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Pride March this Sunday marks 10 th anniversary of same-sex weddings in New Paltz

t has been a decade now since New Paltz mayor Jason West solemnized marriage vows for more than two dozen same-sex couples in the village Peace Park on February 27, 2004. This week the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center is commemorating the tenth anniversary of that milestone with “Celebrating a Decade of Change,” a weeklong series of Pride Week events that will culminate on Sunday, June 1 with a march and festival. “The marriages in New Paltz are such a big part of the history of marriage equality in this country,” says Jan Whitman, board president of the LGBTQ Center. “It was one of the locations where people committed essentially loving acts of civil disobedience that became the building blocks for where we are today in the movement. It’s been a very exciting place from which to participate in social change, and I could not be more proud of this area.” Individual events for Pride Week have an admission fee of $5, or a $20 Pride Pass can be purchased that allows entrance into all the scheduled happenings. Volunteers for the Center are admitted free. The LGBTQ Center’s Apuzzo Hall at 300 Wall Street in Kingston will feature

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a screening of I Am Divine on Thursday, May 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. The film tells the story of Harris Glenn Milstead, better known as larger-than-life drag queen Divine, the ultimate outsider. The True Colors Open Mic Night, hosted by folk music’s Alix Dobkin, will be held at the same location the following

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Wolfson, founder and president of the national organization Freedom to Marry, will be guest of honor at the reception. Wolfson will also serve as grand marshal in Sunday’s march (along with Suzanne McHugh and AnnaMae Schuler, one of the couples married in 2004), Whitman says. “We’re fortunate that, this year of all years, he agreed to come. As someone who really has a long history of work in the social justice field and who is pretty well-recognized as one of the movers and shakers in the nationwide pursuit of marriage equality, it heightens the awareness about what these marriages in New Paltz have meant in the movement.” Wolfson was honored alongside President Obama in June 2012 as a recipient of the Barnard Medal of Distinction, and Time magazine named Wolfson “one of the 100 most influential people in the world.” The main events kick off on Sunday, June 1 at 12 noon as participants gather for a rally at the New Paltz Middle School, with the march to Hasbrouck Park beginning at 1 p.m. After the march, the festival will commence with live music by the all-women rock band Big Sister, the rock-fusion group Hemingway’s Cat,

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the all-youth Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) and the Center’s MidHudson Rainbow Chorus, the event emceed by comedienne Julie Novak. The party goes until 4 p.m. with vendors, food and activities for kids and families. At some point in the day there will also be a commemorative plaque installed at the Peace Park recognizing the location of the 2004 marriage ceremonies, says Whitman. New Paltz town board member Dan Torres spearheaded the effort, she says, and has had the plaque made. After the festival ends, there will be a Party-after-Pride on the Wooftop from 4 to 8 p.m. at Joe’s East West at 254 Main Street in New Paltz. Superior Sounds and the Hudson Valley Bears will host live music by all-women rock band Sister Funk with rooftop dancing. Admission to this event is by Pride Pass or costs $15. This will be the ninth annual Pride Week celebration sponsored by the LBGTQ Community Center. It began when a group of people came together in the year following the marriages in the Peace Park to talk about putting a commemorative event together, says Whitman. “There were folks who said, ‘We should have a

May 29, 2014 parade,’ and then there were those of us in the camp of, ‘There’s a lot of work still to do in social justice – we want to call it a march.’” In the end, the decision was made to consider the annual event a march. “But I’m looking forward to a day,” says Whitman, “when so much change has occurred that we can finally just have a parade.” – Sharyn Flanagan LGBTQ Pride March & Festival, Sunday, June 1, 12 noon-4 p.m., New Paltz Middle School to Hasbrouck Park; after-party, 4-8 p.m., Joe’s East West, 254 Main Street, New Paltz; (845) 331-5300, www. lgbtqcenter.org.

Joanna Rakoff talks on My Salinger Year in Rhinebeck Oblong Books & Music at 6422 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck will host an author talk and book-signing with Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year, on Thursday, June 5 at 7 p.m. Poignant, keenly observed and irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year is a memoir about literary New York in the late ’90s: a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. After leaving graduate school at age 23 to pursue dreams of becoming a poet, the author moved to New York City and took a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush wood-paneled office where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare

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Talk on covered bridges this Saturday in New Paltz Ronald Knapp, author of America’s Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings, Nostalgic Icons, will give a lecture on Saturday, May 31 at Deyo Hall at 6 Broadhead Avenue in New Paltz. Knapp will discuss the wooden covered bridges built during the 19 th century in the Hudson Valley with a display of rare photographs, paintings and etchings of the local bridges. Tickets for Historic Huguenot Street members, seniors and military cost $5; non-members pay $8, and students can get in free with identification. For more information, call (845) 255- 1660.

Talk on Trapps Hamlet history this Saturday in Cragsmoor The Cragsmoor Historical Society (CHS) will host an illustrated talk and book-signing by Bob Larsen and Robi Josephson, authors of An Unforgiving Land: Hardscrabble Life in the Trapps, a Vanished Shawangunk

Mountain Hamlet, on Saturday, May 31 at 4 p.m. The book chronicles the lives of a small community of hardy survivors from the late 1800s to the 1950s and their fight for survival for 150 years in an isolated hollow between Minnewaska and Mohonk. Meticulously researched, vividly narrated and accompanied by numerous period photographs, the book captures the essence of life on the Ridge, which was similar in some ways to that of early settlers at the site that was to become Cragsmoor, the only presentday residential community on top of the northern Shawangunks. Bob Larsen is a Mohonk Preserve cultural historian and veteran ranger. His research and documentation over a period of 40 years led to the listing of the hamlet as the only subsistence community in New York State on the National Register of Historic Places. Robi Josephson brought her scholarly skills as a writer and historian to the project. Working together for ten years to bring this story to light, they created a volume of historical significance to the region that also pulls the reader into a world of heroic deeds and staunch determination. Refreshments will be served and donations gratefully accepted. A

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he Woodstock Playhouse launches its Summer Repertory season this weekend with J. M. Barrie’s iconic work of kid lit, Peter Pan – not the original 1904 play, but the beloved musical adaptation from 1954 that starred Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard on Broadway and TV. The music is by Mark “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne and the lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Lots of folks with long memories have a sentimental attachment to this version of Peter Pan, with its wire-assisted flying scenes, audience-participation rescue of the dying Tinker Bell and its sweet, catchy score, featuring songs that became classics

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The show runs from July 10 to 20, and the curtain goes up at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. It will be followed from Thursday to Saturday, July 24 to 26 at 8 p.m. by The Three Musketeers – presumably Ken Ludwig’s 2006 adaptation of the definitively swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas novel, although there is also a 1968 stage version by Peter Raby. The summer season at the Woodstock Playhouse wraps up with the 20th-century classic West Side Story, with a book by Arthur Laurents (inspired, of course, by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins. How can you go wrong? It runs from July 31 to August 10, with an 8 p.m. curtain Thursday through Saturday and Sunday matinées beginning at 2 p.m. Ticket prices for all productions this season except for Peter Pan range from $32 to $40. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the box office at (845) 679-6900 or visit www. woodstockplayhouse.org. – Frances Marion Platt NYCA presents Peter Pan, Friday/Saturday, May 30/31, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 1, 2 p.m., $18/$21, Woodstock Playhouse, Playhouse Lane, 103 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock; (845) 679-6900, www. woodstockplayhouse.org.

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Noises Off opens this Friday at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

omedy onstage takes many forms, but one manifestation that is particularly well-suited to theatrical viewing (and translates notoriously poorly to the silver screen) is the type of farce known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;doorslammer.â&#x20AC;? Typically, the stage set literally contains a lot of doors, through which the actors make frequent entrances and exits. Most of the humor resides in the collisions, discoveries, near-misses and in some cases mistaken identities as characters in search of someone or with something to hide come and go. Boeing, Boeing and Moon over Buffalo are a couple of contemporary examples popularly performed by community theatre groups, but the genre goes back at least as far as Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Merry Wives of Windsor. To pull off a doorslammer comedy successfully, you need a director and a cast who are really on their toes, because timing is everything. While watching such a farce from backstage circa 1970, English playwright Michael Frayn made the observation that it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;funnier from behind than in front,â&#x20AC;? and determined there and then to write a comedy that depicts a play-within-a-play from the point of view of the performers and stage crew. What make the result doubly funny are the facts that 1) the stage company in question is completely dysfunctional, riven by competitions and jealousies, and 2) the material that its members are trying to perform is rubbish to begin with. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the premise of Fraynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterwork Noises Off, which ran for five years when it first opened in London in 1982; the 1983 Broadway production copped a Best Play Tony. Some would call it the ultimate doorslammer ever written â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the apotheosis of the genre, deconstructing it from the inside as the squabbling, temperamental players strive to undermine one another onstage. It adds a whole new level of meaning to the psychology term â&#x20AC;&#x153;acting out.â&#x20AC;? And done well, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screamingly funny. The extra challenge here is that anyone wishing to perform Noises Off needs to cultivate great timing at conveying multiple instances of poor timing and missed cues. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope that Up in One Productions director Diana di Grandi and her cast are rehearsing really hard as this is written, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to unleash Noises Off at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck this Friday, May 30, and continue

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Moving up, moving out Good People opens this Friday at Shadowland in Ellenville

avid Lindsay-Abaire is one of the hottest younger playwrights around these days, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. He wrote the book and lyrics for Shrek the Musical and also has a string of screenplays under his belt. His play Good People won Frances McDormand a Best Actress Tony on Broadway in 2011, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now making the rounds of the community theatre circuit; Half Moon Theatre in Poughkeepsie mounted a well-received production of it last year. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shadowlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turn to have a crack at this drama about social mobility, or the lack of it, in contemporary urban America. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story of a struggling single mother who, after losing her job, seeks help from an old boyfriend who has managed to work his way out of the blue-

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collar Boston neighborhood in which they both grew up â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and who may or may not be her disabled childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father. Brendan Burke directs Good People at the Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville from May 31 to June 16. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets cost $39 for evening performances, $34 for matinĂŠes.

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set in a fictional Chicago neighborhood, where, in 1959, the African-American Younger family expects to move (Act One) and where, in 2009, a Caucasian couple hopes to â&#x20AC;&#x153;improveâ&#x20AC;?Â the neighborhood by tearing down the original house, now abandoned, and build a McMansion (Act Two). The same set of actors plays the parts of the characters in both acts. Sande Shurin will direct, and the cast includes Chris Grady, Elizabeth Henry-Macari, Kevin Higgins, Stephen Jones, Phillip X. Levine, Terri Mateer, Jody Satriani and Justin Waldo. All performances begin at May 30 at 7:30 p.m., and will take place on May 30 through June 1, June 5 through 8, June 12 to 13 and June 15. Tickets cost $20 general admission, $15 for seniors and students, and can be reserved at (845) 679-7900. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frances Marion Platt

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INSPECTING THE TYPED LYRIC SHEET (with the handwritten addendum “Thanks! You Are Sexay”), it becomes clear that What Moon Things is a relationship album – a quiescent, there’s-nothing-to-be-done, failed-relationship album with a strange Transylvanian subplot.

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ehind music, we theorize a perfect blank silence. It’s the indifferent white river of time on which we pin the notes. We see through to it not only in the gaps between songs or movements, but also in the alternation of ons and offs, the checked and unchecked boxes of rhythm itself. On What Moon Things’ eponymous debut (Hot Grits Records, 2014), there is no silence to speak of between songs, no pure zero from which things come and to which they return. Instead, this aggressive-but-atmospheric music rises from and melts back into a bed of thrum, fizzle and fritz, tics and electric rashes: a disquieted and impure void in which certain half-things are almost alive. It’s there before the first song begins; it’s there in the interstices when one song craps out and barely manages to pass the

talking stick to the next; and it’s there in the cracks and shafts throughout the eight songs on this lovely and curious album. For, while What Moon Things are very much a high-drama modern indie-rock band, few modern rock bands play so courageously with space and separation in their arrangements, and that allows the incessant, underlying sonic dis-ease to poke through again and again. What Moon Things is a work of sullied beauty. Jake Harms, John Morisi and Chris Kehoe do their best to deface, dilute and pollute their own sweet melodies and elegant guitar arpeggios. Per usual in a genre that we might vaguely call “emo”(with apologies to the lads), we find the expected distressed, detuned and nauseous guitars, the most audacious of which drill all over the song “Squirrel Girl.” The half-mouthed, pitch-careless singing – low in the mix – breathes ambivalence and irresolution into the soaring melodies that seem to come so easily to singer/ guitarist Harms. But What Moon Things’ autoimmune attack on their own sweetness is craftier than just that. This record is full of subtle harmonic moves, clever Beatlesque chord progressions with their resolutions smeared or washed out entirely by the queasy impressionism and sour-note chiming of post-rock guitars. So many harmonic tensions are introduced and

hile the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts hosts top-shelf shows all year round in the Pavilion, when June arrives, it takes the tarp off the bog shed and readies it for the biggest touring acts in the business. Country superstars Lady Antebellum return to Bethel on Sunday, June 1 at 7 p.m. Billy Currington and Joe Nichols are set to open. Tickets cost $61 and $71.50 reserved, $35.25 on the lawn. Purchase tickets at www.bethelwoodscenter.org, via Ticketmaster chargeby-phone at (800) 745-3000 or in person at the Bethel Woods box office or Ticketmaster outlets. The Bethel Center for the Arts is located at 200 Hurd Road in Bethel.

unresolved, suggestions made but not followed, to stunning aesthetic effect. It’s a beauty that keeps you allured, but always at bay. Inspecting the typed lyric sheet (with the handwritten addendum “Thanks! You Are Sexay”), it becomes clear that What Moon Things is a relationship album – a quiescent, there’s-nothing-to-be-done, failed-relationship album with a strange Transylvanian subplot. Self-loathing and expressions of tenderness alternate with inscrutable and surreal images in its fragmented lyrical texture. One moment, it’s simple, poignant declarations like “I’m such an adult with high school stuck in my head.” The next, it’s “blue bell sirens in my oxygen.” It is hard for me to guess at this band’s influences without embarrassing myself. The never-quite-finished bleedingtogether of tracks reminds me of those epically weird albums that Tool made

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in the ’90s. Shoes are gazed at here and there, and some screamo catharsis employed in moderation (more Janovperiod Lennon than Cookie Monster). The wonderful rocker “Doesn’t Make Much Sense” sounds like a forgotten Nirvana song, circa Bleach, wrapped in about three inches of gauze and then blared in an empty warehouse. It’s awesome. And the record’s finale may be its big payoff: the gorgeous, dynamic and crushing “Sun, Where’s the Fire?” On Friday, May 30, What Moon Things appear on a stacked bill at BSP in Kingston with a bunch of up-and-coming indie bands with local connections and national attention: Porches, Frankie Cosmos (the alias of songwriter Greta Kline), Sleepers Bells and Palehound. What Moon Things then head out on the road for a month, taking their stunningly good new CD with them. Band to watch. – John Burdick Porches, Frankie Cosmos, Sleepers Bells, What Moon Things, Palehound, Friday,

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SHOW

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SHOW

Sheryl Crow plays UPAC this Thursday

ine-time Grammy-winner Sheryl Crow performs at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston on Thursday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. The songwriter, who keeps company and sings duets with the likes of Jagger and Sting, has released seven hit-studded albums in her career, including her most recent: 2013’s gritty and rocking Feels like Home. Tickets for Sheryl Crow cost $75 to $125 based on location and 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.

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The Falcon in Marlboro hosts Sex Mob this Friday Led by slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, the experimental, witty and utterly unpredictable jazz quartet Sex Mob have made a career out of raiding the world’s songbook – high and low, pop and underground – and subjecting its repertoire to their own, unique ensemble treatment. And it’s a great ensemble, one featuring saxophonist Briggan Krauss and one of modern jazz’s most imaginative and empathic rhythm sections in bassist Tony Scherr

and drummer Kenny Wollesen (both of whom have been staples in guitarist Bill Frisell’s bands). Of his decision to focus on covers and adaptations rather than originals, Bernstein once said, “I realize that’s what jazz musicians have always done. That’s how Lester Young got popular; it’s how Charlie Parker got popular; it’s how Miles Davis got popular; that’s how John Coltrane got popular. They played the songs that everyone knew, and because they could recognize the song, then that invited them into their style.” Sex Mob returns to the Falcon in Marlboro on Friday, May 30 at 7. Opening the show will be New Paltz’s distinctive

egendary folks/roots songwriter Chris Smither makes a stop at the Rosendale Café on Friday, May 30 at 8 p.m. The New Orleans native made his name on the Boston folk scene and has been releasing original collections since the dawn of the ’70s, including 2012’s excellent Hundred Dollar Valentine. Tickets for the Rosendale Café show cost $22. The Café is located at 434 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, call (845) 658-9048 or visit www. rosendalecafe.com.

indie-jazz/pop singer/songwriter and spontaneous tap dancer Liana Gabel. Per usual, there is no cover charge, but a substantive donation is earnestly encouraged. The Falcon is locate at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, call (845) 236-7970 or visit www. liveatthefalcon.com. – John Burdick

Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra in Woodstock The Colony Café in Woodstock plays host to an outbreak of urban hip on Friday, May 30, when Ben Perowsky’s

Moodswing Orchestra teams up with the downtown noir-rockers Elysian Fields. Perowsky’s résumé includes dates with John Scofield, John Medeski, Rufus Wainwright and many others. His Moodswing Orchestra emphasizes the groove and features the rapper TK Wonder. Elysian Fields have released numerous stylish and moody collections of originals since their 1996 debut on MCE records. They feature singer Jennifer Charles and co-writer/bassist Oren Bloedow. The show begins at 9 p.m. Admission costs $10 at the door. The Colony Café is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock. For more information, call (845) 679-8639 or visit www. colonycafewoodstock.com.

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May 29, 2014 to life), but also sets us up for a lot of giggleworthy retro humor. Period pop culture references abound: Wolverine wakes up to the sight of a Lava Lamp, in a sloshy waterbed that’s not very compatible with a guy with long claws that extrude when he’s perturbed. An infiltration of the Pentagon is executed partly through the substitution of ’70s TV series images for what the security cameras are supposed to be monitoring. A rubbery-nosed Richard Nixon (Mark Camacho) figures in a key standoff scene. And then there are the hair, and the clothes, and the glasses. Behind a particularly egregious pair of glasses (though they look more ’80s than ’70s, which I suppose makes him fashion-forward for his time) lurks the industrial mastermind whom Mystique is dead set on eliminating, Bolivar Trask. Having already confessed myself a Game of Thrones geek, it’s no great stretch to surmise that my main motivation for seeing X-Men: Days of Future Past was the fact that Trask is played by the peerless Peter Dinklage (who, if there is any justice in our world, will get an Emmy for Tyrion Lannister’s superb courtroom meltdown a couple of weeks ago). Just like most Game of Thrones villains, the inventor is a complex character: ambitious and greedy but not totally evil, seemingly sincere in his belief that his brainchildren will protect humanity from horrors to come, like a repeat of the Vietnam War. In our first apparent encounter with Trask, his delivery seems forced; but that’s just a clue that the character onscreen is an impostor. After that, it’s standard Dinklage brilliance all the way, and his scenes are all too few. That being said, the most affecting performance in X-Men: Days of Future Past is served up by James McAvoy as the young Xavier, who, when Wolverine finds him, has closed down his School for Gifted Youngsters in the Westchester hamlet of Salem Center (he’s also supposed to be a Bard College alumnus, incidentally). The idealistic Professor X at this point has become a bitter, betrayed, disillusioned man, addicted to a drug that suppresses his telepathic powers while it restores his ability to walk. As we get glimpses of how overwhelming a gift it is to be able to hear the thoughts of every other human being for miles around, McAvoy convincingly evokes our compassion. Wolverine certainly has his work cut out for him. Staunch Marvel Comics fans swear by the franchise’s relatively nuanced (for comic books) characterizations; but when all is said and done, a superhero is mainly just a superhero. If you can suspend your disbelief in a world where the process of evolution routinely spouts humans with awesomely useful superpowers, you should enjoy this movie. Visually, the whole epicscaled yarn is very handsomely executed; a set piece in the Pentagon kitchens where we experience a gun battle from the temporally slowed-down perspective of the speedy X-Man called Quicksilver (Evan Peters) is, by itself, worth the price of admission. By all means, check your skepticism at the door, don’t fret too much about the backstory that you’ve missed and have a good time! – Frances Marion Platt

Upstate Films Rhinebeck to screen Ida The critically acclaimed new Polish film Ida will be screened at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on Friday, May 30. Pawel Pawlikowski’s film is a moving drama about a novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the years of the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a journey to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. In this beautifully directed film, Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront

ALMANAC WEEKLY some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Upstate Films is located at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9 in Rhinebeck. For more information, call (845) 876-2525 or visit www.upstatefilms.org.

Rosendale Theatre to screen Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds The Rosendale Theatre will host a screening of the documentary Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds on Thursday, June 5 at 7:15 p.m. Ken Greene of the Hudson Valley Seed Library (featured in the film) will host a questionand-answer session with the audience and filmmaker Sean Kaminsky after the screening. The film is about the future of our seed supply and the need to protect it, as told by a diverse range of individuals whose lives center around seeds: farmers, renegade gardeners, passionate seedsavers, artists and activists. While the problems are weighty, the beauty, mystery and intrinsic potential for change that lies dormant within each seed are cause for hope. Tickets cost $7 general admission or $5 for members. The Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, call (845) 6588989 or visit www.rosendaletheatre.org or www.opensesamemovie.com.

Unison in New Paltz hosts Work o’ the Weavers this Saturday The Unison Arts Center will celebrate the musical legacy of Pete Seeger and Lee Hayes with Work o’ the Weavers performing “A Tribute to Lee Hayes & Pete Seeger” on Saturday, May 31 at 8 p.m. The performance will be faithful to the Weavers’ original arrangements, featuring David Bernz on vocals, banjo and guitar, James Durst on vocals and guitar, Mark Murphy on vocals and upright bass and Martha Sandefer on vocals and percussion. The program follows the Weavers’ evolution from the folk revival of the 1930s, touching on the blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee testimony and their triumphant 1955 Carnegie Hall reunion concert, which provided a source of dignity and hope and resurrected their music and careers. Featured are not only the beloved familiar songs, but also a few newer ones – some original, some from friends and some written by former Weavers themselves. Tickets cost $24 general admission, $20 for Unison members in advance and $28 general, $24 for members at the door. Students get in for half-price with a valid ID. Unison is a not-forprofit multi-arts center located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-1559 or visit www.unisonarts.org.

Laurel Corona talks on The Mapmaker’s Daughter at Temple Emanuel in Kingston Oblong Books & Music will present an author talk and book-signing with Laurel Corona, author of The Mapmaker’s Daughter, on Monday, June 2 at 7 p.m. at Temple Emanuel at 243 Albany Avenue in Kingston. The event is free and open to the public. The Mapmaker’s Daughter is a sweeping novel of 15th-century Spain that explores the forgotten women of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of the Sephardic community. During centuries of Muslim rule and the early period of what is often called the Christian Reconquest or Reconquista, Muslims, Christians and Jews achieved an uneasybut-generally-successful coexistence.

With notable exceptions, usually targeting Jews, tolerance of religious differences was perceived as beneficial. Arts, science and world exploration flowered when the gifts of all were appreciated. During the waning decades of the Convivencia, Christian religious fervor undid many of these gains, culminating with the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of all Jews and Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The book tells the story of these last decades from the point of view of a woman raised as a secret or crypto-Jew who makes the decision to live openly in the faith and experiences both the brutalities and joys of Jewish life over the course of her long life. Laurel Corona is the author of three historical novels and is a professor of English and Humanities at San Diego City College. She is also a member of the Brandeis National Committee, the National Council of Jewish Women and Hadassah. She has written over a dozen nonfiction Young Adult books for school library programs, primarily on Jewish topics. For more information, call (845) 338-4271 or visit www.oblongbooks.com.

Talk on early rock ’n’ roll on Monday in Highland The Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society (TOLHPS) will bring back one of its most popular speakers, Anthony Musso, to continue his tantalizing tales about early rock ‘n’ roll musicians. The program will take place on Monday, June 2 at 7:30 pm at the Vineyard Commons Theater in Highland. Like all TOLHPS programs, this event is free and open to the public. Musso’s presentation will be based on his book, Setting the Record Straight, Part Two. While music is clearly a passion of Musso’s, his love of history is not confined to just one topic. This will actually be Musso’s third presentation for TOLHPS. His first was a virtual tour of relativelyunknown-but-historically-significant Hudson Valley sites, based upon the first of his other two-volume book set, Hidden Treasures of the Hudson Valley. His very first book was FDR and the Post Office. Vineyard Commons, where the June 2 program will take place, is located at 300 Vineyard Avenue, about a mile-anda-quarter from the Hamlet of Highland on Route 44/55, just south of the Hudson Valley Rehabilitation Center. To reach the theater, turn into Vineyard Commons and follow signs to Building 6 or the Bistro, Vineyard Commons’ recently reopened restaurant. Early arrivers get the best parking spaces. Free refreshments will be available. For more information, call (845) 255-7742, visit the TOLHPS website at www.tolhps.org or look for Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society on Facebook.

Doors tribute concerts with Feast of Friends in Woodstock & Saugerties A tribute to the Doors will be performed by the band Feast of Friends on Friday, May 30 at 10 p.m. at Harmony Music at 52 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock and in Saugerties on Saturday, May 31 at 9 p.m. at Mirabella’s Restaurant at 123 Partition Street. Admission is free to both shows, but the Saugerties show is for age 21 and up only, with ID required at the door. All ages are welcome to the Woodstock show, but ID is required to drink. Feast of Friends is made up of vocalist John Henriksen, Barry Petrillo on guitar, Frank Casciaro, Jr., on bass, Jude DeFalco on drums and Carl Darrigo on keyboards. For more information, call Harmony Music in Woodstock at (845) 679-7760 or Mirabella’s in Saugerties at (845) 2467417.

Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones play Bearsville this Friday Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones bring rockabilly to the Bearsville Theater this Friday, May 30. Hope’s powerful and sultry vocals are accompanied by Matt “the Knife” Goldpaugh (of the Arkhams) on upright bass, Dave Tetreault on drums and Chris Heitzman on guitar. The doors open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $7 general admission. For tickets, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. For more information, call the Bearsville Theater at (845) 679-4406 or visit www.larahopeandtheark-tones.com.

Playback Theatre about Palestine’s Freedom Bus in New Paltz The Hudson River Playback Theatre will do a presentation about the Freedom Bus on Tuesday, June 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Deyo Hall at 6 Broadhead Avenue in New Paltz. The Freedom Bus is a project of the West Bank’s legendary Freedom Theatre, engaging thousands of Palestinians and visitors from abroad in cultural actions that explore the experience of living under occupation. The events occur in villages, towns, refugee camps and Bedouin communities throughout the occupied West Bank. A central feature of these events is the use of Playback Theatre, where a troupe of Palestinian actors and musicians invites stories from the audience and transforms each account into a piece of improvised theatre. Ben Rivers, co-founder of the Freedom Bus, will speak about the Freedom Theatre’s use of Playback Theatre and cultural activism within the broader popular struggle movement. Admission is free. Donations to support the Freedom Bus will be accepted. Performers from Hudson River Playback Theatre will be on hand to reflect audience responses. Endorsers of the Freedom Bus include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Judith Butler, Maya Angelou, Noam Chomsky and Peter Brook. Palestine Stories are cosponsored by Middle East Crisis Response. For more information, e-mail playbacktheatre@ earthlink.net.

Workshop on Existentialist writers at Kingston Library The Kingston Library will host “Glimpses into Existence: Eleven Existentialist Writers” with Gregory Sadler on Saturday, May 31 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. In this monthly series, Sadler guides participants through classic texts, main themes and key ideas. No philosophical background is required. All are welcome. The Kingston Library is located at 55 Franklin Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 331-0507 or visit www.kingstonlibrary.org.

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“We have both known each other since I started teaching at Yale in 1980 or 1981,” said Pfaff. “We shared a studio in Brooklyn for 26 years.” While she characterized von Rydingsvard as “the quintessential sculptor,” Pfaff noted that her own installations and assemblages evolved out of painting. Hence the award points to the crossover tendencies of sculpture in recent years, especially evident in the more hybrid sculptures of the younger generation, who are deploying video, performance and other nontraditional approaches. The ISC officials call Pfaff “a pioneer of site-specific installation art in the 1970s. She combines painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and architecture to create works that are equally dependent on intense planning and improvisation.” For many years, Pfaff was something of an iconoclast. Her installations and prints have been aptly described by critic Roberta Smith as “elaborately impure, implicitly narrative environments.” Forms inspired by nature and natural materials are juxtaposed with the garish and artificial. Exquisitely wrought details emerge from a chaos suggesting combustion, evisceration, decay, implosion, growth and other elemental processes. In her latest work, Pfaff deploys paper, foam, melted plastic, shellac and natural materials such as branches, sunflowers and tree fungus for her kaleidoscopic creations, which are both biomorphic and cosmological, fragile and tough, gross and heart-stoppingly beautiful. They hide nothing, but are imbued with a mysterious reserve, as if they are still in the process of becoming or revealing; they are self

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Judy Pfaff ’s The Monkey and the Crocodile, 2012, honeycomb cardboard, expanded foam, shellacked Chinese paper lanterns, steel wires, plastics and ﬂuorescent light, 96 x 132 x 31 inches

contained but also fragmentary, like a beating heart torn from a body. Some are illuminated, which lightens their mass, suggesting floating marine organisms. Born in England in 1946, Pfaff received a BFA from Washington University and an MFA from Yale. Outside of those bare facts, her life defies the trajectory of a conventional art career. She was married at age 16, traveling back and forth to a military installation in Newfoundland, where her husband was based, from her hometown of Detroit. She briefly attended Wayne State and Southern Illinois University and spent a year in Sweden before earning her degree at Washington University. As a struggling artist in New York, she chose materials based on what she could afford, such as aluminum foil and wire. Pfaff moved to the mid Hudson Valley in 1992, after joining the faculty at Bard, eventually settling in Kingston. She was close friends with another Kingstonbased artist of international renown, the late Nancy Graves, and has consistently shown her work in galleries around the nation and world, with upcoming shows scheduled this fall at the Pavel Zoubok and Loretta Howard galleries in New York’s Chelsea. Pfaff recently spoke by phone to Almanac Weekly’s Lynn Woods from her Tivoli studio: What initially attracted you to sculpture? Because I graduated from Yale with a degree in Painting, there was always this feeling that sculpture was backwards. You had to be compared to this huge history of painting, and sculpture seemed free from that. The work was just about the materials. By the time I got out of Yale [in 1973], sculpture was more a part of the formal conversation than painting. What I didn’t realize at the time was I was an

anathema. My work was described by one critic as an “explosion in a glitter factory.” It was like when that painting by Duchamp [Nude Descending a Staircase] was called “an explosion in a shingle factory”; maybe it wasn’t so bad. “Explosion” suggests things going outward, not inward. At the time I was mortified. The art world was quite small when I was in SoHo in the early 1970s and in TriBeCa a little bit later. There were only three or four bars and three or four conversations you’d bump into. At the time, Minimalism was all the rage and was viewed as the endgame of art. What was your reaction? Sculpture was being redefined. It was all about its mass, density, materiality – just the facts. It was highly intellectual, and intelligence came in gray, white and black. My private rationale was that thoughts could be transparent, have color and illusion, which came from painting. Because initially this was an argument I had with things that were solid and opaque, I started using basketweaving and rattan: materials that were useful for making everything in cultures that didn’t have metal and carving. Plus these things were cheap, and I could manipulate them without a lot of tools. They were mutable and could take color. They were really light. Also I used rubber bands. I was living in SoHo one block from Canal Street, which was a hardware center, the place for electronics, plastics, little fans… it was fantastic. I had a lot of airplay, and yet I was somebody considered not to know what she was doing, someone who had run amok. What materials are you using now? Obviously money is not as much of an issue, as it was then. There are so many

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Judy Pfaff ’s River Road, 2011

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Pfaff, in her Tivoli studio, cleaning a tree

resins and foams, many in iridescent colors. There are all kinds of new materials. You can get paint in all kinds of pigments, and some has pumice in it. I might use soot from an oxyacetylene torch without the oxygen on: It burns dirty and this incredible black carbon comes out. Today there are more lights in my work. I’m almost afraid of the dark, and I have the TV on 24/7. I just installed something from a piece from 1987. It was kind of a still life, and had a lampshade three fee t in diameter with two lightbulbs in it. I used lightbulbs to light the work because I couldn’t get the gallery lights to work right.

expect. You didn’t realize the most basic thing about it. If I’m good at anything, it’s making really fast decisions. I can remake or rethink a thing I’ve been working on in my mind and change it up pretty darn fast when I realize I was wrong. Even with printing, everyone comes in with a solid idea, but I start from scratch. I do a lot of prints at Tandem Press, which works with hundreds of artists. When they saw me, they panicked, because I can’t tell them what it’s going to be. It gets misconstrued that I don’t know what I’m doing, but it’s that I really don’t like to communicate; it feels pretentious. What comes next is so reliant on what comes first. I can’t remember anyone telling me what to wear to school, how to cash a check, save money. It’s funny: When I teach students how to weld, I teach them the way I learned, which is: I bought a welder and figured it out. I’m so glad OSHA doesn’t look at videotapes of me doing this. I don’t wear a helmet because it gives me a headache, and I don’t like outfits for things. I’m a little bit feral.

“There are all kinds of new materials... I might use soot from an oxyacetylene torch without the oxygen on: It burns dirty and this incredible black carbon comes out.”

How did your discovery of new materials and tools affect your work? Always a new tool could generate a new language. When I would get stuck, without even realizing it I’d just pick something new up and it would yield a surprise. Some of your installations were enormous. Tell us about your process of construction. The first show I had, I had built these pieces on the roof of my five-story building in Brooklyn. When I brought the work into the gallery, it looked terrible, because it didn’t have the light and the wind and wasn’t related to the trees. I fixed it in there. The gallery became the studio. I would improvise a lot. Even if you make a model, there’s a lot of surprises in the gallery space. Some specs feel too big, some too small; some are claustrophobic, and there’s a hum in your ear you didn’t

What’s the particular appeal of prints versus painting? I’m very dyslexic, and printing is full of reversals and surprises. You’re working with people, and when I tell them, “Let’s print this a certain way,” sometimes they misunderstand me and it comes back better. Are you still making large installations? Today the world is different. Installations

Judy Pfaff ’s River Road South installation, 2011, Steel, wood, ﬂuorescent and neon lights, honeycomb cardboard, paint, expanded foam, shellac, sunﬂowers, tree fungus, paper lanterns, rubber tubing.

are more conceptual. An artist can hire 50 people to make something. It’s numerical. There are people who are more professional than me, people so young and bright who do remarkable things and manage to do them all over Europe and Asia. I keep thinking I didn’t read the fine print. I was raised in that time of being sort of anti-gallery and anti-commodity. For big installations, you have to be invited, and you also have to have people willing to travel with you and work 24/7 on it. That doesn’t really exist anymore, the way it used to; everyone has their own life. In the last five years, no one’s in the studio except me, unless I’m having something crated or framed. The next two shows in New York will be in smaller gallery spaces not really suitable for installations. An unusual childhood You grew up in postwar London without your parents. What were the circumstances? My mother left for Canada right after I was born. At that time, right after the war, there was a huge immigration to Canada. I met her when I was about 12, and never met my father, because he was Irish and in the Royal Air Force. My brother was the firstborn of this Irish family, and my father kidnapped him and took him to Ireland, where he was raised until he was five. My mother went to get him and got pregnant with me. My grandmother was a seamstress who was really kind. She was in the Women’s Royal Air Force, in charge of a group of women who sewed dirigibles filled with helium. When the German Messerschmitts would fly over London, these dirigibles, which were silver and at different heights and invisible to the planes, would explode.

Did you live with her as a young child? I lived in many places, but the family was scattered. My brother was taken care of in a different place. When we met, he had a more proper accent than I. I was Cockney. I was rough. Where I lived wasn’t an orphanage; it was a group home. Families had lost their homes, and with no home to go to, a lot of children got brought to these group homes. I was there until I was nine. There was not much oversight. I could slip away. My good friend Ursula wanted to find my family, and we went to Ireland. On the way back from Dublin to Shannon, we stopped in a small town and within 20 minutes, Ursula (who had planned this out) found my father’s family, the Baldwins. My father was dead, but she found my uncle, who was a welder and had nine dogs. He lived in a three-room flat with the male dogs in one room, the female dogs in another, and he’d take them out separately. He was an interesting person. He died yesterday at age 97. A mentor along the way In one interview you compared your time at Yale to being in prison. Especially considering the prestige of the school, that’s an interesting comment. Could you elaborate? I arrived at Yale with my dog and car cut up in back and made into a tent, where I lived while driving across the country. I had been married and divorced and was a little older. I walk into this place where you think you’re going to the world’s best school, not because of the quality of teaching but because it’s so competitive. They get the cream of the crop. They can choose the best and then abandon them. The conversation was a lot about working by yourself, hoping you’re doing okay. You go to the first crit of the season by bringing your painting down to this pit

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Judy Pfaff ’s The Art of Flower Arranging, 2013

between the third and fourth floors. You weren’t allowed to say anything. Seven men in a row who had been arguing for 30 years about figuration and abstraction would start, and it wasn’t applicable to what they were looking at. I decided not to make paintings so I wouldn’t have to bring them down there and be told what was wrong with them. Not only could I not win this, but I don’t even know the language they’re speaking. But you became very close to one of your teachers, Al Held, and have credited some of your success to him. Al was fantastic. He was self-taught. He was a Brooklyn Jew who sold pickles on Delancey Street and went to the Village to get laid because there were beatniks. On the GI Bill he got himself to France. This is a guy who didn’t finish high school, but was one of the smartest guys I knew. He pissed you off like you couldn’t believe, but I liked that. I liked arguing with him and we left friends. He doesn’t have a reputation for respecting women, but he did. Also he looked like Marlon Brando. What was there not to like? What did you learn from him? He used to say to me, “You are very intelligent with your hand, but don’t know much. I need you to go to the Met to look at this. Everything is an idea” – he’d say “idear” – “what are your idears?” I made things that looked okay, and there was no one who ever questioned that, but he said, “Who cares if you are talented?” Thinking about it now, Al in his own way had a rough hand. The one thing that came easy to me was difficult for him. Without Al and without Yale and without that document behind my name, I don’t think I could have done anything. What prompted you to leave New York and take the job at Bard? [Bard president] Leon Botstein called me and wanted me to take this job as chair of the Art Department back in 1992. I was teaching at Columbia University, where I was head of the Sculpture Department, and it was a great job; plus, I was on 125th Street, and being close to Harlem was my dream. Leon said I could make the whole department: “This will be your baby.” I liked him and I liked the school, and his offer was so intriguing. Al was upstate, and the first year at Bard I stayed in a room in his house. You have said you were a terrible student, so it seems ironic you’ve had such a flourishing teaching career. Teaching has always paid the rent. It is stability, and I was pretty good at it! My first teaching job was at Queens College. Most of my students had never been to Manhattan. It was a design class, and the girls looked fantastic; they had on eye makeup and little outfits. I had the idea to bring in some clown makeup. I had them put it on their faces like a Picasso portrait. They were so clever with makeup, I got them to learn things and it was fun, because it was stuff they knew. We can do Fauvism and Cubism through makeup. Some of the students were doing really good work. How would you characterize the students at Bard? Bard students are like no others, because of the quality and openness of the school. I’ve been there 20 years now, and when

Judy Pfaff ’s Holi #6 from The Art of Flower Arranging, 2013, melted plastic, expanded foam, paper and pigment, 36 x 32 x 15 inches

I first went there, lots of the faculty had been there way too long. I stocked the school with new people and brought in a lot of women and real talent. It wasn’t based on one strong teacher, and that’s what’s really worked. I think it’s the best undergraduate Studio Art program in the country. My last class was yesterday and we went to Dia:Beacon, then to Rosendale where one of the technicians at Bard, Roman Hrab, had a show, and then a big dinner at my house that ended at 10 p.m. It’s a different kind of bonding, so bright and open. There’s a kind of privilege, but they kind of get over that pretty fast. Last year I spent six months teaching in Laramie, Wyoming, where there’s a different kind of student. They’re all ranchers’ kids. Knowing they were working kids, I found these old barracks where we sheetrocked everything. Everyone in my class got a private studio for the first time, and we did an installation and a book. Within a short period of time, they became as sophisticated as my students on the East Coast. They had real skills in learning how to draw and paint, but this other thing about ideas was harder, and that’s what I could teach them.

it for five years, and was going to bring my MFA program to the building [before it was sold to someone else]. We had a biennial sculpture show there with Mark di Suvero and other great artists. My first big piece after landing in that space was called Round Hole Square Peg. There was a big storm, and half of the trees fell into the river. I collected those for the piece, which for me had very little color: steel that was like the river; it looked zen-ny. I formed plaster stupas and mandalas; it was very river-related. It was shown in a gallery on 57th Street, which is the major river in New York City, and almost had the same relationship to the gallery as the Rondout Creek did to my studio. When I looked out and saw the flow of cars, it made sense.

“I’m very dyslexic, and printing is full of reversals and surprises... When I tell them, “Let’s print this a certain way,” sometimes they misunderstand me and it comes back better.”

Creating in the Hudson Valley For some years you rented a studio in Kingston. What was that like? I had just done a huge piece for the Philadelphia Convention Center, and had been looking for a barn in Pennsylvania or upstate New York for storage. I found space in the tugboat factory in Kingston on the river, which was the most beautiful building. I had 7,000 to 8,000 square feet, and you could throw a stone five feet and it’d go into the river. There were sturgeon, sculls, rowboats and tour boats, and I’d look out in the morning and see herons; in the winter I’d see icebergs. It was a child’s fantasy of the river, and you could walk up the street and get a great cup of coffee. I was evicted in 2001 when the building was sold. I was in contract to try to buy

that used to be owned by [the evangelist] Father Divine. My studio is in Tivoli, where I bought five acres to protect my space from development. I’m a fierce gardener wannabe. I try to grow things like crazy, and when they die there’s the advantage that I can use them. I have students come in and help archive or pick weeds in the yard.

Did the sewage plant in Kingston, across the street from the Cornell Building, bother you? Every place I lived for the last 30 years had a sewage plant across the street. I’m totally insensitive to smells. I’ve heard you often patronized P & T Surplus, located on Abeel Street, not far from your studio. At P & T Surplus I used to get tons of sinks, things from chemistry labs made of slate, and also a lot of steel and aluminum and shelving materials. [Owner] Tim Smythe is a remarkable fellow who is so helpful to my students. Where do you live and work now? I have a beautiful home in Kingston

Many of your pieces are experiential and relate to specific experiences and places. Which places have influenced you? What about the country of your childhood? I reference nothing in England. I was thrown out of school there, and I’m not an Anglophile. I reference not so much places where I’ve been, but places I’d imagine I’d like. I have an ensemble sensibility. I don’t like looking at one object, but at lots of things. When you look at a Japanese or Chinese landscape, you see through a frame to a view of Mount Fuji or something, and I like that long view, rather than the closeup. Every time I go to another country, I go into shock. India has a strange organic way of being totally messy and yet working at the same time. It has a wonderful way of assimilating lots of random events and not making too much of a fuss about it. I like that, instead of holding onto the way things are supposed to be. My first entry into this culture was Japan, Korea, China and then India, which feels right. I’m drawing on paper from there, and I’m in touch with a couple of people over there. I have ideas about things that probably aren’t true at all,

May 29, 2014 but that doesn’t stop me from looking at things and reading about things to be more open. I imagine your favorite place to be is in the studio. I don’t hike, fish, have never been on a horse and I don’t ski. I’m pretty constant. A workaholic sounds like what I am. My dog just died after 14 years; my ex-student just fell dead at age 38; and school for the last month has been intense beyond what I can remember. This winter, I tried to work, but I was just drawing blanks. I’ve been recovering from these last few months, which are the most difficult I can remember. I don’t have children or family, and I don’t know how people who have complicated lives get things done. I have outbuildings that keep me busy. Other lives have different joys. Do video and other electronic media have any appeal to you? I don’t get new media in the same way people do who grew up with it. It has this level of cleverness and finesse, which for me makes it hard to keep it raw and interesting. Tell us about your two upcoming shows this fall in New York. Pavel Zoubok Gallery is oriented towards collage and Outsider artists, so I’ve been making collages, small pieces with lots of new drawing materials. Loretta Howard, who used to be the director at Andre Emmerich, is in the same building upstairs. The gallery is so white, it makes you want to wear those snow glasses. I was thinking of making it whiter. It’ll open in October, and because it’s in the middle of the season, I have a short installation time; there’s logistics I’ve got to think about. I got a phone call from both of them asking what I was going to put in the show, and I thought, “Perhaps you don’t know who you’re talking to.” You’ve been quoted as saying you were an emerging artist for 30 years, before winning the MacArthur Fellowship. How did that grant change your life? There was a time from 1987 to 1992 when I started making pretty large and bulky wall pieces instead of installations, thinking there might be a market for it. A few sold, but most I still have in my basement. With the MacArthur grant, I managed to build a space on my property here in Tivoli to find and repair those pieces and put them together. My very best friends, Elizabeth Murray and Al Held, had died, and they had both taken care of their work so that it wasn’t a burden to the people around them. I realized my life was a mess. I had just been busy making things and not protecting what I had made. Every installation – and there were over 100 of them – had been thrown away, though I might keep part of a stick or other detail, and if it was neutral enough, make a table and chair out of it. I thought, “It’s time for me to grow up and value that work.” The MacArthur freed me. All of a sudden I thought, “They like me,” like I was Sally Field or something. I’ve always been a fighter and belligerent and trying to buck the system. I wondered, “How did I get this support, given I’m a little irascible?” It changed how I thought about myself. For more information about Judy Pfaff, visit http://www.judypfaffstudio.com.

Jane Bloodgood-Abrams exhibition opens this Saturday in New Paltz Returning to her hometown roots, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams will have the first local major exhibition in many years of her luminous landscape paintings at the Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend

ALMANAC WEEKLY this free event. “My work is inspired by the unique light and atmosphere in the Hudson River Valley, as well as its artistic heritage,” says Bloodgood-Abrams. Only after growing up in New Paltz and receiving her Masters in painting here did she really become aware of her deep personal connection to the land – a connection that has driven her to paint the region for over 25 years. Hiking the same trails as the Hudson River School painters, her works are infused by fleeting moments that she uses as a tool to illustrate nature’s spiritual or emotional essence. Like those earlier painters, her response to the light and the land allows her to transcend landscape and inspire an appreciation of our environment. The show will remain on view through Saturday, July 12. The Mark Gruber Gallery is located in the New Paltz Plaza. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday until 5:30 p.m., Saturday until 5 p.m. and Sundays by appointment only. For more information, call Mark Gruber at (845) 255-1241 or visit www.markgrubergallery. com.

Works by Joe Spinella & Paola Bari on view in Poughkeepsie Joe Spinella and Paola Bari will exhibit their work in a combined show at the Adriance Memorial Library at 93 Market Street in Poughkeepsie from May 31 through June 30. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 7 at 3 p.m. The Mary Wojtecki Rotunda Gallery is open to the public during regular library hours. Hudson Valley-based artist Joe Spinella graduated with a degree in Visual Communications and Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Philadelphia. His acrylic paintings have been exhibited in the area over the years. In recent years, Spinella has turned to abstract art. “Almost all my paintings are done without a brush,” he says. “The paint is mixed on the canvas into a flow where realism meets abstraction.” Born and raised in Italy, Paola Bari is now a Poughkeepsie resident active in the Hudson Valley art scene. Bari began porcelain painting in Milano and attended seminars in Italy, Switzerland and the US to learn different styles and techniques. She has exhibited in the US and Europe, lectures on art, has curated/ juried numerous local shows and is the co-founder of the RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon. Of her own work, Bari says, “The transparency of the porcelain is fascinating to me because it contributes to the elegance of the finished work of art.” For more information about the Library, call (845) 485-3445, extension 3702, or visit www.poklib.org.

Warren Bernhardt, Nicola Sheara & Sevan Melikyan get ASKars The Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) presents a diverse range of visual art exhibitions, performances, workshops, classes and other arts-related programming for the benefit of artists and art-lovers of the Hudson Valley. Every year the organization honors three outstanding area artists, presenting the awards at the annual “A Night at the ASKars” awards gala. This year’s event, the third annual, will be held on Friday, May 30 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Steelhouse on the Strand in Kingston. Recent ASKar recipients include Shokan resident Philippe Petit, the performance artist who walked on wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. This year’s ASKar recipients include musician Warren Bernhardt of Woodstock, actress and director Nicola Sheara of Kingston’s TheaterSounds and Sevan Melikyan, artist and director of the Wired Gallery in High Falls. The evening includes a cocktail

hour with appetizers, an extensive silent auction, dinner and live musical entertainment. The evening’s emcee will be Big Joe Fitz of WDST Radio Woodstock. Tickets cost $85. Reserve by calling ASK at (845) 338-0331. For more information, visit www.askforarts.org.

Saugerties Performing Arts Factory hosts Art Along the Hudson kickoff this Saturday When Art Along the Hudson (AAH) holds its annual kickoff on Saturday, May 31 at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory (SPAF) with emcee Mikhail Horowitz, Saugerties supervisor Greg Helsmoortel and Director of Ulster County Tourism Rick Remsnyder greeting celebrators for an evening of great art and music, the 11-year-old organization will be essentially embarking on a new era. Art Along the Hudson is a collective promotional venture of Hudson Valley towns and cities known for artistic venues and activities. “This all started out of conversations between Ben Krevolin at the Dutchess County Arts Council, Linda Hubbard, who had a gallery in Beacon at the time, Albert [Shahinian] and myself and Nancy Donskoj in Kingston,” said Joanna Hess, co-president of AAH’s board, of the coming event. “Beacon and Kingston were doing joint openings, along with Poughkeepsie, and it made sense to join forces.” First Newburgh joined in, so that there was a full month of Saturday-night art events up and down the Hudson Valley. Five years ago, a much bigger expansion occurred, bringing in Rhinebeck and New Paltz, and eventually Hudson, Woodstock and Garrison/Cold Spring – even Ossining for a year – and now Saugerties. Along the way, added Hess (whose co-chair at Art Along the Hudson is Paty Lott), Hubbard became the consortium’s volunteer director, making sure that everything was coordinated and happening as it should. But then she decided to step back in the

15 past year, which is what is making for the “new era.” Some towns have pulled out for a spell, like Hudson and Woodstock, while others have consolidated, such as Rhinebeck/ Red Hook and Tivoli or Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park. But the basic work at hand has stayed the same, and the underlying sense of structure. Towns pay an annual fee to cover AAH costs for printing and a limited amount of advertising. In return, they become part of a cultural juggernaut for both art aficionados in the region and visitors interested in the rising aura of cultural tourism. Seventy thousand copies of an annual brochure – whose new edition will be available at Saturday’s kickoff – are disseminated to local businesses, Thruway stops and Grand Central Station in New York. And a regularly updated website is supported, full of local arts listings and events focused on those once-a-month coordinated openings. “It’s finally getting into people’s heads that we’re a consortium of ten different communities,” Hess said. “What we do allows people who enjoy one opening to figure out how to attend others. Say you’re in from Boston; with our website and brochure, you can now know where to try out openings and events in several communities in a single trip. And as Dutchess County Tourism’s Mary Kay Vrba says, for every dollar spent on art, there’s many more spent on other businesses in our communities.” As for Saturday’s event at SPAF, be prepared for art from each participating community, great music from Malcolm Cecil, who was the genius behind much of Stevie Wonder’s 1970s sound, plus the Arm-of-the-Sea Puppet Theater and Horowitz’s wit. As Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach) says, “Horowitz does with the English language what Jim Carrey does with his face.” – Paul Smart Art Along the Hudson Annual Kickoff, Saturday, May 31, 5-9 p.m., Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, 169 Ulster Avenue, Saugerties; www.artalongthehudson.com.

