day of the show. For more information, visit www.helsinkihudson. com. Club Helsinki is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson.

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Dar Williams to play Levon Helm Studios on Saturday

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he people at Levon Helm Studios know when a hard sell is not required. Their promotional copy in advance of Dar William’s performance there declares simply, “named one of America’s very best songwriters by The New Yorker.”

Enough said. Williams is in fact a restless and prolific writer and recording artist who is pretty much willing to go anywhere as a writer (witness for example her brilliant and subtle treatment of ethics studies, “Buzzer” from 2008’s Promised Land).

Supporting 2016’s luminous modern folk/rock record The Beauty of the Rain, Dar Williams performs at Levon Helm Studios on Saturday, January 13 at 8 p.m. Ticket prices are seating $45, standing $30. The gates open at 6:30 and doors at 7:30 p.m.

Levon Helm Studios are located at 160 Plochmann Lane in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.levonhelm.com.

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Bard launches Chinese music initiative The Chinese Music Development Initiative was formally established at a signing ceremony in Beijing in December. Managed by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard Conservatory, this undertaking aims to develop the first comprehensive program for the study and performance of Chinese music in the US. It has borne fruit immediately.

On Sunday, January 28 at 3 p.m., Bard’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts will host a concert to launch the Chinese Music Development Initiative.

The Orchestra Now will collaborate with the Chamber Orchestra of the Central Conservatory in a concert featuring six new works by Chinese composers, all using a combination of Chinese and Western instruments, with renowned soloists Yu Hongmei (erhu), Zhou Wang (guzheng)

and Zhang Qiang (pipa). Admission is by a $10 suggested donation. For tickets, call the Fisher Center box office at (845) 7587900 or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Bard College is located in Annandale-onHudson.

Gina Chavez plays Marlboro’s Falcon this Friday Bilingual Latin pop songstress Gina Chavez is a nine-time Austin Music Award-winner. Her 2014 record Up.Rooted reached the peaks of Amazon and Latin iTunes charts following a feature on NPR’s All Things Considered. With a band featuring Nick Clark, Brad Johnston, Michael Romero and Clint Simmons, Gina Chavez performs at the Falcon in Marlboro on Friday, January 12 at 8 p.m. There is no cover charge at the Falcon, but do-

nation is strongly encouraged.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Lara Hope & the ArkTones play Woodstock’s Colony on Friday A great party band and a serious vehicle of visionary, poly-Americana fusion, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones have released two excellent collections in the last few years: The latest fulllength, Love You to Life, was preceded by the local radio staple Luck Maker.

Colony in Woodstock presents Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones on Friday, January 12 at 8 p.m. The excellent Baltic and Gypsy folk group Caprice Rouge opens. Tickets cost $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

For more information, visit www.

colonywoodstock.com. Colony is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

Bunkhouse Boys’ Cajun Dance on Friday at Kingston’s White Eagle Regional Cajun aficionados the Bunkhouse Boys lead a Cajun Dance at the White Eagle Benevolent Society in Kingston on Friday, January 12 from 7 to 11 p.m. Beginners are welcome, and no partner is required. A lesson is offered at 7 p.m.; dancing commences at 8. Admission costs $15, $10 for students with ID. The White Eagle Benevolent Society is located at 487 Delaware Avenue in Kingston. For more information, visit http://hudsonvalleydance.org.

Woodstock’s Colony to host Rock Academy Hall & Oates tribute Multi-platinum requires no justification, but my first clue that the Philly soul-into-mainstage megapop hitmaking legacy of Hall & Oates was not just enduring, but growing chic, came when one of my very favorites of all new music groups, the Bird and the Bee, dedicated their entire third record to Hall & Oates covers. Baffled by the move at first, I came to recognize the homage as a small part of a larger cultural phenomenon. Hip has always had a tendency to graduate into pop (we used to call it “selling out”), but now we increasingly see yesterday’s pop reborn as today’s hip, as hip young adults reject the valuations that they inherited and restructure the past for present purposes.

Hip works by such contrarian logic.

Multi-platinum pop rockers Fleetwood Mac, for example, were anything but hip in their late-’70s commercial heyday. I was there. Sparing no vitriol, the critical voices that championed Elvis Costello and the Clash decried the Mac of Rumours and Tusk as panderers barely discernible from Foreigner. Today, the Fleetwood Mac influence among hipsters is ubiquitous, Costello’s hardly. Pop prevails.

Hall & Oates’ earliest material – 1972’s Whole Oats, their initial breakthrough, 1973’s Abandoned Luncheonette, and their 1974 self-titled moonshot – share in the sound and performance quality of one the golden ages of recording and arrangement. Their megahits of the early ’80s – concentrated on 1980’s Voices and 1981’s Private Eyes – now seem beset by the thin sound of early synth/pop and the

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cold of aesthetics of cocaine, but look!

That’s all in fashion now too, as broadstroke ’80s revivalism continues to rage on in popular and in underground music.

Recently rechristened and reborn, the Rock Academy presents a tribute to the music of Hall & Oates on Friday and Saturday, January 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Colony, located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock. The doors to the special show open at 6:30, with music commencing at 7:30 as the students of the Rock Academy take on the diverse soul and pop stylings of one the biggest bands of the ’70s and ’80s. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door. For more information, visit www.colonywoodstock.com and http:// rockacademy.com.

– John Burdick

assuming guitar and principal songwriter duties with the hard-touring British outfit Mannish Boys.

For several years now, Gass Wild has fronted his own New York City band, the Love Pirates, who are currently putting the finishing touches on their debut record. The Love Pirates, featuring Gass Wild, bring the glam legacy to Colony in Woodstock on Saturday, January 13 at 8 p.m. Sham Morris of SPiV opens. Tickets cost are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

For more information, visit www. colonywoodstock.com. Colony is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

Met’s Buñuel-based The Exterminating Angel at Bardavon on Saturday

In yet another installment of innovative and boundary-pushing programming, the Catskill Jazz Factory presents a talk by bandleader Aaron Johnson exploring parallels between opera and jazz. Specifically, Johnson will examine connections between the Italian giant Giacomo Puccini’s Bel Canto tradition and the sounds of the early New Orleans jazz pioneer Sidney Bechet.

Johnson’s presentation happens twice: on Friday, January 19 at 7 p.m. at the Mountain Top Library at 6093 Main Street in Tannersville, and on Saturday, January 20 at 5 p.m. at the Millbrook Library at 3 Friendly Lane in Millbrook. The suggested donation for the Tannersville event is $10. Admission to the Millbrook event is free. For more information, visit www. catskilljazzfactory.org.

Composer Thomas Adès’ 2016 opera T he Exterminating Angel premieres at the Metropolitan Opera this season and will be shown as part of the Met Live in HD series at the Bardavon on Saturday, January 13 at 1 p.m. Commissioned by the Met and sung in English, The Exterminating Angel is based on the screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza for the acclaimed 1962 Buñuel film. This production is directed by the work’s librettist Tom Cairns. Ticketholders are invited to a pre-opera talk by Leslie Gerber 30 minutes prior to curtain time in the theater.

Tickets cost are $28 for adults, $26 for Bardavon members and $20 for children age 12 and under. Purchase your tickets in person at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, or the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339.-6088. For tickets and additional information, visit www. bardavon.org.

Gass Wild’s Love Pirates this Saturday in Woodstock A legit and lasting underground figure in an underground genre, Gass Wild’s sustaining credentials were a good run as a drummer with legendary New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders, followed by membership in the embryonic first version of the Pretenders. Wild then moved out from behind the kit to sing with the Island Records band Lightning Raiders, next

Talk on opera/ jazz connections in Tannersville, Millbrook

BSP in Kingston to present Pete International Airport The celebrated saga of music and discord between the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre

extends with the formation of Pete International Airport, the new band of Peter G. Holmström of the Dandy Warhols. Pete International Airport’s excellent 2017 album, Safer with the Wolves, was released by Anton Newcombe’s A Recordings label, which may come as something of a surprise to fans of the infamous rock documentary Dig! who will recall the intensely difficult relationship between the Dandy Warhols and Newcombe’s own band, the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Pete International Airport performs at BSP in Kingston on Friday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets are available locally at Outdated and Rocket Number Nine in Kingston, Jack’s Rhythms in New Paltz, Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie and the Woodstock Music Shop. For more information, visit www.bspkingston. com. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston.

Pousette-Dart Band in Pawling next Friday Enduring soft-rock warriors with a touch of subversive wit, the PousetteDart Band embodies the styles and sounds that defined the ’70s, from sophisticated jazz-inflected lite rock to the fringes of country rock in the tradition of the Byrds and Parsons.

Singer/songwriter Jon Pousette-Dart and his bandmates scored numerous radio hits in their heyday and played arenas with the Byrds, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, the Eagles and James Taylor, among many others. As the sounds and sensibility of that era come back into fashion, so too might this oft- and unjustly overlooked expression of the era’s substantive musical values.

The Pousette-Dart Band performs at Daryl’s House at 130 Route 22 in Pawling on Friday, January 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20 and $30. For more information, visit www.darylshouseclub.com.

The US-China Music Institute of the Bard Conservatory Presents

MUSIC FROM CHINA: EAST MEETS WEST Contemporary Works for Chinese and Western Instruments

On January 28, the US-China Music Institute of the Bard Conservatory—a new undergraduate program in Chinese musical instrument performance—presents Music from China: East Meets West. Conducted by Jindong Cai, the concert will feature works from the foremost contemporary Chinese composers, including Guo Wenjing’s Aria for Gongs and Chen Xinruo’s Concerto Grosso, and solos featuring the erhu, guzheng, pipa, and other traditional Chinese instruments.

January 28 at 3 pm Sosnoff Theater | Tickets: $10

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845-758-7900 | fishercenter.bard.edu Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what happens in Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game. Molly Bloom is a juicy character, personifying the classic concept of honor among thieves. But her backstory falters, despite a game effort by Kevin Costner in the role of the demanding father whom the young aspiring ski champion could never please. Much lip service is given to Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s determination to win in a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, to transcend the humiliations visited on her by the guys who make the rules. But the character never manages to grok that her problem is largely one of being excessively male-identified, and it seems to be an authorial/directorial blind spot as well.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing wrong with enjoying the roller-coaster ride through Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rags-to-riches second career. Fans of Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous work will doubtless find the breathless visual pace (he keeps his editors very busy) and the twisty chatter most entertaining. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a compelling roster of supporting characters whose gambling addiction fuels Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise to tabloid infamy, drawing the viewer into the psychologies of men who are losers even when they are winners: Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Brian dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arcy James, Chris Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dowd and Bill Camp all hit the right notes and help us admire the emotional boundaries that Molly sets.

Graham Greene gets a nice little turn near the end as a humane and sensible judge.

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beneath the glitzy reputation of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poker Princess.â&#x20AC;?

But seeâ&#x20AC;Śtheyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all men. The only other actress mentioned anywhere near the top of the cast list is Claire Rankin as Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom. Despite the fact that much of the protagonistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-contained fury against men is inspired by resentment of her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infidelities, the character is a cipher, identified only as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother.â&#x20AC;? When sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready to set up her own game, Molly enlists the help of some Playboy bunnies for their connections in the world of high-rollers, but none sticks around long enough to establish a personality. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to avoid drawing the conclusion that if you put a male screenwriter/director in charge of a film about a â&#x20AC;&#x153;strong woman,â&#x20AC;? chances are very good that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll set her in a vacuum, with no female role models or friends. For the average female viewer, I suspect, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to ring true-to-life.

All this being said, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably have a good time watching Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game (it will help if you have at least a fleeting familiarity with poker terminology).

Just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect anything inspired or inspirational. The verbal onslaught wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give you much time to contemplate how this movie might have been different in the hands of a female director. But you might find yourself thinking about that question afterwards. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frances Marion Platt

TSL in Hudson to screen Analog Dreams: The Art of Brian Dewan A Renaissance man of music, art, performance and design, and a throwback to a time when a single individual could master nearly all the domains of making, Brian Dewan is a worthy and fascinating subject for a documentary. Dewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rĂŠsumĂŠ is a bizarre and singular marvel: He has released several puzzling and brilliant records of original songs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; most performed either on a modified zither or accordion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that capture essences and tell stories of an eccentric American past. He composed the music for the Blue Man Group; he designed the album cover for Neutral Milk Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underground classic In an Aeroplane over the Sea, as well as for the early They Might Be Giants gem Lincoln; along with his cousin Leon, he designed and built a line of novel analog synthesizers under the name Dewanatron, many of which use rotary phone dials and other antique artifacts as controls. He is additionally known for his filmstrips, furniture designs and poetry.

On Friday, January 19 at 7 p.m., Time and Space Limited (TSL) in Hudson is showing Analog Dreams: The Art of Brian Dewan, a documentary film about the popular Catskill resident. Dewan will perform after the showing, and the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director Keif Roberts will be on hand for a question-and-answer session. Tickets cost $7.

TSL is located at 434 Columbia Street in Hudson. For more information, visit http://timeandspace.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; John Burdick

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NATURE Barbara and the bats Learn more about the little brown myotis on Saturday in New Paltz

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istill it down to the essential.” That’s good advice for many endeavors in life, but it also happens to be the philosophy that Accord-based artist and writer Barbara Bash adheres to for her nonfiction, nature-based children’s books. But that doesn’t mean she leaves out any important information when writing for children. “I just trust the process of gathering these stories, in all their complexity, and then distilling it down to what is essential,” she says. “That’s what children see.”

Bash will talk about the process of creating Shadows of Night: The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat at the next iteration of Historic Huguenot S t r e e t ’s “ Te a Time” events on Saturday, January 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The cost is $25 for adults, $20 for children ages 6 to 12 and $18 for kids under age six. Main Course Catering in New Paltz will provide refreshments, with tea from P o s i t i v i Te a s .

The snow date is Saturday, February 10.

B a s h’s b o o k presentations are multifaceted experiences. In addition to reading from the book and discussing the travels and research that go into it, she shows the audience images from her sketchbooks and does live illustration on the spot. That approach brings children into the creative process, she says, and “makes the whole thing come alive. It gives them a sense of how I would start sketching something, and then see how the sketches become finished pages in the book. It makes a connection for them to see there is an actual person behind the book, and ignites a situation where they can ask very fresh and interesting questions.”

Bash is the author and illustrator of six children’s books that each address a specific aspect of the natural world. (She has also illustrated four nature-based books written by others.) Her first book was about the ecosystem surrounding the saguaro cactus, her second an exploration of the African baobab tree. When Bash realized that both succulents had in common their pollination by bats – the long-nosed bat, in the case of the saguaro, and flying fox bats with the baobab – it led her into an exploration of bats that culminated in Shadows of Night: The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat. In the same way that she had traveled to Africa to write about the baobab tree,

Barbara Bash's first children's book was about the ecosystem surrounding the saguaro cactus, her second an exploration of the African baobab tree. When Bash (shown below) realized that both succulents had in common their pollination by bats – the long-nosed bat, in the case of the saguaro, and flying fox bats with the baobab – it led her into an exploration of bats that culminated in Shadows of Night: The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat (a detail of which is shown above).

Bash went to the source for the little brown bat: the caves of Colorado. And as it happens, it was a period in time when National Geographic photographer Merlin Tuttle was changing people’s perceptions of bats with his photographs.

For the first time, bats weren’t being held by their wings to be photographed – which resulted in understandably unhappy bats snarling at the camera – but were instead depicted by Tuttle in their natural environs, hanging peacefully with little smiles on their faces. (The photographer later established the nonprofit Bat Conservation International organization.)

B a s h witnessed for herself the gentle nature of bats, and learned that they were in danger and needed to be protected. And the little brown bat she was studying – once among the most common bats in North America – is even more endangered these days, its population decimated significantly because of whitenose syndrome, a fungal disease. “Insecteating bats are on the edge of survival, and they’re so critical; they’re in one of those niches in the ecosystem that are crucial.

You get a lot of respect for them when you do a deep dive like this book took me on.”

All of her children’s books started with that passion to develop a particular line of inquiry. “I think of it as a ‘hook,’” she says.

“You can feel it; it’s like, ‘Ah, you got me.’”

Her book, Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City, came out of having moved to New York City after years of living in Colorado; feeling out of her element in the big city, wanting to find a way to connect with nature again. When a friend pointed out the nesting birds on top of traffic lights, it had an emotional effect on her, she says. “Instead of walking with my head down all the time, I was looking up at the sky. And it opened up New York City to me in a different kind of way. I thought, ‘If the birds, who could fly anywhere, were choosing to live here, it’s an actual symbol of freedom all around us.’”

In her efforts to learn more about nesting birds in New York City, Bash attended birdwatching meetings to find places to observe birds. Often her

Bash will talk about the year she spent with little brown bats, learning how they give birth, raise their young, fly, hunt with echolocation (catching 600 mosquitos an hour) and gather at bat “conventions” before going into hibernation inside the caves before reemerging in spring.

research leads her to speak with biologists, especially those who still retain a “sense of wonder,” she says, who can help her in that distillation process of figuring out the essential information that kids will understand.

