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21 while you were sleeping
37 eclectic dreams: diverse design under one roof
Wendy’s Baconator Triple contains 1,330 calories; Gorillias may be extinct by 2020; fatty foods are like cocaine; breatfeeding saves lives; threats against members of Congress in reponse to the healthcare bill; and is Obama really the anti-Christ?
22 The Playstation war: battling for coltan in the congo Photojournalist Tim Freccia spends a week in the Democratic Republic of Congo and examines the impact of Western technology.
26 beinhart’s body politic: Joint session Larry Beinhart on legalizing marijuana.
regional notebook 13 local luminarIES: Lorie Karnath .
The president of the Explorers Club talks about her adventures to exotic locales and the club’s future endeavors in space exploration.
community pages 28 Rhinebeck: urbane terrain .
John Rodat explores the cozy and ecentric life of Rhinebeck.
63 Beacon: city of creatives Atticus Lanigan reports on the artistic wellspring that is attracting dynamic ex-urbanites to the former hat making capital of the world
locally grown 70 in my backyard .
Carl Frankel speaks with local farmers on how the practice of homesteading forges community bonds. Plus CSA farm listings.
whole living guide 88 going viral: getting an uncommon virus into common dialogue Lorrie Klosterman talks with a Kingston man on his struggle with HTVL, the lesser-known cousin of AIDS.
92 Flowers Fall: a woman’s life Bethany Saltman participates in a “blessingway” and embraces what it is to be a woman.
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arts & culture 45 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 52 music Peter Aaron talks with Dawn Upshaw, world-renowned soprano, on her storied career and directing the Vocal Arts Program at Bard College. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Ramblin Jug Stompers Hobo Nickel. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Sharon Klein The Way Back Home. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Dean Jones Rock Paper Scissors. Reviewed by Jason Broome.
56 BOOKS Nina Shengold speaks with Susan Richards on her third memoir, Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reigned Me In and Set Me Free (2010).
58 BOOK reviews Gregory Schoenfeld reviews Atypical: Life with Asperger’s by Jesse A. Saperstein. Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman.
60 Poetry
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120 parting shot Little Red, a color Polaroid by William Wegman, at Carrie Haddad Photographs.
the forecast 100 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 99 “Photowork ‘10” will be on display through May 15 at the Barrett Art Center. 101 The Avett Brothers will be playing at Mountain Jam the weekend of June 4. 105 The “Remember the Ladies” exhibit opens at the Thomas Cole Historic Site May 2. 109 “Glengarry Glen Ross” will be staged at the Rosendale Theater May 14-16. 113 The East Coast Contemporary Ensemble performs short works by young composers at the Colony Cafe May 26.
planet waves 114 Chiron in Pisces: The Missing Piece Eric Francis Coppolino on the rising influence of Chiron in Pisces. Plus horoscopes.
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You spent a lot of time moving when you were growing up. Did that instill a penchant for exploration? I knew from a very early age that I wanted to travel. After you’ve checked all the normal tourist destinations off your list you want to go farther and farther. Some of the most amazing places on the Earth aren’t easy to get to—oftentimes it’s fairly arduous to get to these spots. Because not everyone can go to these places, part of the reason I became an explorer was to bring back knowledge and share it. How did your travels lead you to the Hudson Valley? I’ve always loved nature and I’m also very involved in the arts. I’d been reading a lot about the Hudson Valley River School [of painting] and just wanted to see the area and started looking up here. I was living in New York City at the time and I just fell in love with the area. When this house became available, my father and I purchased it as sort of a father/ daughter project. It needed a lot of restoration and we’ve been working on it—it’s just a beautiful old Arts and Crafts house. The more time I spend here, the more I love it. What does being the second woman president of the Explorers Club mean to you? The Explorers Club has been around 106 years and it’s been an institution to foster science, field research, and discovery. Those are things that have been very important to me throughout my lifetime, so it just seems like the normal course of things. I think it says a lot for the Explorers Club that when I was elected, the fact that I was a women wasn’t—in my opinion at least—a huge consideration. So it shows that the Explorers Club and exploration have come to the point where gender doesn’t have to be a real factor. I mean, if you look at what’s going on around the world, there are as many women as men working in different areas of field research and conservation and all those things. What ideals or goals of the Explorers Club do you hold in the highest regard and what do you hope to change or improve upon? As president I focus around five words: explore, discover, share, preserve, sustain. So we do our exploration, we discover things. To me one of the most important things is
Exploring her backyard in Concord, Massachusetts, as a child, Lorie Karnath recognized a love for nature early on. This ever-increasing adoration has led her to discoveries in exotic locations (Myanmar and remote northern China to name two) and ultimately the prestigious position of president of the Explorers Club—an international and multidisciplinary organization committed to preserving the human instinct of exploration alongside the advancement of scientific field research. In January, Karnath was reelected to her second consecutive term as president of the Explorers Club. She is only the second woman president of the historically male-dominated professional society. Karnath’s travel training and experience began early in her childhood. Karnath’s surroundings were constantly changing between her family’s Concord home and European cities. By her college years she was regularly shuttling between the United States, France, and Belgium. Karnath currently splits her time between Berlin and the Ulster County hamlet of West Park. Her membership in the Explorers Club began in 1989. Karnath now finds her name alongside explorers such as Neil Armstrong, Jane Goodall, and Robert Peary. Historically, Explorers Club members are credited for being the first to the North and South Poles, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the Marianas Trench, and first to the surface of the moon. As per the group’s tradition, an Explorers Club flag was placed on the moon in 1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Karnath plans for her second tenure as Explorers Club president include reinforcing the organization’s 1904 ideologies as well as researching uninhabited parts of our planet and the possibility of field research on others. —Jesse Ordansky
sharing our discoveries, because you shouldn’t keep these for yourself. The point of going there and finding things and learning about things is to share with a network of people who can then help you, with their knowledge base, to preserve what it is you might have discovered. "Sustain" is the most important part—that we sustain what it is that we’re preserving so it’s there for future generations and possibly forever. I think everything we do can revolve around those words. I want the Explorers Club to be increasingly relevant in all aspects of discovery and I want us to continue our role through our members’ work—to be a productive force in not only maintaining our planet as it should be and fostering care of this planet, but beyond our planet. Looking into space—that’s one of the most exciting areas of exploration at the moment. Any possible plans of action for pursuing field research in space? We have a number of astronauts as members and our flag has already been to the moon. We have people involved in everything from the study of the atmosphere to the study of Mars and beyond, as well as space logistics. I think that we’re going to see more and more as this becomes an area where we’re going to be traveling. As I believe Stephen Hawking said, “Man should not confine himself to terrestrial matters.” What are some of your most vivid or exciting memories of exploration or connecting with nature? There are times when you go on these expeditions and you think: This is really arduous. You might be covered with leeches and it’s hot and you’re sweaty and you’re thinking: Why do I do this? Then there are certain moments when you absolutely know why you do this. When I first landed in Antarctica, I got out of the airplane and immediately I was frozen cold, but before I even realized that, what I saw was the most amazing sight: Everything looked like glittering diamonds—from the air to the hills to the ice below me—it was just sparkling and so awe-inspiring that I knew in that second, this is why I do it.
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LETTERS What Would Susan B. Anthony Do? Lorrie Klosterman’s interview of Michelle Goldberg [“Sex, Power, and the Future of the World,” 4/10] raised several questions. It was mentioned that botched abortions were the second-biggest contributor to maternal mortality in some countries. The blame was put on restrictive abortion laws. Yet, according to the 2009 UN World Health Organization (WHO) report on the subject, Mauritius, with one of the continent’s strongest legal safeguards on preborn life, is the country with the lowest maternal mortality rate in Africa. The document also shows how countries such as Ethiopia that have legalized abortion in recent years, often under pressure from Western organizations like International Planned Parenthood, haven’t lowered their dramatic maternal death rates. Ethiopia’s mothers die at a rate 48 times that of Mauritian mothers. In South America, according to WHO, Chile has the lowest maternal mortality rate while protecting preborn lives in its constitution. At the same time, Guyana, the country with the highest maternal death rate, 30 times that of Chile, has had virtual abortion on demand since 1995. Ironically, a major argument for legalizing abortion there was the “attainment of safe motherhood.” On the other hand, Nicaragua, in spite of outside pressure, amended its laws three years ago to grant full protection to preborns and lost $20 million dollars in foreign aid from Sweden as a result, but statistics show that maternal deaths have gone down there since 2006. The WHO report shows a similar story in South Asia, where Nepal, with no legal protection for preborns, suffers the region’s highest rate of maternal mortality, while Sri Lanka’s is 14 times lower, with laws very protective of preborn life. The country with the lowest maternal death rate on the entire planet also prohibits abortion, Ireland. To cite just one other instance of questionable information contained in the interview, it is mentioned that in parts of sub-Saharan Africa women who were abstinent before marriage and faithful in marriage now have AIDS. “That is why the conservative policies of abstinence and fidelity are such a cruel joke,” Ms Goldberg added. Of course, for abstinence and fidelity to work it has to be mutual on the part of both husband and wife. No double standard. Helen Epstein, in her book The Invisible Cure: Africa, theWest and the Fight Against AIDS writes about abstinence and fidelity: “Partner reduction has been more effective than condom use in fighting AIDS in Africa. Yet condom worship continues unabated.” And, the director of Harvard’s AIDS Prevention Research, Edward Green, affirmed that “The condom does not prevent AIDS. Only responsible sexual behavior can address the pandemic.” The most responsible sexual behavior revolves around abstinence and fidelity. Green added after the Pope’s visit to Cameroon last March that as a scientist he was “amazed to see the closeness between” what the Pope said there and the results of the most recent scientific discoveries. Susan B. Anthony probably would not have been amazed at all. She recognized abortion as a great male convenience for irresponsible sexual behavior more than a century ago. Too bad the Supreme Court did not heed her. Dick Murphy, Beacon
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Esteemed Reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Sitting on the cushion I watched as waves of thought and emotion and physical discomfort rose and fell. Some of them swamping my little psychic boat, while others I was able to navigate, turning into the swell at the right moment, rising to the top, and sailing down the other side. At times the pain of sitting (particularly with a recently sprained ankle), or just the urge to move, became overwhelming and I shifted, or slumped, or stretched my neck. At other times, I would keep my attention pinned to my diaphragm as breath rose and fell. After some days of sitting a critical mass of energy built, and attention deepened. Body became more still, almost solid. The image arose of the petrified alien some 19th-century miners claimed to have found in a solution pocket while blasting a granite cliff in Wyoming. The wizened figure had human features but was about four feet tall and had small horns protruding from his head. He was found sitting in a cross-legged position, quite upright on a stone platform. Sitting, I imagined myself becoming so still that the body never moved again, consciousness gradually liberating from the confines of skin, while the body turned to stone. In doing nothing but sitting, the breath beckons with every phase; a gentle flow of wind in and out. Air passing over the upper lip, chest expanding, contracting. And then there arises the sense that what is being breathed is not air but energy; that I am breathing into my belly, or into a space at the center of my chest, which is not lung, but a portal at the center of my sternum leading to a vast open space. It is like sipping air though a straw, sending not just wind but also sound, light, and even fire into a hidden enclave, another world within. Watching the breath, observation and sensation deepen and more subtle rhythms become apparent: heart beating, multifarious fluids—blood, bile, lymph—coursing through though their channels; organs pulse, pumping, producing, processing; thoughts arise from different parts of the mind, images, words, plans, consideration, fixations, conversations; thoughts that give rise to emotions seeming to be born from the back of the head close to the neck. Multihued feelings play in the chest and solar plexus, everything from frustration to intense equanimity, or anger at some perceived slight represented by images or bits of conversation; then regaining composure, with the realization that precious energy had been squandered on foul emotions; precious moments of opportunity to focus lost; and then, in turn, seeing the disappointment in the same light, becoming a cousin once removed; stepping back, and returning to breath; and perhaps 10 or 20 breaths later noticing the center of gravity sinking, stillness pervading again, inner space opening up, a light beginning to appear on the visual horizon (way beyond the screen of closed eyelids), a rhythm of breath beginning to emerge, growing gradually slower but consistent, and that rhythm permeating the whole organism, bringing all the cycles into polyrhythmic cadence, a galaxy in order. Only this morning I heard a talk by Deepak Chopra in which he says that the number of cells in the body is only slightly more than the number of stars in a large galaxy. That’s close enough to provide a delicious suggestion that the body is a whole whirled world. I am a galaxy. I am a microcosm. Or a macrocosm from the standpoint of a liver cell, a single star in the galactic body of my person. Most cells die and are replaced every 30 days, and even genetic material can be reformed in that time. It all depends on whether the cells are bathed in love or loathing, consciousness or ignorance, to move the little psychic boat toward heaven or hell. We are complex systems, and can know this inner world, now, in this moment. It is the undiscovered country. And if it is our aim to explore the terrain, following hints and subtle cues, we can emerge like Mushkil Gusha’s woodcutter (“If you need enough, and want little enough, you will have delicious food”) from the darkened wood, up a magical ladder into a bright open space, like a desert, but comfortable, with colored stones scattered over the ground. In the story he collects them at the direction of a hidden voice, and only later, when he returns to his hovel does he realize they are huge and perfect gems. He is a rich man. The world of our being contains wealth if we take a few moments to look. Exhuming this treasure is the work of being human, and everything we value flows from it. Awakening the inner trove allows us to be what we are—present, compassionate, and wise. —Jason Stern 5/10 ChronograM 17
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A recent poll by Harris Interactive surveyed 2,320 adults online between March 1 and 8 on Americans’ negative feeling toward President Obama. The survey found that 40 percent of Americans believe Obama is a socialist, more than 25 percent believe he wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a world government, 20 percent think he is doing many of the things that Hitler did, 14 percent believe he may be the anti-Christ, and 13 percent think he wants the terrorists to win. The results between Republicans, Democrats, and education levels varied distinctly. Republicans were the most opposed to Obama (no question received less than a 22 percent agreement among Republicans), while the less education someone had the more they thought Obama wanted to destroy America. Source: www.Earthtimes.org Gorillas in the Congo Basin in Central Africa may be extinct by 2020 according to a report released in late March from the United Nations and Interpol. The threat is due to illegal poaching of gorillas for food, habitat encroachment from illegal logging and mining, and the Ebola virus—which some estimates are predicting could kill up to 90 percent of the gorilla population. Since 1997, 190 Virunga National Park rangers have been killed by militia elements due to concern over lost revenue. The report states that unless action is taken to counter poaching and guard the gorillas’ habitat, the dire prediction will be reality. Source: CNN Tech Beginning next year, the new federal health-care bill will require all restaurant chains with more than 20 locations to post calorie counts on their menus. One high-calorie example: Wendy’s Baconator Triple containing 1,330 calories, 38 grams saturated fat, and 3,150 milligrams of sodium. Harold Goldstein, executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, said, “It’s been shown over and over again in places where [menu-labeling has] gone into effect, consumers have calorie sticker-shock,” often choosing a lower-calorie option. Source: Daily Beast According to a report by Amnesty International, China executed more people in 2009 than the rest of the world combined. In 2008, China executed two-thirds of the peo-
ple put to death worldwide—1,718 people out of 2,390. Amnesty International claims “thousands” of Chinese executions occurred again in 2009. Currently, the report is incomplete, but Amnesty says at least 2,001 people were executed in 56 countries last year. Following China was Iran with 388 people executed, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the United States with 52 people—24 executions took place in Texas. Amnesty International says, so far, 95 countries have banned capital punishment. And for the first time since Amnesty started keeping records, there were no executions in Europe. Source: New York Times Scientists found that high-calorie, high-fat food such as bacon and cheesecake affect the brain in the same way as cocaine and heroin. The study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, reported that rats fed only junk food developed a pleasure tolerance to the food—needing to consume more to reach the original high obtained. Even given electric shocks when near the fatty foods, the rats persisted and continued eating. In previous studies, rats exhibited similar behavior when given cocaine and heroin. Overeating, like cocaine, caused the dopamine receptor levels in their brains to drop. Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, the chair of the medical department at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, said, “Processed food is made very similar to cocaine now” by purifying it until it’s delivered more efficiently to the brain. Although the same results may vary in humans, Dr. Wang says if medicines to treat drug addiction are developed they may be used for obesity as well. Source: CNN Health With the recent passage of the Health-Care Bill, threats against lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have increased threefold in recent months—42 threats in the first three months of the year, compared with 15 in the last three months of 2009. These are a few of the threats that have occurred since the bill was passed: A gas line was cut at the home of Virginia Democrat Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother after his address was posted online by Tea Party activists, along with a threatening letter. Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) received a fax with a drawing of a noose and an anonymous voice mail saying: “You’re dead. We know where you live. We’ll get you.” Stupak has since announced his retirement. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) claims someone shot a bullet through his Richmond campaign office. A man was arrested by the FBI after posting a death threat against Eric Cantor as well. The FBI also arrested a man in connection to Democratic Senator Patty Murray (WA). Murray received a death threat from the man, who was allowed to carry a concealed weapon. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) received a call using profane language, the caller saying he wished she’d broke her back when she was hit by a car last year and calling her racist because she voted against the bill. On Capitol Hill, a protester spit at Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) was called “nigger” by angry Tea Partiers. In Ottawa, Canada, protests by hundreds of students led organizers to cancel a speech by conservative Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa. Sarah Palin tweeted “Don’t Retreat, Instead—RELOAD!” and national Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele said he wished to see House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on “the firing line.” Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-IL) had a newspaper ad placed against him featuring a picture of him with his children in the Cincinatti Inquirer because he voted for the bill. A brick was thrown through the window of the Niagara Falls district office of Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), and someone left her a voice mail suggesting that the children of health-reform supporters would be targeted by snipers. Sources: The Hill, MSNBC.com, FOXNews.com, Daily Beast, CBS News, Washington Post, Dailyprogress.com, and Los Angeles Times Along with billions of dollars, 900 babies would be saved each year if 90 percent of mothers in the United States fed their babies only breast milk for the first six months of their lives. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggests that hundreds of deaths and more costly illnesses are caused each year from health problems that breastfeeding helps prevent, such as stomach viruses, ear infections, asthma, juvenile diabetes, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and childhood leukemia. Breast milk contains antibodies that help fight infections, affect insulin in the blood, and make babies less likely to develop obesity. A 2001 government report had previously said $3.6 billion could be saved each year if 50 percent of mothers breast-fed for six months. Currently, only 12 percent of mothers breast-feed for that long. The government’s new health-care overhaul requires large employers to provide private places for working mothers to pump breast milk, which experts hope will increase that percentage. At many hospitals newborns are offered formula even when their mothers intend to breast-feed. Source: Associated Press Compiled by Siobhan K. McBride
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above: An Indian peacekeeper guarding the market in Kibua village in the Walikale region of eastern Congo. opposite: A child along the road at Ishunga.
The PlayStation War Battling for Coltan in the Congo Text and Photos by Tim Freccia
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Russian Mi-8 helicopter passes over the hill and settles into a clearing in the forest at Kibua, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Walikale region, roughly 25,000 square kilometers of dense jungle/ forest inhabited mainly by remnants of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide perpetrators and witch doctor militias. The former Soviet Union’s aircraft are the primary choice of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), the world’s largest peacekeeping force. Shuddering as much as it did in flight, the hulking copter lands. It is at least 20 years old. Others like it have been in service for twice as long and have a gruesome record of crashes. A resupply flight to a company of Indian Army MONUC peacekeepers stationed in about as remote an area as one could ask for, this will be my 15th trip on one of these ancient beasts—I’m hoping my luck holds out. Africa’s third-largest country in terms of area, the DRC (formerly known as Zaire) lies northeast of Angola. With 68 million people, it is the continent’s fourth most populous country, the 18th most populous in the world.The DRC is home to over 200 different African ethnic groups, the average life expectancy is 54 years, and 1.1 million Congolese have AIDS. Located in Central Africa and straddling the equator, the DRC holds the promise of enormous wealth for its people with its abundance of natural resources, including cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, and timber. However, a conflict that began in August 1998 that involved seven foreign armies devastated the country and drastically reduced national output, revenue, and foreign investment, leaving the DRC with the lowest GDP in the world according to
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the International Monetary Fund. What has been called Africa’s World War has caused the deaths of 5.4 million people from violence, famine, and disease; sexual violence is also widely employed as a tool of war. Although a peace accord was negotiated in 2003, the violence continues in eastern DRC. The Indian Army first provided UN peacekeepers to the DRC in 1961. Out of roughly 18,500 troops from 49 nations deployed to keep the peace, the Indian contingent is the largest and has served the DRC the longest. As the Mi-8 touches down, I’m greeted by the peacekeeping soldiers. They’re glad to see me, and happily offload the food, water, and fuel that will have to last them until the next flight comes in. I’ll be their guest for a week. Displaced and on the Run Surrounded by rough mountains and impenetrable forest, the village of Kibua once served as headquarters to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)—an exiled Hutu group whose members are accused of perpetrating the 1994 genocide of nearly one million Tutsis, as well as moderate Hutus. A thriving weekend market in the village at one time drew hordes of people from neighboring areas. In early 2009, a joint operation between Congolese national troops—Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC), the Rwandan military, and the integrated forces of former Tutsi rebel general Laurent Nkunda’s National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP)— swept through the region in an effort to rout the FDLR. As its members retreated into the forest, the Hutu combatants allegedly massacred hundreds of civilians and abducted more, forcing them to carry their goods into the jungle.
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Trekking to Market On Friday mornings, a MONUC peacekeeping convoy drives through the mist along the rough mountain road cut through primeval forest, to the outskirts of Ishunga, where thousand of civilians have been assembled since dawn. There’s a buzz in the crowd—everyone’s eager to start the trip to Kibua and the Saturday market. At approximately 10 am, Major Panwar coordinates with his men via radio and the 10-mile exodus begins. The civilians are eager to get to Kibua, but stay in tight groups out of habit—they’re afraid of getting too spread out. FDLR and politically unaffiliated Mai Mai militias live and operate in the nearby bush. If the civilians get separated, they run the risk of being robbed, raped and/or killed. As midday comes, the sun is high and hard. Old women and children bend to loads larger than themselves. I’ve made part of the hike with them and already feel the beginnings of heatstroke. Generally fit for my age, I find myself winded. The older women with giant loads on their backs keep the pace up and the group assembles at a halfway water point—a small waterfall that tumbles to the roadside from high up the mountain. After 30 minutes of rest the group bunches again ready to finish the march. This time the peacekeepers need to hold the group together—they’ve passed the most dangerous stretch and everyone’s eager to get to Kibua first. The Indian soldiers walk with the civilians, herding them along, keeping the pace steady. By late afternoon, the group reaches the outskirts of Kibua and starts to disperse and filter off into huts and small settlements for the night. Tomorrow’s market will bring them much-needed supplies and income. A monstrous downpour rolls in and small oil lamps flicker throughout the village as the equatorial night quickly falls. Peacekeepers in watchtowers on the perimeter of the MONUC camp stand vigil as DRC’s heavy tropical darkness folds around Kibua.
Before the 2008 war between Nkunda’s CNDP and Congolese national (FARDC) militias routinely swept through eastern Congo, displacing hundreds of thousands, the population in the greater area surrounding Kibua was estimated at over 80,000. As warfare routinely sweeps through eastern Congo, millions of civilians remain perpetually displaced. The lifespan of a village is measured in days, not years. One eight-year-old boy interviewed in a displaced persons camp described watching as his parents were killed by militia. Four years old at the time, he has spent half of his life running from war. Late 2008 saw the culmination of the CNDP’s campaign in eastern Congo. Nkunda had led his force to the gates of Goma (eastern DRC’s “capital” situated on its border with Rwanda), prompting a scorched-earth retreat by the outgunned, unpaid, and undisciplined FARDC, who raped and pillaged through Goma. The uprising was finally put down when officers executed 17 men. The event sparked a massive humanitarian disaster, with population movements of hundreds of thousands fleeing the fighting, and seemed to ensure Nkunda’s victory and control of eastern DRC’s riches, with Rwanda, as Nkunda’s main backer, looking to benefit handsomely. In late June, 2009, peacekeepers of MONUC’s India Battalion One (INDBAT One) arrived in Kibua, only to find a remaining local civilian population of approximately 2,000 civilians. “When we started foot patrols in the area, we met villagers along the road who told us they were afraid to go to Kibua’s market,” said company commander Major Dev Panwar, who described Kibua as a virtual ghost town. “They had been attacked, looted, and raped by negative armed forces while making the trip between Ishunga and Kibua”—a distance of approximately 10 miles. “That was when I had the idea to offer an escort. At first we accompanied two people to the market.The next week it was 10, then 50. At first, we had no vehicles, so we did the patrol on foot. Now we escort approximately 2,500 people each Friday, and then escort them back on Saturday.” 24 news & politics ChronograM 5/10
The Peacekeeping Life The Indian peacekeepers are as cut off from the world as the civilians they’re mandated to protect.The terrain makes communications impossible.The company commander makes daily reports to Goma via satellite phone from a tight spot within the camp. They survive on a weekly helicopter delivery of necessities from the city; by the end of the week, food supplies are low and morale wanes. Nonetheless, I’m treated to real Indian hospitality, and in the first days of this trip enjoy meals equal to any offered in Delhi’s finer restaurants. The young peacekeepers are excited to have company. Many of them are on their first and only deployment (India has a standing army of over three million), and for these men this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel and receive extra pay—twice what they make at home. The officers entertain me in the evenings and a few of the younger enlisted men are allowed to join in—one plays guitar and sings songs from home. During a walk through the heavy rain to my quarters—a “room” in the nearby Red Cross field hospital—I slip in the mud and split my shin open to the bone. I limp back to the camp, where the medic happily puts a couple of rough stitches in—without the aid of anesthetic. The men of INDBATT One, North Kivu Brigade, are disciplined. In addition to their weekly market escort, days are spent exercising, drilling, and cleaning their weapons. Part of their daily calisthenics routine entails a yoga technique in which the entire company releases an uproarious belly laugh intended to relieve stress. Younger enlisted men in white shorts stand at attention, bearing stainless steel trays with drinking water or coffee. Each officer has a “buddy”—something like a squire or personal assistant.The contrast between this Somerset Maugham-esque setting in their camp and the oil lamp-lit Congo just outside is as incongruous as it is surreal. The PlayStation War The morning brings sun and market day in Kibua. The village center fills with people and the sounds of commerce. Women meet and gossip; Congolese national army soldiers mingle through the crowd and flirt with the girls. MONUC peacekeepers watch over the bustle and Major Panwar tells me, “Since we’ve been here, over the last six months or so, the local population has increased to approximately 6,000 on the weekends and the local economy has quadrupled. During our first foot patrols, we met a few FDLR patrols.They told us
above: Indian peacekeepers escort 2,000 Congolese villagers from Ishunga to market in Kibua, 1o miles away. Before the escort, the villagers were attacked, looted, and raped by FDLR militia while making the weekly trip to Kibua’s market. opposite: Author Tim Freccia’s leg wound, sustained in Kibua.
that this was their area, and we responded that this was now our area.We told them that our mission was to protect civilians, and that they didn’t want a problem with us.We haven’t seen them since.” I watch the crowd haggle and deal, gossip, and catch up on social activity.What appears as a fairly functional African village was not long ago an area wracked with death and destruction in a continuation of DRC’s tradition of horror. More than 100 years ago, Belgian colonialists, under the order of King Leopold, who had set up “Congo Free State”—a personal fiefdom he privately controlled through a dummy nongovernment organization—began cutting the hands off of local workers who didn’t meet rubber collection quotas. Years later, after the fall of the infamous US-backed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in May 1997, eastern Congo devolved into a seemingly endless cycle of conflict, most of it over its rich natural resources. Numerous militias have rampaged through the east (and still do), funded by businessmen who reap enormous profits in the uncontrolled trade of minerals including cobalt, copper, tin, gold, diamonds, and coltan. Coltan is a key mineral that, once refined, becomes tantalum—a significant ingredient of capacitors, which are used in an expansive array of small electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops, pagers, and other electronic devices. Eighty percent of the world’s supply of coltan lies in DRC. The recent conflict there has been referred to as “The PlayStation War,” with the activist website “Towards Freedom” claiming “millions of dollars worth of coltan was stolen from the DRC to satisfy the West’s insatiable appetite for personal technology,” with Rwandan troops and rebels using prisoners of war and children to mine for the “black gold.” In addition, there have been incursions into eastern Congo by its neighbors— Angola, Uganda, and Rwanda—and the dense forests provide shelter for numerous and notorious psychopaths, including Uganda’s Joseph Koney (Lord’s Resistance Army). In roughly a decade, Congo’s conflicts have killed an estimated four million—more than any other since World War Two—displaced millions more, and
given rise to commonplace massacres, forced abductions, child soldiers, and rape as a weapon of war. On the fringe, the Mai Mai—a witch doctor militia that is a hybrid mafia local constabulary—perpetrate routine slaughter, rape, and abductions. Eastern Congo’s perpetual burden—proxy wars fought over the region’s rich natural resources—lurks in the forest nearby. I’ve covered this region for the past few years and am reminded of the fragility of this “civilization.” In late 2008 and early 2009, I watched as war raged through the region, displacing hundreds of thousands, and killing and traumatizing thousands more. Just months ago, armed militias massacred civilians here. In the last FDLR massacre, a pregnant woman was butchered—her belly sliced open. A Promising Future? Today, things look somewhat promising in Kibua. This is Congo heading into a brighter future, after decades of brutality—one the Congolese would like to believe in. As the community has grown again, the peacekeepers have become a sort of local informal government arbiter. Local chiefs bring grievances and work, supported by the UN, has begun on a new school. Major Panwar and his officers slowly build relations with local Congolese government troops, softly encouraging them to respect human rights, and rule of law. By early afternoon, the market in Kibua starts to close, and the thousands who’ve come from the West begin to assemble for the march home. Wanting to make it back by dark they hurry along, trying to keep pace with the MONUC escort. As the group reaches Ishunga, a collective sense of relief settles in. They’ve made it once more. As I make my way to Kibua with the peacekeepers, the resupply flight arrives with word from home and another week’s worth of rations. The peacekeepers bid me farewell and go back to their routine. I make my 16th trip on the MI8, shin stitches in place. The war, waiting in the bush, has spared Kibua for another week. Tim Freccia is a journalist based in Nairobi. 5/10 ChronograM news & politics 25
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When you’re flat, you’re busted, you’re totally broke, when the ATM eats your card for a joke, when you’re out of cash, out of credit, and have no more hope, what do you do? You take to the streets and start selling dope. It happens in the hood and out in the ’burbs, see them hangin’ and slangin’ out by the curbs, cars cruise by making the scene, down by the mall and out on the green. It happens to the lowly, it happens to the high, when the river of money abruptly runs dry. It happens to the quick and those who hesitate, and now it has happened to our very largest state. California, O California, always on the cutting edge, now you are standing on a fiscal ledge. California, O California, always ahead of the scene, is thinking of going really, truly green. The only way out of their deep financial grief is at last to turn to our special sacred leaf. In this crisis so full of rants, tears, and sighs, the only escape is to legalize. To cover the shortfall, fill in the cracks, send muggles to market, and collect the tax. California has a unique referendum system. Anyone can propose a law. For $200 and with the signatures of 5 percent of voters who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election, a referendum can get on the ballot to become a law. With 8 percent, it can go on the ballot as a constitutional amendment. In 1978, California voters passed Proposition 13 as a constitutional amendment. Prop 13 limits real estate taxes to 1 percent of the cash value of the property. The baseline for such values was set at 1975 prices. Increases in valuation are limited to 2 percent a year, except when a property is sold, at which time the sale price establishes a new value. Prop 13 also requires a two-thirds majority in the state legislature and in local legislatures to increase other taxes, including sales taxes and income taxes. Even at its most liberal moments, California has a large, significant, and immovable conservative minority. Passing tax increases is impossible, as Governor Schwarzenegger, like all the governors since Ronald Reagan, has discovered. Prop 13 was, and remains, hugely popular. It was also hugely influential. Since then, tax cuts have become our national theme song and tax hikes have become almost impossible anywhere. At the same time, costs don’t go away. If anything, they continue to increase. With the Crash of 2008, which has continued as the recession of 2009-10, tax revenues in all states have fallen sharply. States search frantically for compensating cuts, but their costs include things that can’t be cut for practical reasons, for political reasons, or because they are mandated by other state laws, federal laws, or the courts. In 1996, California once again led the way and passed Prop 215 (55.6 percent in favor, 44.4 percent against), which legalized the medical use of marijuana. There are now 14 states where medical marijuana is legal. The closest to us are New Jersey and Vermont. Marijuana, for any purpose whatsoever, remains illegal under federal law. The Bush Administration had the DEA raid medical marijuana distributors, and make arrests, and had federal prosecutors send people to prison even when they were operating under contracts with California municipalities and in compliance with state law. In October 2009, Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder said, “It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana”—this was taken to mean that they would not prosecute – “but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal,” which has 26 news & politics ChronograM 5/10
been taken to be requisite, tough-on-crime, law-and-order rhetoric. Several states and individual localities, departing from their state statutes, have decriminalized possession of marijuana. In New York, “possession of 25 grams (.88 ounces) or less of cannabis is a civil citation punishable by up to a $250 fine and a $100 court surcharge; stricter punishments exist for sale, cultivation, or subsequent offenses. If found in a public place with marijuana burning or in public view, offender can be charged with a misdemeanor, fined $500, and incarcerated up to 3 months.” (Source: State by State Laws: New York. NORML. 2006.) “First-time offenders of all marijuana possession laws and some marijuana sale laws are, with some exception, granted an automatic adjournment of their case in contemplation of dismissal (‘ACD’), meaning that if the offender commits no crimes and abides by any conditions set by the court, his or her case will be automatically dismissed after six months.” (Source: NewYork State Criminal Procedure Law Section 170.56. Laws of New York. 2009.) In short, we now have a hodgepodge of legality, illegality, draconian penalties, and minimal penalties, depending on where you are and who happens to catch you. The next step is legalization. In March, supporters of such an initiative got enough signatures to put it on the California ballot for this November. There are lots of reasons to legalize marijuana. First of all, there is not much cause for it to be illegal. It doesn’t seem to do much harm. Okay, it tends to make some users fat and stupid. But not nearly so much as watching television or eating fast food. It may make some people a little crazy, but inertly so. They just lie there with their headphones on. It certainly doesn’t kill anyone, while many legal drugs do. Deaths Caused by Drugs in the US Annually Tobacco: 400,000 Alcohol: 100,000 All Legal Drugs: 20,000 All Illegal Drugs: 15,000 Caffeine: 2,000 Aspirin: 500 Marijuana: 0 Nowadays, lots and lots of people do it. Prosecution is necessarily selective and arbitrary. Indeed, so many people do it, that even with 840,000 arrests, as there were last year in the US, use just continues to increase. The big argument for legalization is this: “Legalizing marijuana would save $7.7 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement and prohibition. $5.3 billion of this savings would accrue to state and local governments, while $2.4 billion would accrue to the federal government. Marijuana legalization would yield tax revenue of $2.4 billion annually if marijuana were taxed like all other goods and $6.2 billion annually if marijuana were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco.” (Source: “Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States,” The Marijuana Policy Project.) It’s on the ballot, it’s up for a vote, better write it down, better make a note, two thousand ten, in month eleven, turn the Golden State into stoner heaven.You owe it to Cheech, you owe it to Chong, to your beautiful mind, and your beautiful bong.
