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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 18 | May 3 – 10 thursday The Importance of Being Earnest in Rhinebeck; Silver Needle Runway

friday Blues Traveler’s Popper at Bearsville; Rhinebeck Antique Car Show begins

saturday Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas at Ashokan Center; I Love My Park Day

sunday New Paltz Regatta; Lake Street Dive performs at UPAC in Kingston

monday Free/low-cost “Spay Shuttle” in Poughkeepsie and Fishkill

tuesday Spotty Dog Trivia Night in Hudson: All-Nerd Throwdown

wednesday Learn the basics of sailing at the Beacon Sloop Sailing Club

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Blues Traveler’s John Popper plays Bearsville this Friday When Jerry Garcia died, a few bands were ready to fill the void, and

in some ways reset and revitalize the jam tradition that was never really cut out for sold-out shows at Giants Stadium. They were adopted, in a Balkanized, patchwork way, by the Dead’s fans and their voracious appetite for shows, reenergizing the scene and returning jam to the clubs and small theaters from which it came.

Of these, Phish is the most enduring

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Handcrafted Items & Baked Goods Sale Saturday, May 5 10am-3pm at the Woodcrest Community 101 Woodcrest Drive, Rifton NY 845.658.7700

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Show your team spirit by joining us for a FUNdraiser in support of

Mount Academy High School Girl’s Volleyball All proceeds will go to covering the startup costs of the volleyball team.

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cutting boards wooden toys bird houses all kinds of coaster sets votive holders fridge magnets breads cookies granola jams & jelly

hand painted signs pot holders wooden spoons painted rocks wooden rocking puzzles cork boxes & boards wooden vases shell creations

and so much more...

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Catskills Great Outdoor Expo in Kingston this Saturday

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Lake Street Dive at UPAC on Sunday

The Best Western Plus Hotel and Conference Center in Kingston hosts the Catskills Great Outdoor Expo on Saturday, May 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Dozens of Catskill outdoor-focused exhibitors will gather to provide a wide overview of what the Catskills offer. Presenters will include hiking clubs, paddling outfitters, climbing guides, skiing/mountain biking centers, gear outfitters, cultural attractions, local trail-food producers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

This event is open to the public with a $3 admission; children under 10 get in free. For more information, visit http://catskillcenter.org. The Best Western is located at 503 Washington Avenue in Kingston.

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etting out in support of their much-anticipated new release Free Yourself Up (due on May 4), the popular American outfit Lake Street Dive appears at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Sunday, May 6 at 7 p.m. The record is influenced by late-’60s/early-’70s R & B, AM pop and FM rock, but with lyrics informed more by contemporary events. Advance press describes the self-produced Free Yourself Up as the New England band’s most confident and ambitious album to date.

Ticket prices for the UPAC show range from $39 to $49 and are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088, or online at www. bardavon.org.

and distinguished, eventually arriving themselves at the arena level and staying there. But Blues Traveler was the one that scored some radio hits – which may actually be a demerit badge, depending on how you construe the codes and values of the jam.

An agile little band with some ’90s hippie soul moves and a few big hooks, Blues Traveler’s main man was the likable singer and harmonica virtuoso John Popper. If Stevie Wonder is the Toots Thielemans of the harmonica, then Popper is its Yngwie Malmsteen: a bit of a terrifying technician, less inclined to melodies and more inclined to frenetic, dazzling sheets of notes on an instrument

upon which that really shouldn’t be possible.

Radio Woodstock presents John Popper at the Bearsville Theater on Friday, May 4 at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $30 and $55 and are available at www.bearsvilletheater.com.

The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

– John Burdick

Talk on bawdy Dutch settlers this Saturday on Huguenot Street In a talk titled “Sex and the City: The Early Years,” author Bill Greer looks at

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2018

Israel’s 70th Anniversary The Israel Advocacy Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ulster County invites YOU to celebrate Israel’s 70th Anniversary on the grounds of the Woodstock Jewish Congregation 1:00 - 5:30pm • FREE ADMISSION Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS & AREA SYNAGOGUES PRESENT EXHIBITS & ACTIVITIES KOSHER ISRAELI FOOD, MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT ALL WELCOME!

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the bawdy world of Dutch New York from 1624 to 1664. Greer examines the libertine culture that Europeans brought to the Hudson Valley and how that culture engendered an independent streak that fueled a rebellion of the common people against their rulers. This conflict, many historians argue, laid the foundation for the pluralistic, freedom-loving society that America became.

Greer speaks at 2 o'clock on Saturday, May 5 at Deyo Hall at 6 Broadhead Avenue in New Paltz. Admission costs $10, $9 for seniors, students, Historic Huguenot Street members

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Tulula! at BSP this Saturday The predominant flavor on Tulula!’s impressive new record Singing Songs in the Dark is, in fact, darkness: a rainbow, a harvested cornucopia of dark. You hear it in Jason Broome’s lyrics – gritty, visceral street poetry cut with a surreal mysticism somewhere between the Beats and Blake and sung, often, in the inherently portentous, hooded harmony of the

octave. You hear it in the grinding and groovy dark psychedelia of the ensemble, with hints of spy rock and Balkan

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menace, gobs of wrenched, fuzzed-out guitar contained in epic forms that make you feel like you have lost not just your way home, but your home itself. It is played in that ungenerous dry instrumental vernacular derived, ultimately, from the Velvet Underground (the banana and White Light/ White Heat are both touchstones), but with many stops along the psychedelic train between there and here.

But the secret weapons of Singing Songs in the Dark are sweetness, prettiness, patches of sunny jangle; a spitting, sardonic persona who is willing and able to see silver linings and to show his wounds. It is a strategy of darkness offset, smart and effective. On this ambitious record, Tulula! aimed to bottle much of what makes them a divisive, contentious live band, and they nailed it. Theirs is, quite often, an aesthetic of dis-ease, lost coordinates and moorings, unreliable guides. What make Singing Songs in the Dark prevail as a recording are its intelligence of design, its implicit understanding of what the studio requires: storytelling, hand-holding, shipbuilding.

Its mode is epic and freakout. Singing Songs in the Dark begins with “Alimony,” a thematically complex kind of dark psychedelic trip, the lyrics of which move without a blink from acrimonious romance to strangely sensuous theology (in which Jesus bleeds “like a stuck pig”).

It feels weightier and longer than its 4:30 suggests, whereas the seven minutes of the mean, boss little street tune called “Kurt’s Telephone” pass much more quickly than you’d expect.

This band gets way out there, demonstrating once again that the difference between “experimental” and “jam” is semiotic more than musical. The sweetness here is genuine, too, signified in the wheezy/chunky cover of the Magnetic Fields gem “All My Little Words,” but deployed to greatest effect as intra-song relief in the sometimes-grim texture of Broome’s songs and his take generally.

Suffice it to say that Singing Songs in the Dark is probably very unlike whatever you are listening to right now.

Tulula! – Jason Broome, Daniel Weintraub, Rob Norris, Chris Bradley and Marianne Tasick – celebrate the release of Singing Songs in the Dark with a show at BSP in Kingston on May 5 at 7:30 p.m. It’s a super-stacked bill featuring Pat Irwin’s (the Raybeats) new project Pi Power Trio and Bar/None Records founder Glenn Morrow’s band Glenn Morrow’s Cry for Help. Tickets cost $10 at the door. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston. To check out Singing Songs in the Dark for yourself, visit https://tulula.bandcamp. com.

– John Burdick

Live Music at The Falcon

Big Gay Hudson Valley (BGHV), the region’s leading resource for LGBTQ tourism in New York State, has announced an entire season of events presented at the Rosendale Theatre.

The season begins on Saturday, May 5 at 9:30 p.m. when Varla Jean Merman returns to the Rosendale Theatre with an all-new show: Wonder Merman, accompanied on the piano by Gerald Goode. Tickets cost $30 and $35.

On Saturday, June 9 at 9:30 p.mn., Chris Harder returns to the Rosendale Theatre for the third time with his new play. A part of Hudson Valley Pride Week, it incorporates elements of burlesque and video.

Tickets cost $25 and $30.

The Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information on these and all BGHV programs,

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The Ashokan Center presents the virtuoso Scottish fiddle-and-cello duo Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas on Sunday, May 6 at 3 p.m. “You would think they’d been playing together for centuries,” wrote The Boston Globe.

Fraser and Haas will be joined by a number of special guests: Lilly Pearlman, Aldo Lavaggi and the Ashokan Center directors and legendary folk duo Jay Ungar & Molly Mason.

Tickets cost $20. For tickets and additional information, visit https:// ashokancenter.org. The Ashokan Center is located at 477 Beaverkill Road in Olivebridge.

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work of minimalist ambience and ambient minimalism. There’s a spacious, clarified restraint to this keyboard music that is lovely and listenable; every note is relish. Recommended if you like: Erik Satie, Harold Budd and cinema.

Mercel celebrates the release of Lunescapes: Volume One at BSP on Thursday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. Also on the bill is Kristin Anna of the Icelandic band Mum. Tickets cost $10 at the door. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston.

For more on Jeff Mercel and Lunescapes, visit www.jeffmercel.com.

– John Burdick

Helsinki Hudson presents Eilen Jewell this Friday

A masterful pan-Americana songwriter who writes tunes that you think you already know, Eilen Jewell has been a frequent presence in the local national-circuit rooms for a number of years. Jewell and her excellent band bring her blend of noirish rockabilly, surf-tinged country, retro-rock and jazzy folk to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, May 4 at 8 p.m. Her most recent record, Down Hearted Blues, was named one of the top albums of 2017 by readers of No Depression Magazine. The album features 12 vintage gems written or made famous by an array of artists both renowned and obscure, from Willie Dixon and Memphis Minnie to Charles Sheffield and Betty James.

Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the show. For tickets and additional information, visit www.helsinkihudson. com. Club Helsinki is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson.

Jeff Mercel debuts Lunescapes this Thursday in Kingston

HVP to memorialize Kurt Grishman

Kairos: A Consort of Singers has developed a thematically unified program of choral music that evokes the spiritual, the ghostly and the mystical.

In the Spirit features a motet by J. S. Bach, as well as several startlingly forward-looking madrigals from the 16th and 17th centuries, Six Sacred Songs by Hugo Wolf, works by the 20th-century American composer William Schuman and the Englishman Gerald Finzi and a beautiful set of African American spirituals.

Kairos will present In the Spirit on Saturday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. It will be the second event in Ellenville’s Music on Market series of concerts held at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Market Street. The cost for adults is $15, for seniors and students $10; children under 12 get in free. For more information, call (845) 377-3727 or visit Music on Market on Facebook.

Curated by the decorated American composer George Tsontakis, the Piano Plus! Concert series continues its fifth season on Saturday, May 5 at 4 p.m. at the Olive Free Library. Pianist Andrea Lam will perform selections

by Schumann, Bach and Brahms. 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.

Gospel concert on Sunday in Kingston to benefit soup kitchen The St. James United Methodist Church in Kingston presents a gospel choir concert featuring the Shepherd’s Singers on Sunday, May 6 at 4 p.m.

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Zoos and Conservation Friday, May 4 at 7 pm Join the Cary Institute for a conversation on conservation with Dan Ashe, President of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), and Dr. Ricardo Stanoss of the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation.

Ashe and Stanoss will share their perspectives on the role of modern zoos and aquaria in conserving wildlife and advancing environmental understanding. Following their presentations, Cary’s Josh Ginsberg will moderate a Q&A. The event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium, located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, NY. Seating is first come first served.

Visit our website at www.caryinstitute.org or call (845) 677-7600 x 121.

Student Scholarship Fund. Tickets cost $25 for general concert/dance admission only; $50 for reserved-table concert seating and hors d’oeuvres; $100 for reserved-table concert seating, hors d’ oeuvres, 6:30 p.m. Tito Jr. “Meet & Greet” and dance lesson. The Ritz Theater is located at 107 Broadway in Newburgh.

To order tickets, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/3339037.

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Kairos to perform at Ellenville’s Music on Market

Piano Plus hosts Andrea Lam at Olive Free Library this Saturday

As a member or both Mercury Rev and of Ultraam, Jeff Mercel has traversed the entire lunar landscape of experimental music, from experimental pop (Rev) to experimental experimental (Ultraam). Principally a keyboardist (though in Ultraam a banger of things), Mercel’s newest project under his own name is Lunescapes, a

Soup Kitchen & Pantry. The St. James United Methodist Church is located at 29 Pearl Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 331-7188.

The Bardavon celebrates “Kurt Grishman: A Life in Music” on Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m. Violinist Kurt Grishman was a member of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (HVP) for more than 50 years. Born in Berlin in 1919, he was arrested by the Nazis on Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938 and interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

He emigrated from Nazi Germany in the 1940s and helped found the HVP shortly after his arrival in New York. He passed away last year at the age of 97.

This event will celebrate Grishman’s life with music performances, video, stories and memorabilia. The Bardavon is located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. For more information, visit www.bardavon.org.

Few national bands are as associated with a single town as strongly as the Feelies are with Hoboken, New Jersey. The flagship band of a scene that reenergized and intellectualized punk and New Wave in the early ‘80s, the mature Feelies have been resurgent for a number of years now, with Crazy Rhythms going on 40 years in the rearview. The Hoboken they knew is long gone, and – lucky for us – the Hudson Valley has become a point of emphasis for this genuinely important rock band.

The Feelies return to BSP on Friday, May 11 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets for this two-set show cost $25. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, visit www.bspkingston.com.

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~The Experience~ Newburgh’s Ritz Theater to host Tito Puente, Jr. Raised by the greatest and more than just a torchbearer of the family brand, Latin jazz legend Tito Puente, Jr. performs at the Ritz Theater in Newburgh, Saturday, May 12 at 8 p.m. Puente’s orchestra includes baritone, tenor and alto sax, one or two trombones and two trumpets. “That’s something that’s lacking today,” he notes. “They don’t have that power of the brass section.” A five-piece rhythm section with conga, timbales, bass, piano and trap set completes the ensemble.

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A megaimmersion in microbrews

When it comes to being a beer snob, I fall somewhere in the low midrange: I’d sooner drink seltzer than Bud, and my ears twitch with interest whenever I overhear the word “microbrew.” But I couldn’t, by a long shot, sip an unidentified sample and tell you what varieties of hops were used in it. This puts me in the enviable position of treating each new tasting as an educational experience. It also heightens my appreciation for the proliferation of new farm breweries and brewpubs in the Hudson Valley (and other regions of New York State) over the past few years. The possibilities for new discoveries in the beer world seem nearly endless these days.

So, with warm weather coming on soon, and with it an onslaught of outdoor festivals, I figured that it was high time to check out the mass brewfest experience.

For breweries, the season launches at Hunter Mountain at the end of April with the TAP New York Craft Beer & Food Festival. The 2018 gathering that I attended last weekend was the 21st year running, making TAP NY itself old enough, technically speaking, to drink legally.

Originally a brainchild of the Culinary Institute of America, the event is New York State’s largest craft beer festival, the largest single-state craft beer festival in the nation and was voted the Fifth Best Beer Festival in the country by USA Today readers. It’s supposedly limited to breweries headquartered within the state, although I did spot one New Jersey-based outlier that had somehow sneaked in. The main lodge at Hunter was surrounded by a maze of tents, providing pouring room for 127 craft breweries, along with craft, souvenir and packaged gourmet food

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Live rock music emitted from an outdoor bandstand in the intervals when it wasn’t raining, and the less-than-ideal weather did nothing to deter the crowds.

Thousands of beer-fanciers were on hand – some genially inebriated by late afternoon, others more focused on the serious business of educating their palates.

Most everyone seemed to be having a good time. Traveling to the festival in a group that dresses in some peculiar way so that they can find each other easily – such as a Rockland County party of seven I met, four of whom were wearing Viking helmets – seems to be a “thing.” Bringing one’s own necklace of pretzels to nibble between beer samples to clear one’s palate, rather than shell out five bucks to buy one from the pretzel-necklace vendor, is another traditional trick to be learned from veteran festivalgoers.

Wandering about in quest of mediumweight ales, wheat beers, porters and stouts, I sampled a couple of this weekend’s medal-winners, purely by accident: Rip Van Winkle Brewing’s Silver-winning Kiskatom Brown Ale and Hudson Brewing Co.’s Gold-winning Tainted Señorita Stout (in the Irish-Style Stout category – go figure). Of the top prizes for 2018, the F. X. Matt Memorial Cup for Best Craft Beer Brewery in New York State went to the District 96 Beer Factory in New City; the Matthew Vassar Brewers’ Cup for Best Craft Beer Brewery in the Hudson Valley to the Mad Jack Brewing Co. of Schenectady; the Governors’ Brewers’ Cup for Best Craft Beer in New York State for There and Back Again Sour Cherry from Equilibrium in Middletown; and the John Calen Memorial Award for Best Strong Ale in New York State to Oak Strong Ale from the Woodland Brewing Co. of Utica.

With so many brews to choose from, some things I selected simply on account of their fanciful names. God Complex, an Imperial stout from North Brewery in Endicott, was remarkably hot and spicy. An excellent oatmeal stout called Portly Gentleman came from the Steelbound Brewery, just opening its doors officially this week in Ellicottville.

Triskaidekaphobia, a tasty English-style strong ale named for its 13 varieties of hops, came from my candidate for the catchiest company name in the bunch: the Brewery of Broken Dreams, located in Hammondsport. Even its logo, a

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he Cary Institute in Millbrook hosts a discussion with Dan Ashe, president of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, and Dennis Kelly, former director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. The eminent speakers will the address the question: “What role do zoos and aquaria play in advancing environmental understanding?” The audience will come to understand the current challenges, how the next generation of conservationists is being trained and ways in which zoos advance their initiatives by collaborating with academics, NGOs and government agencies globally.

This free event takes place on Friday, May 4 at 7 p.m. at the Cary Institute, located at 2801 Sharon Turnpike in Millbrook. For more information, visit www. caryinstitute.org.

weeping loon, is pretty cool. It’s one of many newish breweries in the Finger Lakes, formerly known “merely” as wine country; nowadays one could spend a busy vacation week doing a beer-focused pub crawl there.

Mostly I concentrated on brands that are hard to find in Hudson Valley tasting rooms, brewpubs and beer stores. But in passing by the Ommegang booth (Cooperstown), I couldn’t resist asking if they had brewed up any limited-edition batches especially for the occasion. I’m glad I did: Their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Vanilla Smoked Porter was one of the most delightful things I tasted at TAP NY. Smoked beers, in fact, seem to be a hot new trend, along with aging beers in retired liquor barrels. Eldred-based Shrewd Fox Brewery actually ages its Single-Malt Scotch Barrel-Aged Amber Ale in Laphraoig barrels, and you can taste the Isle of Islay in every sip.

Am I beginning to wax lyrical? I guess so – and I haven’t had a brew all day. Something tells me my TAP NY experience is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. See you there in 2019 – or at some other Hudson Valley brewfest this very summer.

– Frances Marion Platt

Saugerties Library hosts history talk on Catskill tanneries this Saturday Friends of Historic Saugerties present “The Catskill Tanneries: An Environmental Disaster with a Happy Ending” on Saturday, May 5 at 2 p.m. in the Community Room of the Saugerties Public Library. Almost every valley in the Catskills was home to a tannery, an industry that demanded huge supplies of hemlock bark. This led to the near-clearcutting of most of our mountainsides. Was this a bad thing?

Catskill 4000 Club founder and author Paul Misko gets to the bottom of it in this informative and free talk. The Library is located at 91 Washington Avenue in Saugerties. For more information, visit http://saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

Rhinebeck Antique Car Show swap meet this weekend The Hudson River Valley Antique Auto Association’s Rhinebeck 2018 Antique Car Show kicks off with a swap meet on Friday through Sunday,

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May 3, 2018 May 4 to 6 at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. Flashy hot rods and customs are the order of business on Saturday, vintage classic cars on Sunday. Both shows include vendor and manufacturer exhibits and cars for sale. For ticket options and packages, call (845) 876-4001.

The Dutchess County Fairgrounds are located at 6550 Spring Brook Avenue (Route 9) in Rhinebeck.

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Wilderstein hosts volunteer recruitment event this Saturday

Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix this Saturday

New Paltz Regatta this Sunday

After a long, long hiatus, the New Paltz Regatta returned full-force a number of years ago, with a newfound emphasis on expert shipcraft and competitive racing and less emphasis on hippies endangering their headspace by diving off what is now called the Carmine Liberta Bridge. The Regatta takes over the lower part of the village with all kinds of food, activities, entertainment and a colorful boat race on Sunday, May 6. The parade leaves Village Hall at 1 p.m., and the race starts at 2 p.m. from the Boat Launch on Plains Road. To register online, visit www.newpaltzregatta.com.

How to Fold a Flag screening & talk at Upstate Films Rhinebeck this Sunday Upstate Films in Rhinebeck hosts a screening of How to Fold a Flag on Sunday, May 6 at 11 a.m. Tracking four soldiers from the same artillery unit back to their hometowns after serving in Iraq, How to Fold a Flag follows a cage fighter living under the shadow of a dishonorable discharge, a convenience-store worker who expresses himself through heavy metal and sarcastic wit, an employee at a hog-processing plant who’s working toward a college degree through the GI Bill and a Social Studies teacher running for Congress.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with local filmmakers Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein; Stephanie Savell, project director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University; Dan Gettinger, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone; Christopher McIntosh, associate professor of Political Science at Bard College; and Derek McGee, Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. This event is being presented as part of the Engage Film Series at Upstate Films; proceeds will benefit the Costs of War Project. Admission is by a suggested donation of $10.

