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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar Ca l e n da r & C Classifieds lassifieds | Issue 48 | Nov. 28 – Dec. 5

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Local authors to turn out at local bookstores for Indies First

This Saturday, November 30 marks the introduction of Indies First, an idea started by author Sherman Alexie and backed by the American Booksellers’ Association. In September Alexie challenged his fellow authors to “be a superhero for independent bookstores and spend an amazing day hand-selling books.� By coordinating with Small Business Saturday, an American Express initiative founded in 2010 to generate a focus on local, independently owned businesses, Alexie encourages authors to volunteer a few hours of their time to mingle with customers at indie bookstores and, in so doing, give back to the small-business-owners who support them yearround.

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1,000 authors as guest booksellers on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, including a few of our regional favorites: At the Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz, Stefan Bolz (The Three Feathers), Jennifer Castle (The Beginning of After and You Look Different in Real Life), Susannah Appelbaum (The Poisons of Caux series) and Greg Olear (Fathermucker and Totally Killer) will each spend time during the day wandering through the store to help customers find their next great reads.

At the Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, Ann Burg (Serafina’s Promise and All the Broken Pieces) and K. L. Going (Fat Kid Rules the World and King of the Screwups) will be on hand to share their favorites and, of course, schmooze with readers – perhaps their favorite activity outside of actually writing great stories.

Oblong Books and Music in Millerton will host Margaret Roach (And I Shall Have Some Peace There and The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening and Life) and Lisa Lutz (The Spellman Files, Document #1). And in the Rhinebeck store,

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customers can chat with Jacky Davis (the Ladybug Girl stories), Kelly Braffet (Last Seen Leaving, Josie and Jack, Save Yourself) and Elizabeth Cunningham (Bright Dark Madonna, Red-Robed Priestess, The Passion of Mary Magdalen). Check each venue for exact times, and expect the unexpected: Other local authors might just float in and out during the day.

The enthusiasm of participating authors to give up their own holiday shopping and relaxing time to hang out with avid bookstore people is evident. “It’s a cool thing,� says Jennifer Castle. “I’ve lived here in New Paltz for three years, and my recent book is set in New Paltz. Inquiring Minds has supported me and hosted my events.

I contacted them about Indies First, and they were very excited to participate. I think it’s good for authors to have a taste of that hand-selling experience. We promote our own books, but have never been on the other side – out in the store itself, helping match people with books. This is what an indie has above Amazon or a big store. It’s a cool side of the book world that

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For more info about Indies First, visit www.bookweb.org/indies-first. To learn more about the independent bookstore oasis that is the Hudson Valley, read our piece, “Turn up the Volumes,� at http:// www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly. com/2013/04/18/turn-up-the-volumes/. – Ann Hutton

Nocturnal rocking in K-town “Kingston after Dark,� the Kingston Times’ weekly music and nightlife column, is putting on a Thanksgiving-weekend show guaranteed to flush the tryptophan out of overturkeyed bloodstreams and lend a helping hand to an excellent cause to boot.

The night of some of the finest local rock that Kingston has to offer will take place at the Anchor, located at 744 Broadway in Kingston. Put together by

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“Kingston after Dark” writer Morgan Y. Evans and Anchor co-owner Brandy Walters in consultation with Kingston Times editor Dan Barton, the lineup is as solid as Plymouth Rock, and substantially more tuneful. Local psychobilly stalwarts Pitchfork Militia (whose drummer, Joe Morgan, is Ulster Publishing’s production and technology director) will be on hand, as will neoclassic rockers the Grape & the Grain, who have just released two new thematically related tracks. Of the Atlas, which pursues and captures the territory between the Feelies and early REM, and Cities & Years, a post-hardcore ensemble, round out the lineup.

Proceeds from the evening – the suggested donation is $5 – will be donated to Kingston Cares, the Family of Woodstock program that does important outreach to Midtown youth and afterschool activities at the Everette Hodge Community Center.

There will be a prize raffle with submissions from Victory Records, plus gift certificates from Yum Yum Noodle Bar, Block Factory Tamales and more.

“Thanksgiving weekend is a great time to gather up old friends, as a lot of people are in town for the holiday,” said Barton, “and looking for something fun to do.

Here’s a chance to hang out at a great new local venue, hear some thoroughly awesome music and help one of the best causes out there.”

The show takes place on Saturday, November 30; the doors open at 8 p.m.

Check out the Kingston Times Facebook page for a link to the events page.

Family of New Paltz 5K Turkey Trot Does the enticing bounty of the Thanksgiving dinner table tend to saddle you with overeater’s remorse afterwards? Or does the head chef in your household grumble about you getting underfoot in the kitchen during the preparation of the great feast? Maybe this year it’s time for you to join the hundreds of Paltzonians who make it an annual

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tradition to run (or walk) five kilometers for a great local charity on Thanksgiving morning.

The tenth annual Family of New Paltz 5K Turkey Trot steps off at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 28 from the intersection of Plains Road and Water Street, behind the assembly point at the Water Street Market. The mostly flat racecourse follows Plains Road to its end and then returns to the starting point via the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. It’s preceded by the halfmile Mashed Potato Fun Run on the Rail Trail for kids age 10 and under.

Registration begins at 7 a.m. on the day of the event in the upper parking lot at the Water Street Market. There are also several ways to preregister and avoid the long lines: by mail using the registration form available at the Turkey Trot website (which earns you a tee-shirt if you register

by November 6); in person at the Jewish Community Center at 30 North Chestnut Street in New Paltz from 12 noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27; or online at www.active.com, which incurs an extra service charge.

Up until 6 p.m. on the day preceding the event, the entry fee for the Turkey Trot is $20 for runners/walkers ages 19 to 64 years and $10 for youths age 18 and under and seniors age 65 and over. On race day, the fee goes up to $25 for runners/walkers aged 19 to 64 and $15 for those 18 and under or 65 and over. Entry in the Mashed Potato Fun Run is free. The proceeds of the event benefit the Family of New Paltz food pantry.

Popular kids’ music band Fuzzy Lollipop will perform at the Water Street Market beginning at 8:30 a.m. on the morning of the race, Moxie Cupcakes will help you carbo-load and there will be face-painting and family photos available for purchase. The awards ceremony and 50/50 raffle drawing are scheduled for 10:30 a.m., so everything wraps up in plenty of time to make it home for Thanksgiving dinner – minus the guilt.

For more information contact Kathy at (845) 255-7957, or find registration forms and info online at www.newpaltzturkeytrot.com.

Woodstock Festival of Thanksgiving this Saturday at Bearsville The Marc Black Band has been playing at the Bearsville Theater on the Saturday night of Thanksgiving weekend for a number of years, and now it’s building on that tradition by offering a full-fledged offering of gratitude to the community. Held Saturday, November 30 at the Bearsville with doors opening at 8 p.m. and the show starting at 9, the musical lineup for the inaugural Woodstock Festival of Thanksgiving includes: pianist Warren Bernhardt (most recently with Simon & Garfunkel and Steely Dan), Happy Traum (world-famous guitarist and folklorist), Amy Fradon (chanteuse and lead singer with Face the Music), Gary Kvistad (percussionist and founder of Woodstock Chimes), Mike Esposito (original lead guitarist for America’s first psychedelic band, the Blues Magoos), Don Davis (alto sax for the Microscopic Septet) and Eric Parker (drummer for Joe Cocker, Paul Butterfield and Stevie Winwood).

The Woodstock Festival of Thanksgiving will also feature blessings from Lama Tashi Topgya, cantor Michael Esformes, pastor Gywneth Murphy and a poetry reading by Mitch Ditkoff. Twenty percent of the proceeds will be donated to Family of Woodstock.

Students from the Woodstock Elementary and Highwoods Schools will be participating as well: Displays of their artwork, inscribed with a line from each child artist about something that they’re grateful, will be on view at the Woodstock Library, where Black, who has been playing with his band in the area for the past 40 years, will give a free concert at 3 p.m. on November 30. In addition, some of the older students from Highwoods will join the adult musicians onstage at the Bearsville Theater Saturday evening.

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er, Michael Esposito and Don Davis) said that he has been thinking about hosting an event keyed to the holiday’s theme of gratitude for a while, and was particularly motivated by a couple of TED talks about how gratitude is such a strong pathway to happiness. “If you have a friend who is particularly critical of you, you kind of shrink – as opposed to somebody who is not blind to the negative, but focuses on the positive things, which enables one to grow,” he explained.

Black added that Thanksgiving is a day he has always cherished. The weekend after “always seemed like an interesting time, because the big day is over and people are just hanging out. We got the idea to tuck the music into the bigger idea.”

Event co-founder Evelyne Pouget – founder of One Voice Global, a painter and wife of poet Mitch Ditkoff – is involved in a program in which local high school kids are raising money for an orphanage in Laos, and she had the idea of including the children in Woodstock Festival of Thanksgiving.

The response has been so positive that Black said that he sees the Thanksgiving Festival spreading to other towns. “I’d be more than happy to help,” he said. “The time is right to celebrate the power of gratitude – not just in our family gatherings, but in our communities via music, dance, and art.”

– Lynn Woods Woodstock Festival of Thanksgiving, Saturday, November 30, 8 p.m., $25, Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock; (845) 679-4406, www. bearsvilletheater.com, marcblackmusic@ gmail.com.

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photo opportunity for Mom and Dad. Choose and cut your own Christmas tree, take a cow train ride, toast your toes and roast s’mores at the big campfire, visit the new Christmas shop for warm drinks and food. Hand-decorated wreaths and other holiday items will be available for sale. An on-farm hiking trail and kids’ corral activities are available, weather permitting. A farm hayride will transport families to the new Christmas tree site. Admission is free. Note the change of location from the past three years.

Home for the holidays in the Hudson Valley Here’s an overview of some great local yuletide events to help you plan your holiday season. Please call ahead to confirm details.

11/29: Santa Claus visits Hudson Valley Mall

11/29: Santa Claus photo op at Walkway over the Hudson

Join Ulster Ballet and Energy Dance to welcome Santa as he arrives at the Hudson Valley Mall at 1300 Ulster Avenue on Friday, November 29 at 11 a.m. Santa will be available for photos in Center Court. For more information, call (845) 336-8000 or visit www.shophudsonvalleymall.com.

Santa Claus will visit the Walkway over the Hudson on Friday, November 29 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at 87 Haviland Road in Highland. Sit on Santa’s sleigh surrounded by Hudson River views. Photos can be taken with Santa, available afterward online at www.walkway.org, or visitors may take their own photos. Photo opportunities will be available on the Walkway West approach in the Town of Lloyd throughout the day as well. For more information, visit www.walkway.org.

11/29: Holiday festivities at New Paltz’s Downtown Unwrapped  Visit downtown New Paltz in all its holiday finery and enjoy special discounts and giveaways at participating stores on Friday, November 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. Holiday windows will be unveiled. Enjoy cider, cookies, goodies and events in stores. Take a self-guided walking tour of the participating downtown shops using information picked up at downtown stores. For more information, visit New Paltz Downtown Unwrapped on www.facebook.com.

11/29-12/29: Holiday tours of Wilderstein Historic Site

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Photos (on cover & above) of Wilderstein Historic Site in yuletide regalia

11/29: Holiday TreeLighting in Kingston

11/29: Christmas caroling in Gardiner

City of Kingston mayor Shayne Gallo will kick off the holiday season by lighting the tree in Academy Green Park in Kingston on Friday, November 29 at 7 p.m. Enjoy refreshments, local entertainment and a visit with Santa and friends from 6 to 8 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Kingston Professional Firefighters’ Association. For more information, call (845) 331-1216.

With Gardiner’s new streetlamps, participants in the annual holiday caroling through the hamlet this year can leave flashlights at home on Friday, November 29. Dress warmly and meet at 7 p.m. at Gardiner Gables, the small building complex on Route 44/55.

The caroling concludes at Town Hall for a visit with Santa and the lighting of the tree.

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11/29: Santa parasails into Hurds Family Farm Santa and his Christmas elves, portrayed by professional skydivers from the Blue Sky Ranch in Gardiner, will be making an unusual 11 a.m. entrance by parasail landing at Hurds Family Farm, located on Route 32 in Modena. Word has it that Santa’s pack is brimming with small, special gifts, one for each child. This will be a great

Tours of the festively decorated mansion at the Wilderstein Historic Site will begin Friday, November 29 and continue on all Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. through Sunday, December 29. Some of the rooms at Wilderstein will showcase modern holiday displays, while other areas of the mansion will take visitors back in time with period dĂŠcor. Tours cost $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and students and are free for children under age 12.

For more information, call (845) 8764818 or visit www.wilderstein.org.

11/29-30: “Crowns and Branches� workshops to prepare for Sinterklaas Free workshops to create the crowns and branches used in Sinterklaas festivities will be held on Friday, November 29 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, November 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Kingston Home Port and Education Center at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, located at 50 Rondout Landing in Kingston. Kids will wear finished crowns and branches on Saturday to participate in the afternoon children’s parade at 4 p.m. For more information, call (845) 338-0071 or visit www. hrmm.org or http://www.sinterklaas-

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11/30-12/1: Crafted: Handmade in the Hudson Valley Local artists and designers will offer a cozy haven for the holiday shopper at the annual Crafted: Handmade in the Hudson Valley on Saturday, November 30 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, December 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the studio space of potter Ayumi Horie in the former church at 167 Cottekill Road in Cottekill.

Skillfully crafted items in the curated holiday shop showcase a diversity of wares, a range of prices and ongoing demonstrations by artisans. Explore the open displays of ceramics, lamps, knitwear, designer clothing, jewelry, farm preserves, heirloom seeds and more. Browse the booths and pay at one checkout point. Relax with hot tea and cookies by the fire, meet friends and get to know your local craftsperson. For more information, visit www. craftedhudsonvalley.org.

The 32nd annual Woodstock Holiday Open House will be held on December 6 from 6-10 p.m.

Lower Broadway and throughout the entire waterfront district in Kingston.

For more information, call (845) 3394280 or visit Sinterklaas Kingston on www.facebook.com or http://www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/.

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11/30: Sinterklaas Festival begins in Kingston Sinterklaas festivities begin in Kingston on Saturday, November 30 with a day of open houses, musical performances, a march down Broadway and puppets galore. Shuttle-bus service is available throughout the day. After the 4 p.m. children’s parade, Sinterklaas and his white horse will receive a grand sendoff from in front of the Arts Society of Kingston on a tugboat across the river to Rhinebeck at 4 p.m. After his departure, enjoy a Tree Lighting Ceremony and plenty of specials at all of the local restaurants on

11/30: Holiday Gift Fair featuring items from India Find unusual items from India for gift-giving on Saturday, November 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shanti Mandir, located at 51 Muktananda Marg in Walden. Proceeds benefit various charities. For more information, call (845) 778-1008, e-mail shanti@twcmetrobiz.com or visit www.shantihastkala.org.

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11/30: Holiday Rummage Sale in Red Hook Choose from ornaments, decorations, winter clothes and baked goods at a Holiday Rummage Sale on Saturday, November 30 at the Rowe United Methodist Church on Route 199 in Red Hook. Proceeds benefit local food pantries. For more information, email beverlygroth@yahoo.com or call (845) 758-0657.

11/30-12/8: A Christmas Carol at Woodstock Playhouse The Woodstock Playhouse at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock will host five performances of the timehonored Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; classic A Christmas Carol with performances on Saturday, November 30, Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday performances on December 1 and 8 at 2 p.m. All shows will be followed by a Winter Wonderland reception with carolers, refreshments, meet-and-greet with Dickens characters and a visit by Santa. Cast members include Noah Debiase (Christmas Present/Sandwich Board Man), Jenna Zito (Ghost of Christmas Past),

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Landon Sholar (Bob Cratchit) and John Curtis (Jacob Marley). For more information, call (845) 679-6900 or visit www.woodstockplayhouse.org.

12/1: Holiday Auction and Tag Sale at Rhinebeck Town Hall The Chancellor Livingston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Rhinebeck will team up with the Museum of Rhinebeck History to hold their annual Holiday Auction and Tag Sale on Sunday, December 1 at Rhinebeck Town Hall at 80 East Market Street in Rhinebeck.

Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. for a silent auction, bake sale, food sale, jewelry sale and “mocktails,” with a live auction beginning at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (845) 518-4008, e-mail info@ northerndutchessdar.org or visit www. northerndutchessdar.org.

12/1: Satya Yoga Holiday Fair in Rhinebeck Artists will showcase jewelry, pottery, watercolors and handmade gourmet chocolates on Sunday, December 1 from 1 to 5 p.m. Joining the artists will be a tarot card reader, yogic astrologer and chair massage therapists.

There will be refreshments, yoga class giveaways and a raffle, and admission is free. All are welcome at the Satya Yoga Center, located at 6400 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck. For more information, call (845) 876-2528, email satyayogacenter@gmail.com or visit www.satyayogacenter.us.

12/1: St. Nicholas Day and Community Carol Sing in Kingston The Old Dutch Church will host the St. Nicholas Day and Community Carol Sing on Sunday, December 1 at 4 p.m. The Old Dutch Church is located in the Historic Stockade District at 272 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 338-6759 or email info@olddutchchurch.org.

12/1: Paperworks in Red Hook’s Holiday Sale of small-sized artworks A holiday exhibit and sale of small works by local artists will be held on Sunday, December 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.

at the Red Hook CAN/Artist’s Collective at 7516 North Broadway in Red Hook. The artworks are eightand-a-half-by-11 inches or smaller and priced from $5 to $100 for giftgiving. For more information, e-mail redhookcan@gmail.com or visit www. rhcan.com.

12/4: Poinsettia and wreath sale in Rhinebeck hospital Northern Dutchess Hospital will sponsor a sale of holiday décor to include poinsettias, wreaths, swags and handmade decorations on Wednesday, December 4 at 6511 Springbrook Avenue in Rhinebeck. For more information, call (845) 871-3500 or visit www. health-quest.org.

12/5: A Christmas Carol special performance for students & seniors A special performance of Ulster Ballet’s A Christmas Carol with reduced ticket prices for area students and seniors will be held at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Thursday, December 5 at 10 a.m. The snow date will be Friday, December 6 at 10 a.m. Tickets cost $5. One free admission is provided for every ten tickets purchased. For information, call Michele Szynal at (845) 283-3809 or e-mail shoessox@aol.com.

12/6: Woodstock Holiday Open House The 32nd annual Woodstock Holiday Open House will take place all throughout the village of Woodstock with holiday music, carolers, treats, holiday window displays, raffles and more on Friday, December 6 from 5 to 9 p.m. For more information, call (845) 679-6234, e-mail info@woodstockchamber.com or visit www.woodstockchamber.com.

12/6: A Christmas Carol classic film version on big screen at Bardavon The classic film version of A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, will be shown on the big screen at the Bardavon on Friday, December 6 at 8 p.m. Pre-show Wurlitzer organ music is provided by New York Theatre Organ Society be-

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Saugerties will host its annual Holiday in the Village on Sunday, December 8 from noon to 6 p.m. It will include a Holiday Market, music, toy giveaways, live mannequins, free horse carriage rides, kids’ crafts, Santa at the Kiersted House, entertainment and surprises.

ginning at 7:30 p.m. General admission seating costs $6.

On Christmas Eve, the miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner Jacob Marley and a trio of spirits who take him on a journey through Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. As Scrooge encounters each apparition, he realizes what a wretch he is, and infused with a new outlook, he sets about earning his redemption.

Tickets are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster. com. For more information, visit www. bardavon.org.

12/6: Holiday Open House in Uptown Kingston Stockings and little stuffers will be given to the first 1,000 visitors to the Uptown Kingston Stockade District Holiday Open House on Friday, December 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. Follow the balloons for complimentary goodies. The parade starts at the County Courthouse on Wall Street. Meet Santa Claus and enjoy strolling carolers, refreshments, a raffle, roasted chestnuts and horse-and-buggy rides throughout Uptown Kingston between Clinton, North Front, Main and Green Streets in the historic Stockade District. For more information, email kubainfo@kingstonuptown.org or visit www.kingstonuptown.org or Kingston Uptown Business Association on www.facebook.com.

12/6: Festival of Lights at Senate House in Kingston The Festival of Lights at the Senate House State Historic Site at 296 Fair Street in Kingston on Friday, December 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. offers a visit with Santa, a free souvenir snowflake necklace and free horse-and-carriage rides through the streets of Uptown Kingston. The Senate House will be decked out with holiday lights and offer chestnuts roasting on an open fire, hot apple cider and carolers. Admission is free. For more information, call (845) 338-2786.

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The Snowflake Festival in Kingston on Friday, December 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. will feature Santa and his elves and a Holiday Treasure Map for children, with stocking stuffers along the way. Receive a free stocking at the Volunteer Firemen’s Mu-

seum (Fair Street) or LGBTQ Center (Wall Street). Stocking surprises can be found at Bop to Tottom, Loughran House, Hudson Traders, the Deitz Stadium Diner and Kingston Candy Bar. There will be storytelling at the Uptown Gallery (296 Wall Street) with children’s author Rebecca Henderson.

Two holiday movies will be shown at 43 North Front Street: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer at 7 p.m. and Elf (rated PG) at 8 p.m. The Old Dutch Church will play organ music from 6 to 8 p.m. The Holiday Parade with Santa Claus begins at 5 p.m. at Dietz Stadium, concluding with a Holiday Tree Lighting led by Kingston mayor Shayne Gallo at the intersection of Wall and North Front Streets. The grand marshal will be Evy Larios. A reception for Larios and the Kingston High School Jazz Band will be held at the Fred Johnson Museum at 7 p.m.

The Snowflake Festival is accepting donations for three charities at the event: New Coats for Kids (pre-K to 12), People’s Place and Snowbound Meals for Kids.

Donation areas for each of these charities will be set up at various venues along the parade route. For more information, visit www.kingstonuptown.org.

12/6: Benedictine Health Foundation Winter Gala The annual Winter Gala held by the Benedictine Health Foundation will take place on Friday, December 6 with a cocktail reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m., followed by an awards presentation, dinner and dancing to Bill’s Toupee. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (845) 334-3017 or visit www.benedictinehealthfoundation.org.

12/6-7: Celebration of Lights & Fireworks in Poughkeepsie plus Family Day On Friday, December 6, the City of Poughkeepsie will present its 20th annual Celebration of Lights Parade and Fireworks. The parade will commence at 6:30 p.m. at the corner of Main and Garden Streets and proceed to the evening’s first Christmas tree lighting on Main, near Market. The Celebration of Lights Parade is led by Poughkeepsie mayor John Tkazyik, and Santa Claus will end the procession on a City of Poughkeepsie Fire Engine.

There will be a fireworks display along the Poughkeepsie’s waterfront at 7:15 p.m.

Walkway over the Hudson’s December Moonwalk will be held during the Celebration of Lights event on Friday from 6-8:30 p.m. (from the Poughkeepsie approach only). Admission is $5 per person, free to Walkway members and children

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12/7: Festival of Light holiday show at Sinterklaas

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Highland’s annual tree lighting “Light up the Hamlet” will take place on Friday, December 13 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

under the age of 16 who are accompanied by an adult. Hot cider & chocolate will be available for purchase.

Throughout the evening, River District establishments (including Amici’s, The Derby, Caffe Aurora, Mahoney’s, Milanese, Noah’s Ark and River Station) will offer entertainment and food and beverage specials. Following the parade and fireworks, the Bardavon will screen the film classic A Christmas Carol (1951) featuring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, at 8 p.m., preceded at 7:30 p.m. with a concert on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ. All seats are $6.

On Saturday, December 7th, the Poughkeepsie River District Business Association and the Bardavon will present its Annual Family Day & Holiday Scavenger Hunt. Participation is free, and scavenger hunt registration begins at 11 a.m. at Caffe Aurora, where registrants will pick up their item card and area map for the hunt, which takes place within Poughkeepsie’s River District and Little Italy. The day’s entertainment at Dongan Square Park begins at noon and will include a petting zoo, performances by Uncle Rock and Story Laurie, carolers, face-painters and Santa Claus.

Parking is available in the City of Poughkeepsie municipal lots. For further details, log on to www.bardavon.org or call (845) 473-2072.

12/6-7: Christkindlmarkt European-style holiday in Kingston Experience the type of traditional Christmas market bazaar found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Kingston on Friday, December 6 from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturday, December 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 37 Greenkill Avenue in Kingston, home to the Kingston Maennerchor and Damenchor, the German-language chorus of men and women that promotes German culture and heritage in Ulster County. There will be specialty vendors, giftware, crafts, an Elves’ Table, tempting home-baked treats and German and American refreshments in the cafe. Admission is free. For more information, call (845) 757-5135 or visit www.nyssb.org/kmd.htm.

12/6-8: Ulster Ballet’s A Christmas Carol at UPAC in Kingston Ulster Ballet’s 19th annual production of A Christmas Carol comes to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 8 at 2 p.m. featuring a cast of 65 dancers, actors and stage professionals. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students. Group discounts are available. Tickets are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster. com. For more information, visit www.

bardavon.org.

12/7: Tuba Christmas at SUNY-Ulster SUNY Ulster’s annual Tuba Christmas will be held on Saturday, December 7 at 3 p.m. at the Ulster Savings Bank Community Conference Center in Stone Ridge. Join tuba and euphonium players of all ages and perform traditional Christmas music from around the world. Participants register at noon, rehearse at 1 p.m., and perform at 3 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. For information, call (845) 687-5262.

12/7: Sinterklaas Festival continues in Rhinebeck The Sinterklaas Festival visits Rhinebeck on Saturday, December 7 for a daylong, colorful celebration of dance, theatre and music all over the village. The Children’s Starlight Parade begins at 6 o’clock, featuring twostory-tall animated puppets carried by hundreds of volunteers. Lineup begins at 5 p.m. at the Starr Library parking lot on Route 308. See the Grumpuses, Morris Dancers, Bond Street Stilt Band, Raya Brass Band, Bindlestiff Cirkus, Ivy Vine Players, storyteller Jonathan Kruk, Solas An Lae Irish Step Dancers, Dog on Fleas musical group and more. New additions this year include a Toy Theater Fest, the Snow King and Queen, Mother Holly and Indian Dance. The honored animal this year will be the fox, with a new fox puppet to enjoy. For a schedule of events that take place from 10 a.m. to midnight, visit http://www. sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/.

The Vanaver Caravan and Arm-ofthe-Sea Puppet Theatre will bring an abbreviated version of their “Festival of Light,” a holiday show celebrating the world’s traditions for bringing light, joy and beauty into the darkest part of the year, to the Sinterklaas Festival on Saturday, December 7. The production will honor holiday celebrations that include Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, the Winter Solstice, Sankta Lucia (Sweden) and Diwali (India). Three performances of 30 minutes each will be held at 2, 3 and 4 p.m. at the Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck. For more information, call (845) 256-9300 or visit http://www.sinterklaashudsonvalley. com/ or www.vanavercaravan.org.

12/7: New York City holiday bus trip from Saugerties The Girls’ Community Club annual New York City bus trip is scheduled for Saturday, December 7. The bus will leave from the Big Lots parking lot on Route 212 in Saugerties at 7 a.m. and return from New York City from the Hilton Hotel at 6:30 p.m. See a show, shop, visit the holiday sites and see the tree at Rockefeller Center. Round-trip tickets cost $33. Make checks payable to the Girls’ Community Club. For reservations and information, call Leeanne Thornton at (845) 246-5652.

12/7: Alternative Gift Fair in New Paltz to benefit Family Shop for the holidays and benefit women and children in need at the Holiday Sale on Saturday, December 7 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New Paltz United Methodist Church, located at 1 Grove Street in New Paltz.

Proceeds benefit Family of Woodstock’s domestic violence services and the Washbourne House. Handcrafted items and original artwork donated by local artists will be for sale. For more information, call Colleen Geraghty at (845) 256-9233, e-mail lunasongs@ aol.com, call (646) 302-5835 or visit www.newpaltzumc.org.

12/7: Holiday Craft Fair of vintage & handmade wares in Kingston The Cornell Street Studios at 168

Cornell Street in Kingston (second floor) will host the third annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday, December 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., featuring vintage and handmade items along with one-of-a-kind gifts including jewelry, handbags, ornaments, art, ceramics, paper goods, hair accessories, clothing, baked goods and more.

Deejay Ali Gruber will spin vintage records and there will be live music with Leighanne Saltsman and Megan Kerper, complimentary hot cocoa and models showcasing vintage couture.

Admission is free. A raffle (tickets cost $1) will award vintage items, with proceeds donated to a local charity. A winter-themed art exhibit will also be on display. For more information, call (845) 331-0191 or visit www.cornellstreetstudios.com or www.facebook. com/events/566558303393285.

12/7: Holiday Gift Fair at Woodstock Elementary School The Woodstock Elementary School PTA will host a Holiday Gift Fair on Saturday, December 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school, located on Route 375 in Woodstock. Local artists and vendors will sell their wares, and there will be raffles and a silent auction. Refreshments will be available. For more information, call Amy at (845) 2511049 or e-mail ptawoodstock@gmail. com.

12/7: High Falls TreeLighting Singing of carols, hot soup and a visit from Santa will be the highlights of the High Falls Tree-Lighting on Saturday, December 7 at 5:30 p.m.

Bring an unwrapped toy for the Fire Department’s toy drive. End the evening with hot chocolate and cookies at the High Falls Community Church on Route 213 in High Falls. For more information, e-mail info@highfallscivic.org or visit www.highfallscivic.org.

12/7: Hudson Valley Hullabaloo holiday fair and party in Kingston A holiday craft fair where “arty meets party” is the idea behind the Hudson Valley Hullabaloo on Saturday, December 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at BSP Lounge at 323 Wall Street in Kingston. The Hullabaloo has all the components of a great party: yummy food, a well-stocked bar, great music, cool people, festive decorations, a designated photographer to capture the

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Classical Voice Students A Vocal Harvest December 3, 8:00 p.m.

Anonymous Contemporary Tibetan Art thru Dec. 15

Concert Choir December 10, 8:00 p.m.

Text and Music December 5, 8:00 p.m.

College-Youth Symphony December 15, 7:00 p.m.

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memories and dancing with the Hullabaloo Bear. Bring the family and spend the entire day. For more information, call (845) 750-8801 or visit www.hvhullabaloo.com.