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RHINEBECK urbane terrain By John Rodat Photographs by Jennifer May
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he man in the stylish puffy orange coat has a much better haircut than you’d expect on an insurgent, so the advice given to him by the girl in the bandana comes across as a catchy non sequitur. “You can’t use a debit card and be a revolutionary,” she says warmly. The man smiles and leaves a cash tip, in accordance with the counterperson’s pointer. But he may have been planning to do so, anyway. He takes his to-go order and heads out, leaving the young woman to attend to the next customer at the Garden Cafe in Rhinebeck Health Foods. However funny ha-ha the mix-and-match aspect of the scenario—an urbane and soap-opera-handsome man being waited on by a bohemian woman dispensing radical epigrams and carrot-orange smoothies—may be, it’s not funny odd. It’s just part of the appeal of Rhinebeck Health Foods—and Rhinebeck, generally. According to proprietress Lynn Forman, it’s exactly this kind of exchange that keeps her interested in the business after more than 30 years. “I think about retiring,” Forman says. “But I’d miss the interaction. The diversity in Rhinebeck makes it so much fun: It’s a show.” So, the conversation at the counter is merely part and parcel of everyday goings-on: A young woman with a bright glint of diamond nose ring cleans the windows of the front door, briefly making way for a middle-aged woman in exercise tights carrying a purple yoga mat and a Nalgene bottle; two teens mill in the produce section discussing the events of the past weekend and examining the organic lettuce; a fleece-vested man pushing an empty stroller playfully asks his toddler if the hardcover cookbook the boy has pulled from the shelves is really the one he wants; and a writer stops his eyeballing and
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eavesdropping long enough to be excited to find a nutritional supplement in stock, after failing to find it in several chain drug stores. It’s a bright and bustling 3,000-square-foot space tucked down Garden Street. (Forman describes it as “slightly off the beaten path,” though it’s only a seconds-long walk off Market Street.) Forman bought Rhinebeck Health Foods back in 1978—from a friend of her husband’s who was, and still is, a “skydiving, adventurous sort who didn’t want to be in store all day”—moving it to its current location in 1990. Though the store was at that time only one of five businesses in the building, Forman has been able, over the years, to acquire those spaces “little by little, in hopscotch jumps,” now occupying the entire structure. She’s put the space to good use. The store features a full produce section, bulk and frozen foods, books and gifts, and the aforementioned cafe and well-stocked supplement selection. The clientele, according to Forman, draws from each of Rhinebeck’s resident, quasi-resident, and transient populations. “We’ve got a really great source of customers: local, weekenders, and tourists. They’re all so supportive.” Forman expresses appreciation for all her varied shoppers (with the exception of the “cell-phone shoppers,” but, hey, you take the bad with the good). A Hyde Park native herself, Forman has watched Rhinebeck evolve and, while she’s seen some mistakes made by individual business owners who think Rhinebeck is an unqualified gold mine—”I’ve seen businesses come and go. It’s a revolving door now, more than ever. I feel I can look at a store and instantly know: ‘Oh, yeah. That’ll go.’”—she praises the core businesses and community. Forman says Rhinebeck’s Chamber of Commerce, especially,
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has fought hard—and fought smart—to preserve the qualities that make it a special place. “I’m not really a meeting person, myself,” she says. “But they all work very hard together and they’re very strong in their feeling of history. They do a great job of preservation, while allowing for growth.” Contrasting it with her own hometown, which let its four-corners area be developed out of existence, Forman praises Rhinebeck’s vision and vigilance: “It’s easy to let it go. It’s like raising a kid—you’ve got to persevere. You’ve got to keep at it to keep it the beautiful town that it is. It’s like a walk back in history.” Special Care Another of Rhinebeck’s veteran retailers, Lila Pague, backs up Forman’s contention that Rhinebeck is the beneficiary of a special kind of care. With business partners, Pague brought Winter Sun Summer Moon’s collection of clothing and gifts inspired by Ecuadorean and other indigenous, exotic cultures from Key West to Rhinebeck. She says that she had always known that Rhinebeck was the place for her—right down to the storefront. “I knew that I wanted to do a store in Rhinebeck, and I knew what space.” The specificity of Pague’s goal was fortunate: When she contacted the landlord 22 years ago to notify him of her standing desire, she discovered that the slated tenant was backing out. One could look at this as a “meant to be,” and perhaps it was; but it’s also a testament to the type of perseverance referred to by Forman and of the connection and investment Rhinebeck has inspired in many.
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“I fell in love with the community of Rhinebeck,” says Pague, stressing the word “community” pointedly. “The sense of caring, the wanting to maintain a particular quality of life.” The preservationist instinct can be a stubbornly conservative one, but Pague elaborates, indicating that the Rhinebeck variety is a flexible and open strain: “I’ve met so many people here, through the store, that I would not normally meet. We may not have the same interests or be the same politically but, even so, there’s a real sense of people caring across those differences, of volunteering and participating.” Importantly, she points out, there is a continuum of care. “Rhinebeck has benefited from people who were here 40 or 50 years ago, who had vision, and that’s being passed on to the children of the community.” Pague recalls two teenage girls whom she overheard during Rhinebeck’s Dutch-inspired, town-wide holiday festival, Sinterklass: “One girl just gasped to the other, ‘Omigod, I’ve never seen my town look like this!’” That girl owns Rhinebeck now; in that moment it became her community.” The sense of ownership is contagious. Natives, such as the girls observed by Pague, feel it; but so, too, do the transplants, whether of long standing, like Pague, or the more recent. And Pague, like Forman, thinks the arrival of newcomers is a boon. “Personally, I’m thrilled at the influx, the diversity. The people who have come have embraced the community. They’re passionate about keeping Rhinebeck a special place.” Mentoring the Next Generation It’d be easy to view Samuel’s of Rhinebeck as a monument to the community’s incorporation of the old and young—literally, or represented symbolically in 30 Rhinebeck ChronograM 5/10
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Hudson River Heritage Annual Preservation Forum:
INFLUENCE AND PERSPECTIVE Symposium to be held at: ASTOR COURTS, RIVER ROAD, RHINEBECK
May 13th and May 14th, 2010 from 9:30am- 4:00pm One-day admission $75 (Including morning coffee service, lunch, and afternoon soft drinks) Combined two-day admission $135
Evening Benefit to be held at: ROKEBY, RIVER RD, BARRYTOWN
May 14th at 7pm Tickets $65
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the form of Rhinebeck’s natives and newcomers—and to its blend of tradition and diversity. The modestly sized store is styled as a penny-candy store from the early portion of the last century. On closer examination, the themed Beatles and Wizard of Oz novelty mugs, not to mention the mouthwatering hiss of the cappuccino machine, would clue in even the laziest of history students that this isn’t purely a period piece. But owner Ira Gutner has accomplished what he set out to do, which was to provide the young people of Rhinebeck with the experience similar to the one he had as young person himself. The New York City-born, Westchester-raised Gutner recalls his Uncle Sam, for whom the store is named. “I have fond memories of meeting him at a place called Pot Roast Sadie’s under the el. It had this great wall of penny candy. I wanted to have a place like that, one that would bring out the kids— and the kid in all of us.” Rhinebeck was for Gutner an optimal location, both for economic exigencies—“Supply and demand,” he says. “When I came here in 1993, Rhinebeck didn’t have anything like this”—and for more personal reasons. Gutner says he had grown tired of working fashion and home furnishings in the city and of the “scene in the Hamptons,” and wanted to make a lifestyle change and also to make a contribution. It is clear in talking to Gutner that his sense of community is an active and participatory one. He is strident in his statements that Samuel’s is of and for Rhinebeck, particularly the young. “I’ve always hired the youth of Rhinebeck, and have probably mentored more than 100. One of them is my manager now—I trust him with my life. Here, a young adult is treated like a young adult, not a kid.” That level of respect seems to have paid off in enthusiastic attachment. Amid the candy, the decorative coffee paraphernalia, and the fliers for local arts and wellness events, there's a number of tributes to Gutner obviously 32 Rhinebeck ChronograM 5/10
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produced by young fans. Drawings, poems, and other testimonials offer affectionate accolades and gratitude for the services and environment Gutner has created. Standing at the coffee bar perusing the praise, one wonders if the 10-or-so-year-old typing away at his laptop while seated at the front window is working on a similar thank-you. (It should be noted that the work on display isn’t limited to that of precocious amateurs. There is a charming likeness of Gutner himself on the wall, produced by a local adult painter as part of a series called “The Village People” and purchased for Gutner by community members. There are also several framed cartoons depicting Samuel’s by Rhinebeck resident Daniel Shannahan, including one that graced the cover of a 2004 edition of The NewYorker.) Samuel’s has a noticeable eclecticism, but it coheres. To hear Gutner describe it, that’s only appropriate. It reiterates the dynamic of Rhinebeck as a whole. For example, for all his emphasis on local community, Gutner says he’s not talking about exclusion. “I have a philosophy: We cater to local people. Now we have a group who have weekend homes here. Those are weekend locals. We have people who come to visit, those are the visiting locals.” Such an extension of hospitality is, on the one hand, no doubt, good business sense; but it’s also a return on the hospitality Gutner himself has received. “There are a lot of transplants here, but there’s an older group as well. It’s a mix. But the old-timers have gotten acclimated. They know how it helps them.The new businesses improve business for everybody, it improves the tax base and the schools—as a whole community, it meshes well.” As if to punch home the point, Gutner says, “Look, I’m a gay Jewish man and I’m here for 16 years. I had a line out the door my first day. I didn’t come in here as a pushy New Yorker trying to make a fast buck.” As with the other longtime merchants, Gutner espouses a kind of “respect in, respect out” mantra. Those—however inclined, however eccentric—who recognize and respect those qualities that make Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck are accommodated, embraced, and incorporated into…well, it all comes back to that phrase: “It’s a question of quality of life,” he says. “Rhinebeck is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Even though if you told me in my 20s that I wouldn’t be living in the city off Chinese take-out, I wouldn’t have believed it. Here, I feel like I’m part of a community.” RESOURCES Enjoy Rhinebeck www.enjoyrhinebeck.com Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce www.rhinebeckchamber.com Rhinecliff Health Foods www.rhinebeckhealthfoods.com Samuel’s (845) 876-5312 Sinterklaas www.sinterklaasrhinebeck.blogspot.com Town of Rhinebeck www.rhinebeck-ny.gov Winter Sun Summer Moon www.wintersunsummermoon.com
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he space we live in says a lot about us as a person, but sometimes it ends up translating the wrong message. For example, the fact that you’re an eclectic, worldly traveler might be disguised by the reality that your living space is an unorganized collection of foreign curios more numerous and varied than the wares at Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. Or maybe you married someone with a totally different aesthetic, and what looks like a blatant disregard for continuity in design in your home is actually an ongoing debate about contemporary style versus country cottage charm. Whatever the dilemma, it is possible to organize and merge an array of items and tastes in décor under one roof. With a little help from professional interior designers and a couple of distinctive local home shops, Chronogram culled expert advice to have your space looking polished and purposeful while still maintaining a sense of diversity.
Taking Stock The first step to creating a cohesive look in your home is to take an inventory of what you already have. Determine which items you’ll be using in the space and take note of their size, shape, and color. Those three characteristics are the building blocks of design, says Helen Piteo-Varrone of Helen Piteo Interiors in Wappingers Falls. “If you take those elements and try to match the personalities of those aspects in lieu of particular styles, it can work,” she says. Examine all the pieces you want to incorporate into your home. Sometimes items that seem like polar opposites on first glance can actually work well together and set each other off. Piteo-Varrone uses a carved French antique chair and a rustic copper side table from Montana as an example. The two seemingly disparate pieces can actu5/10 ChronograM HOMe & garden 37
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ally complement each other if the color tones are similar and the lines are contoured right. “It’s really not about the style per se, it’s about taking each individual piece and grouping it together with something that complements its size, color, and shape,” she says. “That really comes into play with almost everything we do in design.” At this point, you might want to start trying to refine what you have. Jane Henderson, an interior designer with FW Interior Design in Wappingers Falls, says that she’ll ask her clients to evaluate which pieces they can’t live without. “Once you decide what pieces are crucial, it creates a road map for the rest of the design and can start to dictate a style,” she explains, “for example, combining a family antique chest with a midcentury modern mirror.” Scaling back may not be very fun, but Laura Gould, a former interior designer who now owns the shop Sanctuary Home in downtown Nyack, says some editing may be necessary. “You have to find what doesn’t work,” she says, and then eliminate it from your design plans. If you live with a significant other or have a housemate, this is the time when you should try to find a common ground or accept some compromise to best fuse your decorating personalities. When in doubt, Gould recommends letting the space offer cues. “Different spaces dictate the style,” she says. “You have to let that speak to you and be honest enough to see what the vision is through the style of the home and the space.” Gould went through this process when she and her husband moved from a George Washington-era home filled with Victorian touches to a duplication of an Austrian chateau that was more suited to another style. But don’t think that the some of the European aspects of her new home means that she can only furnish it with items that represent that part of the world—she mixed and matched contemporary custom lighting with the European carved woodwork, Mongolian and Tibetan chests, and exotic Moroccan furniture made with camel bone and tooled metal. To help further define the desired end result, both Piteo-Varrone and Henderson often ask their clients to create a folder of images from magazines or catalogs that typify the kind of space they want to create. This gives clues as to what color schemes are preferred, what lines and curves are favored on furniture, and whether you like rooms that are sparse in accessory or more full. “This exercise gives me some direction as a designer and it can serve the same purpose for anyone trying to tackle a DIY project,” says Henderson. Alternately, Gould recommends choosing three pieces that you feel define your style, and using them to guide color choices, furnishing options, and more.
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Finding Inspiration During the process, get out and explore different styles and spaces to cull ideas that you can take back and apply to your own place. If you make it a day with your living partner, you may even discover a new style that appeals to you both and limits the amount of compromise you’ll have to make in a shared space. You can also find focal pieces and other accessories that can help define the atmosphere you want a room to take. While one of the perks of working with a professional designer is their quick access to vendors who can provide original and custom made pieces, sometimes they shop relatively local, too. Piteo-Varrone says she finds treasures at places as commercial as Home Goods, while Gould used small artisan shops in Nyack and Manhattan as points of inspiration during her time designing interiors. Now in her showroom at Sanctuary Home, she offers out-of-the-ordinary items, ranging from one-of-a-kind Asian furniture pieces to unique light fixtures and Moroccan pottery. In High Falls, Jenny Wonderling runs Nectar, a diverse store that features a variety of fair trade products and items crafted of reclaimed wood. With inspiration from Asia and Africa, she says the store is designed to feel like what she calls “a bazaar from another place”—someplace “not commercialized, not homogenized, where unique and handcrafted things are abundant and visceral.” The store features about 1,500 square feet of eclectic accessories and gifts and another 3,000 to 4,000 square feet in a furniture annex that offers tables, hutches, dressers, standing screens, and more. Here, Wonderling believes there’s something to inspire everyone—the folks at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper were impressed and sourced Nectar to provide a number of their furnishings, including carved headboards, statuary, and mirrors. But when it comes to residences,Wonderling is committed to providing exotic, interesting products that are made ethically and stimulate design potential. “I think that your home, like your life, has to reflect your own personality and your own truth,” says Wonderling. “I see things that are sort of trendy and look at Architectural Digest and feel like a lot of homes are lacking in that unique quality that is really one person’s way of seeing the world. And I love when people are brave enough to put it out there.” REOURCES FW Interior Design www.fwinteriorsdesign.com Helen Piteo Interiors www.helenpiteointeriors.com Marigold Home www.marigold-home.com Nectar www.nectarimports.com Sanctuary Home www.sanctuary-home.com
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Decorating Rules of Thumb There are a certain tenets that professional designers follow when sculpting spaces, and these concepts are especially great for people who are trying to merge large collections of diverse things or two or more very different design styles. And luckily, they’re very easy to incorporate into a plan even if you’re not working with a professional. First, pay attention to scale. “We tend to undersize certain things and oversize other things,“ says Piteo-Varrone. “Think large on accessories and small on furniture and the space tends to look much more professional.” Don’t overwhelm a small room with oversized furniture; make sure to keep measurements in mind while you shop. On the other hand, it’s ideal to choose larger accessories, but keep them minimal. Scale also comes into play when looking at surfaces—for example, a small lamp might feel swallowed up by a large table surface. Another tactic that designers use is to place things according to size or by grouping them. Start with large pieces and position them in the larger areas of the room, working down in size order. When you have very small objects, Piteo-Varrone suggests grouping them. “Something very small will be lost by itself on a big piece,” she says. Other times, grouping can help tie together things together. Helen Piteo Interiors once helped link together a collection of eclectic art—with colors as varied as the locales they were purchased from—by grouping pieces and creating “gallery” spaces on walls throughout the home. Here, they weren’t grouped by color or geographical region but randomly, to preserve personality and allow their individuality to stand out. A space will also look much crisper if good storage solutions are implemented. “A lot of times when a house isn’t done professionally storage isn’t done as well,” says Gould. Look into slick, covert ways to increase storage, like incorporating it into seating or wall space or adding a funky trunk to the mix. Proper storage will keep the focus on the parts of the design you want to showcase and help keep clutter at bay. Finally, make sure that you’re incorporating objects with a purpose in mind. “Mixing and matching is a good thing, it makes spaces look interesting, but it’s about how you integrate them,” says Maria Mendoza, a state-certified interior designer and owner of Marigold Home in Kingston. “It’s not just decorating with pieces because there’s a space there. There should be a meaning to why you’re putting one piece next to another. One piece should enhance the other piece.” Ask yourself if the lines and characteristics of the pieces in question match or complement each other as you position items in your space.
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ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119. “Sensing Space.” Group exhibition that explores and investigates issues of artist’s interpretations, creative reactions, and/ or relationships to our natural and physical environments. May 1-29. Opening Saturday, May 1, 6pm-9pm.
ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Square Deal.” Members’ exhibit. May 1-31. “Vermont Reflections.” Works by Prue See. May 1-31. Opening Saturday, May 1, 5pm-8pm.
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201 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1701. “From the Heart, Intuitive Abstractions.” New works by Susan Weinreich. Through May 16.
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Botanicals, Still Life, & Land Journeys 2010.” Annual student exhibition of watercolors. Through May 9.
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND GARDENS ROUTE 9D, GARRISON 265-3638. “Boscobel in Bloom.” A showcase of different art mediums intended to reflect and complement the beauty of the flowers that surround us in the gardens. May 26-June 6. Opening Wednesday, May 26, 11am-5pm.
CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “Spring Group Show: Featured Artist Lucinda Knaus.” Through May 10.
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “Living Under the Same Roof.” The Marieluise Hessel Collection and the Center for Curatorial Studies. Through June 6. “Works by Phillippe Parreno.” May 1-December 19. Opening Saturday, May 1, 1pm-4pm.
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CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “PQ:100.� An exhibition surveying the photography, films, videos, and photo-based installations that have been featured on the first 100 covers of CPW’s publication. Through May 31.
CENTER FOR THE DIGITAL ARTS AT WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE 27 North Division Street, PEEKSKILL (914) 606-7300 “Teacup Secrets.� Eileen MacAvery Kane. Through May 20.
COLUMBIA COUNCIL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “On and Off the Wall.� Sculpture exhibition. Through May 12.
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114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON www.DavisOrtonGallery.com. “Gardens & Arboreta,� photographs by Mary Kocol; “Short Stories,� paintings by Rebecca Doughty. Through May 6-May 30. Opening Saturday May 8, 6pm–8pm.
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Watercolors: Mary Whitehill.� May 1-29. Opening Saturday, May 1, 5pm-8pm.
ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497. “Rochester and Wawarsing Sampler: Early Town Records from the Ulster County Archives.� Features copies of archival documents from Rochester and Wawarsing spanning the centuries, from 1671-1909. Through June 30.
FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199. “HAITI: January 12 2010.� By Ron Haviv. Through June 10.
G.A.S. 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592. “The Billy Name 2010 Solo Show.� Old and new photographs from the Andy Warhol Factory days as well as recent works. Through May 23. “New Color.� Recent large- scale panoramic color photographs taken in New York City by Bob Lemkowitz. Through May 30.
GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Vincent Serbin: Raw Objects Appear Life Size.” Through May 17. “Keith Carter: By Twilight.” May 21-June 28. Opening Friday, June 18, 7pm-8pm.
GALLERY AT DAVID DEW BRUNER DESIGN 610 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (914) 466-4857. “Japanese textiles.” The textiles range from a 1780’s jacket to a 1950’s summer kimono. Through May 14.
THE GALLERY AT LIEBOWITZ BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON’S ROCK, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 528-7389. “Works by Portia Munson.” In a variety of media including installation, sculpture, painting, and photography. Through May 15.
THE GALLERY AT R & F 84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Gabe Brown: Collect the Sun.” Through May 22.
GAZEN GALLERY OF ART 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4278. “Spring Awakening Show.” New artists Elaine Ralston and Demi Theoharis as well as other Hudson Valley artists. Through June 14.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Outside the Lines 2010: Greene County Youth Exhibit.” Features artwork in all media by Greene County students grades K-12. Through June 12.
THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Luminosity.” Featuring work by artists Stephen Hannock, Clare Kirkconnell and Stephen Petegorsky. Through May 4. “Carol Aust.” May 8-31. Opening Saturday, May 8, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “See Without Fear.” Sculpture by Tony Moore. May 1-June 6. Opening Saturday, May 1, 6pm-9pm.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Double Dutch.” Featuring Alon Levin. Through July 26. 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “McWillie Chambers: New Paintings.” Through May 23. Opening Saturday, May 1, 6pm-8pm.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Bill Regan, Paintings and Michael Regan, Photographs.” Through May 8.
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON kmoca.org. “The Home Show.” Paintings by Tricia Wright revolving around our complex relationship with the home. May 1-31. Opening Saturday, May 1, 5pm-7pm.
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “North of New York: The New York School in the Hudson Valley and Beyond.” May 8-June 13. Opening Saturday, May 8, 4pm-6pm.
LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Slice of Art.” Abstract landscape paintings by Basha Maryanska. Through May 14. “Petals and Wings.” Photographs by local artist Diane Grant Melnick. May 2-June 2. Opening Sunday, May 2, 4pm-6pm.
LOCUST GROVE THE SAMUEL MORSE HISTORIC SITE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “The Intimate Landscape: New Paintings by Thomas Munterich.” Through May 15.
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1351 Kings Highway, SUGAR LOAF 469-2287. “Inside and Out.” Show of recent collages by Fran B. Cox. Through May 14.
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MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL ROUTE 22, AMENIA 373-8557 ext. 246. “Evoking Spirit: 26th Annual Regional Artists Show.” May 1-June 5. Kentucky Derby celebration Saturday, May 1, 4:30pm-8pm.
NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “Upstate II.” Highlighting the work of four accomplished artists who live or work in the area, but who have had limited regional exposure. May 1-June 5. Opening Saturday, May 1, 6pm-8pm.
THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. “Patrick Casey: Oil Paintings.” May 2-June 2. Opening Sunday, May 2, 3pm-5pm.
ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Input/Output: 6th Annual Student/Faculty Art Exhibition.” Through May 3.
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SEVEN21 GALLERY 721 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 331-7956. “Breaking Down the Walls.� Art by young people facing challenges: physical, mental, or environmental. May 1-31. Opening Saturday, May 1, 5pm-8pm.
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TILLOU GALLERY 39 WEST STREET, LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT (860) 567-9693. “John Yerger: Master of Trompe L’oeil.� Trompe L’oeil paintings of American and European masters. May 22-July 12. Opening Friday, May 21, 6pm-9pm.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Landscapes.� Features landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes and nature-scapes. May 7-30. Opening Saturday, May 8, 6pm-8pm.
TWISTED SOUL 442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 705-5381. “Photography Hannah Brenner-Leonard, Michelle Labriola and Richard Solinger.� Through June 12.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “Flower Power.� Through June 13.
UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Heinz & Elizabeth Meng Wildlife Gallery Exhibit.� May 2-31. Opening Sunday, May 2, 4pm-6pm.
VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “Woodwork by James McColgan.� Through May 2.
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THE WEST POINT CLASS OF 1929 GALLERY AT EISENHOWER HALL 655 PITCHER ROAD, WEST POINT www.hudsonhighlandsphotoworkshop.org. “Visual Escapes.� Juried exhibition of member photographs. Through June 5.
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WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Reginald Wilson Exhibition.� Through May 1.
THE WORKING GALLERY 11-13 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK 532-6915. “Sakura in the Wind.� Recent images from Japan by photographer Joan Lonergan. May 1-31. Opening Saturday, May 1, 5pm-7pm.
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~The Voices of Glory~ Saturday, June 12~ 8:00pm Rhinbeck High School, Rhinebeck Sunday, June 13~ 3:00pm New Hackensack Reformed Church, Wappingers Falls www.rhinebeckchoralclub.org
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a higher VOICE Dawn Upshaw
The angelic voices refresh our spirits so that everything awakens with joy. —“Das himmlische Leben” (“The Heavenly Life”), from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Gustav Mahler 52 music ChronograM 5/10
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t’s the final movement of Mahler’s fourth symphony, the last in the composer’s folk poetry-inspired “Wunderhorn” series. By this point, the work—performed this Easter afternoon by the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra under Leon Botstein—has already traveled from the blooming, budlike innocence of the sleighbells that open its first movement and through the devilish “death dance” scherzo and funereal procession of, respectively, its second and third. As the music bucolicly reawakens and starts to swell to peaks of Earth-shattering triumphance, matching the glorious weather outside the shimmering Fisher Center, soprano Dawn Upshaw is about to make her own ascension. Standing center stage, resplendent in a full-length red silk coat, Upshaw begins to sing “Das himmlische Leben,” the song from which the whole of the symphony springs. Eyes closed, blissfully lost in the strings, tympani, and woodwinds behind her, she delivers, in the original German, the piece’s idyllic, childlike impressions of a saintly feast. As her voice rises to soar above the crescendo, it fills the cavernous hall and pierces the towering ceiling, on its way to heaven itself. Language barrier be damned, the sheer delight of the song’s fairytale imagery—as well as the pleasure and privilege the singer derives from performing it—is unmistakable, intoxicating, liberating. As per her reputation, Upshaw is clearly feeling the text, connecting with the composer’s intended emotion and allowing it to flow through her singularly divine instrument. At the close of the recital the audience is on its feet, its applause thunderous. Repeated shouts of “Bravo!” puncture the mounting din.When the diva returns with the student orchestra for a bow, a colorful bouquet is placed in her outstretched arms. She’s beaming. Spring is clearly in the air, and one can’t help but feel Upshaw helped put it there. “The orchestra did such a beautiful job,” Upshaw says the following evening, characteristically downplaying her own role and gushing with pride in the students. “To stand with young people playing a masterpiece like that for the first time on stage is just extraordinary, to experience the joy they’re feeling. But I do love singing Mahler’s fourth. I also recently performed it with David Zinman and the [Zurich-based] Tonehalle Orchestra, and I did it a lot at the beginning of my career.” And for a singer’s career, Upshaw’s is as breathtaking as they come—so take a deep one: Since her professional start with the Metropolitan Opera in 1984 she’s made nearly 300 appearances with the company; has performed in innumerable acclaimed recitals and in leading opera roles across Europe and the US, including several at Carnegie Hall; and collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, Met director James Levine, conductor Sir Simon Rattle, conductorcomposer Esa-Pekka Salonen, and pianist Richard Goode. She’s had numerous operas created specifically for her, such as John Harbison’s “The Great Gatsby,” John Adams’s “El Niño,” and Kaija Saariaho’s Grawmeyer Award-winning “La Passion de Simone.” She was a guest of President Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton on NBC’s “Christmas at the White House” and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. Known for her championing of works by contemporary composers like Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Osvaldo Golijov, and others, she is also a four-time Grammy winner who has appeared on over 50 recordings, including Henryk Gorecki’s million-selling Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993, Nonesuch Records). So obviously, then, her becoming a world-renowned soprano can only be the grand fulfillment of a lifelong mission. She must’ve been drawn to classical music at an early age, been groomed for the position like some thoroughbred Russian athlete. “Not at all!” says a bemused Upshaw, who was raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Forest, Illinois. “I grew up with folk music. My father played guitar and sang, and both my parents were active in the civil rights movement. We sang Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger songs, marched, organized community events. I didn’t want to have anything to do with classical music or opera. It was stiff museum music to me, until I really realized what the music was capable of expressing emotionally. Which was around the time I’d really started studying.” Her studies began with high school singing, and were followed by her graduating from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1982, which led her to the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied under Ellen Faull. Further courses with Jan DeGaetani at Colorado’s Aspen School of Music cemented her passion for
modern composers, and her grand arrival ultimately came with the winning of 1984’s Young Concert Artist Auditions and a subsequent invitation by James Levine to join the Metropolitan Opera Studio. “[The invite] was like a golden egg dropping in my lap,” recalls the singer, who also won the prestigious Walter M. Naumberg Competition the following year. After a few minor operatic roles, she gave her first professional recital at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall (where the aforementioned Bard concert was reprised on April 10), which brought unanimous raves from critics and concertgoers alike. From there her star turns in major operas came with blinding speed: Ann Truelove in Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” Mélisande in Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande,” both Blanche and Constance in Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmelites,” the Angel in Messiaen’s “St. Francoise d’Assise,” and many others. Exalted for her Mozart renditions, Upshaw, 48, is also one of the few artists to have performed the leading roles in all the composer’s foremost operas: Pamina in “The Magic Flute,” Ilia in “Idomeneo,” Susanna in “The Marriage of Figaro,” and Despina in “Cosi fan tutte.” In recent years, however, Upshaw has backed away from opera. “I don’t really think of myself primarly as an opera singer,” she says. “In any given season now, when I’m singing it’s more recitals or chamber pieces. Opera is much more consuming than I can handle these days—I have a family with two kids, one in high school and the other in college. And then there’s the teaching.” The teaching. In addition to serving on the faculty of Tanglewood Music Center, Upshaw is artistic director of Bard’s esteemed Graduate Vocal Arts Program, a curriculum the institution tapped her to design and conceive in 2006 and from which she plainly gets unbounded satisfaction. “I’m supposed to be teaching [the students], but so much of the time they inspire me,” Upshaw says. “To work with a young singer who isn’t jaded, who comes to the music with awe and respect and the desire to express his or her self is just a stunning experience. It makes me value things that I hadn’t valued before, and reminds me of why I became a singer in the first place.” “[Upshaw] is very warm, very direct, as a teacher, which is unusually wonderful,” says Mary Bonhag, a second-year student soprano. “I feel very blessed to study with someone who’s such an international success but who’s also so clearly present in her teaching.” Likewise enamored is Leon Botstein, Bard’s president and the principal conductor and music director of the American Symphony and Jerusalem Symphony orchestras. “We’re extremely fortunate to have Dawn, one of the most important and spectacular sopranos of her generation, working with our graduate vocal arts students,” Botstein says. “Her design for the program was visionary, and her ongoing dedication to her students is unmatched. In addition, we all have the great pleasure of working with her and hearing her sing on a regular basis.” But despite the glorious heights she’s reached in both the concert hall and the classroom, Upshaw was dealt a trying blow in 2006 when she was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. “That certainly put things in perspective,” recalls the singer, who was treated for the disease and is now in remission. “It was a crazy time but it was also good in a sense, because it made me look twice at the day-to-day choices I was making.” The following year, however, she was catapulted back above the stratosphere when she received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, making her the first vocal artist to attain the organization’s vaunted “genius grant.” Vindication, perhaps? “That’s interesting, I hadn’t really thought of it like that,” Upshaw ponders. “I don’t really think of those two things together, but I see what you mean. [The MacArthur grant] was certainly a wonderful thing to receive—especially after all of that with the cancer, you’re right. It was an incredibly deep, very meaningful gesture, and I’m very honored that the foundation picked me.” What does she say to listeners—especially the pop-loving younger ones— who hold the view about the classical repertoire that she herself once held, that it’s merely “stiff museum music”? “I’d ask them to leave themselves open to being moved by something they may not think could move them, to allow themselves to be enlightened,” says Upshaw. “I get that from listening to Miles Davis or Steely Dan, and I also get it from listening to Mahler. I want people to feel connected to each other through this music—to feel moved, feel something greater that ultimately changes them like it changed me. To reach that level of transcendence.” 5/10 ChronograM music 53
nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
The Fighting McKenzies May 2. Helmed by singer-songwriter Wayne Montecalvo and featuring Dog on Fleas bassist John Hughes and multi-instrumentalist Dean Jones (see our review of Jones’s new album, Rock Paper Scissors, on page 55), roots unit the Fighting McKenzies were beloved mainstays of the local scene some years back. To help offset mounting medical costs incurred by founding member John Wirtz, the band is reuniting for this rare show at the Rosendale Cafe. (Irish folkie John Doyle visits May 1; bluesman Roy Bookbinder rambles in May 14.) 7pm. $20. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; www.rosendalecafe.com.
