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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 11 | Mar . 15 – 22 Stage Comedian Louie Anderson at Bardavon Music Arias for Abe | Dixie Dregs at Bearsville | Beach Boys at UPAC in Kingston Explore Welcome spring the Ukrainian way | Wear yellow, do a good deed on International Day of Happiness Night Sky Space race turns 60 Kids Almanac Spring break boosters | Maple Weekend Books Colm Tóibín to deliver Woodstock Bookfest keynote

NEIL GAIMAN & JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL AT BARD

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CHECK IT OUT John Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Photo by 12 | Polaris)

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NEIL GAIMAN INTERVIEWS JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL AT BARD THIS FRIDAY

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ohn Cameron Mitchell has been pretty busy as an actor for more than three decades now and can be seen in the current season of Mozart in the Jungle, but his fame rests largely on his having written, directed and starred in both the original 1998 Off-Broadway version and the 2001 movie version of the cult rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Among his most recent projects was directing a film based on Neil Gaiman’s short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” (this being a Gaiman tale, one of said girls turns out to be an alien), which stars Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. It’s due for general release in May. Part-time Bard College professor Gaiman is back in the Hudson Valley after several busy months showrunning the new TV mini-series Good Omens in the UK and South Africa, and is now resuming his duties on campus. His usual spring-semester live “Conversation with…” on the main stage of the Fisher Center, scheduled for this Friday, March 16, has just undergone a radical change of program: The guest originally booked, Daniel Handler a/k/a children’s author Lemony Snicket, bailed out “due to unforeseen changes in his schedule.”

Fortunately, the last-minute substitution of John Cameron Mitchell as interviewee is one that should make a lot of people happy. At last report, a few “nosebleed seats” were still available at $25 (free to Bard students, faculty and staff ). A question-and-answer session will follow the talk. The show starts at 8 p.m., but arrive early to fill out an index card with your question if you’d like to participate. To order tickets, visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu or call the box office at (845) 758-7900. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is located at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.

Bardavon presents comic Louie Anderson this Sunday

Iconic comedian, Emmy-winner and co-star (with Zach Galifianakis) in the hit FX series Baskets, Louie Anderson performs at the Bardavon on Sunday, March 18 at 7 p.m. Anderson’s extraordinary performance as Christine Baskets, the matriarch of the Baskets clan, won him his third Emmy Award. Matt Stofsky will open the show.

Tickets cost $69 for VIP (includes meet-and-greet and Anderson’s new book), $49 for Golden Circle and $34.

Bardavon members get $5 off. For tickets and additional information, visit www. bardavon.org. The Bardavon is located

at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie.

Wear yellow, do a good deed on Tuesday’s International Day of Happiness

Kingston-based artist/activist G. Riley Johndonnell has made it his personal mission to bring a little more yellow into this drab world. He founded a not-for-profit, UMEWE.org (as

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in you/me/we), dedicated to happy yellow subversion of the dominant social order of doom and gloom.

Johndonnell also went so far as to develop a new color to add to the official Pantone palette, which he dubbed International Optimism Yellow (108C), a/k/a INT-O Yellow.

The City of Kingston, Health Alliance, the Ulster County YMCA and other local agencies are partnering with UMEWE.org to paint certain Kingston objects and locales yellow to celebrate the International Day of Happiness.

On Tuesday, March 20, there will be a Mayoral Proclamation and Yellow Ribbon Ceremony at City Hall, followed by a Yellow Party at ARTBAR starting at 7 p.m. Kingston residents and visitors are encouraged to wear yellow and “do a good deed” on this day.

The artist’s presence first made itself visible amidst the grime of Midtown

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Kingston in 2016, when he launched a pop-up gallery called the (P)optimism Shoppe at 622 Broadway. (See Fiona Steacy’s article about its opening at http:// bit.ly/2t22Oo4.) Johndonnell invited 100 Kingston High School students into his studio to paint individual flower motifs onto dinner-plate-sized yellow discs and put them on display, calling the installation Pollination; on the reverse of each is the student’s own idea for how to make Midtown a brighter place. He made an art video with members of the Kingston police force (against a bright yellow backdrop) reclaiming their role as Peace Officers. He’s working on painting rocking chairs yellow, to be placed in pairs at strategic points in Midtown “to inspire/ chronicle dialogue and community connectivity.”

To find out more, visit www.umewe.org and www.intoyellow.com.

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LINCOLN WASN’T A MUSICIAN, and apparently did not have much of a singing voice, but he loved to sing, joining in with runaway slaves singing at “contraband meetings” (escaped slaves newly affiliated with Union forces), getting teary-eyed on songs like “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.”

Arias for Abe Ars Choralis & Voices of Praise perform Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty in Kingston & Woodstock

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y many accounts, Abraham Lincoln loved all sorts of music, from sentimental popular ballads of his day to opera.

Music was a tonic for his melancholy soul, easing his burdens as president and lifting his spirits. Criticized for attending the opera while the Civil War raged, Lincoln’s response was terse: “The truth is, I must have a change of some sort, or die.”

In her research for the upcoming Ars Choralis performances of Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty, a tribute to our 16th president in words and music, the vocal ensemble’s longtime artistic director and conductor Barbara Pickhardt learned that Lincoln so loved attending musical performances that he would slip away at times to watch a show unseen from a corner of a concert hall. He wasn’t a musician, and apparently did not have much of a singing voice, but he loved to sing, joining in with runaway slaves singing at “contraband meetings” (escaped slaves newly affiliated with Union forces), getting teary-eyed on songs like “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.” And Lincoln so enjoyed Martha, a comedic opera of the day

by Friedrich von Flotow, that he had portions of it performed during the festivities of his second inaugural.

Ars Choralis will include several arias from that opera when they present Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty on Saturday, March 17 at 7 p.m. at the Riverview Baptist Church, located at 240 Catherine Street in Kingston. The show will also be performed the following afternoon on Sunday, March 18 at 4 p.m. at the Overlook Methodist Church at 233 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

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Ars Choralis and the Riverview Missionary Baptist Church choir Voices of Praise will perform Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty on Saturday, March 17 at 7 p.m. in Kingston and on Sunday, March 18 at 4 p.m. in Woodstock. The program will include some of Lincoln’s favorite arias, spirituals, freedom songs, fiddle tunes and sentimental ballads.

Van Dermark, will join Ars Choralis. “Their voices are just spectacularly beautiful blending together creating harmonies,” says Pickhardt. “One of their soloists, Marge Knox, will sing with us on one piece, and I’m hoping the two choruses can sing together.”

Included on the program of music and spoken word are some of Lincoln’s favorite spirituals, freedom songs, fiddle tunes and sentimental ballads.

P i a n i s t Andrea Shaut and percussionist Chris Earley will accompany the singers, with a trio made up of guitarist Greg Dinger, banjoist Jim Sullivan and fiddler Gilles Malkine providing the instrumentation for the Civil War-era tunes. Malkine will also narrate the excerpts from Lincoln’s letters, speeches and proclamations.

Tickets cost $18 for adults with advance purchase (nonrefundable) or $22 at the

Criticized for attending the opera while the Civil War raged, Lincoln’s response was terse: “The truth is, I must have a change of some sort, or die.”

door. Children age 18 and under pay half-price. Tickets are available at www. arschoralis.org and from Mother Earth’s Storehouse in Kingston, DIG boutique in Saugerties and the Golden Notebook and Catskill Art and Office Supply in Woodstock.

Ars Choralis often performs in churches but is not a religious organization; its spirituality is of the broadest sense, its

broadened the group’s musical focus, and by the late 1980s the chorus reverted to its original name and began to be known for its themed concerts on topics that resonate spiritually. Today Ars Choralis follows a three-concert season, performing in December, March and June, often in collaboration with area orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance and theater groups.

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Ars Choralis rehearsing for Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty with Greg Dinger on guitar, Jim Sullivan on banjo, Gilles Malkine on fiddle.

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members devoted to celebrating the human spirit through the performance of choral music of all periods and styles. “We believe music has the power to transcend all barriers of language, culture, race, class and emotion to unite people facing a world of increasing factionalism and violence” is their byword.

Ars Choralis first formed in 1965, becoming the Mid-Hudson Madrigal Society by 1969. When Pickhardt began directing the choir in 1977, she gradually

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The approximately 50 members of Ars Choralis come from all walks of life. Their “day jobs” run the gamut of professions, but they have in common a love of singing and an inherent spirituality. One member of the group has been active since 1967, says Pickhardt, with a few others in the chorus since the 1970s. On the other hand, the group performing the Lincoln tribute will include one woman for whom it will be her first Ars Choralis performance.

The singers rehearse together for two hours every Sunday evening from September to June. They also commit to dress rehearsals, and sometimes extra rehearsals close to concert dates. “These are people really engaged in life who have made a commitment to this organization,” Pickhardt says. “They’re invested in

bringing this musical message to the public, and they want to do it the best way possible. They work on the material at home; I send notes to them in advance and they mark their music. They all love music, love singing and – I’m speaking for them here, but I know it matters to them: They believe there is power in music and power in joining voices together.”

Auditions for membership in Ars Choralis are generally held in September, before the season begins, and sometimes prior to the March and June concerts.

Singers are evaluated for vocal range, blending quality, tonal memory and familiarity with basic notation. Candidates are asked to sing simple scales, match pitches and demonstrate the ability to read simple music. Singing a solo is optional.

The group’s inclusivity is revealed in the wide range of its programming, says Pickhardt, “but sadly, not so much racially [in terms of its members]. For whatever reason, we’re not there yet. We certainly embrace every race and religion and persuasion of any kind, and treat one another with respect; but out of 50 people in the group, only three are AfricanAmericans, and that’s a low percentage.”

The last concert of the 53rd season will be Bernstein Remembered, spanning five decades of Leonard Bernstein’s musical contributions to American culture and his compassion for people of all races and religions. (Those wishing to purchase tickets should note that the information on the website is not currently accurate: The original plan to have the shows at the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock had to be changed due to renovations going on at that location.) The shows will be held on June 9, most likely at the Overlook Methodist Church, and on June 10 at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation; visit the website or Facebook for up-to-date information closer to the concert dates.

When asked what inspired her to create a concert in honor of Abraham Lincoln, Pickhardt’s answer is a bit surprising.

“I don’t have a clear answer for you on that... Maybe he was there in my mind because of the contrast to today: Lincoln was a man of such dignity and integrity,

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compassion and respect. He was eloquent in so many ways, and so humble. But I’m grateful that it came to be, because it does seem to be very relevant to today. Once I started working on the concert, doing the research and ‘living in the Lincoln world,’ it became really clear to me that he’s a reminder of the possibilities – the kind of people in our history who have led this country, and will again.”

– Sharyn Flanagan Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty, Saturday, March 17, 7 p.m., Riverview Baptist Church, 240 Catherine Street, Kingston; Sunday, March 18, 4 p.m., Overlook Methodist Church, 233 Tinker Street, Woodstock; $18-$22; http://arschoralis. org.

Vassar to host HVP String Competition this weekend Originally started in 1966 by conductor Claude Monteux as a way to find string players for the orchestra, the annual Hudson Valley Philharmonic (HVP) String Competition has given a boost to the careers of many an outstanding musician in the decades since. Among the contest’s past winners are such stellar names as violist Marcus Thompson, cellist Fred Sherry and violinists Ani Kavafian Adela Pena and Judith Ingolfsson. The finals, held at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall, are open to the public, and it’s a great opportunity to catch orchestral and chamber music stars of tomorrow on their way up.

The 46th annual HVP String Competition returns to Vassar this weekend, with the First Round running all day on Saturday, March 17, the Semifinal Round on the morning of Sunday, March 18 and the Final Round beginning at 3 p.m. Nearly 30 up-and-coming young string players will compete. The 2018 first-prize winner will receive $3,000, a solo performance with the HVP during its 2018/19 season and a solo performance at the Musical Landscapes of Italy festival in August in San Quirico d’Orcia in Tuscany. This year’s judges are Juilliard String Quartet violist and Juilliard School professor Samuel Rhodes, violinist and Cornell University professor Ariana Kim and HVP principal cellist and SUNY-New Paltz professor Susan Seligman.

There is no admission charge, and the competition is open to the public. For more information, call the Bardavon box office at (845) 473-2072 or visit www. bardavon.org. Skinner Hall is located on the Vassar campus at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie.

Sarah Potenza plays Marlboro’s Falcon this Saturday

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Woo and Bethany Pietroniro playing Beethoven’s Op.109. Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 and Debussy’s L’isle joyeuse. The suggested donation is $12.

The Olive Free Library is located at 4033 Route 28A in West Shokan. For more information, visit www.olivefreelibrary. org.

Bacchus in New Paltz hosts Bracken Brothers this Saturday An essential point person on the New Paltz area music scene, David Chapman has been leading celebrations of Irish heritage and music for 14 years. This year, David Chapman Music presents the Bracken Brothers: Tales of the Whiskey Shivers at Bacchus on Saturday, March 17 at 10 p.m.

Chapman has assembled a group of serious players for the event, including the Schickowitz brothers from the band Yard Sale, Gypsy jazz guitarist Sean Crimmins (here playing Celtic bouzouki), Cold Flavor Repair leader Andy Gladding and many more.

Bacchus is located at 4 South Chestnut Street in New Paltz.

Dixie Dregs play Bearsville on Saturday

We hardcore fans had to blink in amazement when the news came out that the Dixie Dregs would be touring in their original lineup and playing in (or rather blowing the damn roof off )

Beacon’s Towne Crier hosts Clancy Tradition on Saturday

The Clancy Tradition celebrates the legacy of brothers Eugene and Pat Clancy, who first started performing with their family’s Ceili Band in Ireland in the 1950s before coming to America in the ’60s, where they toured as the Irish Ramblers and performed at Carnegie Hall. The Clancy Tradition is a talented Irish family band featuring Eugene and Pat, along with a daughter and son on fiddle and bass, and accordion added for good measure.

The Clancy Tradition comes to the Towne Crier Café in Beacon on Saturday, March 17 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25.

For tickets and additional information, visit www.townecrier.com. The Towne Crier is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon.

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Piano Plus opens its season on Saturday at Olive Library

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A surprising outcropping of literally world-class serious music in the middle of nowhere, the Olive Free Library in West Shokan has, for the last four years, hosted the Piano Plus concert series, featuring elite pianists along with guest performers. The series, organized by composer George Tsontakis, will enter its fifth season with a concert on Saturday, March 17 at 4 p.m., featuring Bard Conservatory Collaborative pianists JongSun

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The Falcon in Marlboro welcomes the Nashville powerhouse singer Sarah Potenza and her band on Saturday, March 17 at 8 p.m. American Songwriter magazine, AXS.com, music blogger Lockeland Springsteen and others praised the songstress’s multiple performances at the recent Americana Music Festival. Potenza is touring in support of her well-received debut record Monster.

Per usual, there is no cover charge at the Falcon, but generous donation keeps the ship afloat. The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthafalcon. com.

Lamp of Liberty SATURDAY, MARCH 17 7 p.m.

Riverview Missionary Baptist Church 240 Catherine St., Kingston, NY

SUNDAY, MARCH 18 4 p.m.

Overlook Methodist Church 233 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY

Tickets and info:

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the Bearsville Theater on Saturday, March 17 at 8 p.m. There is a wink attached to the “original lineup” part, because, as only we lifers know, the original Dixie Dregs lineup is not the classic Dixie Dregs lineup, though it is only off by one. The Dregs’ two definitive keyboard players –Mark Parrish and the classiclineup stalwart T. Lavitz – are both dead.

The return of Steve Davidowski, who played only on Freefall, is just a trip, man.

But remember: Blazing virtuosity has always been the basic bar to entry in this band. Ticket prices range from $50 to $95. For tickets and additional information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

– John Burdick

Falcon Underground hosts St. Patrick’s Day Party with Fred Zepplin A classic-rock band from the Hudson Valley led by singer and ukuleleplayer Fred Zepplin, Fred & Co. has developed a reputation for unconventional song selection and a unique performance style, offering weird-butright readings of Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Pearl Jam and of course Led Zeppelin. The Falcon Underground hosts Fred & Co.’s St. Patrick’s Day Party on Saturday, March 17 from 1 to 4 p.m.

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

BSP hosts NCM, Bloodletters, Beautiful Bastards this Saturday “Rock music should be defiant, cathartic and liberating,” write the Beautiful Bastards of their own code and core beliefs; but they might as well have been coining a catchphrase for the whole night of music at BSP on Saturday, March 17. NCM, Pete Crotty’s long-running explosive project, has been defiant, cathartic and liberating for about as long as there has been a vibrant mid-Hudson Valley music scene. The Bloodletters are an especially edgy and ballsy expression of the garage-rock impulse.

NCM, the Bloodletters and the Beautiful Bastards defy and liberate all night long on St. Patrick’s Day, beginning at 8 p.m., at BSP, located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston. Admission costs $7. For more information, visit www.bspkingston.com.

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Damien Sneed salutes Golden Age of Song on Saturday at Bard The Catskill Jazz Factory’s winter concert series Classical, Jazz and Soul: A Musical Offering continues next Saturday, March 17 at Bard College’s Fisher Center. At the helm is the prodigious and multifaceted musician Damien Sneed, a genre-hopping pianist, conductor, composer, producer, arranger and educator and the 2014 recipient of the prestigious Sphinx Medal of Excellence, presented to emerging Black and Latino leaders in classical music. Wynton Marsalis has called Sneed “a very natural performer who is capable of performing a startling range of music, from Baroque and classical pieces to romantic warhorses to contemporary gospel songs...an ambassador for classical and gospel music who brings positivity, optimism and thoroughness to every occasion.”

The second installment of Classical, Jazz and Soul, titled “The Golden Age of Song,” traces the American vocal tradition from 1860 to today. The postwar era of swing, bebop and rock ‘n’ roll comes alive in this revitalized retrospective featuring the works of Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé and Chet Baker. Sneed pays tribute to this much-loved and timeless era of jazz with an ensemble joined by special guest Keyon Harrold, the multiple Grammy-winner who provided the trumpet sound for Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in the 2016 biopic Miles Ahead.

“The Golden Age of Song” begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Fisher Center’s intimate LUMA Theater. Tickets cost $25 to $45 for the general public and $5 for Bard students, and can be ordered by calling the box office at (845) 758-7900 or online at http://fishercenter.bard.edu. “Sanctified Soul: 1960s to Today” rounds out the series on Saturday, April 21.

Yalin Chi performs this Sunday in Saugerties Saugerties Pro Musica welcomes Yalin Chi back to its stage on Sunday, March 18 at 3 p.m. Chi, who has held the principal keyboard position at the Hudson Valley Philharmonic since 2014, will be performing Debussy’s Images Book I, Beethoven’s Sonata in A Major, Op. 101, and Rachmaninoff ’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42.

Seating is limited at the United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Washington Avenue (#67) and Post Street in Saugerties. Tickets cost $15 Travel Partner

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BEACH BOYS TO PERFORM IN KINGSTON ON SUNDAY

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amily infighting, warring legacies, a mastermind in absentia and hits, hits, hits: If it gets to bear the name the Beach Boys, it is probably worth seeing while you still can. Revered by highbrow snobs and pop fanatics alike, creators of some of the most indispensable studio art of the 20th century and a fair share of execrable pap as well, the Beach Boys are still concert favorites. They perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on Sunday, March 18 at 3 p.m.

Tickets range in price from $48 to $128. Purchase them 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 online ticket purchase and additional information, visit www.bardavon.org.

and $12, with all students admitted free. For more information, visit www. saugertiespromusica.org or call (845) 679-5733.