Upstate Films is located at 6415 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.

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The Wilderstein Historic Site hosts a volunteer recruitment event on Saturday, May 5 at 10 a.m. Wilderstein seeks volunteers to lead tours of the mansion, greet newcomers and sell tickets, staff the gift shop, help maintain the landscape and much more. In addition to a talk on the history of the estate, there will be an opportunity to meet with some current volunteers and learn more about how to become trained, what the time commitment is and what the personal rewards of volunteering are. Reservations are required. Call the Wilderstein office at (845) 876-4818 or email wilderstein@wilderstein.org.

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The annual Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix takes place on Saturday, May 5 beginning at 8 a.m. at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, located at 56 Rock City Road in Woodstock. Professional women riders and non-pros alike will tackle this challenging, mountainous course, riding either a world-class 62.1-mile course or a 34-mile course that includes ascending and descending Overlook Mountain. The awards ceremony and community barbecue will take place after the races end, at approximately 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit www.womenswoodstockcycling.com.

Gifford will return again, as will Cow Town USA, an all-day interactive educational attraction where visitors can experience a bit of what farm life was like 100 years ago: hand-milking a cow, working with animals in a humane way and churning butter in an authentic 90-year-old butter churn.

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“History of the Woodstock Art Colonies” lecture this Saturday in Marbletown The Ulster County Historical Society (UCHS) presents Woodstock town historian Richard Heppner lecturing on a subject of perennial interest and resonance, “History of the Woodstock Art Colonies,” at the Bevier House in Marbletown on Saturday, May 5 at 3 p.m. Heppner will speak on the Byrdcliffe and Maverick colonies, the arrival of the Art Students’ League and the impact of the WPA on the arts in Woodstock.

The lecture coincides with the opening of “Art among the Mountains,” an exhibition of native art both famous and obscure, to run May through July at the Bevier House Museum, located at 2682 Route 209 in Marbletown. Admission to the lecture costs $10 and is free for UCHS members. For more information, visit www.ulstercountyhs.org.

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Encounters with cancer "Handwriting on the Wall" exhibition opens Saturday at Arts Society of Kingston

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new exhibition titled “Handwriting on the Wall: Encounters with Cancer through Memoir, Poetry and Art” opens this Saturday, May 5 at the Arts Society of Kingston (ASK). The multidimensional show features works of visual art alongside the written word, augmented by the spoken word with once-a-week readings of memoir and poetry by participants in the HealthAlliance Oncology Support Program and others affected by cancer.

An opening reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m., with readings from 6 to 8 p.m. Light refreshments will be offered.

Additional readings will be held in the members’ gallery each weekend during the run of the show, on Saturday, May 12, Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. each night.

“Handwriting on the Wall” is curated by Lucy Barbera, PhD, LCAT, of the Creative Art Therapy Studio in Kingston.

One of her motivations in doing the show, she says, “is to help stop the whispering about this disease and the people it affects; to reveal their lives’ courage, hope and beauty; to redefine this illness through a humanistic and creative lens.”

As soon as we hear the word “cancer,” Barbera notes, “everything else gets occluded by that one reality. But the illness doesn’t define the person. And I feel like cancer and other illnesses that are feared are whispered about, and it’s time to stop the whispering, because we’re all suffering on one level or another. And so many of us suffer alone.”

Barbera references her sister, whose passing from cancer decades ago was due in part, she believes, to a culture of silence about the disease that led her sister to suffer alone and not seek out follow-up treatment.

And Barbera has never stopped thinking about her childhood friend, Janet DeStacio. Despite living on opposite coasts in California and New York as adults, the two remained close friends and spoke on the phone every other day until DeStacio’s death from cancer at age 40 in 1998. “She was probably one of the most creative people I’ve ever met in my life,” Barbera says. “From an early age, Jan kept these spectacular notebooks of memoir and philosophical poetry. Her pen name was ‘Chicken Brown,’ and then as ‘Madame La Roux’ she wrote The Practice of Classical Palmistry. When she died, she was working on a book superimposing

palmistry with homeopathy, astrology and the Tarot.”

In their phone conversations, DeStacio frequently asked Barbera to make sure her memoir got published after she passed away. But the handwritten pages were given to someone else, and ended up in storage for nearly 20 years until the manuscript was finally brought to Barbera last year. She put it aside due to the constraints of daily living and trying to find time for everything, but in the back of her mind, she felt guilty about not getting her old friend’s work published.

“Handwriting on the Wall” was conceived on a short drive down Broadway in the space of four traffic lights, Barbera says.

While sitting at a traffic light, thinking about her friend’s manuscript, the notion popped into her head, she says, that “There is more than one way to publish.”

The idea to create a show inspired by DeStacio’s memoir set in motion phone calls at the next two lights to secure sponsorship from the HealthAlliance Oncology Support Program and gallery space for the show at ASK. The title that she says felt as if it were “whispered in my ear” at the last traffic light, “Handwriting on the Wall,” was a phrase that DeStacio had used frequently in their bicoastal phone calls over the years, as in “Why did I do that? I should have seen the handwriting on the wall.”

The visual artists represented in “Handwriting on the Wall” are Josephine Bloodgood, Jenny Lee Fowler, Juliet Harrison, Elise Lark, Ujjala Schwartz, Karen Shogren, Phyllis Silvers, Susan Togut, Susan York, Dara Young, Kathleen Carroll Walsh and Charise Isis, whose series of photographic portraits titled Grace is a deeply moving statement about the nature of beauty. Inspired by ancient Hellenistic works, the women in the photographs have undergone mastectomies but are presented as Greek goddesses, their changed bodies draped in fabric like idealized sculptures, their strength in what they’ve been through as evident as their continued beauty.

The readers at the opening reception on Saturday, May 5 will include Barbera reading excerpts from DeStacio’s letters and memoir. Ulster Publishing’s own Erica Chase-Salerno, whose Almanac Weekly column, Erica’s Cancer Journey, overflows with grace and life-affirming authenticity every week, will read her essay, “One More MRI and I’ll Stick to the Fridge.” Additional readings at the

“Cancer and other illnesses that are feared are whispered about, and it’s time to stop the whispering, because we’re all suffering on one level or another.

And so many of us suffer alone.”

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Eponina, photograph on silk

opening will be presented by Elise Lark, Susan Togut, Kathleen Carroll Walsh, Susan York, Susan Quillin, Melissa Eppard and Francine Glasser.

The readings in the gallery on May 12, 18 and 26 will be presented by Al Konigsburg, Meredith Hughes, Diane Golden Peterson, Linda LeGendre, Josette Lee, Alexandra Geiger, Melissa Wood, Jan Demuth, Craig Mawhirt, George Graham, Annie LaBarge, Thomas Tuthill, Phyllis Silvers, Dean Lavin, Blaze Aardman, Juliet Harrison, Abigail Thomas and another voice familiar to Almanac Weekly readers, writer Ann Hutton.

“The lived human experience is not always pretty,” says Barbera. “But as a creative arts therapist and educator, I’ve come to understand that the stories of others, as told in images, life stories and poetry, are not only healing medicine for the artists and writers, but also become teaching and healing messages for the

entire community. When courage and creativity come together, it’s a message to the world that ‘I continue to live in the most creative way I can live.’ Instead of talking about their cancer or imagining their healing in a whisper, it’s a loud, ‘topof-the-rooftop’ kind of thing: ‘This is my experience.’”

– Sharyn Flanagan “Handwriting on the Wall: Encounters with Cancer through Memoir, Poetry and Art,” May 5-26, opening reception Saturday, May 5, 5-8 p.m., free, additional readings Saturday, May 12, Friday, May 18, Saturday, May 26, free, ASK (Arts Society of Kingston), 97 Broadway, Kingston; (845) 338-0331, www.askforarts. org/event/may-members-exhibition.

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Last Train to Nibroc in Hunter

The Importance of Being Earnest in Rhinebeck

The Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter presents Last Train to Nibroc, Arlene Hutton’s critically acclaimed romantic comedy that takes place aboard a train carrying the remains of authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West. In a production directed by Lora Lee Ecobelli and starring Ida Joy and Logan Rando, Last Train to Nibroc will be performed at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 4, 5, 11 and 12, with 2 p.m. Sunday matinées on May 6 and May 13. Tickets cost $15 cash at the door, $10 for students.

The Doctorow Center is located at 7971 Main Street (Route 23A) in Hunter. For more information and reservations, visit www.katactors.com.

The Center Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is never dark for long, and if any community arts center with big dreams has borne out its original promise, this is this one. CenterStage productions – just one of a large number of organizations and alliances to use the Rhinebeck facility – presents Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest over the first two weekends in May. Often called “a trivial comedy for serious people,” this delightful romp of mistaken identities, witty banter and larger-than-life characters is the great wit’s most famous and enduring play.

Shows take place May 4 through 13 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $23. For tickets and additional information, visit www.centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck.

Coleman High School stages Godspell this weekend

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FLAMENCO VIVO LIONIZES LATINA HEROINES AT KAATSBAAN

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arlota Santana and her 35-year-old company, Flamenco Vivo, are coming back to Kaatsbaan this weekend for two anniversary performances. If you’ve ever felt a sense of cognitive dissonance when comparing the ferocity and power of a female flamenco dancer with the “meek” stereotype of women in macho Latin American cultures, you need to check out the new opus by famed “holistic flamenco” choreographer Belén Maya that the company will be unveiling.

The dance is titled Mujeres Valientes (Valiant Women), and it’s a feminist tour de force meant to remind the world of the contributions of two Latina powerhouses of centuries past.

A child prodigy who educated herself in secret, poet/philosopher/scientist Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1696) joined a religious order to avoid being married off and stifled. She wrote extensively in defense of women’s intellectual rights and education, not to mention allegories, dramas and comedies, establishing the largest personal library in Mexico at that time, as well as substantial collections of musical and scientific instruments. Frequently at odds with the local Church hierarchy, Sor Juana eventually was forced to give them all up and become a plague nurse, which led to her death – but not before being recognized by her male intellectual peers as the “Mexican Phoenix” and the “Tenth Muse.”

Also memorialized in Mujeres Valientes is Manuela Sáenz (1797-1856), an Ecuadorian socialite who became a spy for the South American independence movement and the lover and co-conspirator of Simón Bolívar, who dubbed her “Libertadora del Libertador” after she thwarted a plot to assassinate him.

Disinherited and exiled to a tiny coastal town in Peru, she met Herman Melville and Giuseppe Garibaldi, and managed to preserve her correspondence with Bolívar for history before her death in a diphtheria epidemic.

The second half of Flamenco Vivo’s program presents electrifying solos by two prizewinning dancers from Spain, José Maldonado and Guadalupe Torres.

All works are performed to live music. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 12 and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 13. Tickets cost $45 for café table seating, $30 for general admission, $10 for student rush seats and children. For reservations, call (845) 757-5106, extension 10, or visit https:// kaatsbaan.yapsody.com. The Kaatsbaan International Dance Center is located at 33 Kaatsbaan Road in Tivoli.

Moon over Buffalo at Phoenicia Playhouse Phoenicia Playhouse presents Ken Ludwig’s Moon over Buffalo, a classic American farce involving a series of mistaken identities, six slamming doors and a lot of slapstick comedy and pratfalls. Directed by Michael Koegel, artistic director of the Phoenicia Playhouse, this production stars John Remington and Elaine Young as George and Charlotte Hay, fad-

ing Broadway stars of the 1950s, desperate for a comeback. Performances take place over the first three weeks of May: 4, 5, 6, 11,12, 13, 18, 19 and 20. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 8 p.m., Sunday matinées at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $20 general admission, $18 for seniors and students. For reservations, call (845) 688-2279. For online tickets and additional information, visit https:// phoeniciaplayhouse.com. The Phoenicia Playhouse is located at 10 Church Street in Phoenicia.

It is hard to overstate the freshness of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Godspell when it took over the community theater stages of the ’70s, in terms its experimental approach to ensemble acting, its solid folk/pop songs and its non-dogmatic I’m OK/You’re OK pop theology. Godspell was the light-footed, playful rejoinder to Lloyd Webber’s sturm und drang. The present seems to have weighed in on the side of Webber and of drang, but Godspell is always going to be a good time in the hands of some enthused young actors and singers.

John A. Coleman High School Musical Theater presents Godspell on Thursday May 3 at 6:30 p.m., Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 5 at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Admission costs $16, $11 for children under age 12. Tickets can be purchased at the door or ahead of time by calling (845) 338-2750. John A. Coleman High School is located at 430 Hurley Avenue in Hurley.

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MOON OVER BUFFALO

Directed by Michael Koegel

Voice Theater reading of Shadow Child in Woodstock In the centerpiece of it fifth annual Spring Reading Series, the Golden Notebook in Woodstock presents the Voice Theater’s reading of Shadow Child on Thursday, May 3 at 7 p.m.

Written by Myra Slotnick and directed

by Maryanne DiPalma, Shadow Child is set in Brooklyn in the 1960s. It explores two generations in one family coping with the effects of World War II and the tragic loss of their son.

Tickets cost $10, cash only, at the door. Reservations are suggested. Call (845) 679-0154. The Golden Notebook is located at 29 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

May 4-20 Friday & Saturday shows at 8 P.M. Sunday matinees at 2 P.M. $20/ $18 students, seniors, members.

10 Church Street Phoenicia, NY 12464 845-688-2279 phoeniciaplayhouse.com

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HISTORY

Charles S. Keefe at his drafting board in Kingston, February 1905

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Reviving the Colonial Revivalist William B. Rhoads’ new book & exhibition about Charles S. Keefe puts the Kingston architect back on the historical map

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t the end of Kingston, New York: The Architectural Guide, author William Rhoads devotes a chapter to local architects, including four who worked in the Colonial Revival style: Charles Keefe, Myron Teller, Harry Halverson and Gerard Betz. Keefe, who had a practice in New York City, was the most prominent and, as it happens, of special interest to Rhoads. Back in 1975, Rhoads’ wife, Sally, discovered a cache of Keefe’s papers at a Stone Ridge antique store.

The couple subsequently purchased the trove, and the seed of a book was born, which has now come to fruition. Titled Charles S. Keefe, 1876-1946: Colonial Revival Architect in Kingston and New York, the comprehensive 268-page volume, published by Black Dome Press, provides a fascinating glimpse into American architectural practice in the first half of the 20th century. It includes many of Keefe’s charming sketches and etchings, as well as detailed appendices listing Keefe’s clients, publications, staff, renderers of his designs and even Christmas-card recipients. Keefe is now officially back on the architectural historical map.

Rhoads will be autographing copies on the book launch on Saturday, May 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, which will be accompanied by the opening of a new exhibit of Keefe’s architectural drawings and prints. Full of character, with a loosebut-assured line, they include street scenes of down-at-heel commercial buildings in lower Manhattan and a depiction of the historic Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia.

Keefe was born in Kingston in 1876 and had a successful career in the ’teens and

1920s designing guest and caretakers’ cottages, garages, stables and even kennels on sumptuous private estates, as well as houses and Colonial Revival redos of existing homes in tony Darien, Connecticut and other upper-class Northeastern communities. Many of his designs were published in architectural and shelter magazines, in some cases winning awards; he also authored a book, The American House, which was published in 1922 and featured his illustrations of houses by various architects representing popular contemporary styles.

In 1911, he designed the house on Lucas Avenue, on the outskirts of Kingston, where he and his wife, Grace, resided until their deaths, regularly traveling from New York City back to Kingston in the 1920s.

At the onset of the Depression, he was forced to close his New York office, and thereafter worked from a room in his Kingston home. While Keefe is “typical of dozens of architects across the country of his generation, he had ambition and got his work published more than most of those people in highly regarded architectural journals and popular household magazines,” said Rhoads. “He got his name out.” Furthermore, his legacy has survived: perhaps the most unusual aspect of his story. “It’s very uncommon for an architect’s papers to be preserved after their death, especially for an architect who is not really, really famous,” Rhoads said.

Rhoads credits Keefe’s widow, Grace, for preserving them. In her 1954 will, she instructed the executors to publish a book “consisting of the photographs and plans of the houses” designed by her late husband. Upon her death in 1971, the estate lacked the money to do so, and much of Keefe’s letters, illustrations,

photos, plans and other material was bought by Robert H. Palmatier, owner of Thumbprint Antiques in Stone Ridge, where they were discovered by Rhoads’ wife (the couple have since donated them to the Friends of Historic Kingston).

The Keefe documents could not have fallen into better hands: The architect was the perfect subject for Rhoads, given that the professor emeritus of Art History at SUNY-New Paltz is an expert on the Colonial Revival style, having written his PhD dissertation on the topic while he was a graduate student at Princeton Un i v e r s i t y.

Following the publication of his second architectural guide, Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History and Guide, in 2011, Rhoads spent the next five years researching and writing the Keefe book.

The foreword was written by architectural scholar Richard Guy Wilson, who notes that Rhoads has resurrected an architect, otherwise fated to be forgotten, as a major figure in the Colonial Revival style. “The real impact of [Keefe’s] work is seen in smaller towns and through the many publications in which he was involved,” writes Wilson. He also provides a context, noting that the Colonial Revival style was sparked by a budding historicpreservation movement and, more specifically, the Philadelphia Centennial

of 1876 and its patriotic celebration of American history. Rhoads said that his own interest in the style dates from when he was a child growing up in Harrisburg and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was curious as to why his parents “were fans of old Colonial things.”

Keefe’s Irish Catholic father had emigrated to Kingston from Vermont and was employed at a hardware supply store on Wall Street; his mother was descended from an old Hudson Valley Dutch family. He had attended – but never graduated from – the Kingston Academy (at that time the public high school) and was listed as “architect” in the 1898 Kingston City Directory. In the first years of the 20th century, he was employed as a draftsman by Myron Teller (famous for “Tellerizing” – adding cozy dormers, builtin cabinets and forged iron hardware to 18th-century stone houses, making them look more “Colonial” than they probably ever did). A photograph of Keefe from that time shows a thoughtful, spiffily dressed young man seated at his drafting board.

In 1907, following his marriage to Grace de la Montanye, a fellow student at the Kingston Academy (she subsequently attended a training school for teachers and was a member of the women’s Olympian Club), he departed for New York City, where he was hired by the architectural firm Burnett and Hopkins.

It was a coup: Alfred Hopkins had trained at the distinguished École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the firm had an established niche designing farm and country buildings for wealthy estates owned by the likes of banker Otto Kahn and railroad baron Frederick Vanderbilt. In 1910 Hopkins paid for his protégé to take an extended tour of Europe. As instructed, Keefe wrote down his observations in frequent letters to Hopkins while touring the architectural landmarks of England, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy, describing the latter country as “the mainstream when it comes to architecture” even as he objected that Italy “is rather dirty to my mind (and nose too). The men over here piss in the most public way I ever saw.” (Those comments were edited out by Hopkins when he typed up Keefe’s notes for distribution around the office.)

At that time, “Riding horses and having the most up-to-date dairy farm was the thing” for the very rich, Rhoads said.

“John Russell Pope and Delano and Aldrich, who are now very famous in the architectural hierarchy, were doing the great houses, and they would let little Charles Keefe do the employees’ quar ters.” He noted that in those days, many budding architects did not attend architectural school: “You could train as a draftsman in the office, which is what he did first in Kingston, before hooking up with Hopkins,” Rhoads said.

Keefe’s success was no doubt aided by “a certain amount of charm,” as evident in the humorous asides in his letters to colleagues and clients. Keefe was a bibliophile, and “he seems to have connected [with his clients] on subjects such as dogs,” Rhoads noted.

In 1920 he left Hopkins and started his own firm, designing houses in the gated Darien community of Tokeneke and elsewhere in the upper-class Connecticut, New York and New Jersey suburbs and in

The Friends of Historic Kingston will offer a self-guided driving tour of 15 Keefe buildings, so you can check out Keefe’s architecture for yourself.

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Proposed Charles Inslee house, Newton, NJ, 1927-28

Patterson house, North Salem, NY

Bellows House bow window and hollyhocks, New Canaan, CT

New England and the Hudson Valley, with a concentration in his native city. In the late 1930s, he designed alterations and additions to Lowell Thomas’ house in the upscale community of Quaker Hill in Pawling, which earned a mention in House & Garden. Through Thomas’ connection, Keefe also did work for Thomas E. Dewey, future governor of Ne w York and Republican candidate for president, making alterations to the main house on a working farm that Dewey had purchased in Quaker Hill.

His other clients included mining and oil executives, investment bankers, people who’d gotten rich off their investments in Standard Oil and Woolworth’s and professionals. He did designs for industrialist E. Hope Norton, who developed the Guayaquil & Quito Railway in Ecuador and was a founder of Tokeneke. Not surprisingly, the architect was politically conservative, a registered Republican who hated the New Deal – though poignantly, days before he died, in July 1946, he had planned to meet

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with Eleanor Roosevelt to discuss a rehab school for delinquent boys for which she had raised the funds.

Keefe was, however, atypical in his employment and support of women. A letter of recommendation that he wrote in 1920 on behalf of one of his female employees, which is reprinted in one of the Appendices, shows the deep, professional respect he had for her abilities, as well as the significant responsibility with which she was entrusted.