Stories of the Season” on Saturday, December 7. Pillsworth will tell tales for children of all ages. For more information, call (845) 331-0507 or visit www.kingstonlibrary.org.

12/7: Holly Berry Trail annual tour of homes in Kingston

12/7-8: Santa Run at Trolley Museum in Kingston

The 13th annual Holly Berry Trail: Tour of Homes on Saturday, December 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. will show visitors extended previews of private homes in Ulster County that are fully decorated in holiday splendor, inside and out. The location of each home is a closely guarded secret until the day of the tour. Tickets cost $30. Proceeds from the event benefit the Junior League of Kingston’s community service projects. Most of the homes will be in the Kingston area. For more information, call (845) 481-3534, e-mail jlkny1@gmail.com or visit www.juniorleaguekingston.org.

Ride the trolley with Santa at the Trolley Museum in Kingston on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. The Santa Run along the waterfront costs $2. The Trolley Museum with rail-themed gift shop is located at 89 East Strand in the historic Rondout Waterfront District. For more information, call (845) 331-3399 or visit www.tmny.org.

12/7-8: Craft/Gift basket/Bake Sale in Saugerties The Reformed Church of Saugerties at 173 Main Street will hold its annual Christmas Craft/Gift Basket/Bake Sale on Saturday, December 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, December 8 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. A variety of arts and crafts as well as many different gift baskets will be for sale. Coffee and tea will be available both days, along with a bake sale, and on Sunday, there will be a soup-and-sandwich sale.

12/7: Frozendale Daze Festival in Rosendale The annual Frozendale Daze Festival will feature hayrides, live music, a visit with Santa and food and activities villagewide. This year’s tenth anniversary celebration takes place on Saturday, December 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with cookie decorating at the Rosendale Café and live music from 1 to 5 p.m., a screening of The Muppets Christmas at the Rosendale Theatre, the Big Cheese annual mac-and-cheese bakeoff at 5 p.m., the Rosendale Improvement Brass Band, raffles, storytelling and the Booktique at the Rosendale Library. For more information, visit www.rosendalechamber.org.

12/7-8: “A Christmas Carol Experience” at Bevier House Museum The Ulster County Historical Society (UCHS) will present a Victorianstyle Christmas at the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8. David Rubenstein, director of the Coach House Players in Kingston, will be the narrator in an abbreviated version of A Christmas Carol. The one-manshow lasts half an hour and will be performed four times each day at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Admission costs $10, $8 for UCHS members or $5 for students and seniors.

Other entertainment includes performances by the SUNY-Ulster Clarinet Choir, Kingston City Schools’ J. Watson Bailey Strings, the Coleman High School Choir, violin students of Katie Jeannotte and trumpets John Barath and Myra Latumski. The house will be decorated in Victorian fashion, and a special nutcracker exhibit will be on display. There

12/7: Holiday Craft Fair at Highland High School The Highland PTSA will host a Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday, December 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Highland High School, located at 320 Pancake Hollow Road in Highland.

12/7: Holiday storytelling at Kingston Library

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The 20th annual Celebration of Lights Parade & Fireworks will kick off the holiday season in Poughkeepsie on Friday, December 6 at 6:30 p.m. and continue on Saturday, December 7 at Dongan Square Park with Family Day

will be crafts for children, including the stringing of popcorn and cranberries to create a garland and making Victorianera Christmas “crackers.” There will be a gift raffle with items donated by local businesses and handmade holiday refreshments. For more information, call (845) 338-5614 or visit www.ulstercountyhs.org.

12/7-8: Unison Crafts Fair in New Paltz Craftspeople and fine artists will display and sell their work at the 23rd annual Unison Crafts Fair on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will include handcrafted gift items, ceramics, jewelry, leatherwork, woodwork, children’s clothing, wreaths, blown glass and more. Admission costs $3 for adults and is free for those under age 16. The event, sponsored by the Unison Arts Center of New Paltz, will be held at the New Paltz Middle School at 2 South Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-1559, e-mail info@unisonarts.org or visit www.unisonarts. org.

12/8: Warm up at the Washingtons’ in Newburgh Welcome in the holiday season with 18th-century flair at the Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site at 84 Liberty Street in Newburgh with “Warm up at the Washingtons’” on Sunday, December 8 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Step back in time to a quiet afternoon much like the kind that General and Mrs. Washington would have observed during the Yuletide season of 1782. Walk through the festively decorated rooms while being serenaded by the Salmagundi Consort. Historic interpreters will be in each room to answer questions and offer an overview about life during the winter of 1782.

Finish by an outdoor fire sipping hot cider and sampling cookies. Admission is free for the day. For more information, call (845) 562-1195.

12/8: Holiday Party at Highland Public Library Drop children off for an afternoon of games, crafts, holiday photos, snacks and a holiday movie at the Holiday Party at the Highland Library at 30 Church Street in Highland on Sunday, December 8 from 2 to 6 p.m. Take the afternoon off to go shopping while kids enjoy a visit with Santa and a celebration of Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. Sign up at www.highlandlibrary.org. The cost is $20 per child and a can or bag of dog or cat food for the Safe Haven Animal Shelter. All proceeds benefit the capital campaign

of the Library. For more information, call (845) 691-2275, extension 13, or e-mail jkelsall@highlandlibrary.org.

12/8: Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Winter Faire in New Paltz The Mountain Laurel Waldorf School at 16 South Chestnut Street in New Paltz holds its annual Winter Faire & Outdoor Marketplace on Sunday, December 8 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Each grade in the school, from kindergarten to the eighth grade, contributes to the event. The indoor Waldorf Gift Shop and the outdoor marketplace will have a selection of jewelry, toys, collectibles, antiques, books, handmade crafts and ceramics from local vendors. There will be refreshments, demonstrations and a visit from the Pocket Lady, who carries trinkets in her pockets for children to retrieve for the price of a ticket. Admission is free, and the event goes on rain or shine.

For more information, call (845) 2550033 or visit www.mountainlaurel. org.

12/8: Holiday Open House at Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park The Vanderbilt Mansion, located at 119 Vanderbilt Park Road in Hyde Park, will host a Holiday Open House on Sunday, December 8 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Mansion will be decorated for the holidays, with refreshments provided by the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Historical Association. Admission is free to the site from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, call (845) 4867745, (845) 229-6214 or visit www. historichydepark.org.

12/8: Into the Light! holiday show at Shadowland Theatre The Shadowland Theatre at 157 Canal Street in Ellenville will host Into the Light! holiday pageantry produced in collaboration by the Vanaver Caravan, the Caravan Kids and Youth Company and Arm-of-the-Sea Theatre on Sunday, December 8 at 3 p.m. The story takes place in a northern country where Lucia, the heart of her village, loses her inner light as the Sun’s light diminishes. Enchanting and festive dance, music and puppetry guide Lucia through the world’s communities to see how light is kept glowing through the darkest part of the year.

The production touches on a variety of holiday traditions including Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Sankta Lucia (Sweden), the Winter Solstice and Yule, with special guest singers Barely Lace. Tickets cost $5 for children under age 12 and $8 for adults.

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Saintly sailing Bi- coastal Sinterklaas in Kingston this week, Rhinebeck the next week

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he thousands of LED-lit Star Lanterns that snake their way through Rhinebeck with the parade represent the community coming together to celebrate. The kids are honored as kings and queens by the adults of the town. Giant puppet penguins are carried through the village by local volunteer puppeteers; the Honored Animal this year is the Fox. This is the scene at Sinterklaas, Rhinebeck’s annual non-denominational Winter Celebration. Sinterklaas is the updated successor to the town’s previous holiday pageant, Old Dutch Christmas, which had an eight-year run but was benched until 2007, when event coordinator Jeanne Fleming was given the green light to turn Rhinebeck into a whimsical holiday extravaganza once again.

According to Fleming, the idea of a holiday pageant in Rhinebeck was something of an emergency measure. After Rhinebeck’s Dutchess County Fairgrounds lost its Crafts Fair, a major annual attraction attended by people from around the world, Fleming was asked to create a new town event, and she brainstormed with around 100 of the most diverse Rhinebeck citizens she could assemble.

“They came up with and voted on a million ideas,” said Fleming. “But what they wanted most was an event for children, around the holidays, based on the Dutch tradition.” After doing a little research, Fleming came upon the old Dutch festival of Sinterklaas, the yearly Carnival celebrating the fourth-century patron saint of children and sailors, Saint Nicholas.

Fleming liked that it was a holiday event, and the idea of Sinterklaas himself: a kingly good guy with an abiding love for children of every race and creed. She also liked that Sinterklaas is truly a throwback’s throwback. Not only does the modern iteration of the Sinterklaas character embody the spirit and essence of Nicholas, but the character of Saint Nicholas, it is believed, is also built on the frame of the old Norse chief god Odin and the Good King Wenceslas of song fame.

Less appealing to Fleming was the part of the event wherein the Wild Men or Black Peters beat naughty children with a stick. Fleming decided to turn that idea upside-down, and to make Sinterklaas a celebration of children, in which the birch rods with which they were beaten were turned into their royal scepters.

The event has grown exponentially in the past few years, with Sinterklaas not only having a home in Rhinebeck, but in Kingston as well. Years ago, a Dutch teacher named Jan Schenkman wrote an illustrated children’s book that showed Sinterklaas as arriving in Holland from Spain on a steamboat. Saint Nicholas was popular in Spain as the patron saint of sailors, and in modern iterations of the holiday, is often seen arriving to Sinterklaas celebrations on a steamboat. Kingston will play the part of Spain on Saturday, November 30, when, after a day of celebration, Kingston will send Sinterklaas off on a tugboat to arrive later in Rhinebeck, representing Holland.

Sinterklaas will arrive in Rhinebeck on Saturday, December 7 in the Children’s Starlight Parade – a beautiful culmination to a day of celebration. After a day of allages fun and partying, the parade will begin at 6 p.m. Fleming herself will lead the parade, ringing an antique bell left to her by DeWitt Grinnell, a longtime Rhinebeck resident who was a noted organizer of village events. “The parade actually starts with people hearing Uncle DeWitt’s bell: a kind of a voice from the past, real Rhinebeck history. And that’s followed by Sinterklaas himself accompanied by his white horse,” said Fleming.

The parade itself is unlike any other holiday celebration because it is based on a story in which everyone who attends or participates plays a part. There are dance troupes and performance artists, The Snow King and Queen, The Pocket Lady, scores of puppets and the aforementioned gigantic papier-mâché creatures. “Re-

Open-seated tickets are available the day of the performance. For more information, call (845) 256-9300 or visit www.vanavercaravan.org.

12/8: St. Nicholas Day Crafts Fair in Rhinebeck to benefit Astor Services Holiday gifts, handmade items, baked goods, raffles, theme baskets and more will be available at the St. Nicholas Day Crafts Fair on Sunday, December 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Astor Services for Children and Families, located at 6339 Mill Street in Rhinebeck. All proceeds benefit Astor’s family programs. The snow date is Saturday, December 14. For more information, call (845) 871-1000 or visit www.astorservices.org.

12/8: “Sounds of the Season” free concert in Saugerties The Saugerties Community Band will perform “Sounds of the Season,” a free concert of holiday music, on Sunday, December 8 at 3 p.m. at the Reformed Church at 173 Main Street in Saugerties. Come early for the flute ensemble holiday selections at 2:45 p.m. Donations are welcome.

12/8: Red Hook Winterfest The Red Hook Winterfest Celebration on Sunday, December 8 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Red Hook Village Municipal Lot adjacent to Village Hall will include ornament-making, a visit from Santa and a Holiday Gift Fair.

The tree-lighting ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. at the Key Bank lot. Admission is free. For more information, call (845) 758-0824, e-mail info@ redhookchamber.org or visit www.redhookchamber.org.

12/8: Reindeer Ramble 5K run and walk benefit event in Kingston The annual Reindeer Ramble 5K Holiday Road Race and Competitive Walk on Sunday, December 8 in Kingston benefits the YMCA Strong Kids Scholarship Fund. The snow-orshine event starts with registration on race day from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

The race begins at 1 p.m. The cost is $15 for adult, $10 for student with $1 off for members of the Onteora Runners’ Club. The Santa-Pede event calls for team members to dress up and run tied together like reindeer, with minimum five and maximum seven participants per team. All Santa-Pedes

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ally, in the parade, we’re honoring all kinds of folks. There are creatures from the woods, there are mythical creatures – dragons – and there are horses representing the farm. There are sheep and rams and bears. And live llamas. There are celestial objects: the Seven Sisters, the Sun, the Moon, Grandmother Earth. Every year we have an honored animal, honoring native tradition,” Fleming said.

In order, the day moves from Native American to the Dutch tradition to the English, represented by Saint George and the Dragon, and then it involves the diverse groups that represent the area today, with different ethnic performance groups.

Lila Pague, owner of Winter Sun/Summer Moon in Rhinebeck, has been working with Fleming on Sinterklaas for six years. Pague had fond memories of the Old Dutch Christmas event and jumped on board when she heard that Sinterklaas was making its return. “People love it,” said Page. “It’s authentic, it’s delightful, it’s participatory.

Putting together the parade, making the puppet and signs – people just love the process.”

Sinterklaas is far from Fleming’s first extravaganza. She was tapped to design and produce the Statue of Liberty’s Centennial celebration; she produced the Opening Event for the Walkway over the Hudson in 2009 and she is the creative director of New York’s legendary Village Halloween Parade. However, she has a soft spot for Sinterklaas. “It’s a chance to make our own, new tradition,” said Fleming. “It’s just something really special.”

– Quinn O’Callaghan Sinterklaas in Kingston’s Rondout, Saturday, November 30, events on Broadway, East Strand & on Pennsy 399 Historic Covered Barge, 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; The Children’s Maritime Parade down Broadway to escort Sinterklaas to his Tugboat is at 4 p.m.; followed by a tree-lighting at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m. Sinterklaas in Rhinebeck, Saturday, December 7, events at village halls, churches and businesses 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; Children’s Starlight Parade, 6 p.m.; Star Ceremony in Municipal Parking Lot, 6:45 p.m. For more information, go to http://www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com

must register as individuals. Prizes will be awarded to the first place age group finish, male and female and overall Santa-Pede at the post-party in the YMCA Main Gym. The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is located at 507 Broadway in Kingston.

For more information, call (845) 3383810, e-mail sackermann@ymcaulster.org or visit www.ymcaulster.org.

12/8: Holiday in the Village in Saugerties Saugerties will host the annual Holiday in the Village on Sunday, December 8 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. It will include a Holiday Market, music, toy giveaways, live mannequins, free horse carriage rides, kids’ crafts, Santa

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Thursday, December 5 • 7:30 p.m. Quimby Theater Enjoy classic, multicultural and seasonal choral music sung by students under the direction of Janet Gehres.

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at the Kiersted House, entertainment and surprises. For more information, e-mail billyosh@gmail.com or hotrodbob929@aol.com or visit www.village. saugerties.ny.us or www.discoversaugerties.com.

12/13: Highland TreeLighting Highland will host a holiday treelighting and festivities at “Light up the Hamlet” on Friday, December 13 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in downtown Highland at Vineyard and Main Streets.

The event will include hot chocolate, candy, toasted marshmallows, games, giveaways, caroling, the tree-lighting and a visit from Santa Claus. For more information, call (845) 691-2144, extension 100, or visit www.townoflloyd. com.

12/13-14: Mendelssohn Club shows at Old Dutch Church in Kingston The Old Dutch Church will present the Mendelssohn Club Christmas Concerts on Friday, and Saturday, December 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. each night.

The Old Dutch Church is located in the Historic Stockade District at 272 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 338-6759 or email info@olddutchchurch.org.

12/13-15: Catskill Ballet Theater’s The Nutcracker in Kingston The Ulster Performing Arts Center at 601 Broadway in Kingston will host the Catskill Ballet Theater in The Nutcracker on Friday and Saturday, December 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, December 15 at 2 p.m. Join Clara and the Nutcracker Prince on a magical adventure to the Land of Sweets, where they meet the Sugar Plum Fairy.

The classical ballet will be performed in its entirety. For more information, visit www.catskillballet.org.

12/13-14: It’s a Wonderful Life live radio play in Rosendale The Rosendale Theatre will present a live radio show production of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life on Friday and Saturday, December 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 15 at 2 p.m. The classic holiday film will be performed live as a 1940s-era radio play with live sound effects and music featuring five actors playing 50 roles. The cast includes Claudia Brown, Kimberly Kay, Brian Mathews, Jim Metzner and Doug Motel. The show is directed by Ann Citron with sound effects and music by Fre Atlast. General admission tickets cost $15 for adults, $10 for children ages 12 and under, with proceeds benefiting the Rosendale Theatre. Advance purchase tickets are available at www.rosendaletheatre.org. For more information or to make a reservation, call (845) 658-8989.

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finger sandwiches in the Yuletide Tea on Saturday, December 14 at 1 p.m. at the Wilderstein Historic Site, located at 330 Morton Road in Rhinebeck.

Historian and former New York State deputy commissioner for Historic Preservation Wint Aldrich will be the guest speaker. For more information, call (845) 876-4818 or visit www. wilderstein.org.

12/14: Holiday Open Houses at FDR & ValKill sites in Hyde Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site at 4079 Albany Post Road in Hyde Park will hold a Holiday Open House with live music and refreshments on Saturday, December 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring readings from A Christmas Carol. The Roosevelt Home and Library will be decorated as they were for the holidays during the Roosevelt presidency, and the newly installed Museum exhibits will be available to view. A free shuttle bus will take visitors to Eleanor Roosevelt’s home Val-Kill for a Holiday Open House from 4 to 7 p.m.

There will be no on-site parking at Val-Kill on that day.

A Children’s Reading Festival begins at 12 noon in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center. Children’s book authors including John Bemelmans Marciano, who carries on the legacy of his grandfather’s Madeline books, will read from and sign copies of their books, which will be available for purchase. Santa will be available for free photos from 1 to 3 p.m., and children can make holiday cards for sailors on the USS Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt beginning at 12 noon.

Admission is free to the Reading Festival and the Roosevelt Home. For more information, call (845) 486-7745 or visit www. historichydepark.org or www.fdrlibrary. marist.edu.

12/14: Shire of Coill Tuar Yule Feast in Highland The Adonai Lodge at 48 Main Street in Highland will host the East Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism for its sixth annual Yule Feast on Saturday, December 14 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Enter an artistic or scientific creation or research at the A&S table, with prizes awarded. Youth submissions are welcomed and en-

couraged. The Medieval Games will offer competition with others, and a small stage will be available for performances all day. The Yule Feast will feature a menu of “beast, boar and fowl” with accompaniments. For reservations, call (845) 706-4722 or visit www.eastkingdom.org.

12/14: Kissing Ball workshop in Rosendale Use fresh local greens, bright ribbons and creativity to create a “kissing ball” to hang near a doorway to welcome visitors at Victoria Gardens, located at 1 Cottekill Road in Rosendale, on Saturday, December 14 at 11 a.m. The cost for the workshop is $35 or $30 for members. Reservations are required by calling (845) 338-5614.

For more information, visit www.ulstercountyhs.org.

12/14-15: The Nutcracker at the Bardavon The New Paltz Ballet Theatre returns for a 16th season to present The Nutcracker featuring principal dancers from the New York City Ballet in two performances on Saturday, December 14 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, December 15 at 3 p.m. Join Marie as she dreams of a fierce battle between giant mice and toy soldiers, followed by a magical journey through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. Tickets cost $29 for adults, $26 for students and $24 for members. The New Paltz School of Ballet is located at 1 Bonticou View Drive in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-0044 or visit www.nspballet.com.

12/20: Scrooged on the big screen at UPAC The Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) will present the 1988 film Scrooged on the big screen on Friday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets cost $6. The darkly comic modern adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol stars Bill Murray playing the role of Frank Cross, a cold-hearted TV exec who is planning a live production of A Christmas Carol when his adaptation starts to mirror his own life. Things

get worse when his dead former boss visits to tell him the error of his ways.

Informed that he’ll be visited by three ghosts, Frank takes heed and starts immediately to make amends. Karen Allen co-stars, along with David Johansen, Carol Kane and Robert Mitchum. Tickets are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit www.bardavon.org.

12/20-21: Living Nativity at Old Dutch Church in Kingston The Old Dutch Church will host the 64th annual Living Nativity on Friday and Saturday, December 20 and 21 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. The Old Dutch Church is located in the Historic Stockade District at 272 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 338-6759 or e-mail info@ olddutchchurch.org.

12/24: Santa comes to Woodstock’s Village Green – ah, but how?

Woodstock continues its threescore-and-12-year tradition when it welcomes Santa Claus to the Village Green at 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24. How Santa arrives is always a mystery, whether by horsedrawn sleigh, a firetruck, an elephant, a camel, a hot-air balloon or flying Volkswagen bus. While waiting for Santa, the crowd is serenaded by carolers and musicians in front of the Dutch Reformed Church.

After his grand entrance, Santa makes his way to the center of the Green and hands kids stockings filled with candy and other goodies – including Hanukkah treats. Santa’s elves are there to maintain order and make sure that each child gets a stocking.

12/31: New Year’s Eve in Uptown Kingston Celebrate New Year’s Eve in style in a neighborhood-wide event complete with a ball drop, drinks, food, music and entertainment. For more information, e-mail mike@bsplounge.com.

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crafted prose and sensationally interesting material.” Presumably the Rosendale screening of the film version Tuesday, December 3 at 7:15 p.m., will also be accompanied by a call for volunteers, so allow yourself sufficient time at the end to dash off an indignant letter as part of the chapter’s ongoing “write-athon.” The Rosendale Theatre hosts Human onscreen presentation will certainly be Rights Week screening Half the followed by an audience discussion, led Sky on Tuesday; dance party at

by AI policy and advocacy associate Julia Rosendale Café next Saturday Drost. Admission will be by suggested benefits Amnesty International donation. he smash success of the muchHuman Rights Week in our neck of lauded recent film 12 Years a Slave the woods will wind up with a benefit must surely have resulted in a whole lot dance party on Friday, December 6 at the Rosendale Café, beginning at 8 p.m. of people walking out of theatres uncomDeejay Michael Wilcock, of Dave Leonfortably pondering the fact that human ard’s JTD Productions, will be spinning a trafficking is by no means a 19th-century mix of funk, soul, Top 40 and classic rock. historical relic. The unspeakable cruelty Admission will cost a $10 donation at the depicted onscreen in that opus continues door, 100 percent of which will go to the to be replicated around the globe today, Mid-Hudson Valley with women most Chapter of Amnesty often the people beInternational. ing bought, sold and See – there abused.

That’s the kind is something that you can do about it! of ponder that can For more informaleave a well-meantion about the variing American feeling rather powerless ous modes of activand depressed, but ism against gender it can also motivate based-violence, people to find somesex trafficking and thing that they can forced prostitution do in the real world inspired by Half the to alleviate human Sky, visit www.halftheskymovement. suffering in some org. small-but-mean- Girl at New Light Crèche in Kolkata, ingful way. Amnesty India (Photo by Joshua Bennett) – Frances Marion International (AI) is Platt one organization that effectively channels Human Rights Week Film Festival, Half such energies, by such means as assigning the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opporvolunteers a particular political prisoner tunity for Women Worldwide, Tuesday, on whose behalf one may write the ocDecember 3, 7:15 p.m., pay-what-youcasional letter to the appropriate agency. can donation, Rosendale Theatre, 408 Sometimes these campaigns succeed, and Main Street, Rosendale; (845) 658-8989, knowing that you’ve been a part of one can http://rosendaletheatre.org. Human be rewarding.

Rights Week dance party to benefit Mid-Hudson Valley Chapter of Amnesty There’s an active Mid-Hudson Valley International, Friday, December 6, 8 Chapter of Amnesty International, and p.m., $10, Rosendale Café, 434 Main each year about this time it participates Street, Rosendale; (845) 658-9048, www. in an international observance called Hurosendalecafe.com. man Rights Week. For the third year in a row, it will kick off the week of activism and consciousness-raising with a film screening at the Rosendale Theatre. The previous two years’ programs highlighted the chapter’s interest in the issues of imTreasures of lasting value that will migrants’ rights and the seemingly endchange your life – forever. That’s less detention without trial of terrorism what you’ll find at Mirabai, or suspects at Guantánamo Bay. This year, the local AI chapter is focusing its energies perhaps what will find you. on passage in the US Congress of the InWisdom, serenity, ternational Violence against Women Act, transformation. and the film highlighting that theme to be Value beyond measure. screened during Human Rights Week will be Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

This documentary, produced in 2012 for the PBS television series Independent Lens, was inspired by the widely acclaimed 2009 book of the same name

by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

The film follows the book’s authors, along with celebrity advocates America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde, to ten countries: Cambodia, Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Liberia and the US. Stories of real-life women and girls in each Books • Music • Gifts country expose the blight caused by sex Upcoming Events trafficking, forced prostitution, maternal mortality and gender-based violence. But Private Shamanic Healing this isn’t just a downbeat exposé of modSessions w/Adam Kane ern horrors; better health care, increased Mon. Dec.2 11:30-6PM call for appt rates female education and economic empowPrivate Spirit Guide Readings erment through microfinance programs w/psychic medium Adam Bernstein are among the solutions that are proving Tues. Dec. 3 12-6PM Call for appt. effective around the globe.

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he was the first American woman author to earn more than $100,000 by her writing, producing nine novels between 1850 and 1907, and may fairly be described as the foremother of the Southern Gothic style. Selling more than a million copies within four months of publication, her 1866 opus St. Elmo was one of the two best-selling American novels of the 19th century. Eudora Welty named the protagonist of her 1954 novel The Ponder Heart after its heroine Edna Earle, and its Heathcliffian hero St. Elmo Murray is thought to have provided prototype for Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. A number of silent films were made based on her works in the early days of cinema, including a 1921 version of St. Elmo starring John Gilbert.

And yet, until feminist scholars dusted her off in the 1970s, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson was almost entirely forgotten in literary circles.

That neglect was probably partly because her sympathies were solidly with the Confederacy during the Civil War; in 1860 she actually broke off her engagement to New York journalist James Reed Spalding because he was a fan of Abraham Lincoln. And Evans Wilson’s florid, sentimental writing style has long gone out of fashion. Even in her heyday, she was among those excoriated by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a “damned mob of scribbling women,” while another critic made it more personal: “The trouble with the heroine of St. Elmo was that she swallowed an unabridged dictionary.” The author of a parody written in 1867 was probably alluding to this verbosity when titling it St. Twel’mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga.

Still, Evans Wilson was ahead of her time in creating strong female characters, and the importance of the education of women was a recurring theme in her popular and influential novels. The stories that she wrote may not hold up today, but the story of the author herself is complex and fascinating enough to have inspired Stone Ridge-based filmmaker Robert Clem (Company K, Uncle Tony) to make a new movie about her. It’s titled The Passion of Miss Augusta, and it will be screened this Saturday, November 30 at the Rosendale Theatre.

In The Passion of Miss Augusta, Clem blends the biography of the author with the plot of St. Elmo, in which a young woman of limited means is determined to defy societal conventions to become a writer. It’s an interesting stylistic approach, mingling scenes from a silent movie adaptation of the novel with another version set in the 1950s, both recreated. Born in Alabama, where Evans Wilson spent most of her adult life, director Clem says that the film is about the status of women in Victorian America versus the 1950s, and how much or how little had changed.

Of more immediate interest to some viewers, of course, will be the fun of playing “Name that Location,” since the movie was filmed in Stone Ridge, Rosendale, High Falls and other parts of the Hudson Valley. The 1850 House in Rosendale, High Falls Community Church, High Falls Cemetery and Montgomery Place all put in appearances. Local actors also figure prominently in The Passion of Miss Augusta, including Stone Ridge resident Jason Downs as St. Elmo Murray. Marnye Young plays Augusta/Edna, with David Little, Davis Hall, Sophia Raab-Downs, Pam Jusino, Joe Petrilla, P. J. Sosko, Stephen Jones and Matthew Santiago in supporting roles. Alan Hostetter was the cinematographer, and Donald Stark composed the original music score.

The one-hour feature will be preceded by the premiere of a ten-minute short film based on a hit play from the Rosendale Theatre Short Play Festival this past summer. My Name Is Oscar was written by and stars David Little; the play version was directed by Susan Einhorn and the film co-directed by Einhorn and Robert Clem. Following the screening this Saturday, set for 3 p.m., the filmmakers and some cast members will be on hand to discuss both films and be available to take questions from the audience.

A trailer for The Passion of Miss Augusta can be seen on YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook, and more information about Augusta Jane Evans Wilson has been compiled online by Clem himself at www.foundmedia.org/augusta.htm.

– Frances Marion Platt The Passion of Miss Augusta screening/Q & A, Saturday, November 30, 3 p.m., $7/$5, Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale; (845) 658-8989, http:// rosendaletheatre.org.

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Although Catching Fire is the middle installment of a trilogy – traditionally seen as just marking time before the big finale – Katniss and Peeta’s second Games are much more than a been-there, done-that.

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hen a screen version is released of a popculture phenomenon as instantly iconic as the Hunger Games series, a movie critic has to wonder whether there’s any point at all in writing a review. The True Believers of this particular geekdom will have been champing at the bit for months, many of them flocking to midnight premieres and more of them adding their coin to the record-breaking openingweekend coffers. They don’t need any persuading.

On the other extreme, you’ve got the millions of people who simply refused to read the books, typically because either A) they’re classified as Young Adult and therefore must not be real literature, B) they fall into the fantasy genre and therefore must not be real literature or C) they depict gruesome violence, largely directed against children, and therefore must be repellent. People unwilling to put those assumptions to the test by actually reading the books are likely to carry said prejudices with them when it comes time to determine their next movie choice, and no amount of persuasion on a critic’s part is likely to make much difference.

But there must be some potential viewers who fall into the middle ground, and it is for their sake that I reiterate here the gist of what I said about the first in-

Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson in Catching Fire stallment of The Hunger Games in 2012: These stories are not mere shallow, actionpacked dystopian science fiction gorefests.

The books are well-written page-turners in the best thriller tradition, and the movies, while somewhat hobbled by lacking the intimate first-person point-of-view of the novels, do quite a respectable job of conveying the series’ grand themes.

Don’t be fooled by the online chatter of the tween end of the Hunger Games fanbase into thinking that a young woman’s ambivalence over two competing wouldbe boyfriends is one of those themes.

