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Hanna Eshel exhibit & outdoor sculpture garden at Unison The Unison Arts Center will hold an opening reception on Sunday, July 6 from 4 to 6 p.m. for two new shows: “Fissures,” an exhibition of the work of Hanna Eshel in the Main Gallery, and the opening of the 2014 outdoor Sculpture Garden, which features several of Eshel’s larger works. The reception is free of charge and open to the public. Visitors are encouraged to bring a picnic and wander through Unison’s woodland garden to experience the sculptures in a peaceful setting that includes a fishpond. “Fissures” will remain on view through August 24. A fifth-generation Israeli born in Jerusalem in 1926, Eshel is an internationally recognized artist who works in a variety of media. She studied at the Bezalel School of Art and served as lieutenant of cartography in the Israeli Art Force during the 1948 War of Independence. Eshel moved to Paris in 1952, completing advanced studies in painting fresco at the Academic de la Grande Chaumiere and the École des Beaux-Arts, where she was awarded First Prize in the Concours de France. It was during her 20-year period in France that she created the majority of her oil paintings, paper collages and burlap

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collage/paintings. Unison is a nonprofit multi-arts center located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-1559 or visit www.unisonarts.org.

“The Life of the Common Canal Worker” opens this Saturday at D & H Canal Museum

The D & H Canal Museum at 23 Mohonk Road in High Falls will open a new exhibit on Saturday, July 5. “The Life of the Common Canal Worker” will portray the canal’s history and include a working model of a lock, a life-sized recreated canal-boat cabin, a moving model of a gravity railroad brake car, financial documents and dioramas of the gravity railroad and canal life. Many tools and artifacts are on display, along with original paintings by canal-era artists. The D & H Canal Museum is housed in a former Episcopal church, completed in 1885, in the historic hamlet of High Falls. The museum bookshop has a nostalgic 19th-century flavor and offers canalrelated maps, cards, posters and children’s toys and games. Fiction and nonfiction books about the canal and its era are available for both child and adult readers. For more information, call (845) 6879311 or visit www.canalmuseum.org.

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he Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary will host its eighth annual July Jamboree on Saturday, July 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy veggie food trucks serving vegan ice cream and chickpea-based sandwiches along with grilled specialties; live music by indie music veterans Beautiful Small Machines, jazz/rock trio Meanderthal, ukulele artist Derek Goodwin and family musician Elizabeth Mitchell; a vegan cooking demo by author Terry Hope Romero; a tag sale; magician Eric Walton; a vegan physician fielding questions at her Ask-a-Doctor booth; and more than 300 friendly rescued animals to hang out with. Kids will enjoy a bouncy castle, hula-hooping, facepainting and recycled artmaking by Scrapkins. Sorry, no pooches allowed. Proceeds benefit the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, located at 35 Van Wagner Road. For more information, call (845) 679-5955 or visit www.woodstocksanctuary.org.

Visit six wonderful private gardens in the Saugerties area on the self-guided tenth annual Saugerties Secret Gardens Tour on Saturday, July 12 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. These are truly special secret spots to spend a day viewing nature’s beauty and getting ideas for one’s own garden. To celebrate the tour’s tenth year, there will be a scavenger hunt for tour participants with prizes, and the tour will also coordinate again with the Saugerties Farmers’ Market, which is along the tour route, to offer a special price-fixed lunch for tourgoers. Proceeds from the tour benefit the Boys and Girls Club and the Ulster County SPCA. Tickets are limited. The cost is $20 with advance purchase through July 10 at Smith Hardware at 227 Main Street in Saugerties and Herzog’s True Value at Kingston Plaza on Schwenk Drive in Kingston. Tickets on the day of the tour cost $30 at 201 Washington Avenue in Saugerties (corner of Finger Street) between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Light rain will not cancel the tour; torrential rain will move the tour to Sunday, July 13. For more information, call (845) 246-0710.

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July 4 is the 50 anniversary of the release of A Hard Day’s Night. The film shown in Rosendale represents the final master as approved by Richard Lester, in its original theatrical aspect ratio. A new sound mix was completed by Giles Martin (son of the great Sir George) at Apple Studios.

British Invasion music films this weekend

he Rosendale Theatre recognizes Independence Day weekend this year in a somewhat counterintuitive way: by celebrating the British Invasion – not the one by land or by sea, silly, but the one by a jet plane carrying Beatles. Over the course of four days, the Theatre will present four classics of rock ’n’ roll filmmaking, with A Hard Day’s Night being shown three times. Also on the menu are two films with local resonance – Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, and the Band’s and Scorsese’s The Last Waltz – and Jonathan Demme’s classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night humanized the Beatles and, perhaps inadvertently, exposed the grim and posh prison that their daily lives had actually become. In fact, were it not for the lads’ excess of charm, wit and ease before the camera, the life that the film

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describes would have seemed hopelessly bleak. Lester also directed the great stoner mistake Help! with its Germans and its balloons and the weird, indecipherable plot that it shares with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But A Hard Day’s Night is the one: a promo-ganda film by Epsteinian design, but one that ended up expressing the creepy insularity and enforced

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agoraphobia of a kind of fame that only Elvis and the Beatles had known at that time. The Beatles later admitted that Elvis had it worse, because they at least had each other. July 4 is the 50th anniversary of the release of A Hard Day’s Night. The film shown in Rosendale represents the final master as approved by Richard Lester, in its original theatrical aspect ratio. A new sound mix was completed by Giles Martin (son of the great Sir George) at Apple Studios. A Hard Day’s Night will be shown on Friday, July 4 at 7:15 p.m., Saturday, July 5 at 10 p.m. and Monday, July 7 at 7:15 p.m. Showing on Saturday, July 5 at 7:15 p.m., the 2012 documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is kind of creepy for opposite reasons. The telling of one of rock’s great failure-and-rebirth stories plays like a biopic of the invisible (and

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mute) man. There is no extant footage of Big Star playing; just a fairly meager supply of still shots, a single scratchy radio interview with a somewhat disagreeable Alex Chilton, some family, friends and studio survivors willing to talk and – most of all, in spades – a parade of effusive rock critics speaking principally of their own greatness. It’s a terrific, pathos-filled film about a unique cultural story. Big Star made three albums that describe a linear plummet in professionalism and commerciality, and, some argue, an ascending genius. The first, #1 Record, can be said to have created power pop a solid 15 years before we were ready for it. While Chilton (previously of the Box Tops) was the band’s celebrity, the other songwriter/ guitarist Chris Bell masterminded #1 Record and accounts for its singularity in the Big Star catalogue, for Bell left the band shortly thereafter. The unspoken

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July 3, 2014 and almost unbearable tragedy running throughout Nothing Can Hurt Me is that Chris Bell, a talented and troubled young man in dire need of the affirmation, was the one member of the band who did not live to witness Big Star’s delayed success and his own extravagant vindication. Chilton is legendary for his demurring attitude toward fame and attention. Just a little superfluous overflow might have been enough to save Chris Bell, who died in a car crash in 1978. The second record, Radio City, is a more casual and shambolic affair, but one that contains perhaps Chilton’s strongest set of songs top to bottom and his most swaggering, articulate Stratocaster playing ever. It is in some ways the exemplar for the indie guitar pop genre that bloomed in the ‘90s and tapers into the present. On their third record – the one with two titles, half-finished songs, sweet melodies lost amidst grotesquely deformed, palpably druggy mixes and some genuinely disturbed lyrics – Big Star goes off the rails entirely, to the ongoing orgasmic delight of rock critics everywhere. Introducing the film and following with a question-and-answer session will be the film’s director Drew DeNicola, and the author of the just-published biography of Alex Chilton, Phoenicia’s Holly George-Warren. George-Warren will also be signing her book A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton (Viking, 2014). As for The Last Waltz, which shows on Sunday, July 6 at 4 p.m., I’ve never seen it. Hey, somebody has to ignore Moby Dick, The Godfather and the Bible. Let it be me. I hear that it is a pretty good film, but from the clips that I have seen/heard, the Band of ’76 simply couldn’t touch the brilliant Band of ’71; so I intend to keep on keeping my distance. Now, Stop Making Sense is one I was all in on, having seen the Talking Heads on that big-suit, lamp-dance Speaking in Tongues tour and having watched the film repeatedly. Considering it alongside another New York classic, Spalding Gray’s classic Swimming to Cambodia, Jonathan Demme emerges as perhaps the greatest documenter of live performance that we have. And his secret is that neither film feels at all like documentation; they feel like movies, stories somehow – every bit as much an immersive, alternative world as Terry Gilliam’s Brazil was in the same era. A discounted package of four tickets to any four films will be available for advance purchase online through Brown Paper Tickets at http://musicinvasion. brownpapertickets.com. Four films will cost $24. Rosendale Theatre Collective member tickets are still the best buy at only $5. – John Burdick Rosendale Theatre’s Music Invasion: A Hard Day’s Night, Friday, July 4, 7:15 p.m., Saturday, July 5, 10 p.m., Monday, July 7, 7:15 p.m., Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Saturday, July 5, 7:15 p.m., The Last Waltz, Sunday, July 6, 4 p.m., Stop Making Sense, Sunday, July 6, 7:15 p.m., Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale.

Golden Grass, INNIS headline Smashcrashbash at Hudson’s Half Moon this Saturday

ALMANAC WEEKLY fine. Wide: Almost any genre qualifies –from blues and squawk jazz to metal, punk, hardcore, garage, psych and soul – as long as certain basic standards of wattage and decibelity are met. Pretty much only Iron and Wine is disqualified (shame, that, as Sam Beam is raw and pure in his own quiet way – let the beard do the screaming, brother! – but the primal yowl of confessional folk is well-represented down the street at the Spotty Dog anyway). Fine: Aaron is…well, unerring in his ability to separate the genuinely raw, primal, visceral, unschooled, yowling and cathartic from the posing pack, the real wolves, regardless of genre. Consider July 5’s Smashcrashbash #9 lineup. The Golden Grass (pictured above) are a pure contemporary anomaly: an unapologetic ’70s c*ck r*ck band who sing “Easy Ridin’ Woman” over a 124 BPM half-time pocket with utterly committed, fuzzed-out riffage that would do Mick

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McPhee proud. They cite Cactus as a prime influence. (You don’t remember Cactus; you probably do remember the rhythm section’s previous project, Vanilla Fudge.) The Golden Grass are punishing and, in their own way, pristine. Their premetal, historical hard rock concoction would smack of academic calculation, were it not so obviously joyous and genuine. It kills live and is surprisingly satisfying on record.

Paired with this retro delight is New Paltz’s It’s Not Night; It’s Space (INNIS), a dark psych band who believe that nothing less than a total trance state is quite worth the effort. This instrumental trio has been dogged in the pursuit of hypnotic rapture since 2010. Loud, heavy, generally slowtempo, strangely serene and enveloping, INNIS’ adeptness got them signed to Small Stone records. They’ve since become the curators and the flagship act of the Hudson Valley Psych Fest, an event modeled after the famous Austin Psych Fest – at which the Golden Grass performed this year. Let’s run it again. – John Burdick Smashcrashbash #9 with Golden Grass, It’s Not Night; It’s Space & deejays Magic Stranger & Sean McDevitt, Saturday, July 5, 9 p.m., Half Moon, 48 Front Street, Hudson; http://thehalfmoonhudson.com.

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Belleayre Festival Orchestra Performs the Music of Queen this Saturday Blues great Buddy Guy and five nights of top-flight jazz shows are among the highlights of the 2014 season at the Belleayre Music Festival in Highmount. The new season presents one of Belleayre’s most diverse lineups, beginning on Saturday, July 5 with “The Belleayre Festival Orchestra Performs the Music of Queen: A Rock Symphony” featuring conductor Brent Havens, vocalist Brody Dolyniuk and a full rock band. On Saturday, July 12, 8 p.m. Rock Hall of Famer Buddy Guy headlines the Belleayre Blues Show. Tickets for all shows go on sale via Ticketmaster. For the full lineup and additional information, please visit http:// belleayremusic.org. Belleayre Mountain is located just off Route 28, 37 miles west of Thruway Exit 19 at Kingston.

Crosby, Stills & Nash return to Bethel Woods on Saturday

Members of the Hollies, the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, their first show together was at a little venue called the Woodstock Festival, and ever since they have stood as the quintessential American folk/rock vocal group (albeit a third British and,

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Mouth music Gardiner Library hosts jazz harmonic virtuoso William Galison this Saturday

n recent decades, we’ve tended to think of the harmonica mainly as a blues instrument. But there was a time when harmonicaplayers were treated with a lot more respect. Woodstock music veteran John Sebastian has long used the blues harp as accompaniment to his singing and guitar-playing, but his father – also named John – played harmonica in concert halls with philharmonic orchestras. During the 1930s, classical composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin wrote major works specifically for the instrument, to be played on stages all over the world by virtuosi like Larry Adler. William Galison While rock bands were appropriating blues styles and instruments including the harp in the 1970s, a couple of other, more experimental strands of harmonica work were moving forward under the radar. In America, Howard Levy, one of the founding members of the Flecktones, figured out how to play a diatonic harp chromatically using a technique called “overblowing,” inspiring a new generation to stretch the bounds of what the instrument can do. And in Europe and South America, a bunch of jazz musicians were adapting the harmonica to their own style of performance. Toots Thielemans, a Belgian who just retired from the music scene a few months ago at the age of 92, was the most famous of the jazz musicians who mastered the mouth harp, and many regard him as the greatest chromatic harmonica-player ever. Even if you don’t listen to jazz, you know his work: That was his harp on the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, and he recorded the iconic original version of the Sesame Street theme. Thielemans performed and recorded widely and influenced a lot of younger players. One of his most ardent and accomplished disciples is a guy named William Galison – so accomplished, in fact, that the folks at Children’s Television Workshop turned to him when they wanted to cut a fresh version of the theme song for Sesame Street. He has performed and recorded with musicians as diverse as Jaco Pastorius, Carly Simon, Sting, Barbra Streisand, Donald Fagen, Peggy Lee, Chaka Khan, Astrud Gilberto, Ruth Brown, John Gorka, Ivan Neville and Dar Williams. He was also romantically involved with Madeleine Peyroux and recorded an album with her in 2003, Got You on My Mind, that spent a lot of time in legal limbo after an acrimonious breakup. Galison can play in any style imaginable, but leans toward the jazz end of the spectrum, often with a Brazilian flavor. Thielemans himself dubbed Galison “the most original and individual of the new generation of harmonica players.” Now, does this sound like the sort of person you’d get a chance to hear perform at the Gardiner Library? Think again. He’ll be there this Saturday, July 5, beginning at 7:30 p.m. It’s the first in a new ongoing program called the Gardiner Community Concert Series that will turn the library into an intimate listening room on the first Saturday of each month. These gatherings will kick off at 6 p.m. with a potluck dinner, followed by an open mic at 6:45, with the featured performer taking the “stage” at 7:30. The concert with William Galison on July 5 will be followed by Carla Ulbricht on August 2, the Black Horse Riders on September 6 and Hudson Valley Sally on November 1. For more information, visit www.gardinerlibrary.org/gardiner. – Frances Marion Platt William Galison in concert, Saturday, July 5, 7:30 p.m., free, Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers’ Turnpike, Gardiner; (845) 2551255, www.gardinerlibrary.org/gardiner.

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classics (“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” et cetera) upon which their reputation is mostly based. In this, the era of folk revival, with bands like the Fleet Foxes echoing their soaring harmonies, CSN don’t even depend on Y for cultural cachet anymore. Theirs is a unique

and defining achievement in folk/rock history. And they’re still at it, returning to the site of their first performance on Saturday, July 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Tickets cost $47.50, $68 and $88 for reserved seating and $33.50 for general admission

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when joined by “Y,” a quarter Canadian as well). They’re known for their harmonies as well as for their many hits: the quaint sweetness of Nash songs like “Marrakesh Express,” Crosby’s art songs such as “Guinevere” and Stephen Stills’s many weight-bearing

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July 19 at 8:00 p.m. Lionized by the New York Timess as “quite simply an amazing pianist,” Feltsman performs a powerhouse program that celebrates Schumann.

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Big Takeover plays Snug Harbor in New Paltz this Saturday Every musician knows the deal with hometown shows: They are often (usually) the loosest, hottest, longest, sweatiest and most fun shows on schedule. In New Paltz, that often means Snug Harbor: the last bar before the river and one of the wildest scenes on the street. Still touring in support of Children of the Rhythm, the Big Takeover have taken their globally tuned reggae sound far and wide, but bring it home to Snugâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Saturday, July 5 at 10 p.m. Snug Harbor is located at 38 Main Street in New Paltz.

formed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Late Night with Letterman. Justin Townes Earle, with special guest Sean Rowe, performs at BSP in Kingston on Saturday, July 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 the day of the show, and are available locally (cash only) at Outdated in Kingston, Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rhythms in New Paltz, Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, and the Woodstock Music Shop. For more information, visit www. bspkingston.com.

Marilyn Crispell frontsÂ Tisziji MuĂąoz Quartet this Saturday at Falcon in Marlboro

Justin Townes Earle plays BSP in Kingston this Saturday

directly to the performers. MuĂąoz (above) was a leader in the development of Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underground music scene. As a guitarist in the musicals Hair and Godspell, he met and inspired keyboard player Paul Shaffer, who became the guitaristâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary accompanist from 1970 to 1972. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody plays guitar the way Tisziji MuĂąoz does,â&#x20AC;? said Shaffer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is very spiritual, and as a guitar player he swings wild.â&#x20AC;? Crispell was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. She has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist and with players on the American and international jazz scene, working with dancers, poets, filmmakers and visual artists and teaching workshops in improvisation. Fields is currently finishing his debut recording, Extraordinary Light, a stylistic homogeny of Harry Nilsson, the Beatles, Curtis Mayfield and Lowell George. The tone of the album is set with Swede, a John Lennon Songwriting Award-winner. Woodstock-based singer/songwriter Reju has her own brand of indie-folk/retrorock with a strong, clear voice reminiscent of Patsy Cline and old-soul quality songs with contemporary hooks. Reju has released a five-song EP, Lucky Ones, and a full length LP, A Million Hearts. She has toured the US and Canada extensively. The Falcon is located at 1348 Route

9W in Marlboro. For more information, call (845) 236-7970 or visit www. liveatthefalcon.com.

Free shows Thursday nights in Kingston StartingÂ July 10, BSP in Kingston will host a free show every Thursday night featuring two up-and-coming indie-rock acts. The night is intended to expose great young national and international acts to the Hudson Valley and to pair them with the Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own thriving, if underexposed, indie and experimental scene. Given BSPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent track record (acts like Lucius, Mac Demarco and Future Islands have blown up since appearances at this small-to-mid-sized club in the last year), we can expect to catch some future indie stars just a short while before everybody is talking about them. On July 10, Mitski from Brooklyn performs. On July 17, it is Binghamtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Underground River. July 24 delivers the Brazilian indie-pop songwriter Barbara Eugenia. Savannah, Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casket Girls finish off the first month of free shows on July 31. All shows are 18+ and begin at 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.bspkingston.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; John Burdick

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Roots royalty progeny Justin Townes Earle is the son of one American outlaw bard (Steve Earle) and the namesake of another (Townes Van Zandt). Justin has been making his own name in the Americana scene for quite some years. He has won numerous songwriting awards and per-

The Falcon in Marlboro will host the Tisziji MuĂąoz Quartet featuring Marilyn Crispell on Friday, July 4. The following evening, the club will host a split bill featuring Ben Fields and Adrien Reju on Saturday, July 5. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and shows start at 7. As always, there is no cover charge at the Falcon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;just a grave injunction to support living artists and donate generously.â&#x20AC;? Tips left will go

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music Almanac Weekly’s 2014 map of the musical terrain of the mid-Hudson Valley

n the opinion of this writer, this moment is in some respects the best time ever in the history of the mid-Hudson Valley music scene: more original acts than ever and of greater variety; more local involvement from the many music professionals who live in these hills; and perhaps most importantly, more committed venues of all shapes, sizes and aesthetics. Venues come and go. In fact, they “go” so easily, and often at such cost, that one wonders what would make anyone want to get involved in the first place. Must be the love of live music and the temporary, for-tonight-only families that shows engender. Our big theaters continue to challenge, serve and surprise; our restaurants and cafés privilege music as something more than a digestive aid. Mid-sized nationalcircuit clubs – which always rely on local talent as well – have staked their claim in several of our cities and towns: Kingston, Hudson, Marlboro and Beacon. And as all manner of cramped-quarters, public and ad hoc performance spaces prove, all it takes to make a space a venue is imagination – and an audience. That’s where you come in. Here is your by-no-means-comprehensive map of the terrain. Since the original publication of

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this roundup in 2013, numerous venues have sprung up in the region and only a handful have fallen (this update adds 23 venues and subtracts only four). The majority of the growth seems to be happening at what might be called the ultra-hip bookends of the Mid-Hudson Valley – Beacon to the south and Hudson to the north – but the landscape has changed in between as well.

The Falcon 1391 Route 9W, Marlboro The Falcon is Tony Falco’s labor of love, a thriving jazz-and-more club that grew entirely out of the owner’s love of serious jazz and his many connections in that world. Heavies on the order of Brad Mehldau and Dave Liebman play here regularly, and the roster is filled out by a handpicked as-

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sortment of local notables, established names and up-and-comers, mostly from the New York City jazz, blues, funk, world and roots music scenes. This by-donation-only listening space and restaurant is one of the Valley’s greatest musical treasures, and certainly its most unlikely. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon. com. Brothers BBQ 2402 Route 32, New Windsor Brothers BBQ in New Windsor has entered the live music scene with purpose and a bit of an attitude, specializing in the edgy blues, soul, roots rock, jazz and fusion in which Orange County is surprisingly rich. Orange County’s veritable army of gifted blues and blues/rock guitarists is featured frequently here, in this nicely outfitted live room with a small-but-professional stage and a nice sound rig. And there’s barbecue, which most people like. There’s an open mic every Wednesday night, with local and national acts on the weekends. Call (845) 534-4227 or visit www.thebrothersbarbecue.com. The Wherehouse 119 Liberty Street, Newburgh Wherehouse owner Dan Brown displayed some serious pioneer spirit when he founded a rock and blues club on the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street in Newburgh. The former professional bodyguard (whose charges included Jimmy Page and on

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shows and host intimate music performances in the stylish front of their computer shop on North Front Street. Botton and Macaluso are active local musicians as well. Call (845) 4434866 or visit www.tech-smiths.com/ anvil-gallery.

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Keegan Ales 20 St. James Street, Kingston Kingston’s own happening microbrewery is also a well-established music venue that offers mostly good tunes to drink by: original rock and blues, funk and roots and occasional visits from some Woodstock-scene luminaries like Pete Levin or his famous bass-playing brutha. It’s a raucous, generous, peanut-strewn scene with some good beer. Call (845) 331-2739 or visit www.keeganales.com.

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at least one occasion Michael Jackson, if the legend is true) is as eclectic in his booking as in his beer list. All of the region’s leading blues acts play here, as do all manner of high-energy rock acts. For more information, call (845) 561-7240 or visit www.thewherehouserestaurant.com. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge 311 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson 2 Alices Coffee lounge serves beer and wine, light fare and baked goods and a surprisingly diverse and adventurous variety of music. Most acts go it acoustic and stripped-down, but not all. Rock bands will squeeze in on occasion, as will electronic acts. The small and stylish venue in Cornwallon-Hudson enjoys a stable, loyal m usic audience, making it a favorite among local players in a variety of genres. The tidy sound system is another plus. The space doubles as an art gallery as well. Visit www.2alicescoffee.com. BSP 323 Wall Street, Kingston If you want to know what kind of perseverance, commitment and competence are required to make a serious alternative music club happen, look no further than the Lounge at Backstage Studio Productions, a/k/a BSP. This Uptown Kingston club has weathered a lot of difficulty to become what it is now – which is to say a stylish, vibey mid-sized venue with one of the best sound systems (and sound guys) around, and one of the most diverse-but-purposeful talent rosters as well: heavy on both the local and the national in perfectly paired bills. It

has had a great deal of success luring in the many professional acts who call the region home, from Rebecca Martin and Larry Grenadier to Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby, as well as tapping the New York City buzzsphere with such can’t-miss up-and-comers as Lucius and O’Death. Indie rock, alt/ country, electronica, primitivist blues and rock, sleaze punk, avant-garde and just about anything but classic rock and mainstream singer/songwriter play here regularly. BSP has quickly established itself as the seat of the Alternative in the Hudson Valley. For more information, call (845) 4815158 or visit http://bsplounge.com. The Anchor 744/746 Broadway, Kingston The Anchor has stabilized things on the site of Kingston’s former hard and wild rock institution the Basement. This burger restaurant, “gastropub” and event venue is fully committed to live music, featuring some of the punk, metal and devilbilly insanity that was the Basement’s specialty, but branching out widely from there to include all of the top local talents and touring acts as well. Call (845) 853-8124 or visit www.facebook.com/theanchorkingston. The Anvil Gallery at Tech Smiths 45 North Front Street, Kingston The very existence of the Anvil Gallery is a testament to the wildly eclectic interests and competencies of its proprietors, the husband-and-wife team of the writer Sari Botton and the computer technician Brian Macaluso. Now they fix computers, curate art

Ulster Performing Arts Center 601 Broadway, Kingston The 1,510-seat Ulster Perform-

ing Arts Center (UPAC) is a National Register property built in Kingston in 1927. It was acquired by the Bardavon in 2007, forming a powerful arts-andperformance alliance operating under the Bardavon name. UPAC presents topnotch music, dance, theater and classic films for diverse audiences, as well as extensive arts-based learning programs. For more information, call the box office at (845) 339-6088 or visit www.bardavon.org. The Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock The Bearsville Theater needs no introduction beyond the iconic Elliot Landy photographs that grace its walls: portraits not just of Bob Dylan and the Band, but of Dylan and the Band in Woodstock, in ’69, at the height of their creative powers (and their good looks). Welcome to Woodstock. But the Bearsville is not tyrannized by its own legacy. It is actually two venues in one: the theater proper, in which everyone from Bob Weir to Aimee Mann to Melanie to Matisyahu has played in the last year; and the lounge, a comfortably appointed, spacious and vibey club that hosts lots of the best local acts, as well as up-andcoming national performers. Courtesy of Robert Frazza and his excellent team of engineers, the sound is always topnotch in both spaces. Visit the Bearsville Theater at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock. For more information, call (845) 679-4406 or visit http://bearsvilletheater.com. The Barn at Levon Helm Studios 160 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock At Levon’s Barn studio, the Rambles roll on, as well as other programs, master classes and, of course, recording sessions. In an area with quite a few boutique small venues, this one might be the crown jewel. The Rambles are legendary both for their celebrity guests, the A-list house band and the intimacy and heightened vibe of the shows. The Ramble team is also to be commended for bringing the cream of the local talent in on the fun. Upcoming programs include more Rambles, a WDST-sponsored performance by Lake Street Dive and an evening with Amy Helm and her excellent band. Visit www.levonhelm.com.

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Mike Amari in front of BSP on Wall Street in uptown Kingston

Colony Café 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock Woodstock’s Colony Café is one of those rare venues worth going to just to see and hang out in the physical space. Events take place in the intimate setting of a ballroom built in 1929, featuring the original bar and 360-degree chestnut balcony. Nation-

al acts stop in frequently. The Woodstock scene does not want for its own major talents, of course, and these fill out the calendar. For more information, call (845) 679-8639 or visit www. colonycafewoodstock.com. Harmony Café 52 Mill Street, Woodstock Harmony Café at Wok ’n’ Roll in

Outside Team Love Ravenhouse Gallery on Church Street in downtown New Paltz. Team Love RavenHouse Gallery is a joint partnership of sorts between a boutique record store, record label and a gallery/performance space. Team Love also has something to do with New Paltz’s cozy Tin Roof Sessions.

