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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 6 | Feb. 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 13

TRUTH IN THESE TIMES

Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. is chairman of The New York Times Company and was publisher of The New York Times between 1992 and 2017 .

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9/1 1 You haven’t forgotten

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Eighteen years later, ter, we’re still seeing the health effects of 9/11.

If you responded following ollowing the 9/11 attacks, you may be eligible oring and treatment for WTC-related health for medical monitoring conditions through h the World Trade Center Health Program. Benefits are also available for eligible survivors who were present on 9/11, or lived, worked, or went to school nearby in the days, weeks,, or months after. CLINICAL CENTERS S OF EXC EXCELLENCE X ELLENCE LOCAT LOCATIONS A IONS

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WITNESS TO HISTORY Trailblazing journalist Ruth Gruber’s photographs are on view in New Paltz

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ew Paltz gallerist Mark Gruber had a remarkable aunt who died at the age of 105 in 2016. A new exhibition showcasing the trailblazing photojournalism of Ruth Gruber, spanning more than five decades on four continents, opens on Saturday, February 8. Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber was a prodigy who made headlines by the age of 20 by becoming the youngest person in the world to earn a PhD. While studying for her doctorate at the University of Cologne, she observed the rise of Nazism up close and actually attended a Hitler rally. Upon her return to the US, she went to work for the New York Herald Tribune and in 1935 became the first Western journalist to visit the Soviet Arctic and the gulag. She was offered a job as a special assistant to interior secretary Harold Ickes, who assigned her in 1944 to accompany a convoy of ships carrying

nearly a thousand Holocaust refugees from Naples to New York, where they would live until the end of the war at an Army camp in Oswego. This secret mission was the only attempt by the US to shelter Jewish refugees during the war. Issues of rescue, sanctuary and liberation remained her passion for the rest of her life. In 1947, her exclusive photographs documenting the harrowing voyage of the Exodus 1947 – a ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees that attempted to break the British blockade on immigration to Palestine – were sent internationally via wire services to thousands of newspapers and magazines, including Life, and radically transformed attitudes toward the plight of Holocaust survivors after the war. A book she wrote on the experience inspired Leon Uris to write his bestselling novel Exodus. She also covered the Nuremberg trials and was, in her 70s, the only foreign correspondent to observe Operation Moses, the airlift of Ethiopian

Captions Top left and right: Gruber documented the harrowing voyage of the Exodus 1947 – a ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees that attempted to break the British blockade on immigration to Palestine; Bottom left: (Detail) Holocaust survivors aboard the Henry Gibbins, bound for America in 1944; Bottom right: Ruth Gruber (1911-2016) accompanied a convoy of ships carrying nearly a thousand Holocaust refugees from Naples to New York, where they would live until the end of the war at an Army camp in Oswego.

Jews to Israel during a famine. “Ruth Gruber: Photographs as Witness” opens on Saturday, February 8 with a free wine-and-cheese reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and will remain on view until March 21 at the Mark Gruber Gallery, located at 17 New Paltz Plaza. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and by appointment

on Sunday. For more info call (845) 2551241 or visit www.markgrubergallery.com. – Frances Marion Platt Ruth Gruber: Photographs as Witness opening Saturday, Feb. 8, 5-7 p.m., free Mark Gruber Gallery 17 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Mohonk Preserve YOUTH NATURE AMBASSADORS For High School Students Ages 13 and Up Application Deadline: April 6th

Interested in the environment and gaining work skills and community service credit? Join the Youth Nature Ambassadors volunteer program for high school students ages 13 and up. Ambassadors will train to interact with the public, sharing information about the Preserve, answering questions, and facilitating family interactions with hands-on activities. They will also have the option to assist with the Preserve’s summer camp for children ages 4-10. For more information visit: mohonkpreserve.org/youth-nature-ambassadors photo: STEPHEN D. STEWART-HILL

845-255-0919

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Is the loss of quality journalism a threat to our democracy? Sulzberger & Ottaway to discuss the future of the press at SUNY-New Paltz

ewspapers and news culture are fixtures in American narratives, especially after Watergate, when the disruptive power of an obsessive, perseverant reporter or two was reaffirmed in a regime-toppling way. Most of our myths agree on the newsroom as a human pressure cooker populated by combustible editors, compromised suits and teeming hives of alternately competing and collaborating reporters: lean and hungry, insatiable as junkies, single-purpose agents of the democratic process. Whether the press is lionized as protectors or ridiculed as manipulable in the play of power depends on the mood of the story, or, in the present climate, on your party affiliation. Lore aside, the profession of journalism does present as a perfect storm of stress, pressure and chronic instability, especially now. It has always been rigorously deadline-driven and time-sensitive, sworn to unforgiving standards of proof and accountability, bound by a relationship to power that is spicy and complex if not inherently adversarial. But even a digressive, provincial critic for an upstate weekly can see that these are weird times in the trade. Demonetized, deprofessionalized and balkanized in the blog era, the classic press seems as much a retro meme, a film prop, as a functioning institution. The political discourse of division, in which every fact belongs to an interest, erodes

Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and James H. Ottaway, Jr. began their careers as reporters and loved the work. Should I have really been surprised that they were the ones ﬁring the questions?

the efficacy of even the best reporting, probably by design. And the sluices of news distribution are famously and inscrutably slanted in the age of Big Data. What you see seems to depend mostly on who you are already known to be. But what do I know? A little more, I must say, after spending an hour or so in conversation with Arthur O. Sulzberger,

Jr. and James H. Ottaway, Jr. For them, the morning chat was a casual warmup and photo shoot a month in advance of their participation in SUNY-New Paltz’s Distinguished Speaker Series. On March 4, the two friends and New Paltz-area residents will run it for real when the college presents “Truth, Trust and the Future of Journalism: An Evening with

Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. in Conversation with James H. Ottaway, Jr.” at Lecture Center 100. Distinguished speakers, indeed. Sulzberger is chairman of The New York Times Company and was publisher of The New York Times between 1992 and 2017 (a period, you might note, in which a few important things happened to news delivery). Ottaway is retired director and senior vice president of Dow Jones, where he worked to build the European and Asian editions of the Wall Street Journal, and the former chairman of Ottaway Newspapers. In American journalism, these are among the heaviest of hitters. Just as you would expect, my conversation with these eminences began (and lingered for a good while) on the topic of…me: how I got into music and book reviewing, my sense of the current music scene in the Hudson Valley, where my band would be playing next. What the thumbnail bios above fail to mention is that Sulzberger and Ottaway both began their careers as reporters, and both loved the work. Both moved with reluctance off the beat and into administration, business development and industry stewardship, where each has distinguished himself outrageously. Should I have really been surprised that they were the ones firing the questions? The reporter’s mindset defined their careers, long after their reporting days had passed. “It was key to my management

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Feb. 6, 2020 style,” Ottaway says, “learning how to ask questions. I managed by asking questions. I hardly ever gave an order. You’re always talking to people who are smarter than you are. I think reporter skills are quite helpful.” “I couldn’ t agree more,” says Sulzberger. “As someone with a journalistic background, you realize that for all of the challenges you face, you cannot destroy the brand value. As we move away from an advertisingdriven business to a consumer-driven business, that is only enhanced, because now it is definitive: You have to preserve the quality of the brand, and that means the quality of the journalism.” Sulzberger and Ottaway have at least one ulterior motive in deflecting the attention onto me: They are keen not to give away too much of the matter of their upcoming professional conversation and would prefer to talk about their shared love of, and commitment to, New Paltz and the Hudson Valley, its people and its landscape. In our conversation, a dual theme of retreat and engagement surfaces again and again. Both found escape, recreation and reflection in the Hudson Valley and a necessary antidote to their professional lives. But, being the kind of people they are, both were moved to action and have emerged as volunteers within the community. Sulzberger sits on the board at Mohonk Preserve. Since his retirement, Ottaway has served as treasurer of the Wallkill Valley Land Trust, trustee of Bard College and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Storm King Art Center. Ottaway moved here for good in the mid-‘80s at the suggestion of his wife Mary. “I was in the embarrassing position of having moved us six times to different newspapers, and I finally said, ‘Well, it’s your turn.’ There are all kinds of interesting people in this college town, and some of the most fantastic landscape in New York State, but it is not a highpressure social place to live,” he says. “This is not East Hampton.” Sulzberger agrees enthusiastically. “The joy of New Paltz,” he says, “is that it is a place you can go to escape. I mean, there is so much here to embrace. I love the vitality of this place. But there is so much also that is not here.”

Sulzberger enthuses over recent developments at the Mohonk Preserve. “It has really been growing,” he says, “in visitors, in programming and in its footprint.” Meanwhile, further down the Ridge, Ottaway is helping the Open Space Institute in its efforts to build a visitors’ center at the Minnewaska State Pa r k Preserve. “From the p a r k ’s establishment,” he says, “when those who loved its precious sky lakes, cliffs and historic carriage roads rallied to ensure its protection, it has needed a central welcoming location.” “I think one of the things we share,” Ottaway adds, looking at Sulzberger, “is the love of this landscape as a quiet retreat from the wild and pressured life that we lived as newspaper publishers.” A longtime rock climber who learned the literal ins-and-outs of the Gunks under the mentorship of climber Jim Munson before buying property here 30 years ago, Sulzberger sees a necessary relationship between his profession and his passion. “The reason that I love rock climbing so much,” he says, “is that when you are climbing, you cannot be thinking of anything else.” – John Burdick

They are keen not to give away too much of the matter of their upcoming professional conversation and would prefer to talk about their shared love of, and commitment to, New Paltz and the Hudson Valley, its people and its landscape.

The SUNY-New Paltz Distinguished Speaker Series will present “Truth, Trust and the Future of Journalism,” an evening with Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., chairman, The New York Times Company, in conversation with James H. Ottaway, Jr., retired director and senior vice president of Dow Jones, former chairman of Ottaway Newspapers, on Wednesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Center 100. Tickets cost $10 and advance purchase is recommended. Visit www. newpaltz.edu/speakerseries for details, or call (845) 257-3880.