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It’s also about what can happen to people’s capacity for ethical behavior when they hand their minds over to centrally controlled, sensationalist mass media: The titular Games, in which teenaged Tributes annually fight to the death in a high-tech arena to remind the have-nots of the unbearable cost of dissent, owe as much to American Idol as they do to Roman gladiator contests or the myth of the Minotaur.

And to a great extent, The Hunger Games – authored by military brat Suzanne Collins – is about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We only saw hints of that in the first movie, where Katniss has had to grow up way too fast after the death of her father in a mine explosion and her mother’s withdrawal into crippling depression. Some of what comes across as strength and determination in her personality is simply hardening. She’s not very communicative verbally, so what little she does say carries a lot of weight – like when she tells her hunting buddy and wouldbe suitor Gale (Liam Hemsworth) that she intends never to have children. Only with her younger sister Primrose (Willow Shields) is she able to show a tender side.

As the saga continues, the allusions to PTSD become much more pronounced. In the second film, Catching Fire, directed by Francis Lawrence, we see Katniss having flashbacks to her experiences in the arena, and other veterans of the Games begin to share their own nightmares. The story’s deepest engagement with the issue is yet to come, in Mockingjay; suffice it to say at this point that the trilogy as a whole is a powerful metaphorical treatment of the psychic challenges confronting today’s war veterans, and deserves respect on that level.

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are forced to return to the arena in Catching Fire – thanks to a special 25th-anniversary edition of the Games with different rules, known as the Quarter Quell – the violence is slightly less disturbing than in the first movie, since all the Tributes are older veterans of past Games rather than children. Those rules have been tweaked by an increasingly threatened President Snow (Donald Sutherland) to ensure that he’s rid of Katniss, whose televised act of defiance at the end of the previous year’s Games has sparked growing rebellion in some of the poorer Districts.

But what Snow has failed to consider is the fact that those survivors of past Games, whom Katniss and Peeta meet upon their return to the Capitol, have all known each other for years and shared their stories. Not only are they trotted out for annual public relations events, but all are also being blackmailed in one way or another by the government, and many show serious signs of cracking under the mental strain. As their District 12 mentor Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) explains to Katniss and Peeta, a Tribute’s ordeal is just beginning when he or she walks out of the arena alive. Resentment of the way that they’ve been used seethes in the hearts of many of these veterans, and the emergence of Katniss as a reluctant symbol of rebellion supplies the seed for a Quarter Quell scenario that is unusual in more ways than the president has planned.

So, although Catching Fire is the middle installment of a trilogy – traditionally seen as just marking time before the big finale – Katniss and Peeta’s second Games are much more than a been-there, donethat. The simmering resistance movement raises the ante considerably; plus, we get to meet some fascinating new wounded warriors. Sam Claflin proves a good choice for the narcissistic golden boy Finnick Odair, as does Jenna Malone as the belligerent Johanna Mason, both of whom hide profound personal tragedy under devil-may-care exteriors. This reviewer would have liked to see more screentime given to Amanda Plummer and Jeffrey Wright as two particularly intriguing past Games winners, Wiress and Beetee (a/k/a Nuts and Volts), who are clearly not all there psychologically, but definitely people whom you want in your corner in the arena

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THE CAREENING CARRIAGE Rosendale Theatre screens Eisenstein’s silent classic Battleship Potemkin with live piano this Sunday

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hen contemporary filmmakers want the audience to feel a sense of dread, they have a formidable technological arsenal at their disposal to make it so. Even so, few modern movies can capture the emotive power of a scene shot way back in the early days of cinema, when films were still silent and not even sound effects could be used to heighten the drama of what was unfolding onscreen. Yet the jaggedly repeated image of an occupied baby carriage careening down a long flight of stairs – the famous Odessa Steps – has become such an iconic evocation of pulse-pounding fear that it has popped up again and again in movies ever since.

In Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables, for instance, the runaway baby carriage sequence happens on a moving escalator in a train station. Cynics might complain that such an obvious hommage to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece Battleship Potemkin is just a way of waving one’s hands in the air and saying, “Hey, look at me, I went to film school!” But Potemkin, for all its relative technical crudeness, retains its punch today, and has earned an occasional genuflection from modern auteurs who learned the art of montage editing – so ubiquitous in today’s Hollywood output – at the knees of its early Soviet masters.

The film, which tells a highly colored (though shot in black-and-white) version of a short-lived 1905 uprising against the Tsar that prefigured the 1917 Russian Revolution, is a bit of a cinematic education in itself. Eisenstein didn’t invent the film montage; that distinction is usually conferred on his mentor, Lev Kuleshov, whose name is best-remembered today in the context of the “Kuleshov Effect”: a filmic experiment demonstrating that audiences will impute vastly different emotions to the blank face of an actor depending on the content of other images with which it is intercut. But in his quest to magnify the effects of film as a propaganda tool, Eisenstein took editing to a new level. He actually defined five separate types of montage, which use different time signatures and other variables to produce predictably different effects on the viewer.

Battleship Potemkin was actually a sort of filmed dissertation on Eisenstein’s theories; beneath the obvious pro-revolutionary message, he used it to illustrate by example several of his categories of montage editing. With its pounding visual rhythms set by the relentless march of Tsarist soldiers down the stairs, driving the panicked crowd of protestors into the ranks of Cossacks waiting at the bottom to kill them, interspersed with cutaways to bloodied individuals, the Odessa Steps scene is the director’s classic example of what he called “rhythmic montage.” It accomplishes its purpose – to rouse the viewer’s sense of outrage against the forces of oppression – precisely as designed even today, despite the fact that historically, the Odessa Steps massacre never happened.

Such is the magic of cinema. Who needs real history, when you can manipulate the masses simply by juxtaposing conflicting images with expert timing? Battleship Potemkin is often cited as the greatest propaganda film ever made, and was even grudgingly admired by such ideological opposites as the Nazis: “Anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film,” said Joseph Goebbels after viewing Potemkin.

For its revolutionary message as well as its explicit violence, the film was banned

Battleship Potemkin is often cited as the greatest propaganda film ever made

on account of their formidable brainpower.

Another new face in the films is the peerless Philip Seymour Hoffman, effortlessly turning in a smug and calculating Plutarch Heavensbee, the new head Games designer. Of the returning actors, the most character-stretching is rendered

by Shields, who takes Prim from a scared 12-year-old to a confident healer with a destiny in the rebellion, and Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinkett, the ridiculously garbed, coiffed and made-up minder for the District 12 team – who imagined that such a vapid character would ever acquire any depth? Stanley Tucci gets lots more time onscreen as Caesar Flickerman, Panem’s purple-pompadoured answer to Monty Hall, thanks to his good notices in the first movie. Hutcherson gets more to do here as well, though his big scenerychewing scenes still lie ahead in the third volume. Harrelson continues to delight as the cantankerous Haymitch, and Lenny Kravitz is a heartbreaker as Katniss’ simpatico stylist Cinna.

Oft garbed in white, President Snow could be described as the Moby Dick of the Hunger Games trilogy: the terrifying antagonist so huge and symbolic that he just about transcends evil. It’s no coincidence that he surrounds himself with the fragrance of roses to conceal the fact that he’s rotting from the inside. While in the books his odor repulses people, in the movies the first hint of this literal corruption is a scene where the white wine he’s drinking turns red from his internal bleeding. Sutherland, who’s so great at

making nastiness sleek, gets to humanize the character just a teense in some cozy scenes with a sweet granddaughter. But even she innocently pushes his paranoid buttons by telling him that all the girls at school this year are wearing their hair in braids just like Katniss Everdeen.

Surly, unsociable Katniss doesn’t want to be a heroine, but Catching Fire makes it clear that she isn’t going to have much choice in the matter. Nor will she be able to sidestep the use of violence, no matter who’s at the controls of the Hunger Games – or the much bigger game that’s beginning to play out. Fortunately, Jennifer Lawrence is as coolly in command of her arsenal of acting skills as her character is with a bow. Even if the sociopolitical

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Still from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin

in many European countries until the 1950s and rated X in Britain until 1978, despite the fact that much of the Bolshevist rhetoric of the original title cards was bowdlerized in translation and many of the goriest images edited out. Nevertheless, Battleship Potemkin was named the greatest film of all time at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels.

Hollywood today mostly uses montage editing in a “continuity” style to accommodate the ADHD of contemporary audiences raised on the jump-cutting of Sesame Street and its TV progeny, who have no patience for exposition: as a way of telescoping time, conveying many crucial nuggets of information in a short sequence. But now and then you’ll see a montage that truly exploits the power of the technique: the gloriously uplifting depiction of the universality of love conveyed in the fragmenting closing moments of Love Actually, for instance, or the buildup of dread evoked by a tapestry of views from hundreds of security cameras just prior to the terrorist bombing of a marketplace near the beginning of the recent thriller Closed Circuit.

Once you’ve seen Battleship Potemkin, you’ll appreciate such scenes in a whole new way. And you can do it for much less than the price of a Film Appreciation 101 class by visiting the Rosendale Theatre on December 1 at 2 p.m. It’s the latest in the regular Sunday Silents Series presented by the Rosendale Theatre Collective – sometimes accompanied by live music, just like in the movie palaces of bygone days.

Such will be the case at this Sunday’s screening.

It is said that Eisenstein hoped that the score for Battleship Potemkin would be rewritten every 20 years to refresh its relevance for each new generation. So it will be interesting to hear which of the many scores inspired by the film over the years will be chosen by pianist Marta Waterman – perhaps the 1985 version for solo piano composed by Keith Jarrett’s younger brother Chris? Or maybe she’ll just wing it.

Find out for yourself, deepen your cinematic education, be wowed by the power of Battleship Potemkin and check out the spruced-up amenities of this recently renovated community cinema at the competitive price of $7 per ticket general admission, $5 for Rosendale Theatre Collective members. The entryway now boasts a wheelchair ramp and lift, but for this disturbing movie, it’s still probably best to leave the baby carriage (and contents) at home.

– Frances Marion Platt Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin with live piano accompaniment, Sunday, December 1, 2 p.m., $7/$5, Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale; (845) 6588989, http://rosendaletheatre.org.

themes of The Hunger Games whizz right over your head, seeing her at work is wellworth the price of admission. Meanwhile, I’ll be looking forward with pleasure to the next installment.

– Frances Marion Platt

HIV/AIDS day of remembrance A day of community support and remembrance will be held at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston on Wednesday, December 4 from 3 to 7 p.m. Free rapid oral HIV-testing services will be conducted by Planned Parenthood of the Mid-

Hudson Valley from 3 to 5 p.m. No appointment is necessary.

View panels from the national AIDS Memorial Quilt and hear from Hudson Valley residents affected by HIV and AIDS from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. A candlelight walk in support and remembrance begins at the LGBTQ Center at 300 Wall Street at 6:15 p.m. and proceeds to the Old Dutch Church at 272 Wall Street, where a reception, “Sharing of the Names,” will be held at 6:30 p.m. to remember those lost to AIDS in a community gathering.

Candles will be provided for the candlelight walk. The event is open to the public, and all are welcome. For more information, call (845) 331-5300 or visit www. lgbtqcenter.org.

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IN ADDITION TO BEING A PROLIFIC SOLO ACT, Martin Dosh is an in-demand sideman and co-writer.

Collaborators include Bird, Bon Iver, Bonnie Prince Billy, Glenn Kotche of Wilco and other names that glow. But it is not a typical sideman function that he fulfills.

Dosh plays BSP

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nsular” is one way to describe Martin Dosh’s mesmerizing, loop-based performances. It means “like an island.” Dosh sits surrounded by a drum set, several keyboards, a slanted mixer and an array of pedals and processors: the maker trapped by choice within a circle of his own design. This image describes his music as well, its tech-enabled solipsism and its concentric patterns of development. Loop-based music, after all, is spun entirely of circles, circuits, wheels, boomerangs, hoops and gyres, even as master loopers like Dosh and his frequent collaborator Andrew Bird grow expert at disguising this fact.

In addition to being a prolific solo act, Dosh is an in-demand sideman and coMartin Dosh writer. Collaborators include Bird, Bon Iver, Bonnie Prince Billy, Glenn Kotche In the early ‘90s, Martin Dosh drummed of Wilco and other names that glow. But in the Hudson Valley band Como Zoo, a it is not a typical sideman function that groove-happy rock outfit of kids who had he fulfills. You hire Dosh for a custommet as underagers at Simon’s Rock College ized circuit of that self-contained Dosh and sort of figured out music together, thing, a micro-composition that aligns with guitars, the way that kids will. The and interfaces with yours while it retains band pushed its talented and congenitally its own stand-alone extroverted singer wholeness. and lead guitarist HIS FRIENDS HAD Collaboration Parker Ramsey to ALREADY HEARD the front, but it was among his type ofthe beginnings of a few of his the quirks, hiccups, ten comes off as signature early compositions before jamming for the Asripples and folds of he left New Paltz – strapped for cash pie Age: negotiations Dosh’s self-invented and wanting only to make music between parallel sofunk drumming that all the day – bound for his native lar systems, each remost defined their Minneapolis and his parents’ home, sponding in subtle sound. When the vowing to return here as soon as he and sympathetic loops were in, that could afford to. Ha ha. ways to the energies band could really and orbits of the othtake off. er without ever crossing into each other’s Even then, Dosh (who was also Como dimensions. It is sample-based and techZoo’s lyricist) strained against the role of nological, but also organic and dangerous. “just the drummer” and chased the sounds There is no central house clock in Dosh’s in his head with an insatiable passion. While music, thus none of that fail-safe, snapComo Zoo gigged hard for years, taking up to-grid substructure that makes so much virtual residency at the Rhinecliff Hotel, at live electronica seem like little more than Cabaloosa in New Paltz, at Brady’s Publick pressing “Play.”

House in Poughkeepsie, Dosh was playing, jamming, experimenting every other The player plays it all, and he must approve the integrity and start- and stopnight of the week as well. He, the gymnaspoints of each performed loop as it is tic bassist Rob Lovell and I hosted an open introduced. Anyone who has seen Dosh mic for a few years at the Gryphon in New live a few times will come to recognize Paltz, performing under the name Drunk Mother Haircut. Getting Rob and Martin the unconscious shrug that he makes whenever a new loop is confirmed okay. to play pop songs was like trying to redirect But if it is off, even just a little, watch that the mighty Hudson. Primus was in the air castle crumble, baby. The first time that then, as were Medeski, Martin & Wood, acid Dosh and Bird appeared on Letterman, jazz and those first tentative handshakes of performing Bird’s song “Plasticities,” they hip hop and jam. Dosh played rock and funk were one of very few acts ever granted a but listened to Coltrane. second take. The loops were out.

In my version of the story, it will always

be the acquisition of a Fender Rhodes that set Martin on the course to becoming Dosh – that and the influence of our own T. Xiques, another drummer (a master, in fact) who, like Martin, was and is not content with the limits of that identity.

Self-quarantined with his Rhodes and his drum kit in an infamous musician’s house on Wurts Avenue in New Paltz, Martin used the electric piano to develop the melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal elements of the music in his head: ambient and textural, yes, but also possessed of a post-bop sense of “line” that is hardly typical of ambient music.

His friends had already heard the beginnings of a few of his signature early compositions before he left New Paltz – strapped for cash and wanting only to make music all the day – bound for his native Minneapolis and his parents’ home, vowing to return here as soon as he could afford to. Ha ha.

Milk Money is Dosh’s sixth solo album of the last decade, which is quite an output considering that he has spent most of that time touring the world with the tireless Andrew Bird and on his own. Its sound is unmistakable Dosh: warm, offcenter grooves, block chords on fat analog synths, modal arpeggios, the pawing of soft mallets, quavering human voice samples and (much less than usual) that saturated, overdriven Rhodes blended in pattern-art that is euphonious, motile and weird.

Like each album before it, Milk Money breaks new ground as well. In the studio, Dosh has never strictly obeyed the rules that per force govern his live solo shows.

But the accretive, recycling nature of loop-

based music is his mode, the voice that he discovered through years of conversations with himself, and he sticks with it as his baseline style, not his only option.

On Milk Money more than ever before, it is easy to hear Dosh’s compositions apart from the tools and technologies that he uses to produce them. It is the sound of a composer both mastering and transcending his own method.

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The last track and centerpiece of Milk Money, the 25-minute “Legos (For Terry),” may be Dosh’s most patiently developed and conceptually wholesome composition to date. It’s a quiet, gripping work of lightly distressed, moody Minimalism that doesn’t even nod at groove until after the 15-minute mark. (One wonders if the “Terry” in the title might be the great Minimalist composer Terry Riley.) The musical elements seem fewer than usual, arrayed more spaciously, and there’s a new sense of strength and purpose in that. A listener new to Dosh won’t even imagine a man encircled by instruments and effects, improvising and layering in elective isolation. But I do.

– John Burdick Dosh with the Sweet Clementines & the Fasads, Tuesday, December 3, 8 p.m., $8 advance/$10 day of, BSP, 323 Wall Street, Kingston; tickets available at Outdated in Kingston, Jack’s Rhythms in New Paltz, Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie; http://bit.ly/HFUj5D, www. bspkingston.com.

The Machine plays Pink Floyd repertoire at the Chance in Poughkeepsie

Blessing Offor

BENEFIT

CONCERT FOR CANINES Blessing Offor show at SUNY-New Paltz to raise funds for potential guide dogs

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uiding Eyes for the Blind is the third largest guide dog school in the country and has been raising, training and providing guide dogs to visually-impaired people since 1954. The nonprofit organization is based in Yorktown Heights, where its training school is located; it also has a breeding facility in Patterson, near Brewster.

Volunteers raise the puppies, which includes taking them to weekly training sessions. Based in 37 regions all over the Eastern Seaboard, the training locations were recently expanded to include Ulster County, with classes now offered to volunteers every Monday night in a New Paltz church.

For 16 months after getting the pups, the volunteers are responsible for house-training the dogs, teaching them manners and socializing them, according to Maria Dunne, Guiding Eye’s regional manager of the puppy program. The dogs are then evalu- One of our current Ulster region guide ated, throughout the puppy raising puppies, Cabot, with his raiser, Kira and training process, with just over Magnani of New Paltz. half selected to be guide dogs. Dunne said that another 20 to 25 percent go on to have other service careers, such as with a detective agency or in a program for kids with autism, called Heeling for Autism.

The selected dogs are then returned to the training school in Yorktown Heights, where they undergo formal harness training and, if ready, are matched with a blind recipient. The recipients, who get the dogs for free, spend three weeks in the dorm facility with free room and board. After they return home with their dog, Guiding Eyes for the Blind keeps in close contact with them to ensure that the match is successful.

Guiding Eyes for the Blind is holding a fundraising concert to benefit the newly formed Ulster County puppy-raising region, featuring Blessing Offor, a professional R & B, jazz and blues musician based in New York City who is also a guide dog recipient, on Monday, December 2 at SUNY-New Paltz. “He’ll be there with his guide dog Laramie,” said Dunne. “Music is his passion. He’ll be playing holiday classics and his favorite songs from his upcoming album release.

A lot of our graduates are very talented, and it’s excellent Blessing has offered to do this event for us.” The suggested donation is $10 for adults, $5 for student and children, although people are welcome to donate more.

Dunne added that between 400 and 450 puppies are born every year in the Patterson facility. Most are Labradors, with a few German shepherds. “We always need more people to volunteer,” she said. “In January we’ll start with our next group, and there’s still room if someone wants to apply.”

– Lynn Woods Blessing Offor concert for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Monday, December 2, 7:30 p.m., $10/$5, Shepard Recital Hall, College Hall, SUNY-New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz; www.guidingeyes.org.

Before every famous band had a tribute act or clone, there was the Machine, a spot-on Pink Floyd tribute with 25 years of tribute under its belt. The Machine covers from Syd to post-Waters, playing the hits and the obscure gems with passion and precision. The light show is every bit the equal of the musicianship, making the Machine a must-see for any Floyd fanatic and a darn good time for everyone else. The Machine will perform at the Chance Theater on Saturday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $20 for general admission and $35 for reserved seating.

The Chance is located at 6 Crannell Street in Poughkeepsie. For more information visit www.thechancetheater.com or

call (845) 471-1966.

Amy Helm plays Bearsville this Friday Radio Woodstock presents Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers – she of Ollabelle, the Midnight Rambles and countless other fruitful collaborations with legends of American music – on Friday, November 29 at 9 p.m. General admission floor seats cost $20 in advance, $25 the day of the show. Reserved balcony seats cost $35. For tickets, visit www.radiowoodstock.com or call (845) 679-7600 during normal business hours. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

Joe Lovano plays the Falcon in Marlboro this Friday It’s not uncommon to find the world’s greatest living jazz musicians performing at the Falcon in Marlboro, so it’s no particular surprise that the great tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano will be there on Friday, November 29. Lovano is known both for his work in John Scofield’s band and for his own excellent albums as leader, including the newly released Cross Culture on the prestigious Blue Note label. On the 29th he will have a quartet in tow, along with special guests. There are two shows, at 7:30 and 9 p.m.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon.com or call (845) 236-7970.

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Caffe Aurora has been around since 1941, when immigrant Paolo Strippoli opened the venerable Poughkeepsie pasticceria at its original 201 Main Street location

Little Italy north

Poughkeepsie’s La Deliziosa & Caffe Aurora vie for pasticceria primacy

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ive into confections with flaky exteriors and rich creamy interiors, cool ices in dozens of flavors or crispy cookies aromatic with almonds or pine nuts or all the colors of the rainbow, all as beautiful to the eye as the tastebuds.

Luckily a trip to Italy or a New York City outer borough isn’t needed to experience these sensory delights. Poughkeepsie’s own Little Italy has two venerable institutions churning out goodies galore, treating first- and second-generation Italians and all the rest of us to these delicacies, perfect for pleasing party guests or lingering over with a friend and a cup of strong coffee.

Sink your teeth into a custard-filled éclair covered with chocolate or crunchy quaresemali studded with hazelnuts and almonds, made authentically the oldfashioned way, or sugar-dusted cannoli about which “you could write a poem,” as my mother-in-law used to say.

The Italian pastry tradition goes back to the Middle Ages in Venice, when explorers introduced the spices and sweeteners that they’d found in other lands. More recently, Italian immigrants here recreated the fresh mozzarella, the sausages, the ravioli that they remembered, and opened up shop to bring the tastes of home to others.

Now in Little Italies all over, a step into

such a shop is a trip into the sights, smells and sensations of the past.

Thirty-nine years ago a pastry chef from Naples opened such a shop, La Deliziosa on Mount Carmel Place in downtown Poughkeepsie. Ten years later, a high school freshman named Frank Cordaro started washing dishes at La Deliziosa, “just for something to do,” he says. Eventually Cordaro took over the business for his own, bringing in his Mom to wait on customers, his Dad to do deliveries, and he became, in spite of himself, a baker.

“Then I was baker; now they call me a chef,” he says, grinning.

“It wasn’t anything I particularly wanted to do,” he adds. “I just didn’t want to go to college.” Friends who joined the corporate

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world tell him, “You were so smart to do what you did.”

At La Deliziosa around the holidays, lines often snake out the door for the popular cannoli, sfogliatelle, biscotti, rum baba and biscotti. “People love it because it’s stable,” Cordaro says. “When they come in and look around, they say, ‘I feel like I’m a child again.’”

At La Deliziosa, the eyes are drawn up to the original tin ceilings, with large pictures near the top of the walls: of Marilyn, Elvis and Jesus, of old scenes of Italy that have been there forever, plus panoramic photos (by “Kraig with a K,” Cordaro’s driveway-coater) of the Walkway. The whimsy continues with shelves displaying tee-shirts and recordable talking cupcakes.

Cordaro invented the oft-imitated Cannoli Chip when customers asked what to do with the leftover shell from the giant cannoli stuffed with minis that they had served at an event. Frank suggested dipping the pieces in cannoli cream, and a craze was born. At first he’d sell a few bags of the chips at holiday time, with a container of frozen cream that would keep well during any needed travels. Then their popularity surpassed even the minicannoli, and other cannoli vendors have copied the concept.

It’s rather amazing how much bounty fits into what’s not a huge shop. Some of it caters to special diets, like sugar-free chocolate cake and gluten-free or sugarfree cookies. No trans-fats are used in anything, and for the savory-minded, there are crisp taralli biscuits in the standard black pepper flavor, plus cheese and hot

pepper versions.

Caffe Aurora has been around even longer: since 1941, when immigrant Paolo Strippoli opened it at its original 201 Main Street location. According to the family, “Friends advised him not to choose a name that had a strong Italian flavor, because the United States was at war with Italy at the time. So he chose ‘Aurora,’ which means ‘the dawn.’”

Caffe Aurora has been in its current spot at 145 Mill Street since 1962, and Strippoli’s youngest son Louis, who has a BA in Business Administration and studied at the Culinary Institute of America, now runs the bakery/café.

There is an espresso bar and plenty of seating, encouraging lingering over your delectables. The warm retro neighborhood ambiance makes it an appealing stop for people going to and from the Poughkeepsie train station. Tables are decorated with decades of write-ups, and there are newspapers to peruse, including Italianlanguage ones. Shelves offer espresso machines from simple to elaborate, demitasse cups, plates and platters, plus figurines and greeting cards.

There are arrays of colorful cookies and all the Italian pastry standards, from rice pudding to cuccidati (a fig-filled Sicilian Christmas cookie) to rum baba, biscotti, éclairs, pignoli cookies, sugared almonds, cakes, tarts, as well as sugar-free and gluten-free cookies.

The espresso bar also serves Italian ices in 25 rotating flavors, among them chocolate fudge, cannoli cream, cantaloupe,

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There is ample parking outside, and the Caffe is open Thanksgiving Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

But whose cannoli is best: La Deliziosa or Caffe Aurora? Although I sampled both and loved Deliziosa’s dense, creamy, not-too-sweet filling in a thicker crunchy wrapper and Aurora’s sweeter, lighter filling in a thinner crispy wrapper, I just can’t make up my mind. Both are heavenly, dusted with sugar and green sugar sprinkles, and are ephemeral delights. You will have to decide for yourself.

– Jennifer Brizzi La Deliziosa is located at 10 Mount Carmel Place, (845) 471-3636 or www. ladeliziosany.com. Hours are Sunday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Find Caffe Aurora at 145 Mill Street, (845) 454-1900 or www.caffeaurora.com. Winter hours are Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Read more about local cuisine and learn about new restaurants on Ulster Publishing’s DineHudsonValley.com or HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

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vor on Friday, December 6 at 12 noon at Adams Fairacre Farms in Kingston, located at 1560 Ulster Avenue. The event will include other speakers, a sampling of ice cream, representatives from local businesses involved in the development of the ice cream and information about the history of apples and food manufacturing in Ulster County. The proclamation was inspired by Kingston-based Adirondack Creamery’s newest flavor, Empire State Caramel Apple ice cream, which will be sold exclusively in the Hudson Valley at all Adams Fairacre Farm stores.

Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile in Rhinebeck The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck will host performances of Murder on the Nile, based on Agatha Christie’s famous mystery novel Death on the Nile, from Saturday, November 30 through Sunday, December 8.

Murder is committed on a pleasure steamer with the age-old question of “who done it” providing thrills, chills and excitement for audiences of all ages.

Friday and Saturday evening shows begin at 8 p.m. and Sunday performances at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and children. Tickets are available through the box office at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, located at

661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck, by calling (845) 876-3080 or visiting www.centerforperformingarts.org.

Noche Flamenca performs this weekend at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli The Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli will present Noche Flamenca, one of the most authentic flamenco touring companies in the field, on Saturday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 1 at 2:30 p.m. Under the direction of Martín Santangelo, Noche Flamenca was formed in 1993 by Santangelo and his wife and lead dancer, Soledad Barrio.

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THE SEED FOR WISHBONE PRESS WAS BORN when Bliss designed a wedding invitation for Joe’s sister and wished that she could print it out on a letterpress instead of her inkjet printer

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Hudson Valley Hullabaloo at BSP in Kingston December 7 spotlights Wishbone Letterpress

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anielle Bliss and Joe Venditti print their cards, coasters, wedding invitations, business cards and other stationery products on old-fashioned letterpress printers, imbuing the inked image with a pleasing heft and tactility. “We think it’s the most beautiful type of printing,” said Bliss on a recent afternoon in the loft in the Shirt Factory where their company, Wishbone Letterpress, is based. “It leaves an impression on the paper” – which, made of cotton and acid-free, is itself a satisfying thing to hold and touch. The technique is also “easy to do, and we don’t need a warehouse,” added Venditti. “It’s low-tech.”

Traditional letterpress technology required metal type to be set and metal cuts to be used for pictorial images. Wishbone Letterpress melds the old and new by creating the designs on the computer and transferring them onto special plastic plates, obtained from a company in Syracuse, which are then inked and printed on the antique presses. Interpreting retro themes in fresh, boldly colored designs, the company invigorates an art previously characterized by elegant formality with a more eclectic, contemporary approach that at times verges on the playfully subversive. It has proved to be a winning formula: Although only two years old, Wishbone Letterpress has already had success, snaring an order for 8,000 greeting cards from Urban Outfitters at the National Stationery Show, held at the Javits Center in New York City last May. (“You’re Rad as F***” reads one – a card that the couple specially conceived for the national retailer, guessing correctly that it would be a sure sell.)

They currently sell their cards, which retail for $5.50 to $4, on Etsy; coasters and other specialty paper items at 20 stores, located in Australia, New York City, Chicago, California, Oregon, Virginia and the Hudson Valley (locally you can find their cards at Catskill Art & Of-

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fice Supply in Kingston and Cocoon in New Paltz). They get clients by attending crafts fairs, through the website and by word of mouth. Wishbone has carved out a niche in customized work – wedding invitations, birth announcements and the like – but it’s the greeting cards that are turning out to be the most lucrative.

The couple started Wishbone Letterpress in the summer of 2011. Lack of opportunity in the job market prodded them to start their own business: After earning a degree in Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Bliss worked two jobs to make ends meet, collecting tolls at the Mid-Hudson Bridge and commuting to New York City, where she worked on animation for CBS News’s Early Show. Eventually she quit the bridge job and worked the night shift at CBS News, until she was laid off. “Graphic design work had dried up, and the only jobs I could find paid $12 an hour,” she recalled. Venditti, a sculptor, attended art school in Boston, and after earning his degree in 2005, couldn’t find work either. The married couple had known each other since childhood, but had never been close; they reconnected when Venditti encountered Bliss at the tollbooth while driving over the MidHudson Bridge one day.