In her presentation at the Tea Time event in New Paltz, Bash will talk about the year she spent with little brown bats, learning how they give birth, raise their young, fly, hunt with echolocation (catching 600 mosquitos an hour) and gather at bat “conventions” before going into hibernation inside the caves before reemerging in spring. “We’ll talk about why bats hang upside down and all kinds of ideas…it’s a catalyst for that natural scientific inquisitive mind, hopefully joining that with the artist connection through drawing.”

Bash also speaks to the kids about the process of drawing as a means of understanding something. “I tell them that yes, I take reference pictures, and that’s good; but I always need to draw, because that’s a different way of being with something.” Drawing is a way of working with our relationship with the world and brings us into a dialogue with it, she adds. “There’s a very interesting thing that happens in the act of drawing: When you draw something, you kind of fall in love with it. Keep drawing things and you’ll fall in love with more. You can’t not have affection for something after you’ve drawn it.”

Bash says that she likes to bring the seeds of this idea to kids to whom she

presents, giving them that feeling of “You can do this, too.” “My drawings are very imperfect – bats don’t exactly pose for you – but I enjoy bringing the kids into that world of aliveness and imperfection.”

(For the record, Bash’s water-media illustrations are lovely: both realistic and evocative.)

A bat drawing that she did for Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) has been made into a plush animal called “Archie the Archives Bat,” which can be purchased on the HHS website. For a chance to win an “Archie” plush toy, attendees at the Tea Time event can submit an illustration of their own idea for a Huguenot Street mascot. The winner will be announced during the event, and all who submit an illustration will receive a prize. The event will also include raffling of a Felicity Merriman American Girl doll. Raffle tickets will be available for $3 or two for $5 or five for $10.

For more information about other facets of Barbara Bash’s work – as a calligrapher and teacher who leads workshops for adults in a number of creative explorations – visit www.barbarabash.com.

– Sharyn Flanagan Tea Time with author/illustrator Barbara Bash, Saturday, January 13, 2-4 p.m., $18-$25, Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Avenue, New Paltz; www.huguenotstreet. org/teatime.

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TASTE

Harney & Sons offers more than 300 tea blends, including a line created by John Harney for the Historic Royal Palaces of England.

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It’s always tea time At Harney & Sons in Millerton

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he story of Harney & Sons is the entrepreneurial dream: a business that began in a basement and becomes a thriving global enterprise. The Harney & Sons line of fine teas is blended and packaged in a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Millerton, and 200 employees staff a bottling plant in Hudson. Their two shops – one in Millerton and the other in SoHo – each include a tasting room, retail area and café. (The SoHo café serves tea and baked goods, with a bistro-style lunch menu offered in Millerton.) And if success is measured in part by the loved ones you bring on the journey with you, Harney & Sons fits the bill there, too: The company remains family-owned and managed, as it has been since the late John Harney launched the business in 1983.

His sons, Michael and Paul, are at the helm these days. Michael has been the buyer and master tea-blender of Harney & Sons for more than 25 years, traveling the world to meet with tea producers.

His Harney & Sons Guide to Tea (Penguin Press, 2008) is a comprehensive resource for the tea-drinker interested in developing and refining his or her palate. Paul Harney is the creator of the company’s signature sachet teas and line of organic bottled teas and juices.

Michael’s wife Brigitte manages the retail shops. Their sons Emeric and Alex are, respectively, in charge of company marketing and executive chef/manager of the Harney & Sons Café in Millerton. John passed away in 2014. His widow Elyse serves as éminence grise, says Michael,

(Above) John Harney got into tea-blending through a neighbor, Stanley Mason, who had retired to the Salisbury, Connecticut area, where John was proprietor of the historic 1806 White Hart Inn.

with additional family members Griff and Mason (sons of his other brothers) running the blending room and online shipping.

The company offers more than 300 tea blends, including a line created by John Harney for the Historic Royal Palaces of England, an independent nonprofit that looks after six royal properties (including

the Tower of London and Kensington Palace). Michael says that his father was always proud that the family teas were served in the UK, especially the royal palaces. Each unique blend pays homage to tea’s imperial history.

The focus at Harney & Sons is to pass on their passion for tea to a broad audience and deliver a superior tea-drinking experience. “We try to do what my dad taught us:” says Michael, “actually serve good-tasting tea. And not everybody does that in the tea business.”

The way it’s done is to buy great tea to start with. “Tea is a plant that converts the sun into sugars. If you buy the right tea, it has slightly higher levels of sweet-tasting substances.” The variations in the plants depend on where they’re grown and how they’re handled. The taste of tea derives from a combination of cultivation and production techniques, and is influenced by the geography of its origin; altitude, humidity, light and temperature are just some of the variables. The correct brewing temperature and time are also factors in the taste of a tea, as are the flavors infused through blending a variety of leaves with dried fruit, flowers, herbs and spices.

John Harney got into tea-blending through a neighbor, Stanley Mason, who had retired to the Salisbury, Connecticut area, where John was proprietor of the historic 1806 White Hart Inn. “Stanley was a third-generation tea man of English descent,” explains Michael. “His grandfather started in the tea business in London in the 1860s, and his father passed it down. They were a little bit like the Lipton family in the sense that they

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(Above) Michael and Paul Harney in the Harney & Sons tasting room. Harney & Sons’ teas are blended and packaged in a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Millerton, and 200 employees staff a bottling plant in Hudson.

ran a grocery store and then became more specialized in tea.”

Stanley Mason started a small mailorder tea business in Connecticut and convinced John Harney to serve his blends at the Inn. “He taught my father about tea, and of course, it was a different version of tea than exists today. China wasn’t open, and there was a lot of what I call ‘British legacy teas,’ which were dark and took milk and sugar well.”

John began serving Mason’s teas at the

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GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Green fairy in your garden?

Invasive absinthe is not difficult to grow

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hat you are about to read might have been improved upon if I had been writing with la fée verte (the green fairy) looking over my shoulder – or better yet, if I also were writing from a smoke-filled café in Paris. Or even better, from a smoke-filled café at the turn of the 19th century, hanging out with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Lord Byron.

There’s a certain mystique with drinking absinthe – la fée verde – a distilled spirit concocted from various herbs, which might include tansy, fennel, green anise and bee balm. The most important ingredient is, of course, Artemisia absinthe: absinthe, the plant. Absinthe is one of many plants in the genus Artemisia, commonly referred to as mugworts or wormwoods.

Full disclosure: I generally am not fond of this genus, because it’s one of my worst weeds. My artemisiac nemesis is not absinthe, though, but common wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris). This ugly perennial weed perennially keeps poking up through the leafy mulch beneath a clump of delphiniums in one corner of the garden.

But back to absinthe, the drink: It has been accused of being an addictive, psychoactive drug and hallucinogen, which led to its being banned in the early 1900s almost everywhere except the United Kingdom. Artemisias all contain potent chemicals, and the chemical of potency of absinthe is thujone. Not that absinthe has cornered the market on thujone; it’s also found in some junipers, tansy, some mints and arborvitae, whose generic name is Thuja.

As it turns out, the concentration of thujone in absinthe is too low to invite visits from the green fairy. That invitation comes from alcohol, 45 to 74 percent, which is responsible for absinthe’s bringing on hallucinations and other psychological changes – and its addictiveness.

Still, thujone can be toxic, which is perhaps why absinthe sold in the US must contain fewer than ten parts per million of thujone. This has led to some rumors that American absinthe isn’t “real” absinthe. Not true, because, first of all, absinthe is not a well-defined alcoholic drink. And secondly, less thujone does not mean less absinthe, the plant, in the bottle. Particular absinthe plants vary in their thujone concentration. And thirdly, thujone concentration in the absinthe poured out of the bottle will vary also with length and method of storage; it decomposes over time.

Most artemisias are very bitter, so enjoying absinthe, the drink, is an acquired taste.

Absinthe has been accused of being an addictive, psychoactive drug and hallucinogen, which led to its being banned in the early 1900s almost everywhere except the United Kingdom.

Inn, which, according to Michael, “was a little bit of work in the 1960s,” when customers weren’t as interested as they are now in the subtleties of tea. Mason taught John how to blend teas himself, and eventually sold his tea business to Harney in 1970.

Harney & Sons was founded in 1983 with just six different tea blends. The company name was a bit of a misnomer at first, with the brothers not officially on board until years later. But maybe John was just optimistic; after all, Michael was packaging teas for his father’s business in the basement at age 15. “He also didn’t want people outside the family telling him what to do,” says Michael.

John Harney was originally from the Buffalo area. After attending Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, he moved to Connecticut in the mid-’50s to work at the White Hart Inn, and stayed. The company headquarters in Millerton are just across the border from Connecticut. The town of Millerton is a destination for many visitors, who come to experience the small-town charm and its shops, movie house, art galleries and restaurants.

The Harney & Sons location at 13 Main Street is a “three-part experience,” according to Michael: the tasting room, where people can sample and learn about teas; the retail section, managed

by French-born Brigitte Harney, who supplements the tea products with a selection of elegant home goods and lifestyle items; and the 25-seat café and lounge, where visitors can relax and enjoy a bite to eat. The café offers soups and salads, along with a variety of sandwiches and entrées that include grass-fed beef sliders, a vegetarian curry bowl and mushroom risotto.

Lunch is served Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lounge hours are Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

– Sharyn Flanagan Harney & Sons, 13 Main Street, Millerton; (518) 789-2121, www.harney.com.

Grand wine tasting at Aroma Thyme The Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville hosts the sixth annual 99 Bottles of Wine Grand Tasting on Sunday, January 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. This highend tasting presents wines Italian, American, South American, Australian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, including Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Zinfandel and much more. General admission costs $34.99. An extra $5 for a VIP pass gets you into a special tasting an hour earlier, at noon.

The Aroma Thyme Bistro is located at 156 Canal Street in Ellenville. For information, call (845) 647-3000 or visit www.aromathymebistro.com.

David B. Woolner reads from The Last 100 Days in Rhinebeck The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history.

Historian David B. Woolner contends that the last hundred might very well

Viktor Oliva's The Absinthe Drinker (I’ve never tasted absinthe, nor, with my aversion to bitter flavors, do I intend to.) And even then, absinthe is not a liquid that anyone would drink straight up. All of the various methods of imbibing it involve sweetening it with sugar and diluting it with some iced water. (Well, perhaps not all methods in this era of craft cocktails.)

Absinthe, the plant, is not hard to grow. It’s a perennial that’s native to Europe, but has naturalized in the US and Canada (uh-oh). It enjoys a dry, fertile soil, especially one rich in nitrogen. Artemisias generally have relatively inconspicuous flowers, but sometimes attractive hoary leaves; absinthe’s leaves are gray/green on their upper sides and white on their undersides. Dusty Miller is the showiest of the artemisias, with powdery white leaves.

My experience with common wormwood makes the ease of propagating absinthe somewhat frightening. Cuttings root readily and the plant self-seeds generously.

Now that I think of it, there is one artemisia that I do especially like, despite its potential weedy nature: Sweet Annie (A. annua) is a self-seeding annual whose tiny seeds sprout every spring to grow into two-to-five-foot-tall, sweetly fragrant plants. The sweet, resiny aroma is retained in air-dried plants for years. I keep a clump hanging upside down near my front door so that the aroma can waft into the air when the door is opened or someone brushes past.

When l’heure verte (the green hour, as 5 p.m. was called among absinthe enthusiasts in late-19th-century France) arrives, you won’t see me sitting at a table peering down into my glass of absinthe. The only artemisia that I might imbibe would be sweet Annie – not because it tastes good. If I ever contract malaria, sweet Annie is the ticket. It’s a traditional Chinese treatment, and has in recent decades been incorporated into modern treatments also. So that’s another reason to like sweet Annie – but not absinthe.

– 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.

surpass them in drama and consequence. Wrote the famous documentarian Ken Burns, “They say the fruit tree produces its greatest harvest in its last season. Perhaps the last few months of FDR’s administration, so overshadowed by the first few months, may be as important. Woolner deftly brings those last moments in power beautifully alive and leaves us with a lasting sense of the man as well as his accomplishments.”

A senior fellow and resident historian at the Roosevelt Institute and a professor of History at Marist College, Woolner reads from his new book, The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace, at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck on Wednesday, January 17 at 6 p.m. Copies of the book will be available for sales and for signing.

Oblong is located at 6422 Montgomery Street. For more information, visit www. oblongbooks.com.

Trock doc Rebels on Pointe on Sunday in Rosendale

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The 90-minute film was directed by award-winning Montreal filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart. Admission costs $10 for members, $12 for non-members and $6 for children aged 12 and under.

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FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Feat of clay Looking back on the once-mighty Hudson Valley brick industry

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Taking bricks from kiln at Hutton Brick Works, Kingston, 1939.

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[Editor’s note: This is a reprint of an article we published in June of 1989. Many of the brickmakers interviewed within the piece have long since passed away, but we thought readers would enjoy their words and this glimpse into our industrial past.]

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t the turn of the 20th century, the Hudson Valley was the brickmaking capital of the world, producing more than a billion bricks a year and employing nearly 10,000 people in more than 120 brickyards. By the late 1970s, the once-mighty molded-brick industry was no more. One by one, the great yards had closed their gates, leaving behind a small-but-colorful legacy of people who remember the industry in its prime.

“I worked in the brickyards all of my life,” 89-year-old Jimmy Polacco said, sitting up in his bed at Benedictine Hospital, where he’d had heart surgery just two days before. “I worked like a damn horse, when there was no union or nothing.”

Sitting nearby, Polacco’s youngest daughter, Joan, explained: “You see,

brickmaking is a generational occupation in my family. My father, my grandfather, my two brothers and brother-in-law all worked on the brickyard.”

Seventy-six-year-old Malden resident Terry Staples, the final owner of the Hutton plant in Kingston, dedicated his life to molding brick from the shores of the Hudson. He earned his degree at Dartmouth, but the lure of brickmaking proved irresistible to him. “My father wasn’t excited about me working on the yard. He would rather have seen me be a lawyer,” Staples said. “But I liked being outside, and I don’t think anything could have made me happier than working on a brick plant.”

Right place, right time

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en like Staples and Polacco helped make the brickyards a success, but they wouldn’t have gotten anywhere without their neighbor to the south. Several areas had enough clay to produce bricks, but Hudson Valley brickmakers had two aces up their sleeves: New York City, the world’s major

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Brickworkers at the Staples brick plant in 1953.

market for building materials, and the Hudson River, the most cost- and timeefficient shipping route of its day. In the era of primitive roads and expensive freight fees, the riverfront brickyards dominated the marketplace.

New York City’s demand for brick skyrocketed after a night watchman noticed smoke coming out of a dry-goods store in the City’s business district on December 16, 1835. Although 56 engines and 1,000 firemen fought the blaze for 16 hours, the Great Fire of 1835 burned more than 52 acres, destroying 674 buildings and driving 14 of the City’s 25

fire insurance companies into insolvency.

It was the largest, most costly fire America had ever seen.

Lawmakers unwilling to risk another such tragedy passed a series of building codes requiring fireproofing. Although marble, brownstone, cut stone and brick all played major roles in New York construction after wood dwellings were outlawed, brick was the least expensive.

It became the most frequent choice of architects and builders. As the City’s population increased, the demand for brick also rose. Hudson Valley brickmakers rushed to heed the contractors’ calls, and the local brickyards prospered.

Hard work

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here was no such thing as an hourly wage on the brickyard. Laborers were paid by the stint, and each task commanded a different rate of pay. “No matter how long you worked, you’d always get the same amount of pay,” Polacco

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Cutting clay at the Shultz bank in Kingston, circa 1900. A high wall of clay could easily collapse or slump suddenly, injuring workers below, so for reasons of safety, clay banks were mined in benches or terraces seven to nine feet tall.

said. “We had so much to do that we went down early and did it, and that was that. It was all piecework.”

The digging of the clay was the first step of the brickmaking process. Every day the bank behind the kiln shed was mined by hand. Layers of clay were generally quite thick, ranging from 50 to more than 100 feet deep.

As the bank was exploited further, the exposed vertical wall grew taller. A high wall of clay could easily collapse or slump suddenly, injuring workers below, so for reasons of safety, clay banks were mined in benches or terraces seven to nine feet tall.

The top step was mined furthest in, and the lowest digging level was purposely established high to make the hauling easier.

Freshly dug clay was loaded onto onehorse carts or narrow-gauge railroads and transported to the tempering pit.

The pitmaster, a highly skilled worker, combined the clay with anthracite coal and sand. These ingredients were added in various proportions. Each brickyard developed its own unique recipe.

“It wasn’t just like baking a cake,” explained Johnny Polacco, Jimmy’s son, who also worked at the Hutton plant until it closed. “It was all trial-and-error.

If the brick shrank too much, you added sand. If it burst, the clay was too strong, so once again you added sand. If it was wet, you added lime to absorb the water. This became second nature to the old-timers.”

Brickyard owners often discussed whether minor changes in the brick recipe made a difference. “There was

a brickmaker down the river named Hammond,” Staples recalled. “He insisted that a brick was a brick was a brick. He wouldn’t recognize that one fellow’s brick was any better than the next one’s. But then again, there were other brickmakers who thought that anything with their brand on it was the best.”

