Chronogram - April 2007

Woodstock Day School Summer Adventure Featuring specialty camps: Music Mania (Broadway Bound) & Wayfinder

STARTING - JULY 2, 2007 swimming sports music gardening yoga art drama caring & experienced staff dance hiking wildlife experts african drumming original play

Register at: www.woodstockdayschool.org, call (845) 246-3744 x120 or email us for more information at summer@woodstockdayschool.org

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NEWS AND POLITICS

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE

26 THE POLITICS OF FOOD

96 HORSE TALES

A transcript of social and sustainability activist Vandana Shiva’s October 2006 address at Emory University on ethics and sustenance.

30 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart takes a look at the role of embattled US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in the War on Terror.

MAGGIE HEINZEL-NEEL ANNIE INTERNICOLA

CONTENTS

Equine therapy, or hippotherapy, has helped thousands of autism sufferers.

Sukey Pett explores this fascinating stable of alternative medicine.

100 STRETCHING AND FALLING Blair Glaser writes on the importance of stretching outside the comfort zone.

BUSINESS SERVICES COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK

66 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

32 QUEENS OF THE CATSKILLS

89 BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Jay Blotcher takes a trip back in time to Casa Susanna, a 1950s weekend resort for transvestites outside Hunter, immortalized in the recent photo book Casa Susanna.

A compendium of advertiser services.

102 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY

For the positive lifestyle.

37 GROUNDS KEEPERS Ann Braybrooks sits down for a cup of joe with Jim Svetz and Brian Woodward, founders of the expanding chain of Muddy Cup coffeehouses.

HOME AND GARDEN SUPPLEMENT 77 HOMEGROWN HEROES Peter M. Laffin offers some green methods for going native in the backyard.

80 HARNESSING THE SUN FOR HOT WATER Solar thermal technology helps homeowners save money on hot water.

SPECIAL SECTION: AUTISM 94 COLORS OF THE SPECTRUM Sharon Nichols discovers the myriad of autism services in the region.

100 Blair Glaser reminds us to stretch outside our

comfort zone. Inner Vision

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ARTS & CULTURE 44 PORTFOLIO

Video artist George Quasha’s award-winning project, Art Is, attempts to answer the age-old question, “What is Art?”

46 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson looks at new shows by provocative artists Peter Garfield and Elise Engler.

49 GALLERY DIRECTORY What's hanging in galleries and museums throughout the region.

52 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles Happy and Jane Traum and their music-instruction label, Homespun Tapes, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

Plus local scenester DJ Wavy Davy's Nightlife Highlights and reviews of CDs by John Esposito Quintet The Blue People. Reviewed by DJ Wavy Davy.

Guitars & Hearts Guitars & Hearts. Reviewed by Katie Cahill.

Todd Giudice Little Known Secret. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

56 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles top literary anthology editor and Woodstock resident Michele Slung.

58 BOOK REVIEWS Caitlin McDonnell reviews Home Remedies by Angela Pneuman.

Peter Aaron reviews Up is Up But So is Down, edited by Brendan Stosuy.

Susan Krawitz reviews The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater.

62 POETRY Poems by Kim Barke, Amy Beth Barton, Erin Buttner, Michael Hunt, Lauren Tamraz Judson, Mark Massey, Jeffrey Paggi, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Peter Scheckner, and Jeffrey Aaron Schmidt.

64 FOOD & DRINK Eric Steinman discovers New Paltz Southern India-inspired restaurant Suruchi.

140 PARTING SHOT Matthew Palin’s etching Afloat.

THE FORECAST 115 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 113 “Photowork ’07,” at Poughkeepsie’s Barret Art Center, brings together the work of 51 photographers. Peter M. Laffin has the big picture.

114 Brian K. Mahoney previews a book signing at the Woodstock Library by David Wallis, editor of Killed Cartoons.

116 Speakers at the Omega Institute’s Being Fearless conference include Al Gore, Arianna Huffington, Jane Goodall, and Bobby McFerrin. Al Desetta previews.

123 Dana Dorrity discusses documentarian Ken Burns’s presentation of a workshop and preview of his new film, The War. 124 Guitar innovators Leo Kottke and David Lindley share the bill at Peekskill’s Paramount Center for the Arts. Preview by Bob Cianci.

127 Jay Blotcher writes about “Jane Eyre,” a new stage adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic tale of gothic drama.

128 The musical “Dollface” blends catchy songs with cheeky satire of the 1950s. Jay Blotcher previews.

130 The Bardavon hosts a concert by contemporary jazz virtuosos Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau. Preview by Jeremy Schwartz.

133 Al Desetta interviews Pulitzer prize-winning poet Charles Simic about his appearance this month at SUNY Ulster’s 13th Annual Poetry Forum.

PLANET WAVES 134 PLANET WAVES NEWS NOTES Eric Francis Coppolino offers some dubious (but highly entertaining) current-events items that landed in his astrological Inbox.

Plus horoscopes.

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The new Chronogram.com is brimming with exclusive content you won’t find in the print version—or anywhere else. Video features. Music clips. Short films by area filmmakers.

Blogs. Trailers of locally screening films. Slideshows. And, of course, our constantly updating events calendar. It’s all there at Chronogram.com.

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AUDIO >“Just Friends”

by John Esposito Quintet >“Whoa!” by Guitars & Hearts >“Pull Me Outta Shape”

by Todd Giudice

Watch music lessons by John Jackson and John Sebastian courtesy of Homespun Tapes.

Plus tracks by artists featured in this month’s Nightlife Highlights column.

BLOG Blogs on myriad topics by informed and valued members of the Chronogram community.

Reasonable Doubts Libertarian and political pundit Jeffrey Shapiro takes on both sides of the aisle.

Quarter to Three The inimitable Sparrow offers up pithy insights, humble observations, and loaded haikus.

Help Yourself to Healing Holisitic health care professional Puja Thomson with healing energy.

BOOKS Read Roberta Allen’s short story, “The Pact,” from Up Is Up But So Is Down.

Plus blogs on news and politics, music, family, sustainability, lifestyles, food, and more.

LOCAL LUMINARIES LEADING LIGHTS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY

A dedicated practitioner of yoga and overtone singing, Baird Hersey has had a celebrated career in music. He’s received commissions from Harvard University and the New Mexico Council for the Arts, performed at prestigious venues worldwide, and composed extensively for television. In the ’70s and ’80s, he led the highly acclaimed jazz-rock fusion band The Year of The Ear. In recent years, Hersey has led Prana, a group of singers that applies the overtone techniques of ancient Tibetans without the gravelly, low tones commonly associated with the method. Instead, each of the singers uses his or her regular voice to create two euphonious tones at once. The group’s latest album, The Eternal Embrace, is a musical meditation on the eight limbs of yoga according to Indian sage Patanjali. On April 16, Prana will encourage people to gather at 6pm and sing a continuous “om” as a meditation for peace. www.pranasound.com.

—Peter M. Laffin Why do you choose to live in the Hudson Valley?

In 1979, I came up to teach at Karl Burger’s Creative Music Studio. I loved the area: lots of great music, food, art, people, and magnificent countryside. I moved here in 1985, when my ex-wife was pregnant with our first son.

There is an often-repeated blessing or curse (depending on how you feel about it) that supposedly comes from the Native American culture about a burial ground at the foot of Overlook Mountain. It says that once you are in the shadow of Overlook, you will always be destined to return there.

What very ordinary thing is hard for you to do?

Spell. I am dyslexic (thank God for spell check!). When I was growing up, they didn’t know what it was and had no solution for it other than “remedial reading.” I think it forced me to become creative. I embraced my limitations and I tried, with varying degrees of success, to shape things to my strengths.

What was the last thing that made you laugh uncontrollably?

This morning, a friend pointed out a grammatical error that I

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had made in an e-mail to them that completely changed the sincere and serious nature of what I had written into a very off-color pun. I howled. Laughter is a wonderful thing. I try and do it, and get others to join me, as often as I can.

What is your most pleasurable habit and where do you indulge in it?

I have two: singing, which I do everywhere, and yoga, which I do at home. I have practiced yoga for 19 years. Over the first several years, I did many different styles. About 10 years ago, I found Ashtanga yoga. As well as physical postures, it is a practice of breath, focus, and moving energy, a practice that has changed my life in positive and wonderful ways, a practice that I begin anew every morning when I step on the mat.

What are some things you would like to see change about this area? What are some things you would like to see stay the same?

Anything that moves us toward a greater sense of community and helps us accept that, in spite of our differences, we are all connected.

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com ART DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Peter Aaron paaron@chronogram.com SENIOR POLITICAL EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com WHOLE LIVING EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com COPY EDITOR Andrea Birnbaum INTERN Peter M. Laffin PROOFREADERS Christopher Hewitt, Laura McLaughlin CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Kim Barke, Amy Beth Barton, Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Ann Braybrooks, Eric Buttner, Katie Cahill, Bob Cianci, Eric Francis Coppolino, DJ Wavy Davy, Al Desetta, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Blair Glaser, Hillary Harvey, Thomas Hilton, Michael Hunt, Annie Internicola, Lauren Tamraz Judson, Susan Krawitz, Jennifer May, Mark Massey, Caitlin McDonnell, Jim Metzner, Sharon Nichols, Jerffrey Paggi, Sukey Pett, Fionn Reilly, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Peter Scheckner, Jeffrey Aaron Schmidt, Jeremy Schwartz, Nina Shengold, Vandana Shiva, Eric Steinman, Tom Tomorrow, Beth E. Wilson

SUBMISSIONS CALENDAR To submit calendar listings, log in at www.chronogram.com, click on the "Events Producers" link, and fill out the form.

E-mail: events@chronogram.com / Fax: (845) 334-8610 Mail: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 Deadline: April 15

POETRY Submissions of up to three poems at a time can be sent to poetry@chronogram.com or our street address. See above.

FICTION/NONFICTION Fiction: Submissions can be sent to fiction@chronogram.com.

Nonfiction: Succinct queries about stories of regional interest can be sent to bmahoney@chronogram.com.

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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS

Jim Metzner has been producing sound-rich radio programs for the past 30 years. His series, “Pulse of the Planet,” now it in its 18th year, is on the cusp of its 4000th broadcast. Jim’s work has been featured in Wired magazine, the New York Times, Audio magazine, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal, and on “The CBS Evening News.” Many moons ago, as a singer-songwriter, he opened for acts like Pink Floyd, Three Dog Night, and T Rex. For more information on the “Pulse of the Planet” series and CDs, visit www.pulseplanet.com. Jim’s commentary on the commercialization of spiritual terms, “Zenophobia,” appears on page 20.

Blair Glaser became the Internet’s first actor-advice columnist when her weekly feature, “Ask Blair,” was featured at Playbill.com. She migrated from teaching acting to becoming a drama therapist, and facilitated a series of popular workshops for women based on and in connection with Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” at the Omega Institute and in cities around the country. Blair has written for various online publications, including Sexual Health and the UK’s Flow Magazine. She is a licensed creative arts therapist whose healing business, SpiritPlay.org, incorporates her private practice as a drama therapist and psycho-spiritual counselor. Blair’s article on revitalizing one’s inner life, “Stretching and Falling,” appears on page 100.

Bob Cianci is a longtime music journalist and author as well as a working musician. A graduate of Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, Bob has written for the New Jersey Herald, the Pike County Dispatch, the River Reporter, Blues Revue, Blues Access, No Depression, and other newspapers and magazines. He is currently the main contributor and the features editor of Classic Drummer. His book Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties is now in its second, revised printing. Bob’s preview of the concert by Leo Kottke and David Lindley in Peekskill appears on page 124.

A lifelong Hudson Valley resident, Katie Cahill is the editor of the Saugerties Times and a contributing writer to two of Ulster Publishing’s other weekly newspapers, the Woodstock Times and the Kingston Times. Her work has also been featured in Boating on the Hudson and Beyond and in Altercation magazine. Katie was also the co-publisher and editor of the short-lived-but-muchloved Scenery, an independent publication dedicated to the local music scene. She lives in uptown Kingston. When not writing or editing, she is an aspiring jewelry designer and collector of vintage fashion items. Katie’s review of the self-titled CD by Guitars & Hearts appears on page 55.

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The place is Middlesex, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the focal point of Reillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Middlesex: Mundane Photographs from Metroland,â&#x20AC;? a series of photos that represent his relationship with a familiar place, where mundane, circa 1930s London rooftops glisten in the daylight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps it is my soul that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m showing,â&#x20AC;? says Reilly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to capture the atmosphere of the place in an obviously subjective way. The photos are mostly for my own consumption, but if the viewer can get the feel of my sensibility through them, that is good.â&#x20AC;?

Born in London, Reillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distinguished career includes work for the Los Angeles Times, GQ, the London Daily Mirror, High Times, Playboy, Esquire, and others. Locally, he shoots for Ulster Publishing and Chronogram.

Reilly points to the poetry of John Betjeman as a prime resource for â&#x20AC;&#x153;getting a senseâ&#x20AC;? of the setting in which he shot his latest show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I nearly called the show â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Middlesex,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Reilly, noting Betjemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plaintive poem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Middlesex,â&#x20AC;? excerpted below, as illustrative of the former suburb that was subsumed into the city of London in 1965.

Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Taâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Pardonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down the concrete station With a frown of concentration, Out into the outskirtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edges Where a few surviving hedges Keep alive our lost Elysiumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rural Middlesex again. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Excerpt from John Betjemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Middlesexâ&#x20AC;?

The opening for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Middlesex: Mundane Photographs from Metrolandâ&#x20AC;? will be held on April 7 from 5 to 7pm at KMoCA in Kingston. The show will run until April 28. www.kmoca.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Peter M. Laffin

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PHOTOS: THOMAS HILTON

CHRONOGRAM SEEN The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community. Here's some of what we saw in March: CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT MUDDY CUP IN CATSKILL FEATURING BILL VANAVER, RICH CONATY, AND PATRICK MILBOURN.

Clockwise from top left: At the March 10 Cafe Chronogram event at Muddy Cup coffeehouse in Catskill, radio host Rich Conaty dicusses the classic music he plays on his show, “The Big Broadcast.” Folk legend Bill Vanaver sings to two-year-old Asher Stern and his father, Chrongram publisher Jason Stern. Chronogram’s assistant editor, Peter Aaron, left, meets famed architectural photographer and Germantown resident Peter Aaron. The scene at Muddy Cup following the event. Featured painter Patrick Milbourn, left, and sculptor Charles Heckheimer. A few of the 1920s and ’30s jazz and pop 78 RPM records that Conaty plays on WFUV.

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FIRST IMPRESSION zenophobia Recently, the sides of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue buses have been graced with ads featuring the latest personal listening device—the illegitimate cousin of the iPod, called Zen. For reasons known only to them, God and a goodly number of focus groups, advertisers have latched onto a marketing strategy that invokes higher powers.

“Find your Zen,” the ads say. If you took the ad’s advice, you’d find something that looks an awful lot like an iPod, with the advantage of having one less letter in its name. In any case, it’ll be an enlightening exercise to see if the name is copyrightable. Should Zen become a registered trademark, it could lead to some heady legal confrontations: Dharma vs. Downloads, Hungry Ghosts vs.

Patent Attorneys. Or, in the spirit of reconciliation, we might be treated to advertisements featuring a roomful of smiling monks, sitting on meditation cushions, plugged into their own personal Zens and listening to—the Sutras, we hope. Quite likely, the ads coyly wouldn’t tell us. The monks might be sneaking in a little James Brown on the side.

If Zen works, we can, as they say in the biz, expect more of the same. You can almost hear the conversation in the Idea Room as they search for new, trendy names coined from similar realms: “OK people, we’re looking for some bounce, but nothing too…ethnic. Catholicism—fuggedaboutit, too much bad press.

Judaism—too New York. And besides, words with “ch” in them sound like you’re clearing your throat. Islam—are you serious?

Unitarian—too white bread. Tao is good, but it sounds like a chemical company. And besides, it’s already taken—a tea, or something. Confucianism—too many syllables. But look, we got a gold mine with this Buddhism thing: Bardo—taking software to a whole other level; Nirvana—the world’s most dependable hard drives (and as quiet as one hand clapping); Mantra—the ultimate way to share your most personal sound files. What’s not to like?”

So here’s a prediction, based on the success of Zen, we can look forward to the next incarnation in this line of products: an implant that will allow you to access MP4s by just thinking about them.

Who knows? In an effort to steal back some marketing thunder, it may already be in development by Apple, destined for release at the MacExpo in 2010, code name—The Void. Which only goes to prove that Nothing is, or at least once was, sacred.

—Jim Metzner

LETTERS Looking to the Skies To the Editor: I saw in Jason Stern’s “Esteemed Reader” column this month [03/07] that he mentioned your company’s commitment to “environmental stewardship.”

I would hope that might include an article soon on the plan to build what is being billed as “a fourth major New York City airport in the Hudson Valley” at Stewart Airport. As a refugee from a Rockaway, Queens, community that got the brunt of JFK’s 1000+ flights a day, I can tell you that this will be the worst environmental impact ever to hit the Hudson Valley. You just have to look up in the sky every day to see the long plane contrails to see that we are already heavily impacted by New York City metro area airports.

If the Port Authority gets hold of Stewart to use it, as I believe it will, as a heavily night-operating air-cargo hub, it will have major health and sleep impacts on us.

I was surprised to see in Jason Stern’s column this month that he talked about business mixers instead of your usual quest for truth and achievement of satori. I was disappointed. I really think you should keep your business success, which you have already obviously achieved, secondary, and get back to environmental stewardship and enlightenment.

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Esteemed Reader O Lord Creator, And all your Conscious Powers Through whom the Divine Will is manifested, Let me be liberated from sleep, mechanicalness, and slavery, And find refuge in Conscious Action, from which no evil can come.

Let me turn from the part to the Whole, From the temporal to the Eternal, From myself to Thee.

—“Prayer” by J.G. Bennett Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Above is a prayer that I intone every day, usually twice, when I awaken and before sleep. If I am in the company of others, either in person or spirit, I substitute “me” with “us.” The prayer has been my friend and reminder since I read it in John Bennett’s autobiography, Witness, almost 20 years ago. It helps me recollect my current aim, which may be unformulated, but at the least it is a reminder to have an aim, and avoid spending the precious days of this life languishing.

The prayer first of all reminds me that there is something higher than “me.” That there is an “Above,” a force of intelligence to which I can become receptive. In Islam, this is called “submission,” which suggests connotations of bondage to our Western mind. But in reality, submission, when chosen, is not slavery, but freedom. As Bob Dylan sings, “Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord / But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.” In other words, we are always, willy-nilly, submitting to something. Freedom is choosing what to serve.

If freedom is only an exterior action, it is inauthentic. It is the coerced “service” mouthed by corporations that endeavor to make customers feel cared for, so they will spend more money; or even the egotistic work of do-gooders to care for others whilst not truly seeing them. Real service starts with perceiving a need, submitting to it, and leaving one’s ego behind. It is premised on an inner disposition of receptivity, not activity. As Gurdjieff writes in Beelzebub’s Tales, “the higher blends with the lower in order to actualize the middle and thus becomes either higher for the preceding lower, or lower for the succeeding higher.” So by intentionally placing ourselves in the position of the lower, submitting to the knowledge that comes, a conscious middle is actualized in us, and true service may arise.

The middle that is actualized depends on the higher that we choose. For example, I was with my family last evening and my wife commented that our two-year-old was emitting a scent that suggested there was an evacuation in his diaper. She asked me to change it. I told her I was busy and asked her to do it. “You never change diapers,” she said, with frustration in her voice. Immediately, I felt a blend of righteousness and indignation arise, as I thought of the hundreds of diapers I have changed. But in that moment a flashbulb went off and I realized I was serving my own justification. The question arose: Do I want to serve my wife and child, whom I love, or my pride? The answer was implicit in the action—I got up from my “important” work and changed the diaper. The inner result of the event—what was actualized—was love, instead of resentment.

But the “Lord Creator” is eminently mysterious, and perpetually unknown or even unknowable from my current level of consciousness. Truly, it is not something to be known, but rather utilized as a means of stretching my being to receive a more conscious influence. The means of becoming receptive to this higher force is to quiet thought and become an empty cup; to bring attention into the instrument of body, mind, and emotions. The pitfall, and there is always a pitfall, is to become “full” of emptiness; namely, to so fixate on the effort so as to be so still or empty that nothing new can enter.

Avoiding the trap of self-involvement, what arises in the vacuum of emptiness is humility. If I remember that every breath, every moment of “my” existence, is granted from above—from an intelligence on a scale so far beyond my own as to be inconceivably greater, and that without it I would cease to exist in an instant, then I can begin to feel a very tender gratitude, and corresponding willingness, and readiness to serve.

To be clear, I am not talking about “believing in God.” What is above does not fit in any idea generated from below. What is above is only a mystery, and is therefore immune to belief.

Instead it is dynamic inquiry that allows us to catch a glimpse of that mystery by eschewing any apparent formulatable answer that arises. We inquire with our whole being: What is it? Or, more, pointedly: Who am I? I reiterate that freedom is choosing to which master we are enslaved. This choice is renewable in every moment. It is the choice that the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan followers make that enables them to forgive the Chinese for the genocide of their people and the continued systematic destruction of their refined culture. And it is a choice that we can make on our own small scale of life, choosing to become receptive to a higher intelligence, especially in moments of anger and fear, when our most mechanical tendencies are rife.

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Editor’s Note I met Amanda Bader in early 2001, when she came into my office to pitch me a gardening column with an interesting twist.A professional writer and an amateur gardener, Amanda suggested she team up with a professional gardener and write a series of clear, programmatic articles on what should be done each month, whether it be planting, cultivating, or readying the beds for winter.

While the gardening column lasted only six months (it didn’t quite fit the editorial mix in the magazine at the time), Amanda quickly came to be one of my most trusted freelancers. If there was a story that required an “instant expert”—someone to parachute in and learn a new topic from top to bottom and report back on it in a knowledgeable way—I would call Amanda. She covered everything from home remodeling to grass-fed beef. Amanda also profiled a number of authors and local notables for the magazine, including Valerie Paradiz, on the publication of Elijah’s Cup, her memoir of raising an autistic child, and New Paltz Mayor Jason West, after he performed the celebrated same-sex marriages.

The last piece that Amanda wrote for us, on the difficulty of finding locally grown produce in our region’s chain supermarkets, appeared last August. “Hidden Harvest” is a monster—weighing in at over 4,000 words, and it’s one of the most comprehensive and well-researched pieces we have published in these pages.

An area of Amanda’s life that I knew little about was her passion for horse jumping. She and I would joke about her yearly trips to Ocala, Florida, where she would train and ride in horse jumping competitions. I used to tease her about her choice of winter getaway locations, suggesting that perhaps they had suitable horse jumping in France, where her husband, Philippe, was from, rather than the hot armpit of inland Florida. Amanda always laughed at my worn-out humor, and replied that she went south because that’s where the jumping was.

On February 18, I received an e-mail from a friend of Amanda’s that she had been seriously injured while competing in Ocala. In the course of a jump,Amanda had fallen under her horse. I heard nothing more until the morning of February 28, when I received the following message: “At 5:03am Amanda’s heart stopped.

She was beautiful.”

Indeed she was, the small bit of her I was privileged to know.

What follows is a remembrance of Amanda, written by her close friend, the writer and musician Wally Nichols.

—Brian K. Mahoney

eager to test herself, and because she was alive.

Where others like me might sit on the sidelines and watch this event, she was involved.This is an event that demands steel nerves and talent, both of which she had in spades. It involves a special relationship between horse and rider based on trust and sensitivity. And into the delicate mix goes the wildcard variable, luck. Or, sometimes, as the case can be, bad luck.

I remember a recent dinner at her house in Accord, with her dear husband, Philippe, and a few friends. The perfect 30-something evening (though we were all older than that) with nice wine, giggles, a foray into politics, a hasty retreat, excellent food, a few good-natured jabs at the French, plenty of barn talk, and lounging until the wee hours. Amanda was a perfect host, gracious, engaging, charming. Her orientation was toward quality, kindness, and generosity, be it in spending a little extra at Gail’s Stone Ridge tack shop to support the local economy and a friend, baking outrageously tasty treats to raise money for all things equestrian, or her interaction with horses.

And she was a talented writer. A hard worker. Determined. Loving. Smart.

Particular (her friends jokingly called her “Demanda”). She knew what she wanted, and she knew what she liked.

Few are lucky enough to realize early enough what in life makes them truly happy. Indeed, some spend their entire lives in search of elusive passions. Amanda Bader got there early.

I recently met the volunteer who started Amanda on the last course of her life. Jennifer told me that the event staff rarely speak to the riders when they are in the starting gate, but when she saw Amanda’s smile and enthusiasm for the upcoming ride, she had to say something to the lady in the blue velvet cap. They chatted briefly and the buzzer sounded, beginning the course. As Amanda took off for the first jump and cleared it gracefully, Jennifer told me she turned to a coworker and said, “You know, that’s what this sport is all about.”

I take some solace in knowing that when I said to her on that fateful day, “Have a great ride,” that she had already had 51 years of a great ride and left us all doing what she truly, truly loved.

The last thing I ever said to Amanda Bader was: “Have a great ride.” My final memory of her speaks volumes to the delightful, strong woman she was.We were at the Florida Horse Park together in Ocala, Florida, representing, in an unofficial capacity, the Mid-Hudson Valley horse riders. She was there to compete, and I was there to support.This particular weekend was one of the largest horse trials the park has each year. Hundreds of riders from all over North America come to compete at varying different levels in dressage, stadium jumping, and cross-country.

Amanda was easy to spot in the crowd. She looked sharp as ever in her black jacket, distinct blue velvet helmet, and white britches. She held a determined New York stride that moved her with purpose towards her destination. At her side was a riding crop and, in her wake, trying to keep up while still copping a quick sniff of everything and everyone, her trusty Jack Russell terrier, Lola. I saw Amanda but she didn’t see me. “Hey Lola, get out of the garbage can,” I yelled loud enough to make Amanda and plenty of others turn. She saw me and, realizing I was goofing on her, smiled. “Hey Amanda, have a great ride,” I said, not realizing it would be the last time I could tell her that. Earlier we had agreed to have dinner the following Tuesday to discuss the trials, among other things. She waved goodbye and disappeared into the crowd.

Amanda was preparing for her cross-country run, where she would take Samira, her 15.3 hand, 8-year-old mare over a series of jumps and obstacles spread out on a rolling green course well over a mile long. It was a beautiful day, like so many in Florida. The promise of long sunny days of riding, instructing, and learning was enough to motivate Amanda to come down for the winter—to stay on top of her already great game, and let the snows of the North have their way back home.

Cross-country is a test of endurance and courage. I have walked many courses. I have marveled at the challenges the jumps present, and I have faded in the daunting shadows of those same challenges. But it is in the face of that challenge that Amanda thrived. She rode the course because she was confident, well trained, excited, EDITOR’S NOTE 23 Photo of Amanda Bader (and Lola) by Fionn Reilly,4/07 March,CHRONOGRAM.COM 2006.

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WHILE YOU WERE

SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed.

For an entire week in February, the Associated Press pledged to go where it hadn’t been in years—the No-Paris Hilton Zone. “Barring any major, major news, we are not going to put up a single word about Paris on the wire,” said entertainment editor Jesse Washington in an internal memo. He continued, “Hopefully we will be able to discuss what ‘news’ we missed.” One editor responded, “This is a great idea—can we add North Korea?” Luckily, Paris’s birthday was the day before the experiment began. “We got lucky,” said Washington. “There really weren’t any major news stories involving Paris, so we didn’t have many tough decisions to make.”

Source: New York Observer REUTERS/ALEXANDRA WINKLER

Backed by the ACLU and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Dr. Lyle Craker of the University of Massachusetts is seeking a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to grow marijuana legally for medicinal research. Last month, a judge appointed by the Department of Justice recommended that it would be in the public interest for Dr. Craker to grow the drug because the government’s monopoly on the legal growing of cannabis hinders legitimate research, and a second licensed facility is needed to maintain a stable supply (Currently, all marijuana for research must come from a government-run farm in Mississippi.) The decision on whether he will be granted a license currently rests with the deputy administrator of the DEA. Lawyers for Dr. Craker recall the case of Donald Abrams, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who sought to obtain cannabis from the national institute to conduct research on how it might help AIDS patients. His research was approved by all necessary authorities, yet he was still refused cannabis. When he changed his research to focus on the dangers of marijuana to AIDS patients, his demand was supplied.

Elsewhere, the British government has encouraged research into cannabis medicines.

The research has resulted in a new drug, Sativex, which is currently being used to relieve nerve pain for multiple-sclerosis patients.

Source: The Economist In a recent interview with the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, potential 2008 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich admitted to having an extramarital affair while leading the charge to impeach President Clinton.

“There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards,” says Gingrich. “There’s certainly times when I’ve fallen short of God’s standards.”

Gingrich does not believe that he should be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing impeachment because he merely broke the bonds of marriage whereas the former president lied under oath about his extramarital affair. “Clinton was punished for perjury,” says Gingrich.

Source: Rawstory.com

Under heavy criticism for its secrecy in December 2005, the White House ordered federal agencies to speed up their responses to requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A new FOIA report card issued by the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government concludes that Bush’s directive did not speed up the response rate.

“Requests remain heavily backlogged,” the study says. “People seeking records and information remain less likely to get the information they seek than in the past.”

In 1998, five of the 26 agencies reported a median waiting time of more than the 20working-days statutory requirement. By 2005, the number of agencies failing to meet that level of service increased to 13.

Source: Editor and Publisher Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Eliot Cohen, a well-known neoconservative scholar of military affairs—famous for his thesis that claims the war on terror is WWIV (the cold war, according to Cohen, was WWIII)—to be the new counselor of the State Department, a senior policy advisor on a wide range of issues. “As they have done many times before, neoconservatives, with Iran in their sights, have installed one of their own at State to block any war-avoiding rapprochement,” says Glenn Greenwald of Salon.

Source: Salon.com In late February, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded a 14-year-long case, describing the massacre of close to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 as an act of genocide. Although the court faulted Serbia for not preventing the genocide when it “could and should” have, Serbia itself was not found guilty of the enormous crime. The ruling provided both satisfaction and frustration. Serbia was spared the stigma of being branded a genocidal nation and was also absolved from having to pay war reparations, as demanded by Bosnia. Regardless, Bosnia received what it wanted from the outset of the trial: “a recognition of Serbia’s guilt.”

The ruling agrees with the political wishes of Western countries that hope to pull Serbia into a wider European community rather than see it isolated, allowing its extreme nationalist movement, which denies the genocide, to grow in strength. However, the ruling may strengthen the faction that wishes to abide by the Genocide Convention, which requires immediate punishment of those accused, specifically, General Ratko Mladic, the leader of the Serbian forces during the Bosnian war who’s come to symbolize the campaign of ethnic cleansing against Croats and Muslims. He is currently a fugitive hiding in Serbia.

Source: New York Times

This year’s opium harvest in Afghanistan could possibly top last year’s record crop, with nearly half of the country’s provinces showing an increase in growing, according to the director of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime. Of all the provinces, 15 show an increase in planting, including Helmand—the world’s largest poppy-growing region—7 show a decrease, and 6 show no change. Helmand has seen an increased amount of attacks from Taliban fighters who use opium to fund their insurgency.

Southern Afghanistan, the area most plagued by insurgency, is exhibiting a continued increase. The lack of security has prevented aid from reaching farmers who have expressed desire to change crops.

“The real increase is taking place in the provinces characterized by insurgency,” says Antonio Maria Costa, director of the drugs and crime office.

Source: New York Times On March 1, President Bush nominated Michael E. Baroody, executive vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the nation’s largest trade groups that opposes aggressive product safety regulation, to be the next chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In 2001, speaking for NAM, Baroody criticized a Supreme Court ruling that held that the Environmental Protection Agency had acted constitutionally when it issued standards for limiting smog and soot.

“Given that Mr. Baroody has spent his professional career representing the interests of manufacturers over consumers, I believe his nomination deserves the highest level of scrutiny,” said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AK).

Source: Consumer Affairs Two county election workers from Ohio were sentenced on March 13 to 18 months in prison for rigging a recount of 2004 presidential election ballots. A county election coordinator and a ballot manager were each convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee. According to Ohio law, during a recount each county is supposed to randomly count 3 percent of its ballots by hand and by machine.

If there are no discrepancies, the rest of the votes can be recounted by machine. If there are discrepancies, a full hand count is ordered. Three days before the public recount, the defendants worked behind closed doors to pick ballots they knew would not cause discrepancies when counted by hand.

“I can’t help but feel that there’s more to this story,” says Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Peter Corrigan.

Source: The Guardian —Compiled by Peter M. Laffin

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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region

THE POLITICS OF FOOD Protesting the Anti-Green Revolution A speech by Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. A physicist by training, Shiva is director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in New Delhi, India. Shiva’s book Staying Alive helped redefine perceptions of women in the developing world; she was the recipient of the 1993 Right Livelihood Award, known as the alternative Nobel Prize, “for placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse,” according to the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. Shiva’s latest book, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, describes what a sustainable future for the planet could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies. Both activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization, a group of intellectuals seeking alternatives to increasing economic globalization by corporations.

Shiva originally gave this speech at Emory University in Atlanta on October 17, 2006.

It was later broadcast on Alternative Radio (www.alternativeradio.org).

Being aware of the full cycle of life and its replenishment, what better opportunity than food? Food is in its very nature the place where ethics begins, because it is what connects us—our bodies—to the rest of the environment. Every other issue we can kind of put aside and think in a distant kind of way, but food becomes us.We are what we eat. So eating is the ultimate ethical act. It is the ultimate political act. It is the act where we decide whether we’re going to be part of raping the planet, killing the farmers, killing diverse species, and destroying our health in the process too; or we will be part of the protection of species, protection of the atmosphere, the protection of the annadatas, the givers of food. In Sanskrit, food is anna, data is the giver. The annadata is today in every society, beginning with this country, a threatened species.

In 1942, [India] had the great Bengal famine. It killed two million people, not because we didn’t have enough rice but because the rice that was grown was being taken out to feed the British army for the war. Half of what people grew was by force taken away as revenues by the British Empire. And when the famine started, it was the women of Bengal who started this amazing movement called Tebhaga. On one of my trips to Bengal, I was in a village hall, and the murals on the wall were paintings of this movement, where the women are standing there in front of their rice with brooms. That’s their defense. And on the other side is the police with guns. They are saying, “We will give our lives, but we will not give our rice.”

That’s what started to trigger land reform.The independence movement got accelerated. Nineteen-forty-two was the year we said to the British: Quit India.

The Quit India movement began, and a series of things happened. But the most important outcome of it was the recognition that those who till the land must be the ones who make decisions about the land, must be the ones who benefit from the produce of the land. And out of that famine condition the rural areas became the driving force of the Indian economy. Half of the people who came 20, 30 years ago to Silicon Valley had been financed by parents from rural incomes, something that is usually forgotten—that you could send your child to university and college being a farmer, in this country as much as in India. My own mother financed my education with her farm income.

That changed in two steps. The first step, of course, was this 1965 revolution called the Green Revolution. Nineteen-sixty-five was a year of drought, a little less rainfall, just a little more import of wheat needed. We were told by the US: “We will not send you more wheat until you change your agriculture and adopt chemicals and the new seeds.” The World Bank came into the picture. And even though our prime minister of that time, Lal Bahadur Shastri, said, “We cannot experiment on such a large scale with so many lives,” we were literally compelled, 26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 4/07

through conditionalities, to adopt chemical agriculture. And it was adopted in the state of Punjab. That was just 1965-66.

By the 1970s, Punjab had become a volcano. By the early 1980s, it had become a center of terrorism and extremism. By 1984, the Golden Temple, an important Sikh shrine, had been attacked. As a backlash, Indira Gandhi was assassinated that winter. It was also that year, one month after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, we had Bhopal, the Union Carbide chemical disaster that has killed 30,000 people since then. Punjab’s violence and terrorism has killed 30,000 too. By the end of that year, I was holding my head and saying, “The Green Revolution got a Nobel Prize for peace. Where is this peace? And what was the Green Revolution?”

THE GREEN REVOLUTION I’m a physicist. I had no idea what they were doing in agriculture. A year spent trying to figure out what the Green Revolution was taught me two very basic facts about industrial agriculture and chemical agriculture. First, that it was really about converting weapons of mass destruction into products for our food system after the wars. When the markets dried up for selling chemical weapons and for making explosives from nitrogen, then the markets grew for nitrogen fertilizers, for pesticides. The Green Revolution was crafted to make that market grow.

It was a remodification of plants—especially in the Indian context, of the rice and wheat varieties—to let them adapt to chemicals. Chemicals applied for nitrogen lead to more chemicals needed for pest control, more chemicals needed for weed control. And it is never ending.

The second thing I learned about the Green Revolution, by just doing very basic arithmetic, was that we had been tricked to believe we produced more food.

Yes, we produce more rice and wheat. But food is not just rice and wheat. If you are a bhat- [rice] eating Bengali or a south Indian, you need your sambal [chili relish] and you need your dhal [lentils]. And if you are from the northwest then you need your roti [flat bread] and your dhal. And you do need some mustard oil and sesame oil to give that nice flavor and spice to your food.

The Green Revolution got rid of the pluses, rid of the oil seeds, rid of the greens, and in fact brought more land under rice and wheat.We’ve done calculations that show that the increase in rice and wheat can be 100 percent explained by increase in land under rice and wheat and increased irrigation to rice and wheat.You could have achieved the same amount of increase in rice and wheat without chemicals and without new seeds. So we were led to believe there was a technological miracle taking place.

On the basis of 20 years of my work and studies in different ecosystems of India, whether it be the home gardens of Kerala or it be small terrace farms in Uttaranchal or the desert of Rajasthan, everywhere we have been able to show that with ecological inputs and biodiversity on your farm, you double and triple production of food, and you can take incomes to the skies, depending on what crops you choose.

So the idea that you have to introduce more chemicals and you have to introduce miracle seeds to increase productivity and to make rural incomes grow is not just not true, it is a blatant lie. I’m not used to using strong words unless they’re absolutely necessary, and in the area of food they are, because our ignoring this lie is what is leading to the genocide of farmers.

THE SEEDS OF SUICIDE In India, building upon the Green Revolution, we have globalization and the Second Green Revolution. That’s the name being given to genetic engineering. For those of you who are not familiar, the term Green Revolution and the technology package were introduced because there was a Red Revolution spreading at that

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PRESIDENT BUSH USES A HAND TOOL DURING HIS VISIT TO THE ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY IN HYDERABAD, INDIA, ON MARCH 3, 2006.

THROUGH THE US-INDIA KNOWLEDGE INITIATIVE IN AGRICULTURE, INDIA HAS STARTED IMPORTING SURPLUS US GRAIN THAT IT DOES NOT NEED AT INFLATED PRICES.

time and there was panic. So they said, “How do we create prosperity through technology that will make rural areas so prosperous that through the prosperity will come peace and they will not need to have any social change?” The word “green” was mainly applied because it was about agriculture, not because it was green in philosophy. I have called it the Anti-green Anti-revolution.

The Anti-green Anti-revolution is being accelerated through genetic engineering. The Green Revolution was driven by the World Bank, the US government, state agencies, state research organizations—an entire system of matching highcost production with distributing food at affordable prices, the amazing system of public distribution that was created in India to make it all happen.The genetic engineering revolution is being driven by global corporations. The World Bank is always willing to help of course. It never needs too much of an excuse to push the world somehow into the wrong direction. The trade agreements, the World Trade Organization, has a very big role in it, and, as the WTO collapses, there are new bilateral arrangements.

