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A time for the Hudson Valley to shine From events to gifts, local holidays remind us to take a breath and enjoy these days An introduction by Paul Smart

very year is the same, for good and bad. It starts to get cold. Starting with Halloween, the addictive allure of sugar begins to dominate family diets. Kids get anxious about what they want and all they must wait to get. Meanwhile parents add numbers, running holiday wish lists against monthly budgets. And this soundtrack starts to play, first occasionally and then everywhere. Twinkling lights appear, and the narratives that draw us effortlessly shift. Our family’s tradition of holiday anxiety hearkens back in time to emotional memories on all our parts. But then something magic happens. A treetrimming get-together combines with a latke-filled Hannukah party. The mixture of treasured decorations, tinsel, and the hanging of those light strands which have lasted the winter lead to a positive result. Everyone ends up cuddled under whatever we’ve decided will pass for a tree this year, listening to Deano wobble-sing about marshmallow worlds. We take the sight of our neighborhood’s and town’s and region’s annual displays to heart, connecting with something that stretches back years. We see it through our kids’ eyes, and – hark -- even hear our own voices through their tender, holidayattuned ears. Holidays individually are about memories and hopes, about the thoughtfulness of giving and the childlike wishes for something a bit more. Collectively, as you’ll read in these pages, they’re about events, new and recurring, that draw the biggest crowds -- all local -- of the year. And they’re about finding gifts that match our love for home, from the edible to the collectible to the affordable (or digital), even including the quaffable. Holidays are about anticipation and release. Light those candles, hang those stockings. We enjoy a bit of time outside the usual calendar, as folks have since before the holidays got official start. Have fun!

Contributors for this issue of the Ulster Publishing Gift Guide include... • Andrew K. F. Amelinckx of Catskill, who writes about crime, food and art, but not necessarily at the same time. • Scott Baldinger, a freelance magazine and newspaper writer, editor, and blogger about the Hudson experience (Word on the Street at GoTo Hudson.net). • Erica Chase-Salerno, an energy healer and founder of HudsonValleyParents.com who writes about area activities for families in the Hudson Valley in her weekly Kids’ Almanac column in Ulster Publishing’s Almanac Weekly. • Dakota Lane, the author of four award-winning novels and freelances for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and Interview Magazine. • Paul Smart, who writes for a living, edits several publications, and is father to a soon-to-benine-year-old. • Violet Snow, who likes to write about ancestors, addictions, and aikido, her favorite martial art. • Robert Burke Warren, a musician who has been delighting children over the past decade as

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Rock and Rock Christmas Woodstock puts its roadshow talents to work each yuletide By Dakota Lane

anta has been coming to Woodstock for at least 86 years, according to forever resident, writer and historian Jean Gaede, who turns 90 this year. She first saw Santa when she was four or so. It was on a Christmas Eve outside the original Bearsville general store, now a small apartment building. A Woodstock character named Ned Thatcher dressed as Santa, arriving with a team of horses – “or something like that”

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— and handing out oranges to the children. No hoopla, no special arrival, no closed-off streets or crowds of hundreds. Santa moved his arrival point to the town center at least 70 years ago. The methods of arrival have gone from low-tech (on foot or horse and carriage) to otherworldly pyrotechnics, accompanied by wild soundtracks and dazzling effects. Santa’s arrived a different way almost every year: from camel to spaceship, giant candy cane to gingerbread house, by land as well as by air. The crowds have swelled from a dozen or so kids to at least a thousand people of all ages, and the booty has grown from a handful of oranges to stockings filled with gold coins, candy canes and fruit.

We talked with a bunch of folks who have come to Santa on the Green. It is not so much the crazy antics or far-out stories that stand out in people’s memories, or even who starred in the role of Santa. It’s the same little things that repeat, year after year. Everyone has their traditional spot to meet should there be a separation in the mad rush of Santa and stockings and greeting old friends, or should the teens drift away or the children wander. This tradition, formed from pre-cell phone necessity, could possibly stick forever. Years of holding one spot deepens a tradition, like holding your fort or putting down roots. It informs one’s entire perspective. Some folks pick a spot and stay there for so

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The crowds can seem overwhelming at times, and the means of getting one’s wee ones up to Santa’s sleigh for a free gift stocking nearly impossible, but by suppertime it’s all over and everyone’s back at home, or at each others’ homes, waiting out the long hours to Christmas morning. many decades that it becomes news when they move a tiny bit. “It changes everything,” said Mike Dougherty, who had been standing at the “Clouds corner” for a decade before moving recently to Taco Juan’s. Kerry Muldoon will be moving onto the Jean Turmo ramp because both her grown kids are working in that shop this year. Muldoon’s favorite times were when “Mr. and Mrs. Santa came out of the hippie bus,” and when “a very skinny Santa rappelled down a lighted rope out of a spaceship.” Muldoon lives within walking distance. It’s a family tradition for her to trek with friends up the hill to town. Her favorite thing is to watch the faces of children: “Whether I know them or not,

I love to watch the excitement when he arrives, their giggling and their innocence.” Some say the Santas have changed. Not so, according to town supervisor Jeremy Wilber. “The personalities have changed, the guys have changed, but Santa has maintained his form throughout,” he said. Even the town historians would rather not talk in terms of timelines and particulars. They prefer citing little fragments and flashes of joy. It’s all about the magic factor, that certain indefinable and rare experience of an entire community coming together on a not-so-ordinary town square. Wilber remembers the first Santas on a nononsense platform -- stairway up, get your stock-

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ing, and take the staircase down. The stocking itself was equally basic, in those days: “An apple — yecch — and orange — yecch! Fruit! And a few pieces of chocolate.” In order to get as much candy as possible, the young Wilber conspired with his best pal Gilles Malkine to go up the platform not once but several times. Gaede particularly enjoyed the years when the artist John Pike headed up a little jazz band of top-hatted musicians. The 1950s? The 1960s? It doesn’t matter. Each moment and flash of memory like a bright comet melting against the backdrop of the never-changing fact of a Woodstock Christmas, a Christmas where everyone is invited, there is always a gift, and Santa always arrives amid cheers. Many go back home to an eggnog party afterwards, and after-Santa routines run the gamut from getting Chinese food to go, hanging stockings, exchanging one gift each, blasting Christmas music to sun-up, or perhaps lighting a menorah candle. This year you can come early for the amazing carolers and band outside the Dutch Reformed Church, and perhaps do a little last-minute shopping or sample free treats at the many open houses. One-thousand-plus stockings are filled each year, and baskets of cheer are always sent to the sick and housebound. Even in the tightest of economies, Woodstock community members and tourists from as far as Europe and Japan have been generous in supporting this community event.