After various portions of the ingredients went into the tempering pit, the mixture was topped off with water and left to soak until the following morning. T he next day the tempered mixture was shoveled into wheelbarrows or onto conveyor belts and transported to the molding machine. Most yards had several molding machines, each of which could crank out 25,000 bricks or one pit’s worth a day. The machines injected the mixture into one mold at a time. Each mold shaped six individual bricks.

To dry the molded bricks in the day’s hot sun, yardworkers started preparing the open yard at dawn. After the bricks were molded and partially dried, they were placed in the open yard – a flat, sandcovered stretch of land. Two laborers, called a long and a short dumper, then carefully emptied the freshly molded brick onto the open yard.

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“They had some truant officer looking for kids who didn’t go to school,” Jimmy Polacco said.

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end. The long dumper worked on the far end of the open yard, furthest from the molding machine and closest to the kiln shed. Other workers brought the molds to the long dumper. With this assistance, the long dumper placed more brick on the yard than the short dumper. The short dumper, who was often an older boy, would fetch his own molds.

To keep the wet bricks from warping, the yard was planed or luted. Its smooth, flat surface was covered with a fine layer of sand, which kept the bricks from sticking to the ground.

Jimmy Polacco remembered starting at the brickyards in 1909. “My first job was tending the yard,” he said. “There were six of us in my family, and my brothers and I would go to the brickyard to help out.

The first time I went there, I went to help my brother. He had so much work. It took two of us to take the place of one worker.

So I would help him every day so that he could get paid. I wouldn’t get one cent.”

Kids could only work on the yard if they

managed to escape the eyes of the local truant officer. Jimmy Polacco fell through the cracks of the school system. “I hardly ever went to school,” he said. “Basically, I had no education. I’m lucky I can write my own name… But I do know a lot from experience; that’s no lie.”

Polacco recalled collaborating with one Kingston truant officer. “They had some truant officer looking for kids who didn’t go to school,” Polacco said. “He knew we needed the money, so he said that he couldn’t find us. He was a very good man.”

After the bricks were dried in the open yard for several hours, they were moved over to the side and stacked on edge with space in between for three or four more days. Then the still-green brick was transported to the kiln shed by workmen with wheelbarrows. Three “wheelers,” as they were called, passed the bricks to two “setters” inside the shed. The setters faced the difficult task of building a new kiln every time a batch of bricks was fired.

An average kiln was about 40 feet wide, 45 to 54 feet high and contained roughly 20 arches. About one million bricks could be fired in a kiln. By watching the color fluctuations of the bricks immediately situated above the flame, the burners were able to determine the condition of the entire kiln.

After years of labor on the yard, Jimmy Polacco rose to the kiln foreman position.

“I did every job on the yard until finally I ended up burning brick,” he said proudly.

“I learned to burn brick under my father,” Johnny Polacco added. “If the oil wasn’t working or the air wasn’t just right, he’d cry to someone like me who was an engineer. It was Dad’s responsibility to make sure that everything was done properly.”

After the bricks were in the kiln for one week, the fires were extinguished.

The bricks cooled for another seven days under the kiln foreman’s supervision.

During this final phase of production, it was important for the bricks to cool gradually – otherwise cracks would develop. “The foreman would close off all the kiln doors at that point, keeping the drafts out,” Staples explained. “We felt that if a brick cooled off slowly, that brick would be better.”

When the bricks were cooled, the kiln was disassembled and the completed bricks were wheeled onto a waiting barge, which held between 300,000 to 350,000 bricks. A tugboat coming from the north would get a bargeload from one yard and head down to the next one. The tug crew joined between ten and 20 barges together

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during a trip to New York City, the caravan lengthening as it went south.

During the brick industry’s heyday, tug captains would pick up a load a day from the larger yards. “Going back in time, the foreman at the Kingston plant, who used to live down at Ponckhockie, said he could sit on his porch in the evening and see five different tugs go by on the Hudson River,” Staples said. “There would be different tugs for cement, hay, ice and brick. But after a while, business slumped and trucks came in, so there wasn’t enough business for the tug companies. After that, they had tugs only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Then it got so they’d only come when you called them.”

Most workers were immigrants

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udson Valley brickmakers depended for their labor supply on the stream of European immigrants and Southern black workers. Bricks were only manufactured in warm-weather months. As well as being seasonal, yardwork was arduous, with long hours and low pay. At the turn of the 20th century, brickwork was avoided by anyone who could find any other employment, but many of the immigrants had no choice.

Areas surrounding the yards became ethnic enclaves, the inhabitants bound by their heritage and craft.

Jimmy Polacco’s father was one such immigrant. He worked on the Kingston brickyards for years before he could afford to send for his wife and kids in Italy. The Polaccos arrived in New York City the day before their father was scheduled to meet them. Mrs. Polacco didn’t have the brickyard’s address, nor did she know that Kingston was more than 100 miles up the river. They were lucky to meet an Italian-American stranger who, because of the strong immigrant network, knew where the father worked. He took the family to Kingston by train and directly to the house, where their father was hanging shades in anticipation of their arrival.

Almost every immigrant group of the late 19th and early 20th century made brick. Irish neighborhoods developed around the Fishkill yards, and as Southern blacks became more established at the yards, they formed communities in the Beacon area.

Jimmy Polacco found that growing up in a closely knit community had its advantages. “In those days, the parents made the match,” he said. “The old people got together and said, ‘You’ve got a son; I’ve got a daughter.’ I was very lucky. My wife’s father was a pit shoveler at Shultz’s.

Everyone used to go around to each other’s houses and tell stories of the old country.

Our parents got together, and that’s how I got my wife. She was a good woman – smarter than I am, went to school a lot longer than I did.”

Many of the brickyards built company houses and stores. “We used to live in a company house,” Polacco said. “But when I grew up, I built my own. There was no water in the company houses – just a couple of rooms to live in and a stove to keep you warm. They had a bathroom 25 feet away from the house. Have you ever seen Little House on the Prairie? That’s it, right there.”

The company stores came in handy when workers were laid off from the yards in the winter months. “All winter, when the brickworkers weren’t working, they’d buy their things at the company store,” Polacco said. “When they were back on the yard working, the owner would get his money.”

Brickworkers took a variety of jobs during the off-season. Some of the owners ran natural icehouses after they closed

The once-abandoned Hutton Brickyard is now the home of Smorgasburg Upstate, an offshoot of the Brooklyn flea market founded by Jonathan Butler and Eric Demby that has grown into what the New York Times described as “the Woodstock of Eating.”

their yards. The Terrys were also in the ice business, Staples said, so they could use their laborers to harvest ice in the winter.

Polacco helped with the ice harvest.

“I dragged the ice blocks from the river to the house in the winter,” he said. “They’d cut them in pieces two feet long, 18 inches wide and something like 12 inches thick, depending on how cold it was.”

When Polacco couldn’t get a job in the icehouse, he’d go over to the cigar factories in Kingston and find work: “You had no choice. You had to make a living.”

“The workers knew that they’d have to save up for the cold months,” said Staples. “There were chances for them to get other jobs in the area. In those days, people provided for themselves, without assistance like Social Security. Times weren’t like they are now, I’ll tell you that.”

“My father used to carry 16 bricks at a time in his hands,” said Johnny Polacco. “But with the crane, I could lift 1,504 bricks at once – just by moving a little lever.”

New materials, new standards

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he good times for Hudson Valley brickmakers came to an end around the advent of World War I. New construction material such as steel and concrete began to cut into the brick market. The market price of brick hovered slightly higher than the cost of production. To combat the slump, the brickmakers modernized their plants, cutting down on their labor needs. Only technologically progressive plants with new marketing strategies survived. By the end of World War II, only ten brick plants were left in the Hudson Valley.

Steam dryers replaced the open yards.

No longer dependent on the sun, the remaining laborers could finally find year-round employment at the brickyards.

Advanced molding machines were introduced that could produce 100,000 bricks per day. Overhead cranes replaced the necessity for moving the hand-fired bricks by wheelbarrow. Johnny Polacco, who operated one of those cranes, marveled at the difference. “My father used to carry 16 bricks at a time in his hands,” he said. “But with the crane, I could lift 1,504 bricks at once – just by moving a little lever.”

The mechanized brick plant bore only a faint resemblance to the turn-of-the-20th-

century brickyard. As the job changed, so did the workers. “My father keeps calling it the brickyard,” the younger Polacco said.

“I didn’t consider it a brickyard. When I worked there, everything was done with modern machinery. We considered it a brick plant. That’s the difference between my father and I: He was forced to work there, but we chose to.”

Attempts by the industry to hold on ultimately failed. By the 1940s, new transportation options meant that New Yorkers could live in the suburbs and still work in the City. The suburban singlefamily dwellings they built weren’t subject to the City’s stringent fire codes, and brick was no longer required.

The Hudson Valley brick industry lost its transportation edge, too, and designers and architects became more precise when ordering building materials. The high compression standards handed down from the American Society for Testing Materials – unnecessarily high, local brickmakers insisted – were generally beyond the reach of Hudson Valley molded brick. That was the final blow.

The last molded brick in the Valley was fired in 1979. Terry Staples, descended from two of the Valley’s two oldest brickmaking families, was there in the end. When the gates closed on his East Kingston brick plant, so did his family’s century-old tradition of molding brick on the Hudson.

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Oblong to host tribute to Johnson’s Largesse of the Sea Maiden The late Denis Johnson is justly famous for his first slim volume of short stories, Jesus’ Son. And the book did in fact leave a mark, its quietly despairing and terse profiles of craven, dead-eyed addiction stemming directly from the author’s experience.

But the recognition achieved by Jesus’ Son often obscures the expansive, ambitious and generous fiction that the long-sober Johnson went on to produce in his prolific career.

When Oblong Books & Music celebrates the life and work of Denis Johnson, who died in 2017, it is not the career-launching Jesus’ Son that they will attend, but rather his final collection of short stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden. These are the only volumes of short fiction that Johnson produced, bookending a career as a novelist highlighted by National Book Award-winner Tree of Smoke. Author

Scott Spencer reads from The Largesse of the Sea Maiden at Oblong on Thursday, January 25 at 6 p.m. Copies of Johnson’s swan song will be available for purchase.

Oblong is located at 6422 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck. For more information, visit www.oblongbooks.com.

Family ice harvesting at Maritime Museum The Hudson River Maritime Museum will host a family activity focusing on ice harvesting on the Hudson River on Saturday, January 20 at 1 p.m. Participants will explore ice-harvesting history, techniques, and they'll also conduct an ice experiment. The Museum Mates program, offered one Saturday each month from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., provides information on an historical topic, storytime with snacks and an activity. Museum Mates is free for museum members and $5 per child for the general public. Registration ends on January 18. To sign up, call Tashae Smith at (845) 338-0071, ext. 11, or visit www.hrmm.org.

Tenores de Aterúe screening, performance in Hudson The vocal quartet Tenores de Aterúe formed in 2007 to study and perform traditional songs from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The American performers eventually visited Sardinia to explore and master the intricacies of the alien, guttural sounds and overtones of the traditional singing style called cantu a tenore. They remain the only ensemble outside of Sardinia that is dedicated to singing cantu a tenore.

Over the years, the Tenores have been indemand performers on stages throughout the US, Canada and Sardinia. They released their first studio-recorded CD in 2016.

On Tuesday, January 23 at 7 p.m., Time and Space Limited (TSL) in Hudson will show Aterúe: The Singers from Elsewhere, a documentary about the Sardinian folksinging group Tenores de Aterúe, followed by a live performance by the quartet and a question-and-answer session with cinematographer Lucas Miller and singers Avery Book, Gideon Crevoshay, Carl Linich and Doug Paisley. Tickets cost $9, $7 for students. TSL is located at 434 Columbia Street in Hudson. For more information, visit http://timeandspace.org.

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12:30 p.m., Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh invites your crew to celebrate this MLK Day of Service by building butterfly houses! Your young carpenters ages 8 to 15 will support these colorful pollinators by constructing these shelters, which will be donated to the Downing Park Urban Farm.

Habitat Newburgh is located at 125 Washington Street in Newburgh. For more information or to register, call (845) 568-6035, extension 110, or visit http:// bit.ly/2CZJdt6.

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Indigenous storytelling at Sam’s Point Don’t we want more for our families than filtered Pocahontas stories?

Come on over to the Sam’s Point Area of the Minnewaska State Park Preserve this Friday, January 13 from 1 to 2 p.m. Grandfather Chipmunk (Evan Pritchard) will regale you with authentic Native American stories and hands-on experiences about their culture. Geared for children ages 4 to 10 years, preregistration is required for this program. Entry costs $10 per vehicle. An adult version of this program is available a few days later, on Wednesday, January 17 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., and preregistration is required.

Sam’s Point is located at 400 Sam’s Point Road in Cragsmoor. For more information or to register, call (845) 647-7989 or visit http://on.ny.gov/2DceCp5.

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Shandaken Primitive Biathlon in Oliverea Who doesn’t love Scandinavia, the inspiration behind Frozen, birthplace of those delicious little meatballs in cream sauce and creator of Ikea (stands for I Kill Everyone’s Affection, because of all of the fights that ensue in the store and at home during furniture assembly)? Well, it also turns out to be the biathlon’s origin story.

Tap into this Nordic tradition by participating in the 21st annual Shandaken Primitive Biathlon this Saturday, January 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Upper Esopus Fish & Game Club.

The competition is divided into four age groups: 12 to 16 years, 17 to 40, 41 to 59 and 60 and older. Prizes are awarded to the winner from each bracket, along with a special youth prize. Dress up in 1800s-style attire and get a minute knocked off your time! You can use any snowshoes and black-powder muzzleloading firearms along the 1.25-mile course with four shooting stations. No need for speed? Register to take an untimed woodswalk, where you can take your time snowshoeing and shooting the

“Dear Thurgood,” begins a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Thurgood Marshall – a new lawyer at the time, and eventually the first African American Supreme Court justice – that accompanied his $1,000 donation to the NAACP in thanks for its legal support with the bus boycott.

The two men worked together for the same goals of equal rights, but their different approaches to desegregation – courts vs. the street – created tension between them.

This Monday, January 15 at 2 p.m. at the Rosendale Theatre, come celebrate the birthday of MLK, Jr.: Hear his “I Have a Dream” speech, watch the movie Marshall, join the singalong, eat cake and more at this free community event.

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I’m writing about the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Winterfest, of course.

This Saturday, January 14 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Pavilion, join the hearty and enthusiastic fellow festivalgoers at Winterfest! Inhale the aromas of chestnuts and marshmallows roasting, enjoy a hayride and more. Admission costs $2 for general admission; ages 8 and under get in free; and food tickets cost 50 cents each.

The Hudson Valley Rail Trail Pavilion is located at 101 New Paltz Road in Highland. For more information, call (845) 691-6313 or visit www.facebook.com/ events/587946854724476. To learn more about the Hudson Valley Rail Trail, visit http://hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net.

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Celebrate MLK’s birthday in Woodstock If “life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” perhaps this event will help! Engage and educate your family at United! a special annual birthday celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King this Monday, January 15 at 2 p.m. at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center. The afternoon draws from reflection, celebration, education, music and drama. This event is

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Got money issues as your kids “suddenly” approach college age? But weren’t they just toddlers? You’re not alone. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld says: “Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives.

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Haunted History tour at Beekman Arms What, you thought all of that haunted fun was limited to Halloween season? The Beekman Arms gets you!

On Mondays and Thursdays from 7 to 8 p.m., including this Thursday, January 18, you are invited to the Beekman

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Arms Haunted History tour of America’s oldest inn. This hourlong visit includes a Revolutionary War soldier, a Victorian hostess, a governor, a bootlegger, a runaway servant girl and a few other surprises, followed by an afterparty in the tavern!

Advance reservations are required.

Entry costs $15 for general admission, $12 for seniors ages 62 and up and $8 for children age 12 and under. The Beekman Arms is located at 6387 Mill Street in Rhinebeck. For reservations or more information, call (845) 876-7077 or visit http://bit.ly/2AJHhz1.

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PLANTING SEEDS IN THE PSYCHE “I just don’t want to look back and think, ‘I could have eaten that.’”

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eed a break from self-flogging from not accomplishing your 2018 resolutions, such as losing weight, or trying to remember why you walked into a room? How about some real reflection during this new spin around the sun? Here are three prompts that I find helpful: What is one thing, thought or belief I wish to burn from 2017? What is one thing I intended to do but didn’t accomplish in 2017? What is one seed I want to plant in 2018?

1. Our family is currently overwhelmed with new immediate- and extendedfamily challenges. Navigating so many new questions and constantly changing circumstances shakes me up like Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson in San Andreas.

But despite my uncertainty, I am making tough decisions anyway. I crave terra firma. Yet, I persist. As Elizabeth Gilbert advises, I “embrace the glorious mess” that I am. I am okay. So here’s my response to the belief I wish to burn from 2017: “Unpredictability is unsafe.” I already stand strong on shifting sands due to my cancer. These new dynamics of eldercare and fresh dimensions of parenting a tween and a teen are simply more of the same. Because I know the only constant is change, I think differently. Now, whenever I feel knocked down or the world feels too big, I release this old thinking by writing “Unpredictability is unsafe” on a slip of scrap paper and burning it in my firepit.