Concert for George on Sunday & Wednesday in Rosendale As emotionally stirring as it was musically exceptional, 2002’s concert film Concert for George redeemed all the good will and affection that the “quiet Beatle” (who, as Paul Simon recalls, never stopped talking) had amassed in a scintillating set of loving performances by Harrison’s rockroyalty friends. It is hard to pick a favorite moment: Anoushka and Ravi Shankar tearing up George’s beloved Indian classical music? Tom Petty making “Taxman” his own? Billy Preston killing “Isn’t It a Pity”? But I dare you to keep a dry eye when McCartney’s solo uke version of “Something” cascades into a full-band version sung

by Clapton.

The Rosendale Theatre’s Music Fan Film Series presents the newly remastered film Concert for George on Sunday, March 18 at 2 p.m. and Wednesday, March 21 at 7:15 p.m. Tickets cost $8 general admission. $6 for members. The Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale.

For more information, visit www. rosendaletheatre.org.

– John Burdick

Spring Equinox Sound Bath Immersion on Tuesday in Woodstock The Sage Academy of Sound Energy presents the Spring Equinox Sound Bath Immersion on Tuesday, March 20 at 8 p.m., welcoming the first day of spring with a powerful cleansing sound bath led by Lea Garnier, Beth

Ylvisaker and special guest Jessica Caplan. The Sage Academy requests a $20 exchange.

For more information, visit http:// sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. The Sage Academy of Sound Energy is located at 6 Deming Street in Woodstock.

Felice Brothers & Yard Sale at Bearsville The Felice Brothers are more Dylan, Yard Sale more Band. Read on.

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he pairing of the famous locals the Felice Brothers and the colorful New Paltz acoustic quartet Yard Sale was a no-duh natural, and it is almost surprising how long it took to materialize. Both bands operate squarely in the deus loci tradition of Dylan and the Band. Both play an irreverent, surreal, gutsy and bastard Americana with porous stylistic borders and a self-issued carte blanche permission to do whatever the f*ck they please without having to consult any Roots Reenactor High Council. There is an interesting difference, however, in how each gets to this place. Executive summary: The Felice Brothers are more Dylan, Yard Sale more Band. Read on.

Yard Sale is group of savvy, even chopsy players who have, in their other pursuits, been all over the musical map before arriving at the progressive Americana/ soul sweet spot in evidence all over their excellent new record Every Day (on Team Love Records, which played a big part in the early Felice Bros. story as well) In their fierce and delicate playing, there is no sense

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Bearing witness to the unbearable in Newtown Free documentary screening and discussion at UPAC in Kingston on Friday

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uring the opening of Kim Snyder’s documentary Newtown, faint playground sounds hover at the edge of hearing. A roving camera captures brief scenes of idyllic suburban celebration, a Labor Day parade: cheerleaders, marching bands, smiling faces infused, like the day itself, with sunny brightness.

Then it’s December, and the voice of a 911 dispatcher is heard trying to calm a woman’s quavering voice: “Please Jesus please Jesus please Jesus.” The camera catches police racing from their vehicles as they struggle to understand what’s happening inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

We all know what happened that day. For those of us who may have forgotten the exact numbers, 20 first-graders were murdered that day, along with six of their educators. But knowing that, knowing every “fact” about the horrific massacre, brings little understanding and even less comfort. So why would anyone want to relive the events of that terrible day in a documentary film?

Newtown makes it clear in often-painful detail that every inexplicable tragedy has a context: stories that precede the event and ones that happen in its wake. Snyder has set out to provide that context, to show the heartbreaking sunny days that turned cold and grey that December morning. Its ambitious goal is to look for answers that no one can answer.

Snyder does this by looking at the massacre and its aftermath events through the eyes of people whose lives were inexorably and terribly changed: a tough-as-nails state police officer, an EMT, a teacher. But its primary, heartbreaking focus is on five of the families who lost their children that morning.

Newtown isn’t the angry diatribe that it could have been. In its careful, solemn way, you could say that Newtown is a testament to the need for gun control. The film touches briefly on the legislative efforts that some of the parents made – successfully in Connecticut, unsuccessfully in Washington.

But Snyder doesn’t linger there. She hews very closely and respectfully to the stories that the parents tell her about their beautiful children. In interviews, she has said that the film was her effort to bear witness to the tragedy: “Something happens through simply bearing witness, through experiencing empathy in front of something deeply emotional. Questions like: ‘What is it like that your best friend got their kid back, but you didn’t? How do you repair that relationship?’ This film became about more than looking at Newtown as just another gun-violence incident.”

On Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m., Stockade Works in association with the Bardavon will present a free showing of Newtown at the Ulster Performing Arts Center. Director Kim Snyder will be on hand for a question-and-answer session and a panel discussion about gun safety reform following the screening.

To find out more about the presentation and to reserve tickets, visit www.stockadeworks.org/events/newtownscreening.

UPAC is located at 601 Broadway in Kingston.

– Jeremiah Horrigan

of that delirious naïveté that – at one time, Brothers virtuosic, but certainly “pretty at least – defined the Felice aesthetic. damn slick.” They can’t even fudge musical I once pissed off my older brother (who innocence and the willing primitive vibe, knows a lot more about music than I do) and they wisely don’t try. by saying that the Band was not really What makes it really fly is that this is one of the better two-songwriter bands an Americana group, but rather a smart Canadian commentary thereupon. I don’t afoot around here at the moment. From remember if he smacked principal songwriter me physically or if he Taylor Davis comes I ONCE PISSED OFF just snarked something much of the band’s MY OLDER BROTHER like, “What a pretty sense of free-flowing thing to say.” Yard Sale (who knows a lot more about music A m e r i c a n myth looks for all the world than I do) by saying that the Band a n d O l d - Wo r l d like a bluegrass band, was not really an Americana group, authenticity. Charlie but rather a smart Canadian with banjo, upright Schickowitz, on commentary thereupon. bass, fiddle, acoustic the other hand, is guitar and a baying I don’t remember if he smacked me a thoughtful and physically or if he just call-and-response vocal intentional writer in snarked something like, strategy right out of the a topical folk mode “What a pretty thing to say.”

Helm/Danko/Manuel – a man with several playbook. But many very specific axes to currents of music, from funk and soul to grind regarding contemporary culture. classic country to arty indie-rock, can be The contrast gives Every Day a rich, detected in their sawing and hollering paradoxical feel: It honors the twin calling (just like The Brown Album reminds me of of roots music as both a repository of nothing so much as electric Aaron Copland haunted myths and lost worlds and as at times). Like the Band’s, this music is the newsy, populist vehicle by which the proudly impure, and also something that present understands itself. approaches virtuosic –maybe not Punch At their outset, the Felice Brothers

might as well have named themselves the Zimmermen, and, as long as Ian is Ian, the little Bob in him will speak its piece, for it is his writ in his physical and spiritual code. This is where it pays to remember that Dylan himself was a smartass suburban culture thief, too: a hat-lover, not a blood-and-soil original or a saint. As with fellow hat-lover Tom Waits, a wellinformed modern-art intent was always part of his folk/roots plundering and a part of his legacy, which Ian Felice has understood and received well.

As soon as you thought you knew what the Felice Brothers were – a ramshackle

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It has been a busy year for the Felice Brothers, but in a desultory and disguised way. A big lift in the band’s career story was an early (and lasting) association with the Millennial-darling bard Connor Oberst. Now, The Brothers F. do their old pal and advocate a solid, playing backing band (except with Jim f*&king Keltner on the drum stool) on 2017’s Salutations, an excellent, rocking collection of real-lifecrisis songs from Oberst – as wordy and wild and talented as ever, if you still have a place for him.

When Ian Felice decided to do a solo album, 2017’s fuss-free In the Kingdom of Dreams, the original Felice Brothers assembled to lend low-key support to this quiet set of surreal folksongs. The eldest sibling, solo artist Simone, returned to the scene as drummer and producer.

That the Felice family syndicate can do one record with Jim Keltner drumming and one with Simone Felice, and sound great on both, says something poignant about them, though I am not sure what.

The band’s arc is one that moves from musical naïveté to musical savvy, but with a carefully guarded sense of innocence at the core, for they have always recognized that stately, earnest “eternal beginners” feel as their secret sauce.

In the early days of 2018, the Felice Brothers announced that two decade-long members of the outfit – fiddle-player Greg Farley and bassist Josh Rawson – would be leaving the band. So the moment finds the Felice Brothers perforce at another point of transformation. Who even knows what to expect when Radio Woodstock presents the Felice Bothers at the Bearsville Theater, with Yard Sale opening, on Friday, March 23 at 8 p.m.?

Ticket prices range from $25 to $45. For tickets and additional information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

– John Burdick

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MOVIE Filming what was considered “unďŹ lmableâ€?

A Wrinkle in Time has heart, brains & eye candy

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adeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal-winning middle-grade classic A Wrinkle in Time has never been out of print since it was published in 1962, but it was rejected by dozens of publishers before Farrar, Straus & Giroux decided to take a chance on it. Back then, nobody thought that young girls read science fiction, or that male readers would take a sci-fi novel with a 13-yearold female protagonist to their hearts.

How wrong they were. This is a story that moves and inspires us while prodding our imaginations and simultaneously insisting that we give due respect to the fields that, back then, weren’t yet known as STEM. Reading it was a formative experience for many.

A Wrinkle in Time has also long been regarded as “unfilmable.� Given the ability of modern cinematic technology to make almost anything look palpably real, that descriptor by itself may be seen as more of a challenge than a warning to ambitious directors. Some attempts to film the unfilmable have yielded respectable results in recent years – the Wachowskis’ 2012 rendering of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas springs readily to mind – while others would have been better left to the printed page, or, like Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, await more auspicious screen reinterpretation.

As directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma), Wrinkle falls somewhere in the middle.

Many of those who grew up on L’Engle’s Time Quintet are going to feel some disappointment, much of it for the usual reasons when a beloved book gets adapted to the hurried medium of film: Favorite sequences and/or characters get left out – in this case, heroine Meg Murry’s sojourn

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Youngsters new to the story will not share these quibbles, and it is for them rather than longtime converts that this movie version is really made. Nor are they likely to be fazed by the weaknesses in the screenplay by Jennifer Lee (Frozen), which sometimes bogs down in expository or just-plain-stilted dialogue. The worst examples of these occur in the first act, before Meg (Storm Reid), Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) and Meg’s friend Calvin (Levi Miller) are whisked off to other worlds to rescue space/time-traveling Dr. Alex Murry (Chris Pine). To drive home the point that brainy Meg is a social misfit, the script adds a school bullying scenario that’s not in the books and is played so blatantly and awkwardly that one wonders why we can’t have movies

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depicting childhood ostracism with more subtlety, so that it believably flies under the radar of teachers and principals.

The good news is that, once the three kids are off on their adventure, escorted by the mysterious, shapeshifting pandimensional beings Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling) and Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), the bad writing and the bad acting are mostly over.

The better news is that in some ways, A Wrinkle in Time the movie gets certain tonal aspects of A Wrinkle in Time the book very right indeed.

An obvious f ’rinstance is the fact that probably the creepiest sequence in the book remains the creepiest sequence in the movie: In a suburban cul-de-sac on the planet Camazotz, which has fallen under the control of the creeping interstellar evil known as the Black Thing, all the homes are identical and characterless. In front of each, a child is bouncing a ball in perfect unison until their mothers call them in to dinner.

There’s a fairly Manichaean divide between good and evil in L’Engle’s moral universe, but to the author’s credit, evil manifests most chillingly as absolute conformism.

The ball-bouncing scene is every bit as

disturbingly dystopian as we remember from the book.

Even without the influence of Aunt Beast, the power of love as a catalyst and connector also survives with sometimessurprising freshness onscreen. We are made to believe in the emotional bonds that unite the Murry family, and there are moments that feel genuinely moving – especially in the relationship of parents Kate (Gugu MbathaRaw) and Alex, who do scientists everywhere a ser vice by demonstrating hearts as well as brains. “Heart� is a quality that abounds in A Wrinkle in Time, which is a very good thing, as this is the sort of vehicle that could easily have been drowned in the flash and dazzle of its visuals. The first planet the kids visit, Uriel, and a subsequent beach scene on Camazotz are so intensely color-saturated that this movie seems an apt candidate for midnight screenings reeking of reefer.

Some of the special effects work better than others; kids will likely be especially charmed by Mrs. Whatsit’s transformation into a flying creature who combines aspects of a dragon and a leafy green vegetable. If you selectively blink during the frames when the kids riding on her back are most obviously just models, you’ll likely enjoy it as well.

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open to the public; no reservations are required. Copies of Tolstaya’s latest book will be available for purchase at the event.

For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.

Dawn Elliott to receive the Martha Washington Woman of History Award this Sunday

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he latest in a distinguished series of documentaries about great artists, collectively called Exhibition on Screen, is titled Cézanne: Portraits of a Life. It’s organized around the exhibition of the same name, dedicated to the portrait work of Paul Cézanne and opening in Paris before traveling to London and Washington. Featuring interviews with curators and experts from the National Portrait Gallery in London, MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, along with correspondence from the artist himself, the film takes audiences beyond the exhibition to the places Cézanne lived and worked and sheds light on an artist who is perhaps the least-known of all the Impressionists – until now.

Directed by Phil Grabsky, with narration by Brian Cox, Cézanne: Portraits of a Life will be screened on Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. at the Moviehouse, located at 48 Main Street in Millerton. Tickets cost $14 general admission, $12 for Moviehouse members. To find out more, call (518) 789-0022 or visit http:// themoviehouse.net or http://bit.ly/2pcsadB.

Fellow readers, there’s just no way that A Wrinkle in Time could have lived up to our extravagant hopes. But if we give it space to be different from the book, we can still appreciate its strengths – not least of which is the talent of Storm Reid, who delivers a believably angsty prepubescent science nerd with warrior potential. It goes without saying that if there are girls in your life who could do with some sympathetic role modeling, they need to go along with you to the cinema. It’ll even be a better experience for you, seen through their young eyes.

– Frances Marion Platt

Rough Draft presents MeToo: The Future is Female on Wednesday The stylish combo bookstore and bar Rough Draft in Kingston teams with the Poetry Barn to present MeToo: The Future is Female, a rollicking evening of feminist writing, including poetry, essays and monologue by Kate Hymes, Nancy Jainchill, Bonnie Lykes, Djelloul Marbrook, Jana Martin, Darcy Smith and Holly George-Warren. A ten-reader open-mic follows.

The event takes place on Wednesday, March 21 at 6 p.m. at Rough Draft Bar & Books, located at 82 John Street in Kingston. For more information, visit www.roughdraftny.com.

Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya to speak at Bard Prominent Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer and public intellectual Tatyana Tolstaya will speak at Bard College about her new book, Aetherial Worlds, a collection of 18 stories, on Thursday, March 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. The author, who has been compared to Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Nabokov, will be introduced by Bard professor of Olga Voronina.

Tolstaya lives in Moscow. For 12 years, she was cohost of The School for Scandal, a popular talk show on Russian television covering culture and politics. She is also cofounder of a creative writing academy there. She has written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Five of her books, including her novel The Slynx, have been translated into English.

The reading, presented by Bard’s Russian and Eurasian Studies Program and Center for Civic Engagement, takes place in the László Z. Bitó Auditorium of Bard’s Reem-Kayden Center. It is free and

This year’s recipient of the annual Martha Washington Woman of History Award is New Paltz native Dawn Elliott: historical interpreter, reenactor, preservationist, educator and researcher. The honor is bestowed each year by Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh, upon a woman in the Hudson Valley who has been influential in promoting the study and preservation of history in the region.

Elliott qualifies for the honor on so many levels — immersed as she is in a number of local history-related endeavors — that it’s difficult to sum up the entirety of her past experience and current efforts in a few paragraphs.

As site manager at the Locust Lawn Farm estate in Gardiner (not to be confused with the Locust Grove site in Poughkeepsie), she oversees all operations of the historic property on Route 32, which includes the 18th-century Terwilliger House original to the property and the 19th-century Federal-style mansion built for Colonel Josiah Hasbrouck.

Elliott is also employed as a collections associate at Museum Village in Monroe, where the holdings include such eclectic finds as mastodon bones and steam engines. She’s part of a team that plans and installs exhibits there, cares for the collection, manages a volunteer team updating the database and does event planning and social media marketing.

At both locations, as well as periodically at other museum sites up and down the Hudson Valley, Elliott does costumed interpretations and reenactment characterizations when called for (President’s Day weekend she did a tinsmithing demo at Museum Village). She regularly demonstrates historical activities that include open hearth cooking, candledipping, fish-netting, weaving, sewing and darning. There’s even a blacksmithing credential in the mix.

Elliott is a founding member of the “Scions of Patria,” an organization that interprets Dutch Colonial domestic life, and she enjoys a long association with the Brigade of the American Revolution, a nonprofit living history association that recreates the life and times of the typical 18th-century soldier. She’s a member of that organization’s board as well as holding down a seat as commissioner on the Town of New Paltz Historic

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It’s a lot of diverse affiliations, she acknowledges — and we haven’t even mentioned her decade with Historic Huguenot Street yet — but Elliott maintains that all of these activities represent interlocking pieces in the entirety of her lifelong focus on local history. “It may look like I’m a bit ‘scattershot,’ all over the place, but all of these experiences are intertwined, and I think they overlap pretty dramatically, even though it may not look like it on the surface. I think everything I do is very much equally connected.”

Material culture — the study of objects — remains her “great love in history,” says Elliott. “I think I got that to some extent from my family, too. My greatgrandmother could show her quilts and point out which fabrics came from different family members’ clothing.”

Elliott was nominated for the Martha Washington Woman of History Award by Dutchess County Historian Will Tatum.

The award was inspired by Martha Washington’s largely unsung activities on behalf of her husband, General George Washington, during the Revolutionary War. Martha joined her husband in the various strategic locations he was stationed at throughout the American Revolution — including the Newburgh headquarters — travelling at great risk to her own safety (as the wife of the commanding general of the Continental Army, she was a target for capture by the British). She acted as hostess to a stream of military and civilian visitors, helped aides-de-camp with paperwork and expense accounts, and after one particularly brutal winter, organized a campaign to enlist America’s women to provide direct aid to suffering soldiers.

Through it all, she was noted for her grace under pressure.

The recipient of the annual Martha Washington Woman of History Award must be a woman who has demonstrated similar character while contributing to the promotion and preservation of history in the Hudson Valley. The award presentation this year will take place on Sunday, March 18 during the site’s Women’s History Month program, “The General’s Lady,” which begins at 2 p.m. at Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, 84 Liberty Street in Newburgh. The program will include a presentation by Susan Stessin-Cohn about women who escaped slavery in the Hudson Valley.

The talk will deal with runaway slaves in the area and also include Susan StessinCohn's experiences researching material for In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley, 17351831, the book she co-wrote with Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini. The public is welcome to attend. Admission is free. For more information, call (845) 562-1195 or visit http://on.ny.gov/2nMs5OK. -- Sharyn Flanagan

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and that every part of the story fits in, in some way or other. So he’s an absolutely fascinating figure, also because of how little of himself appears in his books.

He used great self-suppression when he worked, and he worked very intently through the minds of his characters, keeping himself distant. You don’t really know, when you read one of these novels, who he is, or what his opinions are, or what his own background is.

Then of course he himself, when you find out about him, is a fascinating figure.

He began to interest me.

Colm Tóibín to deliver Woodstock Bookfest keynote

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his year’s Woodstock Bookfest will feature acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín reading from his own work and serving as reader for the debut of a music-and-short-story collaboration between the late writer John Hersey and his son Baird, a composer.

Tóibín is best known in the US as the author of Brooklyn, the 2009 novel that was made into a film in 2015 starring Saoirse Ronan. He also wrote The Testament of Mary (2012), a portrait of Christianity’s most venerated woman as a grieving and angry mother, and numerous other novels, short-story collections and nonfiction books. Three of his novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster (2014) and The Master (2004). He lives in Dublin and New York City, where he’s the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.