Woodstock is all-in for live music, with music six nights a week, scheduled weekly events such as open-mic poetry (Mondays), music open mic (Wednesdays) and a dedicated Bluegrass Night on Thursday. All kinds of bands play on Fridays and Saturdays. It’s a small venue with a pass-the-hat flavor, but, being in Woodstock, the folks who come out to play tend to be folks who can really play. Check it out at 52 Mill Street in Woodstock. Call (845) 679-7760. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts 36 Tinker Street Woodstock Art galleries make natural performance spaces, and performance spaces make natural galleries. One of the more congenial for both purposes is the Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. The musical programming here is predictably adventurous: avant-garde jazz, new serious music and some Woodstock-flavored folk and roots sounds as well. The spacious performance area is only one of several galleries on-site, so a show at the Kleinert/James is always an edifying, multi-sensory experience. Call (845) 679-2079 or visit www.woodstockguild.org/performance. The Maverick 120 Maverick Road in Woodstock Woodstock’s Maverick Concert Series is celebrating 99 years as one of the most challenging and imaginative serious chamber music programs anywhere. In recent years, it has relaxed the definition of “serious” to include serious jazz and children’s music; but range and outsider, maverick thinking are Maverick’s calling card. Maverick Concerts continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the Maverick Art Colony. Artists and other volunteers built the hand-hewn “music chapel” in 1916, and the Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places. See the full concert schedule at www. maverickconcerts.org.

The Empire State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia is the site of approximately 12 intimate musical performances annually, produced by Flying Cat Music. The series presents national and touring acts in the roots/ Americana vein in the acoustically exquisite, dark-wood-paneled passenger waiting room of the Empire State Railway Museum. Built in 1899, the museum accommodates approximately 50 people for performances. Visit http://flyingcatmusic.com. Cue 136 Partition Street, Saugerties Cue in Saugerties is proof positive that it’s the commitment to music, not the physical space, that makes a venue. The authentic barbecue joint is a seasonal venue: On summer nights they roll a PA system out on to the gravel of the patio bar and some of the region’s best singer/songwriters play to the often-unsuspecting diners. For more information, call (845) 2464283 or visit www.cueshack.com. John Street Jam Dutch Arms Chapel at 16 John Street, Saugerties The regionally known John Street Jam takes a novel approach to live music, presenting acts in sets of eight songwriters on the second Saturday of every month in an intimate livingroom setting. For a mere $5, audience members get to sit within several feet of the performers. The setting lends it itself to close listening, storytelling and a heightened sense of musical community. Visit www.johnstreetjam. net. New World Home Cooking 1411 Route 212, Saugerties New World Home Cooking in Saugerties has been hosting live music for years. Its large, flexible space

July 3, 2014 has accommodated everything from Latin dance parties with Soñando to intimate evenings with veteran and beginner singer/songwriters. As with so many of the best local venues, the talent roster here is actively curated and tailored to the space and the vibe. Says music manager Sid Orlando, Chef Ric’s daughter, “The energy in the room is critical.” New World Home Cooking is located at 1411 Route 212 in Saugerties. Call (845) 246-0900 for more information or visit http://ricorlando.com/nwhc. Snug Harbor 36 Main Street, New Paltz New Paltz’s infamous rock dive bar is really no dive at all, but rather a warm, raucous, small music bar where the crowd is right up in the band’s face, but the band won’t turn down and the magic happens. Snug’s is not afraid of the harder end of rock, but, as with most college-town music bars, the roster is eclectic and surprising. For more information, call (845) 2560825 or check it out at www.facebook. com/snugharbornewpaltz. Bacchus 4 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz Bacchus Restaurant and Bar is a New Paltz institution that never did live music – just didn’t do it. It was the one bar in town that you could visit to converse at a comfortable level. Then one night the owners slid a pool table out of the way and found that they had a natural music club on their hands, and it has been a hopping music joint on the weekends ever since. Because of the length of the room and the height of the ceiling and the attached auxiliary spaces (a pool hall and a variety of decks and porches, including a heated patio), it remains the most conversation-friendly bar in town. Bacchus began as a rustic and roots-oriented venue, but that’s all out the window now. What plays here is, generally, the best that the town of New Paltz has to offer, from indie-rock to funk to psychedelic and bluegrass. For more information, call (845) 255-8636 or visit www.bacchusnewpaltz.com. Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz In its bright and airy multi-purpose performance and gallery space just outside of New Paltz, Unison has hosted years and years’ worth of adventurous programming: classical music, dance, cabaret, jazz, family acts and world music virtuosi, to name a few. Recent features include the Sunday Salon series, a program that combines performances with chats. For more information, call (845) 255-1559 or visit www.unisonarts.org. Water Street Market 10 Main Street, New Paltz The stylish, art-and-antiquelined downtown mini-mall was clearly designed to be a Mecca for tourists. Much to the surprise of everyone, it has also become a thriving cultural and congregational center for the community, using the lovely amphitheater on its south end for a summer Thursday concert series and a variety of other performances and events in all seasons. For more information call (845) 255-1403 or visit http://waterstreetmarket.com. Jordan’s Bistro & Pizzeria 52 Main Street, New Paltz Sometimes all it takes to make a venue is available floor space, some imagination and a good relationship with the kids on this street. This is how Jordan’s in New Paltz has made a big splash in the live music scene on a street that already has more than a few options. Jordan specializes in allages shows, which usually translates into: loud, fast, young and sweaty. But as the proprietors point out, Jordan’s

ALMANAC WEEKLY has featured its fair share of jazz and classic rock as well, and is open to all kinds of music. Unlike many small venues, Jordan’s even provides a serviceable small PA system. Call (845) 255-0096. Team Love RavenHouse Gallery 11 Church Street, New Paltz It is hard to say in a single utterance what Team Love RavenHouse Gallery actually is. It is a joint partnership of sorts between a boutique, national record store and record label (Team Love, co-founded by New Paltz’s Nate Krenkel and the famous songwriter Connor Oberst) and a gallery/performance space (RavenHouse) curated by Cornelia Calder. The physical location hosts frequent art shows, and they are often accompanied by live music performance, usually in a vein that you would broadly call “indie.” Team Love RavenHouse maintains open hours Friday through Sunday. Visit www.tl-rh.com. The Tin Roof Sessions New Paltz The brainchild of New Paltz-based musician Taylor Davis (Yard Sale) and Team Love Records owner Nate Krenkel, the Tin Roof Sessions converted Davis’ old stone garage in the

Village of New Paltz into a cozy venue for house concerts and listeningroom-type shows. Exploiting Krenkel’s industry connections (the label Team Love was co-founded by Connor Oberst of Bright Eyes), the Tin Roof Sessions have lured in a number of notable national performers despite the extreme intimacy of the space. From the outset, the pair’s goal was to document performances lovingly, in both audio and video, and make the sessions available online. So Tin Roof is both an active concert series and an archive. Shows happen on Sunday afternoons and always feature two acts, usually pairing a national act with a sympathetic local talent. For information on location and upcoming sessions, visit www.tinroofsessions.com/ about-tin-roof-sessions. Oasis Café 58 Main Street, New Paltz Oasis is New Paltz’s hot spot for nightly music. The molten, cavelike club features the full spectrum of rock, dance, funk, reggae and various groove musics, generally, but with plenty of college bands and weird stuff as well. Music is a chronic thing here. It starts late and goes late. Call (845) 255-2400 or visit http:// cabaloosa.com.

11 Grimaldi’s 119 Main Street, New Paltz When Grimaldi’s opened in New Paltz, the coal-fired pizzeria found itself the heir of a tidy little stage, sound and lighting rig: a vestige from when the former Italian delicatessen had briefly tried its hand as a piano bar. Grimaldi’s has not let the facility go to waste, experimenting both with dinner music, late-night bar scene shows and a truly hopping open mic on Tuesdays. Call (845) 256-5060 or visit www. grimaldisnewpaltz.com. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 200 Hurd Road, Bethel A museum, a next-gen amphitheater and a very, very important (and preserved) field: Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is every bit the Sullivan County anomaly that Yasgur’s Farm was in ’69. While the indoor/lawn Pavilion Stage draws the big acts and festivals in season, the Event Gallery hosts more intimate shows and programs year-round. Bethel Woods takes its mission as museum and community learning center seriously. On the website, a K-though-9 Creative Writing workshop receives the same level of billing as this summer’s Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bad Company concert. And even

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those among us who do not sentimentalize the ’60s or deify its celebrities can’t help but be wowed by the beautiful landscape and layout. It is a spectacular spread with some stunning structures. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is located at 200 Hurd Road in Bethel, on the site of the 1969 concert. For more information, call (866) 781-2922 or visit www. bethelwoodscenter.org. The Rosendale Café 434 Main Street, Rosendale The Rosendale Café set out with a clear musical and cultural agenda: to become a “listening space” venue for “national talent” with some limited provision for the local, such as Singer/ Songwriter Tuesdays. Easier said than done, but it has done it. The space is thoughtfully treated for sound, and the booking philosophy plays to the strengths of the room: intimate solo and small-ensemble performances, with an emphasis on singer/songwrit-

er and roots styles (alt/country artist Mary Gauthier is a frequent guest) and some surprisingly big-name swing, bluegrass and jazz (Ron Carter has played here, among others). Stop by the Café at 434 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, call (845) 658-9048 or visit www.rosendalecafe.com. Market Market 1 Madeleine Lane, Rosendale Not many aspiring restaurateurs would have looked at the former Rosendale greengrocer and seen in it the spectral outline of a happening Brooklyn-style music venue, but Jenifer Constantine and Trippy Thompson did. And as a result we have Market Market, the venue so misnamed that they had to misname it twice. It started with dinner music, but that didn’t last long. Next thing you knew, shoegaze, power pop, political punk, experimental sound collage and Brooklyn hootenanny were the order of the

day. These days, the Hudson Valley has a number of stable venues that defy the region’s roots-rock default and cater to indie, hipster eccentricity and cabaret theatricality, but mark it well: Market Market was there first. Of special note is the Tributon series. Every sixth Saturday, or thereabouts, local luminaries gather to pay tribute to (and make fun of ) a single famous artist or performer. On July 26, it is Led Zeppelin on the examination table. For more information, call (845) 658-3164 or visit www.marketmarketcafe.com. Bywater Bistro 419 Main Street, Rosendale There’s something fine and curatorial about Rosendale’s Bywater Bistro. It extends from the food to the garden, the craft beer list and the music. What is Bistro music? It’s mostly acoustic, mostly (though not exclusively) in roots and traditional styles and local: a complement to the rustic elegance of the environment. In this town, Market Market and the Rosendale Café grab most of the music headlines, but Bywater is fast becoming a favorite venue of area performers. Call (845) 6583210 or visit www.bywaterbistro.com. Hopped Up Café 2303 Lucas Turnpike, High Falls The Hopped Up Café is a new Valley venue offering farm-to-table food and a connoisseur’s craft beer and wine list. But live music was part of the original design, and Hopped Up is following through on that admirably, enlivening its intimate space with live acts on the weekends – tending toward the roots/organic, but with plenty of exceptions as well – and an open mic hosted by Kelly McNally of Rosendale’s the Virginia Wolves every second Thursday. For more information, call (845) 687-4750 or visit www. hoppedupcafe.com. The High Falls Café 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls Not long ago, the High Falls Café moved from its location on Route 213 to a comfortable new space at the Stone Dock Golf Course off Berme Road in High Falls. Its commitment to live music remains unfaltering, however, and commitment is the operative word. The Café is dedicated not only to a steady course of high-end blues, jazz and singer/songwriter-oriented folk and rock, but also to a very select set of the region’s leading and longest-running acts in these genres – like folk/blues maestros Jeff Entin and Bob Blum, who host the Second Friday Jams; singer/songwriter Kurt Henry, who hosts Acoustic Thursday; and of course Big Joe Fitz, who presents his Blues Party on the first and third Tuesday. For more information, and for lucid directions to the new location at Stone Dock, call (845) 6872699 or visit www.highfallscafe.com. The Chance

6 Crannell Street, Poughkeepsie From its days as the Last Chance Saloon – a music club with a Dixieland house band! – to its current incarnation as a mid-size club catering to hard rock, metal and modern alternative, the Chance has been one of the region’s premier venues for decades. For all of its sold-out shows by major artists in all genres and unannounced tour kickoff dates by legitimate superstars, the Chance may be known most of all for the date the Police played there during a blizzard early in their first American tour. Approximately 13,000 people claim to be among the seven in attendance that night. For more information, call (845) 471-1966 or visit www.thechancetheater.com. The Bardavon 1869 Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie A jewel of an old theater, the 944seat Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie has been a regional treasure since 1869. The Bardavon sports exactly the kind of eclectic calendar that a large venue requires to get by: everything from rock stars to orchestras to comedians and animal psychics. But the Bardavon has also shown some real imagination in its programming, with classic film nights and Live at the Met HD telecasts. For more information, call the box office at (845) 4732072 and visit www.bardavon.org. My Place Pizza 322 Main Street, Poughkeepsie “Since 1978 serving real New York pizza to the City of Poughkeepsie, Marist, Vassar and DCC and St. Francis/Vassar Hospitals,” says My Place Pizza on its Facebook page, adding, “and rock ’n’ roll since 2012.” In two years, My Place has developed a reputation as a band-friendly venue unafraid of the rock. My Place Pizza, like so many other repurposed venues, has discovered one of the secrets to packing the house: 18+. The kids are alright. Call (845) 473-2815. Pickwick Pub 698 Main Street, Poughkeepsie Family-owned and right smack in the middle of the city, the Pickwick Pub might sound like the place to go for some traditional jigs and reels, but a quick scan of the event schedule tells a different story: jam rock, metal, more metal, classic rock deejays, some steroidal punk and something called a Bikini Bike Wash. The Pickwick Pub knows the deal in Po-town and gets high marks from locals. The Pickwick books locals and touring nationals. Shows take place on Fridays and Saturdays, when the pub stays open until 2 a.m. Call (845) 232-5764. The Liberty Public House 6417 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck The charmingly cluttered Liberty Public House has made a splash in the local music scene lately, presenting everything from international folk band Caprice Rouge to experimental

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augerties will hold its Fourth of July Parade on Friday, July 4 at 11 a.m. on Washington Avenue. Lineup starts at 10 a.m. All veterans are invited to be part of the parade. They will ride in jeeps, cars or trucks of the World War II era and be announced as they pass the reviewing stand. All veterans’ posts, detachments or units of any kind from the surrounding counties are invited to march with their post colors. Korean veterans may choose to be part of a Korean War group or remain with their home post, and posts with members unable to march may bring a car for them to ride in. Any veteran or veterans’ organization interested in marching may e-mail Bob at rchappelle@hvc.rr.com or call (845) 246-7972. Indicate the number of marchers, riders and vehicles that will take part. Directions and details will be e-mailed in return where possible. The Cole Brothers Circus will present two shows at Cantine Field on Friday, July 4 at 2 and 5 p.m. The dynamic 130th-anniversary edition of the circus celebrates the greatest acts from circus history and the rising stars of today’s American circus. Elephants and acrobats along with tigers and teeterboard tumblers all take their turns in the spotlight. Mexico’s Angels in the Air leave audiences breathless as they soar high above the ring on the flying trapeze. Motorcycle daredevils risk life and limb at breakneck speeds in the ThunderDrome, with the zany Cole Brothers Clown Crew arriving in the nick of time to provide comic relief. The legendary Human Cannonball adds an explosive finish to every show. The Fourth of July performances will be followed later in the evening by ﬁreworks at 9:30 p.m. Tickets cost $16 to $28 for adults. Free tickets for children under age 13 are available at www.gotothecircus.com. A kickoff party for the Sawyer Motors Car Show, featuring live entertainment by the band Hot Rod, will take place at the corner of Main and Market Streets in Saugerties this Saturday, July 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. The Car Show itself will be held on Sunday, July 6 from 1 to 6 p.m. in the village of Saugerties on Main and Partition Streets, which will be closed to traffic. The rain-or-shine event features more than 500 classic and antique cars and hot rods along with live entertainment. Admission is free, and village shops and restaurants remain open. For more information, visit www.sawyermotorscarshow. com.

deejays. The Liberty features four distinct venues, an old-fashioned pub, the must-see Flag Room, the sultry Liberty Lounge with dance parties and live music and the Hudson River Boathouse. For more information, call (845) 876-1760 or visit http://libertyrhinebeck.com. Traghaven Whiskey Pub & Co. 66 Broadway, Tivoli Northern Dutchess lost a vital and eclectic (and Bard-centric) music outlet when the venerable Black Swan in Tivoli closed and efforts to revive it via crowdsourcing foundered; but good things return to those who wait. The Traghaven Whiskey Pub & Co. now features Irish music and hootenannies on Sundays, acoustic music

on Mondays and an eclectic mix on the weekends – though maybe not so much of the rock of the Black Swan years. Traghaven also claims a new and improved kitchen. And, in the great tradition of the Black Swan, Traghaven is the place to go to watch World Cup action among knowledgeable fans. Call (845) 757-3777 or visit www.traghaven.com. Club Helsinki 405 Columbia Street, Hudson Club Helsinki moved from Massachusetts to Hudson not long ago, upgrading its performance space significantly in the process, but also sealing Hudson’s incipient reputation as a music town to be reckoned with. Helsinki brings instant credibility. It

is a major mid-sized national-circuit club, built for sound from the ground up. It enjoys an already-established reputation, especially in the realm of Americana. Amidst the A-list folkies and singer/songwriters who play here practically nightly – Todd Snider, Tift Merritt and Aimee Mann – Club Helsinki has thrown a few curveballs in the last year: Magnetic Fields, Frank Black (of the Pixies), Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and more. So don’t write it off if banjos aren’t your thing. And this is another club worth a visit just to see the exceptionally cool space. For more information, call (518) 8284800 or visit http://helsinkihudson. com. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale 440 Warren Street, Hudson As the word “Ale” in its name ought to suggest, the Spotty Dog is not your typical bookstore. Situated in an old firehouse, the Spotty Dog caters to Hudson’s urban refugee population and (apologies to all) hipster tastes in its readings, its organic ales on tap, its art supplies and in the music that it slides some racks around to make room for. Many of the acts that appear here are experimentalists art-song writers imported from Brooklyn, including a number of big names over the years. It is the kind of bookstore where people will travel to play. Call (518) 671-6006 or visit www.thespottydog.com. The Half Moon 48 South Front Street, Hudson The Half Moon brings a bona fide, adventurous rock club to Hudson to fill the gaps between Club Helsinki and the many music-friendly restaurants and cafés in town. The club attracts national talent as well as locals. Monthly, the Half Moon is taken over by Smashcrashbash, a themed night of music featuring punk, garage, psych, old soul and general moon-howling curated by local music writer Peter Aaron. Call (518) 828-1562 or visit http://thehalfmoonhudson.com.

new facility right in the heart of Beacon. Phil Ciganer’s original folk, roots and jazz club was legendary: an oasis of world-renowned talent in an outof-the-way place. The new site does not disappoint. It is more spacious, at least as good in terms of sound quality and more convenient to most of us. The restaurant is outstanding as well. The Towne Crier continues to feature A-list Americana talent, and the hundreds of signed portraits on its walls keep its storied legacy front-of-mind. Call (845) 855-1300 or visit www. townecrier.com.

Basilica Hudson 110 South Front Street, Hudson Basilica has been making news with its concerts, art exhibits and general multimedia happenings since 2010. The facility itself is a stunning reclaimed 19th-century factory located mere steps from the Hudson Amtrak station. Basilica’s bona fides can be traced to its artistic directors, filmmaker Tony Stone and musician Melissa Auf der Maur. Late this summer, Basilica offers up its weekend Soundscape festival, headlined by Swans. Call (518) 822-1050 or visit http:// basilicahudson.com.

Quinn’s 330 Main Street, Beacon Main Street Beacon was already a happening stretch with the Howland, the relocated Towne Crier, Dogwood and a variety of gallery and dinner performance spaces along its length. Now Quinn’s, an ultra-hip repurposed luncheonette, brings all manner of indie and outré music to one of the Hudson Valley’s liveliest strips. Quinn’s excellent sound system pipes everything from avant-garde jazz to indie slacker rock, punk and even some standard-fare upstate blues and rock. But Quinn’s specializes in the kind of acts that you are liable to find at BSP in Kingston or Market Market in Rosendale: smart, subversive, different, new. Call (845) 202-7447 or visit http://quinnsbeacon.com. – John Burdick

Towne Crier Café 379 Main Street, Beacon When venerable venues close their doors, one often hears hopeful promises of new digs and new golden eras, but they seldom materialize. Not so with the Towne Crier, formerly in Pawling, currently in a custom-built

The Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon The former Howland Library has stood at 477 Main Street in Beacon for over 135 years. The airy, high-ceilinged main room now hosts a great variety of music, from folk/rock to classical, and is so renowned for its fine acoustical properties that a number of rock, folk and classical records have been recorded in its vaunted space. The Howland Chamber Music Circle, art exhibits, programs for children, films, poetry readings and open-mic nights fill out the schedule in one of the Hudson Valley’s most pristine listening environments. Call (845) 8314988 or visit www.howlandculturalcenter.org. Dogwood Bar & Grill 47 East Main Street, Beacon A nice casual restaurant with a separate music room, Dogwood is literally on the other side of the tracks – in the lightly developed area of East Beacon – but only a jog from the galleries and shops of the main strip. Dogwood’s tastes in music are in keeping with Beacon’s growing reputation for quirky urban sophistication: Everything from experimental jazz to Americana plays here. Typically, Wednesdays and Thursdays are music nights and Tuesdays are open mics, though lately there have been some weekend bookings as well. Call (845) 202-7500 or visit www.dogwoodbar.com.

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Scenic Hudson was formed in 1963 during a fight to stop the destruction of Storm King Mountain in Orange County. This battle is credited with launching the modern grassroots environmental movement.

ON THE WATERFRONT Ned Sullivan looks back on his 15 years as Scenic Hudson executive director

cenic Hudson’s string of parks, located up and down the Hudson River, have become interwoven with the lives of many of us who live in the Hudson Valley: places we regularly go to hike, walk our dogs, launch a kayak or simply enjoy the splendid views of the river. Free to the public, easily accessible by car and, in a few cases, by train, they contribute immeasurably to our sense of place and quality of life. Since its founding in 1963, the Poughkeepsie-based organization has preserved more than 30,000 acres of land. Since Ned Sullivan became president of the organization in 1999, Scenic Hudson has stepped up its land acquisition program and worked closely with communities to incorporate open space in new developments and plan for rising sea level caused by climate change. Scenic Hudson has lobbied for a clean environment, played a pivotal role in the creation of the Walkway over the Hudson and Dia:Beacon. It has also been instrumental in saving local farmland

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– an initiative that has expanded its jurisdiction east into Dutchess and Columbia Counties and includes the preservation of 12,400 acres spanning 86 family farms. It has accomplished much of this work by forming coalitions with other organizations and by reaching out to the business community. Sullivan, who was born in Yonkers, got involved in e nv i r o n m e n t a l work as a student at Williams College. He earned two graduate degrees at Yale, one in Environmental Science and the other in Business, and his first job was at a bank helping finance renewable energy projects (he simultaneously developed a financial strategy for cleaning up Boston Harbor). He was the deputy commissioner in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, overseeing the cleanup of hazardous waste, before becoming the environmental commissioner for Maine. Under his leadership, Scenic Hudson has earned several awards, including the Land Trust Alliance’s National Land Trust Excellence Award. Sullivan himself was the recipient of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Distinguished Service Award. Almanac Weekly’s Lynn Woods recently interviewed Sullivan. ***

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Almanac Weekly: In your Saving the Land that Matters Most campaign, launched in 2007, you pledged to save 65,000 acres of land. How do you decide which parcels to protect? Ned Sullivan: Through Saving the Land that Matters, we’re protecting roughly 1,000 acres of farmland a year. We view our mission broadly and have now identified all 11 counties of the Hudson Valley as places where we want to work with fellow land trusts to help them preserve farms in their communities. Forming partnerships is the most important aspect of our work across the board. It’s highly strategic. The Department of State administers the Coastal Management Program and has mapped the areas that meet their highest standards. We’ve taken those maps and created an overview. We also have taken public viewpoints – whether it’s the parade ground at West Point or the Shaupeneak Ridge – and asked, “Do people look out and see a beautiful vista?” We also look at ecological occurrence: whether there’s a particular habitat for rare and endangered species. Criteria overlap results in the ranking of a property. The ones we are targeting meet the criteria and are larger than 50 acres, in private hands and unprotected. We’re very successful, and build on our past successes. We often look to expand state parkland. For example, we purchased and sold to the state a parcel immediately

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The foundation of the Hudson Valley economy is beauty. property is essential for us to create a gateway area with stunning views that will provide parking for the park we’ll create at Esopus Lakes. You already have several parks in Esopus, along the river south of Kingston: Esopus Meadows, Black Creek Forest Preserve and Shaupeneak Ridge. Our vision is for that whole area of Ulster County to become an ecotourism destination, so people would be able to hike and mountain bike in the area, plus kayak on the river and portions of Black Creek. We’re creating this continuous landscape-scale conservancy, which builds on the John Burroughs Association’s Slabsides and

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Can you name one of Scenic Hudson’s hidden jewels? Falling Waters Preserve in Saugerties is our best-kept secret. Scenic Hudson currently has a conservation easement agreement with the Dominican Sisters, who own the property.

Before coming to Scenic Hudson, you had experience not just in conservation management but also in business, and in 2011 Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed you on his regional Economic Development Council. What is the business case for preserving viewsheds and lands along the Hudson? The foundation of the Hudson Valley economy is beauty. Access to the river is a quality-of-life issue. That’s true for tourism, which is a $4.8 bil-

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What’s your favorite Scenic Hudson park? I love Poets’ Walk. It’s always an inspiration, and I was there last weekend with out-of-town family members.

How has Scenic Hudson’s role evolved since you joined the organization 15 years ago? We constantly evolve to be proactive in creating parks and preserving key resources and assets of the Hudson Valley. We were founded 50 years ago to protect Storm King Mountain from a proposed power plant: a seminal campaign that’s credited with launching the modern grassroots environmental movement. As each threat arises, we help bring expertise and resources to bear.