You might have heard about the US-India nuclear agreement. But behind it is a more serious US-India agriculture agreement called, humbly, the Knowledge

Initiative in Agriculture.The Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture has on its board, guess who? Name your three favorite companies in the food system:Monsanto, ADM, andWal-Mart. Because it’s about integrating an industrial system from the seed to retail.What does the Monsanto miracle mean for India? It means genetically engineered cotton seeds.We have been effective so far in preventing any GM crop from coming into the food system, but every plant is food for some species.

The economics of it is what has become genocidal. Monsanto sells the seeds of [GM] cotton for 3,000 rupees a kilogram. It costs 3,500 rupees a kilogram. It just costs Monsanto 500 rupees to produce those seeds. The remaining 3,000—and for those of you who are wondering, it’s about 45, 47 rupees to a dollar—they collect as royalties.

Why do they collect it as royalties? Because now, with the World Trade Organization and with changes in US law, beginning with the 1980 decision in the case of General Electric and the application on a small microorganism, there has been this assumption that you can now treat life as an invention. Seeds, therefore, can be treated as the patented property of corporations. And if they are the patented property of corporations, you basically treat the farmer as someone who has 4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM NEWS & POLITICS 27

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A FARMER RESTS UPON THE SACKS OF WHEAT AT A GRAIN MARKET IN KHARAR TOWN, IN THE NORTHERN INDIAN STATE OF PUNJAB ON MAY 9, 2006. THOUSAND OF FARMERS ARE SADDLED WITH HUGE DEBTS IN INDIA, DRIVING MANY WHO ARE UNABLE TO REPAY THEIR DEBTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY CONSUMING PESTICIDES.

borrowed your technology and has to pay a license fee and royalty for it, when all that the farmer has done is continued to do what is their duty, which is to grow seed out from the last crop.

The farmers are getting squeezed. Indebtedness is a surprise for your hardworking Indian farmer, who 10 years ago with that same hard work could send their children to college and school. Sixty percent of rural debt in India is for capital costs of purchase of external inputs, which is high-cost seed and high-cost chemicals, neither of which is needed. That unpayable debt is being imposed on a society where working with the land, which is something you could imagine yourself doing and generations doing, overnight has become unviable. I call it the negative economy. Suddenly the positive work of cooperating with the land has become a system of debt creation. Nineteen-ninety-seven was the first farm suicide in the hybrid cotton areas. It has kept escalating. This year we hit the 140,000 mark. One hundred forty thousand farmers have committed suicide.

Ninety percent of them committed suicide by drinking the same poisons that had got them into debt—pesticides. The women would say, “Spray peeliya,”—[they] drank the spray. So we are talking about a genocide that has no stoppage unless we change our food paradigm.

THE INDUSTRIALIZED FOOD SYSTEM India currently is totally self-sufficient in wheat.We harvest wheat in March and April. We grow 72 to 73 million tons. But on March, 1, 2006, President Bush visited us. President Bush signed, as I mentioned, with our prime minister in July 2005 this agreement on agriculture. One of the commitments made related to his visit was we would start importing wheat we do not need to import. So the first thing was to liberalize imports. But the [American wheat from] Cargill and ConAgra and ADM was so bad that the Australians got the first bid. But the second time around they diluted the standards: higher pesticide residues, more weed contamination, more fungal disease.

We have now imported 5.5 million tons. We are importing wheat at 13,000 rupees a ton. Two-hundred-and-seventy dollars has become the international price. Domestically, Indian farmers were paid 6,000 rupees. And if they had been paid 8,000 rupees, everything would have been taken care of. But we are paying double to import. The price of wheat in the market has risen. Farmers are still getting a low price. The USDA is announcing India will need to import 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 4/07

nine million tons. That’s more than a tenth of what we produce.You can see the vicious cycle start. The farmers won’t be able to sell next season. The markets will have collapsed. So the farmers will get less and less and less and the poor will pay more and more and more.

This polarization of prices is another mystery in the globalized, industrialized food system.The more farmers earn less, the more the poor pay for food, because the farmers don’t get the money. Somewhere in the middle it’s disappearing. My assessment is at this point farmers are not even earning 1 percent, they’re earning negative incomes. That’s what we have to turn around with local initiatives, wherever we are, to create a fair agriculture, a just agriculture, a sustainable agriculture. And a sustainable and just agriculture is the same kind of agriculture that protects our biodiversity and produces more food.

That’s the most important issue to remember. By practicing sustainability, we are not producing less, we are producing more.We just have to count in a different way. We have to get rid of our monoculture blinkers and bring biodiversity into our lens.We have to be able to count biodiversity and the benefits of biodiversity.

Biodiverse systems produce more biodiversity. And we need more biodiversity both for sustainability, because it’s the biodiversity that produces the alternatives to toxins and fossil fuels. It’s the biodiversity that allows you to control pests.

It’s the biodiversity that gives you the manures. Whether it’s green manures or compost, et cetera, it’s the biodiversity that allows you to do a better job of controlling weeds and pests, and bringing back soil fertility.

THE HEALTH BOMB Biodiversity is also the basis of health. There are nutritional studies around the world now showing that the biodiverse diet is the place where the health crisis will be solved.We have currently, out of this industrialized, globalized system, a dual health crisis. I call it the health bomb. The first is malnutrition, the people who are hungry, a billion now permanently hungry. And something that’s not usually noticed—the fact that the hungry people today are the producers of food. The hungry people earlier used to be urban poor.Today the hungry people are growers of rice who have used chemicals to grow rice, who have taken on debt, have to sell the rice to pay back the credit, and starve themselves. Also because of that polarization of prices, when the farmer sells, he sells at a quarter the price of what he has to pay to buy that same rice back to feed, usually again on debt.The billion

people hungry today are hungry because either they have been trapped in this high-external-input agriculture that creates debt or because they’ve been removed from their land.

The grabbing of farmers’ lands for creating special economic zones is the top political crisis of India today. These are foreign territories within India to be able to supply cheap products to the Wal-Marts because there will be no labor laws, no taxes, energy will be free, water will be free.

Farmers are saying, “But we don’t want to give our land.” I call it the big land grab. But when you have less fertile land and you have fewer farmers to produce food, you can have the illusion of pseudosurpluses but you actually have real scarcity, too.

And on real scarcity, I want to just mention, there is at this point an assumption that we have a huge amount of food. But we have a huge amount of soybean, we have a huge amount of corn. It’s so much that most of it is going to feed animals in factory farms. And now, when we’re running out of fossil fuel, they’re saying we’ll use it to run our cars. It’s not the way that hunger will be solved. Hunger will be solved by having enough food in every ecosystem, in every community, and having large enough numbers to grow that food.

We’re often given the example of the US as the ultimate model, where less than 2 percent of people feed the world. First of all, it’s not just that 2 percent that’s feeding this country. It’s the peasants in Latin America, Africa, Asia who are providing food to you. This is always forgotten.

You are providing forced trade, like the wheat imports to India. And that’s because US foreign policy decided long ago, from the Vietnam War days, that food would be used as a weapon. The use of food as a weapon means the cereals are kept under control, but for everything else you are importing.You are importing your fruits, you are importing your vegetables. And if you really did the sums of your food basket, the US is a hugely food-dependent country. But there is this illusion that it’s a food surplus country.

Some of us have given the name to this the great food swap, where the same thing is moving in two directions. And in every country exports are being subsidized and local is being punished, so that long-distance imports become cheap whereas local supply becomes costly. To build local food economies means cracking the second lie of cheap food. It is not cheap if you internalize the costs to the land, to the farmers, to the atmosphere, to biodiversity, and to public health.

EATING AS AN ECOLOGICAL ACT I mentioned the billion who are hungry because of not having enough to eat. But the same system is giving us two billion who are suffering another kind of malnutrition, the malnutrition of the wrong kind of food—the kind of malnutrition symbolized so dramatically in that film Supersize Me. Obesity has become one of the biggest killers of our time, and it is totally linked to rotten food. I would call it nonfood. We are eating nonfood. We are eating things that are not worthy of being eaten.

In fact, there was a big international cultural congress in Spain, and I had to go talk about ecology. And I had a group of Vedic singers with me, brilliant, beautiful women, who did Vedic chants. And I had been asked to serve an organic meal, so they had carried our organic food from India, and we were going to cook an organic meal. So these women came to me and said, “Can you please give us some of that grain?” I said, “Of course. But why do you need it?” They gave me a word which I had no idea exists. They said, “The food here is abaksha.” I said, “What does that mean?” Baksha means worthy of consuming. Abaksha means unworthy of consuming. Our food has been rendered abaksha.

And I think the highest level of ethics is the ethics of recognizing that we are violating our own bodies, we are violating the sacred trust of our lives by bombarding ourselves with food unworthy of being called food. That’s why some of us around the world have said we need to move away from the language of being consumers, because, you know, the word “consumption” came out of tuberculosis in the Middle Ages. It was meant to describe that which kills. And our current food systems do kill. They kill the planet, they kill the farmers, they kill our health.

We need to move into another way of thinking, of eating as an ecological act, an ethical act, a political act, but a productive act.That in the very act of eating you are deciding how many species will live, in the very act of eating you are deciding whether the ice caps will melt and the sea will rise three meters or our coastal communities will have a chance, in the very act of eating you’re deciding whether creative people can work creatively with the land.

This figure of 2 percent feeding America, people try to apply that model to India. Seventy percent of India lives in rural areas linked to farming. They keep saying, “It should become like America, two percent.” I always say, “My God, this is going to be the second sea-level rise, because the only place to dump all the farmers is in the Arabian Ocean.” They’re not going to be IT software people.

I did a very rough calculation. If you add not just the people who actually work the land but you add the people who make the pesticides, you add the people who work in Monsanto’s labs, you add the people who work in the banks that give the loans, you add the people who drive these horrendous monsters on the highways called container trucks, blindly, miles and miles and miles, thousands of miles shipping food around, you add the Wal-Mart cash register people who are overexploited, if you add all of that, 50 percent of humanity will always be involved in making food possible, its production, its distribution.

We can either put 90 percent of that 50 percent in destructive work, in a food war, and have 10 percent working as farmers, or we can put the 100 percent of that 50 percent in the creative work of creating an ethical, sustainable food system.

This speech was originally broadcast on Alternative Radio; www.alternativeradio.org.

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Beinhart’s Body Politic

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QUEENS OF THE CATSKILLS Casa Susanna

by Jay Blotcher All photographs from Michael Hurst’s and Robert Swope’s book, Casa Susanna.

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he 1990s belonged to the drag queen. RuPaul became a media star and two drag films, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, grabbed heartland America by the short hairs. Their plots are similar: A trio of transvestites ventures into a rural area and shakes up country folk who never saw a man tottering on high heels. By the final scene, the interlopers have provided not only makeup tips, but also a lesson in compassion. Roll credits.

Pure Hollywood fiction? Guess again. Four decades before Patrick Swayze donned a wig and eyeliner in To Wong Foo, rural Greene County was home to a sorority of male cross-dressers.

Silver Springs was a vacation colony located in tiny Jewett, five miles south of Hunter. It attracted urbanites seeking respite from punishing city summers in the era before air conditioning. Sited on a picturesque but isolated 150-acre patch of land, it offered snug, unheated bungalows that stood adjacent to a barn and main house. When the property changed hands in the mid-1950s, it was renamed Casa Susanna and repurposed drastically: as a refuge for men eager to make contact with their inner woman.

For $25 per weekend, visitors—mostly Manhattan businessmen—were fed three squares and taught the finer points of “passing”; that is, developing a feminine masquerade that escaped detection. This included navigating a sidewalk in pumps, grasping a cigarette between polished nails, and applying foundation to obscure a five o’clock shadow.

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was wrapping himself in angora, Valenti was at the vanguard of an underground American cross-dressing movement. He penned a regular column for a tranny magazine and offered charm lessons for the novice in his city apartment, which he shared with his wife Marie, the proprietor of a Fifth Avenue wig shop. As his clientele grew, Valenti needed more room. Marie purchased the acreage with her wig-store profits and the place thrived as both a safe harbor and a playground for more than a decade.

The selection of this remote Catskills location was not merely a matter of discretion; it was an act of preservation. Numerous cities considered crossdressing a perversion, and transvestitism earned you a jail cell. (In New York state, the laws were more abstruse—men were allowed to wear female street clothes if deception was not the goal. When questioned by a police officer, you were obliged to admit your true gender.) Still, homosexuality was illegal nationwide, and hypervigilant cops in the McCarthy era made no distinction between cross-dressing heterosexuals and cross-dressing homosexuals.

The colony in the woods of Greene County was a hidden world. And an open secret. A number of local citizens knew about it. Cross-dressers spoke of it with respect. And it proved a fascinating locus for study by social scientists.

(A protégé of sexologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey once spent a weekend.) But the teardrop veil of secrecy surrounding the place was finally and fully teased away two years ago with the publication of a coffee table book titled Casa Susanna by Michel Hurst and Robert Swope (PowerHouse Books, 2005).

“It is not a simple case of a gay story,” said Hurst, in a recent interview.

“Or about drag queens,” added Swope, speaking on the extension from their weekend home in rural Pennsylvania.

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Swope, a habitué of Manhattan’s 26th Street flea market, made the discovery on a routine Saturday excursion. Rooting around in a box, he unearthed snapshots from the Jewett hideaway. There were 400 photographs in all. Glued to the inside cover of one photo album was Susanna’s business card, listing her occupation as a female impersonator.

Save for a foreword by Swope, Casa Susanna is a textless compilation of 120 color and black-and-white snapshot images. The eye is initially drawn to the vintage detail: tiled floors, midcentury furniture covered in plastic, kitchen bric-a-brac. Then you consider the mostly unremarkable women with ill-fitting wigs, overreaching for prim, white-gloved, Eisenhower-era glamour. But a closer look reveals more: the vulnerability in each face as they stare down a camera they pray will capture their intended femininity. Hurst and Swope emphasize that most visitors to Casa Susanna were married and considered themselves heterosexual. It was a time before transgender manifestos and gender reassignment. These men simply lived with their contradictions.

“They are trying to escape the gender role they have been made prisoner of,” Hurst said. “There is a part of all of us that wants to escape the narrow reality we are living in.” (Hurst and Swope are in touch with several surviving members of the colony, and collected some of their correspondence, but refused to provide contact information for this article, citing concerns for privacy.)

The ladies’ incessant photographing of themselves bordered on the obsessive.

One snapshot in the book offers a field day for Sontagian deconstructionists. Five cross-dressers crowd a bungalow room. Three of them, crouching, have trained their old Kodaks on one standing, who also holds a camera. The remaining queen is playfully snapping the unseen photographer of this scene.

“Photography was essential to them,” said Michel Hurst. “Photography was proof that they existed.”

more freely. “You would hear the local barroom stuff. That it was wrong. That somebody would not be disappointed if the place burned up.”

Was there no local sheriff who objected to Casa Susanna, citing some arcane law about public decency to justify running them out of town on their high heels? Ham chuckles at the notion. “There was no ordinance. There was no ordinances at all until city people came up here.”

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asa Susanna inevitably prompted chatter among local folk. In private, people regarded the camp with varying degrees of curiosity, puzzlement, and sneers. If asked publicly, they’d likely display the feigned indifference of the rural denizen. A phone call to the Hunter town historian, Justine Hommell, leads to people who remember the bungalow colony tucked back in the woods.

At the age of 90, Hunter resident Orville Slutzsky is cheerfully cantankerous.

Slutzsky, general manager at Hunter Mountain since 1959, certainly remembers the cross-dressers. There is little he hasn’t seen or heard, even if he “never got more than one-and-a-half miles from where I was born,” he brags. Neighbors also knew about the camp, but without rancor. “They laughed it off or passed it on,” he shrugs.

Wilma Harty, 81, allows herself a girlish giggle in recalling the ladies. During the 1960s, Harty stocked shelves and waited on customers at the Victory Store, a market in Hunter’s lower village. She worked there for 10 years and effortlessly describes the small store, leading the listener through the entrance door on the right, past the produce stand and the large meat case straight ahead, ending at the sole cash register by the exit.

The first Saturday summer morning the women glided in for shopping, Harty was a bit shaken by the sight. “They were to the hilt, you know—all out. The hair was all done neatly. Wigs, jewelry. They were overdressed for the market.

They were dressed as city people—if you can use this expression—more than country people.” For a few weekends, Harty would smother her laughs until the ladies exited, and then trade notes with coworkers on what they wore and what they bought. But eventually, the drag queens were looked upon as regular shoppers. “They were pleasant and they didn’t bother anybody,” she said. “They brought in business.”

When lifetime Hunter resident Rafael “Rafey” Klein, 79, explains Casa Susanna, you’d think he was a gender studies professor. “In the Forties, we never knew what the word ‘gay’ meant. But they weren’t gay. They were cross-dressers, as we understand it.”

“Good lord; you wanna dig, you’d be surprised at what you’d find,” murmurs John Ham, 72, citing Casa Susanna, but also Catskills lore in general. Local history had its colorful side. Gangster Legs Diamond lived in nearby Haines Falls. A nudist camp flourished briefly nearby in the 1930s, but inhabitants tended to avoid mingling. “They didn’t come naked into town,” Ham said.

“That’s a fact.” The summer resort Villa Maria featured female impersonators as evening entertainment, “but that place was straight as a die.”

Ham remembers the exact location of Casa Susanna, but never visited. “I would bet you fun money or marbles, that is when I was in the Army back in the Fifties.” Still, he recalls the stray comments from townspeople, some patently unkind. “There were names applied to it, and I won’t get into that now,” he says diplomatically, but admits that after some drink, people spoke

he saga of Tito Valenti and his drag colony may eventually join Priscilla and To Wong Foo in the canon of drag cinema. When the New York Times ran an article about the Casa Susanna book last September, a Hollywood studio immediately rang the authors. Hurst and Swope were asked to write a treatment—in film lingo, a brief summary of the proposed screenplay—and signed a contract to serve as consultants for a proposed film.

In the meantime, they wait. “These things move very slowly,” Hurst said. He and Swope continue to gather photographs and personal accounts from veterans of Casa Susanna. Hurst added that the pair have playfully assembled their dream cast, including Tom Hanks, Paul Giammatti, and Jack Nicholson.

The Catskills still draw colorful, eccentric souls that seek the seclusion of rural life. A modern successor to Casa Susanna is Gallae Central House on Route 23A in Palenville. Its website features photos of men wearing dresses and makeup who belong to a religious cult called the Maetreum of Cybele, Magna Mater. Devoted to the worship of a Greek goddess, the group celebrates “a belief in the divine feminine principle of the universe.”

A call to a contact number yields a more complicated story. In a teary, rambling half-hour conversation, a person who requested anonymity explains her tale of woe: An intersexed person—that is, born with male and female genitalia—she was the founder of Gallae, a cooperative intended as “a refuge for women in need,” she said. “Trans women were welcome but they were not the focus.” Last summer, her housemates mutinied, declaring their desire to strip away the religious elements and transform Gallae into a commune for transvestites and transsexuals. The founder was, she claims, physically abused and driven from her own property. She plans legal action. “It was a horrible situation and it stinks.”

One can only imagine the ladies of Casa Susanna reacting to this modern tale of identity politics—a far cry from the joys of simple cross-dressing. No doubt they would momentarily look up from their tea and cigarettes, nod sympathetically if blankly, and then return happily to their Scrabble game.

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GROUNDS KEEPERS Muddy Cup

by Ann Braybrooks photos by Jennifer May

MUDDY CUP OWNERS JIM SVETZ (LEFT) AND BRIAN WOODWARD IN THEIR BROADWAY LOCATION IN KINGSTON.

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n 2001, while living on Staten Island, business partners Jim Svetz and Brian Woodward weren’t interested in opening a little coffeehouse in a trendy neighborhood. They wanted a large place, near home, with plenty of seating where customers could “just kick back and relax,” says Svetz.

At the time, they would have fallen off their chairs if anyone suggested that they might open a second Muddy Cup coffeehouse, or a third. Yet by this summer, there will be nine Muddy Cups in New York state. Most have been embraced by the communities in which they have been established. One, in New Paltz, has stirred up some controversy.

When the partners established their first coffeehouse downstate, says Svetz, “I guess I was creating something for myself. I didn’t really research a lot. I wasn’t trying to copy Starbucks or anybody else. We just created our own vision. Of course, we didn’t invent coffeehouses. Neither did Starbucks. Coffeehouses have been around for hundreds of years. We put our own comfort level to it.”

In June 2001, Svetz had been laid off as marketing director of a dot-com that had required him to fly 125,000 miles per year and to commute three times a week to Manhattan from his home on Staten Island. While unemployed, and wondering what to do next, he remembered a vacant building in his neighborhood. “The North Shore of Staten Island is very old, and it was economically depressed. There was an old bakery building that I walked by every day. It had been vacant for at least five years. It was really cool inside. It had beautiful mosaic tile floors, tin ceilings…I convinced the owner to rent it to me.”

On September 1, 2001, after extensive renovations, the Muddy Cup opened.

Ten days later, the Twin Towers were attacked. Svetz and Woodward had already put a TV and Xbox video game console in to keep themselves entertained during slow periods.

“Typically, you don’t have a TV in a coffeehouse,” says Svetz, “because nobody wants to deal with the outside world. But, since we had just opened

up, we figured that we’d be there fifteen hours a day, we’d have no customers, and we’d be really bored. We put all of the comforts of home in so we could sit there all day.”

By the afternoon of 9/11, according to Svetz, “the place was packed. We brought more TVs in. And so for two weeks everybody in the neighborhood came to us as the central place to get information and to talk. We became a part of the community after that.”

Svetz credits opening the Staten Island Muddy Cup as his education into economic development. “Because we opened there,” he says, “and because we had events and were open at night, the street started coming back to life.”

He and Woodward became intrigued by the idea of purchasing a bar nearby.

“The bar had been there for seventy years,” says Svetz. “So we made a deal and took over the bar from the brothers [who owned it]. We changed the name to Martini Red. It became a hip little martini bar that we did as an adjunct to the coffeehouse. Later, we sold it off. To this day, Martini Red is still there.

The Muddy Cup is still there. And there are more restaurants and all kinds [of places] on that little street.”

The opening of the second Muddy Cup, in Hudson, occurred almost by accident. At the suggestion of friends, Svetz had been thinking about purchasing an inexpensive second home outside of New York City. “I didn’t really know much about upstate,” he says, “but I thought it would be nice to get away for the weekend.”

During the time Svetz was researching real estate, he says, “Customers of ours from Staten Island had moved to Hudson. They kept telling us, ‘You’ve got to open in Hudson. You have to come up to Hudson. It’s great. It’s up-and-coming.

There’s no coffeehouse.’ As soon as we pulled onto Warren Street, we just fell in love with it. It was beautiful. It was pretty much already into its renaissance.”

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ment building constructed in 1890. With the owner’s consent, they removed the interior walls, save those in the living room. “The original fireplaces are all there,” says Svetz, “and the original tub is still in the bathroom.” The Hudson location opened in March 2004.

Svetz and Woodward weren’t sure how running two coffeehouses almost 150 miles apart would work. “At first, it was just another place to go visit,” says Svetz. “We thought: ‘Okay, we can get away from the city.’ It was nice. It was like an excuse. But then the brand started attaching itself to the Muddy Cup. People started hearing about it and liking it. People were coming into the Hudson store from all over and saying, ‘We want a Muddy Cup in Kingston.’‘We need a Muddy Cup in Catskill.’ We started getting contacted by cities, economic development agencies, and building owners.”

According to Svetz, “When we opened the first stores, we had the idea that we always wanted each to be a large place with lots of seating. That was key for us. We’ve been going to areas that are up-and-coming, or economically depressed, so we can get a large space and become an anchor, become a part or catalyst for economic development or change.”

In the past three years, Muddy Cup coffeehouses have opened in Hudson, Albany, Beacon, Catskill, and Kingston. By summer, there will be locations in Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, and New Paltz. To keep costs down, Svetz and Woodward do most of the gutting and renovating themselves, and they often hire Muddy Cup staff members to help out. Says Svetz, “When we opened the first Muddy Cup, we had no money, so we had to do everything ourselves. We had to improvise. That frugal mentality helped develop the theme of who we are. We don’t want to lose that.”

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AT THE MUDDY CUP ON MADISON AVENUE, SUNY ALBANY STUDENTS TAKE A BREAK FROM THEIR STUDIES. PAINTINGS BY LOCAL ARTIST ALLISON ST. MARIE ARE FEATURED ON THE WALL ABOVE THE COUCH.

Doing everything themselves also keeps things fun. At the Kingston store, in addition to helping out with the renovation, Woodward stenciled the painted concrete floors. Svetz hunted down the “cool used furniture”—the booths, the mismatched chairs, the funky tables, and the geometric lamps from the middle of the last century.

As for his 30 or so employees, Svetz declines to call them baristas. He refers to them as staff, or staffers. Svetz and Woodward do not have offices, although they have a bookkeeper “who sits in a little office in Hudson,” according to Svetz. One staff member purchases the coffee for all of the stores. Svetz says, “We didn’t want to use special language for customers to use when ordering. We wanted to keep everything simple. If you look at our menu, everything is completely spelled out. There’s no weird stuff. We have basically one size of really good, house-blend coffee.”

Besides basic coffee choices (house, dark roast, double espresso, cafe au lait, Americano, macchiato, latte, and cappuccino), the Muddy Cup offers a wide selection of flavorings, from apple to toasted walnut. Other beverages include tea (more than a dozen kinds), various hot chocolates (regular, white, and flavored), and “special” drinks, such as the Oreo cappuccino and enhanced lattes (white chocolate and caramel, mint chocolate, chocolate coconut, apple cinnamon, eggnog, and Almond Joy). Nine kinds of fruit smoothies are offered, along with over a dozen flavors of Italian soda.

Each store also carries baked goods, some of which are prepared by local companies. Taste Budd’s of Red Hook has created a special “Mud Bar” confection for the Kingston location.

On weekends, each Muddy Cup location features live music, and on Mondays, open mikes.

“Open mikes have always been the cornerstone of our entertainment,” says Svetz. “The open mike in Staten Island has been going on for six years. The open mike in Albany is probably the number one open mike in the city.” Musicians who have played at Muddy Cup coffeehouses include Marshall Crenshaw, B.J. Thomas, and Graham Parker.

Svetz calls the growth of his enterprise “organic.” He says, “People ask us to grow. I still have cities calling us. I still have economic development agencies and building owners who have requested us, who want to give me tours of their town, and who would like us to open up and be a part of their economic renaissance. We are looking at places like that. So if the right city or town, the right building, the right space, and the right person come along, we may open another one.”

The only controversy, so far, has been the opening of a Muddy Cup in New Paltz. The college town is home to a number of caffeine retailers, including The Bakery, the village’s longstanding pastry shop, a Starbucks, and 60 Main, a small coffeehouse that helps support the New Paltz Community Collective, a nonprofit events space and art gallery. Supporters of 60 Main have objected to Svetz opening a Muddy Cup next door. However, when Tobias Devor, the proprietor of 60 Main, was contacted for this article, he said, “We’d like to welcome Jim and the Muddy Cup to the neighborhood, and we look forward to working with him.”

Take a virtual tour of all the Muddy Cup locations at www.muddycup.com.

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GEORGE QUASHA IN THE BAUMGARTNER GALLERY, CHELSEA; PHOTO BY SHERRY WILLIAMS

Portfolio GEORGE QUASHA

George Quasha is something of a latter-day Renaissance man, with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments as a publisher, a poet, an artist, and an all-around inquiring mind. He moved to Barrytown in the early 1970s, when he was teaching at Bard College, ultimately enticing Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles to be there with him. Along with his wife, Susan, he founded Station Hill Press, which has specialized in publishing art, poetry, and philosophy, with titles ranging from presentations of work by performance artist Gary Hill to novels by French thinker Maurice Blanchot.

A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 1975, Quasha received a Guggenheim Fellowship just last year for his video project Art Is: Speaking Portraits (in the performative indicative), a series of short statements by almost 500 artists, poets, and composers (in seven countries and 17 languages), portions of which will appear in the Kingston Sculpture Biennial this summer.

Quasha’s recent work is the focus of the newly published book Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (North Atlantic Books), with a foreword by Carter Ratcliff. A selection of his recent projects will be on view in June at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

—Beth E. Wilson

GEORGE QUASHA ON HIS WORK Art is…

Integrity

The poetry of dreams

The idea of Art Is, the project I’ve been working on for four years now, is to film artists saying what art is, face-to-face, and to decontextualize them as much as possible, so that you’re looking at the person as the person. Not what are they wearing, what is their environment, or looking at their work.

It’s really a series of speaking portraits, both portraits that speak and portraits of speaking. It’s the occasion of saying what art is (which no one can ultimately do). I just start out by saying to the person that this is kind of impossible to do, but it’s also impossible not to do it, because [if you’re an artist] you’re doing it in your mind all the time. It’s more about how the mind negotiates its claim to art than it is about art itself. I’m really interested in that situation where speaking is at the edge of the impossible, but it’s gripped by the passion of doing something from the inside. There’s a kind of panic in that question for [the artists], because if art didn’t exist, then what would they be? And what would be next for them in life? It puts things on a critical edge, and that’s what I find most interesting.

I don’t feel that art should persuade or seduce. I feel that art should be something very clean and clear in terms of what it is, and that it should attract on natural grounds. If people are attracted to the work, it shouldn’t be because you have some fancy argument about why it’s important.

It should be because they really are getting it. I’m stuck with that view, I’m afraid. I know that in the postmodern context, it’s fashionable to create a situation that people have to make an effort to understand. I’m not against that; I just don’t do it.

Things are radically particular. Some things are radically new. Our education and our tendency of mind, our fear of instability, all don’t allow us to know how radically open a particular moment is, and how free we are in any given moment to let the world create itself. My one belief is that if we really could all be in that state of openness, where we honor the integrity of things, and the integrity of ourselves to start with, then we would all be where we are and we could allow the world to show us what it wants to be. We could ask, “What does Planet Earth want of us?,” instead of, “What do we want of it?” Greed and extreme wealth—to me it’s just bad thinking, it’s bad relationship, it’s bad poetics.

Chie Hasagawa, an incredible Japanese artist—she was living with us here for 10 years. She’d been here a few years and one day she told me an incredible dream. I told her, “You’re a dreamer. Why haven’t you ever told me your dreams before?” The next day, she came and told me another one. So I said, “I’m going to write that down.” It became the first poem of the book. I said to her, “We’ve got a project here. I used to write my dreams down years ago, but this is much more interesting to me. You come tell me your dreams, and I will write them. You have to decide whether I’ve written your dream or not. Every word, everything in it, has to be your dream—no fancy poetry, no rhetoric, nothing extra. It has to be your dream, but it has to satisfy my sense of what language is.” So we had to work this compromise; it became a dialogue. We would sit for hours, sometimes into the night, and she’d say, “No that’s not it.” Or I’d get down a really great line and she’d say, “Yeah, I like that, but it’s not my dream.” Then I’d have to take it out. These are all poems that passed the test [in the book Ainu Dreams, Station Hill Press, 1999].

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Clockwise from top left: Axial Stones #21, two stones, 11.5” x 11” x 10.5”, 2000 Axial Stones #4, two stones, 17” x 20” x 18”, 1999 Axial Stones #25, two stones, 15” x 8.5” x 5”, 2001 Axial Drawing B, graphite, 18” x 24.5”, 2005

Video stills from art is, left to right: Marina Abramovic Gary Hill Carolee Schneemann

Inside the axial Understanding it from the inside, the axial has to do with a certain kind of freedom of being. And bracket all those words, because it has to be open. It starts with a very physical understanding. I’ve done tai chi for years, I’ve done bodywork, and through that I’ve learned ways to move the body without forcing it, finding out what it can do. The primary understanding I’ve developed is that we are round, we’re not straight lines. We are flexible, fluid beings, and the body is always in motion. When we let that happen, that awareness starts to spread. When working with the stones, the first act was to ground this understanding in the body, getting visual cues from them, and then listening to the stones as I move them together, until a still point shows up. A still point is an alignment where this stone is completely released in alignment downward into the other stone, and it moves as though it’s weightless. That’s the still point where the axis is cleared, the axial moment. That’s very much like the moment

in therapeutic bodywork when the person releases, breathing in a bigger way. If I hadn’t done it with human bodies first, I couldn’t have done it with the stones.

It’s easy to balance stones in a kind of clunky way, but if what you’re looking for is the furthest edge that they can go to, where they go beyond themselves, it’s the moment where they become something that is only possible because of this sensitive relationship that we’re all having. A willingness to be there, to let it happen. To me, that tells me a lot about what art is.

On poetics I like to think of poetics in its original sense, which, in Greek, is simply “making.” [When I started working on my first book, America a Prophecy], a poetry anthology, back in 1973, I was interested in people who thought in language in such a way, that their language changed by the quality of the thought—there was the real poetics issue.

That shows you how poetics works. Philosophy became indistinguishable from poetry at that point, and art that grew out of that perception would become a kind of poetics issue, how language and thinking extend into particular kinds of action, and have the same structure. I came into this by doing [William] Blake scholarship, and I came up with most of the methods and principles by trying to understand what Blake was doing.

I like walking into things where I don’t know anything, to just see if I can work by the principles of what my thinking is. It’s not like I know, but I’m aware that this is a possibility, so I go in there with an inquiring mind, not an “I am an authority” mind. If I go in there with an “I am an authority” mind, I would need a PhD in anthropology to teach it. If I go in with an inquiring mind, I’m just willing to ask the questions that need to be asked right now, and then I leave. It’s the Zen idea of “beginner’s mind,” keeping yourself open to the process.

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Lucid Dreaming

BY BETH E. WILSON

THINGS FALL APART How can something as familiar and reassuring as a suburban split-level home seem suddenly strange, even dangerous?

Try hoisting it several hundred feet off the ground, and then allow gravity to pull it inexorably (and quite precipitously) back to earth. That’s essentially the process involved in Peter Garfield’s photographic series “Mobile Homes,” currently on view at MASS MoCA in an exhibition titled “Unhinged.”

Garfield’s grainy, washed-out color photographs elide two of the major tropes in contemporary photography—the documentary application of the medium, and the stage-managed “set-up” photograph. Artists of this latter tendency, from Jeff Wall to Gregory Crewdson to Thomas Demand, either construct or choreograph scenes explicitly so that they may be photographed, often to pseudocinematic effect. Here, Garfield stages the event that he documents, at great trouble and expense, by acquiring abandoned houses, and then airlifting them by helicopter over an empty field. The house is dropped, photographed as it plummets, and then crashes to the ground. The largest remnants are then hoisted again, for a second (and sometimes third) go at the process.

Through this inspired deconstruction, the ultimate emblem of safety and security—the home—is revealed as transitory, unstable, and utterly contingent as it disintegrates before our eyes. Not coincidentally, Garfield (who before this had been making abstract paintings) was propelled to make this series in response to the weird public euphoria that greeted the end of the first Gulf War. Called out of the hermetic mode of his abstract studio work, he began to engage life outside, in this case the disintegration of post-World War II America, or, as the artist puts it, “how the residue of fifties morality that provides some structure, security, can also be seen as producing some sort of national neurosis.”

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of the endlessly collapsing Twin Towers in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

We seem, as a culture, to have fully embraced what Freud identified as the “death drive,” the erotics of Thanatos.

In the MASS MoCA show, Garfield’s photographs of falling split-levels are paired with a site-specific mural painted on Tyvek by Adam Cvijanovic.

Curving upward, towering over the viewer’s head, this painting (again of a flying, disintegrating home, a la The Wizard of Oz) blithely crosses the boundaries between painting and theatrical backdrop, a static image charged with the cinematic illusion of motion. Swallowing up the viewer whole, the world is once again spit out in pieces, a memento mori of presumed middle-class stability.

The death that permeates these elegies of the everyday is one of a thousand minute cuts. There is no single thing, no one evildoer, no maligning force that is responsible; rather, it’s the accumulation of thousands, millions, of small assumptions, unconsidered acts that have led us to this precipice. Sometimes it seems as though one errant step, or a simple breath in the wrong direction, will be enough to send us over the edge, like Charlie Chaplin in his comically balanced prospector’s shack in The Gold Rush.

Although operating in a similar vein, Elise Engler works on a scale far removed from the nearly operatic rhetoric driving both Garfield and Cvijanovic.

Her current show at John Davis Gallery in Hudson includes work from a number of open-ended series of drawings she’s been pursuing for a few years now. She began by inventorying Everything I Own, generating one-inch representations, in scroll-like format, of all of her 13,127 possessions. From there, she began cataloguing the contents of other people’s cars, or handbags, or refrigerators, all using colored pencils.

The drawings are colorful, often quaint summaries of their subjects, and executed on an intimate scale. Yet to me the thought of taking the energy to depict and catalogue each and every object that I own is mind-boggling. How

ABOVE: ADAM CVIJANOVIC, SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF, MURAL ON TYVEK, 2007 OPPOSITE: ELISE ENGLER, I OPEN THE NEWSPAPER AND WANT TO SCREAM, GOUACHE, 2006

“ADAM CVIJANOVIC AND PETER GARFIELD: UNHINGED” IS ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 27 AT MASS MOCA, NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS. (413) 662-2111; WWW.MASSMOCA.ORG. GARFIELD WILL GIVE AN ARTIST TALK ON APRIL 5 AT 8PM IN MASS MOCA’S CLUB B-10.

“ELISE ENGLER: I OPEN THE NEWSPAPER AND WANT TO SCREAM” IS ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 22 AT JOHN DAVIS GALLERY, HUDSON. (518) 828-5907; WWW.JOHNDAVISGALLERY.COM.

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much stuff—mostly junk—do we accumulate on a daily, weekly, yearly basis? How much of it do you think about long enough to execute a sketch of it? If presented with such a task, my first impulse would be to rent a Dumpster, pronto, and then maybe we could talk about starting the project.

The flip side of the postwar American Dream is what Henry Miller once aptly called “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.” Choking on our own affluence, we’ve arrived at the point that our dedicated consumption of world resources has begun to backfire on us, both politically and environmentally, all of which is the implicit point made by Engler’s refreshingly modest drawing projects. She comments on the politics of all this in another recent series, “Tax-onomies,” cataloguing the objects that our taxes actually purchase, sometimes combining the drawings with gouache and watercolor depictions of newspaper clippings to create wry, sometimes humorous commentary on current events.

The current show takes its title, “I Open the Newspaper and Want to Scream,” from a scene in a hand-drawn, animated video Engler made earlier this winter. The video, The Benefits of Global Warming, or Finding the Positive Side of Disastrous Times, was shot from more than 150 watercolor, gouache, and colored-pencil paintings, each postcard size. Both the video and the drawings for it are included in this exhibition, which admirably takes on its global viewpoint one little thing at a time, always charged with both humor and humility.

Taken together, the MASS MoCA and John Davis exhibitions offer a dyspeptic vision of where we are now, and a sense of how we’ve backed ourselves into this increasingly untenable situation. As Yeats once memorably put it, “Things fall apart / The center will not hold,” leaving me to wonder just what we will come up with out of the wreckage of this impossible world we’ve made for ourselves, so indelibly captured by each of these artists.