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A half-century of Santa memories on the Woodstock Village Green By Dakota Lane “These are the gifts to the child — the child? which child? — we don’t know, but the star will guide us to him ....” — Gian Carlo Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors

n the Sixties, when we first moved to Woodstock, I saw him, twinkling like a wizard, a Rinpoche or a Rebbe, enthroned and distant and bright as the star that lead the three kings on. The first taste of spiced cider, in crowds of humans I did not know, with music all around, and the night was frozen and smelled like chocolate and oranges. We knew what was waiting back home, and what would come the next day, and it all mixed in the moment, and Santa gave me a stocking and smiled with wise, kind eyes, and I was a real child. In the late Seventies, in leopard punk and newage stripes, with my best friend, with Paul Butterfield and Rick Danko winking, with John Ernst in his skivvies, with leather and fur and lace and flasks of whiskey and other things, excited about the night to come and not the morning after — I saw Santa again and I remembered what it had been like to be a real child, and the drummer-boy song made my heart thump. In the Eighties, I brought my babies bundled up and stood outside Taco Juan’s with other mothers and friends on every side, every face in that crowd that night a friend, and the sense of never alone again, and in it all together. We had shared so many moments rich and small, tragic and manic and mourning and normal as a community all year, and in this time we were all united with a kind of spellbound presence that lasted for hours. I did not raise my camera once. I wanted to see my children’s faces and the faces of my friends without a lens. The whole night was naked and alive, lived and not captured. Beneath the wide night sky we were all real beings. In the Nineties, we lived on the balcony apartment above the Green, and had an after-party planned. We walked downstairs. There was no snow, but then it began, first light and then classic gentle flakes, sticking. Santa arrived, midst medieval music and ancient-looking elves, on a camel, and I missed my mother, who had played Amahl and the Night Visitors, and explained that the skinny, bearded king on the album cover was

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guided by a star and would bring such magical gifts to a special child. I knew then that just like me and all the other moms who had made magic on Christmas and made it all happen, I knew what every mother who brings even one gift really wanted, or one magic thing: that miracles happen. The camel left hoofprints in the snow that looked like flocks of angels. There were of course times like these, and even on Christmas times not like these. You have to spend years before the day comes when you look back and it becomes evident what was most invisible was yet most real. And now I write these memories a week before Thanksgiving in my youngest daughter’s cozy

home in Massachusetts. She has flowers in my room just as I used to leave for her. Her husband is cooking a soup that smells like home, and there are books on the shelves that I once read to her. What is entirely new is Henry! Such unsurpassable joy it is to see your daughter become a mom, and gaze at this little flower with such love and such tenderness. Henry! Now my daughter’s husband is rocking him, singing him silly songs. Henry! This tiny gift with enormous dark eyes, he smiles in his sleep, and has large and magnificent hands. Wrapped and warm, he is passed to me. They know you, more than one grandmother has told me — and it does seem true. I could hold him for hours, whispering in baby language, in awe — and yes, in shock! I am a real grandmother. Because, dearest Santa, you trickster, you magician, there is not just one gift this year! I haven’t yet seen my oldest daughter’s new place, but soon I will be there. Just before Christmas I will be with another mommy who is dear to me, nurturing her new little one. Roman! Another dad singing tender lullabies, another dog wagging his tail, with that tender look dogs get around babies. I can feel the sunshine in their home. Roman! I already love you, and can’t wait to hold you near, little one! I join the ranks of billions of grandmothers, humbled and grateful, forever changed. I know all of my life has been a gift. Dear Santa. For half a century, how have you always known? How have you given so much more, whether I have been good or bad? One day we will all return and see you on the Village Green in Woodstock! How will you arrive? I do not know, but in the air and everywhere we may all feel the love that is real. This year I’ll leave you a note with a plate of cookies, offering just two words: Thank you!

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Hudson’s Winter Walk draws from all sides of town Camp and magic up and down Warren Street By Scott Baldinger

magine a giant but softly invigorating snowball tossed high into the sky and then landing gently in the bustling and extensive Main Street of a now renowned Columbia County municipality, and you get an idea of what Hudson’s Winter Walk, held every December for 18 years, feels like. To get a further sense of the total effect of the event, imagine a nearly mile-long stretch of historic buildings closed off to all motor traffic, lit from head to toe in white decorative lighting, and occupied by some of the most sophisticated and stylish independent retail businesses in the state, most of whom are participating in their own creative ways during the three-hour festival event. On most occasions I will share Friedrich Nietzsche’s predisposition against what he called the

“big country boom-boom” affair. But Winter Walk is an exception. A combination of the culturally sophisticated and the ingenuously childlike, it is no doubt Hudson’s favorite and most eagerly attended outdoor celebration, attracting thousands of pedestrians from far and wide and all walks of life, children and adults alike, hicks and swells, liberated on to the entirety of Warren Street to experience the various performances, food, and humorously costumed characters sprinkled every few feet — not to mention the increasingly glam-

orous, dolled-up town itself. Winter Walk, which takes place December 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. has been sponsored since its start by the Hudson Opera House. The event is not just a fun distraction. It’s s a thrilling testament to the Hudson experience, that magical blend of the quaint, the dishabille, and the grandly urbane. There’s usually a mad dash by the town’s store owners to decorate their windows for the event after the Thanksgiving holiday. Previous years’ standouts, which get awards every year

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What makes Winter Walk such a treat is the way it draws all elements of a diverse town out no matter how foul the weather gets. Everyone’s relaxed and open to whatever comes, be it a Santa couple stepping out from a dark doorway to a pack of drummers taking a break to paint passersby’s portraits. for best window displays, have included Arenskjold Antiques (Best Vignette of Venus in a Birch Grove), the now sorrowfully defunct Historical Materialism (Best Hanukah Window), and Skalar (Best Mid Century Modern Window).

Many of the windows come to life with live performances. This year’s will include ballroom dancing by Guy Apicella and Debora Moran at Olde Hudson (421 Warren); Liz Beals as the Can Can Girl at DeMarchin clothing store (620 Warren); and Vanessa Bear & The Hoopettes twirling all evening at Sorted (357 Warren), a usually sparsely furnished graphic-design business . Hip-hop and other dancers and companies will be upstairs at the opera house itself, featuring among others Elena Mosley of the nonprofit Operation Unite with Anthony Molina and Latin dance with Carlos Osorio. Flamenco guitarist and composer Maria Zemantauski will be playing at Hudson’s department store-like home furnishings complex, Lili and Loo (259 Warren). Al fresco, or shall we say al freezing, there will be live music in every nook and cranny, from the