Gabriele Tranchina May 14. Multilingual jazz singer Gabriele Tranchina has been described as “a Germanborn, Parisian chanteuse with Brazilian stylings; a cross between Ute Lemper, Mireille Mathieu, and Tania Maria.” Tranchina’s new full-length, A Song of Love’s Color (Jazzheads Records), which is being feted with this release party at Coquito, features her husband, pianist Joe Vincent Tranchina, and Latin percussion legend Bobby Sanabria. Hopefully the bistro ordered an extra supply of drink umbrellas to fit the tropical vibe of this diva’s breezy tunes. (All-female Latin outfit CoCoMaMa spices it up May 15.) Call for time and ticket price. Warwick. (845) 544-2790; www.coquitony.com.
Adam Arcuragi May 15. One of today’s fastest-rising indie-folk/alt-country troubadours, Adam Arcuragi has lately been reeling in addicted fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Now on the road plugging I Am Become Joy (High Two Records, 2010), his winningly ramshackle sophomore disc, Arcuragi hits the congenial, New York Times-approved Falcon to hold court for the plaid-shirted faithful. Lovers of Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and Andrew Bird should make reservations now. Frozen Decree opens. (Drummer Winard Harper performs May 7; pianist Frank Kimbrough plays May 28.) 6pm. $10 donation requested. Marlboro. (845) 236-7970; www.liveatthefalcon.com.
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NEXUS May 29. Since its 1971 debut all-percussion ensemble NEXUS has beat a singular path through the contemporary musical landscape, collaborating with Steve Reich, the Kronos Quartet, the Canadian Brass, and others while also utilizing improvisation and referencing 1920s ragtime. For this evening at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, the band delivers a set of the latter and accompanies Teinosuke Kinugasa’s 1926 silent film A Page of Madness. (Happy Traum hosts the Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration May 22; jazz singer Betty McDonald swings May 1.) Call for time. $20, 15. Woodstock. (845) 679-2079; www.woodstockguild.org. the new pornographers play bearsville theater on may 6.
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cd reviews Ramblin Jug Stompers Hobo Nickel (Rambling jug stompers, 2009)
Next time you’re stuck in a traffic jam or suffering a hard-drive meltdown, consider soothing yourself via Hobo Nickel, the sophomore release from the Capital District’s own brazenly low-tech string band, the Ramblin Jug Stompers. AutoTune? They don’t need no stinkin’ AutoTune! The quartet’s exuberantly soulful, all-acoustic throwdown features odes both classic and obscure, each bristling with low-down energy that could be mustered only by the gleefully grizzled. Hobo Nickel is a bold throwback, conjuring a yester-world of hobo jungles, cakewalks, and grimy pals meetin’ ’round the burn barrel. Regardless of how difficult times may actually have been for the protagonists of these tunes, the Stompers make it all sound really fun. Band members Cousin Clyde, Mister Eck (aka Chronogram’s Michael Eck), Bowtie, and Wild Bill come to the table from varying worlds of punk, jazz, folk, and theater, and the broad range of experience makes for string band music with a few curveballs. In addition to acoustic guitar, banjo, jug, washboard, kazoo, and mandolin, these mischievous geezers are apt to throw in a manual typewriter and a resonator ukulele, as on the hilarious “My Eggs Don’t Taste the Same without You.” While the Stompers do love to incite folks to pound the floorboards, the foursome also possess impressive restraint and delicacy, as evidenced on “Blue Diamond Mines” and the lovely hobo requiem “Frypan Jack Enters Heaven.” The romance of riding the rails may only be fantasy, but with the Ramblin Jug Stompers leading the way, few could resist a stroll to the train yard. www.jugstompers.com. —Robert Burke Warren
Sharon Klein The Way Back Home
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An enthrallment with world cultures, travel, and indigenous music has coerced Sharon Klein into stepping away from the commercial music world to arrange, record, and produce this heartfelt, thoughtprovoking, 11-track debut CD. She’s adept in capturing the heartache of the human race in songs brimming with imagery—a pensive day in Palestine, an imaginary life in Mexico, a war-ravaged Afghanistan, a lullaby to the dearly departed, the wonder of wanderlust as America tugs her back. Recorded in Tel Aviv, Woodstock, and Newburgh, The Way Back Home employs such local lights as Todd Guidice, Ross Rice, Bob Dylan/Levon Helm sideman Larry Campbell, and four-time Grammy Award-winning Glen Velez while introducing numerous exotic, acoustic instruments that would be unfamiliar to the average listener—riqq, baglama, zarb, cajone. Klein commands various guitars and works all vocals, sometimes layering her voice into a compelling choir. Musically mellow, Klein’s folky, singer-songwriter mode may appeal to fans of Paula Cole or Bar Scott; however, her sound is uniquely her own. Though her words are overwhelmingly melancholy, the music strays from the somber. Most of these tunes are upbeat—from the jazzy stylings of “Not Far Away” and the Celtic sound of the instrumental “Winter Light” to the Middle Eastern tinges of “Noura” and “City of Refuge.” Klein comes full circle as the final, title track sees her safely returned to her Hudson Valley home. www.sharonkleinmusic.com. —Sharon Nichols
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This is the second solo venture for Dean Jones of fave local kids’ band Dog on Fleas. Calling it a solo album, however, is somewhat misleading, since it also features appearances from members of Earmight and the Felice Brothers, as well as Uncle Rock (another local children’s hero of song), Jones’s Dog on Fleas band mate John Hughes, and too many others to mention in this small space. Although kidfriendly (it’s in Jones’s bones), this is an adult outing—but one you and your two-year-old can both dance to with wild abandon while giggling at the rhymes. A most striking and wonderful surprise is that six different people sing lead, and, as luck (or skill) would have it, Jones has a knack for picking the right tone for the tune. In all, 13 vocalists, 19 musicians, 23 instruments, and 18 songs comprise just as many influences of distinct styles of provincial rock ’n’ roll. Mr. Jones’s other knack? Every song is easy of flow and familiarity—song one: a gypsy carnival; song two: a New Orleans death march (but fun); song three: a speakeasy shuffle; song four: Dylan with a smile. From the must-hears of a pirate shanty or a hillbilly stomp to the “Goldfinger”-esque “Poison Ivy” to Uncle Rock in a spaghetti western, the record plays like a party for the ages, complete with excited preparty jitters to raucous dancing and drunken revelry, from bubbly convergences in the kitchen to a profound moment or two standing in line for the bathroom, from a surreal trip to the 7-Eleven for more beer to the final late-night-by-candle-light acoustic jam. www.nappersdelight.com. —Jason Broome
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hen I read a memoir, I’m looking for answers,” says Susan Richards. “How do you do life? I get a piece of the puzzle from each one I read.” The Bearsville resident’s third memoir, Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me in and Set Me Free (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), has some big horseshoes to fill: Richards’s 2006 debut Chosen By a Horse spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list. The story of her poignant relationship with a rescued racehorse named Lay Me Down, it was followed in 2008 by Chosen Forever. All this from a woman who didn’t give herself permission to write until age 45, when she took a workshop with Maureen Brady (“a saint”). Sitting in her sun-drenched study, surrounded by bookshelves, paintings, and pets— four mismatched dogs and a Siamese cat—Richards reflects that her father’s death offered “the freedom to do what I’d always wanted to do without fear of being ridiculed.” It was a hard-won independence. When Richards was five years old, her mother died of leukemia. Her alcoholic father literally fled, leaving his two shell-shocked children to fend for themselves until they were scooped up and sent to live with a series of wealthy but uncaring relatives. When Richards’s older brother was packed off to boarding school, her sole emotional anchor was a cantankerous pony she loved without measure. More than two decades later, Richards forged a healing bond with an equally unruly Morgan mare named Georgia; readers of Chosen By a Horse will remember her as the willful diva of Lay Me Down’s backyard herd. In Saddled, Richards circles back to tell Georgia’s story—and more of her own. “I have a visual image whenever I write a book,” she explains. “For Chosen By a Horse, the image was a cracked heart. That’s what I was writing about—how it got cracked, how it became whole again. Anything that didn’t pertain to that, I discarded.” For Saddled, the image was a horse walking down a path. “I spent the years between 30 and 40 getting sober,” Richards says. “Those were my biggest riding years. How I got and stayed sober was by doing that every day. When you have a passion for something outside yourself, it can save your ass.” Richards started drinking in college, to alleviate social anxiety. “Nobody was happier at happy hour than I. By my third glass of white wine the hangover was gone, the shyness was gone, and I was brilliant,” she writes in Chosen By a Horse. “I was pretty and guys liked me. It didn’t hurt that I was as hard to pick up as a beer nut. I drank and laughed, gave expert advice on subjects I knew nothing about, danced in my underwear, and hoped everyone noticed how smart I was.” This is vintage Richards: dry, self-effacing, and utterly frank. She brings the same clear-eyed honesty to the darker terrain of Saddled, which takes fearless inventory of a violent marriage that revolved around drinking, until the love of a horse prompted her to leave her husband and break the cycle. “One day my life was one thing, the next it was something else,” she says. “I felt like it was the first time I was really alive and aware. It was like being born. That sounds dramatic and hyperbolic, but I suspect a lot of alcoholics would describe it the same way—it’s like being reborn into a new person. And that came about because of Georgia. I knew I had to change, or I wouldn’t be able to keep her.” Richards initially resisted writing about alcoholism. But her editor tempted her with an advance, and she reluctantly swung herself into the saddle. “What I began to realize was that I could break it down into one ride at a time. I remembered that I used to get up every morning and ride, through having no job, then working as the editor of a local newspaper, then going back to school and becoming a social worker. I was becoming clearer as a human being, because I was sober, and I was becoming closer and closer to this animal. So, I thought, I’ll write about that.” She does, with an emotional candor she learned from her peers. “There are probably few places on earth where uncensored thoughts and feelings flow more freely than at an AA meeting,” she writes in Saddled. For someone who once “would have smiled through a stroke,” telling the unvarnished truth was both frightening and liberating. Attentive readers may notice a few discrepancies between books. In Chosen By a Horse, Richards’s abusive ex-husband was a tennis pro living in Vermont. In Saddled, he’s a former Olympic ski racer, and their not-so-dream house is in the Adirondacks. “He was still alive when I wrote Chosen By a Horse, so I had to fictionalize,” Richards explains. “It was a privacy issue from a scary man.”
It wasn’t an issue the author had ever expected to face. Inspired by Brady’s class, she completed three novels, two of which she tried to publish. Though agents enthused over her work, none of them landed a sale. “I had been rejected for so many years, it was crazy depressing,” Richards admits. After hearing David Sedaris perform his autobiographical essays at Harvard, she decided to write something closer to home. Ninety days later, she’d completed a draft of Chosen By a Horse. “I thought it was purely a journaling project. I absolutely didn’t believe there was a living person on Earth who wanted to read about anything that happened to Susan Richards,” she asserts. Acclaimed memoirist Laura Shaine Cunningham helped her edit the manuscript for submission. “She was an angel, so generous,” Richards recalls. “She was the first person to say ‘This is commercial, this can sell.’” New Paltz-based agent Helen Zimmermann agreed.While meeting a SoHo Press editor about another project, Zimmermann mentioned that she’d just read a manuscript that made her cry. The editor said, “Send me that.” SoHo’s advance for Chosen By a Horse was tiny, but “it felt huge to me,” says Richards. Her labor of love became the little memoir that could, meriting a Book Sense and Barnes & Noble Discover selection and vaulting onto the Times bestseller list. “I still can’t believe it,” Richards marvels. But publication was just the beginning of her late-blooming Cinderella story. After a reading to benefit the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, a silver-haired man approached Richards, taking her face in his hands and praising her courage. He was Magnum photojournalist Dennis Stock, whose iconic images include James Dean on a misty Times Square and Louis Armstrong relaxing backstage. Their stop-and-go book-tour romance is the heart of Richards’s second memoir, Chosen Forever. Richards was flattered but wary as Stock wooed her patiently, finally winning her heart. They were married in 2006, in the art-filled living room of their persimmon-orange Bearsville home. In a work of fiction, this might be the happilyever-after ending, but life was less generous. Twenty years Richards’s senior, Stock had numerous medical issues, and late in 2009, a dormant cancer reemerged in inoperable form. He died on January 12 in Sarasota, Florida, the couple’s second home. “Even though we were not together very long, he was such a huge part of my life. I’m not sure what it’s like living without Dennis yet,” Richards says simply. “I can take a nice drive with a friend, go for a walk with the dogs. But when I think about it, it doesn’t feel real yet. It doesn’t feel like I’m really living my life. My life is as Dennis Stock’s wife, and doing things with him and for him.” Richards returned from Sarasota in February for the Woodstock Writers Festival, which she helped organize with co-founders Cunningham, Martha Frankel, and Abigail Thomas. “It was one of the most wonderful events I’ve ever participated in as a writer,” she says. “I went to nearly every event—I was as much a spectator as a participant. I loved Susan Orlean, Ruth Reichl, Shalom Auslander. I loved everything about it, and I hope we do it every year forever.” Richards is currently “at the very beginning stages” of writing a novel. “It’s not in first person. Yippee!” she exults. She’s also written 100 pages of a new memoir, about caring for her husband during his final illness. “It was the beginning of the end, but I didn’t know that when I started. It was just about dealing with this very scary medical thing, the daily minutiae.” Richards is understandably reluctant to revisit those pages. “It’s too soon,” she says bluntly. “We were expecting a different ending.” Her book tour for Saddled kicks off in Florida and meanders up the East Coast, ending in the Hudson Valley. She looks forward to reuniting with her dogs, who are staying with a housesitter while she’s on tour. But the first thing the author will see when she walks through her door is Georgia’s saddle, displayed like a sculpture in the entry hall.The tempestuous Morgan mare died in 2003, and Richards kept another horse for a year after that. She has not lived with horses since. Does she miss it? “Yes and no. There’s a freedom in not having to get up and feed somebody twice a day, every day. But I talk about my horses all the time.” Richards smiles, quoting a line from one of her early novels: “Everything I know about people, I learned from a horse.” Susan Richards will read at the Kingston Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, May 25 at 7pm and at the Book Cove in Pawling on Thursday, June 3 at 7pm. 5/10 ChronograM books 57
SHORT TAKES Whether you celebrate International Workers Day or frolic around the Beltane maypole, be sure your May merriment includes local author events, such as the May 15 Millbrook Book Festival (www.millbrookbookfestival.org) and these upcoming readings. Lost
Atypical: Life with Asperger’s in 20 1/3 Chapters Jesse A. Saperstein
Penguin Press, 2010, $14
Alice Lichtenstein Simon & Schuster, 2010, $24
An Alzheimer’s patient wanders off into a frigid landscape, braiding the lives of his guilt-stricken wife, a burdened search and rescue worker, and the mute, troubled boy in his foster care. Lichtenstein’s graceful novel shifts perspectives over the course of a tension-filled weekend, evolving as inexorably as winter weather. Reading at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, 5/6 at 7:30pm. Tony’s World Barry Wallenstein Birch Brook Press, 2009, $16
Wallenstein’s sixth collection is a sequence of urban-hipster persona poems, animated from within and without. His jazz-inflected rhythms skitter and riff: “he’s got plenty cashmere / suede and silk / money in bank / plenty things a jumble / no names any longer / he has no cow.” Reading with Alison Koffler at Woodstock Poetry Society, Town Hall, 5/8 at 2pm. The Sound of Hope: Recognizing, Coping with, and Treating Your Child’s Auditory Processing Disorder Lois Kam Heymann, MA CCC-SLP, foreword by Rosie O’Donnell Ballantine Books, 2010, $25
If a child can hear but not listen and understand, how can he learn? Speech and language pathologist and SUNY New Paltz professor Heymann unlocks the mysterious, often misdiagnosed condition of Auditory Processing Disorder, offering guidance and exercises that help strengthen listening skills. Reading at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, 5/14 at 7:30pm. Bang Ditto Amber Tamblyn Manic D Press, 2009, $16.00
Actress/writer Tamblyn’s second collection bristles with spiky, intelligent life, whether she’s exploring INT. – AMBER’S BRAIN in screenplay format (“Ice Cube Language and Dracula Boy”), eulogizing Nancy Spungen (“Harlequin”), or poison-penning a book dedication to Ethan Coen. Reading with Jeffrey McDaniel, Sunset Reading Series, Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring, 5/16 at 4pm. the Seven-Year Bitch Jennifer Belle Riverhead Books, 2010, $25.95
Belle’s bestselling urban chick-lit heads upstate with this outrageous tale of a pregnant, fortyish former hedge funder who bitches all the way to her detested second home in Krumville, even as she’s pursued by an amorous billionaire. Shadows of a more serious novel flit below this story’s surface like sharks. Reading at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, 6/10 at 7:30pm. Brazilian Sexy: Secrets to Living a Gorgeous and Confident Life Janea Padilha with Martha Frankel Perigee, 2010, $19.95
Inimitable celebrity interviewer and Woodstock Film Festival maven Frankel mind-melds with waxer-to-thestars Padilha to create this breezy, affirmative guide to embracing life, love, and the perfect bikini line. Benefit auction of autographed book and beauty gift basket ends 6/5; bid at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/ auction/detail.php?id=214.
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Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing. —Lou Reed
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magine, for a moment, the confounding nature of honesty: from earliest childhood, we each learn that we must mitigate our truest instincts, desires, and impulses, if we are to operate harmoniously within the proscribed constructs of society. To varying degrees, we constantly grapple with balancing the realization of our innermost selves with the necessary compromises required to make it through a given day without incident. In his autobiographical ramble Atypical, Hudson Valley native Jesse Saperstein, who is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, offers a startling window into a world in which that premise simply does not make sense. Saperstein’s book is a compelling new piece in the public forum which continues to shed light on the spectrum of Autism, a wide-ranging neural development disorder; his work falls in step with this year’s acclaimed HBO biopic Temple Grandin, about the life and achievements of the autistic Colorado State University professor. Saperstein lends perspective on the “mildest” end of that spectrum, Asperger’s Syndrome—which, due to its comparative subtleties, can prove an even more insidious challenge to those who contend with it. Growing up in a middle-class Jewish family, Jesse Saperstein was not availed of special programs—he attended Poughkeepsie’s Arlington High School, and went on to Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York—and his unshielded interaction within the “neurotypical” community elicits a picture of sequestered rage, solitary joys, and often painful introspection. Saperstein’s prose spills into the crevices of our neurotypical preconceptions, inviting the reader to climb into the author’s mind and confront the barrage of constant and specific information that is indicative of Asperger’s, as well as the frustration of being consistently misunderstood. The book is a tumbling ride that visits many stations: the virtues of Halloween or the plotline of “Desperate Housewives” may appear at any given moment. To be sure, staying on Saperstein’s train of consciousness is not for the weak of will, but it is also not without many rewards. At times, Saperstein’s unique insights into American Jewish Boy culture are reminiscent of a young Philip Roth; at others, his staunch, somber appeals for a more accepting society are as lucid and inspiring as James Baldwin’s. Most poignant, though, is his indefatigable search for self-knowledge as he seeks admission and acceptance in a world that does not play by his brutally honest rules. Pondering the elusive nature of empathy, Saperstein reflects plaintively: “Maybe Asperger’s syndrome is a euphemism for being an unempathetic asshole who makes a deliberate effort to shirk societal norms.... The shame sometimes grows so intense that I start to let people convince me that I deserve to be feared or hated.” Saperstein never gives up, though, and his life continues to be a testament to his determination. After college, where he was a resident advisor for the AIDS Awareness dormitory, Saperstein went on to volunteer at the Joey DiPaulo AIDS Foundation’s Camp TLC (“Teens Living a Challenge”; see www.jdaf.org); he was then inspired to hike all 2,174 miles of the Appalachian Trail to raise awareness and money for the foundation. He has continued as a public speaker, and now author, raising awareness not only of Asperger’s, but of the deeper common bonds of humanity. Jesse Saperstein will appear at the Millbrook Book Festival May 15 and at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, on May 22 at 7:30pm. —Gregory Schoenfeld
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our June issue is May 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
We’re gonna go to Disneyworld.
that was where you tore me open
It’s not another planet.
this is where i bleed
—Rubin Kirschner (5½ years)
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My Next Novel Poem My next novel will be more not less, except in the places where less is more My next novel will be that not this My next novel will erase all the anxious lines tattooed ’cross the breadth of this novel My next novel will take this novel out to lavish dinners and wait ’til this novel is plump and complacent Then my next novel will push this novel off a cliff, but no one will care about what happened to this novel ’cause they’ll be too busy reading my next novel. —Brendan Blowers
Idea Run at Arm, Number 3 i hated not hearing from under your hat thoughts as the late july days turned into this august off and counting on days summertime twenty with minutes ticking to the Friday which is yours but i know how it is or how it could be where only wisdom i thought the other day about that phrase you used-employed months before interconnectedness i still disagree don’t think the details mix or match no flix or lighter indeed individual hearing the world today late at night trying to escape being the apple that falls near the tree the tall talk over elections brought blue eyes to burning mind 60 poetry ChronograM 5/10
sober party, morning after we never met the girl that wanted to fly the woman that didn’t get to school her self to rule her shelf-space pace lace here’s hoping you have found something which leaves no doubt of your own alike none fingerprint of the soul they are dying everyday everywhere in every way most of us don’t second thought it won’t season that hell into our heaven and there’s no reason two one son or daughter gone into the water of this letter-poem-song could it be that i got something wrong should it be that in the end we are strangers angel rangers i don’t hockey yet i wanted to wish you well or wonderful in the hold on transition move and make that might be your presently mistake or not i love the idea of you i arm the run racing into the end of this entrance into the send of this e-mail.
We found them on a fence that we pass on our way to Los Angeles Dresses that tumble all the way to the dirt With sleeves that hug our wrists Under the skirts rage whirlwinds of flyaway dust That stick to our soap-smoothed legs And make us feel Like we should be in shower stalls right next to each other Laughing through the plastic walls Laughing as the sandstorms rise And douse our dresses And sting our thighs until we can no longer feel The cotton skirts that we never knew Flew up in the back when we ran —Lena Beckenstein
the man with Seashells The sun pours long light down the beach in torrent and the strand is wet. A man gestures and approaches me. He is on bare foot and holding a pair of shoes in his right hand, neatly dressed as if he stops here after a banquet or something else. He dips his hands into his pockets and brings out beautiful seashells he picks there, to ask me what I think. And as I tell him they’re very fine, a smile polished in the bright sunshine rolls over his face. He turns and leaves. Later that evening in the room, I picture the two of us, on this shore of unbridled marvels and slow time,
—Julio Peralta-Paulino
our words like those finer things people come here and look for, but never find.
Selling the Farm
—Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
Clouds have descended to lie with the valley. They rub their soft bellies on the budding grasses, lick boughs in the woodlands harbor the bush in moisture. The land delivers itself —supine giant limbs spread to sky to my eyes as I wake in the weeping wet, startled to have the vast spread of blue the green earth, laid out so, a moment—despite a future abandonment of meadow. —Amy White
—Lee Sloca
“Noche Triste,” my street.
Klanger and Din
Down the River
We part in the beginning and meet at the end of each day
Cousin Din made it known To Klanger his kin That his relative often Got under his skin.
We are rafting down the river, you and I, the brown river, too muddy to drink and too wet to plow, filled with grains of earth, Minnesota’s gift to Louisiana. It is far from clear which of us is Huck and which is Nigger Jim, but does it matter? We are two, rafting down together, past all the towns with the bright names as if the Word Giant had shaken them up in a dice box and scattered them on the land— Dubuque, Sabula, Muscatine, Oquawka, Pontoosuc, Nauvoo, Keokuk, Chautauqua, Kaskasia, Thebes, Cairo, and on downstream, wondering, you and I, where the raft will take us, whether we will run aground at Memphis, Helena, Vidalia, or Baton Rouge,
The rocky path behind the church and I where dogs shit in the shadows and dead pigeons lay wingless by the force of those who are “going places.” My glare shifts right and eye catches sight of two faces white-washed between the sun and the closed doors of timeless holy places. With frenzy they grip, grope and grasp one another for the last handful of promise eyeful of daylight as shadow creeps in.... The day ends in a sigh. Empty and hopeful are the church, the people, the path, and I Who part in the beginning and meet at the end of each day. —Jessica Lewandowski
Life Red blood, lots of blood. Soaking into the earth. When will it stop? When will people stop fighting? Blue flowers, lots of flowers. Joy, lots of joy. Love, lots of love. —Matteo Baratta-Senza (11 years)
Outlier Too early To taxis Cobbles, the street, Roosters Of Matagalpa city, The “Buenos Dias” paper boy Is no boy anymore. And so the repetition stave of nausea Myself, stands asleep on the balcony. —Tamas Panitz
So Din said to Klanger, “I’m jealous as hell ’cause I just make noises, You’re clear as a bell. “You clank and you cluck You bang and you drum You crash and you thunder Your noise is no hum. “You boom and you bluster You clink and you clachet You gong and you clangor “You make a great racket.” “No need to feel jealous.” Said Klanger to Din “For you are the power Where noises begin. “From beep to ka-boom From swish to ka-bish You make any noises You like or you wish. “You whiz and you whistle You babble and sigh You gurgle and giggle You moan and you cry. “So you are quite general And I’m very specific But both of us, yes, Make noises terrific!” —Anthony G. Herles
Romancing the Poem A pencil is pinched in the grip of a hand, his organs squeezed until he feels as if his heart is in his eraser and his intestines are in his lead. Each letter looped or straightened stubs his toes, drags his heels; each erasure balds his scalp in rough, uneven patches. When the line is finished he is dropped with a thud to the paper where he nurses a tremendous headache. The paper is none too pleased either: He’s a dull No. 2, heavy across her abdomen. —Anjie Seewer-Reynolds
or keep going to New Orleans to hear the glittering trumpets in Jackson Square, or even beyond, past Davant, Happy Jack, Venice, and on into the warm lapping Gulf, to lose ourselves among its waves and tarpons. But it is a good raft, and the sky is gold with sunlight, and we are rafting down the river together. —Sam Sackett
In The Evening I Out came his loneliness. Every evening he watched the sun set on a junk pile, Angry at the tears of rusted bed springs. Other directions were open to him. There were the fields the sun changed the shape of, Dancing yellow across them, The mountains the mist rose off, And on evenings before there was a storm, The leaves turning upward and white. Sure it would grow dark, But through other eyes It is a pleasure to watch rails as a train leaves them, And after it is dark, Even a sparrow’s wing can tear open the moonlight. II Remembering an event from childhood Made a mist like cataracts burn off into a radiance. Every morning, Before anyone else got there, His grandfather went down to the beach for a swim. There was a storm One night before a morning he went with his grandfather. The waves crowded the sand with dead fish And dead fish floated on top of the water. Their skins were iridescent and their eyes were flat in the sunlight. His grandfather went into the water and swam. Then he turned around and waved for him to come in. At first he walked with his arms raised above his head; He didn’t want dead fish to touch any part of him. He looked at his grandfather who was still smiling And slowly lifted his feet Until he was swimming through dead fish. —Dan Stephen Krauss 5/10 ChronograM poetry 61
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nto the windows of a second-floor apartment on the east end of Main Street steams the smell of late-winter newness off Mount Beacon. One of Beacon’s newest artists, Mollie McKinley, espouses her love of the Hudson Valley’s landscape. Through the lens of a Bolex H-16, she hopes to capture it while filming Lovefish, a film “about the mysteries of the unconscious mind, and the mysterious nature of human existence.” She states, “The ancient lingering in the Hudson Valley makes for a tonal groundwork rich in underlying mystery. The Hudson River is where the film’s dream-animal first appears. At the film’s climax, the tangled night woods of the Hudson Valley pull the main characters in by an unseen force, thereby transforming them before depositing them back into the hands of civilization. The landscape provides the materials and environment for cathartic transformation.” McKinley is not native to the Hudson Valley but spent many years soaking in its glamour while attending Bard College. After graduation and several years in New York City, she has come to Beacon for the best of city and country. Naomi Sachs, a landscape architect active in the preservation of Beacon’s natural resources, characterizes Beacon’s duality: “Not many places offer the convenience of a city while being so immersed in nature. For most of us who live here, it’s an easy and often walkable distance to hike, kayak, cycle, sail, fish, garden, and play in the woods.” Sachs is alluding to Beacon’s wealth of natural resources: its location on the Hudson River; the luscious, powerful Fishkill Creek that races to meet the river; and Mount Beacon, so close that it feels like the protective, gentle giant prevalent in fairy tales. The convenience Sachs mentions is aided by Main Street, providing a scenic thread from river to mountain. As Main Street travels west, it encounters mountain and creek in an area that could be called the Falls District, a term coined by Sai Corson, owner of the neighborhoods’
new Superfood Citizen Cafe, a raw food eatery. The smell of these bodies colliding wafts through McKinley’s windows at night while she sleeps. In an ideal environment for a resident of her temperament, she states, “Space, landscape, and atmospheric tone are crucial in all of my work. The setting is not a passive backdrop; it is a character in its own right, with an agenda, a means of communication and history.” It is similar sentiment that has attracted enterprise to the Falls District. Early commercial pioneers of the area’s renaissance include Sukhothai Restaurant, Salon Arje, Moxie Salon, and Jacqueline Weissner of the boutique Jacqueline, who also organizes the city’s annual hat parade in June. (Beacon was once known as “the hat making capital of the world.”) Some newcomers offer sensual experience as instinctual response to the aesthetic revelry of the neighborhood. Seed to Fruit sells exquisite arrangements of locally grown flowers. Tas Kafe beckons you to drink in Haiti through the sweet, smooth taste of its coffee. Some outliers provide even further appreciation of the setting’s natural features as they explore organic form. Right before Main Street curves, one can walk 20 paces down Tioronda Avenue to Art House Gallery & Studio. This cottage is the studio, home, and retail space of artists Chip Schwartz and Lynda Curry. At the other end of the District, down an unexplored section of Main Street, woodworker Jessica Wickham creates one-of-a-kind dining and conference tables from locally sourced trees. Another attraction to the neighborhood is the shells of industry along the creek. One source of unexpected healing has arisen in one of Beacon’s most creative realtors, Charlotte Guernsey, owner of Gatehouse Realty, who loves “dreaming of what things could be.” With a background in fine art, Guernsey lends her discerning eye to finding loving custodians for some of the city’s foremost properties. This includes the highly anticipated Roundhouse project, which is a rehabilitation of the first lawnmower fac5/10 ChronograM beacon 63
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tory in the US. Overlooking the falls and seated on East Main Street, it is planned as a boutique hotel, restaurant, bar, event space, and spa with properties adjoining to be live/work condos. Guernsey is excited that the project will be LEED-certified and will provide electricity to the hotel through hydroelectric power from the falls. Supportive Space Erica Hauser, a 2004 transplant to Beacon from the Big Apple paints cityscapes and rural settings with the pronounced stillness of the moment. Hauser’s tendency toward prolonged experience could explain why she has grown fond of Beacon’s pace. She notes the constant rush of life in New York City, remembering how she could know someone for years and never see where they live. In contrast, Hauser points to Beacon’s environment as conducive to friendship through more spontaneous interaction. Such interaction can occur when the line between private and public blurs. A current Beacon instance of such is School of Jellyfish, envisioned by Lily Zand and her husband, Oliver Schaper. Both accomplished architects, they came to love Beacon after Schaper was commissioned to design the new Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries building at Denning’s Point. They decided to establish the “village square concept” in nonprofit café form, serving homemade food and chocolate, espresso, performing arts, and free advice on architecture and permaculture. According to Zand, “Architects study amoebic structure and jellyfish for their sustainable organizing abilities.” In an attempt to imitate nonhierarchal jellyfish society, wherein each individual depends on its surroundings for form and survival, Zand hopes to encourage dialog and compassion among patrons. It is while helping out at Jellyfish that Erica Hauser has found a taste of that typical Beacon support. She noted a conversation that flared up one day when a group of mature Beacon natives wandered in.They reminisced on the way Beacon used to bustle and discussed how it bustles now.They argued over which bakery or furniture store on Main Street was best and seemed grateful at the opportunity to sit, discuss, and remember. Mixing mature and young, newcomer and native, is a form of union that allows community to flourish. Another such instance occurs at the Martin Luther King Cultural Center. For 40 years, the center has provided local seniors with services like
door-to-door rides to health care, Beacon Free Press delivery, and hot, nutritious meals. It is a resource that Executive Director Dot Paulin calls “a way to help the senior population remain part of society.” In 1993, then-concerned citizen Paulin discovered the center had lost its funding. In the midst of her retirement from IBM, she decided to head up the center’s rebirth and enacted the youth program that still creates avenue for teens and children to enter society in a positive manner. The center is in the process of moving to a new facility, located at the Parish House of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The building has a spacious kitchen with tall ceilings and windows and two large iron ranges.The gym shines with large, triangular windows on three sides, suitable not only for sports but banquet dinners and theater performances. Not only a physical change, the center’s expansion will also mean a conscious blending of the center’s two target populations. For instance, a Circle of Life Chorus is now being proposed that will allow participants of all ages. Paulin also enthusiastically welcomes a connection with the art scene of Beacon, an idea born in 2000 when artist Nestor Madalengoitia led MLK youth in a mural painting of the old Beacon-Newburgh Ferry at the corner of Main and Chestnut. Paulin hopes for similar, future engagement in saying, “We have enough artists in Beacon that if each gave an hour or two a month, we could really have a real community connection.” River Music On an early spring evening music swells on the patio of the Bank Square Coffeehouse, situated at the very end of Main Street as it meets 9D, allowing sound to carry over the lands leading to the Hudson and beyond. On Tuesday evenings, the cafe hosts an open mike and always attentive in the crowd is Miss Vickie. Offering nurturing music instruction in an intimate, nearby storefront, Miss Vickie is lovingly conjuring a music scene on the west side of Beacon with friend Tom Joyce, a longtime Beacon resident who emcees the open mike. The café is the starting place for what Vickie hopes to expand to summer music events on a well-used empty lot further down Main Street. The seeds of music being cultivated on the west end are a preview of other music destinations, including Chill Wine Bar’s Saturday night jazz series and Max’s on Main’s 5/10 ChronograM beacon 65
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local music shows in its vibrant social setting. On the east end, a little thing called Local 845 has also been born. Stephen Clair, long-time touring musician and founder of Local 845, became an organizing music guru for Beacon after he and his family left Brooklyn. The Local 845 brand of music occurs in the places like the high-ceilinged, intimate Howland Cultural Center (listed on the National Historic Register), suited for both classical voices and a foot-stomping, washboard-playing jug band. At The Piggy Bank, acts like Brooklyn-based Milton sing out evenly textured thunder while local goddess Margaret McDuffie sings listeners back down with her opalescent waterfall. Zuzu’s Leaf & Bean is also a vital source, allowing hipsters and families alike to enjoy anywhere from gypsy hardcore to transcendental techno-jazz. The Spire Studios artists complex on the west end commands attentive reverence in a space reminiscent of a Brooklyn-style industrial loft. The fecundity of music on any given weekend night transforms Main Street into what freelance PR consultant and Beacon newcomer Summer Hixson calls a “bustling little circuit.” She describes the excitement of being at an art opening, aware that soon she’ll have to leave for shows playing simultaneously. Hixson is the PR arm of a highpowered volunteer team that is currently working on the inaugural Beacon Riverfest. This “American Folk Rock Festival” is the brainchild of Local 845 and will fill Riverfront Park on June 26. Although the festival will include headlining acts from outside Beacon—including The Fleshtones, Tracy Bonham, and Yarn—the goal of the event is to funnel the building energy behind Beacon’s own music scene. Both Clair and Hixson agree that the fest is a community effort. Clair has partnered with the City of Beacon, Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA), Cold Spring Sound, WAMC, WKZE, and a collective of area musicians raising money through benefit concerts. Clair professes that part of the excitement in planning involves the insanity of trying to create something from scratch. In a recent plea for monetary help, he says of a fundraising breakfast hosted at his home, “That pancake party Jennifer and I held in our home clinched it. Knee-deep in maple syrup, borrowed griddles, and blown circuits, we began to realize that, with the support of such a great community, we were going to make this happen.”