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The launch of such an ambitious event represents the culmination of many years of hard work and success by Sam & Dushka Ramic, who came to the US on vacation in 1991 from their native Yugoslavia and ended up never leaving, due to the breakout of civil war in Bosnia.

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rom Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 1, Mohonk Mountain House will host a brand-new event: the Wine and Food Festival of New Paltz. The festival will feature seminars by celebrity sommeliers, chefs and wine experts; tastings of a wide selection of wines culled from mostly small vineyards in Europe and the US, with a special emphasis on Italy and New York State; tastings and demonstrations by noted chefs of creative food-and-wine pairings; and on Sunday, reserved for the wine trade, the handing out of 19 awards to the best wines and a presentation on new trends in the industry. The festival is the brainchild of Sam and Dushka Ramic, owners of New Paltz-based International Wine Masters, a company that holds tastings, seminars and other events geared to educating retailers about the wines that the Ramics sell through their second company, Wine Worldwide, an importer, wholesaler and distributor. Many of the wines that they import and sell are from smaller wineries located in the Mediterranean countries, and the couple began planning the festival nearly two years ago as a way to draw attention to these wines and better connect the vintners with their US customers. The

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response has been so impressive that the Ramics say they are confident that the festival will become not just an annual event, but the preeminent wine festival in the country. Sixty wineries, based not only in Europe but also in California, Virginia and New York State, and 80 exhibitors will be represented at the festival. The Ramics have also put together a sterling roster of food and wine experts, of whom the headliner is Lidia Bastianich, the Emmywinning popular television chef, bestselling cookbook author and restaurateur who also founded her own entertainment company, Tavola Productions. Bastianich’s specialty of Italian and Italian-American cooking – she’ll be giving a seminar titled “Authentic Cuisine throughout My Life” at 5 p.m. on Saturday – reflects the festival’s emphasis on Italian food and wine. The festival’s co-sponsor is the Italian Trade Commission, and preeminent Italian chef Rosanna De Michele, who promotes the culinary traditions of her native Abruzzo as executive director of the non-profit organization Abruzzo in Tavola, will be participating. Anthony Giglio, a writer and raconteur who has written ten critically acclaimed books on wines and spirits and currently

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reports on wines for CBS Radio, among numerous other gigs, will talk on “HighAltitude Italian Wines” at 1 pm on Saturday, followed by Kevin Zraly, wine director for Windows on the World from the restaurant’s inception at the World Trade Center in 1976 until 9/11, at 2 p.m. Zraly founded the Windows on the World Wine School and subsequently authored a book on the subject, which he followed up with several other popular volumes on wine. He’ll speak about “The Best of Italy: Brunello di Montalcino.” Continuing the Italian theme, Lou di Palo will discuss “Italian Cheese & Wine through Centuries” at 4 p.m. The fourth-generation owner of Di Palo’s Fine

Foods, which opened its doors in Little Italy in 1925, di Palo has been featured in The New York Times and other national media sharing his knowledge of cheese and Italian specialty foods. The focus on Italian wines reflects not only much of the inventory at Wine Worldwide, but also the general popularity of Italian wines in the US, which are the number-one imported wine, according to Sam Ramic. He also noted that there will be an emphasis on organic wines, which are a huge trend in Europe especially, as well as wines made from grapes that are sustainably grown and pressed and free of additives. Michael Weiss, the chair of Wine Studies

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May 29, 2014 at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), based in nearby Hyde Park, will present “European Tour de Force” on Friday at 5 p.m.: a whirlwind tour of the top wines across the Continent. On Saturday at 12 noon, Weiss and well-known local chef Ric Orlando, proprietor of New World Home Cooking, will talk about “Wine and Food Pairings in the Global Village,” with an emphasis on healthful cooking and drinking and culinary creativity. Bordeaux gets more than a nod on Friday at 4 p.m., when Mile Rupcic, a wine consultant for Wine Worldwide as well as an actor and author (originally from Croatia, he served with the UN Peacekeeping Forces in Bosnia for five years as an interpreter and media analyst), will present the seminar “Bordeaux: the Empire of Good Stuff.” And on Saturday at 3 p.m., Steven Kolpan, professor of Wine Studies at the CIA, a wine columnist and award-winning author, will give a talk titled “Old World, New World.” All seminars cost $30 (except Zraly’s, which costs $50). There will also be two tastings on Saturday afternoon. Tickets for the Grand Ta s t i n g , h e l d from 12 noon to 5 pm, with samples from bottles with a retail value of at least $20, costs $75, while the Red Carpet Crus Tasting, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., with samples from bottles with a retail value of at least $35 for whites and $50 for reds, costs $120. Throughout the afternoon, participants can meet the winemakers and sample foods from nine restaurants, including the Aroma Thyme Bistro, the Gilded Otter, the Bridge Creek Café and Locanda Restaurant. A group of soon-to-be-graduating seniors from the CIA will also be serving food and doing much of the presenting. The opportunity to participate in the festival “takes all the stuff we learn and puts it in a real-life situation,” noted student Michael Swift. After a welcoming cocktail-hour reception at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, there will be a live and silent auction at 6 p.m. that will benefit the CIA Scholarship Fund and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. A food-and-wine gala will follow at 7:30 p.m., with tickets costing $135. The wine awards, presented on Sunday – open only to the trade – will be based on blind tastings by numerous sommeliers, international winemakers and people from local restaurants, wine stores and other related businesses of hundreds of wines over the past three weeks. “We have 19 categories of awards, and it’s very comprehensive,” Sam said. He added that the festival is unusual in that it’s located at a picturesque resort, rather than under a tent or at a convention center, as is the norm, which is helping to attract wine-lovers from the New York metropolitan area. Sam, who has visited hundreds of festivals with Dushka over the last 14 years, said that the couple based the format of their festival on what was best about those events. “Usually festivals feature a well-known brand, to get people to come,” he said. “We will have some well-known brands, but we want to give opportunities for small producers. They’re willing to spend their money to showcase their wines and food.” Sam and Dushka have also gotten a lot of support from the community and are most grateful for the help of local volunteers and businesses, sponsors, exhibitors, Mohonk Mountain House and its staff.

by the Ramics, who came to the US on vacation in 1991 from their native Yugoslavia and ended up never leaving, due to the breakout of civil war in Bosnia. “We only had two suitcases,” Dushka recalls. “We left all our money in Yugoslavia because we didn’t plan to live here.” However, family members advised them to stay in the US for their own safety. The couple had met in Dubrovnik, where both were in school earning Business degrees, and after graduating and marrying had good-paying professional jobs. They owned a café in Bosnia called the City, which was inspired by the Manhattan skyline, and also had a six-month-old baby. Sam, whose connection with wine goes back to harvesting grapes as a teenager – “When it was harvesting season, you went and helped” – had family in the Catskills, and as a student had worked at the Nevele Hotel. Now in sudden exile and staying with an uncle in Sullivan County’s Bloomingburg, the 28-year-old father went back to the Nevele, working 12 hours a day in the kitchen. He slowly worked his way up, working in the convention department, as maître d’ and finally as director of catering. Dushka, who within a year gave birth to a second child (eventually they would have three) went to work part-time at McDonald’s in Ellenville. “We were willing and capable to do whatever needed to be done, and we did everything,” she recalled. Meanwhile, the couple visited a lawyer and obtained their legal citizenship. Dushka’s Business degree and previous experience working as a regional manager for a cosmetics company in Zagreb eventually helped her get her career back on track (as did the fact that both she and Sam knew how to speak English). In 1996, she became an account executive for Christian Dior, traveling from her home in New Paltz to Macy’s, Nordstrom and other accounts, as well as on occasion to the Dior headquarters in Manhattan. Meanwhile, Sam had moved from the hospitality industry to Coca-Cola, working as an account manager in New Windsor. In 2000, based on their extensive business experience and Sam’s knowledge of the wine industry, which he had learned about from his experience in the hospitality and beverage industries, they decided to quit their corporate jobs and start their own wine-importing business. In 2003 they opened Wine Worldwide, expanding into wholesaling and distribution, which gave them more

The response has been so impressive that the Ramics say they are confident that the festival will become not just an annual event, but the preeminent wine festival in the country.

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control over the product and was a way to expand their customer base. Many wholesalers had gone out of business due to consolidation in the industry, so it wasn’t easy; the couple successfully competed “by controlling the quality of the product and the price,” said Sam. They started International Wine Masters as way to educate their retail customers, who are based throughout New York State and in upper New Jersey. They specialize in smaller vineyards, which tend to have a better quality of wine – partly because they’re not using additives, Sam said. The challenge is marketing an unknown brand, given that “It takes a long time to establish a brand in a market.” The Wine & Food Festival of New Paltz is designed to help those betterquality, lesser-known wineries develop their brands with US customers. They hail from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Greece, Argentina and from California, Virginia and especially New York State. The Ramics have lived in New Paltz since 1997 and built their warehouse for their wine wholesaling business on North Putt Corners Road in 2009. “When Sam was breaking into the business, the first container came to our garage, and we just took out each bottle by hand,” said Dushka. Today they have a fleet of trucks and 17 employees working for Wine Worldwide, including salespeople, drivers and warehouse workers; an additional five work for International Wine Masters. An elegant tasting room, furnished with an enormous table crafted from barn wood, is located above the warehouse for tastings and classes. They plan to expand their educational events to groups and individual consumers. The launch of the Wine & Food Festival of New Paltz represents a giant step in that direction, and their goal is nothing less than to establish the midHudson Valley as a center of wine culture. – Lynn Woods Wine & Food Festival of New Paltz, May 30-June 1, Wine & Food Gala, Friday, 7:30 p.m., $135; Grand Tasting, Saturday, 12 noon-5 p.m., $75; Red Carpet Cru Tasting, Saturday, 1-5:30 p.m., $120; seminars, Friday/Saturday, $30/$50; Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz; (646) 5279500, (888) 976-0785, www.internationalwinemasters.com.

Farm-to-table dinner/ concert to beneﬁt SageArts song project The SageArts organization of Rosendale is hosting a farm-to-table dinner, concert and silent auction on

Sunday, June 8 at the Marbletown Community Center from 5 to 9 p.m. Musicians scheduled to perform include Marc Black, Mamalama, Dean Batstone, Don Sparks, Liana Gabel, Dave Kearney, Dorraine Scofield and Jim Metzner. Dinner will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. Wine and beer will be available throughout the evening. The performances begin at 7 p.m. Proceeds will be used to bring Molly Sturges to the Hudson Valley to teach local songwriters the Lifesongs® method for bringing elders’ stories to life in song. Following the training, these songwriters will then partner with elders to write original songs, which will be performed this fall with youth and intergenerational choirs. For more information, call (845) 6881546, e-mail info@sagearts.org or visit www.sagearts.org.

“A Performance Unwritten” at MaMA Musicians, poets and visual artists will come together for a “A Performance Unwritten” on Saturday, May 31 at 8 p.m. at Marbletown Multi-Arts (MaMA) in Stone Ridge. The event will be hosted by the collective IMPETUS, itself an offshoot of local musician and sound healer Matt Cantello’s One Ensemble experimentations with improvisation over the past 30 years. “IMPETUS was founded under the belief that the spirit of improvisation holds the key to the next frontier in innovative artistic expression, whether it be music, dance, the visual arts, poetry or any other aesthetic discipline,” said Cantello. For “A Performance Unwritten,” participating musicians will include Cantello, Chris Bradley and James Fischetti. Spoken-word artists will be Steve Clorfeine, David Gonzalez, Judith Kerman, Richard Treitner, Jan Castro and Carl Welden; and the visual art be created by master paint-and-ink improvisers Nancy Ostrovsky and Barbara Bash. – Paul Smart A Performance Unwritten, Saturday, May 31, 8 p.m.; suggested donation $10; Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge; (845) 6878890;www.cometomama.org, www. impetus.mfbiz.com.

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After greatly enjoying my recent visit to Germany, I delighted in seeing this announcement about this weekend’s German Spring Festival at Gus’s Tavern. Guests will hear German music, kids can play games just for them and homemade German specialties will be available. Admission is free. The Festival takes place on Friday, May 30 from 5 to 11 p.m., Saturday, May 31 from 2 to 11 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Gus’s Tavern is located at 10 Quassaick Avenue in New Windsor. For more information, call (845) 561-3113 or visit www.gusrestaurant.com.

Dutchess County and other area families will be pleased to learn about another Kids’ Night Out event taking place on Friday, May 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. through Taconic Innovations, Inc. Activities include ice-creammaking, creating a suncatcher and free play at the indoor/outdoor playground. Preregistration is required, and the cost is $35. The Taconic Innovations Child Development Center works with children on the autism spectrum and is located at 877 Route 376 in Wappingers Falls. For reservations or more information, call (845) 849-3447, extension 5100, or visit www.taconicinnovations.com.

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but feel overwhelmed about jumping in, reserve your spot for the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum (HHNM)’s Family Camp-Out this weekend at the Outdoor Discovery Center. From Friday, May 30 at 6 p.m. to Saturday, May 31 at 8 p.m., join experienced campers and nature educators for an evening filled with nocturnal fun including crafts, a night hike and campfire

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I just learned about this Bike Swap, Shop & Drop event taking place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31. Participants can swap a bike for another bike, shop for a used bike or drop off a bike to donate. All bikes not swapped or sold will be donated to Grafe’s Bike Drive in Middletown, where children in need learn to make repairs on a bike, which they are then able to keep. Additional items accepted for swap or donation include helmets, scooters, skateboards, rollerblades, strollers, trikes, training wheels, mopeds, motorcycles, go-carts and wagons in any condition. Bike Swap, Shop & Drop is located at the Gardiner Transfer Station on Steve’s Lane in Gardiner. For more information or to volunteer for the event, contact Wendy Toman at (845) 255-9775 or recycling. tog@gmail.com.

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Spring Faire launches Primrose School in Rhinebeck Spring abounds with new beginnings, and this weekend’s ribbon-cutting at the new Primrose School gives families a chance to celebrate with a Spring Faire. On Saturday, May 31 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., families can enjoy dancers from Vanaver Caravan, free food and live music, meet farm

animals, watch a puppet show and more. The Primrose School is located at 23 Spring Brook Park in Rhinebeck, across from the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. For more information about the Faire or this kindergarten-through-second-grade school, call (845) 876-1226 or visit http:// primrosehillschool.com.

Bike Rodeo at Hurley Nursery School Ever since the fun bike rodeo that our family attended in Kingston a few years ago, I always like to mention them when I can. This bicycle safety course is such an enjoyable way for children to learn the rules of riding the roads. On Saturday, May 31 from 1 to 3 p.m., the Hurley Nursery School hosts a bike rodeo for ages 3 to 12 years, including a safety presentation, obstacle courses, raffles and refreshments. Participants should bring their tricycles, bicycles, unicycles and helmets. The Hurley Nursery School is located at 13 Main Street in Hurley. For more information, call (845) 339-1036 or visit www.hurleynurseryschool.org.

Mountaintop School in West Saugerties hosts Music & Merriment When Morgan Taylor and Rachel Loshak perform, and children skip around a maypole, and families square dance, and kids get enthralled at puppet shows, you know that you’re headed for a great time at Music & Merriment at the Mountaintop School. On Saturday, May 31 from 1 to 5 p.m., being part of the fun feels even better, because all proceeds benefit Family of Woodstock. The Mountaintop School is located at 68 Band Camp Road in West Saugerties. For more information, call (845) 389-7322 or visit www.mountaintopschool.com.

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World’s Longest Handshake Relay attempt on Walkway Whether you are exploring your life’s options to leave a legacy, or you just like setting world records, head over to the Walkway over the Hudson

this Sunday, June 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon for the Walkway’s third annual world record event: the World’s Longest Handshake Relay. Admission costs $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 12 years and is free for children 5 and under. The Walkway entrances are located at 87 Haviland Road in Highland and 61 Parker Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 834-2867 or visit www.walkway.org. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4

Music in the Parks free concert season begins at Mills Mansion This Wednesday, pack up your picnic dinner and head over to Mills Mansion for the kickoff of the 2014 summer season of Music in the Parks. The music will be performed by students from Hyde Park schools, who will play show tunes and popular music. Concerts are free and take place on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at parks around the area. Mills Mansion is located on Old Post Road in Staatsburgh. For more

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Working with Masters is a fiveday intensive summer music program through the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice for children ages 8 to 12 to enhance skills in improvisation, music theory and composition, culminating in a Friday concert for parents. (845) 586-3588, www.phoeniciavoicefest.org

One end-of-year highlight to check out is the Media Showcase & Film Festival on Wednesday, June 4 from 3:30 to 5 p.m., where attendees can view the work accomplished by youth in the Teen Media Lab at the Adriance Memorial Library. Additional activities and refreshments will be available. The Adriance Memorial Library is located at 93 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 485-3445 or visit http://poklib.org.

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Kids’ Almanac writes Kids’ Almanac thanks Alice Hawkins for supplying writing prompts for the month of May! Alice lives in Gardiner with her husband, son, beagle, two cats, fish and a lizard. She has liked to write since winning a hatbox for her essay in the third grade. Here is her prompt for this week. Remember to post your piece on the Almanac Weekly Facebook page: www. facebook.com/pages/almanac-weekly/287633831270607. Prompt: I had no idea you felt that way... – Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com. She leaves you with this quote by Anne Lamott: “Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.”

Willa McCarthy Band plays Unison in New Paltz this Friday The Willa McCarthy Band will bring its mix of soul, blues and R & B to the Unison Arts Center for a dance party on Friday, May 30 from 8 to 10 p.m. for the next installment of the 2014 Fifth Friday Dance Series. There will be a dance lesson at 7:30 p.m. McCarthy’s vocals are powerful, and her band – featuring Josh Stacy on guitar, Scott Milici on keys, Doug Abramson on bass and Jerry Teters on drums – will play a mix of blues, funk, R & B and rock. No dance experience is necessary and you don’t need a partner to enjoy the party. Tickets cost $15 general admission, $10 for Unison members. Students get in for half-price with a valid ID. Refreshments will be sold. Unison is located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz. To order tickets, call (845) 255-1559 or visit www.unisonarts.org.

Barefoot Dance Center students to perform at SUNY-New Paltz The Barefoot Dance Center of West Park will host its annual Student Dance Concert on Saturday, May 31 at 5 p.m. in the McKenna Theatre on the SUNY-New Paltz campus. Tickets are available at the door and cost $12 for adults, $6 for kids and teens and free for ages three and under. The performance will feature dancers from ages three through 18. The annual showcase is choreographed by kids,

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Valley Growers’ Association works toward making farming possible for future generations of farmers that “we’re all going to need,” says Cipollone. “We all like to eat food, but somebody has to grow it.” And if we have to buy it from China or Chile, he adds, you don’t know what they’re doing or how they’re doing it. “But you can come to my farm and other farms around the area and we’ll tell you exactly how we’re growing it. I think that’s pretty valuable.” Cipollone also serves on the board of the Ellenville Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Wawarsing Local Development Corporation and the Sullivan Wawarsing Rural Economic Area Partnership. Cipollone’s family farm history began when his grandfather, George Barthel, and Barthel’s father-in-law, George Rode (pronounced “roadie”), established Bar-Ro Acres, naming their new venture by taking parts of both of their surnames. There was a double meaning in choosing a name that sounded like “borrow,” says Cipollone: The two Georges rented, leased and borrowed land to farm on for many years – “probably upwards of about 800 acres at their peak.” But after Barthel purchased a 350-acre farm in Kerhonkson and one of his major customers went bankrupt without paying him, that meant the end of that. By the 1980s, the family was farming the land directly behind where Barthel’s Farm Market is located today. That parcel is no longer available for farming, having been commercially developed; so today they farm in Accord, on land purchased in 1999 by Cipollone’s stepfather, Gary Sachetti, and his mother, Roxanne Barthel Sachetti (George Barthel’s daughter). The farm is run by Cipollone and Sachetti. The farmstand is managed by Roxanne and Cipollone’s fiancée, Rebecca Rosado. Barthel’s Farm Market offers a variety of homemade pies and other baked goods, along with fresh produce from the farm in Accord. While George Barthel primarily farmed sweet corn and potatoes (crops grown on larger pieces of land), today the family concentrates on growing vegetables. The land originally was a nursery farm, with trees and shrubs growing that they continue to dig up and sell, making room for more vegetable land as they go. “It’s been kind of an ongoing process over the past five years or so,” says Cipollone. What was once a spring and

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wo years ago, a Southern California man named Sergio Rodriguez kept pointing a laser at a helicopter. Result: Two months ago he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. To date, it’s the severest punishment for an offense to which many are oblivious. Of the 17,725 reported US laser strike incidents from 2005 through 2013, just 134 arrests have been made. Thus, among reported incidents – a small fraction of the actual number –there’s less than a one percent chance of getting caught. (Those 134 arrests resulted in 80 convictions.) Time to look more closely at those innocent-seeming handheld lasers. In 1957, Columbia University graduate student Gordon Gould figured out a way to make light photons march in unison: a phenomenon predicted a half-century earlier by Albert Einstein. Two years later, he coined the term LASER in his paper titled “The LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” At this time, Bell Labs were also furiously trying to find a way to make light waves pulse in unison. When they built the first usable laser in 1960, there ensued a patent fight that wasn’t resolved for 17 years. Historians still debate who was the laser’s inventor. Nobody foresaw how quickly and ubiquitously this invention would find its way into our daily lives, nor how inexpensive it would rapidly become. In a mere 14 years, the Uniform Product Code (UPC), with its black bars separated by varying spaces, had been created and agreed upon. The National Cash Register Company reportedly installed a test system at Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, near its factory producing the equipment. On June 26, 1974 at 8:01 a.m., Clyde Dawson pulled a ten-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum out of his basket and it was scanned by Sharon Buchanan. This was the first commercial appearance of the UPC. The pack of gum and the receipt are now on display in Washington’s Smithsonian Institution. Supermarket lasers, like those in CD players, use about five milliwatts, which is also the legal limit for handheld devices like lecture pointers. Those in DVD players use up to ten milliwatts, while DVD burners require 100 milliwatts. Lasers used in surgery employ 30,000 to 100,000 milliwatts – meaning 30 to 100 watts – to cut effortlessly through flesh. Everyday five-milliwatt red lasers remain the favorite for pointers and cat toys, and are the least expensive at a few dollars apiece. These, however, do not create a visible

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Deadbeat Dad No male holly bush nearby means no berries on the females

onnecting the drip irrigation to the spigot behind my compost pile today, my eyes fell on five nearby Meserve holly bushes – which brought my thoughts back to last fall, when I realized that I’ve never seen berries on those shrubs. Hollies are dioecious plants (“two houses”): some are male, others are female. Only the female plants bear the bright red fruits that, along with spiny, shiny leaves, are so essential a decoration for the Winter Solstice. To bear fruits (which are ripened ovaries), the female flowers must be dusted with pollen from male flowers. Last fall, I reasoned that the lack of berries could be that the plants were too young (no, I planted them over 15 years ago), that the plants were too shaded (if so, there would have been at least a few berries), that late frosts were killing the blossoms (unlikely every year) or that the planting lacked a male stud (except that I do remember making sure to plant one male holly for the harem of females). As luck would have it, coincidentally with my connecting the drip irrigation, the hollies were in bloom. The blossoms are ornamentally insignificant, but did provide the opportunity to confirm each plant’s sexual orientation. No magnifier

was needed to see a swollen green ovary at the base of the petals of each flower on all my plants. All my hollies are females. Right away, I started thinking of where, locally, I’ve seen hollies from which I could beg a few male blossoms, assuming that other plantings have some males loitering about. Male flowers on a branch with its base in water would stay viable long enough for bees or me to effect pollination. Once the drip irrigation was connected, I broke tradition, neglected my own advice and planted out tomatoes, peppers and eggplants transplants. The date was May 19 rather than my usual end-of-May planting date. These plants allegedly shudder at a temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which was predicted and sure to occur again. I did offer them some protection in the form of light-, air- and water-permeable row covers, held up over the plants by double metal hoops (from www.gardeners.com or, as concrete block truss reinforcing wire, from a building supply store). A single hoop over the row cover at each double hoop holds the row cover in place while allowing it to slide up and down for access to the bed. Like holly berries, peppers, tomatoes

beam in the night sky. That’s because their linearly polarized emissions can’t efficiently illuminate airborne dust or tiny water drops to reflect light back to the user. For a visible straight-line “ray” you need a green laser or one of the newer blue or violet ones, which are all circularly polarized. Since green is perceived far more readily than any other color, it’s the only one that can create a visible beam using just a legal five milliwatts. But in bright moonlight or in light-polluted cities, a 30-milliwatt or higher green laser is desirable to create a nice visible beam. Even five-milliwatt lasers, however, are inherently dangerous if pointed at an eye. Laser light is so concentrated that it can produce eye damage in a fraction of a second. The past decade has seen a huge increase in young people buying super-boosted lasers of 20, 50 or even 100 milliwatts. These are fabulous tools for showing off constellations, and I’ve employed them since the ’80s. Companies like Wicked Lasers, exploiting the light-saber battles seen in Star Wars, produce ever-more-powerful models with teenfriendly names like Spyder and Krypton. In Arizona two weeks ago, I tried out three, owned by my friend Matt, with green and blue light. One was a 1,000-milliwatt model: a full watt! These pop dark-colored balloons instantly. Their mere reflections off nearby surfaces are dangerous to look at. These handheld devices are available to anyone over the Internet for $300 or so. At night, without much thought for the consequences, people point them at passing planes. Inside the cockpit, pilots are suddenly incapacitated – totally blinded for several seconds. In some cases the pilot could not continue his or her duties, as headache and dizziness persisted for hours. No one has yet been permanently blinded, but with the lasers getting increasingly powerful, this will only be a matter of time. Last year, President Obama signed into law a penalty of five years in prison for the offense of pointing a laser at a plane. (The Rodriguez sentence of 14 years was meted out because of that man’s “willfulness,” meaning that he hadn’t done it obliviously.) Bottom line: Be very careful with lasers. Tell anyone you know who has one of the eye hazard to themselves and their friends, and the great peril of obliviously pointing it toward the sky. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob Berman’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

and eggplants are ripened ovaries – that is, fruits (botanically speaking; horticulturally and legally, they are considered vegetables). As fruits, they need pollination to develop. The flowers, in this case, are monoecious (“one house”), with male and female parts on the same plant. More than that, male and female parts are on the same flower; the flowers are all bisexual. Pollen still has to move from the male parts of the flower to the female parts, and mostly, it’s bees that get that job done. Bees can’t get at plants within the rowcover tunnels, so once cold weather is reliably past, I plan to uncover the rows and let bees work the blossoms. Row covers can also offer protection from certain pests. Anyone who grows eggplant eventually becomes familiar with flea beetles and the holeyness that they impart to the plants’ leaves. New growth on vigorous plants can more than offset older leaves’ loss of greenery, but flea beetles can kill weak plants. So the tack here is to keep eggplant plants under row covers until their flowers begin to open. In addition to fending off flea beetles, the additional warmth and calmer environment beneath the covering spurs growth for earlier harvest – and for a plant better able to fend off flea beetles once uncovered. With peppers, it’s especially important to pull off the cover just as soon as plants blossom. The atmosphere within a row-cover tunnel is a few degrees warmer than ambient, which is helpful now, when some protection from cold nights might be needed. Fruit set for peppers is poor at tem-

peratures below 58 degrees, so a little extra heat can improve early-season fruit set. As days grow warmer, the even-warmer environment beneath a row cover can have the opposite effect. Fruit set is also poor when daytime temperatures rise above 85 degrees. Tomatoes could remain covered throughout the season, because bees are not necessary for pollination. Abetted with just a little movement – from wind, for example – the mere opening of the flowers effects pollination. Night temperatures from 59 to 68 degrees are best for tomato fruit set. Once night temperatures go higher than 70, fruit set suffers; but that’s not going to happen for a long time, even beneath a row cover. My annual plant sale will take place on Saturday, May 31 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. I’ll have dessert gooseberries, hardy kiwifruits, figs and many other fruiting plants, as well as a few ornamentals. For more information or a list of plants, call (845) 255-0417 or e-mail garden@leereich.com. – Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. To read Lee’s previous “Gardener’s Notebook” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com. You can also visit Lee’s garden at www.leereich. blogspot.com and check out his instructional videos at www.youtube.com/leereichfarmden.