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starts at Esopus Lakes. It would tie into the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail along Route 299 and to the Walkway over the Hudson. South of Black Creek, there’s a mountain that rises above the Town of Lloyd, and we’ve worked with Fats in the Cats Bike Club, which has made bike trails up the mountain. Recently, I was giving a tour to the Land Trust Alliance – a national organization representing land trusts – and talking about how we’re linking together our cities, train stations and preserved lands. I was talking about this on the Walkway over the Hudson, and along comes a guy with a bike pulling a little trailer with a kayak on the back. He had parked in Poughkeepsie and was planning to hike, bike and kayak his way up the other side of the river, just the way I had envisioned. Another one of our goals is to create trails. In Hyde Park we’ve worked with the National Park Service and other groups to create a trail from FDR’s home to Vanderbilt Mansion and Mills Mansion at Norrie Park.

lion industry in the region and employs more than 80,000 people a year. In addition, we’ve seen statistics that demonstrate when CEOs and real estate brokers around the country are thinking about good locations for job creation, what they associate with the Hudson Valley is beauty, ac-

cess to parks and quality of life. That’s what attracts business leaders to move here with their families and potential workforce, or to stay in the area. I was a founding board member of the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation, which markets the region around the country for job cre-

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ation, and we found that’s the basis for the council’s success in bringing tens of millions of dollars into the Valley. One example of where we see synergies is with Metro-North. So many of our parks are located right at the waterfront next to Metro-North train stations, and when [county tourism offices] are putting together their brochures and selling packages to visitors to the region, they include a map of our parks and their proximity to the train stops. It makes sense for them to market with us, and it’s a win/win.

we would have an electrical energy system that relies to the most extent possible on solar energy and efficiency. We’re working to be part of this solution. Most of the major fisheries have been closed on the Hudson River due to collapse of the fish populations, and sewage contamination of the water, particularly in the tributaries, continues to be an issue. What is Scenic Hudson doing about clean water? There are a number of different ways to engage in water quality issues. One is that we’ve been working for decades on all the power plants and trying to get them to use state-of-the-art cooling technology, which would minimize the damage those plants have on the river in terms of thermal pollution and killing fish. We are collaborating with Riverkeeper and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in trying to force the Indian Point nuclear plant to utilize the proven technology that would reduce use of Hudson River water by more than 90 percent. [Indian Point owner] Entergy continues to stonewall everyone on that. After years of effort, we now have joined with Governor Cuomo and Riverkeeper and called for the plant to be denied its permit.

Because of the weak economy, the midHudson Valley isn’t seeing a lot of development pressure, but this could change in the future. Are you concerned about this? We’re trying to put in place the green infrastructure, so as the inevitable population pressure increases, the parks will already be there. We’re planning around sea level rise, so development will occur in the right places. We can’t control population growth, but there are buffers there to preserve this quality of life and make the cities vibrant centers of culture, recreation and places people can come to on the train. Is land preservation an easier sell now than it used to be? Our case is gaining strength. The Dutchess Regional Chamber of Commerce and [president/CEO] Charlie North is a great example. He views us a partner, not as an adversary; but he did not always. The Chamber gave Scenic Hudson an award for its contribution to the quality of life in the Valley and to the regional economy. This never would have happened a decade or two ago; there’s been a sea-change in our relationship. Charlie and I coauthored an op/ed in the Poughkeepsie Journal commenting on certain aspects of the county executive’s State of the State address concerning jobs and protecting the region’s quality of life. It’s an example of the progress we’re making by collaborating with other environmental groups and also business leaders. Do you think developers are changing their mindset as well? Certainly there are developments that don’t meet the criteria we have established. To help provide guidance, we have published an illustrated guide to Hudson riverfronts. Each chapter in that guide has a section addressing climate change and sea level rise, the risk it poses and how communities can begin planning for that, so their infrastructure is protected and they don’t plan new development in areas that inevitably will be flooded. This is something Governor Cuomo has been championing after Hurricane Sandy. He clearly saw climate change is a fact, and that we need to start planning for future inundation and avoid building in areas that will be devastated by sealevel rise. We share that perspective, and have successfully collaborated with the City of Kingston and Mayor Shane Gallo. We are now doing the same thing in Piermont, which was absolutely devastated by Sandy, and in the Village of Catskill, putting into the hands of local officials maps and other tools to help them plan for the future. We’re doing this community-

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Besides climate change, what do think our biggest environmental challenge is now? Transportation of crude oil down the Hudson, which has seen a dramatic increase over the last two years. Safeguards should be in place for the transport of this very hazardous product through people’s back yards all the way down the Hudson; but along the river they haven’t been put into place, which means that these barges and trains are subjecting the Hudson to an unprecedented level of risk. We’ve been holding forums around the Valley to alert people to this and make sure communities are aware. We’ve asked Governor Cuomo to strengthen the spillprevention and response capacities at the state level, and the governor has called on the federal government to address this risk by strengthening the regulations, particularly regarding rail transport. We’ve written to the Secretary of Transportation and asked him to accelerate this for rail transport of crude oil, which is very hazardous, as we’ve seen in Lynchburg, Virginia and in Quebec, where [because of a disastrous derailment] 47 people died. Scenic Hudson has also been fighting the

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proposed electrical transmission lines through Dutchess County. The Cuomo Administration’s new Energy Highway is designed to relieve congestion in the lines from western and central New York to Pleasant Valley. Three out of four proposals entail building new utility corridors through the heart of farmland in the Hudson Valley: areas we’ve been working on 15 years to preserve. We had a leadership role in forming the Hudson River Smart Energy Coalition to advocate for new transmission lines through the existing right-of-way and to be buried underground wherever possible – and also that we use technology to conserve energy and make the lines more efficient, as well as use locally-generated power. We’re asking the New York Public Service Commission to reassess this plan and emphasize these 21 st-century solutions. Governor Cuomo in his State of the State address called for moving the transmission lines into the existing right-of-way. That’s great at the policy level, but putting that into the regulatory proceeding is proving to be challenging.

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You recently wrote a blog on the Huffington Post criticizing the New Capacity Zone, which is designed to attract more power plants to the Hudson Valley by upping our rates and supposedly fill a gap in our backup power capacity. You questioned whether there is actually a need for more plants. We don’t think there was a good public discussion about the capacity problem. There’s been no public discourse or public presentation of those numbers, so no opportunity to question and challenge them. There hasn’t been a public disclosure of the basis for the [New York State Independent Operator System’s] analysis. Ideally,

What do you like to do when you’re not at work? I love kayaking on the river. I enjoy launching my boat from the Tivoli waterfront into Tivoli Bays and paddling up to the Saugerties Lighthouse into the Esopus Creek to look at the waterfall. Because the river is tidal, you have to be up-to-date on whether the tide is coming in or going out. That rhythm of the river is something I love, and I often try to plan my trips going with the tide both ways. There seem to be a lot more kayaks on the river today than there were ten years ago. Kayaking has become very popular. It’s a great way to see the beauty of the Hudson, to take in the fresh air and sparkle of the water. Scenic Hudson’s parks offer great places to launch kayaks. Down in Beacon at Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, there is a kayak outfitter on the waterfront, on what was historically a contaminated site: a junkyard we reclaimed and turned into a beautiful place for families and young people to experience the river. The company, Mountain Tops Outfitters, manages the site and provides the kayaks and guides. We’re happy our park is sustaining a Main Street Beacon business. Do you ever take a break from the river? Not really. On a personal note, my wife Tara is deputy executive director of the New York State Bridge Authority. The organization is responsible for the six bridges over the Hudson, from Bear Mountain to the Rip Van Winkle, so our work is synergistic. What are you most proud of in assessing your 15 years at Scenic Hudson? Scenic Hudson is an outcome-oriented organization. We get things done. I’m very proud of the parks we’ve created, the farms we’ve preserved, the public access we’ve created to great places along the river. I’m equally proud of the collaborative spirit within the organization. Our staff is the best I’ve worked with in my entire career. It’s great partnering with them internally, as well as with public government officials at all levels, businesses and citizens. We know our continued success depends on having a shared vision with others in the Valley, and we think we’re good at helping identify that shared vision. Our supporters remain committed to our mission because they see the results.

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sed to be, not long ago, if you asked for a fancy cocktail in the Hudson Valley, you were screwdrivered. “Five, ten years ago you couldn’t get a cocktail only two hours north of Manhattan,” remembers Ethan Kelley of Dutch’s Spirits. “Something was getting lost in translation. Especially with all the farm-to-table food: We’ve got these amazing ingredients, and the bulk of places still can’t bang out a simple cocktail? We’re seeing that change, and that’s the exciting part.” If you’ve been waiting for the bar scene to catch up with the cuisine, get excited. The Hudson Valley Bartender Challenge, to be held on Sunday, July 27 at Rock and Rye Tavern in New Paltz, is the local cocktail connoisseur’s can’t-miss summer event. By invitation only, 12 of the area’s most innovative, educated bartenders will compete for First Place and associated bragging rights. Each will write a cocktail recipe showcasing a top-shelf spirit from a local distillery, assigned at random, and mix their drink before a judicial panel of industry all-stars. Admission is open to the 21+ public. A ticket gets you samples of each entrant’s elixir and a chance to vote for the People’s Choice Award. All proceeds will benefit the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. Cassie Fellet conceived of the event to help continue the development of a local cocktail community. “When people tell me that there’s no good place to get a good drink in the Hudson Valley, I think that’s absolute horsewash,” says Fellet, owner of Rock and Rye Tavern – and an excellent bartender to boot. “We want to showcase the restaurants and bars in the area that have a true culinary approach to their cocktail program, and the few bartenders out there that have picked up the torch and convinced the Powers that Be to let them run with it. I hope that with a little friendly competition, bosses will take more notice of their bar program and put more resources into it.” This year’s contestants include Kat Dunn of Fish and Game in Hudson, Kyle Kelley of Mill House Brewing Company in Poughkeepsie, Sally Rich of the Stissing

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in Manhattan before joining the Dutch’s Spirits team. As to what the judges may taste for in a winning drink, Kelley offers some insight: “One thing every cocktail has to have is balance. That’s like saying a car has to have four wheels. Things I’m personally attracted to are ease of production – if somebody’s going to make an amazing cocktail, it would be doubly amazing if that recipe could get floated around so other bartenders who aren’t as skilled could make it – and utilizing what’s available locally and seasonally.” He encourages contestants to “have some fun, throw some personality into it, smile a lot and make it quickly. You’ve got three very different judges, stylewise, and I don’t think we’re going to agree on a damn thing.” We can all agree that it’s an exciting time for local spirits. The Hudson Valley Bartender Challenge is sponsored by Black Dirt Distillery of Pine Island; Catskill

Distilling Company of Bethel; Coppersea Distilling of West Park, featuring New York Raw Rye; Dutch’s Spirits of Pine Plains, featuring New York Sugar Wash Moonshine; Finger Lakes Distilling Company of Burdett; Greenhook Ginsmiths of Greenhook, featuring Greenhook Gin; Hillrock Estate of Pine Plains, featuring Solera Aged Bourbon; Hudson Valley Distillers of Clermont; Millbrook Distillery of Stanfordville; the Noble Experiment of Brooklyn, featuring Owney’s Rum; and Tuthilltown Spirits of Gardiner, featuring Half Moon Gin. Most will host public tastings on event day. Matching the best in the business with ingredients like these guarantees good times and tipples. “You put a bunch of bartenders in a room, and it’s fun no matter what,” says Dunn. This is your best shot to rub elbows with your favorite bartender – or discover the one who’ll serve you right. “The best way to get a good drink isn’t to go in and read a cocktail menu. If you get to be a regular, your bartender will know what kind of cocktail you like and be able to turn you on to something you’ll absolutely adore. This competition is trying to set a benchmark of whom we think you should know,” says Fellet. “Find who you like; it’s your chance for them to come to you.” The Hudson Valley Bartender Challenge begins at 1 p.m. on Sunday, July 27 at Rock and Rye Tavern, located at 215 Huguenot Street in New Paltz. Tickets cost $30 in advance, $40 at the door, which include samples of all competition cocktails, and can be purchased online at www.rockandrye.com/hudsonvalley-bartender-challenge. For more information, call (845) 255-7888 or visit the Hudson Valley Bartender Challenge Facebook page. – Megan Labrise Read more about local cuisine and learn about new restaurants on Ulster Publishing’s www.DineHudsonValley.com or www.HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

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Love in the Wars to open at Bard SummerScape on July 10 The Bard SummerScape festival will feature the world premiere of Love in the Wars, an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s romantic drama Penthesilea by the Booker Prizewinning novelist John Banville. Representing a fresh and earthy take on Kleist’s original, Love in the Wars will be presented in two previews and eight performances between July 10 and 20 in Theater Two of the Fisher Center on Bard’s campus. Preview tickets cost $25 to $35 and performance tickets cost $25 to $50. As in previous years, SummerScape is keyed to the theme of the Bard Music Festival, now celebrating its 25th

anniversary season with an exploration of “Schubert and His World.” The German poet, dramatist and novelist Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) – Schubert’s close contemporary – is now recognized as an important north German dramatist of the Romantic movement, yet his work was all but forgotten until its early 20th-century rehabilitation by Rilke, Kafka and Thomas Mann. Kleist’s romantic drama Penthesilea, drawn loosely from Homer, recounts the meeting between its eponymous heroine, the Queen of the Amazons, and the Greek hero Achilles. The ferocity of her passion

collides with his stubborn will, setting in motion a tragicomedy of love and misunderstanding that threatens to derail the course of history. The performances star Obie Awardwinner Birgit Huppuch and One Life to Live’s Chris Stack. The production is the creation of Obie Award-winning director Ken Rus Schmoll. Set design is by Marsha Ginsberg, whose work has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Lighting is by Tyler Micoleau, sound by Leah Gelpe and costumes by Oana Botez, whose New York credits include productions at the

Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Public Theater. Karen Pittman plays the queen’s confidante Prothoe, Karen Kandel the Amazon high priestess and Stacey Yen the Amazon warrior Asteria. Chad Goodridge portrays Greek warrior Diomedes alongside KeiLyn Durrel Jones as the Greeks’ leader, Agamemnon. SummerScape theater performances are held in Theater Two in Bard’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry. For more information, call (845) 758-7900 or visit www.fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar.

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Enter the dragons Community Boathouse in Poughkeepsie hosts Dragon Boat Races & Asian Festival this Saturday

onsidering the way that the opening of the Hudson River Rowing Association Community Boathouse on the Poughkeepsie waterfront has pumped up local interest in human-powered competitive boating, converging with the fact that Arts Mid-Hudson’s Folk Arts program has been sponsoring an KOOL CAT PHOTOGRAPHY annual Asian Festival at Waryas Park for years now, it seems inevitable that said waterfront would eventually become a host site for the ancient sport of dragon boat racing. This year it happens for the first time, with the Dutchess Dragon Boat Races and Festival absorbing the Asian Festival activities and coinciding with the annual Dutchess County Balloon Festival. It takes place this Saturday, July 5 at the Community Boathouse from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., with the first race hitting the water at 9:30 a.m. Dragon boats are long, shallow, open watercraft, their prows and sterns decorated on race days with colorful, detachable dragon heads and tails. Traditionally their hulls have an unusual W-shape in cross-section, since they were originally built from three bundles of teak logs or bamboo poles; but modern craft can also have a flat-bottomed design and are sometimes made of lightweight carbon fiber or plastic resin rather than wood. They are propelled by seated, paired teams of paddlers who stroke to the beat of a drum. The drummer sits in the bow and faces backwards. There are no oarlocks except for the “sweep” or steering oar in the stern. The winning boat is the one whose crew succeeds in pulling a flag from a buoy at the end of the racecourse, whose length is most commonly 500 meters. So accuracy of steering is as important as speed in a dragon boat race, and strict synchrony more crucial than brawn. These races go back 25 centuries or more, originating in an annual religious festival associated with the Summer Solstice called Duanwu, meaning the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It was the time of year for planting the summer rice crop in south central China, and if you wanted adequate rainfall for a good crop, you needed to venerate the dragons properly. In that culture, dragons weren’t scary adversaries like in Western lore, but rather beneficent deities associated with bodies of water, clouds, mist and rain. Decorating boats to look like dragons and having teams from different villages race each other were considered pleasing to these supernatural helpers. Later, during a period in Chinese history characterized by warring city/states at the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the Duanwu festival became associated with the tale of a famous poet and courtier named Qu Yuan, who was exiled by the monarch of the state of Chu on the advice of Qu’s corrupt and jealous rivals. Upon learning of the impending overthrow of his homeland by Qin invaders – due at least in part to his king’s having ignored his advice – Qu despaired and committed suicide by throwing himself into a lake clinging to a big rock. According to legend, the common folk then took their boats out on the lake, beat drums, thrashed the water with paddles and

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Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia have become American hubs for the sport, and now it’s the Hudson Valley’s turn to climb on board.

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he 23 annual Dutchess 2349 South Road, the TEG Federal County Balloon Festival will Credit Union at 1 Commerce Street (includes free ice cream) or the Health take to the skies this holiday Quest corporate offices at 1351 Route 55 weekend. Several locations on in LaGrange. Schlathaus Park at 126 All the Poughkeepsie waterfront will offer Angels Hill Road in Wappingers Falls, prime viewing spots to see hot-air balGreig Farm at 223 Pitcher Lane in Red loonists from all over the country conHook and Migliorelli Farm at 245 Guski verge on our region to float en masse Road in Red Hook (the latter with a food above the Hudson River throughout truck and live music) the weekend. More will all launch two than 75 balloon A SPECIAL MOON GLOW balloons each, and takeoffs are schedlaunch is scheduled for Saturday, the Poughkeepsie uled from July 4 July 5 at the Vassar Alumnae House. Galleria will launch through July 6, The launch takes place after dark and four balloons. weather permitting. features a specially treated balloon Viewing is free, The next day, shining brightly against Saturday, July 5, all with costs covered the night sky as it rises. balloons in town by event sponsor the Dutchess County will dot the sky over Regional Chamber the Hudson River of Commerce. All of the launches are open by 6 a.m., taking off from the docks of to the public, and many feature extras like the Hudson River Rowing Association. food and beverages. The Walkway over the Hudson will be The festival begins on Friday, July 4 open early for guests seeking an elevated with a dozen evening launches scattered vantage point. throughout Dutchess County at 6 That evening, another round of 6 p.m. departures will take place from various p.m. To see a balloon launch from the ground up, visit the following locations sites before the festival comes to an in Poughkeepsie: the Mid-Hudson end on Sunday, July 6 at 6 a.m. with Regional Hospital of Westchester at 241 another mass launch at the Hudson North Road, the Lutheran Care Center at River Rowing Association Boathouse. 965 Dutchess Turnpike, Shadows on the Since hot-air balloons are sensitive to Hudson at 176 Rinaldi Boulevard, Sprout weather conditions, check the status of Creek Farm at 34 Lauer Road, Abilities all launches for last-minute changes in the First at 70 Overocker Road (includes schedule on the Chamber’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dutchesschamber. ice cream treats), the Cloud 9 Motel at

In addition, a special Moon Glow launch is scheduled for Saturday, July 5 at the Vassar Alumnae House. The launch takes place after dark and features a specially treated balloon shining brightly against the night sky as it rises. Those inspired by the colorful sight of so many hot-air balloons can take the experience a step further by making arrangements to go up in a balloon with a trained and certified professional pilot through Bill Hughes of Poughkeepsiebased Blue Sky Balloons. Hughes has been in the hot-air balloon business in the Hudson Valley for some 40-plus years now with a perfect safety record, and says that he’ll have plenty of balloons and Federal Aviation Administration-certified pilots available for hire during the festival. Morning flights just after sunrise take off from the boathouse outside Marist College and evening flights, prior to sunset, leave from a variety of destinations. The cost is $225 per person. For more information, including an informative virtual flight video that demonstrates how the balloons work, visit www. blueskyballoons.com or call (888) 9992461. When asked what he thinks the biggest misconception about hot-air balloon flights is, Hughes answers without

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who believes in Donna’s talent and minces no words about her dating choices – she gets her act together just enough to do the sensible, self-preservative thing when it comes to an unplanned pregnancy. (And because she lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, rather than in some red state or small backwater town, she doesn’ t even have to run a gantlet of protestors waving placards with lurid photos of aborted fetuses to get to the clinic.) What’s most refreshing is that the pregnancy and subsequent abortion are just the MacGuffin; they’re not what Obvious Child is really about. It’s about relationships both good and bad; about what it’s like to be in your 20s and creative and trying to make a living in a big city in tough financial times; about letting your parents be your allies again once you’re done with adolescence; about taking risks in your art and with your emotions; about learning from your mistakes and failures how to move forward with head held high. The whole cast is strong, but the most compelling reason to see this movie is Slate’s bravura performance. Hopefully after this she won’t be remembered primarily as “that female comedian who got kicked off Saturday Night Live for dropping the F-bomb,” but rather as an actress who can walk around wearing her character’s insides on her outside, raw and real and flawed and in-the-moment whether the character is happy or hurting. Though she does three standup comedy monologues in the course of the film, they’re her most studied, least funny moments. It’s in showing us how Donna grapples with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, plus the occasional moment of grace unlooked-for, that she

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– trusting, impulsive young hipster who deserves better gets dumped by cheating boyfriend, loses job, meets nice guy in a bar who isn’t really her “type,” drinks too much, goes home with him, experiences contraceptive failure – well, you know what happens: She realizes that the unhip guy is really good for her and decides against all reason to keep the baby. She “follows her heart,” and somehow they all live happily ever after. Well, guess what? Broke, late-20s wannabe comedian Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) is following her heart, too – only it doesn’t lead where the sentimental genre conventions insist that it ought to lead. When her pregnancy test comes up positive, she has just found out that the bookstore where she works is going out of business, and her standup performances in a tiny nightclub are too irregular to pay her share of the rent, let alone her lingering student loan debt. She has no health insurance. She’s not in a steady relationship. Her choice is obvious, and first-time director Gillian Robespierre doesn’t weigh it down with superfluous drama. Donna is more than a little flaky and capable of making really poor, emotiondriven decisions, like leaving hundreds of drunken messages on her caddish ex’s voicemail and loitering outside his apartment building door. But with the help of her two best friends – steady, supportive roommate Nellie (Gaby Hoffman), who has an abortion in her own past, and gay fellow comedian Joey (Gabe Liedman),

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uite a week at the Supreme Court, wasn’t it? Even though I’m blessedly beyond the age of having to worry about unwanted pregnancy, I’m still reeling from that one/two punch: first, a decision making it illegal for states to create buffer zones to protect clients of women’s health clinics (no matter what they’re there for) from being harassed and intimidated by anti-abortion activists; and second, a decision allowing family-owned businesses to impose their religious beliefs on their employees by refusing to provide them with health insurance plans that cover contraception for women (even while they cover vasectomies and Viagra for men). What was that you were saying about there being no such thing as a “war on women” going on in America today? One can only hope that these huge setbacks for women’s reproductive rights will serve as a wakeup call to all who take social progress for granted, and as a reminder that the people you elect as president will affect your life in myriad meaningful ways long after their terms have expired, as a result of their Supreme Court appointments. Meanwhile, if you’re feeling depressed, a cinema near you has just the timely tonic that you need: a winsome, subversive, funny little movie about a young woman who gets knocked up by a guy she barely knows and decides, without angst or guilt or hesitation, to avail herself of an abortion. And it’s no big deal. Yes, Obvious Child (co-produced, incidentally, by Joey Carey, son of Woodstock documentarian Tobe Carey) is a rom/com, but it’s not your mother’s rom/com. Usually in this sort of scenario

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Zoom: the animated universe How everything moves

y newest and most epic book was published this week by Little Brown. I have no shame: I hope you run out and buy ten copies. But I’ve got to tell you, I learned so many amazing things, I’m going to share bits and pieces of my new knowledge here on this page – probably for years. Nothing in the universe, small or large, is stationary. Everything moves. In many cases, the motion is as fascinating as the object itself. Right now, in early July, Earth moves at its slowest orbital speed of the year. We’ve been braking for six months. We’ve lost a whopping Mach 3 since Christmas. Meanwhile, our nearest celestial neighbor, the Moon, spins so slowly that a lunar jogger could keep the Sun from ever setting there. The second-closest body, Venus, boasts the most lethargic rotation in the known universe: a mere four miles per hour. By comparison, thanks to our planet’s spin, Kingston zooms along at the speed of sound. The result of two years’ work, Zoom is about natural motion, and the wild stories of the forgotten men and women who made brilliant or lucky discoveries – like the man who first figured out why the wind blows. Most of the stuff that I learned had nothing to do with astronomy, but was revelations about everyday phenomena: the speed of blood. How fast all that stuff in your intestines creeps along. How slow is molasses. How the north magnetic pole shifts farther north each hour by the length of a living room. And that relative to their size, bacteria can swim ten times faster than fish. Some germs can cross a kitchen counter in an hour. No wonder diseases spread. I loved exploring infinitely fast quantum phenomena, which can cross the entire universe in no time at all – and, on the other hand, seeing why distant galaxies seemingly racing at light-speed are actually just hanging out, receding solely because the empty space is expanding between us. Some revelations were old but still astounding, like cosmic rays. Why are these omnipresent incoming particles made almost entirely of heavy protons, when there are just as many electrons in the universe? No one has the slightest idea. And what about the wild genius who first invented motion pictures, before shooting his wife’s lover at pointblank range? Did you know that ocean waves arrive every eight seconds, on average, and generally match the speed of cars in moderate traffic? When reaching a shallowing seabed, a wave’s top starts moving faster than its base. Result: It rises and leans forward. When its height-to-wavelength reaches a 1:7 proportion, the wave cannot support itself, and it “breaks.”

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We often overlook one peculiar kind of motion. Astronomers have found that all celestial bodies spin on an axis while also moving forward. But in addition, everything vibrates. An entire research field called helioseismology probes the Sun’s rapid up-anddown pulsations. And not just faraway things: We may imagine that a compound like water ice, made of two hydrogen atoms bonded electrically to an oxygen atom, has a rigid structure. Not so: The atoms stretch away from each other a bit, and then snap back as if on a rubber band. At the same time, they twist around and then return to shape. They also rock back and forth like a metronome. Each of these repetitive atom motions of twisting, stretching, rocking and bending recurs with a precise period between one trillion and 100 trillion times a second. You’d think that this shaking would dampen out and stop; it never does. Superfast vibrations are happening all around us and inside us – everywhere. Even our thoughts involve speed, as they traverse the brain at 70 miles per hour. But other nerve signals lope along much more slowly – at just two feet per second. That’s why, when we stub our toe, there’s that agonizing delay of two or three seconds before we get the bad news. – Bob Berman

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colored glasses, neither is it a downer. Max (Jake Lacy), the new guy in Donna’s life, is a downright adorable, chipmunkcheeked Vermonter who is upfront about wanting grandchildren. His whitebread squareness may stick out like a sore thumb in Donna’s edgy downtown milieu – if you ever saw The Return of the Secaucus Seven, he may remind you of the character Dwight – but when his siphed-soled L. L. Bean boat mocs land in dog droppings on a Brooklyn sidewalk, Max’s sense of humor can handle it. And wonder of wonders, he seems genuinely to like women. We are left with some hope that children and grandchildren might indeed be one of the possible outcomes of this relationship experiment, even if this particular pregnancy wasn’t a keeper. Anyone who has ever been a floundering 20-something should be able to enjoy Obvious Child, so long as they aren’t doctrinaire opponents of abortion and can handle a fairly heavy dose of bodilyfunction humor (which somehow seems less self-indulgent and infantile coming from a woman than from, say, a male character in a Judd Apatow movie – but maybe that’s just me). In particular, any heterosexual woman who has ever stayed up into the wee hours with a college roommate talking about the absurdities of men, and how we “can’t live with ’em/ can’t live without ’em,” should be moved to stand up and cheer for poor, foolish,

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Schubert-themed Bard SummerScape Film Series opens Thursday The 2014 Bard SummerScape Film Series will consider the many ways in which Schubert’s music and early Romanticism have influenced international cinema. Some films make explicit use of particular pieces, ranging from the nuanced use of “Heidenröslein” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat to Michael Haneke’s Modernist treatment of the Winterreise song cycle and Roman Polanski’s psychologically charged repetition of the string quartet Death and

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the Maiden. Others reflect more generally upon the lingering effect of ideas and sensibilities rooted in the period marked by Schubert’s brief life. Films are screened in Bard’s Jim Ottaway, Jr. Film Center at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10. The schedule is as follows: Thursday, July 3: Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir, France, 1937 Sunday, July 6: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell and Pressburger, UK, 1943 Thursday, July 10: The Black Cat, Edgar Ulmer, US, 1934 Thursday, July 10: Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, Germany, 1922 Sunday, July 13: Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1944

Sunday, July 13: Waltzes from Vienna, Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1934 Thursday, July 17: Death and the Maiden, Roman Polanski, UK/US/France, 1994 Thursday, July 17: Gertrud, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1964 Sunday, July 20: The Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke, Austria/France/ Germany, 2001 Thursday, July 24: A Farewell to Arms, Frank Borzage, USA, 1932 (restored print) Sunday, July 27: Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick, US, 1957 Thursday, July 31: Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, West Germany/Peru, 1982 Sunday, August 3: From Merling to Sarajevo, Max Ophüls, France, 1940 Sunday, August 3: Werther, Max Ophüls, France, 1938

WOODSTOCK DIAMOND DANCE FESTIVAL One day only – JULY 18, 7 PM & Pre-performance Reception 6:45 PM Don’t miss: the best of Modern Dance in Woodstock Modern Dance Meets Visual Arts Where: Woodstock Diamond Sokolow Dance Theatre 1766 Glasco Turnpike near Woodstock Jewish Cong. When: Friday July 18, 6:45 Reception / 7 PM Show Tickets: $12. general admission/ $8. Child Reservation: 845) 679-7757 Parking: Next door at Stadri Sign company Handy Cap accessible entrance and parking. Dancers: Nina Deacon, Seira Kiyono, Lucija Stare, Adriana Savoy, Beth Woronoff

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MEYER LIEBERMAN WAS A WORLD WAR II VETERAN of the Coast Guard in both theaters of the war. He studied art with Reginald Marsh at the Arts Students’ League, developed his own upbeat, Pop-ish graphic style of work, moved to Woodstock in the mid-1970s and became a champion of art classes for seniors around the area, as well as one of the most upbeat people on the local arts scene. Norm Magnusson, set to speak about his unique perspective at the Woodstock Guild in the coming weeks; Rosendale legend Wayne Montecalvo, of corrugated cardboard and local clown movie fame; Barrytown-based driftwood-man-maker/ fine artist Andres San Millan; and foundobject-contextualizing sculptor Chris Victor, who’s also a mainstay at Dutchess County’s Wassaic Project this summer. Most of the pieces are on the lush grounds of the old Snyder Estate; some are in the entrance to the Widow Jane Mine there, a cave of magnificent history and past performances that must be seen if you live up here. It’s all open on Sunday afternoons or by (frequent) appointment. Just contact them. – Paul Smart “Miners,” Sunday afternoons or by appointment, Snyder Estate, 668 Route 213, Rosendale; (845) 658-9900, www. centuryhouse.org.