Tóibín’s latest novel is House of Names, a reimagining of the House of Atreus story from Greek mythology: a series of revenge killings within a family. He’ll be reading from that at the Bookfest and taking questions.

“An Evening with Colm Tóibín” should be a treat for anyone who attends. His novels are quiet; his recurring themes are, in his words, “the East Coast of Ireland with waves that don’t crash against rock but sort of break gently, of a gentle landscape, mild manners, and of people who generally are more content in silence than they are in full disclosure.” But in person, Tóibín is warm and gregarious, cracking jokes and telling stories, able to speak at length and with insight about both the sublime possibilities of fiction and the nitty-gritty of the writing process.

Almanac Weekly’s Will Dendis spoke with Tóibín this week.

Have you visited the area before?

I did the festival, must have been six or seven years ago now. I was up in Buffalo and I was coming down and got off the train. Could I have got off the train at Rhinebeck?

Sure.

And it was a big crisis, because I opened the door and there was just no way of getting off the train. If I jumped I would have died. It was so high because the conductor hadn’t seen me, so we had a lot of shouting and screaming and he had to run down with a ladder. And obviously I know the song; everybody knows the song.

The song?

“By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong / And everywhere there was song and celebration.” (Laughs) As they say of Woodstock, a town famous for a festival that never happened here. She didn’t even go to it, Joni Mitchell [the songwriter]. She didn’t even attend.

When did you first visit the US? I think first was before Saint Patrick’s Day in 1989. I was working as a reporter, and it was the year before my first novel came out. There were at that time great divisions within Irish America, within the old Irish America. For example, the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick at that time in New York had a men-only black-tie dinner, so obviously the new people who had come in the ’80s – a lot of people came over in the ’80s – just couldn’t believe this; it was just this amazing idea that there would be a black-tie men-only dinner, so they decided in 1989 not to go to it and to

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hold an alternative event down in SoHo. And so there was a sort of split within the ranks of Irish America, which then made its way into a gay group trying to march [which] had been told in fact that the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York was a Catholic parade and that they couldn’t march. Whereas things in Ireland were changing so fast at that time that I think, in the early ’90s, the “Best New Float” in the Cork parade was the lesbian float, whereas Irish America just hadn’t caught up with Ireland, which we thought was sort of strange. So when I came in ’89, I reported on all that, I went to it, I talked to everybody. It was very clear in ’89 that there would be a decade or more of division between the two groups, but I think it’s all been worked out now.

What’s very nice now is that Mrs. [Loretta] Glucksman, who’s a wonderful person, is going to be the grand marshal of the parade; so a woman is going to be the grand marshal. Not only a woman, but a smart woman. She’s a woman who’s contributing hugely to Ireland, and indeed to America, with the Glucksman House at NYU in New York. Mrs. Glucksman has been a huge figure as a sort of a philanthropist in culture in Ireland and culture in Irish America, so that’s really why she’s so important. She’s a muchloved figure within our world, not only because she’s contributed so much, but also because she’s contributed so widely, and she’s somebody I think people really admire on the cultural side. So it’s just great that somebody like that is leading the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, rather than a politician or indeed, might I say, a cardinal.

Do you see an enduring influence of Irish culture on America?

You notice certainly in New York that all of the bars are Irish. You know, those names like the Blarney Stone, and you just go around thinking like, “My God, did the English never set up bars here? Did no other group do that?” Then obviously you have figures in the literary landscape like Eugene O’Neill, and certainly when

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anyone Irish watches Long Day’s Journey into Night, and you’re absolutely aware that this is an Irish play, this is an Irish father, this is the whole business of sort of a long drunken rant by an Irish father.

I think the other area is that in the first half of the 19th century, there was a huge emigration from Ulster, which was Presbyterian, which has almost been written out of history. For example, Henry James’ grandfather came over in the late 18th century, so you have the grandfather of Henry and William James being Irish, and a lot of the early presidents were from that Presbyterian Irish. But of course, once the Irish came after the famine, there was a division again between the Irish Presbyterians and Protestants and the Catholics, and the Presbyterians and Protestants didn’t really want to be associated with Ireland as much as they had up until about 1847-48.

What did you learn from Henry James?

He was the guy who really perfected the idea of third-person. You tell a story not in the first person of what I saw or what I experienced, but you tell it by what she or he experienced, and you stick to that point of view throughout a book, so that everything is told from the eyes of a single person. If you tell it from the first person, it distances the reader from the voice; the reader knows I am not that person, that person is telling the story, it’s someone other than me. But if you do this in the third person – what she saw, what she remembered, what she noticed – the reader starts to see the world through the eyes of that third person, of that character.

It has to be controlled: You have to keep it so that it’s not the author seeing, it’s the character in the book seeing, and James perfected that.

Other writers had done that too – it’s in Jane Austen, it’s in George Eliot. But James was the one who really worked with it, and also worked with the idea of the novel as a form of architecture, as a sort of building. He called it the “house of fiction,” the way in which you would build a story, being added to, constructed,

Did seeing the film Brooklyn change your memory of your book? Now when you think of Eilis, do you think of Saoirse Ronan?

Yes, it’s one of those things where I think it’s unusual, where – it’s only from my point of view, and I’m the guy who wrote the book – the film is very close to the book, and we were just very lucky that Saoirse Ronan [was available]. The problem was that at the beginning, the producers were looking for the money, they couldn’t get it, so it was about two years’ wait. So in those two years, Saoirse Ronan arrived at the age where she could do the part. If [the financing] had been instant, it would have been another actress, and we would have lost something amazing. There was something luminous and miraculous about her performance.

And also John Crowley, the director, and Nick Hornby, who wrote the screenplay, were very faithful to the story, so I was very lucky with it.

The only thing added was the end, which is sort of implied in the book but it’s there in the script. I found that very moving. I’ve seen the movie a good lot now, and that’s the bit that I tear up: at the end when she finally sees him and he comes out of the store and sees her, and she’s come back. I find that really moving.

I didn’t write it; Nick wrote that. But you know it’s one of those examples – people say that it doesn’t happen often – where the book and the movie complement each other.

When you wrote The Testament of Mary, did it change the way you thought about Mary? Did it lead you to a different understanding of her?

It began as a sort of joke at a party in literary Dublin where someone was talking about lost Greek plays, and I said, “Well, of course, the New Testament is a sort of lost Greek play.” And he asked, “What do you mean?” And I said, “Well, the idea of Mary fits in very much with the sort of Greek tragic heroine.” Then, of course, somebody who was in the conversation was the director of the Dublin Theater Festival, wrote to me asking me if I would write that. I thought what was interesting was that her silence is notable in the New Testament... That story of being from a small village where your son leads a huge movement... I suppose it was that idea of the distance between where they were actually from, which was Nazareth, and him actually defying both the Romans and the teachers, you know, the Jewish teachers, but that would have been something so enormous. It didn’t really strike me before in the same way how news would come to her, and how alarming it would be.

So I suppose it was that part; but it was also as well the actual, what she went through, and the memory years later of what that would have been like. I really hadn’t a clue when I started what I was going to do.

You talk about how sometimes there’s a sentence or an image that gets you started with a book. What was it for The Testament of Mary?

I think it was the image of seeing, when they were trying to crucify him, that they couldn’t get his second arm to come out.

I was trying to see the thing in real time, as though it hadn’t happened yet. But it was also just being there that day on the hill, what it was like in real time, with all the people arriving and it being, for a lot of

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his year’s Woodstock Bookfest will feature the world premiere of Lost Dreams, a collaboration between the late writer John Hersey and his son Baird, a composer who lives in West Shokan. “It was a way to connect with him,� said Baird of the collaboration. “He was a good father and a good man, and it was a way to stay in touch with him and be creative with him.�

After poring over some letters from his father recently, Baird decided to finish his half of the piece and ready it for performance. The story is about learning to play the violin. Novelist Colm TĂłibĂ­n will provide the reading, with musical accompaniment performed by violinists Katherine Hannauer and Laura Hackstein. According to Baird, his father studied to be a concert violinist from a young age, but eventually chose writing when he realized there wasn’t enough time in the day to attain mastery in both pursuits. John Hersey wrote 25 books, most notably the Pulitzer Prizewinning Hiroshima (1946), a searing account of the bomb’s aftermath and a pioneering work of what was later called “New Journalism,â€? though Hersey was critical of the fast-and-loose relationship that some later “Newâ€? journalists had with facts.

Baird Hersey, TĂłibĂ­n and the violinists will need to rehearse the story before the performance. “There are sections that are just music and there John Hersey are sections that are just spoken-word, but it is a kind of sentimental piece. It’s got humor in it as well,â€? said Baird. “And as we all know with humor, that takes timing.â€?

Prior to this, Baird hadn’t met Tóibín, and his father didn’t know him either.

Baird brought the idea of performing the story to Bookfest executive director Martha Frankel, who then asked TĂłibĂ­n if he, as keynote speaker, would do the reading. TĂłibĂ­n agreed. “Colm has been very generous with his time,â€? said Baird.

And, in an unplanned but what Baird calls a “miraculous� coincidence, the performance date of Lost Dreams – March 24, 2018 – will mark the 25th anniversary of John Hersey’s death.

people, at the beginning a sort of ordinary day; crucifixions were sort of normal‌ The physicality of it would have come to me as an image that was very powerful.

Is it because it’s like “This is time to work, not time to relax�?

Yeah, exactly. You’re not swimming in the Mediterranean; you’re writing a novel.

You’ve said it was important to get the gods out of the way in this story and make it about human emotions and agency, but I wonder if you were also drawing on the decline of Catholicism here, and the uncertainty of what comes next.

I think it’s absolutely correct that I was brought up in an Ireland where there was no question of – no one was questioning anything, really – and into a time when suddenly everything was open. [Before that had been] a time of great devotion, to saints, to the Virgin, to mass, to sacraments, and where the church had a great deal of power; and then just watching over 20, 30 years when that devotion faded. Now that didn’t happen in my parents’ generation or my grandparents’ generation, when that devotion remained the same; so yeah, I lived in that time, and obviously that made its way into the work. It’s there in that passage you just quoted from House of Names, and it’s there in some of the other books: just the idea that people believe one thing and then they believe another thing, and you discover they believe two things, or they believe in less and less, with the implication that something has faded.

And I think that’s a very dramatic subject.

In House of Names, Electra tells Orestes: “We live in a strange time. A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but there are times when we don’t.

Their power is waning. Soon it will be a different world. It will be ruled by the light of day. Soon it will be a world barely worth inhabiting. You should feel lucky that you were touched by the old world, that in the house it brushed you with its wings.�

You also wrote Pale Sister, a monologue for Ismene, Antigone’s sister.

I’ve been working on that for a good while now, and it’s more or less done, but the poor actress now has to learn it.

Learning a monologue is hard work; you don’t have the give and take of dialogue.

But yeah, it’s Ismene, the sister of Antigone, years later remembering what happened to her sisters. So the latest

You’ve talked about how you like to work in a hard chair because you shouldn’t be too comfortable while writing. Thinking of The Testament of Mary, and how you had to try to imagine yourself there at the crucifixion, it reminds me of a monk in contemplation.

Ten or 20 years ago they invented these sort of Master of the Universe desk chairs, which were meant to be the same shape as your back, and that you could turn around quickly in an office. I think if you’re trying to write a novel, you need to pull things up from yourself and find images that are difficult, that are challenging, that don’t come immediately. If you’re in a really comfortable space, then that isn’t helpful.

You need to be concentrating fiercely, and you’re more likely to concentrate fiercely if you’re in an uncomfortable chair.

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What draws you to Greek literature?

I’m not interested in Oedipus; in other words, it was just those two stories: the story of Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and their children, that I thought was really dramatic. In other words, how do you get to the stage where somebody like Orestes wants to murder his mother? How do you get to the stage where someone like Clytemnestra wants to murder her husband? Those things began to fascinate me.

There’s a late play by Euripides called Iphigenia in Aulis, where this whole story is told from Clytemnestra’s point of view rather than Electra’s, and I hadn’t read that before, and it interested me when I read it, because I thought, “Oh wow, you can see the thing from a different perspective.� The Ismene thing has always been on my mind, because of course there are two sisters, and one sister is the one who takes action and the other sister is the one who doesn’t. So I think, in all of our lives, that idea of, “Should we be on protests? Should we be complacent?

Who is complacent? Who’s on a protest?� is something that shapes peoples’ lives all the time. Some people are very political and some are not. So I was interested in just taking that division between the two sisters and looking at it dramatically, seeing where it would take me.

In Nora Webster, there’s a lot about music toward the end. I was wondering if you think there’s any similarity between the work of a novelist and the work of a composer – particularly the idea of having a theme and developing and exploring it in many different ways over a work.

In some way, what you’re doing is you’re working with rhythm. In other words, there’s an idea or a memory, or something someone tells you, or an image in your brain and in your mind, and then it gets released as rhythm, as a sentence; and so you start working with the rhythm. So yes, in that way you are working close to music, and in other ways you’re working close to painting.

But what I was really working from there [in Nora Webster] was the idea of how much a piece of music brings back memories, and if you put on a piece of music, it’s almost like a smell: You think, “Oh my God, I remember where I was when I heard that first.� And so in using the music in Nora Webster, they were very much pieces of music that had come from childhood, things that my mother had listened to that I used. She did listen a lot to that Archduke Trio, and she did listen a lot to those other pieces of music mentioned in the book. A lot of that would then conjure up, for me, a lost world, so I used them in that way.

How do you think about detail? Physical description, for example. There are some writers who when they introduce a character, they do kind of a head-to-toe thing, “an aquiline nose, a small thin mouth‌â€?

I feel that the more you leave to the reader’s imagination about what someone in a novel looks like – you may need to let people know they’re tall if they’re tall, or if they’re older or what age they are, but other than that you leave it up to the reader to imagine. I think if you try to interfere with that by telling the

Is it because when you’re reading you’re not really – even if someone did give you a description, you’re not really picturing it as if it were a film?

No, it really doesn’t work if you try to do it. So the best thing is not to try to do it and let the reader then start to imagine what the person looks like. In Brooklyn, for example, you never really get a description of [Eilis]; but she does have an effect on people, and you can see in the way that people respond to her that she must have some sort of warmth or some sort of glow or some sort of grace by the way people respond to her. People seem to want to help her, do things for her. But she’s not conscious of this; she doesn’t look in the mirror a lot, she doesn’t think about her own effect, but she does have that effect, so slowly you get a sense of her physical appearance by that.

You’ve said that returning again and again to some of the themes in your work, like grief and difficult family relationships, isn’t therapeutic, that it probably isn’t very good for you. The natural question would be: Why do you write?

When people were living in caves and they all went out hunting, and one guy stayed behind and did drawings on the caves of the animals, and we can still see those drawings in various places. That idea of trying to create images, of leaving something, of making something, of adding depth to our experience by creating images of it, is sort of fundamental to us.

It may be mysterious in its impulse, but it’s essential; it’s absolutely part of our makeup. It’s always been there.

This being a writers’ festival, there will be a lot of workshops and Q & As, with writers asking questions, seeking insights.

Do you have any general advice?

I think one of the problems you have is when you start working, you know the story, and in a way you know what you need to do, so it becomes boring at a certain point for you, because you just need to get the thing down. You just need to get up and every day you need to add to it. Whereas the opening of a book comes by some form of inspiration, some mysterious way that you didn’t expect. The rest of it is work, and you just need to do it. And you need to concentrate. And you need to finish it.

And the temptation is to start another book in the middle or not finish it, because you want to do something else. I think that’s something that arises where people just haven’t finished a thing that they’ve started, and the advice would be, “Just finish it.â€? And what happens then is that something strange happens: The more you work on something, the more you get into the rhythm of work, almost like an athlete running; you get to the control it, you get to see it better. But the main thing is to finish it. “An Evening with Colm TĂłibĂ­nâ€? will be held on Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m. at the Bearsville Theater. The Woodstock Bookfest runs from Thursday, March 22 to Sunday, March 25 and includes many other author panels, intensive workshops, parties, a Story Slam and more.

For tickets and more information, see https://woodstockbookfest.com.

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his year marks the 60th anniversary of America’s first Earth satellite.

The whole thing was odd. Movies and TV shows of the ’50s kept promising that we’d “soon” reach the Moon. Yet the president, Eisenhower, was totally indifferent to the idea of satellites and especially manned space travel, and budgeted exactly nothing toward it. Even when it was clear that the US could launch a satellite ahead of the Russians if we greenlighted the Alabama team headed by the Nazi-morphed-into-American rocket designer Werner von Braun, Eisenhower showed no interest until after Sputnik went aloft in 1957.

In that time of bobby-sox and Elvis and American economic dominance, everyone so assumed the US would create the first satellite that it was nationally traumatic to watch the Russian “star” glide overhead. It was also worrisome. If they could send a craft over our homes, they could as easily deliver H-Bombs to Albany. Few realized that Sputnik was less than two feet wide – far too tiny to be seen by the naked eye – and that the slow-moving dot was merely the third-stage rocket booster that had gone into orbit alongside it. No matter; it wasn’t good.

That Cyrillic call-to-arms led immediately to the formation of NASA and the creation of Project Mercury, where truly brave test pilots sat inside claustrophobic modules atop dangerous Redstone rockets that burned alcohol sprayed into liquid oxygen. It was only when the next president, Kennedy, saw the wild public acclaim over Alan Shepherd’s brief 1961 suborbital flight that he fully decided to race the Russians.

His “go to the Moon before the decade is out” speech is now famous, and Kennedy is widely regarded as the visionary responsible for pulling off America’s finest achievement.

But actually, he chose the Moon simply because it was the only arena where we could possibly win. The Russkies had already achieved the first orbiting satellite, the first animal in orbit, the first human, the first woman and the first craft to photograph the Moon’s far side. Actually landing on the Moon was the only thing left for us to try.

Today, when presidential prognostications carry about the same weight as those of Punxsutawney Phil, it’s hard to know whether most people truly believed Kennedy’s plan would really succeed in beating the Russians in the space race. But it was a more innocent time, when astronauts could die in a test-launch explosion and the project wouldn’t get bogged down for years in endless Congressional investigations. It was a time when the 12 men who walked the Moon did not automatically appear on late-night TV, when labels like “Snoopy” were affixed to craft, when the whole world was cheering us on.

Of course, politicians were politicians, then as now. Richard Nixon, who inherited the Apollo project, made sure that his name appeared on every one of the plaques left behind on the Moon, and his signature as well. These will remain legible for a halfbillion years, and easily survive the human race. When the first astronauts stepped upon the lunar soil, they had to stand and listen to Nixon’s rambling phone call to them, as he tried to equate in the public mind the grandeur of the Oval Office with the singular landscape of Tranquility.

The next topsy-turvy swing was the suddenness with which the public lost interest in Apollo. None of the final few missions to the Moon was carried by even a single TV

Everyone so assumed the US would create the first satellite that it was nationally traumatic to watch the Russian “star” glide overhead.

Irish whiskey cocktail class this Thursday in Kingston This being St. Paddy’s Day season, what better time to set aside your trendy cabinetful of Islay single-malts for a bit, and up your game on Irish whiskeys? Bluecashew Kitchen’s new location in Uptown Kingston continues its series of curated cooking classes this Thursday, March 15 with a special guest instructor: Paul Maloney, founder/owner of the Stockade Tavern and master mixologist with a special interest in traditional crafted cocktails.

In a 90-minute lecture/demonstration in bluecashew’s snazzy storefront kitchen, Maloney will conduct a tasting of several Irish whiskeys and teach you how to use them creatively in mixed drinks, including a special St. Patrick’s Dayinspired cocktail. The evening culminates with the making of a batch of Royal Hibernian Punch by David Wondrich, consisting of Irish whiskey, Madeira and oleo-saccharum: a syrup made from citrus peels marinated in sugar that was a staple of 19th-century beverages.

