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Hudson Valley Rail Trail in Highland to host WinterFest on Saturday

The 16th annual Hudson Valley Rail Trail WinterFest takes place on Saturday, February 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. under the Highland Rotary Pavilion at the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot, located at 101 New Paltz Road in Highland. Admission costs $3 for adults, and children age 6 and under get in free. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Rail Trail’s upkeep.

Activities will include crafting in the children’s “Build a Project” tent, tractordrawn wagon rides on the Rail Trail, woodcarving demonstrations by Newburgh’s Chainsaw Bear and the popular “Best of Fest” chili contest.

Visitors are invited to vote for their favorite chili, including vegetarian options, out of the many varieties available from 22 local restaurants. There will be roasted chestnuts, toasted marshmallows at a bonfire and hot drinks and food for sale at the Rail Trail Grille.

The event takes place rain, snow or shine. For info, call (845) 691-2066, e-mail info@hudsonvalleyrailtrail.com or visit www.hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net.

Clearwater’s Kingston Home Port hosts Open Boat Day this Sunday Every year the 106-foot-long Clearwater, replica of the majestic sailing

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Kelly Reeves and Tim Kosteczko at a previous WinterFest in Highland

vessels that once traveled the Hudson, hosts wintertime Open Boat Days, when the public is invited in to enjoy each other’s company over a potluck supper, listen to live acoustic music and check out the work being done to the vessel to prepare it for the upcoming sailing season. The next Open Boat Day will be held on Sunday, February 9 from 2 to 6 p.m. at Kingston Home Port and Education Center, located at the Hudson River Maritime Museum at 50 Rondout Landing in Kingston.

The event is free to attend, although donations to support the upkeep of the Clearwater are always welcome. Attendees are asked to bring a potluck dish that will feed a minimum of six people. The crew and staff of the Hudson River Maritime Museum will be available to speak with

at the event.

The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater’s mission is to preserve and protect the Hudson River with an emphasis on providing innovative environmental programs, advocacy and celebrations designed to inspire, educate and activate the next generation of environmental leaders. For more information, call (845) 265-8080 or visit www.clearwater.org.

Top legal expert Martha Minow to lecture at Vassar College Human rights and advocacy law expert Martha Minow will speak on Tuesday, February 11 at 5:30 p.m. in the Villard Room of Vassar College’s

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Main Building. Her lecture, “Law and Forgiveness,” addresses what place forgiveness has – and should have – in a formal legal system. Minow will explore whether certain kinds of individuals, certain kinds of offenses or certain moments in history warrant forgiveness more than others.

An expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children and persons with disabilities, Minow also writes and teaches about privatization, military justice and ethnic and religious conflict. She served on the Independent International Commission in Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co-existence, a program of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. In August 2009, president Barack Obama nominated Minow to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, a bi-partisan, government-sponsored organization that provides civil legal assistance to lowincome Americans.

She’s the current dean of Harvard Law School, was Barack Obama’s mentor and has been shortlisted for the Supreme Court. Her father is former FCC chair Newton Minow, the man who famously dubbed television a “vast wasteland” in 1961 and told JFK that communications satellites were going to be way more important than putting a man in space.

This event is free and open to the public.

Vassar is located at 124 Raymond Ave. in Poughkeepsie. For information, call (845) 437-5370 or visit www.vassar.edu.

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In addition to three days of music at the Winter Hoot, find local food and beer, a community farmers’ market, guided hikes and blacksmith classes, an Environmental Fair, crafts and much more

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Mike + Ruthy (on cover and above)

You say you want a revolution Revel in the folk paradox at this weekend’s Winter Hoot at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge

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ong before Elvis’ hips, Hendrix’s flaming Strat anthems and whatever other oft-cited popculture paradigm shifts you cite often, folk music was the genuine voice and vehicle of revolution, an underground news service and a rallying cry.

With its well-worn populist forms, folk lends itself to narrative, to the transmission of cultural currents and the safekeeping of experiences and traditions that might otherwise be trampled and forgotten. Folk’s revolutionary calling in the 20th century was paradoxical: the daring to question the inevitability of progress and its hard-sell assumptions of universal betterment. Folk is radical in its critique, reactionary in its prescriptions.

Unlike in pop and rock, change within the mainstream folk music tradition itself does not typically happen via revolution and overthrow. The new generation does not oust the last, which must then sit in social limbo until it comes ripe for retro revival. The old folks come along, as do the grandkids. Change does happen, but more through family accretion and a creeping assimilation of the new – one often met with caution and reserve. Preservation and resistance are enmeshed in the mission of folk music, giving it a rhythm of change somewhat out of sync with the rest of the pop culture.

The second annual Winter Hoot at the Ashokan Center offers up a focused and thoughtfully curated lineup of new folk luminaries and Catskill stalwarts, most with local connections and national credentials. The Hoot’s organizers, the Americana duo Mike + Ruthy, have crafted this roster with a kind of cultural perfect pitch, balancing tradition and innovation in a way that expresses folk

and roots music’s complex and somewhat counterintuitive relationship with tradition and change.

Often in folk, the way forward is back, and this is its chief difference from its cousin, the country music genre. When 21st-century country music kids want to hip up and relevate, they gate the snares, crank the amps and explore the judicious use of the vocoder and jingoistic rapping, aiming for the now and finally arriving, after much study, to the early 1990s.

But in folk, young acts often explore new ground by reaching further into the past for “fresh” – meaning older, weirder and less familiar – source materials, icons and identities.

And you end up with more delicious folk paradox. Consider Mike + Ruthy themselves, whose whispery close harmonies are deployed atop all manner of folk, blues and jangle pop settings. At this stage of their career, they are closer to the old guard than to New Wave; but in their sound, they come off like the progressives and the fusionists, the assimilators and pop conspirators of this scene – whereas some of the younger acts on the bill seem to have arrived straight from the hills via time machine or Alan Lomax’s field mics.

The Hoot’s three days give us Mike + Ruthy as well as their progenitor, Jay Ungar, and Molly Mason; music for kids

by Grammy-nominated Elizabeth Mitchell and music by kids, the ubiquitous kids of Paul Green’s Rock Academy; winking, stylized roots rummaging by Brooklyn’s

the Sweetback Sisters; and the earnest, earthy acoustic folk of the young men in North Carolina’s Deep Chatham.

In addition to three days of music, find local food and beer, a community farmers’ market, guided hikes and blacksmith classes (provided by Ashokan Center environmental educators), an Environmental Fair, crafts and much more.

The event is a fundraiser for the Ashokan Center’s Environmental Education programs for regional schools.

Proceeds help kids attend programs in nature, history, music and art. The Hoot is only in its second season, but it is heir to the lasting legacy of Catskill roots music and to the folk music tradition of activism, community and resistance.

– John Burdick

Folk is radical in its critique, reactionary in its prescriptions

Winter Hoot, February 7-9, $45, kids 12 & under/volunteers free, onsite lodging available, Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge; www. homeofthehoot.com.

Toot sweet Clarinetist Moran Katz fronts Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra this Saturday in Rhinebeck

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restigious or no, you’ve got to have a sense of humor when one of the top awards that you’ve won in your young music career is the Ima Hogg

Competition hosted each year by the Houston Symphony, which happened last summer to 28-year-old Moran Katz.

Bad enough that a lot of people probably assume, since she’s Israeli and plays the clarinet, that she’s a klezmer musician rather than a formidable up-and-coming classical player. To make the right impression, it might be more effective for Katz to drop the name of maestro Daniel Barenboim, who invited her in 2010 to join his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for a concert in Doha, Qatar.

She may not be a household name as yet, but Katz performs extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, including a concert at Vassar College last September with the cutting-edge ensemble Decoda. She’ll be returning to the Hudson Valley to solo with the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra (NDSO) this Saturday, February 8 at the Rhinebeck High School Auditorium.

Katz will demonstrate her chops on Carl Maria von Weber’s innovative Clarinet Concerto No. 1, Op. 73, composed in 1811.

Also on the program will be Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Kathleen Beckmann will conduct.

Ticket prices for the NDSO concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $5 for students.

To order or for more information, call (845) 635-0877 or visit www.ndsorchestra.org.

– Frances Marion Platt Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra concert featuring clarinetist Moran Katz, Saturday, February 8, 7:30 p.m., $20/$15/$5, Rhinebeck High School Auditorium, 45 North Park Road, Rhinebeck; (845) 635-0877, www.ndsorchestra.org.

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ibo Matto’s 1996 major-label debut, Viva! La Woman, established the group as leading players on the front line of alt/rock and electropop fusion. And whether they are aware of it, popular indie synth/ pop acts of the moment such as Haim, Grimes and Chvrches owe much to the inimitably idiosyncratic duo of Miho Hatori on vocals and Yuka C. Honda on keyboards and sampler.

The pair of Japanese expats met in New York in the ‘90s. Their quirky, musically eventful recordings quickly earned them the adoration and collaboration of the downtown avant-garde scene of John Zorn, John Lurie and Mark Ribot and the like.

While their style can be described variously – experimental synth confections, world-sourced art collage, girl pop – nothing quite expresses the piquant, crosscultural otherworldliness that makes Cibo Matto great. What is clear, however, is that they haven’t lost a single iota of their verve and imagination. 2014’s Hotel Valentine (Chimera) – Cibo Matto’s first release in eight years – crackles with monster grooves, vivid sound design and lyrics as smart, fun and inscrutable as ever. The album was self-produced over the course of two years and features guest spots from Nels Cline, Glenn Kotche, Mauro Refosco (of Atoms for Peace), Reggie Watts and others. It makes you want to dance in ways that your body has never moved before. Be careful: We’re not so young anymore.

Cibo Matto is back on the road again, too, and where else but BSP would they show up locally, not long after their pal and occasional bassist Sean Lennon performed there with Ghost of a Saber-Tooth Tiger? Cibo Matto brings it to BSP in Kingston on Sunday, February 9 at 8 p.m., with Salt Cathedra opening.

Admission to the show is restricted to age 18+.

Tickets cost $15 in advance, $20 on the day of the show and are available locally at Outdated: an Antique Café in Kingston, Jack’s Rhythms in New Paltz, Darkside Records & Gallery in Poughkeepsie and the Woodstock Music Shop in Woodstock. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 481-5158 or visit www.bspkingston.com.

– John Burdick

Steely Dan hates my hometown ... And other Hudson Valley popular music references

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hen I was in the ninth grade, I saw the Dropkick Murphys in concert at the Chance in Poughkeepsie.

The frontman for one of the openers yelled out, “You know what rhymes with Poughkeepsie? Whiskey!” and trundled into a rollicking faux-Irish rock song. It was fun at the time, but upon further review, ‘Poughkeepsie’ only kind of rhymes with ‘whiskey,’ and it was the only time in which I felt that musicians gave a hoot about the Hudson Valley – which is why my mind was summarily blown when my Mom told me that Steely Dan had written a young man’s manifesto, in song, about the bizarre circumstances of attending a small college in a Podunk town in the Hudson Valley.

“My Old School,” one of Steely Dan’s biggest hits, takes place in Annandaleon-Hudson, the hamlet of Red Hook that contains Bard College. In it, Steely Dan headman Donald Fagen details a drug raid at Bard supposedly spearheaded, at least in part, by G. Gordon Liddy, former FBI bureau chief, assistant to

the Watergate scandal and self-help guru. Through it all, Fagen had to deal with a non-enrolled girlfriend who was also sacked in the raid, but who didn’t get the eventual benefit of Bard bailing the students caught up in it; her rich Dad had to do it instead. It’s Fagen who

See the Purdie shuffle Fabled drummer to play the Falcon in Marlboro this Saturday

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aster drummer Bernard Purdie has become almost as famous for his legendarily high-spirited instructional videos as for his 3,000 album credits, which may or may not have included some ghost drumming for the Beatles. (According to Purdie’s own oftdisputed claim, he played on “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and 20 other early tracks). There is no such controversy surrounding his contributions to records by Aretha Franklin, B. B. King, Steely Dan, James Brown, the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Isaac Hayes, Tom Jones and countless other names that make you go “Whoa!”

Further, Purdie is one of a very select group of drummers or musicians of any kind who can claim to have a staple rock groove named after them: the Purdie shuffle, a half-time feel of such internal action and complexity that the instructional video devoted to it amounts to little more than a laughing Purdie saying, “Don’t worry; you can’t really play this.” The Purdie shuffle has driven a number of big hits, including John Bonham’s memorable pass at it on the Led Zeppelin hit “Fool in the Rain,” Jeff Porcaro’s adaptation on Toto’s “Rosanna” and Purdie himself elevating the late Steely Dan hit “Babylon Sisters.”

Big score for the Falcon: One of the most significant and delightful drummers in history, Bernard Purdie (and Friends) visits Marlboro on Saturday, February 8. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7. Per usual in Tony Falco’s hallowed hall of jazz, blues, funk and soul, there is no cover – just the owner’s inspired call to “support living artists” with generous donation.

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

– John Burdick

swears that he’s never going back to his “old school,” referenced also in the song as “William and Mary,” because Bard had the nickname of “the William and Mary of the North.”

There is also speculation that Steely Dan’s classic “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number” is a reference to Rikki Ducornet, the Bard-educated writer and eventual Academy of Arts and Letters awardwinner, to whom Fagen supposedly gave his phone number in spite of the fact that she was pregnant and married at the time.

That ol’ dog.

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Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher Feb. 8, 4:00 p.m. Free

Jumping forward 30-odd years, Pusha T sneaks a reference to Ichabod Crane into his guest spot on Kanye West’s “Runaway,” off his 2010 megaalbum My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, though printing the lyrics in exactitude would surely get me blacklisted entirely from the local journalism community.

Pusha isn’t the only hip-hop high-up to sneak some Hudson Valley flavor into his tracks. Currently broken-up rap duo Das Racist manage to pop off plenty of nods to the 845 in their tracks. In “Nutmeg,”

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Alex Peh Piano Recital “Embraceable You” Feb. 11, 8:00 p.m.

Julien J. Studley Theatre Tickets $8, $6, $3 at the door

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Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, Still from Priapus Agonistes, 2013

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Greg Dinger Guitar Recital

Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos

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Buried Child, by Sam Shepard Feb. 27, 28, Mar. 1, 6, 7, 8 at 8:00 p.m.

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The Poné Ensemble for New Music 40th Anniversary Concert Feb. 25, 8:00 p.m.

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Melissa Ferrick at Rosendale CafĂŠ

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merican alt/country singer/songwriter Melissa Ferrick makes a stop at the Rosendale CafĂŠ on Saturday, February 8 at 8 p.m.

Ferrick rose to prominence when, championed by Morrissey, she was signed to Atlantic Records, where she released two albums before eventually forming her own label.

Admission costs $20. The Rosendale CafĂŠ is located at 434 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, visit www.rosendalecafe.com or call (845) 658-9048.

the group’s rambling trip-hop manifesto, they rhyme “Checks from Bard College, cashed at a Pay-o-Matic.� It’s a bit of a cold shoulder, though: Das Racist had a locally infamous Bard College show during which they performed almost no music, goofed around on stage and generally did not give the people what they wanted.

Fun fact: Das Racist has a habit of

telling those who ask that they’re from Bard, even though both bandmembers attended Wesleyan. “Naw, we went to Wesleyan. We sometimes lie and say we went to Bard or Sarah Lawrence or Vassar or some other liberal arts college ‘cause they’re all interchangeable,� they told Stay Thirsty Magazine in October 2009. Bard College may not know it, but they are in a genuine rap feud.

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he much-decorated, “jazz-ish� local singer/songwriter Rebecca Martin will return to her adopted hometown of Kingston on Wednesday, February 12 to perform with bassist Larry Grenadier in a fundraiser concert benefiting the coed Scouting group, 91st Sojourners.

Martin’s newest release with Grenadier, Twain, was named by National Public Radio as one of the 15 best “jazz-ish� albums of 2013. Martin and Grenadier’s performance will help raise funds for camp equipment and member scholarships for the 91st Sojourners, a coed, inclusive and traditional Scouting group.

The performance will be held at Kingston’s Outdated CafÊ from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. Tickets cost $25 each or two for $40. Outdated: an Antique CafÊ is located at 314 Wall Street in Kingston.

Himanshu, one third of Das Racist, let off a reference to another Hudson Valley educational institution on the recently released winter remix of Vampire Weekend’s “Step� off 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City. “Yeah, we went to Wesleyan and she scoffed at Vassar/I met her at a wine and cheese, I looked right past her,� he rhymes. The guy needs to lighten up about Hudson Valley schools.

Apparently, Poughkeepsie is an easy word to rhyme, because it shows up in songs by rappers Action Bronson, Willie the Kid, Joe Budden and the rap group A Tribe Called Quest (though only in passing); the inimitable Ghostface Killah raps “Scotty Wotty copped it to me, big microphone hippie/Hit Poughkeepsie crispy chicken verbs throw up a stone richie,� on his track “Nutmeg.� That’s right: Two notable rap tracks called “Nutmeg� reference the Valley – although it’s very possible that Ghostface just needed a three-syllable rhyme for “hippie.�

Westchester too is repped heavily in the rap world, getting namechecked by Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Pitbull and our greatest local product the Beastie Boys, who performed their first show recorded on film at Bard, and where Beastie’s member Adam “Ad-Rock� dropped out after two years of attendance.

It comes down to Bard, once more, for my final reference, which is safely out of the realm of hip-hop barring a remix: “Subterranean Homesick Blues,� Bob Dylan’s classic homage to Beat culture, touches on nearly everything that you could have touched on in the ‘60s, and veiled references abound throughout. The final and arguably most identifiable lyric of the song, “The pump don’t work because the vandals took the handles,� is potentially a reference to a Bard College symbol that was once used as a rally-

ing cry.

There are two schools of thought when it comes to the final verse of “Subterranean�: There’s the academic school that postulates that the lyric is a reference to Robert Browning’s poem “Up at a Villa – Down in the City,� which has a stanza that shares a rhyme scheme and overall theme with the verse, and there’s a Bard school of thought that holds more personal ties to the song. In the early ‘90s, Bard College had the opportunity to purchase much of its surrounding land from Historic Hudson Valley, the preservation-minded ownership group that had control over most of the land in the little Red Hook hamlet. Here’s an excerpt from a 1992 article by The New York Times’ Anthony DePalma on the subject: “Alumni mailed brochures and made phone calls. They also printed buttons showing a white gazebo that stands on the village green, with the words “The Pump Don’t Work; Help Buy Annandale� printed on top of the button – invoking a Bard legend. Inside the gazebo, preserved as lovingly as a Revolutionary War relic, is an old-fashioned pump with its handle missing. Bard students say it was the inspiration for a line in the Bob Dylan song ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’: ‘The pump don’t work ‘cause the vandals took the handles.’�

Mr. Dylan could not be reached for comment. – Quinn O’Callaghan

Bardavon to host guitar greats Isbin, Jordan & Lubambo on Friday In my Bach-loving childhood home, the names of the great non-Segovian classical guitarists were oft-heard and well-known: Julian Bream, Christopher Parkening, John Williams (not the composer) and – later, but by no means lesser – the great Sharon Isbin.

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Bad Brains’ HR to play BSP in Kingston BSP keeps the steady stream of Outsider rock royalty coming with a performance by HR on Friday, February 7. HR (Human Rights) is the legendary frontman of the Bad Brains, who were formed in Washington, DC in 1978. They quickly became one of the most exciting bands in the hardcore punk genre and are considered one of the best live bands in the world.

Though Bad Brains were known for their high-energy shows, this show will present a mellower side of HR as he reaches back to his dub/reggae influences with a new band called the Dubb Agents.

Rhinebeck’s own dub-heavy Bombmob will open.

The show starts at 9 p.m., and admission is restricted to 18+. Tickets cost $15. The BSP Lounge is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 481-5158 or visit www.bspkingston.com.

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Chris Washburne & the SYSTOS band

La Catrinot Quartet in Kingston this Sunday

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Sweet gig Chris Washburne & SYOTOS to play Bard’s Fisher Center on Valentine’s Day

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ven for a Valentine’s Day special concert, don’t expect something unchallenging or conventionally crowdpleasing at Bard. It’s a different crowd. On Friday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m., the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS jazz band, a long-running New York City institution that renders Latin jazz as 20th-century chamber music, exploring advanced harmony, polyrhythm and adventurous ensemble counterpoint in ways that you might fail to notice due to the unfailingly burning grooves. In a concession to lovers on their special day, Washburne and SYOTOS will be joined on this date by vocalist Claudette Sierra.

SYOTOS’ name is an acronym for “See you on the other side.” It refers to a time in 1992 when Washburne was diagnosed with severe nerve cancer and told that he had only a 50/50 chance of surviving an operation, but no chance whatsoever of playing the trombone again. He insisted that before going into the hospital he play one more gig. After the show, he turned to his bandmates and said, “See you on the other side.” Washburne survived the operation, but was left with severe nerve loss and damage to one side of his face. Proving the experts wrong, he managed to remaster his instrument.

The concert takes place at the Fisher Center’s Theater Two. Tickets cost $20 and are available at the Fisher Center box office at http://fishercenter.bard.edu or by calling (845) 758-7900.

– John Burdick

founder of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard School of Music made her name with a recording of Bach’s complete lute suites. Her next few recordings took her through that other hallowed ground for nylon-string guitarists, Spanish and Latin American composers such as Rodrigo and Jobim. Her first attempts at crossing over or, at any rate, departing from repertoire, came early: 1997’s Journey to the Amazon, a collaboration with jazz/New Age saxophonist Paul Winter and percussionist/composer Thiago de Mello.

Now Isbin headlines the staunchly nonpurist Guitar Passions, a tour of multigenre guitar virtuosity co-headlined by jazz and fusion master Stanley Jordan and Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo.

Jordan is most known for the novelty of the technique that he rode to his initial fame: a two-hand-tapping, guitar-askeyboard approach that, in its subtlety and capacity for counterpoint, made the ilk of Eddie look like cave painters. Like Bobby McFerrin, with whom Jordan has toured extensively, the freakish novelty of his approach unfairly colored the assessment of his work; but he has long since ridden that out. 2011’s release Friends is an excellent session by any standard, and it remains boggling how much music this one player accounts for.

Romero Lubambo, who left Rio de Janeiro for the US in 1985, fuses the styles and rhythms of his native Brazil with American jazz traditions in his distinctive, luminescent nylon-string playing. Lumbabo may be best-known for his contributions to Yo-Yo Ma’s album Appassionato.

Guitar Passions makes a stop at the Bardavon Theater on Friday, February 7 at 8 p.m. The program features works by composers such as Joaquín Rodrigo, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Isaac Albeñiz, Gentil Montaña, Quique Sinesi, Ariel Ramírez and Alfredo Vianna. Tickets

for Guitar Passions cost $60 for Gold Circle seating, $45 general admission, $40 for Bardavon members and $20 for students. They are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston; or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www. ticketmaster.com.

– John Burdick

The 46th annual Ulster Chamber Music Series kicked off on Sunday, January 26 with the Brazilian Guitar Quartet. If you missed it, despair not. On Sunday, February 9, La Catrina Quartet performs a unique blend of Latin American and conventional repertoire. On Sunday March 23, the Bohemian Quartet performs, emphasizing music of the Romany or “Gypsy” tradition and related Eastern European folk styles.

All concerts start at 3 p.m. and happen at the Church of the Holy Cross at 30 Pine Grove Avenue in Kingston.

Tickets cost $25 for adults and $20 for seniors; those under 18 are admitted free. To order, call (845) 340-9434 or Barcone’s Music at (845) 331-6089.

For more information, visit www. ulsterchambermusicseries.org.

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Back in Woodstock, Landy drove around looking for the right landscape and couldn’t find it – until he was hanging out in the living room of the house that Helm and Danko were sharing and looked out the window. There it was: a bare field backed by a mountain.

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The Band, Music From Big Pink album photograph, Bearsville, Woodstock, NY, 1968

If your memory serves you well Elliott Landy crowdsources funding to print book of photos of the Band

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n his photographs of famous rock musicians and the Woodstock Festival, Elliott Landy created some of the most iconic images of the 1960s. Dylan tipping his hat down at us from beneath a breezy blue sky on the cover of Nashville Skyline and the stark black-and-white portrait of the holloweyed, hirsute Band members, hands jammed into pockets against the wintry cold, on the sepia cover of the album simply titled The Band inspired a whole generation with an alternative vision. It was a vision of life that was more spontaneous, less materialistic, unhitched from the corporate juggernaut and rooted in nature and folk traditions (what happened to that vision is another subject).

That was a long time ago, and the Woodstock-based photographer has since moved on, pursuing other subjects, the most recent of which is his wife Linda, whom he met when both were in their 50s, 15 years ago. She wrote a wry, confessional text to his intimate, erotic shots brought together in a book, Love at Sixty, which they are attempting to get published.

