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CONTENTS 5/09

NEWS AND POLITICS

LOCALLY GROWN

19 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

68 BACKYARD TRIUMPH

The real unemployment rate, why sisters are better than brothers, and more.

22 THE WOUNDED DRAGON Ethan Cramer-Flood documents the work of an American NGO in China.

26 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC: AN ODE TO SPRING

Karin Ursula Edmondson talks with the fertile minds behind the new victory garden movement taking root across the Hudson Valley.

70 COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE FARMS GUIDE A listing of the two dozen local CSAs you can join.

Larry Beinhart versifies on our present predicament.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 28 PUTTING THE BRAKES ON FAST MONEY Carl Frankel talks with Slow Money Alliance founder Woody Tasch.

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WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 76 NARRATIVE MEDICINE Lorrie Klosterman interviews Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona about the power of story in sickness and health. Mehl-Madrona leads a workshop in Stone Ridge on May 8.

80 FLOWERS FALL: MINDFUL EATING FOR KIDS & FAMILIES Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.

33 LIGHTING THE WAY Kathleen Di Simone profiles the changing fortunes of the little city that could.

HOME & GARDEN 56 CLEARING OUT CLUTTER Crispin Kott talks with the experts about spatial transformation.

BUSINESS SERVICES 64 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

71 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services.

81 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

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CONTENTS 5/09

ARTS & CULTURE

60 FOOD & DRINK Peter Barrets concocts some far-out dishes with chef Linda Anctil, employing the applied chemistry techniques of molecular gastronomy.

38 PORTFOLIO The kinetic sculptures of Larry Lawrence at WAAM in Woodstock.

112 PARTING SHOT

42 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE 46 MUSIC Peter Aaron listens deeply to accordionist and composer Pauline Oliveros.

Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Adrian Cohen Delphic. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson.

Dog on Fleas Beautiful World. Reviewed by Jason Broome.

Jay Collins The Songbird and the Pigeon. Reviewed by Michael Ruby.

50 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles slam poet Patricia Smith.

52 BOOK REVIEWS Jay Blotcher reviews two biographies of Pete Seeger: The Protest Singer

by Allan Winkler and To Everything There Is a Season by Alec Wilkinson.

William Seaton reviews three books of poetry: Window with 4 Panes by David Appelbaum, An Aquarium by Jeffrey Yang, and Scape by Joshua Harmon.

54 POETRY Poems by Shebana Coelho, E. P. Fisher, Nicole Giusto, Susan Hoover, John Hopper, Shawna Hussey, Atticus Lanigan, Cynthia Lindstrom, Ada I. J. Lowengard, Chuck Mishkin, Philip Pardi, Justin F. Parrinello, John Scilipote, Bruce Weber, and K. C. Wilder.

All Things Considered by Eileen Carpenter.

THE FORECAST 88 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events.

(Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 87 Jeff Crane visits Wavefield by Maya Lin at the Storm King Art Center.

89 Poet Jeffrey McDaniel kicks off the Sunset Reading series in Cold Spring.

95 Photographer Laurence Demaison’s first American exhibition, at Galerie BMG. 97 Frame drumming guru Layne Redmond performs a benefit concert for Michael Shacker, “The Path of the Bee Priestess: The Final Oracle,” in Woodstock.

101 “Catching Light” features European and American watercolors from the permanent collection at the Frances Lehman Loeb Center at Vassar College.

PLANET WAVES 106 UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF SELF-ESTEEM Eric Francis Coppolino examines the contemporary crisis of self. Plus horoscopes.

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Taylor Mickle’s photography is rarely precipitated by political sentiment, and the strategic juxtaposition that constitutes the Minesweeping Candydrops is intended as neither caustic nor curative: “These poor guys are over there in Afghanistan and Iraq—and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if it weren’t so deadly?’” The plastic soldier is weaponless and domestically diligent; the confectionary swatch that serves as backdrop—though not altogether benign, is not deadly.

“Sugary things make me laugh,” Mickle says, and humor is important to her endeavor—the Hostess Snowball being another industrial edible that plays into her artwork at the moment. Her other driving motivation is bringing the miniature world into visibility. Engaging with a bee that is pollinating red clover, she views her mission as raising awareness of a vaster network of animate beings. “If we look at things closely, there is a possibility for peace,” Mickle points out. She also fathoms the relevance of objects on this continuum, dolls such as GI Joe and Barbie that persist in our imaginative lives and may even infiltrate our sensorymotor functions. The connection between US foreign policy and those creepy toy soldiers warrants investigation—as do the petroleum-based foods that mutate our perceptions, “It’s crazy what we would put into our mouths,” Mickle observes.

Having grown up in Manhattan, Mickle moved to the Columbia County town of Copake two years ago. The nature studies that have lately become her obsessive project are the result of her shift in environment. Her nascent rural awareness has also generated a series depicting plastic farm animals that dwarf their keepers—a nod to Orwell, Mickle admits. Her studio is named The Lux Farm. A lux is a measure of luminance. The standardization of human brightness perception intrigues her.

She cites Irwin Allen’s late Sixties sci-fi TV series “Land of the Giants” as an inspiration for her work. In the show, commercial astronauts traverse the space-time matrix and end up on an alternate planet of giant sinister humanoids.

Mickle’s work could be described as a shrewd inversion of this premise, where the micro-world that we enter humbles rather than emboldens us.

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LOCAL LUMINARY MARK ADAMS DAVID MORRIS CUNNINGHAM

Mark Adams is the president of the Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester County chapters of the New York Farm Bureau. His five-acre greenhouse complex in Poughkeepsie—which began as a small family farm—houses more than two million bedding plants grown from seed, in addition to 300,000 hardy perennials, 110,000 mums, and 80,000 poinsettias every year. Adams Greenhouses supplies flowers, fruits, and vegetables to a number of farms, sanctuaries, campuses, and garden centers all over the country, as well as all of the Adams Fairacre Farms stores in the Hudson Valley.

The author of Let’s Grow! Gardening in Dutchess County and Beyond (2005, Fountain Press), Adams is also an award-winning garden writer whose weekly column appeared in the (recently defunct) Taconic Weekend for 24 years. He also writes songs and occasionally performs locally, accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica. In addition to original material, Adams has also produced three albums of “greenhouse-parody” songs that set the inside jokes of the greenhouse business to popular folk tunes—his fourth album, Spraying Without My Mask is currently in the works. Like many avid gardeners, Adams is also a foodie, and his enjoyment of off-the-beaten-path travel destinations allows for an unusually adventurous palate. When he isn’t running his business, working to develop Farm Bureau policies, writing articles, digging in his garden, or doing a mean Bob Dylan/ Johnny Cash/Tom Waits cover, you might find Mark Adams at a Mensa picnic (but only if you, too, are a card-carrying genius).

—Christina Kaminski

So it started with a small family farm?

My grandfather, who was about three years old when he came to America with his father in the early 1900s, bought the farm here [in Poughkeepsie]. “Adams Fairacres Farm,” he called it. He and my great-grandfather were both farmers. There were thousands of people growing vegetables here back then, especially tomatoes and cucumbers, because the IBM factory in Fishkill used to be a cannery; they made pickles and canned tomatoes.

Then it turned into a bomb warehouse during World War II. But after the war, there was a huge boom in population.

The Interstate Highway System hadn’t been built yet, and it was costly to ship things, so there was a huge boom in agriculture. It was a real flush time, everybody got in the apple business, poultry business, dairy business. People would go to college to study “pomology.” Who goes to Cornell and studies pomology, you know? My father came back and started an apple orchard, while my grandmother and grandfather continued with the farm, until one day they decided to put some stuff out by the road and sell it.

And that started to work out. In 1960, my father and my uncle built the first store and began selling local produce.

In 1970, I dropped out of college in the middle of my junior year—I couldn’t take it anymore; there were all sorts of protests—I came home and my dad put me to work on the farm, managing a few greenhouses; and a few years later, I bought the greenhouse business from him.

What goes on in the Farm Bureau? What issues are hot right now?

The Farm Bureau works with legislators and lobbyists to help pass laws that help farmers. For example, we try to make sure that farmers don’t have to pay too many taxes on land because farmers use a lot of it, and property taxes are tough on farmers, because our land is our production.

So we came up with a plan for taxation according to the value of our agricultural land, the “ag value.” Someone can’t take a piece of property that you’re growing corn on and say, “What would this land be worth if a big company had a factory here?”—which is what they were doing.

They were taxing it for its “full, highest, and best-use” value, but now it’s taxed according to its ag value. The Farm Bureau did that.

This year, again, we’ve been having a lot of debates about industrial hemp. Every year, a lot of people are in favor of legalizing hemp production, because it’s a farm product.

Hemp production is legal in Canada, and we use a lot of hemp for industrial purposes—not just rope, but mattress stuffing and all kinds of stuff. The United States imports it, because it’s not legal to grow. But a lot farmers, especially around places like Minnesota, they see all of this hemp coming in from over the border, and it’s a profitable crop.

And they want to grow hemp. They figure, “Hey if we’re importing it over here and using it, why can’t we grow it too?” But it’s cannabis, it’s illegal to grow it in the US. But

the funny thing is that the marijuana growers—and we don’t, of course, officially have marijuana growers in the Farm Bureau—don’t want hemp to be legalized because cannabis is open-air pollinated. So low-grade industrial hemp pollen would come breezing through their fields and wrecking their sinsemilla. Nobody wants that.

What other challenges have local agribusinesses been facing?

For one, the markets have been getting farther away.

One time I was talking to the New York State Agriculture Commissioner, and he asked me, “What can we do to help agriculture in the Hudson Valley?” And I said, “Close the Interstate Highway System. Because that’s what screwed it all up. Back when you didn’t have such good transportation, everything had to be grown locally.”

You’re an aficionado of what some might call “fringe cuisine.” Can you give me an example?

The weirdest thing I’ve eaten was probably the mice [in Zambia], because they roast them in grills over fires made with kerosene. In Iceland, if a whale is beached and dies, they cut it up and serve the meat in restaurants—but the blood doesn’t drain out of it when it dies naturally. It was the most horrible thing I think I ever ate. It’s between the mice and the whale.

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Esteemed Reader The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.Without that heartfelt sadness, bravery is brittle, like a china cup. If you drop it, it will break or chip. But the bravery of the warrior is like a lacquer cup, which has a wooden base covered with layers of lacquer. If the cup drops, it will bounce rather than break. It is soft and hard at the same time.

—The Dorje Dradul of Mukpo Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Walking in the woods with my boys, two and four, we came to a rushing stream.

The water poured through a channel between rocks, falling into a deep pool, foam collecting on the surface. We lay at the edge of the precipice looking down at the cascading designs as the endless gush made its way.

We were alone in the clearing but for a woman seated on the far side of the chasm, broadcasting solitude. Perched cross-legged on a smooth boulder near the bank, she gazed, as we did, into the surging drink. She didn’t look toward our rowdy triumvirate, and after a few moments got up and walked down the slope and out of sight.

Soon the boys were frolicking on the rocks, leaping over chasms, shouting and boasting about their speed and power.They launched volleys of stones at trees and into the water as we followed the stream to the place it reentered the forest. The woman was seated on the opposite bank, head down, her body convulsing gently.

The older boy stopped and looked at her.

“She looks so sad,” he said.

“Yes,” I answered. “She’s crying.”

“Why?” he asked in a way that sounded bereft, knowing there was no answer.

“Send her some love,” I suggested.

“How?” he asked.

“Feel love in your heart, and breath it out to her.”

I put my hand on his chest as he looked across the pool to the weeping woman.

He stood still, and breathed, amidst the noise of the torrent and wind whipping his hair.

And then our little caboodle moved on along the bank, admiring water striders and balancing on a log that straddled the banks, the recent event gone from our consciousness like the water rushing past.

Later, in the evening, I was talking with a group of men on the subject of gratitude toward people who have impacted our lives in meaningful and positive ways.

Images of people I have considered my teachers passed through my mind, and then I thought of the woman weeping on the far side of the stream.

She hadn’t intended to teach anything. In fact she was trying to be alone with her heartache, and yet she inadvertently evoked compassion, a rare feeling, in a man and a boy. Hers was a gift, secretly and unwittingly given.

Ironically, the most potent teachers aren’t intending to teach. They are simply living authentically. But it takes a special receptivity to be able to receive such subtle invitations to gain wisdom.

For better or worse, children possess a state of openness that allows them to be affected by delicate influences and impressions. Adults, on the other hand, have become calloused to the damage that sensitivity leaves one open to; which suggests a practical meaning of Jesus’s admonition “unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.” We must become as children, again.

Every day I am confronted with teachers that show the limitations of my ability to stay open and related. Usually these are the people I am most connected to— my family, my coworkers, and my friends. When I tighten up, feeling righteous, outraged, or defensive, there is a knot that needs to be inhabited, and untied; there is an obstacle to learning from the other person in that moment.

Recently, in the heat of a deadline, a colleague told me, “I feel like you are continuously undermining me.” Hearing this aroused a flurry of defenses, justifications, and righteousness. “I am just trying to do my job!” I inwardly bawled.

But then we spoke. “I just need to know what’s going on, to communicate,” he said. “If you don’t tell me what’s going on, I can’t do my job.” And I realized I had sewn the seeds of the conflict by failing to inform. I realized the solution was precisely in relating, in communicating, in staying resiliently and openly connected.

The task before us all is to have the openness and receptivity of the child, together with the discernment and resilience of the adult. If we shrink from feeling connected because we fear injury, then we are shirking the task of truly growing up.We are denying the abundance of real life. Each time we truly engage with the suffering of others, or our own, our being grows and strengthens.

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says Chris Voigt, who led the research. Voigt’s lab combined a bacterium discovered in a French garbage dump in the 1980s with yeast. This compound, when combined with biomass like switchgrass or sugar cane bagasse, turns the mixture into a gas that can be converted to gasoline. Voigt estimates that gasoline could be produced from sugar cane bagasse at $1.65 per gallon.

Source: Reuters As of March 1, the Army stopped accepting felons and recent drug abusers.

According to Curtis Gilroy, the top recruiting official at the Pentagon, rising unemployment and security gains in Iraq have helped make military service more attractive, thus allowing recruiters to be more choosy. In years past, the Army granted hundreds of waivers for felons annually, with 511 allowed in 2007. That category of waiver, “adult major misconduct,” is now closed. The Army is also on track this year—for the first time since 2004—to meet the Pentagon’s goal of ensuring 90 percent of its recruits have high school diplomas.

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“We’d be delighted if we destabilize the human-mosquito balance of power,” says Jordin Kare, an astrophysicist working at a lab in Bellevue, Washington on a laser designed to kill mosquitoes. The laser is the brainchild of Lowell Wood, who worked with Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and architect of the original laser-based missile defense shield. The technology, inspired by a Gates Foundation call to combat malaria, might one day be used to draw a laser barrier around a house or village that would kill or blind the bugs. Eradicated in the US decades ago, malaria remains a major public health threat in the developing world, killing one million people each year.

Source: Wall Street Journal Psychologists at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland tested the emotional wellbeing of 571 children aged 17 to 25 and found that those who had at least one sister were more optimistic, less stressed, and better at coping with problems. “Our explanation for it is that the presence of girls opens up channels of communication and it becomes a much more expressive situation,” says researcher Tony Cassidy.

“Emotional expression is fundamental to good psychological health and having sisters promotes this in families.” According to the study, brothers have a less positive effect, with the lowest emotional well-being scores overall achieved by men who had lots of brothers. “When there are a number of boys together, it is almost like a conspiracy of silence,” says Professor Cassidy.

Source: Daily Mail (London) A survey of 2,500 Australians by social theorist Mark McCrindle found that two-thirds of those Down Under practice random acts of kindness on people they don’t know “just for the sake of it.” The top five most popular ways Aussies help each other: assisting a shopper with carrying bags or picking up fallen items; coming to the aid of someone in a medical emergency or road accident; helping others cross a road, get something out of reach, or up a flight of stairs; comforting someone who was visibly upset; and lending money to a stranger. “These people have shown kindness to strangers, and that’s what makes it remarkable,” McCrindle says. Analyzing crime data to single out violent acts against strangers, McCrindle found that for every act of violence committed in Australia, there were 38 perpetrations of kindness.

Source: Herald Sun (Melbourne) A biology lab at the University of California at San Francisco has identified a compound able to make gasoline from agricultural waste products. The potential of this process lies in its ability to employ nonfood sources as fuel. (Ethanol is made predominantly from corn; as its use increases, so does the price of food products made from corn.) It’s also chemically indistinguishable from fossil-fuel based petroleum. “You could fill your car up with it right now, so there’s no difference in engine technology,”

Small business employees make up a disproportionate share of the country’s uninsured. According to the most recent Census Bureau data available, in 2007, 15 percent of US residents (46 million people) lacked insurance. At companies with less than 25 employees, 32 percent were uninsured; at companies with 25 to 99 workers, 21 percent of the workers lacked insurance. Traditional insurance plans last year, on average, cost $382 a month per employee, a financial strain on many small businesses. Some organizations are exploring creative options to help employees of small business. Known as 3-Share, these programs are a collaboration between business owners, nonprofit groups, and local hospitals, and typically cost about half of conventional insurance. While there are reduced services in 3-Share plans—patients with catastrophic illnesses or chronic diseases would likely find the coverage inadequate— the standards of care are close enough to traditional insurance to have engendered many such partnerships across the country.

Source: Wall Street Journal In 2007, 4,317,118 babies were born in the US, the most ever in a single year.

According to a study published in Global Environment Change, every American baby “costs” six times a parent’s own carbon emissions. Julia Whitty, commenting on the study in Mother Jones, writes: “The bottom line is that absolutely nothing else you can do—driving a more fuel-efficient car, driving less, installing energy-efficient windows, replacing light bulbs, replacing refrigerators, recycling, comes even close to simply not having that child.”

Sources: Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Global Environment Change In early April, the Department of Labor Statistics released the unemployment figures for March: 8.5 percent, the highest since 1983. The real unemployment rate is far worse, however, as the official number doesn’t add in the almost four million people who are working part-time because of the poor labor market, or those who have given up looking for work altogether. When these underemployed are added to the figure, it balloons to 15.6 percent. Neither of theses figures take into account self-employed workers whose incomes have dwindled, workers who’ve chosen to go back to school, and former full-time employees who have accepted short-term contracts without benefits at reduced salaries.

Source: MSN Money In a study recently published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, researches at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine contend that rising numbers of people who are overweight and obese in the UK are adversely impacting the environment. The study noted that heavier people not only ate more food—on average 19 percent more than 40 years ago—but that it takes more fuel to transport a more “massive” populace. Between 1994 and 2004, the average body mass index in England rose from 26 to 27.3 for men and from 25.8 to 26.9 for women, approximately 10 pounds. “Staying slim is good for health and the environment,” said Dr. Phil Edwards, lead researcher.

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ach May for the past five years, this space has been dedicated to extolling the virtues of biking, in conjunction with National Bike Month and National Bike-to-Work Day (this year, Friday, May 15). I’ve listed the well-known benefits of riding a bicycle, mostly concerned with ecological catastrophe (our cars are killing us) and personal fitness (you’ll live longer in the saddle). I’ve been an indefatigable champion of human-powered motion on two wheels.

Well, goodbye to all that.

In the midst of penning this column last year, I was almost hit by a car while riding my bike to work. I mentioned this, somewhat testily, in the piece, and admonished those drivers who do not signal when they turn (a curiously widespread practice in the city of Kingston). I received a few e-mails from fellow cyclists in response. These were not supportive e-mails. Rather, the cyclists who contacted me suggested that I was at fault for not obeying the traffic laws—instead of riding between the whizzing cars on the street and the row of parked cars against the curb, I should join the line of cars and claim my rightful place in the flow of traffic—and that I was actually damaging the cycling cause by reinforcing the negative stereotype of the urban pedal-pusher as an anarchic force bent on subverting the auto-dominant paradigm, with my own body ready to be used as a bloodied site of protest. (I’m glad I didn’t mention my aversion to wearing helmets while street riding.)

These words of wisdom didn’t sink in until almost a year later, in early April, when I read a piece in the NewYork Times about a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene study that examined fatal bicycling accidents in New York City from 1996 to 2005. The most comprehensive examination of its type, it looked at conditions surrounding the wheres, hows, and possible whys of cycling fatalities. The Times writer, Jennifer 8. Lee, gleaned the following from the study: Some of the cyclists who died were inebriated! And while the

sample was small—of the 225 bicyclists killed in fatal accidents during the 10-year time period, 176 were tested for alcohol; 84 riders were considered having been given valid tests, within three hours of death; of those, 18 cyclists showed signs of alcohol—it revealed the hidden drunk bomb that is ticking in the very liver of our society: Biking While Intoxicated.

Lee went on to suggest that “potentially, this could lead to an awareness campaign about drunken biking, akin to the now-familiar (and successful) antidrunk driving campaigns that began in the 1980s.” Indeed, the similarities are too obvious to mention. And while no one but the cyclists themselves were killed according to the New York City study, it stands to reason that with the increasing popularity of biking, eventually non-rider BWI fatalities in this country will eventually catch up with the nearly 5,000 non-driver DWI deaths each year.

Boy, do I feel chastened. For years I thought I was fomenting a positive change in the world. But with the recklessness and the drinking, I just can’t pimp any longer for this dangerous pastime. I’ll be taking up a sport admired for it links to sobriety and eco-consciousness: golf.

So don’t take the bike out of the garage. Don’t grease up that chain.You’ll just be making things worse, just another fitness nut on two wheels, freaking out the motorists. Hop in the saddle, and the next thing you know you’ll end up at one of those wild biking parties. You’ll have a couple drinks, then get back on the road, and wham!, you’ll have dented the hood of a perfectly good Jaguar. A regular spinning menace.

In the meantime, you might want to think about getting a bigger car, or, at the very least, reinforcing your front bumper and side panels. Will you have to experience the unpleasantness of hosing a sauced-up cyclist out from your undercarriage before you can sense the danger? When will our roads, those velvet ribbons upon which we drive, safe in our steel cocoons, at last be safe from these velocipedic vermin, this blight of bicyclists?

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THE WOUNDED DRAGON AMERICAN NGOS AT WORK IN CHINA

By Ethan Cramer-Flood

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pen a newspaper or news magazine any day of the week, and China will likely feature in any number of stories. Staggering economic expansion, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, record poverty reduction, poisonous exports, human-rights violations, and the great-power political maneuvering between Beijing and Washington all receive daily coverage in some form or another. China’s transformation into an international power, both economically and politically, has been nothing short of remarkable in its speed and breadth. The Middle Kingdom is sometimes presented as a land of unmatched power, wealth, and business acumen, with unlimited potential for global domination.

The truth, of course, is much more complicated, and China is in no way as powerful or accomplished as many believe. Although the US is economically reliant on China’s purchases of Treasury bills to fund US debt—and it’s true that neither country could survive without the other—in many ways China remains a dangerously unfinished product.This danger manifests itself most visibly through China’s inability to control the pollution caused by its runaway industrial development, and its failure (or unwillingness) to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.

China also exhibits flaws through its inability to provide for the health and education of half of its own people. “[There is a] gap left between the days of Communism when work units took care of even poor families’ basic expenses, and the new freewheeling Chinese cash economy, with its blatant divisions between rich urban dwellers and the poor still left in the countryside,” writes Brecken Chinn Swartz, a visiting professor of communication at the University of Maryland, in a 2008 article for the campus faculty magazine. Swartz found her day job because of her PhD in international mass communication, but her true passion lies with Handreach, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) she co-founded in 2002.

Handreach began as a provider of microgrants to resource-poor rural schools in China, and later expanded into a healthcare-oriented project focused on helping catastrophically disfigured young burn victims across the country.

It began morphing into its current form after Swartz—a fluent speaker of Mandarin—had a chance encounter with 12-year-old burn victim, Zhou Lin, begging with her family on the streets of Beijing in 2004. A faulty propane tank had exploded and horribly disfigured Zhou Lin from the waist down leaving 22

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her unable to walk on her own. Expenses associated with the accident had impoverished the family to the point where the parents could no longer afford school fees for their children. And so they had traveled to Beijing in a futile attempt to seek justice against the corrupt propane company and redress for Zhou Lin’s burn injuries.

Meeting the family outside the iconic CCTV state television building, where many poor, sick, or homeless had gathered in the hopes that the media would publicize their plight, Swartz’s brief conversation with Zhou Lin had a profound effect—one that Swartz talks about today in spiritual terms. Vowing that afternoon to do whatever it took to help the girl reclaim a normal life, that first encounter led to a two-year journey culminating in Swartz’s adoption of Zhou Lin, the girl’s recovery in America, and the formulation of Handreach’s current identity.

HANDREACH The prototypical example of an NGO trying to mitigate one of the harmful effects of China’s transition to cowboy capitalism, Handreach operates across China but mainly in and around Sichuan Province, a remote and rural area in western China that was home to a devastating earthquake in 2008 that killed nearly 100,000 people. Working primarily with children burned so severely that a normal life is impossible and orthopedic surgery and prosthetics are a necessity, Handreach’s zone of operations includes an abundance of illegal fireworks manufacturing facilities where regulations are lax or nonexistent and child labor is common. A lit cigarette carelessly dropped too close to unsecured explosive chemicals can leave many horribly scarred or disfigured. Most are too poor to afford the kind of medical care that could at the very least provide them with a functional life.

When Swartz first spent time in China, she wasn’t expecting to start an NGO. But as a teacher in Beijing from 1997 to 1998 she found herself building powerful bonds with many of her students. They invited her to their hometowns, giving her the opportunity to see a different side of the emerging economic juggernaut. “[My students] were on a mission to educate me about China beyond the stereotypes,” says Swartz. “I saw some of the extreme conditions and I started to make my own small donations in my own way.”When she returned to the US and entered graduate school at Maryland, she found herself

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LUO WENLONG, SUFFERING FROM SEVERE BURNS OVER 75 PERCENT OF HIS BODY, IS ATTENDED BY HIS PARENTS AT A HOSPITAL IN HUNAN PROVINCE. THE AMERICAN NGO HANDREACH DONATED FUNDING TO PAY FOR SKIN GRAFTING AND OTHER TREATMENTS FOR THE YOUNG BOY.

in frequent conversations with colleagues about the conditions she had seen.

“We had been inspired by the ZhangYimou film Not One Less [about a resourceful young teacher in rural China]—and how a little money can go so far in transforming lives. So we decided that we would create a small organization, within the scope of our ability, to offer microgrants mostly to Chinese graduate students here in the US, to encourage them to remember their hometowns and to do educational development work there.”

Fund-raising emerged as Handreach’s greatest challenge. “We would spend all of our time raising these little bits of money, a dollar at a time—we were selling bottles of water and literally asking for coins,” says Swartz. The goal initially was to raise at least $1,000 per year, in order to empower local Chinese students to run their own projects back home. Swartz and her team encouraged the grant recipients to be as creative as possible in finding the best way to help their local schools. “We didn’t have a pattern or a recommendation or an agenda for how that money should be spent,” she recalls. Any reasonable application was acceptable, as long as the person had a real connection to China and could prove that 100 percent of the grant would go where it was promised, and that the recipient would provide absolute transparency. Receipts, photos, thank-you letters and other documentation were a requirement. From 2002 until 2004, Handreach was primarily concerned with education, and it continued offering microgrants until 2007. However, after Swartz’s encounter with Zhou Lin, the organization expanded its mission.

FILLING A NEED Swartz spent two years continually reaching out to Zhou Lin’s family after their introduction outside the CCTV building in 2004. She had provided a $200 Handreach educational grant during their first meeting to ensure Zhou Lin and her sister could return to school, but serious medical care was financially out of reach at that point. However, thanks to Swartz’s efforts, within two years she was able to secure enough funding to bring the girl to America for treatment. Eventually, Swartz found herself sharing a room with Zhou Lin in the Shriners Hospital in Boston, where Swartz had procured free surgical care for the little girl. As Zhou Lin struggled through round after round of surgeries, Swartz had another important encounter.

“There were a couple of young people from Indonesia who were there with

their little cousin who had been burned by a stove in Baza Aceh [Indonesia],” says Swartz. “We were sitting there in the playroom with these little tiny chairs around this children’s-sized table. They were medical students and they said.

‘You know what? There are a lot of kids that cannot go to school, cannot function, cannot find jobs, because their bodies are deformed by these fires, and by traumatic amputations.’” It dawned on the group that Shriners had empty beds, tremendous spare capacity, expertise for treating burn victims, and the will to help. Swartz and Indonesian medical students brainstormed and came up with the Children’s Healing Initiative (CHI), which would eventually emerge as Handreach’s central project.

The initial funding for CHI came from The Hope CD (2006, Handreach), an album made up of donated songs from local Boston musicians. Swartz and her team sold copies for $20 each to help launch the initiative. “The hope was to find a way to create a connection between Shriners and hospitals in Asia that were trying to provide burn care for kids but either didn’t have the technological know-how or just didn’t have the funds to do this very, very expensive care,” says Swartz. Factoring in the surgeries, miscellaneous procedures, bandages, special ointments, physical therapy, medication, and prosthetics, burn care is one of the most expensive forms of treatment in the world. “We realized that Shriners has the capacity to be able to really help not only the children but the hospitals in China and eventually Indonesia, India—we’ve got someone in Sierra Leone that wants to work with us. We’d like to be able to spread to other countries as well,” says Swartz. “But we’re trying to get it off the ground in China, which as you know is challenging because of working with the government.”

MANEUVERING WITHIN THE DRAGON Beijing remains unflinchingly intolerant of politically oriented NGOs—especially those concerned with human rights. However, according to the Institute for Asian and African Studies, the government has expanded its tolerance of “service-provider” NGOs over the past decade. This suits the agendas of party officials, who find these organizations useful in assisting the Chinese people in uncontroversial sectors where there is an established need that the government is presently unable to address. As long as the NGOs refrain from criticizing the Communist Party system or stepping on the wrong political toes—and main5/09 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS

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tain what Professor Shui Yan Tang of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development calls “a nonoppositional stance”—they present obvious value in their ability to support a restless and underserved population. The German Development Institute reports that China has learned to recognize and tolerate the efforts of environmental NGOs in particular, and Chen Jie, writing in China Perspectives, suggests it has also loosened the reins on gender, public health, poverty, and education-oriented charitable groups.

Handreach is slowly finding its niche in this new space. Thanks to the efforts of a haphazard array of supporters at home and abroad, Swartz’s group is growing in reach and scope. “As we shed light on this problem, as we pull up the clothing that had been covering this wound, amazing people—lawyers, doctors, fundraisers, people that can contribute different things—have been coming forward,” says Swartz. “So we get different connections, people find us through the media and their own connections, and we wind up coming upon resources that we didn’t know were there.”

The most successful NGOs in China regard themselves as partners of the federal government, especially in terms of environmental protection and corruption monitoring. Dr. Renee Yuen-Jan Hsia of Harvard University and Lynn T. White III of Princeton University, writing in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, believe that foreign NGOs operating inside China would do well to emulate this model—and many do. Their utility from Beijing’s perspective is their ability to play watchdog to local industries and officials that take liberties above and beyond what is acceptable to the federal authorities. These NGOs, both native and foreign, are also adept at raising awareness of environmental and climate change issues among the population at large, a development Beijing does not necessarily oppose as it shifts official policy in favor of greater conservation. Elizabeth Economy, the Council on Foreign Relations’ in-house China guru, wrote in her seminal 2007 Foreign Affairs article “The Great Leap Backward” that Chinese NGOs “have become central actors in the country’s bid to rescue its environment,” along with the media and international advocacy groups. Economy credits homegrown activists for leading the charge, but reiterates that the penalties for crossing the wrong political boundaries can be severe. So far, no government authority has tapped Handreach on the shoulder, but there is no guarantee none will in the future.

The philanthropists and humanitarians helping Handreach have mostly been American up to this point, by necessity, but favorable Chinese media coverage and the group’s connections are slowly building a base of interested supporters inside China. For now, most of Handreach’s funding is coming from the American Buddhist community and from American churches. “The major hands-on care—taking care of the actual children and providing hosting, translation, and that very labor-intensive care—has come from churches,” says Swartz. “Many have banded together to provide hosting. They’re very well organized and they have the institutional resources to provide long-term support. Churches and religious people have been very, very helpful to us.”

According to Michael Busgen of the Institute of Social Studies, the safest way for an NGO to stay in the good graces of government regulators is to focus on the immediate needs of its constituents, whether they’re undereducated kids, sick peasants, or battered women, and avoid becoming what he calls “a mechanism for representing and pursuing the interests of these constituencies toward the state.” If a child is sick or injured and an NGO wants to help them, Beijing will acquiesce. The trouble only starts if the NGO mentions that the child’s illness is due to lax regulation on the part of the government or negligence by a favored industry.

However, NGOs can be seen as helpful policy consultants in China, as long as they tread lightly and use an inoffensive vocabulary when suggesting change.

“The Chinese state uses NGOs as objects of consultation for improving its policymaking in the same way it consults mass organizations and official professional associations to obtain specialist information,” writes Taru Salmenkari in a recent analysis for the Institute for Asian and African Studies. Beijing genuinely wishes to mitigate the plight of its people, as long as its own power is not threatened in the process. Thus, there is space for an NGO to prevent harm to other children in the future—as long as it doesn’t place blame or seek justice.

WORKING AROUND THE SYSTEM A vital decision that each NGO must make is whether to officially register with the government, or to remain underground and hope that the authori24

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ties choose not to bother them. The regulatory structure governing authorized NGOs in China is burdensome, the registration process is unreasonable by any measure, and once an NGO is official the oversight is so overbearing that it can seriously constrain the NGO’s original purpose. The roadblocks are overwhelming to the point that many groups prefer to operate underground. According to a study by the German Development Institute, “about 2,000 registered environmental NGOs exist in China, but it is estimated that there are about 100,000 environmental groups that refer to themselves as nonprofit enterprises or university student environmental groups to avoid the tedious NGO registration process.”

In their book China’s Embedded Activism (Routledge, 2007), Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds vividly outline the official NGO registration process. Envision, if you will, a kindhearted group of native Chinese or Western humanitarians who simply want to provide free medical services to children inside China. In order to register their organization as an officially licensed NGO, they have to sign up at the Ministry of Civil Affairs—or a local civil affairs office if the NGO’s geographic reach is regional or local. The NGO is then reviewed and supervised by both a civil affairs office and the NGO’s so-called “sponsor”—a state-authorized supervisory organization that specializes in sponsoring NGOs and monitoring their activities (the NGO must find its own supervisory sponsor willing to take it on before it can begin to register). Only one NGO may work on any given set of issues in any given administrative area. Establishing regional chapters is not allowed, even for NGOs with permission to operate nationally. There are minimum funding requirements, which serve as a deterrent for many small-scale operations.

After an NGO is approved, supervision measures are extensive and frequent, and reporting requirements are highly burdensome. Violations can result in all the predictable coercive measures, up to and including fines, suspension of activities, replacement of leaders, seizure of financial assets, and, ultimately, revocation of the registration. Every step of this process involves China’s institutionalized resistance to civil society operations, as well as untold fees, delays, arbitrary decisions, and local corruption.

Handreach remains unofficial, and plans to stay that way for the time being. When asked if she feared the government might eventually interfere its operations if they remained unlicensed, Swartz dismissed the danger.

“Everyone knows that what we’re doing here is trying to help kids and that it’s a good thing,” she says. “We haven’t had any direct problems with the government. Nobody wants to prevent health care for kids.” However, there are benefits to registering with the government. At this time, Chinese donors cannot legally provide Handreach with funding, and Swartz can only recruit from Chinese nationals in the US or overseas. “We’re really not doing much fundraising in China at all,” says Swartz. “I think we should, and I would like to, but we’d like to have a very legitimate way for people to give money. We’ve been told that we have to register in China under a civil agency like Sichuan Charitable Funds, but I’ve been warned against that because it becomes so bureaucratic and so much money disappears [due to fees and corruption].” Following China’s rules could also entail the loss of Handreach’s institutional control over its own accounting and transparency and since Handreach prides itself on spending 100 percent of its donations on the intended recipient, Swartz fears losing the ability to continue that guarantee to her benefactors.

It’s not surprising that Handreach chooses to operate under the radar, given the emerging pattern of Beijing acquiescing to the activities of noncontroversial, nonpolitical aid organizations, registered or not. However, a license can grease the wheels in other ways, unrelated to the government.

Without one, agencies and organizations that would be natural allies for Handreach fear they will step on the wrong political toes and bring heat on themselves if they work with the group, so they demure. “What we have seen is a tentativeness on behalf of the hospitals, because they’re nervous,” says Swartz. “They don’t want to receive money, they don’t want to do anything, without somebody’s okay. But as soon as you ask for the okay, then you have to put it through a process, and nobody knows how it’s going to go.” Thus, large institutional collaborations remain out of reach, because administrators fear censure from overly sensitive government regulators.