“Mixology for the Luck of the Irish (Whiskey)” gets underway at 6 p.m. The class fee is $65, and seating is limited. To reserve your place, call (845) 514-2300

or e-mail kitchen@bluecashew.com.

Bluecashew is located at 37B North Front Street in Kingston’s Stockade Historic District.

TSL hosts John Leland reading on the “oldest old” next Friday In 2004, The New York Times put John Leland, a reporter with the Metro section, on the retirement beat.

Even while researching and writing books on youth culture, with titles like Hip: The History and Why Kerouac Matters, he was immersing himself in the world of the elderly. His most recent yearlong assignment was to spend time with the “oldest of the old” – people over the age of 85, remnants of the “Greatest Generation” – and write a series of articles about what he learned from them. The reality he encountered upended notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise.

Now that material has been gathered into a new book, Happiness Is a Choice You Make, which interweaves profiles of six aged New Yorkers with the journalist’s own relationship with his 89-year-old mother. Leland will be visiting Time and Space, Limited (TSL) in Hudson on Friday, March 23 for a free reading and

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President Kennedy chose the Moon simply because it was the only arena where we could possibly win. The Russkies had already achieved the first orbiting satellite, the first animal in orbit, the first human, the first woman and the first craft to photograph the Moon’s far side. Actually landing on the Moon was the only thing left for us to try.

station. This fickleness has caused many scientists today to wonder whether the Moonredux planned by the current ill-informed president, and its consequent funding squeeze for unmanned probes and observatories, is a worthwhile enterprise. The betting is that future administrations will delay or cancel the Moon-return project no matter what.

Many also suspect that China, flush with cash and a desire to impress, will be the ones who first fund astronauts to Mars, and that the initial meals on the Red Planet will more likely be chow fun than beef jerky.

But during this anniversary year, one thing is certain: The last chapter of our topsyturvy love affair with space has yet to be written.

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

discussion beginning at 7 p.m. For $12.50 general admission, $10 for TSL members, you can arrive at 6:15 p.m. and join other attendees for a group supper.

To reserve your place at the table, call (518) 822-8100 or e-mail fyi@ timeandspace.org. for additional info, visit https://timeandspace.org. TSL is located at 434 Columbia Street in Hudson.

Keegan Ales to host Brewmates mail-order kit launch party In the Venn diagram of the beer world, there’s a significant overlap between people with discriminatory palates for microbrews and those who take up the hobby of brewing their own. Once you can taste the differences between varieties of hops, there’s no real turning back, is there?

Happily, it’s one of the founders of a locally based brewery who came up with the plan for Brewmates, a new limitededition mail-order service that will send a different homebrewing recipe kit, complete with all needed ingredients plus brewing instructions, to your door periodically. Craft beer pioneer Nat Collins – who in 1989 opened the Woodstock Brewing Company, now known as Keegan Ales and run by Tommy Keegan, and later went on to found the Tap New York Craft Beer & Food Festival at Hunter Mountain – has teamed up with his son Nate Collins

and Ryan Pointer to establish Brewmates.

The kicker is that each installment of your subscription will not merely enable you to sample a new type of beer; it will share a custom recipe created by a different independent craft brewery. Keegan Ales will be the first partner to provide a kit, with KCBC, Transmitter, Flagship, a Spider Bite/Barrage collaboration and more lined up for subsequent shipments.

Each kit features a unique recipe, easyto-follow instructions, the ingredients needed to brew five gallons of beer and a promotional item from the featured brewery.

To celebrate the launch of the Keegan Ales homebrew kit, which will feature Keegan’s limited-edition California Common beer, Brewmates will be hosting a party at the Keegan Ales Tap Room, located at 20 Saint James St. in Kingston, on Saturday, March 24 from 5 to 10 p.m.

Admission is free, and guests aged 21+ can sample a free pint of California Common. There will also be drawings to win Brewmates recipe kits, tickets to the Tap NY Festival and other prizes.

To find out more about Brewmates, including video tours of partnering microbreweries, visit www.brewmates. com, or search on “Brewmates” on YouTube.

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Parent-approved

March 15-22 “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”

– Doug Larson

Spring walks As Charles Dickens writes in Great Expectations, “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” Here are two opportunities to see what signs of spring find you!

• A Signs of Spring Nature Walk is hosted by the Esopus Creek Conservancy this Sunday, March 18 at 8 a.m. It’s free and open to the public; preregistration encouraged. Meet in the Saugerties Village Beach parking lot on Route 9W, just north of the Esopus Creek bridge, at the foot of Partition Street in the Village of Saugerties. Contact Steve Chorvas at schorvas@gmail.com for additional information or directions; www. esopuscreekconservancy.org.

• Spring into Nature: a Children’s Program takes place at the Mohonk Preserve Visitor Center on Tuesday, March 20 from 3:45 to 5 p.m. Geared for children ages 5 to 10 years, free, preregistration required. 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner.

(845) 255-0919, http://mohonkpreserve. org.

Dance delight Searching for a place to show off your cool new Floss Dance moves, as inspired by Backpack Kid? Check out this weekend’s multigenerational dance parties!

• The All Ages Ecstatic Dance Party takes place monthly on the third Saturday, March 17 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Marbletown Multi-Arts Center.

Activities include a barefoot-friendly dancefloor, healthy and delicious potluck snacks, a clothing swap and an open mic! Admission costs $10, $5 for seniors/students/teens, free for children and volunteers. 3588 Main Street, Stone

Ridge; (845) 658-8319, virginiamichele@ yahoo.com, http://freestylefrolic.org.

• The International Day of Happiness Yellow Dance Party happens on Tuesday, March 20 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the gymnasium at YMCA Kingston. Wear something yellow, bring a flashlight and let’s all promote optimism by dancing together! Submit to DJ Ali the songs that make you happy, here: www.facebook. com/events/172305446902167/?active_ tab=discussion. Admission costs $3.20 per person. YMCA Kingston is located at 507 Broadway in Kingston. www. facebook.com/kingstonisintoyellow, www. intoyellow.com.

Spring break boosters Looking for spring break ideas for your kids beyond setting personal records in Mario Kart? We are so lucky: Here are just a few of the offerings available for young people next week right here in the Hudson Valley!

• Boscobel has sessions Monday, March 26, Starlab; Tuesday, March 27 and Thursday, March 29, flashlight house tours; and Wednesday, March 28, clowning workshop. See www.boscobel. org/events-and-exhibitions/calendarof-events/march for times, pricing and reservations. 1601 Route 9D, Garrison.

• Wild Earth runs its three-day Spring Break Day Camp for 5-to-11-year-olds, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 27 to 29, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Accord. $240 per child; sibling discounts available. https://wildearth.org/youth/3day-spring-break-day-camp.

NYS Maple Weekend Drill, drill, drill the hole.

Hammer in the spout.

Hang the bucket on the tree To catch sap dripping out.

How about some family time in nature and its accompanying sweet seasonal sumptuousness? New York State Maple Weekend takes place Saturday and Sunday, March 17, 18, 24 and 25, with sugaring sites throughout the Hudson Valley. For more information, visit https:// sugarmakers.nysmaple.com and www. facebook.com/mapleweekend.

• Maple Sugaring Basics at Sam’s Point takes place on Saturday, March 17 from 10 to 11 a.m., geared for ages 6 to 12 years.

The program is free, and registration is required. The park entry fee is $10 per

vehicle. 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor.

Register at (845) 647-7989 or https:// parks.ny.gov/parks/193.

• Ashokan Maple Fest happens on Sunday, March 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ashokan Center. Admission costs $5 for adults; children aged 12 and under get in free; the pancake breakfast (glutenfree available!) costs $8 per person. 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge. (845) 6578333 or https://ashokancenter.org/events/ march-18-2018-maple-fest.

• Ne w B e g i n n i n g s Fa r m s t e a d , 2585 Route 209, Kingston, https:// newbeginningsfarmstead.com.

• Corey’s Fall Harvest Farm, 105 Hawley’s Corners Road, Highland, www. coreysfarm.com.

• Beechford Maple, 10 Beechford Drive, Boiceville, (845) 657-2897, wkraus@hvc. rr.com.

• Marty’s Maple Products Farm, 52 Bell Lane, West Shokan, (845) 417-8448.

• Frost Valley YMCA, 1920 Frost Valley Road, Claryville, http://frostvalley.org/

• The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum offers science workshops at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.: Tuesday, March 27 and Friday, March 30, Bubble Gum Science; Wednesday, March 28, Dough Science. $5 per session plus museum admission. 75 North Water Street, Poughkeepsie; http:// mhcm.org/visit/calendar.

• Mount Gulian hosts a Children’s Spring Tea on Tuesday, March 27 from noon to 2 p.m. Reserve by March 6. $22 for adults, $17 for children. 145 Sterling Street, Beacon; http://mountgulian.org/events. html.

• The Staatsburgh State Historic Site invites families with children ages 8 to 12 years to learn about life in the mansion 100 years ago. Tuesday, March 27 and Thursday, March 29, 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Tickets cost $5 per person or $12 for families of three and more; registration is required. 75 Mills Mansion Drive Road, Staatsburg; (845) 889-8851, www. facebook.com/staatsburghshs, https:// parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/25/details. aspx.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 17

Green Golly and Her Golden Flute at Kingston Library Classical music and storytelling: Turns out there’s more to life than just Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf! Come to the Kingston Library’s Super Saturday event on March 17 at 10:30 a.m.

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to see and hear Green Golly and Her Golden Flute. The story resembles Rapunzel in that Green Golly is locked in a tower for days; but instead of it bringing her down, she is inspired to create music. After the free show, keep the music flowing in your home by purchasing Green Golly sheet music, CDs and a storybook.

This program is free and open to the public of all ages, especially young people of school age. The Kingston Library is located at 55 Franklin Street in Kingston.

For more information, call (845) 331-0507 or visit www.kingstonlibrary.org/kids/ supersat.php. To learn more about the Green Golly Project, visit www.greengolly. com.

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Princess & Protectors Tea Party at FASNY Museum of Firefighting Kids’ Almanac readers already know that women are brave, fierce, strong and brilliant, from Princess Shuri of Wakanda to Moana. Now, how about meeting some real-life heroines? On Saturday, March 17 at 10:30 a.m., join the Princess and Protectors Tea Party at the FASNY Museum of

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Firefighting. Meet fantastic female firefighters face-to-face, learn how they protect and serve our community and experience the Junior Firefighter Challenge together!

Preregister to save your spots.

Admission costs $10 for adults; $5 for children aged 3 and up; $25 for families of two adults and two children; and is free for children under 3, museum members and residents of Columbia County.

The FASNY Museum of Firefighting is located at 117 Harry Howard Avenue in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 822-1875, extension 10, or visit www. fasnyfiremuseum.com/content/events_ and_programs/super_saturdays.

SUNDAY, MARCH 18

Kingston Model Train & Railroad Hobby Show “If you’re traveling near or far, don’t hassle with a plane or car,” suggests the announcer in the old Amtrak commercials, and I quite agree. My kids and I enjoyed a cushy Amtrak train ride just last week (note: there is a Krispy Kreme in Penn Station!), and now there’s a Kingston Model Train & Railroad Hobby Show this weekend!

On Sunday, March 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Andy Murphy Midtown Recreation Center, you and your budding conductors, engineers and mechanics can go loco for locomotives, train memorabilia, Thomas the Tank Engine displays in the Children’s Corner and more.

Admission costs $7 for adults, $2 for children under 12. The Andy Murphy Rec Center is located at 467 Broadway in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 616-0931 or visit https:// kingstontrainshow.com.

tickets or more information, visit https://helsinkihudson.ticketfly.com/ event/1590563. To learn more about the performers, visit www.bindlestiff.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

Highland Library hosts Workshop for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Are you reeling from an autism diagnosis in your family? Wish you knew more people who really “get” what it’s like to live with autism in family life?

Check out the Parent Workshop for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder this Tuesday, March 20 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Highland Public Library. Participants will learn techniques, receive support, share experiences and ask questions. This workshop is free and open to the public.

The Highland Public Library is located at 14 Elting Place in Highland.

For more information, call (845) 8343722, e-mail lsrosner@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/hvbsny or www. behaviorsos.com/highland-location.

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Welcome springtime with Ukrainian crafts at Soyuzivka

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Helsinki Hudson

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Have you ever threatened to sell your kids to the circus? Well, be careful of what you wish for, because they may end up performing right here! On Sunday, March 18, Helsinki Hudson presents the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in a family show. You’ll find yourself helpless with hilarity, marvel at the music and be awed by the acrobatics.

Ticket prices range from $7.50 to $45.

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The onset of springtime has always been a big deal in Ukrainian culture.

Among Catholics, the year’s highest holy day is Easter, called Velykden in the Ukrainian language – a word that translates as “the Great Day.”

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But the Great Day predated Christianity, which wasn’t officially adopted by a Ukrainian monarch until the late tenth century. Originally, Velykden meant the Vernal Equinox, the triumph of light over darkness and warmth over cold.

Unsurprisingly, many of the folk customs and symbolism associated with the celebration of Easter in Ukraine are based in Pagan lore. Common designs for pysanky – wax-resist colored Easter eggs – include rayed symbols that represent the sun god Dazhboh, oak leaves representing the thunder god Perun and figures with six upraised arms that depict the mother goddess Berehynia. A six-petaled rose inside a circle, commonly seen in Ukrainian embroidery, was originally a symbol of the primordial creator god Rod. Ukrainian folk motifs such as these become more interesting when you know their derivation, but such knowledge is not necessary to appreciate their beauty and craftsmanship. The Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson is offering a couple of opportunities this month to immerse yourself in the cheerful glories of a traditional Slavic spring: This Saturday, March 17, the Ukrainian resort’s gift shop will host a Spring Market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pysanky Easter eggs, embroidery, artwork, children’s books, cards and Soyuzivka gear will be on offer, along with a Ukrainian lunch.

The following weekend, from 4 p.m. on Friday, March 23 to noon on Sunday, March 25, Soyuzivka will present a Spring Fling Retreat for Body and Mind.

This is a spa getaway with distinctive Eastern European cultural touches along with the usual Eastern religion-based therapies like yoga and qigong. Meals will emphasize seasonal “healthy food choices,” including organic, vegetarian and vegan options and detoxifying herbal teas (but you could still probably get your hands on some pierogi or kielbasa if you ask around). There will be hikes in the Gunks, guided meditations, storytelling sessions and crafts workshops (including how to make pysanky). For an extra $50 each, 45-minute bodywork sessions – massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, chakra healing and/or crystals – will also be available once or twice each day.

The fees for the full Spring Fling weekend, not counting optional bodywork, are $190 per person double occupancy and $225 single occupancy; a single-night stayover is also available for $150 double occupancy. To reserve your spot, call (845) 626-5641 or e-mail soyuzivka.events@ gmail.com. The Soyuzivka Heritage Center is located at 216 Foordmore Road, off Route 44/55 in Kerhonkson.

– Frances Marion Platt

Nature walks this week seek out signs of spring If you live near a wetland in the Northeast, you certainly know the UFO-landing sounds of a population of spring peepers emerging, hungry and randy; and you may also be familiar with the mating call of the male American woodcock, popularly described by birders as a “buzzy peent.”

What comes next after that call is a sight to behold: The woodcock first attempts to impress his ladylove with his earthbound dance moves, bobbing up and down on his spindly legs. Then he’ll suddenly rocket straight up into the air and zigzag crazily about, making odd whistling and “kissing” noises before settling back down. This courtship display can go on for hours – typically at dusk, so it’s not easy to observe or photograph.

Lucky you if you know where to lurk and await this weird avian rite of spring.

The uninitiated might want to join an organized group: Check out the Vernal Equinox Woodcock Walk in the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, located in Galeville in southern Ulster County, happening on Tuesday, March 20 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Christine Guarino leads the expedition,

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which will gather at the Refuge entrance on Hoagerburgh Road (County Route 18). Besides woodcock courting flights, participants should hear early amphibians, and maybe an owl or two as well. E-mail chrissy.guarino@gmail.com to join the party.

Other group birding treks heading out in the near future include the Signs of Spring Nature Walk this Sunday, March 18, sponsored by the Esopus Creek Conservancy and the John Burroughs Natural History Society and guided by Steve Chorvas. Meeting at 8 a.m. in the Saugerties Village Beach parking lot on

Route 9W, just north of the Esopus Creek bridge, at the foot of Partition Street in the Village of Saugerties, the group will observe early signs of spring in a variety of ecologically rich habitats in the Town of Saugerties. Possible destinations include the Great Vly Wildlife Management Area, Esopus Bend Nature Preserve, Falling Waters Preserve and/or the Saugerties Lighthouse peninsula on the Hudson River. To register, e-mail schorvas@gmail.com, and visit www. esopuscreekconservancy.org for more upcoming nature walks and paddles.

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Tivoli Bays birding outing will explore tidal marshes and upland habitat.

Careful, respectful observations of bald eagle family life will highlight the walk, but waterfowl and other early migrants can also be expected. Meet trip leader Jess Prockup to carpool at the informal Park and Ride on Route 32, just west of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge at 7 a.m., or meet at the DEC parking lot on Cruger Island Road at Dutchess County Route 103 at 7:30. Additional parking is available on Gatehouse Drive. The walk will conclude around 1 p.m. To register, e-mail procolinos@gmail.com.

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

Audition Notice: Fun Home (3/30). Rhinebeck Theatre Society is holding auditions for a June production of Fun Home at 7pm. There will be a second round of auditions on 03/31/3018 from 1PM – 4PM. Info: dorothyluongo@gmail.com. The Center For Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. bit.ly/FunHomeRTS. 9am-10am T’ai Chi class. With Celeste Graves.

Unify the mind, body, spirit. Meets every Thursday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

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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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.

10am-12pm Ulster County Cultural Services and Promotion Fund Opens. All applicants are encouraged to attend a free application information session to learn more about the program’s funding priorities and how to develop a competitive application. Information sessions are 90 minutes and include time for Q&A. Appointments for individualized feedback on potential initiatives will also be available. The deadline to apply is April 13, 2018. Info: grants@artsmidhudson.org; 845-454-3222. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. artsmidhudson.org.

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.

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: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http:// woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, taraspayneuter.org. Cost varies.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

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

10:30am-11:30am Beginners T’ai Chi Class.

With Celeste Graves! Learn with other new students. Meets every Thursday, $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings, Intuitive Guidance and Expert Tarot Readings with esoteric scholar Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins warmly welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/half hour.

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.

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.

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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 Successful Aging and OFA Services. With OFA outreach coordinator Brian Jones. Info: 845-486-2555. HRHCare Health Center at Amenia, 3360 Route 343, Amenia. dutchessny.gov/aging.

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about maple sugaring and they’ll learn what a maple tree looks like. They’ll also be able to touch and see old-style maple sugaring tools, including a bucket, tap and hand drill. Then, with some help from their parents, each child will make their own maple tree craft that they can take home. This program will take place during the normal story time for four and five year olds, accompanied by a parent or guardian. Info: 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

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-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. 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-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 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 Business After Hours at Foster’s Coach House. Cash bar, free appetizers, Big Green 50/50 $10 Minimum>1/2 goes to RBK Scholarship Fund, 1/2 goes to Winner. Info: 845-876-8052. Fosters’s Coach House Tavern, 6411 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. $10/non-members.

6pm-8pm Craft & Create with Rachel Bertoni at the Glenmere Brewery. Design a set of earrings in your signature style under the direction of artist Rachel Bertoni of Bertoni Gallery while enjoying a flight of Glenmere’s hand-crafted beer and a locally made spent-grain soft pretzel. Info: 845-324-8686. Glenmere Brewing Company, 55

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is Friday, March 16. Info: 845-3403990 ext. 340; mdh268@cornell.edu.

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.

Upcoming Classes at the Mountain View Studio. New Class Opening: Yang Yin Yoga. $15. 1st class free.