He has published six books, including Woodstock: The Spirit of a Generation, has created an interactive, customizable music video system that he’s currently marketing and is committed to his “spiritual energy work,” as he calls it. Yet Landy, who resides in a rambling, rusticstyle home in the woods and works out of a two-story converted garage, believes that there’s still more grist to the mill when it comes to his most famous work.

As the exclusive photographer of the Band during the height of their popularity, Landy took 8,000 photographs, only a

fraction of which have been published.

Frustrated with his failed attempts to get a publisher interested in a quality coffee-table book of a portion of that work, Landy is finally realizing his dream, thanks to crowdsourcing. On December 15, he launched a Kickstarter campaign and in five days met his goal of $65,000.

Four weeks into the six-week campaign, he had raised $129,000. It’s the second-mostfunded photography project in Kickstarter’s history, according to Landy. “It’s fabulous and unbelievable. Now a few publishers are approaching me,” he said.

The 128-to-144-page book, valued at $75, will also be sold in a deluxe edition with a slipcase, accompanied by an eightby-ten signed print of the Band. That’s one of the incentives for donating at the higher levels. The highest donation of $10,000 comes with lunch and a visit to his studio; so far, the highest amount that has been donated is $3,000. There have been a lot of $1, $5 and $10 contributions, for which he’s equally grateful, he said.

The initial printing order will be for 1,500 copies.

“I never lost my love for what I did in the beginning of my photographic career,” remarked Landy, sitting in his studio one recent overcast morning. “Just like you always love your children, it was the same with that body of work. Those guys were really beautiful to photograph because they were so harmonious. They knew who they were, and they didn’t want to suck up to anybody.”

Landy discovered photography after he graduated from City College, when he was still living with his parents in the Bronx.

His inspiration was simply “to share a

Ed Sanders once said, ‘The ‘60s ended beautiful moment,” as he put it, which came to him one day when he was walking when rent went up.’” down the street on the Upper West Side One night in 1967, as he was walking and admiring the façade of the Ansonia home from work with friends, he passed Hotel. He took a a marquee reading class in darkroom “Country Joe and techniques at the Fish Light Show.” Not knowing the Camera Club who they were, he of New York, followed by a class went in. “We were at the New School. hit by a barrage of Bored with his job color and sound. I in the Garment went up front with District, he lucked my camera and out with a trip to started to shoot.”

Scandinavia after The conditions bumping into a were challenging, but Landy had the Danish film crew technical chops, who liked him thanks to having and his pictures worked as the and invited him to be their official darkroom assistant photographer. to photographer When he Lawrence Shustak.

“It was very low returned to the US seven months light. Back then l a t e r, Landy the lenses and film were slower, so it photographed was technically p e a c e ELLIOTT LANDY | LANDYVISION INC. hard, but I knew demonstrators The Band, at the pond behind “Big Pink,” what to do,” he said. as a personal West Saugerties, NY, 1968 protest against the He sold one Vietnam War. “I of the color photos went to Associated of Country Joe to Press and the big magazines, but nobody the magazine Escapade. The next week was interested in these pictures. So I he shot Big Brother and the Holding started to work with the New York Free Company and sold more pictures. But Press and became photo editor of the shooting rock musicians was never about underground magazine The Rat, in the the money, he said. Rather, it was an East Village. They’d pay for the film and invitation to a movement. “Rock ‘n’ roll the processing. My rent was $85 a month. was part of an underground culture. It was

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The Band’s Robbie Robertson & Levon Helm rehearsing in Rick Danko’s Zena Road home, Woodstock, 1969

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The Band at Richard & Garth’s house above the Ashokan Resevoir, Woodstock, 1969

about changing the way you live, smoking grass, being free and not spending your life in bondage.”

Albert Grossman, Janis Joplin’s manager, approached Landy one night at a concert and asked if wanted to photograph a new group, which didn’t yet have a name, that weekend at a recording studio in the City. The group was the Band, and although Robbie Robertson said that the photographs that Landy subsequently took “weren’ t exactly what he was looking for, he saw I was a good photographer.”

He was invited to take a picture of the group and their next of kin in Canada for their upcoming album cover.

(All the members except Levon Helm were Canadian.) “Everyone was rejecting their families, but the guys in the Band were saying, ‘We don’t hate our parents. They helped us.’” He shot them at a farm outside Toronto, and then came to Woodstock to photograph just the band members, who were experimenting in their home studio in the basement of the building that gave the album Music from Big Pink its name.

It was Easter Sunday of 1968.

The first shots were of the band sitting

on a bench with their backs to the camera.

It wasn’t quite what they wanted, so Landy came back for a second shoot, which also wasn’t quite right. When he returned for the third shoot, he had some definite ideas. “I’d gotten to know them, and they were all very earthy people with rural backgrounds, a little old-fashioned. They wanted to espouse tradition. By chance I had a book of Matthew Brady photographs from the Civil War. It was a style that suited them.”

Back in Woodstock, he drove around looking for the right landscape and couldn’t find it – until he was hanging out in the living room of the house that Helm and Danko were sharing and looked out the window. There it was: a bare field backed by a mountain.

Although Landy usually just allowed things to happen, in this case he provided some instructions. “In the 1860s the camera was unusual, and everyone paid attention when they were photographed and posed very formally. I said to them, ‘Stand up straight, face the camera and honor the fact you’re being photographed.’

I set my exposure for a very slow shutter speed,” and the famous shot that graced

“Everyone was rejecting their families, but the guys in the Band were saying, ‘We don’t hate our parents.

They helped us.’”

the album cover was accomplished.

One day Landy got a call from a freelance journalist that Bob Dylan, who also lived in Woodstock, needed a photograph for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. (Dylan’s privilege in providing the photograph to the magazine was evidence of his “unusual control,” according to Landy.) Landy, who was still living in the City, “drove up to Woodstock, got very friendly with Bob, went back to the City, developed the pictures, came back the next week and went over them with him.

I did maybe two or three shoots. He’d say, ‘Take some pictures of me and my family.’”

They were in black-and-white, which Landy preferred: “I only use color when the color itself is important, because many times it distracts from the form,” he said.

However, color was required for the magazine cover. The familiar image of Dylan sitting on the bumper of his car with his guitar, backlit by vivid red foliage, was the result of Landy’s experiments with infrared film. “A year later Dylan called up and said he just got back from Nashville, and could I come over so he could play me his album. He had an acetate of the Nashville skyline, which he planned to use on the front of the album. He needed a pic for the back.” Landy did the shoot, and when the two viewed the results, the acetate skyline idea was discarded.

Landy and the musicians always chose the images, which he said was a factor in their success. “It was me and the Band and me and Dylan who decided on the good ones,” he said. “Most times, the commercial interests don’t choose the best ones.”

His photos were helping attract attention to Woodstock, and one of the people who started coming up was Michael Lang (Landy himself bought a house in the area in 1968, eventually moving up full-time). Lang asked him to photograph the festival that he was planning, and took him out to the site in Wallkill where it was initially planned.

The deal was sealed “without even a handshake, “ Landy said.

He soon tired of photographing rock musicians. “I got into some battles with Capital Records and didn’t like the business aspect. No one cared about me personally. The labels didn’t care, and were using my pictures without permission and not returning them. One time I found myself thinking about what the art director wanted while I was taking the picture. A second time I was thinking about how to sell the photo. Those two things disconnected me from the reason I photograph, which is to show a loving experience. I couldn’t deal with it, because photography is a very pure thing. It was

never about earning money.”

He opened a gallery in Woodstock, which became a spiritual bookstore after he discovered “spiritual metaphysical books,” and started living with a woman.

“When my wife had a baby, I found my inspiration again. For the next eight years I photographed the mother and child.”

Eager to get out of the US, especially after Nixon was elected, Landy and his wife went to Europe, arriving in Paris with $22 and a year-old infant. He’d been doing Super 8 movies that were synched to an audio soundtrack, and thought that he’d be able to land a contract for his “video records.” But he was ahead of his time.

For the next seven years the family, which soon included a second child, bounced around Europe, hitchhiking, scraping by with sales of Landy’s photographs and living for a time in a bus with the 44 seats removed. “It was the most magical time of my life,” Landy recalled. The European media became enchanted by this American hippie photographer traveling with his family in a bus, which helped with sales.

But money was always tight, the children needed to go to school and after a while “my wife couldn’t do it anymore,” so they returned to Woodstock, where Landy took local pictures published in the Woodstock Times and eventually rustled up some interest in his ‘60s work after contacting foreign photo agencies.

Throughout all the changes, he never departed from his basic philosophy: to do what he loved. “I don’t do jobs and I don’t pursue earning money. Generally I only photograph when I’m inspired,” he said.

Invisible benevolent forces have played a role in shaping his path through life, he suggested. “Dylan’s name is an anagram of my name. Linda’s name – which was originally spelled Lynda when she was born, before her mother changed it to the conventional spelling – is also an anagram of my name. I like the cosmic connection of it.”

– Lynn Woods

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“Portrayals of Women” show opens this Saturday at WAAM The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) kicks off its 2014 exhibition season this Saturday, February 8 with a series of solo and group gallery opening receptions and the launch of its big new Towbin Museum Wing show through early June, “Her Many Facets: Portrayals of Women from the Permanent Collection.”

Could the president have known that this was coming when he got our Congress on its feet clapping for our nation’s need to bring women up to par on all levels this year? Or that those Wikipedia revisions from last weekend have taken effect already?

Highlighting “the feminine subject as artist, activist, lover, mother, legend and more,” this new well-curated show features portraits of women from childhood to old age by men as well as women, with works

by Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Rosalie Berkowitz, Konrad Cramer, Lily Ente, Eugenie Gershoy, Wendell Jones, Leon Kroll, Doris Lee, Russell Lee, Sally Michel Avery, Barbara Neustadt, Caroline Speare Rohland, Andrée Ruellan, Madeline Shiff, Amy Small, Eugene Speicher, John Striebel, Harriet Tannin, Edna Thurber, James Baare Turnbull, Eva WatsonSchütze and others. At the center of it all is a newly acquired oil, Lucile Blanch’s SelfPortrait from 1922. But then, everything feels like a subtle masterpiece here.

The opening reception runs from 4 to 6 p.m.; future public events will be announced in conjunction with the exhibit.

– Paul Smart “Her Many Facets: Portrayals of Women from the Permanent Collection” opening, Saturday, February 8, 4-6 p.m., through June 8, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock; (845) 679-2940, www.woodstockart.org.

Mary Reid Kelley, Eugene Speicher & “1980s Style” at Dorsky The Dorsky Museum at SUNY-New Paltz will host an opening reception on Saturday, February 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. for three exhibitions: “Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos,” on view through April 13; “Along His Own Lines: Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher,” on view through July 13; and “1980s Style: Image and Design in the Museum Collection,” on view through July 13. The museum will close for spring break from Saturday, March 15 through Tuesday, March 25.

Kelley’s video art fuses techniques of live performance and animation in a conversation with history. New York painter Eugene Speicher (1883-1962) was one of the foremost American Realists of

his generation, closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll and Rockwell Kent. “1980s Style” includes prints, photographs and jewelry from the collection of the Dorsky Museum that exemplify the stark geometries and vibrant colors of the decade.

The Dorsky Museum is located on the campus of SUNY-New Paltz at 1 Hawk Drive (75 South Manheim Boulevard for GPS) in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 257-3844 or visit www.newpaltz. edu/museum.

Sean Hemingway lectures on ancient Greek bronzes at Vassar Sean Hemingway, curator of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York City, will give a talk about ancient Greek bronze sculptures on Thursday, February 13 at 5 p.m. in Taylor Hall, Room 203, at Vassar College at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie. The event is sponsored by the school’s Department of Greek and Roman Studies.

Hemingway’s talk, “Ancient Greek Bronzes: From the Essence of Form to Hellenistic Realism,” will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

In addition to his position with the MMA, Hemingway is also the author of The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period and co-author of Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. In 2009, Hemingway oversaw the editing of a restored edition of A Moveable Feast, the celebrated memoir by his grandfather Ernest Hemingway. For more information, call (845) 437-5370 Monday through Friday or visit www.vassar.edu

Group show opens at Imogen Holloway Gallery in Saugerties The Imogen Holloway Gallery will present “From the Vault,” a group show of works from previous exhibits in the gallery this month, featuring works by artists Matthew Magee, Henrietta Mantooth, Kari Gorden, Jack Davidson, Heather Hutchison, Douglas Culhane, Joy Taylor, Garry Nichols, Gene Benson, Brian Lynch, Meg Lipke, Robert Petersen, Charles Geiger, Bernie Reitemeyer, Keiko Sono, Pier Wright and Christina Tenaglia. The show opens during Saugerties First Friday festivities this Friday, February 7 with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at 81 Partition Street in the village of Saugerties.

The exhibit will remain on view through Sunday, March 16, with winter gallery hours Saturday and Sundays from 12 noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment. For

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more information, visit www.ihgallery. com, e-mail diane@ihgallery.com or call (347) 387-3212.

Tivoli Artists’ Co-Op’s Erotica Show opens this Saturday The annual Erotica Show by the Tivoli Artists’ Co-Op at the Tivoli Artists Gallery at 60 Broadway features art in a variety of media by 15 local Hudson Valley-based artists. An opening reception and fundraising party with dancing by Ayleeza will be held on Saturday, February 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. Attendees must be over age 18. Festive attire and cross-dressing are invited. The cost is $10 at the door. The exhibit will remain on view through Sunday, March 2. For more information, call (845) 757-2667 or visit www.tivoliartistsgallery.com.

Bardavon screens Dvorák’s Rusalka this Saturday The Bardavon will continue the 2013/14 season of The Met: Live in HD on Saturday, February 8 at 1 p.m. with Dvorák’s Rusalka starring Renee Fleming. In her first Live in HD performance, Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the lovelorn mermaid Rusalka, in Dvorák’s sumptuously melodic opera by the same name.

A pre-show talk will be held at 12:30 p.m. offering ticketholders an insightful talk on the production at the Bardavon led

by Leslie Gerber, music teacher at Marist’s Center for Lifetime Studies and author of all Hudson Valley Philharmonic playbill liner notes.

Tickets cost $26 for adults, $24 for Bardavon members and $19 for children age 12 and under. Tickets are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster. com. The next Live in HD screening will be Prince Igor (Borodin) on Saturday, March 1 at UPAC. For more information, visit www.bardavon.org.

Stranger in the Attic reading rescheduled John Kedzie Jacobs’s upcoming appearance at Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz has been rescheduled to take place on Friday, March 14 at 7 p.m. The Clintondale native will read from The Stranger in the Attic, a memoir based on the letters of his brother Edward Deyo Jacobs, a gifted young artist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War in 1938. Admis-

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Vassar Brothers in Poughkeepsie to offer free mammograms A “Love Yourself Mammogram” event will be held on Wednesday, February 12 at the Vassar Brothers Medical Center at 45 Reade Place in Poughkeepsie. Screening is open to women over age 40 without insurance or under age 40 at high risk for breast cancer, and free to those with no insurance. Those with insurance will also be accepted and insurance will be billed. Call to register at (845) 483-6264 or visit www.facebook.com/ myhealthquest.

Old Dutch Church in Kingston to premiere Natalie Merchant documentary Shelter In Shelter, a short documentary film directed by musician/activist Natalie Merchant, a group of women living in the mid-Hudson region of New York State respond to the crisis of domestic violence in their community with compassion and creativity. Merchant is joined onstage by singers Amy Helm, Simi Stone, Elizabeth Mitchell and Yungchen Lhamo, along with the Kalmia String Quartet. Joining in were advocates, criminal prosecutors, victims and survivors, who all took to the stage on June 2, 2013 at Bard College, with proceeds donated to two local domestic violence shelters: the Washbourne House of Ulster County and Grace Smith House in Dutchess County.

Now the premiere screening of Shelter will be held on Friday, February 14 at 9:30 a.m. at the Old Dutch Church at 272 Wall Street in Kingston, kicking off this year’s One Billion Rising events in the area.

Join Natalie Merchant in viewing the film, followed by a panel discussion on the positive changes that have occurred as a result of One Billion Rising. Admission is free, but space is limited.

For more information, call Beth at Hale Advisors at (845) 383-1361 or visit the event page on Facebook at Hudson Valley Rising.

The Anchor in Kingston hosts O+ Festival kickoff concert next Friday The O+ Festival will kick off this year’s search for submissions from artists and musicians on Friday, February 14 at 8 p.m. at the Anchor, located at 744 Broadway in Kingston.

Join the O+ folks and musicians Simi Stone, And the Kids and the Old Double E for a night of music, games and a silent auction to herald the call for artists and musicians to be part of the 2014 O+ Festival, a three-day, community-run celebration of music, arts and wellness.

O+ supports and unites local businesses, residents, artists, musicians, doctors and other care providers to strengthen the fabric of the community and make it stronger, more sustainable and vibrant.

For more information, visit www. opositivefestival.org.

Bard to award Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism The Keith Haring Foundation has established a five-year grant of $80,000 per year to the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. The Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism is a cross-disciplinary an-

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arina Abramovic has been a cultural force to reckon with for decades; she hit the national consciousness nine years ago with a series of long-form performance art pieces on consecutive nights at the Guggenheim, then solidified her position as a key player when the Museum of Modern Art in New York put on a two-and-a-half-month retrospective of her work that drew large crowds and much public debate.

Remember all that talk about having to enter a show through two naked women, only to hold staring contests with the artist herself? That was Abramovic and “The Artist Is Present” – as was the much-seen HBO documentary of the same name, and an increasingly public role being played by the Serbian-born artist in collaborative works with the likes of Lady Gaga and Jay-Z. Now she’s about to become a major force in the Hudson Valley as well, as she puts her considerable talents, energy and smarts toward the transformation of a former theater and tennis center in the middle of Hudson into the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), dedicated to that much-misunderstood medium known as performance art and, more importantly, Abramovic’s own focus on lengthy durational performance (six hours and longer).

“Long durational works explore how both the performer and audience experience time, often by stretching out or slowing down actions commonly performed quickly or never scrutinized at all,” is how the artist describes what she does. “By taking long periods of time to perform, every single moment of a work may become individualized.

Through this radical change of perception and perspective, both performer and audience may effectively step outside of time, allowing both to consider the most profound and universal questions.”

In addition to her art-world works, Abramovic is increasingly known for applying her methodology to other areas where creative solution-searching is needed.

So why our region, and Hudson in particular? The artist believes that bigger cities are too distracting, and that there’s a rich history here “of slow and measured appreciation for nature and the arts.” Plus there’s access by train, and a burgeoning

nual visiting fellowship for a scholar, activist or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard.

The fellowship will bring a distinguished leader in the field to Bard to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture. The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism will be delivered annually at Bard College and will be published and widely distributed among universities and colleges internationally.

The fellowship is an appropriate tribute to the life and work of Keith Haring, whose contributions to the visual arts and to human rights activism cannot be separated. Just as his playful and sometimes controversial work injected political questions about HIV/AIDS and gay identity into a generally complacent art world, so his activism helped mainstream advocacy organizations

understand the AIDS crisis as a broad human rights issue rather than the problem of a specific community. It is this complicated engagement between human rights and the arts that the two Bard programs seek to honor and to emulate in the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism.

The Keith Haring Fellow will be selected through a nomination and review process to be overseen by Tom

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mini-urban feel about Hudson.

Design for the Institute is by world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas; the finished space will look like a postmodern intervention into a neo-Georgian early-20th-century municipal building. Think cutouts, glass, a mix of cold and warm elements – all geared toward new ways of observing performance in two directions.

The price for it all? Twenty million dollars are the ballpark, which at first had everyone tsking and umphing until Abramovic raised several hundred thousand via several weeks of crowdsourcing last summer. And now everyone’s realizing that this is happening on a scale that adds another international jewel into the cultural landscape already dotted with the likes of Dia:Beacon, and Mass MoCA. Things are expected to speed up shortly for a planned opening in early 2016.

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Eccles, executive director of CCS Bard; Paul O’Neill, director of the CCS Bard graduate program; and Thomas Keenan, director of the Bard College Human Rights Project.

Bard College will begin seeking nominations and accepting applications for the Keith Haring Fellowship beginning in February, and the first fellow will be announced in spring 2014.

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Based on an award-winning biography by Claire Tomalin, and directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, this is a tale of the middle-aged Charles Dickens’ 13-year affair with the actress Nelly Ternan, a woman 27 years his junior

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Help, help, I’m being repressed The Invisible Woman keeps a decorous lid on Charles Dickens’ hidden love affair

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with the actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), a woman 27 years his junior, will please fans of historical costume drama but probably put action-movie fans to sleep – at least, until the runaway lovers get tossed about in a rather scary train wreck near the end of the movie.

Nonetheless, for art-house audiences, The Invisible Woman has a lot going for it: a little-known story about a 19thcentury literary superstar, a fabulously talented cast, outstanding art direction and gorgeous cinematography. There’s a tableau of a tense crowd at a horserace,

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silhouetted against a wide sky and a fair pavilion topped with flapping banners, that will stick in my head for a long time. The film got nominated for a Best Costume Design Oscar, and for good reason: Tiny details of gentility-goneshabby, like a worn-out pair of fine gloves on the hands of a working actress, disclose volumes about the socioeconomic divide in Victorian times that was such an important theme in Dickens’ writings.

With a screenplay by Abi Morgan, the film’s biggest problem is that it seems underwritten and a tad excessively tasteful. The tale is framed in flashback; and in the opening sequence, in which an older, married Nelly stomps briskly along a beach long after Dickens’ death, recalling to mind the unfolding of her relationship with the already-famous author, it’s unclear whether she’s as angry as she looks, or just tired of repressing the lurid details of her past. We never really find out, because altogether too much of this story is told in smoldering looks. A bit

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This goes double in the scenes of Dickens’ and Ternan’s agonizingly long and decorous courtship. It’s plain from the way that Fiennes gazes at the 18-year-old youngest daughter of his old actress friend Kitty Ternan (Kristin Scott Thomas) that the ebullient author is irrevocably smitten; but it’s far less clear how she feels about him, beyond starstruck. In fact, it’s the ardor of Nelly’s appreciation for Dickens’ writing that grabs his notice, as much as her youthful beauty. And she seems to thrive under the warmth of that attention like a frost-wilted plant whisked into the balmy clime of a Victorian solarium.

That the two are soulmates on a collision course to have a torrid clandestine affair seems inevitable. Having grown up in a theatre family, Nelly Ternan probably wouldn’t have been totally sheltered in spite of the sexual repressiveness of the times. And her own mother is practicalminded enough to see that Nelly, the least talented of her daughters onstage, faces a more auspicious financial future as the kept woman of a Great Man who’s too public a figure to get a divorce. So it comes as something of a shock when Nelly goes a little ballistic with offended sensibilities when she’s introduced to Caroline Graves (Game of Thrones star Michelle Fairley, all cleaned up from the Red Wedding), the live-in mistress of Dickens’ close friend and sometime collaborator Wilkie Collins (Tom Hollander), author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

It makes little sense at this point that she didn’t see which way the wind was blowing. Her subsequent quick turnaround and acceptance of Dickens’ courtship – especially after she witnesses how he humiliates his wife Catherine (Joanna Scanlan) by making her handdeliver a piece of jewelry that he bought for Nelly, and that was delivered to Catherine in error – seems equally inexplicable.

Considering that this is a film about someone renowned for his use of words, it seems almost mulishly contrary for the screenwriter and director to have invested so much of the narrative in showing rather than telling, and it doesn’t always work.

It’s almost as if they felt the need to be as “Victorian” as the Victorians allegedly were (and probably weren’t, entirely).

Decorous in every sense of the word, this is a movie where, when people finally do have sex, they do it silently, with nearly all their clothes on, and show passion primarily in the form of flushed cheeks.

To be fair, the fine actors involved in this production do their level best within the constraints of the overly lean script.

Fiennes brings Dickens vividly to life as both a bon vivant and a humanitarian, who simultaneously revels in and suffers under the weight of his public acclaim. And Jones handles her sometimes-inexplicable pressure-cooker of a character well. But we almost want to root more for Scanlan as Dickens’ dignified, long-suffering wife.

Though she regards Charles’ writings as mere popular entertainment that pays the bills, she has grown fat popping out ten children for him before being discarded in favor of a younger, prettier woman who understands the artist’s soul in a way that Catherine simply cannot. She may be a Philistine, but we feel her pain nonetheless.

The Invisible Woman ostensibly tells the story of this long-hidden romance from the woman’s point of view, but in the long run it’s the female lead about whom we come out feeling like we know the least.