“People have never wanted to block us. But they’re tentative, and hemming and hawing, especially the big hospitals,” says Swartz. “We have one

very strong hospital relationship in central China where we’re getting a lot of good work done, because it’s a small hospital and they don’t care [about the politics]. They’re very pure. They just want to get the work done.” But the biggest and most resource-rich hospital in Chengdu—the largest city in Sichuan—doesn’t answer e-mails or respond to Handreach’s requests. They know, however, that the NGO is there, because they send burned children for treatment. “They’ve been giving us kids that they should be treating, because they have no other way to treat them because the parents can’t pay,” explains Swartz. “So they send patients to us with no follow-up and no institutional support for getting follow-up care for these children.”

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BRIDGING THE GAP There is a school of thought on Chinese civil society that says NGOs are now fulfilling needs that are not covered by the Chinese government but should be. Concurrently, many say, the Chinese government is starting to see NGOs as helpful service providers that can mitigate some of the harmful effects of the transition to a free-market system, and thus placate a restive population that might otherwise reject Communist Party rule.While most NGOs would be repulsed by the idea that their services may be strengthening China’s authoritarian system, in the short term the win-win perception is a positive development for China’s poorest.

Swartz identifies a second, less obvious, potential benefit to China from an emerging NGO sector: high-quality jobs for a growing glut of young, educated workers. NGOs could provide satisfying work for the growing number of idealistic and educated young Chinese that are interested in addressing the problems of their country. “China is going to have to employ these highly educated young people who are coming out of universities and graduate schools,” says Swartz. “NGOs are excellent ways to productively engage China’s best and brightest youth in solving the very complex problems with the nation; the environment, health care, education. By allowing a thriving NGO sector to flourish, the Chinese government is both addressing the needs of the issues themselves as well as the needs of the young people to be engaged meaningfully with solving those problems—without having to go through the government or the bureaucracy, and being able to be very hands-on. I think there’s a lot of young college and graduate school graduates who are coming out that want to be in NGOs, that want to do issue-based work. China is very strategically situated in Asia to be able to provide leadership in tackling some of these issues, like the environment, education, and health care. I’d love to see the Chinese government harvest that potential and start to engage meaningfully and substantively with young people in solving these problems.”

Every day the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg gauge China’s precarious support of US debt, fearing Beijing may pull the plug on its gargantuan purchases of Treasury bills. Talking heads expound on the new global economic order binding the US and China together. They invent words like “Chimerica” and devise ways for the two superpowers to pull the world out of the financial crisis. With no further context, a reader might envision a land filled with ambitious workers striving for American jobs, and a government that has perfected the art of capitalism to the point that the US will struggle to keep up. In reality, the Middle Kingdom has a great distance yet to go before its economic system should be admired. The Chinese people lack freedom, but equally important are the basic services—health care, quality education, a social safety net—that many are still doing without. If these failings linger, it will call into question the bravado China presents to the world.

For now, humanitarians like Brecken Chinn Swartz and her colleagues at Handreach are helping to close the gap that has emerged between the globalized China and the China that has been left behind. Thankfully, Beijing appears to be ever more tolerant of such efforts. Swartz and her dedicated team of Chinese nationals—and the Chinese expatriates and Westerners abroad supporting them—are helping to show Beijing that a committed group of individuals can make a positive difference outside of the government sphere.

Swartz is just one woman, but thanks to a series of inspirational encounters, she is a living example of how one motivated person can change untold lives.

Countless children in China that otherwise would be illiterate, immobile, or otherwise nonfunctional now have a chance to make something of themselves, and avoid a lifetime of depression and hopelessness.

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

AN ODE TO SPRING

Lo, yon derivative swaps have taken wing. ’Tis an ode to spring. ’Tis of banks we sing.

Oh so recently, richly, wildly over-inflated, their lending rooms are now tightly constipated.

But, “O Goldman,” and also “O Sachs,” know that the government has your backs, we’ll restore your riches with an extra tax as you lobby to be sure regulations stay lax.

Free trade runs free like a berserk lawn mower clipping workpeople’s wages lower and lower.

No cause to complain, to whine or to bitch.

Be happy that somewhere a corporation grows rich.

Jobs are outsourced, shipped across the wide sea, we can live on our credit in the land of the free, borrow against businesses, our homes and our land, keep our heads burrowed down deep in the sand.

How did this happen, how did it come to be?

And what the bloody hell is AIG? If you had lost every cent in a mad enterprise gone bankrupt believing in your own lies, we’d leave you to starve in stark misery, capitalist theory says that’s the way it should be.

But ’tis not you, ’tis of the banks that we sing.

So save them, save them, that’s our ode to spring.

It should be a comedy, it should be funny.

So it would be, if they lost their own money.

Who is responsible, where is the onus when the bigger the loss is, the bigger the bonus?

Who is to blame, and what is the cause?

Can you steal that much without breaking laws?

Is there a dungeon, dull, dreary, and dank for the bankers who laugh all the way to the bank?

But ho! And yet!

Should not an ode to spring be about hope?

Renaissance and renewal should be the trope.

The long winter is o’er, so dreary and sick, we’re out of the Bush and away from the Dick.

We’re out of the time when lunatics reigned, a league of looters who loved torture and pain.

They were the war against civilization.

So let the sun shine on the Obama nation.

Stupid has triumphed so often and long, it’s hard to believe good sense can grow strong.

Now is the moment, yes, now is the time, but do it in prose, best not do it in rhyme.

Now that it’s bright, so sunny and warm, it’s time for new growth, time to reform.

Where should we look? Where must we focus so each new idea springs up like a crocus?

Health care should be first on the list.

If you look at the numbers you’ll really get pissed.

France and Italy, their health care’s the best.

We spend double, yet we get far, far less.

Where’s all the money? The lucre, the dough, the gold, the whole roll, where does it go?

Our health care is not at all about health, it’s an IV tube that feeds into corporate wealth.

Is being number one good cause for celebration?

We’re the number one incarceration nation!

One in every hundred is now behind bars, away from the sun, the moon, and the stars.

School budgets get cut, education goes down so we can build a new jail in everyone’s town.

But we’re broke and prisons are very expensive.

There’s got to be something more cost effective.

It’s got to get worse before it gets better, Yes, America is the world’s leading debtor.

It sounds a platitude from dear old Polonious, but debts upon debts become very onerous.

It reeks of rhetoric, it sounds like malarkey but we’re being looted by our own oligarchy.

The lesson is tragic, yet once again funny: rich people can’t be trusted to handle their money.

Glaciers are melting, leaving nothing that’s polar.

When will we wake up and start being solar, geothermal, and wind, and a bit of conservation for a healthier planet and the wealth of the nation?

Big money subverts and corrupts all it touches.

When will we learn to see what too much is?

One key to it all: Give the rich higher taxes.

It may sound perverse, but that’s what the facts is.

But ho! And yet! ’Tis an ode to spring.

It is of ourselves that we should sing.

Larry Beinhart is the author of Salvation Boulevard.

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PUTTING THE BRAKES ON FAST MONEY An Interview with Woody Tasch

by Carl Frankel illustration by Jason Cring

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oody Tasch is all about the money.

But not in an evil, greedy-bastid way. For two decades, he’s been pioneering the integration of financial investing with social responsibility. It’s an enormously important undertaking. When investment dollars go to conventional businesses—and the great bulk of funding still does—orthodox business practices are endorsed and sustained. The result: more social injustice and environment decline.

When dollars stay local, on the other hand, environmental costs are reduced because there are lower shipping costs, jobs are created that aren’t subjected to the vagaries of global corporate decision-making, and the money circulates in the community, making for a much more robust local economy.

In the 1990s Tasch served as treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and was the founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance.

Subsequently he was chairman of Investors’ Circle, a network of angel investors, family offices, and social-purpose funds and foundations that since 1992 has invested $133 million in sustainability-promoting ventures and venture funds.

Tasch’s latest venture is the Slow Money Alliance, which aims to bring investment dollars to the emerging alternative culture centered around “slow food,” a growing global movement that celebrates community life through locally grown food and ecogastronomy. The Slow Money Alliance’s mission, offered here in an abbreviated form, is to “support small food enterprises, catalyze increases in foundation grantmaking and mission-related investing in support of sustainable and local economies, and incubate next-generation socially responsible investment strategies.”

In addition to being a leading expert on socially responsible investing, Tasch is an integral thinker with a poetic sensibility.These qualities are on vivid display in his recent book, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered, which combines an indictment of our mainstream money culture with a passionate call for a slower, more humanistic approach to investing.

For Tasch, slow food and slow money go together like, well, grass-fed beef and a fine microbrew. I caught up with him before a talk he gave at Time and Space Limited in Hudson on April 24 on Slow Money/Slow Food.

What’s the essence of your vision?

We live in a culture that’s all about speed, quantity, and growth. It’s a culture that’s profoundly out of balance. We need to slow down, focus more on quality, and reject growth for growth’s sake as the sole benchmark of business success.

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Over the years, the socially responsible investing movement has taken a step in this direction. “Patient capital” is the term that’s emerged to describe investors who don’t require companies to maximize returns as quickly as possible. But there’s a tension here. Socially responsible investing is under constant pressure to get more adherents—in other words,to become more mainstream—and this comes with a price. Its core values get diluted.

We need to build a culture that stands as a radiant counterpoint to our dominant hurryup culture.We need to bring our culture down to earth—and I mean this literally.We need to replenish the soil; we need to remember our connection to the soil; we need to support our local food system; we need to participate in and celebrate the authentic local culture that emerges from these many connections and awarenesses; and we also need to build the financial infrastructure that will enable all this to thrive.

At a founding retreat of the Slow Money Alliance, Peter Kinder, one of the pioneers of the socially responsible investing movement, used the term “deracinated.” It’s a great word that means cut off from our roots. Slow food and slow money are concepts that, together, help us find our roots again.

“Slow money” is an intriguing term.

In my book, I define it as “patient capital on the opposite of steroids.”

And then there’s “slow business”— That’s an important piece of the puzzle too. The entrepreneurs are the real heroes.

While the focus of the Slow Money Alliance is on businesses that are part of the local food system, there’s a growing parallel movement that focuses on supporting businesses that are rooted in place, value quality, and are mission-driven.

This is about changes in organizational structure as well as values. New organizational forms such as social enterprises and so-called B Corporations, which combine for-profit and nonprofit purposes, are emerging.

We’re experimenting with new enterprise structures on the financing side, too.

In Santa Fe, for example, there are efforts underway to develop what’s being called a Sustainable Business Investment Cooperative. They want to use the co-op model as a new way to aggregate capital, which would then be deployed locally.

The core wound we’re trying to heal is the bifurcation of finance and social purpose.

For a century or more, the two have been totally separated. At the end of the day, this is a design challenge. We need to design new types of corporations and shareholder arrangements that integrate finance and social purpose.We need to design new forms of financial intermediation that allow investors to direct dollars to slow businesses.

What are some of the more interesting slow money structures that you see emerging?

One possibility we’re looking at is “slow munis.” Why not invent a new kind of municipal bond that would let people invest in local and regional food systems? We’re in exploratory discussions with a municipality about this.

And how about a fund that was dedicated to expanding community-supported agriculture [CSA] in the US? Currently, about 100,000 Americans get their food from CSAs. In Copenhagen alone, about 55,000 people do so. Talk about a huge opportunity!

We’d also like to see the creation of regional slow money funds that would support everything from small organic farms to local food processors to slow food restaurants.

We’re currently conducting workshops in various regions around the country to identify what a truly healthy food system would look like and what is needed, including capital requirements, to make it a reality.

Here’s a quote from your book: “Entrepreneurs and farmers are the poets of the economy. They are holders of ambiguity and risk. They cultivate interstitial spaces, where demand and need and aspiration coexist in a mildly turbulent state of chaotic possibility. They continuously test the boundaries of quality and quantity, as a poet tests the boundaries of denotation and connotation. Ideas in a business plan; seeds in potting soil; rhymes in search of new reasons.” I ask you: Is this any way to write a book about finance?

It is the only way to write a book about finance. This wasn’t the case 50 or even 25 years ago, but it is today.With soil depletion and climate change hard upon us, we’re heading toward an irreversible and possibly apocalyptic problem.We need to respond by being daring.This means going beyond our left brains and engaging our whole brain and our heart.

The paragraph you quoted links poets, farmers, and entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur takes an idea that isn’t real and turns it into something real. Sounds pretty poetic, doesn’t it? And what’s a farmer? He’s an entrepreneur whose material is land. Like poets, farmers need to balance all kinds of imponderables. They beautify the landscape and enrich the life of the community. There’s an essentially poetic aspect to that, don’t you think? If we think of poetry as a crucible that brings together meaning and music, it’s fair to say that entrepreneurs and farmers do the same thing.

As currently understood, economics is all about speed and going hell-bent for growth.This isn’t the right tool for addressing our current problems. Genuine economic prosperity requires more than a set of rote calculations and activities. Meaning and music have to be included if we’re going to have a shot at surviving long-term.

As a poet, you understand the importance of language and how it shapes people’s perceptions. Take the word “economics,” for instance. It’s come to mean quantitative analysis with all qualitative assessments stripped out. This is one example of how we’ve culturally been imprisoned by our language.

How can we possibly address a challenge as deep and pervasive as this?

How do we deal with the problem of language? With poetry. Poetry is a way of slowing down language to a place that gives meaning a chance to come out in different ways.

Would it be fair to characterize Slow Money as a poetic polemic in favor of nonviolence?

Nonviolence is certainly a core organizing principle. If you start from the perspective of an investor who is trying to find socially responsible businesses to invest in, and if you follow those enterprises back to first principles, you will find that there’s almost nothing nonviolent for that person to invest in. Consumerism is intrinsically violent. A world in which families are organized around job and career opportunities does violence. A food system that is arranged around creating the cheapest, longest-shelf-life food possible does violence.

In a world as violent as ours—indeed, in a world that celebrates violence as much as ours—how do you steer people toward nonviolence?

My answer to this daunting and profound question is: organic carrots. Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer who lives in Maine. He has a great way of recognizing the power of food to change behavior. Kids who live within 15 miles of his farm ask for his carrots for their lunchbox; they’re that special. His philosophy is, “Make good easy.”

We’ll never get everyone to become saints overnight, but we can entice and inspire people to move in the right direction by linking the healthy and the pleasurable to the nonviolent.This is one reason organic food can be so powerful. It’s fun to put your hands in the dirt.We’re inviting people to relax their obsession with dollar-defined well-being and to engage in activities that are immediately rewarding.

Slow food isn’t only about food; it’s a social change movement that uses food as a tool for connecting people to each other and the earth. Many Americans slot slow food into the pigeonhole of white-tablecloth restaurants and the like.They’re missing—or at least reducing—the point. There’s something in the coming together of people around food that can drive social change.

What else is the Slow Money Alliance doing to support the emergence of this vision?

We’re creating a national alliance of stakeholders that will create social capital at a national level. These are nationally known people like Greg Steltenpohl, who founded [juice drink giant] Odwalla.We’ve signed up 58 members so far, every one of whom has contributed $1,000 or more.We’ve also gotten foundation support.The Charlottesville, Virginia–based Blue Moon Fund has made a significant seed funding commitment.

In parallel we’re building a grassroots network. We will soon announce a set of principles—the Slow Money Principles—and invite people to publicly endorse the principles and contribute $50.

One of the things we’re stressing is the need for social capital—the bonds of real connection among people. In mainstream financial circles, that’s viewed as largely irrelevant. There are no enduring social relationships in the venture-capital world. We’re turning things on their head.We’re starting with the social relationships and using them to identify and build financial intermediation structures.

Meanwhile we’ll be continuing to refine our design ideas. We’ll also raise capital so we can test them.

What sort of progress do you hope for over the next decade or so?

A positive scenario for 2020 would include tens of thousands more small and midsized organic farms, one or two million American families getting their food from CSAs, and a robust capital market supporting many thousands of entrepreneurs who share the concerns and values I’ve been describing here.

There are tremendous opportunities embedded in this vision. Take Hawthorne Valley Farm, for instance, which is a great local yogurt producer. What if we could help bring into being a whole generation of similarly-sized regional yogurt companies to complement the Stonyfield Farms of the world? It would be great if we could successfully nurture the emergence of a large number of regional food producers.

Another enormous opportunity is associated with carbon sequestration.The science suggests that because organic soil is so rich in organic matter, it can play a significant role in capturing carbon and alleviating climate change. Some people even believe that if organic farming became sufficiently widespread, it could reverse global warming!

Whether or not you believe that, the notion that organic farming can play a significant role in addressing climate change is very exciting. It also opens up all kinds of entrepreneurial opportunities involving soil amendments, ways to measure carbon sequestration, and so on.

I’d like to see a form of financial intermediation that links organic farming to carbon-sequestration payments. It’s a tremendously pleasing idea, both practically and emotionally. And such a poetic concept!

What impact do you expect the Obama Administration to have on the shifts you’re espousing?

Although some people complain that he’s not doing enough, Obama keeps coming back to the need for fundamental structural fixes. He’s not satisfied with superficial solutions and wants to get to the bottom of things. This is our mindset, too. It’s wonderful to see that a serious high-level articulation of a fundamentally new direction is emerging from this crisis.

And the economic meltdown?

It’s created an environment in which the deleterious effects of fast money have become painfully obvious to everyone. It’s allowing us to jump to the next level of the conversation much more quickly.

Earlier, you talked about “having a shot at surviving long-term.” Are you really that pessimistic?

Realistically, I think the odds of our working our way through all our monumental problems are one percent or less.

That said, I wake up every day in that hopeful one percent, knowing there’s no shortage of things to do. It won’t be easy to get out of the corner we’ve painted ourselves into, but it’s not impossible, either. We can’t let ourselves be paralyzed because if we put one foot in front of another and head in the right direction, you never know what we’ll find.

I think about this in terms of money. We need to get it flowing in a qualitatively different way. We need to slow it down. If we can accomplish this, even with small amounts of capital, who knows what changes will follow?

I live on one acre of land in northern New Mexico at 8,300 feet. It’s famous for its communally-managed irrigation systems, called acequias. When you watch the first water coming onto your land, it’s an amazing and inspiring experience. It’s also a metaphor for slow money. We need money to percolate instead of circulate. We need money, like water, to seep into the culture in a way that makes life possible.

Watching the water come onto the land is a profound source of hope for me.

To find out more about Slow Money: www.slowmoneyalliance.org.

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ess than a mile from the Hudson River, located at the center of a small but bustling town, the Howland Public Library houses photos of historic Beacon. Nestled discreetly among the shelves between Old Dutchess Forever and The Hudson Throughout the Years is an aging, thinly bound book held together only by its laminated covers. It is a souvenir from Beacon’s “Golden Jubilee” celebration held in June 1963, commemorating the city’s official 50 years of existence. At the beginning of the book is a letter written by the mayor of Beacon at the time, Stanley Odell.

“During the past 50 years, Beacon has progressed slowly, but steadily,” Odell writes. “With continued faith in our community and the splendid cooperation of the citizens, it may well be that 50 years hence, at the time of our centennial, Beacon will be the metropolis of the Mid-Hudson Valley.”

Although Odell’s prediction may not be entirely true just yet, Beacon is anything but faded. It is, however, vastly different from what it once was.

Beacon was named for the lighting posts used as beacons on the mountain that shadows the town, which warned American soldiers of British troop movements along the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War. Beacon has numerous historic sites from that era, including the Madam Brett Homestead (the oldest building in Dutchess County), said to have provided a respite for George Washington during his time spent planning for battles in the Hudson Valley.

Decades before Beacon incorporated as a city in 1913, after the villages of Matteawan and Fishkill Landing merged, the neighboring villages had collaborated on an effort to bring investors and newcomers to the area. In 1898, banks and hotels sprang up along what is now Main Street, preparing for an explosion of business in the years to come. In 1902, an incline railroad on Mount Beacon afforded passengers photo opportunities that rivaled the hills of San Francisco. Trolley cars transported visitors from the east end of Main Street to a casino located next to a powerhouse atop the mountain. From the late 1800s into 1930, impressive factories flanked Fishkill Creek and towered over the small water source, making the town a major headquarters for hat making and milk deliveries. During the 19th century, Beacon was known as the Hat Making Capital of the US, with 50 hat factories in operation at one point.

When the Great Depression hit, Beacon was not immune to its blows. But the town rolled with the punches, so to speak, surviving the Depression only to witness the closing down of its factories in the 1970s. The construction of

shopping malls on the Route 9 corridor north of the city contributed further to Beacon’s economic malaise. What followed was a downward spiral that could be seen most detrimentally in its Main Street district.

Ron Iarossi, president of the Beacon Business Association, paints a vivid picture of the city he discovered more than 15 years ago, one that appeared bleak and scary, at least from its storefronts.

“There were a lot of things that needed improvement,” says Iarossi. “The buildings needed improvement. There were a lot of boarded-up buildings, burnt-out buildings, the whole street was pretty shabby. Once all the factories had closed, they lost lots of jobs here, a lot of people moved away. It became a poor town.”

SMALLTOWN PHOENIX But Beacon has proven to be a small-town phoenix, laying down the framework for innovative new business on the ashes of its past. The opening of the Dia:Beacon in 2003 has been credited with putting Beacon back on the map.

One of the world’s largest contemporary art musuem’s, the nearly 300,000square-foot renovated Nabisco box-printing factory on the Hudson River houses masterpieces from the permanent collection of the Dia Art Foundation, like Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipse series. Museum visitors flood the nearby Metro-North platform on weekends, and many now come to Beacon for Second Saturday, a full range of art events scheduled on the second Saturday of the month that center on the Dia experience. Attendees can walk up Main Street for gallery openings, studio exhibitions, and antique shop sales. But it isn’t just visitors that have benefited from Beacon’s resurgence. Locals frequent their favorite lunch spots like HomeSpun Foods and have exotic cuisine dinner dates at Sukhothai and Isamu. Local and organic fare are available at many eateries, with the west end of Main Street serving upscale burgers and fries at Poppy’s, gourmet ice cream sandwiches at Zora Dora’s, and traditional Polish dishes with a creative twist at Marlena’s Kitchen.

Both younger and older crowds lounge in laid-back cafes like ZuZu’s and Muddy Cup, enjoying free Internet, comfortable chairs, loose teas and Scrabble. Live music and cozy bar scenes have emerged, with establishments like Max’s on Main, The Piggy Bank, Chill Wine Bar, and Joe’s Irish Pub, offering the shows of budding and experienced musicians. And for those who are not 5/09 CHRONOGRAM BEACON

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weekend warriors, yoga, meditation, and classes and lectures on a variety of subjects are part of Beacon’s bounty as well. Real estate has not been left out of the equation. Posh apartment buildings have been renovated and erected along the east end of Main Street, above clothing boutiques, restaurants, and artisan shops.To top it off, the location of a world-class scientific facility—The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries—since 2004 has furthered the cutting-edge reputation of the city.

So, what now? Despite the country’s obsession with that played out R-word, current Beacon Mayor Steve Gold sees a bright future for the town, as well as a fairly good-looking present.

“One of the reasons Beacon is strong in spite of this economy is because when Beacon was a depressed city and Main Street was just beginning to see new life through antique stores, organizations like the Beacon Business Association formed in an effort to put on programs to attract more people. And they became good at doing just that,” the mayor says, adding that along with art attractions, Beacon has beefed up its culinary industry, as well as its offering of special events like its trademark hat parade. The fifth annual Beacon Hat Parade will take place on June 6, traveling east along Main Street. The following day, June 7, as part of this year’s quadricentennial activities celebrating Henry Hudson’s voyage in 1609, the tall ships of the quadricentennial flotilla will be docked at Beacon Point Park, with live music, dancing, and storytelling by the water.

OLD & NEW Iarossi says that the new Beacon looks nothing like the one he saw when he first moved here. According to Iarossi, who owns Kringle’s Christmas House on Main Street, the motivation for business owners to put in the sweat of reviving Main Street was simple. “Your Main Street is the backbone of your community and if your Main Street isn’t good, your community isn’t good,” Iarossi says. He credits the cooperative attitudes of tightly knit business owners, the current mayor, and former Mayor Clara Lou Gould for making the strength of Beacon’s Main Street a priority. “Nobody said afterward, ‘It was my idea.’ Nobody took credit for everything. Nothing was politics,” Iarossi recalls.

The town also continues to see a growing population of new citizens, moving in primarily from urban areas. Scott Tillitt, a Brooklyn expatriate, says that he and his wife moved to Beacon after she fell in love with the coffeehouses and the health food store—Beacon Natural Market—on Main Street, among other things. Tillitt’s wife, Andrea Ramirez, is a Beacon entrepreneur herself, having began True Nourishment, a service through which she offers holistic health counseling to professional women. Tillitt never visited Beacon before moving to the town. He says he “just sort of heard the buzz that everyone had heard.”

“More and more people like ourselves are coming here. More and more people are escaping the city,” Tillitt explains. “It seems like people are looking for community.” He has taken his search for community in Beacon one step further. He has started Beahive, a “coworking space,” or shared office for independent workers. “We offer shared workspace for these people who are tired of working from home and want the camaraderie of having people around,” says Tillitt. Those who have already expressed interest in participating in the project include designers, technology programmers, professionals in the public relations and marketing fields, and various consultants. Tillitt says it is this diversity of professions that will contribute to Beahive’s second purpose.

“You can collaborate on your own projects together but also we’ll collaborate on projects for Beacon, for the town,” Tillitt explains. “It’s a community of people who want to improve our personal lives, our professional lives, and our community.” Tillitt mentions that along with planning entertainment events, he also hopes to bring back a town newspaper.

According to the inventive PR consultant, Beahive has substantial potential because of the flurry of creative sparks that he has seen developing in his new hometown, particularly from those moving in. “People are bringing that culture and the energy that New York provides and they’re bringing it here and focusing that energy on a smaller scale in Beacon,” says Tillitt.

It is true that Beacon’s transformation is partially due to the fresh ideas brought in by Tillitt and his fellow urban transplants. However, changes in the town have long been catalyzed by a number of factors. Kelly Kingman, who also moved to Beacon recently from New York, is responsible for another new community-enhancing tool in town. She started the Beacon Citizens Network,

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Marlena’s Kitchen An eclectic blend of Eastern European cuisines via the Balkans, around the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Spain and Portugal.

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CIVIC INCLINATION Such civic devotion can be seen in Jim Bopp, a resident born and raised in Beacon, who feels the town has gained so many newcomers because of what it has always exuded. “There’s just a lot of good energy here and the people who are moving here are coming here because of that energy,” says Bopp, who believes the vibes of his hometown come straight from its grandiose, natural backdrop. “People need a suitable place of rendezvous with nature to recharge themselves,” says Bopp. “You can’t tell me you go on the top of Mount Beacon and you don’t feel different. I love Mount Beacon.”

He loves it so much, in fact, that he’s worked relentlessly for over 10 years to get Beacon’s incline railway reinstated. Bopp, who began his lifetime career in welding and engineering at a factory on East Main Street, was the last person to operate the railway before it shut down in 1978. With the help of upstate advocacy organization Scenic Hudson, his group, the Mount Beacon Incline Railway Society, has entered what he hopes are the final stages in securing the project’s planning. He has stumbled across and worked through numerous obstacles to get to this point. But he has persisted partially because of his love for his town’s history and partially because of his hope for its future. According to Bopp, a rebirth of the train is essential to Beacon’s financial success. “Tourism is the key for economic regrowth of the town,” affirms Bopp. On behalf of the Mount Beacon Incline Railway Society he currently leads hikes up Mount Beacon on weekends and has seen the amount of hikers skyrocket from a total of 50 people to 400. The society’s website, he says, gets hits from all over the world.

When asked about his experience in moving from Brooklyn to Beacon, Tillitt says that good food and better quality of life are two of the most important things Beacon offers. As new businesses and cultural happenings continue to pave a yellow brick road for the small city, it is clear that Beacon’s colorful track record is anything but over. A witness to several harrowing turning points in American history, Beacon continues to reinvent itself, thanks to the creativity of the people who live and flock here.

FOR MORE INFORMATION Beacon Arts Community: www.beaconarts.org Beacon Business Association: www.beaconny.com Beacon Citizen’s Network: www.beaconcitizen.com Beacon Rivers and Estuaries Center: www.bire.org Beahive: www.beahivebeacon.com City of Beacon: www.cityofbeacon.org Dia:Beacon: www.diabeacon.org Mount Beacon Incline Railway: www.inclinerailway.org

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a website similar to Facebook that lists information on upcoming Beacon events and provides users with the opportunity to create networking, social, and recreation groups online. Kingman says she decided to start the website out of her own desire to find out what was going on. “We always found out about things after they happened,” says Kingman of her experience with Beacon events in the past. “[The website] has evolved—it’s become a way for people to organize around common interests,” says Kingman. The Beacon Citizens Network currently has 350 members.

When asked why this specific type of communication hadn’t already been in place before Kingman arrived to Beacon, she said the introduction of the town’s networking site was not the result of an urban trend transported upstate, but instead came from an overall change in the world’s use of technology, specifically by younger people. “It’s more of an age or generational difference.

We’re used to finding things online,” explains Kingman.

Tillitt’s and Kingman’s quests for community are what fits them snugly into the community of Beacon as a whole. Mayor Gold governs citizens who have volunteered as the town’s ambulance corps and firefighters for over 50 years. He believes that Beacon has long exemplified a tradition of community involvement, and the integration of passionate forward thinkers like Tillitt and Kingman meshes well with the intentions of the city’s older inhabitants.

“There’s almost a tradition in Beacon of communicating that to love the city means to be involved in improving the city, and that gets passed on from old Beaconites to new Beaconites,” Mayor Gold says. “And it’s almost indistinguishable, the degree of concern for the city between someone who was born here and lived here for 80 years to somebody who moved here eight months ago.”

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Larry Lawrence, Ching Tree, steel with glass marbles, 2006 PORTFOLIO, page 40

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Portfolio Larry Lawrence

In a sprawling stone-walled basement in Woodstock, Larry Lawrence crafts kinetic sculptures out of bright steel wire and copper-coated steel rods using a jeweler’s torch. With their curved armatures, embedded springs, and curlicue embellishments, the wire pieces are dainty yet industrial, biomorphic yet mechanistic. Chutes, wheels, and oscillating rods called pitmans, all powered by a tiny electric motor, collect and convey marbles to a series of swooping tracks. They make a racket: mechanical clicks, random chimes, the rumble of marbles speeding down the wire tracks, and the occasional thud of a ball hitting the floor intermingle with squawks from the artist’s parrot.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Lawrence early on demonstrated a gift for fashioning fanciful mechanisms and miniature worlds. As a child, he constructed toothpick towers, took apart a piano, and blew the fuses in his school classroom by plugging in contraptions rescued from Dumpsters. He began hopping freight trains in his teens and developed a fascination for trolley lines and cable cars, boardwalks with carnival amusements, the Pacific Northwest rain forest (ferns are a favorite motif), and belching Rust Belt factories.

After moving to New York in the mid 1960s, he and his partner Paul Feasel developed a successful business selling elaborate miniature carousels, musical cable cars, hot-air balloons, and other gift items to department stores and specialty music-box stores. They briefly relocated to San Francisco and then returned to New York, before purchasing an 1867 house on the green in Woodstock a decade ago. Lawrence started building his rolling ball machines five years ago and, more recently, miniature tableaux of stoneware figures in working man’s poses. An exhibition of Lawrence’s work will open at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum on May 9 and continue through June 7. (845) 679-2940; www.larrylawrenceart.com.

—Lynn Woods

LARRY LAWRENCE ON HIS WORK Early Inspiration I can remember finding an apple crate when I was five years old. TV had just come in and we used to go over to [visit] some neighbors who had a set and watch the Rose Bowl. The TV seemed really cool. So I built a TV studio out of the crate. I had to do the lights and control panel. I had a fascination not with what’s going on out front but with the set, light panels, controls, and fly space [the tower above the stage enabling stage hands to move lights and other elements quickly onto the set]. That was the first distinctive thing I recall building.

I was always the kid getting all the other children in trouble for going out someplace and constructing some sort of village or city out of mud or whatever was available. Of course, they’d go home all dirty. Once I found a neon transformer on the way to school and brought it into shop class. I made most of the class uncomfortable showing how many things I could do with the sparks.

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On Riding the Rails

Life Is a Carousel

When I was riding in the 1960s there was loose freight and lots of open boxcars. They were truly luxurious—nice and comfortable and reasonably warm. I would get off and wander around, run into somebody else and go to the jungle, a spot where the hobos camp out. In some areas it was a shantytown, or under a trestle. I recall stopping in Missouri and going through Cleveland and Detroit. There was no concept of clean smokestacks, and that colorful smoke added to the ambiance of going through the industrial area. The rolling ball pieces are certainly inspired by that industry.

There was this Con Edison explosion out in the street. Some of us were standing as close as possible to the manhole covers so you could see them when they blew up and there was this photographer across the street. We got to chatting about picking up some extra bucks and this idea of making carousels came up. We found some of those real tinny-sounding music boxes, covered them up, put a top on, and added plastic horses from the candy store. We got a felt pen and some glitter. We sold that first batch, and with that money we got a little more exotic and sold [a second batch]. Each batch would become more elaborate. By the second year, there were moving horses and lights. In later years I started making the [carousel] ribs out of wire. The animals were also made on wire armatures. That was the beginning of working with wire.

Above: Snatch Snail, steel with glass marbles, 2004.

Opposite: Untitled pieces from The Workman Series, steel with stoneware figures, 2008-09.

Dr. Seuss in Detroit—Devising the Sculptures

Malleable Materials and Working Men

I wanted to do a mechanism for the sake of the mechanism. Each [sculpture] became a study of a different random operation, and each has a very different mechanism. The inception for each is that I’ll get an idea for a part. At some point it will be able to pick up a marble, once I get it actually working. In this case [pointing to Snatch Snail] the wheel was the beginning. Then it was, “What can I do with the big wheel?” What followed was the pitman action, which is always kind of interesting. It’s like a steam engine lifting, with the piston going in and out.

Molding steel is like working with clay, except it’s 2,000 degrees while you’re working on it. If a piece doesn’t work, you just bend it and break it off. Steel can be reworked endlessly.

You can cannibalize one piece and use it on another.

Doing the tracks becomes a kind of choreography. Initially, I tried to do [the tracks] with no [wire] side rails. It would have worked if I had used metal balls, but those weren’t as interesting to me as marbles, which are actually pretty lumpy. If you try to run one down the chute without the side rails it’ll come off.

The stoneware figures are made of fired clay and situated in construction sites. This [piece of three figures perched on a board balanced on a beam] was inspired by the famous picture taken during the building of the Empire State Building.

You look back and see what a short time ago [the] pre-OSHA [period] was, when there were no safety regulations of any kind. In industrial pictures that are not that old you’ll see people sitting on the edge of stuff with no harness and no hard hat. So far, I haven’t been putting modern safety equipment on the figures. I’m not sure that’s politically correct.

Lost Days of Freedom All those great years in New York with [Mayors] Lindsay and Koch, you could do anything you wanted. I feel fortunate to have lived during those years. You didn’t think much about lawyers back in those days. You rented the boat in Central Park for two bucks, had a gallon or two of vodka screwdriver in the boat, and by noontime everybody would be out of the boat into the lake. One could go too far that way, where it ends up being derelict. It’s unfortunate, on the other hand, to see everything overly regulated and overdeveloped. I feel kind of sorry for kids now because of all the over-control they have to live with. On the other hand, kids also have rights, so they can get away with more.

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galleries & museums ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 EXT. 119.

“Graffiti Art Exhibit: Hood Scrappers Low Rise High Fall.” May 2-31.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 6pm-9pm.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.

“Botanical.” Featuring. May 16-June 14.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 6pm-10pm.

“Light & Dark.” Through May 10.

ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.

“Design Stimulus: A New Currency, A New Economy.” Works by SUNY Ulster Graphic Design students. May 2-30.

“The Great Tulip Scandal.” May 2-30.

Both shows open Saturday, May 2, 5pm-8pm.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Line.” Group installations exploring the Golden Mean through the use of line. Through May 2.

“Bodice of the Goddess: The Secret Life of the Hudson.” Carla Goldberg. May 9-31.

Opening Saturday, May 9, 6pm-9pm.

BCB ART GALLERY 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539.

“The Peaceable Kingdom.” Group exhibition. Through May 31.

BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS AND ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

“Up River.” Aerial photography of man-made sites on the Hudson. May 9-October .

BRILL GALLERY ECLIPSE MILL—STUDIO 109, NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS (800) 294-2811.

“Artists Without Borders.” Works by Anita Rydygier, Rieko Fujinami, and Joanna Gabler. Through May 31.

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CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490.

“Pin Up Show: Photographs and Prints.” Through May 3.

“Take Me to the River.” Panoramic photographs of the Hudson River by Tom Sobolik. May 15-June 22.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 6pm-9pm.

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

“Sacred Ground.” Marlene Wiedenbaum, Thomas Locker and Jeff Briggs. Through May 10.

“Spring Group Exhibit.” Works of Joan Griswold, Allyson Levy and Grey Zeien, Katy Butler, and Bill Sullivan. May 14-June 21.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 6pm-8pm.

CARRIE HADDAD PHOTOGRAPHS 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655.

“An Inside Look.” Carrie Haddad’s private photography collection. Through May 24.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

“Pics: A Regional Collegiate Invitational Exhibition.” Through May 24.

“Anthology of Trends.” Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig. Through May 24.