Mondays & Fridays, 10:15 to 11:45am.

Info: lesliesnow.com,904-534-3141; leslie@lesliesnow.com. Presented by Long Life Fitness Saturday Kids Karate Class! Taught by Geoff. 7-12 years: 9:15-10 am 4-6 years: 10-10:40am Info call 347-9619763 or geoff@ stazfit.com. Monday Joint Lubricating Qi Gong. Taught by Marilyn St John.

Meets from 5-6pm. A slow gentle class

to encourage mobility of all the joints Qi Gong reduces stress , increases flexibility and promotes general well being. $10. Tuesday Classes: 4:15-5pm Boxing Conditioning w/ Tom for kids ages 7-12 On-going every week by donation. Jumping rope, jogging, rounds on the bags, mitt work, defense 5-5:45pm Boxing Conditioning for teens $8 per class Jumping rope, jogging, rounds on the bags, mitt work, defense 6-7pm Boxing Conditioning for adults $10 per class Jumping rope, jogging, rounds on the bags, mitt work, defense. For Info: 845-679-0901, mtviewstudio@gmail. com, www.mtnviewstudio.com. All classes held at Mountain View Studio.

Yoga Immersion Workshop with Kate Hagerman (3/17, 12:30-3pm).

Pranayama, Pratyahara and Dharana: Preparing the ground for Dhyana Meditation. A restorative yoga class of breathing practices and gentle poses designed to turn the attention inward to quiet the nervous system and foster concentration. Followed by a guided meditation. All levels welcome. To learn more about Kate or to register for this workshop please visit woodstockyo-

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6pm JCC Fairy Jars Class. Make your own glowing fairy jar. $10 for JCC members. $15 for non-members. RSVP by March 8th. . RSVP to 561-6602. Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh. tbjnewburgh.org.

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 Phoenicia Library 2018 Board Meeting.

Everyone welcome. Meetings held monthly - every 3rd Thursdays, 6:30pm. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6:30pm-8pm 2018 Winter Lecture Series for Home Gardeners: What’s Going on with the Bugs. Cecily Frazier. The first part of this talk will discuss the invasive Jumping Worm: how to identify it, the damage it does, and what you can do.

The second part will focus on the decline of insect populations and related reduction in the number of birds: theories on why this is happening, possible consequences, and what gardeners can do to help. Reg reqr’d. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. tinyurl.com/2018-WLS. $15.

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 Climate Change and Hope in Ulster County. Special presentation by Tim Guinee for elected and appointed county and municipal officials, staff, and members of Climate Smart Committees throughout Ulster County and beyond. A panel of experts will follow for questions and answers and discussion. Free and open to the public. Ulster County Office/Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair St, Kingston.

6:30pm-9:30pm Astronomy Night. Meets on the first and third Thursday of each month, Raj Pandya and Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New Paltz Department of Physics & Astronomy offer a free planetarium show. Followed by telescope observing (when the sky is clear) at the Smolen Observatory to the entire community including the general public. Tickets for the planetarium shows are required. They are available one week prior to show time. Tickets are NOT required at the Smolen Observatory. Info: 845-257-3818 or pandyar@newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. bit.ly/2fKrjN0.

7pm Wine Cheese and Magic! Thursday Night Live. Magic by Josh Strongin and a tasting of Kosher wines from around the world. Not your father’s Passover wine! Order for your Seder table. Admission is free, donation appreciated. RSVP. Info: 845-255-9817; npshul@hvc. rr.com;jswartzb@gmail.com. Jewish Congregation of New Paltz Community Center, 30 N. Chestnut St, New Paltz.

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Tractor Safety Certification Course for Teens starting in March. The course meets March 20 and 22, and April 3, 5, and 10, from 7 – 9pm at the Stone Ridge Firehouse located at 525 Cottekill Road in Stone Ridge. In addition, there will be driving practice on April 26 and 27, time TBA, and the Driving Test on April 29 at 8am, both held at the Ulster County Fairgrounds (249 Libertyville Road in New Paltz).

The National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program enables young workers (ages 14-19) to obtain a U.S. Department of Labor Certificate of Training which is required to operate farm tractors and equipment. The registration fee is $40 for enrolled 4-H members and $50 for non-4-H members, which includes the Student Manual. Space is limited to the first 20 paid registrants, on a first paid, first served basis. The registration deadline

Our World Remade: World War I Humanities New York (Mondays, through 4/23, from 6:30-8pm).

Hosted by the Woodstock Library, and The Friends of the Woodstock Library.

Free and open-to-the-public reading and discussion group, led by author and Woodstock resident Sheila Isenberg, the group will meet Mondays, March 12 through April 23, from 6:30-8pm at Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane in Woodstock. There is no class Monday, March 19. Registration is required.

Books for the course are free and may be picked up at the library. Register by contacting staff at the Woodstock Library. Info: info@woodstock.org; www.woodstock.org; 845-679-2213.

Butterfly Sips Golden Nectar. Tai Chi Chuan at Fighting Spirit Karate in Gardiner Yang Style (short form). Tai Chi Chuan is strength through softness: building stronger bones, resilient muscles and a dynamic energy body. It fills your reservoirs of chi. Instructor: Roy Capellaro, PT. 40+ years of Tai Chi experience, synthesizing knowledge of anatomy, physiology and the physics of gravity on the body. This short form of Tai Chi takes just 10 minutes to do as part of a daily routine. Three introductory lessons begin 3/20, then instruction continues for 9 additional sessions

7pm Town of Rochester Public Hearing. Town of Rochester Community Center, 15 Tobacco Rd, Accord.

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

7pm-8pm PageTurners: The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies. Explores a century of American history through the lives of Chinese Americans, to depict how an immigrant community survives. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail. com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Contact the library to request the book!

8pm Live @ The Falcon: bigBANG. Large Ensemble Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/ senior/student/child.

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.

7:30pm Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation. Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Musician and Philanthropist Peter Buffett Performs. The show features Buffett on piano and Michael Kott on cello and includes projected photos of family life in Omaha and video clips of Buffett’s work in film (“Dances With Wolves” fire dance scene), TV (commercials) and philanthropy. All proceeds benefit the Kingston, N.Y.-based Center for Creative Education. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. $20, free/student.

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 environ-

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8pm Live @ The Falcon: Stu Hamm “Songs & Stories”. Legendary Bassist. 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

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

8am-4pm 4th Hudson Valley Latino Forum.

Offering workshops on seven important topics: health, education, community, art, media, politics and business and they will be led by Latinos who are working to improve the quality of life in the area. TInfo: 845-790-5004; maffy@ABClatino.net.

SUNY Dutchess/Dutchess Hall, Poughkeepsie. latinoforum.abclatino.com.

9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnos-

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Pure Yang Qi Gong (Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm). Ancient meditative movements that align breath, body and intention. Gentle practice for all to build strength, flexibility and coordination. The Hot Spot, Plaza Rd, Kingston. $20 (pay what you can). Info: gibbonscharlotte@yahoo.com.

Stream Management Funding Available. Eligible applicants include local, county, state or federal government agencies; 501(c)3 organizations; and secondary school districts, colleges, or universities. For-profit firms may submit funding applications in the research, assessment and monitoring category only. Applications must be submitted to the program office by 4:30pm, 3/23. For application materials, visit the website ashokanstreams. org/projects-funding/. Funding for the Stream Management Implementation Program is provided by the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and administered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County. For more information, contact Leslie Zucker at 845-688-3047;z5@cornell.edu.

tic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm from March through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

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-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey!

A fun, lightly paced class. Meets every Monday and Friday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org. $3.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II with Alison Sinatra. This class is ideal for students transitioning from beginners to intermediate yoga.

Basic poses are explored with increasing detail interspersed with a flowing sequence. $18 dropin. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

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-12pm Winter Trees at the Gardiner Library. Late winter is an interesting time to look at trees, giving a unique glimpse at them as they start to wake up from their winter slumber and get ready for the upcoming spring. Take a tree walk on

KIWANIS ICE ARENA Open 7 days a week with various times for public skating

Public Open Skating Admissions $6 for Adults, $4 for Children 6-18, Children 5 & Under are Free.

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to complete the first one-third of Yang form. Tuesdays 9:45-11:00 am. Fighting Spirit Karate is on 19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner. Register: roycapellaro@ gmail.com or call 845- 518-1070; 12 sessions/$240.

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Grace Bible Fellowship Church

Good Friday — 7pm with Communion followed by Fellowship Palm Sunday — 10:45am & 6pm Services –Resurrection Sunday 9 am ................................. Early Service 9:45 am ............................... Fellowship

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All are welcome

18 the trails near the library. Explore ways to identify trees without leaves, including using tree bark and buds. Participants are encouraged to bring a notepad or sketch pad and pencil, a tree field guide or a smart device with a field guide installed. If ice and snow persists, participants may want to bring traction devices or other appropriate footwear. Info: 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups. Join us for homemade soups, salad and desserts. Take home soup. All are welcome. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com, http://newpaltzumc.org/.

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.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Readings and Tarot Card Readings with Mary. Every Friday at Mirabai.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

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.

4:30pm-5:30pm Cookie Céilí. Listen to Irish/ Celtic music CDs and decorate sugar cookies fresh from Tivoli Bread and Baking! Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http:// www.tivolilibrary.org/. (While supplies last.) All ages. Happens in East Room.

5pm-7:30pm It Could be Worse: Uplifting Thoughts at the End of the World. Join us for an evening of readings with local luminaries John Kilb, Violet Snow and Sparrow. Free admission.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.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.

6pm-9pm Slow Jam (Jam session!). Jam session for musicians of all ages, experience levels and backgrounds to share and learn together without an audience. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

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 Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/ senior/student/child.

7pm-8:30pm Irish Music & Dance Celebration.

Join us for a night bagpipes and Irish dancing

by Catskill Mountain Pipes and Drums and the D’amby Project. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary. org/.

7pm Movie Night: Son of God. Free will donation.

Info: 845-331-7099. United Reformed Church of Bloomington, 11 Church St, Bloomington.

7pm Documentary Screening of Newtown.

Screening of the 2017 documentary about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Post-screening Q&A with director Kim Snyder and panelists. Hosted by Stockade Works in association with the Bardavon. Free. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. stockadeworks.org/events/newtownscreening.

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-10pm Night of Poker to Benefit the Woodstock Farm Festival. Play two rounds of Texas Hold ‘Em where all suggested donation proceeds will go to support the Farm Festival’s 11th season beginning May 30! Win the admiration of your friends and prizes that are more exciting (and more delicious) than cash! A tax-deductible, suggested donation of $20 is the buy-in for both rounds, but each round will be a little over an hour if you’d like to come for just one. R & R Taproom, 104 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. rrtaproom.com.

7:30pm The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Bizet’s Symphony in C. James Bagwell, conductor. Free.

The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street

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8pm Ang ‘n Ed Acoustic Duo. Acoustic. Info: 845-229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. hydeparkbrewing.com.

10am-12pm New Baby New Paltz’s Saturday Social Circle. Meets every Saturday, 10am12pm. Info: 845-255-0624. This group 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. There is time for socialization so you can connect with old friends and get to know new ones. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz.

8pm Conversation Series at Bard. Join a public conversation between Neil Gaiman, Bard Professor in the Arts, and Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), bestselling author of the beloved A Series Of Unfortunate Events and noted literary critic.

Handler and Gaiman will discuss adaptation, collaboration, and the role of the writer as giver of advice. Part of a regular series of conversations at the Fisher Center hosted by Professor Gaiman.

This event includes an audience Q&A. Signed copies of the authors’ work will be available for sale. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandaleon-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. $25, free/Bard student, faculty, staff.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Michael Golden & The Outsiders. 60’s Inspired Rock. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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

Saturday

3/17

New York State Maple Weekend. Learn about New York’s maple sugar making processes and traditions and taste pure maple syrup in its many forms - right from the source. This event is organized by and sponsored the New York State Maple Producers Association. The event takes place at various locations throughout New York State.

Below are Ulster County’s participating locations: New Beginnings Farmstead, 2585 Route 209, Kingston. Corey’s Fall Harvest Farm, 105 Hawleys Corners Road, Highland. Beechford Maple, 10 Beechford Drive, Boiceville. Marty’s Maple Products Farm, 52 Bell Lane, West Shokan. Frost Valley YMCA, 1920 Frost Valley Road, Claryville. nysmaple.com/nys-maple-weekend.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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.

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 New Paltz Repair Cafe. Repair Cafe is a free community meeting place to bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired. The guys and gals who do the repairs have skills in many categories: from electrical, mechanical & electronic to seamstressing and “nursing” dolls and stuffed animals, to woodworking and digital. Whatever your area of interest and skill, join in as a “repair coach.” You don’t need to be a super expert and you’ll find lots of support from the other coaches. Or help out at the welcome table or in the “cafe”-very sociable!

Info: 646-302-5835. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

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-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-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-11:30am Eel Monitoring Training Day. Engage in firsthand research that may help biologists discover why populations of these important fish are declining. In the spring, use nets and traps to catch juvenile glass eels at our Black Creek Preserve (Ulster County). After counting and weighing them, you’ll release them unharmed.

Please wear warm clothes with quick dry fabric and bring a towel. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Info or RSVP: aconeski@scenichudson.org; 845-473-4440. Black Creek Preserve.

10am-1pm Shandaken Community Gardens Seed Swap. Bring your organic and heirloom seeds for trade. Don’t have seeds to swap? Some will be available for purchase. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www. phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 10am-11am Maple Sugaring Basics at Sam’s Point. Bring your family and learn about one of our favorite sugary treats! Explore the history and process of maple sugaring while learning how to identify the correct trees and how to use traditional tools to tap a tree and collect sap. This program is recommended for families with children ages 6 to 12, 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.

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-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.

11am-7pm Open Recreation. Pool table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

11am-12:30pm Free Presentation of 17th Century Dutch Stylish Household Goods in the Hudson Valley. “Living in Style” a presentation based on a selection from the George Way collection of seventeenth century Dutch fine and decorative art. Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture, PO Box, Hurley.

Info: 8453000000, INFO@HVVA.org.

11am-3pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Maple Sugar Tours. Learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, discover sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers, see an evaporator in action, and finish by participating in our taste test challenge to see if you can tell the difference between maple-flavored syrup and the real thing. Sugar Bush Tours: 11am, 1pm & 2pm; a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the Sugar Shack (terrain and weather conditions dependent) Maple Lane Tours: 12pm & 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the farmhouse to the new Sugar Shack after a tour of the sugar maple stand. Pre-paid registration required. Walkins welcome if space allows. Please wear boots and dress warmly! Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $10, $8/3-17.

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: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

11:30am-12:30pm Science Saturday. Join us for exciting measuring of pH level. The acidity or alkalinity of substances will amaze you. Please RSVP for safety glasses. Info: 845-266-5530. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

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.

12:30pm-3pm Yoga Immersion Workshop with Kate Hagerman. Pranayama, Pratyahara and Dharana: Preparing the ground for Dhyana Meditation. A restorative yoga class of breathing practices and gentle poses designed to turn the attention inward to quiet the nervous system and foster concentration. Followed by a guided meditation. All levels welcome. To learn more about Kate or to register for this workshop please visit woodstockyogacenter.com, or call 845-679-8700. $40 workshop price, and Woodstock Yoga Members receive 10% discount. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Expert Tarot Card Readings and Intuitive Guidance with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice.

1pm-2:30pm Free Creative Movement Dance Class and Dragon Dance. For boys and girls, ages 4 to ll. Taught by choreographer Linda Diamond.

March 15, 2018 4 Saturdays: March 3-24 Call to register. 845-6792213 (ask for Dawn.). Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

1pm-4:30pm Free Workshop: Healing the Stories We Tell Ourselves. With Mother Turtle (Marisa Shuron Harris). Redefine the future, letting go of what is held in the past and moving forward through inspiration & symbolic work.

Bring pen & paper. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. http://bit.ly/2BC7BPD. 1pm Live @ The Falcon: Fred Zepplin’s St. Pat’s Party. Classic Rock! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

2pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/ senior/student/child.

2pm Book Signing & Demo: Erin Jeanne McDowell. Author of The Fearless Baker Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro. Foreword by Rose Levy Beranbaum. Info: 845-514-2300; sean@ bluecashew.com. bluecashew Kitchen Homestead, 37 North Front St, Kingston. bluecashew.com.

2pm Mummenschanz: YOU & ME. Swiss mask theater troupe Mummenschanz pioneered their visual theater and inspired generations of showgoers across five continents over four decades.

A visually stunning spectacle that transcends cultural barriers and sparks the imagination. All ages. Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie. bardavon.org. $20, $10/12 & under.

4pm Audition: William Shakespeare’s Richard II. Walking the dog Theater of Ghent, NY announces auditions for its summer 2018 production of William Shakespeare’s Richard II, directed by Melania Levitsky. Go to the school’s main doors.

Rehearsals begin June 18, and performances will be July 19-22 and 25-29. Please contact Melania Levitsky for further information at melan27@ gmail.com. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, 330 County Route 21C, Ghent. wtdtheater.org.

4pm-7pm Woodstock Vol. Fire Co. # 4 – Corn Beef Dinner and Bake Sale. Eat in or take out.

Please call 845-679-2068 to reserve. Woodstock Vol. Fire Co. # 4, Zena and Sawkill Rds, Woodstock. $15.

4:30pm-5:30pm Piano Plus Concert. Bard Collaborative Pianists: JongSun Woo & Bethany Pietromiro. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@ olivefreelibrary.org, http://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. suggested donation.

5pm-7pm HU - Free Chocolate Tasting. Eat Chocolate on St. Patrick’s Day with wine from the Hudson-Chatham Winery. NO dairy, NO gluten DEELISH! Verdigris Hudson, 135 Warren Street @ 2nd, Hudson. www.VerdigrisTea.com.

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

5pm-6pm Woodstock Library Forum: Nicholas J. Costanzo. Talk about dysfunctional systems.

Admission is free. Info: 845-657-6439; sondra@ woodstock.org. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6pm-8pm Awakening the Dragon: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal the Primal Self with shamanic healer Adam Kane. Each of us has a spirit dragon within us, a fiery warrior yearning to co-create our reality and live life to our fullest potential.

Sometimes we erupt in moments of anger and resentment and sometimes it lies sleeping and dormant leaving us meek or fearful. In this workshop and group healing we will discover, honor and heal our own dragon through ceremonial work. Adam will work with each participant to tap into and activate this powerful and primal energy within each of us. Attendance is limited to 8. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25.

6:30pm-8:30pm Losing the Night at the Speed of Light. The canvas that is our night sky has been fading for the last 100 years. One of the major contributing factors is the growth of cities and a population jump from 76 million in 1900 to 282 million in 2000. Today a majority of the world’s population live in a light-polluted areas. What is it, where does it come from, and what impact does it have on the natural and cultural world we live in?

The program includes a slide show presentation about the effects of light pollution, and if clouds and weather cooperate you will head outside for a short light-pollution walk. Adults & youth ages 12 & up are welcome to attend. Reservations made on-line. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. eventbrite. com/e/losing-the-night-at-the-speed-of-lighttickets-43487145222?aff=erelexpmlt.

7pm-8:30pm New Moon Crystal Sound Healing. Crystal vibrations reduce stress and help restore balance, and align our mind-heart-cosmic connection. With Lea Garnier and Beth Ylvisaker.

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

7pm-9pm Ars Choralis presents Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty. Ars Choralis & Riverview Baptist Church Choir present a concert of Lincoln’s favorite songs & excerpts from his letters & speeches.

Riverview Baptist Church, 240 Catherine Street, Kingston. Info: (845) 679-8172, bpickhardt@ gmail.com, www.arschoralis.org. www.arschoralis for online and outlet information.

