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Radcliffe Dunne and his parents’ Eileen Sheppard and Toby Dunne social distance dance with neighbors in Beacon.
FOOD & DRINK
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12 Farmers’ Market Preview
56 Music
For the 2020 season, COVID-19 changes are afoot.
Photo by Christine Ashburn COMMUNITY PAGES, PAGE 30
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Reviews of albums by the Gotham Rockets; Pete Seeger; Jonell Mosser; and Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian.
HOME
58 Books
16 (Stay At) Home Office
Jane Kinney Denning reviews Gail Godwin’s novel Old Lovegood Girls; plus a seclusion reading list.
Local designers offer tips on creating a home workspace.
HEALTH & WELLNESS 24 Changes in the Labor Department Pregnant women are experiencing unexpected challenges as the coronavirus hits the heathcare system.
28 The Chaplain’s Job Rabbi Neal Loevinger, director of spiritual care at Vassar Brothers Medical Center, talks ministering under COVID.
COMMUNITY PAGES 30 Beacon: A City Rises Up A city’s residents show resilience in a pandemic.
HOROSCOPES 68 Our Most Needed Resource Lorelai Kude scans the skies for what may come in May.
60 Poetry Poems by Gary Barkman, Charlotte Berwind, Joe Bisicchia, D. E. Cocks, davida, Elizabeth Brulé Farrell, Martha Frankel, Kevin Freeman, Linda McCauley Freeman, Sari Grandstaff, Anthony Hamilton, Tony Howarth, Sharon Israel, Jahnvi Mundra, Christopher Porpora, Brendan Press, Chandramoban.S, Genevieve S., Lauren Salerno, Margarita Serafimova, Ted Taylor. Edited by Phillip X. Levine.
63 Essential Writers A profile of Mark Nowak and the Workers Writers School.
64 Performance Anxiety Local creatives talk about what the future looks like for their arts organizations on the other side of the crisis.
67 Exhibits A gallery of virtual and outdoor exhibits this month.
72 Parting Shot A photo by Carolyn Marks Blackwood. 5/20 CHRONOGRAM 5