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Our contributors Jennifer Brizzi gives cooking demonstrations at fairs, festivals and farmers’ markets, and teaches healthy eating education for Mother Earth's Storehouse in Poughkeepsie and Kingston. She has been writing newspaper food columns for 17 years. Erica Chase-Salerno is an energy healer and a founder of HudsonValleyParents.com. She writes about area activities for families in the Hudson Valley in her weekly Kids’ Almanac column in Ulster Publishing’s Almanac. Lynne Crockett is a professor and writing program administrator at SUNY Sullivan who writes
a monthly column for the Shawangunk Journal. She has published her creative nonfiction in literary anthologies and journals. Richard Corozine is a painter and playwright who has been covering sports for New Paltz Times and covering various aspects of Hudson Valley life for a generation now. Fran Platt is a reporter for New Paltz Times who, among other things, covers environmental matters. Sam Pratt is a writer, designer, consultant and activist known for his journalism and his own eponymous news blog. He successfully led the battle against the massive, coal-fired St. Lawrence Cement plant proposed for Columbia County. Paul Smart, editor of and contributor to this special section, has been working as a local journalist in the Catskills and Hudson Valley for over a quarter-century, including the editing of several publications. He has also authored some books, published and unpublished. Sparrow lives in a doublewide trailer in Phoenicia and writes for various local publications as well as The Sun. Soft Skull Press has published three of his books, the most recent and tidiest being America: A Prophecy — The Sparrow Reader. Robert Burke Warren is a lifetime musician who has been delighting children over the past decade as "Uncle Rock" while maintaining his own solo recording career and playing in The Catskill 45s. He is also an accomplished writer and Weekling.
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A time of discovery By Lynne Crockett
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chool has begun. Many of my friends are lamenting the passing of summer. Not me. Autumn provides my favorite months. I dislike heat and humidity. I even find the long summer days a bit disturbing. Summer is a lazy, lethargic time, one that lacks an edge, and my dissatisfaction with it probably says a lot about my psychological makeup. My autumn memories date back to grade school. I looked forward to the beginning of the school year. School was an environment that I understood, one that provided structure that was missed during the endless days of summer games and quarrels with neighborhood children. Early in the year of third grade my teacher asked us to collect colorful leaves, which we then pressed into wax paper. This was the first time I recall being conscious of the shapes, sizes, and colors of leaves. After this discovery, I became interested in learning about the trees that grew on the hill behind my house. I saw the world differently. Of course, my new perspective was due, at least in part, to my first pair of glasses, which enabled me actually to see leaves individually, as opposed to a green blur. Even now autumn represents to me a time of discovery, one that feels physical as well as emotional. As a child, discovery included that of the self, of cultural identity. My childhood world was defined by stories, not only fantasies but also folklore and tales of American history. We kids would play outside as the late afternoon light was fading, and the darkness lent to our games a hint of danger. Having grown up in the Hudson Valley I imagined lurking in the trees characters from Washington Irving’s tales. I could see the Headless Horseman behind the ash tree and hear Rip Van Winkle playing ninepins on the hillside. I would run home as fast as I could, hoping to escape the shadows of my imagination — and perhaps to escape youth, or, contrarily, the world of adulthood. The shadows, of course, were all in my mind, created not only by stories but also by the evening news of war and civil unrest. I was bombarded by impressions and information that coalesced into a dim intellectual and sharp sensory recognition of the world beyond my home and community. Elementary school in the 1960s included not only leaves and stories but also air-raid drills: duck-and-cover exercises to keep glass out of our faces during a Soviet nuclear strike. In my imagination, reality and stories blended together. Rip Van Winkle’s 20-year sleep was as believable as
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nuclear annihilation. Alone at night I saw shadows come to life in my dark bedroom. I dreamed of the apocalypse. Halloween was a time when imagination became reality, when we dressed in costumes from shadowy nightmares and broke rules by prowling the neighborhood begging for candy. These impressions — the evening games, news, folktales, and Halloween’s rule-breaking — created in me a sense of danger and anticipation. For what? War? Love? Adulthood? Although I now am old enough to unravel the mysterious threads of my childhood, I still encounter this sensation of danger and anticipation each autumn when the weather turns cool and the atmosphere loses summer’s haze. As I entered adolescence, each autumn my mother and I would embark on weekend road trips to watch the countryside change from a dense green tangle to a colorful display of foliage and fields. We would stop at local farmers’ markets to eat warm apple-cider doughnuts, to choose the best pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns, and, of course, to buy fresh vegetables. Unlike our American ancestors, we now can buy produce all year round, but the imported stuff is waxy and flavorless in comparison. Autumn carries with it that sense of
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transition, of crossing the line from a hospitable climate to a harsh one, when we trade tomatoes and corn for winter’s potatoes and turnips. The animals are affected as well. Squirrels bustle about, risking death by motor vehicle in order to gather fallen acorns. Every autumn I think of Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper. The grasshopper spent all summer enjoying life, singing in the fields, while the ant stored food for the oncoming winter. Perhaps I prefer autumn to summer because I identify with the ant. I enjoy preparing the house for the onslaught of winter.
Autumn is a cozy time, a time of energy, of planning ahead for what may come. For all of us, place and time, where and when we live, blend with our personal cultures, traditions and experiences into an emotional, sensory ratatouille. This stew is our identity, our sense of reality. The news I heard at home of war and civil unrest simmered with lessons from school and playground games where I learned of the power of beauty, of popularity and bullies; in other words, of the social hierarchies that follow us to adulthood. I understood that I was living in a transi-
tional time, but we all live in transitional times, just as autumn is always the transition between the light of summer and winter’s darkness. Stories shape our perception of ourselves, of our lives and cultures. And historically, back to the earliest days of spoken literature, the seasons symbolically have represented the passing of human life. Spring, a transitional season like autumn, is the season of youth. Easter is the holiday of rebirth, of eggs and new life, not like Halloween’s ghosts and witches, or Thanksgiving’s harvests that may or may last through the winter. The
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t was the catch I’ll never forget. It happened 22 years ago. I was watching my first high-school playoff game, Highland versus Saranac Lake at Deitz Stadium in a State Class C football semifinal. I can still see Highland’s Louis Jones diving and then rolling on his back, juggling and catching a short pass from quarterback Matt Canino as time ran out. He was
lying on the goal line, the ball clutched to his chest with what he, I, Highland coach Carl Relyea, his teammates and just about everyone else at the game thought was the tying touchdown (and with the point-after a win and a trip to the Class C final). Alas, it wasn’t to be. The ref placed the ball at the one-half-inch line, that far from victory. And it was game over. Season over. Since that late cold afternoon in early November, I regret to say that the losses have outnumbered the wins in local fall sports at Highland and
