Chronogram October 2010

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AN UPDATE ON STROKE

Gerald Kufner, MD, Kingston Neurological Associates, Director, NDH Stroke Center When it comes to a stroke, time is of the essence. Come learn about stroke risk factors, symptoms, and available treatments that could save a life.

Wednesday, October 13th

CHILDREN AND SLEEP DISORDERS

Dr. Barbara Chat-Aryamontri, MD, Medical Director, NDH Sleep Center Does your child snore? Come learn about children and sleep disorders, including when it’s time to get tested and what symptoms to look for.

Thursday, October 14th

NON-OPERATIVE TREATMENT FOR PAINFUL MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS

Richard Dentico, MD, Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County and NDH Bone and Joint Center Come learn about the most current treatments for musculoskeletal pain disorders including: osteoarthritis, spinal arthritis, spinal stenosis, and sciatica. Treatments include exercise as medicine, interventional/injection procedures and more.

Tuesday, October 19th

PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS AND UPDATE

Scott Kahn, MD, Hudson Valley Urology Associates In honor of Prostate Cancer Awareness month, Dr. Kahn will discuss signs and symptoms of Prostate Cancer, as well as cutting edge treatments.

Thursday, October 28th

FALL FOR LOCAL PRODUCE

Roufia Payman, Director, Outpatient Nutrition Education at NDH Ms. Payman will discuss how to prepare and enjoy healthy meals utilizing the best local ingredients for your health. A portion will also be dedicated gluten free diet options.

Thursday, November 4th

NUTRITION AND BREAST CANCER RISK MODIFICATION

Hank Schmidt, MD, PhD, FACS, HQMP-Surgical Oncology Significant controversy prevails around the role of diet and supplements in breast cancer development. This presentation will review the clinical evidence that should be considered when making recommendations for lifestyle modification in patients at risk.

Tuesday, November 16th

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: A SURGEON’S VIEW

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Chronogram arts.culture.spirit.

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regional notebook

money & investing

12 local luminary: jane brody

70 investing like a pro for beginners

The New York Times' Personal Health columnist talks with Wendy Kagan.

Anne Pyburn Craig talks to the experts on how to invest with Buffet-like acumen.

news and politics

education

20 while you were sleeping

75 tradition and change: rebranding the new york military academy

Violent crime and traffic deaths down in the US; Suicide is the leading cause of death among young people in Japan; $5 billion wasted in Iraq on reconstruction projects.

22 a long stay Yana Kunichoff investigates the business of immigrant detention and finds a web of politicians, lobbyists, and private-prison corporations.

26 beinhart’s body politic: midterm exam Larry Beinhart explains why the election is hopeless for the Democrats.

community pages 29 capital one: kingston

Peter Aaron explains the three distinct districts that make up New York's first capital.

63 bounty of the county: fishkill & wappingers falls

Anne Pyburn Craig profiles the twin towns of southwestern Dutchess County.

green living 38 O-positive vibration Carl Frankel talks with the organizers of the O Positive Festival, which seeks to bring together doctors and artists in what could be a model health care scheme.

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US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam, 2009, An-My Lê Archival pigment print, 40" x 56 ½" Courtesy of Murray Guy, New York

PARTING SHOT

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Kelley Granger visits the region's only military boarding and day school.

whole living guide 96 getting fit: yes, you can Lorrie Klosterman finds out that exercise is a need, not an option for the bodily ambitious.

100 Flowers Fall: Will what's real about childhood please stand up?

Bethany Saltman on the differences between Japanese and American childrearing.

advertiser services 27 hotels & lodging Where to stay when you’re staying in the Hudson Valley 58 columbia county A collection of businesses in and around Hudson.

59 beacon A collection of businesses in the former hat making capital of the US. 60 hopewell junction A collection of businesses in the Dutchess County town.

61 poughkeepsie A collection of businesses in the Queen City of the Hudson.

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

90 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

101 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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arts & culture

food & drink

44 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe

82 the duck whisperer

48 music

85 food & drink events for october

Peter Aaron profiles folk-rockers Mike and Ruthy, formerly of the revered alt-Americana group the Mammals.

Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Madera Vox Madera Vox. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

Quitzow Juice Water. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

Shrubs Forgotten How to Falll. Reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz.

52 BOOKS Nina Shengold talks rebel teens with young adult novelist Jennifer Donnelly, whose latest book, Revolution, has just seen its first printing of 250,000 copies.

54 BOOK reviews A roundup of poetry books by Lee Gould, William Seaton, and Nina Shengold.

Jay Blotcher reviews Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer.

56 Poetry Poems by Ann Bookman, Nico Castello, D. E. Cocks, Nigel Gore, Amanda Nicole Gulla, Nina JeckerByrne, Steve Lewis, Branda C. Maholtz, Emma McCann, Pat McMullan, Checko Miller, Dane Pawloff, Shawn Rubenfeld, Annajon Russ, Leigh Vandebogart, and R. Dionysius Whiteurs.

128 parting shot

Warwick Applefest, Chili Contest in Hudson, fermentation workshop, and more.

87 restaurant & bar openings The Local (Rhinebeck), Bull and Buddha (Poughkeepsie), O'Leary's Restaurant (Red Hook), Dermot Mahoney's (Kingston), Zen Dog (Rhinebeck).

the forecast 108 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events.

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

PREVIEWS 107 The pantomime troupe Mummenschanz performs at UPAC on October 23.

109 Sparrow chats up Tillamook Cheddar, a Jack Russell with a show at One Mile Gallery.

113 TangentArts mounts a production of "Doubt: A Parable" in Tivoli.

117 A preview of the 2010 Hudson Valley Furniture Makers exhibition in Stone Ridge.

119 The Vanderlyn Catalogue Raisonee project comes to Kingston.

planet waves 122 Dancing in the Dark Eric Francis Coppolino on the astrology of midautumn. Plus horoscopes.

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Patient Admission, US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam, 2010, an archival print

by Bard College professor An-My LĂŞ.

Peter Barrett talks waterfowl with Robert Rosenthal of Stone Church Farm.

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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 Sunya Bhutta production intern Kayla Hood proofreader Lee Anne Albritton contributors Peter Barrett, Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Ann Bookman, Eric Francis Coppolino, D. E. Cocks, Anne Pyburn Craig, Jason Cring, Carl Frankel, Kelley Granger, Nigel Gore, Annie Internicola, Lee Gould, Amanda Nicole Gulla, Nina JeckerByrne, Wendy Kagan, Natalie Keyssar, Yana Kunichoff, Steve Lewis, Abby Luby, Branda C. Maholtz, Jennifer May, Emma McCann, Pat McMullan, Checko Miller, Sharon Nichols, Dane Pawloff, Shawn Rubenfeld, Annajon Russ, Bethany Saltman, William Seaton, Jeremy Schwartz, Sparrow, Leigh Vandebogart, R. Dionysius Whiteurs

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local luminary jane brody Nearly every Tuesday since the fall of 1976, Jane Brody has been doling out 1,100 words of health wisdom to New York Times readers. As the writer of the paper’s nationally syndicated Personal Health column and the author of several books, Brody has spoken to the masses about everything from the importance of exercise to how to pack a schoolchild’s lunch. But she wasn’t quite aware of her reach until she started writing in early 2010 about the death of her husband, Richard Engquist, from stage four lung cancer only six weeks after his diagnosis. Then it seems the floodgates opened, blog comments and e-mails poured in, and it felt like the whole world was wrapping its arms around her in comfort.

When I meet the woman dubbed by Time magazine the High Priestess of Health, she is petite and fit at 69 in a black sheath dress. Fresh from a swim, Brody welcomes me onto the screened porch of her Woodstock country outpost for an afternoon of spirited conversion occasionally interrupted—to Brody’s delight—by a chorus of bullfrogs.

Outspoken about everything from her fiercely pro-immigrant stance to her passion for gardening, Brody is full of life. Yet the specter of death has been on her mind since her mother’s untimely demise in 1958—and her latest book, Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life, is the culmination of decades of thought on the subject. As with every other topic that she tackles, Brody meets life’s most difficult milestone head on, with her signature blend of New York candor and roll-up-your-sleeves intellectual rigor.

—Wendy Kagan

You recently had the experience of sharing the story of your husband’s decline and death from cancer with millions of New York Times readers. What was that like?

It was very therapeutic. My husband was still alive when I wrote the original piece.

I didn’t even know whether my editor would sit still for running it; I just had to write it. The response from my readers was mind-blowing. Several hundred people wrote comments. People who didn’t know him at all, the kinds of things they said were so touching and sweet and supportive. In a way I felt sorry for people who didn’t have this avenue under similar circumstances. It was so meaningful. I was very glad that I wrote those columns.

You had only recently published Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond.

I had no idea that I would be putting the book’s principles into practice in my own life so soon. More people need to realize that death is a part of life. One of my standing jokes with my husband was “No one gets through this life alive.” But we live in such a deathdenying society. In the old days and in traditional societies people died at home and everybody was there, everybody saw it. We have shielded our young people from death.

With half or more people dying outside the home, the exposure has been so reduced that people can just put it out of their minds and say, “This doesn’t happen.” We think that with all these so-called miracles of modern medicine we can somehow cheat death indefinitely. Well, you can cheat it for a while, perhaps, but not indefinitely. Show me one immortal person and I’ll show you a fiction.

In Woodstock you’re surrounded by alternative medicine and healers. What do you think of that?

Every therapy has to be subjected to controlled trials, and until that happens I’m not willing to endorse anything. If it’s not invasive, if it can’t hurt you, and if it helps you, then, terrific—as long as you know what your diagnosis is. People who go directly to alternative 12 ChronograM 10/10

medicine without finding out what’s really wrong with them, that can be dangerous.

Acupuncture has been shown to relieve pain. But you don’t want a person who has cancer, whose pain is being caused by cancer that has not been diagnosed, going for acupuncture to relieve the pain. It doesn’t make any sense.

Where do you stand on the health care debate?

The fix that Obama could get through Congress is not anywhere near enough of a fix. It still preserves all of the vested interests. We haven’t gotten rid of the middleman in the drug benefits. Medicare still cannot negotiate on its own for drug prices. The health care reform that we have is a start; it is by no means a finish. But we had to start somewhere.

There’s a political reality that says let’s get something through. It will soon be obvious what the problems are, and they will have to be fixed.

Over 34 years, how has your column changed?

It’s always been about personal health, but in the beginning there was no such thing as personal touches in the columns. It wasn’t the Times style. About 15 years into the column, I started writing occasionally about things that happened in my own life. People responded to those things so well that it gave me license to do more of that. Readers want to know: Do I just write this stuff or do I live this way? People can be very up front about that. I might be, let’s say, on a buffet line taking my food, and somebody behind me would say “You eat that?” And I would say, “I beg your pardon? Why wouldn’t I?” And they would say, “That’s got a lot of calories.” And I’d say, “Well, if you’d done what I did today, then you could eat it too! I exercised, I earned this.” I have a freezer full of ice cream, but I have only half a cup a day. I made it an unwritten rule that if I started eating more than that, I couldn’t have it in the house. I don’t believe in fanaticism, I believe in moderation. That’s been my catchword from the beginning. Life is too short to cut everything out of it that you love.

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LETTERS A Sculpted Bone to Pick To the Editor: Thanks for the generous spread on the history, culture, and culinary delights of my hometown, Saugerties. Peter Aaron’s piece [“Cool and Quaint: Saugerties,” 9/10] was well written and comprehensive, as always, but I and all the other members of the Saugerties Artists Studio Tour—which the article misrepresented—have a bit of a sculpted bone to pick with him.

The two-day tour, which successfully completed its eighth annual run on August 14 and 15, is not affiliated with any galleries—not Half Moon, which has been closed for several years, or P. Fox, or the Image Factory, or any others.

The tour is solely about offering free, self-guided visits to the home studios of nearly 40 working artists who live within the precincts of the town (and of the two artists mentioned in the relevant paragraph, only Willy Neumann is a current participant in the tour). The event, which is a full year in the planning, and which entails the production of a full-color map with directions to artists’ homes and the maintenance of an active website, brings many hundreds of visitors to Saugerties over the course of its weekend, all of whom get to meet the artists in their natural habitats; see demos of stone carving, or printmaking, or welding, or kiln firing, etc.; and buy work from the artists, often at bargain prices. Our studios alone (mine and Carol Zaloom’s) had approximately 200 visitors, which included locals, Manhattanites, Long Islanders, New Jerseyans, and even a few wayward Euros on holiday — and this was not untypical of the traffic at other studios.There is simply no other yearly event quite like it on the local arts scene, either in scope of embrace or smoothness of operation.