2. I own stacks of fantastic notecards that feel so compelling to purchase in the moment, and then they pile up on my office-supply shelf to die (and they fall every time I rifle through them to grab a Sharpie). Reminds me of @Simon Holland: “We keep a potato masher in a drawer because sometimes it’s fun to not be able to open that drawer.” To answer one thing I intended to do, but didn’t accomplish last year, I am deciding to mail greeting cards at least once per month. Since I cannot drive, meeting up with people is harder than it used to be. I love receiving personal notes in the mail, so I’m going to reach out beyond texting, e-mail and Messenger by using this lovely stationery.

3. In contemplation of choosing one seed I want to plant in 2018, I am encouraged by poet David Whyte’s ideas about Beginnings: “It is always hard to believe that the courageous step is so close to us, that it is closer than we ever could imagine, that in fact, we already know what it is, and that the step is simpler, more radical than we had thought: which is why we so often prefer the story to be more elaborate, our identities clouded by fear, the horizon safely in the distance, the essay longer than it needs to be and the answer safely in the realm of impossibility.” Since it turns out that Towtruck Karaoke apparently won’t be the seed I cultivate in 2018, after the lackluster response I received while belting out “Tennessee Whiskey” in the crowded front seat after my recent highway breakdown, I’m going to write a story, as inspired by cancer charity Inheritance of Hope.org founder Kristen Milligan. What’s it going to be about, you Type A-ers ask? I don’t know! That’s all I’ve got so far! It’s a seed; it’s not fully formed yet.

We’re halfway through the first month of 2018. What are your responses to these questions? Or, there’s always Michael Clifford: “Never give up on your dreams, keep sleeping.”

Head On and Heart Strong!

Love, Erica Kids’ Almanac columnist Erica Chase-Salerno was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer in the Summer of 2015. To read more about her experience, visit https://hudsonvalleyone.com/tag/ericas-cancer-journey.

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6am-7:30am Open House: Masters Swimming with Hudson Valley Dolphins. Free Trial Week of swimming with Dolphins Masters swim club for swimmers aged 18 and older. All Abilities Welcomed. CIA/ The Egg and Student Commons, Hyde Park. Info: knikolski@yahoo.com. Free.

7:30am-8:30am Chester Kiwanis Club Meeting. Regular Meeting. Chester Presbyterian Church, 94 Main Street, Chester, NY. http:// Chesterkiwanisclub.com. Breakfast.

8am-5pm Old Dutch Village Garden Club Regular Meeting. Held the second Thursday of each month. All meetings are free and open to the public, visitors welcome. 845-758-1184 or olddutchvillagegc@gmail.com. St. John’s Reformed Church, 126 Old Post Rd N, Red Hook.

9am-10pm Open Level Flow Yoga. Christina Steen will be offering this on-going class on Thursdays at 9am. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org. $48.00 for 12-week series or $6.00 drop-in.

9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating 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. $10.

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845-331-0601 190 Fair St., Kingston

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock 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. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

Main Building at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, info. vassar.edu.

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, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies.

10am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice.

This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

10:30am-12pm The Role of Community Engagement in Creating Local Climate Action Plans: A Climate Smart Communities (CSC) Webinar. If you plan to attend, please provide your name, email and community affiliation to the

submission policy contact

e-mail calendar@ulsterpublishing.com. postal mail: Almanac Calendar Manager Donna Keefe c/o Ulster Publishing, PO Box 3329, Kingston, NY 12402 phone: (845) 334-8200 ext. 104, fax at (845) 334-8809. when to send

Almanac’s Calendar is printed on Tuesdays. We must receive all entries no later than the previous Friday at noon. what to send

The name of the event, time, date, location of event, a telephone number (for publication) and admission charge (specify if free). A brief description is helpful, too. how it works

Instructional and workshop listings appear in the calendar when accompanied by a paid display ad or by a paid individual calendar listing. Community events are published in the newspaper as a community service and on a spaceavailable basis.

DEC Office of Climate Change at climatechange@

accounts/NYSDEC/bulletins/1cc2f67.

dec.ny.gov or 518-402-8448. In the event that they postpone the webinar, respondents will be notified. Registration is recommended but not required. https://content.govdelivery.com/

11am Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions.

With OFA nutrition coordinator Nimesh Bhargava. Info: 845-486-2555. East Fishkill Senior

16 Friendship Center, 890 Route 82, Hopewell Junction. dutchessny.gov/aging.

11am Successful Aging. With OFA outreach coordinator Brian Jones. In the Second Floor Community Room. Info: 845-486-2555. Brookside Meadows, Pleasant Valley. dutchessny.gov/ aging.

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.

Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red hook.

1pm-4pm Woodstock 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

2pm-4pm Healthy Ulster Council Meeting.

Held bi-monthly on the 2nd Thursday. Info: mmh62@cornell.edu. UCDOH , Kingston. healthyulstercounty.net.

2pm-3:15pm Intro to Guitar. Intro to Guitar will be offered for free to those who haven’t played but who would like to give it a try. Must register: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary. org/.

3:30pm-5pm Intermediate Guitar Lab. Guitar Lab will be offered to those who have played a bit but who wish to bump it up a notch. Must register:845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary.org/.

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

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-6:30pm Audition: Newsies JR. Auditions for ages 8 to 18. Hopefuls need to prepare 32 bars from the show or in the style of the show. A pianist will be provided. Please have your sheet music in the appropriate key. Be dressed to dance and have your schedule with you to list any potential conflicts. Info: 845-876-3088 x13. The Center For Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org.

4pm-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & 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. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm-7pm Free Holistic Healthcare Clinic.

Many holistic Practitioners will be volunteering their time monthly to provide services, including: massage, chiropractic, reiki, other energy and body work, acupuncture, craniosacral massage, deep tissue body work and hypnosis. There’s also a prenatal and lactation specialist offering a breastfeeding cafe. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. healthcareisahumanright.com.

5:30pm-7:30pm Artist Reception: Light, Lines and Landscapes. Closing reception with photographer Kelly A. Thompson discussing her digital prints currently on view at Twisted Soul Food Concepts in Poughkeepsie, NY. The exhibition features a varied collection of spontaneously inspired and composed photographs interpreting light, lines and Hudson Valley landscapes.

Snow date: Friday, January 12 Info: 845-4542770; distractedbyart@gmail.com. Twisted Soul Food Concepts, 47 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

6pm-7:30pm NARCAN Training. A free class to teach the use of NARCAN in opioid overdose situations. Free nasal spray kit after you complete the class. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org.

6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-589-5000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.

6:30pm-8:30pm Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night: Naruto the movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel. 2005, 96 mins. Directed

by Hirotsugu Kawasaki, starring Junko Takeuchi, Showtaro Morikubo, Chie Nakamura. Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Escape, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com.

6:30pm Rhinecliff Sustainability Series: New Options for Greening Your Hudson Valley Home. Join Vanessa Bertozzi from Dandelion and Jeff Irish from Hudson Solar as they present their companies’ offerings for Hudson Valley homes: geothermal heating/cooling and community solar. They’ll do Q&A and discuss how to rally communities to meet sustainability goals. Free to the public. Info session and Q&A, local refreshments. Info: 845-876-2903. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff. morton.

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7pm Bingo! Meet the 2nd & 4th Thursdays,7pm.

Doors open at 6pm. Prizes & food. Sponsored by the Beekman Fire Company Auxiliarly Inc. Beekman Fire House, 316 Beekman- Poughquag Rd, Poughquag.

7pm The Elting Memorial Library Board of Trustees Special Meeting. The Elting Memorial Library Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting to discuss the library budget in preparation for the Annual Meeting on Thursday, January 25th, at 7pm. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. eltinglibrary.org.

7pm THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN-The True Story of a World War II Hero “Captain Dixie”. With Author David Rocco. Free. Info: 845-463-4660, 914-879-1082. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. beaconsloopclub.org.

7pm-9:30pm Open Mic Night with Jeff Entin.

Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley to Open Mic night. Bring your instrument and talent to the stage. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, www.highfallscafe.com. Pass the basket.

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.

Info: 845 876-7906. Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. mideastcrisis.org.

7:30pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Thursday night at 7:30pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

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. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock, Inc, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.

8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions. Listen or read. Every Thursday. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-6892323. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Comics at The Underground. Stand Up Comedy. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, & Geoff Harden.

Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

Ezra Ames' 1814 portrait of George Clinton

HISTORY

Who was George Clinton, anyway?

Kingston’s own soldier/statesman

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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend (1/12-1/15). Cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, ice skating rink on Lake Cole, ice fishing and snow tube run. Warm up indoors at the indoor floor hockey arena, climbing gym, archery range and arts and crafts studio. Info: 845-9852291. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville. frostvalley.org.

6am-7:30am Open House: Masters Swimming with Hudson Valley Dolphins. Free Trial Week of swimming with Dolphins Masters swim club for swimmers aged 18 and older. All Abilities Welcomed. CIA/ The Egg and Student Commons, Hyde Park. Info: knikolski@yahoo.com. Free.

9am Shamatha Meditation with Angelina Birney. Through shamatha meditation (calm abiding), we develop concentration, inner strength, stability and confidence, in addition to fostering numerous health benefits. Lama Angelina Birney completed a 3-year meditation retreat in the Karma Kaygu Tradition and has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 30 years. Free and open to all. Info: info@tibetancenter.org; 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston. tibetancenter.org.

9am-12pm Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s (CCEUC) Master Gardener Horticulture Hotline. Diagnostic Lab open on Fridays only. Need help, call 845-340-DIRT. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9:45am-10:45am Woodstock 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am Creativesmx Mavericks Invitational.

A chance for experienced creatives to test their talent, focus, stamina and endurance. Over 5,000 dollars in prizes! Info: 845-565-8900, aijaf@ creativesmx.com, Creativesmx.com/mavericks.

Please see website for cost details.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Pilates - Mixed Level with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. $1/donation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@

I

f you’ve ever taken a history ramble through Uptown Kingston, the name George Clinton (1739-1812) is sure to have come up a lot – and not just because a hotel-turned-apartment complex was named after him. It was in the Ulster County Courthouse, after all, on Wall Street in the Stockade District, that Clinton was sworn in at the age of 38 as New York’s first freely elected governor. That happened on July 30, 1777 – only three months after New York became a state, upon adoption of its Constitution in that same building. And it’s in the burial ground of the Old Dutch Church, half a block away, where he and his wife, Sarah Cornelia Tappen, had long been parishioners, that Vice President Clinton found his final resting place.

Even for a Founding Father, George Clinton was a restless multitasker, and no aspect of his life story is simple and straightforward. He was originally interred in Washington, DC, for one thing, and his remains not relocated to his home county until 1908. He didn’t actually seek to be governor, for another, and was far away at the time that the election took place, doing his bit as a brigadier general in the Continental Army to fortify the Hudson Highlands against an expected flotilla of Redcoats.

His efforts in the Revolutionary War – which included building Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton and stringing the famous chain across the Hudson River near West Point – fell short of their goals, but those battles did help buy time for the subsequent victory at Saratoga. An ally and close associate of George Washington, Clinton responded to his commanding officer’s plea for help during the brutal winter at Valley Forge by sending a herd of cattle and wagonloads of salt pork 200 miles to the starving troops. But he parted ways philosophically with Washington and the other Federalists when it came time to adopt the US Constitution: Clinton opposed it until the Bill of Rights was added, and some historians have identified him as “Cato,” the pseudonymous author of anti-Federalist essays published in New York during the ratification debates.

Had he not made some enemies due to these activities and his fervent antiTory, populist and New-York-first stances (as governor he fought long and hard to deny statehood to Vermont), Clinton might have become president long before another of that surname moved into the White House. He ran against John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and came in third. After Aaron Burr was dropped from the ticket in the 1804 election, Jefferson tapped Clinton to be his new running mate. He served one term as vice president under Jefferson and most of a second under James Madison before dying of a heart attack. Not until 2015 did another person exceed the length of Clinton’s 21-year tenure as governor of a state in the US. A vivid character as well as a committed and energetic patriot, Clinton’s life story is worthy of a deeper dive. A good place to begin your research is the minidocumentary about George Clinton created by the Friends of Historic Kingston and posted on their website at www.fohk.org/gallery/videos.

– Frances Marion Platt

gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

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, tivolilibrary.org.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara

beck, 845-876-3080.

premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included 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.

Audition Notice: of Newsies JR

Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind. Long-held poses use props (blankets, blocks and bolsters) to support proper bone alignment while releasing muscular tension. Personalized adjustments will enable you to take get the maximum benefit of these powerfully therapeutic poses. Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6pm-8pm Movie Night: An Inconvenient Sequel. A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) this follow-up shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. PG, 98 mins. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 6:30pm-9pm Rikers: An American Jail. Screening and Discussion of “Rikers: An American Jail.”

Presented with Greenburger Center. Q&A with formerly incarcerated activists. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: (518) 822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, http://bit. ly/2j7lJpS. Members Free / $5 General.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Info: 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck.

7pm-8:15pm Line Dancing. Deborah Silvestro will begin by teaching the basics and then add a dash of aerobic exercise to boot! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary.org/.

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.

7pm-11pm Cajun Dance with the Bunkhouse Boys. Dance to the hot new Cajun band. Info: 914-388-7048. All are welcome. No partner necessary. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hudsonvalleydance.org. $15, $10/FT student w/ID. 7pm-9pm Live Music & Noodles with Daniel Berger Solo. Original Music And Covers Exploring Harmony And Texture On Guitar. No Cover.

Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Escape, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Abraham & the Groove. Classic Soul. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Gina Chavez. AustinBased Latin Pop. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

9pm The Elvis Birthday Bash with Mark Gamsjager & the Lustre Kings. 6pm doors.

Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2yDc3ww. 20/25.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend (1/12-1/15). Cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, ice skating rink on Lake Cole, ice fishing and snow tube run. Warm up indoors at the indoor floor hockey arena, climbing gym, archery range and arts and crafts studio. Info: 845-9852291. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville. frostvalley.org.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday. All welcome. No charge. 845-2463285 for more info. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

9am Torah Study. Info: 845-561-6602. Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh.

(1/10 & 1/11). Auditions for ages 8 to 18. Hopefuls need to prepare 32 bars from the show or in the style of the show. A pianist will be provided.

Please have your sheet music in the appropriate key. Be dressed to dance and have your schedule with you to list any potential conflicts.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhine-

9:30am-11am Centering Prayer. Open to people of all faiths. Info: 845-679-8800. Centering prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation. On-going, Saturdays from 9:30-11am. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

10am Creativesmx Mavericks Invitational.

A chance for experienced creatives to test their talent, focus, stamina and endurance. Over 5,000 dollars in prizes! Info: 845-565-8900, aijaf@ creativesmx.com, Creativesmx.com/mavericks.

Please see website for cost details.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

10am-12pm New Baby New Paltz’s 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. More info: 845-255-0624 or newbabynewpaltz@yahoo.com. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. newbabynewpaltz. com.

10am-12pm Saturday Knitters. All ages and experience levels can participate and drop-in knitters are also welcome. Bring your own supplies.

845 687-7023 for more info. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

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-8pm Snow Tubing. Slide down a beautifully groomed lane in a giant inner tube. 42” height requirement. 90-minute sessions. Tickets sold on first come, first served basis at the park.

Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Holidays: Mon Jan 15 and Mon Feb 19 10 am-5 pm. (Weather and conditions permitting.) Info: 845-615-3830.

Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416,, Montgomery. orangecountynyparks.com.

10am-3:30pm Intro. to Beekeeping Class. Ever thought about keeping bees? FREE seminar which will cover beekeeping basics. Register at www.

HVHives.com. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@ olivefreelibrary.org, http://bit.ly/2gEg8tp. free.

10am-2pm Volunteer Fireman’s Hall & Museum. Known locally as “a little gem of a museum.” Weather permitting, Jan 13. Info: 845-331-0866. Volunteer Fireman’s Hall & Museum, 265 Fair St, Kingston. kingstonvolunteerfiremensmuseum.weebly.com.

10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@ wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

10am-2pm Winter Farmers Market. Winter Farmers Market - 18 vendors - Vegetables, Meat, Dairy, Bread - Every other Saturday .

December-April - Live music - Community. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. Info: info@kingstonfarmersmarket.org, http://bit. ly/2i8D44M. 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.

11am Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. This opportunity is being offered at every Saturday in January, February, and 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, and work with you until you are ready to confidently head out on your favorite trail. 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. Info: 845-6477989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

11am Bill and Brian Robinson’s Birds of Prey.