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could print it out on a letterpress instead of her inkjet printer. Building on their design and fine art background, the couple took classes on the letterpress printing technique, including an intensive five-day workshop at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. Bliss also attended a staterun program on small-business startups while collecting unemployment.

They started with a hand-automated press dating from the 1940s – a find, since it was in good condition and procured from nearby Long Island – and now have four letterpresses, including one operated with a foot treadle that Joe converted into a paper-folding machine. They initially set up shop in a studio in an uncle’s house, but moved to the Shirt Factory last February.

Joe, who has a full-time job in addition to the business, does some designing and some printing. Danielle designs and does most of the rest, including marketing, accounting, packaging, website management and writing contracts, providing quotes and otherwise dealing with customer requests. “You’d never expect how hard it is to run a business,” she said, noting that, after getting the Urban Outfitters

order, she and Joe were working the hand press practically 24/7 for days.

Bliss and Venditti, who live in Ulster Park but are hoping to move to Kingston soon, have met many other young, creative entrepreneurs in the area. They plan to tap into that energy by hosting the Hudson Valley Hullabaloo, a large-scale holiday craft fair held at Kingston’s BSP on Saturday, December 7. “We will be taking the best of the many craft fairs we’ve attended and make it happen here,” said Venditti. More than 45 vendors will participate at the event, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

It’ll feature deejay Mr. Chips, a photo booth (complete with “winter wonderland” backdrop) provided by Peter Demuth Photography and a crafting table for kids. Admission will be free, and the couple hope to have a food truck on the premises, pending city permitting requirements.

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Although only two years old, Wishbone Letterpress has already had success, snaring an order for greeting cards from Urban Outfitters

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Steve Earle concert to raise funds for Opus 40 repairs

Every once in a while an event comes along that, because of its elements matching the local with the epic, becomes priceless. Consider musician/ actor/Woodstocker Steve Earle’s Saturday, December 7 fireside concert in the Barbara Fite Room at Opus 40 in Saugerties – a benefit for the region’s monumental sculpture park – as such an occasion.

Born in Virginia and raised in Texas, Earle is considered one of our great songwriters and performers. He started off country, in that Austin-centered Townes Van Zandt style, and moved to Nashville as a young man, making an almost-instant mark crafting songs and earning a reputation as a bit of a wildman (he has been married seven times, the last sticking for years now as he has spread his wings as a playwright, a novelist and a noted short story writer). Think in terms of the stature afforded a Leonard Cohen or Van Zandt, with three Grammies under his belt and a side career as an actor whose presence in The Wire and Treme have made him a wise ex-junkie big brother for all looking for a real voice to aid one through the craziness of the modern world.

“I was born on this mountain a long time ago/Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal/When you rose in the mornin’ before it was light/ To go down in that dark hole and come back up at night,” goes one of his more haunting songs from a career that has seen him take on our foreign wars, the way we treat our poor, the death penalty and even Condoleeza Rice. “I was born on this mountain, this mountain’s my home/ She holds me and keeps me from worry and woe/Well, they took everything that she gave, now they’re gone/But I’ll die on this mountain, this mountain’s my home.”

It’s easy to feel the eternal pull of Earle’s craft, his soul reaching out through his words and music, his guitar and voice, in such a way as to understand immediately how it is that his work has been picked up for covers by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Percy Sledge, the Pretenders and his later hometown friend Levon Helm – as well as how deeply he and wife and fellow musician Alison Moorer feel about the place that they’ve chosen to inhabit and raise their kid, now age 3.

How perfect that Earle has become close to Opus 40, the lifetime project of Bard professor Harvey Fite that has become a local treasure – albeit one hard to maintain and bring back to full glory after the ravages of recent years’ storms.

Both the place (and Fite and his inheritors) share a sense of earned lyricism about them that matches the cragged glories of the Catskills and Hudson Valley.

“I was young on this mountain but now I am old/And I knew every holler, every cool swimmin’ hole/‘Til one night I lay down and woke up to find/That my childhood

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was over and I went down in the mine,” his great “The Mountain” continues. “There’s a hole in this mountain and it’s dark and it’s deep/And God only knows all the secrets it keeps/There’s a chill in the air only miners can feel/There’re ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed.”

Levon knew that audiences would pay for home concerts. All of us wish that we could have ponied up to see Dylan when he was around, or Van the Man or Jimi or the Band – especially in a place as special as Opus 40’s woodsy grand room, with its fireplace and wall of tools and comfortable lived-in feel. A special few can have dinner there with Stephen Fain Earle and his brood, opening act (and banjo virtuoso) George Stavis and Fite’s remaining family and friends: a grand lot, all of them, full of stories and warmth and good cheer. That’s cheap for priceless, as this event surely is.

– Paul Smart Steve Earle concert, Saturday, December 7, 7 p.m., $150/$250, Opus 40, 50 Fite Road, Saugerties; (845) 246-3400, www. opus40.org/events-at-opus40.

Wired Gallery art show spotlights Robert Draffen The Wired Gallery in High Falls presents its third “Art Foray,” a traveling art show featuring a wide selection of works by area artists, on Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, December 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The show will then travel to Mohonk Mountain House on Tuesday, December 10, on view from 2 to 8 p.m. as part of Community Week, when admission to Mohonk is free for area residents.

A symposium titled “Robert Draffen: A Life in Art” will be held in the Mohonk Sunset Lounge from 5 to 6 p.m. Draffen was an inventor, encaustic painter, sculptor of kinetics, fine draftsman, engineer and classical pianist who lived and worked in High Falls until he passed away in 2010.

His work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums throughout the country and abroad.

The panelists will include the artist’s wife, Ann Draffen, journalist and artist Rich Corozine and art educator Jane Sunshine. The symposium will be enhanced by a PowerPoint presentation and an exhibit featuring eight original works by Robert Draffen.

The Wired Gallery is located at 1415

Route 213 in High Falls. For more information, visit www.thewiredgallery.com or Wired Gallery on www.facebook.com. Mohonk Mountain House is located at 1000 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz. For more information, visit www.mohonk.com.

Inuit art exhibit opens at Vassar’s Lehman Loeb Collector Edward J. Guarino has given the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College more than 200 indigenous artworks including paintings, prints and drawings, pottery, basketry and textile weavings.

His expertise has contributed to the growth of Vassar’s Native American Studies program, which will mount “Decolonizing the Exhibition: Contemporary Inuit Prints and Drawings from the Edward J. Guarino Collection,” a student-curated exhibit of

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Thanksgiving Walk-Off at Minnewaska As the renowned West Park naturalist John Burroughs said, “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” The serenity of the woods can help us center ourselves, the crisp air can revitalize our senses and a good walk can help restore balance to our bodies. Minnewaska State Park has the perfect event to support all of those elements: the Thanksgiving Walk-Off. On Saturday, November 30 from 10 to 11:30 a.m., meet at the Peterskill Climbing Area for a leisurely carriage-road walk to the beautiful 65-foot-high Awosting Falls. Our family loves visiting Awosting Falls, and it’s a wonderful feature

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Minnewaska State Park is located at 5281 Route 44/55 in Kerhonkson, and remember to take the Peterskill entrance.

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Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck hosts magic show If you’re the cruise director for family and friends this weekend, accommodating a variety of ages and interests, you can’t go wrong with magic!

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One thing that I love at shows at the Center is the excellent seating: You can see, wherever you are. Tickets cost $7 for children, $9 for adults and seniors. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http://centerforperformingarts. org. To learn more about the performer, visit http://magicsj.wordpress.com.

Battenfeld’s Anemone & Christmas Tree Farm in Red Hook And while you’re in the area, for a special treat check out nearby Battenfeld’s Anemone Farm for some gorgeous flowers. The cash-only, selfserve rustic retail shop sells the freshcut blooms right out of the cooler and is open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Battenfeld’s is located at 856 Route 199 in Red Hook. For more information and to see what colors are currently blooming, call (845) 758-8018 or visit www.anemones.com. While you’re at it, check out Battenfeld’s Christmas Tree Farm at http://www.christmastreefarm.us/#. It’s one of the oldest cut-your-own tree farms in the county.

McKenzie Willis reads Tales of the Rainbow Forest at Olana One special event taking place this weekend for 4-to-8-year-olds is storytime with local author McKenzie Willis at historic Olana’s Wagon House Education Center. On Saturday, November 30 from 10 to 11 a.m., Willis will read from his book, Tales of the Rainbow Forest, and perform songs that he wrote in collaboration with L. Leon Pendarvis, musical director of Saturday Night Live. The songs are based on some of the characters in the story. Registration is requested for this event. Olana is located at 5720 Route 9G in Hudson. Vehicles with Empire Passports are admitted free; otherwise the parking fee is $5 per car. For more information or to register, call (518) 828-1872, extension 109, e-mail shasbrook@olana.org or visit http://olana.org. To learn more about the author, visit http://talesoftherainbowforest.com.

Special shopping opportunities this weekend 1. Green Friday: Friday, November 29 is newly minted Green Friday at the Forsyth Nature Center (FNC) in Kingston. Environmental demonstrations and giveaways take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. “Providing opportunities to learn about rain barrels, composters, plug-in vehicles and energy efficiency information is the best way to spend a part of your shopping day or your lunch hour,” notes Steve Noble, an environmental educator for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department.

Activities include composting demon-

strations, with five composter giveaways; a stormwater management demonstration, with five rain barrel giveaways; a permeable paving stone walkway installation demonstration by Berardi Fence and Landscaping at 11:30 a.m.; Herzog’s Home Center green products and services; an ink, toner and cell phone collection; a fully electric and a hybrid electric car on display; and much more.

Mark DeDea of Forsyth Nature Center adds, “It is nice to be able to accentuate that more and more green products are available from local merchants. It is also an opportunity for folks to remember the FNC when giving: creative ideas like an engraved paver in a loved one’s memory, or even buying much-needed supplies for the animal residents instead of a gift for someone who already has everything they could ever want.”

The Forsyth Nature Center is located at 157 Lucas Avenue in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 481-7336 or visit www.kingstonparksandrec.org.

2. Crafted: Handmade in the Hudson Valley 2013: I love this sale so much. It’s not just the goods; it’s the crafters themselves. The cozy setting is the perfect venue for meeting local artists and seeing their wonderful work. Last year, it’s where I got silhouettes of the kids cut by Jenny Lee Fowler to surprise my hard-togift husband; where I fell in love with pretty much every single one of Wendy Hollender’s botanical prints; picked up my adorable mushroom ornament from Cindy Hoose; chose precious nightlights from Jasmine Redfern and much more. There are gifts for every price point, every interest, every age, every event, and you will impress others with your impeccable taste.

My children think that this is a great event, too. They liked seeing the artists with their work; it made it all seem more real to them. I especially appreciated the one-stop checkout, where I paid once for the entire purchase, not lots of minipurchases.

Crafted takes place on Saturday, November 30 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, December 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The event is located at the studio space of potter Ayumi Horie in the former church at 167 Cottekill Road in Cottekill. For more information, visit http:// craftedhudsonvalley.org.

3. Art Foray at Wired Gallery: With the motto “Art for All, All for Art!” this event is an opportunity to gift your family, friends and colleagues with pieces by local artists; and with price points from $25 to $250, you can splurge on some to furnish your own home and workspaces as well. Art Foray takes place on Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, November 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Wired Gallery is located at 1415 Route 213 in High Falls. For more information, call (682) 564-5613 or visit www. thewiredgallery.com. For more information on Sevan Melikyan’s efforts on behalf of local artists, read our Almanac Weekly profile at: http://www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/2013/10/24/sevanmelikyans-wired-gallery-in-high-fallschampions-local-artists/.

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Sinterklaas is a bicoastal extravaganza Sinterklaas is a special celebration of an old Dutch tradition and has two main components: the arrival of Sinterklaas on Saturday, November 30 in Kingston; and the daylong Sinterklaas Festival in Rhinebeck on Saturday, December 7. In preparation for the fanfare of welcoming Sinterklaas, all ages are welcome to attend the Crowns and Branches workshop on Friday, November 29 and Saturday, November 30 at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, located at 50 Rondout Landing in Kingston. You are also welcome to craft your crown creation at home.

On Saturday, November 30, there are some wonderful activities in Kings-

ton such as musical performances, a mitten-and-glove drive, holiday craft fair, puppet-making workshop, ornament-making workshop, storytelling, a Children’s Parade and more. For a complete schedule, visit http://www. sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/.Locust Grove’s Holiday Hunt December 1 marks a new month, the first of the four Sundays in Advent in the Christian tradition; and it is also the first of the four Sundays of Samuel F. B. Morse’s Locust Grove Holiday Hunt, featuring the Twelve Days of Christmas. Search the mansion for three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree, then join us for cookies, cider and storytelling in the Visitor Center.

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to 4 p.m., with a final admittance time of 3 p.m. to complete the hunt; no Morse code required. Locust Grove is located at 2683 South Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 454-4500 or visit www.lgny.org.

Community Hanukkah Party Well, here’s an event that sounds like fun: a Community Hanukkah Party! On Monday, December 2 from 5:30 to 8 p.m., join in on an interactive Hanukkah concert with cantors Bob and Sabrina, light the Hanukkah candles, play games, create crafts, win prizes and enjoy a kosher latke dinner!

This event is open to the entire community. Admission is $5 per person or $20 per family. The Hudson Valley Community Center is located at 110 South Grand Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information or to RSVP, call (845) 471-0430 or www.hvcommunitycenter.com.

Santa sightings A very busy Santa Claus is comin’ to town this weekend across the Hudson Valley. Here is his schedule for some of his upcoming appearances: Adams Fairacre Farms: Adams hosts Santa at each of its four locations in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Wappingers Falls on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. in Kingston and Poughkeepsie and 11 a.m. in Newburgh and Wappingers Falls, until 4 p.m. Not only do we love the groceries and greenhouse, but the free Santa photo is also a real treat, and it’s fine to take your own pictures as well. For locations and more information, visit http://adamsfarms.com.

Hudson Valley Mall: Santa arrives in style at Center Court with performances by the Ulster Ballet and Energy Dance Company at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 29 at 11 a.m. Then his schedule is Monday through Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 12 noon to 6 p.m. Santa has extended hours beginning December 16. The Mall is located at1300 Ulster Avenue in Kingston. For more information, visit http://shophudsonvalleymall.com.

Hurds Family Farm: Forget the sleigh; Santa skydives here for his big arrival! Be at Hurds Farm on Friday, November 29 at 11 a.m. Enjoy free activities including a bonfire, s’mores, hot cocoa and a gift from Santa. Cow train rides and hayrides cost $3, and while you’re there, you can cut your own Christmas tree, priced as marked.

For more information, visit www. hurdsfamilyfarm.com.

Newburgh Mall: Santa will be available Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a .m. to 6 p.m. As a side note, Spiderman will be holding court at the Newburgh Mall on Saturday, November 30 at 1 and 3 p.m. He will be available for high-fives, photos and full-color autographed cards. The Mall is located at 1401 Route 300 in Newburgh. For more information, visit www.newburghmall.com.

Poughkeepsie Galleria: Santa appears in lower Center Court Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Galleria is located at 2001 South Road in Poughkeepsie.

For more information or to check out the interactive online Santa’s Village activity, visit www.poughkeepsiegalleriamall.com.

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The heroine’s journey Réveil and the Old One at the Edge of the World reading in New Paltz & Woodstock

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nce upon a time in a noisy modern city, a young woman named Réveil felt empty, though she was always too full.” Thus begins a tale of dreams and ghosts and finding one’s way for a person already lost to contemporary life. The story follows the character Réveil on a journey of self-discovery – a woman warrior’s journey, so to speak. Written by Gail Straub and deftly illustrated by Carol Zaloom, Réveil and the Old One at the Edge of the World is an adult fantasy that recounts that very human condition of nearly hitting bottom and abruptly, sometimes frighteningly, awakening to one’s true purpose in life.

Well-versed in the semantics of fulfillment – Straub co-founded with David Gershon the Empowerment Institute – the West Hurley author has crafted a story meant to describe the struggles of an individual to survive and thrive in a seemingly chaotic universe. There are dark and powerful forces, strange characters, impossible tests and monumental passages in boats and on horses, with symbols to point the reader to a state of her own awakening – or at least the possibility of one.

Réveil’s meeting with Grandmother LesDeux, the “Old One” who holds the “two sides of everything: dark and light, active and passive, mind and heart, freedom and responsibility, pain and pleasure, and life and death” echoes the Maiden/Crone relationship. And it may be inevitable that Réveil’s awakening is necessary for the survival of all of Nature when Volcano Woman rearranges her robe and says, “You must not forget that all your modern sophistication and technological brilliance can never replace the demanding and unpredictable journey of awakening…The fate of your world depends on many small courageous acts.”

Other titles from Gail Straub include Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It, The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society, The Circle of Compassion: Meditations for Caring for the Self and the World and Returning to My Mother’s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine. Her work in women’s empowerment focuses on women being the main agents for equitable change and sustainable development in much of the world.

Saugerties illustrator Carol Zaloom makes hand-colored linoleum prints, with a client list that includes Random House, David Godine, HarperCollins, Tower Records, Hampton-Brown, Yankee magazine, Sky & Telescope, the State University of New York, Bard College and the New York City Parks Department.

– Ann Hutton Gail Straub & Carol Zaloom reading/signing, Friday, December 6, 7 p.m., Inquiring Minds, 6 Church Street, New Paltz; (845) 255-8300, www.empowermentinstitute.net, www.imagineprogram.net, www.carolzaloom.com. There will also be a reading/ signing sponsored by The Golden Notebook on Saturday, December 7, at Oriole 9 at 17 Tinker Street in Woodstock, at 6 p.m.

Call (845) 679-8000 or go to www.goldennotebook.com for further details.

Walkway over the Hudson: Sit on Santa’s lap on his sleigh on the Walkway with its sky-high views on Friday, November 29 from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

Parking is available at 87 Haviland Road in Highland or 62 Parker Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information, visit http://nysparks.com/ parks/178.

St. Joseph’s Church in New Paltz hosts creative Community Playdate On Wednesday, December 4 from 1 to 6 p.m., families with children of all ages are invited to attend a Creative Kids’ Cooperative Community Playdate: an opportunity to create indoor and outdoor giant board games, holiday crafts, giftmaking, musical instruments, comedy improv skits and more. A suggested donation of $5 is

requested to help cover costs.

The mission of Creative Kids’ Cooperative is “to nurture learning through play, experiential fun, nature-based exploration, the arts and other projects, all of which will be academically infused. This will enrich traditional education, homeschool education and unschooling practices.”

The Community Playdate is the first of a series and will take place in the large multi-purpose room at St. Joseph’s Church, located at 34 South Chestnut Street in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 527-5672 or visit Creative Kids’ Cooperative on www.facebook.com.

Vassar screens autism documentary Wretches and Jabberers On Wednesday, December 4 at 4:15 p.m., Vassar College presents a screening of the documentary Wretch-

es and Jabberers, followed by a question-and-answer session with the two primary people profiled in the film, Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette. Like many children with autism in the 1960s and 1970s, Thresher and Bissonnette grew up unable to speak and excluded from normal schooling.

They faced a future of social isolation in adult disability centers. In the early 1990s, both men’s lives changed dramatically when they learned to communicate by typing. Bissonnette notes, “Nothing I did...convinced people I had an inner life until I started typing.” Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others like themselves.

I think that this is an incredible opportunity for our Hudson Valley community. It’s so neat that Vassar is hosting this event, and the messages in this film transcend the specifics of autism and connect with something inside each of us. From beginning to end, Thresher and Bisson-

nette inspire parents and young men and women with autism with a poignant narrative of personal struggle that always rings with intelligence, humor, hope and courage.

Wretches and Jabberers will be shown in the Villard Room of the Main Building at Vassar College, located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 437-5370 or visit www. vassar.edu. To learn more about the documentary, visit www.wretchesandjabberers. org.

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hanksgiving is traditionally considered to be a time of gathering, and often involves a certain bird around mealtime. So I started thinking: What other opportunities exist here in the Hudson Valley for individuals and families to gather together, and involves something from nature, like birds? The John Burroughs Natural History Society (JBNHS) came to mind immediately, because it facilitates regular nature outings for the public.

I contacted the organization to learn more, and as president Mark DeDea answered some of my questions, he suggested tagging along on a field trip – except that I’m not a birder. But I went anyway, because as many of you reading this know, once you start talking to Mark (also known as “Mark at the park” from his role at the Forsyth Nature Center in Kingston), you get really interested in whatever the topic is that you’re conversing about.

So I showed up to Kingston Point on a recent early Saturday morning, and as out of my element as I felt, since I can identify only approximately five birds, I immediately felt like I was among friends.

I was warmly welcomed and included in the various bird conversations.

DeDea explained, “Our field trips are the vehicle to express our passion and knowledge for the natural world, and we provide that to the public free of charge and encourage non-member participation. I think in the past there was a contented feeling in just making more bird nerds, but today an individual has so much at their disposal (in their hand in the field or at home on the laptop) that folks could easily find their way to a love/ knowledge of the outdoors on their very own...which is cool and how many of us did it that way anyway...although without modern technology.”

That is precisely how I experienced the bird outing: The joy of spotting one feathered creature to another was magnified by doing it with others. “Ah, my first junco of the season,” happily remarked one birder during our walk around the park. I learned that, while many of our local winged friends head south for the winter, juncos come north: a sign of the transitioning seasons.

I picked up small bits about birds – not as an abstract fact, but right while I was looking at them, as one birder or another would share something interesting about them; which is what DeDea is talking about: the real sense of camaraderie that JBNHS field trips can provide, aside from the information disseminated. “We are now trying to do an annual bio-blast and a bio-blitz to highlight our value to municipalities, school districts et cetera, for citizen science work, which I hope then opens eyes to utilizing JBNHS for homeschoolers or Scouts who need to meet badge requirements et cetera.”

When I got home that day, I began to channel my inner Pete Seeger as I sang, “Little bird, fly through my window,” slightly adapting the words to invite them to my feeder. And I can’t wait to go on another outing – possibly even with my own “bins” (binoculars) this time.

I asked DeDea why John Burroughs matters so much: “I think John Burroughs, his philosophies and writings have come to represent a natural pace, be it pruning your apple trees or catching trout

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in a small Catskills stream, that the world craves today.

When JB was a ‘rock star’ in the early 20th century, it was because his writings appealed to folks more accustomed to an agricultural existence than life in a factory during the Industrial Revolution. The fact that he spent so much time in Ulster and Delaware Counties make his experiences tangible to locals: We can see where he grew celery, shot woodchucks or is even buried.”

I asked DeDea how he got started in birds. “So now that you’ve gone and used bins, you will also have to start calling it birding. Once you buy bins, go on a trip to bird primarily, have a life list, it becomes birding...before that, when you fill feeders and look out the window, you are birdwatching. I have been seriously birding for about 25 years. Before that, I was pretty interested for a kid, and my Dad kept the feeders stocked in the winter. I had the great fortune to grow up in the ‘70s when evening grosbeaks would invade feeders in the winter. They were bold, raucous, colorful birds that would empty a platform feeder before your eyes; and then, when you went back out to fill up the feeders, they would often land right around you as if to say, ‘Okay, thanks, now get out of the way.’ I would look forward to snow days when I could sit by the big kitchen window, almost nose-to-beak with the birds, and draw them for hours. Sadly, they do not show in numbers like that in this area anymore, so I really consider myself lucky to have had that to spark my interest.”

DeDea makes birding accessible to anyone: “I think birding is unlike many other hobbies, as it can be whatever you’d like to make of it. Many people enjoy the solitude of an early morning walk with nothing but the birds and their song; some people make a real sport of it and try to see as many species in a state, a year et cetera.

Most of us enjoy the camaraderie of sharing stories of rare birds or helping others with identification challenges as well.”

DeDea’s tips on getting started: “First get a pair of binoculars, then a good field guide (I like David Sibley’s NAS Guide to Birds, and stay away from books with photos). All area bookstores have a pretty decent selection. Then visit www.birds.cornell. edu, start e-birding (www.ebird.org) and consider getting involved with Project Feederwatch (www.feederwatch.org). By all means join JBNHS on a walk (they are free and open to the public); visit our site, www. jbnhs.org, or Facebook page to find out about local birding locations and rarities or to help with identification.

You can definitely come visit me if you have any questions, and I hope that the public will someday recognize the Forsyth Nature Center as a hub for local bird knowledge. When I am gone I want to be considered the Johnny Appleseed of Ulster birding!”

Feed: “Offer a variety of food from a variety of feeders. I have a covered platform feeder low to the ground for sparrows and cardinals (and as a sacrifice to squirrels too); then I have tube feeders hanging on a cable between a tree and pole that squirrels can’t access, with Niger seed (black thistle) for finches and black sunflower for winter finches, chickadees, titmice and blue jays. I also keep baskets on the tree

such as Esopus Meadows and Kingston Point: great places to bring the kids and a few pairs of binoculars and just look around, and the perfect free activity to do during this holiday weekend or anytime. If you are interested in a personal membership or gifting another person or family, the annual dues are only $15 per year; but as DeDea mentioned, most activities are open to non-members. You can connect with DeDea yourself through the JBNHS website, on one of its nature outings or at the Forsyth Nature Center.

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trunk for suet cakes for the woodpeckers and nuthatches. In the warmer months you can feed hummingbirds and put out oranges and pet hair or string for orioles. Birdscaping your yard will be rewarding, too, and can provide natural food sources for the birds nearly year-round.” DeDea recommends Lucas Pet Supply for birdseed, and I get mine at the Natural Pet Center in Gardiner or at Agway.

Binoculars: “As far as optics, the only place that has anything close to quality optics is Gander Mountain. A great idea is to send folks to the Cape May Bird Observatory [CMBO], where you can get the best bins/scopes in hand to use and find out about, with a portion of sales going to the CMBO (a trip to Cape May is almost always a clincher to becoming a more serious birder). Not trying to push the reader to spending a ton of money, but the old adage about getting what you pay for totally applies to optics. The more you spend, the better things will appear and the less difficult it will be to identify birds and the more fun you will have.”

I can attest to this. “I don’t see any cormorants out there,” I protested, staring at the seemingly barren marker on the Hudson River through some borrowed binoculars. DeDea gestured for me to look through the scope on the tripod, and Shazaam! There they were! It’s like an entire corner of the world suddenly came to life for me. The entire birding outing – my first one – felt exactly like that: Small hidden treasures would suddenly appear on a branch or a wire, or take flight. Within about ten minutes of arrival to the birder outing, I mentally updated my holiday wish list to include a pair of good binoculars.

John Burroughs Natural History Society: I’m impressed by DeDea’s description of some of the accomplishments of JBNHS: “Each year, JBNHS sends two youngsters to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation camp, which often propels these individuals to a greater appreciation of nature. Papers have been written in the past, and Flora of Ulster County, New York was published.

A bird checklist is updated periodically, and we are currently conducting several citizen science projects incounty (like Christmas Bird Counts, Winter Waterfowl Count, NABA Butterfly Count). We also are excited to help the US Fish and Wildlife Service with Breeding Bird Surveys and the creation of a butterfly checklist for the refuge.”

I encourage everyone to check out the John Burroughs Natural History Society website at http://jbnhs.org. This site is full of useful information, such as upcoming field trips, including all-age outings, and a list called “Where to Bird in Our Area,”

Erica Chase-Salerno doesn’t usually like to boast but is proud of her ability to identify five local birds on sight. She lives in New Paltz with her husband Mike and their two children: the inspirations behind hudsonvalleyparents.com. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day It’s hard to imagine keeping one’s kids happy in quiet ways these days.

That’s what makes the idea of December 7’s “Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day” so inviting, especially when considering that the thing will be going on across the country, and was started by local author Jenny Milchman.

“Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day began in 2010 when my children were little and I was taking them to story hour at my local bookstore every week. The kids got a book; I got a latte. (Sometimes I also got a book, but with two small children, my reading wasn’t up to its usual pace.)

Then I started musing about cleaning products… I’m not changing the subject here,” the Hudson Valley kids’ author writes. “You may know the ones I mean: paper goods, soaps and sprays made with ingredients that are safe, even if you spray them directly in your eye, or your young child does. They’re called Seventh Generation, which is the Iroquois Indian concept that anything we do should be sustainable for the next seven generations. I wanted bookstores to be there for at least seven generations, too, so that during the busy, tiring, hilarious early years, my children’s children’s children could experience the pleasure of seeing their little ones bouncing around on the carpet, only to be caught up by a funny line or a beautiful illustration and sit in quiet rapture, if only for a moment.”

Milchman took her idea to 80 bookstores she knew of in the area and elsewhere for its first year, when the day was marked by author signings, gingerbread cookie-decorating, balloon giveaways and dozens of other creative ideas. Then the author and her husband took a crosscountry drive, visiting bookstores as they went, and things really started to take off. Last year, Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day was celebrated by more than 500 bookstores in all 50 states and five foreign countries. Now, with a brand-new board of directors, the thing’s expected to be even bigger, and a noted first-Saturdayin-December event that’s likely to last beyond Milchman and its local roots.

Locally, Golden Notebook in Woodstock is hosting a Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day with Jacky Davis (of the Ladybug Girl books), Julie Fogliano (And Then It’s Spring and If You See a Whale) and Iza Trapani reading between 1 and 2 p.m., actor Oliver Wyman reading Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo from 2 to 3 p.m. and plenty of other activities.

Other local bookstores hosting events include Oblong in Rhinebeck, but keep checking the day’s website for updates.

New ones keep getting added daily. Best of all, it’s something that, on our calendar now, has my boy excited.

– Paul Smart Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, Saturday, December 7, 1-3 p.m., the Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock; (845) 679-8000; http://takeyourchildtoabookstore.org.

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IN ADDITION TO MOUTHWATERING FLAVOR and creamy texture, cannellini beans (and other white beans) are rich in phosphatidylserine. The thinnest thread of evidence suggests that phosphatidylserine might â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just might â&#x20AC;&#x201C; improve memory and cognition

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prove memory and cognition, as well as confer other health benefits. Cow brains are among the richest sources of phosphatidylserine, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be forgetful than get mad cow disease.

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Lowbush blueberries abound in the woods around here, but are conspicuously absent from gardens and landscapes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; except in my front yard.