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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. 9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After Fifty with Diane Collelo. Three-part class offering movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 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 andolder, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 5:30PM-7:30PM Evening Pantry Opens at Clinton Avenue Methodist Church. The Pantry will be open from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning April 8. Info: 331-7188 or dkelleyny@gmail.com. Clinton Ave, Kingston. 6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Meets every Thursday, 6-7. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 6PM-8PM Homework Help. Mondays & Thursdays. Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Libarry, Rt 28 A, West Shokan. 6:30PM-9:30PM SafeTalk Suicide Prevention Workshop. Presented by the Mental Health Association in Ulster County. Reg reqr’d. Info: 340-3696 or kbar@co.ulster.ny.us. County Office Building, Legislative Chambers, 6th Floor, 244 Fair St, Kingston. 7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley. No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112. 7PM Flowers in the Desert. Playwright Donna Hoke. Info: www.theopeneye.org or 586-1660. Open Eye Theater, 960 Main St, Margaretville, $18, $15 /senior, $10 /youth. 7PM-9PM Japanese Movie Night: “Kagemusha.” Directed by Akira Kurosawa, written by Masato Ide & Akira Kurosawa, Strarring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ien’ichi Hagiwara, Daisuke Ryu, Jinpei Nezu, Kaori Momoi. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, free. 7PM-9PM ““Crossing the Veil” Developing Spiritual Mediumship “with Adam Bernstein. This workshop is meant for beginners and intermediates. Talking to Spirit is easier than most people think. Our Spirit Loved Ones and Guides are always around us, wishing to share their joy and wisdom with those who have the ears to listen. In this experiential workshop you will learn how to recognize and communicate with those on the other side, as well as with your Guides and Angels. You will discover that your Spirit loved ones are never too far away and you will learn simple, powerful and effective methods for getting clear messages from Spirit fast. $25/person. Call 518-929-5397 if you need help getting in the building.Info: 687-3693.Kingston Opera House Building, 275 Fair St, #17A, Kingston. 7:30PM Sheryl Crow. Info: 339-6088 or www. bardavon.org. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $125, $75. 7:30 PM -9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions On-going on Tuesday and Thursdays. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes. 8PM Adrien Reju ~ Artist in Residence. Info: 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Woodstock, $5. 8PM Take Back Your Power with Josh del Sol. After the screening Josh, the film’s award-winning director and producer, will share his insights on the smart meter/grid phenomenon, and answer questions. Info: 679-8111. Mountainview Studios, 20 Mountainview Ave, Woodstock. Admission is $10. 8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch and Bill Keith. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

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9:45AM-10:45AM Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of

13 movements. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

submission policy

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.

contact

e-mail calendar@ulsterpublishing.com. postal mail: Almanac Calendar Manager Donna Keefe

10:30AM BabyTime Story Time- Fridays at 10:30am- Join us for rhymes, songs, and simple stories for ages 6 - 18 months. Space is limited. Weekly registration is required. Info: 691-2275 x 16. Highland Public Library, 30 Church St, Highland.

c/o Ulster Publishing, PO Box 3329, Kingston, NY 12402 phone: (845) 334-8200 ext. 104, fax at (845) 334-8809. when to send

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

12:05PM-1:15PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

what to send

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

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.

how it works

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

4PM Knitting Club “Knit Wits.” Saugerties Public library, Washington Avenue, Saugerties, 246-4317 x 3. 4PM-7PM Gardiner Farmers’ Market. On-going every Friday, 4-7pm, thru October.Offering organically grown seasonal vegetables; Organic kimchi & veg pickle; Organic vegetable, herb & flowering plants; Organicfree range meats & eggs; Organic artisan breads, pastries, puffs & pierogies: Local jams, jellies & candies; Local honey & honey products; & Green Mtn. Energy. Rail Trail, Info: 484-553-4602, Gardiner. 5PM Blues Happy Hour with Big Joe Fitz. Every Friday with no cover charge. Uncle Willy’s Tavern and Kitchen, 31 North Front St, Kingston. 5PM-9PM “Night of the ASKars.” The Art Society of Kingston’s 3rd Annual Gala. Honoring Nicola Sheara, Dinner, silent auction, and musical entertainment. RSVP. Info: 338-0331 or Thbarlane@ earthlink.net Steel House Restaurant, Kingston. 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Friday Night Dinners at Germania of Poughkeepsie. Pork Schnitzel. Enjoy authentic, hearty German fare and cold beer! Info: Info@germaniapok.com or 471-0609. Germania of Poughkeepsie, 37 Old DeGarmo Rd, Poughkeepsie. 6PM-6:30PM Free Open Meditation. Meets Mon-Fri, 6-6:30pm. No particular tradition or practice. Not a ‘class’. All are welcome. Just a time to join with others to meditate together. Interfaith Awakening (the little yellow house), 9 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 6PM New Paltz Memorial Day Parade and Services. The line of march will start at the school front of the veteran’s memorial. Includes a guest speaker and a salute to deceased veterans, fired by the VFW rifle squad. New Paltz. 6PM Intimate Works on Paper. Featuring a trendy group show of Artists’ Books & Prints, from the shelf to the wall, now on view through June 22. Pre-register for a special Art of Bookbinding workshop on Sunday, June 8th. Details at www.IntimaGallery.com or 917-412-4134. Intima Gallery, 196 Main St, Saugerties. 7PM-9PM Live Music. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 80 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 7PM-10PM Night Train. Jeff Armstrong & John McLynn. Accoustic Blues & Classis Rock. Info: 339-3917 or www.roundoutbaymarina.com. Roundout Bay, 1000 Rte 213, Kingston. 7PM-9PM Bird Medicine Walkabout and Teaching with Evan Pritchard. An indoor/outdoor experiential workshop exploring Bird Medicine what how to tune in to what they have to teach us as we discuss their native teachingsand lie under the trees to listen to their songs. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $20. 7PM Book Reading: Eva Maiden, Decisions in the Dark: A Refugee Girl’s Journey, her memoir about escaping the Nazis in Austria and coming with her family to the United States. Info: 255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sexmob! Featuring Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr & Kenny Wollesen. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 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. 7PM “Flowers in the Desert.” A comedy/drama revealing love in many guises, by upstate New York playwright Donna Hoke. Info: 586-1660 or www.theopeneye.org. Open Eye Theater, 960 Main St, Margaretville, $18, $15. 7:15PM Film Series: “Hail Caesar”: The Films of Sid Caesar “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963). Also starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Edie Adams and Mickey Rooney. Directed by Stanley Kramer. Info:229-7791 x 205.Hyde Park Free Library Annex, Hyde Park.

7:30PM NYCA presents Peter Pan. Info: 679-6900 or www.woodstockplayhouse.org. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $21 / adults, $18 /srs & students. 7:30PM The Southlands Collection. Peggy LaBelle & Michael Frazier about the art works and the estates of Foxhollow, Glenburn & Southlands. Refreshments. Info: 876-0246 or dhmny@ aol.com or www.rhinebeckhistoricalsociety.org. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student.

stock, 679-6744. 9AM-1PM Young Eagles Day. Plane rides for kids 8-17 yrs old. Learn about airport safety, airplanes and aviation. Airplanes on display. Parental consent is required. For info about the EAA Young Eagles program visit www.youngeagles. org. Joseph R. Resnick Airport, Ellenville. 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.

8PM Chris Smither. Info: 658-9048. Rosendale Café, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $22.

9:30AM Keep Conservation Walk. Walk with Janice Goldfrank, author of “Field Guide to the Seasons.” Keep Conservation Preserve, County Rte 8 & Orr Rd, Germantown.

10AM Walk n Talk Series: Healing Environments from a Social Perspective with Dr. Claudia Mausner. Pre-register at www.bire.org/ events. CEIE at Denning’s Point, 199 Denning’s Ave, Beacon.

8PM Fifth Friday Dance Meet Up: Dance Party with The Willa McCarthy Band. There will be a dance lesson at 7:30pm and the band will play from 8-10pm. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz.

10AM-6PM Simplicity’s Sidewalk Sale with Heart to benefit Relay for Life, in partnership with All Sport Health & Fitness. Info: 240-1794 or simplicitygoods.com New Hackensack Plaza, 820 New Hackensack Rd, Poughkeepsie.

8PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tonynominated play. This tale explores the troubles of a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8:30PM May Star Party. View the night sky away from the lights of the cities and towns of our area! Bring your own telescope or view the stars through one brought by their members. RSVP is required at our website:www.midhudsonastro. org. Lake Taghkanic State Park, Ancram. 8:30PM The Trapps. Full Band. Info: 331-2739. Keegan Ales, 20 St James St, Kingston. 9PM Double Bill: Famed noir rock, sultry downtown diva-fronted, alt band Elysian Fields meets Ben Perowsky’s electro, dance-inflected, jazz-tinged Moodswing Orchestra with the rap powerhouse TK Wonder. Info: 679-8639. The Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9PM Reality Check. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 9PM Lara Hope and The Ark-Tones. Info: 679-4406 Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Woodstock, $7. 10PM Feast of Friends, a Musical Tribute to The Doors. Info: 679-7760. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 52 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Saturday

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8:30AM 2014 Maritime Cup Regatta. Breakfast, on-site registration and skippers’ meeting from 8:30am. First signals 11am. Two or more races Saturday. Barbecue party, beer & wine at theHudson River Maritime Museum. Info: jstephenson@ hvc.rr.com. Kingston Sailing Club, Kingston. 9AM 3rd Annual Hudson Valley Garden Association Plant Swap. Plant drop-off and sorting 9am-10am; swapping begins at 10am. Rain or Shine. All are welcome - bring a friend, but not your pet. Info: www.hvga.org or www.vanavercaravan.org. SUNY Orange, Morrison Hall Lawn, Middletown. 9 AM Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties. 9AM Object de Junque..... Vintage items, jewelry, clothing, organic veggies - something for everyone! Woodstock Flea Market, Maple Ln, Wood-

10AM Mixed-Level Yoga. This mixed-level hatha yoga class, taught by Kathy Carey, focuses on gaining strength, flexibility, balance, and alignment, while learning yoga poses in greater detail. Please bring a mat. Info: 657-2482. 10AM-2PM Saugerties’ Farmers Market. Offering fruits & vegetables, greens, herbs, asparagus, apples, pastured meats &poultry, eggs, freshcaught fish, local cheeses, baked goods (bread and pastries, including gluten-free), jams & pickles, & artisanal foods. 115 Main St. Parking Lot - Across from Cahill School, Saugerties. 10AM-12PM Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main Street, Stone Ridge, 687-7023. 10AM-12PM Introduction to Tibetan Language. Students will learn some fundamentals: how to write the Tibetan alphabet, spelling, and basic grammar. Instructor John Whitney Pettit, PhD holds three advanced degrees fromHarvard and Columbia Universities. To register 383-1774 or info@tibetancenter.org. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston, $15 /per class, $60 /course. 10AM-12PM 10th Death Café. Hosted by The Circle of Friends for the Dying. Deathcafeulstercounty@gmail.com or call 802-0970.Coffee and tea will be served, and as always—there will be cake! Free admission. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. 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. 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 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tours. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Every Saturday and Sunday, through October. Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. 11AM-4:30PM Houses and Farms in the Wallkill River Valley - 4th Annual Tour explores the rich farming region of the Shawangunk Kill and Wallkill River valleys with stunning views of the Shawangunk Mountain ridge. Info:info@ WallkillValleyLT.org or www.WallkillValleyLT. org. TuthillHouse at the Mill Restaurant, , 20 Gristmill Ln, Gardiner, $40. 12PM High Falls Afternoon Garden Tour. To Benefit the Stone Ridge Library. Refreshments will be served and the program with Ms. Gray begins at 1:30pm. Reservations Required. Info: 687-7147 or foundation@stoneridgelibrary.org. Brian and Judith Drabkin, 711 Berme Rd, High

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Silent Art Auction to Beneﬁt Stone Ridge Library Restoration Project. For details : foundation@stoneridgelibrary.org or 687-7147. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. Clearwater 2014 Spring Sail Schedule Now Posted. Now Accepting Group Applications for Spring and Summer Sails. Info: www.clearwater. org/come-sailing/sail-schedule. Coming Soon! Short Film Concert! Asbury Shorts will return for a fourth year on 6/14. A presentation of the world’s best short films. Guest Host: Kimberly Kay. Info: 718-510-6929 or www.brownpapertickets. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale.

Ulster County Office of the Aging. Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals. Open Mon, Wed & Fri, 11:30-12pm. Please call the site between10 a.m. and noon the day before you plan to attend. Info: 336-7112. Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston, $3 /suggested donation. Sign Up Now! Summer Shakespeare Intensives: Group Three: July 21-August 3. 14-17 yrs old. Much Ado About Nothing. Director, Lesley Sawhill. Info: www.New Genesis Productions.org. New Genesis Productions, 23 Vision Path, West Shokan.

Intensives: Group One: June 29-July 13. 7-12 yrs old. Midsummer Night’s Dream.Director, Emma Leigh Info: www.New Genesis Productions.org New Genesis Productions, 23 Vision Path, West Shokan. Gear up for SPARC’s 15th Annual Stewart State Forest Bike Tour (6/1). Start time: 9am. Info: sparc@ frontiernet.net or www.stewartstateforestbiketour.com. Stewart State Forest, Weed Rd Entrance, Rock Tavern, $40,

Register Now! “Preserving Land and Community, ” A one-week writing enrichment program for students ages 12-16 wishing to explore nature, history, and issues of conservation and land preservation. July 28-August 1st, 9am-3p.m.Info: www.newpaltz.edu/ hvwp/ywcam or 943-8437. South Middle School, Newburgh, $295.

Sign Up Now! The Bard Warm-UP (6/22). This pre-intensive warm-up is for everyone involved with the Summer Shakespeare Intensive. An opportunity to grasp an overview of the selected plays and to participate in an informalaudition with the directors. Info: www.New Genesis Productions.org New Genesis Productions, 23 Vision Path, West Shokan.

Offerings at White Crane Hall: A Remote Viewing Training (one of the best methods for developing psychic perception skills) May 31, 12:304:30pm. $70. Also offered: Reiki I - 6/ 6, 6-9:30pm & 6/7, 12-3:30pm. $110 forboth.The two workshops for Reiki II -6/20, 6-9:30pm & 6/21, 12-3:30pm. $110 for both. Reiki is both a healing modality & a path to deeper awakening.Info:389-2431 michael@whitecranehall.comwhitecranehall.com. White Crane Hall, (77 Cornell St. Kingston, Suite 116), Kingston.

Senior Nutrition/Dining Program.

Country Living Fair Coming to

Falls, $50.

nity House, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, $10.

12:30PM-4:30PM Offerings at White Crane Hall: A Remote Viewing Training (one of the best methods for developing psychic perception skills)Info:389-2431 michael@whitecranehall. com.whitecranehall.com. White Crane Hall, (77 Cornell St. Kingston, Suite 116), Kingston, $70.

5PM Barefoot Dance Center Annual Student Dance Concert. The range of ages and styles offers audience members a wonderful opportunity to view the natural progression of artistic development and classes at Barefoot. Info:www. barefootdancecenter. SUNY New Paltz, McKenna Theatre, New Paltz, $12, $6 /child/teen, free /3 & under.

1 PM Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. Guided tour of Kingston’s historic waterfront area that mushroomed as a prosperous maritime village in the 19th century. Info: www. fohk.org or 339-0720. City of Kingston Visitors Center, 20 Broadway, Kingston, $5, $2/under 16. 1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing.No reservations required. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12. 1PM-2:30PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Ponds Exploration for Kids. A two-mile hike to explore the ponds in Minnewaska’s former golf course. Age 6-9 years old. Pre-registration required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park, Wildmere Parking Area, Gardiner. 2PM Author Discussion and Signing: Ward Mintz, author of Kingston: The IBM Years. Chronicles IBM’s 40-Year Reign over Ulster County’s Economy and What Happened When “Big Blue” Suddenly Left. Info: 336-0590. Kingston Barnes & Nobles, 1177 Ulster Ave, Kingston. 2PM-4PM Opening Reception: “Route/Paths.” Works by HVCC’s Advanced Study Class. On View: Saturday, May 31 & Sunday, June 1. Omi International Arts Center, , 1405 County Route 22, Ghent. 4PM Book Reading by Mary Randolph Carter, author of Never Stop to Ask...Do I Have a Place for This? Info: 518-789-2127. Hunter Bee, 21 Main St, Millerton, free. 4PM Reading & Book Signing: Beverly Donofrio, author of Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace and Solace. Info: 679-8000. Upstairs at The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. 4PM The Unforgiving Land, Hardscrabble Life in the Trapps, a Vanished Shawangunk Mountain Hamlet, will be the subject of an illustrated talk and book signing by the authors, Robi Josephen and Bob Larsen. Info:www.cragsmoor.info, radl.maureen@gmail.com, 647-6487. Cragsmoor Historical Society, 349 Cragsmoor Rd, Cragsmoor. 5PM-7PM Wine & Cheese Reception: “Home.” Featuring the works of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams. Show will exhibit through 7/13. Gallery hours are: Monday 11am-5:30pm; Tuesday-Friday 10am-5:30pm; Saturday 10am-5pm;Sundays by appointment. Info: 255-1241. 5PM-7PM Pride Eve Wine & Cheese Reception and Volunteer Appreciation Night. With Guest of Honor and Pride Grand Marshal Evan Wolfson. Info: 331.5300 or www.lgbtqcenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Wall St, Kingston. 5PM-7:30PM Annual “Relay for Life ” Fund Raiser Dinner. Meatloaf Dinner with Mac & Cheese, Veggies, Tossed Salad and Dinner Rolls, and Assorted Desserts. Reservation Recommended. Walk ins welcome. Info: 255-1633 or 883-0512. New Paltz Elks Lodge #2568, Route 32 S, New Paltz, $12, $11 /senior, $6 /12 & under. 5PM-9PM Art Along The Hudson’s Annual Kick Off. Live music provided by Malcolm Cecil, and Arm of the Sea Puppet Theater will add its own touch to the event. Gallery will open at 7pm. Info: aahkickoff@gmail.com.Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 5PM Morton Art Auction: “Art for Morton’s Sake.” Reception begins at 5p.m. with light food and drink. Auction from 6p.m. - 9p.m. Info: : 876-2903. Morton Memorial Library & Commu-

6PM-10PM Cajun Dance Woody Sloop Fundraiser. Krewe de la Rue will perform. A dance lesson with Buffy Lewis in basics of two-step and waltz as part of the program from 6-7pm. Info: 914-907-4928. 6PM-8PM Opening Reception: Trio. An exhibition of work by Diane Bauer, Marie Cole and Susan Picard. Exhibits through 6/22. Info: www. tivoliartistsgallery.com or 758-5292. Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway, Tivoli. 6:30PM Fundraiser for The Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Slueth’s Comedy Murder Mystery Dinner. Reservations strongly recommended. Info: 246-0900 or www.Birdonacliff. org. New World Home Cooking, 1411 Rte 212, Saugerties. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Jeff Pitchell & “Neville Brother”, Charles Neville with Texas Flood! Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 7PM History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War. Presented by Vernon Benjamin. Info: 246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free. 7PM “Flowers in the Desert.” A comedy/drama revealing love in many guises, by upstate New York playwright Donna Hoke. Info: 586-1660 or www.theopeneye.org. Open Eye Theater, 960 Main St, Margaretville, $18, $15 7PM Paul Green Best of Season. Info: 679-4406 Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Woodstock, $50, $35, $25. 7PM James Braly. The Monthly Nut, A New (Darkly) Comic Monologue by James Braly. Info: 518-588-1850. Cafe Le Perche, 230 Warren St, Hudson, $20. 7PM Bucky Pizzarelli. The evening begins with an art show and reception, featuring Bucky’s original paintings, followed by a live musical performance with Bucky Pizzarelli and guest guitarist and vocalist Ed Laub. Info: 784-1199. Lobby at the Ritz Theater, 107 Broadway, Newburgh. 7PM Vernon Benjamin presents History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War. Info: 246-5775. Inquiring Mind. Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties. 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. 7:30PM-10PM Saturday Night Live Music: Big Joe Fitz & the Lo-Fi’s. $5 donations to musicians recommended. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles. com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student. 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM Fifth Saturday Contra Dance. Admission $10/5 full time students. Jeff Walker calling, with The Walker Family Band. Info, www.hudsonvalleydance.org/ or: 473-7050St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church,55 Wilbur Blvd,Poughkeepsie. 7:30PM Uniplayers. An evening of theatrical entertainment. Presenting several original short

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Rhinebeck( 6/6-6/8)! Three days of cooking, crafting, DIY demonstrations, editor and design expert appearances, aswell as locally-sourced, artisanal food, shopping - featuring more than 200 vendors offering antiques, gifts, home décor& jewelry. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck, $13 / adv, $40 /3-day pass, $20 /door. Info: 866-500-FAIR & www.stellashows.com or www.countryliving.com/fair. Call for Submissions: 2014 NEWvember New Plays Festival. Deadline 6/30. Info: www.newvemberfestival. com or www.www.tangent-arts.org. Carpenter Shop Theater, 60 Broadway, Tivoli. Register Now. ‘Handshake Across the Hudson’ (6/1). 3rd Annual World Record attempt. Seeking 3, 000 participants. A fundraising event. Register at: www.walkway.org The Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie, $10 /adult, $5 /6-12. Intimate Works on Paper (5/30, 6pm). Featuring a trendy group show of Artists’ Books & Prints, from the shelf to the wall, now on view through June 22. Pre-register for a special Art of Bookbinding workshop on Sunday, June 8th. Details at www.IntimaGallery.com or 917-412-4134. Intima Gallery, 196 Main St, Saugerties. Reserve Now! 8th Annual Tour of

Homes in the Town of Catskill. Held 6/7 from 10a-4pm. Proceeds from the sale of the tour tickets support the Greene County Historical Society, Bronck Museum and Vedder Research Library. Info:518-731-1033 or www. gchistory.org. Kiskatom Reformed Church, Rte 32, Palenville, $20. Register Now! High Meadow School Classes: Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 12 with Pablo Shine teaching Beginning Drawing, Monday classes from 6- 8:30 with Joe O’Reilly on Bookbinding and Handmade Books and Wayne Montecalvo is teaching a class Painting on Glass on Wednesdays, June 18, 25 and Thursdays June 19, 26 from 6-9:30. We are hoping these new times and configurations may meet some of your needs. Info: 687-4855. Register Now! SummerDance on Tour (July 28 -August 17). Expose children to the wonderful world of dance. Tuition: $850. Info: 256-9300, vcoffice@vanavercaravan.org, or www. vanavercaravan.org. Stone Ridge. Register Now! CaravanKids Summer Workshop (July 21-25). Expose children to the wonderful world of dance. Cost $225 half day 9am– 12:pm, $350 full day 9am– 3pm. Info: 256-9300, vcoffice@vanavercaravan.org, or www.vanavercaravan.org. Stone Ridge.