7pm-10pm Screening: In America. The heartwarming drama comedy In America, a tale of an

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Fahrenheit. During bright, sunny days, of course, temperatures push up into the 80s. An exhaust fan keeps temperatures from getting too high, which, with lows in the 30s, would wreak havoc with plant growth – at the very least causing lettuce, mustard and arugula to go to seed and lose quality too soon.

Adding just a few degrees at the bottom end of the temperature scale will spur growth in the newly sprouting lettuce, arugula, onion and leek seedlings.

This new minimum temperature of 43 degrees Fahrenheit strikes a congenial balance between plant growth and the cost and conservation of energy – propane, in this case.

GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Sow in snow It’s time to plant poppies directly, outdoors

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now today (March 7): a perfect time to plant seeds outdoors. Yes, really!

Obviously, not just any seed can be sown in snow. The ground is still frozen solid, so I can’t easily cover seeds with soil. And cold temperatures are going to rot most seeds before the weather warms enough for them to germinate and grow.

I’m planting poppyseeds. It does seem harsh to sow a flower whose seeds are hardly finer than dust and whose petals are as delicate as fairy shawls. But early sowing is a must, because poppy seedlings thrive during the cool, moist weather of early spring.

Covering the seeds with soil? No problem: Poppyseeds sprout best left uncovered. And because poppies don’t transplant well, their seeds are best sown right where the flowers are going to grow.

I’ll be sowing annual poppies, whose petals and leaves are more delicate than those of Oriental poppies. Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) once dotted the grainfields of Europe with its blood-red flowers. These flowers were immortalized in the poem “In Flanders Fields,” symbolizing lives lost in World War I. On Memorial and Veterans’ Day, red tissue-paper “corn poppies” are still distributed in memory of wars’ victims. Shirley poppy is a kind of corn poppy that has white lines along the edges of its petals. Corn and Shirley poppies begin blooming shortly after spring-flowering bulbs have finished their show, and continue blooming through July.

California poppy (Eschscholtzis californica) was named in honor of Dr. Eschscholtz, a Russian ship surgeon who found these bright-orange flowers blanketing California hillsides. California poppy is a perennial, but in our harsh winters must be treated like an annual and sown yearly.

Each winter, it doesn’t seem possible that the dustlike seeds I sprinkle atop the ground’s chilly white blanket could ever amount to anything. Each spring, I’m amazed to see a myriad of ferny poppy leaves, then flowers.

The sun is getting brighter in the sky day by day, so it’s mostly lack of heat that’s holding back plant growth. Outdoors, there’s not much to do about a lack of heat.

In the greenhouse, it’s time to turn up the thermostat a bit.

Thus far, I’ve let greenhouse temperatures drop no lower than about 38 degrees

Irish immigrant family’s that struggles as newcomers in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. The Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-389-9201, gerryharrington@mindspring. com, https://goo.gl/xiXbwG. Donation.

7:30pm The Golden Age of Song. The post-war era of swing, bebop and rock n’ roll come alive in this revitalized retrospective featuring the works of Nat King Cole, Mel Torme and Chet Baker. Sneed pays tribute to this much-loved and timeless era of jazz with an ensemble joined by special guest multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Keyon Harrold (Erykah Badu, Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill), an eclectic artist who has been featured on nearly 100 albums. Harrold recently starred as the trumpet sound of Miles Davis for the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack of the 2016 biopic Miles Ahead. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter. bard.edu. $45-$25.

7:30pm-9:30pm Concert: Flash Company Irish Music. Classic & new Irish folk music by awesome musicians Flash Company. Sponsored

by ACHP. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Rt. 9 and Church St, Hyde Park. Info: 914-456-6700, achpny@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2p0bGFq. $12.

7:30pm-10:30pm Folk Guild to Feature Amy Soucy. NY-based contemporary folk chanteuse who writes evocative songs. Featuring guestguitarist -Stephen Murphy! Hudson Valley Folk Guild Poughkeepsie Chapter, 67 South Randolph Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-592-4216, HVFGPoughkeepsie@gmail.com, hudsonvalleyfolkguild. org. $6.

7:30pm Reading of Marjorie Prime. TheaterSounds will give a reading of Jordan Harrison’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, a play set in the near future, when artificial intelligence has come of age. An elderly woman approaching her decline has a new companion who is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. Of course, family members recall and interpret the events in their lives differently. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. $5/suggested donation.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Upstate Rubdown.

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

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Sarah Potenza. Nashville Blues. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

8pm-11pm Luck of the Irish at Club Pine Hill Dance Party. DJ Storm Spinning. Guest DJ Maki.

Snacks and Non-Alcholic Drinks Come in your best “Green” attire, $5/suggested donation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. suggested donation.

9pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret. Adults only. $20 clowns in make-up or costume (walk-up only). Info: 518-828-4800.

Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. helsinkihudson.com. $30.

Sunday

3/18

New York State Maple Weekend. Learn about New York’s maple sugar making processes and traditions and taste pure maple syrup in its many forms - right from the source. This event is organized by and sponsored the New York State Maple Producers Association. The event takes place at various locations throughout New York State.

Below are Ulster County’s participating locations: New Beginnings Farmstead, 2585 Route 209, Kingston. Corey’s Fall Harvest Farm, 105 Hawleys Corners Road, Highland. Beechford Maple, 10 Beechford Drive, Boiceville. Marty’s Maple Products Farm, 52 Bell Lane, West Shokan. Frost Valley YMCA, 1920 Frost Valley Road, Claryville. nysmaple.com/nys-maple-weekend.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

8am-5pm Campaign Kick-Off Phonathon. Be the fuel that powers the change that betters the world! Make your pledge and donation to our Federation’s 2018 Campaign. Help us to help those in need. Visit www.ucjf.org or call in your donation at 845-338-8131. Jewish Federation of Ulster County, One Albany Ave,, G-10, Kingston. ucjf.org.

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-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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-4pm Ashokan Maple Fest. Fun, hands-on activities, music and pancake breakfast all day.

Pancake breakfast with Ashokan maple syrup and sweet Jack Wax maple candy. Entry $5.

Additional charge for crafts and pancakes. Info: 845- 657-8333. Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge. ashokancenter.org.

10am-4pm Kingston Model Train and Railroad Hobby Show. Largest model train and hobby show in Ulster County. Train layouts, dealer tables, operated toy trains, food, raffles, Thomas the Tank trains. Accessible. Info: 845-481-4198.

Andy Murphy Midtown Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. kingstontrainshow.com. $7, $2/under 12.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation!

Pool Table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main

I’m not skimping on heat when it comes to germinating seeds. Seeds require more heat to sprout than seedlings need to grow. Too little heat and seeds either rot or sprout too slowly.

Fortunately, seeds need little or, in some cases, no light to sprout. Some people use the warmth atop their DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY refrigerator for seed germination; the top of my refrigerator isn’t warm at all. Some people germinate their seeds at a warm spot in their house, such as near a heating duct; my home, heated mostly with wood, has no such oases. The temperatures near the woodstove swing over too wide a temperature range for good germination.

Years ago I invested in a thermostatically controlled heating mat, made especially for gardening. The mat is in the greenhouse, so even if greenhouse temperatures drop to 43 degrees, my seedflats sit with their bottoms soaking up 75-degree warmth from the mat below.

That’s how much warmth is needed to get the pepper and eggplant seeds I sowed this week to sprout.

– 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.

St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE.

Cragsmoor.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis. Swing Blues. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

12:30pm-6pm Astro-Tarot Readings with Diane Bergmanson. Combines Expert Tarot Reading with your natal birthchart and your individual planetary placement to answer questions and provide guidance on questions regarding relationships, health, career and more. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes, $40/45 minutes, $60/1 hour.

11am-3pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Maple Sugar Tours. Learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, discover sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers, see an evaporator in action, and finish by participating in our taste test challenge to see if you can tell the difference between maple-flavored syrup and the real thing. Sugar Bush Tours: 11am, 1pm & 2pm; a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the Sugar Shack (terrain and weather conditions dependent) Maple Lane Tours: 12pm & 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the farmhouse to the new Sugar Shack after a tour of the sugar maple stand. Pre-paid registration required. Walkins welcome if space allows. Please wear boots and dress warmly! Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $10, $8/3-17.

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!

Info: 845-372-6550. Museum Village, 1010 State Route 17M, Monroe. farmmarkettemplate.com.

12pm-5pm Individual Aura Photos and Analysis with aurographer Barbara Ellen Lubow.

Receive an aura face photo, chakra print, energy graph and intuitive analysis to understand what your particular aura colors mean and how to maximize the potential of your unique energy field as it relates to your own purpose and offers others in your day to day life. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $60.

12pm-3pm Bowl-a-Thon for the Animals. An afternoon of family fun at our Bowl-a-Thon. To benefit the animals at Pets Alive. Bake Sale, 50/50 and silent auction. Quinnz Pinz, 13-19 Railroad Ave, Middletown. Info: 845-386-9738, info@ petsalive.org, http://conta.cc/2scIShL. $20.

12pm-3pm It Wears the Buckhorns from Across the Way: A Magical Journey into the Sky Realm for Adults at Sam’s Point. Learn about Sam’s Point as a Sacred Site. In this walking tour Evan Pritchard (Grandfather Chipmunk) will start with a noon ceremony, then lead us upwards into the mythic realm of the ancestors, those who once lived in rock shelters along the trail, to what we call Sam’s Point. We will again do a ceremony at the perched boulder and sing ancient songs of blessing. Hikers will learn about local native geography, trails and place names (such as Ioskawasting), Algonquian cosmology and culture, intentional fires, rock shelters, faces of Manitou in the rocks, and much more. 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,

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

1pm-4pm Needle Felting Workshop. March’s theme is Bunnies and Chicks and Veggies..Oh My! Start working on your Spring display! * For confident beginners age 14 and older *. Merritt Bookstore, 57 Front St, Millbrook. Info: 845-6775857, Stacey@merrittbookstore.com, http://bit. ly/2Fk9G2K. Includes tools and wool, sweet treats and smiles!

1pm-4pm Women’s Seder. $18 Per person. Led

by Deborah Freedman. RSVP. Info: 845-562-5516.

Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh. tbjnewburgh.org.

1pm-2pm Folktales & Stories for Children & Families. Pamela Badila performs, tells and reads folktales from around the world in this special story hour. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda. shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, http://hudsonarealibrary.org.

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

1:45pm-3:45pm This Evil Thing. Michael Mears performs his one man play! Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham. www.oldchathamquakers.org. $10.

2pm Music Fan Film Series presents Concert for George. One year after George Harrison’s death, an all-star cast unites for a tribute concert for Paul McCartney, Ringo, Eric Clapton, & Tom Petty. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, http://rosendaletheatre.org. $8.

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.

2pm-3:30pm Blacklists are Back: Freedom of Speech and the Israel Lobby. Panel will be held with 3 speakers from the Hudson Valley will share their stories of how their human rights efforts were opposed by the Israel Lobby. One is a prominent journalist who was forced into retirement for writing articles about the West Bank.

Another is a political activist who tried to introduce a human rights resolution to the Dutchess Co. legislature, and the third is a student from Fordham University whose organization, Students

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for Justice in Palestine, was thrown off campus.

Contact: mecr@mideastcrisis.org; 845-876-7906.

Woodstock Town Hall, Tinker St, Woodstock. mideastcrisis.org.

2pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/ senior/student/child.

3pm Chiara String Quartet. Presented by Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series. Performing Debussy and Shostakovich from memory. Free admission. Info: 845-457-9867. Village of Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge St, Montgomery. villageofmontgomery.org.

3pm Saugerties Pro Musica: Yalin Chi – Pianist.

She’ll be performing: Debussy: Images Book I, Beethoven: Sonata in A Major, Op. 101, and Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42. Info: 845-679-5733. Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespromusica.org. $15, $12/senior, free/ student.

3pm The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Bizet’s Symphony in C. James Bagwell, conductor. Free. Hudson Hall, Hudson. theorchestranow.org.

3pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (family oriented show). 2pm doors. 3pm show. $12/18/45. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2mgM4X1.

4pm-6pm The Progression Ensemble. The Progression Ensemble will be giving a concert to preview brand new works written for them by composers Gene Pritsker, Eric Despard, and others. Info: 845-876-2903; sandy@mortonrhinecliff.org. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff. morton.rhinecliff.lib.ny.us.

4pm-6pm Ars Choralis presents “Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty”. Ars Choralis & Riverview Baptist Church Choir present Lincoln’s favorite music as well as excerpts from his letters & speeches. Overlook Methodist Church, 233 Tinker Street, Woodstock. Info: (845) 679-8172, bpickhardt@ gmail.com, www.arschoralis.org. www.arschoralis for online and outlet information.

4pm-5pm Wallkill Valley Land Trust Seeking Invasive Species Volunteers. The Wallkill Valley Land Trust (WVLT), a local land conservation organization, will be holding the second of two orientation sessions for individuals who want to help manage invasive plant species on the much-loved Joppenbergh Mountain. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by e-mail to Julia Palmer, Director of Land Stewardship at julia@wallkillvalleylt.org, with your name and contact information, or call the WVLT office at 845-255-2761 ,.

Rosendale Community Center, located Behind the Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. wallkillvalleylt.org.

4pm-5pm Volunteer Session on Joppenbergh Mountain. Orientation session on managing invasive species on Joppenbergh Mountain!

Refreshments will be served. Rosendale Recreation Center, 1055 Route 32 South, Rosendale.

Info: 845-255-2761, info@WallkillValleyLT.org, http://wallkillvalleylt.org.

4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast - 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 March 2018 Meeting of the Hudson Valley Humanists. The topic is: what are the social/political/economic changes that we want to improve our society? Humanist beliefs lead to a philosophy that stresses the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasizes common human needs and seeks solely rational ways of solving human problems. This meeting is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, email: auer1@att.net. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Andy Milne & Unison with John Hébert & Clarence Penn. World Class Pianist/Composer & Ensemble. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Monday

3/19

AARP Tax-Aide Program: Free Tax Preparation

& E-filing. Free, volunteer run, tax preparation service for low to moderate income taxpayers, with special attention to those ages 60 and older. You do not need to be a member of AARP or a retiree to use this service. There are 20 Tax-Aide sites around the county. All sites offer a free electronic filing service for both Federal and New York State returns. Appointments are available starting the first week of February and continue through April 15th. Dial 211 (or 1-800-899-1479) for site locations, hours or an appointment. Phone lines will be open seven days a week from 9am-7pm. aarp. org/taxaide.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer

dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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.

8am-5pm YMCA Announces Midtown Mechanics Earn-A-Bike Program. Young people in Kingston can ride a new bike this spring - one that they built! The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County announces “Midtown Mechanics 2018,” a bike repair class offering youth from 14 to 24 the opportunity to learn bike mechanics and earn their own bicycle. The program will run from February 5th to April 2nd. There is no cost to this program, but a commitment to attend all 8 sessions is required. There will be a maximum of 10 students.

All students will receive pizza dinner each night and a bike helmet, lights and lock on completion of the program. Applications for Midtown Mechanics are available at the YMCA Membership Office, or register online at https://ops1.operations. daxko.com/Online/2186/ProgramsV2/Search. mvc?category_ids=TAG40203. YMCA of Kingston, 507 Broadway, Kingston.

9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey! A fun class, lightly paced. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm from March through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

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-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 County Government On The Road. Info: 845-486-2555. Red Hook Senior Friendship Center, 59 Fisk St, Red Hook.

10am Muffin Mondays. Freshly baked muffins with your coffee. Info: 845-254-5469. $1 each.

Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

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.

10:30am-11:30am Art Discussion Group. Meets on the 3rd Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30am. Fun discussions and shared looking. 2 artists per month (Renaissance to Contemporary). Free admission. Event held in the study. Info: 913-620-3174.

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

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-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.

3pm Michael J. Fox Foundation holds Parkinson’s Program. The foundation’s advancement officers, Nicole Prisco and Mary McQuillen, will give a presentation. They will provide an overview of the foundation, as well as an update on Parkinson’s disease research in the pipeline and information on how people can get involved in online clinical trials. The program is free and open to the public. Info: 845-279-5711. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel.

March 15, 2018

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.

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.

5:30pm-6:30pm Learn To Meditate. Join in an hour of mindfulness - awareness practice Alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation Ongoing instruction is available. First-timers are always welcome. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

5:30pm-6:30pm Meditation Sitting. Alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation.

Ongoing instruction is available. First timers always welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org. free.

6:15pm Cantine’s Island Pot Luck Dinner. Meets on the third Monday of every month. Learn about co-housing. RSVP by calling 845-246-3271. Info: cantinesislandcohousing.org. cantinesislandcohousing.org.

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meetings.

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

6:30pm-8:30pm Beekeeping Support Group.

Each month a topic of interest to beekeepers is discussed. Beginners and masters welcome! Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, http://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency. Gospel Review & Special Guests. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

Tuesday

3/20

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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.

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.

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 selfhelp group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties.

9:45am-11am Butterfly Sips Golden Nectar. Tai Chi Chuan at Fighting Spirit Karate in Gardiner!

Yang Style (short form). Tai Chi Chuan is strength through softness: building stronger bones, resilient muscles and a dynamic energy body. It fills your reservoirs of chi. Instructor: Roy Capellaro, PT. 40+ years of Tai Chi experience, synthesizing knowledge of anatomy, physiology and the physics of gravity on the body. This short form of Tai Chi takes just 10 minutes to do as part of a daily routine. Three introductory lessons begin 3/20, then instruction continues for 9 additional sessions to complete the first one-third of Yang form. Tuesdays 9:45-11:00 am. Register: roycapellaro@gmail.com or call 845- 518-1070; 12 sessions/$240. Fighting Spirit Karate, 19 Osprey Ln, Gardiner.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

1pm-3pm American Dream. The Catskill Mountain Foundation and the Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory, New York presents an inspiring evening of dance for all ages. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville. Info: 518-263-2000, cmf@ catskillmtn.org, https://www.catskillmtn.org/ev. $30 at the door.

1pm-3:30pm Esopus Artist Group. 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.

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

Free.

2pm-3pm Building Your Family Tree. With Moe Lemire. Learn the tips and tools available to research and build your family tree. Bring a laptop computer if you own one. Free. Info: 845-2545469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

3pm-5pm Knitting & Crocheting with Tea & Cookies. In the Art Books Room. Some yarn, crochet and knitting needles available for beginners. Crafters share your knowledge! Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. Info: 8456792213, info@woodstock.org, www.woodstock.org/calendar. free.

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

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

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

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: 845-3398567. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

4:30pm-5:30pm CreaTuesday. Every other week will be a different craft or art project. Or, just come and make up your own craft/art project. Materials provided. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Perfect for 5-10 yos. No need to signup, just come by!

5pm-6pm Snowga With Pamela Martin. Apres Ski Yoga class specifically for skiers and snowboarders to build strength and help prevent injury. $3/class. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

5pm-6pm Yoga. With Pamela Martin. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

5:30pm-7:30pm Unity in Our Community Potluck Dinner. Kingston High School Cafeteria.

The event is being sponsored by KHS with community partners Center for Creative Education (CCE), Dojo Dance Company and TMI Project performing.

Activities will be provided by MyKingstonKids and the KHS ENL Department. This is a free event; a dish to share is welcomed but not required. Info: 845-943-3839; akapes@kingstoncityschools.org.

Kingston High School, 403 Broadway, Kingston.

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-8pm Raising Pigs on Pasture Class. Learn how to get the most from your pigs, your pastures, and your production! $10 for CCEUC Ag Program enrollees, and children 12 and under are free with an adult. Space is limited - register ahead with payment to save your seat. Registration deadline: March 19. Info: 845-340-3990 x311 or cad266@ cornell.edu. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. tinyurl.com/2018-Pigs-on-Pasture. $20.

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

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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 West Point Band Concert Series. Jazz ensemble Quintette 7 shares the stage with the Washingtonville High School Band in a special side-by-side performance. Info: 845-938-2617.