A decade later, in responding to a trained woman architect seeking work as a draftsman in his office, he wrote that, while he unfortunately had no opening and “some offices will not consider a woman in the drafting room, I have no such prejudices. I had a young woman in such a capacity but was obliged to drop her on account of business conditions.” He then generously went on to recommend the types of architects and places where she was most likely to find work.

Keefe initially hoped to design banks

Keefe’s love of the Colonial Revival style was sparked by America’s budding historic-preservation movement

and prisons – a type of work he had done while working for Hopkins – before finding his niche with residences. He did, however, design two civic buildings in Kingston, both located near City Hall: the Knights of Columbus building, whose large arched central window on the façade is a classical grace note, and the American Legion Memorial Building on O’Reilly Street, noteworthy for its two-story, fourcolumn front portico. Designed in 1926, it was meant to serve as a place where welfare work was done for veterans, Rhoads comments that the building was “designed primarily as a Prohibition-era clubhouse.” Keefe was himself a veteran – he had served in the Spanish-American War. While Keefe’s house designs occasionally incorporated Tudor elements, such as stone walls and casement windows, his most consistent model was the Cape Cod: a style he admired on numerous vacations that he and Grace took on the Cape (Colonial New England inspired him, rather than the Dutch tradition of his native Hudson Valley). His exteriors were typically clad in cypress shingles – either left to weather or painted white – and had cedar-shingle roofs. There was always a brick fireplace, a porch and, in some cases, a breezeway connecting the house to the garage. Sometimes he’d design a simple pedimented porch at the front entrance, framed by two built-in benches: a cottage touch. He also extended his houses horizontally, adding windows, a garage and perhaps a garden house. For one client, William Thompson Rice – a resident of Pittsfield, Massachusetts who ran his family’s silk-sewing-thread firm and was a member of the New York Social Register and treasurer of the local polo club – he even designed an “old New England radio cabinet” built out of pine, complete with wrought-iron hinges; the basement was

to be transformed into an old tavern with the addition of an ingle nook, built-in seats and paneling.

Keefe’s commission for the Crane Museum – a transformation of an 1844 stone building on the grounds of Crane & Co., manufacturer of paper for US currency, located in the Berkshires – reflected the trend among businesses in the 1920s to preserve and celebrate American history through their patronage of museums (the most prominent of which was the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan).

He added a portal window over the front entrance, columned doorways and shutters to the former storage building and installed wooden ceiling beams (actually steel girders cased in wood), an oak plank floor and a fireplace to the interior; the building survives as the Crane Museum of Papermaking.

Keefe left thousands of drawings, everything from tiny tracing-paper scraps to detailed perspective drawings. “He actually described himself as an artist, as well as an architect,” Rhoads n o t e d . In d e e d , the compelling composition of his drawings and etchings, their storybook swells of stylized clouds and the droll, subtle hues of his watercolors are delightful, conveying a character that t r a n s c e n d s the dr yness of architectural rendering.

While the Depression “knocked him out, he did persevere and, unlike some architects who had to close up shop c o m p l e t e l y, h e continued to make AMERICAN HOME ends meet,” said Rhoads, noting that he worked right up until his death at age 70, after complications from a fall suffered when he was dining in a restaurant in Manchester, Vermont during a construction supervision trip.

While a number of Keefe’s houses elsewhere have been torn down – new homeowners in upper-crust towns like Darien have replaced the modestly proportioned traditional houses on their properties with ostentatious monstrosities – fortunately in Kingston they have survived. Which are Rhoads’ favorites?

“In terms of driving along the street, the Stanley Matthews house [located on Lounsbury Place] appeals to me and others,” he said. “It’s a little more Tudor than Colonial.” The Friends of Historic Kingston are publishing a self-guided driving tour of 15 Keefe buildings, so you can check out Keefe’s architecture for yourself – and appreciate the sensitivity, livability and intimate charm of his designs.

A book launch for Charles S. Keefe, 1876-1946: Colonial Revival Architect in Kingston and New York will be held at the Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK) Gallery at the corner of Wall and Main Streets in Kingston on Saturday, May 5, with a book-signing by author William Rhoads from 2 to 4 p.m. The accompanying exhibit, “Charles Keefe: Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York,” will have its opening on May 4 and 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and remain open thereafter on Fridays and Saturdays through October. For more information, visit www.fhk.org or call (845) 339-0720.

– Lynn Woods Charles S. Keefe book-signing with William Rhoads, Saturday, May 5, 2-4 p.m., Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, Wall/Main Streets, Kingston; (845) 3390720, www.fhk.org.

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May 3-10 “May the Fourth be with you!”

– dorks like me, everywhere FRIDAY, MAY 4

Circles Prom in Poughkeepsie Aw, what’s the “hatter”? Looking to gain more of your “muchness” by doing something fun this weekend?

Calling all LGBTQ high school teens to enjoy great music and hang out, or invite a special someone who would be over the rainbow by inviting them to a dance. Make sure your watch isn’t two days slow, and come to Circles Prom in Poughkeepsie this Friday, May 4 from 7 to 10 p.m. The theme is “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party,” and the location is shared when you call or text (845) 891-3494, http://lgbtqcenter. org/news/circles.

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the cool world of comics and take advantage of some terrific sales that many stores are having as well. Visit www.freecomicbookday.com for more details. Here are some participating Hudson Valley businesses: • Alterniverse, 1164 Route 9G, Suite 6, Rockledge Plaza, Hyde Park; (845) 2334234, http://alterniverse.net.

• Kirwan’s Game Store, 2001 South Road, Suite C204, Poughkeepsie, (845) 298-0091, https://kgspoughkeepsie.com; 369 Main Street, Catskill, (518) 719-0091, https://kgscatskill.com.

• Megabrain Comics, 20 Garden Street, Rhinebeck; (845) 516-4168; www. megabraincomics.com.

• October Country Comics, 246 Main Street, Suite #15, Cherry Hill Center, New Paltz; (845) 255-1115; http:// octobercountrycomics.com.

• POW! Card Games & Comics, 175 Broadway, Esopus; (845) 616-5473, http://powcardgamesandcomics.business. site.

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Love My Park Day 2018 is summed up perfectly by the Parks and Recreation show’s Leslie Knope: “We get to do work worth doing, alongside people we love.” Below are some local options to help out. For a full list of events (most for all ages!), visit www.ptny.org/events/i-love-my-park-day.

• I Love My Park Day: Maurice Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, May 5, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 5096 Route 28, Mount Tremper; (845) 256-3083, ian.dunn@dec. ny.gov, http://catskillinterpretivecenter.org/cic-events/2018/5/5/i-love-my-parkday.

• I Love My Park Day: Minnewaska State Park Preserve, May 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 5281 Route 44/55, Kerhonkson. Projects for ages 13 and up/12 and under.

Registration required: (845) 255-0752, nicholas.martin@parks.ny.gov, https:// bit.ly/2HMxIUt.

Who came first: Superman or Batman? Superman! He was introduced in Action Comics #1 in 1938 (incidentally the most expensive comic in the world, sold on eBay for $3.2 million).

This Saturday, May 5 is Free Comic Book Day for all ages, so stop in your favorite shop, introduce your crew to

We all know how STEAM is all the rage right now. Now, I introduce you to a brand-new acronym that I made up myself: STEMMA, in honor of this weekend’s robotic melodics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Music and Art). So, round up the kids and check out Opus Fun this Saturday, May 5 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Ryan Cronin Gallery.

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• Help get rid of invasive plants and clean up litter at Olana State Historic Site, May 5, starts at 10 a.m., 5720 Route 9G, a bit outside of the City of Hudson; (518) 828-1872, https://bit.ly/2HMxIUt. • I Love My Park Day: Sam’s Point, May 5, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor. Projects for ages 5 and up. Registration required: (845) 647-7989, laura.davis@parks.ny.gov, https://parks.ny.gov/events/event. aspx?e=193-21448.0.

• I Love My Park Day: Walkway over the Hudson, May 5, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 87 Haviland Road, Highland, 61 Parker Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Projects for 13 and up/12 and under; https://bit.ly/2jjVufP. • Help make a new trail at Staatsburgh State Historic Site, May 5, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 75 Mills Mansion Drive Road, Staatsburg; (845) 889-8851, https://bit. ly/2HMxIUt. • Riverkeeper Sweep: Waryas Park Shoreline Cleanup, May 5, 9 a.m.-noon, Main Street at the Hudson River, Poughkeepsie; sweep@riverkeeper.org, sarah@ dutchessoutreach.org, https://bit.ly/2Fy5ue6, https://bit.ly/2rjobhB. • Spring Spruce-Up Day: Century House Historical Society, Sunday, May 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 668 Route 213, Rosendale; (845) 658-9900, https://bit.ly/2jnlHKH.

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May 3, 2018 to create music. “Every robot is different, so part of our rehearsal has been learning the quirks of each one,” explains Steven Roberts (Class of ’18), the founder of the Ensemble. “You have to know exactly how each robot works, and how to arrange it to get the precise sound and rhythm you need.” Cronin’s bold, powerful artwork is the perfect setting for the group’s encore performance of this unique style of musicmaking. Opus Fun is free, family-friendly and open to the public of all ages.

Cronin Gallery is located in Water Street Market at10 Main Street in New Paltz.

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or boys who bake and knit. Then I have great news for you! Come to the Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be…Coloring Book release party this Sunday, May 6 at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center. The event begins at 5 p.m. and the music begins at 6, featuring Rhys Ellis, age 10 (you can hear Rhys’ music on Julie Novak’s No One like You radio show and podcast); Graciela Reyes-Bondar; Samiha Golden; and of course, the creator of the coloring book (and an incredible force of nature), Jacinta Bunnell. The Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center is located at 300 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ events/108039753365745. To learn more about the artist, visit www.jacintabunnell.com.

Stockade Football Club vs. Newtown Pride at Dietz Stadium Get your kicks in Kingston this weekend by attending a pre-season friendly match of futbol! This Saturday, May 5 from 6 to 8 p.m., cheer on our own Kingston Stockade Football Club semi-professional soccer team versus Newtown Pride at Dietz Stadium. Tickets cost $7 for adults and $4 for ages 12 and under.

Dietz Stadium is located at 170 North Front Street in Kingston. For tickets, swag or more information, visit www. stockadefc.com.

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oes your child watch America’s Next Top Model? Are they passionate about art? Or just looking for something interesting to do on a Friday afternoon? Then the 32nd annual Silver Needle Runway is the perfect event for you and your family! Come join the young designers of Marist Fashion for this fun event on Friday, May 4 at 4 or 7 p.m. at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. This highly anticipated event is attended by more than 2,500 guests and shows the collections of Marist’s student designers and future fashion leaders. Here’s the promo video: https://bit.ly/2FyJUGn. Ticket prices range from $27 to $102 and are available for purchase at www. ticketmaster.com. The Mid-Hudson Civic Center is located at 14 Civic Center Plaza in Poughkeepsie. For more information, e-mail haley.ogrady1@marist. edu or visit www.marist.edu/commarts/fashion/fash_show.html.

a pole, take a family fishing lesson, have some refreshments and enjoy some fishy fun!

The Olive Free Library is located at 4033 Route 28A in West Shokan. For more information, call (845) 657-2482 or visit http://olivefreelibrary.org.

Olive Free Library presents Lend-a-Pole

Kwame Alexander, poet, educator and New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, will be the featured author at this year’s Hudson Children’s Book Festival “Be anyone, but you’ve got to turn the key; open a book, let your mind run free” is from the charming theme song of the Hudson Children’s Book Festival (you can hear the entire song on the festival website). The Hudson Children’s Book Festival takes place this Saturday, May 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hudson Junior/Senior High School. All ages are welcome at this free event, where attendees can meet 75 children’s and Young Adult authors and illustrators, enjoy storytimes, watch live entertainment and more.

This year’s festival features Kwame Alexander, poet, educator and New York Times best-selling author of 24 books including The Crossover.

Hudson Junior/Senior High School is located at 215 Harry Howard Avenue in Hudson. For more information and a complete schedule (and to hear the song!), e-mail hcbf@hudsoncsd.org or visit https://hudsonchildrensbookfestival.com.

To learn more about the 2018 featured author, visit http://kwamealexander.com.

According to humor writer Dave Barry, “When I was a boy, I fished with a worm on a hook and it always worked, and I will tell you why: Fish are not rocket scientists. They see a worm, and in their tiny brains they think, ‘Huh! This is something I have never seen before underwater! I had better eat it!’”

Missing your fishing because you don’t have a pole? Problem solved! This Saturday, May 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. is opening day of the Lend-a-Pole program at the Olive Free Library. Borrow

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May 2018 For the month of May, we will be collecting bike helmets for the YMCA of Kingston & Ulster County— a nonprofit, community-based organization providing social and recreation services to the residents of Ulster County. Helmet sizes needed are youth: large; and adult: medium and small. You can drop off your donation at any one of our 7 locations.

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The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center & the Willow Dance Center present a Day of Dance fundraiser on Sunday, May 6, featuring Wendy Whelan, prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet. Whelan will teach two master classes: an advanced beginner-level class at 9:30 a.m. and an intermediate class at 11 a.m. Each costs $35, and preregistration is required at www. willowdancecenter.com.

At 2 p.m., there will be a showing of the film Restless Creature, an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she prepares to leave the New York City Ballet after a record-setting three decades with the company. This will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Tickets cost $25. For more information, call (845) 486-4571 or visit www.willowdancecenter. com. The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center is located at 12 Vassar Street in Poughkeepsie.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

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MOVIE

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Avengers: Infinity War is overstuffed fluffy fun with a dark denouement

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f you didn’t feel compelled to see it on opening weekend, you need to know this: The Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Infinity War is not a movie for the uninitiated to the Marvel Comics Universe (MCU). Semi-initiated will do; but expect to experience some confusion regarding who’s who, who already knows whom and what was the state of their relationship last time they crossed paths onscreen (and what’s that guy’s superpower again?). Infinity War is the Destroy All Monsters of the MCU, pulling together many of its franchises – though not all; we should probably be thankful that the X-Men and Fantastic Four were not invited to this epic throwdown.

If “epic,â€? used as an adjective, is your description of choice for your favorite sort of action movie, Infinity War should please you immensely. You won’t mind the fact that hardly any of the characters get enough screentime to show any development. We do get snippets establishing that many of them are in states of transition – cynical Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) trying to convince his fiancĂŠe that he’s ready to give up saving the universe and settle down with her, for instance, or Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) abandoning his clean-cut patriot look now that he’s fed up with being used as a tool of the US government, or Bruce Banner/ Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) having to deal with his big green anger-management problem going into a prolonged sulk. If you’ve already seen the previous installment

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If your favorite thing about MCU movies is the humor, you’ll be amply rewarded here: Putting so many superhero egos in the same space at the same time supplies plenty of opportunities for snarky putdowns in the best Marvel tradition. If you’ve seen the memes on social media about how to tell apart Hollywood’s many specimens of dark-blond beefcake fantasy/SF actors all named Chris, you will especially appreciate the moments of competitive alpha-male preening when Thor (Hemsworth) meets Star Lord (Pratt) and later Cap (Evans). When Iron Man has to collaborate with Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), it quickly becomes apparent that they are essentially the mechanistic and metaphysical halves of the same superior, goatee-sporting personality, and thus must detest one another on sight. Tony dismissively asking the “wizard� what he can do besides make balloon animals was one of the better insults in the script. But the funniest lines mostly come out of the mouths of Guardians Mantis (Pom Klementieff )

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The fluffy fun stuff is crucial to one’s enjoyment of Infinity War because the denouement is so dark. (Warning: Spoilers Incoming!) A common reaction to the movie’s ending, among those unfamiliar with the particular sequence of Avengers comics on which this story is based, has been stunned disbelief. Beloved characters die – lots of them. We are left in medias res, with Part II just about a year away from the cinemas and the Big Bad Guy, Thanos (Josh Brolin), having apparently won. Bringing young children to see Infinity War is inadvisable, no matter how loudly they demand it: Many will find the deaths too disturbing.

Let’s talk about Thanos for a minute, as he’s the one character given a real arc here, and time to unfold his backstory and rationale for being the Big Bad. Brolin does a terrific job of making him seem thoughtful and deliberate, committed to his mission to save all sentient lifeforms from themselves, and their tendency to deplete their planets’ resources, by killing off half of them (randomly selected, so that the culling is fair). To accomplish this more expeditiously, he’s after six magical MacGuffins called the Infinity Stones, some of which are being guarded by our heroes. Why it has not occurred to him that attaining godlike powers would also open up other options besides genocide – such as perfecting birth control technologies, or starting Green Revolutions on planets where people are starving – is not explained: a rather gaping plot hole. For a supervillain to have any moral shades of grey to his personality at all is a gift that we should probably not take for granted, I suppose.

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adopted daughter, the Guardian Gamora (Zoe Saldana), is the only place where the story digs deeply at all into drama and emotional engagement. Even when he succeeds in getting what he’s after and our heroes start dropping like flies, it’s tough to feel much moved. It takes very little reflection to realize that we are in a comicbook universe, after all, where time travel and alternate realities and other means of “retconning� are always handy. Plus, the studio’s not going to let these extremely lucrative franchises cease anytime soon.

The only real question is how they’ll go about winding back the clock after Thanos has snagged the Time Stone. We do know that, thanks to a spastic bout of meditation, Dr. Strange has already seen (and counted) all the possible future timelines and knows that only one will work in their favor. In May 2019, we’ll find out how that unfolds. Meanwhile, Infinity War is a messy, enjoyable thrill ride, but inessential to a well-lived life – unless you really need to have as much pop culture at your webby fingertips as Spidey himself. – Frances Marion Platt

Psychic & Healing Music Festival at Emerson Resort this Saturday The Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper hosts the Psychic & Healing Music Festival on Saturday, May 6 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event features psychic readings by Lois T. Martin, Lorry Saluzzi, George Koury, Joanna McNally and Jennifer Zara Starchild; reiki masters; electric acupuncture demonstrations; origami for healing; the music of Catskill Gamelan; vendor booths and more.

There is a $10 entrance fee. Psychic readings cost $25, cash only.

The Emerson is located at 5340 Route 28 in Mount Tremper. For more information, call (845) 688-2828.

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NIGHT SKY

2018’s UFO Fascinating facts about the Evening Star

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he night’s brightest object is the Moon, of course. But the second-brightest? Surprisingly, most people don’t know.

That’s why a dazzling apparition can now dominate the western sky, shining a hundred times more brightly than the brightest stars, and yet travel incognito.

It’s Venus, the Evening Star, and she’s in her glory from now through August.

She will be higher-up and brighter as spring unfolds. But right now, Venus is worth our attention because it’s in such a strange place. Yes, it’s that superbright “star� in the west the first few hours after sunset. But it’s actually to the right of due west – closer to northwest: an unusual place for a planet to be.

That’s because the Evening Star is spending May (and most of June, for that matter) in the most northerly part of the zodiac, in Taurus and Gemini. Moreover, instead of sitting smack in the middle of the zodiac, it’s following the zodiac’s northern edge, which happens because Venus’ orbit is tilted 3.4 degrees from the exact flat pancakelike Earth/Sun plane.

It may be the sky’s very brightest “star,� but it’s actually at its personal worst right now.

You’ll see it slowly brighten as 2018 grinds on. By September, it will have twice the brilliance it has now. When the Evening Star reaches its maximum brightness, well, that’s when Venus lights up the west like a searchlight, the first hours after nightfall.

This makes people around the world go on a binge of misidentification. Venus alone accounts for more than half of all UFO reports. And they don’t all come from dimwits. My

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Venus accounts for more than half of all UFO reports.

two favorite Venus stories: Jimmy Carter, while governor of Georgia, phoned the state police to report a UFO that proved to be Venus. And a squadron of Allied bombers returning from a mission over Japan in World War II saw a brilliant light that appeared to keep pace with them. Firing their guns, they attempted, without success, to blow up the Evening Star. At our Overlook Observatory phone and during Public Radio call-in shows, when someone begins a sentence with “I’ve been seeing a star‌â€? I obnoxiously interrupt them with “Venus!â€?

Its creamy-white brilliance, from sunlight bouncing off shiny clouds of sulfuric acid, is oddly steady. It rarely twinkles. And it’s dazzling enough to cast shadows when seen from a dark place. Wait for the first half of September for this, when there will be no Moon to compete.

Venus is the most unpleasant planet in the known universe. Its surface temperature never varies from 850 degrees: hotter than a woodstove. The air is 100 percent carbon dioxide, trapping in the Sun’s heat like a blanket. That’s why Venus manages to have a hotter surface than even Mercury. This was the original “greenhouse effect� model, long before that phrase’s current popularity. And its air pressure remains stuck at 90 Earthpressures, making it the most efficient pressure-cooker in this neck of the galaxy. A few seconds would do it for beef stew.

Sometimes called our “sister planet,� since its diameter and density are nearly the same as ours, all family resemblance ends right there. Goddess of Love, sure. As the night’s brightest “star,� it’s appropriate that it be forever associated with love. But this is strictly a “look but don’t touch� affair. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

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Microclimate change Slope and direction can make all the difference to a fruit’s survival

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s the train rolled southbound along the east bank of the Hudson River, I took in the varied landscapes along the opposite west bank. Spilling down the slope to the river on that bank at one point was what appeared, from a distance, to be a vineyard. I was envious.