As an exercise in depicting one of the heroes of the English literary pantheon as a flesh-and-blood man with relatable strengths and weaknesses, it’s far more of a cinematic success.

– Frances Marion Platt

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Making things even sweeter is the fact that this event is a benefit for the tireless efforts of Family of Woodstock, Inc. to aid Ulster County families in crisis – specifically, its Adolescent Service Programs

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Chocolate Lovers’ Brunch in Saugerties with John Medeski this Sunday benefits Family

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alentine’s Day is nearly upon us: an annual reminder that, even at times when the romance quotient in your life isn’t such stuff as dreams are made on, there’s always chocolate as a fallback. As everybody has doubtless heard by now, chocolate and cacao beans contain small amounts of the organic compound called phenylethylamine or PEA, which also happens to be one of those happy neurotransmitters secreted by the human body when we’re in love.

If you’re lucky, someone you know loves you enough to give you chocolate in February. But there’s nothing wrong with being proactive: going out and getting some of your own. You needn’t even wait to find out if a heart-shaped box is coming your way on the 14th, because the Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern in Saugerties will be hosting its third annual Chocolate Lovers’ Brunch this Sunday, February 9. Making things even sweeter is the fact that the event is a benefit for the tireless efforts of Family of Woodstock, Inc. to aid Ulster County families in crisis – specifically, its Adolescent Service Programs, which provide temporary housing, mental health support, substance abuse counseling and assistance in life skill development for local youth.

Diamond Mills’ executive chef Giuseppe Napoli, a Culinary Institute of America grad, will be preparing the decadent chocolate-inspired brunch. As of presstime the menu hadn’t been unveiled, but among the offerings last year were cannoli pancakes, smoked salmon frittata

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and chocolate-dipped applewood bacon, accompanied by the requisite mimosa or Bloody Mary. To complement the venue’s view of Esopus Falls, a sophisticated ambiance will be supplied by none other than the great avant-garde jazz/funk keyboardist John Medeski.

The event runs from 12 noon to 3 p.m., culminating with a live auction hosted

by James Cox of the James Cox Gallery.

Even if you’re not planning to attend, you can jump into the auction action right now by visiting www.myminiauction. com/familyofwoodstock to place your bids online. There you can also read full descriptions of the enticing goodies that are being auctioned off, which range from store gift certificates and baskets to a week in a bayfront house on Cape Cod that sleeps up to 11 people. Other selections include a private winery tour and tasting at Whitecliff Vineyard, a Kaatsbaan show-and-dinner package, basketball and Broadway tickets, pizza and cakedecorating parties for kids, photo prints

by Elliott Landy and Dion Ogust, Tonner dolls, a lobster-and-clambake package from Gadaleto’s and lots more.

Tickets for the Chocolate Lovers’ Brunch cost $60 per person and are available at www.nycharities.org/events/eventlevels. aspx?etid=6879. Call (845) 331-7080, extension 155, for more information.

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BEST-KNOWN FOR HIS HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL BOOK of essays A Sand County Almanac (1949), Aldo Leopold fundamentally changed the way America approaches wilderness conservation: from an orientation of keeping public lands well-stocked with wildlife for the enjoyment of sport hunters to one of “ecocentrism,” in which wild lands, wild creatures and the web of nature are recognized as having their own intrinsic value, independent of human use. the US on over 1,000 routes. Here you can learn about the colorful history of the “vertical hikers” of the Shawangunk cliffs, including the evolution of the “clean climbing” movement.

Whereas in the first half of the 20th century it was considered normal and acceptable for climbers to hammer bits of hardware into cracks in the rock and leave

Thompson will discuss Leopold’s influence on Preserve naturalist Dan Smiley and share notes from Smiley’s personal copy of Sand County Almanac

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(Bio)diversity of diversions Free “Secrets of the Shawangunks” lecture series kicks off this Thursday at SUNY-New Paltz with Aldo Leopold documentary; rock climbers, owls & snakes to follow

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The theme of this year’s series of four Thursday-evening lectures is “Secrets of the Shawangunks.” It kicks off this week, February 6, with a 7 p.m. screening

of Green Fire, an award-winning documentary film about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Bestknown for his highly influential book of essays A Sand County Almanac (1949), Leopold fundamentally changed the way America approaches wilderness conservation: from an orientation of keeping public lands well-stocked with wildlife for the enjoyment of sport hunters to one of “ecocentrism,” in which wild lands, wild creatures and the web of nature are recognized as having their own intrinsic value, independent of human use.

By the 1930s, Leopold was the nation’s foremost expert on wildlife management.

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He developed the first comprehensive management plan for the Grand Canyon; wrote the US Forest Service’s first game and fish handbook; proposed the first national wilderness area in the Forest Service system, the Gila Wilderness Area; and instigated the return of bears, wolves and mountain lions to public lands. He’s also remembered as co-founder, in 1935, of the Wilderness Society.

Following the film, John Thompson, the Mohonk Preserve’s director of Conservation Science, will discuss Leopold’s influence on longtime Preserve naturalist Dan Smiley and the Mohonk land ethic. He will share notes from Smiley’s personal copy of Sand County Almanac.

The series continues on Thursday, February 13, when John Thompson returns, joined by Mohonk Preserve research associate and climber Joe Bridges, PhD, to present “Climbing and Conservation in the Gunks.” It’s no big news that the Shawangunk Ridge is a world-class rock-climbing Mecca, offering some of the best climbing in

them there permanently, it was largely here in the Gunks that a new, less invasive climbing ethic took hold, in the spirit of the “leave no trace” approach to camping and mountaineering pioneered by National Outdoor Leadership School founder Paul Petzoldt. The speakers will bring their history lesson up to the present with news of the successful partnership between climbers and conservation scientists to help protect peregrine falcons on the Ridge.

If you’re enraptured with raptors, you’ll definitely want to follow up this falcon talk with the lecture on “Northern Saw-whet Owls – Eastern Migration.” This February 20 program will feature Dr. Glenn A. Proudfoot, visiting scholar at Vassar College and Mohonk Preserve research associate, who has been studying birds of prey for nearly 40 years. He will discuss current research into migratory pathways of the Northern saw-whet owl, and the efficacy and limitations of bird-banding as a tool for studying migration patterns.

Less familiar in these parts than the common great horned owl, and the barred owl with its unmistakable “Who cooks for you?” cry, the tiny, nocturnal saw-whet is easily overlooked as it hides amongst the dense branches of evergreens. But a determined male saw-whet owl can keep up its shrill, piercing, one-note “tooting” call for hours upon end. With its disproportionately huge, flat face, catlike yellow eyes and fluffy body that’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the saw-whet just about defines owlish cuteness – so long as you’re not a deer mouse, its primary prey.

The Secrets of the Shawangunks series ends with a lecture on Thursday, February 27 by Ed McGowan, PhD, director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission’s Science and Trailside Museums and Zoo, on a subject that won’t seem quite so secret to anyone who spends a considerable amount of time hiking on the Ridge: “Snakes in the Shawangunks.” From the familiar Eastern garter snake to the iconic timber rattlesnake – a threatened species more often heard than seen – the Gunks are home to many slithery species.

You’ve probably seen Northern water snakes swimming in the “sky lakes,” and one or more of the ubiquitous black rat snakes nesting in a hollow tree at a trail junction en route to the top of Bonticou Crag. Except for the rattlers and the occasional Northern copperhead, all are quite harmless to humans.

Field naturalists have begun to unravel the surprisingly complex social lives of snakes. In this lecture you’ll learn about our local species and their secret lives, garnered from long-term observational studies along the Ridge. Though they can move quite fast when startled, the

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February 6, 2014

NIGHT SKY

What’s up this weekend?

Check out these dazzlers on upcoming cold, clear nights

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e are still in our annual cloudy season. Only one night in three is clear around here this month. Still, if you keep looking up, the stars eventually come out. This weekend would be a good time.

Let’s assume that, like most people, you don’t know the constellations.

No problem: Just turn to the Moon, which this weekend displays its gibbous phase. This football shape allows lunar mountains and craters to be optimally illuminated. Point any small telescope or even steadily braced binoculars its way (or those yummy-if-pricey Canon imagestabilized models) and you’ll be surprised at how much gorgeous detail you see on its surface.

On Saturday night the Moon hovers next to a fairly bright orange star. This is Aldebaran, the “alpha” luminary in Taurus the Bull. Since normal reddish stars are so faint that they’re always invisible to the unaided eye, Aldebaran must be a giant. Even at its distance of 64 light-years, it stands out. Its mellifluous name, whose accent is on the second syllable, is Arabic for “the follower,” because Aldebaran follows the famous Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster across the night sky.

Two nights later, the Moon once again acts as guide – this time as it hovers beneath dazzling Jupiter. These are the brightest objects in the February heavens, so this is astronomy made simple. Thus, this Monday night we get a lovely pairing of the largest

On Saturday night the Moon hovers next to a fairly bright orange star.

This is Aldebaran, the “alpha” luminary in Taurus the Bull

Gunks’ black rat snakes in particular are surprisingly tolerant of human company, and will sometimes reward the still and quiet watcher with a long spell of close observation.

The SRBP’s public lectures are cosponsored by the SUNY-New Paltz Biology Department, and are presented in Lecture Center 102 on the SUNY campus beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary. For directions and a campus map, see www. newpaltz.edu/map. No parking permit is required if you park in a campus lot after 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.mohonkpreserve.org/events.

– Frances Marion Platt Secrets of the Shawangunks biodiversity lecture series, Thursdays, February 6, 13, 27 & 27, 7-8:30 p.m., free, Lecture Center Room 102, SUNY-New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz; www.mohonkpreserve. org/events.

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planet and nearest celestial neighbor.

One more worthy sky sight? Any night during the next week, if you happen to be awake at midnight, look toward the east. Lowish but standout-obvious are two sideby-side stars. The luminary on the left is distinctly orange and a bit brighter than the other. This is Mars. It is brightening explosively ahead of its close encounter with Earth on April 8.

The star on the right is distinctly blue: This is Spica, Virgo’s main star. What a gorgeous color contrast between these two! Spica happens to be the bluest first-magnitude star.

It boasts the look-at-me combination of fierce temperature, large diameter and very high luminosity that allows it to shine brightly despite its 260 light-year distance. It lies 16 million times farther from us than Mars this week.

February 2014 stargazing: very much worth a look – and we didn’t even bring up Orion, this month’s dominant constellation. The ancient Hunter gets enough coldweather attention over the centuries; this week, let him share the heavens.

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

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Hudson Opera House to present climate-based Crossroads Project The Crossroads Project is an innovative fusion of art and science focusing on the Earth’s changing climate.

At the core of the project is a multimedia concert featuring the Fry Street Quartet performing a newly commissioned work by composer and musi-

cian Laura Kaminsky, artistic director of New York’s Symphony Space. The Crossroads Project includes works by Haydn and Janácek interwoven with live commentary by physicist Dr. Robert Davies exploring mankind’s impact on the climate and how society might respond.

The 80-minute concert will be held on Saturday, February 15 at 7 p.m. without intermission. Tickets cost $25 for adults, $20 for members. Coinciding with the concert, an exhibition of Rebecca Allan’s paintings featured in the concert will be shown in the Hudson Opera House’s Center Hall Gallery from February 15 through March 15.

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February 6, 2014

GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Can spring be far behind?

It’s not too soon to start germinating seeds

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entlemen (and ladies, and kids), start your engines: The 2014 gardening season has begun – here on the farmden, at least.

The day began with my lugging the big pail of potting soil from the cold garage to a warm spot near the woodstove. My homemade potting soil – equal parts peat, compost, garden soil and perlite, with some soybean meal thrown in – is moist when I make it, so was frozen solid: not usable or suitable for germinating seeds.

Once the potting soil defrosts and warms, I scoop it into a seedflat and a small plastic tub into which I’ve drilled drainage holes. Firming the soil in place with my Furrow Maker – a small

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I could sow onion seeds outdoors in early spring. The onions that I’m growing, and the ones that all Northern gardeners should be growing, are so-called long-day (in fact, short-night) varieties. Their leaf growth comes screeching to a stop in early summer’s 15- or 16-hour days. The plants shift gears and redirect their energy into pumping up growing bulbs. More leaves at that time mean more stored energy available to swell up sweet, juicy bulbs.

That’s what I want and why I go through the trouble(?) of early indoor sowing. I’ll plant out the seedlings in early May. The small seedflat gets similarly filled with potting soil and sown with seeds – lettuce seeds, in this case. Greenhouse lettuce is still going strong, but I want to have some transplants ready for when the older stuff peters out. A four-by-sixinch flat with four furrows of lettuce seeds should provide all the lettuce transplants that I need for many weeks.

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A greenhouse full of only lettuce could get boring. Other sorts of edible greenery currently share the space, and will continue to do so in the coming weeks. Some has been planted, and some has planted itself.

Among the planted greenery is a whole bed of kale and Swiss chard livened up with a couple of fennel plants. Also mâche, which usually plants itself – except that overly diligent weeding in the greenhouse necessitated transplanting self-sown mâche from outdoor garden beds into the greenhouse last September.

Self-sown greenery includes claytonia (miners’ lettuce), minutina and – more familiar to most people – celery. Claytonia doesn’t have much flavor, but adds texture and color to a winter salad. The same goes for minutina, which is actually an edible species of plantain (the common lawn weed, not the banana relative). Celery plants are in various stages of growth.

We’ve been eating the mature ones for months, and the smallest seedlings will be ready for transplanting out into the garden in early May. So my friend Bob is over for a visit.

It’s near lunchtime, and he beelines for the freshly baked loaf of bread sitting innocently on the kitchen counter. Bob grabs a knife and already has a sandwich in mind. “Do you have any tomatoes?” he says. What? Tomatoes?

It’s midwinter!

I guess that he has made the link gardening/greenhouse/tomatoes. Never mind winter. Sorry, not in my greenhouse in winter – for a few reasons: Fruiting demands a lot of a plant’s energy. That energy comes from the sunlight. Even though the sun has been rising higher in the sky and for longer periods daily, its light is still paltry compared to midsummer sunlight. A bright summer day bathes the garden with about 10,000 footcandles of light. My greenhouse, according to measurements taken at high noon on this crystalclear day, is bathed with about 6,400 footcandles of sunlight.

Natural sunlight could be supplemented with artificial light – not a table lamp or even a bank of fluorescents, though. Light intensity falls off as the inverse square of distance from the light source; double the distance and you’ve got only onequarter the intensity. So plants need to be close to the light source. Special highintensity bulbs are needed to make a dent in winter’s relative darkness.

And then there’s the temperature needed to raise a crop of tomatoes in February. For tomatoes, I wouldn’t want temperatures

lower than in the 50s. My greenhouse heater kicks on at 37 degrees Fahrenheit.

Each degree of warming increases heating costs about three percent.

Winter tomatoes don’t seem worth the extra cost in dollars and to the environment from increased usage of gas or electricity. And they don’t taste that good. I can wait.

– Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail them to me at garden@leereich.com and I’ll try answering them directly or in this column. Come visit my garden at www. leereich.blogspot.com and check out my new, instructional videos at www. youtube.com/leereichfarmden. For more on local homes and gardens, go to Ulster Publishing’s homehudsonvalley.com.

Spaghetti dinner for Ulster County SPCA this Saturday in Kingston Raise funds for the Ulster County SPCA by attending a Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, February 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Garden Plaza Hotel at 503 Washington Avenue in Kingston. Admission costs $30, which includes dinner and dessert, a small silent auction and games. A cash bar will be available. For more information, call Robin Akus at (845) 3315377, extension 215, e-mail rakus@ ucspca.org or visit www.facebook.com/ events/567067096707918.

Organic Beekeeping workshop in Cottekill Learn how to plan a beehive for spring at “Intro to Organic Beekeeping” on Saturday and Sunday, February 15 and 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Sustainable Living Resource Center, located at 148 Cottekill Road in Rosendale. The workshop will cover the basic requirements and responsibilities for organic beekeeping.

Understand the community of a hive, the tools involved, elements of site selection, where to obtain honeybees and equipment and an understanding of a naturalist’s approach to the bees’ needs.

The workshop features a hands-on demonstration of assembling a wooden hive and extensive class handouts to help new beekeepers. For more information, call (845) 255-6113 or visit www. honeybeelives.org.

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Harmonic convergence Baird Hersey touts new nada yoga book, new Prana CD in Woodstock this Saturday

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hy were the original Star Wars movies such a huge worldwide success, and why does their broad fandom still persist in its enthusiasm, not to say obsession? It’s partly because they were rollicking good adventure flicks with an appealing cast, of course; but that doesn’t totally explain the deep chord that they struck in so many, nor why they remain so iconic considering how many other sci-fi blockbusters have followed in their wake. Could it be because George Lucas’ concept of “the Force” grabbed the collective imaginations of a world that was slowly, inexorably turning from religion to science as an explanation for what holds the universe together?

If you’re willing to accept that there’s much in our universe that remains unexplained as yet, but not forever beyond scientific explanation, the existence of some sort of cosmic glue called the Force, for want of a better word, certainly seems plausible. It’s a potentially useful sort of placeholder for the future discoveries of nuclear and astrophysicists who are still transcribing the choreography of quarks and deducing the universe’s preponderance of dark matter by subtraction.

But presuming that it may actually exist and isn’t just a matter for metaphysical or spiritual pondering, what is it exactly, this Force, this plasma of life, this quasimagical push/pull of subatomic particles? Some ancient peoples called it the “music of the spheres,” and maybe they weren’t far off after all. Maybe harmonics are the key: those mathematically perfect intervals between the waves of energy that we perceive as sound, though they’re present – and arguably necessary – in all other types of energy as well.

That concept lies at the heart of the meditative practices of nada yoga; and Baird Hersey – who has long probed the mysteries of harmonics through the human voice with his remarkable overtone singing ensemble Prana – has just written a book about it, titled The Practice of Nada Yoga: Meditation on the Inner Sacred Sound.

You can find out more about what’s happening in this sublime inner space where physics meet metaphysics this Saturday, February 8, by coming to hear Hersey at

Author Baird Hersey has long probed the mysteries of harmonics through the human voice with his remarkable overtone singing ensemble Prana

County’s (CCEUC) master gardeners at their annual spring sale to benefit the Master Gardener program of Ulster County.

A wide variety of items will be available this year, including sweet summer berries, hardy vegetables like asparagus and horseradish and a wonderful assortment of evergreen seedlings, including tenpacks of deer-resistant bare-root seedlings

of Colorado blue, Norway and white spruce. In addition, the Hudson Valley Seed Library will make available over 30 varieties of seeds for culinary herbs, flowers and an assortment of edible ornamental varieties.

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Beginning at 2 p.m. at Mirabai Books, Hersey will read from his new volume, followed by a talk, a question-and-answer session and a guided nada yoga meditation.

Admission to this event is free of charge. Then, at 7 p.m., Mountain View Studio will host a CD release party and concert launching Sadhana, Prana’s latest recording of microtonal choral music based in the ancient sacred traditions of Tibetan Buddhist multiphonic chant and Tuvan throat singing. Kirtan master Krishna Das sits in on one of the cuts on the new CD, joining Prana’s nine longtime members: Peter Buettner, Renee Finkelstein, Amy Fradon, Kirsti Gholson, Julie Last, Bruce Milner, Julian Lines, Joe Veillette and Bill Ylitalo. Admission to the concert/party costs $25; you can reserve a space by e-mailing info@pranasound.com.

One of the lovely things about sound harmonics is that they can work from the outside in, so you can enjoy some of the multifarious benefits of getting your brainwaves in tune just by listening to Prana. Then you can take the CD and the book home and try out the yogic practice yourself. And never again will you need to await the good wishes of some passing Star Wars nerd to let “the Force be with you!”

– Frances Marion Platt The Practice of Nada Yoga reading with Baird Hersey, Saturday, February 8, 2 p.m., free, Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock; Sadhana CD release party/concert with Baird Hersey & Prana, 7 p.m., $25, Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock; (845) 679-2100, info@pranasound.com, www. pranasound.com.

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FAMILY PERFORMANCES: Anansi, Darwin, Valentine’s Day, American Girl Dolls & Sesame Street With so many demands on our time, I like to offer information to readers about unique performances that I come across for family outings, especially free ones. Here are five that I’d like to highlight this week: Anansi, Spiderman of Africa free puppet show will be presented by the Crabgrass Puppet Theatre on Saturday, February 8 at 11 a.m. James & Betty Hall Theatre at SUNY-Dutchess, located at 53

Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music will be performed on the Mid-Hudson Civic Center stage in Poughkeepsie from February 7-9

Pendell Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 431-8000 or visit www.sunydutchess.edu.

Celebrate Darwin Day with free science talks and children’s activities on Sunday, February 9 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at the Gardiner Library at 133 Farmers’ Turnpike in Gardiner. For more information, call (845) 255-1255 or visit http://gardinerlibrary.org. To learn more about this celebration, visit http:// darwinday.org.

while others cower.”

Also check out the free all-ages children’s puppet show from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 13: “Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Early Childhood staff present Shingebiss. Live musical accompaniment provided by Thomas Workman. Shingebiss is an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Native American story which exemplifies the strength of the underdog and the virtues of perseverance and fortitude. It is traditionally told about a duck who defies the harsh cold winter

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A Valentine Craft Workshop with cards, paper flowers, heart crafts, cookiedecorating and more, free for children of all ages, will be offered on Friday, February 7 at 4 p.m. at the Elting Memorial Library at 93 Main Street in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-5030 or visit www.eltinglibrary.org. Also check out the free teen movie night on Saturday, February 8 at 6 p.m. for a viewing of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music will be presented from February 7 through 9 at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center at 14 Civic Center Plaza in Poughkeepsie. Ticket prices range from $14 to $66.50; group discounts are available. For tickets or more information, call (845) 454-5800 or visit www.midhudsonciviccenter.org.

LOCAL MUSIC: Seeger singalongs in Kingston & Rosendale Listening to music by area musicians can inspire us to learn a new instrument or dust off an old one. Live music can help us relate to stories in a deep way and awaken our minds.

The legendary Pete Seeger helped to change the world with his music. On Sunday, February 9, two different singalongs have been organized in his honor.

The Clearwater Winter Potluck runs from 2 to 8 p.m., with an Open Jam for kids of all ages from 3 to 5 p.m. and a Pete Seeger singalong from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Clearwater Winter Potluck takes place at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, located at 50 Rondout Landing in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 265-8080, extension 7105, or visit www.clearwater.org.

A gathering to “Celebrate Pete Seeger’s Legacy” takes place on February 9 from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Rosendale Recreation Center, located at 1055 Route 32 in Kingston: “Celebrate his legacy with a community singalong and potluck. Bring songbooks (we’ll have copies of Rise up Singing to loan and for sale), instruments, food to share.” For more information, call or text (845) 399-2473.

Martin/Grenadier benefit for Kingston’s coed Scout troop On Wednesday, February 12, singer/ songwriter Rebecca Martin performs with Larry Grenadier in a fundraiser concert for the coed Baden-Powell Scouting group, 91st Sojourners. The performance will be held at Kingston’s Outdated Café from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.

Martin and Grenadier’s performance will help raise funds for camp equipment and member scholarships for the 91st Sojourners, a coed, inclusive and traditional Scouting group part of the Baden-Powell Service Association.

Tickets cost $25 each or two for $40, and may be reserved by e-mailing aux91stsojourners@gmail.com or calling Carol at (845) 658-8684.

Gianetto reads from her book Baggy’s Valentine Story at the Inquiring Mind bookstore, located at 200 Main Street in Saugerties. For more information, call (845) 246-5775 or visit www. inquiringbooks.com. To learn more about the author, visit www.midart.com/ childrens-books.html.

NATURE: Winter Walk at NyquistHarcourt Wildlife Sanctuary in New Paltz I truly value the natural features

LOCAL AUTHORS: Mary Gianetto reads at Inquiring Mind in Saugerties Giving children the chance to meet a published author is an opportunity to lift the words off the page and into their world. The child can not only relate to the characters, but also connect with the real person who created the work.

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Dog on Fleas plays at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck One of my absolute favorite bands, Dog on Fleas, performs this Saturday, February 8 at 11 a.m. at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Tickets cost $7 for children, $9 for adults and seniors. The Center is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck.

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Getting outside on the river or in the woods is a chance for kids and adults to have a relationship with the land that can be so grounding.

The John Burroughs Natural History Society hosts the Nyquist-Harcourt Wildlife Sanctuary Winter Walk in New Paltz this Sunday, February 9 at 8 a.m.: “We will walk or snowshoe (depending on snow depth) through Harcourt Sanctuary, along the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail and possibly other areas in and around New Paltz. We will look for winter birds and animal tracks and sign. The walk will not be focused on particular target species, but rather general study and enjoyment

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of nature in winter. Meet at the municipal parking lot on Huguenot Street just east of the Wallkill River at 8 a.m.”