See amazing birds of prey and learn about their unique abilities and habitats. FREE. All ages

Sound Immersion with Paul Campbell (1/20, 2-3:30pm). The Art of Sound Healing will guide you to experience profound spiritual, physical, mental and emotional clarity and allow your inner Dreamscape to come forward. Gongs, RavVast, Tuning Forks, Singing Bowls, Shamanic Drum. $20 per person. Details online at tibetancenter.org/events. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

845-383-1774 and info@tibetancenter.org.

welcome. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

11am-2pm Hudson Valley Rail Trail Winterfest. Come out and enjoy the day. Chili cook-off, bonfire, roasted chestnuts, hayrides, games and more. 845-691-6313. Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot, 101 New Paltz Rd, Highland. hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net. $2, children eight and under free.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. Three computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11:30am Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: StarLab- Indoor Planetarium. Three Sessions: 10am, 11:30am & 1pm. Prepaid registration required. Walk-ins will not be admitted. Learn how to identify the major constellations and stars while hearing Native American and Greek stories of how they were created. This inflatable planetarium is recommended for adults and children four years and up. Info: 845-534-7781. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $12.

12pm-3pm Robot Club. Come explore robotics and basic engineering using Lego Mindstorms.

Suitable for ages 9-16. Call 845-688-7811 to register. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org.

FREE. 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).

Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated.

12pm Seminar: Take Back Your Health with Food. With Debbie Justs, Cert. Nutrition Coach.

Learn how to get healthier by eating a clean diet.

Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

12pm-1:30pm Breast Cancer Options Metastatic Peer-Led Support Group. Features speakers & topics. For information or to register: 845-339-HOPE or email hope@breastcanceroptions.org. Christ the King Church, 2 Eugene L Brown Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-339-4673, hopenemiroff@yahoo.com, http://bit.ly/1USVReh. 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.

1pm Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: StarLab- Indoor Planetarium. Three Sessions: 10am, 11:30am & 1pm. Prepaid registration required. Walk-ins will not be admitted. Learn how to identify the major constellations and stars while hearing Native American and Greek stories of how they were created. This inflatable planetarium is recommended for adults and children four years and up. Info: 845-534-7781. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $12.

1pm Seminar: Fresh Mozzarella and Much More. With Greg Laraia, Corporate Cheese Making mozzarella from start to finish and what to do with it. Free admission. Info: 845-4544330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

1pm-2pm Story Circle with Grandfather Chipmunk (Evan Pritchard) at Sam’s Point. This workshop is a wonderful and factual introduction to Native American culture for kids. This program is recommended for children between the ages of four to ten, accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

1pm Seminar: Healthy Eats. with Jen Braun, Office Manager. Start the year off with healthy meals for you and your family. Info: 845-3366300. Free admission. Kingston: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

Barbara Bash. Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) welcomes beloved children’s author and illustrator Barbara Bash for Tea Time. Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz. Info: 8452551660, media@huguenotstreet.org, https://www.huguenotstreet.org. $25 for adults, $20 for children under 13 years of age, $18 for children under 6 years of age.

2pm Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival.

A Woodstock Second Saturday event featuring guest poets. For info contact Phillip Levine at 845-246-8565 or pprod@mindspring.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. woodstockpoetry.com.

3pm Seminar: Eating Gluten-Free and Heathy.

With Theresa Zangerle-McArtin, Registered Dietitian, Digestive Disease Center. Learn how to navigate your gluten-free diet the heathy way Info: 845-632-9955. . Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

3pm-5pm Artist Reception: Cloth & Memory. 4 Hudson Valley Artists Weave Memories into Fiber Art. A mixed media art exhibit. Artists include: Croton artist and exhibit curator, Mary McFerran; Red Hook artist, Mimi Czajka Graminski; Stanfordville artist, Riva Weinstein, and Dobbs Ferry artist, Harriet Cherry Cheney. Exhibits through 1/27/2018. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon. howlandmusic.org.

5pm-8pm Artists’ Reception: Timeless Greece.

Photos by Mary Ann Glass and Christine Irvin.

Exhibits through February 4. Info: 845-8382880; info@riverwindsgallery.com. RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main St, Beacon. riverwindsgallery. com.

5pm-9pm Beacon Second Saturday. A city-wide celebration of the arts held on the second Saturday of every month where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most of which are right along Main Street. In addition to displaying art from around the globe, the event often includes free gallery talks, live music, and wine tasting. Beaconarts.org. Downtown Beacon, Main Street, Beacon.

6pm Movies & Munchies: The Flat. Featuring award winning movie “The Flat” by Arnon Goldfinger. No Charge. RSVP by January 9th. Info: 845-561-6602. Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh.

6pm-10pm Opening Reception: Calculated. The Great Studio presents: “Calculated” – artwork by Salvatore Carbone. On view through February.

Info: carbone.salv@gmail.com. The Great Studio, 196 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

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. touhey.com.

7pm-9pm Live Music & Noodles with New Brakes. Bluegrass Music. No Cover. Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Escape, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com.

7pm-8:30pm Crystal Sound Healing with Pyramids and Singing Bowls. Crystal vibrations reduce stress and help restore balance, and align our mind-heart-cosmic connection. With Lea Garnier & Beth Ylvisaker. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

7pm-11pm Elks Lounge Dance Night. Dance to a rich mix of R&B, Latin, Soul, Funk, Rock, Disco & much more. Requests welcome! Includes delicious snacks; full bar available. Beacon Elks Lodge, 900 Wolcott Avenue, Beacon. Info: 845-765-0667, rhodaja@optonline.net, http:// bit.ly/2BWd0lr. $5.00 for Elks Members.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Chris O’Leary Band.

Featuring: Chris O’Leary/Lead Singer/Harp, Chris Vitarello/Guitar, Matt Raymond/Bass, Andy Stahl/Tenor Sax, Chris DiFrancesco/Baritone Sax and Jason Devlin/Drums. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm-10pm Common Ground on the Mountain Music Festival. Blues, Gospel, Rock and Acoustic music. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville. Info: 518-263-2000, cmf@catskillmtn.org, http://bit. ly/2CiSHME. $35 at the door.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Gary Solomon Plays Dylan. Solo Acoustic Tribute. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

9pm-11pm Jokers Comedy Club. Featuring stand-up comic Carie Karavas. Info: 845-3451039. G.W.’s American Burgers, Chester. jokerscomedyclubny.com.

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2pm-11pm Rhinebeck Winter Groove Weekend. Join the party & groove all weekend in Rhinebeck! Jan 13 & 14 cafes/bars will have live free music, no cover, no drink minimum.

Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-8765904, rhinebeckchamber@gmail.com, http:// bit.ly/2qv76TS. no drink minimum, hopefully you’ll order a delicious appetizer, cocktail, wine or entree.

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend (1/12-1/15). Cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, ice skating rink on Lake Cole, ice fishing and snow tube run. Warm up indoors at the indoor floor hockey arena, climbing gym, archery range and arts and crafts studio. Info: 845-9852291. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville. frostvalley.org.

2pm-4pm Tea Time with Author/Illustrator

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Workout with Terry

18 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: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9am-12pm 21st Annual Shandaken Primitive Biathlon. Annual winter sporting event with competition in four age groups. Prizes. For more information or to register, contact Paul 845-2463954, Vince 845-688-5560 or Ed 845-339-3440; Esopus Fish & Game Club, Little Peck Hollow Rd, Oliverea. shandakenprimitivebiathlon.net.

9:30am Private Herman Siegel Post 625, Poughkeepsie, of the Jewish War Veterans of The United States of America Meeting. Persons of the Jewish faith who have served in the armed forces of the United States of America of others of the Jewish faith are cordially invited to attend and participate. Any questions concerning participation in our organization may be directed to Rob Rubin, Presiding Officer, at oldsmobile9@ hotmail.com. Congregation Schomre Israel, 18 Park Ave, Poughkeepsie.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

10am Creativesmx Mavericks Invitational.

A chance for experienced creatives to test their talent, focus, stamina and endurance. Over 5,000 dollars in prizes! Info: 845-565-8900, aijaf@ creativesmx.com, Creativesmx.com/mavericks.

Please see website for cost details.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed 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.

10am-2pm Rosendale’s Winter Market. Offering crafts and food vendors. Info: rosendalefarmersmarketny.com. Rosendale Recreation Center, 1055 Route 32 South, Rosendale. rosendalefarmersmarketny.com.

10am-12:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: CrossCountry Ski to Kempton Ledge and Beyond.

A five-mile-long, cross-country ski outing to Kempton Ledge and a couple of the other scenic views beyond it. Participants must provide their own ski equipment and must have previous crosscountry skiing experience. They should also wear appropriate winter gear and bring adequate food and water. The fee for skiing on the groomed trails at Minnewaska is $10 per adult, $9 per senior citizen and $7 per junior. If there is insufficient snow cover for skiing, this program will be offered as a hike. Meet in the Wildmere Parking Area.

Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am-5pm Snow Tubing. Slide down a beautifully groomed lane in a giant inner tube. 42” height requirement. 90-minute sessions. Tickets sold on first come, first served basis at the park.

Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Holidays: Mon Jan 15 and Mon Feb 19 10 am-5 pm. (Weather and conditions permitting.) Info: 845-615-3830.

Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416,, Montgomery. orangecountynyparks.com.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Willa & Co. Blues. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

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: 845-242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail. com, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

12pm-4pm Indoor Winter Farmers Market.

Stock up on seasonal produce, eggs, meats, cheese, yogurt, bread, olive oil and much more! (Also scheduled for Feb 18, Mar 18) Info: 845-3726550. Museum Village, 1010 State Route 17M, Monroe. farmmarkettemplate.com.

12pm Seminar: Simple Vegetarian Meals. With Susan Minard, Adams Meat. Make “Meatless Monday” part of your lifestyle. Info: 845-6329955. Free admission. . Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

12pm-4pm Free Painting Workshops for PreTeens and Teens. Students ages 10-19 can learn how to paint in oil and acrylics. The five-week workshop is designed for the serious student as traditional painting techniques including drawing, transfer methods, underpainting, and glazing will be taught. Individual instruction allows each student to progress at their own pace.

All materials are supplied but the class is limited to 12 students; enroll by contacting Ron Coons, 518 945-3731; YMIRON@aol.com. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. athensculturalcenter.org.

1pm Seminar: Beginning with Bees. With Michael Barton, Barton Bees. Learn what it takes to get started in beekeeping. Info: 845-569-0303.

Newburgh: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1240 Route 300, Newburgh.

1pm-4pm Snowshoe Ramble. Join hike leader and educator, Linda Pallack, for a moderate two to three mile hike with some ups and downs and a nice view. If there is no snow, it will be a hike.

You must bring your own snowshoes. Pre-regis-

ALMANAC WEEKLY tration required. Info: 845-351-5907. Sterling Forest State Park Visitor Center, Tuxedo. friendsofsterlingforest.org.

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1pm Traditional Beef Burgundy. With Justin Corson, Adams Kitchen Head Chef. How to make this comfort dish from start to finish.Free admission. Info: 845-454-4330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

1pm MLK Jr. Day of Giving. Bard College students will lead an afternoon of charity, honoring the legacy and spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Program participants will engage in crafts, such as making toys for local animal shelters, writing letters, and constructing compliment flyers. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

1pm Seminar: Fondue with Rebecca Hasenflue and Adams Cheese. Info: 845-336-6300. Free admission. Kingston: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Woodstock.

1:30pm-3:30pm Elting Library Scrabble Club. Scrabble Club will meet every Sunday, 1-:30-3:30pm. Play is free and open to all. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

2pm-11pm Rhinebeck Winter Groove Weekend. Join the party & groove all weekend in Rhinebeck! Jan 13 & 14 cafes/bars will have live free music, no cover, no drink minimum.

Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-8765904, rhinebeckchamber@gmail.com, http:// bit.ly/2qv76TS. no drink minimum, hopefully you’ll order a delicious appetizer, cocktail, wine or entree.

2pm-3:30pm That’s Quite Absurd. The Paper Bag Players - Cardboard and paper sets, paper bag costumes with painted shoes, whimsical stories, lovable characters, live music, freewheeling dances, painting, and audience participation will amuse adults and inspire children. Info: 845-3414891. SUNY Orange/William and Helen Richards Theatre, Middletown. sunyorange.edu.

2pm Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration. An afternoon of History, Music, Dance and Drama, incl. Fragile Explosion: A Celebration of Nina Simone’s Life and Genius. Info: 845-6797320. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

2pm-3:30pm Rebels on Pointe in HD. A documentary film about the Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the riotous all-male comic ballet troupe. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: (845) 658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, www.rosendaletheatre.org. Admission is $10 for members, $12 for non-members and $6 for children 12 and under.

2pm-3:30pm Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field. 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, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

3pm-5pm LGBTQ Task Force to Undo Mass Incarceration and Institutional Racism. A working group of individuals educating the LGBTQ and wider community about mass incarceration and the “New Jim Crow.” 845-797-7691 for info.

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

3pm-6pm Movies that Matter Film and Discussion Series Focuses on ‘Otherness’. The Lev Shalem Institute (LSI) of the Woodstock Jewish Congregation (WJC) is offering a four-part film and discussion series, Movies that Matter, sparked by four provocative films that focus on the most timely theme of “otherness.” It will be held Sundays, December 10, 24 and January 14 and 28. This series is open free of charge to the entire community, Jew and non-Jew. Donations will be accepted and attendance at all four films is encouraged. Lead by critic and educator Ellen Foreman. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. wjcshul.org.

3pm-6pm Swing Dance in the Afternoon.

Dance to the big jazz sound of Big Joe Fitz! Enjoy an afternoon of big talent. Beginners’ dance lesson at 3pm. No partner needed. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hvcd.dance. $12, or $8 for students.

3pm-6pm 9th Annual UlsterCorps MLK Day Celebration of Service. The event honors volunteers from non-profit service organizations throughout Ulster County for their hard work and dedication. RSVP: volunteer@ulstercorps. org; 845-481-0331. Rosendale Recreation Center, 1055 Route 32 South, Rosendale.

4pm Howland Chamber Music Circle Piano Festival: Orion Weiss, piano. Classical/Opera.

Info: 845-765-3012. ,. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon. howlandmusic.org. $30, $10/student.

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. At the community center when raining or cold, on the green when warm.

Village Green, Woodstock.

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January 11, 2018

Let me tell you about it Big change after 43 years

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his Night Sky column has appeared continuously since the mid-1970s.

That’s 43 years. I appreciate all of you readers, and it has been fun watching us change from hippie types in our 20s to…well, whatever it is we are now.

And here’s a new thing that starts today: I know some of you enjoy hearing me on public radio. But starting today, some of these far-out ideas will be available as a short podcast.

It’s very exciting. And although the emphasis is always on far-out, quirky subjects like the nature of a telephone dial tone, it’s also playful and includes some music or sound effects. That’s because my partner is Jim Metzner, who has been producing Pulse of the Planet for decades. It’s heard regularly on 220 radio stations and was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, so Jim is accustomed to a high level of science accuracy – even if he now has to deal with me and my style of free-association.

These podcasts are short. They run about the same amount of time it would take me to read one of these Night Sky columns. Except it also has Jim wisecracking and keeping things from getting too serious. It’s called Astounding Universe, and it goes live on Thursday, January 11! Astounding Universe is on the cover of Stitcher, the world’s second-most-popular podcast directory, so it’s enjoying a nice launching.

The topics on Astounding Universe include some of the far-out subjects you’ve seen on this page during these four decades, so it’s almost deliberately fine-tuned with you in mind. This Thursday is the launch, so grab your smartphone or get to your computer or iPad and go to www.astoundinguniverse.com and see how you like it.

There will be a new one each Thursday.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

bration. With a prayer breakfast the following morning on Jan 15 at 8:30-9:30am, at the Old Dutch Church. Pointe of Praise Church, 243 Hurley Ave, Kingston.

5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga. 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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

5:30pm Second Sunday Supper. Meet and greet other members of the community, dine together.

Free and held on the second Sunday of every month. Info: 845-687-9090. Rondout Valley United Methodist Church, 25 Schoonmaker Ln, Stone Ridge.

7pm Community Music Space Young Performers Showcase. 5pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2y0kGwZ. 15-Oct. 7pm-9pm Holiday Weekend Karaoke with DJ Posie Strenz. Come in out of the cold to the warmth of the Emerson Great Room for a fun evening of Karaoke and music. Hosted by DJ Posie Strenz. Free. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Hazelrigg Brothers. Pop Treasures Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend (1/12-1/15). Cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, ice skating rink on Lake Cole, ice fishing and snow tube run. Warm up indoors at the indoor floor hockey arena, climbing gym, archery range and arts and crafts studio. Info: 845-9852291. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville. frostvalley.org.

7am Free Shuttle for Low Cost Spay/Neuter Services. T.A.R.A.’s FREE “Spay Shuttle” will now be in Poughkeepsie (7am) and Fishkill (7:30am) on Mondays. Appointment required.

Multiple locations. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org/shuttle. htm. Shuttle is free, price of surgery ranges base on weight.

9am-9:50am Woodstock Senior Fit Dance with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City 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.

Info: 845-303-9689. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. ssipkingston.org.