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October– November 2014 Explore Hudson Valley from Lauren Bayne in the cold rain and snow at Middletown High School to score the tying goal against Burke with less than a minute to play -the “shot heard around New Paltz� -- in a Section 9 girls’ soccer final in 2000. New Paltz won the game in overtime, the first of three straight titles, the only ones ever for girls’ soccer at New Paltz. It was one of those moments. Like Jones’s impossible catch, magical it was. The kind of moment that turns “Oh, I’ve seen it all before� into “Wow, that was incredible!� Whenever I’m asked whether watching sports at the high-[school level (continued next page)
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But a five-day forecast is not the same as forethe winter. telling an entire season. To determine the severity And why not Cat Day? According to the same of this coming winter, you must rely on pseudosource, “If your cat sits with its back to a heat science, or tradition. source you can exWe already have a pect cold weather.” national oracle for Further guidance: winter’s end -- the “Count the number of the foggy mornrather pathetic ritings in August. This ual centered on the number will be the town of PunxsutawBy Robert Frost same as the numney, Pennsylvania, ber of snowfalls for which produced My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree the following winone of the greatToward heaven still, ter.” (Unfortunately, est American movAnd there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill I was not keeping ies of my lifetime, Beside it, and there may be two or three count of August’s Groundhog Day. Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. morning mists.) It’s The minor drama But I am done with apple-picking now. a little creepy studyof a groundhog leavEssence of winter sleep is on the night, ing these charming ing his hole at GobThe scent of apples: I am drowsing off. superstitions on the blers Knob became I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight Internet, but if you an eerily appropriI got from looking through a pane of glass want more of them, ate symbol for the I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough go to www.naturepetitive banality And held against the world of hoary grass. realmanac.com. (I of earthly life. For It melted, and I let it fall and break. particularly recomthose of you (like But I was well mend the section me) who can never Upon my way to sleep before it fell, on “reading” goose exactly remember And I could tell bones.) the concept: if PunxWhat form my dreaming was about to take. The brilliant playsutawney Phil sees Magnified apples appear and disappear, wright Carey Harhis shadow, winter Stem end and blossom end, rison recently cast will be six weeks And every fleck of russet showing clear. me in his new play longer. If there’s no My instep arch not only keeps the ache, Nero at the Movies. shadow, winter will It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round. My role? The Hafinish quickly. This I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. ruspex, a Roman Pennsylvania tradiAnd I keep hearing from the cellar bin prognosticator who tion has been celThe rumbling sound sees the future in the ebrated yearly since Of load on load of apples coming in. guts of slaughtered 1886. For I have had too much birds. It was a bit of Of apple-picking: I am overtired typecasting, actually. ut how wise Of the great harvest I myself desired. Carey knows that I is Phil? AcThere were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, am fond of mystic cording to the Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall. prophecy. To predict StormFax Weather For all this coming winter, I Almanac, the sleepy That struck the earth, took matters into my groundhog has been No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, own hands. accurate only 39% Went surely to the cider-apple heap Do you know the of the time -- conAs of no worth. “the dictionary orsiderably worse than One can see what will trouble acle”? I decided to flipping a coin. And This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is. consult it. I set the why do we have Were he not gone, American Heritage Groundhog Day and The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his Dictionary of the not Squirrel Day, Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, English Language, which would preOr just some human sleep. Third Edition in my dict the severity of a lap, said my mantra, forthcoming winter? asked aloud “Will According to the this be an especially cold winter?”, closed my eyes, Nature Almanac, the deeper squirrels bury their opened the book, and placed my finger down at nuts, the lower the lowest temperature will be for
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Or does the polar vortex have a more sinister origin? Liam Watt, a local astrologer, suspects that HAARP (the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is engineering the weather by bombarding portions of the ionosphere with high-frequency radio waves, which heats the upper layer of the air, causing the atmosphere to rise. (HAARP was originally part of the Star Wars antimissile shield.)
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Highway to the sky Minnewaska reopens beautifully restored Hamilton Point Carriage Road by Frances Marion Platt
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gouges, and in many places the gravel was entirely washed away, exposing large chunks of stone or even bare bedrock. When public hearings were held in 2008 and 2009 on the draft version of the master plan, former users who mourned the carriage road’s sorry state turned out to demand that its restoration be designated a top priority. Well, they got their wish: The massive effort to excavate, resurface and landscape the park’s most deteriorated carriage roads, at an anticipated cost of $4 million or more, began several years ago with Millbrook Drive, but moved on by August 2013 to Hamilton Point. According to data provided by Minnewaska State Park Preserve superintendent Eric Humphrey, the yearlong project involved removal of storm debris, 18 large dead trees and 16,600 feet of brush and vegetation; installation of 41 culvert pipes; over 4000 linear feet of ditching; construction of 2655 feet of retaining wall; and A birds-eye view of the newly resurfaced Hamilton Point Carriage Road at Minnewaska State Park Preserve.
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tween the Hamilton Point of yesthe restored carriage road, scoping terday and today was indeed strikout the improvements and whetting ing. A gently crowned, practically their appetites for another big snow manicured surface of crushed blueyear. “In keeping with their overall stone has replaced exposed rock mission and in the wake of major, and runoff fissures, and a great deal destructive weather events, the of thought and effort has obviously Park has made huge strides toward been put into rerouting the flow of the restoration of their carriage surface water so that no such damroads,” wrote Mark Ruoff and Veage is likely to happen again. “The ronica O’Keefe. “The trails are wellkey to sustainable carriage roads is graded and smooth, which means adequate drainage,” said our guide. that great cross-country skiing can The new culverts have been combe had with considerably less snow. pletely masked with chunks of naThe absence of jutting rocks and tive Shawangunk conglomerate, uneven surfaces on the trail ensures and the same material – “all natural safer and smoother skiing, as well conglomerate that was harvested as easier and more efficient passage next to the carriage road,” accordfor Minnewaska’s grooming equiping to Humphrey – was used to ment.” build catchbasins and to delineate So take heart, cross-country skiexposed cliff edges and other steep ers: Maybe a donor can be found dropoffs with capstones to make somewhere to buy the park another the road safer for cyclists and skiers. Tom Stedner of Derby, Connecticut hikes the newly resurfaced Hamilton Point Sno-Cat with a Ginzu Groomer atMost impressive, as feats of en- Carriage Road at Minnewaska State Park Preserve. tachment – and put up the salary of gineering, are the new retaining another employee to help with the walls, especially one near Echo grooming. Meanwhile, the HamilRock and another below Battlement Terrace, ton Point Carriage Road is once again a fabulous mand becomes too strong to ignore, “We might where the Hamilton Point Carriage Road applace for a hike or a bike ride, and fall foliage seahave to experiment.” proaches its junction with the Castle Point Carson is nearly upon us. Time to lace up those boots! Some members of the recently formed Shawariage Road. The latter wall extends 20 feet below ngunk Nordic Ski Club have already been out on the road surface and took two full months to excavate and construct. “It’s like building a puzzle. He locked the stones all together,” our guide pointed out. To widen the road in one tight spot, a large boulder was split using an “old-school