For more information, contact mattcorsaro@yahoo.com or visit http:// jbnhs.org.

Hudson River EagleFest along Hudson River Seen any eagles yet? This might be your weekend. On Saturday, February 8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Teatown Reservation hosts the tenth annual Hudson River EagleFest at multiple eagle-watching locations along the Hudson River. The day includes presentations, children’s activities and more. Pre-sale tickets are available at a discounted rate of $10 for adults, $8 for children ages 5 to 13 and free for children age 4 and under. Day-of tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for children. Bus tours are available for $25.

For more information, visit www. teatown.org.

YOUTH ENRICHMENT: Babysitting course at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck I always appreciate seeing classes offered to youth to help develop valuable life skills, and try to include them when I can. This Saturday, February 9, Northern Dutchess Hospital offers a babysitting course for individuals ages 13 through adult, including parents and grandparents. “The course covers how to diaper properly, prevent choking, perform CPR, reduce the risk of SIDS, properly bandage a wound, handle emergencies in the home and ensure a child’s surroundings are safe.”

The cost of the course is $45 and results in a two-year certification card from the American Safety and Health Institute.

Northern Dutchess Hospital is located at 6511 Springbrook Avenue in Rhinebeck.

For more information or to register, call (845) 475-9742.

PARENTS: Breastmilk documentary screening in Rosendale When I find something of interest to parents that might be informative,

entertaining or helpful to family life in some way, I like to include it. This week, I’d like to draw your attention to a fundraising screening of the groundbreaking documentary Breastmilk, co-produced by filmmaker and actress Ricki Lake. The film will be shown on Saturday, February 8 at 3 p.m. at the Rosendale Theatre on Main Street.

Proceeds from this event benefit the Mid-Hudson Lactation Consortium and the Breastfeeding Initiative of Ulster County. Tickets cost $15 per person, preregistered (or 2 for $25); $20 at the door. Here is the link to the trailer: http://vimeo.com/76697995.

In addition to the screening of the movie, photographer Kristine Palmer will be available to take a professional photo of you and your loved ones, just in time for Valentine’s Day, beginning at 1 p.m. A $25 donation will provide you with a tenminute photo shoot, and the opportunity to choose the three best pictures. To schedule your photo shoot appointment, you must call (518) 742-9638 or send an e-mail to emmpem33@yahoo.com.

Lively discussion will immediately follow the film with invited panelists Connie Kieltyka, LM, CNM, CLC, Olivebridge Midwifery, vice president, Breastfeeding Initiative of Ulster County; Stephanie Sosnowski, IBCLC, deputy director at Maternal-Infant Services Network, coordinator, Mid-Hudson Lactation Consortium Donna Bruschi, IBCLC, LLLL, owner, New Baby, New Paltz, president, Breastfeeding Initiative of Ulster County; and Liz Fernandez, CBC (CBI), CD (DONA), LMSW, Empowered Mother Counseling.

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CULTURAL EVENTS: Youth art of the Dream Act in Newburgh While we may all have ties here in the Hudson Valley, we may not be aware of all of the issues and concerns experienced by others within our community. I like to highlight events that celebrate aspects of who we are, as well as to shine a light on parts that we may not know about. For example, the Youth Art Group of Rural and Migrant Ministry presents its art exhibit reception on Friday, February 7 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The event takes place at the Newburgh Free Library, located at 124 Grand Street in Newburgh.

The Youth Arts Groups from Rural and Migrant Ministry are exhibiting four art pieces with the themes of: Dream Act and separation of families due to immigration.

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These are two important themes for the Youth Arts Group, because some of our artists are facing these challenges themselves. For more information, call (845) 563-3600 or visit http:// ruralmigrantministry.org.

CHARITABLE GIVING: Kids’ Canstruction at Poughkeepsie Galleria At different times in our lives, we may find ourselves on the giving or receiving end of community support.

I believe that if we all give a little, it can add up to a lot and make a real difference to area families – especially when we involve our kids, such as this weekend’s Kids’ Canstruction 2014. Head over to the Poughkeepsie Galleria by Friday, February 7 to get a glimpse of area school groups’ art sculptures made entirely from canned goods. After the event, the food will be donated to Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. Last year 5,975 pounds of food were collected.

The Poughkeepsie Galleria is located at 2001 South Road in Poughkeepsie.

For more information, visit http:// canstructionhv.com.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno thanks Pete and Toshi Seeger for making this world a better place. Erica lives in New Paltz with her husband Mike and their two children: the inspirations behind hudsonvalleyparents.com. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

Register now for Indoor Triathlon at Kingston YMCA Preregistration will end soon for the YMCA Indoor Triathlon to take

place on Sunday, March 2. The cost for registrants who sign up by Saturday, February 15 is $20; after that date the registration fee costs $50. The event includes a 15-minute swim, 20-minute bike and 20-minute track run.

The YMCA is located at 507 Broadway in Kingston. To register or for more information, call (845) 338-3810 or visit www.ymcaulster.org.

Conservatory students’ competition next weekend at Bard Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, February 15 at 10 a.m. and Sunday, February 16 at 1 p.m. at the Laszlo Z. Bito Conservatory Building at Bard College in Annandale. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call (845) 7586822, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@ bard.edu or visit www.bard.edu/conservatory/events.

Red Hook hosts reading from Oncology Support Group memoirs Every Thursday, members of the HealthAlliance Oncology Support memoir-writing group gather to share their written work aloud. In the fall of 2013, the group published Holding On, Letting Go, an anthology of stories “by people who’ve learned to look death in the eye and to savor life’s gifts.” Works from this book and others will be read and available for purchase at a “Love Heals” Valentine’s reading on Saturday, February 15 at 7 p.m. at the Red Hook Village Hall, located at 7467 South Broadway in Red Hook.

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e’ve all heard about homeschooling in the Hudson Valley, and most know some intrepid parents (and bright, energetic kids) making it happen. “Hard work,” those of us who need the structure and calendar help of regular schooldays tend to say. But what about “unschooling”: that free-form philosophy that kids will learn on their own through projects triggered by their own curiosity? I recall listening to a friend describe how she raised her son, without a formal name beyond what he wanted to call himself, on a beach in Hawaii, and then moved into a local school district as a high schooler. How did he do? He taught himself all he needed in a month and named himself – and throve!

Nowadays, we encounter – and entertain the idea of – the homeschooling and unschooling worlds every time the enterprising new Kite’s Nest program in Hudson holds a public event where we can mingle with its community, many of whom we’ve gotten to know through the community radio station and other efforts in the increasingly hipster Columbia and Greene County areas. Students prepare locavore feasts, amazing video and literary works, show off chess and boatbuilding and creative skills; and their parents seem about as engaged a group as we’ve seen anywhere.

Kite’s Nest started off out of a series of meetings about education and community.

Its founders are young, born out of media projects and communalist backgrounds; they’re hardworking and well-funded by an equally young entrepreneur who hit it big early and now has young ‘uns. It’s taking place in a renovated industrial building next door to Basilica Hudson, down near the waterfront and train station in Hudson: a treasure trove of wetlands, urban landscapes and wonders for the curious and culturally (and naturally) appreciative of all ages.

At first, there was an attempt to come up with programs that would match regular schooldays; but you can guess how that went. Schooldays are packed with their own stuff; so Kite’s Nest now runs long immersive programs. Mondays are for wood and wool; Wednesdays are “alimentary,” focused on “seasonal cooking”; Thursdays are all P, B & J (print, broadcast and journalism). Afternoon programs include writing and videomaking, more cooking. And that’s just for winter; things open up come spring, summer and autumn with more offerings.

“We are a group of people that have come together around the idea of creating an extraordinary environment for children to work, play and grow. We believe that through transforming relationships to both learning and places of learning, people can gain the knowledge, skills and courage to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them,” reads the mission statement of the one-year-old program in the new Hudson. “We believe that the knowledge, cultures and practices of the communities around us represent a lifetime of valuable experiences for our children.

The event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. Mature subject matter may not be appropriate for children under age 14. For more information, call (845) 758-2667, e-mail julietharrison@earthlink.net or visit www.holdingonlettinggomemoir.org.

Esopus Library hosts Ulster County Photography Club The Esopus Library will host the Ulster County Photography Club on Wednesday, February 12 at 6:30 p.m.

A mini-class will be held, with a topic to be announced. The Esopus Library is located at 128 Canal Street in Port Ewen. For more information, call (845) 338-5580 or visit www.esopuslibrary.org.

Aiello plays Loretta’s fiancé, Johnny Cammareri, the duty-bound son who must visit his dying mother in Italy. Nicholas Cage is the lovestruck brother Ronny, who has never forgiven Johnny for the accident that crippled his hand. After a torrid affair, Loretta tries to avoid Ronny out of respect to Johnny, but she just can’t resist. Meanwhile, Loretta’s father is fooling around with his mistress while her mother is wooed by a college professor, and her grandfather’s dogs howl at the spellbinding moon.

Tickets are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, or the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 3396088. For more information, visit www. bardavon.org.

We develop programming based on the strengths of people who live here, connecting young minds with people who have something to share.

We believe that children learn by generating their own knowledge through experience: drawing their own conclusions, and constructing their own theories through interactions with the world.”

The hardworking organizers behind the effort hold regular “listening” sessions, comprised of both one-onone inter vie ws and group conversations, as part of a growing project to “generate a shared collection of narratives that explore the fabric Kite’s Nest Hudson Sloop Club of our community and the strengths, needs and experiences of people who call Hudson home.”

As those utilizing Kite’s Nest start to come from elsewhere, that sense of inclusion and curiosity is expected to expand – as with two sessions in the coming weeks, including both a February 13 get-together for homeschoolers and unschoolers looking for support and ideas and a February 20 volunteer night and Open House. Both events start at 6 p.m.

– Paul Smart Public sessions, Thursday, February 13, 6 p.m. (homeschoolers/unschoolers), Thursday, February 20 (Open House), Kite’s Nest, 108 South Front Street, Hudson; (518) 945-8445, hello@kitesnest.org, www.kitesnest.org.

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Founded in 1964, Performing Arts of Woodstock is the oldest continuously operating theater organization in Woodstock

Moon on the rise

Performing Arts of Woodstock performs O’Neill classic next three weekends at St. Gregory ’s

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hen Eda Crist and Edie LeFever established the Performing Arts of Woodstock (PAW) theater organization in 1964, they probably never imagined that it would still be going strong in 2014, about to open its 50th season with Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten. The original intention of its founders was to establish theater programs for youth.

“At the time, there was no theater company in Woodstock, nor were there opportunities for young people in theater,” says Adele Calcavecchio, vice president on the organization’s board. “So when it was founded, the idea was to have classes and plays that children could participate in.”

Today, Performing Arts of Woodstock is the oldest continuously operating theater organization in Woodstock, and LeFever is still at the helm of the nonprofit group as its president (Crist has since passed away).

No longer focusing on children’s plays, the organization now produces three new or classic plays each year for adults of “challenging, thoughtful and, we hope, entertaining” material, says Calcavecchio.

“They’re all very well-written.” Previous productions include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Hedda Gabler, Twelfth Night, Breaking the Code and Endgame (a complete list of 49 years of productions is on the website).

A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel of sorts to O’Neill’s earlier Long Day’s Journey into Night, and as with the earlier

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The Performing Arts of Woodstock production of A Moon for the Misbegotten is directed by Nicola Sheara, and features Kimberly Kay as Josie, Richard Scofield as Hogan, Justin Lazard as Jamie Tyrone and Bob Sheridan as T. Steadman Harder.

play, the self-destructive Jim Tyrone character is based on O’Neill’s alcoholic older brother Jamie. Set in and around a broken-down Connecticut farmhouse in 1923, A Moon for the Misbegotten chronicles the intertwined stories of the tortured Tyrone, the earthy Irishwoman Josie Hogan and Josie’s difficult father Phil.

PAW’s production of Moon is directed by Nicola Sheara, and features Kimberly Kay as Josie, Richard Scofield as Phil, Justin Lazard as Jim and Robert Sheridan as T. Stedman Harder, a landowner who figures into the story as well. Performing Arts of Woodstock doesn’t have a core repertory company of actors, says Calcavecchio, instead holding auditions and putting the word out with people with whom it

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After 45 years of holding performances in Woodstock’s Town Hall, recent renovations and changes there have caused PAW to move to other venues.

Performances of Moon will be in the hall of St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (“the A-frame church”) in Woodstock on three consecutive weekends: Fridays, February 7, 14 and 21; Saturdays, February 8, 15 and 22; and Sundays, February 9, 16 and 23. Evening performances on Fridays and Saturdays begin at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Open-seating tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students.

For reservations, call (845) 679-7900.

Seating is limited at the church, so early reservations are advised. Payment is by check or cash only; pick up tickets at the door.

The season will continue in March with Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, followed by Clybourne Park, a Pulitzer Prizewinning play (2010) inspired by A Raisin in the Sun. Those two productions will be held at the Community Center in Woodstock.

Performing Arts of Woodstock will host a gala celebration of its 50th season on July 27 at the Onteora Mountain House. The event will feature music, food and theater – probably scenes from former plays, says

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Calcavecchio. “It’s open to all. We hope many people will come and cheer us on.”

– Sharyn Flanagan Performing Arts of Woodstock’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, Friday/Saturday, February 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 7:30 p.m., Sundays, February 9, 16, 23, 2 p.m., $20/$15, cash/check only, St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Route 212, Woodstock; (845) 679-7900, www.performingartsofwoodstock.org.

Salon Sunday at Unison in New Paltz examines Shakespeare’s Sonnets The Unison Arts Center kicks off its 2014 Second Sunday Salon series on Sunday, February 9 at 2 p.m. with “Speaking of Shakespeare: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” featuring Robert Miller, Mohonk Mountain Stage Company’s producing director, and Don Wildy, a longtime member of the Company. The two will engage in lively conversation about Shakespeare’s sonnets and Wildy will perform some of his favorites, examining their origins and speculating on the identity of the “dark lady” to whom they are addressed. Shakespeare’s sonnets are his most personal and romantic work.

Tickets cost $20 in advance for general admission, $15 for Unison members, and $25 at the door, $20 for members.

Students pay half-price with a valid ID. Refreshments will be sold. Unison is a not-for-profit multi-arts center located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz.

To order tickets, visit www.unisonarts.org or call (845) 255-1559.

Poetry reading with Mikhail Horowitz & Erica Kaufman at R & F The Gallery at R & F Handmade Paints, located at 84 Ten Broeck Avenue in Kingston, will host a poetry reading by Mikhail Horowitz and Er-

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February 6, 2014

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A MOVING EXPERIENCE Center for Creative Education in Kingston, home of POOK and Energy Dance Company, offers dance & drum classes for all ages

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he Center for Creative Education (CCE) in Kingston is one of those places that you learn about and then wonder why you never heard about it before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re kind of a diamond in the rough,â&#x20AC;? says artistic director Bryant â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drewâ&#x20AC;? Andrews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who we are.â&#x20AC;?

Those who do know that the nonprofit community center for arts and wellness offers a wealth of activities. And while its focus is on serving low-income, minority and at-risk children and youth (no child is ever turned away for inability to pay), CCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes in music, dance, computer arts and fitness are open to the entire community and those of all ages.

Classes for youth include instruction in computerized music-making, tap, ballet, jazz and hip-hop. Classes for adults include Soul Line Dancing, which Andrews describes as being â&#x20AC;&#x153;kind of like country line dancing, but to Motown music.â&#x20AC;? It blends in pop, gospel and funk music, too, and the class is popular. Another well-attended program for all ages is DXF, a cardio interval fitness class that incorporates elements of soul line dancing with traditional dance steps, kickboxing and strength training.

Then there are the drumming classes, in which participants of all ages learn techniques of playing with both hands and sticks and in the use of all types of percussion instruments. They play their own arrangements of rhythms influenced by the traditions of worldwide cultures, particularly African and Cuban. Dedicated drum students can audition for CCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK), now in its 12th year, whose multigenerational members perform together in concert throughout the region, with appearances at West Point and the Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pillow Dance Festival among the many venues to their credit. POOK also often performs in collaboration with CCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other resident ensemble, the Energy Dance Company.

Open by audition to members of the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dance classes, the Energy Dance Company numbers some 45 members at present, ranging in age from 14 to 25 in the main group, says Andrews, with kids as young as 7 participating as â&#x20AC;&#x153;energizers.â&#x20AC;?

The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style is a blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin dance. It has won numerous awards, including top honors at the National Spirit Dance Competition, grand prizes in all categories at the National Dance Awards in Albany and first prizes at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and on BETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dance program 106th and Park. The group went to Germany twice to participate in the International Youth Festival in Bad Arolsen.

It takes a real commitment to be in the group, says Andrews, and the dancers have to keep up with their schoolwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Academically, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really involved with them,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do a lot of collaboration with the schools, and expect them to keep up their academics and always ask for help. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never an excuse to fail.â&#x20AC;? CCE is a community, Andrews says, and the dance company is a tightly knit family who bonds together closely.

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presentation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tales and Recollections of Behind-the-Scenes Theatrical Magicâ&#x20AC;? with designer Charles Caine on Sunday, February 9 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all.

Glimpse behind the scenes and beyond the footlights of theatrical venues like the Metropolitan Opera House with Caine, hearing his stories of working with Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills and Maria Callas. Caine will relate many colorful stories about other celebrities including Leonard Bernstein, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy.

The snow date is Sunday, February 16. The event will be held at CGCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Professional Academic Center, Room 614, at 4400 Route 23 in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 822-2027, e-mail kovler@sunycgcc.edu or visit www. sunycgcc.edu.

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ica Kaufman on Saturday, February 8 at 2 p.m. A $5 donation is suggested.

Mikhail Horowitz is a poet, performer, paranomasiast and provocateur whose day job is impersonating an editor at Bard College. He is the author of Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978), The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat (Red Hill/Outloud, 1993) and Rafting into the Afterlife (Codhill, 2007), and his performance work has been featured on a dozen CDs. Erica Kaufman is the author of Instant Classic (Roof Books, 2013) and censory impulse (Factory School, 2009). She is also the co-editor of No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of Kari Edwards. She is the associate director of the Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College.

The Gallery at R & F is exhibiting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gestural Record,â&#x20AC;? a solo exhibition of paintings by visiting artist Kim Bernard, to remain on view through Saturday, March 22, when a closing reception and gallery talk by the artist will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Energy Dance Company rehearsal Kingston when he joined forces with CCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founder and executive director Evry Mann, a percussionist and composer with a background in education and social services who saw the need to open a center for youth to be empowered by the arts.

Andrews had found the same inspiration through working in residential treatment facilities as a counselor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw young people not having something positive and constructive when it came to extracurricular activities. And when I was a youth, what kept me focused was the arts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; dancing and music. It kept me out of trouble. So I started programs with some of the residential facilities I worked at, and then we brought it into the community.â&#x20AC;?

The Energy Dance Company started as a fitness class and evolved into a dance company, Andrews says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I first said I wanted to name the dance company â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Energy,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; everyone pretty much laughed at me. But â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to me means not only the energy you put into dance, but what the world is made of: our connective energy, positive energy. And young people have so much energy; as adults, if we can connect with them in some way, we can help to contour that energy. My way is through dance movement and physical activity and music.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to heading the Energy Dance Company, Andrews, who has taught dance for over 20 years and still teaches programs in other locations, too, serves as CCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program and artistic director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love what I do,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has their thing, and as a young boy, I connected through dance and music. It took me a long time to come back to it after being in the workforce for so long. But when I came back to connecting with my passion and my purpose for being on this Earth, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see myself doing anything else.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sharyn Flanagan Center for Creative Education, 15 Railroad Avenue, Kingston; (845) 338-7664, www.cce4me.org.

Tickets cost $25 general admission or $10 for Bard students. For tickets, call (845) 758-7900. For more information, e-mail conserva@bard.edu or visit www. fishercenter.bard.edu.

Actress Anna Deavere Smith to perform at Bard Actress/writer/performer Anna Deavere Smith is known for her investigative â&#x20AC;&#x153;documentary-styleâ&#x20AC;? theater in Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 and for her starring roles on The West Wing and Nurse Jackie. Smith will appear in performance at Bard College on Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Sosnoff Theatre in an intimate night of theater in which she shares portraits of the people whom she has embodied over the past two decades. The performance will take approximately 90 minutes without intermission.

Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s readings this Sunday in Gardiner The Gardiner Library at 133 Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Turnpike in Gardiner will host â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts and Sweets for Sweethearts Valentine Showâ&#x20AC;? on Sunday, February 9 from 2 to 4 p.m.: an afternoon of short stories and jokes read by members of the Big Sky Production company. Sweets and drinks will be served.

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8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-5PM Health Care Enrollment Assistance.

Open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace continues through March 31. Health Care Navigators available by appointment. Call for appointment: 800- 453-4666.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz.

9:30AM-10:30AM Fit After Fifty with Diane Collelo. Strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Tinker St, Woodstock.

10AM-11AM Preschool Story Time. “Boogie Woogie Books!” with Amy Dunphy. Meets on Thursdays.. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

10AM Mohonk Preserve – Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve. Hear about napping animals, hungry birds, or icy tracks and celebrate the snowy season. Info: 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve, Visitor Center, New Paltz.

10:30 AM Book Explorers Storytime. For ages 4 and up. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11:30AM-6:30PM Raindrop Technique Aromatherapy Sessions with Donna Carroll. First Thursday of every month. The raindrop technique is highly effective healing modality that combines nine essential oils applied along the length of the spine and warm compress alleviating pain and releasing negative emotions. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /one hour session.

1PM-4PM Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Most players are elementary and intermediate players.

Open to Woodstock residents 55 andolder, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1:30PM-2:15PM Free Lunchtime Meditation Group. On-going, Thurs, 1:30-2:15pm. Open to all levels, weekly guided meditation and relaxation exercises. Donations welcome. Web: www. lindamlaurettalcsw.com. Serenity Counseling Center, 101 Hurley Ave, Kingston.

3:30PM Math Regents Prep. Every Wed. @ 3:30pm Certified Math Teacher - Don’t fail Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. Empowering Ellenville, 159 Canal St, Ellenville, 877-576-9931.

5PM-5:30PM The Artful Dodger at Late Night.

On ‘African Times’: Reflections on the Counterarchival Photography of Malick Sidibé. Info: 437-5632 Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, free.

5PM Ninety Miles Off Broadway Audition Notice: “Little Women.” Seeking a cast of about 10 strong lead singers and a small ensemble, men and women, ages 16 – 70. Info: 256-9657 or www.90milesoffbroadway.com. New Paltz.

5:30PM-6:30PM Mixed Levels -Tai Chi. Led by Martha Cheo. Winter session is from Jan 2 March 27. Beginners need to call Martha Cheo directly to join the winter session at 256-9316.

Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

6PM-7PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm.

Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www. skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6:30PM-8PM 4-H Veterinary Science Program.

For Teens. There are two units in the series with each being a five-week commitment. Unit 1 runs every Thurs from 2/6 to 3/6 while Unit 2 runs Thurs from 3/13 to 4/10. Register at: 340-3990 x340 or klf37@cornell.edu.SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, $45/per unit.

6:30PM-7:15PM Advanced Tai Chi. Led by Martha Cheo. Winter session is from Jan 2 March 27. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

7PM-8:30PM Shawangunk Ridge Free Public Lecture Series: Green Fire. An award-winning documentary film about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold. With Mohonk Preserve Director of Conservation ScienceJohn Thompson. Info: www.mohonkpreserve.org/events.

SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center, Room 102, New Paltz, free.

Steven Montera, a student member of NIDO, and Giulia Menegollo, an honorary student member of NIDO, will speak. Open to the public. Info: 471-0313. Italian Center, 277 Mill St,Poughkeespsie.

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7 PM Acoustic Thursdays with Barbara Dempsey and DeWitt Nelson. Info: 687-2699 or www.highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

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

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Chris Cubeta & The Liars’ Club. Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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7PM-9PM Opening Reception: Works of Pete Seeger! Pete inspired photographs, art and materials to be displayed on a rotating basis throughout February. Community exhibition, share stories and companionship and play music. Info: 331-3261 or www.uptowngallerykingstonny.com.

Uptown Gallery, 296 Wall St, Kingston.

7PM “She Loves You – The Beatles and New York.” Multi-media lecture will explore the impact of the British invasion on New York, led

by The Beatles in February 1964, their historic concert at Shea Stadium, John Lennon’s NYC connection and discuss how their music continues to be an inspiration. Info: www.guilpl.org or 518-456-2400. Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Ave, Guilderland.