caroling group Holly Andy Ivy to jazz to classical to harp and banjo, among them Sax-o-Clause and the percussion ensemble of Diata Diata International Folkloric Theater at the corner of Fifth and Warren. Street performers will include a mix of the usual suspects to more avant-garde fare, such as Tots the Clown, The Incredible Larry, Cirkus Theatricks, Roger the Jester, and the Bard College Surrealist Circus. There will also be accustomed and unaccustomed costumed characters, including Frosty the Snowman, the Gingerbread Man, the Ice Queen, the Walking Grandfather Clock, and JUMP! Frogs, as well as nonhuman participants such as live reindeer and miniature horses (courtesy of the BCB Gallery at 116 Warren) and live alpacas from Spruce Ridge Farm, which now has a pop-up shop of alpaca winter wear at 555 Warren Street. Even with all its rural elements, Winter Walk is a celebration of the urban experience, opening up Hudson’s main thoroughfare for people to ogle the remarkable assortment of historic architecture of a dense collection of buildings that span the American architectural heritage of the last 200 years -- and all without dodging the combustion engine. Happenings like these, minus the rural aspect, were begun, most famously, by New York City’s liberal 1960s mayor John Lindsay, who closed off Madison Avenue for a whole day as a tribute to environmental concerns and the belief that the automobile was essentially antithetical to city life. The progressive leaning of the newcomers to Hudson, who have moved here from all around the world and are responsible for its miraculous and widely covered resurgence, has made some form of participation in the event almost de rigueur. (Antique store owners tend to be more reluctant, fearful that their exquisite and often costly wares will be covered with crumbs from the multitudes chomping on wintry treats and accidentally bumping into — or god forbid, sitting on! -- their multithousand-dollar home furnishings. ) Other stores are participating in the wintry comestibles with gusto: As you stroll down Hudson’s west end, there will be an Eggnog Challenge sponsored by the businesses below Third Street, which this year offers ten different variations of eggnog created by restaurant chefs, neighborhood organizations, and art galleries. Chili, hot soup and hot chocolate will be available from various vendors up and down Warren Street, and you’ll be able to enjoy a sit-down meal in one of Hudson’s growing list of acclaimed restaurants. Just around the corner from the opera house is one of Hudson’s newest food stores, Talbott & Arding at 323 Warren Street. In addition to this being their grand opening weekend, they will also provide sampling cheese and selling hot soup and hand pies. A sore point in previous years has been the ramshackle assortment of buildings that made up what was called Santa’s Village, located towards the top of Warren Street in the still rather downat-the-heels Seventh Street Park, whose restoration plans have been the focus of heated debate. In previous years Santa’s Village could only inspire pity for the leading man and his numerous elves and helpers, who certainly deserved better accommodations for their good works. This year, however, Santa’s Village promises to be “transformed.” Each building has been given a makeover by some of Hudson’s most talented artists and designers, with donations from many of Hudson’s antique stores.

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Sinterklaas will save us Reimagined Dutch festival in Rhinebeck on December 6 By Robert Burke Warren

hen my wife Holly and I went with our son Jack to our first Sinterklaas in Rhinebeck a couple of years ago we parked a few blocks from the town center and walked into a waking dreamscape, wishing we’d started coming when Red Hook-based celebration artist Jeanne Fleming, the mastermind behind New York City’s annual Halloween parade, rebooted it in 2008. We thrilled at the extravagantly costumed actors, supersize puppets, dancing children, music from around the world, jugglers, drummers, magicians, hot chocolate, and the convivial crowd, many carrying illuminated stars, that joyfully welcomed us into the fray. It was like Mardi Gras, minus the alcohol and sense of danger, but still shadowy enough to keep it interesting and resonant. Almost immediately, a teenager pushed through the happy chaos and approached our son. “Hey!” said the apple-cheeked kid to Jack, “want to be in the parade?” If this exchange had happened in Manhattan, where we lived until Jack was four, we would have said no. But that brisk night in Rhinebeck was suffused with a feeling of community, of safetyamong-strangers so rare we almost didn’t recognize it. After a few moments’ consideration we said yes, and our son disappeared into the festivity. A couple of hours later, after the parade wound down, Jack came back to us exhilarated, laughing with a friend who’d also been drafted into the retinue. They’d been given “sacred-cow” costumes and had marched along, mooing madly, helping to transport spectators to a realm that had nothing to do with the Internet, the media, commerce, or the accepted version of Christmas. Instead, with Jeanne Fleming at the helm, the Sinterklaas participants had reached back to an old Dutch tradition that predates shopping malls by several centuries; more mischievous, less fraught with consumption anxiety, and, apparently, deeply effective as a means of bringing all ages together to connect in real time, when the nights are long and cold and the glow of electricity isn’t enough to illuminate the collective spirit. In the ensuing years, more and more folks have come to Sinterklaas – pronounced Sinter Clowse, as in rhymes with blouse. That pronunciation is important to Jeanne Fleming, as it helps set the event apart from all things Santa. “We really spend a lot of time distinguishing Sinterklaas from Santa Claus,” she says from her home and shop in Red Hook, the hurlyburly of preparation in the background. “This has nothing to do with commercialism. We tell a

story. And everyone is part of the story. There are no passive observers.”

The story of the story Dutch settlers brought the Catholic Sinterklaas rites to New Amsterdam 300 years ago. Fleming, seeking to honor the Dutch heritage of the region,

originally revamped and revived it in the 1980s (it was on hiatus from 1988 until 2008). It’s a juicy tale. Sinterklaas, or St. Nicholas, was a real person, an orphaned,wealthy Greek bishop in fourth- century Asia Minor (now Turkey). According to DNA analysis of his relics, he was five feet tall, had a broken nose, and dark skin. His-

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tory says he was very generous, loved children, and put gifts – usually coins – in their shoes while they slept. By the eleventh century, his legend had spread and he’d become the patron saint of children, unwed maidens and sailors. Of course, folklore associated with him, is, as ever, more powerful than historic truth, and endlessly malleable. In the Netherlands today, the story of St. Nicholas ostensibly serves to focus a community’s attention on children and on charity for one day a year: St. Nicholas’ Day, December 6. But over centuries, traditions evolved, expanding the story, adding shade and mythic overtones. On the night of December 5, St. Nicholas travels on a white horse through town, depositing gifts in good children’s shoes. Bad children receive only birch switches from Sinterklaas’ Moorish companion/servant, Black Peter. Exceptionally “challenging” kids are warned they’ll be kidnapped by Black Peter and taken away in a burlap sack to Spain, where Sinterklaas and Black Peter spend the off-season. (It’s actually no less bizarre than the Santa story, when you think about it.) The Sinterklaas tale has many variations throughout Europe, often with grisly and/or fascinating aspects, such as St. Nicholas resurrecting three children from an evil man who has cut them up to sell as ham during a famine (Nicholas’ people did, in fact, experience a famine during his lifetime). Then there’s Nicholas helping impoverished girls with no dowry to marry by anonymously leaving sacks of money for them overnight, in some versions dropping bags of coins down the chimney (thus his canonization as saint of unwed maidens). Another tale has Nicholas convincing soldiers to unload a portion of wheat from a ship destined for emperor Constantine and distribute it to his famine-stricken parish, and when the soldiers return to their ship, the weight of the wheat Antiques & Vintage Paintings, Wood Turnings, Jewelry, Vintage Clothing, Glassware, China, Books, Crafts, Gifts & more!

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Santa may be the man for many kids and grandparents this time of year, but as Sinterklaas in the big festival of the same name in Rhinebeck, he’s just part of a much larger parade where magical pageantry is what’s celebrated. is the same (so they don’t get in trouble).