Climate Action Film Fest comes to Upstate Films February 12, 16 The first festival of its kind exclusively featuring storytelling around solutions, rather than simply the impacts of climate change, the Climate Action Film Fest (CAFF 2020) is a

In Dan Lin's documentary short Rise: From One Island to Another, two indigenous poets from the Marshall Islands and Greenland meet atop a receding glacier.

touring, single-night event featuring a 90-to-120-minute presentation of short films from around the world. In its Hudson Valley premiere, sponsored by SunCommon, it hits Upstate Films in both Rhinebeck and Woodstock this month. Proceeds from screenings

are donated to local climate action groups, in our case New Yorkers for Clean Power and the Student Climate Coalition. The program screens at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 12 at the Rhinebeck location and at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 16 in the

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Mercurial personality

ight now, Mercury is at its easiest to see of the entire year. It’s truly worth a minute to take a look. Starting Thursday evening, February 6, and extending through the weekend and beyond, simply look towards sunset at 6 p.m., or maybe ten minutes before that. Make sure tall hills or trees don’t block that direction from where you’re standing, because you need to look lowish, though not super-low. The fading light of dusk hugs the western sky. Dazzling Venus pops out at you as the brightest thing in the sky. Now look far to the lower right of Venus. Any “star” you see down there is Mercury. Easy! The innermost planet is unique and odd in so many ways, it’s hard to find aspects that aren’t strange. The way it moves, the way it looks, its features and newly discovered oddities all conspire to create a carnival of curiosities. For centuries, observers fighting the solar glare caught fleeting glimpses of blotchy surface markings, which led them to conclude that one of its hemispheres always faces sunward – the way the Moon forever aims one side to Earth. This made sense. With the nearby Sun pulling on it with ten times the gravitational force we experience here, why shouldn’t its spin be locked in sync to match its 88-day orbital period? But radar pulses in the 1960s showed that it actually spins in 58.6 days. This means that three rotations, three Mercury days (58.6 times 3) happen in the same interval as two of its years (88 times 2). The consequences are dramatic. This 3:2 resonance between its day and its year lets us see the same face of Mercury every second time it orbits the Sun. So those venerable observers weren’t quite wrong. They did observe repeating patterns – but on alternate orbits. No doubt they shrugged off the observations where the markings didn’t fit. Then, too, Mercury has the most lopsided, out-of-round orbit of any planet in the solar system. Its Sun distance mutates from 30 to 40 million miles. This is huge: Around Mercury’s perihelion, you want to be sure to use SPF 2 billion sunblock instead of your usual 1 billion. The eccentric orbit also makes that crater-covered planet speed up and slow down more than any other: a variation that would sometimes make a sunrise on Mercury stop in its tracks and reverse itself. The Sun comes up, goes back down, then rises a second time. Mercury alters its brightness more than any other planet, varying by three hundredfold. Each year its light goes from fainter than the “Seven Sisters” to more than double the brilliance of the Dog Star Sirius, the brightest star. These nights it’s near its brightest, but it’s fading rapidly. As if jealously to resent Venus’ greater dazzle, Mercury may smash it to pieces sometime in the next five billion years. Thanks to perturbations caused by the Sun, and especially Jupiter, the Mercury orbit wildly changes shape. It goes from being a perfect circle to being twice as lopsided as it is at present – squashed enough actually to reach innocent Venus, the planet with the most perfectly circular orbit of all. As Mercury spins, it displays not the least axial tilt. Earth, Mars and Saturn are all tilted 20-something degrees, but Mercury alone rotates straight up and down: not even

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Woodstock cinema. Admission is by a suggested donation of $10 to $20, but no one will be turned away. One of the films being featured in this, CAFF’s inaugural lineup, is Words Have Power, directed by Lynne Cherry, founder of Young Voices for the Planet, best-selling children’s author and currently a visiting scholar at the Benjamin Center at SUNY-New Paltz. Words Have Power features 10-year-old Jaysa Mellers, a girl on the front lines of climate change who stands up to a power plant – and wins. Her dynamic speeches at rallies and City Hall catalyze her community to fight the coal-fired power plant that causes her asthma, and together they shut it down. The film has already been shown locally at the Ashokan Center’s Winter Hoot and will screen there again this Thursday, February 6 as part of the Youth Empowerment & Sustainability Summit. As the Summit is already sold out, the Upstate Films CAFF screenings are your next chance to catch Words Have Power. To learn more, visit https:// s u n c o m m o n . c o m /c l i m a t e - a c t i o n film-festival. For tickets, visit www. eventbrite.com/e/climate-action-filmfestival-hudson-valley-premieretickets-84794928915. Climate Action Film Fest Upstate Films Wednesday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. 6415 Montgomery St. (Rt. 9), Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515 Sunday, Feb. 16, 1:30 p.m. 132 Tinker St., Woodstock (845) 679-6608 $10-$20 donation suncommon.com/climate-action-film-festival

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Mercury alters its brightness more than any other planet, varying by three hundredfold. Each year its light goes from fainter than the “Seven Sisters” to more than double the brilliance of the Dog Star Sirius, the brightest star. These nights it’s near its brightest, but it’s fading rapidly.

one-tenth of a degree offset from perfectly vertical. This means that at its poles, half the solar disc is always below the horizon. Standing within the slightest polar depression or crater, you never see the Sun at all. This results in permanently dark places, filled with ice. Strangely enough, then, the Sun’s nearest planet has ice deposits extensive enough to be detectable from Earth. They offer winter sports on a world badly needing them. And even that isn’t the end of Mercurian strangeness. Its largest impact feature is the enormous Caloris Basin. At its antipodal point – the precise opposite location on Mercury to Caloris – is the so-called Weird Terrain. This hilly region is unlike anything else. Apparently, shock waves or else debris from the colossal meteor impact that formed Caloris traveled around the planet and then collided with themselves at the antipodal point to wreak havoc there. But above all else, don’t you want another planet notch on your belt? Don’t you want to join the ranks of the minority of humans through the centuries who have laid eyes on the speediest and strangest of all worlds? This is your chance, the next clear evening. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

The Orchestra Now plays Beethoven at Bard this weekend

Conducted by Leon Botstein, Bard’s The Orchestra Now (TÕN) continues its six-concert winter/spring season with an all-Beethoven program at the Fisher Center on the weekend of February 8 and 9. A tribute to the 250th anniversary of the master composer’s birth, the concerts begins with the overture from The Consecration of the House, which was written for the opening of the Theater am Käntnertor in Vienna in 1822. Pianist Anna Polonsky also joins TÕN for a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. The composer wrote this piece for himself, and its premiere was the last time he ever performed as a soloist with an orchestra. The celebration concludes with one of the master’s most famous works, his heroic Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.” Tickets cost $25 and $35. The Orchestra Now plays Beethoven Saturday/Sunday, Feb. 8/9, 8 p.m./2 p.m. $35/$25 Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (845) 758-7900

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NDSO performs French music at CIA this Saturday The Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra (NDSO) celebrates Valentine’s Day at the Culinary Institute of America on Saturday, February 8 with “French Kiss,” a concert featuring French or France-inspired concert and popular music. Selections include music from An American in Paris and Les Misérables, highlights from Moulin Rouge, Carmen and Offenbach’s famous “Can-Can.” In the second half of the program, guests chanteuse Elizabeth Gerbi, saxophoniste Christopher Brellochs and pianiste Michael Skelly will perform a series of French-themed ballads, escorting the audience down the Champs-Élysées with works by Yetson, Schwartz and, of course, with “Chanson D’Amour (Song of Love),” made famous by Edith Piaf. Tickets for the concert are $28 for adults, $23 for seniors and $5 for students. NDSO also offers a reserved-seating “Make a Night of It” package, which includes your choice of show seating and guaranteed seating at the Caterina de’ Medici restaurant for $45 per person (does not include $39 for dinner). “French Kiss” with NDSO Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. Marriott Pavilion, Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Dr. (off Rt. 9), Hyde Park (845) 635-0877 www.ndsorchestra.org

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The Professors play Unison this Saturday

WinterFest returns to Highland rail trail The Hudson Valley Rail Trail hosts an outdoor winter festival on Saturday, January 18 at its Rail Trail Depot location in Highland. The event features a Best of Fest chili contest, roasted chestnuts, toasted marshmallows, light snacks and beverages, wagon rides, woodcarving demonstration and activities for children of all ages. Admission is a mere $2, with children under 6 admitted free.

Actual SUNY-New Paltz professors as well as credentialed players and longtime collaborators, the Professors are guitarist Mark Dziuba, pianist Vinnie Martucci, bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff Siegel. Friends for more than 30 years, collectively, the four compose, perform, lecture and teach jazz and improvisation workshops internationally. Most recently the Professors were invited to BogotĂĄ, Columbia to teach and perform at the Fernando School of Music and Audio Engineering. Their concert performances feature compositions by all members of the ensemble. The Professors perform a hometown show at Unison Arts in New Paltz on Saturday, February 8. Admission costs $25, $22 for seniors, $20 for Unison members and $5 for students. The Professors Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. $25/$22/$20/$5 Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Rd., New Paltz (845) 255-1559 www.unisonarts.org

Falcon hosts Alexis P. Suter birthday concert this Saturday

WinterFest Saturday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $2 Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot 101 New Paltz Rd., Highland (845) 691-6313 https://hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net

Subzero Heroes ice jump on Saturday at Highlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Berean Lake

MUSIC

BARDAVON, UPAC SCREEN THE METâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PORGY AND BESS

he Bardavon continues its broadcasting of The Met: Live in HD on Saturday, February 8 with Porgy and Bess, shown live at both the Bardavon and UPAC. The Gershwinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, starring bass/baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue in the title roles. Director James Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row, a setting vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion and heartbreak of its inhabitants. Ticketholders are invited to enjoy a pre-show talk on the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opera one half-hour prior to the broadcast at UPAC, led by Leslie Gerber, and at the Bardavon, led by Chuck Mishaan. Both are music teachers at Maristâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Lifetime Studies. Tickets cost $28, $26 for Bardavon members and $21 for children 12 and under. Porgy and Bess, Saturday, Feb. 8, 1 p.m., $28/$26/$21, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie, UPAC, 601 Broadway, Kingston, (845) 4732072, www.bardavon.org

On the occasion of her birthday, one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preeminent blues singers and bandleaders, Alexis P. Suter, has chosen to play at the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier blues and jazz venue: the Falcon in Marlboro. A talent celebrated rapturously by the likes of B. B. King and Levon Helm, Suter is supporting her widely acclaimed 2019 full-band release Be Love. Opening this special show will be Basil T. Morganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Extraordinary Friends, featuring Carrie P. Suter, Alexisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daughter. As usual, there is no cover charge at the Falcon, but generous donation is the house policy. Alexis P. Suter Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. Donation The Falcon 1348 Rt. 9 W, Marlboro www.liveatthefalcon.com

Ashokan Center hosts concert for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Water/Waysâ&#x20AC;? exhibition on Sunday The Hudson River Maritime Muse-

um presents the Water/Ways Concert at the Ashokan Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olivebridge Campus on Sunday, February 9. Celebrating water and the Hudson River, the concert features performances by Americana legends (and Ashokan Center directors) Jay Ungar & Molly Mason and by Betty & the Baby Boomers, the folk vocal quintet. There will also be a showing of an abbreviated version of the documentary film Deep Water, with commentary by filmmaker Tobe Carey. Admission costs $20, $5 for children 13 and under. Before the concert, and also part of the Smithsonian Institute traveling exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Water/Ways,â&#x20AC;? Adam Bosch of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection will lead a beautiful winter hike along the new Ashokan Reservoir trail on Sunday, February 9 at noon. Bosch will discuss the history and modern uses of the Ashokan Reservoir. Water/Ways Concert Sunday, Feb. 9, 3 p.m. $20/$5 Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Rd., Olivebridge https://hrmm.z2systems.com

