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news and politics

transportation

20 while you were sleeping

54 where the wallet meets the road

Atlantic sturgeon declared endangered, US drops in Press Freedom Index, more.

21 beinhart’s body politic: I got thhe horse right here Larry Beinhart notes Sheldon Aldelson's big gamble on Newt Gingrich.

HOME 22 house profile: the first straw

Jorge Gomes and Jamie McGinnis's eco-friendly straw-bale home in Kerhonkson.

27 the garden: pruning shrubs the hard way

Store's Mudroom Boot Bench, culture+commerce project's Knife Storage Box.

community pages 46 gardiner, highland, marlboro, milton, and wallkill Peter Aaron visits a handful of classic Upstate towns in Ulster County.

Plus profiles of Jay and Polly Armor; Claire Winslow and Debra Dooley.

74 middletown, goshen, and montgomery

education almanac 34 our annual compendium of learning opportunities

HUDSON VALLEY RESTAURANT WEEK 93 chow time Erik Ofgang previews all the benefits of dining out March 18-31.

Our gardening columnist Michelle Sutton welcomes spring with some trimming tips.

30 the question: Is now the right time to buy a pool?

33 the ITEM: A booze bottle oil lamp from Tuthilltown Spirits, Hillsdale General

Jeffrey Alexander reports on the possibilities for inexpensive luxury for 2012 models.

Melissa Esposito notes a modern edge in the quaint burgs of Orange County.

Plus profiles of Shawn Dell Joyce; James W. Taylor, Jr.

98 fact or folklore?

Wendy Kagan investigates popular health myths and claims.

100 flowers fall: Is this my chair?

Bethany Saltman declares a break from her neurotic pursuit of the ideal state.

Community Resource Guide 58 weddings & celebrations Help for planning the big day.

89 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

94 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

102 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

Alisdair Macindoe and Marnie Palomares in Connected, a piece

by Australian dance company Chunky Move. The troupe will be performing at MASS MOCA March 24 and 25 as part of an event co-sponsored by MASS MOCA and Jacob's Pillow.

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A “hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure.”

— New York Times

july 6 – august 19,

BARDSUMMERSCAPE Bard SummerScape 2012 presents seven weeks of opera, music, theater, dance, films, and cabaret. The season’s focal point is the 23rd annual Bard Music Festival, which this year celebrates the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, whose remarkable career shaped not only the history of music, but also the ways in which that history was transmitted and communicated to the public. SummerScape takes place in the extraordinary Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard College’s stunning Mid-Hudson Valley campus.

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Bard Music Festival

THE KING IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (Le roi malgré lui)

Twenty-third Season

Music by Emmanuel Chabrier Libretto by Emile de Najac and Paul Burani American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger Set design by Kevin Knight

This tale of Henri de Valois, a 16th-century French noble elected by the people of Poland to be their king, despite his great reluctance to be away from France, has been much praised for the quality of its music—indeed, no less a master than Maurice Ravel claimed that Chabrier’s score changed the course of French harmony. sosnoff theater July 27 – August 5

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Founded in 1993 by Béatrice Massin, Compagnie fêtes galantes brings together baroque style and contemporary choreography, creating a unique kind of baroque dancing that engages and appeals to a modern sensibility. sosnoff theater July 6 – 8

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SAINT-SAËNS AND HIS WORLD

Two weekends of concerts, panels, and other events bring the musical world of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns vividly to life.

Weekend One: Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism includes a radical reconsideration of Saint-Saëns’s most famous piece, The Carnival of Animals, and examines the composer’s debt to many of his contemporaries and predecessors.

Weekend Two: Confronting Modernism explores music by many of Saint-Saëns’s contemporaries — including Franck, Chabrier, and Fauré—and exoticism in music and the influence of Wagner.

August 10–12 and 17–19

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FRANCE AND THE COLONIAL IMAGINATION

The SummerScape 2012 film festival explores the legacy of French colonialism in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Thursdays and Sundays, July 12 – August 12

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The mirrored summer pavilion is the stage for a rich array of performers, from dauntless acrobats to bawdy cabaret acts. Enjoy light fare, meals, and drinks selected from Hudson Valley farms, wineries, and breweries.

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July 6 – August 19

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The final play by a master of comedy, The Imaginary Invalid is among Molière’s greatest works. The illusory agonies of the wealthy Argan, a housebound hypochondriac who sorely desires to marry his daughter to a doctor, have proved tonic to audiences ever since the play premiered in 1673. theater two July 13 –22 Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Photo: ©Scott Barrow

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arts & culture 62 Gallery & museum GUIDe 64 music Peter Aaron reels in an interview with local Irish music icon Father Charlie Coen.

67 cd reviews Michael Eck reviews Live in the Heartland of America by Fred Gillen, Jr. Sharon Nichols reviews Painted Birds by Janie Christensen.

Mike Wolf reviews Lone Sharks by The Dopplegangaz.

68 books Nina Shengold profiles Carol Goodman, whose literary output ranges from academic pot boilers to young adult bodice-rippers.

70 book reviews Jay Blotcher reviews Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America and Who Killed Che? by Michael Ratner & Margaret Ratner Kunster.

Anne Pyburn reviews And She Was by Alison Gaylin.

72 Poetry Poems by Michael Anzuoni, Grace Bard Benepe, Rhonda Baril Coble, Peter Coco, Matthew Cronin, Sharon Decker, Christopher Haydu, Will Hockman, Paula Josa-Jones, Mike Jurkovic, Jean Kane, Marilyn Lazarus, Brian Loatman, Ben Lopez, Sid March, Dory Salerno, Beth Ann Shoenfeld, L. Springstead, Jennifer Michelson Strong, and Liam Watt. Edited by Phillip Levine.

128 parting shot

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Goddess on Earth, portraits of the divine feminine by Lisa Levart.

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Scenes from Molly and Doug Baz's road trip through the barbecue belt, from North Carolina to Texas.

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culinary adventures 82 bbq: An odyssey

Molly and Doug Baz embark on a dirty-good BBQ journey through the BBQ belt.

the forecast 109 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 107 Twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes will exhibit a selection of their works at EMPAC. 111 Ethos Percussion Group's hip and shoulder-shaking rhythms at Vassar College.

112 Gustafer Yellowgold spends his first Earth holidays at the Rosendale Theatre.

114 The Amazing Kreskin, world-famous mentalist, captivates Newburgh's Ritz Theater.

115 Vanaver Caravan performs "Russian Caravan" at UPAC in Kingston.

117 Vassar Haiti Project's annual art sale raises money for a rural Haitian village.

118 Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill at St. Paul's Parish Hall in Red Hook.

119 The Magnetic Fields rock Club Helinski in Hudson on March 6.

120 Woodstock Goddess Festival unleashes the feminine spirit with music/art/dance.

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Untitled from “Baptism” caitlinn mahar-daniels | digital print 24"x32" | 2010 Think of the expression you would make if a bucket of frigid water was thrown over your head. For Caitlinn Mahar-Daniels’s series “Baptism,” she asked her subjects to keep a neutral face as she did just that, and snapped a photo as the freezing droplets hit their skin.

Don’t be thrown off by the title. For Mahar-Daniels, “Baptism” is about the aesthetic rather than the spiritual.The series was inspired by a photograph Mahar-Daniels took of her mother just out of the shower. To Mahar-Daniels, it evoked vulnerability and freshness. “I focused on the cleansing and the purifying aspect—almost like stripping the emotional palette,” she says.

Mahar-Daniels directed the models to stay still as they anticipated the cold shock— an experiment to see what emotion would translate. Their expressions ranged from discomfort to bliss and utter ecstasy to despair.

Seating her subjects in a chair centered in a 12-foot kiddie pool, each was drenched with cups, buckets, and even large containers requiring a multi-person effort. Shot in a studio, the volume of water displaced completely destroyed the hardwood floor.

Mahar-Daniels leaves her work untitled. “Titles tell people what to get from it or what they should look for,” says Mahar-Daniels. “Even if I simply put their name as the title, the viewer would then have a specific association with that name. I wanted them to have a completely clean slate.”

“Baptism” is made up of portraits against a blank, grey background—a style inspired by Richard Avedon’s “The American West” series. “His portraits are simple and plain but they have so much depth,” says Mahar-Daniels.

Mahar-Daniels’s interest in photography budded early on. Everyday for two years she took a photo of the sunset in her hometown of Beacon using a disposable camera.

“It sounds cheesy but I was seven,” Mahar-Daniels says. Still a firm believer in film, she shot “Baptism” using a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera, with 120mm film.

Mahar-Daniels wants the viewer to relate in someway to the rawness of a candid reaction. “The idea is human beings looking at other human beings,” she says.

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Esteemed Reader More radiant than the sun, Purer than the snow, Subtler than the ether, Is the Self, The spirit within my heart.

That Self am I. —Chāndogya Upaniṣad Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: The most frequently referenced image in the Indian spiritual tradition of Vedanta is a pure, white, lotus flower growing up out of a muddy swamp. It is a beautiful image, and points to the possibility of what we might call a miracle—when something fine and sublime seems to spontaneously arise from the mundane.

The lotus in the mud is an image that surprises. We don’t expect something flawless to be rooted in muck. This metaphor for our inner lives surprises because our minds are filled to brimming with pictures of what has been, leaving no room for revolutionary possible futures. Always unconsciously meditating on the past, we enforce its repetition.

Vedanta does not claim, like our Western positivist view, that order arises from disorder via a series of fortunate accidents and adaptations. Rather, it assumes that absolute perfection is the basis for everything. But then Vedanta, like all esoteric traditions, is a psycho-cosmology that places every human being and her possible evolution—not randomly disparate atoms—at the center of the world.

The Upanishads, comparable in importance for the Hindu tradition to the Old and New Testaments, or the Koran, begins with a simple statement: That is perfect. This is perfect. Perfect comes from perfect. Take perfect from perfect, the remainder is perfect.

That refers to “Brahman,” the Cosmic Self, or God. This is “Atman,” the Personal Self, a spark of divinity residing at the heart of every being. The Cosmic Self and the Personal Self are identical. In this conception, the possibility of a human life is to realize that perfect Self.

The essence of the Self is perfection, though it is not the opposite of the imperfect.

It is entire and whole. In the Self is no element of dissatisfaction or regret. It just is, and very happily so. In the Self is a state of happiness so total it is called bliss.

From the standpoint of our ordinary consciousness this high state sounds inaccessible—but it is closer than it seems. The Koran says, and it is speaking of the same thing, the Self is “closer to you than your own jugular vein.”

The first Upanishad continues: The Self is everywhere, without a body, without a shape, whole, pure, wise, all knowing, far shining, self-depending, all transcending; in the eternal procession assigning to every period its proper duty.

But where is this “Self ”, so close, and yet so elusive? In Vedanta we are told a thread emits from the Self into our ordinary consciousness. It is constantly present— omnipresent, though it becomes obscured—a twine that is knotted and dirtied, a fiber dragged through dirt. That filament, extending from the source of consciousness, is awareness.

Awareness is always already pure, however attached it seems to be to the objects it illuminates. It is always separate from what it sees, though the experiencer may not even know that separation.

In a dream I am chased by a lion.Waking up I am relieved it was only a dream. But who was observing all of this?

There is in us, an agent of awareness that is always awake, always present. That agent—an Observer—is constantly and impartially tracking the contents of our experience. It does not judge or filter; it does not reject some experiences and embrace others. It simply tracks and registers every iota of impressions, thoughts, emotions, sensations—all our joy and suffering; all our doing and not-doing.

Awareness beaming from the Self is like sunlight—invisible but full of power, known only by that which it illuminates. Like the sun it shines unconditionally on all, reveals all.

But how easily we mistake the objects of the Self’s illumination for our selves! We are duped into believing that our identity is somehow connected to what we think, do, suffer, say.We mistake the pleasures and pains of our body for existence; thoughts and impressions for consciousness; stunted emotions for bliss.

Like crazed prisoners in a dungeon we believe we are kings, mistaking rats for subjects, old bones for treasure, moldy bread for fine cuisine.

The Observer as an agent of the Self is a rope thrown from above; a line by which we might pull our consciousness from the muddy pit of misplaced attachment.

Remembering, I am not what I am looking at, I begin to climb the rope. If I can see a thing—either inwardly or outwardly—I know it is not me and I move closer to my true identity. Remembering I am the one who is seeing. I am the Observer. I am my Self. I am free.

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Local Luminary Barbara Valocore as a classical singer and performing with the Los Angeles Opera had she not chosen to return to her Dutch ancestors’ stomping grounds in the Hudson Valley to cocreate a family foundation with her father, Paul Hancock. Hancock was an early pioneer in cable TV, building a community broadcasting network in Midwestern Connecticut way ahead of the curve (in the 1960s). In 1992, he sold the company, gave away a goodly amount of the profit, and embarked on creating a philanthropic foundation with his daughter. Three

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years later he died, leaving Valacore, then in her early forties, to take up the reins of the nascent Lifebridge Foundation. This small foundation (a staff of two and a board, of which Valocore is president) has had a big ripple-effect impact. For years it provided grants to small not-for-profits whose missions matched its own: to promote the interconnectedness of all life and one humanity. More recently Valacore’s family built, in partnership with Victorian Builders, Lifebridge Sanctuary—a stunning, 12,000 square-foot green building on 95 acres of land atop the crest of the Shawangunk Ridge in Rosendale. Lifebridge Sanctuary hosts community events and is available for meetings, workshops, trainings, and retreats. Lifebridge.org.

—Lorrie Klosterman

What was the inspiration for you and your father to shift from your careers to creating a foundation?

My father’s motivation for all his work was to serve the community, and being of service is an ethic I grew up with. So we felt that the money from the sale of his business should be used to better the lives of others. When he got very sick, I realized it would be up to me to pull this through. I had a lot of soul searching to do, and had to educate myself about how a foundation works. You don’t know where life is going to take you, but if you are careful and you listen, it can take you amazing places.

It was very inspiring to see the video on Lifebridge’s website about the hundreds of people and organizations you’ve supported over the years.

I’m glad you watched that video. It’s made entirely clips of grantees and the work they have done. It was so fulfilling and wonderful to support really good projects and smaller efforts that may have a harder time getting funding. We also provided general operating support, instead of project-oriented funding, which small nonprofits have a hard time getting. Now, however, we are not able to give any grants, as our small endowment is being used to maintain the Sanctuary building and property. But we are reaching a lot of people in a different way, when they come here.

What do you do that nurtures you?

I have an organic garden here. In the warmer weather, I want to go up to the garden all day—that’s all I want to do. And I want to be in the forest more. I have a very strong connection to the natural world. It really nurtures me.

Speaking of sustainability, what made you decide to put up the solar photovoltaic array on the Sanctuary building?

It’s always been a green building. The new construction was built around an old Dutch stone house, using trees from the property, recycled materials, and lots of other sustainable features. This year we were able to get a NYSERDA energy audit and some local solar installers explained how the panels would pay for themselves over time. We’re really happy that we did it. We’ve generated almost a megawatt of power in a month, and we’re net-metering [connected to the electrical grid] so when the sun is shining the meter is spinning backwards, feeding electricity back into the grid. There is also an education piece to this. Part of our mission when we take in groups is to educate them about energy use. The solar panels are even more of a reminder that you are using energy when you leave lights on unnecessarily. People are getting the connection in a much better way.

Lifebridge is involved in a number of community-based activities. What are some of those?

We have a winter solstice public event at the Sanctuary and ask guests to bring food to donate to the Rosendale food pantry. We also ask groups that use the sanctuary to donate any leftover food. We host three or four art shows a year at the Sanctuary, and encourage local artists to submit works linked to themes of the United Nation’s International Years. For instance, 2012 will be the Year of Cooperatives and the Year of Sustainable Energy for All.

Is there something new in the works you’d like to tell us about?

Yes! We have 95 acres of mostly wooded land here, and we’re working with Appleseed Permaculture in Stone Ridge to design an edible forest garden and develop the special features of the property. All this area was clearcut in the 19th century, so there’s little old growth here. But I want it to be a place of intense beauty where people can walk and experience nature. We really hope to build a strong relationship with the permaculture community locally and globally, and have this become a place where people can stay and learn about it.

People speak about the feeling of inspiration and power from this place.

It’s something I noticed right away on this land, and I was hoping it is something others would feel. There is a special feeling from the land itself. But it’s also the people who come here. They often do contemplative work and contribute their particular energies to the space. The next group comes in and feels that something has been contributed, and benefit from that and contribute back. It’s about the connection between the inner life and the outer work. We feel very strongly that the nurturing of that life becomes a sacred task that connects everybody. Interconnectedness is central to our mission.

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Above: Michelle Muir and Meg Boyce of Alzheimer's Association jump into Freedom Lake in Lagrangeville on February 11. More than 100 people took the plunge, raising $40,000 for Alzheimer's Association.

Below: Luke Ydstie of Blind Pilot performs at the Bearsville Theater on February 14 .

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Below (top): The opening reception for the "Grafiti of War" exhibition at Wolf Gang Gallery in Montgomery Photo: Nate Baines/Southern Tier Photography Below (bottom): Opening reception for Laetitia Hussein's 1,000 Sculptures at Basilica Hudson on February 11. Photo: Vincent Bilotta

Clockwise from top left: Nicole Villani, Jessica Pierce, Amy Colon, and Jessica Sumber of Family of Woodstock greet attendees at Family's Chocolate Lover's Brunch on February 12 at Diamond Mills in Saugerties.

Photo: Carolyn Altomari Gene Baur of Farm Sanctuary with painter Joe Concra at Concra's "Beast Epic" opening at Donzella 20th Century in Manhattan on February 9. A portion of the sales from the show will go to the animals shelters of Farm Sanctuary.

Photo: Robert Braunfeld John Hedbavny of New Paltz won the "Fan Favorite" award at the sixth

annual Knickbocker Ice Festival at Rockland State Park in Clarkstown on January 29 with his sculpture of a wolf.

Photo: Myles Aronowitz Artist Paul Spaldone (wearing scarf) being interviewed at the opening of his one-man show "The Monstrous Among Us: Folly, Excess, Collapse" at Team Love Raven House Gallery in New Paltz on February 11.

Photo: Nate Krenkel Servers offering free Asian-style goodies at the opening of Yum Yum Noodle Bar's Kingston location on February 18.

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A March Miscellany* Number of beers on tap at Copperfield's Restaurant in Montgomery: 27 (page 74) Year Bill Vanaver composed his first piece of music, for his girlfriend Livia's undergraduate dance recital: 1972 (page 115) Gallons of sweet tea consumed by Molly and Doug Baz on their BBQ Odyssey: 6 (page 82) Amount The Amazing Kreskin will pay anyone who can prove he uses secret assistance to perform his mentalist effects: $1 million (page 114) Number of degrees in a human’s natural field of vision: 240 (page 107) Average price of the cars profiled in this month’s Transportation feature: $33,438 (page 55) Years since Royal Kedem moved its kosher winery from Long Island to Highland: 43 (page 46) Number of places the US dropped in the Press Freedom Index from 2010 to 2011: 27 (page 20) Cost of riding the 3-D harness racing simulator at the Harness Racing Museum in Goshen: $5 for kids, parents ride free (page 77) Weight of Father Charlie Coen upon his arrival in America: 117 pounds (page 65) Father Coen’s weight three months later: 160 pounds Number of categories Father Charlie Coen has won in the All-Ireland Music Championships: 4 (concertina, tin whistle, singing, and flute) Age Carol Goodman won the Young Poet of Long Island Prize: 17 (page 69) Cost of a one-hour tour at Tuthilltown Spirits in Gardiner (includes three tastings): $15 (page 46) Years jazz drummer Dr. Marvin Bugalu Smith spent living in Italy: 25 (page 65) Percentage by which you are more likely to develop a brain tumor after 10 years of cell phone use: 50 (page 98) Percentage increase in the number of towns profiled in our Community Pages this month vs. last month: 50 (pages 46, 74) Varieties of vegetables grown at Four Winds Farm in Gardiner and at its Garrison annex: 150 (page 52) Number of self-immolations in the past year by ethnic Tibetans in China: 19 (page 20) Cost of attending a gala dinner hosted by Natalie Merchant: $125 (page 115) Cost of downloading Pruning: An Illustrated Guide to Pruning Ornamental Trees & Shrubs by Donald Rakow and Richard Weir: Free (page 29) Number of days it will take to celebrate the divine feminine at the Woodstock Goddess Festival: 3 (page 120) Number of straw bales needed to construct the Gomes-McGinniss straw-bale home: 350 (page 24) Cost of a 60-pound bag of hydraulic lime stucco: $40 Number of bags needed to coat the Gomes-McGinniss home with three layers of stucco: 200 Year the Mountain Brauhaus opened its bratwurst-loving doors in Gardiner: 1955 (page 46) Net worth of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson: $21.5 billion (page 21) Amount Adelson has given to support Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign: $11 million Additional amount Adelson says he is willing to give to a Republican candidate this year: $100 million Books coauthored by lawyer-activist Michael Ratner reviewed in this issue: 2 (page 70) Number of pages of declassified government documents in Ratner and Smith’s Who Killed Che?: 111 Year the Common Cold Center in England published a paper finding a link between a drop in body temperature and getting a cold: 2005 (page 99) Cost of jumping out of an airplane at Skydive the Ranch in Gardiner: $219 (page 46) Number of days the Buddha sat under a tree before his enlightenment: 49 (page 100) How much chocolate is recommended per day for positive health effects: 10 grams (page 98) Number of outraged letters we received this month: 0

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On February 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced its decision to designate the Atlantic Sturgeon population as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A large number of sturgeon migrate to the Hudson River to spawn. Increased protection for sturgeon is a result of the ongoing destruction of billions of fish in the Hudson River near Indian Point, general pollution of the river, and invasive species like zebra mussels. Impending threats on the species also include the proposed reconstruction of the Tappan Zee Bridge and toxic waste disposal associated with gas drilling. The Atlantic sturgeon are among 26 species within the Acipenseridae family of the oldest fish on Earth. The NOAA said the Hudson River population of sturgeon is currently around 870 adults, compared to between 6,000 and 7,000 in the late 19th century.

Source: Asbury Park Press According to the second annual Singles in America study by Match.com, a majority of singles age 21 and over said that they are uncertain about tying the knot.

Only 12.7 percent of singles are actively seeking a relationship, while 21.3 percent report they don’t have time or prefer to stay unattached. A little less than half are not actively looking for a relationship but say that if they met the right person they would consider it, and 16.9 percent are dating someone. Another 2.2 percent like to play the field. Bella DePaulo, a visiting professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies singles and wasn’t involved in the survey, said the findings support her belief that many embrace the option of staying single.”It smashes probably the most pervasive myth about single people, that what they want most is to escape being single,” DePaulo said.

Source: USA Today The US government has more than doubled its secret list of suspected terrorists who are not permitted to fly to or within the United States. The list, which includes over 500 Americans, grew by 10,000 names in the past year, increasing the total to about 21,000. The new surge of names came after the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 when the standards for being added to the list were lowered. Nusrat Choudhury, a staff attorney working at the ACLU’s national security project, said that the expanding list means that more citizens’ rights are being violated, as the government will not inform those on the list of their restrictions, making them unable to defend themselves. “It’s a secret list, and the government puts people on it without any explanation. Citizens have been stranded abroad,” Choudhury said.

Source: Associated Press Recent tests on Catskill bird species have found disturbing levels of mercury. Methylmercury, the most toxic of heavy metals, is released when coal is burned in power plants. According to the study, “Hidden Risk,” conducted by the Biodiversity Research Institute, songbirds and bats suffer from the same mercury effects as humans do, particularly children. The new study proved high levels of mercury have been found in native Northeastern birds such as rusty blackbirds, salt marsh sparrows, and wood thrushes, as well as little brown bats. Gaseous mercury from mining can travel hundreds of miles and settle back in the earth where it is consumed by worms and bugs who feed on the forest ground litter, the birds then ingest the insects, and as a result, are exposed to the mercury. Contamination has caused erratic behavior in birds, with species vocalizing less and abandoning their nests.

Source: New York Times

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Reporters Without Borders released its 10th annual Press Freedom Index for 2011-12 on February 3. “Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on journalists seemed so numerous. The equation is simple: The absence or suppression of civil liberties leads necessarily to the suppression of media freedom. Dictatorships fear and ban information, especially when it may undermine them,” Reporters Without Borders revealed in their statement. According to the index, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen received the worst ever rankings. The US ranking fell dramatically in the past year, from 20th to 47th, due to the targeting of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. The year’s index found the same groups of countries at its head, including Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands.

Sources: Reporters Without Borders, Huffington Post Three Tibetan livestock herders set themselves on fire to protest political and religious oppression by the Chinese authorities. The incident took place February 3 in a remote village in Sichuan Province, bringing the total number of self-immolations of ethnic Tibetans in China over the past year to 19. One of the three men was killed instantly, while the other two, aged 60 and 30, were left severely injured. Tensions were raised, amplifying the turmoil among ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan Province, as Chinese authorities have blocked off monasteries and adopted other aggressive measures, such as cutting off Internet and phone use. Local officials denied that any new self-immolations had occurred and the only issue was the lack of Internet access. The prior self-immolations all involved monks.

Source: New York Times The achievement gap between rich and poor students has grown significantly, analyses of long-term data by sociologists at universities across the US revealed.

Recent data have shown that the gap between the performance of white and black students has narrowed, yet it has worsened between income brackets. Meredith Phillips from the University of California, Los Angeles, used survey data to show that by the time high income students begin their schooling they have spent about 400 more hours in literacy activities than poor children. The balance of college completion between low- and high-income families has also grown—studies show 50 percent since the 1980s. All research was conducted between 2007 and 2008, before the impact from the recession was fully felt, and therefore it is expected that the gap has widened even more.

Source: New York Times According to a Poughkeepsie Journal analysis of 467 taser reports from 19 police agencies, the number of stun-gun incidents has tripled from 2006 to 2010 in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Police forces aren’t required to report stun-gun policies, use, injuries, or even deaths to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, and there were no cases found in which supervisors challenged an officer’s use of their taser.

According to the the New York Civil Liberties Union, about a dozen people have died in New York after being tased.

Sources: Wall Street Journal, Poughkeepsie Journal Activists affiliated with the Tea Party are protesting against local and statewide efforts to conserve energy and constrict development, as they believe it is a conspiracy lead by the UN aiming to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities. The challenges date to 1992, when the UN passed Agenda 21, a resolution that was designed to encourage nations to use fewer resources and conserve open land by developing in already dense regions. The protests have gained momentum in the past two years with the emergence of the Tea Party movement and the group's suspicions about government power and belief that global warming is a hoax. ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability USA, a nonprofit based in Oakland, CA, that sells software and offers advice to communities looking to reduce their carbon footprints, is a major target of the movement. On the campaign trail, Newt Gingrich has showed his support and lashed out against Agenda 21.

Source: New York Times —Compiled by Molly Lindsay

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

I Got the Horse Right Here

A candidate for president needs some big bucks in a rush. So he goes up to a gambler and asks for help.

We use the word gambler here to refer to someone who runs games for profit, not for folks who go up to Saratoga to put a few bucks on the ponies or who play in a Tuesday night poker game. We’re talking about the contemporary version of the guys from “Guys and Dolls,” the folks who carry on the tradition of Arnold Rothstein, Bugsy Seigel, Frank Costello, and Lucky Luciano.

So Shelly, who apparently owns the biggest established permanent floating crap game in the world, says, “Sure, Newty, waddaya need?”

Newt says, “I’m running against this guy, who’s got a couple of hundred million bucks of his own, and he’s telling lies about me!” (You have to wonder why anyone who didn’t like Newt Gingrich would choose to tell lies about him. What could they say that would be worse than the truth?)

Shelly says, “Will 10 million do ya?”

“That should do for South Carolina,” Newt says. “Just leave it on the dresser over there, my Super Pac will pick it up.”

This is all legal. All public. Indeed, it is far more open and above board than a lot of political spending these days.Yet something feels terrible wrong about the peculiar two-step of Newt asking Shelly for the money, Shelly slipping the money to “Winning Our Future”—the names of these political organizations and Super-Pacs are so perversely inverted that they’re giving a bad name to the English language—the two of them winking and snarfling about it like six-year-olds who stuck their fingers in the cake and sucked off the icing, and everyone nodding along, yes, it’s all OK, nobody’s breaking any laws.

Let’s be clear. Sheldon Adelson runs legal casinos. There is no evidence that he’s a gangster or that he associates with organized crime. He’s a legal man with legal money. In Nevada, brothels are also legal. Look for the rise of Super-Pimp, on line to be the next billionaire benefactor of a bereft politician.

What is implicit, but completely unspoken, is the notion that money is not inherently virtuous. Gambling is harmless entertainment for a fair number of people. Like drugs and alcohol it is massively destructive for a small percentage of people and occasionally a problem for a larger number of people.

A paper from the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs (Policy Forum Vol. 13, November 2, 2000) has the very blunt title “Casino Gambling Causes Crime.” The author of the study, Earl L. Grinois, a former senior economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, wrote a book in 2004, Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits, which says that for every $46 in benefits, casinos create up to $289 in social costs. For every dollar’s worth of jobs and commerce that the gambling house brings in, it causes as much as $6.28 worth of trouble.

Adelson has a talent for making money. No doubt about it. He’s employed that talent in a way that has made him rich, but, if Grinios is right, has probably done more harm than good. But we’re broad minded. We lean toward libertarianism in social issues. We can accept that. We don’t want to close our local liquor store or have a SWAT team descend on the neighborhood’s marijuana purveyor.

But what we shouldn’t have to accept that a jumped-up bookie, a guy in a business that in a different time and different place would have made him a racketeer, can casually spend $10 million running attack ads for a lunatic who’s promising to bomb Iran. The Supreme Court has taken the position that spending money is free speech and cannot be constrained.They are either passionately partisan or astonishingly unrealistic. Free speech, for most of us, is limited to the opportunity to send a letter to the editor or to stand on a street corner holding a sign—though only, of course, on the corners where that is permitted. Ten million dollars worth of TV time gives Shelly a much bigger voice. If an average person contributes $100 to a political campaign to support an issue, that’s a lot. According to Forbes, Shelly’s worth $21.5 billion dollars. He can actually spend $10 million with less cost to his life-style and well being than the normal person’s $100.

Money wins elections. In 2008, Barack Obama spent nearly twice the money that John McCain spent. According to OpenSecrets.org, “in 93 percent of House of Representatives races and 94 percent of Senate races…the candidate who spent the most money ended up winning.”

The only way to beat big money is with bigger money. As it happens, Newt, aside from being a terrible candidate with more baggage than Paris Hilton, is up against Mitt Romney. And boy, oh boy, does Mitt have buddies with big bucks. Ranker.com has a list of the 34 biggest Super-Pac donors to date.

Nineteen of them are big Romney supporters, giving $250,000 to $2 million.

Fourteen of them run or are part of hedge funds. These are the people who make billions of dollars but get taxed at rates lower than people who work for a living. Naturally, they want one of their own to lead us, someone who’s is sympathetic to paying a tax rate of 15 percent or so, including all their taxes, Social Security, Medicare, real estate, school, and sales taxes.

This season’s Republican presidential race is the gift that keeps on giving. Just when we think some boring choice—Mitt Romney—has at last been made, it thrusts Rick Santorum upon us. When Rick last held elective office, he was one named one of the three most corrupt members of the United States Senate. But he’s firm on the Republican fundamentals, save the fetuses, kill the foreigners. That’s far more important than who’s bought him and paid for him.

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The House

Large banks of windows on the southern side of the Gomes-McGinniss home keep the house toasty in winter. Extra thick straw-bale walls trap the heat.

The First Straw

An Energy-Efficient Dream Home in Kerhonkson

By Jennifer Farley Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid

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hen Jorge Gomes and Jamie McGinnis chose straw-bale construction for their timber-frame home in Kerhonkson, they knew they wanted to build a small two-bedroom, two-bath house with a large central living area, and employ as many locally sourced materials and workers as possible.

In simplest terms, a straw-bale home uses compressed bales of straw as building blocks for its nonloadbearing walls. The extrathick walls have so much thermal mass, they maintain an even interior temperature using minimal energy. Practically the most ancient form of home construction, modern techniques have virtually eliminated straw bale’s main drawback—risk of rot—but due to the wall width necessary to contain the bales, it’s best for larger lots.

Gomes is the assistant park manager for Minnewaska State Park Preserve. McGinnis is an outdoors educator. Together 11 years and married for four, Gomes and McGinnis recently had a baby daughter, Arden. Gomes’s brother Lou and his cat Marmalade also reside with them. “We lived as inexpensively as possible for years, sometimes in trailers or park housing, and we read a lot about various types of green home construction before we committed to straw bale,” says Gomes. “We went with some extras such as hand-made mahogany window frames and doors, so our home probably cost 25 percent more than conventional stick frame construction, but if we’d used cheap windows and ready-made cabinets, it might have been about the same.”

The Straw Bale Difference Outside, it’s a frosty winter day, with several inches of fresh snow. The small north-facing windows fronting the street lend privacy, but they’re also smart thermally. Inside, it’s over 70 degrees. Brilliant sunshine pours through the southfacing floor-to-ceiling sliders off the living area. With its Japanese-inspired lines and utter lack of clutter, the house looks rather Zen, yet with a plush, dense, substantive vibe.

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Until you have actually been in a state-of-the-art straw-bale home on a winter day, it’s fairly challenging to describe precisely what makes it feel so different, except that the massive stucco walls seem especially warm and solid, like a preternatural nest. The Gomes-McGinniss house is also very quiet, except for the pure tones of jazz occasionally resonating from wireless speakers. There’s no vibration when you shut a door or a window; nothing rattles.

“It’s the thickness of the walls that makes such a difference,” Gomes explains.

“Keeping the thermostat at 70 in the winter is kind of ridiculous for me and Jamie, but it’s great for the baby, and we can easily afford to do it because of the radiant floors, passive solar, and on-demand propane boiler.” The home’s electricity is provided by solar panels, and there’s also a tankless hot water heater.

In America, straw-bale homes have been around for over a century, initially prevalent in areas without abundant timber. But given today’s demand for renewable, minimally processed, locally available building materials, they’re lately popping up even in woodsy locales like Kerhonkson. The Gomes-McGinniss home is the second professionally built straw-bale home completed in the immediate vicinity. Down the street, a couple is building a third by themselves.

Gomes says he was initially worried about obtaining a mortgage—the couple had saved enough money to begin construction, and they also had financial help from his parents—but when they applied for financing, Ulster Savings “was really cool,” Gomes says. One reason: Modern straw bale is more flame retardant than a stick-built house.

Another factor: Homeowners selecting straw bale are unlikely to be careless borrowers. It’s all about thinking ahead.

“Now is the time to do it, if you’re going to build straw bale, or really any kind of supergreen new construction,” says Gomes. “In New York and at the federal level, there are currently a lot of tax incentives and rebates available, and they won’t be around forever.”

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Top left: Environmentally friendly white pine was used throughout the house. The railing was fabricated by a local craftsman.

Top right: The bathroom tiles are cut limestone with visible embedded fossils.

Bottom: The southern-facing portion of the house with second-floor deck off master bedroom. As finances allow, the couple will expand the bluestone patio and add permaculture.

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A Nest near Minnewaska As committed environmentalists, Gomes and McGinniss spent years plotting and planning their dream home.The book they most highly recommend is EcoNest by Paula Baker-Laporte and Robert Laporte (Gibbs Smith, 2005).

EcoNest makes the point that a bird building its nest doesn’t fly vast distances for special twigs, nor does it build a home larger than it needs. Instinctively, it creates a natural, nurturing, shelter—excellent advice for humans. Like an advanced nest, straw bale creates less waste and avoids chemical sensitivity pitfalls.