DIA: BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100.

“The Resources of Rhetoric.” Works by Antoni Tapies. May 16-October 19.

“You see I am here after all.” Works by Zoe Leonard. September 7, 2010.

DRAWING ROOM 3743 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-4466.

“Visionary Artist Chris Hawkins.” Through May 31.

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.

“Oils by Todd Samara.” May 2-30.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 5pm-8pm.

EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY 348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION 226-2145.

“Watercolors by Karleen Dorn.” May 1-31.

Opening Friday, May 1, 7:30pm-12am.

ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497.

“Selected Works by Andy Kooistra.” Paintings, drawings and sculptures. Through May 27.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 12pm-2pm.

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

“Light Breezes, Peaceful Places.” Watercolor and ink paintings by Yoshiko Nakanishi. May 1-31.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 3pm-7pm.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.

“Hard Rain: From Memory to History by Anthony Suau.” Through May 3.

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Mill Street Loft Summer Programs Dutchess Arts Camp July 6–Aug.7 (weekly sessions) Poughkeepsie, Millbrook & Red Hook, ages 4-14

Hood Scrapers: Low Rise High Fall Graffiti Art Installation

Junior Art Institute July 6–Aug.7 (weekly sessions) Poughkeepsie, ages 11-14

Art Institute Summer Intensive

Trust Your Struggle Artist Collective Borish Miguel Perez Bounce Shaun Burner CECE Robert Trujillo Tres

Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street Newburgh, NY 12550

June 29–Aug.7 (Two week sessions) Poughkeepsie, ages 14-19

(845) 562-6940 x119 www.safe-harbors.org

Artist Reception with DJ H2O Saturday, May 2 6-11 pm

Hours: Thur-Sat 11 am-5 pm Or by appointment

May 2—June 27 TYS, “Of Love & Riots”, Spraypaint

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

Passionate Lives Passionate Lines

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WOODSTOCK PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS & LECTURE SERIES

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FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE 437-7745.

“Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection.” May 8-July 26.

Opening Friday, May 8, 5:30pm-12am.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, 1 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Wheelchair accessible (845) 257-3844

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS (Closing June 14) Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographer Bradford Graves: Selected Works analog catalog: Investigating the Permanent Collection BFA/MFA EXHIBITIONS May 1 – 19 (See website for details) ONGOING: Docent-Guided Tours Sundays, May 3, 10, 17, 24 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. analog catalog UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS June 13 – September 6 Hudson Valley Artists 2009 SAVE THE DATE: July 11 – December 13 The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society

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For a complete listing of special programs and current exhibitions visit our website

Top: Peter Iannarelli, American, This Land is Your Land and This Land is My Land, 2007, Plexiglas, dirt, instructions Bottom: William Hart (1823 -1894) On the Esopus, Meadow Groves, ca. 1857-58, Oil on canvas

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G.A.S. 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592.

“10.” An exhibition of 10 best emerging artists of 2009. Through May 10.

“Jose Acosta: Cuban American Paintings and Sculptures.” May 16-June 14.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 5pm-8pm.

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

“Elements and Inks.” Works by Dan Burkholder. Through May 18.

GALLERY 345 345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 392-9620.

“The Mirror: David Schultz.” Photographic diptychs and text. May 2-31.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 5pm-9pm.

THE GALLERY AT R & F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112.

“Mimi Czajka Graminski: The Spaces Between.” Through May 23.

GALLERY AT THE GOLDSMITH 152 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 528-0013.

“Seasons of the Berkshires.” Exhibit of watercolors of the Berkshires in all seasons

by Marguerite Bride. May 2-31.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 6pm-8pm.

GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255.

“Watercolors by Rob Greene.” Through May 12.

GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960.

“Current: Within.” Group sculpture exhibition. May 29-June 21.

Opening Friday, May 29, 6pm-8pm.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.

“Notart.” Solo exhibition featuring the late Columbia County artist Arthur Tieger. Through May 30.

“Sculpture on Main.” Through May 30.

GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY 5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104.

“Greene County Arts and Crafts Show.” Through May 23.

THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700.

“Still Life.” Stanley Bielen & Paul Goldberg. May 2-27.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 5pm-7pm.

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

“CCS Bard Hessel Museum Exhibition.” First-year graduate students will curate an exhibition.

Through May 24.

HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET DUBOIS HOUSE, 18 BROADHEAD AVENUE, NEW PALTZ 255-1660.

“Before Hudson: 8,000 Years of Native American History and Culture.” Through December 31.

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

“For All Who Are Kept In, For All Who Are Kept Out.” Myron Polenberg. Through May 2.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“Origins.” Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums.

Through July 26.

JOHN’S CUSTOM FRAMING 2330 STATE ROUTE 32, NEW WINDSOR 534-3349.

“Visions from the Collective Unconscious.” A retrospective spanning 65 years: artwork of Lydia Strawbridge. Through May 23.

KAATERSKILL FINE ARTS HUNTER VILLAGE SQUARE, HUNTER (518) 263-2060.

“Pack Art: Heirloom Garden Images Past and Present.” Through May 17.

KENT ART ASSOCIATION 21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-3989.

“Kent Art Association Spring Juried Show.” Through May 25.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON WWW.KMOCA.ORG. “Parade. Pentimento. Pimlico. Pearl.” Painting and sculpture. May 2-31.

Opening Saturday, May 2, 5pm-7pm.

LA BELLA BISTRO

83 Main Street New Paltz, New York 12651 Art Store 845.255.9902 Fax 845.255.1016 Web www.mannysart.com

Mon thru Fri 10 am to 6 pm Sat 10 am to 5 pm Sun 12 pm to 4 pm

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194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633.

“Multi-Media by Natalie Minewski.” Through May 29.

“New Paltz High School A. P. Art Show.” May 31-June 19.

Opening Sunday, May 31, 4pm-6pm.

LAKE CARMEL ART CENTER 640 ROUTE 52, KENT 225-3856.

“Visual Arts Committee Spring Art Exhibit.” May 16-25.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 1pm-5pm.

“Annual Spring Art Exhibit.” May 16-25.

Opening Saturday, May 16, 1pm-5pm.

MILDRED I. WASHINGTON ART GALLERY DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 431-8610. “Night Visitors.� New paintings by Franz Heigemeir. May 4-29.

Opening Wednesday, May 6, 5pm-6:30pm.

LIFE HAS ITS MOMENTS...

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Future Voices IV Art Exhibit.� Art exhibit featuring Ulster County high school student art. May 28-June 12.

Opening Thursday, May 28, 5pm-7pm. “SUNY Ulster Student Works ‘09 Gallery Exhibit.� Through May 10.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “Upstate.� Deborah Davidovits, Joyce Robins, Robert The and Susan Wides. Through May 23.

OBER GALLERY 14 OLD BARN ROAD, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-5030. “New Paintings by LeSage.� The edge of traditional landscape painting and abstraction. May 14-June 10.

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PARK ROW GALLERY 2 PARK ROW, CHATHAM (518) 392-4800. “Passionate Lives/Passionate Lines.� Sigmund Abeles. May 23-June 27.

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SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Analog Catalog: Investigating the Permanent Collection.â&#x20AC;? Through June 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II.â&#x20AC;? May 1-5.

Opening Friday, May 1, 6pm-8pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bradford Graves: Selected Works.â&#x20AC;? Through June 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eva Watson-Schatze: Photographer.â&#x20AC;? Through June 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I.â&#x20AC;? May 8-12.

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UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Awakening Colors.â&#x20AC;? 25 established and emerging local artist in traditional and new mediums.

Through June 13.

UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joan Monastero & Cynthia Sinclair.â&#x20AC;? Paint and mixed media collaborative exhibition. May 3-31.

Opening Sunday, May 3, 4pm-6pm.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tom Holt: Drawings and Paintings.â&#x20AC;? May 1-31.

Opening Friday, May 1, 5pm-7pm.

VITA GALLERY 12 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2329. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Simple Observations.â&#x20AC;? Photographic works by four high school students. Through May 24.

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232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY (845) 457-ARTS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Artists at Home and Abroad.â&#x20AC;? Paintings of our region and the rest of the world by Laura MartinezBianco and Dennis Fanton. May 2-30.

Opening Saturday, May 9, 5pm-7pm.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Figure in Its Glory.â&#x20AC;? Collaborative exhibition with the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. May 23-June 22.

Opening Saturday, May 23, 6pm-9pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peter Sis through the Red Door.â&#x20AC;? May 3-June 7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Active Members Show.â&#x20AC;? May 3-June 7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Larry Lawrence.â&#x20AC;? Kinetic sculptor. May 3-June 7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The River.â&#x20AC;? Solo show by Michael J. Heinrich, works by Rosalind Robertson. Through May 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Works by Christine Varga.â&#x20AC;? May 3-June 7.

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Music

OF SOUND MIND Pauline Oliveros

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fter 15 years of publication it was, quite honestly, shameful that while Chronogram has frequently covered events in which she is involved, the magazine had yet to profile Pauline Oliveros. A maverick icon known around the world, the Kingston composer is recognized as a leading figure in the development of electronic music. Over her 40-year career, she has formulated the influential theories of Deep Listening, sonic awareness, and the Expanded Instrument System; was a founding member and the first director of the vanguard San Francisco Tape Music Center; created the Deep Listening Institute, which regularly conducts programs and events nationally and abroad; authored four books; and served on the faculties of several prominent colleges. The occasions of her 77th birthday and its celebratory concert this month seemed like the perfect opportunity to finally feature this remarkable woman in our pages.

And so there here we are, in the brightly painted Rondout Victorian that Oliveros shares with her longtime companion, the writer and spiritual counselor Ione. It’s a gray day outside but there’s no shortage of color in 46

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photo by Fionn Reilly

BY PETER AARON

here. As befits a pair of well-traveled artists with mystical and wide-ranging interests, the stately home’s rooms are lined with tall stacks of books and adorned with paintings and totems from Africa and the Far and Middle East.

Mention of having prepared for the interview by reading Oliveros’s various online bios elicits from her a relaxed and characteristically telling response: “Oh, let’s just talk.”

Generally, with artists it’s either a situation of pulling teeth to gain a few kernels of insight, or of attempting to corral the proceedings back in line to get a word in edgewise, as the subject throws open the floodgates at the chance to finally speak their piece. But in Oliveros’s case it seems the words “talk” and “listen” are on an equal plane, tacitly interchangeable. A conversation with her is remarkably—startlingly, actually—well balanced. True to the Deep Listening practice she developed in the 1980s, Oliveros seems to intently hear the question behind the question. Every query brings forth a clear and direct response, though never one that lacks for suggestiveness.

“The paradigm is that we are a visual culture,” she says when asked about the ideas behind Deep Listening and sonic awareness, the latter defined as the ability to consciously focus attention upon environmental and musical sound, requiring continual alertness and an inclination toward always listening. “People mostly rely on their eyes [to observe], but by doing that they miss the world around them.When we learn to become better listeners, we learn more about ourselves, as well as each other. Sound and emotion are directly related, and we’re conditioned to repress both. We tend to be more connected emotionally and in every other way when, instead of automatically tuning out things we learn to ignore—like that car with the beat-box music [as if on cue, a car playing loud hip-hop drives by outside], or that heater [a radiator in the next room hisses on]—we learn to appreciate the sounds around us. They center us and remind us of our place in the world.”

Oliveros entered the world through the portal of Houston, Texas, in 1932.

Her father left to join the Coast Guard during World War II and never returned; her mother and grandmother, both piano teachers, introduced her to the classics, and she learned about folk music from the locals. “We had a chicken farm and lived just outside the city. On weekends there would be string bands playing for tips up the road at the icehouse, which was what you’d call the general store,” she recalls. “There were no refrigeration systems then, at least not where we lived. I can still remember the clink of the iceman’s pincers.” One day, when Oliveros was nine, in an effort to bring in more income by adding more lessons to her curriculum, her mother brought home an accordion. Taken with the instrument right away, she was soon a member of a 100-piece accordion orchestra that appeared at indoor rodeos. “The sound of that many accordions going at once—oh boy, has that stayed with me,” waxes the composer. Although she did put it aside for a few years in the early 1970s to concentrate on writing, Oliveros has continued to make her name as an accordion avatar, taking the instrument to previously unheard plateaus through her use of electronic effects and other treatments and unusual settings.

In 1952 she transferred to San Francisco State College (“with my accordion and $300 in my pocket”), where she studied under pivotal modernist composer Robert Erickson.While at SFSC she met fellow student-composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Ramon Sender, Loren Rush, and others, all of whom, like many of their European peers, were finding that standard musical scores did not reflect the sounds they wanted to make. In 1961 Oliveros and her compatriots founded the improvisation group Sonics, which later evolved into the San Francisco Tape Music Center, a nonprofit cultural and educational corporation with the aim of presenting concerts and offering a place to learn about the then-cutting-edge medium of tape music. “You had all of these GIs bringing back this new magnetic tape from Germany, and we had one of the first tape machines, an Ampex,” says Oliveros. “I’d used wire recorders before, but with them you couldn’t do what you could with tape.” By using the devices’ record and playback heads in unconventional ways, she pioneered the use of tape loops and long delays, which the collective presented at events that often combined live instruments and theatrics. Composer Morton Subotnick, who was also working in the medium while teaching at nearby Mills College, soon joined the group, which continued to grow and spread its influence through regional and national tours before being assimilated into Mills College’s Center for Contemporary Music.

It was during these years that Oliveros created several of her most enduring works, pieces now held as classics of electronic music: 1965’s “Bye Bye Butterfly,” which weaves an operatic recording into its mix of quiet, spooky electronic tones; 1966’s “I of IV,” a sci-fi-esque effort that applies her Expanded Instrument System by using oscillators set beyond the frequencies of normal hearing and feeding their amplified harmonic “difference tones” through a system of tape-delay mechanisms; and “Big Mother Is Watching You” (also from 1966), whose womb-like isolationism and oceanic waves presage Brian Eno’s ambient work as well as that of ’90s stylists like the Orb and Aphex Twin.

“Pauline Oliveros was very different from other [1960s] electronic music pioneers in that she thought of creating music that was a continuous, unraveling thread,” says AllMusic.com’s classical editor, Uncle Dave Lewis. “Her projection of long, unfolding events was something that didn’t have an obvious parallel in nonelectronic Western music but was organic in relation to electronic music itself, and this opened up a whole new way of approaching both the medium and art music in general.”

In 1967 Oliveros took a teaching position at the University of California at San Diego, studying with theoretical physicist Lester Ingber and learning ways to apply his methods to music; Ingber, a martial arts instructor as well, also mentored her in karate. Oliveros went on to become a black belt. (Although she no longer practices its physical aspects, she maintains that karate’s mental disciplines, as well as those of tai chi, qigong, and yoga, are central to the meditative approach of her musical techniques.) But after serving as UCSD’s Center for Music Experiment for 14 years, Oliveros began to feel creatively stifled by program dictates. “I guess I was a little radical back then,” she says. “And the way it was at that time, I was starting to feel like maybe I’d joined the establishment, which I didn’t want to do.” And so following almost three decades on the West Coast she left the college to focus on composing, performing, and artistic consulting. Drawn to the Hudson Valley through her work with Woodstock’s Creative Music Studio and her visits to Mount Tremper’s Zen Mountain Monastery, as well as the area’s proximity to New York, she moved to Kingston in 1981.

While quickly becoming a pillar of the local arts community, Oliveros continued to build a following through her concerts, recordings, and dance and theatrical scores, and acted as an advisor to the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and other groups.

In 1985 she founded the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, a humanitarian/ arts organization that would eventually be rechristened the Deep Listening Institute, named for both the concept itself and the revolutionary Deep Listening Band. Formed in 1988, the Deep Listening Band includes Oliveros on accordion, Stuart Dempster on trombone and didgeridoo, and David Gamper on keyboards and electronics (vocalist and founding member Panaiotis left in 1993), and specializes in playing and recording in ultraresonant or ultrareverberant spaces such as caves and cathedrals. The group debuted with a performance in a two million-gallon water cistern at Washington State’s Fort Worden, and has since released several recordings that display its singularly supernatural mastery of sound, environment, and the interaction between the two; the double-LP anthology Then & Now Now & Then (Taiga Records, 2008) features “Cannery Row,” which was recorded in Rosendale’s Tarpaper Cave in 1990 and makes full atmospheric use of the site’s rushing underground stream. To celebrate the 21st anniversary of its first performance, the Deep Listening Band will return to Fort Worden for a concert on May 21.

In addition to her never-ending musical pursuits, Oliveros has been unwavering in her leadership of the Deep Listening Institute, which is dedicated to imparting its philosophy and approach to heightened hearing through workshops and retreats around the world. And since her break with UCSD, Oliveros has re-entered traditional academia—this time on her own terms.

During the fall season she serves as Mills College’s Darius Milhaud Professor of Composition and in 2000 she became Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Troy’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (At RPI Oliveros has given several performances, including a 2008 concert with jazz great Cecil Taylor.)

Clearly, she’s not settling into the easy chair any time soon.

“Yeah, I’d have thought I’d be slowing down by this point,” she says with a laugh. “But it just seems to get busier. A lot of it seems to be technologydriven. More and more projects are coming my way all the time, thanks to the Internet. I couldn’t do a lot of what I do now if we were back writing letters instead of e-mails.”

“Pauline Oliveros, my dear friend of 40 years, has always trod the path of deep contemplation and awakening to the power of sound,” says Terry Riley.

“Her honesty, wisdom, and courage have inspired and instructed countless individuals. She has manifested a large catalog of works of great vision and beauty.”

An overview of that catalog will soon be available through Deep Listening Records in the form of Sounding the Margins (as it was), a six-CD box set chronicling four decades of Oliveros’s formidable career. “To me, perfection in sound is to always be really surprised by what you hear,” she says. “The surprises are what delight me the most.”

Pauline Oliveros will play a solo concert at The Stone in Manhattan on May 9. A salon concert in honor of her 77th birthday, featuring Oliveros and Benton-C Bainbridge, will take place at Deep Listening Space (inside the Shirt Factory building) in Kingston on May 30. For more information: www.deeplistening.org.

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May 8, 10. Brooklyn-based quartet the Wiyos hit the Hudson Valley with a vengeance this month, with Teddy Weber (of local Americana disciples the Hunger Mountain Boys) sitting in. With a new CD in the works, the band extends its northern exposure following its debut last month at Bodles Opera House in Chester. On May 8 the group lands at Pawlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Towne Crier as the opening act for acoustic guitar legend Woody Mann. On May 10 the group trades the Catskills for the Berkshires as it rolls its country-blues-boogie into Club Helsinki in Great Barrington. Towne Crier: 9pm, $25, 20. Pawling. (845) 855-1300.

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May 2, 30. Prepare to get cozy with your neighbor at the next John Street Jam, with no less than eight performers packed into the intimate Dutch Arms Chapel for one of the most talked-about music experiences in the Hudson Valley. On the second and fifth Saturdays of each month, Terri and Steve Massardo invite four-score or so music fans into their circle, with performers in the nucleus. The format is two rounds of four players with an intermission. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songsmiths include Montgomery Delaney, Julie Corbalis, Thea Hopkins, Chris Wilhelm, Charles Lyonhart, Rick Snyder, Sean Rowe, and Kelleigh McKenzie, fresh from her appearance on NPRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mountain Stageâ&#x20AC;? last month. 7pm. $5.

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May 9. Blame it on Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, but Band Shell Artists presents a night of powerful female artists at Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wall Street Salvage Company. Personal fave Ambrosia Parsleyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;her first album with Shivaree has always been in my top 10â&#x20AC;&#x201D;croons alongside the Elegant One (composer/guitarist Chris Maxwell, half of the Elegant Too). Swati brings the goddess vibe with her enthralling voice and songwriting style and eight-string guitar. Trixie Whitley (daughter of the late, much-overlooked rocker Chris Whitley) brings a raw, bluesy sensibility to her music and has been recording with U2/Neville Brothers producer Daniel Lanois. Island girl Nina Violet (from Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vineyard) handles guitar, viola, cello, and mandolin with ease. Bring flowers for everyone! 8:30pm. $12. Kingston. (845) 331-7011; www.bandshellartists.com.

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May 14, 22, 30. Rodgers and Hammerstein said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like a dame,â&#x20AC;? but jazz vocal fans know thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like a big band with a suave singer. This month the best of the best in our area, crooner Mark Raisch and pianist/bandleader Bill Gulino, team up on various stages on both sides of the Hudson. On May 14, Raisch brings his big band into Poughkeepsieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful Bardavon for an afternoon show of Sinatra classics and other American standards. On May 22, Raisch performs alongside Gulinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big band in an authentic USO-style stage show at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum in Hyde Park. They finish out the month together with Gulinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trio at a worthy benefit for Safe Harbors of the Hudson in Newburgh on May 30. Word to the wise, these are hot tix, so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, gates! Bardavon: 2:30pm. $5. (845) 473-2072. www.Bardavon.org. F.D.R.: 6pm. $5. (845) 229-9115. Safe Harbors benefit: 6pm.

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DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND May 22. The DDBB, the modern leader of the Big Easy second-line street bands, is legendary for its repertoire of both innovative and traditional parade hits. (Hearing the ensemble mash up â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anchorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aweighâ&#x20AC;? into the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flintstonesâ&#x20AC;? theme was a life-changing moment.) The â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dozen has recorded with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Elvis Costello, and also recorded an album of music by jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton. Basically, the band has resurrected and revitalized what had been the dying tradition of New Orleans brass units, in turn inspiring a full-on revival. (Punk guru Henry Rollins performs spoken word on May 15.) 8pm. $25. Woodstock. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

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TRIXIE WHITLEY PLAYS WALL STREET SALVAGE COMPANY IN KINGSTON ON MAY 9.

DOG ON FLEAS BEAUTIFUL WORLD

(INDEPENDENT, 2008)

A Generations X and Y headed into the great unAs kknowns of parenthood, a new genre of music was bborn. Music targeted at hipster’s kids has made inddulging the young ones much more bearable, and R Rosendale’s Dog on Fleas, with five full-length reccords and 10 years of performing, has certainly eearned its stripes in the children’s-music revoluttion. Most importantly, for us Johnny-come-lately pparental units, the Fleas have a knack for mixing ttimely themes and a variety of instrumentation into tunes not dumbed down to nursery-rh nursery-rhyme innocuousness. Beautiful World, as prolific as it is creative, contains 15 tracks and at least as many genres of thoughtful, kid-friendly lyrics and melodies. The title track’s vocals melt in your mouth, with an early Phish aftertaste as flutes hover over a Tom Waitsy horseshoe clank. “Water Planet” is Sex Mob sass smacking into hints of klezmer bouncing off a New Orleans funeral procession, while “Beach Song” is loose island folk, as free and fun as a child dancing with abandon. “Dumpling” is Steve Malkmus pop begging to be repeated; “Lima Bean” imbibes the coy and chiding voice of Lorette Velvette through a loungey train-track cakewalk; and “Where Would You Fly?” has a musical saw. In the brilliant “I Love Your Accent,” wonderfully foreign voices illustrate a musical lesson to not fear the un-same. Talented guests abound, including Uncle Rock (aka Chronogram’s Robert Burke Warren), another well-known local bard of songs for the young. www.dogonfleas.com.

—Jason Broome

JAY COLLINS THE SONGBIRD AND THE PIGEON

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A Adrian Cohen’s artistic endeavors run the length of a kkeyboard: as a composer, as an educator, and as a residdent of the Capital District. He’s performed in local aand regional events and has been recognized as Best PPianist for two consecutive years by Metroland magazzine, among other accolades. The Adrian Cohen Trio’s 22003 debut, Standardized (WEPA Records, 2003), took a fresh approach to the weathered pages of the jazz libbrary. Delphic works with a more sophisticated palette oof tone and color, adding three additional voices that ddraw your ear to C h ’ evolutionary l i Cohen’s process.

Cohen’s seven compositions here have an unpretentious ring and crispness. “Tied Over Tune” opens with the unison melodic line played by tenor saxophonist Adam Niewood, trumpeter Shunzo Ohno, guitarist George Muscatello, and Cohen. Their solos are narrowly looped around the melody without sapping its energy. Cohen carries—as he does throughout the album—a more conservative performance demeanor compared to that of Standardized.

Here he’s in the passenger’s seat, taking in a fuller view of the journey with his ensemble.

His solos are tapered yet sharp, as in “Red Rug.” His compositions also reflect a sense of economy and fluidity (“Last Days”). Each tune is buoyed by drummer Danny Whelchel and Standardized bassist Mike DelPrete, particularly on the lovely opener “Life,” which was written by trumpeter Steve Lambert.

Delphic gives purview into Cohen’s current exploration into the more spiritual and boundless aspects of composing and performing, and into his intent on keeping this music flowing up. www.adriancohen.com.

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Saxophonist Jay Collins was a West Coast jazzman bbefore he became an East Coast soul singer. Now, w with The Songbird and the Pigeon, Collins echoes his e employer Gregg Allman and his father-in-law Levon H Helm while forging his own voice. He’s not there y but he’s getting close. He’ll need to pay royalyet, t to Bob Dylan for ripping off “Gotta Serve Someties b body” with “If You Don’t Stand for Something,” and h might even owe Tom Waits a few pennies for “My he D Dreams Came Back,” but elsewhere he sounds confidently like Jay Collins.

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—Michael Ruby 5/09 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC

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Books

From Blood Dazzler: Now officially a bitch, I’m confounded by words— all I’ve ever been is starving, fluid, and noise.

So I huff a huge sulk, thrust out my chest, open wide my solo swallowing eye.

You must not know.

Scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent, I fly.

EYE OF THE HURRICANE Patricia Smith Slams Through Town

by Nina Shengold photographs by Jennifer May

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he Hudson Valley Writers Center is housed in the retired Phillipse Manor train station, a reassuringly solid building with heavy stone pillars and burnished woodwork. It boasts a spectacular view of the Hudson, with the graceful arc of the Tappan Zee Bridge to the south. Except when a train rattles past, it’s quiet enough to hear birdsong. The air is still, spring-sweet. There is no indication at all that a storm is about to strike.

That would be slam poetry champion and National Book Award nominee Patricia Smith, as the voice and embodiment of Hurricane Katrina, channeled in Smith’s 2008 book Blood Dazzler. Moving from the storm’s perspective to a devastating roll call of human victims, Smith does not so much read her poems as inhabit them, roaring and whispering from voice to voice like a virtuoso character actress.

The Writers Center appearance is a rare touchdown at Smith’s Tarrytown home between gigs; her website itinerary lists 20 events within three months in 10 different states. She’s gotten very good at packing. “I have three piles of laundry. I get home, dump the suitcase into the hamper, and pack the next pile,” she laughs.

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Five-time winner of Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam and four-time National Grand Slam champion, Smith favors accessible language and emotional immediacy. “She throws fierce charisma,” said Kurt Heintz, introducing her at Book of Voices; a Small Press Review critic exulted, “Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings.”

“I got my introduction to poetry by getting up on stage and doing it, and there was always a mix of people in the audience—ex-cons, people who bag groceries in the supermarket, people with kids. There’s something in poetry for just about everybody,” she says.The eclectic mix matters. “It’s easy to kind of huddle around other people who are doing what you’re doing and feel safe.”

Safe is not Smith’s flavor. Her poems employ a vast range of personae: child molesters, gang members, politicians, even storms (Katrina revels in “The difference in a given name. What the calling,/the hard K, does to the steel of me,/how suddenly and surely it grants me/pulse, petulance. Now I can do/my own choking”.) This might seem audacious, but Smith shrugs it off. “The persona gets the poet out of the way. It takes courage in one way, but if the audience doesn’t like it, you can comfort yourself that it’s the persona

they don’t like, not the poem. The greater challenge is writing through your own life and being completely honest.”

“Honesty” is a loaded word. While Smith made a name for herself on the slam circuit, she earned a living as a journalist, first at the Chicago Daily News, where she started out as a part-time typist, and then at the Boston Globe, for which she wrote hundreds of columns. She wrote with a raw intensity that garnered her a nomination for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, later withdrawn when the paper confirmed rumors that she’d fabricated sources and quotations in some of her columns.

Smith’s final column, “A Patricia Note of Apology,” took it on the chin: “As anyone who’s ever touched a newspaper knows, that’s one of the cardinal sins of journalism: Thou shall not fabricate. No exceptions. No excuses.” She told readers, “I wanted the pieces to jolt. So I tweaked them to make sure they did. It didn’t happen often, but it did happen.” (Website TransparencyNow. com called “It didn’t happen often” her farewell lie, claiming as many as 20 columns cited undocumented sources.)

The fallout was massive. Smith lost her job amid a firestorm of public humiliation; the resulting stress destroyed her first marriage and jeopardized her health. But by the end of the year, she’d funneled these experiences into an evening-long performance at the Chicago Cultural Center on themes of selfdestruction, betrayal, and redemption, receiving a tumultuous standing ovation.

A decade later, asked if she misses being a journalist, Smith replies with a raucous “Naah!” She’s come to see the experience as a baptism by fire. “It was basically like a blowtorch, burning everything flat, and showing me what kind of writing I was mean to be doing. I wish I had learned it in some other way, but everything I’m doing now comes from that.”

“Everything” includes teaching as well as performance and publication.

Smith is on the faculty of Cave Canem, a celebrated retreat for African-American poets, and has taught at Georgia Tech University and the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. This fall, she’ll teach creative writing at CUNY College of Staten Island. She’s also taught in prisons, senior citizens centers, and elementary schools.

“You want to talk to as many people as you can,” she says. “In every classroom, as in every audience, there’s always one person who’s going to be changed, and that’s who you’re talking to. You don’t know who it is, so you have to assume it’s everyone. The first time someone comes up to you and says, ‘I’ve felt that way too, but I didn’t know what to do with it or how to talk about it,’ you realize that everything you write carries a responsibility.”

She’s especially passionate about bringing poetry to children. “When I was in fourth, fifth, sixth grade, I didn’t know that option was available to me.

We’d have about two paragraphs in our English book—we’d do Robert Frost and then it would be over. I wish I had known back then that I had that second throat. The only difference between me and somebody who doesn’t write poetry is that something happened in my life to click that throat open.”

Her childhood on Chicago’s gritty West Side was lonely. “I was an only child, so my parents’ way of introducing me to the world was to keep me away from it. My mother was very protective,” she says. Her third book, Close to Death, opens with a poem by her father, a factory worker murdered by a gunman at age 62.

When she was about nine years old, Smith started writing in spiral-bound notebooks, creating a fictional character with an ongoing life. “Erica. I got the name from TV,” she recalls. “Erica was white. She had dark hair and blue eyes, which I thought was just the best combination. She was a cheerleader, the class president, she had all these brothers—to me, this was a great life. It was the first time I realized it was possible to create a world that was nothing like the world you were in. It was a secret escape.”

Though she wrote and reread her Erica stories for years, it never occurred to Smith to write about her own life. “I didn’t have much. There was nothing going on. Of course, there was a lot going on—you realize later with a poet’s eyes and a poet’s insight, you turn back and see how much poetry was there.”

Smith calls writing “a real skill for living, to process what’s happened to you, even if it never comes out of your drawer.” Even when people feel entitled to write, she says, many limit themselves to one genre. “Just think of yourself as a storyteller, not a poet or playwright or short story writer. A poem is a snapshot in a longer narrative. Continue, and it could become a short story. Or shine a light from another perspective, it’s a children’s book.

We cage ourselves so early to all these possibilities, we think we’re not this or not that, when it’s all coming from the same well.”

She gets ideas from “reading history, news—a lot of ideas from news— from people you meet,” looking for an unexpected point of entry to the material. Smith doesn’t rewrite a lot on her own. “I need to get up in front of an audience to work on the poem. The first draft kind of comes out of a fever.

You’re there sweating over lines and thinking about words. I talk out loud all the time. All the time. A poem doesn’t begin to have sense for me till it hits the air. I need to hear how it sounds.”

Blood Dazzler began as a single poem, “34,” which gives last words to each of the 34 nursing home residents left to die in St. Bernard’s Parish. Smith performed it in Palm Beach in 2007, and felt discomfort and shifting in the audience. “Some people just wanted Katrina to be over,” she reports. When an audience member told her, “They had Mardi Gras, didn’t they? It’s better now,” Smith started writing more poems about the hurricane and its aftermath. She’s currently collaborating with Urban Bush Women choreographer and principal dancer Paloma MacGregor on a dance-theater piece based on Blood Dazzler.

Smith’s second husband, Bruce DeSilva, is a writing coach for Associated Press; their household also includes Smith’s 13-year-old granddaughter Mikhaila, the only daughter of her only son. “We’re all only-children in my family,” she says ruefully. The poet confesses to an obsession with the sitcom “The Golden Girls,” watching reruns over and over. “I love ‘The Golden Girls’! Bruce asked me, ‘What’s the attraction?’ It’s the idea for me as an only child that you’d have that female companionship, the roommates—it’s like having sisters when you’re a grownup.” Or three older Ericas.

“In black family tradition, there’s always a storyteller, a front porch griot who spins tales with touches of down-home magic,” Patricia Smith wrote in one of her Boston Globe columns. Sometimes that tale-spinner picks up the force of a hurricane.

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SHORT TAKES From Hibbing to the Himalayas, all literary roads lead to the Hudson Valley.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BOB DYLAN TH EDITED BY KEVIN J.H. DETTMAR EDI CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009, $24.99 CAM

Dy Dylan’s name should be engraved among the great sages above the columns of university libraries—and sa this academy-friendly volume helps guarantee this th shall happen (move over, Demosthenes!) Galvanized sh by 2004’s Chronicles Vol. 1, Dylan Studies is as sshape-shifting as its subject. Current analyses of our m most-analyzed icon are provided by Alan Light, Anthony D DeCurtis, and other rock intellectuals.

ALICE FANTASTIC AL MAGGIE ESTEP MAG AKASHIC BOOKS, 2009, $15.95 AKA

Sp Spoken-word performer and Hex author Estep gets inside outsiders’ skins like a tattoo needle. Life-bruised ins sis sisters Alice and Eloise share a fierce bond with their mother, a free-spirited, bisexual dog rescuer with a m past who lives—where else?—in Woodstock. Estep will pa re read 5/23 at 5pm at the Woodstock Guild (sponsored

by Golden Notebook) and 5/31 at 4pm at Muddy Cup/ b IInquiring Minds, Saugerties.

SERENDIPITY SE LOUISE SHAFFER LOU BALLANTINE, 2009, $14.95 BAL

Ca Carrie’s meandering life is overdue for change when her mother’s death prompts her to trace her matriarchal m roots, journeying from the old world certainties of ro an immigrant household to the glitz of Streisand-era B Broadway. Hudson Valley actress/writer Shaffer has a fine n ear for the hushed tones and coloratura of both w worlds. Shaffer will read 5/13 at 6:30pm at the East F Fishkill Library; call to confirm time.

DIRT: THE QUIRKS, HABITS & PASSIONS OF KEEPING HOUSE DIR EDITED BY MINDY LEWIS, FOREWORD BY PENELOPE GREEN EDI SEAL PRESS, 2009, $15.95 SEA

Le (Life Inside) gathers startlingly diverse meditations Lewis on the deeper meanings of cleaning, in which Julianne Malvaux, Joyce Maynard, Thaddeus Ruttkowski, and 35 M others reveal what’s swept under the rug. Laura Shaine ot Cunningham’s glowingly erotic ode to floor wax is a C standout. Lewis, Cunningham & Rand Richards Cooper st will read 6/6 at 7pm at Inquiring Minds, New Paltz. w

THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF THE HEART: WRITING FROM TH TH THE SUN ABOUT PASSION, LONGING, AND LOVE EDITED BY SY SAFRANSKY WITH TIM MCKEE & ANDREW SNEE EDI THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 2009, $18.95

Th 50 richly varied titles in this anthology’s table The of contents make for irresistible browsing. Local contributions include Omega editor James Kullander’s co heart-searing h personal essay about rediscovering love at his h ex-wife’s deathbed, and eight miniature love poems by b Sparrow, bumper sticker bard of Phoenicia and erstwhile e Chronogram columnist.

AM AMRITA OF ELOQUENCE, A BIOGRAPHY OF KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE KA LAMA KARMA DRODUL, TRANSLATED BY LAMA YESHE GYAMTSO, FORELAM WORD BY THE GYALWANG KARMAPA, OGYEN TRINLEY DORJE WOR KTD PUBLICATIONS, 2008, $19.95

A long-awaited l and skillful offering of journalism, poetry, and vintage photography, illuminating the challenges an and triumphs of one of the great Tibetan masters of an the Kagyu lineage. Born in 1924, Khenpo Karthar th Rinpoche serves as beloved abbot of Karma Triyana R Dharmachakra (KTD) in Woodstock, and retreat D master at Karma Ling Center in Delhi. m

To Everything There Is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger

Allan M. Winkler

Alec Wilkinson

Oxford University Press, , .

Alfred A. Knopf, , .

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ete Seeger turns 90 this May 3, and the paterfamilias of American folk music will be honored that evening with an all-star concert at Madison Square Garden. On the bill are performers who either sang with him during his 70-year career, learned at his knee or, like Bruce Springsteen on his 2006 release Seeger Sessions, ensured that the troubadour and his repertoire became relevant for a new generation of idealist lefties, from G20 protestors to Obama canvassers.