Psych/Rock Fire Relief BeneďŹ t for Australia at BSP this Saturday In response to the devastating impacts of the Australian bush fires, BSP in Kingston presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lost Aesthetic:

A Psych/Rock Fire Relief Benefitâ&#x20AC;? on Saturday, February 8. All proceeds from the show to go to the Red Cross to assist people affected by the fires, and to Wires, a wildlife rehabilitation fund. The lineup includes several psych/rock notables: from the Capital region, the psych-popsters the Abyssmals; from Saugerties, the garage psych/noise band Lost Aesthetic. DJ Jason Cavallo takes over at 10 p.m. The suggested donation is $20. Lost Aesthetic: A Psych/Rock Fire Relief BeneďŹ t Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. $20 donation BSP 323 Wall St., Kingston

The Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association Hudson Valley Chapter will hold its tenth annual Subzero Heroes ice jump on Saturday, February 8 at Berean Lake in Highland. The event will feature a costume contest, and participants will have access to a variety of refreshments. A drone will fly overhead and photograph jumpers from above. Heroes, who must raise a raise a minimum of $200 to take the plunge, will jump into the lake to show their support for families living with Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and other forms of dementia. Heroes are assisted by Sidekicks, who do not jump themselves, but help with fundraising and stand by with towels for the Heroes as they emerge from the water. Those who would like to support the cause by backing a Hero may visit subzeroheroes.org, to make a donation. Sponsorships for the tenth anniversary event are also available; contact Lauren Voorhees at lvoorhees@alz.org for more information.

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Partial Recall, acrylic on Masonite, 67” x 99”, 1997.

The place of memory (and the memory of place) Jan Sawka exhibition opens Saturday at Dorsky Museum

ounting two art exhibitions on two coasts was not the plan Hanna Sawka and her co-curator Dr. Frank Boyer expected when they pitched the works of Hanna’s late father, Jan Sawka (1946-2012), to museums all across the country. It usually takes two or three years to hear back from exhibition coordinators. But within a short period of time, Sawka and Boyer found themselves scrambling with the logistics of holding two very different shows at once: one at the RAFFMA Museum at California State University in San Bernardino and one here at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY-New Paltz. “They’re both the flagship show at each museum,” says Hanna, a filmmaker and educator. “In California, it’s work that my father showed in the 1970s in LA. This one at the Dorsky, Frank likes to describe

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they could disappear and never be found.” Jan came back when amnesty was declared, which turned out to be a ruse. The government put all the student protestors into a military camp for three months. This only served to coalesce the solidarity among the survivors (not ever yone did survive) and to cement longterm relationships among them. The saga of what took place in Poland during the Cold War is rife with civil unrest and authoritarian crackdowns. Jan’s own family had been forced to relocate from Krakow to a less desirable location, because they were members of the prewar intelligentsia – an avant-garde group of artists, architects, intellectuals, according to Hanka. Then, after she and Jan were married and had a baby, it became

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as ‘elegiac.’ It’s overshadowed by exile, showing the sense of memory and place in one of the more tragic ways it can be seen, which is through the eyes of the exile. My dad created artworks that expressed the longing in being separated.” Sawka’s work is in the collections of more than 60 museums worldwide. He lived and worked in High Falls from 1985 until his death. He emerged as an artist during the conflict between the ruling Communist regime in post-World War II Poland and its people. As an activist, his art became representative of the cause against oppression. Boyer explains, “In 1968, Jan was a leader in a protest. The Soviet Anti-Zionists purged out the younger, more radical popular professors from the universities, and the students hit the streets. Jan actually hid out in the mountains.” “For one-and-a-half years!” interjects Hanka Sawka, the artist’s wife and lifelong assistant. Adds Hanna, “The mountain people were really against Communism. High-level Communists never vacationed there because they knew

apparent that they needed to escape. His popularity as a radical artist made them all targets. It was later that they learned of the intervention by notable people, such as Robert Schulberg and Peggy Guggenheim, who assisted them behind the scenes. They ended up living in Asbury Park, New Jersey. “For years, we didn’t know why we came here,” says Hanka. “I told Jan, ‘Your talent always saves us.’ I believe very close in this power over us. You almost hit the wall, and suddenly a door opens.” Long after that door opened, Schulberg came forward to solve the mystery for the Sawkas. “Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place)” features works from private collections and from the Dorsky Museum’s permanent collection. Interestingly, this exhibition comes 31 years after a mid-career retrospective of Sawka’s work was exhibited at SUNY-New Paltz’s College Art Gallery in 1989 (curated by the Dorsky’s founding director, Neil Trager). Most of the paintings and prints now hanging in the Dorsky are landscapebased. Four works are specifically about Asbury Park and what he saw there. One titled Asbury Notebook comprises numerous baseball-card-sized paintings, mounted and layered in one large piece. A group of four very large paintings, comprised of 12 panels and titled Ashokan 1-4, amounts to 48 feet of paint, depicting sunrise to sunset. These were inspired by the Ashokan Reservoir and contain minuscule markings, some indecipherable, and numbers and faces. “It’s technically one artwork,” says Hanna. “We don’t usually get to show it; it has a strong connection with our region. How it fits in the theme of memory and place is that Mom and Dad chose to live here [in the Hudson Valley] because the region reminded them of this beautiful landscape in Poland where, unbeknownst to each other, they each vacationed as children.” Post-Cards, a folio of drypoint prints, depicts places of significance to the artist. For the first time, a manuscript by Jan Sawka recently discovered in the Library of Congress archives will illuminate this artwork from his singular point of view. And a display of etched plates and a needle give visitors a peek into the process of producing prints. “The prints in New Paltz were purchased by Sam Dorsky, who was my father’s representative as a gallerist and did two wonderful shows for him,” says Hanna. When questioned about Jan’s conceptual processes in artmaking, Hanna says, “There are underlying themes across all his work that even connect between these two shows, even though they’re different visual experiences. My dad would deal with a theme, like commodification or the objectification of women, as in the show in California. He was very interested in the

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“The main thing is to be open and stay with it and let it come in,” says Boyer. “It has immediate impact, and the longer you look at it, the more it opens up for you. It’s not like a lecture. It’s an opportunity for you to look into yourself and find your own analogues, your own relation to this. “He never did a sketch... He seldom used photographs, wouldn’t go outside en plein air. Everything was always already an interpretation, distilled into its visuality. He would put a piece of white paper underneath the Plexi and then project from his mind. I’d seen him working often, but I’d never quite connected the dots: that everything was coming from mental images.” Hanna adds, “In the case of the prints, it’s unbelievable. He etched on Plexi. You can erase mistakes on metal plates, but you can’t make a mistake or change anything on Plexi.” A public opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. The Dorsky Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays. – Ann Hutton Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place), Saturday, February 8-Sunday, July 12, Morgan Anderson & Howard Greenberg Galleries, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY-New Paltz; (845) 257-3844, www.newpaltz.edu/ museum.

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way our minds work. This show is about how we remember things. Each piece contains layers of reality that we see.” “He was painting about us,” says Hanka, meaning all of us. “When you see a portrait of people, very rarely was it exactly someone. They are mixed, combined, representing all of us. This is why the young and old like his paintings. They relate to all of us.” Boyer, an adjunct professor in the Art Department at SUNY-New Paltz, elaborates: “Jan had pervasive themes and was very psychological... There’s a

lot you don’t know about the specifics of a piece; it throws you back on your own consciousness. What’s going on here? You begin to find that it reminds you of things in your own experience. He was very aware of that. These works were not for him; they’re for everyone. He was a disciplined, mature artist. The works are about cognition, and you have to go through the process of becoming aware of this.”

This week’s events for Black History Month in Kingston Black History Month is already in full swing in Kingston, with some 30 events happening throughout February, including art exhibits, performances, lectures, workshops, drama, interactive activities and a gala. The A. J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library is the lead organizer of the festivities, but they’re taking place at a wide variety of venues. Here are some highlights set to occur this week, February 6 to 13: Thursdays, February 6 & 13, 2:30-4 p.m. – Workshops for Teens by Teens! Kingston YMCA, 507 Broadway. Thursday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. – Breaking the Barriers of Minority Homeownership: You Can Own a Home! Clinton Avenue Church, 122 Clinton Avenue. Friday, February 7, 8:30-10:30 a.m. –

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9:30am Mid-HudsonADK: Ski with Marty Carp. Every Mon & Fri until March 31. 3-5 hours, depending on conditions. No snow, they will do a moderate hike 6-9 miles. Questions welcomed. Info: 845-214-8520 or martymcarp@gmail.com. Meet @ the Mohonk Visitor Center for drive/shuttle to trailhead. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/outings-events-list. 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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8am-5pm AARP Tax Free Assistance. IRS certified tax preparation provided by AARP Taxaide at sites through Ulster County through 4/13. For an appointment and location information, call 845-443-8823 or log onto UlsterTaxAide@mail. com. Throughout Ulster County.

11am-6pm Art Gallery 71. A new gallery on main st in Rhinebeck. 14 artists with varied styles of working. Exhibit will display through 3/1. artgallery 71, 71 E. Market st., rhinebeck ny. Info: 845-5164878, contact@artgallery71.com, artgallery71.com. free.

8:30am-10am Exploring Mentorship & Training for Leaders of Color. Nonprofits TALK discussion to honor Black History Month. We’ll build on powerful sessions in 2019 based on the Building Movement Project surveys, Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap. Coffee, bagels and conversation. Prompt start and finish. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

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7pm Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Kenyon Hall, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, bit.ly/2Tz0iS7. 7pm Modfest 2020. Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. For a complete list of events, visit vassar.edu/news/ events/2019-2020/200130-Modfest-2020.html. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch. 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 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. 8pm The Chalk Garden. In 1955 Sussex, England, a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager and her precocious and equally eccentric granddaughter are about to meet their match in Miss Madrigal, the enigmatic household companion with secrets, who has just been hired. Tickets: $22/general admission, & $10 students. Info: 800-838-3006. Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Pl, Ghent. GhentPlayhouse.org.