Washingtonville High School Auditorium, Washingtonville. westpointband.com.

JD HANCOCK

ERICA'S CANCER JOURNEY

Owning my anger “In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Erica’s old anger patterns as directed at my children and husband, or, per Stephen King, “Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

• Understand that I wouldn’t even be angry if you just did The Thing or behaved the right way/correctly/better.

• Yell or speak in an ice-cold tone. Hissing optional.

• Withdraw affection indefinitely.

• Seethe.

• Apologize for my inappropriate behavior illustrated above. Promise not to do it again.

• Do it again.

Erica’s anger evolution, or parenting is still harder than cancer Despite years of mindful work and healing around anger, I still wasn’t where I wanted to be. Then, last week, a gigantic shift came out of this routine exchange.

Me: Did you send that e-mail?

Son: Ugh, no… [types rapidly] Me: Are you serious? I reminded you umpteen times… That’s it, I’m pulling you out of all of your activities… [I stomp upstairs] I. am. done. Done. Donnnnnnnnnne!

Self: Okay, Erica, you are so mad right now. What do you need?

(Mark Twain: “When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”)

Me: What do I need? I need him to have sent that e-mail today!

Self: Yes, right, got it. But what do you need right now? What’s happening?

What’s really going on here?

Me: I’m really mad that I kept this task on the constant forefront of my mind and wasted all of that energy for nothing!

Self: Whose choice was that?

Me: Mine. So? Actually, you know what? Shut up. Never mind. Can we go back to the part where he messed up, and I did everything right?

[My personal values suddenly spin into my awareness like those old Batman show transition graphics] …People before things…Is this relationship based on tasks or trust?…Is my love conditional?…How serious is this transgression, anyway?…Does it warrant this level of rage?…Is my withdrawal of affection achieving anything?…

Self: How serious is this problem?

Me: Technically, not a big deal. But I spent a lot of energy reminding him and it didn’t happen.

Self: Nope. It didn’t happen. How do you feel right now?

Me: Ignored. Invisible. Devalued.… [new thought quietly enters] …It’s not the outcome I wanted.

Wait, what?

It’s not...the outcome...I wanted? It’s not the outcome I wanted!

OMG I am not angry about a different outcome. I am disappointed.

[Visualization of my ribs, skeletal, free and open, air/thoughts/feelings flow freely through me.]

I lash out at my son because I am disappointed with the outcome, and since disappointment is uncomfortable, I direct all of my emotion and attention toward him, which presents as anger, so I can avoid experiencing the hard feelings myself. …People before things…I value this relationship…I am disappointed by the outcome. Acting out so I don’t have to feel creates separation between us. I am acting angry at you when in truth, I am simply disappointed in the outcome.

Watching the SheBelieves Cup reminds me that I can have all the feels about Team USA’s action on the soccer field, but there is no guarantee about results.

My son has nothing to do with my emotional investment, but I am acting like he is squarely to blame. He is the target of these misdirected emotions because I don’t want to feel disappointment.

Yes, I am disappointed that my son did not complete the task required of him, but I realize it’s also about me: I chose to invest too deeply in it. Is it helpful guidance toward personal responsibility to keep nagging him? Maybe better to write him a single note next time, send a text or have him write his own reminder to himself to remember.

Funneling inappropriate emotional “traffic” into our relationship instead of focusing on the issue itself creates distance between us. Separating my punitive anger from the relationship is a complete game-changer for me.

I am free. My anger completely clears away.

(Emerson: “We boil at different degrees.”)

Me: I am sorry for the way I acted toward you tonight. And, oddly, thank you – thank you for not doing The Thing. For the chance for me to learn this incredible lesson. Because of it, my life has changed. Anger doesn’t own me anymore. I love you.

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.

7pm The Health Care System is Broken – Join Us to Learn How to Fix It. Film Screening: Fix-It: Health Care at the Tipping Point. Discussion: How to get universal affordable health care in NY State. Donation requested but not required.

Info: 917-673-1332; elissakrauss@gmail.com.

Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. nyhcampaign.org.

7pm-8pm Scrabble Night. Every Tuesday! Bring snacks to share starts 7pm. All welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

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 845-688-2828 or emersonresort.com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

7:30pm SUNY Ulster Chamber Concert. SUNY Ulster music ensembles present chamber works for wind and strings. Info: 845-687-5169. SUNY Ulster/Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. sunyulster. edu.

8pm-9:30pm Spring Equinox Sound Bath Immersion. Welcome the first day of spring with a powerful cleansing sound bath. With Lea Garnier, Beth Ylvisaker and special guest Jessica Caplan.

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

Wednesday

3/21

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

8:30am-9:15am Universal Prayer Group.

Sitting together a table, personal prayers will be shared aloud. All religious and spiritual beliefs are honored. MaMA. Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge.

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.

9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm from March through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9am-11:30am Vinyasa Level I-II with Alison Sinatra. This class is ideal for students transitioning from beginners to intermediate yoga.

Basic poses are explored with increasing detail interspersed with a flowing sequence. $18 drop-in.

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

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.

Speaker: William McKenna, Woodstock Town Supervisor. Info: 845-679-8537. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-3pm Pinochle. Card Game every Wednesday! Looking for a 4th player Anyone interested - email info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 1pm Community Chorus Meet-Up. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

1pm-3pm Social Circle. Good conversation!

Every Wednesday. Everyone welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

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

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.

3:30pm-5:30pm Teen Open Studio. Every Wednesday. Local artists facilitate art sessions to explore a variety of materials and techniques and build a sense of community for local teens.

Ages 13-18. Free. Info: info@drawkingston.org.

DRAW at the YMCA, 507 Broadway, Kingston. drawkingston.org.

4pm Eleanor Everywhere. A Women’s History Month author talk and book signing with Sandra Opdycke, author of THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF WOMEN IN AMERICA. At the Henry A. Wallace Center. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

4:30pm-6pm 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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

4:30pm-5:30pm Art Hour. Fun for ages 3 to 103!

From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

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-8pm Yoga and Aromatherapy for Emotional Release with yoga teacher and energy healer Patricia Laufer. In this relaxing and transformational workshop Patricia will assist us in releasing stuck emotional patterns using yoga postures to identify them, Aromatherapy and Breathwork techniques to release them to calm and center the mind and body. Please bring a yoga mat and journal to class. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30.

6pm-8pm #Metoo: The Future is Female. A rollicking, sexy, heartbreaking evening of feminist writing, including poetry, essays, and monologue. No cover. Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 646-515-0919, info@ poetrybarn.co, facebook.com/event. Donations encouraged.

6:30pm-7:05pm Learn Remembrance. A very holy and deep form of prayer (with roots in the Old Testament – Remember my name in the night) which connects you with the Divine within. All are welcome, RSVP please. Info: 845-679-8989.

Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Meetup.flowingspirit.com. Free/donations welcomed.

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.

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.

11:30am-1pm Winter Walk With Pamela Martin. Walk the nearby rail trail. Have non cotton layers of clothes. Micro Spikes or Snow Shoes (Depending on conditions.) No Fee. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

6:30pm-7:30pm Pure Yang Qi Gong. Ancient meditative movements that align breath, body and intention. Gentle practice for all to build strength, flexibility and coordination. The Hot Spot Kingston, 218 Plaza Rd, Kingston. Info: 518 705 6582, gibbonscharlotte@yahoo.com. pay what you can.

11:30am Successful Aging. With OFA outreach coordinator Brian Jones. At “Lunch and Learn.”

Info: 845-486-2555. Temple Beth-El, 118 Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie. dutchessny.gov/aging.

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.

12pm-1pm Lunch & Learn: Clean up the Clutter with Johanna Bard. Johanna Bard will share techniques to help bring civility to your crazed papery life. Her purpose as a Professional Organizer is to help remove obstacles that prevent you from putting your world in order. Physical clutter muddles the mind and the heart. Bring lunch. They have water, coffee and tea available.

Info: 845-876-5904. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce Office, 23 F East Market St, Rhinebeck. $10/non-members.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Daisycutter. Downtown-Upstate Roots Rock. Info: 845-236-7970.

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

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.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions. Sign Up & Sit In Blues Jazz. Info:

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845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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 The Call Author Talk. Local author Laurie Boris will be talking about women in baseball (especially umpires) and will be reading segments aloud. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, http://esopuslibrary. org/.

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-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.

7:15pm Music Fan Film Series presents Concert for George. One year after George Harrison’s death, an all-star cast (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, etc.) unite for a tribute concert. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre. org, rosendaletheatre.org. $8.

7:15pm-8pm Silent Spiritual Practice. For people who would like to do spiritual practice together to increase the potency of the practice.

For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please. 845-679-8989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Meetup. flowingspirit.com.

7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Wednesday.

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

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.

Thursday

3/22

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

Audition Notice: Fun Home (3/30). Rhinebeck Theatre Society is holding auditions for a June production of Fun Home at 7pm. There will be a second round of auditions on 03/31/3018 from 1PM – 4PM. Info: dorothyluongo@gmail.com. The Center For Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. bit.ly/FunHomeRTS. 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.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, March 29th, 2018 at 4:00 PM for REPLACEMENT OF ROADWAY SIGNAGE RFB-UC18-028. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at UlsterCountyNY.Gov/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, March 29th, 2018 at 3:00 PM for ELLENVILLE HVAC WORK RFB-UC18-030.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at UlsterCountyNY.Gov/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401

9am-10am T’ai Chi class. With Celeste Graves.

Unify the mind, body, spirit. Meets every Thursday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

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, taraspayneuter.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: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http:// woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

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

10:30am-11:30am Beginners T’ai Chi Class.

With Celeste Graves! Learn with other new students. Meets every Thursday, $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

11am Heart Health. With OFA nutrition coordinator Nimesh Bhargava. Info: 845-486-2555. East Fishkill Senior Friendship Center, 890 Route 82, Hopewell Junction.

12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle and Tarot Readings and Intuitive Counseling with esoteric scholar and author Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome! Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/half hour.

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.

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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.

tioning from beginners to intermediate yoga.

Basic poses are explored with increasing detail interspersed with a flowing sequence. $18 dropin. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6pm-7pm Lego Projects. Each month a new creative challenge. Come and build with others!

Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan.

Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary. org, http://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

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.

6pm-8pm Working with your Processer Class for Livestock Producers. Jason Detzel, CCEUC Livestock Educator, will facilitate a valuable talk about the process and procedures involved with preparing, loading, transporting, scheduling, and getting the best quality product from the animals you have worked so hard to raise. We will review maps of all of the processors in the state, requirements for moving animals across state lines, how to read and fill out cut-sheets, and get the most out of your relationship with your particular processor.

This class is free and open to the public. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited - please pre-register by March 20. emailingjbd222@cornell.edu or calling 845-340-3990 x327. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu.

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-8pm Roll and RFecovery with Dee Pitcock. R&R will introduce you to self-myofascial release techniques, using a variety of grippy balls, foam rollers, breath work and stretching..

Woodstock Healing Arts, 83 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-393-4325, ino@woodstockhealingarts.com, http://bit.ly/2naLIyY. $15.

7pm-9pm NT Live: Julius Caesar. by William Shakespeare. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton. Info: 518-789-0022, events@ themoviehouse.net, http://www.themoviehouse. net/index.php/site/special_events/nt_live_julius_ caesar. General $21 / Gold Members $16.

7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

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.

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

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.

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

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Comics at The Underground. Stand Up Comedy. Info: 845-236-7970.

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

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.

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

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

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-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

on Thursday, March 29th, 2018 at 3:30 PM for HOT WATER HEATER RFB-UC18-029.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at UlsterCountyNY.Gov/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 2:00PM for Vehicle Exhaust and Air Handler System for Truck Maintenance Shop, #RFB-UC18-144C. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. ulstercountyny.gov/purchasing Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed bids will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 3:00PM for Repaving of UCAT Parking Lot, BID #RFB-UC18-147C. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

Friday

3/23

Rock n Roll Resort v8: The Grateful Escape.

Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, 400 Granite Rd, Kerhonkson. RocknRollResort.com. $30.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table. Info: 845-7652600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm from March through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey!

A fun, lightly paced class. Meets every Monday and Friday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org. $3.

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.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II with Alison Sinatra. This class is ideal for students transi-

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups. Join us for homemade soups, salad and desserts. Take home soup. All are welcome. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com, http://newpaltzumc.org/.

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.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal and Tarot Readings with Mary Vukovic. Every Friday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome! Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

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.

4pm-7pm Heavenly Soups To Go. $4.50 per pint & a roll. Info: 845-331-7099. United Reformed Church of Bloomington, 11 Church St, Bloomington.

5pm-7:30pm Computer Fixer. Joris Sankai Lemmens will be available to answer technical questions in 15 minute increments. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 5pm-6pm FOCUS: Abstract Heart Gallery Talk.

Exhibition juror, Katie Schimdt Feder and WAAM Galley Director Carl Van Brunt discuss FOCUS: Abstract Heart. Followed by Q&A. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2940, info@woodstockart.org, www.woodstockart.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.

6:45pm-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-8pm Happiness is a Choice You Make Book Reading with John Leland. John Leland reads from NY Times Bestseller Happiness is a Choice You Make. Free. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, http://bit.ly/2EqYqEq. 7pm-10pm Making a Killing, Gun, Greed and the NRA. Stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. A Brave New World Film. First Presbyterian Church of Beacon, 50 Liberty St, Beacon. www. moviesthatmatterbeacon. Free.

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.

7:30pm-11pm Swing Dance. Dance to the fabulous Eight To The Bar! You’ll love their energy.

Beginner lesson 7:30pm. Band at 8pm. No experience needed. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hvcd.info. $20, or $15 for students.

7:30pm-9pm Classical Music Mini-Series. An evening of classical chamber music, curated by Drew Youmans, featuring local musicians and musicians from The Orchestra Now. Artbar Gallery, 674 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 718-4338925, midtownmusickingston@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2F77gYb. Free for students with ID. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Jesse Harris. Nora Jones’ Secret Weapon. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Willie Nile. Renaissance Singer Songwriter. Opener: Ali Handal.

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

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Our fax-machine number is 845-334-8809 (include credit card #)

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REMEMBER: Please Dress for Success!

For questions please contact Shawn, at (845) 256-2089 or HR@mohonk.com.

The absolute final deadline is Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Monday at 11 a.m. in Woodstock and New Paltz; Tuesday in Kingston.

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cleanliness & like to clean. Start immediately on Sundays w/increased hours as the season progresses. Nice working conditions and environment. Call Karen at The Woodstock Inn on the Millstream 679-8211.\

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We have Jobs at Mohonk Mountain House, both Seasonal and Year Round Please look on-line and apply at MOHONKJOBS.com

Drivers: Home EVERY Night!! Make $1100/wk + Great Benefits! Local Position~Mr. Bult’s. CDL-A required. 315761-3725. Apply: www.mrbults.com Position available at small Kingston Notfor-profit: Administrative Assistant: 15 hrs/week. Starts Immediately. Salary negotiable. Resumes to: resumes.ucjf@gmail. com Requirements include: competencies in database management (entry, queries and creating reports); MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, & possibly Publisher); managing Google calendars and docs and social networking (Mail Chimp eblasts, Facebook, Instagram) a plus. Candidate must have pleasant phone manner and people skills.

Responsible for supporting the Executive Coordinator and will work with the Bookkeeper, board members and interface with volunteers. Other responsibilities include: arranging mailings, office machine maintenance, ordering office supplies and cleanings.

Pre-School Music Teachers/pt: Musical Munchkins is looking for that exceptionally talented individual who can sing and play

guitar, lead parent music classes for babies & toddlers with warmth, fun and passion, and perform at birthday parties in Orange County, New York. Saturdays, and some mornings, during the week (full training) during spring to begin for the fall school year. Excellent pay. Lots of growth potential. Resume and audition required: musicalmunchkinsoforange@gmail.com. www. musicalmunchkins.net Supervising Lifeguards, Lifeguards, WSI’s/ Swim Instructors, Attendants, etc. for Moriello Pool (Town/Village of New Paltz Pool) for Summer 2018. Appropriate certifications required. Application and information available at: Office of Town Supervisor, 52 Clearwater Road, New Paltz.

255-0604. EOE. Someone to Assist with Cats at Diana’s Cat Shelter in Accord. Reliable, trustworthy person to work Part-time weekdays &/or weekends as needed. Experience with cats helpful. Able to work independently as well as with a team. Call 845-626-0221.

CHAMBERMAID: PART-TIME. Must be reliable, attentive, have high standard of

Genia@ulsterpublishing.com

Almanac Weekly Kingston Times New Paltz Times Saugerties Times Woodstock Times hudsonvalleyone.com Advertising Coordinators Needed to connect and follow up with businesses about being included in the Spring/Summer printed editions of the HudsonValleyNow Guide and the CapitalRegionNow Guide starting immediately and continuing thru mid-May. For more information, please call 845-790-5484.

Work From Home. Brand Ambassadors w/Kannaway, the hemp lifestyle company, share in the health & wealth of the legal CBD space. Full/part-time. Outstanding compensation. Visit www.HappyHempDays.com and text 845-532-0731 for more info.

Farmworker Div Crops II Needed. Job starts 4/13/2018 and ends 12/1/2018. Will Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, and pack vegetable and fruit crops including; apples, peaches, nectarines, plums, cher-

ries, 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. $12.83 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 #NY1241504.

ENJOY WORKING OUTDOORS? seek strong skilled weeder, weed whacking, digging, vehicle for wheelbarrow near Woodstock. Part-time. nightshadefinegardening@gmail.com

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IN-HOME CARE. 10 years experience. Experienced with Dimentia patients, Parkinson’s Disease. Flexible hours. Great references. Loving. Caring. Responsible. Call 845-532-9149.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133 LPN for hire. Private duty. Experienced, references. 845-943-9555

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Party Planning/ Catering

POTTIE FOR YOUR PARTY! HAVING A PARTY? TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly,

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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845-338-5832

CARPE DIEM SELLERS!

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Current market conditions ARE optimal RIGHT NOW if you’re thinking of selling!

Our exhaustive analysis of up-to-the-minute listing and selling data indicates a trend which can be hugely beneficial to homeowners ready to move. With 40 years of developing successful sales strategies, no one is better equipped than Westwood to advise you in taking advantage of this opportunity. Call a Westwood professional today for your personally designed marketing plan!

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A WORLD APART - Absolute privacy insured by 70 pristine acres with POND, stream & bucolic vistas. Stylish designer-renovated 18th century stone home retains the best of the vintage details with integrated modern convenience. Surprising open plan features wide pine & slate floors, beams, Rumsford fireplace, gourmet country kitchen, vaulted ceilings, porch & patio. Period barn & 70’ stable offer studio/workshop potential. SO ROMANTIC! ...............................$1,275,000

“WINDING ROAD FARM” - 17 acre Red Hook property ideal for the organic farm/ small animal enthusiast just 10 minutes to Red Hook or Rhinebeck villages. Three PONDS & stone walls add charm and value!

Super spacious 4200 SF Cape style c. 1960 features living room w/ cozy fireplace, hardwood floors, 5 or 6 bedrooms, 4 full baths, French doors, vaulted ceilings, den, rec room, deck, patio and barn, too! GREAT NEW PRICE! ..............................$459,000

This very special property consists of a circa 1900 farmhouse, an early barn and garage with charming apartment with protected view of the reservoir on 41 acres in desirable Town of Olive. The 8 room farmhouse is highlighted by two stone fireplaces, wide board floors, some original details and a wrap around porch overlooking the reservoir. Blue stone patios, old stone walls, a pond and mature trees add to the appeal of the property which has the potential of being an area showplace. ................................................ $799,000

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— THE RIDGE AT NEW PALTZ —

BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION: Be the first to move into these two bedroom bath and a half units. All the comforts of home in a two story duplex. Private entry leads into bright, open, modern floor plan. Natural gas heat, central air conditioning. Kitchen includes built in microwave, refrigerator, self-cleaning gas range, dishwasher, ceramic tile floor and subway tile backsplash. Dining room with glass patio doors lead onto private deck. Living room with fireplace. Guest bath on main floor. Second floor host 2 large bedrooms, great closet space, large bath with ceramic tile flooring. Washer/dryer connection. Sorry, no pets. No smoking. Quiet country setting yet walking distance to village shopping, dining, bus, etc. One floor, walk in, handicap accessible units also available.