Footnote: While the museum at Opus 40 is not a “stop” on the tour, it does host the tour’s annual kickoff exhibition. Strictly speaking, though, the stop is actually the studio of Tad Richards, who co-operates the Opus 40 site.

—Mikhail Horowitz, Saugerties The Propagandist’s Purpose To the Editor: I’ve never read your magazine before. I picked it up at the dry cleaner's. I wanted something to read while I grabbed a quick lunch. I opened the pages to the article titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism” [9/10].

This is an unfortunate story about two people who might be falsely accused of terrorist activities or have been set up to be accused of terrorist activities.

How very sad and perhaps even something that happens more often than we know. The very first paragraph, however, so incensed me that I have not been able to stop thinking about it since I read the article. Kumar might be quoting Huxley but Huxley is talking about Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s propagandist. [The quote in question: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”—Ed.] He and his henchmen so demonized Jews that they were even pictured on posters as vermin. So much easier to kill them that way. Does Mr. Kumar have the nerve to suggest that this is what is happening to Muslims in this country, or any other country for that matter?

Here’s a little-known fact: On that unfortunate day that a New York City cab driver, a Muslim, was stabbed, there was a statistic rolled on the screen on ABC. It read that there had been 750+ bias attacks on Muslims in a measured period of time, and 1,550+ attacks on Jews. Where is the outrage? How dare this professor and author suggest that we or any other people are deliberately attempting to dehumanize Muslims. Are there any roundups of the “vermin,” any concentration camps? Wholesale death? The only rhetoric I hear is that Muslims hate Jews and want to obliterate the State of Israel. That Israel’s very existence is an insult to the Muslim world. We won’t even get into the absurd ideas about our Western culture.

If Mr. Kumar wants to talk about propaganda, he better start studying history. Goebbels wrote the book. Unfortunately, 11 million people died, six million of them Jews. Now, that’s terrorism! And the world watched.

Mr. Kumar’s is another story altogether.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Force vs. Finesse

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ometimes events in our lives occur that brim with such manifestly potent personal symbolism that they take on allegorical air in their immediate aftermath. Here’s one such incident that recently happened to me. Or perhaps I happened to it.

I dropped my keys. It happened right outside my office.

People drop their keys all the time. Unless you have them tethered to your belt loop on a chain like a heavy metal aficionado or on a tension wire like a building superintendent, it’s bound to happen. When you’re standing over a sewer grate, however, gravity’s course with everyday objects can be freighted with symbolic significance right quick.

My hands were full. I was trying to carry to the car in one trip what I probably should have done in two trips. I was also behind schedule, having worked late and trying to dash to the gym before meeting friends for dinner. So when I blithely reached into my pocket for my keys, perched above the sewer grate, arms full and thoughts already on what the fastest route crosstown was, I was not in an optimal state for error-free lock-and-key behavior.

Then a sudden lightness in my hand, a chink! on the grate, and the rustle of dry leaves three feet below grade shifting to accommodate a new presence.

First thought, best thought (and only thought): I need to get this grate off so I can liberate my keys. As the street had been paved with new tarry asphalt in the past week, the grate stuck fast in its casing.

I needed tools. Big, ugly tools that could bring physical strength to bear against implacable obstacles like metal, rock, and industrial adhesives. So I called Lee Anne, told her my predicament, and asked her to bring the requisite implements from the shed—sledgehammer, six-foot prybar, any kind of chisel that looked like it might break up masonry. Lee Anne didn’t question my tactics a whit (to her great credit and an ongoing testament to her patience). She just said she’d see me in 20 minutes.

(Yes, I was thinking that I would bang on the asphalt around the sewer grate with a 12-pound sledge until I broke up the street enough to lift off the grate and reach in and grab my keys, busting them out of prison like in a Cagney movie.)

Knowing we had no chisels to speak of at home, and with some time to kill, I called my friends Joe and Denise, who live a couple doors down from my

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office. They’re artists, so they have oddments of gear that civilians don’t own.

A chisel might be just in their line.

When I got Denise on the phone and explained my unfortunate situation, she said she had no tools, but that she could give me a coat hanger. And she believed she also had a four-foot telescoping magnet somewhere in her apartment. Five minutes later, Denise hands me a coat hanger and a four-foot-long telescoping magnet. When questioned as to how she came to own such an item, Denise replied that she was fascinated by magnets, and that it was a gift.

Back at the sewer grate, I extended the telescoping magnet, plunged it into the leaves, and heard a resounding clink. I pulled back on the magnet and what did I find but my keys firmly affixed to the magnet. Case closed. I called Lee Anne. She turned around, went home, and put the tools back in the shed. I found Denise and Joe at the bar in Elephant.They were plotting the O Positive Festival (Green Living, page 38) with Dr. Tom Cingel. I bought them a drink and returned Denise’s magnet. And then I stepped out onto the street and resumed my regularly scheduled program.

Later that evening, I started telling what I thought was one story—the story of the telescoping magnet coming to the rescue, but which turned out to be another narrative entirely. In the dozen or so tellings of this story since then, whenever I get to the point in the narrative where I call Lee Anne for assistance, to a person—man and woman, young and old alike—the response has been:You asked her for a coat hanger, right?

Which brings up the tension between force and finesse. It turns out, I’m an outlier on how best to get one’s keys out of a sewer grate. Whereas it seemed axiomatic to me that the problem was the sewer grate itself—remove it and there is no issue—everyone else viewed the dilemma through a different lens. I’ll call it the path of least resistance. Which, in retrospect, makes a lot of sense. Understanding when to use force and when to use finesse is a failing of mine.

As our house astrologer Eric Francis Coppolino (Planet Waves, page 122) would remind me, it’s about listening to your life. Certain emotional loops play over and over again.You hear them, but you may not see the opportunity for change. In this case, I believe I got the point. To wit: I am now the proud owner of a four-foot-long telescoping magnet.

As part of our ongoing commitment to nourish and support the creative, cultural, and economic life of the Hudson Valley, Chronogram helps promote organizations and events in our pages each month. Here's some of what we’re sponsoring in October.

A Taste of Little Italy Stroll the streets of Poughkeepsie's Mt. Carmel neighborhood and taste the old country and enjoy live music and entertainment on October 10. (845) 483-7300

Design by Nature Conference Leaders in the fields of permaculture and sustainable architecture present a workshop the weekend of October 15-17 at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck. www.eomega.org

John Edgar Wideman The award-winning writer reads from work in progress and offers reflections on the African Diaspora on October 15 at 7:30pm at Lecture Center 102 on the SUNY New Paltz campus. (845) 257-3880

A Night of Chronogram Poetry Picks Readings Some of the region's finest poets who've been published in Chronogram read at Inquiring Minds in New Paltz on October 16 at 7pm. (845) 255-8300.

O+ Festival A festival of art and music in support of health care for artists.

Tracy Bonham and Phosphorescent headline at Uptown Kingston venues October 8-10. www.opositivefestival.org

Hudson Valley Green Drinks The traveling networking event for the eco-committed meets on October 13 from 6-9pm at the River Grill on the Newburgh waterfront. www.hvgreendrinks.org

Graham Hancock/Glenn Kreisberg Book Party Hancock, the bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, will read from his new novel, Entangled: The Eater of Souls.

Glenn Kreisberg, editor of Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: A Graham Hancock Reader, will also read at BEAHIVE in Kingston on October 23 at 7pm. (201) 245-7098.

Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Over 100 artists will be showcased on Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz from 11am-5pm on October 9. www.celebrationofthearts.net

Arts for Clean Energy Expo Dance performances, visual art, music, film screenings, and a green fair at Mountain View Studio in Woodstock on October 10 from 1-7pm. www.mtnviewstudio.com

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LETTERS A False Sense of Social Justice?

To the Editor: In my time, I have read lots of Looney Tunes writing by leftist sympathizers with terrorism, but your interview with Amitava Kumar was one of the most ludicrous of this sad genre [“What We Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism,” 9/10]. Let’s see if I have this right: Kumar, and by extension your magazine, would wish us to sympathize with: a group of Moslem youth who trained at an Al Qaeda terrorist camp; one of the terrorists who killed almost 200 people in Bombay (because he admired the carpets); a group of would-be terrorists who were caught before they could carry out their plans.

We’re asked to realize their humanity. I’m sure this makes you feel like a great humanitarian, and you got all warm and fuzzy when you published this piece, congratulating yourself on your sense of “social justice.”

But I have no such illusions. I lived in Bombay, and in Iran. My father was an Iranian. I am an Iranian citizen. I have seen directly what these Islamic terrorists have done to a country I loved. It is now a place where women are stoned to death for “adultery,” homosexuals are hanged, women are shot down in the street for demonstrating, and plans are under way for nuclear weapons that they definitely plan to use at the earliest opportunity.

Perhaps we should find the humanity in Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, the barbarian president of Iran. Perhaps he feels a twinge of “humanity” when he prepares for a nuclear apocalypse.Who cares? What difference does it make? What planet are you living on?

—Name withheld upon request

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS In an article in the 9/10 issue, "Serendipitous Crossing: Pawling and Hopewell Junction," we misspelled the name of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a renowned Prostestant preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking, who was a longtime resident of Pawling.

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Esteemed Reader Life is real only then, when “I am.”

—G. I. Gurdjieff Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Walking in a field in the last days of summer, thoughts arose of my young friend who is dying.The memory of her once radiant, healthy face brought up a terrible sadness; a pain that reminded me to come back to myself there, in the field.

Red and blue flowers beckoned from its edge—they seemed to glow with an almost artificial richness of color. Standing before the flowers, their beauty entered my body with each breath.The sun was setting near the edge of the horizon and the impression of the bright, pulsing disk penetrated through my eyes into the recesses of mind, the light burning away moldering thoughts and torpid fixations.

Now the equinox has passed, and already night feels longer. The hot, fullness of summer transitions to the chilly gusts of autumn. The procession of days continues.

Faces of growing children refine and mature; adults shows signs of wear. Time pulls each through our seasons from the first inhalation at birth, to our final exhale, followed by no return breath.

It would seem that life has a beginning and an end, but the circular neatness of the pattern describes something less linear and more curvaceous. Einstein said as much about time. And my friend who is close to death (close enough to see it and possibly beyond) said, before a parting, “Will I see you again before I return?”

Hearing my friend’s question triggered my own question—What is the I she was referring to? What is the identity that is ostensibly present in us from birth to death? The question renewed an old inner exercise in me—to avoid use of the personal pronoun in speech (hence the awkwardness of some of these sentences). It is illuminating not to use the word I, and observe all the places it would otherwise pop out unnoticed.

Is the person referred to as I a dependable constant? Or is it as changeable as the weather and seasons? Can there be a knowing of who I really is?

Upon revisiting the exercise I was reminded again that my use of the word referred to an arbitrary and haphazard set of impulses. Saying “I am hungry” arises from a different place in me than “I think the last episode of ‘Mad Men’ was great TV”; or, “I wish I could stop smoking” immediately followed (or preceded) by “I want a cigarette”; or, “I am a forgiving person” and “I am furious at you and will get revenge.” It is rather agonizing to consider the array of disparate voices which all deign to utter the personal pronoun with equal claims on its identity.

How is this to be seen? Can a part speak for the whole? Is it to be assumed that my identity is an aggregate of all these disconnected and usually contradictory impulses?

This implies an emptiness that is as terrifying as the specter of death.

From birth to death a person says “I” probably a hundred times a day. In a normal 80-year life span that’s over 2 million utterances of the word that is effectively short for Identity. Each time it is said, identity is pinned to yet another object. If I is at best a misnomer and at worst a lie told a hundred times a day, what in us truly unchangeable?

The Indian saint Ramana Maharshi gave all his students the same koan to wrestle—to sit and ask the question: “Who am I?” Every answer that arose was to be discarded, and the inquiry renewed, until… well, no one knows, because those who glimpsed what was beyond all their self-objectification—the experience they had when all that was left was “I am”—couldn’t describe it to those for whom it was a merely theoretical consideration.

Three thousand years ago the Rishis tried to use poetry to set out that sense of a real, abiding self in the Upanishads (with translating help from W. B.Yeats): “The Self is one. Unmoving, it moves faster than the mind. The senses lag, but Self runs ahead. Unmoving it outruns pursuit. Out of Self comes the breath that is the life of all things. Unmoving it moves, is far away, yet near; within all, outside all.

Of a certainty, the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow. How can a wise man, knowing the unity of life, seeing all creatures in himself, be deluded or sorrowful?”