(I never could understand why the region here is called the Hudson Valley.

Along much of the Hudson, the land rises

steeply right up from the river’s edge.

Where’s the valley?)

I wasn’t envious of the riverfront site of the vineyard property. I wasn’t even envious of having a whole vineyard of grapes. (I cultivate about a dozen vines.)

What I did envy was the microclimate of the site. Microclimates are pockets of air and soil that are colder, warmer, more or less windy, even more or less humid than the general climate, due to such influences as slopes, walls and pavement.

The vineyard was not that far from my home, but the microclimate was worlds apart. Every parcel of land, from a 40-acre farm field to a quarter-acre lot, will have some microclimates, and siting plants with this in mind can spell the difference between whether or not they thrive or even survive. I’m banking, for instance, on the slightly warmer temperatures near the wall of my house to get my stewartia tree,

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which is borderline hardy here, through our winters (it has). And I expect spring to arrive early each year, with a colorful blaze of tulips, in the bed pressed up against the south side of my house. Proximity to paving also warms things up a bit.

Microclimate isn’t always about trying to keep a plant warmer in winter, or speeding up growth in spring. It’s also useful for keeping plants cooler. By training my hardy kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) vines right up against the shaded north sides of their hefty supports, I keep the sun off their trunks in winter and avoid the splitting that occurs when trunks are warmed during winter days, then precipitously cooled as the winter sun drops below the horizon.

By planting the coveted blue poppy in a bed on the east side of my house, I hoped to give the plant the summer coolness that it demands. That east bed was still too sultry; the plants collapsed, dead.

Microclimates are important when growing fruit plants that blossom early in the season, because frozen blossoms do not go on to become fruits. Early-season bloomers need microclimates that are slow to warm up.

South-facing slopes stare full-face at the sun, so these slopes warm up early in

Every parcel of land, from a 40-acre farm field to a quarter-acre lot, will have some microclimates

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spring and are warmer in both summer and winter. Therefore, a south-facing slope – even if the grade is only slight – can be used to hasten fruit ripening on a plant like persimmon, which blooms late but needs a long season when grown near its northern limits.

Right after I push soil over the first seeds of sweet corn that I plant, I firm it over that hole with my foot at an angle to make a south-facing depression in the ground. That mini-slope will warm up just a wee bit sooner than flat ground.

The sun glances off north slopes, delaying their warming in spring and keeping them cooler in summer. Such a microclimate is ideal for an earlyblooming fruit tree like apricot or peach, and for plants, such as sweet peas, that enjoy cool summer weather. Likewise ideal for such plants is near the north side of a building, where shade remains through winter and the early part of the growing season.

If a slope actually has some elevation to it, the air is going to cool by one degree Fahrenheit every 300 feet going up the slope. If I had sloping ground (which I don’t) and sought a cooler location for planting, I’d avoid planting at the very top of the slope, though, because the upper reaches are usually windy.

Counterintuitively, the very bottom of a slope will also be a cooler microclimate.

On nights when the sky is clear, with no clouds or leafy trees to block reradiation of the sun’s heat from the ground back to the heavens, the air at ground-level cools.

An “inversion” occurs, with warmer air higher up. The cold air, which is denser than warm air, flows downhill to settle into depressions, just as a liquid flows downhill. A low point would be the worst possible location for planting strawberries, which grow near ground-level and whose early blossoms are threatened by late frosts in spring. Any dense fence or shrubbery on a slope stops the downward flow of cold air, which will pool, just as dammed water would, near the upper side of the barrier.

Among the fruits that I grow are

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May 3, 2018

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May 3, 2018

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Times like these “I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.” – Steven Wright

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ME: Yes.

“I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.’” – Steven Wright 1. My cancer diagnosis is my first personal encounter with mortality. Until that point, most deaths of loved ones were due to age. My relatives are usually extremely elderly when they pass, so I never anticipated an early demise for myself. So my perception of time in terms of life expectancy changed for me.

2. Another shift around time has been my attention to detail in creating a daily and weekly schedule, because I rely on so many rides for myself or the kids (thank you, family and friends, for driving us!). For every commitment, I estimate a pickup time based on how long the drive is, figure in the traffic at that time of day, build in a buffer in case there are delays and prepare for potential errands that can be done before or afterwards. I pack like a nomad, because sometimes I have a few rides in a row and don’t return home for hours, each destination in a different car.

Planning was easier before brain tumors caused my driving restrictions, because I could keep my stuff in my car and come and go whenever I wanted. The worst is when I’m in the bathroom when the volunteer driver arrives. The schedule is pretty rigid, because changing times or days is a nightmare to solve. Mike was suddenly super-sick last weekend and couldn’t drive our kids to their activities, so we had to scramble for new plans. It all worked out, but it was pretty stressful. I loathe asking for rides, but last-minute pleas are the absolute worst.

I hate clock-time.

I love life-time.

3. Time suddenly took on an element of energy in my cancer journey. I simply don’t have the reserves I had for the first four decades of my life. I get exhausted simply being out and about, and chunks of time are easily swallowed up in a nap or bingewatching Schitt’s Creek, Bob’s Burgers, David Attenborough or standup comedy. I used to do whatever fit in my calendar, but now I choose my activities really carefully, on top of hours of biweekly medical appointments.

But also no.

“Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?” – Steven Wright 1. I’m aware that each of us gets a certain number of heartbeats. As a mother of two and wife of one, a good part of daily and seasonal life remains the same. Meals still get made (or warmed up, thank you Sparrow’s Nest!); laundry gets washed and (sometimes) dried the same day; driving plans get organized; and, even though I’m never sure I’ll still be upright the next season, summer camps and travel plans are established.

2. I hate clock-time. I love life-time. To accommodate a cool run-in with a friend or to spend just five more minutes on Facebook, I still think of every destination as only 15 minutes away, and that whatever thing I’m doing will just take five minutes. This morning, I was in a rush, but spent ten minutes looking for a yoga video that would last less than 15 minutes so I could fit it in. My son just outgrew another batch of pants; didn’t we just buy them like three weeks ago? Waiting for Deadpool 2 to come out feels way too long. Kissing Mike always feels too short.

I consider coincidences sacred gifts, and I like to give them the time it takes to fully unfold. Like on last weekend’s Ulster County Historical Society house tour, I discovered that my favorite one is actually owned by a friend of mine I met only recently.

Amazing! Why would I rush that encounter?

3. As far as time in the past, I don’t have many regrets, and I’m grateful for that. I have lived fully, and I still feel like I do. I don’t have a bucket list. I’m satisfied with my life past and present, and whatever future I get to have. Macklemore and Kesha sing, “I wish somebody would have told me, babe / Someday these will be the good old days.” I try to keep that in mind: Today is just as much of a “good old day” as my life before cancer. My life is not yet over.

Heather and I laughed so hard this weekend we couldn’t breathe; tears streamed down our faces. My therapist taught me the beginning of a healing tool that I found immediately beneficial for my past and present. While tapping, I repeat: “Even though I [fill in with a feeling or situation or whatever, it doesn’t have to make a perfect sentence], I deeply and completely accept myself.” The amount of self-negativity this dislodged from me is potent. For example, “Even though I hate asking for rides, I deeply and completely accept myself.” “Even though my tone was harsh to my kids, I deeply and completely accept myself.” I can feel the emotional energy redirect away from the target that would normally perpetuate my anger (“Why can’t you just…!) and focus peace back to myself. Like a soul self-hug with Foo Fighters singing “Times like These” in the background: “It’s times like these you learn to live again / It’s times like these you give and give again / It’s times like these you learn to love again / It’s times like these time and time again.”

“We don’t understand the world as made by stones – by things.

We understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses: happenings.”

– Carlo Rovelli What is your perception/value of time? Thank you for your questions and comments. Keep ’em coming to kidsalmanac@ ulsterpublishing.com.

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.

of warm temperatures. So various blossoms can be indicators of when it’s safe to sow seeds or set out plants of various vegetables and flowers.

Depending on late-winter and spring weather, blossoming dates for various plants can vary quite a bit. Microclimate also plays a role, so I’ve tried to always note blossoming on the same plant from

Daffodils typically bloom here in early April – although back in 2016, they bloomed on March 25; this year, April 21. year to year. Back in 2010, forsythia bloomed about April 1: the earliest I’ve ever recorded. Contrast that with 2009, when it bloomed about April 15, or back in 1984, when it bloomed on April 25!

This year, forsythia bloomed on April 23: late again. Over the years, forsythia bloom dates average around the middle of April, so this year is definitely late.

All these forsythia bloom dates are for forsythia on my farmden, which is in a local cold pocket, so blossoms spread their yellow petals a few days later than plants even just a few miles away.

Another key indicator for me is cornelian cherry (Cornus mas), whose yellow blossoms are most welcome because they frequently open the first day of spring. Not this year, though; mine bloomed on April 20.

Daffodils typically bloom here in early April – although back in 2016, they bloomed on March 25; this year, April 21.

One of my favorite blooming shrubs, also producing very tasty fruit, is Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa). Stems on the row of them along my driveway typically form a veritable wave of pinkish-white blossoms around the middle of April. As I write, it’s April 24 and that wave is just building. If warm weather continues, it should roll in within a few days. (Update: It did, on the 28th.)

It’s tradition to plant corn when “oak leaves are the size of mouse ears.”

Considering phenology, I take timing one step further, planting, for example, lettuce seeds when forsythias blossom, cabbage transplants when apples blossom and (this is a tough one) peas a week before forsythias blossom.

So yes, it has been a “cruel” spring, if you’re wanting some warmth and sun.

Then again, this cool weather has retarded, so far at least, blossom development of my fruit trees, which is a good thing. The later these trees blossom, the less chance for the open flowers to be burned by subsequent frosts.

The downside to this atypically cool spring weather is that it has delayed planting of annual vegetables and flowers, or their growth if they’re already been planted. I sowed peas, as I always do, on April 1. Still no sign of them poking up through the ground.

I’m going to go outside, scratch around in one of the pea rows and check if the seeds have either sprouted or rotted.

I’m back. The peas are okay: Their first bits of green are peeking up through the surface of the ground.

No matter if the season is unseasonably cool or warm, by this time of year the progression of blossoms provides a feast for the eyes and the nose.

– 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.

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9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John. Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels. A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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

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

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

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

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

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

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings and Intuitive Counseling with Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins warmly welcome.

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

1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. 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.

1pm Kerhonkson - Accord Seniors Meeting.

Meets on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month.

Activities, games, parties, & movies. Info: 845-626-8213. Accord Firehouse, Main Street, Accord.

2pm-5pm Phoenicia: Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

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

5:30pm Huskies 5k Challenge. The Highland Middle School PTA is hosting the Huskies 5k Challenge. Any Student only $10; Families $40 (must pre-register); All others $12 in advance and $15 race day. Hudson Valley Rail Trail at the Rotary Club Caboose, Highland. huskies5k.wordpress. com.

6pm-8pm Accepting Visitations from the Spirit Realm with psychic medium Adam Bernstein. In this workshop we will learn about visitations from the spirit world and what to do if faced with such an encounter. Learn how to call upon spirit beings as well as how to handle unsolicited visitations. We’ll explore topics such as safety, psychic self-defense, spiritual discernment, healthy boundaries, opening the doors for communication and recognition of deceased loved ones. This is an interactive and experiential experience so come prepared to dive into spiritual waters! Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25.

6pm-7pm Zena Rommett Floor-Barre(TM) Classes. An evolutionary step in body improvement training. Contact: Andrea Pastorella, 845-282-6723. 65 Albany Avenue, Kingston.

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-7:30pm Breast Cancer Options Talk & Peer-Led Support Group. Features speakers, topics and chair massage. Meets at 6:30pm on the 1st Thursday at of each month. For information or to register: 845/339-HOPE or email hope@breastcanceroptions.org. Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville. Info: 845-339-4673, hopenemiroff@yahoo.com, http://bit.ly/1USVReh. 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 Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm-8pm Gardiner Library Knitting Group. Sit and knit. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. gardinerlibrary.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.

7pm-8:30pm Book Reading and Signing by David Appelbaum. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at SUNY New Paltz, reads from his newest book,Notes on Water: An Aqueous Phenomenology. Inquiring Minds New Paltz Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com, https://bit. ly/2HzN2V8. FREE!

5pm-7:30pm Opening Reception: Franc Palaia’s Solo Show. Photographic series on Cuban Murals and Street Art and his artist’s talk, Cuban Murals and Street Art. Reception: 5-6pm, talk: 6:30-7:30pm. Exhibits through 6/30. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 9 Vassar

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

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

6pm-8pm Nonfiction Book Group to Discuss Sarah McBride’s Tomorrow Will Be Different!

The Link Project and OutHudson is sponsoring the discussion of Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. https://bit.ly/2vsOXIF.

7pm-8:30pm Resilience - Gifts of Adversity.

Free holistic self-care class with Meagan Lara Shapiro. How do we carry on? What do we hold on to? Resilience is part of the cycle of growth and transformation. Dress for ease of movement.

Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. Info: info@rvhhc. org, http://www.rvhhc.org.

5pm-6:30pm So You Want to be in the Movies?

Hosted by the Hudson Valley Film Commission. Hudson Valley Film Commission founder and director, Laurent Rejto, will talk about the regional Film and TV industry. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. All ages. No need to sign up. Happens in the East Room.

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6pm New Paltz Racial Equity Coalition Conversation with the NPCSD BOE Candidates. BOE candidates will share how they plan to support racial equity in the NPCSD. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave, New Paltz.

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.

5pm-7:30pm Happy Testing Hour. Free HIV & STI testing. Meets on the 1st Thursday of each month from 5-7:30pm. Info: 845-704-7322; 845-331-5300;jdebella@hudsonvalleycs.org; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter. org.

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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.

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.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Dana Murray’s “Negro Manifesto” Album Release. Jazz, hip-hop, spoken word & discussion. Info: 845-236-7970.

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

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Letterii. Indie Rock

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with Dante DeFelice. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 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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8am-9am New Paltz Chamber Monthly Membership Coffee. Our monthly coffee is a friendly, supportive atmosphere for you to meet and connect with local professionals. Prepare an elevator speech and bring plenty of business cards! This is an excellent opportunity to make strong connections. Enjoy fresh bagels and French press coffee. Free Admission. Online registration is required. Info: 845-255-0243. Beyond Wealth Management, 101 Main St, New Paltz. newpaltzchamber.org.

8:30am-10am Non-profits Talk. A monthly source of direct support for nonprofits, where organizations; executive directors, board members, staff and volunteers can come together around issues and seek ideas and advice in a facilitated conversation. Hosted by Susan J Ragusa.

Info: 845-876-5472. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

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, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9am-10:30am Birding Basics at the Gardiner Library. Are you interested in birds or birdwatching? Join Nick Martin, Park Educator, for this program, where we will take a walk on the trails and mowed fields near the library. Participants are encouraged to wear water proof boots, bring binoculars, a birding field guide or a smart device with a field guide installed. A few binoculars will be available for loan to participants who may not have their own binoculars. Interested participants are welcome to attend one or all four programs.

Info: 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

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 Art Exhibit: Betsy Jacaruso. Watercolors. Exhibits through 5/26. No Reception.

Info: 845-338-5580. Duck Pond Gallery, Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. esopuslibrary.org.

10am First Friday San Gennaro Festival.

Featuring food, art and music, held in the city of Poughkeepsie. The event takes place every first Friday of the month. Free admission. Dongan Park, Poughkeepsie.

11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

11:30am-4pm Past Life Regression Sessions and Private Angelic Channeling with Margaret Doner. First Friday of every Month at Mirabai.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $125/90 minute session.

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 Oracle Readings and Tarot of the Sidhe with Mary. Every Friday at Mirabai. Walk-ins warmly welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

12:45pm Successful Aging. With OFA outreach coordinator Brian Jones. Info: 845-486-2555.

Maura’s Kitchen, 18 Alden Pl, Millbrook. dutchessny.gov/aging.

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.

3pm-4pm Today’s Journals Are Tomorrow’s Literature: Presentation by Jack Gantos. A special presentation from acclaimed Newbery Award-winning author Jack Gantos, for kids 3rd grade and up. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda. shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit. ly/2HnyBTQ. 4pm-5pm All About MEme. Teens - Share your favourite memes. We will also make our own memes with an app. Bring images with you. Plus, PIZZA! Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary. org/. In East Room.

5pm Escape Room and Scavenger Hunt Room.

Become a Time Traveling Detective in “Escape HRMM: Time Traveling Detectives” which features a clue- and puzzle-based mystery for groups of up to six people to solve in just 50 minutes. Preregistration is required and the Hudson River Maritime Museum may add individuals to your group if there are spaces still available. Info: education@hrmm.org; 845-338-0071. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. hrmm.org.

5pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission.

Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com.

Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie. HudsonValleyFair.com.

5pm-7pm BFA Thesis Exhibition Opening. 1st of 3 student Thesis Exhibitions. Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, newpaltz.edu/museum. suggested donation.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Canine Massage Therapy and Essential Oil Class (Sunday 5/6 - 2-4pm).

Learn about canine massage therapy and essential oil use for your special companion in this interactive workshop taught by Thurman Greco. In addition to canine massage therapy, Greco will help you discover how to successfully use essential oils, which oils are more effective for your dog, how to apply essential oils on a jittery/ resistant dog, what oils you can safely use to control fleas and ticks. Her book, A Healer’s Handbook, will be for sale at this class. All funds received at this class will be donated to the Woodstock Dog Park for maintenance fees.

Suggested donation for you and your companion animal/$15. Call 845-5948716 to reserve a space. Bring a towel, small rug, or blanket for your pet to lay on. St. Gregory’s Church, Woodstock.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Station-

ary 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: 845-3431000, tara-spayneuter.org.

Spring Family Day ( 5/12, 10am3pm). Learn about healthy living from Lama Losang (David Bole). Activities will include: Chi Gong; Tara Dance; Sound Meditation; Gardening; A Nature Walk (Wildcrafting Medicinal Herbs); And More! Please call or write to register so that we know how many

Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind.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.

5:30pm-7:30pm Opening Reception: Collective Artistry- The 12th Annual Rhinebeck Central School District Art Show. Artwork

by Rhinebeck Central School District Students.

Exhibits through 5/31/2018. Info: 845-876-4030.

Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

6pm Newburgh: Friday Nights: Four-week Beginner Swing Dance Class. With Linda and Chester Freeman, Got2Lindy Dance Studios.

Sessions 6-7pm, no experience or partner needed.

Intermediate level 7-8pm. $85 per person per four-week series. Private lessons in swing and ballroom and for wedding couples available by appointment. For more information and to register visit got2lindy.com or 845-2363939. Maximum Fitness, 59 North Plank Rd, Newburgh.

6pm-8pm Movie Night - Jumangi: Welcome to the Jungle. 4 kids discover an old game and get drawn into it. To return to the real world, they’ll have to go on a dangerous adventure. PG13, 119 mins. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

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

FREE. 6:30pm-10pm Beacon Sloop Club Potluck Meeting. Meets every 1st Friday of the month at 6:30pm! Open meeting at 7:30pm, followed by a Song Circle. Everyone welcomed. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. www.beaconsloopclub.org. Free.

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-9:30pm Screening of Star Wars: the Last Jedi. Doors open 10 minutes before start of film.

Light refreshments available. (PG-13, 2 hr 32 min.)

Info: 845-795-2200; miltonlibrary@live.com.

Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56 Main St, Milton.

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-9pm Kenro Izu: Seduction - Presentation and Booksigning. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, http://bit. ly/2vy9xY7. RSVP Requested.

7pm Star Nations Sacred Circle. A not for skeptics discussion group concerning all things paranormal. Dedicated to acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on earth. Bring a drink, snack to share & a comfortable lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch. Meets monthly on the 1st Friday of each month, 7pm.

Info: 845-331-2662 or Symbolic-Studies.org. $5 suggested donation. Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson.

7pm-8:30pm First Friday Concert Series.

Local musicians offer a community benefit concert. Admission by free will donation. Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2336, bulletin@christwoodstock. org, bit.ly/2gaSj9e.

7pm-8:30pm Last Train to Nibroc, A Play by Arlene Hutton. Just before World War II, a young flyer and an aspiring missionary meet on a cross-country train. Romantic comedy ensues.

Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7950 Main Street, Hunter. http://KATactors.com. Cash at the door.

guests to plan for. (845-679-5906 x1012 or jan@kagyu.org) All activities are free! Vegetarian Lunch from the Monastery Kitchen $10 or bring your own. Overnight accommodations available at KTD’s usual rates. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Road, Woodstock.

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.

Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche (5/5, 1-3:30pm). A prominent incarnate lama in Tibetan Buddhism addresses the essence of Karma—what it is, how we create it, and why it matters.

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7pm-8:30pm Bethlehem to Brooklyn: Breaking the Surface. Documentary spotlights the world of Latino, African American, and Palestinian teenagers struggling with the circumstances in their daily lives. They don’t join a jihad or a gang, but find a way to resist through writing and activism.

SPECIAL GUEST: A member of Black Lives Matter - Hudson Valley will talk about the campaign to bring racial justice to our local communities.

Sponsored by: Middle East Crisis Response.

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

Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Pine Grove Ave, Kingston. mideastcrisis.org.