Gomes grew up near Minnewaska and always dreamed of someday building a home nearby. He also worked at the park after graduating from forestry school. In 2003, the couple bought two-and-a-half acres of land nearby. For about six years, Gomes and McGinniss moved around the state, holding various positions within the park system. When the assistant manager’s post unexpectedly opened up, Gomes applied, and landed the gig he says he’d be happy to have for the rest of his life. “We never considered selling the property, but I feel really lucky in a lot of ways that we were able to get back here when we did and think about starting a family,” says Gomes.

Straw Bale Construction Labor intensive but otherwise inexpensive at about $7 per bale for local dry straw, compressed and bound with nylon, contemporary straw-bale construction is experiencing a popularity surge in the Hudson Valley.

“There is a tradition of handmade homes in the Hudson Valley, and straw bale lends itself really well to the sophisticated, sculptural aesthetic today’s green homeowners desire,” says William Johnson, owner of Will III, Inc., the construction company that built the Gomes-McGinniss home.

Johnson is currently building another straw- bale home in Woodstock.

Johnson (pictured above applying stucco to the straw bales on the Gomes-McGinnis home) says that while few people are initiating construction right now, most who do are aware of the long-term energy savings, structural longevity, and maintenance-free attributes of straw bale.

“People hire us to build special homes, so we encourage straw bale,” says Johnson. “Not only is it the most environmentally friendly and least toxic choice, but these homes can also last hundreds of years. We advise clients to be brave and go for it.”

Built on the plains of Africa since just after the last ice age, straw-bale structures over 400 years old still stand in parts of Europe.

A standard straw bale measures approximately 36” x 18” x 14”. Most larger farms in the area have mechanical hay balers, necessary for making firm “building blocks.”

Straw-bale house walls are formed by driving long oak stakes through the middle of the bales. The stakes are fastened with spikes to the timber frame. Sometimes straw bale is covered with wood siding instead of stucco for aesthetic reasons.

Three types of stucco may be used for straw-bale construction: clay, cement, and lime. Lime is the most expensive, but it’s strong, flexible, and breathes, so it’s more durable. Cement can crack and require extra fuel to produce. Clay is cheap but softens under wet conditions.

Hydraulic lime, which is preferred, costs about $40 for a 60-pound bag; 200 bags were needed to coat the Gomes-McGinniss home with three coats of stucco. Hydraulic lime has naturally occurring traces of clay and other minerals, and unlike 100 percent pure lime, it will actually set up under water. The base stucco layer is called the scratch coat; the second layer is known as the brown coat; and the final layer is the finish coat. The curing time between the first and second layers is a minimum of three days, but three weeks is advised. Johnson buys hydraulic lime from Pennsylvania-based LimeWorks.us, a company known for its historic preservation work.

“In every performance category, I would put a properly built strawbale home in a test against a conventionally framed building with fiberglass insulation,” says Johnson.

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From Slab to Stucco With a fairly precise building scheme in mind, the couple found William Johnson, a veteran Hudson Valley homebuilder with substantial timber-frame construction experience, in late 2009. While Johnson had never built with straw bale before, he was enthusiastic. They neatly negotiated a price for a 1,650-square-foot home with the specific energy-efficient systems and overall materials desired, a sum that was not disclosed.

Gomes prepared the property for construction by cutting down trees. After the house was built, with a friend’s help, Gomes installed five-inch half-round galvanized metal gutters, for a total materials cost of $700. Gomes also laid some of what will eventually be a large bluestone patio surrounded by permaculture.

In spring 2010, Johnson’s crew poured a concrete slab foundation embedded with radiant heat pipes. Next, they built a white pine frame and then put up the exterior roof, so they could have a dry place to work while inserting the straw bales into the timber-frame skeleton. About 350 bales of straw from the Esopus flats were used in the walls. Conventional structural insulated panels finished the vaulted interior ceiling.

The bales were sprayed with “hydraulic” lime, a stucco made from fossilized sea shells; no cement was added. An unusual attribute of lime stucco is that it’s somewhat self-healing—settlement cracks repair themselves. The lime continues to harden over time. It’s also very alkaline, so bugs, mold, and fungus cannot survive. The house exterior was sealed and painted with a creamy wash. The interior was left natural.

Hunting for bargains, the couple found most of the lighting fixtures on the Internet.

The minimalist steel stair railing was welded by Sandro Niessen, a metals fabricator based in Highland. Johnson’s crew crafted the perfectly scaled kitchen cabinets. The polished cast-concrete kitchen countertops were made by Bahko Artisinal Concrete in Stone Ridge. The fossil-laden limestone tiles in the bathrooms came from Kingston’s Catskill Kitchen and Bath.

Of note is the wall with a pocket door that separates the living area from the den. Instead of the sheet rock called for in the original plan, at no additional cost to Gomes, Johnson’s carpenters made a simple but ornamental pine wall using ship-lap construction—vastly more elegant than tongue-and-groove. “Will never steered us wrong.We went a little over budget, but this is our home forever,” says Gomes. “As the mother of an infant,” says McGinniss, “I have a lot of peace of mind knowing how free from toxins our home really is.”

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The Garden

Pruning Shrubs, the Hard Way Springtime Is Trimming Time

by Michelle Sutton Photographs by Larry Decker

Left and right: Cut back a purple smokebush hard in early spring to ensure deepest foliage color.

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f a shrub is trying to eat your house, now is the time to take action. So you put a forsythia in a little garden bed, and now it’s the size of a minivan?

We won’t judge you, because we’ve all done it. If your deciduous shrub is hopelessly overgrown, with limbs all a-tangle, it may be time to do a hard pruning. What do you have to lose? It looks terrible now.

In the Hudson Valley, late March and early April, before the shrub’s buds “break,” is the time to do this. Right now in late winter/very early spring, a deciduous shrub’s root system is stocked up on food (carbohydrates yielded by photosynthesis). That stored energy is available to send up a bunch of vibrant new shoots after you cut the shrub back hard.

Some shrubs love this treatment, others tolerate it but are slow to rebound, and others will just not come back.You have to consider each species of shrub individually. Look up what to do in a fine resource like The American Horticultural Society’s manual Pruning & Training. Also, depending on whether the kind of shrub in question blooms on “old wood” (last year’s buds) or “new wood” (buds formed on this year’s growth), you may lose flowers this year.

But chances are, if the shrub is this far overgrown, most of the flowers have become relegated to the tippy top only, and it’s worth one year’s sacrifice to get the plant back into bounds, looking more compact and shapely, and flowering more prolifically.

ing tear, looked concerned. Had we gone too far? Would they really rebound?

“Not to fear!” I reassured them. Six weeks later, the shrubs had filled back in beautifully, abundantly, and, indeed, needing some further pruning of the vigorous new growth to coax a nice compact shape. It helped that the mock oranges are growing on fantastically fertile former cow pasture, and that the spring had brought lots of rain that assisted the shrubs in their regrowth. It wasn’t assured, but it was a good bet.

This is not to say that shrubs that generally respond well to hard pruning will always do so, even with proper aftercare (e.g., watering during dry times). Even we seasoned horticulturists have some head-scratchers. Spirea is one of those shrubs that we don’t hesitate to cut back hard in the early spring.

Cheryl Hearty is the community horticulture educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County. “Last year, I tried to hard prune my Spirea ‘Neon Flash’ because they had become round, dense thickets with no growth on the inside,” she says. “There was no way to just prune out the older growth as is recommended. I cut them back to a foot tall and was not thrilled with the results. It just so happened we had a pretty rainy season, so the tender new growth shot up and was spindly. One heavy downpour pummeled them to the ground and they never straightened up properly. I will have to revisit what to do with them this spring.”

A Tale of Two Shrubbies I teach a shrub pruning class to lifetime learners in the spring, and last year we gave a pair of mock orange shrubs “the business.” They are about 20 years old, in a bed about eight feet from the driveway, and had never been pruned.

Winter winds had over time caused a massive branch “combover” to the leeward side. Also, because the shrubs had so far outgrown their garden bed, the snowplow just creamed them on the driveway side.

My intrepid students and I decided the best course of action was to hard prune these mock oranges, even though it would mean that, because mock orange sets flower buds on the previous year’s wood, flower show that spring would be almost nil. We brought the shrubs down from about 12 feet to four feet and pulled out any dead canes, or shrub stems. We ended up with a low scaffold of a dozen stems or so. The students, while having enjoyed their prun-

Caveat Pruner Hard pruning can bring tangled messes of shrubs back to shapeliness, but it can be risky.

For instance, most evergreen shrubs don’t rebound once you cut into older wood. Some evergreens, like boxwood, may rebound if they’re healthy and get good aftercare, but ever so slowly, and they will look rather pathetic the first couple of years. I’ve seen hard-pruned rhododendrons come back resplendently within three years, and others not come back at all.

Yews will normally rebound just fine, but in the case of my friend Maria’s house, where the yews have reached Miss Havishamian proportions, I’d be afraid to cut such massive plants back so hard. It would remove so much aboveground biomass, I’m not confident the below-ground biomass would be enough to support vigorous regrowth.

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Some shrubs are subshrubs in our area—that is, their root systems are winter hardy but their aboveground parts are not. Butterfly bush is a subshrub in the Hudson Valley, so you’ll notice its stems mostly dying back every winter, but new growth emerges from very low down on the canes. This can also happen with many types of ball-flowered hydrangea shrubs. When in doubt about how far to cut subshrubs, wait for a hint of bud expansion to occur, and in this way the plant will tell you how far down to cut (just above the first viable buds).

Below is a list of some shrubs that are nearly foolproof for the hard-pruning technique, given that the plant is in good health to begin with (e.g., not diseased or stressed by poor growing conditions), and given that you prune in late winter or early spring. Get out those loppers and cut these shrubs back hard— to a foot or two—now, before bud break. Water them during any dry spells in the springtime. Then, in early summer, shape the new growth by heading stems back as they grow. Continue to water if the summer doesn’t provide at least an inch a week of rain.

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Sucker for Color Some shrubs are hard pruned annually (or nearly so) to ensure that the resultant regrowth (basically, suckers) has the most vibrant stem color or foliage.

For instance, red-twig dogwoods are reddest on the newest stems, so to get the brightest winter color, cut them back most years. I cut back my purple smokebushes annually because I want the deepest, richest purple foliage—and I’m willing to sacrifice the wispy flowers to get it. I also like the way the yearly hard pruning keeps them more compact. If not pruned, they tend to get leggy and have lengths of stem that are bare of foliage.

Hard pruning shrubs can be fun, but it can be a little traumatic. Cheryl Hearty urges us to take heed of the ultimate size of the plants we buy. “Many people buy plants when they are little and cute,” she says. “One of our master gardener volunteers calls them ‘puppies in pots.’ The motto ‘Right Plant for the Right Place’ can help prevent pruning woes as well as extra work.”

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In the mid-1960s, Nejame’s father was a pioneer in making swimming pools available and affordable for middle-class families in the Hudson Valley.

After growing up in the family business, Nejame and wife Shelly have spent the past 30 years transforming their company into one that is as much a vehicle for artisanship as it is service provider. As his clientele has developed, Nejame has adapted his approach—drawing upon his extensive experience to create tailor-made, one-of-a-kind designs. “We’re creating backyard environments, rather than just selling pools—a place where you can escape to without leaving home,” Nejame explains.

Though basic, steel above-ground pool kits are still an option (starting at less than $2,000), and are a certainly a worthwhile recreational investment, Nejame’s design services are far more extensive. Advanced technology and a wider range of product options allow for Nejame and his clients to let their imaginations run free, plotting virtual walkthroughs in 3D. Costs, of course, fluctuate with the complexity of the design, from a more straight-ahead decked wood pool, to a multi-tiered pool and spa (one that you can control from your iPhone!) Nejame estimates that costs can range from $20-$50K—yet the savings on travel alone should make it worth the consideration.

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ADELPHI UNIVERSITY

ADELPHI.EDU/HUDSONVALLEY New Programs at the Adelphi Hudson Valley Center The Adelphi University Hudson Valley Center, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, embraces a tradition of leading healthcare education in the region. Our new location at the Saint Francis Medical Arts Pavilion offers a modern educational environment that includes four technology-enhanced Smart classrooms, a computer lab equipped with state-of-the-art computers and software, an expanded library with a large healthcare- and nursing-specific section and convenient indoor and outdoor parking.

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With our new home, we are proud to introduce three new programs in nursing that will help Adelphi students shape the future of healthcare in development, implementation and evaluation of advanced practice roles; management and leadership; and nursing education. The R.N. to B.S. in Nursing, the Master of Science in Nursing Administration and the Master of Science in Nursing Education provide nursing students with opportunities to enhance their previous experience, talents and perspectives while continuing their education.

The R.N. to B.S. program is designed for registered nurses who aim to deepen their expertise with study in the liberal arts and sciences, and to enrich their knowledge in health promotion, long-term care, research, advocacy, teaching, change and management. The M.S. in Nursing Administration helps prepare nurse managers for a variety of healthcare settings, incorporating contemporary management theory and courses that focus on the essential core competencies for nurse managers, while the M.S. in Nursing Education prepares students primarily to become competent nursing faculty in a baccalaureate nursing program.

We also offer a Master in Social Work, a 64-credit comprehensive program consisting of course work and a supervised field internship that prepares students for direct, contemporary practice in a wide array of fields and services. Small class sizes ensure that students seeking to advance their careers, change careers or return to the workforce after raising a family, receive individualized attention. Dedicated faculty and administration are actively engaged in scholarly research, the development of social policy and the promotion of social activism, providing a supportive environment as they guide and prepare students for direct, contemporary practice.

Keeping in mind the needs of busy working students, our Hudson Valley Center programs offer flexible scheduling, staff liaisons to Adelphi’s main Garden City campus and on-site financial aid, admissions and academic advisement. Interdisciplinary programs, internships, community partnerships and mentorships enrich student learning and enhance their contributions to the nursing profession.

Saint Francis Medical Arts Pavilion Fourth Floor 241 North Road Poughkeepsie, NY

CONTACT: (845) 471-3348 Alison Tempestilli atempestilli@adelphi.edu

www.adelphi.edu/hudson-valley GRADES OFFERED:

Undergraduate/Graduate

ACCREDITATION:

Accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and the Council on Social Work Education

Mission Statement Adelphi University is committed to academic excellence, cultural enrichment and personal and professional growth—core values that impact society at large. As a small liberal arts college comprised of a cluster of professional schools, our mission is to provide a quality education and professional preparation in the arts, education, business, clinical psychology, social work, nursing and other health sciences. The University prepares a broad spectrum of graduates and undergraduates for a wide range of life pursuits while fostering a passion for knowledge; an understanding and a questioning of cultural values; and a view of themselves as independent, lifelong learners, and contributors to knowledge and service in an ever-changing world.

For more information on the Hudson Valley Center and its programs, stop by our new location or visit adelphi.edu/hudsonvalley.

LOCATION:

131 Millbrook School Road Millbrook, NY

Located 90 miles north of New York City, Millbrook is a coeducational boarding and day school which offers its 270 students in grades 9-12 a rigorous college preparatory curriculum that integrates academics, athletics, arts, service, and leadership. Since its founding in 1931, students have been encouraged to develop as strong and healthy individuals as well as concerned citizens of their world and its environment. Millbrook is a leader among independent schools in conservation education and sustainability.

A traditional liberal arts curriculum features Honors and AP courses in the major disciplines as well as four languages, independent study opportunities, a culminating experience for seniors, and a variety of electives including Animal Behavior, Astronomy, Constitutional Law, Anthropology, Digital Video, and Aesthetics. Exceptional offerings in the visual and performing arts complement a strong competitive and recreational athletic program. All students and faculty participate in an on-campus community service program.

The 800-acre campus features Holbrook Arts Center, Mills Athletic Center, the AZA-accredited Trevor Zoo, and a state-of-the-art gold LEED-certified Math and Science Center.

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CONTACT: (845) 677-8261 Jonathan Downs Director of Admission admissions@millbrook.org

www.millbrook.org GRADES OFFERED:

9-12

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: • On

campus community service program • Independent study, study abroad and semester away opportunities • Intersession — a week-long exploration of interests outside the classroom.

• Culminating experience for seniors • Unique hands-on learning at the Trevor Zoo TUITION:

$46,950 BOARDING $34,500 DAY

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School The Waldorf curriculum is broad and comprehensive. Structured to respond to the three developmental phases of childhood – birth to 6 or 7 years, 7 to 14 years and 14 to 21 years – Rudolf Steiner stressed to teachers that the best way to provide meaningful support for the child is to comprehend these phases fully and to bring “age appropriate” content that nourishes healthy growth for the Waldorf student.

Teachers in Waldorf Schools are dedicated to generating an inner enthusiasm for learning within every child. This eliminates the need for competitive testing, academic placement, and behavioristic rewards to motivate learning and allows motivation to arise from within. It helps engender the capacity for joyful life-long learning.

LOCATION:

16 South Chestnut Street New Paltz, NY

CONTACT: Judith Jaeckel, Administrator and Enrollment Director (845) 255-0033 x101 mtlaurelwaldorf@aol.com

www.mountainlaurel.org GRADES OFFERED:

Nursery/Kindergarten though 8th Grade

Waldorf Education is independent and inclusive. It upholds the principles of freedom in education and engages independent administration locally, continentally and internationally. It is regionally appropriate education with hundreds of schools worldwide today.

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Music, theatre, science, math, literature, legends and myths are not simply subjects to be read about and tested.

They are experienced. Through these experiences, Waldorf students cultivate their intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual capacities to be individuals certain of their paths and to be of service to the world.

NEW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY CO-ED • COLLEGE PREP • 7TH - 12TH GRADE BOARDING & DAY SCHOOL

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Please take the time to browse the website and become familiar with what sets New York Military Academy apart from the other college prep schools. Then schedule a visit with our admissions office and come see for yourself why our cadets are Set Apart for Excellence by being inspired, engaged and ready for the future.

ACADEMICS ATHLETICS CHARACTER LEADERSHIP

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78 Academy Avenue Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY

CONTACT: (845) 534-3710 X 4272 asouthwell@nyma.org

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Established in 1889, the 120 acre campus is conveniently located just 60 miles north of New York City. New York Military Academy is a private, college preparatory school for day and boarding students in grades 7 through 12 representing 14 states and 10 countries. NYMA prepares cadets to be ‘Set Apart for Excellence’ by being inspired, engaged and ready for their future. We are dedicated to developing young leaders who have a competitive hunger and desire for success and fulfillment in college and in life, and who desire to be successful leaders in the future. Utilizing the military model for leadership, character development and a rigorous curriculum grounded by a demand for competence in the classical disciplines, our graduates are thoughtfully prepared to seek out extraordinary lives of accountability and service. The academy is designated as an Honor Unit with Distinction by the Department of the Army and enjoys a solid reputation as one of the nation’s leading institutions in the number of graduates attending the service academies and earning 4-year ROTC College Scholarships.

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This is how Poughkeepsie Day School families describe our dynamic pre-k through grade 12 program and close-knit community. Be part of our distinctive 75-year legacy, where a passion for learning and living and a first-rate faculty make for a 21st century education that is second to none; where writing and critical thinking—rather than rote memorization and teaching to the test—are at the heart of what we do; and where 100% of graduating seniors are admitted to a variety of selective colleges each year, including the Class of 2010’s Cooper Union, Johns Hopkins and Stanford.

Our student body comprises 300+ individuals hailing from 50 communities throughout the Hudson Valley, with 24% identifying as students of color and approximately 30% receiving financial aid.

They thrive within a culture that celebrates and nurtures the special strengths and talents of each child; fosters high achievement through a love of learning; and models respect, responsibility and integrity.

GRADES OFFERED:

7th - 12th

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:12

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Program ESL Athletics College Prep Academics Community Service Band TRACKS OF INTENTION: Classical College Prep Studies

Service Academy Preparatory International Diplomacy STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Research and Technology Business/Entrepreneurial Engineering Forensics TUITION: $15,000 - $36,000 ACCREDITATION:

The Middle States Association

LOCATION:

260 Boardman Road Poughkeepsie, NY

CONTACT: (845) 462-7600 ext.201 admissions@poughkeepsieday.org

www.poughkeepsieday.org GRADES OFFERED:

Pre K-12

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:7

ACCREDITATION:

NYS Dept. of Education NYS Association of Independent Schools

Come visit our beautiful 35-acre campus, including historic Kenyon House, James Earl Jones Theater and recently-renovated 40,000 square-foot classroom building with modern science labs and full sized gymnasium. Discover how Poughkeepsie Day School connects joy to learning and why every day at PDS is amazing.

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The Center for the Digital Arts, Peekskill Extension is one of the Hudson Valley’s premier digital arts resources located in the downtown artist-district of Peekskill. The Center for the Digital Arts, an extension location of Westchester Community College, has six post-production studios on 27 North Division Street and is dedicated to fostering digital arts education. Whether you are interested in developing a web portfolio, recording an MP3 for your iPod or just getting into blogging, the Center for the Digital Arts is an access point to creating art in the digital age.

This center offers 3-credit courses in digital imaging, graphic layout design, web design, 2D & 3D animation, digital filmmaking, motion graphics, and music technologies. The center also offers non-credit adult Quick start courses in software training and a precollege program in the digital arts. In addition to arts courses, this center offers a wide range of general education courses, English as a Second Language (ESL), academic support and advisement, and other student services.

For further information see http://www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill or call us at 914-606-7300

LOCATION:

27 North Division Street Peekskill, NY 10566 CONTACT: (914) 606-7300 (914) peekskill@sunywcc.edu

www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill GRADES OFFERED:

First 2 Years Of College TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:15

TUITION:

$173 per credit $2075 Full-Time Resident Tuition Per Semester ACCREDITATION:

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LOCATION:

330 Powell Avenue Newburgh, NY

Mount Saint Mary College’s Adult Accelerated Degree program provides flexible schedules, career-oriented degree programs, and savvy advisors that care about your goals. The Mount is proud to offer two new programs for adult learners.

The hybrid online business degree program is a dynamic new format for the adult seeking a bachelor’s degree in business. Students attend classes one evening per week, and can access the balance of the coursework through the college’s online Learning Management System.

The RN to BS in Nursing program is made up of online classes and on-site seminars, and helps registered nurses get college credit for RN experience.

CONTACT: Lisa Gallina (845) 569-3225 lisa.gallina@msmc.edu

www.msmc.edu GRADES OFFERED:

Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees

SPECIAL PROGRAMS:

RN to BSN

Hybrid online bachelor’s degree in business

The Mount’s bachelor’s degree programs include accounting, business, history, human services, interdisciplinary BA in childhood education, nursing, and psychology. The Mount also offers master’s degree programs in business, education and nursing. For more information, visit our website at www.msmc.edu or contact the Office of Continuing Education at 845-569-3225, or by e-mail at continuinged@msmc.edu.

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CREATE ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Bard College at Simon’s Rock has been a leader in the early college movement for over 40 years and continues to distinguish itself as the only residential college in the country specifically designed to provide bright, motivated students with the opportunity to begin college immediately after the tenth or eleventh grade.

At Simon’s Rock, students experience a transformative education in the liberal arts and sciences in the company of smart, independent, creative peers who share their excitement for learning and their desire to be part of a vibrant intellectual community. They do this in an environment specifically designed for 16 and 17 year olds, rather than a college culture created for older students.

For more than four decades, we have demonstrated that high expectations will be met with outstanding academic achievement when bright young students are taken seriously—as people and as thinkers—by faculty members who are both expert in their disciplines and committed to adolescent development.

LOCATION:

84 Alford Road Great Barrington, MA

CONTACT: (800) 235-7186 admit@simons-rock.edu

www.Simons-Rock.Edu/admission AGES:

Students admitted after completing 10th or 11th grade, typically aged 15 - 17.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: The Berkshire Regional Scholarship provides significant financial assistance to qualified students who reside in 14 surrounding counties.

TUITION:

$43,000

Young people mature at different rates and Simon’s Rock is not for everyone. For the right students, however, it can mean the difference between marking time and filling the next year or two with challenge, enthusiasm, and growth.

In the heart of Stone Ridge stands a19th century brick mansion surrounded by nine acres of trails, ripe for exploration and learning. High Meadow is a not-for profit, progressive independent school that puts each child at the center of a continuously challenging curriculum that employs experiential, instructional, and integrated learning across the academic spectrum. In addition to a broad array of core arts classes, High Meadow School has received a prestigious multi-year grant from New York State Council on the Arts, partnering teachers with artists to deepen academic learning. Our Upper School features a 260 seat Performing Arts and Athletic Center and five new classrooms.

The extraordinary teaching staff brings experience, innovation, and a wide body of knowledge. The diverse mix of families, committed to building a community that develops the whole child, makes High Meadow a rare find. This is a place where children, Nursery through Eighth Grade, truly love to be!

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LOCATION:

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Visit www.highmeadowschool.org

Route 209 Stone Ridge, NY

CONTACT: (845) 687-4855 contact@highmeadowschool.org

www.highmeadowschool.org GRADES OFFERED:

Nursery through Grade 8

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

Average of 2:16 TUITION:

$10,750

ACCREDITATION:

Chartered by New York State Education Department (NY SED) and Accreditation Pending with New York State Association of Independent Schools (NY SAIS)

Sunday, March 18th, 2pm - Music at the Meadow Family Concert: Groove to the music of Elizabeth Mitchell, Grenadilla dog on fleas and more! Come early to our All School Open House 12pm-2pm, grades Nursery to 8th.

LOCATION:

330 County Route 21C Ghent, NY

CONTACT: (518) 672-7092 X111 info@hawthornevalleyschool.org

www.hawthornevalleyschool.org GRADES OFFERED:

Situated on a 400 acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County, New York, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School provides an integrative Waldorf curriculum that combines academic exploration; practical, performing, and fine arts; and enriching, hands-on experiences in nature and at Hawthorne Valley’s working farm.

Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School provides for the education of the whole child at each stage of development. In the Parent-Child and Kindergarten offerings, childhood is honored and imagination is nurtured through creative play. The Lower and Middle School grades foster development of healthy social relationships and a love of learning. In the High School, young women and men grow academically, artistically, and socially into the creative individuals needed in today’s complex world.

With a unique home-based boarding program designed to meet the needs of the developing adolescent and an active international exchange program, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School welcomes students from all around the country and the world.

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Early Childhood through Grade 12

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:7

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Spanish, German, French, Drama, Athletics, Chorus, Orchestra, Farm and Gardening, Handwork, Painting, Woodwork, Sculpture, Metalwork, Weaving, Stained Glass, Circus Arts ACCREDITATION:

New York State Association of Independent Schools, New York State Board of Regents, Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

LOCATION:

476 Skiff Mountain Road PO Box 3001 Kent, CT

CONTACT: Katherine Almquist katherine.almquist@marvelwood.org (860) 927-0047

Set on 83 hilltop acres in Kent, CT, The Marvelwood School is an intentionally small coeducational boarding school for grades 9 through 12. Students from around the nation and around the world choose Marvelwood for its exceptionally small class sizes, wide range of curricular choices, and the opportunity to explore both academics and extra-curricular programming at a pace that is customized to each student.

Arts and athletics offerings are diverse, with frequent field trips to museums, universities, performing arts venues, environmental centers and even nearby woodlands to support classroom learning. Community service has been an integral part of the School’s required curriculum, since the School’s founding in the 1950s. The surrounding Litchfield Hills provide a supportive and involved community where students explore and share their knowledge. At Marvelwood, students learn, and also learn who they are and what they wish to pursue after graduation.

www.marvelwood.org GRADES OFFERED:

9-12

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

4:1

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Advanced Placement, Honors, Tutorials, ELL, Outdoor Learning TUITION:

$48,200

ACCREDITATION:

NEASC

LOCATION:

22 Spackenkill Road Poughkeepsie NY (800) 843-3341

CONTACT:

www.oakwoodfriends.org GRADES OFFERED:

A Friends Coeducational Boarding and Day School Grades 6 -12

Both the upper and middle schools’ academic programs offer broad foundations in Mathematics, Science, Humanities and the Arts. The faculty is supportive and engaging and helps develop each student’s critical, analytical and creative thinking skills through stimulating classroom discussions, the use of primary text and hands-on application. Students are challenged to strive for academic excellence and nourish their intellectual curiosity.

For over 200 years Oakwood Friends School has educated and strengthened young people for lives of conscience, compassion and accomplishment.

LOCATION:

2467 Route 9D Wappingers Falls, NY

Nurturing a sense of wonder—each child, every day.

CONTACT: Katlyn Lerner (845) 297-5600 learn@randolphschool.org

www.randolphschool.org Randolph School students love to learn! Responding to children’s interests and questions, our teachers help children explore and make sense of the world. Interest-based themes, information, and materials are presented in a challenging, relevant and open-ended way, stimulating student curiosity, creativity and innovative thinking.

GRADES OFFERED:

PreK to 5th Grade

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO: TUITION:

1:8

$9,000-$14,000

At the core of the Randolph philosophy is a deep respect for the individuality of each child and a belief in children’s innate desire and ability to learn. Every child has a unique way of experiencing the world and learning from that experience. Randolph School is a place where children are respected, trusted, encouraged and supported to develop to their full potential at school and in later life.

Grounded in John Dewey’s philosophy of education and Jean Piaget’s insights into children’s cognitive development, Randolph School serves families who seek an innovative educational experience for their children. Our families come to the school because of its progressive approach, multiage groupings, commitment to diversity, small class size and low student-teacher ratios (which average 8:1), passion for the arts and the natural environment, and emphasis on community. Students at The Randolph School develop curiosity, creativity and a life-long love of learning. At Randolph we nurture a sense of wonder—each child, every day.

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Founded in 1796 and guided by the Quaker principles of integrity, equality, community, simplicity, and peace, Oakwood Friends School emphasizes the importance of individuality and one’s responsibility to the community at large. Oakwood Friends School encourages each student to discover his or her own voice and interests within the framework of a collegepreparatory curriculum. We nurture the spirit, the scholar, the artist and the athlete in each student.

Barbara Lonczak Director of Admissions (845) 462-4200 blonczak@oakwoodfriends.org

LOCATION:

Mount Saint Mary College Campus Newburgh, NY

CONTACT: (845) 569-3494

Bishop Dunn Memorial School

www.bdms.org GRADES OFFERED:

Pre-K- Grade 8

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:15

ACCREDITATION: Bishop Dunn Memorial School, located on the scenic 60-acre Middle States Commission on Mount Saint Mary College campus in Newburgh, has been a Elementary Education leading force in Catholic elementary education since 1882.

With near-capacity classes in Pre-Kindergarten through grades 8, the school follows a diverse course of study in all academic subject areas. Some of the reasons why Bishop Dunn not only has survived but has thrived to become the largest and most successful Catholic school in Eastern Orange County include: an instructional staff/student ratio of 15 to 1; accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Education; cutting edge technology with Smartboards in all classrooms; a critically acclaimed middle school drama program; daily access to all the educational and facility resources of Mount Saint Mary College; and a summer camp that offers a unique mix of academic, arts, sports and recreational programs.

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A TRADITION OF HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED!

LOCATION:

260 Jay Street Katonah, NY

CONTACT: William Porter (914) 232-3161 admissions@harveyschool.org

www.harveyschool.org GRADES OFFERED:

Located near the idyllic and quiet town of Katonah on a wooded, 125-acre hilltop campus, Harvey is a coeducational college preparatory school for students in grades 6 to 12. The school educates highly motivated students of above average ability in a warm, supportive setting. With an average class size of 11 students and an even smaller student-to-teacher ratio, teachers get to know their students individual learning styles well. Honors classes and advanced placement courses challenge our most capable students, while faculty members are readily available for those students who require extra help. Harvey offers a wide array of extracurricular options: students participate enthusiastically in the performing arts, interscholastic sports and community service and all students, regardless of level of experience, are encouraged to join in. Though most of our students commute to and from school, an optional five-day boarding program for high school students is offered, and breakfast and dinner are open to day students as well. There is an additional on-line classroom and learning program.

6-12

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:6

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Intescholastic Athletics, Performing Arts, Community Service, Model UN, eHarvey (online learning), Five-Day Boarding TUITION:

$32,000

ACCREDITATION:

New York Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS)

LOCATION:

700 Route 22 Pawling, NY

Trinity-Pawling School, a traditional college-preparatory school, is located on 140 acres just 70 miles north of New York City. The student body is comprised of 300 students in grades 7 to 12. Grade 7 & 8 is offered to day students only, and grades 9 to 12 & PG, have spaces for both boarding and day students.

The School offers Advanced Placement courses in all major disciplines, interscholastic competition in thirteen sports, and a myriad of extracurricular activities.

We emphasize excellence in a structured, supportive environment. The fine and performing arts center features a 400 seat theater, music practice rooms, art studios, and administrative offices. Athletic facilities include an all weather track, baseball diamond, stadium football field, lacrosse and soccer fields, Tirrell Hockey Rink, Hubbard Gymnasium, Rock Squash Courts, and McGraw Wrestling Pavilion. Scully Dining Hall, completed in 2010, is a Leeds Certified geothermal building.

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CONTACT: Denise Palmer (845) 855-4825 denisepalmer@trinitypawling.org

www.trinitypawling.org GRADES OFFERED:

7 - 12 Grade

TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:

1:8

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: ESL/ Language Program (LD language based) TUITION: 2012-13: Upper Boarding: $49,250 Upper Day: $35,000 Middle School Day: $24,000 ACCREDITATION:

NYSAIS/NYS Board of Regents

location:

291 South Street Williamstown MA

contact: Torie Nichols (413) 458-3919 ext 108 admissions@buxtonschool.org

Buxton School was founded as—and remains— a school in the progressive tradition. The school acknowledges and embraces the fact that young people are always learning, and that they learn most effectively and immediately from lived experience. Therefore, our students are challenged to contribute to lively class discussion, they’re encouraged to immerse themselves in creative pursuits, and they are expected to live a fully conscious, responsible life in the context of a receptive and responsive community. Life lessons about the power of one’s contribution, the effect of one’s actions, and the depth of one’s commitment are a natural and inevitable outcome of our approach. Students are at the heart of a Buxton education, and they can feel their importance and effect in every aspect of our shared lives.

Our Spring Arts Admissions Open House is on Saturday, May 26th. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information.

www.buxtonschool.org grades offered:

9-12

teacher student ratio:

1:5

special programs: All-School Trip, Buxton in Bali Summer Program, Work Program, African Dance and Drum tuition: $47,500 boarding; $29,000 day accreditation:

New England Association of Schools & Colleges

LOCATION:

199 Washington Avenue Rensselaer New York

CONTACT: Mr. Michael Green, Director of Admission

(518) 465-5222 contact@doanestuart.org

The true measure of a Doane Stuart education is our great success in graduating hallmark individuals, people who are capable of functioning in a global economy, in a world of difference and with a real understanding that the opinions of others are our most valuable way to learn about ourselves and our world.

www.DoaneStuart.org GRADES OFFERED:

Nursery thru Grade 12 Co-ed College Preparatory TEACHER STUDENT RATIO: TUITION:

Doane Stuart is designed to reflect the challenges and opportunities of the society in which our students will live, work, play and worship coeducationally. Encouraged to participate and take leadership roles, ninety-eight percent of our Middle and Upper School students participate in extracurricular clubs and sports. 100% of our graduates go on to some of the Nation’s most selective colleges.

7:1

$13,815 - $22,225

ACCREDITATION:

New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS)

Free Bus Service from Columbia and Greene Counties.

Indian Mountain School

A co-ed independent day and boarding school

LOCATION:

211 Indian Mountain Road Lakeville, CT

CONTACT: (860) 435-0871 admissions@indianmountain.org

www.indianmountain.org Indian Mountain School provides a traditional GRADES OFFERED: education for boys and girls from pre-k through Pre-K - 9th grade nine in a boarding and day environment. We Boarding 6th - 9th promote moral growth and personal academic TEACHER STUDENT RATIO: 1:4 excellence in a setting that fosters a respect for learning, the environment and each other.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: We celebrate our international and culturally Adventure Education Film, Fine Arts and Music diverse community. Indian Mountain offers a Strong Athletic Program strong curriculum encouraging children, in a Rigorous Academic Curriculum supportive environment, to strive for academic 600 Acre Campus excellence and to develop the traits of good character. The academic program is enhanced by various offerings in music, art, theater, adventure education, athletics, and foreign language. Community service is an integral part of an Indian Mountain education as the School strives to live its motto, “Life Through Service.”