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Dance party Colony Café hosts deejay-fest this Saturday to benefit Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary

love a great deejay – the sort who not only gets you out onto a dance floor, but then also somehow keeps you there for hours, in some other zone, until he or she has to take a break and you suddenly find yourself in a mass of similarly drenched people, none of whom you came to the floor with to start. Deejaying is an artform. I’ll never forget the thrill that I got reading Tony Fletcher’s book about the New York music scene, All Hopped up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77, and its uncovering of the roots of discotheque music in a wild variety of sonic streams, including one that led back to the Catskills. Or even better, the thrill that my feet and entire system got when Fletcher deejayed a fundraising party that I put on for a nascent radio station, where he now hosts a show weekly. Fletcher, a rock writer and local school board member, made his living as a deejay downtown in New York City during the vibrant late 1980s and early 1990s, mixing his teenage love of early power-pop and neo-punk with a deep appreciation of all that hip-hop was then letting loose on the world. In the end, it ended up holding its own corner of the New York nightlife of its day, via Fletcher’s Communion night at Limelight. When he runs his boards, what results is consistently as exciting as Tony Fletcher is excited, dancing along with his beat-heavy-yet-literately-hybrid sets. For anyone who has seen the Catskill 45s, the oldies band of which Fletcher is a part, think in terms of that entity’s danceability and fun, plus loads more beat and bass. This Saturday night, May 31, Fletcher brings his deejaying acumen to a special benefit dance party for the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary at the recently renewed Colony Café in Woodstock. Talk about as perfect an upstate dance room as the Limelight, a former church, was for Chelsea during its day! Filling out the deejaying duties for the evening will be McCutcheon, young Steampunk Jack Warren and Fletcher’s lovely and truly hip partner, Posie Strenz, providing even more variety with danceable indie tunes, electronica with funk, disco, ska and more. – Paul Smart Woodstock Dance Party with Tony Fletcher to benefit Woodstock Animal Sanctuary, Saturday, May 31, 8 p.m., 21+ after 11 p.m., $10 advance/$15 at door, Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock; http://woodstocksanctuary. org/2014/04/woodstock-dance-party.

plays, poetry and music. Also, a dessert buffet and silent auction at intermission. Info: 471-6580. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of of Poughkeepsie,67 South Randolph Ave, Poughkeepsie, $8/per car. 7:30PM NYCA presents Peter Pan. Info: 679-6900 or www.woodstockplayhouse.org. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $21 / adults, $18 /srs & students. 8PM Meet the Producer: Josh Del Sol . Stop Smart Meters. Admisssion $10. Info: mtviewstudio@gmail.com or 679-0901 or stopsmartmeterswoodstockny.com. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock, free. 8PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tonynominated play. This tale explores the troubles of

a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8PM Noises Off. Michael Frayn’s funny revelation of what can happen on the other side of the curtain. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, $24, $22. 8PM Annual Student Dance Concert. Tickets at the door: $12 adults/$6 kids & teens (free 3 years & under).Tickets at the door: $12 adults/$6 kids & teens (free 3 years & under)Tickets at the door: $12 adults/$6 kids & teens (free 3 years & under) SUNY New Paltz, McKenna Theatre, New Paltz. 8PM-2AM DJ Dance Event featuring DJs Tony

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CAJUN DANCE PARTY IN BEACON TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SLOOP WOODY RESTORATION

ou may have seen the word “krewe” used by rappers to indicate their bands and/or entourages, but the term’s deep roots come out of the Mardi Gras tradition. In New Orleans, a krewe is one of the neighborhood social clubs that sponsor floats and extravagantly costumed marching bands in the Crescent City’s many parades and festivals that run throughout the year – not just on the eve of Lent. Krewes often serve some sort of community organizing or philanthropic purpose as well. So it makes perfect sense that a Hudson Valley-based Cajun band – spawned at the knee of the great Dewey Balfa and Steve Riley at past Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camps – should call itself the Krewe de la Rue. It’s even more appropriate that said group should be donating its services to raise money toward the Beacon Sloop Club’s efforts to restore the good ship Woody Guthrie. The Club recently passed the halfway point in its fundraising campaign, with $168,000 already in the coffers and a total goal of $300,000. Consisting of Roger Weiss on fiddle, Buffy Lewis on guitar, Laren Droll on accordion, Maggie McManus on tee-fer, Gary Graeff on bass and June Drucker on drums, Krewe de la Rue will perform live on Saturday, May 31 from 6 to 10 p.m. at St. Luke’s Church in Beacon. The event is a dance as well as a concert, with Lewis kicking off the evening with a lesson in the basic Cajun two-step and waltz. Gumbo, jambalaya and other Big Easy refreshments will be available for purchase at the dance, and all tickets purchased in advance will entitle the bearer to a free beverage of choice. Admission costs $20, with tickets available online at http://woodysloop.brownpapertickets.com. St. Luke’s is located at 850 Wolcott Avenue in Beacon. For more information call (914) 907-4928 or visit www.beaconsloopclub.org. – Frances Marion Platt Cajun dance party with Krewe de la Rue, fundraiser for Woody Guthrie restoration, Saturday, May 31, 6-10 p.m., $20, St. Luke’s Church, 850 Wolcott Avenue, Beacon; (914) 907-4928, www.beaconsloopclub.org.

Fletcher, McCutcheon, Jack Warren and Posie Strenz. Benefit for the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. After 11PM 21& over. Info:www.woodstocksanctuary.org. The Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, 679-5342. 8PM Work o’ The Weavers: A Tribute to Lee Hayes & Pete Seeger. Info: 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $28. 8PM “A Performance Unwritten” An event featuring musicians, visual artists, poets and others collaborating and composing in the moment – working together and influencing each other to create a performance never beforeenvisioned. Info: 687 8707 or www.impetus.mfbiz. com. MaMA Arts, 3588 Main St, Stone Ridge. 9PM The Bush Brothers. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. High Falls Cafe, Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls. 9PM Steve Black. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing. com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 9PM Feast of Friends, a Musical Tribute to The Doors. Info: 246-7417. Mirabella’s Restaurant, 123 Partition St, Saugerties. 9PM Blue Food. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 80 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Wonder Lake – Patterson, NY - 6+ miles – Moderate Hike. Leader: Tom Buckley; TrailHikerTom@gmail.com. Email leader for directions and meeting time. Info: www.midhudsonadk.org. 7AM-11AM Glasco Fire Dept Monthly Breakfast. No reservations needed. Glasco Fire Dept, 138 Liberty St, Glasco, $8, $6 /senior, $6 /age 12 & under. 8AM-3PM Beacon Flea Market. More than 50 regular and one-time vendors sell a variety of items. Info: www.beaconflea.blogspot.com or 202-0094. Henry Street parking lot, Beacon. 8AM Kerhonkson Fire Company Annual Golf Tournament. 8 am- Breakfast, 9 am -Tee Off. Rondout Country Club, 10 Bank St, Accord. 9AM SPARC’s 15th Annual Stewart State Forest Bike Tour. Info: sparc@frontiernet.net or www. stewartstateforestbiketour.com. Stewart State Forest, Weed Rd Entrance, Rock Tavern, $40, $15 /14 & under, free /7 & under. 9AM Object de Junque..... Vintage items, jewelry,

clothing, organic veggies - something for everyone! Woodstock Flea Market, Maple Ln, Woodstock, 679-6744. 9:30AM Handshake Across the Hudson Walkway’s 3rd Annual World Record Event. Let’s break the record for longest handshake relay! Info: www.walkway.org. Walkway Across the Hudson, Highland, $10, $5 /6-12. 9:30AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Sam’s Point to Minnewaska. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. Moderate to strenuous, 12-mile hike led by Roberta Forest (750-7059.) Info: 255-0919. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Lower Awosting Parking Lot, New Paltz, $8 /per car. 10AM Maritime Cup Regatta. Skippers Meeting 10 am, at Hudson River Maritime Museum. First flag 12 pm, club mark Hudson River. Info: KingstonSailingClub@gmail.com or www.KingstonSailingClub.org. Kingston Sailing Club, Kingston. 10AM-2PM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Joe Carozza Group. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 10AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Turtle Tales. Come learn about common turtle species and basic turtle biology. Meet some of the Museum’s native Turtles and discuss why these ancient reptiles are facing manychallenges to their existence. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506 x204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $7, $5 /child. 10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Sunday. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake. shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 10:30AM Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Canoe and Kayak on the Hudson. Must have experience. Leader: David Kaplan 876-4642. Participants must have a kayak at least 13’ long with either dual bulkheads or flotation & flotation & PFD. Info: www.midhudsonadk.org. Dutchman’s Harbor Park, Catskill. 11 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tours. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Every Saturday and Sunday, through October. Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. 11AM-5PM 25th Annual Old Fashioned Day. Food available at old fashioned prices. Full day of entertainment, games, demonstrations, displays, vendors, classic vehicles and firematic exercises. Info: 744-2827. Walker Valley Fire Company, 3697 Rt 52, Walker Valley. 11AM-11:30AM Experience the Presence of God’s Love Community HU Song. Regardless of your beliefs or religion, you can sing HU to open your heart to the warmth of God’s love. Followed by a Book Discussion Spiritual Wisdomon Health and Healing. Info: eckankar-ny.org or 800-6303546. 12PM-1PM Book Discussion Spiritual Wisdom on Health and Healing. Info: eckankar-ny.org or 800-630-3546.By Harold Klemp, 12 - 1pm. ECK, 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz. 12PM-2PM Opening Reception: Summer Arts Invitational. Aa juried art exhibit showcasing works reflecting a variation of style and medium. Exhibits through 6/29. Info: 679-2218 or www.wjcshul.org. Woodstock Jewish Congregation,Gallery Lev Shalem, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. 12PM Hudson Valley LGBTQ Pride March and Rally. “Celebrating a Decade of Change.” Info: 331-5300 or www.lgbtqcenter.org. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz. 1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12. 1PM-4PM Hudson Valley LGBTQ Pride March and Festival. Celebrate all afternoon with LGBTQ community members, allies, supporters, family and friends numbering in the thousands! Live music, great food, exciting vendors, activities for teens, kids and families. Info: 331-5300 or www. lgbtqcenter.org. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz. 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 National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Adapted from the award-winning novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. Info: www.themoviehouse.net or 518-789-0022. The Moviehouse, 48 Main St, Millerton, $20. 1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-7148 or rizka@hvc.rr.com. 2PM “Remembering Eugene Speicher.” Hudson Valley natives who knew Eugene Speicher as an esteemed painter and a pillar of the Woodstock art colony will recall stories of Speicher and bring to life a man who was a prominent figure in his day but who has fallen into obscurity. Info: www. newpaltz.edu/museum. SUNY New Paltz, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz. 2PM The 8th Annual Belleﬁeld Design Lecture. Sitting Pretty: An Illustrated History of the Garden Seat by John Danzer of Munder-Skiles. Reception, Heirloom Plant Sale and Boutique to follow in the Garden at Bellefield. Info:www.

beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org. FDR Home and Presidential Library and Museum, Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center, 4079 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, $40. 2PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tonynominated play. This tale explores the troubles of a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 2PM NYCA presents Peter Pan. Info: 679-6900 or www.woodstockplayhouse.org. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $21 /adults, $18 /srs & students. 3PM Noises Off. Michael Frayn’s funny revelation of what can happen on the other side of the curtain. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, $24, $22 3PM “Flowers in the Desert.” A comedy/drama revealing love in many guises, by upstate New York playwright Donna Hoke. Info: 586-1660 or www.theopeneye.org. Open Eye Theater, 960 Main St, Margaretville, $18, $15 3PM-5PM New World Home Cooking Restaurant presents its 15th Monthly Art Show Opening Reception. All shows are curated by Lenny Kislin. For info call 679-8117. On exhibit will be the strongly color-accentuated paintings of two of our areas renowned abstract/realists Sara Harris and Peter Clapper and the seductivelyrendered landscapes of Prue See. New World Home Cooking, Rt 212, Saugerties. 3:30PM-4:30PM Handbell and Organ Concert. Concert to benefit 2 members of the handbell choir who will be attending the International Youth Festival sponsored by Atlantic Bridge held this summer in the Czech Republic. Free will offering. Info: 338-7722. Fair St. Reformed Church, 209 Fair St, Kingston. 4PM Author Event: David Soman, author of Three Bears in a Boat. Co-author and Illustrator of the bestselling ‘Ladybug Girl’ Series . This is the first picture book Soman has written and illustrated himself. Info: 876- 0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. 4PM-8PM Party-After-Pride. Live music by allwomen rock band Sister Funk, rocking grooves by Superior Sounds (featuring Prephab and DJ Ryan), and rooftop dancing by you. Info: 331-5300 or www.lgbtqcenter.org. Joe’s East West, Main St, New Paltz. 4PM Rails to the Catskills. New documentary film, by Tobe Carey. The story of the historic railroads that brought passengers to the northern and southern Catskill hotels and boarding houses and carried milk, lumber and and materials to market. Info: director@mths.org or 518-5896657.Mountain Cinema, Hunter. 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. Village of Woodstock. 6PM-8PM Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal. No auditions and sight reading not required. If you can carry a tune, the Mid-Hudson Valley’s LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly chorus needs you. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass—allvoices needed. Rehearsals every Sunday, 6-8pm. Info: rainbowchorus1@ gmail.com or 845-353-8348. LGBTQ, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 6PM Swing Dance Beginners Lesson. 6:30pm9pm to DJ’d music. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance. org or 454-2571. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, $10, $6 /fulltime student. 6:30 PM-9 PM Swing Dance to The Deane Machine. Dance to DJ’d music. Info: www. hudsonvalleydance.org or 454-2571. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, $10, $6 /fulltime student. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: World PeaceDay Beneﬁt for Chief Lookinghorse. Bethany & Rufus, Claudia Acuna, Trapps. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student. 8PM Marji Zintz. Info: 679-3484. 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 9AM-4PM Silk Aquatint with Julio Valdez. Workshop held June 2-4. Info: 679-2388 or www. woodstockschoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rt 212, Woodstock, $290, $30 /lab fee. 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, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9:30AM Settled and Serving in Place (SSIPKingston). Meets every Monday at 9:30am. A social self help group for Seniors who want to remain in their homes and community Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston.

28 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, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 11AM-5PM Amma Sri Karunamay. Individual Blessing. Doors:8:30am (sign-in by 1:30pm to assure there will be time for a blessing). Info: 679-4406 or www.bearsvilletheater.com. Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock. 11AM-12PM Senior Qigong with Zach Baker. Mondays, on-going. This class will not be held the second Monday of the month Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5. 11AM-6:30PM Shamanic Spirit Doctoring private sessions with Adam Kane. First Monday of every month. He connects with spirit helpers on behalf of a client through medicine songs, drum and rattle healing and laying on of hands, creating a balanced environment within the body so that true healing can happen. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $20. 12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting. Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333. 1PM-4PM ICONS - Writing Class (5/12-7/14). Meets on Mondays, 1-4pm. Info: www.iconwritingclasses.com. Woodstock Reformed Church, 16 Tinker St, Woodstock. 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. In addition to instruction, art supplies and periodic group exhibitions, the class offers friendship and camaraderie. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $2 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 3PM-7PM Bounce! Trampoline Sports Family Time. Mondays. Special price of $35 which will include one hour of jump time for five immediate family members. Each additional family member $7/hour. Reservations must be made in advance. Info: www.bounceonit.com or 206-4555. Bounce! Trampoline Sports, 2 Neptune Rd, Poughkeepsie. 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, Glenford. 5:30PM-6:30PM Qigong with Zach Baker. Mondays, on-going. This class will not be held the second Monday of the month Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5. 6PM-6:30PM Free Open Meditation. Meets Mon-Fri, 6-6:30pm. No particular tradition or practice. Not a ‘class’. All are welcome. Just a time to join with others to meditate together. Interfaith Awakening (the little yellow house), 9 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 7PM Hudson Valley Railroad Society Hobby Night. Meets the 1st Monday of each month at 7pm. Featuring slot cars, model trains, models & airbursh. Info: www.hydeparkstation.com or 229-2338. Hyde Park Train Station Museum, Hyde Park. 7PM Old Chatham Quaker Meeting: “Girl Rising.” Viewers get to know nine unforgetta-

legals LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY on Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 3:00 PM for Cold Planing Road Services, BID #RFB-2014-00000003. 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 Ulster County Area Transit (UCAT) hereby announces a proposed overall goal of 0.84% for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation in DOT-assisted contracts receiving Federal financial assistance for the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2015-2017. Information on the UCAT DBE Procedure and the proposed overall goal is available at ulstercountyny.gov/ ucat/procurement. It is also available for public review from Monday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for 30 days following the date of this notice at Ulster County Area Transit, 1 Danny Circle, Kingston, NY 12401, (845) 340-3333. Written comments will be accepted at the above address for 45 days from the date of this notice. A Public Meeting will be held on Wednesday June 11, 2014 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Ulster County Transit Center, 1 Danny Circle, Kingston, NY 12401. LEGAL NOTICE BRIDGE CLOSING ULSTER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Ulster County Bridge #74, Hurley Bridge located on Wynkoop Lane crossing the Esopus Creek in the Town of Hurley will be closed to all traffic beginning Monday June 2, 2014 to facilitate the removal and replacement of this bridge. Traffic may use Wynkoop Lane southeast 0.13 miles to NYS Route 209, NYS Route 209 northeast 2.25 miles to NYS Route 28, NYS Route 28 northwest 0.70 miles to Hurley Mtn. Road, Hurley Mtn. Road southwest 2.40 miles to Wynkoop Lane, Wynkoop Lane southeast 0.53 miles to the bridge. By Order of David A. Sheeley, Commissioner of Public Works

ALMANAC WEEKLY ble girls living in the developing world: ordinary girls who confront tremendous challenges and overcome nearly impossible odds to pursue their dreams. Info: 518-766-2992 or www.oldchathamquakers.org. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, free. 7PM Author Event: Laurel Corona, author of The Mapmaker’s Daughter. The Mapmaker’s Daughter is a sweeping novel of 15th-century Spain, that explores the forgotten women of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of the Sephardic community. Info: 338-4271. Temple Emanuel, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston. 7:30PM Setting the Record Straight Part II, more true tales of the early days of Rock and Roll, the second of a 2-part series by Anthony Musso. Sponsored by the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society. Free admission &refreshments. Info: 255-7742 or visit www.tolhps.org. Vineyard Commons, Theater/Meeting Room in Building 6, 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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7AM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Early Morning Birders. Designed for birding enthusiasts or those just looking to learn the basics, this series will offer various outings led by experienced birding volunteers and park naturalists. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Main Entrance, Gardiner. 8AM-6PM Amma Sri Karunamay. Silent Meditation. Instruction in meditation, yoga, chanting, Amma’s divine discourse. Vegetarian lunch provided. Info: 679-4406 or www.bearsvilletheater.com. Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker St, Bearsville. 9AM-10AM Senior 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 requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City 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. 9:30AM Serving and Staying in Place. SSIP/ New Paltz. Regular Tuesday social breakfast meeting for seniors who want to remain in their own home and community. Info: 255-5970. Plaza Diner, New Paltz. 9:30AM Serving and Staying in Place, SSIP/ New Paltz. Regular Tuesday social breakfast meeting for seniors who want to remain in their own home and community. Info: 255-5970. Plaza Diner, New Paltz. 10AM-11:30AM Parkinsons Exercise Class w/ Anne Olin. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston, 679-6250. 10AM-8PM Kingston Library Annual Budget Vote and Trustee Election. All persons registered to vote in the City of Kingston can participate. Kingston Library, Community Room, Kingston. 10:30 AM -12:00 PM Shavuot/Tikkun L’eil Shavuot Study. Dr. Paul Cooper will be giving the teaching on the Book of Ruth titled “Ruth: a Tale That Spans the Ages” with participation from Rabbi Yael Romer. Info: 338-4271. Temple Emanuel, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston. 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-12PM Bounce! Trampoline Sports Special Toddler Time. This separate time gives parents and caregivers a chance to play with their little ones, ages 2 – 5, in a quieter setting. Reservations must be made in advance. Info: www.bounceonit. com or 206-4555. Bounce! Trampoline Sports, 2 Neptune Rd, Poughkeepsie, $10 /parent/child/ hour, $8 /additional child/hr. 12PM-6PM Spirit Guide Readings with psychic medium Adam Bernstein. First Tuesday of every month. Receive intuitive guidance and receive messages from spirit guides and deceased loved ones and benefit from thewisdom they have to offer. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /1 hour, $40 /half hour. 1PM Petite Picasso Preschool Art Program. Info: 758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org. Red Hook Library, 7444 South Broadway, Red Hook. 5:30PM-7:30PM New Paltz Chamber After Hours Mixer. RSVP: 255-0243. Gadaleto’s, 246 Main St, New Paltz, $10. 5:30PM Phoenicia Community Choir. Prepare choral music for concerts as well as singing with the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. No auditions, no need to read music, give it a try! Info: 688 5759. Wesleyan Church, Main St, Phoenicia. 6PM-7:15PM Mohonk Preserve – Evening Yoga at the Pavilion. The series will focus on Vinyasa Yoga for beginner and intermediate students. Sign up for individual classes, any 9 classes, or the full series. Bring your own mat and water. Rain or Shine. Ages 12 and up. Reservations are required. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, $180 /18 classes, $95 /9 classes, $12 /per class. 6PM-9PM Cosmos and Cupcakes. Info: info@ milesofhope.org. Anthony’s Pier 9, New Windsor. 6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7. Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or

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www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake , 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 7PM-8:30PM Singing Just for Fun! New Paltz Community Singers. Everyone welcome, everyone gets to choose songs. Going 20+ years. Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Info: genecotton@gmail. com. Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, New Paltz. 7PM Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. High Falls Cafe, Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls. 7PM-10PM Jazz Jam. Every Tuesday, 7-10pm. 452-3232. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie. 7 PM-9 PM Open Mic. On-going, Tuesdays, 7-9pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 246-5775. 7PM Women’s Barbershop Chorus Open House. Do you love to sing, perform and meet new people? Receive free vocal / singing lessons. Experience the joy of 4 part a capella harmony. Info: evergreenchorus1@yahoo.com. St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 110 Overlook Rd, 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. 7PM-8PM Alateen Meeting. Alateen is for kids affected by someone else’s drinking. Open to ages 7-19. 2 Certified New York State Alateen Sponsors. Info: 594-2864 or www.alanon.alateen.org. Overlook United Methodist Church, Woodstock. 7PM QSY Society Amateur Radio Club Meeting. This month’s topic is Field Day. Info: n2skp@arrl. net or www.qsysociety.org. East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Rt 376, Hopewell Junction. 7:30 PM -9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions On-going on Tuesday and Thursdays. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes. 7:30 PM Palestine Stories Presentation: Freedom Bus by Ben Rivers, co-founder of the Freedom Bus, will speak about The Freedom Theatre’s use of Playback Theatre and cultural activism within the broaderpopular struggle movement.Performers from Hudson River Playback Theatre will be on hand to reflect audience responses.Info:informationplaybacktheatre@ earthlink.net. Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz. 8PM The Gold Hope Duo. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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5:15 AM-6:15 AM Shavuot Sunrise Service. Followed by a community breakfast at 6:30am at a nearby home in Kingston. A moving, spiritual prayer experience with Festival Torah reading on the shores of the Hudson. Info: 338-4271. 9:15AM-10:15AM Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. Gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation.Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9:30 AM-1 PM Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Illinois Mountain (a Scenic Hudson Park). Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate, 3+ mile hike. Info: 255-0919. Berean Park, Reservoir Rd, Highland, $12. 10:30AM Plumﬂower Story Time! It’s a magical, sing-song, story, art making celebration for Toddlers every Wednesday. Info: 679-2213. Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. 11:30AM-12:30PM Lunch & Learn Series: What Chair Yoga Can Do for You. Toni Farkas, Yoga Teacher. Info: 471-0430. Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 S. Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie, $5 /lunch. 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. 12PM-6PM Soul Listening private channeled guidance with celestial channel Kate Loye. First Wednesday of every month. Kate channels her divine presence, the archangels, earth mothers and ascended masters directly to you as your soul’s voice is deeply listened to, heard and accepted. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /one hour, $40 /half hour. 1 PM Kingston Community Singers Open Rehearsals. Old Dutch Church, Wall St, Kingston, 339-0637. 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. 6PM Woodstock Community Chorale. Prepare choral music for concerts as well as singing with the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. No auditions, no need to read music. Info: 688-5759. KleinertJames, Tinker St, Woodstock. 6:30PM Spanish Storytime. On-going every Wednesday at 6:30pm. Led by Stephanie Santos. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary. org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. 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. 7 PM-8 PM Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka, certified hypnotist. Sponsored by the Health Alliance. Open to the community. 1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm, through December. 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. 7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission-no dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 7PM RCS Live from Stratford Upon Avon: Richard II. Play by William Shakespeare. Info: 518-789-0022 or www.themoviehouse.net. The Moviehouse, 48 Main St, Millerton, $20. 7:30 PM The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. Meets every Wednesday night, 7:30pm. An evening of singing, fun & fellowship.A male a cappella group that sings in the American “Barbershop Style”of close fourpart harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight reading not required. Info: wwwnewyorkerschorus.org. St. Andrews Church, 110 Overlook St, Poughkeepsie. 8PM Open Mic Nite Join host Ben Rounds and take your shot at becoming the next Catskills Singing Sensation! No cover. Tuesday is also Burger Night at the Cat – only $8. Info: 688-2444 or www.emersonresort.com. Catamount Restaurant, Mt. Tremper. 8PM Old Dawg z Band . Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484. 8:30PM Open Mic Blues Jam hosted by Petey Hop. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 8:30PM-11PM Live at Catskill Mountain Pizza Company: Acoustic Jazz Trio with Syracuse/ Siegel Duo + Special Featured Guest. Featuring Bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel. No cover or minimum! Info: 679-7969.