7:30pm Treble Choraliers Spring Concert.

Treble Choraliers women’s chorus presents a program of mixed genre choral music. Guest Artist: Meadowsuite Classical Ensemble. Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave, Catskill. treblechoraliers.org. $10/suggested donation.

7:30pm Chorus Ensembles and Guitar Ensemble Concert. A tapestry of many moods, musical genres, and themes performed by the College Chorus and Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Janet Gehres and accompanied by Edward Leavitt, and SUNY Ulster’s Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Greg Dinger. SUNY Ulster/ Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. sunyulster.edu.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Aztec Two-Step.

Vintage Folk Rock Favorites with Guests. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm-10pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fast-paced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 8456882279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

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I Love My Park Day. Minnewasksa State Park Preserve, Sam’s Point, Walkway Over the Hudson + more. More than 125 state parks, historic sites and public lands host I Love My Park Day. Registration for 2018 is now open! View participating events/locations and register. Celebrate New York’s park system by cleaning up park lands and beaches, planting trees and gardens, restoring trail and wildlife habitat, removing invasive species, and working on various site improvement projects. Info: ptny.org/events/i-love-mypark-day.

8am-5pm Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix. The Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix is the only women’s single day, out-and-back race course in the United States. professional and amateur racers will tackle a world class course that includes ascending the infamous Meads Mountain Road, aka Overlook Mountain. The

retreats@dharmakayacenter.org 845-203-1275. Open to all; $55 a ticket, including teaching, guided meditation and light yoga. Participants are encouraged to remain on personal retreat at a 50% discount.dharmakayacenter.org/.

Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Road, Pine Bush.

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.

Instructor: Roy Capellaro, PT.Tuesdays 9:45-11am. Fighting Spirit Karate is on 19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner. Register: roycapellaro@gmail.com or call 845518-1070; 12 sessions/$240.

Antique Fair & Flea Market (5/5 -5/6 & 8/4-8/5). Old-Fashioned Antique Show featuring 200+ dealers, free parking, & food. $10/early buyers - Friday before show. Info: 518-3315004. $4/gen adm, $3/srs, free/16 7 under. Washington County Fairgrounds, Rt 29 Greenwich, NY. Balinese Gamelan Concert (5/12,

race begins and ends on Rock City Road in Ulster County’s iconic Woodstock and encompasses the best roads in the townships of Woodstock, Phoenicia, Hurley, and Saugerties. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. womenswoodstockcycling.com.

8am-5pm Riverkeeper Sweep. For details and where you may pariticipate, log onto https://www. riverkeeper.org/news-events/events/rvk-events/ save-date-2018-riverkeeper-sweep/.

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.

8:30am 6th Annual Walkin’ the Dog Fundraiser. Always a fun event, this year will be even more exciting because the library is partnering with Paws of Ulster Dog Park. All proceeds go to the library and the dog park. There will be Doggie treats for all, courtesy of Paws of Distinction, and prizes for the 3 top-sponsored dogs. Registration between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. We walk rain or shine. The Gilded Otter, 3 Main St, New Paltz. eltinglibrary.org.

9am-3pm Community Rummage Sale. All are welcome to set up a table on the lawn to sell their items. The church will be selling clothes, housewares, treasures, and baked goods. Proceeds go to local food pantries. Info: 845-758-0657. Rowe Methodist Church, Rt. 199, Milan.

9am-12pm 9th Annual Kingston Clean Sweep at Kingston Point Beach. Volunteers will pick up litter lying along the “Kingston Corridor”from the railroad crossing on Washington Avenue through the uptown business district, down Broadway to the Rondout waterfront, as well as on some side streets. The Kingston Clean Sweep is sponsored by the Friends of Historic Kingston with support from the City of Kingston and numerous other business, service and civic organizations. Individuals are welcome to participate. Trash bags and plastic gloves are provided. Kingston Point Beach, 53 Delaware Ave, Kingston.

9am-4pm Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Renewal Course. This course is a recertification for the PALS course. You must be certified in PALS to take this abridged course. Course completion results in a two-year PALS certification card from the American Heart Association. You will be required to do a pre-course assessment in the text as well. A textbook (2016 Edition of AHA PALS) is required and AHA allows students to use it when taking the written exam. For ages 18 and up. Preregistration and payment are required.

845-475-9742 to register. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. $125, $165 with text.

9am-12pm Friends of Historic Kingston will host Kingston Clean Sweep. A citywide event.

Interested parties may register at the FHK Gallery.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-

8pm). With Hudson Valley Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana and Guest Artists I Nyoman Catra & Latifah Alsegaf. Artistic director I Nyoman Suadin. Performing traditional & new works for Balinese Gong Kebyar Ensembles with a Beleganjur Opening Procession and Balinese Kecak Vocal Chorus. Info 845-688-7090. Bard College, Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Our World Remade: World War I Humanities New York (Mondays, through 5/7, 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, through May 7th, 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.

Main, Kingston. fohk.org.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. Not-for-profit store featuring previously enjoyed household and misc. items, jewelry, and clothing for children and adults. Take stairway to the left of the church entrance down to the basement. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Comforterofkingston.org.

9am-4pm I Love My Park Day: Verkeerderkill Falls Footpath Restoration at Sam’s Point.

Volunteers will help to build bog bridges, which will elevate the treadway, keeping feet dry and protecting vegetation from being trampled.

Appropriate for adults and children who are at least thirteen years old, accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Register at: ptny.org/ilovemypark. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

9am-1pm Free Tech Help. Our teen tech expert Samantha will help solve your computer quandries. You can call 845-266-5530 to schedule a time or drop in 9am-1pm. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

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

9:30am-2pm I Love My Park Day: Native Garden Improvement at Sam’s Point. Volunteers will be working to beautify and maintain the native plant garden located in front of the Sam’s Point Visitor Center.This volunteer opportunity is appropriate for adults and children who are at least five years old, accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Register at: ptny.org/ilovemypark. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

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-12pm Woodstock Land Conservancy presents Pollinator Planting. What do sunflowers, lupines, and mint all have in common? They are all tasty, native sources of food for bees! This

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event will be led by Chris Layman, the local Beekeeper at the Thorn Preserve Apiary for rescued bees. If you have native plants or seeds you would like to donate to this event, bring them with you! Email kateb.wlc@gmail.com with any questions. The Catskill Center’s Thorn Preserve, 55 John Joy Rd, Woodstock.

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am Antique Fair & Flea Market (5/5 -5/6 & 8/4-8/5). Old-Fashioned Antique Show featuring 200+ dealers, free parking, & food. Info: 518-3315004. $4/gen adm, $3/srs, free/16 7 under. Washington County Fairgrounds, Rt. 29, Greenwich.

10am-4pm Vinyl Record, CD, DVD, Audio Book Sale. Begins May 5 runs through May 24. Vinyl records and CDs will be 50 cents per record and disc. DVDs and audiobooks will sell for $1 each.

More than 20,000 quality used books will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less during the sale in a wide variety of other categories including history, travel, fiction and children’s books. The Book Store is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Info: 845-485-3445 x 3423. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/ timeline.

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-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-5pm Catskills Great Outdoor Expo.

Expert outdoor education presentations, raffles, the Catskill Center Gear Swap and free samples.

Presenters will include hiking clubs, paddling outfitters, climbing guides, skiing/mountain biking centers, gear outfitters, cultural attractions, local trail food producers, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Best Western Conference Center, Kingston. http://catskillcenter.org/ events/2018/5/5/catskills-great-outdoors-expo. $3, free/under 10.

10am Qigong Classes. All level class including chair Qigong led by Steven Michael Pague.

Ongoing every Saturday at 10am. Classes meet by the back door to the library. In case of inclement weather, class will be held in the Community Room. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

10am-4pm Minnewaska Preserve: I Love My Park Day: Jenny Lane Bog Bridge Repairs.

Volunteers will be working with New York-New Jersey Trail Conference members and Park Preserve staff to repair a section of bog bridge on the Jenny Lane Footpath. Volunteers bring waterproof boots and clothes they don’t mind getting dirty, as this project area may be muddy and wet. This volunteer opportunity is appropriate for adults and children who are at least thirteen years old, accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Jenny Lane parking area of Minnewaska. Register at: ptny.org/ilovemypark. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

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,

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10am-2pm I Love My Park Day. Volunteer at Olana for a few hours! I Love My Park Day is a statewide event organized by Parks & Trails New York. Olana State Historic Site, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1872, education@olana. org, http://www.olana.org/calendar/.

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-2pm YogaYoga Grand Opening. YogaYoga High Falls, 1412 Rt 213, High Falls.

10am-4pm I Love My Park Day at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and New Windsor Cantonment. Participants will perform light grounds maintenance tasks: raking, cutting bushes and weeds, and removing brush. Please wear work clothes suitable for performing the above tasks. All tools are provided by the sites.

Info: 845-561-1765. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, 374 Temple Hill Rd, New Windsor. ptny.wufoo.com/forms/ z180ah6l0nc9k6s/.

10am-11:15am “Generations” Shabbat. This family-friendly, all-inclusive community gathering will include singing, socialization, teachings from the torah and refreshments. All ages and religions are welcome to attend this time of fellowship. For all ages every first Saturday of the month in the Health Center Great Room. RSVP through the website. Woodland Pond, New Paltz. kolhai.org.

10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston.

10:30am-11:30am Writing Group. This writing group will offer bi-weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique & the opportunity to share work-in-progress. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Ukulele Lesson & Jam. Meets the first Saturday of the month for a good old uke lesson and jam, from beginners to more advanced players. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 11am-1pm High Five! Talking, Singing, Reading, Writing, Playing with Your Child: Spring Edition. Family literacy program for ages 0-5 plus parents. Fun early literacy activities, prizes, snacks, music, books, & a field trip!

Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. http://bit.ly/2IxCJRD. 11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

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-12pm Plant Swap: Have a Plant, Take a Plant! Bring all the plants you want to swap (by 10:30am) divided in containers, labeled with name, and with basic planting instructions. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary. org/. Happens by gazebo.

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

11am-4pm 5th Annual Spring Faire! Featuring crafts, games, food, live music, & maypole dancing. Primrose Hill School, 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck. Info: (845) 876-1226, info@ primrosehillschool.com, www.primrosehillschool. com. Small fee for some activites and food.

11am-5pm Psychic & Healing Music Festival.

An enlightening day of spiritual and psychic healing featuring Psychic Readings by acclaimed psychics Lois T. Martin, Lorry Saluzzi, George Koury, Joanna McNally, and Jennifer Zara Starchild, Reiki Masters, Electric Acupuncture demonstrations, Origami for Healing, the music of Catskill Gamelan, vendor booths and more! $10 entry fee, $25 per psychic reading-cash only.

Info: 845-688-2828. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

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11:30am-1:30pm Grand Opening- Lend A Pole Program. Borrow fishing poles from the library & learn about our family fishing class. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

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12pm-1pm Tivoli Knights Chess Club. Join us every other Saturday, beginning April 7th, hosted

by Library Clerk, Patrick. Chess boards will be provided. Happens in the East Room. All ages.

Free. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org.

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

12pm Turtle Day at the Smith Property in Gardiner. Location revealed upon registration.

Join Anne Smith on her property in Gardiner, in order to search for Eastern Box Turtles and gain insight into their range. Space is very limited for this walk, so please RSVP! You might want to bring the following: water, a small notepad, tick-smart clothes, comfortable walking shoes or boots in the case of muddy conditions, layers, a magnifying glass, and/or binoculars. boxturtlesny.com.

12:30pm-6pm Expert Tarot Readings and Intuitive Guidance with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 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-3:30pm Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche. A prominent incarnate lama in Tibetan Buddhism addresses the essence of Karma—what it is, how we create it, and why it matters. Contact to reserve or ask question: retreats@dharmakayacenter. org 845-203-1275. Open to all; $55 a ticket, including teaching, guided meditation and light yoga. Participants are encouraged to remain on personal retreat at a 50% discount.dharmakayacenter.org/. Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Rd, Pine Bush.

1pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission.

Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com.

Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie. HudsonValleyFair.com.

1pm-3:30pm False Alarms: How to Build Core Calm. Fear is more often a hindrance than a help.

Come explore its neurological effects, the basic fears we all wrestle with, and how to master fear through simple awareness. Part of the Dharma in Daily Life Series. Open to all. Includes teaching, guided meditation and mindful movement. Tea and cookies afterwards. $35. Info & tix: dharmakayacenter.org/events. Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Rd, Pine Bush.

1pm Stockade National Historic District Walking Tour. Tours held the first Saturday of each month. Free to FHK members. FHK will make special appointments for groups or private tours.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner WallMain, Kingston. fohk.org. $10, $5/under 16.

1:30pm-2:30pm Senior Fitness: Core Strength & Balance. 4 weekly classes that improve postural stability, core strength, spatial body awareness, sensory integration, agility & coordination.

Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@ hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2GFDUjO. 1:30pm Sunday Scrabble Club at Elting Library. The Sunday Scrabble Club is seeking new members to play! Come meet new people, test your knowledge and spelling skills, and share some laughs! Boards and equipment, including the Official Scrabble Dictionary (5th edition) will be provided for use. The Sunday Scrabble Club meets every Sunday between 1:30 and 3:30pm at the Library, and is open to all aged 18 and up.

Attendance is free. Info: 845-255-5030. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

2pm-6pm Pete Seeger Celebration and Open House. Pot luck - bring a dish and or song to share and celebrate Pete’s life. Info: 201-376-1316; Ken Miller @ powwow187@aol.com. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Flynn Drive, Beacon. www.beaconsloopclub.org.

2pm The Catskill Tanneries: An Environmental Disaster with a Happy Ending. Paul Misko has been hiking in the Catskills since childhood.

Over the years he has learned much about the Catskill forest, and the human history within it.

Though his main focus is Woodland Valley, near Phoenicia, he has done research throughout the whole Catskill region. All Friends of Historic Saugerties talks are open to anyone who is interested in history! Seating is limited to 81, please plan accordingly. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

2pm-5pm Artist Reception: D’Votional Art. Conceptual, “outsider” artist, D’Votional Art. Dolls & more! Uncanny Gallery, 17 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845 204 4380, aw@uncannygallery.com, www.uncannygallery.com.

2pm-4pm Book Signing: William B. Rhoads.

Author of Charles Keefe. Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org.

3pm-5:30pm Montgomery Place: A Window on the World of Alexander Jackson Davis’s Architecture and Design. A. J. Davis’s Swiss Cottage and 1861 Farmhouse: The Pragmatic Picturesque at Cedar Hill. Emily Majer is a Bard alumna and a preservation and restoration carpenter. Gretta Tritch Roman, Experimental Humanities digital projects coordinator at Bard College, has a PhD in architectural history. After each lecture, there will be refreshments on the north porch of the mansion house, followed by a tour of the Montgomery Place building(s) discussed that day. For tickets info: 845-876-2474; office@hudsonriverheritage.org. Bard College/Montgomery Place,

May 3, 2018 Annandale. hudsonriverheritage.org. $25/lecture, $90/4 lecture series.

4pm-5pm THE ASHOKAN WAY | Gail Straub Talk and Book Signing. About 2.5 hours north of New York City and a world away lies the Ashokan Reservoir and the 18 bluestone peaks that form the Catskills. Merritt Bookstore, 57 Front St, Millbrook. Info: 845-677-5857, Stacey@merrittbookstore.com, https://bit.ly/2pZc1K3.

4pm-6pm Delaware & Hudson Canal: 19th Century Engine of Prosperity. A presentation on the construction of the canal and its impact on the region, presented by Bill Merchant, Historian/Curator of the D&H Museum. Cragsmoor Historical Society, 349 Cragsmoor Road, Cragsmoor. www.cragsmoorhistoricalsociety. donatiosn gratefullyn accepted.

4pm-6pm Piano Plus Concert. Andrea Lam, a keen chamber musician has given over 80 concerts in multiple countries. Info: 845-6572482; programs@olivefreelibrary.org. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. olivefreelibrary.org. $12.

4:30pm-7pm Saturday Movie Matinee: Matilda. Hudson Area Library’s Tween Advisory Council will host a free screening of Matilda (1996). This event is free and open to tweens & families! Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. https://bit.ly/2IIBX3q.

4:30pm-7:30pm Kentucky Derby Day. Family activities and Kentucky Derby races simulcast on several large screen TVs. Ladies hat contest.

Family-style food, beer, wine and soda. 50/50, OTB available. Goshen Historic Track, Goshen.

Under 12 free. Info: 845-294-5333, goshenhistorictrack.com/events.

5pm Escape Room and Scavenger Hunt Room.

Become a Time Traveling Detective in “Escape HRMM: Time Traveling Detectives” which features a clue- and puzzle-based mystery for groups of up to six people to solve in just 50 minutes. Preregistration is required and the Hudson River Maritime Museum may add individuals to your group if there are spaces still available. Info: education@hrmm.org; 845-338-0071. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. hrmm.org.

5pm-6pm Woodstock Library Forum: YES Sex and Labor Trafficking Does Exist in Ulster County. Jackie Arsenuk the Ulster County Coordinator of The Safe Harbour Program will discuss with audience members how to identify the red flags of sex and labor trafficking and what to do if you should identify a problem. The program takes a preventative approach and is tasked with many responsibilities including the important element of educating the community. The Safe Harbour Program is sponsored by the NYS Office of Children and Family Services. Admission is free. Info: sondra@woodstock.org. Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

5pm-9pm Art Opening: Full Circle. Works by Laura Gurton. Show displays thru 5/26.Info: 845-338-2789. Art Bar, 674 Broadway, Kingston.

5pm-7pm 3Twenty9. Fred Duignan will be exhibiting his autobiographical diptych series of 18 works. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. Info: 347-4689-2323, 229greenkill@greenkill.org, http://www.greenkill.org. o.

5pm-8pm Opening Reception: May Flowers.

A group show to celebrate the anticipated arrival of Spring. The reception for the artists will take place during Kingston’s First Saturday’s art walk.

Exhibits through 5/26. Info: 845-514-3998. The Storefront Gallery, 93 Broadway, Kingston. thestorefrontgallery.com.

5pm-7pm The May Exhibit. Three Artists interpret themes of natural inspiration: Roslyn Fassett, Linda Winton and Deborah Wenzell. Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, WARWICK. Info: 845-258-6030, amitygallery110@gmail. com. free.

5pm-8pm Kingston: First Saturday Art Event.

Vibrant First Saturday gallery receptions offer a glimpse of what Kingston has to offer. Events include live music, open studio tours, theatrical performances, historical reenactments, arts & cultural activities.

5pm-8pm Opening Reception: Personal Profile: Figurative Work of Julian Tejera. Emerge Gallery & Art Space, 228 Main St, Saugerties.

Info: 845-247-7515, emergegalleryny@gmail. com, www.emergegalleryny.com.

7pm-9pm 13 Reasons Why NOT. Powerful true storytelling by Hudson Valley teens offering resiliency and hope. All are invited to attend.

Free admission. Reformed Church of New Paltz, 92 Huguenot St, New Paltz. Info: 8454185227, info@mayagoldfoundation.org, https://bit. ly/2xTXSmg. 7pm-8:30pm Book Talk: M. Glenda Rosen.

Author of The Senior Sleuths: Dead In Bed. Murder in a Modern Noir Style. Info: 516-6503058; marciagrosen@gmail.com. Inquiring Minds Saugerties Bookstore, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties.

7pm Trivia Challenge. A friendly battle of wits will pit teams of two and four against each other.

Bragging rights and awards are on the line. Door prizes and libations will be offered. Register your team ($25 per person) at 845-586-4689. Jim Rauter (who, as a sixth grade teacher definitely knows more than a fifth grader) will MC this event.

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May 3, 2018 Hall, 778 Cemetery Rd, Margaretville. mtownhistory.org.

7pm Suzanne Bocanegra: My Life as an Artist Lecture. with Frances McDormand, Lili Taylor, and Anne Gridley ’02. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. $25.

7pm The Kingston Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse Series: Stuart Kabak. The coffeehouse performances start at 7:30 pm with an open mic format (sign-up 7pm) before and after the featured performer. Info: 845-336-7797. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. $6.

7pm-10pm Cinco de Mayo Celebration. Music, Dancing & Mexican food Music by “De Nada” Tony Velez, Sammy Dandrades, Jeremy Baum, Ernie Colon, Mark Usvolk. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@ lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe.com. No cover charge but donations are welcome.

7pm-9pm Opening Reception: Raphael Perez.

An exhibit honoring the work of artist Raphael Perez will be shown at the through May 2018.

Info: 845-338-1663; jvosmacd@gmail.com. The Kingston Artist Collective & Cafe, 63 Broadway, Kingston.

7pm-10:30pm Hudson Valley English Dance.

Val Medve visits from Vermont to teach and call English Dances to be enjoyed to the music of Tiddley Pom: Dean, Polansky, Jeannotte, plus.

Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com. $10 adults, $5 full-time students.

7pm-8:30pm Full Moon Gong Surrender.

Sense the feeling of your body transform into a feeling of no body as we surrender to the gongs and allow them to do their work. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail. com, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

7pm-11:30pm Open Mic/Open Stage Acoustic Evening. Meets the first Saturday of each month.

The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford. touhey.com. $5.

7pm-8pm Latin Dance for Everyone. Meets every Saturday, 7-8pm.$5/suggested donation.

Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter.org.

with modern core exercises. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9am-3pm Babysitting Preparedness Course.

The course covers feeding, diapering, safety in the home, prevention of sudden infant death syndrome and shaken baby syndrome, basic first aid skills, how to cope with a crying baby, pediatric CPR and how to start a babysitting business. This course is for ages 12 to adult. Successful completion of the course will result in a twoyear certification from the American Safety and Health Institute. Preregistration and payment are required. Students must bring lunch to class.

Call 845-475-9742 to register. Sharon Hospital, Sharon. $45.

9am-4pm High Falls D&H Canal Flea Market.

Flea Market runs every Sunday through Oct. Vendors offer a variety of Art, Antiques, Collectibles and Crafts. Grady Park, 23 Mohonk Rd & Rt 213, High Falls. Info: 845-810-0471, jonicollyn@ aol.com, http://www.canalmuseum.org/. free.

10am Sunday Meditation. Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of various Buddhist topics, followed by Tibetan yoga, sitting meditation and compassion practice,all of which help participants nurture their inner strength and grow spiritually. Potluck lunch. Free. Suitable for all; you may join for some or all of the morning.

Info: dharmakayacenter.org/events; retreats@ dharmakayacenter.org; 845-203-1275. Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Rd, Pine Bush.

10am-4pm New Paltz Hurricane Youth Football and Cheer Community Yard Sale & Vendor Event. Info: 732-670-1349; agkousoulos@gmail. com. New Paltz Middle School, 196 Main St, New Paltz.

10am-12pm Run To The Hills 10K/5K/1 Mile Family Fun Run. A run to promote fitness among young and old alike and support Troop 8 – Sawkill, NY. Before April 16, 10K-$25, 5K-$20, Fun Run-$10; On/After April 16, 10K-$35, 5K-$30, Fun Run-$10. Info: R2H@Troop0008.

org. Sawkill Firehouse, 896 Sawkill Road, Kingston. troop0008.org/r2h.

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 Antique Fair & Flea Market (5/5 -5/6 & 8/4-8/5). Old-Fashioned Antique Show featuring 200+ dealers, free parking, & food. Info: 518-3315004. $4/gen adm, $3/srs, free/16 7 under. Washington County Fairgrounds, Rt. 29, Greenwich.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation!

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

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

11:30am-2:30pm Miles of Hope Spring Brunch.

Get your Pink On and enjoy an Athleta Fashion Show; Silent Auction with sports, concert, Broadway tickets; door prizes and giveaways. Info: 845-264-2005. The Grandview, 176 Rinaldi Blvd, Poughkeepsie. milesofhope.org.

12pm-2pm Free Reiki. Members of the Hudson Valley Community Reiki group are providing 20-minute individual Reiki sessions, no charge, first-come first-served. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org.

12pm-3pm “Open House” Tour. As part of the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s “Sacred Sites” statewide program this weekend, St. Greg-

ory’s will be a featured sanctuary and outdoor space on the “open house” tour. St. Gregory’s is nestled on four acres which includes sculptures, public gardens, a labyrinth, meadows and a horticultural therapy garden, all situated below Overlook Mountain. More information on the history and architectural design of St. Gregory’s will be part of the “Sacred Sites” open house. There will be guided tours and refreshments provided. St Gregory’s Church, 2578 Route 212, Woodstock. nylandmarks.org/events/sacred_sites_open_ house/.

12:30pm-6pm Expert Tarot Readings and I Ching Readings with esoteric scholar and author Timothy Liu. Walk-ins warmly welcome.

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

12:30pm-6pm Voyager Tarot Readings with reader and psychic Sarvananda. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

1pm-5pm White Eagle Dance. Monthly Ballroom Dances! Music by The Internationals. $7.50/pp, includes refreshments; light lunch at low cost. Proceeds benefit the White Eagle Scholarship Fund. Info: 845-339-5685; kwereszynski@gmail.com. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY. 1pm-3pm Ladybug Release. With park admission, learn about beneficial ladybugs and release some them into the sculpture park’s meadows for a healthy ecosystem. 1-3pm. Info: 845-5343115, stormking.org. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor.

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

1pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission.

Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com.

Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie. HudsonValleyFair.com.

1pm-2pm Folktales & Stories for Children & Families. Pamela Badila performs, tells and reads

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7:30pm-10:30pm Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Workshop at 7pm. Caller: Val Medve. Band: Tiddely Pom: Sue Polansky, clarinet, Katie Jeannotte, piano, Stewart Dean, concertina, with other local musicians. $10/full time, students/$5. Info: hudsonvalleydance.org; 845-679-8587. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen.

7:30pm Music on Market- World Music Concert Series: A Cappella Choral. Kairos, A Consort of Singers: “In the Spirit” featuring choral works. $15/adults, $10/seniors and students,& free/children under 12. Info: 845-377-3727. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Market St, Ellenville.

8pm-10pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fast-paced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 8456882279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

8pm Camerata Chorale All About Shakespeare.

Gary Palmieri is the accompanist and Aristic Director of Camerata Chorale is Lee H.Pritchard.

Info: 845-943-8962. Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie, 70 Hooker Ave, Poughkeepsie. cameratachorale. $15/$12/$5.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Lucky Peterson.

Featuring Tamara Tramell. Authentic Born & Bred American Blues & Soul. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Deadgrass. Jerry Garcia & More. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

9pm “Shadows and Light” The Music of Joni Mitchell. 6pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-8284800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit. ly/2olXoiV. 25/30.

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24 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.

1pm-5:30pm Israel’s 70th Anniversary Outdoor Festival. Israeli music, dance, storytelling, children’s activities, gifts and food.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-338-8131, info@ fallforart.org, http://www.ucjf.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.

2pm-4:30pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fastpaced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 8456882279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

2pm Treble Choraliers Spring Concert. Freewill offering. Treble Choraliers women’s chorus presents a program of mixed genre choral music.

Greenville United Methodist Church, 5832 Rt 81, Greenville. treblechoraliers.org.

2pm-4pm Yin + Sound= Yoga with Lea Garnier.

Merges asana sequences, pranayama and sacred healing to relax and unite our emotional, spiritual and physical bodies. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

2pm-5pm Third Annual Pete Seeger Festival.

With songs and stories by musicians who sang and worked with Pete - and stone soup! (Donations to benefit Clearwater, Beacon Sloop Club, River Pool at Beacon.) Info: 845-528-7280, info@ tompkinscorners.org. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, 729 Peekskill Hollow Rd, Putman Valley. tompkinscorners.org.

2pm-4pm Canine Massage Therapy and Essential Oil Class. Learn about canine massage therapy and essential oil use for your special companion in this interactive workshop taught

by Thurman Greco. In addition to canine massage therapy, Greco will help you discover how to successfully use essential oils, which oils are more effective for your dog, how to apply essential oils on a jittery/resistant dog, what oils you can safely use to control fleas and ticks. Her book, A Healer’s Handbook, will be for sale at this class.

All funds received at this class will be donated to the Woodstock Dog Park for maintenance fees.

Suggested donation for you and your companion animal/$15. Call 845-594-8716 to reserve a space. Bring a towel, small rug, or blanket for your pet to lay on. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock. Info: 845-246-4317.

2pm-3pm Free Gallery Tour with Kevin Cook.

Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, http://www.newpaltz.edu/ museum. suggested donation.

3pm Horror and Hope. Presented by Mark Stafford. In this presentation we will raise the question of hope. We will discuss the creation of messianic hopes, both apocalyptic and utopian, and how prophetic visions involves generating beliefs, including hope, that claim to redeem the world and relieve the subject of the burden of life.

Info: 917-270-8280. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff.

4pm-6pm A Salon Benefit Concert: Violin and Piano. Violinist Emily Daggett Smith and pianist Tanya Gabrielian will perform an intimate recital in a private home with wine and hors d’oeuvres.

Proceeds benefit Hudson Area Library. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. https://bit.ly/2HYy0Zd. Pay online with a credit card, or at the door with check or cash.

4pm Camerata Chorale All About Shakespeare.

Gary Palmieri is the accompanist and Aristic Director of Camerata Chorale is Lee H.Pritchard.

Info: 845-943-8962. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. cameratachorale. $15/$12/$5.

4pm-7pm Women Centered Candidate Forum: District 19. Moderated forum, 10 candidates will address the issues pertaining to women. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. Info: resisterhoodnewpaltz@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/WomenCD19.

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.

4pm-6pm The Shepherd’s Singers. Gospel concert to benefit Caring Hands Soup Kitchen and Pantry. A free will offering will be taken.

St. James United Methodist Church, 35 Pearl St (corner of Fair & Pearl sts), Kingston. Info: 845-331-7188, office@clintonavenueumc.org.

Free will offering.

5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga with Kate Hagerman. A gentle, supportive practice designed to bring stillness to the body and mind.

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ALMANAC WEEKLY stock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

6pm-8pm Women in Suspense. Join six authors for a lively discussion about writing, publishing, and reading suspense fiction. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, http://bit.ly/2qOS9J7. RSVP Requested.

6pm-8pm Opening Reception: VIVA LA FEMME. An exhibition celebrating women and the Arts.

The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, sculptures and photography by contemporary women artists and is on exhibit now through June 6th. L’Atelier Berkshires Gallery, 597 S Main St, Great Barrington.

6pm-9pm Swing Dance. Dance to the 455’s. They deliver a high energy mix of Swing, Blues, and Rock. No partner needed. Beginner lesson 6pm.

Info: hvcd.info. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4542571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail. com, www.hudsonvalleydance.org. $15, or $10 for students.

7pm Varla Jean Merman. Lodging provided by the Tiger House Sponsored by GayHudson. com Portion of the proceeded donated to the OutHudson Pride parade 5pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2GTKboz. 30/35.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: CMS: The Directors.

Legendary Creative Music Studio Jazz Ensemble.

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

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

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

9am-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-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.

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, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

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.

9:30am-12pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:304pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-2470094. Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

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 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.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Oracle Readings and Tarot of the Sidhe with Mary. Every Monday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

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

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to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3pm-5pm Study Hall. Meets every Monday, 3-5pm. A safe space for homework & tutoring.

Open to grades 6-13 7 GED students. Snacks provided. Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org.

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

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

4pm 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.

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.

6pm-7:30pm Vegan Potluck Dinner. Learn some vegan cooking techniques and feast on food together. Bring a dish to share. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

6:30pm-8:30pm Our World Remade: World War I - Humanities New York. 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, through May 7th, from 6:30-8pm. 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; woodstock.org; 845-679-2213. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock.

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meetings.

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm-9pm Writers Speak Easy. Poets, Storytellers, Authors, Comics…Join us for a monthly open mic roundtable with room for discussion and connection. People’s Cauldron, 430 C. Main St, Rosendale. Info: Jodi@WritersSpeakEasy. com, www.WritersSpeakEasy.com.

7pm Fred Harvey and the Civilizing of the American West. Presented by John Duda, sponsored by the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society. At the Theater/Meeting Room.

Free & refreshments. Donations welcome. Info: 845-255-7742; Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society on Facebook. Vineyard Commons, Theater/Meeting Room in Building 6, Highland. tolhps.org.

7:30pm-8:30pm String Ensemble Concert.

The College String Ensemble performs its spring concert under the direction of Anastasia Solberg.

SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

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8am Minnewaska Preserve: Early Morning Birders. Designed for birding enthusiasts or those just looking to learn the basics, this series will offer various outings led by experienced birding volunteers. Participants will meet at the Minnewaska main entrance and should come prepared with binoculars. Outing destinations will be determined the day of the program. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

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 The Saugerties Seniors Meeting.

Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP) is a social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties.

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-1:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: Tuesday Trek: Jenny Lane Loop Hike. A hike along the Jenny Lane section of the Shawangunk Ridge Trail and the Blueberry Run Footpath, through a section of forest that was burned during the 2008 wild fire. This five-mile-long hike includes some hilly sections, two stream crossings and lots of walking on exposed bedrock. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am-1pm Small Ruminant Parasite Control Workshop. Learn how to treat and prevent parasites in your flock. Walk-ins are welcome but space is limited— register ahead to reserve your seat. Info: 845-340-3990; cad266@cornell.edu.

CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. tinyurl.com/2018-Small-Rum-Parasites. $20, free/12 and under with an adult.

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

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

10am-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.

10am-1pm Community Quilting. Members of the community meet to make quilts for Project Linus. Last year the group donated 72 quilts to homeless or ill children. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-6572482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https:// bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. 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.

12:30pm-6pm Intuitive Angelic Guidance and Spiritual Attunement with psychic medium Maureen Brennan Mercier. Every Tuesday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

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.

2pm-3:30pm Yoga Level I – Basics. This class reviews the fundamentals. It is a perfect class to start your yoga practice. This is not a “flow” class. open to all levels. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com; woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://www.woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

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

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

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

4:30pm-5:30pm Tunezday. A youth musical jam session! Bring your own instrument and let’s start making some music! An informal, fun way to make music together. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com,

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May 3, 2018 http://%20http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Free.

Main Street, Stone Ridge.

5:30pm-6:30pm Zena Rommett FloorBarre(TM) Classes. An evolutionary step in body improvement training. Contact: Andrea Pastorella, 845-282-6723. 2568 Rt. 212, 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, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

5:30pm-7pm Magic: The Gathering Night. Join us for a casual, relaxed evening of Magic: The Gathering. Beginners are welcome, and experienced players are welcome as well! Free. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@ gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org. Recommended for teenagers and adults. Happens in the East Room.

6pm The Ulster County Animal Response Team (UCART) Meeting. At this meeting we will be doing over new business and having a tabletop drill to go over what we have learned about our location at UCC. Certified members can now visit our new site to view training videos meeting minutes and other useful information. Certified members please fill out the google form for availability for drill. Even if you are not available just say not available if you do not want to use form please send email with information. If you would like to attend our meetings for the first time, please contact us at ucart@ulstercorps. org. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. ulstercorps.org.

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, http://woodstockyogacenter. com. Drop-in rate.

6:30pm The Enlightenment & America’s Founders. Featuring Dr. Khalil M. Habib is associate professor of philosophy and Director of the Pell Honors Program at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Islamic philosophy, ancient, medieval, early and late modern political thought. Info: nadiakj@sunyulster.edu; 845-687-5049. SUNY Ulster/Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. sunyulster.edu.

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

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

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

7pm-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-8:30pm Singing Just For Fun! New Paltz Community Singers! Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 7 to 8:30pm. Info: genecotton@gmail.com.

Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, New Paltz.

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

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

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

7pm-10pm Blues and Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz and The Lo-Fis. Big Joe brings together some of the most highly regarded musicians on the northeast music scene. Bring your dancing shoes. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, www.highfallscafe.com. Pass the basket.

Wednesday

5/9

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

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.

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 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-12:30pm Senior Writing Workshop in Woodstock Welcomes New Members Spring and Summer Dates. Writers at all levels of experience, beginner to expert, are invited to join the Writers Workshop of the Woodstock Senior Recreation Program. Whether interested in non-fiction, short stories, plays, memoir, or poetry, writers age 55 and above may join the group, which will meet the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. The workshop stresses trying out new forms and content in a supportive atmosphere. No fee is required. The workshop is led by experienced writer, editor, and instructor Lew Gardner. For further information: woodstockny.org/content/Parks/View/3. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center.

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.

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.

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.

1pm-3pm Social Circle. Good conversation!

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

1pm Community Chorus Meet-Up. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

1pm-3pm Sawkill Seniors Meeting. Pizza & Ice Cream Social. This month there will not be a guest speaker. Sawkill Town Hall, 906 Sawkill Rd., Kingston.

1pm-3pm Pinochle. Card Game every Wednesday! Looking for a 4th player Anyone interested - email info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 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.

1:30pm-4pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:30-4pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-247-0094.

Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

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.

3pm-4:30pm Advanced Chess Club. For experienced adult players. More info: 851-8171 or 255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

3pm-5:30pm Tech Time. Stop by with questions about computers, cell phones, email, the internet, online services, social media, or software programs. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary. org. FREE. 4pm Family Lego. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

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

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

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.

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

Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh.

5:30pm-8:30pm Teen Night Wednesdays.

Every Wednesday of the school year. Food, Teen Topics, Activities, Life Skills. For those 14-18.

This program is made possible by a partnership between Family of Woodstock, Inc. and Mid-Hudson Valley Planned Parenthood. Free.

Everette Hodge Community Center, 21 Franklin St, Kingston.

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.

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.

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

6:30pm-7:30pm Ulster County Photo Club.

Photographers of all ages and skill levels are welcome to join this group. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-3385580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary. org.

6:30pm-8pm Meeting of ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network). A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Info: 845-4758781. Family Partnership Center, 29 North Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie. enjan.org.

6:30pm-8:30pm Yin Yoga with Diane Davis.

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.

What’s Left & What’s To Come. Hyde Park Historian Shannon Butler will present a talk on the great, but somewhat forgotten architecture of the area. Shannon Butler has worked in historic sites and museums for over 12 years. She earned degrees in history from SUNY New Paltz and SUNY Albany. She works as a Park Guide at Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site and began serving as the Hyde Park town historian in January of 2018. Free & open to all. Info: staatslibrary@gmail.com; 845-889-4683. Staatsburg Library, 70 Old Post Rd, Staatsburg.

7pm-8:30pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 845-679-5906 for more info. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

7pm-8:30pm Building the Ashokan Reservoira history. with Frank Almquist. Fascinating story of the engineering feat of the 2oth c. and its impact on engineers, workers and residents.

Slides .Back by popular demand! Rosendale Community Center, located Behind the Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-9013, rosendalelibrary@hvi.net, rosendalelibrary.org.

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: Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground. Sign Up & Sit In Jazz Jam. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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.

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.

7:30pm-8:30pm Community Band & Jazz Ensemble Concert. Members of the SUNY Ulster Community Band under the direction of Victor Izzo, Jr. join members of the SUNY Ulster Jazz Ensemble. Quimby Hall, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, SUNY Ulster campus, Stone Ridge, NY. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Maple Mars. Intelligent, well-produced Powerpop. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Thursday

5/10

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.

8am-5pm Old Dutch Village Garden Club Regular Meeting. Held the second Thursday of each month. All meetings are free and open to the public, visitors welcome. Info: 845-7581184 or olddutchvillagegc@gmail.com. St. John’s Reformed Church, 126 Old Post Rd N, Red Hook.

7pm Architecture in Hyde Park: What’s Gone,

9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating Qi Gong with

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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.

the DAR: a Tour & Talk. The History of the Robert Jenkins House, a home in Hudson: A Tour & Talk

by Jeane La Porta on. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, https:// bit.ly/2Hce07G.

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.

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.

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!

10am-12pm Spring Trees at the Gardiner Library. Join Park Educator, Nick Martin, for an introductory tree walk. Spring is an interesting time to look at trees, as they wake up from their winter slumber and begin to make new leaves.

In this program, we will take a tree walk on the trails and mowed pathways near the Gardiner Library. Along the way, we will explore ways to identify trees with and without leaves, including leaf shape, 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. Info: 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

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

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

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

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

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

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings, Tarot Readings and Intuitive Guidance with Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walkins always welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes.

1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. 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.

2pm-4pm Healthy Ulster Council Meeting.

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

6pm-8pm Brett Bevell - “Psychic Reiki: Divine Life-Force Energy Healing”. Brett will talk aboutthe culminating work of his previous books about Reiki, plus new techniques. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, http://bit.ly/2HDnJDX. RSVP Requested.

6pm-9pm Their Voice, Your Choice. NY19 Democratic candidates. In-depth discussion; rapid response. No stump speeches here.

Decide who will best represent you. Saugerties High School Auditorium, 310 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-1545.

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.

7pm-8:30pm Music We Love! From the 50s and 60s. Eric Stamberg and Friends. Jewish Community Center, 30 N Chestnut Street, New Paltz.

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.

7pm-8:30pm Meeting of MERC (Middle East Crisis Response). A group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Info: 845-876-7906. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. mideastcrisis.org.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Readings and Chakra Balancing with Crystals with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Friday at Mirabai.

Walk-ins always welcome. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/45 minutes, $30/25 minutes.

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

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.

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

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

7pm-9:30pm Iona Island: The Hudson River’s Most Mysterious Island. Naturalist Donald “Doc” Bayne explores the island’s forgotten history which has had a place in every major event in the Hudson Valley. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Flynn Drive, Beacon. www.beaconsloopclub.org.

2pm-5pm Phoenicia: Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

4pm-7pm Free Holistic Healthcare Clinic.

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

4pm-5pm Save, Share, Spend, Earn: A Beary Fun Reading Event. Presented by the Library and Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union!

A special story time. Learn about financial literacy. Followed by a craft. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Contact the library to register. Space and materials are limited. For ages: 5-10. Happens in the East Room.

4pm The Huguenot Silversmiths of London.

Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) will host a lecture by Dr. Tessa Murdoch exploring the work of French Protestant refugee craftsmen who settled in London from the mid-16th century.

Info: 845-255-1889; info@huguenotstreet.org.

Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz. huguenotstreet.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 Teen Movie Night: Jumanji . Welcome to the Jungle – PG-13. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

6pm-7pm Zena Rommett Floor-Barre(TM) Classes. An evolutionary step in body improvement training. Contact: Andrea Pastorella, 845-282-6723. 65 Albany Avenue, Kingston.