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Doane Stuart is one of the Capital Region’s oldest and most prestigious college preparatory schools. The environment is one of inquiry and scholarship. It is a place to grow your mind and build your heart.

Wise Woman Center

LOCATION:

PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY

CONTACT: (845) 246-8081

www.susunweed.com www.wisewomanbookshop.com

“Herbal medicine is people’s medicine,” says internationallyacclaimed herbalist Susun Weed. Known for her encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health, her joyous spirit, and her feminist take on life, Susun is the voice of the Wise Woman Tradition and the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series. Her books, including New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way, Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year, are cherished “bibles”, with millions of copies (in half a dozen languages) in print.

Take your health into your own hands. Learn the simplest, safest, most effective, and least expensive ways to maintain and regain optimum health. Explore the medicine of the future— integrative medicine—where energy medicines, alternative medicines, and hi-tech medicines come together. Indulge in one-day hands-on classes: frolic with the goats and the fairies while you identify and prepare medicines from common local herbs. Intensify with weekend workshops: “Goddess!” with Z Budapest, “Plant Communication” with Isla Burgess, “Wolf Clan Teachings” with Whitefeather, or “Green Witch Intensive” with Weed. Attend a moonlodge (no charge) or join us for a work weekend. Immerse yourself in green blessings at the Wise Woman Center.

location:

84 Zena Road Kingston, NY

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Why Choose the Hudson Valley Sudbury School?

Students deserve better than what compulsory education today has to offer; they deserve an education that doesn’t box them in. Students deserve an education that develops independence and self-motivation, nurtures the drive to become competent, successful adults, and allows them to reach that goal with their natural creativity and love of learning intact.

The Hudson Valley Sudbury School is a place where students age 5 to 18 learn the basics through self-initiated activities in an environment where play and intra- and inter-personal development are not sacrificed for the sake of content-acquisition.

Students learn to use real-world, information age tools to discover what they need to know. They develop the ability to express themselves effectively and to deal with complex ethical issues. The school’s unique democratic, non-hierarchical community allows students to develop a sense of ownership and responsibility for the well being of their community, as well as a deep awareness of themselves as role-models.

(845) 679-1002 www.sudburyschool.com enrollment: Vanessa Van Burek enrollment@sudburyschool.com ages:

5-18

tuition:

$4,825

Where students create their own curriculum and take charge of their lives

“I went to the Hudson Valley Sudbury School for 2 years, and let me tell you those were the best 2 years of my high school life. I’m in University now, and sometimes At HVSS, students practice the skills needed to succeed all day, every day; they think for themselves, direct their lives, take I wish there was a Sudbury style responsibility for their actions, and allow curiosity to motivate their interests. Success in today’s world depends upon “outside University! Sudbury has got to be the box” creativity – the Sudbury approach is education, without the box. the most effective school out there.”

– Nami Bates, Age 19 Trust and respect are the foundation of our success. Life is good outside the box.

Open House - March 14th

Lederman Children’s Center, LCC, is a day care center with an integrated preschool and Pre-Kindergarten. We provide unique care and education to young children from 18 months through 5 years of age.

Our Core Values: Excellence in Education • Safety • Equality • Diversity Since 1984, LCC has provided children a superior early childhood experience! Our teachers work hard to ensure safe, secure, fun, and interesting environment that helps to foster growth and development.

We strive to help children in our care become independent and successful people.

LOCATION:

3007 Route 213 East Stone Ridge, NY

CONTACT: (845) 687-7696

www.ledermanchildrenscenter.org AGES:

18 months - 5 years

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Day care center with a Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten Program

Children are encouraged to explore the world in a developmentally appropriate atmosphere. Teachers plan carefully to allow children to practice skills that are just developing, thus allowing the child to feel confident and successful! Children actively engage with many different development areas including art, math, science, and literacy. We allow children to make specific decisions, relating to how and where each would like to play and interact with peers. This practice promotes a sense of self-worth and autonomy.

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March 24th 11 - 4pm maple sugaring pancake lunch music, hikes storytelling craft market

Winter Bear Montessori

A program designed to help children reach their full potential in all areas — social skills, emotional growth, physical coordination and thinking — all in a peaceful and supportive learning environment.

Ages 2.6 – 6 years RegisteRed With the AMeRicAn MontessoRi society

Now Accepting 2012-13 Applications Weekly Tours on Thursdays at 9 am www.randolphschool.org 845.297.5600 2467 Route 9D Wappingers Falls Nurturing a sense of wonder. Each child. Every day.

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RANDOLPH SCHOOL

A Curriculum that Enlightens the MIND.

Teaching that Excites the IMAGINATION. FOUNDATIONS that Last a Lifetime.

Open HOuses

Sunday, March 18, 11:30am - 2:00pm Monday, March 19, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

FasHiOn sHOw

Sunday, April 15, 2:00pm - 5:00pm “Come see what’s HOT in the Hudson Valley!”

235 wall st, Kingston 845.339.4390 www.saintJosephschoolKingston.com Tuition Assistance Available • Enroll Now for the 2012-2013 School Year

Groups • Weddings Summer Day Camp • Events Farm to Table • Retreats

Art, Music, Acting . . . and more!

Summer Camp Spring Break Camp Year-Round (845) 452-4225 www.renkids.org

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1821 Route 376, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

21st ANNuAl AuctioN GAlA to benefit

160 acres of natural beauty available year round. Call us to start planning your next event.

845-687-0215 epworthcenter.com

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Bishop Dunn Memorial School Show Your School Spirit!

Friday, March 23rd Anthony’s Pier Nine

Previews with cocktails and hors d’oeurves 6pm Live auction with Marianne Flannery 7pm-10pm Tickets $35 For information call 845-569-3496

Nurturing living connections...

Early childhood through grade 12 March 31 s 3CIENCE IN /UR ,IVES Workshops for students ages 13 to 17 April 21 s %ARLY #HILDHOOD /PEN -ORNING For parents and children up to age 6 April 28 s ! 3CHOOL !MIDST &OREST &ARM Farm and nature-based activities for children ages 7 to 13 These offerings are free and open to all s Please register in advance 518-672-7092 x 111 info@hawthornevalleyschool.org

Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School

MIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL

MONTHLY OPEN HOUSES

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Tuesdays March 13, April 10 and May 8, 9-11am Join us!

Experience Main Lesson in progress, tour handwork studios, 30 acre campus and more.

For more information and to RSVP : 413-528-4015 or admissions@gbrss.org

www.mizzentop.org | (845) 855-7338 64 E. Main St. Pawling, NY 12564

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WALDORF SCHOOL | www.hawthornevalleyschool.org 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075 | 518-672-7092

Community Pages

Highland

Gardiner

Hamlets,

Milton

Here Art Thou Wallkill

Marlboro

by Peter Aaron photos by David Morris Cunningham

W

hat, exactly, is a hamlet? The Hudson Valley has many of them: small, idyllic clusters of homes and businesses tucked cozily away in the folds between its larger communities, many only apparent to nonresidents via one of those blink-and-you’ll-miss-it signs along our main two-lane roads. In New York State, a hamlet is an unincorporated settlement, usually one without its own government or any official boundaries (hence those cryptically placed road signs). So, then, is a hamlet a town? Well, yes, in some cases. And no, in others. Some hamlets are areas located within larger towns and fall under the auspices of the parent municipality, while some are nonlegal entities unto themselves and, by default, administered by one of their more sizable neighboring towns. But whatever the nomenclature, by their nature hamlets are most often charming, subtly vibrant spots with their own quaint slices of commerce, culture, and community.

The region on the western side of the Hudson that lies just southeast of New Paltz and roughly parallel to the Poughkeepsie-Wappingers Falls corridor is hamlet heaven—and a diverse one, at that. Fanning forth from the riverside with acre upon beautiful acre of country farmland, the area is home to a number of nugget-size agricultural hamlets, as well as some that are, in appearance if not on paper, just plain classic Upstate small towns. Here, we visit five of these diminutive gems: Highland, Milton, Marlboro, Gardiner, and Wallkill.

High Marks Located in the Town of Lloyd, the community of Highland’s easternmost edge has long teemed with maritime activity and was bombarded by the British Navy in 1777. The most “urban” of our five hamlets, Highland has a central 46 gardiner + highland + marlboro + milton + wallkill ChronograM 3/12

area populated with the kind of older brick buildings and cute neighborhood businesses that inspire model railroad villages. “I moved to the area after growing up in New York, and opened my practice in 1987,” says Dr. Bruce Kurek of Highland’s Center for Advanced Dentistry. “The nice, small-town feel is what I enjoy most.”

Also operating locally in the interest of well-being is Mike Artega’s Health & Fitness Express, a state-of-the-art, full-workout fitness facility with a 40-year history. For great eats, there’s the Vigneto Café (panninis and fine Italian fare) and Gunk Haus (a German gastropub in nearby Clintondale). To nurture your rock ’n’ roll (or jazz, or folk, or classical) soul, there’s D. Jacobs Music Center, which sells and repairs a large selection of instruments and offers lessons. A must for Highlanders in the more widely known sense—or those who just want to dress like one—is The Kiltmaker’s Apprentice, which provides authentic, handmade Scottish kilts and related items.

Meet Me in Wine Country Note the spelling: Marlboro is in the southeast part of the Town of Marlborough. The site of the 1714 Gomez Mill House, the earliest known surviving Jewish residence in America (now a museum), Marlboro’s rich soil has for centuries made it one of Ulster County’s prime farming locales, a quality trumpeted seasonally by Meet Me in Marlborough, an organization of farmers and businesspeople assembled to promote local agriculture and agritourism. The area’s favorable growing conditions also make it home to a number of award-winning wine producers, such as Benmarl Winery, Stoutridge Vineyard, and Royal Kedem Winery.

“My grandfather moved the business from Czechoslovakia to Long Island

frank mcgrath and his grandson maxwell silver mcgrath at berean park in highland

doreen browning at the kiltmaker’s apprentice in highland

dennis jacobs at D. jacob’s music center in highland

rocking horse ranch in highland

rachael, brad, and ellen at the

jackie rosenblatt baking cinnamon roll cookies at Audrey’s Farmhouse Bed and Breakfast in wallkill

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Our hours are 11 AM to 6 PM, Friday - Sunday.

10 Ann Kaley Lane, Marlboro, NY 12542 Phone: (845) 236-7620.

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www.stoutridge.com

Serving authentic renditions of classic Italian favorites.

A Hudson Valley favorite for over 30 years, this family-casual restaurant is elegant enough for date night.

Come enjoy a little slice of Italy!

3581 Route 9W, Highland, NY

Located Just Over The Mid Hudson Bridge.

Minutes from Poughkeepie, Newburgh and Surrounding Areas

845.691.7832 www.coppolaslafantasia.com

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tim and nderim gjokaj at vigneto cafe in highland

brian keng at asian garden in highland

katherine majestic at majestic hardware in gardiner

kevin brennie at brennie’s pizzeria in highland

michael bernardo at cafe mio in gardiner

mark elia at elia’s catering in highland

jim healy at kiss my face in gardiner

joe privitera at joe’s barber shop in highland

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in 1948, and we opened in Highland in 1968,” says Michael Herzog, Royal Kedem’s vice president. “The soil and climate are very good for growing grapes.” Marlboro’s nightlife mecca is The Falcon, which presents world-class live music and gourmet dining. More fine fare is found in the town proper at the Raccoon Saloon, housed in the area’s oldest hotel.

Where Foote Walked In Marlborough’s northeast corner is Milton, the birthplace of author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote, whose Western-themed novels were all the rage in Victorian times. The micro-hamlet’s (2.8 square miles, population 1,403) Main Street has a stretch of architecturally historic brick structures that includes the present post office building. Keeping up the region’s agricultural tradition are two seventh generation-owned farms, Hepworth Farms and Prospect Hill Orchards, the latter owned by Steve and Judy Clarke, whose ancestor Nathaniel Clarke first farmed the property in 1817.

“Milton’s always been a beautiful, sleepy little place, and I think it’ll continue to be a farming community in the years to come,” says Steve Clarke.

“Recently, there’ve been a lot of people making huge investments in the future here, so hopefully the developments we see will be good ones.”The 16thcentury Ship Lantern Inn is touted as the oldest Hudson Valley eatery serving Continental food, and specializes in seafood entrees. Located on 75 bucolic acres, Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa blends decadent luxury with charm; its onsite restaurant, Henry’s Farm to Table, makes the most of the local bounty.

What Community Means To Us Community is about tradition and respect for local values. And being a community partner means being there when needs arise.

For 141 years, Sawyer Savings Bank has been building trust through our actions with many Ulster County communities.

Actions which in part, make our towns better places to work and live.

We have and always will stand ready with financial support for as many worthy community needs as possible. We also recognize the importance of supporting our employees in their volunteer efforts as well.

It’s simple... your community is ours too.

And you can count on us to always be a proud and committed community partner.

“Serving Local Communities Since 1871” 87 Market St., Saugerties, NY 2 Riverview Dr., Ste. 1, Marlboro, NY 71 Vineyard Ave., Highland, NY 888-772-1871 www.sawyersavings.com

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Wise Acres Not to be confused with the Orange County town that bears its name, Ulster County’s Wallkill is a section of the Town of Shawangunk. In addition to having its own exceptional wine makers, such as the family-run, 13-acre Magnanini Winery, “the Kill,” as it’s known to natives, also boasts its share of superb restaurants. High among these is the Bruynswick Inn, which serves “American fare with a French-European touch.”

Built circa 1740, Audrey’s Farmhouse has been voted Best Pet-Friendly Bed and Breakfast in North America by Arrington Publishing. “Besides having homemade chili and cornbread for our guests when they arrive, for their pets we have special treats and meals,” says Don Leff, who manages the B&B with his wife, Audrey. “Pets have free roam of the house and property, and no leashes are needed. We’re on five acres and have two nature walks nearby.”

Wallkill is also home to a branch of the New York School of Practical Philosophy, an international institution for enlightened thought established in 1964 and inspired by the London school founded by Leon MacLaren in 1937.

Ensconced in the stately turn-of-the-century mansion built by milk millionaire John Gail Borden, the facility sponsors classes and lectures and serves as a retreat for students from around the world.

Nesting Nooks Also potentially confusing to nonresidents:There is both a hamlet of Gardiner and a Town of Gardiner (the former is just adjacent to the latter’s central district). Many know the farm-filled area, which is close to buzzing college town New Paltz, rockclimber’s paradise the Shawangunk Mountains, and hiker’s havens Minnewaska State Park and the Mohonk Preserve, thanks to two of its businesses: Kiss My Face and Skydive the Ranch. Kiss My Face, one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of all-natural body care products, operates out of a converted barn on a 200-acre organic farm that, legend says, served as a Revolutionary War hospital. Skydive the Ranch has been the Tri-State’s leading skydiving and parachuting school for over 20 years. “We’re a private airport so there isn’t any other air traffic to slow things down,” explains coowner Kay Hoiby. “This is such a pretty area, which makes [skydiving] especially wonderful.”

The sprawling DM Weil Gallery offers original works by owner D. M. Weil—dubbed “one of the most daring abstract painters around” by Contemporary Art Collector—ranging in price from $20 to four figures. On Main Street is HiHo Home Store, which features two floors of unique antiques and gifts. When it’s time to dine, Gardiner’s environs have a delightfully disproportionate number of worthy options: breakfast/lunch nook the Bistro Mountain Store; the locavore-leaning Café Mio; rustically reliable German eatery the Mountain Brauhaus, which opened in 1955; and Tuthill House, a

1788 gristmill that’s now a tavern serving homemade American cuisine. (The latter property is also home to Tutthilltown Spirits, an old-style distillery that produces and sells locally sourced whiskey, bourbon, vodka, cassis, and other high-octane distilled beverages.)

So while Highland, Marlboro, Milton, Wallkill, and Gardiner may look like mere wide spots in the road to first-timers, those same visitors soon find out what hamlet dwellers have long known: The natural surrounding natural beauty and slow-paced, old-fashioned allure of these five distinctly surprising spots are just the beginning of what they have to offer.

The Would Restaurant

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patio dining bistro bar catering

selected wines • in-house bakery organic ingredients pasta night / Thursday prix fixe menu / Tuesday-Thursday open Tuesday - Saturday 5pm-9pm

EVENTS

120 North Road • Highland • NY Tel. 845.691.9883 www.thewould.com

Around the World Wine Tour Held in June and sponsored by the Shawangunk Hudson Valley Wine Trail, this tasty tour affords “travelers” the chance to sample the culture and cuisine of countries from around the world, each paired with delicious local wines.

Shawangunkwinetrail.com

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Vigneto Cafe

Slated to run at Highland Town Field on Thursday evenings throughout July and August, this new live music series promises oldies and goodies from top local and national acts. Check the Town of Lloyd’s website for scheduled performers.

Rated  by The Pougkeepsie Journal

Townoflloyd.com

Come to Highland for a unique dining experience.

Ulster County Fair

Vigneto Cafe offers a comfortable atmosphere, good food and great value.

Since the late 1800s, this old-time county fair in nearby New Paltz, which this years runs from July 31 through August 5, has been one of the Northeast’s most beloved family outings. With rides, food, entertainment, vendors, horse shows, and more, it continues to draw attendees from all over.

Stop by and enjoy our hospitality !

(845) 834-2828 80 Vineyard Avenue, Highland, NY. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. Lunch: 11-4. Mon - Sat: 10-10, Sun 3-10 Fridays and Saturdays full bar until 2am

www.vignetocafe.com

Ulstercountyfair.com

Hudson Valley Ribfest Also held at the nearby Ulster County Fairgrounds, this year on August 18 and 19, this meat lover’s summit adds live music and more to its chops-licking action, which sees culinary competitors vying for trophies and ribbons.

Hudsonvalleyribfest.org

Gardiner Day A picture-postcard helping of country Americana, this September 15 event at Gardiner’s Majestic Field offers entertainment, games, food, and more family fun.

Townofgardiner.org

Prospect Hill Orchards Kids Days Another all-ages pleaser, this two-day affair (September 24 and 25) at Milton’s Prospect Hill Orchard boasts hayrides, face painting, cider pressing, and scarecrow building. On October 14 and 15, the farm hosts the Johnny Appleseed Cider Festival.

We are proud to be offering the freshest local fare of the Hudson Valley, something that is at the core of our food philosophy.

OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK

Serving breakfast & lunch all day 8:30 - 4:30 PM Closed Tuesdays CAtEriNg fOr All OCCASiONS

845-255-4949 2356 RT. 44/55 Gardiner NY 12525 ViSit US ON-liNE

www.miogardiner.com

Prospecthillorchards.com

Harvest MoonWalk September 28 from 7 to 9pm is the only time the scenic Hudson Valley Rail Trail is open after dark. This annual, 2.5-mile roundtrip, moonlit stroll includes a bonfire, a storyteller, doughnuts, popcorn, and cider. Bring a flashlight.

Hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net

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Santa Claus on the Walkway Highland offers easy access to the breathtaking Walkway over the Hudson park/bridge, which from December 4 to 18 plays host to Saint Nick himself. Between noon and 2:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays, Santa can be found about halfway across.

Walkway.org

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LOCAL NOTABLES Jay and Polly Armour, Four Winds Farm

Jacobs Music Center For all your Musical needs!

Instruments * Lessons * Rentals * Repairs

Large selection

State-of-the-art Lesson Studios

Guitars, Amplifiers, Basses, Drum-Sets, Hand Drums, Cymbals, Digital Effects, Recoding gear, Music Accessories

If it’s broke we’ll fix it!

New Student Promo! $69.99 4 ½ hour lesson or $10 off your purchase of $100 or more!

JacobsMusicOnline.com 845-691-2701 1 Milton Ave. Highland 12528

5 min from Mid-Hudson Bridge 10min from New Paltz

Celebrating 7 Years in Highland!

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This hidden treasure is tucked off the beaten path, perfect for those who are seeking calm and serenity in a natural setting... and only 5 minutes from the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

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It was Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins’s 1981 agro-political book Food First that made Jay Armour of Gardiner’s Four Winds Farm want to become an organic farmer. “It led directly to my interest in eating local organic food, which wasn’t very available when [wife] Polly and I decided to start farming here in 1988.”

A Certified Organic, 24-acre, diversified family farm, Four Winds raises grass- and pasture-fed livestock and is home to Second Wind, a 40-member CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) project specializing in heirloom vegetables that runs from June through December. The Armours also sell their products at farmers markets in Woodstock, New Paltz, and Cold Spring.

A key aspect of Four Winds’ nonconventional and sustainable approach is its method of raising crops in permanently formed beds, rather than plowing or tilling the soil. “That’s really important,” explains Polly. “Because when you plow or till the soil, you disrupt it and disturb all the minerals that give the produce its taste. We spread compost on top of the beds, and plant seeds and transplants directly into the compost. The plant roots and compost nutrients move down into the soil, where there is a healthy, thriving community of organisms. It also makes the soil erosionresistant and decreases the need for weeding, whereas tilling actually brings more weed seeds to the topsoil.” The animals kept for the farm’s cruelty-free-raised beef, chicken, duck, turkey, and lamb also yield manure used in its all-natural compost.

“We grow about 150 varieties of vegetables in all, here and at our annex in Garrison,” says Wes Hannah, who co-manages the CSA. “We have several kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, cabbage, potatoes, salad greens, and just about everything else, including pickyour-own flowers and herbs. We really try to have as much of a variety as possible.”

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Winslow, a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef, has a uniquely flavorful style that combines New American cuisine with French flair.

Known for palate-dazzling dishes prepared with local, organic produce, poultry, and other ingredients, and warm, welcoming service, The Would has truly become one of the Hudson Valley’s most beloved eateries. The restaurant has won gold and silver medals from the American Culinary Federation and rave reviews from Zagat and the New York Times.

And it’s not only the sumptuous signature entrees—pan-seared organic chicken filled with collard greens and tomato confit with a braised garlic sauce, just one mouth-watering example—that keep delighted diners coming back. A repeat winner of Wine Spectator magazine’s Award of Excellence, The Would maintains a seasonal cellar populated with approximately 300 bottles of local and international vintages. The on-premises bakery draws raves for its fresh-baked breads, pies, and cakes, and divinely decadent desserts.

“In the high-stress world of work, work, work, it is more important now than ever for our guests to truly enjoy an evening out,” explains Dooley. “I want them to leave satisfied.”

And, judging by the glowing praise from thousands of contented patrons over its nearly 20 years, they always do. Only to return again.

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Luxury can be a variable term, but drivers can agree that these vehicles should be reliable and feature strong performance complemented by brisk handling. Option packages that transcend the expectations of daily drivers are a must and style lines should be strong enough to draw a neighbor’s envy.

Priced within the $30,000-$35,000 range, the following sedans offer an array of standard features and option packages. All motors produced impressive horsepower with respectable handling. Each car is clearly marketed to a specific buyer and has its own unique identity.

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2012 Dodge Charger SXT Plus

2012 Dodge Charger SXT Plus $33,490 (courtesy Sawyer Motors, Saugerties) The resurrected Charger namesake effortlessly produces power and pays homage to its ‘60s heritage, but this four-door sedan isn’t your father’s Mopar.

Drivers are greeted with a computerized, Uconnect console complete with rear backup camera for successful parking maneuvers. The extensive media capabilities satisfy any communication urges. The system does not feel cumbersome to operate and the interior style executes a less-is-more approach, succeeding without feeling skimpy. The 3.6 V6 produces 292 horses and when prompted, provides responsive and decisive acceleration. An eight speed automatic transmission compliments the motor. A 6.4 Hemi V8 is also available and cranks out 470 horses, letting you know Dodge doesn’t intend to abandon its muscle car reputation. The rear-wheel drive neither fishtails nor challenges a driver for control while cornering. All-wheel drive is available.

The cabin isolates noise at highway speeds and despite its size, feels nimble while delivering a smooth, taut ride. The leather-trimmed seats are soft and the cabin is nicely spaced. A telescoping wheel allows for precise driving positions but sight lines are hindered by sloping pillars. Rear passengers may grow tired of limited headroom and obscured sight lines.

2012 Nissan Maxima 3.5 S $31,850 base (courtesy Kingston Nissan) Nissan’s flagship has always been marketed as a four-door sports car, but upgraded features and designs have assured its place in the luxury sedan niche.

The Maxima features tight steering, a taught but smooth ride, and impressive agility. Its highly touted continuously variable transmission (CVT) feature aims to eliminate any shock felt during shifts. The 3.5 V6 produces 290 horsepower and was very responsive during acceleration. Despite being a full-size sedan, it cornered like a sports car. Antilock brakes are coupled with an electronic brake force distribution (EBD) feature that senses extra vehicle weight and sends additional braking power to the rear wheels. The Maxima delivered excellent braking performance.

The console was subtle in style and contrasted from competitors, but it may draw criticism from prospective buyers for not being bold enough. Traction control offered a stable ride and power seat features allowed for ideal driving positions. Sight lines were generally clear.

Rear passenger comfort was impressive and despite sloping pillars, headroom was not reduced. The Maxima has steadily increased in price and offers three other trim lines. The SV with premium package tops $40,000. The Maxima has received industry praise for its reliability and the S offered no reason to think otherwise.

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2012 Chrysler 300 Limited RWD $35,085 (courtesy Sawyer Motors, Saugerties) Advertisements boast it’s imported from Detroit, and its muscle under the hood confirms its Motor City birth. Utilizing Dodge’s 3.6 V6 and platform, the 300 aims to emit all the amenities we associate with luxury: leather, sunroof, wood-trimmed interior, and detailed instruments. The console features the same Uconnect technology as the Charger, but the 300 is marketed to a completely different buyer. Luring drivers with its polished chrome grille and door handles, its subtle lines are in marked contrast to the Charger’s aggressive approach.

Despite its size, the 300 is easily maneuverable and cruises quietly on highways. The ride is smooth but not overly soft. The 300 successfully delivers spirited performance while maintaining class. Heated leather seats functioned well and the ride did not rob a driver of any road feel. Compensating for its rear-wheel drive, the Limited has electronic stability control and brake-assist features. The sedan required minimum distance when braking from speeds of 50.

Sight lines were again limited to sloping pillars, but views over the hood were not obstructed.

Rear-seat passengers have more than ample legroom and headroom. The 300 works to compete with high-end luxury competitors and offers comparable standard features, readily available in its $32,170 base price. Its fit and finish were spot on.

2012 Toyota Camry XLE 3.5 V6

2012 Toyota Camry XLE 3.5 V6 $33,330 With its renowned reliability, the Camry continues to have broad appeal.

The XLE has one of the smoothest rides available and its generous headroom and legroom offered a comfortable driving experience. Its V6 produces 268 horsepower, but requires additional coaxing to achieve noticeable acceleration. The XLE handles well but it’s not marketed as a sports sedan and felt best during highway tests. The cabin isolated all road noise and its antilock brakes stopped strongly. Cornering was above-average in performance but not agile.

Traction control was coupled with electronic brake-force distribution and when challenged, stopped safely and required no additional distance.

The XLE focuses heavily on safety and featured driver’s knee airbag and side curtain airbags as standard equipment. Blind-spot monitors and a voice-activated navigation system were optional. The console was straightforward in presentation and did not feel cluttered. The wood grain style interior trim was tasteful and the Optitron electronic gauges were easy to read and provided a sporty image. Driving positions were very optimal and gently sloping pillars allowed clear sight lines. Its leather interior was soft and felt like it was constructed with quality materials. The rear seat offered generous headroom and legroom and a very smooth ride should make long trips a cinch.

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Andrew Edwards, Caesar and Pontiac, 42” x 64”, acrylic on canvas, 2009.

Andrew Edwards’s Caesar and Pontiac took third place in Barrett Art Center’s annual “New Directions” exhibition. The show was juried by Susan Cross, Curator at MASS MoCA, and will remain on view through March 9 at Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie.

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“15 Ulster County Artists.” A two-gallery showcase of new and recent work. Through April 22.

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“Occupy.” Work of international photojournalists curated by Nina Berman. Through March 4.

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“Bill Yost: A Retrospective.” Through April 21.

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“Marco Maggi: Lentissimo.” Through April 1.

“Mapping Gothic France.” March 23-May 20.

ART SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON www.askforarts.org “Regional juried exhibition.” Group show. March 3-March 31.

“Journeys: A Solo Show.” Paintings by Nathan Milgrim. March 3-31.

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“Comforting Illusions.” Paintings by Scott Ackerman. Through March 10.

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“Works by Joyce Pommer and Eliza Pritzker.” Through March 4.

“Marina@ bau.” Members of Marina Gallery show at BAU. March 10-April 8.

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“The Hudson’s Seasons & Spans.” Works by photographer Ted Spiegel. Through March 4.

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“Richard Merkin on Literature and Film: A Survey.” March 8-April 15.

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“Canaries.” Photographs by Thilde Jensen. March 10-April 22.

“Photography Now 2012.” Group show curted by Natasha Egan. March 10-April 22.

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“Snippets: Visual Text.” A group exhibition of works by five visual artists and two poets working collaboratively on a visual project. Through March 24.

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“Fourteen Threadless Needles: Photographs by Vito Pasquale.” Through March 30.

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“Tracy Helgeson: Mini Art.” March 3-29.

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HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

“Joe/Brains/Lamar.” Through April 1.

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“Mike Childs and Patricia Zarate.” March 5-April 8.

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“CCCA 16th Annual Juried Art Show.” Through March 25.

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“Animal Art.” Multimedia exhibit. Through March 10.

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“CIRCA 1986.” 70 artworks from more than 40 international artists who emerged with significant artworks between 1981 and 1991. Through July 31.

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“Members’ Photography Exhibit 2012.” March 3-31.

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“Joyce Robins: Sculpture.” March 1-25.

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“Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language.” March 5-July 28.

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“Winged Odyssey II.” Woodcuts and watercolors by Stephen Rengstorf. March 1-31.

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“100% Byrdcliffe.” Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s annual Members’ Show. March 2-25.

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“Works by Nestor Madalengoitia.” Through March 1.

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“BAU Spring.” Beacon artists show in Cold Spring. March 2-April 1.

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“Lineage.” Paintings by Mary Katz. March 1-31.

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“3x3.” An exhibit by the 19 artists that make up Longreach Arts. April 1-30.

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“Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit.” Through March 19.

“The Senior Project 2012.” Through March 16.

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“Photography in the Landscape.” An exhibition that calls attention to the natural and agricultural beauty of Columbia County. March 4-28.

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“Works on Paper and Mixed Media.” Featuring Peter Cody and Barbara Smith Gioia. Through March 16.

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“The Mystical Frog Tarot.” Featuring select illustrations from Marcy’s forthcoming 78-card deck.

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“The Monstrous Among Us: Folly|Excess|Collapse.” Large-scale works on paper by Paul Spadone.

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“When Art Meets Science.” Where the artists explore the common ground of artistic vision and scientific discipline. March 2-25.

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“Robert’s World: Paintings by Robert Ferrucci.” Through March 5.

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“North East Watercolor Society 2012 Members’ Show.” Through March 24.

THE ROTUNDA GALLERY 93 MARKET STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-3445 ext. 3372.

“Oil Paintings by Grace Diehl.” Through March 21.

Opening Saturday, March 3, 2pm-3:30pm.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844.

“The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci.”

Through April 15.

“Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist.” Curated by Susana Leval. Through July 12.

SCENIC HUDSON’S RIVER CENTER 8 LONG DOCK ROAD, BEACON 471-7477.

“Hudson River Waterfronts; Beacon & Newburgh, Yesterday & Today.” Paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of the Beacon and Newburgh waterfronts from the 1860’s-present. Through April 29.

THE SMALL GALLERY AT VALLEY ARTISANS MARKET 25 EAST MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE (518) 677-2765.

“Dubin’s Art.” Works by Richard Dubin. March 2-27.

Opening Saturday, March 3, 4pm-6pm.

SOHN FINE ART 6 ELM STREET, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-1025.

“Alchemy of Memory.” Solo exhibition featuring photographic collage work by Fran Forman. Through March 5.

11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663.

“Rock, Paper, Scissors.” Sculptural paintings, installation, and mixed media works by James Meyer.

March 21-April 22.

Opening Saturday, March 24, 4pm-6pm.

VASSAR COLLEGE’S JAMES W. PALMER GALLERY 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370.

“A Celebration of Art: The Annual John Iyoya Children’s Art Show.” March 18-24.

Opening Sunday, March 18, 2pm.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-2787.

“The Color of Light.” Works by Tom Bolger and Gloria Detore-Mackie.

Opening Saturday, March 3, 5-7pm.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850 “Bards and Bridges.” Group exhibition. Through March 31.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.

“Case Studies from the WAAM Permanent Collection.” George Alt, Marion Greenwood, and Ezio Martinelli; Recent Work by WAAM Members. Juror: Ed Smith; Solo Show: Landscape Photography

by Thomas Teich; Active Member Wall: Painting and Sculpture by Franz Heigemeir; Small Works Show. Juror: Nancy Azara; Youth Exhibition Space: Works by local High School Students. Through June 10.

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Music Keeping it Reel Monsignor “Father” Charlie Coen

By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly

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mmigration in Ireland is a predominant way of life,” says the playwright John B. Keane in the 2009 documentary Out of Ireland. “It has been going on since the Milesians landed in South Kerry over 2,000 years ago, and I suspect it will go on forever.” During the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries over seven million Irish immigrants, looking for relief from the crushing poverty, famine, and persecution that have plagued their homeland for centuries, settled in America. Besides contributing to the Great American Narrative in so many other ways, many of these expatriates also brought along their music, a reminder of the more pleasant aspects of their origins. One of them was Monsignor Charlie Coen, perhaps better known as Father Charlie Coen.

Coen, who came here in 1955, has for decades been revered as one of the leading figures of Irish traditional music in America, a man who’s done much to preserve this rich and stirring art form by performing it and passing it along as an educator. Although his signature instrument is the concertina, he’s also a demon on the flute and tin whistle and as a traditional sean-nós (unaccompanied) singer, and has won All-Ireland Championships in all four categories, some repeatedly, and has been inducted into two the halls of fame at two Irish music organizations.

It’s been a long journey from the farming hamlet of Drimnmuckla in County Galway, where he was born in 1933.

“There were exactly nine houses there, it was very self-sufficient,” Coen says.

“Drimnmuckla is just outside of the village of Woodford, which isn’t much bigger itself. Woodford had six pubs then; now it has two, and they’re open on alternate days.The biggest job for the police was probably checking dog licenses.”The future priest and his nine brothers worked the family farm, raising potatoes, barley, and other crops and tilling the fields with a horse-drawn plow. Their father played concertina (a small, accordion-like instrument with hexagonal ends), and there were five or six other musicians in the area. “I didn’t hear a radio until I was 12, and my family didn’t own one until I was 16,” recalls Coen. “But I had heard music before that. My father would play tunes his father and grandfather taught him, and I sang in the church choir. There would be dance parties several times a year in people’s houses and at the half-year in the Golden Vale [in the province of Munster] there would be a cattle market festival, where farmers would bring calves by rail to sell and play music, as well.”

Charlie was in thrall to his older brother Jack, who played fife in a home defense force fife and drum band. It would take some time before the younger Coen acquired his first instrument. “I started out on tin whistle when I was 13 because it was the only thing I could get,” he says. “During World War II all materials were rationed, and you just couldn’t find instruments. Later on my oldest brother, Paddy, who was living in London, got me a wooden flute, which was just impossible to find where we were.” Coen eventually purchased his first concertina at age 19, during a three-month stay in England. “It wasn’t a very good one, though—a Crabb, which split from the humidity when I brought it to America. I was drawn to the concertina because my father played one, but also because it seemed like the instrument was becoming extinct. Nobody was playing it anymore.”