Creativity Is Contagious Beacon’s art scene has erupted and has now coalesced into varying layers of public involvement, aided by Second Saturday events. On the second Saturday of each month, galleries host opening receptions and many shops stay open late. This is one project of BACA, a blanket organization of artists, galleries, retail businesses, and arts supporters. For the art spectator, Beacon’s supply is vast and ranges from the local galleries to public installations to the region’s finest to world-class exhibition at Dia:Beacon. But creativity is contagious and its encouragement makes Beacon more than a string of art galleries. Under the auspices of the city’s diverse supply of retailers, residents are beckoned to active participation. Clay, Wood, and Cotton offers all-handmade, often local items for the home. Riverwinds Gallery sells the work of Beacon and Hudson Valley artists and artisans. Echo offers Allyson Vermeulen designs, a local seamstress now selling 60s-style vintage dresses using top hat and mushroom prints. Paper Presence sells many locally sourced, eco-friendly stationary items and is where Lydia Lynch supports a growing rebellion to re-establish the old-fashioned handwritten note as a means of communication. Beacon also advocates for creativity within the walls of her artist incubator, Beacon Studios. Offering affordable studio space in the unrefined physical interior of the former Beacon High School, it’s a place where artists and professionals with small budgets can establish a foothold. One of the most dramatic uses of space there occurred when a wall in one of the old gyms was used to complete a large mural by Beacon artist Rick Price.Titled Mother Hudson, this 15-by-10-foot painting was commissioned by the Beacon Sloop Club in 2008. Displaying the strong arms of a Native American goddess as she protects her environs, it offers a colorful view of the symbiosis that exists within a healthy community. Given Mother Hudson’s message, it is no surprise that on a warm spring night, Price can be found leading an eclectic group of artistic residents at Zuzu’s Leaf and Bean. Zuzu’s aids interaction with its copious amounts of caffeine and comfortable seating. It also frequently hosts local talent like the “Small Works” show currently on display. On the night before the show’s opening, Price was to be found gently direct5/10 ChronograM beacon 67
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ing the hands of participants as they flowed in to help. Roles are assigned in a flurry of hanging, spacing, typing, chatting, and doting. Such a community-centric show lends valuable exposure to talent awaiting discovery. During a similar Zuzu’s event, frequent patron Daniel Aubry encountered the portraits of an unsuspecting local painter. Aubry is a real estate agent who used to conduct business from a laptop at Zuzu’s. With a need to expand, he decided to open the Daniel Aubry Gallery across the street. After several months in existence, Aubry decided it was time to show the work of a local artist. He chose Katie O’Hagan, the portrait painter he had seen in the cafe months before. O’Hagan’s show “True To Life” is now on display at the Daniel Aubry Gallery. O’Hagan started oil painting in 2004 and eventually began to paint members of her social network in Beacon. The result is a series of portraits of some of Beacon’s best known residents, an homage that blurs the lines between artist and observer. As Gallery Director Hannah Anderson puts it, “At the show’s opening, half the people depicted were actually present. People kept saying, ‘I recognize these faces. I see them all over town!’” Aubry’s need to pollinate has lead him further into the Beacon fabric. He is currently in contract for the former Grand Lodge of the Free and Ancient Order of Masons, located on Fishkill Avenue and just steps away from where it meets Main Street. The plan is to convert the space into an art house movie theatre and performance space while retaining some existing architectural features. The project will explore unchartered ground in the city’s cultural scene and attempt to include a now quiet area off of Main Street into the city’s pulsating main drag. Aubry’s foray into areas unexplored in Beacon is no accident. In a piece about Beacon’s real estate market he says, “Beacon property values showed a median uptick of 2.8 percent,” a fact he obtained from real estate website Zillow.com. Such a figure may not seem relevant compared to those obtained before the economy took its nasty dive.Yet it shows that there is something about this city that continues to attract residents and investment. Perhaps it is the aroma of its wilds or the latent intrigue of sleepy buildings just waiting to be preserved. Maybe it is the convenience to New York City coupled with a diverse supply of shopping and service amenities. Still, maybe it comes from its dynamic social and cultural networks that are either growing or have erupted. Most likely it is the strength of these and many more unseen elements that are just waiting for the right time to blossom. RESOURCES Art House Gallery & Studio 919-923-0352 Bank Square Coffeehouse www.banksquarecoffeehouse.com Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries www.bire.org Beacon Studios www.beaconstudios.org Charlotte Guernsey www.gatehouserealty.com City of Beacon www.cityofbeacon.org Clay, Wood, and Cotton (845) 481-0149 Chill Wine Bar (845) 765-0885 Daniel Aubry Gallery www.danielaubrygallery.com Echo (845) 440-0047 Erica Hauser www.ericahauser.com Howland Cultural Center www.howlandculturalcenter.org Jacqueline’s (845) 838-1737 Local 845 www.local845.com Martin Luther King Cultural Center (845) 831-9887 Max’s on Main www.maxsonmain.com Mollie McKinley www.molliemckinley.com Moxie Salon www.moxiesalon.com Naomi Sachs Design www.naomisachsdesign.com Paper Presence (845) 849-2443 The Piggy Bank www.piggybankrestaurant.com Rick Price www.rickprice.net Riverwinds Gallery www.riverwindsgallery.com Salon Arje (845) 831-4426 School of Jellyfish www.schoolofjellyfish.com Seed to Fruit www.seedtofruit.net Sukhothai www.sukhothainy.com Tas Kafé (845) 522-1510 Jessica Wickham www.jessicawickham.com Zuzu’s Leaf and Bean (845) 765-0682 5/10 ChronograM beacon 69
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ometimes being a food snob changes everything. Since buying their three-acre Stone Ridge property 11 years ago, visual artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano have turned it into an oasis worthy of a photo spread in Horticulture magazine. They’ve planted a host of fruit trees and other edibles, including exotics like ginseng and Siberian kiwi. They’ve put in a cranberry bog, a lotus garden, and even (cue the music from Little Shop of Horrors) a bog for carnivorous plants. They tap their maple trees and raise chickens. They make teas and soda from sassafras and wintergreen and forage throughout the seasons for ramps, wild asparagus, berries, and more. Tired just thinking about it? Then you’re not Levy or Serrano. They recently purchased eight acres across the road with the goal of planting a diversity of nut trees there. Pecans, almonds, Korean pine. So what’s with the two artists? Are they, like the trees they’re planting, nuts? No. There’s a fine line between passion and compulsion, and Levy and Serrano are treading it with palpable delight. This isn’t a hobby they’re pursuing, and it’s not a shallow and disposable “lifestyle,” either. What Levy and Serrano are doing runs deep. “Sometimes this seems overwhelming,” says Serrano. “But when you’re really passionate about something, as we are about our land, it doesn’t feel like work.” It was their palates, of all things, that launched them on this way of life. “We wanted what we couldn’t find in stores,” says Serrano. “Blackberries, for instance. When blackberries are ripe, they start to disintegrate. That’s when they’re supposed to be eaten.You can’t get ripe blackberries in stores.” Now it’s not just homegrown blackberries these self-described food snobs enjoy. They have a cornucopia of straight-from-the-garden delights to savor—and their friends do, too. “I recently brought some of our Georgia Belle peaches to a dinner
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party,” recounts Serrano. “People couldn’t believe how good they tasted. Everyone there wanted to buy the tree.” Levy and Serrano are part of a small but growing contingent of people who are discovering the joys of living off their land. Whatever you call it—“homesteading,” “pursuing economic self-reliance,” or simply “gardening a whole heckuva lot”— collectively they are blazing a trail for the many people who sense that their more conventional lives are out of whack and yearn for a more grounded and environmentally sustainable way of life. There’s a basic precept at work here: If you want to lead a more grounded life, try living closer to the ground. Linda-Brook Guenther and Todd Andrews have also embraced this principle. They maintain a vegetable garden on their 2.5-acre Accord property that’s large enough to support a modest community-supported agriculture (CSA) business and, like Levy and Serrano, they raise chickens and tap their maples. Homesteading is in Guenther’s blood. Her parents moved to Ulster County to live off the land in the 1970s: their daughter’s first name (“Linda-Brook”) reflects their eco-values. But the similarities go only so far. “My parents were retreating from the American Dream,” says Guenther. “A lot of people called them drop-outs. We’re choosing a life that we love, and we’re definitely not dropping out. We believe in interfacing with the culture of the neighborhood and the Hudson Valley as much as possible.” Though very much part of the web of community, Guenther and Andrews have de-coupled from society in important ways, such as not having the Internet or television in the house. “The Internet is amazing, but I don’t like sitting in front of a computer,” says Guenther. “I had it for a half-year, and it ate up too much time and
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caused too much frustration. My mother has dial-up next door if we really need it.” They are also home-schooling their two children, aged four and six. “We’re not trying to shield our kids from anything,” she says. “We want them to see how other people live, and we want them to make important decisions for themselves.” Home-schooling and homesteading seem to go hand in hand, so much so that one might be excused for thinking that “homestead” means “home ‘stead of public school.” Andy Bicking, who shares a two-acre Esopus homestead with his wife Jenny Fowler and their two young homeschooled children, says, “It’s not surprising that home schooling goes with the territory. Much of what we value starts at home.” On the family farmstead, children get exposed to realities they’d never see in school. “There’s this glossy romantic version of homesteading that has it all about growing flowers and dancing with the butterflies,” says Guenther. “That’s not the reality, though. Where you have livestock, you have death. A neighborhood dog came in once and ate half the chickens. It’s hard work and it ain’t all pretty.” Erica Chase-Salerno, a friend of Guenther’s who’s also home-schooling her children, says she took the plunge into keeping chickens “mostly because I have kids. Children want to know where their food comes from. This way they find out, and not in an intellectual sort of way. It also teaches them about death. It makes death something normal and natural because it happens all the time.” The grown-ups learn from homesteading too. “A dialogue of sorts takes place on the land,” says Scott Serrano. “Plants start to talk to you and tell you what they want.You try to make every plant as happy as it can be.” Andy Bicking echoes this sentiment. “Voles are a big problem for us,” he says. “We’re figuring out what they enjoy eating and what they don’t enjoy eating.There’s a constant learning.”
The rewards of homesteading are profound—being present with nature’s cycles, learning from the land, knowing you’re leading a full life rich with meaning. “There’s a tremendous amount of satisfaction in slowing down and having that connection to where your meal came from,” says Krista Oarcea, who lives with her husband Aram and their three children on a two-acre homestead in Lyonsville. For Linda-Brook Guenther, homesteading builds connections among people as well as with the land. “We’re not doing this all by ourselves,” she says. “I call on my friends all the time. Three other families are home-schooling in the neighborhood. We’re constantly collaborating. What we’re doing is all about interconnection, not isolation.” Homesteading fosters lots of informal economic activity. Levy and Serrano get raw milk for their yogurt from a neighbor. They also recently got a batch of chickens in exchange for fixing a raspberry bed. Bicking and Fowler “use Freecycle [a reuse website] to trade plants.”The results: lower costs, more community. Although homesteading emerged out of the go-it-alone, frontier ethos of rugged individualism, Version 2.0 isn’t only about putting down deeper roots in one’s land. It’s also about building deeper social connections. In the process, it returns homesteaders to a time when the economy was less about “consumers” and more about “people.” Says Scott Serrano, “The culture of exchange we’re part of is reminiscent of how our country was in the 1930s and 1940s, when everyone had a special skill and exchanged their expertise.” Homesteading forges powerful links to the past in other ways, too. “When I was growing up,” Jenny Fowler says, “a lot of backyards had nut and fruit trees. These were my play spaces and there was something really special about that. A lot of that is gone.” 5/10 ChronograM locally grown 71
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Krista Oarcea made a “conscious decision” to raise her family on the land because she lived in Romania just after the fall of communism, where, as with earlier generations, “people only lived with foods in the natural cycle of the year.” Halyna Shepko, who raises sheep, goats, ducks, and chickens on her 23-acre Gardiner homestead, “was raised on Ukrainian folk tales that were all about the wisdom of the animals. This is a world I feel totally at home with.” Homesteading is thus backward-looking. But it’s about the future, too. “People tell us we’re homesteading, but I don’t see it that way,” says Bicking. “What we’re doing is born of interest in the world around us, and also of hope for the future, that we can move the culture as a whole to a place that’s more sustainable.” And it’s catching on. “We recently hosted an information session about raising chickens and 20 people showed up!” exclaims Guenther. “They couldn’t ask enough questions.” Similarly, Halyna Shepko reports, “We had a sheep-shearing event last week and lots of people attended. I’ve been doing this for 12 years, and things are shifting. It’s not that I ever felt isolated, but there’s definitely more interest from the community.” Jenny Fowler agrees. “People are pursuing self-reliance in different ways,” she says. “We have one friend with a very small garden who gets seconds from a local orchard, invites friends over, and makes applesauce. Other friends in Portland, Oregon, have built a small chicken coop in their urban backyard.” Why this surge of interest? Anxiety certainly plays a role, here in our foxholes in the Great Recession. “People want to be more self-sufficient,” Halyna Shepko says. “Homesteading provides some security.” Fear isn’t the only driver, though. “People lived off the land for thousands of years,” says Linda-Brook Guenther. “In the marrow of our bones, we still possess that wisdom. People are looking to reconnect with what, at a certain level, they already know.” The time is ripe for homesteading: It’s plainly a meme that wants to propagate. Local practitioners are helping the process along by sharing their expertise with the community, both as volunteers and for pay. Levy and Serrano helped build gardens at the Marbletown Elementary School and the Rondout Valley Middle School. They also run a garden business called Hortus Conclusus, which means “Enclosed Garden” in Latin. Linda-Brook Guenther and her husband have also launched a garden business: Theirs is called Back to Basics (and, true to their values, it doesn’t have a website). Indeed, an entire cottage industry for aspiring homesteaders is emerging—think of it as “Homesteader Helper.” Over in Red Hook, for instance, longtime gardener Jay Levine has launched the Hudson Valley Backyard Farm company, which helps people build and maintain gardens in their, you guessed it, backyards. If you’re tempted to get into homesteading, here’s some free advice: Start small. There are plenty of ways to get involved without going the whole hog (or chickens, or whatever). You can plant tomatoes or herbs or a fruit tree. You can keep bees. And then, if you want, you can expand out from there, knowing that each new activity brings its own challenges and rewards and then do more and more and more, until, who knows, someday you too may be walking the fine line between passion and compulsion, out there with Levy and Serrano. It’s a sweet thing to imagine: property owners throughout the Hudson Valley growing or raising their own food. It’s a vision that returns us to the past, when people had no choice but to be self-reliant, and it also takes us into the future, when we can expect more and more people to grow their own, whether out of economic necessity, green values, or simple pleasure. “Going forward, I expect people to stay plugged into their communities and the grid,” says Linda-Brook Guenther. “But there will be many more homes with gardens, chickens, and bees.” For Guenther, there’s a certain inevitability to this. “The ‘Eat Local’ movement encourages people to buy locally grown food. Homesteading is the next stage in the evolution of that concept.” Then the articulate Guenther delivers a line that lands with a small explosion, coming across as both insight and challenge: “If it’s not in your backyard, it’s not local enough. Homesteading is the new local.” Carl Frankel writes regularly about sustainability for Chronogram. He is the author of Out of the Labyrinth:WhoWe Are, HowWe GoWrong, andWhatWe Can Do About It. RESOURCES Back to Basics 845-626-2317 Hortus Conclusus www.hortus.biz Hudson Valley Backyard Farm Company www.hudsonvalleybackyardfarm.com
Community-supported agriculture farms Brook Farm Project 60 Gatehouse Road, New Paltz (845) 255-1052; www.brookfarmproject.org The CSA share consists of a wide variety of mixed vegetables, all sustainably grown. Several additional products offered for a fee: pick-your-own raspberries and blueberries, free-range eggs, pastured chicken, and grass-fed beef. Full shares can be picked up every week, half shares can be picked up every other week, and student shares have a weekly pickup during fall semester. Share costs are on a sliding scale. A full share costs $950, or $750 with the completion of 20 hours a season, a half share is $550, or $450 with the completion of 10 hours a season, and a student share is available late AugustThanksgiving and costs $350 plus the completion of 10 hours a season. Cascade Farm 124 Harmony Road, Patterson (845) 878-3258; www.cascadefarmschool.org At Cascade Farm, a variety of vegetables are available, as well as eggs, honey, and maple syrup. Full shares are available for $575 each. Shares can be picked up at the farm once a week. Each share averages about 10 lbs per week over 20 weeks, from June to mid-October. All shares are booked for 2010. Common Ground Farm 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls (845) 231-4424; www.commongroundfarm.org Common Ground Farm’s season is June through October. There is only one share size for the 2010 season, a large share, costing $500 and a minimum of 10 hours a season. A nonworking share is also available for $600. Eats Village Farm 677 Sawkill Road, Kingston (845) 532-2448; www.eatsvillagefarm.com Eats Village uses only organic fertilizer and offers fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Types of shares: full costs $660, senior costs $300 to $550, half costs $375. Herb and flower shares are available for an extra cost: $175 for a full share, $75 for a half share, and $50 to $100 for seniors. Working shares are also available—a full share requires six hours per week and a half share requires three hours per week. Pickups are Sundays 12pm to 3pm at the farm. Local delivery is available for $50 extra per year. All shares are booked for 2010. The Farm at Miller’s Crossing 81 Roxbury Road, Hudson (518) 851-2331; www.farmatmillerscrossing.com A regular share is $475, and a single share is $247.50. Shares give members vegetables and herbs from June through October. Volunteering for pickup distribution is required of members, at least one or two sessions preseason. Distributions are Tuesday at the farm. Shares for 2010 are full. Fishkill Farms 9 Fishkill Farm Road, Hopewell Junction (845) 897-4377; www.fishkillfarms.com Fishkill Farms is primarily an apple orchard but also offers dozens of pick-your-own fruits (including cherries, berries, peaches, and nectarines) and five acres of vegetables. All produce is organically grown. The season runs from June to November. A fruit share is $350, supplying enough for a large family. The fruit and vegetable share is $625 and includes the same amount of fruit as a fruit share with the addition of vegetables— enough to supply a large family or an avid canner. They also offer an apple club for those who can’t participant all season. The apple share runs from September to October and is $140. It provides 120 lbs of apples plus the option of 15 lbs of pears or either one large, two medium, or two small pumpkins. The sign-up deadline is May 15. Fog and Thistle Farm 4872 Route 9G, Germantown (518) 537-6139; www.fogandthistlefarm.com Fog and Thistle Farm is 60 acres of vegetable fields, an apple orchard, an active sugar bush, and medicinal herbs. They use no synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, or genetically modified seeds and adhere to organic standards while incorporating biodynamic methods. Pick-ups will be market style every week at the farm, and members receive a newsletter with recipes as well. A farm share is $500 from June 8 to October 19, a low-income share is available by application for $250, an autumn harvest share is $150 and runs five weeks from October 19 to Thanksgiving, or you can sponsor a share for a donation of $1-$450, which helps support low income shares. Glynwood Center 1 Glynwood Road, Cold Spring (845) 265-3338; www.glynwood.org Glynwood grows Certified Naturally Grown vegetables, as well as flowers, eggs, and pasture-fed chickens. Glynwood Center farm’s season: June to October. Full shares are $650 each for 20 weeks. CSA volunteers must commit at least one day per week (2 hours) for eight weeks. All shares are booked for 2010.
Boni-Bel Farm & Country Store 301 Doansburg Road, Brewster (845) 279-1090 Boni-Bel Farm offers a simple “pay-as-you-go” system. Members will receive an extra 10 percent green incentive on a chosen prepayment amount ranging from $100 to $500, which can be used to purchase Boni-Bel Farm products at the Country Store. For extra perks on produce, you can work on the farm, although work is not required to have a share. Harmony Farm 144 Broadlea Road, Goshen (845) 294-3181; harmonyfarmcsa@yahoo.com Harmony Farm CSA grows vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Working shares are $400 for the season with the agreement to work at the farm 30 hours a season. Standard shares are $600 for the season, with no work required and include 10 to 12 items per week. A small share is available for $400, and includes 6 to 8 items per week. The season lasts for 24 weeks from June to November; shares collected weekly. Hawthorne Valley Farm 327 Route 21C, Ghent (Harlemville) (518) 672-7500 x105; www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Hawthorne Valley Farm grows over 40 varieties of vegetables on a 10-acre market garden using organic and biodynamic farming methods. Members can choose from full vegetable shares or a vegetable and fruit share. The cost of a share runs from $460 to $710 depending on the type of share and location. Pickups for the 2010 season will be at the farm in Harlemville, Garden City, and Riverdale. Hearty Roots Farm 223 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook (845) 943-8699; www.heartyroots.com Hearty Roots farm has sites in Tivoli, Kingston, and Woodstock. CSA shares include a wide range of seasonal vegetables and some fruit. At certain CSA pickup sites, add-ons are available such as fruit, eggs, and dry beans. A full share costs $590 and an everyother-week share costs $325. Members are encouraged to join the farm on community work days and farm celebrations. You receive 8 to 10 varieties of produce, a total of 5 to 20 lbs per week/biweekly. The season runs for 22 weeks, from June to October. Midsummer Farm 156 East Ridge Road, Warwick (845) 986-9699; www.midsummerfarm.com Midsummer Farm is a small (24 shares) certified organic, certified animal welfare-approved, biodynamic CSA. Vegetables, herbs, greens, cut flowers, and eggs are available. Shares are determined by product type. A vegetable share costs $625, an egg share is $125 for spring and summer (16 weeks) and $85 for winter, an herb share is $55, a cut flower share is $60, a nut and seed share is $368, and a fruit share is $560. There is also a vegetable and herb share for $1,195. Shares for the 2010 season are full. Northwind Farms 185 West Kerley Corners Road, Tivoli (845)757-5591; www.northwindfarmsallnatural.com Northwind Farms is family run and provides all-natural poultry, turkey, duck, rabbit, goat, and pasture-raised pork and beef. Their season runs from June to September. A full share is $600 (20 to 22 lbs per month,) a half share is $280 (10 to 12 lbs per month), and a family share is available for $700 (35 to 37 lbs per month) for four months. Both include chicken plus pork and beef in various cuts depending on availability. Pickups will be once a month at the farm, Woodstock Farm Festival Market, and Kingston Farmers Market. The deadline for sign-up is May 15. Paisley Farm Route 9, Upper Red Hook (845) 756-3803; www.upstatefarmsny.com Paisley Farm is a 25-acre organic farm in Tivoli offering vegetable shares, fruit shares, egg shares, and omega egg shares (eggs from chickens fed for optimum Omega 3 levels). From June 9 through November 3. A vegetable shares costs $550, with eight to ten pounds of vegetables a week. A fruit share ($290) is composed of two to four varieties of fruits and berries each week. An egg share is $95 for one dozen eggs per week. An omega share share is $105 for one dozen eggs per week. Phillies Bridge Farm Project 45 Phillies Bridge Road, New Paltz (845) 256-9108; www.philliesbridge.org Eggs, an extensive variety of vegetables in season, and option shares for sweet corn, berries, and orchard fruits are all available. A CSA farm share costs $500 and includes farm membership. A split share, which also includes farm membership, is $265. Optional shares, which are distributed in season, are: $70 for a full-dozen corn share, $35 for a half-dozen corn share, $90 for a berry share, and $90 for an orchard fruit share. The season runs from late May until mid-November. Pickups are at the farm every Saturday.
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Csa farms Poughkeepsie Farm Project Corner of Raymond and Hooker Avenues, Poughkeepsie (845) 473-1415; www.farmproject.org Standard shares run full season from June-November and small shares run for the summer or fall only. There are also nonworking shares available. Standard shares are about 10 lbs per week and small shares run about 5 lbs per week. Each share will feature seasonal vegetables and fruits, plus pick-your-own options. Contact the Poughkeepsie Farm Project for prices. All shares are booked for 2010. Roxbury Farm 2343 Route 9H, Kinderhook (518) 758-8558; www.roxburyfarm.com Roxbury Farm offers vegetables, fruit, pasture-raised pork, lamb, and beef. Shares are for a total of 25 weeks, from June to December, and costs between $493 and $572, depending on site location. A 22-week fruit share is $70. If you opt out of work there is a work requirement surcharge of $40. One share yields enough produce for a family of fourâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;10-17 lbs of freshly harvested produce each week. There are various pickup locations throughout the Capital Region. Second Wind CSA at the Four Winds Farm 158 Marabac Road, Gardiner (845) 417-5624 http://users.bestweb.net/~fourwind/second_wind_csa.htm Second Wind CSA is located at the Four Winds Farm, a 24-acre certified organic, no-till, diversified farm. The farm offers a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and herbs, including heirloom tomatoes and specialty greens. Fresh eggs from pastured hens and grass-fed beef and poultry are available. Apple shares are available from Liberty View Farm for $12. A basic share is $500. Pickups will be at the farm and in Garrison (Garrison requires a $75 delivery fee).
Sisters Hill Farm 127 Sisters Hill Road, Stanfordville (845) 868-7048; www.sistershillfarm.org Sisters Hill Farm grows more than 100 varieties of 50 different vegetables. The season lasts from June to November. Shares can be picked up on Saturdays or Tuesday at the farm and provide 4 to 15 lbs of vegetables per week. The cost for a weekly shares is $600 to $700. An every other week share is $325 to $375. Pick ups are Tuesdays at the farm or the cottage of Mount St. Vincent, in the Bronx, and Saturday at the farm. Taliaferro Farms 187 Plains Road, New Paltz (845) 256-1592; www.taliaferrofarms.com From May through October, Taliaferro Farms grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. At times, there are 20 to 30 different types of produce to choose from for your weekly share. Members can also purchase produce at a discount price, in addition to their CSA share. Full shares costs $900 per year and offer nine different kinds of produce, and half shares costs $475 per year. The W. Rogowski Farm 327-329 Glenwood Road, Pine Island (845) 258-4574; www.rogowskifarm.com Rogowski Farm offers vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs. The season lasts for 26 weeks from June through November. A full or large share provides enough vegetables for a family of three to four for one week. A half or small share suits a smaller household. Share prices are $800 for a full share and $400 for a half share. Pickups are once a week at the farm or Warwick Valley Farmers Market. Walnut Grove Farms 285 Youngblood Road, Montgomery (845) 313-4855; www.walnutgrovefarms.net A full share costs $350 per year with a work commitment of one to two hours per week. A full share with no work required is $425 per year. A variety of produce is available, with meat, pies, and jams offered for an additional cost.
