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arts.culture.spirit.

contents 2/11

news and politics

summer camps

18 while you were sleeping

64 chronogram's guide to summer camp

Muslims guard Christians in Egypt, teen birth rate falls, one in six Americans are poor according to census figures, and more you may have missed.

20 the economics of happiness Writer, linguist, and activist Helena Norberg-Hodge talks with Brian K. Mahoney.

24 beinhart’s body politic: the amorphous ipad of the media

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A list of summer camps around the region.

whole living guide 82 psychotherapy today: not your grandfather's psychoanalysis .

Larry Beinhart on the distinction between Wikileaks and the New York Times.

Despite its sometimes unflattering depictions in film and on stage, psychotherapy is a powerful process of healing and growth. Lorrie Klosterman talks with local practitioners about new methods of therapy that are being employed to aid personal fulfillment.

community pages

86 Flowers Fall: the middle way wins again

27 serene retreat: millbrook

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Jesse Ordansky visits the quiet and unassuming town in eastern Dutchess County.

Bethany Saltman on Momma Zen vs. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

56 hidden jewels: sugar loaf and warwick

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25 attorneys & mediators A guide to legal professionals.

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

78 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

87 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

104 valentine's day gift guide Ideas for what to get your sweetheart.

David Neilsen takes the pulse of twin artistic communities in Orange County.

weddings & celebrations 32 don't forget the checklist: wedding planning .

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Anne Reynolds explains why planning out your event is a key to success.

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contents 2/11

arts & culture

food & drink

42 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe

70 offally good

46 music

73 food & drink events for february

Peter Aaron talks with Beacon resident Pete Seeger.

Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Alan Shulman Works for Cello. Reviewed by Peter Aaron.

The Gypsy Nomads Happy Madness. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren.

Perrotta Tonight. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

50 BOOKS Nina Shengold talks with poet and resident alien Eamon Grennan.

52 BOOK reviews Marx Dorrity reviews The Diviner's Tale by Bradford Morrow.

Anne Pyburn Craig reviews The Present Giver: A Memoir by Bar Scott.

54 Poetry Poems by Robert Anderson, Lucia Cherciu, Scarlet Colsen, Emily Greenberg, Jennifer Hickey, Mike Jurkovic, Bruce A. Lowry, Richard Martin, Michael Musante, normal, Otsuji, Tamas Panitz, Steven M. Rifenburg, Ezra Stern, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Justin Uliano. Edited by Phillip Levine.

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Single Malt Scotch dinner, Romancing the Grape Wine Festival, and more.

the forecast 94 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events.

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

PREVIEWS 93 150 Years Later opens at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar.

95 Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson performs at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling.

99 Carey Harrison's play Magus is staged at the Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts.

103 The American Symphony Orchestra continues its Beethoven series at Bard.

105 Patrick Harbron talks rock and roll photography with Jay Blotcher.

planet waves 106 Be My Valentine Eric Francis Coppolino on how views of polyamory have changed. Plus horoscopes.

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Peter Barrett cooks snout to tail with Rich Reeve of Elephant in Kingston.

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Being a music writer in the Hudson Valley, naturally I’ve always wanted to interview Pete Seeger, the spiritual grandfather of all of today's local musicians (and the real-life grandfather of a prominent one, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger). But for the better part of my nearly five years with Chronogram, the golden opportunity to speak with this crown jewel of upstate music makers proved frustratingly elusive. Much of this came down to scheduling; either I’d learn that the driven Pete already had some bigger things going on during a given month, or the editorial cabal here would decide not to cover another “folk” artist so soon after featuring one of his many musical descendents.

Of course by then things had really been in overdrive for Pete, since Bruce Springsteen had released his 2006 tribute album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, which connected the appreciative but reluctant folk star with a new, enthusiastic audience and thrust him once again onto the world’s main stage. “Bruce is such a nice guy. But he blew my cover,” Pete says, with a laugh. “Now the mail comes in by the bushel and the phone rings every hour.”

So I was faced with a dilemma. On the one hand: my position as a journalist whose job it is to cover local musicians of interest, my long-held admiration for Pete’s music, and my barely repressed compulsion to thank him for all of the amazing things he’s done as a humanitarian and an environmentalist by trumpeting him within these pages.

On the other hand: the basic respect I have for the privacy of a person who’s given of himself to literally millions the world over for almost all of his life, a man who already has the world beating down his door for a piece of the quiet family time he’s, quite frankly, more than entitled to enjoy by this point. When I heard that he’d decided he wasn’t going to do any more interviews it was discouraging and heartbreaking, though not exactly surprising.

And then a bit of light. Via two of Pete’s friends and fellow musicians, Victorio Roland Mousaa and Story Laurie McIntosh (much thanks to you guys, and to writer David Kupfer), I was able to finally get a word with him. As a regular Chronogram reader who says he’s enjoyed my articles (insert sunbeam here), Pete told me he was happy to do the interview because “small publications are what’s going to save us all.”

For my segment of the magazine I’ve been lucky enough to work with photographer Fionn Reilly, whose abilities at capturing, month after month, our subjects in a way that is both artistically arresting and humanly revealing never ceases to blow me away. To me, this shot of a robust and accommodating Pete standing among the trees he loves so well—and no doubt making them all jealous with his indomitable resilience—pretty much nails it.

My father, a casual fan of the more polite end of the early ’60s folk boom (Limelighters, Kingston Trio, New Christy Minstrels), passed away in October 2009. Unlike many of the other musicians I’ve covered over the years, Dad knew very well who Pete Seeger is.

He also knew I’d been trying to write about Pete for years, and about how crestfallen I’d become when it looked like it wouldn’t happen. “Don’t give up,” he’d tell me. “Keep trying and you’ll get there.” I'm happy to say here he was right.

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EDITORIAL Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com creative Director David Perry dperry@chronogram.com senior Editor Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com Books editor Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com health & wellness editor Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com Poetry Editor Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com music Editor Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com EDITORIAL INTErN Samantha Minasi production intern Sheri DePuy proofreader Sunya Bhutta contributors Lee Anne Albritton, Robert Anderson, Peter Barrett, Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Lucia Cherciu, Scarlet Colsen, Eric Francis Coppolino, Anne Pyburn Craig, Marx Dorrity, Adam Fernandez, Emily Greenberg, Hillary Harvey, Jennifer Hickey, Annie Internicola, Mike Jurkovic, Bruce A. Lowry, Jennifer May, Richard Martin, Kelly Merchant, Michael Musante, David Neilsen, Sharon Nichols, normal, Jesse Ordansky, Otsuji, Tamas Panitz, Fionn Reilly, Anne Reynolds, Steven M. Rifenburg, Bethany Saltman, Sparrow, Ezra Stern, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Justin Uliano, Robert Burke Warren, Tara Wing, Nick Zungoli

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Writer Marianne Schnall has published interviews with dynamic and powerful women in publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, In Style, and the Huffington Post, among others. Schnall recently released Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice (Blue Mountain Arts, 2010), a collection that brings together words of wisdom from many of today’s most renowned and influential women, including Maya Angelou, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Eve Ensler, Madeleine Albright, and many others.

Schnall is also the co-founder and executive director of Feminist. com, a leading women’s website and nonprofit organization that recently celebrated its 15-year anniversary. Through her writings, interviews and websites (she is also co-founder of Ecomall.com, a website promoting environmentally friendly living), Schnall strives to raise awareness and inspire activism around important issues and causes. She lives in Woodstock with her husband and two daughters. Schnall will read from Daring to Be Ourselves at Borders Bookstore in Poughkeepsie on February 12 at 1pm.

—Lee Anne Albritton

How did Feminist.com come about?

Back in 1994, my husband decided to launch ecomall.com, an environmental website.

At the time, most people didn’t even know what the Internet was and he was picking up all these domain names, which were free at the time. The next thing I knew, I had the domain Feminist.com, and I had to figure out what to do with it. Most women’s organizations didn’t even have websites, and most women weren’t even on line—only 15 percent of online users at that time were women. I immediately called up colleagues of mine to get together, and our first goal was to help women’s organizations find their way onto the website and the Internet by giving them a free Web presence. It evolved in this very organic grassroots way over the past 15 years, and the goal is to figure out a way of looking at feminism that serves not just women but all of humanity.

How did you decide on the title Daring to Be Ourselves?

Finding the title was not an easy task. I wound up involving so many of my friends and colleagues. It was a huge e-mail campaign and we had all different ideas, but none of them seemed perfect. Then, when I started reading through all the quotes again, and trying to figure out what was the underlying theme, I just kept hearing it again and again and again. Just be who you are. And Leung Ung’s quote, “Courage is when you dare to be yourself,” evoked the theme so exactly. Which seems so simple—“Just be yourself.”

But honestly, in our society, there’s so much pressure to be something other than who we are, it does take an element of courage to not fall under that spell, and to try to find out who you are and live your life authentically as that person.

Susan Faludi recently wrote an article for Harper’s that suggested that young feminists don’t seem to respect their elders, or care to learn the history of the feminist movement. Your have a quote from Courtney E. Martin saying that “there’s just so much generational segregation in our society that it creates these divisions.” Do you agree that this divide exists?

I don’t. I do agree with Courtney that there aren’t enough opportunities to interact intergenerationally. I attended Omega Institute’s Women and Power conference last year, which was intergenerational. It was so powerful and beautiful, and I think that if anybody attended that, they’d have to disagree. What might be interpreted as being a divide is actually because today’s feminism just looks different than what looked like back in the days of the suffragist movement, or the days of Gloria Steinem’s era. Women today have different concerns and different conditions in their lives and different issues to address.

I work largely in the online world. And that may be why I don’t see this so-called apathy, because what I see is that the Internet is just brimming with all these young, empowered women’s voices. It may not be us marching in the streets anymore, but that’s how we do it in the year 2011.

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I particularly like the Gloria Steinem quote “This is a revolution, not a public relations movement.” What you think about the somewhat recent movement on many college campuses to move away from “Women’s Studies” and into “Gender Studies”?

I think there’s the misconception that the word “feminist” doesn’t include men, that it’s antimale and that women just want to take over the world. There’s no way to look at these issues that are impacting women without also acknowledging and looking at issues that impact men. Like what’s going on in the Congo right now with so much rape and violence against women and children. You can’t just address what’s happening to the women, you have to also look at the culture that’s producing the men that are doing this. So it’s a good thing to have new words and new dialogues about new ways of defining all of these things were facing.

What about the notion of self-identifying with the word feminist, and the struggle many young women ask: Am I still a feminist even if I shave my legs or wear makeup?

I think that what feminism needs to be now is to stop judging each others’ choices.

Choice is about a woman being able to make her own choices for her life that are rooted in authentic self of what she wants. Some people think that feminism doesn’t support a woman who chooses to give up her job and stay home with her kids. But if that is truly what brings that woman joy, and that’s what her intuition tells her she should be doing with her life, then that’s a feminist act. Feminism has this reputation of being this strident movement that says you can’t belong if you shave your armpits, work out, or if you want to get dressed up sometimes. But these are feminist acts if they don’t border on things like eating disorders or if you’re fixating on being a supermodel size, that’s when it’s dangerous and not feminist.

In your estimation, do you think we’ll ever get to a point where feminism as a revolutionary movement won’t be necessary because we have reached equality?

That’s a really hard thing to say. I think that we have to think that big. We have to believe it’s possible, or else, then why bother? Of course, equality should be the goal. I think that humanity is still evolving spiritually. Our consciousness is still evolving. We have a black president now. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was just repealed. And these are not just victories for black people or for gay people. They’re all ways to recognize and celebrate the interconnection and victories for us all. They should not be ways to separate us based on our gender, our race, our sexual orientation. We’re all one human family on Earth, so in that sense I think that anything’s possible and I think it’s important to keep focusing on the positive, which is often what keeps us going.

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If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker.

—Albert Einstein Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: It is the same every day—alarm sounds, struggle for some minutes, and eventually get the protesting body to sit up. Then to the duties of the morning, ablutions, some yoga practice, rousing and dressing children, breakfast, and on to work. But on a recent morning as I reached for the snooze button I remembered Ivan Osokin.

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin is a novelette written at the turn of the century that is loosely the basis of the movie Groundhog Day. It tells the story of a man who, having reached a dark and miserable season of his life, meets a magician-teacher. In desperation he swears that if only he could live his life again, he would make none of the same mistakes. He wouldn’t get expelled from school; he wouldn’t lose the favor of his beloved; he wouldn’t make the same errors in business.

The teacher says, "Well, let’s see," and in that moment Ivan is born again, to the same parents, at the same time, and into the identical life. After reliving the same, mostly painful, 40 or so years, he understands that even with full knowledge of the outcomes, he can not do a single thing differently. The same circumstances, and more importantly the same level of consciousness, produced identical outcomes in his life—even though he knew precisely what they would be.

“But this is simply turning round on a wheel!” says Osokin. “It is a trap!”

The old man smiles.

“My dear friend,” he says, “this trap is called life.You must realize that you yourself can change nothing and that you must seek help. And to live with this realization means to sacrifice something big for it. A man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something. This is the law of human nature.”

After Osokin’s second interview with the teacher, he sees his helplessness. He is fully humbled, and ready to receive help.

The author of the book, Peter Ouspensky, was a philosopher obsessed with the idea of eternal recurrence. This Nietzschean alternative to the Eastern concept of reincarnation suggests that the same life is relived again and again—the circle of life completes at death and resumes in the next moment with the same birth, in the same body, and in the same conditions—until the life is gotten right.

The implications of the concept of eternal recurrence are overwhelming—until we consider that our lives are in fact a series of innumerable recurrences. A life is macrocycle comprised of a multitude of concentrically encompassing cycles—the phases of childhood, maturation, adulthood, and old age; made up of events or processes lasting years, months, days, and finally breaths, and moments. Though we are accustomed to seeing a linear procession of events, there are really only repeating processes, with slight variation. These represent the doorways to refinement, both personally and within our communities.

For instance, each morning I make breakfast for my family. The event has a specific set of requirements—people need to be fed and finished eating in time to go out the door for work and school. Within those outer conditions there is the inward need to refine the experience—to create an atmosphere in which we hear and appreciate one another, we eat our food with attention and gratitude, and we sound a conscious first note of the day. Each morning the process unfolds, and each morning I have the opportunity to refine and serve the highest possibilities of the event.

These mundane repetitions are like the routine of the figure skater preparing for competition—polishing and perfecting the performance, rubbing off the burrs of unproductive habits, striving for the unmanifest and even unattainable possibility of perfection.

Of course these processes do not repeat identically, and so it is not the form that is perfected, but the spirit of practice. This requires a kind of discipline that has a light and nimble touch.

Says Castaneda’s Don Juan to his apprentice: “Sorcerers understand discipline as the capacity to face with serenity odds that are not included in our expectations. For sorcerers, discipline is an art; the art of facing infinity without flinching; not because they are strong and tough, but because they are filled with awe.”

In approaching each event as a unique repetition, we can wake up to its real possibility and meaning. And in sacrificing our self-importance and unnecessary suffering, we are given the gift of the opportunity to refine the spiraling cycles of our lives, and ourselves in the process.

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LETTERS Chronogram Leads to Tyranny To the Editor: When I read articles such as Larry Beinhart’s “Class Warfare, Part II� [1/11], I find it hard to believe that anyone really thinks this way. To jump all over the conservative right as doing the bidding of some “psychotic right-wing billionaire� is really incredible. Has he ever heard of George Soros? Is he saying that the left and their loons are the ones who really got it right, and the rest of us are idiots? That the elitists on the left do not exist? Why is it that having a free market capitalistic viewpoint is somehow wrong when this is exactly what has made this country, at least until recent history, the greatest nation that this earth has ever seen? It wasn’t developed by government bureaucrats, or some edict by the state, but by, as the great economist Milton Freidman said “individuals pursuing their own self-interest.� Mr. Beinhart then goes on to imply that the press is totally slanted to the right.You have got to be kidding me. Fully 80 percent of the press identifies themselves as Democrats, with a large portion of these being outright liberals. He mentions Fox News, the one bastion of fair discourse (though certainly slanted right), but leaves out the New York Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, public radio, and the list goes on and on. And what is really weird about this is that the press being so concerned about its freedoms embrace the exact leanings that lead to just the opposite. It is clear that most of these people, Mr. Beinhart included, have failed History 101. From the Nazis (National Socialist Party), right on up to the newest leftist with power, Hugo Chavez, one of the first things the left does is take over the press. And then to really insult our intelligence, he goes on to say that academia is somehow in the right’s pocket.Yikes! Has he ever taken a college course in anything? Academia is rife with liberals, teaching our children Marxist ideals that are anathema to our values as Americans. Socialism, which frankly is what your magazine really leans toward, leads to tyranny. It always has, and it always will. —Jerald Berman, Warwick

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To the Editor: I hope Mr. Fertik doesn’t take offense if I critique some of his arguments (Letters, 1/11).

Sir, saying that the wealthiest 3 percent pay 90 percent of tax revenue is akin to the airline industry’s argument that flying is the safest form of transportation because so many miles are traveled for each death. If we found a “Star Trek�-style wormhole that could transport a person a thousand light years, only to atomize the traveler on his return trip, that’s a 50 percent chance of a trip being fatal—obviously not a safe means of transportation, regardless of how many miles the one-way trip was.

The difference between the worker’s $35,000 income and the modest average for a millionaire of $3.5 million is 100 times, or 10,000 times for the major CEO’s $350 million, so that proportion of tax revenue you cited should feel embarrassingly inadequate to a wealthy person of conscience. Cheerleaders for the wealthy often use a specious kind of faux logic, numbers outside of meaningful context, like the airlines’ argument.

And why, Mr. Fertik, should we “applaud honest people who earn lots of money�? Why not applaud the stoop laborer? Is he automatically not honest? Does he not work harder than any rich person? Does the Brahmin’s possession of more money than is necessary for financial security confer a moral superiority on him? This is not even an argument, but a naked cleaving to the massuh class.

As for the rich turning their backs on America because their feelings were hurt— well, I wouldn’t worry about that. They’re fleeing in droves all on their own, to save a buck or two by using third world labor. They’re not hiring us, Mr. Fertik, and haven’t been for quite a while. Looks like it’s time for us to communally own and run the factories, and do our own hiring.

The robber barons of a century ago hired Pinkerton guards to protect their lavish parties from those “damned socialists,� i.e., angry workers who had been badly treated by these cold men. The robber barons of today have it easy. Those narratives of a supposedly unfairly treated royalty are wearing thin. —Michael Quackenbush, Hyde Park

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Last month, in our Local Luminary feature, we ran an interview with Vassar College president Catharine "Cappy," Hill in which we misspelled her first name. The article also misstated that Vassar was originally a teacher's training college—one cannot major in education at Vassar; and that the college's new science building will house all the sciences under one roof—only some of the sciences will reside there.

Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Run For Covers

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’ve heard rumors over the years that people save copies of Chronogram. Not the way people once did with National Geographic, where you would walk into someone’s house and see shelves stacked with distinctive yellow spines as if the family was waiting to be asked a vexing question about ethnology that would require knowledge of both the marriage practices of aboriginal tribes in Papua New Guinea and the conventions of 18th-century Swedish architecture. I’m talking about the covers of Chronogram—covers separated from the magazine and mounted as art. This may be an apocryphal tale, but I heard that one enthused fan wallpapered a room in their home (guess which one) with covers saved over a 10-year period.

If there’s anything that comes close to the status of sacred cow here at Chronogram, it’s the cover. Since 1999 we’ve chosen not to run cover lines on the front of the magazine, showcasing the artist’s work unadorned. This, in turn, has transformed the cover into an iconic statement, framing the work of a local artist within the context of time.

And these artists who have been gracious enough to allow their work to be featured on the cover, they—like all else that is dynamic and brilliant about the Hudson Valley— have helped us show what a wonderful place it is we’re living in. If Chronogram is great, it is because their work has made it so.

What’s your favorite cover? Perhaps it’s Mark Seliger’s portrait of Natalie Merchant as Frida Kahlo (1). Maybe you’re more into finding beauty where it’s least expected and Jeff Milstein’s colorful junkyard shot (2) is more your bag. What about graphic minimalism? Julian Opie (3) turned a few heads. If you’re into paintings, we’ve got you covered too—Denise Orzo’s Tomfoolery (4) has equals parts painterly finesse and unalloyed menace. If you like breaks with convention, then you must have liked Vladimir Zimakov’s illustration of giant flies falling past a tenement building (5); it was one of the few instances when we broke our cover template and ran (most of) the Chronogram logo down the side of the page.

(And while it’s hard for me to choose a favorite from among the almost 200 artworks we’ve featured on the cover—as my mother says of her children, I love them all equally—my sentimental pick is Arlene Topple’s Twisted Joy (6), a close-up of a young woman wearing a flapperish headpiece who seems completely without care. That we ran this image on the cover of the September 2001 strikes me as perfectly appropriate.

I don’t believe we would choose to run that photograph now, even nine years on from 9/11. The prevailing mood shies away from unabashed displays of happiness.)

Nevertheless [insert throat-clearing noise here], we’re quite excited to be mounting an exhibition of 75 of our favorite covers (chosen by the magazine’s staff) at the Art Society of Kingston this month. “The Covers Show: 1993-2011” runs from February 5 through 26. It will provide an interesting opportunity to see the images we’ve featured on the cover return to the fine art setting of a gallery, but also to examine the differing sensibilities of the magazine’s four art directors—Amara Projansky (co-founder), Molly Rubin, Carla Rozman, and David Perry (current)—and how the magazine’s aesthetic itself has evolved through 17 years of size changes, redesigns, and reimaginings.

To kick off the show, we’ll be hosting a big to-do of an opening reception at the Art Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, on Saturday, February 5 from 5 to 8pm. We’ve invited all the artists whose work we’ve been lucky enough to feature on the cover, and consider this an open invite to you as well, dear reader, to join us in a celebration of all things Chronogram. Lara Hope and The Champtones will be playing their brand of sassy rockabilly to keep things swinging, and we’ll have plenty of refreshments, provided by Keegan Ales, Esotec, The Merchant Wine and Liquors, and Ship to Shore. For more details, visit us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/chronogram) and view the “The Covers Show” event. I hope to see you there.

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Californian red foxes have been presumed extinct since the 1920s. Trapping in the early part of the last century, in addition to loss of habitat, have kept fox species’ numbers low. Based on these recent sightings, researchers presume that there are small, isolated groups of red foxes living throughout the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Source: Tree Hugger In 2009, the teen birth rate fell to its lowest since 1940. The birth rate for teenage girls ages 15 through 19 dropped to a reported 39 births per 1,000 girls. This is a 6 percent decline from the previous year. Teen birth rates had been on the rise since 2000, but started steadily decreasing in 2008. Experts assume the downward trend could have something to do with the recession, which began in 2007. Others assign different causes for the shift: The US has seen a recent drop in immigration, presumably because of a weak job market; Hispanics make up a large portion of immigrants, as well as accounting for roughly one in four births during 2009. Some credit the MTV reality show “Teen Mom” for the decline, as the program showcases the plights of teen motherhood.

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After a New Year’s Day terrorist attack on a Coptic Christian church in Egypt killed 21 people, Muslims and Christians united in solidarity to protest discrimination against Copts, calling for an end to violence. On the Coptic Christmas Eve, which took place about a week after the attack, while Egyptian Copts attended mass, thousands of Muslims showed up to act as “human shields” to protect them from terrorist attacks. The Muslims were inspired by a slogan created by Egyptian artist Mohamed El-Sawy: “We either live together, or we die together.”

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The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was preventable, according to the presidential commission investigating the catastrophe. The spill, originally described as an “aberration” by industry leaders, is now being attributed to a series of blunders not only on BP’s part, but also by Halliburton, the cement contractor Transocean, and the government agencies that police offshore drilling. Details in the report cite lax regulations, cost-cutting decisions, and a lack of emphasis on safety as the main culprits. Government officials say that the Interior Department and its new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement are working to restore faith in the safety and environmental soundness of oil and gas drilling. The commission concluded that without considerable reform throughout the offshore drilling industry, a similar event could easily happen again.

Source: Houston Chronicle Mike Zovath, senior vice president of Answers in Genesis, the organization that is building a biblical theme park called Ark Encounter in Kentucky, says he doesn’t believe in climate science. Zovath, along with many conservative Christians, remain skeptical about endorsing the idea of climate change. Despite their reservations, the appearance of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, standards on the organization’s website suggest that although environmentalism may not be embraced completely, Christian fundamentalists are realizing the benefits of green building. The 500-foot timber-framed ark will be suited with geothermal heating, rainwater capture, active and passive solar heating, and specialized window glazing. Ark Encounter will not be applying for LEED certification, though it will use LEED techniques and include information displays about them for the public.

Source: Washington Post A species of fox that was thought to be extinct has suddenly reemerged. Biologists caught images of the Sierra Nevada red fox on cameras they set up along a trail near the Sonora Pass in northeast California. DNA testing at the University of California, Davis, confirmed that the sighting on camera was, in fact, a red fox. Certain breeds of 18 ChronograM 02/11

Civilian deaths resulting from violence in Iraq fell 15 percent during 2010, according to UK-based nonprofit Iraq Body Count. As of December 25, 2010, civilian deaths totaled 3,976, down from 4,680 in 2009. The cities of Mosul and Baghdad suffered the most violence during 2010. Civilian losses accounted for 78 percent of the 5,120 documented violent deaths in Iraq during 2010. This estimate includes 60 US forces killed, as well as 408 Iraqi soldiers and 676 insurgents. Nonstate forces were responsible for about two explosions a day. According to the report, such explosions killed 2,605 civilians and accounted for 66 percent of all Iraqi civilian deaths during the year.

Source: Bloomberg According to preliminary census figures, one in six Americans are poor. The official 2009 census reported a poverty rate of 14.3 percent, or about 43.6 million people.

Under the new, revised census formula, overall poverty in 2009 actually reached 15.7 percent, or 47.8 million. Americans 65 and older experienced the largest increase of any group, reaching 16.1 percent. The Census Bureau also reported increases among working-age adults, children, blacks, Hispanics, whites, and unmarried couples. Expert analysis showed out-of-pocket medical expenses as the most significant factor affecting the number of poor. Without these costs, poverty rates would drop from 15.7 percent to 12.4 percent. Commuting and childcare were also cited as financial burdens for many. Kathleen Short, a Census Bureau research economist, said government aid programs like food stamps and tax credits kept many people from falling below the poverty line.

Source: Associated Press Twenty eleven is expected to bring more financial woe to struggling US cities and states, as well as cities around the world, says Meredith Whitney, a leading US research analyst. Whitney, the woman responsible for accurately predicting the 2008 demise of Citigroup, predicts that local and state debt is the biggest threat we’re facing in 2011. Overspending and frivolous borrowing have put many US and European cities trillions of dollars in debt. US states have spent near half a trillion dollars over what they have collected in taxes, and face a $1 trillion hole in pension funds.

Illinois faces a 21 percent chance of default, more than any other state. The famously ailing city of Detroit has decided to cut municipal services like police, lighting, and road repair. California raised tuition fees, Arizona has sold their capitol building. Florence, Venice, and Madrid are taking similarly drastic actions. The Spanish region of Valencia has even started issuing debt to its own citizens.

Source: Guardian (UK) Darrell Issa (R-CA), newly elected chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has recently been granted the power to subpoena and investigate the Obama Administration. The chairman himself has been subject of many past investigations. Issa’s past run-ins with the law include a gun conviction; three allegations of car theft, one leading to an indictment for grand theft; an arson allegation; and questionable finances, to name a few. In 1996, Issa helped fund proposition 209, a ballot initiative that would ban affirmative action in public institutions in California.

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HAPPINESS An Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge

By Brian K. Mahoney

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e talk a lot about localism in Chronogram. We explain its value, feature its adherents, and extol its virtues each month in ways explicit and implicit. For the most part, we discuss localism on a purely economic level, reporting on its salutary monetary benefits: Locally owned businesses keep more of the money spent on goods and services in our communities actually in our communities, they create sustainable jobs that pay living wages, they tend to reflect the real costs of goods, and source locally.

In The Economics of Happiness, linguist, writer, and activist Helena Norberg-Hodge explores an oft-ignored aspect of localism— its benefit to our general well being, and the social and psychological costs of the globalization-driven consumer culture. The film, created by the International Society for Ecology and Culture (Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of ISEC), argues that an economic model based on endless consumption is not only ecologically unsustainable, its also causing an epidemic of depression and societal breakdown across the globe.

A case in point for Norberg-Hodge is the region of Ladakh, in northern India, which until the mid-‘70s was largely untouched by modern economic development.

Once the region was opened to outside consumer goods by the Indian government, Ladakh inherited problems typical of any developed country—unemployment, stress and anxiety, loss of social focus—that did not exist there before. Norberg-Hodge’s work with the Ladakhis over the past 30 years has convinced her that localism, or localization as she terms it, is not only crucial for ecological and economic reasons, but that it is vital to our very happiness. “Instead of a global economy based on sweatshop in the South, stressed-out two-earner families in the North, and a handful of billionaire elites in both, localization means a smaller gap between rich and poor and closer contact between producers and consumers,” Norberg-Hodge says. “This translates into greater social cohesion: A recent study found that shoppers at farmers’ markets had 10 times more conversations than people in supermarkets.”

Why is fostering conversation so important? According to Norberg-Hodge, community is a key ingredient to happiness, and that on a structural level, economic globalization undermines genuine human interaction in order to makes us better consumers, grasping after material goods in the belief they will provide the love and appreciation we crave. The choice is clear to Norberg-Hodge: We can continue down the path of greater economic globalization, which threatens our very survival; or, we can rebuild our communities and economies on smaller scales and try to find the foundation of happiness that seems so elusive to us.