10am-1pm Minnewaska Preserve: Awosting Falls Snowshoe Outing. An approximately twoand-a-half-mile long snowshoe walk along the charming Awosting Falls Carriage Road. The education department has a limited number of

snowshoes available for participants to borrow for this program on a first-come, first-served basis. Once those snowshoes are taken, snowshoes may be rented from the Park Preserve for $5 per person for the program only. All snowshoes are kept at the Peter’s Kill Area and early arrival is suggested if you would like to borrow or rent them. If there is insufficient snow cover, this program will be offered as a hike. If there is insufficient snow cover, this program will be offered as a hike. Meet at the Peter’s Kill Area.

Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am-12pm Woodstock Senior Drama with Edith Lefever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues and scenes, and offers public performances. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

10am-1pm March of Allied Power. PoC and their allies march on Washington. Inspired by the power of the people to come together for a common goal, from the early Civil Rights protests to the Women’s March on Washington, The March of Allied Power will bring together people of color and their allies to give visibility and voice to the issues of race and equality. Info: facebook. com/events/1218764368161337/.

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.

1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

2pm-5:15pm Martin Luther King Jr. Special Event. A series of activities including screening of Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech and the PG13 film “Marshall” (about Thurgood Marshall).

Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre. org, rosendaletheatre.org. FREE. 2pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Painting with Jennifer Schimmrich. In addition to instructions, art supplies and periodic group exhibitions, the calss offers freindship adn camaraderie. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3:30pm-4:30pm Amateur Guitar Jam. Join this casual gathering of acoustic musicians. Bring your own guitar. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm-5:30pm Girls Inc at Family of New Paltz.

For girls ages 13-15 learn how to make Zines. Free.

845-255-7957. Family of New Paltz, 51 N Chestnut St, New Paltz. girlsinc.org.

Tuesday (18 months to 3 years). Followed by crafts and music. Info: 845-331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. kingstonlibrary.org.

4pm 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. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12.

12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility.Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. $1 donation.

4:30pm-5:30pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & 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. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

6pm-7pm Meditation Mondays: Meditation, Chanting, Sound Healing. Start your week off with our free Meditation class. Rotating teachers and styles. See website or Facebook for details.

Free class! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter. com. by donation.

6:15pm Cantine’s Island Pot Luck Dinner.

Cantine’s Island , a family-friendly community, welcomes visitors to a pot luck dinner on the third Monday of every month. Learn about cohousing.

RSVP 845-246-3271. Info: cantinesislandcohousing.org. cantinesislandcohousing.org.

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8am Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade/ Beacon. A singing parade and civil rights march will begin outside of Springfield Baptist Church, following a free community breakfast at 8 a.m. and an opening ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Parade begins at 10 a.m. Springfield Baptist Church, 8 Mattie Cooper Sq. 8:30am Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Observance. A televised morning event celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings through music and messages of hope. The program will be followed by the annual “Beloved Community March” and later, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lincoln Park King Memorial. Empire State Plaza Convention Center, 126 State St, Albany.

9am-10am Woodstock 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-2pm Esopus Artist Group. Join this ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

1pm Follow the Drinking Gourd Reading.

Wondering what to do with the kids on their day off? The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum will be offering two special readings of “Follow the Drinking Gourd” by Jeannette Winter. The educational story tells the tale of slaves along their journey to freedom, using the constellations to guide them though the Underground Railroad.

Two sessions: 1 p.m., 3 p.m. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, 75 North Water St, Poughkeepsie.

1:30pm-4:30pm Play Bridge. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz. Free.

2pm Nyack NAACP Annual Interfaith Service.

Hosts Reverend Willie L. Hairston and Nyack NAACP president Dr. Frances Pratt will help keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream alive in a community service filled with prayer and song. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 80 N. Franklin St, Nyack.

3pm Save the Planet Unity Celebration. Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. with a free afternoon showcase of song, dance, and sermons from nearly a dozen performers and speakers. Children (Pre-K to 8th Grade) can take part in the “Save the Planet Poster Contest,” by bringing a drawing or written expression of their dream for humanity. Ramapo High School, 400 Viola Rd, Spring Valley.

3:30pm-6:30pm Free Math Tutoring. Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Trigonometry, and Calcu-

lus AB (or college level Calc 1). Call to sign up 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. www.MathTutoringwithMisha.com. Free.

4pm-5:15pm Stress Reduction through Meditation. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a great way to find inner balance and deep relaxation. This program is free and all are welcome.The event is on-going,e very Tuesday, 4-5:15pm, Info: 845-339-8567. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

4pm Scrabble. Come test your vocabulary against your friends and family. Info: 845-246-4317.

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

4pm-8pm Community Holistic Healthcare Day. Free healthcare, first-come first-served, offered by a variety of practitioners including medical doctors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, psychologists and a wide variety of energy healers. Sponsored by the Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community.Meets on 3rd Tuesdays of each month. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. rvhhc. org.

5pm Get the Facts about Reflux. A talk on heartburn and esophagus health. The no-cost educational event will be held in the hospital’s cafeteria conference room and will repeat on the third Tuesday of every month. Information will be geared for adults suffering from severe digestive symptoms after they eat. Symptoms may be chest pain or pressure, a burning throat, regurgitating food, trouble swallowing, heartburn, a dry cough and more. Info: 845-871-3177. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. healthquest.org.

5:30pm-7pm Magic: The Gathering Night.

Beginners are welcome, and experienced players are welcome as well! Bring your own cards, or play our pre-made decks. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Happens in the East Room.

6pm-8pm Chicken Raising for Beginners Class. Class instructor, CCEUC Livestock Educa-

tor, Jason Detzel, has many years of chicken-raising experience with both laying hens and meat breeds of all kinds. Whether you’re interested in raising a few chickens in your backyard or starting your own chicken-based enterprise, this class will cover it all. Info: 845-340-3990; orcad266@ cornell.edu. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. tinyurl.com/CCEUC-2018-Pigs. $20, free/12 and under with an adult.

6pm-7:15pm Vinyasa Community Class with Selena Reynolds. A $10 drop-in community class to make Yoga financially accessible to all.

This class is open to all levels and is fun and informative. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

6pm-7:30pm Wassaic Project’s Fiber Arts Skill Share. A new weekly workshop for fiber arts enthusiasts looking to share their skills and learn new skills. The Wassaic Project, 37 Furnace Bank Rdd, Wassaic. Info: 646-780-9352, paloma@ wassaicproject.org, http://wassaicproject.org/.

Free.

6:30pm-8pm The Creative Seed Artist Group.

A support group for artists to have a space to develop & share their work in progress- Actors, poets, playwrights & musicians welcome. Every Tuesday. Info: bluehealing or 203-246-5711.

By donation. Call ahead. Blue Mountain Co-op Retreat Center, Woodstock.

7pm-10pm Open Mic Nite at Woodnotes Grille.

Hosted by Ben Rounds. Open Mic Nite makes Tuesday night the new Friday night for great entertainment. Listen to talented local singers and bands or showcase your own talents! No cover.

For more information, contact us at 845-6882828 or emersonresort.com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

7pm-9:30pm Tuesday Night Open Mic. “MicKudasai,” Registration: 6:30PM, musician, performer, poets, etc… everyone is welcome.

Email LIANA GABLE: lianagabel123@gmail.com.

Info: 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Escape, 232 Main St, New Paltz. GKnoodles.com.

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9am-10am Free Weekly Community Meditation. On-going on Tuesdays 9-10am. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation.

For optional beginner instruction, please arrive 10 minutes early. Drop-in attendance welcome.

Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Check website for cancellations: wellnessembodiedcenter.com. Wellness Embodied: A Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, 126 Main St, New Paltz.

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. Info: 845-255-0609.

Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz.

9:30am-11am Iyengar Yoga Level I-II with Barbara Boris. For all students new to Iyengar Yoga. 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. $18.

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.

10am-12pm New Mother’s Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas and babies (ages 0-8 months) for friendship, answers about your new baby, and socialization.

(Siblings are welcome.) A different weekly discussion topic with Q & A. Continues through May 31. Info: 845-255-0624. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. newbabynewpaltz.com.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

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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.

10am-10:45am Community Play Space. Rugs, toys and books are spread out for kids to play with after laptime. Everyone welcome. Meet new friends, see old friends. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org.

10:30am MLK Day Family Celebration. Poet and storyteller Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin will lead the library’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy. All welcome. Desmond-Fish Library, 472 Rte. 403, Garrison.

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1/23. Info: 845-256-3075 or write Pine.Roehrs@ dec.ny.gov. Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Discovery Lodge, Highmount.

8pm-10pm The Gods of Times Square Screening At Green Kill. The Times Square of legend takes a last loopy bow in Richard Sandler’s engaging documentary. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. Info: 347-4689-2323, 229greenkill@ greenkill.org, http://bit.ly/2C6PUZn. at door or reserved on eventbrite.com.

Wednesday

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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 warm-ups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1/donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

10:30am Children’s Story Hours. Preschool Wednesday (3 years to 5 years). Followed by crafts and music. Info: 845-331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. kingstonlibrary.org.

10:30am-11:30pm Woodstock Senior Strengthening with Linda Sirkin. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1/ donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12pm-1pm Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. This lunchtime class will leave you feeling less chronic pain, more stretched out and walking taller than before. Let’s get rolling! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. $18.

12pm Woodstock Senior Citizens’ Club Meeting. They will play bingo. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm Seminar: Roasted Brussels Sprouts. With Joshua Skeen, Adams Deli Manager. Brussels sprouts roasted with pancetta, maple syrup and mustard. A Skeen family holiday favorite! Info: 845-569-0303. Newburgh: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1240 Route 300, Newburgh.

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.

2pm-3:30pm Mah Jongg. Learn to play this ancient Asian game. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

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-7pm Chamber Mixer @ MAC Fitness Kingston Plaza. This Mixer is packed full of great music, fun activities, and plenty of networking with fellow Chamber Members. There is no charge for Chamber Members and Prospective Members to attend but reservations are required.

Mixers are open to Chamber Members 21 years of age and older. Prospective Members interested in attending must contact Carol Ricken: 845-3385100 ext. 104; Carol@UlsterChamber.org. MAC Fitness, Kingston Plaza, Kingston. ulsterchamber.org.

5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. 845-563-8043 for more info.

Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh.

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.

6pm Neighborhood Information Open House.

Learn about and discuss the project at your own pace. Informational presentation by GlidePath representatives. Town of Ulster Town Hall Senior Center, 1 Town Hall Rd, Lake Katrine.

6pm-7:30pm Story Circle with Grandfather Chipmunk (Evan Pritchard) at Sam’s Point.

Evan will go deep on local Algonquin history and culture. Using slides, he will discuss the “moshulu” practice of clearing fields with fire

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and he will lead participants on a short walk to where intentional burning happened at Sam’s Point in recent years (weather permitting). Evan will share maps of tribal boundaries and trails, discuss local native history, cosmology, and the Munsee language, both verbal and signed. He will share some songs and stories, and some “Bear Moon” lore as well, including a nod to Punxsutawney Phil. We will do a brief ceremony of thanks and sing an ancient Lenape blessing song. We will also use “bird cards” to learn about Native American bird lore, learn about how corn, beans, and squash, “the three sisters” work together, and much more. This program is recommended for adults. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center.

Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

6:30pm-8:30pm Movie Night: Victoria & Abdul. Fresh scones and tea will be served. Free admission. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary.org/.

6:30pm Gurdjieff Study Group. Meets on Wednesdays, 6:30pm in Stone Ridge. For information and directions, respond to Jim by email: gstudygroup@gmail.com.

6:30pm Cooking Class - Homemade Soup.

A hands-on cooking experience. They will be making TWO soups from scratch and then enjoying the warm, delicious, and hearty soups. You must register in advance: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

6:30pm-8:30pm Yin Yoga and Sacred Sound with Jessica Caplan. This yin class will be slower, where asanas are held for longer periods of time. For beginners and advanced students.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

7pm-10pm Calling all Trivia Nerds – Trivia Night. 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! For more information, contact us at 845-688-2828 or emersonresort. com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

7pm-9pm Volleyball. A pickup volleyball game.

Ongoing every Wednesday, 7-9pm. Enter the Center at the entrance on the left side, as you face the school from Lucas Ave. 845-616-0710.

Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. $6.

7pm-8:30pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. 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. 845-679-5906 for more info. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

7pm-11pm Chess Night. Free every Wednesday.

Players should bring their own boards & pieces.

Info: 845-658-9048. The Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale.

7:15pm Music Fan Film Series presents A Poem is a Naked Person (Leon Russell Doc).

Rare 1974 rock documentary about Rock n’ Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell by legendary filmmaker Les Blank. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.or. $8.

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.

7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Wednesday.

Free admission. Info: 845-419-2737, albiebar@ aol.com. Woodland Pond, New Paltz.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Josh Deutsch’s Pannonia. Folk Jazz from the Imaginary Pannonia. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions. Sign Up & Sit In Jam. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Thursday

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9am-10pm Open Level Flow Yoga. Christina Steen will be offering this on-going class on Thursdays at 9am. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org. $48.00 for 12-week series or $6.00 drop-in.

9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating 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. $10.

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock 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. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior

Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

Main Building at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, info. vassar.edu.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

10am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice.

This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

11am Going For The Goal. With OFA nutrition coordinator Nimesh Bhargava. Info: 845-4862555. Beacon Senior Friendship Center, 1 Forrestal Height. dutchessny.gov/aging.

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.

Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red hook.

1pm-4pm Woodstock 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2pm-3:15pm Intro to Guitar. Intro to Guitar will be offered for free to those who haven’t played but who would like to give it a try. Must register: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary. org/.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3:30pm-5pm Intermediate Guitar Lab. Guitar Lab will be offered to those who have played a bit but who wish to bump it up a notch. Must register:845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary.org/.

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

4pm-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & 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. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm-5:30pm Wassaic Project’s Art and Children’s Books. Guardians and their children will team up to work together on art projects inspired by children’s books. The Wassaic Project, 37 Furnace Bank Rdd, Wassaic. Info: 646-780-9352, paloma@wassaicproject.org, http://wassaicproject.org/. Free.

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.

5:30pm-7:30pm Teen Art Night at the Olive Library. Teen Night! Grades 6 & Up. Come play with clay with 28A Clay at the Olive Free Library.

FREE! Call to pre-register 845-657-2482! Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, http://bit.ly/2gEg8tp. Free.

6pm-7pm Tarot Club. Are you a seasoned tarot reader or just interested in learning about tarot cards? Led by Sabra Margaret. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. All ages!

6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-589-5000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.

6:30pm Phoenicia Library Board Meeting.

Meets the third Thursday of each month.

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

January 11, 2018 prior to show time. Tickets are NOT required at the Smolen Observatory. Info: 845-257-3818 or pandyar@newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. bit.ly/2fKrjN0.

7pm NYSDEC Shandaken-Belleayre Mountain Bike/Cross-Country Ski Trail System Conceptual Plan Workshop Meeting. The Catskill Watershed Corporation hired Tahawus Trails LLC / Sinuosity: Flowing Trails, LLC to develop a Conceptual Mountain Bike / Cross-Country Ski Trail Plan for the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center and adjoining Shandaken Wild Forest properties in the Catskill Park. A copy of the draft plan is available for your review. The NYSDEC will host a public meeting/workshop to present the draft plan at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Discovery Lodge; snow date of Tuesday, January 23rd, same location. This will be a workshop style meeting, where Tahawus Trails/Sinuosity will present the plan and then engage all in a discussion, with opportunities to suggest changes, improvements, etc. This will help shape a plan that DEC and ORDA would then use to guide future management of the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center and the Shandaken Wild Forest. Each of the UMPs for those areas will have to be amended before work could begin, which will allow for yet another opportunity for public comment. Info: 845-256-3075.

Belleayre Ski Center, 181 Galli Curci Rd, Highmount. dec.ny.gov.

7pm-8:30pm Third Saturday Christian Open Mic (Coffee House). Come play or to listen.

Doors open 6:30pm. Acoustic solo, duo, groups welcome, perform original Christian songs & hymns. Hosted by Patrick Dodge. Refreshments available. Free will offering for SmileTrain. patrickdodgemusic@yahool.com. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker St, Woodstock. smiletrain.org.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: bigBANG. Large Ensemble Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

7:30pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Thursday night at 7:30pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

7:30pm-9pm Chester Kiwanis Club Meeting.

Regular meeting. Board of Directors meet at 7 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 101 Main Street, Chester, NY. Snack + meeting.

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. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock, Inc, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Murali Coryell & Band. Blues Rock. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions. Listen or read. Every Thursday. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-6892323. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, & Geoff Harden.

Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

1/19

7:15am 27th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast. Award-Winning CBS Journalist Maurice DuBois Will Give Keynote Address.

Hosted by the nonprofit organization, Catharine Street Community Center, the breakfast is the largest MLK celebration in the Hudson Valley.

The musical group Rayford Watkins & Spirit of Unity Musicians will perform at the event.

Anyone wishing to attend call: 845-473-2272.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie. catharinecenter.org.

9am Shamatha Meditation with Angelina Birney. Through shamatha meditation (calm abiding), we develop concentration, inner strength, stability and confidence, in addition to fostering numerous health benefits. Lama Angelina Birney completed a 3-year meditation retreat in the Karma Kaygu Tradition and has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 30 years. Free and open to all. Info: info@tibetancenter.org; 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston. tibetancenter.org.

