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Celebrating local communities

Exploring regional culture

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A letter home Finding the wilderness within By Robert Leaver

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e decided to rent a weekend place in the city just to get out of the woods once in a while. I wanted to remind our son that there is another way of life, another reality to be experienced. It was time to get back to civilization! Financially, it was a stretch. We thought, hey, if we’re going to do it, let’s do it now. We owe it to our only child to show him what life is like down in the mix, in the canyons of commerce and culture. We found a place to rent in Washington Heights, not exactly what I’d imagined, but good enough. Sixth floor, elevator, a little tight, but two bedrooms, and actually in Manhattan. The morning sun came into the kitchen and there was an elevator. The river was a block away, the subway across the street. Our neighbors were an interesting mix of nationalities and attitudes. One couple we liked had a kid the same age as ours. They had never been to the Catskills. Never once in their entire lives. I couldn’t believe that. I don’t sleep very well, and sometimes I’d lie awake in that apartment and count the night sounds. The cold weather made everything quieter. It was much louder when it was warm. Truck, siren, scream, bark, crash, curse, stereo, baby crying. Mix. Repeat. My wife was always glad to get back to the country after the weekends in the city. Sometimes she’d get out of the car and walk off into the field with

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the dog before going into the house. I always filled the birdfeeders as soon as we got back. Our son missed the city during the week. He wanted to plan what we might do when we went back. He was falling for the whole hustle and bustle, the parks, the trains and the lights. Then everything changed. My wife got a great teaching job offer in the city. I could do my work from home. Why not go for it, get rid of the coun-

try place and see if we could make a life full-time in the city? We needed a change, and when we saw the opportunity we lunged at it. The apartment we’d been renting was for sale and we put the upstate place on the market. We got an offer right away. It all fell together perfectly. It seemed meant to be. We’ve been here in the city for six months now. We’re both working a lot. Sometimes I think it’s

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Our contributors

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cott Baldinger is a freelance magazine and newspaper writer, editor, and blogger about the Hudson experience (Word on the Street at GoTo Hudson.net). Susan Barnett, a licensed real-estate salesperson affiliated with Gary DiMauro Real Estate, lives in West Hurley and has been an anchor, producer and reporter for WRGB-TV in the Capital District and was Hudson Valley bureau chief for WAMC Northeast Public Radio. She’s the author of the short-story collection, The View From Outside, published by Hen House Press. Jennifer Brizzi has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1996, writing about food since 1997, currently from Rhinebeck. She calls herself a writer/teacher/cook and she writes for newspapers, magazines and books, does recipe development, cooking demonstrations and teaching. She also writes a weekly health column for Ulster Publishing. See her website at www.jenniferbrizzi.com and her blog at www.tripesoup.com. Erica Chase-Salerno, an energy healer and founder of HudsonValleyParents.com, writes about area activities for families in the Hudson Valley in her weekly Kids’ Almanac column in Ulster Publishing’s Almanac Weekly. Donna Favicchio has lived in the Hudson Valley almost all of her life, and have worked as a freelance journalist in the area since 2004. Elisabeth Henry, a writer and an actress who lives in Hunter with her husband, where they raised their children. Henry has appeared in plays for Performing Arts of Woodstock and The Byrdcliffe Theater, worked on several films shot in the Hudson Valley, including The Sisterhood of Night, The Ticket and Fourth Man Out. She has written for many local and regional newspapers and magazines Robert Leaver is a writer, musician and performance artist who splits his time between New Yor City and Greene County. Paul Smart is a writer and editor for Ulster Publishing of two decades standing who has also edited a number of other regional weekly and biweekly newspapers and served as a radio host on WGXC-FM in Hudson, Catskill and Acra. He lives in Greene County. Violet Snow is a journalist, author and frequent Ulster Publishing presence, specializing in history, genealogy, suspense fiction and nature, as well as also expressing herself in photography, video and music. Rebecca Wolff is a poet, novelist and editor living in Hudson. She is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at Albany, where her press Fence is housed. Lynn Woods, long-time Kingston resident and Ulster Publishing writer, is coauthor of Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges and co-director of the film Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal. going pretty well, but at other times I’m worried. I tell myself we did this for the kid. We’ve made a few friends, or potential friends. Coming on weekends and holidays was one thing, but being here all the time and having nowhere else to go is a big adjustment. I keep walking down to the river when I should be going to museums and galleries and eating exotic food, maybe seeing some music. I usually walk north to the little red lighthouse and

stare at the Palisades across the river. I pick my way back along the shoreline, looking for interesting things that have washed up. I’ve been bringing home odd pieces of driftwood that I imagine have floated down from the Hudson Valley. I wasn’t expecting this feeling of restlessness. Or loneliness. I thought the city might cure that. But the opposite seems to be happening. In the country we sometimes got cabin fever in the winter, and

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we definitely spent too much time in the car. Here in the city we’re never in a car. In fact we might sell the car. We could use the money. We’re both lonely and restless, and we don’t know why. Maybe it has nothing to do with the city. It’s hard to know how much my state of mind is based on my surroundings, and how much is just in my head. More than anything I miss the sound of the wind in the trees. Maybe I can find a recording of that sound and blast it in the apartment. I miss letting our weird little dog, Dougie, out the door so he could walk himself, make his rounds and then come back and scratch the door to get back inside. I can’t get used to picking up his poop off the sidewalk. Everyday I catch myself pulling back, cringing, wincing at some urban sight or smell or sound. I see all kinds of people loving the city. They are city animals embracing their natural environment. I can’t seem to join them. When will I be used to it? When will this place feel like home? The other day my son had a new friend over after school and they begged to play an Xbox video game. My first impulse was to say no and to send them outside. But there is no outside to go to, not really. There was sidewalk and street. My son reminded me that the park was for toddlers. So I gave in and found myself staring out my kitchen window at the sky while they killed bad guys. When I checked they were actually killing good guys. The sound of the game was drilling into my head. I abruptly demanded they turn it off. “Come on, we’re going outside,” I said. They glumly got coats and shoes on. and followed me out with the dog and a ball. The two of them played half-hearted running catch as I walked Dougie. We came upon a highstrung sinewy white pit bull. The pit got down on her belly and growled. She was on a leash with a young couple who assured me their dog was okay. Our harmless mutt was worried. I gave the pit bull a wide berth, but she lunged away from her people and attacked. My dog howled in terror as the pit bull’s jaws snapped shut on the side of his face and neck. We both picked up our dogs and pulled, but they would not come apart. Cursing and yelling at the top of my lungs, I probably made it worse. I really flipped out. The pit bull seemed to be tearing my dog’s head off, and my dog was making horrible howling sounds. I was positive we’d be going to the vet, surgery or maybe worse. I raised my fist and I was just about to punch their animal in the nose when they finally pried open her jaws and she let go. Somehow the pit bull had only clamped down on Dougie’s collar. Total false alarm, no injury at all. We went back upstairs badly shaken. My son was in tears, and his friend was calling his mother to get picked up early. When my wife got home later, she was frazzled from being stuck on a crowded train at the end of a long day. She listened to my story and shook her head. “I don’t know. Maybe this isn’t for us,” I said. “There’s no going back now,” she said. “I mean, this is it for now. We’re locked in. Right?” She went to bed. I plotted possible ways to get back to the country. I listened to the rain falling outside. For a minute or so it was the only sound I heard, just that low soothing hum of heavy rain. Then I heard the call of a faraway siren, a truck rumbling on Broadway, and some crazy laughter down below on the sidewalk. How did we end up letting go of the country? What were we thinking? So many people go the other way. Flee the city. Raise your children in the countryside. Or not. We all end up in some kind of wilderness.

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n our first cover, the images come care of WDST’s Mountain Jam Festival in Hunter, NY (photo of Michael Franti by Vernon Webb), care of Mohonk Preserve’s Rock the Ridge Race, from the Highland Memorial Day parade (photo by Donna Favicchio), and care of Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. On our second cover, the image of Sam’s Point is by Cragsmoor photographer Gerald Berliner, the planning graphic comes from a regional ecological study guide put out by New York State Dept. of State, the Pakatakan Cornfield is by longtime Woodstock painter Judy Abbott, and the mannequin amongst birches is by artist/writer Robert O. Leaver.