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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

EXPOSED GALLERY OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY

97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.

318 DELAWARE AVE, DELMAR (518) 475-1853.

“The Door as Art Form Exhibit.” April 7-30.

“Works by Five Artists.” Art by James O’Shea, Valerie Hammond, Joshua Brehse, Aldo Della Chiesea, and Pete Rinaldi.

Through April 15.

“Reflected Realities.” Photography by Melody Mason.

Through April 24.

Opening Saturday, April 7, 5-8pm

ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.

“Dario Robleto: Chrysanthemum Anthems.” Through June 10.

“David Abir: Tekrar.” Through June 10.

“Elana Herzog and Michael Schumacher: W(E)AVE.” Through June 10.

“Kysa Johnson: Blow Ups—Spores, Pollen, and Pollutants.”

Through June 10.

“The Photograph as Canvas.” Featuring artists John Beech, Kim Jones, Rob Fischer, Judith Page, Saul Leiter and others.

Through June 10.

“Arturo Herrera:Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps.”

Through September 2.

FLAT IRON GALLERY CATSKILL CENTER’S ERPF GALLERY RT. 28, ARKVILLE 586-2611.

“Catskill Botanicals.” Group mixed-media show.

Through April 28.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136.

“Floral Pastures & Cows.” Oil paintings by Steve Frim. April 1-14.

Opening Saturday, April 14, 1-4pm.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE. 437-7745.

“Death Bizarre” curated by Colette Copeland. Through May 28.

“Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints.”

Prints by legendary 19th century Japanese artist. Through May 13.

“A Sense of Departure.” Photos by Susana Reisman.

Through May 28.

GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 458-2303.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER

105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894.

“The Painter as Draftsman.” Works by Claude Lorrain.

Through April 29.

“Seen But Unseen Photography Exhibit.” Pinhole Photographs by Hudson Valley photographer Bill DeLanney. April 20-May 14.

Opening Saturday, April 21, 5pm-7pm

“Spring Alive: The Best from the ACC.” Through May 27.

COLUMBIA COUNCIL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY THE BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY AT CASTLE KEEP REALTY 150 MAIN STREET, BEACON 234-3204.

““River, Rural and Rail – Part II.” Gould Family Art Exhibit.

Through April 8.

GALLERY 384

209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

384 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL. (518) 947-6732.

“Drawing From Experience Exhibit.” Drawing from Experience.

April 14-May 2.

“Here and There and Everywhere.” Solo and collaborative work by Cannon Hersey and Samson Mnisi. Through May 5.

Opening Saturday, April 14, 5pm-7pm THE GALLERY AT R&F ENCAUSTIC

BARD CCS MUSEUM

209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7484.

“Annual Township Show.” Works by Germantown artists.

Through April 7.

“Wrestle.”

More than 200 works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Through May 27.

DIA: BEACON

84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON. 331-3112.

“Get Real.” Group show of contemporary realist painters.

April 7-May 25.

Opening Saturday, April 7, 5-7pm.

GARNERVILLE ARTS

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100.

55 WEST RAILROAD AVENUE, GARNERVILLE. 947-7108.

55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“An-My Le: Trap Rock, 2006.” Photography exhibit.

Through September 10.

“Looking At The Big Picture. Group Exhibit of large scale photographic works. April 1-May 6.

“Photoworks ‘07.” 20th annual national juried exhibition.

Through April 28.

“Drawing Series.” 14 key works from Sol LeWitt.

Through September 10.

Opening Friday, April 6, 6-8pm.

BEACON ARTIST UNION

DONSKOJ AND COMPANY

161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-8473.

“Joanne Klein: Visual Thinking, Paintings and Drawings.”

Through April 8.

“Celebration I and II: The Long Reach of Summergroup.”

Through April 28.

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO

EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY

54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244.

348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION 221-9943.

“Timeless Blossoms.” An exhibition of botanicals in watercolor by Betsy Jacaruso. April 20-May 26.

Frank Gonzalez. Still life oil paintings. April 13-30.

BARRETT ART CENTER

Opening Friday, April 20, 6pm.

Opening Friday, April 13, 7pm.

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HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON. (914) 844-6296.

“Striking Accord Exhibit.” Paintings and Woodcuts by James Britton and Kate McGloughlin. April 14-May 28.

Opening Saturday, April 21, 5-7pm.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438.

“CCCA 12TH Annual Juried Art Show.”

Sponsored by the School of Visual Arts, and juried and curated by John Weber. Through April 7.

JOANNE KLEIN, NECESSARY OBJECTS, OIL ON CANVAS, 2006.

From “Joanne Klein: Visual Thinking, Paintings, and Drawings” at Beacon Artists Union, through April 8.

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1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 946-2135.

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Constructivist paintings & drawings by William Case.

April 1-May 2.

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362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Open the Newspaper and I Want to Scream.â&#x20AC;? Elise Englerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawings and paintings examine and document items purchased with tax dollars. Through April 22.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art Show in Haverstraw.â&#x20AC;? Group show of painting and sculpture. April 7-May 27.

Opening Monday, May 28, 6-8pm.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Large Format, Big Country.â&#x20AC;? Photographs by Greg Martin.

Through April 9.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Middlesex: Mundane Photographs from Metroland.â&#x20AC;?

Fionn Reilly photos of England. April 7-28.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

Opening Saturday, April 7, 5-7pm.

SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3872.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Works by Judy Pfaff.â&#x20AC;? Through April 7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Form Radiating Life.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Charles Rosen.

Through May 23.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Annual Members Show.â&#x20AC;? Kleinart/James Arts Center.

Through April 8.

SAND LAKE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evidence, The Exhibition.â&#x20AC;? Sculptural chenille wall hangings, drawings & prints, paintings. April 14-May 20.

â&#x20AC;&#x153; Oil Exhibit by Leo Mazzeo.â&#x20AC;? April 1-May 15.

2880 NY 43, AVERILL PARK. (518) 674-2007.

Opening Sunday, April 8, 1-3pm.

Opening Saturday, April 14, 4-7pm.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make Love Not War Art Show.â&#x20AC;? Group show.

April 28-May 31.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Painterly and the Linear.â&#x20AC;? Works by eight regional artists. Through April 8.

Opening Saturday, April 28, 6-9pm.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jennifer Mazza: New Paintings.â&#x20AC;? Jennifer Mazza opens a solo exhibition of her new paintings. April 28-May 20.

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Opening Sunday, April 1, 3-5pm.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;George Chaplin, Paintings.â&#x20AC;? April 15-June 30.

Opening Sunday, April 15, 4-6pm.

Opening Saturday, April 14, 6-8pm.

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20 COUNTRY CLUB LANE, WOODSTOCK 679-3213.

5 NORTH FRONT STREET, NEW PALTZ. 255-2610.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Felt Fiber Art by Jennifer Boylan.â&#x20AC;? Through May 17.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Color.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Mira Fink. Through May 21.

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455 MAPLE STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

460 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exposure.â&#x20AC;? Juried exhibit of photos by high school students from around the nation. April 21-May 4.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hudson Valley 3.â&#x20AC;? Stevan Jennis, Molly Rausch, and Simon Draper. Through April 2.

Opening Saturday, April 21, 4-7pm.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Works.â&#x20AC;? Works by Stanford Kay, D. Dominick Lombardi, and Stephen Niccolls. April 7-30.

Opening Saturday, April 7, 6-9pm.

NEW PALTZ CULTURAL COLLECTIVE 60 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-1901.

Matthew Palin & Owen Harvey Notes on Collaboration: Working without Zero. April 13-May 20.

Opening Saturday, April 14, 4-6pm.

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woman Adorned, Woman Scorned.â&#x20AC;?

Part of Deep Listening Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8th Annual Women & Identity Festival. Through April 1.

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE RD., STOCKBRIDGE, MA (413) 298-4100.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration.â&#x20AC;?

Images of health and well-being. Through May 28.

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NORTHERN SPY CAFE ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS 687-7298.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hudson Valley Vistas.â&#x20AC;? Oil paintings by Vicki Chesler.

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Music

BY PETER AARON

LEFT: A FEW OF HOMESPUN TAPES’ MORE THAN 350 DVD TITLES AWAIT SHIPMENT. RIGHT: HAPPY AND JANE TRAUM LOOK OVER PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS IN THE COMPANY’S WOODSTOCK OFFICE.

LESSONS FROM LEGENDS HOMESPUN TAPES PHOTOS BY DEBORAH DEGRAFFENREID

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n the opening minutes of the DVD Rory Block Teaches the Guitar of Robert Johnson, the acoustic blues queen sits on a shadowy set; just her, her guitar, and one well-aimed spotlight beaming down from on high. She launches into Johnson’s classic “Preaching Blues,” her demonic slide wreaking Hades up and down the neck of her instrument as she belts out the tune’s stinging lyric, a down-home commentary on religious hypocrisy. When the song is done she starts to talk about when she first met the blues, way back in the early 1960s.

“I got to meet and learn from [country blues legend] Son House, who was a direct influence on Robert Johnson,” Block recalls as she sits in front of a couple of cameras in a tiny studio, making this instructional video for Happy and Jane Traum’s ever-expanding, folk-centric Homespun Tapes label. “Of course, no one will ever be able to play exactly like Robert Johnson. But if I’m able here to take some of what Son House taught me—and taught Robert Johnson before me—and pass it on to you, then maybe you can combine it with some of your own experiences. And maybe you will continue this fabric.”

One couldn’t ask for a more perfect summation of Homespun’s mission to document and keep this same rich fabric of handmade music flowing. It’s a loving task the Traums and their staff have been ably pursuing for 40 years.

Both Happy, himself a modern folk icon, and Jane, who has a background in theater, grew up in the Bronx and went to separate, forward-thinking Manhattan schools; he to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia-founded High School of Music and Art, she to the School of Performing Arts High School (the institutions merged in 1984). So how did they come to discover folk music in pre-revival 1950s New York?

“We were lucky, in that the schools we went to had people from all five boroughs,” Happy explains from the conference room table of Homespun’s carpeted, white-walled headquarters, a renovated house just outside the village of Woodstock. “There were lots of kids there playing guitars and banjos, that kind of thing. And then in about 1954 I got taken by some friends to a Pete Seeger concert, which really turned me around. Up until then, I really only knew the music we were hearing on the radio, which was Perry Como, Doris 52 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM.COM 4/07

Day, Patti Page, those kinds of people. So hearing [folk artists] playing ‘real’ instruments and singing was extremely ear-opening.” Armed with Seeger’s How to Play the 5-String Banjo lesson book (since reprinted by Homespun), Happy began partaking in the fabled Sunday hootenannies in Washington Square Park.

It was there that he and Jane got acquainted.

“The early folk music scene in the Village was just fantastic,” Jane says. “It was just so amazing that the music was out there, and to meet other people who liked it and knew about it.” The couple reveled in the setting’s active milieu of parties, nightclub and coffeehouse sessions, and folksings, getting to know rising greats like Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Odetta, and a new kid in town, Bob Dylan. In 1963, as a member of the New World Singers, Happy cut the first recorded version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” and duetted later that year with Dylan on “Let Me Die in My Footsteps” for Folkways’s Broadsides compilation (the two would work together again in 1972, when Happy performed on three tracks for Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2).

To supplement his performing and recording income, Happy started giving guitar and banjo lessons. He published the book Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar in 1965, and, two years later, as a way of keeping his students going while he went on tour, he began recording individual lessons on a reel-to-reel tape recorder in the couple’s living room. Using the kitchen table as their shipping department, Jane would pack up the finished tapes and mail them out to students.

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rior to the company’s existence, outside of a handful of books and the odd “play-along” LP, there hadn’t really been any way to learn how to play folk music other than by transcribing it by ear from old 78s or by getting enlightenment firsthand from the shrinking number of surviving sources. Today, Homespun’s catalog contains over 350 DVDs (a few titles linger on VHS, but most have been converted to disc) and more than 125 CDs. The releases offer instruction on seemingly every instrument, from guitar to piano to voice to Irish pennywhistle, in styles ranging from folk to bluegrass to jazz, klezmer, and rock.

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o in a way, the Traums go musicologists John and Alan Lomax one better, preserving not only the music and voices of these incredible musicians, but also having them literally show us their secrets. One of the best embodiments of Homespunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many successes in preserving these cultural treasures is The Fingerpicking Blues of John Jackson. In the hour-long DVD, the vaunted Virginia bluesman demonstrates his inimitable ragtime-derived Piedmont style, swapping licks and stories with moderator and guitarist Roy Book Binder. Using one of Homespunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark tricks, the program shows a full-screen close-up of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picking hand and a smaller inset of his fretting fingers as he slows down and explains his methods for the cameras.

Watching what feels like a real back-porch country blues session and hearing this genial, teddy bear-like man speak about his life and music, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious that the moments on this disc add up to something truly precious. The fact that Jackson passed on only a few years after they were captured just underscores the poignancy.

So thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somewhat of a paradox at play here: Technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unstoppable march threatens to turn our world into so many ones and zeros, but the Traums are using this same digital science to preserve and convey the sublime pleasures of being able to hear and learn how to make a few sweet sounds on age-old instruments of wire and woodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by those who know or knew how to do it best. And, far into the future, those here will have Homespun Tapes to thank for making sure these vital traditions are still alive, continuing to be passed from wrinkled to tender hands.

To view Homespun Tapesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tradition-rich catalog, visit www.homespun.com.

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In the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s, the label added lesson books and updated the format to cassette tapes (now supplanted by CDs), and in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, introduced video lessons and began producing and releasing tutorials by friends and contemporaries like Sebastian, Havens, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Pete Rowan, Tom Rush, Richard Thompson, David Grisman, and others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working with Homespun has been one of the smoothest exchanges of music and business Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been involved in,â&#x20AC;? says longtime Woodstocker Sebastian. The former Lovinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Spoonful leader has done five titles for the imprint, with a sixth, a DVD showing how to play Spoonful hits, due out this spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really knowledgeable about music and they make sure the bills get paid on time.â&#x20AC;?

But things really jumped to a whole new level when Homespun began producing lessons by the elder greats of roots music, veritable giants like Ralph Stanley, John Jackson, Bill Monroe, Ramblinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jack Elliot, Doc Watson, and Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin.

After a while, some of the Traumsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heroes even began to approach them to tape lessons. One of the most unexpected queries came from renowned TV host and jazz pianist Steve Allen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day, we just got a call from his secretary, who said he wanted to make a tape for our label,â&#x20AC;? Jane recalls, seemingly still in disbelief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course, we loved Steve Allen, so we said yes right away. He used a teleprompter, and we were afraid that it might make things less spontaneous. But when you watch the lesson you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even tell.â&#x20AC;?

Not all of Homespunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s video-teachers are of the old guard, however. The catalog also boasts DVDs, CDs, and book-and-CD sets by next-generation marvels like singer-songwriter and slide-guitar virtuoso Kelly Joe Phelps, banjo whiz Bela Fleck, Stray Cats bassist Lee Rocker, and Nickel Creek multi-instrumentalist Chris Thile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to offer a situation where if someone wants to learn how to play an instrument or a certain style, they can learn it from the absolute best people to learn from,â&#x20AC;? Happy says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we also want to create a permanent library of these great musicians. So that fifty or a hundred years from now people will be able to see what Doc Watson or Bill Monroe looked and sounded like, so they can see and hear them talk about their lives and actually see how they played their music.â&#x20AC;?

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Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d also started a family, and decided to relocate with their three children, Merry, April, and Adam, to the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; haven of Woodstock in 1967. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The music scene] around here was a lot different back then and in the Seventies [than it is now],â&#x20AC;? Happy says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were fewer choices for personal entertainment; no cable TV, no Internet, no â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;American Idol.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; People didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay in so much. So there was a lot more socializing, a lot more places for live music. There was Deanieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Whitewater Depot, the Sled Hill Cafe; you could catch Charles Mingus or Bonnie Raitt at the Joyous Lake. There was always something going on.â&#x20AC;?

In 1968, Happy formed a musical duo with his brother, fellow singer and guitarist Artie Traum. The twosome hit big that year and the following one at the Newport Folk Festival, netting deals with both Capitol Records and famed manager Albert Grossman and becoming perhaps the most influential folk duo of the post-Dylan era. (The brothers have played together less in the last few years but recently completed a tour of Japan.) All of this attention to Happy as an artist, coupled with the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burgeoning notoriety as a musical hub, served only to help Homespunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profile as the company continued to grow.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS

Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ WAVY DAVY for your listening pleasure.

RIO JAZZ 20-YEAR CONCERT April 10. This year marks the 20th annual concert at Dutchess Community College (on Pendell Road) for Matt Finley & Rio Jazz, the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier Brazilian jazz concert band. And, after last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snow, who else is ready for some tropical sabor? Joining Finley (flugelhorn, soprano sax, and flute) will be Peter Tomlinson (keyboards), Jeff Ciampa (guitar), Mark Egan (bass), Joel Rosenblatt (drums), and Tomas Martin Lopez (percussion), plus special guests Peter Einhorn (guitar) and Don Miller (bass). This featured event for the Smithsonian Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Appreciation Month also includes refreshments. 7:30pm. Free.

Poughkeepsie. (845) 431-8050. www.riojazz.com.

KRISTEN CAPOLINO, XOCH, AUDIBLE THOUGHT April 13. These ladies will shred the Chance stage, with teen flying-V guitar mistress Capolino rocking the non-believers. Start your night with Audible Thought, Gentling, and Frank Viele & The Manhattan Project, then go nowhere until the beautiful and talented Xoch and her awesome band bring it, bizz-atch. Forget the Life Network, this is more like the real deal. Blink and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss special guest illusionist David Martin.

7:30pm. $5. Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-1966. www.kristencapolino.com.

BENEFIT FOR 60 MAIN COLLECTIVE April 14. Nine musical acts plus poets and speakers will bless the Cabaloosa stage for this huge benefit for New Paltzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 60 Main cultural collective, a cognizant ensemble of artists and activists that began in a humble storefront on Main Street. Catch those lovable funksters Ratboy plus Johnnie Wang, Life on Fire, Tiger Piss, Sneakthief, NCM, Radimus, Soma Dragon, Pacha Mama, Alien Lovecraft, Pete Laffin, and Mike Hollis. 9pm.

Call for ticket info. New Paltz. (845) 255-3400. www.myspace.com/ratboy.

KRIS GRUEN/THE BOWMANS April 18. Kris Gruen returns to Ulster County to debut his first CD of intelligent and wistful pop, Lullaby School (Mother West), at the Bearsville Theater. Gruen is no stranger to the world of music, his dad being well-known rock photographer and Hudson Valley resident Bob Gruen. Born and raised in New York City, the younger Gruen now lives and performs in Vermont, where he teaches poetry and songwriting workshops; with the mighty duo The Bowmans (www.thebowmansmusic.com). On April 5 at the hip Bearsville venue, Kate Pierson introduces Before the Music Dies, a documentary about corporate vs. indie music presented by the Woodstock Film Festival. Post screening, local bands will round out the evening. $10 advance, $15 door. On April 20 Chronogram co-hosts the Clubhouse dance party (myspace.com/clubhousehv) with DJs Lemar Soulflower, Anthony Molina, and Billy Belmont. $8. 7pm. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406. www.bearsvilletheater.com.

SCOTT HANNA April 28. Master percussionist Hanna, a dreadlocked â&#x20AC;&#x153;former white boy from Connecticutâ&#x20AC;? now lives in the Hudson Valley, but his pursuit of the music of other cultures has taken him to live with different tribes around the globe. Hanna plays over a dozen different instruments, including Nigerian xylophone, kalimba, Chinese harp, and Tibetan bamboo flute, and weaves them all into his performances and stories about the colorful characters who taught him to play the instruments. Catch one or both of his shows at this month at the Arts Society of Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (ASK) theater space on Broadway. At 10:30am, Hanna presents a special show for families titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music Around The World.â&#x20AC;? At 9pm, he returns with his band, Rhythm Exchange, for an all-night dance party. Morning show: $5, 3. Evening show: $12, 10 ASK members. Kingston.

(845) 338-0331. www.askforarts.org.

JOHNNIE WANG WILL PLAY THE 60 MAIN BENEFIT AT CABALOOSA IN NEW PALTZ ON APRIL 14.

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CD REVIEWS JOHN ESPOSITO QUINTET THE BLUE PEOPLE SUNJUMP RECORDS, 2006

One beautiful thing about ensemble jazz recording is that the musicians truly have to play in the same room at the same time. Such kinship shines through on John Esposito’s latest quintet release, The Blue People, on which the pianist is joined by a well-seasoned cast: Eric Person on saxophone, Greg Glassman on trumpet, Kenny Davis on bass, and Pete O’Brien on drums.

These nine tracks, all Esposito originals, play like a history of jazz, recalling the brilliance of some of the genre’s greatest groups. The opener, “Boppin’,” swings with the creative lean of Gerry Mulligan’s best work, while the off-meter (7/4? 6/2?) “Just Friends” recalls the many moods of Mingus. Esposito pays tribute to Duke Ellington on “Late November,” as his melodic fills flourish under Person’s soaring lead on the melody. Glassman’s tone has matured greatly in the last five years, and here he hits many far-reaching notes and ideas. The airtight rhythm section of Davis and O’Brien is only put to the test when Esposito’s lightning-fast runs threaten to get ahead of them. Esposito, who also teaches jazz classes at Bard College, has played alongside some of the area’s best jazzmen, including Dave Holland, Ira Coleman, Hugh Brodie, Roswell Rudd, and Jeff Siegel, who drummed in Second Sight, an Esposito quintet formed in 1985. www.sunjumprecords.com.

—DJ Wavy Davy

GUITARS & HEARTS GUITARS & HEARTS CLINGRAP MEDIA, 2007

Two years ago, Guitars & Hearts, a New Paltz-based guitar-and-drum duo, was setting up for a show in Poughkeepsie as a bunch of too-cool patrons milled around. The attendees had ignored the night’s first act, but when Guitars & Hearts drummer/vocalist Julie Novak asked, “What’s up?” into the mike, the crowd hushed and then cheered as Novak and guitarist Lauren Camarata started to play. Now, that’s stage presence.

Missed that show? Have a listen of the band’s posthumous, self-titled debut. Raw and passionate without being excessively “grrrl,” Guitars & Hearts runs the gamut, exploring gender variance and queerness in a way that almost any listener can relate to. Rage along to “Transmission,” beg your lover to come over with “Dainty Chain,” and dance all crazy as “Whoa!” plays. Though Guitars & Hearts has since dissolved—Camarata decided to travel after graduation and is now pursuing a photography career in Brooklyn—Novak’s new band, Gigantic!, has been garnering plenty of local attention. Decidedly more pop than Guitars & Hearts, Gigantic! has proved thus far to be the perfect outlet for Novak’s thought-provoking, energetic approach. www.myspace.com/guitarsandhearts.

—Katie Cahill

TODD GIUDICE LITTLE KNOWN SECRET INDEPENDENT, 2007

is aptly titled—the little-known secret is that this 12-track CD is solid as stone. An amalgamation of guitar-based folk, Americana, and country, his sophomore effort unveils tunes so taut you could bounce a quarter off ’em. Giudice exorcises relationship demons with introspective lyrics and sweet, emotive vocals, but there’s nothing wimpy about it. These powerfully catchy melodies will weave themselves into your DNA without warning.

“Pull Me Outta Shape,” a bluesy anthem of relationship drama, screams to be a single and sucks you in with a melancholy riff that can’t be ignored. “Yesterday Is Simply Not Enough” is a lighter, but equally forlorn account of failing love, with poetic lines such as “We push with arms that once were intertwined.”

Giudice is captivating live. He’ll play with Amy Laber at the Muddy Cup in Kingston on April 6 and by himself at the Full Moon Resort in Olivera on April 7; the latter event is dedicated to Darren Bohan, who perished in the 9/11 attacks. www.toddgiudice.com.

—Sharon Nichols

YOUR EARS, PLEASE. HEAR THIS MUSIC @ WWW.CHRONOGRAM.COM > JOHN ESPOSITO QUINTET “JUST FRIENDS” < > GUITARS & HEARTS “WHOA!” < > TODD GIUDICE “PULL ME OUTTA SHAPE” <

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Books

THE CONSTANT GARDENER MICHELE SLUNG’S LITERARY PERENNIALS

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hat do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon editor.

Woodstock-based Michele Slung has edited some 20 anthologies on these subjects and more. She’s also the author of Momilies: As My Mother Used to Say, a cheerful compendium of maternal wisdom that has sold over a million copies, and other humor books including The Absent-Minded Professor’s Memory Book. She’s written books for National Geographic (Living with Cannibals & Other Tales of Women’s Adventures and Cat Shots), and fine-tuned a first novel by a Muslim academic (The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf ) and the memoirs of a professional submissive (The Pleasure’s All Mine).

It’s a surprisingly broad range of interests, but surprise is Slung’s stockin-trade. Her anthologies combine gems by little-known authors with offbeat selections by bigger names. One doesn’t expect to find Stephen King in a gardening anthology, any more than one looks for Virpginia Woolf and A.A. Milne in a collection of crime fiction. Yet there they are, in The Garden of Reading and Murder & Other Acts of Literature, respectively. And while A Treasury of Old-Fashioned Christmas Stories does feature the requisite work by O. Henry, it isn’t that well-roasted chestnut The Gift of the Magi but its Wild Western cousin, Christmas by Injunction.

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teaser quotes beneath every title in The Victoria Reader, Slung’s individualistic touch is everywhere. Who else, for example, would name two collections of erotic writing by women (Slow Hand and Fever) after lyrics made famous by the Pointer Sisters and Peggy Lee? “All I ever wanted to do was read,” Slung declares, curling up in an armchair near her woodstove, one of many spots in her farmhouse that seems tailor-made for that pursuit. There are stacks of books everywhere, even marching up stair treads. Slung cites a feature she heard on NPR, dividing the world into filers and pilers. “I knew I was a piler,” she laughs, though an editor’s sense of order informs her carefully chosen decor: Oriental rugs, vintage tins, antique quilts. One collection takes center stage at the top of the stairs: a full set of original Oz books.

“Oz books basically dominated my childhood needs,” Slung says. “Every birthday or Christmas, I got an Oz book.” L. Frank Baum also helped cure her nail-biting habit: For every nail she let grow, she earned a new journey to Oz.

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lung grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and though she has barely a trace of an accent (“I still say Missourah,” she notes), she still sees herself as “a Kentucky girl.” Her father owned an auto parts store, and her mother was a homemaker; Slung describes them as “ordinary people, Book-of-the-

Month Club readers.” Their only child started reading the funnies at just under three, and never looked back.

“I was a committed reader,” Slung says. “When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of the smell of wet coats—I was always hiding out in bedroom with a book.” She sometimes took out five library books at a time, read them in one day, and returned them for more. A local librarian once gushed to her mother, “Michele was the best reader we ever had.”

Slung did have a literary mentor of sorts: Her father’s brother, Louis Schaeffer, was a drama critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Eugene O’Neill. Slung recalls infrequent visits with her “odd duck” New York uncle, who sent her a tin toy typewriter and, years later, packages of books by J.D. Salinger and Peter Matthiessen.

After college, Slung moved to New York City. There, she managed a Madison Avenue carriage-trade bookshop that retained other-era touches like packages tied with satin ribbons and handwritten ledgers into the 1970s.

“I never worked for a bookstore that took credit cards,” she notes dryly.

A favorite client offered the young bookseller a job at a literary agency, but Slung didn’t feel she was suited to contract negotiations. “I couldn’t type, I didn’t want to be an assistant,” she recounts. “To succeed in publishing, you need a specialty.” She asked herself what she knew best, and went for the jugular.

Since childhood, Slung had devoured countless mysteries, moving from Nancy Drew books to Agatha Christie (“They’re very well suited for bright eleven-year-olds”) and on to Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. As a young New Yorker, she sleuthed out hard-to-find titles, haunting secondhand bookstores on Fourth Avenue. Knowing the turf like few others, she queried the just-launched Ms. magazine and landed a mystery column. Then she returned to her agent friend to pitch an idea inspired by Hugh Greene’s The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes—why not a collection of women detectives?

Her first editorial lunch was a hole-in-one: Slung went home with an offer from Pantheon for her first anthology, Crime on Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties.

“The world has changed so much,” she marvels. “In the 1970s, there were almost no women detectives. Now there’s practically nothing else.” Her prescient subject matter garnered full-page coverage in the New York Times Book Review—a publication that generally shuns anthologies—and sent the delighted Slung on a book tour.

At her first Edgar Awards dinner, she met book collector and mystery aficionado Otto Penzler; they’ve been colleagues for more than 20 years.

“I’m his Rosalind Russell, but he’s half the size of Cary Grant,” she quips affectionately. (Slung herself is far shorter than Russell.) She’s read manuscripts and edited books for Penzler’s Mysterious Press imprint, and screened literal thousands of stories for his Best American Mystery Stories series, working with a rotation of high-profile guest editors, most recently, Carl Hiaasen. When Penzler opened The Mysterious Bookshop in New York in the late 1970s, Slung was his first choice to run it.

But life can throw curveballs, and when Slung’s then-husband, journalist Hendrik Hertzberg, became chief speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, she followed him to Washington. “It was Potomac fever at its most feverish,” she recalls. “I’d never been there except for school trips and Moratorium marches [to protest the Vietnam War].” Slung commuted part-time to New York for over a year before taking a job at the Washington Post, writing a column called “Book World.”

At 33, she walked into Ben Bradley’s office and gave notice. A lifelong fan of the Cary Grant movie Holiday, Slung had promised herself that, “Whatever I was doing at the age of thirty-three, I would quit.” The powers that be were incredulous; one friend offered to print her a T-shirt, “I Quit the Washington Post.”

Slung plunged into editing work, helming the Plume American Women Writers reissue series, which reprinted such overlooked authors as Ursula Parrott, Fannie Hurst, and Martha Gellhorn. More anthologies followed: I Shudder at Your Touch, Seduce Me: Twelve Erotic Tales, Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters.

For anthologies, Slung seeks “stories that aren’t frequently reprinted, stories that surprise me.” She often spends 10-hour days combing the short-story index in the Library of Congress, and misses the days of open stacks, when she could spend hours sitting on the floor and reading, surrounded by the musty perfume of old books. She also bemoans the loss of card catalogues: “I’m an absolute addict, and yes, you do find more through them than working on a computer. It’s a hand-eye-touch-brain thing.”

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he only child who loved reading above all else seems to have found her dream career. The one thing that rankles Slung is the too-frequent question, “When are you going to do your own books?”

“I am doing my own books,” she bristles. “No one else, even given exactly the same twenty stories, would put them together in quite the same way. It’s an arrangement, like my house. People don’t ask a collage artist, ‘Why don’t you paint?’”

“I wanted to make a career of reading. I’m a very good writer, but I didn’t set out to be a writer, I set out to be a reader,” Slung asserts. There seems little question that she’s succeeded, interleaving anthology work with manuscript editing for various publishers, most recently, Carroll & Graf.

Asked how much she reads, Slung seems unable to answer. She does admit that she reads “very, very fast,” adding, “I take it for granted. It’s something that’s innate and natural to me, like an athlete who’s always been able to run.” She finds early morning the best reading time, and usually wakes at 6:30 to brew café au lait and sit down with a book. She also likes reading on trains and in restaurants, and often brings manuscripts to such favorite dinner spots as El Danzante, Miss Lucy’s, and New World Home Cooking.

She concedes that there are “three tall stacks of books” next to her bed, and she hasn’t watched TV or read daily papers for years.

Surrounded by books and a beloved cat, Minnie, the talkative Slung seems richly contented. “I cherish my past. I think life is an anthology, frankly—we all have a lot of stories to tell, and they’re all gathered in one person.”

There are indeed many stories gathered in Michele Slung. Among others, she chaired the Woodstock Library Fair for three years, has reviewed books for NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and even once house-sat for Samuel Johnson, filling in for a friend who was caretaker of Dr. Johnson’s historic abode.

Asked if there’s anything she hasn’t done yet that she’d like to do, Slung’s answer is instantaneous: “Carry a tune.” Short, quirky, and perfectly phrased.

That’s good editing.

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SHORT TAKES April is a notorious season of change, and an excellent time to shake up some ice-bound assumptions. Whether they’re writing about military realities, queer identity, land use issues up- and downriver, or that iconoclastic bride of Christ, these five local authors are helping to break new ground.

IDENTITY ENVY: WANTING TO BE WHO WE’RE NOT. CREATIVE NONFICTION BY QUEER WRITERS EDITED BY JIM TUSHINSKI & JIM VAN BUSKIRK HARRINGTON PARK PRESS, 2007, $19.95

Chronogram regular Jay Blotcher and Hudson Valley Community College tutor Cheryl Schoonmaker contributed powerful essays to this provocative examination of identity politics. With titles like “EuroTex” and “Tales of a Male Lesbian,” these 28 narratives cross boundaries of gender, class, race, and religion on the road to self-acceptance.

that lined Columbia and Dutchess County roadsides with “Stop the Plant” signs.

with an endorsement by Rep. Maurice Hinchey and an eye toward the future.

Up Is Up But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 Edited by Brandon Stosuy New York University Press, 2006, $29.95

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nyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, Up Is Up But So Is Down, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone, its gritty, exciting, and dangerously vibrant bones since plowed up and paved over with a staid world of lattes, limos, and velvet ropes.

It all feels like punk never happened, like that Starbucks on St. Marks Place has been squatting there forever.

But, of course, punk did happen. And it deeply and indelibly impacted popular culture, and continues to do so more than 30 years since the days when pioneering musicians like Richard Hell and Patti Smith began performing. Yet while it’s mainly seen as a musical phenomenon, punk was by no means limited to the noisy notes on records and bills at CBGB and Max’s Kansas City. It was a philosophical and aesthetic revolution that shook all disciplines—the visual arts, film, graphic design, theater, and, yes, even literature. In recent years, there’s been a wave of interest in this vital period: CD reissues flood the music stores; movies depict Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol; the prize-winning musical “Rent” romanticizes the lives of struggling East Villagers; scene fixtures like Jim Jarmusch and Steve Buscemi translate their Downtown experiences to the big screen; and even the output of Madison Avenue references punk’s torn-and-scrawled graphic style.

Until this compendium, there has been no significant effort to encapsulate New York’s ’70s’90s Downtown writing. Up Is Up But So Is Down is a fascinating and long-needed overview of a hugely creative and overlooked literary period. Most of these writers may not have been punks in the card-carrying, leather jacket-wearing sense, but their craft embodies the movement’s M.O. The work here—not only that of writer-musicians like Hell, Smith, Thurston Moore, Laurie Anderson, and Lydia Lunch, but also of firebrands like Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Gary Indiana, Spalding Gray, Karen Finley, and Patrick McGrath—comprises some of the rawest and most provocative gut-level street prose to hit the page. Pieces like Eric Bogosian’s claustrophobic confessional “In the Dark” and Bob Witz’s bleak, headline-plundering “Newspaper Poem” could only have come from Downtown New York in its years of golden grime.

That’s not to say that it’s all sobering urban gloom. There’s some really funny stuff here, though naturally it edges toward the black side. Take “Modern Saint #271,” Tama Janowitz’s narrative about a prostitute and her lover’s shared addiction to heroin: “Neither of us was a very good housekeeper.” Or Hal Sirowitz’s poem, “Lunch Break,” about a father who regularly takes his repast in a porno theater: “He would rather go to the cowboy movies, / But the gunfire hurts his ears.”

Readers of this magazine will no doubt be struck by the volume’s abundance of writers with Hudson Valley ties, once and future upstate personalities like Gray, Finley, Ed Sanders, Penny Arcade, Mary Gaitskill, Thaddeus Ruttkowski, and Barbara Ess—not to mention Chronogram contributors Sparrow and Roberta Allen (but why is Mikhail Horowitz pictured on the spine and not a featured contributor?).

Up Is Up But So Is Down’s colorfully tinted pages are packed with eye-boggling ephemera: Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1984 shots of an attitude-oozing Acker; Dada-esque mail art like Dennis Cooper’s collage portraying teen idol Leif Garret with a gun in his mouth; and covers from zines like Between C and D, which was pumped out on a dot-matrix printer and marketed in Ziploc bags like those used by Losaida drug dealers. Also here are wads of flyers for gigs and readings, like a 1978 handbill for a show by Hell’s band, the Voidoids, which quotes the Comte de Lautremont, and poet Eileen Myles’s pre-Pagemaker announcements, scribbled across sheets of grade-school ruled paper.

But it’s the text that’s the true meat of this hefty slab, which weighs in at more than 500 pages. And the collective power of these hard-hitting, back-alley words will knock you flat on your ass. In this case, a good place to be.

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Home Remedies

by Angela Pneuman Harvest Books, 2007, $14

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n relationships one person always cares more than the other,â&#x20AC;? a mother warns a daughter in Angela Pneumanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enticing debut, Home Remedies, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and if you find yourself in that position, you should make sure never to let it show.â&#x20AC;? Such is the bitter wisdom passed between generations of women in these funny yet frightening stories.

Tinged with Southern Gothic against a backdrop of Kentucky Evangelicanism, these are stories of relationships between girls and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;daughters, mothers, sisters, and friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the men (fathers and husbands) who tend to let them down. The young women persistâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sometimes at great costâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to comfort and betray one another as they negotiate the pressures of faith and freedom, community and family, puberty and disease.

Currently a Presidential Fellow at SUNY Albany, Pneuman was a recent Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was also raised in a conservative, Evangelical Christian communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hence, her rich subject matter.

In a 2005 interview for The Believer, Pneuman asked the brilliant short story writer Lorrie Moore, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you think of writing as a kind of willing, if indirect, personal exposure?â&#x20AC;? And the writing in Home Remedies is nothing if not willfulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and brutally honest. The truth rises to the surface in these stories and makes these young women shake, say terrible things, dance, drawâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even commit acts of violence against those they love. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to feel anything much when Wanda is in the room, taking up all the feeling,â&#x20AC;? a daughter remarks about her mother in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Long Game,â&#x20AC;? the collectionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chilling clincher, and instantly we understand, and forgive, the protagonistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annoying, uncommunicative, adolescent withdrawl. Such incisive moments are not rare in this collection, nor do they announce themselves heavy-handedly or demand false epiphany.

With the rhythm and verbal economy of a poet, Pneuman, who writes only in the third person, succeeds in making us feel what her characters feel. In the title story, as in several others, a young adolescent girl (in this case, Lena) is living alone with her mother after her father has left. The more her mother projects her own grief onto Lena, the less Lena can feel her own voice, until the physical manifestations of this dilemma reach gothic proportions.

Another stunning story, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Beachcomber,â&#x20AC;? features a friendship between two teenage girls and the way that money and men start to come between them. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Borderlands,â&#x20AC;? Shiloh (we forgive her these names) escapes the pain and confusion of puberty and her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; divorce through exerting power over her caretakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; child. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invitationâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bell Ringerâ&#x20AC;? both feature sisters who will do anything for one another, even as each wants something of what the other has. Both stories also exemplify another painful truth about how much we take from others in our efforts to help them, which is a theme that runs throughout.

The hilarious â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Saints Day,â&#x20AC;? which appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2004, brings us the ironically named Prudence and Grace, who dress as Salome and John the Baptist with a makeshift dagger and platter for a celebration at the local Methodist church. When they are not permitted to perform, the girls find their own adventure in the basement with a missionary boy who is suspected of being possessed, and redefine what it really means to save someone.