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You’ve spent a lot of time in the Ladakh region. What first brought you there and what keeps bringing you back?

I first went there with a film crew in 1975, when the area was still sealed off from the outside world. I was only supposed be there for only six weeks but I became absolutely enchanted by the people and the place. The Ladakh people were very interesting, and among the most chilled out, relaxed, deeply contemplative and actively, vitally joyful people that I’ve ever met, full of humor and lightness. Also, the Ladakhis were better off materially than I had been taught to believe was possible without development or Western-style progress. They didn’t know hunger, and there was no unemployment.

What happened when development was introduced to the region?

The changes came very quickly, very dramatically, and made a lot of things clear that in other parts of the world we don’t see because they happen much more slowly. I saw how within a few short years unemployment was created.That was in part because the local economy, much of it based on farming, was destroyed. But there was also house building, carpentry, metal work, weaving, and building houses. All the basic needs were essentially met from the region.

All of these basic needs were suddenly trucked in by importers that came from the other side of the Himalayas, transported on expensive roads and a lot of expensive fossil fuels. But the process was so heavily subsidized that within a short period these outside things were selling for less in the marketplace than local products.

And with development came unemployment and competition for scarce jobs and with that came serious psychological problems, among the youth in particular. In the West we look very glamorous and very rich in the media and advertising. But what we have to recognize is that this creates a deep sense of inferiority. Globally, it creates an inferiority complex. So in a way, I’ve been doing work that I often call Cultural Therapy, as I spend time in different cultures around the world, trying to raise awareness that rural people are not inherently inferior, stupid, or backward. But of course, it’s a big job because the media only enforces that idea.

So how do convince people in the developing world that they shouldn’t strive to be like Europeans or Americans?

It isn’t so difficult to convince people that they shouldn’t hate themselves. That they shouldn’t have disrespect for their own food, their own skin color, their own clothing.

People actually like to hear they’re okay. So I think the problem is that there are very

Scenes from the film the economics of happiness, a documentary about the worldwide movement for economic localization, featuring commentary by bill mckibben, vandana shiva, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Andrew Simms, Zac Goldsmith, and Samdhong Rinpoche.

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few people and very few organizations doing what we do. I have found very often that the message is very, very welcome. Especially backed by the statistics on the epidemic of depression in the West, the problems we have with crime, all of our problems.

People in the developing world see tourists coming and spending large amounts of money every day, but they don’t know that we pay 10 or 50 times as much as they do for a cup of coffee or even for a glass of water. They don’t know that most people in America don’t own a house, especially one without a mortgage, without being indebted. Everyone in Ladakh owns a house without being indebted.

How do you convince everyone in the developed world to turn their back on the outrageous waste inherent in the consumer culture system?

I believe that if there were more written and shown on television to discuss these issues as part of a broader and deeper analysis, I think there would be a lot of people who would be in agreement. The problem is that the framing of issues today is too narrow and too fragmented and that that fragmentation is linked to the growth of bigger and bigger concentrations of wealth that continues to promote this particular growth model. And I don’t think that the CEOs of big corporations, banks, and finance institutions are at all aware of the ultimate impact of what they do. I think ignorance is the main driving source of the system. So in contrast to persuading people, I think we need a holistic analysis of where this system is taking us. Some people like to call it capitalism, and say that word capitalism is incompatible with sustainability, and in a way I’d say that’s true, but I don’t like to use the term capitalism because I think it implies that socialism or communism are a better way. The framework that lies outside of, and beyond communism, socialism, and capitalism is discussing the scale of economic activity and looking at the fact that for most people, in most parts of the world, more human-scale businesses closer to home providing for basic needs—food, clothing, and shelter—is the model that really makes sense for all people around the world, and it’s a model that can’t bend left or right.

How do we create the proper balance between supporting localization, which you are at pains to say doesn’t mean closing borders to imports or economic isolationism, while acknowledging the need for some international trade?

The structural issue is: how big, and how global, should businesses be? I would maintain that when a business is more powerful and wealthier than government, we’re in trouble. That means we are ruled by for-profit institutions that we don’t vote for, or often don’t even know about. What we need to ensure is that business comes under the legal and cultural framework that has been set up by nation states. In order to have international trade, we don’t need multinational businesses or banks. What has to happen is that the social and environmental movements need to become economically literate about a few basic issues that can help us understand why we’re in such dire straits—not just environmentally and socially, but also politically.

People may not realize that even in Scandinavia, and certainly in India, it’s essentially giant corporations that are ruling. They are determining the shape, not just of the economy, but of our mindset.

I think it’s key that we don’t demonize people inside global corporations. They are born of the blindness that all of us have similarly suffered from in allowing this process to continue. Both the left and the right have fostered a model of growth that subsidizes, regulates, and taxes in such a way that not only favors big business, but essentially pressures them to become bigger and more global. We all have to take responsibility for that and start an incremental process of re-regulating global business and shifting taxes and subsidies to support a shift toward more localized business.

It seems daunting to try and change the course of globalization when the people who are at the levers of control, and the politicians, seem to profit from the very system that is being run for the profit of the multinationals.

Less than one percent, and I mean markedly less than one percent, of the global population is engaged in promoting further deregulation. I would estimate that at the most a few hundred thousand people are actively promoting fair trade and finance deregulation. Personally I don’t think we’ll be able to persuade all the political leaders and CEOs. I think we need to talk to the 99 percent. The 99 percent have the power if they choose to exercise it. I believe that to get the 99 percent to stop and think about this issue would not be so difficult if there was more effort put into doing that.

What I encounter again and again, is that people say, “Oh, yeah, we know that, but we can’t do anything about it politically.” I’ve seen a lot of evidence that suggests that people really do not know it. People have a vague idea that globalization was rejected by a few young people throwing stones.They’ve never even heard from the articulate economists who have very good and reasonable arguments why localization is a grand idea.

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What would a society with greater localization and less corporate consumer culture, look like? How do you envision what a community might look like, how might it be different than it is now?

Americans should visit Sienna or Florence in Italy. Even today, you would get a taste of what that would look like. Far more businesses have been there for hundreds of years, whether they are family farms, family restaurants, furniture factories, leather makers—the human fabric is still more intact. It is changing very rapidly in the wrong direction. On another level you can see it in Bhutan or Ladakh, and even in Germany, in Austria and Switzerland; you would get a very good taste of what things look like when you have more human-scale business. I think a very good idea, if we had more funding, would be a sort of reality tour for Americans.

You make a point, talking about Ladakh, that before modernization, there was no unemployment, there was lots of leisure time, there was a greater community bond.Would localization return some of these benefits to our communities?

My husband and I lived in Spain for over a decade, and when friends from England would come out to visit, they were so thrilled and amazed that their teenagers were willing to go out to the bar or restaurant with them, because in Spain, the whole family goes out together. The grandmother and the baby were there in the same place. And suddenly these teenagers from England who wouldn’t have been seen dead with their parents because it just wasn’t cool, were willing to socialize with them. And that an example that’s clearly evident in those cultures.

In the case of Ladakh and Bhutan, it’s even more so. You have much bigger extended families. And of course it’s changed and changing, but they used to say that every mother had at least 10 living caretakers for each baby. And I think that meant that even if the mother was tired or if the baby was ill, there were always welcome arms and the baby was always carried and nurtured and moving from arm to arm.

Which fundamentally may increase and create a sense of being loved and respected.

And that in turn, was the prerequisite for being giving, loving, and caring yourself as you grow up.

An interesting fact I picked up from the film is that countries often import and export equal amounts of goods, and that he US actually imports 950 tons of beef and exports 900 tons. What’s the economic rationale for doing that? Why don’t we just export 50 tons of beef and be done with it?

That economic rationality is one of the fundamental principles of an economic theory called comparative advantage. Basically the idea is that it’s not in your economic interest to produce for your own needs, it’s in your economic interest to specialize in what you’re best at and then export it. I have to say, we really need to examine this thinking in the light of the fact that this theory was developed at the same time as colonialism and slavery. Traders and merchants in the UK when this started were benefiting enormously by putting people onto giant custom plantations and getting them to specialize for trade, but in actual fact it’s a very dubious concept.

And I want to be careful here to when talking about self-reliance. It’s a big mistake to say that we should all go out onto the land and try to produce everything that we need.There is definitely a role for a certain degree of specialization.There is a role for trade, trade has always existed and been a part of society that has existed forever.

We really do have to start looking at comparative advantage in a different light.

Economists are still completely wedded to it. I have spoken to enough economists to know that they simply aren’t looking at the real world. There isn’t a voice from the grassroots that says, “Wait a minute, we’re importing and exporting the same thing.” Economists don’t even acknowledge that that’s even going on. And I’m afraid that it’s becoming more and more difficult to stop this madness because the records of import and export are kept more and more by the corporations by themselves.

What is the most important work that your group is doing to promote localization?

I think the most important thing that we’ve done and will continue to do is to help increase awareness within the progressive and environmental movements. And that’s still relatively rare. Because those who do understand usually want to get on with action. There isn’t enough attention paid to the framing, or the think-tank work for decentralization and localization. The political left is realizing that it didn’t pay enough attention to the think-tank work, where the political right did. But what I’m talking about is something that really transcends left and right.We need to look at the economy in a broader way, broader because it takes a global point of view, but also broader because it gathers the social, economic, and environmental issues in one frame, rather than in fragmented compartments, and I think that’s a key.

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Every once in a while, the NewYork Times comes out with a stunning, game-changing piece of journalism.

On January 15, they ran a front-page story about Mossad and CIA efforts to subvert Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran has constantly and consistently claimed that they have no intention of developing nuclear weapons. I heard them personally when I visited Iran in 2008.

The mullahs I met cited a 2003 fatwa against making nuclear weapons by the Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the revolution and then the Supreme Leader, which made him as infallible as the pope on a good day.They quoted Koranic verses about not poisoning the Earth, which the explosion of a nuclear device would surely do.

Admittedly, the way they phrased it left the impression that if Israel could be surgically detached from the Palestinian population it would be perfectly fine, but as that can’t be done, the Prophet’s injunction seemed to be applicable and binding.

As with any religious command to stay one’s hand, hold back from force, turn the other cheek, there are always other leaders to quote other verses. It appears that, yes, Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. They come smiling, affable, and reasonable to the bargaining table, but they are merely testing to see how far their opponents will push, while they continue to pursue their goals. It’s a very Persian thing to do, like merchants bargaining in the bazaar, and I expect they take great delight in it.

Iran has made very strident statements that call for the elimination of Israel.

There are arguments over how precisely accurate the translations of those statements are, it’s hard to tell how sincere they are, and, in reality, if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons the retaliation from Israel, which is much better equipped, and the United States, and some of the rest of the world, would devastate their country.

The other Arab countries also hate the idea (“Possibility of a Nuclear-Armed Iran Alarms Arabs,” NewYork Times 10/30/09, and Wikileaks’ release of US diplomatic cables, November 2010).

The January Times story is a remarkable saga of successful sub-rosa warfare.

Centrifuges are required to make usable nuclear material. Iran’s uses a machine called the P-1, designed in the 1970s in the Netherlands. A. Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist, stole the plans and took them to Pakistan where they were manufactured. Khan went on to become the world’s No. 1 nuclear black marketer and sold them to North Korea, Libya, and Iran.

Several Western countries got hold of P-1s to see how they worked. Only Israel was really successful. Like other modern, complex machines, they’re run by computers. The Israelis—perhaps with American assistance—developed a worm that would not merely cause the Iranian programs to malfunction, “the computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.” Pretty cool, huh?

The story in the Times was filled with scintillating details that should have had Homeland Security grabbing their TEC-9s, surrounding the building, and shooting everyone for breaching national security.

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Then I thought about it.

The New York Times is not Wikileaks. Wikileaks gets the data and puts it out in the world, consequences be damned.

Maybe this wasn’t the product of diligent research, details teased out bit by bit from reluctant whistle-blowers whispering in the shadows of parking garages.

Maybe this was a sort of press release by interested parties who wanted to make their story the accepted narrative by using the Times to put it on the front page as objective reality.

There are lots of stories that are “known” to many people in the media but are not published. Sometimes no one will go on record or editors don’t want to endanger national security or offend the powerful.

Was this a known story? Something very similar appears in the novel The Increment, by David Ignatius, an associate editor of the Washington Post and a reporter for over 30 years. He’s the sort of journalist-turned-novelist that fictionalizes what he can’t put in the news. His depiction of Iran and portrait of the intelligence services ring exactly true. The novel was published in May 2009, which means it was written in 2008.

So my guess is that this was a story that people “knew” about. But didn’t publish. Who, then, put it out there? And for what purpose?

There are factions in both Israel and the US that have publicly called for bombing Iran to stop their nuclear program. (See, for one example of hundreds, “The Case for Bombing Iran,” Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, June 2007). Since some of Iran’s nuclear facilities are buried deep beneath the ground, this would be very difficult and probably ineffective. Many of them are in or very near major civilian areas, so it would be murderous and politically disastrous.

There are two named sources in the story: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Meir Dagan, who retired as head of the Mossad on January 1. They both make the claim that the Stuxnet worm has set the Iranian nuclear program back at least as much, and probably more, than an armed attack. Bush is credited for initiating the program and Obama for continuing it. It has the bipartisan seal of approval, by golly!

It’s an exciting piece of journalism. It’s a great espionage tale.

But it is also necessary to think of it as the inverse of the Judith Miller episode.

Miller wrote a story that described Saddam Hussein’s “dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions,” and his “worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb.” The Times put it on the front page. It became the official narrative.

Indeed, the day the story appeared I knew we were, irrevocably, going to war.

This time, I approve of the goal. To avoid yet another war. Plus, I get a genuine kick out of seeing the CIA and Mossad pull of something insanely clever, yet nonviolent. Kudos to all.

But I am reminded that journalism—even at its best, and the Times is the best we’ve got—is by no means an objective pursuer of the facts, offering the most accurate information possible to the public, because an informed citizenry makes a great nation. It’s useful to think of the mainstream media as a sort of vast, amorphous iPad that public relations experts use to deliver their messages to you.Without, of course, telling you that they’re doing it, or what their true interests are.

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ess than 90 miles north of Manhattan and about 40 miles northwest of Danbury, the quiet and unassuming village of Millbrook rests. Nineteenth century colonial mansions sit atop acres of unspoiled terrain while modest homes built in their counterparts’ vein scatter the remaining hillsides.

For the past 100-plus years, the relationship between wealthy estate owners and middle-class townspeople who inhabit these homes has become a social symbiosis.

According to village historian and local schoolteacher, David Greenwood, the presence of vacationing urbanites and descendents of original estate owners has become a base for the local economy. “The core of the village has traditionally been made up of people who worked in the estates and that holds true today,” Greenwood explains. “The only difference is the majority of people with second homes now come for much shorter periods.They still require the support of the local population to provide the things that any homeowner would need.” He says that this mutually beneficial relationship is rooted in the village’s history. The weekend or vacationing individuals bring vitality to Millbrook while the community, in turn, provides a scenic, undeveloped environment for a second home.

The village of Millbrook—located in eastern Dutchess County’s town of Washington—was settled by Dutch Quakers in the mid-eighteenth century.

Millbrook’s popularity began to grow in the 1870s after the construction of the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad. The Millbrook station allowed easy access to fresh air and a new atmosphere for the New York City population yearning for a release from Manhattan’s hustle and bustle.

As Millbrook became an increasingly desirable place to visit, more and more vacationers began building second homes—a trend that continues today. This population generally sits in a higher tax bracket than full-time residents and has created local traditions as well as supporting already existing ones.

The Millbrook Hunt Given the community’s suburban location and wealthy inhabitants, the equestrian lifestyle has become engrained into Millbrook’s culture. While not everyone is interested in, or able to afford horse-related sports and activities, its popularity is prevalent throughout the communities of Millbrook and Washington.

“Our countryside allowed that to happen,” says Greenwood. He talks about the Millbrook Hunt—a century-old annual event in which horseback riders don traditional British hunting attire and traverse the countryside with hounds in tow searching for wild foxes. He says the idea of the activity is not necessarily to “chase an animal to its death—the majority of times that doesn’t happen.” Being outdoors and celebrating a locally accepted tradition is the primary ideology of the hunt. “The success of the hunt is one word: cooperation. All of the land-owners become part of the venue,” Greenwood says. The cooperation of those living in surrounding areas is also required while horses and riders cross local streets.

From the hunt’s popularity and a landscape tailor-made for horse owners, the equestrian culture of Millbrook has evolved to the current presence of multiple tack shops, polo clubs, horse trial competitions, and veterinary offices specializing in the treatment of horses.

In the Family Way Some grew up in Millbrook participating in horseback riding and fox hunting where others had a more unexpected childhood. Tara Wing, lifetime Millbrook resident, is the daughter of artists Peter and Toni Ann Wing. After returning from Vietnam in 1969, Peter began to build a structure in homage of his adoration for old structures and buildings. His project was initially intended to be a barn with silos, but when a family member commented on its resemblance to a castle, Peter turned his energies 2/11 ChronograM millbrook 27

fletcher coddington of arrowsmith forge working with 19th & 20th century tools.

toward creating a stone castle made from salvaged materials that, while a fully habitable and impressive building, remains an in-process art project.

Tara spent her childhood growing up in (and helping to build) her parents’ makeshift castle. Her childhood was filled with activities not many children of the area partake in—and she is thankful for it. “It wasn’t glamorous,” she says. When she was a child she says she would “get up and work—mix cement or sort stones. It was hard work, but it instilled some values that some kids don’t ever learn, so it paid off,” says Wing, a professional photographer who also runs The Pumpkin House, an antiques and consignment emporium on Franklin Avenue.

Others moved to Millbrook in order to raise a family in a peaceful environment.

Like Greenwood, current resident Gretchen Brown-Atkin decided that Millbrook was the obvious choice after falling in love with her current home. Like so many Millbrook citizens, Brown-Atkin made the move from New York City. “Basically it was between Rhinebeck and Millbrook,” she said. “Then we found the house—and the house really did it.” With her husband, Brown-Atkin raised two children in the village—both are now in their twenties and have moved out. “It felt safe—the kids could easily walk to the stores and the post office. I had this fantasy that we would move to the village and the kids could go down to the post office and pick up the mail. Of course they never did,” she says with a laugh.

Brown-Atkin did not only find the perfect house when she moved to Millbrook, but also a refreshing community perspective. She says that Millbrook is full of “people who really do care about their town, and that’s really wonderful.” She continues, “It was just a charming life and as close to a 1950s sitcom as I could get,” she says—again with a light chuckle.

Millbrook School Although Millbrook seemed like an ideal place to raise a family, Brown-Atkin had issues with the public school system her oldest attended. The village has since incorporated multiple campuses into the unified Millbrook Central School district.

Given her initial troubles, Brown-Atkin sent her youngest to surrounding private schools, including a stint at The Millbrook School—a private preparatory school located on the outskirts of the village on hundreds of acres of farmland.

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Millbrook School she did not necessarily understand the subtleties of attending a boarding school, in retrospect she greatly values the unique education she received.

“It’s a prep school but you’re not just prepping for college,” says Marcus. “You are preparing to speak to future bosses, apply for jobs, react to difficult situations and basically how to be an adult.You’re living alone in a community where you have to rely on yourself.”

Marcus also credits Millbrook School with instilling in her an awareness of the earth as an ecosystem needing stewardship. “If I’m leaving a room I make sure the lights are off. If there’s no recycling bin I get confused,” she says. Marcus is now very surprised that some people “don’t notice how the environment is effected by what we do.”

Alongside the increasing focus on environmental issues, Millbrook School also demonstrates an appreciation for the arts. Bill Hardy, head of the Art Department at the Millbrook School, explains that the arts have always been viewed by the administration as a valuable aspect of a well-rounded education. “They have furnished us with a wonderful facility—the Holbrook Art Center—a 37,000-square-foot building that houses drawing, painting, ceramics, a lecture room, music studios, set design shop, a theater, photo studio, dark room, and a formal gallery,” he says.

Every year the art department works closely with various arts foundations to exhibit the works of a specifically influential artist. This year, the Gordon Parks Foundation will supply the school with timeless prints by the Life photographer for the students to study. In turn, students will be called on to educate visitors about Park when an exhibition of Parks’s work is mounted in May. The foundation’s goal is to preserve the legacy of the artist, Hardy explains. “There’s no better way of doing that than to devote a course to it.”

Art classes are electives at Millbrook School, however Hardy believes they are not viewed as such by the student body. “Studying the arts has a great deal to do with the way kids understand life at Millbrook,” he says. “They want the total educational experience and the arts are part of that.”

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The primary reoccurring disagreements amongst villagers revolve around developers wanting to build on the untouched land or renovate historic but unused buildings.

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The Thorne Memorial Building, originally erected in 1895 as an educational facility, now sits dormant in the heart of the village. Numerous plans to renovate the building were proposed over the past few decades, but none have come into fruition.

Similar plans were in the works for Bennett College, an all-girls finishing school that opened in 1907 and closed in the late 1970s. Crumbling buildings now litter the site.

Renovation ideas have been discussed by the local government but the campus has yet to undergo any changes since it closed.

Laura Hurley, the newly elected Mayor of Millbrook, said plans for an arts and cultural center were in the works for the Thorne Building. While the idea is supported by the community, funding is the major issue. “For almost two years we’ve been trying to get a cultural arts center up and running,” Hurley says. But it seems that developers “don’t have funding to make the necessary renovations—and neither does Millbrook.”

In April of 2009, about a thousand gallons of oil leaked beneath village hall. This disaster, in turn, cost over $1 million to clean up. Although the village owns the Thorne building, Hurley says, “We are not prepared to invest taxpayer dollars at this time.”

Olesia Plokhii, managing editor of the Millbrook Independent, the village’s newspaper, explains that two schools of thought exist when it comes to development. One refuses outside developers—it is understood that development is inevitable; if development is necessary, it ought to be locally organized. The other ideology considers the beneficial aspects of development while remaining cautious considering economic, educational, and logistical implications. “The general point of view is that [community members] just don’t want to be inundated by commercial development,” Plokhii says.

She also discusses an issue that developed directly alongside Millbrook’s growing popularity with Manhattan natives and those who yearn for country breeze. She explains what her colleague has dubbed “The Millbrook Myth.”

“The perception is that this is The Hamptons of Dutchess County,” she says.

Realtors realized an untapped market in Millbrook for second homeowners and the myth began. Plokhii explains. “A perception then began to spread that Millbrook was a paradise for the rich and the wealthy. The reality is that wealthy people have come and settled here and they contribute heavily to the tax revenue of the community.

But a lot of people aren’t necessarily doing that well. The economy is hitting us—we feel it and we have for a while.”

Thriving in the Downturn Zach Hampton, owner of Millbrook’s only grocery store, Marona’s Market, is living proof that even in an economic tumult, businesses can thrive. He credits the store’s 60-plus years of success to the personal relationship that exists between the store and the residents of Millbrook—full-time residents and weekenders alike. “If you’re standing in an aisle, someone’s going to ask you what you need,” Hampton says. “If we don’t have it, we’ll call some other stores for you. It’s the personal touch that I think 30 millbrook

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keeps people shopping at Marona’s Market rather than bigger supermarkets.”

Plokhii says that while many businesses thrive, some still struggle to keep their doors open and most community members are hardly the millionaires they might be perceived as. These are working people who want to make a living and enjoy the breathtaking scenery and neighborly culture the quaint village has always offered.

Concurrently, America’s economy has affected Millbrook’s housing market in the favor of buyers. Peter Devers of George T. Whalen Real Estate says that the price of houses in Millbrook and the surrounding area are “as low as they’re going to get in the foreseeable future. If you’ve got the wherewithal to come out and purchase something, now is the time.” Devers cites 10 immediate listings including a $259,000 4-bedroom colonial and a $975,000 mansions-style estate.

Devers aligns real estate agents with those who may be struggling given today’s economic climate. “A lot of agents aren’t making a good living because of the lack of sales,” Devers, who has been with the 75-year-old company for 30 years, explains.

“Some agents have left the business or might supplement their income with parttime jobs elsewhere. Like any business, with the economy in a downturn it’s pretty much the established agents or the lucky agents making a living.”

Unfortunately for sellers, property values have dropped about 20 percent since the height of the market. Devers says that real estate agents increasingly have to tell sellers that they might have to settle for $50,000 less than they might have gotten four years ago. He remains confident in his buyers and sellers that there is product in the area for multiple price ranges.

“There’s a new raft of people who feel more confident about the economy and their futures in particular, and they’re coming out looking,” he says.

Devers and Greenwood both remain optimistic about the aesthetic allure of Millbrook and believes that weekenders and families in search of a full-time residence will find moving to the village a sound investment.

Greenwood says moving to Millbrook in 1984 was a blessing. “The house is wonderful, the community embraced us with open arms and we’ve never looked back,” Greenwood says. “I think it’s the best thing to ever happen to us.”

RESOURCES Marona’s Market (845) 677-3471 Millbrook and Vicinity www.millbrookandvicinity.com Millbrook Independent www.themillbrookindependent.com Millbrook School www.millbrook.org The Pumpkin House www.thepumpkinhousemillbrook.com Village of Millbrook www.village.millbrook.ny.us Tara Wing Photography www.tarawingphotography.com Town of Washington www.washingtonny.org George T. Whalen Real Estate www.gtwhalen.com Wing’s Castle www.wingscastle.com

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Leaving it to the Pros Depending on your personality, timeline, and budget, hiring a wedding planner is often the best option for many couples. This quells the nerves, puts planning into the expert’s hands, and often can save the couple money.Wedding planners almost always have connections to vendors with whom they work with at weddings, put their trust in, and offer their services at a discount.What this means for the couple is that they will get a group of vendors that work well together like a well-oiled machine all at benefit of a discount and a professional to guide you along the way to boot.

Mary Beth Halpin, owner of Events by MB, says, “The benefit of having a planner is that they do this consonantly and consistently.” Halpin, who offers both fullservice planning and day-of coordination, says that, “For most couples, this is not only their first wedding, but the first event that they’ve planned. They don’t have to give up control or vision, but get to enjoy their engagement and not stress.”

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You Can Do It (with a Bottle of Wine or Two) Going the DIY route is the choice of many couples. Jeanne Stark, owner of Hudson Valley Ceremonies, a planner who’s been in business for over 20 years, says, “Not everyone needs a wedding planner. They can definitely save you money by steering you to vendors who work with your style and budget.” Stark’s advice for those couples who don’t need or use a planner is “to set a realistic budget and then to start plugging in the professionals that will work with that along the way.”

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You’re Engaged. Now What?

After that engagement high wears off, after you’ve officially updated your Facebook status and can now say the word fiancé without breaking into a full-on sweat, it’s time to start thinking about actually planning the wedding.

For some couples this can be fun (bands, menus tastings, and honeymoon searches!) and for others it’s worse than the headache after the bachelor party (just wait).

Unless you plan on a quickie at the local courthouse, an organized and detailed checklist is essential for planning any event. Think of a wedding or commitment ceremony as the biggest party you’ve planned and multiply that by a thousand.

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You’ll need help and it wouldn’t be fair to make your wedding party take on the brunt of the work. And surely you don’t want your mother-in-law breathing down your neck about those centerpieces, right? When it comes down to brass tacks, realistic options include a wedding planner, day-of coordinator, and going the DIY route (this means you and your new better half). Whatever option you choose, organization and careful planning are sure to make your wedding a huge success.

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what to do and when. Follow this as it pertains to your event and you’ll stay on track and save yourself more than one planning headache. If you didn’t know that booking your venue about a year in advance was the norm, then a checklist (or losing your dream reception hall) is the easiest way to learn that. Your binder or hands-on planner will serve to keep you organized and can easily be toted around when you want to share your vision and ideas with vendors. These can be found in any bookstore. It wouldn’t hurt to check out a variety of planning books at your local library, as antiquated as it may sound. For a daily dose of inspiration, you can find countless online blogs that will undoubtedly cut down on work productivity.

First Things First You may have dreamed about this moment your entire life and have a vision of exactly what you imagine when making this commitment—or you may have never given a thought as to what type of ceremony you’d like to have. Whether you’re working with a planner or doing it yourself, the first thing to check off your list is to envision an overall style for your event. Do you want a formal affair in a ballroom with a lavish cocktail hour and a live band? A simple backyard gathering with locally sourced food? Perhaps it’s a vintage-inspired event with big-band music, a vintage dress and old-fashioned cocktails. Whatever your vision may be, it’s important to set the tone for your event so that you can easily move forward with any other decisions.

He’s More Than a Wedding Singer If you’re working with a wedding planner they’ll help you to secure all of your vendors within your budget. Stark says that her company, Hudson Valley Ceremonies, has a database of over 4,200 vendors, but says, “We have really, really great relationships with some of these professionals that we know will bend over backwards for couples.The same vendors get to know each other at weddings and we’ll give each other hugs.” If you’re DIYing, then you’ll need to do your research and book on your own. Online reviews and recommendations from recently married friends and family are a fantastic ways to find good vendors. Local bridal shows are also another option to find and meet a large amount of wedding professionals in one concentrated area. They often offer discounts during these events as well, but it’s important not to book on price alone. Meshing with your vendors is more important than you might imagine. Think about this before booking; you want to have good rapport with your photographer and feel comfortable in their presence.

It will make for a wedding day that’s easygoing and will show in your photos.

The same goes for your officiant (who can easily be an ordained friend or family member). This event should feel special and meaningful and your vendors should help to reflect that.

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Lola’s Café’s expansive catering menu is perfect for any occasion. We have a full staff of CIA graduates that can assist in menu design and event planning from start to finish. We offer traditional and ethnic fares as well as fusion cuisine and more. Our gourmet menus are innovative, upscale, and in constant flux to keep up with recent food and presentation trends. Let us work with you to create the perfect meal for your special day.