Honoring Seeger—folk musician, musicologist, civil rights activist, antiwar crusader, and environmentalist—means honoring the progressive movement of the last century, for Seeger played a pivotal role in its watershed moments. His “We Shall Overcome” was the rallying cry of a thousand sit-ins. His unwavering dedication to the union man, the poor man, and the African-American made him suspect; but it was a brief flirtation with Communism that placed him on the blacklist in 1956, just as he found national fame singing with The Weavers. The stigma would dog his career for years. It was not until December 1994 that lefties could exult in the cosmic joke of Seeger, suddenly respectable, solemnly receiving a Kennedy Center Honor.

To chronicle his remarkable life and times, two new Seeger biographies have arrived. Each attempts a full measure of the icon, but tackles the formidable task in different fashions.

Both authors—Winkler, a college professor, and Wilkinson, a writer for the New Yorker—have done their homework: Seeger’s trajectory from patrician schoolboy to railcar hobo to ambassador of world peace, is laid out vividly. Winkler’s book is rife with secondary sources and prepublished material which creates a dense exoskeleton for the interviews he conducted with Seeger. The copious notes are a boon to future scholars.

Seeger is notorious for his aversion to self-reflection. Winkler’s and Wilkinson’s success in drawing his candor during many visits to his Beacon homestead is a laudable accomplishment. That openness is markedly missing from Jim Brown’s 2007 documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song; the PBS film ably canonizes its subject, but never burrows beneath his saintly surface.

To Everything There Is a Season is often more history lesson than character study. Moreover, Winkler’s narrative dips repeatedly into congenial cliché (“Seeger wanted to use music—his kind of music—to make the world a better place”.) Curiously, Winkler’s best material comes in a lengthy afterward, when he loses the flat professorial voice and discusses the process of interviewing Seeger, recounting the man’s regrets over public fame and familial neglect. (Wife Toshi managed her husband’s career and kept the family together as he spent years on the road.) An ethical issue intrudes: Winkler guilelessly admits sharing the fi nished manuscript with the Seegers. He accepted not only factual corrections from the couple but also suggested word changes. A biography seems to have become a collaboration and its objectivity suspect.

Wilkinson’s The Protest Singer is more deftly written, burnishing historic fact with personal, often eccentric, detail to produce a compact but engaging portrait. The result seems like an extended visit with the man as he reviews his life. There is joy therein, but also recurring melancholy. Seeger admits, “When newspaper reporters ask me what effect my songs have, I try and make a brave reply, but I am really not so certain.”

One hopes the Madison Square Garden birthday party fi nally quashes those selfdoubts.

—Jay Blotcher

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Window with 4 Panes David Appelbaum

An Aquarium

Scape

JeďŹ&#x20AC;rey Yang

Joshua Harmon

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oets reading on the local scene display ample energy, tell-all emotion, and volume, but they sometimes lack a basic desideratum: an ear for the beauty of words. The poems in these printed volumes, on the other hand, are constructed with such care for sound, they ask to be read aloud.

Joshua Harmonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection Scape opens musically (â&#x20AC;&#x153;heelprint and halter, halfway/heardâ&#x20AC;?) and later passages recall Hopkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s melodies: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My haloed seeing rues transparency,/shoos such likelihood aft, away: I yawn.â&#x20AC;? While inspired by landscapes, these poems wrestle with memory and sense impression, striving to constitute a self out of what seems a chaos of data. Topography becomes the stage on which the poet struggles to master time and change. A professor at Vassar College, Harmon often views past and future with uncertainty, while the present appears in palpable though fragmented forms: â&#x20AC;&#x153;scattered cast-off rags, torn strips of rubberâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;crumpled cardinalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s red feathers in the road.â&#x20AC;?

Even these observed realities, though, seem often to point toward â&#x20AC;&#x153;the site of some larger omission.â&#x20AC;? The reader will be excused for neglecting thematics and simply listening to Harmonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lovely, well-crafted sounds.

David Appelbaumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Window with 4 Panes aims high: The poet in his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Overtureâ&#x20AC;? claims a prophetic mantle, aiming to speak a truth â&#x20AC;&#x153;beyond each simulation by language,â&#x20AC;? over obstacles of â&#x20AC;&#x153;dislocation, displacement, dissonance.â&#x20AC;? Appelbaum, whom we must thank for his work at New Paltzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Codhill Press as well as for his poetry, acquits himself well, writing of big topics with a light hand using a spare, short line. The first section takes on mortality (â&#x20AC;&#x153;sorrow/ to the bone/all for petty thingsâ&#x20AC;?), while the second traces a kind of coping, promising â&#x20AC;&#x153;survival is rare glory.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The garden must be praised,â&#x20AC;? he declares, for pushing on in this â&#x20AC;&#x153;dangerous oxygen.â&#x20AC;? The fi nal poems are precise and authoritative, rather like oracular utterance.

Jeffrey Yangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s An Aquarium exhibits an ABC of sea creatures. One cannot object to certain surprising additions (Google, intelligent design) since Yangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ocean is the unconscious imagination where, according to in the epigraph from ValĂŠry, the mind can only wander â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a sleepwalker.â&#x20AC;? Accordingly, the Beacon residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poems are highly associative, setting off on semiotic bypaths suggested by a word or a sound. The poet adores verbal music and writes freebut-cadenced lines that revel in out-of-the-way terms, scientific words, and foreign tongues. Do we need a poem after he mentions the Hawaiian name for triggerfish: humuhumunukunukuapua?

For all his fondness for form (with the 17th-century essayist Sir Thomas Browne looking over his shoulder), Yang nails down content as well. In fact, many of the poems approach a traditional â&#x20AC;&#x153;reading the book of nature,â&#x20AC;? even concluding with morals (some focused: â&#x20AC;&#x153;War/and protectionism:/two causes of starvationâ&#x20AC;?; some vaguer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every doorway tells a story.â&#x20AC;?). In this ever-so-clever volume the reader will explore the depths of the sea; he or she will move across the globe and through history (Yang is a translator of classic Chinese poetry) and learn a few words in the process. An Aquarium is polished, intelligent, and, for all its erudition, readable.

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POETRY

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

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

the bats come out at night

hello despair.

and spread the air

have you met my lover cigarette?

—Gus Bernard Greene (3½ years old)

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WATER

WHATEVER

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS

Illuminated underneath, the water trickles down.

the next time never mind overwhelms caring or the impulse to care you might try tossing a bit of salt into that place everyone but you acknowledges is an open wound not prone to healing and wait for the sting to remind you all is not fair in love and war... but so what next time whatever

as god is my witness i’ve never taken stock in what every tom dick and harry’s told me about your escapades with the boys in the mailroom as god is my witness i’ve never sold any photographs of you naked in hopes of retiring to a carefree existence in the tropics as god is my witness i don’t believe those rumors about your sexual exploits with aardvarks, anteaters and alligators as god is my witness i stuck up for you even when the devil showed up with an ironclad six hundred and twenty-seven page case against you as god is my witness i wouldn’t trade you in for that model staring out at me from that magazine cover as god is my witness i’ve refused every overture from that miniskirted hostess at the strip club with a big gulp of saltpeter as god is my witness i’m squeaky clean as a choir boy i sing psalms in the shower i’m cool as an ice cube in the freezer as god is my witness i’m trustworthy as a sand storm in the desert i’m as easy to get along with as a furry pair of slippers i’m as honest as the most up to date edition of the king james bible

—Ada I. J. Lowengard (9¾ years old)

I MEANT SEMIOTICS i am such a hopeful semantic [yes i read your shining eyes] but mind you this, i only study what’s linguistic about you [gotcha there] like your filtered silences and the way you say my name as though it were a quiet thing: (and pause)… a world unto itself [i am such language when you speak me into existence] and then, i almost love you. [syntax: how “almost” here leaves little “love” completely disarmed. poor hopeless romantic] but then again [syntactically speaking], the wordless way you move across a crowded room drives me crazy, ifyoumustknow. but it’s not you, of course. it’s me.

—Susan Hoover

FLORIDA Crickets. The occasional dying cicada. Today, just at dusk, a V-line of birds too high to identify were heading south.

Days were when south was any direction a young man went that was away from where he didn’t want to be.

Now, all it signifies is where we go to live a little less, warm windows, exotic birds that never leave.

—John Hopper

#91: BROADCAST FROM AN OVERHANG broadcast from an overhang purled across a landing strip: buttery, translucent invocations of a mourning dove … woolly aural twine spooling outward in the sun.

—Shawna Hussey —K. C. Wilder

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—Bruce Weber

TWITTER POEM #4

SLEEP LAY LONG

sure, the sun’ll come out tomorrow // but it’s the moon I watch for each night // wondering if you’re looking too

sleep lay long like wings masks lips, let her and

—John Scilipote

MAY DAY, MANAGUA, NICARAGUA It took spray paint (¡Que vivan los mártires de Chicago!) there to teach me the history of here.

—Philip Pardi

palms crossing

THE COOL SIDE OF THE PILLOW A man in endless freefall dreams he is safe struggling for leg room and relative comfort in a California queen with his wife of fifteen years.

—Justin F. Parrinello

eyes dividing her , circular

GOLDEN RABBIT SING

egg suggestion

for Giovan you’re in italy. the streets are covered with cheese. gold i’m a golden accordian, stretching out into the dark blue night. blue night. sky. shooting star sprays gold on my lips. remember me at the colosseum, cats in shoots, holes broods. cesare harlochinny. can he and i be friends? golden accordian, yellow keys bright dandelion in the sky roam. rome. carved streets. bricks. capers. lovely dances behind my eyes you give me. rome. hmmm smell in the spring coming towards us. alive. alive. seeds in breads. outside no shoes. sun golden keys a valse d’amelie. a singer window singer.

springs by her hold her and the mouth the inside was again hers

—Atticus Lanigan —E. P. Fisher

NEXT SERVICES

UNTITLED

They took the man, just there, from the little market in Gila Bend,

I glimpsed his nakedness once when he took his glasses off he blinked blue-eyed lost I became a shape that’s all a blur outline of flesh and breadth perhaps he couldn’t tell he was soft pink belly exposed unmanned Had I given my heart to this?

but still had no appetite at dinner.

Jerry Garcia ripple in a woodland pool flash of lightning

i could try to write a whole poem about how you look when you laugh. how your raise your hand, cupped to your mouth and chuckle there. how your shoulders hunch and your eyes crinkle. sometimes you lift one leg and stamp it down, and usually this action leads to more laughing. almost like hiding, like secrets you and i share. almost like holding, everything close to save it, like you save everything. and what it does when i get to see this, what it fills me with is something i don’t think i can accurately spell. i could try to write this poem but let’s instead laugh together.

—Cynthia Lindstrom

—Chuck Mishkin

—Nicole Giusto

just down from the blue spaceship motel and the A & W selling ice cream and air conditioning. Like the man, we had stopped for soda and gasoline, to stretch and piss. His shuttle to Yuma sat next to a van of Baptists eating soft serve.

I paced the front border of the store with the baby in my arms, his small fingers

The man sipped his soda and chewed ice cubes with his Yankees cap stuffed neatly between his trousers,

I quailed ashamed for him wished I hadn’t seen the way to kill him clean

watching as the others passed licenses and carefully repeating the words Dateland, Sentinel, and San Diego.

—Shebana Coelho

reaching out to touch the sundials and saguaros, the plastic gnomes for sale.

He checked his watch, his shoulders back and down, the cap low slung in defeat, before he disappeared into an armored green truck. That afternoon, I napped in the little holiday house we had rented on Mission Beach,

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CHRONOGRAM 2009 HOME & GARDEN

Erasing Clutter Transform Your Space, Free Your Spirit

By Crispin Kott

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he notion of “spring cleaning” has become something of a cliché, but with good reason. The changing of the season, the rebirth of life—it’s a time when people are often more inclined to make changes at home, clear out the clutter, and get more organized.

According to decluttering experts, it’s always best to come up with a plan before doing anything. And part of that plan is considering why something as seemingly simple as removing clutter might be far more important than you realize.

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Rosalyn Cherry is the creator of Clutter Master, a guide and hands-on kit designed to make organizing easy. She says removing clutter can have positive emotional impacts that people might not even think about. “A basic definition of clutter is ‘a confused multitude of things,’” Cherry says. “When there is no clutter, you are surrounded by the things that nourish you. Everything has a place, so you can find what you need with ease. Your living space reflects who you are. You move forward in life, open to possibilities instead of being weighed down with too much stuff. It is a glorious feeling of freedom and it is attainable with time and effort.”

Johanna Bard, owner of Your Hudson Valley Organizer and a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers, agrees, adding that it might be especially important in times of financial strife. “Let’s just take the economy right now,” Bard says. “If people in general have less money to spend and aren’t going on vacations, perhaps it’s better spent in creating your nest, creating your vacation at home and having a calm and serene and fun place to be.”

DESIGN INTENT In undertaking an organizing project regardless of the scope, coming up with a game plan might be the best place to start. Marie Mendoza, NewYork State– certified interior designer and owner of Kingston-based Marigold Home, says it’s simply a matter of considering what you have to work with. “The best first step is to identify the size of your space and to remember what you can put in your space is only what the space will allow,” she says. “It’s like putting water in a pitcher.” Mendoza says the next step might be to figure out what you’d like your space to look like, something she calls “design intent.”

“There should be a design scheme, and then once you have that master-plan design scheme, you can start implementing. From step one, there should be a goal, and step 100 would be you achieve that goal.” Not adhering to one’s design intent, Mendoza says, is how people run into trouble in the first place. “That’s how things get cluttered. It becomes a hodgepodge. It becomes like a circus.”

Bard recommends starting small so as not to feel too burdened by the project, a pitfall many people have been snared by. “It’s important to understand that it’s not necessarily as overwhelming as you think it’s going to be,” she says.

“If you’re going to tackle the kitchen, start with one shelf in one cupboard.

Decide what is going to stay and what is going to go.”

It’s also important to realize that if you have clutter in your life, you aren’t alone. “It happens to everybody,” Mendoza says. “It’s because of change.” When organizing one’s home, Cherry recommends making decisions in a decidedly organized fashion, by starting with a large trash bag and a few boxes.

“Make the following signs on cardboard or index cards,” she says. “‘Keep Here.’ ‘Keep Elsewhere.’ ‘Repair.’ ‘Sell.’ ‘Give Away.’ Attach these cards to the bags or boxes.”

Once this row of receptacles is ready, Cherry says it’s important to select an item and ask three simple questions to determine whether it belongs in one’s life anymore: Has it been used in the past year? Does it add to or help one’s life? Does it reflect who one really is?

“Put each item in the correct pile or in the trash bag,” she says. Set aside 15 minutes for starters, to evaluate items. “Handle the rest and start another 15-minute session if you are up to it, or make a date for the next session. I call it building the declutter muscle.You do this over and over with all the spots in your living space. It will take as long as you need over time to get to every spot.

Once you have what you only use, what adds to your life, and what reflects who you are, you will know how to organize.”

ACT NOW! Bard says the best way to make that sort of endeavor stick is to act upon it before you change your mind. “Whatever is going to exit the house leaves that day,” she says. “If it goes to the garbage, it goes right in the garbage can. If it goes to Goodwill, it goes right in the car. Otherwise it can just sort of get forgotten again. And if it’s exiting the house, you can see what you’ve done.”

For some, deciding what stays and what goes can be an incredibly emotional experience, one that often derails an organizing project before it really ever begins. “I always ask hard questions, and I don’t let people get away with rationalized answers,” Bard says. “‘Oh but my mother gave it to me.’ So what, have you used it? If you love it, do you honor it? Is it in a place of honor in your home? Is it time to pass it on?”

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ONE STEP AT A TIME Another way people find themselves giving up is expecting too much too soon when getting started on organizing clutter. “It’s important to know that in doing a project, things may get messier before they get neater,” Bard says. And once a project is completed, it’s also important to make sure you don’t fall back into bad habits and have to do it all over again. “Just like in recovery for anything, there can be backsliding,” Bard says. “The maintenance is really important. Get support. Engage family members or an organizer.”

Cherry says the best way to ensure the organizing project works out for the long term is to change the way you think, both in what you’ve hung on to and what you might add to your home. “Once everything is decluttered, always put every item back in its place after you use it,” she says.

And when new items are being considered, think about the three questions posited during the initial decluttering, Cherry says. “Also, if you do bring in something new, you must have a place for it and always return it to that place,” she says. “And for every new item you bring in, you can let go of at least one and maybe two or even three items.”

Mendoza agrees. “It’s very simple,” she says. “First, don’t do a lot of impulse buying. And second, if you’re looking around for things, make sure it achieves that design intent. If you don’t, you’ll go back to that same pattern, and it’s hard to control yourself. Don’t not have change. It’s okay to change—accessories, furniture, window coverings—as long as it achieves your design intent.”

Cherry also says it’s important not to do too much planning for future clutter, as it might exacerbate the problem instead. A major pitfall is buying containers before you know if you even need them. “They often become receptacles for stuff you are procrastinating to decide about now,” she says. “And no matter how high-tech the world gets, there will never be anything to take the place of you going through each item one by one to determine what to do with it.”

GOING PRO If you’re still feeling overwhelmed, fret not. There are further options. “Decluttering and organizing are a big business,” Cherry says. “There are new howto books that come out every year, magazine covers every month that hint they have the answer to finally help,TV and cable shows where the virtues of letting go are extolled, and articles and websites galore.”

There are also professional organizers, like those interviewed for this story, who can help. Cherry says the reason organizing clutter has become such a big business is because it’s become such a huge problem.

“In our consumer society the desire for the latest gadget, electronic breakthrough, or whatever Madison Avenue is pushing, is enormous,” she says. “And with the Internet, Madison Avenue has really become quite sophisticated in gearing its marketing to individual tastes based on past purchases, websites visited, and who knows what else.”

But no matter how big or small a decluttering project might be, the payoff makes it worth the effort. “There’s a sense of peace and calm,” Bard says. “They have reclaimed their space, time, and energy. People really feel that.”

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And the emotions can often run deeper than that. “One of the hardest emotional experiences is to go through clutter, the new and the old which you may have been carrying around for decades and putting off decisions about,” Cherry says. “It is very emotional if as a child or teenager you were being told you were a slob, or you were stupid, or you could not find your way out of a paper bag. These painful memories are embedded in the cells of the body and can make the process of letting go even more emotional. This is one of the most overwhelming tasks some people encounter.”

Even so, Cherry adds, the benefits of facing those feelings can yield positive emotional results. “While it is very painful, it needs to be done for a breakthrough to a new and better life,” she says.

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Down the Rabbit Hole MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY

by Peter Barrett photographs by Preston + Schlebusch

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ost of us have heard of the term molecular gastronomy. Maybe we’ve seen examples on TV, or noticed that trademark tropes like foam have oozed down to adorn dishes in even midmarket restaurants. Perhaps we heard somewhere that El Bulli, Ferran Adrià’s temple of haute-tech cuisine north of Barcelona, is the hardest reservation in the world to get, with two million requests for 8,000 places per year. Given the hype, a home cook—even a serious, experienced one—likely thinks that these methods are the exclusive territory of a few high-end professionals who alone possess the arcane knowledge, specialized (and expensive) gadgetry, and legions of sous-chefs required to make the magic happen.

It’s not true.

The various compounds required are now easily available online, and many techniques use only tools found in a normal kitchen. And while it can be easy to dismiss these techniques as just so much fancy frivolity, the transformative potential of these materials offers the chance to play with food in a very real sense, allowing for boundless experimentation and fun—plus amazed and delighted guests, which, for those who like to entertain, is a not-insignificant bonus. In addition, people with dietary restrictions (e.g., vegans, gluten-free) can benefit immensely, enjoying dishes that normally require eggs, dairy, or gluten to hold them together.

Linda Anctil is a private chef in the Western Connecticut town of Thomaston who also writes an excellent blog (www.playingwithfi reandwater.com) that documents her elegant and unique culinary improvisations. She fi rst heard about this kind of cooking in a 2003 New York Times magazine profile of Ferran Adria, now revered as the seminal genius of nueva cocina—food both scientifically advanced and poetically profound. “It took a while to wrap my head around it, and I did lots of research,” Anctil says. “The main thing these additives allow is a fundamental shift in focus from flavor to texture”—which is not to say that flavor is less important; as always, it is paramount. But because the various modifying starches and proteins used have no taste, “we can take a pure flavor and keep it pure while physically transforming it completely.”

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Pure Creativity The possibilities are limitless. Vegan marshmallows? Oh, yes. Cauliflower curry panna cotta with a liquid mango chutney center? Easy. A clear Bloody Mary? No problem. And subtler uses are compelling too: sauces and purées that don’t weep liquid all over the plate, vinaigrettes that stay emulsified, and light-as-air gnocchi that use no egg are all things we can easily imagine making and enjoying with molecular gastronomy. Essentially, what these techniques mean is that almost anything can become almost anything. Think about that for a minute. Virtually any food can become flour, or a gel, or pasta, or a foamy emulsion, or clear broth, or even ice cream. Rather than being intimidated, Anctil says, we can be liberated, and engage in pure creativity. “It allows us to treat food as art, and ask: ‘What can I do with this?’”

Contrary to our mental images of restaurant kitchens packed with gleaming lab equipment, Anctil says that a few simple kitchen tools are all we need. “An immersion (or regular) blender and spice grinder are both useful, and an oven on the lowest setting works just fi ne as a dehydrator.”

It’s also worth noting that all of the magic powders in question are naturally derived from seaweed, starches, fermentation, and cellulose. The fact that many were developed to give better consistency and texture to processed foods should not dissuade us from using them; from a safety and health perspective, using these additives is identical to using cornstarch, tapioca, or gelatin—in fact, xanthan gum, lecithin, and agar are easily found in any health food store.

Greek Salad Parfait Recently Anctil joined us in the kitchen of gallerist and ceramicist Elena Zang and Alan Hoff man to make a few dishes showcasing some basic techniques.

First up was a Greek salad parfait: romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, yel-

OPPOSITE: CHEERIOS-INFUSED “PANNA COTTA” WITH FLUID STRAWBERRY GEL, FREEZE-DRIED STRAWBERRIES AND BANANAS, AND HYACINTH FLOWER. ABOVE (L-R): CHEF LINDA ANCTIL ROLLS OUT PARMESAN GNOCCHI; SPOONING FETA-YOGURT EMULSION ONTO THE GREEK SALAD PARFAIT.

low pepper, and cucumbers all juiced separately, seasoned with salt and an oregano-scented vinaigrette, and then thickened with different amounts of xanthan gum—a byproduct of fermentation commonly used in gluten-free baking—to give the liquids different densities, so they wouldn’t mix together in a glass when served. She topped each “salad” with a feta-yogurt foam made by blending the mixture with a little lecithin (a soy-derived emulsifier) and a crumbled cracker made from dried Kalamata olives mixed with tapioca maltodextrin, a modified starch which turns oils and fats into powders that can become crisp when baked or dehydrated. The fi nished dishes looked like Rastafarian smoothies and elicited wide-eyed, Wonka-worthy wonder as the layers and flavors combined in our mouths, coalescing almost holographically into the essence of Greek salad.

Next up were gnocchi made from nothing but grated parmesan mixed with a solution of methylcellulose (“Methocel”), a fascinating substance that forms gels when heated. Different formulations form gels ranging from soft and fluid to brittle, and at different temperatures. Anctil feels that it’s probably the single most useful of all the high-tech powders, but often seems the most daunting because of the number of versions available. “It can replace eggs or gluten, and it has a fatty mouth-feel. It just needs to be blended in water about four hours ahead of using it so it can fully hydrate.” She served the tender, richly cheesy gnocchi in an agar-clarified pea consommé made by pureeing a fresh pea broth with a small amount of agar, a gelling agent derived from seaweed. By using a much weaker proportion of agar than one would to gel the soup, freezing it, and then slowly thawing it in the fridge over a colander, the agar holds the solids and pigments together but allows the highly flavored water to drip out, a process called syneresis. This technique works with just about anything imaginable, and in this case yielded a crystal clear liquid that looked like light apple juice and tasted intensely of peas.

Breakfast for Dessert For dessert, Anctil soaked Cheerios in milk and cream overnight, and strained the liquid into a saucepan. Using agar again, this time at full strength, she gelled the mixture in the fridge for about an hour until it set, then cut it into rounds.

For a sauce, she thawed and puréed frozen strawberries and put the pulp in a colander over a bowl, explaining that “freezing in a consumer freezer, because it takes a while, causes large ice crystals to form, which rupture the cell walls of plants, meaning that we can get much more juice from them than from fresh [fruit and vegetables].” She then thickened the ruby juice by blending it with a little Ultratex 8, another starch, so that when she spooned a graceful stripe of it on the plate, it stayed where she put it. Finally, she garnished the dish with crunchy crumbled freeze-dried strawberries and bananas and powdered Cheerios. The result was a sophisticated (read: unsweetened, except by the cereal and fruit) and evocative reimagining of a childhood standard.

Rediscovering that youthful joy is essential to understanding what this marriage of technology and cuisine provides. There’s no doubt that this kind of cooking is a rabbit hole, but it’s one that leads to pleasure; rather than simply making shelf-stable processed garbage food, these ingredients also allow for full-blown fl ights of fancy, where our imagination and skill are the only constraints, and our relationship with food and flavor can be taken to exciting new places.

There are plentiful resources online where recipes and inspirations can be found; as with many cutting-edge concepts, blogs and websites are the richest and most democratic repositories of knowledge. (Though it should go without saying that your results may vary, and practice is required.) Molecular gastronomy has done for cooking what digital technology did for music: culinary mash-ups, remixes, and mind-expanding juxtapositions—all in the service of gustatory bliss—are now within reach.

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Bakeries The Alternative Baker 407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 or 1 (800) 399-3589 www.lemoncakes.com 100% all butter scratch, full-service, smallbatch, made-by-hand bakery. Belgian hot chocolate, fresh vegetable soups, salads and sandwiches (Goat Cheese Special is still winning awards.) Plus treats vegan and made without gluten, dairy or sugar. Wedding cakes by appointment only. Lemon Cakes shipped nationwide per Williams-Sonoma catalog.

Closed Tuesday/Wednesday. Open 7 AM for the best egg sandwiches ever! Across from Cinema.

CafĂŠs Beacon Falls CafĂŠ

Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.

Bread Alone CafĂŠ East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3108 Bread Alone CafĂŠ offers fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations. Also located in Route 28, Boiceville, NY, (845) 657-3328 (headquarters) and Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY, (845) 679-2108.

CafĂŠ Amarcord 276 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0050 www.cafeamarcord.net

Homespun Foods 232 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-5096 www.homespunfoods.com

Muddy Cup 129 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.muddycup.com/beacon

Catering Lagustaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Luscious (845) 255-8VEG www.lagustasluscious.com

Terrapin Catering Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate

Restaurants (p.m.) wine bar 119 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2833 www.pmwinebar.com contact@pmwinebar.com Ernest Hemingway once said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.â&#x20AC;? (p.m.) thinks Ernest was right and wants to share a wonderful selection of wines with you. Focusing on Spanish wines and the food that compliments them, this wine bar breaks the mold of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pour and snore.â&#x20AC;?

Babycakes CafĂŠ 1-3 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-8411 www.babycakescafe.com Now in its seventh year, Babycakes CafĂŠ has expanded to breakfast, lunch, and dinner service featuring a full bar and live entertainment on the weekends. Seasonal menus feature many vegan and vegetarian choices.

European-style baked goods made from scratch are still a big draw. Specialty holiday baked goods and catering available. Open Tuesday through Sunday.

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472 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0172

event or any special occasion. On-site we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available.

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Beso 46 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1426 www.beso-restaurant.com

Catalanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pasta Garden 985 Route 376 Brookmeade Plaza, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-7770 www.CatalanosPastaGarden.com CatalanosPasta@aol.com The Catalano Family has been serving the dining needs of Dutchess County since 1991.

Offering a variety of traditional Italian favorites among our homemade pastas. Offering fullservice catering for your special occasion at any venue or our banquet room accommodates up to 50 guests for any occasion.

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3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 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 and brewed locally!

49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162 Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi and Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.

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Gomen Kudasaiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking 215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811 Come and experience Japanese Homestyle Cooking served fresh daily at Gomen Kudasai. Our menu features homemade Gyoza dumplings, hot noodle soups and stir-fried noodles made with either Soba or Udon. All of our food is MSG free, GMO free, vegan friendly, organic when possible, and locally produced when available.

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18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.

Piggy Bank Restaurant 446 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-0028

Pleasant Ridge II 208 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-3444

Poppyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 184 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2121

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Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub at Catskill Mountain Lodge

2 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-5400

334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub offers fine food and drink at reasonable prices. Open 7 days for breakfast and lunch and on weekends for dinner. The fireplace pub boasts13 taps and a great wine list. Visit www.catskillmtlodge. com to see our menus and call (518) 678-3101 for reservations.

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337 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1128 THE best place for Sushi, Teriyaki or Tempura in the Hudson Valley. Delectable specialty rolls; filet mignon, seafood, and chicken teriyaki.

Japanese beers. Imported and domestic wines. Elegant atmosphere and attentive service. The finest sushi this side of Manhattan!

Open every night for dinner and every day but Sunday for lunch. Takeout always available.

La Puerta Azul Route 44 (East of the Millbrook Taconic Exit, Salt Point, NY (845) 677-AZUL (2985) www.lapuertaazul.com BEST Mexican / Latino Cuisine 2008. BEST Margarita 2008. BEST Restaurant Interior 2007.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hudson Valley Magazine, **** Poughkeepsie Journal. Live Music Friday and Saturday Nights. Check our website for our menu and special events schedule.

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232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products.

Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.

Marlenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen 157 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-3694

516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375 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.

5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com Delectable authentic Indian cuisine, beautiful atmosphere. All fresh ingredients. Free-range chicken, vegetarian, organic choices. 95% gluten free. Regular seating or Indian style cushioned platform booths. Fine wines/ crafted beer. Everyday Early Bird 10% Food Discountâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;In-house (check website for times).

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Terrapin Red Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Sometimes, you just want a really Great Hamburger! Terrapin Red Bistro serves all sorts of comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, quesadillas, nachos, fish â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chips and hamburgers. Enjoy the build your own sandwich menu, or find some favorites from the restaurant in a hip, relaxed, casual bistrostyle atmosphere.

Terrapin Restaurant 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;? by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most diverse flavors meet and mingle here, in this room, at your table. From elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week.

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Backyard Triumph

The New Victory Garden

By Karin Ursula Edmondson REBECCA MARTIN, CHAIR OF THE GARDEN COMMITEE OF THE KINGSTON LAND TRUST, WITH SON CHARLIE GRENADIER IN ONE OF THREE HOME GARDENS.

“Grow Your Own. Be sure!”

The words, circa 1940, are from a poster heralding the victory garden movement.

The message, still resonant today, places emphasis on access to healthy food and food provenance rather than a dearth of food supply. The victory gardens of yore were community and private gardens encouraged by the United States government in order to ease the pressure on the national food supply that was strained by two consecutive World Wars. In 1943, those gardens—the work of three-fifths of the American population—produced some eight million tons of food. The victory garden program was one of the most popular in the war period and provided seeds, fertilizer, and simple tools for gardeners. An estimated 15 million families planted victory gardens in 1942, and in 1943 some 20 million victory gardens produced more than 40 percent of the vegetables grown for that year’s fresh consumption. The majority of victory gardens were abandoned after the war, when the rationing of canned food ended and the newly implemented Interstate Highway System helped to develop the sophisticated national food distribution network still in place today.

Michelle Obama’s decision to plant a kitchen garden makes her the only first lady to grow vegetables since Eleanor Roosevelt grew the first White House victory garden during World War II. The current White House garden broke ground on March 20, and while its primary role is to feed the Obama family and White House staff, according to Mrs. Obama, the garden’s “most important role will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern.”

The primary reason for the sudden new popularity of victory gardens is economic uncertainty, but the seeds for a full-fledged backyard garden revival have been germinating for some time. Since 1984, Slow Food International, Slow Food USA, and, on a local level, Pure Catskills, have sought to preserve regional food traditions and histories and reinvigorate community food systems. Food systems are comprised not just of farmers, but also processing facilities and retail outlets like farmers markets.

Activist chefs like Alice Waters have brought celebrity power to focus public attention on creating healthy food programs for schools. Waters’s Edible Schoolyard is a successful educational model at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley and at affiliate schools throughout the country. Locavores emphasize consuming local, fresh food and supporting the philosophy of small family farms, community, and environmental health. Government subsidies to a handful of agribusiness concerns spur the market glut of corn and soy, two ingredients in numerous products from bread to beef to soda, which in turn have been linked to diabetes, heart disease, 68

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and other health problems. Deadly pathogens such as those recently found in spinach and jalapenos are the direct result of the environmental and moral bankruptcy of industrial farming. Genetically modified seeds threaten the disappearance of heirloom, antique, and heritage plants.

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH Times of change elicit fear, however, and uncertain times also provide opportunities for growth. “One positive development of our current economic crisis is a rekindling of interest in the skills that used to be taken for granted by our ancestors,” says Andy Turner, the executive director of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County. “We are noticing an unquenchable thirst for programs on backyard gardening, food preservation, local food systems, and beekeeping; or anything that teaches people how to live more artfully and joyfully in their own backyard.”

Claire Parde, the co-op’s community food systems coordinator, is seeing renewed interest in food preservation. “These people are not foodies per se, but people who feel uncertain, people who need to know how to do for themselves,” she says. “There is an interest in offsetting some of food bills but also in a strategy for self-sufficiency.

The growing interest in home vegetable gardening and home-based food and fiber gardens reflects the climate of scarcity of economic resources that people perceive.

People are trying to reshape their household economies, reduce costs, and maybe feel more resilient.”

Parde and others, including former Brooklynite and current Cairo resident Walter Prapolsky, were recently given official permission to have the community garden in Cairo. Back in 1942 Brooklyn, the young Prapolsky was involved in the Highland Park Community Garden. “There were no such things as school buses, so we’d walk home from school and stop by the park with the individual plots,” he recalls. “We did everything from scratch—dug it up, planted everything, weeded, harvested when everything was ripe, and brought it home.” Does he see any connection between the former Victory gardens and the current victory gardens? “Sure,” he says. “Those were hard economic times—we’re having a hard time now.”

Another corollary between the two eras of victory gardens is extension involvement—creating and facilitating these garden programs on both a community and personal level. Prapolsky is a master gardener, one who has logged so many hours with continuing education classes that he is a living community resource on gardening, and assists in answering gardening-related questions. “If I don’t know the answer on the spot,” he offers, “I’ll do the research and get back to you.”

DIG IT The modern disconnect with nature, especially food production, often renders the idea of implanting an edible landscape as something monumentally mystifying. It isn’t, really. Those 50 million American households with a modest yard can begin producing food by replacing their lawns with gardens. The first step is to identify your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone. Make a list of desired vegetables and herbs and make sure they coincide with cultural requirements for your zone. An avocado tree is not a good choice unless you own or have access to a large greenhouse. Locate a consistently sunny location in practical proximity to your house. Most herbs and vegetables require full sun for optimal growth.

Order local seeds from the Hudson Valley Seed Library or national organic sources like Seed Savers Exchange, Seeds of Change, or FedCo. Rip out sod and replace it with organic soil or topsoil. Raised beds are another option. Compost your organic kitchen refuse—although take into account the proximity and abundance of local wildlife and protect or secure your compost location accordingly. If local wildlife is an issue, consider investing in an indoor composting bin.

Collect and recycle rainwater with a rainwater barrel and use as many local materials—leaf litter, grass clippings—as possible for compost or mulch. There are two reasons for this. The first is that you won’t spend any money; the second is that local materials will work in better partnership with local soil and plant materials.

Rake leaves into a pile in autumn and let them stand over the winter. The natural biological breakdown will produce a nutrient-rich soil cover. Check with your local town roads department for scheduled tree maintenance and chipping times; often, woodchips will be available for free. On occasion, roads departments will gladly cart truckloads of woodchips to a specified location, as they are only too happy to have a way to dispose of them.

For a small garden, simple hand tools such as an iron rake, spade, shovel, and hoe will do the job, while investing in a rototiller might be smart for a larger garden. If you are so inclined, a wheel hoe or a broad fork will also do the job, although those will require more muscle power.

Home gardens are not limited residences with outdoor acreage or plots of soil. Container gardening will produce a nice supply of herbs and vegetables. Just make sure to use terra-cotta planters, as they let soil breathe, and select dwarf cultivars of vegetables—a grape or cherry tomato over a beefsteak—which will require less room.

Whether you call it a victory garden or something else, your garden will be reflective of the very personal victory of self-sufficiency and an increased awareness of the interconnectivity of life, spirit, and beauty.