Marshall Borris exhibition opens this Saturday at Kingston’s Storefront Gallery

ow to make an exhibit guarBrooklyn Bridge, which was made with cement mined from the back of the place. anteed to catch the region’s The title of the exhibit ties back to the memory and pump the art town’s cement-mining history – as strong forward several seasons, even in its day as Rosendale’s canal presence – eons? Bring in a respected artist/curator but also the ideal of allowing several key with strong contacts to the most cuttingartists to “mine” the property at hand, edge and involved artists around the mixing their creativity and personalized area. Find a magical location that you’d aesthetics with the history and natural normally not get to, or that you rememrealities of the place itself, now owned ber from past memorable events. Bring and operated by together a small numthe Century House ber of artists who are “MINERS,” Historical Society (on diverse in styles but the title of the exhibit, ties back whose board Moriarty together in their wish to the town’s cement-mining sits). to engage audiences history but also the ideal of The invited artists on as many levels as allowing artists to “mine” the contributing pieces possible. Finally, open property at hand, mixing their include Michael Asbill it all with a quiet sense creativity and personalized of Accord, freshly back of fated accomplishaesthetics with the history and from a winter exploring ment, then let people natural realities of the place and making public come around to see itself, now owned and art in the Province of what the growing buzz operated by the Century House Quebec; encaustics is all about. Historical Society “Miners,” the new bio-artist Lorrie Fredette, also showing sculpture exhibit that these past months opened last Sunday in locations throughout the Northeast; in Rosendale, was curated by that über-artist Portia Munson, who has community’s always-inventive and fun artist resident, Laura Moriarty. It takes taken her plastic mound sculptures and place at the exquisitely quirky and massive floral mandalas into new outdoor shapeshifting manifestations; high redolent Snyder Estate off Route 213: the place with the iron gates depicting the conceptualist and “Funism” practitioner

The Storefront Gallery at 93 Broadway in the historic waterfront section of Kingston will hold an opening reception for portrait paintings by Marshall Borris on Saturday, July 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. The artist’s career began as a sculptor in the early ‘70s. After a long hiatus, he returned to the art world with a passion for portraitpainting, most of them done from life. The exhibit at the Storefront Gallery includes ten paintings. Six were painted as part of an artist-in-residence stay in Spain this past spring, while the others

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were completed after his return, including one oil sketch of the gallery-owner. The exhibition will continue down the street with 15 more paintings and drawings at the newly opened Olivieri’s Arts, Crafts and Café at 63 Broadway. Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m. or by appointment and 24/7 through the storefront windows. For more information, call (845) 338-8473 or visit www.thestorefrontgallery.com.

Three shows open this Saturday at Arts Society of Kingston The two new exhibits opening up at the Arts Society of Kingston demonstrate the big hearts that artists have. In the main gallery is a group show, “Hello Neighbor” – the third in what has become an annual series honoring ASK’s kindred spirits around the region – featuring works from the Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia and its wide assortment of regular exhibiting artists. In the front gallery at the ASK space on lower Broadway in Kingston’s Rondout area will be “Remembering Meyer Lieberman,” a retrospective of the many works created by the late longtime Woodstock-based artist who spent his final years at Mountain Valley Manor, from whence a number of the colored-pencil works of his final time with us will be shown. Talk about a delight! Rounding out the shows – which open this Saturday, July 5 and run through the month – will be a members-specific collection of new Summerscapes in various media. Meyer Lieberman was a World War II veteran of the Coast Guard in both theaters of the war, and started up his stories as an artist under the GI Bill following the war’s end. He studied with Reginald Marsh at the Arts Students’ League, developed his own upbeat, Pop-ish graphic style of work, moved to Woodstock in the mid-1970s and became a champion of art classes for seniors around the area, as well as one of the most upbeat people on the local arts scene. – Paul Smart Phoenicia’s The Arts Upstairs’ “Hello Neighbor,” “Remembering Meyer Lieberman,” “Summerscapes” opening, Saturday, July 5, 5-8 p.m., through July 26, Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston; (845) 338-0331, www.askforarts.org.

“Material, Strata & Synthesis” opens this Saturday at KMoCA “Material, Strata and Synthesis,” which opens for a one-month run at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art (KMoCA) this Saturday, July 5, is a witty examination of the various ways in which artistic expression utilizes obsession and various other triggers to explore deep truths, as well as the greater whole that emerges when three enterprising artists come together with all their differences and individuality fully intact. Featuring works by encaustics master Laura Moriarty, who builds “paintings” sculpturally in an almost-geological fashion, assemblage sculptor Eleanor White, who works in a midpoint between Minimalist and Medieval art, juxtaposing surreal materials with succinct themes, and large-format experimental photographer/printer Anne Arden McDonald, the resulting show is rich, fun and quite often funny as well. It’s also likely to draw a widely cultured and diversely originating crowd, given

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fast event at the Mohonk Mountain House on Thursday, August 14. Take in the essence of the award-winning gardens at Mohonk Mountain House while gaining insight into how they are created and maintained with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s Master Gardener Program. “Art in the Garden” will take participants on a two-hour guided walking tour of Mohonk’s formal flower gardens, annual and perennial beds and greenhouse. This year’s event will feature Tillson artist and poet Robert Reidy, who will paint the surrounding landscape en plein air and recite his poetry during the tour. Reidy is an accomplished watercolorist whose paintings are part of private collections worldwide. He has painted on location in Hawaii, France, Switzerland, Bermuda and Florida as well as around his Hudson Valley home. The cost is $55, which includes breakfast and the garden tour. Check-in starts at 8 a.m. for breakfast in the main dining room, to be served from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Tours begin from 10 to 10:30 a.m. There will be no refunds. Participants should plan on arriving early, as traffic can back up at the gate. Valet parking is available. The Mohonk Mountain House is located at 1000 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz. For more information, contact Master Gardener coordinator Dona Crawford at (845) 340-3990, e-mail dm282@cornell. edu or visit www.cceulster.org.

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each artist’s roots in a local, Brooklyn or urban/rural mixed background. – Paul Smart “Material, Strata and Synthesis” opening reception, Saturday, July 5, 5-7 p.m., Saturdays through July 26, 103 Abeel Street, Kingston; http://kmoca.com.

Tasha Depp exhibit, group show open this Saturday at GCCA Gallery in Catskill It’s Tasha Depp’s time up in Catskill. The deeply thoughtful and ethically driven artist, whose paintings of and on trash have been showing up in galleries around the Hudson Valley with increasing regularity over the past few years, has not only co-curated the new group show at the Greene County Council for the Arts – opening this weekend for a two-month run in Catskill – but will also be having her first solo show of beautifully composed and executed works whose themes, materials and very presence are bound to haunt not only the way one sees arts ever after, but the very fabric of life and our oft-destructive presence within it. “Ad Infinitum,” the group show, has been shaped as a site-specific installation that presupposes a collaborative process among the invited artists, who include Jordan Baker, Matt Bua, Dana Gentile, Jared Handelsman, Sam Horowitz, Sono Kuwayama, Paula Lalala, AnneMarie McIntyre, Sara Pruiksma and

Draga Susanj. All were asked to make “a conceptual, mazelike web of sculptures, photograms and collages to walk through” as a “convergence of earth and sky, cardboard and glass.” Depp’s exhibit, “Connected Vision,” mixes portrait-like depictions of trash in nature, works on trash and other means of drawing our relationship with art, and culture’s drive towards immortality, into question. Yet at the same time, it uses classic elements of beauty and painted verisimilitude to engage less weighty, more naturalistic observations of lives lived. “Ad Infinitum” and “Connected Vision” go up at the Greene County Council for the Arts Gallery at 398 Main Street in

Catskill from July 5 through September 1, with an opening reception in tandem with the village’s Second Saturday stroll from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 12. For more information call (518) 943-3400 or visit www.greenearts.org. – Paul Smart

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went to Poughkidsie yesterday with my daughter, and we both loved it. She happily crafted away while I checked out the rest of the amazing space. The art area, called the Studio, is a staffed open and airy space with shelves of porcelain and papiermâché craft blanks, along with paints, baubles and doodads to adorn them. The play area, called the Village, consists of several different themed rooms for pretend play, including a school play area with chalkboard et cetera; theater area with costumes and puppets; doctor’s office with tools for “examining” animals or people; architect room for building, including cool magnetic wooden Tegu blocks; farmers’ market with carrots to pull from the “dirt,” eggs to count and sort; and more. There’s also a specific room for kidlets who are 18 months and younger, for those who prefer an area for smaller

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tots, including lots of books, soft blocks, costumes and other stuff for play. Kids can go in any room, but the other rooms have toys and gear rated for ages 3+. There’s a “parking lot” with those cars that you move Flintstonesstyle with your feet and a “gas pump” for fill-ups; beanbag toss; and staff who float and are involved to help support or engage kids. The overall theme is imagination – no electronics or toys that “do” things – and the kids I saw playing were having such a good time! A local professional photographer and Mama to three boys sounds as excited as I do: “I love this place. I spent four hours there the first day it opened. I love that they have a staff to play with kids, so if you’re a working parent, you can hook up to the wi-fi and get some stuff done while your kids play.” Poughkidsie owners and parents Stacey and Ron Isaacson have thought of so many brilliant details that you just never

see anywhere else, including windows! Windows everywhere; no lost kids in compromised spaces. There are shorter doorways into the different playrooms to reinforce the kid-centered feel of the space; free wi-fi; integrated potty seats on every single toilet; stepstools at the sinks; excellent kindie music playing (but not too loud); and a quiet room for anyone who needs a break. Additional offerings include weekly Zumba classes that you can take while your kids play, birthday parties and Mid-Hudson Music Together classes. Half- and full-day summer camp is the only drop-off option, which is for ages 3 to 8 and features different themes each week. And can we talk about the concession area? The entire enterprise supports local business: homemade Tea Talk bubble tea; glutenfree treats from Ella’s Bellas; and salads by Adams. Get this: Coffee is ground and brewed to order with the Aeropress, using local J. B. Peel coffee. Admission fees are valid for the entire day, even if your family leaves and comes back. The rate for daylong use of the Studio is $11.95 per artist, plus the cost of your crafts. Daylong play in the Village costs $11.95 per child. Or you could opt for the combo price of $21.95 plus the cost of the crafts. There’s no charge for adults or siblings under six months with paid admission. Socks are required in the play area, so remember to pack a pair for your crew; but if you forget, they sell them at

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the front desk for $1. Poughkidsie is designed to appeal to a wide age range, from baby to any age who likes to use imagination or to create art, and it’s such a pleasant space for parents. My daughter can’t wait to go back, and neither can I! Poughkidsie’s official address is 25 Van Wagner Road in Poughkeepsie, near the intersection of Raymond Avenue and Route 44/55, but the actual entrance and parking lot are behind the building, accessed along Springside Avenue. For more information, call (845) 243-3750 or visit http://poughkidsie.com. See you there!

Check out Just Good Eats for ice cream treats in Kingston Wishing more announcements like this filled your daily newsfeed? “New batches of Oreo, mint chocolate chip, four-berry sorbet made, as well as more birch beer and vanilla cream. The lavender soda is yummy...refreshing and smells so good! It’s great mixed with mint too...a real summer cooler.” Then click Like on the Just Good Eats Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ justgoodeats. Even better, just go into Just Good Eats and treat yourself! This place is amazing, and owners Greg Young and Susan Perea make it all themselves: decadent chocolates, rich ice creams, tantalizing sorbets and incredible old-school phosphate sodas. While you’re there, read the menu about the history behind the term “soda jerk.” My kids and I give this place a big thumbs-up, based on my son’s excellent malted hazelnut milkshake, my daughter’s fantastic hot fudge sundae and my insanely delicious Aztec chocolate cherry soda float. I also couldn’t resist trying the lime cilantro sorbet. The price range at Just Good Eats compares to other area ice cream shops like the difference between premium pints and the grocery-store brand. Need to impress any visiting friends or family? A boss or employees? Date? If you’re going to indulge, go for something homemade and completely unique that you won’t find anywhere else.

Just Good Eats is located 604 Ulster Avenue in Kingston, where KoKoKoBi used to be. For more information, call (845) 532-7511 or visit www.facebook. com/justgoodeats.

Friendly ﬁreworks and more The other day, I came across a pair of sound-reduction earmuffs that my husband Mike bought for the kids when they were younger, and it made a real difference to their comfort level at movies, concerts and fireworks. Earplugs worked, too. With colorful nighttime Independence Day explosions happening all weekend, here are some ideas about helping children manage the celebrations. Showing your children a video of fireworks can help prepare them for what to expect. Since some kids are challenged by being outside at night, whether due to the heat or the bugs or the crowds or just the bigness of it, consider viewing the fireworks from the air-conditioned car instead. My kids appreciated fireworks more when we reviewed the history behind them, including reading a children’s Golden Book about the history of the US flag and singing a few rounds of “The Star Spangled Banner.” How about reading the Declaration of Independence together, or attending one of the local readings taking place on July 4? Offer red, white and blue clothes to wear. Sing Happy Birthday to the United States and eat birthday cake. Make crafts in patriotic colors. Take pictures of your experiences this time around, and you can refer to it together next year. Happy Fourth! FRIDAY, JULY 4

Live readings of the Declaration in Rosendale & Fishkill Everyone knows that July 4 is Independence Day, but what’s really in the Declaration of Independence beyond Schoolhouse Rock’s tuneful Preamble? A reading of the Declaration is one way to make history feel a little more alive. And look what I just learned from the Saugerties Public Library: “In 1777, Congress commissioned Mary Katherine Goddard, postmistress of Baltimore and publisher of a weekly newspaper, to print 13 copies of the Declaration of Independence, one for each of the colonies forming the new United States of America. It was the first time the Declaration revealed the identity of the signers. Goddard put herself at risk for treason by printing the document and adding her name at the bottom.” Here are two local free readings of the Declaration of Independence. On Friday, July 4 at 9:30 a.m. at Rosendale Theatre, listen to 20 individuals reading portions of this foundational document, then join together for coffee and refreshments afterwards. The Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, call (845) 6588989 or visit http://rosendaletheatre.org. On Friday, July 4 at 11 a.m. at Van Wyck Hall, hear the 113th reading of the Declaration of Independence. Van Wyck Hall is located at 1095 Main Street in Fishkill. For more information, call (845) 897-4430 or visit www.vofishkill.us.

Holiday activities at New Windsor Cantonment & Knox’s Headquarters School’s out, but Independence Day can be a terrific chance to learn about these pivotal moments in US history at historic sites right here in the Hudson Valley. On Friday, July 4, both the New Windsor Cantonment and Knox’s

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Headquarters celebrate Independence Day. The New Windsor Cantonment is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the special festivities taking place from 2 to 4 p.m. At 2 p.m., visitors can see a military drill and a cannon fired, followed by a children’s wooden musket drill. At 3 p.m., visitors are invited to join in reading of the Declaration of Independence, followed by a military drill performed by the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment. People dressed in period clothing will be available throughout the day to share stories and information about life during that time. The New Windsor Cantonment is located at 374 Temple Hill Drive in New Windsor. For pricing or more information, call (845) 561-1765, extension 22, or visit http://nysparks.com. The command post for three generals during the Revolutionary War, Knox’s Headquarters celebrates Independence Day with tours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. of the 1754 house where they stayed, as well as a cannon-firing at 1 and 4 p.m. Knox’s Headquarters is located at 289 Forge Hill Road in Vails Gate. For more information, call (845) 561-5498 or visit http://nysparks.com.

Return of the Dutchess County Balloon Festival The Dutchess County Balloon Festival is a gift to the eyes. I love watching the colorful aerostats drift over the Hudson River. From Friday to Sunday, July 4 to 6, locals have four opportunities to watch the launch of these beautiful crafts, as well as join in on community activities at some of the launch sites throughout Dutchess County. Launches take place on Friday, July 4 at 6 p.m., Saturday, July 5 at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Sunday, July 6 at 6 a.m. For more information about the Festival, including locations and details about the accompanying festivities, read Sharyn Flanagan’s piece in this edition of Almanac Weekly, call (845) 454-1700 or visit www.dcrcoc.org/balloonfestival. SATURDAY, JULY 5

Woodstock Animal Sanctuary’s July Jamboree No more excuses: This is the weekend to head over to the Woodstock Animal Sanctuary, because it’s the eighth July Jamboree! On Saturday, July 5 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can see lots of animals and hear their stories of how they came to dwell at the Sanctuary; participate in a variety of children’s activities; eat lots of different kinds of vegetarian and vegan fare; check out a cooking demo; listen to live music such as Elizabeth Mitchell with her family band, You Are My Flower (whom you know I adore); bring nutrition questions to the Aska-Doctor booth and more. Admission costs $10 for adults, $5 for kids and seniors and is free for members and toddlers, and all proceeds benefit the work for the Sanctuary. The Woodstock Animal Sanctuary is located at 35 Van Wagner Road in Willow, but get your directions set before you leave because cellphone-based GPS (like iPhone) fades once you get past downtown Woodstock. For more information, call (845) 679-5955 or visit http://woodstocksanctuary.org.

Dutchess Dragon Boat Race & Festival in Poughkeepsie Whether you hit the water or you choose to watch from the shore, this weekend’s first Dutchess Dragon Boat Race and Festival sounds like a great event. On Saturday, July 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. after the balloon launches,

watch the exciting boat races and check out the Asian Cultural Festival with live music, activities such as ping pong demonstrations, a Lion Dance, Chinese Tea Ceremony, storytelling by Jonathan Kruk and free workshops, plus food vendors featuring local eateries. The Festival takes place at the Boathouse of the Hudson River Rowing Association, located at 270 North Water Street. For more information, call (845) 264-2005 or visit www.dutchessdragonboat.org. SUNDAY, JULY 7

Family Canoe Paddle in Tivoli Bays Sign up early for this week’s special Family Canoe Paddle in Tivoli Bays through the Tivoli Free Library. On Monday, July 7 at 5:30 p.m., enjoy an evening excursion on the river, gliding so quietly through the water that you get to notice all kinds of natural features and wildlife that you might otherwise miss. The trip is guided by Department of Environmental Conservation Environmental Educators from the Norrie Point Environmental Center and staff from the Tivoli Free Library. This activity is for ages 6 and up accompanied by an adult. Space is limited and preregistration is required. For more information or to register, call (845) 7573771 or visit www.tivolilibrary.org. TUESDAY, JULY 8

Storytime at Gardiner Library Summertime used to mean a break from local library storytimes, but not at the Gardiner Library. Gardiner offers Bouncing Baby Storytime on Tuesdays beginning July 8 from 9:30 to 9:50 a.m. including laptime stories, songs and fingerplays, followed by Playspace for Tots from 10 to 10:50 a.m. for socializing together in the indoor, air-conditioned community room. Terrific Twos and Threes Storytime takes place on Tuesdays beginning July 8 from 10 to 10:45 a.m. with books, action rhymes and crafts. Fantastic Fours and Fives Storytime takes place on Thursdays beginning July 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with stories and crafts. These programs are free and registration is not required. The Gardiner Library is located at 133 Farmers’ Turnpike in Gardiner. For information, call (845) 2551255 or visit www.gardinerlibrary.org. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9

“Zombies” program for teens at Saugerties Library Calling all teens ages 13 and up: Are you a Walker? Or perhaps you just want to give yourself a zombie makeover? On Wednesday, July 9 at 3 p.m., head over to Saugerties Public Library for the teen event “Zombies,” and learn how to survive the Apocalypse! The Saugerties Public Library is located at 91 Washington Avenue in Saugerties. For more information, call (845) 246-4317 or visit http://saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

Duct tape crafts workshop for teens in Poughkeepsie Across the river, on Wednesday, July 9 from 5 to 7 p.m., tweens and teens are invited to gather in the Adriance Library Teen Room to make duct tape creations: a wallet, and iPod or cell phone holder or a flower. The Adriance Library is located at

93 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. For information, call (845) 4853445, extension 3309, or visit http:// poklib.org. THURSDAY, JULY 10

Community Day at Adriance Library in Poughkeepsie On Thursday, July 10 from 10 to 11:30 a.m., the day after the Adriance Library’s duct tape event, come back to the library for Community Day, which is free and open to the public. Activities include a hula-hoop contest, face-painting, balloon art, crafts and more, as well as free snow cones! Local author, mathematician and calligrapher Jim Bennett will be on hand to meet and greet children, along with area police, fire and ambulance staff. The Adriance Library is located at 93 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 485-3445, extension 3309, or visit http://poklib.org.

Nature Nick’s Animal Adventures at West Hurley Firehouse Not in the family budget to visit any jungles or savannahs this summer? No problem: Nature Nick is here! On Thursday, July 10 at 6 p.m., Nature Nick’s Animal Adventures comes to the West Hurley Firehouse. Registration is required. This free 45-to50-minute show includes ten to 12 trained rescued animals, along with a dash of magic. The West Hurley Firehouse is located at 24 Wall Street in West Hurley. For more information or to register, call (845) 6796405 or visit http://whplib.org. To learn more about the presenter, visit www. animaladventuresparties.com.

Kids’ Almanac Writes! Kids’ Almanac thanks Nancy Graham for supplying writing prompts during the month of July. Nancy scribbles, doodles, playacts and lollygags with her teenage kids in and around Kingston. Here is her prompt for the week. Remember to post your piece on the Almanac Weekly Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/almanacweekly/287633831270607. Prompt: Follow your nose. Without using the words “fragrance,” “aroma,” “smell,” “odor,” “scent” or “stink” (et cetera: you get the idea), describe a powerful olfactory experience of any kind. – Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno wears red, white and blue in New Paltz, along with her husband Mike and their two children: the inspirations behind hudsonvalleyparents.com. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

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Margaretville’s Annual Firemen’s Field Day, Car Show & Fireworks (7/1-7/6). Starting at 6pm each day. Car show will be held on July 3rd at 6pm. Fireworks display held July 4th & 5th at dusk, about 10:30pm. Village Park and Pavilion at 982 Main Street in Margaretville, 586-4419. Amenia Carinval and Fireworks (7/2-7/5). The carnival will run from 6:30-10:30pm each day. Fireworks will be held on Friday at dusk. On Saturday there will be a parade at 5pm. Amenia Firehouse, 36 Mechanic Street, Amenia. Hudson Valley Renegades Game & Fireworks (7/3 & 7/5). Come for Taco An American Road Trip will be on Thursday. Sicilian Saturday will be a night filled with signature Italian cuisine and music as we bring Little Italy to the ballpark. There will be post-game fireworks each night. Web site: www.milb.com. Dutchess Stadium, 1500 Rt. 9D, Wappingers Falls, 848-838-0094. 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. Mountainview Studio,, Woodstock. 12PM Reading Party and Raffle Drawing. Kids, Adults, Families. Kids Prize: $100 gift certificate to bookstore. Adult Prize: $100 gift certificate to bookstore. Family Prize: Family that reads the most gets aSpecial Prize. Info: www.phoenicialibrary.org or 688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 9 Ava Maria Ave, Phoenicia. 1PM-4PM Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Most players are elementary and intermediate players. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Rescue Squad Building, Woodstock. 4PM -6:30PM Bookbinding Workshop: An Introduction to Handmade Books. Learn two structures to get you started in hand binding drawings, photographs and writings, to create unique artist’s books. Workshop at Intima Gallery, 196 Main Street, Saugerties, taught by Mindy Belloff, 4-6:30pm, pre-registration, details at www.IntimaGallery.com or email IntimaPress@yahoo. com. 4PM-7PM Kingston YMCA Farm Stand. This project brings youth from the YMCA outside to a new urban farm in Midtown, where they learn about growing and eating healthy food. Open every Thurs. Info: 332-2927. YMCA, 507 Broadway, Kingston. 5:30PM-6:30PM Tai Chi with Martha Cheo. Beginners: Please note: no new beginners until September 4, 2014. Info: mcheo@hvc.rr.com.. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $12, $130 /14 week session. 6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 6PM Simmons Wildlife. Info: 679-2213 or www. woodstock.org . The Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. 6PM-10PM Town of Newburgh Community Day. Come enjoy games, food and music followed by fireworks after dusk. Cronomer Park, Newbugh, 845-564-7815. 6PM-8PM

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Gardens “Hudson Valley’s Best Kept Secret Gardens.” Garden staff will lead us through the Italian-inspired, 3-acre formal garden featuring water, topiary, terraces and sculpture collection. Wethersfield is the 1200-acre former country estate of Chauncey D. Stillman, who assisted with the design of the gardens over a 30 year period. To read more about Wethersfield visit www.wethersfieldgarden.org or view photos from a recent visit here. For more information email laura@hvga. org Fee: $12 non-members/$8 members. Must pre-register. Wethersfield, 214 Pugsley Hill Rd., Amenia.

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6:30PM-7:15PM Tai Chi with Martha Cheo. Advanced. Info: mcheo@hvc.rr.com.. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $12, $130 /14 week session.