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It’s All About the Benjamins After you’ve established your overall style or theme, you’ll need to determine a budget. Setting a budget for your wedding will help to establish exactly what vendors that you’re able to use and allow you to allot money to what’s most important to you to determine your vision. Gone are the days of the groom’s parents paying for only for the rehearsal dinner and bride’s bouquet (though they’re certainly welcome to do so), and it’s not unheard of for a couple to pay for their own wedding entirely. If money is offered and you’re willing to accept it graciously (along with the opinions and guest list that may accompany the gift), then it’s time to get to work on allocating your budget. For example, if photography is of the upmost importance, then you might want to skip the elaborate ice sculpture during the cocktail hour if that could break the bank. And don’t forget the pre- and postwedding events that have become almost requisite for most weddings: Rehearsal dinners, postwedding brunches and the honeymoon should be factored into budget planning early if they’re part of your lineup. It’s important to be a good host, but you should never start a marriage going into debt for your wedding. Remember that it’s perfectly acceptable to have a rehearsal dinner over pizza and beers.

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museums & galleries The Vanaver Caravan Kids will premier their new Appalachian clog dance, Ice House, choreographed by Livia Vanaver, co-founder & artisitc director of the Vanaver Caravan, at the 19th annual Dancefest on February 5 at SUNY New Paltz’s McKenna Theater. Dancefest features students from 10 Hudson Valley dance schools.

Pictured above, Vanaver Caravan dancers Alena Brocker, Stella Macmahon, Juno Henderson, Kaya Jordan, and Morgane Kuyl.

Round Midnight, an archival pigment print from Kim Kauffman’s “florilegium” at galerie BMG, showing October 22 through November 29.

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Lisa Frank Creekbed in Winter 45” x 40”, 2009 At Carrie Haddad Photographs through February 27.

ART SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.

“Chronogram, The Covers Show: 1993-2011.” February 5-26.

Opening Saturday, February 5, 5pm-8pm.

Franz Eberhard Walther, “Work as Action.” Through February 13.

Koo Jeong A, “A Constellation Congress.” Through June 26.

Imi Knoebel, “24 Colors—for Blinky, 1977.” Ongoing.

Sol LeWitt, “Drawing Series.” Ongoing.

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DUCK POND GALLERY

161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Better by the Dozen.” Group exhibit with Amos Eno Gallery exchange. February 6-27.

Opening Sunday, February 6, 6pm-9pm.

128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.

“Cape Code Views in Watercolor.” Ray Curran. February 5-26.

Opening Saturday, February 5, 5pm-8pm.

THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS & ESTUARIES

EMERSON ORGANIC SPA

199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

“Works by Russell Cusick.” Photographer and mixed medium works. Through March 31.

5340 ROUTE 28, MOUNT TREMPER 688-2828.

“Inspired Landscapes: Paintings by George Ballantine & Robert Selkowitz.” Through February 28.

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244.

“10th Anniversary Show: Luminous Landscape.” Through February 27.

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

“Winter 2011.” Arthur Hammer, Leslie Bender, and Jenny Nelson. Through March 6.

VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.

“150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin.”

Through May 27.

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CARRIE HADDAD photographs

133 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER 679-0027.

“New Artists: Charles Grogg, Andreas Rentsch, Paul Rider, Jannifer Schlesinger, Jessica Somers.”

Through February 14.

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

“Nature of Pattern.” Photographs by Lisa Frank. Through February 27.

THE GALLERY AT R & F

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957 “Made in Woodstock V.” Through March 27.

COCOON THEATER 6384 MILL STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6470.

“Wrinkles, Creases and Folds.” Papier-mâché high relief by Andres San Millan. February 4-27.

Opening Friday, February 4, 6pm-8pm.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

“Threads.” Fabric and fiber artwork. Through March 11.

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84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112.

“Waxing Geometric.” Paintings by Astrid Fitzgerald. February 5-March 19.

Opening Saturday, February 5, 5pm-7pm.

GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255.

“New Watercolors by Mira Fink.” February 1-March 31.

Opening Friday, February 4, 5pm-7pm.

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

“Foul Shapes and Flags.” June Glasson and Carlos Uribe. Through February 6.

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

“Diana Bryan’s Cut Paper Universe.” Through March 7.

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Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery Emil Alzamora & Julie Hedrick April 25 - May 20 Guest Curator- Juan Garcia-Nunez Opening Reception Wed April 27, 5-6:30pm

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Ryan Higgins Spaghetti-Cakes Smarty Pants Glass 8â&#x20AC;? x 10â&#x20AC;?

Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition

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1578 boston corners road, millerton (518) 789-3311. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remington Schuyler (1884-1955).â&#x20AC;? Ongoing.

THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 458-1700. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kim Denise: Pastels.â&#x20AC;? February 5-28 Opening Saturday, February 5, 5pm-7pm.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Route 28 or Thereabouts.â&#x20AC;? Through February 6.

HUDSON opera house 327 warren street, husdon (518) 822-1438. â&#x20AC;&#x153;China Jorrin: Photos of the Hudson River Psychiatric Center.â&#x20AC;? Through February 12.

Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 562-6940 ext. 119 www.annstreetgallery.org

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daniel Pitin: Garrison Landing.â&#x20AC;? Through April 17.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Larry Brown: Paintings.â&#x20AC;? February 3-27.

Opening Saturday, February 5, 6pm-8pm.

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Hands Across Time

103 abeel STREET, kingston www.kmoca.org New works by Anita Wetzel, Beth Humphreys, Cassandra Quackenbush, and Michael Ciccone.

February 5-March 1.

Opening Saturday, February 5, 5pm-7pm.

LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Light, Shape, and Fantasy.â&#x20AC;? Acrylics, watercolors, landscapes, abstracts by John Kruppa.

February 13-March 12.

Opening Sundat, February 13, 4pm-6pm.

LOCUST GROVE THE SAMUEL MORSE HISTORIC SITE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Points of View.â&#x20AC;? Franc Palaia, photographs of the Hudson Valley, 2002-2010. Through February 27.

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NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Modern Landscape: Christie Scheele and Robert Trondsen.â&#x20AC;? Through March 14.

MILL STREET LOFTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit.â&#x20AC;? February 19-March 16.

Opening Saturday, February 19, 5:30pm.

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY

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SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drawn to Humanity.â&#x20AC;? American and European masterworks on paper from the Ken Ratner Collection. Through February 25.

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VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wheels of Time.â&#x20AC;? 3 Pittsfield artists take a trip down memory lane with a nostalgic look at bygonewheeled vehicles. February 4-March 2.

Opening Sunday, February 6, 3pm-5pm.

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ete Seeger has retired. Or, rather, that’s been the plan. But, even at 91, it hasn’t quite happened yet.

“Oh, I’d like to. But, well, look over there,” he says, pointing to a low couch in the hand-built Beacon home he’s shared with his wife, Toshi, and their family for over 60 years. Save for an open sitting spot at the far end, the couch, as well as the coffeetable directly in front of it, are thickly blanketed with sheets of mostly handwritten paper.

“Letters,” he drones, repeating the word a half dozen more times. “Every day, letters. I don’t like to do it this way, but I have to use a form letter now to answer them all.There’s just too many to keep up with. A woman comes in once a week to help me with them, Sarah Elisabeth. Her husband’s a carpenter, works in the city. A good union man.”

All of this—the unwavering sense of responsibility, the commitment to the rights of workers and individuals, and, above all else, the supreme value he places on human beings helping one another—is classic Pete Seeger. He’s famously humble about all that he does in their name, but these are the core beliefs that have driven him to work so tirelessly in the areas of social justice and the environment.

And then, of course, there’s his music. Even if you don’t know who the man is, or about his devoted activism, odds are you know at least a couple of his tunes. Eternal anthems that sparked the fuses of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, the Byrds, and basically the entire post-World War II folk revival and protest-song and folk-rock movements: “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and two he popularized, “We Shall Overcome” and “Little Boxes,” to name a few. His adaptations of ethnic chestnuts like “Wimoweh” and “Tzena, Tzena, Tzena” helped forge the world-music scene. And though his voice is now frail with age, Seeger, today sitting in a chair between his two wall-hanging banjos famously inscribed “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender,” keeps right on singing. Eyes closed, he croons from deep memory the lines to old-time nuggets like “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More,” the first song he ever learned.

“The clarity of the message in Pete Seeger’s songs has always struck me,” says Crooked Still banjoist Gregory Liszt, who toured with Bruce Springsteen for his 2006 homage, We Shall Overcome:The Seeger Sessions (Columbia Records). “All of his music is dedicated to deepening the connections between people, even if that theme is not explicitly mentioned in every song. Even in foreign countries where people hardly spoke any English, Pete’s songs really got the crowd involved. Good music is always better if it really stands for something.”

Seeger was born in the Putnam County town of Patterson in 1919 to ex-Julliard faculty members Charles and Constance Seeger, whose embrace of both music and political activism helped to shape their son early on. Charles, a noted musicologist and composer, served as a professor at the University of California at Berkeley until 1918, by which time his outspoken pacifism had made him somewhat of a pariah. Constance, a violinist and music teacher, encouraged Pete’s interest in music by “leaving instruments—fiddles, squeezeboxes, marimbas—lying around the house for me to fool around with.”

While young, Seeger discovered author and Boy Scouts of America founder Ernest Thompson Seton. “[Seton] boosted the idea of learning about the North American Indians,” he explains. “I learned that they shared everything they had. There was no such thing as one person in the tribe going hungry and the others having full bellies. That seemed to me to be a sensible way to live. Anthropologists call that tribal communism. So I say that I’ve been a communist ever since I was seven, when I first started reading Seton.” It was also when Seeger was seven that his parents divorced, his father remarrying to modernist composer Ruth Crawford and later taking a job as an adviser with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Farm Resettlement program.While traveling with his dad in 1936 he attended the Mountain Folk and Dance Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, where he first heard a five-string banjo. Fascinated, he plunged into learning to play it, eventually taking lessons in the clawhammer style from Kentucky master Rufus Crisp.

Seeger earned an academic scholarship to Harvard, where he performed folk songs for his fellow students and joined a wing of theYouth Communist League. These activities, along with a mounting disillusionment with hermetic academia, led to his grades suffering, and by 1938 he’d dropped out and gone on tour with the left-leaning Vagabond Puppeteers troupe. If from here it starts to sound like the mythical perfect storm that begat America’s foremost folk icon, well, that’s exactly what it is.

Through his father Seeger next got a job working for Library of Congress music archivist Alan Lomax, with whom he cataloged thousands of folk and blues records and traveled the Deep South making field recordings. His further immersion in the music’s raw, plainspoken honesty redoubled his already evangelical commitment to it, and he began to perform many of the tunes he came across. Seeger became their vessel, and were it not for him much of America’s rich music might, at best, lay a-moldering in the National Archives instead of soaring from the throats of the people. During this time he met and sang with luminaries like Leadbelly (another musical vessel), Josh White, and Aunt Molly Jackson, among others. But the big bang of the American folk renaissance came in 1940 at a migrant workers benefit, when he met a 28-year-old songster from

Oklahoma: Woody Guthrie. The cocky Dust Bowl troubadour had an immediate and profound influence on Seeger, and the pair became tight friends, hopping trains and getting to know the heartland firsthand.

Seeger eventually landed in New York, where he co-founded the Almanac Singers, a string-band collective that soon also featured Guthrie. The group specialized in topical and socially progressive songs and frequently performed at union rallies and leftist events. The pacifist Almanacs changed their antiwar tune after Germany turned on Russia and Pearl Harbor was attacked, but disintegrated as the members grew apart and the group drew criticism for its past stance. Seeger did serve, and was stationed in the South Pacific, where he played for other troops. He married Toshi, “without whom the world would not turn nor the sun shine,” in 1943.

After the war Seeger and his fellow ex-Almanac Lee Hays formed the Weavers, who became wildly popular via hit readings of folk standards like “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” and Leadbelly’s “Goodnight Irene.” But during the Red Scare of the 1950s the radical pasts of its members landed the group on the government blacklist, which saw them shut out of gigs and record sales. Seeger, who’d long since left the Communist Party, was summoned to stand before the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). When grilled about whether or not he’d performed at Party benefits he refused to answer or plead the Fifth Amendment, asserting that anything he’d done in that vein was protected by the right to free speech. He was convicted for contempt of Congress, a 10-year sentence eventually overturned in 1962, but used the growing backlash against red-baiting to his advantage by performing at colleges, creating the modern touring circuit and becoming the patriarch of the next wave of folk music.

One of the strongest voices of the civil rights movement, Seeger marched and sang freedom songs with Martin Luther King and played countless concerts for the cause. In that decade and into the next he railed against the Vietnam War, performing at peace rallies and even sheltering the odd draft dodger. One of these runaways was musician Victorio Roland Mousaa, who is currently organizing a New York concert for March starring Seeger, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, and others to aid Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been imprisoned since 1977 on highly contested murder charges.

Seeger learned to sail while working a job on Cape Cod, and in the mid 1960s bought a small boat that he’d take out on the Hudson. What he saw there—miles of toxic residue, oil pollution, raw sewage—was heartbreaking for the lifelong outdoorsman. “I thought of [economist] John Kenneth Galbraith’s great phrase, ‘private affluence, public squalor,’” he recalls. “I had enough money to buy this boat, but I was sailing through shit.” Resolved to do something about the deplorable state of the once proud, life-giving artery, he co-founded the Clearwater Foundation in 1969 and helped build the sailing sloop and environmental-awareness classroom Clearwater. Over 40 years later, the organization, which the singer calls his greatest achievement, has inspired dozens of kindred efforts worldwide and continues to keep the river clean via fundraising events culminating with June’s annual Great Hudson River Revival.

Backed by a school chorus, Seeger and Springsteen sang Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at President Obama’s inauguration. Two years on, how does Seeger view the administration? He thinks a few seconds. “Compromise is part of life,” he says. “But there’s a slight difference between compromise and selling out.” The recipient of such awards as the National Medal of the Arts and a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Honor, Seeger was recently nominated for his fourth Grammy for last year’s Tomorrow’s Children (Appleseed Records), a collaboration with Beacon youth chorus the Riverfront Kids. “The kids love listening to his stories, asking him about what his songs mean,” says Tery Udell, a fourth-grade teacher at J.V. Forrestal Elementary School, whose students co-founded the group in 2009. “He makes them feel so empowered, like they really can change the world one song at a time.”

Seeger’s propensity for history is legendary, and it’s impossible not to be swept up by the animated way he reels off the accounts of local settlers and the ancients. His eyes light up when talk turns to chopping wood (“I love to go whack!”) and about how humanity will be preserved through music, as well as the two other communal arts he says most bring people together: cooking and sports. When he cites humor as another saving grace, the words of one of his heroes, musician and unionist Joe Hill, come to mind: “If a person can put a few common-sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.”

“If the human race is still here in 100 years, it will be because of lots of people doing lots of little things,” Seeger says. “Bigger things can get co-opted or bought off by the powers that be. But if there are many, many little things going on it will be too hard for them to keep up with all of them.” What would he call his role in history?

“A sower of seeds,” he says, referencing one of the Bible’s parables. “Some seeds fall on stones and don’t even sprout, but some seeds fall on fallow ground and multiply a hundredfold.”

Pete and Peggy Seeger will perform a benefit concert for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at the Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock on March 19. www.woodstockguild.org.

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First Thursday Hosted by Shana Falana February 3. Psychedelic song-spinner Shana Falana’s flight path has taken her from San Francisco to Brooklyn to Rosendale. And her music—a dreamy, far-off aural mist recalling Galaxie 500—gives the strong impression that all of Ms. Falana’s winging, metaphorical or reality-based, has only been relaxed and easy. Live, she uses hazy video projections to complement her effects-soaked guitar and voice, and starting this month she hosts Market Market’s first Thursday showcase night. (Nina Violet visits February 11; Setting Sun settles in February 18.) 8pm. Donation. Rosendale. (845) 658-3164; www.marketmarketcafe.com.

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Kane Brothers Blues Band February 26. Formed in Woodstock in 1972 by then-teenagers Anthony (vocals, harmonica) and Jonathan (drums) Kane, the Kane Brothers Blues Band opened for Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and Willie Dixon. The group eventually found a welcoming home at CBGB, where its powerfully minimal blues fit right in with the nascent New York punk scene. After the band broke up, Anthony went to Chicago to play with Waters, Sam Lay, Koko Taylor, and other legends; Jonathan remained in Manhattan, co-founding noiserockers Swans and working with avant-gardists Rhys Chatham, John Zorn, and La Monte Young. This Bearsville Theater date features the quintet’s original lineup. (Syd Straw sings February 12; Dr. Dog makes a Valentine’s Day house call February 14.) 8pm. $15.

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The name Alan Shulman (1915-2002) may strike a chord among readers with sharp memories: The Hudson cellist and composer was the leader of the New Friends of Rhythm, whose 1939-1947 Performances (Hep Jazz Records) was reviewed in the November 2007 issue of Chronogram. While that release ably chronicles the jazzcrossover music Shulman and his conservatory-trained Friends made during the height of the swing era, Works for Cello concentrates on the classical side from which the leader initially sprang.

Performed by cellist Wesley Baldwin, in duet with pianist Kevin Class and with the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra, the eight works here were written between 1938 and 1983 and strongly reflect Shulmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief influences: Elgar, Hindemith (a sometime teacher), and Satie (see â&#x20AC;&#x2122;38â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Homage to Erik Satie). But on Kol Nidre (1970) and his Concerto for Violincello & Orchestra (1948), Shulman drew from the musical traditions of his Jewish roots. The haunting former piece, which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Synagogue of New York City, loosely references Bruchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yom Kippur prayer-inspired composition of the same name. With its three extended movements, the ambitious concerto, dedicated to the then-newly founded nation of Israel, stands as the discâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central opus and is perhaps Shulmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest work. Splashed with colorful arrangements and wrought with yearning tension (the version here was recorded live in 2009), the work elicited a postcard of approval from iconic cellist Pablo Casals following its contemporary premiere. High praise, indeed. www.albanyrecords.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Peter Aaron

The Gypsy Nomads Happy Madness (2010, E. A. Recordings)

When wizened punks and august hippies gather around campfires to reminisce in the Joe Strummer documentary The Future Is Unwritten, the orange halflight illuminates the striking similarities in their views, their histories, and even their physicality. In that same natural glow we find New Paltz gypsy-cabaret-folk-punk duo the Gypsy Nomads, whose new release, Happy Madness, percolates with stripped-down DIY energy, tribal rhythms, and earthy drama. Samantha Stephenson and Scott Hellandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;aka Frenchy and the Punkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are accomplished performing vets; she of the visual arts and dance, he of metal and punk bands.

In languages that veer from French to Czech to English, Happy Madness offers waltz-time chansons of yearning, intrigue and loss (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magician and the Dancer,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marionetteâ&#x20AC;?), hypnotically pummeling manifestos of life in the fecund substrata of neo-paganism (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dark Carnivaleâ&#x20AC;?), and modal instrumentals that somehow evoke CBGB, Ennio Morricone, and the Port of Marseille (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happy Madness,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sombrero Cabaretâ&#x20AC;?). This and more is delivered mostly with acoustic guitar, malletpounded drums, hand-held percussion, and cinematic, funny, deftly political, and erotic lyrics.

Stephensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autobiographical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Frenchâ&#x20AC;? offers the witty line â&#x20AC;&#x153;When those jokers served up freedom fries / I saw Lady Liberty rolling her eyes,â&#x20AC;? while the sexy romp â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make Outâ&#x20AC;? is a brazen celebration of parking lot intimacy in which one can almost smell motor oil and Aqua Net. The Gypsy Nomadsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; melding of ancient archetypes with scrappy street-level attitude makes Happy Madness a lively must-have for punks, hippies, and everyone inbetween. www.thegypsynomads.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Robert Burke Warren

Perrotta Tonight (2010, Independent)

I never cease to be sucked into Sarah Perottaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnetic, musical field, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the heavenly ambiance from her early outfit Outloud Dreamer, her recent solo work, or thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a true rock album by the band that bears her name.

She has the remarkable ability to harness the refined, from her banner choice of players to her lilting, indelible vocal work, creating an aural mirage in which the listener may wander deliriously. Tonight is a departure from 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Well (Independent) and its piano-based fare: This time, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Rhodes, Moog, Wurlitzer, MicroKorg, and Hammond alongside guitarist/vocalist Johnny Wang, drummer Will Olsen, and returning bass legend Tony Levin.

Recorded at Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Applehead Studio and produced by Christopher Bittner, the 12-track record sets off with an exquisite title song that seems heavily influenced by Icelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sigur Ros; percussion and keys slow as molasses and the singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chanting dreamy and delicate. The music dramatically switches sonic gears between up-beat cuts such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone Like You,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conquer Me,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wallsâ&#x20AC;? and lulling, Cowboy Junkies-tinged tracks like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fractured,â&#x20AC;? showing the leaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to be squeezed into a box. She touches upon eclectic grounds set by other idiosyncratic female pop pianists/vocalists of the past several decades, yet what sets her apart here is her knack for creating a driving, complex rock band sound. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just another singer-songwriter romanticist who plays piano with backing players; nonetheless, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still the emotional luxury of her vocal instrument that makes the whole package shine. www.perrottamusic.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sharon Nichols

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t’s impossible to meet Eamon Grennan without knowing at once where he’s from. His musical lilt, wild thicket of eyebrow, and affable smile are every bit as Irish as his name. So it’s a bit startling to hear that the Dublinborn poet has identity issues.

The Vassar professor emeritus and author of Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2010) has lived in the US since 1965, when he became a graduate student at Harvard, but has never sought citizenship. “I’m a resident alien—like every poet, I suppose,” he says with relish. Perceived as an Irishman in Poughkeepsie and an expatriate in Ireland, Grennan describes himself as “neither here nor there—or rather, here and there.

“One of the things I was working toward with Out of Sight was that doubleness as the dominant feature,” he attests. “I’m seen as an Irish poet who writes American poetry, or an American poet inflected with Irishness—as a poet of both places.”

Indeed. Grennan’s poetry flows like a body of water between native and adopted shores; it’s no accident that Out of Sight begins and ends at the liminal edge of the ocean, where shorebirds skitter and tides perform their daily cycles. The book’s first line is “I would like to let things be”; the last is “the jagline leading from this to that, before you turn for home.” In between are two decades of work that amount to an autobiography of sight and reflection.

Plainspoken and richly evocative, Grennan’s poems are filled with birds, plants, and water, with windows and light—the natural world and the means by which we perceive it. “There are not a lot of people in my poems,” he remarks a bit ruefully, but there’s one who is present in every line: the poet himself, as a preternaturally sharp-eyed, full-hearted observer of life in its glorious, aching detail. Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins has written, “Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to the available marvels of the earth.”

The surface narrative of a Grennan poem is often an everyday moment—a bee becomes trapped behind window glass, a garbage collector upturns shining cans, a father watches his son embark on a train—that illuminates emotional truths lurking just out of sight. “I’m struck sharp as a heart pain/ by the way this minute brims/ with the whole story,” he writes in “Two Climbing.”

Perched on a Victorian chaise in Vassar’s Rose Parlor, Grennan sports a black sweater, jeans, and a bristling white beard that gives him the air of an uncommonly friendly Mennonite elder. His sentences unspool like great skeins of yarn, winding around and around, adding texture and warmth as he searches for just the right image. He frequently asks, “D’you know what I mean?” or “Is this making sense?”

Along with 30 new poems, Out of Sight includes poems culled from seven previous books.The winnowing process was difficult. “You always feel, ‘I’m rejecting these,’ as if they were your children,” says Grennan. “You choose poems because you feel they still work, that have an organic body, that feel musically like there’s a bit of lift, that engage with the world in a way that feels honest.

Every poet is a reader first—your reading preceded your writing.”

He started reading poetry as a teenager at an Irish boarding school run by Cistercian monks. As a “city boy planted in the middle of the country,” discovering Wordsworth and Longfellow helped assuage his loneliness. At Dublin’s University College, Grennan wrote poems and stories, joined the drama society, edited a magazine, and hung out in pubs—”what one does as a lively young literary creature.”Then he spent a year living in Rome, where he met his first wife, Joan Perkins.

(He’s been married to Vassar classicist Rachel Kitzinger for the past 25 years.)

Grennan arrived at Vassar in 1974 with his wife and two stepsons, one young baby, and another on the way. Though his specialty was Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, he also taught poetry. Most of his writing was “scholarly stuff, because one had to earn tenure.” But he also started to write poems again, and finally took a year off, bringing his family to Ireland. “I went back to write and hook up with my Irishness, but I brought back a sack of American poetry books,” he says with a laugh; he has cited Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and numerous others as inspirations.

Grennan’s first two collections were published in Ireland, then reprinted in the US in combined form as What Light There Is & Other Poems (Gallery Books, 1987). He compares his first drafts to an artist’s life studies, “drawn in situ, the sketchbook side of things.” He often starts by jotting a phrase in the small notebook he carries. For a while, he wrote a short poem every day on a calendar page, promising himself that he wouldn’t look back till the end of the year,

when he “pruned out the deadwood” and started rewriting. “Phrase is the point of entry,” he says. “I launch not with the subject or idea, God help us, but with a phrasing of something I’ve seen. This morning, I watched a deer crossing the garden, and two male mallards and a female swimming upstream. They may make it into a poem.”

He hastens to add that his nature poems “aren’t merely descriptive, but reflect what’s going on in the interior, inflecting it with the emotional consciousness that’s your own moment in time.” If that sounds abstract, Grennan’s 2002 poem “Detail” (see below) demonstrates his approach. As he reads it aloud, the musical cadences are as noteworthy as the poem’s conversational tone, unwinding in a single sentence towards the heart-stopping strike of a sparrowhawk “scorching the air.”

“A lot of the time when you’re dealing with a poem, you’re into the technique, making it right, making the music right, when a terrible truth strikes— something literal and metaphorical,” Grennan explains. “The best poems occur when the craft is suddenly captured by the emotional truth.”

Several of his poems reference painters who likewise illuminate everyday moments, including Bonnard, Chardin, and Vermeer; a critical study of his work is titled “Vermeer in Verse: Eamon Grennan’s Domestic Interiors. “The poet selected the Mark Rothko painting on Out of Sight’s cover, an untitled abstract that moves though a spectrum of warm colors from blood-red to gold, with a streak of black.

“The book tries to cover a spectrum of what I’ve felt and experienced, from the natural to the domestic to the erotic to the political, up to a point,” he says.

“My take on politics is often to do with victims, with things that are cast out, the destruction of some of the things I’ve celebrated.”

Grennan spends part of each year in the west of Ireland, at a cottage his sister found in the village of Renvyle, 65 miles north of Galway. “It’s not right on the coast, but I can walk to the sea. That’s been hugely important to me and what I do.”

So is living near “our magical Hudson.” Alongside references to Ballymoney, Connemara, and Tully Mountain, the poems in Out of Sight cite the Catskills, the Mid-Hudson Bridge, northeastern fall foliage (“The hills/ a witch’s quilt of goldrust, flushed cinnamon, / wine fever, hectic lemon”), and a virtual aviary of local birds.

“As a transplanted person, I was trying to locate and name my environment, to look at things more closely,” says Grennan, who’s come to think of his bicontinental divide as a blessing. “I feel it’s my virtue, my difference. Not belonging completely to either place is possibly the reason I have anchored myself in the landscape and in the family. It contributed to the way I’ve turned out as a writer.”

Eamon Grennan looks out at the snow-covered campus, appraising its dusky shadows and apricot glow. “Every poem is an elegy, because the moment is gone,” he says. “It’s also a celebration. I’d like to box those two things together—a celebratelegy. Saying ‘This happened’ is the kind of thing you might put on your gravestone. And given my character and native instinct, I’d add, “‘And it’s okay that it did.’”

Detail I was watching a robin fly after a finch—the smaller bird chirping with excitement, the bigger, its breast blazing, silent in light-winged earnest chase—when, out of nowhere over the chimneys and shivering front gardens, flashes a sparrowhawk headlong, a light brown burn scorching the air from which it simply plucks like a ripe fruit the stopped robin, whose two or three cheeps of terminal surprise twinkle in the silence closing over the empty street when the birds have gone about their own business, and I began to understand how a poem can happen: you have your eye on a small elusive detail, pursuing its music, when a terrible truth strikes and your heart cries out, being carried off.

Eamon Grennan, “Detail” from Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2002, 2010 by Eamon Grennan. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org 2/11 ChronograM books 51

SHORT TAKES Women share their stories with the world in many different ways, from suburban follies and nontraditional widowhood to the Divine Mother.

Burb Appeal Tina Traster CreateSpace, 2010, $10

New York Post columnist and Huffington Post blogger Traster swore she’d only leave Manhattan in a body bag.

When she wound up alive and kicking in Nyack, she turned a sharp eye on her suburban surroundings—the good, the bad, and the ugly—with hilarious results. Reading with Thelma Adams and Martha Frankel at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock, 2/13 at 3pm.

Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables Joan Dye Gussow Chelsea Green, 2010, $17.95

The author of The Organic Life, an inspiration to food movement gurus Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, continues her personal story with this feisty memoir of an elderly widow who dares to admit she does not miss her husband. Finding sustenance in growing her own food alongside the Hudson, Gussow brings new meaning to the concept of self-sufficient gardening.

More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times Edited by Constance Rosenblum NYU Press, 2010, $18.95

Three Hudson Valley women contributed outstanding personal essays to this lively collection of urban musings.