The Grumpuses are added When Fleming brought the Sinterklaas story to Rhinebeck, she knew she needed to tweak it while still honoring the Dutch version. The Black Peter stuff, naturally, would not fly. Still, St. Nicholas needed a companion, an opposite. So Fleming drew from Alpine folklore, in which St. Nicholas travels with a half-beast, half-man, cloven-hoofed trickster called the Krampus, shadow to St. Nick’s light, bringer of birch switches to rascally kids, and warnings about the perils of not being good throughout the year. But Fleming eliminated the punitive aspects, and filled the sidekick role with several halfman, half-beasts called the Grumpuses. Fleming always casts Rhinebeck town officials as the Grumpuses, and over the years these have

acquired personalities and increasingly detailed costumes. “They must be over age 50!” she says, citing the importance of including elders in the festivities. Officials of every political stripe now clamor to be a Grumpus in the Children’s Starlight Parade. As Sinterklass rides aloft on his steed, with golden staff and high peaked bishop cap, the Grumpuses tromp alongside him, dancing among giant puppets, interacting with passersby, and handing out candy. To parents who still complain about the Grumpuses frightening their kids, Fleming points out that for millennia kids have learned how to interact with ugly and fearsome things in a ritual setting, or via storytelling, as opposed to on a screen, which has somehow become acceptable. “Part of learning to deal with darkness,” she says, “is to confront it in an exchange. With the Internet,

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New this year â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m bringing in Bulgarian elements,â&#x20AC;? Fleming says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have Kukeri, who chase away negative energy. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll confront the Grumpuses.â&#x20AC;? Traditionally, the half-human, half-animal Kukeri also encourage fecundity of the harvest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a musician walking with a polar bear,â&#x20AC;? Fleming adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When children sing to the bear, he dances like a ballerina. But they must sing. They have to do something.â&#x20AC;? Fleming hopes this will teach kids the power of art to change the world. Every year, the Sinterklaas parade features an honored animal, and this year itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the humming-

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rom about a decade after I’d moved to Kingston and was raising my son, celebrating the holiday season meant visiting Manhattan: the tree at Rockefeller Center, and the elaborate window displays at Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Tiffany’s. I’m afraid my Christmas associations with Kingston did not go beyond the large illuminated snowflakes hung along Broadway, their forlorn evergreen hung with lights at the corner of Henry and Broadway,

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ingston’s manufacturing tradition has made a comeback with the establishment of several successful small-scale businesses. One has never left: Michael’s Candy Corner has been churning out thousands of candy canes every holiday season since 1917. In fact, the facility, at the corner of Broadway and St. James, produces a quarter of a million hand-made candy canes each year, distributed to stores and individuals all over the U.S. as well as in Europe. On a recent morning, owner Michael Briglia and his two brothers and nephew were hard at work. Karl Briglia shaped a 66-pound lump of white candy-cane mix adorned with a thick strip of cherry red over an enormous cone-shaped hickory roller, which was heated by a gas-lit fire and revolved by means of a series of leather straps and pulleys. The batch roller has been in operation since the company’s founding. It took muscle to shape the tip of the candycan mix into a rope, which was then snipped and passed off to Frank Briglia, who shaped one end around a small wooden wheel, weighed it, and scooted the cane down the counter to 24-year-old Justin Briglia, who in turn placed it in a plastic tray and measured it. ”Quit winding so tight — you’ve got way too many spirals,” yelled Michael to his brothers, training an eagle eye over the proceedings. “If we don’t keep up the quality we’d be like the garbage stores” that mass-produce candy canes by the mil-

lions, he later explained. Michael’s Candy Corner, which also makes chocolates and other hard candy, sells three sizes of candy canes — eight, 14 and 22 inches — directly from the store. When it comes to buying local, Kingston residents and visitors have many options besides candy canes. Two local crafter fairs, on the heels of the popular Hullabaloo in late November, are following up in showcasing and offering for sale a variety of quality wares made by local artisans. The Cornell Street Studios’ fourth annual holiday craft fair will be held December 5 from 5 to 10 p.m. and will feature live music by Lara Hope and the Arktones, a vintage couture show, a photo booth, and an assortment of handmade knitted and leather items, jewelry, prints, and artwork by more than 30 vendors. “Midtown is in the heart of the city, and there’s some cool things happening here. We’re collaborating and spreading the word,” said Renee Darmstadt, organizer of the fair and the many other activities at the facility at 168 Cornell Street. The fair will kick off a weekend of Midtown cultural events, with art openings the next evening, December 6, at R&F Handmade Paints, Artbar, Seven 21 Media Center (featuring the illustrations of John Vogt) and Tony’s Pizzeria. The artists’ lofts in the Shirt Factory on Cornell Street will be open to visitors in the afternoon and early evening. (Other galleries around town, including KMOCA, The Storefront Gallery, the Arts Society of Kingston, and Donskoj Gallery in Rondout, will also host opening receptions.).

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know each time the holidays roll around that much more than gift list letters and endless parties are on my kid’s mind. He tends to shut his eyes, just as I do, and imagine tableaux which, when first seen, seared themselves on his brain. They have since gotten wrapped up in the warm glow that these short days and long nights of lighted pageantry may all be about. A scene in David Lynch’s Elephant Man captures it all. John Merrick, played beautifully by John Hurt, is taken to the theater for the first time. On stage is a trifle of twee, all dancing animals, sparkling lights and twiddling music. It comes across as pure magic. I remember every piece of holiday theater that I ever saw as a child, from puppet shows to pantomimes in the revived British music halls of the 1960s. And I bring them all back this time of year with an annual gorging I’ve been indulging in since before my kid Milo could walk. A few of the big spectaculars, such as the Radio City Rockettes and Julie Taymor’s Magic Flute for kiddies at The Met, were one-time-only events, given the expense. We also saw the holiday-lights show at Niagara Falls, Ontario, and the big to-dos in Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Miami, London, Merida and Paris over the years. They never dominated our dreams, however, but provided active memories of the season the way our theatrical chestnuts right here in the Hudson Valley continue to do. Taken in order of attendance, we’re talking about our indulging first the Ghent Playhouse’s Pantaloons productions, which start right after Thanksgiving, along with the new production of Babes In Toyland we’re hoping will become a tradition at the Woodstock Playhouse. This weekend brings Vanaver Caravan’s delightfully diverse and globally aware Into The Light, the Wawarsing Wassail and Rhinebeck’s and Kingston’s Sinterklaas extravaganzas, along with Ulster Ballet’s perennial dance production of A Christmas Carol, packing out UPAC all weekend. Then come The Nutcrackers, with New Paltz Ballet bringing in New York City ballet ringers to The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie and The Catskill Ballet doing its 30th year of the grand show at UPAC over the weekend of the 13th and 14th, followed by more troupes of giant mice and wee dancing gumdrops landing at Albany’s The Egg, Schenectady’s Proctor Theater, and elsewhere around the region. Enough? Right! We also love the annual gettogether that ends the day of Santa train rides and caroling at Phoenicia’s Shandaken Theatrical Society (and are looking forward to their pro-