plug-andfeathers” quarrying method, while elsewhere the road surface was cantilevered outward on the side opposite to avoid having to damage an attractive rock formation. “We’re fortunate to have a great contractor working with us: Keith Kortright, of Mombaccus Excavation in Kerhonkson,” said Humphrey. “He completely understands that hundreds of thousands of people are going to see his work and use it. It’s like an artform for him.” The fine, angular gravel topping off the road was custom-milled by Kortright in Mombaccus from crushed blue stone, which “mimics the crushed shale that was historically used, but is much more durable and sustainable. Plus, it’s bike-friendly and strollerfriendly.” Of the 15 miles already completed out of Minnewaska’s 36-mile historic carriage road network – “a huge accomplishment in a relatively short time frame,” in Humphrey’s words – five and a half miles have been restored by park employees and nine and a half miles by outside contractors. The total cost of the restoration of the Hamil ton Point Carriage Road and its connector trails to Castle Point came to $774,431, and most of the funding for these trail projects does not come out of the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation’s annual budget. Capital funding from the state is being geared primarily toward conversion of the former residence of Ken Phillips, Sr. on the cliff overlooking Lake Minnewaska into a visitors’ center and redesign of the park’s main entrance to reduce traffic congestion on Route 44/55, according to Humphrey. 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art of what’s so perfect about what’s local is how fresh it is. Something that’s been picked hours or minutes ago has a rich and lively flavor, whether it’s a head of broccoli or a crisp apple that provides a perfect balance of complex sweet and tart notes. Either way it blows away most tired supermarket produce that may have left California or South America weeks ago. Ahead of the throngs that followed after 9-11, I left New York City in 1996, heading north to one of the Big Apple’s biggest breadbaskets, the Hudson Valley. Although I was born in Poughkeepsie I only lived here for the first year of my life, and it was pure coincidence and my spouse’s new job that brought us to Red Hook 35 years later, only 20 miles north of my birthplace. Before the move I did a bit of research on the area, which I had only visited once, briefly, since my birth. In a Brooklyn Heights bookstore I found a copy of Jan Greenberg’s Hudson Valley Bounty: A Guide to Farms, Fine Foods, and Open-Air Markets (Berkshire House Publishers, 1996), and started to get really excited about living there. Jan (who I was lucky to meet years later) wrote that when she first arrived in the valley it was hard to find local food, as most of it was city-bound. The number of local farms was dwindling, giving way to development, their products devalued. But she hoped that things were starting to change. Change they did. These days you can’t turn around without bumping into a local bulbous buttercup squash or bottle of small-batch locally distilled spirits, and we (I say proudly, as a kind of native) have a bounty indeed of glorious local foodstuffs and drinkables. This time of year, harvest season, is especially amazing, with farmstands and markets full of glorious piles of apples, greens and squashes. Even your Facebook feed is offering the latest local crafter of charcuterie, cheese or craft beers. And quality stuff it is, too. It’s happening all over, not just here, but here is where I was reborn as an obsessed food writer, with whatever was good and local was fodder for my fire. Our arrival coincided with a career change for me, from nurse to writer, thanks to the spouse’s new salary. At first, not knowing anyone in the area to hang around with, I spent all my time writing short stories and a novel. A few months after our arrival I had my first piece published (unpaid), an op-ed in the late lamented, venerable weekly Gazette Advertiser, in which I touted the virtues of eating local. Although the editor or his or her spellchecker changed my mention of Moroccan tagines to tangerines, what a thrill it was to see my name and thoughts and print, a joy I haven’t yet shaken. And how exciting it felt to be in some small way part of it, with my burgeoning interest in enjoying the beauty, fine flavor, and nutritious qualities of local products. Back then, to me, the smaller carbon footprint aspect wasn’t even yet part of the picture. As I visited the (then) young Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market and local farmstands and brought home and cooked my finds, at first just for my husband and then for new friends, I was immersed in how lucky I felt to live here. I loved being so close to these fields and farmlands and to drive across
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ne of the joys of autumn throughout the region is that there are not only great fruits and veggies, cheeses, meats and beverages showing up wherever you look in local stores, but the final big farmers markets of the season are on, sometimes past the end of October into early November, along with a number of big festivals focused on specific items like pumpkins, apples, wine and beer that have, or are now making the nationj’s old breadbasket duly world famous once again. For markets, try Hudson on Sundays (on Columbia Street in the 600 block; Gardiner every Friday afternoon where the Rail Trail comes through town; Cluett Schantz Park on Rt. 9W in Milton, where the Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market runs Saturday mornings; Kingston’s great Saturday morning market along Wall Street in the Stockade district; Woodstock’s Wednesday afternoon bash by Houst’s (complete with the music that town’s become famous for); the Saugerties’ Farmers Market on Main Street Saturday mornings; the alsoon-Saturday-morning Red Hook Village Farmers’ Market on South Broadway; and the Rosendale Summer Farmers’ Market near the theater on Main Street. For all such info locally, a great source is Cornell Cooperative Extension at www.cceulster.org.
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tuce and my own tomatoes on my way into the kitchen. I joined a CSA and tried new things like cape gooseberries and figured out what to do with 15 carrots so sweet and tasty they in no way compared to bagged supermarket specimens. Jan Greenberg’s sequel, Hudson Valley Harvest: A Food Lover’s Guide to Farms, Restaurants, and Open-Air Markets (Countryman, 2003) mentioned me as the source (via one of my French
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Left, young ginger cake at the home of author Hiroko Shimbo; right, Helena's Pierogies of Kerhonkson, NY, with Ronnybrook yogurt and homemade Pink Lady applesauce. cousins) of Joe Popovich’s unctuous rillettes, and for the first time I appeared in an index. This tickled me pink. But believe it or not, this isn’t all about me. It’s about how lucky residents and visitors are to buy the freshest eggs from a local farmhouse down the road, to choose from a generous assortment of grass-fed sustainably raised poultry and meats from Fleisher’s, whom I remember beginning as a tiny Uptown Kingston shop with a cute window display of a lawn chair surrounded by crumpled beer cans. When I first moved here I worked on a typewriter, the newspapers my only connection with the local offerings. I went driving around exploring. These days we can read about how great our local food is in Valley Table, Edible Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley and Organic Hudson Valley magazines. We can follow our favorite local purveyors and chefs via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook or websites like hudsonvalleybounty.com. The Internet and social media keep us easily in touch with the Garlic Festival in Saugerties, the Hudson Valley Food & Wine Fest and other festivals big and small celebrating ramps or cauliflower. That Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market, now 20 years old, which I used to call my “church” and some call “the Sunday-morning cocktail party,” currently offers 40 booths with vegetables and fruits, sustainably raised or caught proteins, artisan cheeses and charcuterie, local flowers, bread and wine. And now farmers’ markets dot the map in clusters all over the valley, so if we know which day to go we can pick up kale and raspberries so fresh they glow. A small sampling of other places to get local produce includes Montgomery Place’s farmstand in Red Hook, Davenport’s in Stone Ridge, Adams Fairacre Farms’ four valley locations, the store at Hawthorne Valley Farm in Columbia County and Mother Earth Storehouse’s Kingston location. CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) — a new concept what seems like only a few short years ago - -are now within driving distance of anyone addicted to a weekly supply of their share of the prize. Most restaurant owners and chefs I talk to these days for my food columns tout their devotion to using the best of what’s local. Rhinebeck’s own über-popular Terrapin and Gigi’s Trattoria were a couple of the first, and others have followed suit, like The Would in Highland, Miss Lucy’s in Saugerties, Henry’s at the Farm at the Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa in Milton and the Artist’s Palate in