7PM 2014 Fireside Chat. Local author and freelance weekly columnist for the Poughkeepsie Journal, Anthony Musso, will be the guest speaker. Mr. Musso’s topic will be “FDR and the Post Office.” Info: 229-2820. St. James’ Chapel, 10 East Market St, Hyde Park.

7:30PM-9:30PM Life Drawing Classes. Tuesdays & Thursdays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch and Bill Keith. 679-3484 Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Winter Hoot (2/7-2/ 9). Three days of offering music, local food and refreshments - a community farmer’s market, guided hikes and blacksmith classes. Info: 657-8333 or info@ashokancenter. org or www.homeofthehoot.com.

16th Annual Catskill Ice Festival (2/7, 8, 9, 10).

Multiple clinics on all skills and techniques for ice climbing, basic skills, slide shows, demo gear.

Reservations required. Info: 658-3094; For info and locations of events, log onto www.alpineendeavors.com. New Paltz.

9:30AM-3:30PM The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program provides free, reliable tax preparation service for low to middle income families, individuals and seniors. By appointment only. Please call 2-1-1 to schedule anappointment. Info: www. poklib.org or 485-3445 X 3702. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie, free.

10:30AM Toddler Tales Storytime. For ages 2-3.

Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11:30AM-4:30PM Past Life Regression and Angelic Channeling Sessions with Margaret Doner. First Friday of every month. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $125 /90 minute session.

12PM-5PM Arlington Farmers’ Market. Every Thursday from 12 to 5pm, when school is in session. Info: www.vassar.edu or 437-7035 Vassar Main Building, College Center, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

12:05PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3:30PM After School Crafts. For ages 8-12. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

3:30PM-4:30PM After School Story Hour.

Theme is The Dewey Decimal System. Sessions for second and third graders meet on Fridays.

Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@ aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

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der, L.C.S.W. and relationship expert . “If you feel alone, afraid, hurt or angry in your relationship this workshop can help you discover many keys to relationship harmony. Gardiner Library, Community Room, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike in Gardiner. For directions or further information call 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org.

7PM Panel Discussion & Readings. “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.” Featuring authors Sari Botton, Chloe Caldwell, Maggie Estep, & Dana Kinstler. Info: 876-0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

7PM “She Loves You – The Beatles and New York.” Multi-media lecture will explore the impact of the British invasion on New York, led

by The Beatles in February 1964, their historic concert at Shea Stadium, John Lennon’s NYC connection and discuss how their music continues to be an inspiration. Info: www.albanyinstitute. org or 518-463-4478. Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave, Albany.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Hugh Brodie’s 81st Birthday Bash! Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsOfWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Route 212, Woodstock, $20.

8PM Three Virtuosos Perform an Evening of Classical, Jazz, and Brazilian Music - Guitar Passions with Sharon Isbin, Stanley Jordan & Romero Lubambo.$60 (Gold Circle), $45 (Adult), $40 (Member) and $20 (Student) Info: 473-2072. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $60 /golden circle,$45,$20/students.

8PM Dar Williams Info: www.theegg.org/events or 518-473-1845. The Egg, Swyer Theatre, Albany, $28.

Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge.

246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

9:30AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Lovey-Dovey Valentine - A special Valentine program featuring live Doves. This program is recommended for all ages. Pre-paid registration is required. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506 x 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall, $8, $6 /child.

10AM-2PM Free Tax Preparation Services for Low Wage Workers. For an appointment with an IRS certified volunteer tax preparer call 331-4199, then press #. Call weekdays between 9am-4pm for your appointment.

10AM-2PM 6th Annual Love INC Cookie Walk.

A fund-raiser that benefits Mid-Hudson Love INC in its work addressing poverty. Info: www.midhudsonloveinc.org or 471-0102. Poughkeepsie United Methodist Church, 2381 New Hackensack Rd, Poughkeepsie, $8/per pound.

10AM-1:30PM Minnewaska Preserve: Snowshoe Walk along Mossy Glen. 4 mile hike.

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

Minnewaska Preserve, Awosting parking lot, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

10AM-11AM Monthly Sensory Story Time.

Space is limited and preregistration is required.

Participants will listen to stories, play games, do an art project and experience all that a library story time has to offer. Info: www.gardinerlibrary. org or 255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

10AM-2:30PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing – Old Minnewaska Trail Snowshoe or Hike. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate to strenuous, 7-mile snowshoe or hike (if not enough snow) led by Jill Abraham (389-7756). Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz, $12.

8PM Into the Woods. What happens when Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (of beanstalk fame) all cross paths? It’s the premise behind one of the greatest American musicals by composer StephenSondheim. Info: www.centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080.

Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Open every Saturday, 10am-9pm. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

8PM Community Playback Theatre Improvisations of Audience Stories. Info: 691-4118.

Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland Lake.

11AM Snowball Golf Tournament. Lunch starts at 11 and is included with the entry fee. Shotgun start at noon. Info: 687-2699 or www.highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

8:30PM Donna the Buffalo. Info: 855-1300 or www.townecrier.com. Towne Crier, 379 Main St, Beacon, $30.

9:30PM Jukebox Junkies. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9:30PM Abraham & Groove. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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5PM-8PM Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park Fund-raiser for House of Hope (providing assistance to victims of domestic violence). Music by Eric Garrison, Gourmet Chocolates and Libations, Door Prizes, Raffles. Info: 229-9029.

8AM-12:30AM Red Cross Blood Drive. Donation Types: Double Red Cells, Blood. Info: www. redcross.org/ny/albany. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge.

6PM-9PM Opening Reception: “From The Vault.” Exhibits through 3/16. Info: diane@ ihgallery.com or 347-387-3212. Imogen Holloway Gallery, 81 Partition St, Saugerties.

9AM-4PM Viewing Station for EagleFest.

Boscobel is honored, once again, to be a part of Teatown Lake Reservation’s annual EagleFest event in 2014. Info: www.Teatown.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison.

7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley.

No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Frank Luther on bass, John Esposito on piano, Mike DeMicco on guitar, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists. No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville, 518-678-3101.

9AM-10:30AM Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 679-8800.

St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

7PM Monthly Meeting of Noi Italiani D’Oggi.

7PM Relationship Workshop with Jeff Schnei-

9 AM Christian Meditation. Meets every

10:30AM-11:30AM Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO, Kingston, 339-0637.

11AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Lovey-Dovey Valentine - A special Valentine program featuring live Doves. This program is recommended for all ages. Pre-paid registration is required. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or-534-5506, ext. 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall, $8, $6 /child.

11AM-2PM Hudson Valley Rail Trail WinterFest 2013. Featuring the Chili Tasting Contest. A children’s tent, wagon rides, wood carving demonstration, toasted marshmallows and roasted chestnuts. Info: 691-9911, www.hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net. Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot, 101 New Paltz Rd, Highland, $2, free /6 and under.

12PM-3PM Tastings of Locally Made Products (2/8 & 2/9). Sample some of the locally made products that we carry. Also take a look in Melina’s Boutique for some of the top styles with great sales prices and discount’s up to 50% off on select items. Info: 688-2828 or www.emersonresort. com. Emerson Resort County Store, Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

2PM Poetry Reading featuring Mikhail Horowitz & Erica Kaufman. The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints,84 Ten Broeck Ave, Kingston, $5 donation is suggested.

2PM-4:30PM Paint and Sip . Participants will be

premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Upcoming Benefit Concert: “An Evening of Music with Rachel Loshak and Morgan Taylor” to benefit Planned Parenthood MidHudson Valley (2/16, 6-8pm). 15 at the door, $10 in advance, online. Support local music and Planned Parenthood by attending this musical event.

Tickets and sponsorships are available online www.ppaction.org/site/ Calendar?id=109423&view=Detail, Kleinert/James Center, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Audition Notice: Les Miserables (4/5 & 4/6). Needed: Adult male & female actors and singers, two young girls, and one young boy. Prepare: 16 bars of a song either from the show or in the style of the show. Bring a copy of your sheet music. Info: upinoneprod@aol. com. The Center for Performing Arts, Rt. 308, Rhinebeck.

accepted. Full details and prospectus can be downloaded at www.woodstockschoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rt 212, Woodstock.

Studios LLC Moves to Germantown! New address: 136 East Camp Road, Germantown. Hours: Tuesday Sunday, by appointment (please call ahead) 876-3200 (the studio telephone number remains the same). E-mail: dcstudios@msn.com. Digital photos (.jpg’s) available Info: www.dcstudiosllc.com.

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Raise a Guiding Eyes Puppy. Guiding Eyes for the Blind is currently accepting applications for puppy raisers in the Ulster, Dutchess and Orange County regions. Orientation classes begin soon so don’t delay! RSVP. Contact Maria Dunne at 230-6436 or visit www.guidingeyes.org.

Are You Fummoxed by The Upcoming New York State Health Exchange Options? You are not alone. Red Hook Public Library will be offering sessions with Navigators to help citizens sign up for the various health plans from 10:30 - 6 pm on Mondays - ,2/ 10, 3/ 3, 3/ 24 and 3/ 31. There will also be Saturday sessions, from 10:30 am -2:30 pm -Saturdays, 2/ 22 and 3/15.

These are private sessions; please call 1-800-453-4666 to schedule an appointment. This service is free and open to the public. Info: 758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

Call for Entries: Juried Exhibit, “The Print Show.” Deadline 3/1. Entry fee for up to two images is $25. Good quality jpegs only, no photographs

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics for cats Feb 10, and 24 Newburgh; Feb. 11, 18, and 25 Monroe; Feb. 12, 19, and 26 Middletown; Feb. 17 Monticello; Feb.

served wine, chocolate and strawberries as They paint. Open to everyone who loves! No experience necessary. Unframed Artists Gallery, 173 Huguenot St, New Paltz. (Snow Date 2/9).

4PM-6PM Opening Reception for Her Many Facets: Portrayals of Women from the Permanent Collection, through June 8. Also: Recent, Small Works, solo show by Darin Cohen, and works by Patti Gibbons, and Bennett Intermediate School’s New Orleans Project through March 2.Hours: Fri & Sat 12-6 pm, Sun, Mon & Thurs, 12-5 pm.

Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock,Info: 679-2940 or www. woodstockart.org.

5PM-7PM Live Art Demonstration. The artists will be using art techniques varying from traditional oil, pastel, acrylic, and watercolor painting, to palette knife painting and portraiture. Aslo an exhibit of Veteran’s Artwork will be on display in the upstairs student works gallery featuring veterans who attend free classes. Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St, Montgomery. Info: www. wallkillriverschool.com or 457- 2787.

5PM-7PM Opening Reception - Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher. Exhibits through 7/13/14. Info: www.newpaltz.edu/museum or 257-3844. SUNY New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz.

5PM-7PM Opening Reception: Watercolor and Mixed Media. Works by Ed Berkise and Staats Fasoldt. Info: www.oriole9.com or 679-5763.

Oriole9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.

5PM Meet My Father the Stranger. A staged reading of e Family Drama. Maya 18, has just graduated Highs school with honors and looks froward to a bright future, but cannot afford college, her estranged father returns after 8 years.

Info: 246-7723. The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Ave, Saugerties, $15, $10 / senior, $5 /student.

5PM-7PM Opening Reception: Family Matters.

An artistic interpretation of family relationships, portraits, dysfunctions, generations, and the psychology of home in all mediums. Exhibits

27 Port Jervis. Performed by appointment only, by NY state licensed veterinarians of The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.) mobile clinic. $70 per cat includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, and nail trim. Newburgh residents, $10 per cat. Mamakating residents, $25 per cat. Also available for an additional fee: distemper vaccine, flea treatment, deworming, and microchipping. 855-754-7100. tara-spayneuter.org.

Ninety Miles Off Broadway Audition Notice: “Little Women” (2/5 & 2/6).

Seeking a cast of about 10 strong lead singers and a small ensemble, men and women, ages 16 70. Info: 256-9657 or www.90milesoffbroadway.com. New Paltz High School, 130 S. Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz.

Sign-Up Now! 5th Annual Morton Memorial Library & Community House (by 3/1.)Talent Show: Take Five! An evening of jokes, jug bands, storytelling, guitar playing, dance - you name it, if it’s your talent we want to see it. Deliver visual art to the library . Morton Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinebeck.

Early Registration YMCA Indoor Triathlon 15-February 15. $20 early registration ends, $50 late registration after 2/15. Event date: 3/2. This event is geared for all abilities and

through 3/2. Info: 758-6575. Red Hook/ Artists Collective Gallery, 7516 N. Broadway, Red Hook.

5PM-7PM Oriole9 Restaurant presents its 72nd Monthly Art Show Opening Reception. On view will be the paintings of two of Woodstock’s best watercolorists, Staats Fasoldt and Ed Berkise.

All shows are curated by Lenny Kislin.Oriole9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.

5PM-7PM Free Tasting - Champagne & Chocolate. Featuring chocolates for Valentine’s Day from Hudson’s own Christopher Norman Chocolates. Sparkling wines from Fairview Wines & Spirits. Verdigris Tea & Chocolate Bar, 135 Warren Street @2nd, Hudson 518-828-3139.

5PM-7PM Opening Reception: Working Objects and Videos. Works by Mary Reid Kelley. Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher, and 1980s Style: Image and Design in The Dorsky Museum Collection.

Info: 257-3844 or www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

SUNY New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

6PM Charity Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament. Drinks, snacks and pizza provided! Buy a $50 artist designed deck of playing cards to get $15, 000 in chips. Info: 518-943-3400 or gcca@ greenearts.org GCCA, Catskill Gallery, 398 Main St, Catskill.

6PM-10PM “Architectural Perspectives” Group Art Show. Classical Concert. Educational Experience. Local Architectural Business’ Information Booths. Architecture presentations starting at 6:30pm. A classical guitar concert by David Temple starting at 7:45pm. Info: www.cornellstreetstudios.com or 331-0191. Cornell Street Studios, 168 Cornell St, Kingston, $15.

6PM-9PM UC SPCA Spayghetti Dinner. Dinner/ Desert/Small Silent Auction/Games/Cash Bar. Info: 331-5377 x 215 rakus@ucspca.org. Garden Plaza Hotel, 503 Washington Ave, Kingston, $30.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Grammy winner Malcolm Cecil on bass, guitarist Steve Raleigh, pianist Peter Tomlinson, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists.

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ages starting at 12 & up. You can do this. 15 minute swim, 20minute bike, 20 minute track run. Info: 338-3810. www.ymcaulster.org. YMCA, 507 Broadway, Kingston.

of the Tang Museum. Cash prizes awarded. Submit online. Deadline, 2/10, Midnight. 679-2940 or www. woodstockart.org or regional@woodstockart.org. Woodstock

Register Now! Tractor Safety Certification Course for Teens Meets March 25, 27, and April 1, 3, and 8 at 7 pm.

Practice Drive: April 24 & 25, time TBA, Driving Test: April 26, 8 am. Info: 340-3990 or www.cceulster.org. Stone

Audition Notice: Les Miserables (4/5 & 4/6). Needed: Adult male & female actors and singers, two young girls, and one young boy. Prepare: 16 bars of a song either from the show or in the style of the show. Bring a copy of your sheet music. Info: upinoneprod@aol. com. The Center for Performing Arts, Rte. 308, Rhinebeck.

Calling All Bakers! Middletown Historical Society Bake Sale (2/15) needs homemade chocolates, baked goods and help to staff the table for one hour shifts. Info: natty55@verizon.net, or 607-326-4817. Freshtown, Margaretville.

Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka.

Certified hypnotist. Sponsored by the Health Alliance and Open to the community! 1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm. 1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm.

(Excluding 3/5) 4/2, 5/1, 6/4 8/6, 9/3, 10/1, 11/5, 12/3. To register: call Doris 339-2071 or email: Doris.Blaha@ hahv.org or www.CallTheHypnotist. com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

2014 Woodstock A-I-R Program for Artist of Color Working in the Photographic Arts. Deadline: 2/28/14. Info: www.cpw.org or info@cpw.org. The Center for Photography, 59 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Far and Wide, the 6th Annual Woodstock Regional. Juried by Ian Berry

No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, Palenville.

7PM-9PM The Annual Erotica Show. Features dancing by Ayleeza and art in a variety of mediums by 15 local Hudson Valley artists. Exhibits through 3/2. Info: www.tivoliartistsgallery.com or 757-2667. Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway, Tivoli, $10.

7PM Kingston’s Second Saturday Spoken Word. Poets, writers and actors will read.

Featured poets Timothy Brennan & Victoria Sullivan. Host: Annie LaBarge.$5/suggested donation, $2.50/open mic.. Info:uucckingston. org or 514-2007 or 331-2884. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

7:30 PM Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra. Clarinetist Moran Katz to Perform.

Conducted by Kathleen Beckmann. Info: www. ndsorchestra.org or 635-0877. Rhinebeck High School Auditorium, Rhinebeck, $20, $15 /senior, $5/children.

7PM Kingston’s 2nd Saturday Spoken Word.

Poets, writers and actors will read. Featured poets Timothy Brennan & Victoria Sullivan. Host: Annie LaBarge. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston, uucckingston.org or 514-2007 or 331-2884., $5/ suggested donation, $2.50/open mic.

Sign Up Now! 185th Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Flower Show(3/6) .Deadline 2/.28. Buses will load at 6:45am. Info: 340-3990 ext. 335 or www.cceulster. org. Kingston.

Need Free Help Registering for Health Care? A Health Exchange Navigator will be visiting Phoenicia Library starting in January to help people sign up. If you would like an appointment to register with a Navigator at the library. Call Lynda Davis 518-221-9889 for an appt. You should bring all your tax information.

Appointments necessary.

Grant Funds are available for Arts Education programs in K-12 public schools working in partnership with an artist (musician, literary, performing or visual) or an arts organization.

Deadline 2/8. Info: www.greenearts. org or 943-3400 or colettegcca@ hotmail.com.

7PM-11PM Open Mic / Open Stage Jam. The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford., $5/ donation.

7:30PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsofWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Route 212, Woodstock, $20/adults, $15/srs & students.

8PM Storm King’s Acoustic Music Series: Adrien Reju Trio. Web: www.sks.org or 534-7892.

The Storm King School, Walter Reade, Jr. Theatre, 314 Mountain Rd, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $18.

8PM Into the Woods. What happens when Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (of beanstalk fame) all cross paths? It’s the premise behind one of the greatest American musicals by composer StephenSondheim. Info: www.centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080.

Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

8PM Sam, Where You Been Baby? Play by Michael Monasterial. This original gospel pop musical sheds light on the life of a genius, backdropped by the turbulent Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Info: 246-7723. The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Ave, Saugerties, $15, $10 /senior, $5 /student.

8PM “American Roots & Branches” Series.

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The Bad Plus. Web: www.theegg.org. The Egg, Hart Theatre, Albany, $24, 518-473-1845..

8PM Melissa Ferrick Info: 658-9048. Rosendale Café, Main St, Rosendale, $20.

8:30PM Bryan Gordon. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9PM Karaoke /Live Music Every Saturday. $5 cover includes a Free Drink! Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

9PM Mr. Ian and The Blue Rays. Info: 687-2699 or www.highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

9:30PM Joey Eppard & Friends. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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3rd Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Brunch. A decadent chocolate inspired brunch, live auction and an opportunity to support the youth in our community. RSVP. Info:www.nycharities. org/Events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=6879 or 331-7080.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Black Forest Snowshoe or Hike.

Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A strenuous, 9-mile snowshoe or hike (if not enough snow) led by Gary Curasi (4534-2886).Call the hike leader for the meeting time, location, and fee by 2/6. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. .

8AM-4PM PALS Renewal Course. A recertification for the PALS course. You must be currently certified in PALS to take this abridged course. Course completion results in a two-year PALS certification from the American HeartAssociation. Reg. rqr’d.

Info: 475-9742. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, $150.

10AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Bobcat Facts. This program is recommended for children ages 5 and older and all adults. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506 x 204.

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall, $7/adults,$5/children.

10AM-2PM Rosendale Winter Farmers’ Market.

Second Sundays, January-May, 10am-2pm.

Rain or shine. Live acoustic music and children’s activities at every market, free coffee & tea. Info: 658-8348 or emailbinnewaterbilly@gmail.com or 658-3805. Rosendale Community Center, 1055 Rt 32, Rosendale.

10AM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Bob Stump & The Blue Mountain Band. Info: www. liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10:30AM-12:30PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Sunday, 10:30am-12:30pm. Meditation instruction available. Video teaching by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche with short discussion at 11:45am. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

10:30AM-12PM Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity. With Amy McTear & Friends. 2nd & 4th Sundays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

12PM-3PM Tastings of Locally Made Products (2/8 & 2/9). Sample some of the locally made products that we carry. Also take a look in Melina’s Boutique for some of the top styles with great sales prices and discount’s up to 50% off on select items. Info: 688-2828 or www.emersonresort. com. Emerson Resort County Store, Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm.

Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette, 215 Main Street inside of the Medusa Antique Center Building, New Paltz.

1PM-5PM Sunday Afternoon Dinner & Karaoke.

Open 1pm – Karaoke by Music Box Productions immediately following Dinner. Dinner Served at 1:30pm, including Coffee/Tea and Dessert.

Cost: $15 per person. 255-1633. Reservations not required –but appreciated! New Paltz Elks Lodge, 290 Route 32 S, New Paltz.

1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-7148 or rizka@hvc.rr.com.

1PM Passing the Torch Through the Arts presents African American History Theater Festival - “Turn to Light from Darkness.” A two week festival presenting dramatic works of illuminating personal sacrifice, inspiring commitment to ideals and redemption through the power of love. Info: 901-6820 or www.passingthetorchthroughthearts.com. Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Ave, Saugerties, $15 /adults, $10 /srs, $5 /students.

1:30PM-3:30PM Mid-Hudson Orchid Society Meeting. MHOS member Dennis Sandberg will showing slides of his trip to Ecuador and will have orchids for sale. Info: 294-1000 or www.mhos. us.com Union Presbyterian Church, 44 Balmville, Newburgh.

1:30PM-3:30PM Second Sunday Salon, Speaking of Shakespeare: The Sonnets, with Don Wildy and MMSC’s Producing Director Robert Miller. Info: Kitty@unisonarts.org. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

2PM-3:30PM Theatrical Magic. Tales and Recol-

lections of behind-the scenes theatre with Charles Cain. Info: 518-822-2027 or kovler@sunycgcc. edu or www.sunycgcc.edu. SUNY ColumbiaGreene, Room 614, 4400 Rt. 23, Hudson.

2PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArts ofWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Route 212, Woodstock, $20/adults, $15/srs & students.

2PM-4PM Shorts and Sweets for Sweethearts Valentine Show. An afternoon of short stories and jokes read by members of Big Sky Production company. Sweets & drinks served. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org.

2 PM Thomas Cole at the Movies: Scott MacDonald, Professor of Film History at Hamilton College, will present a program of “Hudson River School” films, including work by Larry Gottheim, Robert Huot, and Peter Hutton.

Info:www.thomascolenationalhistoricsite.com.

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill, $9.

2PM Second Sunday Salon: Speaking of Shakespeare-The Sonnets.Featuring Don Wildy and Robert Miller. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $20, $10 /student w/ID. 2PM “Tales and Recollections of Behind-the Scenes.” Theatrical Magic with Charles Cain.

Info: 518- 828-4181. SUNY Columbia-Greene, Room 614, Hudson, free.

2PM-6PM Clearwater Winter Open Boats.

Visit the sloop and celebrate the winter months with friends! Bring a potluck dish to share, enjoy local music, meet the captains and learn about the sloop restoration. Info: 265-8080 or www. clearwater.org/events. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston.

3PM-6:30PM Sunset Concert. Be transformed by the music, setting, and scenery – only 30 seats available. $30 online sales only - purchase: http:// madvoxfeb9.brownpapertickets.com.Maderavox, Barrytown.

3PM Into the Woods. What happens when Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (of beanstalk fame) all cross paths? It’s the premise behind one of the greatest American musicals by composer StephenSondheim. Info: www.centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080.

Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

3PM-5PM New World Home Cooking presents its 11th Monthly Art Show Opening Reception.

On view will be the realist paintings of Vince Natale, the abstract paintings of Michael Esposito and the humorous paintings of Dan Gelfand. All shows are curated by Lenny Kislin. For info call 679-8117. New World Home Cooking Restaurant, Rt 212, Saugerties.

3PM Ulster Chamber Music Series: La Catrina Quartet. Info: 340-9434 or www.ulsterchambermusicseries.org. Church of the Holy Cross, 30 Pine Grove Ave, Kingston.

3PM A First Look/Listen Event: You’re U.S. Followed by a Q&A with Emile Klein and Jeff Emtman. Presenting seven stories that took a nation to create, each told in a mixture of radio and music. Info: 518-822-8100 orfyi@timeandspace.org. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson.