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arm to table” is a phrase that gets a lot of use these days. An increasing number of restaurants use seasonal, local ingredients, and it’s a trend that augurs well for consumers and the environment alike. But, as with any trend, the slogan can become overused and diluted through aggressive marketing by bandwagon-jumpers. There are some good options for locally oriented restaurant eating in our region, but to see what the farm-to-table ethos looks like fully realized, one should visit the Red Devon restaurant and market in Bangall. From the eco-conscious physical plant to the rigorously local sourcing of nearly every ingredient, this is an institution that walks the sustainability walk. Julia and Nigel Widdowson opened the restaurant a couple of years ago, following a complete renovation. Formerly the Stage Stop—once owned by James Cagney—the building was reborn as a state-of-the-art green facility with geothermal heat pumps, solar electric and hot water systems, recycled construction materials, and a variable volume exhaust fan in the kitchen that draws only as much air as needed. The many changes also include a green roof on an addition, a reduction of impervious paved surfaces outside to improve water absorption, and indigenous plantings. There’s a detailed seven-page pamphlet by the architects describing all of the green features of the building available inside the entry. Julia, originally from Texas, grew up with a conservationist and part-time rancher father who instilled within her a love of both subjects. After their children were grown, she says, she and Nigel bought Temple Farm in Millbrook and moved up from New York City full-time, starting off with nine Devon cows. Over the course of eight years, the herd has grown to 30, including two bulls. The cattle are grazed rotationally, moving to fresh pasture every day or two, ensuring healthy fields and happy cows. Devon cattle get particularly fat on an all-grass diet, making them ideal livestock for a restaurant owner. The farm supplies the restaurant with beef and eggs, and some vegetables. Many 76 food & drink ChronograM 5/10
crops—grain, vegetables, and fruit—are grown nearby by farmers who contract to produce specific quantities. Other ingredients are bought from as nearby as possible, and must be sustainably and organically grown. Despite the wide range of energy-saving technologies and methods deployed throughout, the building is understated and does not call undue attention to itself. The exterior was preserved, as were many other components, including the historic bar, to reduce new material consumption. The interior is pleasant, well lit, and relatively unadorned. The staff is friendly, attentive, and knowledgeable about everything from sources for ingredients to the history of the Stage Stop, and service is smooth. Chef Sara Lukasiewicz is a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park. As sous-chef at the Devon, she was in charge of charcuterie, and since her promotion last year to executive chef, she has been deepening her knowledge of the subject, hanging hams and broadening her range of pâtés, sausages, and salami. Originally from the Midwest, she’s delighted to have landed here: “The Hudson Valley is an amazing place to be for a culinary person; the ingredients are just phenomenal,” Lukasiewicz says, but she notes that winter provides a challenge to an all-local menu. In response, Lukasiewicz has been working with the local growers who provide vegetables, increasing her orders and focusing on canning, freezing, and root-cellaring enough to last until the growing season begins again. Future plans include a greenhouse to grow citrus trees and provide salad greens all winter, as well as planting a garden next to the parking lot and herbs and flowers all around. The menu changes weekly, as new ingredients come into season. It’s not showy food, but it is very well crafted; like the building, it’s understated and unimpeachably put together. A recent menu featured early spring comfort food: braised meats, bouillabaisse, mushroom and leek ravioli. A braised pork cheek on house-made tagliatelle offered rich, shreddy meat on sturdy noodles that might have benefited from a higher ratio of yolk to white for a silkier bite. Beef
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short ribs with ramp-smashed potatoes—ramps, foraged by the chef, appeared in many places on the menu—were beautifully balanced between the flavors of the tender meat and the unctuous red wine-based cooking liquid. Desserts included sorbets made from local rhubarb and currants frozen last summer and a masterful carrot cake made almost entirely from local ingredients, including cream cheese from Ronnybrook dairy, which was at once fluffy and moist, with exactly the right amount of frosting to maintain an ideal equilibrium of taste and texture. The wine list is well rounded and reasonably priced, and includes some local wines. Lukasiewicz speaks enthusiastically about her desire to learn more about New York wines, especially those from the Finger Lakes and Long Island, and she conducts weekly tastings to find new selections from near and far. All nonlocal wines on the list are either certified organic, practicing organic, or biodynamic. The bar also stocks local microbrews, vodka, applejack, and whiskey, as well as liqueurs and cordials. The menu lists a range of classic cocktails reinterpreted using local booze. In addition to the restaurant, the Red Devon is also a market that carries a variety of prepared foods and baked goods from the kitchen, as well as local products like honey, jam, vinegar, and maple syrup. The coffee is organic and fair-trade, which is a standard they apply to all of the ingredients, like chocolate and olive oil, that simply cannot be locally produced. (Though the olive oil comes from an Italian farm owned by a neighbor). Widdowson says “our biggest hurdle is to make the Devon profitable. Sustainable is an economic as well as an environmental concept!” As a result, she plans to expand the catering and market parts of the business, hoping that a recovering economy will do the rest. And that brings us to the point at which this diverges from just another restaurant profile. The Red Devon represents a point at which the idealism of the local food movement bumps directly into the realities of the contemporary food business, and as such, is an instructive example of the challenges present in going
against the industrial model that dominates the market. Widdowson describes the decision to be avowedly local as an act of will, born of a strong desire to reinvent the commercial food system literally from the ground up. It will take a great deal of work, and will be driven at first by people who have the means to pay more for ethically produced food, as well as by improved agricultural legislation and better education about nutrition. In her own words: “The corporate farm and food distribution system in the US is predicated on cheap food. Needless to say, the real (exorbitant) costs—to the climate and to our communities—are hidden. But people are looking behind the curtain now and asking more and more questions about their food. What they’re seeing isn’t pretty, and I think they’re ready to change their habits and change the whole system. The more the system changes, the more we buy direct from the farm—taking out all the fuel costs, all the silly packaging costs—the more food will cost what it should cost, with the profits going to the people who grow and raise it.” With any luck, a few years from now we’ll be in a very different world. All farmers markets will take food stamps (the Kingston Farmers Market does, thanks to Queens Galley), the enormous subsidies for health and ecology-damaging mega-agriculture will be cut, and communities will achieve sustainable self-sufficiency with many foods. The quickest way to get to that future, whether cooking at home or going out, is to put our money where our mouths are. Red Devon 108 Hunns Lake Road, Bangall (845) 868-3175; www.reddevonrestaurant.com Dinner: Thursday-Saturday: 6-9:30pm; Sunday: 5-8pm Sunday Brunch: 12-3pm Closed Monday-Wednesday Market: Thursday-Sunday: 8am-6pm; Monday: 8am-3pm Breakfast & Lunch: Thursday-Monday: 8am-3pm 5/10 ChronograM food & drink 77
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FOOD & DRINK EVENTS FOR MAY Compassionate Cuisine The Catskill Animal Sanctuary will offer vegan courses on weekends in May to jump-start you on the road to deliciously healthy (and cruelty-free) meals. Some highlights: May 2 explores the methods of cooking tempeh, tofu, and seitan. On May 9, delve into comfort foods like pizza, spaghetti and â&#x20AC;&#x153;meatballs,â&#x20AC;? and pot pie. May 16 teaches the art of decadent vegan desserts which are sure to please vegans and nonvegans alike, with crème brulee, a chocolate torte, and brownies. Classes are $40 to $60 each and run from 10am to 4pm. They will be taught by Chef Kevin Archer at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary. 316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties; (845) 336-8447; www.casanctuary.org.
Iron Grad Cooking Competition May 11. Inspired by the popular Food Network show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Chef,â&#x20AC;? The Rhinecliff will host the first annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Gradâ&#x20AC;? cooking competition. Each month culinary graduates will battle to become the Iron Grad. The competition will be held live from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kitchen Stadium Rhinecliff,â&#x20AC;? with a cocktail reception, a parade of the chefs, and a four-course meal with wine pairings. The winner is decided by you, the audience. Hosted by chairman Tekniteesi Chapma, the May 11 competition will be round oneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Classics,â&#x20AC;? French cuisine. Tickets include wines and coffee and are $35.95 plus tax and gratuity. At the Rhinecliff Hotel and Restaurant, Rhinecliff; (845) 876-0590; www.therhinecliff.com.
CIA: A First Taste May 15. This special event is designed for any first-time visitors to the CIA Food Enthusiast Programs and the Hyde Park campus. The programs feature the opportunity to cook with CIA chefs and learn profesional cooking techniques along the wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from BBQ to baking to wine. You will sample two dishes that are paired with sparkling wine, enjoy a presentation by Lisa Schwartz, owner of Rainbeau Ridge Farm, where you can sample her handmade goat cheese and learn about sustainable farming, plus experience a cooking demonstration by CIA chef David Kamen. You will also take a tour of several classes from the Food Enthusiast programs. The event is 9:30am to 12pm and costs $39.95â&#x20AC;&#x201D;advanced reservation is required. Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park; (800) 888-7850; www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts.
Growing Your Own Organic Vegetable Garden May 15. Learning the fundamentals behind creating and sustaining your own vegetable garden. This is the second class is a series that will teach you about companion and succession planting, how much water is too much water, how to go about starting your compost bins, and teach you how to control weeds and pests. Plants to include: assorted lettuce heads, Swiss chard, kale, and Early Wonder broccoli. Each session is $50 and includes handouts, vegetable seeds, and live plants. The class will be taught by master gardener Adam Weiss and will take place 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Pike Lane Bed and Breakfast, Woodstock; (845) 679-0551; www.pikebb.com.
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Robibero Family Vineyards and Winery Grand Opening May 22 and 23. Located at the old Rivendell Winery site is the new Robibero Family Vineyard. The property was completely gutted, renovated, and transformed into a modern facility with a working vineyard, plus the addition of a new deck off the tasting room. The grand opening will offer a complimentary wine tasting of their newly released wine (featuring Lacrosse, Vidal, and cabernet franc grapes), live music, and a variety of events. (845) 255-9463; www.robiberofamilyvineyards.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Compiled by Siobhan K. McBride
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232 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-5096 www.homespunfoods.com
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Terrapin Catering
215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY
5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com
John Andrews Restaurant
Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available. Terrapin’s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.
Delis Jacks Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Restaurants Aroi Thai Restaurant 55 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1114 www.aroirestaurant.com
(845) 255-8811
Route 23 at Blunt Road, South Egremont, MA (413) 528-3469 www.jarestaurant.com
Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446 www.leospizzeria.com
Momiji 3649 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2110
Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278
Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375
Baba Louie’s Woodfired Organic Sourdough Pizza
Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro
517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155
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Doc’s Trattoria 9 Maple Street, Kent, CT (860) 927-3810 www.docstrattoria.com
Gilded Otter
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Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering
6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY
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Wasabi Japanese Restaurant 807 Warren Street, Hudson , NY (518) 822-1128
Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845)-452-9600 www.ciachef.edu American Bounty Restaurant, imaginative cuisine celebrating the diversity of foods of
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Route 9, Lafayette Plaza, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-8061 www.ginoswappingers.com
246 Main Street, Beacon, NY
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business directory Accommodations Catskill Mountain Lodge 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com Family owned lodge set on the Katterskill Creek perfect for weddings, romantic getaways, nature lovers, families and groups. Close to Horse Shows in the Sun, Hunter, Windham and Woodstock. Play and stay packages include kayaking, zipline, self-guided hikes and more. The Lodge is a Green business located in America’s first art colony. Reserve online at www.catskillmtlodge.com.
Minnewaska Lodge 3116 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-1110
Rhinecliff Hotel
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4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 www.therhinecliff.com
Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc. (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Solar Generation (845) 679-6997 www.solargeneration.net
Antiques Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com
Architecture
of the Landscape-Artist Reception, Saturday, May 1, 2010 6-9pm. Group Exhibition that explores and investigates issues of artist’s interpretations, creative reactions and/ or relationships to our natural and physical environments. Artists featured Gail Biederman, Robmat Butler, Matthew Cox, Chad Curtis, Barron Hall, Tricia Mclaughlin, and Leah Wolff. Exhibition Runs-Saturday May 1-May 29
Back Room Gallery 475 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1838
Beacon Arts Community Association www.beaconarts.org
Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries 199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org
Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media, offers year-round exhibitions, weekend and multi-week workshops, lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/ video screenings, and much more.
150 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2880 www.riverwindsgallery.com
Root 52 Gallery 87 Mill Street, Liberty, NY (845) 295-3052 www.root52.com
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum
Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057
Banks Rhinebeck Savings Bank www.rhinebecksavings.com
Ulster Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com sbemz@ulstersavings.com
Beverages
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
Artisans Artistic Endeavors Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-1337 www.artisticcustomglass.com
Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 24 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, iced coffees, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!
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Ingrained Woodworking, Inc.
Beacon Cycles
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org
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178 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0336
Pomarico Design Studio
JW ArtWorks, LLC: Gazen Gallery
181 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-0448 www.healthcaredesign.com mike@healthcaredesign.com
6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4ART (4278) www.gazengallery.com
Mark Gruber Gallery
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Ruge’s Subaru River Winds Gallery
21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com
1920 North Main Street, Sheffield , MA (413) 528-6749 www.graneymetaldesign.com
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1401 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY www.performanceon9.com (845) 297-5500
426 Main Street, Beacon, NY (347) 982-4210 (917) 647-6823 www.danielaubrygallery.com
23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org
104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org
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DC Studios
Garrison Art Center
Ann Street Gallery
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Daniel Aubry Gallery
Graney Metal Design
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A multi-arts center offering a range of educational programs for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Millbrook and Red Hook. Programs include the award-winning Dutchess Arts Camps (building self-esteem through the arts for ages 4-14); Art Institute (pre-college portfolio development program); art classes, workshops, and outreach programs for economically disadvantaged urban youth.
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org
Jessica Wickham, Woodworker 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.jessicawickham.com
Johnny Poux Design 59 O’Neil Street, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9088 www.johnnypouxdesign.com contact@johnnypouxdesign.com
We Create Murals (646) 298-5788 www.wecreatemurals.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Bicycle Sales, Rentals & Service
Book Publishers SUNY Press www.sunypress.edu
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. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
Oblong Books & Music
Utility Canvas
6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com
2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY www.utilitycanvas.com/about:ourStore/
WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock P.O. Box 367, Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Marvin Windows and Doors (800) 328-0268 www.mymarvin.com
McMahonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Improvement 1062 Bruynswick Road, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-2881 www.mcmahonshomeimprovement.com info@mcmahonshomeimprovement.com Remodeling your home is a great endeavor as long as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hired the right team of professionals to handle your project. At McMahonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Improvement we confidently give a 5-yr warranty because we combine excellent craftsmanship, green ethics, quality materials and organized execution to achieve remodels that delight our clients.
N & S Supply
Ne Jame Pools, Ltd. (845) 677-7665 h2onejame@aol.com
Pro Services Inc. (845) 876-3991 www.pro-servicesinc.net
Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Cleaning Services All Brite Window Cleaning (845) 247-9663
531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500
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Consignment Shops Past â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
The Present Perfect 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.
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Dream in Plastic 177 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.dreaminplastic.com
Rhinebeck Department Store 1 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5500 www.rhinebeckstore.com
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Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Festival Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (845) 418-3596 www.clearwaterfestival.org
Friends of Clermont (516) 537-4240 www.friendsofclermont.org
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org
Locust Grove — The Samuel Morse Historic Site (845) 454-4500 www.lgny.org
Pets Alive www.petsalive.com events@petsalive.com
Quail Hollow Events
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P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com The WOODSTOCK-NEW PALTZ ART & CRAFTS FAIR returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds this Memorial Day weekend for its 29th anniversary year. In addition to the juried exhibition area, this spring’s show will feature several of the nations finest builders of handcrafted wooden boats and an Alpaca fiber arts exhibit with several spring shearings. Also new for 2010 is an expanded food court. Details & discounts at: www.quailhollow.com
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440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself! We can also be found at 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY, (845) 296-1069, and 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY, (845) 246-9614.
Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, and granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy. And so much more!
Taliaferro Farms 187 Plains Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1592 www.taliaferrofarms.com
Ride the Ridge
190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com
Rosendale Recreation Center, Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7477 rosendaleearthfest@yahoo.com
The Prince Who Thought He Was a Turkey 243 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4271 x10 www.templeemanuelkingston.org
Watershed Agricultural Center www.buypurecatskills.com
Women’s Health & Fitness Expo Tech City, Kingston, NY (845) 802-7025 www.womenshealthexpo.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288
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Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com
P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989
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Upstate Farms Upper Red Hook, Route 9, Red Hook, NY (845) 756-3803 www.upstatefarmsny.com usfarms@hotmail.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Florists Next Level Floral Design, Inc. 28 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-4770 www.nextlevelfloraldesign.com
Gardening & Garden Supplies Catskill Native Nursery 607 Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-2758 www.catskillnativenursery.com
Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com sales@ndbgonline.com
Interior Design Fauxever Walls 2781 West Main Street, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 632-3735 www.fwinteriordesign.com
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Phantom Gardener Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8606 www.thephantomgardener.com
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Hair Salons Allure 12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620
Dennis Fox Salon 6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777 dennisfoxsalon@yahoo.com
(845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net
Italian Specialty Products La Bella Pasta (845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.
Moxie 544 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6653 www.nowthatsmoxie.com
5455 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-4074 www.shearintensityhairsalon.com
Home Furnishings & Decor Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly expanded store. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.
Asia Barong Route 7/199 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-5091 www.asiabarong.com
Beacon Vintage 261-263 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-0508
Hammertown Barn
In the Courtyard, 51 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3980 www.leonardomarket.com
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Bop to Tottom 799 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100
Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery
The ancient traditions of Japanese Samurai sword-making meet today’s state-of-the-art steel technology. Extremely sharp edges on flexible blades of VG10 “super-steel” for incredible edge retention and surgical sharpness. Slice thinner and cut more uniformly than ever. Gorgeous PakkaWood® handles for perfect feel. Shun offers unparalleled strength and elegance.
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Landscaping Coral Acres (845) 255-6634
Fox Stonework — Christopher Layman, Stonescape Artist (518) 731-6804 foxstone.weebly.com foxstonework@gmail.com
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Lawyers & Mediators
Community Playback Theatre Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Road, Highland, NY (845) 691-4118
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Music The Shoe String Band www.reverbnation.com/shoestringband shoestringband@gmail.com
Musical Instruments Adamspiano.com 592 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 255-5295 www.adamspiano.com adpiano@hvc.rr.com
Networking
Paramount Center for the Arts (914) 739-2333 www.paramountcenter.org (877) 840-0457
Shandaken Theatrical Society 10 Church Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-2279 www.stsplayhouse.com
Starling Productions: GlenGarry Glen Ross The Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8410 astarlingproduction@gmail.com
Vanaver Caravan 10 Main Street, Suite 322, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-9300 www.vanavercaravan.org
Hudson Valley Green Drinks
WAMC — The Linda
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339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 ext. 4 www.thelinda.org
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Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce 23F East Market Street, P.O. Box 42, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com Professional business membership organization comprised of approximately 400 members. Benefits include monthly networking events, newsletter subscription, referrals, group insurance, business directory listing, website listing and link. Affordable advertising available.
Outfitters Potter Brothers Ski and Snowboard Kingston, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Middletown, NY www.potterbrothers.com
Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised play groups in 40x40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats.
Pussyfoot Lodge B&B
Red Hook, NY (845) 758-5554
(877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com
Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455
Photography
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Bardavon Opera House
15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com
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Bearsville Theater Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding
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1723 Route 9W, West Park, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSMassageTherapy.com info@hvsmassagetherapy.com
Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org
Mailing Works/Fountain Press
SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts
Millbrook and Amenia, NY (845) 677-6112 orchmail@aol.com
New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews
Recreation Catskill Woodland Camp Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-2068 www.catskillwoodlandcamp.com cara@catskillwoodlandcamp.com
The Graduate Institute 171 Amity Road, Bethany, CT (203) 874-4252 www.learn.edu Info@learn.edu
Shoes
Mountain Skills Climbing Guide
Pegasus Comfort Footwear
(845) 853-5450 www.mountainskills.biz info@mountainskills.biz
27 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and, 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 256-0788 and (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com
Sky Acres Airport 30 Airway Drive, LaGrangeville, NY (845) 677-5010 www.skyacresairport.com
Restaurants
334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com
Fionn Reilly Photography
Route 17, exit 104, Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
Institute for Integrative Nutrition
The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! B&B for cats, with individual rooms — lower cost than caged boarding. Full house/pet/plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us since 1971. Bonded and insured.
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Pig Farm Framing, Inc.
Kindfred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub
Bard College Public Relations
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com
Massage & Skin Care
(845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com
Performing Arts
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Breakfast and lunch daily. Live music, authentic curry dishes, top of the line steaks, chops and seafood for dinner on weekends. Always 13 quality beers on tap in the pub. Open mic and prizewinning wings in the Pub every Thursday.
Schools Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org www.ecostudies.org/events.html
Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com
Specialty Food Shops Gourmetibles 494 Main Street, Beacon, NY (914) 489-0378 www.gourmetible.com
Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com
Tailors
Dutchess Community College
Michelle Garesché
Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8000 www.sunydutchess.edu
275 Fair Street, Suite 17b, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0864 www.michellegaresche.com
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Tourism
Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com
Historic Huguenot Street
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Hudson River Heritage
In Good Taste
(845) 876-2474 www.hudsonriverheritage.org office@hudsonriverheritage.com
45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net
Retro Arcade Museum 412 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8494 www.retroarcademuseum.com info@retroarcademuseum.com
Ulster County Tourism 10 Westbrook Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 340-3566 www.ulstertourism.info
Toys & Games Goal Bands Game (845) 440-8922 (845) 729-7335 www.goalbandsgame.com blackbeltgoals@gmail.com
Web Design icuPublish www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com
Weddings
120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com; www.HudsonValleyBaby.com; www.HudsonValleyBabies.com; www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, and online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of weddingrelated professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or e-mail for information about adding your wedding-related business.
ROOTS & WINGS P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies.html puja@rootsnwings.com Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson will help you create a heartfelt ceremony that uniquely expresses your commitment, whether you are blending different spiritual, religious, or ethnic traditions, are forging your own or share a common heritage. Puja’s calm presence and lovely Scottish voice add a special touch. “Positive, professional, loving, focused and experienced.”
528 Main Street, Beacon, NY (914) 382-1159 nicole.mora26@gmail.com
(845) 575-3000 x 2381 www.marist.edu/liberalarts/english/swi writing@marist.edu
Hudson-Chatham Winery 1900 Route 66, Ghent, NY (518) 392-WINE www.hudson-chathamwinery.com
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R & F Handmade Paints 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (800) 206-8088 www.rfpaints.com info@rfpaints.com R & F has been internationally recognized as the leader in manufacturing high quality Encaustic Paint and Pigment Sticks for over twenty-two years. R & F’s ongoing workshop, demonstration and exhibition programs have introduced thousands of artists to these exciting mediums. The Gallery at R & F continues to offer bi-monthly exhibits of wax and oil-based artworks from around the world. Stop in for a tour of the factory and visit the Gallery and the Factory Store. Workshops are offered year-round.
Sunday May, 16 Newburgh, NY Registration begins 7:30 AM USATF-certified course To register: (845) 562-6940 www.safe-harbors.org
The Pussies & the Puppies School of Love 314 Wall Street, Kingston , NY www.intimateartscenter.com
Wallkill Valley Writers New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7090 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khamherstwriters@aol.com WVW workshops provide writers — time to practice, solitude writing in the company of writers, safety and confidentiality, each unique voice honored, honest and supportive feedback. Weekly workshops (10 week sessions) and Write Saturdays (whole day workshops). For more information visit web site or email.
Writing Services CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page (845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Our small team works with writers nationwide — memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.
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Going Viral Getting an Uncommon Virus into Common Dialogue Will the efforts of a Kingston man raise the lesser-known cousins of HIV out of obscurity? by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola
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n the world of the Internet, “going viral” can be a good thing, referring to something that rises above obscurity in the vast universe of uploaded content on wings of sudden popularity. One man in Kingston, Richard Engnath, is hoping to get that kind of attention, in the universe of public awareness, for a pair of real human viruses called HTLVs. That abbreviation stands for human Tlymphotropic virus, meaning a virus that has affinity for T-lymphocytes (T-cells), which are some of our essential immune cells. HTLVs have been languishing in relative obscurity, at least in this country, since their discovery in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Two forms had been found: HTLV-1 and HTLV-2, and the first form was associated with leukemia. Then, in 1984, a related virus was discovered: Originally dubbed LAV (lymphadenopathy-associated virus) and also HTLV-3, that virus is now known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—the pathogen responsible for AIDS. As HIV jumped into the limelight, its cousins were left in the dark. The HTLVs are, like HIV, retroviruses that carry viral RNA into cells and anchor it there permanently. But unlike HIV, which demolishes T-cells from within and sends immune cell numbers crashing, HTLVs don’t kill their host cells. Instead, they produce viral proteins with mixed influences on immune cell machinery, and people who test positive for HTLV-1 or HTLV-2 often are symptom free. But in an estimated 5 percent of cases, serious illness arises. From Frying Pan to Fire Engnath would like to have never met the HTLVs. But a suite of tenacious symptoms led him down the path to discovering them, and he has since become a one-man HTLV encyclopedia, and quite possibly the nation’s foremost expert on the subject. His story begins decades ago, when he emerged relatively unscathed from a risky period of experimenting with injectable drugs—a newly emerging activity in the 1960s. Though he contracted hepatitis C, he’s amazed and grateful he didn’t get anything worse. But about five years ago, his luck ran out. “I was drug free and smoke free by then,” he explains, “and I hadn’t gotten 88 whole living ChronograM 5/10
HIV. I had a friend I had known a long time, and I was thinking it might be nice to have a child with her. I knew she had been in jail, related to a drug habit, but she said she didn’t have HIV. So I took a chance and had unprotected sex with her.” Within a few weeks, Engnath began having symptoms. “The first thing I got was swollen glands in my throat and neck, like a mild case of mumps, but it spread to other lymph nodes in my underarms, shoulders, and groin, and into other areas, and I got mild otitis, earache.” With those and other problems, Engnath wondered if he’d gotten HIV after all. But his HIV tests kept coming back negative while symptoms kept progressing. An infectious disease specialist told him it was just his imagination. But Engnath kept looking for answers. “Four months into this, I was on the phone with the Albany Medical Center, and someone at the HIV center said it could be HTLV-1 or HTLV-2. I had never heard of them. I got the medical librarians to download scores of papers about these viruses for me. [Engnath doesn’t have a computer.] There is a lot of research information out there, and some of it said that seroconversion time, when the viruses can be detected in blood, can take up to two years.” The HTLV Info Void Over the next several months Engnath visited doctors to get tested periodically, and found that each time he needed to explain what HTLVs were and that tests did actually exist. “I got a local doctor to test for HTLVs four months into my illness, but it came back negative. At seven months I went to an infectious disease doctor in Poughkeepsie, but he wasn’t willing to order the HTLV test again since it had already been negative. At eleven months I went back to the office of the doctor where I first was tested, but he had left the practice and the remaining staff knew little about it and wouldn’t test me. They told me they didn’t want me to come back anymore.” Finally he convinced an infectious disease doctor in Monticello to test him again for HTLVs, and in January 2006 it came back positive. A more advanced test, through a doctor in Albany, came back positive, for HTLV-2.
Little is known about what HTLV-2 does in the body, but Engnath knows what it’s done to him in just a few years. He describes it as a core syndrome that’s very nasty, with infections and intermittent painful arthritis, slowly progressing neurological problems, and chronic fatigue. He has tinnitus, a constant ringing in both ears that worsens with posture and blood pressure changes, and he has vertigo. About two years ago he developed pain and pressure around the eye, with blurred vision—a condition called uveitis. His hepatitis C has started to become a problem. “None of these symptoms are completely incapacitating, but they are very disturbing,” he says. And when they are at their worst, he gets angry that public information about these is nonexistent, even though for decades their capacity to cause illness has been known. “If I’d known about HTLVs, I would have gotten tested before I had unprotected sex, and I could have asked her to get tested too.” The Nature of the Beast HTLVs are transmitted between people when cells from an infected person come into contact with T-cells of another person. Such cell-to-cell transfer can happen through blood-to-blood contact, such as by sharing drug injection needles or receiving unscreened blood or organs (donors in the US have been screened for HTLV since 1988), and also by sexual intercourse. Infected mothers can pass the virus to offspring in breast milk. Once infected, most people appear to have little indication of it. But over time, in some people, HTLV-1 can cause adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), also called adult lymphotropic leukemia (ATL). In this aggressive disease, poorly functioning immune cells collect in skin, lymph nodes, and vital organs, causing swollen lymph nodes, an enlarged spleen and liver, skin rashes, increased infections, and chronic fatigue. With chemotherapy, remission rates are as high as 80 percent, but recurrence is common within a few years, and secondary malignancies may show up years later. The HTLVs can also trigger autoimmunity, where the body’s immune system
attacks and damages normal tissues. HTLV-1 has been blamed for a syndrome of progressive nerve cell damage, causing muscle spasms and stiffness or weakness especially in the legs—a condition first dubbed tropical spastic paraparesis because it was first encountered in equatorial areas of the world; it now also goes by HAM (HTLV-1 associated myelopathy). This condition is rarely fatal but diminishes quality of life; it effects an estimated 1 percent of HTLV-1 carriers. HTLV-2 appears to be associated with autoimmune problems and some cases of leukemia, but is poorly understood. Who’s Carrying? In the US, the National Institutes of Health estimated in 2007 that about 300,000 people were carriers of HTLVs. But with no routine testing or reporting, there is no way to know. It is likely that infection rates are higher in intravenous drug users: a sampling in 1991 of a few hundred people in drug rehab programs found infection rates to be 20 percent in Los Angeles; about 10 percent in New York City, Chicago, and San Antonio; and 5 percent in New Jersey. Some people are coinfected with HIV and one HTLV or both; the long-term impact of coinfection is unclear. Without screening and education programs in place, infection rates are likely to go up. HTLVs infect an estimated 35 million people worldwide and are found over much of the globe, from remote tribes such as Australian Aboriginals to modern urban populations. In some areas, such as Japan, the Caribbean, parts of South and Central America, and West Africa, the viruses are considered endemic, always present in up to about 10 percent of the population. It appears these viruses have been piggybacking on human cells for as long as 50,000 years, and likely came from monkeys, who harbor closely related simian T-cell leukemia viruses. (By contrast, HIV is suspected to have crossed to humans from chimpanzees in recent decades.) In the last few years, two new HTLV types were found in people around Cameroon; those viruses are nearly identical to monkey viruses in parts of Africa and Asia. 5/10 ChronograM whole living 89
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And though education campaigns are rare (but Japan and Brazil have them), research on the viruses is vibrant: in 2007, 350 researchers gathered at the 13th International Conference on Human Retrovirology in Tokyo to share their research findings on HTLV-1. Even so, huge gaps in information remain, and little translation to everyday public health efforts is visible. A Mission Emerges The Lymphoma Research Foundation appears to be the only group in the US that has prepared an educational page (about HTLV-1 and leukemia) for the public. No governmental health agency has citizen awareness materials, websites, or campaigns. Stunned by this, Engnath writes to medical personnel and public officials and federal agencies (including Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Reform office), collects the latest research papers, compiles and memorizes data, files Freedom of Information Act requests to scour national records, visits local newspaper and magazine publishers bringing stacks of documents, and more. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s started the National HTLV Registry in Kingston, which some people have now heard of. Using his own funds, Engnath has created a poster about the virusesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though it is overly packed with lingo that most people wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand. But some people have contacted him, and he knows of seven people in the Kingston area who have tested positive for HTLV. Engnath is hoping to convince a politician to sponsor three items of legislation in New York state, though no bills are currently in development. The first proposal would authorize and fund NY State Department of Health to develop and disseminate HTLV literature, at an estimated cost of $3.5 million. Engnath laments, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realize that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in recession and the state is close to bankruptcy, so there might be difficulty passing such a bill because of the cost, even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly necessary.â&#x20AC;? A second tactic Engnath suggests, at a cost of about half a million, is to authorize the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Corrections to screen inmates for HTLV and its symptoms, as is currently done with HIV. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 80 percent of inmates nationwide are arrested for drug use or sex, so they are in the high-risk population,â&#x20AC;? reasons Engnath. â&#x20AC;&#x153;STD studies from the 1990s show three times the national rate in inmates, and 8 to 20 times higher rate of hepatitis than in the general population, so HTLV could be more prevalent among this population.â&#x20AC;? His third idea would, in theory, cost nothing: adding HTLVs to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of reportable infectious diseases, which would spur doctors to report confirmed cases (and also make them aware of the pathogens). Another goal would be to get the viruses on the Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases List, so that any cases nationwide would be reported as they are for HIV and many other pathogens. To accomplish that, a member of CSTE, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, would need to first create a standard case definition for the viruses, to then be reviewed and voted upon for inclusion on the list at the CSTE annual meeting. If added to the list, HTLV cases would be reported by doctors or testing labs to their state health departments, which would notify the Center for Disease Control.
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
A Woman’s Life Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
This past weekend a small group of moms gathered in my living room to celebrate another mom who is about to have Baby #2. Up in these parts, a Native American-inspired “blessingway” is often offered as a more meaningful alternative to the onesie-fests new moms often receive. Not that clothes and other gifts aren’t awesome, and freely given when someone has a baby—they certainly are, as well as a ton of home-cooked meals—but a blessingway is a quieter way for women to be together, offer their love and support to the woman about to give birth, and do groovy things like introduce ourselves as daughter of so-and-so, and mother of so-and-so, calling together the generations of mothers who came before us. This was my first blessingway, and I was nervous to be hosting it, a little uncomfortable with the potential flake-factor, to be honest. But I was excited to check it out, and—better yet—in the comfort of my own home. Turns out, I was really moved by the whole thing. One of the coolest parts was when we all gave our pregnant friend the bead we had chosen for her to string together into a necklace, infused with the strength of her female friends. We went around the room and described why we chose this bead for this woman, which led, as it should, to passionate odes to the mom-to-be, reminding her that she has what it takes to push the baby out. I have always had close girlfriends and I’ve never been shy to depend upon them. But when I had my baby, I was the first of my friends to take the plunge. Of course I got loads of love from all of them, (not to mention plenty of Holy s**t, look at your belly!!!!) They just weren’t in a position to inspire confidence in me as a birthing creature. And neither was I. Looking back at the difficulty that I did, in fact, have giving birth, I can see now that at least part of the problem was the medicalization of the birthing process; from being induced, to the epidural, to the discovery that I was allergic to pretty much every drug they gave me, to the C-section, to the infected wound, it was one intervention after another. So, that was a real drag. It is important to say, though, that I don’t really feel like a victim because I never, ever wanted a home birth, a drug-free birth, or any other kind of birth that involved feeling the pain more than absolutely necessary. I chose that medical model. I am pretty tough in lots of ways. My idea of a good time is sitting still, for days and days, through every possible state of body and mind. I can tell a teenager behind a cash register to get off his phone and focus. Fearless! But when it came to having a baby, I was terrified of the pain, and ready to give it up for the doctors. I had no interest in practicing that part of being a woman. My point here is not about birth plans, per se.When it comes to such a personal terrain, to each her own, I say. But what I am looking at is shedding light 92 whole living ChronograM 5/10
on the choices I make and the limits I set for myself because, in the end, what else is there? For instance, now I can see how growing up in a house ruled by various manifestations of male power—from the bread-winning (and losing) dad, to the older brothers who controlled the remote, me, and everything in between, to the violence, the threats of violence, the distance, and the fear of distance, to the thwarted mom—made me incredibly ambivalent about being a girl in the world, wanting and loathing power at the same time. I think one of the reasons Zen really hooked me was because it is so macho, so boy-ish, so patriarchal, and yet the whole hard-core goal was to sit, cross-legged, on the floor, in silence, and to feel your body, free your mind, and tenderize your heart. A ridiculous contradiction, but perfect for the tension I grew up feeling. I am glad my polarizing reactivity led me to Zen, but it has closed the door on some other things that could have actually taught me or helped me grow, or even heal from the wounds that have given me so much fight in the first place. In other words, as much as I love being a woman, as I get older, I see how much I hate it, too. A deep and primal resistance to doing the things women often do. Like have babies. Get soft(er) around the middle. Be moms. As everyone has most certainly noticed, spring is here. My yard is coming alive—yellow first, the pinks and reds and oranges on their way. As I sniff around my tiny garden, I keep thinking about how two of the women at the blessingway brought beads for our friend that symbolized rebirth. They talked about how becoming a mother is like the shedding of an old life and the opening of a new one. I know what they mean. I look at the daffodils, opening themselves so completely, without a single thought or fear, and I know they were there last year, too, but they are not the same beings. Rebirth is not a repetition. I see Azalea in her footed pajamas, climbing up to sit on the kitchen counter, then crossing her legs, pursing her lips a little bit, then saying, in answer to a question I posed, “Hmmm…..that’s a tricky one.” Absolutely nothing is the same. I am changing all the time too. I look in the mirror—ah, the same, only different. I go about my business, taking care of the things within my reach. And trying to stretch my reach, a tiny bit, all the time, as I can. And even though I will probably not be pushing any more babies out, there are still plenty of opportunities to settle into that pure, raw state of transformation. More and more, I can see that I have everything I need. There isn’t much I have to do, or change, or fix. Just relax. Relax into the whole thing: my beautiful daughter, my hard work, the woods, my marriage, the sky, practice. This feminine body. This woman’s life.