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6:30PM-8:30PM Playwriting Workshop Thursday evenings. The goal is to promote local talent and increase production of new plays in regional theaters and beyond. Info: hudsonvalleyplaywrights@gmail.com or 217-0734 or www.hudsonvalleyplaywrights.com. Morton Memorial Library &Community House, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, free. 7PM Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Info: 265-9575 or www.hvshakespeare.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison, $41.50, $30. 7PM Bard SummerScape 2014: Film Series: “Schubert and the Long 19th Century.” Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 758-7900. Bard College, Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-onHudson, $10.

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7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley. No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

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7PM Holiday *Fireworks* Show. Adam and the Newhearts singing all the oldies from the 50 Œs and 60 Œs starting at 7pm. Fireworks begin at 9:15pm. East Fishkill Recreation Park, Routes 376 & 82, Hopewell Junction, 845-226-8395.

Wishing to the Stars - Tanabata Bamboo Tree Decoration. Celebrate the Japanese star festival called, “Tanabata”. For time and info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Movie Night: “Metropolis” Ken’ichi and his uncle Shunuke Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima, directed by Rintaro, screenplay by Katsuhiro Ohtomo. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, Main St, New Paltz.

Mohonk Mountain House’s 4th of July weekend (7/4-7/6). features a carnival, demonstrations at the Firehouse, log roll and porch dive, and a parade. Live music by Cathi Lou and Roger Thorpe and a ceremonial reading of the Declaration of Independence. Call 855-883-3798 for reservations. 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz.

7:30PM Les Oeufs de Faberge Ballet. Featuring Orpheum Ballet Company. Info: 518-263-2000. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main St, Tannersville, $25. 7PM Swingin Newburgh at the Newburgh Brewing Company! Buy a beer, wine or soda and get a dance lesson and live music. Beginner swing dance lesson provided by Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios 7-7:30. Swing Shift Orchestra plays 7:30-9pm. Swingin’ Newburgh will take place on the 1st Thursday of every month. Visit www.got2lindy.com for details. The Newburgh Brewing Company is located at 88 South Colden St, Newburgh. 8PM Three Viewings. Play by Jeffrey Hatcher. An engaging trio of woven monologues all taking place in a mid-western funeral parlor. James Glossman will direct. Info: 647-5511 or www. shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8 PM Natalie Merchant in concert. Info: 339-6088 or www.bardavon.org. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $75 / golden circle, $55.

8:30AM Saugerties’ Fourth of July Celebrations. Firemen’s Inspection on Main Street followed by the parade at 11 am from Saugerties HS. Followed by a Battle of the Bands and food vendors at Cantine Field. Fireworks at dusk. Info: 246-9701. 9AM Ellenville Independence Day Celebration. Arts and crafts from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Parade at noon. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. from Resnick Airport. Info: 647-7800. Liberty Square, Ellenville. 9AM East Branch Annual Firemen’s Field Days & Baseball Day. (July 4-5th, 9am-9pm). Two days of fun, food, carnival rides, live music, flea market, town wide yard sales and softball. There will also be a chicken BBQ. Fireworks will go off at dusk both nights. East Branch Fireman’s Field East Branch, 607-363-7751. 9AM Ellenville’s Independence Day Celebration . Arts and craft vendors at Liberty Square. Parade steps off at noon. Fireworks at dusk at Resnick Airport (off Rt. 209) in Ellenville, 647-6560.

8PM Two Dark Birds. Info: 679-8639. Colony Café, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $15.

9:30AM Third Annual Reading of the Declaration of Independence. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale.

8PM 30th Powerhouse Theater Season presents The Babylon. Play by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Terry Kinney. Info: 437-5907 or powerhouse@vassar.edu or wwwpowerhouse. vassar.edu. Vassar College, Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40.

9:30AM-1PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Millbrook Mountain Hike. Approx 5-mile hike, moderately strenuous. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

8:30 PM 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. 8:30 PM Bard SummerScape 2014: Justin

10AM Independence Day Parade Theme: “The Hyde Park Railroad Station.” Celebrating 100 years”! Grand Marshal, Hudson Valley Railroad Society. Parade begins at the Roosevelt Theater and ends in back of Regina Coeli School. Awards immediately follow parade. Registration forms at

www.hydeparkny.us. Regina Coeli School, 4337 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, 845-229-8589 10AM-5PM Fourth of July at Knox’s Headquarters. See a small cannon fired at noon and 4 p.m, participate in a reading of the Declaration of Independence, and tour the 1754 Ellison House, the military command post for three generals. Info: 561-1765 x 22. Knox’sHeadquarters, 289 Forge Hill Rd, New Windsor. 10:30AM-5PM Liberty - Fourth of July Festival. A parade at noon. More than sixty food, craft and retail vendors, Antique Car Show, dunking booth, duck race, entertainment by the Carl Richards Band, Josie Lou, the Country Girl, Tanya Lynn Hall, Mr. Rich, Mark Lysogorski.Info: 292-9797. North and South Main Sts, Liberty. 11AM July 4th Festivities presented by the Germantown Kiwanis. A parade will begin at noon on Pilgrim Rd. Food, beverages, children’s games, dunk tanks and live music by Downtown Harrison from 5:30-8:30pm. There will be fireworks at dusk. Fireman’s Park, Germantown. 11AM Saugerties’ Fourth of July Celebration. Parade on Washington Avenue. Fireworks at dusk at Cantine Field. Info: email Bob at rchappelle@ hvc.rr.com or call (845) 246-7972. Fireworks at Cantine Field. 12PM-5PM July 4th Celebration. Magic show, parade, free 30-minute tours. Info: 562-1195 Washington’s Headquarters, 84 Liberty St, Newburgh. 12PM-6PM Fireworks at Newburgh’s UNICO Park . From 12-6pm there will be vendors and artists on the river followed by Music by Dr. Magkneetoe, 6-9pm. Fireworks will begin approximately 9pm. Rain date July 5th. Located on the Newburgh Waterfront. 12PM-7PM Summer Swim at Williams Lake. Public swimming, picnicking and sunbathing July 4th through September 1st on Fri, Sat & Sun (plus Labor Day) from 12 Noon to 7pm. $5 ‘sunset rate’ after 5pm. Cash Only at the door. All profits donated to the RosendalePool Project. Info: www. williamslakeproject.com/summer-swim. Williams Lake Beach, Rosendale, $10, $8 /senior, $6 /12 & under. 12PM Fourth of July Parade. Lineup at 11 a.m. Parade at 12pm. Broadway and St. John St, Monticello. 12PM East Meredith’s Independence Day Celebration. This traditional celebration will feature: children’s fishing derby, frog jumping contest (bring your own frog!), sack races, tug-of-war, live music and food. Admission is free for children 12 & under and activity duty military & families, $9 for adults and teens, $7 for seniors, $4.50 for retired military. Hanford Mills at County Highways 10 & 12 in East Meredith, 607-278-5744. 12PM Tannersville Annual 4th of July Celebra-

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July 3, 2014 tion. Parade and crafts on Main Street. For more information, visit www.communityeventsny.com or call 518-858-9094. 12PM Newburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters State HistoricGrand Birthday Celebration & Parade. Celebrating our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 238th birthday as well as Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters State Historic Site 164th birthday. Line-up: 12pm magic; followed by a performance at 1:15 pm, Grand Birthday Parade at 1 pm. If you would like to join the parade - dress up in red, white and blue and strut your patriotic stuff. Free tours of the Hasbrouck House. Tours are given every half-hour from 10:30 am until 4:30 pm, Admission is free on July 4th. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquartersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; great lawn offers a perfect view of the City of Newburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fireworks! Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters State Historic Site at 84 Liberty Street in Newburgh, 562-1195. 12 PM Fourth of July at Bannerman Castle Cruise & Picnic. Catered by Loughrans Restaurant of Salisbury Mills. Music by The Timberwolf, hailing from Cornwall on the Hudson. Cruise to and from Bannerman Island on the Bannerman Castle Trustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motor vessel, The Estuary Steward, and a self guided tour on Bannerman Island.Tickets are $75 per person. Boat Departs from the Beacon Institute Floating Dock at the Beacon waterfront across from the Metro North Train Station. 12PM-4PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Independence and Ice Creamâ&#x20AC;? - Civil War theme, costumes, music by Bob Lusk with Veterans in a New Field. Bring a picnic; ice cream is supplied. Info: 338-5614 or bevierhousemuseum.org. Bevier House Museum, 2682 Route

209, Marbletown. 12PM-9:30PM Happy July Fourth Special: the Celebration of their new draft beers. Celebrate the installation of their new 4 beer keg tower. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz. 12PM-5PM Second Annual Come Travel the Milky Way. One-day tour of farmstead creameries. Each farm tour is different with some offering milking displays and demonstrations, hay rides and farm tours on the hour. Info: www.catskillsfamilycreameries.com. Walton. 2PM Fourth of July at New Windsor Cantonment. Military firing demonstrations at 2 p.m. plus blacksmithing and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities. Info: 561-1765, ext. 22. Knoxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters, 289 Forge Hill Rd, New Windsor. 2PM-10PM An Old-Fashioned Independence Day. 18th century crafts, re-enactors, music and entertainment. There will also be live music and delicious hot food until a view of the Saugerties Fireworks over the Hudson River! Admission is $10 per car. Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Rd, Germantown, fofc@gtel.net, 518-5374240.

Field. Elephants and acrobats along with tigers and teeterboard tumblers, flying trapeze. Motorcycle daredevils & Cole Bros. Clown Crew. Free tickets under 13 at www.GoToTheCircus.com. 2:30 PM West Pointâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth of July Parade. Starting with a parade with the West Point Band on Main Street at 2:30pm.West Point. 4PM-10PM Germantownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Independence Day Celebration . Admission is $2 for walkers or $10 per vehicle. Hosted by the Germantown Parks and Recreation Committee. July 5th rain date. Palatine Park, 50 Palatine Rd, Germantown. 5PM Cornwallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Independence Day Celebration & 238th National Birthday. Lineup: Parade kicks off 5 pm. The day starts with breakfast at Highland Engine Co. and continues with a Pet Show and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games. Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; patriotic art work, judged by artist Sue Fink, will be on display all day and evening. Craft sale, pony rides & pie eating contest at noon and music by Neil and the Blondies, as well as, the Cornwall

Reunion Band. The Cornwall Lions will conduct their annual lobster sale from 10am - 2pm. The Main Street Mile, featuring more than 100 runners, will precede the parade, at 4:30pm. Fireworks display will start at 9:30pm. Cornwall Town Hall, 183 Main Street, Cornwall. 6 PM July 4th at Mid-Hudson Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum. Snacks and beverages will be available in the Pavilion For the kids: Bounce House, a face painter, arts and crafts! Parking passes include admission to the Museum and Pavilion. Passes must be purchased in advance by calling or by visiting the Museum. Info: 471-0589. Mid-Hudson Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum, Poughkeepsie, $5 /per person. 6PM Independence Day Party & Hoedown (7/47/5) in Rhinebeck. Enjoy casual patio and riverside dining with the Kingston fireworks display at 9pm. On Saturday, come for a hoedown with music by The Boys, from Little Creek. Reservations required for both nights. The Rhinecliff Hotel, 4 Grinnell Street, Rhinebeck, info@therhinecliff.com or 845-876-0590.

2PM July 4th Celebration Golf Tournament. BBQ begins at 5pm, and music with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker starts at 6pm. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. High Falls Cafe, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls. 2PM & 5PM Circus at Cantine Field. The Cole Bros. Circus will present two shows at Cantine

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Woodstock Diamond Dance Festival -Modern Dance Meets Visual Arts (7/17, 7pm). Featuring Linda Diamond & Company including guest performance by Beth Woronoff. Featuring two works by Anna Sokolow and works by Linda Diamond. Pre performance refreshments served. $12.Woodstock Diamond Sokolow Dance Theatre,1766 Glasco Tnpk,Woodstock, 845-6797757. Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras: Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana at Bard College, present a special Summer Intensive Workshop for Beginners on Saturday, July 12 in two parts. Part one, from 11am-1pm is for novices while part two, from 2pm-4pm, will continue the morning session work and incorporate more advanced playing techniques. Come for one or both sessions. Sessions will include a brief introduction to the culture and art of Bali. Please join us in the Moon Room, Olin Building, 3rd floor, on the Bard Campus. Led by local gamelan aficianado and scholar, Ibu Tzu. Pre- registration encouraged for one or both workshops. Email: pillasdp@hvc.rr.com. Bring your own lunch if you plan on saying for the day. Suggested donation $20.+/. All contributions are tax deductible and support our work both here and abroad. On Facebook at Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. 845 688-7090. Sponsored by Bard College and Nihita Prayoga Adhikara. Register Now! The Power of Invisible Joy. Weekend Teaching (July 4-6). Line-up: Fri, July 4, 7-8:30pm, Sat, July 5, 10:30am-12pm & 3:305pm and Sun, July 6, 10:30am-12pm & 2:30-4pm.Teacher: Lama karma Drodhul. What Lama Karma calls “invisible joy” has a huge impact on our lives, and anyone who has met him knows that Lama Karma embodies that quality. We spend a lighthearted weekend on the importance of refreshing our joyful mind and learn some important tools to help us maintain our joy.$120/$96 KTD members for the whole weekend. $30/$25 KTD member per individual session. Meals and overnight accommodations available at additional cost. To details and to register, call 679-5906 x3. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mt. Rd, Woodstock. Upcoming Event: Vietnamese Vegan

Picnic( 7/20,2-5pm). An afternoon of games for children, a tour of the monastery’s grounds, walking in the forest, boating on the lake, conversation with the monks and nuns, singing, and music, and a picnic. Info: www.bluecliffmonastery.org. RSVP at office@bluecliffmonastery.org. Blue Cliff Monastery, 3, Mindfulness Road, Pine Bush. Register Now! Compassion and Loving Kindness: Start With Yourself. (Weekend Teaching July 18-20). Line-up: Fri, July 18, 7-8:30 pm, Sat, July 19, 10:30 am-12 pm & 3:30-5 pm and Sun, July 20, 10:30 am-12 pm & 2:30-4 pm.Teacher: Lama Tsultrim Yeshe. Buddhist teachings emphasize generating compassion for others, but many of us need to first learn how to be kind to ourselves. Lama Tsultrim Yeshe leads us through techniques that help us transform our self-image. $120/$96 KTD members for the whole weekend. $30/$25 KTD member per individual session. Meals and overnight accommodations available at additional cost. For details and to register, call 679-5906 x3. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mt. Rd, Woodstock. Stone House Day - Take a Trip Back Into History (July 12. 10 am -4pm). Explore some of America’s oldest homes 225-325 years old. New Addition - The Wynkoop Tootsie House.Tour guides in colonial attire. Artillery demonstration and historic re-enactors. Country fair. Sojourner Truth presentation. Colonial crafts for children and adults. Organ and violin recitals. Woodworker demonstrations at Hurley Heritage Museum. $20/ $15, seniors and students/ $2, children 6-12/ children 5 and under, free. Adult, senior and student tickets include $2 coupon for the cafeteria. Bus transportation to houses included. Free parking. Rain or shine.Info: 331-4121 or www. StoneHouseDay.org. Hurley Reformed Church, 11 Main St, Hurley. Kayak Fishing Tournament (7/117/12). For details log onto www.kingstonkayakfestival.info. Register Now: Gardiner Library Summer Classes. Media Monsters Summer Camp for ages 7 to 10. Tues, 7/15, 22, 29, 8/5, 12, 19; 2-4pm. Collaborative digital storytelling to create a script that they then bring to life; & Tween/Teen Yoga for ages 9 and up .

6PM July 4th Celebration. Food, music by Touch of Rhythm, fireworks at dusk. Bob Shepard Highland Landing Park, River Rd, Highland. 6PM Dutchess County’s Balloon Festival (7/47/6). Mass launch from the Hudson River Rowing Association Boathouse. Hosted by Dutchess County Regional Chamber. All launches are open to the public and complimentary to attend, and many feature community gathering and food & drink. Info: www.dcrcoc.org/balloonfestival. 6 PM Monroe Independence Day Festival. Fireworks will be at dusk. A rain date of July 5 has been set. Lake Street & Millpond Parkway, Monroe. 6PM City of Kingston’s Waterfront 4th of July Celebration . Free concert featuring music by Old Double E , The Cagneys, and Mister Kick on stage in T.R. Gallo Park. 9pm - Special video tribute to our troops and fallen heros. Fireworks at dusk. All of the waterfront Restaurants will have food available with outdoor dining options. The Streets close to traffic at 4pm and Shuttles will be running from 3-11pm.Shuttles will be located at Kingston Point Beach, The Kingston Plaza, as well as on Cornell St. across from Frank Guido’s Little Italy. Sponsored by Mainetti, Mainetti & O’’Connor. Visit www.kingston-ny.gov for more information. Gallo Park at West Strand in Kingston, 334-3902. 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 Margaretville’s Annual Firemen’s Field Day, Car Show & Fireworks. Rides, games, and food & beverages held July 1-6th, starting at 6pm each day. Car show will be held on July 3rd at 6pm. Fireworks display held July 4th & 5th at dusk, about 10:30pm. Village Park and Pavilion at 982 Main Street in Margaretville, 586-4419. 6:15PM Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner. Kosher dairy or parve please. Followed by services at 7:30pm. The Kerhonkson Synagogue, 26 Minnewaska Trail, Ellenville, 626-2010. 6:30 PM Amenia Carinval and Fireworks, July 2-5th. The carnival will run from 6:30-10:30pm each day. Fireworks will be held on Friday at dusk. On Saturday there will be a parade at 5pm.

Weds, 7/9, 16, 23, 30; 4:30-5:30pm. Experience the benefits of practicing yoga this summer; & Drawing Class for ages 9 to 14. Mons: 7/21, 28 & 8/11& 18; 4-5:30 pm. Pre-registration by 7/14 is required. Develop fundamental drawing skills through lessons that will be followed by creative projects; & Harmony Yoga: A Musical Yoga Experience for children 3-6. Tues, 7/8, 15, 22, 29; 1-1:45pm. Viking Wire Weaving Bracelet Workshop for ages 10 and up. 7/14 from 4-6pm. Pre-registration by 7/10 is required. Make a copper wire bracelet using this very simple technique.Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. For details and cost, call 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics for Cats – July 7, 14, and 21 Newburgh; July 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 Monroe; July 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 Middletown; July 17 Pomona; July 28 Monticello; July 31 Port Jervis. For details call 754-7100. tara-spayneuter.org. Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics for Dogs – by appointment only every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Middletown. Prices vary by sex and weight. Call 845-754-7100 for more information and to schedule an appointment. Seventh Annual Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival ( 7/11-8/23). Features adventurous artists, intimate audience experiences, theater, dance & music. For details see individual calendar listings or log onto mounttremperarts.org or call 845-688-9893. Mount Tremper,647 South Plank Rd, Mount Tremper. Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic – for Cats & Dogs. Every Thursday 10am-6pm at 60 Enterprise Place in Middletown. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment necessary. Cash only. For details call 754-7100. Upcoming Event: The Phoenicia Festival of The Voice (7/30-8/3). Visit their site for more information: info@phoeniciavoicefest.com. Phoenicia Festival of the Voice or 845-586-3588. Notice: Creative Seed Support Group for Songwriters, Playwrights & Actors. Meets Wednesday nights, 6-7:30pm. Info: Patricebluemaltas@ gmail.com or www.bluehealing.co. A place for artist to voice there work

Amenia Firehouse, 36 Mechanic Street, Amenia. 6:30PM Monticello Casino & Raceway Fireworks Display. Nighttime racing starts at 6:30pm with fireworks to begin after the last race over White Lake at dusk. 204 Route 17B, Monticello. 6:30PM Walkway Over the Hudson: Firework Spectacular! The Walkway will be open for paying guests to watch the City of Poughkeepsie Fireworks. The bridge will be closed to the public at 5:30pm and will reopen at 6:30pm to pre-purchased ticket holders. Info: www.walkway. org or454-9649. Walkway Over the Hudson, Highland. 7 PM Independence Day Celebration at Windham Mountain . Starting with a parade that will travel down Rt. 296 to Main Street. Pre-parade celebration on Main Street starting at noon. A BBQ and DJ will start at 7:30pm at the mountain. Fireworks will begin at 9pm. 7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Frank Luther on bass, John Esposito on piano, Mike DeMicco on guitar, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists. No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville, 518-678-3101. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Tisziji Munoz Quartet featuring Marilyn Crispell. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 7PM-9PM Beacon Independence Day Celebration. Live music will be in the pavilion from 7-9pm and the fireworks begin at 9:30pm. Beacon Memorial Park, Beacon. 7:15PM Music Invasion - A Hard Day’s Night. 50th anniversary of the release of A Hard Day’s Night, the revolutionary black & white film about “a typical day in the life of The Beatles.” Info: www. rosendaletheatre.org or www.musicinvasion. brownpapertickets.com. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale. 8PM Three Viewings. Play by Jeffrey Hatcher. An engaging trio of woven monologues all taking place in a mid-western funeral parlor. James Glossman will direct. Info: 647-5511 or www. shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8PM Kingston Firework’s Cruise . Boards

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Save The Date: 36th Annual Ulster County Senior Women’s Golf Association Tournament. Shawangunk Golf Club, Ellenville. Tuesday 9/16/14 raindate Thursday 9/18/14. Ulster County residents only $65.00. Applications available at Ulster County pro shops or see website UCWGA.org. Notice: Woodstock Ultimate Frisbee Pickup Game. Sundays 3pm, Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30pm through Oct 30th.For all genders and skill levels, ages 10 and up.Free. Town Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Dr, Woodstock. Info: WoodstockUltimate.org or 914-458-2215. Summer Reading Contest. Kids, Adults, Families. Kids Prize: $100 gift certificate to bookstore. Adult Prize: $100 gift certificate to bookstore. Family Prize: Family that reads the most gets a special prize. Deadline 8/23. Info: www.phoenicialibrary.org or 688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 9 Ava Maria Ave, Phoenicia. Sign Up Now! Ashokan Music and Dance Camps. Guitar Camp. July 13th - 17th. Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass, Blues, and Rags. For online registration and more information: www. ashokan.org. Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge. 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, 8/6, 9/3, 10/1, 11/5, 12/3. To register: call Doris 339-2071 or email: Doris. Blaha@hahv.org or www.CallTheHypnotist.com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. Free Chakra Meditation will be held twice a month on the Tuesday nights closest to the Full and New Moons. For the summer, those dates will be: July 15th & 29th; August 12th & 26th, September 9th & 23rd. Please check back for fall dates. Donations welcome. Namaste Sacred Healing Center, 427 Ohayo Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 679-6107 or NamasteSacred@gmail. com or www.namastesacredhealing. com. 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. Audition Notice: “Equivocation.” Auditions on 7/12, 7/13 & 7/14. Perusal copies of the script are available at The Starr Library in Rhinebeck. Info: 876-3080 or ellenhonig@gmail. com. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Route 308, Rhinebeck. Calling All Home Gardeners! Exhibit your homegrown veggies, fruits, herbs and flowers and compete for a ribbon at this summer’s Ulster County Fair! Entries are encouraged and will be accepted until Tues. 7/15 by mail. Info: www.cceulster.org or Ulster County Fairgrounds, Horticulture Building, Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. Sign Up Now! “Family Fun & Fishing Day.” (7/27) Register by 7/24 to get in free! All fishing supplies will be provided, though you are welcome to bring your own if you have them. No fishing license is required. Info & to register: 688-3047 Ext. 3, or www. ashokanstreams.org.Kenneth Wilson State Park, 859 Wittenberg Rd, Mount Tremper. 2014 Testing Dates for Minnewaska Distance Swimmers. To join you need to be at least 18 years of age and pass the swim test which consists of a 500 yard swim that includes 25 yards each of the crawl, breaststroke, sidestroke and backstroke plus 3 minutes treading water. For more particulars and an application, go to our website at: www. minnewaskaswimmers.org/testingAll tests are given at 5:30pm on Sundays at the Moriello Pool on the following dates: July 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. There is a $3.00 pool entrance fee. The pool is on Mulberry St, New Paltz. Membership fee - $20. Register Now! Science Camp (7/77/11). Young scientists will stay busy from 9 am to 3:30 pm each day exploring biology, physics and engineering, chemistry, doing experiments and hosting a science fair on the last day. Reg reqrd. Info: 758-3241. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. Landscape Oil Painting Classes with Loman Eng. Registration required. Session 3: July8, 9, 15, 16, 22 from 1:30pm-5pm. Class materials must be purchased by student. Info: 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, free. Register Now! SummerDance on Tour ( 7/28 -8/17); & CaravanKids Summer Workshop (July 21-25). Cost $225 half day 9am– 12:pm, $350 full day 9am– 3pm.Tuition: $850. Info: 256-9300, vcoffice@vanavercaravan. org, or www.vanavercaravan.org. Stone Ridge.

7:30pm, departs at 8pm. Two hour cruise aboard The Rip Van Winkle. DJ Dance Party featuring the City of Kingston fireworks. Tickets $15. and can be purchased online through Zerve, through our business office, or at the Ticket Booth starting at 7pm the night of the event. For reservations, call 800-979-3370. Departs from Hudson River Cruises at 1 East Strand Street in Kingston.

Century England: Galliards, laments and sonatas before and after the English Civil War. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Info: www.astonmagna.org. Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, $35, $30 /senior, $5 /student rush w/ID.

8PM West Point’s Independence Day Celebration. Featuring The West Point Band in Concert. The evening will continue with music ranging from marches to rock and roll, followed by a fireworks display over the Hudson River.Rain date 7/6. Trophy Point, West Point.

9:30PM Fireworks at Cantine Field. Cantine Field, Saugerties.

8PM Pride of The Hudson July 4th Fireworks Cruise . Cruise aboard the Pride of the Hudson. View the City of Newburgh’s fireworks. Admission is $32.50. Meet at the Newburgh Landing, Front St, Newburgh, 800-979-3370. 8PM Pitchfork Militia. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 8PM Town of Wallkill Fireworks. Foreworks at dusk. Info: 692-7830. Town of Wallkill Golf Course, 40 Sands Rd, Wallkill. 8PM Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents Othello. Info: 265-9575 or www.hvshakespeare.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison, $47.50, $35. 8PM Community Playback Theatre. Improvisations of audience stories. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Road, Highland,$10. Info: 691-4118. 8PM Annual Independence Day Concert. The West Point Band will perform. Music ranging from marches to rock and roll, followed by a spectacular fireworks display overlooking the Hudson River. Info: 938-2617 or www.westpointband.com. West Point, Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point. 8PM She Loves Me. A Rhinebeck Theatre Society Production directed by Tracy Carney with music direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert and produced by Karen Forray. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24. 8PM Aston Magna at Bard 2014: A Season of Romance, War, and Other Human Follies. A collection of seldom heard vocal and instrumental works under the title Music from a Turbulent 17th

9PM Chimps in Tuxedos. Info: 229-8277 or www. hydeparkbrewing.com. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

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Wishing to the Stars - Tanabata Bamboo Tree Decoration Celebrate the Japanese star festival called, “Tanabata”. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz. Hudson Valley Renegades Game & Fireworks (7/3 & 7/5). Come for Taco An American Road Trip will be on Thursday. Sicilian Saturday will be a night filled with signature Italian cuisine and music as we bring Little Italy to the ballpark. There will be post-game fireworks each night. Web site: www.milb.com. Dutchess Stadium, 1500 Rt. 9D, Wappingers Falls, 848-838-0094. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing – Blackhead Mountain.Singles and Sociables outings welcome all adult hikers, single and non-single, aged 18 and above. No reservations required. This is a moderate, 9-mile hike with one steep climb led by Tonda Highley (845-255-9933). Call the hike leader for meeting time, location, and fee by 7/3. New hikers are strongly encouraged to contact the leader prior to the hike for information on hike levels, what to bring, and other information. Hike leaders determine whether or not to allow pets. Show Opening: The Life of the Common Canal Worker. For times and info: 687-9311 or www. canalmuseum.org. D&H Canal Museum, 23 Mohonk Rd, High Falls. Margaretville’s Annual Firemen’s Field Day, Car Show & Fireworks (7/1-7/6). Rides, games, and food & beverages starting at 6pm each day. Car show will be held on July 3rd at 6pm. Fire-

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12PM Starlab, a portable planetarium. Stargazers will enter the inflatable dome (inside the Carriage House at Boscobel), relax on the floor and gaze up at a night sky to look for star patterns. All proceeds benefit Boscobel’s Education Program. Info: 265-3638. Boscobel, Garrison.