6pm-7:30pm The Robert Jenkins House and

11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Lara Bello. Flamenco, Arabic, Mediterranean Fusion. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Preview: Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/ Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/ senior/student.

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

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

Friday

5/11

12am Fundamental Principles of Sound Healing. From the Ancient Shamanic Tradition to New Science. Facilitated by Lea Garnier, with special guest Dr. John Beaulieu. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. Call 679-5650 for details.

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, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

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.

4pm-6:30pm Dungeons & Dragons. Join your Dungeon Master Patrick to create and play characters for a Storm King’s Thunder campaign.

Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://tivolilibrary.org.

Happens in the East Room. All ages.

5pm-7pm Opening Reception: Betsy Jacaruso Annual Students Art Exhibition. Exhibits through 5/31. Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, 43 East Market St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-331-2699, infotech@hvc.rr.com, betsyjacarusoartist.com.

5pm-7pm MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening.

Thesis work of our Masters graduates! Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz. edu, newpaltz.edu/museum. suggested donation.

5pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission.

Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com.

Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie. HudsonValleyFair.com.

5:30pm-7pm Nerf Wars 2nd-5th grade. What’s more fun than a Nerf battle? A Nerf battle in the library after hours and pizza! Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. https:// bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. 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.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-9pm The Dylan Perrillo Orchestra at TSL. Eleven-piece orchestra from Albany performs arrangements of popular American tunes from 1900-1950. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, https://bit.ly/2pzBCZx. $15 general / $12.50 member / $10 student.

7pm-11pm Cajun Dance with The Empty Bottle Ramblers. The Empty Bottle Ramblers hail from New England, but they sound as if they are from Southwest Louisiana.7pm free dance lesson; 8pm band. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hudsonvalleydance.org. $10 with FT student ID. 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 Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Annual Amphibian Amble. Search out salamanders and frogs on this guided twilight wetland walk. Learn to recognize local frogs by sight and sound, and then put your identification skills to the test! Bring a flashlight and waterproof boots.

Pre-registration required. Info: 845-534-5506

May 3, 2018 x204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/ Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $10, $7/child.

7pm Fragile Explosion: Nina Simone (A Celebration of a Life of Genius). Traces the life of this classically trained virtuoso who became a pop star and celebrity in this new musical play

by Michael Monasterial. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre. org. $25/$15 students.

8pm Hudson Valley Folk Guild’s Friends of Fiddler’s Green Chapter Concert with Larry Kaplan. Info: 845-758-2681. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Rt. 9 and Church St, Hyde Park. hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org. $12, $10/senior.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Jonny Rosch’s Psychedelic 60’s Revue. Top session musicians recreate songs of the 60’s! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

8pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

8pm-10pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fast-paced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 8456882279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: All Too Real. Rock Covers & Power Vocals. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

9pm The Huntress And Holder Of Hands. 6pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@ gmail.com, http://bit.ly/2EP4wPn. $15.

Saturday

5/12

Fundamental Principles of Sound Healing.

From the Ancient Shamanic Tradition to New Science. Facilitated by Lea Garnier, with special guest Dr. John Beaulieu. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. Call 679-5650 for details.

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-1pm Young Eagles Day. Plane rides for kids 8-17 years old. Learn about airport safety, airplanes and aviation. The flight is about 20 minutes. Free, safe and flown by experienced, licensed pilots. Parental consent is required. Rain date 5/26. Kingston-Ulster Airport, Kingston. youngeagles.org.

9am-3pm Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Annual Plant Sale and Indoor Yard Sale.

Questions or to reserve a space call Barbara at 845-246-5035 by May 5th. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St., Saugerties.

9am-1pm Free Tech Help. Our teen tech expert Samantha will help solve your computer quandries. You can call 845-266-5530 to schedule a time or drop in 9am-1pm. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

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

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. Not-for-profit store featuring previously enjoyed household and misc. items, jewelry, and clothing for children and adults. Take stairway to the left of the church entrance down to the basement. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Comforterofkingston.org.

9:30am-5pm Hike to the Shingle Gully Ice Caves at Sam’s Point. Explore the Shingle Gully Ice Caves, where ice persists into summer in deep crevice caves. These caves are in a backcountry area in Minnewaska State Park Preserve. This rugged, protected landscape is accessible only on guided tours led by park staff and volunteer docents. This all-day, strenuous adventure ascends and descends 1,500 feet, includes offtrail bushwhacking and steep rock scrambles, and is only appropriate for experienced hikers.

Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Pre-registration deadline: May 7th. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

9:30am-12pm Minnewaska Preserve: Tuesday Trek: Jenny Lane Loop Hike. An approximately two-mile walk through the fields and forests of a former golf course at Minnewaska that has been re-naturalized. Participants that have their own binoculars and field guides are encouraged to bring them. A few pairs of binoculars will be available for participants to borrow, if they do not have their own. Meet at the Minnewaska Nature Center. Pre-registration is required. Info:

May 3, 2018 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

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 Qigong Classes. All level class including chair Qigong led by Steven Michael Pague.

Ongoing every Saturday at 10am. Classes meet by the back door to the library. In case of inclement weather, class will be held in the Community Room. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

10am-4pm Vinyl Record, CD, DVD, Audio Book Sale. Begins May 5 runs through May 24. Vinyl records and CDs will be 50 cents per record and disc. DVDs and audiobooks will sell for $1 each.

More than 20,000 quality used books will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less during the sale in a wide variety of other categories including history, travel, fiction and children’s books. The Book Store is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Info: 845-485-3445 x 3423. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/ timeline.

10am-1pm Invasive Species Day. With Dan Snider of Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership (CRISP). Dan Snider will lecture and lead a walk to identify invasive plants. We will put new knowledge into practice as a group, weeding and replanting with suitable native perennials.

Bring a trowel (optional), gloves, full water bottle and come dressed for the weather. Info: 518-5893903; info@mtarboretum.org. Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Rd, Tannersville. mtarboretum.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-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-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.

10am-3pm Spring Family Day. Learn about healthy living from Lama Losang (David Bole).

Activities will include: Chi Gong; Tara Dance; Sound Meditation; Gardening; A Nature Walk (Wildcrafting Medicinal Herbs); And More!

Please call or write to register so that we know how many guests to plan for. Info: 845-6795906;jan@kagyu.org. All activities are free!

Vegetarian Lunch from the Monastery Kitchen $10 or bring your own. Overnight accommodations available at KTD’s usual rates. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston.

11am Inspired By Nature Writing Workshop.

Featuring author and NYU writing instructor, Carol Bergman. The program is a free to participants, but, because space is limited, registration is required, and is available on the library’s website www.stoneridgelibrary/calendar. Participants should bring a no-line notebook, a freeflowing pen, Glu-Stick, their memories of hikes and walks, favorite photographs and pictures of nature and their imaginations. In the workshop, Ms. Bergman will teach how to use journal notes, observations, sketches, photographs, dreams and visualizations as well as free associations to generate ideas for short stories, poems, memoirs, and essays. Beginners and seasoned writers are welcome in this interactive, dynamic class. Info: 845-687-7023. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge.

11am-2pm Robot Club. Explore robotics and basic engineering with Lego Mindstorms. For ages 9-16. Register at 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 11am-7pm Open Recreation. Pool table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

ALMANAC WEEKLY 11am-3pm Preparing For a New Year: An 18th Century Spring and Garden Fair. Join the staff and volunteers of Senate House State Historic Site as they celebrate the arrival of spring. Staff will plant their vegetable and herb gardens and offer demonstrations of sheep shearing, spinning, and beekeeping. There will also be a demonstration of 18th century hearthside cooking. Enjoy the magic of Levram the Great: The Colonial Conjurer, performing 18th century magic to dazzle one and all. Get into the spirit of the season and make a kite to fly on a windy day and sample switchel, a thirst-quenching drink brought into the fields while planting. Eighteenth-century games will be available for kids of all ages to play. The event is free and everyone is invited to attend. Info: 845-338-2786. Senate House, Fair St, Kingston.

11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

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

11:30am-5pm 2018 Rip Van Winkle Wine, Brew and Beverage Festival. Spring Fundraiser. Guests will sample and purchase wines and cheese from a limited group of select New York state wineries and cheese makers. To further tempt the palette, patrons will have the opportunity to taste distilled products and brews along with baked goods, chocolates. All proceeds from this event in the past have been donated back to the community park at Dutchman Landing.

Advance tickets are also available for purchase at eventbrite.com. Info: 518-653-6424. Catskill Point, 1 Main St, Catskill. fortnightlyevents.com. $25.

12pm-1:30pm Book Signing: Jessie Sheehan - The Vintage Baker. This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography. Perfect for Mother’s Day! Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, http://bit.ly/2JdGhb2.

RSVP Requested.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided).

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

12pm-4pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Cornwall Community Day of Nature Play.

Offering free admission for Cornwall residents to the Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson, and Grasshopper Grove at the Outdoor Discovery Center, across from 174 Angola Road, Cornwall! Meet live wild animals at the Wildlife Education Center and romp in Grasshopper Grove, the Hudson Valley’s first Nature Play area at the Outdoor Discovery Center.

Admission: FREE to Cornwall and Cornwall-onHudson Residents. Info: 845-534-5506 x204.

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $3/age 3 & up.

12pm-5pm Open Studio at Stoneleaf Retreat.

Meet the artists-in-residence, Liz Collins, Emma Kohlmann and Sinta Tantra. Stoneleaf Retreat, 838 Ashokan Road, Kingston. Info: hello@stoneleafretreat.com, www.stoneleafretreat.com.

12pm-1:30pm Breast Cancer Options Metastatic Peer-Led Support Group. Features speakers & topics. For information or to register: 845-339-HOPE or email hope@breastcanceroptions.org. Christ the King Church, 2 Eugene L Brown Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-339-4673, hopenemiroff@yahoo.com, http://bit.ly/1USVReh. 12:30pm-6:30pm Expert Tarot Readings with tarot reader and astrologer Stephanie Marco. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins always welcome. 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-3:30pm Leap into Spring. Come at 1pm to craft a dream box; screening of “Leap!” starts promptly at 2pm. (PG, 1 hr 25 min, 2017) Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.

Info: 845-795-2200; miltonlibrary@live.com.

Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56 Main St, Milton. miltonlib.org.

1pm-4pm 7th Annual Pets Alive Kitten Shower. An afternoon of raffle items, snacks & fun! With kitten season upon us, we’re in need of supplies to ‘parent’ Pets Alive style! Pets Alive, 363 Derby Road, Middletwon. Info: 845-3869738, info@petsalive.org, http://www.petsalive. com. Please bring an item from the Kitten Shower Wishlist http://amzn.com/w/1P6LZ5OJTWLA5.

1pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission.

Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com.

Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie. HudsonValleyFair.com.

27 3pm-6pm Opening Reception: Fun House 2018: Art of the Surreal, Fantastic, and Bizarre.

National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition.

Jurors: Danijela Krha Purssey, Co-Founder and Editor, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Istvan Banyai, illustrator, animator, and designer. Exhibits through 6/23. Info: 845-471-2550; info@ barrettartcenter.org. Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon St, Poughkeepsie. barrettartcenter.org.

4:30pm-6:30pm Baked Chicken Dinner. Adults $16, Seniors $15, Children 12 and under $12. For tickets, call church office 845-895-2181 or Sandy 845-541-5913. Wallkill Reformed Church, 45 Bridge St, Wallkill. Info: 845-895-2181, mlandsman@hvc.rr.com. Seniors $15, 12 & under $12.

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

1pm-4pm Kaleidoscope Workshops. Build your own kaleidoscope! Discover the history of kaleidoscopes. Learn basic reflection and mirror systems. $50 per person, for persons 18 and older.

For the Kids - Build Your Own Kaleidoscope! $16.50 per kit, includes instruction with Posie Strenz (Children must be accompanied by an adult.) Reservations required. Info: 845-6882828. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

5pm-10pm Oriental Boom Boom. A Snake Dance with Belly dancer Isabel! Garden House 12472, 4 Hardenburgh Ln, Rosendale.

1:30pm-2:30pm West Like Lighting | Jim DeFelice Talk and Book Signing. From the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of AMERICAN SNIPER, comes an exciting tale of the Pony Express. Merritt Bookstore, 57 Front St, Millbrook. Info: 845-677-5857, Stacey@merrittbookstore.com, https://bit.ly/2EiBtOQ.

5pm-6:30pm Woodstock Talks Open Commons. Open call to all who have something to say (not sell) —or story, insight, scat, rant, etc.

It’s 1st-come, 1st-serve. Short raps encouraged.

Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Ave, Woodstock. Info: 917-541-9399, samtruitt@ gmail.com, http://mtnviewstudio.com/. $5 donation.

1:30pm Sunday Scrabble Club at Elting Library. The Sunday Scrabble Club is seeking new members to play! Come meet new people, test your knowledge and spelling skills, and share some laughs! Boards and equipment, including the Official Scrabble Dictionary (5th edition) will be provided for use. The Sunday Scrabble Club meets every Sunday between 1:30 and 3:30pm at the Library, and is open to all aged 18 and up.

Attendance is free. Info: 845-255-5030. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

1:30pm-2:30pm Senior Fitness: Core Strength & Balance. 4 weekly classes that improve postural stability, core strength, spatial body awareness, sensory integration, agility & coordination.

Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@ hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2GFDUjO. 2pm Highlights from the Wilderstein Portraits Collection. Renowned artist and educator William Clutz will discuss works in Wilderstein’s collection by Ammi Phillips and French emigre painter Monsieur Robert. Research which led to the discovery of a remarkable number of portraits throughout the Hudson Valley now attributed to Robert will be featured in this presentation.

Tea and light refreshments will be served. Info: 845-876-4818. Wilderstein Historic Site, 330 Morton Rd, Rhinebeck. wilderstein.org. $15.

2pm Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival.

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

2:30pm-4:30pm Lyme Essentials. A free holistic self-care class with Hillary Thing, LAc. and Mary-Beth Charno, RN, MSN, APRN-C. Prevention, protection, diagnostics, management; key strategies for integrative, holistic healing from Lyme & associated diseases. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge.

Info: info@rvhhc.org, www.rvhhc.org.

3pm-4pm Elly Wininger Slide Guitar Basics.

Offering a one-hour hands-on workshop that will have you playing at least two or three songs with your spiffy new skill. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. Info: 347-4689-2323, 229greenkill@greenkill.org, http://www.greenkill.org. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elly-winingerslide-guitar-workshop-tickets-45255011959.

All for one.

Visit Hudson Valley One and read the best of what Ulster Publishing has to offer. Check it out at: hudsonvalleyone.com.

5pm-7pm Opening Reception: The Spirit of Home. Paintings of Award Winning Pastelist, Marlene Wiedenbaum, PSA and NYFA Fellow Kevin Cook that share a strong sense of home and belonging. Info: 845-255-1241; markgrubergallery@aol.com. Mark Gruber Gallery, 17 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. markgrubergallery.com.

6pm Book Signing: Mary Beth Pfeiffer. Author of Lyme: The First Epidemic of the Climate Change. Longtime investigative reporter and Marbletown resident Mary Beth Pfeiffer documents the dangerous spread of Lyme disease to dozens of countries and thousands of people and criticizes the medical community and the government for failing to protect and help struggling Lyme victims in her book. Free and open to all.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge.

6pm-9pm Served Like a Girl. Potluck at 6pm, film at 7pm. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham. Info: 518-766-2992, poetapoetus@taconic.net, www. oldchathamquakers.org. free.

7pm Kingston’s Spoken Word. Featured: Jared Harél, Celia Bland. Founder and Host: Annie LaBarge. 3 min. open mic. Info: 845-331-2884.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. uucckingston.org. $5/suggested donation.

7pm-8:30pm Spring Fashion Show. This is the year-end show of garments designed and created by first and second year fashion design students.

SUNY Ulster/College Lounge, Stone Ridge.

Suggested donation: $5 afternoon, $10 evening.

7pm-9pm Rock Star Diva Costume Karaoke.

Rock n’ Roll your way into Mother’s Day with DJ Posie Strenz! Come dressed as your favorite Rock Star or Diva and get ready for your red carpet close-up in our selfie booth. Mom/Daughter duos – this one is for you! Info: 845-688-2828.

The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

7pm-8pm Latin Dance for Everyone. Meets every Saturday, 7-8pm.$5/suggested donation.

Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter.org.

7pm Fragile Explosion: Nina Simone (A Celebration of a Life of Genius). Traces the life of this classically trained virtuoso who became a pop star and celebrity in this new musical play

by Michael Monasterial. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre. org. $25/$15 students.

28 7pm-9pm Anton Batagov in Concert. Russian master musician/composer in a rare US performance debuts his new album. Cragsmoor’s Stone Church, 280 Henry Road, Cragsmoor.

Info: 845-647-6487, radl.maureen@gmail.com, tickets at www.eventbrite.com. $45 VIP admission & reception with artist.

7pm Safe At Home - A Benefit For Hudson Little League. With Alejandro Escovedo, Elvis Perkins, Jesse Malin, Bash & Pop, Dust Bowl Faeries and Special Guests. 5pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, https://bit.ly/2v7Tr7u. 25/35.

7pm-11pm Elks Lounge Dance Night. Dance to a mix of R&B, Latin, Soul, Disco, Rock, Reggae & much more. Requests welcome! Includes complimentary snacks. A full bar available. Beacon Elks Lodge, 900 Wolcott Avenue, Beacon. Info: 845-765-0667, rhodaja@optonline.net, https:// bit.ly/2Jj2N2z. $10.

7:30pm-10:30pm Big Monthly Swing Dance with Lara Hope & The Ark Tones. With Linda and Chester Freeman, Got2Lindy Dance Studios.

No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. $15 admission includes basic lesson at 7:30-8pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. All are welcome. For more information visit got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939. Hurley Reformed Church - Schadewald Hall, 11 Main St, Hurley.

7:30pm-10pm Walkabout Clearwater Chorus and Coffeehouse. Presenting Emma’s Revolution. Memorial United Methodist Church - White Plains, 250 Bryant Avenue, White Plains. Info: norma.moshman@gmail.com, WalkaboutClearwater.org. $23.00 at the door.

7:30pm-10:30pm Swing Night at Dewey Hall with The Lucky 5. Lesson: 7:30pm with Harry Pislila, music at 8:30pm. Sliding fee scale $15-$20, w student ID: $10. No partner necessary.

Beginners welcome. Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield. Info: 413 429 1176, beth@oldtonemusicfestival.com, deweyhall.org/. $15-$20 sliding scale $10 w/Student ID. 8pm King of Latin Music, Tito Puente Jr., to Perform Benefit Concert. A Spicy Spring evening filled with Mambo, Latin Jazz and entertainment featuring dancing to the music of the Tito Puente Jr. Ensemble. Proceeds to benefit Nora Cronin Presentation Academy Student Scholarship Fund. To order tickets: 1-800-838-3006 or brownpapertickets.com/ event/3339037. Lobby at the Ritz Theater, 107 Broadway, Newburgh. $100 - $25.

8pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

8pm RAMP ROMP at the Kleinert/James. Ramp Romp is an evening of music and comedy featuring Gilles Malkine and Mikhail Horowitz, Sandy Bell, and Paul McMahon. Proceeds from Ramp Romp will go towards building a wheelchair ramp at the Theater. Info: 845-679-2079. Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. woodstockguild.org/rampromp.html. $30/ general admission, $45/VIP seat.

8pm-9:30pm Presentation: George and Ira Gershwin. Jack Schnur gives insights and stories about the Gershwin brothers. Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, WARWICK. Info: 845-2586030, amitygallery110@gmail.com. Donation.

8pm-10pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fast-paced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 8456882279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

8pm Balinese Gamelan Concert. With Hudson Valley Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana and Guest Artists I Nyoman Catra & Latifah Alsegaf. Artistic director I Nyoman Suadin. Performing traditional & new works for Balinese Gong Kebyar Ensembles with a Belegan-

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE The 2018 MS4 Annual Stormwater Report for Ulster County is available online for public review and comment at the following website: http://ulstercountyny.gov/environment/ stormwater-and-pollution-prevention Contact: Mandy Wolfson, Ulster County Department of the Environment Stormwater Management Program 17 Pearl Street, Box 1800, Kingston, N.Y., 12402 Tele :(845)338-7287, Fax :(845)338-7682 E-mail: stormwater@co.ulster.ny.us LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Ulster County Personnel Officer will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, June 14, 2018, beginning at 11:00AM at the Ulster County Office Building, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York, in the Personnel Department’s Conference Room on the 5th Floor. The Public Hearing is being held for the purpose of amending the Ulster County Civil Service Rules and Regulations text and appendices. A copy of the proposed amended text and appendices will be on view at that time.

ALMANAC WEEKLY jur Opening Procession and Balinese Kecak Vocal Chorus. Info 845-688-7090. Bard College / Olin Hall, 30 Campus Rd., Annandale-on-Hudson.

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7am-12pm All You Can Eat Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast. $9/adults, $5/ 5-11 yr olds, & free/5 & under. Claryville Volunteer Fire Department, 1500 Denning Rd, Clarvyille. Info: 845-985-2943, bungst01@gmail.com. Adults $9 Children under 12 yrs. $5 Under 5 Yrs. FREE. 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.

9am-4pm High Falls D&H Canal Flea Market.