3PM Hope Mauran presents Being the Miracle of Love, which invites us to tap into the power of “Divine Love” that is already present and perfect within us. Info: 246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

4PM Howland Chamber Music Circle. Piano Festival 2014. Featuring pianists Frederic Chiu, in a return engagement along with his frequent collaborator Andrew Russo. Followed by a reception to meet the artists. Info: 297-9243 orwww. howlandmusic.org. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon, $30, $10 /student.

4PM Suna Senman, LMSW, life transformation facilitator, peace ambassador, and Huffington Post blogger presents Peace: Discovering Life’s Harmony Through Relationships, a guided meditation and discussion onmanifesting inner peace.

Info: 255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz, free.

4PM The Day I Met Nelson Mandella. A memoir of a Life changing meeting. A monologue. Info: 246-7723. The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Ave, Saugerties, $15, $10 / senior, $5 /student.

4PM-6PM 100 for 100. Includes entrance for two to the gala reception and one ticket for a fine work of art that you select based on your raffle number being drawn. Only 100 tickets available! Info: www.barrettartcenter.org or 471-2550.Locust Grove Historical Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Drummers on The Green are hosted by Birds of a Feather. Singers & dancers are all welcome.

Bring your drums and percussion instruments.

On-going on Sundays, 4-6pm.Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

4:30PM-6:15PM Film Showing & Discussion.

“Unmanned.” 60 minute documentary about a US drone pilot & the 16 year old he killed. Opportunity for discussion. Free admission. Further info, contact Andrew at 699 3051. Presented

by Drone Alert - Hudson Valley. Elting Library Community Room, 93 Main St, New Paltz.

5PM Meet My Father the Stranger. A staged reading of e Family Drama. Maya 18, has just graduated Highs school with honors and looks

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froward to a bright future, but cannot afford college, her estranged father returns after 8years.

Info: 246-7723. The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Ave, Saugerties, $15, $10 / senior, $5 /student.

requested. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock.

7:30PM Ruthie Foster & Eric Bibb. Info: www. theegg.org/events or 518-473-1845. The Egg, Swyer Theatre, Albany, $28.

10AM-12:30PM Minnewaska Preserve: Tuesday Trek- Cliff Trails Exploration Recommended for experienced hikers comfortable with uneven terrain and cliff-edge trails. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Visitor Center, Gardiner, $ 8/per car.

8PM Sam, Where You Been Baby? Play by Michael Monasterial. This original gospel pop musical sheds light on the life of a genius, backdropped by the turbulent Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Info: 246-7723. The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Ave, Saugerties, $15, $10 /senior, $5 /student.

9:30PM Doug Marcus. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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2/10

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9:15 AM -11:15 AM Senior Art with Judith Boggess. 55 and older. Sept. thru June. $80.

Drop-in $5 per class. 657-581. American Legion, Mountain Rd, Shokan.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinsons Exercise Class w/ Anne Olin. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston, 679-6250.

10:30AM Babies & Books Storytime. For ages 0-2. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11AM-7:30PM Health Care Enrollment Assistance. Open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace continues through March 31. Health Care Navigators available by appointment. Call for appointment: 800453-4666.

11AM “Lumumba.” The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Info: 341-4891 or www.sunyorange.edu. SUNY Orange, Middletown.

9AM-9:50AM Senior Fit Dance for Seniors with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Bring a mat.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3:30PM-4:30PM After School Story Hour.

Theme is The Dewey Decimal System. Sessions for kindergarten and first graders meet on Tuesdays. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

10AM-12PM Senior Drama with Edith LeFever.

Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

6PM-7PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm.

Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 orwww. skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11AM-12PM Senior Qigong With Zach Baker.

Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

1PM-6PM Red Cross Blood Drive. Donation Types: Double Red Cells, Blood. Info: www. redcross.org/ny/albany. Veterans of Foreign Wars, 708 East Chester St, Kingston.

1 PM Needlework Group. On-going every Monday, 1pm. Info: 338-5580 x1005. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

2PM-4PM Senior Art with Judith Boggess. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $2 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-4:30PM Monday Programs for Tweens, in grades Four and up include Cooking Club.

Participants will whip us simple snacks. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com.

Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

3PM-4:30PM Monday Programs for Tweens, in grades Four and up include Cooking Club.

Participants will whip us simple snacks. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol. com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone 4:15PM-5:30PM Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm. $12/class. 28 West Gym, 6:30PM Solar System In Your Pocket. Brian Levine, astrophysics educator at the American Museum of Natural History, will explain the enormity of the solar system during his lecture.

Info: 341-4891 or www.sunyorange.edu. SUNY Orange, Gilman Center for International Education, Middletown, free.

7PM Roman Holiday. 1953, 118 minutes, not rated. Info: www.palacealbany.com or 518-4654663. Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $5, $3 /child.

7PM “She Loves You – The Beatles and New York.” Multi-media lecture will explore the impact of the British invasion on New York, led

by The Beatles in February 1964, their historic concert at Shea Stadium, JohnLennon’s NYC connection and discuss how their music continues to be an inspiration. Info: www.artscenteronline.org or 518-273-0552. The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River St, Troy.

7:30PM-8:30PM Tai-Chi & Chi Gung Class with Michael (over 30 yrs exp). Beginning January 6 Mondays 7:30-8:30pm. Build a total integrated mind/body fitness while cultivating life’s abundant healing energy. Cost $25 month or $10per class. Info & to sign-up: 389-2431 or whitecranehall.com. 77 Cornell St. #116, Kingston.

7:30PM Setting the Record Straight, a tellall about the musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, rescheduled from previous week. Presented

by Tony Musso, author of the book by the same name. Info: 255-7742. Theater/Meeting Room,300 Vineyard Ave, Highland.

8PM Open Mic/Poetry Night. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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9AM-10AM Dance Exercise with Inyo Charbonneau. An emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation

6PM-7:30PM Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee. A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). Info: 475-8781.

7 PM-9 PM Open Mic. On-going, Tuesdays, 7-9pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 246-5775.

7PM-10PM Jazz Jam. Every Tuesday, 7-10pm.

452-3232. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop . Meets every Tuesday night, 7pm-8:30pm.Free to attend: learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln, New Paltz.

7:30PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Evening Speaker Series. James Brown, From Escaped Slave to Master Gardener. Elaine Hayes, Executive Director of Mount Gulian Historic Site in Beacon, NY, will talk. Info:www.hhnaturemuseum.org or-534-5506 x 204. Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, 222 Hudson St, Cornwall, $7.

7:30PM-9:30PM Life Drawing Classes. Tuesdays & Thursdays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

8PM “Embraceable You.” Alex Peh, Piano Recital. Info: 257-2700 or www.newpaltz.edu/ music. SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theatre, New Paltz, $8, $6, $3.

8:30PM Sin City. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

Wednesday

2/12

9AM Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker.

Gentle yoga class offering warm-ups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9AM Waterman Bird Club Field Trip to Millbrook School . Call: Adrienne @ 264-2015. Web: www.watermanbirdclub.org. Millbrook School, Museum/zoo parking lot, 131 Millbrook School Rd, Millbrook.

9:30AM-1:30PM Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Franny Reese State Park.

Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate, 3-mile hike. Info: 255-0919. JohnsonIorio Park, Highland, free.

10AM Rip Van Winkle (RVW): Saugerties Lighthouse. Easy Walk. Info: 246-4590 or www.newyorkheritage.com/rvw/ Saugerties Lighthouse, Saugerties.

10AM School Time Arts In Education Series.

I Have a Dream: The Life & Times of Martin Luther King Jr. A dramatization of the life and times of one of the most influential and charismatic leaders of the “American Century.” by Bruce Craig Miller. Reservations required. Info: 518-465-3335 x 132.

10AM-11AM Toddler Time. A story and play time combination designed to give toddlers, babies and their caregivers time in the library listening to stories, singing songs and having fun with sensory activities. Meets on Weds. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

11AM Art Lecture Series: Amy Yoes, graphic designer. Call 257-3830 for location. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, free.

11:30AM-1PM Compassionate Communication

(NVC) Practice Group. Additional session Feb. 26. RSVP. Info: www.PracticingPeace-NewPaltz. com. The Sanctuary, 5 Academy St, New Paltz, $12.

11:30AM-12:30PM Socrates Café. A forum for discussing a moral, ethical, or philosophical issue in a highly engaging, constructive way. Lunch & Learn series. Info: 471-0430. Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 S. Grand Ave, Kingston.

12PM Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellowship, lunch, and an informative and interesting presentation from a guest speaker. Meets every Wed at 12noon. Web: www.kingstonnyrotary.org.

Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

1 PM Kingston Community Singers Open Rehearsals. Old Dutch Church, Wall St, Kingston, 339-0637.

2PM Free Workshop on VA Aid & Attendance Pension Benefit. Knowledgeable representatives from Veterans Financial will be reviewing the eligibility criteria and showing how families can be eligible. Info: 677-8550.

3:30PM-4:30PM Creative Writing for Kids and Tweens. A workshop for children ages 8 to 12, led

by Kanani Schnider, a junior at Rondout Valley High School. Meets on Wednesdays. Registration is limited, and registration isrecommended. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com.

Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

5:30PM-6:30PM Come out of your Winter Brain Freeze to celebrate Healthy Happy Hour! Certified Health Coach and Nutritionist, Vicki Koenig is hosting a “Healthy Happy Hour” presentation on effective weight loss leading to Optimal Health. Come join others looking to create health in their lives at 22 North Front St, New Paltz, Free. 255-2398 to RSVP. 6PM-7:30PM Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee. A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). Info: 475-8781 orwww. enjan.org. Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library, Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie.

6PM-7:30PM MAKOplasty® Seminar. Dr. David Stamer, Mid Hudson Medical Group, Orthopedic Surgeon at Vassar Brothers Medical Center will lead the discussion. Info: 483-6088. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, 200 Westage Business Center Dr, Suite 330, Fishkill.

6:30PM Ulster County Photography Club. Mini Class. Info: 338-5580 or www.esopuslibrary.org.

Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

6:30PM Ulster County Photography Club Monthly Meeting. Lindsay, the Education Coordinator at the Center for Photography of Woodstock, will informally discuss critique methods and participate in a “peer critique” session.

Info:www.ucphotoclub.org or jags@hvc.rr.com.

Port Ewen Library, Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

6:30PM Spanish Storytime. Weekly on Wednesdays. Led by Stephanie Santos. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

6:45PM-8:15PM Rebecca Martin and Larry Grenadier. Fundraiser concert benefiting the co-ed scouting group, 91st Sojourners. Info: 331-0030. Outdated Café, 314 Wall St, Kingston, $25, $40 /for 2.

7PM-9:30PM Jazz Wednesday at Dave’s Coffee House. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on bass and special guests will be performing an ongoing jazz night starting at 8pm Dave’s Coffee House, Saugerties.

7PM Darwin Days. Chasing Ice. Info: www. vassar.edu. Vassar College, Blodgett Hall, Nora Ann Wallace ’73 Auditorium, Poughkeepsie, Free.

7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission-no dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm.

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

8:30PM Naked. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz.

9AM-5PM Health Care Enrollment Assistance.

Open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace continues through March 31. Health Care Navigators available by appointment. Call for appointment: 800-453-4666.

10:30AM Book Explorers Storytime. For ages 4 and up. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

1PM-4PM Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Most players are elementary and intermediate players.

Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1:30PM-2:15PM Free Lunchtime Meditation Group. On-going, Thurs, 1:30-2:15pm. Open to all levels, weekly guided meditation and relaxation exercises. Donations welcome. Web: www. lindamlaurettalcsw.com. Serenity Counseling Center, 101 Hurley Ave, Kingston.

3:30PM-5PM Movie Madness: The Phantom Tollbooth. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

3:30PM Math Regents Prep. Every Wed. @ 3:30pm Certified Math Teacher - Don’t fail Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. Empowering Ellenville, 159 Canal St, Ellenville, 877-576-9931.

5:30PM-6:30PM Mixed Levels -Tai Chi. Led

by Martha Cheo. Winter session is from Jan 2 - March 27. Beginners need to call Martha Cheo directly to join the winter session at 256-9316.

Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

6PM-7PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm.

Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www. skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6:30PM-7:15PM Advanced Tai Chi. Led by Martha Cheo. Winter session is from Jan 2 - March 27. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

6:30PM-7:30PM Introduction to Meditation.

Susan Olin-Dabrowski of “Whole Person Healing” will lead this free workshop. Info: www.beekmanlibrary.org or 724-3414. Beekman Library,

7PM-8:30PM Shawangunk Ridge Free Public Lecture Series: Climbing and Conservation in the Gunks. With Mohonk Preserve Director of Conservation Science John Thompson and Mohonk Preserve Research Associate and climber Joe Bridges, Ph.D. Info: www.mohonkpreserve. org/events. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center, Room 102, New Paltz, free.

7PM-9PM Grow Your Own! Winter Lecture Series for Home Gardeners. Four different two hour courses each containing two different lectures designed to prepare the avid home gardener for the upcoming growing season.

Registration required. Info: 340-3990 x335 or www.cceulster.org. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston, $15 /per class, $50 /for 4 classes.

7 PM “Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended: Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for Freedom.”

Rutgers University Professor Dr. Louis P. Masur will trace the evolution of President Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about emancipation, the place of blacks in American society. Info: 341-4891 or www.sunyorange.edu. SUNY Orange, Gilman Center for International Education, Middletown, free.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Casey Erdmann + Band. Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM “She Loves You – The Beatles and New York.” Multi-media lecture will explore the impact of the British invasion on New York, led

by The Beatles in February 1964, their historic concert at Shea Stadium, JohnLennon’s NYC connection and discuss how their music continues to be an inspiration. Info: www.bethlehempubliclibrary.org or 518-439-9314. Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave, Delmar.

7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley.

No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

7PM-9PM Kingston-Rhinebeck Toastmasters Club. Practice public speaking. Guests are welcome. Info: 338-5184 or KingstonRhinebeckTM@gmail.com or www.Kingston-RhinebeckToastmasters.com. Ulster County Office 7:30PM-9:30PM Life Drawing Classes. Tuesdays & Thursdays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch and Bill Keith. 679-3484 Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

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Mid-Hudson ADK Outing: President’s Day Weekend at Wiezel Cabin at Heart Lake. Contact Pete McGinnis for additional information pmcgin1@aol.com. Info: www.MidHudsonADK. org.

3rd Annual Northeast Regional C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop (2/142/16). Offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business. Info: www.c2cfellows.org or 752-4514., Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson.

Frost Valley Family Weekend (2/14- 2/17). A winter wonderland of fun: skiing, skating, tubing, and hot cocoa by the fire. 2 or 3 night packages.

Info: 985-2291; info@frostvalley.org or www. frostvalley.org. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville.

9:30AM Premiere of the Documentary Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence in honor of One Billion Rising 2014.

Info: 383-1361. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston, free.

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art gallery and art school, and the fervent admiration of generations of devoted art students. To his personal credit, he leaves a lasting legacy of art, beauty and a sustaining example, having led a life of purpose with unwavering determination and accomplishment.

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by Lisa Childers he latest Onteora Central School District 2011-2012 budget proposal does not include massive layoffs as might be seen in other districts, but does feature the elimination of six teacher positions and reductions to part-time of another five, among job cuts in many sectors. The cuts are seen as a reaction to declining enrollment, but also contribute to a total plan that increases spending by only 0.87 percent, that would translate, based on revenue figures, to a 3.9 percent levy increase.

At the Tuesday, March 22 board of education meeting at Woodstock Elementary, school officials presented The Superintendent’s Recommended Budget to trustees that includes an increase in spending to a total of $50,477,497. If the board adopts the budget at its April 5 session, voters will be asked to vote on the budget on May 17. If voters reject the budget proposal, a contingency (or austerity) budget could be put in place that would eliminate $121,785 from the equipment budget line, as mandated by the

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he Phoenicia Library was gutted by fire in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 19.

Within three days, plans were already in place to open a temporary library on Saturday, March 26, in the building recently vacated by Maverick Family Health, across from the Phoenicia post office.

“It’ll be a bare-bones operation,” cautioned library director Tracy Priest. “We’re restoring minimal services, but we want to open our doors. People can return library books and pick up books they’ve ordered from interlibrary loan. From the Mid-Hudson Library System, we’re borrowing a computer and components we need to check books in and out. We’ll open at 10 a.m., and Letter Friends, the early literacy program, will happen at its normal time, 11 a.m. We’re looking eventually to have a small lending library, which may be on the honor system, since all our bar codes were destroyed in the fire.”

Writing classes and other programs scheduled for later in the spring will be held as planned. It looks like at least a couple of computers will be donated for use by patrons.

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cal fire, which started in the back of the building. “We don’t have a full report on the extent of the damage,” said Priest, who visited the building after the fire with the insurance adjuster and Town of Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley.

“The adjuster said there has to be a second claims adjustment because it’s considered a major loss. We don’t think any books or materials will be salvageable. But because of the location of the fishing collection, we may be able to clean some of that and save it.”

The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection includes more than 500 fishing and nature books, plus an exhibit of fishing rods, lures, fly tying gear, and photographs.

“The books are a mess,” said Priest.

“Everything is fused together and melted.

What’s in the front of the building has been damaged by smoke and water, but everything there is like we left it. Then you cross a line towards the back, and everything is black. There’s a hole of the ceiling of the children’s room, and you can look right up into my office upstairs.

Everything from my desk is on the floor Continued on Page 7

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Pictured is the cast of 90 Miles off Broadway's upcoming production of "I Remember Mama". Top row, left to right: Dushka Ramic as Aunt Jenny, Wendy Rudder as Aunt Sigrid, Zane Sullivan as Nils, Joel Feldstein as Papa, Wayne Kreuscher as Uncle Chris, Julia Cohen as Katrin, Ken Thompson as Mr. Thorkelson and Sherry Kitay as Aunt Trina. Bottom row left to right: Chloe Gold as Dagmar, Kim Lupinacci as Mama and Carly Feldstein as Christina.

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10AM Mohonk Preserve – Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve. Hear about napping animals, hungry birds, or icy tracks and celebrate the snowy season. Info: 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve, Visitor Center, New Paltz.

7PM-8:30PM Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response. A group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Info: 876-7906 or www.mideastcrisis.org. Woodstock

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9:30AM-10:30AM Fit After Fifty with Diane Collelo. Strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Tinker St, Woodstock.

10AM-11AM Preschool Story Time. “Boogie Woogie Books” with Amy Dunphy. Meets on Thursdays. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

11 Town Center Blvd, Hopewell Junction, free.

INETY MILES OFF Broadway will present “I Remember Mama” at the New Paltz Reformed Church on Nov. 2, Nov. 3, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. The play will also be performed at the First United Methodist Church in Highland on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The story shows how Mama,

with the help of her husband and her Uncle Chris, brings up the children in a modest San Francisco home during the early years of the century. Mama, with sweetness and capability, sees her children through childhood, managing to educate them and to see one of her daughters begin a career as a writer.

Mama’s sisters and uncle furnish a rich

background for a great deal of comedy and a little incidental tragedy. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $8 for students on opening night only, $12 for seniors/students and advanced sales and $10 for members/groups.

For additional information, e-mail email@ninetymilesoffbroadway.com or call 256-9657.

N TUESDAY, NOV. 6, not only will residents vote on numerous contended races -- most notably being who shall become the president of the US -- but there will also be a plethora of local votes cast for federal, state, county and municipal political leaders.

In the Town of Lloyd, the only local referendum on the ballot is for voters to decide whether or not the town clerk, town highway superintendent and town supervisor should have their two-year terms extended to four years. These are all separate referenda, as suggested by Lloyd supervisor Paul Hansut, who said that he wants to give “voters a chance to weigh in on each and every position, and not lump them all together, as many towns have done in the past.”

The idea behind the four-year term, according to Hansut, is to give those elected to office “enough time to get familiar with the nuts and bolts of the job, Continued on page 12

The big read One Book/One New Paltz to read & discuss The Submission

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Pictured are some of the members of the One Book/One New Paltz committee (left to right): Jacqueline Andrews, Linda Welles, Maryann Fallek, John Giralico, Shelley Sherman and Myra Sorin.

Phoenicia Library after the fire.

HAT WOULD HAPPEN if the selected architect for a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero turned out to be a Muslim-American? How would people react to the news, particularly those families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack? There are no easy answers to the questions raised by award-winning author Amy Waldman in her debut novel The Submission, chosen as this

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year’s One Book/One New Paltz readers’ selection.

In Library Journal, Sally Bissell remarks that this book is an “insightful, courageous, heartbreaking work that should be read, discussed, then read again.” This is exactly what One Book/ One New Paltz will attempt to do as it embarks on its seventh year of a communitywide reading program filled with events, reading groups, panels and featured authors and actors. One Book is a Continued on page 12

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hen Jenny Lee Fowler moved from Oregon in 1997, she decided to mark each snowfall that first winter in the East by cutting a snowflake out of paper. Being a person who makes things by hand, it seemed like a fun thing to do. Then, like the icy flakes that drift lazily on the wind before becoming a full-fledged storm, the act of cutting paper snowflakes took on a momentum of its own as Fowler became fascinated with the folk tradition of papercutting.

One day, her father-in-law asked her if she’d ever done a portrait, like the silhouettes created by folk artists. Her interest piqued, Fowler dared herself to cut 100 portraits of people.

Beginning with friends and family, she later moved on to cutting portraits of strangers, who would sit for her at the campus center at Bard, where Fowler worked.

“I practiced a lot and found that I totally loved it,” says Fowler. “It kind of surprised me because I’d thought of silhouette portraits as these kind of ‘stuffy’ things, and then I realized that they were really cross-sections of people at a moment in time. I started to see them as more dynamic.”

Fowler came across a passage in which one of the early papercutters called silhouette portraits “a moment’s monument,” a description that she finds particularly apt. “They really do capture a little moment, and even the same person can have a different portrait the next day,” Fowler explains.

Artful papercutting is now Fowler’s niche, and the Continued on page 13

Beauty of the beat PHOTOS BY PHYLLIS MCCABE

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INGSTON’S CORNELL PARK HOSTED THE ANNUAL DRUM BOOGIE FESTIVAL LAST SATURDAY,

where dozens gathered to get their drum on. At left, Hethe Brenhill of the Mandara ensemble, dances in the sun. At right, a member of the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) gets in the rhythm. For more pics, see page 10.

THEATER ON A TRAIN ‘Dutchman’ uses Trolley Museum’s subway car as unusual stage for play exploring sensitive topic of interracial relations.

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TEEN SCENE “The Den” to open in Midtown, giving youths a place to dance, gather and do something positive.

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FIGHTING FOR MIDTOWN Challengers in Ward 4 Common Council race say incumbent isn’t doing enough to help Kingston’s poorest neighborhoods get their fair share. Page 2

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BIG ‘O’ Organizers say second annual O-Positive fest will more art, tunes, awareness and health care to Kingston’s creative community.

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9:30 AM Join Natalie Merchant for the premiere of “Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence. A panel discussion on the positive changes that have occurred as a result of One Billion Rising Ulster County which was held last year, follows. Info: 383-1361.

Old Dutch Church, Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St, Kingston, free.

7:30PM Friday Film Series: Moonstruck. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $6, 339-6088.

9:30AM-12PM Minnewaska Preserve: Valentine’s Day Waterfall Snowshoe. Approximately 2.5 mile long snowshoe hike. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Peter’s Kill Climbing Area, Gardiner, $8/per car.

8PM O+ Festival Kick-Off for 2014 Submissions. Join the O+ folks and musicians: Simi Stone, And the Kids, Old Double E, for a night of music, games, fun, and a silent auction to herald the call for artists and musicians to be part of the 2014 O+ Festival. Info: www.opositivefestival.org.

The Anchor, 744 Broadway, Kingston.

9:30AM-3:30PM The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program provides free, reliable tax preparation service for low to middle income families, individuals and seniors. By appointment only. Please call 2-1-1 to schedule anappointment. Info: www. poklib.org or 485-3445 x 3702. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie, free.

10:30AM Toddler Tales Storytime. For ages 2-3.

Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

12PM-5PM Arlington Farmers’ Market. Every Thursday from 12 to 5pm, when school is in session. Info: www.vassar.edu or 437-7035 Vassar Main Building, College Center, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

12:05PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM Valentine’s Day Party. Info: 626-2115; www.townofrochester.net. Rochester Community Center, 50 Scenic Rd, Accord.

3:30PM-4:30PM After School Story Hour.

Theme is The Dewey Decimal System. Sessions for second and third graders meet on Fridays.

Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@ aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

3:30PM After School Crafts. For ages 8-12. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

4PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Scene in the Hudson Valley.” Features images of Hudson Valley barns, as well as images from Sapienza’s “Scene in the Hudson Valley” series. Info: www. parkavenueartphoto.com. Grand Cru and Cheese Market,6384 Mill St, Rhinebeck.

5PM-8PM Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park “Save a Heart - Buy Some Art.” Fund-raiser for the American Heart Association Music & Dancing, Gourmet Desserts, Door Prizes, Raffles. Info: 229-9029. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, 4338 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, $10.

6PM Bill & Brian Robinson’s Wildlife Program.

For animal lovers of all ages. Free. Info: 338-5580.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

6:15PM Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner.

Kosher dairy or parve please. Followed by services at 7:30pm. The Kerhonkson Synagogue, 26 Minnewaska Trail, Ellenville, 626-2010.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Frank Luther on bass, John Esposito on piano, Mike DeMicco on guitar, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists. No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville, 518-678-3101.

7PM Valentine’s Evening of Love, Romance, and Eros. Featuring spoken word, music, art.

Hosted by Molly from County Cork & Pookie Mellow. Res. Suggested. Info: 246-5306. Café Mezzaluna, 626 Route 212, Saugerties, $10.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Alexis P. Suter Band’s Valentine to The Falcon! Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsOfWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Route 212, Woodstock, $20, $15.

7:30PM Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band. Featuring vocalist Claudette Sierra. Info: 758-7900 or www.fishercenter.bard.edu Bard College, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, $20.

8PM Next to Normal. Trinity Players presents the rock musical Broadway sensation of 2009: mental illness within a suburban family forces us to question the price of happiness. Info: www.centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080, $26, $24.

8 PM “A Day in Court.” Written by Ron Marquette. The play depicts the historic testimony of Hollywood actor Larry Parks before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Benefits the Ron Marquette Writers Scholarship.

SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge, $10.

8PM Amy and Leslie Valentine’s Day Concert.

Info: 658-9048. Rosendale Café, Main St, Rosendale, $15.

8PM-12AM Dutchess County Singles Dance.

Meets every second Friday of the month. There will be a wide range of music by DJ Johnny Angel and a light dinner buffet with dessert and coffee.

Admission is $15.Door prizes and 50/50 raffle.

Info: www.dutchesscountysingles.org or e-mail: dcsingles28@yahoo.com. Mercury Grand Hotel, 2170 South Road (Rt 9), Poughkeepsie.

9PM Robert Randolph & The Family Band.

Valentine’s Show. Info: www.bearsvilletheater. com or 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $35.

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Mid-Hudson ADK Outing: Presidents Day Ski Weekend in the Adirondack Park West-Central Region. Leader: Ron Gonzalez - iamrongon@ gmail.com. Open to experienced backcountry skiers. Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 310 Flatbush Avenue, Kingston, NY on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 2:00 PM for Steel Sheet Piling, BID #RFB-UC14-04. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster. ny.us/purchasing.

Robin L. Peruso, CPPB, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 310 Flatbush Avenue, Kingston, NY on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM for Steel

required. A moderate to strenuous, 8-mile snowshoe or hike (if not enough snow) led byMartin Bayard (229-2216). Info: 255-0919. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Lower Lot, Gardiner, $8 / per car.

10AM-3PM Friends of the Kingston Library Used Book Sale. The sale helps raise funds to support library programs, such as the popular children’s Super Saturday series. Info: 331-0507, or www.kingstonlibrary.org. Kingston LIbrary, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

10AM Concerto Competition. Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. Info: 758-6822 or conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu. Bard College, Laszlo Z. Bito Conservatory Building, Annandaleon-Hudson.

10AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing – Litchfield Ledge Snowshoe or Hike. Aged 18 and above. No reservations

Bridge Materials, BID #RFB-UC14-05.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Robin L. Peruso, CPPB, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 310 Flatbush Avenue, Kingston, NY on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM for Prefabricated Steel Bridge Truss, BID #RFB-UC14140C. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Robin L. Peruso, CPPB, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 310 Flatbush Avenue, Kingston, NY on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 3:30 PM for Pre-Cast Concrete Bridge Deck Panels, BID #RFBUC14-141C. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Robin L. Peruso, CPPB, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

4PM-6PM Opening Reception: Landscape in Oil and Florals in Watercolor. Works by Sylvia Ruth Weinberg. Info: 246-5306. Cafe Mezzaluna, 626 Route 212, Saugerties.

5PM-7PM Art Reception: “ROUGE.” Paintings that reflect the Heart and Passion of the Season. Info: www.betsyjacarusoartist.com or 516-4435. Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, The Courtyard, 43 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

10AM Repair Café. Led by repair coach John Wackman. Tools and materials to help you make the repair you need: on furniture, small appliances & housewares, clothes, crockery, toys.

Info:www.facebook.com/RepairCafeNewPaltz.

Info: 646-302-5835 or email: jwackman@gmail. com. New Paltz United Methodist Church, Main St, New Paltz.

10AM-2PM Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market.

Offering breads & baked goods, fresh fish, meat & eggs, fruits & veg, gourmet peanut butter & local wine. Cooking EducationSeries: Farmers’ Market Cooking. Classes 11 am-1pm on the 3rd Sat of the month thru April . $30 /per class. Info: lori@ kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Old Dutch Church, Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St, Kingston.

10:30AM Super Saturday Series: “Mad Science Up Up and Away.” Discover the science of air pressure with unforgettable fun demonstrations. Info: 331-0507, or www.kingstonlibrary. org. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

10:30AM-11:30AM Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO, Kingston, 339-0637.

11:30 AM-2 PM Gardiner Winter Farmers’ Market. Offering organically grown seasonal vegetables; organic free range meats and eggs; local honey and honey products; organic breads and pastries; dried, pickled and preserved vegetables and fruits. Held on the third Saturday of every month thru May from 11:30am - 2pm.

484-553-4602. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

10AM-5PM Jewelry Trunk Show with Designs

by Barbara Walters (2/15 & 2/16). One-of-akind, unique, handmade jewelry by designer Barbara Walters. Come see the Trunk Show plus the worlds LARGEST Kaleidoscope!info: 88-2828 or www.emersonresort.com.Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going every Saturday, 2pm in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 Ext. 1012 Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Open every Saturday, 10am-9pm. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

9 AM Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge.

246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

10AM-2PM Free Fly-Tying Classes. (2/15, 2/22, 3/1 & 3/8) Fun with feathers and fur! Open to ages 14 or above. Bring your own tools although there are a number of vises for youngsters to use.

Feathers and hooks will be supplied. Registration is required. Info: 254-5904. Phoenicia Fish and Game, Rt 28, Phoenicia.

1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Puppet Story Time. Ongoing on Saturdays, 1-3pm. The Green Palette, 215 Main Street inside of the Medusa Antique Center Building, New Paltz.

5PM “Kid to Kid.” Film screening & pen pal event to benefit the I:AM International Foundation.

Info: www.www.artomi.org. Omi Visitors Center, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, free.

11AM-12PM Hula Hooping. Hoop dancing is growing in popularity as a new exercise regime practiced by women and men of all ages. Info: www.beekmanlibrary.org or 724-3414. Beekman Library, 11 Town Center Blvd, Hopewell Junction, free.

9AM-10:30AM Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 679-8800.

St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

performing military drills and givingpresentations. Info: 562-1195. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Liberty and Washington St, Newburgh.

10AM-2PM Middletown Historical Society Bake Sale. Fundraiser for a new roof. Info: natty55@verizon.net, or 607-326-4817. Freshtown, Margaretville.

9AM Waterman Bird Club Field Trip to Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center. Meet at barns. Call: Barbara @ 297-6701 if you plan to attend. Web: www.watermanbirdclub.org. Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center, 79 Farmstead Ln, Wappingers Falls.

legals LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 310 Flatbush Avenue, Kingston, NY on Thursday, FEBRUARY 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM for , BID # RFB-UC14-02 COLD IN PLACE RECYCLING Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Robin L. Peruso, CPPB, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

February 6, 2014

12PM Annual German Heritage Day. The Germania Men and Ladies Chorus together with the GTV Germania Almrausch Schuhplattler and Kindergruppe will be performing at 12 noon, 1:30PM and 3PM. Info: 452-6219 or 471-0609. Poughkeepsie Galleria, Center Court, Poughkeepsie.

12PM-1:30PM Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka, certified hypnotist. Sponsored by the Health Alliance and Open to the community! Saturdays 12-1:30pm, 2/15, 4/19, 5/17, 6/21. To register: call Doris339-2071 or email: Doris.Blaha@hahv.org or www.CallTheHypnotist.com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

12PM-3PM Melina’s Boutique Spring Preview.

Join us in Melina’s Boutique for a meet and greet with fashion stylist & buyer, Melina. Melina will personally preview her new Spring Collection and be on hand to give you personal styling suggestions. Info: 688-2828 or www.emersonresort. com. Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

12PM-4PM George Washington’s Birthday Celebration! General will be greeting visitors in his office, while balladeer Thad McGregor will be entertaining them. Reenactors will be

7PM An Evening of Music & Art by Jazz Legend Bucky Pizzarelli. Concert followed by an artist’s reception that includes wine and food and a special viewing of Bucky’s original artwork. Info: 784-1199. Ritz Theater, 107 Broadway, Newburgh.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Grammy winner Malcolm Cecil on bass, guitarist Steve Raleigh, pianist Peter Tomlinson, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists.

No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, Palenville.

7PM Movies with Spirit. ‘Red Like the Sky, ’ Fairytale-like true story about sightless boy. Info: (845) 389-9201 or gerryharrington@mindspring. com. Christ Episcopal Church, 20 Carroll St, Poughkeepsie, $5.

7PM A Venitian Valentine’s Masquerade. A masked ball in an historic mansion with opera, excellent wine, great food and dancing. Black tie- Masks required. Info: www.Spillian.com or 800- 811-3351. Spillian Mansion, Fleischmanns.

7PM Love Heals - Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the HealthAlliance Oncology Support Memoir Group. All funds and donations go to support this and other programs provided for those who have been touched by cancer. Info:758-2667 or julietharrison@earthlink.net. Red Hook Village Hall, 7467 South Broadway, Red Hook.

7:30PM An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith.

Impressionist. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 758-7900. Bard College, Theater Two, Annandale-on-Hudson, $25.

7:30PM The Fab Faux. Featuring the Crème Tangerine Strings and Hogshead Horns. Info: www.theegg.org/event/the-fab-faux or 518-4731845. The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany, $45, $35.

7:30PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsOfWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Route 212, Woodstock, $20/adults, $15/srs & students.

8 PM “A Day in Court.” Written by Ron Marquette. The play depicts the historic testimony of Hollywood actor Larry Parks before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Benefits the Ron Marquette Writers Scholarship.

SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge, $10.

8PM 2nd Annual Winter Fundraising Party. A fundraising event for the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum. Includes dinner, an audio-visual presentation about the aerodrome and live music from a number of the Hudson Valley’s musicians.

Info: www.oldrhinebeck.org or 752-3200. CJ’s Restaurant, 353 Old Post Rd, Rhinebeck, $20.

8PM Next to Normal. Trinity Players presents the rock musical Broadway sensation of 2009: mental illness within a suburban family forces us to question the price of happiness. Info: www. centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck, $26,$24.

8PM Laura Kaminsky. Composer and musician w/political and social themes. Info: 518-822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.org. Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St, Hudson, $18.

8:30PM Bernie & Mike. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

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8:30PM Freestyle Frolic Community Anniversary Dance. Barefoot, smoke-free, no drugs or alcohol allowed.No partner necessary. $5-10/ adults, $2-7/teens & srs, free/kids & volunteers. Info: www.freestylefrolic.org or 658-8319.

Knights of Columbus, 389 Broadway, Kingston.

8:30PM Singer/Songwriter Spencer Day. One Night Only! A reception following the show with complimentary Prosecco and chocolates. Info: 518-822-9667 or www.stageworkshudson.org.

Stageworks/Hudson, 41 Cross St, Hudson, $20.

9PM Blind Boys of Alabama with Nicole Atkins opening. Info: www.bearsvilletheater.com or 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $50, $40, $30.

9PM Karaoke /Live Music Every Saturday. $5 cover includes a Free Drink! Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

9PM Joe Louis Walker. Info: 692-3227. Brian’s Backyard BBQ & Blues, 1665 Route 211 East City, Middletown.

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Responsible for registration of resident and day camp. Great Benefits! Send application and resume to Linda Campbell, HR, hr@ frostvalley.org 845-985-2291. EOE.

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CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)901-8513

child care

EXCELLENT CHILD CARE AVAILABLE in your home. Warm, creative, fun, educational, highly responsible. 17 years of experience, terrific local references. Regular position or occasional hours. Available weekdays/weekends, evenings & overnight. Woodstock area preferred. Please call Hilary (917)370-3153, (845)679-7169, ext. 121.

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679-8939 Woodstock Est.1983 www.supertotsnurseryschool.com

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HudsonValleyBalineseGamelanOrchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana invite you to to come&play!Ifyouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;recuriousorwouldliketolearn how to play gamelan, drop by Bard Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olin Building,3rdFloorMoonRoomat7pmtoobserve the Bard College student gamelan rehearsal or stay & join the 9 pm Gamelan Gir Mekar community ensemble rehearsal. Instruction is free of charge w/master musician, Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadin. Saturday Workshops for Beginners w/Ibu Sue are designed to assist newcomers and provide some cultural context. Next 4 week series starts on Sat., Feb. 8. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be shy. Gamelan is fun. Donations to help offset our production costs are always appreciated & tax deductible. To register or make a donation pls. contact Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kenchana at Bard College on FB; Visit our Events page at: http://www.facebook.com/ events/259714224163790/ , email pillasdp@ hvc.rr.com or call 845-688-7090.

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real estate

MARLBORO: SUPER VALUE! 1700 sq.ft.

3-BEDROOM. FSBO. Renovations recently completed: New Floors, New Paint, Large Kitchen, Oak Cabinets, Walk Out Deck to fenced backyard, Heat oil and Pellet Stove, Washer & Dryer. Great village location; Grand St. $115k- possible short term financing, 15% down. Info & Pictures at www.hpictures.biz.ly or 845-309-9237.

SCHOOL OF THE NEW MOON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Since 1972 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Pre-K thru Early Elementary Christine Oliveira - Director 679-7112 www.schoolofthenewmoon.com

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WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GROUP FOR SURVIVORS of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Gently release the past and move into a more peaceful future.

Meets every other Saturday, New Paltz, starting 2/22/14. 4-meetings/$40. 845282-6400; cindy@RisingStarEnergetics. com

Man With A Van Moving Co. DOT # 16' Moving 255-6347 32476 Trucks Moving & Delivery Service Reasonable Rates â&#x20AC;˘ Free Estimates 8 Enterprise Rd., New Paltz, NY

WE BUY HOUSES! CASH PAID, QUICK CLOSINGS! Will look at any condition properties. We are the largest private buyer of homes in Ulster County and can provide references. Please call Dan @ Winn Realty Associates, LLC, 845/514-2500 or email dan@winn-realty.com.

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PRIME BUILDING LOT. 3 ACRES; $30,000. Town of Woodstock.

Call (845)246-2525 or (518)250-4305.

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PRIVATE BUYER (non-realtor) SEEKING PROPERTY to purchase w/a private natural waterfall. 2-10 acres needed. Maybe subdivide? Can be either a vacant, SECLUDED parcel of land, OR property w/a house with a natural, private waterfall (w/year-round views, NOT just seasonal). Must be secluded (absolutely no homes in view), AND MUST BE WITHIN 10 MINUTES DRIVE TO WOODSTOCK. CASH OFFERED, CAN CLOSE IMMEDIATELY! Contact: sabe1970@yahoo.com.au w/photos/info. or call (518)965-7223.

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office space commercial rentals

NEW PALTZ: OFFICE/PROFESSIONAL SPACE(S) for rent. Large, beautiful Soho loft-like space(s) w/brick walls & new large windows. Faces the Gunks w/great views.

71 Main Street. Best downtown location.

Former architect office(s). Will divide. Call owner (917)838-3124.

OFFICE SPACE, 375 sq.ft. $800/month includes heat & A/C. 396 Wittenberg Rd., Bearsville. Call (845)679-5762.

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Colony Café

www.colonycafewoodstock.com

22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY

845.679.8639

CERTIFIED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR

FOR SALE BY OWNER Qualified Buyers Only

Anderson Center for Autism, a not for profit organization, offers the highest quality year round day and residential programs to children who have been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Our program model incorporates evidence based practice to best support students as they learn, grow and achieve personal milestones.

The successful candidate will ensure the integrity of educational systems and instructional programs across the school setting. He/she will provide leadership and supervision to faculty; collaborate with other departments in planning, implementing and sustaining educational and behavioral initiatives.

Call 845.679.8639 300sf APARTMENT-LIKE OFFICE SPACE. Utilities included. Behind Lowes, Route 299. 845-255-5920.

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Experience in the field of Special Education is a must. The successful candidate will be part of an administrative team overseeing a 12 month school program which serves 138 students from the ages of 5 through 21.

BEAUTIFUL STUDIO: Highland. Large, Bright & Beautiful Studio Apartment. $675/ month does not include utilities. No dogs. Longterm tenant preferred. Call (845)633-3103.

NYS SAS/SBL or SDA/SDL certification is required.

HIGHLANDEFFICIENCIESatvillabaglieri. com Furnished motel rooms w/micro, refrig, HBO & WiFi, all utilities. $135-$175 Weekly, $500-$660 Monthly, w/kitchenettes $185 or $200 weekly, $700 or $760 monthly + UC Taxes & Security. No pets. 845.883.7395.

We offer a generous benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, education incentives, retirement plan, and 403B plans.

Contact us or send your resume to:

Assistant Director of Human Resources Anderson Center for Autism P.O. Box 367 Staatsburg NY 12580 Ph: 845-889-9215 Fax: 845-889-3104 or E-mail: humanresources@andersonschool.org www.AndersonCenterforAutism.org EOE

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milton/marlboro rentals

MARLBORO. Country setting. SPACIOUS GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT. Open floor plan w/separate kitchen, bathroom & washer/dryer. ALSO, 1-BEDROOM furnished, second floor. Heat & electric included. Suitable for 1 or 2. No dogs. No smokers.

References. Security. Both $895/month.

845-795-5778; C: 845-489-5331.

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new paltz rentals

1 ROOM. Share modern kitchen & bath. Good student location. Wi-fi & utilities included. $475/ month. Security required. Call 845-304-2504.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Anderson Center for Autism, a not for profit organization, offers the highest quality year round day and residential programs to children and adults who have been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Our progressive curriculum features educational, cultural and recreational opportunities specifically designed to challenge each student to the limits of his or her own abilities.

Positions available: Registered Nurse: needed to provide day-to-day health care for children, adolescents and adults in a residential setting. Full time position; NYS certification required. Prior nursing experience with developmentally disabled and knowledge of OPWDD regulations preferred.

Occupational Therapist: to provide group and individual occupational therapy services for students and/or adults as indicated in either the IEP or ISP and in accordance with established goals monitoring progress. Full time position available; Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college in Occupational Therapy; Current NYS license and registration to practice as an OT. Residential Habilitation Specialists: We are looking for highly motivated, creative, flexible, team oriented and enthusiastic individuals to work in our community homes in Kingston, Stone Ridge, and Lake Katrine. Full time positions (40 hours) available for the 2nd shift (3:00pm-11:00pm) and 3rd shift full time positions (11:00pm-9:00am) (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). High school diploma/GED required; associates/bachelors degree or some college preferred.

We offer a generous benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, education incentives, retirement plan, and 403B plans for full-time employees.

Interested candidates may visit www.AndersonCenterforAutism.org and complete a job application online click on “Careers” Anderson Center for Autism: 4885 Route 9 P.O. Box 367 Staatsburg, NY 12580 Carol Weber Assistant Director- HR Phone: (845) 889-9215 Fax: (845) 889-3104 Email: HumanResources@ACenterforAutism.org EOE

Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information NEW PALTZ/HIGHLAND. 4 ROOM APARTMENT. Small, country setting. 2 miles Exit 18. $800/month, as is, plus heat and utilities.

References. Pets okay.

718-851-7940.

NEW PALTZ: 3-BEDROOM APARTMENT Beautiful mountain views. $1225/month plus utilities.

Washer/dryer, central air, dishwasher.

No pets. No smoking.

Call (845)256-1119.

NICE ROOMS; $415 & $470/month.

Excellent location. Close to SUNY college.

All utilities included. Call (914)474-5176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (845)255-6029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in center of New Paltz behind Starbucks. 1 block walk to SUNY, Post Office, stores and restaurants.

2 person max. Small pet friendly. No smoking. $990/month includes heat, off-street parking, garbage & snow removal. 845-2552062, marker1st@yahoo.com.

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1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in village.

Kitchen & bath. Parking available. Ideal for couple or 2 singles. Walk to everything. No pets. $1000/month includes all utilities. First, last and security. Available now. 845-255-8817.

1-BEDROOM for rent. Available NOW. Close to campus. No pets. Call 845-255-5649.

2-BEDROOM, $1050/month, includes cable TV, internet and electric. Heat and propane not included. FURNISHED ROOMS. $585/ month/room. Everything included- electric, heat, cable & internet. 3 miles south of S.U.N.Y. Call (917)721-0351.

3-BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOUSE. New hardwood floors, modern kitchen & bath, open floor plan, large master suite. 2 acres, basement, barn.

1 mile to SUNY, village & Thruway. New Paltz schools. $2000/month (negotiable). ALSO FOR SALE. (201)819-7685.

LARGE ROOM. Share modern kitchen & bath, Dishwasher, washing machine. $650/month includes all utilities. Security required. Call 845304-2504.

ROOM FOR RENT in 2-bedroom apartment; $500/month all utilities included. Half mile from SUNY campus. Call 914-850-1968.

ROOMS AVAILABLE for STUDENT HOUSING. Close to SUNY, New Paltz. Newly renovated, clean, large kitchen, appliances, WiFi/ computer access/TV, plenty of parking. $550/ month/room, electric & heat included. $550 deposit. Available now. 845-705-2430.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2014 and shortterm for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water.

Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205.

TILLSON: Brand New Private basement; 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR RENT. One regular size & one small bedroom - or office.

Huge walk-in closet in large bedroom. Large living room w/double sliding glass doors w/view of the Wallkill river. Closet space in living room. Full bathroom. Private entrance. This apartment is very private & secluded. Fishing - 4-wheeling boating. Lots of room for playing or just relaxing.

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LARGE 1-BEDROOM PLUS LOFT PRIVATE COTTAGE in Stone Ridge near Rail Trail. Newly renovated. $1000/month plus utilities. Security & references. Available now. No smoking. No dogs. Ideal for 1. 845-687-7822.

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2-BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR RENT. One regular size & one small bedroom - or office. Huge walkin closet in large bedroom. Large living room w/double sliding glass doors w/view of the Wallkill River. Closet space in living room.

Full bathroom. Private entrance.

This apartment is very private & secluded. Fishing - 4-wheeling boating. Lots of room for playing or just relaxing. Serious inquiries only. $1000/month including everything except propane heat. First month, last month & security a must.

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rosendale/ high falls/tillson/ stone ridge rentals

LOVELY, EXTRA LARGE 2-BR to Share in High Falls. Roommate wanted. Bedroom comes with two other rooms for studio or storage PLUS sharing living room, bath, kitchen, deck. Ample closets, living space, nature, quiet. $650/month plus reasonable utilities and internet. Security and references. 845-687-2035.

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WINTER SPECIAL!! COTTAGE FOR RENT. Full bath, 2-bedrooms, living room, kitchen.

No pets. No smoking. Call 845-255-2525, leave name & number.

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

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** Become a Fan of Colucci Shand Realty on Facebook ** STONE RIDGE COTTAGE. Available January. 650 sq.ft. 2-bedrooms, 1 bath. 6 acres w/creek, beautiful, quiet, deck w/ Lilacs. Private but not isolated. Indoor cat only. $800/month plus utilities. Please contact rklin3000@aol.com

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2-BEDROOM SPACIOUS APARTMENT. Plenty of closet space. Covered & off-street parking. $1100/month includes all utilities.

Security required. Just outside Port Ewen.

Some pets allowed, no dogs. (845)389-2132.

NICE, CLEAN, APARTMENT. 1 block from Kingston Hospital. Second floor. First, last, security, 1-year lease, references required. 2 occupants preferred. Pet friendly. 845-3318258.

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saugerties rentals

1-BEDROOM COTTAGE, private country setting, convenient to village & thruway.

Oak cabinets in kitchen, tiled bath, living room, washer/dryer, storage, lawn care. No pets/smokers. $750/month plus utilities.

References, lease, plus security. (845)4178098.

1-BEDROOM VILLAGE HOME. Fabulous waterfall views. $750/month plus utilities.