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Our Upstate lifestyles

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Rurbanism lived You can do it without wheels if you want By Scott Baldinger

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first saw the little city of Hudson in the winter of 1985. My parents had picked me up at the town’s charming old Amtrak station, to which I had taken a scenic ride up the Hudson River from New York City. They took me to their recently purchased house in nearby Chatham. My mom asked my father to drive down Warren Street, the main business thoroughfare in Hudson, so that I could see the town. As we turned up Warren from Front Street, parallel to the river, my mother explained that the state had been providing funds for basic street and facade improvements. For the most part, she added, Hudson was a ghost town. And so it seemed. But as we continued up the street, I exclaimed, “Oh my God, it keeps going on and on.â€? I was amazed to see such a contiguous collection of intact historic buildings so far off the beaten path. A relatively small but miraculously

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intact toy city in the middle of the bucolic Hudson Valley landscape, I thought! We reached the (at the time) derelict but augustly handsome Opera House. “Stop the car!â€? I said, which I think my dad did, at least long enough for me to write down the info on the forsale sign attached to it. By the time we reached the streamlined-moderne diner, so tightly jimmied into the 19th-century streetscape, I was smitten. I made a mental note that Hudson might be a place I’d like to live in some day. I’ve had urban epiphanies such as these before and since, moments when grand architectural intentions of the past suddenly popped up into a tableau- vivant present. Once was in London, from the top of a double-decker bus as it turned into the crescent of Regent Street, a moment in which I could swear I heard trumpets playing Handel. Another time was in an 18th-century underpass leading to the Place des Vosges in Paris, where I came upon a gaggle of French schoolchildren yelling out “les igloos!â€? after being asked “Ou habitez les Eskimos?â€? by their (impeccably clad) teacher. A third time I was hanging with a friend at the Central Park Lake one summer evening in 1974, marveling at the glowing limestone linearity of the Fifth Avenue skyline, while the drumbeat of tropical lands and the smell of pot was filling the air around us. My list also includes such moments in cities such as Los Angeles, Provincetown, Boston, and South Beach. Hudson, though the smallest (and least “vivantâ€?) of those communities, made no less memorable an impression. Thirty years later, it continues to do so, as it is reclaimed, lot by lot, by the kind of private investment this town’s noble infrastructure deserves, both on its main business thoroughfare and its residential side streets. Even though I enjoyed the many fruits of living in New York City, I had always been open to the idea of living in other places that might be quieter but had some of the amenities that only a dense urban environment can provide. Hudson came foremost to mind when, in 2003, the rent of my one-bedroom Manhattan bedroom rose to $2500 a month, and the

publishing business in which I had spent most of my career as an editor and writer remained stuck in the post 9/11 doldrums. Luckily, by 2003 Hudson had completely changed. It was filled to the brim with the kind of first-rate decorative arts businesses and dining spots that I had spent years visiting on weekends back in New York. The fact that, at the time, I didn’t have a driver’s license — the result of a lifelong mental block that prevented me from passing a road test in the city – didn’t dissuade me, since everything was so centrally located. So I took the leap and moved there that year. Like so many towns around the Hudson Valley that have been spruced up recently (Beacon and Troy are just two that have been recently featured by The New York Times), Hudson was formerly the kind of everyday, picturesquely appointed place with which this country used to be filled prior to shopping malls, urban blight, and urban renewal eradicated so much of the nation’s history in the post-World World Two years. Hudson escaped much of that, and this in itself seemed a miracle. A country seat, it has a courthouse that was designed by Warren and Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Station. A glorious Greek Revival building that once served as city hall is now a beautifully restored cultural center that is the aforementioned Hudson Opera House. Hudson’s general level of distinguished civic pride produced what has been called a veritable dictionary of American architecture from the eighteenth century on. Its broad-based economy included a large industrial sector that manufactured everything from cannonballs (in a 19th-century building that is now a headquarters of Etsy) to pocketbooks in the 20th century, and a thriving retail section that served it.  Reincarnated in the 1990s and 2000s by the so-called creative economy, it is perhaps the preeminent example of what the former editor of the acclaimed magazine Modern Farmer (located in Hudson), Anne Marie Gardner, called rurbanism. For me, that term meant that there is always something beautiful and intriguing to look at, whether it is manmade or natural. As a fan of genuinely stylish architecture (and beautiful scenery, of course), this was enough not only to keep me intrigued -- even without a car -- but also turned me into something of a flaneur, writing a blog called Word on the Street, which to this day continues to focus on what I happen upon and observe during my daily walks around town. Thanks to a wonderfully patient, deeply humane and sympathetic teacher who spent months driving around with me, I did manage to get my license, which allowed me to travel to all of the town’s surrounding counties — the Berkshires (to Pittsfield’s Barrington Stage and the Wil-

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an hour-plus or so of travel – the kind of quality cultural experiences (theater, music, dance) I had routinely experienced in the city. So while it’s not true that you don’t need a car to live fully in a place like this (even just to go to the supermarket, although there is a wonderful weekly farmers’ market during warmer months and an indoor one during the colder ones), you can find sufficient life nourishment in its densely packed central square mile.  Another indicator of rurbanism is something that has become quite noticeable in recent years: the presence of young people. “They might not give us the time of day, but you can’t help but notice how many there are,â€? a friend of mine recently said. Looking like embittered refugees priced out of Bushwick, they have no doubt been attracted by the music scene brought here by the club Helsinki Hudson, a handsomely converted trolley barn that now has a fine restaurant and stellar music and performing-arts acts from all around the nation, and by Melissa Auf Der Maur, formerly of the Smashing Pumpkins, who was turned a formidable old factory building into Basilica Hudson, which routinely holds local crafts and agricultural-product fairs, music and film festivals, and art installations that have garnered attention from many publications. Also, Time and Space Limited provides non-commercial cinematic fare on a weekly basis. At this point in my life, even the mere sight of a vintage glass doorknob gracing a landmark building or the glorious renovation of a previously vinyl-sided eyesore into a stately piece of the physical landscape can be enough to make my day -- and without adding to my carbon footprint.  Â

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Our Upstate lifestyles

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he population of the hamlet of Highland, the central part of the town of Lloyd, was 5647 in 2010. I grew up as part of this little community and settled back here. I would say that a vast majority of the folks represented in the census count were born and raised here. Those who have migrated here have probably done so because of Highland’s sense of community, not to mention its central location and easy commute to nearby cities that offer art, entertainment, cultural interests and jobs. I grew up on Riverside Road. My best friend lived next door. There were never any worries about riding bikes in the street, or going for long walks to the ten-cent candy store without an adult. Everyone knew everyone else, and we all looked out for each other. That was a long time ago, but what adds to the present charm of this little community on the west bank of the Hudson River is that it is little changed since then. Thinking about having growing up here for me always brings back memories of sights and smells. I think of autumn football games against the backdrop of the rich colors on Illinois Mountain. I think of pink aromatic apple blossoms every springtime. I think of impromptu neighborhood gatherings under a certain tree on hot summer evenings, and Memorial Day parades seated on my father’s shoulders swinging my little flag with my cousins. The hamlet has probably become better known since the Walkway Over the Hudson was established. To me, the place feels like the heart of the Hudson Valley. It provides easy access to everything I need. For instance, I get to enjoy kayaking the lazy winding miles of the Black Creek, and enjoy the sun and openness of Chodikee Lake. Just on the western border of neighboring New Paltz is the Wallkill River. Less than a mile south of the Mid-Hudson Bridge ramp is the home to Franny Reese Scenic Hudson Park. There are so many variations of trails that each time I walk I find something new. All trails lead to the summit, a lookout point that sits high over the bridge, providing a breathtaking view of the river. My favorite points of interest on these trails are the old ruins of stones houses along a few of the trails. Filled with history, mys-

tery and intrigue, these structures seem to hold many a secret. They are almost haunting. Not far north from the West Park Winery is another Scenic Hudson park — another nice hike, or should I say climb, from Route 9W in Highland to the west bank of the Hudson. These are the complex trails on the Black Creek Preserve. New Paltz, on Highland’s western border, has long been an up-and-coming college town known for its offbeat charm and night life. While the college students come and go, the village has had the same face for as long as I can remember. I have often spent long afternoons with old friends talking over favorite past times. For me, New Paltz is the best place for shopping for handmade items, bohemian-style clothing, tarot readings and antiques. My New Paltz includes head shops, secondhand shops and unusual collectibles, as well as well as a variety of ethnic and organic eateries. The Poughkeepsie train station is a hop, skip and jump from the Mid- Hudson Bridge. A 90-minute train ride will transport me to The Big Apple, where I have access to everything in the world! New York City is close enough to be convenient, and far enough to still leave us with the best of country living. There is a lot of local agriculture in Highland and the nearby surrounding area. Both of my par-

ents were the children of farmers, and farmed as adults for a while themselves. My mother grew up on the black-dirt vegetable farm on Martin Avenue that now belongs to the Sorbello family. My father, who grew up on a fruit farm in Milton, often talked about doing hours of chores before going to school. As I learned while writing for a local newspaper over the years, Highland and its littler border communities are rich in history. Leonard Clark once told me that the very first fruit co-op systems, called the Hudson River Fruit Exchanges, originated in this area. Fruit supplied to the metropolitan area by steamboat was a very big business for our local farmers. Our fruit was shipped to New York City on boats until 1960. The night boat came every evening and picked up produce from the small towns of Columbia County all the way down to Newburgh and delivered to Washington Street Market in New York. This system was operational until the trucking companies put water transportation out of business. Mr. Clark also talked a lot about the ice industry, which has been out of operation since 1952. When Long Pond froze in the winter, the ice was cut and moved along a wooden slide to the ice houses. They packed it in sawdust or hay, and it would last for a year and a half. Ice from this area

April – June 2015 Explore Hudson Valley was shipped as far as China and India. It was a big international business here. Before refrigeration, it was quite a novelty for those countries in the tropics which did not have ice. As late as the Second World War, many cold storages in the area also stored butter and lard for later shipment to the European war theater. On Riverside Road, my friends and I often walked past the abandoned brick tomato factory. Being curious as teens are, we often climbed in the windows looking for old artifacts. Then one of my friends fell through one of the stair treads. Luckily no one was hurt. We later learned that around 1906 Rosario Prizzia and Ganges Aiello built that factory mostly from excavated stone from the railroad bed built in the area at that time. In 1913 Prizzia was fatally wounded as a result of an explosion. Aiello, seriously injured in the explosion, survived. After he recovered, he left the factory vacant and moved to San Jose, California, where he began the company now known as Contadina. As do other small towns and cities in the Hudson Valley, Highland has its share of tales. Among the obscure tidbits of Highland lore are the famous stories about Pancake Hollow, where sightings of either an old lady dressed in gray or a young

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is never threatened by people fiercely opposing each other on issues of the day. In times of crisis, people will pull together. Businesses and individuals are quick to start fundraisers, bring food, and offer other help when anyone is in need. It’s no accident that Highland fans cheer the loudest at their sporting events. There has long been a running joke that everyone in Highland is related. In the sense of being part of a single community, everyone really is related.