9am-12pm Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s (CCEUC) Master Gardener Horticulture Hotline. Diagnostic Lab open on Fridays only. Need help, call 845-340-DIRT. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Pilates - Mixed Level with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. $1/donation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock

City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

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, tivolilibrary.org.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind. Long-held poses use props (blankets, blocks and bolsters) to support proper bone alignment while releasing muscular tension. Personalized adjustments will enable you to take get the maximum benefit of these powerfully therapeutic poses. Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6:30pm Free Financial Literacy Seminar: Blueprint for Financial Success. Presenter: Ardal Powell, MA, PhD. RSVP: 845-266-5530.

Facebook event: http://bit.ly/2yeE4au. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Info: 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck.

7pm-9pm Analog Dreams: The Art of Brian Dewan. Screening of documentary about Catskill artist Brian Dewan followed by live performance

by Brian and Q&A with filmmaker Keif Roberts.

Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: (518) 822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, http://bit.ly/2yGgum5. $7.

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.

7pm Storytelling with Janet Carter. Story night is a popular series that happens the 3rd Friday night of each month. Host Janet Carter and a guest tell stories from literature, mythology and personal experience. Come and join her in exploring the magic of this oral tradition. Inquiring Minds Saugerties Bookstore, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties.

7pm-8:15pm Line Dancing. Deborah Silvestro will begin by teaching the basics and then add a dash of aerobic exercise to boot! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary.org/.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Bobby Harden & The Soul Purpose Band. Soul. Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Rachael & Vilray. 6PM Doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2Ay6duJ. 20/25.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Fred Zepplin. Featuring: Fred Zepplin/Leader/Vocals/Ukulele, Andreas Humpert/Guitar, Alan Paul/Bass, Eric W. Nies/Keyboards, and Billy Paschal/Drums.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. liveatthefalcon.com.

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8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

9am-12pm 2nd Annual March On Washington.

Women’s March Coalition is proud to announce the date for the 2nd Annual March On Washington. www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-womensmarch-on-washington-orange-county-registration-38735262212 .

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday. All welcome. No charge. 845-2463285 for more info. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

9:30am Torah Study. Info: 845-561-6602.

Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh.

9:30am Wiltwyck Quilters Meeting. Regular meeting followed by Community Sewing. Info: Wiltwyckquilters.org for more information. Grace Community Church, Lake Katrine.

9:30am-11am Centering Prayer. Open to people of all faiths. Info: 845-679-8800. Centering prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation. On-going, Saturdays from 9:30-11am. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

10am-2pm Repair Cafe. Warwick Senior Center, 132 Kings Hwy, Warwick.

10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@ wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

10am-2pm Book and Bake Sale. Browse the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library’s selection of used books, CDs and DVDs — at very reasonable prices! Opening day a Bake Sale. Info: 845-7952200; miltonlibrary@live.com. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton.

10am-2pm Repair Cafe. . New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

10am-12pm Saturday Knitters. All ages and experience levels can participate and drop-in knitters are also welcome. Bring your own supplies.

845 687-7023 for more info. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

10am-8pm Snow Tubing. Slide down a beautifully groomed lane in a giant inner tube. 42” height requirement. 90-minute sessions. Tickets sold on first come, first served basis at the park.

Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Holidays: Mon Jan 15 and Mon Feb 19 10 am-5 pm. (Weather and conditions permitting.) Info: 845-615-3830.

Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416,, Montgomery. orangecountynyparks.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-2:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: CrossCountry Ski to Lake Awosting. An approximately seven-mile cross-country ski to Lake Awosting. Starting from Lake Minnewaska, we will travel for three miles on Upper Awosting Carriage Road to reach the north end of Lake Awosting. Participants must have prior crosscountry ski experience and bring their own equipment. They should also bring weather appropriate clothing, and adequate food and water for the duration of the outing. The fee for skiing on the groomed trails at Minnewaska is $10 per adult, $9 per senior and $7 per junior. If there is insufficient snow cover for skiing, this outing will be offered as a hike. Meet at the Wildmere Parking Area. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-2550752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am-2pm Repair Cafe. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. repaircafehv.org/new-paltz.

10am-12pm The Price of Democracy: Money and Elections. A forum on campaign finance presented by the League of Women Voters.

Speakers include Ulster Co Exec Mike Hein.

RSVP required 845-331-3418. Deisings Bakery, 109 N. Front St, Kingston. Info: 845-331-3418, jackim@hvc.rr.com.

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.

11am-4pm Columbiette Auxillary #5800 Penny Social. Info: 845-255-5635; stjoenp@ stjosephnewpaltz.org. St. Joseph’s Church Hall, 34 Chestnut St, New Paltz. stjosephnewpaltz.org.

11am Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. This opportunity is being offered at every Saturday in January, February, and 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, and work with you until you are ready to confidently head out on your favorite trail. 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. Info: 845-6477989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. Three computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

12pm Seminar: Fundamentals of Beekeeping.

With Dan Girton, Obercreek Farm. Interactive workshop for first time and novice beekeepers.

Info: 845-632-9955. Free admission. . Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

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).

Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated.

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.

1pm-3pm Backwoods Winter Basics. An informative session will cover back country ethics, winter day use (skiing, snowshoeing, hiking) and equipment review. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE.

1pm Seminar: Chocolate Dipped Fruit. with Alana Mayhon and Adams Candy. Learn about the melting process and what type of chocolate to useInfo: 845-336-6300. Free admission. Kingston: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

versatility,mix in both historical and contemporary themes, seasoned with humor. Hudson Valley Folk Guild Poughkeepsie Chapter, 67 South Randolph Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-5924216, HVFGPoughkeepsie@gmail.com, hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org. $6.

1pm-3pm Museum Mates at the Hudson River Maritime Museum: Ice Harvesting. Once an important Hudson Valley industry before modern refrigeration, this session will explore ice harvesting history and techniques. Participants will conduct their own ice experiment. Registration required. Info: 845-338-0071. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. hrmm.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Carolyn Wonderland.

Top Notch 5 Star Austin Blues Queen. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

1pm Seminar: The Latest in Health Assessments. With Dr. Erik Brower, Innate Chiropractic. Learn about the latest and most advanced breakthroughs in evaluating one’s health. How do you gauge your health? Free assessment included!

Info: 845-569-0303. Newburgh: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1240 Route 300, Newburgh.

1:30pm-4:30pm What’s Happening? with Mark Newkirk. Free. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. rvhhc.org/whats-happening/.

1:30pm-4:30pm Marc Newkirk. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. rvhhc.org/whats-happening/.

2pm-3:30pm West Point Band presents Rhapsody in Blue. George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” played by the band’s own Sgt. 1st Class Yalin Chi, and Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy.”

Free admission. Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point. Info: 845-938-2617, http://westpointband. army.mil/.

2pm West Point Band Winter Concert Series.

The Concert Band returns to Eisenhower Hall Theatre for “Rhapsody in Blue,” George Gershwin’s quintessentially American piano concerto played by the band’s own Sgt. 1st Class Yalin Chi, and Percy Grainger’s masterpiece for wind band, “Lincolnshire Posy.” Info: 845-938-2617. Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point.

2pm-3:30pm Sound Immersion with Paul Campbell. The Art of Sound Healing will guide you to experience profound spiritual, physical, mental and emotional clarity and allow your inner Dreamscape to come forward. Gongs, RavVast, Tuning Forks, Singing Bowls, Shamanic Drum. $20 per person. Details online at tibetancenter. org/events. Info:845-383-1774 and info@tibetancenter.org. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston.

4pm-6pm Chili Take-out Sale. $8 per quart, choice of meat or vegetarian, 2 rolls. Pick up between 4 and 6 pm. Reservations recommended, but not required. Info: 845-246-7084 or 845-2462867. Reformed Church of Saugerties’, 173 Main St, Saugerties.

5pm-8pm Rhinebeck’s ArtWalk. Ongoing, every third Saturday of each month, 5-8pm. Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

6pm-8pm Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Close Encounters With Birds of Prey. Prepaid registration recommended. Walk-ins welcome if space allows. Using five to seven live birds, the Delaware Valley Raptor Center will introduce you to the fascinating world of raptors. Be enthralled as you experience the majesty of hawks, falcons, owls, and eagles up close, while gaining an understanding of how important these birds are to the balance of nature. Leave the program with a greater respect and appreciation for these magnificent birds! Info: 845-534-7781. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/ Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-On-Hudson. hhnm.org. $15.

7pm Movies With Spirit: Lion. The uplifting biographical drama “Lion,” based on the true story of an adopted Indian orphan who later makes an epic search for his original family and home.

The multi-award-winning film by director Garth Davis follows Saroo Brierley (Sunny Pawar), a 5-year-old boy who lives with his older brother, younger sister and mother in impoverished rural India in the mid-1980s. Info: 845-3899201; gerryharrington@mindspring.com. . New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone St, Kingston.

7pm-9:30pm Community Dance. All Hudson Valley dancers warmly welcomed! Dance the night away with celebrated caller Eric Hollman and The Contra-Klezniks: Daniel Elias (clarinet), Lauren McDonald (fiddle), Norman Plankey (swing guitar), and Marco Brehm (bass). The evening is open to all dancers and dance-music lovers and will feature contra and square dances, waltzes, and a little swing and klezmer on a great dance floor! Refreshments and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. Snow Date: Sunday, January 21, 3:00-5:00 pm. Info: 845-679-2218; info@wjcshul.org. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. $15.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Deadgrass. Music of Jerry Garcia. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

7:30pm-9pm Breathwork for Heart Revival with Pepper Monroe. This active breathing meditation moves dead energy, helps heal old battle wounds & encourages emotional release.

Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

7:30pm-10:30pm Folk Guild to Feature Kevin & Carol Becker with Rich Keyes. Start with deep roots in traditional folk music,add musical

9pm Bindlestiff Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret (adult oriented show). Winter Series. 6pm doors. $25/30. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@ gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2yNonep.

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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: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-5pm Snow Tubing. Slide down a beautifully groomed lane in a giant inner tube. 42” height requirement. 90-minute sessions. Tickets sold on first come, first served basis at the park.

Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Holidays: Mon Jan 15 and Mon Feb 19 10 am-5 pm. (Weather and conditions permitting.) Info: 845-615-3830.

Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416,, Montgomery. orangecountynyparks.com.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed 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.

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: 845-242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail. com, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

12pm Seminar: Quick and Easy Meals. With Priscilla Blair, Adams Deli Manager. Make complete meals using already prepared ingredients. Info: 845-632-9955. Free admission.

Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Woodstock.

1pm Seminar: Cajun Surf & Turf. With Dr. Erik Brower, Innate Chiropractic. Learn about the latest and most advanced breakthroughs in evaluating one’s health. How do you gauge your health?

Free assessment included! Info: 845-569-0303.

Free admission. Newburgh: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1240 Route 300, Newburgh.

1:30pm-3:30pm Elting Library Scrabble Club. Scrabble Club will meet every Sunday, 1-:30-3:30pm. Play is free and open to all. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

2pm-3:30pm Attunement to Cosmic Consciousness. Darlene Van de Grift will guide you in reaching out and expanding exponentially through your co-creative Cosmic relationship.

Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

3pm Saugerties Pro Musica Fiddle Concert: Strawberry Hill Fiddlers. If you’ve seen these talented students in past seasons, you already know you about their their fresh-faced, footstomping, good-time music. But, if you haven’t had the pleasure of hearing them perform, save the date. Info: 845-679-5733; hopefarm@hopefarm.com. Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespromusica.org. $15, $12/senior, free/student.

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. At the community center when raining or cold, on the green when warm.

Village Green, Woodstock.

5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga. 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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

6pm-8pm Dust Bowl Faeries EP Remix Listening Party/Serenade. Ballroom sessions. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2lOUfpO. Free.

7pm-9pm Call for Talent. First Variety Night at Green Kill is coming, 2018. Auditions scheduled for three consecutive Sundays. 7 to 9 pm on 1/21, 1/28, 2/4. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. Info: 347-4689-2323, 229greenkill@ greenkill.org, https://greenkill.org/2017/10/.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Rodney Green & Camden Chronicles. Jazz Drummer Virtuoso.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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Call for Interview; 845-679-7531.

for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133 Farmworker Div Crops II Needed. Job starts 2/14/2018 and ends 12/1/2018. 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 work-site will be provided by the employer upon 50% of the work contract.

12 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 # NY1236410.

SECRETARIAL POSITION; P/T for Village of New Paltz Planning/Zoning Boards.

Secretarial experience, organized and detail-oriented with administrative, computer, typing and interpersonal skills. 18.5 hours per week with several evening meetings a month. Submit cover letter and resume to: Alberta Shaw, Clerk, Village of New Paltz, 25 Plattekill Avenue, New Paltz, NY 12561 or to Clerk@villageofnewpaltz.org by January 19, 2018.

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LOCAL LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR SEEKING to purchase a small home or land in Woodstock township or perhaps the ideal care-taking position.

Visit my website at mountain-gardenslandscaping.com Bill Stack- 845-3995287 or e-mail: bill@mountain-gardens.com

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UES Studio, Pied-a-Terre Use Permitted.

Great location- 214 East 88th Street, close to 2nd Ave. and Lexington Ave. (#6) subway lines, excellent shopping nearby including Whole Foods and fine restaurants.Apt. is in excellent condition, low maintenance.

Please contact Larry Brookner lbrookner@elliman.com 212-769-6595

VILLAGE OF NEW PALTZ 29 S. Chestnut Street 170 sq. ft., handicap accessible, shared waiting area & restroom, off-street parking. $585/month

845-235-6048

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Garage/ Workspace/ Storage

Barn Studio Workshops. 2 large sunny artist studios, creative office, work shop or storage available in Converted Historic Barn, Downtown High Falls. $625 each floor. Approx 36’ x 18’ per floor Avail. Jan 1.

Liza 646-220-1136.

ASHOKAN STORE-IT Ask About Our Long Term Storage Discount

Man With A Van # 255-6347 DOT 32476

20' Moving Trucks

Moving & Delivery Service Reasonable Rates • Free Estimates 8 Enterprise Rd., New Paltz, NY

Made you look.

Our newspapers and websites reach over 50,000 readers a week. Go to 845-334-8200 or ulsterpublishing.com to advertise.

5x10 $40 10x15 $90

5x15 $50 10x10 $70 10x20 $110 10x30 $150

845-657-2494 845-389-0504 1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481

Artisan’s Cooperative: ARTISTS, WOODWORKERS, CRAFTSPEOPLE; Work spaces ranging from 250-2000 SF available for rent. Shared common space with kitchen and bathrooms. Utilities provided. Available summer 2018. E-mail: lbcohenmd@gmail.com for more information.

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Gardiner/ Modena/ Plattekill Rentals

Gardiner: furnished/unfurnished Studio Apartment. Access to Rail Trail. $800/ month utilities included. Call: 845-2145772.

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New Paltz Rentals

House for Rent. Quiet Tree-lined block.

3-bedrooms, 1-bath, washer/dryer, dishwasher. Large corner lot. 3-season room.

Eat-in kitchen. $1650/month plus utilities.

References & security required. 845-2552341

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 Completely New Renovation; Adorable 1-Bedroom Ground Floor Apt. w/separate entrance & parking. Part of private home on 2 acres, a mile from Mohonk Mountain House. Open plan living room w/L-shaped kitchen. Separate bedroom w/French doors and wall-to-wall closet.

Bathroom w/shower only and washer/ dryer. $1300/month (or best offer). Rent includes everything except cable/internet.

Professional (single or couple) or older student preferred. Credit check, 3 references, 2 months security, proof of income or guarantor. To View: call Judith 917854-3415 or e-mail: judithsag@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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BRING THE HORSES! Spread out on 3.5 acres with a sweet and sunny ranch, horse barn with box stalls, pond, and stellar location convenient to everything!

Asking..$234,900

THINKING OF SELLING?

Market conditions are OPTIMUM for sellers right now! Lagging inventory and healthy buyer demand have created a perfect storm for motivated sellers. For 40 years Westwood has provided time tested selling strategies based on up-to-theminute market data and a deep well of local market knowledge. With a recognized residential sales leader on your team, you’ll have an inside track to Real Estate success in 2018!

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

Gardiner Gables 2356 Rte. 44-55 Gardiner, NY 12525

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COUNTRY DELUXE - Exciting architect designed country contemporary has it all – gorgeous 5+ acre setting with meandering stream, expansive glass bringing nature up close, 20’ LR with cozy Krog Iverson woodburner, radiant heat throughout, main level ensuite MBR w/ private balcony, 2 BRs up, 3 full baths, wood & ceramic flooring, gourmet eat-in kitchen, seamless open floor plan, home office PLUS sophisticated landscape o’looking in-ground POOL!................................................. $799,900

HAVE IT ALL! - Gracious, spacious and casually elegant 3900 SF custom design minutes to vibrant uptown Kingston in a peaceful 5+ acre setting. Two-story entry with sweeping stairway, formal LR flows to vaulted family room w/ fireplace, huge 25’ cook’s kitchen, formal DR, home office, 4 BRs incl. ensuite MBR, 4 full baths, enormous closets & storage everywhere.