@ 845-242-2301. Shawangunk Grassland Nat. Wildlife Refuge, Wallkill. watermanbirdclub.org. 9:30am Mid-HudsonADK: Vassar Farm Walk or Snowshoe. Leader: Georgette Weir, georgette. weir@gmail.com. Easy 3-4 mile loop over the drumlin (a small hill) and through the woods. Must have foot traction, i.e., spikes. Confirm with leader. Bad weather, no confirmations will cancel. Meet at Farm. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. midhudsonadk.org/outings-events-list. 9:30am-10:30am Centering Prayer and Meditation. A receptive method of silent prayer. People of all faiths are welcome and no previous meditation experience is required. St Gregory’s Church, 2578 Route 212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8800, matthew.stgregorys@gmail.com. free. 10am-2pm Fly Tying Class at Phoenicia Fish & Game. 4 week class to teach basic fly tying skills. Call Hank Rope 845-254-5904 to register. Phoenicia Fish and Game Association, 5419 State Route 28, Mount Tremper. phoenicialibrary.org. 10am-11am Record Mandalas. Upcycle a vinyl record, glue on loose parts to make these mandalas for kids. All ages are welcome. Clinton Community Library.

Gardiner. 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-2pm Hudson Valley Rail Trail’s 22nd Annual WinterFest. 18+ regional restaurants compete for a “Best of Fest” People’s Choice Award. Children can enjoy free activities and games. There will also be a wagon drawn hayride along the trail, sit Ca Our 20 fé Aw 17 in ar Ki d W ng st inn on in g

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marshmallows for toasting, and roasted chestnuts for all to enjoy. Cost: $2/person, kids under 6 are free; 50 cents for one chili or taste all chili for $8. Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot, 101 New Paltz Rd., Highland. 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.

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Particularly if children are involved, we’re likely to end up behaving in uglier ways This is one of those movies where cities become characters in themselves, and than we ever imagined we would. In a way, the experience is so commonplace there’s a fair bit of humor trashing LA as a place for humans to live. New York that, by itself, it doesn’t make enough of a story to support the core of a film. looks grungier, but the California lifestyle is more vapid and soulless. Charlie keeps There have been a few exceptions, such as Kramer vs. Kramer and Scenes from insisting that “We’re a New York family,” and we’re sympathetic to his not wanting a Marriage, but in general, movies to relocate to the land of plastic sunshine in pursuit of proximity to his kid. But it’s “about divorce” tend to be more also a great big red flag of his blind spots with regard to being aware of what his about people picking themselves up wife wants for herself, or indeed that she wants anything at all. and putting themselves back together Director Baumbach, who chronicled the impact on himself as a child of his own after divorce. And more often than parents’ divorce in The Squid and the Whale (2005), exercises a particular sort of not, they stick to a single point of genius in paring down the layers of complex characters as he tilts our sympathies now in favor of Nicole, now of Charlie – sometimes multiple times in the same view, painting the other former partner as the bad guy. extended scene. And that’s kind of the point. That they can’t make it work anymore, The brilliance of Marriage Story as that the only possible happy ending is carving out a satisfying life post-marriage, a narrative is that, right from the getwhich doesn’t make them bad people. It doesn’t even mean that, at some enduring go, it doesn’t. It opens with voiceovers level, they don’t still love each other. Both Driver and Johansson put in career-best in which the separating couple, work as they bring these two infuriating, endearing humans alive. No wonder they’re both on the Oscar-contenders’ list. Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver), enumerate The ever-incandescent Laura Dern is also up for a statuette, in the Supporting things they really appreciate about Actress category, as Nicole’s overzealous legal ally Nora. She has some bravura each other. It’s an exercise imposed scenes coaching Nicole to demand more for herself, but her character leans a little by a mediation counselor, but one too far in the direction of caricature. Ray Liotta as Driver’s second and more intense attorney Jay is even more so; Alan Alda as the gentler option, Bert, seems more that doesn’t get verbalized once they’re in his office, because Nicole human. I also rolled my eyes pretty much every time Julie Hagerty was onscreen finds it hard going to step out from as Nicole’s chirpy mom. And the great Wallace Shawn is almost embarrassing in a under what she sees as Charlie’s dominating personality. It’s just not the right time tiny role as a member of Charlie’s troupe whose 15 minutes of fame are long behind to be reminded of the good stuff they once had together. him. Those reminders do serve the audience, however, establishing a baseline that Best to keep your eyes on the two leads here, as they circle, retreat from and attack neither of these two people, for all their faults, is a monster. It’s something we’ll be one another in the center of the bullring that is a disintegrating marriage. In fact, needing later on, when both fall under the sway of cutthroat divorce lawyers and have you’ll find it hard to look away. You’ll be thankful for the occasional tension-diffusing confrontations where they end up saying meaner things than they intended. Caught interjections of Randy Newman’s ironically sunny, piping score, oh-so-Newmanesque in the middle of the conflict is their winsome small son Henry (Azhy Robertson), but sparingly applied. Baumbach’s wry screenplay also supplies just enough verbal humor to keep things from getting too grim as we watch fundamentally decent whom Nicole has taken with her to live in her native California while Charlie has to fly back and forth between LA and New York in order to spend time with his people suffer and behave badly. It takes a deft touch to keep such a story from offspring. Both parents love Henry to bits, but it’s not enough to overcome the becoming a total downer, but this crew has got it. Recommended. centrifugal force of the dreams that Nicole gave up when she joined MacArthur– Frances Marion Platt certified-genius Charlie’s acting company.

Best to keep your eyes on the two leads here, as they circle, retreat from and attack one another in the center of the bullring that is a disintegrating marriage. In fact, you’ll ﬁnd it hard to look away.

12pm-4pm 4th annual Black History Month at The Lace Mill Art Exhibit. Features works reflecting African- American culture and history. Info: 347-387-6874; jwcornbroom@gmail.com. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. 12pm The 2020 Tournées French Film Festival: Identities. The festival will feature six critically acclaimed films. All screenings are free and open to the public. Festival continues through 2/27. For more information and show times, log onto: bit.ly/2tYSOge. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, Rm 203, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370. 12pm-1pm Talk: Life in Antarctica. Melissa Coggeshall will talk about her experiences, present a slide show, and show off the gear necessary for human survival. Clinton Community Library. 12:30pm-6:45pm Tarot Readings and Expert Palmistry every Saturday with Stephanie. Walkins warmly welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30minutes. 12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets. Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz. 1pm-2pm Janis: Her Life & Music-Book Reading and Signing. Holly George-Warren will be here to read from her new book. Copies will be available for purchase. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary.org. 1pm Food Seminar: Burrata. With Greg Laraia, Adams Mozzarella. Learn how to get creative with burrata. Info: 845-569-0303. Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240 Route 300. 1pm Food Seminar: Easy Meals. With Fred Brill and Kevin Braunfeld, Adams Meat. Info: 845-336-

6300. Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine. 2pm-4pm Spring Town Road - Photography Exhibit. Every day except Wednesday. Free. Info: 845-658-8108; staats@hvc.rr.com. Rosendale Cafe, Main St, Rosendale. 2pm-3:30pm Introduction to Meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. Taught by KTD’s lamas , this class offers brief, basic meditation instruction combined with a presentation setting meditation in the wider context of the practices and principles of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Time will be set aside for questions from the participants. The class is free of charge, and preregistration is not required. Info: managingdirector@ kagyu.org or 845-679-1091. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. 2pm Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival. A Woodstock Second Saturday event featuring guest poets. For info contact Phillip Levine at 845-2468565 or pprod@mindspring.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. woodstockpoetry.com. 3pm-5pm Reception: Works by Thompson Family Foundation Scholarship Recipients. Exhibit: through 2/29. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 NY-212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2388, woodstockschoolofart@gmail.com, woodstockschoolofart.org. free. 3pm Food Seminar: Cookie Decorating for Kids. With Nikki Hannigan, Adams Bakery. Kids! Come decorate your own cookie with Nikki. Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls. 4pm Art Opening: Recent Work by Thomas Lail. Half Moon Books, 35 N Front St, Kingston. Info: 845-331-5439. 4pm Modfest 2020. Vassar College’s annual explo-

ration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. For a complete list of events, visit vassar.edu/news/ events/2019-2020/200130-Modfest-2020.html. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 4pm-6pm Praising Our Ancestors with Good Gourd and Redwing Blackbird Theater. Redwing Blackbird Theater giant activist puppets and music by Good Gourd honor African-American heritage and culture. A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library, 43 Gill St, Kingston. Info: 845 802-0035, africanrootslibrary@outlook.com, bit.ly/2RQO7hU. 4pm Future Voices: Choral Concert. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, bit.ly/3a35W4u. 4pm-6pm Opening Reception: Fresh Snow: Recent Work. Juried by SooJin Buzelli. This exhibition in our Main Gallery features artwork made in the last five years and includes all genres and media. Exhibits through 3/1. Other exhibitions opening as well. Info: 845-679-2940. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker ST, Woodstock. woodstockart.org. 5pm Inner Space/Outer Space. Location: The Bridge for Laboratory Sciences. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4375370, bit.ly/3aatkNx. 5pm-6pm Two-Part Woodstock Library Forum. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. 5pm-7pm Opening Reception for Spring Exhibitions. “Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016; Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place); Collecting Local.” Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, bit. ly/351DH2I. $5 suggested donation. 5pm-9pm Beacon Second Saturday. A city-wide celebration of the arts held on the second Satur-

day 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. 5:30pm Future Voices: Orchestra & Song. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, bit. ly/2RhfP6d. 5:30pm Donald Kuspit Presents: The Beneﬁt of Art According to Louise Bourgeois - ‘Art is a Guarantee of Sanity’. Vassar College/Taylor Hall, Room 102, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, bit. ly/30p45CT. 6pm-8:30pm Saugerties Film Society - Fellini’s Centennial. 8 1/2 - directed by Federico Fellini, 1963, 139 mins., surrealist, comedy drama considered one of the greatest films of all time. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. free. 6pm-8pm Ekphrasis 2020: Poetry + Images. Roost Studios Artists respond artistically to poems by calling all poets & members! Artists ralk and poetry reading, wine and inspiration! Roost Studios & Art Gallery, 69 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-568-7540, Chirp@roostcoop.org, roostcoop. org. books for sale. 6pm-9pm The Nuns, The Priests and The Bombs. An 82 year old Catholic Nun gains entrance to a nuclear facility. Potluck at 6pm, film at 7pm. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham. Info: 518-766-2992, poetapoetus@taconic.net, oldchathamquakers.org. 7pm Annual Play4Kay Night. Join us for great basketball, Half Time Salute to Breast Cancer Survivors, and giveaways and raffles! The game will be Marist vs Manhattan and televised on ESPN3. Info: redfoxes@marist.edu. Marist College , McCann

Club Mahjong. Whether you are new to the game, or a seasoned player, there’s a seat at the table for you! Every Monday, 1-4pm at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation. For more information contact Heather at MJCRobinson1010@gmail. com; or text 914-388-3577.

premier listings Contact Donna at Donna.ulsterpublishing@gmail.com to be included Signing with Comic Writer Christopher Hastings (Every Wednesday, 4-7pm). October Country Comics, 246 Main St #15, New Paltz. Info: octobercountrycomics.com. Trivia Sing-A-Long with Michael Dell (Every Wednesday, 6-9pm ). Food, drinks, music & trivia! For reservations, call 845-334-2828 or text Dino at 845-332-6189. Vigneto Cafe Restaurant, 80 Vineyard Ave, Highland. Fine Arts at Old Dutch presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2/16, 1pm). By Felix Mendelssohn. Pianists Adelaide Roberts & Matthew Odell with Vocalist Marie Duane. Benefit for the Old Dutch Church. Suggested donation $10. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston. Art Opening: Recent Work by Thomas Lail (2/8, 4pm). Half Moon Books, 35 N Front St, Kingston. Info: 845-331-5439. Live @ Lydia’s Cafe. Info: 845-6876373; lydias-cafe.com. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209 Stone Ridge. Create Your Life/ Create Your Year Workshops (2/23 & 2/29). Discover what you really want and how to get it with Certified life coach Linda Freeman.