I grow them for â&#x20AC;&#x153;luscious landscapingâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that is, for both beauty and good eating. Plants recently shed their crimson leaves, which is how they show off in autumn. In spring, they show off their nodding, bell-shaped white flowers, and all summer long, the ground is blanketed with healthy, bluish-green leaves on stems a foot-and-a-half high.

Next summer, I know that my plants wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fruit, because yesterday I cut all the stems right down to the ground. Best yields come from stems that are one year old and two years old, so stems have to grow at least a year before they can flower and fruit.

Traditionally, and under natural conditions, periodic pruning of lowbush blueberries was done with fire. Fire had the additional advantage of knocking out some potential weed and pest problems.

Of course, burning also has its hazards, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not seeking any excitement in the blueberry bed along the east side of my house beyond a big crop of berries.

So I went at the plants this week with hedge shears and hand shears, cutting the stems as low as possible. The lower to the ground that plants are lopped back, the fewer the resulting stems next summer, and the more energy that the plants can channel into fruit buds for the following yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harvest.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really want to sacrifice all of next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lowbush blueberry crop, so I lopped to the ground only half the planting. Next year, that half that was spared my shears will bear, and next autumn Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cut those stems down. The summer after next, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lopped-down plants will bear fruit, and next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lopped-down plants wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

eb and David gather around the kitchen table as the contenders are brought forth, each steeped in its own cooking juice in a custard cup. The event is the long-awaited bean test: homegrown cannellini beans versus storebought cannellini beans versus homegrown Calypso (Yin Yang) beans. Mostly, we are interested in whether the homegrown cannellini would be better than the storebought â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a possible reason being that stored dry beans get tougher with age.

I planted a very short row of the cannellini and of Calypso beans back in the middle of May. I do mean short: only about five feet each. After all, this planting was for testing, not for production.

The beans that I planted â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as well as kidney beans, pinto beans and some other dry beans and green beans â&#x20AC;&#x201C; share the same botanical lineage, Phaseolus vulgaris. All can be grown just like green beans, except that for dry beans, the harvest is of mature seeds, so a longer season is required: typically around 90 days or so.

After my dry bean harvest, I transferred an aliquot of each variety into its own glass custard cup, did the same with an aliquot of storebought cannellini beans and filled the custard cups with water. The cups went into a larger pot with an inch of water and the whole setup went onto the woodstove to simmer for a couple of days. Retrieval and cooling bring us to this moment.

No need for a blindfold test, because the differences were dramatic. The results? All three of us gave the homegrown cannellini the highest marks in terms of creamy texture and good flavor. Secondbest was Calypso. It appears that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be devoting more space next year to growing cannellini beans.

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The long-awaited bean test: homegrown cannellini beans versus storebought cannellini beans versus homegrown Calypso (Yin Yang) beans

And so the harvest can continue hopscotching merrily along, keeping the plants productive and me in berries every year.

Sharing the lowbush blueberry bed is an Arnoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Promise witch hazel shrub, getting its digs in to offer what is perhaps the final oddity for a generally odd growing season. Year after year it has reliably flowered in March. This year itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flowering right now, probably because of cool weather followed by extended warm weather duping the shrub into acting as if it was, in fact, March.

One problem with November flowering is that fewer or no flowers will open this coming March. Another problem is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather see the flowers in March, coming in on the heels of winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relatively achromatic landscape. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail them to me at garden@leereich.com and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try answering them directly or in this column. Come visit my garden at www. leereich.blogspot.com and check out my new, instructional videos at www. youtube.com/leereichfarmden. For more on local homes and gardens, go to Ulster Publishingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homehudsonvalley.com.

Death at Olana this Saturday Join author Glenda Ruby on Saturday, November 30 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Olana State Historic Site museum shop for a book-signing of her novel Death at Olana, followed by light refreshments. The shop will offer a 20 percent discount on all merchandise during the event. The book-signing is free and open to the public.

Death at Olana is a mystery set at the Olana estate. The action opens at the former home of painter Frederic Church during a festive annual Christmas party, where the eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centerpiece is to be the unveiling of a hitherto unknown nude portrait by Church. But at the moment of the unveiling, the curtain parts to reveal another nude: the director of Olana, hang-

ing by a rope in view of the 300 guests.

The narrative voice of the heroine, Lindsey Brooks, is erudite, witty and warm.

Joined by her butler Bennett and a colorful cast of Hudson Valley worthies, sycophants and well-born â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but not always well-behaved â&#x20AC;&#x201C; eccentrics, Brooks ultimately reveals the murderer and the dark motive hidden for half a century. Death at Olana, set in the historic Hudson Valley, follows in the tradition begun by Agatha Christie, P. D. James and Ruth Rendell and continued by Janet Evanovich and Patricia Cornwell: a classic detective story featuring a sympathetic female sleuth.

Author Glenda Ruby has lived near Olana since 1983, when she bought an old house that was built as an inn for people waiting for the Greendale Ferry to cross the River. After a career in advertising and marketing, she now writes mysteries set in the Hudson Valley. The second in the series, A Murderous Summer at Bard, is coming next spring.

The Olana State Historic Site is located at 5720 State Route 9G in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 828-0135 or visit www.olana.org.

Hidden Treasures of the Hudson Valley author at Staatsburg Library Anthony Musso, author of the book Hidden Treasures of the Hudson Valley, will speak at the Staatsburg Library on Thursday, December 5 at 7 p.m. In this second volume of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hidden Treasures of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;? series, the author uncovers another 55 sites located throughout an eight-county region that, while not mainstream tourist destinations, boast intriguing ties to our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history â&#x20AC;&#x201C; some visible, with others off the beaten path.

Musso will share stories about people and places significant to the Hudson Valley that are unfamiliar to most people.

Hear about the estates of a renowned American poet, the 1920s-era New York Yankees owner who acquired Babe Ruth, the theater that featured a groundbreak-

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NIGHT SKY

Showtime for Comet ISON: The make-or-break week

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’ve just returned from three weeks in Chile leading a group of 87 astronomy enthusiasts, searching for the comet. We did finally see it, starting November 6, but it was a dim, tailless eight-magnitude smudge, at least six times dimmer than initial predictions. Special photographic techniques showed a long thin tail, but no tail appeared through our telescopes to the eye alone.

Comet Lovejoy higher up in the sky was much brighter and far easier to find, and yet even Lovejoy was no spectacle. I’m starting to hate comets. This attitude puts me in sync with thousands of years of superstitious observers who regarded them as portents of evil.

It is true that in the mid-‘90s we had two great comets back-to-back in the long-lingering Hale Bopp and the briefbut-spectacularly-sky-spanning Hyakutake. Going back another decade, 1985’s Comet Halley was a disappointment, though it was visible to the naked eye. And stepping back to the mid-‘70s, we did have Comet West: a true spectacle in March 1976 that nonetheless performed for only one brief morning during an overcast series of nights in our region.

This past week, with the Moon still brightening up the sky, you could indeed see Comet ISON as a large blob, especially through binoculars, if you had an unobstructed

My advice is to look very low in the east at 5:30 a.m. this Sunday morning, and especially Monday morning, December 1 ...

ing performance that influenced the creation of the popular television sitcom I Love Lucy and a mansion that when built was so opulent that it inspired the idiom “keeping up with the Joneses.” This program is free and open to the public.

The Staatsburg Library is located at 72 Old Post Road in the hamlet of Staatsburg. For more information, call (845) 889-4683, e-mail staatslibrary@gmail. com or visit www.staatsburglibrary.org.

Rosendale Theatre screens climate change documentary The Rosendale Theatre at 408 Main Street in Rosendale will host a screening of the award-winning documentary The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:15 p.m. The filmmakers, Anne Macksoud and Ulster County resident John Ankele, will be present at the screening.

Tickets cost $7 general admission or $5 for members of the Rosendale Theatre Collective.

The filmmakers maintain that climate change has already arrived, and ask what is keeping us from action. “Some of what we’re showing is hard to watch,” say the filmmakers. “Whales being killed. Children starving. We’re urging our audience not to look away: Take a good look! You must.

Otherwise, you won’t do anything about it.”

The film features Bill McKibben, author Joanna Macy, scientist Roger Payne, Herschelle Milford and Quincy Saul.

John Ankele divides his time between Accord and New York City. As an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church and a student of Zen Buddhist traditions, he has been involved for many years in interfaith dialogue around contemplative

practice and social justice. Anne Macksoud is based in Woodstock, Vermont and spent 17 years as a teacher (English Literature, Photography and Music) before transitioning to film and video production. She approaches filmmaking from the perspective of an artist as well as an educator. Through their nonprofit company Old Dog Documentaries, Macksoud and Ankele have produced timely documentaries on the environment, social justice and spirituality for over 25 years.

For more information about the filmmakers, visit www.olddogdocumentaries. org. For more information about the Rosendale Theatre, visit www.rosendaletheatre.org.

Phoenicia hosts Turkey Trot St. Francis de Sales Church on Main Street in Phoenicia will sponsor the Phoenicia Turkey Trot on Saturday, November 30. A free Turkey Trot tee-shirt will be given to the first 50 registrants. The Turkey Trot is a 2.4mile run, ramble, trot, walk or wobble to benefit the Pine Hill Community Center. A free Tot Trot for kids age 5 and under begins at 9:30 a.m. Registration and sign-in take place from 8

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view toward the east and observed way down near the horizon at 5:30 a.m. Now, on Thanksgiving Day, the comet whips frantically around the Sun, passing less than one Sun-width above its fiery, gaseous surface. Subjected to tidal stresses and a temperature of 5,000 degrees, it may not survive this perihelion passage. But if it does, it could be a worthy sight in that same eastern direction the first week of December.

My advice is to look very low in the east at 5:30 a.m. this Sunday morning, and especially Monday morning, December 1, and then every morning thereafter at that same time throughout the coming week – whenever we get clear weather.

The tail will point upward and arc higher into the pre-dawn sky, aiming away from the soon-to-rise Sun. Naked eye, it could be nonexistent, or barely there, or glorious.

We could see anything from a no-show to a true spectacle. At this point, nobody knows.

And that’s part of the fun.

– Bob Berman

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CALENDAR 11/28

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Hannukah!

Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center.

This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www.chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

8AM Junior League of Kingston First Annual Turkey Trot. The fastest turkeys in each age group of the 5k race will be awarded prizes, and medals will be given to all 2-Mile Fun Run entrants.

Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston, $20 /5k, $15 /fun run, turkeytrot@juniorleaguekingston.org.

8:15 AM Ferncliff Forest Turkey Trot 5K. Sixth annual Thanksgiving Day run that benefits Ferncliff Forest. Entry fee: adv - $20/adults,$15/1117 yr olds, $10/10 & under; Race-day - $25/ adults,$20/11-17 yr olds, $15/10 & under. Registration begins at 7:15am behind the Hospital. Info: 876-3196. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

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 The Annual Family of New Paltz 5K Turkey Trot. Fun Run for kids 8 years and under starts at 9am, 5k run at 9:30am. Registration forms and info online www.newpaltzturkeytrot. com. Water Street Market, New Paltz, 255-7957 or turkeytrot@gmail.com.

11AM-3PM JFK 1963-2013 Exhibit. An installation by Linda Mussmann. Through December.

Info: www.timeandspace.org or 518-822-8448.

TSL Gallery, 434 Columbia St, Hudson.

11AM-6PM Thanksgiving in the Country. Start a new tradition by gathering with friends and family to celebrate Thanksgiving at Diamond Mills.

Reservations encouraged. Complete menu available here:http://www.diamondmillshotel.com/tavern/ thanksgiving-dinner-buffet. Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern, 25 South Partition St, Saugerties.

11:30 AM-2 PM Town of Rochester Annual Thanksgiving Luncheon. The Community Center invites seniors, families, and anyone who may be spending the day alone to join the community family for a delicious Thanksgiving meal. RSVP by 11/22. Info:www.townofrochester. net or 626-2115. Rochester Community Center, 15 GLF Rd, Accord.

12:30 PM -3 PM First Annual Community Thanksgiving Luncheon. Everyone welcome.

Take-out meals will also be available.Hosted by the Faith Communities of the Town of Lloyd.

Info: 901-9094 orst.augustine1899@gmail.com.

St. Augustine School, 35 Phillips Ave, Highland.

1PM-4PM Woodstock’s 38th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Family of Woodstock. All are welcome. Admission is free. Info: 679-2485. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Woodstock.

1:30PM Vegan Thanksgiving. Enjoy the holiday where the turkey is honored, not eaten! Bring vegan dish to share (no meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs or honey), also your own table service. Space limited, please rsvp. Info: www.mhvs.org or rsvp@ mhvs.orgor 876-2626. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, 6368 Mill St, Rhinebeck, $15.

1:30 PM Thanksgiving Dinner at the New Paltz United Methodist Church. Appetizers will be served at 1:30 pm and dinner will follow at 2 pm.

Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes and a vegetarian dish will be provided at the church.

Those who would like to help with preparation, serving or clean-up will be welcome. Call Helen Karsten at 255-5429 and leave a message to let her know your availability.All are welcome at no charge. However, a free-will offering will be accepted. New Paltz United Methodist Church,corner of Main and Grove streets, New Paltz.

3PM Reading: Mary Gianetto, author of Baggy’s Christmas Story. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, 246-5775.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

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

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

7PM Reading of the Work of Jacques Lacan.

Moderated by Dr. Anna McLellan, member of the Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. Subject: Lacan’s Seminar V: The Unconscious. Reg req.

Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, 876-2903.

Friday

11/29

7:30AM-9AM Morning Yoga with Carisa Borello.

All levels welcome. Ongoing meets every Friday.

Info: 255-8212 or www.thelivingseed.com. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

7:30AM-8:30AM Active Senior Yoga. Fridays through November 29th. Classes will return to

Hudson Valley Gamelans and the Music Program at Bard College present

An Evening of Balinese Music and Dance with Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar and Chandra Kanchana

November 28, 2013

submission policy contact

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

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

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

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

the 9-10am time slot beginning in December.

Web: www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill, 254-5469.

10AM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: “Open Days.” Each day at 11:30 am. Learn fun turkey facts plus enjoy two “Meet the Animals” programs at 1 pm and 2:30 pm. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506 x204. Hudson HighlandsNature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $3.

10AM-3PM Annual Museum Shop Holday Sale.

New children’s section, delftware, local history books, ornaments and much more. Refreshments served! Info: 338-5184. Hurley Heritage Society Museum, 52 Main St, Hurley.

10:30AM Toddler Tales Storytime. For ages 2-3. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

11 AM-4 PM Balloon Day. The Ulster Ballet Company will be performing excerpts from its Dickens holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol.”

Performers will be distributing free balloons just in time for Santa’s arrival. Info: www.ulsterballet. org or ulsterballet@gmail.com. Hudson Valley Mall, Food Court, Kingston.

11AM Parasail Landing - Santa & H is Christmas Elves (professional sky divers from Blue Sky Ranch in Gardiner)! Word has it that Santa’s pack is brimming with small, special gift, one for each child.Great photo opportunity for Mom and Dad. Choose and Cut your own Christmas tree, cow train rides, toast your toes and roast smores at the big campfire, visit the new Christmas shop for warm drinks and food. Hand decorated wreaths and other holiday items for sale. On farm hiking trail and kids corral activities are available weather permitting. Farm hayride will transport families to the new Christmas tree site. Free admission.

Hurds Family Farm, Rt32, Modena. Note the change of location from the past three years.

12PM-2PM Santa Claus Photo Op at Walkway Over the Hudson. Sit on Santa’s sleigh surrounded by Hudson River views. Photos can be taken with Santa, available afterward online at www. walkway.org, or visitors may take their own photos. Photo opportunities will be available on the Walkway West approach in the Town of Lloyd throughout the day as well.Info: www.walkway.

org. Walkway Over The Hudson, 87 Haviland Rd, Highland.

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

1PM Holiday Tour at Wilderstein Historic Site.

Tours of the festively decorated mansion at the Wilderstein Historic Site . Tours will continue on all Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. through 12/29. Some of the rooms at Wilderstein will showcase modern holiday displays, while other areas of the mansion will take visitors back in time with period décor. Tours$10 /adults, $9 /seniors and students & free/12 &under. For more information, call 876-4818 or visit www.wilderstein.org.

1PM-4PM Crowns & Branches Workshop Sinterklaas event. Hundreds of handsome branches will be laid out alongside lots of beautiful and fanciful materials, jewels, ribbons, glitter, lace, streamers, with which the children can create their Royal garb.Web: www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com.

Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, 339-4280.

3:30PM After School Crafts. For ages 8-12.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

4PM 2nd Annual Sullivan County Blues Festival. Featuring more than just critically acclaimed blues bands, the festival will boast a number of new additions this year, including various workshops and a libations tent highlighting craft beers and liquors from local businesses. Web: www.thesullivan.com Sullivan Hotel, 283 Rock Hill Dr, Rock Hill, $25, $40 /2 days, 796-3100.

5PM-9PM Craftacula Farm + Flea Market. An alternative to Black Friday’s “big box” traditioin” and a great showcase for the agricultural bounty of our region and the creative inventiveness of its residents. First year for this weekend long showcase. Opening 11/29 w/”Black Friday Soiree” from 5–9pm, then 10am–6pm on 11/30 & 12/1.

5 PM-9 PM Basilica Hudson’s Farm + Flea.

Hudson River Exchange will be participating

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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8 pm Bard College ~ Olin Auditorium Featuring Guest Artists and Balinese Aficionados

Dr. Pete Steele and Shoko Yamamuro Artistic Director I Nyoman Suadin and a cast of 40+ musicians With a special opening performance by

Dr. Dorcinda Knauth and her Javanese Degung & Kacapi Suling ensembles Gamelan Sekar Mawar and Sekar Ligar Suggested donation $10. Bard students, staff, faculty and kids 16 & under are free.

Reservations are not necessary. For more information visit our FB page: Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana at Bard College or call 845 688-7090

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IntimaPress.com. Intima Gallery, 196 Main Street, Saugerties.Nonviolent Parenting - Nonviolent Families with Compassionate (Nonviolent) Communication (12/1, 2-4:30pm). Workshop with Roberta Wall. Are you taking out anger, exhaustion and frustration on your family? Learn practical skills and consciousness for creating and deepening honest, compassionate and effective communication within your family.

To register: www.woodstockyogacenter. com. Woodstock Yoga, Woodstock.

Yes We “Can” Menorah “Lightings created from donated canned goods: on Sunday, December 1st, 3 -5pm at the Poughkeepsie Galleria on Route 9; on Wednesday, December 4th, 5:30 -7 pm in the food court at the Hudson

Valley Mall on Route 9W in Kingston. The Yes We “Can” events include the Fabulous Bubble Trouble show; Hannukah crafts and face painting; meet Judah the Maccabee; decorate your own donut; and hot latkes and drinks.

person round trip. The bus will depart from New Paltz at 8am and leave New York City at 6:30pm. Drop-off and pick-up is at Times Square. For more information or to make a reservation, call Mary Ann Casamento at 255-1040 or Dave Moore at 255-8315.

Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6 pm. at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www.chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

Enter Now! Celebration of Lights Photo Contest! Enter a 5x7 photo in the contest by 1/24/14. A complete list of rules can be found at www. saugertiespubliclibrary.org. Open to all Saugerties Public Library patrons.

Saugerties Public Library, Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Ulster/Dutchess (NYUD) Christmas Bird Count. Centered in Glasco, Ulster County. The count circle is nearly bisected by the Hudson River and includes parts of Ulster, Dutchess, Greene, and Columbia Counties. Reg req Info: forsythnature@aol.com.

Benefit Concert for Guiding Eyes for the Blind to feature Blessing Offor (12/2,7:30pm. Offor plays multiple instruments and his soulful and melodic sound intertwines with words that relay songs of love, happiness, faith and life. Offor is a Guiding Eyes graduate. The suggested donation is $10 and $5 for students. Tickets will be available at the door. For questions, call Maria Dunne at 230-6436.

Shepard Recital Hall on the SUNY New Paltz campus, New Paltz.

Sign-Up Now! Bus trip to New York City(12/14). Hosted by The Knights of Columbus and Columbiettes of St. Joseph’s Church in New Paltz . The trip is open to everyone. Enjoy a day in the city doing whatever you choose (shop, see a play, see the city sights). $30 per

with a collection of collection of gifts. Info: www. hudsonriverexchange.com. Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front St, Hudson. Email: info@basilicahudson.com.Url: http://basilicahudson.com.

6PM-9PM Downtown New Paltz Unwrapped.

Holiday windows are unveiled. Enjoy cider, cookies, goodies, and events in stores. Take a selfguided walking tour of the participating downtown shops. Downtown New Paltz, New Paltz.

6PM-8PM Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. Mayor Gallo will light the tree at 7pm.

Enjoy local entertainment. Refreshments will be provided. Santa and Friends will be present. Info: 331-1216. Academy Green Park, Kingston.

6PM-8PM A Frosty Fest: A Spectacular Festival of Holiday Lights, Enchanted forest with animated light displays, glistening gardens, magical mansion, Santa’s North Pole, Frosty’s Adventures - a 3-D experience -, 30-ft. train, stage shows, food, cafes, gift shops. Info: www. afrostyfest.com or 339-2666. Headless Horseman Hayrides, 778 Broadway, Ulster Park.

7PM Christmas Caroling in Gardiner. Annual caroling through the hamlet. Dress warmly but this year you can leave your flashlights at home as we stroll merrily on sidewalks lit by the new street lamps. Gardiner Gables, Gardiner.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Lovano at 60! Featuring Friends & Family Celebrating the release of “Cross Culture” on Blue Note Records. Web: www. liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Rte 9W, Marlboro, 236-7970.

7:30PM-10PM Fifth Friday Dance Meet Up: Variety Dance with The Saints of Swing. Dance lesson with Ron Fields and Lauranne Billus and the band will play from 8-10pm. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz.

8PM Sax Life. Web: www.rosendalecafe.com.

Rosendale Café, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $10, 658-9048.

8PM Sequoia Sellinger. The Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, 679-5342.

8PM Simone Felice plays Byrdcliffe. Info: www. woodstockguild.org/songwriters.html or events@ woodstockguild.org or 679-2079. The Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, $25.

8PM Amy Helm and The Handsome Strangers.

8pm door / 9pm show $20 GA advance / $25 GA day of / $35 reserved balcony seats. Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker St, Bearsville, 679-4406. or www.bearsvilletheater@gmail.com.

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Upcoming Cookie Walk (12/14, 9am-12pm)! The Women’s Fellowship of the Reformed Church of Shawangunk will once again tempt you with their cookies. Homemade cookies of all kinds at affordable prices . $6/ per pound. Women’s Fellowship Reformed Church of Shawangunk,1166 Hoagerburgh Rd, Cty. Rt. 18,Wallkill, 895-2952.

Hot Lunches Served! Ulster County Senior Nutrition / Dining Program.

Sponsored by Ulster County’s Office for The Aging. Hot meals offered, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 11:30am-noon. Please call the site between 10 am and 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.

There is no set cost, but a suggested daily donation of $3.00 is requested.

Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center,467 Broadway, Kingston,

8:30PM Miles Brothers Band. Blues, rock, reggae, originals, & covers. Info: www.hoppedupcafe.com or 687-4750. Hopped Up Café, 2303 Lucas Tpke, High Falls.

9PM Black Friday Black Light Party with Breakaway. Featuring Robin Baker. High Falls Café, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

9:30PM 11th Hour. Web: www.hydeparkbrewing. com. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, 229-8277.

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Small Business Saturday. Hundreds of independent bookstores across the country will be hosting local authors this November 30, Small Business Saturday, thanks to a movement called Indies First. Info: www.IndieBound.org. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

9 AM Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge.

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

9AM-10:30AM Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, Saturdays 9-10:30am. All are welcome. No charge. 679-8800. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock, free.

10AM Phoenicia’s Post-Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. Free T-Shirts to the first 50 registered. 2.4 mile run, ramble, trot, walk or wobble to benefit the Pine Hill Community Center. Entry fee: $10/pp,$20/per family, free/tot trot for children 5 & under at 9:30am. Race-day registration from 8:45am-9:45am. To pre-register, www.phoeniciaturkeytrot.com or 688-7064. Parish Hall, Main St, Phoenicia.

10AM-2:30PM Crowns & Branches Workshop Sinterklaas event. Hundreds of handsome branches will be laid out alongside lots of beautiful and fanciful materials, jewels, ribbons, glitter, lace, streamers, with which the children can create their Royalgarb. Web: www.sinterklaashudson-

Donations Needed for The Alternative Gift Fair. A benefit for Family’s Domestic Violence Shelter. All proceeds from sale will be for the shelter. Deadline for donations is 11/29. New Paltz, 256-9233.

Thanksgiving at Caring Hands Soup Kitchen. Info: 331-7188. The Clinton Avenue UMC, 122 Clinton Ave, Kingston.

Register Now! Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka, Wednesdays, 7—8:30 pm1/8, 2/5, 3/5, 4/2, 5/7, 6/4/2014. certified hypnotist.Sponsored by the Oncology Support Program of the HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley.

To register: call Doris 339-2071 or email: Doris.Blaha@hahv.org or www.

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Exercise for a Cause & Zumba for Food.

In the month of December the New Paltz Elks Lodge is sponsoring a series of exercise classes and a food drive. Participate in aerobics, strength training, step aerobics and Zumba classes - and all it will cost you is a donation of non-perishable food items that will go to our neighbors in need and local food pantries. Susan Loxley-Friedle will lead the Aerobics & Step classes & Amanda Gresens take you through the Zumba dance party. All the workouts are good for your heart & in more ways than just getting it pumping! Schedule: Monday Dec 2,7pm, Wednesday Dec 4, 7pm, Saturday Dec 7, 8 am; Monday Dec 9, 7pm, Wednesday Dec 11, 7pm, Saturday Dec 14, 8 am; Monday Dec 16, 7pm, Wednesday Dec 18, 7pm, Saturday Dec 21, 8 am. Classes are at the New Paltz Elks Lodge 290 State Route 32 S, New Paltz, 255-9317.

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10AM-4PM Beat The Crowds Vendor and Craft Event. To benefit Family of New Paltz and Girls on the Run (GOTR). Tricky Tray Raffles, really cool prizes. Delicious food, coffee, drinks, hot cocoa, and goodies available. Info: 527-5672 or conservecashnp@gmail.com. Elks Lodge, Route 32 S, New Paltz.

10AM- 1PM An Introduction to Handmade Bookswith Mindy Belloff. Session A: Saturday, November 30, 10am-1pm or Session B: Saturday, December 21, 1-3pm. Workshop fee: $75 (materials included), Space is limited register now!

Contact: IntimaPress@yahoo.com . 917-4124134. More info at: www.IntimaPress.co. Intima Gallery, 196 Main Street, Saugerties.

10AM Mixed-Level Yoga. A regular Saturday morning yoga class at the library. This mixed-level hatha yoga class, taught by Kathy Carey. Please bring a mat. Web: www.olivefreelibrary.org. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan.

10AM-3PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Duck Pond and Beyond. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. Moderate, 7-mile hike led by Tonda Highley (255-9933). Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner, 255-0919.

10AM-1PM An Introduction to Handmade Books with Mindy Belloff.Intima Press Letterpress & Book Arts, NYC, has arrived in Saugerties! The Art of the Book begins with the book structure. Learn two sewing techniques to get you started, which you will enjoy repeating from your home or studio: the pamphlet style for folded pages is a perfect binding for poetry chapbooks, art & writing journals, and the Japanese stab binding is ideal for assembling single sheets of artworks, photographs, and writings. Get a glimpse into the world of making artist’s books and jump start a new way of thinking.Workshop fee: $75 (materials included), Space is limited register earlyContact: IntimaPress@yahoo.com .

917-412-4134. Info: www.IntimaPress.com. Intima Gallery, 196 Main Street, Saugerties.

10AM-5PM Crafted: Handmade in the Hudson Valley. Crafted handmade gifts by local artists and designers. Hot tea and cookies, warm up by the

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Events will take place on Broadway, East Strand & on Pennsy 399 Historic Covered Barge, 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; The Children’s Maritime Parade down Broadway to escort Sinterklaas to his Tugboat is at 4 pm; followed by a treelighting at the Visitor Center at 5 pm.

Sinterklaas in Rhinebeck, Saturday, December 7, events at village halls, churches and businesses 10 am-11 pm; Children’s Starlight Parade, 6 pm; Star Ceremony in Municipal Parking Lot, 6:45 pm. Info: www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com.

Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal (Thursdays, 7-9pm). If you can carry a tune, the Mid-Hudson Valley’s new gay and lesbian chorus needs you.

No auditions, and sight reading not required. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass— all voices needed. Rehearsals every other Thursday at Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. Information at rainbowchorus1@gmail.com or 679-2135. $10 per rehearsal.

fire. Info: www.craftedhudsonvalley.org. Church Project Space, 167 Cottekill Rd, Cottekill.

10AM-4PM Holiday Gift Fair. Handpicked unique pieces from India for the ideal gift for family and friends. Your contribution supports non-profit charitable projects. Info: www.shantihastkala.org or shanti@twcmetrobiz.com or 778-1008. Shanti Mandir / CCSC, 51 Muktananda Marg, Walden.

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-4PM Open House -Holiday Craft Fair.

Steel House Restaurant, 100 Rondout Landing, Kingston.

10AM-6PM Basilica Hudson’s Farm + Flea.

Hudson River Exchange will be participating with a collection of collection of gifts. Info: www. hudsonriverexchange.com. Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front St, Hudson.

10AM-3PM Annual Museum Shop Holday Sale.

New children’s section, delftware, local history books, ornaments and much more. Refreshments served! Info: 338-5184. Hurley Heritage Society Museum, 52 Main St, Hurley.

10AM-6PM Craftacula Farm + Flea Market. An alternative to Black Friday’s “big box” traditioin” and a great showcase for the agricultural bounty of our region and the creative inventiveness of its residents. First year for this weekend long showcase. Opening 11/29 w/”Black Friday Soiree” from 5–9pm, then 10am–6pm on 11/30 & 12/1.Email: info@basilicahudson.com.Url: http://basilicahudson.com.