Helen Benedict analyzes New Yorkers’ nonresponse to a uniformed soldier in a downtown bar, Francine Prose responds to ubiquitous post-9/11 police drills, and Laura Shaine Cunningham spins literary gold from the tale of a baby starling rescued by mother-and-daughter adoptees.

The Journal of Ann McMath Edited and with an introduction by C. Stewart Doty Excelsior editions, 2011, $24.95

Subtitled “An Orphan in a New York Parsonage in the 1850s,” the daily writings of Ann McMath from age 17 to 22 provide a rare example of primary source material on the life of an ordinary 19th-century woman. Sent to live with her parson uncle in Horseheads, NY, Ann recorded her religious conversion, daily chores, and personal yearnings in this “biography from below.”

Pure Vision: The Magdalene Revelation Perri Birney Pure Vision Communications, 2010, $28.95

High Falls resident Birney infuses this epic novel with feminine echoes of The Da Vinci Code and The Red Tent, and her eyes on the prize of world peace. New York Times reporter Maggie Seline courts controversy by championing an international Jerusalem. When she disappears, women around the globe march for peace in her name, even as powerful men vie for two ancient artifacts.

The Transparent Bride: Engaging Evolution Through Conscientiously Ardent Conduct Andrew Franck Xlibris, 2010, $19.99

Visionary philosopher Franck is director of the Woodstockbased Center for Imaginative Studies. In a varied selection of idiosyncratic essays, poems, lists, erotic musings, and ecstatic ravings, he explores the concept of Sophia, the Wisdom of God, and her avatars—the Virgin Mary, Great Mother, and eternal Bride, approaching spiritual fusion with the masculine Ardent.

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The Diviner’s Tale Bradford Morrow

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, $26

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owsing is a family tradition for Cassandra Brooks, a rural single mother who narrates the The Diviner’s Tale, a new novel by acclaimed writer and Bard professor Bradford Morrow. As a child apprentice, Cassandra learned from her father that “Water is smart,” and that it prefers yes or no questions such as “You drinkable?” As she plies the tools of her trade—be they witching rods, pendulums, or freshly cut twigs—Cassandra is a patient, respectful querier of the earth.

Her craft and her deep feeling for nature are mutually informing. Cattails and jewelweed can tell her the strength of a stream; even passing songbirds provide clues.

Dowsing is presented as a holistic ritual in this novel. Cassandra meets with skepticism and a degree of hostility, and for a time is beset with doubts about the validity of her vocation. Even her father, playing the trickster, throws her a curve by telling her that he and their forebears were all fakes. The reader, however—by way of her earnest and marvelously descriptive observations—may come to intuit the elemental logic of divining for water, recognizing in Cassandra more of an old-fashioned secularist than a wand-wielding magician. Perceiving a weather shift, she notes, “Low clouds moved hastily between the ocean and overcast sky like random thoughts under a proven theory.”

Innocently Luddite, she is not tied to cellular or social media networks. She reads Latin and enjoys epic poems. Her baseball-loving sons know how to prepare a meal of foraged food. Cassandra idealizes a simple life of what she terms “sweet ordinariness” but does not betray an awareness of how out of the ordinary her life actually is. Just as the Chaucerian echo of the book’s title hints, Cassandra’s tale proffers an elegiac glimpse of a vanishing world.

It is not only water that she divines. Cassandra has clairvoyant tendencies that she is not altogether comfortable with. She foresaw the death of her brother at age seven and unsuccessfully warned him; her quiet insularity, one gathers, formed from this experience. Her extrasensory skills in combination with unhealed childhood trauma are utilized by the author to weave a psychologically complex mystery plot. While dowsing, Cassandra encounters a dead girl—or rather, has a very palpable vision of one.

In the eyes of some, this confirms her status as a crank, but when the police discover a dazed and mysterious runaway near the spot of the apparition, her gift is held to be the reason for the rescue. Deeply shaken by this inexplicable occurrence, Cassandra initially may appear almost too fragile. But when a classic psychopath materializes, her numinous sensitivity advances her into a heroic realm.

Morrow smartly sidesteps the conventions of suspense-fueled genre. The story’s ambling pace is decided by Cassandra’s efforts to remain emotionally intact and continue with family life as usual while registering signs that a man is stalking her. Only when she is ready does she prod the action forward. At times the story seems to lose its footing when delving into her childhood or recalling the backwoods four-wheeler stunts of her brother’s friends. The author’s purpose for these maneuvers, however, grows clearer as the image of the villain does. The idea is that Cassandra is divining herself—accessing the recesses of her past so the evil she detects will be forced to cross her liminal threshold.

As any novel written in the 21st century ought to, The Diviner’s Tale has a sharp environmental edge. All-important to human survival, water is an endangered resource.

With Cassandra, Morrow suggests it may be the freaks who save us.

—Marx Dorrity

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The Present Giver: A Memoir Bar Scott

ALM Books, 2011, $12.95

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oodstock singer/songwriter Bar Scott welcomed in the new millennium with a wonderful baby son. Anyone who has a child knows the delight babies bring and the sense of infinite possibilities that comes with new parenthood. Among those infinite possibilities is the nightmare no new parent can bear to contemplate: having this fresh and allconsuming love ripped away, as painful as having an arm or a leg pulled off very slowly.

We ache and strive to keep our babies safe, turning to tigers at the least hint of a threat, but against some horrors there is no defense.

A rare and aggressive form of pediatric liver cancer separated Forrest from his adoring parents at the age of three and a half, after a 21-month battle—literally, half a lifetime.

“All great love stories should be told and this is the best one that I know,” Scott writes on the first page, and she tells it on key throughout. Toddlers and small children bring life into tight focus, revolving around things that might once have sounded small: stickers, sippy cups, the dusty flavor of teething biscuits, sneakers. Scott’s memoir evokes the sweet details that make up early parenting with a precision that leaves the reader breathless at her raw courage.

Not that she tries to portray herself as any sort of a heroine. Scott and her husband Peter are just doing what must be done, putting foot in front of foot on an unthinkable climb, as they learn about Hickman catheters and AFP blood counts and somehow incorporate Forrest’s diagnosis into their everyday lives, making sure that Beach Day at Supertots and friendships with folks around town do not disappear under a mountain of agonized necessity.

The story is told as a series of vignettes and musings, a form that is somehow more evocative of both early parenthood and extreme crisis than a straightforward narrative would be. Scott will stop in her tracks for a moment and list the many nicknames she and Peter called their son or describe a favorite toy; parents will find themselves lost in their own remembered silliness and nonparents will catch a glimpse of something precious and intense.

The portrait of Forrest that emerges is precise, not a gauzy melodramatic evocation of Everybaby as hero. This was, in fact, a very special little man; his mother can’t help telling us so here and there, but more important, she shows us how, capturing the sweetness and preternatural wisdom of her beloved son in anecdotes of an everyday life that happens to include Ronald MacDonald House and the Make-A-Wish Foundation alongside Supertots nursery school and playtime at Andy Lee Field.

Having been forced to think about the unthinkable, having to normalize things that can never feel normal, and having experienced the beginning and ending of a loved life pressed so close together, Scott brings the reader the gifts she’s gathered on her journey with honesty and great tenderness. “I don’t think anyone has a choice about whether they handle something like this or not. You just do. The only real choice you have is how you’re going to handle it,” she observes. Scott’s reflections on the gift of being Forrest’s mom are a gift in themselves, to the rest of the world.

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POETRY

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

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

the world is flat in places angled and cornered in others

When I be a skeleton my bones will be in a museum.

—Ezra Stern (3 years)

and round in very few —p

A Sort of Blindness

Days of Not Writing

Points West

There are nights when I dream.

Haven’t prayed for so long, I forget even how to open the door.

Frost was wrong. It’s not about the road not taken; it’s about the parade unmet, the paradise unspoken.

It’s my father, and I’m an adult.

And he’s in my kitchen.

So I know I’m dreaming.

And with his fists knotted in his jacket, he offers a smirk.

“I know what you’ve been up to.”

And he does.

You’ve been saying “heh” a lot.

You’ve been thinking you’re clever.

You’ve been hoping silence equals shrewdness.

(You’re quite taken by the theater of your own anger.)

You keep getting taken by the mechanic.

You’ve been giving the desperate glances of a subway voyeur.

You’ve been pretending to be a man.

You’ve been hoping someone else will put out the fire.

Now we’re holding a couple of beers by a truck, overlooking a lake.

Inexplicably, we’re going hunting.

“It’s ok. This is how it is.”

He deliberately checks the sight.

And with the certainty of a father, he tells me he knows.

But I remember it’s a dream, because he doesn’t.

—Lucia Cherciu

New Knowledge New knowledge when old is like seeing the butterfly the first time when young.

Get Out Who is that?

Am I? The grammar of review is control. A door opens. I say, Hello! I’m home!

Therefore it is my house.

—Tamas Panitz

Advice Like insects, languages go extinct.

Every two weeks, one of the world’s seven thousand ways to say sayonara vanishes.

If only the Esperanto of animosity disappeared as reliably.

Brief through the simple Confusion: transition To river of thought.

You know what Pound said About this type of figure Of speech: Don’t do it.

—Pauline Uchmanowicz

River is a natural object— Thought an abstract one.

Both have origins

We Call You Satan’s Mom

Meander.

When put together: Collision of worlds

I’ve looked into the face of madness, and its lips say “One pump sugar-free vanilla, nonfat, no foam, extra hot latte” —Robert Anderson 54 poetry ChronograM 2/11

Jarman Jr., horses at full gallop. It’s about butterfly dreams and Bukowski on the bar

—Scarlet Colsen

—Justin Uliano

Temporary Contemporary

It’s about John Ford on the mesa with a long lens, shooting John Wayne and Claude

Sounds Vortex waterfall Wormhole.

Rules then For composition: Who needs them?

—Richard Martin

stool in Reno, spinning tales for some blonde in a leather jacket.

It’s about peanuts and applejack, and Chief Bender taking the ball in the ninth against the Yankees.

It’s an Americana romp with a racing stripe, a pendulum on the down low, Chicago and the last block, the Slovak section of Cleveland bleeding copper, where we lay the brick and quit trying to pretend we were tired and lofted the Schlitz, killed the pig, prayed hard to the Lord of the Flies, and to the Jersey nights and said hello to the reality of the pimps on Van Houten Ave and the pledge of allegiance and to the sorry realization we’d never cross the Mississippi River again standing on two feet.

—Bruce A. Lowry

The Transcendental in January

Older Now

“Winter midnight My voice does not Sound like my own.”

—Otsuji

older now a bit worn out the soul a sea in constant storm the childhood passions still alive in skewed and often crooked forms

Snow to ice January is The Month of Cripples.

It all breaks down.

The roof is lame The pipes lame Snow tires bald Feet in boots numb Legs ache.

One dozen wild turkeys slide & bob Beneath the suet cage Where mad squirrels feast.

The plowman comes & goes Bills arrive like stink-eyed cossacks Night with the cold soul Of a black jewel Night of bitter stars Comes & stays.

Bones muscles Revolt against us— Between the scattered snowclouds The moonlight frozen Upon a cemetery of seeds Blackbirds huddle January is The Month of Forever.

The jack rabbit The white tailed deer The pileated woodpecker Noble, fleeting & quite ridiculous Spot checks ones grip on sanity.

Thoreau said “There can be no black melancholy To him who lives in the midst Of nature & has his senses still” & Thoreau said “Deal with brute nature. Be cold & hungry & weary”

older now and wiser, too wary of the proper rules the do’s and don’t’s, the protocol the space between the sage and fool fine where I am and free to be adrift in clouded skies tethered by a formless string I wonder as I fly older now unwilling to remit what’s left of passion’s cry want to race, to dare, to dream until the time my spirit flies and that is fine and true. and good a finish line for all to cross mind and spirit lofty, free to gain what has been lost older now the day is passed for frantic youth’s frenetic song the actions slow. the words withdraw we live, we move along.

—Michael Musante

My Inner Mexican My inner Mexican Loves yard work.

The 20-horse growl of 8am, the edger’s obdurate cut.

Like Bloody Noses The taste of iron when you lick blood off the top of your lip lovesick, like New York the subway rattling beneath your feet as you face the long way to the L up North 5th to Bedford where the train comes in 25-minute intervals waiting, passing a brown bagged bottle of Evan Williams to a friend from state college.

“It’s the cheapest thing I could find at the corner store” is returned with “I don’t drink that brown shit.”

The fear, of not being able to eat.

So I drink instead, smoke cigarettes, and eat Cliff Bars.

11 grams of protein enough to sustain a small animal in this city, where all realizations are harsh.

The cold streets of Brooklyn and six months of winter, a freak-out attack in a warm windowless basement.

“Which side of the wall is closing in?

I mean, which side of the bed do you usually sleep on?

You see, I was drunk before I met you and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.”

And there isn’t.

Isn’t that what we do? Look at each other and buy each other drinks?

Try to impress strangers with our aspirations about being an actor?

Acting seemingly interested and faking it later?

Or splitting, after realizing both your tongues taste like whiskey, which could make for an awkward morning after.

Awkward is a state of mind, so, just to be polite...

“You’re very good looking, but expensive. I hardly have any cigarettes left and uh, your nose is bleeding.” or “I have to get my teeth cleaned. There are dentists open this late. Naturally!

It’s New York!”

—Emily Greenberg

Backyard Trees a gift, inheritance is a blessing. yet no matter what I say the awkwardness stinks up the conversations until our eyes avert to the backyard trees that are my most valued possession. big sage breathers with elderly fingers blowing some self right back to me.

& Thoreau said “You must love the crust of the Earth on which you dwell more than The sweet crust of any bread or cake”

—Jennifer Hickey Don’t we all look alike Pushing seed, laying turf, Watching your daughters ready for class, Ripping up your flowerbeds.

& I say “January is The Month of the Dark-Hearted Comedian.”

My inner Mexican Loves a good fight.

Ruts in jalapeno juke joints,

—normal

Collects my Social Security, Salsa and tejano Heat the night.

For Chronogram I envy you all, Who read these and understand, Because I sure don’t.

—Steven M. Rifenburg

—Mike Jurkovic

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ou are driving west on Route 17A when it happens. You’ve already officially entered the Town of Warwick, having driven through the picturesque village of Greenwood Lake, but suddenly you reach the summit of Mt. Peter where Kain Road intersects 17A and enter a different world.

Bellvale Creamery proudly beckons at the intersection, the lone ice cream shop seemingly ill placed atop the summit. Just steps from the Appalachian Trail, this simple shop manages to thrive on the solitude of this mountaintop.

Walk just a few feet from the shop and look west and you are treated to a breathtaking view too perfect to be real. Spread out below you for miles in every direction is the beauty of the village of Warwick.

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That large numbers of Warwick citizens would volunteer to help out is not unusual. In fact, civic participation is a hallmark of this bedroom community.

A couple of blocks up from Yesterdays is a framed, hand-drawn Main Street business directory. “‘Shop local, buy local’ is huge here,” says Nicole Repose, co-owner of Etched in Time Engraving. “The merchants on Main Street know their customers. When I first opened this business I didn’t accept credit cards.

Somebody would come in and say ‘Oh, you don’t accept credit cards,’ and I’d tell them to just come back and pay for it later. People thought I was crazy. But I never had one person not come back and pay me.”

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A Small Town Feel Walking down Main Street or one of its side streets, you are struck by how Norman Rockwell would be hard pressed to find a better example of Americana. One of the reasons is the abundance of independently owned shops lining the streets. There is no Walmart, no Staples, no Best Buy. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entirely by design. Residents, intent on keeping these big-box stores out of Warwick, swamp public hearings to make their voices heard.

Warwick is a town where people settle and stay. Christison, whose Yesterdays has been a Warwick staple since 1984, is now serving his third generation of patrons.There are people whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived all their lives in the Village and know every back road, every person who lives here. Repose says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Warwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those communities where the kids grow up... then they come back here to raise their families.â&#x20AC;?

Families are important in Warwick. Its school district is one of the highest rated in Orange County, and the community goes out of its way to provide children with an enriching, positive place to grow up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that everybody, as parents and as community leaders, is striving so that no teenager ever says thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to do.â&#x20AC;? Says Eileen Patterson, Chair of Warwick in Bloomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the organization that spearheaded the effort to win the Communities in Bloom competition.

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“It is the closest you can get to NewYork City with a fabulous school system and a rural feel.” Says Heide Moeller, real estate agent and proprietor of Collage, a community art gallery on Railroad Avenue in downtown Warwick.

An Artist’s Paradise Collage, which opened this past October, showcases local artists to the community. “We have lots and lots of artists in Warwick. Really an astounding amount of talented people,” Says Lisa Cullen, founder of Every Artist Together (EAT), a Warwick-based nonprofit that brings artists together to erase hunger in their communities.

Every summer, the Warwick Summer Arts Festival draws crowds from all over the Tri-State Area for a unique 10-day celebration of art in all its forms.

Heading into its 12th year, the festival holds concerts and showcases all over the town, not only introducing guests to the artists highlighted or performing at the festival, but introducing them to a wide variety of destinations within Warwick itself. Past venues have included the Railroad Green on the corner of Main Street, town parks, the waterfront park in Greenwood Lake, even area farms and orchards. The whole town gets involved. “One year we had these mannequins that someone had donated.” Says Elizabeth Reese, Director of the Warwick Summer Arts Festival. “Maybe 50 mannequins that we passed out to artists, and each artist decorated them. They were all over town, a lot of them in storefronts.”

It’s not every community that can count on so much volunteerism and pride; the residents of Warwick all seem to understand that they have something special. “There’s something about Warwick that’s unique,” says Christison. “And the residents work hard to keep it that way.”

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nick zungoli the candle shop, one of a number of shops in the artisan’s hamlet of sugar loaf.

A Hamlet of Artisans Travel north from Warwick along the King’s Highway (Route 13) for 11 miles and you arrive at an equally distinctive destination—Sugar Loaf. This hamlet has been an arts-and-crafts destination for over 250 years. “It originated as a stop along King’s Highway where you’d stop and get your wagon wheel fixed or get your horseshoes or your groceries,” says Paul Ellis, artistic director of Sugar Loaf’s Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts and president of the Sugar Loaf Community Foundation. “So there were always people making things [in Sugar Loaf] because it was the only place between ‘here and there’—wherever here and there was at the time.”

Walter Kannon and Jarvis Boone revived that legacy when they became the founding fathers of the Sugar Loaf artists movement in the late 1960s.

“They really revived the artisan community,” says Kevin Kern, owner of Romer’s Alley—a unique passage right off the King’s Highway that is home to a number of shops. “They were really the two people that started recruiting and bringing artisans to Sugar Loaf.”

In the 1970s, Sugar Loaf grew into the arts-and-crafts capital of the TriState Area, just as the handmade crafts craze was sweeping the country. “It was really, truly, a unique experience when you came here and you met people who were making what they were selling,” says Nick Zungoli, awardwinning photographer (he was named 2010 Artist of the Year by the Orange County Arts Council) and owner of Exposures Gallery, “Sugar Loaf became very cutting edge during those years.”

The movement may have crested since then, but Sugar Loaf has remained true to the initial vision of Kannon and Boone. “The thing that really makes Sugar Loaf unique is that when you come into Sugar Loaf many of the business [owners] not only live and work out of the house that you walk into, but a lot of them still make most everything in the shop,” says Zungoli.

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Creative Loafing Walking down Kings Highway through the center of Sugar Loaf is unlike walking through any other town. The street is lined with shops offering handmade jewelry, custom clothing, one-of-a-kind art, pottery, even handmade soap. But the difference is that these shops are also the artisans’ homes, and the people you’re buying from are also generally the people who made what is being sold.

“When people come to my store, they come for me, to talk to me,” says Kiki Rosner, co-owner with her husband,Yaron, of Rosner Soap. “There’s a conversation—an exchange that is part of being social beings.”

It’s that small-town, easy-going atmosphere that helps make Sugar Loaf so appealing. “It’s a place where people can just hang out and roam around.” Says Kern. “We have a saying, ‘Make Time to Loaf.’ People tend to make time to loaf because they like to talk to people on the street; they like to talk to the artisans.

They can do that here.”

People come for the shops, but more and more, they also come for the events. “There’s always something going on.” Says Kern. “There’s either a concert going on, or an outdoor event, or some performer or some artist showing.” The Sugar Loaf Fall Festival, in its 40th year, brought over 16,000 people to Sugar Loaf over Columbus Day weekend. This past holiday season, Sugar Loaf closed off Kings Highway (its main street) and had horse-drawn carriages, caroling, and a visit from Santa. “If you look at the village [during the winter], it looks like it belongs under a Christmas tree,” says Ellis.

Worth the Effort Warwick and Sugar Loaf, connected by the King’s Highway, are also connected by the way they remain unspoiled by the modern trappings of suburbia. While the rest of Orange County welcomes national chains and growing sprawl along Interstate 87 and its other major corridors, these two destina-

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ACADEMICS

Summer Institute for the Gifted: At Vassar College

Tivoli Sailing Company: 2011 Adventure Sailing School

Camp Nooteeming: Boy Scout Summer Camp

PO Box 603, Saugerties (845) 901-2697; www.tivolisailing.com

22 Camp Nooteeming Road, Salt Point (845) 566-7300 ext. 300 www.hudsonvalleyscouting.org

Trinity-Pawling School: Camp All-Star

Farm Camp at Phillies Bridge Farm Project:

Vassar College Summer iD Tech Camp

700 New York Route 22, Pawling (800) 283-3558; www.campallstar.com

45 Phillies Bridge Road, New Paltz (845) 256-9108; www.philliesbridge.org

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (888) 709-8324; www.internaldrive.com

West Point Swim Camps

Hawthorne Valley Association

Woodstock Day School: Summer Institute

639 Howard Road, West Point (845) 938-7671; www.goarmysports.com

327 County Route 21C, Ghent (518) 672-4465; www.hawthornevalleyassociation.org

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Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Summer Camp

124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie (866) 303-4744 www.giftedstudy.org/residential/vassar/index.asp

PO BOX 1, Woodstock (845) 246-3744 ext. 120; www.woodstockdayschool.org

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Mill Street Loft: Dutchess Art Camp Camps in Millbrook, Poughkeepsie, and Red Hook Junior Art Institute at Poughkeepsie Day School The Art Institute at Vassar College (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org/dutchess-art-camp

Wayfinder Youth Summer Program

Camp Callabar 522 Linderman Avenue Extension, Kingston (845) 679-6486; www.callabar.org

Camp Half Moon PO Box 188, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 528-0940; www.camphalfmoon.com

Camp Olmsted Summer Camp 114 Bay View Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson (845) 534-7900; www.campolmsted.org

100 Muser Drive, Cornwall (845) 534-5506 ext. 206; www.hhnaturemuseum.org

Mohonk Preserve Camp Peregrine & Mohonk Preserve Mountainside Adventures P.O. Box 715, New Paltz (845) 255-0919 www.mohonkpreserve.org/index.php?summercamp

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Camp Redwood Day Camp

34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie (845) 485-8438 www.sproutcreekfarm.org/summers.asp

576 Rock Cut Road, Walden (845) 564-1180; www.campredwood.net

Wild Earth Summer Camp

Estelle & Alfonso Performing Arts Camp

Frost Valley YMCA

47 Butterville Road, New Paltz (845) 256-9830; www.wildearthprograms.org

4 Old Route 9W, Fishkill (845) 897-266; www.estelleandalfonso.com

2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville (845) 985-2291; www.frostvalley.org

Excel Gymnastics Camps

Hillcroft Day Camp

2332 Route 9W, Saugerties (845) 336-6706; www.excel-gymnastics.com

1562 Route 55, Lagrangeville (845) 223-5826; www.camphillcroft.com

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Green Heron Farm: Summer Camp

Oakwood Friends Summer Camp

Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake

446 John Joy Road, Woodstock (845) 246-9427. Ask for Roberta www.greenheronfarm.com/summer-camp

22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie (845) 462-4200; www.oakwoodfriends.org

6 Sprout Lake Camp, Verbank (845) 677-3411; www.cyjsl.org/?p=home

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Woodstock Day School: Summer Adventure Camp

31 Yankee Folly Road, New Paltz (845) 255-3220; www.luckycstables.com

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YMCA Camp Wiltmeet

Route 9W Bypass, Kingston (845) 338-2887; www.macfitness.net

Duzine Elementary School, New Paltz (845) 338-3810; www.ymcaulster.org

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YMCA’s Camp Seewackamano

68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz (845) 255-1559; www.unisonarts.org/programs/WayfinderYouth.html

ATHLETICS

Cornwall (845) 561-4700 www.unionavenuecommunityfitnesscenter.com/ Camp/2011splashndash.html

Berkshire Hills Emanuel Camps

382 Lake Surprise Road, Cold Spring (845) 265-3616; www.surpriselake.org

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Camp Dunnabeck at The Kildonan School 425 Morse Hill Road, Amenia (845) 373-8111; www.kildonan.org

Camp Seewackamano, Shokan (845) 338-3810; www.ymcaulster.org

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Ramapo Anchorage Camp

Catskill Woodland Camp P.O. Box 647, Phoenicia (845) 688-2068; storydanz@yahoo.com

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Summer at Hawthorne Valley Kindercamp, ages 3 to 7: Discover the magic of summertime at Hawthorne Valley! Your child will delight in the daily, seasonal rhythm of songs, stories, snack, nature crafts, and play. Adventures through Hawthorne Valley’s 400-acre campus of streams, fields, forest, and farm will captivate your child’s senses.

Kindercamp is a 3-week day program that runs Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 1:00. For more information, please call Alexandra Taylor, 518-672-4465 x 111.

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Kids! Can! Cook! Day Camp, ages 8 to 13 Kids really can cook... and cooking opens doors to healthier lifestyles — connecting children to the wonder and beauty of nature while learning about nutrition, food, farming, and traditional crafts. Cooking, gardening, animal care, carding, spinning, weaving, clay modeling, and woodworking are all part of Kids! Can! Cook! Day Camp.

Time is also made each day for fun and play in field and stream!

Kids! Can! Cook! is offered in three 2-week sessions and runs Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 2:30. For more information, please call Caroline Smialek, 518-672-4465 x 232.

Session 1: June 27 – July 8 U Session 2: July 18 – July 29 U Session 3: August 8 – August 19

Residential House & Field Camps, ages 8 to 15 During this on-farm residential camp, children live, play, and work on our active biodynamic farm while strengthening their bond to nature and to one another.

House Campers, ages 8 to 11, feed the animals, collect eggs, garden, and ride horses.

Nature projects, hikes, cook-outs, and swimming complete the experience.

Field Campers, ages 12 to 15, experience the farm while working alongside the farmers and other professionals who grow, process, and cook healthy food.

Campers are challenged to become “junior apprentices” and work with all branches of the farm including the bakery, dairy, and camp kitchen.

Residential House & Field Camps include all vegetarian meals made with organic ingredients. For more information, please call Helen Enright, 518-672-4465 x 201.

1-Week Session: July 17 – July 22 U 2-Week Session: July 3 – July 15 U 3-Week Session: July 25 – August 13

Hawthorne Valley is a diverse nonprofit set on 400 acres of fields, forests, and rolling farmland in central Columbia County, NY. For more than 35 years, Hawthorne Valley has been educating children and adults, practicing and promoting sustainable agriculture, and supporting the arts.

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SUNY Ulst er has been offering childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs for over 25 years so brace yourself for a summer full of excitement, friends, and knowledge as you participate in our various specialty camps. Baseball, Circus, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Mad Science, Magic, Tennis, are just some of our exciting offerings.

Summertime is playtimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;time for playing sports, running through sprinklers, and being creative. Our camps are filled with activities to keep boys and girls, ages 5 - 17 busy and happy during the summer months. They are staffed by creative and energetic SUNY Ulster credit instructor and local teachers.

The camps are held on the main campus which consists of 165 acres of sloping meadowland and apple orchards and offers majestic views of the Catskill Mountains to the west and the Shawangunks to the south. Hurry, space is limited!

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For more information email MissVickieMusic@gmail.com or call 845-440-8958 SPONSORED IN PART BY:

The Dutchess County Arts Council is proud to support these arts organizations.

VASSAR & NEW YORK STAGE AND FILMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

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POWERHOUSE THEATER Training Program Be FACE TO FACE with

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A SUMMER OF FUN AWAITS AT YMCA DAY CAMPS!

At the YMCA summer camps, we use sports, arts and crafts and nature studies to develop teamwork, patience and understanding. The values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility are the basis of every activity. The camper always comes first and we are proud to be able to serve their needs.

Camp Wiltmeet

Duzine Elementary School, New Paltz, NY

Camp Seewackamano 432 Peck Road, Shokan, NY

Call the YMCA of Kingston & Ulster County at 845-338-3810 x115 or visit us on the web at www.ymcaulster.org

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Kinderhaus Montessori School A Peaceful Nurturing Environment Acres of Outdoor Space Certified Teachers Full and Half Day Programs Spanish, Yoga, Music and Art Pre-K, K Gr 1-3

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Immediate openings available. School tours every Wednesday 9:30am to 10am

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Monday, February 14, 2011 ~ Attend Classes ~ Tour Campus ~ Attend a Q&A with

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Open House

Pre-K to 5th Grade

Administrators Faculty & Students For information or to rsvp call 845-855-4825

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Green Building Event

Building Energy Performance: Energy Saving Techniques in Green Buildings AIA Continuing Education Credits Learn about the benefits that can be gained from new energy saving techniques.

Come hear about the latest building technologies and the measurement and verification systems in use today.

will be offered at this session.

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Tues, Feb 15, 6pm

Putnam/Dutchess venue TBD

Wed, Feb 16, 6pm

Location: Ulster County Skytop Steakhouse

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New York Upstate Chapter Hudson Valley Branch

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Food & Drink

Offally Good Cooking from Snout to Tail

By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

O

ffal is an awful word. It’s the opposite of appetizing. But the things it describes—organs, ears, tails, tongues, tendons, and the like— are some of the most interesting and rewarding foods there are.