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bany is one of the finer regional theater companies in the country, and other noteworthy theaters in that area include Walking the Dog, Ghent, and Curtain Call Theater. The splendid Powerhouse Theater Project every summer at Vassar in Poughkeepsie is outstanding, and oftentimes standingroom only. The Hudson Valley Film Commission, Columbia County Film Commission and The Capitol District Film Commission have all done a bangup job attracting film projects to the area. Many of those projects have gone on to win a place in prestigious venues such as The Sundance Film Festival. The Woodstock Film Festival in autumn has become one of those prestigious venues where one can view new films, participate in workshops, and meet icons and famous new faces of the silver screen. If you want to study acting yourself, the indomitable Sande Shurin keeps a home in Woodstock and offers classes one day a week when she escapes Manhattan.

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inspiring panoramic scenery. You can just wander off the main drag, on the village bluestone sidewalks, past splendidly restored houses from other eras. A couple of my favorite outings are hiking to the top of Burger Hill for a view worth any amount of huffing and puffing (little required), or scaling Ferncliff Forest’s spiffy newish fire tower for another fine vista of hill, dale and river. Although Scenic Hudson’s Poet’s Walk isn’t technically Rhinebeck, it’s very close and well worth a stroll for yet more river views plus rustic structures in which to rest. I love Wilderstein. Not only is its interior rumored to be the most authentic of all the mansions, but its hiking trail is short and offers quick river access. It was very user-friendly when my kids were little and shortlegged. Or you can hike the steep hills of Rhinecliff, as I often did when I lived in the hamlet. Admire the awesome restored Rhinecliff Hotel, which I’ve frequented since its pre-restoration dive days, and head down to the docks where the river rats (kids from the wrong side of the tracks) once roamed, and sometimes still do (my own included). Without even the river, Rhinecliff would be über-cool and remains one of my favorite parts of town. But the river never fails to be beautiful, in every season, with the Catskills beyond. Every day the expanse of moving water is a different texture, color and character, and while many Hudson Valley towns are on or near it, there is nothing like the way the Hudson interfaces so intimately with Rhinebeck. When the need for sustenance arises, Rhinebeck provides a broad variety of options, from the fanciest French to the humblest diner with plenty in between. We have traditional Americana and ethnic Asian, health food,

cozy wine bars, historic hearths and a few places that source from local farms. I don’t think there was one outdoor café when I first moved here. Now several eateries offer outdoor seating in fine

weather, which I love. We have a bakery, a couple of fine wine vendors, and several candy and chocolate stores. Just the village alone has so many good places to eat within walking distance that I’ll be offering tasting tours for small groups, the first one Sunday, May 17, via (insert shameless selfpromotion here) my fledging company Hudson Valley Food Tours, featuring culinary crawls of the valley’s coolest villages and towns. We haven’t launched yet, but stay tuned. Rhinebeck has two excellent libraries, Starr and Morton, and anything you don’t see can be obtained through the helpful librarians via Mid-Hudson Library System. We have a stellar school system that some out-of-towners pay extra for, but my lucky kids go to for free. We have a great highway department (thanks, Kathy and crew) and caring town and village governments (a fact I learned from covering their meetings for newspapers over the years). Our post office’s interior is completely bedecked with murals commissioned by FDR. George Washington ate a meal at The Beek (Beekman Arms Inn, that oldest inn I mentioned). We have an aerodrome that offers antique biplane rides and has an airplane museum (fun!). Last but not least, we boast the Dutchess County Fairgrounds right here in town. Rhinebeck has been dubbed, by various meJENNIFER BRIZZI dia, “the new Hamptons,” “America’s Rhineland” and “Williamsburg on the Hudson.” While to me it isn’t any of those things, it’s home, and I feel fortunate to soak in its ambience every day.

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The new foodie world beckons The region become a culinary destination By Paul Smart

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ow fresh is the foodie scene in these parts these days? We keep hearing about new restaurants popping up down in the Big Apple with Upstate names and décor and sometimes foodstuffs. We run into newbies at Hudson Valley farm markets and stores who already have their favorite local producers of specialty veggies, cheeses, breads and other agricultural products. They learned about them at green sites in the various boroughs. They religiously attend all the new restaurants being opened up around us here, finding them through those endless stories they’ve read about all that’s newly edible from Yonkers to Albany, and from The Berkshires to the Pennsylvania border. You hear all about the chocolates and pickled ware, the wines and distilled spirits. We finally made it up to the Bees Knees Café’s monthly Supper Club a few weeks back. We found a babysitter and worried through a flurry or two of late-season snow sprinkles to get up beyond the deepest recesses of Greene County into a high elevation area of Schoharie County. The light was just perfect for distant vistas by the feast’s 6 p.m. start time. All 20 seats in the old farmhouse dining area were already filled when we got there. We were introduced to our tablemates by the establishment’s founder – farmer, former filmmaker and businesswoman Carol Clement. After everyone got to know each other – we had been seated specifically for such purposes by the always spot-on Clement – the hostess introduced her staff for the evening, a mash-up of college professors and students, new agriculturalists and native dreamers. She let her young chef, Rob Handel, have the floor. He described to everybody what he had prepared for them this night. Handel, Clement noted when introducing him, grew up at the nearby Blackthorn Resort in the “Irish Catskills” down the road. (Clement herself grew up at a longgone resort on Route 212 between Saugerties and Woodstock.) Handel got his culinary degree from SUNY-Delhi. Clement said how proud she was to have him working by her side. The menu for the evening, lovingly described between courses, started off with a Three-Tree and Parsnip Soup garnished with maple syrup and salt-cured egg yolks. Next came a charcuterie of spicy tasso ham, chicken hearts with preserved lemon, and goat sausage cured in Handel’s selfinvented ‘file-cabinet’ smoker. “Never thought I’d eat anything’s heart, but this is fabulous,” said the state official seated across from us. The pattern of hyperlocal and inventive mixed with comfort food continued with a complex winter garden and fresh-shoots salad, maple-smoked sirloin tips and spaetzle, and a buckwheat honey ice cream dessert served with farm-made graham crackers and locally made chocolate sauce. In between courses came a maple and burdock tonic palate cleanser and Handel-created sodas. “Reminds me of meals in Provence, only it’s all

Catskills, totally Upstate,” noted the city doctor at an adjoining table. In the Hudson Valley, longtime efforts by Cornell Cooperative Extension and localized farm organizations such as the Rondout Valley Growers Association, Columbia County’s Hudson Valley Bounty, Dutchess County’s Farm Fresh Initiative, have been combined with the mothering presence of the Culinary Institute of America. The result has been better coordination of regional farmers’ markets, CSAs (community supported agriculture farms), food coops, and produce in local supermarkets and health-food stores, plus a growing number of farm stands, permanent and seasonal. Add state funding of new farm hubs, orchards, and distribution mechanisms aimed at the lucrative downstate market. Especially with so many specialty items making their ways into Fairways, Whole Foods and a whole host of smaller urban stores throughout the Northeast and even beyond, Hudson Valley produce is starting to gain notice on a par with New England and Napa Valley produce,

Pure Catskills, which started as an economic development offshoot of the New York City-Upstate Watershed Agricultural Council initiative, has also held its own via a well-visited website and widely distributed annual guide to farm and wood products. The result can be seen throughout the summer growing and harvest seasons. People flock to farmstands and farmers’ markets. Restaurants combine local produce and local brews to create new menus filled with increasingly successful recipe concoctions. Hudson, Kingston, Woodstock and Beacon may be hubs for locavore eats, but the list of go-to restaurants regularly hyped by downstate and local publications stretch up past Phoenicia to Pine Hill, Walton, Franklin and Oneonta, throughout rural stretches of Dutchess and Columbia counties, and deep into Ulster and Sullivan counties. The fare is not all-American. It includes authentic Korean (as in the great new rice-beer makers outside Wurtsboro on Route 209), Ukrainian or Mexican (as with several upand-coming food-truck-like stands in the Hudson area). Back at the Bees Knees high up on Clement’s Heather Ridge Farm, the smart farmer with growing press accolades from national publications as well local fans, talks about how she wanted a lifestyle change. She needed to bring more customers to her farm. She opened up a product line, then a farm store. The café, which came about as a means of drawing people to the store or keeping them there, is now leading the business. Clement realizes that Rob Handel’s reputation is opening new vistas. A former publicist for Belleayre Mountain Ski Center and numerous other Catskills businesses in former years, Clement notes how the comFAWN POTASH ing of a host of new foodie publications throughout the greater Hudson Valley, including the big national splash Modern Farmer’s made, has pushed the local phenomenon. Clement reads off this month’s Supper Club menu of Canadian gooseberry and winter squash seed horchata, her own farm-bred steak tartare with home-brined nasturtium capers and fermented rye berries, a Deconstructed Pasta Carbonara and main course of brined and smoked turkey served over hand-rolled and steamed couscous topped with plum mostarda, plus a dessert of delicata squash cheesecake with maple glaçage. At $65 a pop, it’s sold out. You’ve got to get there quick to really get it, to be willing to travel some, given the width of the area and its increasing depths. It all goes with the locavore territory. Try some of these websites as a start: www.purecatskills.com, www.hudsonvalleybounty.com, www.rondoutvalleygrowers.org, www.dutchesstourism.com/agri-index, www.cceulster.org, and www.heather-ridge-farm.com