That each one of us was born and will die is hard fact. What happens and who experiences that journey remains an open inquiry.The cycles of days, seasons, years, lives—even the cycle of every breath—can serve as reminders of the changeability of all phenomena. It can also remind us that within all the change is something elusive but steady—a presence that abides. A presence that participates in everything, but is attached to nothing. A presence that is within every person and being that senses. A presence that transcends the personal and embraces all as self.

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Traffic deaths in the United States fell 9.7 percent last year due to safety-conscious drivers, more people buckling up, side air bags and anti-rollover technology in more vehicles, coupled with tougher enforcement of drunk driving laws. In 2008, an estimated 37,423 people died on the highways. In 2009, the number dropped to 33,808, the lowest level in more than half a century. The rate of deaths per 100 million miles traveled also fell to a record low, 1.13 down from 1.26. According to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the improvement is also attributed to weak economic conditions which decreased driving.

Source: Yahoo! News Moderate drinking is associated with a lower mortality rate in comparison to abstainers, according to a recent alcohol study conducted by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin. More than 69 percent of abstainers died during the 20-year period in which researchers were following 1,824 participants, while only 41 percent of moderate drinkers died. The benefits of drinking in moderation include improved heart health and sociability. Though alcohol is associated with longer life it can also be addicting, severely impair memory, and increase the risk of cancer.

Also, a study by Scott Rick from the University of Michigan and Maurice Schweitzer from the University of Pennsylvania showed that holding an alcoholic beverage makes a person appear less intelligent.

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Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the campaign manager for President Bush in 2004, is the most powerful Republican in history to identify as gay. Mehlman recently came out to his family and associates and agreed to talk to reporters because he wanted to openly advocate for gay marriage in a fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Mehlman said he will try to persuade people in the Republican party to support marriage rights for gays and lesbians.

Source: The Atlantic California lawmakers rejected a bill banning plastic shopping bags on August 31. In 2007, San Francisco became the first city to ban single-use plastic bags and a handful of California cities followed. The ban requires large markets and drugs stores to give customers bags made of recyclable paper, compostable plastic, or reusable cloth. Supporters of the bill said plastic bags cause harm to the environment and are expensive to collect and transport to landfills. Democrats and Republicans who opposed the bill said it would be a burden on businesses and consumers. Though the statewide bill failed, Los Angeles County, Redondo Beach, and Santa Monica said they would pursue individual city and countywide bans in the coming months.

Source: Yahoo! News; MSNBC More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted on hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects in Iraq. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south, a $100 million nearly complete wastewater system has been scaled back in Fallujah, and a $40 million prison is deserted in the north of Baghdad.

The US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region District has successfully completed over 4,800 projects including police stations, border forts, and government buildings and is rushing to complete another 233, but 595 have been terminated. According to Col. Jon Christensen, security concerns and escalating violence in certain areas have been the main cause of setbacks in reconstruction.

Source: MSNBC In Japan, suicide is the leading cause of death among men aged 20-44 and women aged 15-34. Prime Minister Naota Kan said he believes there are too many people suffering emotionally and economically in the country. A study showed more than 32,000 people killed themselves in 2009, costing Japan’s economy $32 billion from income losses, social security spending, and medical costs. The government is setting up a task force in an attempt to reduce the rate and decrease the causes.

Source: BBC News; Guardian (UK)

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The US Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest business lobby, has pledged to spend $75 million in this year’s election. Political Director Bill Miller said the chamber is engaging in an effort to ensure that its arguments are heard and to promote ideas that are more supportive of the free enterprise system. The chamber has been a visible player in congressional debates opposing the Obama administration’s initiatives in healthcare, financial regulations, and energy policy. Though the chamber’s politicking leans Republican, they have sided with the administration and against most congressional Republicans in the $700 billion rescue of banks, the $862 billion economic stimulus, and the bailout of the auto industry.

Source: Google News The number of violent crimes in the United States fell 5.3 percent in 2009, including a 7.3 percent decline in murders, an 8 percent drop in robberies, a 4.2 percent fall in aggravated assaults, and a 2.6 percent decline in rapes, according to FBI statistics released on September 13. In 2009, there were 15,241 murders, the lowest number since 1969. The number of property crimes also fell by 4.6 percent. Motor vehicle thefts dropped 17.1 percent and burglary was down 1.3 percent, the FBI said. In New York City, the largest city in the US, violent crime dropped more than 4 percent, including a 10 percent drop in murders, and property crime fell 5.3 percent. US Attorney General Eric Holder said smarter policing practices and investments in law enforcement play a significant role in reducing crime.

Source: Reuters Playing action video games such as “Call of Duty 2” or “Unreal Tournament” could be incorporated into training programs for surgeons or soldiers. According to a study led

by Daphne Bavelier, a cognitive scientist at the University of Rochester, action gamers can arrive at decisions faster than nongamers because they collect visual and auditory data more efficiently. Research showed that in a problem-solving exercise, action game players made decisions 25 percent faster per unit time than a group of strategy game players. The study suggests that playing fast-paced video games simulating stressful events or battles could be a training tool for speeding reactions in realworld situations or improving everyday skills.

Source: Bloomberg For the first time, more women received doctoral degrees than men. Last year, there were 28,962 doctoral degrees awarded to women and 28,469 to men, according to an annual enrollment report from the Council of Graduate Schools. Women now earn 70 percent of doctorates in health sciences, 67 percent of doctorate degrees in education, and 60 percent in social and behavioral sciences. Men are mostly dominant in engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences.

Source: Washington Post Compiled by Sunya Bhutta

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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region

A Long Stay The Business of Immigrant Detention

By Yana Kunichoff

M

ore than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country. Why are they there, and who is profiting from their imprisonment?

Pedro Guzman Perez speaks to his wife, Emily Guzman, by phone every evening. They speak around 8pm, a talk filled with stories about their days, shared projects and love. Sometimes their three-year-old son, Logan, wants to get on the phone too, but usually Logan will be watching a show in another room. They have a great relationship, Emily says, and the conversations are often the highlight of her day.

There are, however, some logistical difficulties. Pedro, a Guatemalan native who was in the country on a work visa, can only speak on the phone for 20 minutes at a time—precious little for a couple sharing the tumult of raising a three-year-old. Each phone card costs $5, and the already staticky connection is easily broken.

This is because Pedro is calling from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, an immigration detention facility where he has been detained for nearly 10 months. Many aspects of Pedro’s case led him to the detention center—two 10-year-old charges of marijuana possession, one of which has since been dropped; an administrative mistake by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to which they have admitted; the harsh record of his immigration court judge and even the patchy memory of an older woman whose answers in an immigration interview led the federal government to look into Pedro’s status.

But neither Emily, Pedro’s lawyer, nor the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) thinks these are enough to warrant keeping Pedro under lock and key, away from his family and with tax payers bearing the cost of his prolonged detention.

The Scope Pedro is one of the 383,524 individuals detained by ICE while they await court dates, deportation, or bail. Detention is a key aspect of the federal government’s push to deport immigrants, both documented and undocumented, who have

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committed any crimes or misdemeanors.

More than 3.7 million immigrants have been deported since 1994, and in the past decade, immigration detention has tripled. In 2001, the US detained about 95,000 individuals, compared to the 380,000 detained in 2009.

Detention Watch, a national coalition of organizations working to educate the public about the US immigration detention system, called these measures extremely punitive for individuals going through a civil administrative process.

“US policymakers see detention and deportation as a politically salient ‘quick fix’ to broken immigration policies and to the complex issues of global and regional poverty and instability,” Detention Watch noted in a policy report. “Instead of recognizing and addressing larger economic and political structures that cause people to immigrate, politicians focus on interior and border enforcement as a way to repel people from migrating.”

It has been an administration policy across the aisle, with more people being deported per year under President Barack Obama than under his predecessor George Bush.

To the tune of strategies such as Operation Endgame, the March 2004 Department of Homeland Security’s 10-year-goal to “remove all removable aliens,” the nation now has 270 immigrant detention centers in which individuals picked up for immigration offenses are held.

The rise in immigration detention also has many critics pointing to a more sinister reason than political expedience or security fears—the profit that private prison corporations make from the detention of immigrants like Pedro.

Private Immigration Detention and CCA One of the most notorious players is the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private immigration detainer. It runs Stewart Detention Center, where Pedro now languishes, and is the sixth-largest correction system in the country, behind only the federal government and four states.

At any one time, CCA houses about 75,000 offenders in more than 65 facilities in 20 states, about half of all immigrants currently detained in private

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OPPOSITE and above: inmates at Maricopa County’s Tent City jail for undocumented immigrants in Phoenix on July 30, 2010.

facilities. It shares its business with Geo Group, Cornell Company, and Avalon Correction Services, as well as several smaller companies.

In addition to detaining adults, CCA also detains children whose parents are being picked up for immigration offenses, housing them in centers such as the infamous T. Don Hutto Center in Taylor, Texas. In 2007, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Hutto Center on behalf of 10 juvenile plaintiffs, arguing that they were receiving substandard education, medical care, and little privacy.

CCA also runs a slew of other private prisons—in fact, immigration detention makes up for only 40 percent of CCA’s revenue, according to its quarterly report.

ICE deals with its $140 million budget deficit by routinely farming out its immigration detention operations to private companies like CCA or state and county prisons. According to Detention Watch, only 13 percent of immigration facilities are ICE-owned and operated. The majority of detainees, 67 percent, are housed in local and county jail facilities, with another 17 percent in contract detention facilities and 3 percent in others such as the Bureau of Prisons.

That 17 percent housed in contract facilities is telling: it’s yet another statistic in the story of how US corrections operations are being farmed out to private companies. According to Alex Friedmann, associate editor of Prison Legal News, president of the Private Corrections Institute and a former CCA prisoner, 10 states have 20 percent or more of their prisoners in for-profit facilities. These states include New Mexico, with 45.8 percent of immigrants housed in private centers; Hawaii, with 35 percent; and Arizona, with 23.1 percent.

Earnings of Immigration Detention For the 273 days Pedro has been detained, CCA gets paid approximately $140 per day, according to figures from the ACLU. In some of their facilities, such as the Hutto Center in Texas, the average rate ICE is contracted to pay the CCA an average rate of $200 per detained immigrant, per day.

The ICE budget allocated $250 million in 2008-09 to raise the total number of detention beds to 32,000, while allocating only $10 million in funding to less expensive alternatives to detention, such as electronic monitors and

regular visits with case managers.

Five of the most lucrative contracts CCA has with the federal government have no end dates, and several contain clauses that guarantee a certain amount of revenue regardless of the occupancy rates of the jails, the investigate online publication Business of Detention found.The rate of contract renewal is almost 95 percent.

These steady successes have reaped their benefits: CCA has managed to make a record profit every year since 2003. Their revenue in 2009 was $1.67 billion, the company has been estimated to bill $11 million a month, and between 2004 and 2008 the company’s stock more than doubled, from $12.15 to $26.86 a share.

Who Else?

However, the profit from immigration detention does not end with CCA. Over 300 city and county governments across the country also have contracts with ICE and house the majority of detained immigrants. This acts as an incentive for local law enforcement to enforce immigration law, usually a national-level enforcement duty. This practice is already in place in some cities and states under the 287(g) Homeland Security program.

In addition, Friedmann notes, other industries that benefit from the boom in detention are prison food corporations, medical care, probation supervision, prisoner transportation services, and financial firms that provide bond financing for new prisons.

Telephone access inside the prisons, as the frustrating reality of Pedro and Emily attests, has grown into a lucrative business. Companies such as EverCom run a virtual monopoly, leading to price hikes, in some areas as high as $17.34 for a 15-minute phone call. There have also been reports of county government’s receiving kickbacks from phone companies, such as the 44 percent commission Davis County, Utah, makes from inmate phone calls.

Even when immigrants who have been picked up are released on bond, the price is steep: An immigration bond can cost up to $5,000.

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More than 3.7 million immigrants have been deported since 1994, and in the past decade, immigration detention has tripled. In 2001, the United States detained about 95,000 individuals, compared to the 380,000 detained in 2009.

Trimming the Fat A central part of CCA’s continuing profit stream is its ability to cut costs in immigration detention.

The ACLU has sued CCA for overcrowding and substandard medical treatment, and accused CCA of scrimping on the minimal services it is federally required to provide in order to cut costs.

Through his work, Friedmann has found that less training, lower benefits, lower wages, and chronic understaffing of private detention facilities not only cuts costs but also leads to instability in detention centers.