Poughkeepsie. Now you can get a lot of it in one place. There was a rest area on the Taconic State Parkway that came in handy for pit stops on our way back to New York in the early days here. It was closed for many years, but reopened this summer as a Taste of NY store. In the town of LaGrange. It offers travelers in both directions the harvest of 15 area farms, plus delicacies like bacon from Jacüterie or cheese from Chaseholm Farm Creamery, along with pit-stop necessities like coffee, sandwiches and pastries. Fall foraging for not only the raw materials — often sustainably grown — to take home and cook, but also for artisanal preserved edibles and drinkables, is at its peak this time of year. Stop in to a local restaurant that offers local foods — there are so many now — or stop by the farmers’ market,
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the ’90s, with the definition of “artist� greatly expanded beyond the early focus on painting and photography. Direct access to the artists themselves has been somewhat diminished, while the number of artists participating has increased. But the enterprising attendee may still find the original Artswalk quality and spirit. The selection of works for display is often unknown up to the last minute — sometimes even to the Warren Street window-dressers themselves. Artswalk is best experienced without a firm itinerary: Just start at the top (or bottom) of the street, and just work your way down (or up). If you see something you like, ask the exhibitor for suggestions on what else to check out. Word of mouth is your best bet, since in Hudson rumors and tips seem to travel even faster on the street than on Facebook. Hudson’s shopkeepers and residents are not known for being shy about sharing their loves and hates; you just have to get a conversation going. With persistence, you may find yourself wandering far off Warren Street, having stumbled into an underground event not officially recognized by the organizers at Columbia County Council on the
Arts (artscolumbia.org) and the Hudson Opera House (hudsonoperahouse.org). Below are some of my personal suggestions, culled over the years, of some (and perhaps not all) of the more reliable places to start that hunt for the best of what has become a more diverse but less manageable showcase of local talent. TERENCHIN (533 Warren, terenchin.com). Since moving across the river from Catskill, Terenchin has switched its focus from smart new exhibitions of contemporary artists to smart old collections of vintage and master works. Owner Patrick Terenchin’s constantly-evolving salonstyle displays may feature, at any given moment, an Ashcan School street scene hung alongside a ’50s Action Painting, behind a 19th-century mustachioed marble bust and a contemporary cardboard sculpture of a bomb impact. MARK’S ANTIQUES (612 Warren, hudsonantiques.net/wideboard/marks-antiques). Proprietor Mark Wasserbach not only presides over one of Hudson’s longest-running shops, a labyrinth of lighting, furniture and architectural salvage stacked to the ceiling. He is also one of Hudson’s best-loved artists, creating large indoor and out-
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door geometric sculptures which combine forged metals with found objects. There’s usually some of his work in the window, and a crowd of friends hanging out at Mark’s during Artswalk. If you start at Mark’s, it’s sure to lead to another solid venue. THE 600 BLOCK. In the same block as Mark’s, you’ll also find a cluster of galleries, including Hudson’s oldest art gallery, Carrie Haddad (#622 Warren, carriehaddadgallery.com). Across the street are Gallery Gris (#621) and McDaris Fine Art (#623, mcdarisfineart.com). All three focus on 21st-century artists, many of them from the region. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY (#362 1/2, johndavisgallery.com). From the street, John Davis may look like a teensy exhibition space. But there is not only a second floor below the main gallery, but one of Hudson’s best surprises out back: A gravel sculpture courtyard, opening onto a multi-storied former stable, including a rope-pulled elevator. Davis fills all four floors of the stables with group and individual shows, often of small and more adventurous works. The cement-lined building itself is worth the visit alone to experience the real Old Hudson. NEW ARRIVALS. In the past year, Hudson has seen a slew of new galleries arrive on the scene. While maintaining a presence in New York City, gallerist-to-the-stars Zach Feuer has opened not one but two galleries in the 700 block, both under the name Retrospective, bringing downstate talents to rural audiences (#711 and 727, retrospectivegallery.com). Jeff Bailey Gallery has decamped entirely from Chelsea, relaunching in a Federal home in the 100 block (#127, baileygallery.com) across from Hudson stalwart BCB Art, housed in a former bank building (#116, http://bcbart.com), where one may find anything from punk-rock artifacts to Bill Griffith cartoons. All the way back on the other end of town is Contempo (#741, conceptohudson.com), often showing street-inspired work involving graffiti, castoff objects, mail art and the like. BASILICA HUDSON (Front Street, basilicahudson.com). Artswalk will reach a climax on its second-to-last day, with none other than filmmaker John Waters appearing in a one-man show to benefit the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York. Tickets are likely to sell out fast, so unless you’re prepared to crash the doors like Ricki Lake it’s probably to reserve yours the moment you put this article down. John
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aggedy Ann gets a big thrill out of Halloween in Woodstock each year. It’s much of what defines the town for her, and vice versa. At least in terms of the old doll’s alter ego, Renee Englander, who’s become the driving force behind her town’s massive Halloween parade celebration each October 31. Englander started her involvement with what’s become one of the biggest Hudson Valley All Hallow’s Eve celebrations with a group of community-minded folks soon after moving to the area in the mid-1980s. “We started off doing a highfalutin production for a couple of years and then the energy of the group dissipated,” she recalls. “I did it myself after that. Gave out a few prizes each year. Kept it simple. That was it.” Before Woodstock, Englander ran a bookkeeping service in New York City, raised a family, made some art on the side. “My work never matched my temperament,” she explained. “I visited some friends up here and then my kids were all grown and I couldn’t take the life down there any more .... Hey, I’m an artist!” Englander sold her city coop apartment and bought a house in the town to which she found herself attracted, and then moved up and started “a little art school” that she ran for a while. “I realized that in a small town you could do something that was effective, and have fun,” she added. “I never looked back.” The local Halloween traditions in Woodstock at the time were like many towns’ in the region. There was a haunted house put on at the local youth center, another at the local magic shop. The firehouses did things, and kids went trick-ortreating in the neighborhoods where the houses were close together. The age of the really big Halloween destinations (see box) weren’t upon us yet. Englander’s own Halloween traditions were similarly unexceptional. She’d take the kids out
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Mill Hill Road to the village green by 5 p.m. so that everyone can then head off for neighborhood trick-or-treating, private parties and school-night bedtimes (after as many handfuls of candy as the revelers can get into their gullets first). “In the beginning FreAtlast was still in town and would lead the kids around the green in a parade, playing her drums,” Englander recalled. “Since she’s moved away and Raggedy Andy’s stopped being Raggedy Andy, Mary Poppins helps me out with the parade as I judge the costumes.” Like others who have fine-tuned a variety of Halloween looks over the years, I noted my own family’s Ganesh/Kali/Dalai Lama getup back
when our kid was still an infant and His Holiness had made his own appearance in town a few months before the big parade. Englander laughed. She remembered our get-ups.