Held in Newburgh on February 23 Part I and March 1 Part II in Newburgh; & February 29 Part I and March 14 Part II in Red Hook. Visit createyourlifeworkshops.com for more information and to register. Music on Market (2/22, 12:30pm). New Children’s Series “Not Just for Kids!” Ellenville Public Library, 40 Center St, Ellenville. Free admission. Trivia Sing-A-Long with Michael Dell ( Every Wednesdays, 6-9pm). Every Wednesdays, 6-9pm! Reservations by calling 845-834-2828 or text 845-3326189. Vigneto Cafe, 80 Vineyard Ave, Highland. Black Stories Matter@Black History Month (2/15, 7pm). Featuring storytellers from the Nubian Cafe & Circle of Brothers. Free & open to the public (suggested donation - $20). RSVP: TMIproject.org. Call for Event Submissions - WHMK. Submit an event for March 2020 now through February 10 online at WHMK. org to join our community collaboration, celebrating Women’s History. Info: whmkingston@gmail.com. For details log onto whmk.org/.

Recreation Center, 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie. 7pm-10:30pm Elks Lounge Dance Night. Dance to a mix of R&B, Latin, Disco, Rock & much more. Requests welcome. Delicious complimentary snacks; full cash bar. Informal, friendly. Beacon Elks Lodge, 900 Wolcott Avenue, Beacon. Info: 845-7650667, rhodaja@optonline.net, bit.ly/2vltn9i. $10. 7pm-8:30pm Full Moon Crystal Sound Healing Ceremony with Pyramids and Singing Bowls. The sound of Crystal Singing induces deep cellular healing within the meditation state with Lea Garnier and Scott Williams. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20. 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. 7:30pm-8:30pm Contra Dance. Beginners can get started at 7:30 PM with a workshop, followed by the Dance from 8:00-11:00 PM. No partner or experience necessary. Clinton Community Library. $10 Admissions, $5 Student ID. 8pm-10pm The Professors: SUNY New Paltz Jazz. An evening of original jazz & world music compositions by the Jazz faculty Rhythm Section members of SUNY New Paltz. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, info@ unisonarts.org, bit.ly/37V1ljv. $25, $22 Seniors, $20 Members, $10 Students. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Alexis P. Suter Band’s B’Day Bash. Opener: Extraordinary Friends featuring Carrie Suter, three-time Blues Music Awards nominee. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 8pm The Chalk Garden. In 1955 Sussex, England, a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager and her precocious and equally eccentric granddaughter are about to meet their match in Miss Madrigal, the enigmatic household companion with secrets, who has just been hired. Tickets: $22/general admission, & $10 students. Info: 800-838-3006. Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Pl, Ghent. GhentPlayhouse.org. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Deadgrass. Interpreting the music of Jerry Garcia. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 8:30pm-11:30pm The BBoyz. Featuring Tom, Benni, Barry, Mark, Peter, Mike, and Barry the Boys play Soul, funk, R&B, and all flavors in between. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe.com. Pass the basket.

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8am-11am Rhinecliff Volunteer Fire Company and Rescue Squad Pancake Breakfast. Proceeds to support Firemen’s Field Picnic Shelter Project. Enjoy a pile-high of “Rhinecliff ’s Best” ~ pancakes, sausage, fruit, coffee and juice. All-You-Can-Eat. Info: 845-876-5738; csproductions@aol.com. Rhinecliff Firehouse, corner of Shatzell & Orchard, Rhinecliff. $8, $4/child, free/under 6. 10am-11am Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point. Become a Citizen Scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor. 10:30am-12:30pm Open Meditation. Shambhala Meditation is based on the premise that the natural state of the mind is calm and clear. It’s a practice that anyone can do. Free/donations appreciated. Sky Lake Lodge, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

Sign-Up Now! Intuitive Imagination Workshop (1/31-2/20). Develop & practice it safely? Boughton Place, Highland. Info: class@intuitionuse. com; BeYourOwnPsychic.org; Facebook@BYOP.TWAI; EtaoquaMahicanu@ Etaoqua. SongClub with Debbie Lan. Learn a song, harmonize, make a video! A drop in singing event where the Audience is the Choir. $10 fee at the door, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. MaMA, Marbletown MultiArts, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-853-5154, cometomama.org/event/ the-daily-flame-listening-to-the-voiceof-our-inner-wisdom-a-book-talk-withlissa-rankin-md/.

City of Kingston Arts Commission Accepting Nominations for Distinguished Artist Award. Nominees must be Kingston residents for at least two years. Artists in any discipline may be nominated: music, theatre, dance, literary, visual, or media arts. A small stipend will be provided to the awardee and additional funding may be available for a programming budget. Submission forms can be found at kingston-ny.gov/ ArtsCommission and must include a one-page narrative that highlights the nominee’s qualifications. Mexican Mondays (5-9pm). Mexican Cuisine offered: $5 Tacos $6 Margaritas Authentic. Info: 845-679-5763; oriole9. com. Oriole 9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Meeting Notice: Overeaters Anonymous. Meets on Wednesdays, 10-11am at Woodstock Reformed Church on the Village Green. For more info go to midhudsonoa.org. Enter door in back by parking lot.

Sign-up Now! Archery, Karate, Yoga, Dance, Sewing, Chess & Ceramics. Register online 845-246-3744, ext 156. Woodstock Day School, 1430 Glasco Tpke, Saugerties.

Upcoming Events at Mirabai! For details and upcoming events log onto mirabai.com. Mirabai of Woodstock Unique gifts, books & more. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 845-679-2100.

Volunteer Drivers Needed To Transport Cancer Patients to Treatment. The American Cancer Society needs individuals who can volunteer one hour at least once a month to drive a cancer patient to a local cancer center in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ the Falcon: Judith Tulloch Band Brunch. Jazzy, world-pop-fusion. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 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. 11:30am-3:30pm UCSPCA’s 1st “A-cat-emy” Awards. Come visit our cats, then cast a vote in each of our categories to see which kitties come out on top in our first-ever “A-cat-emy” Awards! Info: 845-331-5377; info@ucspca.org. Ulster County SPCA, Kingston. 12pm-4pm 4th annual Black History Month at The Lace Mill Art Exhibit. Features works reflecting African- American culture and history. Info: 347-387-6874; jwcornbroom@gmail.com. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. 12pm-1pm Ashokan Reservoir Trail Hike. Join the Hudson River Maritime Museum and NYC DEP Bureau of Water Supply Director of Public Affairs, Adam Bosch, for a walk-and-talk along. Ashokan Centre, 477 BeaverKill Rd, Olivebridge. Info: 338-0071, info@hrmm.org, hrmm.org. Free. 12pm Food Seminar: A Closer Look at a GlutenFree Diet. With Theresa Zangerle-McArtin Registered Dietitian, Digestive Disease Center. Join us as we take a look at the science behind a gluten-free diet and reveal the good, bad and ugly truths. Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls. 12pm Oncology Support Programs of Health Alliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness, integrative and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer including cancer support groups for women of all ages, young women, men, caregivers, women with ovarian cancer, & people living with metastatic. Info, times and dates: 845-339-2071; oncology.support@hahv. org; hahv.org/service/cancer-support-program. Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. 12:30pm-6pm Voyager Tarot and Psychic Readings with Sarvananda. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/ one hour, $30/30minutes. 1pm-2pm Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point. Become a Citizen Scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor. 1pm Newburgh - Food Seminar: Meatless Mondays. With Richard Bryant, Adams Produce. Learn about and sample various meat alternatives and meat-free meals. Info: 845-569-0303. Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240 Route 300. 1pm Kingston - Food Seminar: Dinner with the Paulsons. With Patrick and Mackey Paulson, Assistant Store Manager and Adams Customer Service.

Info: 845-336-6300. Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine. 1pm Poughkeepsie - Food Seminar: Adams Meats and Where They Come From. With Bob DeWitt, Adams Meat Manager. Learn about where your meat comes from. Info: 845-454-4330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. 1pm Elting Library Scrabble Club Meeting. Scrabble sets and the Official Scrabble Player’s dictionary are provided. This club is intended for adult players 18 or older. Meets every Sunday, 1pm in a study room of the library. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. 1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock. 2pm African American History Month author talk and signing with Andrew Delbanco. Author of THE WAR BEFORE THE WAR: FUGITIVE SLAVES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA’S SOUL FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. In the Henry A. Wallace Center. Free public event but registration is required. fdrlibrary.org. 2pm-4pm Opening Reception: Peter Tongue Photographs. Rosendale Cafe, Main St, Rosendale. 2pm The Chalk Garden. In 1955 Sussex, England, a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager and her precocious and equally eccentric granddaughter are about to meet their match in Miss Madrigal, the enigmatic household companion with secrets, who has just been hired. Tickets: $22/general admission, & $10 students. Info: 800-838-3006. Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Pl, Ghent. GhentPlayhouse.org. 2pm-4pm Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning. Chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@ rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $12 General Admission/$6.00 12 and under. 2pm-3:30pm Dorsky Curator Gallery Talk with Anna Conlan. Collecting Local: Twelve Years of the Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award & totally dedicated Leonard Contino. Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Info: 845-2573844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, bit.ly/2Sj12eB. $5 suggested donation. 3pm Modfest 2020. Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. For a complete list of events, visit vassar.edu/news/ events/2019-2020/200130-Modfest-2020.html. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 3pm Wappinger’s Falls - Food Seminar: The Perfect Pair. With Viscount Liquors and Adams Cheese. Join Viscount and Adams Cheese department for wine and cheese pairings. Info: 845-6329955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls. 3pm Chamber Music from the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4375370, bit.ly/2Nr6BmQ. 3pm-6pm Swing Dance with the Bottoms Up Dixieland Jazz Band. Dance to this popular band with a friendly crowd and great floor! No partner