Depending on your ethnic background, you’re probably already familiar with one or more offal dishes. Tongue sandwiches, menudo (beef stomach in broth), chitterlings, beef tendon soup, liverwurst, steak and kidney pie—chances are you already love something offal. It’s meatier. Deeper. (Sometimes) fattier. You can’t get that flavor anywhere else. And there’s so much more.

Rich Reeve, chef/owner of Elephant wine bar in Kingston, is a man who knows his way around esoteric animal parts. He produces an astonishing array of excellent tapas from a very simple (no stove!) kitchen, regularly including terrines, tacos, stews, and pâtés made from organs and offcuts. The plates are small, so it’s easy to be adventurous, and he won’t steer you wrong. For Reeve, as for many others, his conversion to this kind of food came in the form of English chef Fergus Henderson’s The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating (Ecco, 1999). It’s a poetically written little cookbook that has been hugely influential.

“The way he wrote, the way he sounded—I got excited,” Reeve remembers, and he hasn’t looked back.

Reeve says that there are only two things about meat that matter: “You need to know where it comes from and you need to eat the whole thing. As carnivores, we owe it to the animal and the people who raised it properly.” And this notion, still a matter of clear necessity in much of the world, is now regaining traction in our country as an ethical, sustainable, and damn tasty way to eat meat. “It’s where the new flavors are,” Reeve continues. “It’s the new frontier.”

So who better than he to be our guide to whole-beast cookery? I invited Reeve to come over and cook a variety of unconventional cuts to show how easy and how good they can be to make at home. Some body parts like brains or tripe may be too challenging for some people to imagine eating, so we limited ourselves to user-friendly things that make for extremely good eating.

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A cow’s heart may look daunting, but prep is simple. Cut it open, trim away everything that isn’t deep red, and then cut the meat into half-inch strips or cubes. Grill or sautée the heart just to rare, and serve as tacos with hot salsa, queso fresco, cilantro, and crunchy radishes. The meat could also be marinated and threaded onto skewers to great effect. It’s intensely beefy and tender: steakier than steak. Reeve recently served raw heart at a large event, and people loved it, though he waited to tell them what they had eaten until after it was gone. And that’s revealing; any aversion we might have to eating these foods is cultural, not gustatory.

The key to good pig ears is long, slow cooking. In this case, Reeve instructed me to confit them beforehand, so I submerged them and a couple of tails in duck fat in a 180˚ oven overnight. They came out tender and lip-smackingly sticky with gelatin. Reeve sliced them into ribbons and quickly fried them into a crunchy tangle of porky goodness, arranging them in an iron skillet with chanterelles and pouring beaten eggs over the lot to set into a frittata that he topped with parsley and pea shoots. The tails got a quick sautée with some fiercely hot barbecue sauce before going on a plate with cilantro and lime wedges.

Marrow bones should be soaked overnight in water (which can be salted and flavored with herbs, if you like) and then roasted just until the marrow puffs up a little and gets bubbly. Don’t overcook it or it will melt away. For some herbal acidity to counter the fatty bones, we whisked up a sort of gribiche (mayonnaise-style) sauce made from cornichons, capers, parsley, nasturtium seed “mustard,” vinegar, and olive oil. Parsley leaves were fried for a garnish.

A quivering dollop of roasted marrow slathered on homemade bread with the piquant salad was as decadent a bite of winter fare as one is likely to find anywhere. If you try one thing from this article, make it roasted bones.

Reeve cubed some guanciale (pig cheek) that I cured a while back (see January 2009) and browned it in a wok before tossing in some pak choi. During the quick cooking, he tossed in hoisin sauce and some cider vinegar, then spooned the bright,

above (l-r): Rich Reeve, chef/owner of Elephant in Kingston, Reeve salting the roasted marrow before serving. opposite (Clockwise from top left): Roasted bone marrow, pig ear frittata, beef heart tacos, pak choi and guanciale, liver terrine, cow tongue pastrami, BBQ pig tails.

glistening greens into a serving bowl. This approach highlights another way to use certain cuts; a couple of tablespoons of pork imparted a rich, meaty flavor to the greens and sweet-sour sauce. It’s useful to remember that this is how much of the world eats their animals: as a flavoring agent rather than a big slab of muscle.

On the other end of the spectrum, he also brought along a liver pâté that was a creamy, meaty joy with his homemade fig jam. Make your own pâté. Please. I had made cow-tongue pastrami and we noshed on it during the cooking.

It’s important to be clear about this: Eating offal is not taking one for the team. It’s not some kind of high-minded sacrifice we make to justify our carnivory. It is a celebration of the animals we eat, and our ticket to a world of extraordinary culinary experiences. Handled properly, nearly every part of our common food animals can be transformed into sublime morsels that will change the way you think about what you eat. The food world is full of trends, and it’s easy to become jaded by the speed at which they change. But eating every part of an animal is not about fashion; it’s about deepening our relationship to food and opening ourselves up to a much wider range of intensely pleasurable experiences. It also happens to be the right thing to do. And, as Reeve exclaims, holding a smoking pan of saucy crimson pig tails aloft: “I’ve done all the other stuff. This is cooking!”

ROASTED MARROW BONES 12 center-cut beef marrow bones 2” to 3” tall (one bone per person makes a nice appetizer, three make a more substantial dish) 1 head of garlic, smashed 1 sprig rosemary or thyme 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil 1 tsp + 2 oz. coarse sea salt 1 bunch flat leaf parsley, cleaned and picked 1 lemon

1 sliced baguette, toasted 1 day ahead, soak bones in cold water (this removes excess blood) Preheat oven to 350°. Remove bones from soak and pat dry. Place them in roasting pan with garlic, rosemary sprig, drizzle of olive oil, and a sprinkle of sea salt. Roast bones for 30 minutes or until marrow puffs up. Remove bones from pan and place on plates. Toss parsley with lemon and serve atop bones with extra sea salt and toasted baguette on the side.

CHICKEN AND PORK LIVER TERRINE 1 ½ lbs. chicken livers 1 lb pork liver 1 lb ground pork ¼ C heavy cream 3 Tbsp orange marmalade 2 Tbsp port 2 whole eggs 1 ½ C flour pinch nutmeg salt/pepper to taste Preheat oven to 300˚. Wash livers and cut into pieces. Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth. Use a spatula to put the mixture into a lightly oiled terrine mold. Put the mold into a larger pan with enough hot water to reach halfway up the mold. Cover and bake for 80 minutes, or until the center of the terrine reaches 150˚. Remove from water bath and chill over night. To unmold, run hot water around the sides and then invert onto a plate or cutting board. Serve with toast, something pickled, and fig jam.

Recipes courtesy of Rich Reeve of Elephant; www.elephantwinebar.com.

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Food & Drink Events for february Single Malt Scotch Dinner February 3 The Global Palate is hosting their second Single Malt Scotch Dinner. The gourmet four-course menu features traditional Scottish dishes, including cherry wood smoked venison, smoked haddock soup, whiskey braised rabbit with barley risotto, and an endive and clementine salad. All dishes are prepared with local meats and seasonal produce, and paired with single malt scotches. Dessert is no exception, guests will end the evening with a choice whiskey soaked cherry cake, or key lime sorbet. Reservations are required. 6pm. $69 per person. (845) 384-6590; www.globalpalaterestaurants.com.

Catskill Animal Sanctuary Compassionate Cuisine Courses February 5, 6, 19, 20 Catskill Animal Sanctuary is offering visitors the chance to learn the benefits to themselves, animals, and the planet of a plant-based diet. These hands-on cooking classes will take place on the premises of the sanctuary and will utilize local, seasonal fare. Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes include: Vegan Breakfast and Brunch (2/5), Winter Sustenance (2/6), Grains and Beans (2/10), and Sauces (2/19). Prices vary from $40-$60.

(845) 336-8447; www.casanctuary.org.

Introductory Distillery Demonstration February 5, 12, 19, 26 Join Master Distiller Jason Grizzanti at the Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery in Warwick for a hands-on distillery demonstration and tasting series on Saturdays in February.

Learn how small batch whiskey is made and enjoy a gourmet lunch following the demonstration. This course is the first of two classes designed to introduce whiskey enthusiasts to the process of distilling, develop a taste for the art, and eventually learn to make their own. $50 includes lunch, distillery course, and tasting. 11am-1:30pm. (845) 258-4858; www.wvwinery.com.

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Romancing The Grape Wine Festival

February 11-12 Indulge in a two-day celebration of oenology. On the first evening of the celebration, wine enthusiasts will have the chance to meet with Peter Mondavi, owner of the Charles Krug Winery, as he showcases his distinctive cabernet and introduces the audience to the romance of wine making. The second day of the festival is when the famous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Romancing the Grape Grand Tastingâ&#x20AC;? takes place. At the tasting guests will have the rare opportunity to experience over 70 wineries and suppliers as well as samplings from the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurants.

The itinerary also includes a free wine seminar, silent auctions, music, and more. Dining packages are $75, Grand Tasting tickets are $55 with discount tickets offered for $25 to designated drivers. (518) 346-6204; www.proctors.org.

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February 16 As part of Culinary Institute of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 Dining Series, Chefs Theo Roe and Rich Coppedge will be collaborating to create a gluten-free gourmet feast. The flour-free feast is a great opportunity for anyone affected by a gluten intolerance to enjoy expertly prepared dishes. The dinner will be held at American Bounty Restaurant on the CIA campus. Attendees will enjoy a four-course meal, as well as information about gluten-free cuisine, and recipes. Chef Coppedgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GlutenFree Baking will be available for purchase as well. The event is one of nine theme dinners at the CIA in February, and will begin at 6:30pm. $55. (845) 452-9600; www.ciachef.edu. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Compiled by Samantha Minasi

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tastings directory Bakeries Jean-Claude’s Artisan Bakery & Dessert Cafe 23 Elm Street, Warwick NY, (845) 986-8900, 122 Windermere Ave, Greenwood Lake (845) 595-6580 www.Warwickinfo.net/Jean-Claude

Moxie Cupcakes (845) 417-8121

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407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355, www.lemoncakes.com 100% all butter scratch, full-service, smallbatch, made-by-hand bakery. Best known for our scones, sticky buns, Belgian hot chocolate, sandwiches (Goat Cheese Special is still winning awards) & all vegan soups. Plus varied treats: vegan, wheat, gluten, dairy or sugar-free. Wedding cakes too. Lemon Cakes shipped nationwide and for local corporate gift giving. Closed Tues/Wed but open 7 am for the best egg sandwiches ever!

Cafes 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.

Catering Holberts Catering

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Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available.

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Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY, (845) 255-2244

Restaurants Abruzzi Trattoria 3191 Route 22, Patterson, NY (845) 878-6800, www.abruzzitrattoria.com

Cafe Bocca

Andrew's Café, menus highlighting locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.

Fratello 22 Spring Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7898, www.fratellobrickoven.com

Gilded Otter 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.

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Grappa Ristorante 22B Railroad Ave, Warwick, NY (845) 987-7373, www.GrappaRistoratnte.com

Gunk Haus 387 South Street, Highland, NY (845) 833-0866, www.gunkhaus.com

John Andrews Restaurant Route 23 at Blunt Road, South Egremont, MA (413) 528-3469, www.jarestaurant.com

La Puerta Azul Route 44, Salt Point, NY (845) 677-AZUL(2985), www.lapuertaazul.com

Loughran’s Route 94 and Schoolhouse Road, Salisbury Mills, NY, (845) 496-3615

O’Leary’s 7100 Albany Post Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 758-2267

Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055 www.osakasushi.net

The River Bank 3 River Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3046, www.theriverbank.biz

Rusty’s Farm Fresh 5 Old Farm Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-8000 www.rustysfarmfresheatery.com

Soul Dog 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-3254, www.souldog.biz

Sushi Village 26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245

Towne Crier Cafe Pawling, NY (845) 855-1300, www.townecrier.com

14 Mount Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-7300, www.cafebocca.net info@cafebocca.net

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Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845) 452-9600, www.ciachef.edu/restaurants American Bounty Restaurant, imaginative cuisine celebrating the diversity of foods of the Americas; Apple Pie Bakery Café, sumptuous baked goods and café cuisine; Escoffier Restaurant, culinary traditions of France with a contemporary touch; Ristorante Caterina de' Medici, seasonal ingredients and authentic dishes of Italy; and St.

100 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9611 29 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1904, www.yesterdaysnet.com

Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848. www.yoborestaurant.com

Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393, www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com

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business directory Accommodation Windham Mountain Ski Resort Windham, NY (518) 734-4300 www.windhammountain.com edewi@windhammountain.com

Hampton Inn 1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600 Poukg_hampton@hilton.com

Inn at Stone Ridge 3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0736 info@innatstoneridge.com

Rhinecliff Hotel 4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 www.therhinecliff.com

Sugar Loaf Bed & Breakfast 16 Pine Hill Road, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-2717 www.sugarloafbb.com info@sugarloafbb.com

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

Antiques business directory

Eclectic Eye 16-18 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5520 theeclecticeye@gmail.com

Millbrook Antiques Center 3283 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3921 millbrookantiquecenter@gmail.com

Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com

Architecture Irace Architecture Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 www.IraceArchitecture.com

Lynn Gaffney Sharon, CT and, Brooklyn, NY, (917) 797-4039 www.lynngaffney.com lynn@lynngaffney.com

Volarch (518) 589-5686 (917) 664-4663 www.volarch.com gabriel@volarch.com

Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org In Rare Form: Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Ann Street Gallery opens on Saturday, March 12, 2011 with an Artist Reception from 6-9 pm. The exhibition runs through April 16, 2011.

Back Door Studio 9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com

Bostree Gallery 1361 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-2819 www.bostree.com

Collage 24 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9000

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Beverages

Dutchess County Arts Council (845) 454-3222 www.artsmidhudson.org artsmidhudson.org

Green River Gallery 1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311

M Gallery 350 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-2189 www.mgallery-online.com

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

Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Bookstores

Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery 53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8610

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

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org

Root 52 Gallery 87 Mill Street, Liberty, NY (845) 295-3052 www.root52.com

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.

Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com

Building Services & Supplies

Art Supplies White Barn Farm 815 Albany Post Road, New Paltz, NY (914) 456-6040 www.whitebarnsheepandwool.com

Artisans Hands Across Time (845) 201-0062 www.handsacrosstime.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2500

Ruge’s Subaru 6444 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7074 www.rugessubaru.com

Bakeries Me Oh My Pie Firehouse Plaza, 7466 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8340 www.meohmypieshop.com The best pie in the World! Wednesday Saturday:10:00am ­– 6:00pm, Sundays: 10:00am – 3:00pm. Serving Lunch, Jane’s Ice Cream and the Best Pie in the World!

1820 New Hackensack Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 240-1794 www.simplicitygoods.com

The Pumpkin House 3275 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-4559

Consulting Services TRACKING WONDER: Changing the Way Creativity Happens (845) 679-9441 www.trackingwonder.com I specialize in helping writers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs progress from ideas to completed projects, navigate obstacles, and work with a deeply motivating wonder.

Conversations in creative organization, timeshaping, problem-solving, platform-building, and manuscript review keep you on track while staying authentic to your vision. Impeccable attention. Delight guaranteed. Call to schedule a pro bono conversation.

Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com

Custom Home Design and Materials

Associated Lightning Rod Co.

Atlantic Custom Homes

(518) 789-4603 (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com

2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com

N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum

Simplicity

Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

The Beacon Theatre Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 226-8099 thebeacontheatre.org

Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608, NY www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accessories

Events Durants Tents & Events 1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com

Wild Earth Programs www.wildearthprograms.org info@wildearthprograms.org

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Newburgh: 1240 Route 300, (845)569-0303, Lake Katrine: 1560 Ulster Avenue, (845) 336-6300, Poughkeepsie: 765 Dutchess Turnpike, (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com

My Sister’s Closet

Beacon Natural Market

1385 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9681 www.mysistersclosetsugarloaf.com

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

Mother Earth’s Store House

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Poughkeepsie: 804 South Road Square, (845) 296-1069 Saugerties: 249 Main Street, (845) 246-9614 Kingston: 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com

Woodstock, NY (845) 684-5074

Style Counsel 19 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9588 www.stylecounsel.net

White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500 306 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 644-9200

Consignment Shops Marilyn’s Consignment Boutique 22 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9844 www.MarilynsConsignment.com

Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!

Pennings Farm Market & Orchards 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com

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

Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy.

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Punch 3262 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-6796

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Silken Wool

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36 & 56 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-1888 www.silkenwool.com

Florists

The Futon Store Route 9, Poughkeepsie, (845) 297-1933 www.thefutonstore.com

Flower Nest Kingston Plaza, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4440 www.flowernest.us

Timbuktu 2 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 619-1169 www.timbuktuwoodstock.com timbuktushop@aol.com

Greenhouse at Rhinebeck 41 Pitcher Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3974 www.thegreenhouseatrhinebeck.com

Home Improvement

KM Designs 62 Wood Road, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 610-3770

Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com

Washington Park Florist

Village Painter New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7383

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Hair Salons A William Anthony Salon 29 Elm Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-4950 www.wasalon.net

Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620

Dazzles Salon & Day Spa 2722 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls (845) 297-5900 738 Route 9, Fishkill Plaza, Fishkill, (845) 897-5100, NY www.dazzlessalon.com

Dennis Fox Salon 6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777

Fabulocity Salon & Boutique 12 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-3656

TressOlay 101 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1575 www.tressolay.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Carpets.â&#x20AC;? 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, 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x3â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Earthlore/Amber Waves of Grain 2 Fairway Drive, Pawling, NY (845) 855-8899 Walk into a world of natural wonder: amethyst caves and crystal spheres, orbs of obsidian, azurite, septarian, chrysocolla â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to name a few; museum-quality mineral ores, and sculptures of breath-taking beauty. PLUS a gallery of wearable art: Navajo necklaces of turquoise and coral, pendants and bracelets of moldavite, tektite, and meteorite; an array of Baltic amber in all its hues: honey, lemon, butterscotch, cognac â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fashioned into jewelry that makes a statement. From amethyst to zirconium, Earthlore offers an awesome display of Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artistry. Open Thurs thru Sat 11am-5:30pm, Sun 11am- 3pm and by appointment.

Forever Jewelers 38 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-2248 www.foreverjewelers.com

Hummingbird Jewelers 23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com

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85 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-ROSE www.washingtonparkflorist.com

819 Little Britain Road, Suite 200, New Windsor, NY (845) 569-7000 www.e-dinerdesign.com

Route 32, 94 North Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 565-6000 High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com

7 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1923 www.jsafinancial.com jeff@jsafinancial.com

e-Diner Design & Marketing, Inc.

Ethan Allen

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JSA Financial Group

Graphic Design

We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

Printed Art

Kings Theatre Company

www.printedart.com

1351 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-2287 www.LycianCentre.com

Simpson Originals 1379 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-1222 www.mysticalmentors.com

Synchronicity 1 Broad Street, Pawling, NY (845) 855-1172

Women’s Work Shop 2600 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 849-1858 www.womensworkbw.com

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery

Adam Fernandez

Jane Cottrell

Kelly Shimoda Wedding Photography

(845) 266-3203 www.janecottrell.com

Mediation Center Of Dutchess County (845) 471-7213 bvalente@dutchessmediation.org

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

Mediators Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie (845) 876-6100, Kingston and Highland (845) 338-9638, www.hudsonvalleymediators.com

Music DJacobs Music 1 Milton Avenue, Highland, NY (845) 691-2701 www.jacobmusiconline.com

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7 Livingston Street Rhinebeck, NY 12572 PHONE: 845-876-1923 FAX: 845-876-4105 www.jsafinancial.com

Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com

Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.

Comprehensive Financial Planning

275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY

Employee Benefits

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Retirement Planning Life Insurance Sustainable Investing

US Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations Bard College, 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

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Organizations

Estate Planning

France Menk Photography (845) 750-5261 www.france-menk.com iam@france-menk.com

Hudson Valley Mediators

INVESTMENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

www.adamfernandez.com

(845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com

Wellspring

845.876.7074 rugessubaru.com 6444 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572

240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8281 www.dogloveplaygroups.com

Photography

Jacobowitz & Gubits

8am - 7pm Monday - Friday 8am - 3pm Saturdays

Dog Love, LLC

Coral Acres — Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art

Lawyers & Mediators

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Landscaping (845) 255-6634

8am - 8pm Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm Saturdays

(518) 392-6121 www.ps21chatham.org ps21@taconic.net

Personal hands-on boarding and playgroups with pick-up and drop-off available. Insulated kennel room, 5x10 kennels with windows, mats and classical music. Supervised playgroups in a 40x40 fenced area. Walks every few hours.

Homemade food and healthy treats.

6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com

SALES

Performance Spaces of the 21st Century

Club Helsinki Hudson 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-4800 www.helsinkihudson.com info@helsinkihudson.com

Falcon Music & Art Productions 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236 7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com

(917) 969-0106 www.kellyshimodaweddings.com kelly@kellyshimoda.com Kelly photographs weddings in a documentary style - capturing events and moments as they occur, with an artistic and slightly abstract angle. In addition to wedding photography, she freelances for The New York Times, including the Vows section.

Laszlo Image www.laszloimage.com laszloimage@yahoo.com

Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7995 www.photosensualis.com

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding 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.

Recreation Mountain Skills Climbing Guide (845) 853-5450 www.mountainskills.biz info@mountainskills.biz

Restoration Ronnee Barnett Textile Restoration Cherry Hill Road, Accord, NY (845) 687-7398 ronneebarnett@hvc.rr.com In private practice since 1978. Among other projects, most often requested is conservation and/or restoration of tapestries, rugs, quilts, coverlets, needle- point, upholstery, samplers, including mounting and cleaning. Featured in many magazines and newspapers, good communication with clients is a must. On staff part time at the MMA.

Schools

Supermarkets

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Marona’s Market

2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org

32 Front Street, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3471 maronasmarket@aol.com

Center for the Digital Arts / Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu

Hawthorne Valley Association 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-4465 www.hawthornevalleyassociation.org

Kinderhaus Montessori School 17 Crum Elbow Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-4668

Media Lab

Tennis Rhinebeck Tennis Club 2 Salisbury Court, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8008 www.rhinebecktennis.com bob@rhinebecktennis.com Play tennis year-round on five outdoor Har-Tru clay courts or our one indoor Claytech tennis court. Specializing in personalized tennis programs. Pro Shop with on-site stringing and demo rackets. Offering adult and junior private, semiprivate, and group tennis lessons. Affordable and easily accessible. PUBLIC WELCOME.

5 Sterling Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-7955

Web Design

Millbrook School

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131 Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8261 www.millbrook.org

PO Box 145, Glenham, NY (914) 213-2225 www.icupublish.com mtodd@icupublish.com

New York Military Academy 78 Academy Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3710 www.nyma.org admissions@nyma.org New York Military Academy is an important part of America’s independent school heritage.

Today, we offer a rigorous global curriculum for students who actively seek to be set apart for excellence in a structured program that enables them to enter college inspired, engaged, and ready for the future.

Oakwood Friends School

Randolph School Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

SUNY Ulster 491 Cottekill Rd, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 339-2025 www.sunyulster.edu/CampUlster Campulster@sunyulster.edu

Trinity-Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org

Shoes Pegasus Comfort Footwear New Paltz (845) 256-0788 and, Woodstock (845) 679-2373, NY www.PegasusShoes.com

Specialty Food Shops Babette’s Kitchen Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8602 www.babetteskitchen.com

Edible Arrangements Kingston, NY (845) 339-3200 www.ediblearrangements.com

Stained Glass DC Studios 21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com info@dcstudiosllc.com

Sundog Stained Glass (845) 469-7984 www.sundogstainedglass.com

Weddings Events By MB (845) 756-5043 or (917) 673-3123 www.eventsbymb.com mbhalpin@eventsbymb.com

HudsonValleyWeddings.com 120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWedding.com; www.HudsonValleyBaby.com; www.HudsonValleyBabies.com; www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of wedding-related professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or e-mail for information about adding your wedding-related business.

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Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, just south of Kingston Kingston, NY 845.339.1787 Beacon, NY 845.838.1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com

ROOTS & WINGS P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies.html puja@rootsnwings.com

Wine & Liquor In Good Taste 45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net

JK’s Wine & Liquors Kingston Plaza, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6429 www.jkswineandliquor.com

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Not Your Grandfather’s Psychoanalysis by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola Despite its sometimes unflattering depictions in film and on stage, psychotherapy is a powerful process of healing and growth.

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hen several life issues turned truculent in my early thirties, I took a friend’s advice and sought a psychotherapist. To this day (many years later) I am still immensely grateful and in awe of the patient, wise, and compassionate therapeutic angels who helped me evolve a healthy way of looking at, and feeling about, my life and my deepest self. And while it is impossible to do justice here to the field of psychotherapy, I want to offer a few morsels about its basics and peek into what a few practitioners in our region are up to.

Psychotherapy is not just for those with serious mental illness: Many people need help with issues that are interfering with life’s activities. “Often, the people I see are having trouble with a relationship—a marriage or partnership, with children, with a boss, with a landlord,” says psychotherapist Bob Hausman, MA, director of the Woodstock Therapy Center and current president of the Hudson Valley Guild of Mental Health Professionals. Other reasons to seek psychotherapy include depression or anxiety (from mild to severe), phobias, trauma and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), dealing with a change in family structure, problems at school or work, or conflict among peers.

Increasingly, people also want help feeling fulfilled: to find balance among the demands and desires of life, to gain a deeper understanding of themselves, to empower and enrich their dreams. It may be distress that initially leads them to a first appointment, but the discovery process from then on is often life changing.

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Foundations and Diversity A basic definition of psychotherapy, Hausman offers, is “a conversation between two people that is about one of them, the client. This is distinguished from a friendship, where presumably there is a reciprocal caring and balanced sharing. Having said that, from my point of view and that of many other therapists, the curative or ameliorative aspect of what happens is about the relationship between client and therapist.”

Hausman cites a famous phrase of eminent psychologist Carl Rogers, whose perspective and research underlie the approach of many psychotherapists today: “The therapist has unconditional positive regard for the client.”

That manifests as a nonjudgmental and supportive presence from the therapist.

“In that sense the helping part of it is about readjusting the client’s perception of themselves,” says Hausman, “which is a much more active approach and a major step forward from Freudian analysis, in which the analyst was supposed to be pretty much a blank screen and mostly listening.”

Conversation is foundational to many psychotherapeutic approaches, which nonetheless vary in premise, emphasis, or technique. For instance, Hausman explains, “cognitive behavioral therapy is based on the premise that a person’s issues or problems are rooted in inappropriate beliefs that they carry about themselves and the world, and that affect their behavior. So therapy is looking carefully at their belief systems. Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches postulate that a person’s history and experience in early life have a

powerful influence on their adjustment as an adult, and that it’s worth looking at those things.”

As other examples, narrative therapy emphasizes that a person’s life and way of behaving are related to the story they have developed about themselves within their culture; play therapy draws on nonverbal creative expression (and is not just for kids!); body-centered therapy uses postures, movements, and sensations in self-discovery and healing. There are several other approaches, including group methods for families, coworkers, or people affected by a similar issue.

Many psychotherapists have trained in more than one approach, and bring wisdom and perspective from their own life journeys as well. For instance, Irene Humbach, LCSW, combines traditional with bioenergetic therapy and Kabbalistic spirituality. “It’s really all about a holistic approach to life, seeing everything as connected—body, mind, spirit. If we have an experience that has amotionally effected us, it will also be held in our body and spirit. If it gets blocked in one area, it will come out somewhere else. If you follow it in your mind/body/spirit and allow it to flow and move, it is a more natural healing process.” A big part of healing, she says, is accepting our so-called negative parts. “We tend to push away the things we don’t like, or try to transcend our personal issues by getting to a different spiritual mentality about it. If we would stop resisting and invite everything in, something actually happens that brings us into more of a whole state.”

EMDR What excites Cindy Dern, LCSW, most in her work these days is EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. First introduced in 1987

by Francine Shapiro, EMDR has proven effective in reducing the impact of trauma, and is recommended by the American Psychiatric Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the US Departments of Defense and of Veterans Affairs. EMDR also is helping those with anxiety, depression, addiction, anger, grief, eating disorders, and stress.

“EMDR is a holistic tool that works with the mind and the body,” says Dern.

“It begins like other approaches by creating a relationship and safety with a therapist, and getting clear on what’s happening in your life that isn’t working for you.You explore where that may have started. If you’ve been traumatized, you need to get stable emotionally, and have gained some skill to handle the emotions that will be brought to the surface. The goal is to get the memory into a clear perspective that fits into a context, and is not so disturbing emotionally.”

The next step is what distinguishes EMDR: simultaneously recalling difficult events or thoughts while repeating a simple sensory input, such as watching the therapist’s fingers move back and forth (for which EMDR is named), listening to tones that alternate between ears, or alternately tapping left and right fingers.That sort of input, called dual attention stimulation, engages both right and left sides of the brain. Doing so while recalling the traumatizing events appears to allow the brain to reprocess the trauma in a more balanced 2/11 ChronograM whole living 83

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“When we are traumatized, the brain cannot fully process it, and we get stuck,” Dern says. “EMDR allows you to reprocess that from a neutral place.”

For example, one of Dern’s clients describes her improvements in dealing with PTSD this way: “Before EMDR, it was as if the emotions had a life of their own, floating through me waiting for opportunities to attach themselves to an event and exert their will. Since EMDR, the feelings seem to have been tied down, tethered to their appropriate context, filed in their correct slot, and are no longer roaming free, inserting themselves where they don’t belong. It is quite liberating.”