It was from Jack that Charlie would learn much of his technique and repertoire, which contains regional dance pieces like the effervescent “Buckley’s Reel” and “The Copper Plate” (both performed by him on Rounder Records’ 1977 compilation Traditional Irish Music in America: The East Coast). “County Galway is right next to County Claire, and there isn’t too much of a difference between the music from both places,” Coen explains. “Galway style is perhaps more flowing, with less ornamentation, and Claire style is more robust, more daring. In the north you have [County] Sligo style, which is also very bold; Sligo flute playing involves a lot of hard puffing, while with Galway style the idea is to not show any breathing.”

For Coen, an asthmatic, it was issues with breathing that forced him to follow Jack to America. “I was 22 and I only weighed 117 pounds,” he says. “I just couldn’t live on the farm anymore, with the damp air such as it was.” He had a cousin in the fresh-air Catskills, a practicing priest, so he took a job as a dishwasher at a Monticello hospital before eventually becoming a bellhop at fabled Borscht Belt resort Grossinger’s Hotel. “Within three months I weighed 160 pounds and the asthma hasn’t bothered me since. Jack had started playing with a lot of New York musicians back then and I would sometimes go down to play with them, but I had no inclinations musically beyond that.” Indeed, Coen’s inclinations were in other areas: Four years after his arrival, he’d begun his studies for the priesthood. “I suppose I was attracted to it from being around my cousin, and because I’d grown up with the Church,” says Coen. “There was no ‘voice from Heaven’ or anything like that. It was a hard decision, though, because I was a grade school dropout and it was supposed to be an eight-year program—it ended up being nine. Learning Latin was difficult.”

After surviving a seminary fire that destroyed his instruments (the same site burned down again after being rebuilt), Coen was ordained in 1968. He became an assistant pastor on Staten Island, where for 18 years he organized concerts by visiting artists and gave lessons in Irish singing and taught Gaelic songs to his parishioners’ children. One of his pupils, an African-American girl, went on to win first prize in her age division for sean-nós singing at the New York Fleadh competition, and over 40 of the kids would make up the haunting choir heard on his only solo album, Father Charlie (1979, Green Linnet/Innisfree Records). “Some of the students had a reunion concert for me a few years ago, and they all remembered the songs,” beams a proud but seemingly stunned Coen.

In 1976 Coen, now back and playing at full force, did something no IrishAmerican musician had done before: At the esteemed Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann competition he won All-Ireland senior championship titles on three different instruments—concertina, tin whistle, and concert flute. In the following years he took two more All-Ireland titles for concertina and one for sean-nós singing, making him a true legend of the 61-year-old competition. He also toured as a member of Green Fields of America, a Smithsonian Institution/National Endowment for the Arts-backed ensemble led by musician, folklorist, and educator Mick Moloney.

Moloney, still a prime mover of the Irish folk revival, also produced The Branch Line (1977, Topic Records), an album by Jack and Charlie Coen. “Mick had a tape recorder he’d borrowed from the Smithsonian,” the younger brother remembers.

“We recorded the whole album in about two hours at Jack’s house in the Bronx.”

Featuring transcendent solo and duo performances of classic reels, jigs, hornpipes, flings, and polkas, the record, reissued once but now sadly out of print, is a genre landmark and has been hailed by All Music Guide as “real traditional Irish music at its best.”

Coen became the pastor of Saint Christopher’s Church in Red Hook in 1986, where he gave private music lessons and continued the concert series he’d started Downstate. During its run the series presented some of the biggest names in Irish entertainment, including musical acts Clannad, the Dubliners, Frank Patterson, and Cherish the Ladies and comedian Hal Roach. It was while living in Red Hook that Coen began the now-legendary sessions held on first and second Sundays for 17 years at the nearby Rhinecliff Hotel and Rhinebeck American Legion Post. The soirees at the former site are recalled with particular fondness by the musicians and attendees who were there, one of whom is accordionist Dan Gurney, a former student of Coen’s.

“I was seven or eight when my parents started bringing me [to the sessions],” says Gurney, an All-Ireland medalist who recently debuted with Traditional Irish Music on the Button Accordion (2012, Independent). “Back then the Rhinecliff Hotel had cinder block walls, and there was one bare light bulb hanging over the band. It was the perfect environment for Irish music, which isn’t about concert halls—it’s about people getting together to really be part of the music.” The raucous Rhinecliff closed in 2003 but reopened as a renovated bed and breakfast a few years later, and has since hosted occasional Irish sessions by Coen and others.

Father Coen became Monsignor Coen two years before he retired in 2008.

“It’s just a title given for services rendered over time, it doesn’t mean any extra money or anything,” he says with a laugh. He now lives in Greenville, which, along with nearby Durham and East Durham (“the Emerald Isle of the Catskills”), is rich in Irish-American culture. For decades the spot has been home to numerous retired New York police officers and fireman of Irish descent, the story being that this particular slice of Greene County’s green and rocky terrain reminds them of their homeland. In addition to containing the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre and for many years the Irish American Heritage Museum (recently reopened in Albany), every July the area hosts the Catskills Irish Arts Week festival, at which Coen has been a regular performer.

The Monsignor doesn’t perform as much these days, however, although he does frequently get together privately with other players “just to swap a few tunes.”With his dual careers with the cloth and the chord, one wonders if there are any commonalities between being a musician and being a priest. “Well, with both there’s a desire to communicate truth and beauty,” he says. “But of course with musicians there is also the desire to communicate the sense of self.” Looking back at his nearly 70 years as a musician and a music teacher, what is it he’s most proud of?

“I guess it’s that I’ve been able to convey the beauty of Irish music, to bring life and peace to people in that way,” says Coen. “I never did think too much about connecting to the past, or about how it’s good to pass the music on to later generations, or anything like that, really. I just thought of the fun of playing it.”

Monsignor “Father” Charlie Coen will perform with fiddler Dylan Foley, guitarist IanWorpole, and singer Sarah Underhill at the Rosendale Cafe on March 4 at 4pm. Rosendalecafe.com.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Thursday Jazz Series with Dr. Marvin Bugalu Smith March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. One of the area’s most irrepressible artistic personalities, jazz drummer and instructor Dr. Marvin Bugalu Smith has been playing since age two and learned directly from the masters: Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Art Taylor, Roy Haynes, and Philly Joe Jones. In addition to working with the legendary Sun Ra—whose eccentric showmanship has clearly rubbed off on him—Smith spent 25 of his 50-plus years in music working in Italy. His residency at Bull & Buddha finds him leading top regional players through weekly sessions of inspired creativity. 9pm. Free. Poughkeepsie.

(845) 337-4848; Bullandbuddah.com.

Madera Vox March 3. In her September 2010 review of Beacon-based contemporary chamber group Madera Vox’s debut CD, Chronogram’s Sharon Nichols nails it: “Madera Vox likes a twist, easing you in gradually and then thwacking you over the head with an oddball choice of repertoire.” Indeed, the ensemble has performed tunes by everyone from Thelonious Monk to Nirvana to Upstate composer David Gluck. This date at the beautifully restored Shadowland Theater whets our appetite for the fall release of the outfit’s follow-up disc and its upcoming music-video project with filmmaker Sam Whedon. (John Ford’s classic western Rio Grande, starring John Wayne, screens March 17.) 8pm. $15. Ellenville.

(845) 647-5511; Shadowlandtheatre.org.

Rob Morsberger Benefit March 4. Local singer-songwriter Rob Morsberger has worked as a side man and arranger to Patti Smith, My Morning Jacket, Crash Test Dummies, Marshall Crenshaw, Jules Shear, Loudon Wainwright III, Dan Zanes, and the Roches, and has scored and arranged music for “Boardwalk Empire,” “Masterpiece Theater,” “NOVA,” and “Frontline.” This month, the BeanRunner Café hosts a “Living with Cancer” benefit for Morsberger and his family headlined by the artist himself and co-starring singer-guitarist Peter Calo (Carly Simon, Hall and Oates) and others. (To celebrate Women’s History Month bassist Kim Clarke curates the “Lady Got Chops” jazz series; see website for dates and full details.) 4pm, 7pm. $30 donation. Peekskill. (914) 737-1701; Beanrunnercafe.com.

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845-235-7098 21 Broadway Kingston, ny wednesday’s: oPEn mIc wIth laRa hoPE Sign Up at 8 • Thursday’s: wInED Down thuRsDay’s $15 bottles of Wine and 50% off Appetizers • Sunday’s: Rock’n BRunch amazing Food and Bloody mary Fix’n Bar Friday 3/2 – Dylan EmmEt BanD a mosaic of pop, jam, soul, and hip-hop! this is their first show at the lounge and we are excited to have them!!!

9:30Pm $5 cover Saturday 3/3 – lulu’s ascEnt Jazz/Indy Rock. a true treat for the ears! 9:30Pm *Free show* Sunday 3/4 – sIngER/songwRItER showcasE Featuring local talent. 8:00pm *Free show* Tuesday 3/6 – REcEntly DEcEasED & guEsts Rock, Punk, and a whole lot of Billy! From Baltimore, mD. 9:30 Pm $5 cover Friday 3/9 – DaRk mosEs anD BoxcaR acoustic Rock n’ Roll. 8:30Pm *Free show*

Sunday 3/11 – t mccann BanD/shamRock Run PaRaDE great Drink specials, Irish Fare, Front Row seating!!!

Tuesday 3/13 – PaynE’s gREy sky acoustic Rock.

9Pm *Free show* Saturday 3/17 – st. PatRIck’s Day PaRty!!

Beer specials, Irish Fare, and tom Foolery!

Friday 3/23 – Da’Flash BanD Funk, Dance, and groove. these boys are house favorites! 9:30 Pm $5 cover Saturday 3/24 – Johnny cash tRIButE w/ BoB lusk celebrate the king of country! 9:30Pm $3 cover Friday 3/30 – thE comPact americana, Funk, and Folk 9:30Pm $5 cover

C. B. Smith & the Lucky Devils March 23. Catskill songster C. B. Smith (AKA Carl Bethge) heads up modern bluegrass crew the Lucky Devils, whose multi generational lineup also features fiddler Megan Gugliotta, mandolinist Jason Borisoff, and bassist Bill Strohm. For this occasion the Rosendale Café get all high ’n’ lonesome with originals from the band’s upcoming album, Hardscrabble Road, and Smith’s recent solo set, Flesh & Bone, as well as covers of Richard Thompson, the Rolling Stones, Stephen Foster, and Bill Monroe. (The Honeycutters bring sweet Americana March 2; guitar greats Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub make magic March 9.)

8pm. $10. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.

Madera Vox plays the Shadowland Theater in Ellenville on March 3.

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The Hudson Valley’s Premiere Jazz and Blues Cafe

March 9, 11. A performance at Bard College’s acoustically and aesthetically astounding Richard B. Fisher Center is always a treat. This two-fer of one-act operas features the singers of the Bard College Conservatory graduate vocal arts program and the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra conducted by James Bagwell performing Rameau’s Nélée et Myrthis, the world premiere of Elena Langer’s Four Sisters, plus short works by Monteclair and Monteverdi. (The student Spring Dance: Moderation Dance Concert runs March 23-25; the Conservatory Sundays: Music Alive! series offers contemporary classical March 25.) March 9: 9pm. March 11: 3pm. $15, $25, $35, $100. Annandale-on-Hudson.

(845) 858-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu.

cd reviews Fred Gillen Jr. Live in the Heartland of America (2011, Independent)

In his earliest days, Westchester County troubadour Fred Gillen Jr. was just one more singer-songwriter hawking his wares to anyone who might pause long enough to listen. But somewhere along the way he got politicized; he tamed the rock ’n’ roll wildness; and he became an old-school folksinger, bringing music to the people instead of hoping for the people to come to him. Live in the Heartland of America is exactly what its title says, a simple document, recorded—bravely—at a Muncie, Indiana, house concert. Gillen’s voice intertwines not only with Catherine Miles’s gorgeous natural instrument but also with the shared voices of the attendees, a couple dozen Hoosiers. The results are raw and ringing.

“Devil’s Bluff” is painfully intimate; the song holds you in its hand while you hold it in yours.

“We will shine,” the pair sings, “and hope that it’s enough.” It is. Elsewhere, Gillen unfortunately veers from his own catalog to roll out hoary, predictable chestnuts from Phil Ochs (“When I’m Gone”), Bob Dylan (“Forever Young”), Elizabeth Cotten (“Freight Train”), and Johnny Cash by way of June Carter (“Ring of Fire”). This recording is most definitely a warts-and-all affair, right down to the knee-to-knee banter and sketchy harmonica breaks. Little of the chatter will hold up to repeated listening, but the best songs, like “Bluff,” “Don’t Give Up the Ghost,” and Abbie Gardner’s “I’d Rather Be,” certainly will. Fredgillenjr.com.

—Michael Eck

Janie Christensen Painted Birds (2011, Independent)

Paris-born Hudson Valley pianist/guitarist Janie Christensen has teamed up with her husband, coproducer and multi-instrumentalist Angelo Ficara, on this 13-track recording, which is every bit as much affecting as it is off-center. Though fickle in its genre-hopping, it is nonetheless an original. “Come to Harm” starts off the recording with a funky world beat, some light-as-air electronica, and smooth, echoing vocals reminiscent of the mid-’80s work of Happy Rhodes. “NowYou See It, NowYou Don’t” flips the mood 180 degrees, starting with lilting synth strings and a yearning message—“Don’t try so hard to understand / Let it go free”—before snapping again into a fun, Latin jazz vibe. The gentle “Moon” utilizes retro, feel-good keys that would fit nicely in the easy listening or adult contemporary categories, and Christensen even works in a bit of Rodgers and Hammerstein-esque lyricism.

“The Best in Me” is a melancholy, solo piano tune with a country music feel that brings Mary Chapin Carpenter to mind; “All of Your Cowboys” also runs nicely along this vein. “White House on the Beach” is another jazzy adult contemporary track with an unexpected electric guitar riff midway through. “One in a Million” introduces a light rock/folk strain, and the title track is an ode to healing from a relationship, showcasing Christensen’s stunning vocals plunging into a depth of heartbreak. The artist has stated that interpreting life through imagery is the most natural thing in the world to her, and it shows on the ever poignant Painted Birds. Janiechristensen.com.

—Sharon Nichols

The Doppelgangaz Lone Sharks (2012, Groggy Pack Entertainment)

Though still young as an art form (at least compared to other American musics), hip-hop has always defined itself with nonstop innovation and speed:Whatever new beat (or move or look) arises in one corner of the rap world gets quickly copied and modified in another. Periodic reactions to this dynamic find MCs and producers eschewing outsize boasts and trends in favor of a focus on the craft: beats, rhymes, and life (to quote old masters A Tribe Called Quest). Local duo the Doppelgangaz falls squarely in this camp.

To tell the truth, “local” is a bit of an estimation; though the pair is based in Orange County and New York, Matter ov Fact and EP describe their current whereabouts as “parts unknown.” They prefer a degree of shadowy anonymity, and feature shared credits on their skillful yet consistentto-a-fault CD, Lone Sharks.

The record’s so flatly homogeneous—mid tempo beats, glumly evocative samples, and triedand-true rhyme schemes predominate—that at times it comes off as a hip-hop how-to reel. Which has its pros and cons: There are definitely no bummer tracks, and the pair has a vocal chemistry that seems developed over years (a photo in the artwork shows them together as kids). But you can’t help but want more standout cuts like the slinky “Like What Like Me,” which has a clever exotica sample and neck-cracking beat backing the pair’s R-rated musings on sex and romance.

Thedoppelgangaz.com.

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Books

SHAPESHIFTER

The Magical Lives of Carol Goodman

By Nina Shengold Photograph by Jennifer May

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ow many writers live in a modest white house overlooking a field on the outskirts of Red Hook?

Like any riddle worth its salt, it’s a trick question. If you’re counting physical bodies, just two. But if you’re counting bylines, it isn’t so simple.

There’s bestselling novelist writer Carol Goodman, whose latest outing is Arcadia Falls (Ballantine, 2010), and her husband, poet Lee Slominsky (Logician of the Wind, Orchises Press, 2012). These two are joined at the hip—or perhaps fused at the trunk, like a centaur—as urban fantasy author “Lee Carroll” (Black Swan Rising; The Watchtower). And they’re now shacking up with one “Juliet Dark” (The Demon Lover, Ballantine, 2011), who writes deliciously literate erotic fantasy.

That’s already a houseful. But Slominsky has also penned verse for Goodman’s fictional characters Neil Buchwald (The Drowning Tree), Zalman Bronsky (The Ghost Orchid), and an enigmatic 16th-century poet who may have been Shakespeare’s Dark Lady (The Sonnet Lover). Goodman has written excerpts from the works of deceased authors K. R. LaFleur (The Seduction of Water) and Lily Eberhardt and Vera Beecher (Arcadia Falls). Add to the mix that her “Juliet Dark” incarnation also created the unexpurgated bodice-rippers of The Demon Lover’s Dahlia LaMotte, and things start to verge on Mad Tea Party.

Indeed, Goodman offers tea as soon as her guests cross the threshold, but the tea tray she’s prepared—a steaming pot of Harney & Sons’ Dragon Pearl Jasmine and a selection of cakes from Bread Alone—seems more maternal than mad. She carries it into her study, lined with built-in bookshelves, a comfortable couch, a large white-brick fireplace, and a writing desk that suggests the helm of an orderly ship.

It seems entirely fitting that Goodman should write in a room that’s right next to the hearth and a few steps away from the kitchen. Mothers and daughters are central to her fiction and her life—the plywood Christmas tree leaning against the bookshelves was painted by her daughter Maggie, a student at Bard, because pine needles aggravate Goodman’s asthma. She’s still readjusting a writing routine that started when she used to walk Maggie to school in the Long Island suburbs.

As her daughter grew older and more independent, Goodman’s work rhythms changed, but she still likes to compose in her head during walks, memorizing and refining a nugget of prose that she brings back home. “I sit down to write it, and often I just keep on going,” she says.

She always writes first drafts longhand, and starts work each Monday by typing the previous week’s pages, often revising as she goes along. Typically, she turns out a chapter a week, but The Demon Lover was different.

When folklorist Callie McFay accepts a teaching position at Fairwick College, deep in the Catskills, she starts having vivid and startling erotic dreams.

Her Victorian attic contains steamy manuscripts by the last tenant, romance novelist Dahlia LaMotte, and Callie soon realizes the man of their mutual dreams is an incubus—a demon lover—who gains strength by possessing her, body and soul. Luckily, he isn’t the only supernatural being around.

“When I got the idea, it was like I was possessed by a demon lover,” Goodman reports. “I thought about it all the time.” She kept a notebook next to her bed, and would often wake up and start writing at once. She’s always enjoyed working in bed (“I call it my Edith Wharton writing”), but the feverish pace was unprecedented: She finished a first draft in four months.

When she came up for air, she realized “my house was a wreck, I hadn’t talked to people in months. I looked at my daughter and said, ‘Have you gotten your college applications in yet?’” She did three more drafts before publication, and already has two more Juliet Dark novels on tap.The second volume of the Fairwick trilogy, The Water Witch, will come out in 2013; Goodman just finished the third, The Hallow Door, and is starting a new book that features a shapeshifting bear.

Goodman’s transition from more realistic fiction to fantasy genres was organic.

“I’d often written about fairy tales, and the idea of making the fairies real and going into the supernatural just took hold of me. It seemed like the next logical step,” Goodman says. “This feels like what I’m supposed to be doing right now.”

It also connects to her first loves as reader and writer. She grew up in a bland Pennsylvania suburb, enlivened by her mother’s colorful bedtime stories.

In fourth grade, she churned out a 90-page creative writing assignment about a girl who lives with a herd of magical horses. Soon, she was devouring Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, Victoria Holt romances, and TV’s “Dark Shadows.” At 13, she read Jane Eyre, “still probably my favorite book.”

By then, her family was living in Great Neck, where Goodman spent her teen years writing “adolescent angst poems,” one of which earned her the Young Poet

of Long Island Prize at 17. She went on to Vassar, where she majored in Latin and read lots of folklore and classic mythology.

After college, she moved several times—to the Adirondacks, Texas, Colorado—while earning a master’s degree, getting married, teaching Latin, having a child, getting divorced, and returning to Great Neck. Somewhere in all this upheaval, she managed to finish two novels, a young adult fantasy and a mystery.

Neither one sold, and she nearly lost hope.

She met Lee Slominsky in 1994, when she took his class in mystery writing at Hofstra. “We were all adults, that’s the important thing to remember,” Goodman jokes, adding, “Lee was the first person who said, ‘You’re a writer. This is what you should be doing.’”

They married in 2000. Goodman soon sold her third novel, The Lake of Dead Languages, enabling her to stay home and start writing full-time. “I realized I could write and raise a child, or teach and raise a child,” she says. “I could do two of those things, but not all three.” In short order, she published seven acclaimed novels for Ballantine, most set in mix-and-match portions of upstate NewYork.

Though The Lake of Dead Languages is set in the Adirondacks, its fictional Heart Lake is modeled on Lake Mohonk. The Seduction of Water’s Hotel Equinox may conjure the arson-doomed Overlook Mountain House, if it overlooked the Hudson instead of Woodstock. And while the artists’ colony in The Ghost Orchard shares some DNA with Saratoga Springs’ Yaddo, Goodman quickly affirms that the dark past she concocted for its founders is entirely fictional. The Drowning Tree takes place at a Vassaresque college, and The Sonnet Lover and The NightVilla in Italy, where Goodman spent a semester as a Vassar undergrad. And although the bohemian boarding school in Arcadia Falls recalls Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe Colony, it adjoins a deep waterfall gash more like Kaaterskill Falls, where Goodman and Slominsky have hiked. “We go on location scouts, like in the movies,” she says.

Last year, they finally left Long Island for the landscape of Goodman’s dreams.

“If you had asked me ten years ago where I wanted to live, I would have said Red Hook or Rhinebeck,” she exults. In the fall, she walked daily at Poets Walk Park.

“I’d get to that spot where the view opens up and every time I’d say, ‘Oh my god, it’s gorgeous here!’”

That may be one reason she stuck with the Catskills for Juliet Dark’s Fairwick trilogy. “If I’m writing a new series, why not set it in my favorite place?” Goodman says. “I did not feel I had exhausted it, which speaks to the diversity of the Hudson Valley.” The familiar location may also help ease Carol Goodman fans over the genre gap.

“My editor will tell you I write ‘literary thrillers,’” says Goodman, who worries that might sound “a little pretentious. To me they’re more bookish—they’re about books and academia, folklore, and fairy tales.”

Juliet Dark’s paranormal romances also have bookish underpinnings—Fairwick’s otherworldly faculty brings new meanings to academic multiculturalism.

“I keep doing more and more research about actual fairy lore,” Goodman says.

“Celtic fairies are very strange creatures. They’re not Tinkerbell.”

There’s nothing remotely Disney about Callie’s incubus, whom Goodman’s stepdaughter Nora nicknamed “the Demon Lovuh.” The bookjacket copy promises “toe-curling sex,” and Goodman-as-Dark delivers. Writing explicit sex scenes “was fun, but it was hard,” she reports. “You risk embarrassing yourself.

I like sexy books, but my natural inclination is the Hollywood fadeout—the sex scene takes place between chapters. I prefer to write about desire, the emotional relationship. But for The Demon Lover I had to go beyond that. The relationship is sexual and had to be—you wouldn’t want to pick up a book called The Demon Lover and not have sex scenes.”

She points out that her Carol Goodman and Juliet Dark novels share the same core: a strong, intelligent female narrator who can make big mistakes, “so there’s vulnerability,” and a strong sense of place. “I hope some of my readers will follow me from one to the other,” she says a bit wistfully. Those who might not include her mother, who pronounced The Demon Lover “not my cup of tea,” adding loyally, “though I can tell that it’s good.” Goodman explains, “She’s a mystery reader, but she’s not into fantasy. I lose her when the fairies start popping out.”

Undaunted, she’s planning a young adult trilogy for Viking Penguin, with the working title A Darkness of Angels; its credited author may be Carol Goodman or some new incarnation, joining the magical pack in the house outside Red Hook.

Whatever her name, she’s in very good company.

Carol Goodman will read at SUNY New Paltz’s Honors Center on March 27 at 5pm.

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SHORT TAKES Beware the Ides! Five Hudson Valley authors take a walk on the dark side, and one charts the ways in which music can turn on the light.

SILENT KILLS

Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America

Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder

C. E. Lawrence

Michael Ratner & Margaret Ratner Kunstler

Michael Ratner & Michael Steven Smith

Kensington, 2011, $7.99

The New Press, 2011, $17.95

OR Books, 2011, $16

There’s a wannabe vampire on the loose in the lower Manhattan steampunk scene, and profiler Lee Campbell is on a quest to assemble the puzzle pieces amidst a quirky crew of cops, a city recently traumatized by 9/11/2001, and a host of his own issues. Upstate/Downtown scribe Lawrence provides a liberal helping of character study and existential angst mixed with skin-crawling suspense.

DEAD BY ANY OTHER NAME Sebastian Stuart Llewellyn, 2011, $14.95

Another outlandish mess for Janet Petrocelli, Stuart’s retired therapist-cum-investigator. She strives to be a simple Ulster County junque shop owner, tooling around to yard sales, but people keep telling her things. Sideswiped by “some swirling vortex of a lost girl, her narcissistic parents, shady boyfriend, kinky sex, and murder,” she rises to the occasion with ample moxie. Lively fun with a strong sense of place.

SHADOW BAY: A NOIR VISUAL NOVEL Donald Rothschild, art by William T. Ayton Epigraph, 2012, $17.95

Rhinebeck’s Rothschild and Ayton invents their own genre for this hard-boiled tale of a sportswriter and an auburn-haired restaurateur who meet at a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and the racetrack, getting over their heads in corruption and murder. The pungent text and evocative black-and-white paintings don’t cohabit frames as in most graphic novels, but deliver the goods side by side, like a shot of whisky and a chaser.

KILL ME IF YOU CAN James Patterson and Marshall Karp Little, Brown and Co., 2011, $27.99

An art student and Marine vet discovers a bag of diamonds in a Grand Central locker, appropriates them, and heads off to Europe, where diamond mob folks of course try to kill him.

Oodles of drama and gore ensue. Though Patterson addicts will have a blast, Karp’s readers will miss the emotional depth and good-humored grace of the Woodstocker’s Lomax and Biggs series.

THE FLOODPLAIN Anthony Robinson Codhill, 2012, $20

Set in the early 1970s in a thinly veiled version of New Paltz, SUNY prof Robinson’s seventh novel investigates what happens when the greater cultural turbulence of the Sixties rains down on one family. A searching and satisfying tale of a conventional man adapting to an unconventional era. Readings: Woodstock’s Kleinert/James, sponsored by Golden Notebook, 3/10 at 5pm.

Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, 3/13 at 5pm.

CHANGING LIVES: GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, EL SISTEMA, AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF MUSIC Tricia Tunstall W. W. Norton & Co., 2012, $26.95

Music writer and education activist Tunstall illuminates Venezuela’s life-changing El Sistema, which has empowered millions of disadvantaged youth since 1975. Alumnus Dudamel, the LA Philharmonic’s impassioned music director, engendered sister program YOLA (Youth Orchestra of LA); the movement is growing throughout the US. Reading at Woodstock’s Kleinert/James, sponsored by Golden Notebook, 3/17 at 5pm.

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egarding the subject of US intervention abroad, the membrane between fact and conspiracy theory can prove perilously thin, simply because the details often beggar belief.

However, official documents released only recently offer ample evidence that the American government attempted, during the 20th century, to overthrow heads of state in Korea, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Egypt, Iraq, Costa Rica, Haiti, the Congo, and the Dominican Republic.

In most cases, American-backed operatives failed their missions. In some cases, they succeeded—notably the assassination of Chile’s Allende and the bloody reign of Pinochet.

As suggested by its breathless title, Who Killed Che? makes no apology for its partisan stance. But this investigative study, written by two lawyers from the nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, balances its (admittedly relentless) leftist hue and cry with meticulous documentation. In a lean 77 pages—buttressed by 111 pages of declassified government documents—Ratner and Smith focus on a salient example of US government aggression in foreign affairs: the 1967 battle between the Bolivian government and a group of insurgents led by revolutionary (and T-shirt icon) Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

“Che, of all the guerilla fighters of that period,” the authors assert with signature grandiosity, “exemplified the success of guerilla warfare against US imperialism. His death,” they add, “was critical to the US, to ensure that the example of the Cuban revolution would not inspire other revolutionary movements.”

Guevara was a fragile asthmatic, born to wealthy Argentineans who settled into a bohemian life. These political dissidents transmitted their fervor to their eldest son. By college, Guevara had embraced Marxism. He became a doctor, but was equally eager to heal the body politic. In 1953, Guevara moved to Guatemala and saw firsthand the power of American colonialism; United Fruit Company, backed by the government, had installed a literal banana republic to ensure unimpeded profits. Guevara fled, but his commitment to vanquish American-led puppet governments had been bolstered.

Guevara would soon join forces with Fidel Castro to overthrow the US supported government of Cuba’s Fulgencio Batista. When Castro took control of the tiny island on January 8, 1959, it was a jubilant time. What the authors sidestep is how quickly Castro became dictator and made Communism a yoke of the common man.

Guevara’s pledge to bring freedom to other countries took him to the Congo and, in late 1966, to the volatile republic of Bolivia, where he took charge of a band of guerrillas. How readers respond to his subsequent struggle, capture, and execution will depend on whether they view the man as a revolutionary hero or as a zealot who believed the ends justify the violent means. Clearly, Ratner and Smith favor the former perspective. Yet even if the saga of Che Guevara does not move the reader, the sorry history of US intervention in foreign countries should appear in textbooks starting in elementary school.

Olivebridge resident Ratner co-authored a second 2011 release with Margaret Ratner Kunstler. Now that American corporations have the same rights as individuals, their book Hell No is more a practical survival guide than an alarmist call to arms. Produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights, it offers legal defense for citizens living under the farreaching intrusions allowed by the insidious Patriot Act. This book should be a mainstay in every household—complemented by a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag.

—Jay Blotcher

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ichard Bach has said that there is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. The warmhearted and indefatigable private detective created by Alison Gaylin in And She Was is living proof. Impacted hugely by her own sister’s disappearance when she was a child of 10, Brenna developed a rare psychological condition called hyperthymestic syndrome, in which every experience is imprinted on the conscious mind in minute detail and vivid, intrusive memories can well up so suddenly and intensely that the past threatens to overwhelm the present.

For a detective, it is both a handicap and an asset. Brenna has had to develop coping skills to refocus her attention in the here and now, and has found ways of putting her renegade memory to work for her. She sublimates the anguish of not knowing what happened to her older sister into locating missing persons, at which she excels. She’s got a 27-year-old pretty-boy assistant whose attitude toward women drives her to distraction, a sometimes-tense relationship with her teenage daughter, and an Internet friendship with her journalist ex-husband.

The unsolved case of a vanished child, Iris Neff, has haunted her for years. Now a new case is pulling her back to Tarry Ridge, the town where Iris disappeared, and there’s a tenuous but intriguing connection between the missing woman and the child she failed to find. It’s this connection and her commitment to justice that keep Brenna on the case when the missing woman turns up dead in the trunk of her client’s car and the police decide it’s a simple domestic homicide.

Brenna has her doubts, and manages to find one ally on the police department; when other people with connections to the matter die at an alarming rate, she is even more convinced that nothing about the case is simple. The scarier things get, the deeper she delves and the more determined she becomes, powering her way through blind alleys, anguish, and danger.

Something smells bad in Tarry Ridge, and as Brenna follows the scent, it becomes obvious that the fish is rotting from the head down: Her adversaries are powerful and connected. A handful of clues—an altered case file, a mysterious blue car, strange phone calls and a child’s drawing—are enough to keep her in pursuit even after her client fires her and apparently hangs himself, leaving behind a written confession.

Anyone might give up, but Brenna has instinct and nerve to spare. The pieces will fit together, and she will find out how. The villain she’s up against, the psychopathic tool of the outwardly respectable forces controlling Tarry Ridge for their own benefit, is a deeply scary dude. Fortunately, her assistant has a brain in that pretty-boy head (and top-notch computer skills), and her cop buddy an honest heart.

Gaylin breathes life into her characters and crafts an engrossing and moving mystery that twists and turns, building to a terrifying climax; your heart will be racing along with the plot for the last few chapters. She paints a savvy picture of corruption and its consequences, and a woman wrestling with her issues and pinning them to the mat. Readers of And She Was can rejoice: A sequel is coming in the fall.

Readings: 3/3 at 6pm at Woodstock’s Oriole9, sponsored by Golden Notebook. 3/17 at 2pm at Kingston’s Barnes & Noble.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our April issue is March 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first).

Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.

The Sun The sun came out Hip hooray!

put your hand inside this dream i want to count your fingers —p

—Grace Bard Benepe (2½ years)

Something Else

Turning Over a Chewed Leaf

On 59th, Looking East

And then I said the puzzle is that you never lived.

Had I known young girls possessed the propensity to green out my vision like that,

Job’s small rain Poured wet seething, As again she crossed the street

I would have never offered to fix her computer.

Against the light, Like a secret She burned to tell.

Cool skin Fanned by traffic.

You weren’t cut out for it.

No, I never said that.

I said, a wet nightgown frozen on the clothesline, flat as winter, ironed with ice.

Nothing will give me my wish: a tunnel of fire back

She had eucalyptus arms but the life of a koala is far too noble for me.

—Michael Anzuoni

to the place where you left me, not far from here.

Where there’s no talk about this —Jean Kane

Roads Are There For You

There is nothing but the emptiness of not wearing shoes and standing on a really cold parking lot, a really cold parking lot, standing, standing there.

The parking lot was happy that I felt empty.

And there was a car but I didn’t care about it.

But the car could have cared about somewhere for us. The car could have cared about somewhere for us.

Cars don’t really care about you.

Because they go by and only remind me that you left.

And roads are just there, there, just, always and always. Roads are there forever for you. Roads are there for you.

—Brian Loatman

Ice Cream at Midnight RIP Martin Scherk 1/20/12 Even when sick with fusky phlegm, Our seven billion letter alphabet Is planet earth writing home.

Thy Will See yonder, in the mute of the blossom— breath profuse & thin that hath chimed hark! mark the astatic aura of the process necessary; make thee hence in the fiery stroke b’tween vagabond & vagrant bequeathed by the nomads of our ancestry lock’d in the eternal sirrah, sirrah(s!) of an elderly art that doth die ere winter’s icy dew —Matthew Cronin

Southie she is like overripe fruit: too soft & dangerously perishable with a slightly putrid smell her misguided judgements have been cultivated like hothouse tomatoes

Inked Puncture me, but not too deeply.

Just enough to make me bleed in rivulets of crimson.

Sweet sanguine seduction.

Twihearts rejoice, but not too fast.

Swift piercing of dual fangs is not what I crave.

Only the repetitive puncture of a sharp needle, depositing vibrant colour into my flesh makes me smile.

Even when laughter congests a 95th winter With its silence, the language between coughs Can clock the end of a lifetime right with rhythm.

Even when this feast gets read in a deathbed And we are together in our best, black light, May love gently spoon our curving.

Sympathy is not what I seek only the comradery of those who understand and welcome such suffrage.

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—Mike Jurkovic

—Sid March

A smile that falters from time to time during the long slow process.

Sweat beaded brow furrows, teeth clenched, imprisoning the fullness of a plump lower lip to let you know It hurts.

—Will Hochman

Job’s small rain Puddled, without conclusion, To hold against the sun.

—Sharon Decker

Horse With him here, now skin to skin warmth spilling one into the other. breaths a lattice of drawing in, drawing out. the heart is a cave that holds our boisterous blood our twinned pulses bound in this moment after all, the only and most precious.