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Christmas holiday back to the hit popularity of old Ebenezer Scrooge’s big turnaround. The Nutcracker didn’t become a staple of smallcity performance venues until the 1960s. It started really gaining favor in the late 1970s, and reached many places only in the mid-1980s, when versions started appearing in the Hudson Valley.

es, these big productions, annual and occasional, can seem overwhelming, an experience analogous to getting stuffed into and then shot out of some oversized, candy-scented confetti cannon. My wife, used to Hanukah traditions from the quieter Midwest, gets to about half such events as I do. She tends to pop in and out of the endless swirl of Xmas “gold” on television with alternating seasonal smiles and rolled eyes. She’s right. How many times can one watch puppet versions of Santa and Rudolph, or smutmouthed Santa memories punctuated by accidental fire and nefarious robberies? One inevitably returns to the emotional underpinnings behind all big holidays. They’re about enriched memory, a means of accessing what Dickens was after -- the lessons of Christmases past, present and future, and the ways we access inner morality through sentiment. As captured in The Nutcracker’s folkish narrative, we use memories of childhood to filter the elements of beauty and play we experience throughout our lives. Some of us need the buffoonery and softly satirical look that’s inherent in the fun we find each year at the Ghent Playhouse’s Pantaloons, or the newly popular David Sedaris holiday material. We also need the quiet of traditional Boxing Days, when one tries out the presents, goes for long walks, and boxes up piles of things for disposal in the new year. “Simply mahvelous,” was how John Merrick, the sweet-voiced and exquisitely mannered Elephant Man summarized what he had seen through his horrid lot in life. Once a year, the baubles that define the inner audience in all of us are sufficient to shift the tenor of our lives. Simply marvelous.

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Local children’s books Honeyky Hanukah beautifully blends the celebratory lyrics of Woody Guthrie’s Honeyky Hanukah song with cheerful images by Hudson Valley author and illustrator Dave Horowitz, plus a special CD by the Klezmatics. Kindle, $9.78; book, $14.21. http://www.horowitzdave.com Jingle Bells playfully riffs off of the lyrics to the popular holiday song coupled with friendly and colorful illustrations that reflect Christmas traditions in Mexico, Philippines, Italy, Sweden, Kenya, the United States, and Poland, which is also Hudson Valley author and illustrator Iza Trapani’s homeland. $7.95. http://www.izatrapani.com

Local toy stores Enchanted Toys on 15 North Front Street in New Paltz is designed for children from birth to age 8, according to owner Dave Tate. After buying a Classic Drinking Bird, I maintain that his shop holds a wider appeal. The Bees Knees at 302 Warren Street in Hudson features natural baby accessories and children’s items. Echo Beacon Women’s Boutique and Toy Store at 470 Main in Beacon is like two shops in one, with dedicated sections for unique women’s clothing and for classic children’s toys. Play at 167 Main Street in Beacon is filled with mirth and amusements for all ages. Tinker Toys at 5 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock offers a wide selection of artistic and unusual toys you won’t see anywhere else. Another fantastic source for special presents is any historic-site gift shop, such as Olana’s.

Toys and board games Minecraft Lego Sets ($19.99-$109.99) are on lots of wish lists this year, including Owen’s, 8, from Clintondale. Monopoly Empire ($19.99) is a revamped approach to the classic, and a favorite game of Noah, 10, also in Clintondale. Rosalynde in LaGrange, 13, enjoys playing the whodunit game Clue ($12.99), making creative word associations in Apples to Apples ($14.99), and performing silly stunts in Quelf ($24.99). My son is hooked on the strategic empire-building game, Settlers of Catan ($42), My daughter loves to bring Story Cubes ($9.99) to play during down time when we go out to a restaurant. Merrylea in LaGrange, 17, can be found playing Scrabble and Sudoku.

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Local volunteer work Helping others can be the greatest gift. For example, I heard that Orla, 14, from Staatsburg is hoping for a Siamese kitten this year. Volunteering to care for the cats at Mid Hudson Animal Aid Essie Dabrusin Cat Sanctuary in Beacon might be the next best thing. http://www.midhudsonanimalaid.org Perhaps your crew would like to volunteer at The Lunchbox soup kitchen in Poughkeepsie? http://www.dutchessoutreach.org Or do some vacuuming or food pantry sorting at People’s Place in Kingston? http://www.peoplesplacekingston.org Charitable organizations get overwhelming levels of available, new, and un-

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Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workshop gone digital? Etsy combines the local and online worlds By Violet Snow

hen buying holiday gifts, I like to support my community by patronizing local businesses, which face a sparse clientele for the rest of the winter. Sometimes the convenience of shopping online is tempting. Luckily, we can combine convenience and buying local by visiting the online shops of upstate artists and artisans on Etsy.com. With over a million shops, 40 million shoppers, and $1.35 billion in sales last year, Etsy gives the makers of handmade items a low-cost way to sell their unique products. The site claims to support local economies by providing jobs for makers, who in turn are (hopefully) sourcing their materials from other local businesses, while offering consumers access to â&#x20AC;&#x153;personal, meaningful goods.â&#x20AC;? Headquartered in Brooklyn, Etsy has a middlemanagement office in Hudson. While some Etsy sellers have built successful small businesses through the site, others have found it less helpful. There have been complaints about competition from mass-produced products presented as handmade. Meg Oliver and Lucie Piedra have built an entire business through Etsy. Oliver, a functional potter, and Piedra, a sculptor, met in the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residency program at the Byrdcliffe arts colony in 2000 and have stayed friends. In 2011, they decided to work together and try to make a living from their art. They sell porcelain objects for home and garden, including bird houses, planters, mugs, vases and pet urns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We collaborate on every piece when we design it,â&#x20AC;? said Oliver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then we mold and slipcast it, so we can make multiples. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still handmade.â&#x20AC;? They started out selling only on Etsy as LandMStudio, caught the attention of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marketing people, and were featured on the home page. This year, Etsy launched a wholesale initiative, promoting some of its sellers to the wholesale market. Oliver and Piedra were chosen to represent the site at the wholesale day of an American Craft Council Show in Baltimore.