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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-4PM Simplifying the Landscape with Kate McGloughlin Workshop held 4 Thursdays, June 5-26. Info: 679-2388 or www.woodstockschoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rt 212, Woodstock, $370. 9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz. 9 AM-4 PM Outdoor Country Flea Market. Bargains Galore! Info: 758-2843. Annex Antiques Center, 7578 No. Bdwy, Red Hook. 9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After Fifty with Diane Collelo. Three-part class offering movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 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. 12 PM -6 PM Raindrop Technique Healing Sessions with Donna Carroll. First Thursday of every month. By appointment. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /one hour. 1PM-3PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Homeschoolers- Trees and Papermaking. Children will make their own hand-made paper by recycling used paper. Recommended for ages 6 to 10. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner. 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, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 6:30PM Astronomy Nights. The free program begins with an indoor planetarium show. After the show, Smolen Observatory will be open for telescope viewing if the sky is clear. Info: www. newpaltz.edu/planetarium/shows.html. Onlineres reqr’d. SUNY New Paltz, Coykendall Science Building, John R. Kirk Planetarium, New Paltz, free. 7PM Joanna Rakoff - My Salinger Year. In the book, Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright, hungry young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. Info: 876-0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. 7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley. No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Mr. Gone. Opening:

Attila. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon. com. The Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 7 PM Cafe Singer Showcase with Barbara Dempsey and Dewitt Nelson featuring Maureen and Don Black, Bart Thrall, Ian Bennett, and DeWitt Nelson, and Dave Kearny. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls. 7:15PM Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds. Feature length documentary. Q&A with filmmaker Sean Kaminsky and Ken Greene from the Hudson Valley Seed Library (who is featured in the film). Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org. 7:30 PM -9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions On-going on Tuesday and Thursdays. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student. 8PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tonynominated play. This tale explores the troubles of a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8:30PM Astronomy Night. Begins with an indoor planetarium show. . After the show, Smolen Observatory will be open for telescope viewing if the sky is clear. Info: www.newpaltz.edu/planetarium/shows.html. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch and Bill Keith. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Country Living Fair Coming to Rhinebeck( 6/6-6/8)! Three days of cooking, crafting, DIY demonstrations, editor and design expert appearances, as well as locally-sourced, artisanal food, shopping - featuring more than 200 vendors offering antiques, gifts, home décor& jewelry. Info: 866-500-FAIR & www.stellashows.com or www.countryliving.com/fair. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck, $13 /adv, $40 /3-day pass, $20 /door. 10th Annual Mountain Jam. (6/5 -6/8) A fourday, multi-stage event, featuring approximately 40 bands on 3 stages in one of the Northeast’s most pristine natural amphitheaters. Info: 679-7600 x 33 or www.mountainjam.com. Hunter 8AM O. C. Audubon Birding Field Trip. Leader: Lynn lbarber7@juno.com or 744-6047. Info: www.orangecountynyaudubon.com Shawangunk Grassland NWR, Hoagerburg Rd, Wallkill. 8:30 AM-12 PM Panel Discussion on Elder Abuse. Continental Breakfast Served. RSVP. Info: 338-2980. Wiltwyck Golf Club, 404 Steward Ln, Kingston. 9 AM-4 PM Outdoor Country Flea Market. Bargains Galore! Info: 758-2843. Annex Antiques Center, 7578 No. Bdwy, Red Hook. 9:45AM-10:45AM Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10AM-5PM Country Living Fair. Antique appraisals, seminars, demonstrations and a chance to meet and greet the editors of the Country Living Magazine. Over 200 vendors. Rain or Shine. Info: www.stellashows.com. $13/adv, $20/door, $40 3-day pass. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck. 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 Private Angelic Channeling with Margaret Doner. Recover memories of past lives, a process that assists you in uncovering the arma and motivations that guide your present life in order to heal past wounds and better understand your life’s purpose. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $125 /90 minute session. 12:05PM-1:15PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 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. 4PM Knitting Club “Knit Wits.” Saugerties Public library, Washington Avenue, Saugerties, 246-4317 x 3. 4PM-7PM Gardiner Farmers’ Market. On-going every Friday, 4-7pm, thru October. Offering organically grown seasonal vegetables; Organic kimchi & veg pickle; Organic vegetable, herb & flowering plants; Organicfree range meats & eggs; Organic artisan breads, pastries, puffs & pierogies: Local jams, jellies & candies; Local honey & honey products; & Green Mtn. Energy. Rail Trail, Info: 484-553-4602, Gardiner. 6PM-9:30PM Offerings at White Crane Hall: Reiki I - 6/ 6, 6-9:30pm & 6/7, 12-3:30pm. $110 for both. Reiki is both a healing modality & a path to deeper awakening.Info:389-2431 michael@

whitecranehall.comwhitecranehall.com. White Crane Hall, (77 Cornell St. Kingston, Suite 116), Kingston. 6PM Temple Emanuel’s 160th Anniversary Celebration! An early Shabbat service beginning at 6pm, followed by a festive celebratory Oneg. Info: 338-4271. Temple Emanuel, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston. 6PM-6:30PM Free Open Meditation. Meets Mon-Fri, 6-6:30pm. No particular tradition or practice. Not a ‘class’. All are welcome. Just a time to join with others to meditate together. Interfaith Awakening (the little yellow house), 9 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 6PM “Deep Water.” The true story of the Ashokan Reservoir, the Schoharie Reservoir and the Ten Lost Towns at these locations. Info: 586-3225 or www.bluedeer.org. Blue Deer Center, 1153 County Road 6, Margaretville. 6:15PM Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner. Kosher dairy or parve please. Followed by services at 7:30p.m. The Kerhonkson Synagogue, 26 Minnewaska Trail, Ellenville, 626-2010. 7PM-9PM Tibetan Shamanic Techniques for Rekindling Personal Power with shamanic healer Adam Kane. Tibetan tradition to call back and accumulate vital life energy and personal power that you may havegiven away or let other stifle. Create protective bands of energy to hold on to personal power. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $20. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Scott Sharrard and the Brickyard Band. Opening: Becki Brindle. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The

Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 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, 7PM-9PM 1st Fridays: Star Nation Sacred Circle. A positive, not for skeptics, discussion group for experiencers of the paranormal. Open to all dreamers, contactees, abductees, ET Ambassadors. Info: www.SymbolicStudies.org. Center for Symbolic Studies,475 River Rd Ext, Tillson. 7PM-8:30PM Films of Palestine Series: “The Other Son.” A tale of two young men - one Israeli, the other Palestinian - who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families. Info: www.mideastcrisis.org. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student. 8PM Noises Off. Michael Frayn’s funny revelation of what can happen on the other side of the curtain. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, $24, $22. 8PM An Evening of Classical Vocals. Info: www. woodstockguild.org/treitler.html. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, $25. 8PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony-

nominated play. This tale explores the troubles of a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8PM Community Playback Theatre. Improvisations of audience stories. Info: 691-4118. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland, $10. 8:30PM Al Stewart. Special guest, Paul Guzzone of the Bacon Brothers Band. Info: 855-1300. The Towne Crier Café, 379 Main St, Beacon, $40. 9PM Mike LaFalce & The Chosen Adolescence. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

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8th Annual Tour of Homes in the Town of Catskill. Proceeds from the sale of the tour tickets support the Greene County Historical Society, Bronck Museum and Vedder Research Library. Info: 518-731-1033 or www.gchistory.org. 10th Annual Mountain Jam (6/5 -6/8). A four-day, multi-stage event, featuring approximately 40 bands on 3 stages. Info: 679-7600 x 33 or www.mountainjam.com. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Hike/Conservation – John Burroughs’ Nature Sanctuary, Slabsides Day. Leader: Sayi Nulu (264-2270); sayileela@gmail.com. Contact leader

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for meeting place and time. Info:www.johnburroughsassociation.org.John Burroughs’ Nature Sanctuary, Esopus. The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. Self-guided tours of three private gardens in Claverack, Copake Falls, Greenport, and Hudson, NY, hours vary. No reservations required; rain or shine. Info: www.opendaysprogram.org. 7AM 8th Annual Safe Harbors Off-Broadway 5K and the inaugural HVRuns Newburgh Half Marathon. $35 for 5K Run and Walk. $10 for Students. Kids Fun Run - free. $50 for Half Marathon. Race begins at 9 am. Info: 562-6940. 7:30AM 20th Annual Turtle Walk. Seeking Snappers at Boscobel. Members of the Constitution Marsh staff will be on hand to discuss the habits and history of these living fossils and to introduce live specimens to the audience. RSVP. Info: 265-3638 x115 or www.Boscobel.org. Boscobel, 1601 New York 9D, Garrison, $12, $8 /6-12, free /under 6. 8AM Bus Trip: Fourth Annual Shore Fest Orchid Festival. Bus returns 6:30 pm. Info: www.mhos.us.com or elisabeth@mansfieldcommercial.com. Newburgh Mall, behind Sears, Newburgh, $40. 8AM-4:30PM Emergency Responder Leadership Academy - Evolving Emergency Service Roles and Agency Preparedness for Future Challenges. An educational forum for the leadership of our region’s emergency services to discuss how delivery of Emergency Medical Services is changing. Info: www.chahec.org/events. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Henry A. Wallace Center, 4079 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 8:30AM-10:30AM Birding by Ear. Learn or hone your birding skills in Black Rock Forest. RSVP at ecunninham@blackrockforest.org or 534-4517. $10/pp. Black Rock Forest Consortium, 65 Reservoir Rd, Cornwall. 9AM Object de Junque..... Vintage items, jewelry, clothing, organic veggies - something for everyone! Woodstock Flea Market, Maple Ln, Woodstock, 679-6744. 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. 9 AM Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties. 9 AM-4 PM Outdoor Country Flea Market. Bargains Galore! Info: 758-2843. Annex Antiques Center, 7578 No. Bdwy, Red Hook. 9AM-2PM Barn Sale. Rain or shine. Furniture, art work, household items, glassware and clothing boutique. Hurley Museum, 52 Main St, Hurley. 9:30AM-4PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Mini Gertrude’s Nose Hike. Approx 7 mile hike with challenging terrain. Come prepared with appropriate footwear and enough food and water. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner, $8 /per car. 10AM-5PM Country Living Fair. Antique appraisals, seminars, demonstrations and a chance to meet and greet the editors of the Country Living

Magazine. Over 200 vendors. Rain or Shine. Info: www.stellashows.com. $13/adv, $20/door, $40 3-day pass. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck. 10AM-2PM Saugerties’ Farmers Market. Offering fruits & vegetables, greens, herbs, asparagus, apples, pastured meats &poultry, eggs, freshcaught fish, local cheeses, baked goods (bread and pastries, including gluten-free), jams & pickles, & artisanal foods. 115 Main St. Parking Lot - Across from Cahill School, Saugerties. 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. 10AM-2PM Fashion Design Gallery. Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center’s Fashion Design and Merchandising students will host it. LGBTQ Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 10AM-12PM Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main Street, Stone Ridge, 687-7023. 10AM-3PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Rainbow Falls. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate, 7-mile hike led by Art Raphael (255-5367). Info: 255-0919. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Gardiner. 10AM-4PM Annual Mineral, Gem, Jewelry, and Fossil Show, Swap and Sell There will be national and local dealers. On Display will be the most complete Mastodon found in New York State. Extensive local Mineral Display, new Fluorescent Mineral Display. Info: www.orangecountymineralsocietynewyork.com or 683-1167. Museum Village, 1010 Rt. 17M, Monroe, $5, $3 /senior/child. 10AM Country Living Fair Coming to Rhinebeck( 6/6-6/8)! Three days of cooking, crafting, DIY demonstrations, editor and design expert appearances, as well as locally-sourced, artisanal food, shopping - featuring more than 200 vendors offering antiques, gifts, home décor& jewelry. Info: 866-500-FAIR & www.stellashows.com or www.countryliving.com/fair. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck, $13 /adv, $40 /3-day pass, $20 /door. 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 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tours. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Every Saturday and Sunday, through October. Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. 11AM-4PM Live Art Painting and Music. A demonstration of the Genie Collapsible Canvases will kick off our live painting event. Music by Chris Macchia. Info: 332-8118. Water Street Market, New Paltz, free. 11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. A shelter for over 300 pigs, goats, sheep, cows, chickens and more. Meet the animals, hear their heartwarming stories and walk away with a deeper understanding of who they are. Tours every Sat & Sun - 11:30am, 1:15pm, 3pm. $10 / adults, $5/ kids 12 & under. Info: www.WoodstockSanctuary.org or 679-5955. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow. 12PM-5PM 3rd Annual Retro Rally Car & Motor-

cycle Show (Rain Dat: Sat. 6/21) Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones and The Pleasers! Come dressed in your best Retro fashions. Submit a vintage Car into the show: $10 before 5/30, $15 after. Info: www.cornellstreetstudios.com or 331-019 Cornell Street Studios, 168 Cornell St, Kingston, $15 /car. 1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12. 1PM 1658 Stockade National Historic District Walking Tour- Narrated walk through New York’s largest intact early Dutch settlement and neighborhood where the state was born in 1777. Includes tour of c.1812 Johnston House interior. Info: www.fohk.org or 339-0720. Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main Sts, Kingston, $10, $5 /under 16. 1PM-4PM “Textures and Tastes of Africa.” African food, fashion, drumming, gospel music and raffle. Fund Raiser to support student scholarships for the University at Albany’s Summer Study Tours to Africa. Info: 266-3844. 2PM-4PM A Healing Journey through Shamanic Sound and Meditation with Adam Kane and Al Romao. Relax and Receive healing vibrations through shamanic doctoring, medicine songs, shamanic healing tools and various instruments which facilitate and carefully guide each participant in their own personal growth. Limited to 8. Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30. 2PM - 5PM Garden Party at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Free. Food and entertainment along with tours of the expansive gardens. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Free. 2578 Rt 212 in Woodstock. 3PM-5PM Book Signing: Michel Arnaud, author of Design Brooklyn. Info: tkhomeandgarden@ gmail.com. TK Home and Garden, 441 Warren St, Hudson. 3PM New Paltz School of Ballet Spring Ballet Recital: “Happily Ever After, ” featuring ballet and jazz dances by students age 3 through 18. Info: 255-0044. Wallkill Senior High School, Auditorium, 90 Robinson Dr, Wallkill, $15. 3PM-5PM Opening Reception: Instructors’ Exhibition. Exhibits through 7/12. Info: 679-2388 or www.woodstockschoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, Angeloch Gallery, 2470 Rte. 212, Woodstock. 4PM-7PM Opening Reception: Michael Kalish. Featuring his sculptures. A portion of sales proceeds from this evening will go to benefit the North East Community Center. Info: 518-5921330 or www.eckertfineart.com. Eckert Fine Art, 34 Main St, Millerton. 5PM-8PM Double Bill - Opening Reception: “Ups & Downs Series” a solo member show by Melita Greenleaf; and “Serenade” a Members show. Exhibit will show through 6/28. Info: 338-0331. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. 5PM-7PM Opening Reception: Shawn Dell Joyce, Pastel artist at Sycamore Farm and Lorraine Furey, Monroe Acrylic artist at Blooming Hill Farm. Exhibits through 6/30. Info: www. wallkillriverschool.com or 457-2787. Wallkill River School of Art,Patchett House,232 Ward St, Montgomery.

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May 29, 2014 5PM-8PM Opening Reception: Naoko Oshima, mixed media. Exhibits through 6//28. Info: 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. 5PM-8PM Fashion Design Gallery. Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center’s Fashion Design and Merchandising students will host it. LGBTQ Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 5PM-7PM Opening Reception: “Smoke Without Mirrors.” Works by Dennis Adams and Steve Derrickson. Info: www.kmoca.com. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts, 103 Abeel St, Kingston. 6PM-9:30PM Offerings at White Crane Hall: Reiki I - 6/ 6, 6-9:30pm & 6/7, 12-3:30pm. $110 for both. Reiki is both a healing modality & a path to deeper awakening.Info:389-2431 michael@ whitecranehall.comwhitecranehall.com. White Crane Hall, (77 Cornell St. Kingston, Suite 116), Kingston. 6 PM -8 PM Opening Reception: “Deeply Rooted.” Featuring Raymond J. Steiner, William P. Duffy and Patrick D. Milbourn. The show will focus on the interpretive process and individual expression that becomes a work of art. Exhibits through 7/6. Info: 518-943-2189. M Gallery, 350 Main St, Catskill. 6PM-8PM Open Mic-Featured Perfomer and Community Potluck. Open Mic/Song Share starts at 6:45pm. First featured performers will be David Kraai and Amy Laber. Info: 255-1255. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary. org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers Turnpike, Gardiner. 6PM-8PM Opening Reception- Topographies: Mapping History & Time. Featuring works by Kate Katomski & Joanne Lobotsky. Exhibits through 7/7. Info: 516-4435 or www.betsyjacarusoartist.com. The Courtyard, Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, 43 East Market St, Catskill. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: James Maddock Band. Opening: Dylan Doyle. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 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-11PM Country Hoe Down to Beneﬁt Center for Spectrum Services. Hosted by The Schatzel Family. A casual evening of dinner, drinks, and dancing to benefit the 2014 Playgrounds Project. Meet special guest, NY Giants Championship Punter, Sean Landeta. Silent Auction. RSVP. Info: www.centerforspectrumservices.org or Rebecca @ Rbekba@yahoo.com. Sojourner Truth/Ulster Landing Park, 916 Ulster Landing Rd, Saugerties, $35. 7PM Panel Event: : “The New Face of Fiction” with authors Emma Straub (The Vacationers), Owen King (Double Feature) & Kelly Braffet (Save Yourself ), moderated by Suzanna Hermans. Info: 876-0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. 7 PM Figures in Flight Dance Concert. Figures in Flight 4, a professional youth dance company made up of high school students from the Hudson Valley will be joined by Figures in Flight Released, a group of adult men whose dance training began through a rehabilitation program in prison. SUNY New Paltz, McKenna Theater, New Paltz, $15, $10 /student w/ID, $10 /12 & under. 7PM Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle Series: Concert 1: Menahem Pressler, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Michael Tree, viola; and Sharon Robinson, cello. Info: 339-7907 or hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com or hvcmc.org. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student. 7:30PM Temple Emanuel’s 160th Anniversary Celebration! Champagne/Cocktail/Hor D’ouerves reception. classical music and live and silent auction. Info: 338-4271. Temple Emanuel, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston. 7:30PM MTD4lyfe Beneﬁt Concert. Featuring Dave Holland - Kevin Eubanks - Nate Smith, Penamach, Bubby Lewis, Eddy Khaimovich trio and Gail Ann Dorsey. All proceeds will go to O+Festival and MusiCares. Info: 679-4406. 7:30PM BalletNext. Blurring the lines between classical and contemporary ballet. Info: www. kaatsbaan.org or 757-5106 x 2 or 10. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, $30, $10 student w/ID. 8PM John Abercrombie Trio. Info: www.rosendalecafe.com or 658-9048. Rosendale Café, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $15. 8PM Johnny Dell & The Night Life Band. Info: 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 8PM The Whippersnappers. Double fiddle harmony arrangements of Celtic airs, old time songs with fiddle, banjo and guitar sung in three part harmony. Info: 255-1559 or www.unisonarts. org. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz. 8PM Live Music. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 80 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 8PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tonynominated play. This tale explores the troubles of a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM Noises Off. Michael Frayn’s funny revelation of what can happen on the other side of the curtain. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, $24, $22. 8PM The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet. Directed by Tenzin Sonam and Ritu Sarin. With Introduction and talk by Hortsang Jigme, poet, and author of The Greater History of Amdo. Info: 383-1774. 8:30PM - 12:30AM Freestyle Frolic Outdoor Dance. $7-12/adults, $3-7/ kids, free/ volunteer. Rt 32, New Paltz, 658-8319.

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10th Annual Mountain Jam(6/5 -6/8). A fourday, multi-stage event, featuring approximately 40 bands on 3 stages in one of the Northeast’s most pristine natural amphitheaters. Info: 679-7600 x 33 or www.mountainjam.com. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. 8AM-3PM Beacon Flea Market More than 50 regular and one-time vendors sell a variety of items. Info: www.beaconflea.blogspot.com or 202-0094. Henry St parking lot, Beacon. 9:30 AM -2 PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Millbrook Mountain and Mountain Laurel. Participants should pack water and food and wear appropriate shoes. Pre-registration is required. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner, $8 /per car. 9:30AM-3:30PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Millbrook Ridge. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate, 8-mile hike led by Gary Curasi (5342885). Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Visitors Center, New Paltz. 10AM Country Living Fair Coming to Rhinebeck( 6/6-6/8)! Three days of cooking, crafting, DIY demonstrations, editor and design expert appearances, as well as locally-sourced, artisanal food, shopping - featuring more than 200 vendors offering antiques, gifts, home décor& jewelry. Info: 866-500-FAIR & www.stellashows. com or www.countryliving.com/fair.Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck, $13 /adv, $40 /3-day pass, $20 /door. 10AM-2PM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: The Saints of Swing, featuring Lumiri Tubo. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 10AM-12PM Leaf & Tree Identiﬁcation. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. Info: www. wildearth.org/adults/tracking-club. Park and Ride, North Chestnut/32 N, New Paltz, $15 / suggested donation. 10AM-4PM Annual Mineral, Gem, Jewelry, and Fossil Show, Swap and Sell There will be national and local dealers. On Display will be the most complete Mastodon found in New York State. Extensive local Mineral Display, new Fluorescent Mineral Display. Info: www.orangecountymineralsocietynewyork.com or 683-1167. Museum Village, 1010 Rt. 17M, Monroe, $5, $3 /senior/child. 10AM Kingston Sailing Club First Race. Skippers Meeting 10 am, at Hudson River Maritime Museum. First flag 12 pm, club mark Hudson River. Info: KingstonSailingClub@gmail.com or www.KingstonSailingClub.org. 10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Sunday. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video. Free and open to thepublic. 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. 11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. A shelter for over 300 pigs, goats, sheep, cows, chickens and more. Meet the animals, hear their heartwarming stories and walk away with a deeper understanding of who they are. Tours every Sat & Sun - 11:30am, 1:15pm, 3pm. $10 / adults, $5/ kids 12 & under. Info: www.WoodstockSanctuary.org or 679-5955. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow. 11AM-2:30PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tours. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Every Saturday and Sunday, through October. Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. 12PM-4PM 2nd Annual Kingston Community Block Party. Featuring live ethnic music, dance and comedy, along with multicultural handicrafts, children’s activities, food and drinks. Bring blankets or folding chairs. Info: www. rehercenter.org or 338-8131.T.R. Gallo West Strand Park, Kingston. 1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12. 1 PM -3 PM 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-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock

Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-7148 or rizka@hvc.rr.com. 1:30PM-3:30PM Mid-Hudson Orchid Society Meeting. Marc Hachadourian of The New York Botanical Garden will speak on “Extreme Orchids: From the Beautiful to the Bizarre - A Survey of Orchid Biodiversity.” Orchids will be available for purchase at the meeting. Info: 294-1000 or www.mhos.us.com. Union Presbyterian Church, 44 Balmville Rd, Newburgh. 2PM Sundays With Friends Chamber Music Series: Sheryl Staples, Violin, Cynthia Phelps, Viola, Eric Kim, Cello, Inon Barnatan, Piano. Info: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Event Gallery, Bethel. 2PM Good People. David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tonynominated play. This tale explores the troubles of a single mom struggling to make ends meet, and the fireworks that happen when she confronts a more fortunate old friend. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 2:30PM BalletNext. Blurring the lines between classical and contemporary ballet. Info: www. kaatsbaan.org or 757-5106 x 2 or 10. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, $30, $10 student w/ID. 3PM Noises Off. Michael Frayn’s funny revelation of what can happen on the other side of the

curtain. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, $24, $22. 3PM New Paltz School of Ballet Spring Ballet Recital: “Happily Ever After, ” featuring ballet and jazz dances by students age 3 through 18. Info: 255-0044. Wallkill Senior High School, Auditorium, 90 Robinson Dr, Wallkill, $15. 4 PM-6 PM 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. Village of Woodstock. 4PM Rails to the Catskills. New documentary film, by Tobe Carey. The story of the historic railroads that brought passengers to the northern and southern Catskill hotels and boarding houses and carried milk, lumber and materials to market. Info: director@mths.org or 518-5896657. Mountain Cinema, Hunter. 5 PM -8 PM Mohonk Consultations’ 2014 Distinguished Environmental Achievement Award. Honoring Arm-of-the-Sea Theater, its founders and artistic directors, Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden. A receptionwith hors d’oeuvres and wine. RSVP. Info: 256-2726 or mohonkconsultations@hvi.net. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, $35, $20 /student.