Only â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holy Landâ&#x20AC;? falls short, and not just because of its brevity. In another collection, this story might seem compelling, but among stories of this emotional caliber, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite reach the bar.

All in all, the stories in Home Remedies satisfy Emily Dickinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s barometer for good writing: They make you feel as though the top of your head were taken off. Just when you find yourself thoroughly charmed, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be gasping in horror. These are not stories for the faint of heart.

Pneuman tells it like it is: People do let it show when they care too much. And it burns, just like your mother said. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Caitlin McDonnell CHRONOGRAM IS NOW PUBLISHING SHORT FICTION. SUBMIT YOUR STORY TODAY! GUIDELINES: WWW.CHRONOGRAM.COM/SUBMISSIONS. FICTION@CHRONOGRAM.COM / 314 WALL ST., KINGSTON, NY 12401

The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization

by Daniel Pinkwater Houghton Mifflin, 2007, $16

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utchess County resident Daniel Pinkwater’s many books for children are all utterly unique constructions, and his latest middle-grade novel is no exception. The Neddiad is an epic tale that mixes disparate genres and elements in a way only the author of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency and Lizard Music could imagine. It’s a road trip, a buddy story, a comedy, an encyclopedia, and a memoir, all of it saturated with grand, mythological undertones and plenty of just plain crazy fun.

The story is set in the 1940s, in that hinge time between movie worship and the cult of TV. Protagonist Nedward Wentworthstein is a young boy who one day tells his eccentric father he’d like to eat in a restaurant shaped like a hat. To his surprise, his father replies, “Not only will we eat in the hat, we will all go and live in Los Angeles, California!” And faster than you can say the Brown Derby, the whole family’s left its Chicago home and boarded a train, headed for a new life in Hollywood.

Neddie’s adventures begin en route, through encounters with a Native American shaman whose name may or may not be Melvin; Billy, a ghostly bellhop; and a boy named Seamus whose movie-star father specializes in swashbuckling roles.

He also meets up with Sandor Eucalyptus, a bad guy who tries to steal the carved-stone turtle the shaman has given to Neddie. It’s apparently an ancient totem that’s extremely rare and powerful. The fate of the very world could be resting on its small stone back—and on (gulp) our Neddie himself.

Life in Los Angeles ushers in a cast of characters no one but Pinkwater could have dreamed up (or gotten away with). Storylines twist and turn as the plot grows fantastically thicker.

It’s all fodder for the author’s talent for laugh-out-loud dialect and characterization.

There’s Mr. McDougal, the “tin hat” (station master) Ned meets in Flagstaff, Arizona, when he steps off the train and it leaves without him. “You’re a peep?” asks the tin hat.

“And you missed your varnish? The Super Chief is highballing and you’re stuck out on track seven.”

And the Leprechaun Man, “who always wore a blue blazer with brass buttons, and a ship captain’s hat, and he talked to himself, mostly about the Little People. ‘Aroo, Arrah, it’s the end of the world entirely. We’re banjaxed for a fact. There’s to be lashings of giants, and ballyhooly, with the banshee screaming, bedad.’”

And then there’s Crazy Wig (aka Nishdugedack), a prophesy spouter with a furry, horned hat. “Los Angeles is in great peril,” he declares, “maybe doomed. Ancient prophesies tell us that a large catastrophe is about to happen. Gigantic animals nobody has ever seen before will be rampaging in the streets.”

Incredibly, this concoction of high-flying fancy is partly based on reality: Pinkwater spent some of his childhood in Hollywood. And even though the author’s plotting isn’t quite at the level of his ability to entertain—the momentum is more road rally than race to the finish line—his signature cast of “weirdballs” keeps the story wiggling, if not pushing forward, as the climax draws near.

As the narrative tightens, the silliness rises. Does Neddie have the real turtle, or a fake?

Will he save the world on the night of the 12,000th full moon? And equally important, will he ever learn to like jelly doughnuts?

Pinkwater, who’s also well known for his role as a children’s book commentator on NPR, has authored a hundred books. He’s taken a unique (and quite generous) marketing step with this book: He’s been serializing chapters on his website, www.pinkwater.com, something he likens to sneaking children into a circus tent. The entire Neddiad won’t be posted until well after the book’s publication date, later this month. Meanwhile, the website provides an enticing preview for established Pinkwater fans and gives new ones an excellent way to sample his delightfully quirky offerings.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our May issue is April 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.

We all need the sun.

We all need the sun.

But everyone loves the moon.

Everyone loves the moon.

—Piper Jaden Levine (2½ years)

The Woodsman Rooted in black soil, a forest of bodies; standing desiccate and barren.

Their wrinkled, black charred faces staring at me.

Outstretched limbs clawing; scraping at my skin.

From a clearing, the echo of timber cracking.

The song of swinging steel.

It is the hand of the woodsman; the redeemer, hacking their trunks.

I scream into the autumn wind; Encore! Encore!

—Mark Massey

i am the rain i am the rain. my finger is poised on the button of rain. i am no one if nothing but rain. my droplets are drums, a tin-pan beat— the curbs, riverbanks, my rivers are streets— i pull the cork from the drain. i am rain. i am the snow. my breathing is blown into flurries of snow. if nothing is frozen then nothing is snow. my snowflakes are cotton, spinning a loom— wind-drifted lace, white-curtained room— i say which way she will blow. i am snow. i am, perhaps, spring. my temple is built on the altar of spring. if there is no birth there can be no spring. my morning is dew: cold, wet, lust— the sapling, the stamen, the pistil, the thrust— i tell the earth when to sing. i am spring. i am, in fact, the sun. my being is born in the eye of the sun. if there is no light, there is no sun. my waking is life, rising over your roof— my horizon love, look east for your proof— i make slaves of you all and masters of none. i am the rain and the snow and the spring and the sun.

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When Ramon Met Christopher in Valhalla On Friday, October 29, 2005, the Department of Defense confirmed, in a precise military format, The death of Acevedoaponte, Ramon A., 51, Sgt. First Class, Army, from Watertown, N.Y. It, the DOD, also confirmed the death of one Monroe, Christopher T., 19, Specialist, Army Reserve, from Kendallville, Indiana.

As it turns out, Sergeant Acevedoaponte was a grunt from the Third Infantry Division And Chris Monroe was from the 785th Military Police Battalion.

Now they are both dead forever and are in no particular military contingent.

Perhaps, if Valhalla really exists, they will meet or have already met.

Five other Americans were killed on the same day Marine, Regular Army, and Reservists.

But these two surely would have gravitated towards one another, now dead, They should have a lot to say to one another, Though for entirely opposite reasons.

Ramon, 51, with half or more of a normally lived life behind him and no life at all in front of him would have been drawn to Chris’s extreme youth, The Specialist not yet 20.

The younger soldier would surely want to know from one of the oldest men He’d ever seen in a military uniform, “What now, Sarge? How in the world do we get out of this fuck-up?”

(Later Chris would almost certainly want to know under what circumstances he could now expect to lose his briefly held virginity.)

For his part Sergeant Acevedoaponte (“You can call me Ramon,” cutting some slack to Specialist Monroe) couldn’t help ask Chris, rather accusingly, “How in the world did you permit yourself to die so young? What in God’s name were you thinking?”

The younger man was quick to justify himself with words about building democracy, fighting terrorism there instead of here, making Iraq safe from the crazies, and so on.

None of which Ramon to the slightest degree took seriously.

—Peter Scheckner

After Grazing Rock

False Villanelle

the hull punctures and water soothes across the fiberglass, giving caught trout new breath:

Like the sharp, bright eyes of a hound, He stops, and only then does he remember Me, on a trail, in the ascending November.

they flap as if possessed with electric blood. we stuff the hole with a balled sweater and loll, wind-wisped current shifting the boat here there, sliding sets of eyes watching us.

—Nicholas Ripatrazone

To the Former Lover of the Reader I once saw you and the reader near the station by the waterfront, walking, hands bound by hands holding the scent of yellowed pages. I saw an oriole beak that scent, and take off landing later that night near Vassar College, singing, voice trapped by the voices pinning the sight of serifs between dimpled cheeks.

You remember the first time?

The reader’s moan?

The touch of your sweat and fluid and the sound of skin against shoulders.

You feel as a typewriter thrown from a 38th-floor window.

It’s a Hard Return.

—Jeffrey Paggi

Frozen Release pigeon-toed she sits in brown knit boots at the edge of this bench on this porch alone with the world on her mind the only noise is the music playing in her heart and the movement of smoke from her exhale.

Autumnal Ashes, crimson ground the Mountain Man watches, face steeped in the sun’s amber with the sharp, bright eyes of a hound.

Laughter fleeing as I slip from each log, Echoes off the memory of October Me, on a trail, in the ascending November.

He aches with my every sound, but fails to blow out our last ember burning like the sharp bright eyes of a hound.

Kneeled down in Awosting fog, faith that he will forget the smell of me by December, Me, on a trail, in the ascending November.

Losing the nights we had found, Mountain Man begins to dismember with the sharp bright eyes of a hound, Me, on a trail, in the ascending November.

—Lauren Tamraz Judson

Even When You Wilt Even when you wilt, the distance you create is dignified and exempts you from the common grass as a tall thin blade, which rises up despite the wind, and reaches toward the sun as it browns on its sides.

Superpharmacy of a Quick Moving Sale and Holy Ritual (Junk E-mail Poem #2) O Lord of Heavenly Blue, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Dancing.

This is a corrupt and well-subsidized thought.

Lord, I do not want wealth, nor children, nor learning.

What then? you asked.

I want: a Complimentary, Brand Name Laptop Computer ($1800 Value) a bigger gun with more ammo A Strong Erection Naturally And to Delight in Goodness.

Convincingly Real or Strangely Artificial, Here you can Send books direct2YouR prisoners, Obtain a repossessed Buddha, And Expedite your transformation with no sideeffects.

To exempt those suffering into endless debt, Päy much less for Originally Pure Dream Time.

It is selfish desire and anger, arising from the appetites and evils which threaten a person in this life.

For example, oil filter for garbage can indicates that a food stamp knows cough syrup is near Jennifer’s pointy nipples.

Banish the folly of rebirth thus beholding a $500 Shopping Spree waiting for you!

The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward High Truth, unyielding Order, and Complimentary sheriff/county repossessed Dream homes.

Remove here the satellite of the frightened.

—Michael Hunt

I want to water you, to fill your cells with strength, to push against the walls and sustain the height of your form.

I want you to bend toward the light, to feed from the rays as they seep through your coat and lift the smallest of particles.

You will bud and flower and seed with me.

I can grow things.

I can pull out the weeds and stake you up, prune and pluck off aphids.

You will fruit and root and winter with me, and I will drink you as soup and feel you inside me.

You will nurture me and I will grow too.

—Kim Barke

Modern Crush Staggering, No desires.

In the rain, in my red coat.

You are there, in leather.

So unimpressed.

Feast your eyes on me, stranger I’m unimpressed too.

—Erin Buttner

—Amy Beth Barton 4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM POETRY 63

Food & Drink

Spice of Life SURUCHI IN NEW PALTZ

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by Eric Steinman photos by Amber S. Clark

our years ago, husband-and-wife team Peter and Shelly Fagiola resurrected the site of a former coffeeshop off of Main Street in downtown New Paltz with the intention of creating a space where anyone could walk in and enjoy live Indian music while dining on a variety of homemade food from the subcontinent. Peter, a devoted musician with a master’s degree in world music from CalArts, envisioned a sanctuary for visiting and local musicians to perform and collaborate. But, soon after beginning to revitalize the site, Peter and Shelly saw the project take a natural progression—to a fully realized restaurant, with music playing merely a supporting role to the entity that was to become Suruchi.

The couple had spent years studying music and sharing spiritual practices with their guru, Guruji Taranath Rao, and soaking up the food and culture of India. This, along with several trips to the South Asian country, fueled their desire to venture headlong into hand-creating their ideal restaurant and shrine to Indian cuisine. While Shelly is a nutritionist and previously ran a health food store in Pine Bush, neither of them had any restaurant experience. But the yearning to create a unique atmosphere to encounter healthful home-cooked Indian fare pushed them through two years of electrical work, plumbing, and general toil.

The result is a genial destination with all the flowing warmth and intimacy of a yoga studio and a menu unequaled by other local Indian restaurants. There are a dozen tables running the length of the gold-and-saffron-hued room with red oak floors and keyhole nooks in the walls, decorated with a variety of iconic Hindu deities. The best seats in the house are the couchlike divans that afford one the luxury of sitting in a traditional Indian style, cross-legged and shoeless—an ideal way to slow down and enjoy a meal.

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India. Anyone who knows India knows that there isn’t one singular cuisine representative of the entire country, but several identified with individual states, ethnic enclaves, and evolving regional histories. Yet the majority of Indian restaurants in the US take the heavier northern Indian cooking as their prime influence. Suruchi features classic northern vegetable curries, along with dishes like goan (mixed vegetables in coconut gravy, $10.95), which is inspired by the Portuguese influence of the southwestern coast of India.

However, the standout items on the menu are the very regional south Indian dosas (a dish that requires a certain skill to prepare and is rarely offered at other local Indian restaurants). Made from a fermented rice-and-lentil batter with any number of fillings, the dosa serves as a tried-and-true south Indian staple—both as a street food and a home-cooked favorite. Similar to a pancake or crepe, the traditional dosa is crisply fried and loosely rolled into a long tunnel (often exceeding the length of your plate) and filled with a mixture of spicy potatoes and peas. Suruchi offers this incarnation, known as the beloved masala dosa ($8.95), as well as eight other varieties with fillings that range from creamed spinach to free-range scrambled eggs, all of which are served with a choice of homemade chutneys.

While dosas are the prominent offerings on the menu, there exists a whole population of distinctive items to be tried. A yogurt cream sauce consisting of ground almonds and cashews, sautéed cauliflower, and peas by the name of korma ($14.95 with free-range chicken or $16.95 with wild shrimp), a dish most popular in the Bengali region of India, is a welcome and hearty alternative to the ubiquitous curry found at nearly every Indian eatery. A buoyant tomato-and-coconut soup ($4.95 for a large bowl), also a south Indian specialty, is mildly spicy and peppered with black mustard seeds and green, aromatic curry leaves imported from India. (It came as a surprise to me that there was such a thing as a curry leaf, and Peter proudly claims

LEFT: MEALS AT SURUCHI IN NEW PALTZ ARE BEST ENJOYED WHILE SITTING ON ONE OF THE RESTAURANT’S TRADITIONAL INDIAN DIVANS. ABOVE: DINERS ENJOYING SURUCHI’S SOUTH INDIAN CUISINE.

they are “the heart and soul of Indian cooking”). There is uttapam ($8.50 to $10.50), fluffy rice-and-lentil pancakes made with flour ground with a hefty stone grinder.

Suruchi uses only filtered water in all of its cooking, and all yogurt and traditional paneer cheese is homemade, using hormone- and antibiotic-free milk from Boice Dairy in Kingston. Both the tofu and rice are always organic and everything is cooked with and served on traditional stainless-steel or castiron cookware (also imported from India). Suruchi does not use aluminum, a popular cooking material that Peter emphatically insists is “slow poison,” and which has been linked to everything from Alzheimer’s to kidney failure.

In addition, most everything is gluten-free for those with wheat allergies or who have found themselves in the down-with-gluten camp. The obvious exception is Suruchi’s selection of addictive homemade breads. From a wholewheat roti ($2.50), which is light and pleasantly crisp, to a dense and chewy buttered paratha ($2.95), all of the breads make ideal accompaniments to the rich and peppery sauces that envelop most of the entrees. However, it would be a grand injustice if you were to miss the naan ($2.95), which is homemade as well and fired to bubbling perfection in the clay tandoor oven.

Indian desserts tend to border on cloying sweetness due to the rabid love of sugar on the subcontinent. So it comes as a pleasant surprise that Suruchi desserts maintain the traditional flavor and character of India without utilizing a kilo of sugar with each offering. Kheer ($4) is a cardamom-accented rice pudding that holds all the warmth and comfort of rich eggnog. The gulabjamin ($4) is a rich, milky doughnut resting in a thin sugar syrup that is curiously addictive and best washed down with a cup of homemade spiced chai ($2.95). Other, more Western-influenced sweets are also offered up, such as tofu chocolate mousse ($7) and spiced glazed pears with cinnamon and ginger topped with a dark chocolate sauce ($5).

A small but satisfying beer and wine list, with an emphasis on regional and boutique brands, rounds out the offerings. Bottles of Ommegang from Cooperstown, Magic Hat from Burlington, and Brooklyn Lager represent the regional brews, and the requisite Indian imports like Flying Horse and Kingfisher are also on hand to douse the heat of some of the more fiery dishes.

The wine list, with 13 red, white, and sparkling choices, is equally as impressive, with special intention made for food pairings. Machmer gewurztraminer ($34 bottle) and Veranda pinot noir ($32 bottle) stand out as two of the more appealing selections.

Now into its second year of business, Suruchi is routinely packed with families, college kids, and amorous couples speaking in hushed tones over shared plates of samosas. Peter and Shelly seem as happy as they are overworked; owning and operating their own eatery appears for them to be as much a labor of love as a continuing source of inspiration. Everything about the ethos and approach of Suruchi refers back to their respective pasts.

Peter sporadically books visiting musicians for casual concerts of traditional Indian music that temporarily take over the restaurant, and Shelly brings her expertise in the field of nutrition to inform menu choices and the holistic approach of the dining experience. She points to a plate of fennel seeds resting on the counter for departing diners to consume as a digestive and imparts, with a smile, “The digestion process is conducive to the whole experience of eating here.”

SURUCHI, 5 CHURCH ST., NEW PALTZ; (845) 255-2772; www. suruchiindian.com.

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read Alone is a European style bakery nestled in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. We offer traditional hearth-baked breads. Our organic grains are ground on millstones to our specifications. Our breads are slowly fermented and shaped by hand to fully develop their unique flavors, then baked on the hearth of our wood-fired brick ovens.

Bread Alone cafés offer fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at four mid-Hudson locations.

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Rhinebeck, NY 45 E. Market Street 845-876-3108

Woodstock, NY 22 Mill Hill Road 845-679-2108

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special event. (845) 868-7338 or (914) 475-9695. www.claudiascatering.com.

The Alternative Baker “The Village Baker of the Rondout.” 100% Scratch Bakery. Stickybuns, Scones, Muffins, Breads, Focaccia, Tartes, Tortes, Seasonal Desserts featuring local produce, plus Sugar-free, Wheat-free, Dairy-free, Vegan, Gluten-free, and Organic Treats!

Cakes and Wedding Cakes by Special Order. We ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide, $30 2-pound bundts. Open Thursday-Monday 8am-6pm; Sunday 8am-4pm. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Well Worth The Trip! 35 Broadway, at the historic waterfront district, Kingston. 35 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5517 or (800) 399-3589. www.lemoncakes.com.

Fresh Company At our kitchen in the Hudson Highlands, we gather great local and imported ingredients for events of all sizes and pocketbooks, from grand affairs to drop-off parties. True to our name, we emphasize the freshest, finest ingredients, because great food is the spark that ignites a convivial gathering. Our style is reflected in meals that encourage hospitality and leisure at the table, the elemental enjoyment of eating and drinking well. Garrison, New York. (845) 424-8204. www.FreshCompany.net

Pad Thai Catering BEVERAGES Leisure Time Spring Water

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Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring delivers water at 42 degrees Fahrenheit year-round. The water is filtered under high pressure through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispensers available.

Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504.

Delicious, affordable, and authentic Thai cuisine served with authentic Thai hospitality to your group of six or more. Lunch or dinner served in your home by Chef & Owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please call for prices and information. (845) 687-2334.

COOKING SCHOOLS Natural Gourmet Cookery School

CAFE Bread Alone Cafe Bread Alone cafés offer fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at four mid-Hudson locations. Boiceville, NY Route 28 (845) 657-3328 (headquarters). Kingston, NY 385 Wall St., (845) 339-1295. Rhinebeck, NY 45 E. Market St., (845)876-3108. Woodstock, NY 22 Mill Hill Road (845) 679-2108.

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For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to pre-pare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry. www.naturalgourmetsc hool.com. (212) 645-5170 FAX: (212)989-1493 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010 email: info@naturalgourmetschool.com

Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition See Whole Living guide Cooking Classes for full description. Visit www.nourishingwisdom.com or call 845.687.9666 for a list of upcoming classes.

Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Co. On and off-premise catering. Sophisticated Zagat-rated food and atmosphere in a rustic country setting, wide plank floors, rough hewn beams and a stunning zinc bar. Chef-owner Erickson. 1633 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-8519. www.bluemountainbistro.com

Claudia’s Kitchen Personalized celebrations and weddings, using fresh local ingredients to create delicious and elegant menus. Homemade artisanal breads, Hudson Valley cheese, fabulous appetizers, meat and vegetarian entrees, out-of-this-world desserts. Claudia works one on one to custom design your menu, your party, your wedding or

DAIRY Bobolink Dairy & Bakeyard Bobolink Dairy & Bakeyard features raw milk cheeses made from the milk of our own grass-fed cows. We also make rustic breads on the farm in a single-chamber, wood-fired oven designed by Alan Scott. Also available are free range eggs and pasture raised beef. Set on a 200-acre farm in the hills of Vernon, you can see pastured animals and taste food as it should be! Bobolink LLC, 42 Meadowburn Road, Vernon, NJ. For class schedule, directions, and mail order visit www.cowsoutside.com. (973) 764-4888.

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FARMERS MARKET Rhinebeck Farmers Market The Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best farmers bringing you farm-fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, wine, honey, bread, flowers, jam, pickles, herbs and much more. Free live music every week. Tastings and special events all season long. Municipal Parking Lot on East Market St. www.rhinebeck farmersmarket.com.

NATURAL FOOD MARKETS Beacon Natural Market

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Lighting the Way for a Healthier World...Located in the heart of historic Beacon at 348 Main Street. Featuring organic prepared foods deli & juice bar as well as organic and regional produce, meats and cheeses.

Newly opened in Aug. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;05, proprietors L.T. & Kitty Sherpa are dedicated to serving the Hudson Valley with a complete selection of products that are good for you and good for the planet, including an extensive alternative health dept. Nutritionist on staff. 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-1288.

PASTA La Bella Pasta 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.

Route 28W. (845) 331-9130. www.labellapasta.com.

RESTAURANTS Catamount Restaurant Located near Phoenicia and Woodstock, the Catamount Restaurant has been a locals and visitors favorite for years.

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ley as you dine creekside in the warm, inviting dining room. Enjoy the locally-inspired menu that features perfectly seasoned steaks and chops, creatively prepared fish and poultry and several vegetarian dishes. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the house-made desserts. Available for private parties and business functions. 5368 Route 28, Mt. Tremper, NY. Call (845) 688-2828 for reservations. www.emersonresort.com.

Gilded Otter A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven & brewed locally!. 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1700

Hana Sushi Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley!

Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best authentic sushi with extended Dining Area.

Sit at the counter or tables and enjoy all your favorites from Chicken Teriyaki and Udon to Yellowtail and Special rolls. Eat-in, Take-out, and private room is available. 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-4333. www.hanasushi.com.

Located on historic Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock, Hickory offers diners Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest barbecue and smokehouse cuisine such as ribs, pulled pork, smoked beef, fish and free-range chicken. Whether enjoying your meal by the fireplace in Hickoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s threestar dining room or sipping a cocktail at the wood bar, Hickoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff is trained to make you feel as comfortable as you would at home.

Hickory also features several vegetarian options, steaks, homemade desserts, happy hour specials, a complete take-out menu, and catering and special events in our private dining room. You can enjoy live music featuring the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hottest bands on Friday and Saturday night. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 743 Route 28 (3.5 miles from NYS Thruway Exit 19.), Kingston, NY. (845) 338-2424. www.hickoryrestaurant.com.

Is it any wonder that Joyous CafĂŠ is the most exciting new eating experience in Kingston?

Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breakfast, Lunch, or Sunday Brunch, the wonderfully prepared food and attentive service are outstanding. Open Monday through Friday 8am-4pm. Sunday Brunch 9am2pm. Serving Dinner evenings of UPAC events.

608 Broadway, in The Heart of Broadway Theater Square, Kingston, NY. (845) 334-9441. www.joyouscafe.com.

Kyoto Sushi Kyoto Sushi. 337 Washington Ave., Kingston, NY. (845) 339-1128.

Luna 61 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Vegetarian Restaurant.â&#x20AC;? Hudson Valley Magazine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food is simply delicious, four stars.â&#x20AC;? Poughkeepsie Journal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever eaten. Join the Culinary Revolution.â&#x20AC;? Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic. Organic wine and beer. 55 Broadway, Tivoli, New York. (845) 758-0061. www.luna61.com

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Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive. Wine list available. 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY. (845) 562-6478. www.machupicchurest.com.

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Main Course Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and freerange Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.â&#x20AC;? 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-2600. www.maincourserestaurant.com.

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Plaza Diner Established 1969. One of the finest family restaurants in the area. Extensive selection of entrees and daily specials, plus children’s menu. Everything prepared fresh daily. Private room for parties and conferences up to 50 people. Open 24/7.

Exit 18 off NYS Thruway. 27 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-1030.

Monster Taco When you have a hunger that only Mexican food can satisfy, visit Monster Taco. With fresh food, reasonable prices, and a funky atmosphere. 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 452-3375. www.monster-taco.com.

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Elegant environment, comfortable atmosphere, internationally acclaimed chef/owner, the Red Hook ‘Country’ Inn, located in the heart of historic Red Hook/Rhinebeck NY has it all. This 6 room Federal style colonial, built in 1842, offers guests a walk back in time as they enjoy modern amenities including luxury bedding, linens, jacuzzis, fireplaces and wireless internet. The dining room at the Inn, Roasted Garlic, features a mixture of French, American and Mediterranean menus with a focus on flavor and affordability. Meet Chef Nabil Ayoub and Hostess Patricia Holden as you enjoy charm, exquisite cuisine and warm hospitality.

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Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli. (845) 757-5055. 18 Garden Street,

Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts & many glutenfree items prepared in-house.

Redefining the hot dog experience!. 107 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254.

Sukhothai Restaurant located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available.

516-518 Main St., Beacon, New York. (845) 790-5375.

The Emerson at Woodstock Crave fresh seafood? Need your red meat fix? Have a hankering for slow-cooked pork chops, organic chicken or rightoff-the-farm vegetarian dishes?

Experience the Emerson at Woodstock. Enjoy fine wines, micro-brews or specialty drinks from the Emerson’s magnificent bar while you enjoy the atmosphere of the transformed 19th Century farmhouse. Surf the web at the Emerson’s new internet cafe with free wi-fi.

Available for private parties, rehearsal dinners and business functions. 109 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-7500. www.emersonresort.com.

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by Peter M. Laffin photos by Francis Groeters “I’m not anti-lawn,” says Ethan Zickler, landscape designer and owner of Eden Design in Kerhonkson. “It’s just that the classic American close-cropped lawn is unsustainable and inefficient.”

Every year, 67 million pounds of pesticides and 3 million tons of fertilizers are dumped on American lawns. Over 40 pounds of nitrogen in grass clippings are thrown away each summer (grass clippings account for 50 percent of waste sent to landfills during growing season). The obsession with the Great American Lawn is deeply rooted in our collective conscience, as displayed by these staggering statistics. Although the craze has produced spectacular landscapes and rampant greenery, many of our most commonly used lawn care techniques and supplies are out of sync with our native ecological system. However, there are ways to maintain a beautiful yard without causing much disruption, and there are species in our backyards that we’ve been conditioned to exterminate that may be beautiful from a different perspective.

One alternative method of lawn care is to follow the permaculture model (a contraction of “permanent agriculture”), a school of thought that strives for a harmonious integration between human dwellings, microclimate, animal life, plants, and soils. Big differences can be made by following some small, simple steps in our own backyards.

According to Ethan Zickler, it’s paramount that lawns not be treated with chemicals and fertilizers—killers of apparent pests. Still, he maintains that it is possible to have a well-maintained, clipped lawn for walking and playing while refraining from using too many chemicals. “You can manage insects and PH balances by simply composting, which is the ultimate fertilizer,” says Zickler. “A thin layer of compost once or twice a year is the sustainable way to feed the lawn.”

“The number one thing you should do is compost—try and use any scrap that you generate, all the parts of plants that you don’t use,” says Mark Adams, president of the Dutchess County Farm Bureau and owner of Adam's Greenhouses. According to Adams, little bluestem, a native alternative grass that produces a meadow as opposed to a traditional lawn, is a sustainable alternative to the commonly used Kentucky bluegrass. Little bluestem, which grows wild all over the Catskills, needs to be mowed only once a year, in July. “If you mow this meadow once a year, you’ll be amazed at the amount of native wild-flowers that start to take over,” says Adams. One that you can expect to see is the black-eyed Susan, a flower that’s similar to a daisy in appearance but with orange petals and a black center.

In the backyard, clover and dandelion are commonly seen as negative or “invader” species. Though it may be pleasing to the eye to get rid of these supposed pests, doing so chemically involves destroying important soil organisms that keep grass healthy in a number of unseen ways, and those chemicals ultimately find their way into our water system. Even a natural or organic fertilizer can cause problems when used in excess. “Grass can take only what it needs,” says Zickler. “The excess goes away and becomes unseen, but it can be very harmful to our water.” Constant watering is another common unsustainable practice. Short, shallow watering keeps the roots competitive at the surface of the soil, necessitating more and more wasteful watering every time you run the sprinkler. “Less mindless tending to the lawn with water is the way to go,” says Zickler.

There aren’t any bad plants, only ones that are misused and overused. Many plants commonly found in yards are invasive. Cultivating a sustainable backyard doesn’t mean you can only grow indigenous flora, but there are distinct advan4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM HOME & GARDEN 77

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LEFT TO RIGHT: POKEWEED MILKWEED; RED BANEBERRY. FROM PHOTOS COURTESY CATSKILL NATIVE NURSERY.

tages in going native. Barberry, a very commonly found invasive plant with a nice fall color and bountiful berries, is cause for disruption in our area because its Japanese origin. Its prevalence in our area could cause the drowning out and extinction of our endemic species. “When looking at barberry, we might say, ‘Look at that plant! It’s thriving here!’ When, in fact, it’s taking the place of our native species,” says Zickler. “If we continue planting other things, we could end up with a real shortage.”

Viburnum, a very popular hedge plant with strongly scented white flowers, dark green leaves, and blue-black berries, is an example of a sustainable shrub that could take the place of invasive plants found in many garden centers. “It’s a nice shrub and there are lots of different varieties,” says Adams. “Another is a crab apple tree. They’re really good for wildlife, they don’t get diseases, and they don’t need a lot of care.” These plants are good replacements for popular invasive species like Norway maple trees, which are vigorous in spreading its seeds, crowding out the native sugar maple. “The Norway maple tree is a beautiful tree, one that people like to plant in their yards, but it’s just not very sustainable,” says Adams.

Another commonly found invasive plant is the ornamental flowering pear tree. It’s been successfully modified to produce early and profuse flowers, but it doesn’t actually fruit. Rather than planting this sterile flowering pear tree, a fruiting pear tree could be planted in its stead. There are many uncommon and beautiful native fruiting plants. For example, serviceberry, a deciduous shrub that produces fragrant white flowers from May to June and sweet, round, purple/black fruits that have a taste similar to blueberries ripen in July. Another is the papaw, a small tree with big green leaves bearing large edible fruits that weigh anywhere from a few ounces to a pound and taste like bananas or mangos.

“It’s a shame,” says Zickler. “To have plants like these so blindly planted when you could have a plant that actually bears fruit.”

As far as flowering replacements go, there are some great native hedge plants that can be used in place of the popular and invasive forsythia, which brings an explosion of yellow every spring. For example, one could look to the American cranberry bush, which grows up to 10 feet high, brings snowy

white flowers in the spring, and has berries that hang through mid winter.

Any wildflower, herb, or fruiting species automatically increases the activity and diversity of a garden, maximizing the amount of edible food for humans, birds, and other wildlife.

Sheet-mulching is a great, practical technique that takes the place of more conventional, toxic gardening practices. It begins with laying down nonnoxious waste (tea leaves, peelings, small food scraps) over a piece of land you’d like to plant upon and covering the area completely with a household item like newspaper or cardboard. Water this layer well and apply 75 millimeters of horse stable straw, poultry manure in sawdust, seaweed, raked leaves, or a combination. Cover this layer with 150 millimeters of dry, weed-free material, water, and you’re done. “It’s easy, and it takes the place of landscape fabrics or weed barriers—items that are too commonly used without a lot of consideration about harm they might do,” says Zickler. “These are mostly plastic materials that we lay down in our yards—totally unnecessary items to purchase that can be easily replaced with adequate mulching.”

There are berry-growing nurseries that can be found on the Internet, and locally, Catskill Native Nurseries is a great alternative source. If the nearest nurseries don’t carry an adequate supply of native species, it’s never a bad idea to raise the issue and ask them to place an order. “The consumer needs to let the distributor know that there is a demand for organic products,” says Zickler.

“The kinds of garden products out there tend to be imported and of a highly commercial nature. The more local the product, the better.”

Resources for Native Plants Catskill Native Nursery: Kerhonksen, (845) 626-2758; www.catskillnativenursery.com Adams Fairacre Farms: Kingston, (845) 336-6300; Poughkeepsie, (845) 454-4330; Newburgh, (845) 569-0303; www.adamsfarms.com/mark_adams.htm Phantom Gardener: Rhinebeck, (845) 876-8606; www.thephantomgardener.com

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HARNESSING THE SUN FOR HOT WATER Solar Thermal Hits Home

A ROOFTOP SOLAR WATER HEATER SYSTEM DESIGNED AND INSTALLED BY PAT BIGLANE OF SOLAR SAVVY.

It’s a solar power concept that was popular around the time Calvin Coolidge was president—but now it’s poised for a comeback.

Solar thermal water heaters, which use solar energy rather than gas or electricity as a power source, could grow in popularity over the next few years, according to analysts and panel installation companies. “Within the next five years, solar thermal is going to be mainstream in this country,” says Pat Biglane, of Solar Savvy thermal installers in Newburgh, noting Governor Schwarzenegger’s “Solar Roofs” initiative in California, with a goal of one million solar roofs installed by 2017 to offset increasing demand for natural gas.

While the idea has already caught fire in China, it’s barely registered a blip in the US. “The idea that we don’t have solar thermal is crazy,” said Bill Green, a partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners who specializes in clean technology.

How it works Like a photo-voltaic solar electric system, solar hot water relies on panels to collect energy from the sun. The energy is then transferred via a water or antifreeze solution into a holding tank in your basement, which heats your domestic hot water. All you have a southerly facing roof (Biglane says that anything within 30 degrees is acceptable) or plot of land to mount the panels.

Partly driving the interest—besides global warming and rising energy costs—is the fact that the systems work quite well. It is far easier to extract heat from the sun than electricity, according to Gary Gerber, CEO of Sun Light and Power, which installs solar systems. Solar thermal heaters ultimately use about half of the heat that hits them; that makes them two to three times more efficient than the solar panels that turn sunlight into electricity.

They also aren’t nearly as ugly as you might think. “Solar thermal panels can be made to look like attractive skylights,” said Solar Savvy’s Biglane. “Very often these installations can enhance the beauty of the house, and the pipes can be made invisible by running them through the attic.” Although rooftop water tanks are used in some parts of the world, most homeowners tend to opt for systems where the tank stays downstairs. Metal and glass panels measuring 4 x 10 feet on the roof collect the heat.

“We can usually provide 60 to 80 percent of a home’s hot water with one or two 4-by-10-(foot) panels and a storage tank,” Gerber said. A typical solar thermal system with a 120-gallon tank costs around $7,000 to $10,000, before a $2,000 federal rebate. The breakeven point for homeowners comes in 7 to 12 years.

Same old solar?

If solar thermal water heaters do make a comeback, it will be an example of history repeating itself. From around 1900 through the 1920s, solar thermal heaters were popular in places like Florida, Los Angeles, and Berkeley.

Utility companies, however, persuaded consumers to switch to gas, even offering to swap out their solar heaters with free gas ones, according to Chris Beekhuis, chief technology officer at Fat Spaniel, a Mondial partner that provides monitors for the performance of solar electrical and thermal systems in homes and businesses. Solar largely disappeared over the next two decades, Beekhuis said.

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Conspiracy theorists may point to history as another example of oil companies’ underhandedness. Natural gas, however, was fairly cheap back then.

“No one was motivated to offset the price of gas,” Beekhuis said. “Now it is an environmental issue and a cost issue.”

Biglane also noted a second heyday in the early 1980s following the alternative-energy subsidies put in place by Jimmy Carter, before they were repealed

by Ronald Reagan after his reelection in 1984.

Swimming in it In the vast majority of cases, property owners never completely divorce themselves from gas pipes. Solar heaters can’t collect heat at night, after all.

Yet as the price of gas continues to skyrocket, solar thermal makes more and more economic sense for the homeowner, especially if you have an in-ground swimming pool. “Solar pool heating is the most sensible use of solar heating if you’re using propane,” says Biglane. “Pool systems pay back in two years.” The swimming season can also be extended by a few months with the addition of a solar heating system. “You can be swimming in 80-degree water, warmed solely by solar energy, in the second week of May,” says Biglane.

Outdoor hot tubs and Jacuzzis can also be converted to solar hot water, but most homeowners are understandably timid about doing so because in order to install such a system, the whirlpool’s plumbing would need to be replaced, thus voiding the manufacturer’s warranty.

An industry on the move China has already embraced the solar thermal concept. Approximately 80 percent of the capacity for solar thermal was installed in China in 2005, according to David Edwards, an analyst with investment bank ThinkEquity Partners. Overall, 60 percent of the world’s solar thermal hot water capacity is in that country.

And in Israel, apartment buildings or condos with eight or fewer units must have solar thermal heaters. In cities like Jerusalem, you see a lot of the older rooftop tank systems.

Michael Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, added that the momentum in China could stunt any opportunities for US companies to get into the market. Last year, China produced $3 billion worth of solar thermal products.

“When we were there (recently) manufacturers were asking whether they should export,” he said. “The solar water industry is coming this way fast.”

Resources Solar Savvy Pat Biglane 50 Patton Road, Newburgh Solar hot water, radiant floor systems, geothermal systems www.solarsavvy.com; (845) 566-0598 SEE MORE AT WWW.CHRONOGRAM.COM

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Law Offices of Andrea Lowenthal, PLLC Offices in Hudson and Manhattan, serving individuals and businesses throughout the Hudson Valley and New York City. Estate Planning (wills and trusts) and Elder Law (planning for you or your aging relatives), Domestic Partnerships (for GLBT families), Family Matters, Business Formations and Transactions, and Real Estate. Intelligent and sensitive approach to your personal and business legal matters.

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The School for Young Artists An Extraordinary Art Experience! The School for Young Artists provides you with the tools, materials, instruction and support to achieve your goals. Our studio is about the joy of learning and the power of making art. Classes and individual sessions for children and adults. Call Kathy Anderson. (845) 679-9541.

CINEMA Upstate Films Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck, NY. 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2515.

CLEANING BICYCLE SALES / RENTALS / SERVICE

MerryMaids

Overlook Mountain Bicycles

One thing you can count on when the rest of the afternoon has let you down. (845) 297-1009.

93 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498. (845) 679-2122.

Open everyday except Tuesday, 10-6, 11-5 on Sunday.