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Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage — Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Vesa Byrnes, LMT
Dr. Kristen Jemiolo
New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change Your Outlook. Gain Control. Make Healthier Choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 hvtmassage@gmail.com
Integrated Kabbalistic Healing
(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.
Life & Career Coaching Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.
Mark Oppenheimer, Personal Choice Coach (845) 677-0484 innergarden@aol.com
Do you have chronic neck, back or shoulder problems? Headaches? Numbness or tingling? Or do you just need to relax? Utilizing a blend of soft tissue therapies, we can help you resume the activities you need to do and love to do with freedom from discomfort and pain.
Joan Apter
Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. For information, contact Joan Apter.
dylana accolla m.s.,l.aC. 19 years of experience – Trained in China Fertility Specialist & Hormone Balancing Auto-immune issues Chronic degenerative illness Ravages of Stress
daccolla@gmail.com 303 Fair Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, New York 12401 845.853.7353
Holistic Orthodontics in a Magical Setting Fixed Braces Functional Appliances ∙ Invisalign Sleep Apnea Appliances Cranial Adjustments at every visit Children and Adults Insurance Accepted ∙ Payment Plans Rhoney Stanley CertAcup, RD, DDS, MPH 107 Fish Creek Road | Saugerties, NY 12477 2 miles from NYS87 exit 20 0.5 miles from 212 845-246-2729 | 212-912-1212 (cell) www.holisticortho.com rhoney.stanley@gmail.com
Sacred Space Earth Awareness, Healing Arts, and Movement DONNA BRICKWOOD, LMT
Massage Therapy, Yoga Hikes, Nature Workshops, Custom Programs for Kids and Adults 845-742-8494 New Windsor & Beacon Locations Serving the Hudson Valley
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For events calendar: www.meetup.com/SacredSpace www.seeksacredspace.com
Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
Menopause Treatment Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com
Consultations by Gail Petronio Internationally Renowned Psychic Over 20 years Experience Sessions In-Person or By Phone
845.626.4895 212.714.8125
www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
Helping women to move through the process of menopause with ease. A unique blend of healing modalities, nutrition and self-care techniques are utilized to help you to become balanced through this transition. If you need assistance becoming your vibrant self call or e-mail for a consultation.
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Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).
Hypnosis
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“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.” —Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations
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Stone Ridge Healing Arts
www.zweigtherapy.com
EACHER
Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D.
1081 High Falls Road, Catskill, NY (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com
Osteopathy
julieezweig@gmail.com
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Womanway
35 years experience as holistic out of hospital - homebirth midwife NYS licensed and certified. 100 mi radius from Catskill NY, serves informed committed women who desire homebirth services.
Imago Relationship Therapy
Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events
Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.
Physicians Hometown Pediatrician 7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1667 www.yourhometownpediatrician.com edwarddoc@aol.com
Pilates
johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420
Conscious Body Pilates 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi-
Board Cer tified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
298-6060
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MOST INSURANCE ACCEPTED INCLUDING MEDICARE, NO FAULT, AND WORKER’S COMPENSATION
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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.
Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933
Pilates with Claudia, Inc.
Janne Dooley, Brigid’s Well
Garrison, NY (914) 953-0622 www.pilateswithclaudia.com
New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com JanneDooley@gmail.com
Red Hook Body Be Well offers an inviting space that provides people with the opportunity to take group classes ~ Pilates mat, yoga, sculpting, stretch ‘n’ meditate, and zumba. We also have Pilates on the Reformer where private, semi-private, and group Reformer sessions are available. Right next door is the women’s gym where women can work out individually anytime between 5am and 11pm.
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Hoon J. Park, MD, P.C.
Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
Red Hook Body Be Well
Acupuncture by M.D.
Psychologists
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Free monthly newsletter. Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, codependency, inner child work, EMDR, and Brainspotting. Janne also coaches parents and people in life transitions. Programs of Brigid’s Well: Mindful Parenting and Living Serenity. Facebook Group: Brigid’s Well
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613
Psychically Speaking
Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor
(845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com
Lynn Walcutt (845) 384-6787
Laura Coffey, MFA, LMSW Rosendale & Beacon, NY (845) 399-0319 undefinedreading@gmail.com Family Therapist specializing in Narrative Therapy. Practice includes eclectic interventions tailored to suit individual client’s needs. Healing conversations for the entire family, gerentological services for the elderly and support for caretakers. Grief counseling, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, couples work, LGBT issues, PTSD and childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and performance anxiety. Fee: $25 a clinical hour.
Structural Integration Charles Ruland Woodstock, NY (845)532-1323 www.rolf.pro zber@hotmail.com Dr. Rolf Method of Structural Integration is a series of myofascial sessions designed to balance your body in gravity, improve posture and release long held tension in your body and mind. Charles Ruland NYS LMT since 1983, Structural Bodywork since 1986, Cert. Zero Balancing Teacher, Cert. BodyMind Practitioner.
Tarot
Residential Care Always There Home Care (845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org
Mountain Valley Manor Adult Home 397 Wilbur Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1254 www.mountainvalleymanor.com
Resorts & Spas Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com
Marlene Weber Day Spa 751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com
Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change, in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River, Gelek Rimpoche: Death and Dying — How to Handle Spiritually, May 28-31, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: The Path of Liberation — Milarepa’s Songs of Realization, June 29-July 4
Spiritual Reverend Diane Epstein 670 Aaron Ct., Kingston, NY (914) 466-0090 www.hudsonvalleyinterfaithminister.com
The Metaphysical Center for Arts & Sciences (845) 471-4993 www.themetaphysicalcenter.org themetacenter@aol.com
215 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, NY (914) 232-0382 www.awakeningskatonah.com
Tarot-on-the-Hudson‚ Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com
Clairvoyant
Readings, Classes, Animal Communication By Phone & In Person by appointment
845.384.6787
EDWARD. F. ROSSI, MD
Your Hometown PediatricianPLLC PEDIATRIC & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
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A unique approach of integrative pediatric medicine for your child’s healthcare
The Journey Within Spiritualist National Union Church 25 Carr Street, Pompton Lakes, NJ (973) 616-9685 www.journeywithin.org info@journeywithin.org A Spiritual community dedicated to letting you search for the truth within your own heart. This May we are pleased to be hosting classes with British Mediums Mavis Pitilla and Simon James and Canadian Medium Brian Robertson. Please see our website for details. May 8th, 7:30pm: Where Two Worlds Meet, an Evening of Spirit Communication with our British and Canadian guests joining Rev. Janet Nohavec and Spirit Artist Joseph Shiel. Tickets $35, reservations required.
845-544-1667 7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY 10990 • email: edwarddoc@aol.com www.yourhometownpediatrician.com Affiliated with NYU and Mount Sinai
Yoga Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Lenox, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org
Studio 208 208 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-1208 www.studio208hudson.com
Yoga Nude in Albany Albany County, NY (518)577-8172 www.yoganudeinalbany.com yoganudeinalbany@yahoo.como ...A Healing Modality... Transcend body & mind. Transcend societal & religious negativity around the body.Experience your sensual self with naked bodies flowing in movement ignited by their ujjaji breaths. Private sessions for couples or individuals.
Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP
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The new Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa resides in the heart of the historic artists colony of Woodstock NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects Gallery provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two bedroom apartments conjoined to a 2000 sq ft cedar and glass enclosed climate controlled spa with 40' saline pool, 64 jet jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna. Enjoy a leisurely poolside bar brunch or order an organic gourmet candlelight dinner prepared by your host French chef Lio Magat– sommelier for famed international chef Paul Bocuse. Bienvenue et bon appetit!
Awakenings
Lynn Walcutt, LMSW
Spring has Sprung! Come and stock up on yummy beverages
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Shedding Some Light Photographic technology is developing faster than a bacteria colony in a petri dish. Hand-held flashes now mate with high-resolution digital cameras while computer software allows us to manipulate images into anything the mind conjures. But for Nat Trotman, curator of Barrett Art Center’s 23rd national juried exhibition “Photowork ’10,” the images were not judged on what contemporary category they should be assigned to, critiqued on, or marveled over. Trotman judged, instead, their ability to affect emotion. When presented with nearly 1,000 photographs, Trotman, who’s also associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum, selected 60. “It was done very instinctually. The theme grew out of the works submitted. A lot had a forlorn quality. Not sad, exactly, but a sense of melancholy that I’m admittedly into,” says Trotman. At the Guggenheim currently is an exhibition Trotman curated which dovetails with “Photowork ’10.” “Haunted” documents the contemporary obsession with accessing the past through photographic technique and subject matter. Out of a wide array of topics, Trotman chose to narrow his focus to portraiture and architecture for “Photowork ’10.” Trotman chose many images of abandoned spaces. Trotman explains that he was drawn to a photograph’s “particular mood.” One photographer, Shannon Kolvitz of Baton Rouge, received an honorable mention in the show, for capturing the symmetrical image of two houses at night. The photo carries the staged warmth of a set. The windows on one house are boarded up, and on the other, flags wave aimlessly above a bright porch light, as if, in some sudden abandonment, its inhabitants vanished. David H. Curtis’s Underground captures a blurry figure walking either into or out of the frame in a below-ground tunnel system; the yellow tones give it a septic atmosphere. In Jesse Aldere’s Cold Climate, a faded glimpse of a gas station parking lot overlays a mist-filled forest like a Stephen King novel is about to unfold. “These pictures really make you think. It’s a darker and deeper show than some,” says Laurie Clark, the exhibition director. Michael Sibilia from Hopewell Junction caught two figures on opposite corners of a cobblestone road in a noirish scene. The buildings surrounding them have barred windows and the sticky feel of heat permeates their expressions. The image, Sin Titulo, was awarded first place in the exhibition. An interesting by-product of the anonymous judging by Trotman: A few of the artists have multiple works in the show (there are 60 photographs and 50 photographers). By chance, 15 of the photographers are local, including Kelly Merchant of High Falls and Mark Lyon of Marlboro (whose work is featured on the cover of this issue). “Photowork ’10” will be displayed at the Barrett Art Center through May 15. On the upper level of BAC there will also be featured work by the former Photography Critique Seminar Group. Running parallel to these exhibits, the Mill Street Loft will have two showings: the seventh annual Exposure Exhibition, featuring regional high school students, and “Twisted Photos,” showcasing works by former Mill Street Loft alumni. All exhibitions will have opening receptions on April 17. “Photowork ’10” will run from 4pm to 6pm and Mill Street Loft’s will begin at 5:30pm. (845) 471-2550; www.barrettartcenter.org; www.millstreetloft.org.
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SATURDAY 1 Art Works by Phillippe Parreno 1pm-4pm. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale. 758-7598. The Wow of Now: The Art of Being in the Moment 4pm-7pm. Paintings by Letitia Splain Dayer. Small Gallery at Valley Artisans Market, Cambridge. (518) 677-2765. Open Studio and Book Signing 5pm-7pm. Author Jeffery Milstein "Cuba". Uptown Studio, Kingston. 331-3111. Sakura in the Wind 5pm-7pm. Recent images from Japan by photographer Joan Lonergan. The Working Gallery, Woodstock. 532-6915. The Home Show 5pm-7pm. Paintings by Tricia Wright revolving around our complex relationship with the home. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art. Kmoca.org. Watercolors: Mary Whitehill 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
3rd Annual Beltane Festival 11am. Workshops, performances, the maypole, food, and fun. $35. Camp Olmsted, Cornwall. Family Fest 11am-3pm. Focus on family life, childcare, health, education, entertainment, family travel, community events. Dutchess Stadium, Wappingers Falls. 296-0001 ext. 104. So, You Think You Can Sing? Local Vocals Talent Contest 2pm. Talent showcase of 13 vocalists vying for cash prizes to benefit St John Bosco Child & Family Services. $10. Wallkill Senior High School, Wallkill. 542-0835. Wickets and Wine 4pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. New Moon Reopening Party 5pm. Meet the readers, healers & teachers & enjoy specials. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Collective Unconscious 8pm. A benefit for the Rosendale Theater Collective starring Melissa Leo, Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine, and Lori Wilner. $20/$15 in advance. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Breaking Down the Walls 5pm-8pm. Art by young people facing challenges: physical, mental, or environmental. Seven21 Gallery, Kingston. 331-7956.
Wickets and Wine 4pm-6pm. The "opening" of Historic Huguenot Street. A game of croquet, wine, and homemade lemonade. $12/$10. The Deyo House on Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 440-0068.
Square Deal 5pm-8pm. Members' exhibit. ASK, Kingston. 338-0331.
Film
Vermont Reflections 5pm-8pm. Works by Prue See. ASK, Kingston. 338-0031. Mark, Paper, Scissors 6pm-8pm. Featuring works by Jason Gubbiotti, Travis Head, Nancy Murphy Spicer, Mia Pearlman, Adie Russell, Erik Schoonebeek & Tamara Zahaykevich. Roos Arts, Rosendale. info@roosarts.com. Upstate II 6pm-8pm. Highlighting the work of four accomplished artists who live or work in the area, but who have had limited regional exposure. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090. McWillie Chambers: New Paintings 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. See Without Fear 6pm-9pm. Sculpture by Tony Moore. Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon. 440-0068. Sensing Space 6pm-9pm. Group exhibition that explores and investigates issues of artist's interpretations, creative reactions and/ or relationships to our natural and physical environments. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119. Liminal Spaces 5pm-9pm. Opening reception for Nuie Reith's new artwork. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Nature: Photography Exhibition 7pm-10pm. Opening Reception with live folk music. Wings Gallery, Rosendale.(646) 229-7889.
Body / Mind / Spirit Darma Punx Hudson Valley Gathering Call for times. Meditation, dharma talks and discussion yoga, hiking, vegetarian community pot luck meals, and field trips to local monasteries. $85 with accomodations/$25 commuters. Mount Tremper. 750-5789. 10th Annual Women's Health and Fitness Expo 7am-5pm. Over 150 exhibits. 20+, free health screenings, seminars, workshops, demos. Tech City, Kingston. www.womenshealthexpo.com.
Classes Watercolor Class by Lucinda Knaus Call for times. 6 weekly classes. $150 series. Cabane Studios Fine Art Gallery and Photography, Phoenicia. 688-5490.
Dance
Zero Film Festival 2pm-10pm. $20/$6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Kids Choose Your Own Ending: Storytelling and Bookmaking Call for times. Ages 4-8. Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480.
Music Met Live in HD: Armida Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Andrew Rosborough 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Local Vocals Talent Showcase 2pm. Wallkill Senior High School, Wallkill. 542-0835. Music for Wellness: An Intro to the Diamond Method 2pm-4pm. $45/$40. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Blues Blowout: Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin & Willie Big Eyes Smith 7pm. Opening act: Pura Fe. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 822-2027. Upstage NY Community Coffeehouse 7pm. $5. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Red Peralta - Rebel Red 7pm. Roots music. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. Iris Dement 7:30pm. With special guest Bruce Robison. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Jerome Sabbagh Quartet 7:30pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. The Mahavishnu Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Betty MacDonald CD Release Concert 8pm. $20. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Christine Spero Group 8pm. Jazz. Riccardi's Hideaway, Kingston. 338-0554. Cream of the Capital Double Duos 8pm. Mike Benedict on vibes with Keith Pray on alto sax, Briean Patneaude on tenor sax with Mike Lawrence, bass, pre-concert talk at 7pm. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.
Argentine Tango Workshops & Milonga Call for times. Afternoon workshops, evening milango with Junior Cervila & Natalia Royo. $20-$95 workshops/$15 milango only. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Bruch's Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Faure's, Masques et Bergamasques, and Delius' Walk to Paradise Garden. $20/$5 students. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045.
Celebrating Hudson 8pm. $15. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Living with Elephants 8pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 8pm. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Barefoot, smoke-, drug-, alcohol-free. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Events Women's Health Expo Call for times. $8/$7 students, seniors, online reg./ children free. Tech City, Kingston. 802-7025 World Laughter Day 2010 Call for times. Downtown Rhinebeck, 516-4330. Sharing Shabbat 9am. Light breakfast and engage in Torah Study with Rabbi Polish. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. Canoe Meadows Clean-Up Day 9am-1pm. Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0320.
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Hippy Nuts 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. Blues Buddha Band 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. The Stoners 9:30pm. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188. Brahms for a Season 8pm. $18/$15/$5. Camerata Chorale, Ulster Choral Society, and Choral Union Bach-Handel Festival Orchestra present a season of Brahm. Featuring "Ein deutsches Requiem" and "Alto Rhapsody." Overlook United Methodist Church, Woodstock. 256-1290. RE:Vision 8pm. Live performance featuring video, music, and dance with Forward Motion Theater. With Wetcircuit and Mikhail Torich. $15/$10 students. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Paddle the Wappinger Creek 10am. 7 miles. Pleasant Valley Town Hall, Pleasant Valley. 297-5126. Singles and Sociables Hike: Mohonk Loop 10am-3pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Spring Bike Check and Ride 10am-1pm. Ages 8 and up. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word 52 Loaves by Bill Alexander 11am. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857. 52 Loaves by Bill Alexander 2pm. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665. Anne Heller 4pm. Discussing her new book Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Reception with author at 5:15pm. $15 reception. Tracy Memorial Hall, Chatham. (518) 392-9477.
Outside the Tent 7pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Cummings & Goings 7:30pm. Poetry and theater. $12/$7 students. Blooming Grove United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove. 733-4309. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. $15/$12 students and seniors/$10 NPHS. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9657. Beyond Therapy 8pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions. $15/$12 students and seniors. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Babes in Arms 8pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Penny Penniworth 8pm. River Valley Rep, with talk back and reception. $50. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.
Workshops The Art of Being You Workshop Call for times. Claudia Stein: free your true voice and claim your power. $305/$280 members. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001. Creative Writing Workshop 1:30pm-3:30pm. Iris Litt. 5 sessions on alternate Saturdays. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Future Self Activation 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
SUNDAY 2
The People's Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943.
Maine Attraction 1pm-5pm. Coastal interpretations by 13 artists. Studio at Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. 469-9168.
Pearl, Scott Ian, Back-Up Band, Planeside, Beneath The Fallen 8:30pm. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.
ECK Worship Service 2pm-3pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. (800) 749-7791 ext. 2.
Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Life Drawing Workshop 10am-1pm. $135/$120 series, $10 session. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Dance Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 5pm-6pm, Intermediate Level: 6pm-7:30. New Paltz, New Paltz. (518) 537-2589. El Baile! Call for times. Tango, salsa, latin, swing-afternoon workshops, evening dance party. $15 class and dance/$10 dance. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Celebrating Hudson 2pm. $15. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Lord of the Dance 3pm. Irish dance. 420-$50. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Swing Dance 6pm-9pm. Beginners' lesson at 6pm, dance to a DJ 6:30-9. $8/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Events
2nd Annual Spring Sprint 5K Trail Run 10am-12pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4400 ext. 273.
The Day They Stole Mother's Day 5pm. Performed by Word Salad. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.
Pearl 8pm. Rock. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.
Chris O'Leary Band CD Release 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Live Music Vinyasa Yoga Class 11:30am-1pm. $15/$5 donation for music. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Theater
Artist's Way Cluster 11am-1pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Mixed Level Dharma Yoga 11:30am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Big Pancake Breakfast 8am-11am. $7/$4 children. Rhinecliff Firehouse, Rhinecliff. 876-6149.
Art
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Schumann, Faure, Delius, Bruch. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045.
The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.
Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring T. G. Vanini. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.
Patrick Ball 8pm. Celtic. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
We Must Be 8pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Guided Meditation/Transformation 11am-12:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Patrick Casey: Oil Paintings 3pm-5pm. Old Catham Country Store and CafĂŠ Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227. Heinz & Elizabeth Meng Wildlife Gallery Exhibit 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Petals and Wings 4pm-6pm. Photographs by local artist Diane Grant Melnick. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.
Body / Mind / Spirit Beginning Level Dharma Yoga 10am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Miles of Hope Spring Brunch 11:30am-2:30pm. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. info@milesofhope.org. Spring Benefit 2010 11:30am-6pm. Trisha Brown Dance Company, refreshments, Lunch, children's program, gallery tour. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Eleanor Roosevelt Knit-In 1pm-5pm. Henry A. Wallace Educational and Visitors Center, Hyde Park. 229-7711. 10th Anniversary: A Decade of Preservation 3pm-7pm. Guided walking tour of Peach Hill Park will be lead by guest speaker Elizabeth Ryan of Breezy, followed by special tribute will be held to honor Pauline Taricco, dinner. $60/$20 children. Call for location. 849-1675.
Music Melinda DiMaio 1pm. Jazz. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Vassar College Community and Wind Ensemble 2pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902. A Salute to Broadway 3pm. Mid Hudson Women's Chorus spring concert. $7/$6 students and seniors. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Bruch's Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Faure's, Masques et Bergamasques, and Delius' Walk to Paradise Garden. $20/$5 students. Reformed Church, Saugerties. 246-7045. Bach B Minor Mass 3pm. Putnam Chorale. Temple Beth Elohim, Brewster. www.putnamchorale.org. Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. West Point Brass. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Schumann, Faure, Delius, Bruch. Saugerties Reformed Church, Saugerties. 246-7045. Mike & Ruthy 4pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. A Montage of Melodies 4pm. Helping Haiti Heal benefit featuring Poughkeepsie High School Choir, First Baptist Chancel and Bell Choirs and the Poughkeepsie Boys Choir. $5/$3 children. First Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-1340. Vassar Camerata 7pm. Music of Josquin, Tallis, Byrd, Arcadelt, Monteverdi, and, with orchestra, Lully's De Profundis. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902. Carolina Chocolate Drops with Guy Davis 7:30pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
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Bob Crawford, Scott Avett, and Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers, who will be performing at Mountain Jam in Hunter the weekend of June 4.
Twang on the Mountain While the Avett Brothers have relished the success of their major-label hit, 2009’s I and Love and You, bassist Bob Crawford says the trio will always uphold core principles: honesty in songwriting, devotion to family, and a passion for playing at music festivals. One festival in particular—the three-day Sixth Annual Mountain Jam at Hunter Mountain—has them pretty ecstatic. “We’re psyched to be playing there,” says Crawford. “Michael Franti, Les Claypool—people will sample different flavors and everyone does their own thing.” Doing your own thing isn’t a novel concept for the Charlotte, North Carolina, outfit. Since their 2001 debut, the Brothers (Crawford, vocalist/guitarist Seth Avett, vocalist/ banjoist Scott Avett) have utilized nearly every genre in their arsenal—blues, folk, punk, pop—to create a twangy, hybrid sound that’s almost unmistakable. It’s carried the band through five full-length albums and two EPs for the Ramseur Records label, eventually earning them a huge break at Columbia Records under super-producer Rick Rubin. “I think he just gets it,” said Crawford of Rubin in an interview last year. “What little bit of music you can have to support the words, he sees the same thing that he saw in Johnny Cash…honest American music. “The key to our songwriting is that each word holds weight,” insists Crawford. “Just call it an economy of words. We know what each song should be.” For the Brothers, confidence is an essential ingredient to making things work—in their personal lives as well as professional. All three are married, with Scott and Crawford each fathering a young daughter. Admittedly, the distance from family has put a smidgeon of sadness on their otherwise terrific world tour. “We’re not home enough,” says Crawford. “The fans are great, but
touring sometimes takes its toll and we miss our families.” So how about a social life? “It’s pretty low-key,” says Crawford, who admits to favoring healthy diet and exercise over typical rock ’n’ roll excess. “We don’t have a problem partying occasionally, but we’ve seen what other bands do and we’ve made our own mistakes. Three years ago we started to calm down and take care of ourselves.” Though the band clearly yearns for the comfort of the Carolinas, they don’t often hesitate to find homes away from home—one of which has been upstate New York. From gigs in Poughkeepsie to Woodstock to Ithaca, the Brothers take solace in the New York crowds that, Crawford says, show as much love as the ones down south. “We’ve always been embraced here,” he says. “There were the Grass Roots festivals, the Blue Heron festivals, gigs at Cornell. Everyone is alike and shows the same enthusiasm.” That enthusiasm, says Crawford, is much of the band looks forward to at Mountain Jam—an event to be filled with veteran superstars such as Levon Helm, Derek Trucks, and Alison Krauss, as well as buzz-worthy newbies such as Van Ghost, These United States, and The McLovins. Still, the notion of making it big might be forever lost on the Avett Brothers. “We see a friend on the street and he’s like, ‘You’ve made it,’ but we never feel it,” says Crawford. “What have we made? For us, it’s always about what’s next.” Mountain Jam will be held at Hunter Mountain June 4 through June 6. www.mountainjam.com. —Darren Ratner 5/10 ChronograM forecast 101
The Bobs 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Fundraiser for John Wirtz 8pm. Dog on Fleas reunited with The Fighting McKenzieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Film Planet of the Apes 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Music
Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Drumming Circle 6:30pm. $10. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Brahms for a Season 4pm. $18/$15/$5. Camerata Chorale, Ulster Choral Society, and Choral Union Bach-Handel Festival Orchestra present a season of Brahm. Featuring "Ein deutsches Requiem" and "Alto Rhapsody." Poughkeepsie United Methodist Church, Poughkeepsie. 256-1290.
Spoken Word
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Kayaking- How To Get Started Call for times. LaGrange Library, Poughkeepsie. 452-3141. Japanese Speaking Table 5pm-7pm. Instructor: Chris Robins. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Workshops After School Drama Program Call for times. High school students, presented by Walking the Dog Theater. Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092 ext. 111.
Singles and Sociables Hike: Black Rock Forest Call for times. 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Babes in Arms 2pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Penny Penniworth 2pm. River Valley Rep, with talk back and reception. $35. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. Cummings and Goings 3pm. Poetry and theater. $12/$7 students. Blooming Grove United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove. 733-4309. Outside the Tent 3pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. The Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theater of Illusion 3pm. $25/$12.50 children. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Lesson 10am-12pm. $25/$20 members +flower fee. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
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The Cary Institute is a private, not-for-profit environmental research and education organization. For more than twenty-five years, our scientists have been investigating air and water pollution, climate change, invasive species, and disease ecology. We welcome visitors to explore parts of our 2,000 acre research campus! Go bird watching in a meadow, hike along Wappinger Creek, or relax on the Fern Glen observation deck. We also offer free lectures, free weekend education programs, and an ecology day camp for children. To learn more, visit www. caryinstitute.org The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. in Millbrook, N.Y.
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Soaring Crane Qigong 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 657-4137. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Soaring Crane Qigong: The Five Routines 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Frugal Health: Health and Healing on a Budget 7:30pm-8:30pm. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 810-2919.
Classes Intuitive Action Painting with Erika Larskaya 4pm-5:30pm. Ages 8 and up. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events
Needle Felting Workshop 1:30pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007.
Go Club: Japanese Culture Club 4pm-6pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Drawing From the Beginning: Portraiture 2pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Kids
Live, Laugh, Love Workshop 2pm-5pm. Workshop led by certified laughter yoga leaders. $40. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.
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Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga 10:30am. With Anne Rogers, Healing Flow Hatha Yoga. $12/$40 series. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Mommy and Me Pilates 6:30pm-7:30pm. $35 class/$225 series. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck. 876-5686. Pre-Natal Pilates Tower Class 6:30pm-7:30pm. $35 class/$225 series. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck. 876-5686. Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & the Community. Talking stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes World Music with Mamalama 10am-11am. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962. Handmade Tiles 10am-2pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Conversational Spanish 2pm-4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Acrylic Painting with Sheryl Anderson 4pm-5:30am. Ages 8-10. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962. Modern Dance 5:30pm-7:15pm. A basic, thorough, modern dance class w/ center & floor work, traveling combinations & phrases. $12. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Memoir Writing 5:30pm-7:30pm. 4 sessions. $115/$100. St. Paul's Parish Hall, Red Hook. 471-7477.
ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Open Mike Night & Songwriters Summit 6:30pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Spoken Word Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $5/members free. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Workshops LinkedIn Social Media Workshop 9am-12pm. Dutchess Chamber of Commerce. Casperkill Golf Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-1700 ext. 1000.
WEDNESDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Channeling Group 7pm-9pm. Guidance from a very wise, loving and compassionate spirit to help us on our journey. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989. Dharma Punx Hudson Valley Weekly Meditation & Discussion Meeting 7:30pm-8:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Classes Watercolor Class by Lucinda Knaus Call for times. 6 weekly classes. $150 series. Cabane Studios Fine Art Gallery and Photography, Phoenicia. 688-5490.
Dance
African Drum 6pm-7pm. $15/$12 members/$55 series of 4/$40 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Adult Hebrew Classes 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
< Other Perspectives of Abraham 8pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 489-2570.
Events Cinco de Mayo at Olana 10am. Tours will discuss the 19th century beginnings of the holiday and focus on Mexican items in Olana's collection. $9/$8. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135. National Climate Seminar 3pm. Bard College Center for Environmental Policy, Poughkeepsie. 758-7073.
Film Gender and Sexuality Studies Film and Discussion Series 7pm. Ma Vie En Rose. Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7504.
Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Youth Media-Arts Workshop 3pm-6pm. Ages 12-16. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Music SUNY Ulster Spring Community Band and Jazz Ensemble Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
The Kurt Henry Band 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. SUNY Ulster Spring Choral Music and Guitar Ensemble Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Taj Mahal 7:30pm. With special guest Catherine Russell. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The New Pornographers 8pm. $25/$20 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Spoken Word UFO Circle 6:30pm. Learn about or share local encounters with UFO researcher Bill W. PhD. $10. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Packaging Childhood 7pm-5pm. Author Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown. Berkshire Country Day School, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-3916.
Theater Loving Him is Killing Me 8pm. $34.50/$29.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Workshops Documenting Family History 10am-12pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007.
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Bard College Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers 8pm. $5. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Body / Mind / Spirit
David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. Classic rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Easy Tai Chi 10am. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
The Outdoors
Woman's Holistic Health Group 5:30pm-7pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Rhododendron Bridge and Split Rock 9:30am-1pm. 5 mile hike. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919. Tour of Maple Grove 10am-12pm. Tour an 1850s Hudson Valley Bracketed style country villa. Grounds of St. Simeon, Poughkeepsie. 471-9651.
Spoken Word Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $5. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
Workshops Painting Studio: Portrait Studio 5:30pm-8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
THURSDAY 6 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 10am. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Introductory Presentation: Have You Had a Spiritual Experience? 7:30pm-8:30pm. Discover the spiritual truth in your life through the teachings of ECKANKAR. Newburgh Mall, Newburgh. (800) 749-7791 ext. 2.
Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others Call for times. With Helvi & Richard Impola. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain 6:30pm-8pm. 4 week session. $90/$75. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Mahjan Club: Japanese Culture Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Film Independent & International Film Series 7pm. Call for film title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.
Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Landscape Yoga 5:30pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Dance The Dances of Universal Peace 7:30pm-9:30pm. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Events 2010 Silver Needle Fashion Show Call for times. Themed Fashion Democracy: fashion in our every day lives. $15-$100. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 575-3124. Berkshire Botanical Garden's 33rd Annual Plant Sale 2010 11am-5pm. Living in Nature theme. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
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Kids My Story in History: Contemporary Art in a Historical World 4pm. After school workshop for kids. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Music Concert for Keith 6pm. Featuring Secret Secret Dino Club, Young and Divine, Slam Allen and The Drive. Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck. www.concertforkeith.webs.com. Saints of the Swing 6:30pm. Jazz. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Abby Lappen 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. John Mueller 7pm. Acoustic. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. Skin Against Metal 7:30pm. Latin. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Winward Harper Sextet 7:30pm. Derrick James Quartet opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Vance Gilbert 8pm. Blues. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Back to the Garden: 1969 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Anthony Nisi 9pm. Acoustic. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Black China and Full On Falana 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Kids
Syncing LuLu 9pm. Acoustic. The Dubliner, Poughkeepsie. 454-7322.
This Pretty Planet and Mother Earth Call for times. Presented by Tom Chopin. Ages 3 and up. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
The Crossroads Band 9pm. Rock. Lia's Mountain View, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7311.
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Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
Belly Dancing by Sarah 7:30pm. 4 weeks. $59. Fishkill Recreation, Fishkill. 831-3371.
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Sonic Circus 10pm. Rock. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.
The Outdoors Mothers' Day Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Us Girls Horsemanship Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Spoken Word Artist Patricia Collins Broun 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Poetry Reading with Pauline Uchamanowicz and Howard Good 7pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Call for times. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. $15/$12 students and seniors/$10 NPHS. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9657. Heartbreak House 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. Underground at Proctors 8pm. Improvisational theatre by The Mop & Bucket Co. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisation of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. My Fair Lady 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Events
The Outdoors
Fair Trade Fair Call for times. Celebration of World Fair Trade Day. Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall, Poughkeepsie. admin@womensworkbw.com.
Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Walking Tour of Vassar College Call for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 4377405. Behind-the-Scenes Public Tour 10am. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Native American Gathering 12pm-4pm. Join the folks from the Big Indian Native American Cultural Center as they share some food, ceremony, drumming, singing and dancing. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Second Annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival 1pm-6pm. Live music, local food, shopping and cupcakes galore. Gardiner, Gardiner. 256-1122. Fundraising Event for Snuffy's Pet Food Pantry 3pm-8pm. With musical performance by Alexander Turnquist. Posie Kviat Gallery, Hudson. (917) 456-7496. Night of Middle Eastern Delights, Music, Belly Dancing, and Open Drum and Dance 6pm-9pm. To benefit the Rosendale Theatre Collective. Reservation needed for belly dance class. $30/$25 in advance. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181.