In addition to this, Human RightsWatch noted that ICE detention standards, most recently revised in 2009, are merely internal agency guidelines and do not have the binding authority of federal regulations or statutory law.

Transparency In a 2008 interview with a former CCA senior quality assurance manager, Business of Detention was told that, when CCA conducts its own internal audits of its facilities, it often downplays violent incidents or attacks on detainees.The source says he was told to make the incidents appear less serious (an act that could have led to the nonrenewal of the center’s contract.)

Recently introduced legislation, the Private Prison Information Act of 2009, seeks to require private correctional facilities and other institutions housing federal prisoners to make the same information available to the public that federal prisons and correctional facilities are required to make available.

However, it has yet to pass the House.

What Is It Actually Like?

Azadeh N. Shahshahani, the National Security and Immigrant Rights Project Director for the ACLU of Georgia and chairwoman of Georgia Detention Watch, says the lack of transparency regarding immigration deaths is a serious problem.

“We expressed really great concerns about the treatment of the detainees that failed even ICE’s own nonbinding standards,” Shahshahani says. In particular, she has found it difficult to access information regarding the death of Roberto Martinez Medina at Stewart Detention Center, where Pedro is currently being held.

Medina, a Mexican national, died in ICE custody in 2008. “The attorney representing his widow pressed for some records from ICE showing that he complained of chest pain three days before he collapsed,” Shahshahani says, but these attempts have so far been unsuccessful.

Since 2003, there have been 111 reported deaths in immigration detention.

According to Detention Watch, the majority of these deaths were caused by a lack of timely and thorough medical care. Detainees must request medical services through CCA staff, and as Business of Detention notes, detainees have said that staff members often deny medical care to both reduce costs and push detainees into voluntary deportation.

The psychological toll of detention is also great. Speaking over the crackling connection from Stewart Detention Center, Pedro details his difficulty in dealing with his indefinite detention.

Day to day, Pedro says, he deals with both the physical reality of CCA staff who “scream at you, they yell at you; they threaten you; they take your lunch away” and the ever-present threats of being put in solitary confinement for a 24 news & politics ChronograM 10/10

month. This punishment is meted out for acts such as not being in bed when told three times in a row, says Pedro, who has so far avoided the experience.

But Pedro, who was a stay-at-home dad to Logan while Emily practiced as a mental health therapist, finds missing his family most devastating. “Every day that goes by there is something that he [Logan] does, that he says, that I cannot watch, something I cannot do with him.”

Though he has been in the United States since the age of eight and has no memory of, or contacts in, his native Guatemala, Pedro says that it is a constant struggle to continue fighting his case when “Emily could already be with me in South America.”

For Emily and Pedro, helping other detainees, many of whom are not bilingual like Pedro, provides a brief respite. During some of their limited phone time, Pedro passes along information to Emily regarding family members or lawyers of detained individuals for her to contact. This action helps them feel less helpless at a time when the only advice they are given is to wait.

Pedro’s Story Pedro’s mother arrived in the United States from Guatemala with her young son in tow in 1988, seeking asylum she was never granted from the turbulent political situation following the overthrow of the country’s president in 1982.

According to Emily, Pedro’s mother’s “memory is not great,” which proved to be a serious problem when she was called into immigration services for a permanent residency interview. Her responses led to the denial of her request for permanent residence. Because he entered the country with her, Pedro’s immigration status was connected with hers, and he was sent a notice to appear in court.

However, as Emily and Pedro’s attorney, Glenn Fogle, confirms, the letter was sent to the wrong address.Yet, Pedro’s failure to appear at the court date resulted in the issuance of an order of deportation. The order came to the correct address, and on Monday, September 28, 2009, two black SUVs pulled up to the couple’s home in Durham, North Carolina.

Two men handcuffed Pedro and, after allowing Logan to kiss his father goodbye, took Pedro to the first of three jails or detention centers in which he has lived over the past 10 months. Immigration authorities have since admitted their initial mistake in sending information to the wrong address and stayed his deportation. Due to entering the detention center with two marijuana convictions, Pedro was not eligible for bail, but after one misdemeanor charge was dropped, the BIA recommended that Pedro be released on bail.

Meanwhile, his immigration judge, a notoriously tough one with an asylum case denial rate of 87 percent, has rejected Pedro’s pleas for bond and residency under an asylum program known as the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA), under which two of Pedro’s siblings have gained residency. Pedro is now appealing with the BIA for both these issues, continuing to fight his case from the inside.

Prolonged Detention The average length of stay in detention is 37 days, according to ICE, but the ACLU says these numbers are significantly skewed by Mexican nationals, who are often subject to expedited removal.

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Undocumented immigrants are searched by Immigration and Customs agents in Phoenix on May 6, 2010 before being deported.

An Associated Press system snapshot found that, on the evening of March 15, 2009, at least 4,170 people had been detained for six months or longer. Of these, 2,362 were still fighting removal cases before immigration courts.

Pedro is lucky to be among the 16 percent of immigrants, according to the ACLU, who are represented by attorneys.

Fannin Anello, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project, says another issue with prolonged detention is the trampling of prisoners’ due process rights. “Under the government’s interpretation of the mandatory detention law, many people with viable legal challenges to deportation continue to be deprived of their liberty for many months or years,” Anello says, adding, “even though they have never had a bond hearing to determine whether detention is necessary in their individual cases.”

Laying Down the Law Federal laws such as those surrounding the penalties for drug crimes also contribute to prolonged detention. Due to his two marijuana convictions, received in 1998 and 1999, Pedro was not eligible for bail.

Three-strikes and truth-in-sentencing laws also contribute to a more punitive system. These pieces of legislation and their desired policy outcomes began their life at ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council.

ALEC is the nation’s largest public-private legislative partnership, which counts among its members more than 2,000 state lawmakers, about one-third of the nation’s legislators and more than 200 corporations and special interest groups. Included in this list is the Corrections Corporation of America.

Central components of ALEC include 10 task forces that work to develop model legislation in different areas, one of which is the Civil Justice task force.

“I am aware personally that CCA executives have been on the board of ALEC,” says Friedmann. “The argument there is that CCA is being actively involved in an organization that pushes policy and legislation and therefore benefits the private prison industry.”

Though federal law forbids corporations from helping form legislation, any ALEC bill must be approved by both its public and private sector members.

Of the group’s $6.9 million in annual revenue, about $5.6 million come from its corporate members.

According to an article by Beau Hodai of In These Times, Arizona’s recent antiimmigrant bill, SB1070, is very similar to model legislation crafted by ALEC.

Furthermore, CCA retains the federal contract to house detainees in Arizona and would benefit greatly from heavier immigration enforcement in the state. During the bill’s formation, Hodai reports, CCA enlisted Highground Consulting to represent it in Arizona.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s spokesman, Paul Senseman, was employed by an organization that lobbied for CCA, and his wife works with the Policy Development Group, which also lobbies for CCA. Brewer’s chief policy adviser also lobbies for an organization of which the CCA is a “board level” member.

But CCA’s ties with legislators do not end on the state level. According to Hodai, CCA spent nearly $3.5 million in 2005 for lobbying on immigration and national security, $3.25 million in 2007, $4.4 million between 2008 and 2010 lobbying the Department of Homeland Security, and more than $175,000 during the 2010 election cycle. Of 43 CCA lobbying disclosure reports acquired by Hodai, only five do not express the intention to monitor immigration reform.

CCA has targeted its lobbying at both Republican and Democratic legislators. It has donated money to the Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Committees, the GOP, senators on the appropriations committee, and the subcommittee on Homeland Security.

The path from the legislature to the CCA is also well trod. CCA’s senior vice president, Mike Quinlan, served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 1987 to 1992; Kim Porter joined CCA after nearly 25 years with the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and CCA’s general counsel, Gustavus Puryear IV, was nominated by Bush for a federal judge seat in the Middle District of Tennessee, CCA’s headquarters.

The Paradox The ACLU notes the paradox in which immigration law and the detention industry have placed people. Forcing them to choose between waiting out their cases in jail indefinitely and giving up their immigration claims means that only the individuals with the strongest cases are most likely to continue to fight—and therefore face lengthy detention.

Pedro continues to wait for the BIA to rule on his eligibility for bond and residency under NACARA, so that he can come home and stay home. But it is a struggle—every day Emily and Logan lose with Pedro while he is detained, the Corrections Corporation of America profits.

This article was originally published on Truthout.org.

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I really wanted to light an optimistic candle in the gloomy darkness of the midterm election predictions. In case you haven’t been watching TV, listening to radio, or reading a newspaper, they are that the Democrats will lose the House—30 seats will do the trick—and barely hang on to a two-seat majority in the Senate.

I wanted to tell you that the Democrats still have a chance to turn it around.

The Republicans have been busy attacking for a year and a half. Flummoxed during the presidential campaign about how to deal with Obama’s color, they’ve finally come up with new code words to embody their rage at having a black president.

Now that the primaries are over and it’s campaign season for real, the Democrats who have been struggling to govern can enter the fray and make their case.

Besides, congressional and senatorial elections are not national. House seats, in particular, are local, and Senate campaigns are, often, about the specific candidates defying party affiliation. Many of the Republican senatorial candidates are loons. They are against social security, unemployment insurance, direct election of senators, and abortion. They are for more tax cuts, less regulation, and more power, more rights, and less accountability for corporations.

Furthermore, it’s who does the best job getting out the vote that wins in swing states.

But the more I looked at the data—Gallup, Intrade, Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, Real Clear Politics, Rasmussen, Cook, Electoral Vote, the Swing State Project—the more set in stone a Republican rout looks.

Here’s the basic problem: An excessive probusiness ideology got us in the economic and political mess we’re in. We were headed for a crash like 1929 and a new Great Depression. Republicans, joined by Democrats, stepped in to save the banks and the markets. Then the Obama Administration cushioned the fall. Saving, among other things, General Motors and Chrysler and all the businesses that supply and depend on them.

Those are good things. A total collapse of the banking system and 33 percent unemployment are the kinds of events best avoided.

However, it meant that there was no clear ideological break.The certainties that business does everything better, government does everything worse, and less regulation and lower taxes pave the path to paradise, may have staggered for a moment, but never went down. There are plenty of Republicans out there who are happy to say that the real failure was the government’s. We would have been better off if we’d let the banks and General Motors fail.

From a leftist ideological perspective, they’re quite right. Provided the timing had worked. If there had been no bailout, no industrial rescue, no Democratic stimulus package, and the full crash had come with Republicans at the helm. Then with people selling Apples on the street—their iPods and iPads this time, for pennies on the dollar—a new view of capitalism would have emerged. Not that it’s bad, but that, like our children, it has serious flaws that need education, discipline, correction, and supervision by adults.

Obama walked into this muddled, crash-coulda-happened world. He had a muddled let’s-work-with-big-business-and-their-political-stooges (the Republicans) nonideology. He thought reason and cooperation would promote sound and sensible solutions.

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What he got instead was resolute resistance. The Republicans united to make his every initiative fail, insofar at they could. If the results of the mid-terms are as predicted, then that will turn out to have been a successful political strategy.

What he needed was a clear, clarion-call ideology that declared: “Capitalism is good for making consumer goods and some people rich. It cares nothing for America, or the American people, except by accident.

Government is good for making us healthy and strong; for providing justice and building a place where hard work can make you rich and misfortune won’t destroy you.”

I don’t think the failures were Obama’s. They rest on the fact that the crash didn’t happen, the system did not quite break, and the neo-free market ideologies were not replaced. Nonetheless, as a result, his solutions had far too much input from big money and too many compromises. So they were half-assed. And what was good about them was undersold or wrongly sold.

In fact, in the real world, we are far better off for his halfway solution and his compromises than we would have been without them. Muddling through is less painful than collapse. He saved the automobile industry. And face it, a country without its own automobile industry is a third world country.

Obama also passed a health-care package to cover the 40 million uninsured.

Unfortunately, the Democrats sold it on “fairness.” “Fairness” is a dirty word in Tea Party America. It’s code for “transfer of wealth,” which means taking money from hard-working white people and giving it to dark people driving welfare Cadillacs and illegal darkish immigrants who have come here to use our emergency rooms and drop anchor babies.

The only way to get health care reform passed was to bring some of the corporate bloodsuckers into the tent. So it got done in a hodgepodge, overcomplicated, back-room way. As a campaign issue, it’s easier to be against it than call it a triumph.

Obama passed a major stimulus package. Unfortunately, due to our ideological dysfunctions, too much of it is in tax cuts. Which don’t work. But a lot of it is in infrastructure, which has just begun to kick in. He is trying to address the fact that we have become a consumption economy, spending more than we produce.