Flea Market runs every Sunday through Oct. Vendors offer a variety of Art, Antiques, Collectibles and Crafts. Grady Park, 23 Mohonk Rd & Rt 213, High Falls. Info: 845-810-0471, jonicollyn@ aol.com, http://www.canalmuseum.org/. free.

10am Sunday Meditation. Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of various Buddhist topics, followed by Tibetan yoga, sitting meditation and compassion practice,all of which help participants nurture their inner strength and grow spiritually. Potluck lunch. Free. Suitable for all; you may join for some or all of the morning.

Info: dharmakayacenter.org/events; retreats@ dharmakayacenter.org; 845-203-1275. Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Rd, Pine Bush.

10am-5pm Mother’s Day - Free at Olana. Celebrate mothers and families with a community free day at OLANA on Mother’s Day sponsored by CMH. Check website for more information! Olana State Historic Site, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1872, education@olana.org, olana.org/ calendar/.

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.

10:30am-3pm Minnewaska Preserve: Millbrook Mountain Hike. Challenging five-mile loop hike along the Millbrook Mountain Footpath and Carriage Road. This hike features various terrain including steep hills, slippery rock surfaces and a stream crossing. Our destination is Millbrook Mountain, a white cliff offering expansive views of the surrounding hills and valleys. Meet at the Minnewaska Nature Center. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation!

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

12:30pm-6pm Astro-Tarot Readings with astrologer and tarot reader Diane Bergmanson. This is an opportunity to receive clear guidance both from what the cards have to offer and your individual natal astrology chart. Simply provide Diane with your birthday and time of birth (if you know it) at the time of your reading and any questions you wish to discuss. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

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.

1pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission.

Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com.

Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie. HudsonValleyFair.com.

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

1pm-3pm Mother’s Day Tea. Music, refreshments and paintings by local artists. Price $15/ door. Info: 845-384-6723. Ascension Holy Trinity Parish Hall.

1pm-2:15pm Mount Gulian Celebrates Mother’s Day with Free Tours For Moms. Mount Gulian Historic Site, 145 Sterling Street, Beacon.

Info: 845-831-8172, info@mountgulian.org, www.mountgulian.org. While there is no charge for mothers, the fee for all others is museum admission of $8 adults; $6 seniors; $4 young people (ages six through 18); children under 5 and Mount Gulian members are free. Membership is open to the public.

1:30pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

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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.

2pm-4pm Family Day: Celebrate Mother’s Day at The Dorsky. A hands-on printmaking activity for children & their families in conjunction with our Andy Warhol exhibition & the Poughkeepsie Printwagon. Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, https://bit. ly/2Epu0xz.

2pm Dance Film Sunday & Local Connections Festival Present An Afternoon with Ruth St. Denis. Talk with video on the life and work of dance pioneer “The Divine Miss Ruth,” whose dance studio was dubbed “the cradle of modern dance.” Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $12, $6 children 12 and under.

2pm-3:30pm Yale’s Tim Barringer Comes to Catskill. Join Tim Barringer, professor at Yale, as he discusses the new exhibition at the Thomas Cole Site, “Picturesque and Sublime.”

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/c. $10-$12.

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.

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.

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.

9:30am-12pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:304pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-2470094. Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

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.

2pm-4:30pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fastpaced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 8456882279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

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.

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

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

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

3pm Newburgh Chamber Music: 16th annual Mother’s Day Concert. The Hudson Valley Winds sextet, led by oboist Joël Evans, will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” Camille Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” and Maurice Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite.” The narrator will be Nanette Koch, who has created music education programs for area schools and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The concert is followed by a reception with the artists. Proceeds from the concert will benefit musicians in Puerto Rico who continue to suffer from the effects of Hurricane Maria. St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh. newburghchambermusic.org. $25, $5/student.

3pm Bard College Conservatory of Music: Conservatory Orchestra. Leon Botstein, music director. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu.

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 with Kate Hagerman. A gentle, supportive practice designed to bring stillness to the body and mind. A perfect way to wrap up the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http:// woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

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

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

7:15pm How They Got Over. Award-winning documentary of gospel music produced by Stone Ridge resident Robert Clem. Part of week-long Local Connections Festival. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@ rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $8.

Fundamental Principles of Sound Healing.

From the Ancient Shamanic Tradition to New Science. Facilitated by Lea Garnier, with special guest Dr. John Beaulieu. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. Call 679-5650 for details. Ends at 11:59pm.

Monday

5/14

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

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

9am-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, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Readings and Chakra Balancing with Crystals with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Monday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/45 minutes, $30/25 minutes.

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-5pm Study Hall. Meets every Monday, 3-5pm. A safe space for homework & tutoring.

Open to grades 6-13 7 GED students. Snacks provided. Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org.

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

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

4pm 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.

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.

5pm-6pm 2018 Middle School Battle of the Books: Bi-weekly Meetings, starting April 16. Battle of the Books is a trivia contest for 6th-9th graders with questions based on 8 books students in the MHLS read. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/.

6pm-8pm Meeting of ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network). A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Info: 845-4758781. New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone St, Kingston. enjan.org.

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meetings.

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

6:30pm-7:30pm Board of Trustees Meeting.

Meet your board of trustees at the Library!

Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

7pm Glasco Fire Commissioners Meeting.

Held 2nd Monday of every month at 7pm. Info: 845-750-5229. Glasco Firehouse, Glasco.

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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.

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for weekend shifts at Woodstock Healing Arts.

Join our diverse and committed team of mindbody professionals. Competitive pay. Send Resume to info@woodstockhealngarts.com

Join The Egg’s Nest team in High Falls!

Seeking enthusiastic & friendly: Manager/Servers/Bartenders.

Skilled & dependable: Line Cooks/ Cold Station/Prep Cooks. Email resume: theeggsnestjobs@gmail.com or call (845) 687-7255 to apply.

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read, politically progressive and perhaps has an academic background. Should have a license and clean driving record. Honesty, cleanliness and punctuality are valued. Call (917)692-0975 to apply.

Call 845-362-0404

Part-time Help Needed. Mostly weekends.

Real estate background helpful. Rhinebeck area. Email resume: nealvan@aol.com.

PART-TIME/FULL-TIME. LABORER FOR WINDOW CLEANING COMPANY. MUST BE LADDER SAVVY, HARD, RELIABLE WORKER. TRANSPORTATION NECESSARY. GOOD WORK ETHIC. WILL TRAIN. $15/HR. IMMEDIATE HIRE. 845-594-2370.

LANDSCAPERS, GARDENERS WANTED. Experience necessary. 16-40 hours per week. Trustworthy, reliable, strong with endurance. Own transportation. Would primarily work in Woodstock area. Email experience to hire12498@gmail.com (put landscaper/gardener in subject line) or call 845-679-7377.

CHAMBERMAID: PART-TIME. Must be reliable, attentive, have high standard of cleanliness & like to clean. Start IMMEDIATELY. Nice working conditions and environment. Call Karen at The Woodstock Inn on the Millstream 679-8211.

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“If You Were to Die Tomorrow”. Photographic Project beginning in May. Participants sought . Details at www.

GlennDeWitt.com under “News” on Home page. If interested apply through site.

Horse Trail Riding Business opportunity in Saugerties w/high visibility to advertise along thruway. Available to rent 8 stalls, turnouts, and 120 acres of scenic trails. $2800/month. Hunter/ Jumper business currently operating at the facility; great opportunity to add trail riding as requests are coming in weekly. Call Sean 516-903-2902 or email: Sfinn@rockmountequestrian. com

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CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133

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POTTIE FOR YOUR PARTY! HAVING A PARTY? TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly Rentals. We have Gray, White, Blue, Tan, Green (pine-scented), Pink (rose-scented), Red & Blue Handicap Accessible. (We also have a few w/ sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-658-8766, 845417-6461 or 845-706-7197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail.com

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STU’S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the fare. Airports are our specialty.

Always ready to get you there. Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Call Stu’s Car Service for prices. Cell- 845-649-5350; stu@hvc.rr. com Look for me on Facebook.

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The Politically Savvy and Illicitly Literate Comedy Duo of Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine— tired of performing at Navajo bar mitzvahs, vegan rodeos, and burials at sea— Is NOW AVAILABLE for House Concerts in your very own home, although you might have to file an environmental impact statement prior to engaging them. For details, please call 845-657-2210 or 845-246-7441, or zip an email to horowitz@bard.edu or gillesmalkine@gmail. com

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Saugerties, Blue Mountain Area. Charming 2-bedroom renovated cottage, lovely deck, gas fireplace, screened porch, low taxes. Quiet road between Woodstock & Saugerties. Great price. $82,000. By owner.

917-282-0608.

Office/Studio Space on 3rd floor accessed by elevator or stairs in a beautiful building in uptown Kingston. Reception area included. The space is brilliant w/light from floor to ceiling w/a wall of windows that overlook Wall St. New wood floors and lighting. 624 sq.ft. $1200/mo. Call: SHRES 845-2462022.

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MODENA: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. $700/month plus utilities. No pets. Call any time, leave message 845-255-2316.

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Find your ideal house in the ideal setting inside our

Large Studio Apt. in New Paltz, $925/ month. Includes all utilities except phone.

Space is suitable for one person, non-smoker, no pets. 845-901-2531

Hudson Valley

1 & 2-Bedroom Apartments in 1870s barn.

Available May. From $1050/month w/all utilities included to $1360/month plus some utilities. NO DOGS. NO INDOOR SMOKING. 5 minutes by CAR outside village. Please call or text 256-8160.

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Almanac Weekly Center spread Gorgeous, new, 2-story home on estate size lot with fishing pond. 3-bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Close to Rhinebeck. Deluxe finishes, huge rec. room. Terms offered to right buyer. Michael: 845-688-5249.

For Sale By Owner. Go To: 528 Plutarch Rd., New Paltz on Zillow.com to review info/ photos. “Zestimate” listed will be minimum offer accepted. If interested, call 845-2561611 for appt.

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Land for Sale

2.8 ACRES in OLIVEBRIDGE, (low tax Olive), awaits your new dream home! Seasonal mountain views. Can be subdivided. Has well & septic (concrete tank) & leach field.

Asking $60,000. 845-657-9864.

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Office Space/ Commercial Rentals

Leasing Renovated Loft OFFICES w/Studio, Retail & Storage. This inspiring 2500 sf FLEX industrial style workspace is perfect for production, fulfillment, manufacturing and retail. Newly renovated with new: windows, doors and paint. Located at 271 Tinker Street, Woodstock. On-site parking, loading doors and HIGH VISIBILITY. Free Wifi. Wonderful Community. Efficient heating. On NYC Bus Route. Walk to All. See tinkersquareny.com $1800/mo. Call or text 917-992-6960.

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

Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

NEW PALTZ GARDENS APARTMENTS

21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts.

Pets welcome! No security deposit option.

3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.

845-255-6171 ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security.

Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

2-BEDROOM, small office, new carpet, new windows, large private deck, quiet country setting. Washer/dryer hook-up available. 4 miles from town. $1150/month plus utilities. 845-256-0775.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home. Private entrance. Walk to SUNY. Off-street parking. Clean. Suitable for 1. No smokers or pets. $900/month includes all utilities and internet. References. First, last, $500 security. Lease agreement. Available 5/28. 845-255-9786 or 845-901-7748.

May 3, 2018

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. 845-2557205.

French doors that open to the trickling stream. Available May 15th through October 15th for one Month at a time. $4200/ month. Pets will be considered. References required. Please call with your Inquiry: 310995-0541.

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For Sale

438

South of Stone Ridge Rentals

Kerhonkson: 3-Bedroom House. $1500/ month. Studio. $675/month. Utilities not included. Good references and credit. 973493-7809 or 845-553-0498

440

Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

Kingston: STUDIO; Uptown. First floor.

On bus route. All utilities included. Eat-In kitchen, shower/bath, parking. Security, references. No smokers. No pets. Call 845338-4574.

RENNER’S COUNTRY CRAFTS SHOP & STORE. 245 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro. 845-236-7378. Open 8 a.m.-9 p.m. all year. Black, black/white Dalmation & pure white bunnies for pets only; $45.

Bunny manure for sale. Tarot, Tea & Palm Spiritual Readings; $45. Decorated Cinnamon Broom Room. African American Bridal item; $40.

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Portable Toilet Rentals

TLK

450

Saugerties Rentals

LLC

Portable Toilet Rentals

— SAUGERTIES —

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

Second floor / 2 family house on the Esopus All utilities included except cable Washer / Dryer $1,300 — 1 month security Available May 15th

We e ke n ds • We e kl y • M o n th l y

CHARMING 1 BDRM APARTMENT

Call for appt: 845-706-5430

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

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.

OHAYO MOUNTAIN COTTAGE: Very bright studio, backs onto woods, stream, cedar-fenced garden. Newly built bathroom.

Laundry available. Less than 1 mile from Village Green. Utilities included, $800/ month. 941-586-4792, nick@pureimpure. com STUDIO APARTMENT in carriage house on horse farm in Willow, 15 minutes from Woodstock. With 2-car garage (can be used as studio). By stream. Wood burning stove.

Scenic area. $650/month. 845-679-6590.

Wonderful Woodstock In-Town 2-Bedroom Carriage House Apt. 2 huge decks.

Overlook Mountain View from vaulted living room. Hardwood floors, chestnut trim, stained glass window in bath w/claw foot tub and bronze shower surround. Eat-in country kitchen w/new storm/screen door to large deck to enjoy outdoor space. Large deck w/patio doors off living room. A/C, washer and dryer, wood stove. Walk to NYC bus and all Woodstock has to offer. Oil heat and gas for cooking. No smokers. Pet considered. 1-year lease. $1600/mo. Plus utilities. First, last, security, refs. Call 845-9016628. Available now.

CHARMING WOODSTOCK 1-BEDROOM HOUSE on Mink Hollow Road within walking distance to Cooper Lake, 4 miles to center of Woodstock. On 1 acre.

All wood floors, newly renovated bathroom. $1100/month. Owner/broker 845-4175282.

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.

500

Seasonal Rentals

Woodstock Charming Cottage w/Artist Studio for Monthly Rental. Located on a very private, serene stream in Lake Hill, 10 minutes from the town of Woodstock. The Cottage is an Artists dream. Fully furnished, very charming in a wooded secluded area with a wood-burning stove. The Studio is bright with terrific light, high ceilings and

TLKportables@gmail.com tlkportables.com

603

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.

FULLY INSURED

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING

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

605

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.

615

Hunting/Fishing Sporting Goods

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.

620

Buy & Swap

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

(845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

CASH PAID 657-6252

650

Antiques & Collectibles

Books Wanted. Quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian books bought (also typewriters, maps, and ephemera). Bring items to Barner Books; 3 Church Street; New Paltz or call 845-255-2635 or email: barnerbooks@gmail.com

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Help Wanted Situations Wanted Housesitting Services Opportunities Adult Care Child Care Educational Programs Seasonal Programs Workshops Instruction Catering/ Party Planning Wedding Directory Photography Events Courier & Delivery Car Services Entertainment Editing Publications/Websites Real Estate Open Houses

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Real Estate Affordable Home Land for Sale Mobile Home Park Lot Lease Land & Real Estate Wanted Commercial Listings for Sale Office Space/ Commercial Rentals Garage/Workspace/ Storage Garage/Workspace/ Storage Wanted NYC Rentals & Shares Poughkeepsie/Hyde Park Rentals Gardiner/Modena/ Plattekill Rentals Wallkill Rentals Newburgh Rentals

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

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

$ CASH $ ON THE SPOT! TOP $ DOLLARS $ PAID! Also Seeking Star Wars Collectibles, Life-Size Advertisement Statues, Vintage Vinyl Records.

Call/Text Any Time 845-901-7379

WANTED-TOP DOLLARS PAID! 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.

617-981-1580

660

Estate/Moving Sale

Empire Estate Sale- Woodstock Empire Estate Sale for a NY Fashion Exec’s Beautiful Estate in Woodstock. 5/5 (8 a.m.-3 p.m.) and 5/6 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) 165 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498. Visit www.empireestatesalesny.com for details and photos!

ESTATE SALE: 5/5, 10-5, 40 Midway Park Road, Gardiner, (off Bruynswick). Quilting, sewing, knitting materials, patterns, fabrics.

Machine quilting frame, sewing machine.

Tools, Christmas ornaments, bird houses, flower pots, Totes, bags, books, books, books.

665

Flea Market

HIGH FALLS Flea Market, Rt. 213 High Falls. Art, Antiques, Collectibles. EVERY SUNDAY, April 8-October 28; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Vendor info: (845)810-0471 or jonicollyn@aol.com

BOOKSTOCK/YOGA STUDIO Garage SALE- many interesting books, yoga & meditation items, baskets, furniture, women’s clothes & much much more! 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, 5/5, 13 Patricia Ln, Woodstock.

GLASCO

11th Annual Huge Neighborhood Yard Sale.

“Many families”

Antiques & Garden Sale in High Falls. Saturday May 5th & Sunday May 6th 9:00 to 5:00.5 Bruceville Road At the Black Barn Primitives, furniture, garden, plants, oddities.

620 630 640

660 665 670 680 690 695 698 700 702 703

705 708 710 715 717 720

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

715

Cleaning Services

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

Excellent references.

710

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)679-6242.

QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980 • Int. & Ext. painting • Power Washing

717

Caretaking/Home Management

• Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates

Housekeeping, Gardening, Pet and Child Care, Cooking and Baking, and More! Flexible rates. Call Emily 631-965-9087.

Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com

HABE HABERWASH PRESSURE WASHING PRE & EXTERIOR PAINTING & STAINING. Residential and Commercial Residentia Specializing in decks, fences, roofs, driveways, patios.

FREE ESTIMATES, FULLY INSURED Accepting All Major Credit Cards

Contact Jason Habernig

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

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

Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

Incorporated 1985

Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253

695

702

NYS DOT T-12467

COUNTRY CLEANERS

Professional Services

Art Services

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Call 679-3879

All streets in Glasco incl. down by river.

Rain/shine.

MOWER’S SATURDAY/SUNDAY FLEA MARKET; Maple Lane, Woodstock. Every weekend starting May 19. Antiques, collectibles, produce & Reusables. 845-6796744. Join us for our 41st Year! For brochure: woodstockfleamarket@hvc.rr.com GOOGLE US!

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ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO.

Sat. 5/12 • 9am-3pm.

670

FIVE FAMILY YARD SALE! Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 27 Dug Road, New Paltz.

Furniture, clothing, electronics... everything but a kitchen sink! Cancelled if rain.

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645 648 650 655

Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Yard & Garage Sales

Big Yard Sale! Baby-5-yrs. Gently used name brand clothing, dresses, coats, shoes, boots, toys, books, baby gear galore, and several unique items too! Sunday, May 6th, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. 7 Dusinberre Rd. 12525, Off of Rte 44/55 in the hamlet of Gardiner!

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

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

720

Painting/Odd Jobs

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

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 845616-8574.

“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura, since 1997. Interior/ Exterior, Decorator Finishes, Restorations, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. (845)332-7577.

Senior Discount. References. Free Estimates.

*PAINTING STANDARD.* Affordable, On-Schedule, Quality. Residential/Commercial. Interior/Exterior. Neat, Polite, Professional. Now taking SPRING/SUMMER reservations. 845-527-1252.

740

Building Services

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

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HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc.

Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates.

Free estimates. References available.

(845)616-7470.

Interiors & Remodeling Inc s ’ d e .

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From Walls to Floors, Ceilings to Doors, Decks, Siding & More.

Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate

DRIVEWAY STONE SCREENED TOPSOIL

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SHALE - MULCH - FILL - COMPOST

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).

Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3x). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank-you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank-you for your mercy towards me and mine. The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted.

845-505-3890

845-688-7951

RBE MATERIALS

www.tedsinteriors.com 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

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

(845) 679-4742

Down to Earth Landscaping Quality service from the ground up

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Gardening/ Landscaping

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Specializing in: Hardscape Tree trimming Fences Koi ponds Snow plowing

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SNOW PLOWING & SANDING Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

“Experience The Difference” A.A.S. Ornamental Horticulture

Over 25Years Experience

• Commercial • Residential • N.Y.S. Certified Landscaping & Maintenance • Fully Lawn Mowing Services • Cleanups Insured Free Estimates (845) 246-8623

BANNEN

• Fertilizing • Trimming Pruning • Mulching • Perennial Gardens

Spirituality

950

Animals

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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Home, Lawn & Garden

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Pet Care

WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents.

The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at 347-258-2725.

L&M Pet Sitting Professional pet care visits for cats, dogs, birds, and other exotic species.

Lauren Storm & Michael Steeley (607) 431-3392 LnMpetsitting@gmail.com

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Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.

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Very Reasonable Rates, Multiple Pet Discount... Compassionate, Professional, Courteous. *Pet Exams, *Vaccines, *Blood Work, *Lyme Testing, *Flea & Tick Prevention, *Rx Diet, *Euthanasia at home.

Poughkeepsie

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New York City

VERY HARD TO FIND! 2008 AERO 9-5.

Manual transmission, 98K, ex cond. No rust. All records. Asking $11,000. For more details call 845-246-7598 1992 Lexus LS 400 for sale. Southern car, no rust, good condition. Loaded with extras, leather seats, sunroof. Plenty of power, cruise in style! Asking $2000. Call 6633942 to see in Shokan, leave message.