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always been to get the most creative Woodstock teenagers to show off their costumes on stage. “I can’t say that anyone has ever been politically incorrect in any way, even though we do get our fair share of blood and gore,” she said. “It’s just never truly offensive .... Even after 9/11, when people were saying we should cancel the parade, everyone came out as firefighters and police. It was a great time, a healing time, for all,” Yes, the center of Woodstock invariably ends up a bit soapy, and laced in toilet paper and shaving cream, by later in the evening of October 31. But no worse than she recalls doing as a girl herself. How tired does she feel come November 1 of
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utumn in Woodstock is glorious. Of all four seasons, autumn in particular shines hereabouts, eliciting gasps from full-time residents and tourists alike. You never get used to the colors, the smells, the primal excitement of harvest time. Perhaps not coincidentally, music associated with this area is perfect soundtrack material to accompany Mother Nature’s show of shows. Woodstock musicians, infused with the beauty of the environment, excel at providing singalongs to the fiery blaze of sugar maples, the scent of woodstoves and apples, the snap of deadwood underfoot, the taste of pie made from a frost-kissed pumpkin. We’re talking site-specific music that embraces aspects of the harvest, taking stock, if you will, celebrating (or lamenting) what has come before. Even the word “woodstock” suggests the tinder we’ve gathered to keep us warm as the year winds down. (It’s actually an Old English term, meaning “gathering in the woods.” But still.) Naturally, a survey of autumnal songs from the Woodstock area must begin with The Band and their classic “King Harvest,” from 1969’s eponymous “Brown Album.” On this Robbie Robertson tune, Levon Helm sings, “Corn in the fields / Listen to the rice when the wind blows ‘cross the water / King Harvest has surely come .… A scarecrow in a yellow moon / Pretty soon, the carnival on the edge of town / King Harvest has surely come.” In the verses, Richard Manuel sings of hard times, but the refrain is always Levon, a cooling spirit, accepting, as one must, all that comes – the good, the bad, and everything in between. With “King Harvest,” as well as “Tears of Rage,” “The Weight,” and much of The Band’s catalog, listeners encounter lives well lived; warmer, innocent times are in the rearview. Even when they were just starting out as young upstarts, The
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ob Dylan’s Woodstock output with The Band, no surprise, also hews to the harvest theme. One could view his early, New Yorkbased years as a time of feverish sowing, hoeing rows in the soil of American song, pouring youthful (drug-enhanced) energy into his work under the glare of an unforgiving eye, an eye much like a summer sun. When it was time to rest (clean up)
and reap, he came here. As most of us know, he bought a house in Woodstock, started a family, and reinvented himself (again) with The Band at Big Pink in Saugerties. We now know these much-bootlegged sessions as The Basement Tapes, an overflowing cornucopia featuring dozens of folksongs first heard around olden-time campfires and under starstrewn skies, plus originals like “Quinn the Eskimo,” and “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (which are now sung around campfires). More recently, Catskills duo Two Dark Birds’ lovely 2011 CD Songs for the New is a veritable
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valentine to the restorative power of the Catskills, spanking new band Burnell Pines has taken up school doors. particularly for a person edging into the autumn the mantle of Catskill rock, collaborating with It doesn’t stop there, either. Besotted docuof life. Themes include a similar resolve as The esteemed Woodstock musician-producer David mentary filmmaker Ken Burns used the highly Band’s: song narrators face the Baron to concoct what Jeremy lengthening shadows with grace, calls “music born in the Catskills, or try to. On the chamber-folk on top of a mountain, in the sun, opening track, “Closer to Water,” down by the river, in a basement, frontman Steve Koester sings, “I through hurricanes and floods.” once had a good friend / A mind That distinctive sense of place like a knife / Dug deep into me / goes a long way toward describThe words carved inside / The ing the tunes from Burnell Pines’ summer after that long year / eponymous debut. Shades of oodstock has long been a mecca for musicians, but now it’s also Smoke and talk and drink some aforementioned Woodstock icons making a name for itself as a place to seek beer / I once had a good friend / abound – The Band, Dylan, et al out fine handmade musical instruments due to the growing success of the He’s no longer here / We move on, – but with Jeremy’s singular voice, Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Showcase, hosted by the Bearsville Theatre and Utopia we move on, we move on.” particularly affecting on the eleSoundstage in late October, with various events now occurring elsewhere around the area, giac “Eastbound Train,” plus Barincluding at Helsinki Hudson. “A low-key, laid-back event for the community of acouson’s canny combo of vintage and ooking to instrumental tic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados,” is how the showcase current sonic touches, the music compositions, what locally plugs itself. Presting the absolute finest expressions of the luthier’s art.” And no, it’s not crackles with newness, conjuring created musical work more just for musicians, but music fans of all stripes as pickers try out the wares wherever they crisp autumn afternoons, boneloquently conjures the sweet show up. Admission is free from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday, a “pre-showcase shopping opfires, smoke-scented flannel, hot ache of leave-taking than Jay Unportunity featuring a number of fine tonewood dealers,” and it’ll cost you only $20 to cider, maybe a little moonshine, gar’s classic fiddle tune “Ashokan get in all day either Saturday or Sunday, or $30 for a weekend pass. Clinics, workshops, and mountain-man intimacy. Farewell”? Originally composed master classes and evening concerts at the Woodstock Playhouse and Colony Café will Thankfully, all this music is to commemorate the sense of loss also be offered, some at an additional charge. For more details call 679-9025 or visit www. available to enjoy in a variety of and longing at the close of Ungar woodstockinvitational.com. formats, and the season in which and Molly Mason’s annual sumit resonates most is upon us. So mer fiddle and dance camps at if you’re looking for tunes to spin their Ashokan Center, the gorwhile stacking wood, leaf peeping, geous tune has taken on a life of hiking beneath the breathtaking canopy of maits own, as heartfelt music does. Rising from its versatile lament to help convey an epic sense of ples and birches, partying in the waning sunlight, Olivebridge birthplace, “Ashokan Farewell” has innocence lost in his acclaimed Civil War series, apple-picking, chauffeuring your kids to a school reached countless listeners worldwide, capturto great effect. As with Two Dark Birds, roots tended by musifunction (or to college), carving a pumpkin, or ing the bittersweet in other types of mourning, cal elders continue to reap fresh crops. Just this taking in that last bushel from your garden, these whether we’re talking about the leaves, the sun, year, Woodstock native Jeremy Bernstein’s brand Woodstock-birthed tracks are the ticket. Because the green, or the kids walking through those when all around is reaching the end of its natural cycle, we need our musicmakers to honor the loss while also embodying hope for renewal, and once harvesting is done, the best way to accomplish that is to sing and play.
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11AM-6:15PM Oktoberfest. Features authentic German and German-American entertainment in the beauty of the northern Catskills in autumn. 2:30PM Fall Meet of Northeast Blacksmiths AsOur modern celebration of the harvest features sociation. (10/3-10/5) Guest demonstrator Steve plenty of vendors, free crafts for the kids. Info: Mankowski. A hands-on instruction area and a www.Huntermtn.com. Hunter Mountain Ski blacksmith tool “flea market”. Weekend packagSunday 10/5 es or day passes available. Info: www.northeast12:30PM CPW’s 36th Annual Benefit Auction 9AM-3PM Sixth Annual Woodstock British blacksmiths.org. Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill of Contemporary & Classic Photographs with Car Show. Food, 50s live music. More than 100 Auctioneer C. Hugh Hildesley. 2014 Vision Award 7:30PM Live Arts Bard. Neil Gaiman in honoring Kathy Ryan. Fully illusconversation with Audrey trated catalogue available. Advanced Niffenegger. Author and artticket purchase required. Info: www. ist Audrey Niffenegger (The cpw.org. Diamond Mills Hotel, Time Traveler’s Wife) will discuss time travel, Doctor Who, 3PM Hudson Valley Philharmonic. graveyards, graphic novels, Mahler #5. Mahler’s monumental pictures, and long-distance work, a rarely performed trombone romance. Info: www.bard.edu concerto featuring one of the HVP’s or845-758-7900. Bard College, own. Info: 845-339-6088 or www. t the height of the leaf-peeping season, head for the various venSosnoff Theater, Annandalebardavon.org. Bardavon, 35 Market ues in Woodstock – plus Kingston, Rosendale, Saugerties and Rhinebeck on-Hudson, $25, $5 /Bard St, Poughkeepsie. – for viewing of another sort as screenings, panel discussions, concerts and community. parties of the Woodstock Film Festival unspool for the event’s 15th annual out3PM Equivocation. Info: www.cening. Highlights will include the presentation of a Maverick Lifetime Achievement terforperformingarts.org. Center for Saturday 10/4 Award at the WFF Gala at BSP in Uptown Kingston on Sunday night, where the Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, director Darren Aronofsky will be honored by Natalie Portman and Jennifer ConRhinebeck. 9AM-4PM 2nd Annual Fall nelly. The full lineup includes world, US, East Coast and New York premieres, Festival Plant Sale. Benefits concerts (with Steve Earle and Hugh Masakela among others), panel discussions Thursday 10/9 the Frederick W. Vanderbilt and plenty of celebrities! Though tickets for keynote events and many highly anGarden Association. Among ticipated screenings tend to sell out early, it’s often possible at short notice to get Joseph Garlock Exhibition & Prothe items featured for sale will in to see films with relatively unknown casts and novice directors. Ticket prices grams. Info: 845-679-2218 or be hardy mums, asters, flowerrange from $5 to $75. 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Saugerties Reformed Church, 173 Main St, Saugerties. 9AM-12PM Catskill’s Lark in The Park: A guided mushroom walk. Esopus Creek Conservancy and John Burroughs Natural History Society. Pre-registration is required. Contact Steve Chorvas (schorvas@gmail.com) to register. Info: www. esopuscreekconservancy.org. SaugertiesPlaza, (near the Credit Union), Saugerties, free. 10AM-3PM Rhinebeck Reformed Church Apple Festival Apple pies for sale, but also delicious baked goods and crafts made by members of the church, a “second time around” table, with assorted treasures and jewelry. Info: 845-876-3727. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, CordesHall, corner of Rt. 9 and South St, Rhinebeck. 11AM-6:15PM Oktoberfest. Features authentic German and German-American entertainment in the beauty of the northern Catskills in autumn. Our modern celebration of the harvest features plenty of vendors, free crafts for the kids. Info: www.Huntermtn.com. Hunter Mountain Ski 11AM-6:15PM Colors in the Catskills Motorcycle Rally. In conjunction with Oktoberfest. Info: www.Huntermtn.com. Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl, 64 Klein Ave, Hunter. 11AM-4PM Slabsides Day Open House. “The Naturalist’s River.” Noon program. David Schuyler, author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909, will speak about the shaping of Burroughs’ nature philosophy. Info:www.johnburroughsassociation. org John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary, Slabsides, 261 Floyd Ackert Rd, West Park. 11AM-3PM Autumn Festival. Featuring demonstrations of meat smoking, making apple cider, candles, cornhusk dolls and music. Info: 845338-2786 or deana.preston@parks.ny.gov. Senate House State Historic Site, 296 Fair St, Kingston. 11AM-4PM 3rd Annual Wine Festival More than 20 regional wineries will gather. Tastings from wineries in the Hudson Valley and Finger Lakes region. Info: www.bethelwoodscenter.org. 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Saturday 11/1 6PM-9PM Day of the Dead: Gothic-themed poetry open mic. Info: 845-679-8777. Shivastan Poetry Ashram, 6 Hillcrest Ave, Woodstock.