There is absolutely no reason, no incentive, and no likelihood that businesses or business interests will change that. Many businesspeople may feel patriotic in their hearts. They may hang flags on poles and wear them on their lapels.

They may hate the president for not being American enough. They may cheer the troops. But no businessperson or manager will keep their factories here or hire American workers if they can get the job done cheaper in Cambodia.

Only government can change that direction.

Things are far from perfect. But they’re far better than they would have been under McCain/Palin and Republicans in control of the legislature, committed to destroying government—except for the military-industrial complex and a legal system that favors wealth and corporations.

So even though it’s hopeless, and every poll says they’re going to win, light a candle, or a flashlight, send 10 bucks to someone good, and work a few hours on a phone bank.

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t’s a safe guess there’ve been more than a few bar-side conversations in downtown Manhattan nightclubs that went something like this: “You’re from Kingston? That’s weird, you don’t sound Jamaican.”

“Uh…” It’s a frustrating reoccurrence for Kingston, New York, natives, to say the least. But likely nonetheless. For despite its being one of America’s oldest and, at one time, largest and most important cities, the 359-year-old municipality remains far less known than its similarly named Caribbean cousin. In point of fact, many who live just beyond Kingston’s surrounding 100-mile radius seem to have never even heard of the town. Which is certainly perplexing, given that the city is home to 25,000 inhabitants, is the seat of 1,160-squaremile Ulster County, and was for generations a center of industry and shipping in the Northeast. It seems the decline of Kingston’s once prominent profile began in the 1980s, when, as in innumerable other US cities, the majority of its manufacturers headed elsewhere; doomsayers assumed the coffin lid was closed when the nearby IBM plant moved its 5,000 workers south in 1995.

But, as savvier individuals will tell you, in crisis lies opportunity. And, thanks to its affordable housing and the vast crop of raw space available within its former factories, over the last decade Kingston has become a magnet for families and artists fleeing downstate congestion, gentrification, and soaring rents and real estate prices.

“When your economy takes a downturn, you don’t just throw up your hands, you figure out what you have to promote and you focus on that,” says City of Kingston Mayor James Sottile. “So [city leaders] are working to promote tourism, and so much of that has been helped by the great arts community we have here, which I’m personally very proud of. And also by the fact that Kingston is so rich in history.”

A Tale of Three Cities Yes, history. Much of it. Kingston was the first capital of New York State, having been founded by the Dutch in 1651, who called the outpost Esopus, after one of the local Indian tribes. In 1777 the growing village was recast as the site of the new state’s government when Albany, the intended center of leadership, was under threat of attack by the British. In a cruel twist of irony, the Redcoats invaded Kingston that same year and burned many of its buildings, although today dozens of the town’s early stone houses—including the 1676 Senate House, which was the original functioning capitol building and now has a nearby museum—continue to serve as businesses and homes. (The intersection of John and Crown Streets in the city’s Uptown district is said to be the only spot in the entire US on which all four original stone buildings still stand.)

Besides being an active participant in the American Revolution and a major river port during the 19th-century canal and steamboat era, the burg supplied most of the bluestone and cement that built New York City.

Kingston has three diverse business districts—Uptown, Midtown, and the Rondout—making it feel like three cities in one, each with its own distinctive vibe.Tying them all together to work as one, in terms of marketing, is Nancy Donskoj, who manages the Business Alliance of Kingston’s Main Street Program. “Kingston is one of only 26 cities in the US to implement its own Main Street Program, which is a concept that came into being when people realized that their downtowns were struggling economically because businesses had relocated to outlying malls and big-box stores,” she explains.

“The Main Street Program’s job is to present Kingston as a whole to tourists and potential residents.” Under the alliance’s banner Donskoj oversees individual business associations for each of the three sections; runs the volunteerbased organization’s own website, as well as its culturally themed Kingston 10/10 ChronograM KINGSTON 29

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Safe in the Stockade With the eight-block area known as the Stockade at its heart, Uptown is the oldest of Kingston’s three districts. It has the city’s highest concentration of historic stone buildings and a skyline dominated by the steeple of the Old Dutch Church (built in 1852 and, legend has it, home to a hobgoblin), whose surrounding cemetery contains the grave of the state’s first governor, George Clinton. The neighborhood is defined by the quaint covered sidewalks that line its streets, which are dotted with art galleries, coffeehouses, music and book vendors, and unique shops like quirky gift emporium Bop to Tottom and haberdashery and blues CD outlet Blue-Byrd’s. Foodies get their fill at the seasonal farmers market (Saturdays from May through November), as well as at the quarter’s many restaurants and Fleisher’s Grass-Fed and Organic Meats, which opened in 2004.

“We chose Uptown as our location because we loved the look of the area and the fact that it’s within 20 minutes of our customers in Rhinebeck, Stone Ridge, New Paltz, and Woodstock,” says Fleisher’s Jessica Applestone, who co-owns the business with her husband Joshua Applestone. “It’s right off the Thruway and close to routes 28 and 209.” Such has been Fleisher’s success that the Applestones have acquired space in the building next door, where they plan to expand their thriving eight-week butchery training program and open a luncheonette serving dishes made with their locally sourced meats.

Uptown is also the site of yearly Wall Street Jazz Festival and the Hudson Valley Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Community Center, and is a prime barhopping destination thanks to happening hostelries like tapas and wine bar Elephant, the newly opened Stockade Tavern, and performance space 323 Wall Street (formerly Backstage Studio Productions). “[323 Wall Street] is working with several programmers to host live music, theatrical productions, a dance school for children and adults, even

yoga classes,” says Sevan Melikyan, who assumed control of the venue in August. “We have an upstairs dance studio, the smaller Wall Space room and bar up front, and a huge 1872 vaudeville theater in the back, which always blows people away when they first see it.” Melikyan is excited about the club’s upcoming events, which include the Halloween Zombie Bash on October 30. (One can’t help but wonder what ghosts may be lurking in the tunnels beneath the building, supposedly a stop on the Underground Railroad, that night.) On nearby Front Street is Snapper Magee’s, an alternative music haunt and favorite hub of punk bicycle club the Dusty Spokes.

Midtown Makeover On warmer nights the Dusty Spokes pedal over to Midtown to hit the city’s other main punk rock club, the Basement, and, just around the corner on St. James Street, microbrewery Keegan Ales, which books a broader range of live music (jazz, blues, Americana, and classic rock) and dispenses and exports three award-winning beers from within its 1830s brick walls. “The City of Kingston has been very helpful to us,” says Tommy Keegan, who co-owns the operation with his father. “Mayor Sottile and the other government people really wanted us here, they held the land for us and did a lot to help with tax credits and other economic aid. I love being in Midtown, I actually live right next door [to the brewery]. It’s one of the last affordable places in the region.”

What’s keeping Midtown real estate inexpensive for the present are the aftereffects of its 1970s urban business exodus. While the area has admittedly struggled with crime and vice for decades—reportedly, it was a center for brewing of the, shall we say, less legal variety during Prohibition—Midtown’s streetscape of one-time factory and department store buildings offers the perfect stage for the space-seeking artists and businesses now formulating its renaissance. Examples include tech-media complex the Seven21 Media Center, the tellingly named multi-arts Shirt Factory, which houses composer Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening Space, and several small galleries. But when it comes to (literally) perfect stages, the prize goes to Midtown’s anchor of 10/10 ChronograM KINGSTON 31

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Down in the Rondout We now follow Broadway south to Kingston’s remaining district, the Rondout, another neighborhood with a historic—and salty—past. Lying along the shore of the Rondout Creek, a Hudson River estuary, the settlement began as a village named for its nearby Dutch fort, or “redoubt,” and is rich with striking brick buildings constructed during its 19th-century heyday as a key shipping center. Once the tough realm of canal diggers, ice cutters, dockworkers, brick makers, and brewers, the area was a city unto itself before being incorporated with Kingston proper in 1872. By the 1960s and ’70s blight had set in, but in the ’90s urban pioneers and restaurateurs began arriving to revitalize the neighborhood’s West Strand block, making the Rondout into the buzzing nightlife zone it is today. In addition to many fine eateries, the Trolley Museum of New York, and the Hudson River Maritime Museum, the area features an array of inns and antique stores and the nearby Rondout Lighthouse. Being a waterfront, the locality naturally boasts several marinas. “[The Rondout] is located halfway between New York and the locks leading into the Erie and Champlain canals,” says Kingston City Marina Dock Master and Harbor Master Scott Herrington. “Kingston City Marina alone has 70 slips, and a lot of our patrons are boat owners who summer in the Great Lakes region and winter in the Caribbean.”

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A Tradition of Transition Clearly Kingston has recognized the value of its arts and architecture as an avenue toward economic rejuvenation and a better quality of life, and has seized the moment to successfully draw new residents who are eager to contribute to it. And, thankfully, the trend looks to continue, as artists and those who appreciate art—and air—are steadily priced out and swept aside by Disney-fying developers to the south.

“This is a city in transition,” says Mayor Sottile. “And while [Kingston’s government is] actively working to draw tourists and new residents to the area, [it’s] also working on stabilizing our infrastructure and planning for the future.”

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O-Positive Vibration

By Carl Frankel Illustrations by Jason Cring A Festival without Precedent Is Unfolding in Uptown Kingston

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n early October, vampires from around the world will descend on Uptown Kingston for the first-ever O-Positive (“O+”) Festival.

Wait, that’s not right. Let’s try again.

From October 8th through the 10th, artists and musicians from as far away as Germany will descend on Uptown Kingston for the first-ever—and singularly innovative—O+ Festival.

By definition, festivals are all about fun: They’re about being festive. But the O+ Festival has a serious—and seriously admirable—side too. Participating artists and musicians will be paid with free health care donated by local medical professionals. Medical screenings will be provided on site, with follow-up care often available on a free or deeply discounted basis.

It’s a wonderful opportunity for the artists and musicians, many of whom don’t have health insurance. “If you’re a creative person in the arts, you don’t get a paycheck,” says Joe Concra, a local artist and one of the festival’s organizers.

“If it’s a choice between paint and health care, you’ll choose paint.”

The opportunity isn’t only for the artists and musicians. It’s for the entire community. It’s not exactly a state secret that our health care system is a disaster. Nearly 50 million people lack health insurance and another 25 million are underinsured.To make matters worse, there is widespread ignorance about what medical services actually are available. In the Hudson Valley, for instance, it’s possible for people without health insurance to get discounted or even free health care. If you’re like a lot of people, your response to this is, who knew?

In addition to a care delivery site, the O+ Festival will have a care information site where attendees can learn about local health care resources. Planned Parenthood, the American Cancer Service’s Cancer Screening Program, Healthy NY, the Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute, and the Center for Donation andTransplant are among the organizations that will have tables there, as will alternative resources such as acupuncture, holistic care, nutritional counseling and yoga.

Dr. Art Chandler, a member of the planning team who in his day job manages transitions into and out of Hudson’s Columbia Memorial Hospital, is quick to stress the “nonutopian” nature of the organizers’ aspirations. “This

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isn’t about delivering free health care,” he says. “Artists and musicians will get a one-time visit with a provider of their choice, but our real thrust is to get them involved in a system where, even if they don’t have insurance, they can get ongoing health care.”

Ditto for festival attendees. “One benchmark of success for me,” says Chandler, “will be how many people visit the information center and come away better equipped to address their health care needs.”

Local health care professionals have flocked to the O+ vision. The current roster of health care participants includes representatives from the following fields (deep breath now!): acupuncture, addiction counseling, chiropractic, dentistry, general practice, massage therapy, occupational therapy, orthopedics, physical and sports therapy, and radiology. It’s not quite “Volunteerism Gone Wild”—don’t expect to see doctors flashing their chests on video any time soon—but it’s mighty impressive. “I’m amazed at how fast doctors have come on board,” says organizing team member Alexandra Marvar.

Three distinct pieces need to come together for the O+ Festival to succeed—vision, talent, and attendance. The organizers have the vision thing covered in spades, and not just because of their health care innovation. The art component is visionary, too. The organizers have issued a call for paste-up art on the related subjects of anatomy, the body and wellness. During and in some instances after the festival, this art will rise 20 feet or higher on exterior and interior walls in Uptown Kingston. They’re like those familiar medieval festival banners, reinvented.

According to Kevin Paulsen, who like fellow organizer Concra is an artist and Uptown Kingston resident, that’s not the only tradition they’re heir to.

“In the old days, a carnival would come to town and put up posters. Itinerant artists did it too: ‘Portraits painted, this week only!’ What we’re doing is in these traditions.”