5PM-9PM “Songs For Our Elders: Benefit Dinner, Concert and Silent Auction”. Dinner will be served from 5-7pm. Wine and beer will be available through out theevening. The performances begin at 7pm. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. 6PM-8PM Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal. No auditions and sight reading not required. If you can carry a tune, the Mid-Hudson Valley’s LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly chorus needs you. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass—allvoices needed. Rehearsals every Sunday, 6-8pm. Info: rainbowchorus1@gmail.com or 845-353-8348. LGBTQ, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Taylor Eigsti and Friends. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, Route 9W, Marlboro. 7:30PM Clybourne Park. Play by Bruce Norris. Directed by Sande Shurin. Not recommended for children. Info: 679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $20, $15 /senior/student. 7:30PM-9:30PM Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity. Every 2nd and 4th Sunday. Guided by Amy McTear, Joseph Jastrab, Dahila Bartz Cabe & other musical guests. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

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for Adults.......................................................................... 255-2701 Addiction Support GroupSMART Recovery ................................. ….853-8247 Adult Anxiety Support Group (9/11 Anxiety) ....................... 339-9090, x171 Adult Children of Alcoholics Growing Together ........................... 331-6360 Adults With Aphasia Support Group............................................... 257-3600 AIDS Testing S.T.D. Clinic — Ulster County Health Department ..........................................................................................................340-3070 Al-Anon.................................................................................................688-5401 Al-Anon................................................................. 888-425-2666, or 339-5116 Al-Anon Parent Focus. ...................................................................... .658-9032 Alateen ............................... 633-0217 or 657-6226 or 336-8587 or 255-7125 Alcoholic Anonymous ....................................................................... 331-6360 Adaptive Equipment Support Group ................................................452-3913 Alzheimer’s Support Group (Hudson Vlly/Rockland/West) ......... 471-2655 Alzheimers Support Services .................. 518-438-2217 or (800) 272-3900 Amputee Support Group .................................................................... 331-0541 Artist Heart Support Group ...................................................... 203-246-5711 Asberger Adult Men’s Support Group............................................... 807-7147 Asthma Sensitive Committee Support Group .................................679-7430 Aphasia Support Group (New Paltz). ......................... 257-2677or 257-3600 Autism Workshops ......................................www.oautism.org, 800-661-1575 A.W.A.K.E., Sleep Apnea ....................................................................334-3126 Bariatric Surgery Support Group ..................................................... 679-2235 Bereaved Parents and Siblings ............................................................ 691-2111 Better Breathers Club..................................................483-6446 or 489-5005 Better Together for Survivors of Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Group .......................................................................................... 366-3500.ext 3105 Blind and Visually Impaired Support Group .......................................................(914) 993-5385 or (845) 565-1162 x232 Brain Injury Family & Survivors Support Groups ..................914-939-8166 Breast Cancer Options Support Groups meets at 10 diff. locations ..................... 339-HOPE (4673) Web site: www.breast cancer options.org Breast Cancer Survivor’s Support Group..............800-ACS-2345; 532-6622 Cancer Support Group .................................................483-6394 or 339-2071 Cardiac Support Group (Ulster County Mended Hearts, Chapter 193) ...........................................................................................................905-2132 Care Givers and Families Support Group ..........................338-2980, 473-2500, 483-6394, 340-3456 or 331-5300 Celiac Support Group........................... 483-0650 or 297-3328 or 236-3939 Hudson Valley Celiac Support Group .............................. www.hvceliac.com Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group ..................................... 331-0541 Chronic Pain Support Group (Mid-Hudson Valley) ......................255-0671 Crohn’s Disease & Ulcerative Colitis Support ................................................................. 336-6590, 331-7802 or 339-6169 Community Cancer Awareness Meeting ......................................... 236-1660 Compassionate Friends of Hudson Valley ......................................... 691-2111 Cooperative Parenting & Divorce: Shielding Your Children from Conflict ...........................................................................................................336-4747 Dealing with Difficult People, Stress in the Workplace Stress at Home ........................................................................................................... 255-7957 Death Café Circle of Friends? ..........................................................802-0970 Debtor’s Anonymous .................................................................. 888-344-1990 Depression & Bipolar Support Group...............473-2500 or 800-826-3632 Depression Anxiety Support Group .................................................. 331-0541 Diabetes Support Group (New Paltz) .............................................. 255-5094 Poughkeepsie ......................................................................................483-6066 Children – Poughkeepsie ..................................................... 454-8500 x72486 Divorce Care Recovery & Support Group ....................................... 382-2288 Divorce Support Group....................................................................... 255-2701 Divorce Support Group – Moving On..................................... 339-9090 x115 Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) ...............................................706-2183 Eating Disorder Support Group .............................................. 339-9090 x115 Eating Disorder Support Group .... 489-4732 or email: edsupport@line.co Father’s of Kids w/Developmental Disabilities or Delays ....336-7235, x128 Father’s Rights Group .........................................................................331-2662 Female Survivors of Sexual Violence................................................ 340-3213 Fibromyalgia Support Group ........................................................... 240-6470 Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous ...........................781-321-9118 or 518-465-8860 or www.foodaddicts.org Gluten-Free Outings Group ...............................................................255-0671 Grandparent Connection for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren ..........................................................................................................338-2980 HANDS (Hope After Neonatal Death through Sharing) ................. 483-6683 Hepetitis C Support Group ..........................................331-0541 or 331-6266 HIV Positive Women’s/ Men’s Support Groups ................................................................... 607-436-9554 or 800-976-2727 Homicide Survivors Support Group ..................................................452-1110 HOPE ......................................................................................................336-4747 Hospice Kids Group ........................................................................... 338-CARE Independent Living Skills Group ...................................................... 331-0541 Kids Connection .................................................................................. 334-3171 Kidology Support Group ...................................................................339-9090 LaLeche League Breast Feeding Support Group ...... 657-8795 or 657-6471 Lesbian Women with Breast Cancer and their partners .........518-877-4314 LGBTQ Men’s Group ............................................................................ 331-5300 Living with Cancer Support Group .................................................. 784-3514 Living w/Lymphedema Support ...................................................... 437-3036 Look Good, Feel Better. ............................................................. 800-ACS-2345 Lyme Disease Support Groups ............... 758-8187 or 876-1987 or705-2622

Managing Defiant Behavior ................................................... 473-2500 x309 Man-to-Man/Side-by-Side ........................................................ 800-ACS-2345 Maternal Infant Services (Orange,Sullivan & Ulster).................... 750-6265 Men’s Anger Management Support Group ........................... 339-9090 x115 Men’s Oncology Support .................................339-2071 or 338-2500 x4453, Mended Hearts Cardiac Support Group ................................. 845-905-2132 Mental Health Issues657-8314 or 339-9090x109 Mid-Hudson Crohn’s & Colitis...........................................................339-6169 Migraines (Frequent) ......................................................................... 688-2644 Mood Disorder Support Group ......................................................... 331-0541 Mom’s and Dad’s Support Group ..................................................... 334-4807 Mothers of Twins Club. ...................................................................... 679-6299 Multiple Sclerosis Support Group (Ulster County)......................... 331-0541 Moving On — Separation & Divorce Support Group for Women .............................................................................516-238-1282 or 679-2235 Multiple Sclerosis Support Group (Greene County) ..............518-678-3405 Nar-Anon (Support for the family of addicts) .................................679-0431 Nar-Anon Support Group (New Paltz Area) for families & friends of substance abusers ...........................................................................255-8801 Narcotics Anonymous ..........................................................................431-9011 New Baby, New Mom. ........................................................................255-3300 New Mother Baby Circle/Gentle Care Doula Service .....................255-6258 New Visions Group of Debtors Anonymous ....................................518-4560 Nicotine Anonymous.......................................................................... 687-7892 OCD Support Group ............................................................................ 473-2500 Oncology Family Support ................................................................... 334-3171 Ostomy Support .................... 338-2500 x4542 or 334-3125; 800-ACS-2345 Ovarian Cancer Support ...............................................334-3171 or 339-2071 Overeaters Anonymous .........................24 Hour Meeting Hotline 657-6603 www.MidHudsonOA.org Pain Management Support Group ................................................... 532-6622 Panic-Anxiety Group ...........................................................................331-4965 Parent Assistance: Managing Defiant Behavior Support Group ................................................................................................. 336-4747 x 131 Parents Helping Parents of Kids with Problems ............................ 336-4483 Parents of Children with ADD/ADHD ................................. 454-8500, x72486 Parents of Children with Diabetes....................................................454-8500 Parents of Children with Hematology/Oncology ............. 454-8500 x72486 Parents of Incarcerated Youth........................................................... 473-2500 Parents Together for A-D/HD...................................................336-4747, x134 Parkinson’s Support Group ................................................................255-0614 Parkinson’s (Young) Self-Help Group, Kingston Hospital ............ 895-9096 Peer Support Group for Youth Ages 11-18 ...................................... 473-2500 Perinatal Support Group ..................................... 876-3001 or 518-537-2400 Post Adoption Services ...........................................................457-5030 x3522 Postpartum Support Group Maternal Infant Services Network of Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties, Inc ............................................... 750-6265 Pregnancy Support Center ................................................................ 246-5445 Prison Families of Ulster County .......................................................338-5756 Prostate Cancer Support Group (Man to Man) ........................................... 338-9229 or 452-2932; 338-1805 or 338-1161 Raising Chilidren of Relatives (for Ulster County residents) .......340-3990 Recovering Food Addicts ........................331-8948 or 247-0109 or 271-3467 Recurrence of Cancer ................................................................ 800-ACS-2345 Red Hot Mama’s (Menopause) Support .......................................... 437-3046 Relatives as Parents Support Group.................................................340-3990 Road to Recovery ....................................................................... 800-ACS-2345 Second Chance Stroke Support Group .............................................336-7235 Self-Care for Caregivers ...................................................... 339-9090 ext 165 Separated and Divorced Roman Catholic Support Group .............562-3012 Separated and Divorced Support Group .......................................................... 382-1626, 336-7658, or 382-1270, 871-3500 Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous ......... 518-292-0123 or www.slaafws.org Sexual Assault Victims Support Group ........................................... 340-3213 Single Parent Support Group ............................................................255-7332 Singles with Cancer ................................................................. 338-2500, x443 Single Mother’s Support Group . ....................................................... 246-9211 Speak Out ..................................................................... 339-9090 x109 or x115 Spinal Cord Injury Association Support Group .............................336-3500 Starting Now (New Stroke Program).....................................331-3131 x2805 Stop Smoking Support Group........................................................... 483-6394 Stroke Survivors Support Group .......................................... 334-2700 x3283 Systemic Sclerosis - Scleroderma/Lupus Support Group .............247-0600 ‘Take A Break’ Family Respite Group................................... 338-2500 x4453 TBI Survivor Support Group .............................................................. 343-8100 Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group........... 278-7272 x300 or 297-7600 Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group RCAL, Kingston Location...331-0541 UFOs Community Support Group ......................................................744-3143 Us Too/Man to Man .................................................................. 800-ACS-2345 Visually Impaired & Blind Support Group. ...........................565-1162 x 202 Voices of Young Empowered Women Support Group (VYEWS) ................................... 917-442-5996; goddesspresskingston@yahoo.com Weight Loss Surgery Support Group ............................................... 679-2235 Weight Loss Surgery Peer Support Group (Mid-Hudson) .....................................................................................331-2720 or 334-2761 Widows and Widowers of Ulster County .........................................331-6262 Women’s Cancer Support Group ......................................................338-2500 Women’s Issues Support Group .............................................. 339-9090 x115

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VAN DRIVERS We are seeking Drivers to work split shifts (mornings and late afternoons) to transport individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities in the Kingston and Catskill area. An acceptable NYS driver’s license is required. A CDL with passenger endorsement is preferred, but is not required and we will provide training. Applications may be obtained online at www.ugarc.org or in person at 471 Albany Avenue, Kingston – in our Human Resources Department.

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SOUS CHEF: Full Time.

Responsible for the preparation and production of fresh and wholesome meals for a hotel with 600 overnight and 500 day guest capacity. Hotel exp. preferable. Apply online at www.mohonkjobs.com or fax Cover letter & Resume to: (845) 256-2049 FINANCE DIRECTOR EMERSON RESORT & SPA

FULL TIME

A unique opportunity to work for a progressive company in Mt. Tremper, N.Y. Position is responsible for the company’s financial planning, accounting and reporting. Requirements include BA/BS in Accounting or equivalent degree/experience, 5 years’ experience in financial management, preferably in the hospitality industry. Proficiency in QuickBooks and MS Office is essential. Send resume and salary requirements to HumanResources@emersonresort. com. Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off. (EOE)

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RN Administrator

Mon - Fri for a 50 bed assisted living facility in Catskill, NY. Excellent salary and benefits. Experience in a facility a must. Please email resume to hshcatskill1@gmail.com DRIVERS: DEDICATED POSITION. $180.00/Day with Benefits. Home Daily/ Weekends. 75% No Touch/50% Drop & Hook. Excellent Equipment. Call Today! 855-842-8389

WAITERS/WAITRESSES. Part-time, full-time. Apply in person: College Diner, 500 Main St., New Paltz. AD SALES PRINT & NEW MEDIA- The Shawangunk Journal needs YOU to join our talented team. Help us grow our weekly newspaper -in print and online- and earn big dollars based on your efforts. Start immediately. Work your own hours in your own area of the Ridge. Prior sales experience is a plus but we will train the right person. Please send us a resume today to jobs@ gunkjournal.com CAREGIVER for young woman in wheelchair. Personal care & light duties. Training available. Part-time or full-time (flexible schedule). Benefits after 90 days. Honest & reliable. Pay through agency. Highland vicinity. (845)235-6701.

EXPERIENCED LANDSCAPER & HARDSCAPER. We are seeking an *experienced*, local individual for a full-time/ part-time landscaper/hardscaper position. Open immediately. Work independently. Have a clean drivers license. Use demo saw, plate compactor, Drive truck, Have an eye for details. Experience in: laying pavers, building retaining walls, walkways, patios, etc. Landscaping, Planting trees, bushes, tree trimming, mowing etc. Only experienced, reliable, and highly motivated individuals please! CALL 845-331-1904. HOUSEKEEPER WANTED. Super 8 New Paltz, NY. 7 Terwilliger Ln. We’re looking for someone interested in joining our housekeeping team that serves all those visiting our community! Applicant must be dependable, reliable, and hardworking. Experience is a plus but not needed. Must apply at our Front Desk. Full/Part-Time available.

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SUMMER JOBS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT NYPIRG is now hiring students, grads & others for an urgent campaign to protect our drinking water. Get paid to make a difference! F/T positions available. EOE

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Call Mary: 845.243.3012 Michael Heinrich, long-time Woodstocker, handicapped w/Parkinsons, is SEEKING A 24-7 CAREGIVER at his lovely home in Mt. Tremper, located on the Beaverkill. He can be reached via Ferncliff Nursing Home at 845-516-1801. PART-TIME ASSISTANT POSITION: web based clothing business. Basic computer/web skills, shipping and inventory. Familiarity with vintage clothing, eBay, Etsy listing a plus. Kerhonkson. info@blanketyblankblank.com The Town of Woodstock is looking for a PART-TIME CLEANER (up to 30 hours) w/weekends a must. Applications are available on line at woodstockny.org or at the Town Clerk’s Office. Applications should be addressed to the Town Clerk’s Office, 45 Comeau Drive, Woodstock NY 12498 or jearley@woodstockny.org UPTOWN LAW OFFICE seeks experienced legal secretary full-time, for real estate/litigation and general practice. Excellent computer skills needed. Send resume to PO Box 3536, Kingston, NY 12402. WEB ASSISTANT, PART-TIME. Good with WordPress and Dreamweaver. Reply eric@francis.pw WOODSTOCK/LAKE HILL: Strong, reliable person to assist with maintenance of yard and gardens. 4+ hours/week. References, own transportation. 679-2564.

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DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

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DEAR BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN- We at Hardscrabble Flea Market & Swap Meet would like to congratulate you on being picked from over 100 businesses in your field. We believe we can help each other- We have a swap meet every Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Holy Cow Shopping Center, in addition to a flea market/garage sale. We find that when business people set up a table w/business cards & flyers or “show how to do” projects it will definitely increase your business (and mine). It’s a great way to introduce your business to new/old customers. And, if you have leftover merchandise you’d like to sell- this would be a perfect way to unload it. Please give John a call for more details- (845)7581170. Spots are $12-$35. New Paltz Community-- this App’s for You! Hugies & Hipsters * Pub Owners & Pub Crawlers * Dentists & Patients * Shoppers & Shops * Chefs & Diners * Baristas & Coffee Lovers... Get Connected! Find us at: https:// newpaltz.mycityapp.mobile Local businesses– contact us for our annual ad rates- 845527-4100.

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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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CAREGIVER/COMPANION for seniors and people diagnosed w/mental illness. I can help you w/shopping, cooking, laundry, errands, transportation, de-cluttering, recreation and loneliness. I am patient, compassionate, trustworthy and funny. Experienced. References. 845-339-5496.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area.

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3 bedroom home located in a quiet area. Pale gray exterior with periwinkle shutters makes it a standout. Eat-in Kitchen w/ new quartz counter tops, cabinet doors & appliances. Open ﬂoor plan & cathedral ceiling. Address: 32 Meadow Lane, Modena: Directions: From New Paltz, take Route 32 South to Modena. Left on Plate Rd, then left on Meadow Ln. House on right. $229,000

Tranquil, mesmerizing water & mountain views from nearly every room. Awaken to breathtaking sunrises while sipping coffee from your deck or next to the fireplace. This home calms the spirit with a unique blend of ever-changing vistas, depending on the time of day or season. High ceilings with beams, loads of light - everything one dreams of in a “close to Woodstock” location. $495,000

This Catskill Farms nearly new home is full of quality craftsmanship, design & country comfort. High ceilings grounded by the warm, two story stone hearth fireplace. Richly stained wood floors & rustic beams throughout. Beautiful open kitchen, dining & living spaces flooded with natural light. Recycled barn wood walls upstairs, bluestone landings on the lower levels. $459,000

Perched on a knoll with seasonal farmland views, this immaculate house has been lovingly cared for. Great for entertaining with its eat-in kitchen & sliders to the rear deck and the entrance to the formal dining room. The first floor has also has a family room and a suite with a bedroom and sitting room, currently used as an office, would make a perfect guest suite. $339,000

Gracious Living! Sip lemonade on your rocking chair porch, or entertain in your private fenced in back yard with open decking large enough for your veggie gardens &/or pool! Upgrades include: New exterior paint, windows, kitchen & bathroom remodel, flooring, electric rewired, drywall, crown moldings throughout, new front porch, & extensive landscaping. $163,500

Beautifully maintained & renovated town home. Both a deck and a balcony from which to enjoy the views. Just minutes to Windham & Hunter Ski Resort. Home Owner Association includes water and sewer, weekly garbage pickup, exterior maintenance & snow plowing. Easy to maintain and a great layout, which can sleep up to 10. At this price, it’s too much to pass up! $185,000

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KERHONKSON FIRE COMPANY- Annual Golf Tournament at Rondout Country Club, Sunday June 1. 8 a.m. Breakfast, 9 a.m. Tee Off. Tee Sponsor; $25, Green Sponsor; $50, Breakfast/Lunch Sponsor; $100. Please make checks payable to Kerhonkson Fire Company. Mail to: Troy Mekulik, P.O. Box 567, Kerhonkson, NY 12446.

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Open house this Sunday 12-3! 182 Schryver Street, Port Ewen

KYLA THOMAS

AND HAVE IT YOUR WAY. Who’s car determines the pay. Always ready to get you there. Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Airport transportation starting at $50. 845-6495350; stu@hvc.rr.com

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Kingston 845-331-5357 New Paltz 845-255-0615 Stone Ridge 845-687-4355 Windham 518-734-4200 Woodstock 845-679-2255 *Ulster MLS Statistics 2013

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Mohonk Consultations Environmental Achievement Award Program. Join us! We will honor Arm-of-the-Sea Theater, and founders, Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden. Sunday June 8, 2014, 5-8 pm. Mohonk Mountain House Parlor. $35 Regular / $20 Student. http//:mohonk-consultat-ions.org/programs/events. Mohonk Consultations, 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz NY 12561. 845-256-2726.

hosts cute 2-story home, great for weekend or full time. On .72 ac, it has 3 BRs, full bath, 1250 SF, community water &2sewer, woodsy private Awesome bath, rocking split level on a yard. Enjoy3 bedroom, summer evenings on the quiet Port Ewen cul-de-sac, totally renovated, with deck or porch, listening to the peepers sing. $ from the roof almost everything new or near new MLS#20082665 145,000 toDIR: appliances, must Ellenville. see! MeetTurn Michael Maroney Rt. 209S Atoward onto Rt. 55, then R onto Grace Place. Yellow house on R, #6. $209,900 Dir: 9W south, in Port Ewen, turn on Schryver, pass stop sign on right

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Surrounded by 10’ rhododendron bushes. 1-car detached garage. On bus line. Maint. includes heat, water. $150K. 48 Brittany Drive, UNIT K, off Rte. 375, West Hurley. (917)669-8137.

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ALOHA HOME PARK, 511 S. Ohioville, New Paltz. Wonderful double wide 24x56, 3bdrm, 2bth, central a/c, enclosed back porch. Photo’s on Craigslist. $51,900. Appt. call park owner Michael 845-883-6088. BEST A-FRAME AND LOCATION in Woodstock. 2 brick fireplaces, private and secluded. $235,000. 845-417-6558. Further description, pictures and address at www. forsalebyowner.com. Listing# 21058879 FOR SALE BY OWNER; New Paltz Colonial2,200 sq.ft. 4-Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, Central A/C, Wood Floors, Updated Master Bath. 2.7 Acres. Convenient to Thruway, College & Town - New Paltz Schools. $349,000. Call 845-255-2691. KERHOKSON. Route 209, quarter mile from Rte 44/55. 300’ frontage, cute cabin plus shed with electric. Owner will hold mortgage with $18k down. Possible rental w/option. Shelly: 646-322-5106 LOVELY 2-STORY COLONIAL on 12+ ACRES. 4-Bdrm, 2.5 Bath. Conveniently located, approximately 20 minutes from both the Kingston/Rhinebeck and Rip VanWinkle Bridges. Full walk-out basement with lg work area and large indoor/outdoor dog kennel. Borders acres of Forever Wild lands. Asking $330,000. (mls:20140035). ESOPUS, New Salem Road; this lovely old 1925 fixer upper needs to be brought back to its original beauty. Brimming with character. Large retro kitchen, original woodwork, formal dining room, nice living room and family room (parlor), 3+ bedrooms, 1.5 baths. New garage door, new well pump. Furnace is 8-years old, 100 amp service installed in 2004. Asking $85,000. (mls #20142100). KERHONKSON/SAMSONVILLE area; Over 10 lovely mostly wooded acres located

on a private country road. Approximately 2 miles from ACRES of state land including the Vernooy Falls Trail Head. Great spot for dream home, or that weekend getaway! Some mostly seasonal mountain views. There is a drilled well, septic and electric (conditions unknown) as well as rough driveway on the property. Asking $75,000. (mls #20142169). Call NOLA GUTMANN REALTY, 845688-2409. NEW PALTZ VILLAGE: RAISED RANCH. 4-bedrooms, 3 bath. Apartment plus Home office. Shawangunk views. Pressure-treated deck. Many updates. Must see to appreciate! $319K. Call Sam, Century 21 Venables 845656-6088.

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PRIME BUILDING LOT. 3 ACRES; $30,000. Town of Woodstock. Call (845)246-2525 or (518)250-4305. New Paltz Town: GORGEOUS! 3.4 ACRES. Approved residential building lot. Frontage on Rt. 32 North & Mountain View Place. Shawangunk views. Walk this parcel! $118,900. Call Sam, Century-21 Venables 845-656-6088.

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PRIVATE BUYER (non-realtor) SEEKING PROPERTY to purchase, MUST HAVE 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/

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This week I chose a variety of homes that will really get your homeowner juices pumping! From a Townhouse in Saugerties, to a neighborhood Mother – Daughter (or home with a rental apartment), to a rural cedar Woodstock contemporary that is completely unique. There is an OPEN HOUSE on the Mother – Daughter and you have simply GOT to see this one, it is an antique’rs (is there such a word?) delight. Watch for the opening of our second Woodstock office on the other side of the village green, so we may serve you even better!

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OPEN HOUSE It is really quite amazing, with 5 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, on an unusually large and private 1.6 acre, beautifully landscaped parcel in a neighborhood of sweet homes. This very large one-of-a- kind home has a private driveway at the end of Fieldstone Road and is within walking distance to Hurley Ridge Market, Woodstock, and the bus route. The rooms are expansive and have skylights in the kitchen and bath, there is even a mountain view from the Master bedroom. The most amazing part is the 2 bedroom, fully equipped apartment on the lower ﬂoor! Homes like this only come along occasionally in this location so get there and take it all in! ................................$379,000

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BIKE, JOG & HIKE from your own backyard! Stroll through the gorgeous meadow to the immediately adjacent Rail Trail and off you go. Inviting, easycare Gardiner contempo set well back on 2.8 private acres, featuring LR with cozy ﬁreplace, open plan kitchen/dining space, airy cathedral beamed family/media room, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, lovely wood ﬂoors, 2 decks and oversized det. garage w/ studio/ workshop potential. ................................. $315,000

PURE COUNTRY - Authentically charming vintage farmhouse c. 1870 in a gorgeous natural setting of 1.9 acres with old stone walls & garden areas. Original details pair seamlessly with modern amenities for easy living. Features include beautiful hardwood ﬂoors, updated country EI kitchen w/ island, LR with cozy woodburner, den/ofﬁce, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, all NEW windows, new roof and French doors to sweet stone patio. ...$359,000

SAUGERTIES SMASH Located on Cottonwood Circle, this splendid 1550 square foot, 3 bedrooms (2 and a loft), 2.5 bath, Townhouse is certainly a smash hit! Helona Puma listed this bright and sunny home just minutes to the village center. It has cathedral ceilings, a lovely ﬁreplace with a gas insert in the living room, an eat-in kitchen, a large entertainment deck that includes a hot tub and even a two car garage! The location is nothing short of amazing, with easy access to shopping, Kingston, restaurants, banking and more. NO HOA FEES! Give Angela a call to see it ..................................................................................$220,000

WOODSTOCKIE “Woodstockie” is just the right word for this striking, charming, priced-right, cedar country home just 5 minutes to the center of the village. An unusual and interesting layout with the open stairway in the center, this warm and inviting property is everything you could desire; walking distance to the bus, huge rear deck, 2 car garage and workshop / STUDIO space, a small atrium entry, cathedral ceilings in the Master suite, private deck exits, huge country kitchen and dining/sitting room, 2 bedrooms, ofﬁce / library, 2 full baths and a lovely pond and hand built shed.