Mike & Ruthy 4pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Rondout Creek Intermediate Paddle High Falls 9am. Call for location. 883-0132.
The Callen Sisters 6pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Singles and Sociables Hike: Peterskill 9:30am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Historic Village of Woodstock Walk 10am-12pm. With the authors of Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Famous Small Town Michael Perkins and Will Nixon. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
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The Outdoors
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring Barry Wallenstein and Alison Koffler. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.
Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Fundraiser for A Horse Connection 8pm. Featuring comedian Colin Quinn. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Heartbreak House 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
Theater
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. $15/$12 students and seniors/$10 NPHS. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9657. My Fair Lady 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Growing Together Call for times. 6-week program for 2-4 year olds. Phillies Bridge Farm, Gardiner. 256-9108.
Workshops
Skyhunters/Wild Life Program with Brian Bradley 2pm. $10/$7 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Music
Workshops
Parent Child Workshops "If Color Was A Sound" 4pm-4:45pm. Little Falls School of Music & Arts Inc., Kinderhook. 822-1469.
SATURDAY 8 Art Dutchess Arts Camp: Red Hook Open House 12pm-3pm. St. Paul's Parish Hall, Red Hook. 471-7477. North of New York: The New York School in the Hudson Valley and Beyond 4pm-6pm. Kleinert/James Museum, Woodstock. 6792079. Carol Aust 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700. Landscapes 6pm-8pm. Features landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes and nature-scapes. Tivoli Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342. Kira Greene: Paintings 6pm-8pm. Posie Kviat Gallery, Hudson. (917) 456-7496. Nourishment 6pm-8pm. Paintings and sculptures by Lynn Gitter. Posie Kviat gallery, Hudson. (917) 456-7496.
Body / Mind / Spirit Living Values Education Retreat Call for times. For educators and drug rehabilitation counselors. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Health Happening II 10am-5pm. Mini-sessions including holistic chiropractic, massage, reflexology, energy healing, and more. $20. New Paltz Healing Arts, New Paltz. 255-2225. SpiritPlay Open Group 10:30am-12pm. $20/$10. Spiritplay Studio, Woodstock. 679-4140. Reiki 2 Certification 1:30pm-5pm. $150. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Of Bees, Shamans & Sacred Geometry 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 6792100. Reiki Medicine Circle 4pm-6pm. With Lorry Salluzzi Sensei. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Card Making Class 1pm. Create your own greeting cards. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
Dance Root Hoot Folk Concert and Barn Dance Jamboree 5pm-9pm. Fund raising event for Ars Choralis, Woodstock choral ensemble. Sheeley House Bed and Breakfast Barn, High Falls. 657-8314.
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Bob Franke Call for times. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007. Hudson Valley Philharmonic Call for times. With trombonist Joe Alessi. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Tejendra Majumdar Call for times. Sarod (East Indian lute) with Ray Spiegel-tabla drums. classical Ragas from India. $25. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Jon Fuller 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Robert Kopec Trio and Bennett Harris Blues Band 7:30pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. The Bertha Hope Quartet 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Bob Franke 8pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007. Colin Hay 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Contradance 8pm. With live music by The Chicken Hammers. $10/$9 members/children 1/2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121. Eric Erickson 8pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Makoto Nakura 8pm. Classical, opera. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Kairos: A Consort of Singers 8pm. Spring a cappella concert. $12/$10 seniors/$5 students. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 256-9114. Popa Chubby Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Blues and Lasers 9pm. $12/$10 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Jason Downs 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. The Jonny Monster Band 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Soul Purpose 9pm-11pm. Motown, R&B. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000. Groove Buffet 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Mustang 9:30pm. Country. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975. Full Tang 10pm. With Reptet. $8. The Black Swan, Tivoli. 757-3777.
Impressions & Elegies 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Stick Men with Tony Levin, Michael Bernier, and Pat Mastelotto 8pm. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Visual Art Workshop 1pm. Adults 50+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Kairos: A Consort of Singers 7pm. Spring a cappella concert. $12/$10 seniors/$5 students. Friends Meeting House, Poughkeepsie. 256-9114.
Springflower Walks 1pm-3:30pm. Hand Hollow, New Lebanon. (518) 781-0243.
David Holden: Friends of Comeau Under Stewardship 5pm. Talk and presentation. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.
Kids
Sundad 1pm. World. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
Rondout Creek Intermediate Paddle 9am. From Port Ben to High Falls. Call for location. 883-0132.
BEAHIVE Anniversary Party & Fundraiser 7pm-11pm. Performers, DJ, food, drinks, raffle prizes. To benefit Beacon's Community Cat Coalition. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Berkshire Botanical Garden's 33rd Annual Plant Sale 2010 9pm-5pm. Living in Nature theme. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Edible Mushroom Cultivation Workshop 9am. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116. Raising Goats 101 10am-3pm. $79. Triple H Ranch, Hudson. 339-2025. Intensive Eft Workshop 2pm-5:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
SUNDAY 9
Mohonk Pavilion & Guyot Hill 9am. Difficult 10-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 594-9545. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Compass Rock 9:30am-2:30pm. 7-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0919. Crop Gardens Easy Hike 10am. Call for location. 264-2270.
Theater Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 2pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. $15/$12 students and seniors/$10 NPHS. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9657. Heartbreak House 3pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. My Fair Lady 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MONDAY 10
Art Mother's Day Plant Sale and Art 1pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Body / Mind / Spirit Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Beginning Level Dharma Yoga 10am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Mixed Level Dharma Yoga 11:30am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing Workshop 2pm-4:30pm. With Lea & Philippe Garnier at Bliss Center. $35. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga 10:30am. With Anne Rogers, Healing Flow Hatha Yoga. $12/$40 series. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Home Circle: Spirit and Angel Communication 7pm-8:30pm. Spirituality and psychic development with medium Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes World Music with Mamalama 10am-11am. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962. Handmade Tiles 10am-2pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Conversational Spanish 2pm-4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Acrylic Painting with Sheryl Anderson 4pm-5:30am. Ages 8-10. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962. Modern Dance 5:30pm-7:15pm. A basic, thorough, modern dance class w/ center & floor work, traveling combinations & phrases. $12. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.
Dance
Life Drawing Workshop 10am-1pm. $135/$120 series, $10 session. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
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Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 5pm-6pm, Intermediate Level: 6pm-7:30. New Paltz. (518) 537-2589.
SUNY Ulster Spring String Ensemble Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
Events
Spoken Word
A Raku Experience & Tea Ceremony, Ceramics 1pm-3pm. $100/$85 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Japanese Speaking Table 5pm-7pm. Instructor: Chris Robins. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Sweet, Sparkly and Stylish: Mother's Day at Boscobel 1:30pm. House tour, fashion show & champagne reception. $40. Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison. 265-3638.
Workshops
Music Jazz at the Falls 12pm. Featuring Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fi's. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
After School Drama Program Call for times. High school students, presented by Walking the Dog Theater. Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092 ext. 111. Using the Arts to Help with Alzheimer's 5:30pm-7:30pm. Using digital cameras to record and document family relationships. $35/$20. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
art women of the hudson river school courtesy of cape ann museum. gift of jean stanley dies.
Mary Blood Mellen, Field Beach, oil on canvas on board, 24" x 33 15/16", circa 1850.
All the Ladies in the House Say “Landscape!” Most artists are forgotten after their death, but women artists are forgotten more easily. (Perhaps because most art historians are male?) This is particularly true of the Hudson River School of painting, the first native American art movement. “Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School,” the first-ever exhibition of female artists of this crowd, will come to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill on May 2. Women of the 19th century had to surmount numerous obstacles to become serious painters. To begin with, females were excluded from life-drawing classes, to shield their dainty eyes from the truths of human anatomy. Besides, the elaborate trappings of Victorian dress made outdoor excursions difficult. (Typically, Hudson River School artists scaled mountains and hiked nature paths to remote landscapes. They would make oil sketches or drawings there, then return to the studio to produce finished paintings.) “Remember the Ladies” emphasizes the achievements of women fighting the limitations of their culture. “They saw certain opportunities, and they homed in on them. So it’s very much a story of success,” observes Jennifer Krieger, co-curator of the show. Krieger is managing partner of Hawthorne Fine Art, a Manhattan gallery that specializes in Hudson River School painting. She first fell in love with this style of art while an undergraduate at Vassar College. The 25 works in the exhibition cover the entire duration of the Hudson River School, from 1825 to 1884. Canvases of this movement vary greatly in scale, from petite to movie screen size. “Remember the Ladies” is no different. One anomaly is a pair of Julie Hart Beers paintings on composition board shaped exactly like china plates. The
two views, of the Hudson and of a woodland stream, combine precise painting with the female tradition of decorating china. Two other canvases are of exotic locales: Josephine Ellis’s image of Natural Bridge in Virginia, and Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome’s “Tropical Landscape,” based on a visit to South America. After all, the Hudson River School was not a physical place so much as a way of seeing—a sensitivity to the reflective surface of a pond, the gesture of a leaning elm. Human figures are few, and usually dwarfed by trees or hills. Many of these women artists won awards, were widely exhibited, and belonged to prestigious associations like the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Krieger sees no particularly feminine style. “I don’t think there is any sort of ‘feminizing’ of the landscape in these works,” she notes. “It’s conceivable that a man could have painted them as easily as a woman.” The title of the exhibition comes from a letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John in 1776: “I desire you would Remember the Ladies…if particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion.” Admission is free from noon until 1:30 p.m. on May 2. Jennifer Krieger and co-curator Nancy Siegel will give lectures at 2pm. “Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School” will be on view at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill from May 2 through October 31. (518) 943-7465; www.thomascole.org. —Sparrow 5/10 ChronograM forecast 105
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TUESDAY 11 Art Open House for Dutchess Arts Camp & Junior Art Institute 4pm-7pm. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600.
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Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Soaring Crane Qigong 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 657-4137. Soaring Crane Qigong: The Five Routines 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Classes Intuitive Action Painting with Erika Larskaya 4pm-5:30pm. Ages 8 and up. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962. Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 281-6734. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Go Club: Japanese Culture Club 4pm-6pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Film
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Twitch and Shout 7pm. Documentary about Tourette Syndrome presented by Mental Health America of Dutchess County. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.
Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
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Phil Minissale 12pm. Young acoustic bluesman. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Open Mike Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Spoken Word
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Awosting Falls and the Trapps 9:30am-1:30pm. 5 mile hike. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Workshops Painting Studio: Portrait Studio 5:30pm-8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Random Writing Workshop with Poet Cheryl Rice 6pm-8pm. $10 session/$50 series. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Giving Conflict a Hug or a Slap: the Basics of Good Mediation 7pm. With Shari Doherty- Director of Parent Help at Child Find of America. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.
THURSDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 10am. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. With Helvi & Richard Impola. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Mahjan Club: Japanese Culture Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. David Kraai 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Spoken Word Kayaking: How To Get Started 7pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.
Workshops Documenting Family History 10am-12pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007.
Kayaking: How To Get Started 6:30pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.
Celestial Treasures
Artist Slide Talk 7:30pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
WEDNESDAY 12 Art Dutchess Arts Camp - Millbrook Open House 4pm-7pm. Dutchess Day School, Millbrook. 471-7477.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Books, Crystals, and more. Tarot, Shamanic Healing, and Energy Work.
Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
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Inner Peace, Inner Power II Call for times. Transcendence through Raja Yoga Meditation. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. IONE Reading with Memoir Quartet Call for times. Stone Ridge Healing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. Trance Journeying with Peter Blum 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes
Dharma Punx Hudson Valley Weekly Meditation & Discussion Meeting 7:30pm-8:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.
First Aid Standard 6pm-10pm. Health Quest Community Education, Poughkeepsie. 471-6618 ext. 134.
A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Zydeco Dance with Planet Zydeco 8pm-11pm. Lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.
Classes African Drum 6pm-7pm. $15/$12 members/$55 series of 4/$40 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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FRIDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit
Adult Hebrew Classes 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Events Hudson Valley Green Drinks 7pm-8:30pm. Live webcast of The State of [Local] Food. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. mce@hvgreendrinks. org.
Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Youth Media-Arts Workshop 3pm-6pm. Ages 12-16. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
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Events Mental Health America of DC Annual Meeting Luncheon 11:30am-2pm. $20. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1305. Friday Family Night 6pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Film Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision 7pm. $8. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Dirty Dancing 7:30pm. $5. Part of Movies That Rock. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Music Gabriele Tranchina CD Release 7pm. Coquito, Warwick. 544-2790.
Music
John Mueller 7pm. Acoustic. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.
Dancing On The Air 8pm. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Open Hive/New Music Salon 7pm-9pm. Hosted by Stephen Johnson. $10/$5 members. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
Patty Keough 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Community Reiki 11am-1pm. Free 20 minute Reiki treatments. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 616-1219.
Chris Cubeta's Song Writer Project 7:30pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.
Classes
The Juicy Grapes 7:30pm. Rock. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Susan Kane 8pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Bard Orchestra 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Mark Erelli 8pm. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 8pm. Rock. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh. 561-7240. Christine Lavin 8:30pm. With Buskin and Battaeu. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Ross Rice 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. Woodstock Presents Max Creek with special guest The McLovins 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500. The Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Rock. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.
The Outdoors An Evening in the River with Chris Bowser 6:30pm. Seining for fish, data collection, and discussion of what makes the Hudson River such a valuable resource and an important habitat to so many kinds of life. Long Dock Beacon, Beacon. 476-6674.
Spoken Word Healthy Living: The Pleasure of Pets with Carolann and "Rocky" Puzio 10:30am-11:30am. Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake. 544-3056. Community of Jewish Writers 2pm-4:30pm. Poetry reading, book signing & reception. Congregation Agudat Achim, Niskayuna. (518) 393-9211.
Theater Dead Man's Cell Phone 3pm-3pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members/+$2 at the door. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Heartbreak House 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
Raising Alpacas 101 10am-4pm. $15. Call for location. 339-2025.
Dance Student Dance Concert 4pm. Dance with performers from the Barefoot Dance Center, modern, ballet, jazz and more. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 384-6146. The Prince Who Thought He Was A Turkey 8pm. Opera ballet. $10/$5 children/$5 in advance/$3 children in advance. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. 338-8131.
Events Walking Tour of Vassar College Call for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7405. Poughkeepsie Farm Project Open House & Plant Sale 9am-3pm. Poughkeepsie Farm Project, Poughkeepsie. 473-1415. Sharing Shabbat 9am. Light breakfast and engage in Torah Study with Rabbi Polish. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. Millbrook Book Festival 10am-5pm. Celebration of authors, books, and the joy of reading, panel discussions, readings, presentations, and speakers in a variety of literary genres. Millbrook. www.millbrookbookfestival.org.
Kids Sylivia and the Magic Trunk 10:30am. Ventriloquist. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir Choral Symposium 10am-3pm. $10 at the door. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 229-6295. Doug Marcus 11:30am. Jazz. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Rupert Wates 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Adam Arcuragi 6pm. Indie-folk/alt-country. $10. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Raise the Roof II 7pm. The Community Hospice Africa Aids Partnership Program presents A Benefit of Gospel, Rhythm & Movement. $25. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Lawrence Anthony 7:30pm. Motown. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Gamelan Music 8pm. Giri Mekar and Chandra Kanchana. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
My Fair Lady 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Helen Avakian 8pm. With Terry Champlin and Brian Henke. Hyde Park Free Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
Underground at Proctors 8pm. Improvisational theatre by The Mop & Bucket Co. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
The Trapps 8pm-11pm. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
Dead Man's Cell Phone 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Creation 9pm. Pop, soft rock. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188. Jill Sobule 9pm. Special guest Nina Violet. $12/$10 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Workshops
Vampire Shampoo, Breakfast in Fur, Neon Gloworms, and Shana Flana 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
The Diamond Color Meditation 7pm-8:30pm. Based on the book by John Diamond, MD, authority on holistic medicine and using the arts for wellness and healing. $35/$20. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
SATURDAY 15 Art Festival of the Arts 60th Anniversary 10am-4pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428. Works by Dylan McManus 4pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559. New Works on Paper The Cross River Artists Group. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. Spring Exhibition Work of Bucky Milam's sonic garden, Doug Ross's landscaped prints, Marie Soliet's computer-altered landscapes, and Ken Lovelett's soundsculpture. Sonart Gallery, Mount Tremper. 688-5299.
Body / Mind / Spirit New Moon Cleansing with the Sound Crystal 6pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Improvisation spun from your experiences & dreams
1 Unit 9pm. Rap. $6/$4 over 21. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.
Glengarry Glen Ross 8pm. Presented by Starling Productions. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Parent Child Workshops "If Color Was A Sound" 4pm-4:45pm. Little Falls School of Music & Arts Inc., Kinderhook. 822-1469.
Community Playback Theatre
8:00 pm First Friday of Each Month Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd. Highland, NY 845.691.4118
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Early Morning Birding for Beginners 6:30am-9:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Pawling Nature Preserve AT Easy Hike 10am. Call for location. 473-5557. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Kayak and Canoe Outing: Black Creek 10am-2pm. Meet at Thruway Park and Ride, New Paltz. 255-0919. Life of a Tree 2pm-3:30pm. Walk the trails and meet the trees. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3. Volunteer Habitat Restoration Day 10am-1pm. Replace invasive plants with native species. Hudson Highlands Gateway Park, Westchester County. 473-4440 ext. 273. Natural and Human History Walk 10am. Guided tour of the Fuller Mountain Preserve led by Gary Keeton. Fuller Mountain Preserve, Warwick. $5/$10 donation per family suggested. 343-0840 ext. 12.
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Theater Beauty and the Beast 1pm. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Dead Man's Cell Phone 3pm-3pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members/+$2 at the door. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. Heartbreak House 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. My Fair Lady 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Dead Man's Cell Phone 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Glengarry Glen Ross 8pm. Presented by Starling Productions. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Herb Marks Freelance: It Ain't Over til the Fat Lady Swings 8pm. The Air Pirates Radio Theater. $15. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
SUNDAY 16 Art Works by Jen P Harris, Sarah Kipp and Oscar Strodl 2pm-5pm. Re Institute, Millerton. www.theReInstitute. com. Lisa Weinblatt Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007. Nose to Nose 4pm-7pm. An exhibition of works by Jen P. Harris, Sarah Kipp, and Oscar Strodl. Paintings, video, and live performance. The Re Institute, Millerton. (518) 567-5359
Body / Mind / Spirit ECK Worship Service 10am-11am. Newburgh Mall, Newburgh. (800) 749-7791 ext. 2. Beginning Level Dharma Yoga 10am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Mixed Level Dharma Yoga 11:30am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Women Circle 2pm-4pm. A safe and sacred gathering space for women to celebrate the uniqueness of the feminine spirit that we all share. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Life Drawing Workshop 10am-1pm. $135/$120 series, $10 session. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Dance Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 5pm-6pm, Intermediate Level: 6pm-7:30. New Paltz. (518) 537-2589. The Prince Who Thought He Was A Turkey 2pm. Opera ballet. $10/$5 children/$5 in advance/$3 children in advance. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. 338-8131. Swing Dance and West Coast Swing Workshop 5:30pm-9pm. Workshop 5:40, lesson 6:40pm, dance 7-9pm. $8/$6 FT students/$12 workshop. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 475-0803.
Events 4th Annual Off-Broadway 5K & 1-Mile Run & Walk 1:30am. Hosted by Safe Harbors of the Hudson. $20/$25 two races. Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-6940. Austerlitz Antique Appraisal Day 10am-4pm. $5 per item. Austerlitz Historical Society, Austerlitz. www.oldausterlitz.org. Tea Ceremony 3pm-5pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Music Pat Metheny Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Derek Pritzl 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Hazbins 1pm. Blues. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. An Afternoon of Music by Johannes Brahms 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert series. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-6864.
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Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir 3pm. $20/$15 seniors/$10 under 18. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. CFChoralSymposium@gmail.com. Trio Tenero 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867. Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Catskill Glee Club. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021. Helen Avakian 3pm. With Terry Champlin and Brian Henke. Hyde Park Free Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791. Mike and Ruthy 4pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Unplugged Acoustic Open 4pm-6pm. $6/$4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Ellis Paul 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Daedalus String Quartet 4pm. $30/$10. Playing a late Mozart quartet, joined by Benjamin Hochmann. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.
Events First Annual Vintage Hudson Valley Chef and Bartender Golf Classic Call for times. $150 chefs and bartenders. Beekman Country Club, Hopewell Junction. (914) 591-4503.
Film The Godfather 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Spoken Word Japanese Speaking Table 5pm-7pm. Instructor: Chris Robins. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Using the Arts to Help with Alzheimer's 5:30pm-7:30pm. A video presentation by area college students on how young people view and are coping with family members diagnosed with the disease. $35/$20. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Lesson 10am-12pm. $25/$20 plus flower. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
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Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Bashakill Wetlands Paddle Call for times. Call for location. 457-4552.
Classes
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Bonticou Crag 10am-2:30pm. 7-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919. Spring Wildflower Walk 2pm-5pm. 4-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Sunset Reading Series 4pm. Jeffrey McDaniel and Amber Tamblyn. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.sunsetreadings.org.
Theater Actors' Ensemble Benefit 2pm. Performance of Mrs. Ripley's Trip and screening of Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn. $20/$15 students. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. The Fully Monty 2pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Heartbreak House 3pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. My Fair Lady 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Glengarry Glen Ross 3pm. Presented by Starling Productions. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Birds, Our Endangered Allies: Their Importance in Algonquin Shamanism 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 17 Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga 10:30am. With Anne Rogers, Healing Flow Hatha Yoga. $12/$40 series. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & the Community. Talking stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Conversational Spanish 2pm-4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Modern Dance 5:30pm-7:15pm. A basic, thorough, modern dance class w/ center & floor work, traveling combinations & phrases. $12. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O'Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 528-6728.
Music Student Showcase with Charles Cullum 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-1:30pm. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word National Climate Seminar 3pm. Bard College Center for Environmental Policy, Poughkeepsie. 758-7073. Kayaking: How To Get Started 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 457-4552.
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The Outdoors
Beacon Bridge Walk Call for times. Beacon Point Park, Beacon. 471-9892.
Youth Media-Arts Workshop 3pm-6pm. Ages 12-16. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Soaring Crane Qigong: The Five Routines 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Go Club: Japanese Culture Club 4pm-6pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731. Celebrate Shavuot 8pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
THURSDAY 20 Art Open House for Summer Art Intensive 4pm-7pm. Three two-week sessions, June 28-August 6. Steel Plant Studios, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Silent Walks on the Half-Moon 6pm. Leads participants on a group silent walk through the woods at the base of Storm King Mountain. Storm King Trail Head, Cornwall. 304-3142.
Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 10am. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Pendulum Workshop 6:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
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Kids
Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. With Helvi & Richard Impola. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Events
Open Mike Night & Songwriters Summit 6:30pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Poughkeepsie Farm Project Open House & Plant Sale 9am-12pm. Poughkeepsie Farm Project, Poughkeepsie. 473-1415.
Big Joe Fitz 7pm. Blues. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Neil Young: Solo 8pm. $149.50/$99.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Spoken Word Do Corporations Own Our Government? 7pm. Presented by Right, Left & In Between Dialogue planning committee. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Laughter and Reflection: A Conversation with Carol Burnett 8pm. $20/$60/$75/$90. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
WEDNESDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Channeling Group 7pm-9pm. Guidance from a very wise, loving and compassionate spirit to help us on our journey. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391. Dharma Punx Hudson Valley Weekly Meditation & Discussion Meeting 7:30pm-8:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.
Classes African Drum 6pm-7pm. $15/$12 members/$55 series of 4/$40 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Adult Hebrew Classes 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Film Screening of Food, Inc. 7pm. With a discussion afterwards led by the Poughkeepsie Farm Project. Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480.
Dance
Kids
Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate Level: 7pm8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Mahjan Club: Japanese Culture Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Film Taking Root 7pm. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Rocky 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. The Jesse Janes 8pm. Acoustic. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
Theater The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Workshops Documenting Family History 10am-12pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007. Conversation with Angels 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
FRIDAY 21 Art John Yerger: Master of Trompe L'oeil 6pm-9pm. Trompe L'oeil paintings of American and European masters. Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, CT. (860) 567-9693.
Body / Mind / Spirit Woman's Holistic Health Group 5:30pm-7pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow 6:30pm-8:30pm. Native American Wisdom Sacred Circle. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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Mourka and Eva Tenuto star in an all-female production of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" at the Rosendale Theater this month.
Coffee Is for Closers David Mamet’s plays are known for splashing profanity around like water on a hot day. The characters are abusive and cut-throat. Mamet’s plays are explorations into stereotypical masculinity—volatile, determined, and hostile. The 1992 movie version of Mamet’s play “Glengarry Glen Ross” was promoted with the tag line “Lie. Cheat. Steal. All in a day’s work.” And isn’t that just what men do? According to the mastermind behind the Starling Production Company’s version, Eva Tenuto, the answer is no. “There were places when the lines we read appeared more stereotypically female,” she says. Starling decided to tackle this mammoth script for their first official production. And employ an all-woman cast. It started five years ago when Tenuto was started working in real estate. “I was drawn to "Glengarry Glen Ross." Monologues like that are not written for women. It was gritty.” With an extensive background in theater (Tenuto has directed the “Vagina Monologues” twice and recently directed and acted in “Too Much Information”), she plays the part of crass übersalesman Ricky Roma. The story, an adrenalized “Death of a Salesmen,” was even jokingly called “Death of a Fucking Salesman” by the 1992 cast, which included Al Pacino (as Roma), Alec Baldwin, and Jack Lemmon. In the play, Roma works alongside three other salesmen at a New York real estate office. They are told there will be a contest. The top performer will be given a Cadillac and the worst-performing salesman will be fired. “We studied the play extensively,” says director Shelley Wyant. “We studied the characters’ essence and motives. Sure, we could look at moments and say there’s a male way to act and a female way to act. Yes, there’s vile language. But sometimes people
talk that way—women talk that way.” Wyant’s production relies heavily on Mamet’s dense use of language and abrasive jumps from one character to the next. The fact that these are women playing roles written for men is a neat trick, but ultimately superfluous. “The characters are so sleazy and Roma in particular is not very endearing—the biggest challenge was finding something redeemable in there,” says Tenuto. The acting revolves around the script, a script meticulously written to delve into what it means to be male. There’s the complexes, the stereotypes, and the pressures of success. But perhaps all that is not as black or white as it used to be. “Women have a different power than they did in the '70s and '80s,” says Wyant. “They are single. They take care of families.” What could once have been seen as gender-bending may be a tad more flexible in our modern era. The characters evolved into their own entities, according to Tenuto. Viewing the transformation that occurs when these graveled up lines are spoken by a female is its own statement on masculinity. Maybe the gender line is not cut and dry after all. Wyant stresses it simply: “We’re doing a David Mamet play.” The Starling Production Company will present David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” at the Rosendale Theater on May 14 and 15 at 8pm and May 16 at 3pm. The play will also star Julie Novak, Rosie Dale, Jessica Barry, Tiffany Thompson, Mourka, and Jane Brown. Tickets are $15. (845) 658-8410; astarlingproduction@gmail.com. —Siobhan K. McBride 5/10 ChronograM forecast 109
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Classes Solar Thermal Call for times. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. (800) 724-0833.
Events Celebrating 10 Years of Bard Center for Environmental Policy 3pm-5pm. Green job panel, wine, dinner. Bard College Center for Environmental Policy, Poughkeepsie. 7587073. Shabbat Dinner 6pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Film The Fog of War 7pm. $8. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
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Toddlers on the Trail: Wildflowers and Critters 10am-12pm. Ages 2-6. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Music Hip Hop Theatre Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Saints of the Swing 6:30pm. Featuring Kitt & Matt. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
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Brendan Hogan 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover 7:30pm. With The Trapps opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Marc VonEm 8pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Yuri Liberzon: Classical Guitar 8pm. $18/$13 members/$2 more at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Sonny Landreth 8:30pm. With Matt Rae Trio. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. David Kraai & The Saddletramps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Reality Check 9pm. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724. Vixen Dogs Band 9pm. Rock. Ruben's Mexican Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 739-4330.
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Rich Williams & The Secret Organ Trio 9:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.
The Outdoors A Girl Scout Equestrian Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Spring Flower Walks 1pm-3:30pm. Phudd Hill, Ghent. (518) 781-0243.
Spoken Word Hand Bouquets in the 19th Century Workshop 1pm. Lecture and hands-on workshop. $20/$10. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
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Kripalu Yoga Posture Alignment Workshop 1:30pm-3:30pm. $10-$15. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
Events Fala Gala Call for times. Day of fun for dogs of all breeds and their human admirers. Wilderstein Preservation, Rhinebeck. 876-4818. Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. Mid Hudson Vegetarian Society Youth Group Picnic For The Pigs 11am-2pm. $5. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 876-2626. Robibero Family Vineyards & Winery Grand Opening 11am. Complimentary wine tasting, live music, and other events. Robibero Family Vineyards, New Paltz. 255-WINE. The Second Annual Pet Palooza & Dog Walk 11am-5pm. Benefiting The Partnership for Animals Needing Transition and The Coalition to Unchain Dogs. $8/children free. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 750-1861. 1st Annual "Go Red for Women" Tournament 2pm. To benefit the American Heart Association, 9-hole shotgun start four person scramble. $65. Turtle Creek Golf Course, Plattekill. 229-0425. Supercharge Your Diet 5pm. Vegan dinner with live music by Kaori Washiyama & Daniel Schulman. $22. The Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Community Center, Petersburgh. (518) 686-9005. Second Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration 8pm. $20/$15. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Film Hudson Horror Film Festival 12pm-11pm. Silver Cinema, Poughkeepsie. hudsonhorror.com.
Music The Second Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. James Mason 1pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Rising Tribe Music 2pm. Folk. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Commencement Concert for the Class of 2010 3pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902. Michelle E. Williams 6pm. B.E.T. Gospel video taping with other musicians. New Bethel Community C.O.G.I.C., Schenectady. (518) 238-5280. Adirondack Baroque Concert 6pm. Wine, appetizers, concert, coffee, dessert. $25/$10 concert only. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
James Carney Group 7:30pm. With Vocalist Margaret McDuffie featuring Steve Raleigh opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.
My Fair Lady 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Underground at Proctors 8pm. Improvisational theatre by The Mop & Bucket Co. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. $15/$10 in advance. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Workshops Life Drawing Workshop Series 10am-Sunday, May 23, 5:30pm. For adults and teens 16+ with Wendy Shuster. Shuster Studio, Hudson. (518) 567-1332. 2/10
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Vinyasa Yoga with the Crystal Singing Bowls Sound 9:30am-11:30am. With Debi Medeski & Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
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Body / Mind / Spirit
Mark Raisch with the Bill Gulino Trio 7pm. Jazz. Ritz Theater Parking Lot, Newburgh. 5626940 ext. 107.
Heartbreak House 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
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20th Anniversary Art Show for the Kristy Bishop Studio 4:30pm-7pm. Over 100 works of art by students and well-known local artists will be on display. Senior Citizens Center, Saugerties. 246-8835.
Comedy Night with Paul Schembri and Friends 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Kym Lonergan's Kymara 21 Century Happenings Call for times. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.
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Parent Child Workshops "If Color Was A Sound" 4pm-4:45pm. Little Falls School of Music & Arts Inc., Kinderhook. 822-1469.
A Night of Hard Edged Jazz! 7:30pm. Jazz. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Bob Dylan B'day Bash Hosted by Gerry Silverman 8pm-11pm. $5. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 3312662. Phil Ochs Song Night 8pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Claire Lynch 8pm. Bluegrass, country. $21/$16 members/+ $2 at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Jim Planck 8pm. Topical folk. $15. Doctorow Center for the Performing Arts and Film, Catskill. (518) 263-2066. Joe Locke on Vibes with Dick Patts on Sax 8pm. Jazz, pre-concert talk at 7pm. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136. Open Mike Music 8pm. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Choral and Instrumental Works by Purcell and Haydn 8pm. $35/$30. First Congregational Church, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 528-9277. Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
Vance Gilbert 8:30pm. With Sarah Hickman. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Jazz at the Falls 12pm. Featuring Betty McDonald. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Anthony Nisi 8:45pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Shane Murphy 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
McMule 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Matt Turk 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
Tribution V 9pm. Covers. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Outing for Experienced Birders 6:30am-9:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Black Creek Clean-out & Paddle 9:30am. Trail clean-up in the morning paddle in the afternoon. Call for location. 297-5126. Locust Grove Walk 10am. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 452-1727. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Sky Top Loop 10am-4pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Build a Trail Connection 10am-2pm. Volunteer to help open almost a mile of new trail along the Hudson River. Hyde Park Trail, Dutchess County. 473-4440 ext. 273.
Mike & Ruthy 4pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Ne'imah Jewish Community Chorus presents: Chai and Goodbye: A Musical Send-off to Rosemary and Joel Linsider 7:30pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Family Forest Romp 10am-12pm. 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Millbrook Mountain 10am-4pm. 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Artist Talk: Tony Moore 3pm. Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon. 440-0068.
Spoken Word
Theater
The Utilization of Art in Developing Positive Communication Between Iraqis and Americans 1pm-3pm. Large Meeting Room at the Senior Center, Warwick. www.thefineartsstudio.com.
Kym Lonergan’s Kymara 21 Century Happenings Call for times. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.