The initiative also has an economic-development angle. “Some of this art will be visible all year long,” says Paulsen. “It’s a way to make Kingston a more visible home to public art. Hopefully this will attract more visitors and artists.”

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For Paulsen, the O+ Festival’s visionary aspect is one of its main attractions.

“We’re hoping to open people’s minds a bit to new ways of thinking,” he says.

“We want to demonstrate that, in this period of dramatic change when the old ways of doing things are often broken, there are creative, alternative, community-driven ways to get things done.”

As for talent, that’s coming together nicely too. “We’ve gotten submissions from artists who normally wouldn’t work in this vernacular,” says Paulsen.

An impressive collection of regional musical talent has been lined up as well, including singer/songwriters Tracy Bonham, Gail Ann Dorsey, and Nina Violet, who recently performed for President Obama on her home turf of Martha’s Vineyard. Altogether there will be 20 bands performing at nine Uptown Kingston venues.

There’s been no shortage of interest from the national musical community, largely because of the festival’s innovative health care twist. According to Marvar, who’s spearheaded the booking of bands, some major national organizations and a prominent national booking agent initiated contact with the organizers and expressed the desire to get involved.

Next year, maybe. Concerned about overreaching, the organizers have opted to go slowly for now. With good reason: The idea for the festival was born barely five months ago. It all began at last spring’s Truck Festival in Big Indian, when dentist Tom Cingel was so taken with the band Monogold that he offered them free dental care if they’d play in his Kingston hometown. One conversation led to another, and the next thing you knew, the O+ Festival had been born, with a commitment to hold it…in October! That’s not much time to start a festival from scratch, especially when it’s being done on a totally volunteer basis.

Some organizers were inclined to wait till next year, a caution that now appears unwarranted. “The concept has really taken off,” reports Concra.

“The community is totally behind this. It’s amazing how many people are contributing space or services. People just get it.” Momentum is building for a successful kick-off event this year.

If. Which brings us to the third critical component for success—attendance.

If people don’t show up for the festival, it will be another of those occasions, all too familiar to Mid-Hudson Valley residents, where dreams of community magic break apart on the shoals of desolate venues. We’ve all been there— musicians playing their hearts out to an audience consisting of a boyfriend or girlfriend, a few stragglers, and a bartender cleaning his fingernails.

The organizers have made the event ultra-affordable, with a suggested donation of $25 for the entire weekend. Marvar puts the emphasis on “suggested.” “While we hope people will make donations in exchange for tickets, we don’t want money to be the obstacle that keeps someone from attending,” she says. “In its founding, its organizing and its programming, O+ is all about inclusion. That goes for the audience, too. If people can only pay a quarter, that’s okay. Good turnouts are what will make this a sustainable event.”

There are certainly plenty of reasons to attend. Among them: great music, interesting art, what promises to be a high-spirited, three-day, multivenue community party—and, beyond all this, the opportunity to put an unofficial “proof of concept” stamp on an event that has everything it takes to become a national phenomenon.

The local and national response over the last five months says it all: The O+ Festival is an idea whose time has come. It’s not a pipe dream to envision the O+ Festival (or variations on the theme) in towns and cities throughout the country 10 years down the road. My prediction: 200 locations by 2020.

Why the bullishness? For one thing, the O+ Festival is very much part of the zeitgeist. It’s not looking to government for help. It’s about people helping people in a totally postpartisan manner, about putting the magic of creativity in service of positive change. And then there’s this: The O+ Festival brilliantly combines four basic human needs: the need for music, the need for art, the need to problem-solve at the grassroots level (a more urgent need than ever these days!)—and, last but not least, the need to celebrate in community.

Ultimately, it’s love of place—in this case, Uptown Kingston—that’s driving the organizers. “The fabric of community is frayed,” Art Chandler says.

“With the O+ Festival, we hope to supply some of the threads that piece it back together.”

For more information: www.opositivefestival.org.

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

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Ken Polinskie Shadow of the South Ink and watercolor on artist-made paper, 40” x 30”, 2009 From the exhibition “Nothing to Fear” at Nicole Fiacco Gallery through October 16.

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“Judy Glasel: Recent Works.” Photography. October 2-31.

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

110 SOUTH FRONT STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-0131.

“Water.” Paintings and photographs by local and internationally-known artists. Through October 11.

ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT GALLERY

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“New Paintings by Michael Gaydos.” October 9-November 7.

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“The Imaged Word.” Through January 9.

ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119.

“Memento Mori.” Contemporary vanitas exhibition. Through October 30.

THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 406 MANCHESTER ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334.

“Squiggles and Giggles.” Paintings by RT Vegas. Through November 13.

ART IN THE LOFT MILLBROOK WINERY, MILLBROOK 677-8383.

“Art in the Loft 2010 Autumn Exhibition.” Through November 13.

ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.

“The Mask Show.” Members’ show. October 2-30.

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

“Selections from the Studio Tour.” October 2-30.

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

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“Woodcuts: Roger Buck at the Montross-1934.” Through October 9.

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

“Water, Water, Everywhere.” Through October 3.

BLACKBIRD ATTIC 442 MAIN STREET, BEACON 418-4840.

“Applied Biology.” Featuring artist Jason Levesque. Through October 9.

BROTHERHOOD WINERY 35 NORTH STREET, WASHINGTONVILLE 496-3661.

“Visual Escapes.” Through October 8.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

“At Home-Not At Home.” The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection. Through December 19.

“Works by Phillippe Parreno.” Through December 19.

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

“Thoughts of Home.” Selections form the permanent collection. Through December 12.

COLDWELL BANKER VILLAGE GREEN REALTY GALLERY AT WORK 268 FAIR STREET, KINGSTON 331-5357.

“Paintings and Printwork by Lora Shelley.” October 2-November 30.

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EXHIBITIONS Binary Visions: 19th-Century Woven Coverlets from the Collection of Historic Huguenot Street October 16 (Opening Reception, 5-8 pm) to December 12 Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis Through November 14 The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study Through December 12

Ann Street Gallery High Tea Party Fundraiser Sunday, October 24 2:00 until 4:00 pm

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Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection Through December 12

EVENTS Sunday, October 3, 2 pm First Sunday Free Gallery Tour with Kevin Cook Thursday, October 14, 5-7 pm (Meet at the Dorsky) Jackie Skrzynski, Silent Walk (on the Rail Trail) Saturday, October 16, 4 pm Curator’s Gallery Talk on Binary Visions Sunday, October 17 & 31, 2 pm Gallery Tour of Binary Visions with Kevin Cook

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“Vintage Inspired.” Oil paintings, watercolors, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, photographs and handmade crafts. October 9-November 26.

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“The Eye of an Artist/the Mind of a Photojournalist.” Ralph Aiello. Through December 31.

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“Oil Paintings of Patti Ferrara and Photographs of Susan Phillips.” Through October 17.

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“Collegiate of 18 Watercolorists Annual Show.” Cross River Fine Art. October 2-30.

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“Eugene Gregan: Paintings from Forty Years in the Catskills.” October 9-24.

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

“Undertow.” Rita Bernstein. Through October 18.

“Florilegium.” Kim Kauffman. October 22-November 29.

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

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“Guises of Wood: Five Woodworkers.” A show featuring the art and furniture design of five area woodworkers. Through October 3.

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“Through A Photographer’s Eye.” Collection of portrait images of endangered species by Bob Demchuk. Through October 13.

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“A Sense of Place.” Essays and poems from Dr. Bruce Hopkins’ new book When Foxes Wore Red Vests. October 16-November 13.

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“Wish You Were Here.” Group multi-media show featuring the interpretive work of 12 artists as part of the region wide Lark in the Park promotion celebrating the Catskill Park. October 16-November 13.

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“Healing Meditations.” Paintings by Roberta Rosenthal. Through October 8.

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“Katherine Bradford.” A collection of small paintings. October 14-November 7.

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“Artistic Women Past and Present: Looking Forward from the Hudson River School Tradition.”

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“Imagine: the Alternative Realities of Isaac Abrams.” October 9-November 14.

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“New Work by Elena Sniezek.” October 2-31.

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LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633.

“Offerings of Beauty.” October 10-November 3.

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“Road Home.” Paintings by Sandra Nystrom. Through October 7.

LEIBOWITZ ART GALLERY 84 ALFORD ROAD, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS mcherin@simons-rock.edu.

“Standing on the Peel.” Charles Thomas O’Neil. Through October 22.

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“Quintet Photographers Capturing Life: Focus on Our World.” October 8-November 16.

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“On Time(s).” Art and art history faculty exhibition. Through October 23.

MATERIA LOCUS 10 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-0337.

“Ancient Circuitry.” New work by Halsey Chait. October 30-November 29.

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“The Calculated World of Harold Granucci.” Through October 30.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.

“Multiples: Black-and-White Photos in Pairs and Series.” Solo exhibit by Phyllis Marsteller.

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“Intimate Perspectives: A Survey of Contemporary Figurative Work.” Debra Goertz, Michael Peery, Cheryl Wheat, Victoria Selbach and Kathy Stecko. Through October 1.

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“Nothing to Fear.” Recent works by Ken Polinskie. Through October 16.

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 STATE ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135.

“Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica.”

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THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227.

“Cris Winters: Water Colors, Collages.” October 3-27.

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“Sy Balsen.” Panoramic and pinhole photography. October 31-December 1.

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“Embracing Tension.” New works by Steven Perkins. Through October 2.

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“Preserve Us: Paintings by Anthony Volpe.” Through October 4.

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“You Are Here: Habitat For Artists.” Through November 13.

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“Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2010.” 60 art installations. Through October 6.

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“Prints and Animation by Christopher Ursitti.” Through November 8.

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“CTRLIMG: Artwork by Evan Schlomann.” October 17-November 20.

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UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482.

“Emotionalism.” Through October 9.

UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Judith Zeichner, Paintings.” Through October 3.

“Ten.” An exhibition of contemporary prinkmaking, curated by Kristopher Hedley & Dylan McNanus.

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UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“In Golden Field.” Printmaking artwork of Ustya Tarnawsky. October 16-November 15.

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“Submerged.” 3rd annual mini works show. Through October 11.

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“September Showcase: 9/11 Special Exhibition.” Recollections and memories from artists, writers and other creative folks who share their personal experiences. Through October 3.

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“Adventures of Volitia: Paradise, Again.” Melissa Marks. October 5-23.

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between rock and a folk place

Mike and Ruthy

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Music

S

ome say folk rock was born January 20, 1965, the day a group of folk musicians-turned-Beatles fans calling themselves the Byrds entered Columbia Recording Studios in Hollywood to record “Mr. Tambourine Man,” a then-unreleased Bob Dylan song. (Interestingly, the quintet’s leader, Jim—later Roger—McGuinn, had already played solo acoustic versions of Beatles songs in coffeehouses.) Others cite July 25, 1965, the date of Dylan’s infamous “electric” appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, as folk rock’s big bang. But that performance, which also featured some of the singer’s earlier acoustic tunes, can itself be seen as the culmination of the genre-blending experiments he’d begun the year before, which led to ’65’s Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited.

And, of course, there were other electrified folk-ish acts—the Beau Brummels, the Searchers—who’d had similar ideas around the same time. In any event, folk rock seems to have been a natural occurrence, a phenomenon of traditionalistvisionaries, with an exact birth date that’s hard to pin down. And the current between its twin tributaries has only gotten blurrier over the last 45 years.Today, in an era when most “folks” play rock, where does one stream end and the other begin? Nowadays, it’s rock itself that’s the true folk music:Young musicians generally start out by learning something like “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” not “Big Rock Candy Mountain.” So does folk rock really even exist as such anymore, when the majority of its practitioners lack the roots-repertoire foundation it originally evolved from? Or does all of this lexicographical analysis even matter?

“It matters on iTunes or CD Baby, I guess,” guitarist, banjoist, and singer Mike Merenda says with a shrug. “Not to us, though. But I don’t like to call us folk because a lot of people still think of Peter, Paul & Mary when they hear the word folk—and that’s not us.” Much agreed: The rich sound Merenda and his wife, the fiddler, guitarist, and singer Ruthy Ungar, make as Mike and Ruthy is thankfully devoid of the cloying, A Mighty Wind-like cutesyness that tainted so much of the postwar folk boom. (The Serendipity Singers, anyone?) The couple have released three albums of their timeless, acoustic-based music—the duet-oriented The Honeymoon Agenda and Waltz of the Chickadee (2008 and 2009, respectively) and the new, full-band Million to One—on their own Humble Abode label.