Oncology Support Programs offered at HealthAlliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer. Info: 845-3392071; oncology.support@hahv.org; hahv. org/service/cancer-support-program. Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. $95 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/ Neuter Mobile Clinic for Cats( call for location and dates). $70 per cat includes spay/ neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed by appointment only; & Low-cost vaccine & dental Clinics available. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Pl, Middletown. Info: 845-343- 1000, tara-spayneuter.org.

needed. Beginner swing dance lesson 3pm. Band starts at 3:30pm. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, hvcd. info/calendar. $15, or $10 for students. 3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/. 3pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Sunday night at 3pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-6798322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. 4pm-6pm Ulster Activists (U-act) February Monthly General Meeting. Held at the New Paltz Community Center on Veterans Drive (off Rte 32). Guest speaker - Carol Reiser, the Ulster County Representative for the US Census Bureau, will speak about the importance of getting an accurate count. The general meeting agenda after will include building coalitions with other activist groups to work on issues such as the 2020 elections, environmental and health care issues as well as voting reform. Free and all are welcome. For more information: info@ulsteractivists.org. 4pm-8pm Sunday Supper. Remember the good old days when the family gathered around the table every Sunday for dinner? Carry on the tradition with Sunday Supper at Woodnotes Grille. Enjoy house made selections ranging from Prime Rib dinner, seasonal roasts, or chicken and dumplings for $21 per person! Call 845-688-2828 for reservations. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. 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, Woodstock. 5:30pm Second Sunday Supper. Meet and greet other members of the community and dine together! Free admission. Held on the second Sunday of each month - September through May. Info: 845-687-9090. Rondout Valley United Methodist Church, 25 Schoonmaker Ln, Stone Ridge.

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presents the avant-jazz Vision Festival annually, and which also presented a separate weekly music series I helped out with. I got to meet countless brilliant musicians like JMc, and also created my own music series in Jersey City for two years. Once in Cold Spring, my neighbor Gwen Laster, who was on the board of Chapel Restoration, asked me if I wanted to present music there. The first artist had to be (and was) Dr. McPhee. I was subsequently invited to join the board, f you are looking for someone to credit or blame during which time I presented any number of boundarypushers: William Parker, Daniel Carter, the late, great Roy for the wild, challenging, blooming garden of Campbell twice, Matthew Shipp, Jason Hwang, Darius sounds rising weekly from the City of Beacon in Jones, Nioka Workman and many others. After moving to recent years, Elysium Furnace Works (EFW) coBeacon in 2012, I started the Change of the Century series founder James Keepnews is the man you’ll want to track the following year, which had people like Joe and Trio X, down. You won’t have a hard time. He takes all comers. Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Bad Touch, Ras Moshe and With his EFW partner Mike Faloon, Keepnews brings a others perform at the lovely Howland Cultural Center. steady stream of visionary ensembles, improvisors, comThat same year, Quinn’s opened, and I was invited to posers and paradigm-bending performers to the banks book musicians there – a long story still being written, of the Hudson. Proximity to ever-hip New York City is a with its early years especially well-captured in my EFW huge plus, of course, but EFW curates with an internapartner Mike Faloon’s epochal scorcher The Other Night at tional eye and exploits the Hudson Valley’s own uncomQuinn’s. I’m very proud of the enormous breadth, quality monly rich community of vanguard talent as well. A creand sheer number of world-class musicians (now well dentialed player/composer and conceptual artist himself, over a thousand) we’ve been able to present at Quinn’s and a second cousin of the preeminent jazz producer Orover the past six-plus years, and most of them have really rin Keepnews (a name oft spoke in my Bill Evans-lovin’ enjoyed the experience – not least the one-of-a-kind vibe childhood home), James is one of the region’s most enerand collaborative spirit there. Quinn’s staff, owners and… getic and least discouraged advocates for some kinds of James Keepnews of Elysium Furnace Works is one of the region’s most energetic and least well, me, regularly exchange deejay duties across any given music that we can’t seem to agree on a name for. Experimental? Sure it is, but what happens when discouraged advocates for some kinds of music night. Before trumpeter Peter Evans and percussionist/ that we can’t seem to agree on a name for. your experiments harden and formalize into their own electronic musician Levy Lorenzo played there last year – recognizable dialects and traditions? Avant-garde? Fine, as avant-garde a musical performance as must have ever occurred in the Hudson Valley – server/musician Bryan people will know what you mean, which is a plus; but the “I COMPLETELY LOVE term is loaded at this late date with unwanted associations Fitzgibbons put ESG on the house system, prompting Levy the Hudson Valley, and this time and behavioral stereotypes, and it will always be linked to exclaim: “This is the greatest place in the world!” Cowe’re living here. For all of its challenges to specific 20th-century movements of transgression and owner Steve “Che Pizaro” Ventura, Bryan Kopchak and and creeping gentrification, it’s inspiring tradition-dumping. James uses “vanguard” casually and myself communicate several times a week to hash out the and a huge oasis of light and sanity, with no particular enthusiasm for the term. Looks pretty upcoming live music schedule, which also includes Craig where all else in the world seems much like a respelling of avant-garde to me, and why do we Chin’s awesome monthly Experimental/Electronic night. dark and insane.” assume that the experimentalists always occupy a forward We continue to have a wide variety of musics performing and oracular position with regard to the future? Seems there, and it’s solid gold well into 2020. more likely to me that the music we are talking about – experimental jazz, modern I completely love the Hudson Valley, and this time we’re living here. For all of its challenges and creeping gentrification, it’s inspiring and a huge oasis of light and classical, Minimalism, noise and on and on – are parallel traditions and alternate histories, evergreen in their function, always there, always ready when you are. sanity, where all else in the world seems dark and insane. Thanks to James, at least. How many venues is EFW currently engaged with? I mean, honestly, if you’ve got As you will see below, Keepnews tires quickly of the act of defining what he likes to listen to, and perhaps bristles that it shouldn't be any more incumbent on him to the Howland, why even look anywhere else? That’s one of the best-sounding rooms justify and name his tastes than someone who’s booking blues bands in a Middletown I’ve ever played; it seems just about the right capacity for what you do, and if the barbecue restaurant. Fair. For years, much of Keepnews’ curatorial work centered on trustees there are on board, that’s just a win. Quinn’s in Beacon: a converted boxcar luncheonette that became the unlikely county seat of the outré and the heavy. But, with EFW and before, he has pressed many We mostly present at the Howland for all the reasons you mention. I’m tremendously spaces into service. The conscious pairing of performer with environment – always grateful for the support I have gotten and continue to receive for Elysium Furnace Works from board members like the tireless Thomas de Villiers and Craig Wolf. But an area of avant-garde concern – is built right into the EFW mission statement: “to we have also produced shows elsewhere in Beacon, including St. Andrew’s Church present the work of vanguard artists in settings as dedicated and uncompromising and Beacon Yoga, directly across the street from the Howland, which is a really as the art itself.” This month, EFW announced a staggering lineup of winter and spring shows. beautiful room for the right musical situation. I have also been in touch with Story All concerts this time around are to take place at the Howland Cultural Center in Screen Beacon about several possible shows there, including music documentaries Beacon: a vintage jewel of a small venue, the acoustical properties of which have and silent films, both featuring live music, and they have been very receptive. made it an ad hoc recording studio for classical ensembles for years. Major score Great as the Howland is, their best arrangement means we only get a cut of the door, for EFW, and for the Howland. The series began last month with a performance by which limits what’s possible there in terms of guarantees if, as generally happens, we are well-short of sellout crowds. I have much more flexibility – and, candidly, James Carney, a fierce modern-jazz talent who, as if posing for the EFW brochure, alternates between meticulously through-composed music and film scores and often considerably larger audiences – across the river with the Jazz at Atlas series agitated, liberated improvisation. Next up on March 7 is an eminence of the avantI run at Atlas Studios in Newburgh with my partner, Triple Point Records owner/ garde, pianist Matthew Shipp, who will perform solo on the Howland’s 19th-century scholar/deejay Ben Young. David Torn has played the Howland as part of the EFW Steinway grand. series, but we could only present, for example, Sun of Goldfinger (DT/Tim Berne/ Ches Smith) at Atlas, as we unforgettably did last year. I’m no less grateful to the On April 4, virtuoso Joseph Daley brings his Tuba Trio to the Howland. On May 16, the noted bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck (Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline) joins fine folks at Atlas Studios for all their outstanding support of challenging music, as forces with keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz, one of the chief architects well. of downtown experimental cool. Finally, on May 30, EFW presents exclusiveOr, a duo featuring the director of the CHIME (Chicago Integrated Media Experimental) As a curator of some experience, how aware/committed are you to defining your Studio at the University of Chicago, laptop artist Sam Pluta, and director of both traditions: jazz, improvisation, modern classical et cetera? Electronic Music and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra at Princeton University, analog synthesist Jeff Snyder. If you think things were weird before. Aware, completely uninterested and thus utterly uncommitted to divisions of any kind in defining musical experience apart from “good” and “bad,” particularly in the It was a good time to catch up with James Keepnews as he catches a breath: case of those generally noncommercial varieties to which you refer. With Pauline Oliveros, with EMPAC at RPI in Troy, with tons of residing locals like But does your work feel ideological to you, and is that part of its appeal? Or would the great Marilyn Crispell, the Hudson Valley is an unlikely seat of experimental music, and you are one of the people who has really been able to tap that, as well as you say you are more just a player/fan sticking up for music you love, which just happens to be music that really could use some advocacy? We are pointing here, I to import kindred talent from all over. suppose, toward the question whether ideology and aesthetic theory attend the avantThere’s an underdiscussed history of boundary-pushing music presentation in garde more than other musical traditions. the Hudson Valley overall – notably, as you suggest, with Pauline Oliveros and her Deep Listening Foundation. Creative Music Studio/Foundation, under the Being “a player/fan sticking up for music (I) love, which just happens to be sage stewardship of Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso, is also legendary, but stopped music that really could use some advocacy” strikes me as being pretty ideological presenting concerts regularly for a while; happily, that’s changed in recent years. by definition; this is my praxis and the change I bloody well want to see in the Joe McPhee, of course, has lived most of his life in Poughkeepsie, although he has world. If “vanguard arts” include (here come the “divisions”) punk and metal, as they certainly do for me, then I’m finally no different than anyone from those scenes who struggled to present his own music or anything else out of the ordinary locally, but memorably has been able to here and there alongside great players like Joe Giardullo. sets up situations for great bands to play, puts up posters and tries to drum up an More recently, there was Matt Luczak’s incredible house concert series My Life in audience for it every time (looking at you, Crazy Dan). DIY ‘til I die, motherfucker. the Bush of Ghosts in New Paltz. Matt basically dedicated his entire living situation My eldest sister, ever the voice of reason, has gently encouraged me to try to to helping make extreme music possible in the region for many years. stop losing so much money presenting uncompromising music, but that does I agree EMPAC does excellent work, but I’ve never been there. I got my MFA from unfortunately seem to go with the territory. Believe me when I tell you I am almost RPI’s iEAR Studios program, and it was such a corrosively toxic experience (with completely broke, but despite everything that’s going on in the Hudson Valley now, occasional bright moments like working with Chris Dobrian early on, and George if I didn’t make these concerts happen, no one else would. My life is infinitely richer for hearing such brilliant artistry regularly. Find me 100 people in the Hudson Lewis when he was artist-in-residence), I’ve never returned to RPI except once to Valley who feel the same way consistently enough to support gigs every time, and perform at the Chapel & Cultural Center. After I graduated, I lived in Peekskill for a few years before moving back downriver I’ll either make the world spin backwards or present artists that sound just like in 2002, ending up in Jersey City and coming back upriver to live in Cold Spring that, making the perceptible differences between the two experiences negligible. in 2010. During those years, I volunteered for Arts for Art, the organization that – John Burdick