—Paula Josa-Jones

Brown Car and Dry Grass

Night

New Years always tomorrow enjoy feeling misery seems warm retrospect brown car with Florida license plates cozy socks on dry grass woman in bed, younger want it to work Enjoy power. She loves you. walk away doesn’t work Misery. Power. Cancel.

Tensity. Made it all work.

She’s still there.

I’m gone.

Misery.

Always tomorrow.

New Years.

she leans her hip against the sink studies her fingers polished pink

Eulogy for Moondog (Crown Prince of the Animal Kingdom)

—Christopher Haydu

Staring out of dusty, glared window pain, Donuts sold with coffee, three stories down.

The steps are steep, the coffee hot.

When I was younger, virgin to medicinal.

I traveled wide the oceans, feeling smooth stones between my toes.

No steps were steep, I walked on rock and tumble.

You ask, “ What is the trouble?”

I tell you what.

My mind a prison three stories up.

The steps are steep, the coffee hot.

the kitchen curtains gauzy white soften the black of the moonless night how still and quiet this long night seems no comfort of pillows that give in to dreams from hour to hour with chill in the air from kitchen to couch, then back to the chair what gives the day hope and leaves the night sorrow is it fear of the night or dread of tomorrow wrapped in a blanket, eyes to the ceiling the seconds are long as the night shade is peeling

—Liam Watt

the waiting is over, it’s finally dawn she thinks she can sleep now and stands up to yawn.

Evolution (a tanka)

—Jennifer Michelson Strong

Missing the Jagged Rock My firelight is burning slowly, my womb has shut down, I lay beside you emergent, though less fertile.

My tired eyes open in narrow slits as early sunrise rolls across your silver hair.

—Beth Ann Shoenfeld

On The Occasion of Your Biopsy

How I love the lines of your face, still-chiseled, and your aged body resistant to gravity.

I want to soap screws and pull teak splinters from my knees. Hand off wrenches and screwdrivers; learn my port from my starboard and how to coil a line with finesse.

I want to connect again so deeply to the womb of my life that I will never again fall from its embrace.

Tho’ we play together in the sun and dream under the moon and build our shelters as we may the tumult of the world will have its way.

Walking into the dark unknown unlocks the door to our only home within.

a hazy hint of tree and lawn the world appears, the dark is gone

My mouth turns upward at your grayish chest and eyebrows wild with unrestraint.

I want to fill my mouth with my childhood; sliced egg sandwiches sprinkled with salt, warm cake baked with sour milk.

How quickly now the pages turn.

This world breaks my heart time and again.

I’m a wanderer (like you Moondog) on a dusty winding road.

My soul alone a sailor on a sea of stars.

We uncoil our wormy legs to stretch stiffness from creaking bones and tendons, and then roll toward middle space to kiss, to touch.

Belly-fat slight and youthful we are not, hugs no less, against muscle-sag with boyish/girlish lust.

Instead, I sit at my kitchen counter glazing butter cake (too rich, too thick) with tears and snot. I breathe haltingly into the heaviness of my heart and tend the unbidden rendering.

We pull toward earth in grounded fire, laughing in the face of the inevitable jagged rock; missing it one more day.

—Dory Salerno

—Rhonda Baril Coble

The small self nurtures the larger self, layered in— to spider bodies: self-amplifying nodes, dream making animals, language.

—Ben Lopez

Ruptured Love How do I love thee?

Let me subtract the ways I love thee to the death of our fight My mind can’t stretch when feeling so much slight For the ends of being and ideal disgrace I love thee to the lowest level of each day’s Sullen greed, by the fire and moonlight I love thee slave like, as men strive for might I love thee darkly, as it turns to haze I love thee with passion put to much abuse In my old griefs, and with my ruptured faith I love thee with a love I seemed to lose —Marilyn Lazarus The golden ratio of collapse.

You. You. You. You. You. —L. Springstead

Breakfast At Norquist’s severed hand shake

skeleton bun Caesars due at any moment

and then some

count me out in —Peter Coco 3/12 ChronograM poetry 73

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Middletown, Goshen, & Montgomery Life in the Slow Lane

left to right: civil war memorial in goshen; harness racing museum in goshen; mikey teutul’s wolf gang gallery in montgomery

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large part of Orange County is definitively quaint, with clean suburban sidewalks, bursts of floral color in the spring and summer, and historic buildings housing country gift shops or casual eateries. And in many of its small towns, new businesses are filling empty storefronts that have been bare for years, bringing a modern edge that keeps these locales from growing stale.

Montgomery is such a place, especially on or near the picturesque Union Street. The recently opened Forget Me Not gift shop, for instance, is located right along Union and offers trendy jewelry plus a large selection of chic Vera Bradley accessories and other attractive novelties. The nearby Wolf Gang Gallery displays original works by local artists, including by its owner Mikey Teutul of “American Choppers” reality TV fame. Yoga on the Wallkill sits along its namesake river’s banks; after a relaxing class, yogis can walk across the street for some retail therapy at Recycled Style, a retro, high-fashion secondhand shop offering clothing, gowns, shoes, jewelry, and purses from various decades. Owner Maria Beltrametti’s loveable border collie, Shadow, will nuzzle lucky visitors for a game of fetch.

But even with the influx of newer energy, there are several Montgomery mainstays that no trip is complete without visiting. Copperfield’s Restaurant on Clinton Street has been open for about 25 years. Since then, they’ve ex74 goshen + middletown + montgomery ChronograM 3/12

panded from a hometown beer joint to a casual restaurant with a multicultural menu and Irish pub-like setting. Owner Paul Satkowski, a Montgomery resident, bought into the business in 2000 and has worked to expand its offerings. “I wanted to make it a place where anyone—my mother, someone’s grandparents, or some 25-year-old just looking for a good time—can all feel comfortable,” he says. “Because that’s how Montgomery is itself—it’s got a real community feel that welcomes everyone.” Part of the tavern’s ongoing renovations have included purchasing new furniture handmade by a woodworker in Ireland, now set around a conversation-encouraging fireplace. They’ve also increased their beer selection to 27 taps of domestic and imported favorites.

“We believe we have the most taps in our surrounding area, and we offer a unique selection; we’ve got Guinness and other classics, but we also carry local beers,” Satkowski says.

Just up the road, the two-floor Village Sampler is another scene staple. It’s been open since 1985 and offers nostalgic gifts, country-themed housewares, Crabtree & Evelyn body care, and baby clothes upstairs; downstairs is a chocolate-lover’s dream featuring a display case of various truffles opposite a wall of shelved confections. It’s housed in a building that’s roughly 200 years old; past lives include a law school, a livery, and an antiques shop. “I’ve lived in Montgomery for more than 40 years and the Village Sampler has always been one

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of my favorites,” says Lucille Cuneo, employee and mother-in-law of owner Barbara Cuneo. “My son and daughter always gave me boxes of chocolates from here before they took over in 2008. Barbara told the owners she always loved the shop and to let her know if they ever intended to sell; well, they started talking and eventually they sold it to her. They knew she’d keep the store the same way they did, as a nice, friendly, charming shop for all seasons.”

Just outside of the walkable village area sits Camillo’s at the Crossroads Restaurant, offering locally sourced American cuisine cooked by CIA grad Christopher Camillo. (Lucille Cuneo at the Village Sampler claims Camillo’s serves “the best pot roast.”) In the early 1900s the building was home to a general store and still maintains that appearance, with a large front porch and rustic exterior. It became a German-American restaurant in the 1970s until its owner past away in 1995. Camillo took over in 1997 and continues to serve an array of dishes, from pork filet mignon with apples, pears, and bourbon to clams Provençal with angel hair pasta.

Similar to Montgomery in its quiet community vibe, Goshen is also the site of a gradual transition toward a rebirth; while the village still maintains its historic charm, it’s becoming hip without even realizing it. Goshen is well known for sites such as the Sarah Wells Trail, a state route named after a pioneer woman who was among Orange County’s first settlers, and the nearby Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame. This National Historic Landmark features collections and educational exhibits from harness racing’s past and present, plus a 3-D race simulator open to the public. But once you pass by what’s locally known as “Lawyer’s Row”—connected houses of myriad architectural styles, currently home to various law offices—you’ll find a collection of unique small businesses and studios, and no shortage of places to eat.

Open since 2010, Bistro Lilly, owned by residents and married couple Rose and Anatoly Shevchuk, has already gained an envious reputation as a casualyet-elegant eatery with artistically presented dishes. The pair also own Goshen Gourmet Café, a highly regarded café frequented by locals, commuters, and passersby. Across the street, Moose’s Retro Café, owned by CIA grad chef Tom Picchione, offers what they call “home cooking from the good old days, with a twist.” This includes such items as hot dog cordon bleu—a hot dog wrapped in ham, topped with Swiss cheese and bacon—and a mac ’n’ cheese dish made with cheese sauce, basil, pesto, chicken, bacon, roasted red peppers, and topped with fresh mozzarella.

For scenesters and the young-at-heart there’s Prolifix Skateboards and Apparel, a funky skateboard and snowboard shop, and nearby Happy Buddha Yoga, where one can take a “Buddha Rocks” class featuring Vinyasa-style yoga taught to classic rock hits. The studio is a growing, evolving yoga center offering various classes by a trove of teachers, each with his or her own style.

Music-lovers will find more options of interest in nearby Middletown. Alto Music, a music and gear store that bills itself as “the most complete music store in the world,” is just around the corner from Route 211. Housed in a former indoor amusement park, Alto offers a huge selection of guitars and basses, drums, pianos, DJ equipment, recording tools, and more. “We’re a full-service music store in a 30,000-square-foot building and we cater to everyone from professional producers to the kid who just wants to learn an instrument,” says store manager Dennis Shepherd. Middletown’s highway access to Manhattan has helped bring numerous clientele—including famous names that Shephard prefers to remain mute about—up to the store. “We’re really lucky to be in this location,” Shepherd says. “Route 211 brings a lot of traffic our way. Also, there’s a wealth of musicians in the Hudson Valley and we can provide them with anything they need—­they don’t have to go to the City.”

Middletown also has a new hot spot for blues lovers. Brian’s Backyard BBQ & Blues, a family-owned barbecue joint, features some of the area’s best blues artists—Myles Mancuso and The Dan Brother Band—and national stars like Bobby Massano and J. Geils. But those looking for other music genres in a more chic environment will find it in Cosimos Brick Oven Ristorante & Bar, best known for their wood-fired pizzas and happening happy hours, or at Blue Martini, which is gaining popularity for its lively afterhours entertainment.

While many think of this side of Orange County as being filled with quiet main streets, desolate ghost malls, and roving farms, there’s been an inner renaissance taking root that’s finally ready to bloom. As Shepherd notes: “New stores are even opening in the empty shopping centers.The whole area is really coming back around, and that’s good news for everyone.”

Events General Montgomery Day Each September, the village of Montgomery celebrates its founder, General Richard Montgomery, with a large, family-friendly festival. This year marks the celebration’s 23rd anniversary and guests can expect live music, local food, a parade, a petting zoo, amusement rides, various food and craft vendors, and fireworks.

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Thomas Bull Memorial Park This family- and pet-friendly park features myriad activities and seasonal events. During the summer, look for their Family Film Fest Series, showing PG moves outdoors, while wintertime brings snow tubing and sledding activities. The park is located at 211 Rte. 416, Montgomery.

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Goshen Great American Weekend Goshen’s famous Independence Day celebration includes craft vendors, antiques dealers, food purveyors, and tons of activities for the kids. Exact dates and more information can be found at Goshennychamber.com

Goshen’s Harness Museum Each month the Harness Museum offers a unique Family Workshop arts-and-crafts event. After the session, families are given a museum tour, complete with a ride on the 3-D harness racing simulator.

The cost is $5 per child, parents free; reservations recommended.

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Orange County Fair Now in its 172nd year, the Orange County Family Fair takes place July 13-29. Expect an entertaining midway of games and prizes, amusement rides, a petting zoo, live music, the notorious pig races, and those delicious 4-H milkshakes.

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SUNY Orange Events The college’s annual Outdoor Music Festival features the SUNY Orange Jazz Band, Choir, and Madrigal singers in the campus’s Horton Hall Gardens. Admission is free and the event takes place April 26, from 11 am to 1 pm. The SUNY Orange Choir and Madrigal Singers also perform Sunday, May 13, during their annual Mother’s Day Concert at the Orange Hall Theatre.

Orange County Fairgrounds Speedway All summer this historic hard clay race track features various motor races and events, such as the Second Annual OCFS Motorsports Show, which takes place March 30-April 1.

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While landfills are growing as fast as communities are, our society is still continuing to create mass amounts of waste, from food wrappers to so-called disposable items—paper towels, pens, razors, and the like.

But James W. Taylor Jr. of Montgomery has a solution: Turn waste into a source of alternative energy. Taylor owns Taylor Biomass and Energy, LLC, which he describes as the world’s largest full-scale commercial biomass facility. “We need to stop looking at waste as waste, and instead see it as a resource,” he says. “Finding another way to use it is much better than putting it all into a mountain or in the ground; it will never go away unless we do something with it.”

The facility’s purpose is twofold: reduce the use of landfills while providing growing communities with energy solutions. “Through a sophisticated process, we take municipal waste, sort it, and turn carbon solids into a synthetic gas, which is then fed into a power plant,” he explains. “This becomes electricity in the Central Hudson power grid.”

Taylor Biomass is located at the site of the former Taylor Tree, a removal service, which Taylor purchased from his father, James W. Taylor Sr. He continued to run the family company for a while, then added Taylor Recycling—a DEC-approved facility. But Taylor realized the next phase of growth in waste reduction would go beyond basic sorting and recycling of trash, to creating renewable energy. The biomass facility opened in 2005. “The goal is to continue improving the technology that reduces our dependency on fossil fuels,” Taylor says, “while at the same time being able to still power our homes and communities. But first, we’ve got to stop wasting our waste.”

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Culinary Adventures

BBQ

An Odyssey

Text by Molly Baz Photographs by Doug Baz

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y father and I decided to embark on a road trip from New York that would take us through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The route was designed solely to seek out as many variations on American barbecue cookery as we possibly could within three-and-a-half weeks. As a line cook and aspiring chef, I have a shameless and ferocious obsession with pork, and it’s pork that we were after. Pork of all cuts and preparations. Obviously, some beef brisket, fried chicken, and biscuits made their way into the daily roster of barbecue consumption as well. We sought out to learn what differentiates each town’s barbecue from the next, down to the most minute detail. We decided to approach the trip with no biases. It would take the juiciest, most tender rack of ribs, with the perfect proportion of smoke, spice, sweetness, and porky flavor and the perfect bark-to-meat ratio, to determine where my personal preference lies.

Having just left my job as a line cook at Picholine in Manhattan, I set out to spend a few days at each stop, working alongside pit masters to learn their craft. My father, Doug, a professional photographer, came along with me to document every waking moment of the adventure. Not only did we explore regional differences from state to state, but we also made sure to include other tangential endeavors that would better inform our trip along the way. We observed animals being slaughtered, we visited small-and large-scale pig farms, we visited hog processing plants—all in the name of gaining a deeper and more well-rounded understanding of one of America’s great culinary traditions. The photos, discovered secrets, and recipes made their way each day to our blog, Adventuresinbbq.tumblr.com. Given the time constraint of three-and-a-half continued on page 88 82 culinary adventures ChronograM 3/12

(Above) Beef Rib—King of BBQ I’m not sure I can do justice to the revelation that occurred upon my first taste of Texan barbecued meats but I will try nonetheless. The brisket: tender as seems humanly possible, with an eighth-inch layer of partially rendered, melting fat in the middle, topped by a dark crust of well-seasoned bark to hold the slice together. The sausage: a taut encasement that literally popped with the slightest pressure to an incredibly moist, coarsely ground interior. The sensation of biting into this hot ring was enough to confirm its place in my hierarchy of encased meats, to say nothing of the flavor enclosed therein. This photo captures a classic beef rib, as prepared at Black’s in Lockhart, Texas.

(Opposite, top left) The South Will Rise Again Heading south from North Carolina we landed ourselves at a classic old-school South Carolina institution—Maurice’s Piggie Park. I’m not gonna sugarcoat things here: This place is outrageous. Outrageous in the sense that Maurice is still flying the Confederate flag 146 years later, and his restaurant is bursting with “Southern pride” (read: white suprematism). All judgments aside, however, this man makes a baller barbecue sauce and some seriously tender ribs.

(Opposite, top right) The Salt Lick No trip to Texas is complete without paying a visit to one of the state’s most renowned barbecue establishments: The Salt Lick. An hour or so outside of Austin, on a beautiful ranchlike estate, this place has become a barbecue epicenter, cranking out hundreds of pounds of smoked meats daily. We sampled each of their cuts, but were ultimately most blown away by those we tasted the next day at Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor, Texas. Don’t get me wrong, the Salt Lick is not to be missed—it just might not be the best barbecue in town.

(Opposite, bottom) Faded Glory Driving down an open road in West Helena, Arkansas, we happened upon a downtrodden, barred-up barbecue shack: Shadden’s, a joint that came recommended from several sources but had unfortunately been closed due to a death in the family. Though it hadn’t been in operation for over a year, the place still rang of years and years of pit-smoking glory. It was an eerie endeavor, the pit still standing, cold and rusty alongside the no-longer-operating storefront. I can only imagine the history behind its closed doors. It’s a shame to have missed it.

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We ate some barbecue in Texas. Some serious barbecue. But nothing could touch what we ate one late afternoon at Louie Mueller Barbecue in the small town of Taylor, an hour northeast of Austin. This place had everything right from the clean, dark brown, burnished interior that revealed years of pit smoking to the perfect ratio of salt-to-pepper seasoning on the bark of the beef ribs and brisket. Pictured here is a customer with one massive and decadent beef rib, generously marbled with fat.

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Barbecue with a Smile

Daddy D’z was a dimly lit, neon-signed joint we passed through on our way out of Atlanta. Atlanta wasn’t exactly a major stop on our list as it doesn’t seem to boast a barbecue tradition specific to its own history. Atlanta barbecue turned out to be more of a composite of the various styles we encountered as we ventured west. But this particular place had good character, and the loveliest waitress to boot.

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BBQ ODYSSEY STATS BBQ Joints: 31 Biscuits Consumed: 21 Pork Ribs Consumed: 38 Gallons of Sweet Tea Consumed: 6 Pulled Pork Sandwiches: 12 States Visited: 16 Miles Traveled: 4,258 Hours Driving: 73 Pictues Taken: 1,656 84 culinary adventures ChronograM 3/12

we visited while passing through Music City. If I could have put this place in my suitcase, to bring it back to you all, I would have in a heartbeat. We needed to have it all so our waitress kindly hooked it up and returned with a platter containing the following: fried chicken, country ham, pulled pork, turnip greens, hash brown casserole, each of the four types of gravy available for unlimited biscuit extravagance, and a side of hoecakes.

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Welcome to The Pit

Everyone speaks of Southern hospitality and we knew we’d run into it down South, but the kind of welcoming that we received at Lexington Barbecue was unparalleled in any of my experiences working with chefs in the Northeast. Lexington Barbecue is now run by the second and third generations of the family and every last one of the workers accommodated our perhaps ridiculous request to come into the kitchen in the middle of dinner service and hang. This pit master introduced us to all aspects of the operation, from smoking and then chopping the shoulder to order and throwing it on a hamburger bun with three ladles of vinegar sauce, to dropping hush puppies in the fryer and grilling hamburger steaks to nothing below medium well.

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Knowing we would arrive on a Saturday evening, we did some preemptive research en route to Memphis and landed ourselves in the best possible Sunday morning scenario: Reverend Al Green’s Full Gospel Tabernacle Church, in a residential neighborhood of south Memphis. This is the Al Green, at home in his own church, in all of his soul-singing, Jesus-praising glory. There was not a moment of silence in the room and we experienced an unparalleled level on energy that morning. He sang, he preached, he danced, and Al Green healed even the most desperate of souls into the late afternoon.

weeks, we budgeted our time so as to land ourselves at the midway point in the great state of Texas. Some key players were unfortunately passed up along the way, but the trip didn’t end upon our return. Though I am now back in Manhattan working as a line cook at the newly opened restaurant Allswell, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and my father has returned to the Hudson Valley, phase two of the trip is in the works. We hope to pick up where we left off and revisit those places that we weren’t able to visit. By the end of the three-plus weeks, we had fully exhausted our capacity for barbecue.There were moments along the way in which my body was so unhealthily malnourished, due to the sheer volume of fat consumption that had occurred, that I spent my evenings lying in the fetal position in our hotel room, hoping to heal before the next morning’s endeavor. Nothing sounded more delicious than a raw kale salad at those moments. But the trip was worth every calorie, and the amount of information we acquired, not to mention the people and places that we grew to know and love along the way, was incredibly educational and continues to be inspirational for both of us as we consider the next trip, and carry on back home in New York.

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Sushi Village 26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245 www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com Sushi Village serves authentic, great tasting Japanese food and sushi with friendly service and great prices. Located near Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Sushi Village offers all-youcan-eat sushi and lunch specials.

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week

By Erik Ofgang

The American Bounty restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. All the CIA’s restaurants are participating in this year’s Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (March 18-31).

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t’s chow time in the Hudson Valley. For the sixth consecutive year, diners will get to sink their teeth into the region’s finest culinary creations at bargain prices during Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, March 18 through March 31. More than 190 restaurants are participating and will offer three-course prix-fixe dinners at $29.95 and three-course lunches at $20.95. These restaurants are located in seven counties along the Hudson River from north of New York City to just south of Albany.

Organized by Janet Crawshaw, publisher of the Valley Table magazine, the event has grown in size each year and an estimated 200,000 diners participated in 2011.

Crawshaw says the region is a dining Mecca and notes that Hudson Valley is home to the Culinary Institute of America, one of the country’s foremost cooking schools, and the Glynwood Center, a nationally recognized center for sustainable agriculture. Plus the region is known its farms, artisanal cheese makers, wineries, and distilleries.

Crawshaw adds that Lonely Planet recently named the Hudson Valley as the #2 pick on its 2012 top 10 list of places to visit in the US, in part because of the region’s farmto-table food options.

Crawshaw hatched the idea for the event after she attended restaurant week in New York City. “I was taking advantage of New York City’s restaurant week and eating food that was from the Hudson Valley because food from the Hudson Valley was all over their menu,” she says. After Crawshaw saw Hudson Valley products in New York City’s top restaurants she says “the light bulb went off ” and the Hudson Valley Restaurant Week was born.

Participating restaurants are listed on the Hudson Valley Restaurant Week website (Hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com). Crawshaw said it’s always a good idea to call ahead for reservations and make sure of the details of the restaurant’s involvement— although many restaurants participate in the event on weekends, some do not. Crawshaw also suggests calling ahead if you have dietary restrictions to see if the restaurant can accommodate you.

Gina Truhe, of Poughkeepsie, is a food lover who’s taken advantage of the event the past two years and plans on doing so again this year. “I absolutely love Restaurant Week” Truhe says. “I think that it’s a really good opportunity to eat at restaurants that you might not otherwise go to just because of cost considerations or because you just don’t have a cause to go out for a fine dining experience every weekend.”

Truhe says she usually attends about a half dozen restaurants during the event and plans to do that again this year. She writes about her experiences on her blog Foodismyporn.blogspot.com. “I definitely don’t got to the places that are my go to’s. I try to pick places that I’ve never been to before and try to expand my culinary horizons a little bit and try something brand new,” Truhe says.

This year the kick-off for the event was held on the Culinary Institute of America’s campus in Hyde Park in late February and all the restaurants operated by the CIA are participating in the event. Stephan Hengst, marketing drector for the CIA says the event is a great way to celebrate the food of the region and for the school to connect with its graduates. “So many of the chefs that are also participating in Restaurant Week are graduates,” Hengst says. “Many of the chefs that attend college here fall in love with the area and realize what a great place it is to live and raise a family and start a business.”

Hengst says that the Culinary Institute has long featured locally grown products on the menu’s of their restaurants.“We spend a million dollars on local food annually from a network of more than 30 different local farms,” he says. Hengst adds that in recent years people have realized that shipping organic products from California is not environmentally friendly and that “‘local and sustainable’ in many instances is better than organic. When you live in an area as fertile as ours, there’s a tremendous opportunity to buy local and source local.” Two years ago, Hengst says, the CIA converted one of their restaurants, St. Andrew’s Cafe, to feature local foods.

The idea of locally grown food is one that has gained momentum in the last decade or so, said Crawshaw. “Ten years ago we could probably count on a hand or maybe two hands the numbers of chefs [in the region] that were seriously sourcing local products,” she said. “Now there are just so many chefs who are using locally grown products and who are making a serious effort to find ingredients locally.”

She adds, “I think it’s fair to say that the chefs and restaurants of the Hudson Valley are really at the forefront of what’s become a national trend.”

Diners can experience this trend first hand at affordable prices during Restaurant Week. Bon Appetit!

For a full list of participating restaurants, and more information about Hudson Valley Restaurant Week: Hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

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Excel Auto Glass Corp. - Kingston 1789 Route 9W, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 626-9659 www.excelautoglass.com

Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2500 www.jenkinstownmotors.com/ Auto Repair in New Paltz, NY.

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Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and

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Book Publishers Monkfish Publishing 22 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com

Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing.

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Countryside Custom Builders (845) 265-9179 www.countrysidecustombuilders.com

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Cleaning Services Mold Mitigations (845) 462-2638 moldmitigations@yahoo.com

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Clothing & Accessories Woodstock Design 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com

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Events Woodstock Writer’s Festival www.woodstockwritersfestival.com

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Gardening & Garden Supplies Mac’s Agway (845) 876-1559, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, (845) 255-0050

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Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

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The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

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FACT OR FOLKLORE? There’s more to the story when it comes to popular health myths and claims. by wendy kagan illustrations by annie internicola

W

e live in a sound-bite culture. Pop wisdom is delivered in snippets, divvied-up TV screens, and crawling word banners at the bottom of newscasts. Blogging has gone micro, and if you can’t say it in a 140-character Twitter post then you probably shouldn’t say it at all.

But there’s a price to pay for the current obsession with abbreviation. When our stories are left half told, overgeneralization and misinformation step in to fill empty spaces. Amid the newsflashy free-for-all that is the World Wide Web, myths and rumors run rampant. When it comes to health topics, our edited-out talk loses its hard science. That’s why, in defiance of the dumbed down, I’ve selected a few popular health sound-bite claims for closer inspection. Are the following brazen-faced statements fact, fiction, or something in between? The answers might surprise you.

Cell phones give you brain cancer.

This unlikely seeming declaration is quite possibly true. Last summer, the World Health Organization (WHO) surprised the medical community by reversing its stance on cell phones and cancer. While the international agency—comprising top scientists from around the world— originally drew no link between the two, it is now suggesting a possible connection. After reviewing the evidence from a number of studies, WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified mobile phone use as a “carcinogenic hazard” in the same risk category as lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform. The cause for alarm is that cell phones emit radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation—a nonionizing type of radiation similar to the kind that powers a microwave oven but not as strong as ionizing X-ray radiation. Says Dr. Jonathan Samet, the chairperson of WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer and the director of the Global Institute for Health at USC, “This classification does not mean there is certainty that mobile phones cause brain cancer. But it reflects the findings of several studies showing associations of mobile phone use with increased brain cancer risk.

Thus, the [WHO] group could not classify radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation as not causing cancer.”

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When we hold cell phones to our ears, are we cooking our brains? Some scientists have suggested that we are—though WHO maintains on its website that radiation from cell phones only negligibly raises the temperature of the brain or other organs. What’s harder to ignore is that the largest international study on cell phones and cancer, released in 2010, showed that participants who used a cell phone for 10 years or more had doubled their risk of developing brain glioma, a type of tumor. Given that widespread cell phone use has been a part of our culture for only about the past 15 years, its long-term effects remain unknown. Says Samet, “We need more research to sort this out—both epidemiological and mechanistic.”

Bottom line: Cell phones might increase brain cancer risk, but don’t toss your BlackBerry just yet. Using a wired earpiece or your phone’s texting or speakerphone function—instead of pressing the device against your noggin (Can you hear me now?)— can significantly reduce exposure to radiation from the gadget.

Chocolate is good for you.

The short answer is yes—but hold your applause. Study after study has revealed the positive nutrient attributes of flavonoids, the health-promoting antioxidants so richly abundant in dark chocolate. Says Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, professor of nutrition science at Tufts University and a lead researcher on several chocolate studies, “The evidence from a number of studies now—both observational studies and meta-analyses of clinical studies in chocolate—all suggest an improvement in vascular function seen in part by things like a decrease in blood pressure, particularly in people who have high blood pressure.That’s definitely a good thing. Cocoa powder, or dark chocolate with lots of cocoa powder in it, can have these benefits.” But. (And there’s always a but, isn’t there?)

“Chocolate is also a high-fat, high-sugar food,” cautions Blumberg. “Too much can lead to weight gain and obesity. So the good news is, dark chocolate is good for you. The bad news is, you can’t eat as much as you want.”

What about milk chocolate? The jury is out on that popular confection.

Some studies say that flavonoids bound with milk lose their bioavailability

(or their ability to be absorbed by the body), while other studies have failed to identify this untoward reaction. “If I put milk in my chocolate or tea, do I lose the benefit? The answer is not clear,” says Blumberg. What we know for sure is that milk chocolate is not very high in flavonoids because the Dutching process removes them for a smoother, sweeter taste. (You can thank those health-promoting flavonoids for dark chocolate’s pleasant bitterness.) As a result, most researchers don’t bother running trials with milk chocolate in human studies. “Yet in the observational studies,” says Blumberg, “more chocolate consumption of any kind, milk or dark, is associated with lower blood pressure. So I don’t want to say that milk chocolate is no good. But if you want the most health benefits, you really should be going with dark chocolate.”

How much is enough to reap the delicious advantages yet avoid the downsides? Blumberg recommends about 10 grams a day—about the equivalent of a thumb-size Dove dark chocolate square. “If you’re a typical American, you want to cram as much in your mouth as you can, eat as quickly as possible, and then repeat,” Blumberg says. “What you have to do is learn about mindful eating. You need to eat that piece of chocolate and hear the snap; you need to understand how to chew it and really taste it. Then a small amount can be very satisfying.”

Bottom line: “Within the context of a healthy diet, chocolate is not an indulgent, bad thing,” says Blumberg. “It actually has positive effects.”

Soft drinks leach calcium from your bones.

As outlandish as this claim sounds, it’s true—with studies to prove it.

The main culprit here is phosphoric acid, the chemical that gives cola its tangy flavor and “pop.” According to Dr. Loren Fishman, a weekend resident of Salt Point who treats many osteoporosis patients at his Manhattan practice in physical medicine, the phosphoric acid in soft drinks combines with calcium and draws it out of the bones osmotically. “I’m not sure I would use the word leach,” says Fishman, preferring more scientific language—yet verbiage aside, you can’t get around the fact that cola-type drinks are bad news for bones. Phosphoric acid is a signature ingredient of the mystery-shrouded Coca-Cola formula, kept in a closely guarded vault since the 1920s.

More acidic than lemon juice or vinegar, phosphoric acid requires copious amounts of sugar or other sweetening agents to mask and balance its bitter taste. “Diet sodas are even worse for your health because they have yet more terrible things in them,” says Fishman. He adds that it’s not just calcium that finds a drain in phosphoric acid. Two other nutrients, magnesium and copper, also combine with the substance in a way that decreases their absorption in the body. Both are essential for bone health as well as for a range of other functions. Meanwhile, caffeine, also abundant in soft drinks, affects how the kidneys handle calcium in a way that facilitates the excretion of this vital mineral.

Bottom line: Frequent soft-drink consumption can deplete the body’s calcium stores and adversely impact bone health. Seltzer lovers, take heart: Fishman gives fizzy water a thumb’s up. “Seltzer has a different carbonation process than cola and doesn’t contain any phosphates,” he says. Gone from seltzer, too, are caffeine, sugar, coloring agents, and artificial flavors—all the ingredients that have, rightly, contributed to cola’s vilification among the health-wise.

Soy foods are unsafe.

It’s amazing how controversial a simple bean can be. A quick Web search about the dangers of soy churns out sensational statements like “Soy makes men grow breasts” and “Tofu makes you stupid.” On the flip side, you’ll also find magic-laden claims about soy’s cancer fighting and bone-protecting powers. Is soy a wonder food, or is it the bane of healthy diets everywhere? Take a look at the legions of soy studies out there and you’ll find that the answer probably lies somewhere in the middle. “There’s not a huge amount of data to lend to the worry that soy foods are unsafe,” says Connie Weaver, a soy researcher and head of the Department of Foods & Nutrition at Purdue University. “A lot of the animal studies looking for toxic effects feed purified soy compounds in really high doses, more than is likely to be consumed in the diet. In the normal course of the way humans eat soy, there is little evidence of any risk.” When it comes to soy’s wonderfood potential, Weaver’s talk is equally measured. “The literature is mixed,” she says, with evidence from some studies supporting and others discounting the food’s health claims (its positive effects on bone, for example).

Much of the worry and the wonder about soy centers around its isoflavone phytoestrogens—the naturally occurring, estrogen-like compounds found in the bean. Anecdotes about men developing gynecomastia (breast enlargement) or young girls experiencing early-onset puberty as a result of consuming soy foods are largely just that—anecdotal; the scientific literature offers little, if any, support for such claims. “Phytoestrogens are chemically somewhat similar to estrogen,” says Weaver, “but their ability to bind with estrogen receptors is much weaker.

So their effect, and therefore their risk too, is a lot less.” Weaver adds that Asian populations have eaten whole soy foods for centuries, “and Asians don’t have an earlier onset of menarche than Caucasians. In the US you can get supplements that are purified soy isoflavones, and you might be able to take enough to manipulate your reproductive cycles some, but Americans mostly don’t eat enough soy to worry about it.”

Bottom line: Consumed in moderation by people with no soy allergies, soy foods are safe to eat. Still concerned? Stick with whole-bean forms such as tofu, miso, and edamame, and avoid processed foods made with high concentrations of soy protein isolates.

Being cold causes a cold.

You’d think this one would fall firmly in the camp of folklore, right? Well, think again. A 2005 study conducted at the Common Cold Centre in England found that a drop in body temperature could in fact precipitate a cold. Of the study’s 180 participants, half were asked to keep their feet in icy water for long periods, while the other 90 control group participants kept their feet in empty basins. Within five days, 29 percent of those in the ice-water group developed sore throats and runny noses, while only 9 percent of the dry group came down with cold symptoms.The study’s authors theorize that cold weather conditions can lower immunity and constrict blood vessels in the nose, allowing a mild, dormant virus to blossom into a full-blown cold.

Bottom line: Zip up your coat. Isn’t it nice to know your mother was right about this one?

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

Is This My Chair?

I recently read yet another parenting book, this one called Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman.

Though many have found it a bit silly, I actually really enjoyed it, and found plenty of juicy little things that make you go hmmmmm.

For instance, French kids (for more of the author’s use of this and other massive generalizations, read the New York Times review) sit through entire, three-course, real-food meals. They know how to wait for things. They’re polite. French mothers bake each weekend with their kids but are such masters of their own domain (as a result perhaps of their guilt-free pleasuring, described below) that they don’t necessarily feel compelled to eat any (or all) of the cupcakes themselves. The best part was about how French mothers don’t feel guilty. About anything.This includes drinking, working, not working, going out sans the kids, eating everything, and with pleasure, not eating, spending money on classy lingerie and make-up, and just generally being nice to themselves. It was kind of stunning, actually.

Last night, after A went to bed, T and I sat outside and looked at the night sky, trying to feel French-ish about a shared guilty pleasure. I told him about the book and he asked me what all these parenting styles and my study of them have to do with my Zen practice. A good question. I answered that I get excited when I feel like there is a way to help A experience the confidence and containment I felt when I found Zen and started working with my teacher. And about how, odd as it may seem, something like this so-called French parenting style is, in fact, so Zen-like in its insistence on manners, mores, and limits, and yet, with a kind of lusty freedom and pleasure at the heart of it all. And then I started rambling about how I am always trying to figure out a way so leap out of being so....myself.....the uptight, dorky, neurotic, pragmatic, shrill American....that I....(gulp)...am.