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The recovery of lost Rondout

STILLS FROM LOST RONDOUT

Learning to love one’s community from its broken past By Lynn Woods

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ention the post office to anyone from Kingston, and the response is the same: “They tore down the most beautiful building in Kingston and replaced it with a Jack in the Box. Can you believe it?” The Beaux-Arts 1907 post office, a stone edifice with a curving front of columns, once stood right along the middle of Broadway, where Planet Wings is now. It was demolished in 1971, after the federal government offered to sell it for a dollar without finding a taker. Grief over the post office’s demise is visceral and universal, cutting across socio-economic lines and political affiliations. More than just an issue of historic preservation, the destruction cut at the very heart of the public’s trust in government. Live here a while, have some conversations, and you’ll start to get to know the real Kingston. You can recognize a native by the way he or she pronounces Broadway with the accent on the second syllable. Hear about the post office. Learn about the centuries-old rivalry between Uptown, where the Dutch put down roots in the 1600s and the wealthier people lived (the place where you wore white gloves, as one observer put it), and downtown, or Rondout, the nineteenth-century port that was the home to poorer, working-class immigrants and their descendants. Those differences held true up until the 1960s. It seemed that Uptown always won, giving the city its name when the two villages of Kingston and Rondout (with a third, Wilbur) were united in 1876.

Nearly a century later, redevelopment was supposed to get when the whole city hopping onto the urban-renewal bandwagon. Millions of federal dollars were spent in an attempt to modernize and revitalize. In Uptown, the destruction was piecemeal and strategic, with new commercial buildings quickly erected on the cleared lots. In Rondout, the destruction was wholesale, with entire blocks giving way to the bulldozer and wrecking ball. By 1970, most of the old commercial area was gone, replaced by a huge vacant lot. The remnants of the buildings that remained on the west side of Broadway and West Strand were boarded up and abandoned. Rondout had died.

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hen I first visited the area in the late 1980s, I knew nothing about this, though I sensed something was wrong. I was living in New York City and visiting a friend who had a weekend house in the Catskills. She had heard of Kingston and Rondout so we took a trip there one Saturday. Coming down Broadway, we couldn’t make sense of the place. The new condos that lined one side of the street (the development that finally happened, 15 years later, on the cleared side of Broadway) looked out of place

compared to the rundown historic district on the other side of Broadway. Behind the condos were empty land and an arterial highway, which crossed over a body of water that we thought, never having heard of Rondout Creek, was the Hudson River. We couldn’t for the life of us figure out how the river could be so narrow — nor why anyone would choose to live in a new condo in such a forlornlooking backwater. Fast forward ten years to the late 1990s. I’m now living in Rondout. I’ve gotten to know some people, mainly through a citizens’ group I participated in to address various local issues. The Alternative Bakery has opened, bringing life to a place that was pretty depressed. There are still hardly any stores, and on summer nights I sometimes take long walks around the neighborhood. The black abyss of the vacant lots and the looming, half-obscured ruin of the slaughterhouse at the base of my street seem to resound with silent voices from the past. I could feel the mysterious force of history before I knew anything about it. Maybe by then I had read about the 1960s demolition in Bob Steuding’s Rondout: A Hudson River Port. But the profundity of what had happened didn’t really register until I saw a slide show of photographs by resident Al Marquart of the buildings being torn down. Fascinated, I began to research boxes of material from the Kingston Urban Renewal Agency, retrieved from the Ulster County archives. The buildings were acquired through eminent domain, and there were pages and pages of addresses for assessments, water turnoffs, and demolition dates. Files from the relocation office told the story of displaced African-American families denied rentals elsewhere in the city. I was astounded at the extraordinary impact that federal urban renewal, which affected hundreds of cities across the nation, had had on this small urban community of several thousand people.

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ast forward again to the fall of 2013, when my fascination evolved into a film project. After viewing the hundreds of wonderful slides taken

April – June 2015 Explore Hudson Valley just before and during the demolition by Gene Dauner, I partnered with filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss. Initially it was the historic Italianate buildings, some still inscribed with 1880s signage alluding to the business of the port, such as “ship chandlery,� and expertly photographed by Gene in all their glorious detail of cornice, column and Civil War-era shutters and doors by Gene, that inspired us. But as we began interviewing people who had lived in the area, a portrait of a community emerged. Diverse in terms of ethnicities and race, this neighborhood was largely self-sufficient. Stores on Broadway and East Strand, owned by both whites and blacks, catered to every need. Many people didn’t have a car and were poor, but the community was rich in human relationships, operating on trust. Storeowners extended lines of credit to families who were short on cash. Knowing someone was always keeping an eye out, kids played freely in the streets. The plan to replace what the planners and city had designated as “blight,� a catchword that ensured federal funds would be forthcoming for clearance, envisioned modernist apartment buildings, a shopping center and new industry. It reflected the pervasive view by urban planning experts of the time that such buildings with carefully separated uses surrounded by greenery and adjacent to highways were the solution to the socioeconomic problems of the city. That assumption, famously challenged by Jane Jacobs in her book, The Death and Life of American Cities, published in 1961, was a recipe for disaster in most cases. Relocating the displaced people was one of the most problematic aspects of urban renewal. To qualify for the federal funds, cities were required to create housing for the displaced, but it didn’t have to be in the same area. Slum clearance was often used as a way to develop luxury housing and cultural complexes, as planners sought to lure the affluent, who had fled the cities for the suburbs, back downtown. In 1974, president Richard Nixon ended the program. In Rondout, a public housing project in the area for the more than 400 families who were displaced was built with only 135 units. A second, privately owned low-income housing complex was subsequently built to help meet the need. Its prison-like appearance and layout, shoddy construction and poor management fostered an environment of crime.

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mortar town is gone, but thanks to the photography of Gene and others, it’s possible for us to reconstruct it in our imaginations. The willingness of people who were involved to participate in our project tells me that it’s vital to tell this story, that citizens who had no say in the loss of their homes and community finally have a voice. Today lower Broadway and the neighborhood that’s left has gentrified, but 100 yards away, across the highway, is the separate world of the public housing project. The fraying of the networks of family and community support caused in part by urban renewal has yet to be repaired, as the divide between the haves and the have-nots has widened, as affordable housing is scarce, and as people are more isolated and less connected to each other. By casting light on the community that was, we hope there are clear lessons for the future. The next showing of the hour-long work in progress of Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, will be at the Woodstock Library on April 25 at 5 p.m. More upcoming screenings will be posted soon on www.lostrondout.com. A fundraiser will be held in May at the Church des Artistes, 79 Wurts Street., Kingston. Reservations required.

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s Stephen and I work on finishing the film this summer — we screened our onehour work in progress in the fall and will be doing more showings starting this spring; we’ll also be launching a fundraiser to pay for certain expenses required for its completion — new sources and information keep emerging, enriching the many threads of our story. We said “enough� after interviewing 35 people, but then I got the call from the woman whose father owned the Comanche Club, a bar on East Strand. She shared her photographs of the bar, including an interior shot — for us, given the paucity of images of store interiors and populated neighborhoods in the pre-urban renewal days of the 1950s and early 1960s —this was the holy grail. As she spoke of her memories of her elegant apartment on East Strand and childhood haunts in the neighborhood (“they tore down my Disneyland�), I knew we had to interview her. The urban renewal of Kingston’s downtown was surely the city’s saddest chapter in history, with the exception of its burning by the British 210 years before. Hopefully our film, which we’ve entitled Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, will serve a redemptive purpose. The brick-and-

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make my new small-town life feel somewhat in continuity with my old big-city life: a friendly wine shop with affordable excellent bottles, yoga classes, a bookstore, and other recent city arrivals needing new friends. In that phase of gentrification one sees not European tourists or high-heeled day-trippers trolling the main street with high-grade-paper shopping bags from rarified shops carrying the fruits of the commodification of our rural sophistication such as pickled baby carrots and small-batch hemp soap and organic silk stockings, but instead eager, optimistic, funky, diverse people, queers and young farmers and lonely, articulate seekers and gentle old-ish hippies who came up ages ago to quietly raise their children. I loved the place, and became enthusiastically involved in or supportive of any number of idealistic ventures — “projects,” to be non-capitalist about it — starting up in town: independent community radio station WGXC; a mixed-age one-room schoolhouse project that collapsed at the starting line; a successful, now blossoming home-schooling complementary program called Kite’s Nest; a food coop that

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Getting out and about

Mapping new agendas

Encountering springtime

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Backyard and beyond A time to get your kids ready for summer By Erica Chase-Salerno

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Hudson Valley spring means a fresh new season of making family memories. Here are some ideas inspired by simple, backyard fun.