Brands: Kona, Giant, Marin, Scott, Seven Cycles, Intense Cycles, Vicious Cycles, Mondonico/Torelli. Friendly, Integral sales repairs, and rentals. Professional bicycle fitting on site. Come check out Woodstock for the day and see for your self why Overlook Mountain Bikes was voted Best Bicycle Shop in the Hudson Valley in 2006!

BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali. Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/interpretation available. 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-2100. www.mirabai.com..

Schneider, Pfahl & Rahme, LLP Manhattan law firm, with offices in Woodstock, provides legal services to individuals, institutions, professional firms, companies, and family businesses.

Specific areas include: Real Estate, Estate Planning, Corporate, New Media and Arts, and Entertainment Law. Each matter is attended to by a senior attorney, who develops a comprehensive legal plan with the client. Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-9868 or (212) 629-7744. www.schneiderpfahl.com. www.nycrealestateattorneys.com.

CHILDREN’S ART CLASSES

BUILDING SUPPLIES WIlliams Lumber & Home Centers The name you know and the name you trust. Our Design Centers are located at our Rhinebeck and Millbrook locations. Come meet with our outstanding design team and start creating your perfect kitchen or bath today! www.williamslumber.com

CLOTHING Pegasus Footwear Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Ecco and Uggs and lots more. Open 7 days a week - or shop online at PegasusShoes.com. 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock and New Paltz, NY. (845) 679-2373. www.PegasusShoes.com.

White Rice Clothing & accessories For Women & children. Furniture & home furnishings. With an asian sensibility. 531 Warren Street Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500. Open 7 days.

COLLEGES Mount Saint Mary College An independent liberal arts college offering more than 30 undergraduate programs; graduate programs in business (MBA), education, and nursing; and noncredit courses. 2,500 women and men. Its beautiful campus overlooks the Hudson River and is conveniently located off I-84 in Newburgh, NY. (845) 569-3222. www.msmc.edu.

CAMP

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS.

Woodstock Day School Summer Adventure

The Present Perfect

Register at: www.woodstockdayschool.org, call (845) 246-3744 x120 or email us for more information at summer@woodstockdayschool.org.

Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry accessories, and knickknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers. 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2939.

CARPETS / RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings Direct importers since 1981. 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. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5311.

CONSTRUCTION Phoenix Construction Phoenix Construction and Contracting is a company dedicated to superior addition, remodeling, and renovation work through top quality materials installed by trained professionals. Along with a high standard of work, we pride ourselves on superior job site and budget management. Our close-knit network of sub-

contractors ensures the success of every project through proper delegation of its mechanical and specialist requirements. We deliver customer service coupled with quality assurance. Phoenix Construction professionally handles all details so that you don’t have to worry. (845) 266-5222. www.phoenix-b.com.

COSMETIC AND PLASTIC SURGERY M. T. Abraham, MD, FACS Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC Dr. Abraham is Double Board Certified and a Clinical Instructor in Facial Plastic Surgery.

He is an expert in the latest minimally invasive techniques (Botox, Restylane, Thermage, Thread Lifts, Lifestyle Lifts, IPL Laser Hair & Vein Treatments), and specializes in rhinoplasty. Offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck & NYC with affiliated MediSpas. Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-8025. www.NYfaceMD.com.

ster, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene, Putnam and Orange counties. Now in Westchester county with new stops in Peekskill. (845) 334-8600. distribution@chronogram.com.

DOG BOARDING Dog Love 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 playgroups in 40 x 40 fenced area.

Homemade food and healthy treats. New Paltz. 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-8254. www.dogloveplaygroups.com.

EDITING Carol Rogovin Experienced editor will edit manuscripts with a focus on optimizing reader understanding. Will also consult on whether graphics could be a persuasive addition to the text. Carolrogovin@earthlink.net.

CRAFTS Crafts People

ELECTRONICS Burts Electronics Over 30 years experience. Exclusive Authorized Deal-

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Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts, the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver & 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY. (845) 331-3859. www.craftspeople.us.

er. 549 Albany Ave. Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

FARM Blackberry Hill Farm

Deep Clay Showroom Pottery and Dreamfigures Wood-fired, raku, and stoneware. From everyday mugs and bowls to Tea Ceremony ware. Simple forms, natural colors, islands of calm, created by artist/therapist Michelle Rhodes. Studied pottery in Bizen and Tea at Urasenke. (845) 255-8039. www.michellerhodespottery.com.

Blackberry Hill Farm is small family farm. We raise llamas, alpacas, fine-fleeced sheep, and Angora rabbits, all for their luxurious fiber. We offer a variety of fleeces, roving, yarn, and fiber art as well as two Llama Garden programs. See our display ad and visit our website: www.blackberryhillfarm.org

FAUX FINISHES CUSTOM HOME DESIGNERS Atlantic Custom Homes Atlantic Custom Homes is an independent distributor of Lindal Cedar Homes, the world’s largest manufacturer of quality cedar homes. Lindal is known around the world for their signature post and beam home designs, quality building materials and detailed craftsmanship. We believe that your home should be a realization of your wishes. We take the time to explore them with you, and to develop your design in accordance with those wishes, your budget and your property. (845) 265-2636.

Faux Intentions Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhiliration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away. (845) 532-3067.

DISTRIBUTION Chronogram Is Everywhere!

Have you ever noticed how wherever you go, Chronogram is there? That’s because our distribution is so damned good. We can distribute your flyer, brochure, business card, or publication to over 700 establishments in Ul-

FELDENKRAIS ®

Feldenkrais Method Training Program For more information or to request a free catalog of tapes and books call 800-482-3357. www.FeldenkraisTrainingPrograms.com.

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FENG SHUI

LITERARY

Eco-arch Design Works

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Janus Welton, AIA, BBEI is an award-winning design architect, offering over 15 years of Traditional Chinese Feng Shui expertise to her Ecological and Healthy Building Design Practice: combining Building Biology, Solar Architecture, and Feng Shui to promote “Inspiring and Sustainable” environments for the 21st Century. Unlock the potentials of your site, home, or office to foster greater harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity. Services include: Architecture, Planning, Commercial Interiors, Professional Seminars and Consultations. (845) 247-4620. Email:ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com or www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

Writing workshops and private instruction for writers.

you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs. 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

(845) 339-5776.

(845) 338-5984. www.deeplistening.org.

Submit to Chronogram Seeking submissions of poems, short stories, essays,

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

and article proposals. Accepting pieces of all sorts.

34 Tinker St. Woodstock NY. (845) 679-2079.

With SASE, send submissions to Chronogram, 314 Wall

wguild@ulster.net.

Street, 1st floor, Kingston, NY. info@chronogram.com.

LUMBER & WOOD PRODUCTS FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS

Ghent Wood Products 483 Rte 217, Hudson, NY. (518) 672-7021. meltzlumber.com.

Burlock 508 Main Street (845) 440-7904. Home accessories for the contemporary design lover, selling organic sheets and towels, funky textiles, exotic botanicals and fine art in addition to tableware, lighting and decorative items. Open daily 12-6,Thursday until 8pm, Closed Tuesday

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Mac’s Agway in Red Hook/ New Paltz Agway Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs. We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers and organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more. Mac’s Agway, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY. (845) 876-1559; New Paltz Agway (845) 255-0050.

At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products and books. We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us! Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-8606. www.thephantomgardener.com.

MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir (845) 677-5871. www.cpdmusic.com.

MAGAZINES Chronogram The only complete arts and cultural events resource for

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

the Hudson Valley. Subscribe and get the lowdown first.

McCoy’s Guitar Shop

Whether you live in the Hudson Valley or just visit, you’ll

Is your guitar or bass performing up to its fullest potential?

know what’s going on. Send $36 for yearly subscription

Do you have fret buzz? Is your action too high/ too low?

to: Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 1st floor, Kingston, NY

Is your instrument just plain old hard to play? Guitars and

12401. info@chronogram.com.

basses regularly need set ups, much like cars need oil changes and tune ups to keep them running well. Here at

MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplo-

The Phantom Gardener

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

vitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guid-

McCoys Guitar Shop our aim is to make your instrument play as well, or better than, you ever thought possible.

Remember, if your instrument isn’t playing up to par, perhaps neither are you! Come to McCoys Guitar Shop and fall in love with your instrument all over again! McCoys Guitar Shop: Expert repairs, restoration, guitars and basses bought, sold and traded. Give us a call, You’ll be glad you did! Rosendale, NY. (845) 658-7467.

ance Counselor working with families and children. This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web at

PERFORMING ARTS

www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com. (845) 331-0100.

Lehman Loeb Art Center/ Powerhouse Theater Season Rodney Wells, CFP, Member AFM & NYSCDM

(845) 437-5902. Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie,

HOME DECOR

If you’re separating, divorcing, or have issues with child

NY. befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu.

Nectar

average, mediated agreements are fulfilled twice as often

Fairtrade Items & Unique Gifts from Around the World. (845)

as litigated court decisions and cost half as much. I draw

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on my experience as a Financial Planner, psychothera-

support, custody, or visitation, choose mediation. On

pist, and pro se litigant to guide couples in a responsible process of unraveling their entanglements, preserving

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS

their assets, and creating a satisfying future. Cornwall,

Webjogger

www.mediated-divorce.com.

New Paltz, and NYC. Cornwall, NY. (845) 534-7668.

celerated dialup, server collocation and management, and customized networking solutions. Webjogger is a locally grown company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. Kingston, NY. (845) 757-4000. www.webjogger.net.

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-petplant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and www.pussyfootlodge.com.

rical bandwidth, superior personal attention and technical Complementary services include e-mail, Web hosting, ac-

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

reasonable housesitting for your pets. (845) 687-0330.

Blazing fast broadband internet access. Featuring symmetsupport, rock-solid security and reliability, and flexible rates.

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES

MOVING & STORAGE

PHOTOGRAPHY

Always Moving & Storage

China Jorrin Photography

Accurate - Free Estimates. 85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY.

A Hudson Valley based photographer dedicated to doc-

(845) 339-5676. www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com.

umenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates

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and availability. (917) 449-5020. www.chinajorrin.com.

LANDSCAPING

MUSIC

Robert George Design Group

Burt’s Electronics

Michael Gold

Landscape, construction, consulting, design, masonry,

Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop

Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians,

project management. woodstockbob@aol.com.

where quality and personal service are valued above all else.

performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish,

(845) 679-1095.

Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach

off-the-wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and

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TREE SERVICE AND LANDSCAPING

lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Uncondi-

Maria’s Garden

tionally guaranteed. The Corporate Image Studios, New

Cultivating creativity, compassion and a lifelong love of

Paltz, NY. (845) 255-5255. www.michaelgoldsphotos.co

learning. Serving children 3 years through 3rd Grade in a

Midavies Tree Service

m and click on to the “Headshots” page.

country schoolhouse surrounded by gardens, woodlands

For all your tree care needs. We are a small personalized

and streams. (845) 256-1875.

business dedicated to our customers and their trees.Free

www.mariasgardenmontessori.com

estimates and consultations. (845) 658-9507. www.midaviestreeservice.com

PIANO Poughkeepsie Day School Adam’s Piano

Bringing joy to learning since 1934. Pre-kindergarten

Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on

through 12th grade, college preparatory school serving

display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck)

330 students from throughout the mid-Hudson Valley. We

showroom. Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices,

encourage independent, critical, and creative thinking

pictures, at adamspiano.com. A second showroom will

through a challenging, interdisciplinary curriculum. 260

be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service,

Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. For more

moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos! (518) 537-2326

information, call the Admissions Office at 845-462-7600,

or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com.

ext. 201. or email admissions@poughkeepsieday.org. www.poughkeepsieday.org.

Piano Clearing House. 8 John Walsh Blvd. Suite

Woodstock Day School

318A, Peekskill, NY. (914) 788-8090.

Work Play Inform Inspire. At Woodstock Day School, we

www.pianoclearinghouse.com.

believe there is no such thing as an average student.

Admissions office Liza Mones (845) 246.3744 ext. 103, lmones@woodstockdayschool.org.

N & S Supply

Beyond The Box Web Design For websites with a personal touch and a marketing focus, Beyond the Box offers face-to-face design and hosting, with offices in Kingston and Red Hook. We work closely and personably with clients to brainstorm and create memorable sites, on time and on budget. Mention this ad for a free one-hour in-person consultation to discuss a

Piano Clearing House

PLUMBING AND BATH

WEB DESIGN

www.woodstockdayschool.org.

current or future website design, marketing goals, or free, “open source” Linux tools that can add power to your web presence! (845) 750-6204. www.beyondboxweb.com.

Curious Minds Media Inc. Want a website that works for you? We’ve got solutions to fit any budget, and we understand the needs of small businesses. Flash, E-commerce, database applications.

N & S Supply. 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY.

SINGING LESSONS

(845) 896-6291. cloijas@nssupply.com.

Ann Panagulias - Singing Lessons

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Concepts of classical, Italianate technique compli-

PRINTING SERVICES

Eastern callisthenics; repertoire grounded in 17th-19th

New York Press Direct

porary musical theater; training at Oberlin College

At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason - to delight our

and San Francisco Opera; performing professionally

customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shop-

on three continents for twenty years. (845) 677-1134.

ping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions

annpandora@aol.com.

century Art Song extending to vintage and contem-

WEDDINGS HudsonValleyWeddings.com The Only Resource You Need to Plan a Hudson Valley Wedding. Hundreds of Regional Wedding Service Provid-

are leading edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the

ers. FREE, Extensive, On-line Wedding Guide & Planner

most competitive in the northeast region. Call John De-

and much more. 120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY. (845)

Santo or Larry Read for more information. (845) 896-0894.

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mented by alignment and deep breathing rhythms of

336-4705. judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com. www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com.

Mr. Snacks, Inc.

SCHOOLS High Meadow School

Call Vinny Sciullo at (845) 206-7256 for distribution of the finest snacks in the Hudson Valley. Visit our Gift Shop at www.mistersnacks.com.

Mission: To create a learning community that is inclusive & tolerant, & prepares students to be positive contributors

WRITING SERVICES CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page

as well as constructive problem solvers within our diverse

SUNROOMS

society. Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY. (845) 687-4855.

Hudson Valley Sunrooms

leader with 19 years’ experience offers writers truth-

www.highmeadowschool.org

Serving the Hudson Valley since 1984, Hudson Valley

ful, compassionate guidance. Nonfiction & fiction book

Sunrooms offers sales, skilled installation and service, as

proposal & manuscript consultations, editing, rewrit-

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care

well as experienced consultation on residential and com-

ing. Coaching relationships. Yoga As Muse facilitator

Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and

mercial sunroom projects. View either of our two show-

training. Workshops: Woodstock, Taos, & elsewhere.

massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and dis-

rooms in Beacon or in Kingston. We provide free in-home

Jeff Davis, Director. Accord, NY. (845) 679-9441.

ciplined workers. Aesthetics School: Maria Ferguson (845) 255-

estimates. Beacon office tel: (845) 838-1235. Kingston

www.CenterToPage.com.

0013. 256 Main St., New Paltz, NY. info@hvsaesthetics.com.

office tel: (845) 339-1787. Visit our website for more infor-

www.HVSAesthetics.com. Massage School: Rosanna Tudisco

mation. Web: www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com.

(845) 691-2547. 72 Vineyard Ave., Highland, NY. info@hvsmass

WRITING WORKSHOPS

agetherapy.com. www.HVSMassageTherapy.com.

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

Invite your muse to visit every day. Author & workshop

TAROT

Wallkill Valley Writers Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate

ITP is an accredited graduate psychology school offering

Tarot-on-the-Hudson - Rachel Pollack

Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced

clinical and nonclinical certificates, MA and PhD degrees.

Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and

writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a

The curriculum combines mind, body, and spiritual inquiry

sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand

supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the

with scholarly research and self discovery. Graduates

Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All

dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers

have strong clinical skills and can communicate in a vari-

levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone.

find the community of a workshop benefits their work and

ety of complex relational circumstances. (650) 493-4430.

Also see ad. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5797.

keeps them motivated. (845) 255-7090.

itpinfo@itp.edu. www.itp.edu.

rachel@rachelpollack.com.

khamherstwriters@aol.com.

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CHRONOGRAM SPECIAL SECTION: AUTISM

Colors of the Spectrum

by Sharon Nichols

With no voice but many thoughts, I was part animal and part human in their school. A school for rejects. A school for mostly silent souls inside broken bodies. It was a place of fear and music and tears and snacks. It was a place decorated with normality, but dozens and dozens of school buses rounded up imperfection and corralled it there. Later I would learn about stares and words that formed fences around regular schools to keep me from trespassing. —Sarah Stup Sarah Stup refers to her disorder as “the beast.” She also calls it a gift. As a young author with autism, she devotes her time to writing and advocacy, her goal to sensitize educators, lawmakers, and anyone else who will listen to the challenges of those with disabilities such as her own. In her case, the beast is autism, and she takes us into her world with her heartfelt collection of writings titled Are Your Eyes Listening?

Autism has become a national crisis. It is the fastest-growing disability in the United States, affecting one in every 150 children. Diagnoses of autism are increasing at the startling rate of 10 to 17 percent per year. Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain. Individuals with autism have difficulty communicating and interacting with others, make little or no eye contact, have unusual reactions, and often seem to retreat into isolation while fixating on certain words, objects, or activities. However, autism is considered a spectrum disorder, as it affects each individual differently and at varying degrees. At best, a highly functioning person with autism may simply seem eccentric or a loner. At worst, individuals with profound autism may never speak or learn to take care of themselves. Autism falls under the umbrella term pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), sharing the title with Asperger’s syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), Rett’s disorder, and PDD-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). Autism affects all races, classes, and educational levels, though it’s four times more prevalent in boys than in girls. There is no known cure.

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A decade ago, autism was considered a rare and hopeless condition. Today, through the commitment of parents, scientists, teachers, and other advocates, those with autism can be treated and assisted in improving their language and social skills and maximizing their potential. Treatments include educational and behavior training programs emphasizing language and social skills, support and counseling groups, pharmaceuticals, and other alternative therapies. For those whose lives have been touched by this disorder, the Hudson Valley is an excellent place to be, as the area is brimming with services. The Children’s Annex is a nationally recognized nonprofit center for autism support, training, and education. Each year, it serves over 250 students in New York State through two day schools in Kingston and Ellenville, and through home- and community-based programs for preschoolers as young as 18 months. The two schools serve children between the ages of two and 15, who are bussed in from more than 55 school districts. The center is also an approved evaluation site for preschool children, and evaluations are funded by the county of residence.

“When I started the Children’s Annex thirty-one years ago with Susan Buckler, the frequency of autism reported was three in five-thousand,” says program director Jamey Wolff. “There was scant awareness of autism in the media, in educational settings, or among providers of psychological and medical services. With the growing increase of autism, there is also growing awareness and support.

This is an exciting time to be in the field because, finally, necessary resources and attention are being directed to this population. People with autism are as varied as snowflakes, each one a beautiful complex individual. With accurate diagnosis, early intervention, and appropriately directed support, I have seen wonderful progress and there is much hope.”

The Anderson Center for Autism in Staatsburg, previously known as the Anderson School, has shifted its focus in the past few years from a wide-ranging special education school to a facility working exclusively with autistic children and adults. “We’ve become the premiere hub within New York State for the delivery of evidence-based autism services,” says CEO Neil Pollack. “Our core

LIZ DIPRETE

( OPPOSITE ) : PHOTOS (L-R): TIM SAUNDERS, NOEL CROTONE

ABOVE (L-R): MATTHEW M. EXPERIENCES SENSORY STIMULATION THROUGH THE PETTING ZOO AT THE ANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM HARVEST FESTIVAL; SHA ASIA M., MARCOS D., AND JONAH F. WITH MERYEM ELHOR (TEACHER’S AIDE) CELEBRATE GRADUATION. OPPOSTIE: CHRIS HAM, SAM SPESCHA, AND JOHN-MICHAEL KONDOR FROM THE RIDGE SCHOOL ON A STRAW BALE FORT THEY VISITIED ON ONE OF THEIR MANY FIELD TRIPS.

strategies are applied behavioral analysis and positive behavioral supports, in an environment that provides for the most challenging children on the spectrum, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred-sixty-five days a year.”

Anderson is taking the work it’s done with children and bringing it into its adult services through a concept called Lifelong Learning, which engages autistic adults in a continual education process so they don’t slip in their skill sets. The program currently serves 52 adults in the community, with further expansion on the horizon. The center is also unfolding a new concept called the Community Support Network, a state-of-the-art linkage, referral, and information service, helping parents of autistic children navigate the services available in a given school district, and also providing advocacy. In addition, Anderson is developing services in the area of preschool, service coordination, and in-school and in-home specialty services. The Anderson hub also works with colleges and universities to place students in internships in educational psychology, behavioral sciences, special education, and international learning through an exchange program with European, South African, and South American countries.

The Ridge School, which serves students aged 10 through 19, began in New Paltz in 1990 and has since moved to Hyde Park. Its focus is on the type of autism known as Asperger’s syndrome. Definitions of Asperger’s have varied over the years—psychologists still disagree on what the definition is—but it is similar to highly functioning autism, as it shares many of the same idiosyncrasies, and it does indeed fall on the spectrum.

“There’s not much out there that’s being done for Asperger’s right now,” says program director Glenn Nystrup. “Teaching them is a great challenge, because they’re all unique and the adaptations and programming we need to make for them is also unique.” Hands-on learning is a larger part of what Ridge does, encouraging students to build things in addition to the school’s academics and frequent field trips. There is a high teacher-student ratio and the focus is on communication and interaction skills, self-reliance, and self-understanding, so students can work in restrictive settings. The Ridge School hopes to build a larger campus next year in Clinton Corners and a website will be up and running soon. One of Ridge’s students, 16-year-old Elijah Wapner, was recently followed by MTV for “True Life: I’m Autistic,” which aired on March 18. Wapner has become a professional stand-up comedian, performing weekly in Manhattan; his current routine focuses on his disability. (View clips of Wapner performing at www.MrInevitable.com.) “[Elijah’s] act is totally hilarious,” says his mother, Valerie Paradiz, who founded the Open Center for Autism in Hurley with its executive director, Sarah Borris. Located in Kingston, it is a brand-new organization that serves teens on the spectrum and provides support to families and professionals, as well as afterschool and weekend programs and a summer camp. The two women founded the Aspie program, an educational environment for adolescents with highly functioning autism and Asperger’s, in the Onteora school district in 2000. The program lasted only three years, but it blossomed into the current Open Center and several spinoff programs. “We’re really a community center where kids on the spectrum come, feel comfortable, and invite their siblings and friends who don’t have autism,” says Borris. “We have parties regularly and plan to start a school.”

Unfortunately, the Open Center may soon be forced to close its doors.

“We’re experiencing a crisis right now in funding,” says Paradiz. “It’s a

tough time all around the country with fledgling programs and services. People are not only hungry for information and programs, they’re desperate for them.”

Other programs and services for those with autism include the Mental Health Association in Orange County, located in Goshen, which hosts support groups for families dealing with autism and has monthly meetings with guest speakers.

April is Autism Awareness Month. There are activities planned across the Hudson Valley this month to promote awareness, understanding, and acceptance of autism-spectrum disorders. Putnam Associated Resource Centers, the leading provider of services for children and adults with developmental disabilities in Putnam County, will host “Songs for Autism: A Concert for Children with Autism” on Friday, April 20. The concert, at the Dockside Pub in Mahopac, will feature performances by Lenore Troia, David Feder, Murali Coryell, and Bari Koral, and will benefit PARC’s preschool program for children with autism.

On Sunday, April 22, from 10:30am to 12:30pm, the Open Center for Autism is hosting a benefit at Skate Time 209 in Accord.

In August, Omega Institute will be presenting “Autism Through the Life Span,” a three-day workshop for family members of people with autism and professionals, educators, and therapists, exploring the latest approaches to diagnosing, treating, and living with autism. The workshop, hosted by Valerie Paradiz, will include Temple Grandin, one of the most well known and accomplished adults with autism in the world and author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, among its faculty.

The Hudson Valley Autism Society, in Stone Ridge, is a group of parents and service providers committed to assisting the autism community with scholarships, emergency assistance grants, donations, awards, support groups, and information. The society raises funds through its annual Walk for Autism, which takes place this year on April 29 from 10am to 2pm at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, rain or shine. It’s now in its sixth year. “I don’t think they ever thought it would go over as big as it did,” says co-chair Sis Gonyea.

“Last year, we had over three-thousand attend. To see these people from all walks of life, and so many of the children and adults with autism…it’s really a wonderful day.” In addition to the walk, which takes place on a one-mile track, there will be an information-resource tent with more than 30 booths, and a fun fair for the kids. Through pledges, walkers can help raise money for grants, scholarships, and research.

“Think of autism as living in a foreign country without knowing the language, and how difficult it would be to communicate,” says walk director Karen Kosack. “We want to raise awareness about autism so these children may live more harmoniously in society.”

RESOURCES Open Center for Autism www.oautism.org Mental Health Association in Orange County www.mhaorangeny.com Hudson Valley Autism Society www.autism-society.org The Children’s Annex www.childrensannex.org 6th Annual Hudson Valley Walk for Autism www.walkforautism.org Ridge School (845) 229-2087 Anderson Center for Autism www.andersonschool.org Putnam Associated Resource Centers www.putnamarc.org Omega Institute www.eomega.org

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karloey waited for T.J. to finish buckling the girth of the saddle, his fingers tripping on the intricate buckle. Skarloey is a chestnut gelding with a white blaze down his muzzle; T.J. is an autistic 14-year-old boy.

Even inside the barn at Southlands Foundation, just outside Rhinebeck, it was cold enough that humans and horses alike could see their breath. Nancy King, an occupational therapist and director of A Horse Connection, gave T.J. short verbal cues—“gentle touch” and “quiet hands”—as they readied Skarloey. During the preparations, T.J.’s attention scattered easily. He repeated the word “chocolate,” which, in the veiled world of autism, could mean he wanted chocolate, or that he was just hooked on repeating the word—a behavior known as perseveration. Another time, T.J. took out his grooming tools to brush Skarloey’s mane, but got distracted.

Skarloey, through it all, remained stoic, showing no signs of the layperson’s perception of equine impatience: tail flicking, snorting, pawing. When Skarloey and T.J. both were ready, Nancy led them to an indoor ring for a hippotherapy session.

Hippotherapy literally means “treatment with the help of the horse” (hippo- taken from the Greek word for horse). The idea of seeking aid for human ailments from horses began (in modern times) in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the 1960s—at that time as an adjunct to physical therapy. By the 1970s, interest had spread to the US and other countries, and over the next two decades standardized curricula were developed in the US for teaching therapists this specialty. The American Hippotherapy Association (AHA) was established in 1992; by 1999, the American Hippotherapy Certification Board was in place.

Today, a hippotherapy clinical specialist (a term preferred by the AHA over “hippotherapist,” ingrained though it is, given the current medical/insurance reimbursement milieu) must be a licensed physical therapist, occupational therapist, or speech-language pathologist who has additionally trained and earned certification in the use of horses as

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a tool to achieve treatment goals. Clients often come through physician referrals.

Specific riding skills are not taught in hippotherapy; that is the domain of therapeutic riding, which teaches riding skills to people with special physical, cognitive, emotional, or social needs. That approach does not require a therapist’s degree but practitioners need special training as a therapeutic riding instructor. Other therapeutic forms that use horses may focus on grooming, leading, feeding, and other tasks, or on the nature of the human-horse interaction (as is equine-facilitated psychotherapy).

NOT JUST HORSING AROUND King led T.J. around the indoor ring, passing capital letters displayed along the wall.

They passed the letter E and King said “E is for elephant. What else is it for? It’s for ear.

Can you touch your ear?” T.J. patted near his ear, hidden under a knit hat and riding helmet. King was engaging T.J. on multiple levels. Besides his physical and emotional connection to the horse, she got him to focus—something autistic people often have difficulty doing. They passed the letter K and T.J. called out “King.” As King prepared to lead him through a series of traffic cones shaped like a figure eight, she asked if he was ready. “Ready, steady, go,” he answered.

Elizabeth, a teacher from T.J.’s residential school, said his coordination had noticeably improved because of these sessions. “He couldn’t buckle [the saddle] at all, and now he can. He needs a little help, but he can do it.”

King, who holds a master’s degree in occupational therapy, clarifies that the “occupation” in occupational therapy “refers to the way in which we spend time and energy. A lot of people hear ‘occupational therapy’ and think ‘jobs.’ But it means the occupation of everyday life. The way we occupy time. If I have a problem that interrupts my ability to be all that I am, I may be helped with occupational therapy to get back on track or become independent.”

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ABOVE: NANCY KING, OF A HORSE CONNECTION, LEADS MARTHA, WITH MIRA IN THE SADDLE. VOLUNTEERS AURORA (LEFT) AND CINDI, A SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST, ASSIST BY SIDE-WALKING. OPPOSITE: ADA CITRON CONDUCTS AN EQUISESSION WITH HANS, THE HORSE, AT HAR-LYNN DRESSAGE IN GERMANTOWN.

And independence is relative. It may mean being able to sit up longer in a dentist’s chair, or it may mean becoming more verbal, as in T.J.’s case. “For a lot of occupational therapists,” King continues, “working with certain populations, we are very challenged.

What can we do to engage a person? The horse sets up instantaneous engagement. Once T.J. was involved in his tasks on the horse, the perseveration got put aside awhile. For him, that’s big.”

Hippotherapy, as explained by the AHA, works like this: “In the controlled hippotherapy environment, the therapist modifies the horse’s movement and carefully grades sensory input. A foundation is established to improve neurological function and sensory processing. This foundation can be generalized to a wide range of daily activities.

The movement of the horse, as the tool, can be compared to other therapy tools such as balls, scooters, or swings. The variability of the horse’s movement, the rhythm, dimensionality, regularity, and the ability of the therapist to modify these movement qualities, is where the horse, as a tool, supersedes the others.”

Improvements in muscle tone, balance, posture, coordination, and motor and cognitive development—as well as emotional well-being—are all proven benefits for a variety of conditions and impairments. There is also that special, unquantifiable human-horse bond.

NATURAL HORSEMANSHIP Now at King’s home, north of Saugerties, I meet one of her horses, a mare named Calli.

I cup my ungloved hands and hold them up to Calli’s muzzle for inspection, keeping the rest of my body still. Her big, brown nose quivers and she nuzzles my hands. I get a flash of why, tens of thousands of years ago, primitive peoples followed horses from central Asia across the land bridges of the Bering Strait. I understand why Genghis Khan forbade anyone to ride his horses.

Calli sticks close to me while I’m in the horse pen. Occasionally she looks toward Hal, a quarter horse and alpha of King’s five-horse herd, for permission. A couple of times, he nudges her out of the way, reminding her who’s boss. Calli even hides behind me—she’s shy, says King, and warming up to a stranger is unusual. Without knowing it, I’ve had my first lesson in natural horsemanship, which underlies her approach to human-horse relationships.

Natural horsemanship was developed by former rodeo rider Pat Parelli. Parelli has been around horses his entire life, and developed a series of games for learning to play with, and think like, a horse. His emphasis is on communion and collaboration, not coercion. In a nutshell, the tenets of natural horsemanship go like this: Horses are herd animals. They are also prey. Horses are hardwired to be hypervigilant around predators.

People are predators. What one aspires to in natural horsemanship is being accepted into the herd. This takes reprogramming on the part of the human, learning to interact in a nonpredatory way. If you think this is easy, bear in mind part of being a predator is expecting a reward for one’s actions. Understanding this makes for safer riding and interplay between people and horses.

THE HORSE AND I I get to apply what I’ve learned about natural horsemanship when I go to Flying Change Farm in Accord, owned by Diane Schoonmaker. I’m here with Ada Citron, who uses Schoonmaker’s horses to work therapeutically, but in a manner very different from hippotherapy. Citron is a spiritual counselor in the Taoist tradition of Mantak Chia, working with the Six Healing Sounds. She is dark, petite, and, in another incarnation, would have looked at home dancing around a gypsy campfire.

“The demographic group I’m willing to work with—I call them healthy neurotics,” says Citron. “I don’t treat people with capital-letter stuff unless the person who’s treat4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM WHOLE LIVING 97

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Citron, a lifelong horse lover, graduated from Brown University with honors and a double major in semiotics and theater arts. Along the way, she took up Chi Kung and became a licensed massage therapist.

After September 11, when one of her clients was hurt, Citron found herself drained and at loose ends.

She attended a workshop at Epona, a retreat in Arizona founded by Tao of Equus author Linda Kohanov.

There, Citron was rejuvenated by work with horses, and subsequently incorporated the animals into her work. She calls her approach â&#x20AC;&#x153;equisessionsâ&#x20AC;? and offers two forms to aid people (and another for horse owners with problematic horse behavior). One is a counseling-based session in which the client interacts with the horse and Citron facilitates by asking questions and offering comments (a horse professional is also present). The second form is a combination of a Chi Kung session and an equisession.

Today, I am going to have a counseling equisession. I ask Citron what to expect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first session with me is nonriding,â&#x20AC;? she replies in the husky voice of a blues singer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working on the ground.â&#x20AC;?

But whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen? My inner control freak is coming out. Prior to our meeting, Citron told me to think of an issue I wanted to address. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to know what it was until we were en route.

Now I tell her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m having trouble sticking with a weight-loss and exercise program. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a culinary professional and I know how to prepare great food and what I need to do but have trouble doing is remaining motivated. Is that the right kind of question?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes,â&#x20AC;? Citron tells me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay. The horses bring you into the herd. You come in with an emotional or psychological ill and the herd says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whoops! One of our members is having an emotional ill. Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to attend?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So, whatever horse picks you to do itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They pick me?â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting freaked out about being rejected by horses I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even met yet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of them is clearly going to be your horse. They just kind of take it from there, and I follow the horse. So walk around and stand in front of the horsesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pens. Stay as long as you like, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch them or talk to them.â&#x20AC;?

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to six horses, each with its own large, fenced area and a small barn. I walk from enclosure to enclosure. I startle one horse and he kicks up and runs. Two give me no more than a cursory once-over.

Then I stop. On the far end of this enclosure is a dark rust (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bay in horse lingo) horse with a black mane and tail. She is all fine-drawn lines and long muscles, a nine-year-old Arabian named Jezzabelleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jessie, for short. The phrase coup de foudre comes to mind, meaning literally â&#x20AC;&#x153;hit by lightning,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;love at first sight.â&#x20AC;? Instinct tells me she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be easy to attract.

I close my eyes and think, Pick me, pick me. Jessie pricks an ear in my direction, which I will learn means she is paying attention to me. I make my way down the length of the fence facing sideways, giving her monocular eyes a chance to see me better. I am overwhelmed with the desire for her to come over to me.

And then she does. I breath into her nostrils (a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cheatâ&#x20AC;? suggested by an equestrian friend), and she breathes back into mine. She licks my gloved hands, then my bare hands, and gives them a little nip. I step back. Score: 1-0, Jessie. I put my hand out and she nips again. This time, I step forward, and she steps back. We are dancing, playing, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;scoreâ&#x20AC;? is now tied.

Citron, who has been observing, asks what I am feeling. This is how the human-horse encounter becomes counseling. I tell Citron Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d wanted it to be Jessie, and with a smile, she tells me I am thinking like a predator.

Citron suggests that I get bored with restrictions, especially ones I know are stupid. She asks what it was about Jessie that I identified with. I say she plays by her own rules. In recent years, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried too hard to play by othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rules, be they diets or other aspects of life, and found only personal and professional disaster.

Later in the session, Jessie goes to the other side of her pen. Even with her back to us, her ears are cocked, and occasionally she turns in my direction. This is a comfortable distance between herd members, and very much the way they might treat one another. It appears that, however briefly, Jessie accepts me as a playmate.

Did the equisession help? In part, it did. It made me more mindful of eating when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m bored. For me, part of being bored comes from trying to be someone or something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just like Jessie canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be anything other than a headstrong Arabian. She taught me by example. And if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really lucky, I can be a guest in her herd now and then.

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BY BLAIR GLASER ILLUSTRATION BY ANNIE INTERNICOLA I recently went to a great restaurant that has dancing on Friday nights. I was so excited until the band started up, and I discovered that they were a Grateful Dead-sounding band that did lots of Allman Brothers cover tunes. That took some wind out of my sails, as I am primarily a disco/’80s dancer. To make matters worse, when my friend and I got to the edge of the dance floor and saw only six or so people on it, I wanted to bolt. I don’t know how to dance to this, I thought. But my friend had started to shimmy and sway beside the other dancers.

She likes the Allman Brothers. She’s a good dancer. She could probably dance to any kind of music if she wanted to.

“I’m going out there,” she said. I tried to pull her back from the abyss. “I’m not quite ready,” I pleaded. My friend is polite. She waited about a minute for me to get up the gumption to cross the line. Then she made her move and bopped past the bystanders.

I took a breath and followed her, diving into the cold, crisp waters of the underpopulated dance floor, where I allowed myself to fall. Not literally, just internally. I fell through the awkwardness of finding my rhythm to music I didn’t know. And there I found a beat, one that my torso and limbs could connect with and express. I breathed. And I smiled at my friend, who was beaming a bright smile back at me. Life was good. I had survived—even enjoyed—stretching beyond a place of security and falling into the unknown.

I use the words stretching and falling to describe this process of expansion of our inner selves. Many of us are accustomed to stretching our physical bodies so that our muscles gain tone and length, so that we can feel more space and freedom in our bodies, and protect ourselves from injury. Similarly, it is important to stretch our consciousness if we want to maintain a healthy, vital, 100 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM.COM 4/07

and enthusiastic spirit. Ah, enthusiasm. Why, if stretching ultimately feels so good, is it often so hard to be enthusiastic about doing it? Because when we move towards expansion and pleasure, we usually encounter some amount of discomfort, which we often expertly avoid.

Is stretching really necessary? If you want to preserve your spontaneity, a sense of inner buoyancy, and connection to your spirit, then absolutely yes.

You will know something is a stretch for you if it is new, if you feel somewhat uncomfortable at the prospect of doing it, but are also very excited at the possible results. If you are a workaholic, taking on a really big project is not a stretch, even though it may stretch your artistic abilities or juggling capacities a bit. You are still in your element and your comfort zone. An example of a stretch for a workaholic would be to take off a whole day to rest, smack in the middle of a project—pajamas, slippers, and all.

I have some exceedingly social “foodie” friends who love to eat out. They were joking about the rut they were in with the same few restaurants they frequent.

They asked me if I knew of any new places they would like. I suggested that if they really wanted to try something new, they should stay at home, each cook a dish, and feed it to each other. That would be a stretch—a change that would likely feed and grow their spirits in ways they couldn’t have experienced by repeating their comfortable restaurant routine.

The “falling” part of this process is an act of faith. Most folks are afraid of falling, and it is this fear that keeps them frozen and clutching the railing on the skating rink of life. I like the word falling because it contains within it the idea of motion, and motion is what we all need when moving from one place to another. Haven’t you been paralyzed by a feeling of overwhelmingness,

self-doubt, or terror when change presents itself? The idea of falling into a new situation invites you to keep moving through the “stuff” that comes up until you land in a new realm. It requires you to trust that the discomfort of your stretch will be short lived, and that the aliveness of the unknown will be waiting for you on the other side. Falling permits you to keep flowing and not get stuck in the awkwardness that usually precedes positive change.