10 AM -11:30 AM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Thanksgiving Walk Off ! Come walk off your Thanksgiving dinner and leftovers on a leisurely two-and-a-half mile stroll along the Awosting Falls Carriage Road. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752.Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Peter’s Kill Climbing Area, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

10AM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: “Open Days.” Each day at 11:30 a.m. learn fun turkey facts plus enjoy two “Meet the Animals” programs at 1 pm and 2:30 pm. Info: www.hhna-

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Buy Once, Give Twice to support Elting Memorial Library. Purchases made at Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz from Nov. 30 through Dec. 7 will benefit the youth programs at Elting Library. Mention Elting Library during this period and a portion of your sale will go to help the library. The book store is located at 6 Church Street in New Paltz.

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Woodstock announces auditions for late March production of The Importance of Being Earnest on Saturday, December 7 & Sunday, December 8 at the Community Center, Woodstock, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm. Rehearsals begin in mid-February. Director: Bob McBroom All roles are open and age adjustable. Sides available. 679-7900.

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10AM Mixed-Level Yoga. A regular Saturday morning yoga class at the library. This mixed-level hatha yoga class, taught by Kathy Carey. Please bring

a mat. Web: www.olivefreelibrary.org. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan, $10, 657-2482.

10AM-6PM Third Art Foray. An innovative travelling art show featuring a wide selection of works.

Works by area artists at affordable prices. Info: www.thewiredgallery.com. Wired Gallery, 1415 New York 213, High Falls.

10AM-3PM Holiday Rummage Sale. Ornaments, decorations, winter clothes, baked goods. To benefit local food pantries. Info: Beverlygroth@ yahoo.com or 758-0657. Rowe United Methodist Church, Route 199, Red Hook.

10AM-3PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Duck Pond and Beyond. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. Moderate, 7-mile hike led by Tonda Highley (255-9933).

Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Parking lot, End of Pine Rd, New Paltz.

10AM-2PM Teen Geek Squad. Patrons will receive one-on-one technology assistance from one of the library’s teen geeks, who can show them everything from navigating the internet to how to set up new devices. Call ahead of time to schedule an appointment or simply drop in. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook, 758-3241.

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.

11AM-8PM Sinterklaas/Small Business Saturday. Freshly Baked Cookies available for the children to decorate under the watchful eye of Mrs. Sinterklaas. Info: www.milneathomeantiques. com or 331-3902. Milne’s at Home Antiques, 81 Broadway, Kingston.

11AM Sinterklaas Kingston-Arrival Day Festivities: Pastor Renee House kicks of the day with a Dutch Poem. Bex Calder-Roper then tells the Dutch story of The Three Sisters, followed by The St. Joseph’s School Choir with solo by opera singer Kerry Henderson. The Maennerchor, then Indonesian Gamelan. Old Dutch Church, Wall St, Kingston.

11AM-7PM Sinterklaas Holiday Celebration.

A procession of giant puppets, stars, fish, flags, and the great Hudson River itself will travel down Broadway. Open houses in all the shops with music, food, arts, crafts and antiques. Info: www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com or 339-4280.

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11AM-2PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: The Annual Mitten Tree Project. Donate new “warm & fuzzy” child-sized mittens, gloves, winter scarves and hats for children who wish to play outdoors at recess time and during after-school programs. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston.

11:15AM-12:30PM Gentle Yoga with Rachel Hunderfund. All levels welcome. Ongoing meets every Saturday. Info: 255-8212 or www.thelivingseed.com. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

12PM-4PM Sinterklass Open House at The Green Space. Serving free hot chocolate with marshmallows! The GreenSpace, 73B Broadway, Kingston.

12PM-6PM Artist Spotlight The Artist Spotlights each focus on one artisan’s work. Come meet the featured artists. Info: 679-2079 or megan@ woodstockguild.org. Byrdcliffe Shop, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, free.

12PM-1:30PM Community Chili Bowl Days Wheel throwing & hand-building, no experience necessary. Families are welcome, and registration is required. Also 2-4pm & 5-6:30pm. Info: 658-9133. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Ln, Rosendale, free.

12PM-4PM Open House -Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration. On exhibit: Honored Animal: The Fox. A Group Show. Exhibits through 12/21. Info: www.TheStorefrontGallery.com or 338-8473. The Storefront Gallery, 93 Broadway, Kingston.

12PM Book Reading: Leslie M. Jasper will read from her new self-published book “Construction Tales: Volume I: A Woman’s Journey to Becoming an Electrician.” Info: www.gardinerlibrary. org or 255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s

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12PM-4PM Sinterklaas on the Rondout Celebration! The Trolley Museum of Kingston is pleased to open for the celebration. Info: www.tmny.org or 331-3399. Trolley Museum, 89 East Strand, Kingston.

12PM-4PM Open House. Ornament Making Workshop. Pirate Upholstery, 25 Broadway, Kingston.

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12:30PM-2:30PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: Face Painting by Patti Gibbons. Kingston Home Port and Education Center, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston.

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1PM-5PM Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting of I Kneaded This Massage & Skin Care. Event is in conjunction with Small Business Saturday.

Grand opening give-aways, specials and appetizers catered by China Rose Catering will be available. I Kneaded This Massage & Skin Care 6454 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck,337-1266. Visit www.ikneadedthis.com for more information and a complete list of services.

1:30PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: Stortelling by Karen Pillsworth. Trolley Museum, 89 East Strand, Kingston.

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 x 1012 Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra,

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2PM 2nd Annual Sullivan County Blues Festival. Featuring more than just critically acclaimed blues bands, the festival will boast a number of new additions this year, including various workshops and a libations tent highlighting craft beers and liquors fromlocal businesses. Web: www.thesullivan.com Sullivan Hotel, 283 Rock Hill Dr, Rock Hill, $25, 796-3100.

2PM Reading and Book Signing: Author Dina Falconi & Illustrator Wendy Hollender. Foraging & Feasting. Info: 679-8000. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: Nanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Playshop for Kids & Grownups. Karmabee, 73a Broadway, Kingston.

2:30PM-4PM Community Chili Bowl Days!

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2:30PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: Sol Sonado Duet performing Renaissance and Baroque music. Mint, 1 W Strand, Kingston.

3PM Mary Gianetto Reads Baggyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas Story. Inquiring Minds, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 246-5775.

3PM-5PM Book Signing: Death at Olana. Author Glenda Ruby. Info: www.olana.org or 518-8280135 Olana, Olana Museum Shop, 5720 Route 9G, Hudson, free.

3:30PM Straight Up and Salted with a Twist.

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4:15PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: The WayďŹ nder Experience, arts and education program, will run team based sword games with play-safe foam weapons through imaginative play and storytelling which incorporates fun, atheistic games such ascapture the flag and improvisational duels. TR Gallo Park, Kingston.

4:30PM-8PM A Frosty Fest: A Spectacular Festival of Holiday Lights, Enchanted forest

with animated light displays, glistening gardens, magical mansion, Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Pole, Frostyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adventures - a 3-D experience -, 30-ft. train, stage shows, food, cafes, gift shops. Info: www. afrostyfest.com or 339-2666. Headless Horseman Hayrides, 778 Broadway, Ulster Park.

5PM-7PM Opening Reception: Winter Solstice 2013 Holiday Show. Featuring new watercolors

by Betsy Jacaruso and the Cross River Artists.

Refreshments. Exhibits through 1/31/14. Info: www.betsyjacarusostudio.com or 516-4435.

Betsy Jacaruso Studio,43 East Market St, Suite 2, Rhinebeck.

5PM -7PM Opening Reception: New Works by Richard Segalman. Show will exhibit through 2/23/14. WFG Gallery, 31 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock,679-6003 or www.wfggallery.com.

5PM Sinterklaas Kingston Celebration: Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tree Lighting. Visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Center, 20 Broadway, Kingston.

5PM-6:30AM Community Chili Bowl Days!

30 Wheel throwing & hand-building, no experience necessary. Families are welcome, and registration is required. Info: 658-9133. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Ln, Rosendale, free.

5PM Tennessee Williams: Straight Up and Salted with a Twist a Blue Horse Repertory Production.The program is in two parts. At 3:30 pm there will be a performance of Tennessee Williams’ The Lady of Larkspur Lotion and at 5pm a reading of Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls. Admission is by donation.

PS21 Performance Space, 12 Main St, Chatham, 518-392-6121.

5PM Edwina Tyler, Queen of Women Drummers. The Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, 679-5342.

6PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the MidHudson Valley.Info: 463-5801 or www.chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

6PM Laura Ludwig presents poetry and performance art. Inquiring Minds, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 246-5775.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Soñando. Web: www. liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Rte 9W, Marlboro, 236-7970.

7 PM-8 PM Latin Dance Class Merengue & Cumbia. Beginners welcome. $10 pp. Info: 679-2704 or Learn2dance@cumbiaspirit.com.

Mt View Studio, 20 Mt View Ave, Woodstock.

7PM Holiday Inn. A 1940’s Themed Dance and Dining Evening Out – The Party of the Season!

Wendy Nief & Friends Combo will play era favorites for listening and dancing. Info: 607-326-7908 Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury.

7:30 PM Hudson Valley Community Dances Fifth Saturday -Thanksgivukah Contradance!

Mike Kernan Calling with Harry Bolick, fiddle; Pat Schories,bass; & Susie Deane,on whatever for the moment!. Dance off the holiday treats! Or bring leftover pies, latkes, bring them to share.$10/5 full time students. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church,55 Wilbur Blvd,Poughkeepsie, 473-7050 or contra@hvcd.org.

7:30PM Noche Flamenca at Kaatsbaan. Project 44 is a NY based all male company that showcases the beauty, versatility, and athleticism of male performers. Web: www.kaatsbaan.org. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, $45 /café table seat, $30, 757-5106 x 2 or grkaats@bestweb.net.

7:30PM A Christmas Carol. All performances will be followed by a Winter Wonderland reception with Carolers, refreshments, meet-and-greet with Dickens characters, and a visit by Santa. Info: www.WoodstockPlayhouse.org or 679-6900.

Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $40, $36, $32.

7:30PM-10PM John St. Jam Concert. Eight singer-songwriter-musicians play in two rounds of four in intimate “living room” type setting.

Home-baked goodies and coffee, tea and bottled water available at nominal fee. Info:www.johnstreetjam.net. Dutch Arms Chapel,16 John St,

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8PM Murder on the Nile. Agatha Christie’s famous mystery play based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile. Info: www.centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, Rhinebeck, $22, $20.

8PM Kingston After Dark Benefit Concert hosted by Kingston Times/Kingston After Dark.

Featuring The Grape & The Grain, Of The Atlas, Pitchfork Militia & Cities & Years. Minimum $5 donation - donations of $10 , All bands have graciously agreed to play gratis so all the money can go to Kingston Cares, Family of Woodstock’s Midtown youth outreach program. Doors open at 7pm.The Basement), 744-746 Broadway, Kingston, 334-8200.

8PM SoundTrax. A unique trio comprised of 2 brothers, John & Pete Mahoney and Pete’s daughter Aileen. Info: 607-652-4030. The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford, $10.

8:30 PM Ben Rounds Band. A three-piece band. The band’s roots are in rock n roll and old school country. Info: www.hoppedupcafe.com or 687-4750. Hopped Up Café, 2303 Lucas Tpke, High Falls.

8:30PM Dave Mason, solo in the taproom. Web: www.hydeparkbrewing.com. Hyde Park Brewing Co, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, 229-8277.

8:30 PM-12 AM Salsa Dancing in Kingston.

Salsa, Merengue, & Bachata. Every Saturday Night 8:30pm to 12am.Suggested donation: $5.

338-7161. Gabriels’ Café, 316 Wall St, Kingston.

9PM Marc Black Band- The Woodstock Festival of Thanksgiving. Web: 679-4406 or bearsvilletheater@gmail.com or www.bearsvilletheater. com. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $25.

9PM Thanksgiving Reggae Festival Fundraiser with Royal Khaoz. THe Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, 679-5342.

Sunday

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Mid-Hudson ADK Hike: Romantic Paradise Rock. Leader: Barry Skura, 914-779-0936, Barry.Skura@gmail.com. Call for meeting time and location 10 miles at brisk pace. Info: www.

MidHudsonADK.org. Harriman State Park, Harriman.

7AM-11AM Glaso Fire Dept’s Monthly All-YouCan-Eat Breakfast. $8/adults, $6 /children under age 12 & seniors. No reservation is necessary. Glasco Fire Dept, Glasco.

10AM-6PM Basilica Hudson’s Farm + Flea.

Hudson River Exchange will be participating with a collection of collection of gifts. Info: www. hudsonriverexchange.com. Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front St, Hudson.

10AM-2PM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon. JB’s Soul Jazz. Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10AM-6PM Craftacula Farm + Flea Market. An alternative to Black Friday’s “big box” traditioin” and

a great showcase for the agricultural bounty of our region and the creative inventiveness of its residents.

First year for this weekend long showcase. Opening 11/29 w/”Black Friday Soiree” from 5–9pm, then 10am–6pm on 11/30 & 12/1.Email: info@basilicahudson.com.Url: http://basilicahudson.com.

10AM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: “Open Days.” Each day at 11:30 a.m. learn fun turkey facts plus enjoy two “Meet the Animals” programs at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Info: www. hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506 x204. Hudson HighlandsNature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $3.

10AM-3PM Annual Museum Shop Holday Sale.

New children’s section, delftware, local history books, ornaments and much more. Refreshments served! Info: 338-5184. Hurley Heritage Society Museum, 52 Main St, Hurley.

10 AM-3 PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Hamilton Point. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. Moderate, 7-mile hike ed by Bill Jasyn (255-7805). Info: 255-0919.

Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Wildmere (upper) Lot, New Paltz.

10AM-6PM Third Art Foray. An innovative travelling art show featuring a wide selection of works.

Works by area artists at affordable prices. Info: www.thewiredgallery.com. Wired Gallery, 1415 New York 213, High Falls.

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

11AM-3PM Crafted: Handmade in the Hudson Valley. Crafted handmade gifts by local artists and designers. Hot tea and cookies, warm up by the fire. Info: www.craftedhudsonvalley.org. Church Project Space, 167 Cottekill Rd, Cottekill.

11AM-11:30AM Community HU Song. Experience the Presence of God’s Love. All religious backgrounds welcome. Followed by an Informative Book Discussion. Spiritual Wisdom on Dreams. By Harold Klemp 12 1PM. Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Ave., New Paltz, eckankar-ny.org or 800-630-3546 12 PM-4 PM Annual Toy Extravaganza and Winter Carnival for children. A fund-raising event for the needy children in Ulster County.

Parade at 1 pm. Please bring a new toy to donate to a needy Ulster County Child. Bloomington Fire House, 14 Taylor St, Bloomington.

12PM-5PM 76th Anniversary Open House, Model Railroad Show. . A complete ‘O’ Scale Railroad System in Action! Scale Models of Steam and Diesel Locomotives, Old Fashioned and Modern Trains, Complete Villages & Scenery.

Info: 334-8233. SusanSt, (off Pine Grove Ave), Kingston, $6 /gen adm, $2 /child.

1PM-5PM Holiday Spirit Day. Invited artists will showcase their work & wares. Joining the artists will be a tarot card reader, yogic astrologer & two massage therapists offering chair massages by the minute. Info:www.satyayogacenter.us or satyayogacenter@gmail.com or 876-2528. Satya Yoga Center, 6400 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, free.

1PM St. Nicholas Day & Community Carol Sing in Kingston. For more information, call 338-6759 or e-mail info@olddutchchurch.org. The Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston.

1PM-5PM Satya Yoga Open House Jewelry, pottery, watercolors, and handmade gourmet chocolates! Joining the artists will be a tarot card reader, yogic astrologer and chair massage therapists. Info: www.satyayogacenter.us orsatyayogacenter@gmail.com or 876-2528. Satya Yoga Center, 6400 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

1PM-3PM Radio Woodstock @ Sidelines. A chance for you to win a pair of tickets to the final home game of the season against the Cleveland Browns on December 22nd at MetLife Stadium.

Sidelines, 7909 Albany Post Rd, Red Hook.

1:30PM ECC/JBNHS Animal Tracking Adventure. Learn how to identify animal tracks and to observe clues to what the animal may have been doing at the time the tracks were made. Info: greg. perantoni@yahoo.com or www.esopuscreekconservancy.org.Esopus Bend Nature Preserve, Shady Lane entrance, Esopus.

2PM Nonviolent Parenting - Nonviolent Families withCompassionate Communication -Class Expressing Workshop with Roberta Wall. This involves learning and practicing self connecting, so you know what it is that is really important to you, knowing what is in your heart that you want others in your family to understand.

Exploring how NVC helps us learn how to ask for what we want. Focus on how to deliver a message that is hard for us and/or the other person! Preregister: www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga, Woodstock.

2PM Sunday Silents: Roscoe Arbuckle. Web: www.rosendaletheatre.org. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale, $7, 658-8989.

2PM A Christmas Carol. All performances will be followed by a Winter Wonderland reception with Carolers, refreshments, meet-and-greet with Dickens characters, and a visit by Santa. Info: www.WoodstockPlayhouse.org or 6792PM-4PM Opening Reception: Paperworks.

Holiday exhibit and sale of small works by local artists. No work larger than 81/2? x 11?. Prices from $5–$100. Info: www.rhcan.com or redhookcan@gmail.com. Red Hook CAN/Artist’s Collective, 7516 N. Broadway, Red Hook.

2PM Brook Farm Project Celebration of Thanks Event. Brook Farm Project will host an end-ofseason celebration of thanks to the community at the farmhouse. The event will feature farm snacks,

November 28, 2013 music and socializing.“We will extend our gratitude to all who have supported or participated in the diverse farm enterprise,” said farmer Creek Iversen.The project’s final first-Sunday-of-themonth music sing-along and round-robin will begin at 5 pm. A potluck supper will be served at 6 pm.The farmhouse is located on Lenape Lane in New Paltz. For more information, visit www. brookfarmproject.wordpress.com or call 255-1052.

2:30PM Noche Flamenca at Kaatsbaan. Project 44 is a NY based all male company that showcases the beauty, versatility, and athleticism of male performers. Web: www.kaatsbaan.org. $45 /café table seat, $30, tickets at grkaats@bestweb. net. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, 757-5106.

3 PM-5 PM “But I’m A Cheerleader!” Info: 331-5300. LGBTQ Community Center, Apuzzo Hall, Kingston, free.

3PM-5PM Opening Reception: Ornamentation.

Exhibits through 1/5/2014. Red Hook CAN/Artist’s Collective, 7516 N. Broadway, Red Hook, redhookcan@gmail.com.

3PM-5PM Yes We “Can” Menorah “ Lightings created from donated canned goods: The Yes We “Can” events include the Fabulous Bubble Trouble show; Chanukah crafts and face painting; meet Judah the Maccabee; decorate your own donut; and hot latkes and drinks. Poughkeepsie Galleria on Rte 9, Poughkeepsie.

3PM Murder on the Nile. Agatha Christie’s famous mystery play based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile. Info: www.centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, Rhinebeck,876-3080. $22, $20.

3:30PM Annual Village Tree Lighting and Parade. Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides with Gentle Giants 4H and a host of other family activities.

The Little Creek Band will perform at 4:30pm.

Rhinebeck Bank, Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

4PM St. Nicholas Day & Community Carol Sing.

Info: info@olddutchchurch.org or 338-6759. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston.

4PM Hudson Valley YA Society. Robin Wasserman - The Waking Dark & Holly Black - The Coldest Girl in Cold Town. RSVP. Info: 876-0500 or rsvp@oblongbooks.com. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, rsvp@ oblongbooks.com.

4PM-5PM Vinyasa Yoga with Hannah Fox. All levels welcome. Ongoing meets every Sunday.

Info: 255-8212 or www.thelivingseed.com. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

4 PM Hudson Valley YA Society: Featured Authors: Robin Wasserman (The Waking Dark) & Holly Black (The Coldest Girl in Cold Town).

RSVP reqrd. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

4:30PM Annual Holiday Charity Auction. A joint fund-raiser held by the Chancellor Livingston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Museum of Rhinebeck History.

Silent auction, a bake sale, food sale, “mocktails”, and jewelry sale. The live auction will begin at 5:30pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, 80 East Market St, Rhinebeck, info@NorthernDutchessDAR.org.

4:30PM-7PM A Frosty Fest: A Spectacular Festival of Holiday Lights, Enchanted forest with animated light displays, glistening gardens, magical mansion, Santa’s North Pole, Frosty’s Adventures - a 3-D experience -, 30-ft. train, stage shows, food, cafes, gift shops. Info: www. afrostyfest.com or 339-2666. Headless Horseman Hayrides, 778 Broadway, Ulster Park.

4:45PM Town of Hyde Park Tree Lighting Ceremony. The holiday revelers then process to the Town Hall where the merriment continues with holiday carols, a reading of the “Night Before Christmas.” Refreshments. United Methodist Church, Hyde Park.

5:30PM Annual Holiday Auction With Tag Sale.

A joint event w/ Museum of Rhinebeck History featuring live and silent auction, jewelry sale, and bake sale. Info: www.northerndutchessdar.org or saartjelast@gmail.com or 518-4008.

6PM-6:30PM HVCD Swing Dance Beginners Lesson. Followed by Dance to DJ’d music from 6:30-9pm. Admission $10/6 full time students.

Arlington Reformed Church 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 454-2571.

6:30PM-9PM HVCD Swing Dance to DJ’d music.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 454-2571.

Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, $10, $6 /full time student.

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

9:15AM-11:15AM Senior Art with Judith Boggess.

55 and older. Sept. thru June. $80. Drop-in $5 per class. 657-581. American Legion, Mountain Rd, Shokan.

9:30AM Serving and Staying in Place Social Meeting, seniors wanting to remain in their homes and community. On-going meets every Monday at 9:30am. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston.

11AM-1PM Open Computer Lab. Open Computer Lab is held Monday-Friday. Web: www.poklib. org. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie, 485-3445 x 3381.

11AM-12PM Senior Qi Gong with Zach Baker.

Mondays, on-going. Web: www.unisonarts.org.

Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5 /per class, 255-1559.

11:30 AM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:PM . Shamanic Doctoring Healing Sessions with Shamanic Healer Adam Kane. First Monday of every month. In this transformative healing session, Adam brings the healing spirits directly in contact with you, facilitating healing on physical, mental and emotional levels through medicine songs, drum and rattle and laying on of hands, creating a balanced environment within the body. Please refrain from caffeine, alcohol or other obvious toxins prior to and after treatment.

Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock.

679-2100. $75 for one hour session.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

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

2PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come to the Joma CafĂŠ, Informative Volunteer Orientation talk for the Reservoir Food Pantry now serving the greater Olive area.

All Are Welcome. Joma Cafe, 4075 Route 28A, West Shokan,750-0791.

3PM-5PM Math Help with Phyllis. Mondays.

Web: www.phoenicialibrary.org. Phoenicia Library, 9 Ava Maria Ave, Phoenicia, 688-7811.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Every day at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

4PM Crafting with Kids. Held on the first and last Monday of each month. For ages 4-10. Registration is required. Highland Public Library, 30 Church St, Highland, free, 691-2275 x16.

4:15 PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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. 28 West Gym at Maverick Road & Route 28 $12 per class. For more info: 679-6250.

4:30 PM-6 PM Free Funny Bones Comedy/ Improv Class. Meets every Monday, 4:30-6pm.

All are invited to participate in skits, theater games and story telling. 255-5482. Unframed Artists Gallery, 173 Huguenot St, New Paltz.

5:30PM-6:30PM Qi Gong with Zach Baker. This class will not be held on the second Monday of the month. Web: www.unisonarts.org. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $10, 255-1559.

5:30PM-7PM Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rooks: Morton Youth Chess Club. Students in grades K - 12 are welcome to join for fun, learning, and tournament competition. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, 876-5810.

6PM-7PM New Homicide Survivors Support Group. The first such support group in the region specifically for family and friends of homicide victims. Meets 1st and 3rd Monday of every month. Family Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; North Annex, 29 North Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

6:15PM-7:15PM Reiki Circle. Ongoing. Mondays.

Includes group guided meditation & brief individual energy healing treatment. Donations welcome.

Web: www.whitecranehall.com Shirt Factory, #116, 77 Cornell St, Kingston, or michael@whitecranehall.com.

6:30PM-8:30PM Open Computer Lab. Web: www. poklib.org. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie, 485-3445 x 3381.

6:30PM Annual College Financial Aid Night.

Christopher Chang, director of financial aid at Ulster County Community College, will conduct the workshop. Info: 247-6656. Saugerties High School, School Cafeteria, Saugerties.

7:30 PM BeneďŹ t Concert for Guiding Eyes for the Blind to feature Blessing Offor. Offor plays multiple instruments and his soulful and melodic sound intertwines with words that relay songs of love, happiness, faith and life. Offor is a Guiding Eyes graduate. The suggested donation is $10 and $5 for students. Tickets will be available at the door. For questions, call Maria Dunne at 230-6436. Shepard Recital Hall on the SUNY New Paltz campus, New Paltz.

7:30P Murder and Mayhem in Ulster County.

Presented by Elizabeth Werlau and A.J. Schenkman. Sponsored by the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society. Free admission & refreshments. Theater/Meeting Room in Building 6 at Vineyard Commons,300 Vineyard Ave, 255-7742.

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en your resume together. Please bring a hard copy of your resume. Info:www.poklib.org or 473-9000.

Adriance Memorial Library, Greenspan Board Room, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie.

6:30PM Kids Crafting Corner. Held on the first Tuesday of the month. Ages 5-11. Registration is required. Highland Public Library, 30 Church St, Highland, free, 691-2275 x16.

7PM -9PM Green Energy Supply Companies (Green ESCOs) Forum by The Catskill MountainKeeper and Woodstock NY Transition, in partnership with the Woodstock Environmental Committee. Free to the Public. No registration necessary but seating is limited. 417-6489.Woodstock Town Offices, 45 Comeau Dr, Woodstock.

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! Novellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 2 Terwilliger Ln, New Paltz.

7PM Morton Yarn Nights with Cher. Bring projects to work on, get advice from others, share your expertise, or just come to enjoy the company of other yarn enthusiasts. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, 876-1085.

7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop.

On-going -Tuesday nights from 7pm-8:30pm.

Free to attend: learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Elks Lodge, 290 Rt 32 S, New Paltz.

7PM Open Mic with Chrissy Budzinski. Info: 246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, New Paltz.

7PM-9PM Conversation with Angels with author Dror Ashuah. Channeled messages from the angelic realm remind us that the energy of the planet is shifting and we are in the next step of planetary evolution. This is a time to remember and wake up. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15 if registered

by December 1; $20 after.

7PM-10PM Jazz Jam. Meets every Tuesday, 7-10pm. 452-3232. Never a cover. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz. Info:

687-2699. High Falls CafĂŠ, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

7PM-8:30PM Singing Just for Fun! New Paltz Community Singers. Everyone welcome, everyone gets to choose songs. Going 20+ years. Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at the Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim. More info: genecotton@gmail.com.

7:30PM-9:30PM Life Drawing Sessions. Tuesday and Thursdays, on-going. Web: www.unisonarts. org. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13 /per class, $48 /4 classes, 255-1559.

7:30PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Roots & Branchesâ&#x20AC;? series.

Los Lobos. Web: www.theegg.org. The Egg, Hart Theatre, Albany, $44.50, $34.50, 518-473-1845.

8PM-9PM Living Torah Video Presentation. A weekly Torah lesson by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Followed by group discussion and explanation. We will then learn about the Jewish mystical and practical approach to love or learn about the upcoming Jewish Holiday. On-going every Tuesday, 8-9pm.

Free. 679-7148. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

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Poinsettia & Wreath Sale.Northern Dutchess Hospital will sponsor a sale of holiday dĂŠcor to include poinsettias, wreaths, swags and handmade decorations . Northern Dutchess Hospital, 6511 Springbrook Ave, Rhinebeck. Info: 871-3500 or visit www.health-quest.org.

Decolonizing the Exhibition: Contemporary Inuit Prints and Drawings from the Edward J. Guarino Collection. Through 2/2/2014. Info: 437-5632, or www.fllac.vassar.edu. Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

9:30AM-1:30PM Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Walkway Over the Hudson.

Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. Info: 255-7247 between 7:30-8am. Walkway Over the Hudson, Parking lot, Highland, free.

10AM To Launch Franklin - Providing Access to FDR Library Digital Collections. A special preview event for the press and invited guests. Reg rqrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.

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O Robert Angeloch drawing in Monhegan, in this John Kleinhans photo.

n Friday, March 18, 2011, on the morning of the full Super Moon, legendary artist and co-

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

Born on April 8, 1922 in Richmond Hill, New York, Angeloch served in the US Air Corps and Army during World War II where he was a pilot,

studied to be an engineer and ended up in medical school. He studied at The Art Students League of New York from 1946-1951, where he ďŹ rst began painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and printmaking with Martin Lewis. He spent the summer of 1947 learning the craft of making woodcuts with Fiske Boyd and it was that summer that Angeloch ďŹ rst studied nature working out of doors. For this reason he recently Continued on Page 13

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

At the Tuesday, March 22 board of education meeting at Woodstock Elementary, school ofďŹ cials presented The Superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recommended Budget to trustees that includes an increase in spending to a total of $50,477,497. If the board adopts the budget at its April 5 session, voters will be asked to vote on the budget on May 17. If voters reject the budget proposal, a contingency (or austerity) budget could be put in place that would eliminate $121,785 from the equipment budget line, as mandated by the

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Onteora board hears of cuts, tax rates, layoffs

by Lisa Childers

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

Within three days, plans were already in place to open a temporary library on Saturday, March 26, in the building recently vacated by Maverick Family Health, across from the Phoenicia post ofďŹ ce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a bare-bones operation,â&#x20AC;? cautioned library director Tracy Priest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re restoring minimal services, but we want to open our doors. People can return library books and pick up books theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ordered from interlibrary loan. From the Mid-Hudson Library System, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re borrowing a computer and components we need to check books in and out. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll open at 10 a.m., and Letter Friends, the early literacy program, will happen at its normal time, 11 a.m. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking eventually to have a small lending library, which may be on the honor system, since all our bar codes were destroyed in the ďŹ re.â&#x20AC;?

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

The blaze was reported to have come from an electri-

cal ďŹ re, which started in the back of the building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a full report on the extent of the damage,â&#x20AC;? said Priest, who visited the building after the ďŹ re with the insurance adjuster and Town of Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The adjuster said there has to be a second claims adjustment because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considered a major loss. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think any books or materials will be salvageable. But because of the location of the ďŹ shing collection, we may be able to clean some of that and save it.â&#x20AC;?