(845)246-1844.

L A R G E S T U D I O A P A R T M E N T. Exceptionally clean, bright & sunny. Italian tile kitchen & bath, Marble foyer, cathedral ceiling, French windows. ENERGY EFFICIENT. $900/month plus utilities.

(845)532-5080.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014 counter-top. Deck. Full bath. 2 acres. By stream. Garden. $700/month. First, last, & security. No pets preferred. References. 845679-2300, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

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BEAUTIFUL WOODSTOCK APARTMENT! 1-BEDROOM. Clean, large rooms, quiet. EIK, custom tiled 10-jet jaccuzzi bathroom, large private deck overlooking woods & pond. Beautiful grounds. Close to town. No smoking/dogs. $950/month.

References. 845-679-6408.

CENTER WOODSTOCK VILLAGE; 2-bedroom, 1 bath house, plus studio w/ bath. Ample storage, secluded deck, 1/4 acre.

Fireplace, W/D, propane heat. Parking. $1500/month plus utilities, last, security, references. Available now. Gardner included. (845)679-7002.

CHARMING 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT w/roof deck. Large porch, storage room, parking. Very private, 10 minutes to Woodstock. $1100/month, heat included. 2 year lease.

References and security. Available 2/1. Call 646-339-7017 or 917-439-2519.

As you drive up the long driveway you see this wonderful 3 bedrooms/ 1bath home sitting on just over 2.5 acres. Everything has been thought of in this totally redone home with lots of upgrades with Corian counters in the kitchen and bath adds an elegant touch to this easy living home. Close to Phoenicia Village and short drive to Belleayre Ski Resort. Call for all the details! $199,000

This 1800’s Kingston home has been lovingly updated to maintain all its charm! 9 foot ceilings, original moldings, large Eat-in kitchen, formal dining room & front parlor. Upstairs to 3 nice sized bedrooms and main bath. In the spring you can look forward to the perennials from the wrap around porch and enjoy the brick patio. Within walking distance to the Rondout waterfront! $165,000

This unique Post and Beam Contemporary home has everything you need! An open floor plan, high ceilings, a huge private master suite with 2 walkin closets, and a master bath with separate shower stall and jetted garden tub. Cooks will enjoy the large eat-in kitchen with custom cabinets and island. Brazilian cherry floors lead down the hall to the great room with gas fireplace. $333,000

WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM. Quiet upscale residential neighborhood. Beautiful grounds. Small quiet apartment complex.

Excellent condition & well maintained. $845/month includes all utilities. ALSO, FURNISHED 1-BEDROOM. $875/month includes all utilities. No smoking. References.

No pets. (845)679-9717.

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2-BEDROOM, FLEISCHMANNS. House on Main, set back from street. Walk to bus, post office, library, grocery, etc. $650/month plus utilities. Call 845-254-4998.

Log sided ski home is only a few steps to Windham slopes. Open floor plan with an updated kitchen with granite counters, vaulted ceilings in the living room, wood burning fireplace and glass sliders leads to the wrap around deck with hot tub and fire-pit! Master suite features a fireplace and large picture windows offers incredible panoramic views.

Desirable trail side location! $649,000

This well maintained home shows extremely well!

You’ll feel right at home when you cozy up next to the welcoming fireplace in the living room; while the four season sun room is perfect for entertaining guests with its cathedral ceilings. New laundry room in the basement with ½ bath & Media /family-room, Hardwood floors were recently refinished, new roof 2012 and air conditioning 2013. $275,000

This stately custom detailed home is perched overlooking the magnificent Hudson River! With views that stretch for miles in a wide panorama of sweeping vistas. The epitome of elegance and blissful living awaits you as you enter the front doors. Built with the attention to detail and functional design, the open floor plan of living/dining/kitchen features 10’ ceilings and lots of natural light! $1,500,000

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HIGH ON A HILL $359,000 Set on 11 +acres this home is well built w/a bluestone fireplace, beamed ceilings in the LR, HW floors & more!

OVERSIZED 2 car garage w/major space for studio,office or possible guest quarters on the second level w/ private entrance. BONUS....Is the 4 season sun room w/cathedral ceiling & view of the Ashokan Reservoir.

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APARTMENTS FOR RENT, SAUGERTIES Skyline Woods Apartments. Private country setting. Convenient location.

Under new management. Bright, updated, spacious, wall-to-wall carpet, lots of closet space. Laundry room and plenty of parking avail. 1- & 2-bedrooms starting at $750/month + utilities. Call Don at 845-443-0574 LOVELY VILLAGE APARTMENT. First floor apartment on the corner of Market & Finger St. A 5 ROOM APARTMENT with the ability for extra bedroom. Natural gas baseboard hot water heating and hot water heater. Laundry room with washer/dryer, plenty of closets, full kitchen with dishwasher and gas stove, dining room, family room, master bedroom, large living room which could be used as 2nd bedroom and full bath with bidet. The apartment comes with the use of backyard and detached garage plus off-

street parking space. $1100/month + security + utilities. Non-smokers, sorry no pets.

(845)246-8952.

NEWLY RENOVATED 1-BEDROOM STUDIO. Private entrance. Heat, parking, trash included. $750/month plus 1 month security. First & last month required. Small pet ok w/additional deposit. Available now.

845-706-0710.

Nice, comfortable 1-BEDROOM GUEST HOUSE on 3.5 acres. 8 minutes to town.

Warm, well-insulated, 12’ ceilings in LR w/ open kitchen. Safe, clean, great neighbors on the property. In Saugerties near Palenville.

Broadband/cable available. Decent credit & excellent references required. One pet considered. $795/month + gas/electric. Propane heat. 917-667-3970 or jeremyjava@ gmail.com SAUGERTIES: 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE available immediately. Eat-in kitchen. Yard on Esopus Creek. Newly renovated. $750/

month + utilities, security, references. Ask for Helona at Win Morrison Realty 845-2463300.

WEST SAUGERTIES: Available 2/15.

1-BEDROOM LOFT DUPLEX, cathedral ceiling, country setting. $825/month, first, last, security required. Washer/dryer in full basement, 1.5 baths, storage shed, upper and lower decks. Garage. fwpdmd90@gmail. com to schedule showing.

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woodstock/ west hurley rentals

GORGEOUS COTTAGE on 150 ACRE ESTATE. 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace. 10 minutes Belleayre, 20 Hunter/Windham. 13 miles to Woodstock. Hiking, cross country trails through-out. Borders on 1500 acres of state land. Seasonal, annual, reasonable.

845-688-5062.

Lake Hill: 1-BEDROOM, $600/month.

LARGE STUDIO w/bathroom. $600/ month. BOTH: includes electric, heat, hot water, trash. On bus route. Security and references required. No pets/smokers. Call 845-339-2127.

MOUNT TREMPER; 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT $675/month plus utilities and security 1553 Wittenberg Road

(845)688-9846

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vacation rentals

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com

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seasonal rentals

2-BR CHARMING, Cheery, Woodstock COTTAGE: 2 acres, garden, stream, woodburning stove, spacious eat-in-kitchen, wide floors, washer/dryer, stained-glass door, bathtub. $1100/month + last month + security. No dogs/smokers. References.

(845)679-2300.

COZY FURNISHED 3 BDRM

WOODSTOCK; STORE on Tinker Street, next to Woodstock Wine Store. Heart of town. Great visibility. Large picture window. C/O for food. (845)417-5282, Owner/ Realtor.

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com

WOODSTOCK 3 BDRM, 1½ BATH Furnished $1,500/mo plus utilities.

Short or long term.

www.jersville.com 845-679-5832 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Beautifully renovated in Woodstock Center. Kitchen w/dining area, living room, full bath w/ clawfoot tub. Walking distance everywhere.

Parking lot. No smoking/drugs/pets. For person with steady income, quiet, responsible w/recommendations. Security. $930/ month includes all utilities. 845-679-7978.

1-BEDROOM CHARMING, COZY APARTMENT. Wide plank floors. New

1½ Bath House on 6.5 Acres on Glasco Turnpike (one mile from center of Woodstock) Weekends, Weekly, Monthly, Summer Season or Long Term

www.jersville.com | 845-679-5832

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housing exchange/swap

SEEKING APARTMENT SWAP, Woodstock area, February 15-22. 2-floor apartment in Boerum Hill Brooklyn. Great location, near subway, restaurants, shopping. Working fireplace, sleeps 5. E-mail: richard.rollison@gmail.com

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ART SUPPLIES; rulers, paints, pens, pencils, markers, paper cutter, grease markers. If interested make an offer on all of it.

PICTURES; framed and matted; small pics-

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WOODSTOCK • (845) 679-9444 KINGSTON • (845) 339-1144 SAUGERTIES • (845) 246-3300

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Sean Zimmerman listed a beautiful and unique 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 half bath, cedar contemporary, moments from Woodstock.

Spectacular southern views of the Berkshires, and above the house to Overlook Mountain, ceramic, wide-board and slate fl oors, fi replace, vaulted ceilings, central air, central vacuum, gourmet kitchen, battery back-up and alarm system, indoor Jacuzzi, outdoor hot tub, 2 car ..garage, underground irrigation , generates $50,000 per annum in rental income! ............................................ $790,000

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GRACIOUS RANCH - Superbly crafted stick-built ranch nestled on 2.2 acres in desirable Marbletown location.

Gracious floor plan offers 2000 SF & features 20’ living room with cozy stone fi replace, beamed ceilings, country style kitchen with ample wood cabinetry, en suite master plus 2 add’l bedrooms, 2 full baths, delightful 3-season sun room expands the living space, full basement, central AC & 2 car attached garage. JUST LISTED! ........$349,900

WATERSIDE ESTATE - Spectacular views and Rondout Creek frontage grace the 15+ acre site of this 2800 SF “GREEN” design contempo with lavish MBR suite with steam shower, gourmet kitchen with maple, granite & SS appliances, cathedral LR with stone fi replace, 22’ family/media room, large den/home office, French doors, screened room & porch. Solar & geothermal heat system.

Long water frontage. SO PRIVATE! ................... $600,000

IN 1916 THEY NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD!

Toby Ress just listed a fabulous classic Victorian in Woodstock that redefines timeless. A gourmet kitchen with top-of-the-line stainless appliances and granite counters, 3 bedrooms, 3 full marble baths, Pella windows, generator, new furnace and water heater, new septic system, vaulted and beamed ceilings, rocking chair porch and much more… take a step back into a modern Victorian ........................................................................$659,000

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COUNTRY COMFORT - A true storybook setting! Peace & quiet reign on this picture postcard 8 acres in a fi ne location just minutes to charming Stone Ridge/High Falls area. Bring your own taste & style to the classic ranch style home offering living & dining rooms, kitchen with custom cherry cabs, large Andersen windows, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, full basement & deck. Super potential for a sweet country retreat. ................ $229,900

LANDMARK STONE - Exquisitely renovated 9400 SF stone school house c. 1899 master crafted into impressive residence, with soaring 26’ ceilings with huge arches & bulls eye windows, expansive loft-like spaces, stunning 24’ gourmet kitchen, 43’ LR, 3 full & 2 half baths, restored woodwork PLUS extensive quality fi nished office & studio space on the main level. Impeccable in every way!

IRREPLACEABLE ARCHITECTURAL TREASURE! ..$875,000

Stone Ridge 687-0232

New Paltz 255-9400

West Hurley 679-7321

A Home As Unique as You Are Village of Marlboro

Vaulted ceiling, hardwood floors, newly painted. 3 BR, 2 1/2 baths, full finished basement. Deck with Hudson River views, nicely landscaped lot. Priced at $274,900.

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$5 each, medium pics; $10 each, large pics; $20 each. PIANO DESK; $150. ROLL TOP DESK; $300 or best offer. SMALL TABLE w/2 CHAIRS; $50. 3-Tier FOLDING SHELF; $75. Cash and carry. Call 845-2550909.

EXTANG HARD TONNEAU COVER, trifold for a Toyota Tacoma, (can IMPROVE gas mileage by 10%) current 5’ bed style, black, excellent condition. Call (845)2558352.

FARM TABLES: Catskill Mountain Farm Tables handcrafted from 19th century barn wood. Heirloom quality, custom-made to any size. Also available, Bluestone topped tables w/wormy chestnut bases. Ken, Atwood Furniture, 845-657-8003.

LEG EXTENSION & LEG CURL MACHINE w/weights attached. Plus more exercise equipment.... Call (845)255-8352.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs- 2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

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In-between Woodstock and Saugerties is an immaculate 1 story, open floor plan, 2 bedroom, 1 bath home with mountain views. The gourmet kitchen has stainless appliances and granite counters, central air, floor to ceiling windows, vaulted ceilings with skylights, wrap around deck and gardens. Listing agent Toby Ress says, “If this description hasn’t made you sleepy, this peaceful and relaxing home is set to do just that. ............................................$229,000

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Heather Martin listed this terrific model log home and professional office complex in Boiceville, right near the high school. Tenants include a dentist, an attorney, a real estate office, an architect, right along the Route 28 corridor. So if you think you may need to fi x your teeth after meeting your attorney who made an agreement with your architect for work on the home you bought this may the perfect investment for you! All offices are currently rented on a month to month basis ..................................................................... $699,000

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firewood for sale

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood.

Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

914-388-9607 Getwood123@gmail.com We accept cash, checks, & credit cards.

www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!!

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BOTTOM LINE... I pay the highest prices for old furniture, antiques of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972). (845)389-7286.

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

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

CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)246-0214.

WANTED TO BUY GUNS. Cash for rifles, shotguns and handguns. Local federal and state licensed dealer. Johnson’s Gun Shop 845-338-4931.

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musical services and instruments

DRUM LESSONS. Teacher w/20 years experience and BA in music performance from Bard College currently accepting students on Saturday mornings. All ages and levels are welcome. Centrally situated Woodstock location. $25 per 1/2 hour lesson.

Spend your time practicing at home and I’ll show you what you need to improve and have a blast! 845-679-6687.

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counseling services

LAURIE OLIVER.... SPIRITUAL COUNSELING. Give the gift of wellness.

Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis. Smoking cessation * pain management * stress relief * past life regressions. Certified Hypnotist by NGH. Intuitive, sensitive guidance. Spirit communicator.

Specializing in dealing with grief, stress, relationship issues, questions about your life past & current life’s path. Call Laurie Oliver at (845)679-2243. Laur50@aol.com

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personal and health services

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area. (845)9018513 ULSTER COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING; SENIOR NUTRITION/ DINING PROGRAM. Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals from 11:30 a.m.-noon. Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. (845)336-7112. Open Monday, Wednesday & Friday. They also provide an opportunity to socialize w/others who have similar interests. Guidelines: Please call the site between 10 a.m.-noon. the day before you plan to attend in order to be sure there are enough meals for everyone.

Eligibility: You must be an Ulster County resident aged 60 or over. Cost: There is no set cost, but a suggested daily donation of $3 is requested.

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art services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished.

Also frames & wood sculptures repaired.

Call Carol 687-7813. c.field@earthlink. net

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Now taking WINTER reservations. Call (845)527-1252.

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tax preparation/ bookkeeping services

JOHN MOWER HAS PREPARED Federal & State tax returns for individuals, small business & S-Corporations for 17 years. As an Enrolled Agent, he can represent clients in tax matters w/the IRS. Call for an appointment 679-6744.

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organizing/ decorating/ refinishing

I CANE: I FIX, I pick-up and deliver.

Handweave, pressed cane, wicker repair & rush seats. (845)594-2051 or (845)383-1843.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/ HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable rates. Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured. MargotMolnar. com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar@netzero.net (845)679-6242.

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cleaning services

MAID IN AMERICA. Home/Office cleaning in the greater Kingston area and Northern Dutchess. Regular visits or 1 time cleaning.

Windows. Attentive to detail. Many years experience and excellent local references.

(845)514-2510.

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

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caretaking/ home management

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

Second home caretaking. All small/medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845616-7999.

• Interior & Exterior painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured 845-255-0979 • ritaccopainting.com

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Plumbing & Heating “No Job Too Small!”

Well Pumps • Water Heaters Tankless Heaters • Boilers Radiant Heat NEW & OLD CONSTRUCTION

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

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 Experienced- TROMPE O’LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured. Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-616- 0872.

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9 Dover Court, W. Hurley, NY 12491

845.679.6758 Emergency Cell: 845.514.5623

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Authorized Dealer & Installer

PHYSICAL MATTERS TRANSPORT ZEN MOVERS of your PHYSICAL REALITIES 30 years moving experience. Fine Art Antiques Handler.

Local, Long Distance, Fast, reliable, reasonable. Also, Dump runs, Estate clean-outs. Car service to all area Airports.

Low-Rate Financing Available

Call Michael at (845) 684-5545

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by Erin Quinn

O Robert Angeloch drawing in Monhegan, in this John Kleinhans photo.

n Friday, March 18, 2011, on the morning of the full Super Moon, legendary artist and co-

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art gallery and art school, and the fervent admiration of generations of devoted art students. To his personal credit, he leaves a lasting legacy of art, beauty and a sustaining example, having led a life of purpose with unwavering determination and accomplishment.

Born on April 8, 1922 in Richmond Hill, New York, Angeloch served in the US Air Corps and Army during World War II where he was a pilot,

studied to be an engineer and ended up in medical school. He studied at The Art Students League of New York from 1946-1951, where he ďŹ rst began painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and printmaking with Martin Lewis. He spent the summer of 1947 learning the craft of making woodcuts with Fiske Boyd and it was that summer that Angeloch ďŹ rst studied nature working out of doors. For this reason he recently Continued on Page 13

Blaze of pages Phoenicia Library goes up in smoke

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by Lisa Childers he latest Onteora Central School District 2011-2012 budget proposal does not include massive layoffs as might be seen in other districts, but does feature the elimination of six teacher positions and reductions to part-time of another ďŹ ve, among job cuts in many sectors. The cuts are seen as a reaction to declining enrollment, but also contribute to a total plan that increases spending by only 0.87 percent, that would translate, based on revenue ďŹ gures, to a 3.9 percent levy increase.

At the Tuesday, March 22 board of education meeting at Woodstock Elementary, school ofďŹ cials presented The Superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recommended Budget to trustees that includes an increase in spending to a total of $50,477,497. If the board adopts the budget at its April 5 session, voters will be asked to vote on the budget on May 17. If voters reject the budget proposal, a contingency (or austerity) budget could be put in place that would eliminate $121,785 from the equipment budget line, as mandated by the

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he Phoenicia Library was gutted by ďŹ re in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 19.

Within three days, plans were already in place to open a temporary library on Saturday, March 26, in the building recently vacated by Maverick Family Health, across from the Phoenicia post ofďŹ ce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a bare-bones operation,â&#x20AC;? cautioned library director Tracy Priest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re restoring minimal services, but we want to open our doors. People can return library books and pick up books theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ordered from interlibrary loan. From the Mid-Hudson Library System, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re borrowing a computer and components we need to check books in and out. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll open at 10 a.m., and Letter Friends, the early literacy program, will happen at its normal time, 11 a.m. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking eventually to have a small lending library, which may be on the honor system, since all our bar codes were destroyed in the ďŹ re.â&#x20AC;?

Writing classes and other programs scheduled for later in the spring will be held as planned. It looks like at least a couple of computers will be donated for use by patrons.

The blaze was reported to have come from an electri-

cal ďŹ re, which started in the back of the building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a full report on the extent of the damage,â&#x20AC;? said Priest, who visited the building after the ďŹ re with the insurance adjuster and Town of Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The adjuster said there has to be a second claims adjustment because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considered a major loss. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think any books or materials will be salvageable. But because of the location of the ďŹ shing collection, we may be able to clean some of that and save it.â&#x20AC;?

The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection includes more than 500 ďŹ shing and nature books, plus an exhibit of ďŹ shing rods, lures, ďŹ&#x201A;y tying gear, and photographs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The books are a mess,â&#x20AC;? said Priest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything is fused together and melted.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the front of the building has been damaged by smoke and water, but everything there is like we left it. Then you cross a line towards the back, and everything is black. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hole of the ceiling of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room, and you can look right up into my ofďŹ ce upstairs.

Everything from my desk is on the ďŹ&#x201A;oor Continued on Page 7

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Pictured is the cast of 90 Miles off Broadway's upcoming production of "I Remember Mama". Top row, left to right: Dushka Ramic as Aunt Jenny, Wendy Rudder as Aunt Sigrid, Zane Sullivan as Nils, Joel Feldstein as Papa, Wayne Kreuscher as Uncle Chris, Julia Cohen as Katrin, Ken Thompson as Mr. Thorkelson and Sherry Kitay as Aunt Trina. Bottom row left to right: Chloe Gold as Dagmar, Kim Lupinacci as Mama and Carly Feldstein as Christina.

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INETY MILES OFF Broadway will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Remember Mamaâ&#x20AC;? at the New Paltz Reformed Church on Nov. 2, Nov. 3, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. The play will also be performed at the First United Methodist Church in Highland on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The story shows how Mama,

with the help of her husband and her Uncle Chris, brings up the children in a modest San Francisco home during the early years of the century. Mama, with sweetness and capability, sees her children through childhood, managing to educate them and to see one of her daughters begin a career as a writer.

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N TUESDAY, NOV. 6, not only will residents vote on numerous contended races -- most notably being who shall become the president of the US -- but there will also be a plethora of local votes cast for federal, state, county and municipal political leaders.

In the Town of Lloyd, the only local referendum on the ballot is for voters to decide whether or not the town clerk, town highway superintendent and town supervisor should have their two-year terms extended to four years. These are all separate referenda, as suggested by Lloyd supervisor Paul Hansut, who said that he wants to give â&#x20AC;&#x153;voters a chance to weigh in on each and every position, and not lump them all together, as many towns have done in the past.â&#x20AC;?

The idea behind the four-year term, according to Hansut, is to give those elected to oďŹ&#x192;ce â&#x20AC;&#x153;enough time to get familiar with the nuts and bolts of the job, Continued on page 12

The big read One Book/One New Paltz to read & discuss The Submission

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Pictured are some of the members of the One Book/One New Paltz committee (left to right): Jacqueline Andrews, Linda Welles, Maryann Fallek, John Giralico, Shelley Sherman and Myra Sorin.

Phoenicia Library after the ďŹ re.

HAT WOULD HAPPEN if the selected architect for a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero turned out to be a Muslim-American? How would people react to the news, particularly those families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack? There are no easy answers to the questions raised by award-winning author Amy Waldman in her debut novel The Submission, chosen as this

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In Library Journal, Sally Bissell remarks that this book is an â&#x20AC;&#x153;insightful, courageous, heartbreaking work that should be read, discussed, then read again.â&#x20AC;? This is exactly what One Book/ One New Paltz will attempt to do as it embarks on its seventh year of a communitywide reading program ďŹ lled with events, reading groups, panels and featured authors and actors. One Book is a Continued on page 12

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hen Jenny Lee Fowler moved from Oregon in 1997, she decided to mark each snowfall that first winter in the East by cutting a snowflake out of paper. Being a person who makes things by hand, it seemed like a fun thing to do. Then, like the icy flakes that drift lazily on the wind before becoming a full-fledged storm, the act of cutting paper snowflakes took on a momentum of its own as Fowler became fascinated with the folk tradition of papercutting.

One day, her father-in-law asked her if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever done a portrait, like the silhouettes created by folk artists. Her interest piqued, Fowler dared herself to cut 100 portraits of people.

Beginning with friends and family, she later moved on to cutting portraits of strangers, who would sit for her at the campus center at Bard, where Fowler worked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I practiced a lot and found that I totally loved it,â&#x20AC;? says Fowler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It kind of surprised me because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d thought of silhouette portraits as these kind of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stuffyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; things, and then I realized that they were really cross-sections of people at a moment in time. I started to see them as more dynamic.â&#x20AC;?

Fowler came across a passage in which one of the early papercutters called silhouette portraits â&#x20AC;&#x153;a momentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monument,â&#x20AC;? a description that she finds particularly apt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really do capture a little moment, and even the same person can have a different portrait the next day,â&#x20AC;? Fowler explains.

Artful papercutting is now Fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s niche, and the Continued on page 13

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CORNELL PARK HOSTED THE ANNUAL DRUM BOOGIE FESTIVAL LAST SATURDAY, where dozens gathered to get their drum on. At left, Hethe Brenhill of the Mandara ensemble, dances in the sun. At right, a member of the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) gets in the rhythm. For more pics, see page 10.

THEATER ON A TRAIN â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dutchmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uses Trolley Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subway car as unusual stage for play exploring sensitive topic of interracial relations.

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TEEN SCENE â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Denâ&#x20AC;? to open in Midtown, giving youths a place to dance, gather and do something positive.

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