WAAM Dialogues: Changing Forces in American Art, The Woodstock Art Colony and the National Academy 4pm. $10/$5 members. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Anne Richey and Matthew J. Spireng: Poetry Reading 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213. Poetry Reading with Doris Henderson 7pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Kym Lonergan's Kymara 21 Century Happenings Call for times. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592. Heartbreak House 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. The Fully Monty 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. My Fair Lady 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Night and Day-Two sides of Passion: An Evening of Original Theatre 8pm. $10. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Workshops Drumming for Healing & Transformation 2pm-4pm. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Emotional Healing Workshop with Bente Hansen 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
SUNDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Beginning Level Dharma Yoga 10am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Mixed Level Dharma Yoga 11:30am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.
Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 5pm-6pm, Intermediate Level: 6pm-7:30. New Paltz. (518) 537-2589.
Events Guided Walking Tour 2pm. $5. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
Music Pilobolus Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Beauty and the Beast 2pm. $10/$7 children. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179. My Fair Lady 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Heartbreak House 3pm. Rhinebeck Theater Society. $20/$18 seniors and students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
MONDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit T'ai Chi Demo and Lecture 7pm. Five Elements, T'ai Chi and Taoist medicine. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
Classes Conversational Spanish 2pm-4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Modern Dance 5:30pm-7:15pm. A basic, thorough, modern dance class w/ center & floor work, traveling combinations & phrases. $12. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.
Dance Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Film The Caregivers 5:30pm-7:30pm. Segment from the HBO The Alzheimer’s Project documentary series followed by a panel discussion. $35/$20. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
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TUESDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Soaring Crane Qigong: The Five Routines 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Go Club: Japanese Culture Club 4pm-6pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
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Film
Workshops
Open Hive/Film
Landscape Photography Workshop
The Outdoors
7pm-10pm. A film with a message. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
9am. $75/$65. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Music
Parent Child Workshops "If Color Was A Sound"
Leisurely Hike Poetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Walk Call for times. Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 452-9086.
Theater
Jam Session
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Springtime Cabaret 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. 877-BINDLES.
1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
WEDNESDAY 26
4pm-4:45pm. Little Falls School of Music & Arts Inc., Kinderhook. 822-1469.
SATURDAY 29
SUNDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit Beginning Level Dharma Yoga 10am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry
Classes
Mixed Level Dharma Yoga
Art
6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Heartsaver CPR AED
Boscobel in Bloom 11am-5pm. A showcase of different art mediums intended to reflect and complement the beauty of the flowers that surround us in the gardens. Boscobel, Garrison. 265-3638.
CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda
9am-3pm. Health Quest Community Education, Poughkeepsie. 471-6618 ext. 134.
11:30am. Mary Guip. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Workshops
Argentine Tango Workshops & Milonga
Body / Mind / Spirit
Documenting Family History
Call for times. Afternoon workshops, evening milango with Gustavo Benzecry Saba & Maria Olivera. $20$95 workshops/$15 milango only. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Light of the Eternal One 7pm-9pm. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
7pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
10am-12pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007.
FRIDAY 28
Dance
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company
Body / Mind / Spirit
8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Gelek Rimpoche: Death and Dying, How to Handle Spirituality
Events
A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.
Pakatakan Farmers' Market
Classes
6:30pm-8:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dharma Punx Hudson Valley Weekly Meditation & Discussion Meeting 7:30pm-8:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.
African Drum 6pm-7pm. $15/$12 members/$55 series of 4/$40 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Adult Hebrew Classes 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 2273327.
Healing the Wounds of the Heart with the Chod Practice
Classes Forest Garden Immersion Series Call for times. Hands-on skill-building, design, install, caretake, enjoy. $285/$205 commuter. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121.
Events
Dance
Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-7pm. Live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Woodstock Farm Festival, Woodstock. jflynnny@yahoo.com.
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company
Film Open Hive/Film 7pm-10pm. A film with a message. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
THURSDAY 27
Tango Basics: 5pm-6pm, Intermediate Level: 6pm-7:30. New Paltz. (518) 537-2589. Erick Hawkins dance Call for times. $20/$15 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Erick Hawkins Dance Company 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Events The High Falls Cafe 5th Anniversary Outdoor BBQ and Party Call for times. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Honoring our Fallen Heroes
11am-6pm. Native American festival. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.
1pm-5pm. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.
Film
Music
NEXUS Ragtime Program
Jamie Kent
8pm. Plus accompaniment to 1926 Japanese film, "A Page of Madness". $20/$15. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Music
12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.Gretchen Witt 8pm. Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Nexus
Gandolf Murphy and Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Call for times. Garry Kvistad's percussion group. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Call for times. Docents in period costumes guide visitors through Boscobel House on an interactive, interpretive tour. Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison. 265-3638.
Woodstock Day School Benefit
Film
Body / Mind / Spirit
10am-2pm. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.
Argentine Tango Workshop
The River That Flows Both Ways
8pm. $100/$50/$40. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Random Writing Workshop with Poet Cheryl Rice 6pm-8pm. $10 session/$50 series. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Memorial Day Programs: Purple Heart Award Ceremony and Presentation
Dance
Costumed House Tours
Youth Media-Arts Workshop 3pm-6pm. Ages 12-16. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Workshops
9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com.
9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Events
2pm. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.
Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Bonticou Crag 9:30am-1:30pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Kingston Farmers' Market Opening Day
Plein Air Painting Classes
The River That Flows Both Ways
Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
The Outdoors
9am-5pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Classes
8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Memorial Day Programs: Purple Heart Award Ceremony and Presentation
Open Mike 8pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Barn Sale
2pm-4pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Memorial Day & Its Historic Roots 10am-5pm. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.
Kids
Music
9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.
Akashic Records Revealed
In the Year of the Pig 7pm. $8. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Music Michael Beauchamp & the Barn Roughs 1pm. Bluegrass. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Sunset Jazz Soiree 6pm-8pm. With the Art Labriola Trio. $35. Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison. 265-3638. Open Hive/New Music Salon 7pm-9pm. Hosted by Stephen Johnson. $10/$5 members. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
Kimberly 2pm. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Heather Maloney 7pm. Pop, soft rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. The Rhodes 7pm. Jazz. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Marta Topferova
11am-6pm. Native American festival. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Top of the Gunks 10am-4pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
7:30pm. With The Rhodes opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Dudley Saunders 8pm. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. The Rhodes
MONDAY 31 Body / Mind / Spirit Message Circle
Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 10am and 7pm Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Frank Kimbrough Trio
10pm. Rock. Cabaloosa's, New Paltz. 255-3400.
7:30pm. With the Bernstein Bard Trio opening. Live@ The Falcon, Marlboro.
The Outdoors
7pm-8:30pm. Receive messages from your loved ones in the after life. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Steve Frieder Quintet
Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program
Classes
Call for times. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing and Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Modern Dance
Colors and Chakras Therapies 6:30pm. Discover the roles colors play in our lives and how to use them to enhance & invigorate our environment and health. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Full Moon Sound Healing with Crystal Sound 7pm-8pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. With Helvi & Richard Impola. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Mahjan Club: Japanese Culture Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. 22nd Annual Beaux Arts Ball 6:30pm-12am. Black tie fundraising event for the Greene County Council on the Arts. Copper Tree Restaurant, Hunter. (518) 943-3400.
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7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. FODFest Concert 8pm. $25. Club Helsinki, Hudson. www.fodfest.org/tickets. Fred Gillen Jr.
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Napanoch Point
8pm. Folk, traditional. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
9:30am-4:30pm. 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Lara Hope and the Champtones
Constitution Marsh Paddle
9pm. With Hank and the Skinny 3. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
The Outdoors Memorial Day Weekend Call for times. Family oriented activities. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
11am. Meet at Cold Spring Metro North Station, Cold Spring. 406-5988. A Day of Sailing with the Kingston Sailing Club 11:30am. Learn to sail during a two hour sail with the members of the Kingston Sailing Club. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 383-1870.
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Jenni Sorkin on Michael Heizer
Read for Food
1pm. Gallery talk. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.
7pm. Featuring John Kenselaar and Guy Reed. Boughton Place, Highland. readforfood@gmail.com.
Workshops
Theater
Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Underground at Proctors 8pm. Improvisational theatre by The Mop & Bucket Co. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
Sam Abell: The Next Step
5:30pm-7:15pm. A basic, thorough, modern dance class w/ center & floor work, traveling combinations & phrases. $12. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.
Dance Argentine Tango Workshop Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Events Rhinecliff Memorial Day Service 9:15am-9:45am. Rhinecliff Firehouse, Rhinecliff. 8766149. The River That Flows Both Ways 11am-4pm. Native American festival. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.
The Outdoors Overlook Mountain Call for times. Bring a sketch pad and camera. Call for location. Bskura@optonline.net.
Spoken Word
The Next Step
Japanese Speaking Table
Call for times. With Sam Abell. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
5pm-7pm. Instructor: Chris Robins. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.
music Highpoint Composition Seminar David Ludwig
George Tsontakis at his Ashokan home.
Classical Youth An ear-pricking-up revelation may be in store for upstate music scene regulars when the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble performs short works by five promising young composers at Woodstock’s Colony Café on May 26. The program will be the culmination of the first Highpoint Composition Seminar—a forum for emerging talent brought into being by the effort and vision of acclaimed composer and Shokan resident George Tsontakis. “There is a paucity of this kind of music in Woodstock.” says Tsontakis. “I designed this as a new initiative for the Woodstock audience.” According to Tsontakis, the world of popular song that Woodstock emblematizes was considered beyond the pale by his generation. Younger, 20-something composers, however, absorb influences such as Radiohead or Animal Collective without any ideological predisposition to reject them. “We didn’t accept the fact that we could use pop culture, but it snuck in anyway. Now they accept the fact.” One Highpoint fellow, Chris Kapika, plays in several rock bands and is premiering a piece written for baritone sax, bass clarinet, amplified cello, and electric guitar. This kind of cross-pollination may well be necessary if concert music is to remain vital and seductive, and not languish in the closed off realm of dusty marble busts. “Young people,” Tsontakis observes, “are not interested in dead composers.” Tsontakis is helping ensure that the orchestral tradition in which he himself has made a significant mark (i.e., the tradition that originated with the liberating advances of Debussy and Stravinsky) stays alive and flourishes. He views Highpoint as a way “to give young composers a leg up.” He recalls his own feelings of discouragement early on, the years after receiving a doctorate from Julliard without getting a piece
played. Rehearsing with musicians and preparing a work for performance is crucial to a composer’s education. The Highpoint fellows will not only have this opportunity, but will also benefit from the guidance of distinguished pros like Tsontakis and guest composer Sebastian Currier, who both happen to be recent recipients of the Grawemeyer Award, one of classical music’s most prestigious prizes. Grammy Award-winning percussionist and Woodstock Chimes founder Garry Kvistad is also on board. Kvistad will sit in with East Coast Contemporary Ensemble as a musician and also donate his sprawling studio as a rehearsal space. Tsontakis points out that the level of community support and generosity has been exemplary: the musicians are performing pro bono, each composition fellow receives a $500 stipend thanks to a grant from Bard College, and the Emerson Hotel in Mt. Pleasant is providing free rooms. A three-day workshop takes place in Tsontakis’s home above the Ashokan Reservoir, a location as rich in natural beauty as any artists colony in the world, with a picture-perfect view of Highpoint Mountain, the famed inspiration of an Asher Durand masterpiece. Although Tsontakis is reluctant to generalize about the next generation, he suggests that the cerebral iciness that characterized much 20th-century music is melting away: “If you heard a sample of contemporary music before and didn’t like it, now is the time to check in again.” The East Coast Contemporary Ensemble will perform the works of the composers in the Highpoint Composition Seminar at the Colony Café on May 26, 7:30pm. Suggested donation $10 (students and seniors $8). http://highpointmusic.blogspot.com. —Marx Dorrity 5/10 ChronograM forecast 113
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by eric francis coppolino
Chiron in Pisces: The Missing Piece
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n April 20 Chiron entered Pisces for the first time since 1969. In last month’s edition of Planet Waves, I described our current era as the antiSixties, but Chiron in Pisces is very much a true-to-’60s factor. Think of it as being a little like the Beatles. The ’60s were a tumultuous, often frightening, time in history, featuring social upheaval, protests, lots of people taking weird drugs, assassinations of beloved leaders, nonstop war in Southeast Asia, and students at protests getting shot. But in the background, there were the Beatles, putting out a constant stream of peace and love. The ’60s would have sucked without the Beatles, and they would have sucked without Chiron in Pisces. In case you’re not familiar with this odd little planet that goes round our Sun every 51 years, I will cover the basics in a moment—but first let’s review the basics of ’60s astrology. What we usually think of as the ’60s was the product of a conjunction: Uranus conjunct Pluto (in Virgo). This meeting of two “modern planets”—planets discovered by science, rather than planets of antiquity—is a cycle of revolution and innovation. Uranus bestows a surge forward. Pluto grants depth, intensity, and soul. Put them together and you get an era like the one that brought the French Revolution. In the ’60s, Uranus and Pluto were conjunct in Virgo, with explosive results. Yes, there were many positive developments, but always that constant sense of change and tension and the fear of where it was all going. Across the sky in Pisces—unknown to astronomers or astrologers at the time—was a small planet called Chiron. Though it would not be discovered until 1977, planets are active long before we’re aware of them, and Chiron’s influence in this era was a protective spiritual backdrop that provided a kind of refuge, a source of inspiration, and a focal point within all the madness that could make a song like “All You Need Is Love” meaningful. If you’re born in the ’60s, Chiron in Pisces is likely to be a prominent factor in your astrology, and you’ve been working with it all your life. Think of Chiron as a condensing device, gathering the viewpoint, imagery, sensations, feelings, and the soulful quality of Pisces and concentrating these things into something tangible: Call it a sense of contact with the world beyond this one, no matter how mad this world becomes. Chiron Basics Though Chiron was actually discovered in 1977, there are photographic plates on file going back to 1895 where Chiron can be seen. These are called prediscovery photos, and the year 1895 is interesting because that’s when D. D. Palmer discovered or invented chiropractic—named for the centaur from Greek mythology. Chiron was a physician, surgeon, and herbalist. The French word for surgery is still chirurgie, and the actual
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meaning from old Greek seems to be “one who has hands.” However, by the time of its discovery in the late ’70s, the mythology of Chiron and the other centaurs was a meek footnote to classical literature. Then came Chiron and, true to form, information starts coming to the surface. Charles Kowal made his discovery the morning of November 1, 1977. The body he discovered was the size of an asteroid, it had the orbit and composition of a comet, and it was described in a popular journalism article as a planet with an orbit between Saturn and Uranus. This made sure it got unusual attention. It was given minor planet catalog number 2,060 (in order of discovery) and, somewhat miraculously, astrology took notice. Kowal—an astronomer, not an astrologer—gave Chiron its first keyword when he said, “This thing is a maverick.” Among other discoveries, Chiron stood out as highly unusual, and as it works out, people with Chiron prominent in their charts also tend to stand out. They do things their own way. They thrive on being different. He named it after a centaur presumably due to its hybrid nature; a centaur is a morph of a horse and a man. Naming it after the famous physician of Greek myth, the one who taught medicine to Asclepius, the god of medicine, brought in the dimension of healing. Chiron, an immortal, was injured in a battle, and this brought in the paradox of the wound or injury factor that is so often involved with Chiron, and so often misunderstood. On one level, we have an image of what we face as “spiritual beings” inhabiting the mortal coil, rarely having that sense of being all the way here. Remembering that mythology is based in symbolism, the “wound” is the sense of imperfection and spiritual disconnection that we often drag around here on the physical plane. Yet this has another dimension, which is that often, the things that seem to hurt us, or challenge us, make us not only strong but also enable us to excel in some way. Chiron can represent the sense of debility, of not fitting in, or of constant struggle that brings out our greatest talents and develops our strongest character traits. In essence, Chiron is where we’re doing the most significant work on our human potential—or where we get hung up over and over again. Each time we have a Chiron event in our astrology is an opportunity to refocus the cycle. In careful readings of Chiron in thousands of my clients’ charts, I’ve noticed a few other properties. One involves the holistic nature of Chiron; it wants us to take a whole-system approach to any issue, such as our own lives. Another is about raising awareness, which (not coincidentally) is often related to seeing the whole as opposed to a collection of parts. Chiron transits are often described as “intense,” but what’s so intense is the attention factor. There is always a call to action, but it might take us quite a while to get there.
Where we have Chiron in our chart is a place where we tend to put enormous energy, often thinking we’re getting nowhere. Then we find out just how much progress we have made; how much we have learned, developed, and given to the world. A profoundly influential 20th-century astrologer named Al Morrison noticed that lots of benefit came from Chiron events, but that it often arrived with a challenge; so he called it the inconvenient benefic. Chiron is an intense influence: It accelerates processes, it pushes us to be independent, to look at ourselves, and to deal with our growth. Chiron will try to get our attention gradually; if we ignore the messages, eventually we will experience a collapse of some kind. Chiron in Pisces: Focusing a Vision Chiron has an egg-shaped orbit that lasts about 51 years. Because of how stretched out the ellipse is, when Chiron is close to the Sun it will cover a sign in about 18 months. When it’s far from the Sun, it will take between seven and nine years. Chiron was close to the Sun in the mid-1990s as it passed through Virgo and Libra, so we all had a rapid succession of Chiron transits then. Now Chiron is approaching its most distant point from the Sun, so it will take about eight years for Chiron to cover Pisces. Chiron enters Pisces for a 90-day visit on April 20, retrogrades back into Aquarius on July 20, then returns to Pisces to stay on February 8, 2011. So, this spring and summer we get a 90-day introduction to what this energy feels like. If you like synchronicity, here is something interesting. Through all of 2009 and part of 2010, Chiron was in a conjunction with both the ancient and modern rulers of Pisces—Jupiter and Neptune in late Aquarius. So, Chiron enters Pisces all charged up on Pisces energy, and we have been getting wave pulses of this combination for many months. The combination of Chiron with any Pisces factor is focusing that which was previously invisible. So, what do we think of when we think of Pisces? What is our experience of this energy? It’s a fairly wide spectrum, ranging from the highest reaches of the imagination to our direct experience of God or soul, to the depths of denial, deception, drink, and drugs (Neptune has a lot of keywords starting with the letter D). In all, Chiron in Pisces is about helping us see what we have been missing or not paying attention to. If we focus the strengths of Pisces, that would feel like clarifying our vision for our lives. Most of us have a really hard time with this; many people have no interest at all. Pisces is full of ideas, ideals, and the desire to transcend physicality. Which of these work and which do not? Chiron is calling for a sober assessment of these, to test for what are authentic values and which are things we see through our rosy, New Age glasses. To put it bluntly, we might discover that we’re not as spiritual as we thought, in the sense that we need to apply our beliefs and ideals to the world in a real way. Chiron calls for a practical approach to whatever it touches. If you believe you’re spiritual, what is the working end of that equation? Where does that quality make contact with society—not just your altar or your yoga mat? You could look at Chiron in Pisces as the focusing of dharma: acting as if to hold the world together. Chiron takes us out of the theoretical realm and directly into what comes with evidence and documentation. Many people find that the whole spiritual thing is really elusive. Chiron in Pisces draws this “elusive” quality into focus. It’s is about making conscious contact with the deepest level of who we are, be it soul or our true creative impulse, our deepest emotions or our erotic core. The Missing Piece Does it ever seem like something is missing from the world? Does there seem to be a lack of compassion, or empathy, or contact with the deeper nature of existence? We live an impressive—though certainly not unprecedented—time when many religions are bashing it out for political supremacy, waging war, are involved in child sex scandals, and spending as much time taking advantage of the poor as they are taking care of them. And five years of Chiron in Aquarius has certainly brought us deeper into the digital dimension. You could say that the missing piece is the actual experience of God or the human spiritual attribute. In a time when we need to be working together and focusing on our common interests, our culture continues to push us toward false individuality and separatism every day. The more we indulge these things, the more we really can believe that we don’t have anything in common; that we gain no real benefit from cooperation. Chiron in Pisces is here to open our eyes to these factors. Characteristic of Chiron, as the denial becomes transparent, this may come with a crisis. The crisis seems like it will be about noticing what is missing—what has been missing for a long time and then awakening to the desire to find it. Yet, if we’re talking about spiritual, then it’s right within reach: compassion, cooperation, and helping out a little when you see something needs to be done. We have the option to dismiss the notion of “separate” interests. And you who have done a thousand yoga classes, gone to retreats and intensives, and trained in different healing modalities who isn’t quite doing anything with all those gifts: I’m here as Chiron’s personal spokesperson to let you know it’s time to get busy.
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Planet Waves Horoscopes ARIES
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In many ways you live an existence driven by idealism and fantasy, but this fact is often veiled from your awareness. You’re more likely to consider yourself a pragmatist or someone bent on achievement, and lately you’ve been true to form, bringing new determination to the idea of meaningful success. With Chiron transiting into Pisces, your focus shifts to seeking understanding the deepest levels of your psychology: your hidden life and your spiritual dimension. Chiron in Pisces is an awakening point to delve into what you may think of as the “other side of your personality” but which is really a deep inner well that is as much part of you as the aspects of yourself that you encounter in normal consciousness. You may have noticed that in recent years, despite your focus on your adult priorities, your imagination has become more like that of a child. Images mean as much as words. The harder you work the more you need to escape. Yet, it’s often been difficult to concentrate the energy in a productive way. You’ve become more curious about the nature of your soul, yet, it’s often challenging to find a practical home for this quest in the world. Chiron in Pisces is an opportunity to open up dependable access to those dimensions of yourself. If you feel slightly uncomfortable at the prospect of this, or if your early experiences make you stop and question your reality, you’re on the right track.
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In the background of your life for as long as you can remember, you’ve struggled to fit into the world. This experience blended into the background, with moments of mystery about why you could not find your way. Then the intensity of the issue began to grow, and at times focused into outright crisis. What should you be doing, and if you have an idea of what, then how? Chiron in Pisces is here to help you focus your aspirations in a way that combines three elements of life: expressing your most authentic dreams, tapping into your financial potential for your true career, and taking part actively as an authentic part of a group or subculture. What we think of as “community” is an integration point: the key element and not a luxury. This quest requires that instead of being judgmental of your ideas, creative efforts and past experiences, it’s time to open up and allow the energy to flow through you. You have kept many of your most creative ideas secret for a long time, literally blocking energy, and you’re now being summoned into public view. The purpose of what is commonly called creativity is not merely to develop yourself and your mind, but also to help create a shared experience that allows you and others to open up to life. The goal is not perfection, success, or applause, but rather a shared meeting space where everyone can thrive.
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(May 20-June 21)
You have a sense of how you would live boldly in a perfect world. You are suited for leadership in a place that honors the softer aspects of human nature; that makes space for the hidden life we all possess; that is less concerned with profits than it is with embracing love and peace. Chiron in Pisces is here to awaken you to the fact that whatever state the world may be in, your life needs to be oriented on these subtler attributes of existence. In particular, the work you do every day would benefit from fitting the description of Pisces. The chances are you already have a vision for a professional life that would be something like this, but you don’t necessarily say anything about it. Part of you may be too cynical to believe it’s possible. In your belief system, it may not be possible all at once, but it’s something you’ll be steadily growing toward over the next 10 years, as you move from a kind of active dream state to enacting concrete ideas. Here is an image: Imagine you live near a river, in a time when rivers were safe and clean. Every day you go to the river and gather water and bring it to where you live. Then one day you figure out that you can build a pipe and divert a little of that water on a constant basis, and have it transported to where you need it.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) We all have issues with faith. We live on a planet and in a society where a lot can go wrong, and most of how we defend ourselves is by the prowess of intellect: planning, analysis, and efforts aimed at control. Yet, your usual methods are giving way to a process of visioning the possibilities, and in particular, the possibility you want to manifest. Chiron in Pisces is another way of saying vivid imagery. Among the things to envision are specific “things” or goals that you want to manifest. And among them is a vision of yourself, which rightfully would begin with the feeling of what it’s like to live guided by faith in yourself. This transit will help you tune into the emotional cycle wherein you seem to lose and gain that faith. Vision and faith will feed and support each other. They are habits, and because the sign involved is Pisces, once you get them going they will be enmeshed deeply in who you are. And while challenging, they are such dependable techniques that you will want to use them. We tend to be so dependent on our mental faculties that they take over our minds. Like a computer, your mind makes an excellent slave and a terrible master. Allow your higher power to take over. Said another way, your quest is to go from belief to faith. To do this, you will need to distinguish the two. 116 planet waves ChronograM 4/10
Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) All of life consists of relationships, and looked at one way, those relationships consist of agreements. Since this is true on one level, let’s start there. You tend to be idealistic about those agreements, and Chiron transiting into Pisces is calling on you to be practical, grounded, and focused. This is a time to create written contracts where verbal ones existed in the past. It’s a time to see if the goals of longstanding partnerships add up to the results you want at this time in your life, and notice whether they are pointing you toward your objectives for the next phase of your life. Do they honor the person you are becoming, as well as the person you are now? Deeper down, closer to the truth of the matter, is that relationships are based on a shared reality that is much softer and more intuitive than an agreement. They thrive on a shared vision. Indeed, our world’s insistence on agreements is a substitute for precisely this intuitive and visionary factor: a mutual sense of perspective; a common spiritual orientation; the subtle understanding that relationships are for mutual benefit. Chiron in Pisces is going to work like a clarifying filter on both dimensions: of contracts and of your shared vision, guiding you toward that place where the two become one thing, which is a dimension beyond either. Chiron will be keeping your sex life pretty hot as well.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) You tend to be discriminating—in fact, to a fault. You hold both yourself and the world to high standards, sometimes ones that are impossible to attain. This seems to be the direct result of past disappointments in relationships, events that have gradually acquired in you a subtle lack of trust of others that you seem to spend a lot of time and energy fighting with. It’s now time to heal that particular issue, and in the process renew your faith in relationships and in yourself. Here is a question: Was your trust hurt because your expectations were unrelated to the person you were actually dealing with? It’s time to size up how you look at others, and why. Chiron in your 7th solar house is about noticing where you were perceiving people in unrealistic ways, as well as where you lost contact with a common language. Part of regaining that is about learning how to listen in new ways. Indeed, when learning a language, hearing comes before speaking. Can you think of important events in your life where you decided it was time to shut your ears and stop paying attention to what others were saying? Imagine Chiron like one of those old-fashioned hearing aid funnels that gathers sound and presents it to you in a focused way. The key to translating is to seek understanding, rather than judgment. Once you know what someone is getting at, you will know what to do with the information.
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Many times in life you were certain your efforts were going nowhere or adding up to less than the energy you put out. Still, one thing you can be grateful for is your willingness to be helpful. It’s not that you’re “nice” (you probably are), but rather that your mind is grounded in knowing that part of why we’re alive is to be supportive of our environment. Within our society there’s no commonly accepted concept of whole or holistic: “home” has nothing to do with “work,” creativity and earning money are divided from each other, friendships and relationships are put into different categories, and so on. Then we’re conditioned to see health and wellbeing as separate from these other factors of life. Chiron in Pisces, your 6th solar house, is about taking a whole-systems approach to your existence. Now is the moment of making sure that all the parts of your life work together and are designed to support one another. Look for the common ground that everything in your world shares (which is you). Observing how you feel, seeing where your energy goes, considering your purpose for doing anything—all of these will offer clues to how to integrate that which seems to be separate, out of place, or challenging. Remember, what you are shifting awareness of is not “your life,” but rather yourself. The deepest gift you receive will be confidence in your purpose here.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) You have a powerful fantasy life. Oh my goddess: You do know how to let your imagination run free. You take many risks there that (you think) you would never take in real life. This involves the Pisces angle of your chart, and Chiron has now arrived there, representing a cosmic-scale craving to turn fantasy into experience. It could be any kind of fantasy you like, from the art you want to make to the love you want to make to some risk you want to indulge, but remember—we’re talking Pisces styled. Often, fantasy itself is satisfying and serves a nourishing purpose. Chiron has a different objective, which is some form of actuality and fully incarnated experience. I recognize we live in a time when the difference between “real life” and “the imagination” is being played down or intentionally blurred. I also recognize that experience is supposedly scary: It challenges our current, often delicate, state of affairs. There is the element of potential failure involved. Other forms of risk show up when you leave the confines of your inner mind. I suggest you consider the extent to which dwelling on your imagination is an indulgence for your conservative side. Conversely, I propose that your desire for experience is about exploring the side of your nature that wants nothing more than liberation. One of the first questions that comes up under this transit is, how attached to your limitations are you? 4/10 ChronograM planet waves 117
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Those born under your sign tend to be some of the boldest in the neighborhood, but then you pay for it with a deep, abiding insecurity. Which one is really you? Well, the two spheres of consciousness cocreate one another. Anyone with a shred of spiritual awareness, and you definitely qualify, has noticed a few times that the human ego is extremely frail and terrified of its own potential lack of existence. There are those times when you recognize that what we call life is about as solid as taking a ride on a soap bubble that can burst at any moment. And what is beyond that? What is the existence beyond the ride on the bubble? You’re vividly aware of this dimension as well, and it’s where some of your most useful information comes from—you know, the stuff that “you don’t know how you know it, but you do.” Chiron in Pisces is here to help you tap into the mystery of your inner core. It’s here to remind you of what is beyond the transience of experience. Most significantly, Chiron will remind you that the basis of your reality is not your ego structure and all the ways you try to define yourself, but rather your growing awareness of your soul. I don’t mean soul in the mystical sense, but rather the most pragmatic: your inner being and the actual foundation on which your existence is built.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) Going back at least a year, you’ve been under such pressure to change that it’s amazing you’ve had time for anything else. This pressure has been coming from so many different directions that it’s been difficult to keep your mental focus. But let’s turn the clock back beyond the past year—my question is, how many of your ideas have you acted on? They come flying in; you’re gifted with insight and foresight, but what about some measure of consistent action developing them? Chiron in Pisces will have some interesting, even intense, mental effects, the first of which we could describe as a crisis of focus. You may be overwhelmed with the need to sort yourself out, to get your priorities in order, and to understand the rational basis for your intuition. At other times you will be confronted by how little you know, which is a healthy response to existence. Sometimes you feel like your entire thought process is a dream. Imagine that you’re going from a dream to a lucid dream; one where you can consciously choose what you experience. Think of this as being given a power tool, one that is potentially dangerous because it bestows your mind with certain properties of clarity that you’re unaccustomed to. This might arrive with the sense of waking up to how out of it you were. Remember to wake up now, rather than worrying about what you failed to notice in the past.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Financial independence is one of those themes that never seems to go away, and which effects everything in your world. Yet, the notions of “financial” and “independence” are outer forms of a deeper question, which concerns how you feel about yourself. If you’re in feel-good mode, nothing can shake your confidence; you tap into an infinite depth of love. If your inner climate changes, you can be wracked with doubts about your purpose, your worthiness, and whether you have enough energy (or money) to accomplish what is most important to you. One of the first tasks of Chiron in Pisces is to tune you into the dualism involved—to get the two sides of your mind in communication with one another. The “two ways you feel about yourself” tend to be mutually exclusive and, in a sense, unrelated. They seem to have so little in common; you might go mad from cognitive dissonance if you tried to think of them at the same time. Yet, they have something crucial in common, which is that they’re elements of your potential. There is wisdom in your confidence, and another kind of wisdom in your insecurity. The two add up to something beyond the sum of the parts, which is an understanding of the source of your power; which is your spiritual grounding; which is your self-esteem; which relates directly to money. You don’t need to integrate them—only to notice that they’re attributes of the same thing.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Few concepts in astrology evoke the seeming paradox of existence like Pisces, and one of them is Chiron. Both ask the deepest questions, such as those concerning the relationship between soul and body, or between a person and existence. These are topics of rampant speculation, which usually gets categorized as “spirituality.” Yet, if we go beyond theory, and beyond the religious concepts designed to abuse human doubt, we come to the fact of life as a journey of experience. And that, in a phrase, is the nature of Chiron’s arrival in your birth sign. This holds true for your relationships, your creative process, your experience of growth, and what you want to do every day. What they all have in common is experience, and as Chiron makes its way through your sign—first for a few months through late July, then for eight years starting in 2011—I suggest you use the concept of experience to trump your doubts and your misgivings. Experience is the most fundamental bottom line of existence, which places you on equal footing with everyone around you, and at the center of your life. Among the many things we can say about Chiron transiting one’s own birth sign, particularly the mysterious last sign, is that you have some strong encouragement to choose based on who and what you want to experience. If your response is “Really? Is that okay?” then you can see precisely why it’s true. 118 planet waves ChronograM 4/10
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William Wegman, Little Red, Polaroid, 24” x 20”,1999 William Wegman is most noted for photos like this Polaroid—his Weimaraners’ expressionless faces atop the clothes of a jester, a king, or in this case, Little Red Riding Hood. Perhaps the curling locks of Cinderella or Grandma drape their snouts. And always from their sleeves sprout two human hands. Wegman has made his living dressing up dogs. As absurd as the concept sounds, the dogs carry a whimsy that inspired appearances on “Sesame Street,” “Saturday Night Live,” and Nickelodeon. The image of the dogs’ gray faces atop human clothes and with human hands miming a scene even verges on creepy. Suspending disbelief, you swear these dogs are baking bread, cutting each other’s hair, or are the Hardy Boys solving a crime. (The Hardly Boys was a short film Wegman screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.) Still, Wegman’s work expands beyond these iconic dogs—although quite often they are seen in his videos and photographs (minus their human apparel). His videos star his monotone voice, creating comedic scenes through his recognized deadpan delivery. “Polaroid,” featuring 12 of Wegman’s photographs, along with photographs by John Dugdale, Mark Beard, Tanya Marcuse, Jeri Eisenberg, and Melinda McDaniel, will be on display through May 30 at Carrie Haddad Photographs in Hudson. www.carriehaddadphotographs.com. —Siobhan K. McBride 120 ChronograM 5/10
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