Go fly a kite! Kites get great loft on some of our area’s riverside mansion lawns while you get terrific views of the Hudson River landscape. Go minimalist with only a plastic bag and string, or assemble your flying treasure from a kit, and let the kids run it out on the grounds for free between dawn and dusk: Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park (http://www.nps.gov/vama); Mills Mansion in Staatsburg (http://millsmansion.org); Washington’s Headquarters in Newburgh (http:// nysparks.com); or Olana State Historic Site in Hudson (http://www.olana.org). Skip some stones! Give your family a break from computer-induced carpal tunnel and teach them the fine art of skipping stones before they’re all grown up. Try it on still water like Mohonk Preserve’s Duck Pond in New Paltz (http://www. mohonkpreserve.org), Lake Minnewaska in Kerhonkson (http://www.nysparks.com), or the south ponds at SUNY New Paltz (http://www.newpaltz. edu) where you can feed the ducks there, too. Flat stones abound when the tide is out at Saugerties Lighthouse, and you can enjoy lunch on the deck (http://www.saugertieslighthouse.com). Stop by

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Esopus Meadows to check out the new waterfront pavilion on your way to the trail to flick rocks into the river (http://www.scenichudson.org/parks/ esopusmeadows), but if it’s still closed due to construction, you can skip stones at Lighthouse Park

right next door. Ride a bike! Our area’s rail trails are continually expanding (http://www.dutchessrailtrail. com, http://www.wvrta.org, http://hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net), meaning more bikeride-ability for you, including direct links to the Walkway Over the Hudson (www.walkway.org). Lippman Memorial Park in Wawarsing has awesome singletrack mountain bike trails for all levels, with the bonus of a playground for non-riding companions (http://townofwawarsing.sharepoint.com/Pages/ TownofWawarsingTownPark.aspx). Discover a playground! Doing errands in Poughkeepsie? Take a playground break, or a mini-hike on one of the many trails at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, behind the Poughkeepsie Galleria, and keep your eye out for eagles flying to and from their big nest in the eastern bank of trees (http:// www.co.dutchess.ny.us/countygov/departments/ dpw-parks/ppbowdoin.htm). Toddlers get their very own playground space at Wee Play Tot Park for children 0 to 6 years in Beacon (http://www. weeplayproject.org). Forsyth Park in Kingston features a brand new playground renovated in April by the Junior League of Kingston, and remember to bring lettuce and apples to feed the animals at Forsyth Nature Center right on the other side of the park (http://forsythnaturecenter.org). Rosendale playground is an easy stop no matter which way you’re traveling along Route 32, and its charms include a picnic pavilion, a nearby stream and youth center (http://www.townofrosendale. com/recreation). Play ball! New York State is home to countless pro and amateur baseball and softball players. Could your child be the next Phil Rizzuto, Lou Gehrig, or Joe Torre? With so many Hudson Valley families involved in town baseball and softball leagues, the fields are a great place to socialize and watch the next generation of kids have fun while learning ball skills and good sportsmanship. Why not play a pickup game while you’re at Forsyth Park, or just play catch in on one of the riverside mansion lawns with your daughter? Since watching older players can inspire the younger set, stop by a home game of softball or baseball at SUNY New Paltz (http://www.nphawks.com); Vassar College (http://www.vassarathletics.com), Marist College (http://www.goredfoxes.com, and SUNY Dutchess in Poughkeepsie (https://www.sunydutchess.edu/studentlife/athletics); and SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge (https://www.sunyulster. edu). You can also surprise your crew with tickets to family friendly Hudson Valley Renegades baseball games which begin in June and include fun games between innings, bounce houses, and special games with fireworks and kids’ nights where

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enerations of former New York metro area residents living in the Hudson valley got their first experiences of the area going to camp here as kids. Some hit the old socialist camps, others Jewish heritage sleepovers or Fresh Air Fund and YMCA establishments. Still others came up for specialty sports or riding, or a host of deep-in-the-Catskills camps still running to this day, or just summered with their families and attended the numerous municipal day camps that start to fill up and close their summer rosters at this time of year. What’s available for part- and full-time Hudson Valley kids this summer? The municipal camps tend to run daily on a regular school schedule, with about half offering swimming of some sort. Several, such as the Woodstock, New Paltz, Rhinebeck and Marbletown ones, are considered on a par with the private camps. A number of overnight camps can take in day campers around the area. They include the Timberland up in Shandaken, a host of longstanding camps in the Taconic Hills of northern Dutchess and Columbia counties, and Frost Valley YMCA camp, as well as other scouting camps and several beloved YMCA camps such as Seewackamano in Olive. Many of the region’s private schools and colleges offer great summer-camp experiences. SUNY Ulster has a number of sports- and science-oriented sessions all summer long. Bard specializes in sports camps. Vassar and SUNY New Paltz have some great dramatic offerings. High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, Hawthorne Valley in Columbia County and Woodstock Day School have summer programs. For some kids, vacation has become synonymous in recent years with Wayfinders, a role-playing session, including night time play each week, where kids team up and become medieval nights with giant nerf swords, learning leadership and group play. The important thing to remember is that places tend to fill up quickly when registration opens, and are often completely booked by early May. So get on it now.

they can run the bases after the game (http:// www.milb.com). See drive-in movies! Forget about Netflix for a night and make real movie memories by going to a drive-in! Hyde Park Drive-In Theatre, 4114 Albany Post Road in Hyde Park, across from the Franklin Roosevelt estate, (845) 229-4738, www. hydeparkdrivein.com. Overlook Drive-In Theatre, 126 Degarmo Road in Poughkeepsie, (845) 4523445,  www.overlookdrivein.com. Hi-way DriveIn Theatre, 10699 State Route 9W in Coxsackie, (518) 731-8672, http://www.hiwaydrivein.com. Four Brothers Drive-In, 4957 Route 22 in Amenia, (845) 373-8178, http://playeatdrink.com. Kayak with the kids! Kayaking on calm waters is a terrific way to give your kids independence in a safe environment. The quiet activity increases your chances of viewing wildlife along the way, and there are plenty of places to go! This spring, you should check out the Black Creek Water Trail in the Town of Lloyd (http://www.townoflloyd. com), or you can paddle around Louisa Pond at Shaupeneak Ridge in Esopus (http://www.scenichudson.org/parks/shaupeneakridge). Looking for a group outing? Join Forsyth Nature Center’s kayaking program in Kingston for a morning or evening paddle, all equipment supplied (http:// www.forsythnaturecenter.org/kingston-kayaks. html). Rentals in the New Paltz area are so easy, you can get a kayak or canoe dropped off and picked up right on site with New Paltz Kayaking Tours (http://www.npkt.net). Stargaze! Alm@nac Weekly’s columnist and astronomer Bob Berman shares ideas to look for in the night sky every week (http://www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/category/columns/ night-sky). And did you know that the Planetarium at SUNY New Paltz is open to the public for Astronomy Night on the first and third Thursdays that the university is in session? The free show begins with an indoor planetarium show (tickets required), followed by outdoor telescope viewing at the Smolen Observatory, clear skies permitting (no tickets required for telescope viewing). The schedule and details can be found here, http:// www.newpaltz.edu/planetarium/shows.html. Â

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ave a blast indoors this spring no matter what the weather! Race cars! Rolling toy cars along a hard floor is fun, but for ages 5 through adult, whizzing slot cars around twisty tracks is even better! Get over to Hudson Valley Raceway in Hyde Park to see what I mean (http://www.hvraceway.net). Craft and create! Get a head start on gifts for Mother’s and Father’s Days, or just do your own thing at Fibreflame Studio in Saugerties and Rhinebeck. Not a crafter? There’s even an old typewriter you can tap letters on, and a sewing machine, too. (http://www.fiberflamestudio.com) Make and play! Wish you could combine craft time with playtime, or is your family divided on what to do? Head to Poughkidsie in Poughkeepsie, where children can dress-up or do other imaginative play in the Village area, and children through adult can craft in the studio. Large glass windows help you see where everybody is, and made-toorder fresh-brewed coffee means you get a break,

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too. (http://poughkidsie.com) Play freely! Town of Esopus Library in Port Ewen has a variety of programming for all ages, and they even have a free-play area downstairs, but if you change your mind and want to play outside, it’s only a short walk to the playground at George Freer Memorial Park   (http://esopuslibrary.org). Frida’s Bakery & Cafe in Milton has a dedicated play area for young children, free wifi, and they offer kids’ baking classes! (http://www. fridasbakeryny.com)