The words stretching and falling are metaphors that help me stay connected to the process of growth and expansion in the face of the routine of daily life. I imagine stretching the hardened edges of my habits and my persona and falling more deeply into who I really am.

Are you interested in exploring this practice? Below are some stretches that you can try— though not all in one day. Give yourself a week, a month, a year to try them. Allow yourself to fall into the pleasure and awareness that await you.

WALKING/COMMUTING STRETCH Many people spend a large portion of their day commuting or running errands, and yet what transpires in the commute is rarely eventful or remembered. For one day, take off the iPod. Turn off your cell phone. Take down the to-do list on your brain’s fridge door. And when you get in your car, or walk that everyday walk to the train, or get groceries, do so with totally new eyes. Receive the amazing colors and textures of the environment around you. Soften your body.

Feel your feet touching the pavement through your shoes. Connect with your pinkies. Smell the amazing and sometimes not-so-amazing scents that arise and subside. Listen to the sounds of the cars and pedestrians. Make eye contact with people you pass. Breathe into any discomfort about being so aware. Then take another breath and see what happens. Who knew you could feel more alive and connected to the world just by going to work?

EATING STRETCH It amazes me that something as simple as being fully aware of eating can be such a big stretch for so many people, including me. Try to just eat and taste your food. No phone. No TV. No music.

No conversation. No inner conversations either, like arguing with yourself about all those things you wanted to have said earlier in the day but were too repressed or caught off-guard to speak about. Let it be just you, your food, your taste buds, and your digestion.

COUPLES STRETCH Does it make you anxious to imagine sitting with an intimate partner for five minutes without talking or having sex? It’s a stretch for many of us. Try it. It will be fascinating and bonding. No words. No embrace. Just five whole minutes of sitting on the couch with each other, making eye contact as much as possible, falling into your connection beyond words. Then discuss what it was like—and notice what happens to the connection between you when you start talking again.

SEXUAL STRETCH Try stretching beyond your usual sexual scenarios—keeping them safe and respectful, of course.

Perhaps that means going to a store to browse erotic merchandise. Let yourself fall into acceptance of the items that really turn you on. Fall through any shame that comes up. Fall into your curiosity. Or perhaps rent an X-rated film or read erotica. If these things are not a stretch, then the stretch for you is to explore lovemaking with your partner or pleasuring yourself with no fantasies, no movies or magazines, no toys. Just the physical self, its many sensations, and its life-sustaining rhythms.

ENLIGHTENMENT STRETCH We all have a story about what is happening to us. Seomtimes this story helps us feel good, other times it brings us down. When you tell your current story, are you complaining or whining, or using the words, “I can’t,” He can’t,” or “She can’t?” Do you feel a victim in some way? If so, take a big pause. Stretch yourself past the story you are telling yourself, and enter into the feelings behind it. This is best done with a witness, ideally someone you love or trust deeply. Allow yourself to fall into feeling, leeting emotion pass through you, until it dissipates. You could find a lot of space, freedom, and acceptance waiting for you.

And finally, love yourself, no matter what. This could be a very big stretch. Self-critical voices can be willful and insistent, but instead of arguing with them, imagine falling straight through the clouds of doubt and self-loathing right to the center of your heart. And proceed from there.

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tal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities along with acupuncture. Dr. Hoon Park is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and electrodiagnostic studies. His experienced, friendly staff offer the most comprehensive and individualized rehabilitative care available. Please call the office to arrange a consultation. New patients and most insurances are accepted.

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Three Treasures Acupuncture Specializing in Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture and teenage acne, Mindy Pickard, MS, LAc, utilizes a whole body approach to beauty by improving your overall health. Ms. Pickard also practices resultsoriented acupuncture for many conditions including: allergies, asthma, bronchitis, headaches, chronic pain, GI issues, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health, arthritis, anxiety, insomnia and conditions of aging. A graduate of Tri-State College of Acupuncture, Ms. Pickard is a NCCAOM Diplomate in Acupuncture and licensed in NY State.

She has an MBA from NYU-Stern School of Business and a BA from Amherst College. Two locations: Stone, Flower, Mountain Health Associates in West Hurley and 79 Yerry Hill Road, Woodstock. (646) 825-1508.

Transpersonal Acupuncture Transpersonal Acupuncture is the practice of Jipala Reicher-Kagan L.Ac. Jipala is a New York state licensed acupuncturist and a graduate of Tri-State College of Acupuncture. She has completed a three year postgraduate study in Alchemical Acupuncture, which specializes in psychological and spiritual healing. She has over eight years of experience working with a certified nutritionist and knowledge of Western herbology, homeopathic medicine, nutritional supplements and dietary/lifestyle counseling. Her main goal is to restore balance and to facilitate the innate healing power within each of her clients. She focuses on connecting the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the self and breaking blocks that contribute to pain, disease, trauma and lifestyle imbalances. She welcomes clients who are interested in relief from acute or chronic pain, Facial Rejuvenation treatments and quitting smoking. Please call (845) 340-8625 to make an appointment or visit www.transpersonalacupuncture.com if you would like to learn more about Transpersonal Acupuncture and Jipala Reicher-Kagan.

APOTHECARY Dr. Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tonics- A Modern Apothecary A vision of Dr. Tom J. Francescott, Naturopathic Doctor, Dr. Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tonics is inspired by the old apothecaries from years ago filled with cutting edge and professional grade products backed by the expertise and support of a Naturopathic Doctor. Walk into Dr. Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tonics and ask Dr. Tom or Dr. Winnie your health questions. Closed Wednesdays. (845) 876-2900.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC For the past 18 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and work-related injuries, musculoskele102

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AROMATHERAPY Joan Apter See also Massage Therapy directory. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.apteraromatherapy.com

ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING Eric Francis: Astrological Consultations by Phone. Special discount on follow-ups for previous clients from the Hudson Valley.

Lots to explore on the Web at www.PlanetWaves.net.

(206) 854-3931. eric@ericfrancis.com. www.PlanetWaves.net.

AURAS AND ENERGY

One Light Healing Touch School See Schools for full listing. www.OneLightHealingTouch.com.

BODY-CENTERED THERAPY Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services. By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples. New Paltz, NY. (845) 485-5933.

Julie Zweig, MA Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy utilizing doctoral level training in psychology and 15+ years of experience as a therapist, as well as the principles of Rosen Method Bodywork, but without touch. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-3566.

CAREER & LIFE COACHING Allie Roth - Center for Creativity and Work

Nori Connell, RN, DC Nori combines 28 years as a registered nurse with 18 years of chiropractic experience to offer patients a knowledgeable approach to removing the interferences in the body that lead to disease. She combines accredited techniques such as Neuro-Emotional technique, kinesiology, and Network Chiropractic to work with the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innate intelligence and its ability for healing. Dr. Connell also offers workshops on natural health care for the family and is also one of the directors of Alternatives Health Center of Tivoli (845) 757-5555.

Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5556.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Connie Schneider, Advanced Level I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist Colon Hydrotherapy is a safe, gentle, cleansing process. Clean and private office. A healthy functioning colon can decrease internal toxicity and improve digestion; basics for a healthy body. See display ad.

New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1516.

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IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer and interfaith minister, who is director of the Ministry of MaĂĽt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mysteries programs and leads retreats to sacred locations throughout the world. An author and playwright, her works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color and Listening in Dreams. Offices in Kingston and New York City. (845) 339-5776. Fax: (845) 331-6624. www.ionedreams.org.

Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor

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Receive a clear introduction to the basics of Mantak Chiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Healing Tao System and Chinese 5 Element Theory. Learn the Six Healing Sounds which transform stress into vital energy, the Inner Smile and Microcosmic Orbit Meditations. Ada also studies with Master Li Jun Feng, Michael Winn, Sifu Fong Ha, Robert Peng, and James Shaw, and offers a variety of their standing and gently moving practices. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

CHILDBIRTH Homebirth and Gynecology Practice of Judy Joffee, CNM This practice offers a unique and exquisite opportunity for woman care in a powerfully compassionate and sacred manner. I offer complete prenatal care focused toward homebirth. For the nonpregnant woman, individualized gynecological care, counseling, and self-determination await you. Also offering school, work, and general physicals for all ages. Call for consultation. (845) 255-2096.

CHIROPRACTIC Dr. David Ness Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries.

In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr.

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Career and Life Coaching for those seeking more creativity, fulfillment, balance and meaning in life and work. Offer a holistic approach to career and life transitions. Also specialize in executive coaching, and coaching small business owners, consultants and private practitioners. 25 years experience. Kingston and New York City offices. Kingston, NY. (845) 336-8318. Toll Free: (800) 577-8318. allie@allieroth.com. www.allieroth.com

Ness utilizes ART to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today. (845) 255-1200.

Philmont Family Dentistry Caring, modern dental practice for year-round and second-home owners in Upper Hudson Valley (Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Albany, Rensselaer, Berkshire). A sophisticated urban practice in a beautiful rural setting, one mile from Taconic Parkway in Philmont. Restorations (crowns, bridges, veneers, implants), cosmetic dentistry (whitening, bonding), root canal, extractions, emergencies. Call for appointment. 1078 Rte. 217, Philmont, NY. (518) 672-4077. www.philmontfamilydentistry.com

The Center For Advanced Dentistry Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD; Jaime O. Stauss, DMD Setting the standards for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;old schoolâ&#x20AC;? care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18. 494 Route 299, Highland, NY. (845) 691-5600. www.thecent erforadvanceddentistry.com.

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Michael Tischler is currently one of only two Board Certified Implant Dentists in the Hudson Valley Region of NYS and one of only 300 dentists in the world to have achieved this honor. Sedation dentistry, acupuncture with dental treatment, dental implant surgery, cosmetic makeover procedures and gum surgery are just a few of the many unique services Tischler Dental offers. Their practice philosophy is that each modality of dental treatment is performed by the practitioner that is best trained in that area. Working as a team, they deliver ideal dental care. Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-3706. tischlerdental@h vc.rr.com. www.tischlerdental.com.

and follows through the design placement of important entries, rooms, and functions, and recommends the most appropriate directions, elements, colors and shapes and timing for the site, the clients, and for the building itself. Both new and existing residential and commercial buildings can be balanced and enhanced with these cutting edge techniques!. (845) 247-4620. ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES Guidance of Spirit, Wisdom of Heart

ENERGY HEALING Nancy Plumer, MS - Energy/Spiritual Healing & Sacred Ceremony Nancy is an intuitive healer, teacher and guide. Integrates visualization, breath work and grounding with her hands on touch to support physical, emotional and spiritual healing. She has helped people with life threatening illnesses as well as those who have chosen the path of higher levels of consciousness. A certified One Light Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner, a long time Kripalu yoga teacher and a gifted intuitive. Offices in New Paltz and Stone Ridge, distance healings or telephone consultations. She also facilitates sacred ceremonies. Call for a consultation, (845) 687-2252.

EQUINE FACILITATED HEALING Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor

FENG SHUI Janus Welton, AIA, BBEC, IFSG Architect and Feng Shui & Ecological & Building Health Consultant a pioneer of feng shui in the u.S. Since the 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, janus incorporates the wisdom traditions of classical feng shui and advanced compass techniques as well as vastu shastra from india; and grounds these practices into the 21st century architecture & design combined with ecological and building health practices. Not confined to interiors, classical feng shui begins with good site planning & siting of a building,

M.Ed. The Soul Sanctuary, 6052 B Route 9, NY

The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage Psychotherapy, Shiatsu, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka facials, counseling, yoga and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes include yoga, spontaneous theater, toning NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment (845) 255-3337.

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EquisessionsÂŽ with Ada, a life long rider, are therapeutically oriented, equine facilitated encounters based on the Epona Method from The Tao of Equus,

by Linda Kohanov. Riding is involved in later sessions.

This year Ada will present an all day pre-conference workshop for Region 1 of NARHA, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, on Chi Kung as a tool for mounted equine facilitated healing work.

She will also present, for the second time, her Chi Kung for Horse People at the conference itself. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

Heart-based Intuitive Healing, Karma Release with Crystals, Space Clearings & Blessings, Long Distance Healings, End-of-Life Transitions, Guided Meditation/ visualization. Thursday evenings at 7:30pm. Self healing is a process of self-discovery. Within the space of the heart discover what you need to heal. Kate DeChard

Creating health in partnership with nature. Please see Acupuncture for full listing. (845) 339-5653. www.earthboundapothecary.com..

Monarda Herbal Apothecary In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment and healing, we offer organic and ecologically wildcrafted herbs using tradition as our guide. Certified Organic Alcohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Essential Oils, and more. Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships. (845) 339-2562. www.monarda.net.

HOLISTIC HEALTH John M. Carroll, Healer John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer.

Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation. Kingston, NY. (845) 338-8420.

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Priscilla A. Bright, MA Energy Healer/Counselor Specializing in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stress, emotional issues, and physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, and physical burnout.

Women in transition, businesswomen, mothers, all welcome. Experienced counselor. Faculty, Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Convenient offices in Kingston & New Paltz.

Initial phone consultation no charge.

Kingston, NY. (845) 688-7175.

Kimberly Woods C. HOM. With 25 years of experience and extensive training with world renowned master homeopaths and herbalists, she has helped 1000's of individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, from physical problems to psychological illnesses. Kimberly is truly gifted at educating the individual in natural approaches to health and well-being. (845) 688-2976. www.naturalhealthsource.us.

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HYPNOSIS Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. 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. New Paltz/Kingston, NY. (845) 389-2302.

Freddie Blue Fox NGH Certified Hypnotherapist in practice since 1994. Freddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolutionary, three session, smoke ending program helps clients stop smoking for as long as they desire.

Freddie asserts that smoking is a symptom, and that once the cause of the symptom is eliminated, the symptom, smoking, drops away.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own heal106

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ing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential. Hyde Park, NY. (845) 876-6753.

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One-Session Hypnosis with Frayda Kafka CHT

with Diana Ayton-Shenkar Ages 7Ă?11, April 13 Ă? May 11 Fridays, 4:00Ă?4:45 pm $12/class or $50/series Pre-registration requested

Building on my success with smoking cessation in 1978, I have continued to help clients with weight loss, pain, childbirth, stress, insomnia, habits, phobias, confidence, and almost any behavior you can think of. Known for my easy, light manner and quick results, I have an intuitive knack for saying just the right thing at the right time so that a major shift can be initiated. Groups, home visits, gifts and phone sessions are available. Kingston, NY. (845) 3364646. info@CallTheHypnotist.com. www.CallTheHypnotist.com.

Forward Bending Yoga Workshop with Alison West from Yoga Union in New York City Saturday, April 21, 3:00Ă?6:00 pm, $60 Registration requested This workshop will fill up, so please register early!

Satya Yoga Center 6400 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 845-876-2528

Satya Yoga Center (Upstate Yoga, LLC) is a Registered Yoga Alliance School

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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.

Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2194.

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MASSAGE THERAPY Ada Citron, LMT A licensed practitioner since 1988, Ada currently prefers the modalities of Chi Nei Tsang, Chinese internal organ massage, and Shiatsu, pressure point massage. Classes offered in CNT. House call fees are commensurate with travel time. Kingston. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

Affinity Healing Arts Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT A holistic approach to chronic pain, stress and imbalance. Deeply effective, intuitive and client-centered bodywork blends traditional swedish/deep tissue massage with aromatherapy, crystal healing and Reiki energy balancing. Registered & certified Therapeutic & Integral Yoga instructor; workshops include Stress Management, Yogic Lifestyle, 4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY

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Reiki. Call (845) 797-4124 for an appointment or visit www.AffinityHealingArts.com for more info. Your path to wellness begins here.

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, specializes in Integrative Massage - incorporation of various healing modalities: Swedish, Myofascial Deep Tissue, Craniosacral, and stretching to facilitate the body’s healing process. A session may include all or just one modality. No fault accepted. Gift certificates available. By appointment only.

243 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4832.

Joan Apter Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes.

Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.apteraromatherapy.com.

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Jill Malden, RD, CSW Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 489-4732.

Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition Holly Anne Shelowitz, CNC - Director

Dona Ho Lightsey, LMT, IET Master Instructor. 44 S. Ohioville Rd. New Paltz. (845) 883-7899. www.violetalchemyhealing.com

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Zen Mountain Monastery

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Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: introductions to Zen meditation and practice; programs exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies, and social action; and intensive meditation retreats.

South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper, NY. (845) 688-2228.

It’s All Goodies offers natural, organic gift baskets. Give the gift of better health AND good taste! To see our baskets (customized to suit any taste, diet, and theme) visit www.its allgoodies.mysite.com. Email itsallgoodies1@yahoo.com Call us toll free at 1(888) 556-7339. Mention this ad for a 10% discount on your first order.

MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery Home Birth Services Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup. (845) 687-BABY.

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In addition to private sessions, our programs include cooking classes, teaching tangible ways to incorporate nourishing foods into your life. Shopping trips to natural food stores and local farms are part of our work together, as well as telephone classes and retreats. For the most effective and supportive nutrition counseling you will ever experience, call 845.687.9666 or visit ww.nourishingwisdom.com Long distance telephone clients welcome.

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issues, enhance wellness, and gain awareness.

Scientifically proven naturopathic solutions for challenging and/or chronic health concerns. I offer naturopathic expertise in a sacred space to help you feel better. Graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University.

Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5556. www.drfrancescott.com.

NewAgeProducts.Org Offers handmade Organic Soaps, All Natural & Organic Herbal Juice Supplements and many Organic Bath & Body Products. All high quality and very competitively priced. Your #1 place to get all your organic body care needs. An easy and convenient way to experience the difference of Organic & All Natural Body Care. www.NewAgeProducts.org.

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Applied Osteopathy Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO.

Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND. Free Your Mind - Release Your Body - Energize Your Spirit! Solve health

Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Oste-

opathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and handson treatment of our predecessors.

We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. 3457 Main St, Stone Ridge, (845) 6877589. 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700. 257 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 256-9884. By Appointment. For more information call or visit the website. www.stoneridgehealingarts.com.

PHYSICIANS Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Care Center

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Located in Rhinebeck and Kingston.

Massage and acupuncture available. Gynecology - treating our patients through the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available, combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics - working with you to create the birth experience you desire. Many insurances accepted. Evening hours available.

Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496; Kingston (845) 338-5575.

PILATES Beacon Pilates A fully equipped classical studio that tailors each workout to fit the individual. 181 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Beacon, NY. (845) 831-0360. www.beaconpilates.com.

Pilates of New Paltz / Core Pilates Studio These studios offer caring, experienced and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities.

Each student receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energizing flow of the classical pilates system.

Hours are flexible enough to accomodate any schedule. Pilates of New Paltz: (845) 255-0559; Core Pilates in Poughkeepsie: (845) 452-8018.

The Moving Body www.themovingbody.com. 276 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-7715.

PSYCHICS Psychically Speaking Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of ones life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone. Visit 4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY

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Call (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 or email gail@psychicallyspeaking.com.

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PSYCHOLOGISTS Peter M. del Rosario, PhD

Naturopathic Doctor

Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, sexual/physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/lesbian issues. Free initial consult. 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (914) 262-8595.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY Jeanne Asma, LCSWR Psychotherapist & Life Coach

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center Rt. 299 New Paltz

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Individual, couples and group sessions for adults. Women’s issues groups now forming. Specializing in relationship issues, improving selfesteem, binge eating and body image, life transitions including divorce and grief issues, trauma and abuse.

Many insurances accepted or sliding scale available. Office located in Poughkeepsie location. (845) 462-1182. www.JeanneAsma.com.

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW Counseling & Psychotherapy Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative blocks. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale. Offices in Woodstock and Uptown Kingston.

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Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.

Rachael Diamond

LCSW, CHt

Holistically Oriented Counseling, Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy

Offering traditional psychotherapy and EMDR for healing from trauma and changing limiting beliefs, Breathwork for relieving stress and breathing difficulties, and Realization Process, a body-oriented meditation for deepening contact with oneself and others. For individuals and couples. NY State licensed. Offices in Kingston, Willow and NYC. (845) 679-7005. www.realizationcenter.c om.

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office convenient to new paltz & surrounding areas

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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.

www.AffinityHealingArts.com for more info. Your path to wellness begins here.

Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics.

Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4218.

ROSEN METHOD BODYWORK

Change Your Outlook, Heal, and Grow - Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt.

Julie Zweig, M.A., Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner.

With combination of "talk" therapy for self-knowledge and hypnotherapy to transform negative, self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Faster symptom relief. Feel better and make healthier choices. Sliding scale, Certified Hypnotherapist and Counselor. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Hypnosis. New Paltz, NY. (845) 389-2302.

Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, the practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension. As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge. The practitioner responds with touch and words that allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension. As this process unfolds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being.

Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt Holistically-oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy. Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles, childhood abuse, codependency, addiction, recovery illness, and grief. Some insurances accepted. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. Free half hour consultation. New Paltz, NY. (845) 883-9642.

Amy R. Frisch, CSWR Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted. New Paltz, NY. (914) 706-0229.

Psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. Counseling and guidance for special parent issues: helping children through divorce, coping with a new single life and communicating with troubled teens. Long or short term therapy and EMDR. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-8808.

Workshops in Woodstock and Manhattan. Starting October 20, 2006 over 6 weekends /year. The IFSI is the only Institute of Professional Feng Shui Training to integrate Classical & Compass Chinese Feng Shui with BTB Tibetan Bhuddist Feng Shui techniques with a focus on Individual Coaching, Consultations, and Design Applications w/ a practicing architect. Brought to you by Director, Eric Shaffert, BTB Feng Shui Coach and author of Feng Shui and Money; Janus Welton, AIA, Architect, Classical & Compass Feng Shui & Ecology in The 21st Century; and Susanna Bastarrica, President, United Nations FSRC; BTB transcendental teacher and Universal Minister. Call for registration by Oct. 20. (845) 247-4620. ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

One Light Healing Touch: International Energy Healing And Mystery School.

School Begins June 1, 2007 in Rhinebeck, NY. The

Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Energy Psychology – Beth Coons, LCSW - R

OLHT Training is ideal for health care workers and

Mind-Body, Experiential, as well as traditional talk therapy used to access inner resources for deep emotional healing. Adult and childhood trauma, including physical, emotional and sexual abuse, PTSD, stress reduction, relationship issues and personal growth.

Free initial consultation. (845) 702-4806.

cal and emotional healing, and spiritual development.

Dianne Weisselberg MSW, LMSW 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. Sliding Scale fees. (845) 688-7570. dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com.

Julie Zweig, M.A., Licensed Mental Health Counselor See also Body-Centered Therapy directory. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz. NY. (845) 255-3566.

REIKI Affinity Healing Arts Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT A holistic approach to chronic pain, stress and imbalance. Deeply effective, intuitive and clientcentered bodywork blends traditional swedish/deep tissue massage with aromatherapy, crystal healing and Reiki energy balancing. Registered & certified Therapeutic & Integral Yoga instructor; workshops include Stress Management, Yogic Lifestyle, Reiki.

Call (845) 797-4124 for an appointment or visit

Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

International Feng Shui Institute

Facilitator: Amy Frisch, CSWR some insurances accepted • space is limited (845) 706-0229 for more information

IF YOU SEEK ABUNDANCE, PEACE, EASE OR SATISFACTION IN YOUR LIFE: They are all within you now!

Come to this 4 weekend class & you will develop a deeper relationship with your inner being that already has peace & ease. You will learn: ♦ To become aware of your unconscious thoughts & feelings which

hold you back ♦ To have safety & ease by trusting your inner knowing, your godself ♦ Tools to navigate safely through the tidal waves of life

New dates. Registration Extended!

Classes Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon Apr 2626- 29, May 3131-Jun 3, Jul 1919-22, Sep 66- 9 Registration Deadline: Apr 16; late fee $75. Prepay discount $200.

Call 845.679.8989 or visit flowingspirit.com for information & registration

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Meg F. Schneider, MA, CSW

SCHOOLS & TRAINING

A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more.

Group sessions include expressive art activities - it·s not all talk!

those desiring transformational personal growth, physiJoin us for an empowering, life-changing, six-month, training. 50 self-healing practices and 33 Professional Healing Techniques, Certification in OLHT Energy Healing and NYSNA CEUs. FREE OPEN EVENINGS: SPECIAL INTRO WEEKENDS: OLHT SCHOOL a six

Spiritual Healing & Guidance

Joel Walzer Is a Pathwork Helper, Channel, Jaffe Institute Healer & Teacher, & attorney who uncovered his godself & wants to help you do the same

3-Day Weekends of Training, starts June 1. For information & sessions: Penny Price Lavin (845) 876-0239: pricemedia@aol.com): Nancy Plumer (845) 687-2252: nplumer@hvi.net):www.OneLightHealingTouch.com

SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Resort & Spa Embrace the Asian-inspired design of the Emerson Spa as you relax into an oasis of peace and tranquility that is surrounded by the Hudson Valley’s pastoral beauty. Individually-tailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room and relaxation area... all included with your Spa visit. New Emerson Inn & Spa opening early 2007. Now taking reservations! www.emersonresort.com. (845) 688-1000.

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universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it.

So why don't we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully, the love and the abundance of God's universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth. Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork; and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions. (845) 6798989. www.flowingspirit.com.

SPIRITUAL COUNSELING Spirit Asked me to Tell You Spiritual channeling and guidance.

Individuals and groups, will travel for groups. Native American spiritual teachings. I have spent ten years out West learning Native American teachings and rituals. Telephone sessions by appointment. All information in private sessions are confidential. (845) 679-0549.

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YOGA Barbara Boris Woodstock Iyengar Yoga The Iyengar method develops strength, endurance and correct body alignment in addition to flexibility and relaxation. Standing poses are emphasized: building strong legs, increased general vitality and improved circulation, coordination and balance. 12 years teaching yoga, 20 years practicing. Twelve trips to India. Extensive training with the Iyengar family.

Mt. View Studio, Woodstock. (845) 679-3728. bxboris@yahoo.com. www.barbaraborisyoga.com

Jai Ma Yoga Center Offering a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week, from Gentle/Restorative Yoga to Advanced. Meditation classes free to all enrolled. Chanting Friday evenings. New expanded studio space. Private consultations and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy sessions available. Gina Bassinette, RYT & Ami Hirschstein, RYT, Owners. New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-0465.

Satya Yoga Center Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center is located in the heart of Rhinebeck village, on the third floor of the Rhinebeck Department Store building. We offer classes for all levels, 7 days a week. There is no need to pre-register: we invite you to just show up. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2528. www.satyayogarhinebeck.com 112

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EVENT LISTINGS FOR APRIL 2007

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(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) THOMAS NEFF, ALTHEUS AND BERNADINE BANKS, NEW ORLEANS;

GERALD MERNA, ARCHES; MICAH MOORE, DANI; RALPH GABRINER, UNTITLED.

JURIED HANGING For “Photowork ’07,” Barrett Art Center’s 20th annual national juried photography

“One of the first images I saw was of a woman in a bathing suit on a roof that

exhibition, the Poughkeepsie gallery’s director, Laurie Strange, gave juror Asher

had ‘This is not the USA’ spraypainted on it, and I wasn’t sure what exactly I was

Miller the freedom to select works not based on any particular theme or genre.

looking at,” says Miller. “I thought it was some sort of hipster joke or something. But

“I came into it blank, hoping things would just jump out at me, and that’s exactly

when Laurie gave me the context, that it was a photograph from New Orleans after

what happened,” Miller says. “All of a sudden, something would come up on the

the hurricane, a pall fell over the room. The image was powerful and undeniable

computer screen, and it would be sort of magical. I’d just know that’s the one.”

even though it couldn’t compete aesthetically with some of the others.”

The exhibition features the work of 51 photographers from across the nation, 13

The first-prize winner is a horizontal, black-and-white image titled Sunset

of them from the Hudson Valley. Miller is a research associate in the department

Promenade, by Gerald Merna of Sterling, Virginia. It features five dark, evenly

of 19th Century Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

spaced figures on a beach with the sun setting in the distance.

In past years, “Photowork” has had jurors from the Guggenheim, the Brooklyn

“It’s just a classically beautiful composition,” says Miller. “The people in it look

Museum, and the International Center of Photography. “We use a different juror

very natural together. You get the sense that they’re a family. There is something

every year, hoping to get a different show. This year’s has more of a photo-

excellent about them—just enjoying the end of a day. It’s a casual image, but

journalistic bent,” says Strange. “It’s been very difficult in the past to get someone

there’s something tremendously classical about it. It’s jaw-dropping—just achingly

from the Met. We were very appreciative.”

beautiful.”

The overall quality of the submissions was excellent, and the images chosen

“Photowork ’07” is on view at the Barrett Art Center at 55 Noxon Street in

make for a strong and diverse exhibit. In some cases, context made more of an

Poughkeepsie from March 17 to April 28. (845) 471-2550; www.barrettcenter.org.

impact on the selection process than aesthetic quality.

—Peter M. Laffin

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GRAPHIC VIOLENCE David Wallis notes in his introduction to Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War

here. Killed also includes interviews with the cartoonists themselves, explaining

on Free Expression (Norton, 2007) that J. Edgar Hoover closely monitored Mad

what they believe to be the rationale for why their work was canned. In the case of

magazine for its supposed subversive content, and kept a file on publisher William

Davies, who works for the Journal News in White Plains, he said his editors viewed

Gaines. The FBI director thought so much of cartoons’ effectiveness, that he

his depiction of Bush pissing on world opinion as “excessive.”

suggested, in a 1968 memo to an FBI staffer, that the bureau consider the use of

“Cartoonists are our most incendiary journalists,” says Wallis. “Editorial art

cartoons to disrupt the antiwar movement. “[This] will have the effect of ridiculing

reaches out from the static pages of newspapers and magazines and pokes readers

the New Left. Ridicule is one of the most potent weapons we can use.” (Hoover was

in the eye.” Wallis also believes that as the bomb throwers of the fourth estate,

not alone in this assessment. Time magazine concluded that David Levine’s 1966

cartoonists need greater protection from overzealous editors fearing controversy.

caricature of Lyndon Johnson showing off a scar on his stomach in the shape of

As cartoonist Milt Prigree was told by his editor at the Spokesman-Review in

Vietnam was more damaging than any photograph ever taken of the president.)

Spokane, Washington: “If you want to survive at this paper you’ve gotta stay under

Killed Cartoons is the second entry in Wallis’s Killed series, the first being Killed:

Another problem, according to Wallis, is the ongoing consolidation in the media,

spiked by major publications like Vanity Fair and The New Yorker by the likes of Betty

where decisions about profit projections often trump editorial ones. “Cartoonists are

Friedan, Terry Southern, and Robert Fisk. In Killed Cartoons, writer and editor Wallis

viewed as disposable by the corporate media,” says Wallis. “Why pay for the expense

collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage. J.D. Trostle’s in-

of having a staff cartoonist when you can pick one up through syndication?”

poor-taste offering of “Unwise Halloween Costumes,” depicting a couple in matching

David Wallis will give a talk about censorship in the press, “Graphic Violence:

plane-struck Twin Tower outfits (perhaps wisely killed by the Chapel Hill Herald in

How the Media Censors Cartoonists and Illustrators,” and sign copies of

late 2001) is included. Matt Davies’s image of President Bush riding a horse labeled

Killed Cartoons at the Woodstock Library on April 21 at 5pm. (845) 679-2213;

“Iraq Strategy” atop a globe titled “World Opinion”—Bush says, “You don’t want to

www.killedcartoons.com.

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management’s radar. Don’t do anything good. Don’t do anything bad.”

Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books, 2004), which collected essays

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CARTOONS FROM DAVID WALLIS’S KILLED CARTOONS. WALLIS WILL SPEAK AT THE WOODSTOCK LIBRARY ON APRIL 21 ON CENSORSHIP IN THE MEDIA.

SUN 1 ART American Scenes Art Show “Images of Leisure & Entertainment.” Night clubs, theaters & the eerier side of amusement parks. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Call for times.

$10. The Open Center for Autism, Hurley.

(800) 661-1575.

Raccoon Circles 3:45-5:15pm. 3rd to 5th graders participate in problem-solving activities. Museum of Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. Call (845) 534-5506.

MON 2 EVENTS Taking Care of Your Fututre Week H.S. students can complete their applications, tour the Stone Ridge campus, attend info workshops & sessions. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5022.

Call for times.

Meet Your Maker at Two Shows

MUSIC

The Rustic Show w/demos & workshops.

Sunday Brunch at Toscani’s

KIDS

Art-chitexture Functional & Fine Art, Textiles. $8/$5. O’Neill Center, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut. Call for times. (800) 834-9437.

11am. Brunch with music by “Tirendi”.

Toscani’s, New Paltz. 255-3800.

Spring Break Camp

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Traditional Yang Tai Chi Chuan. Beginner/ Intermediate 10 session course 7 pm.

Instructor Cherie Barnier. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Emphasizes hypnosis to change thinking patterns about food. $95. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901. Call for times.

The Artist’s Way Creative Cluster Call for times. A self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Call for times. 338-0331.

A New Life Here and Now 1:30pm. Readings, music, and moments of silence. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799.

Aromatherapy 4-5:30pm. $8/$10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

1pm. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Close Encounters with Music 2pm. Music History in a Teacup: a Musicologist’s Tea Party with UCLA’s Robert Winter. $25/$10. Searle’s, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 843-0778.

First Sunday Songwriters Circle 2pm. A sampler of the region’s songwriters the first Sunday of each month. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. 338-0331.

Ellis Paul 3pm. One of the leading voices in America’s singer-songwriter circuit. $22 member, $25 non. Marion, Woodstock. 679-3213.

Deep Listening’s New Vanguard 3-5pm. Sunday afternoon series of jazz and world music w/ host David Arner & guest curator Jack Ryon. $10/$8. Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville. 338-5984.

Crescendo’s Period Instrument Orchestra

CLASSES Sunday Jazz Café at Riverspace

Pilates Mat, ballet barre and classic ballet classes. Classes are $10. Call for location.

(518) 408-1341. Call for times.

7pm-10pm. Vic Juris, guitar, Ichard Sussman, piano, Andy McKee, bass, Tony Jefferson, drums. $8/$4. Bywater Bistro, Rosendale.

658-3210.

African drum classes

Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30-2:30pm. Euro Dance for seniors and others on Thursdays. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Roots Rock, $32.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334. Call for times.

EVENTS Women’s Wellness Weekend Call for times. Indulge your spirit, body and mind. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Fool’s Charade Fundraiser 1pm-5pm. The Little Ones Learning Center will hold its second annual Fool’s Charade fundraiser. $40. Friends and Family II Hillside Restaurant, Accord. 626-4112.

Irish Festival of Music 3-5pm. Dance, food and drink. $5. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3290.

FILM Second Annual Kent Film Festival Call for times. Films by independent and established film makers, workshops and lively discussions. Kent Community House Theater, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-7954.

KIDS Capture the Flag at The Open Center 1:45-3:15pm. The basic rules of capture the flag with foam swords; bring snow/dry clothes.

10pm. There’s a new open mic in town. James Patrick (Four Dogs Playing Poker) Acoustic/ Elec. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie.

471-3027.

SPOKEN WORD 7pm. Poetry open mike with Irene McGarrity and poet Rebecca Schumejda. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. $4. 679-5342.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Dreamfigures 7pm. Women’s clay art therapy group. Call for location. 255-8039.

Women’s Nutrition Group 7:45-9:30pm. Understand your cravings & your power foods, nourish your bones, take self care to a new level. $200. Call for location.

687-9666.

CLASSES Artist’s Nest: Collage Escapes for Women

THE OUTDOORS Trail Building Workshop Call for times. Rigging the trail for work. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. (201) 512-9348.

6:30-9:30pm. Collage, embroider, draw, paint. $20. Call for location. 256-0754.

MUSIC Acoustic Open Mike

Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike-Top of the Gunks 10am-3pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

7-9pm. $3. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Old Time Jam Session 7:30-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Cinderella 4pm. $18/$14/$9. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

New Open Mic

WidespreadPanic Concert

Life Drawing Classes

DANCE

8pm-12am. Open Mic Night at the Rhinebeck Cantina Grille every Monday hosted by singersongwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

FORECAST

The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company

7:30-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/ $28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Monday night open mic in Rhinebeck

Open Mike

4pm. $25/$15. Trinity Episcopal Church, Lakeville, Connecticut. (860) 435-4866.

5:30-7:30pm. Learn to play African drums. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Outdoor exploration and a theme-based project to take home. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506.

Call for times.

THEATER Tintypes at Ghent Playhouse

Open Mic Night

Call for times. Tintypes, a kaleidoscopic vaudeville of American life between 1880 and the Depression to be performed. $15/$12.

Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. 392-6264

8:30pm. Open Mic Night hosted by Pete Laffin. Signups at 7pm. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

Underneath the Lintle

WED 4

12am. A Mohonk Mountain Stage Production.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT WORKSHOPS The Rustic Show for Contemporary Living and the ART-chitexture Show Call for times. Demonstrations and workshops; extraordinary furniture, sculpture, paintings and garden design. weekend pass $9; students $5; children under 12 free. O’Neill Center, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut. (800) 834-9437.

Women Meeting Women to Make Change Women-only event including a pot luck brunch with performance. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Call for times.

Breast Cancer Support Group 1-2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 339-4673.

DANCE Swing Dance Jam 6:30-9pm. Lesson at 6:00. Dance to CD’s. $5. Washington, Newburgh. 339-3032. Call for location.

EVENTS Anderson Center for Autism Breakfast Call for times. Keynote: Caroline I. Magyar, Ph.D. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 485-5300.

Yuen Method Chinese Energetics 2-4pm. Learn about this instant healing technique for chronic pain & stress. $15/$20.

Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application

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The conference will address understanding and transcending fear from a multitude of perspectives, including the environment, relationships, and personal transformation. Speakers include Tibetan spiritual teacher Samdhong Rinpoche, visionary and healer Caroline Myss, and author and writing teacher Natalie Goldberg. More than 40 workshops will focus on such topics as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Courage of Authenticity and Being Present,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Secret of the Shadow,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Transforming Fears into Action.â&#x20AC;?

Elizabeth Lesser, an Omega cofounder, says the idea for the conference grew out of the anxiety that gripped the nation after September 11. If the government can pursue a disastrous policy in Iraq based on fear, she says, the same type of irrationality holds no less danger for individuals. The goal of the conference, Lesser says, is to help people embody the changes they want to see in the world, whether to lead more functional lives or make a difference through social action.

For workshop leader Sam Keen, author, professor, and the subject of a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the attacks of September 11 shattered our myth of invulnerability. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to suffer," he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like other nations. We were supposed to be immune from all that.â&#x20AC;? Our â&#x20AC;&#x153;cultural psycheâ&#x20AC;? was deeply wounded, he adds, and we were left without a reasonable response.

While acknowledging that terrorism poses real challenges, Keen notes that few people rank it as the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top problem. To put it in perspective, he points out that about 3,000 people died in the September 11 attacks, while last year over 250,000 Americans died in hospitals from misdiagnoses or receiving the wrong medicine.

Keen, who also runs a flying trapeze school, says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as foolish to deny fear as it is to be ruled by it. The approach he will encourage in his workshops is to â&#x20AC;&#x153;become a connoisseur of your fearâ&#x20AC;?; instead of being paralyzed by emotions, we need to examine them, understand them, and distinguish between fears that are appropriate and those that are not.

Sharon Salzberg, a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, will be leading workshops on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loving Kindnessâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fierce Compassion.â&#x20AC;? She notes the isolating nature of fear: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We collapse inside, we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see options. Everything becomes frozen. And we experience that both on a personal and a societal level.â&#x20AC;?