And there it is.

The search: for a better me.

It’s not that shifting our priorities, slowing down, and highlighting what we love isn’t valid, but enough already with my incessant pursuit of some ideal state where my entire life will (forget about looking like) actually feel like the string of curated vignette Flickr photos of a burlap tablecloth + flowers + butter on a plate + happy-all-the-time, heaven-on-earth existence I so crave.

When T worked at a nursing home, there was a sadly demented resident there whose particular refrain was, “Is this my chair? Is this my chair?” All day long, every day, regardless of the proximity of any sitting implements whatsoever. Is this my chair? Is this my chair? I get it. That’s how it feels sometimes, searching for the perfect way to live, and to parent my baby girl, who just turned six and who is outside, at the moment, yelling in various Ramona the 100 whole living ChronograM 3/12

Pest-inspired voices, giving life to the beautiful and heartbreaking, complex human drama. She is not wasting time wondering who she is or where she fits.

She’s just working it out! It’s like the entire world is her chair, and when she needs a breather, she just reclines into it.

Unfortunately, samsara will catch up with her, too. Even the Buddha had to fight the Prince of Darkness, Mara, the Tempter of Human Beings, for his chair. It all started with the Buddha’s obsessive pursuit of ascetic perfection, which nearly killed him. When a little girl found him, exhausted and starving, and offered him a bowl of rice gruel with milk, he made the decision to eat it, to preserve his life instead of destroying it, figuring the answer he was seeking could only be found with a healthy body. So after that magical meal, the first taste of his own teaching on the Middle Way, he sat, as he was, under a tree, for 49 days. Near the end of that time, Mara, knowing that Shakaymuni’s likely enlightenment would lead to his own demise, pulled out all the stops in an effort to distract him, which included armies of dancing girls, demons, lightning, insults, challenging the young man’s right to sit there, in his own seat.

Finally, the Buddha responded: “Here on this seat my body may shrivel up, my skin, my bones, my flesh may dissolve, but my body will not move from this seat until I have attained Enlightenment, so difficult to obtain in the course of many kalpas.”

He then touched the Earth, which itself responded: I bear witness to you. Mara disintegrated. The morning star rose and Shakyamuni, now an enlightened Buddha, said, “I and all sentient beings on earth, together, at once, attain the way.”

As my late teacher Daido Roshi said about this moment: “The Buddha essentially declared, ‘Trust yourself.’” Daido went on to say, “This is a wonderful life.

And the key to that wonder is sitting right where you sit. Find out about it.”

Okay. This scrappy corner, all these random, not pretty Post-its, my husband’s horrifyingly cluttered “area” behind me.The running list in my head. My gut. My temper flare-ups, my wrinkles. Oh, god. And my longing. All mine. I see it, but Mara has such convincing reasons to keep me chained to all of it, very sophisticated arguments explaining why I am not worthy of freedom, especially the more I practice and the closer I get to accepting all my nuttiness. It’s a drone of insistent ranting about how I should keep looking, keep looking, improve myself, be different.

And yet, I know, deep down, that this seat of mine is so vast, so total, and so complete, it is immobile. Those are the facts. This is my chair, this dumb Ikea mod knock-off. Is it the Buddha’s jeweled throne of enlightenment? I have no idea. But it does the job. And it keeps me sitting here.

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25 years’ experience using needle and nonneedle techniques.

Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com

Addiction & Recovery Steven C. Siegel, LCSW, CASAC Rhinebeck/Red Hook and Manhattan, NY (845) 233-0705 S.SiegelLCSW@yahoo.com I am a clinical social worker and also a certified substance abuse counselor, skilled in working with teens and adults who struggle with depression, anxiety and addiction. I provide a nonjudgmental and safe environment in which we can explore and solve issues collaboratively. I rely heavily on cognitive-behavioral theory but my approach is conversational and insight-oriented. Together we can help you get more joy out of life and have fuller more meaningful relationships. I offer sliding scale payment and accept several insurance providers.

Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

Body & Skin Care Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist. In addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions from injured muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Dr. Ness also uses non surgical chiropractic traction to decompress disc herniations in the spine. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment call Dr. Ness today.

Counseling IONE‚ Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a Spiritual Teacher, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at ioneappointments@gmail.com.

Sage Fitness of New Paltz 40 Sunset Ridge Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 633-8243 www.sagefitness.blogspot.com sagefitness@ymail.com Sage Fitness of New Paltz, where intelligent exercise translates into profound results-for everyone. Master Trainer Anna McConnell, CPT, NSCA has helped people of all ages achieve their fitness and weight goals for over 23 years. Individualized personal training programs are carefully designed to motivate, educate and empower you to achieve results.

The Studio also offers fitness classes with a personal training touch. Choose from spin, pilates , yoga and over 25 classes per week.

We are happy to intoduce Tracy Cherry Clark, LMT, as our new massage therapist at Sage Fitness which enable Sage to be the only studio where the Massage Therapist and Personal Trainer work together to help restore flexibility and a higher level of muscular conditioning for their clients.

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes@optonline.net Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG), offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.

New Paltz Community Acupuncture

Amy Benac, M.S., L.Ac.

$25-$40 a session (You decide what you can afford) Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautiful community setting Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info

21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz TEL: 845-255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

The Mother-Daughter Connection a parenting support group

A support group for women raising teenage daughters

Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings • New Paltz, NY Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW (845) 706-0229 for more information www.itsagirlthinginfo.com

Holistic Health Kary Broffman, RN, CH Karyb@mindspring.com (845) 876-6753

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15 plus years of helping people find their balance. As a holistic nurse consultant, she weaves her own healing journey and education in psychology, nursing, hypnosis and integrative nutrition to help you take control of your life and to find True North. She also assists pregnant couples with hypnosis and birthing.

John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.

Master Elaine Ward, Worldwide Representative of Master Sha Hyde Park, NY (845) 702-0456 Elaine3396815@gmail.com facebook.com/HealTheSoulFirst “Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow,” is the key foundation teaching of Soul Healing. Soul Healing brings divine love and light to transform every aspect of life, including health, relationships, finances, and more. Experience the power of Soul Healing with Elaine Ward, Worldwide Representative of Master Sha. A heart-centered Soul Healer and teacher with advanced Divine Healing Hands abilities, Elaine has the authority to

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

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Susan DeStefano

read the Akashic Records and to offer Divine Soul Healing. Call (845) 702-0456 for a Soul Healing or Soul Reading consultation, and a list of upcoming events.

Nancy Plumer, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net

845.255.6482

Nancy is an intuitive healer, spiritual counselor and long time yoga teacher. Would you like to relieve stress, anxiety, fear, pain and increase your vitality, joy, balance and connect to one’s True Self? Nancy guides one to release blocked or stuck energy that shows up as disease/illness/anxiety/discomfort/fear and supports one to open to greater self-acceptance, integration and wholeness.

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org

One Light Healing Touch

New England Patient Resources P A RT N E R S I N C O M M U N I C AT I O N

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We save our clients an average of $4,000 on denied claims and billing errors. Let us help you!

We are a full-service patient advocacy agency. Many of our services are available nationwide. Our network includes physicians, nurses, psychologists, insurance experts and many others.

www.newenglandpatientresources.net 518-398-0051

Fishkill and Stone Ridge, NY www.onelightlealingtouch.com www.womenwithwisdom.com International Energy Healing and Mystery School. Learn 33 Holistic, Shamanic and Esoteric techniques for healing yourself and others. Increase your health, well-being, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. CEUs available for massage therapists and nurses. School meets 18 days over six months. Fishkill School begins July 2012, contact Penny Lavin (845) 878-5165. Stone Ridge School begins September 2012, contact Nancy Plumer (845) 687-2252.

Hospitals

H Y P N O S I S F O R H E A LT H

Kingston Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley

REASONABLE RATES • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP

396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org

PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COACHING AMY LOEWENHAAR-BLAUWEISS MA, MA, PSY.D, CHT CELL: 212-627-5861

HOLISTIC HEALTH PRACTITIONER

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Kingston Hospital is a 150-bed acute care hospital with a commitment to continuous improvement. In addition to the new, state-ofthe-art Emergency Department, a full compliment of exceptional, patient-focused medical and surgical services are provided by staff with dedicated and experienced professionals.

With the only accredited Chest Pain Center in the Hudson Valley, other specialized programs include: The Family Birth Place, Wound Healing Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Center, Cardiology Services and Stroke Center.

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com

Guided Self-Inquiry Sessions Available

Hypnosis Susan Spiegel Solovay Hudson Valley, NY and Great Barrington, MA (917) 881-0072 www.HypnoCoachNY.com healingwithhypno@fairpoint.net

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Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Nutrition House of Nutrition 5 College View Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7712

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy.

Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

Pharmacies Dermasave Labs, Inc. 3 Charles Street, Suite 4, Pleasant Valley, NY (800) 277-7099 dermasavelabs@aol.com

Physicians FirstCare Walk-In Medical Center 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 http://www.firstcaremedcenter.com/

New England Patient Resources (518) 398-0051 www.newenglandpatientresources.net

Valley Endovascular Associates One Webster Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5352 www.endovasulartherapy.com

Psychics Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, LCSW New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229

Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics.

Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating and Circle of Women. Call for information or consultation.

FB page: www.BrigidsWell.com/facebook.

Yoga

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7502 www.hvpi.net

Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com 20+ years of experience successfully treating adults, couples, families, children and adolescents through verbal body-centered psychotherapy, Rosen Method Bodywork, Play Therapy and Imago Relationship Therapy. I can guide you from feeling stuck, and experiencing painful symptoms, to blossoming into your genuine self... a place of ease.

Steven C. Siegel, LCSW, CASAC Rhinebeck/Red Hook and Manhattan, NY (845) 233-0705 S.SiegelLCSW@yahoo.com

Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa

Suite 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876 6129 www.clearyogarhinebeck.com

Everybody’s Yoga 2419 Route 82 - Studio A4, LaGrangeville, NY (845) 592-4110 www.everytbodysyoga.com

Happy Buddha Yoga 2 North Church Street, Goshen, NY (845) 239-8879 www.happybuddhayoga.com

Hidden Haven Yoga 11 Clearwater Rd, Highland, NY (845) 224-5908 www.hiddenhavenyoga.com

Hot Spot Kingston, NY www.hotspotkingston.com

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

Yoga Nude in Albany Albany County, NY (518) 577-8172 www.yoganudeinalbany.com yoganudeinalbany@yahoo.como Transcend body & mind. Transcend societal & religious negativity around the body.

Experience your sensual self with naked bodies flowing in movement ignited by their ujjaji breathes. Private sessions for couples or individuals.

220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com

Yoga on Duck Pond

Giannetta Salon and Spa

A dynamic yet subtle approach to yoga based on the premise that we develop habitual patterns of movement that can effectively be changed by bringing unconscious movement into conscious awareness. Only then can we explore new combinations of ways to move. Learn how to experience yoga poses comfortably and beneficially, from the inside out, without strain or struggle. When we slow down, we can sense and feel more clearly and comfortably how we move. Experience a style of yoga that is dynamic, rejuvenating, empowering and transformational. Donna Nisha Cohen, RYT, with over 30 years experience. Classes daily. Privates available.

1158 North Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 831-2421 www.gianettasalonandspa.com

Jal Day Spa and Salon 1285 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 231-4041 www.jalspa.com

Retreat Centers E-vam Institute 171 Water Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-6900 www.evam.org

Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Living Dharma in a Speedy World, April 6-8, and Coming Home: A Mindfulness Meditation weekend for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Communities, April 13-15.

Tarot Tarot-on-the-Hudson‚ Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

and breathe…

At Kripalu, we invite you to breathe—to intentionally pause the ongoing demands of life, bring your attention inward, and rediscover your authentic nature. Conscious engagement with the breath connects you with the intelligence and power of the life force within and around you. Whenever you are faced with a challenge—on the yoga mat, in a relationship, at work, or with your health—you can draw on a deep sense of ease, purpose, and mastery to create positive change.

We call it the yoga of life.

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I am a clinical social worker and also a certified substance abuse counselor, skilled in working with teens and adults who struggle with depression, anxiety and addiction. I provide a nonjudgmental and safe environment in which we can explore and solve issues collaboratively. I rely heavily on cognitive-behavioral theory but my approach is conversational and insight-oriented. Together we can help you get more joy out of life and have fuller more meaningful relationships. I offer sliding scale payment and accept several insurance providers.

Clear Yoga: Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck

Yoga Way 985 Route 376 at Brookmeade Plaza, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-3223 yogaway@earthlink.net www.yogaway.info Yoga Way is celebrating its 10th year of Service!

Offering Classical Yoga, taught in a way that is both practical and accessible, at every phase of life. Ongoing classes offered for adults and special short-series programs offered for meditation, prenatal, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and kids. March Introductory Workshops will be held on Saturday the 3rd and again on the 17th. Call to reserve your space. Visit our website for more information on our March special events. Yoga Way is an affiliate of Lakulish Yoga LLC. Jahnvi Formisano, Director.

De Stress & Renew with Yoga or Chakra Illuminations 518-577-8172 Yoga & Shaman Healer.

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ECOMIND: CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT Friday, March 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and cofounder of Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy, will talk about her new book EcoMind: Changing theWayWe Think to Create theWorldWeWant—sharing her message of personal action and community empowerment. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

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The Oakes's brothers drawing of the Field Museum 's main gallery in Chicago, made on a concave easel to mimic binocular vision.

Seeing Double We forget that Impressionism, an art style we love for its lush sensuality, was the result of a scientific theory. Based on the latest 19th-century optics, artists discovered that we see through air, which subtly affects how objects appear: not with clear outlines, but with diffused edges. Why don’t artists today use the latest research to create a newer theory? The answer is that they do—or at least two 29-year-old identical twins, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, do. A selection of their works will be shown in the lobby of EMPAC in Troy until May 31.

Because their mother was an English professor, Ryan and Trevor had an itinerant childhood, growing up in Colorado, Wisconsin, Virginia, and West Virginia, plus a half year in a 400-room castle in Scotland, when they were 10. The brothers attended Cooper Union as art students, graduating in 2004.

While at college, they became fascinated with the mechanics of sight. Their epiphany emerged from an optical illusion. If you bring an opaque object—such as your finger—close to your eye and focus on a distant point, the nearby object will replicate and become transparent. The Oakes brothers call this the “double ghost image.” This phenomenon is related to drunks seeing double. By continuing to look into the “ghost image” but drawing what they see in the distance, Ryan and Trevor could represent true perspective, not the approximation artists are taught in school. They were literally learning to “uncross” their eyes.

An eye doctor they met by chance noted that their method resembles a common eye exercise. The Oakes brothers are improving their eyesight, by drawing! One often hears of the physical hazards of painting, but rarely of art improving health.

The twins moved on to consider the nose. “The nose is another element of vision

that’s hiding in plain sight,” Trevor explains. Each of us constantly looks through our nose, pretending it’s not there. Because it’s so close, this facial prominence is invisible.

When you close one eye, however, it appears. The Oakes brothers carefully detailed the contours of the once-vanished nose, both the left and right sides. They may have been the first to profile the elusive organ of smell from behind.

Currently, they are investigating the border around sight—the black edge of our vision that we habitually ignore. The Oakes Boys are mapping out how the distortion at the edge of our vision fades to black. They used this strategy for a drawing of the Concert Hall at EMPAC. This led them to depart from rectangular paper. “For the EMPAC drawing, we for the first time used the natural, organic perimeter,” Trevor remarks. The shape of the paper they drew on resembles our actual field of vision—a 240° partial sphere.

Closely examining anomalies of vision brings into question the nature of the self. We accept the authority of our senses, which inform each of us that we are at the center of the world. But our senses are imperfect, fallible. Looking at the world as the Oakes brothers do, you begin to feel decentered...like a twin.

Each of the drawings is executed by a single brother, to keep the hand consistent— most often by Trevor. But the decisions are all collective: where to set the easel, which objects in the field to emphasize. The intention always is to exactly reproduce the experience of “occupying a human body” (to quote Trevor).

“Ryan + Trevor Oakes: The Periphery of Perception” will appear in the lobby of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy until May 31. (518) 276-3921; Empac.rpi.edu/.

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GREEN PEAS TV and CHRONOGRAM present:

Against the Grain,

a celebration of nonconformity

Celebrated nonconformist Frank Serpico teams up with Chef Noah Sheetz of the Chef’s Consortium to cook before a live studio audience.

The Natural Gourmet Cookery School For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of

healthy cooking.

They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry.

~ Specially created chocolate by Oliver Kita ~ Wines from Whitecliff Vineyard ~ Host and Interviewer Terry Gipson Saturday, March 31st at 7pm at the Hudson Valley’s newest art venue, S.P.A.F. Saugerties Performing Arts Factory www.thespaf.com $75 per ticket. Tickets must be purchased in advance by calling Stella May Productions at 845-247-3070.

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With the growing awareness of the effect that food has on health and well-being, there is a great demand for culinary professionals who can prepare food that is not only beautiful and delicious, but health-supportive as well. Our comprehensive Chef’s Training Program, the only one of its kind in the world, offers preparation for careers in health spas and restaurants, bakeries, private cooking, catering, teaching, consulting, food writing and a variety of entrepreneurial pursuits.

Please browse our website to see how much we can offer you!

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Find Something Sweet for Your Valentine!

Honey for Your Honey!

Gift Baskets Available!

In the Courtyard at 43 East Market Street Rhinebeck, NY (845)876-2625

Think Spring!

Come and stock up on yummy beverages

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THURSDAY 1 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Yoga: Mind and Body 6pm-7pm. Montgomery Street Health Annex, Rhinebeck. 876-7844.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. $50 series.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form 9am-12pm. Meredith Rosier. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Events Organic Beer Dinner 6pm. Four-course meal paired with beer from Peak Organic Brewing. Global Palate, West Park. $50. Res. req. 384-6590.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Class will blend postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Kirtan with Gaura Vani 7:30pm-9pm. $15. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.

Classes Watermedia 9am-12pm. Angela Gaffney-Smith. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Moving in Space: All Levels 6pm-7pm. $12. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Events 3rd Annual Morton Talent Show Third Time's A Charm Call for times. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation at New Paltz E-Waste Recycling Event 12pm-4pm. Businesses only. ShopRite, New Paltz. btravers@advancedrecovery.com.

Garrison Institute Personal Retreat Weekend 3pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

SATURDAY 3 Art Thou Art 12pm-10pm. One day only pop-up art gallery. St. James Street, Kingston. www.thouartgallery.org.

Oil Paintings by Grace Diehl 2pm-3:30pm. The Rotunda Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445 ext. 3372.

Dubin's Art 4pm-6pm. Works by Richard Dubin. Small Gallery at Valley Artisans Market, Cambridge. (518) 677-2765.

Artist Demonstrations 4pm-6pm. Three exhibiting artists will present demonstrations of their craft. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Galleries, Rhinebeck. 505-6040.

100% Byrdcliffe 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's annual Members' Show. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Tracy Helgeson: Mini Art 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700.

Lineage 5pm-8pm. Paintings by Mary Katz. Storefront Gallery, Kingston. www.TheStorefrontGallery.com.

Members’ Photography Exhibit 2012 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Joyce Robins: Sculpture 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-5907.

Dostoevskian Cinema, Part I 7pm. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

When Art Meets Science 6pm-8pm. Where the artists explore the common ground of artistic vision and scientific discipline. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

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Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Film Screening: The One Percent 7pm. The Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie. 483-7070.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

You Have the Power to Heal Yourself 10am-5pm. Learn Four Power Techniques to self-heal and help others heal any aspect of life with Master Elaine Ward. $60. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 471-1438.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Matt Finley, Don Miller, Peter Tomlinson 6:30pm. Contemporary jazz with a Brazilian flair.

Savona’s Trattoria, Kingston. 339-6800.

John Raymond Project 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Happy Traum 8pm. With Adrien Reju and Owen Biddle with Doug Yoel. $15. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828 ext. 7631.

Jon Cobert 8pm. Singer/songwriter. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Taj Mahal Trio 8pm. Jazz. $65. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, Connecticut. www.RidgefieldPlayhouse.org.

The Outdoors Give a Hoot Owl Hike 7pm-8:30pm. An introduction to owls and learn how to mimic their distinct calls. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 273.

Brighton Beach Memoirs 8pm. DCC's Masquers' Guild. $5. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

Spoken Word Reading of the Work of Jacques Lacan 7pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Theater London's National Theatre: Live in HD Broadcast 7pm. Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Dramatic Reading: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Eugenia 8pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 2 MARCH Art BAU Spring 6pm-9pm. Beacon artists show in Cold Spring. Marina Gallery, Cold Spring. 265-2204.

Body / Mind / Spirit willPower & grace 9am-10am. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

Private Angelic Channeling 11:30am. $125. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

T'ai Chi Chih for Cancer Patients/Survivors 12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Harmonium Workshop 3pm-5pm. $35. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.

Film

Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Young Writers Guild 4:30pm-6pm. Ages 9-12. Runs 11 weeks. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Music John Abercrombie Project 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Ciarlante, Katz, Sharrard 7pm. Opening act: David Kraai & Amy Laber.

Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Tony Pastrana & NY Latin Jazz 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Includes Mozart's Symphony No. 31 in D Major; the Schumann Cello Concert, Beethoven's overture to "The Creatures of Prometheus;" Leopold Stokowski's orchestral arrangement of the aria "Sheep May Safely Graze" and Pierre Jalbert's Les espaces infinis. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7216.

Robin Bacior + Nature Films 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

The Honeycutters 8pm. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Jane's Addiction 8:30pm. $29.50-$49.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Jack's R Wild Band 9pm. Rock. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

The Bookends Trio 9pm. Classic rock. Ruben's Mexican Café, Peekskill.

(914) 739-4330.

Reality Check 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Hahnbone Band 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Outdoors Brighton Beach Memoirs 8pm. DCC's Masquers' Guild. $5. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

Spoken Word Hudson Valley Ya Society: Lauren Oliver & Kate Ellison 6pm. Literary salon. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Theater Hairspray 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Little Shop of Horrors 7pm. Pied Piper Players. Mahopac Elementary, Mahopac. www.pipertheater.org/wpc/ticketsales.htm.

The High Oracle of Bhutan and Lama Rangbar Nyima Ozer 10am-5pm. Teachings and visionary prophecies for our planet. Tibetan Center, Kingston. 339-0000.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:45pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Intimate Voices String Quartet 6pm. $30/$45 with reception. First Presbyterian Church, Hudson. www.ClaverackLanding.org.

Up Close with the Compact 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

The Renowned Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Twisted Sister 7:30pm. With 3 Up 3 Down. John Falcone Memorial Concert. $35. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-5800.

Babe Neuwirth: Stories with Piano 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Kurt Henry Band with Trio Mio 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Martin Sexton 8pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. moe.

8pm. Progressive rock. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

The Bar Spies 8pm. CLassic rock. Max's on Main, Beacon. 838-6297.

The Black Dirt Band 8pm. Blues. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Dan Gurney: Traditional Irish Music on the Button Accordion 8pm. CD release and signing. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Lucy Kaplansky 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Chris O'Leary Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Hike, Snow Shoe or Ski Call for times. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 454-4428.

Growing Up Wild: Exploring Nature with Young Children 9am-3:30pm. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0320.

Brighton Beach Memoirs 8pm. DCC's Masquers' Guild. $5. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

Spoken Word A Reading with Howie Good and Pauline Uchmanowicz 7pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Craniosacral Touch, Sound Massage and Healing Energy 2pm-3:30pm. With Lea and Philippe Garnier. $30.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Chronogram Open Word 7pm. Chronogram poetry editor Phillip Levine hosts this poetry/prose/performance event. Featured artists Alan Salant and Dan Wilcox. $5. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 246-8565.

Classes

David Brenner 9pm. Comedy. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Adult Beginner Contemporary Ballet 1:30pm-2:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. (914) 204-7185.

Theater

Dance

Hairspray

Celtic Heels Irish Dance 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

20th Annual DanceFest 4:30pm. Presented by The Vanaver Caravan. $15/$10 children and seniors. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9300.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.

Little Shop of Horrors 7pm. Pied Piper Players. Mahopac Elementary, Mahopac. www.pipertheater.org/wpc/ticketsales.htm.

Eugenia 8pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Workshops

Events

Women's Writes: A Reading and Writing Workshop Call for times. Featuring Nava Atlas and Kate Hymes. A weekend of various readings and workshops. $5-$50.

Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Kingston Farmers' Winter Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Growing a Cutting Garden 10am-12pm. $30/$25. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Karmabee First Saturday Reception 5pm-8pm. Karmabee, Kingston. 443-3358.

Intro to Sufi Healing Practices 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Wild Hive Dinner Night: Thanksgiving in March 5:30pm-9pm. Acoustic bluegrass by Mama Tired. Wild Hive Farm Bakery, Clinton Corners. 266-5863.

SUNDAY 4

Jean-Francois Peyret: RE: Walden 8pm. Melding of theater, music, live performance, and large-scale video projection. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Art

Kids

Winged Odyssey II 1pm-5pm. Woodcuts and watercolors by Stephen Rengstorf. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.

Kid Stuff 10am-12pm. Every Saturday morning a different artist, writer, musician or environmental expert will conduct a workshop for ages 6-12. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Multimedia Music Event Call for times. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.

Eugenia 8pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

The Intimate Voices Quartet Call for times. First Presbyterian Church, Hudson. info@claveracklanding.org.

Rocky Horror Picture Show 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Ernani 1pm. Met opera live in HD. $25/$15 children. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

The Hungry Artist Show 10am-4pm. 12 local artists. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

First Sunday Free Gallery Tour 2pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Photography in the Landscape 3pm-5pm. An exhibition that calls attention to the natural and agricultural beauty of Columbia County.

Old Chatham Country Store Café Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227.

Body / Mind / Spirit Hypnobabies 10am-1pm. $375 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Uncovering the Brilliance of Your Soul Shadow 2pm-4pm. A jungian archetypal soul journey with Dr. Craig Lennon, PhD. accompanied by Jim Davis on Celtic harp. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Classes

Classes

Classes

Waltz Class 1pm-2:30pm. Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. $15. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.

Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 236-3939.

Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Dance

Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson.

(518) 537-2589.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Computer Class: E-Books 11am-12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro.

236-7272 ext. 15.

Events

Rhythm of the Dance Call for times. Traditional Irish dance. $35.06-$46.75.

Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Swing Dance to DJ'd Music 6:30pm-9pm. Beginner's lesson 6:00-6:30. $10/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

Events 31st Annual Toy & Train Show 10am-3pm. $3. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

Fracking Forum 2-4pm. Sponsored by Rochester Defense Aginast Fracking. Marbleotwn Community Center, Stone Ridge.

687-0692.

Music Jeremy Baum Trio with Connor Kennedy & Lee Falco 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Ernani 1pm. Met opera live in HD. $25/$15 children.

Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Super Orchestra Man 3pm. $12/$6. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Includes Mozart's Symphony No. 31 in D Major; the Schumann Cello Concert, Beethoven's overture to "The Creatures of Prometheus" Leopold Stokowski's orchestral arrangement of the aria "Sheep May Safely Graze" and Pierre Jalbert's Les espaces infinis. $20/$5 students. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock.

679-4101.

Peter Calo and Rob Morsberger 4pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Father Charlie Coen's St. Pat's Celebration 4pm. $5. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

A Special "Living With Cancer" Benefit Concert 4pm. Peter Calo, Rob Morsberger, and special guests to benefit Rob and his family. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Gilles Malkine: TimeDog CD Release 5pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

A Celebration of George Harrison 5:30pm. Steve Chizmadia, Eric Puente, Paul Silverman, Seth Slater and friends. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

African Dance 6pm-7:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Music Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Spoken Word Panel Discussion on the Impact of the Occupation on French Culture 5pm. With Richard Suchenski, Eric Trudel (French Studies), Roger Berkowitz (Politics, Hannah Arendt Center). Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-6482.

Men at Risk: Understanding Sex Differences in Human Mortality Rates with an Evolutionary Life History Framework 5:30pm-6:30pm. Lecture by Dan Kruger, Ph.D., University of Michigan. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/EvoS. Meeting of Dutchess Peace 7pm-8:30pm. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie.

876-7906.

Workshops Advanced Channeling Practice Sessions 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

TUESDAY 6 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Classes Beginning Ballet 4pm-5pm. Ages 4-8. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Hip Hop I 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-16. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Open Level Bellydance Class 8pm-9pm. $12/$40 4-class series. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

The Outdoors

Events

Brighton Beach Memoirs 2pm. DCC's Masquers' Guild. $5. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

Go Club with Kazuma Oshita 5pm-8pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Spoken Word Forum on Fracking 2pm-4pm. Sponsored by Rochester Defense Against Fracking (RDAF). Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-0692.

The Last Encampment of the Northern Continental Army at New Windsor, New York 2pm. Presentation on General Washington's main army of over 7,000 soldiers and 500 family members encamped at New Windsor, over the winter of 1782-83.

New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Poetry Reading by Charles Stein 4pm. Old Barrytown Post Office, Barrytown. 417-7944.

David Brenner 8pm. Comedy. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Theater Hairspray 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Eugenia 2pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Little Shop of Horrors 3pm. Pied Piper Players. Mahopac Elementary, Mahopac. www.pipertheater.org/wpc/ticketsales.htm.

MONDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-8pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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MBA Information Session 5pm-6pm. SUNY New Paltz School of Business, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/graduate/open_house.html.

Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.

Film Dostoevskian Cinema, Part II 7pm. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Kids Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie.

(518) 673-2314 ext. 107.

Music Sarah Fimm Call for times. Benefit performance featuring other local performers. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Magnetic Fields 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

WEDNESDAY 7 Body / Mind / Spirit Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie.

229-9998.

Shamanic Journey with Live Drumming 7pm-8:30pm. $20. Ascensive Light, New Paltz.

(561) 271-7245.

Group Meditation for World Service 7pm. Lifebridge Sanctuary Cottage, Rosendale. 658-3439.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

2nd Annual Sullivan Nonprofit Summit Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

292-6180.

Doody Calls 1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering workshop. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Movement for Actors Workshop 5pm-6:30pm. Presented by Kings Youth Theater.

Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Monologue Workshop 6:30pm. Presented by Kings Youth Theater, 6 weeks.

Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

FRIDAY 9

Vanderbilt Day Fundraiser Call for times. To benefit the Vanderbilt Garden Association. Coppola's, Hyde Park. 229-9113.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Celebrate Purim 5:45pm. $36 sponsor/$20 family/$6. The Castle, Chester. 291-0514.

willPower & grace 9am-10am. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

Film

T'ai Chi Chih for Cancer Patients/Survivors 12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Miss Representation 7:15pm. $15/$10 in advance. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Spoken Word MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour 6pm. Jonathan Sterne offers a history of digital media through the MP3 format and its impact on the meaning of hearing. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

Workshops Watercolor & Drawing 9am-12pm. Staats Fasoldt. $140 series of 4.

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

How to Cook Fish 7pm. 5 different ways to cook fish as well as the howto's of buying, storing, and substituting. $65. Beacon.

(917) 803-6857.

THURSDAY 8 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Yoga: Mind and Body 6pm-7pm. Montgomery Street Health Annex, Rhinebeck. 876-7844.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. $50 series.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form 9am-12pm. Meredith Rosier. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Events 15th Annual Friend of the Arts Award Dinner & Silent Auction 5:30pm. Presented by the Mill Street Loft. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Rob Scheps Trio 7pm-9pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.

Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Spoken Word Discussion on Bresson's Influence on Contemporary Film Culture 4:45pm. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-6482.

Book Reading & Conversation 5pm-8pm. Conrad Vispo of Hawthorne Valley's Farmscape Ecology Program is working on a book describing. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent.

Reading of the Work of Jacques Lacan 7pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock.

679-2213.

Theater Eugenia 8pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Workshops

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Class will blend postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Full Moon Sound Healing Tune Up: Crystalline Activation 6pm-7pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Cajun Dance 8pm-11pm. Music by C'est Bon Cajun Dance Band.

Lesson at 7pm. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

Film Purple Rain 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Kids Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Nailed Shutt Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

7th Annual Goddess Festival 7pm-2am. Featuring Birds of a Feather drum group Serpentessa Priestess bellydancing, Kali Z. Fasteau, Sweetbryar Band, Wet Paint, Veronica Kent Band, Hemingway's Cat, DJ Hrana World Dancing. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Jim Weider's Project Percolator 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

An Evening with Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill 8pm. Irish. St. Paul's Parish Hall, Red Hook. www.studioredhook.com.

Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub 8pm. $20. Jazz. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 6589048.

John Flynn 8pm. Hudson Valley Folk Guild's Friends of Fiddler's Green Chapter. $10/$8 members and seniors. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 758-2681.

Bard Vocal Arts Program Opera Double Bill 8pm. Graduate vocal arts students perform short operas. Fisher Center, Bard College. 758-7900.

Friday Jams Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Creation 9pm. Modern rock. Lia's Mountain View, Pine Plains.

(518) 398-7311.

Marc Von Em CD Release Party 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Poetry Evening 7pm-9pm. Featured poet Guy Reed. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

A Word that Means Nothing 7:30pm. William Seaton will present a program of his translations from German Dada poets as well as a general account of the Dada movement. Studio at the Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. 469-9168.

Stanley Blum: Couraggio!

7:30pm. Poetry reading. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Theater Hairspray 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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The Ethos Percussion Group performs at Vassar College on March 23.

Worldwide Hits There’s a fantastic clip on YouTube of a 2009 Library of Congress performance of “Mambo,” a piece by Ghanian master xylophonist Bernard Woma. Alongside the composer and Guinean drummer M’Bemba Bangoura, the four members of Ethos Percussion Group—Trey Files, Michael Lipsey, Eric Phinney, and Yousif Shernonick— bang out the tune’s hip- and shoulder-shaking rhythms on African drums and xylophones, cowbell, and shakers. It isn’t long before the musicians are joined on stage by a gang of gyrating, besuited audience members who’ve surrendered wholeheartedly to the music’s pull. And if attendees at Ethos Percussion Group’s concert at Vassar College on March 23 want to do the same, well, that’s all right with the band.

“We definitely get a kick out of it when that happens,” says Files, a Vassar faculty member since 2011. “Our roots are in the chamber music tradition but we’re also of a younger generation—we’re not as ‘formal’ as some other ensembles can be.”

Now nearing its 25th year, Ethos’s singular approach of combining a contemporary classical repertoire with non-Western traditions has seen the group performing works by composers like John Cage, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, and Frank Zappa and working with musicians from around the world. The quartet has played at major concert venues across the US and the UK, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and collaborated with the Kansas City Symphony, Grammy-winning frame drum master Glen Velez, and North India’s tabla master Pandit Samir Chatterjee and sarangi master Ramesh Misra.

The Vassar program offers the perfect snapshot of the Ethos ethic: Part One of Steve

Reich’s essential 1971 work “Drumming” and “The Guiros Talk,” a new work written for the quartet by Cuban-born percussionist and 2011 MacArthur Fellow Dafnis Prieto.

“I learned to play ‘Drumming’ from one of the drummers who actually premiered the work with Reich, so there’s a direct contemporary lineage there,” Files says. “Yousif had worked with Dafnis before, so that’s how we ended up commissioning him to write ‘The Guiros Talk’ for us.” The folk music-influenced latter composition has two movements; the first segment uses only four guiros—the familiar Latin-American percussion instrument made from a hollow, open-ended gourd and played by rubbing a stick across its notched surface—while the second utilizes fuller Latin percussion. “[Ethos’s members] are all conservatory trained, but we each have our own area of expertise,” explains Files, who recently played the drum kit for Green Day’s awardwinning Broadway musical “American Idiot.” “I’m from a pop rock and African drumming background; Eric intensively studied Indian tabla; Yousif’s specialty is Middle Eastern music; and Michael’s main influences are Afro-Cuban.” And therein lies the secret recipe: The ways in which the foursome stirs together its contemporary and world music makeup makes for one magnificent—and, if you’re not careful, very danceable—stew.