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ere are some family-friendly local spring traditions and special cultural treasures adults and kids of all ages will love. 23Arts Initiative This wonderful line-up of concerts and music education programs in Tannersville offers classical, jazz, and more. http:// www.23arts.org Storm King Lace up your walking shoes for this epic, outdoor oversized art center in New Windsor, and be sure to stop by the exhibits the kids can actually touch: Mark Di Suvero’s Beethoven’s Quartet, which can be hit with the supplied mallet; Maya Lin’s Storm King Wavefield, where you can walk on the waves of earth; Siah Armajani’s Gazebo for Two Anarchists: Gabriella Antolini and Alberto Antolini, where people can sit on either end. http://www.stormking.org Unison Arts Center For a smaller scale sculpture garden, take the family for a free stroll through the Unison Sculpture Garden in New Paltz. http:// unisonarts.org Gardiner Cupcake Festival Tempting treats make everyone feel like a kid again at the Gardiner Cupcake Festival on May 16, including glutenfree and vegan varieties. http://www.gardinercupcakefestival.com More than Memorial Day Visit these historic sites year-round, especially poignant around Memorial Day, May 25: West Point Museum in West Point/Highland Falls, http://www.usma. edu/museum; New Windsor Cantonment in New Windsor, http://nysparks.com; and George Washington’s Headquarters in Newburgh, http:// nysparks.com.   Hudson Valley LGBTQ Pride March & Festival All ages are invited to join in this colorful parade and celebration on June 7 in New Paltz. http:// lgbtqcenter.org/events/pride-march-and-festival

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here’s a lot of talk these days about the steady current of Gotham dwellers flooding the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. Many of us who already live here have noted the increasingly urban vibe in new businesses in our small cities and are predicting that the economic upswing we’ve been waiting for is finally here. If you’re not here yet, maybe it’s time for you to become an urban expat, too. But be sure to do it right. Urban expats today are smart. They don’t just count their pennies, pack their bags and settle for the first town that looks good to them. They’re the networked generation. They know how to do their homework. Here’s what I’ve learned from working with them on real estate:

Use the hive mind Tapping into the collective intelligence isn’t only for the Borg and the bees. Today’s upstate newbies do their research online. They don’t just check out Realtor.com for the house of their dreams. They look for websites that give them more information about the communities those great houses are in. Sites like Brooklyn-themed brownstoner.com, Wikipedia, Frommer’s, Upstate House’s Upstater. com, even Vogue. Anything you want to know about local communities is out there. Hone your research skills and weed through to find the information that matters to you. Or be lazy and ask the hive. City-data.com and tripadvisor.com have forums where you’ll find discussions of individual towns. Some sites are unfiltered, so be prepared to be offended. But you’ll get a lot of useful information, even if it’s learning that you never ever want to meet the person who posted a particular response. One thing you should know is that local pride isn’t restricted to the five boroughs of New York City. Ask a Kingston native (or newbie) and they’ll tell you there’s nowhere better. Period. But go talk to people in Woodstock, Rosendale, New Paltz, Palenville, Catskill, Hudson, Rhinebeck. They’ll all tell you that same thing about their town. Take a drive once you’ve narrowed down your list. It’s worth the cost of a Zipcar if you don’t own a car. Go see for yourself. Stop and talk to the business owners. Get a sense of what each community is like. And by the way – you’re probably going to need a car eventually. Be ready.

You’ve picked your town Now pick your broker. Yes, you can find a house on Craigslist. More power to you. It’s the Wild West of real estate. Play it safe and do your research again. It’s worth it to find a broker you think is a fit for you. If you want this move to be low-stress and even fun, get yourself a professional. Maybe they blog, maybe they write (ahem). Maybe you decide based on their listings or their agency’s website. Give a few a call and see who feels like a fit for you. Here’s the beautiful part that surprisingly few people seem to understand: In most cases, your

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broker won’t cost you a dime. Yes, there are buyer’s brokers who charge a fee and do a great job. But it’s more common upstate for sellers to pay not only the agent who lists their house but also the agent who brings the buyer. It’s kind of like a welcome-to-the-neighborhood present.

Time for financing Yes, even before you look for your house you’re ahead of the game if you are pre-qualified for a mortgage. Ask your broker to recommend some local lenders. Please use a local lender. It’s going to make everything, from application to closing, easier. Local folks understand the area you’re buying in. They’ll know the lawyers and the brokers. They have a reputation to uphold. The good ones will knock themselves out to get you a good rate. Stay on top of your loan and make sure you close without nightmares.

Talk to the neighbors This is an old-school move, but it still makes a lot of sense. All the web research in the world can’t compete with talking face to face. Let’s say you’ve picked your town, found the house that’s you, and the price is in your ballpark. Go back and talk to

the people who live near the house. Ask questions that get you information you won’t get anywhere else. What’s the best thing about living here? What’s the worst? Wide-open questions can lead to a great, and informative, conversation. You may even make a new friend before you move in. If you get an unfriendly reception, that’s useful information, too. But chances are you’ll find a neighbor who’s happy to give you a real view of what life is like in what may be your new town.

Get a local lawyer Get a local lawyer when you’re ready to go contract. It’s the same story as with the lender. If you stay in the community, you’ll get an attorney who knows the seller’s attorney. Your attorney will know the lender. She or he will know any quirks in local real-estate law or zoning. You will save yourself hours of angst. Don’t you want a local attorney in your new town anyway? Do it.

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didn’t forget to discuss picking the house, by the way. I refer you to my prior article on the subject which you can find online. Consider it part of your research. And welcome. You’re going to like it here.

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nce upon a time one went to certain places in the Hudson Valley for certain forms of entertainment. You’d catch your rock music in Woodstock’s various venues, all geared to those recording in its studios, or deciding to play down the road from their getaway homes. In Poughkeepsie, The Chance used to be the touring home of makingit bands like The Police or Ramones. You’d get your art fix on in a few artist colony towns with galleries, and eventually in a host of small cities where scenes got coordinated around certain Saturdays each month. Theater tended to be a summer thing, unless one was into the hyper-local and often amateurish, or the occasional hidden workshop. Scattered around to goose the greater sense of entertainments were a smattering of larger old resorts, our area’s extension of the old Borscht Belt, where you might find Johnny Cash and Ray Charles at the Friar Tuck, or The Who playing the old Tamarack. You’d hear about something coming far in advance or at the last minute, and then make a field trip accordingly. Some would just congregate around venues, like the Hunter Mountain summer festivals or Woodstock’s Joyous Lake and Tinker Street Café, at Kingston’s former Watermark/

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Cargo Gallery down on the Rondout, or at the colleges. Everything exploded about 20 years ago, and really gained steam and speed in the past decade. Hudson got hot, along with Beacon and Kingston and Phoenicia and Tannersville and New Paltz and … there are now music and gallery and other venues seemingly everywhere. There are even fun

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ummer repertory theater has long been big in the region. Now’s the season to catch what’s happening. Tangent Theatre Company, performing out of the Carpenter Shop Theater, 60 Broadway, Tivoli, is presenting Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero in April (www. tangent-arts.org). STS Playhouse in Phoenicia, as sweet a country theater as one can find anywhere, will be putting on David Auburn’s Proof the same month (688-2279 or www.stsplayhouse.com). Dutchess County Community College Performing Arts Department is running a new version of The Heidi Chronicles in the college’s James and Betty Hall Theatre in April (431-8000). SUNY Ulster will be presenting Bertholt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children (www.sunyulster. edu). SUNY New Paltz will perform Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Parker Theater (www. newpaltz.edu/theatre). The Culinary Institute of America’s Half Moon Theatre is presenting The Fantasticks through early May on its Hyde Park campus, with dinner theater options (471-6608). Vassar College’s Shakespeare Troupe presents King Lear outdoors at the Vassar Farm at 5 PM on Sunday, May 10. Also coming up will be a new HRC-Showcase Theatre production of Paul Lewis’ play Oblivion at the First Reformed Church, 52 Green Street, Hudson, in April (518-851-2061 or www.hrcshowcasetheatre.com). Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck production of an original drama, Dark Echoes, will be staged in early May, followed by The Producers from May 15 to June 7 at the fab theater space located on Route 308 just

east of the village (876-3088 nor www.centerforperformingarts.org). And then there are the regionals. MacHaydn, up in Chatham (518-392-9292 or www.machaydntheatre.org), and Shadowland in Ellenville (647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org) kick off in late May.

cocktail-fantastic mixeries that our younger residents take public transportation to get to so as to avoid the culturally stultifying effects of DWIs. Home entertainment systems have grown to the point where no one even needs a video store or library anymore to get their cultural effects. The problem now is to figure out which things to do on any given weekend, especially after the cabin fever inwardness of the winter months has passed and before summer’s big distractions of backyard outdoor fun has arrived, or the autumn’s cooler season. Hey, not only does everyone start booking big May and June, but you also get the big end-of-the-school-year offerings at our various campuses, where big gallery exhibitions, muchworked-on performances, and other key events are now getting readied. How to choose, how to choose? The people who edit the listings for our Hudson Valley’s top publications, websites and radio venues all wanted to remain nameless, the better not to look like they were endorsing certain items over others. But what they suggested was truly cool.