Amenia Carinval and Fireworks (7/2-7/5). The carnival will run from 6:30-10:30pm each day. Fireworks will be held on Friday at dusk. On Saturday there will be a parade at 5pm. Amenia Firehouse, 36 Mechanic Street, Amenia.

12PM-3PM 3rd Annual Village of Tannersville Independence Day Parade. Featuring Greene County Pipe Band. Main St, Tannersville.

6 AM Dutchess County’s Balloon Festival (7/4-7/6). The Walkway Over the Hudson will be open early for guests. Mass launch from the Hudson River Rowing Association Boathouse. Hosted by Dutchess County Regional Chamber. All launches are open to the public and complimentary to attend, and many feature community gathering and food & drink. Info: www.dcrcoc. org/balloonfestival.

1PM Wild Saturday: “Bald and Golden Eagles in the Catskills, “ an informal talk by biologist and wildlife rehabilitator Peg DiBenedetto. Info: 254-6025, or www.woodchucklodge.org. Woodchuck Lodge, 1633 Burroughs Memorial Rd, Roxbury. 1PM Starlab, a portable planetarium. Stargazers will enter the inflatable dome (inside the Carriage House at Boscobel), relax on the floor and gaze up at a night sky to look for star patterns. All proceeds benefit Boscobel’s Education Program. Info: 265-3638. Boscobel, Garrison.

8AM-2PM Dutchess Dragon Boat Race and Festival. 24 teams compete on a short course and one emerges as Dragon Boat Champion. All proceeds benefit the Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation and Arts Mid-Hudson. Sponsors are being sought. You can paddle or form a team. There are 16 paddlers per boat plus drummer; teams may be larger. To register, visit www.DutchessDragonBoat.org. Held at the Hudson River Rowing Association Community Boat House.

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9AM Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

1PM-10PM The Eleventh Annual Fireball! A day of music with a collective of gifted musicians! Dance around the fire. Swim in the sacred river. Eliot Cowan will also do a brief talk and book signing for the new edition of his book, Plant Spirit Medicine. Info: 586-3225or www.bluedeer.org. Blue Deer, 1155 County Route 6, Margaretville.

9AM Object de Junque…. Vintage items, jewelry, clothing, organic veggies. Something for everyone! 679-6744.Woodstock Flea Market, Maple Ln, Woodstock. 9AM-10:30AM Woodstock’s 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.

1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing.No reservations required. Meet at the Trapps Bridge. Children 12 and under are free. Children must always be accompanied by an adult. (weather permitting). Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, 255-0919.

9AM-2PM Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market. Offering local produce, fruit, specialty/ farm items - wine, honey, pickles, condiments, hot sauce, homemade pasta & sauce, jams & jellies, cheese, cured meats, eggs, baked goods, woven baskets & kitchenitems, vendors - crafts, unique & specialty items. Info: www.hhvfm@verizon.net or 616-7824 Cluett Schantz Park, 1801-1805 Rt. 9W, Milton.

1:30PM-4PM Super Saturdays. The Center is open for recreation for all ages. Info: 254-5469 or info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center -, 287 Main St, Pine Hill, free.

9AM-2PM Kingston Farmers’ Market. Wall St, Kingston. 10AM Bloomingburg’s 4th of July Parade and Family Day. Mamakating Town Park, Bloomingburg. 10AM-12PM Woodstock Land Conservancy’s First Saturdays on the Trail: Trek at Bluestone Wild Forest/Ontoera Lake with Michael Drillinger, licensed guide. Meet at the Onteora Lake Trailhead parking lot on Rt 28, Wear appropriate footwear and bring water.WLC’s Saturday morning events are free and open to the public. Bring the kids along. Event will cancel in the event of rain. For updates and more info : www.woodstocklandconservancy.org. 10AM-12PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Make Your Own Animal Track. Children will make their own plaster animal track to bring home. Approx 2-mile hike. Pre-registration is required. Designed for children between 7-10, accompanied by a parent. Info: 255-0752.Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner, $8 /per car. 10AM Mid Hudson ADK: Lake Awosting Loop from Lake Minnewaska Hike. 8.5 miles. Intermediate Hike. Leader: Brian T. Sullivan, 594-9545 contact prior to 9 pm. Hike, swim, at this for a ‘beginning of summer’ outing. Info: www.midhudsonadk.org Trailways Bus Station, Prosect St, New Paltz. 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 Red Hook Village Farmers’ Market. Offering organically grown local produce, pastured meats and eggs, baked goods, cheeses, pickles, wine, flowers, honey, jams, soap and other great local products.On-going Saturdays 10am-2pm thru October. Info:www.redhookvillagefarmersmarket.com. Across from the Village Hall, South Broadway at Prince, Red Hook. 10AM-12PM Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main Street, Stone Ridge, 687-7023. 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. 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 Durham Independence Day Celebration.. The parade will go down Main Street and end at the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre. Enjoy free hot dogs & ice cream and live entertainment.

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.

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kids’ activities; & a tag sale. 300+ friendly rescued animals to visit with! Info: 679-5955; www.woodstocksanctuary.org. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow, $10, $5 /kid.

11AM Blues Maneuver Train Ride. Rock & Roll and Blues. . Info: 586-DURR. Rt 28, Arkville.

11AM Delaware & Ulster Railroad Train Rides. Two-hour round trip excursion. Every Saturday and Sunday, through the end of October. 11am & 2pm from Arkville to Roxbury. Info: 586-DURR. Rt 28, Arkville.

11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary’s 8th Annual July Jamboree. Food trucks & Veg-E-Que; Bree Sharp & Friends performance;

11AM-3PM Free Guided Tours of Woodchuck Lodge. The summer home of naturalist John Burroughs. Picnic facilities, Boyhood Rock and

Burial Site (Burroughs Memorial Field) nearby. Info: 254-6025, or www.woodchucklodge.org. Woodchuck Lodge, 1633 Burroughs Memorial Rd, Roxbury. 12PM-7PM Summer Swim at Williams Lake. Public swimming, picnicking and sunbathing July 4th through September 1st on Fri, Sat & Sun (plus Labor Day) from 12 Noon to 7pm. $5 ‘sunset rate’ after 5pm. Cash Only at the door. All profits donated to the RosendalePool Project. Info: www. williamslakeproject.com/summer-swim. Williams Lake Beach, Rosendale, $10, $8 /senior, $6 /12 & under.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going every Saturday, 2pm in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 Ext. 1012 Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. 4PM Blues Concert. Featuring Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, Rock of Ages Horns, Greg Dayton & the Green Room Show Choir. Info: 518-263-2000. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main St, Tannersville, $5. 5PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Summerscapes” Member Show. Exhibits through 7/26. Info: www. ASKforArts.org or 338-0331. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. 5PM New Paltz’s Independence Day Celebration. Festivities include music, food and fireworks at dusk. Ulster County Fairgrounds on Libertyville Road in New Paltz, 255-0604. 5PM Town Of Lloyd Independence Day Celebration. Town Field, near the municipal parking lot. 5PM-10PM Highland’s Independence Day Celebration.Fireworks at dusk. The festivities will take place at the Town Field behind the Methodist Church. 5PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Hello Neighbor” Annual Exhibition. This year’s neighbor is Phoenicia’s “The Arts Upstairs” Group Show. Exhibits through 7/26. Info: www.ASKforArts.org or 338-0331. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. 5PM-7PM Art Opening: Rich Morris. Recent works. Info: 338-8734. Ecce Terra Restaurant, 288 Fair St, Kingston. 5 PM -8 PM Opening Reception: “Cardiochromes.” Deborah Di Pietro, Photography. Exhibits through 7/26. Info: 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. 5PM Town Of Lloyd Independence Day Celebration. Fireworks Town Field, Highland. 5PM-8PM Wilderstein’s Annual Benefit Fundraiser Summer Celebration. Summer party featuring cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, house ours, silent auction & more. Res reqr’d. Info: 876-4818 or wilderstein@wilderstein.org. Wilderstein Historic Site, 330 Morton Rd, Rhinebeck. 5PM-7PM Opening Reception: SURFACE tension. Exhibiting four contemporary artists: John Ferro, Kathi Robinson Frank, MP Landis and Josette Urso. Exhibits through 8/10. Info: pspace209@ gmail.com.. Stone Ridge Art Gallery PS 209, 3670 Main St, Stone Ridge. 5PM-8PM First Saturday Reception: David Frankel. Info: 331-3902 or www.milneathomeantiques.com. Milnes Homes Antiques, 81 Broadway,

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34 Kingston. 5PM-8PM Opening Reception: Emerging Arts of the Hudson Valley Art Exhibit. Presented by Jewish Federation’s Fall for Art. Showcasing student art from Coleman HS, Kingston HS, Marlboro HS, New Paltz HS & Rhinebeck HS. Info: info@fallforart.org. Cornell St Art Studio, Cornell St, Kingston. 5PM-8PM Opening Reception for “Ribboning Out” an exhibition of fine prints and books. Experience the quiet, abstracted local landscape photography of Steven Gentile and the personal narrative of artist’s books and print editions by Mindy Belloff, through July, celebrating a poetic independence from the expected. Also on view, an exquisite collectible print of the historic Goddard Declaration of Independence, created with over 7,000 letters hand set in metal type, one a time, and printed letterpress.Intima Gallery, 196 Main St, Saugerties, Info: www.IntimaGallery.com Tel: 917-412-4134. 5 PM -7 PM Opening Reception: “Material, Strata and Synthesis.” Works by Laura Moriarty, Eleanor White, and Anne Arden McDonald. KMOCA’s regular hours are Saturdays 12-4, or by appointment.Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts 103 Abeel St, Kingston. 5Pm Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters on “The Legendary Magic Bus.” Roger Lazoff will show a film and give a talk.Woodstock Library Forum, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock, 679-2213. Free. 5PM-8PM Opening Reception: Portraits. Works by Marshall Borris. Exhibits through 7/26. Info: www.TheStorefrontGallery.com or 338-8473 The Storefront Gallery, 93 Broadway, Kingston. 5PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Remembering Meyer Lieberman”. This exhibition will encompass several works of art which Meyer created during his two years spent at the Mountain Valley Manor. Exhibits through 7/26. Info: www.ASKforArts.org or 338-0331. Arts Society of Kingston, Broadway, Kingston. 5PM-7PM Sawyer Motors Car Show KickOff Party. Live entertainment by the Hot Rod Band. Corner of Main and Market St, Saugerties. 6PM The Gardiner Community Concert Series & Open Mic. Featuring Will Gallison. Every concert begins with a pot luck dinner followed by an an open mike. Then the featured performer. All ages welcome. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. 6:30 PM Pre-show Party at the Piano Bar with Johnny Dell! Meet in the Center lobby with the always entertaining Johnny Dell. Stump the band - 10th person to stump Johnny will have their ticket bought back. Drink specials all night. Followed by She Loves Me at 8pm. A Rhinebeck Theatre Society Production directed by Tracy Carney with music direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert and produced by Karen Forray. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308,Rhinebeck. 6:30 PM Twilight on The Rails. Delaware & Ulster Railroad offers another moonlit excursion. Music by The Blues Maneuver Band, food, and a little romance play a part in this magical evening train ride through the scenic Catskills. D&U rolls out of the Arkville Depot. Tickets are $17 per person. Reservations are strongly suggested and can be made by calling the Arkville Depot at (845) 586-3877. The DURR Rt 28, Arkville. 6:30PM Maverick Hall Concert: Benjamin Verdery, guitar. American Landscapes II: Music of the Americas.$40 or $50 (depending on the event). $200/book of 10 tickets, “Pay-what-youcan” seating. Bring your own chair or blanket. Info: 679-8217. Catering, wine, and beer from Yum Yum. Maverick Concerts, 120 Maverick Rd, Woodstock, $25 /gen adm, $5 /students, free /12 & under. 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, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville, 518-678-3101. 7PM Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Workshop. Info: 679-8587 or www.hudsonvalleydances.org. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Rd, Port Ewen, $10, $5 /full-time student. 7PM OMNY Taiko featuring Taiko Master Koji Nakamura. Info: 518-263-2063. Orpheum Film &Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main St, Tannersville. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Split Bill - Ben Fields & Adrien Reju. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 7PM-9PM Brett Sears. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 7:15PM Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me. Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org or www.musicinvasion.

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ALMANAC WEEKLY brownpapertickets.com. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale, $6. 7:30PM-10:30PM Swing Infusion Dance. $10 admission includes basic lesson at 7:30 and a bonus move at 9pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. MAC Fitness, 743 East Chester (route 9W) Kingston. Swing Infusion takes place on the 1st Saturday of every month. No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. For more info visit www.got2lindy.com or call 845-2363939. 7:30 PM -10:30 PM Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Caller: Pamela Goddard. Band: Jeanette Hancock-Huttel, violin, Sue Polansky, clarinet, Katie Jeannotte, piano, Stewart Dean, concertina. Info: 679-8587. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Rd, Port Ewen, $10, $5 7:30PM-10PM Saturday Night Live Music. The Metroploitan Hot Club. Info: 255-8811 or www. GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, $5 /suggested donation. 7:30PM Dave Kearney and Dean Batstone. Info: 229-7791. Hyde Park Free Library Annex, Hyde Park, $10. 7:30 PM Crosby, Stills & Nash Info: www. BethelWoodsCenter.org. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, $88, $68, $33.50 /lawn. 8PM The Big Takeover. Snug Harbor, Main St, New Paltz. 8PM Independence Day Hoe down with Little Creek. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff, 876-0590. 8PM Three Viewings. Play by Jeffrey Hatcher. An engaging trio of woven monologues all taking place in a mid-western funeral parlor. James Glossman will direct. Info: 647-5511 or www. shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39. 8PM In Your Arms. Directed and Choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Vassar College, Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40. 8PM Screening: Bringing Tibet Home. A mission to reunite the Tibetan land with its people, literally, through an art project by Tibetan contemporary artist Tenzing Rigdol that involves smuggling 20, 000 kilograms of native Tibetan soil to India (82 minutes). Info: 383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston, $8. 8PM The Belleayre Festival Orchestra.Performs The Music of Queen: A Rock SymphonyBrent Havens, conductor Brody Dolyniuk, vocalist + A Great Rock Band Tent: • $66 • $56 • $46 • $36 • Lawn: $26.800- 942-6904 or 845-254-5600 x 1344 belleayremusicfestival@gmail.com.Belleayre Mountain, 181 Galli Curci Road, Highmount. 8PM Justin Townes Earle, with Sean Rowe. 18+. Info: www.bspkingston.com. BSP Kingston, 323 Wall St, Kingston, $25, $20. 8PM Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents The Liar. Opening Night. Info: 265-9575 or www.hvshakespeare.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison, $54.50, $41. 8PM She Loves Me. A Rhinebeck Theatre Society Production directed by Tracy Carney with music direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert and produced by Karen Forray. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308,Rhinebeck. 8PM The Babylon. Play by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Terry Kinney. Info: 437-5907 or powerhouse@vassar.edu or wwwpowerhouse. vassar.edu. Vassar College, Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40. 9PM Golden Grass. Also, It’s Not Night: It’s Space will perform at the ninth installment of SmashCrashBash! Info: 518- 822-1913. Half Moon, 48 S. Front St, Hudson. 9:30PM Black Mountain Symphony. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 10PM Music Invasion -A Hard Day’s Night. 50th anniversary of the release of A Hard Day’s Night, the revolutionary black & white film about “a typical day in the life of The Beatles.” Info: www. rosendaletheatre.org or www.musicinvasion. brownpapertickets.com. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale.

Sunday

7/6

Margaretville’s Annual Firemen’s Field Day, Car Show & Fireworks (7/1-7/6). Rides, games, and food & beverages starting at 6pm each day. Car show will be held on July 3rd at 6pm. Fireworks display held July 4th & 5th at dusk, about 10:30pm. Village Park and Pavilion at 982 Main Street in Margaretville, 586-4419. The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. Self-guided tours of four private gardens in Amenia and Pawling, hours vary. No reservations required; rain or shine. Info: www. opendaysprogram.org or (888) 842-2442 for locations. Hudson Valley, $5 /per garden, free /12 & under. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing – Storm King State Park.Singles and Sociables outings welcome all adult hikers, single and non-single, aged 18 and above. No reservations required. This is a strenuous, 9-mile hike led by Gary Curasi (845-534-2886). Call the hike leader for meeting time, location, and fee by 7/3. New hikers are strongly encouraged to contact the leader prior to the hike for information on hike levels, what to bring, and other information. Hike leaders determine whether or not to allow pets. Wishing to the Stars - Tanabata Bamboo Tree Decoration Celebrate the Japanese star festival

called, “Tanabata”. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz. 6 AM Dutchess County’s Balloon Festival (7/4-7/6). The Walkway Over the Hudson will be open early for guests. Mass launch from the Hudson River Rowing Association Boathouse. Hosted by Dutchess County Regional Chamber. All launches are open to the public and complimentary to attend, and many feature community gathering and food & drink. Info: www.dcrcoc. org/balloonfestival. 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. 9AM Object de Junque…. Vintage items, jewelry, clothing, organic veggies. Something for everyone! 679-6744.Woodstock Flea Market, Maple Ln, Woodstock. 9AM-2PM Rosendale Summer Farmers’ Market. Live acoustic music and children’s activities at every Market! Rain or shine. Info: 658-8348; binnewaterbilly@gmail.com or 658-3805. 408 Main St (Rt213), Rosendale. 10 AM -12:30 PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Walk to Awosting Falls. Join a park educator for this two-mile walk to reach this magnificent 60 foot waterfall. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner, $8 /per car. 10AM-2PM “Eat Smart, Live Well” at the Rosendale Farmers Market. Learn valuable tips on how to prepare seasonal produce and so much more. Hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County’s (CCEUC) Nutrition Education Program. First Sunday of the month. Info:www.cceulster.org or 340-3990. Rosendale Farmers Market, Willow Kiln Park, 408 Main St, Rosendale. 10AM-2PM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Cameron Brown and “Dannie’s Calypso.” Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. 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. 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-3PM Free Guided Tours of Woodchuck Lodge. The summer home of naturalist John Burroughs. Picnic facilities, Boyhood Rock and Burial Site (Burroughs Memorial Field) nearby. Info: 254-6025, or www.woodchucklodge.org. Woodchuck Lodge, 1633 Burroughs Memorial Rd, Roxbury. 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 Delaware & Ulster Railroad Train Rides. Two-hour round trip excursion. Every Saturday and Sunday, through the end of October. 11am & 2pm from Arkville to Roxbury. Info: 586-DURR. Rt 28, Arkville. 11:30AM-2:30PM The Perry Beekman Trio. Info: www.therhinecliff.com or 876-0590. The Rhinecliff Hotel, 4 Grinnell St, Kingston. 12PM-7PM Summer Swim at Williams Lake. Public swimming, picnicking and sunbathing. July 4th through September 1st on Fri, Sat & Sun (plus Labor Day) from 12 Noon to 7pm. $5 ‘sunset rate’ after 5pm. Cash Only at the door. All profits donated to the RosendalePool Project. Info: www. williamslakeproject.com/summer-swim. Williams Lake Beach, Rosendale, $10, $8 /senior, $6 /12 & under. 1PM-3PM Summer Stages Workshop: Broadway in Bethel - Meet and Greet Reception. A theaterbased workshop for teens in grades 7-12. Participants will engage in rehearsing, designing, and performing the 60s rock musical Godspell. Info: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org or 295-2500. Bethel Woods, Conservatory at Bethel Woods, Bethel. 1PM-6PM Sawyer Motors Car Show KickOff Party. Live entertainment by the Hot Rod Band. Corner of Main and Market St, Saugerties. 1PM How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing.No reservations required. Meet at the Trapps Bridge. This interpretive program will last approximately 20 minutes, involves a gentle stroll, and will be led by a Mohonk Preserve Ranger who is an experienced rock climber. This is a free program but participants must either be Mohonk Preserve members or pay a day use fee to access the land. Children 12 and under are free. Children must always be accompanied by an adult.(weather permitting).255-0919. 1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-7148 or rizka@hvc.rr.com. 1PM-6PM 11th Annual Sawyer Motors Car Show. The Best Little Car Show in the Northeast! Over 500 cars. Fifty trophies are awarded to the best of the best. Registration details can be found at: www.sawyermotorscarshow.com/pages/Registration-p5267.html. Info: 246-4560. Main & Parti-

July 3, 2014 tion St, Saugerties, free. 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. 2PM Bethel Woods Film Series: A Hard Day’s Night. Info: www.bethelwoodscenter.org . Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Museum Theater, Bethel. 2PM 2014 Powerhouse Theater Season. In Your Arms. Directed and Choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Info: 437-7400 or www.powerhouse.vassar.edu. Vassar College, Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40. 2PM Three Viewings. Play by Jeffrey Hatcher. An engaging trio of woven monologues all taking place in a mid-western funeral parlor. James Glossman will direct. Info: 647-5511 or www. shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $34. 3PM-5PM New World Home Cooking presents its 16th Monthly Art Show Opening Reception. On view will be the paintings of compulsive artist, Scott Cronin, the modern folk art paintings of Laura Shapiro and, back by popular demand, the bird’s-eye-view glowing city maps of Michael Smith. The restaurant is located on Route 212 between Woodstock and Saugerties, NY. All shows are curated by Lenny Kislin. For info call 679-8117. 3PM She Loves Me. A Rhinebeck Theatre Society Production directed by Tracy Carney with music direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert and produced by Karen Forray. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, 4PM Music Invasion - The Last Waltz. Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org or www.musicinvasion. brownpapertickets.com. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale, $6. 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. Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 4 PM -6 PM Opening Reception - Sculpture Garden& Main Gallery Exhibit: Hanna Eshel “Fissures.” Exhibits through 8/24. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz. 4PM Maverick Hall Concert: Calder Quartet. American Landscapes III: California Style. $40 or $50 (depending on the event). $200/book of 10 tickets, “Pay-what-you-can” seating. Bring your own chair or blanket. Info: 679-8217. Maverick Concerts, 120 Maverick Rd, Woodstock, $25 /gen adm, $5 /students, free /12 & under. 5PM Bethel Woods Film Series: A Hard Day’s Night. Info: www.bethelwoodscenter.org . Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Museum Theater, Bethel. 5:30 PM 2014 Testing Dates for Minnewaska Distance Swimmers. To join you need to be at least 18 years of age and pass the swim test which consists of a 500 yard swim that includes 25 yards each of the crawl, breaststroke, sidestroke and backstroke plus 3 minutes treading water. For more particulars and an application, go to our website at: www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/ testingAll tests are given at 5:30pm on Sundays at the Moriello Pool on the following dates: July 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. There is a $3.00 pool entrance fee. The pool is on Mulberry St, New Paltz. Membership fee - $20. 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-all voices needed. Rehearsals every Sunday, 6-8pm. Info:rainbowchorus1@gmail.com or 845-353-8348. LGBTQ, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 7PM 30th Powerhouse Theater Season presents The Babylon. Play by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Terry Kinney. Info: 437-5907 or powerhouse@vassar.edu or wwwpowerhouse. vassar.edu. Vassar College, Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40. 7PM 2014 Powerhouse Theater Season. In Your Arms. Directed and Choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Info: 437-7400 or www.powerhouse.vassar.edu. Vassar College, Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40. 7PM Bard SummerScape 2014Film Series: “Schubert and the Long 19th Century.” Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 758-7900. Bard College, Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-onHudson, $10. 7PM Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Info: 265-9575 or www.hvshakespeare.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison, $47.50, $35. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Cameron Brown and “Dannie’s Calypso.”.Info: 236-7970 or www. liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 7:15PM Music Invasion - Stop Making Sense. Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org or www.musicinvasion.brownpapertickets.com. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale, $6. 8PM Marji Zintz. . Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Serendipity happens A long-tended garden yields happy results from whims of yesteryear

first learned the word “serendipity” when I was in junior high school; it was the clever name of an ice cream shop that my parents had come upon in New York City. I’ve been on the lookout for it ever since: the word, not the shop. And I find it, occasionally, in the garden. Like yesterday, for instance. Last March I sprinkled corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) seeds on a flowerbed that’s also home to espaliered Asian pears and a plum tree. Looking down at the dustlike seeds in the palm of my hand, it would have been hard to imagine that they could ever amount to anything – especially since I did nothing more than sprinkle them on top of the ground, the whole packet. But the seeds did amount to something – to more than just something: to oodles and oodles of two-foot-long stems capped by orangeish-red blossoms. The color is similar to that of Oriental poppies (P. orientale), but corn poppy flowers are smaller and more delicate: “all silk and flame,” to quote John Ruskin. Not exactly a serendipitous planting, because I did, after all, sow the seeds. But I could hardly have predicted the exuberant response. In amongst other plants, the flowers are held high. At the front edge of the bed, though, the dainty heads flop down on the lawn. That would be okay, except that it would be a shame to mow those silky blossoms when mowing the lawn at the bed’s edge. Likewise, it would be a shame to let the grass grow unfettered up around and hiding the blossoms. Too messy. So yesterday I propped the floppy plants up with a fence. Nothing fancy or permanent; just five short bamboo canes pushed into the ground about eight feet apart as posts. The crosspieces – four long bamboo canes, each slid along the lawn beneath the flowers – were then lifted and lashed to the short canes a foot above the ground. Serendipity: Not only are the flowers up off the ground, but the bamboo “fence,” simple as it is, also greatly improved the appearance of the bed, visually defining it the better to highlight the plants. My most serendipitous planting was many, many years ago, of tea crabapples (Malus hupehensis). I was using these plants for research when I was working for Cornell University. I needed clones, and tea crabapple has the quirk of apomixis, which means that its seeds do not reflect the sexual union of pollen with egg cells; the seeds are formed only from mother tissue, so grow into clones of each other and the mother plant. Starting many tea crabapples from seed left me with extra plants, so I took eight home and planted them in a tight row, with only a couple of feet between plants, along and about five feet from the back edge of my garage/barn. What was I thinking? Tea crabapple can grow 40 feet high and wide! As the plants grew, I sheared them into a hedge ten feet high and four feet wide. After a few years, I put a rear sliding door on the back of the garage/barn. Rather than walk out that door into a tree, I cut out one of the crabapples and sheared a living doorway through the row of remaining trees. I subsequently planted a privet hedge that runs perpendicular to the north edge of

Decoration Celebrate the Japanese star festival called, “Tanabata”. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz. 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.

pendence Day parade and vendors, live music, educational programs, baked goods. Bring your own lawn chair. Info: 607-498-5397. MonroeWoodbury Middle School, 199 Dunderberg Rd, Central Valley. 11AM-12PM Senior Qigong with Zach Baker. This class will not be held the second Monday of the month. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5.