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A GARDEN BY ANOTHER NAME While victory is the moniker du jour for edible garden, food garden, or kitchen garden, in the current economic and philosophical climate it doesn’t really matter what you call your garden, as long as you garden. Ken Greene, co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, prefers not to use the victory term. “My hope is that today’s home gardens have taken on an even greater meaning,” he explains. “Gardeners have the opportunity to take back control, feed themselves and their communities, be producers instead of consumers, grow cultural and genetic diversity in their backyards, save seeds, and pass on regional food security to their families, friends, neighbors, and communities. I would like to see us coin a new term for home-grown patriotism— backyard activism, liberty gardens, or freedom gardens.” The Hudson Valley Seed Library is a homestead-based farm business devoted to developing a seed-production network in the region. Using hand tools and low-tech processes, dozens of varieties of agronomic plants are cultivated on its Accord farm, with the goal of offering highquality heirloom seeds to the public. For 2009, the facility is offering 15 varieties of locally grown seeds; by 2014, it aims to offer 100 percent locally grown seeds.

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The City of Kingston broke ground on a victory garden at City Hall on April 22.

The Kingston victory garden is a joint project coordinated by the Kingston Land Trust, the Kingston Victory Gardens Project, the mayor’s office, and the city’s public school system. “We want to get gardeners new and old together to help one another to garden,” explains Rebecca Martin, who chairs the Kingston Land Trust’s garden committee. “There is a process and an art to gardening. We’re working with teachers and 50 students from the high school, the Cornell Cooperative Extension, farmers, master and local gardeners, boys and girls clubs, and the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which donated a large portion of the seeds. The plan is to use this garden to promote city gardens, to turn Kingston into a little garden city by starting from the core and moving out.” The Kingston victory garden will be planted with the “Three Sisters”—squash, maize, and climbing beans, which were the main crops for Esopus Basin Native Americans.

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COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE FARMS Black Walnut Organic Farms 1043 Stonebridge Road, Cornwallville (518) 239-6206 The farm grows vegetables, melons and berries. No work is required, although many CSA members do get involved in helping out. Black Walnut Organic Farm is a Certified Naturally Grown farm. July through November.

Brook Farm Project 60 Gatehouse Road, New Paltz (845) 255-1052; www.brookfarmproject.org The CSA share consists of a wide variety of mixed vegetables, all sustainably grown. Several additional products offered for a fee: pick-your-own raspberries and blueberries, free-range eggs, pastured chicken, and grass-fed beef.

Full shares can be picked up every week, half shares can be picked up every other week, and student shares have a weekly pickup during fall semester. Share costs are on a sliding scale. A full share costs between $800 and $1300, a half share is $500 to $700, a student share costs $350.

Members are asked to complete 20 hours/season for a full share and 10 hours/season for a half share.

Cascade Farm 124 Harmony Road, Patterson (845) 878-3258; www.cascadefarmschool.org At Cascade Farm, a variety of vegetables are available, as well as eggs, honey, and maple syrup. Full shares are available for $525 each. Shares can be picked up at Cascade Farm or Tilly Foster Farm. Each share averages about 10 lbs. per week over 20 weeks.

Common Ground Farm P.O. Box 148, Beacon (845) 231-4424; www.commongroundfarm.org Common Ground Farm’s season is June through October.

Two types of yearly working shares are available: large shares cost $600, and small shares cost $350. Nonworking shares are also available.

Eats Village Farm 677 Sawkill Road, Kingston (845) 532-2448; www.eatsvillagefarm.com Eats Village uses only organic fertilizer and offers fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Types of shares: full ($660), senior ($500), half ($375), and working, which vary in relation to the amount of work.

Escot Valley Farm Berme Road, Kerhonkson (845) 480-4428; escotvalleyfarm@yahoo.com Escot Valley Farm offers pasture-raised chickens that have been fed certified organic grains. Breeds include the Cornish Cross, Naked Necks, and French Tricolors. The average weight of each bird is about 4-5 lbs. Distributions are made every two weeks at the farm, in Stone Ridge, and in Beacon. Small shares are $225 per year, and provide about 10 chickens. Large shares are $450 per year and provide about 20 chickens. Work is not required.

The Farm at Miller’s Crossing 81 Roxbury Road, Hudson, NY 12534 (518) 851-2331; www.farmatmillerscrossing.com A regular share is $450, and a single share is $235.

Shares give members vegetables and herbs from June through October. Volunteering for pickup distribution is required of members, at least 1 or 2 sessions preseason.

Glynwood Center P.O. Box 157, Cold Spring (845) 265-3338; www.glynwood.org Glynwood Center farm’s season: June to October. Full shares are $725 each for 20 weeks. No work is required.

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Boni-Bel Farm & Country Store 301 Doansburg Road, Brewster (845) 279-1090 Boni-Bel Farm offers a simple “pay-as-you-go” system.

Members will receive an extra 10% green incentive on a chosen pre-payment amount ranging from $100 to $500, which can be used to purchase Boni-Bel Farm products at the Country Store. For extra perks on produce, you can work on the farm, although work is not required to have a share.

Harmony Farm 144 Broadlea Road, Goshen (845) 294-3181 Harmony Farm CSA grows vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

Work members pay $300 for the season and agree to work at the farm for three hours each week. Subscription memberships are $600 for the season, with no work required.

The season lasts for 22 weeks, shares collected weekly.

Hawthorne Valley Farm 327 Route 21C, Ghent (518) 672-7500 x105; www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Hawthorne Valley Farm grows over 35 varieties of vegetables for its CSA members. Members can choose from full vegetable shares or a vegetable and fruit share. The cost of a share runs from $400 to $660.

Hearty Roots Farm PO Box 277, Tivoli (845) 943-8699; www.heartyroots.com Hearty Roots farm has sites in Tivoli, Kingston, and Woodstock. CSA shares include a wide range of seasonal vegetables and some fruit. At certain CSA pick-up sites, addons are available such as fruit, eggs, and dry beans. A full share costs $500-$600. Members are encouraged to join the farm on community work days and farm celebrations.

Midsummer Farm 156 East Ridge Road, Warwick, (845) 986-9699; www.midsummerfarm.com Midsummer Farm is a small (24 shares) certified organic, certified animal welfare-approved, biodynamic CSA. Vegetables, herbs, greens, cut flowers and eggs are available.

Shares are determined by product type. A vegetable share costs $625, an egg share is $125, an herb share is $55, and a cut flower share is $60.

Phillies Bridge Farm Project 45 Phillies Bridge Road, New Paltz (845) 256-9108; www.philliesbridge.org Eggs, an extensive variety of vegetables in season, and options shares for sweet corn, berries, and orchard fruits are all available. A CSA farm share costs $450 and includes farm membership. A split share, which also includes farm membership, is $245. Optional shares, which are distributed in season, are: $70 for a full dozen corn share, $35 for a half dozen corn share, $90 for a berry share, and $90 for an orchard fruit share.

Poughkeepsie Farm Project Corner of Raymond and Hooker Avenues, Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-1415; www.farmproject.org Standard shares cost $500 plus 12 hours of work (or $60 nonworking fee) and a Poughkeepsie Farm Project membership (minimum $25). Small shares cost $270 plus 6 hours of work (or $30) and a membership. Standard shares are about 10 lbs per week, plus pick-your-own options.

Roxbury Farm 2343 Route 9H, Kinderhook, (518) 758-8558; www.roxburyfarm.com Roxbury Farm offers vegetables, fruit, pasture-raised pork, lamb, and beef. Shares are for a total of 25 weeks, and cost between $480 and $545, depending on site location.

One share yields enough produce for a family of four.

Ryder Farm Cottage Industries 400 Starr Ridges Road, Brewster www.ryderfarmorganic.com A full share costs $450 and a half share costs $225, for 16 weeks. A variety of vegetables and herbs are available, as well as flowers. Pickups can be made at the farm any time after noon on Wednesdays.

Second Wind CSA at the Four Winds Farm 158 Marabac Road, Gardiner (845) 417-5624; http://users.bestweb.net/~fourwind/second_wind_csa.htm Second Wind CSA is located at the Four Winds Farm, a 20-acre certified organic, no-till, diversified farm. The farm offers a wide variety of vegetables, fruits and herbs, including heirloom tomatoes and specialty greens. Fresh eggs from pastured hens and grass-fed beef and poultry are available. Apple shares are available from Liberty View Farm. Basic Share: $400.

Shoving Leopard Farm 845 River Road, Barrytown (845) 758-9961; www.shovingleopardfarm.org Mixed vegetables, pick-your-own flowers and honey (from Anarchy Apiaries) are available. Shares available are: full vegetable shares, weekender (half) vegetable share, floral share, egg share (through Awesome Farm) and possible fall fruit share (through Montgomery Place Orchards). A full share costs $450, a half share costs $250, a full egg share costs $110, and a half egg share costs $55. Pickup is weekly at the garden, either Tuesdays or Fridays, 4 to 7 pm from early/mid-June through October.

Sisters Hill Farm 127 Sisters Hill Road, Stanfordville (845) 868-7048; www.sistershillfarm.org Sisters Hill Farm grows more than 100 varieties of 50 different vegetables. The season lasts from June to November. Shares can be picked up on Saturdays or Tuesdays at the farm and provide 4 to 15 pounds of vegetables per week. The cost for a weekly share is $600-$700. An every other week share is $325 to $375.

Taliaferro Farms 187 Plains Road, New Paltz (845) 256-1592; www.taliaferrofarms.com From May through October, Taliaferro Farms grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. At times, there are 20 to 30 different types of produce to choose from for your weekly share. Members can also purchase produce at a discount price, in addition to their CSA share. Full shares cost $900 per year and offer nine different kinds of produce, and partial shares (which allow the member half of what full shares yield) cost $475 per year.

The W. Rogowski Farm 327-329 Glenwood Road, Pine Island (845) 258-4574; www.rogowskifarm.com Rogowski Farm offers vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs. The season lasts from June through November. A full or large share is enough vegetables for a family of 3-4 for 1 week. A half or small share suits a smaller household. Share prices are $775 for a full share and $400 for a half share.

Walnut Grove Farms 285 Youngblood Road, Montgomery (845) 313-4855; www.walnutgrovefarms.net A full share costs $350 per year with a work commitment of one to two hours per week. A full share with no work required is $425 per year. A variety of produce is available, with meat, pies, and jams offered for an additional cost.

Compiled by Kathleen Di Simone

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Art Galleries & Centers

Catskill Mountain Lodge

Ann Street Gallery

334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com The Catskill Mountain Lodge, celebrating forty years of hospitality, is set on the banks of the historic Kaaterskill Creek in Palenville, America’s first art colony. Accommodations include fireplace rooms, cabins, cottages and a three bedroom house.

104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940, ext. 119 www.safe-harbors.org Hood Scrapers: Low Rise & High Fall. Graffiti art installation by artist collaborative Trust Your Struggle. Artist Reception with DJ/H20 Saturday, May 2, 2009, 6-11pm. Exhibit runs May 2 through June 27.

Frost Valley YMCA 2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville, NY (845) 985-2291 ext. 205 www.FrostValley.org info@frostvalley.org Frost Valley YMCA Camp and Conference Center in Claryville, is just 2.5 hours drive from metro NY/NJ and about 1 hour from Kingston.

Established in 1901 as one of the nation’s first summer camps, Frost Valley provides four seasons of outdoor, experiential and educational opportunities including summer camps for children, environmental education, year-round activities for families and conference and retreat facilities for groups and businesses.

Storm King Lodge B&B

Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc. (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

Mountain Flame, Inc. 42825 Route 28, Arkville, NY

Solar Generation (845) 679-6997 www.solargeneration.net

Animal Sanctuaries

475 Main Street, Beacon, NY

Beacon Community Arts Association www.beaconarts.org

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org

Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org

Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 678-4855 www.highmeadowarts.org

JW ArtWorks, LLC: Gazen Gallery 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4ART (4278) www.gazengallery.com

Mill Street Loft 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org A not-for-profit community based multi-arts educational center providing a wide range of culturally and enriching events, exhibits, classes, workshops and Outreach Programs in Poughkeepsie, Red Hook, Millbrook, and Beacon for area children and adults of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.

www.artalongthehudson.org

Louis Fiorese A.I.A. 10 Reservoir Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8900 lfiorese@optonline.net As principal of ADG—Architecture and Design Group—he has for over twenty years provided solutions for residential, commercial, historic preservation, site plans, additions, restaurants, building codes, and other special projects.

N.C.A.R.B. certified. References available upon request.

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Highland Meadow Arts

New Paltz Arts

1920 North Main Street, Sheffield , MA (413) 528-6749 www.graneymetaldesign.com

For a FREE Visitor’s Guide, call 800.724.1846 or visit us on the web at www.bestcountryroads.com.

1955 South Road, Suite 6, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 279-1684 CountryGallery@optonline.net

316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 336-8447 www.CASantuary.org

Graney Metal Design

When you buy your produce, make sure it’s grown by a Columbia County farmer. Purchasing from local farmer’s markets and produce stands supports our local economy and puts fresher food on your table. Buying from someone you know also gives the peace of mind that your produce is grown and handled safely and healthfully.

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100 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville, NY (845) 534-9421 www.stormkinglodge.com Come, enjoy and relax in our Lodge, a converted 1800 post and beam barn, or the Guest Cottage. Country setting with spacious lawns, gardens and mountain views. Six lovely guest rooms with private baths, huge swimming pool and most creature comforts. Located nearby: Storm King Art Center, Dia:Beacon, West Point, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, Great Restaurants and Hudson Valley Attractions.

Back Room Gallery

Specializing In Victorian & Rustic Residential Architecture Utilizing Green Technology

Michael L. Bird, A.I.A. Rhinebeck, NY 845.876.2700

Saranac Lake, NY 518.891.5224

www.adkgreatcamps.com

Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org

Park Row Gallery

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2 Park Row, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4800 www.parkrow.com parkrowgallery@taconic.net

HOME STEREO DESIGN & INSTALLATION SPECIALISTS

River Winds Gallery 150 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2880 www.riverwindsgallery.com

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NAD Come see why NAD offers you more in Home Theater Quality Level Performance at a Surprisingly Reasonable Rate

Van Brunt Gallery 137 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com

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Windham Fine Arts 5380 Main Street, Windham, NY (518) 734-6850 www.windhamfinearts.com info@windhamfinearts.com

Zahras Studio 494 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-6311

Art Supplies

Bookkeeping Riverview Office Services (914) 912-1202 info@riverviewbookkeeping.com Financial stress can be relieved. With my 20 years plus experience, I may be able to handle your bookkeeping needs in just a few hours each month. Your information can be organized, ready to give to your accounting professional for Tax preparation.

Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780 Celebrating 30 years! Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure—voted ‘Best in the Valley’ year after year. Also located in Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251 and Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250

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

Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet.

Expert Tarot reading.

Manny’s Art Supply 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902

R & F Handmade Paints

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84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.

Artisans DC Studios

Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 23 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Bicycle Sales, Rentals & Service Beacon Cycles 178 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0366

Book Publishers Codhill Press www.codhill.com

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43-2 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7722 Pique (845) 729-3728 Powerwear www.ihavethepower.us Piqueboutique@yahoo.com

Ballinger’s www.ballingers.com

Friends of Clermont

WDST 100.1 radio Woodstock

Utility Canvas

P.O. Box 367, Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY www.utilitycanvas.com/about:ourStore/

Building Services & Supplies Adirondack Design Associates

483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com

2 Jefferson Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY

Events

Pique Boutique & Powerwear

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

162 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0068 www.hudsonbeachglass.com

Rhinebeck Savings Bank

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

27 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and, 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 256-0788 and (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Converse, Uggs, and lots more. Open 7 days a week—or shop online at PegasusShoes.com.

Natural Gourmet Cookery School

www.wpbm929.com

WBPM Classic Hits 92.9

Ghent Wood Products

Banks

Pegasus Comfort Footwear

Cooking Classes

456 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-7080 www.raindanceny.com

www.star933fm.com

Hudson Beach Glass

Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057

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

(516) 537-4240 www.friendsofclermont.org

Rhinebeck, NY, Sarancac, NY (518) 891-5224 www.adkgreatcamps.com (845) 876-2700

Ruge’s Subaru

The Present Perfect

Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warm-ups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.

RainDance

Star 93.3

21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com

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First Street Dancewear

White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500 Clothing and accessories for women and children. Furniture and home furnishings. With an Asian sensibility. Open 7 days.

Coffee & Tea Coffee System of the Hudson Valley 1 (800) 660-3175 www.homecoffeesystem.com

Green Courage, LLC

Cup and Saucer Tea Room

10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8731 www.greencourage.com

165 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-6287 www.cupandsaucertearoom.com

Kitchens 2 Baths, Inc.

Hudson Coffee Traders

964 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-3801 k2binc@verizon.net

288 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1300 Open 7 days a week. Espresso, Organic Coffee, Serving Breakfast and Lunch: Oatmeal, Egg Wraps, Sandwiches made on premises daily, and daily Soup Specials. We dedicate ourselves to preparing some of the most exceptional coffees with the highest quality service. You can taste our passion for the bean in each cup!

N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com N&S Supply is a third-generation family run business for over 60 years. We take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at competitive prices, with service that makes us the best and easiest supply house to deal with. Come see why our service is “Second to None.”

Ne Jame Pools, Ltd. (845) 677-7665 h2onejame@aol.com

Cinemas Upstate Films 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accesories Echo Boutique 470 Main Street, Beacon, NY echoboutique@optonline.net

(413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org

New York Quadracentennial Office www.exploreny400.com

Quail Hollow Events P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989

Rosendale Earthfest and Expo Rosendale Recreation Center, Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7477 rosendaleearthfest@yahoo.com

Watershed Agricultural Center www.buypurecatskills.com

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com

Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store

Consignment Shops Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique 1629 Main Street (Route 44) Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, and accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus.

Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org

Kingston Farmers’ Market Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

Mother Earth Store House 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products.

Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself! We can also be found at 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY, (845) 296-1069, and 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY, (845) 246-9614.

Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market

Moxie

www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com

544 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6653

Sunflower Natural Food Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com

Migliorelli Farm Corner of 199 & River Road, Rhinebeck, NY 7357 South Broadway, Red Hook

Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com

French Lessons

Home Furnishings & Decor Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly expanded store. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

Emily Upham—French Lessons

College Bed Lofts

(518) 537-6048 uplandvl@valstar.net Learn to speak French—not scary! Private lessons; groups, toddlers to adults. Tutoring available. All levels, weekenders welcome.

Emily Upham: French Interpreter, U.S. State Department and AP French teacher, The Millbrook School.

(866) 739-2331 www.youthbedlofts.com www.collegebedlofts.com Heavy-duty wooden loft beds and bunk beds for youth, teen, and college students.

Easy-to-assemble kits and do-it-yourself plans available in twin, full, and queen sizes.

Customizable study desk and shelf options available. A fun family project to set up, paint, and decorate together.

Gardening & Garden Supplies Catskill Native Nursery 607 Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-2758 www.catskillnativenursery.com

Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens

The Garden Conservancy P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5384 www.gardenconservancy.org info@gardenconservancy.org The Garden Conservancy is a national organization with a mission to preserve exceptional American gardens for public education and enjoyment. The Open Days Program’s private garden tours serve as the primary educational outreach for the Conservancy and includes several self-guided tours in the Hudson Valley each year.

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Hair Salons

Academic Co-Director Surgeon, Founder of ECaP (a therapeutic program humanizing cancer treatment) and the author of “Love, Medicine, and Miracles” “How to Live Between Office Visits”and others.

Steve Horowitz, M.D. Academic Co-Director Chief of Cardiology at Stamford Hospital, and past Chief of Cardiology at Beth Israel Hospital. Director of Planetree, a holistic, patient-centered care program.

Insurance Allstate 2591 South Avenue Route 9D Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-8803 nancyschneider@allstate.com

Interior Design

Attend An Information Session Accredited Graduate Degree Program Distinguished Faculty Earn An Accredited MA In 2 Exciting Years Classes One Weekend Monthly Dynamic Curriculum and Mentorships

Please call (203) 874-4252 for an admissions representative

Faux Intentions (845) 532-3067

Internet Services Webjogger (845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net

Italian Lessons Gabrielle Euvino—Private or Small Group Lessons (845) 339-0023 www.labellalingua.net gabrielle.euvino@gmail.com Unleash your passion for language and learn Italian with author and professor Gabrielle Euvino (The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Italian, and other titles). Customized to fit your needs in a dynamic and nurturing setting.

All ages and levels. Tutoring and translation also available.

Italian Specialty Products La Bella Pasta

Dennis Fox Salon

Roccoroma Food Products

6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777 dennisfoxsalon@yahoo.com Dennis Fox Salon is an upscale salon, located in the heart of Rhinebeck. We offer all hair and nail services in a warm and inviting atmosphere.

99 Railroad Avenue, Goshen, NY (845) 294-1884 www.roccoroma.com roccoromafoods@frontiernet.net Wholesale Grocers of fine Italian food products, fresh meat and fish to the restaurant, pizzeria, and home. Our wholesale facility is open to the public, no membership is required.

Androgyny

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High Falls , NY (845) 687-9463

5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620 Located in the Historic Huguenot Street.

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Experiential Health & Healing

Lounge & Linger

(845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.

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Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Bop to Tottom 799 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100

Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com

Landscaping Coral Acres (845) 255-6634

Ninebark, LLC (845) 758-4184 info@ninebarkllc.com

Tutiano Burgante (845) 797-9634 www.weluvdirt.com

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Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com A unique mediation practice for couples divorcing or family strife. Josh Koplovitz, 30 years practicing Matrimonial and Family Law, Myra Schwartz, 30 years Guidance Counselor working with families and children. Male/female, counselor-attorney team, effectively addresses all legal and family issues. Schedule a one-hour free consultation or visit the web.

Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce

Moving & Storage Arnoff Moving & Storage 1282 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-1504 or 1 (800) 633-6683 www.arnoff.com Agent for North American Van Lines. Since 1924, locally-owned and operated by the Arnoff family, providing exceptional services to families and businesses, moving the ordinary and the extraordinary. Household and business relocations, international shipments, record storage, fine art handling, rigging/industrial services, storage solutions—portable, selfstorage, household, commercial/industrial.

Secure, experienced, professional.

Music Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011

David Temple, Classical Guitar (845) 758-0174 www.davidtemple.com Classical guitarist and private instructor.

Music for concerts, weddings and occasions.

Solo performances have included Mohonk Mountain House’s Festival of the Arts, the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and the Ulster Chamber Music Series. A graduate of the music school at Eastern Michigan University.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org

Raymond Albrecht (914) 213-2395 www.myspace.com/touchofray touchofray@yahoo.com Acoustic Artist Raymond Albrecht entertains

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Hudson Valley audiences by performing wellknown classic rock music by legendary artists.

Known for his signature sing-along style or enjoyable background music, he will work closely with clients to customize a song list to suit every occasion. Specializing in private parties, events and festivals.

Music Lessons Miss Vickies 146 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8958

Musical Instruments Adam’s Piano 592 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 255-5295 www.adamspiano.com ADAMSPIANO.com. WE HAVE MOVED! By appointment only. 75 Pianos on display! Kawai and other fine brands. Inventory and prices at adamspiano.com.

Networking Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 42, 23F East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com We are a professional business membership organization which represents approximately 400 businesses, large and small, primarily in northern and central Dutchess County. We provide a variety of services, including health insurance; provide opportunities for businesses to promote themselves; and interact with government representatives on behalf of the business community.

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

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

Bearsville Theater

Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC

Atelier Renee Fine Framing

240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised play groups in 40x40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats.

The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! B&B for cats, with individual rooms and no cages. Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us for 37 years.

The Beacon Barkery 192 Main Street, Beacon, NY info@beaconbarkery

Photography 400 Square LLC 149 Main Street, Beacon, NY (914) 522-4736 info@400square.com 400 Square offers photographic services that include fine art printing, digital retouching, RAW processing and scanning of b/w and color film.

We also specialize in portrait, fine art, event and advertising photography. Call for information on pricing of photographic services, session fees or assignment work.

Dan Stein Photography + Imaging 303 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 206-4303 http://danstein.info info@danstein.info NYC industry quality and experience in the heart of the Hudson Valley. Photographic solutions individually tailored to meet your needs.

Portraiture. Product Photography. Events.

Editorial Assignments. Commercial studio and on-location services available.

David Morris Cunningham

291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com

Woodstock, NY (914) 489-1991 www.davidmorriscunningham.com info@davidmorriscunningham.com

Community Playback Theatre

Fionn Reilly Photography

Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Road Highland, NY (845) 691-4118

Hudson River Performing Arts 29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com Hudson River Performing Arts, located in Fishkill, NY, offers instruction in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Acting, Voice, Guitar and Piano. Our goal is to cultivate and nurture a love and knowledge of the performing Arts at both the pre-professional and recreational levels. Our programs are designed to provide students with a solid foundation of technique in a nurturing and affirming atmosphere.

Lehman-Loeb Art Center/ Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5902 befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu

WAMC—Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 ext. 4 www.thelinda.org

Picture Framing

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Lorna Tychostup (845) 489-8038 www.lornatychostup.com

Michael Gold The Corporate Image Photo Studio, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com

Photosensualis

Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 Route 9; Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455

Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com; www.buttermilkspa.com Located on 75 acres overlooking the Hudson River. Brand new full service geothermal and solar spa. Organic products, pool, sauna and steam room. Hiking trails, gardens, waterfalls, peacock aviary.

Haven Spa 6464 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7369 www.havenrhinebeck.com

Schools Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries 199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org www.ecostudies.org/events.html

Energy Healing School—One Light Healing Touch (845) 876-0239 www.onelighthealingtouch.com pricemedia@aol.com International Energy Healing and Mystery School. Learn 33 Holistic, Shamanic and Esoteric techniques to heal yourself and others. Increase health, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. NYSNA & NCBTMB CEUs. Meets 18 days over six months. Instructor Penny Lavin. Fishkill school begins June 12th and Oct. 16th.

Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com

High Meadow School

Upstate Light

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

3 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3155 www.upstatelight.com Art reproduction, large-format exhibition printing, film and flatbed scanning. We photograph 2D or 3D artwork in our studio or on location.

Quality and expertise you would expect in the city, dedicated personal service you’ll find upstate. By Appointment.

16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org

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SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

The Graduate Institute

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171 Amity Road, Bethany, CT (203) 874-4252 www.learn.edu Info@learn.edu Master of Arts degree programs in: Oral Traditions; Peace Studies, MA in Irenics; Conscious Evolution; Holistic Thinking; and Experiential Health & Healing. Please call today and ask to speak with Anthony Medaglia. Attend an Information Session today! Register by E-mail.

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

Specialty Food Shops Alps Sweet Shop 269 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-8240 1054 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-8080

Stores Mountain Tops 144 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-1997

Potter Brother’s Ski and Snowboard Kingston, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Middletown, NY www.potterbrothers.com

Tourism 1 (800) 724-1846 www.bestcountryroads.com

Historic Huguenot Street Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660

Historic Hyde Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY www.HistoricHydePark.org

Retro Arcade Museum 412 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8494 www.retroarcademuseum.com info@retroarcademuseum.com

Storm King Lodge Bed & Breakfast 10 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville (Cornwall), NY (845) 534.9421 www.stormkinglodge.com Come and enjoy our cozy Lodge, converted from an early 1800s post-and-beam barn and Guest Cottage in a country setting with gardens, pool, and mountain views.

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Weddings ASO Limousine Service, Inc. 1032 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1696 www.asolimo.com

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In Good Taste 45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net Full service wine and spirit shop with knowledgeable staff. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10am-9pm. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10am-10pm. Sunday 12pm-6pm. Wine tastings every Saturday. We deliver and consult when planning a party, wedding or any other special occasion. See our display ad in this issue for specials.

Village Wine & Spirits 45 Front Street, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3311 www.villagewinemillbrook.com Open every day.

West Park Winery (845) 384-6709 www.westparkwinery.com

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Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

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Narrative medicine The power of story in sickness and health Q&A with dr. lewis mehl-madrona Join physician and author Lewis Mehl-Madrona for an experiential workshop exploring indigenous techniques of healing at the Center for Creative Education in Stone Ridge the weekend of May 8.

by lorrie klosterman

illustration by annie internicola

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ewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, MPhil, has studied indigenous doctoring with traditional North American healers for over 30 years and incorporates these approaches in his medical practice, and in workshops in which he guides others to explore indigenous methods and perspectives.

In his books Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom, Narrative Medicine, and the upcoming Narrative Psychiatry (slated for July publication), Dr. MehlMadrona describes and supports, with impressive rigor, the importance of a person’s whole life story to their health—not just the medical history, but a story that includes ancestors and friends, interests and spiritual orientation, and myriad other influences including unseen relationships in the purview of quantum physics.

A graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, the Psychological Studies Institute in Palo Alto, California, and Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Dr. Mehl-Madrona first perceived the need for a parallel path to biomedicine in 1973, when, in medical school, a professor asserted that “life was a relentless progression toward death, disease, and decay. The physician’s job is to slow the rate of decline.” Mehl-Madrona quickly found a Cherokee healer with whom to study, and has continued learning from indigenous elders ever since.

“It’s not too late to acknowledge the merit of indigenous perspectives for the modern world,” Mehl-Madrona says in Narrative Medicine. “In the indigenous worldview, for example, each person is the sum of all the stories that have ever been (or ever will be) told about him; the idea that our identity is formed from telling ourselves these stories leads us to realize that each person is unique and must be approached individually to discover how he will heal.”

As a doctor, Mehl-Madrona helps patients discover their own stories of illness, and create ones of healing to pull them forward to recovery. He may also recount stories he has learned from the patient’s ancestral heritage that parallel his patient’s struggles. Through metaphor, these stories help create a context of hope and a path to wellness—features that often are lacking from the “story” patients get from mainstream medicine based on statistics and life expectancy tables.

Dr. Mehl-Madrona also encourages and teaches ceremonies, based on indigenous practices, to immerse the patient in a culture of community and spiritual support for healing. Again from Narrative Medicine, “Ceremony is an important part of how I work to help people transcend limitations. Like heal76

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ing, ceremony should be seen as a verb that submits us to a process of transformation, and not something that has efficacy in the way of a drug or a surgery.

Ceremony provides the context from which we dialog with the Universe, with angels, spirits, ancestors, and the Divine. It guides us into the work of the soul and its healing—providing a road for personal and spiritual transformation as well as community revitalization. Ceremony gives us a path to follow away from our limitations.”

Dr. Mehl-Madrona is at the forefront of bringing narrative medicine to mainstream medical practice, but others are beginning to incorporate story and indigenous techniques into healthcare, and in the fall of 2009 Columbia University Medical School will begin offering a master’s degree in Narrative Medicine. “Through narrative training, the Program in Narrative Medicine helps doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists to improve the effectiveness of care by developing the capacity for attention, reflection, representation, and affiliation with patients and colleagues,” says the program’s website (www.narrativemedicine.org).

From May 8 to 10, Dr. Mehl-Madrona will be at the Center for Creative Education in Stone Ridge offering a series of public events: on May 8 at 7:30pm, an overview talk; on May 9 from 10am to 6pm, “Coyote Energy Healing, Indigenous Doctoring”; and on May 10 from 9am to 3pm, hands-on “Cherokee Bodywork,” concluding with a sweat-lodge purification ceremony at 3pm.

In anticipation of the weekend workshop, I caught up with Dr. MehlMadrona by telephone to ask a few questions. Some key points of that conversation follow.

The full meaning of “narrative medicine,” or a “storied” approach to medicine, becomes apparent through reading your books, but could you give our readers a short version of what you mean by “narrative medicine”?

Narrative medicine is the encompassing of our awareness of health and disease into a storied structure. We embed the illness into the life story of the person in such a way that we discover meaning and purpose in both the illness and the experience of recovery. And we come to a new respect for the illness, in the context of the life that it appears in.

It’s hard, sometimes, to give a simple definition, but in a diagnostic sense, the labels of sickness become second to the life of a person that has a particular

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sickness. Within the context of healing, in order for a person to get well, there has to be a story that everyone believes that leads them back to health. A friend of mine, when she was 20, was on the Navajo Reservation for the first time, and went way into the hills to do a [healing] ceremony with a traditional Navajo healer, who was probably past 100 years old. At the end of the ceremony, she asked him if this would work for white people. He said no. She asked why not.

He said, because they don’t believe it will work. She asked if it would work if they believed it would, and he said, sure. That really captures it.

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Someone’s belief about their illness, and about how they can get better, has actually been shown to make a difference in their outcome. In your books you describe studies that support this.

Cleary, the character of the person who has the disease is important. That seems like such a no-brainer. But it can be a huge leap for my colleagues to realize that the person is as important to the outcome as the histology of a biopsy in the laboratory, maybe more important. They are used to the notion of disease being independent of people who have it. Much of the research has been misdirected in looking for specific isolated traits [of patients] to predict recovery or healing. But it is looking at the illness in the context of the whole life that is predictable. A study done in London found that acupuncture works best for Chinese people born in China, second best for Chinese people born in London, and least well for people in London who were not Chinese. Chinese people who grew up with the practice of acupuncture had the best response to it. They believe in it.

In a study of cancer patients, observers who didn’t know a patient’s outcome watched the patients tell their cancer stories, with all the medical data taken out. The people who watched the stories could predict with 96 percent accuracy which of the patients had recurrence and which didn’t. It wasn’t clear how the people could predict this, but they were using some aspect of the story—the feeling tone, the plot—somehow they could take in the stories and figure out the ending. It was mind-boggling, how good they were at it. It’s something we all understand on a deep level, sensing from our awareness of story what the most likely outcome will be.

When we talk about the placebo effect, it’s misnamed. It should be called the faith response; you heal because you believe. Like Jesus said, with enough faith, you can move any mountain. Another way of saying that in a more scientific way is to say that whatever you do to get well, it has to fit into the story you have about how people get sick and get well. I suspect that the stronger our commitment to a particular worldview, the more difficult it is to heal.

Given that many of us have grown up with the belief system that when we are sick, we need to go to a Western-trained medical doctor and take pharmaceuticals or whatever treatment is recommended, how do we open to believing that a different way of healing will work?

In the approach I take, first I would work with a patient in such a way as to be really clear about what their story is—what the sickness means to them.

Once we’re aware of their story, then probably I would use guided imagery or hypnosis to begin to explore how we might plant the seeds of other plausible stories. I would probably also do some sort of bodywork or body awareness, to explore how the story is embodied—how it is held in the tissues. I don’t know if the person would change, but that is how I would begin the exploration. I might also get together a meeting of everyone that person knows, to explore the range of possible stories in their community. You can’t change your story too far from what other people around you believe.

But what do you do if family and friends are not into alternative ways of healing, and only believe that modern, Western medicine will work?

I would have a talking circle with everyone, trying to explore what we can negotiate as possible and acceptable, in hopes that there is some middle ground, and to see where the wiggle room is. Because if nobody will buy into the story [of an alternate healing method], it’s going to be really difficult. Sometimes people go to an alternative practitioner just to satisfy someone else. People sometimes come to me, late in the game, in order to say to some loved one, “See, I went.” But, of course, it won’t work.

I was interested to read that while you have witnessed among your patients healings that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be explained by conventional medicine, and you have researched many other cases, you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t promising that you can cure people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sudden miracleâ&#x20AC;? stories do exist, though my colleagues like to look at them as outliers. But I see them as what we are capable of, what can happen. To the extent that we study the stories, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll begin to learn more about miracles. I certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough that I could do a randomized, controlled trial to produce miracles, though I know they happen, and the stories are qualitatively different for people who go on to survive than those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

I never deny the possibility of miracles, because I think they exist. There are some people at the top end of the survival curve who live many years with whatever cancer or illness weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terribly unscientific for a physician to tell people how long they have to live, because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. Why should we terrorize you with the mean lifespan of people with your illness when you might be one of those who lives a very long time? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrible thing, to tell people when they should die.

But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine a mainstream doctor is going to start using a storied approach, or encourage patients to believe in miracles, any time soon.

Western medicine has been involved in constructing stories, too, from the beginning of time. We have theories, which are stories about how people get sick and get well. Historically, until 17th-century France, physicians had always placed the illness in the context of the person who has it. But since the 17th century, when autopsies were begun [and damaged organs were seen], the story shifted to placing the illness in an organ instead of in a person. In either view, the pathological changes are the same. In the first story, the changes in the organ are a result of the personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whole life story. In the second story, the contemporary story, the suffering is in the internal organ of the person.

Both are just stories. We are arrogant enough to believe that todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story is the truth. But in Western science the story changes every few years. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truth is tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s error. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any facts, just stories that we are continually changing.

A point I am trying to make to physicians is that they need to understand that the natural science perspective is not borne out by researchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we can find people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t die on command, who get well when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not supposed to, who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the suggested treatment and get well anyway. So our theory that a disease has a certain natural history is incorrect.

For me the first shift [needed] is to respect the story of the people who are sick, and be more respectful that their physiology might follow their story more than their doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story. People who survive against all odds according to Western medicine show that the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story sometimes is not right, and the patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story sometimes is.

You make it clear in your writing that the process of telling oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story is, in itself, a rich and valuable process.

I think it seems fairly universal that at the end of life we all like to feel like we had meaning and purpose. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier to die then. Much of what goes on around people who are dying is the preparation of story, to allow everyone to agree that the personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life had meaningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with the funeral being the culmination.

So we might use video, photos, or have people write stories about the person, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much better done when they are still alive. Especially when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a younger person, parents can prepare stories about losing their children, and that it has some higher purpose or value, in order to move on and keep going.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much more valuable to do that when they are alive.