– June 2015 26 | April Explore Hudson Valley First off, you have to acknowledge the specialness of the spring season, which comes in waves. First is a mirroring of late autumn, as the last of the snow disappears and a first coloring of spring buds takes hold across mountains and hilltops. Kids appear outside for the start of Little League. Then that first splash of yellow that comes with the April blooming of daffodils, hyacinths and forsythia, fast followed by the light greens and whites of early tree blossoms. And the red bud! Several big local running races and mini-festivals take place, along with piles of year-end concerts and outdoor get-togethers on college campuses. After which it all seems to turn green and lush, irises and tulips and lilacs bursting forth and Memorial Day parading down swept streets to remind all the newer sophisticates in Beacon and Hudson, Phoenicia and Kingston, Rhinebeck and Phoenicia that this is still a place of eternal Upstate community. Hike the trails of the Catskills. Take a kayak or

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Sunday 4/12 12:00-4:00 PM Big Indian Native American Cultural Center gathering. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill, Bring a dish for a potluck. 254-5469. 2:00 PM Gary Kleppel reads from “The Emergent Agriculture: Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy.” Chatham Bookstore, 27 Main Street, Chatham. www. chathambookstore.com 2:00 PM Sunday Salon with artist Stephen Hannock. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. www.thomascole.org. 3:00 PM Dance Film Sundays: Romeo and Juliet by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale, 658-8989 or www. rosendaletheatre.org. 7:00 PM James Lecesne does The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Club Helsinki, Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. www.helsinkihudson.com 7:00 PM Comedian Ron White at Ulster Performing Arts Center, Broadway, Kingston. 4735288 or www.bardavon.org.

Monday 4/13 6:00 PM DAR Flag of the U.S.A Essay Contest Award Presentation. Chancellor Livingston Chapter, Starr Library, 68 W Market St, Rhinebeck. 876-1777.

Tuesday 4/14 6:00 PM The Taste of Rhinebeck benefit dining crawl, benefiting Northern Dutchess Hospital. 871-1711 or www.tasteofrhinebeck.com. Wednesday 4/15 1:00 PM Steve Gorn - Music in the World at SUNY Ulster, College Lounge, Stone Ridge. www. sunyulster.edu. Thursday 4/16 1:00-5:00 PM SUNY Orange Job and Career Fair, SUNY Orange, Diana Physical Education Center, Middletown, 341-4444 or online at www. sunyorange.edu/careers. 7:00 PM Roswell Rudd Quartet. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Friday 4/17 7:30 PM Blazing Saddles, Ulster Perfromimg Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. 339-6088 or www.bardavon.org. Through Sunday... 14th Annual Haitian Art Auction & Sale , Vassar College,124 Raymond Ave. College Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370

Saturday 4/18 9:00 AM on (through weekend) 24th Annual Antique & Classic Bicycle Auction & Swap Meet, Copake Auction Inc., 266 Route 7A, Copake. 518329-1142 or www.copakeauction.com. 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spring Home & Garden Day, Village of Kinderhook. www.villageofkinderhook.org. 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase, Clermont Historic Site, Route 9, Clermont. www.friendsofclermont.org. 5:00 - 9:00 PM Charlie Chaplin Birthday Costume Party & Films, Little Shop of Horses, 37 North Front St, 2nd Floor, Kingston. 340-0501. 7:00 PM From Russia with Love: Classics on the Hudson, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson. 518-822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.org.

7:00 PM Ed Palermo Big Band & Rob Paparozzi “Electric Butter” CD Release. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro 2367970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. 7:00 PM Movies With Spirit: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 22 Livingston St, Kingston. 389-9201. 7:30 PM Thomas Ortiz Dance Kaatsbaan, 120 Broadway, Tivoli. 757-5106, x2.

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efore the season heats up, why not try out some weekly events? Here are some local favorites. On Fridays, check out the acoustic jazz offerings at Palenville’s Kindred Spirits on the Ulster/Greene line, with some real all-stars playing each week. 334 Rte 32A, Palenville. 518-678-3101. On Saturdays many of the same players come out to accompany the legendary Malcolm Cecil, mastermind behind Stevie Wonder’s early 1970s synthesizer sound. Things start at 7 PM each night. Sundays is a great time for getting high-minded. Check out the weekly “Reading the Work of Jacques Lacan” sessions at Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly Street in Rhinecliff. Call 876-5800 for info. Tuesdays are quite busy, for various reasons, with a Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting all day at the Walker Valley Schoolhouse down on the Orange/Ulster counties line; stay as long as you wish. Call 744-3055 for more information. Also, check out the 5:30 PM Phoenicia Community Choir practices in the Wesleyan Church basement on Main Street in Phoenicia, led by opera professionals. Call 688-2169 for info. There’s a weekly jazz jam from 7 to 10 PM at The Derby, 96 Main Street in Poughkeepsie (452-3232). A Catskills open mic event with the Ben Rounds Band occurs every week at the Catamount Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant on Route 28 near Phoenicia (688-2444 or www.emersonresort.com). Wednesdays are when the Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus meet and practice at St. Andrew’s Church, 110 Overlook Street in Poughkeepsie, starting at 7:30 PM. Visit wwwnewyorkerschorus.org for information. There’s an 8:30 PM acoustic jazz evening with bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff ‘Siege’ Siegel at Woodstock’s Catskill Mountain Pizza Company at 51 Mill Hill Road (679-7969), as well as regular movie nights and a regular Ukulele Circle at the Olive Free Library on Route 28 in West Shokan (657-2482) and the weekly 6 PM Woodstock Community Chorale singalongs at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts just off the Woodstock village green (688-2169). Finally, on Thursdays, check out the 12:15 PM Kingston Uptown fine arts music series presenting a wealth of genres and talents at the Old Dutch Church at the corner of Wall and Main streets (338-6759), as well as the regular bluegrass clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, Eric Weissberg and Bill Keith at Wok `n Roll’s Harmony Cafe, 50 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock (679-3484).

9:30 PM Impetus, A Forum for Artistic Spontaneity, Rosendale Theater, Main St, Rosendale, 658-8989.

Sunday 4/19 1:00 - 04:00 PM Free tours of Vanderbilt Formal Gardens Every third Sunday, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park. 229-9115. 3 PM Shakesbeer Festival matching Macbeth and tastings. Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 South Grand Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 4710430 or www.hvcommunitycenter.com. 3:00 PM Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society: The Enso String Quartet, Church of the Messiah, 6436 Rte. 9, Rhinebeck. 876-3533 or www. rhinebeckmusic.org. 3:00 PM “A Historical Perspective on Changing Land Use Pattern” in Red Hook Farming at Elmendorph Inn, 7562 North Broadway, Red Hook. 758-1920 or www.historicredhook.org.

Tuesday 4 21 7:00 PM Jeff Beck at Ulster Performing Arts Center, Broadway, Kingston. 473-5288 or www. bardavon.org.

Thursday 4 23 12:15 PM Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang at Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. www.sunyulster.edu

Friday 4/24 3:00 PM Schoen Movement Company Showcase: Dancing ‘round the Hearth at Orpheum Theater, Tannersville, www.catskillmtn.org. 8:00 PM The Feelies at BSP Lounge, 323 Wall Street, Kingston. 481-5158 or www.bspkingston. com. 8:00 PM (also on Saturday) American Symphony Orchestra, Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900 or www.fishercenter.bard.edu..

Saturday 4/25 All day... Hudson Valley Draft Horse Association Spring Plow at Saundersill Farm. 5100 Rt. 209, Accord. 294-9016 All day... TAP New York at Hunter Mountain craft beer and fine food festival at Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.tap-ny.com 10:00 AM Second Annual Spanish Spelling Bee in the Aula auditorium of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 758-6822 ext. 3759 or www.spanishspellingbee.webs.com. 12:30 PM The Met does Pagliacci at UPAC, live broadcast, 501 Broadway, Kingston. www. bardavon.org. 1:00 PM Saxophone Workshop At The Beacon Music Factory, 629 Route 52. Beacon. 7650472 or www.beaconmusicfactory.com. 3:00 PM 24-Hour Drone: Experiments In Sound and Music at Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front Street, Hudson. www.basilicahudson.

com 5:00 PM The Broad Street Chamber Players at Won Dharma Center, 361 Route 23, Claverack. 518- 851-6517or www.wondharmacenter.org 5:00 PM Health Alliance Foundation Tulip Ball at the Lazy Swan Golf & Country Club, Old Kings Highway, Saugerties. www.hahv.org. 5:00 PM Woodstock Library Forum : Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, Woodstock. www.woodstock.org 8:00 PM Vassar College Women’s Chorus. Skinner Hall of Music,Vassar College, Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie. 437-7000. 8:00 PM The Weight band playing songs of The Band at Levon Helm Studio, Woodstock. www.levonhelm.com 7:30 PM Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company. Kaatsbaan, 120 Broadway, Tivoli. 7575106 x2.

Sunday 4/26 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Healthy Kids’ Day at Frost Valley, CR 42 past Oliverea. 985-2291 or www.frostvalley.org. 1:00 PM Square Dance w/ Mike + Ruthy at BSP Lounge, 323 Wall Street, Kingston. 481-5158 or www.bspkingston.com.

Monday 4/27 4:45 PM The Visitor Talks - Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane), CCS-Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson. 758-7598.

Tuesday 4/28 7:30 PM College Wind & Percussion Ensembles. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster Stone Ridge Campus. www.sunyulster.edu

Wednesday 4/29 7:00 PM Trivia Night with Paul Tully and Eric Stamberg, High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.. 687-2699. 9:00 PM Sean Rowe. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. 518-828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com.