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. Town Hall upstairs, Woodstock.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting. Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

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.

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.

10AM-12PM Senior Drama with Edith LeFever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Fire Co. #1, Rt 212, Woodstock. 10AM Independence Day Parade and Festival. Events include: Car & Bike Show, Touch-a-Truck, Operation Safe Child, vendors, music, children activities and Fireworks at dusk. Info: 928-6342. Niforatos Field, Old Route 17, Roscoe. 10AM-4PM Kool Kamp for Kool Kids. Summer daycamp for ages 6-12. Mondays and Fridays. outings, indoor and outdoor sports, arts and crafts, and surprise guests. Children should bring a lunch. Info: 254-5469 or info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 10AM-1PM “Arts in the Park” Series: Foundation Drawing. Christopher Seubert will teach Foundation Drawing. This is a class which covers all basic elements of drawing, including contour, value and composition. Students will select an element in the landscape and create a drawing. Info: 229-9422. Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site at ValKill, 56 Valkill Park Rd, Hyde Park. 11AM Woodbury Firecracker Festival. Inde-

1PM 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. 4PM Independence Day Celebration. Live music and food vendors. Fireworks at sundown. Info: 255-1011. Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 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, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. 5:30PM-6:30PM Qigong with Zach Baker. This class will not be held the second Monday of the month. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5. 6PM Old Chatham Quaker Meeting. Babies. Potluck at 6pm. Film at 7pm. Info: 518-766-2992 or www.oldchathamquakers.org. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Chatham.

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the crabapple hedge. Because the privet hedge is only about three feet high, I decided to meld it with the crabapple hedge by letting it swoop upwards at their meeting. Access was needed through the privet hedge also, so another arch was created, this one higher and wider to let my tractor pass through. It’s all very playful and, to me, pretty. And it all started with a mindless planting of extra tea crabapples. The height and length of these hedges present maintenance challenges. Years ago, scissoring hedge shears made the work pleasant but very slow. The top of the crab hedge demanded my climbing a ladder and swinging a shearing knife: a dangerous proposition. Technology has come to the rescue. Nowadays both hedges are kept trim and neat with two tools, both powered by 20-volt lithium batteries. What I can reach gets clipped with a hedge-trimmer. Thanks to my Black & Decker battery-powered pole hedge-trimmer, the ten-foot-high hedge no longer demands a ladder. The trimmer’s articulating head makes it easy to give the upper sides a 45-degree cut and then, after repositioning the blades at 90 degrees, to make a flat cut along the top of the hedge. The pole trimmer is especially important for making it convenient to cut high up on a hedge: the part most likely to be neglected, especially on tall hedges. Hormones within every plant favor most vigorous growth highest up in the plant. So the top of the hedge, left to its own devices, would naturally overgrow the lower portions, leading to shading and bare branches lower down. Keeping the upper part of the hedge narrower than the bottom counteracts this tendency. Drip irrigation saves water, makes for healthier plants and fewer weeds and is easily automated to eliminate watering chores. I will be holding a Drip Irrigation Workshop on July 19 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. where I’ll cover the benefits of drip irrigation, how to design a system and where to source components. This workshop includes a hands-on installation of a complete drip system in an existing vegetable garden and berry planting. Preregistration is a must; for information/ registration, contact me at (845) 255-0417 or 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.

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.

7AM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Early Morning Birders. Designed for birding enthusiasts or those just looking to learn the basics. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Main Entrance, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

6PM Beginner Swing Dance Class Series. Fourweek series 6-7pm. No partner or experience necessary. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Intermediate and advanced at 7 and 8pm.$75 per person per series. For more info and to register visit www.got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939.

7:30AM-12PM “How to Supervise People and Lead a Team.” Seminar lead by Glenn Shepard. Register at www.newpaltzregionalnycoc.wliinc16. com/external/wcpages/wcevents/eventregistration.aspx?eventID=4R5A2P. Wiltwyck Golf Club, 404 Steward Ln, Kingston, $149.

6:30PM Open Mic Night with Jeff Entin. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. High Falls Cafe, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls. 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, 38 River Rd, Hyde Park. 7:15PM A Hard Day’s Night. 50th anniversary of the release of A Hard Day’s Night, the revolutionary black & white film about “a typical day in the life of The Beatles.” Info: www.rosendaletheatre. org or www.musicinvasion.brownpapertickets. com. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale. 8PM Poetry Reading with Rachel Theres. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 9PM Viet Cong, with What Moon Things. 18+. Info: www.bspkingston.com. BSP Kingston, 323 Wall St, Kingston, $10, $8.

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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. Pleasant.

9:AM-10AM 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, $1donation requested. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 9:30AM Serving and Staying in Place, SSIP/New Paltz. Regular Tuesday social breakfast meeting for seniors who want to remain in their own home and community. Info: 255-5970. Plaza Diner, New Paltz. 10AM-11:30AM Parkinsons Exercise Class w/ Anne Olin. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston, 679-6250. 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. Ages 12 and up are welcome. The series will focus on Vinyasa Yoga for beginner and intermediate students. Bring your own mat and water. Rain or Shine. Reservations are required. Info: 255-0919 for reservations and program location. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, $12. 6PM Mid Hudson ADK: Waterfront Evening Experience Paddle. Leader: Dave Webber webberd1@yahoo.com or 452-7238. Paddle for 1.5-2 hours, 4-6 miles at an easy pace. PFD required!. Launch at boat ramp. Info: www. midhudsonadk.org Waryas Park, Water St, Pough-

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keepsie. 6PM-8PM Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee. A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). Info: 475-8781 or www.enjan. org. New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone St, Kingston. 6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 6:30 PM Wallkill Library will be hosting a fourweek beginners swing dance class for adults from 6:30-7:30 July 8-July 29 with professional swing dance instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. The Freemans have taught on cruise ships around the globe and have been the featured performers/instructors at hundreds of dance festivals and events. No partner or experience is needed to attend this special four-week series of Tuesday night classes. The Wallkill Library will be offering free babysitting for children (toddler to 10 years) of registered participants. $75 per person per series. Town of Shawngunk Community Room, 14 Central Avenue, Wallkill (behind library). For more info and to register visit www.got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. 7PM-8:30PM Singing Just for Fun! New Paltz Community Singers. Everyone welcome, everyone gets to choose songs. Going 20+ years. Meets every Tuesdays. Info: genecotton@gmail.com. Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, 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, 233 Tinker St, Woodstock. 7 PM -9 PM Open Mic. On-going, Tuesdays, 7-9pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 246-5775. 7PM-10PM Jazz Jam. Every Tuesday, 7-10pm. 452-3232. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie. 7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop . Meets every Tuesday night, 7pm-8:30pm.Free to attend: learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln (across from Super 8), New Paltz. 7PM Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Family Night. Info: 265-9575 or www.hvshakespeare.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison, $47, $32. 7:30 PM-9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions at Unison. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes. 8PM Gus Mancini. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Park and Swamp on North Ave. Call: Adrienne @ 264-2015. Info: www.watermanbirdclub.org. Bower Park and Swamp, Parking Lot, Ravine Rd, Pleasant Valley. 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. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 9 AM-4 PM Recycle & Reuse, mixed media with Jenne Currie. July 9-30. (4 Weds.) Info: 679-2388 or www.woodstockschoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rte. 212, Woodstock, $215, $20 /lab. 9:30 AM -1 PM Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. Info: 255-0919. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Peter’s Kill Lot, New Paltz, $8 /per car. 10AM-1PM “Arts in the Park” Series: Watercolor & Drawing. Join Staats Fasoldt for his Watercolor & Drawing class. Students will be painting the landscape surrounding Val-Kill Cottage with watercolor. Staats will demonstrate his watercolor technique. Info: 229-9422.Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site at Val-Kill, 56 Valkill Park Rd, Hyde Park. 11:30AM-12:30AM Lunch & Learn Series: Dizzy Gillespie Meets African Drumming — Teaching Music to Youth in Uganda.” Liz Fryer, Musician and Music Educator. Info: 471-0430. Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 S. Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie, free /lecture, $5 /lunch. 11:30 AM-1 PM Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Practice Group in New Paltz. On-going biweekly. To register and info: www.PracticingPeace-NewPaltz.com. Free. New Paltz, free. 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. 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. 6PM-8PM Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee. A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). Info: 475-8781 or www.enjan. org. Sadie Peterson Delaney AfricanRoots Library,

Family Partnership Center, 29 N Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie. 6:30 PM Beginner Swing Dance Class Series. Four-week series 6:30-7:30pm. Hosted by Wallkill Library with free babysitting (toddler to 10 years). No partner or experience necessary. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. $75 per person per series. Town of Shawngunk Community Room, 14 Central Avenue, Wallkill (behind library). For more info and to register visit www.got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. 7PM RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon: Henry IV, Part II. Play by William Shakespeare. Info: 518-789-0022 or www.themoviehouse.net. The Moviehouse, 48 Main St, Millerton, $20. 7PM Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents The Liar. Opening Night. Info: 265-9575 or www.hvshakespeare.org. Boscobel, Route 9D, Garrison, $47, $32. 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, 69 Main St, Saugerties, 246-8424. 7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission-no dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 7PM Live @ The Falcon: Vaneese Thomas. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 7:30PM 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 four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight reading not required. Info: wwwnewyorkerschorus.org. St. Andrews Church, 110 Overlook St, Poughkeepsie. 8PM In Your Arms. Directed and Choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Info: 437-7400 or www.powerhouse. vassar.edu. Vassar College, Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie, $40. 8PM Beki Brindle & The Hotheads. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 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. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, 51 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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COUNTRY LIVING AT ITS FINEST MARLBORO NY This 4 Bedroom/2 Bath Colonial/Farmhouse situated on 4.9 acres has been meticulously maintained and updated by the current owner. Custom Metal Roof completed in 2013. Updated baths in 2013. Wide Plank and Hardwood flooring. Eat In Kitchen w/breakfast bar. Formal Dining Room, Chandelier and Built in China cabinet. Formal Living Room w/Gas Fireplace and Built-In Book Shelves. First floor Bath w/walk in shower. Wet Bar area in Family Room. Office/Den w/built-ins. Large Deck leads to In Ground Fenced Pool. Fully Furnished One bedroom Guest/ Rental Cottage. Barn/Garage/Stable. Horses/Livestock are allowed on this property. ..................................................Offered at $394,900

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Oh MY! A beautifully landscaped 1.5 acres of lilacs, magnolia, apple, and pear trees, just a 3 minute walk to the Bear Cafe and the Little Bear restaurants in Bearsville! This exquisite Woodstock home is filled with sunlight; 3 bedrooms, sleeping loft, 3 full baths, a large living room, cathedral ceilings, skylight, fireplace and a wonderful artist studio. The large eat-in kitchen has numerous windows overlooking the huge wrap around deck. Under the nearly 400 square foot studio floor is a heated pool! Top this with a sparkling stream encircling the rear of the property, a garden shed, and a backup generator! Details are with Richard Miller! ............ $399,000

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698 Fischer Rd., Kinderhook, NY

THE HEN & THE COD The Codfish lays ten thousand eggs, The Chicken lays but one; But a Codfish never cackles to tell you what she’s done. And so, we scorn the Codfish, while the humble Hen we prize; Which only goes to show you that: IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE! ULSTER PUBLISHING

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Hill top location with magniﬁcent sunsets over the Catskill Mountains. Beautifully landscaped 2.3 acres surrounded by woods. One-owner colonial with huge dining room with vaulted ceilings, wood ﬂoors, updated kitchen with granite, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. Located near the Village of Kinderhook, 15 min. to Amtrak and Hudson, 20 min. to Albany. Call for your personal tour.

Dennis Wheeler, CBR Associate Broker (518) 496-2660

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ESOPUS CREEK, HUDSON RIVER ACCESS from your own dock! 2-Family, 2-Story home tucked into a quiet Saugerties Village hamlet. Rent towards mortgage, guest apartment or convert to single family. Walk to beach, restaurants, shops. Bonus: View of Waterfalls! ............................ $299,000

TEXT M113745 to 85377 CLAPBOARD COTTAGE IN PHOENICIA- Affordable & well kept 2-story home features a cozy stone-hearthed woodstove, nicely updated eat-in kitchen, some hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;oors, 3 BRs upstairs, 1.5 baths & spacious front porch PLUS sunny pet and play friendly backyard. Stony Clove Creek babbles just across the road.............................................................$158,500

PRISTINE CONTEMPORARY- Privacy on 6.8 acres in Highmount, just 1.2 miles from Belleayre Ski Center and all other area outdoor sports. 2 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath home offers single-level living in a bright & airy open ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan, wraparound deck for sunbathing and stargazing, and a blend of mature landscaping, raised garden beds, a variety of fruit trees & lush woods. Full dry basement with VERY HIGH CEILINGS & sliders to stone patio offers a myriad of expansion options. JUST LISTED! ........................................ $294,900

WOODSTOCK: 3BR/1.5 bath Ranch-Style Contempo w Guest apartment.Wraparound porch. Private 2 acres convenient to Wilson State Park. 100+ acres of DEP land on two sides. .....................$245,000 DENNING: 3BR/3bath Contempo w soaring ceiling from spacious living room with stone ďŹ replace. Guest apt has 2 bedrooms plus bar/media room. Wraparound deck great Mountain Views and rolling meadow on privately sited 5.6 acres! ............................... Now $499,000 OLIVEBRIDGE: 1800â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x153;Funkyâ&#x20AC;? cabin on 9 acres! Needs well and septic. Owner/ ďŹ n. .......................................... $115,000

TEXT M355543 to 85377 IF PRIVACY IS PRIMARY- When seclusion & quietude are your goal, this is the home for you. Thoughtfully sited on 36 acres and nestled against 2,000+ acres of FOREVER WILD LAND, this bright & airy 2700 SF contemporary retreat features a sunwashed 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Great Room for easy entertaining, en-suite MBR plus 2 addâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l BRs, 2 baths, den or home ofďŹ ce, loft PLUS attached 34x24 skylit STUDIO inviting artistic endeavors. Wraparound deck and patio bring natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bounty up close. Sweeping mountain views, pond, meadows, rushing stream & lavish garden complete the magical setting ......................... $499,000

TEXT M292685 to 85377 WOODLAND VALLEY CHARMER- Enjoy a single level lifestyle in this log & stone home nestled on 1.6 acres w/mountain & valley views! With log-beamed ceilings, 23' LR w/cobblestone ďŹ replace, large country eat-in kitchen, dining room, family/media room opening to generous patio for warm weather dining, 3 or 4 bedrooms, 2 full updated baths, newer roof & detached garage. Near skiing, ďŹ shing, hiking and â&#x20AC;&#x153;coolâ&#x20AC;? Phoenicia ......... $225,000

Your 2nd Home Specialist in the Hudson Valley Dolly Shivers, Associate RE Broker (845) 901-0092 mobile dolly@westwoodrealty.com

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WAITERS/WAITRESSES. Part-time, full-time. Apply in person: College Diner, 500 Main St., New Paltz.

2846 B Route 32, Saugerties, NY 12477 Phone: (845) 246-1001 â&#x20AC;˘ Cell: (845) 532-0310

Surrounded on 2 sides by the Mohonk Preserve with wide-board ďŹ&#x201A;oors, exposed beams & a breakfast area over-looking a stream this 4 bedrm 3.5 bath property on 11 + acres is a lovely refuge hidden away at the end of a private road with protected boundaries.....$695,000

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SAUGERTIES: Ready to build 2.6 acres w well, septic and electric. New access road. Mountain views w/ clearing. Convenient to Woodstock and Ski centers. Owner/ďŹ nancing. ......... $60,000 SAUGERTIES: Almost 15 acres w road, stream and municipal water! Subdividable. Owner/ďŹ nancing. .......................$150,000

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BUSY HAIR SALON established in 1990 in Woodstock, NY is looking for a stylist with following. 845-706-1888. EDUCATION DIRECTOR, Phillies Bridge Farm Project. Develop and implement childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and adult farm based education, related to school curricular and summer day camps; supervise interns & volunteers. Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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degree, Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preferred. Three years of garden/farm experience. Interpersonal, writing, budgeting, planning & computer skills. Go to: www.philliesbridge.org, link â&#x20AC;&#x153;participateâ&#x20AC;? then â&#x20AC;&#x153;job openingsâ&#x20AC;? for more information. Accepting online applications only at jobs@philliesbridge.org. Include cover letter & resume. 3 references to follow. FILE MONSTER NEEDED. Office seeking efficient, clever lover of files, filing and some archiving. Temp work for summer that could turn to permanent position. eric@francis.pw LIVE-IN CAREGIVER for our elderly mother recovering from hip surgery. Great for nursing student or experienced elder caregiver. This is a part-time position for queen assistance. Duties will include cooking 3 dinners/ week, food shopping 1 day/week & light cleaning. Must drive. Lovely family & environment; come join us. Please send resume to info@ sbwoods.com or call (845)688-2154 so we can talk. Salary upon request.

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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. HORSE BOARDING: Looking for a single horse to board w/my 26-yr. old mare. Mildmannered gelding ideal. Retired horse lifestyle on 8 acres of pasture, run-in barn, Stone Ridge area. $300/month includes hay, fly care, holding for farrier, and blanketing on extra cold days. Grain, farrier and vet expenses not included. Call Shannah 845-797-1393.

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Apply online at: www.tractorsupply.jobs Horse owners, farmers/ranchers and welders are encouraged to apply. Qualifying applicants will be contacted for scheduled interviews.

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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 POSITION AVAILABLE Executive Director Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum Oversees staff and operations, implements programs, budgets, fundraising and community interface. For full details go to woodstockart.org

COOK, PREP COOK & DISHWASHER NEEDED Apply in person at

Benny’s Pizzeria Rt. 209, Stone Ridge after 10:30 am

or call (845) 687-4243

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ASST MGR TRAINEE 3 people needed to assist local business. Oppty to earn $500 to $1,000 a wk pt & ft. College students welcome. Call between 9 am & 6 pm only.

845-336-6892 PART-TIME ROLL-OFF DRIVER WANTED, 4-6 hours per day, Mon-Fri. CDLB required. Please email cover letter and resume to jmprauge@hvc.rr.com. SEASONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR: Teach school field studies for grades K-8. Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Ed. or related field, and outdoor ed. exp. required. Season: Sept. 2-Nov. 7 with possibility to return for additional seasons. $12-15/hr. commensurate with exp. Must be able to hike up to 5 miles w/some elevation while carrying program equipment. Mail letter, resume, 3 references by July 11 to: Director of Education, Mohonk Preserve, PO Box 715, New Paltz, NY 12561. No phone calls please. Details: http://www. mohonkpreserve.org/jobs-fellowships-andinternships EOE

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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. Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras:Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana at Bard College, present a special Summer Intensive Workshop for Beginners on Saturday, July 12 in two parts. Part one, from 11am-1pm is for novices while part two, from 2pm-4pm, will continue the morning session work and incorporate more advanced playing techniques. Come for one or both sessions. Sessions will include a brief introduction to the culture and art of Bali. Please join us in the Moon Room, Olin Building, 3rd floor, on the Bard Campus. Led by local gamelan aficianado and scholar, Ibu Tzu. Pre- registration encouraged for one or both workshops. Email: pillasdp@hvc.rr.com. Bring your own lunch if you plan on saying for the day. Suggested donation $20.+/-. All contributions are tax deductible and support our work both here and abroad. On Facebook at Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. 845 688-7090. Sponsored by Bard College and Nihita Prayoga Adhikara. New Paltz Community-- this App’s for You! Hugies & Hipsters * Pub Owners & Pub Crawlers * Dentists & Patients * Shoppers & Shops *

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Chefs & Diners * Baristas & Coffee Lovers... Get Connected! Find us at: https://newpaltz.mycityapp.mobile Local businesses– contact us for our annual ad rates- 845-527-4100.

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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.

(845)901-8513 LOOKING FOR PRIVATE DUTY. Live in or out. 25 years experience with Dementia, Alzheimers, terminally ill & disabled clients. Excellent references. Call Dee @ 845-3991816 or 845-399-7603. RN - PRIVATE DUTY. RN with 25 years of clinical experience provides high-quality, personalized care. Honest, reliable, reasonable rates. Call 845-657-2432

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Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras:Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana at Bard College, present a special Summer Intensive Workshop for Beginners on Saturday, July 12 in two parts. Part one, from 11am-1pm is for novices while part two, from 2pm-4pm, will continue the morning session work and incorporate more advanced playing techniques. Come for one or both sessions. Sessions will include a brief introduction to the culture and art of Bali. Please join us in the Moon Room, Olin Building, 3rd floor, on the Bard Campus. Led by local gamelan aficianado and scholar, Ibu Tzu. Pre- registration encouraged for one or both workshops. Email: pillasdp@hvc.rr.com. Bring your own lunch if you plan on saying for the day. Suggested donation $20.+/-. All contributions are tax deductible and support our work both here and abroad. On Facebook at Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. 845 688-7090. Sponsored by Bard College and Nihita Prayoga Adhikara. PHOTO SHOW BY LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHER. Sat, 7/5, 10:30am6pm. 12 Sled Hill Rd, corner of Pine Grove, Woodstock. Near CVS.

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We Are... #1 in Sales in Ulster County* GREEK REVIVAL BEAUTY This bygone beauty sits on a knoll overlooking a beautifully landscaped meadow in the charming hamlet of Malden-on-Hudson in the cool, hip town of Saugerties, close to Horses In The Sun and Woodstock. Featuring 4 bedrooms, 4 ﬁreplaces, a renovated Kitchen, high ceilings, wide board ﬂoors, a marble bath & fabulous studio above the 2 bay garage. Call Marcia or Eamon. Licensed R.E. Salesperson, 845-802-4777 or 718-541-1144 ......$389,900 From the Village of Saugerties take 9W North to a right onto Main St. in Malden, house on left.

Spacious 3 bedroom home in a well-established neighborhood on Angel Road close to the Village of New Paltz. Eat-in kitchen & dining/living room are on the upper level; lower level features a bedroom, full bath, & family room with wood-stove. The greenhouse helps provide solar heat for house! This convenient location is about 5 mins SUNY New Paltz, and NYS Thruway. $239,900

Turn-Key Bed & Breakfast Business. The Inn at Orchard Heights. Flourishing Queen Anne Victorian vacation destination, in the very heart of New Paltz Village. Over a decade in business with regular & repeat clientele. Prime location: blocks from Trailways Bus Station & SUNY New Paltz. Convenient to the Gunks rock, Mohonk Mountain House, & Walkway over the Hudson. $700,000

Located in the quiet Crystal Lake community, this affordable home is a great place to get away. Enjoy a day of swimming, kayaking or just soak up the sun. Only minutes from hiking at the Rensselaerville Water Falls and the Huyck Preserve. There is also 4,500 acres of Partridge Run State Wildlife Management Area where you can hunt or snowmobile. Come out & take a look! $89,900

845-679-5800 845-338-5832

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DELIGHTFUL 2-BEDROOM on a very private 2.8 acres. 1 Full bath, EIK, living room w/wood-burning stove, screened-in porch. Oil heat, half cellar. Beautiful private corner lot, bordered on two sides by mountain stream. Garden/storage shed. $179,500. 908-369-1802. FOR SALE BY OWNER. 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

Pristine 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath contemporary home in Woodstock. There is also a 2 car garage with a 2nd floor of 624 sq. ft. heated and air conditioned studio space attached with bluestone breezeway. Located on almost 7 acres of magical property which features an enormous pond, gorgeous landscaping, open level land and woods. Close to Woodstock Village. $679,000

Relax on the deck overlooking the lawn or explore your own woods & ponds before going into Saugerties or Woodstock to enjoy one of the excellent restaurants or see a movie. Watch the sunset over the mountains! This architect-designed home offers generous space for entertaining. Cathedralceilinged great room features native stone fireplace & an expanse of windows. $434,000

Light and breezy living with mountain views and a trout stream to fish from. Lovely single level home, with an open floor plan, high ceilings stone fireplace all within walking distance to the Emerson Resort & Spa! This home features the best of everything with a chef’s kitchen, 2 Master suites with luxurious baths, 1/2 bath with washer and dryer and so much more! $269,900

9LOODJH*UHHQ5HDOW\ FRP 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 smiles. Airport transportation starting at $50. 845-649-5350; stu@hvc. rr.com

845-338-5832

www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com BIG BEAUTIFUL BARN At the end of a long driveway is a beautiful barn in a secluded country setting with the sounds of a rushing stream to keep you company while you convert it fully. Unusual for an old barn, a great deal of the structure is stunning old river stone. Over 2,000 sq ft on nearly 4 acres, the barn is now heated by a woodstove but has two fireplaces as well. Further insulation is needed to make it completely 4- season. An artist’s dream. ................................................... $275,000

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ANIMAL-FRIENDLY MINI-COMPOUND Heaven-sent for anyone who would like to keep horses or any other kind of farm animal, this 5-acre parcel is also perfect for a weekender simply seeking a relationship with nature and privacy. Or else create your own little farm. Owner-built home is compact, but with both style and substance to it. Several outbuildings and barn can also serve a variety of purposes, with definite studio potential above the garage. Absolutely stunning landscaping. Tranquil and solid and sweet: your very own minicompound. ............................................................. $293,000

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PUTT FORE PAWS... Ulster County SPCA. Join Us for Golf and Fun Friday, August 8, Apple Greens Golf Course, Highland. $125/golfer. Captain and Crew Format. Proceeds to Benefit Animals and Programs of the Ulster County SPCA. 8 a.m. Registration/ContinentalBreakfast,9a.m.Shotgun Start. Lunch/Awards/Auction following tournament. Sponsorship Opportunities!! Contact Dan at(845)255-1399.danmalski444@gmail.com

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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

YOUR OWN PRIVATE BYRDCLIFFE First time on market. Three bedrooms, two baths on 3 acres. Light-filled, rustic, quintessential Woodstock. Also included is 1000 sq ft barn from the 1850s. $499,000

Open House, Sunday, July 6, 12:30 -3:00 PM Meet Dorothea Marcus Dir: 57 Harmati Lane, Shady. Take 212 west from Woodstock. Turn right on Harmati (after Elena Zang gallery) House #57 on left.

223 Boices Lane, Kingston, NY 12401 845-336-2633 ofﬁce • 845-336-6711 fax weichertspiesman.com

WE BUY HOUSES! CASH PAID, QUICK CLOSINGS! Will look at any condition properties. We are the largest private buyer of homes in Ulster County and can provide references. Please call Dan @ Winn Realty Associates, LLC, 845/514-2500 or email dan@winn-realty.com.