The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection includes more than 500 ďŹ shing and nature books, plus an exhibit of ďŹ shing rods, lures, ďŹ&#x201A;y tying gear, and photographs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The books are a mess,â&#x20AC;? said Priest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything is fused together and melted.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the front of the building has been damaged by smoke and water, but everything there is like we left it. Then you cross a line towards the back, and everything is black. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hole of the ceiling of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room, and you can look right up into my ofďŹ ce upstairs.

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

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10:30AM Babies & Books Storytime. For ages 0-2. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

12PM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6PM Spirit Guide Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein. First Tuesday of every month. Receive messages from spirit guides and deceased loved ones and benefit from the divine wisdom they have to offer. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. $40 for half hour; $75 for one hour session.

3:30PM-4:30PM Chess Club. Ages 8-Adult. Led

by Merrie Zaretsky. Learn to play or improve your skills. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to sign up for these on-going sessions. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeep-

sie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

5PM-6PM Young Mothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Group. A supportive group for moms under 25 dealing with the adjustments to life as a young mother. Each week a different guest speaker. Meets every Tues. YWCA, 209 Clinton Ave, Kingston, 338-6844 x117.

5:30PM Financial Aid Workshop. Workshops are open to all prospective college students, not only those interested in attending SUNY Orange. Infoâ&#x20AC;?

Workshops are open to all prospective college students, not only those interested in attending SUNY Orange. Info: 341-4190. SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Room 231, Newburgh.

5:30PM-7:30PM Phoenicia Community Chorus.

Sing with your friends and neighbors. Led by Maria Todaro. No audition nor need to read music. Phoenicia Wesleyan Church, 22 Main St, Phoenicia, 688-5759.

5:30PM 8PM Hudson Valley Cancer Alliance First Professional Conference at Hyatt House in Fishkill. The free conference invites oncology professionals, including primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and social workers. Cancer patients, cancer survivors, caregivers and other healthcare professionals are also welcome to attend. Speakers for this program, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Multidisciplinary Approach to Cancer Care and Survivorshipâ&#x20AC;? will be Stephanie Smith-Marrone, MD, Assistant Attending Physician, Department of Medicine at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center and Ellen Marshall, MS, L-CSW-R, Director of Oncology Support Program at HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley. To preregister for this free program and for questions and assistance for individuals with disabilities, please email Jean LePere at leperej@mskcc.org.

Seating is limited, RSVP Dinner to be served.

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

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

6PM-8PM Resume Help for Job Seekers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity to meet one-on-one with a Dutchess One Stop representative to examine and strength-

INETY MILES OFF Broadway will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Remember Mamaâ&#x20AC;? at the New Paltz Reformed Church on Nov. 2, Nov. 3, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. The play will also be performed at the First United Methodist Church in Highland on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The story shows how Mama,

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

Mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sisters and uncle furnish a rich

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

For additional information, e-mail email@ninetymilesoďŹ&#x20AC;broadway.com or call 256-9657.

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

In the Town of Lloyd, the only local referendum on the ballot is for voters to decide whether or not the town clerk, town highway superintendent and town supervisor should have their two-year terms extended to four years. These are all separate referenda, as suggested by Lloyd supervisor Paul Hansut, who said that he wants to give â&#x20AC;&#x153;voters a chance to weigh in on each and every position, and not lump them all together, as many towns have done in the past.â&#x20AC;?

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

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

Phoenicia Library after the ďŹ re.

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

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yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s One Book/One New Paltz readersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; selection.

In Library Journal, Sally Bissell remarks that this book is an â&#x20AC;&#x153;insightful, courageous, heartbreaking work that should be read, discussed, then read again.â&#x20AC;? This is exactly what One Book/ One New Paltz will attempt to do as it embarks on its seventh year of a communitywide reading program ďŹ lled with events, reading groups, panels and featured authors and actors. One Book is a Continued on page 12

A cut above Esopus papercutting artist extraordinaire Jenny Lee Fowler

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

One day, her father-in-law asked her if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever done a portrait, like the silhouettes created by folk artists. Her interest piqued, Fowler dared herself to cut 100 portraits of people.

Beginning with friends and family, she later moved on to cutting portraits of strangers, who would sit for her at the campus center at Bard, where Fowler worked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I practiced a lot and found that I totally loved it,â&#x20AC;? says Fowler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It kind of surprised me because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d thought of silhouette portraits as these kind of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stuffyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; things, and then I realized that they were really cross-sections of people at a moment in time. I started to see them as more dynamic.â&#x20AC;?

Fowler came across a passage in which one of the early papercutters called silhouette portraits â&#x20AC;&#x153;a momentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monument,â&#x20AC;? a description that she finds particularly apt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really do capture a little moment, and even the same person can have a different portrait the next day,â&#x20AC;? Fowler explains.

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INGSTONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CORNELL PARK HOSTED THE ANNUAL DRUM BOOGIE FESTIVAL LAST SATURDAY, where dozens gathered to get their drum on. At left, Hethe Brenhill of the Mandara ensemble, dances in the sun. At right, a member of the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) gets in the rhythm. For more pics, see page 10.

THEATER ON A TRAIN â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dutchmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uses Trolley Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subway car as unusual stage for play exploring sensitive topic of interracial relations.

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TEEN SCENE â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Denâ&#x20AC;? to open in Midtown, giving youths a place to dance, gather and do something positive.

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FIGHTING FOR MIDTOWN Challengers in Ward 4 Common Council race say incumbent isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing enough to help Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest neighborhoods get their fair share. Page 2

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BIG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Organizers say second annual O-Positive fest will more art, tunes, awareness and health care to Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative community.

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32 register to attend. FDR Presidential Library & Museum, 9G, Hyde Park.

11AM Yiddish Vinkel . Speak Yiddish – whether you’re a novice or an expert, or somewhere in between – bring your Yiddish speaking skills and join us.Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St. Pine Hill, RSVP by calling 586-2764 or e-mail dorick@yahoo.com.

12PM – 6PM Soul Listening Sessions with Celestial Channel Kate Loye. First Wednesday of every month. Allow your soul to be deeply listened to, heard and accepted and listen to the archangels, earth mothers and ascended masters channeled through Kate’s divine presence. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. $40 for half hour; $75 for one hour session.

1PM-6PM Community Play Date. Creative Kids Cooperative will launch the first in a series. Indoor and outdoor giant board games, holiday crafts, gift making, musical instruments, comedy improv skits. Fee is by donation, $5entry is suggested.

Info: 527-5672 or ckccnp@g mail.com. St. Joseph’s Church, Multi-purpose room, 34 S Chestnut St, New Paltz.

2PM-3:30PM Home Schooling Theatre Club.

Age 7-12. Led by Lesley Sawhill. Theatre games, improvisation, and reading plays. May add script writing, and presenting monologues and plays.

Wednesdays, ongoing. Woodstock 3PM-7PM World AIDS Day Commemoration.

Info: 331-5300. LGBTQ Community Center, Apuzzo Hall, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

4:15PM Wretches and Jabberers. Two autistic adults with limited speech capabilities but a desire to tour the world to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Followed by a question-andanswer session with Thresherand Bissonnette.

Info: www.vassar.edu or 437-5370. Vassar College, Main Building, Villard Room, Poughkeepsie, free.

5:30 PM - 7PM Yes We “Can” Menorah “ Lightings created from donated canned goods. The Yes We “Can” events include the Fabulous Bubble Trouble show; Chanukah crafts and face painting; meet Judah the Maccabee; decorate your own donut; and hot latkes and drinks. In the food court at the Hudson Valley Mall on Rte 9W in Kingston.

5:30PM-6:30PM MBA Information Session. For students and others interested in the master of business administration degree program. Session will provide an overview of the program. Academic advising will be offered for individualswho bring transcripts. Info: mba@newpaltz.edu or 257-2968. SUNY New Paltz, van den Berg Hall, Room 219, New Paltz.

5:30PM-6:30PM CPA Exam Study Group The School of Business is currently offering free study group sessions to area CPA exam candidates. To be held biweekly through Dec. 4. Web: www. newpaltz.edu/schoolofbusiness/ or CPAExam@ newpaltz.ed. SUNY New Paltz, van den Berg Hall 21, New Paltz.

5:30PM Financial Aid Workshop. Workshops are

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open to all prospective college students, not only those interested in attending SUNY Orange. Info” Workshops are open to all prospective college students, not only those interested inattending SUNY Orange. Info: 341-4190. SUNY Orange, BioTech Building, Room 121, Middletown.

6PM-8PM Woodstock Community Choral. Sing with your friends and neighbors. Led by Maria Todaro. No audition nor need to read music.

Kleinert/James Center, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, 688-5759.

6:30PM Spanish Storytime. A weekly storytime for children ages two to five held entirely in Spanish. Web: www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner, 255-1255.

6:30PM Celebrate the Festival of Lights. Join the members of Congregation Beth Hillel for their Hanukkah party. Enjoy a light dinner, and light your family Hannukiah (Hannukah menorah) with us. Candles provided. Congregation Beth Hillel, Pine St, Waldon.

6:30 PM Lecture Event: Special Places in the Town of Esopus: Nature and Historic Sites.

Presented by Skip Doyle. Free admission.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

7PM-8PM Free Belly Dance Class. On-going every Wednesdays, 7-8pm. Taught by Arabic Abeer.

Learn ancient Middle Eastern dances that stimulate your inner womanly spirit. Get a complete body workout.255-5482 Unframed Artists Gallery, 173 Huguenot St, New Paltz.

7PM Hanukkah Reading. A holiday program with local author Laura Shaine Cunningham who will read from her published Hanukkah stories. Seasonal refreshments will be served.

Info: 687-7023. Stone Ridge Library,Stone Ridge.

7PM New Support Group: Stone Soup: Living Sustainably on a Shoestring. 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, 84 Zena Rd, Kingston, 336-4847 or sherill@fulljoy.us.

7PM-8:30PM Milton’s Quiltin. A monthly casual and fun gathering of quilting enthusiasts. Bring your machine, if needed, and cutting tools. (We’ll provide the ironing board and iron.) Refreshments. Adults and teens. Sarah Hull (Milton) Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Highland, 795-2200.

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

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sleeping Bee. Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:15PM Climate Change Film Debuts in Ulster County. The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community. The new film is one of the few to face the impending climate catastrophe head on. Info: rosendaletheatre.org. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

7:30PM-9PM Orange County Audubon Society Meeting . An audio CD by story teller Jay O’Callahan’s of Dick Wheeler’s 1500 mile sea kayakjourney tracing the migratory route of the now extinct Great Auk. Info: lbarber7@juno.com or 744-6047 or www.orangecountynyaudubon. com. First Presbyterian Church of Goshen, 33 Park

Pl, Goshen, free.

7:30PM The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus meets every Wednesday night. A male a cappella group that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony.

Sight reading not required. Guestsare always welcome. Web: wwwnewyorkerschorus.org. St. Andrews Church, 110 Overlook Rd, Poughkeepsie.

8AM-4PM 2013 Fall Tax Practitioner Institute.

Representatives from the IRS and New York State Department of Taxation & Finance will present information on tax updates and other timely topics. There will be opportunities for questions and answers. RSVP by 12/2. Info: 257-2930. SUNY New Paltz, Student Union Building, Room 62/63, New Paltz, $100.

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.

10 AM “A Christmas Carol.” Ulster Ballet Company invites students and senior citizens to a special performance. Info: shoessox@aol.com or 283-3809. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $5.

1 PM -3 PM Minnewaska Preserve - Homeschoolers: Nature Collages. For 7 to 12 year old children. Make art, using materials from the natural world. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz, 255-0752.

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

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

3PM-4PM Gardiner Library Book Club. Open to the public. Web: www.gardinerlibrary.org.

Gardiner Library, Gardiner, 255-1255.

3:30PM Book Explorers. For ages 4 & up. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

3:30 PM Menorah Lighting. Everyday at 3:30 pm and on Saturday at 6pm at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center. This is the largest menorah in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: 463-5801 or www. chabadmidhudsonvalley.com.

3:30PM-4:30PM Chess Club. Ages 8-Adult. Led

by Merrie Zaretsky. Learn to play or improve your skills. You don’t need to sign up for these on-going sessions. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

4PM-5PM Culinary Workshop. Introduces children to some basic math skills, measurements, and kitchen safety. (Food allergy information must be provided at time of sign up.) For students in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades.Web: www. miltonlib.org. Sarah Hull Hallock (Milton) Free

9AM -3PM Annual Holiuday Fair (12/6 12/7).

Huge variety of Theme Gift Baskets and Holiday Yard Sale items Katsbaan Church Hall,1800 Old Kings Highway Saugerties.

10AM-12PM Family Clay Day. Ornaments & Candle Holders. Info: 658-9133. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Ln, Rosendale, free.

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

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

11:30 AM – 4:30 PM Past Life Regression and Angelic Channeling Sessions facilitated by Margaret Doner. First Friday of every month.

Recover past life memories to assist you in uncovering karma and motivations that guide your present life in order to heal past wounds and better understand your life’s purpose. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. $125 for 90 minute session.

1PM-3PM Family Clay Day. Ornaments & Candle Holders. Info: 658-9133. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Ln, Rosendale, free.

3PM-7PM Catskill Fiber Celebration. A juried sale of fiber art by local artisans with ongoing demonstrations of various fiber techniques: spinning, weaving, felting & rug hooking. Info: 246-2203. Woodstock Firehouse, 443 Zena Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-5PM Anime Club. Get to know others who enjoy anime and manga as much as you do! Watch anime, read manga, look at art books, cosplay, and more. Age 13 and older and adults Sarah Hull Hallock (Milton) Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Milton, 795-2200.

3:30PM Afterschool Crafts. For ages 8-12. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, 338-5580.

5PM-8PM The Snowflake Festival in Uptown Kingston. Presented by KUBA. Santa and his Elves, horse and buggy rides, a Holiday Treasure Map for children with stocking stuffers along the way, Holiday treats. Holiday Parade begins at 5pm.

Info: www.kingstonuptown.org. Deitz Stadium, Kingston.

5PM - 8PM Holiday Open House in Uptown Kingston.Stockings and little stuffers will be given to the first 1,000 visitors to the Uptown Kingston Stockade District Holiday Open House.

Follow the balloons for complimentary goodies.

The parade starts at the County Courthouse on Wall Street. Meet Santa Claus and enjoy strolling carolers, refreshments, a raffle, roasted chestnuts and horse-and-buggy rides throughout Uptown Kingston between Clinton, North Front, Main and Green Streets in the historic Stockade District.

For more information, e-mail kubainfo@kingstonuptown.org or visit www.kingstonuptown. org or Kingston Uptown Business Association on www.facebook.com.

by the State of New York and the impact on local property tax rates or visit the following website: http://co.ulster.ny.us or http://www. co.ulster.ny.us/Legislature This statement shall be prominently displayed on the tax bill as a separate section and not included with any other information provided on the County tax bill. The County Executive may modify the information statement, if necessary to conform the County tax bill to standard mailing procedures, and to promote efficiency. The County Executive is hereby authorized to cause the County Tax Bill Insert required by Section 4 to be prominently posted on the County website.

In the event the websites of the County or the County Legislature are changed, the website(s) otherwise listed in this Section shall change to reflect the new website(s).

SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE This Local Law shall take effect upon filing with the Secretary of State.

SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND FINDINGS. The Ulster County Legislature hereby determines that is appropriate and necessary to amend Local Law Number 5 of 1989 to provide consumers with the Ulster County Consumer Fraud Bureau and Ulster County Bureau of Weights and Measures consumer complaint telephone number, so that consumers have the information necessary to make complaints regarding the practices of the operators of gasoline stations.

SECTION 2. REGULATION. Section 6 (c) of Local Law Number 5 of 1989, as amended, is hereby further amended to add a new subdivision “7.” as follows: 7. The Ulster County Bureau of Weights and Measures shall issue stickers that state the Ulster County Consumer Fraud Bureau telephone number and the Ulster County Bureau of Weights and Measures Consumer Complaint telephone number to every operator which shall be affixed to each gasoline pump.

SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. If any part or provision of this Local Law or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part of the provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which judgment shall have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this Local Law or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances and the Ulster County Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this Local Law or the remainder thereof had such invalid application or invalid provision been apparent.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Local Law shall take effect one hundred and twenty (120) days after its adoption.

Community Renewal.

2. A public hearing on Ulster County’s Community Development Block Gant Program will be held on December 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM or as soon thereafter as the public may be heard, in the Ulster County Legislative Chambers at 244 Fair Street, Kingston N.Y, Citizens are urged to express their views on the direction of Ulster County’s CDBG Program and eligible housing activities, which include the following: t )PVTJOH SFIBCJMJUBUJPO JODMVEJOH NPCJMF and manufactured home replacement t )PNF PXOFSTIJQ t 3FTJEFOUJBM XBUFS BOE XBTUFXBUFS TZTUFNT Eligible activities must primarily benefit low- and moderate-income persons. The County is eligible to apply for up to $750,000.

3. Written comments should be directed to Dennis Doyle, Director, Ulster County Planning Department, County Office building, 244 Fair Street, P.O. Box 1800, Kingston, New York, 12402. Comments should be submitted no later than 5:00 PM on December 10, 2013.

4. Copies of supporting documentation are available for viewing at the offices of the Ulster County Planning Department, 244 Fair Street, County Office Building, Kingston, N.Y. 5. The Ulster County Legislature is committed to making its Public Meetings accessible to individuals with disabilities. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation or assistance UP QBSUJDJQBUF JO UIF 1VCMJD )FBSJOH PS UP PCUBJO a copy of the transcript of the Public hearing in an alternative format in accordance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, please contact the Office of the Clerk of the Legislature at 340-3900.

Dated: November 28, 2013 Kingston, NY Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ULSTER COUNTY APPLICATION FOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS (CDBG) ADMINISTERED

BY THE NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY RENEWAL 1. Citizens are advised that Ulster County is considering an application for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds administered by the New York State Office of

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 310 Flatbush Avenue, Kingston, NY on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM for Asbestos and Mold Abatement, BID #RFB-UC13143C. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

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

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legals LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on September 24, 2013, and approved by the County Executive on October 23, 2013, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be herinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions.

DATED: November 28, 2013 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law No. 3 Of 2013 County of Ulster A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 8 of 2012 (A Local Law Entitled “Mandate and Taxation Information Act”) BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, as follows: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND PURPOSE The Ulster County Legislature finds and determines that the purpose of the “Mandate and Taxation Information Act” has been frustrated by the 14 point type requirement, which has led the County tax bill to be in non-conformity with standard mailing procedures. It is the intent of this law to deliver a detailed and clear explanation of the New York State mandated spending requirements, while doing so in the most efficient and cost-effective way for the County taxpayers.

SECTION 2. Section 3 of Local Law No. 8 of 2012 is amended to read as follows: The County Executive is hereby authorized to cause an information statement to be provided on the County tax bill, reading as follows: The State of New York requires local governments to perform many functions and provide services without financial support. These State requirements or “unfunded State mandates” have a direct impact on local spending and represent a significant portion of the County and Town real property taxes that are due. Please see the notice enclosed with this tax bill for a more detailed explanation of the spending required

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on September 24, 2013, and approved by the County Executive on October 23, 2013, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be herinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions.

DATED: November 28, 2013 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law No. 4 Of 2013 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 5 of 1989 (A Local Law Requiring Regulations Requiring The Sale Of Motor Vehicle Fuels), As Amended, To Provide Consumers With A Convenient And Accessible Way To File Complaints Regarding The Practices Of Motor Fuel Dealers BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, as follows:

November 28, 2013

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

HOME ATTENDANT NEEDED PT. Weekdays, Evenings Shifts. $11.30/hour.

Disabled 48-yr. old female looking for female home attendant to help w/basic needs.

Reliable, caring + live within 40 minutes of Phoenicia. Must have car. 845-688-3052.

No calls before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m.

LOOKING FOR HELP with light housekeeping & errands during the week in Palenville. $12/hr., 4-6 hours/week. Please call (518)678-3450.

PART-TIME CLERICAL POSITION available now at Town Hall. Candidate will have the ability to interact well with the public, provide information and have good organizational skills. Interested parties shall email resume and letter of intent to assistant@ townofnewpaltz.org, or mail to PO Box 550, New Paltz, NY 12561, Attn: Supervisor’s office.

SECRETARIAL POSITION- PART-TIME for the Village of New Paltz Planning/Zoning Boards. Secretarial experience, individual must be organized and detail-oriented with administrative, computer and interpersonal skills. Municipal experience preferred. The position will require flexibility with several evening meetings a month. The position is for 15 hours/week at the rate of $15/hour.

Please Submit cover letter and resume to: Personnel Officer, Village of New Paltz, 25 Plattekill Avenue, New Paltz, NY 12561 by December 6, 2013.

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Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana are pleased to invite you to mark your calendars for our annual December concert: An Evening of Balinese Music & Dance. Please join us on Friday, December 6 at 8 pm in Olin Auditorium at Bard College. The concert features very special guest artists and Balinese aficionados, Dr. Pete Steele and Shoko Yamamuro under the leadership of Artistic Director I Nyoman Suadin with a cast of 40+ musicians. Also: special guest appearance by Dr. Dorcinda Knauth and her Javanese Degung & Kacapi Suling ensembles from nearby Kingston.

Suggested donation $10. Bard staff, students & faculty are free of charge with ID. Students 16 & under are free. For more information visit FB page: Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana at Bard College. Call (845)688-7090 for further info.

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ALOHA ACRES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY affordable 3-BEDROOM, 2 bath, 1440 sq.ft., manufactured home. Park rent: $475/month. Only $34,500. 845-691-7669 INCOME PROPERTIES. Replace lost wages and help save for retirement. Your tenants can pay off your mortgage. Experienced landlord will show you how. Matt LaRussa, Broker 845-389-3321

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WATERFRONT & NATURE ALL AROUND! Close to NYC bus & village; 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, great room, skylights. woodstove, deck. DOWNSIZE & LOVE IT! Woodstock Real Estate (845)679-6880, (845)679-2285.

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land and real estate wanted

PRIVATE BUYER (non-realtor) SEEKING PROPERTY to purchase w/a private natural waterfall. 2-10 acres needed. Maybe subdivide? Can be either a vacant, SECLUDED parcel of land, OR property w/a house with a natural, private waterfall (w/year-round views, NOT just seasonal). Must be secluded (absolutely no homes in view), AND MUST BE WITHIN 10 MINUTES DRIVE TO WOODSTOCK. CASH OFFERED, CAN CLOSE IMMEDIATELY! Contact: sabe1970@yahoo.com.au w/photos/info. or call (518)965-7223.

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commercial listings for sale

COUNTRY GENERAL STORE, Turn-key business, equipment, real estate w/rental income. $595,000. John Bordi Realty. 845691-7669

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office space commercial rentals

NEW PALTZ: OFFICE/PROFESSIONAL SPACE(S) for rent. Large, beautiful Soho loft-like space(s) w/brick walls & new large windows. Faces the Gunks w/great views.

71 Main Street. Best downtown location.

Former architect office(s). Will divide. Call owner (917)838-3124.

300sf APARTMENT-LIKE OFFICE SPACE. Utilities included. Behind Lowes, Route 299. 845-255-5920.

STOREFRONT AVAILABLE. Former Pet Grooming Shop. Can be converted to multiuses. Approx. 900 sq.ft. $800/month. Hot water/heat included. Electric separate. Main Street, Rosendale. 845-787-6580.

VILLAGE OF SAUGERTIES; Stately brick house, approx. 2400 sq.ft. on 2 floors. High ceilings, wood floors, nice light. High visibility across from Post Office. On-street parking. Suitable for gallery/studio or professional offices. Potential to convert back to owner-occupied/residential. Lease, proof of insurance, security, credit, landlord reference required. $1000/month plus utilities. ddourdeville@gmail.com.

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garage/workspace/ storage space wanted

SEEK SECURE INDOOR PARKING for sports car in Woodstock vicinity. Heated or unheated OK. Call (646)483-7208.

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gardiner/ modena/ plattekill rentals

FALL SPECIAL- REDUCED PRICE. NOW SHOWING; Available now; 2-BEDROOMS, 1.5 baths, private entrance. Located on quiet, country road. No pets/smoking. Please call 845-255-2525, leave name and number.

Retired couple? Looking for weekend home?

3-BEDROOM, 1.5 BATH RANCH home.

1240’ SF. EIK, W/D hook-up, dining, living room, full basement, 2-car garage. No pets, no smoking. $1650/month + utilities. 2 months security, references. (845)255-1790.

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highland/ clintondale rentals

1-BEDROOM, 700SF. Cathedral ceilings, energy efficient. On 10 private, wooded acres.

2 miles from New Paltz, Town of Lloyd/ Highland schools. $1000/month, electric included. 1-year lease, security, references required. Available now. 845-255-8259.

HIGHLAND EFFICIENCIES at villabaglieri.com Furnished motel rooms w/micro, refrig, HBO & WiFi, all utilities. $135-$175 Weekly, $500-$660 Monthly, w/kitchenettes $185 or $200 weekly, $700 or $760 monthly + UC Taxes & Security. No pets.

845.883.7395.

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November 28, 2013 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.

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Terrific setting offers sense of privacy in a neighborhood with pastoral views and lovely features! Beautiful new construction with spacious light filled interior; Central AC, HWF’s, granite counters, and large 2 car garage and walk up attic for easy storage; Located just minutes from Rt. 299 this setting is ideal for commuters to Poughkeepsie, New Paltz and easy access to Rt. 9W or NYST. $359,000

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rosendale/ high falls/tillson/ stone ridge rentals

2-BEDROOM UPSTAIRS APARTMENT. $800/month plus utilities. Clean. Quiet location. Rt. 209. Call (845)338-5828.

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SWEET 3-BEDROOM, 1 BATH VILLAGE HOME. Many updates, great condition, large garage, private yard. $1750/month plus utilities. References, good credit, security deposit required. Pets negotiable. 1 year lease. Pictures and full listing http://hotpads.com/listing/961456 (845)419-2072.

RIFTON: LARGE 1-BEDROOM DUPLEX APARTMENT.

A long private driveway leads you to this stunning home with Shawangunk Ridge views.

Open floor plan, Gourmet kitchen, custom cherry cabinets, Family room with stone fireplace, gleaming Hardwood floors, walls of windows allowing for an abundance of light and views from every room. Dining- room and first floor bedroom, with bath and walk-in closet, overlooks the in-ground pool. $1,250,000

Lower level. Private, beautifully renovated, loads of closet space, porcelain tile floors, energy efficient, washer/dryer, deck, large yard, creek frontage.

No smoking. $850/month plus utilities.

2 months security, references, credit check.

Call Tom 845-658-8829

LOVELY, EXTRA LARGE 2-BR to Share in High Falls. Roommate wanted. Bedroom comes with two other rooms for studio or storage PLUS sharing living room, bath, kitchen, deck. Ample closets, living space, nature, quiet. $650/month plus reasonable utilities and internet. Security and references. 845-687-2035.

STONE RIDGE APARTMENT: 1-BEDROOM w/adjoining room, living room, kitchen w/dining area, full bath, light & airy, second floor. No pets/smoking. $800/ month includes heat & hot water. References, lease & 2 months security requested. 845705-2208.

Classical Woodstock home with all the warmth, charm and character with a modern attitude that fits the contemporary needs of today’s lifestyle! Just minutes from the center of Town, nestled in a private garden setting this unique one-level design features a two story living room with cathedral ceiling, fireplace, and massive artist window. Beautiful In-ground pool and separate studio. $585,000

Located on 1+ acres between Catskill and Coxsackie, this Athens home offers an open floor plan with recent updates to kitchen, bathroom and new hardwood floor in the living room. Lovely private back yard for the kids to play and the deck off the kitchen allows for barbequing. Property has potential to be used for a Doctors office or small business. $158,000

Do you dream to own a classic 1800s Farmhouse complete with a stable barn, separate Carriage House, wrap-around covered porch, on 8 acres with views of the Catskill Mountains & private access to the Kaaterskill Creek?

How about a barn, that’s in great condition, perfect for your horses! Close to NYS Thruway, Saugerties and HITS. Turn your dreams into a Reality. Call for all the detail! $299,000

www.VillageGreenRealty.com New Paltz 845-255-0615

Stone Ridge 845-687-4355

Woodstock 845-679-2255

Kingston 845-331-5357

Windham/Greene Co 518-734-4200

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SPACIOUS COLONIAL Immaculately kept, spacious Colonial w/ 3,000+ SQ.FT. of living space. You will not be disappointed when you arrive at this home! The back yard was made completely private while you sit & enjoy the saline, 20x40, heated inground pool, pool house, out door shower, hot tub or sit under the pergola & enjoy the shade. Traditional Colonial w/formal entry way that leads to DR & LR. Oversized eat in country kitchen, den w/brick FP which extends into the 3 season room w/electric. 1st floor has full bath & washer/dryer beside the kitchen. LARGE multi-purpose room also on 1st floor allows access to the 4th BR ,1/2 bath, separate from the other 3 BRS. Master BR has master bath w/Jacuzzi tub.

Backs up to 200+ acres of State Land.............. $425,000

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milton/marlboro rentals

MARLBORO. Country setting. SPACIOUS GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT. Open floor plan w/separate kitchen, bathroom & washer/dryer. Heat & electric included.

Suitable for 1 or 2. No dogs. No smokers.

References. Security. $895/month. 845-7955778; C: 845-489-5331.

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new paltz rentals

STUDIO APARTMENT. $695/month plus utilities. 1 month security. 31 Church Street.

Laundry room & private parking on premises. No pets. No smoking. 1-year lease, good references. Available now. (845)255-5319, weathervaneapartments@gmail.com 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.

A SMASHING 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT in renovated barn, cathedral ceiling, 2 skylights, full bath, wood floors.

Outside smoking. $1200/month includes all utilities. NO DOGS. 5 MINUTES BY CAR outside Village. Please call (845)255-5355.

2-BEDROOM & STUDIO APARTMENT available immediately. In village. No pets, no smoking. References. Call 845-256-8247.

2-BEDROOM, 2 BATHROOM HOME. Kingston School District, Rt. 32 North of New Paltz. W/D. $1100/month plus utilities.

No pets. Security and references required.