Through her meditation workshops, Salzberg will teach people how to deal with fear in a less isolating way and show them how they can have greater compassion for themselves and others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With mindfulness we can learn how to experience whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on without projecting into an endless future,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;without its closing down around us, without identifying with it, so fear is known as a passing state, not the be-all and end-all of who we are.â&#x20AC;?

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Advanced Directives 7pm-9pm. What they are & how to use them.

Benedictine Hospital-Administraiton Building, Kingston. 338-2500 ext. 4453.

FILM Wednesday Night at the Movies 8pm. Contemporary, narrative & documentary films shown on 35mm. 4/4: The Science of Sleep. $8/$6. Riverspace Arts, Nyack. (866) 811-4111.

MUSIC John Hammond 8:30pm. John Hammond performs acoustic Blues. Bodes Opera House, Chester. 4694595.

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10:30pm. Open Mic Every Wednesday. A new surprise each week. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz.

255-2400.

SPOKEN WORD Classics in Religion 10:30am. The Courage To Be. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Classics in Religion 10:30am. Christian Meditation. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

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Studio Stu at Vassar College 6-9pm. Beloved bassist performs amid a rotating collection of art. Free. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

437-5632.

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Blues jam and dance party 8pm. Hosted by Richie Colan. Swing dancers welcome. $5 free with dinner purchase. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Night 7pm. Featuring readings by the Hudson River Poets and other local poets. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.

THE OUTDOORS Adirondack Mountain Club Hike Moderate hike. Call for location. 677-9909, (845) 592-0204.

THEATER The Gospel of John 8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

FRI 6 ART Collage Escape!

6:30pm-9:30pm. Collage fiesta for women. $20. Call for location. 256-0754.

DANCE African Dance & Drumming 6:30-8:30pm. Nzhinga Women Present African Dance & Drumming Every Friday.Call for location. 380-9026.

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12-4pm. Learn interesting facts about the state bird, mammal, flower and others. Museum of the Hudson HIghlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Earthbeat 10pm. World Beat dance band. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Anthill Mob 11pm. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie.

471-3027.

THE OUTDOORS Peepers Evening Walk 8-9:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

THEATER The Gospel of John Call for times. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Suburbia 8pm. Presented by Apprentice Players. $10/$8/$4. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

Naked & Flailing 8pm. The Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Sharon Breslau’s one-woman show.

Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. From the touching to the hilarious, personal stories told by audience members are brought to life by this seasoned improv troupe. $6.00. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

WORKSHOPS Pagan Dogma - Why Magic Works 7-9:30pm. Lecture/discussion. $35. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

SAT 7 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong for Seniors Call for times. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Reiki I and II Series

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Call for times. An eight week session is being offered to include both Reiki I and II certifications. $160. The Lanesville Retreat House, Lanesville. 688-5672.

Art Classes Drawing, still life, figurative, plain air painting and life portraits for all levels. Call for location.

(914) 819-8856. Call for times.

Walking the Dog Theater opens its season with “The Gospel of John.” $12/$18.

StageWorks, Hudson. 772-5884.

Suburbia 8pm. Presented by Apprentice Players. $10/$8/$4. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

Learn to Swing Dance.

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2pm. Learn the basic steps of swing dancing.

Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.

Llama Garden Retreat

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Call for times. Experience the practical & creative ways of life on a fiber farm w/llamas, alpacas & sheep. $75. Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

Olga Dunn Dance Company: Let the Light!

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Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Artist’s Way Creative Cluster

EVENTS Barn Sale 9am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Call for times. A self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Llama Garden Call for times. Mingle with llamas, alpacas & sheep, make a project. $10. Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

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African drum classes 5:30-7:30pm. Learn to play African drums. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

7:30-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/ $28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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7pm. Open Mic Night at Circle Of Friends with your hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The AURACLE, New Paltz. 255-6046.

1:30-2:30pm. Euro Dance for seniors and others on Thursdays. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

10pm. There’s a new open mic in town - w/James Patrick (Four Dogs Playing Poker) Acoustic/Electric. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-3027.

SPOKEN WORD The Ghost in the Machine: Max Weber and the End of Enlightenment Call for times. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

Poetry Open Mike

WORKSHOPS Solar Electric Design Workshop Call for times. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

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Guided Imagery and Reiki Healing Circle 7-9pm. Reiki healing circle with psychic readings to be held. New Spirit of Woodstock, Tinker Street Woodstock. 679-0008.

Women’s Nutrition Group

Capture the Flag at The Open Center 1:45-3:15pm. The basic rules of capture the flag w/ foam swords - bring snow/dry clothes. $10. The Open Center for Autism, Hurley.

(800) 661-1575.

7:45-9:30pm. Understand your cravings & your power foods, nourish your bones, take self care to a new level. $200. Call for location.

687-9666.

Raccoon Circles

CLASSES

3:45-5:15pm. 3rd to 5th graders participate in problem-solving activities. Museum of Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. (845) 534-5506.

Still Life Painting

MUSIC

Artist’s Nest: Collage Escapes for Women

8pm. $20/$15 member. In Good Taste, New Paltz. 255-0110.

1-4pm. Traditional techniques of oil painting using the alla prima method. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

Eric Erickson

Sunday Brunch at Toscani’s

8pm. With Scott Petito and Paul Duffy. The Dockside Pub, Mahopac. 621-0057.

11am. Brunch with music by “Tirendi.” New Paltz. 255-3800.

6:30-9:30pm. Collage, embroider, draw, paint. $20. Call for location. 256-0754.

Meryl Joan Lammers

Deep Listening’s New Vanguard

Newburgh Knitters Club

8pm. With Libby Johnson and Lipbone Redding. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock.

679-5342.

3-5pm. Sunday afternoon series of jazz and world music w/ host David Arner & guest curator Jack Ryon. $10/$8. Alternative Books, Kingston. 338-5984.

Edie 9:30pm. Twist on a traditional one-woman cabaret show. Bridgewater Bar and Grill, Kingston. 340-4272.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9:30pm-12am. Country rock. $8. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

7pm. Drop-in program, no registration required. Bring your own supplies. Instruction for beginners. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

Second Tuesday Lectures

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7pm. How to develop a sustainable lifestyle that’s earth-friendly, energy smart, healthy & fun. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh.

563-3625.

9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

EVENTS

MON 9

Dub/Trance Jam 10pm. Featuring Frontier. Cabaloosa’s, New Paltz. 255-3400.

FORECAST

Lissa Schneckenburger

Indian Classical Music with Veenai Jayanthi

New Open Mic

7pm. Women’s clay art therapy group. Call for location. 255-8039.

DANCE

8pm-12am. Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul playing all kinds of soul music memphis-style.

The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

8pm-12am. Open Mic Night at the Rhinebeck Cantina Grille every Monday hosted by singersongwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Dreamfigures

3pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul with Friends

Monday night open mic in Rhinebeck

Life Drawing Classes

An Evening with David Lindley

3pm Contrdance. Woodstock Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. 657-6643.

MUSIC

7pm. $4. Diane Germaine (poet) and R. Dionysius Whiteurs (poet). The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

CLASSES KIDS

The Egg is the site for ARTBreak, a week-long program of art, movement, music & theatre for grades 3-8. $150. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845. Call for times.

ART

Network With A Purpose 7:30-9am. Sponsored by Design Intervention Studios, and R&C Cleaning. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 485-5300.

Auction/Sale/Exhbit of Haitian Art

SPOKEN WORD Book Signing & Poetry Reading 6:30-8:30pm. Reading by C. J. Krieger from his book of Poetry “Absorbed By The Sun. Call for location. 679-7800.

Call for times. Vassar Haiti Project auction sale exhibition to support Arts and Education in Haiti. Free. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5831.

Playwright’s Lab 6pm-8pm. Playwrights’ Lab: Zolton’s Game

by Doug O’Connor. Free. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0031.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

FILM

Open Mike

Breast Cancer Support Group

Hairspray

8:30-10:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

6pm-7:30pm. Catskill Regional Medical Center, Harris. 339-4673.

7:15pm. SUNY Orange, Middletown.

341-4891.

Trail Building Workshop

KIDS

MUSIC

Call for times. Stone splitting & shaping (intermediate). Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. (201) 512-9348.

Celebrate Springtime

Sean Lennon

3pm. Join us for a storytime in the children’s department. Barnes & Noble, Kingston.

7pm. Sean Lennon performs at The Egg. Women & Children & Kamila Thompson open

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the show. $24. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Introduction to Picasa

DANCE African Dance & Drumming

Community Music Night

7pm. How to download Picasa, organize & share your photos & add special effects.

Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

7:30-9:30pm. Six local singer-songwriters in an open showcase. Free, but donations asked.

Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Voice on Film

Matt Finley & Rio Jazz 7:30-9pm. Brazilian jazz. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

7pm. Filmmaking w/ screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;?), Nicole Quinn & Nina Shengold. SUNY Ulster - Continuing & Professional Education, Kingston. 687-5263.

Bard Festival String Quartet

EVENTS

8pm. Bard Collegee, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7484.

Business Forum

6:30-8:30pm. Nzhinga Women Present African Dance & Drumming Every Friday. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

EVENTS Ribbon Cutting Event 4:30pm. Grand Opening State Farm Insurance. Wine and cheese served. State Farm Insurance, Poughkeepsie. 705-8701.

Cabin Fever Breakout Barbecue

7:45-9am. Poughkeepsie Chamber of Commerce Business Forum. PACC Board Room, Poughkeepsie. 454-1700.

5pm. Lucky Cabin Fever Breakout BBQ w/ Music by Studio Stu and Trio Loco. Meet artists and art lovers. $2. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0031.

8-9:30pm. Tunes by Marion McPartland, Abbey Lincoln and Toshiko Akiyoshi. $10/$8 staff/seniors/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

Ribbon Cutting Event

Terrapin Wine Dinner- Bogle Vineyards

12:30pm. Grand Opening EllaCris Soaps & More. PACC Board Room, Poughkeepsie.

392-3634.

6:30pm. Entertaining and educational evening on California wines. Reservations required. $59/person (before tax and gratuity). Terrapin Catering, Staatsburg. 876-3330.

Open Mic Night

Tabitha Holmes

8:30pm. Open Mic Night hosted by Pete Laffin. Signups at 7pm. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

5pm. Tabitha Holmes discusses motheradolescent conflict. Spring 2007 SUNY New Paltz Lecture Series. Honors Center (College Hall) SUNY New Paltz,. 257-3933.

Jazz Made in America: Faculty Jazz Ensemble

Harmonious Environment 7pm. Join author Norma Lehmeier Hartie for a discussion/signing. Barnes & Noble, Kingston.

336-0590.

WORKSHOPS Saving Employers Time and Money 8:45-10:45am. Background investigations.

Business Resource Center, Kingston. 3318920 ext. 3004.

WED 11

Shira the Pet Psychic 7pm. Bring 2 photos of your pets & Shira will tell you what they want you to know. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

FILM

KIDS Symbols of New York 12-4pm. Learn interesting facts about the state bird, mammal, flower and others. . Museum of the Hudson HIghlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Support Group 6-7:30pm. Washington, Newburgh.

Call for times. A prestigious documentary film festival. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

339-4673. Call for times.

A Mighty Wind

DANCE Modern Dance Classes

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5:30-7pm. Modern Dance Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Call for time. Dinner & a movie. Oriole 9, Woodstock.

679-5763.

KIDS The Llama Garden Retreat Call for times. Experience life on the farm with educational programs for children and adults.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

EVENTS

MUSIC Andre Watts in Recital Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Concert with Pauline Oliveros 7pm-9pm. Pauline Oliveros (accordion) Else Olsen(fiddle) Storesund (bass) Wolff (melodica). $10 /$8. 338-5984.

Richie Aufrichtig 8pm-11pm. Richie Aufrichtigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday extravaganza at the Peekskill Coffee House!

Peekskill Coffeehous, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Palestine: Through the Lens of Peace 6:30pm. Three peace activists present their perspectives on the conflict in the Middle East.

St. Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, Newburgh. 561-5355.

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MUSIC Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted By Kurt Henry. Each week view 3 performers. Donation to musicians. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

6pm-9pm. Beloved bassist performs amid a rotating collection of art exhibitions. Free.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

3:30-4:30pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Carnegie Hall Osvaldo Golijov/Dawn Upshaw

MUSIC

8pm. Workshop, preview performance.

Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7484.

Open Mic Night

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Call for times. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;19th Century Voicesâ&#x20AC;? Book Discussion.

7pm. Featuring a reading and discussion of Walden by David Henry Thoreau. Scholar-led book discussion. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

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THU 12 In Plain Sight 5-6:30pm. Washington, Newburgh. 431-8000 ext. 3982.

SPOKEN WORD Writing, Social Change, and Revolution: A Talk with Poetry and Music 8pm. Ed Sanders will speak on the ways that writers can affect social change. Free. State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3727.

THEATER

Psychology Colloquium

Call for time. An adaptation for the stage of one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous stories.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828-7843.

4pm. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

Bard College Theater Performance

Shakespeare and Balanchine 4pm. Jay Rogoff from Skidmore College will lecture. Free. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3290.

Call for times. A new play by Gracie Leavitt â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;07. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7484.

Suburbia 8pm. Presented by Apprentice Players. $10/$8/$4. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

THEATER Dollface 3pm â&#x20AC;&#x153;A comedy of thwarted desire, unworthy aspiration and dashed hopes set in 1956.â&#x20AC;? $16/$14. Center Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner

ART

10pm. Live music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

The Gospel of John

SPOKEN WORD

SPOKEN WORD Kosher Cooking: Where Do the Trans Fats Fit In

Hot Funk in Soul Sauce

Studio Stu at Vassar College

The Game Guild

10:30pm. Open Mic Every Wednesday. A new surprise each week. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz.

255-2400.

9pm. Live music performance. $20. Bodies Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Sherlock Holmes falls in love with Alice Faulkner. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8696.

Naked & Flailing 8pm. The Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Sharon Breslauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-woman show.

Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

The Measure of a Man A play about boxer Max Schmeling by local playwright Brian C. Petti. $18. Cunneen Hackett Theater Building, Poughkeepsie.

486-4571.

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Sufi Zikr (Chanting) 5:45pm. Sufi zikr, healing chant and prayer. $5/$10. St. Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-7215.

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Collage Escape!

Opening Reception: Spring Alive

6:30-9:30pm. Collage fiesta for women. $20.

Call for location. 256-0754.

6-8pm. Meet the artists & view work by ACC members, in an historic town along the

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KEN BURNS WILL PREVIEW HIS NEW FILM THE WAR AT SIMON’S ROCK COLLEGE IN GREAT BARRINGTON ON APRIL 6.

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THE GOOD WAR Noted historian Stephen Ambrose once claimed, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” So prepare: The subject of Burns’s next history lesson may hit closer to home than you think.

Although the Iraq War has lasted longer than the US involvement in World War II, it has had little impact on most American families. In his new documentary, The War, filmmaker Burns looks at how World War II affected the soldiers on the front lines as well as their families back home. He will bring his new film to Simon’s Rock College on April 6 for a preview screening.

“The students at Simon’s Rock are younger than most college students, and Ken Burns understands precocity. He made his first documentary when he was in his twenties, so it’s a natural place for him to have a prescreening,” explains Mary Marcy, the vice president and provost of the college. Burns will also lead a one-day workshop on documentary film with Simon’s Rock students.

“Burns looks at things with great passion, but also great clarity,” says Marcy. “He also looks dispassionately at what led us to war and what the consequences of war are to us today.”

Burns’s first documentary, The Brooklyn Bridge, aired on PBS-TV in 1981, but he’s best known for his award-winning miniseries The Civil War, which used historical photographs and letters to tell the story of the conflict from the first-person perspectives of Union and Confederate soldiers. The War uses similar techniques to chronicle World War II, but for this project no historians were interviewed, nor did Burns talk to any generals. The interviews in the film are with the surviving soldiers and civilians who experienced the war abroad and at home.

Burns has also made biographical documentaries about, among others, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, and African American boxer Jack Johnson, and historical films including The Statue of Liberty, Baseball, and Jazz. “People like Ken Burns made it possible to understand what can be done with documentary film,” says Marcy. “It’s a way of understanding the world in three dimensions with complexity and nuance.” The War is 14 hours long and will air in seven two-hour segments this fall. Baseball, Burns’s 18 1/2-hour 1994 program on the history of the sport, was the most-watched documentary in PBS’s history.

Marcy also believes The War has added significance for her students. “I think that it can help us understand the sacrifice that has been made in the history of this country,” she says. “And it forces us to grapple with what is being done in our name today.”

An abbreviated preview of The War screens on April 6 at 2pm in the Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The free showing will be followed by a questionand-answer session. (413) 528-7395; www.simons-rock.edu.

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a recognized and critically acclaimed master of fingerstyle playing, joins David Lindley, best known as a member of Jackson Browneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band and an advocate and performer of world music, at the historic Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill.

For more than three decades, Kottke has never wavered from the pursuit of his unique musical vision. Best known for his idiosyncratic fingerpicking, which draws from folk, blues, jazz, and even occasional rock elements, he often uses â&#x20AC;&#x153;dropped tunings,â&#x20AC;? in which his six- and twelve-string guitars are tuned as much as two steps below standard pitch. Although primarily an instrumental artist, Kottke occasionally sings in an equally unusual voice that he comically describes as â&#x20AC;&#x153;goose farts on a muggy day,â&#x20AC;? and intersperses his live concerts with amusing and sometimes bizarre monologues.

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Kottke overcame partial deafness and a debilitating and potentially career-ending problem with tendonitis that threatened his career in the early 1980s. Born and raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma, he gravitated toward the guitar after trying his hand at the trombone and violin. His hearing problems were exacerbated during a stint in the Naval Reserve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to throw away my picks,â&#x20AC;? Kottke says about his battle with tendonitis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There really isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any treatment for it, and most people solve their problems by changing their technique, which is what I did. But it takes a long, long time and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really, really tough.â&#x20AC;?

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Rod Stewart, Bruce Hornsby, Shawn Colvin, Crosby & Nash, and many others.

Leo Kottke and David Lindley will perform at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill on April 14 at 8pm. (914) 739-2333; www.paramountcenter.org. David Lindley will perform solo at the Bearsville Theater in Bearsville on April 7 at 8pm. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bob Cianci

Hudson River. Free. Athens Cultural Center, Athens.(518) 945-2136.

Artists Opening 6-9pm. Artists Opening featuring prints, sculpture and furniture. Pearl Art, Stone Ridge.

687-0888.

MUSIC James Hunter UK soul-blues sensation. Bearsville Theater, Bearsville. 679-4406.

Patty Larkin 3pm. Folk, Celtic, blues, and R&B. $30/$35.

Marion’s, Woodstock. 679-3213.

ARTS Center Annual Dinner & Dance 7-11pm. The ARTS Center of the Greater Hudson Valley’s Annual Dinner & Dance. $60.

Terrapin Catering, Staatsburg. 758-8708.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong for Seniors Call for times. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Reiki I and II Series Call for times. An eight week session is being offered to include both Reiki I and II certifications. $160. The Lanesville Retreat House, Lanesville. 688-5672.

Art Classes Drawing, still life, figurative, plein air painting and life portraits for all levels. Call for location.

(914) 819-8856. Call for times.

The Baroque Orchestra at Graymoor Inaugural Performance 7pm. Conductor Scott C. Mettey. $15.

Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor, Garrison. (914) 393-0805.

Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open Mic Night at Circle Of Friends with your hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The AURACLE, New Paltz. 255-6046.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Songriters circle. Dutch Arms Chapel, John Street, Saugerties. $3. www.chrisdepalma.com.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul with Friends 8-12am. Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul playing all kinds of soul music memphis-style. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

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DANCE African Drum & Dance Call for times. 4 teachers from W. Africa offer instr. in Dance & Drumming. Deadline April 9. $20/$100. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

658-7104.

Friends of Fiddle & Dance 8pm. Peter Blue calling, music by Dylan Foley & Susie Deane. $10/$9. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

8pm. Spring returns to The Gilded Otter with Erik Erickson. Gilded Otter, New Paltz.

256-1700.

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Fiddlers Dream II 8pm. A night of wish fulfillment for all of us who love the energy and passion of great fiddle music. $15/$20/$25. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Reality Check 9pm. Modern and classic dance rock hits.

Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

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EVENTS Woman of Truth Call for times. Part of Women’s Mysteries Retreats. Per Ankh, Kingston. 339-5776.

Symposium: The Comic Book 5:30pm. Papers, short presentations, student comic art, and a film screening. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7484.

Life on Fire 9pm. A benefit concert for the 60 Main Cultural Collective with music and poetry. Cabaloosa, New Paltz.

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8pm. The Stephen Petronio Company will dance to music by Rufus Wainwright and Stravinsky. $24/$20/$12. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Roost 9pm. Heart & soul Rock n Roll Band with a great sense for pop melodies. $10. Bodies Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

SPOKEN WORD Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Poets Bob Wright and Al Desetta will be the featured readers and will be hosted by poet Phillip Levine. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock.

Walker Valley Fire Dept. Penny Social 6pm. Tricky tray, children’s raffle and more.

Benefits the Firefighter Burn Treatment Fund.

Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

The Marbletown Teen Club 5th Annual Chocolate Social 7-10pm. An evening for adults to come & socialize while sampling chocolate treats.

Have fun in the Teen Center lounge & be a kid again! $10. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-9101.

Manitoga Season Begins Tours include Home, Studio & Woodland Garden of pioneer industrial designer Russel Wright. $15/$13/$5. Manitoga, Garrison.

424-3812.

THE OUTDOORS Amazing Amphibian Hike 10am. $5/$3. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506.

Everyday Wellness-Cooking With Herbs 11am-4pm. Wild edibles, a wild herb lunch and an opportunity to meet others in your community. $35. Shawangunk Ridge Farm, New Paltz. 256-1206.

THEATER The Gospel of John Call for time. An adaptation for the stage of one of the world’s most famous stories.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828-7843.

KIDS Milk ‘n Cookies Playhouse: Jeffrey Friedberg & the Bossy Frog Band Call for times. Children’s music. $9/ $7.

Bywater Bistro, Rosendale. 658-3210.

Saturday Program: Amazing Amphibian Hike 10am. Learn how amphibians live. Explore the wetlands & forest. Ages 5 & up. $5/$3.

Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall.

534-5506 ext 204.

Bard College Theater Performance Call for times. A new play by Gracie Leavitt ‘07. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7484.

Suburbia 8pm. Presented by Apprentice Players. $10/$8/$4. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

WORKSHOPS Maggie’s Garden

Llama Garden Retreat

11am. Provides a foundation for kids to develop an interest in plants. $8/$5. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Call for times. Experience the practical & creative ways of life on a fiber farm w/llamas, alpacas & sheep. $75. Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

The Bindlestiff Family Circus 2pm. Slapstick, juggling, and more. $5/$2.50/ $5. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Voices of the Valley 1pm. Empire State College’s for-credit course featuring HV’s music and poetry, presented by

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Soprano Danielle Woerner. FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park. 486-7770.

Blues Jam 9pm. Mike Quick hosts Open Mic Blues Jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

Tarot-on-the-Hudson 2-4:30pm. Monthly Tarot study and play with Tarot Grandmaster, Author and Teacher, Rachel Pollack. $25. Call for location.

876-5797.

An Introduction to Feng Shui 2-4pm. Learn how to bring abundance and harmony into your home and workplace. $15/ $20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

SUN 15 ART The Society of the Cincinnati Exhibit 1-5pm. Opening reception for â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Society of the Cincinnati: One Society of Friendsâ&#x20AC;? exhibit.

Royal Kedem Winery, Marlboro. 236-4000

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Psychic Fair 1-4pm. Readings, energy work, chi kung, vendors and more! Fundraiser to benefit the Walden Humane Society. $25 readings; $10/ $25 energy work; $15 chi kung. Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT THE OUTDOORS

Dreamfigures

Trail Building Workshop

7pm. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clay art therapy group. Call for location. 255-8039.

Call for times. Advanced rigging. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. (201) 512-9348.

Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike-Zaidee 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Peach Hill Hike Celebrate tax day with an evening walk up Peach Hill, highest elevation in Poughkeepsie.

Call for location. 471-9892.

The Gospel of John 12am. An adaptation for the stage of one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous stories. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828-7843.

Bard College Theater Performance Call for times. A new play by Gracie Leavitt â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;07. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7484.

9-11am. 8-week Basic Screenwriting Workshop taught by Sundance filmmaker Enid Zentelis. Making an Independent Film Workshop, Downing Film Center, Newburgh.

(866) 433-1625.

3pm. Presented by Apprentice Players. $10/$8/$4. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

Heartbeat Photography 10am-4pm. Wildlife photography workshop with Dave Johnson. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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2pm. Learn the basic steps of swing dancing.

Free and open to all ages. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

5:30-7:30pm. Learn to play African drums. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MON 16 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Psychology of Metabolism 6pm. Talk by holistic health counselor Marika Blossfeldt. Free. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 838-1288.

DANCE Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30-2:30pm. Euro Dance for seniors and others on Thursdays. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Ribbon Cutting Event 4:30pm. Environmental/geologic consultation.

Conrad Geoscience, Poughkeepsie. 454-2544.

5pm. Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout and author Ian Buruma discuss Dutch society and politics.

Free. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7598.

Open House at Dutchess Community College 6-8pm. Gives prospective DCC students the opportunity to learn more about the College.

Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie.

431-8000.

An Evening With Ulster Home Educators 7pm. For parents interested in exploring home-based education. Free. New Paltz Town Hall, New Paltz. 255-0100.

KIDS Amazing Adaptations 3:45- 5:15pm. K to 2nd grade. Learn how predators catch their prey and how prey avoids being caught. $80. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 5345506 ext. 204.

Meet the Animals Call for times.Join Museum staff for feeding time at the indoor pond and meet the animal of the week. $3. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

MUSIC

Life Drawing Classes 7:30-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/ $28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559

EVENTS

WORKSHOPS

Learn to Swing Dance.

African drum classes

7:45-9:30pm. Understand your cravings and your power foods, nourish your bones, take self care to a new level. $200. Call for location.

687-9666.

Suburbia

CLASSES Film and Screenwriting Workshops

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nutrition Group

Dutch Discussion

THEATER

The Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way Creative Cluster Call for times. A self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Sun.â&#x20AC;? Free. Inspired Books and Gifts, Kingston. 331-0644. Call for times.

Spring Choral Concert

FILM Night at the Movies 6:45pm. In this road trip movie, a trip across South America impacts a future Cuban revoltionary. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

8-9:30pm. Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and College-Community Chorale, directed by Dr. Edward Lundergan. $6/$4/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

Open Mic Night 8:30pm. Open Mic Night hosted by Pete Laffin. Signups at 7pm. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

MUSIC Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra

KIDS

8pm. Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9th Symphony. Newburgh Free Academy, Newburgh. 625-0625.

Capture the Flag at The Open Center 1:45-3:15pm. The basic rules of capture the flag with foam swords. Bring dry clothes. $10.

The Open Center for Autism, Hurley. (800) 661-1575.

Monday night open mic in Rhinebeck 8pm-12am. Open Mic Night at the Rhinebeck Cantina Grille every Monday hosted by singer-songwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck.

876-6816.

WORKSHOPS Marketing Yourself 6:30-9pm. Tips for marketing your business

by Shirley Stone of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Circles. $15/$20.

Marionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Woodstock. 876-2194.

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534-5506

New Open Mic 10pm. With James Patrick (Four Dogs Playing Poker) Acoustic/Electric. Mahoneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-3027.

MUSIC

SPOKEN WORD

Sunday Brunch at Toscaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Einstein vs. The Enlightenment

11am. Brunch with music by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tirendi.â&#x20AC;?

Toscaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, New Paltz. 255-3800

Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandaleon-Hudson. Call for times. 758-7484.

Modal Blue

Writing for Love and/or Money

1pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

2:30pm. Frank D. Gilroy playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4790.

Deep Listeningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Vanguard 3pm-5pm. Sunday afternoon series of jazz and world music w/ host David Arner & guest curator Jack Ryon. $10/$8. Alternative Books, Kingston. 338-5984.

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7pm. Mermer Blakeslee (poet/novelist) and Eeo Stufflefield (performance artist/anti-war activist). $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock.

679-5342.

11am-3pm. More than 100 companies from the Hudson Valley, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000.

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree programs. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

The Great Depression and Post War Prosperity 7pm. Discussion of the Great Depression and World War II. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000.

Fun with Energy

3pm. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

7pm. Kings Theatre Company presents Don McLean live in concert. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Hudson Valley Job Fair

KIDS

Violist Marka Gustavsson and Pianist Carmel Lowenthal

Don McLean in Concert

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Monday Night Open Mic

EVENTS

TUE 17 ART Book Signing & Poetry Reading Poetry reading and book signing for C. J. Kriegerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest of poetry ,â&#x20AC;&#x153;Absorbed By

Call for times. $6. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 876-3088.

Explorers Session 2: Raccoon Circles 3:45- 5:15pm. Grades 3-5. $80/$70. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506.

RICHARD TERMINE

CARIE KAWA (TOP) AND HANNAH CABELL STAR IN “JANE EYRE” AT BARD COLLEGE ON APRIL 18.

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Society’s insatiable appetite for melodrama—witness the intrigue surrounding the recent death of Anna Nicole Smith—may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre. The put-upon governess of the eponymous 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte, Eyre navigates a life ripe for reality TV. Among her travails: an orphaned past; unrequited love for her cruel, mysterious master, Edward Rochester; and a creeping dread about a secret locked away in her employer’s attic.

FORECAST

Adapted into numerous films and television productions, "Jane Eyre" became an acclaimed stage play when it was published in 1997 by Polly Teale and later performed in England and America. It arrives on April 18 at Bard College in a production by The Acting Company, the celebrated touring troupe cofounded by John Houseman and whose alumni include Patti LuPone, Frances Conroy, Jeffrey Wright, and Rainn Wilson.

Director Davis McCallum—previously at Bard with a stage version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw—admitted the numerous challenges of transferring a sprawling classic to the stage.

First, one must resist the temptation to compete with cinema’s multi-million-dollar costume dramas.

“When you’re adapting a piece of literature that has a grand novelistic scope,” he said, “you have to be creative in using the vocabulary of live theater.”

The recreation of Thornfield Hall, Rochester’s menacing home, was downsized for the stage.

Not only does this help the show escape horror-film clichés, but the minimalist set allows for easy striking, an important consideration since this company is likely to perform five times per week in different venues.

Like the novel, Teale’s play lumbers under the burden of hand-wringing amid dark, stormy nights.

“There is something operatic about the emotional life of Jane Eyre that is thrilling to me,” McCallum says. However, he skirts the tempting edges of wretched excess, opting for a cool, abstract modernity.

For instance, the scenery is “more psychological and more theatrical and less realistic.” An over-sized lightbox showcases the forbidding sky of a Corot painting. A cellist, the play’s lone musician, offers interludes that echo the ever-present woe.

“I don’t think there’s a whiff of camp in the production,” McCallum says. “We steered clear of that trap.”

Ominously, a huge matte-gray box is wheeled back and forth throughout the production.

It symbolizes not only the attic, which contains a dire mystery, but also Eyre’s psychological imprisonment. The mistreated governess, McCallum said, clearly wrestled with her own out-sized passions and struggled against the corset of social convention.

McCallum’s decidedly feminist take on the story springs from a landmark 1979 book of literary criticism, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.

“Inside Jane Eyre is a woman—another woman, passionate and wild—so she has to keep her locked up inside,” McCallum suggests. But he also feels in the story Eyre’s renegade persona finally, triumphantly emerges. “I see Jane Eyre as a story of containment and release,” he says.

The Acting Company performs “Jane Eyre” on April 18 at 7pm at the Sosnoff Theater at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

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MUSIC

SPOKEN WORD

The Bowmans and Kris Gruen

Breast Cancer Support Group

8:30pm. Up-beat country-fried pop. $8.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

12-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.

Open Mic Night

Celebrate Poetry Month

10:30pm. Open Mic Every Wednesday. A new surprise each week. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz.

255-2400.

7pm. Open Mike Night featuring the Hudson River Poets and other local poets. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

SPOKEN WORD

THEATER

Poet Charles Simic Reads

The Gospel of John

11am. Poet Charles Simic will read and discuss his poetry. Free. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

12am. An adaptation for the stage of one of the world’s most famous stories. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828- 7843.

Breast Cancer Support Group

ART Poet Charles Simic Reads More 7pm. A longer reading by poet Charles Simic.

Free. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

Reading of Original Works 7pm. With poet Paul Kane. SUNY Orange, Middletown. 341-4891.

Photography Opening 6-9pm. Work by three photographers. The Pearl Art Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-0888.

The Gospel of John Call for times. An adaptation for the stage of one of the world’s most famous stories.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828- 7843.

6:30-9:30pm. Collage fiesta for women. $20.

Call for location. 256-0754.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

7pm. Open Mic Night at Circle Of Friends with your hosts Nannyhagen Creek. . $10. The AURACLE, New Paltz.. 255-6046.

Call for times. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

6:30-8:30pm. Nzhinga Women Present African Dance & Drumming Every Friday. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

THU 19 EVENTS

11am-12:30pm. Learn what foods you should be eating to aid your health. $10. Marion’s, Woodstock. 679-3213.

Tara Greenblatt

Spring Cleanse Mini-Retreat

8pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

1-4pm. Greet the season by cleansing the body, mind, and spirit with Ayurveda. Preregistration required. $30. Affinity Healing Arts, New Paltz. 797-4124.

Conference for teachers. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. Call for times. 758-7484.

Reiki I and II Series

Drawing, still life, figurative, plein air painting and life portraits for all levels. Call for location.

(914) 819-8856. Call for times.

Healthy Cooking Series 1pm. Cooking demonstrations by radio personality and chef John Moultrie. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

8pm. Qantara World Acoustic Jazz Ensemble featuring Simon Shaheen. $20/$15. Kleinert/ James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Johnny Unstoppable

Tim O’Brien

EVENTS

9pm. Bluegrass veteran Tim O’Brien and special guest Marc Douglas Berardo.

Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

Breast Cancer Options Conference

Censored Cartoons

Skate to Benefit The Open Center

5pm. David Wallis, author of Killed Cartoons, reads and signs. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

10:30am-12:30pm. Come Skate to benefit the Open Center for Autism. Skate Time 209, Accord. 626-7971.

Raccoon Circles

EVENTS

THEATER

Earth Day Celebration

The Gospel of John

the Trapps

International Community Dinner

Sweet, Sour & Salty

4-8pm. Traditional cuisine, music, & dancing from diverse nations & cultures. Please bring your ethnic food to share. First Presbyterian Church, Hudson. 366-2551.

SPOKEN WORD Live Letters Aloud: Stephen Kessler

Book Signing & Poetry Reading

Call for times. Experience life on the farm with educational programs for children and adults.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

7-9pm. Poet Stephen Kessler, featured in Deep Listening Institute’s Live Letters Aloud. $10 /$8.. Call for location. 338-5984.

5pm-7pm. Poetry reading & book signing for C. J. Krieger’s newest book of poetry “Absorbed By The Sun”. Free. The Bohemian Book Bin, Kingston. 331-6713.

6pm. Hosted By Kurt Henry. Each week view three performers. Donation to musicians. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Call for times. An adaptation for the stage of one of the world’s most famous stories.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828- 7843.

Studio Stu at Vassar College

Sweet, Sour & Salty

6-9pm. Beloved bassist performs amid a rotating collection of art. Free. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

437-5632.

8pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Naked & Flailing 8pm. The Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Sharon Breslau’s one-woman show.

Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

Sonia and Disappear Fear 8pm. Sonia strives to disappear fear and spread her message of Peace. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

KIDS The Emperor’s New Clothes 1pm. Musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. $8/$5 children. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Super Saturdays for Kids 10:30am. Featuring the Jeff Boyer Magic Show. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

3:45-5:15pm. 3rd to 5th graders participate in problem-solving activities. Museum of Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506 Call (845) 534-5506.

MUSIC

8pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Sunday Brunch at Toscani’s 11am. Brunch with music by “Tirendi”.

Toscani’s, New Paltz. 255-3800.

WORKSHOPS

Patrick Fitzsimmons

Llama Garden Retreat

1pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Call for times. Experience the practical and creative ways of life on a fiber farm w/llamas, alpacas & sheep. . $75. Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

Conservatory Chamber Orchestra Concert 3pm. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

The Role of Raised Beds in the Farm Organism 9am-5pm. A Pfeiffer Center workshop.

Biodynamics and the Environment. The Pfeiffer Center, Chestnut Ridge. 352-5020.

Finding Your Voice 2-5pm. Soprano Danielle Woerner acquaints students with their vocal capabilities. $50.

SUNY Dutchess, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000.

SUN 22

Deep Listening’s New Vanguard 3-5pm. Sunday afternoon series of jazz and world music w/ host David Arner & guest curator Jack Ryon. $10/$8. Alternative Books, Kingston. 338-5984.

Sunday Jazz Cafe at Riverspace 7-10pm. featured artist Stella Marrs, Vocals, with special guests. $8/$4. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522.

A Double Dose of Downbeat 7pm. Kurt Elling swings and Bill Charlap perform. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

WORKSHOPS

11am-3pm. $5/$3 children. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506.

Earth Day Benefit Concert and Labyrinth Walk for Peace

9:30-11:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

11am-3pm. $5/$3 children. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506.

The Gospel of John

Earth Day Celebration

5-7pm. Twenty-six writers from around the world read their work. Call for location. (518) 392-4568, ext. 100.

8pm. W/Matt Durfee and others. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

THEATER

6th Annual Complementary Medicine Conference Presents 16 Workshops. $25/$35/ $12/$25. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center, New Paltz. 339-4673. Call for times.

SPOKEN WORD

Call for time. An adaptation for the stage of one of the world’s most famous stories.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828-7843.

Acoustic Thursdays

2:30pm. A stylized look at a ritual wedding.

With drumming, singing and bellydancing.

New Rochelle Public Library, New Rochelle.

(914) 632-7878.

1:45-3:15pm. The basic rules of capture the flag with foam swords. Bring dry clothes. $10.

The Open Center for Autism, Hurley. (800) 661-1575.

The Llama Garden Retreat

8pm. Hosted by Richie Colan. Swing dancers welcome. $5 or free with dinner purchase.

High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

World Acoustic Jazz Ensemble

Capture the Flag at The Open Center

KIDS

Blues jam and Dance party

Danse Du Ventre: The Wheel of Life

Nesting Birds on the Shawangunk Mountains

8-11pm. $10/$5 students. Washington, Newburgh. 473-7050.

MUSIC

DANCE

THE OUTDOORS

Earth Day Celebration

8pm. Local rock. $14/$18. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

7:30-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/ $28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

2-4pm. Concert featuring local singersongwriter Cecilia St. King. $5. Peace Sanctuary: Healing Gardens, Barrytown.

417-1345.

Contradance

Call for times. “The Odyssey”, set in the deep south during the 1930’s w/ George Clooney.

(Dinner & Movie). Oriole 9, Woodstock.

679-5763.

Life Drawing Classes

7pm. Join the authors for a reading and signing of their novels. The Brick House, Marlboro. 236-3765.

EVENTS

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

5:30-7:30pm. Learn to play African drums. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Da Chen and Sunny

3pm. Do Jump! A blend of theatre, dance, acrobatics & live music that defies categorization. $18/$14/$9. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Platypus

African drum classes

DANCE Do Jump! Family Dance Series

7pm. Happy hour. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz.