HOME WITH 55 ACRES. Peaceful 3-bed, 2-bath manufactured home with its own 55 acre forest. With stream/pond/ footpath. Mountain view. 1,675 ft road frontage. 2 hours from NYC. $250,000. Enchantedforest3939@yahoo.com. NEW PALTZ VILLAGE: RAISED RANCH. Move Right in... 4-bedrooms, 3 baths. Apartment plus Home office. Shawangunk views. Pressure-treated deck. Many updates. Must see to appreciate! REDUCED$309,000. Call Sam, Century-21 Venables 845-656-6088. SUNNYSIDE OF SHADY. Timber Framed Contemporary Woodstock, NY: Sited on 12 private acres w/swimming pond, stream, pristine mountain views. Open floor plan, French door entries, wide plank floors, fireplace, thirty oversized Anderson passive solar windows, R52 insulation, 3-bedrooms, 3 baths, 3072 sq.ft. Connect w/nature and positive energy. $995,000. Call today: 518965-8439, Laurie Hanenberg, NYS Licensed Real Estate Broker. WEST SAUGERTIES: SWEET COTTAGE in like-new condition. Has hardwood floors, new carpet, new kitchen, new bath, new roof, new windows, new plumbing, new well pump. The outside has new plantings enjoyed from a private back deck. Located on a quiet dead-end road, this house has charm, a good price & move-in condition. JUST REDUCED; $119,000. Richard Miller, Win Morrison Realty (845)389-7286. WOODSTOCK HOUSES: Wonderful, circa 1895, TOTALLY REFURBISHED FARMHOUSE on 4.65 private, magical acres w/lawns, meadows & fields. Has 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, large custom kitchen w/ cathedral ceiling, LR w/stone fireplace, huge screened porch, decks, separate studio, 2-stall barn & raised bed vegetable garden. Loads of amenities! $559,000. BREATHTAKING PROPERTY! Beautifully landscaped 1.5 acres topped off w/a sparkling year-round stream. This LIGHT & BRIGHT HOME has a spacious eat-in kitchen, 3-bedrooms, 3 baths, large LR w/cathedral ceiling & brick fireplace. The studio space has good light & is perfect for all your artistic talents. Great location. Walking distance to Bearsville P.O. & Bear Cafe complex. JUST REDUCED$399,000. Richard Miller, Win Morrison Realty (845)389-7286.

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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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Joyce Beymer Real Estate JoyceBeymer.com

Rhinebeck

914-388-9808

WOODSTOCK AREA, off Dug Hill Rd; 2 wooded BOH approved building lots, 4 and 19 acres (with stream), listed $69,000 & $109,000. Owner retiring. All Reasonable Offers Considered. Phone/fax: 845-339-2075. email: betsyko@aol.com

SAUGERTIES LOTS. B.O.H.A. building lots with great views, private setting, 2+ acres, great neighborhood. $60,000 per lot. www.saugertiesland.com (845)9017014, owner.

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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/ year-round views, NOT just seasonal). Must be secluded (absolutely no homes in view), AND MUST BE WITHIN 10 MINUTES DRIVE TO WOODSTOCK. CASH OFFERED, CAN CLOSE IMMEDIATELY! Contact: sabe1970@yahoo.com.au w/photos/info. or call (518)965-7223.

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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 sq.ft. and garage; 1600 sq.ft., w/17’ ceilings. $1850/month includes heat & A/C. 396 Wittenberg Rd., Bearsville. Call (845)679-5762. SINGLE ROOM OFFICE for rent facing SUNY. $400/month. All utilities included. Ample parking. Suitable for therapist, accountant etc. (845)255-0574, (917)7746151.

gardiner/ modena/ plattekill rentals

MODENA: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT near Junction 32 & 44/55. 650 sq.ft. on second floor of converted 19th Century barn. Quiet. Parking. Snow-plowed. Trash, recycle weekly. 1-year lease, 1 month security. No smokers, no dogs, References. $725/month excluding utilities. Available 8/1. 845-8830857. ROOM FOR RENT FOR ONE PERSON in spacious 3-bedroom house. Share 1½ baths, K, D/R & L/R. 9 miles from New Paltz. Garage parking, W/D, A/C and all utilities included. Basement area for storage or relaxing. Access to the Rail Trail, magnificent views. $650/month. No smoking, no pets. First month’s rent and one month security deposit. Available immediately. 845-2556767.

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Custom Contemporary Located off beautiful Cooper Lake Road, this one-owner custom built 4 Br, 2 bath Contemporary is the ultimate Family Home. Walking distance to Cooper Lake, minutes to the center of Woodstock and room for everyone! ......... $450,000

Top of Paradise Woodstock 3 BR, 2bath Contemporary w/Mt views, totally renovated, gourmet cook’s kitchen, screened porch and hot tub. Weekends or full time you’ll never want to leave this four season retreat! ....... $549,000

Country Family Home Perched on a knoll on a quiet country road sits this classic 3-4 Br, 1.5 bath Dutch Colonial beautifully upgraded and ﬁlled with original details. Great location, great neighborhood, great schools! ................ $249,000

Perfect Post & Beam Nestled in Woodstock’s Wittenberg valley is the perfect post & beam 2 Br Contemporary get-a-way w/FPL surrounded by generous decking on 2.86 acres bordered by protected land PLUS studio!... $284,000

Walk to Woodstock Spacious Woodstock Byrdcliffe style Farmhouse c.1917 has been beautifully restored and renovated to 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths while retaining its original charm on 2.4 landscaped acres. Reduced ..... $499,000

office space commercial rentals

NEW PALTZ: OFFICE/PROFESSIONAL SPACE(S) for rent. Large, beautiful Soho loft-like space(s) w/brick walls & new large windows. Faces the Gunks w/great views. 71 Main Street. Best downtown location. Former architect office(s). Will divide. Call owner (917)838-3124. steven@epicsecurity.com

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Starting a new business? Woodstock/West Hurley offers the perfect LIVE/WORK opportunity. Professional Ofﬁce plus apartment with high visibility just off Rt 28. Bring your practice AND enjoy a residence in the country. .......... $179,000

highland/ clintondale rentals

Weekly, $500-$660 Monthly, w/kitchenettes $185 or $200 weekly, $700 or $760 monthly + UC Taxes & Security. No pets. 845.883.7395.

HIGHLAND: 2-BEDROOM

on 5 acres. Laundry facility & parking on premises. Minutes to Bridge. $995/month includes heat & hot water. No smoking, no pets.

Call (845)256-1119.

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new paltz rentals

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!

HIGHLAND: APARTMENT #3; BEAUTIFUL 1-BEDROOM, airy spacious apartment. Skylight in LR, balcony off LR, large kitchen, many closets, serene surroundings. $900/month. Call Michael (570)296-6185.

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

HIGHLAND EFFICIENCIES at villabaglieri.com Furnished motel rooms w/micro, refrig, HBO & WiFi, all utilities. $135-$175

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

MODERN STUDIO

in CARRIAGE HOUSE on the HUDSON RIVER If peace and tranquility are what you are looking for... this may be PERFECT for YOU! 280°of Hudson River views, wrap around balconies; private deck, designer bath and kitchen. Magniﬁcent sunrises and sunsets, grape arbors and award winning gardens. If the sound of migrating geese and eagles ﬂying is too great a distraction... this is NOT for you! Private dock w/ available slip. Located at end of cul de sac. On a private peninsula between Ulster and Greene. Not suitable for young ones. Owners live nearby.

Annually: $2G per month plus utilities; Contact Owner @ 646-352-2201 NICE ROOMS; $415 & $470/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call (914)474-5176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (845)255-6029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message. 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home. Includes utilities, cable and high speed internet. Walking distance to SUNY and town. No pets or smokers. $1200/ month, 1½ month security. Available immediately. Call (914)475-9834. 1-BEDROOM UPSTAIRS APARTMENT. New kitchen w/dishwasher, off-street parking. Quiet area 3 miles from village. No smoking, inside. No dogs. $720/month plus utilities & $1100 security. Water, sewer, garbage, mowing & snow plowing included. Available 8/1. 845-255-7214.

2 s i n g l e BEDROOMS i n 5 - b e d r o o m house available. Also, 3-BEDROOM APARTMENT in different house. Reasonable rents, most utilities included. Garage also available. Call/ Text: (914)466-6781. AVAILABLE AUGUST/ SEPTEMBER. VARIOUS APARTMENTS... Located 49 & 21 North Chestnut Street. 1-year lease. Discounts for early deposit. rohr321@ yahoo.com; 845-229-0024. BEAUTIFUL 3-BEDROOM PRIVATE HOUSE in New Paltz w/backyard & driveway on quiet street. Within walking distance to supermarket, movie theatre, more. $1600/month. Perfect for 3 students. Call Rick 914-5731252.

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rosendale/ high falls/tillson/ stone ridge rentals

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Spacious rooms. Includes 1 car garage & porch. Off Main Street, Rosendale. No pets. No smoking. $750/month plus utilities. (914)4660496. 1-BEDROOM first floor APARTMENT: $875/month- heat & hot water included, electric separate. Available 7/1. Security plus 1 month rent required. Rear yard & additional storage available. Main Street, Rosendale. Please contact (845)787-6580. HUDSON RIVER VIEWS Stunning Hudson River views are yours with this artfully renovated two story home perched on a bluff in the quirky Hudson River hamlet of Sleightsburg. A short walk to the Sleightsburgh Park boat launch and Rondout restaurants and Marinas. This 3 bedroom home is located on a hidden cul-de-sac and features an all new kitchen with stainless steel appliances and fab new tiled bathroom with custom vanity. .Asking only $199,000!

COOPER LAKE AREA Woodstock contemporary set at the end of of a long private lane on over 15 acres of woodlands. The house is dramatic and light ﬁlled with two story cathedral ceilings, hardwood ﬂoors and lots of tall glass doors. When the surroundings beckon you out, you can enjoy a summer BBQ on the spacious deck or a cool night under the stars while in the cozy hot tub. ..............Asking $599,000

Call Sheri Saﬁer @ 914-466-4576

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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kingston/hurley/ port ewen rentals

LIVING SPACE AVAILABLE in Hurley, quiet neighborhood just outside Kingston. Living room, small bedroom, 1/2 bath. Fully Furnished. Must share kitchen and shower. $650/month. Call (845)706-9567.

445 WEST SHOKAN LOG This is a wonderful year round full time or weekend country home that is nicely sited on two acres adjacent on one side to “forever wild” land. Enjoy barbecuing, reading, sitting, entertaining or just being outside on the inviting open porch. The dramatic cathedral ceilings, beautiful stone ﬁreplace and lovely wood ﬂoors in this open plan great room make this a delightful home! ........Asking $269,000

Call Sheri Saﬁer @ 914-466-4576

BOICEVILLE WITH STUDIO Stylish renovation of 3 bedroom, 2 bath COTTAGE STYLE home in the Town of Olive. OAK floors throughout, new maple and granite kitchen with SS appliances. Includes attached Workshop/ Garage/ Studio. Community water and sewer. WALK to schools and shopping! ......... Asking only $165,000

Call Dan Winn @845-802-3954

We Buy Houses • Cash h Paid d•Q Quickk Cl Closings Email: Dan@winn-realty.com or Call 845.802.3954 616A Route 28, Kingston, NY 12401 845.514.2500 • dan@winn-realty.com

Daniel Winn

ALL ABOUT LOCATION Warm and friendly four bedroom, two bath home is just a short walk to the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, the quaint Village of Gardiner and the Gardiner Library. Watch skydivers from Blue Sky Ranch, soar overhead. You will feel as though you can reach out and touch them from your level backyard. You’ll delight in the expansive ﬂoor plan, featuring an oversize Living and Dining Room. Family room is spacious with wood burning, brick ﬁreplace and sliding glass doors leading to the large back yard, perfect for any outdoor games! Located at the end of a quiet lane and bordered by the Majestic Park! .................................. $250,000

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

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

www.coluccishandrealty.com

** Become a Fan of Colucci Shand Realty on Facebook ** GREAT 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT for rent, close to Main St. Located in a quiet neighborhood, off Rte. 32 North, across from Agway, in a private residence. Very clean. Private entrance. No smoking, no pets. Includes basic cable and internet. $1050/ month. Please call Maria at 845-559-8303 after 2 p.m. Available immediately.

COZY 2-BEDROOM New Paltz APARTMENT

1.5 baths, Town & Country, near Rail Trail. $1350/month. 1 year lease. First month, 1 month security. Non-smoker. Call (845)216-3429, (845)290-0513. LARGE SINGLE ROOM. Share kitchen & bath. Internet, heat, hot water included. $575/month. Call 845-304-2504. LOVELY, LARGE 2-BEDROOM tastefully furnished apartment in 2-family home. Private parking. 13 miles to New Paltz. Ideal for professional or two grad students. $1000/month. Available Sept. Please call: 201-857-2958

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. Olivebridge/Samsonville: MOBILE HOME rental. Available now. In the country. 2-bedrooms, 1 bath, tub & shower separate. Eat-in kitchen w/lots of cabinets, opens into the living room. Off the road. Wellmaintained. Pets allowed. Cable. $800/ month plus utilities. Call to see 845-6573379.

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PICTURESQUE STREET; Live in part of lovely house on quiet street in village. Garden views, porch, everything new, privacy, offstreet parking, 1 block to college. $875/month plus share of utilities. Call (845)430-5336. 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 to everything. Call 845-664-0493.

krumville olivebridge/ shokan rentals

saugerties rentals

FURNISHED STUDIO APARTMENT on 3 acres. $950/month utilities included. Private fenced-in yard, off-street parking. A MUST SEE! Call for details (845)9018188. NICE 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT, in great location. Rent is $750/month plus utilities. First, last, security required. Call Phil 646-644-3648. SAUGERTIES VILLAGE: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Off-street parking. $750/ month includes heat. (845)246-1844. WEST SAUGERTIES: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. 1 person preferred. $675/ month plus utilities, security, references. No smoking. No dog. Call (518)398-0102.

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rhinebeck / red hook rentals

1 or 2 FURNISHED BEDROOMS. Private bath w/skylight. Share kitchen. Town of Ulster. $550/month includes cable. Short or long-term. E-mail: organichaircaresystem@gmail.com w/your phone number & name.

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woodstock/ west hurley rentals

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT; $700/month plus security and utilities. Walking distance to town. No pets please. Call 845-679-8442.

SHARE 3-BEDROOM APT. Good student rental. Internet. Furnished. $500/month includes heat, hot water. Call 845-304-2504.

1-BEDROOM COTTAGE in Woodstock w/full bath, stone fireplace, very small loft. Washing machine. Large deck. Newly renovated. On 1 acre. $950/month plus utilities. Call Owner (845)679-8259.

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.

AFFORDABLE LUXURY 1-BEDROOM CONDO. Ground floor. $900/month includes A/C, heat, HW, pool, covered garage, storage space, garden, washer/dryer on premises. 1 block to NYC bus. No pets or smoking. (845)247-4041. GORGEOUS AND FULL OF LIGHT, spacious 1-bedroom w/great kitchen, tiled bath, private deck and backyard. And more to be seen. Great location. 1-year lease. $875/ month. 845-684-5193. LARGE 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in Woodstock. Full bath, Living room. Glasco Turnpike at Route 212. $650/month utilities not included. References required. Call (917)217-3700. LARGE HANDSOME WOODSTOCK HOME. 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 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE on quiet road in Woodstock/Lake Hill. Newly renovated. Great new bathroom. (Outdoors being painted). 1 beautiful acre. Nice stream. $950/month. (845)417-5282. SUNNY LOFT APARTMENT w/separate eatin kitchen & lots of closet space. $640/month plus utilities. Short walk to center of Woodstock & bus route. Sorry, no pets. Call (845)594-9257, leave message w/phone # or e-mail contact infoinclude phone # to: pyxe2000@yahoo.com (try phone number first) TWO 1-BEDROOM HOUSES for rent on private estate. 3/4 of a mile from Village Green. Both houses at the end of private dead-end road. First house: fireplace, hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings. bathtub. $875/month. Available 7/1. Second house: last house on road. $725/month. Available immediately. Call (845)679-8639. WONDERFUL WOODSTOCK IN-TOWN CARRIAGE HOUSE. 2-bedrooms, cathedral living room & Overlook Mountain view. Chestnut trim, hardwood floors, deck off living room & deck off eat-in country kitchen. Clawfoot tub w/bronze shower surround w/stained glass window, washer & dryer. $1600/month includes oil heat & off-street parking. No smokers. No pets. First, last & security. Walk to bus, shops, restaurants, etc. 1-year lease. Call 845-901-6628. WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM. Quiet upscale residential neighborhood. Beautiful grounds. Small quiet apartment complex. Excellent condition & well maintained. $845/month includes all utilities. ALSO, FURNISHED 1-BEDROOM. $875/month includes all utilities. No smoking. References. No pets. (845)679-9717. WOODSTOCK HOUSE FOR RENT; Whitney Dr. area. 5-bedrooms, 2 baths, central AC, new furnace, new floors. $1450/ month. Call Gus (914)329-5575. WOODSTOCK/LAKE HILL. Fully furnished share in restored colonial farmhouse available now. $500 includes all utilities, internet, private phone. Work exchange available for strong, reliable person. NS, NP. homestayny@msn.com. 679-2564.

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ADORABLE STUDIO APARTMENT. Hardwood floor, skylight, separate kitchen, covered deck, WiFi, trash removal, tennis court, laundry. 7 miles Village Green. 2 miles supermarket & Zen Monastery. $625/month plus utilities. 914-725-1461. SHANDAKEN: Appealing 2-STORY HOUSE, 1-bedroom plus den, wrap around rocking chair front porch. No smokers/pets. $750/month plus utilities. References. 1 month security. 845-526-2689 VILLAGE OF PHOENICIA: 2-BEDROOMS, 5 rooms. 2nd floor in 2-family house. Lease, security, references. Nonsmoker, no pets. Available 9/1. $750/month plus utilities, first, last & security. Call 845688-2646. kbsound@hvc.rr.com

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vacation rentals

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island. Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com

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Mount Saint Mary College NEWBURGH, NEW YORK RK

Transfers welcome! Transfer college credits towards a bachelor’s or master’s degree Transfer Admissions Events July 16 and August 5 • 2-7 pm Outstanding academic programs and the support you need to succeed Register today: msmc.edu/TransferEvent or 1-888-YES-MSMC MC

SU M M E R G E T A W A Y 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. $1200/month utilities included. Available June through Sept. 212-9958116. WOODSTOCK: BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM HOUSE o v e r l o o k i n g Sawkill Creek. Furnished, 2 baths, laundry, cable, stainless steel appliances, skylight. Upstairs/downstairs decks. 7 minutes Kingston. Non-smokers. $850/week; $200/night, 2 night min. $3000/month. 845-255-2379. WOODSTOCK; IN TOWN, charming 2-bedroom, 1 bath, WiFi, HDTvs, new appliances, private patio. Weekly, monthly. 321-388-4387.

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A Healthy Summer is Right Here Vitamins & Supplements Bulk Items Fresh Produce Deli & Bakery

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island. Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com YEAR-ROUND OR SEASONAL RENTAL. Cottage w/newly renovated kitchen, 1-bedroom, large living room. Quiet accessible road. 5 miles to Woodstock/Saugerties/ Kingston. Great writers retreat with inspiring ambiance. No pets/smokers. References, security. 212-877-4368, 917-572-5507, davsar@aol,com.

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CONRAN’S WOODEN PICNIC TABLEHunter Green, 66” x 36”; includes 2 benches with backs and arms and 2 matching chairs. $650. (845)679-7644. HIGH QUALITY, USED

BROWN LEATHER COUCH $100 or best offer

PILLOW TOP QUEEN SIZE SEALY POSTURPEDIC BED $100 or best offer

CALL (845)688-2800

motherearthstorehouse. com 300 Kings Mall Ct 1955 South Rd 249 Main St KINGSTON POUGHKEEPSIE SAUGERTIES 336-5541 296-1069 246-9614

FARM TABLES: Catskill Mountain Farm Tables handcrafted from 19th century barn wood. Heirloom quality, custom-made to any size. Also available, Bluestone topped tables w/wormy chestnut bases. Ken, Atwood Furniture, 845-657-8003. LEG EXTENSION & LEG CURL MACHINE w/weights attached. Plus more exercise equipment.... Call (845)255-8352. LENOX MANTEL CLOCK- brand new in box, $50. 10-drawer SOLID STEEL MECHANICS CABINET- $300 obo- cash and carry. 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 845-255-0909.

Temple Stewart Dining Room Set, 6 chairs, table, 2 leafs, hutch- $800. Honda Generator, EB5000X- $1100. Troy-Bilt Pony Rotortiller- $500. Sears Tractor Lawnmower, LT1000, with mulcher on back$800. Troy-Bilt Snowblower, Storm10030$600. 4-Drawer Dresser- $150. Country Hutch Cabinet- $200. Toro 22” Recycler Lawn Mower- $100. 20’ Werner Ladder$150. Set of 48 MatchBox Cars and Case$350. Iverson Snow Shoes- $100/pair. Old Sleds- $30/each. Or Best Offer. 845-7502762.

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tree services

HAVE A DEAD TREE...

CALL ME!

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

(845)255-7259 Residential / Municipalities

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

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ﬁrewood for sale

Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood. Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

914-388-9607 Getwood123@gmail.com We accept cash, checks, & credit cards.

www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!! buy and swap

CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)246-0214.

antiques and collectibles

TIMELESS TREASUREZ TODAY, 70 Tinker Street, Woodstock. Nice Things Made to Last, Priced Right to move them Fast! Furniture, Antiques, Linens, Jewelry & More. Browsers Welcome. ThursdaySunday, 12-5 p.m.

vendors needed

DEALER SPACE COOPERATIVE. Busy blue barn with 7000 cars passing daily & proven 35 year track record. Rt. 28, 3 miles west of Crazy Popular Phoenicia. Call Faye at (845)532-4601 for details.

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estate/ moving sale

ART, ANTIQUES, SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE! Bikes, Snapper ride-on lawn mower, firewood, beautiful antiques & paintings, dishes, glassware art supplies, gardening supplies, linens, clothing, much more. By appointment (845)247-3902. ESTATE SALE/2-FAMILY. July 5 & 6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Many high quality, slightly used items, ranging from clothing, antique furniture, household items, garden furniture, tools, etc. 118 Maple Hill Drive, Rosendale. No Early Birds!! HUGE MOVING SALE JULY 4 & 5, 9 a.m.5 p.m. Selling the contents of my home. Something for everyone. Kitchenware, garden tools, sporting goods, women’s designer clothing including cashmere. Furniture, home and garden, paintings... no reasonable offer refused. Rain or shine. Follow signs to 7 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville.

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Huge Gallery & Yard Sale Items are: furniture, jewelry, home accents, Laughing Bear Batik, stone ﬁxtures & more...

July 4th, 5th & 6th all day at

Sweetheart Gallery 17 Cricket Ridge Road, Bearsville

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

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Sweetheart Gallery

1.2 miles past the Bear Café on Wittenberg Rd.

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.

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A TIBET THRIFT STORE. New arrival of furniture, antiques, housewares, summer clothes. Stop by. 7 days. 10am to 6pm. 875 Route 28, Kingston. 845-383-1774

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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.

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CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area. (845)9018513 ULSTER COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING; SENIOR NUTRITION/ DINING PROGRAM. Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals from 11:30 a.m.-noon. Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. (845)336-7112. Open Monday, Wednesday & Friday. They also provide an opportunity to socialize w/others who have similar interests. Guidelines: Please call the site between 10 a.m.-noon. the day before you plan to attend in order to be sure there are enough meals for everyone. Eligibility: You must be an Ulster County resident aged 60 or over. Cost: There is no set cost, but a suggested daily donation of $3 is requested.

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MOWER’S SATURDAY/SUNDAY FLEA MARKET; Maple Lane, Woodstock. Every weekend starting May 17th. Antiques, collectibles, produce & Reusables. GOOGLE US! 845-679-6744. woodstockfleamarket@ hvc.rr.com QUALITY GARAGE SALE. Woodstock Multi-Family Garage Sale Part II. Friday, July 4 and Saturday, July 5, 10 to 5. 41 Shotwell Rd. (1/2 mile from Village Green up Rock City/Meads Mt. Rd., Left on Shotwell, follow signs. Lots of great stuff. Many new items this week including furniture, tchotchkes, art, clothing, and antiques. No early birds please. STONE RIDGE QUALITY YARD SALE, Friday & Saturday only, 7/4 & 75. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. A-Z, large and small, something for all. Housewares, clothing, furniture, books, much more. 50 Vincent Lane (between Peak & Pine Bush Rd.).

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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. margotmolnar1@ gmail.com (845)679-6242.

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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. JACKIE OF ALL TRADES. Dog behavior specialist, dog walking, pet sitting, in-home dog boarding, tree cutting/pruning, cut firewood/stack, dump runs, organize clutter, housecleaning, yard work, fast efficient reliable. Reasonable rates. 845-687-7726. PROOFREADER AVAILABLE... CALL (845)417-6461.

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“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.

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol 687-7813. c.field@earthlink. net

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T&D PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. Your all in one property management company. We take care of your property management needs from the ground up. Contact Trever at 845-443-3853 or Dan at 845-901-3819 for your free consultation.

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bacon@sweetheartgallery.com GIANT WOODSTOCK SALE. Selling partial contents of house and barn, including quantities of artwork, antiques, books, glass, china, rugs, lamps, linens, paintings, bric-a-brac, furniture, garden equipment, tools, quilts, automotive books, fishing rods, jewelry, kitchenware, brass and copper, mirrors, silver, wing chair, trunk, and much more. Follow signs from intersection of Zena Road and Route 212. Friday, July 4th, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday, July 5th, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Rain or shine. Early birds are very welcome!

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July 3, 2014 EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean-outs. 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. HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, PressureWashing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (NewRefinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845-616-9832. 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. 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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AFFORDABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES. Carpentry of all kinds- rough to finish and built-ins. Bathroom and kitchen renos to small plumbing repairs. New tile surfaces or repairs. New floors finished or repaired. Door and window replacements or repair. Porches, decks, stairs. Electrical installs and repair. Insured, References. 845-857-5843.

PREMIUM BLACK TOPSOIL. Screened and mixed with organic manure. Special garden mix, organic compost, stone, sand, fill and other products available. Lab tested w/results provided upon request. NYS, DOT & DEP approved. Excellent quality. Any quantity. Loaded or delivered. 33+ years of service. 845-389-6989, 845-6870030

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SPRINGTOWN LANDSCAPES & IRRIGATION. Specializing in Garden Irrigation Systems. Retaining Walls, Walkways, Patios & Mowing. Bill Dietz, 12 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz. (845)2553800. springtownlandscapes@hvc. rr.com

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DID YOU KNOW there are wonderful RABBITS ready for adoption at the Ulster County SPCA? Here are just a few(All are spayed females!) TINA; young adult Chinchilla/Flemish; VIPER; Very friendly and litter box trained; FLOSSIE; very active young adult Chinchilla/Flemish. In addition, we have OUTSTANDING DOGS. You can meet them & their friends when you visit the UCSPCA... 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, it’s forever! Meko; Best w/experienced dog owners. Sweet & will protect you from anything! He’ll be your best buddy. Dutchess; 3-year old Neapolitan Mastiff. She’s very playful w/dogs & would do best in home w/ no children as sometimes she doesn’t know her own strength. Briggs; 2-year old mixed breed who loves to go for runs & gets along great w/dogs & cats. I’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. She’s our sassiest cat. Would do best in a home all to herself. She’s spent most of her shelter life in a cage because she isn’t a fan of other cats. Please give her some room to roam. 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, he’s a loving cat who wants to be around people. And we have KITTENS who will simply steal your heart! Come see THEM ALL at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston. (845)331-5377. FOR ADOPTION: “Benny” and “Charley” have been living w/their foster mom for a month and are ready for their forever homes. These two beautiful, male, 9-week old BEIGE TABBY KITTENS are litter pan trained, free of disease, had their well-baby

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July 3, 2014 Would you like to meet Harry & Sally? They are 8-wk. old black & white kittens. From the look of their fur, it’s very likely that they’ll have long hair. Their foster mother thinks they rank among the sweetest & friendliest kittens she’s ever fostered. They’ve had their wellness checkup, are up to date w/vaccinations & are litter pan trained. They are very attached to one another & we’re looking for a forever home that will love & care for both of them for the rest of their lives. If you think you might have that home, please call (917)282-2018.

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