Sunday 11/2 7:30PM The Best of Jethro Tull. Performed by Ian Anderson. Info: www.palacealbany.com or 518-465-4663. Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $103 /golden circle, $68, $48.
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Saturday 11/8 2PM Gallery Talk: Sarah Demeuse on Michael Heizer. Free with museum admission. Info: 845440-0100 or www.diaart.org. Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman St, Beacon. 5PM-8PM Beacon’s Second Saturday Stroll along Main Street. Art receptions, installations, exhibits & entertainment. Beacon. 8PM Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Lincoln’s New World. (in association with Adriance Library’s Exhibit: Lincoln In His Own Words.) Info: 845-339-6088 or www.bardavon.org. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie.
Sunday 11/9 10AM-3PM Train Show @ MHCC. Meets the 1st Monday of each month at 7pm. Hosted by Hudson Valley Railroad Society. Info: www.hydeparkstation.com or 229-2338. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 7:30PM The 92nd Street Y Comes to Poughkeepsie World Religions: Spotlight on Judaism. Author and editor Jack Miles leads a panel of scholars in examining the history of world religions and how Judaism in particular has been absorbed, altered, understood andmisunderstood. (live broadcast). Info: 845-485-3445 X 3702. Adriance Memorial Library, Charwat Meeting Room, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie.
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Kid heaven Seasonal 2014 fall calendar of events for the family, plus suggestions for kid-friendly hiking, music, places, books, activities and history By Erica Chase-Salerno
Events 10.4 to 11.16 The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, 6:30 p.m. Experience the magic of seeing over 5000 handcarved, illuminated pumpkins in one place. Last year it was sold out every night! Admission is $20 for adults ($25 on Saturdays); $16 for children 3 to 17 years ($20 on Saturdays); free for children under 3. Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 South Riverside, Croton-on-Hudson, 914-366-6900, http:// www.hudsonvalley.org.
10.4 Autumn Festival, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy a firsthand look at meat smoking, making apple cider, candles, and cornhusk dolls, and live period music, all at the site where our government began! Call for admission pricing. Senate House State Historic Site, 296 Fair Street, Kingston, 338-2786, http://nysparks.com.
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Children’s Day at Headless Horseman, noon to 3:30 p.m. One of America’s legendary hometown haunts tones it down for a more mild, daytime experience for children, including a hayride with a spooky story told by a friendly storyteller, corn maze, games, face painting, and more. $11 admission for all tickets. Headless Horseman, 778 Broadway/Route 9W, Ulster Park, 339-2666, http://www.headlesshorseman.com
10.12 Forsyth Nature Center Fall Festival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All ages will enjoy the live music, storytelling, crafts, games, bounce houses, face painting, food, raffles, vendors, and remember to bring some lettuce or carrots to feed the animals at Forsyth Nature Center. Free admission.Forsyth Park, 157 Lucas Avenue, Kingston, 339-3053, http:// www.forsythnaturecenter.org.
10.18 - 10.19 New York State Sheep & Wool Family Festival, 9 a.m./10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fiber delights for everyone, including activities and classes for children such as yarn “painting” embroidery, $8; finger knitted felt: bangles, wrap bracelets and necklaces for ages 5 and up, $8. Upcycled sweater stitching for ages 10 and up, $12. Wet felting, collage cards for ages 7 and up, $12. And wet felting, beaded necklaces and bracelets for ages 5 and up, $8. Admission is $12 per day, discounts for advanced online purchase. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, 6550 Spring Brook Avenue, Rhinebeck, http://www.sheepandwool.com.
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Richard Louv: The Nature-Rich Life, 7:30 p.m. Improve your health, business, community, relationships, and more, by tapping into the restorative power of nature. Tickets are $13 and $18. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 100, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. http://www.newpaltz. edu/speakerseries, 257-3880.
10.25 Make a Difference Day: Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Get in the spirit of volunteering with your community, and register yourself and your teens ages 14 and over for a day of repairs and refurbishments on 40 Poughkeepsie houses. Tasks needed during preparation and the day itself include registration, lunch hosting, public relations and mar-
October– November 2014 Explore Hudson Valley keting, work crew, and more. Habitat for Humanity, 45 Catharine Street, Poughkeepsie, 475-9336, http://habitatdutchess.org.
10.25 Make a Difference Day: Mohonk Preserve, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Register and bring your teens ages 13 and over to help take care of the trails you love by building pedestrian bridges and constructing stone steps at Spring Farm’s Cedar Trail. Stay for any amount of time during the five-hour work session. Mohonk Preserve, Spring Farm, Upper 27 Knolls Road, High Falls, 255-0919 ext. 1269, volunteers@mohonkpreserve.com, http://mohonkpreserve.org.
10.25 Kreepy Kids Kruise, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Between the magician, the face painting, and the DJ, the kids will have a great time while adults take in the foliage along the river. Tickets are $21 for adults ages 12 and up; $19 for seniors 65 and up; $13 for ages 4 to 11; and free for under 3 years. Hudson River Cruises, 1 East Strand Street, Kingston, 800-979-3370, http://www.hudsonrivercruises.com.