PLUS, finished lower level w/ rec room, hot tub & 26x14 INGROUND POOL w/ solarium.

FABULOUS! ........................................... $649,000

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

Kingston: STUDIO; Uptown. First floor. On bus route. All utilities included. Eat-In kitchen, shower/bath, parking. Security, references. No smokers. No pets. Call 845-338-4574.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. $800/month all utilities included. Off-street parking. No dogs. No smoking. Security required. Just outside Port Ewen. 845-859-9356.

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COUNTRY DREAMS - Quintessential c. 1870 clapboard farmhouse offers a simply chic ambiance while retaining abundant original charm & detail + smart modern updates.

Gracious floor plan accented by beamed ceilings, burnished wide board floors, cozy wood burner to chase the winter chill, 2 generous bedrooms, 1.5 baths, laundry, country style kitchen, welcoming veranda and patio for al fresco dining. REAL STORYBOOK CHARM! ...........................$349,500

WOODSTOCK CHIC - Late Mid-Century split level reimagined with a sleek minimalist interior on 3 lush acres w/ mtn views & classic red BARN. Sleek open plan interior features pickled hardwood floors, exposed wood beams, crisp kitchen w/ stainless cabinetry & appliances, 25’ living room, brick fireplaces in DR & family/ media space, 4 bedrooms, 2 full luxe spa baths w/ glass tiles, deck, garage & add’l outbuilding w/ studio potential. .............................. $429,000

www.westwoodrealty.com Woodstock 679-0006

Rhinebeck 876-4400

Stone Ridge 687-0232

New Paltz 255-9400

West Hurley 679-7321

Kingston 340-1920

Standard messaging apply to offices mobile text codes Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty, Ltd., istext affiliated with morerates than may 4,100 real estate throughout 65 countries & in all 50 states.

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) 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 4 ROOMS Available in 6-BR house share on North Ohioville Rd. only 1.5m to campus & convenient to bus route. $550-$575

includes everything. Also, Beginning to Show APARTMENTS at 26 South Oakwood Terrace for June ‘18-May ‘19. E-mail: dietzrentals@hvc.rr.com Large Studio Apt. in New Paltz, $925/ month. Includes all utilities except phone.

Space is suitable for one person, non-smoker, no pets. 845-901-2531 NEW PALTZ: Clean, Quiet, Cozy 2-Bedroom Apartment. $1450/month includes heat, hot water, electric, parking! Day care next door. Located 21 N. Chestnut Street.

Call 845-229-0024.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home. Includes utilities, cable and high speed internet. Walking distance to SUNY and town. No pets or smokers. $1000/ month, 1½ month security. Available January 1st. Call (914)475-9834.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for SPRING 2018 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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NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $500/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845-255-6029 or 845-419-2568, leave message.

FULLY INSURED

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

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Firewood for Sale

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

STUDIO CABIN. Great eat-in kitchen, bathroom. Parking. Perfect for 1 person. Near town but nicely secluded. $725/month. Security, deposit, references required. Call 845417-5282. Broker/Owner. No fee.

Cathedral ceiling, clean, STUDIO CABIN. Oversized bathroom w/washer/dryer, clawfoot tub. Full kitchen. Deck w/Mountain view. Quiet dead-end road. Boiceville area. $950/month plus utilities. No pets. Available for weekly/monthly rental. 845-657-9864.

2-BR CHARMING, Cheery, Woodstock COTTAGE: 2 acres, garden, stream, woodburning stove, spacious eat-in-kitchen, wide floors, washer/dryer, stained-glass door, bathtub. $1300/month + last month + security. No pets/smokers. References.

(845)679-2300.

WOODSTOCK STREAMSIDE COTTAGE. Waterfalls. Cozy. Private. Workroom, sunroom, LR, 1-bedroom w/large window facing stream, kitchen, all wood floors, 3 decks. 2.5 miles to center of town.

Short/long-term. $1100/month. Owner/ Broker; 845-417-5282.

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For Sale

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

620

Buy & Swap

Books Wanted. Barner Books buys quality used, rare, and out of print books wanted.

Cash for your books and related goods (typewriters, maps, pens etc). We’ll come to you or visit the store (3 Church Street, New Paltz), email us barnerbooks@gmail.com or call 845-255-2635.

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972).

(845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old.

Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.) CASH PAID 657-6252

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Auctions

HUDSON VALLEY AUCTIONS

Auctioneers and Appraisers • Since 1984 270 Breunig Road • New Windsor, NY 12553

Settee and Ottman; $325 (Woodstock, NY) Seattle Design Center/excellent condition/ perfect for reading or snuggling. Nonsmoking household. Peter: 845-684-5570.

601 TLK

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

ALLEN LAWLESS • 845-247-2838 SAUGERTIES, CELL.: 845-399-9659 NEW YORK

Saugerties Rentals

House For Rent; Lovely, private house on 40 acres of extraordinary nature sanctuary.

Located 5 miles from Woodstock and 4 miles from Saugerties. Boarders the Plattekill Creek. This house has been impeccably maintained and provides 2-bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, washer/dryer, 2-car garage. $2100/month plus utilities. 845-430-4300.

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Portable Toilet Rentals

Actively seeking consignments for future auctions Offering free consultations, we provide the professional and experienced service to properly market your fine art, antiques and collectibles.

• One Item or Entire Estates • Donny Malone: 914.388.3811 John Paul 914.213.0425

www.hudsonvalleyauctions.com

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845-658-8766 | 845-417-6461 | 845-706-7197

TLKportables@gmail.com tlkportables.com

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Highland/Clintondale Rentals Milton/Marlboro Rentals New Paltz Rentals Rosendale/Tillson/ High Falls/ Stone Ridge Rentals South of Stone Ridge Rentals Kingston/Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals Esopus/Ulster Park Rentals Krumville/Olivebridge/ Shokan Rentals Saugerties Rentals Rhinebeck/Red Hook Rentals Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals West of Woodstock Rentals Green County Rentals

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Delaware County Rentals Vacation Rentals Seasonal Rentals Seasonal Rentals Wanted Rentals Wanted Rentals to Share Senior Housing Housing Exchange / SWAP Lodgings/Bed and Breakfast Travel Free Stuff New & Used Books For Sale Septic Services Snow Plowing Tree Services Firewood for Sale Property Maintenance Studio Sales Hunting/Fishing Sporting Goods Buy & Swap Musician Connections Musical Instruction &Instruments

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Recording Studios Auctions Antiques & Collectibles Vendors Needed Estate/Moving Sale Flea Market Yard & Garage Sales Counseling Services Legal Services Professional Services Paving & Seal Coating Personal & Health Services Art Services Tax Preparation/ Accounting/ Bookkeeping Services Office & Computer Service Custom Work & Specialty Repairs Organizing/ Decorating/Refinishing Cleaning Services Caretaking/Home Management Painting/Odd Jobs

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Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric 730 Alternative Energy Services 738 Locksmithing 740 Building Services 745 Demolition 748 Telecommunications 750 Eclectic Services 755 Repair/Maintenance Services 760 Gardening/ Landscaping 765 Home Security Services 770 Excavating Services 810 Lost & Found 890 Spirituality 900 Personals 920 Adoptions 950 Animals 960 Pet Care 970 Horse Care 980 Auto Services 990 Boats/Recreational Vehicles 995 Motorcycles 999 Vehicles Wanted 1000 Vehicles

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NEW!

YOUR OWN MOUNTAIN CHALET! Check out this lovely 5-BR, 2-fullBA, chalet style home that can be used for a vacation getaway or a wonderful full-time home for a large family. Located in Palenville, in Greene County, the house boasts a huge, sunlit family game room w/a cathedral ceiling, skylights, a beautiful stone fireplace, radiant heated tile floor and a wet bar. There is a cathedral ceiling in the living room and another wonderful fireplace. Large deck in front and back. Minutes to the Hudson River, skiing in the Catskills, and lakes for swimming and camping. The contents of house are also available. Call Angela Galetto today! .............................................................................................................$395,000

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BAUHAUS ARCHITECTURE On 14.4-acres, located in Woodstock, waiting for someone to add that personal touch to bring this mid-century modern gem to its full potential. The long driveway leads you to a privately located 3-BR home. You will appreciate the soaring ceiling using post and beam construction to create a large open space in the LR and a 2nd story loft w/a full bath. Light flows into the room through clerestory windows and falls upon a massive stone FP. There is built-in furniture, the sunken MBR has lighted wall panels and a wall of windows looking onto the forested property. The EIK opens out to a bluestone patio, fire pit, and an old in ground and heated gunite pool, filled from a 2nd well behind the 2-car garage. This is a truly unique and appealing property on a rare large Woodstock parcel in an historically important area. Call Lynne Gentile!............... $729,000

NEW!

NEW! BETWEEN SAUGERTIES & WOODSTOCK This large, 30.5-acre parcel lends itself to multiple possibilities. Just imagine; building your cabin in the woods with complete seclusion, or make it a family compound with multiple structures for family and friends, how about expanding it into an Air-BnB, or subdivide into smaller parcels and build cottages as an investment, there are endless possibilities! The parcel is accessed through a 50ft right of way on Glasco Turnpike, and opens to a beautiful wooded area with multiple rock outcroppings. Be close to hiking, the NYS Thruway (Exit 20) and shopping in Woodstock. Call Sara Nelson or Sylvie Ross today!.......................$150,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300

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Estate/Moving Sale

Moving Sale -One Day , Sun., 1/20, 9am4pm. Furniture, antiques, collectibles, old posters and postcards, artwork, china, and much more. Don’t Miss This!

Cash only. 19 Burnett Rd, West Saugerties, NY.

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Professional Services

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery. Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-6882253 .

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Art Services

UNIQUE MIXED-USE In Esopus and zoned commercial. An operating farm, auto sales/repair center and most recently Coppersea Distillery. A brewery, winery, wedding venue, antique center, automotive center, car collection, construction business or manufacturing are a few of the possible uses. The barn is a (+/-) 6,000sf building, 3-stories, is solid and useable on all levels w/water and electric. There are 3-overhead doors and 2-sliders. The shop building is (+/-) 7,000sf w/2-levels, part of the 2nd-fl was removed to allow for large vehicles. There are 2-8’ overhead doors and one 20’, electric, water, own septic, w/a rubber roof. There is a water tower w/a cap that holds 85,000gal. The farm house is in good condition. The owner is motivated and ready to move on. Call Dennis Cooper today!..........................................$850,000

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THIS IS IT! RE PRIC DU E One of the nicest brick, landmark buildings in CE D! Historic Saugerties! This fully renovated building has, 2-retail spaces and 2-lovely 900sf updated 2-BR duplex apts w/cathedral ceilings. One commercial space is a cafe w/a full commercial KIT and Ansul System, and the other space is a salon. There is a walk-through between the spaces, imagine a new dining room, and the rear of the building has enough room for more seating. There is a 7% cap rate. The main roof was replaced and re-coated recently.

There are 5-electric meters servicing the building, each apt has its own natural gas heating system and meter. The apts have baseboards and the businesses are forced hot air. Most of the windows were updated and the building was re-insulated during renovation. Call Mike Barros or Mitch Rapoport today! ..................................$467,500

/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

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Caretaking/Home Management

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable.

Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured.

MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar1@gmail.com (845)6796242.

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Painting/Odd Jobs

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932

EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, cleanouts. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)688-2253.

HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

Incorporated 1985

• Residential / Commercial • Moving • Delivery • Trucking • Local & NYC Metro Areas

Cleaning Services

General Housecleaning Services done by dependable, reliable, honest individual with over 30 years experience. Will fit your budget and terms. All supplies included. Carol: 931-261-3912. Saugerties/Woodstock area.

Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845616-8574.

Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 Visit my website: Haberwash.com

Visit my website: haberwash.com Experienced- TROMPE O’LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured. Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-616- 0872.

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Specializing In Real Estate Throughout Ulster County & The Catskills www.MurphyRealtyGrp.com Speak With An Agent today, Call: (845) 338-5252 JUST LISTED

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2 COUNTRY HOMES ON 1.6 ACRES Fabulous location close to Woodstock, Olive and the Catskill Mts. This property has 2 homes and a 2 car detached garage. Beautiful country setting with two streams running through, and seasonal mountain views that look out on the DEP land that boarder this land. Both are ranch stlye homes with approx.

1200 sq. ft. each, and both have 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. With some TLC, this property can really shine. Call for more details and to schedule an appointment today!

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What a wonderful place to call home. Well maintained split level featuring 3 bedrooms 1.5 baths, hardwood flooring, new appliances! Great layout with family room and 1/2 bath on one level, living room, dining room and kitchen have great flow for entertaining! (open kitchen door and let the guests enjoy covered decking and pool with brand new liner) Upstairs - 3 nicely sized bedrooms, full bath and plenty of storage! All this and great, fully fenced backyard, 10x12 shed! Nicely landscaped. Price improvement - come on over and check it out! $209,900

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KINGSTON VICTORIAN

Charm comes easy in this circa 1927 vintage Victorian. Experience the contentment of convenience by walking to vibrant uptown Kingston and Forsyth park. (zoo, playground, pavilion, ball field and tennis courts). 3 BRs & 2 full baths. One bath on the first floor has a beautiful claw foot tub. Kitchen has been tastefully renovated in 1998 with cherry cabinetry.

Enjoy hardwood floor, crown molding, Italian porcelain tile and recessed lighting. Large barn with electric awaits your imagination. Rear yard is spacious with stone patio and area for a hot tub. Driveway for off street parking. Roof- 11 years furnace- 2 years 200 amp- electric service blown insulation-6 years.

Newer sewer line to street and upgraded electronic gas meter. Visit the Open House this Sunday, call for directions & more details! $215,000

PRICE REDUCED

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This Attractive Brick Ranch is situated on almost 2 areas of level usable land with a stone wall as your backdrop.

Plenty of room for a nice sized garden as well as friends and family to gather. There is a comfortable updated kitchen with a dining space & windows overlooking the front yard. There is also great cabinet space and a gas range. The living room with wood flooring boasts a brick fireplace with built ins on either side. There are 3 BRs including a master BR suite. Just pull up the carpet and expose the wood. The 2 car garage will be a big plus in the winter months. Pull right in and enter the house without braving the elements. There is also a laundry room at the back for easy access. The icing on the cake is the full basement with a nice family room. Also, there is plenty of room for extra storage. $229,800

HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed. Snow Removal.

Call Dave (845)514-6503- mobile.

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House & Estate Cleanouts, Junk Removal, Dump Runs. Helping homeowners, realtors and property managers for 20 years. One call, it’s gone! Senior & disabled discounts.

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TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly rentals. We have Gray, white, blue, tan, green (pine-scented), pink (rose-scented), red & blue handicap accessible.

(We also have a few w/sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-658-8766, 845-417-6461 or 845-7067197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail.com

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Jeep Renegade Trailhawk .............................. 13K Miles...................... $24,995.00 Chevy Traverse LT AWD................................. 21K Miles...................... $31,995.00 GMC Yukon XL SLT 4WD................................ 22K Miles...................... $56,595.00 GMC 2500 HD Denali Duramax...................... 22K Miles...................... $59,995.00 GMC Yukon XL SLT 4WD................................ 6K Miles........................ $52,995.00 Jeep Wrangler Sport Unlimited....................... 40K Miles...................... $30,600.00 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD Duramax ............... 27K Miles...................... $44,995.00 GMC Sierra 1500 X Cab 4WD........................ 46K Miles...................... $27,995.00 GMC Yukon 4WD .......................................... 41K Miles...................... $37,500.00 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Denali ......................... 38K Miles...................... $46,800.00 GMC Sierra 1500 X Cab W/Plow .................. 19K Miles...................... $31,995.00 GMC Yukon SLE 4WD .................................... 50K Miles...................... $26,895.00 Kia Sorento LX AWD ..................................... 84K Miles...................... $13,995.00 Chevy Silverado LT Crew 4WD ....................... 77K Miles...................... $26,875.00 Chevy Silverado 1500 Crew 4WD .................. 70K Miles...................... $25,600.00 Chevy Captiva LS ......................................... 55K Miles ..................... $8,995.00 GMC Sierra 1500 Reg Cab 4WD .................... 24K Miles...................... $21,995.00 Chevy Silverado X Cab 4WD ......................... 75K Miles...................... $9,995.00

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Cadillac XTS Sedan ........................................ 15K Miles...................... $33,995.00 Chevy Impala LT Prem ................................... 20K Miles...................... $25,575.00 Chevy Malibu LT Sedan .................................. 19K Miles ..................... $16,995.00 Chevy Cruze LT Hatch .................................... 10K Miles...................... $16,995.00 Buick Lacrosse Sedan..................................... 40K Miles...................... $21,250.00 Buick Lacrosse Sedan..................................... 22K Miles...................... $16,995.00 Chevy Cobalt Coupe....................................... 123K Miles.................... $3,995.00

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