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Now they are moving increasingly into production for retailers, but they also sell at local shops such a Tender Land Home in Phoenicia and Empty Spaces in Woodstock, as well as attending events such as the Basilica farm and flea craft fair in Hudson. They work out of a storefront in Catskill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re happy with the choice to collaborate and make stuff together,â&#x20AC;? said Oliver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freeing in some ways, being our own bosses.â&#x20AC;? For Boiceville artist Margaret Owen, Etsy has not been much help. She already had an established business selling hand-painted silk scarves when she opened her online shop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to promote yourself constantly,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good place to buy stuff, but otherwise I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had much luck. There are just too many sellers on it.â&#x20AC;? With her scarves and printed t-shirts selling at Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia and at craft shows around the Northeast, Owen says he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time to put into her Etsy shop, OwenArts. The site has to be updated with photos and descriptions of products. Getting noticed among the crowd takes considerable effort, she adds

live-based writer Jana Martin agrees that promotion takes work, but she enjoys cross-promoting her Etsy vintage clothing shop, LuncheonetteVintage, with other shop owners through Pinterest.com. The photo-based social media site allows users to â&#x20AC;&#x153;pinâ&#x20AC;? photos they like on their virtual bulletin boards. Martin pins her friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Etsy products, and they pin her carefully selected antique dresses, handbags, jewelry, prints and other items. She has joined an Etsy collective of sellers who make treasuries of each othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work on the site, increasing mutual exposure. Oliver also joined an onsite promotion collective when she started out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It ended up taking up all of our time,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve stopped doing that. I think it helped in the beginning to get people to find us. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of stuff on there, and a lot of crap.â&#x20AC;? Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pet peeve is the mass-produced items that have sneaked onto Etsy. She cautions buyers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not buying Chinese and factory reproductions. You can find anything on Etsy, but if you think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mass-produced it could be. Those chevron-patterned iPad covers are probably not handmade.â&#x20AC;? Oliver, however, is not worried about the factory-made competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so different from that kind of stuff that we fill a different part of the market. Etsy changed things, so if you search for ceramic mugs youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a lot of industry mugs where people have written on it and fired it, so they can call it handmade. Sometimes it takes a while to find a mug thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually physically handmade.â&#x20AC;?

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Local, lovely and delicious

Recent years have seen a return to ﬁne distilling in the Hudson Valley, from Dutch’s Spirits in Dutchess County to Tuthilltown in Gardiner. Next up, a renaissance in hard ciders and more on the brewing fronts.

Sometimes you just have to let the taste buds lead By Andrew K. F. Amelinckx

he Hudson Valley is blessed with an abundance of farm-fresh and locally made products of the edible variety. Instead of buying the latest trendy electronic gadget or a Chinese-made item from a chain store this holiday season, consider bucking the trend and getting that special person a gift that will end up warming their belly rather than cluttering their closet. From award-winning beer to locally-made cheese to lip-licking chocolate, Greene, Columbia, Dutchess and Ulster counties have a cornucopia of gifts for your foodie friends. Whether it’s a host or hostess gift or something for your spouse who already seemingly has it all, these producers have you covered. Just be sure to find out if your intended recipient has any food allergies or restrictions. There’s no need to go far afield to find that perfect gift for the hardest to shop for. And as an added bonus, you will be helping to keep your money in the local economy, which in the end benefits you and your neighbors. What follows is but a taste of what’s available.

Greene County If you’re tired of bringing ho-hum wine to holiday parties this season, check out Crossroads Brewery and spice things up with a host or hostess gift with some carbonation. Located in Athens, this award-winning brewery and restaurant produces a variety of delicious beers that come in classy glass growlers. Head there for a meal that includes seasonal vegetables and meat from local

Can one ever have too much chocolate? Apparently not in the Hudson Valley, where Lucky’s spicy confections have become the standard and newer brands such as Fruition the tasty upstarts. farms and pick up some beer for a friend and a growler for yourself. Along the border of Greene and Albany counties lies Preston Hollow, home of Heather Ridge Farm. From lemon honey to artisan sausage, they have enough food-related gifts to satisfy any appetite. You can find their products at local stores, but if you decide to go to the farm store to make your purchases, be sure to make time to have lunch at the Bees Knees Cafe, also located at the farm. For your loved ones with a sweet tooth, Partridge Sugar House in Ashland has an all-natural way to satisfy them with their maple products, including cream and candy. You can head to the

farm or buy their products online. They have a variety of ready-to-go gift sets that look as good as they taste. If you are short on time and foodie gift ideas, you can do one-stop shopping at the Catskill Country Store on Main Street in the village of Catskill. “You can get all the local delicacies in one place,” said Carol Wilkinson, who co-owns the store with her husband, Chuck Solberg. The store carries everything from jams to chocolate to maple candy, all made by local artisans. Wilkinson says a big seller is Catskill Comfort Maple Syrup, made by Catskill Mountain Sugarhouse. It comes in a glass bottle that has more than a passing resemblance to a

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Heather Ridge Farm is locavore at its best, situated on a remote mountaintop with views of four counties and everything on sale, from honey to fresh-spun wool and all in-between, made right there on the land. pint bottle of whiskey. “Much merriment comes with this maple syrup,” Wilkinson promised. After your visit to the store, take a quick stroll down Main Street for a variety of shops that carry local products of the non-edible sort.

Dutchess County In recent years, Dutchess County has seen a number of high-end distilleries popping up, among them Dutch’s Spirits in Pine Plains. If you have a person on your holiday gift list who loves great spirits, along with a great backstory, then Dutch’s is the one for them. In 2010, the foundation for a sprawling clandestine distillery financed by the iconic gangster Dutch Schultz was discovered on a farm in Pine Plains. Today, the owners of the company are in the process of rebuilding the distillery on the original footprint. They are currently producing a sugar-wash moonshine and a pear brandy along with several types of bitters available in many liquor stores in the Hudson Valley and beyond. For the adventurous and crafty folks on your holiday list they even have bitter-making kits. Harney & Sons Teas in Millerton started life 30 years ago in the basement of John Harney and has now grown into a global operation. The company sells a profusion of tea blends to satisfy the hardest to please on your list. They also carry several gift sets to choose from. Head to their shop or order online. Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie bills itself as a multidimensional entity: a working farm, educational center, summer camp and farm market. The farm market makea a number of delicious cheeses that can be purchased there or online. Make your own gift basket or let them do the work. All you’ll have to do is take the credit for being a good gift-giver. McEnroe’s Organic Farm in Millerton produces organic fruits and vegetables, and also takes those staples and turns them into delicious jams and jellies (not to mention baked goods). These products are available at the farm market, which also sells a variety of other products by local producers so you don’t have to travel anywhere else to put together a nice food-related holiday gift.

Columbia County Columbia County is rife with food and beverage gifts for your choosing. On the high-end liquor front there is Harvest Spirits. Born out of a near disaster after a hail storm damaged one year’s apple crop at Golden Harvest Farms in Valatie, Derek Grout, the owner’s son, made lemons from lemonade, in a manner of speaking, with stunning results. From their mainstay, Core Vodka (with several fruit-flavored varieties), to applejack to pear brandy, the imbiber in your life will appreciate these gifts. Their products are available at a number of liquor stores in the area, or take the trip to the farm to buy the booze and enjoy a tasting at the distillery. While there go ahead and pick-up a homemade pie or other treat from the attached farm store. Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, a sheepfarm and cheese-making company in Old Chatham, produces a variety of cheese products. You could create your own gift basket from their offerings or order one from the company. They

Left, maple syrup is an old Catskills tradition, and always a great holiday gift idea; right, a few years ago everyone was trading their locally roasted coffee beans. Now it seems that Millerton’s Harney & Sons Teas is starting up its own regional trend. have two holiday gift packages -- the deluxe version comes with a slate serving board -- that leave Hickory Farms in the dust. Their mouth-watering Hudson Valley camembert is always a big hit at parties, but you’re probably going to want one for yourself as well. You can purchase these products online or at a variety of local shops, or stop by the farm to make your purchases and take a gander at the sheep who helped produce them. Otto’s Market in Germantown is a one-stop shopping spot for foodies that carries a variety of local products from a cooler-full of local beers, including several from Chatham Brewing, located in the other end of the county. “You can definitely make a local [products] gift bag with beer, cheese, honey, pasta and cookies,” said Otto Leuschel, the store’s owner. For all those holiday parties just over the horizon, Leuschel recommends the house-made Chex Mix that combines homemade flavor without the hassle of doing it yourself. “It’s sells very well,” he said. “You can get Chex Mix in a bag, but it’s just not the same as our housemade.” While there, stay and enjoy a sandwich and fresh sides from their deli then head across the street to Leuschel’s other store, Germantown Variety, where you can pick up everything from holiday cards, some produced in the nearby Berkshires of Massachusetts, to kitchen gadgets that are all American-made.