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Picking and Choosing: Mindful Eating for Kids and Families, Part 1

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eeding my fabulously finicky toddler has been a challenge, to say the least. The more she resists my efforts, the more frustrated I become.

Our positions quickly get fixed into the classic power struggle: me the desperate mother, filled with a craving to feed, and she the indifferent Noodles, please! toddler. Buddhism is actually filled with teachings on mindful eating, but there isn’t much on the nittygritty of raising a mindful eater, so I decided to ask some folks for help.

I found three great people to talk to: Dr. Harvey Karp: Dr. Karp is the best-selling author of The Happiest Baby/Toddler on the Block (Bantam Books, 2004). He is a professor of pediatrics at UCLA School of Medicine and travels extensively talking (lovingly) about kids.

Nina Planck: Nina wrote the critically acclaimed Real Food (Bloomsbury USA, 2007), and her most recent book is Real Food for Mother and Baby (Bloomsbury, 2009). Both are gems.

Konrad Ryushin Marchaj Osho: Before Ryushin moved into Mount Tremper’s Zen Mountain Monastery in 1991 to become a monastic/priest/teacher, he was a pediatrician and a psychiatrist.

I asked them all the same three questions, and this is what they had to say (in 1,000 words or less!): What is the best way to raise a mindful eater— someone who appreciates food but is not obsessed with it?

DR. HARVEY KARP Number one, every child is different. Food and drink are important triggers of our internal reward center or dopamine opiate center, as are friendship and touching. So for some kids eating is a huge part of the reward center and for other kids it just doesn’t mean that much to them. Number two, there’s some intrinsic sense of what the body needs, early on. That gets overridden later when kids get into this very finicky period, usually anywhere from 15 to 30 months.

Kids get really rigid. They want things they can hold with their fingers, things that are white, which is why cheese and pizza and pasta and bread become real favorites at that point in time. And the third basic understanding is that there are battles you can win as a parent and battles that you can’t win. For example, candy. You don’t want to give her candy, you don’t give her candy. You can win that every single time.

Eating broccoli is a different issue. If she really wants to, she’s going to win that one. But ultimately, if you 80

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can outwait them, they’re probably going to come around to your diet without you having to plead and beg and negotiate.

NINA PLANCK By example. It’s the only answer you can give. Your toddler is psychic. And don’t talk about it. Just serve the food and eat.

I believe you could train your toddler to sit in his chair, never drop his spoon, and eat all his food, but you’d have to smack him every time he drops his spoon or leaves food on his plate, and then you’d have a terrified, tortured individual. You wouldn’t have a mindful eater.You’d have an abused eater and a totalitarian mother.

RYUSHIN OSHO Frequently, we forget that much of early childhood eating is not about eating; it’s about being with the parent. Our basic learning about taking food in is extremely closely connected to how we’re being held, looked at, what the mother is doing, feels like, and then goes from there.

I remember it from my own upbringing, of what a meal felt like when we were sitting together—when I was three or four—and it was an occasion for the family to come together. But I remember that the meal wasn’t just about food; there was attention to it, but it was an opportunity to connect and to have people’s attention, directed to you, as a kid. I remember my grandfather playing with my sister—“The whale is coming in…”—and it was play.The other thing is that we were an extended Polish family, so the emotionality around food wasn’t just narrowed down to me and my mother, where I’m locked in and suddenly this becomes the currency of our struggle.

In order to get a picky eater to try new food is it okay to bribe kids—i.e., “If you eat your broccoli, you can have ice cream?”

DR. HARVEY KARP Absolutely. I wouldn’t call it bribery. I think that’s a morally loaded word. Ultimately, you don’t want to always have to give ice cream to get what you want.

But that is a bridge to get you in the right direction, and then you start decreasing the amount of ice cream you give, and you start replacing the food reward with other rewards. People get bent out of shape, like, “Don’t praise your child and don’t reward.” And it’s nonsense.You can’t not do it.

NINA PLANCK I don’t think it’s fatal, but it seems sort of limited as a tactic because it requires that you always have a bribe handy the minute the child says no. [My son] tends not to get dessert if he hasn’t eaten. They’re related tactics, though he can always have fruit, even if he hasn’t finished his supper.

RYUSHIN OSHO There is a kind of conditionality—in order the get this, you have to have that—there must be some sort of resentment that is being internalized within a person with respect to that, so I think I would be cautious, but at the same time, what the hell do I know? I can definitely understand why there are moments when this can become, literally, a life-or-death struggle between a parent and a child.

Should we serve picky eaters special foods at mealtimes?

DR. HARVEY KARP It’s not wrong to indulge your children as long as when you have to set a limit, they know they have to respect your limit.We have to set limits, and the key is that when you do it, you’re really clear that you’re not to be messed with. So you could be indulgent about meals or not indulgent.You get to do what feels good to you. As a parent, you’re just trying to get through the day.

NINA PLANCK There’s a long list of real foods. And we don’t have a separate shopping list for kids’ foods. They all come off the list of real foods, and then in deciding what’s for supper, I treat my son’s considerations with equal weight to mine and my husband’s.

RYUSHIN OSHO I never experienced that, so it would be difficult for me to imagine what that would feel like. I would feel special—how frightening that would feel to me, to have food prepared just for me, outside of the circle of the family. That level of attention can crawl inside of your skin.

Tune in next month to see if I am able to actually put these wise words to good use.

Bethany Saltman lives with her family in Phoenicia. She has been a student of John Daido Loori, Roshi, Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, since 1998.

You can read more of her work at www.bethanysaltman.com.

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Are you dealing with stress from emotional, physical or environmental causes? Do you just feel overwhelmed? Our conscientious and skilled NY Licensed Massage Therapists can help you discover a place of ease within your body, mind, and spirit. Let us help you to feel whole! Craniosacral, Energy Healing, Therapeutic Massage and Health Kinesiology. Monday-Friday 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 9am-3pm.

Midwifery Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com

Naturopathic Medicine Thomas J. Francescott, ND (845) 876-5556 www.drfrancescott.com I seek to inspire and transform people with authentic and personalized natural health care. Identifying the underlying cause, and offering holistic and natural solutions to challenging health issues and alternatives to conventional drugs. I specialize in: sciencebased detoxification; testing and balancing neurotransmitters and hormones; supporting the adrenals and thyroid.

Nutrition Counseling Ilyse Simon RD, CDN Nutrition Therapist 318 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6381 www.ilysesimonrd.com Do you feel fat? Ilyse works with ‘stress eaters’ and those with chronic eating disorders. A Bastyr University of Natural Medicine graduate, her counseling has a holistic approach.

Eating disorders are not about food. Eat what you want and feel good about it. “Life is not black and white. Living is the full spectrum in between.”

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. For information, contact Joan Apter.

Madhuri Therapeutics-Bringing Health to Balance Alice Velky LMT, RYT (845) 797-4124 www.MadhuriTherapeutics.com Our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers individualized sessions to nourish and repair body, mind & spirit. Licensed Massage Therapy, master-level Reiki, Therapeutic Yoga, Ayurveda; 16 years experience.

Sliding scale REIKI CLINIC starts 4/15/09; call for info.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.

Pain Management ONDAMED®, FDA-Approved Device (845) 876-5556 FEBRUARY SPECIAL: 50% off initial treatment.

Therapists throughout Europe have been using ONDAMED®for over 10 years with great success. Patients using ONDAMED®frequencies report benefits physically, emotionally, mentally. ONDAMED®is a cutting-edge and FDA-approved device for pain management by reducing inflammation, promoting relaxation, smoking cessation, improving circulation.

Physical Therapy Center for Physical Therapy

Meditation Zen Mountain Monastery 871 Plank Road, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 437-5831

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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.

2 Delavergne Avenue, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-4789 www.centerforphysicaltherapy.com

Roy Capellaro, PT 120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 518-1070 www.roycapellaro.com Listening. Touch. Quiet. The interface of structure and energy. There are optimum ways of working with out of balance states in our

body, utilizing the hierarchy of forces within us.

I have been a manual physical therapist for over 30 years, specializing in gently unlocking the roots of structural dysfunctions and their associated patterns. Zero Balancing. Craniosacral Therapy. Muscle Energy Technique.

Ontology.

behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

Pilates

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW

Conscious Body 426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus, and mat classes available.

Visit our studio on Main Street Rosendale.

The Centering Studio 3752 Route 9G @ IXL Fitness (membership not required), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5114 www.thecenteringstudio.com Pilates Method in Rhinebeck since 1996. Private and small group classes, non- competitive and non-impact. Working on the apparatus and mats with our caring, creative and certified instructors you will build deep muscle control and proper body mechanics to support you through your day with ease and energy, grace and power.

Psychics

(845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated?

Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 JanneDooley@gmail.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and healing practice helping people grow individually and in community. Janne Dooley specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, co-dependency, and inner child work. Janne is trained in Gestalt, Family Systems and EMDR. Groups forming: Counscious Parenting,and Guided Imagery, Celtic and Native American Shamanism.

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP

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

25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613

Psychologists Anton H. Hart, PhD 39 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-2477; (212) 595-3704 www.apapo.org/DrAntonHart/ antonhartphd@alum.vassar.edu Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute. Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Poughkeepsie and Manhattan Offices. Specializing in intensive long- and short-term work with problems of anxiety, depression, relationships, career, illness, gay, straight, lesbian and transgender issues.

Consultation by appointment.

Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023

Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 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 Something New! The Mother/ Daughter Connection: a parenting support group for women with teen daughters. Most insurances accepted.

Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and

Julie Zweig, MA, NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 julieezweig@gmail.com

Holistic Orthodontics in a Magical Setting Practicing holistic orthodontics for 25 years Member of the Cranial Academy Fixed braces ∙ Functional appliances ∙ Invisalign Children and adults Insurance accepted ∙ Payment plans

Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy, for individuals, couples and families. Julie has 20 years of experience as a therapist, with many areas of expertise. Although Julie also practices Rosen Method Bodywork, this verbal modality does not involve touch. It is termed “body-centered,” as the breath and muscle tension of the client is observed visually to enhance and deepen the work.

Rhoney Stanley LicAcup, RD, DDS, MPH 107 Fish Creek Road Saugerties, NY 12477

K. Melissa Waterman, LCSW

2 miles from NYS87 exit 20 0.5 miles from 212

Dooley Square, 35 Main Street, #333, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 464-8910 therapist.psychologytoday.com/52566 My goal is to encourage and guide you to find and live from your own place of joy. I have experience helping with depression, anxiety, trauma resolution, negative thinking, work and relationship problems, and spirituality issues. Certified EMDR practitioner, Sliding scale available. Groups offered.

Laura Coffey, MFA, LMSW Rosendale, NY (845) 399-0319 undefinedreading@gmail.com Family Therapist specializing in Narrative Therapy. Practice includes eclectic interventions tailored to suit individual client’s needs.

Healing conversations for the entire family, gerentological services for the elderly and support for caretakers. Grief counseling, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, couples work, LGBT issues, PTSD and childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and performance anxiety. Fee: $25.00 a clinical hour.

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845-246-2729 | 212-912-1212 (cell) rhoney.stanley@gmail.com

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Your job? Money? Empty relationship? Ailing business?

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My name is David Basch. I am a certified life and business coach working with dozens of people like you to change.

Contact me at: 845 626 0444 or david@dwbcoaching.com for a no charge, no obligation experience of us working together. What have you got to lose except a lot of stuck-ness?

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Storm King Lodge

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW A country Bed & Breakfast

Come & enjoy our cozy Lodge, converted from an early 1800’s post-and-beam barn, and Guest Cottage in a country setting with gardens, pool and mountain views.

The Great Room offers a comfortable place to relax, with a roaring fire on winter evenings or enjoy those summer nights on the covered verandah.

Choose from six comfortable guest rooms with private baths. Comforts include central AC, several fireplaces, spacious lawns, gardens and the grand swimming pool.

Located near Storm King Art Center, West Point, DIA: Beacon, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, and 1 hour from NYC. Great restaurants nearby.

Recommended as a Great B & B —Lonely Planet.com

100 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville (Cornwall), NY 10953 845.534.9421 | www.stormkinglodge.com

Susan DeStefano

Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com

Resorts & Spas Copperhood Inn & Spa Route 28, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688.2460 www.copperfood.com

Retreat Centers Breema Center www.breema.com center@breema.com

Rosen Method Bodywork Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor

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New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.RosenMethod.com julieezweig@gmail.com

845.255.6482

The Rosen practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension and constricted breathing. With gentle, direct touch; unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge, allowing the client to recognize the purpose of unconscious tension. Old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, well-being, and new choices in life.

Schools

Integrated Health Care for Women Healing mind, body, and spirit combining traditional medical practice, clinical hypnotherapy, 12-step work, and Reiki energy healing.

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Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (650) 493-4430 ext. 268 www.itp.edu

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eating disorder, weight loss, and smoking cessation Kristen Jemiolo, MD American Board of Family Medicine, Diplomate American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Certification Poughkeepsie (845) 485-7168 For more information visit http://mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

Facilitator: Amy Frisch, CSWR

Smoking Cessation ONDAMED® (845) 876-5556 The ONDAMED®protocol has been used worldwide with remarkable results. In just a few visits, patients stop smoking and free themselves of their nicotine addiction. The ONDAMED®can identify energetic disturbances that occur as a result of nicotine. “In only 1-3 sessions, 95% of our clients stop smoking.”

Speech Language Pathology

Spiritual Cassia Berman Woodstock, NY (212) 479-8443 woostock4@karunamayi.org

Structural Integration Hudson Valley Structural Integration 26 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4654 www.hudsonvalleysi.com Ryan Flowers and Krisha Showalter are NY State Licensed Massage Therapists with additional Certification in Structural Integration and Visceral Osteopathic Manipulation. We specialize in chronic pain conditions, structural/postural alignment and function. We are committed to providing soft tissue manipulation that is communicative and receptive to the individual. Free Consultations.

Tarot Tarot-on-the-Hudson-Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone.

Yoga Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

Jnana Yoga Study Group www.anjalispace.com Nondualvedanta@aol.com Jnana Yoga, the Path of Knowledge, is the subject of this ongoing study group in the Nondual tradition of Sankaracharya. The facilitator, Michael Chandra Cohen is a former swami & adjunct professor of religion at Hunter College. Open to all level aspirants. Discussion of Swami Dayananda talks.

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

The Living Seed some insurances accepted space is limited

Patricia Lee Rode, MA, CCC-SLP

(845) 706-0229

Speech Language Pathologist with over ten years experience providing diagnostic/therapeutic services for children/adults with speech/ language delays, and neurological disorders.

Specializing in Autistic Spectrum Disorders, PDD, ADHD, memory, and language related disorders. Trained in P.R.O.M.P.T., and Hippotherapy. Offer individual therapy and social skills groups. Offices in NYC/Rhinebeck.

for more information

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!

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(646) 729-6633

521 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years.

Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced.

Including pre- and post-natal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna, and organic Yoga clothing. Route 299, across from Econo Lodge.

JERRY L. THOMPSON

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EVENT LISTINGS FOR MAY 2009

Maya Lin, Storm King Wavefield, 2007-2008, Earth and grass, 240,000 square feet (11-acre site), Storm King Art Center, Mountainville.

Feel the Earth Move The artist Maya Lin is best known for her elegiac Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Completed in 1982, “The Wall” is one of the most recognizable works of American sculpture of the past half-century or more. Remarkably, her design for the memorial was conceived while she was still an undergrad at Yale. The noble simplicity of the concept and of the design, a polished black granite wall chronologically listing the names of those killed in the war, demonstrates the flexibility of the minimalist idiom to convey content that goes beyond the formal facts of the work.

Since then, her impressive output reflects a conception of sculpture as an expanded field that embraces both landscape and architecture.

Storm King Wavefield is Lin’s most recent large-scale project and represents her ongoing interest in the language of nature. Commissioned by Storm King Art Center, it opens to the public on May 9. Set on an 11-acre site that was formerly a gravel pit, the piece consists of seven rows of undulating hills shaped like ocean waves; each row is over 300 feet long. The Storm King Wavefield is the third and, according to the artist, the last in a series that includes earlier, smaller works installed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Miami.

The piece can be approached from several directions, but the most surprising may be from above. Looking down from the top of the hill that frames it at the north end, the ground gently ripples, echoing the surrounding hills and ridges. From above, Wavefield appears subtle and is dwarfed in scale by the landscape. Descending the hillside, the experience is similar to that of landing in an airplane, as what only seconds before had appeared to be dollhouses, toy cars, and trees quickly becomes full-size. A similarly radical change in scale takes place as you experience bodily the relationship between the height of the crests of the waves and the depth of the troughs. The peaks of the waves, cresting at 10 to 15 feet, soar overhead, and the surrounding hills are obscured from view. The waves themselves reveal the sensitivity of the artist’s eye to the subtle trigonometry of natural waveforms, whose beauty lies in their complex simplicity. It’s interesting to walk though the troughs and up the waves, from whose peaks you are given yet another perspective of the landscape and your relationship to it. Ultimately,

like much work produced with the minimalist mindset, the piece is less about itself and its own internal relationships than it is a discourse on its site and the relationship of the viewer in this triad.

Wavefield is situated near two other commissioned pieces that are highlights at Storm King: Richard Serra’s Schunnemunk Fork and Andy Goldsworthy’s monumental Storm King Wall. The literal proximity of the Serra piece underscores the kinship that Lin shares with this old master of American sculpture, whose work so clearly informs Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and much of her output since. And the waves of Wavefield echo the undulations of Goldsworthy’s Wall as it wiggles its way through the trees.

Working in close coordination with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and with landscape architects Edwina von Gal and Darrel Morrison, Lin utilized the gravel at the site to create the underlying structure of Storm King Wavefield.

This was then covered in topsoil, which in turn was planted with a variety of indigenous grasses, creating a natural drainage system. In addition, she kept track of her travels to and from the site, as well as the energy used by the contractors who executed the work; as a final stage in the process, Storm King and Lin are formulating a plan to plant indigenous trees around the periphery of the site to help offset the calculated carbon footprint generated by the production of the work.

Any visit to Storm King provokes questions about the nature of sculpture and its relationship to site. It is no longer possible, much less desirable, to regard the land with the same kind of neutrality that is presumed of the white walls of an art gallery. It is obvious that Mother Nature does not want the forms and structures that we make on and of her—she is constantly trying to reclaim them with her processes of growth and decay. Much of the work at Storm King appears oblivious to this dialectic, but pieces like Serra’s, Goldsworthy’s, and, now, Maya Lin’s Wavefield make explicit the often awkward and always paradoxical relationships between art and the land. This makes their beauty that much more intriguing.

—Jeff Crane

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FRIDAY 1 ART Portfolio Day II 12pm-5pm. Bring portfolios for review. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Grand Opening 4pm. Gazen Gallery of Art, Rhinebeck. 876-4278.

Tom Holt: Drawings and Paintings 5pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858

Panchakarma Weight loss

Apples and Oranges Opening 6pm-8pm. Member Theme Show Opening. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Detoxing programs

Watercolors by Karleen Dorn 7:30pm-12am. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Indoor pool

Route 28 Phoenicia NY 12480 845.688.2460 www.copperhood.com

EVENTS Spring Business Card Exchange 7:30am-9am. New Paltz Area Chamber of Commerce. $5 non-members. Antiques Barn, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Ulster Green ARC 28th Annual Humanitarian Awards 5:30pm. $75. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston.

331-4300 ext. 267.

Beltane Ritual with Elizabeth Cunningham 7pm. High Valley, Clinton Corners. 266-2309.

The Philanthrobee 7pm. A community fundraiser. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Broad’s Regional Arm Wrestling League 8pm. Woman’s arm wrestling competition. The Barn, Tivoli.

Reddan Brothers Band CD Release Party 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

FILM The Sing-Along Sound of Music 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

KIDS Toddler Stroll 9:30am-11am. Poets’ Walk, Red Hook. 473-4440 ext. 273.

MUSIC Gathering of the Vibes Call for times. Stage One, Fairfield, CT. (203) 908-3030.

Sentimental Sax by Mike Stabile 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

Jules & Rick Orchestra 7pm-9pm. Folk and pop. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

The Dirty Sock Funtime Band 7pm. Price Chopper Family Series. $9/$7 children.

Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Sing Along “Sound of Music” 7pm. $25/$12.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Sammy Horner 7pm. Celtic music. Cornerstone Cafe, Newburgh.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. A reunion of previously highlighted musicians in celebration of our 2nd year. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Spring Choral Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Hudson Valley Songwriters Showcase 8pm. $10/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

8:00 pm First Friday of Each Month Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd. Highland, NY 845.691.4118

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Dr. Dolittle Call for times. $15/$12 children. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Solas An Lae 8pm. Irish dance company. $18/$16 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Improvisation spun from your experiences & dreams

The Big Takeover 9pm. Reggae. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

CLASSES

DANCE

Community Playback Theatre

Albert Carey and Billy Beehler 9pm. Acoustic. Loopey’s, Millbrook. 677-6212.

THEATER

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

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4th Anniversary Bluegrass Clubhouse Celebration 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Yoga 9am. Brighids Bough, Saugerties. 246-7206.

Life Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

845.626.4895 212.714.8125

Songs For Autism 3: A concert for People Living with Autism 8:30pm. $25/$35 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Painting and Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Internationally Renowned Psychic Over 20 years Experience Sessions In-Person or By Phone

MH2 8:30pm. Rock. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

Hand Grenades to Cartier Clips 2pm. Antony Penrose. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3124.

Portrait and Figure Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Consultations by Gail Petronio

Steve Schultz 8pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Paul Sachs 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Beethoven’s Eroica. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Broken Glass 8pm. Presented by The Two of Us Productions and RARE Inc. $14/$10 students and seniors. Valatie Community Theatre, Valatie. (518) 329-6293.

Badass: Fighting from Never/Land 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5584.

Boston Marriage 8pm. $31-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 8pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

WORKSHOPS Poetry & Pop-Music with Chris Stroffolino Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Astrology for the Common Man Part II 7pm-9pm. $35/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

SATURDAY 2 ART Mother’s Day Pottery Sale 10am-4pm. Benefits A Friends House Children’s Shelter. Inner Circle Arts Studio, Warwick Grove.

Art for a Cause: Silk Screening 10am-12pm. 6th-12th grade student silk screen to raise money. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Spring Fever Workshops 10am-1pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960 Selected Works by Andy Kooistra 12pm-2pm. Paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Light Breezes, Peaceful Places 3pm-7pm. Watercolor and ink paintings by Yoshiko Nakanishi. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.

Spring Opening 4pm-8pm. Katie DeGroot, Patti Lipman, Gunnar Norrman and Tom Schottman, Deborah Morris and Victoria Stewart. Riverfront Studio, Schuyerville. 695-5354.

Gone With the Wind: The Kinetic Art of Tim Prentice 5pm-7pm. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.

Still Life 5pm-7pm. Stanley Bielen & Paul Goldberg. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700.

Oils by Todd Samara 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Hudson River Show 5pm-8pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

Upstate America 5pm-8pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

Design Stimulus: A New Currency, A New Economy 5pm-8pm. Works by SUNY Ulster Graphic Design students. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Great Tulip Scandal 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Mirror: David Schultz 5pm-9pm. Photographic diptychs and text. Gallery 345, Hudson. (518) 392-9620.

Graffiti Art Exhibit: Hood Scrappers Low Rise High Fall 6pm-9pm. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh.

562-6940 ext. 119.

High Meadow School Art Auction 8pm. Preview at 7pm. $10. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT SpiritPlay Open Session 10:30am-12:15pm. Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-4140.

SPOKEN WORD JEFFREY MCDANIEL IMAGE PROVIDED

Ridiculous Rhymer “I am in this world of academia, but I want to be read by living people, breathing people,” vows poet Jeffrey McDaniel. “I don’t want to just write for someone who’s got a degree. And I sometimes write poems that are sincere, that have real feeling in them!

Or sometimes I write a poem with real ridiculousness in it!”

On May 10, McDaniel will read at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, a former church on the banks of the Hudson River in Cold Spring. This will inaugurate the Sunset Reading Series.

May 10 is Mother’s Day, so McDaniel may include some of his “mother poems,” such as “Renovating the Womb,” which begins: Dear Mom, thanks for giving birth to me and not having an abortion. 2% of my time on Earth has been spent inside your body— more than all my girlfriends combined.

McDaniel also might read from the 700-page manuscript of his first novel, the comingof-age story of a poet who struggles with drugs and alcohol and eventually becomes sober. One possible title is 4000 A.M. David Bowie and Richard Pryor were his first poetic influences were. Later McDaniel began reading the French Surrealists, and confessional poets like Anne Sexton and John Berryman. Currently, he is inspired by Zbigniew Herbert, Walt Whitman, and Marina Tsvetaeva. He has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College since 2001.

McDaniel has performed in 11 countries and over 40 American cities, but nowadays

spends a lot of time with his two-year-old daughter, Camilla Wren. He is rewriting nursery rhymes, to amuse himself (and her). “So I do, ‘Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,’ but it’s a rap version. And I’m working on ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm,’ and instead of having animals, he has various kinds of deranged people,” McDaniel explains.

“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” isn’t his first foray into rap. McDaniel wrote a hip-hop song in the voice of George W. Bush, titled “They All Want to Know What the ‘W’ Stands For!,” which he performed a cappella at poetry slams, to rousing acclaim.

Two years ago, McDaniel and his pregnant wife moved to Cold Spring, from New York. “I think I would’ve lost my mind in Brooklyn,” he observes. “The stroller would have taken up half the living room!” McDaniel was impressed by the physical elegance of the Hudson Highlands: “There’s something semi-enchanting about being on the Hudson and near the mountains—that combination of water and stone.”

Ivy Meeropol, one of the Sunset Series organizers, is the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the director of the film Heir to an Execution, about her grandparents.

She knows McDaniel from Sarah Lawrence, where his readings were already “big events.”

“This was not ‘Let’s hear our friend read, and clap politely,’” she recalls. “This was ‘Let’s pack ourselves into the coffeehouse!’ It was very rowdy, and the audience would talk back.” Meeropol remained a fan of McDaniel’s writing, and chose him to initiate the Sunset Reading Series. The inaugural season will also include memoirist Nick Flynn, novelist Valerie Martin, and poet Edwin Torres.

Jeffrey McDaniel will read at 4pm on May 10 at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration in Cold Spring. (845) 265-4555; www.chapelofourlady.com.

—Sparrow

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CLASSES Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Drawing for Painting 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Sketch Class 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

DANCE MOMIX Botanica Call for times. Dancers and illusionists. $20-$35. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Inspirit 7:30pm. Dance company premiere of Christal Brown’s Dreams and Visions multimedia work with an original score. $15. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Solas An Lae 8pm. Irish dance company. $18/$16 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ’s. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston.

EVENTS Women’s Health Expo Call for times. Tech City, Kingston.

3rd Annual Walk-A-Thon To Benefit the Hospice Foundation of Ulster County 8am-4pm. Dietz Stadium, Kingston. 266-4938.

Dutch Treat Celebration 10am-4pm. Garden tours, Dutch tea, plant sale, plein-art paint out. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley.

338-5253.

Skyhunters in Flight 2pm. Demonstration of the ancient art of falconry with master falconer Brian Bradley. Levy Institute, Blithewood. 758-7414.

Cinco de Mayo Celebration and High Falls Crawl 2pm-6pm. New works from Mexico and gallery artists.

Be Gallery, High Falls. 687-0660.

1658 Stockade National Historic District Walking Tour 2pm. $10/$5 children. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Girl Scout Heart of the Hudson Benefit 5:30pm-7:30pm. $10/$9 in advance. Fun Central, Wappingers Falls. 297-1010.

FILM Man on Wire 3pm. Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock. 679-4265.

KIDS World Art Class 10am. Create Aboriginal paintings, origami and other crafts projects. Nectar, High Falls. 687-2870.

Flowers and Cards: A Mother’s Day Workshop 10:30am-12:30pm. Ages 5-8. $15/$12 members.

Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Great Aunt Phiddy’s Diary 10:30am-11:30am. Story hour. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Recess!

11am. $6-$9. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

MUSIC

Lisa Dudley 8pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Sara Watkins 8pm. Bluegrass. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Teen Music Showcase 8pm. Event to feature singers, bands, and instrumentalists from the local teen talent pool. $5.

Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia.

688-2279.

Bill Miller 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Soulsville Social Club 9pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

Upstart Blues All Stars 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Duchess Di & the Distractions 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Mt. Tremper 10am-4pm. 7-mile hike. Call for location. 255-0919.

Wild in the Woods 10am-11:30am. Learn some fun and easy games to play with your kids in nature, ages 5 and up. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Patroons and Plowmen: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 10am. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

Elizabeth Cunningham 10:30am. Author of Bright Dark Madonna. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665.

CLASSES Sing Out! Reach Out! 2pm-3pm. Ages 5-12. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

DANCE Inspirit 2:30pm. Dance company premiere of Christal Brown’s Dreams and Visions multimedia work with an original score. $15. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Beginner lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.

EVENTS Rosendale Farmer’s Market 10am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 339-0819.

Native American Festival 11am-4:30pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Eleanor Roosevelt Knit-In 1pm-5pm. Henry A. Wallace Educational and Visitors Center, Hyde Park. 229-7711.

Remembering Haiti 2pm-6pm. Music, art, refreshments to benefit Haiti Marycare. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Duck Race 2:30pm-4pm. Presented by Family of New Paltz. $5/$20. Wallkill River, New Paltz. 255-5752.

FILM

Spring Sprint 5K Trail Run 10am-12pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 273.

Rainbow Falls Hike 12pm-5:30pm. Minnewaska State Park. New Paltz.

255-0752.

SPOKEN WORD Carry A. Nation: Retelling A Life 1:30pm-3:30pm. Women Who Dared book discussion group. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Lecture and Book Signing by Professor Richard Hull 2:30pm-4pm. Author of Jewish Alexandria: The Making of an African Metropolis. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.

Mendieta: The Rewards & Challenges of Working with Artists Who Incorporate Ephemeral Materials and Performance 4pm-6pm. Mary Sabbatino. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Towards A New Economics: Transparency and Sharing 4pm-6pm. Public talk and community conversation.

Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 338-6418.

THEATER Bye Bye Birdie 1pm. $45/$35.75. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Cinderella—The Trashy Musical 2pm. $7/$5 children. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent.

225-3856.

Boston Marriage 2:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

First 3pm. Fund raiser for Planned Parenthood. $10.

Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Broken Glass 3pm. Presented by The Two of Us Productions and RARE Inc. $14/$10 students and seniors. Valatie Community Theatre, Valatie. (518) 329-6293.

KIDS

WORKSHOPS

Sunday Funday on the River 12pm-4pm. Featuring activities, live music and animations made for kids by kids. $10. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.

Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Women In Comedy with Loretta LaRoche & Friends 7:30pm. $25-$50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

MUSIC

A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, by Michael Schacker 7:30pm. Presentation and discussion. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

FreeStyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Barefoot, smoke, drug, and alcoholfree. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.

THEATER Cinderella—The Trashy Musical 3pm. $7/$5 children. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent.

225-3856.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 8pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Broken Glass 8pm. Presented by The Two of Us Productions and RARE Inc. $14/$10 students and seniors. Valatie Community Theatre, Valatie. (518) 329-6293.

Off Leash Improv Ensemble 8pm. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Iraqi Refugee Project. $20. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

Bluesman Lonnie Brooks 7pm. $18. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513.

The Lady’s Not for Burning 8pm. Actors and Writers Reading Series. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-9760.

Blues Legend Lonnie Brooks 7pm. $18. Columbia Green Community College, Greenport. (518) 828-4181 ext. 3344.

WORKSHOPS Grafting Workshop with Lee Reich 9am-11:30am. $30/$25. Call for location. 255-0417.

Raising Goats 101 10am-3pm. $79. Triple H Ranch, Hudson. 339-2025.

The Jesse Janes 7pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

SUNDAY 3

Rebel Red 1pm. Americana. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Letterboxing Workshop 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Balboa Dance Workshop 3pm-5pm. $25. Ciboney Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 486-4690.

Blue Grass Festival 2pm-10pm. Benefits Rosendale Street Festival. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Calendar Girls 3pm. Mid Hudson Women’s Chorus spring concert. $7/$6 students and seniors. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

Collegium Musicum 3pm. $6/$5 seniors and staff/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872.

Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

MONDAY 4 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Senior Qigong 11am-12pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 1pm-2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 339-4673.

Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Joint Student Ensemble Concert 3pm. Vassar Camerata, Mary Elizabeth Alexander and Emily Bookwalter, conductors; and Mahagonny Ensemble, Ashley Alter and Mark Van Haremar, conductors. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

CLASSES

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Beethoven’s Eroica. $20/$5 students. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 246-7045.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Lydia Adams Davis and Kathy Byers 3pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Byrdsong 4pm. Honoring Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday, with sing-a-long. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

College/Youth Symphony 7pm. $6/$5 seniors and staff/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hugh Brodie and Robert Kopec Quartet 7pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

E-special-ly Musical Program 6pm-8pm. Classes geared for children and adults with special needs. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

EVENTS

In the Key of Vee- Jazz From A to Z 7pm. $5. Tilly Foster Farm, Brewster. 279-7500.

ART

Bluesman Lonnie Brooks 7pm. Drum and Banjo Corps opening. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513.

Judy Collins 7pm. $35-$60. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Mother’s Day Pottery Sale 1pm-3pm. Benefits A Friends House Children’s Shelter.

Inner Circle Arts Studio, Warwick Grove.

DaisyCutter 7:30pm. $10-$15. Greenville Cultural Arts Center, Greenville. (518) 966-4038.

Joe Giardullo.

7pm-9pm. Jazz. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Blooms 1pm-3:30pm. Group Show. The Art Gallery, Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Sleepy Hollow. (914) 631-1470 ext. 0.

Celebrate the Celts 8pm. Sonia Malkine and Friends. $19/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Chain Gang 8pm. A tribute to Billy Joel. $18/$16 seniors and students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Joan Monastero & Cynthia Sinclair 4pm-6pm. Paint and mixed media collaborative exhibition.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THE OUTDOORS

Bovane 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Elderhostel Program- The Songs of Spring Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Detox and Change Your Life Call for times. 5-7 day cleansing retreat with Dr. Tom Francescott. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Kids Yoga Classes Call for times. Ages 5-9. $80 series/$15 drop-in.

Woodstock. 679-8700.

Streams of Light--A Contemplative Reading 10am-11am. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-5637.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Swing Dance Class for Kids 5:15pm-6pm. 4 sessions for ages 8-14. $45. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Beethoven’s Eroica. $20/$5 students. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045.

Chris Smither 8pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

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Birth Dreams 12:30pm-4:30pm. Share & explore the powerful, lifechanging dreams of birth & pregnancy. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Compass Rock 9:30am-3pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Howard Megdal 3:30pm. Author of The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665.

The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Tom DePetris Trio 7pm-9pm. Jazz. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Public Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

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New Member Breakfast 7:30am-9am. New Paltz Area Chamber of Commerce. $5 non-members. Terrace Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-0243.

FILM Shane 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

KIDS

MUSIC

SPOKEN WORD

Alexander String Quartet Call for times. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

831-4988.

Rossini’s La Cenerentola 6pm. Words Before Music series. Lee Library, Lee, MA. (413) 243-0385.

Rob Sanzone 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

The Joy of Hiking 7pm. How to get started, hiking tips, what gear you will need, where to hike, and information about hiking groups in the area. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh.

592-0204.

Justin Hillman 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Doug Elliot 7pm-9pm. Jazz. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

SPOKEN WORD Dutchess County Bounty Speed Networking 9:30am. Connecting local food producers with buyers of local food. Stissing House Restaurant, Pine Plains.

(518) 398-8800.

THEATER Boston Marriage 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Unleash Your Comedy Power Stuff 10am-12pm. Workshop for de-stressing. Olympic Diner, Kingston. 246-5348.

Making Ends Meet: Money Management Workshop 6pm-7:30pm. Saugerties Library, Saugerties. 340-3990.

What is the Enlightenment? Revolution and the Limits of Reason 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Introduction to Photoshop 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

WORKSHOPS

Beading Workshop 6pm. Nectar, High Falls. 687-2870.

Introduction to Digital Photography 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Playwrights Lab 6:30pm. Hear readings of your work performed by actors. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

TUESDAY 5 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Spirit Readings 12pm-6pm. Psychic medium Adam Bernstein. $75/$40.

Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Healing Path Yoga 6pm. $14. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz. 797-4124.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 339-4673.

CLASSES Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

WEDNESDAY 6 ART Night Visitors 5pm-6:30pm. New paintings by Franz Heigemeir.

Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

431-8610.

Advanced Fine Art Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reiki Clinic 10am-12pm. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz. 797-4124.

The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck.

876-4030.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 1pm-2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 339-4673.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-6:30pm. Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown. 339-4673.

Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. $15/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FILM Public Meditation and Dharma Talk Call for times. Film: Blessings. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

AARP Defensive Driving Course 8:30am-5:30pm. Must be 55 and older. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 334-3187.

KIDS

Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Mixed Media Madness 4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 3-6. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

MUSIC Weekly Musician’s Open Mike 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Jazz Jam 7:30pm-9:30pm. Hosted by Marvin Bu-Ga-Lu Smith.

Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. 561-9770.

Allan Holdsworth featuring Jimmy Johnson & Chad Wackerman 7:30pm. $30. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Frankie & His Fingers 8pm. With Venture Lift. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Symphonic Band 8pm. $6/$5 seniors and staff/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

THE OUTDOORS Guided Garden Tour 6pm-7pm. Stonecrop Gardens, Cold Spring. 265-2000.

Opening Receptions from 4:00-8:00pm Art Mixer from 8:00-10:00pm @ the Water Street Market Experience exceptional art, live music, light refreshments, a raffle of artwork by local artists and more!

Connect with the artists, the gallery owners, curators & the patrons who support us:

G. Steve Jordan Gallery, Mark Gruber Gallery, cronartusa, New Paltz, NY, Transcendence Gallery, Upstate Lights Photo-Graphic, Van Buren Gallery, Historic Huguenot Street,The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, COTA, Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Water Street Market Sponsored by:

www.artalongthehudson.org

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-7:30pm. St. James Church Library, Chatham.

339-4673.

Figurative Clay Sculpture 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Teen Wheel 3:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 13 - 18. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

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Printmaking 9:30am-11:30am. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh. 561-6602.

FROG HOLLOW FARM Celebrating the Partnership of Human & Horse

ENGLISH RIDING FOR ALL AGES Boarding and Training Summer Riding Weeks for Kids and Adults

ESOPUS, N.Y. (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

Interpreting the Landscape 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

The Theory and Practice of Drawing 6:15pm-9:15pm. 4 sessions. $144/$130 members.

Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331.

Improv Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. The Mop & Bucket Improv Theatre Company. $60. 440 Upstairs at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

DANCE VaBang!

8pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.

EVENTS Mental Health America of Dutchess County Annual Meeting Luncheon 11:30am-2pm. $20. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1305.

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THEATER

THE OUTDOORS

Lunch Time Film Shorts 1pm-2pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

Boston Marriage 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Mother’s Day Family Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

WORKSHOPS

SPOKEN WORD

A Beautiful Heart 6:30pm-8pm. Make a patchwork heart sachet or pincushion Mother’s Day gift. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Eeels, Aliens and Shipwrecks: Updates in River 7pm. Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon. 265-2969.

Frontiers of Dreams & Fears 7pm-8pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

KIDS Preschool Pottery 2pm-2:45pm. Ages 3-4. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

Children’s Art Lessons 4:15pm-5:15pm. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh. 561-6602.

Painting! Painting!

4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-7. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

MUSIC Trevor Exter, John Reddan, Matt Colligan, Nicola 7:30pm. $10. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

ART Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection 5pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection 5:30pm-12am. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Spring Community Band Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858

Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

SPOKEN WORD Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times Call for times. His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Getting Your Feet Wet With Social Marketing 9am-5pm. Norrie Point, Staatsburg. 889-4745.

THEATER Boston Marriage 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Peer Critiquing Group for Writers 4pm-6pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Spring Ecstatic Chant Call for times. Featuring Sruti Ram & Ishwari. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Yoga 9am. Brighids Bough, Saugerties. 246-7206.

Group Meditation for World Service 7pm. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 546-0146.

CLASSES Portrait and Figure Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Life Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Medicare Orientation 5:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Painting and Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

THURSDAY 7 ART

In the Studio With Pastels 1pm-4pm. 4 sessions. $144/$130 members. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Photographing the Nude in Nature and the Studio 4pm-9:30pm. $110/$90. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-7:30pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville.

339-4673.

CLASSES Euro Dance for Seniors and Others Call for times. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Ballroom Dancing Class 7pm-8pm. $10. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh. 561-6602.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

MUSIC Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Mamalama 7pm-9pm. Folk fusion. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Dan Stokes 7pm. Big Easy Bistro, Newburgh. 565-3939.

Spring Jazz Ensemble Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

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Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

Oil Painting 9pm-12pm. 4 sessions. $144/$130 members. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331.

Everything Happens Somewhere 7pm. Saidee Brown, Jacinta Bunnell, Carrie Schapker, and Hope Windle. $5. Roos Arts, Rosendale.

THEATER Boston Marriage 8pm. $31-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Broken Glass 8pm. Presented by The Two of Us Productions and RARE Inc. $14/$10 students and seniors. Valatie Community Theatre, Valatie. (518) 329-6293.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 8pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Psycho Beach Party 8pm. $20/$18 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 9 ART Spring Fever Workshops 10am-1pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Peter Sis through the Red Door 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Active Members Show 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Larry Lawrence 4pm-6pm. Kinetic sculptor. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

The River 4pm-6pm. Solo show by Michael J. Heinrich, works by Rosalind Robertson. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

NonViolent Communication Call for times. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Silver Needle Fashion Show, Call for times. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. (516) 946-3197.

The Path of the Bee Priestess: The Final Oracle 8pm. Meditations, breathing, chanting to the rhythms of the frame drum in the tradition of the ancient bee goddess. $20. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

MUSIC Frankie & His Fingers 7pm-9pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Snowangle Theater Performance 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Native American Gathering 12pm-4pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Dutchess Art Camp Open House 12pm-3pm. Ages 6-12. St. Paul’s Parish Hall, Red Hook. 471-7477.

First Annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival 1pm-5pm. Live music and food. Main Street, Gardiner.

256-1122.

Celebrate Spring in the Spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt 2pm-4pm. Val-Kill Industries presentation by the National Park Service and motivational talk on “What Would Eleanor Do?” Henry A. Wallace Educational and Visitors Center, Hyde Park. 454-0811.

A Night at the Races 4pm-8pm. Greater Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce Fundraiser, refreshments, horse racing. $20. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-3027.

GALLERY Rob Penner - Singular Images. 400 Square, Beacon.

(914) 522-4736.

Fashion and Fiction 6pm-8pm. Exhibition of work by paper artists Ramon Lascano and Linda Filley. Paper Trail, Rhinebeck.

876-8050.

KIDS World Art Class 10am. Create Aboriginal paintings, origami and other crafts projects. Nectar, High Falls. 687-2870.

Great Aunt Phiddy’s Diary 10:30am-11:30am. Story hour. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media 3:30pm-5:30pm. $20. Tree House Studio, Kingston.

430-0900.

MUSIC Clio and Euterpe 12pm-2pm. Classical flute and cello. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Works by Christine Varga 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Met Opera in Live in HD: La Cenerentola 12:30pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Child of Illusion 5pm. Paintings by Fasula. Vita Gallery, Woodstock.

679-2329.

Day-Before-Mothers-Day Double Bill!

2pm. Uncle Rock and the Playthings and Frankie & His Fingers Acoustic. $12/$6 mom/children under 2 free.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Artists at Home and Abroad 5pm-7pm. Paintings of our region and the rest of the world by Laura Martinez-Bianco and Dennis Fanton.

Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery.

(845) 457-ARTS. Bodice of the Goddess- The Secret Life of the Hudson 6pm-9pm. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT EVENTS

Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt Show 11am-6pm. Presented by The Bidty B*tches. $5/$15 with tea/$50 with gift bag. Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Stone Ridge. 687-4507.

Healing the Healers 9:30am-4:30pm. A day of renewal for caregivers. $125.

Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

CLASSES Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Sketch Class 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Drawing for Painting 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

The Art of Paper Cutouts 1pm-3pm. 6 sessions. $144/$130 members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

DANCE

Julie Corbalis 3pm-5pm. Americana. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Gary Green & the Big Caboose 7pm-9pm. Blues, folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

100 Voices Albany Pro Musica 7:30pm. Albany Symphony. $25-$49. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Bard Orchestra 8pm. Performs Erica Balla’s tone poem (2009) and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, with Concerto Competition winners. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Blind Date 8pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

Pleasant Bud 8pm. Acoustic. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

Spontaneous Brubeck 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Red Hot Mammas Mothers’ Day 8pm. Swing. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Bridges to Quadrophenia 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

3 In Concert 9pm. Rock. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Emerging Artists Series 8pm. Nicola, Avenue B & Debbie Deane. $18/$15.

Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Kibola Sougei Call for times. African dance and drum troupe. Kleinert/ James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Chris Botti 8pm. $60-$85. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Swing Dance 7pm-11pm. With lesson. $10. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.

Haywire 10pm. Rock. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277.

The Cagneys 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Contradance 8pm. Music by Barbara and Nadine Dyskant, calling

by Peter Stix. $10/$9 members/children half price.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Creation 10pm. Dance music. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277.

The Nimham Mountain Singers 8pm. Native American descendants sing and drum northern woodland songs, mostly of Algonquin speaking peoples. $10/$9 members. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent. 225-3856.

The Last Rights 8pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Albert Carey and Billy Beehler 9pm. Acoustic. Loopey’s, Millbrook. 677-6212.

Four Guys in Disguise 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Gil Parris Band 9:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Cafe International, Newburgh.

567-9429.

Jazz and More 8pm. Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

EVENTS Walking Tours of Vassar College History Call for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7400.

5k Trolley Run 10am. An event to benefit Kingston Point Linear Park. $20/$15 in advance/$14 Onteora Runners Club members. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.

Rosendale Earthfest and Energy Expo 10am-5pm. Music, theater, activities, food, speakers and exhibitors. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-8967.

SUNY Ulster Spring Open House 10am-2pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

Triple Play 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 11pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Beacon Hill 1:30am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Celebrate Spring 4pm-6pm. Guided garden walk with staff horticulturists and wine and cheese reception. $25/$20 members.

Stonecrop Gardens, Cold Spring. 265-2000.

SPOKEN WORD The Future of Psychoanalysis 9am-12pm. Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. $25/$20 members/grad students free. Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-5545.

Reading & Signing with Elizabeth Cunningham 2pm. Author of Bright Dark Madonna. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 9pm. $24/$20 seniors /$12 children. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Boston Marriage 2:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Psycho Beach Party 3pm. $20/$18 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS

Receive the Divine Mother’s Blessings Experience extraordinary love and peace in the presence of

Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 11

THEATER Broken Glass 8pm. Presented by The Two of Us Productions and RARE Inc. $14/$10 students and seniors. Valatie Community Theatre, Valatie. (518) 329-6293.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 8pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Galumpha 8pm. $25/$20 Unison member/s$15 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Psycho Beach Party 8pm. $20/$18 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS FrogWatch USA 3pm. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SUNDAY 10 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Public Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

CLASSES Sing Out! Reach Out! 2pm-3pm. Ages 5-12. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

ART Guided Walking Tours of Public Art 10am-12pm. $20/$10. Lorraine Kessler Sculpture Park, Poughkeepsie. 486-1378.

Congressman John Hall’s High School Art Competition 7pm-8:30pm. Tilly Foster Farm, Brewster.

225-0364 ext. 371.

Senior Qigong 11am-12pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Swing Dance Classes Call for times. 4 week series at various levels. $60. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

Mother’s Day at Ashokan Call for times. Mother/daughter brunch workshops.

Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Mother’s Day Trolley Rides Call for times. Free rides for mothers and children.

Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.

KIDS

Elly Wininger and the Jesse Janes 11am. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Kids Yoga Classes Call for times. Ages 5-9. $80 series/$15 drop-in.

Woodstock. 679-8700.

MUSIC Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

Michael’s Jazz Quartet 11am. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Greg Westhoff & The Westchester Swing Band 8pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Lisa Dudley 12pm. With Ed Kenney and Enrico Scull. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

SPOKEN WORD

Peter Head 2pm-4pm. Singer/songwriter. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Metropolitan Hot Club 2pm. Jazz. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers 4pm. A Few of Our Favorite Things. Old French Church, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Bob Alonge 7pm-9pm. Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

What is the Enlightenment? Revolution and the Limits of Reason 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

WORKSHOPS Fibromyalgia 11:30am-1pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Introduction to Digital Photography 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

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THE OUTDOORS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Healing Path Yoga 6pm. $14. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz. 797-4124.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

CLASSES

Elderhostel Program- Studio Arts in the Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291 ext. 205.

Elderhostel Program- Fly Fishing in the Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291 ext. 205.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Duck Pond 10am-3pm. 8-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Sunset Reading Series 4pm. Jeffrey McDaniel explores the fine line between academia and spoken word. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 265-4555.

THEATER How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 2pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Route 212, 2 miles west of Woodstock

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

EVENTS

MUSIC

Bearsville Theater

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

E-special-ly Musical Program 6pm-8pm. Classes geared for children and adults with special needs. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Rhinebeck Farmers’’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.

Woodstock, NY June 1 - 3, 2009

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Free Spiritual Programs Discourse & Darshan: Monday, June 1, 6:30 p.m.

Individual Blessings: Tuesday, June 2, sign in from 9 am-1pm (includes Saraswati Diksha for students 4-24)

Silent Meditation Retreat Wednesday, June 2, 8 am-6 pm A unique opportunity to explore & deepen your spiritual practice under Amma’s loving guidance.

Instruction in meditation & chanting, discourses by Amma.

Vegetarian lunch & snacks provided.

Registration fee: $85 before May 20, $108 after ($25 discount for students & seniors) Registration form on website Programs in NYC & Queens May 27 - 31; 1 day retreat May 30 Homa (sacred fire ceremony) Sunday, May 31—Westchester For more information, click on Tours and Retreats at www.karunamayi.org

People of all faiths are invited. woodstock4@karunamayi.org

voicemail: (212) 479-8443 sponsored by

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

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Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

DANCE Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 7:30pm. $55-$100. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

EVENTS After-Hours Mixer and Pot-O-Gold Raffle Drawing 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Area Chamber of Commerce. Joe’s East West, New Paltz. 255-0243.

FILM Public Meditation and Dharma Talk Call for times. Signs and Symbols; Rediscovering the World. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

KIDS Teen Wheel 3:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 13 - 18. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

Mixed Media Madness 4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 3-6. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

MUSIC Findlay Cockrell: Classical Piano 12pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-0038.

SALES 8am - 8pm Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm Saturdays

SERVICE 8am - 7pm Monday - Friday 8am - 3pm Saturdays

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It is time to educate our daughters how to protect themselves from emotional, psychological and physical abuse.

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Conservatory Noon Concert Series 12pm. Conservatory students in concert. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Weekly Musician’s Open Mike 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Jazz Jam 7:30pm-9:30pm. Hosted by Marvin Bu-Ga-Lu Smith.

Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. 561-9770.

THE OUTDOORS

Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Printmaking 9:30am-11:30am. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh.

561-6602.

Interpreting the Landscape 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Improv Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. The Mop & Bucket Improv Theatre Company. $60. 440 Upstairs at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

EVENTS Child Development Check Ups 2:30pm-4:30pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

KIDS Preschool Pottery 2pm-2:45pm. Ages 3-4. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

Children’s Art Lessons 4:15pm-5:15pm. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh.

561-6602.

Painting! Painting!

4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-7. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

MUSIC Malcolm Hunter and Melissa Hamilton 7pm. Jazz. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

The Gypsy Nomads 7pm. Alternative. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Radio Days 8pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

Guided Garden Tour 6:30pm-7:30pm. $10/members free. Stonecrop Gardens, Cold Spring. 265-2000.

Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

Wellness Walk—Why the Rocks Are Spotted 12am-12pm. Guided walk. Meet at Peter’s Kill.

Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0752.

SPOKEN WORD

SPOKEN WORD

Reading Between the Lines: Rethinking Religion: Recent Women’s Novels and American Identity 4pm. Book discussion group. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

A Separate Peace 7pm-9pm. Spring 2009 Scholar-led Book Discussion Series. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Short program talk with folks from eatlocalfood.org. Red Rooster Cafe, Gardiner.

454-6410.

THEATER Boston Marriage 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Unleash Your Comedy Power Stuff 10am-12pm. Workshop for de-stressing. Olympic Diner, Kingston. 246-5348.

Introduction to Photoshop 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Playwrights Lab 6:30pm. Hear readings of your work performed by actors. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Greening Your Home 6:30pm-8pm. $10. SUNY Sullivan CC, Loch Sheldrake.

434-5750 ext. 4398.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15 session. Call for location. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 13 ART Advanced Fine Art Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Ulster County Photography Club Monthly Meeting 6:30pm. Latest and Greatest from PMA 2009. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

THEATER Boston Marriage 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Fibromyalgia 6:30am-8pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Understanding Challenging Behaviors and Using Positive Behavioral Supports 3:30pm-6:30pm. $40/$20. The Children’s Annex, Kingston. 336-2616 ext. 100.

Peer Critiquing Group for Writers 4pm-6pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

In Our Own Backyards 6:30pm. Firewood. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville.

647-1497.

Green Septic Solutions 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Tough Topics 7pm-9pm. Communicating with your teen-a panel discussion. Rondout Valley High School, Accord.

331-6136.

THURSDAY 14

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reiki Clinic 10am-12pm. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz.

797-4124.

The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck.

876-4030.

CLASSES Swing Dance Classes Call for times. 4 week series at various levels. $60.

Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. $15/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Figurative Clay Sculpture 10am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

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ART Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 10am-11:30am. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz.

339-4673.

CLASSES Euro Dance for Seniors and Others Call for times. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Plant Division Class 9am. $5. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 340-3990.

Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

PHOTOGRAPHY LAURENCE DEMAISON

LES EAUTRES 7, LAURENCE DEMAISON, 2008

Damsel in Distress Everyone has an urge to save a drowning woman—but some women don’t wish to be saved. Laurence Demaison is one of them. Dozens of times, she has “drowned” herself, for the cause of art. “Autoportraits,” a show of Demaison’s photographs, will appear at the Galerie BMG in Woodstock, beginning May 22.

Demaison is a self-taught photographer. All her work is black-and-white, taken with a Contax 645. She appears in each picture (but not very recognizably). There is no digital process. It’s all real film; nothing is Photoshopped. Demaison achieves her effects through reflections on water and glossy black paper. She develops the film herself.

Originally, Demaison worked with a model, but she eventually began taking photos only of herself, partly to limit expenses. “She doesn’t feel that they’re self-portraits at all,” notes Bernard Gerson, director of Galerie BMG. “They’re not about her. She’s using the reflecting and distorting qualities of the water or the glossy paper to make phantoms, ghosts of herself. She disappears from the image.” Demaison built a glass tank, the size of a coffin, to lie in while modeling for her photos. This human aquarium exploits the refractions of water.

Demaison typically writes her life story with startling brevity, on her website: Born in 1965 1984-88 Strasbourg School of Architecture 1990 First experiments with photography 1993 First self-portraits Living in Strasbourg with the photographer Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand Thus her entire life becomes an elusive five-line poem. Demaison has always lived in Strasbourg, France, and dislikes travel. She told Gerson immediately that she would not

visit Woodstock, although this is her first show in the United States. In fact, Demaison rarely visits her Parisian gallery.

A woman’s body is a prison. She is at the mercy of all men’s eyes. All day, she must calculate how pretty she is, and why. Every female knows exactly how wide her hips are, how long her arms. Demaison attempts to escape from the female prison, to dissolve the self, or to shatter it. She covers her face with string, bends her leg so that she resembles an amputee. In one elegant photo, Demaison plunges her head into a bowl of water.

The Indian saint Ramana Maharshi achieved enlightenment by asking “Who am I?” over and over. Demaison asks the same question, but not in words. Meanwhile, her body changes and ages. Her photographs become a journal of inquiry.

Gerson first saw Demaison’s work at the yearly Association of International Photography Dealers show in 2008. He was immediately impressed by her originality.

Last June, Gerson and his wife Judi journeyed to Strasbourg to visit Demaison. Though they had seen dozens of her photos, they didn’t recognize the photographer when she met them at the railroad station. “She carried a copy of her book; that’s the only way we were able to pick her out,” Gerson explained. Demaison had successfully erased her visual identity.

Gerson visited the artist’s studio, which is in her house. He was surprised that she collects the same sort of objects he does: drinking glasses and bottles. “There must have been 40 clock faces just in the bathroom!” he said. (Gerson himself collects clocks.)

“Autoportraits” will appear at the Galerie BMG, 12 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, May 22 to June 29. (845) 679-0027; www.galeriebmg.com.

—Sparrow

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Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Introduction to Drawing 6pm-7:30pm. 6 sessions. $144/$130 members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Ballroom Dancing Class 7pm-8pm. $10. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh. 561-6602.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS 11th Annual 4-H Golf Classic 7:30am. Apple Greens Golf Course, Highland.

883-5500.

FILM

EVENTS Learn to Meditate: Shambhala Training Level I: Ordinary Magic Call for times. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Millbrook Book Festival Call for times. Check website for specific events and locations. Call for location. 677-5857.

Jungle Jack Hanna 2pm. Featuring live animals. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Open House Lab Tours and Reception 4pm-7pm. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Dutchess Day School’s 2009 May Fair and Marketplace Event 6pm-8pm. Cocktail party and silent auction. Dutchess Day School, Millbrook. 677-5014.

Broad’s Regional Arm Wrestling League 8pm. Woman’s arm wrestling competition. The Barn, Tivoli.

FILM 4th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival 8pm. Tribute for 2009 BIFF honoree. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

GALLERY Stream of Color Betsy Jacaruso interprets the beauty of our world through landscapes and botanicals in watercolor.

Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Works by Paul Cava Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-5333.

MUSIC

GALLERY

Frederic Hand 8pm. Classical guitar. $19/$14 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

Just 3 6pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

Daniel Rose 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

4 Guys in Disguise 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Mark Raisch and his Big Band 2pm. Jazz. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The David Bromberg Big Band 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Claire Lynch Band 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Paul Clay 7pm-10pm. Visual artist who works in a wide variety of media. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Bereznak Brothers Band 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Going Postal with Adam Post 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Kenny Faranda & Bobby MacDougall 9pm. Acoustic. Loopey’s, Millbrook. 677-6212.

Da Capo Chamber Players 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

THEATER Boston Marriage 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Meeting the Sacred in Creation Call for times. Nature-based retreat for people of diverse faiths, bridging spirituality and environmentalism. Garrison Institute, Garrison.

424-4800.

How to Drastically Cut Costs in Difficult Times 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Exit 19 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

SPOKEN WORD The Hudson: America’s River 7pm. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook.

677-5343.

May Dance 8pm. Senior Project choreography and other works.

Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

THEATER

Boston Marriage 8pm. $31-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

CLASSES

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

DANCE Cajun Dance 8pm. Jesse Lage & Bayou Brew. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston.

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Spring Group Exhibit 6pm-8pm. Works of Joan Griswold, Allyson Levy and Grey Zeien, Katy Butler, and Bill Sullivan. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.

Artists on Location Spring Art Auction 3:30pm. Paintings in the style of the Hudson River School. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Take Me to the River 6pm-9pm. Panoramic photographs of the Hudson River by Tom Sobolik. Cabane Studios Fine Art Gallery and Photography, Phoenicia. 688-5490.

Botanical 6pm-10pm. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Framing for Exhibition 9am-12pm. $36/$32. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331.

Sketch Class 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

WORKSHOPS For the Love of Art 10:30am-Sunday, May 17, 5:30pm. Life drawing intensive for ages 16 and up. $250/$50 modeling fee.

Shuster Studio, Hudson. (518) 567-1332.

Aromatherapy Workshop 6pm-9pm. $42. Business Resource Center, Kingston.

339-2025.

SATURDAY 16 ART Olafur Eliasson’s Parliament of Reality Call for times. Opening of a new, permanent outdoor installation created specifically for Bard College. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Visual Arts Committee Spring Art Exhibit 1pm-5pm. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent. 225-3856.

The Trapps 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

The Last Rights 9pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Rock. Average Joe’s, Marlboro. 236-7100.

THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

The Garden Conservancy Open Days Program Call for times. Self-guided tour of private gardens.

Wappingers Falls, Wappingers Falls. (888) 842-2442.

The Garden Conservancy Open Days Program Call for times. Self-guided tour of private gardens.

Amenia. (888) 842-2442.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Lost City 10am-2:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD

Drawing for Painting 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Hugh Howard 4pm. Author of The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown.

(518) 392-3693.

Frederic Hand Classical Guitar Master Class 1pm-4pm. $45/$40/$15 audit. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Ledig House Writers Residency Reading 5pm. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

DANCE

Barbara Bash 5pm. Calligrapher, illustrator, and author. Nectar, High Falls. 687-2870.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Beacon Events Call for times. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ’s. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston.

EVENTS Millbrook Book Festival Call for times. Check for specific events and locations.

Call for location. 677-5857.

Dutchess Day School’s 2009 May Fair and Marketplace Event 11am-4pm. Rodeo events, carnival. Dutchess Day School, Millbrook. 677-5014.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Life Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Seasons of the Berkshires 6pm-8pm. Exhibit of watercolors of the Berkshires in all seasons by Marguerite Bride. Gallery at the Goldsmith, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0013.

The Kore 10pm. Motown. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 8pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Painting and Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Go Green Energy Fair 10am-6pm. $10. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock.

679-0901.

Psycho Beach Party 8pm. $20/$18 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Portrait and Figure Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Jose Acosta: Cuban American Paintings and Sculptures 5pm-8pm. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.

XCalibur 9:30pm. Rock. Scruffy Murphy’s Pub, Marlboro.

236-2822.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II 7:30pm-9:30pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Yoga 9am. Brighids Bough, Saugerties. 246-7206.

Hurley Mountain Highway 9pm. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277.

Reality Check 9pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

ART

Dreams & the Climate of Change Call for times. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Concrete On Main Street 3pm. Modern design exhibit & Rosendale retrospective. Willow Kiln Park, Rosendale.

A Day In the Garden: Wildflower & Heirloom Vegetable Seedling Sale 9am-2pm. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

River of Dreams Call for times. Multimedia theatrical production inspired

by Hudson Talbott’s children’s book. Catskill High School, Catskill. (518) 731-7715.

FRIDAY 15

Asleep At The Wheel 9pm. $35. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

CLASSES

4th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival 7:30pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Perceptive Portraits: Barbara Green Deborah Davis Fine Art, Inc., Hudson. (518) 822-1885.

Annual Spring Art Exhibit 1pm-5pm. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent. 225-3856.

Saugerties Stone House Tour 11am-5pm. Eight houses will be shown as examples of the changing life and architectural styles between 1750 and 1943. $10/$20. Call for location. 246-1823.

Fulfillment 12pm-5pm. A benefit for the Rosendale Food Pantry.

Auction, music, poetry, bake sale. $2/food donation.

Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 430-8374.

The 2nd Annual Custom and Classic Car Show 12pm. To benefit The Gift of H.O.P.E. fund. $5-$15.

Arlington High School, LaGrangeville. 486-4860.

2nd annual WalkingthedogWALK 2pm-5pm. Parade, Bestminster dog show and fair, food, music. Basilica Industria, Hudson. (518) 828-0131.

Community Reading 5pm. Hosted by spring residents to the Ledig House Writers Residency Program. $10 post-reading bbq.

Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

The Nobodies of Comedy 8pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

May Dance 8pm. Senior Project choreography and other works.

Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

FreeStyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Barefoot, smoke, drug, and alcoholfree. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.

THEATER How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 8pm. Musical comedy by County Players. $20/$17 seniors. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Psycho Beach Party 8pm. $20/$18 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Face the Improv Nation 8pm. Actors and Writers Reading Series. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-9760.

WORKSHOPS Land Navigation Workshop 9am-5pm. Reading topography maps and using a compass in the woods. $40. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Noodles Every Day 2pm-5pm. Chef and personality Corinne Trang. Blue Cashew, High Falls. 687-0294.

SUNDAY 17 ART

KIDS Great Aunt Phiddy’s Diary 10:30am-11:30am. Story hour. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media 3:30pm-5:30pm. $20. Tree House Studio, Kingston.

430-0900.

MUSIC Natalie Merchant 7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Joe Fiedler Trio 8pm. Modern jazz. $10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon 8pm. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

New Paintings by LeSage 3pm-6pm. The edge of traditional landscape painting and abstraction. Ober Gallery, Kent, CT. (860) 927-5030.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Public Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

CLASSES Sing Out! Reach Out! 2pm-3pm. Ages 5-12. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

EVENTS

Recital: Graduate Vocal Arts Program 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.

Rhinebeck Choral Club Spring Concert 8pm. $10/$8 students. Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck. 229-9809.

Ulster County Wing Fling 11:30am-5pm. Vote on wings, live music, children’s activities. $5. Cantine Field, Saugerties. 338-5100.

Ryan Holladay 8pm. Bluegrass banjo. $21/$16. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Tuning Forks for the Healing Practitioner 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

MUSIC LAYNE REDMOND IMAGE PROVIDED

LAYNE REDMOND PLAYS AT THE KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER IN WOODSTOCK ON MAY 8.

Hymns from the Hive An unexpected environmental disaster has created a recent buzz: colony collapse disorder. Beehives, and their inhabitants, are vanishing at a staggering rate in the US. With the bees, we also lose our primary source of pollination for many of our fruit, vegetable, and nut crops. Some blame cell phones, others blame mites or viruses.

But in his authoritative book, A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, investigative science writer and New Earth Institute founder Michael Schacker produces compelling evidence for the major culprit. A new, but widely used neurotoxic insecticide—imidacloprid—has wiped out nearly 30 percent of our hives. Supersensitive bees are affected by the chemical in the crops they pollinate; olfactory memory is blocked, return-flight instructions are jumbled, and the bees starve within days. Schacker offers up sustainable solutions to what he sees as an eventual global catastrophe; he encourages organic gardening, natural pest control, bee-friendly vegetation, and bee houses (www.PlanBeeCentral.com).

There’s been another unfortunate occurrence: The author, who is a Willow resident, recently suffered a stroke. As often happens in the Woodstock area, individuals have banded together for a benefit. This time it’s legendary frame drummer Layne Redmond and special guest Tommy Be (aka Tommy Brunjes) in “The Path of the Bee Priestess—The Final Oracle.”

Former local Redmond is fresh off a plane from Brazil, where she’s been recording, and she was chosen for this event due to her own obsession with bees. “I’ve been working on a project in which I recorded bees in the hive, and each piece of music is pitched to the frequency of the buzzing,” she says from her Miami home. “This amazing frequency

has a beneficial effect on your mind when you’re around it a lot. We pitched all the music to that and have the bees buzzing in big hives or solo in each piece somehow” (www. myspace.com/thebeepriestess). She tells of another project—Invoking Aphrodite—that she recently recorded with a group of Greek frame drummers who brought her to Cyprus to restore the ancient percussive tradition to the birthplace of Aphrodite. The two recordings are two sides of the same coin, she says, as the ancient frame drumming goddesses were also known as bee goddesses, or Melissae.

“I’ve got many students now who are bee keepers and I’ve been hanging around their hives. One of my students has 5,000 hives, as she’s a commercial beekeeper. I just spent five days with her when they were grafting the new queens into the hives.

I’ve been studying the development of the queens and their cones, and I’m extremely excited about what I’m understanding between the natural world and why the priestesses were beekeepers.” Redmond has also been participating in apitherapy, in which bees are coaxed into stinging particular meridians and accupressure points on the body to strengthen and enhance the immune system. “It’s very intense,” she says.

In addition to the musical portion of the benefit, Redmond will give a slide lecture on the bees, as well as teach the audience a powerful, yogic humming practice called Bhramari.

“It releases anxiety, combats insomnia and depression, and eases childbirth.” Join the queen bee for a magical performance on Friday, May 8, at 8pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. A $20 donation at the door is appreciated.

(845) 679-www.woodstockguild.org.

—Sharon Nichols

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5th Annual Rosendale Car Show 3pm. Benefit the Rosendale Youth Program sponsored by the Rosendale Street Rods Car Club. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-8982.

FILM Sunset Blvd 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

KIDS

MUSIC Grass Fed Bluegrass 12pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Patti DeRosa 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Trail Mix Concert 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Classical Guitarist Charles Mokotoff 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery.

457-9867.

Rhinebeck Choral Club Spring Concert 3pm. $10/$8 students. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 229-9809.

Kids Yoga Classes Call for times. Ages 5-9. $80 series/$15 drop-in.

Woodstock. 679-8700.

MUSIC Tom Norton 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

Recital: Graduate Vocal Arts Program 8pm. Recital by tenor Sung Eun Lee, accompanied by Lucas Wong. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7216.

SPOKEN WORD

Daedalus String Quartet 4pm. With Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet. $30/$10.

Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Demystifying Autism/What is it Like to Have Autism?

8am-4pm. Conference featuring William Stillman. $50/$55/$60. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-1234 ext. 721.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THEATER

Songwriters in the Round 7pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Rebel Red 7:30pm. Americana. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

Auditions for The Importance of Being Earnest 7pm. County Players. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

WORKSHOPS Introduction to Digital Photography 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THE OUTDOORS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 11am-12:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 339-4673.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Rock Rift 10am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Healing Path Yoga 6pm. $14. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz. 797-4124.

Nature Journaling for Children 4pm-5pm. A lesson in book making and journaling.

At the library. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz.

255-0752.

Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

SPOKEN WORD May Dance Call for times. Senior Project choreography and other works. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

THEATER Boston Marriage 2:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Psycho Beach Party 3pm. $20/$18 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Auditions for The Importance of Being Earnest 7pm. County Players. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

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WORKSHOPS Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Balboa Dance Workshop 3pm-5pm. $25. Ciboney Cafe, Poughkeepsie.

486-4690.

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TUESDAY 19

Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

MONDAY 18 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Senior Qigong 11am-12pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

E-special-ly Musical Program 6pm-8pm. Classes geared for children and adults with special needs. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

CLASSES

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

KIDS Teen Wheel 3:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 13 - 18. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

Mixed Media Madness 4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 3-6. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

MUSIC Weekly Musician’s Open Mike 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Jazz Jam 7:30pm-9:30pm. Hosted by Marvin Bu-Ga-Lu Smith.

Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. 561-9770.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

SPOKEN WORD Howard Hegdal 3pm. Author of The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665.

Henry Hudson and His World: The Place Where America Began 7pm-8pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

WORKSHOPS

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Unleash Your Comedy Power Stuff 10am-12pm. Workshop for de-stressing. Olympic Diner, Kingston. 246-5348.

Yoga Classes 7pm-8:30pm. 6-week session. $90. Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. 229-8977.

Introduction to Photoshop 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

In Our Own Backyards 6:30pm. Plant a Salad. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Playwrights Lab 6:30pm. Hear readings of your work performed by actors. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Retail Conservation: Purchasing, Packaging & Personal Choices 6:30pm-8pm. $10. SUNY Sullivan CC, Loch Sheldrake.

434-5750 ext. 4398.

The Fat Trap 6:30pm-8pm. Weight loss approaches. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

WEDNESDAY 20 ART Advanced Fine Art Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reiki Clinic 10am-12pm. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz.

797-4124.

The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck.

876-4030.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Wingate at Beacon, Beacon. 339-4673.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

CLASSES

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

339-4673.

CLASSES Euro Dance for Seniors and Others Call for times. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Yoga Classes 12pm-1pm. 6-week session. $70. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 235-3045.

Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Youth Latin Dance â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calienteâ&#x20AC;?

4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Ballroom Dancing Class 7pm-8pm. $10. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh. 561-6602.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

Figurative Clay Sculpture 10am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

EVENTS

Interpreting the Landscape 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Improv Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. The Mop & Bucket Improv Theatre Company. $60. 440 Upstairs at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Yoga Classes 7pm-8:30pm. 6-week session. $90. The Meeting Room, Hyde Park. 235-3045.

KIDS Preschool Pottery 2pm-2:45pm. Ages 3-4. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Lessons 4:15pm-5:15pm. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh.

561-6602.

Painting! Painting!

4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-7. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

MUSIC TJ Petracca: Smile, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Won 7pm. Young artists from Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Berklee School of Music. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

SPOKEN WORD New Paltz Area Chamber of Commerce Business Meeting 12pm-1:30pm. Featuring Wade Lawrence, Director of Museum at Bethel Woods: the story of the sixties and Woodstock. $25/$18. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

WORKSHOPS

American Red Cross Blood Drive 11am-4:30pm. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.

MUSIC Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Justin Allman Trio 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Uncommon Ground 7:30pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

SPOKEN WORD Conversations in French 11:30am-12:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling.

855-3444.

Greenhouse Growing and Growing Food from Seeds Lecture 4pm. The Family Lodge, Saugerties. 246-4646.

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FRIDAY 22 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yoga 9am. Brighids Bough, Saugerties. 246-7206.

CLASSES Portrait and Figure Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Painting and Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Life Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 663-7962.

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Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

EVENTS Ashokan Civil War Days Call for times. Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Behavioral De-escalation and Strategies for Intervention 3:30pm-6:30pm. $40/$20. The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annex, Kingston. 336-2616 ext. 100.

Benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 7pm-10pm. $10-$16. Krazy City, Poughkeepsie.

Peer Critiquing Group for Writers 4pm-6pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 6pm. Singer/songwriter. Steel House, Kingston.

338-7847.

MUSIC

ART

Sunset Jazz Soiree 6pm-8pm. Music, garden walks, wine, cheese and light hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres. Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison. 265-3638.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Sean Kelly 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

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Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Printmaking 9:30am-11:30am. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh.

561-6602.

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Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. $15/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

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Rev and the Revtones 8pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Great Aunt Phiddy’s Diary 10:30am-11:30am. Story hour. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Reflections 8:30pm. Tribute to Grateful Dead & Jerry Garcia.

Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media 3:30pm-5:30pm. $20. Tree House Studio, Kingston.

430-0900.

Creation 9pm. Dance music. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook.

677-2985.

MUSIC

Reality Check 9pm. Rock. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls.

298-1724.

Dirty Dozen Brass Band 9pm. Jazz. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 9pm. Country. Tin Pan Alley, Red Hook. 758-4545.

Gandalf Murphy And The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Panama Limited 9pm. Blues. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Lady’s Night 80s Night 10pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

THE OUTDOORS Memorial Day Family Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

SPOKEN WORD Philosophy Discussion Group 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

THEATER Anything Goes 8pm. Shandaken Theatrical Society. $12/$10 children, seniors and member. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Mystery and Manipulation: The Art of Magic and Juggling 8pm. Magic and juggling. $18/$16 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

SATURDAY 23 ART Spring Fever Workshops 10am-1pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Woodstock New Paltz Craft Fair 10am-6pm. Demos, art, crafts, children’s activities, live music. $7/$6 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 246-3414.

Dennis Fox Salon

The Figure in Its Glory 6pm-9pm. Collaborative exhibition with the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. Windham Fine Arts, Windham. (518) 734-6850.

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Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Sharp 9 8:30pm. Class reunion—1970s style. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 9pm. Blues. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Cafe International, Newburgh.

567-9429.

THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Rainbow Falls and Beyond 9:30am-4:30pm. 10-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Gertrude’s Nose Hike 10am-4pm. 8-mile hike. Meet at Nature Center.

Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0752.

Van Leuven Cabin Walk 10am-12pm. Easy, 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD

Elizabeth Cunningham 7pm. Author of Bright Dark Madonna. Brighids Bough, Saugerties. 246-7206.

Drawing for Painting 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Paul Taylor Dance Company 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

EVENTS

Music editor, Chronogram.

Award-winning music columnist, 2005-2006, Daily Freeman.

Contributor, Village Voice, Boston Herald, All Music Guide, All About Jazz.com, Jazz Improv and Roll magazines. Musician.

Consultations also available. Reasonable rates.

Hank and the Skinny 3 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

CLASSES

DANCE

PETER AARON

Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Katherine Rhodes Henderson 5pm. Author of God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith are Changing the World. Nectar, High Falls.

687-2870.

Sketch Class 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Your work deserves attention. Which means you need a great bio for your press kit or website. One that’s tight. Clean. Professionally written.

Something memorable. Something a booking agent, a record-label person, a promoter, or a gallery owner won’t just use to wipe up the coffee spill on their desk before throwing away.

You need my skills and experience.

Marji Zintz 7:30pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie.

485-8411.

Lift Your Spirits - Naturally!

3pm-4:30pm. Ayurveda and yoga for anxiety and depression. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz.

797-4124.

6400 Montgomery Street, 2nd floor above the Rhinebeck Dept. Store

UPSTATE MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS:

Blind Date 7pm. Dance. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Hair ∙ Nails tues - Sat

Commencement Concert for the Class of 2009 3pm. Presented by members of the music faculty.

Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Author Day: Michael Schacker 1pm-3pm. Author of A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply. Barnes and Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224.

Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

845.876.1777

Billy Ray Hamilton 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Ashokan Civil War Days Call for times. Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Natural Building Workshop Call for times. Cob wall construction. Epworth Center, High Falls. 687-7646.

Wildflower Festival 10am-3pm. Catskill Native Nursery, Kerhonkson.

626-2758.

THEATER Pinocchio 1pm. $15/$12 children. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf.

469-2287.

Madeline and the Bad Hat 2pm. The ArtsPower National Touring Theatre. $10/$5 children. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179.

Anything Goes 8pm. Shandaken Theatrical Society. $12/$10 children, seniors and member. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Mystery and Manipulation: The Art of Magic and Juggling 8pm. Magic and juggling. $18/$16 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

SUNDAY 24 ART Woodstock New Paltz Craft Fair 10am-6pm. Demos, art, crafts, children’s activities, live music. $7/$6 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 246-3414.

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 10am-5pm. $9/$8. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-1989.

Careers and Community Along the Hudson Looking Back 12pm-4pm. Public mural project. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Pow Wow On The Hudson 11am-6pm. Native American festival. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

GALLERY That ‘70s Show The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 443-7171.

Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Public Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

KIDS Wonderful World of Worms 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

CLASSES Sing Out! Reach Out! 2pm-3pm. Ages 5-12. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

ART "CATCHING LIGHT"

SCENE FROM “GARGANTUA” BY GUSTAVE DORÉ IS PART OF THE “CATCHING LIGHT” EXHIBIT THAT OPENS ON MAY 8 AT THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE.

Watercolor Everywhere “Catching Light,” the ultra-inclusive title of the watercolor show opening on May 8 at Vassar’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, may give some hint that it is not easy to generalize about a medium that livened up Pleistocene caves, limned monkish scrolls, and continues to excite us in the post-Warhol epoch. Works from the golden age of watercolor—roughly, the 150 years bridging the careers of English Romantic J. M. W. Turner and American Modernist John Marin—occupy a wide pocket in the college’s collection. Paintings by pantheon members as diverse as Pre-Raphaelite John Ruskin, Precisionist Charles Demuth, and Dadaist George Grosz have been gathered up like evanescent posies by curator Patricia Phagan for a fittingly seasonable celebration of the earthly radiance that watercolor so readily bestows.

To venture a generalization: Literalness—as in the tender factuality of an Audubon robin—is a prominent characteristic of the medium. In Legendary England: Tintagel by Hudson School artist William Troth Richards, an immense silvery rock with impossibly intricate crevices is staged on a photorealistic ocean. Yet despite this landscape’s overthe-top Arthurian affect, the restrained accuracy of its coloration neutralizes its drama.

The artist was in fact, via watercolor, seeking to counter the trademark profundities and stylized climaxes of his oil-oriented peers. Similarly, a Max Beckmann enthusiast might note that the tinted flesh in his window-peeping Nachtmusik lacks the libidinal sizzle of his oilier Weimarian figures. One could even venture to say, albeit riskily, that watercolor in its patent honesty is generally less susceptible to the vagaries of Eros than other media.

In Hilda Belcher’s The Checkered Dress—believed to be a portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe as a young woman—intimacy finds a vehicle in the patterned folds that cover O’Keeffe’s

body. Belcher’s dizzying brushwork feels transgressive along the dress’s curves; her calligraphic perfection serving as counterpoise to O’Keeffe’s own mildly rapturous hands and distracted intensity.

In part, our fascination with virtuosic achievements in watercolor may have to do with the role of inexpensive sets in childhood. When the interplay of the capricious brush and the unforgiving paper is first experienced, the blurred pigments that innocently ensue gradually yield our respect for the Zen of gestural reticence and empty space. Children often discover that their more successful experiments involve flowers, and likewise masters who lived in the age of Darwin cherished the enigmatic translucence of these hues in registering the natural world.

Historically speaking, it was the medium’s own dialogue with paper, the advancing technology in its production and sudden proliferation of books, that gave way to its triumph. Illustrated classics were a boom genre in the 19th century, and the advent of color printing happened to coincide with the promotion of literacy and public education.

Gustave Doré was a superstar graphic novelist with an activist agenda who tackled big projects like Dante’s Inferno and the Bible. His vegetal Gargantua from Rabelais mingles his wit and populist sympathies. The show’s 47 works also include a choice sampling of 20th-century eminences, including Jim Dine’s Tomatoes, glowing in a sumptuous sauce of water and light.

“Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection” will be exhibited at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, from May 8 through July 26. (845) 437-5632; http://fllac.vassar.edu.

—Marx Dorrity

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MUSIC

Ashokan Civil War Days Call for times. Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

PT Jordens Earth Blues 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Rhinebeck Farmers’’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 11am-4pm. $9/$8. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-1989.

Pow Wow On The Hudson 11am-6pm. Native American festival. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.

Guided Tour of Main Street 2pm. $5/children free. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

OUTDOORS Patterson’s Pellet Hike.

1:30pm-3:30pm. 3.5 miles. Meet at Nature Center.

Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0752.

WORKSHOPS Introduction to Digital Photography 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

TUESDAY 26

MUSIC Attila Vural 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Panama Limited 8pm. Blues. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Wildflower Walk 1pm-2:30pm. Meet at Nature Center. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0752.

Spring Wildflower Walk 2pm-5pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra 12:30pm. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

THEATER Mystery and Manipulation: The Art of Magic and Juggling 3pm. Magic and juggling. $18/$16 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Anything Goes 4pm. Shandaken Theatrical Society. $12/$10 children, seniors and member. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

WORKSHOPS Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 25 ART

Kitchens 2 Baths, Inc.

Woodstock New Paltz Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Demos, art, crafts, children’s activities, live music. $7/$6 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 246-3414.

ART Fiber Arts Group 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Healing Path Yoga 6pm. $14. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz. 797-4124.

CLASSES Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

KIDS Teen Wheel 3:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 13 - 18. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

Mixed Media Madness 4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 3-6. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

MUSIC

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Weekly Musician’s Open Mike 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Senior Qigong 11am-12pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Jazz Jam 7:30pm-9:30pm. Hosted by Marvin Bu-Ga-Lu Smith.

Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. 561-9770.

CLASSES

OUTDOORS

Installation Service available.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Wellness Walk through the Overlook Forest Fire 9am-1pm. 4 mile hike. Meet at Awosting parking area.

Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0752.

Stewart Sweet & Diana Jamieson, CKD.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

SPOKEN WORD

964 Main Street Gt. Barrington, MA, 413-528-3801

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

E-special-ly Musical Program 6pm-8pm. Classes geared for children and adults with special needs. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

EVENTS

Time and the River: Songs of the Historic Hudson 7pm-8pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

WORKSHOPS Unleash Your Comedy Power Stuff 10am-12pm. Workshop for de-stressing. Olympic Diner, Kingston. 246-5348.

Introduction to Photoshop 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Playwrights Lab 6:30pm. Hear readings of your work performed by actors. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15 session. Call for location. 679-8256.

Pow Wow On The Hudson 11am-4pm. Native American festival. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.

Memorial Day Program 11:30am-1:30pm. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.

WEDNESDAY 27 ART Advanced Fine Art Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

KIDS Ponds, Creature, Fun! 10am-12pm. Recommended for ages 8-12. Meet at the Nature Center. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz.

255-0752.

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The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck.

876-4030.

EVENTS CLASSES

Learn Celebrate Remember

Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. $15/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Figurative Clay Sculpture 10am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Lessons 4:15pm-5:15pm. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh.

561-6602.

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In Our Own Backyards 6:30pm. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Rain Garden? Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

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Yoga 9am. Brighids Bough, Saugerties. 246-7206.

Portrait and Figure Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Painting and Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Life Drawing 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

GALLERY

THURSDAY 28 ART

Current: Without Sculpture. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

MUSIC

Future Voices IV Art Exhibit 5pm-7pm. Art exhibit featuring Ulster County high school student art. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.

Eric Erickson 6pm. Singer/songwriter. Steel House, Kingston.

338-7847.

Oded Hirsch 7pm-10pm. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $30/$25. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

CLASSES

TRIPLE PLAY

Breema: The Art of Being Present Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

CLASSES

Peer Critiquing Group for Writers 4pm-6pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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A Little Space for Artists 7pm-8pm. Artist meet-up group. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Chod Empowerment & Retreat with Lama Wangdu Rinpoche & Swami Chetanananda Call for times. $290/$261. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

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Preschool Pottery 2pm-2:45pm. Ages 3-4. Hudson Valley Pottery, Rhinebeck. 876-3190.

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Carol Struve 7pm. Watercolorist, printmaker. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

KIDS

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4:15pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-7. $12. Tree House Studio, Kingston. 430-0900.

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Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

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Woodstock Farm Festival Opening Day 4pm. Gardenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Info Day, free seedlings and expert gardening advice, folk music, puppet show. Maple Lane, Woodstock.

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Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

Interpreting the Landscape 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

EVENTS

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MUSIC

Chris Merenda and the Wheel 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

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Dutchess Arts Camp Open House 4pm-6pm. Ages 4-14. Dutchess Day School, Millbrook.

471-7477.

Printmaking 9:30am-11:30am. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh.

561-6602.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site A Million Dollar View at 400 Years!

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Euro Dance for Seniors and Others Call for times. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Youth Latin Dance â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calienteâ&#x20AC;?

4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Ballroom Dancing Class 7pm-8pm. $10. Newburgh JCC, Newburgh. 561-6602.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

5th Annual Mountain Jam Call for times. Hunter Mountain, Hunter.

Boys With Toys 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Rob Schiff 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Rachael Price and the Rachael Price Trio 8pm. $25. Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Haywire 9pm. Rock. Average Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Marlboro. 236-7100.

XCalibur 9:30pm. Rock. Scruffy Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub, Marlboro.

236-2822.

THE OUTDOORS A Girl Scout Equestrian Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

SPOKEN WORD Stop Selling and Start Communicating 9am-11am. $15 non-members. SUNY New Paltz School of Business, New Paltz. 255-0243.

THEATER Anything Goes 8pm. Shandaken Theatrical Society. $12/$10 children, seniors and member. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Berkshire Playwrights Lab 8pm. 2nd season opening benefit performance.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $22/$20 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Poetry Writing as Self-Translation with Tomas Urayoa Noel Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Meditation Instruction 7:30pm-8:30pm. An introduction to the practice of meditation. $15/$10 gym members. Gold’s Gym, LaGrange. 235-3045.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Guyot Hill 9:30am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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SATURDAY 30 ART Passionate Lives/Passionate Lines 4pm-6pm. Sigmund Abeles. Park Row Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-4800.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Healthy Living Expo 10am-4pm. Marlboro Elementary School, Marlboro.

236-9162.

Philippe Vergne on Andy Warhol 1pm. DIA: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Channeling: Afternoon with Edgar Cayce 2pm-4pm. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

CLASSES Watercolor Painting 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Drawing for Painting 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Sketch Class 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

EVENTS

Philippe Vergne on Andy Warhol 1pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

THEATER Anything Goes 8pm. Shandaken Theatrical Society. $12/$10 children, seniors and member. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Giordano Bruno 8pm. $10. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Remembrance of Shorts Past 8pm. Actors and Writers Reading Series. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-9760.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $22/$20 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS The Art and Craft of Portraiture Call for times. Platon. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Teacher Professional Development Day: John Jay and New York’s First Constitution 9:30am-4:30pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Edible Mushroom Cultivation Workshop 2pm-5pm. Transforming firewood into food. $35. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.

Float Your Boat 12pm. Create your own floating sculptures. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-on-Hudson. 424-3960.

KIDS Nature Stories for Young Explorers 10am-11am. Ages 3-6. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Wildflower Wanderings 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Great Aunt Phiddy’s Diary 10:30am-11:30am. Story hour. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Out of the Can: Recycling Rhythms 10:30am. Create musical instruments. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media 3:30pm-5:30pm. $20. Tree House Studio, Kingston.

430-0900.

MUSIC 5th Annual Mountain Jam Call for times. Hunter Mountain, Hunter.

Music in the Park 9am-6pm. A competition of concert and marching bands. $6/$5 seniors/$4 children. Verkerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-5731.

Rick Z 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Songwriters Workshop & Performance 3pm. Denise Jordan Finley. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Celebrating Mendelssohn and Discovering Eduard Franck!

6pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

SUNDAY 31 ART New Paltz High School A.P. Art Show 4pm-6pm. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Public Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

Sing Out! Reach Out! 2pm-3pm. Ages 5-12. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

EVENTS Bears and Butterflies Statues of fiberglass bears, each individually painted by local artists with scenes relevant to Henry Hudson’s life and legacy. Main Street, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Rhinebeck Farmers’’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.

MUSIC 5th Annual Mountain Jam Call for times. Hunter Mountain, Hunter.

Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

World Piano Summit 3pm/8pm. New Chucito Valdez Cuban Quartet, Frank Kimbrough, Elio Villafranca, and more. Bearsville Theater, Bearsville. www.worldpianosummit.com.

All Wood and Stones 8pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Arturo O’Farrill Orchestra 8pm. $25. Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

World Piano Summit 3pm/8pm. New Chucito Valdez Cuban Quartet, Frank Kimbrough, Elio Villafranca, and more. Bearsville Theater, Bearsville. www.worldpianosummit.com.

Steve Earle 8pm. Country rock. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Twist & Shout 8pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Sugar Red Drive Album Release Party 8pm. Alternative. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.

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THE OUTDOORS

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Sky Top Loop 10am-4pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, by Michael Schacker 2pm. Presentation and discussion. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. (845) 58-8540.

THEATER

Darol Anger & Friend 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Fantasticks 3pm. $22/$20 students and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

THE OUTDOORS

Anything Goes 4pm. Shandaken Theatrical Society. $12/$10 children, seniors and member. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

RHINEBECK ANTIQUES FAIR Memorial Day Weekend

CLASSES

Markus Payne Management Anniversary Celebration 6pm-10pm. Featuring Tom Goss and Neil Alexander & Nail. $9. Muddy Cup, Beacon. 838-0138.

Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

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Planet Waves EMIL ALZAMORA

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

Unraveling the Mystery of Self-Esteem Oft times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag’d.

—John Milton, Paradise Lost

W

hen we look back honestly on this phase of history, we’ll see that one of the most profound issues of our day is a pandemic-scale crisis of self-esteem. We don’t need to look far for the manifestations of this, or for the causes. They surround us so completely that we barely notice them; or if we do, we assume they are an indelible part of existence. They are built into our relationships, which are often designed as shelter from the storm, but which don’t usually work.

As my editor Brian put it when I ran this article idea past him, he’s noticing this most in people feeling like they are going insane because the world doesn’t appreciate who they are or what they have to offer. This is particularly strange in a world that has nothing but ever-increasing needs; in theory we should all be in greater demand.

To describe something as a crisis of self-esteem is to use a phrase covering a great many potential situations. Ultimately they all come back to how we feel about ourselves and our existence. Do we feel good about who we are? On a deeper level, do we consciously notice our existence? Do we feel like we have a right to exist?

We may not be so articulate with ourselves. Usually, we get the data in emotional form. If we’re struggling, it may arrive as depression (literally, the sense of being pressed down) to the challenges of adapting in a world that is not the same place from hour to hour. Adapting takes energy and being in a constant process of adjustment can consume nearly all of our energy.

Self-Esteem Let’s first get a definition of esteem up on the blackboard. According to Etymology Online, “esteem” means to estimate the value of something. The word dates to 1450.

It was initially used the same way we use the word estimate, so that a conscious evaluation is implied, not simply a notion. The term “self-esteem” is neutral: It can represent a high value, or a low one, pending evaluation.

As for self-esteem, Oxford English Dictionary defines it simply as “a favourable appreciation or opinion of oneself,” and one of the first to apply the term was John Milton. But it was popularized by phrenology, which assigned it a “bump” on the skull in the early 19th century. I’ll have to learn how to find that bump and do an informal study, to see who actually has one.

I prefer to use the term “self-respect,” which would literally mean seeing who you are, again. To have self-respect, you would need to notice twice. This implies an evaluation and a reevaluation. Too often these are missing; low self-esteem often comes from the absence of an actual assessment.

In practical terms, the pain we associate with low self-esteem can show up as any of the following: the feeling of being worthless or useless; having no sense of purpose; feeling like one’s life is out of control; feeling submissive to the needs of others; feeling 106

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unworthy of love; hating oneself; walking around thinking everyone hates you; being stalked by guilt and/or shame; feeling like no place is actually home; obsession with relationship in the midst of any or all of this; constantly feeling lonely, even if you’re in a relationship; being terrified of intimacy; or feeling like relationships are prison cells.

Let’s add to that the feeling that life has already passed you by, such as feeling old at age 19.

Mentoring Insecurity What exactly is going on? How did this come to be? Well, let’s start with the chaotic households that nearly everyone was brought up in, and how little time is devoted to children. Let’s consider kids growing up around parents whose lives are nearly constant struggles, as has happened to so many of us. Adults living in a world of pain teaches kids to feel badly about themselves, in part because kids take on, and blame themselves for, the pain of their caregivers. Too often, it’s not possible for children to be the center of attention, like they need to be at the beginnings of their lives. When our lives are warped or twisted around those of other people, where we do not exist as individuals but as subsets of more powerful people, that teaches us to do the same things to others—and it’s a lonely world when that happens.

When we turn up as adults with adult expectations put on us, we exist in a world where everything seems to be better than we are, or made to seem better than we are.

Photographs of models are supposedly more beautiful than real women; the images of men portray guys with less to do, more money, fancier cars, and sculpted muscles.

This is an invitation to feel like shit; then you have to do something about it. That’s how most advertising works, mainly by preying on our sense of inferiority.

My favorite example of this is that ad for the “Army of One”—a military recruitment ad (which I am now discovering from a Google search has been viciously satirized a number of times). This masterpiece features one soldier flying in a transport plane, fighting a war, and so on. On the surface, it tells kids “You are somebody special.” But what it’s really reminding young men about is how worthless they feel. I could not believe that the military brass approved it, because in combat, you work with your fellow soldiers. But in our demented world, one special guy just makes it out of high school and goes to war (that would be you), and if you’re not a hero, clearly you’re a loser. Now multiply this out over an entire society.

Exiled Narcissism Though the phrase hasn’t been used a lot lately, I think our self-esteem crisis is a big ego trip. You might think: ego trip? That’s about thinking you’re the greatest thing ever.

Which is precisely what we’re taught to believe. Then we are faced with the deeper feeling that we’re not—the sinking feeling of shame and worthlessness. And because

of how painful it is, we bury the whole conflict.

Let’s give this a name: exiled narcissism (which was coined by my friend Maya’s therapist, Steve Carroll). Exiled meaning pushed into the shadows of the psyche, and narcissism meaning the belief that we are better than someone for no good reason, or self-fixation at the expense of others. This can also involve obsessively fighting to prove we’re better than others—a kind of competitiveness that our society loves so much but won’t call by its real name. (For example, jealousy is considered precious, but it’s rarely described as an attribute of narcissism.)

We are going through a phase of mental history wherein the only thing that’s interesting is competing. You can no longer just be a good cook, and use food as a source of nourishment and pleasure. You have to be the top chef, and if you’re not the top chef, then what are you? And at the same time, narcissism is allegedly a bad thing. So we shamefully have to shove it out of awareness. Then it comes back with a vengeance, because we “know we’re special” and “deserve the best” and so on. Or we “lost the game” and are devastated. The sick part is that usually, this has less to do with Top Chef and more to do with being (or not being) Top Wife.

We often flip back and forth between grandiosity and shame; between being the most beautiful and not beautiful enough. Grandiosity can feel like being righteously indignant and powerful and like you have the right to reject anyone or anything; shame is when you feel so worthless, the obvious conclusion is, you deserve nothing and no one. If we can observe this process for a while, we can see that neither of these polar extremes are true values. Neither would serve us in relationship to ourselves or to others; and in a true estimation, neither one actually exists.

Somewhere in here, we might decide it’s time to love ourselves. But in doing this, we might seem to tread dangerously close to narcissism, or fear being labeled narcissistic. It’s easy to get caught in the feeling of a double bind. And that double bind is the very thing that hitches us into the crisis. There are many insightful psychological viewpoints on how this works. Two of the best can be found in A General Theory of Love (by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon) and The Drama of the Gifted Child (by Alice Miller).

But I think that it goes a lot deeper than psychology. The crisis has its roots in something underneath esteem. That something is the awareness of existence.

The Awareness of Existence It’s not just that many of us do not esteem ourselves (and harshly judge those who do), but that we don’t even know we exist—that we, in fact, stand out and stand open as a place within the cosmos where both a world and a person mutually unfold, manifest, and reveal. This may sound outrageous, but I have noticed a trick of the mind that conceals the truth of existence from us—and then we have to fight and pretend to create the illusion of existence.

Many of us don’t believe we have a right to exist and to be creators of our lives.

This shows up, then, as low self-esteem. First, we have to acknowledge existence, then claim our right to it, and finally, esteem ourselves in the process.

Implied in this process is the acknowledgement of death. Not dealing with death consciously creates a crisis because unless we acknowledge the other side of existence, which is to say, nonexistence, then we cannot really appreciate either. And when that happens, we can get caught in the netherworld of the ego trip, or as has been so popular since 9/11, the hero trip. Here is a thought from The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker: “The first thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside, show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus. Here we introduce directly one of the great rediscoveries of modern thought: that of all things that move man, one of the principal ones is his terror of death. After Darwin the problem of death as an evolutionary one came to the fore, and many thinkers immediately saw that it was a major psychological problem for man. They also very quickly saw what real heroism was about, as Shaler wrote just at the turn of the [20th] century: heroism is first and foremost a reflex of the terror of death.”

Fear of Death Heroism: that big ego trip that we use to feel better about ourselves, genuflecting to the fear of death. The Army of One. How do we put this information to work? First, I think we need to raise awareness about the fact that existence as we know it is a transient thing. Everything is in motion; everything changes; existence is a process of change; we are part of that process. This is a powerful tool to size up self-esteem and its various issues. For example, many people fear they are not good enough, find the first person they can, and create a “permanent relationship,” which denies the fact that all relationships change. In the healthy ones, a conscious relationship to change, and hence a process of growth, is included.

This is the kind of very basic stuff it’s possible to work on in good therapy. Entities that are alive also develop and grow and become, and that includes something we don’t hear much about these days: building character consciously. And when you embrace change and build character, and look back and make an honest estimate of who you are, that would count for healthy self-esteem.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes

Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net

ARIES

TAURUS

(March 20-April 19)

You’re learning something special, which is how to embrace opposites at the same time. By that, I mean the opposites which comprise who you are. Few people would describe you as a person who strives for balance. Yet, if you wonder why you spend so much time running in circles, consider that your left and right sides need to both do the work of living and traveling on our small planet, in harmony. The other message coming through abundantly is that despite Aries being the quintessential insecure soloist of the zodiac, you are not here alone; there is nothing solo about your life. However, the non-solo portion is less about the presence of a significant other or the dramas of relationship (interesting though they have been lately), and more about the presence of a community. Or rather, you recognizing your presence in the people, events and society that surround you. I suggest you specifically not wait for an engraved invitation; that you stand up and engage the world, and that you do so recognizing commitments that you have already made. And you have made a few; some in conscience; some unconsciously; and some with a mild sense of trepidation. The time has come to call yourself not just present, but accounted for.

(April 19-May 20)

You’ve had a look at your life as the transparent thing that it needs to be, and that it can easily be. You have begun to feel your head soften and your heart open. What will it take for you to recognize these as ongoing options rather than as a momentary awakening?

Maybe pleasure will speak your name; it’s the one thing that will usually get you to look up. There’s nothing pleasurable or flattering about being hardheaded or stubborn, and you know it no longer suits your nature. Resistance is not a pleasurable experience for long. Persistent, devoted, dedicated—all of these work for you.

The key to staying open is to turn them toward yourself. What I am suggesting is that if you want to have the life you say you want, you need to be open to it, and being open to ‘it’ means being open in general. I suggest you be open to yourself about three things: one would be your fears.

Keeping your fears secret is one of the best ways to shut down. Second would be your values.

Remind yourself every day what is important to you, and take one documented action in support of what is important to you. The third would be ‘fessing up to yourself about what risks you are actually willing to take, and then taking them.

GEMINI

(May 20-June 21)

You may feel a strong temptation to be self-sacrificing for a partner or loved one. Generally, this is considered the height of nobility and heroism, indicative of the most exquisite degree of spiritual growth. However, beware of the supposed need to prove yourself, particularly if you’re doing it to get a result, and especially if that result is from a person. You may feel that someone is holding out on you, like they have more to offer than you do. Alternately, you may be in a particularly competitive mood, only this is competitiveness with the odd psychological spin of giving something up. But life is not a game of Top Chef, or Bottom Chef for that matter. You will know you’re in this loop because you’re feeling frustration. That’s your cue to make some decisions, and to look in another direction. Is it pleasure and passion that you want? These things have no feeling of either game or sacrifice.

They are about openly sharing and receiving. You will know you’re in the right place when you begin to feel your horizons open up, or rather when you notice how open they already are. If you open up and feel fear, give the fear a voice. It is fair to say that there are few circumstances on this planet that should result in your feeling prolonged fear. Most, however, would say the same thing about pleasure. The choice is yours.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)

You are only limited by your beliefs, and this is not an easy thing to live with. We know it’s true, and we’ve all seen it work: believe in yourself and suddenly something is possible. Find your confidence and suddenly the world opens up. Feel beautiful rather than try to look beautiful and you get exactly the date you want. The problem is that beliefs and mental patterns have a way of being intractable, particularly beliefs about yourself.

In your case they are closely intertwined with the beliefs, values and ideas of others: and this can extend to a very wide scale. Over the next few weeks, here is what may seem to happen: The world is suddenly changing its ways and catching up with what you’ve been thinking and feeling all along. You get a glimpse of how easy life is when people stop resisting and start cooperating.

In fact, the opening is happening within you. This is an important distinction to make because if “the world” subsequently seems to shut down, which it does on a fairly regular basis, the opening within you will still be open. And despite appearances, “the world” will be every bit as accessible to you. I say this recognizing that it’s usually not easy to take responsibility for transcending your own limits from the inside out. You’re about to show the rest of us how it’s done.

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LEO

(July 22-August 23)

There is an extremely dangerous line where partnership becomes a vortex of commitment, or worse, of obligation. It is supposedly the thing we all crave. Yet I can assure you that it’s not a value that we typically question, nor that we usually wish to question— and I assure you that it’s time to start asking. The key concept behind this theme is expectations, and I believe it was God, in Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God, who reminded us that “expectations kill relationships.” You don’t need any such substitute for the spiritual, psychic or physical intimacy now. You are compelling, you are attractive, you have something to say for yourself, and you have the capacity to be genuinely open. Those who try to push situations to a supposedly deeper or higher or better level are often filling in a gap where only love and authentic communication belong. You have no need to be defensive here, the reason being that there is basically a triple dose of life-affirming mojo working the zone in your chart where these themes come up. Obligation and loyalty are different things. Far from needing to set dates, plan the course of events or guide things into a contractual structure, I would propose that you are at the perfect moment to let all of these things go and to trust the flow of events in the universe of your life.

VIRGO

(August 23-September 22)

Relationship is often temptationship. That is to say, what we call “relationship” is often a magnet that pulls us out of ourselves, or gives us an excuse to give up some aspect of our experience of living. It is possible that a relationship situation you’re looking directly at, be it potential, existing or imminent, is a distraction from the deeper work you are doing now. It’s also possible that you will have a collaborator. Assuming this applies to your life circumstances (and it is just as likely to apply to your concept of relationship or partnership as an existing situation), does the situation feel old or new? Would it involve progress, or regression? Since you cannot project into the whole future (which has many probable options) I suggest you read your emotions and see how you feel. I suggest you do a short-term experiment with anyone in your life who seems to have extra significance, and decide what direction they guide you: deeper onto your inner path, or taking you away from it. Our relationships are hand-in-glove with our spiritual growth; or rather, they need to be, if we are to get anywhere, and have any sense of satisfaction. Now is the time to make sure that the two are in alignment.

LIBRA

(September 22-October 23)

There is a line in any astrological chart (the one that marks the border of the 5th and 6th houses) that stands between creativity and work; between play and healing; between what is considered a risk and what is considered safe and predictable. In my view, this is the place where we do the real inner work, and can most accessibly seek the deeper reconciliation with ourselves. It’s where we morph and blend creative process and healing process; and just as meaningfully, between fun and work; between playful sexuality and intentional eroticism. (In each case, I am describing a 5th house property and a 6th house property in that order.) This is the line in your chart that’s currently the scene of the most spectacular conjunction of our generation. You are not merely learning something or having an experience; you are becoming something, and that something has the strength and integrity to reach out into the world; indeed, to shape the world. Yes, it’s likely to come with something of a crisis, since when we express ourselves we can find out how held down we were; when we dare to feel alive we might have to admit how dead we felt. The most significant risk is the feeling of being misunderstood. Strive for being in harmony with yourself, and in this very moment, choose your friends well.

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How exactly can you shift the dynamic of your life? We spend a lot of time doing emotional work, relationship work, spiritual work and every other kind of work. Yet this rarely is the thing that makes the actual shift; more often it is what prepares the ground (and sometimes digs us deeper). You are being pulled, and I mean powerfully, in the direction of casting of your ideas about life away, and being drawn in the process of life as one vast experiment. You are still oriented on the emotional side of the equation; the side that is concerned with security, and at the same time, dealing with the patterns that have taken root in your life. But what you don’t necessarily see is how much inner territory you have covered, and how thoroughly. And you may not be aware how close to a whole new set of destinations you are. Be aware that what we call emotional work can have an obsessive quality to it, and the process of breaking patterns can have a pattern all its own. Now it’s time to let yourself be pulled in the direction of what is less predictable, and more about experience that is simply not possible to describe or categorize. In sum, your deepest release will come from allowing yourself to be drawn into your passion, your talent, your erotic core. Yes, I know about the rules; and it’s time for new ones.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Our world teaches us to focus on the physical and mental trappings of life and all but disregard the matter of soul. Of course, soul is controversial in nature; the true structure of the human psyche is only known in theory and from limited experience, and is not proven. Even if we acknowledge the existence of this quality of being, you cannot teach soul in a classroom or lecture hall; very few practitioners can make contact with it in a workshop; it does not lend itself well to being written about or illustrated. Hence, since it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come as a song lasting under three minutes, it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the airplay that it deserves. At this moment, your very existence is broadcasting the essence of your soul energy, and by that I mean the people around you (both locally and energetically) can feel this happening. The connection you are developing is to your sense of purpose, your sense of place and most of all, deciphering your original instructions for this incarnation. You may be manifesting this as feeling like your mind is glowing with blue light; you may feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking on clouds; you may wonder why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling so strange. Yes, in this world, beautiful can be a little weird, but we both know thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you like it.

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In the course of a human life, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we experience in context, and looking at your charts for this month, here is what that involves. Do you make your choices in accord with your own values? Said another way, do you act on what is true for you? The unusual quality of the moment is that you not only see what is true for you, you see its value, its beauty and its reality. As A Course in Miracles so aptly stated the point, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every decision you make stems from what you think you are.â&#x20AC;? In a sense, this is the ultimate value: your definition of yourself. I am here to tell you that far from being a fixed entity, your definition is something that is entirely flexible, subject to change and asking to be rewritten based on the deepest contact you can attain with yourself. Contact sounds a little like contract, and what you are doing is precisely renegotiating and acting on the contract you have with yourself. If you have made any promises to yourself that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re overdue in keeping, now would be the opportune moment to pay up.

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(January 20-February 19)

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken you a long time to figure out what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to discover. Like many inventions or developments, be they spiritual or technical, the breakthroughs are preceded by a long, seemingly endless process of trial and error that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really get underway until we are completely at home with the experiment. From that place of equilibrium, the results can be surprising, and it would seem an understatement to say this is the direction youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re headed. The main thing I see beginning to work itself out for you is a feeling of doubt that has nagged you for years. Years of Neptune in your birth sign has been relentlessly eroding your confidence, and taking you through many strange spaces where you seemingly had to deny who you are. Chiron arrived more recently (in the mid 2000s) and that pushed the issue in another direction entirely: you could say, a crisis of over-focus, and of pushing the questions of identity to the surface faster than anyone but you would be comfortable dealing with them. In the coming weeks and indeed through this season, the story begins to make a lot more sense. Your past begins to make sense. Your future takes on an odd new dimension: as something real.

(February 19-March 20)

Yes, everything seems to happen at once. Perhaps it would be awesome if the benefits of life arrived when we felt like we needed them the most, but what comes to you this month is quite literally coming home to you. The emotional and psychological place you discover within yourself looks like finding the seat of your soul; your true inner orientation. What shows up as the most beautiful discovery is how the most exalted states of mind, and the true clarity of your awareness, is just one thin veil beyond normal consciousness; one thought away. As you begin to find your place in the world, you may begin to realize the extent to which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been crimped and hobbled by a lurking sense of insecurity and isolation. What you are seeing is a contrast, and that quality of thought or vision can be one of the most useful tools we have, while we need it. I suggest, though, that you begin to take stock of all that your anxiety and insecurity have taught you. This amounts to more than you may think. I would also propose that whatever may have transpired in the outer world in recent years, you have grown to know yourself to a depth that is truly unusual for this world. As the once-in-a-lifetime events of this spring unfold, I trust you will recognize this is the gem you sought, and the one you found.

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Parting Shot

Eileen Carpenter, All Things Considered, digital image, 2009.

Eileen Carpenter, a senior at SUNY New Paltz who is graduating with a BFA in photography this month, was chosen by professors Ann Lovett and Francois Deschamps to appear as part of the “PICS 2009” exhibition of 12 emerging student photographers at the Center for Photography at Woodstock through May 24. “Carpenter’s beautifully crafted digital prints evoke a melancholy sense of relationships and situations which is extremely deep for such a young photographer,” says Deschamps. A thesis show of Carpenter’s work, featuring six of her oversized prints—24” x 34”—will exhibited at the Dorsky Museum of Art on the SUNY New Paltz campus, May 1 through May 5. Portfolio: www.eileencarpenter.net.

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