What’s more, EMDR can do more than heal: It can empower, by focusing on new, positive thoughts and beliefs during dual attention stimulation. For instance, a client of Dern’s got a strong parental message as a child that musical performance wasn’t an acceptable career path. He chose other work, but is a musician as well who found that EMDR helped him clear the old messages so that he is freer and more alive on stage than ever before.

Kids at Play Dennis McCarthy, a therapist based in Kingston, has been using creativity and play as therapeutic approaches for 35 years. He authored If You Turned Into a Monster: Transformation through Play and edited Speaking About the Unspeakable: Nonverbal Methods and Experiences, which emphasize that kids can communicate and heal without having to talk about what’s going on in adult terms.

“One of the great things about play therapy with kids, besides that it’s the most effective because it’s their language, is that we aren’t imposing a therapeutic model on them,” McCarthy says. “The essence of Jung’s work and his Red Book is that the imagination is a way of being able to experience otherwise intolerable feelings. I think that’s what kids are doing with their play. Paradoxically, they can be speaking about really intense things, but they are protected from the rawness of it because they are speaking through sand or clay or some other modality. Even if they know we’re going to address a particular problem, they have a good time.”

At his office, McCarthy has hundreds of small objects and figurines kids can incorporate into scenes they create in a sandbox, blending fantasy and reality and giving him inroads into their worlds. “The role I play is a mixture of witness and container of the play, and also being a visionary—having a belief in the health of a child and not focusing on the pathology. If kids know I’m not busy trying to figure out how screwed up they are, but that my interest is about the health that’s within them, that’s going to make it work. We can really make enormous changes doing this.” McCarthy also invites kids to draw monsters (they all do so easily), because “monsters are really our first creative act,” he says. “They used to be seen as just pathological, as negative instinctual urges or representing monstrous adults, but many have some positive function.”

Creative expression also gives people healthy outlets for emotional or psychological challenges before they become problems. Unfortunately, McCarthy notes, “kids don’t have the outlets of free, imaginative play that they used to 30 years ago. It’s rare in schools and parents don’t encourage it at home.There are some great teen camps designed for creative play, but it seems like that hasn’t really trickled down to younger kids yet. Parents can help by having materials around—clay, art materials, blocks—and giving kids a space to move around, literally, to get some whole-body activity.”

It may seem that child therapy is a luxury, but if insurance won’t cover it and finances are the problem, each county in NewYork is mandated to have a community health clinic where nobody is turned away for lack of funds. “They are especially important in counties like ours where there are few private therapists,” says Doug Engel, LCSW, clinical coordinator of the children’s division in Greene County’s Mental Health Center. “For many people we are the only game in town. We’d like treatment for the kids to involve the family, though older adolescents are seen by themselves. But for younger kids, a tremendous amount of work is systems therapy, working with the family.”

Engel notes that for the kids they work with, “it’s not just the therapeutic process that’s important, but also that we hook them up with services in the community and almost serve as surrogate parents. Kids do not have the natural family and community supports they’ve had in the past.” Engel knows that parents are suffering economic and other stressors nowadays, but encourages them to spend time playing games or reading with their kids. Studies show that an interested parent is a fantastic defense against childhood problems. He adds, “It’s healthier for a kid to be in a happy home with a single parent than a toxic and destructive one with both parents. It only takes one parent to love a child.”

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Ding, Ding! The Middle Way Wins Again Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

Two articles about parenting came to my attention recently and have gotten me thinking. Both are interesting in their own right, but side by side they are even more compelling.

The first one I came across is by Karen Maezen Miller, a Zen priest and author of Momma Zen. It’s called “Not Teaching Children to Meditate” and was posted on her blog. Her main point is that “Children don’t need to learn to mediate. Parents do.” She believes that children are “exemplars in the art of being” already, and that “how you behave in your home is their spiritual upbringing. I think we have to be careful with all forms of ideological indoctrination, and that is what spiritual training is in children: the imposition of a set of abstract beliefs and ideals.”

The other I heard about on the radio. It is by historian and Yale Law Professor Amy Chua, and was published in the Wall Street Journal. Titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” the piece is an excerpt from Chua’s forthcoming book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In it, she describes how she, as a Chinese mother (the Jewish Dad seems to be in the background), has raised two Carnegie Hall, performing, uberkids, beginning with a list of things her girls have never been allowed to do: • attend a sleepover • have a playdate • be in a school play • complain about not being in a school play • watch TV or play computer games • choose their own extracurricular activities • get any grade less than an A • not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama • play any instrument other than the piano or violin • not play the piano or violin So on the one hand: an American Zen mom saying that she trusts her child’s innate goodness and capacity so much that she doesn’t even want to meddle as much as it would take to teach her to meditate. (I am glad the Dalai Lama’s parents and handlers didn’t feel this way.) Miller writes, “Isn’t it funny that the fact that our children are undistractedly doing what we don’t want them to do absolutely drives us crazy?! They don’t yet have problems concentrating! We more often have trouble loving and accepting them as they are, trusting that they are changing and growing all the time, and usually doing what they need to.” I hear what she’s saying, but….full-body-and-mind begging to play ONE MORE GAME OF UNO, PU-LEASE, ITWILL MAKE ME SO HAPPY may well be what Azalea really “needs to do,” but as her parent, I believe that what I need to do is “indoctrinate” her regarding a few “abstract ideals,” spiritual and otherwise, such as: Enough’s enough.

And on the other: “There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids’ true interests.

For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly.”

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goodly? Chua writes that “tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence.” I don’t think anyone could refute that, but am I just betraying my totally pedestrian nature when I ask, how important is excellence? Do we all have to be the best at something? Professor Chua and her daughters look happy (haughty?) enough in their publicity shots, but we all know people who have suffered at the hands of these kind of driven parents too. And when white folks do it, we call it neurotic, helicoptering, get-a-life overparenting.

And yet, Chua has it right when she talks about teaching children to do anything, which includes, in my opinion, spiritual things: “This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.”

Yesterday morning, as all of this was percolating in me, Azalea expressed a desire to earn some money for a toy she was craving. Honestly, I am ambivalent about having her “earn money” at this young age because she should be helping to help. However, I thought it might be interesting to see what would happen. So I said, hey, I could use some help with these mountains of laundry, which is outside of the realm of her usual chores.

“Okay!” she said, and was ready for the fun to begin.

She started by grabbing random items from the pile and making floppy little packages with them. If I hadn’t been so aware of this whole question of acceptance of what is versus pushing for excellence, I might have just said, “Thanks, honey,” and waited for her to lose interest in the whole shebang and go off and play. But instead I decided to foster a little of my own inner Chua-style Chinese Mother and actually teach her how to fold, like for real. Not exactly math drills, but a start.

When I got serious and slowed her down, really explaining how to lay the front of the shirt on the floor, line up the hems, fold the sleeves in, etc., she bristled at first, saying, “No, Mama, I want to do it my way.”

To which I replied, “Nope.You are going to do it my way. The right way.”

And she squeaked a few more times, saying she already knows how to fold. Ordinarily, I might have thought this was kind of tender, that maybe learning makes her feel vulnerable, thus she wants to avoid it, thus I shouldn’t push the matter. But this time I said, “No, you don’t. But I’ll teach you.”

I have to say, it felt great. No fussing about, oh, well, gosh, this is just my humble way of folding and maybe they do it differently in other houses or countries, so maybe I shouldn’t be forcing my conditioned ideas about folding onto my daughter. It was just, hey, let’s get you down with the laundry program.

When one of her shirts had two sleeves inside out, Azalea immediately handed it to me, saying, “I can’t get it right.”

“Yes you can,” I said.

She tried and tried, pulling sleeves through sleeves, even cried a little out of frustration, but I just sat there, not budging, until she figured it out.

And then she hopped along to pack up some dolls for a playdate—the No. 1, most gloriously ordinary girl on Earth.

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Chiropractic Dr. David Ness

Paula Josa-Jones MA, CMA, RSME/T

(845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com

(860) 364-9313 www.paulajosajones.org josajo@vineyard.net

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

Healthy Place Red Hook, NY (845) 758-3600

Counseling IONE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org

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Mountain View Studio is located in the heart of Woodstock, NY, within the beautiful mountains of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hudson Valley. We are dedicated to providing a healthy and inspiring atmosphere for those who wish to teach, dance, play music, heal, learn martial arts, yoga and all that enhances each individual life within the community.

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IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of MaĂĽt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at ioneappointments@gmail.com

Vital Behavior Services, Inc. (845) 765-0463 www.vitalbehaviorservices.com jweinstein@vitalbehaviorservices.com

CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio ­â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance.

If you need help feeling vibrant call or e-mail for a consultation.

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Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com

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Fitness Trainers

Mountainview Studio 20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-0901 www.mtnviewstudio.com mtviewstudio@gmail.com

MOVING WIDE AWAKE Conscious movement training for: â&#x20AC;˘ Awareness and ease of movement â&#x20AC;˘ Balance, flexibility, and strength â&#x20AC;˘ Wholeness vs. fragmentation â&#x20AC;˘ Increased expressivity, resiliency and vitality â&#x20AC;˘ Reduction of stress and bodily tensions â&#x20AC;˘ Self-acceptance and enjoyment of one's own physicality. Paula Josa-Jones MA, CMA, RSME/T is a dancer, Laban Movement Analyst, Tellington TTouch Practitioner and registered Somatic Movement educator/therapist with over thirty years of experience in helping clients discover their fullest movement potential. Her studio is located in Sharon, CT, and she also meets with people in their homes.

Sage Fitness of New Paltz 40 Sunset Ridge, New Paltz, NY (845) 633-8243 www.sagefitness.blogspot.com sagefitness@ymail.com Anna McConnell, CPT, NSCA has been a Master Trainer for over 22 years. Her objective is to help each person reach their fitness goals by increasing self esteem and confidence with caring professional service. She offers individualized personal training programs designed to motivate and educate for weight loss and body transformations.

Healing Centers Hudson River Community HealthCare (877) 871-4742

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.webs.com lorrainehughes@optonline.net Lorraine Hughes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Herbal Wellness Guide Offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual's specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit my website for more information and upcoming events.

Holistic Health Chatham Holistic Healing Arts 3 Railroad Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-3339 www.chathamholistichealingarts.com chathamholistichealingarts@gmail.com

Joanne DiCesare 5020 Route 9W, Suite 103, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9355 www.holistic-healthcoach.com www.jdcjuiceplus.com joannedc1962@aol.com

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

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Kara Lukowski, CAS, PKS, E-RYT 243 Fair St, Kingston, NY 845-633-0278 www.karalukowski.com kara@karalukowski.com Kara Lukowski is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist who helps clients with disorders of digestion, weight, circulation, skin, reproduction, chronic fatigue, emotional instability, and more. Offering one-on-one counseling with supportive guidance you will receive a personalized nutrition plan, lifestyle recommendations, custom organic herbal formulas, aromatherapy, yoga therapy, and body therapies.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com 15 plus years of helping people find their balance. As a holistic nurse consultant, she weaves her own healing journey and education in psychology, nursing, hypnosis, and integrative nutrition to help you take control of your life and to find True North. She also assists pregnant couples with hypnosis and birthing.

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

Hospitals Benedictine Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley

Benedictine Hospital is a progressive, fully accredited 150-bed acute care hospital.

Benedictine offers elective surgery services and expanded in-patient and out-patient specialty services not typically found in a community hospital including: Orthopedic Surgery, Mental Health Services, Rehabilitation and Detox, Oncology & Breast Center Services, Radiology, Vascular Services and Sleep Center Services.

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley www.hahv.org HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is the parent corporation that aligns Benedictine, Kingston and Margaretville Hospitals, Mountainside Residential Care Center and Woodland Pond at New Paltz. HealthAlliance effectively integrates these facilities to strengthen the quality of patient-centered care and brings enhanced medical technology to the Hudson Valley.

Kingston Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley 396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Kingston Hospital is a 150-bed acute care hospital with a commitment to continuous improvement. In addition to the new, state-ofthe-art Emergency Department, a full compliment of exceptional, patient-focused medical and surgical services are provided by staff with dedicated and experienced professionals.

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

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org

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Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change your outlook.

Gain control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

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Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.

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Massage Therapy Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).

Erin Galucci, LMT 822 Route 82, Suite 2, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 223-8511 or (845) 489-0887

Hands On Massage & Wellness, Inc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heather Kading, LMT, CIMI 258 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-6820 www.hands-on-massage.org handsonmassagewellness@yahoo.com Heather specializes in prenatal/postpartum massage. Recently having her first child, she understand what a woman experiences physically, mentally and emotionally when pregnant and/or caring for a newborn. Heather is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, so she can teach you how to bond with your new bundle of joy. She also teaches women how to prepare for the marathon of labor and how to lose their mummy tummies. Heather and the other therapist also specialize in pain & stress management and sports massage.

Skin care services available. Ask about our monthly massage memberships.

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Vesa Byrnes, LMT 7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 hvtmassage@gmail.com Do you have chronic neck, back or shoulder problems? Headaches? Numbness or tingling?

Or do you just need to relax? Utilizing a blend of soft tissue therapies, we can help you resume the activities you need to do and love to do with freedom from discomfort and pain.

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Kundalini Yoga

by Yogi Bhajan

Isela Stromeyer gstromeyer@earthlink.net tel: 845 658 8413

Kundalini yoga is different than all other yoga

Exercise sets and meditations that change according to the need of the group for each class. They range from making you disease resistant to connecting you to infinity. The meditations help free you of your unconscious clutter and stuck patterns to make life more fulfilling, you learn to direct your mind in a positive direction and feel happy.

Monday morning at 9:30 at Stone Ridge Healting Arts Saturday morning at 9:30 in my Studio in Rifton The class is an hour and half, and costs, $10.

Stone Ridge Healing Arts, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge My Studio, 269 Hardenburgh RD Ulster Park (Rifton)

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 - itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all talk!

Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW for more information

www.itsagirlthinginfo.com | (845) 706-0229

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105 Mary's Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2500 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org

Dr. Kristen Jemiolo

Susan DeStefano

Psychics

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.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.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

845.255.6482 Laurie R. Mallis, MD is happy to announce the opening of her

Holistic Medical Practice

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Menopause Treatment Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Helping women to move through the process of menopause with ease. A unique blend of healing modalities, nutrition and self-care techniques are utilized to help you to become balanced through this transition. If you need assistance becoming your vibrant self call or e-mail for a consultation.

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Holistic Health Coach Ask About Your Free Health Consultation Specializing in weight loss and eating disorders

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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

Pharmacies

Akins Drug Store 33 Main Street, Warwick, (845) 986-4581

Physicians

Bambini Pediatrics, PC 207 Washington Street Suite 103, Poughkeepsie, NY www.bambini-peds.com

Express Pediatrics 1989 Route 52 Suite 3, Hopewell Junction, NY 847-897-4500 www.expresspediatrics.com

Pilates

Conscious Body Pilates 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 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 semiprivate apparatus sessions available.

Pilates in Motion 129 Route 94 South, Suite 2, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1576 www.Pilatesinmotionny.com

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

Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy D Poughkeepsie, NYC (845) 380-0023 Offering therapy for individuals and couples, adults and adolescents. Insight-oriented approach with focus on understanding patterns of thought and behavior that interfere with life satisfaction and growth. Licensed psychologist with doctorate in clinical psychology and five years of post-doctoral training and certification in psychoanalytic work with adults, young adults, and adolescents. Located across the street from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

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

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

Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

Deep Clay Art and Therapy New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts healing sessions. Brief intensive counseling for teens and adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and family play therapy, parent counseling, and “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women.

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 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people heal and grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing childhood trauma, recovery from addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR, and Brainspotting. Coaching and therapy on Mindful Parenting and MIndful Eating also available. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation to join group. Call for information. Newsletter sign up on website.

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Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613

Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com

Reflexology Soul 2 Sole Reflexology, Arlene Spool 701 Zena Highwoods Road, Kingston, NY (845) 679-1270 www.soul2solereflexology.com Relief from Stress & Tension. Relaxing foot or hand massage, Raindrop Technique or Reiki Session; private Green healing space or yours! (‘Sole Traveler’). My clients report relief from stress, carpal tunnel, circulation, insomnia, toxins, radiation & chemo side effects + balance; more energy. Sessions start $32.

Flowing Spirit Healing 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com

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Interfaith Sanctuary of the Hudson Valley 99 Long Hill Road, Highland Mills, NY (845) 913-8636 www.theinterfaithsanctuary.org rev.naomifay@gmail.com

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Resorts & Spas Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com

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

Marlene Weber Day Spa

New Age Health Spa (800) 682-4348 www.newagehealthspa.com

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Woodland Pond at New Paltz, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley

Half Moon Yoga Barn

Woodland Pond is a continuing care retirement community available to individuals age 62 or older who desire to live in a gracious retirement setting. This vibrant community offers spacious independent living apartments and cottages with panoramic views along with a wide range of on-site amenities and services. Woodland Pond also offers assisted living, specialized memory care and skilled nursing where residents have a true sense of community.

Jai Ma Yoga Center

Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change. Featuring Jean Houston: What Would You Do If You Could Not Fail? Feb. 25-27, and Compassion and Presence: Skills training in contemplative care for healthcare professionals and volunteers, Mar. 11-14.

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

Shakti Yoga 67 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 679-0706 www.shaktiyogastudios.com

The Yoga Way 2 Commerce Court #3, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-3223 www.yogaway.info yogaway@earthlink.net Celebrating our 9th year of service! Classical yoga taught in a way that is both applicable and accessible to everyone. Offering ongoing classes for adults, prenatal, baby, toddler, and children. Introductory classes are held on select Saturdays. Affiliate of Lakulish Yoga, LLC. Jahnvi Formisano, Director.

Shakti Yoga Saugerties

$5 Sanctuary Yoga classes Tues 5:30pm • Thurs 7am, 4pm and 5:30 • Sat 10am Private and group instruction as well as worksite classes available Louise: 845-853-6727 Diane: 845-246-5807 67 Partition Street shaktiyogawoodstock@gmail.com 2/11 ChronograM whole living directory 91

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751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com

Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

Bambini Pediatrics PC

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Bambini offers your family the resources of a typical pediatric ofďŹ ce.

But we also go a step further and recommend options such as herbs, homeopathic remedies, and referrals to natural healthcare specialists.

Joseph T. Malak, MD FAAP / Jane Brotanek, MD MPH FAAP 207 Washington Street, Suite 103 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 249-2510 www.bambini-peds.com

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Tim Davis, Couch in Car, archival pigment print, 2010; part of the exhibbition "150 Years Later" at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

Campus Life Taking a serious glance inward for the occasion of its sesquicentennial (its 150th), Vassar College commissioned three photographers to come to campus and find their subjects and inspiration in situ. The 39 artworks that resulted peer into Vassar’s privileged enclaves, taking stock of the décor, snack foods, ephemera, impedimenta, fashion gestures, tangential anxieties, and tangible attitudes that summon to mind a discrete characterization of this community of students. Currently on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, this exhibition—“150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin”—is reportage only in the very loosest sense, and noticeably bears no trace of the mix of poignancy and enchantment that yearbook and college promotional images rely on.

“I chose these photographers because I wanted to make sure that people could tell them apart,” says curator Mary-Kay Lombino, “that they would know they were looking at three different artists, who were looking at the topic in three different ways.” Tina Barney, Lombino learned, had been planning to take on an elite school as a subject.

Barney is renowned for her portraits of Upper East Siders whose straight-on gazes search out empathetic complicity in the viewer. Barney’s Only the Best shows four students who look like groggy arrivals from the LA indie scene in a dorm room. On the wall is a poster of Manet’s Boy Blowing Bubbles. In her catalogue essay, Lombino points out that Barney’s title is taken from the 1999 Manet show at the Metropolitan Museum, and she reminds us that Manet’s bubble symbolizes the evanescence of youth. Still, the title Only the Best nods agreeably at entitlement, and in union with these fine young hipsters its nonironic gist is disquieting.

In 1939, Alfred Eisenstaedt, the pioneering photojournalist, did a Life photo essay

on Vassar. Fewer attended college then, and far fewer women than men. College itself was fairly elite business, and for women the top was Vassar (which became co-ed in 1969). Even though an egalitarian point of view was implicit in Life’s voyeuristic treatment of class and gender, Eisenstaedt’s spread must have rankled many Depression-era readers. Yet others must have been thrilled by the proto-feminist world that Vassar suggested. Four of these pictures, now in the Art Center’s collection, are on display in an adjoining gallery.

Historical narratives leach through the bricks and rafters in Katherine Newbegin’s photographs; which notably, are without human beings. Newbegin’s prior work includes an exploration of crumbling Soviet tourist lodging in Eastern Europe, and the settings that she chose at Vassar seem similarly lost in time. Vestiges of student life, such as the stored furniture and erotic graffiti in Basement of Joceyln, may intimate social relations from the past: “Did punk bands once practice here?” one asks.

Tim Davis, who is a professor at Bard College, chose “move-out day” for his series.

The not-yet-packed or discarded objects he lands upon—e.g., Broken Mirror, Wig and Bong, The White Shelf—have the quality of luminous readymades. A sense pervades that the ceremonies of innocence that were once enacted within the college walls are also being packed or discarded. The couch on which one learned Russian verbs or organic chemistry reactions, for instance—one wonders on its fate in the next life.

“150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin” will be on display through March 27 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. (845)437-5632; http://fllac.vassar.edu.

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TUESDAY 1 Body / Mind / Spirit

Group Alexander Technique Class Level II 9am-10am. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

Wrinkles, Creases and Folds 6pm-8pm. Papier-mâché high relief by Andres San Millan. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth Call for times. Weekly through March 15. $300. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Belly Dancing 7:30pm-8pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Spiritual Support Group for the Unemployed 9am-11am. YMCA, Kingston. 331-7188.

Kids

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $40/$76. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Community Acupuncture 4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

High Frequency Channeling 6pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

Yoga with Mia 6:30pm. $10. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston.

679-8348.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

New Moon Class 7:15pm-8:15pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Zumba Gold 7pm. For active older adults. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Film Nastroishchik: The Tuner 8pm. Chicago Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Kids ZumbAtomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Music Carl Hackert, Robert Kleinschmidt and Guests 1pm. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Neko Case 8pm. With special guests Lost in the Trees. $40. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Iran, The Green Movement and the USA: The Fox and the Paradox: Hamid Dabashi 5pm. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie.

437-5871.

Workshops Mathematics Alive - Geometry Workshop for Middle School Teachers and Parents Call for times. $155-$225. The Nature Institute, Ghent.

(518) 672-0116.

WEDNESDAY 2 Art Presentation: Art, Dance, Music, and Words 3:30pm. Villard Room, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama and Baby Yoga 10:30am-11:30am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Zumba 5:30pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Comfort Measures 6pm-9pm. This class will give you practical hands on tools to help during labor and birth. $65. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

The Artists Way with EFT 7pm-9pm. With Tony Guy Parker. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitairan Fellowship. Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Juggling and Cirkus Arts Classes for Ages 8 - 13 Call for times. 15 Wednesday sessions. $225. Morris Memorial, Chatham. (518) 828-7470.

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Kids’ Yoga Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Music Kids’ Open Mike 7pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Workshops Non-Violent Communication 6pm-7:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

THURSDAY 3 Art Saugerties Art Lab Drop-In Art 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Projective Dream Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Melissa Sweet. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

L’amour et Plus 6pm-8pm. Group show featuring artwork that reflects the theme of love and erotica. Collage, Warwick.

986-9000.

Dance

Demo and Talk with Sculpture Sandra Bilotto 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 8pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Breastfeeding Support Group 11:30am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Breastfeeding Support Group 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Pregnancy Yoga Series 2pm-3:15pm. $80/6 sessions. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $15/$80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Classes Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Tango Fire 8pm. $28/$24 seniors/$14 children. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Events An Evening with David Berkeley 8pm. Reading, performance and book signing.

Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Music Mary Crescenzo Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Joel Harrison’s String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

3 of a Kind 8pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

The Harvest Duo 8pm. Dance music. Babycakes Café©, Poughkeepsie.

485-8411.

The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Icy Moons of Jupiter 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Axiom 9pm. Elsie’s Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.

Eilen Jewell 9pm. Old country, folk and blues. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Events

Todd Snider 9pm. Rock and roll. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Japanese Cultural Event: Setsubun 5:30pm. Traditional bean-throwing event. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

PeachJam 9:30pm. Americana. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Single Malt Scotch Dinner 6pm. $69. Global Palate, West Park. 384-6590.

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Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Paula Poundstone Call for times. Comedy. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Theater Magus: Field Trip Performance 10am. $8. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Bob Wiseman 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8.

Community Playback Theatre, Highland. 691-4118.

Talking Machine 8pm. Acoustic. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh. 561-7240.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

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Magus: Field Trip Performance 8pm. $24 adults/$22 seniors & children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Fascinating Freshwater Creatures 7pm-8:30pm. George Schuler of the Nature Conservancy. Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Lecture Series, Lecture Center 100, SUNY New Paltz. 255-0919.

Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art 7pm-9pm. Sponsored by the Beacon Art Salon. $5.

Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356.

Theater Magus: Field Trip Performance 10am. $8. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

FRIDAY 4 Art Runway Style: Historic Fashions in Miniature 1pm-4pm. $5. James Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook.

(518) 758-9265.

New Watercolors by Mira Fink 5pm-7pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

SATURDAY 5 Art Runway Style: Historic Fashions in Miniature 1pm-4pm. $5. James Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook.

(518) 758-9265.

Silver Work by William Tripp 3pm-5pm. Small Gallery at Valley Artisans Market, Cambridge. (518) 677-2765.

100 Artists/100 Dreams Artist Preview 5pm-8pm. Deep Listening Institute, Ltd, Kingston.

338-5984.

Works by Kim Denise 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-1700.

Rough at Hand 5pm-7pm. Solo exhibit of Carrie Jacobson and a group show by Seniors Paint the Town. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Annual Erotica Show 5pm-7pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

Waxing Geometric 5pm-7pm. Paintings by Astrid Fitzgerald. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.

Cape Code Views in Watercolor 5pm-8pm. Ray Curran. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen.

338-5580.

Chronogram, The Covers Show: 1993-2011 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Larry Brown: Paintings 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

Body / Mind / Spirit A Loving Touch: Infant Massage 10am-11:30am. $25/$45 two sessions. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. This workshop offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Qi Gong 1pm-2:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

New Moon Sound Healing Frequency 5pm-6:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Flamenco Dance Class Flamenco kids 2-3pm, Flamenco I 3-4pm, Flamenco II 4-5pm. Open Space, Rosendale. liaochoa@gmail.com.

Dance 19th Annual DanceFest 4pm/7:30pm. Performances by many local dance groups. Sponsored by Vanaver Caravan. $15/$10 children and seniors. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-7869.

Hudson Valley English Country Dance 7:30pm-10:30pm. Workshop at 7pm. $10/$5 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen.

679-8587.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/free children and volunteers. Knights of Columbus, Kingston.

FreestyleFrolic.org.

Events Pancake Party Call for times. Fundraiser for Beacon Riverfest.

Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Cold Spring Indoor Farmers’ Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

New Paltz Winter Carnival 11am-3pm. Featuring performance by Boundless Edge Ice Dance Ensemble and School, lessons, and free skate. Moriello Park, New Paltz. 626-4596.

Under-21 LGBTQ Teen Skate Party 6-8pm. Hosted by Hudson Pride Foundation. The Skate Factory, Ghent. www.hudsonpridefoundation.org.

Film Plastic Planet 3:30pm. Documentary about plastic. TSL Warehouse, Hudson. (518) 822-844 Dinosaurs Alive!

Call for times. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Gallery Graphic Design: Get the Message Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany.

(518) 463-4478.

Kids TSL Kids Create Winter Workshop: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Music Open Rehearsal: Mahagonny Ensemble 11am. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Bob Lusk 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Souls Within the Veil 3pm. Legendary trombonist Craig Harris. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 320-4175.

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 7pm. Opening: David Kraai and Amy Laber.

Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Michelle Leblanc 7:30pm-10:30pm. Winter jazz. Hudson River House Inn, Cold Spring. 265-9355.

Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Suede 7:30pm. Pop, blues, and jazz singer-performer. $26/$23. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

The Saints of Swing 8pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Alexander Turnquist & Glenn Roth 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

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Luther" Guitar Junior" Johnson will perform at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling on February 5.

Sweet Home Chicago There’s a fine line when it comes to electric Chicago blues made after the 1950s glory days of Chess Records. It separates those artists whose style carries a noticeable degree of soul-tinged, urban sophistication—while still retaining enough of that crucial Delta dirt—from those who’ve wholly sunk into the kind of slick, uptown cheese that makes authenticity seekers reach for their Howlin’ Wolf box sets. And, unfortunately, since the passings of Wolf and his fellow giants, too many of the Windy City’s blues exports have been in the vapid, latter vein. So thank God, then, for Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, who’s a rare and gloriously refreshing exception to this sad trend, and will play at the Towne Crier in Pawling on February 5.

One of three Chicago blues guitarists sharing the same name—there’s also Luther “Georgia Boy” Johnson (aka “Snake Boy” Johnson), who died in 1976, and Luther “Houserocker” Johnson, still with us—“Guitar Junior” is easily the best known. (To add to the confusion, though, Chi-Town’s Lonnie Brooks also called himself “Guitar Junior” early on.) Given the combination of this Johnson’s upbringing and professional background, his greatness in the genre was practically a birthright. Born in 1939 in Itta Bena, Mississippi, he was soaked in the blues as a boy; Robert Nighthawk and the “second” Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) were early idols. In 1955 he moved to Chicago, where he joined in the city’s famously vibrant scene of other transplanted Mississippi musicians.