845-658-9337 or 845-658-9581.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT in the heart of New Paltz village historic district. Large rooms, enclosed back porch. Quiet setting. Close to rail trail, walking distance to downtown. Off-street parking. No smoking, no pets. Heat and hot water

included. 1.5 month security, references required. $1350/month. Available now. (845)255-1660.

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!

STONE RIDGE COTTAGE. Available January. 650 sq.ft. 2-bedrooms, 1 bath. 6 acres w/creek, beautiful, quiet, deck w/ Lilacs. Private but not isolated. Indoor cat only. $800/month plus utilities. Please contact rklin3000@aol.com

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south of stone ridge rentals

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT. $900/ month (+ low Utilities). All new & efficient.

Large ground floor apartment w/front porch.

Bright w/big windows. Also, 1-BEDROOM UPSTAIRS APARTMENT; $700/month plus utilities. BOTH apartments: Laundry on site. Great location- Centrally located on 44/55 Minnewaska Mtn. (Kerhonkson, Near Rt. 209), 20 min. New Paltz, Stone Ridge, Ellenville. 30 min. Poughkeepsie, Kingston. 40 min. Rhinebeck, Middletown. 845-626-5349.

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kingston/hurley/ port ewen rentals

NICE, CLEAN, LARGE APARTMENT w/2 small bedrooms. 1 block from Kingston Hospital. Second floor. First, last, security, 1-year lease, references required. 2 occupants preferred. Pet friendly. $750/month plus utilities. 845-331-8258.

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krumville olivebridge/ shokan rentals

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

OLIVEBRIDGE: NEWLY RENOVATED 3-BEDROOM, hardwood floors, W/D, large kitchen w/gas cookstove, garage w/remote control, large basement. Bath w/radiant floor heat. Oil heat. $1200/month plus utilities. Security, last month. 845-657-9864

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

OLIVEBRIDGE: RUSTIC, SUNNY 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE. Woodstove, new floors, cathedral ceilings w/skylight.

450 sq.ft. First, last and security. $780/ month. No pets. Close to Ashokan Reservoir.

(845)657-6942 or (646)662-5202.

2-BR APARTMENT AVAILABLE, New Paltz town center. Short-term lease OK. No pets. (845)213-8619.

LARGE 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in heart of the village of New Paltz. Large porch.

Walking distance to everything. Heat, hot water, maintenance and garbage disposal included. Available Dec. $1050/month.

(845)664-0493.

ROOM FOR RENT in 3-bedroom apartment. $450/month. All utilities included. Half mile from SUNY campus. Call 914-850-1968.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2014 and

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saugerties rentals

BEAUTIFUL ARTS & CRAFTS style cottage. Wood paneled, cathedral ceiling living room, EIK, w/new appliances. 5 miles to Woodstock/Saugerties/Kingston. Private.

Quiet accessible road. $850/month plus utilities. References, security. 917-846-5161, 212-877-4368, davsar@aol.com

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OUTSTANDING SAUGERTIES BRICK RANCH

Text: M155236 APARTMENTS FOR RENT, SAUGERTIES Skyline Woods Apartments. Private country setting. Convenient location.

Under new management. Bright, updated, spacious, wall-to-wall carpet, lots of closet space. Laundry room and plenty of parking avail. 1- & 2-bedrooms starting at $750/month + utilities. Call Don at 845-443-0574

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This stunning brick ranch features two enormous BRs, complete with en suites & walk in closets. Updated dream kitchen w/ FRUN Ă&#x20AC;RRUV )RUPDO GLQLQJ URRP IHDWXUHV EXLOW LQ FDELQHWV OXVWURXV GDUN EDPERR ZRRG Ă&#x20AC;RRUV & a pocket door for privacy. These bamboo Ă&#x20AC;RRUV JUDFH WKH IRUPDO OLYLQJ URRP DV ZHOO DV WKH RIÂżFH ZKLFK FRXOG HDVLO\ DFFRPPRGDWH D third bedroom. Central air, oversized two car garage & so much more!! $295,000

SAUGERTIES: CHARMING 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE available immediately. Eat-in kitchen. Yard on Esopus Creek. Newly renovated. $750/month + utilities, security, references. Ask for Helona at Win Morrison Realty 845-246-3300.

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woodstock/ west hurley rentals

FURNISHED STUDIO APARTMENT. 640 sq.ft. Private. Secluded. Quiet. Large decks.

Mountain views. Saugerties/Woodstock village 10 minutes. $650/month plus utilities.

1st & 1 month security. Non-smoking. No pets please. 845-246-9749, Joy.

1-BEDROOM CHARMING, COZY APARTMENT. See first! On mountain yet easy access! Deck. Full bath. 2 acres. Garden, Stream. $700/month. First, last, security. No pets preferred. References. (845)679-2300, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

HOUSE FOR RENT - West Saugerties.

Spacious and clean 3-bedroom home with your own private waterfall. Fireplace, den and patio too. $1850/month plus utilities. 1-year lease and references required.

Caldwell Banker Village Green Realty, Andi Turco-Levin, cell: 917-975-3039

1-BEDROOM LIGHT-FILLED, LARGE, CLEAN, UPSCALE WOODSTOCK APARTMENT, w/custom tiled jaccuzzi bathroom, huge closets, new kitchen, private deck, quiet, beautiful grounds. $900/month.

845-679-6408.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT on horsefarm. Clean, beautiful. Italian tile kitchen & bath, Marble foyer, cathedral ceiling, French windows. Convenient location to thruway. $900/month plus utilities. (845)532-5080.

AFFORDABLE MODERN STUDIO. Country setting, near Wilson State Park.

Skylight, hardwood floor, private deck, mountain views, fireplace, free wireless internet. $650/month plus utilities. 914725-1461.

CONTEMPORARY STYLE ON OVER 3 ACRES WITH 2 PONDS !

O C Completely remodeled 3 BR home w/ an amazing RSHQ Ă&#x20AC;RRU SODQ IHDWXULQJ D ODUJH /5 Z ZRRG VWRYH RS FFKHUU\ KDUGZRRG Ă&#x20AC;RRUV KLJK FHLOLQJV RSHQV WR DD '5 ZLWK WUD\ FHLOLQJV %HDXWLIXO NLWFKHQ ZLWK oak hardwood cabinets, stainless steel & black appliances, concrete counter tops & recessed lighting. 2 BRs and full bath with attached laundry URRP RQ VW Ă&#x20AC;RRU 2Q WKH QG Ă&#x20AC;RRU WKHUHÂśV D ODUJH over-sized master BR suite complete with a Jacuzzi tub outlined by ceramic tile with double sinks, walk in closet, plus a Romeo & Juliet balcony that overlooks 1 of the 2 spring fed bass stocked ponds!

Too much to list, call today! $284,900

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DELIGHTFUL 2-BEDROOM HOUSE, new condition, 1 wooded acre, 3 miles Woodstock. Oak kitchen, dinette, W/D, large storage basement, gas heat. No smokers/pets. $975/month plus utilities.

Security, references. 718-479-0393.

LAAARGE 1-BEDROOM ATTIC APARTMENT in 3-floor historic building in Woodstock Center. Full of character and charm. Parking off-street. For responsible, employed person w/recommendations. No smoking/ drugs/excess alcohol.

Cat allowed. Only $900/month includes all utilities. Available 12/1. 845-679-7978.

LOVELY STUDIO/COTTAGE. Ideal for part-time living, or weekend getaway, office or health practice. Attractive space, close to town w/nice view & parking. $785/ month includes heat & electricity. 845679-7107.

WEST HURLEY: 2-BEDROOM, 1 bath.

Very clean. Fireplace. Owner maintains well-kept yard. NO SMOKERS. NO PETS. Walk to NYC bus route & Hurley Ridge Plaza. Close to Woodstock. Current Credit report, security deposit & 1-year lease required. $1200/month plus utilities.

(914)388-3246.

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WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM. Quiet

Renovated Woodstock Raised Ranch on almost 1 acre. This 4 bedroom 1 bath, 1802 square foot home has been totally renovated.

Features include hardwood floors, a full finished basement, a great country kitchen and a back deck overlooking the back yard.

Minutes from the Village of Woodstock yet close to Kingston amenities. Just move right in! $227,500

upscale residential neighborhood.

Beautiful grounds. Small quiet apartment complex. Excellent condition & well maintained. $845/month includes all utilities.

ALSO, FURNISHED 1-BEDROOM. $875/ month includes all utilities. No smoking.

References. No pets. (845)679-9717.

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AFFORDABLE MODERN STUDIO. Country setting, near Wilson State Park.

Skylight, hardwood floor, private deck, mountain views, fireplace, free wireless internet. $650/month plus utilities. 914725-1461.

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vacation rentals

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol. com

845-334-8200

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WOODSTOCK • (845) 679-9444 KINGSTON • (845) 339-1144 SAUGERTIES • (845) 246-3300

WOODSTOCK VICTORIAN

THANK YOU! In the spirit of the holiday, we thank all of our past and present clients for the confi dence and trust that has resulted in our 3+ decades of outstanding Real Estate success. We pledge to continue to provide the most informed and professional real estate services available to all the towns and villages we love so much. Best wishes for a peaceful Thanksgiving!

FRESHLY RENOVATED

This fresh 3BR home offers panoramic views of the Esopus Creek.

This home is in nestled on a cul-de-sac in a rural sub division just a short drive to the village of Woodstock & Saugerties. Bright open flr plan w/new flrs, new kitchen w/SS appliances & freshly tiled bath.

Home also has new roof, new windows, updated elec & plumbing. A must see. Listing agent is owner ..........................................$129,999

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Exceptionally gracious 3BR, 3 bath home w/updated features thruout. Gourmet kitchen w/top of the line SS appliances, 3 full marble baths, Pella windows & back-up generator. Pocket doors, beautiful original wood paneling, rocking chair porch & stone patio. An attached greenhouse to grow your produce all year round. Stonewalls w/cast iron fencing and gate. A must see ....................................... $659,000

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PEACE & QUIET! - Serenity reigns on this beautiful 2 acre Woodstock site at the end of a quiet “no-traffic” cul-de-sac. This clapboard mid-century ranch offers a “no stairs” lifestyle and features some hardwood floors, living and dining rooms, eat-in kitchen, 3 bedrooms and a full bath. There’s an attached 2 car garage and a full basement, too. Bring your own taste and style to this fabulous location............... $189,000

FARMHOUSE & COTTAGE - Enjoy seasonal Ashokan Reservoir views from this classic Saltbox farmhouse with abundant traditional charm. 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, living & dining rooms, country style eat-in kitchen, spacious den or home office, some wood floors PLUS 900+ SF 2 bedroom, 1 bath cottage for guests or rental INCOME! Two car garage with workspace adds more value. MOTIVATED SELLER! ............... $269,900

GROG KILL HIDEAWAY - Walls of glass bring nature close as light streams into this romantic contemporary hidden on 3.5 natural Woodstock acres. Airy open plan living space features impressive stone fi replace, beamed ceilings, slate and wood flooring, country style kitchen, skylit MBR suite with spa tub, guest BR with private balcony, 2 full baths, den/office and extensive wrap around decking. ................. $348,500

PURE COUNTRY - Perfectly picturesque 14+ acre setting with seclusion, sweeping meadows, barn, views and pretty POND, too! Inviting and smartly renovated c. 1875 clapboard farmhouse features beamed ceilings, wide board floors, French doors, stone fireplace in 20’ LR, country gourmet kitchen, DR, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, breezy screen porch, stone patio, fruit trees, det. garage with workshop and lovely barn. PERFECT! .......$559,000

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RUSTIC COTTAGE

Lake Hill, close to Woodstock & a short walk to Cooper Lake. Rustic cottage & garage on the 0.75 acre property. The cottage and garage are in poor condition, any future use of the cottage to be determined by buyer including septic & a well, very nice location near post offi ce.

Additional adjoining parcels available, call for details ..........$125,000

This 3BR, 3 bath Saugerties custom contemporary is set on 4.3 acres, w/mtn views, a small forest & year round brook. It is state of the art equipped to help you do your part to saving the environment & benefi ting financially from that. The house is so well insulated that it retains any solar heat. It comes equipped w/automatic generator, geothermal central heat & hot water/air conditioning. Winter heating costs are surprisingly low .................................................... $349,000

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We wish you peace, love and harmony on this Thanksgiving Day!!

www.westwoodrealty.com Stone Ridge 687-0232

New Paltz 255-9400

West Hurley 679-7321

Kingston 340-1920

Woodstock 679-0006

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COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

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

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seasonal rentals

5 miles to Woodstock & Saugerties; 2-BEDROOM, 1000 sq.ft. DUPLEX in separate wing of large house. Private entrance.

On 7 landscaped acres w/lake & mountain views. Beautifully furnished. $1095/month plus utilities. Free cable/WiFi. Available now-5/15. Photos available. 845-246-7598.

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol.com JANUARY-MARCH; CHARMINGLY FURNISHED 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE. Spectacular setting- 2 miles from downtown High Falls. All amenities. $1500/month plus utilities. No pets. No kids. Photos available.

(845)853-2986 or stevem9@mac.com

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KING-SIZE BED/SITTING ROOM w/ fridge and microwave, lots of windows, separate entrance, very private. Includes cable, WiFi, phone, linens, all utilities & winter plowing. 1.5 miles to Woodstock Village. $725/month. December 1 (or sooner)-June 1. 845-679-8222.

WOODSTOCK-SAUGERTIES; Beautiful, peaceful 2-BEDROOM HOUSE. 1.5 baths, EIK, fireplace, WiFi, cable, efficient oil heat, convenient, accessible, quiet road. No pets.

Through April. Security, references. $1000/ month plus utilities. 917-846-5161, 212-8774368; davsar@aol.com

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EXTANG HARD TONNEAU COVER, trifold for a Toyota Tacoma, (can IMPROVE gas mileage by 10%) current 5’ bed style, black, excellent condition. Call (845)2558352.

FARM TABLES: Catskill Mountain Farm Tables handcrafted from 19th century barn wood. Heirloom quality, custom-made to any size. Also available, Bluestone topped tables w/wormy chestnut bases. Ken, Atwood Furniture, 845-657-8003.

LEG EXTENSION & LEG CURL MACHINE w/weights attached. Plus more exercise equipment.... Call (845)255-8352.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs- 2

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(E)3/1 Arm(F) 5/1 Arm Call 973-951-5170 for more info

Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

PIANO, UPRIGHT WURLITZER. Used but in good condition. Needs tuning and repair of one key. $800 or best offer. 2550417 OR 917-647-1549 Roll Top Desk; $300 or best offer. Cash and carry. Piano desk; $150. Small table w/two chairs; $50. Three tier folding shelf; $75.

Call 845-255-0909.

SAILFISH SAILBOAT. Alcor brand. In good condition, with all parts except for a rudder (which is easily made or bought).

About 13 feet long. $325 or best offer. 2550417 or 917-647-1549.

SKI BOOT, TELEMARK/ BACKCOUNTRY. Scarpa T2X. Like new!

Woman’s size 22.5 mondo (size 6 US).

Compatible with 75 mm (three-pin) bindings. $65 or best offer. 255-0417 or 917647-1549.

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snowplowing

DELUXE TROYBUILT SNOWBLOWER. Model 2840 snowthrower, 28”, 2-stage, electric starter. Was $900, used once, now $500.

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tree services

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING ALLEN LAWLESS • 845-247-2838 SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK CELL.: 845-399-9659

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firewood for sale

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood.

Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

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

www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!!

Trees to Lumber, Trees to Heat, We Got a Price You Can’t Beat...

Log Length & Split Firewood, Rough Cut Lumber Todd Benjamin: 845-514-5488 845-657-2866

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studio sales

HOLIDAY STUDIO SALE

Babroff Studios

103 Winne Rd. (between Rte 28 & Wittenberg Rd) Mount Tremper, NY 12457 • 845.688.2263 Saturday, Nov. 30, 11 am – 4 pm Saturday, Dec. 7, 11 am – 4 pm (other times by appointment) Outrageous Contemporary Ceramics Paintings ❄ Sculpture

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buy and swap

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the highest prices for old furniture, antiques of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972).

(845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

CASH PAID 657-6252 CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)246-0214.

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musician connections

WOMEN’S NATIVE AMERICAN DRUM GROUP. Accepting new members. Must be committed to practice/performing. Some native heritage a plus. Call for interview (845)657-5817.

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antiques and collectibles

ANTIQUE FURNITURE FOR SALE! Art Deco Bureau, Victorian Bureau, Solid Oak Dining Table w/5 chairs/leaves, all early 1900’s. Wrought iron table and chairs.

Call Cyndy (845)340-4450 or go to www. alliswellinc.com/furniture.html

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vendors needed

FLEA RED HOOK

MARKET & GARAGE SALE

Route 9 • Holy Cow Shopping Center

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March thru December 2013

BIG FOOT PRESENTATION Every Sunday 11-2 by Gail Indoor $1 items, new & used lawn equipment, musical instruments, used restaurant equipment, glassware, clothing, jewelry, records, hats, basement cleanouts...

TOO MUCH TO LIST! VENDOR SPACES 10’x20’ $20/Space Vendors wanted for Food on the Run. Veterans & Seniors call for savings.

PAYMENT DUE UPON ARRIVAL Call John (845) 758-1170

660

estate/ moving sale

PLEASE HELP ME GET TO INDIA THIS WINTER! Everything for sale. Thousands of books, furniture, silver jewelry, silk scarves, gifts, Hindu & Tibetan art, albums, collectibles, etc. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 6 Hillcrest Ave. Woodstock, next to American Legion. (845)679-8777.

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yard and garage sales

vide an opportunity to socialize w/others who have similar interests. Guidelines: Please call the site between 10 a.m.-noon. the day before you plan to attend in order to be sure there are enough meals for everyone. Eligibility: You must be an Ulster County resident aged 60 or over. Cost: There is no set cost, but a suggested daily donation of $3 is requested.

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art services

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

Stone Ridge, Route 209

Davenport Farms Indoor Flea Market Sat & Sun 9-4 through 12/8 Vintage Collectibles & Toys, Pottery, Stained Glass, Primitives, Custom Furniture, Crafts, Jewelry, Art, Computer Clearance #1 choice of Catskill pickers

680

counseling services

LAURIE OLIVER.... SPIRITUAL COUNSELING. Give the gift of wellness.

Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis. Smoking cessation * pain management * stress relief * past life regressions. Certified Hypnotist by NGH. Intuitive, sensitive guidance. Spirit communicator.

Specializing in dealing with grief, stress, relationship issues, questions about your life past & current life’s path. Call Laurie Oliver at (845)679-2243. Laur50@aol.com

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personal and health services

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

Ulster County area. (845)901-8513 ULSTER COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING; SENIOR NUTRITION/DINING PROGRAM. Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals from 11:30 a.m.-noon. Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. (845)336-7112. Open Monday, Wednesday & Friday. They also pro-

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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. margotmolnar@netzero.net (845)679-6242.

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PREMIER WINDOW CLEANING Gutter Cleaning Services, Inc.

Free Estimates • Fully Insured

Chris Lopez • 845-256-7022 CLEANING SERVICE HOME/OFFICE. We are experienced, reasonable and reliable. Serving Kingston, New Paltz, Saugerties, Woodstock and surrounding areas. 845-532-9034.

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cleaning services

MAID IN AMERICA. Home/Office cleaning in the greater Kingston area and Northern Dutchess. Regular visits or 1 time cleaning.

Windows. Attentive to detail. Many years experience and excellent local references. (845)5142510.

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organizing/ decorating/ refinishing

caretaking/ home management

painting/odd jobs

“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura.

Add value to your home economically.

Environmentally conscious work done w/ old world craftsmanship and pride. Interior/ Exterior/Decorator Finishes, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Call 679-9036 for Free Estimate. Senior Discount.

CLEAN OUTS, CLEAN UPS; Unwanted clutter, debris & junk removal. Also, we do home & garden repair & maintenance. Excellent work.

Call 688-2253.

EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN- Dump Runs* Yard Work* Clean-Outs* Carpentry* Tile* Roofing* Clean-up & take away your scrap material/metal for free. Great references. Available to help w/your every project. Reasonable hourly rates. Please call your handyman for odd jobs (845)389-5186 or (845)339-5379.

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EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean outs. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling Residential & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 Experienced- TROMPE Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured. Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-616- 0872.

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253 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. 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; trucks, 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; van. Reliable, insured, NYS DOT 32476. 8 Enterprise Road, New Paltz, NY. Please call Dave at 255-6347.

PAINTING STANDARD. Affordable, On Schedule, Quality. Residential/ Commercial. Interior/Exterior. Neat, Polite, Professional. Now taking Fall/ Winter reservations. Call (845)527-1252.

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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D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations. Over 50 years of combined experience. Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements.com (845)339-3017

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SNOW PLOWING & SANDING Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

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Benjamin Watson, Owner Phone: (845) 389-3028

From Walls to Floors, Ceilings to Doors, Decks, Siding & More.

845-688-7951

AA Statuary & Weathervane Co. Liquidation Sale

Plaster and concrete saints, angels, bronzes, weathervanes, cupolas, more redrockgardencenter.com 845-569-1117

PEACHES NEEDS A HOME PEACHES is a beautiful young cat who recently weaned her six kittens after two months of exemplary care. Her kittens have found their forever homes and now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her turn. She is approximately a year old, is up to date with shots, has been health tested, spayed and gets along with other cats. Peaches is fostering with a loving and kind family until she is adopted. She is gentle and so sweet.

(845) 679-6070

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spirituality

Laurie Oliver â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Spiritual Counseling GIVE THE GIFT OF WELLNESS Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis.

Smoking cessation â&#x20AC;˘ pain management stress relief â&#x20AC;˘ past life regressions.

plumbing, heating, a/c and electric

WANTED: LOVING HOMES for KITTENS, CATS, PUPPIES, DOGS.....

Koda; large male dog, approximately 3.5 years old. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good w/other dogs, cats, and people. Sweet disposition.

Clownfish; grey and black tabby cat.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely affectionate and just wants to be on your lap or in your arms.

He also gets along very well w/other cats.

Sturgen; grey short hair cat w/a tiger striped face. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-7 years old and gets along great w/other cats. Come meet Sturgen today! Come meet them ALL in person at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, off Sawkill Road, Kingston.

Call 331-5377.

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Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate www.tedsinteriors.com

PROJECT CAT is a non-profit cat RESCUE AND SHELTER. Please help get cats off the streets and into homes.

Adopt a healthy and friendly cat or kitten companion for a lifetime. Bone Hollow Rd, Accord. 845-687-4983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat.org

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pet care

Pet Sitting Playdates Dog Walking s plu PETWATCH Loving Cat Care est. 1987 1987 est.

679-6070 Susan Susan Roth Roth 679-6070

Intuitive, Sensitive Guidance Spirit Communicator

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Plumbing & Heating â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Job Too Small!â&#x20AC;?

Well Pumps â&#x20AC;˘ Water Heaters Tankless Heaters â&#x20AC;˘ Boilers Radiant Heat

BRIANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOME IMPROVEMENTS Remodeling, Repairs, A-Z, Small/Large jobs.

Carpentry, Painting, Tile, Floors, Roofing, Siding, Sheetrock/Tape, Plumbing, Electric, Additions, Kitchens, Baths, etc.

Quality work. 35 years plus experience. Insured.

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FOR ADOPTION: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clark Gableâ&#x20AC;?; Looking for his forever â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taraâ&#x20AC;?; beautiful male tuxedo who likes to be petted but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to be picked up (at least for now).

Would be a great barn cat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tuxedo Boyâ&#x20AC;?; Older gentleman (about 10/11 years old) is a totally tame sweetheart who likes to rub against your legs and jump into your lap. He has FIV and is territorial w/other cats. Would be a great only cat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Copperâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Creamâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Williamâ&#x20AC;?; Copper (big, copper boy w/marbleized swirl pattern) and Sweet Cream (petite cream color girl) were found together when they were feral. They are now tame and oh, so sweet!

William is especially shy. Perfect scenario is if all three could be adopted together as they support one another. If interested in just Copper and Sweet Cream or only William, please let me know! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celtyâ&#x20AC;? (female black and white) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keukaâ&#x20AC;? (female gray tabby); Caregiver moved out of state to senior housing. Kitties are about 7-years old and very sweet.

Caregiver is totally heartbroken to have to leave the kitties. If you can adopt both, perfect!! But if you can only adopt one, please contact me. For more information about these wonderful cats, please email carriechapman@gmail.com or call (347)258-2725.

FREE TO GOOD HOMES... Declawed LONG HAIRED ORANGE CAT. Very peaceful, gender & age unknown. Must be indoors. BLACK & WHITE SHORT HAIRED FRIENDLY CAT. Male, neutered, approx. 3-yrs. old. Call (845)6169142.

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2002 SUBARU IMPREZA OUTBACK SPORT; AWD, 126k, 5-speed, new clutch/timing belt, silver, $5200. 2003 SUBARU IMPREZA OUTBACK SPORT; 127k, auto, AWD, new timing belt, PW/ PL, runs great, $5200; 2004 SUBARU FORESTER X, green, auto, 104k, PW/ PL, no rust, $6499. 2006 Subaru Baja; 142K- $7600. For more SUBARUS AT GREAT PRICES call/text Gabe 845-5515523 OR e-mail: gdhm67@hotmail.com 2005 SUBARU OUTBACK 2 . 5 X T WAGON. Excellent Condition. Auto, new snow tires & battery, sunroof, loaded w/accessories. 116,000 miles. $9300 or BO. 607-832-4660.

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36 month lease, 12000 miles per year, $0.15 each thereafter. 1st month, $595 bank fee and $75 doc fee due on delivery ($849 for Civic, $949 for CR-V), residual value is $11655.45/Civic, $16016/CR-V. Lease requires approval through Honda Finance and does not include any ofďŹ cial fees and taxes. Offer expires 11/30/13.

2007 Pontiac G5 Base, stock #11227, 98,321 miles .......................... $6,695 2003 Toyota Matrix Standard, stock #11228, 109,054 miles ............ $7,000 2004 Honda Accord EX-L, stock #11229, 102,037 miles .................. $8,400 2004 Honda Accord EX 2.4, stock #11230, 112,856 miles ............... $8,595 2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5i Limited, stock #11231, 107,313 miles....... $8,995 2008 Mazda Mazda3 s, stock #11232, 78,402 miles ......................... $9,500 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS 2.7L V6, stock #11233, 83,483 miles ... $9,595 2008 Scion xD Base, stock #11234, 66,716 miles ............................. $9,681 2005 Cadillac CTS Base 1SB, stock #11235, 83,124 miles ................ $9,695 2007 Subaru Forester 2.5X, stock #11236, 90,752 miles .................. $9,995 2011 Hyundai Accent, stock #11237, 29,519 miles ......................... $10,400 2009 Honda Civic LX, stock #11238, 98,986 miles.......................... $10,900 2005 Acura TL Base, stock #11239, 115,940 miles ......................... $10,995 2008 Toyota RAV4 Base, stock #11240, 97,405 miles ..................... $10,995 2006 Dodge Dakota ST Quad Cab, stock #11241, 68,352 miles .... $10,995 2010 Ford Focus SES, stock #11242, 40,362 miles ......................... $11,595 2006 Hyundai Tucson, stock #11243, 43,606 miles ......................... $11,662 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, stock #11244, 82,371 miles .. $11,995 2008 Jeep Liberty Sport, stock #11245, 81,437 miles .................... $12,195 2008 Honda Accord EX-L, stock #11246, 87,315 miles .................. $12,500 2007 Mazda CX-9, stock #11247, 97,772 miles............................... $13,155 2010 Honda Civic LX, stock #11248, 44,834 miles.......................... $13,595 2010 Nissan Rogue S, stock #11249, 30,612 miles ......................... $14,295 2006 Nissan Frontier, stock #11250, 90,030 miles .......................... $14,400 2005 GMC Sierra 2500HD SLE PLOW INCLUDED, stock #11251, 65,000 miles .......................................................$14,477 2011 Hyundai Elantra GLS, stock #11252, 29,043 miles ................. $14,727 2010 Honda CR-V EX, stock #11253, 82,096 miles ......................... $15,200

2006 Ford Ranger, stock #11254, 38,563 miles............................... $15,234 2010 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium, stock #11255, 40,860 miles. $16,595 2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited, stock #11256, 25,723 miles ............ $16,595 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour EX-L, stock #11257, 86,650 miles.. $16,595 2011 Jeep Liberty Sport, stock #11258, 30,038 miles .................... $16,995 2011 Hyundai Sonata, stock #11259, 36,373 miles ......................... $16,996 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS, stock #11260, 62,316 miles .............. $17,295 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser Base, stock #11261, 68,000 miles ............. $17,895 2011 Toyota Sienna Base, stock #11262, 52,764 miles ................... $19,392 2008 Toyota 4Runner Limited V6, stock #11263, 75,029 miles....... $20,595 2008 Honda Civic EX-L, stock #11210, 70,154 miles ................... $12,375 2011 Honda Civic VP, stock #11211, 27,040 miles ....................... $14,098 2010 Honda Accord LX 2.4, stock #11212, 48,338 miles ............. $14,395 2009 Honda Accord EX-L, stock #11213, 66,294 miles ............... $15,125 2012 Honda Civic LX, stock #11214, 26,364 miles....................... $15,451 2010 Honda CR-V LX, stock #11215, 54,325 miles ...................... $15,595 2012 Honda Civic EX, stock #11216, 21,226 miles ...................... $15,670 2010 Honda Odyssey LX, stock #11217, 55,062 miles ................ $15,757 2011 Honda CR-V SE, stock #11218, 48,186 miles ...................... $17,995 2012 Honda Civic Si, stock #11219, 30,860 miles ........................ $18,795 2011 Honda Pilot LX, stock #11220, 43,585 miles ....................... $20,995 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour EX-L, stock #11221, 31,918 miles. $20,995 2011 Honda CR-V EX-L, stock #11222, 32,833 miles ................... $21,595 2011 Honda CR-V EX-L, stock #11223, 31,520 miles ................... $21,795 2011 Honda CR-V EX-L, stock #11224, 22,000 miles ................... $22,595 2012 Honda CR-V EX-L, stock #11225, 13,589 miles ................... $26,595 2011 Honda Pilot Touring, stock #11226, 54,235 miles ............... $26,995

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