Ulster County Tuthilltown Spirits, the first of the new wave of New York whiskey distilleries, is also one of the best. Based in Gardiner, the company produces

excellent bourbons, malt, rye and corn whiskeys, as well as gin and bitters. Their products are as nice to look at as they are to imbibe and make great gifts. Make that whiskey aficionado on your list doubly happy and take them on a tour and tasting at Tuthilltown’s facility. No visit to the super-cute town of Saugerties is complete without a stop at Lucky Chocolate, where you can handpick that gift for the chocoholic on your list. If you happen to have a dog-lover you’re shopping for, pick up the ultra-adorable French bulldog chocolate that is five inches tall and hand decorated. Be sure to get a freshly-made snack, sample the myriad chocolates and have a steaming cup of cocoa while you shop. Their chocolates can also be purchased online. If you have a green-thumbed giftee who lives too far away for a perishable gift, check out the Hudson Valley Seed Library in Accord and pick out a variety of heirloom seeds so they can grow their own organic fruits and vegetables. The organization has a number of gift baskets that come in cute ceramic berry containers or fiber seed starting trays that can be purchased through their website. Fleisher’s Pasture-Raised Meats in Kingston is a mecca for carnivorous foodies. More than just a meat market, Fleisher’s carries a variety of food items from local producers. While you’re there, pick up a meaty present for your four-legged friend. If you have someone in your life who wants to learn more about making sausage, sharpening their knife skills and other butcher-related activities, you can sign them up for a class at Fleisher’s. The next one in Kingston begins in March.

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Holiday Calendar The First Week (12/3 thru 12/9) All weekend long Christmas aboard the Polar Express! Catskill Mountain RR, Westbrook Lane Station, Kingston, off-peak: Adult $34, Children (ages 2-11) $27. Peak: Adult $43, Children (ages 2-11) $33. 866-4687630, 688-7400, www.ticketweb.com/dowt. Friday through Sunday, Sesame Street Live “Make a New Friend.” Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie, $22, $16. 454-5800. Friday through Sunday, A Christmas Carol. Presented by Ulster Ballet at Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $22, $18 /senior, $15 /12 & under, www.bardavon.org or 3396088. Friday through Sunday, Half Moon Theatre Presents: It’s a Wonderful Life: the 1946 Radio Play. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Theatre, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park, $45, $35, www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800-838-3006., Friday through Sunday, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 New York 308, Rhinebeck, $24, $22, www.centerforperformingarts.com or 876-3080. Saturday and Sunday 10AM-2PM Holiday Forest farmers’ market and open house. Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 NYS Route 23, Acra. 518-622-9820 Saturday and Sunday 11AM-4PM Annual holiday market. Bethel Woods, Market Sheds, Bethel. www.bethelwoodscenter.org Wednesday at 8PM Bard College Symphonic Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Baroque Ensemble. Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson, $5, www.bard.edu or 758-7900.

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Friday at 5-8PM Annual Snowflake Parade and Festival. Special performances, horse and buggy rides and holiday treats from 5 pm to 8 pm. Dietz Stadium, Kingston, www.kingstonuptown.org.. Friday at 6-8:30PM Christmas tree lighting and caroling at the Christmas Fair, Reformed Church of New Paltz, Huguenot St, New Paltz. Friday at 6:30PM 21st Annual Celebration of Lights parade and fireworks. Main St., Poughkeepsie.: www.bardavon.org or 473-2072. Friday at 7:30PM Winter choral and guitar concert. Featuring the College Chorus and Vocal and Guitar ensembles, SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge, free, www.sunyulster.edu. Friday at 8PM The Wailers will perform the Legend album in its entirety. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Event Gallery, Bethel, $49,: www. BethelWoodsCenter.org. Friday at 8PM The Muppet Show. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $6. www.bardavon.org or 473-2072. Saturday all day, Sinterklaas Festival Day in Rhinebeck. performances at venues throughout the village: dance, music and theatrics, tightrope walking, even fire juggling! Strolling musicians. Astride his white steed, Sinterklaas leads the children’s starlight parade at 6 PM. Saturday all day Wawarsing Wassail, Ellenville. Holday events throughout the village. Saturday all day Festival of the Holidays at Frost Valley YMCA Camp, Claryville. 989-2291,

www.frostvalley.org. Saturday at 9AM-3PM Christmas Fair. Reformed Church of New Paltz, Huguenot St, New Paltz Saturday at 10 AM Holiday fair. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan. 657-2482 or outreach@olivefreelibrary.org. Saturday at 10 AM Grace Church Christmas cookie sale and wreath workshop. Grace Church, 3328 Franklin Ave, Millbrook, $10 / workshop & lunch, somerscapers@aol.com or 677-3064.

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Saturday 10AM-5PM Holiday pop-up sale. Wickham Solid Wood Studio, 578 Main St, Beacon, free, 917-797-9247. Saturday 10AM-3PM 14th Annual Holly Berry Trail tour of homes. Presented by the Junior League of Kingston. $30. www.juniorleaguekingston.org Kingston. Saturday 10AM-4PM Annual craft fair and chile festival. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. 254-5469 or www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Saturday 10AM-5PM Holiday arts Mmarket. Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury. Saturday 12PM-4PM Just in time for the holidays Sale at The Time and the Valleys Museum, 332 Main St, Grahamsville. www.timeandthevalleysmuseum.org or 985-7700. Saturday,1PM-5PM 20th annual holiday open house. SUNY Orange Madrigal Singers will perform at 3 p.m. and the Chamber Ensemble will play at 6 p.m. at SUNY Orange, Morrison Hall mansion, Middletown. 341-4179. Saturday at 2PM “A West Point Holiday.” Presented by the West Point Band at Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, free. 938-2617 or www.westpointband.com. Saturday at 3PM Tuba Christmas. Clinton Hall, Ulster Savings Bank Community Conference Center, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. free. 687-5262. Saturday at 4PM The Muppet Christmas Carol. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale, $5. 857-8127. Saturday 5 to 9 PM. Hudson Winter Walk, Warren Street, Hudson. Get there early for parking. Saturday, 5PM-8PM Uptown Kingston’s First Saturday art walk. Saturday at 8PM Live at the Bridge Street Theater. Chris Pasin’s Random Acts of Kindness. Bridge Street Theater, 44 West Bridge St, Catskill, $10. 518-945-2669 or planetarts@gmail.com. Sunday at 10AM Sunday brunch @ The Falcon: Gustafer Yellowgold. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. Sunday10AM-5PM Unison’s 24th annual crafts fair. New Paltz Middle School, 196 Main St, New Paltz, $4, free. 255-1559. Sunday11AM-4PM Artisan & farm shop. Creative Co-op, Main St, Rosendale. 527-5672 or cbcofrosendale@gmail.com. Sunday 11AM-4PM Annual winter fair. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, 16 S. Chestnut St, New Paltz. 255-0033 or www.mountainlaurel.org. Sunday at 12:30 PM “A West Point Holiday.” Presented by the West Point Band at Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, free. 938-2617 or www. westpointband.com. Sunday at 2PM Into the Light! The Vanaver Caravan in collaboration with Arm-of-the-Sea Theater at Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $8, $5 /under 12. 647-5530 Sunday at 3PM Conservatory Sundays winter songfest. A festive holiday celebration with Dawn Upshaw and students of the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program. Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, $20, $15.