Thursday, 4/30 7:30 PM DCC Choral Concert in James and Betty Hall Theatre, Dutchess Hall, Dutchess County Community College, 53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000

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Dutch Church, Wall & Main streets, Kingston. 8:00 PM Hudson Valley Philharmonic: Brahms Requiem, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072 or www. bardavon.org. 7:00 PM Dan Rothstein and Friends jazz guitar. SUNY Columbia-Greene, Arts Center Theater, Route 23, Hudson, 518-828-4181.

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here’s been lots of handwringing about the slow death of golf as a major U.S. sport in the past year. Here in the Hudson Valley, where our nation’s first course was set up as Edgewood Club with two and then nine holes outside of Tivoli in 1884 (back before pool cues were banned on putting greens), new courses keep getting built, and private course memberships are still prized. There’s a strong mix of private and public courses to choose from, most with great views of rolling hills and the distant Catskills. Spring is the time for great play, and less crowded than even the fickle fall months. Rising as sports destinations as well are tennis camps and clubs around the area, many times at the same resorts or in walking distance of established golf courses. There are even choices between clay and grass courses for true aficionados. If you’re not ready to join a local private club, try taking classes at Kaatsbaan in Saugerties, or head over to the courts set up on local college campuses, at a number of area high schools, and even in recreation areas in some of our towns and cities. For those of us needing to entertain whole families in a sporting way and looking for something a bit more contained than long hikes or runs, quite a few classic and new miniature golf courses remain, though it’s not the same scene it once was back when the Catskills were home to some of the best putt-putt courses anywhere. Just follow major routes, or check out online. Or ask a kid. They may not know exactly how to get to their families’ favorite spots, but they can usually name and describe them. Just as this is the season for getting outside for good games of golf and tennis, it’s also National Miniature Golf Day on the second Saturday of May.

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM 15th annual Women’s Health & Fitness Expo, Miller Middle School,Lake Katrine. www.womenshealthexpo. com 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Hudson Valley Garden Association fundraising event at Montgomery Place, River Road, Annandale-on-Hudson. 6318200, www.hudsonvalley.org. 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spring 2015 GOST Gardiner Open Studio Tour. 15 stops in Gardiner. www.GOSTartists.org 10:00 AM 7th Annual Hudson Children’s Book Festival. Hudson Junior/Senior High School, 215 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson. 518828-4360 Ext 1112 or www.hudsonchildrensbookfestival.com. 10:30 AM Ride for Paws & Claws - UCSPCA Benefit Ride Starting at Woodstock Harley-Davidson, 949 Route 28, Kingston. Ending at Hur-

ley Mountain Inn, 106 Old Rt 209, Hurley. 3315377, x 211 11:00 AM The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; Special Screening with Talk by Geoffrey Ward & Luncheon at Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery St./Rte. 9, Rhinebeck. Reservations necessary. 876.4818. 12:00 noon on Annual Beltane Festival at Center for Symbolic Studies at Stone Farm Mountain, Tillson (near Rosendale). 658-8540, www. symbolicstudies.org 12 noon - 4:00PM Ramp Fest Basilica, major foodie fest at Basilica Hudson, Hudson. www. rampfesthudson.com. 1:00 PM Diamondback Motocross Racing, Weldon House, Route 145, East Durham. 5:00 - 8:00 PM First Saturday Art Receptions in Kingston; Rondout area. 338-0331. 7:30 PM Mid Hudson Rainbow Chorus at Old

Sunday 5/3 1:00 - 5:00 PM 8th Eleanor Roosevelt KnitIn, Henry A. Wallace Visitor’s Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Home, Route 9, Hyde Park. 229-2559 or 845-229-7711 2:00 PM Mandolins & Celebrated Melodies Alla Napoletana, Altamura Center for the Arts Round Top. 518-622-0070, www. altocanto.org 7:00 PM An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at UPAC, 501 Broadway, Kingston. www.bardavon.org. 2:00 PM Artist Talk with David Eddy and Polly Law, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, 22 East Market St., Ste. 301, Rhinebeck. 876-7578

Wednesday 5/6 7:30 PM SUNY Ulster Community Band & Jazz Ensemble, Quimby Hall, Stone Ridge campus. www.sunyulster.edu.

Thursday 5/7 2:00 PM Open Rehearsals at Kaatsbaan: Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, 120 Broadway, Tivoli. 757-5106

Friday 5/8 3:00 and 7:00 PM Marist Silver Needle Fashion Show, Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800 8:00 PM Vassar College Orchestra, Skinner Hall of Music, 124 Raymond Ave,Poughkeepsie. 437-7000, 437-7394 9:00 PM Heather Maloney at Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. 518-8284800 or www.helsinkihudson.com

Saturday 5/9 Mother’s Day! 12 non to 5:00PM Rip Van Winkle Wine Festival at Historic Catskill Point, 1 Main Street, Catskill, look up page on Facebook.

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Monday 5/11 7:30 PM SUNY Ulster String Ensemble, Qimby Hall, Stone Ridge Campus, SUNY Ulster. www.sunyulster.edu.

Wednesday 5/13 6:00 PM Big Night: Dinner and a Movie at Culinary Institute of America, Rte. 9, Hyde Park, (845) 471-6608 8:00 PM Laura Cantrell and Two Dark Birds at BSP Lounge, Wall STreet and N. Front,Uptown Kingston. www.bspkingston.com.

Thursday 5/14 6:30 PM Locust Grove’s ‘Sunset Sensations’ Wine and Food Series summer kickoff, Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd., Poughkeepsie, (845) 454-4500.

Friday 5/15 6:00 PM National Pizza Party Day benefiting Foodstock, Clinton Cheese & Provisions, 2411 Salt Point Tpke., Clinton Corners, (845)266-0700 or www.clintonprovisions.com. 8:00 PM Lee Brice, Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. (845) 454-58001-800-745-3000 or www.midhudsonciviccenter.org

Saturday 5/16 10:00am - 2:00pm Spring Planting Day, celebratory lunch, The Sylvia Center at Katchkie Farm, 34 Fischer Road Ext., Kinderhook, www.

sylviacenter.org 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Planting an 18th century garden, Senate House Museum, 296 Fair Street, Kingston. 338-2786 12 noon - 6:00 PM 5th annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival, Wrights Farm, Route 208, Gardiner. Check them out on Facebook. 12:30 - 4:00 PM Association Day at the Bronck Museum, a spirited celebration of the American Revolution, Bronck Museum, Coxsackie. 518-731-6490, www.gchistory.org. 6:00 PM Swing & Shine, Ashokan Center &

Woodstock School of Art square dance and potluck dinner. www.ashokancenter.com. 6:00 PM Square Dance... held by Hudson Valley Draft Horse Association, The Mid-Hudson Driving Association, and the Ulster County Horse Council at the Ulster County Fair Grounds Youth Building, Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 294-9016. 7:30 PM (and 2:30 on Sunday) Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at Kaatsbaan Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 x2.

Sunday 5/17 9:00 AM Farmer’s Daughter Gravel Grinder 65 mile bike race at Columbia County Fairgrounds, 182 Hudson Avenue, Chatham, www.bikereg.

com/farmersdaughtergravelgrinder.com 1:00 - 04:00 PM Free tours of Vanderbilt Formal Gardens Every 3rd Sunday, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, (845) 229-9115 7:00 PM Bardavon Gala with Bernadette Peters, The Bardavon, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie. www.bardavon.org.

tusironpour.com. 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Vanderbilt Formal Garden Assn. Plant Sale, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site parking lot, Route 9, Hyde Park. 229-9115 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Tannersville Rubber Duck and Crazy Boat Race, on Rip Van Winkle Lake, Tannersville, Greene County. 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Hudson-Berkshire Wine & Food Festival, Columbia County Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham. www.hudsonberkshireex-

perience.com 7:00 PM Classics on Hudson: Mozart Adagios, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson. 518-822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.

org 7:30 PM Jennifer Muller/The Works at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli. 757-5106

Sunday 5/24

7:00 PM Hip Hop Theater with Baba Israel and Yako 440, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072

All Day... Stormville Airport Antique Show & Flea Market, off Route 84, Storemville. 4:30 - 8:00 PM Columbia Land Conservancy Country BBQ, a elegant picnic for 1000, Dutch Hollow Farm, 3137 Running Creek Road, Schodack Landing, www.clctrust.org

Friday 5/22

Monday 5/25

Thursday 5/21

7:30 PM (also on Saturday at same time) Woodstock Chamber Music Orchestra Salute To Veterans, Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster Stone Ridge Campus. 266-3517. Through the weekend... Woodstock New Paltz Arts And Crafts Fair, Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Road, New Paltz. www.quailhollow.com. Through the weekend... Â Frost Valley Ymca Weekend, 2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville. www.frostvalley.com Through the weekend... East Durham Irish Festival, Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, Route 145, East Durham. www. eastdurhamirishfestival.com. All day... Hefestus 2nd annual Iron Pour, at the former Tallix Complex in Beacon. www.hefes-

Memorial Day parades... check your papers for times and routes!

Thursday 5/28 5:00 - 7:00 PM Opening Reception for Future Voices: High School Art from Ulster County, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster on the Stone Ridge Campus. www.sunyulster.edu.

Friday 5/29 All weekend... Wine & Food Festival of New Paltz at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. www.mohonk.com.

Saturday 5/30 3:00 PM Vassar Commencement Concert for the Class of 2015, Vassar College, Skinner Hall of Music, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie. 4377000

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