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A long goodbye Scorsese overindulges his own mob-movie nostalgia in The Irishman

ith Academy Awards ceremony night closing in this Sunday, I have seen and reviewed two-thirds of the Best Picture nominees, which is a slightly better percentage than most years. Some I missed upon first release and didn’t get around to revisiting, while a couple I had no interest in seeing at all. I put off The Irishman until last, for several reasons. One NETFLIX is its insane 3.5-hour length, of which more anon. Another is Robert DeNiro is a strong and steady presence as a man of painfully divided loyalties, and Scorsese gives the fact that I have a spotty relationship with Martin Scorsese him more than ample time to do the face acting that DeNiro does best, chewing over difficult information films. I loved Hugo, for instance, but detested no movie in as he assimilates it and carefully choosing between unappealing alternatives. the past decade nearly so much as The Wolf of Wall Street. Plus – and this is a big piece of Scorsese’s downside for me – I’ve never really much There are a lot of reasons to believe that Sheeran, late in life, was merely trying to enjoyed Mafia movies. Mostly they depress me. I don’t get why so many people inflate his own reputation. But Scorsese takes the story and runs with it, employing find them thrilling, or why some directors see the subject as a bottomless well to Steven Zaillian, Oscar-winner for Schindler’s List, to turn Brandt’s potboiler into go back to again and again. This is heresy for a film critic to admit, but I didn’t a surprisingly clever and intermittently funny screenplay, and DeNiro to bring a even like Godfather I and II enough to go back and see Godfather III. I thought degree of conflicted humanity to a fundamentally lowlife, emotionally deadened they left out the most interesting subplots of the book – about what life is like for character. women in the Mafia orbit – to make room to ramp up the gore-splattering. The director also gives his production design team free rein to play with period So I’m able to appreciate one aspect in particular of what Scorsese was apparently music, hundreds of locations (mostly shot in Queens) and possibly the ugliest trying to accomplish with The Irishman: In its excessive length, plodding pace and leisure suits ever seen onscreen to evoke the tacky side of America over a period of the matter-of-fact tone of its numerous murder scenes, he seems ready to walk back 50+ years. Frequent use of TV news broadcasts in the background of shots serves his own track record somewhat by depicting the banality of evil, by deromanticizing well enough to ground us in time, with corresponding references in the dialogue the mob. Instead of pulse-pounding car chases through crowded city streets, he to the purported role of the mob in great historical events such as the Kennedy offers us long, meandering drives with lots of pit stops through boring landscapes. assassinations. Our protagonist even has a run-in with E. Howard Hunt in the run It may be the aging director’s version of Prospero drowning his books, abjuring the up to the Bay of Pigs. rough magic that has worked so well for him in the past. Less successful was the decision to use different types of lighting and filters to vary Nonetheless, The Irishman creates the impression of a nostalgic reunion of the tone of the cinematography from decade to decade in an effort to emulate the codgers who made a lot of popular movies about organized crime, together and look of Kodachrome, Ektachrome and so on as technology changed. Not knowing separately, and want to give it one last go-round for old times’ sake. It reportedly going in that this was what Scorsese was trying to do, it simply didn’t hang together for me, visually. Sometimes colors are Day-Glo vivid, sometimes washed-out. Worst took as many as 50 phone calls for the director to coax Joe Pesci out of retirement to co-star in it, as Pennsylvania mob chieftain Russell Bufalino. I’m tempted to say of all, despite accounting for the biggest chunk of the movie’s $159 million pricetag, that his instincts were good, but this would be a much less entertaining film without was the frequent reliance on de-aging CGI effects to make actors in their 70s look Pesci in it. The screen lights up whenever the puckish Russ has something to say as young as 30. Despite the reported intervention of “posture coaches,” in their extensive flashback scenes the leads simply look like old guys from the Uncanny or do, even outshining Robert DeNiro in the lead role of Frank Sheeran. Although he as well as Pesci got a Best Supporting Actor nomination, Al Pacino’s acting is Valley, their wrinkles ironed out as if posing for immortalization in a wax museum. not nearly as strong in the pivotal role of Jimmy Hoffa. I might chalk it up to being Telling Sheeran’s shaggy dog story against a long-unfolding backdrop of 20thoverly distracted by his truly terrible, fake-looking and misaligned hairpiece, but I century American history, using a long-form narrative approach, might have been a found Pacino’s scenery-chewing evocation of the irascible Teamsters boss excessive. noble artistic experiment on the auteur’s part if he could have restrained himself to DeNiro is a strong and steady presence, for sure, as a man of painfully divided two, even two-and-a-half hours of running time. Eschewing the thriller approach to a movie about organized crime shouldn’t have required that the product be a buttloyalties, and Scorsese gives him more than ample time to do the face acting that DeNiro does best, chewing over difficult information as he assimilates it and numbing ordeal. As it stands, The Irishman strays into the unforgivable realm of carefully choosing between unappealing alternatives. His character is derived dullness, especially in its final third. Whether it successfully clears up the mystery from a much-disputed “nonfiction” book by Charles Brandt titled I Heard You Paint or not, the setup to Hoffa’s disappearance just takes too. Damn. Long. Houses, which takes at face value the claims of truck-driver-turned-thug Frank – Frances Marion Platt Sheeran that he was the one who killed not only Jimmy Hoffa, but also Joey Gallo.

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, SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK CHARMING TOTALLY UPDATED MOVE-IN READY 4-bedroom 2 bath, 2533 sq. ft, Victorian Style home in the heart of the Village of Saugerties. Enter the foyer where you are greeted with architectural archways. This house offers ornate and decorative features such as wainscoting, crown molding, original decorative tin ceilings along with original stained-glass windows. Modern updates include a new boiler, upgraded electric and natural gas. There is a large fully finished 3rd floor den with plenty of extra storage. This extra room can be used for a bedroom, playroom, or family room. This house has a full basement along with a detached one car garage. Conveniently located, only a few steps away from shops, offices, restaurants, sports complex, and schools. Listing by Eliana Amodio....................................................................$319,000

60 W. MARKET ST, RED HOOK, NEW YORK French design bursts from this Second Empire home, a true masterpiece from the Victorian era. A warm vestibule greets with antique tile finishes & massive, bold, double French doors. Rooms are nicely accented with stepped crown moldings & antique marble fireplaces. The bright & airy kitchen is flooded with Cherry cabinets, stainless appliances, double ovens & Soapstone counters offer modernized comfort. Half bath on the first floor is plumbed for a full bath and is now the second laundry room, two 2nd floor baths have been completely renovated in recent years boasting sleek subway tile, walk-in shower in the master and a tub/shower in the hall. The park-like yard offers a blue stone laced Lanai & private pool. Listing by Greg Berardi ...............................................$595,000

COXSACKIE, NEW YORK Great opportunity to open your own “Turn-Key” Veterinary practice! Maple Ridge Veterinary is a successful practice which was established in 2007. Currently operated solely by current owner, it has excellent visibility and easy access to Coxsackie and Athens. The 1,622 square foot building sits on 3.9 acres set back from road. It boasts a Reception area and waiting area at the entrance. There are three exam rooms (one of which is being used as an ofﬁce), an X-ray room, operating room, photo lab, medical lab, and a holding room for the animals as well as a break area and two half baths. This practice is waiting expansion. Listing by Blanca Aponte. ......................... $625,000

SHOKAN, NEW YORK These Commercial properties, located in the town of Olive, consist of two buildings both with long-term leases. The Log Home is situated in the back and the Chalet home sits in front. These 2 buildings have many possibilities. Major traffic area located right off State Route 28. Large parking lots included. Close by Ashokan Reservoir, Skiing, Schools and local Shopping. Town of Woodstock just 12 miles away. Listing by Cindy VanSteenburg and Amanda VanSteenburg. ........................................ $549,000

SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK NEW REN This perfect one-bedroom TAL !! apartment is located just steps away from many fabulous restaurants, boutiques, and galleries. The owner provides heat, hot water, trash removal, lawn care, and snow removal. Easy ﬁrst ﬂoor living with one off street parking space. Located in a quaint little community of apartments offering a spacious lawn and patio area perfect for outdoor barbecues, or just a place to relax and read a book. Coin operated laundry is on site just a few steps away from your front door! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to be a part of all that Saugerties has to offer. Listing by Gabrielle Edwards...................... $1,000 month

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Saugerties: 2-Bedroom, first floor, full bath. Quiet location, good neighborhood, off-street parking, coin laundry, garbage pick-up, water, sewer included. Locked mailboxes. Absolutely NO pets, no smoking. $1000/month plus utilities. 845-246-3320.

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GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you. Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 90 Dug Hill Rd., Hurley, NY. 914-388-9286

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Highland: 3-BR/2 bath Farmhouse to SHARE w/2 other mature working adults already living there. Pets welcome. 6 mi. South of NP University. *Food, cleaning and laundry service available. $900/month. Monthly including utilities. 631-848-2001.

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BOTTOM LINE... HIGHEST PRICES PAID For old furniture through the 1960s & ANTIQUES of every description: Paintings, Lamps, Silver, Rugs, Pottery, China, Asian items, etc. One item-Entire Estates. Housecalls. Free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques. 35+ years in business. Call/text 845389-7286.