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COUNTRY COMFORT - What a super location! Over 5 rural acres with a POND, rolling meadows and expansive vistas.

Perfectly spacious Colonial style with a contemporary flair features refinished wood floors and NEW carpet. 22’ living room with cozy fireplace, dining room, kitchen w/ handy island, vaulted ensuite MBR + 2 add’l. bedrooms, 2.5 baths, home office, full basement PLUS bonus room over 2 car attached garage. .................$339,000

REBORN SCHOOLHOUSE - School’s out but you can still learn the ABC’s of peaceful country living in this enchanting c. 1890 schoolhouse minutes to Stone Ridge Hamlet. Features oversized windows, cozy woodstove to chase winter’s chill, 21’ living room, eat-in country style kitchen, 2 BRs & full bath on main level PLUS lofty finished attic space for guests or retreat. Sweet patio PLUS storybook red BARN add pastoral ambiance. ................................... $268,000

Kingston 340-1920

Woodstock 679-0006

Rhinebeck 876-4400

Stone Ridge 687-0232

New Paltz 255-9400

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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 845-706-7197. e-mail: TLKportables@ gmail.com

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WOODSTOCK HISTORIC STONE HOUSE IN TOWN — Built 1790 — Many spacious rooms, high ceilings, 3 fireplaces, 2½ baths, wide plank floors, completely restored, many possibilities, mint condition.

845-679-6877

ULSTER COUNTY MORTGAGE RATES Mid-Hudson Valley FCU 800-451-8373 30 Yr Fixed 15 Yr Fixed 10 Yr Adj

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www.westwoodrealty.com West Hurley 679-7321

Shared Workspace: The Wellness Cottage at Boughton Place in Highland is now booking space for professionals to see clients/ work in a quiet and private space. Perfect for Psychotherapists, Massage Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Reiki Practitioners, Energy Healers, Health Coaches, Writers, etc. Rent begins at $70/half-day with monthly commitment. For more info: boughtonplace@gmail.com or 845-6917578.

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Class A PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE in New Paltz. Up to 1500 sq.ft. High traffic area, off-street parking, utilities included.

High visibility building. Call for more details 845-389-0588.

Office Space for Rent. 560 Square feet, Class AAA Office space in LEED Platinum, Net Zero Energy Building. Main Street, New Paltz. Includes shared conference room, kitchenette, parking. Contact info@ alfandre.com or call 845-255-4774.

BEAUTIFUL SPACIOUS OFFICE/STUDIO; Historic Landmark elevator building on Wall St. in Uptown Kingston. This spacious third floor (24’ x 33’) office/studio is brilliant with light from a wall of windows overlooking the street between John and North Front St. $1200/ month. For details call SHRES 845-246-2022.

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. Liza 646220-1136.

ASHOKAN STORE-IT Ask About Our Long Term Storage Discount

5x10 $40 10x15 $90

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

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

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NYC Rentals & Shares

Great NYC Room for Commuter. Cozy room for rent in 2 BR apartment in Hudson Heights, a quiet progressive neighborhood between GWB and Ft. Tryon Park/Cloisters.

(20 minutes to Columbus Circle on A train.

Some on-street parking.) Bright LR with piano, yoga mats, weights. Nice galley, windowed eat-in kitchen with DW. Shared

bathroom. Twin BR is 8 x 11, furnished, with blackout blinds and in-window A/C. Ideal for weekday commuter or as a pied-a-terre.

Share the apartment with a quiet, professional 56 year old woman and a 19 year old chatty cat. Available now-July, possibly longer. $850/month. Utilities/WiFi/basic TV included. Contact yogamom369@gmail. com

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Highland/ Clintondale Rentals

HIGHLAND: LARGE 1-BEDROOM. $975/ month heat & hot water included. Available immediately. Private, quiet neighborhood.

On-site parking. Next to Highland Town Hall/Court, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to SUNY New Paltz, Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security.

No smoking. 845-453-0047.

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NEW PALTZ: Clean, Quiet, Cozy 2-Bedroom Apartment. $1350/month includes heat, hot water, electric, parking! Day care next door. Located 21 N. Chestnut Street.

Discount for 1-person occupancy. Call 845229-0024.

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 SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for FALL 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.

Made you look.

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

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VIEWS, VIEWS, SPECTACULAR MT VIEWS! Located just a few miles west of the Village of Saugerties, this 10.49-acre lot can be subdivided into separate residential lots. Plenty of privacy, this lot is buffered from the noise of Rt. 212 by another parcel. Build a large home or subdivide w/a few smaller ones. The lower portion of this lot goes right to Rt 212, maybe for a commercial property possibly. The lot has a gentle slope & is mostly cleared, ready for improvements. Close to the NYS Thruway (Exit 20), wonderful restaurants and HITS (Horse shows In The Sun). Woodstock is only minutes to the West! Call William “Chris” St. John today! ................................ $99,900

CLEAR OUT FOR VIEWS! On this lovely 3.3-Acre lot in Woodstock and located in an area of nice homes on Mt. Tobias. This parcel is easy to build on and with total privacy! Currently, it has seasonal Mountain views, and with some clearing, it could have year-round views! Totally Priced to Sell and easy to show. Be a part of the Woodstock community. Plenty of things to do, one-of-a-kind shops, eateries, and in the Catskills for plenty of skiing in the Wintertime, swimming & hiking the rest of the year. Call Richard Miller today! ......$85,000

SEASONAL SAUGERTIES COTTAGE This fully renovated 2-BR Cottage is in the town of Saugerties and has a screened-in porch. Inside has new wood floors in the guestBR and a spacious living room.

A newer propane stove provides warmth during cool nights. The eat-in-kitchen has rear access to a new deck that has a calming sense of privacy. This home has been used as a seasonal getaway. There is a “quick-drain” system installed and it can be easily converted to a year-round home. Close to the NYS Thruway (Exit 20), HITS (Horse shows In The Sun), eateries and shops. Call Blanca Aponte today! .................................. $89,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300

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

We have two bedrooms available.

Move in by April 1st & get 10% off the rent with a 1-year lease!

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BAM! MA COMMERCIAL ON REDU JOR PRIC OLD KINGS E CTIO N! Ideal commercial building, with a buildable lot on 3.80-acres in Saugerties and backs up to the NYS Thruway.

This property backs up to the NYS Thruway. The building consists of 2,340sf with a 16-20ft overhead door and a fence around the building creating more privacy. This property hosted many events with its great location. It has 3-phase-electric, oil heat, A/C, town water and sewage. Call Cindy VanSteenburg today for more information! ......................................................................$799,000

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2 Apartments: Main St. Rosendale. Huge 3-BedroomApt. full of windows. Renovated bathroom, granite counters, second floor porch. $1500 plus electric. Also, Brand New 1st floor 1-Bedroom; $900 plus electric. Call 845-430-9476.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT, Rosendale.

Large living room, dining room/office, eat-in kitchen, full bath, porch overlooking Rondout Creek. Includes off-street parking & trash/snow removal. No smoking. No dogs.

2 person max. $1050/month + utilities. 845505-2568, marker1st@yahoo.com

YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED! This is a “Walk-About” building, located in plain sight on Tinker Street in Woodstock! A true look and feel and the colors of Woodstock. This 2-story building has a sought-after location w/drive-by-visibility and is part of the SCENIC FOOT TRAFFIC for shoppers and browsers. The 1st fl has large front display windows for shoppers, colorful perennial gardens and a welcoming blue stone walkway to the shops and apts. Near the local pharmacy, B-n-B’s, café’s galleries, plus many interesting and unique shops. Call Mary Ellen VanWagenen or Ken Volpe today! ....................$969,000

/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

YOU CAN AFFORD TO BUY...

Great starter or retirement home located in a wonderful walking community of similar homes that also allows you to be close to nature yet offers easy access to Kingston! Let the sound of the nearby babbling Sawkill Creek relax you while sitting on your back deck enjoying the morning sun that glistens thru the trees. The deck offers enough space for you to start your garden plants early and enough sunlight all day in the yard where the raised beds will help nourish your crops. The open kitchen/dining/living area will allow you to enjoy quality time with friends and family while you enjoy the galley style step saving kitchen. The freshly painted interior living area is well loved with an updated 1/2 bath off the master bedroom & full guest bath along with a new roof making this home ready for you to move right in this spring. You will delight in the fact that you have a back yard entrance into the mud room/laundry room which also goes thru to the attached 1 car garage. If you want additional storage space the shed will offer that for you. Don’t hesitate, it may be too late. Priced to sell at ...........................................................................................................................$129,000

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

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

www.coluccishandrealty.com

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Saugerties Rentals

Beautiful Home in Woods; spectacular mountain & river views. Spacious 3-BR, 2.5 baths, den, deck, WIFI, screened porch, washer/dryer. Convenient (5 minutes) to village, shopping, Thruway. $2300/month plus utilities. 917-414-3022.

Beautiful 2nd Floor Apt. Glasco-Saugerties.

Victorian style living room with bay window; New cabinets; Big bedroom. 20 minutes to Red Hook/Rhinebeck; $825 includes heat/hot water; no dogs; Contact afabiano@hvc.rr.com.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

UPSTAIRS BARN w/glass doors to deck overlooking garden & fields. Private.

1-Bedroom, cozy bathroom, large closet, spacious LR w/large windows & Parquay floors, washer/dryer. 1 mile to town. $1300/month. Owner/Broker 845-4175282.

FABULOUSLY NEWLY RENOVATED 1-BEDROOM w/skylights, aqua glass bathroom, wood floors, charming kitchen w/ stained glass & large gazebo. 1 mile to center of town. $1350/month. Owner/Broker 845417-5282.

COTTAGE BY A WATERFALL. 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. $1250/month.

Owner/Broker; 845-417-5282.

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Firewood 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.

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Hunting/Fishing Sporting Goods

RANCH WITH A VIEW

CHARMING COLONIAL

UPTOWN CHARM

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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.)

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GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you. Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Buying single piece or collections. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 914-3889286, leave message.

Kingston 845-331-5357 Rhinebeck 845-876-4535 Woodstock 845-679-2255

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Musician Connections

Musicians/Songwriters; Looking for Musicians to collaborate with. You send a riff or a groove, I’ll send a vocal or B Section back.

BarScott1026@gmail.com, www. barscott.com

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Musical Instruction & Instruments

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Palenville: 3-bedroom, 2 bath House.

Washer/dryer, woodstove, storage shed, quiet wooded area, shared vegetable garden, screened-in porch. Available March 1st, utilities extra, security and references required. $1000/month. Call 845-7507025.

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New Paltz House for Summer. Bright, charming 3-bedroom house off Main St., New Paltz. Central air, electric appliances, wi-fi and phone. Seeking tenant for 10 weeks, 6/23-9/4/18. $5995 for entire period. $1000 refundable deposit. e-mail: ingridhug@aol.com

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Senior Housing

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS! Shandaken Village Apts. in Phoenicia has a beautiful 1 Br apt. in a quiet garden setting, complete with appliances, carpeting, on-site laundry & parking.

Rental Assistance Available for eligible households: Persons aged 62 or older, or handicapped/disabled regardless of age.

For information & an application call:

(845) 688-2024 (518) 692-8873 NYS TDD# 800-662-1220

646-662-5202

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MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs- 2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)275-8545.

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Portable Toilet Rentals

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Antiques & Collectibles

WANTED: VINTAGE COMICS Interested in the Golden Age; Silver & Bronze 1930s-1980s

$ CASH $ ON THE SPOT! TOP $ DOLLARS $ PAID!

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Also Seeking Star Wars Collectibles, Life-Size Advertisement Statues, Vintage Vinyl Records.

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Call/Text Any Time 845-901-7379

Portable Toilet Rentals 845-658-8766 | 845-417-6461 | 845-706-7197

WANTED-TOP DOLLARS PAID!

TLKportables@gmail.com tlkportables.com

We Buy Entire Estates or Single Items.

Actively Seeking Gold and Silver of any kind, Sterling, Flatware & Jewelry.

Furniture, Antiques through Mid-Century.

We Gladly do House Calls. Free Appraisals.

We also do Estate/Tag Sales.

35 years experience. One Call Does It All. Call or text anytime 24/7.

Weekends • Weekly • Monthly

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Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

617-981-1580

Made you look.

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

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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 SAUGERTIES LOG HOME ON 6+ ACRES

For more info and pictures, Text: M593945

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The quintessential Catskill Mountain getaway is here! This 4 bedroom 3 bath log home is privately sited on 6.5 acres close to skiing, HITS, and the quaint Village of Saugerties with shopping, theater and restaurants galore! Just 5 minute drive from Exit 20 on NYS Thruway. Built in 2006 this home has an open floor plan (great for entertaining) with a master bedroom suite, guest room and laundry on the first floor. Second floor has two additional bedrooms with bath and a big loft area in the center of the rooms. Beautiful stone gas fireplace in living room. Wrap around country porch. Seller has successfully rented this property during all seasons (summer tourists, HITS riders, and winter for skiers). Log home lovers will be sure to find this property special! $595,000

PRISTINE KINGSTON HOME ON OVER AN ACRE!

For more info and pictures, Text: M153326

To: 85377

DEER RUN COLONIAL

For more info and pictures, Text: M157784

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Estate/Moving Sale

Too Good To Be True, Everything Must Go! Furniture, designer clothes, tools, you name it we’ve got it. Selling my house after 31 years. Everything must be sold! 914-3885558. SATURDAY, 3/17 AND SUNDAY, 3/18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 55 MT. LAUREL ROAD, PHOENICIA 12464.

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Professional Services

*Jessica Rice*; Beautiful Images Hair Salon, 123 Boices Lane, Kingston. Hair- 845383-1852; www.beautifulimageshairsalon. com Makeup- 845-309-6860; www.jessicamitzi.com

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Don’t miss out on this beautiful colonial ranch that offers the tranquility of the country and convenience of the city. Minutes away from shopping in both Kingston and Saugerties and the Rhine beck Bridge. Large lot located in a quiet neighborhood on a cul de sac with a newly paved drive way. Once inside the spacious ranch you will be impressed by the floor plan. Spacious living room with hardwood floors flows into the dining room and kitchen with sliding glass doors to back deck. Master ensuite located off the living room with two additional bedrooms and full bath located on the opposite side of the house. The lower level room is the perfect family room to both relax and entertain. Large two car garage with extra space for storage. All this situated on almost 1 acre for privacy and additional car parking. $324,900

ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO.

Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Professional Craftsmanship for all phases of construction

COUNTRY CLEANERS

845-331-4966/249-8668

Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

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Caretaking/Home Management

HOUSE CLEANING for a tidy sum. 845658-2073. *CONSCIOUS CLEANING, CONSCIOUS ORGANIZING!* ZEN ENERGY w/a DERVISH APPROACH. ATTENTION TO DETAIL. PUNCTUAL. METHODICAL. LET’S SHIFT THE ENERGY & PUT CLARITY & BEAUTY BACK IN YOUR HOME. ALLERGIC TO CATS. ROSENDALE-KINGSTON-SAUGERTIES-WEST HURLEYWOODSTOCK. ROBYN 845-339-9458.

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

Visit my website: Haberwash.com HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845-616-8574.

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.

House & Estate Cleanouts, Junk Removal, Dump Runs. Helping homeowners, realtors and property managers for 20 years. One call, it’s gone! Senior & disabled discounts.

845-247-7365. GarysHauling.com

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EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN . Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean-outs. Second home caretaking.

All small/medium jobs considered.

Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845616-7999.

NYS DOT T-12467

845.331.4844 HniBuilders.com Hugh@HniBuilders.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.

Painting/Odd Jobs

Cleaning Services

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HNI Builders

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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.

For more info and pictures, Text: M588252

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

**Estate, **Residential. **Free Estimates, Fully Insured.

Call 679-3879

Art Services

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LOVELY BARCLAY HEIGHTS HOME

Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling

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 845-688-2253.

Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

Spacious and Gracious 4 BR two story offers flowing floor plan, perfect for family living.

Enjoy the roomy updated eat in kitchen which opens to the large family room perfect lay out for entertaining. Living room offers bay window and wood burning fireplace with Porteguese hand painted tile surround, formal dining room, powder room and bright and airy three season Florida sun room plus 35 x 16 deck complete the downstairs layout. Upstairs you will find the luxurious master bedroom suite with 4 year old bath, double sinks, granite counters, walk in shower and heated marble floors. Way too much to list, call today! $399,900

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845-688-7951

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24 Months to Pay, 0% Interest (if qualified)

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Septic Systems • Drainage Driveways • Tree Removal Retaining Walls • Ponds

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TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly rentals.

We have Gray, white, blue, tan, green (pinescented), 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 HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates.

References available. (845)616-7470.

D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations.

Over 50 years of combined experience. Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements.com (845)339-3017

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Jeep Renegade Trailhawk ilh k .............................. 13K Miles...................... $23,995.00 Chevy Traverse LT AWD................................. 21K Miles...................... $28,995.00 GMC Yukon XL SLT 4WD................................ 22K Miles...................... $54,995.00 Nissan Frontier SV 4WD................................ 11K Miles...................... $25,225.00 Kia Sorento LX AWD ..................................... 6K Miles........................ $23,995.00 Jeep Wrangler Sport Unlimited....................... 40K Miles...................... $30,600.00 GMC Acadia SLE AWD.................................... 41K Miles...................... $23,995.00 GMC Sierra 1500 Crew Rocky Ridge .............. 24K Miles...................... $42,995.00 GMC Terrain SLE AWD ................................... 86K Miles...................... $14,995.00 Chevy Silverado LT Crew 4WD ....................... 77K Miles...................... $26,875.00 GMC Sierra 1500 Crew 4WD......................... 74K Miles...................... $27,995.00 Jeep Cherokee Latitude 4WD ......................... 63K Miles...................... $16,700.00 Chevy Silverado 1500 Crew 4WD .................. 70K Miles...................... $25,600.00 Chevy Silverado X Cab 4WD W/Plow ............ 110K Miles.................... $23,995.00 GMC 3500 Duramax Dump W/Plow .............. 23K Miles...................... $39,895.00 GMC Sierra 1500 4wd W/Plow .................... 83K Miles...................... $21,995.00 Chevy 2500 Silverado Crew Duramax ............ 79K Miles...................... $32,995.00 GMC Sierra 1500 Reg Cab 4WD .................... 24K Miles...................... $21,995.00 Cadillac XTS Sedan ........................................ 15K Miles...................... $32,995.00 Chevy Impala LT Prem ................................... 20K Miles...................... $25,575.00 Chevy Malibu LT Sedan .................................. 19K Miles...................... $16,995.00 Chevy Cruze Premier Hatch............................ 9K Miles........................ $17,995.00 Chevy Cruze LT Sedan.................................... 11K Miles...................... $16,595.00 Buick Lacrosse Sedan..................................... 40K Miles...................... $21,250.00 Buick Lacrosse Sedan..................................... 22K Miles...................... $16,995.00

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PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN. (Never known to fail.) Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God. Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth! I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3x).

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Want to help but can’t adopt a cat? Don’t forget about our Foster Program! Visit our website UCSPCA.org, for details & pictures of cats to foster. Come see us & all of our other friends at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston (just off the traffic circle). Open 6 days a week, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Closed on Mondays.) (845)331-5377.

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