“Well, you do have to pick a category when you sell your music on those websites, though, and when you pitch it to press and radio people,” says Ungar, her brow furrowed with thought as she folds laundry at the kitchen table of the pair’s West Hurley home. “But with the new album, ‘folk rock’ does seem to make sense because of the sound,” she continues, keeping her voice down as the couple’s two-year-old son Will naps in the next room. “It has drums, electric bass and guitar, keyboards, and some samples, along with [the duo’s own] acoustic instruments and harmonies.”

Those harmonies. Heartbreaking. Gorgeous. As pure and eternal as the wind that carries them. In fact, with the way the couple’s voices climb and curl together one can’t picture them ever not having sung together. “I’ve always loved singing harmony, even if it’s just with some song on the radio,” says Ungar. “Mike’s voice is very breathy and mine is really strong, so it was a challenge at first. But I think that’s part of what makes us sound different than other duos.”

Fittingly, Merenda and Ungar’s musical union is itself a bridging of the rock and folk scenes. Merenda grew up in New Hampshire, where he played in alternative and ska bands while at college. Ungar is deeply steeped in traditional music, being the daughter of Saugerties master fiddler Jay Ungar and folksinger Lyn Hardy. (The couple regularly appears with the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band.) But although as a child she played music with her parents for fun, Ungar’s goal in her teens and twenties was a career in theater. By 1998, however, when she met Merenda in New York and the two formed insurgent string trio Rhinegold with mandolinist Carter Little, she’d come home, so to speak. It was clear from the start there was something special between her and Merenda—though it’s hard to say which came first, the music or the romance.

“To me Mike and Ruthy fell in love first and their music just naturally follows that,” says Little. “They just have this organic harmony about them that’s part of everything in their lives; their family, their music, the way they relate to other musicians. And with the audience. There’s a very pure ease of expression, very special and soulful.”

Named for the threesome’s favorite cheap beer, Rhinegold lasted long enough to record a homemade CD and scratch out a notch in the East Village “anti-folk” scene. The couple’s next chapter began in 2001, when Merenda met another folk-reared musician at a Massachusetts music shop: Tao Rodriguez-Seeger,

the grandson of Pete Seeger himself. The young banjo and guitar player invited Merenda and Ungar to a party and jam session, where it immediately became apparent to all that they needed to start a band. Thus was born the revered altAmericana group the Mammals, which later also included Mike’s brother, Chris Merenda, on drums. The outfit pushed the limits of the musicians’ own backgrounds by injecting new energy into old-timey music and giving a down-home treatment to Nirvana and Morphine songs (“We were also listening to the Pixies and Sonic Youth a lot,” says Ungar). The Mammals released four fine albums and became a festival favorite in the US, Australia, and Europe. But eventually the members determined they each needed some room for personal evolution.

“After seven years of touring and all the stresses that come along with being a self-managed band, we decided to give it a break to focus on our families as well as the music we were all interested in making independently,” Merenda says. “I think we’re actually much closer friends now that we’re not touring than we were when we were deep in the thick of it. Touring is a ferocious beast of a way to live your life.” He adds that the Mammals are currently assembling a live DVD as they remain open to an eventual reunion.

When Ungar and Merenda got married in 2006 they chose to celebrate by making their first record as a duo instead of taking a trip, a move that resulted in the appropriately named The Honeymoon Agenda.With covers of the Velvet Underground and Tom Waits and some occasional distorted electric guitar among its mainly intimate acoustic tracks, the disc continues the style-spanning efforts of the couple’s work with the Mammals and won praise from the indie press. A tribute to their newborn son, the lullabye-esque Waltz of the Chickadee is more of a return to their low-key folk roots, although, according to Merenda, the pair had by that time already written and recorded a third, more rock-leaning album that they were burning to release. Their only problem was finding the necessary funds: Having a child of course meant the new parents had to take time off from performing, their main source of income.

The solution? Kickstarter.com, an arts-funding platform that allows supporters to underwrite specific projects by musicians, writers, filmmakers, artists, and other creative individuals. The two musicians produced a short video pitch—with an admittedly impossible-to-resist, two-year-old Will in the lead role—which they posted on the site, along with a donations goal of $5,000.

They were blown away when the target was not only met, but exceeded, within one week, resulting in the appropriately named Million to One. “It’s challenging enough to try to make it as independent artists,” Ungar says. “But during a recession? That seemed like the greatest test. So the support completely filled our hearts. And we really hope the people who contributed [receiving signed advance copies of the CD for their assistance and, with premium-level donations, private house concerts by the duo] know we see them as collaborators.”

With a supertight band that also features drummer Craig Santiago, bassist Jose Ayerve, and the guest fiddle of Jay Ungar, Million to One is overstuffed with timelessly catchy and beautifully melodic pearls: the chugging “Rise,” the pedal steel-weeping “End of Time,” the delicately listing “Goodbye.” And the record’s pair of raunchy barroom stomps, “Covered” and “Be the Boss,” proudly smack of mid-’60s Dylan. “The songwriting, singing, and production are all first rate,” says erstwhile Dylan sideman and Americana trailblazer David Bromberg. “The term ‘folk rock’ isn’t one that I’ve heard lately, although you can’t listen to this CD and not realize that folk rock is exactly what it is—and very good folk rock.”

But, much-appreciated endorsements from their elders aside, Mike and Ruthy feel a stronger affinity for the current “freak folk” underground, which is home to acts that reference the psychedelic folk of the late 1960s. “We’re most smitten with Vetiver [a group formed in San Francisco and now based in Hudson],” says Merenda. “We like a lot of different music, but mostly what we like is when musicians sound genuinely like themselves. It’s fun to play a banjo and sing old songs about chickens and whisky, but at the end of the day that’s not my personal experience. The freak folk and anti-folk scenes are more in line with a rock ’n’ roll ethos, in my opinion. The irony, of course, is that rock ’n’ roll came straight out of folk and blues, so we’re really just chasing our tail here, right?”

Right. And in the case of Mike and Ruthy, it’s an exhilarating chase indeed.

Mike and Ruthy will headline the O Positive Festival with Tracy Bonham on October 9 at Keegan Ales in Kingston. Million to One is out now on Humble Abode Music. www.mikeandruthy.com.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Rufus Reid Quintet October 2. Longevity in jazz doesn’t guarantee living-legend status, but there’s certainly some savory irony at work with Rufus Reid. Nowadays, the bassist, who appears at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall this month, is nearing mythic standing himself, but perhaps what first put him on the musical map was his time with the iconic Dexter Gordon, with whom he played with after the saxophonist’s return from self-imposed exile in 1976.

Reid’s quintet pairs his firm, softly swinging tone with pianist Sumi Tonooka, drummer Tim Horner, trumpeter Freddie Hendricks, and saxophonist Rich Perry. (Faculty pianists Blanca Uribe and Richard Wilson play Mozart and Poulenc on October 3.) 8pm. Free.

Poughkeepsie. (845) 437-7294; www.arts.vassar.edu.

Natalie Merchant with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic October 8. For her new and acclaimed Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch Records), Natalie Merchant, who graced the cover of the February 2010 issue of Chronogram and was profiled within, set 26 poems by as many 19th- and 20th-century British and American poets to original music. Here, at the stately 1869 Bardavon Opera House, the former 10,000 Maniacs vocalist performs with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic for the first time since 1995 in an evening of songs from the new album and highlights from her extensive back catalog. (The Metropolitan Opera’s HD production of “Das Rheingold” screens October 9; folk queen Joan Baez reigns October 24.) 8pm. $100, $60, $55. Poughkeepsie.

(845) 473-2702; www.bardavon.org.

Scott Sharrard Band October 8. Journeyman guitarist and singer Scott Sharrard, a current member of the Gregg Allman Band and Jay Collins’s Kings County Band, recently put down roots in Saugerties.

The Michigan-born Sharrard has also played with the Allman Brothers, Buddy Miles, Clyde Stubblefield, and Allmans percussionist Jaimoe, as well as locals Levon and Amy Helm and Marshall Crenshaw. This gig at the high-flying Falcon finds him fronting his own blue-eyed soul unit for what will surely be a beer-raising set. Organist Brian Charette opens. (Sex Mob brings lusty grooves October 15; bassist Todd Sickafoose lays it down October 16.)

7pm. Donation requested. Marlboro. (845) 448-1801; www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Four Nations Ensemble with Karim Sulayman October 9. Every fall for its Hudson River Harvest Concerts series the Four Nations Ensemble chooses three unique and historic Hudson Valley structures as the sites for its divinely intimate chamber concerts. This date at a 1799 Dutch barn presents the quartet with tenor Karim Sulayman in a program of works by Bach, Handel, and Telemann. Hosted by patrons of the ensemble, the catered afternoon also features fine food and wine. (The series closes on November 6 with a concert of French classics at Tailings in Linlithco.)

3:30pm. $75. Ancramdale. (212) 928-5708; www.fournations.org.

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October 14. The daughter of Arlo and granddaughter of Woody, Sarah Lee Guthrie is a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right; her husband and musical partner Johnny Irion’s granduncle is legendary novelist John Steinbeck. The couple, which plays the Bearsville Theater this month, has appeared at folk festivals and at Carnegie Hall with Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Dillards. Their upcoming album, Bright Examples (Ninth Street Opus Records), is set for a January release, and was produced by Vetiver’s Andy Cabic and Thom Monahan at Woodstock’s Dreamland Studios with guest players Mark Olson (the Jayhawks) and Neal Casal. (Alt-folkie A. A. Bondy visits October 5; blues guitarist Rory Block dazzles October 7.) 7pm. $10, $12. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

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cd reviews Madera Vox Madera Vox (2009, Skinny Tie Records)

The first thing you may notice is that this ensemble’s name consists of both Spanish and Latin words— Madera (wood) and Vox (voice). There’s your opening peek into the mixed bag you’re about to receive: Madera Vox likes a twist, easing you in gradually and then thwacking you over the head with an oddball choice of repertoire. From this contemporary chamber group’s classically trained base it sets off into terra incognita with powerful and disciplined technique. A mosaic of originals and covers, this self-titled debut starts off easy with “La Douceur de la Vie,” a gentle, rolling instrumental of oboe, bassoon, piano, percussion, and, eventually, operatic vocals that sounds straight off a movie score. Next are four unexpected instrumental children’s songs by jazz fusion pioneer Chick Corea that range from gentle to dramatic.

At the core of this recording is the smoky cabaret of “Youkali” and “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” both by composer Kurt Weill, the latter being a collaboration with poet Ogden Nash.

Following a pensive piano tune, “Jeux d’Eau” by Ravel, and more Weill/Gershwin (“My Ship,” “The River Is So Blue”), the CD wraps up with the boisterous and surreal “Lobster Telephone” by the ensemble’s own composer and arranger, David Gluck. Word has it that Madera Vox also tackles Andre Previn, Thelonious Monk, and Kurt Cobain, so it seems this eclectic group of conservatory-level performers/academics leans toward composers as unconventional and kaleidoscopic as it gets. www.maderavox.com.

—Sharon Nichols

Quitzow Juice Water (2010, Young Love Records)

Put on your party pants, you nutters, for the queen of quirk is back. This Hudson Valley-turned-international sweetheart, also known as Erica Quitzow, blew music reviewers and aural-orgy lovers out of the pond two years ago with her highly acclaimed Art College (Young Love Records) and once again dares the disco with her in-the-mood-for-Moog Juice Water. Fans of Prince, Erasure, Kraftwerk, and even Rasputina will pogo far into Quitzow’s left field when they hear this wacky wizardry of boisterous synths and strings. Her multilayered chant is barely decipherable under the kinky techno stratum of the opening track, “Let Out All the Crazy,” as she pokes at the music industry for making a profit off “broke-ass artists.” “The Cut” could be an instant club classic, with its infectious melody and driving dance-floor beat.The mood softens on the sweeping, cello-based “Race Car,” and “Race Car 2” is a beautiful, guitar-driven ballad with a mournful edge. She rap-hollers “I’ll do whatever you want / dress up like your New Age mom / eat LSD / watch badTV / get a sex change for variety,” on the album’s closer, “Whatever,” which features a perplexing, spunky pop beat.

The singer brings in several other players on percussion, vocals, and electric and acoustic strings, including her partner, Setting Sun’s Gary Levitt, but the rest is pure Quitzow. There is true artistry and substance behind every move she makes, so if you’re looking for an off-the-wall artist who pushes the boundaries of electro-dance pop, look no further. Quitzow to the rescue. www.youngloverecords.com.