255-2400.

CLASSES

Ledig House Writers Residency

Symbols of New York

FILM

1pm. Monthly meeting of the Catskill Mountain Chapter of ASD. Guest speaker: John Phillips. $3/ $5. Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush.

744-3960.

4-6pm. Led By Holly Shelowitz, Cert. Nutrition Counselor. Lighter foods that are cleansing & nourishing. $65. Call for location. 687-9666.

KIDS

MUSIC

8pm-12am. Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul playing all kinds of soul music, Memphis-style.

The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Holly’s Cooking Class

7pm-9pm. Group Channeling Session with Betsy Stang. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

12-4pm. Learn interesting facts about the state bird, mammal, flower and others. . Museum of the Hudson HIghlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul with Friends

CLASSES

Group Channeling

information. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8089.

1-3pm. The facts, the fiction and the history. $35. Stonewater Sanctuary at Opal Moon, Croton-On-Hudson. 265-3137.

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Revision: Lessons from Writers and Artists

John Mayall & Al Kooper at The Egg

Health Food Store Tour

Art Classes

African Dance & Drumming

12-2pm. Features food, fun, music, environmental organizations &

Herbalism: Miracle Cure or Modern-Day Hype?

American Society of Dowsers

8pm. John Mayall & Al Kooper perform as part of the American Roots & Branches concert series. $24. (518) 473-1845.

Call for times. Retreat for teachers and administrators . $75. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

DANCE

5:45pm. Sufi zikr, healing chant and prayer, is an opportunity to open the heart & bathe in the love of God. . $5/$10. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Circle Of Friends

Courage To Teach Renewal Retreat

7pm. Polly Teale’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre . $30/$15. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Sufi Zikr (Chanting)

5-7pm. Reception for the opening of “Seen But Unseen”, photographs by Bill DeLanney.

Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

ART

Call for times. An eight week session is being offered to include both Reiki I and II certifications. $160. The Lanesville Retreat House, Lanesville. 688-5672.

Performance: The Acting Company

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Artist’s Reception with Bill DeLanney

7pm. Featuring Simon’s Rock College’s Free Trial, Amhert’s Vocal Suspects, and Bard College’s Orcapelicans. Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington. (800) 235-7186.

Collage Escape!

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

THEATER

A Cappella Concert

Qigong for Seniors

FRI 20

6pm-7:30pm. Catskill Public Library, Catskill.

(518) 943-4230.

SAT 21

Blues Jam

Compassion Weekend Workshop

Scenes from a Keyboard

The Artist’s Way Creative Cluster

9pm. Mike Quick hosts blues/funk/soul jam.

All musicians welcome. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

Call for times. “Cultivating a Compassionate Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig.” Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

6pm. Close Encounters With Music presents pianist Adam Neiman. $30/$10. St. James Church, Great Barrington. (413) 528-1460.

Call for times. A self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Eliza Gilkyson and Tom Russell 8pm. Eliza Gilkyson and Tom Russell perform. .Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

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EVENTS

Pianist Omar Sosa with Afreecanos Quartet Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. Call for time. (413) 528-3394.

Membership Breakfast 7:30am. Kevin O’Connor of Rural Ulster Preservation Company speaks on workforce housing in UC. $13/$16. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-5100.

9:30am-4pm. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Dreamfigures

MUSIC

10pm. With James Patrick (Four Dogs Playing Poker) Acoustic/Electric. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-3027.

7pm. Women’s clay art therapy group. Call for location. 255-8039.

Community Music Night

Guided Imagery and Reiki Healing Circle

7:30pm-9:30pm. Six local singersongwriters in an open showcase. Free, but donations asked. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

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THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike

New Open Mic

Kids, Politics, and America’s Future 5pm. Lawrence Grossberg will give a talk, “Promises or Dreams: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future”. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson.

Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series 2:30pm. Nonfiction master David Shields.

Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7484.

$20. Woodstock NY in the Spirit of Woodstock across from the Mobile S, Woodstock.

Symphonic Band 8-9:30pm. Symphonic Band, conducted by Dr. William McCann, Free. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

Women’s Nutrition Group

THEATER The Gospel of John Call for time. An adaptation for the stage of one of the world’s most famous stories.

StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 828-7843.

Sweet, Sour & Salty 2pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

MON 23 CLASSES Landscape Painting

Christopher Link 5pm. Christopher Link of the English Department discusses Lolita in the Garden.

Spring 2007 Lecture Series. at Honors Center (College Hall) SUNY New Paltz. 257-3933.

MUSIC Patty Griffin at The Egg 7:30pm. Patty Griffin, one of today’s most highly acclaimed singer-songwriters, performs. $24. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Monday Night Open Mic 7pm. Mary Leonard (poet/author), Lee Gould (poet). $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock.

679-5342.

7:45-9:30pm. Understand your cravings & your power foods, nourish your bones, take self care to a new level. $200. Call for location. 687-9666.

Open Mic Night 8:30pm. Open Mic Night hosted by Pete Laffin. Signups at 7pm. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

Poetry Open Mike

CLASSES

7pm. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock 679-5342.

Newburgh Knitters Club.

SPOKEN WORD

7pm. Drop-in program. Bring your own supplies. Instruction for beginners. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh.. 563-3625.

Vivian Gornick Reads Memoir

TUE 24

4pm. “Fierce Attachments,” a memoir of a fierce and charming mother. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

EVENTS Monday night open mic in Rhinebeck 8pm-12am. Open Mic Night at the Rhinebeck Cantina Grille every Monday hosted by singer-songwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

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1pm-4pm. Some hiking involved. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

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7-9pm. A reiki healing Circle with psychic readings to be held.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Women’s Nutrition Group

Public Policy and Politics of Religious Tolerance

The Business Marketing Association Meeting

Understand your cravings, nourish your bones, & take self care to a new level. $200.

Jai Ma Yoga Center, New Paltz. 687-9666.

Call for times. IAT Conference. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7484.

6-9pm. Seminar on corporate culture. $45/ $35 affiliates/$30 members. Royal Kedem Winery, Marlboro. 567-9000 ext. 259.

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PAT METHENY AND BRAD MEHLDAU PLAY THE BARDAVON IN POUGHKEEPSIE ON APRIL 10.

DIVINE ALLIANCE

For contemporary jazz lovers, it’s nothing less than a match made in heaven.

‘I just hired this guy, you’re going to love him.’ I paid attention, because getting

On April 10, the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie will host a stop on the eagerly

good piano players is really hard,” Metheny said. “A few months later when the

anticipated tour pairing virtuoso pianist Brad Mehldau with legendary guitarist

record [Redman’s 1994 release, MoodSwing] came on the radio—just on the

Pat Metheny.

comping, not even the solos—I thought, ‘This has got to be that guy!’ It was one

A successful and artistically innovative guitarist adept at weaving folk, rock, and other musical threads into the jazz tapestry, Hudson Valley resident Metheny made his recording debut in 1974 with Jaco Pastorius and Paul Bley.

Now, 33 years later, listening to him speak about his current collaboration with Mehldau, it’s obvious that the 53-year-old Metheny’s musical batteries are fully recharged.

of those rare moments when I had to pull the car over to the side of the road.”

During the subsequent years, after Mehldau had referenced Metheny as an influence in numerous interviews, the two started to talk about working together.

The problem was in finding synchronicity in the schedules of two musicians who are on the road for more than six months out of every year.

But studio time was booked, and leading up to the December 2005 recording

“Playing with [Mehldau] has been among the most exciting and pleasurable

dates, Mehldau and Metheny faxed music back and forth, resulting in 24

music making I’ve ever been a part of. Brad’s a lot better than me; he’s an

compositions for the musicians to hash out in the studio. And once they finally

absolutely astonishing musician,” says Metheny.

got in front of the microphones, they found there was an immediate chemistry

The classically trained, 37-year-old Mehldau began his musical journey as a sideman with heavy hitters like Lee Konitz, Wayne Shorter, and Charlie Haden, before garnering critical acclaim as the leader of his own trio.

Last month, Metheny and Mehldau released Metheny/Mehldau Quartet (Nonesuch), their second release in less than a year. The pair cut the disc with the Mehldau’s trio of bassist (and Kingston resident) Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard.

Quartet is nearly the opposite of last year’s duet-dominated Metheny/Mehldau (Nonesuch) in that eight of the new album’s tracks feature the full quartet.

Metheny was clued in to Mehldau by saxophonist Joshua Redman, a mutual friend and collaborator. “[Redman] was just getting his band going and he told me,

between them.

“The X-factor was the melodic ideas that developed organically,” said Metheny. “You can’t talk about melody the same way you can describe harmony and rhythm; it’s very mysterious. And Brad is just really good at improvising melodies.”

The fruit of this labor is a stylistically diverse musical landscape that swings with fluidity and sophistication. Expect magic when Metheny and Mehldau bring it our way.

Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on April 10 at 8pm. (845) 473-2072; www.bardavon.org.

—Jeremy Schwartz

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POETIC LIAR

Charles Simic is one of this country’s foremost poets and his honors prove it: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, finalist for the National Book Award, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” He will be reading at SUNY Ulster’s 13th Annual Poetry Forum on April 18.

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938, Simic survived Nazi occupation during World War II, arrived in the US at age 16, graduated from New York University, and published his first collection of poems in 1967. The author of more than 60 books, including translations, a memoir, and essays, in addition to his own poetry, he is currently a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

Simic writes in a style that has been described as both minimalist and surreal. In many poems, ordinary language conveys common objects and events. Yet beneath this deceptive facade, Simic’s poems resonate with uncommon juxtapositions of memory, feeling, and situation, often preoccupied by a sense of burden or restlessness.

In his essay “Poetry and Experience,” Simic writes: “At least since Emerson and Whitman, there’s a cult of experience in American poetry. Our poets, when one comes right down to it, are always saying: This is what happened to me. This is what I saw and felt. Truth, they never get tired of reiterating, is not something that already exists in the world, but something that needs to be

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rediscovered almost daily.”

CHARLES SIIMIC READS AT SUNY ULSTER’S ANNUAL POETRY FORUM ON APRIL 18.

—Al Desetta

AD: What do you like about giving readings?

CS: You invent to tell the truth. People always assume that everything in your

CS: You sort of test the poems to see how they sound. It’s one thing to write and

poems happened to you. A lot of things did but a lot of things did not. In some

read them on the page, but once they’re said to an audience aloud, it’s a great

ways you can describe that as lying, but you’re working with your imagination,

risk. You find out things about the poem that work, things that don’t work. It’s a

which is what art does.

little bit like presenting your own play.

AD: Critics often use the word "surreal" to describe your poems. What is AD: How does a poem begin for you? Do you start with an image or idea?

your reaction to that label?

CS: Not an idea, but some mood associated with a place, with an image. I’ll be

CS: It really means nothing to me, because I believe that deep down in my heart

thinking of a dark winter afternoon. You recall another one from the past and then

I’m a realist. I look at the world with my eyes open.

some other images come in. Suddenly, you are a few years back trying to catch a bus on the South Side of Chicago. All of a sudden your imagination and memory

AD: The language in your poems is very stripped-down, or even plain. How

are moving. And what will come out of that, God knows. But that’s how it starts.

did that style evolve for you?

CS: I like very complicated and rich, dense diction, but I also like a style that is

AD: I know you revise your work quite extensively. Is a poem ever finished

really accessible, where a dog could pick up a couple of words and wag its tail.

for you? How do you know when it is?

There’s something wonderful in trying to say very complex things "simply."

CS: I can’t help tinkering and I know that’s dangerous. There’s the story about the scientist with the beautiful wife, and she has a little birthmark on her face. The

AD: There’s a great quote from Seamus Heaney about your work: “The

scientist thinks if he just removes that she’ll be perfect. But when he does, he kills

magic dance is being kept up to keep calamity at bay.” There’s a sense

her. Sometimes a slight little awkwardness is the poem’s charm and gives it a

of foreboding in your work, but there’s an equal sense of play, almost

kind of life and reality. And if you remove it, you kill it.

co-existing, side by side. Is that something you’re consciously striving for or aware of while you’re writing?

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AD: Do you write poetry every day, or do you go through fallow periods

CS: It’s part of my sensibility. The world is an evil place. As we speak, people

where the poetry has to build up over time?

are being maimed, killed, and hurt in other ways. You can’t forget that. At the

CS: It’s impossible to write every day and I wouldn’t want to write every day. There

same time, we also sing and enjoy food and fall in love and go around the house

are other things to do in life. I go through periods when I’m writing every day and

whistling. It’s not all bleak. There are two elements, and one has to remember

then I go through months when I don’t think about it at all.

them both.

AD: You once wrote, “Poetry is the only place where a liar can have an honest

Charles Simic will read on April 18 at 11am in Vanderlyn Hall’s student lounge

existence, providing his lies make memorable poems.” What is the poet lying

and at 7pm in Quimby Theater on the SUNY Ulster campus in Stone Ridge.

about and what makes a good liar in poetry?

(845) 687-5262; www.sunyulster.edu.

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WED 25

(Dinner & A Movie). Oriole 9, Woodstock.

679-5763.

EVENTS

Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers

Wildflowers

9pm. Blues and Rock. Stella’s Lounge, Catskill. (518) 943-3173.

8pm. Elly Wininger & Susan Cohen. Old and new favorites, original material. The Dockside Pub, Mahopac.

DANCE

Nursing Information Sessions

KIDS

3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

The Felice Brothers

The Llama Garden Retreat

10pm-1am. Reknowned songwriting and modern folk-rock sound. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

The Christine Spero Group

KIDS

MUSIC

THEATER

The Chess Club

Acoustic Thursday

Naked & Flailing

Solidarity: A May Day/Cinco De Mayo Benefit Concert

3:30-4:30pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

6pm. The debut appearance of the Cover Girlz. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

8pm. Performing Arts of Woodstock presents Sharon Breslau’s one-woman show.

Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

MUSIC Maestro 2 Maestro Call for times. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. $15/$5 students. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

Open Mic Night 10:30pm. Open Mic Every Wednesday. A new surprize each week. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz.

255-2400.

Call for times. Experience life on the farm with educational programs for children and adults.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

10:30am. The Courage To Be. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Classics in Religion

10th Annual Columbia County Health Care Challenge 1-5pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

8-11pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Free Day for Dutchess Residents Scott Hanna and Rhythm Exchange

6-9pm. Beloved bassist performs amid a rotating collection of art. Free.Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

WORKSHOPS

9pm. World music. $12/$10. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331

Spring Voice Recital

1-5:30pm. Broaden your visual imaginative experience. Shuster Studio, Hudson. (518) 755-4733.

8-9:30pm. Sponsored by SUNY New Paltz Music Dept. Fee. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3872.

The Bobs

ART Jennifer Mazza: Paintings 7pm. Opening at John Davis Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-5907.

SPOKEN WORD Psychology Colloquium

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

4pm. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

Qigong for Seniors

10:30am. Christian Meditation. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Call for times. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Patty Larkin

KIDS

9pm. Country blues singer-songwriter Patty Larkin with special guest Pat Wictor.

Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

Capture the Flag at The Open Center

Party at The Silo 9pm. Reality Check. Live modern and classic dance rock. Silo Ridge Country Club, Amenia.

373-7000.

35th Parallel Concert 10pm. A musical trail through the Middle East, India, Africa, and the Mediterranean.

Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington. (800) 235-7186.

Buddhist Compassion

King Lear

7:30-9pm. American feminist Lucy Lippard. free. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

8pm. Shakespeare’s tragedy of immense scope and consuming force. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

11:30am-1:30pm. Chanting, mediation and discussion. Palden Sakya Center/Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-4024.

1:45-3:15pm. The basic rules of capture the flag w/ foam swords - bring snow/dry clothes. $10. The Open Center for Autism, Hurley.

(800) 661-1575.

The PickleShoes Dancers 3pm. Rob Kapilow & the Albany Symphony tell the story of Peter and The Wolf through music and dance. $18/$14/$9. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Raccoon Circles

SPOKEN WORD

THEATER Art Lecture: Lucy Lippard

1pm-5pm. Free Day for Dutchess County Residents. Royal Kedem Winery, Marlboro.

236-4000 and (845) 795-2240.

Life Drawing Workshop

SAT 28

8-1pm. Grammy-nominated vocalists perform music and comedy. Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

1:30-2:30pm. Euro Dance for seniors and others on Thursdays. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS

Studio Stu at Vassar College

SPOKEN WORD Classics in Religion

8pm. CD Release party for “My Spanish Dream”. Brazilian/Latin pop/jazz. Stella’s Lounge, Catskill. (518) 943-3171.

Euro Dance Classes for Seniors

Gallery Talk: Bennett Simpson on Blinky Palermo

3:45-5:15pm. 3rd to 5th graders participate in problem-solving activities. Museum of Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506 Call (845) 534-5506.

1-2pm. Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries, Beacon.

440-0100.

MUSIC

THU 26

FRI 27

ART ART

7pm-8:30pm. Featuring Professor Michael Leja, Professor Alan Wallach, and Professor John Clarke. free. Lecture Center 108, New Paltz. 257-3872.

Call for times. Emerging artists will present their creative thesis projects. Free. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844.

Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I

Collage Escape!

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

6:30-9:30pm. Collage fiesta for women. $20.

Call for location. 256-0754.

Abundance & Peace Call for times. Develop a deeper relationship w/your inner being that has abundance, peace & ease. $1000/$300. Call for location.

679-8989.

Sufi Zikr (Chanting) 5:45pm. Sufi zikr, healing chant and prayer, is an opportunity to open the heart & bathe in the love of God. $5/$10. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-7215.

DANCE Swing Dance With Dave Davies and the Hot Foot Club. $13.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie.

471-1120. Call for times.

African Dance & Drumming 6:30-8:30pm. Nzhinga Women Present African Dance & Drumming Every Friday. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

Reiki I and II Series Call for times. Eight week session includes Reiki I and II certifications. $160. Lanesville Retreat House, Lanesville. 688-5672.

Sunday Brunch at Toscani’s

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11am. Brunch with music by “Tirendi.”

Toscani’s, New Paltz. 255-6770.

The Great Hudson River Sweep 9am-12pm. Join in with thousands along the Hudson to pitch in and keep it clean. RSVP. Free. Cornwall Landing, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506 ext. 207.

Reality Check

Mohonk Preserve Singles HikeBreakneck Ridge

Drumming Workshop

Art Classes Drawing, still life, figurative, plein air painting and life portraits for all levels. Call for location.

(914) 819-8856.

2:30pm. Drumming workshop with drummer Scott Hanna. Free. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

10am-4pm. Meet at the Breakneck Parking Area, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Seeing Color 1-4pm. Workshop uses color as a means of expression. For beginners & experienced students. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

All About Trees

Susan Werner

1-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

DANCE

WORKSHOPS

DCC Spring Dance Concert

Llama Garden Retreat

3-6pm. Susan Werner will perform in concert in The Mansion Series in Middletown. . $25.

SUNY Orange, Middletown.

(866) 590-7776.

8pm. Spotlights the work of students of DCC’s fall and spring semester classes. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000.

Call for times. Experience the practical and creative ways of life on a fiber farm with llamas, alpacas,and sheep. $75. Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

EVENTS

Food & Wine Workshop

Good Fats Bad Fats

EVENTS Democracy School

DANCE

The 1st Hudson Valley Democracy School. $225/$125. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 687-9253.

The Great Hudson River Sweep 9am-12pm. Cornwall Landing, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company

Red Fox Friends Pancake Breakfast

8pm. $30/$26/$15. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

12pm. Breakfast. Learn about wilderness programs for kids, teens, and adults. $5.00.

Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge.

256-9830.

KIDS Symbols of New York

How Web 2.0 Has Changed the World of Media

12-4pm. Learn interesting facts about the state bird, mammal, flower and others. . Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

Call for times. Discussion with journalist Josefine Koehn-Haskins. Call for location..

569-3290.

MUSIC

EVENTS

6-7pm. Stay for dinner and enjoy 10 percent off your meal. $20/person (before tax).

Terrapin, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

KIDS 10:30am. Scott Hanna plays instruments from around the world. $5/$3. Arts Society of Kingston. 338-0331.

3pm. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

MUSIC Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open Mic Night with Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046.

4-5:30pm. American works and Chinese folk songs for orchestra. $6/$4/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

Putnam Favorites The Putnam Chorale performs arias and choruses from favorite operas. United Methodist Church, Cold Spring. 279-7265.

SUN 29

Blue Mozart

Manitoga - Special Guided Tour 11am-1pm. Tour of Home, Studio & Woodland Garden led by Annie Wright. Reservations required. Manitoga, Garrison. 424-3812.

8:30pm. Barrelhouse blues performed in an atmospheric old pub . Popeye’s Pub, Cortlandt Manor. (914) 737-9325.

THE OUTDOORS BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

5pm-1am. Visiting DJ’s from New York City. $5. The Black Swan, Tivoli. 757-3777.

Benefit Concert for The Bard College Conservatory of Music

Call for times. Learn the basics of pairing food and wine while sampling different Applewood wines and dishes. Applewood Winery and Vineyard, Warwick. 988-9282.

ART

World Music for Families

Root Down Tastings with Terrapin: Brooklyn Brewery

The Colorado Quartet

College Youth Symphony

7-8:30pm. Clean up your diet of harmful fats. Free. Call for location. 231-2470.

1pm. Modern and classic dance rock hits.

Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike-Rock Rift

The Artist’s Way Creative Cluster Call for times. A self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0031.

9:30am-3:30pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human

7pm. Featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7484.

7pm. Mathew Fox will speak on reinventing education, sharing insights from his latest book. $20/ $15. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

256-9300.

Classical Guitar Series

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul with Friends

8pm. Jorge Caballero. LaBella Classical Guitar Series. $11/$15. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

8-12am. Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul, playing all kinds of soul music, Memphis-style.

The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

5:30-7:30pm. Learn to play African drums. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kelly Joe Phelps

Portland Taiko

Life Drawing Classes

Wallis Simpson and the Woman He Loved

9pm. Country blues artist Kelly Joe Phelps and special guest Josh Strum. Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

8pm. Japanese ensemble displays musical abilities, dance, and martial arts. $15/$20/ @25/$30. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

7:30-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/ $28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

3pm. One-woman play that looks at the life & character of the Duchess of Windsor.

Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3625.

FILM Chocolat Call for times. Woman & daughter open a chocolate shop that shakes up the community.

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Art History Symposium: Art and Social Class

CLASSES

THEATER King Lear

CLASSES

2pm. Shakespeare’s King Lear featuring Brendan Burke and George Judy. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.(866) 590-7776.

African drum classes

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BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

PLANET WAVES

NEWS NOTES

New Paltz Offers Custom-Contaminated Rooms

Responding to an ever-increasing demand for its toxic dormitories, SUNY New Paltz is now offering custom-contaminated rooms to its students. Sophomores and higher will be given priority for this service, and, for a cost of $500 extra per semester, a student may choose the exact proportions of supertoxins they desire in their living environment.

Until recently, students who lived in dorms damaged in the infamous 1991 chemical fires on the campus had no idea what toxins they were getting, or how much. “This is seen as a breakthrough for consumer rights,” the Oracle student newspaper said in a recent editorial.

Custom combinations of dioxins, furans, benzene, dioxin-like PCBs, and ordinary PCBs will be available for students to choose from. Thanks to a new contract with the New York State Department of Health, the campus is able to offer rare and exotic polychlorinated quaterphenyls, the previous existence of which at New Paltz was only rumored.

“Everyone knows our buildings are toxic,” said Karen Cowtaw, director of Campus Residence Life.

“We want our students to know exactly what they’re getting. So now they can actually choose.” Bliss and Scudder halls will be devoted to dioxins and Capen and Gage halls will be reserved mainly for PCBs, but there will be some overlap because so many PCBs actually mimic the toxicity of dioxin.

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Health officials usually recommend the lighterchlorinated PCBs such as Monsanto’s Aroclor 1016, but strongly suggest opting for the heavier dioxins such as OCDD (octochlorinated dibenzo-paradioxin), which provides the full satisfaction of a supertoxin but is less damaging to the endocrine system. “OCDD is practically good for you,” said one high-ranking county health official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Even fetuses just love it. But don’t leave it out in the sun.”

Dr. Blarney Stone, the maverick state scientist who assisted in revealing the broad extent of contamination in Gage Hall in 1994, said, “It’s a great idea as long as nobody living there plans to have kids. But if you don’t mind birth defects, you have nothing to worry about.”

All the chemicals that will be applied to the dorms are certified as pure by a New York State-endorsed lab. Beginning in the fall of 2007, there will also be a corresponding custom nutritional toxins program offered by Food Service.

Upon checking into their dorms, all students will also be issued a free copy of the seminal work Our Stolen Future by Dr. Theodore Colborn.

Fox producers are still working out the details, but the show is expected to be a smash hit from its first season.

Libby, a former vice presidential aide, was convicted last month of lying to federal prosecutors and a grand jury during the investigation into the Valerie Plame-Wilson spy-outing affair, and will begin serving his sentence as soon as sponsors are signed on. The most likely at this point are Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, though American Airlines has expressed a strong interest.

“We feel the punishment fits the crime,” said Patrick Fitzgerald, the Republican special counsel and impresario who got Libby convicted. “He’s a talented liar, we give him credit for that. It’s just too bad he lied to us. But lying to the public is perfectly legal. And they will love it. He’s actually a very entertaining liar,” said Fitzgerald. “I credit myself with having discovered him.”

One proposal for the program calls for the scene to be in an ancient Roman court, where Libby must act the part of an advisor to the emperor, who is suffering from lead poisoning. It will be a story of intrigue, treachery, and betrayal. Special guests will include Oliver North, the star of a previous reality show called “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” and Noam Chomsky, who will whisper carefully chosen Scooter Libby Sentenced to 10 Years on Fox Scooter Libby has been sentenced to 10 years as a bits of political philosophy into Libby’s ear as a form reality show host on Fox News. Prosecutors and of legal torture.

Libby’s program will appear opposite “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” weeknights at 8pm, which Fox officials hoped would be devastating to the ratings of their nemesis.

In an alternate version of the program, Libby will be locked into a house with various pundits, who will engage in a hard game of obscuring the facts and distorting reality in an effort to protect the administration. Libby also has a short list of disloyal intelligence operatives that he will expose. Fitzgerald would, under this scenario, make several appearances on the program the first season. Libby and several congressional representatives will also spend a week locked into the house with Plame-Wilson and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson IV. “The public will watch them get to know one another as men, not just as adversaries,” said a Fox spokesman.

Petty Tyrants Conference Coming to Mohonk

The American Association of Petty Tyrants, or AAPT, will be holding its annual meeting at Mohonk Preserve in September. The national organization, formed in the wake of the September 11 events, will bring at least 1,000 uptight tourists to the area for a week of fun and control.

The week of the conference, local speed limits will be reduced by 5 mph without corrections being made to road signs, and New Paltz will double its road patrols. Local bars will be participating in the festivities by closing their doors at 1 am, and stores will arbitrarily refuse to accept returned items, such as defective flashlights. A number of restaurants will assist by refusing to provide water without ice to customers.

AAPT members include certain distinguished school administrators, rent-a-cops of the rank of corporal and above, assistant managers, distinguished land surveyors, and chronic litigants in civil lawsuits. AAPT also accepts freelance petty tyrants as long as they pass a qualifying exam, conducted once every 10 years.

At the conference, several of the attendees will be elevated to grand tyrant, which will make them eligible for the World Tyrant Excellence Competition, to be held in Washington, DC, next year.

to be friendly, unless of course they specialize in the bitch or asshole fetish.” Raven Bear said that most of the organization’s volunteers are bisexual, which will provide greater flexibility and opportunity for the uninitiated to have their first same-sex erotic experience in a safe environment.

The sex co-op concept goes back 10 years to a Scorpio birthday party in Tillson, where it was unanimously agreed that more sex in the community was necessary.

“Everyone is always trying to get sex, but nobody seems to want to give it,” said Varuna Indra Mithra, who was at the original party and helped brainstorm the concept the night of the Taurus Full Moon in 1997. “The idea is simple—qualified people volunteer to give organic sex for four hours a month, and if you do the math, you will see that it won’t take long before everyone gets laid regularly.”

The co-op will feature a bookshelf with titles such as The Ethical Slut and Vestal Secrets: My Life as a Sacred Whore, as well as an herbal section with various tinctures such as canchalagua, horny goat weed, yohimbe, and onions.

Certain oral delicacies will also be offered.

In addition, there will be sex discussion groups held several times a week, as well as feature films on the bonobo chimpanzees, promptly followed by an organic group masturbation ritual. For those adjusting to monogamous life, one weekend a month will be reserved for strictly one-on-one casual sex.

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Find Your Soul’s True Greed Workshop

Spiritual Greed Intensive will be coming to the Siddhartha Ashram of Eclectic Buddhism in Loch Sheldrake, in mystical Sullivan County, later this summer. Taught by Gurumore, who is a big hit in New Delhi and Los Angeles, the Living True Greed Truly seminar will help enable participants to balance the demands of being highly spiritual and simultaneously deeply materialistic.

“This takes more than slapping a Greenpeace sticker on your Hummer,” said Swami Attachinanda, who will assist the Master in offering the divine teaching. “Stretching one’s soul between the arrogance of greed and the humility of the spiritual life presents a rare opportunity for embracing contradictions and thus resolving karma,” he added.

Gurumore will explain the subtle differences between bigger, better, and best while Sex Co-Op Finally Opens in High Falls After a very long discussion and much preserving an atmosphere of inspired greed planning, the High Falls Sex Co-Op opened and chanting om shanti at the cash register.

April 1, providing a source of easily available, wholesome nookie for the Hudson Valley community. Members will volunteer Cooking with Your Totem Animals four hours per month at the new co-op, Native American spiritual leaders teach that the providing a diversity of services from erotic best way to take in the energy of your totem massage to talking dirty. Believed to be the animal is to eat it for lunch. The workshop will first such experiment of its kind in the United start with the basic recipes, such as bearburger, States, the co-op was featured in USA Today raven pie, wolf chow mein, and chicken noodle last week. soup. The presenter, Chef Chief Laughing “Everyone will be vegan and organically Broccoli, is the author of Endangered Fare, certified,” said Rainbow Raven Bear, the co- the leading cookbook for things like whale, founder of the co-op. “We want to give people alligator, and those little peeping frogs that a pure service. And not only that, they have keep disappearing all the time.

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Horoscopes April 2007 Eric Francis Coppolino

ARIES (March 20-April 19) Is it good to know how smart you are? Probably, at least in your case. The thing is, you may not know. Other factors in your personality may obscure this kind of self-awareness, and you may live walking around the world feeling like a “young soul” whose knowledge is not quite ready for the world, or truly applicable to life. From a cosmic perspective, all your best ideas and brightest awareness are like a show being performed with the curtain closed. You can hear the muffled lines being spoken, you’re aware of the stage sets changing, but the main idea may be eluding you. You need to know where to look—that is, where to direct your experiences this month such that you encounter the golden data stream. If you set out on a mission of some kind that involves intentionally traveling somewhere to learn something, you will very likely step into the flow, fully conscious. But for the full effect, you must initiate the journey.

TAURUS

(April 19-May 20)

Celibacy is an interesting way to see the world. It’s like encountering sex from the outside looking in, and experiencing the sexuality of others as a dimension apart, something out of reach. The kind of celibacy I see in your chart (and remember, astrology is fiction or metaphor) is momentary, as if, between partners or erotic encounters, you are a fully self-contained entity. Then, when you choose to open up, you’re entirely devoted to that experience, and able to experiment in the moment. What seems to be an alternation between two realities, sexual and nonsexual, appears to be rooted in a question about whether you’re truly appreciated. You may feel that in holding back, you will get the answer to your question, but the paradox of that position is that to be appreciated, you need to offer some element of your consciousness. Anyway, feeling unappreciated is not just getting old, it’s very old, but whatever comes next is going to come from you.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) We are all fond of the phrase “thinking outside the box,” but I haven’t seen much discussion of just what box that is. How about, it’s the box—more like a lawyer-free cell at Gitmo—of our beliefs? I would propose you’ve recently awoken to this possibility. It’s likely to have occurred in one of those moments when you actually experienced the confinement of a belief as a limiting factor in your life. Of course, once you feel the box, one of two things happens. Either you want to bust loose because it’s so confining, or you retreat in an attempt to make your whole reality fit the scale of your previously acquired notions. You seem to be taking a while to make up your mind about which of these you want.

But soon enough, you’ll be called upon to take a chance and express your beliefs as some form of unusually focused action, so I suggest you decide which work for you and which do not.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Acceptance is a precious thing. It is the feeling of the cosmos, of existence itself, opening its arms to us. The feeling of true acceptance involves transcending prior experiences of being too controversial, too intense, too scary—too anything. We all have our own baggage that we carry regarding these learned experiences of being too something, and with our hands on those suitcases, it’s impossible to embrace the world as it embraces us. I suggest you put those suitcases down and look out at the world around you, listen to what is being said, and reach back when someone reaches out to you. There is more to this opening up than you may recognize, as encountering the world in a state of harmony corresponds to encountering your own emotions and creative flow. Your life is indeed changing; developments you could not predict are meeting you like they already know you. Breathe into the journey. www.planetwaves.net 136 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 4/07

Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino

LEO (July 22-Aug. 23) The spot you are in is not as tight as it may seem. It may be your own rock-steady quality that is working against you. You may be expecting someone else to make a change you’re not quite up to yourself. Often people are willing to meet you on this turf, but you may want to reconsider your position, particularly if you’re being guarded about it. In fact you live in a world of openings at the moment, and in any positive or creative time there are still going to be voices of doubt, both within and without. How you respond to them is up to you, but I suggest you keep the dialog as open as possible. In particular, any professional situation, or any circumstance where money is involved, calls for reminding yourself how resourceful you are, and working with others to access those resources. Any moment of scarcity is a silver mine. Any moment of doubt is the prelude to a revelation of your innovative quality, particularly when you collaborate, share responsibility, or share anything.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) If you feel like you’re being confronted, you may want to look again, and check out why you feel this way. But let’s just say that your sense of being confronted is coming from within you, not from outside you. What is being presented to you from the outside is actually sensible, if not innovative. If it happens to be shocking, the reason is because of how brilliant it is. And I would reckon whatever is in your face has a lot more in common with you than you may imagine, unless you slow down and ask yourself what you’ve been asking for, what you’ve been preparing for, and what is really meaningful. You have long passed the time when you can go through your existence living as a concept. Ideas are important, but experience is what you are craving the most, and what life is offering you most abundantly.

LIBRA (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) Don’t struggle for acceptance. Quietly work for what you want, and gradually learn to visualize yourself where you need to be. You are working your way into the world quite well, making a space for yourself that is likely to support you for decades. At this point you may feel like you’re working at odds with yourself, or somehow wasting your resources. I can, to the extent astrology allows, assure you that you are not. You’ve been involved in an extended phase of development, of cultivating resources, of opening the flow of abundance, and though it may seem too long, it’s a testament to the depth at which you are working, and the persistence you’re bringing to the task. If you get discouraged, remind yourself you’re making an investment in the future, and in your quality of life. This is not an exercise in compromise; rather, it’s an exercise in consciously building your dreams.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) Most people have no idea of the extent to which you struggle with your security, particularly at certain times when your worst fears act up. You are able to maintain a stable façade of strength, authority, and integrity, no matter what you may be going through inside. And what you’ve been through the past few weeks has probably rivaled any prior time in your life for self-doubt and perhaps conflict, whether inner or outer. On one level, you seem to be in a battle to break free of the past, to be heard and acknowledged, and to forgive yourself for the ways in which you don’t manage to get your message across to the people you think need to hear it most. You would go a long way toward progress if you declare the struggle over and tap into the rapidly developing sky that is heavily favoring the water signs, including yours. This is less about affirming something and more about consciously focusing on a feeling of safety and sanity that will be right there when you reach for it. www.planetwaves.net 4/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM PLANET WAVES 137

Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) You may feel like you’re giving everything and getting nothing in return. Perhaps recall all the times you had to give so little to get so much, or maybe consider your life right now an exercise in devotion. Much hinges on your ability to be steadfast now, in your beliefs, your relationships, and most of all, tending your creative fire. Give this process more than you think you have to offer. Take the time, devote the energy, and don’t think about the results. Tend your fire first, then tend to the world. Burn your equivalent of dry, well-seasoned wood, and let every gesture of your hands be one of clarity and sincere effort. It may comfort you to know that good things will come of your efforts, but I don’t suggest you seek shelter in the future. There is none yet—you are building it with your energy and love today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) What a profound time of reevaluation you are in. It’s like you’re experiencing every sentiment in the entire spectrum of human potential. It would be fair to call this a period of sorting out, though you would do well to consider the basis of your decisions for what you decide holds one value or another, helpful or harmful. The past is the most natural basis for comparison, though you may want to reckon the quality of the present against the quality of the future you would like to create, and stretch in an entirely new direction.

You tend to hold yourself to an extraordinary standard, which is well enough, though I suggest you do so on some genuinely basic aspects of your life. What has the most value to you? What do you need the most, what do you desire the most, and what is the difference? To make the decisions you are making, you need to know yourself well. You need to understand how what has happened before still affects you today—and seek a future different from the past.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 19)

You’re being called upon to focus your life, but you may be living in a world of chaos. It’s true that what you want is the most important thing, if only you could establish what it is. You may want to get accustomed to being a critter in motion, perhaps on the physical plane, surely on the mental one, and more than likely in your emotional space. I suggest you explore all potential avenues. Look for every way to express yourself, and consider everything—your failures and successes and those things that are unclearly one or the other—positive developments merely for having conducted the experiment. You have long imagined what you want to do or be, and you may fear that your ability to create your world will fall short of your inner vision. The creative process is messy, it leads strange places, and its outcomes are uncertain. All the more reason to indulge while the indulging is good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You are bound to whom you are destined to be. Many people say they want their life’s mission, and few recognize that at times, no matter how true it may be, it may also be a burden; it may involve taking numerous uncertain steps; and it may involve the experience of breakthroughs that leave you doubting much that you previously believed.

You may have ideas so good, you have no clue what to do with them. And at the same time, you may feel like you’re responding to a calling that you don’t understand, and don’t know how to fulfill. All of this is just about normal for what you’re experiencing (and everything I’ve said to Sagittarius applies equally to you right now). Imagine you are looking back on this moment with 10 years’ perspective. Consider what you know, and what you are learning. What would that perspective have you do? How would you feel as you took each step? www.planetwaves.net 138 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 4/07

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Parting Shot

Matthew Palin, Afloat, etching, 12” x 18”, 2005.

“I enjoy the duality of the alligator creature here—cute and innocent, but also ferocious,” says Kingston-based artist Matthew Palin. “This work is meant to serve as a stage set where an open-ended narrative unfolds. Ultimately, these characters’ fates are determined by the viewer.”

After growing up in South Florida (home to many gators), Palin received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Eventually, he journeyed to the picturesque Hudson Valley and earned his Master’s at SUNY New Paltz, where he is currently teaching a class in printmaking.

This etching, titled Afloat, evolved from a series of childhood toy drawings and is part of the show “Tadpoles,” which will be exhibited at the New Paltz Cultural Collective at 60 Main from April 14 through May 12.

The opening reception will be held on April 14 from 4 to 6pm. (845) 255-1901; www.60main.org.

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