10.26 No Scare Halloween, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Combine history and Halloween fun in the most family-friendly way! Call for admission pricing. Museum Village, 1010 Route 17M, Monroe, 782-8248, http://museumvillage.org
and Stories from the American Revolution in the Hudson Valley. Kruk and Bala help strengthen the connection between the people and events from back then, to the places, signs, and historic sites we know now. Plus it’s great fun to belt out that last track, Doodle Dandy. For more information about the Hudson River Ramblers, upcoming performances, program offerings, and their recordings, visit http://www.hudsonriverramblers. com.
The tooth will set you free GustaferYellowgold’s Wisdom Tooth of Wisdom album came out recently, and the songs are just as fresh, catchy, quirky and relatable as ever. With lines like, “Someone selling a pie of bugs,” which is just delightfully weird, and “I can’t feel my face,” a reference to mouth numbing during a dental procedure, fans will get a kick out of these new tunes and ‘toons, the animated illustrations creator and composer and singer Morgan Taylor accompanies with the songs. GustaferYellowgold, a creature from the sun who lives in the woods of Minnesota with his best friend Slim the snake, offers a unique way of seeing the world because it’s all new to him, and that offbeat perspective it what keeps things interesting. Our family really got Gustafer Yellowgold by attending a live performance, and we’ve been hooked ever since. Lucky for all of us, we can catch a live multimedia performance of the pair at The Falcon in Marlboro on Sunday, October 12, with two sets during brunch, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. There’s no cover charge, but donations are encouraged. The Falcon is at 1348 Route
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9W in Marlboro. For reservations or information, call 236-7970 or visit http://www.liveatthefalcon. com. To learn more about The Tooth Will Set You Free tour and all things Gustafer, visit http://gustaferyellowgold.com.
Places Storm King If you have an art-loving kid, visit Storm King Art Center. If you have an art-resistant kid, visit Storm King Art Center. This is a foliage-rich, outdoor wonderland of world-class art, the best of its kind in the whole wide world, and I will highlight here the pieces you can touch, which will engage even the most sullen visitor. Be prepared for a lot of walking, and take water bottles from the south parking lot. Make a beeline for Mark Di Suvero’s Beethoven’s Quartet. This interactive piece invites the viewer to strike it with the supplied mallet. This playfulness practically guarantees an instant turnaround of an art-resistant individual. Next, keep walking south, viewing Roy Lichtenstein’s Mermaid boat along the way, until you reach Maya Lin’s Storm King Wavefield, where you can actually walk on these impossibly fluid yet static ripples of earth. Continue to loop around the south fields to Virginia Overton’s tube. Half of your crew runs to the other end of the tube, and you all speak to each other through the openings. Keep moving and check out Zhang Huan’s Three Legged Buddha because it’s at once so commanding and disarming, but also literally dis-arming, which will engage
10.27 Halloween Ghost Train Night, 7 p.m. The spooky factor really ramps up when the ghost stories are told at an historic train station. Bring your family, if you dare! Free. Hyde Park Station, 34 River Road, Hyde Park, 229-2338, http://www. hydeparkstation.com.
11.21 - 11.22 Hudson Valley Hullabaloo, 10 a.m./11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The type of indie craft fair you love, without the drive! Handmade vendors just in time for holiday shopping, food, and children’s activities. Andy Murphy Midtown Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston, 750-8801, http://hvhullabaloo.com.
Hiking Kaaterskill Falls If you haven’t hiked Kaaterskill Falls yet with your family, here are three reasons to go. It’s the highest two-tier waterfall in New York State, the fall foliage is exquisite, and the scene inspired famous artwork by three of four notables featured on the recently released Hudson River School U.S. postage stamps -- Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand and Thomas Cole. Kaaterskill Falls’ popularity means the parking lot is usually full, with a constant line of cars coming and going. The five-minute walk along the curvy road to the trailhead feels very intense, especially with children, but the guardrail adds a measure of security along the way. The .4-mile Kaaterskill Falls hike is relatively short and simple, traveling right alongside the Kaaterskill Creek, and the cascading falls are simply gorgeous. You will have a hard time pulling yourself away to leave! I recommend this hike to families with children ages 6 and up who can handle rocky, uneven terrain and the various steep inclines, and your teens will love it. Kaaterskill Falls is located off Route 23A in the Town of Hunter. For more information, visit http://hikethehudsonvalley.com/kaaterskill-falls, http:// www.localhikes.com/Hikes/kaaterskill_0000. asp, or http://www.world-of-waterfalls.com/eastern-us-kaaterskill-falls.html. To learn more about the style of art on the stamps I mentioned, visit http://www.hudsonriverschool.org. and to buy your own Hudson River School postage stamps, visit https://store.usps.com/store/browse/productDetailSingleSku.jsp?productId=S_689504& categoryId=forever-stamps
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Music Connect with the Ramblers Whether you live in the Hudson Valley or are visiting the area, you need to start collecting the music and stories of the Hudson River Ramblers. Jonathan Kruk and Richard Bala bring history to life, and my family becomes engrossed on our road trips listening to Revolution on the River: Songs
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Walkway Over the Hudson The new elevator at the Walkway Over the Hudson is an excellent addition to the site, and for visitors who have been to the Walkway before provides a whole new way to access the bridge. This marvel of vertical mobility is not to be missed. The three glass sides of the lift enable views of the entire river during the 90-second ride up and down the 21 stories. The elevator is free, and the renovated Upper Landing Park displays panels providing some background about the former railway and the area. I learned that this was the first bridge to span the Hudson River between New York City and Albany! And that its height was designed to enable tall ship masts to pass. No pets are allowed in the eight-by-ten-foot cab, but you can take your bike with you. A path along the waterfront leads from Upper Landing Park to Waryas Park, and here’s a super-secret insider tip: the seasonally-umbrellaadorned patio in front of the Poughkeepsie Ice House restaurant is public space during park hours, where one can choose to have wait-service and dine from the menu, or simply sit for a while, taking it all in. Parking seems like a tricky proposition, but in fact, the plentiful Poughkeepsie train station spots are free on weekends. The Walkway elevator is located in Upper Landing Park, at 83 North Water
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Museum Village One visit to Museum Village, and you’ll return with visitors again and again, just to give others the chance to experience the delight that you feel. It’s laid out like a small village, and costumed interpreters in each building share stories about life in the 1800s. It’s great whether you are on a tour or just roaming and looking at places like the oneroom schoolhouse or the general store or the residential cabin. They’re all filled with 19th-century antiques. I was tickled to learn that traditional printingpress frames are called a “chase.” And I had never heard matches referred to as Lucifers before. The barn area enables animal viewing, but what’s utterly charming are the chickens that walk about the grounds freely. They really give the space an old-timey village feel. While you’re there, say hi to Harry for me! Harry the resident mastodon skeleton is named for its site of discovery in nearby Harriman. In the same building as Harry, you can view illuminated gems and minerals in a special black-light booth, along with various animal displays. Museum Village hosts a variety of themed events this season, including Pure Terror Scream Park on weekends, and the gentler No Scare Halloween on October 26. Admission for a regular visit to Museum Village is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and children ages 4 to 12, and free for children under 4. Museum Village is at 1010 State Route 17M in Monroe. For information, call 782-8248 or visit http://museumvillage.org.