Truly a meal not to be missed.

Ethos Percussion Group will perform at Skinner Music Hall on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie on March 23 at 8pm. Admission is free. (845) 437-7294; Music.vassar.edu.

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Legally Blonde, The Musical 7:30pm. Presented by Stissing Theatre Guild. $13/$11 students and seniors. Pine Plains Junior/Senior High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1272.

Eugenia 8pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

SATURDAY 10

Elysion Fields 5pm. Metal. Sounds Asylum, Middletown. 290-7755.

7th Annual Goddess Festival 7pm-2am. Featuring Willow Bellydance, Wild Roses Bellydance, Jenny Cohen Bellydance, Gogo Nana Goddess Lovelight, Mamalama, Ubakah Hill, Eunika Simmons, Queen Mother imakkhu Munfrt Emakeru, DJ Hrana. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Art

Stryker and Slagle Band 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Canaries 5pm-7pm. Photographs by Thilde Jensen. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Catskill Cabaradio 7pm. Potluck at 6pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Marina@ bau 6pm-9pm. Members of Marina Gallery show. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Featuring 8 artists. $5. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. www.johnstreetjam.net.

Mike Childs and Patricia Zarate 6pm-9pm. Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Beacon.

440-0068.

Lady Got Chops Women's Jazz Festival 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Art of Energetic Healing 10am-Sunday, March 11, 5pm. With Powerhouse Australian spiritual teacher, master healer, Suzy Meszoly, DSH. $350. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. Featuring Sharon Goldman. $6/$5 members.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern.

978-5620.

Mark Dziuba 7:30pm. Backed by Jim Donica on bass, and Chris Bowman on drums. Jazz. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

A Night at the Opera 8pm. "The Medium" is a short two act dramatic opera

Anatomy and Physiology of Key Postures Workshop 12pm-3:30pm. Grasp the foundation, structure, and function of some of the most important yoga postures in your practice. $49. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Classes The HoneybeeLives Winter Organic Beekeeping This natural approach to beekeeping helps beginning beekeepers understand the responsibilities of the beekeeper, and develops an understanding of the instincts and community of the bees with a Biodynamic influence. $175. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. www.HoneybeeLives.org.

Family and Friends CPR and First Aid for Children 1pm-3:30pm. $45. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Adult Beginner Contemporary Ballet 1:30pm-2:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. (914) 204-7185.

Events LGBTQ Gala Call for times. Cocktails, dinner, dancing and auction. $125. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 331-5300.

Ashokan's Maple Fest 11am-11pm. Pancake breakfast, tapping, crafts, music, storytelling. $10-$3. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Big Indian Native American Cultural Center Native American Gathering 11am-3pm. Drumming, storytelling, talking circles, lectures and more. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Juggling with a Magical Twist 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Film Retro Space Night 10pm. 3 films: A Trip to the Moon (George Melies); Dancing on the Moon (Max Fleischer); Plan 9 From Outer Space (Ed Wood). Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Kid Stuff 10am-12pm. Every Saturday morning a different artist, writer, musician or environmental expert will conduct a workshop for ages 6-12. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition 9-5pm. Skinner Hall, Vassar College. 473-5288.

Petey Hop Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The MET Live in HD: The Enchanted Island 12:45pm. $20/$10 students. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake. 434-5750 ext. 4303.

Annual Gala and Concert: ESYO Youth Orchestra 3pm. An American Celebration: honoring United States Veterans and active military personnel. $20/$10 students and seniors. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

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the call by certain Continental Army officers to menace Congress with military force. Knox's Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.

Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

The Marriage Plot 2pm-4pm. Sunday book talk. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

SUNDAY 11 Body / Mind / Spirit Hypnobabies 10am-1pm. $375 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Dance Cajun Dancing with Maggie Hoffee & the Catahoula Cajun Band 1:30pm-5pm. Lesson with admission. $10. Wild Hive Farm Bakery, Clinton Corners. 266-5863.

Events Information Open House 2pm. For anyone interested in becoming volunteers, including docents to conduct tours of the house and studio, greeters for special events, and other helpers for the new Kitchen Garden and youth programs.

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

Bardavon Gala 2012 7pm. With Tony Bennett. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Gustafer Yellowgold’s “Year in a Day” Gustafer Yellowgold is a little yellow creature who came from the Sun and landed in the Minnesota forest. Experiencing Earth for the first time, Gustafer Yellowgold’s “Year in a Day” illustrates his unique perspective on the planet’s holidays, both the common and the unusual, including New Year’s Day, Groundhog Day, Pancake Day, and St. Patrick’s Day. Created by Kerhonkson cartoonist/songwriter/performer Morgan Taylor, Gustafer’s shows combine multimedia aspects of hand-drawn cartoon videos and live music performance.

Since his creation in 2005, Gustafer Yellowgold has toured internationally, and appeared as an opening act for Wilco and the Polyphonic Spree. March 31, 11am.

Rosendale Theatre. $8. (845) 658-8989; Rosendaletheatre.org.

VortexHealing: Divine Healing Energy Through the Magic of Merlin 5pm-6:30pm. With Linda Raphael. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dutchess-Ulster Heart Walk 10am. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. www.dutchessulsterheartwalk.com.

Reiki II Certification 11:30am-6pm. $125/$95. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. $8/$6 seniors/$3 faculty and students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music.

Bucky Pizzarelli with Ed Laub 8pm. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

David Kraai & Amy Laber 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Mike + Ruthy CD Release 8:30pm. $15/$12 members. Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock. 679-2079.

The Fred Savages 9:30pm. 80's party band. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Soul Purpose 10pm. Café International, Newburgh. 567-9429.

Spoken Word A Nursery Man's Miscellany: New and Lesser Known, Garden-worthy Plants 1pm-3pm. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Linda Zimmermann 2pm. Author of Hudson Valley Zombie Apocalypse.

Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Poets Allen Livermore and Marilyn McCabe. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Theater Alice in Wonderland 10am. $12-$16.50. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf.

469-2287.

Hairspray 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Legally Blonde The Musical 7:30pm. Presented by Stissing Theatre Guild. $13/$11 students and seniors. Pine Plains Junior/Senior High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1272.

Eugenia 8pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Workshops Photosharing Sites 11am. Technology workshop. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Kids Kore's Kids Club 9am-12pm. Group for all children ages 5-12 who wish to learn more about Eclectic Paganism. Akasha's Journey, Wassaic. www.koreskids.webs.com.

Music Hudson Valley Philharmonic 40th Annual String Competition 10am-12pm. Finals at 3pm. Skinner Hall, Vassar College. 473-2072.

Erik Lawrence Organ Trio with Pete Levin & Lee 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

C.B. Smith and the Lucky Devils 11pm-2pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Jazz at The Falls featuring The Bernstein Bard Trio 12pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jessica Smucker 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Bard Vocal Arts Program Opera Double Bill 3pm. Graduate vocal arts students perform short operas. Fisher Center, Bard College. 758-7900.

The Philharmonic Quintet of New York 4pm. Presented by the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society. Church of Messiah Parish, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckmusic.org.

Greg Westhoff's Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Sticklips + Buke & Gass 6pm. WGXC benefit. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Kristin Diable Group 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Outdoors Afternoon Walk Moderate couple of miles. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. georgette.weir@gmail.com.

Spoken Word An American in Paris: Curators of Thomas Cole Exhibition at the Muse du Louvre Call for times. $8/$6. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

Newburgh Address Crisis 2pm. Dramatic reading of the events culminating in

Poetry Reading and Book Signing by Alan Shapiro 4pm. $10. Katonah Village Library, Katonah.

Goddess Festival Poetry 5pm-8pm. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Theater Eugenia 2pm. $9-$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Hairspray 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Legally Blonde, The Musical 3pm. Stissing Theatre Guild. $13/$11 students and seniors. Pine Plains Junior/Senior High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1272.

Workshops Crystal Jewelry Empowerment 3pm-5pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

MONDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-8pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 236-3939.

Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson.

(518) 537-2589.

Computer Class: PC Basics for Beginners 11am-12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro.

236-7272 ext. 15.

African Dance 6pm-7:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Organic Vegetable Gardening 6pm-9pm. Through April 2. $185. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

TUESDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Conversation with Angels 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Merkaba Activated Under the Guidance of the Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Beginning Ballet 4pm-5pm. Ages 4-8. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Hip Hop I 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-16. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Open Level Bellydance Class 8pm-9pm. $12/$40 4-class series. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Events Go Club with Kazuma Oshita 5pm-8pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

After-Hours Mixer and Pot-O-Gold Raffle Drawing 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. Rocking Horse Ranch, Highland. 255-0243.

Film Windfall 7:15pm. Wind energy documentary. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie.

(518) 673-2314 ext. 107.

Music Brit Floyd Call for times. Pink Floyd show. $29/$39. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Sarah Fimm Call for times. Benefit performance featuring other local performers. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

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A Night at the Opera 8pm. "The Medium" is a short two act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. $8/$6 seniors/$3 faculty and students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music. th'EMPIRES 8pm. Rockabilly. $12. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 255-9800.

Spoken Word Reading by Anthony Robinson 5pm. Author of The Floodplain. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

What is Citizen Science?

6pm-7pm. Brooke Jude, Director of the Bard Citizen Science program. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

WEDNESDAY 14 Art Gallery Talk: Reading Objects 12pm-1pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie.

229-9998.

Shamanic Journey with Live Drumming 7pm-8:30pm. $20. Ascensive Light, New Paltz.

(561) 271-7245.

Kids

Events

Workshops

Kids Yoga Spring Series 4pm. Ages 5-10. $15/$50 series. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

The Official Blues Brothers Revue 3pm-3pm. Comedy. $24.37-$35.75. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Music

Film

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

A Dangerous Method Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Mathematics Alive! A Geometry Workshop for Middle School Teachers Call for times. With Henrike Holdrege and Marisha Plotnik. $150-$225. The Nature Institute, Ghent.

(518) 672-0116.

Cyro Baptista & Friends 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Westchester Rock Jam & Band Showcase 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word William Doering, the Cope Rearrangement, and Me 4:30pm-5:30pm. Dr. Maitland Jones Jr. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. 257-3245.

Reading of the Work of Jacques Lacan 7pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Anders Ruhwald 7pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/fpa.

Theater Jason and the Argonauts by Glasgow's Visible Fictions 9:30am. Classic Greek myth brought to life.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Classes Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Film Windfall 7:15pm. Wind energy documentary. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Celtic Women: Believe 7:30pm. $66/$33. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Spoken Word Book Signing and Historical Presentation

by Stephen Ladin 7pm. Author of Images of Rail: A History of Ulster County Railroads. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Theater

Hip Hop Theater 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Jason and the Argonauts by Glasgow's Visible Fictions 12pm. Classic Greek myth brought to life.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Ides of March: Short Plays and Poems in Multiple Voices 7pm-8pm. $15/$12 members. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Workshops Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

THURSDAY 15 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Inner Knitter 7pm. Stitch and Bitch gathering. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. $50 series.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form 9am-12pm. Meredith Rosier. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Film A Dangerous Method Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

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Kids Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Breakaway Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Jazz Chamber Music with Tom DePetris Trio 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

JC Hopkins Bigish Band 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Amazing Kreskin The Ritz Theater in Newburgh welcomes world-famous mentalist The Amazing Kreskin for two mind-bending nights.

The Amazing Kreskin has captivated audiences for over six decades on popular shows including Johnny Carson and is considered the mentalist guru of an entire generation. In his upcoming performance, The Amazing Kreskin will attempt to find a check hidden somewhere in the theater lobby—if he fails, he will forfeit his fee. Additionally, Kreskin will offer $1 million to anybody who can prove that he uses any secret assistance to help him perform his mentalist effects. David Letterman says, “Kreskin should sue the producers of the TV show ‘The Mentalist’ for stealing his act. He’s the best mentalist in the world and he’s not acting!” Saturday, March 24, at 3pm and 8pm. $25. (845) 784-1199; Ritztheaternewburgh.org.

Embodying Our Higher Self 7pm-8:30pm. Channeled meditation and guidance with Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Charley Rosen 7pm. Author of The Emerald Diamond: How the Irish transformed America's Greatest Pastime. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Little Shop of Horrors 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Workshops Supply and Demand 1pm-2pm. Breast pump information session with a lactation consultant. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 16 ART Mary McCarthy and Vassar On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of McCarthy's birth. Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit David Frenette presents Centering Prayer Call for times. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. willPower & grace 9am-10am. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

T'ai Chi Chih for Cancer Patients/Survivors 12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Class will blend postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. Through March 30. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Dance Solas An Lae: Soul 8pm. American Irish Dance Company. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Alexis Cole Ensemble 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

ASK for Music 8pm. Featuring Kirsten DeHaan, Ron Renninger and Paul Maloney. $6. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston.

338-0331.

Enter the Haggis 8pm. Celtic rock. $24. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Clancy Tradition 8:30pm. Traditional Irish music. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Calamity Jane 9pm. Modern rock. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.

The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

Chris Bergson Band 9pm. Brian's Backyard BBQ, Middletown. 692-3227.

The Gil Parris Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Access to Local Health Care 6:30pm. Transition Marbletown Second Tuesday Conversation. Share ideas and help create ways to make health care accessible to everyone. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. www.transitionmarbletown.org.

Tina Clark 7pm. Evening of conversation about how we can enhance & strengthen our community in changing times. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.

Brew Haha Comedy Night 9pm. Featuring 2 NYC comics. $10. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Theater The Ides of March: Short Plays and Poems in Multiple Voices 7pm-8pm. $15/$12 members. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Waiting for Godot 8pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

SATURDAY 17 Body / Mind / Spirit Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. New Paltz Recreation Center, New Paltz.

616-1219.

Alexander Technique with Victoria Quesada 11am-12:30pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Yoga Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:45pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

3rd Annual Workplace Wellness Event 12pm-1:30pm. Explore the many health and wellness resources available in the Hudson Valley. $25/$20 member lunch. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Sacred Water Song and Teachings 1pm-4pm. With Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Harmonic (Overtone) Singing 6pm-8pm. The soul and science of sound with Timothy Hall. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Training for Transition 9am-Sunday, March 18, 5pm. Learn tools and techniques to build community resilience. $155. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 340-1626.

Adult Beginner Contemporary Ballet 1:30pm-2:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. (914) 204-7185.

Dance Barefoot Dance Company 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Swing Dance 7:30pm-10:30pm. Basic lesson at 7:30 and performance by Chester's Cool Cats & Kittens at 9pm. $10. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen.

236-3939.

Solas An Lae: Soul 8pm. American Irish Dance Company. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.

Events Kingston Farmers' Winter Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

St. Patrick's Day Party 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Film Rio Grande 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Crazy Horse 8:30pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Kid Stuff 10am-12pm. Every Saturday morning a different artist, writer, musician or environmental expert will conduct a workshop for ages 6-12. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Roger the Jester: A Fool for All Reasons 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Deep Chemistry Call for times. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.

Open + Doug Alan Wilcox Call for times. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Keith Newman 2pm. Acoustic. Bashakill Vineyards, Wurtsboro.

888-5858.

Annual St. Patrick's Day Bash 6pm-9pm. With MoonCoin. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Mojo Myles Mancuso Band and Aisling 7pm. St. Patty's Day celebration. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

El Rancho Deluxo's Cuban Blues 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Sarah Jarosz 7:30pm. Bluegrass. $20/$15 students. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

music & dance hudson valley philharmonic & vanaver caravan livia and bill vanaver:lorna tychostup; vanaver caravan: Lois Greenfield Clockwise from top left: Livia and Bill Vanaver, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Vanaver Caravan dancers, and HVP conductor Randall Craig Fleisher

The Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Moves On How often do you get an opportunity to feel culturally enriched while simultaneously contributing to a renowned force for arts-inspired education and world peace? On March 31, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic’s “Russian Caravan” at UPAC offers an opportunity to do just that, with the premiere of two symphonic works by composer Bill Vanaver, accompanied by The Vanaver Caravan Dancers, choreographed by Livia Vanaver.

Prior to the show, Natalie Merchant will host a gala benefit dinner for the Caravan, honoring the life of Vanaver colleague Nora Guthrie—daughter of Woody and overseer of his estate and archives. Merchant is an ardent, longtime supporter of Vanaver Caravan.

“Bill’s and Livia’s impact on this community has been great,” says Merchant. “They are preserving traditional American dance, innovating new choreography, and their travels and research into world dance forms have all been incorporated into their repertoire.”

“Russian Caravan,” featuring works by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Vanavers’ New Paltz-based organization. The music-dance consortium began its journey in 1972, when erstwhile graphic arts student Bill Vanaver composed his first piece for Livia’s senior dance concert at NYU. Within weeks, the couple formed The Vanaver Caravan and began delivering a mix of ethnic dance and folk music to diverse audiences.

Four decades later, Bill is a renowned folklorist, banjoist, and composer and Livia’s a celebrated dancer, choreographer, and teacher. The couple has garnered prestigious awards for their service to education and tireless promotion of traditional folk songs, music, and dance. With their dancers, singers, and musicians, they’ve traveled the US, Europe, and North Africa, performing and gathering material, equally at home onstage, in cinderblock classrooms, or barefoot on wet grass. Locally, they are revered teachers, offering public school workshops, a dance academy, and the Vanaver Kids troupe.

“Being in Greek villages, Bulgarian villages, Tunisian streets, and experiencing their own vocabulary on their native soil has been the most exciting part of my musical life,”

says Bill Vanaver, fresh off a plane from Sweden, where The Vanaver Caravan toured schools and played two shows in support of the people of Papua New Guinea, currently suffering under brutal Indonesian rule. “I get a lot of my creative ideas from that.”

Keeping to the multiethnic soul of the Vanaver template, the original pieces in “Russian Caravan” draw from diverse sources yet are bound by what Vanaver calls “the overriding aspect of love and connection. Love is the supreme motif.” “The Earth Will Have Its Own” is based on myth and music from the Caucasus region of southeastern Russia, while “The Ballad of Polly Vaughn” comes from the British Isles by way of Appalachia. Dancers will encircle the 60-member Hudson Valley Philharmonic while banjo-wielding Vanaver accompanies members of the Vassar Choir and several special guests.

Explaining the approach of incorporating ancient forms of storytelling, Vanaver says, “Folklore and mythology, if you take them metaphorically, they guide us. That’s my philosophy.”

Merchant is a believer. “I met Bill Vanaver when I enrolled in his ‘American Folk Music and Dance’ class at Bard College in 2002,” she says. “I met Livia after seeing her dance in the Vanaver Caravan production of ‘Pastures of Plenty,’ a tribute they created to celebrate the life and work of Woody Guthrie. She must have been 50 at the time but moved as if she were 20. Both Bill and Livia have the curiosity, enthusiasm, and stamina of children. No one living in the Hudson Valley should miss the chance to see The Vanaver Caravan.”

“Russian Caravan” will be performed on Saturday, March 31, at 8pm at UPAC in Kingston. Tickets are $26-$48. (845) 339-6088; Upac.org. A pre concert gala dinner hosted by Natalie Merchant will be held at Frank Guido’s Little Italy across from UPAC at 5:30pm. Gala tickets (including dinner and concert) are $125. RSVP by March 24.

(845) 633-1034; Vanavercaravan.org.

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art auction vassar haiti project images provided Clockwise from upper left: Heaven Can Wait, a painting by Yosephat Tissaint, 2011.

Caitlyn Anderson '12 and David Bridgman-Packer '12 take vitals at a one-day medical clinic in Fiervil, Haiti, June 2011.

Vassar Haiti Project co-founder Lila Meade assists at the clinic in Fiervil, June 2011.

The artist Sonson putting the final touches on one of his works in Port-au-Prince.

Haitian at He(art) Long before the international community became Haiti’s prime benefactor following the devastating 2010 earthquake, the Vassar Haiti Project was created to raise money for the rural village of Chermaitre through the sale of Haitian art. “We wanted to support a project that didn’t have anyone else supporting it and we wanted it to be about education. We knew of a rudimentary primary school on top of a mountain in a rural area and we said, ‘Okay, that sounds like us.’ It was the village of Chermaitre,” says Andrew Meade, director of international services at Vassar College, and founder of the Vassar Haiti Project, which he started in 2001.

VHP chairs Andrew and Lila Meade have a long connection with the Caribbean nation—Lila’s mother was raised there and Andrew graduated from high school in Haiti in the 1970s. The project’s motive stems from the Meades’ drive to keep Haitian art alive by buying paintings and handicrafts and selling them in live auctions and art sales at Vassar and throughout the Tri-State area. “We took a bunch out of our savings, bought a lot of art and held an auction with a big turnout. We knew we were onto something,” says Andrew Meade.

Today, VHP’s mission includes four main initiatives: education, healthcare, reforestation, and water purification. The money raised through art sales fund VHP’s work in Chermaitre as well as a student trip to Haiti in March. They have funded a school and provided hot lunches and salaries for teachers, installed a pump adjacent to the school that filters water from the local stream, started a medical clinic, and planted apricot, citron, lemon, coconut, and mango trees to establish a ready supply of fruit in the village. This month, 10 students will travel to Haiti along with one alumnus.

The upcoming 11th annual sale at Vassar includes a live auction with over 400 paintings and thousands of handcrafts, hand-painted silk scarves, and iron sculptures.

The most recent sale, in January, at Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Greenwich, Connecticut, raised $25,000.

Though the project is centralized in Chermaitre, the art is curated from four galleries and markets in Port-au-Prince. The auctions represent on average 100 mostly lesserknown artists who live in the vicinity of Port-au-Prince.

Because of Chermaitre’s location in northwestern Haiti, the 2010 earthquake left the village unscathed, yet the artists were not as fortunate—85 percent were left homeless like much of Port-au-Prince’s population. When the earthquake hit painter Raymond LaFaille, whose work illustrates women in the market, narrowly escaped from the second floor of his crumbling concrete home.

On an October 2010 trip to Haiti, Lila and Andrew Meade experienced the earthquake’s aftermath for themselves and met a few of the artists for the first time.

“It was really exciting to finally put a face to the name. We met Joseph Aderson who just has the sweetest smile and a gentle energy, which translates to his paintings of candy-colored boat and ocean scenes,” says Andrew Meade.

As a VHP member for over three years, co-president Fiona Koch was drawn to the project by the mission and sense of community. “Actually going to Haiti is when it really clicked for me. Small as it is in the bigger picture, seeing the tangible results makes everything we do worth it,” says Koch.

Andrew Meade boils the project’s philosophy down to one concept: “VHP is about being involved in something bigger than just you.”

The annual Vassar Haiti Project art sale and auction will open on March 30 at 5pm in the College Center’s multi-purpose room with a presentation from the students recently returned from Haiti. The live auction will be held Saturday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm. Sunday is the final day of the sale. Thehaitiproject.org —Molly Lindsay

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The Mighty Regis 7:30pm. Punk. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Valerie Capers Ensemble 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Blueberry 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Peggy and Pete Seeger 8pm. A benefit concert for the Byrdcliffe. $20-$100.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Film

Classes

Up 3:30pm-4:45pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 236-3939.

Crazy Horse 7:15pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Akie Bermiss 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Musical Brunch with The Compact 11am-2pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Staind's Aaron Lewis 8pm. Solo and acoustic. $44/$39 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Joshua Morris 3pm. Traditional Irish music. Elsie's Place, Wallkill.

895-8975.

The Saturday Night Bluegrass Band 8pm. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Louis Landon 3pm. Jazz. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh.

563-3609.

Steve Forbert 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Olde News 9pm. Classic rock. Joe's Bar and Restaurant, Hudson.

(518) 828-9028.

In The Pocket 10pm. Covers. Michael's Sports Bar, Fishkill. 896-5766.

Spoken Word Alison Gaylin 2pm. Author of And She Was. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Strawberry Hill Fiddlers 3pm. $20/$15 students and seniors. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Gordon Bok 3pm. $15. Hudson Valley Folk Guid. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 758-2681.

Greg Westhoff's Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Club d'Elf with John Medeski 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson.

(518) 537-2589.

Job Search Computer Class 11am-12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro.

236-7272 ext. 15.

African Dance 6pm-7:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Film Spellbound 2pm-1pm. $3. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Crazy Horse 7:15pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Workshops Carborundum Printmaking Call for times. Kate McGloughlin. $290 + lab fees.

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Comedy Night: Andy Pitz & Nick Griffin 8pm. $25/$20. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.rrplayhouse.org.

Buddhism and Meditative Practice in Poetry 1:30pm-3:30pm. Led by Steve Hirsch. Through May 5. $150. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Herbal Remedies for the Winter Doldrums 2pm-4:30pm. $30/$25. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

SUNDAY 18 Art A Celebration of Art: The Annual John Iyoya Children's Art Show 2pm-12am. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit Hypnobabies 10am-1pm. $375 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field 4pm-6pm. With Ricarda O'Conner. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Fox Trot Class 1pm-2:30pm. Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. $15. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.

Dance Solas An Lae: Soul 3pm. American Irish Dance Company. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

West Coast Swing Workshop 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.

West Coast Swing Dance 7pm-9pm. Beginner's lesson 6:30pm. $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen.

255-1379.

Events Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

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Shamanic Journey with Live Drumming 7pm-8:30pm. $20. Ascensive Light, New Paltz.

(561) 271-7245.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

THURSDAY 22 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Workshops

Supply and Demand 1pm-2pm. Breast pump information session with a lactation consultant. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie.

229-9998.

Be Your Own Pendulum 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Waiting for Godot 8pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

At Play in the Fields of Poetry: Honing Chapbook Manuscripts 10am-12pm. Led by Lynn Hoins. Through May 5. $150.

College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Workshops

Herb Marks Freelance: Every Price Has its Man, 8pm. Air Pirates. $20. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf.

469-2287.

Build a Backyard Chicken Coop: Basic Carpentry Skills 9am-3pm. $60/$50 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

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Hudson Valley Philharmonic Young People's Concert Call for times. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

After Anne Frank 7:30pm. A one-woman show created by and featuring the award-winning writer/actress, Carol Lempert. $18/$36 family. Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church, LaGrangeville. 227-3327.

Patinas for the Small Studio with Darren Fisher Call for times. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

SUNY Ulster's Wind and String Ensembles 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Music

Theater

Abstraction and Large Scale Drawing Call for times. Meredith Rosier. $215. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic Young People's Concert Call for times. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill Martin Hayes is considered one of the most extraordinary violinists to emerge from the world of traditional Irish music. Dennis Cahill is acknowledged for his breakthrough guitar skills in the genre. The two met in Chicago and formed the jazz-rock band Midnight Court, but have returned to their Irish roots to create an innovative, New Age spin on Irish music, while maintaining the essential traditional sound. Their 2009 show in Red Hook was sold out. Hayes and Cahill performed at the White House last year and are currently on a worldwide tour. Studio Red Hook presents Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill at St. Paul’s Parish Hall. $34. Red Hook. (845) 802-6515; Studioredhook.com.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo 7:30pm. Blend of South African musical traditions with the sounds and sentiments of gospel music. $29.50.

The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Louis Landon 9pm. Jazz. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh.

563-3640.

The Outdoors Hudson Highlands Strenuous Hike Extreme scramble. Hudson Highlands, Beacon. skipnewyork@yahoo.com.

Spoken Word Royal Comedy Tour 7pm. Featuring Sommore, Earthquake, Mark Curry & Arnez. $38/$47.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Theater The Ides of March: Short Plays and Poems in Multiple Voices 3pm-4pm. $15/$12 members. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Waiting for Godot 3pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Workshops Snow Bunny Shoot 1pm-4pm. Celebrity Photographer, John Iannelli, will give instruction on "Off-camera Flash" using models. $50 photographers/$10 models. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. 514-7367.

MONDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-8pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

TUESDAY 20

Space, Time and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France 7pm-12am. Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit In The Caravan of Rumi: An Introduction To Sufi Poetry & Practices Call for times. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Classes

Vernal Equinox: New Moon Sound Healing 6pm-7pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. $50 series.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. Explore a particular theme and use Transformational Kinesiology to access and clear subconscious blocks, suck places and limiting beliefs that have been getting in your way. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. (413) 259-4369.

Classes Beginning Ballet 4pm-5pm. Ages 4-8. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form 9am-12pm. Meredith Rosier. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

Hip Hop I 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-16. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Open Hive/Film 7pm. A film with a message. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Kids

Open Level Bellydance Class 8pm-9pm. $12/$40 4-class series. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Events

Kids Yoga Spring Series 4pm. Ages 5-10. $15/$50 series. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Go Club with Kazuma Oshita 5pm-8pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

The Funk Junkies 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Dutchess County Holistic Moms Chapter Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Reading of the Work of Jacques Lacan 7pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Kids Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie.

(518) 673-2314 ext. 107.

Music Sarah Fimm Call for times. Benefit performance featuring other local performers. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Spoken Word

Attracting Birds to the Garden 7pm-8pm. Lecture offered by the Orange County Cornell Cooperative Extension. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock.

679-2213.

Theater 4 Puppet Shows from the Republic of Cardboard 8pm. Bread & Puppet Theater. $12.50/$10 members/$7.50 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

MUSIC the magnetic fields Marcelo Krasilcic The Magnetic Fields will play Club Helsinki in Hudson on March 6.

Distilling the American Songbook For close to two decades, The Magnetic Fields has performed pop numbers that distill the last 110 years of the American songbook with a heartfelt intensity that brooks no irony. Their crowning glory,1999’s epic 69 Love Songs, showcased the breadth of their talent and restless genius of lead songwriter Stephin Merritt. They have just released the playful, synth-heavy Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge Records) and open their tour on March 6 at Club Helsinki in Hudson. In early February, Merritt spoke with Chronogram from his “squalid studio apartment” in New York. (His Los Angeles residence is “a manor house.”) Despite a cold, multitasker Merritt—who also produces side bands Future Bible Heroes, The Gothic Archies, and The 6ths—was rehearsing for the tour, preparing for a February 13 Tibet House benefit concert with Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and Laurie Anderson, and tending to new projects: a “La Ronde”-like theater piece with Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler and a backstage musical with “Coraline” collaborator Neil Gaiman.

The Magnetic Fields will play Club Helsinki in Hudson on Tuesday, March 6, at 8pm.

Bachlorette opens. Unfortunately, the show is sold out. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.

—Jay Blotcher Love at the Bottom of the Sea is a return to synthesizers for you.

Well, no, there are a lot of things that aren’t synthesizers. Everything is so heavily treated that you can’t really tell what it is. This could be the case for practically every record, but it’s definitely the case for this record. There’s cello all over it, but you can’t really tell.

What new synthesizer technology play a role in this release?

For example, there’s the Buchla Source of Uncertainty, which allows you to control the randomness of the random voltage generator. All the forms of the [songs] are really familiar, so I felt I could disrupt them without disturbing the listener too unduly. So, in the first chorus it is the same as in the last chorus, I can out in absolutely anything without disrupting the listener. So, for example, the Buchla Source of Uncertainty can be going [makes rubbery, static sound with mouth] without actually disturbing the listener too much.

You have a ravenous interest in collecting exotic musical instruments. Do recent finds appear on this new album?

Basically, this album is an excuse for me to play with toys—besides the Source of Uncertainty, the Dewanatron Keyed Melody Gin. Most of the gadgets on the new record are just invented within the last few years. Well, also from [Catskillbased instrument inventor Brian] Dewan is the Swarmatron, which makes a note record that can separate into eight other ones. Trent Reznor used it heavily on The Social Network soundtrack; it’s kind of a signature sound effect. I’m not the first one to use it, but I’m probably the first one to use it in a pop context.

And sort of more traditionally, there’s a pocket piano, which is a tiny electric keyboard with a speaker that does a surprisingly large number of things—a perversely large number of things. And I use that heavily on “Infatuation (With Your Gyration).” It’s got that modern 80s sound the kids go for. You can wave your hand up and down over the speaker to create a “wah” effect. More like the “wah” effect you get when you hold your hat over the end of your trumpet.

Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah.

Are you still writing your songs in bars or cafés?

I have abandoned writing songs in cafés because I can only have a tiny amount of caffeine at this point without having heart palpitations. For whatever reason, I’ve become really sensitive to caffeine—possibly because of the enormous amounts of it I have consumed in my life. I’ve been drinking tea like a Russian for most of my life. I used to guzzle Jolt Cola. But anyway, now I’ve become ridiculously sensitive to caffeine. I dunk the green tea bag into the water for about five seconds and that wakes me up for the day. So now I only write songs in bars—so I don’t have a heart attack and die.

Your fans are an intensely faithful group. Have you ever had a stalker?

I’ve had stalkers who were not fans, but I’ve never had a fan stalker. Unless you count my mother.

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Workshops Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Clothing Mending Workshop 6pm-8pm. Cal Patch, along with co-teachers Maria Reidelbach, and Shabbat Rusciolelli will show you how to (re)sew a seam by hand, patch a hole, and darn.

Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 626-5350.

FRIDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit willPower & grace 9am-10am. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

T'ai Chi Chih for Cancer Patients/Survivors 12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Class will blend postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Botanical Illustration with Graphite Pencil 10am-Sunday, March 25, 4pm. $220/$195 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

SATURDAY 24 Art

Mud Muffins 10:30am. Puppet Play. Matrushka Toys and Gifts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-6911.

Chickens in the Backyard 10am-12pm. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Advanced iPad, iPhone, and Smart Phones 11am. Technology workshop. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Rock, Paper, Scissors 4pm-6pm. Sculptural paintings, installation, and mixed media works by James Meyer. Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-3663.

Puss in Boots Puppet Show 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Senior Recital 1:30pm. Featuring April Cha, organ. Music of Sweelinck, Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Hindemith. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Women's Workshops for Wellness 11am-7pm. A day of healing events; 4 two-hour workshops, including yoga, Andean healing, life coaching, and reflexology. The Yoga House, Kingston. info@theyogahouseny.com.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Medical Intuitive Connection 1pm-4pm. With Darlene Van de Grift. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Awakening with Selenite and Sound 5pm-7:30pm. Facilitated by special guest Nicki LeMarbre. $44. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Transformation with Shamanic Sound 6:30pm-9pm. With Grandmother Barbara Threecrow Healing. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Music

Senior Recital 4pm. Featuring Vanora Estridge, piano. Music of Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Gershwin, and Piazzolla. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Dance Swing Dance to Eight to the Bar 8:30pm-11:30pm. Beginner's lesson 8:00-8:30. $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Kids Stuart Little 9:45am. Presented by Sign Stage on Tour. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Mighty Girl Call for times. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.

Spirit of Uganda 7:30pm. Standing drums, traditional dances, and call-and-response vocals. $18/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Big Takeover 7:30pm. Roots music. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Message Circle: Receive Messages from your Loved Ones in the After Life 7pm-8:30pm. With Adam F. Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Perfect Health is Your Birthright 7pm-9pm. With John Newton. Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock. www.healthbeyondbelief.com.

Classes

C.B. Smith & The Lucky Devils 8pm. Modern bluegrass. Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Adult Beginner Contemporary Ballet 1:30pm-2:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. (914) 204-7185.

Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show 8pm. $24.50-$49.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Dance

Donizetti's Don Pasquale 8pm. Taconic Opera. $15-$57. Yorktown Stage, Yorktown Heights. www.taconicopera.org.

Chunky Move 8pm. Australian contemporary dance company. $10-$39. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) MoCA-111.

Ethos Percussion Group 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Ballroom by Request with Joe Donato & Julie Martin 9pm-11pm. Lesson 8pm-9pm. $12. Snap Fitness, LaGrange. 227-2706.

Nat Baldwin 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Events

C.B. Smith and the Lucky Devils 8pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Creation 9pm. Covers. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.

Bush Brothers 9:30pm. Country. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.

Theater Waiting for Godot 8pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

4 Puppet Shows from the Republic of Cardboard 8pm. Bread & Puppet Theater. $12.50/$10 members/$7.50 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

A Man For All Seasons 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Mission: Improv-able 8pm. $15/$10. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.rrplayhouse.org.