It was during this time, the story goes, that local guitar legends Otis Rush and Magic Sam, unable to afford to hire additional side men, had begun integrating their stinging,

single-note lead licks with hard, distorted chords as way of filling out the sounds of their smaller bands—thus developing the West Side style that so influenced Eric Clapton and others. Johnson fell strongest under the spell of Magic Sam, who became his mentor, and by 1973 he had gained enough of a reputation to land a spot in Muddy Waters’s band. Between world tours with Waters, Johnson cut his solo debut, Luther’s Blues (1976, Black and Blue Records), with members of Waters’s group.

Besides performing with Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, and Jerry Garcia, Johnson appeared in the hit 1980 comedy The Blues Brothers. In the early ’80s he relocated to the Boston area and put together his own tough combo, the Magic Rockers. Since then he’s kept busy, releasing more albums—two of which won him a 1984 Grammy and a 1985 W. C. Handy Award—and regularly working the blues festivals and clubs around the planet.

With the inescapable preponderance of soulless bar-band hackery that currently passes for blues in most quarters, and the inevitable fading of the generation descended from the music’s Mississippi crucible, the importance of catching a genuine bluesman of gifted technique like Johnson—while he’s still here—just can’t be recommended enough.

Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson and the Magic Rockers will perform at the Towne Crier in Pawling on February 5 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $25 and $30. (845) 855-1300; www. townecrier.com.

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27th Annual Woodstock Tribute to Bob Marley 8pm. $20/$15 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers 3pm. The Newburgh Chamber Music Ensemble. St. George’s Church, Newburgh. 562-1861.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Harvest Duo 8:30pm. Dance music. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Shades of Blu 3pm. $20. Vassar Alumni House, Poughkeepsie.

437-7100.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

The Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Crescendo Choir 4pm. First Congregational Church, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (86) 567-2715.

Dance

The Trapps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Rory Block and Cindy Cashdollar Co-Bill 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Madd Dog 9:30pm. Rock. Junior’s Lounge, Poughkeepsie.

486-9237.

Vickie Russell 9pm. Acoustic. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

255-1000.

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The Outdoors

UnderWhere? in the 1880s 1:30pm. Kjirsten Gustavson. James Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9265.

Mohonk Preserve Table Rock Moderate Hike 9am. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz.

594-9545.

Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring David B. Austell. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Spoken Word

Theater

Jewish Summer Camp Information Session 11:30am. Camp is for ages 7-15. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-1671.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Karen Russell 7pm. Reading from recent works. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087.

Cream of Shorts 8pm. Actors & Writers assembled an evening of vintage gems from their annual Shorts Festivals.

Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Theater

Workshops Joan Jardine, Impressionist Approach to Landscape Painting Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

TSL Kids Create: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Photoshopped! An Introduction to Graphic Art 10am-1pm. $40/$25. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 2pm. Janet Hamill. College of Poetry, Warwick.

294-8085.

SUNDAY 6 Art Wheels of Time 3pm-5pm. Pittsfield artists take a trip down memory lane with a nostalgic look at bygone-wheeled vehicles.

Old Chatham Country Store and Café, Old Chatham.

(518) 794-6227.

Leonie Lacouette 3pm-5pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Better by the Dozen 6pm-9pm. Group exhibit with Amos Eno Gallery exchange. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Kundalini New Moon Meditation 11am-1:30pm. With Yogi Bajan’s student Nidhi Huba. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

New Moon Vortexhealing- New Light, New Beginnings 2pm-3:30pm. With Linda Raphael. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Community Talking Circle 4pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

The Fantasticks 2pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Workshops Photographing the Nude in the Studio 3:30pm-9:30pm. Taught by Dan McCormack. $120/$100 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MONDAY 7

Caligula Call for times. Live ballet broadcast. $25. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Events Iron Grad II Competition 6:30pm. Featuring Francesco Buitoni of Mercato Osteria. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Kids ZumbAtomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Zumba Gold 7pm. For active older adults. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Virtuosi-in-Progress Recital 7pm. Young winners and finalists of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Virtuosi-in-Progress and College-Youth Symphony Competitions. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-7869.

Spoken Word Jewish Summer Camp Information Session 5:45pm. Camp is for ages 7-15. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-1671.

Lecture V: Gaining Access to the Contemporary Art World 7pm-9pm. Introducing the Collectors Education Program. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

WEDNESDAY 9

Body / Mind / Spirit Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Meditation 6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Women’s Healing Circle 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/ headfiles/10_11Calendar.pdf.

Film Rethinking Happiness 7pm. Old Chatham Quaker Meeting. Powell House Quaker Conference and Retreat Center, Old Chatham.

(518) 794-0259.

Kids The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites 10:15am. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Music SUNY Students Music Night 7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Workshops Doody Calls 12pm-1pm. Cloth diapering information session.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

TUESDAY 8

Classes

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama and Baby Yoga 10:30am-11:30am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Zumba 5:30pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Heart Opening Channeling 6:30pm-8pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitairan Fellowship. Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Group Alexander Technique Class Level II 9am-10am. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

Belly Dancing 7:30pm-8pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Events Neighborhood Green Drinks Call for times. Networking night for people in the environmental fields and sustainably minded. Hudson Valley Green Drinks is splitting up into neighborhood HVGDs for the winter, all on the same night, multiple locations. Call for location. 454-6410.

Kids Kids’ Yoga Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Group Alexander Technique Class 12pm-1pm. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Dance

Spiritual Support Group for the Unemployed 9am-11am. YMCA, Kingston. 331-7188.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

The Saints of Swing 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Swing Dance 6:30pm-9pm. Free beginners lesson 6:00-6:30. $10/$6 full time students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Events Pancake Breakfast 8am-12pm. Benefiting Rhinebeck’s Boy Scout Troop 128.

American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. u.morgan@lgny.org.

Film The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story 11am. Du Bois Center, Great Barrington, MA (413) 644-9595.

Kids The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites 3pm. $16. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Music Jazz Brunch 11:30am-3:30pm. Bernstein Bard Trio. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

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Spoken Word

Wordstock Salon Series 6:30pm-8:30pm. All Kinds of Love theme and live music. $10. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Heart Healthy Event 7:30am-11:30am. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston.

334-3182.

Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Breastfeeding Support Group 11:30am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Breastfeeding Support Group 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Pregnancy Yoga Series 2pm-3:15pm. $80/6 sessions. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $15/$80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Classes Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & 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.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jimmy Cobb’s “So What” Band: Kind of Blue 7:30pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Spoken Word Fireside Chat: Hark! Who Goes There?

7pm. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

Animals on the Move 7pm-8:30pm. Matthew Schlesinger, NYS DEC chief zoologist. Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Lecture Series, Lecture Center 100, SUNY New Paltz.

255-0919.

FRIDAY 11 Art From Huguenot to Microwave: New and Recent Works by Marco Maggi 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3844.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Trance Journeying 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Peter Blum. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Community Acupuncture 4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Identity Economics 5pm. George A. Akerlof. Blodgett Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Merkaba Activation with Master Teachers 6pm-7:30pm. Channeled Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Contemporary Fiction Book Group 7pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale.

(518) 325-4101.

Black History Month Step Off “Stepping Into Wellness” 7pm. $22/$17 in advance/$15 children and students.

Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Yoga with Mia 6:30pm. $10. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston.

679-8348.

Workshops

Contradance 8pm. Sarah VanNorstrand, with music by Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand. $10/$9 members/children 1/2 price.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Breast Health 7pm-8:15pm. Susan Willson. Interface Healing, Kingston. (914) 466-0090.

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Non-Violent Communication 6pm-7:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Beauty Within: A Journey in Landscape Photography 6:30pm. Robert Rodriguez, Jr. Call for location. www.robertrodriguezjr.com.

THURSDAY 10 Art Saugerties Art Lab Drop-In Art 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Dance

Events Art of Chocolate Weekend Call for times. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

(800) 772-6646.

Film An Affair to Remember Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Fighter Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

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Music

Folk Music Society of New York Annual Weekend of Music Call for times. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. www.folkmusicny.org.Eric Erickson 7pm. Singer/songwriter. Reservoir Inn, West Hurley.

331-9806.

The Met: Live in HD Nixon in China Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Armen Donelian Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Garland Jeffreys 7pm. Opening: Reed’s Bass Drums. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Jane Monheit 7:30pm. Jazz. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Donny McCaslin Group 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Last Good Tooth 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

The Rahsaan Langley Project 8pm. Couples only dinner. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Anne Mironchi 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Michelle Leblanc 7:30pm-10:30pm. Winter jazz. Hudson River House Inn, Cold Spring. 265-9355.

The Andy Polay Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Amy Fradon Valentine’s Concert 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Breakaway with Robin Baker 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Machine 8pm. Pink Floyd Tribute show. $35/$25/$20. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.

Benefit Concert: Kevin McKrell & Brian Melick 8pm. $20. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park.

(518) 674-2007.

Big Joe Fitz Blue Dance Party 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Jenny Lin 8pm. Solo piano. Bach, Shostakovich. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Chris Smither 9pm. Folk. $25. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Zumbi Zumbi 9:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

The Outdoors Girl Scout Winter Sports Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Theater With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Underneath the Lintel 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

SATURDAY 12

The Harvest Duo 8:30pm. Dance music. Riccardi’s Hideaway, Kingston.

338-0554.

The Outdoors Minnewaska Winter Excursion Call for times. Strenuous x-country ski or hike.

Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 462-0142.

Tracking Winter Animals 2pm-3:30pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

Spoken Word Book Reading by Marianne Schnall 1pm. Borders Books and Music, Wappingers Falls.

297-3700.

Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage 4pm. Hazel Rowley. $35 reception following lecture.

Dutch Reformed Church, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9265.

Heart Wrecked Show 9pm. Syd Straw. $25. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Osho Active Meditation: Kundalini 12pm-1pm. $10. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Partner Yoga 1pm-2pm. $30 pair. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Restorative Yoga with Sound Healing 5:30pm-8pm. $35. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Underneath the Lintel 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Workshops iPhone Artistry with Dan Burkholder Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

TSL Kids Create: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Baby-wearing Bonanza 2pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Enriching Poetry Through Detail 2pm. Lynn Hoins. College of Poetry, Warwick.

294-8085.

Working Light Powerfully 2pm-4pm. Workshop & attunement with Rand Shields. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

SUNDAY 13

Classes Flamenco Dance Class Flamenco kids 2-3pm, Flamenco I 3-4pm, Flamenco II 4-5pm. Open Space, Rosendale. liaochoa@gmail.com.

Events Cold Spring Indoor Farmers’ Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Valentine’s Dinner Parties 5:30pm. Cocktail hour, followed by dinner at various Hudson Valley estates at 7:30pm. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.

Romance in Art & Music 6pm-10pm. Featuring a concert by classical guitarist David Temple, with gallery display. $10. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Film The Fighter Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids TSL Kids Create Winter Workshop: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Pre-School Story Time and Open House 1:30pm. Kinderhaus Montessori School, Hyde Park.

229-4668.

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Events Indoor Winter Farmers’ Market 11am-2pm. Delaware Community Center, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Film Limon: A Life Beyond Words 2pm. $10/$5 students. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Until the Violence Stops 7:15pm. Benefit for Ulster County's Battered Women's Shelter. Upstate Films, Woodstock. 331-7080x127.

The Fighter 7:15pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids

Music

With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Psychic Saturday 12pm-5pm. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Group Alexander Technique Class 12pm-1pm. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

The Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.

Theater

A Loving Touch: Infant Massage 10am-11:30am. $25/$45 two sessions. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Understanding Qualities in Nature: A Basis for the Agriculture of the Future Call for times. In collaboration with the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association and Hawthorne Valley Farm. The Nature Institute, Ghent.

(518) 672-7500 ext. 105.

Avner the Eccentric in “Exceptions to Gravity” 3pm. $25/$12.50 children. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Creative Connections 3pm-5pm. Featuring work by The Kristy Bishop Studio.

Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Supply and Demand 9am-11am. Breast pump information session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Classes

Soul Purpose 9pm. Dance. Gold Fox Restaurant, Gardiner. 255-3700.

Art

Body / Mind / Spirit

Exploring the Buddhadharma 4pm-5:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Art Light, Shape, and Fantasy 4pm-6pm. Acrylics, watercolors, landscapes, abstracts

by John Kruppa. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Lewis Mehlmadrona: Stories From Our Ancestors 10am-5pm. $100. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. This workshop offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Grandfather Crystal Meditation 2pm-4pm. Guided meditation with Liz Connell. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Nutrition for the First Year 2pm-4pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Jazz Brunch 11:30am-3:30pm. Elaine Rachlin. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Jazz at The Falls Valentine’s Singer Showcase 12pm. Featuring Vinny Martucci. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Saugerties Pro Musica: Mark Rust 3pm. Folk. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-7802.

Natalie Amendola 4pm. $15. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Lawrence Anthony 5pm. Motown, R&B. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

The Rhonda Dent Project 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Jane Monheit 7:30pm. Jazz vocalist. $29.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Outdoors Love Lives of Animals 10am-12pm. Short walk that’s long on fascinating facts about animals and their mating habits. Scenic Hudson’s Madam Brett Park, Beacon. 473-4440 Ext. 273.

Theater The Fantasticks 2pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

MONDAY 14

Music The Callen Sisters 7:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Dr. Dog for Lovers Only Night 8pm. $20. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Workshops Kate McGloughlin, Alternative Non-Toxic Printmaking Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

TUESDAY 15 Body / Mind / Spirit Spiritual Support Group for the Unemployed 9am-11am. YMCA, Kingston. 331-7188.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Community Acupuncture 4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 6pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Yoga with Mia 6:30pm. $10. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Kirtan, Satsang and Stories with Sahaja 7:30pm-9pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Zumba Gold 7pm. For active older adults. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Film Rigoletto Call for times. $20. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Speaking in Tongues 7pm. $10. Film followed by discussion about early foreign language learning moderated by Diana Zuckerman. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids ZumbAtomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Spoken Word The Dutchess County Holistic Moms Chapter Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

WEDNESDAY 16

Body / Mind / Spirit Supply and Demand 10am-11am. Breast pump information session. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Psychic Wisdom: Monthly Psychic Development Workshops 6pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/ headfiles/10_11Calendar.pdf.

Murder Mystery A Wedding in Transylvania 6:30pm. Dinner theater. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff.

876-0590.

Film The Fighter Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Dirty Dancing 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Kids Let’s Go Science Show: For School Groups 10:15am. Grades 2-6. Wacky look at “how things work” with Professor Smart and Ms. Knowitall. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama and Baby Yoga 10:30am-11:30am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Zumba 5:30pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Hypnosis for Working Mothers 6:30pm-8:30pm. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

The Artists Way with EFT 7pm-9pm. With Tony Guy Parker. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitairan Fellowship. Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Group Alexander Technique Class Level II 9am-10am. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

Belly Dancing 7:30pm-8pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Film The Fighter Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

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Kris Lundberg and Carey Harrison as Jane and John Dee in "Magus," which will be staged this month at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck.

Meeting of the Minds What if William Shakespeare had been killed before he was able to write his masterpieces?

What if it was at the hands of another famous writer, born over 300 years later? “Magus,” the the most recent play by novelist, director, and dramatist Carey Harrison, considers what might have happened if some of the most famous names in writing, history, and magic were to meet in 16th-century Prague. “Magus” explores the power of illusion, boundaries of reality, and the interchanging of time and space.

The Manhattan Theatre Company commissioned Harrison to write a companion piece for a play the company was staging about Rudolf II of Bohemia. Harrison was presented with two stipulations: Use the same costumes and actors as the Manhattan Theatre Company’s play, and set the play in 1580s Prague, during the reign of Rudolf II. And then Harrison’s imagination ran wild. “A play set in Prague must somehow, I felt, feature Franz Kafka,” says Harrison.

Historical bits about the character’s lives permeate the surrealist play, creating a mishmash of fiction and fact. In “Magus,” Kafka and his sister, Ottla enter a folie a deux (French for “a madness shared by two”). Ottla has fallen so deep into the delusion that she is the queen of 16th-century Prague, that Kafka must enter the dream too, in order to save her, and bring her back to the 20th century.

With “Magus” as well as many other works, Harrison takes classic historical and literary figures and satirizes and dramatizes them. Though the play employs familiar names—Freud and Cervantes make appearances—no one is as they seem, or as we know them. Each character, we find, is in Bohemia to fulfill a secret agenda, from finding a lost love to seeking revenge.

Harrison not only directs but also stars as John Dee, magician and former consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. Dee is in exile, trying to manufacture gold for Rudolf II. As events unfold in Bohemia and true identities are revealed, we learn that Dee is not just an

alchemist but also an incarnation of Sigmund Freud. “In ‘Magus’, I get to play Freud, which for me is ultimate fulfillment,” Harrison says.

“Magus” is Harrison’s 35th play for the stage. “I began as a realist, focusing on family dramas, as the Greeks did,” Harrison explains. In addition to plays for the stage, he has written a number of plays for television. It wasn’t until about 30 years into his career that Harrison started to experiment with surrealism in his playwriting.

The son of screen legend Rex Harrison and actress Lilli Palmer, Harrison was surrounded by the stage and the written word growing up. “You do learn from watching, and absorbing the presence, as much as the practices, of others,” Harrison remarks.

Palmer, in addition to acting, was a bestselling novelist, as was his stepfather, Carlos Thompson. To this, Harrison credits his inclination for writing. “When writing, I can work 14 hours at a stretch, forgetting food and water. Words put me into a trance,” Harrison says.

The play, however, nearly fell apart. The Manhattan Theatre Company was unable to bring the play to Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe Theater as originally planned. So, with borrowed costumes, Harrison sought out local actors and formed his own company to perform “Magus”. The play was staged last June at the Byrdcliffe Theater. The success of “Magus” prompted the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck to invite Harrison to bring the production to Rhinebeck this month.

“I suppose the play says that dreams, no matter how little rooted in reality, can heal and even save us,” says Harrison.

“Magus” will be staged at The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, February 4 through February 6. Friday and Saturday shows: 8pm, Sunday matinees: 3pm.

(845) 876-3080; www.centerforperformingarts.org.

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Classes

Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yoga Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Workshops Non-Violent Communication 6pm-7:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Stepping Out of Chronic Illness, Exhaustion, & Unhappiness 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

THURSDAY 17 Art Saugerties Art Lab Drop-In Art 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Breastfeeding Support Group 11:30am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Breastfeeding Support Group 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $15/$80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Classes Zero Balancing Call for times. Learn to balance the structurally body with the energy bodies simultaneously. Woodstock, Woodstock. www.zerobalancing.com.

Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Film The Fighter Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Joseph Mantia & His Jazz Quintet 7pm. $12/$8. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake. 434-5750 ext. 4472.

Classical Guitar Recital: Greg Dinger 8pm. Celebration of the Music of Agustin Barrios Mangore. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-2700.

Don & Bunk Show starring Mothers of Invention 8pm. $15. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Eddie Diehl & Friends 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Rasputina 8pm. Gothic cello. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

spoken word Peregrine Falcons on the Wing 7pm-8:30pm. Thomas Sarro and John Thompson on charismatic megafauna. Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Lecture Series, Lecture Center 100, SUNY New Paltz. 255-0919.

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FRIDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

BLS Healthcare Provider Course 6pm-10pm. Health Quest Community Education. $50. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-8500.

Dance Rennie Harris Puremovement 8pm. $57. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-0100.

Film True Grit Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Noah Preminger Group 7pm. Opening: Seth Davis. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Light Riders a.k.a. Premik & Friend 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

The Harvest Duo 7:30pm. Dance music. Frank Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Italy, Kingston. 340-1682.

The Pink Floyd Experience 7:30pm. $27/$32. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Slavic Soul Party 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Vague Assurance 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

John Schrader Band 8:30pm. Acoustic. American Glory BBQ, Hudson.

(518) 822-1234.

Jeffery Gaines with Cat Cosentino 9pm. $20. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Reality Check 9pm. Rock. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls.

298-1724.

The Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-5100.

Charlie Sabin Acoustic 9:30pm. Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main, Beacon. 838-6288.

Spoken Word Economics of Hydraulic Fracking Call for times. Call for location. (914) 879-1082.

Theater With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

SATURDAY 19 Art Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit 5:30pm-12am. Mill Street Loftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gallery 45, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll Photographer Patrick Harbron 7pm. Lecture and show of works. $5. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

Body / Mind / Spirit Lose Your Mummy Tummy 10am-12pm. 6-week program teaches you the 4-step, researched based Tupler Technique. $175. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Ayurveda: Disease Process and Why We Fall Ill 12:30pm-2:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Intentional Living Feng Shui and the Intentional Candle Practice 1pm-3pm. With Gabrielle Alizay. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Qi Gong 1pm-2:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

The Human Experienceâ&#x20AC;? Part 2c 4pm-6pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Full Moon Sound Ceremony 7pm-9:30pm. With Peter Blum, Thomas Workman and Philippe Garnier. $20. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 679-5650.

Classes

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Flamenco Dance Class Flamenco kids 2-3pm, Flamenco I 3-4pm, Flamenco II 4-5pm. Open Space, Rosendale. liaochoa@gmail.com.

Full Moon Meditation 5:30pm-6:15pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

BLS Healthcare Provider Course 9am-3pm. Health Quest Community Education. $75.

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-8500.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Call and Response Chanting 6:30pm-8pm. Celebrate the Divine Mother. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Full Moon Transformation with Shamanic Sound 6:30pm-8:30pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Kenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Class 10am-12pm. $25/$20 members + flower fee. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Dance Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/free children and volunteers. Knights of Columbus, Kingston.

FreestyleFrolic.org.

Events

Dance

Cold Spring Indoor Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

West Coast Swing/California Mix Dance 7pm-9pm. Intermediate west coast swing workshop: 5:30-6:30, $15. Beginners lesson 6:30-7. $8/$6 FT students. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-1379.

George Washington Birthday Celebration 12pm-4:30pm. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Film True Grit Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids TSL Kids Create Winter Workshop: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Pekka 10am/12pm. Theater for toddlers. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Flow Circus 10:30am. Juggling, magic, and comedy. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 2pm-2:45pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 3pm-3:45pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Music Uncle Rock 11am. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Events George Washington Birthday Celebration 12pm-4:30pm. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Film True Grit Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Music Jazz Brunch 11:30am-2:30pm. Blue Gardenia. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Trail Mix Chamber Concert 2:30pm. High Point Ensemble. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Pacifica Quartet 4pm. Pre-concert talk at 3:30pm. $25/$5 student.

Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. rhinebeckmusic.org.

Amor & Psyche 5pm. Presented by Opera Feroce. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Jackson Emmer with Summer Mummy 6pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Theater

Gunther Brown 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

The Thalia Follies: Divided We Stumble 3pm. Political cabaret. $20-$40. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

Michelle Leblanc 7:30pm-10:30pm. Winter jazz. Hudson River House Inn, Cold Spring. 265-9355.

With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

A2D Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Workshops

Big Takeover CD Release Party 8pm. $10. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

The Dylan Emmet Band 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Understanding and Caring For Your Honeybees 10am-6pm. Second level of organic beekeeping with HoneybeeLivesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chris Harp. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. www.HoneybeeLives.org.

Seed and Sow Skill Share 11am-3pm. Learn from local experts about gardening techniques. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Food Network. $5. Hodgson Farm and Garden Center, Walden. www.hvfoodnetwork.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Chris Bergson Band 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

The Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-5100.

Soul Retrieval Work 6pm-9pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Spoken Word Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll Photographer Patrick Harbron 7pm. Lecture and slide show. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-1481 ext.3344.

Theater With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Workshops Christie Scheele, Interpreting the Landscape Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

TSL Kids Create: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring 10am-6pm. Hands-on beekeeping workshop for beginners, with HoneybeeLivesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chris Harp. $95.

Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. www.HoneybeeLives.org.

Beat Generation 2pm. Teresa Costa. College of Poetry, Warwick.

294-8085.

SUNDAY 20 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

The Art of Energetic Healing 10am-6pm. Suzy Meszoly. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

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Events George Washington Birthday Celebration 12pm-4:30pm. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. http://www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/ headfiles/10_11Calendar.pdf.

Local emerging and established artists lead fellow artists in discussions about their work, their process and their views Monthly Dialogue Sessions February 3 First Thursdays, 7:30 - 9:00 pm Art in the Digital Age BEAHIVE with Sherry Mayo 291 Main St, Beacon, NY & Susan Walsh All events are free and open to all

Film True Grit Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Sponsored by the Beacon Art Salon with generous support from public donations, BEAHIVE and the Rutigliano Group with thanks to Dia:Beacon for hosting the special events.

Kids

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Winter Adventures Call for times. Morning or afternoon sessions or full day. Proctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Winter Break Art Camp 9am-Friday, February 25, 3pm. Ages 5-12. $50 a day/$225 week. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent.

(518) 392-4568.

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Baby-wearing Bonanza 10am-11am. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

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TUESDAY 22 Body / Mind / Spirit Spiritual Support Group for the Unemployed 9am-11am. YMCA, Kingston. 331-7188.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Community Acupuncture 4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Classes

High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 6pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Group Alexander Technique Class 12pm-1pm. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

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MONDAY 21

Minneapolis Guitar Quartet 8pm. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Creation 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Copperfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Millbrook.

677-8188.

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Yoga with Mia 6:30pm. $10. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston.

679-8348.

Breastfeeding Support Group 11:30am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Breastfeeding Support Group 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras with Shri Radha 7:30pm-9pm. $10. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Zumba Gold 7pm. For active older adults. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Kids ZumbAtomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Music Carole Cowan Recital 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Spoken Word Our Fight Against Global Climate Change 7:30pm-9pm. Cornwall Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 473-4440 Ext. 273.

WEDNESDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Mama and Baby Yoga 10:30am-11:30am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mother-to-Mother Groups 11am-1pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Zumba 5:30pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $15/$80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Conversation with Angels 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Classes Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Film True Grit Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Shale Under Siege: Gasland Screening 6:30-9pm. W/Cara Lee of the Nature Conservancy and Nadia Steinzor of Earthworks. Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Lecture Series, Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 255-0919.

Kids

Workshops Intermediate Swing Dance Workshop 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

SATURDAY 26 Art American Tonalism: New Works by Patrick Milbourn and Lee Anne Morgan 3pm-8pm. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-0380.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Human Experience: Part 2d 4pm-6pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Flamenco Dance Class Flamenco kids 2-3pm, Flamenco I 3-4pm, Flamenco II 4-5pm. Open Space, Rosendale. liaochoa@gmail.com.

Dance Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s Bardavon Gala 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Events Cold Spring Indoor Farmers’ Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

ZumbAtomic 5:30pm. Zumba for ages 4-12. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

14th Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta 2pm-7pm. Featuring locally crafted ceramics, delicious chili, and live music. $5. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-9133.

Music

Kids

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Theater Sam Cooke: Where You Been Baby?

Call for times. $20/$10 students. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake.

434-5750 ext. 4472.

Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Green Thumb Call for times. $15. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

TSL Kids Create Winter Workshop: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Music The Met: Live in HD: Iphigenie en Tauride Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Iphigenie en Tauride, Christoph Willibald Gluck 1pm. Met opera live in HD. $20/$10 students. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake. 434-5750 ext. 4303.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

C.B. Smith 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

The Artists Way with EFT 7pm-9pm. With Tony Guy Parker. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Marcus Strickland Quartet 7pm. Opening: The Youth Group aka The Bob Meyer Project. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Michelle Leblanc 7:30pm-10:30pm. Winter jazz. Hudson River House Inn, Cold Spring. 265-9355.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitairan Fellowship. Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Group Alexander Technique Class Level II 9am-10am. $75. Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck.

876-5686.

FRIDAY 25

Bright Shadows and Dark Radiance: The Chod Practice 6:30pm-8:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes

LongShot 9:30pm. Country. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.

Film

Reality Check 10pm. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.

Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

Kids

Spoken Word

Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles 7:30pm. $49.50/$39.50/$27.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Green Thumb 10:30am/7pm. $15. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Garry Carrion-Murayari on Walter De Maria 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Theater

Music

Give a Hoot Owl Hike 6pm-8pm. Esopus Meadows Point Preserve, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 270.

Workshops Non-Violent Communication 6pm-7:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

THURSDAY 24 Art Saugerties Art Lab Drop-In Art 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Jonah Smith Band 7pm. Opening: Lara Hope & the Champtones.

Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

JAS with Kati Mac and Tim Ouimette 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

John J & Jay Trapp 8:30pm-11pm. Rock, blues, jazz. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

The Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Three 9pm. With special guest Nightmares for a Week. $20/$15 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Underneath the Lintel Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Workshops The Fine Art of Digital Printing Call for times. Richard Edelman. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Expressive Painting with Elena Sniezek 12pm-2pm. $20. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Jenny Nelson, Action Abstraction Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Theater

Community Acupuncture 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Doody Calls 2pm-3pm. Cloth diapering information session. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Underneath the Lintel Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Learn to Communicate with Your Pet 2pm-4pm. Brenda Seldin. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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Akashic Record Reveled 2pm-4pm. June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Exploring the Buddhadharma 4pm-5:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Classes Youko’s Cooking Class 3pm-5pm. Dashi (broth) & Kake (soup) preparation. $25.

Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Dance Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s Bardavon Gala 3pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Events Indoor Winter Farmers’ Market 11am-2pm. Delaware Community Center, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Kids Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Green Thumb Call for times. $15. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Music Jazz Brunch 11:30am-2:30pm. Perry Beekman. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Jazz at the Falls 12pm. Featuring The Rebecca Coupe Franks Trio. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Kevin Masch 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Winter Ecology Exploration 2pm. Discover animal tracks, ice bell formations, cold weather insects, and the wonders of winter survival. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Theater With and Without 7pm. $15/$12 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Workshops Compassionate Communication for Couples 1pm-5pm. $40/$70 couple. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

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Theater

TSL Kids Create: Making Moving Toys 10am-12pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Breastmilk Expression and Storage 2pm-4pm. Class for the mother who is exclusively expressing her breastmilk for her baby or a breastfeeding mother returning to work and planning on pumping. $55.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

The Outdoors

Swing Dance to Soul Purpose 8:30pm-11pm. Beginners’ lesson 8:00-8:30. $15/$10.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

David Kraai and The Saddletramps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Kane Brothers Blues Band 9pm. $15. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Music

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Taj Mahal and his Band 7pm. Blues and roots. $56/$41/$36. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Dance

Back to the Future Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Hypnobabies Call for times. $375. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Skin Against Metal: The Spirit of Afro-Cuban Music 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Film

Kids’ Yoga Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Baroque Reworked 2pm. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Music. $35/$25 Dia members/$10 students/children free. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Kids

SUNDAY 27 Body / Mind / Spirit

Skin Against Metal 7:30pm. Latin. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Belly Dancing 7:30pm-8pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

True Grit Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Middle English Love Poetry 2pm. William Seaton. College of Poetry, Warwick.

294-8085.

Body / Mind / Spirit Stanford University Chronic Disease Self Management Program 10am. Woodland Pond, New Paltz. 256-5962.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Message Circle: Receive Messages From Your Loved Ones in The After Life 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam F. Bernstein. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/ headfiles/10_11Calendar.pdf.

Film The Defiant Ones 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

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The American Symphony Orchestra will perform a program featuring Beethoven's Tenth Symphony at the Fisher Center at Bard College this month.

The Apotheosis of the Dance The American Symphony Orchestra continues its performance of every Beethoven symphony on February 11 and 12. The highlight of the performance will be Beethoven’s Seventh. “It’s considered quite a celebratory work, and I think that speaks to the times—the impending victory over Napoleon,” explains Bard music professor Christopher Gibbs, who wrote the program notes. “The last movement’s incredibly intense. Wagner gave the most famous soundbite of it. He said the symphony was ‘the apotheosis of the Dance’—that it takes dance to an element of almost frenzy.” Indeed, in the 20th century, the allegretto from the second movement has been choreographed as much as any classical work.

Last year the American Symphony Orchestra began performing the Beethoven symphonies, in order, to mark the 150th birthday of Bard College. This year the orchestra will complete the series. (Ludwig and Bard never coexisted; Beethoven died in 1827.)

The concerts take place at the Fisher Center on the Bard campus.

This concert includes the Tenth Symphony, titled “Wellington’s Victory,” sometimes referred to as “The Battle Symphony.” It was a crowd-pleaser in Beethoven’s lifetime but is rarely performed today. To recognize its importance, one must understand 19th-century Vienna. (The history of Western classical music is often the history of Vienna.) “Napoleon had invaded Vienna twice, in 1805 and 1809, so the Viennese were very glad to see the defeat of the French,” Gibbs explains. “Beethoven wrote the piece in 1813, when Wellington defeated French forces. And it’s quite a realistic piece. There’s actually a tune—‘Rule Britannia’—for the British, and a tune for the French, and they battle together, and the French tune

loses. Then there’s an elaborate series of variations on ‘God Save the King.’ It’s not a very subtle piece. It’s a lot of fun.” In fact, the French theme is “Marlbrough s’en va-t-en guerre” (“Marlborough Has Left for the War”), which we now recognize as “The Bear Went over the Mountain.”

Nine years before, Beethoven had dedicated his Third Symphony to Napoleon, but tore up the dedication after the French leader crowned himself Emperor. “Wellington’s Victory” and the Seventh Symphony premiered at the same concert in Vienna, on December 8, 1813. “The Battle Symphony” includes the roar of cannon—imitated by timpani—plus actual muskets, based on the sounds of warfare Beethoven complained of during Napoleon’s second invasion in 1809.

“The Battle Symphony” influenced Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” which in turn inspired much heroic movie music—so it’s not entirely absurd to call Beethoven’s work “The Original Theme from Star Wars.”

The concert will also feature three short works, including the wrenching tone poem

by Jean Sibelius, “Luonnotar” (“Daughter of Nature”), with words from the Kalevala, the Finnish epic. This virtuosic recounting of the world’s creation—in Finnish!—will be performed by soprano Mary Bonhag. Sibelius will be the subject of the annual Bard Music Festival this August. Peter Laki will give a preconcert talk.

The American Symphony Orchestra will perform at the Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, at 8 pm, February 11 and 12. (845) 758-7900; www.bard.edu/news/calendar.

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Bruce Springsteen, 1978.

Photograph by Patrick Harbron.

Darkness Visible Syracuse, NY; September, 1978. I was stumbling home, not because of a six-pack of Genny Cream, but a bracing dose of Asbury Park rock: I had just seen Springsteen’s second night at the War Memorial Auditorium.

Back on campus, I shared my epiphany with dorm mate Brian. Bruce had climbed atop a speaker during the encore, ripped open his shirt, then leaped to the stage, wailing, “I’m just a prisoner of rock ‘n’ roll!” I smugly awaited Brian’s awestruck response.

“Oh yeah,” Brian said. “He did that last night, too.”

Mythmaking in the music business stems as much from polished theatrics as pure talent. Colluding in building Springsteen’s legend was veteran rock photographer Patrick Harbron, who was a gun for hire during the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour that year. A Toronto native, Harbron had begun his career shooting bands at El Mocambo, a small downtown club. Using a Minolta SR-T 101, he crouched stageside and snapped the Boomtown Rats, Billy Idol, and King Crimson’s Bill Bruford.

Eventually, Harbron got to play court photographer to rock royalty: AC/DC, Elvis Costello, Kiss, Pink Floyd, and the Stones. But when corporate rock began imposing limitations on concert photographer access, Harbron jumped to shooting album covers and corporate advertising. Currently a faculty member of the International Center of Photography, Harbron shoots for TV series, including “The Big C” and HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” Three books of his work have been published.

The lecture “The Photographs of Patrick Harbron” will be held on February 19 at 7pm at Columbia-Greene Community College in Greenport. (518) 828-4181x3342; www.sunycgcc.edu. Portfolio: www.patrickharbron.com.

—Jay Blotcher You have captured some rock icons at their most dewiest. So obviously, you’ve been at this for some time.

I did it from the mid-‘70s to about the mid-‘90s. Some of those people were on the way up and in varying stages of their career. It was easier in some respect to do this work when I did it then because there were fewer restrictions; there’s quite a number of restrictions now about shooting that kind of material. But it also was the time and it was how interesting and new things were.

Although my work is a mixture of concert coverage and portraits, there is something pretty exciting about photographing somebody live because it’s reportage and you can’t stop it and say, “I want to do it over again.” You have to capture what’s going on then and there.

How did you initially come into the world of photography?

Kind of by accident. I played in a band many years ago and [that] began my contacts in the music business. I was a freelance writer for a couple of years, but in the end it’s not what I really wanted to do. A friend of mine was a photographer.

He’d come back from Guatemala—it was vacation, it was nothing political or historic—and he had a whole bunch of cameras. And I remember him one day just putting them all together and—I don’t know; it was just a moment. I said, “That’s what I want to do.”

So you actually weren’t formally trained; you didn’t go to college— I was self-taught. I ended up buying a camera that evening after watching my friend put his thing together. And the next day I was going to a Who concert and I photographed it. The pictures were terrible, of course, because I had no idea what I was doing.

[Laughs.] I guess that was the mid-70s, ’75. So, by ’76, a year later, I decided that’s what I wanted to do for a living.

How did your rapport with rock stars develop? Some rock photographers become part of the entourage. Others maintain a certain distance so that they can establish their objectivity.

I was the latter. I mean, there were many groups I became tight with, and they would come to me for work, but in the case of Springsteen, I did a number of tour dates for him for his record company, but I never met him. That was the ultimate distance.

[Rock photography is] now very closely tied to publicity, and photographers now doing that kind of work are an extension of the publicity tool. As soon as I started in the late ‘70s, the idea of image and what it meant to a group and how they could learn to control it was already starting. And you read about people who were shooting stuff in the `60s and `50s, and you look at that stuff of Elvis Presley, where’s he’s sitting there eating a plate of beans, sitting around in his underwear. That stuff would never happen today—never.

Among your rock ‘n’ roll archives, what are your favorite shots?

The early Who stuff: I have a picture of Keith Moon that I love, that was taken about a year before he died. Then there’s a Pete Townshend shot that was taken in Buffalo in 1979, the night after the Cincinnati trampling. The Bon Jovi session that I shot for the album Slippery When Wet. 2/11 ChronograM forecast 105

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

Be My Valentine

W

hen I first started writing for Chronogram, I succeeded in causing a controversy.

Oh really? you say. And how was that?

Well, I wrote a three-part series on polyamory—that is, on what some call “responsible nonmonogamy” and others call “open relationships.” I guess this was around 1997. It seems like so long ago. I started the first of the three articles by coming out of the closet as polyamorous; I thought it was a good idea to get that fact out of the way.

I love relationships and the art of relating, and I like to connect with whomever it feels right to relate to, in whatever way is mutually agreeable. (Trust me, those terms and conditions don’t leave a lot of room for the anarchy you may think is brewing.)

I described my motivations and a bit about my experiences, and mentioned that there exist a significant number of people who either are polyamorous or want to be, but who don’t quite feel comfortable speaking up. Sometimes, though, just learning the word has a way of setting someone free—I’ve heard that a lot. Other people, though, can get quite defensive, as if the one and only legitimate form of relationship is being compromised. Jason Stern, one of the founders of Chronogram who was then its editor, said that he was hearing about the series from people even five years later.

Five years! You know, the usual complaints about how his writer was going to bring down Western civilization and so forth.

Today, the topic has been covered by everyone from Newsweek to Huffington Post and appears as a regular feature on the website of Psychology Today. Polyamory has been discussed on the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Independent (UK). There is a very nice blog with archives going back to 2005 that is devoted to keeping up with all the news coverage and analysis polyamory gets.

It’s called “Polyamory in the News” and it will come up with Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” option. There are so many news and website references to polyamory that it’s both impressive and funny. The archives are brimming with this open secret, and the stories are generally balanced, describing well-adapted adults making choices about the structure of their families.

But before I go on, let me say this.

You read it here first.

If you were reading Chronogram at the time, you read it before the LGBTQ movement had its wings or its many letters; you read it here before it was cool to come out; and you read it nine years before the word polyamory was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006. Here is how those erudite scholars define the word: “The fact of having simultaneous close emotional relationships with two or more other individuals, viewed as an alternative to monogamy, esp. in regard to matters of sexual fidelity; the custom or practice of engaging in multiple sexual relationships with the knowledge and consent of all partners concerned.”

In other words, not Tiger Woods. And not King Henry VIII, about whom the term polyamorist was used in 1953 to describe him, in the Illustrated History of English Literature, Volume 1 by A. C. Ward. This may have actually been the first iteration, and in a sense 106 planet waves ChronograM 2/11

Henry was polyamorous in the eyes of the church. Today, he would be called a “serial monogamist,” which I think is an oxymoron; I prefer “serial polyamorist” for those who have their relationships in a long sequence.

While relatively few people openly identify as polyamorous, there are many who are so in practice. Many others are curious. Many are eager to open up their relationships, and not just because they want some sexual variety; they also crave the bonding, growth opportunities, and expanded community that come with doing so. And yes, some grounded sexual freedom feels really good.

Mixers, Potlucks, and Jealousy There exist many methods and styles of polyamory; I will describe them to the degree necessary to help you check whether you identify with one or more. What I’m really here to do is get some poly action going in the Hudson Valley. So far as I know, if you want to go to a poly mixer or potluck or other event (such as a talk or a workshop) you have to drive down to New York City, which in my opinion is a long way to travel for a date. If I’m mistaken and you’re part of a poly network that I haven’t heard of, please get in touch.

There are enough of us up here, tucked away in the hills and towns, to have some interesting social fun, to get to know one another, and to get the cider fermenting. For those who might hesitate, I can assure you that once a concept has made both Newsweek and the Oxford English Dictionary, it is sufficiently mainstream that you don’t have to mutter “I’m not so weird, I’m not so weird” under your breath on the way to your first potluck dinner. This, by the way, I will host in my photo studio Valentine’s Day weekend (contact instructions are at the end of this article). Am also open to doing evening or day workshops (I have presented dozens—everywhere but locally). Perhaps seeing if a local establishment is open to hosting a public mixer once a month. We can publicize that, and find out who we are.

Here is something you may not have thought of, vis-à-vis poly. We can all name gay and lesbian celebrities. Can you name one openly polyamorous celebrity? Obviously they exist. But who are they?

Poly folk have a few odd things in common. We tend to be a bit bookish. We love a good theory; we tend to read and write about our way of life. A lot of talking is involved. There’s a fantasy among many that being poly is like one endless night in the old Penthouse mansion at the peak of the 1970s. Every now and then it might be, though usually it’s pretty different from that. Some of us consider ourselves social engineers, helping design and build better structures and concepts of human interaction. Most of us just want to love the way it’s natural for us to love.

The poly movement got its start in science fiction novels, particularly Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. The upshot of that story is that a human born and raised on Mars, by Martians (named Valentine Michael Smith), was returned to Earth by his foster parents. He lacked the typical human hang-ups (guilt, body shame, mendacity, limits imposed on his capacity to love) and, as a result, he manifested a very friendly scene. He was a good kisser.

That was a book. It turns out that nonfiction humans are less monogamous than they claim to be. But the thing that makes a person polyamorous is being up front about that fact.

Then two questions always arise: What about jealousy? and What about the kids?

Jealousy is a factor in most relationships, particularly monogamous ones. As we all know, presumed exclusivity does not address the issue itself. Usually it’s swept under the rug by the presumption of monogamy or by not telling one’s partner about an affair because “that would hurt them.” Polyamory takes jealousy as a teacher. The matter is put right out onto the table. When you can look at it, it’s no longer the daunting monster that it seems to be when left in the closet. It becomes the basis of a growth and healing process designed to unearth and address the insecurity, envy, and lack of self-esteem beneath the surface.

One of the first concepts that anyone stepping into polyamory finds out about is compersion. That is the experience of being turned on by the love and pleasure of the people you care about. Some say it’s the opposite of jealousy; I say it’s an alternate universe of a world where jealousy is a ubiquitous toxin. Compersion is like taking a Buddhist approach to relationships. It is an emotion, but it’s also an approach to existence. It is the equivalent in polyamorous relationships to oxygen in the biological world.

As for the kids, I don’t think that any conventional form of relationship can, in practice, claim to be inherently good for kids. Rather, it’s how we conduct those relationships: the content rather than the form. There are some truly functional marriages—but not all of them are. Monogamy used to be set in the context of an extended family. There was always a sister, aunt, or uncle around to watch the kids.

In many contemporary marriage-based households where two parents work, the kids are neglected. If the parents don’t get along, the kids will suffer no matter how monogamous the parents are.

Most people practice what they call “serial monogamy,” which typically means instability and lack of real support that a more stable form of relationship would provide.

That is not a good environment for kids. Many of us raised since the ’70s and ’80s are the products of this relationship style.

Polyamory opens up a world of possibilities to remedy this and to explore creative experiments. It’s designed to create a stable environment, which, if it does not automatically work, is at lest workable. At the heart of the concept of polyamory is the notion of sustainability; this is related to conscious family and household design.

Triads, Panfidelity, and Intimate Networks In the space remaining, let me introduce you to three kinds of polyamorous relationships, to give a sense of the diversity. I’m going to explain them using “I” statements for consistency.

The Triad I’m in a pair-bonded couple. My partner meets a man she likes and begins seeing him socially. I encourage her to explore if she wants to; I’ve met him and I get along with him. She’s open about their experiences with me. They are both respectful of our primary partnership. They get closer and want to explore sexually. I’m open to this. Jealousy is not an issue because I think her sexuality is beautiful no matter how she expresses it. There are many other possibilities for triads, including situations where all three partners are sexually and emotionally involved.

Panfidelity I am in a long-term relationship with my lover on the East Coast, where I live. I have a friend and sometimes lover on the West Coast who predates this relationship by years. We are close friends and have a deep understanding. A few times a year, we meet up somewhere and spend time together. Our other relationships accommodate this because we’ve been open about it with new partners from the outset. There are other forms of panfidelity, which all involve long-term, committed polyamorous situations.

Intimate Network I prefer to live independently. I have a number of friends, locally and around the country, with whom I am emotionally close and can be sexually open.

I also have one or two “friends with benefits.” I enjoy closeness and sexual variety but I don’t want to be in a traditional pair-bonded situation or household-based relationship.

I prefer my social freedom and I want to keep my options open.

There are many other forms of polyamory, which is really an umbrella term that covers all the possibilities. What they all have in common is an ethos of honesty and authenticity. Love is offered in a spirit of freedom, and when challenges arise, the people involved are prepared to work them out.

As for That Valentine’s Weekend Potluck Now for the action piece. If you’re interested in coming to my Valentine’s Weekend Poly Potluck, write to me at poly@bookofblue.com. Tell me a little about yourself and your interest in polyamory, and please include contact information. The curious are welcome. Bring a friend or lover. Or two.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes ARIES (March 20-April 19) Do you suddenly have the feeling that you’re living two lifetimes in one? This sensation may have come out of a psychic closet of sorts; it’s been in the background for a while. The sense of “two lives” may involve a relationship experience on the one side, and your experience of your inner world on the other. It could involve two seemingly opposite sets of tendencies that you’re noticing in yourself, such as being bold in certain aspects of your life and cautious in other aspects. Or perhaps you’re operating with two different sets of goals, each of which seems to have its roots in different circumstances. Now add to this the potential that you’re likely to be embarking on a search for yourself through some social or group enterprise. The setup has the feeling of, “If only I could find the right group or the right friends, I would know who I am.” I don’t suggest you take this route. Rather, I suggest you explore the seeming contradiction within yourself. This may be challenging because so many of the factors seem to be external. The thing is, they’re really not; your situation is all about spontaneously discovering who you are in a truly new way. On the inner level, the action piece would include being bold and honest about who you are. On the outer level, it’s about actively being who you are regardless of what you imagine any social group or relationship partner might think.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20)

This may be one of the most unusual months in your career for many moons. It’s not merely that so much is happening; it’s that one especially long-term struggle is making an exit from your life. Or it is if you want it to. It is, if you are willing to let it happen. It’s easy for you to get caught in the traumas and dramas of the past, not quite recognizing when they’re over.

Now is an excellent occasion to develop that skill. You have the option to boldly recognize that something you don’t need and don’t want is over; that something involves a lack of confidence in yourself. You don’t merely “lose your lack of confidence”; the next step is living with the direct experience of the confidence that was previously lacking. This feeling, experienced from the inside out, is not going to solve all your riddles; that involves choosing from among the many options this world presents. But you would be wise to choose on the basis of who you are, not what you thought you were. The way forward is to make decisions based on the present. In the present you will see specific ways that the world has an opening for just the person you are, with just the gifts you have to offer. In offering them, you will reaffirm that you have them; you will get to participate in a whole new kind of direct exchange. This is not about “I can”; it’s about “I am.”

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You have a deeper tendency than you like to admit to believe what the people around you believe. This has suddenly become unusually difficult, and you know you’re in a position where you have to make up your own mind about something. So, do what you must, in order to do that. Embark on a fact-finding mission. Allow different people to convince you of their point of view, giving them the benefit of the doubt. Then move on and get another perspective. You will be surprised at all the viewpoints out there. Indeed, you may start to doubt whether there is any such thing as the truth (a condition that is epidemic in our times). Much like the tale of the blind men and the elephant, everyone is wrong, and yet everyone is right. It will be up to you to see the elephant in the room. And that’s precisely what it is—the obvious thing that nobody wants to admit is there. The question then becomes, What do you do with the information you get? You certainly have the option to ignore it. That would be very modern. But what you’re getting is crucial information. And in actual fact, you’re responsible for what you know. The people who only want to see part of the elephant have one thing in common; they have a motive for their point of view. Ask yourself whether you have that agenda, or some other.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

You seem to be in line for an inheritance or payout of some kind—and at the very least you have significant business opportunities available that could work out very well for you. Obviously, you cannot take up every opportunity that is presented to you. And not all of them are what they seem. Therefore, focus on what you’re the most passionate about. You can trust that. It might be something about which you have subtle misgivings, that challenges you or that leads you to feel vulnerable. The greatest reward, on many levels, might come from the experience with the deepest emotional risk. You may know the one I’m talking about. Focus carefully and you’re likely to notice how your perspective, not only on these opportunities but also on your whole life, changes through the course of the month. There is something profound that connects you to your source on a fundamental level, and may indeed summon you to many new adventures.

Faced with so many possibilities, I suggest that you choose the one or two things that take you deep—by that, I mean that provide the greatest inner rewards, creative satisfaction or contact in a relationship. This is a connection that you may be tempted to think about intellectually, but the true basis for discernment is what you feel in your heart. Feel for a while and you will get the message, perhaps not loudly, but certainly clearly.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) This is going to be the month you learn to filter your environment and choose selectively where to focus your attention. There is indeed quite a lot to focus on—many people are focused on you, seeking your involvement. Indeed, it would seem that you’re simultaneously having every kind of relationship that you can have. You need an organizing principle to sort all of this out—and Chiron entering Pisces suggests that principle is exchange. A “relationship” is one thing; what passes between the people involved—the content of the relationship—is another matter entirely. Therefore, choose on the basis of content. By that I mean what you give and what you receive, who you feel benefits the most, and who is the most inclined to be present when you need them. The few people with whom you have mutual energy are going to stand out. You’re not going to have to think about this very hard. Everyone else can wait. That said, there will be people who will strictly be your benefactors. Have no suspicion about this—they are here to provide resources and affirmation. This may be just one person; he or she is asking nothing in return and part of the spiritual exercise for you is to have no sense of obligation. Life is at least long enough that we have the chance to return any sincere favors without worrying about when that might happen.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22)

Recently astronomers pulled a hoax claiming that the 12 zodiac signs have the wrong dates, and that there is a “13th sign.” I responded with a satire claiming that astronomers had discovered a “thirteenth animal” in the Chinese zodiac—the Mouse—and I compared it to the sign Virgo. I love Mouse because he’s organized and he thinks for the future. He has enough of what he needs. Though we make references to inventions compared to mousetraps, Mouse himself is an inventor. My shamanic teacher, the late Arthur Joseph Kushner, credited Mouse with inventing agriculture—the silo (what we call a hoard). You are in the midst of a powerful surge of energy through your 6th house of your solar chart—the house of applied knowledge. You have abundant information on your hands. You have excellent theories. Now, put these things to use. You also have boundless energy available to do what that might require, and the wits to do it in a fun, inventive way. Remember, as one of my Virgo healer colleagues reminded me at an opportune moment: Work smart rather than work hard. I would add that you need to take care of your health on the level of your nervous system. Meditate, take baths, and get outside no matter how chilly it may be. Exercise will be twice as good for your mind as it is for your body. Relax and you will be brilliant.

LIBRA (September 22-October 23)

There’s really only one way to process this much energy, and that is rock and roll. Define this concept as you will: art, music, social activism, passionate sex—anything expressive. That is the opposite of depressive. This is the kind of energy you want to let flow, but there’s so much of the stuff that it’s calling for guidance in truly constructive, creative directions. I only say this because there are other possibilities for how it might manifest, particularly if you’re feeling overwhelmed. And the way to avoid that is to have something better, which is the movement of vital force. This is an excellent time to figure out that you have two basic positions: flow and blockage. It’s the time to figure out from experience, not merely from theory, that energy is energy, and that it is we who turn it dark or light. It happens that, at the moment, plenty depends on your ability to make this recognition real—in that you could easily be overwhelmed by the intensity of the flow; and that you could find yourself with some of the most magnificent creative opportunities on your hands. With this power surge, flowing through the sign Aquarius, you may be inclined to take risks you would not ordinarily take; if you make sure those risks are in a spirit of love and conscious experimentation, you will be safe. Saturn is in your sign, suggesting that you can apply the concept of boundaries in a useful and workable way.

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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22)

Emotional discipline does not necessarily come easily to a Scorpio, but at the moment your peace of mind and much else depends upon it.

You may be inclined toward dark thoughts about yourself, at the same time rapidly developing situations in your household or family demand that you be fully present. Clearly, this is a time to leave your suspicions in the past and remember that you’re not the center of the universe. You are, however, capable of being the center of your own life; but only if you’re centered. And that is the position from which you can be most useful to yourself and to the people who are depending on you for love, guidance, and a vision of what life is about. I suggest you focus on the positive, and see the opportunity in everything. You may feel that’s not possible, but I challenge you to question how serious what you perceive is wrong actually is. If in the event that you are feeling some form of grief or disturbance, communicate that directly in a way that is not intended to cause additional disturbance. This would only come back to you. The solution you seek starts with you, and that, in turn, starts with being honest about how you feel—and discerning why you feel that way. If you look through polarizing filters, it will seem like a matter of right or wrong. If you look through the lens of psychology, you will see opportunities for healing past hurts and mistrust.

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In the midst of many other truly positive developments and activities this month, certain factors may provoke your deepest insecurities, your fear of abandonment or difficulty with endings. You may be inclined to stuff this feeling back where it came from; initially, that will be easy enough, because you will have so much else to distract you. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, however, suggest that you succumb to that particular temptation. Tapping into your deepest emotions, no matter how shadowy, will go a long way toward releasing pent-up emotions and give you energy and strength to pursue your most vital dreams. I propose that you view this as an emotional healing process, which has the goal not merely of removing something toxic but also creating something beautiful for yourself. You are tapping into some deep waters that reach back into your ancestral pastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;quite literally processing the delusions and negative emotions of previous generations. If you can get clear about this, you will see that purging yourself of their fears will allow you greater access to your own dreams, desires, and the subtlety of your surroundings. On this note, now is an excellent time to remove aggravating factors from your environment, be they emotional or physical. This gesture would be more than symbolic: These ancestral ghosts Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about take the form of toxins and disruptions that you would in truth be a lot happier without. And you will develop a skill that will come in handyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;moving on from what does not serve you. Â TRIM

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CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20)

Your emphasis for many months has been on guiding yourself to a better place in the world, though this has involved mustering up discipline and warding off pervasive anxiety associated with change and responsibility. What these all have in common is that they address seemingly external factors. The missing element is reaching for your interior reality; that is where you will get perspective. There is only a limited degree to which addressing externals, be they goals, responsibilities, issues, or the concerns of others, can help you feel better. Ultimately, you need to understand yourself, and not allow what you think of as â&#x20AC;&#x153;your lifeâ&#x20AC;? to get in the way of that. The challenges youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had living from the inside out are dissolving, however. For one thing, the benefits of bringing your focus inward are now more obvious than ever. Yet as these weeks and months progress, something else is likely to take over: a passionate curiosity about yourself. This looks like a deep and unsettling restlessness, which is on the one hand a desire for knowledge, and on the other, a quest to reinvent yourself. While this will clearly reach into the work you do and how you interact with the people around you, the sensation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving you is the desire to break out of any familiar self-concept. Indeed, I would say your real quest is to go beyond any concept of self and straight to the real thing. Â

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19)

Before you can stop making a mistake you have to notice what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing. Of course, this also works for making choicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you must see your options. Your perception of a mistake, a pattern of them, or for that matter any creative choices you have, depends on your state of mind. Beware of a tendency to believe that some past action is going to come back to you. The false logic goes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a bad person, therefore I deserve to be feeling all this fear.â&#x20AC;?

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re experiencing any permutation of this idea, figure out where, or from whom, it came. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your original thought; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a psychic pathogen that was passed onto you down the generations, or that you picked up in your environment. In these times, we must keep an eye on such factors, as a primary fact of both healing and happiness. Our society is struggling with boundary issues, and right now, most of them are psychic. Your planets are calling on you to do two things: Recognize the toxicity of guilt, and let it go. The other is to walk a straight and narrow path that calls for keeping your priorities in balance. This directly means assessing everything on the basis of what hurts or helps you. If you can do that, you will also be acting in the best interests of the people around you. Â

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Experiment with the notion that none of your worst fears are true, and that your boldest visions can come true. This may be challenging, given how much is going on inside that mind of yours, and how many inner voices may be suggesting that you have something to worry about. You may feel as if something is â&#x20AC;&#x153;about to emerge,â&#x20AC;? and this has you nervous. Any negative prejudgments are wedded to one thing onlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;your level of fear. This, in turn, is related to any internal pressure you may feel. Whatever may be the passing astrological weather, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the beginning of a new cycle of experience. This is true on many fronts, but the most telling are that Jupiter, the planet that traditionally rules your sign, has entered Aries, the first sign of the zodiac; and that Chiron is about to enter your sign. Your edgy sensation is about embarking on a whole new phase of your life. This fact will present you with decisions, so do your best to have a clear head when you make them. Know which of your beliefs doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support who you are or what you want. Know that you have a choice in the matter andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as someone once wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A belief is a thought you keep thinking.â&#x20AC;? The solution is not to unthink, but rather to think about what you want, what you value, and who you love. Keep your focus. This will be easier than you think.

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Photographs of the Hudson River Psychiatric Center by China Jorrin: The Administration Building, 2007; Suitcases, 2007; Theater, 2006.

China Jorrin on her photographs of the Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie: “From 2005 to 2007, I photographed the grounds and interiors of the hospital. The first time I went inside the main building, I was struck by the smell (mold, decay) and the sound (smoke detectors whose batteries were running out created a constant beep, sounding from all different directions). There was a feeling of haunting sadness—during its heyday, 6,000 patients entered their somber new reality through these doors. Then there was the chaos: desks on their sides, filing cabinets upended, office furniture scattered throughout the hallways and

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