October– November 2014 Explore Hudson Valley
Boscobel On my first tour where I was invited to find commodes in various rooms we walked through. I won’t give it away, but I was consistently shocked to see them so well-concealed! Not only did my kids enjoy the chamber-pot scavenger hunt but they appreciated the illusion of the partial thirdfloor staircase that implies an additional floor but in fact leads to nowhere. Boscobel was built downriver, disassembled, then reassembled at its current site. The views of the Hudson are spectacular. When you visit, leave time to explore the gardens, picnic, and stop in the gallery, which is showing through November 30 The Hudson River Portfolio: A Beginning for the Hudson River School. What a treat to read the accompanying descriptions, including period references such as the use of horses as transportation. If you know anyone else interested in a field trip, Lisa DiMarzo is ready for you! I was so impressed with the Revolutionary War lesson she led. It was so interactive, with the kids moving generals around the Hudson River map, recording whether a fort was overtaken or not, and with the powerful visuals I suddenly understood elements about the Revolutionary War in our area I’d never realized before, such as the real story behind Benedict Arnold’s betrayal. You can experience Lisa’s engaging style during the stargazing at Family Bonfire Night on Sunday, October 12 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and bonfire tickets are $12, children 10 and under are free. Admission to Boscobel ranges from $8 to $17. Boscobel is located at 1601 Route 9D in Garrison. For information, call 265-3638 or visit http://www.boscobel.org.
clude life vests and paddles: $35 single kayak; $70 tandem kayak; $60 canoe. For reservations or information, call 594-6353 or visit http://www. npkt.net.
Activities Outdoors Want to go kayaking but don’t want to invest in your own gear yet, and intimidated about transporting a rental? New Paltz Kayaking Tours is a convenient solution, renting kayaks and canoes on site, along the Wallkill River, or on Chodikee Lake. Rentals are available to all ages at the parents’ discretion on weekends at Sojourner Truth Park on Plains Road in New Paltz from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., or with at least 24 hours notice to reserve during the week. Rates are for two hours and in-
Indoors Handcrafts can make the perfect gifts during holiday season. Here are some local resources for do-it-yourself family crafting fun for all ages: Art Centro, clay classes, community clay sessions, and other art media. 485 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525, http://www.artcentro. org. Fiberflame, walk-in handcrafts from glue to
Junior League of Kingston Presents
“Park Peacocks Run Wild” Auction Please join us for our live auction of the 22 Peacock sculptures that have adorned Kingston to Benefit the rebuilding of the Kingston Kinderland Playground in Forsyth Park! Sunday, October 26th. Garden Plaza Hotel, 503 Washington Ave, Kingston 12:00 noon Preview and Breakfast Buffet. 1:30 Live Auction Tickets are $30. For tickets and information contact: Barbara at ryansland@aol.com or 845-750-5911 Like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/KingstonKinderlandII and www.facebook.com/JLKNY Thank you to our SPONSORS:
Books by area writers The children’s book The Girl in the Gip-Pi-Japa Hat by Carol Naidu is one way to feel warm Jamaican breezes any time of the year. The gentle collage-style images throughout the book serve to echo the storyline and keep the eyes moving and engaged. For anyone who longs for home, or misses a parent, this simple story touches on a variety of themes. For more information or to get a copy of the book, visit http://carolenaidubooks.wix. com/the-gitgpj-hat-pg. Ina Claire Gabler’s Magic & Potatoes and Buddy are young-adult short stories available as Kindle books. Magic & Potatoes is about ten-year-old Suzy’s quest to win Copper the toy horse, an arcade prize she instantly connects with and determinedly collects tickets for so she can “free” it and keep it. But the magical richness is derived from the reader’s superpower to witness Suzy’s daily life, while bearing witness to her inner thoughts, from her absolute single-minded focus to gain tickets, to the conflicted feelings she experiences during her parents’ stressful arguments. Buddy is a “hi-lo” book, high-interest but lowreading-level for older kids who are insecure readers. Buddy, a twelve-year-old boy who uses a wheelchair has just moved in with 14-year-old Marissa’s foster family. The images conveyed in the story include tactile elements which deepen the reader’s involvement, and the dialogue that evolves between these two characters adjusting to a temporary sibling relationship comes across as honest and frank. For information about the stories or other work by Gabler, visit http://www. inaclairegabler.com. Picking up a copy of Sari Botton’s new book, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on their Unshakeable Love for New York, is not just a chance to witness other people’s experiences of falling in love with Gotham, but to find yourself resonating with your own examples of becoming smitten with “home” in your own life, wherever that may be. Where Botton’s previous anthology, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, highlighted the challenges of transition away from this seductive city, Never Can Say Goodbye maintains an angle of affection, as though the writers are responding to an implied prodding from the reader to go deeper into the awareness of the urban love affair itself. These experiences are so personal and specific that they become universal. I feel invigorated by these stories, rich with possibility in descriptions of city-love found in some of the most unlikely, gritty places. This is a great read for New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers alike. To order or for more information about Never Can Say Goodbye and other work by Botton, visit http://saribotton.com.
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Saturday, October 25, 2014 Anderson Center For Autism 4885 Route 9, Staatsburg, NY Join as a team or an individual. Run as a zombie or run as the hunted. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics-NY and Anderson Center for Autism.
Register today at www.therundead.org
“Uptown Girl” by Cindy Lapp Photo by Allison Constant
November 2014 44 | October– Explore Hudson Valley glazing, with encouraging, experienced staff. 1776 Route 212, Saugerties, and also 18B East Market Street, Rhinebeck. 679-6132, http://www.fiberflamestudio.com. Poughkidsie, walk-in handcrafts for all ages, with a variety of choices and materials, as well as staff support. 25 Van Wagner Street, Poughkeepsie. 243-3750, http://poughkidsie.com.
SewWoodstock, learn to sew classes or just pick up the supplies you need. 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock. 684-5564, http://sewwoodstock.com. The Treehouse, all-ages classes for sewing, art, fiber meet-ups, and more. 17 Church Street, New Paltz. 255-0345, http://www.treehousenewpaltz. com.
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History Adopt a Patriot is a chance to give Rhinebeck’s 44 Revolutionary War veterans an individual metal marker, enabling the names to remain legible over time, as well as a commemorative plaque. A $50 donation will give the donor a certificate of “adoption” with the patriot’s name, and the contributor will be listed as an “adopter” in a booklet about the roles of these soldiers in the fight for independence. Adopters will also be invited to the dedication ceremony in May. What a terrific way to reinvest in our own local history! The Rhinebeck Reformed Church cemetery is located at the corner of Route 9 and South Street. For information, call 518-4008 or visit http://www.northerndutchessdar.org. Colonial Kingston Coloring Book by Pat Murphy and Peg Brown is an easy way to connect children with history. A story on every page reinforces what they hear during local museum visits. Free. http://ulstercountyny.gov/archives/downloads/ coloringbook.pdf
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Great rail adventures await you! Enjoy these fun, family-friendly events in Kingston!
Pumpkin Patch Express
The Polar Express
OCTOBER 18 - NOVEMBER 2
NOV. 11, 2014 - JAN. 4, 2015
Celebrate the beautiful fall season in the Hudson Valley! The Great Pumpkin Patch Express™ is a special train ride to visit the “Sincere Pumpkin Patch” where visitors will enjoy meeting their favorite PEANUTS™ characters, live music, story telling, tractor rides, pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treating, and other family-oriented activities. Enjoy a reading of the Charles Schultz classic “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”
BELIEVE! Children and their families will discover the magic of Christmas aboard The Polar Express™ later this year. Inspired by the hit Warner Bros. film “The Polar Express” and book by Chris Van Allsburg, pajama-clad passengers will relive the magic of the story and see their favorite characters come to life! The conductor will punch tickets, chefs will serve hot chocolate, and Santa will come board to visit upon arrival at the North Pole.
All trains depart from Westbrook Lane Station at Kingston Plaza, located just minutes from Exit 19 off the New York State Thruway. Purchase your tickets online today!
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