www.bard.edu or 758-7900. Sunday at 3PM Peter Pan (1924) Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale, 658-8989 or www. rosendaletheatre.org.. Sunday at 7:30PM Albany Symphony Orchestra. The Magic of Christmas. Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $90, $70, $45. 518-4654663. Sunday at 8PM The Choral Ensembles. SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theater, New Paltz, $8, $6, $3. www.newpaltz.edu/music or 2572700.

The Second Week (12/10 thru 12/16) All weekend long... Christmas aboard The Polar Express! Catskill Mountain RR, Westbrook Lane Station, Kingston, off-Peak: Adult $34, Children (ages 2-11) $27. Peak: Adult $43, Children (ages 2-11) $33. 866-468-7630, -688-7400, www.ticketweb.com/dowt. Wednesday, 4:30PM-7:30PM Second annual Made In Kingston celebration. a holiday celebration of all things “made in Kingston.” Seven 21 Media Center, 721 Broadway, Kingston; info@ courtneystrong.com, or 331-2238.. Wednesday at 7:30PM SUNY Ulster Decks the Halls holiday - Community Band/Jazz Ensemble concert. SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge, 687-5262.. Wednesday at 8PM Bard College Orchestra. Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, free. www.bard.edu or 758-7900. Thursday through Sunday The Nutcraker. The New Paltz Ballet Theater at the Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, www.bardavon.org or 473-2072. Friday through Sunday The Nutcracker Presented by Catskill Ballet Theatre. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $30, $25 /senior/12 & under. www.bardavon.org or 339-6088. Friday through Sunday, Half Moon Theatre Presents It’s a Wonderful Life: the 1946 radio play. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Theatre, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park, $45, $35, www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800-838-3006., Friday through Sunday, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 New York 308, Rhinebeck, $24, $22, www.centerforperformingarts.com or 876-3080. Friday evening Gingerbread house party at Mid Hudson Children’s Museum, 775 N. Water Street, Poughkeepsie, 471-0589, www.mhcm.org. Friday at 6PM Annual Christmas party with Vito & 4 Guys and Santa. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. 2298277 or www.hydeparkbrewing.com. Friday at 8PM Country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes. Info: 454-5800 or www.midhudsonciviccenter.org. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie, $49, $39. Friday at 8PM Robert Randolph & The Family Band. Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. 518-828-4800.

Saturday all day Frozendale throughout Rosendale. Look it up on Facebook. Saturday 5PM-8PM Beacon’s Second Saturday Stroll along Main Street. Art receptions, installations, exhibits & entertainment. Beacon. Saturday at 7PM A Celtic Christmas with Solas An Lae American Irish Dance! St Christopher’s Auditorium, Red Hook, $10 /18 & up, $5 /teens & children. Saturday at 7:30PM Woodstock Chamber Orchestra holiday concert. SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge, $20, 266-3517. Saturday at 8PM Happy Traum & Friends annual winter solstice. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $65, $45, $25. 679-4406. Saturday at 8PM Maureen McGovern. “Home for the Holidays.” Bethel Woods, Museum Theater, Bethel, $59.50. www.bethelwoodscenter.org. Sunday Noon-4PM Warm Up At The Washingtons’ Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, corner of Liberty and Washington St, Newburgh. 562-1195. Sunday at 2PM World Stage Series: Amahl and the Night Visitors Came. Presented by the Delaware Valley Opera at Bethel Woods, Bethel. www. bethelwoodscenter.org The Third Week (12/17 thru 12/23) All weekend long... Christmas aboard The Polar Express! Catskill Mountain RR, Westbrook Lane Station, Kingston, off-Peak: Adult $34, Children (ages 2-11) $27. Peak: Adult $43, Children (ages 2-11) $33. 866-468-7630, 688-7400, www.ticketweb.com/dowt. Thursday at 6PM Happy Elves gift-making workshop. Olive Free Library, 4033 New York 28A, West Shokan. 657-2482. Friday through Sunday, Half Moon Theatre Presents: It’s a Wonderful Life: the 1946 Radio Play. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Theatre, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park, $45, $35, www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800-838-3006., Friday through Sunday, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 New York 308, Rhinebeck, $24, $22, www.centerforperformingarts.com or 876-3080. Friday 3:30PM-5PM Movie Madness: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Also “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-8726. Friday at 6:30PM Christmas party The Matt Jordan All Star Jazz Quintet. Ciboney Café, 189 Church St, Poughkeepsie. www.ciboney.net or 486-4690. Saturday and Sunday Nut/Cracked. David Parker and The Bang Group. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, $45, $25. www. bard.edu or 758-7900. Saturday at 2PM Hudson Valley Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $50, $35, $25. www. bardavon.org or 339-6088 Saturday at 4PM Classics on Hudson: Messiah sing. First Presbyterian Church, 369Warren St, Hudson, $15, free /18 & under. 518-822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.org. Saturday at 8PM Tom Pacheco, a peace concert. Info: 845-658-904. Rosendale Café, Main St, Rosendale, $15. Sunday at 3PM Jim Brickman: On A Winter’s Night. Celebrate the season in a one-of-a-kind concert event filled with lush instrumentals and soaring vocals. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $55, $40, $30. www.bardavon.org or 473-2072.

The Final Week (12/24 thru 12/31) Wednesday at 5PM Santa Arives on the Woodstock Village Green. Come early for parking and fun. Thursday... Christmas Day Friday - Boxing Day Saturday at 8PM Professor Louie & The Crowmatix. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $25. 679-4406. Saturday at 8PM Matishayu: “Festival of Light.” Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, $49, $30, $29. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. New Year’s Eve starting at 5PM Uptown Kingston New Year’s Eve celebration! Kingston. info@ outputagency.com ormike@bsplounge.com

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