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RUSTIC GEM - Peace and privacy are yours on the well secluded 5.9 acre site of this enchanting LOG cabin nestled in the scenic Cherrytown hills. Airy open plan interior features high cathedral ceilings, cozy stone hearthed wood stove, sweet country style kitchen, 22’ loft bedroom plus add’l BR for guests, full bath, spacious deck o’looking pristine pond and HOT TUB to sooth away your cares. PERFECT RETREAT! ........................................ $229,900

COUNTRY COLONIAL - Handsomely sited and tota l ly private on 3.8 landscaped acres just minutes to Stone R idge. Gracious veranda welcomes you to 2000 SF featuring 21’ l iving room with fireplace, forma l dining room, gourmet k itchen with granite counters, 3 generous bedrooms, 2.5 updated baths, some HW f loors and expansive 38’ family /media room with room for ever yone ! Deck & patio, too ! ...................... $375,000

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We think you should see this home because it is a great mixture of country and sophistication, comfort and style. It is a fun house. There are 2 beautiful woodstove / ﬁreplaces that heat the entire home. We can’t think of a better place to create wonderful family memories of ‘our country home” that will be cherished forever. There is a new price on this property, the owners are moving full time to their other home out of the country. Sylvie Ross will be happy to show it to you, and at $349,000 you will surely fall in love.

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www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY JUNE 1ST 11AM-1PM Classic 3-bed, 2-bath farmhouse, private on 6.4 acres, arts & crafts details, lovely glass-enclosed porch and screened porch. Beams and stone ďŹ replace dominate the living room, huge master bedroom with wood stove. Beautiful open property with barn. 4243 Route 28A, West Shokan, NY 12494......................$325,000

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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY JUNE 1ST 1:30-3:30PM Wonderful 5-bed, 2-bath Arts & Crafts,on 5.3 acres with substantial Little Beaverkill stream frontage,swimming hole, inground pool, stunning glassenclosed porch. Expansive living room featuring beams, ďŹ replace and high ceilings. Separate guest bedroom/ofďŹ ce (currently used as a massage studio).. Charming country kitchen and huge mudroom. 4238 Route 28, Boiceville, NY 12412. .....................................$379,000

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PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP 1st time on market for this very clean Cape on 1 acre. Kitchen features beautiful craftsman built Birch cabinets. Mature lawns and trees, 3 BR, 1 BA, Koi Pond, standby generator, new furnace and new roof. What more could you ask for! $228,000

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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. steven@epicsecurity. com 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. OFFICE SPACE & GARAGE COMBO, Office 375 sf and 1600 sf garage w/17â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings. $1950/month includes heat & A/C. 396 Wittenberg Rd., Bearsville. Call (845)6795762.

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Set at the end of a private country road, this cedar sided home offers 3BR, 2BA and total privacy. Located only 1 mile from Woodstock Town Line w/easy access to the Village Plus an over sized 2 car garage w/potential studio space on the upper level. Ideal if you work from home. $334,000

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2-BEDROOM PRIVATE HOUSE. Screenedin back porch, backyard, garage, new bathroom, renovated kitchen, washer/dryer, hardwood floors. Minutes to Mid-Hudson Bridge, Rail Trail, Walkway. $1200/month plus utilities. Security, references required. No smoking. No pets. 845-691-6020. 2-BEDROOMS PLUS OFFICE duplex apt.

Large 2-acre yard, covered deck off kitchen, just completely renovated. Smoke-free, drug-free, pet-free apartment. 3 miles to Thruway. References, work history, annual income verification. First, last, 1 month security. $1400/month includes heat & HW. (845)691-2021.

CHARMING SIMPLICITY Peaceful Gardiner neighborhood is home to this 3 bedroom 2.5 bath Colonial with finished basement. Fenced yard, in-ground pool, mature landscaping, shed and 2-car garage. Some TLC will make this sturdy home shine again ................ $300,000

HIGHLAND EFFICIENCIES at villabaglieri.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. HIGHLAND: LARGE 1-BEDROOM. Available immediately. End unit. Parking next to unit. Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking & laundry. Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. $875/month, heat & hot water included. 1 month security. (845)453-0047.

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VARIOUS APARTMENTS... Located 49 & 21 North Chestnut Street. 1-year lease. Discounts for early deposit. rohr321@yahoo. com; 845-229-0024.

1-BEDROOM BASEMENT APT. w/large 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; window in commercial bldg. All utilities included except cable. Use of washer/dryer. Pets negotiable. Minutes to Thruway and New Paltz. Call before 5 p.m. (845)255-5920.

COZY 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE, country setting, private lawn and patio. $650/ month. Close to Thruway and Hudson, 4 miles to New Paltz. 1-monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s security and references. 845-337-9506

BRIGHT, QUIET 1-BR. Magnificent views, picture window, laundry, porch, 12 acres. 1 mile New Paltz. $975/month includes heat, HW, Wifi, etc. 914-725-1461.

1-BEDROOM, Center of New Paltz. Looking for mature, professional male. Sunny, partial furnished. Available now. Kitchen privileges. Walk to bus station, S.U.N.Y., Rail Trail. $550/month includes all. Call (917)9920702.

ROOM FOR RENT in 2-bedroom apartment; $500/month all utilities included. Half mile from SUNY campus. Call 914850-1968.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home. Includes utilities, cable and high speed internet. Walking distance to SUNY and town. No pets or smokers. $1200/ month, 1Â˝ month security. Available 6/1. Call (914)475-9834.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT, 30 acre lake estate adjacent Mohonk Preserve, 4 miles west of town. Stone fireplace, Central Air, W/D, internet, swim, fish, relaxing dock. Available 7/1. Annual lease $1300/month. (845)255-0616, igmc@aol.com

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2-BEDROOM; $1150/month. 1 month security. 31 Church Street. Laundry room & private parking on premises. No pets. No smoking. 1-year lease, good references. (845)255-5319.

ROOM FOR RENT in large 3-bedroom apartment. Located in quiet residential area, close to SUNY New Paltz. $500/ month plus shared utilities. First, last, security, references, lease. On-site parking. Available immediately. No pets. No smoking. 845-255-7187. ROOM FOR RENT: Utilities included. $550/month plus security. Walking distance

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to everything. Call 845-664-0493. 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. 845705-2430.

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

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more! “Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

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NEW PALTZ: 2-BEDROOM PLUS OFFICE/DEN. $1095/month plus utilities. Washer/dryer, central air, dishwasher. 1.5 miles to village. No pets. No smoking. Call (845)256-1119.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Fall 2014 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205. SPACIOUS STUDIO APT. within walking distance of college; includes all utilities except phone. No smoking. No pets. Screened-in porch. Suitable for 1. $900/ month. Available 6/1. 845-901-2531. SUNNY, SPACIOUS STUDIO APARTMENT on S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz. Walk to S.U.N.Y. Off-street parking. $1100/month, heat, hot water & lovely backyard included. Pet friendly. Available now. e-mail: audreysfarmhouse@aol.com

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3-BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOUSE. Country setting. Hardwood floors, modern kitchen, dishwasher, W/D. Large Master suite w/bath/jacuzzi, private deck. 3 miles to Thruway, 10 miles to Woodstock. Rondout Schools. $2000/month plus utilities. First, last, security. Credit, references required. 845-332-3419.

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KERHONKSON STUDIOS: furnished; $675/month, unfurnished; $625/month. Kitchenette w/stove plus refrigerator; full bath. Lease, security, references required. 914-466-0911 or 973-493-7809. KERHONSON: LARGE 1-BEDROOM APT.; $800/month plus utilities. Also, 2-BEDROOM APT.; $900/month (+ Utilities). 20 minutes New Paltz, Nonsmokers. Call for more details 845-626-5349.

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1-BEDROOM RESTORED VICTORIAN. Albany Avenue, Kingston. Hardwood floors, sun deck, immaculate. Off-street parking. $750/month includes water & electric. References & security. Available immediately. playonthehudson@aol.com. 7 ROOM APT. Town of Ulster. Large, Sunny Apartment, 2nd floor. Private Entr. 1/4 mi. from Exit 19 NYS Thrwy. Rural Setting. 3-BR, 2 Bath, LR, FDR, EIK, Sun Rm, Laundry Rm, A/C, Yard, 2-car Parking. $1600/month

+ fixed rate utilities. Security Deposit & Ref. needed. (845)340-9660, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

ULSTER GARDENS AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS New affordable 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments in our SMOKE FREE multi-family community available June 1st. Variable rent based on income include Heat, HW, W/W carpet. Units have central A/C, 24-hour emergency maintenance, on-site laundry room, community room, and management ofﬁce. For application call (845) 986-6701 or go to our website:

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OLIVEBRIDGE: RUSTIC, SUNNY 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE. Woodstove, new floors, cathedral ceilings w/skylight. 450 sq.ft. First, last and security. $750/ month. No pets. Close to Ashokan Reservoir. (845)657-6942 or (646)662-5202.

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HORSE SHOW & SHORT-TERM FURNISHED RENTALS. All sizes & shapes. Call (845)246-1844. SAUGERTIES VILLAGE: 2-EDROOM SPACIOUS APARTMENT. Recent complete renovation. Newer appliances. Ceramic tile bathroom. Carpets in bedrooms. Skylights. French doors to living room, large eat-in kitchen, laundry room on premisies. Off-street parking. $1175/month. Utilities included except electric. No pets. Good rental history necessary, 1 month rent & security. Call (914)382-1372. WEST SAUGERTIES: NEWLY RENOVATED 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE on quiet dead-end road. Full bath, spacious living room, washer/dryer, screened-in porch, beautiful backyard- room for garden. $1050/month plus utilities. First, last, security, references. Call 679-2243.

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1-BEDROOM GARDEN APARTMENT, Tinker St., off-street parking, sunny, walk to everything. Near Library. Quiet building. Heat included. Garbage removal. Nonsmoker. $895/month. First, last, security, references. 845-679-3243. 2-BEDROOM PUPPY PARADISE. Newly renovated ground floor/basement of private home, West Hurley. Sunny eat-in kitchen. Walk to library and market. Fenced-in dog yard, garden. $895 includes most utilities, cable, wifi. NO SMOKERS. Available June 9. 845-679-2235 or AskErica@gmail.com Beautifully renovated 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Kitchen w/dining area, living room, full bath w/clawfoot tub. $950/month includes all utilities. Also, 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Full bath, terrace, mountain views. $850/month. BOTH: In well maintained historic building in Woodstock Center. Parking off-street. For responsible, employed person w/recommendations, security. No smoking/drugs/pets. 914-466-0910 LARGEHANDSOMEWOODSTOCKHOME. Hardwood floors. 4-bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 fireplaces, plus attached spacious home office, studio or in-law apartment. 2 car garage. Attractive, close-in neighborhood. Brick. Yard/patio/ trees. Good oil baseboard heating. New kitchen appliances with granite counter. Washer/dryer. Excellent condition. $2450/month includes mowing/plowing. 845-679-9717. PRIVATE 2-BEDROOM HOUSE on five acres. Reservoir and mountain views. Central air. Large sun deck, hot tub, full kitchen, high-speed wifi, washer/dryer, automatic back up power and back up water. Six minutes to down town Woodstock. $1250/ wk; $4000/month. David 845-853-2005. http://airbnb.com/rooms/2958709 WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM. Quiet upscale residential neighborhood. Beautiful

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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.

close to HITS. If you’re looking for beauty, serenity and quiet, this is the place. For complete details call 845-246-7598 or email: ruth@redwyng.com Photos available.

WOODSTOCK COTTAGE; 1-BEDROOM, full bath, fireplace, small loft. Washing machine. Porch. Newly renovated. On 1 acre. $1000/month plus utilities. Call Owner (845)679-8259.

1½ Bath House on 6.5 Acres on Glasco Turnpike (one mile from center of Woodstock) $1,000 per week / $3,500 per month

WOODSTOCK… FANTASTIC NEW, MOUNTAINTOP COTTAGE FOR RENT ON TEN QUIET, PEACEFUL, PARKLIKE ACRES. AMAZING MOUNTAIN VIEWS. FEATURED IN NY MAGAZINE. PERFECT FOR WRITER, ARTIST OR WEEKEND RETREAT FROM NYC. TWO BEDROOMS, FULL KITCHEN AND BATH, SKYLIGHTS, BEAMED CEILING TWO FLAT SCREEN TV. TOTALLY PRIVATE YET ONLY TWO MINUTES FROM WOODSTOCK VILLAGE. MONTHLY RENTAL AVAILABLE. NO PETS. COMPLETELY FURNISHED. RENTAL INCLUDES WIFI, CABLE TV AND ELECTRIC. BASEBOARD HOT WATER PROPANE HEAT ADDITIONAL. AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1, 2014. EMAIL: CAROPARA22@AOL.COM OR LEAVE MESSAGE ON 845-679-6002. See photos at vrbo.com/41448

CHARMING, FURNISHED WOODSTOCK COTTAGE. Wooded setting, deck, walking distance town. Living room, stone fireplace, beamed ceiling, bedroom, study, sleeping loft, country kitchen, skylights. 7/17 through 8/17: $3000. 8/28 through 9/9: $1000. 845-679-6741.

WOODSTOCK: SMALL 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE on quiet road. Interior newly renovated. Great new bathroom. (Outdoors will be when weather permits). 1 beautiful acre. Small stream. 10-15 minutes from center of town. $950/month. (845)417-5282.

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1-BEDROOM COTTAGE available on beautiful large acreage, Big Indian. $500/month plus utilities. Includes maintenance responsibilities 5 hours/week- mowing, painting, pool, etc. (845)254-5905 before 8 p.m. CHARMING, PRIVATE 1-BR APT. Experience ASHOKAN RESERVOIR location! Cozy apartment in newly renovated barn. Ceramic tile, carpet, W/D, cable, propane fireplace, attached garage. Electric separate, reasonable. No smoking building. $900/month. 845-657-8693, 845-5944144. GORGEOUS COTTAGE on 150 ACRE ESTATE. 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace. Hiking, cross country trails throughout. Borders on 1500 acres of state land. Renowned trout stream runs through property. Seasonal, annual, reasonable. 845-6885062.

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vacation rentals

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island. Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com IMMACULATE STUDIO APARTMENT. Perfect rental horse show- accommodate 2-6. Fully furnished. Rates (845)901-8188.

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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- $5 each, medium pics; $10 each, large pics; $20 each. Cash and carry. Call 845-2550909. CAPEL RUG, 10’x10’, braided, Chenille, pastel multi-colored. Excellent condition. New $1000, asking $425 or best offer. 845532-1088 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. GARDEN/FARM SPRAYER, MacKissic with 22 gallon tank and gasoline engine. 300 psi, adjustable pressure. •Comes with 25’ hose. Good working condition. Has only been used with organic sprays. $250 or best offer. 255-0417 or 917-647-1549. LEG EXTENSION & LEG CURL MACHINE w/weights attached. Plus more exercise equipment.... Call (845)255-8352. SAILFISH, ALCORT. In very good condition except missing keel (easily made or bought). About 13 feet long. $175 or best offer. 255-0417 or 917-647-1549.

603

tree services

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Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding, Firewood

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FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island. Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com SUMMER GETAWAY Between Woodstock and Kingston. Bright, spacious 1-bedroom apartment on 7 private acres. Last house on town road. Hiking/biking trails at your doorstep. All modern conveniences. $1250/ month, utilities included. Available June through Sept. 212-995-8116. Woodstock Summer Rental. 2+ bedrooms, furnished apartment in town, yet private. By the month or all summer. 845-532-8313.

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www.jersville.com | 845-679-5832

HAVE A DEAD TREE...

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Mountain views. Large balcony. Village setting. Trees, woods, lakes, swimming, skiing/snow boarding, movies, sports, cafes. Clean, renovated, hardwood floors, friendly environment. $800/month. Close to Woodstock & Thruway. Maggie (518)589-6101.

490

COZY FURNISHED 3 BDRM

seasonal rentals

ARTISTS LAKE RETREAT, 2-bedroom, 1000sf duplex in separate wing of large house with own entrance. Skylights, high ceilings, beautifully furnished. Situated within Artists Lake Preserve, on 7 private, landscaped acres with 14 acre lake, pool, mountain views and easy accessibility. 5 miles to Woodstock and

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605

ﬁrewood for sale

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood. Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

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620

buy and swap

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the highest prices for old furniture, antiques of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. 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.

660

estate/ moving sale

MOVING SALE: Antiques, Artwork, dishes and kitchen stuff, craft and sewing supplies, furniture, miscellaneous. Fri, 5/30 thru Sun, 6/1, 9am-4pm. 2257 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock.

665

ﬂea markets

DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

670

ALMANAC WEEKLY

May 29, 2014

yard and garage sales

16th Annual Deer Run Multi-Family Yard Sale. Saturday, May 31st, Rain Date: Sunday, June 1, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Off Route 32- Just North of the Quick Stop Market. Turn on to Deer Run Road… Park and SHOP! 5/31, 7am - 6/1, 9am. Antiques, collectibles, sporting goods, dolls, games, misc. household. 8 Luna Drive, New Paltz.

BIG, BIG, BIG BARN SALE 5/30, 5/31 & 6/1. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Housewares, furniture, decorative items, antiques & vintage, art books, frames. So much more. Old Ford Road, New Paltz. Rain or Shine.

COMMUNITY YARD SALE: Years of collecting antiques, vintage things, spring/ summer plants, drafting table, jewelry, toddler/kid toys, books, vintage clothes. Located behind Cub Market, at Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. Saturday & Sunday, 5/31 & 6/1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

D&H CANAL MUSEUM’S SUNDAY Flea Market, Rt. 213 in the heart of High Falls. Art, antiques, collectibles, etc. OPENING DAY- April 13-November, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Contact Joni (845)810-0471. DOWNSIZING GARAGE SALE: May 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 87 Maryann Ave, Saugerties. Men’s stuff, household items, hand & power tools, garden tools, rototiller, snowblower, Honda generator, specialized bicycles, decoys, fishing tackle, folk art, antiques, furniture, wooden market wagon, other outside garden structures, Temple Stuart table & chairs & hutch, much more. LARGE YARD SALE: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., NEW PALTZ, 4 MILLROCK RD. Grandfather clock; Oreck vacuum; Power Painter; knitting yarns, needles, magazines; books, CDs, kitchen/household, much more! 845-256-0106. MOWER’S SATURDAY/SUNDAY FLEA MARKET; Maple Lane, Woodstock. Every weekend starting May 17th. Antiques, collectibles, produce & Reusables. GOOGLE US! 845679-6744. woodstockfleamarket@hvc.rr.com MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE: 38 Van De Bogart Rd, Woodstock. Furniture, books, clothing, jewelry, scarves, jewelry displays, kitchenware. Fri, Sat, Sun, 9am-5pm.

680

counseling services

professional services

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery. Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253.

700

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)901-8513 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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organizing/ decorating/ reﬁnishing

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

*CONSCIOUS CLEANING, CONSCIOUS CARE!* Bundle of energy w/a Zen attitude. Efficient and very organized. I can make beauty out of disorder. Allergic to cats. Woodstock/Kingston/ Rhinebeck vicinity. Call Robyn, 339-9458.

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Free Estimates • Fully Insured

Chris Lopez • 845-256-7022

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO. **Estate, **Residential. **Free Estimates, Fully Insured. Call 679-3879 CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/ Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)6882253.

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caretaking/ home management

• Interior & Exterior painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured 845-255-0979 • ritaccopainting.com QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980

“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. Interior/Exterior/Decorator Finishes, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Call 679-9036 for Free Estimate. Senior Discount. CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/ Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)6882253. EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, cleanouts. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Artist friendly. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999. 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. HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed. Snow Removal. Call Dave (845)514-6503mobile.

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HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845616-9832.

painting/odd jobs

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art services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol 6877813. c.field@earthlink.net

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Gutter Cleaning

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845-331-4966, 845-249-8668

MAN WITH A VAN MOVING & DELIVERY SERVICE. 16’ trucks, 10’ van. Reliable, insured, NYS DOT 32476. 8 Enterprise Road, New Paltz, NY. Please call Dave at 255-6347. PIDEL PAINTING. Exterior, interior painting and papering, roofing. Free estimate. 20 years experience. Competitive pricing. 845-800-8982. YOU CALL I HAUL. Attic, basements, garages cleaned out. Junk, debris, removed. 20% discount for seniors and disabled. Gary (845)247-7365 or www. garyshauling.com

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plumbing, heating, a/c and electric

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BOILERS, (oil & gas), FURNACES, HOT WATER HEATERS INSTALLED, SERVICED & REPAIRED. Water leaks repaired. Emergency service available. SPRING SPECIAL- heating system cleaning & tune-up; $120 PLUS TAX. Call Mike Areizaga (845)340-0429.

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May 29, 2014

building services

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Building with pride. Professional Craftsmanship for all Phases of Construction

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760

gardening/ landscaping

A-1 SCREENED TOPSOIL, garden compost, manures, crushed or washed round stone, fill, pool sand, item #4, wallstone, mulches, landclearing, septic systems, lawns, ponds, demolition, paving, roads. Ron Biscoe Excavating & Paving (845)505-3890. Excavation Site work Drain ¿elds Land clearing Septic systems Demolition Driveways

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770

excavating services

TSU EARTHWORKS All Phases of Excavation Tank Removal Septic Repair Driveways Drainage Ponds Local Contractor Owner Operated

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AFFORDABLE ROOFING & SIDING Fully Insured ~ Free Estimates

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lost and found

LOST.VicinityofRt.9W&GrandSt.inHighland, small chihuahua & dachshund mixed dog withYankeescollar. Please call 845-691-2770.

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AA Statuary & Weathervane Co.

Email:gbellows@4leafconstruction.com

KERI’S LAWN SERVICE. Lawn Mowing, Fall Cleanups and Snow-plowing. Free Estimates and Reasonable Rates. Serving New Paltz, Highland, Marlboro and Newburgh area. 845-594-6091.

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CEDAR POSTS. Special orders- no problem! Call Ray at (845)453-0215.

Field Mowing Reasonably Priced Quality Work

spirituality

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.

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May 29, 2014

animals

ADOPT A RESCUED DOG, CAT or RABBIT. Come see us at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston. (845)3315377. DOGS: Sheba; 7-years old & has spent the majority of her life at shelters. Please give her the life she has always dreamed of! Spot; 4-year old mixed breed. Needs lots of love & calm house. Can be shy when meeting new people but once he loves you, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forever! Meko; Best w/experienced dog owners. Sweet & will protect you from anything! Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be your best buddy. Dutchess; 3-year old Neapolitan Mastiff. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very playful w/dogs & would do best in home w/no children as sometimes she doesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know her own strength. Briggs; 2-year old mixed breed who loves to go for runs & gets along great w/dogs & cats. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like a home w/ adults or older children. NEW! Bilbo; 2-year old male lab mix, separation anxiety, better w/adults, likes other dogs & has an interest in cats. CATS: Victoria; 8-years young, brown & black tiger. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our sassiest cat. Would do best in a home all to herself. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent most of her shelter life in a cage because she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a fan of other cats. Please give her some room to roam. Jasmine; 9-year old female. This beautiful & unique looking feline loves humans but would rather not have to deal w/other cats. She wants to be the only one receiving your love! Vindaloo; Long Hair, friendly neutered male tan/black/white. Goosfrahba; Large neutered male; white w/tiger markings & VERY friendly. NEW! Raven; 2-years old, female, all black cat is affectionate, vocal & an absolute pleasure to be around; Hammerjaw; 2-year old gray tiger who was a victim of the New Paltz hoarding case a year ago. Even though he came from such a horrible situation, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a loving cat who wants to be around people. RABBITS; Viper; Spayed female rabbit; very friendly, uses litter box; Viper is a brown Flemish Giant Cross.

I CAN READ!!! (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Sampson, a healthy, good natured & (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m told) handsome CAT guy; solid black w/green eyes.) I was used to being in a home but somehow I was left alone & freezing in the streets of Kingston during this very cold winter. I came begging at someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s door- I saw the welcome mat! A wonderful person helped me by feeding me & keeping me safe. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been neutered, had vaccines for rabies & distemper, tested negative for FIV or FeLV, litter box trained and get along w/other kitties. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to meet me, love me and be friends â&#x20AC;&#x153;fureverâ&#x20AC;?, please call

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DIANAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Dianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CAT Shelter in Accord. FOR ADOPTION: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Copperâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Creamâ&#x20AC;? & â&#x20AC;&#x153;Williamâ&#x20AC;?; Copper (big, copper boy w/marbleized swirl pattern) & Sweet Cream (petite cream color girl) were found together when they were feral. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now tame & oh, so sweet! William is especially shy. Perfect scenario is if all 3 could be adopted together as they support one another. If interested in just Copper & Sweet Cream or only William, please let me know! For more information about these wonderful cats, please email carriechapman@gmail.com or call (347)258-2725. LOST. Vicinity of Rt. 9W & Grand St. in Highland, small chihuahua & dachshund mixed dog with Yankees collar. Please call 845-691-2770. MUST REHOME a black and white 6-year old, male Aussie. Housebroken, all shots, trained, loves to hike, gentle. Single dog home would be best. 845-679-6293. PROJECT CAT is a non-profit cat RESCUE AND SHELTER. Please help get cats off the streets and into homes. Adopt a healthy and friendly cat or kitten companion for a lifetime. High Falls/Accord area. 845-6874983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat. org

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vehicles wanted

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I-4 Cyl, Auto, P/S, ABS, A/C, P/W/L, CD, Moonroof, 201A SE Appearance Pkg. Stk#14295. VIN#ER189677. MSRP $26,615. Inc: $750 Ford Customer Rebate. Due At Delivery $0, does not inc license, tax, registration & tire fees. Inc $0 Security Deposit. TOP/LEV: $9684/$15404. Lease inc 10,500 miles per year, 20Â˘ per mile after. Expires 5/31/14.

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Inc up to 5 qts of oil, filter change & fluid level check; Synthetic oil; diesel vehicles and disposal fees extra; must present coupon prior to service; cannot be combined; 1 coupon per customer. Expires 6/30/14.

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Sales Hours: Monday-Thursday: 9am-8pm, Friday: 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 11am-4pm â&#x20AC;˘ Service: Monday-Friday: 7:30am-6pm, Saturday 8am-4pm Any prices or offers include all costs to be paid by a consumer except license, tax, registration & DMV fees. Customer deposit is good for 24 hours. Ad vehicles sold cosmetically as is. Photos for illustration purposes only. Dealer not responsible for errors or omissions. Prior transactions excluded. Offers cannot be combined. Expires 72 hours after publication. DMV#711250.