Workshops Swing Dance Workshops 6:30-7:15 & 7:15-8:00. $15/$20 both. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

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14th Annual Twin County Science Fair 10am-2pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

SUNDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit

Chunky Move 3pm. Australian contemporary dance company. $10-$39. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) MoCA-111.

Dorraine Scofield with JB Hunt & Larry Balestra 7pm. Acoustic. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Camille Thurman 4Tet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

An Evening with Linda Eder 8pm. Jazz. $65. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, Connecticut. www.RidgefieldPlayhouse.org.

Donizetti's Don Pasquale 8pm. Taconic Opera. $15-$57. Yorktown Stage, Yorktown Heights. www.taconicopera.org.

Vance Gilbert 8pm. Acoustic. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

658-9048.

The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Sundown Band 9:30pm. Southern rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Book Signing and Discussion with Robert Fitts 7:30pm. Author of Banzai Babe Ruth. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Theater Disney Live: Three Classic Fairy Tales 2pm/5pm. $17-$57. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Randolph School Maple Festival 11am-4pm. Tour the process, sampling, music, storytelling, crafts. Randolf School, Wappingers Falls.

297-5600.

Waiting for Godot 8pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

A Fine Kettle of Fish 6:30pm. The Brooklyn Community Storytellers is an eclectic group of performing artists, peace activists, musicians, educators, librarians, healers, ministers and counselors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Seed Starting 2pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Donny McCaslin Group 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Dutchess-Ulster Heart Walk 10am. Dietz Stadium, Kingston. www.dutchessulsterheartwalk.com.

The Amazing Kreskin 3pm. $25. World-famous mentalist. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Doody Calls 1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering workshop. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Akashic Record Reveled 2pm-4pm. June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Alexis P. Suter Band 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Fred Gillian & Eric Puente 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

8th Annual Build a Blue Bird Box 1pm. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan.

(518) 392-5252 ext. 210.

Grand Piano Quartets: Schumann and Brahms 6pm. Presented by Close Encounters with Music. $40/$30. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Woodstock Goddess Festival The 7th annual Woodstock Goddess Festival is a music/art/dance celebration and benefit for the Ulster County battered women’s shelter. Founder and organizer Jean DesJardin of Saugerties says the Goddess Festival’s intention is to “create awareness of women’s strength, and to celebrate the feminine.” This year’s festival will run from Friday, March 9, to Sunday, March 11, at the Colony Café in Woodstock. The three-day event includes all female-fronted live music, with artists such as Ubaka Hill, bellydancing (The Wild Roses troupe pictured left), and a Goddess/Women’s art exhibition at Varga Art Gallery in Woodstock, and will conclude with a Goddess Poetry Festival. $12/day. For more information search Woodstock Goddess Festival on Facebook.

White Wolf Intro & Self Healing 7pm-9pm. Intro to two-day self-healing course.

Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock. www.waysothewildinstitute.com.

Chakras in Depth 11:30am-6:30pm. $135/$110. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Dance

Coppelia 3pm. Featuring Principal Dancers from the New York City Ballet and students of the New Paltz School of Ballet. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Saints' Swing Dance Night!

7pm. Dance instruction by Chester & Linda Freeman.

Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Events Wild Earth Pancake Breakfast 8am-12pm. With music by Dog on Fleas, auction, raffle. Rosendale Rec Center, Rosendale. $10.

Wildearth.org.

Challenge Your Colon Chili Festival 12pm-3pm. 1st annual festival celebrating the local culinary flavors of the Hudson Valley presented by Premier Cares Foundation. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 453-1160.

Boundless Edge Ice Dance Ensemble and School Home Performance 1pm. Ice dance performance featuring "Viva La Vida" inspired by the life of Frida Kahlo; told through the mediums of ice skating, puppetry and storytelling. $15/$10 children and seniors. Kiwanis Ice Arena, Saugerties. 626-4596.

Music Saints of Swing 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Musical Brunch with Chrissy Budzinski 11am-2pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Jazz at the Falls 12pm. Featuring The KC Four and More Noon with Harvey Kaiser, Allen Murphy, Mike Kull, and Steve Haas. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Donizetti's Don Pasquale 2pm. Taconic Opera. $15-$57. Yorktown Stage, Yorktown Heights. www.taconicopera.org.

Newburgh Chamber Music Concert 3pm. Gypsy and jazz-inspired music performed by the Innisfree Trio and jazz pianist, Vincent Martucci. $20/$5 students. St. George's Church, Newburgh. www.newburghchambermusic.org.

Guest and Music Faculty Recital 3pm. Featuring Metropolitan Opera Orchestra cellist David Heiss and pianist Warren Jones join faculty member Robert Osborne. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

Chiara String Quartet 3pm. Haydn, Bartok and Brahms. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 336-8013.

Blind Boys of Alabama 7pm. Gospel. $30-$55. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

Sloan Wainwright 7:30pm. $18/$15 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.

The Outdoors Shaunpeneak Ridge Hike 1pm. Moderate 7 miles. Shaunpeneak Ridge, Esopus.

691-7442.

Spoken Word

4 Puppet Shows from the Republic of Cardboard 8pm. Bread & Puppet Theater. $12.50/$10 members/$7.50 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Anthony Panzera 2pm-3pm. Gallery talk on his work and current exhibition. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3844.

A Man For All Seasons 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Theater

Workshops

Kids

Color and Energy Call for times. Karen O'Neil. $215. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Kid Stuff 10am-12pm. Every Saturday morning a different artist, writer, musician or environmental expert will conduct a workshop for ages 6-12. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Workshop for Emerging Artists 9am-12pm. Covering business practices, such as writing a statement and resume, taxes, gallery relationships, and marketing. $25. Red Hook, Red Hook. redhookcan@gmail.com.

4 Puppet Shows from the Republic of Cardboard 2pm. Bread & Puppet Theater. $12.50/$10 members/$7.50 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Waiting for Godot 3pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

A Man For All Seasons 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Michael & Margaret 4:30pm. $12. New play by Ann Connolly. Bean Runner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Workshops

Classes

Violet Alchemy & Sound Codes for Ascension 2pm-4pm. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

MONDAY 26 Art 11th Annual Haitian Art Auction and Sale 5pm. Vassar College's James W. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-8pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Dance Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance 7:30pm. $29.50-$54.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Kids Kid Stuff 10am-12pm. Workshops led by local artists, musicians, writers, naturalists and craftspeople for ages 6-12. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Music Steve Chizmadia's Open Mike 8:30pm. 12 Grape Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Classes

Workshops

Swing Dance Lessons with Linda & Chester Freeman Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 236-3939.

Comfort Measures 6pm-9pm. This class will give you practical hands on tools to help during labor and birth. $65. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

THURSDAY 29

Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson.

(518) 537-2589.

Art

Internet Fun for Beginners 11am-12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro.

236-7272 ext. 15.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

African Dance 6pm-7:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Film The Bad News Bears 7pm. $5/$3 children. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Spoken Word Roundtable on the State of the Humanities 4:45pm. Geoffrey Harpham, National Humanities Center, and Mark Taylor, Columbia University. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

TUESDAY 27

Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. $50 series.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Classes

Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form 9am-12pm. Meredith Rosier. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Beginning Ballet 4pm-5pm. Ages 4-8. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Hip Hop I 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-16. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Events

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Open Level Bellydance Class 8pm-9pm. $12/$40 4-class series. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Events Dutchess Doulas 10am-11am. Doulas get together to discuss upcoming events and all things birth related in Dutchess County.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Go Club with Kazuma Oshita 5pm-8pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Film Quotidian Gestures 7pm. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

American Teacher 7:15pm. $7/$5 members. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie.

(518) 673-2314 ext. 107.

Music Sarah Fimm Call for times. Benefit performance featuring other local performers. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WEDNESDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie.

229-9998.

Shamanic Journey with Live Drumming 7pm-8:30pm. $20. Ascensive Light, New Paltz.

(561) 271-7245.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Scotch Dinner at Global Palate 6pm. Global Palate, West Park. Res. req. 384-6590.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

Kids Kids Yoga Spring Series 4pm. Ages 5-10. $15/$50 series. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jim Campilongo Electric Trio with Stephan Crump & Tony Mason 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Spoken Word Reading of the Work of Jacques Lacan 7pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Common Landscape Mistakes 7pm-8pm. Lecture offered by the Orange County Cornell Cooperative Extension. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 30 Art 11th Annual Haitian Art Auction and Sale 12pm-8pm. Vassar College's James W. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit Spring Awakening: A River Retreat Weekend of meditation, movement, art, drumming, nature walks, creative play, spiritual direction and breathing space. $250. Linwood Spiritual Center, Rhinebeck. www.thewellnesscircle.us. willPower & grace 9am-10am. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

T'ai Chi Chih for Cancer Patients/Survivors 12pm. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Class will blend postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Dance Old School Dance Party 9pm. Presented by Center for Creative Education. $5.

Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.

Events Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation at New Paltz E-Waste Recycling Event 9am-1pm. Households only. ShopRite, New Paltz. btravers@advancedrecovery.com.

Kids Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music The Communion Austin to Boston Tour Call for times. Featuring Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff and Bear's De. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Adam Cruz 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Christine Powers 7:30pm. Classical, opera. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Lisa Jane Lipkin 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

The Donald and Kathleen Pearson Memorial Organ Recital 8pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Sybarites 8pm. String quintet. $30/$15 students/children free.

Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling. www.pawlingconcertseries.org.

Shelby Lynne 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

In The Pocket 8:30pm. Covers. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Johnny Fedz & da Bluez Boyz 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Reality Check 9:30pm. Modern rock. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.

Theater Waiting for Godot 8pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

A Man For All Seasons 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Fissures (Lost and Found) 8pm. Box Car Plays Mentoring Program Presents SUNY Orange Theater Students. $20/$15. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.rrplayhouse.org.

Kids Kid Stuff 10am-12pm. Every Saturday morning a different artist, writer, musician or environmental expert will conduct a workshop for ages 6-12. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Amazing Magical Margo 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Music Gustafer Yellowgold's Year In The Day 11am. DVD/CD release event. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Senior Recital 1:30pm. Andrea Sisco, clarinet. Assisted by Anna Polonsky, piano. Music of Weber, Lefebvre, and featuring Copland's Clarinet Concerto. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Senior Recital 4pm. Alison Goodman, soprano. Assisted by James Fitzwilliam, piano. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

The Parkington Sisters 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Featuring 8 artists. $5. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. www.johnstreetjam.net.

Sumi Tonooka & Erica Lindsay Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic IV: Russian Caravan 8pm. Tribute to the Vanaver Caravan. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Matt Flinner Trio 8pm. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Talea Ensemble: Music of Fausto Romitelli 8pm. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Peter Head + Inflatable Sex Babies 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Steve Wexler & the Top Shelf 9:30pm. Motown, Funk, Latin, Swing. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater Waiting for Godot 8pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

A Man For All Seasons 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Fissures (Lost and Found) 8pm. Box Car Plays Mentoring Program Presents SUNY Orange Theater Students. $20/$15. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.rrplayhouse.org.

Workshops Rejuvenating Shrubs: Lilacs, Weigela, Forsythia and More 10am-12pm. $42/$35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Workshops

Cultivating all the Right Moves: Body Mechanics for Gardeners 1pm-3pm. $27$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Divine Healing Hands Practitioner Training Program 10am-Sunday, April 1, 10pm. With Master Elaine Ward. $625. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 471-1438.

Classes

SATURDAY 31 Art 1/2 Your Age 3pm-5pm. Art show of collaborative works between artists half/double the others' age. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Artists Being Artists 4pm-6pm. A lively talk moderated by exhibition curator Peter Wallace. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Galleries, Rhinebeck. 505-6040.

Coming of Age at Woodstock: Jason Laure Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Wisdom of Wholeness: A Wellness Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. With author Priscilla Warmer and yoga teacher Amy Elias. $35/$30 in advance. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson.

(518) 828-1034.

SUNDAY 1 APRIL Swing Class 1pm-2:30pm. Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. $15. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.

Events Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

Third Annual HITS 5K for United Way 10am. Kids' fun run, 5k, 2k. $15-$25. HITS Show Grounds, Saugerties. www.ulsterunitedway.org.

Music Joan Osborne 7:30pm. Singer-songwriter of “One of Us” fame. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

One Night of Queen 8pm. Performed by Gary Mullen and the Works. $27.50-$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

spoken word

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. yogaway@earthlink.net.

Joan Osborne 7:30pm. Singer-songwriter of “One of Us” fame. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Sound Healing for Ascension: Gong Song for the Soul 7pm-9pm. With Kate Loye. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Theater

Dance Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 1pm/3pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.

Events Pine Island Farmers Market 10am-3pm. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

Writers' Tea with Eamon Grennan, Sheila Eisenberg, and suzanne Vromen 3pm. $50. Links at Union Vale, Poughkeepsie. www.aauwpoughkeepsie.org.

A Man for All Seasons 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Science in Our Lives.

Call for times. For students ages 13-17. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092x111.

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What’s Your (Pluto) Sign?

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wenty twelve is going to be a big year for Pluto. This is the year of the Uranus-Pluto square you may have heard about, an aspect that is going to make the next few years feel a lot like the 1960s. This won’t just be Pluto; it will be the rare combination of Uranus and Pluto.

That said, in recent years, in part thanks to the proliferation of astrology on the Internet, celebrating one’s “Pluto tribe” has become a thing, and I’m not sure it’s a good thing but it exists and there’s nothing we can really do about it. At least it’s better to have accurate information available.

I recognize some limits on what I’m proposing here in terms of race, class, and country; these interpretations would probably not work well for people living in Sweden or South Africa, but then you never know. That said, let’s consider the basic properties of Pluto through the signs, starting with Pluto in Cancer. Anyone offended by anything I’m saying can take it up with Pluto. I am merely reporting the facts.

Pluto in Cancer (1912-37) was the greatest generation; there will never be a greater generation and anyone who comes after them who thinks there might be is sadly mistaken. This generation was so great that Pluto did them the honor of being discovered in the sign Cancer. “The Star Spangled Banner” was written just for them; Francis Scott Key knew they were coming. The family is everything, except for the church, God, and country. Ultimate goal was to become an Eagle Scout and work for General Motors or IBM. Still saving for their child’s PhD, even though their child has retired.

They are “still there” for them. Proud of their children even though so many refused to join the Army, and the ones that did lost the Vietnam War. It wasn’t really their fault. Eventually, we’ll win another war. Still get nervous when making a long-distance telephone call. Unconsciously flips through the channels at 7 p.m. looking for Walter Cronkite, but after an hour, keeps finding Bill O’Reilly. Patiently waiting for the next Moon landing. Still astonished that appliances no longer come with a protective dust cover, and that you cannot order one even if you’re willing to pay.

Pluto in Leo (1937-56) holds both copyright and patent to the term “baby,” including use in Baby Boomer™ and “Hey, baby.” Seventy is the new 40. This generation is so liberal that they’re conservative or so conservative that they are complete freaks. Home of the pot-smoking, guitar-playing Republican and the vegan, puritanical Democrat who has not had a drink since 1977. Vitamin C is still the cure for everything. In their day, they didn’t change the world; they were so cool, the world changed for them. Cool is what counts. What they say is cool is what is cool until they say it isn’t cool anymore.

Any music recorded after 1970 is terrible unless they say otherwise. Tea Party conservatism is the new peace and love. There are a few who I call The Redeemers who want to dust off their activist Girl Scout merit badge sash and join the Occupy movement, or get involved because they missed their chance the first time around. Once tried an

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open marriage, but went back to getting divorced because it was simpler. Ultimate possession is an SUV with a Greenpeace sticker on it (or a Harley). Still has original AOL address from 1998. Starts a blog just to see how many hits it’s possible to get.

Ruined astrology by asking “What’s your sign?” several thousand times too many. Many now live on a steady diet of Prozac, Viagra, and porno.

Pluto in Virgo (1956-71) is between the Baby Boomers™ and Gen X, not as idealistic as the Boomers and not as cynical as Gen X. Materialism is cool, as long as it’s for a practical purpose. They remain trapped in extremely well-organized cubicles, spending years developing branding and marketing campaigns. Among the first programmers of the commercial Internet, they still say the word “computer” and mean it. Activists among them send around email petitions, or even start an online petition service. They’re too busy to come to the protest, but they support it in principle and watch from the 30thfloor window. They will change the system from within. They’re terrified to let their kids do any of the things that they did. They had sex, drugs and rock-and-roll (which their children are not allowed to know about). Their kids are growing up on supervised playdates and are not allowed to go to the mall alone. Obsessed with health, these people have more vitamins in their closet than the GNC warehouse, but their daughters will get six rounds of Gardasil. Have not had sex without a condom since 1989 and take an AIDS test every year even if they haven’t had sex. You never know; transmission through toilet seats has not been disproved.

Pluto in Libra (1971-82), sometimes called Gen X, is deeply concerned with fairness, equality, and justice, which usually means getting married and going to enough weddings to open a secondhand dress shop with their diversity of unusually colored wedding party outfits. The men finally broke down and bought a tux, or considered it seriously. Men and women are equal. Gays and straights are equal. Willing to take a backseat in the relationship because “I will make this relationship work!” Everyone has the right and responsibility to get married. This is the new civil rights movement. Meanwhile, Roe v. Wade is being washed out from under their feet, birth control is about to become illegal, feminism exists only in certain classes on college campuses, and Guantanamo Bay is still in business, but that’s all okay as long as everyone has the right to get married—unless that means getting married to more than one person. Obsessed with perfect looks, they have never been seen with a zit, and will spend hours getting ready to go out; but it’s not for anyone else—it’s “just for me.” Females have never left the house without a bra plus three extra layers on. The men make excellent single dads but their daughters will all be hell on wheels.

Pluto in Scorpio (1982-95), sometimes called the Millennials, does not believe in privacy. There’s no such thing. Nothing is taboo. Lady Gaga is their hero, and they’re the only ones who understand her. They cannot be more than five minutes away from

social networking, and cannot do anything without their parents knowing about it.

They are comforted that mom follows their every Tweet. Will take a lower-paying job with a longer commute that allows them to check Facebook, which for them is a verb.

Everything must be interactive. Not afraid of ghosts. Older members of this generation used to practice telepathy in school, till texting came along. They used to have sex, till sexting came along. Aware of the deeper, darker side of human nature, they are convinced that the world is evil, so there’s no point doing anything about it. Everything is fucked. The government is fucked. The corporations are fucked. The environment is fucked. Everyone is going to get cancer, so who cares what we do or what we eat.

Sex has three settings—the purity ring, hooking up, and total commitment, which they think is stupid because sex is natural and everyone is really bisexual. But sex can also kill you, so it’s better to talk about it than to actually do it. Did not go to prom; went to purity ball instead, escorted by their Pluto in Virgo father.

Pluto in Sagittarius (1995-2008) cannot spend more than 90 seconds away from social media. These kids are okay with everything, because that’s how the world is—there’s a lot of everything so you may as well be okay with it. There’s always a reason to be optimistic and that alone can get things done. We all live in one world so we should all be able to get along, and we can change the world if we want to. They know that if you believe something, that makes it true. Everything is already spiritual so who needs religion? Expect these children to want to do middle school in Santiago or Fiji. They are the ones being trained for jobs that don’t exist yet, which may involve working alongside extraterrestrials, for which they are perfectly suited.

Toddlers with Pluto in Capricorn (2008-23) are already planning how to undermine the structure of your household, the neighborhood association, and the local municipal government, so keep all your bank records, checkbooks, etc., under lock and key, and carry the key with you at all times. For your own safety, don’t keep your money in a TARP bailout bank. Block them from reading news websites; they won’t care about porno. Don’t reveal any sensitive information. Expect a call from the daycare that they started a campaign to get the director fired. Forget about toy trucks; start saving up for a real bulldozer, excavator, or, maybe a wrecking ball. They will be old enough to drive and operate heavy equipment by the time they’re seven. They will make their fortunes mining abandoned 20th-century garbage dumps.

Future children with Pluto in Aquarius (2023-43) will be the first generation of humans who are fully network compatible. Genetically modified to have nanotechnology in their blood from birth, none of these children will be conceived sexually; they will be generated in fetus farms to custom specifications. Born with an IP address rather than a Social Security number, they will give new meaning to the phrase “I’m a Mac.” It will be deeply disappointing when they are finally “born” only to discover that they no longer have any rights—except to marry a cyborg, which was generously guaranteed for them decades earlier by the Pluto in Libra generation. Ultimately, however, they will be against computers and revolt against their origins, and their motto will be “Opt out, log off, shut down.” This is going to piss off their parents no end, who by that point will be waging a pointless cyber-war against some developing country that has banned Facebook and refuses to join the global effort to stop climate change.

Future children with Pluto in Pisces (2043-66) will be the first generation indistinguishable from God. They are the children of God, one with God, part of God, and God is part of them. God is sex. They will recite nursery rhymes about quantum field theory and take field trips in black holes. These children will exist simultaneously on several dimensions, and don’t need babysitters because they’re one with God. Whereas children of previous generations had lemonade stands, some of these children will form successful cults by the time they’re 11 years old. War will be banned in their lifetimes.

Future children with Pluto in Aries (2066-95) will give new meaning to the term Me Generation, winning the legal right to marry themselves. They will be the second-most narcissistic generation in the history of humanity, deeply envious of their great-great-great-grandparents. Old books by Wayne Dyer and Werner Erhard will sell for $5,000 (not inflation adjusted). They will wage a civil rights movement for the right to fight in wars, repealing the ban passed by their Pluto in Pisces predecessors.

This will be the time of the Second Coming of Heracles and the reincarnation of Patton. They will become despondent and require years of therapy when they discover that the Pluto in Leo generation they admire so greatly was against war, and even managed to stop one.

Future children with Pluto in Taurus (2095-27) will be the ones who stubbornly survive and repopulate the Earth after Pluto in Aries has come through. Sex ban will be repealed. Language will disappear.

Future children with Pluto in Gemini (2127-57) will reinvent language based on words originally known only to one pair of twins. They will go on to reinvent psychotherapy, following in the footsteps of their Pluto in Gemini forebears.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) You’re still figuring out how to handle the sensation of constant change, though I assure you that retreating to the past is not the way to do it.

Understanding the past will help, to the extent that’s possible, though the past is usually more a question of interpretation than of “truth”. That said, certain facts are coming to light, about choices you’ve made, things that you’ve said and that have been said to you, and on a deeper level, how you felt about these things that influenced the direction of your life. If you’re going to let this information inform your choices today, do so creatively. Making choices based on past regrets doesn’t work. It’s far better to acknowledge what’s happened and then choose based on an open concept of the future. You know what you want. It’s different from what you wanted in the past, and that seems to be the whole point of your life now and for the foreseeable future: a different life, where different things happen. The way forward may not be clear now or for the next six weeks or so as Mars finishes up its long retrograde in Virgo. But you can go far to resolve old hangups, get a grip on your health, let go of attachments, and focus on getting clear about your top three priorities. I suggest you let yourself feel just fine if all three involve your drive for professional success and financial wellbeing. It’s about time, isn’t it?

Taurus (April 19-May 20) Jerry Garcia used to remind us that “every silver lining’s got a touch of gray.” He meant that as a caution against believing in a perfect life, and there was something in there about making peace with growing older. Let me put it another way. The fact that you might be willing to take a gamble implies that you’ve got something to lose. You wouldn’t be taking a risk otherwise, would you? At the moment you may be remembering every bet you ever lost, and at the same time feeling less than willing to put something on the line. The truth is, something is at stake. And you might feel better about that if you felt more confident in who you are and what you want. Aspects this month seem destined to stir up that question again, but it’s not for nothing. You’re trying to break free of the past with every cell in your body, and with every photon in your aura. Who has held you down in the past, and how have they done it? That’s the place to set everyone else free. In any event, the whole matter of desire is up for review. How you feel about wanting and how you feel about having are at the heart of your struggle with contentment. If your standard is perfection, you may never get to the point where you feel satisfied. But there may be a way to change your standard without actually compromising what you want.

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You’re figuring out that you have to be happy where you are, and at the moment the primary question seems to be whether you feel safe where you are. What you’re experiencing may be about your circumstances, but rather than wait for those circumstances to change, this would be a good time to start making adjustments. Make a list of everything in your life that has surpassed a limit: for example, too much, too little, or too long. Focus on those first. Set some new limits on when you’re going to make at least one decision on each of them, related to taking action. If solving an old, persistent issue is too daunting, take some target practice on a few less intractable ones.

I know you’re having to do this in a time when your patience might be running in short supply, and when people might not be acting in such a cooperative manner. So I suggest you give yourself some motivations to muster some gumption. Let one of them be creative fulfillment and a significant measure of professional success. These things matter to you now, and they will continue to gain importance to you over the next few years. There is a direct quotient.

Think of it this way: Every quantum of energy you free from frustration will give you three quanta for something you like to do. Further, each time you do that you will be saving energy over an extended period of time.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) The stakes do seem to be going up, don’t they? You have more ideas, more to do, and on a regular basis more is expected of you. But you can be thankful of one thing: You’re doing a fine job of bashing through the glass ceiling. What’s even more interesting is that you’re doing it against some considerable odds, and in your own way. I suggests at this relatively early juncture that you not put too much energy into fighting the battles of yesteryear, yesterdecade, or yestercentury. In fact, I suggest you get out of the business of battles entirely. Your real stock in trade is innovation.

People are not only more open to new ideas than before, most are entirely confused and looking for anything with a vague shred of meaning, and you have a lot more than that going for you.

While you’re likely to be as ambitious and energized about accomplishing real things as you’ve ever been (probably a lot more than ever), you’ve got the gift of insight right now, and faith in yourself. That’s the real source of your energy. It’s as if something, some source or flow, is coming in from another dimension and you can tap into it. The thing that can trip you up is your mind, and you have to practice a mix of multitasking and overfocus. There should be a word for it, and someone—maybe you—can teach workshops. But don’t be too clever. If you’ve got to outsmart anyone, it’s yourself.

Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-August 23) You know more about people close to you than you may think; you have all the information you need. Now it’s up to you to put that information to work for your mutual benefit. It’s good that your secrets are safe, and even better that you’re a natural, born diplomat who knows that part of your role in life is to help the world build cohesion. You’re in the perfect position to find the common ground among people that nobody else seems to be able to see. I suggest, however, not putting your own needs too far to the back. You’re able to do that, and I’m here to remind you that the very people you’re assisting are available to assist you, if you would be a little more open about your desires, and to receiving support. For the moment you may still be figuring out what matters, which is a plus—most people never even try. Others who know what they want can be dangerous because that blinds them to all else. You’re starting from the position of common ground, and have faith that it’s big enough for everyone. As you get closer to understanding what matters to you, and more to the point, why it matters, you’ll be able to balance your own priorities with those of the circumstances you’re in and get a strong mutual energy going. Keep working toward clarity about what you value, and purging your attachmentsto what no longer serves anyone.

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Virgo (August 23-September 22) You seem to be on a quest for something: the source of something within yourself. That same thing seems obvious about them when you look to others, though the inner blind spot you have is mysterious. What is the source of your energy, the source of love, the origin of creativity? It would help if you would trust instead of question. Yet that defies the very logic that you seek. You might ask: What is the source of logic, and of rationality? There’s a bold image in your charts about wanting to burst free, let go, and run with life. You even seem to have the opportunities available. You don’t have to choose on the basis of “who you really are.” Experimenting is not a commitment to anything special, and I’m suggesting that your quest for self-knowledge might really be a challenge to meet the world on equal terms and plunge into experiences that will teach you about yourself. This is another way of saying you don’t need a theory; you’ll be a lot happier with direct impressions, and encounters with people that will challenge you in ways you’ve never experienced. I’m not, by the way, suggesting that you search for yourself outside yourself, but rather that you immerse yourself in a waiting and eager world and see what that does to your sense of who you are. Notice what it teaches you about what you want. Experience the challenge to trust in a way that is immediate and not theoretical.

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Libra (September 22-October 23) Yours is the sign of balance, but right now you’re more like the hyperspace seesaw than you are a delicate scale. Yet what’s amazing is that you’re actually standing on solid ground, no matter how high the energy ramps up. In fact, you’re providing a counterweight to your whole situation—including the superhigh energy of many people around you.

You’re good this way—providing a kind of opposite influence that’s able to embrace whatever is going on around you and still have fun in the mix of it all. Opportunities abound, including meetings with new people, and whole new communities of people, and they’re going to progress fast, so I suggest you not worry if you seem to miss something. I would offer a few words of caution, though. You need your rest. Don’t worry if you’re not half the party animal you used to be; you make up for it in appreciation. Any physical symptoms you may experience indicate your stress level. Spend enough time alone so that you can actually feel what’s going on in your body and in your soul. Remember that while you love contact and thrive on relationships, your emotional independence is key to your happiness. Given your current circumstances, which will keep drawing you in, you’ll need to remind yourself of this. The more you cultivate some autonomy and even sovereignty, the more fully you’ll be able to indulge yourself in the amazing experiences that life is offering you right now.

Scorpio (October 23-November 22) When we use the phrase “change my mind,” we make it sound like a decision that we can change right back. I would propose that to change your mind is to change yourself, when you really do it. You actually rearrange aspects of not just your thought pattern but also your neurology.

One special point of focus of your life now is changing your mind about how you respond to the expectations of others. Few would accuse you of being a conformist, but you’re someone who is keenly sensitive to what others believe. In recent months you’ve been sorting out this particular relationship—the one between you and everyone “else.” You’re not done with this process yet; you’ve yet to reach escape velocity, but I believe you’re at the point where you’re learning to notice that there is indeed a contrast between your ideas about life, and the things that you want, and those of others—including what others claim to want for you. Globally, this setup creates tension so subtle and so pervasive that few notice its existence, yet many are trapped within it.

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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) Focus on the task at hand and your goals will take care of themselves.

Be grateful you have goals, anyway, even if you don’t quite understand the process how you’re getting there. That aspect of your life is going considerably better than you may believe—whether you think it’s going brilliantly or a bit less than that. Your direction is well set, and the way I suggest you express it is through devoting yourself passionately to the quality of the work you’re doing rather than where you expect it to take you. This calls for an act of trust, but not such a big one. In fact, as you involve yourself directly in the tangible substance of what you’re working on, you’re learning many things that are helping you sort out elements of the big picture, refine your methods, and get clear in your ideas about what you’re doing. One thing about your sense of mission—think of yourself on a quest for your roots. You’re working your way backward through many different evolutions of our “goals” toward a wellspring at the core of yourself. While you’re doing this, clear away everyone else’s goals that you might be influenced by. Do your best to scrap your “sense of service” for something deeper: what you know is right for you (which will end up being of service even more). And please do something that many people scrap on the way to success: Deepen your emotional roots rather than pull them up.

Capricorn (December 22-January 20) One challenge you face is maintaining your sense of integrity in the midst of constant change. Remember that integrity is something that you have or don’t have, but how you feel is another story. In fact, there are aspects of your consciousness and your psyche that are disintegrating. They are quite literally coming apart, and it’s about time. The purpose of this is to release energy that is trapped in structure, a little like taking the honey out of honeycombs.

What you want is the substance that contains the nutrients—not the shape of the container. So, remember—this is about a feeling, and the feeling is having some sense of stability in the presence of the constant pressure for things to be different, and the experience of the ground shifting under your feet. You have your integrity if you’re up and walking. You have your integrity if you’re noticing the world around you, including noticing the changes to which you feel subjected. After a while—if it hasn’t already happened—you’ll find your center not in the sense of being attached to anything or anyplace, but in your way of perceiving your relationship to the world. Said more simply, everything changes and changes all the time. Stability is an illusion of perception. You will feel the most grounded when your perceptions change as fast as the events you’re noticing: when you match your vibration to your experience. There is nothing to cling to, and there never was.

Aquarius (January 20-February 19) Imagine your life is a dream that’s about to become a lucid dream—one wherein you “wake up” and figure out that you’re dreaming, and that quality of consciousness gives you the ability to guide the events that would only be “happening to you” in a regular dream. The thing is that in a regular dream, your mind (which is an aspect of you) is still conjuring the whole scene. In a lucid dream, you know you’re doing it, and that knowledge gives you more influence. I’ve often wondered: What is the membrane that separates the two? Many spiritual traditions tell us that a similar veil exists in what we think of as waking life. It’s like a scrim thrown over consciousness that leads most people to be unaware of the fact that they exist. In plain talk, that’s a form of denial. As part of the waking up process, I suggest you do a check-in and see if you’re denying anything important, or if there’s anything that’s persistently trying to get your attention. While the dreamy quality is cast over part of your chart, a boldly alert quality is vibrating out through your experience. But there is a third factor—a persistent sense of isolation that surfaces from time to time. That’s the wake-up call; what you might call the portal to lucidity. The deeper you enter your sense of isolation, the more you’ll be able to explore your sense of presence in and contact with the world.

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Pisces (February 19-March 20) Dane Rudhyar, one of the 20th-century’s deep philosophers of astrology, once wrote, “Piscean winds of destiny may impel men of vision and courage to discover many a ‘new world,’ as much as they do destroy or suffocate the many who stubbornly resist change.” With Neptune, god of the sea and earthquakes, newly arrived in your sign, and the Sun with you racing toward equinox, this is a good time to remind you of this connection of Pisces to inspiration, vision, and bravery. I know that for years, you’ve lived with the radically alien influence of Uranus in your sign, and may not quite trust that the world has grown a little closer to being your home. That, however, is over. And in addition to Neptune in your sign, you also have Chiron—a source of reassurance for the underdog and an influence that will serve as a vehicle for your visions and desires. Very little happens fast in Pisces.

There’s always a process of flow, and the previous seven years of Uranus (a pushy influence) may have you feeling burned out. Fortunately, you’re in a time that will help you cool the fires of your soul and proceed with patience, clarity, and a healthy touch of urgency. For your birthday, I will again quote Rudhyar: “Transcendence, overcoming, piercing through illusions and false security, severance of social ties, embarking for the great adventure with utter faith and in denuded simplicity of being: all these things are to be learned in Pisces. [Humanity] is here face to face with [oneself], and with that Greater Self which [s/he] names: God.”

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Portraits from Goddess on Earth: Portraits of the Divine Feminine by Lisa Levart, Lush Press, 2011, clockwise from top left: Katie Scoville Wilson as Mary Magdalene; Renée Gorin as Becate; Madhur Jaffrey as Durga; Jan Hilliard as Bathor; Crystal Johnson as Isis; Susun Weed as Baba Yaga; center: Maria Palmer as Norns.

In Goddess on Earth: Portraits of the Divine Feminine, Nyack resident Lisa Levart inspires everyday women to realize their inner goddess. Among the pages of the hardcover linen-bound book, 75 women age 8 to 99 connect their divine power to the myths of ancient goddesses in portraits. Each touches on the essence of raw and natural feminine beauty. Alongside the photos, each woman presents their identification to the sacred goddess form that manifests within them.

A handful of Hudson Valley locals are featured, including Serpentessa, a snake priestess and dancer, posing with two of her pythons as Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health. Woodstock-based author and herbalist Susun Weed embodies Baba Yaga, the Slavic goddess of age and fearsome wisdom. “To be Baba Yaga you must not be afraid of great age,” Weed writes. “I am old and wise.”

Jodie Evans and Dana Balicki from the female-initiated activist group Code Pink embrace Kali, the ancient Indian goddess of birth and destruction. The female figure in all of its body shapes is represented—plus-sized beauty Deirdre McLary poses nude as the Venus of Willendorf.

Actresses Olympia Dukakis (Inanna, Sumerian mother of Heaven and Earth) and Karen Allen (Habetrot, Celtic goddess of spring and healing) tap into their feminine spirit, along with cookbook author, actress, and Columbia County resident Madhur Jaffrey (Durga, Hindu warrior goddess). Goddessonearth.com —Molly Lindsay

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