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SPORT OF IRON FITNESS- A Culture of Strength. NOW OFFERING $35/MONTH OPEN GYM. *State of the Art Strength Training Equipment* *Powerlifting, Strongman, Olympic Lifting Equipped* *9000 sq.ft. facility including 1400 sq.ft. of turf. Group Training Sessions - Registered Dietician - Youth Programs - Personal Training. 120 State Route 28, Kingston. Call Today 845-853-8189.

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

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BLAIR COLLECTIBLES is your trusted local BUYER of old COINS, Paper Money, Jewelry (and other Gold & Silver items), Marbles & Toys, Pocket Watches, etc. Most small size collectibles. 50+ YEARS EXPERIENCE serving satisfied clients! 845-2544717/blaircol4@aol.com PHOENICIA ARTS & ANTIQUES, 41 Main St.,Phoenicia, 845-688-0021. FridayMonday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Jewelry, art gallery, clothing, blown glass, honey, mid-century and antiques. *Jessica Rice*; Beautiful Images Hair Salon, 123 Boices Lane, Kingston. Hair- 845383-1852; www.beautifulimageshairsalon. com Makeup- 845-309-6860; www.jessicamitzi.com 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.

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HOUSE CLEANING for a tidy sum. 845658-2073.

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Located in the heart of the Catskills this 4 bedroom home has much to offer. Sitting on almost 10 acres there are additional building sites and a separate 2 bedroom cottage/rental. Also included is a barn and workshop building. Couldn’t ask for more! Call Brenda Graf, Lic. R E Salesperson, for details, 845-389-7061.

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AN AREA EVERYONE WANTS AND EVERYONE LOVES Convenient, comfortable open spaces, sunny ambiance, private rear deck with private hot tub situated on almost two acres on a quiet, coveted cul-de-sac just moments from New Paltz. The kitchen is warmed by radiant floors and has SGD to rear deck. The two bedrooms on main level share a bath and the two bedrooms on the second floor each have their own full bath making this a great home for someone who wants three bathrooms. Workshop and 2 car garage on lower level make it convenient to store your vehicles and enjoy your hobbies. DON’T WAIT! .................................. $425,000

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English handyman, mature, friendly, experienced, reliable, educated. Painting, woodwork, repairs, etc. Also maintenance, management and pre-sale consultation. Quick response 917-364-2157 HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavat-

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IMPECCABLE! - Distinctive owner built country home nestled on 3 quiet acres offers abundant indoor & outdoor living opportunities in a truly turn-key package. The tri-level design features 3 BRs incl. ensuite MBR w/ luxe spa bath, cozy fireplaces in LR & family rooms, gourmet kitchen, fab home theater, radiant heat throughout, breezy screened porch and open air decking with outdoor fireplace and soothing waterfall............................................. $699,000

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JUST MOVE IN! - This recently renovated 2-story on a pretty acre has been smartly updated. Main floor rehab includes NEW wood floors, NEW kitchen cabinets and countertops, full tiled bath and upgraded electric. Upstairs you’ll find 2 generous bedrooms, a laundry area and another full bath. The airy and open floor plan makes entertaining easy and there’s a shed for extra storage. Five star Airbnb rated. HURRY! ........................................... $185,000

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HEART OF WOODSTOCK! - Almost 3000 SF of superbly versatile Hamlet Commercial space with stone patio, garden & 10 approved parking spaces just steps from the town center!! Huge windows draw you into soaring space with beamed cathedral ceiling and wood floor, separate office area and two half baths. Serene 2nd floor loft space with full bath has separate entrance. Perfect for retail, studio, event venue, office and MORE! RARE FIND! .............................. $899,000

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LUXURY LOG - Amazing 37 acre estate parcel with multi-peak mountain views, streams & spring-fed swim POND w/ beach. The “lodge chic” residence features soaring beamed ceilings, massive stone fireplace, main level ensuite MBR + 4 BRs, 3 full & 2 half baths, gorgeous hardwood floors, 2 large lofts, 26’ family/media room, breezy screened porch, bluestone patio, central AC & pristine landscape. .................................... $1,190,000

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Gorgeous 4 BR 2 full bath home on just under a half an acre. Featuring hardwood floors, the living room opening to the dining area which is open to the kitchen complete with granite countertops new black/stainless steel appliances center island with beautiful dark wood cabinetry & recessed lighting. 1st floor master bedroom en-suite with large walk-in closet complete with full bath with double sinks and a tub/shower combo. Downstairs on the lower level thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a finished additional space which could be used as an office, media room, or gym. Out back through the sliders off the kitchen is the multi tiered deck. Private backyard oasis offers an oversized solar heated above ground pool, outdoor wet bar, with a built-in gas barbecue in addition to the outside fireplace and a gazebo complete with a hot tub! Visit the Open House this Sunday! Call for directions & more details! $369,900

FABULOUS LAKE KATRINE MOTHER / DAUGHTER T The main part of this lovely ranch has 3 large BRs, s, refinished oak hardwood floors, and an expansive ve living room with wood burning fireplace. The dining g room and kitchen have a semi-open layout, and there e are newer high end appliances in the kitchen with h wood cabinets. First floor laundry separates the main n house to the access apartment which is currently open to the main house for your in-laws or your grown up/boomerang kids to have their own space but still be part of the family experience. The access apartment has a separate entrance with wheel chair ramp for great accessibility. The screened back porch opens to a spacious back yard complete wiith aboveground pool plus a generator hookup! Too much to list, call for more details! $339,900

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Looking for a solidly built, stately, historic home with modern amenities? Look no further than this unique, solid brick, Greek Revival style Colonial farmhouse in Saugerties! 2700 square feet of usable space, all with abundant light. Featuring a formal living room with ofďŹ ce, formal dining room with open concept country kitchen, four bedrooms and two full baths and large bonus room with woodstove and deck. This gracious home is truly move-in ready! This one-of-kind property is convenient to everything and everywhere. 10 minute drive each to Woodstock, Kingston, and Village of Saugerties. Quick access to NYS Thruway Kingston or Saugerties exit. 2 hours from NYC. Come and experience this unique property. The possibilities are endless .........................................................................$325,000

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If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dreaming of escaping to your own private hideaway in the woods this rare and modern two-bedroom, 2.5 bath could be just the property youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been searching for. Truly one of a kind, this unique home is nestled on 16 secluded acres and is just two hours from New York City. Set over three levels, there are open-plan living areas to enjoy with large windows that allow natural light to ďŹ ll the room. This idyllic home is the epitome of peaceful living, located at the end of a long driveway off a private road. Cooper Lake and Wilson State Park are both only minutes away and are renowned for quality ďŹ shing and hiking, perfect for those who love the outdoors. The center of Woodstock is less than a 15-minute drive away..................$585,000

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Clea, petite tuxedo mama cat, under 2-yrs. old, gave birth to 4 glorious kittens on 12/2/19. When the kittens are 9-weeks old theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready to go to their forever homes. Would you like yours to be one of them? If yes, please contact 917-282-2018 (text or phone). Please leave full name, phone number w/area code & any questions you have about the adoptions, or email DRJLPK@ aol.com w/full name & any questions you have about the adoption. Who is available for adoption? Mama CLEA, MIDNIGHT, the only boy, is all black, GERRI; tuxedo kitten girl, MONDAY; gray tabby kitten girl w/ snowy white feet & RANDI; gray tabby kitten girl. This family is in Shokan.

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T Tucked away on a 10 acre parcel in Bright Acres s sits this 3322 +/- square foot contemporary - sun d drenched is an understatement! Very functional fi first floor offering many unique features - Big Bright, modern kitchen with indoor grill, inviting living room, sun room, oversized windows everywhere with wood burning fireplace. Master bedroom suite has the luxury of years gone by spacious master closets, jetted tub! 3 additional bedrooms and bathroom, 3rd floor conservatory for star gazing or watching a storm come in! Exterior is understated, bluestone walkways, patio and decking, beautifully wooded perfect for walks, peace and quiet. All this attached to oversized 2 car garage. $549,000

Featuring beautiful original woodwork & hardwood floors, 3 BRs, each with a walk-in closet, and 2 full baths. Charming kitchen with wood cabinets, granite counter tops and walkin pantry. Living room opens to the enclosed, heated front porch, offering more living space. The basement has great finished space which is heated and has lots of shelves for storage. Skylights in the kitchen and baths let the natural light in The current owner has lovingly maintained this home over the past 35 years. A few other improvements a new owner will appreciate include vinyl replacement windows, central AC, blown-in insulation, automatic generator and B-Dry system. The partially fenced yard, with a covered patio and sweet shed, is the perfect place to relax or play! $252,500

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Look whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being cared for at Saugerties Animal Shelter! We have such loving adult cats & kittens just waiting to become part of your family. SMOKEY; 8-year old tiger cat boy, very handsome & so sweet. His sister, KELLY, medium hair calico, is also so sweet. Their Dad passed away & their Mom is leaving to live w/her children in another state. How wonderful it would be to give Smokey & Kelly a loving home together! ZAHAB; 3-yr. old buff orange neutered cat boy & super affectionate. PAULOWNIA; affectionate black kitten girl, 10-11 months old. LITTLE GIRL; petite black female cat girl, 7-years old & super sweet. She lived in the streets but now wants the easy life. How happy sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be in a safe, loving home! BOB is a Pixie Bob. Bob is a very big brown tiger boy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as sweet as he is big! Bob needs lots of room & maybe daily walks on a harness. MISHU; 10-year old orange medium hair kitty. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been at the shelter the longest of all the animals. Mishu needs to be the only pet. That means Mishu would love only you! Remember: two kittens arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t twice as much fun as one kitten; they are 10 times the fun! Also- Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll

always have each other as company. AndYouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll receive twice the love! If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in adopting a kitten, this is a perfect time to meet the adorable, lively kittens at Saugerties Animal Shelter. Kitten season is almost all year long!! We have lots of young & teenage kittens. Teenage kittens are between 10-14 months old. That time-frame can vary as each kitten is an individual. These are the DOGS at Saugerties Animal Shelter. Please come meet them and see who could be your new love. MOLLY; super sweet 7-year old Pittie Lab girl, spayed & good w/larger dogs but no cats, please. Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tail never stops wagging! LILY; sweet, shy, 4-yr. old Pittie mix girl who is tan & white brindle & needs a quiet home. CHARLOTTE; Brindle Pittie mix girl who loves people. Children will enjoy growing up w/Charlotte. Charlotte needs to be your only pet. COURTESY POSTING: ROCKY; very sweet Sheltie/Border Collie mix boy. Rocky can be found at Ulster County Canines where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available for adoption. Saugerties Animal Shelter; located at 1765 Route 212 Saugerties, NY 12477 (behind the Saugerties Transfer Station). (Closed Sunday & Monday). 845-679-0339.

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