—Sharon Nichols

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There’s something deeply satisfying about grooving to a band you’ve never heard or heard about; there are no preconceived images that can calcify expectations about what a group “should” sound like. So it’s great to report that Forgotten How to Fall, the fifth release from Orange County’s own Shrubs, is just such an aural kick. The 15 tracks cover a diversity of sound within the garage/psych-pop idiom. Part of the charm of the record is its unpretentious, everyman-rocking-out vibe, which, come to think of it, is one of the subtle pleasures of the original mid ’60s wave of amateurish garage punk.

The loose feel makes the songs resonate. The rockers on the album are played with the mid-tempo subway-shuffle the late-period Velvet Underground made famous. On this release the trio of Jay LoRubbio (guitars, accordion, vocals), Bob Torsello (bass, vocals), and Rob Takleszyn (drums, vocals) is augmented by Evan Teatum on mandolin and the esteemed Glenn Mercer of the Feelies on guitar, keyboards, and cowbell. Mercer also sat in the production chair and lends a stinging guitar lead on “Rock It,” which veers from amped-up Merseybeat to something more hard and sinister. Torsello’s bass playing is elastic and takes the songs in some unexpected directions. Some of the most pleasing tracks on the album are the slow burners; the spare, haunting existentialist ruminations of “Under a Microscope” is a prime example. www.myspace.com/shrubs.

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Books

REVOLVER

Jennifer Donnelly Makes History Sing

By Nina Shengold

Photograph by Jennifer May

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W

hen you visit Jennifer Donnelly in her Dutchess County home, high on a hilltop with swoony views of the Catskills, you may wonder if you’ve entered some other century. Roses tumble from urns, flanking an entry with neoclassical columns and marble floors, where an inquisitive greyhound greets visitors.Two Hudson River-style canvases lean against walls, still unframed. An upstairs hall sports a sectional street map of 18th-century Paris.

“It was built in the 1980s,” says the author, a striking blonde with expressive dark eyes. She explains that the house was gutted by a Wall Street tycoon and once played party house to a rock star’s entourage. The Hudson River canvasses?

Painted by a former tenant in Brooklyn. The map? It’s research.

Donnelly has a talent for straddling centuries, as her just-released Revolution (Delacorte, 2010) attests. Ostensibly a young-adult novel, this tale of two rebel teen girls, one from contemporary Brooklyn and one from revolution-era Paris, is sure to find fans among adult readers, especially those who like their historical fiction brimming with messy, exuberant life.

“It’s very important to me that history lives and breathes—I don’t want it to be cod liver oil,” says Donnelly. In her hands, it’s more like Red Bull.

Revolution has an impeccably hip soundtrack (Natalie Merchant, another local century-straddler, appears in the acknowledgments). The novel begins in the dark throes of privilege. Seventeen-year-old Andi is a fiercely talented guitarist, her passion for music all that prevents her from drowning in grief and guilt after the death of her beloved younger brother. Overmedicating, flirting with suicide, and ignoring her studies at an elite private school, she’s whisked off to Paris by her absentee father. When she opens the secret compartment of an antique guitar case and finds the diary of Alexandrine Paradis, a teenage street performer swept up in the Terror, her life takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.

The Paris catacombs become the path through Andi’s private hell, accompanied by a hunky Tunisian-French cabbie named Virgil, who shares Andi’s talent and introduces her to the underground music scene—literally—at a hallucinogenic venue known as The Beach. (Yes, it’s real, though Donnelly was “too claustrophobic” to venture an illegal entry on her Paris research trips; the official tour of the catacombs’ boneyards was enough.) Since Revolution’s epigraphs are drawn from The Divine Comedy,Virgil’s unlikely name is no accident.

“Dante was also in a dark wood—he was older than Andi, in his thirties, but also in despair, on the verge of suicide,” says Donnelly, adding with a grin, “If you’re going to ride somebody’s coattails, it might as well be Dante.”

All three sections of The Divine Comedy end with the word “stars,” and when Virgil leads Andi above ground, she lifts her face to the night sky. “I want to tell teens, you will get through this dark time—there is light, there are stars, and you will see them again,” asserts Donnelly, with a fervor that sounds authentically adolescent. Indeed, she says quietly, “I struggled with depression at that age, and have struggled with it subsequently.”

Who was her own Virgil? “So many writers, teachers, professors. They gave me the key to the castle, opened my eyes to the power and solace of literature,” she says. “I was so sustained by reading, by the idea that generations of writers had been there before me, that every time I went into a library and took a book off the shelf, there was a master class in my hands.”

The master class on Donnelly’s shelves has a very eclectic curriculum. There are research books with titles like Atlas du Paris Souterrain; five different editions of Ulysses (“James Joyce is my desert island guy”); The Invention of Hugo Cabret; Stephen King stacked atop E. M. Forster. “I grew up on a diet of mass and class,” says Donnelly. “I loved AWoman of Substance. I love, love, love Stephen King. Never apologize for what you read.”

Or what you write. Donnelly’s Rose trilogy (TheTea Rose, TheWinter Rose, and the forthcoming The Wild Rose) is a sprawling Victorian epic that ranges across several continents. Written with a research-hound’s eye for detail, they’re escapist pageturners, warmly blurbed by the late Frank McCourt and Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Donnelly started writing The Tea Rose at 24, between day jobs at J. Crew and Saks. She struggled for 10 years, “getting up at four am, working on weekends, not seeing people—always, always, always trying to get a book published.”

Finally, she sent a whopping 1,100-page manuscript to literary agencies, including Writers House. Agent Simon Lipskar told her, “You can write, but you need a lot of work on structure and narrative drive.” He mentored her for two years until they felt the book was in saleable shape.

“Every publisher in New York slammed the door in our faces. It was devastating,” says Donnelly. Six months later, St. Martin’s editor Sally Kim bought it. The advance was very small, but “I didn’t care. I was so thrilled to be published, I was literally dancing on my dining room table.”

Her first young adult novel, the award-winning A Northern Light (Harcourt, 2003), takes place in the Adirondacks in 1906, revisiting the same drowning murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy through the eyes of a local farm girl who’s found work at the Glenmore Hotel—and to whom the doomed Grace entrusted a packet of letters, with urgent instructions to burn them. As with Revolution’s Andi, the written words of the dead girl reawakens the living one. What better metaphor could there be for literature?

Donnelly was raised in the Adirondacks, where her paternal relatives settled when they left Ireland, and Westchester County. Her father was a state trooper, frequently reassigned, so she spent her childhood shuttling between the poorest county in the state and the richest. This may account for the vivid awareness of class differences in her fiction. “It was great practice for being a writer,” she attests.

So were family reunions. “Stories were like breathing or food—it was something you had to have,” says Donnelly. “My Irish relatives would get together and tell stories.” Her German-born mother was also “a fantastic storyteller. She would tell me bedtime stories—not fairy tales, but stories from her life during World War II in a heavily bombed port town, stories of survival, of explosions and narrow escapes. I suppose I should have been terrified, but I wasn’t. I was galvanized. I guess that’s where the history piece comes in.”

The “history piece” got shaken when Donnelly read a New York Times article entitled “Geneticists’ Latest Probe: Heart of the Dauphin.” A tiny dried heart, clearly that of a child, was left inside a glass urn in the Basilica St. Denis. An international team of scientists proved that the legend tagging it as the heart of royal heir Louis-Charles was correct.

“I was blown away,” recalls Donnelly. Though she knew that Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were guillotined, she wasn’t aware that their children survived them, or that eight-year-old Louis-Charles was walled up in such wretched circumstances that he went mad and died of neglect at 10. She couldn’t reconcile “how the idealism of the French Revolution could devolve into such cruelty.”

Donnelly couldn’t start right away—she had Winter Rose deadlines and an infant daughter—but the story would not let her go. “As a new mother, I felt like a person who had no more shell. I would come apart any time I read news reports of a child abused by political circumstance or domestic abuse. The Joel Steinberg / Hedda Nussbaum case took my legs out from under me. I would just sit down and weep.” The image of a child’s heart in a glass jar haunted her.

“You know how it is when a story is working on you—you go to bed with it, wake up with it, and you’re churning?”

Asked how Andi and Alex evolved, Donnelly shakes her head with wonder.

“These girls kind of walk out of the mists of your imagination.” She was living in Brooklyn when she started working on Revolution and often worked in cafes, among denizens of two pressure-cooker prep schools. “They were very sophisticated, with their own way of talking and being—so chic, but they were still children underneath, struggling very hard with huge expectations.”

Her two narrators’ voices are distinctive and strong. (Andi: “I don’t like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It’s the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.” Alex: “I am 17 years of age. I will not last much longer.”)

Sometimes they seemed to fight for control of the book. “There were so many drafts. Maybe a hundred. I reworked chunks endlessly. It was relentless.”

Donnelly reports bursting into tears, stamping around in her office, talking out loud. “I’m always intense about books, but this was the queen of crazy-making.”

She laughs. “I don’t know how writers’ families put up with us.”

Very well, it would seem. Donnelly’s mother is still her first reader, along with her husband, a financial consultant and writer. Their daughter, now seven, is an ardent reader who makes “reading nests” on the floor with her blankets and pillows and disappears inside for hours. “Wouldn’t you love to do that?” asks Donnelly wistfully.

She’s unlikely to find the time soon. Delacorte is printing 250,000 copies of Revolution and sending her on a national book tour, with an early stop at her beloved Oblong Books & Music. Donnelly fell in love with the region while visiting Rhinebeck; she and her husband had weekend homes in Callicoon and Tivoli before relocating full-time last spring. “It’s as if we’ve moved into a Hudson River School landscape,” marvels Donnelly. “I pinch myself every day that I get to live in the Hudson Valley. Where else can you get tomatoes, cows, chickens, and Alban Berg?”

Jennifer Donnelly will appear 10/16 at 7:30pm at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck, and 11/6 at 5pm, Merritt Books in Millbrook.

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2010 poetry ROUNDUP

Poets from throughout the Hudson Valley offer a bountiful harvest of new work, reviewed

by Lee Gould, William Seaton, and Nina Shengold

The hairpin tax

Weeds

David Appelbaum

Lee Gould

Codhill Press, 2010, $10

Finishing Line Press, 2010, $12

SUNY New Paltz professor Appelbaum follows his densely textured, Patersonian Nieuw Pfalz and oracular Window With Four Panes with a suite of brief, often cryptic poems constructed in short lines and stanzas (“inmates outlive”; “come clean, void”). Typeset in a deceptively airy font, these intricate “poems of haste” baffle and fascinate. —NS

More democratically titled than Leaves of Grass, Weeds remains capable of a certain prophetic ambition. Though Gould can indulge dreams and even whimsy, there’s generally an edge to her fantasy, as in the screaming female mountain lion in “The Basics.” “Rope Burn” is incandescent with eroticism and “Routine Check-Up, Age 13” greets puberty with a vision of “skinny dipping every night / in phosphorescent lakes.” But death figures prominently in this collection: “We become at last food, God, for you.” —WS

The Gate of Horn L.S. Asekoff Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2010, $15.95

Purgatory Road

“A blue-eyed Dresden doll” birthed from a “once-shattered pelvis” begins Asekoff’s third collection, The Gate of Horn. Homer’s spirit portal, through which “winged messengers” relate “the avant-garde miracle of everyday life” ends it. A dazzling array of personae offer tragicomic tales in language surreally beautiful, crudely vernacular, or intellectually probing. “Listen,” advises an immigrant woman, “this island is full of voices/they talk & talk/….They stand in pools of light of time.” Yes, listen, as Asekoff works his literary, linguistic magic. —LG

Mike Jurkovic Pudding House Chapbook Series, 2010, $10

“Welcome to the page the noir flicker/ Where my head used to be.”

Beacon poet Jurkovic writes muscular, mordantly funny phrases that stick in the imagination like burs. In “Couldn’t I,” he sounds a lament familiar to many artists, wishing his work were concretely useful, “a craft of hands / not language.” Readers will be glad he stood by “my petitions / Nailed to the wall.” —NS

Set Theory Jumping Out of My Skin: Poems and Microfictions

Georganna Millman

Frank Boyer, ed. William Wilson

Finishing Line Press, 2010, $12

The Doppelganger Press, 2009, $8

Many will understand the youthful cross-country jaunts recalled here: “misty farms, each lit by a single bulb, spin by like asteroids.”

Invoking Kerouac and Jimi Hendrix, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, Boyer portrays the Southwest (“the Rio Grande / glimpsed through rust-colored brush”) and a hallucinatory NYC (“subway steps slick with blood”) as he moves toward romance, redemptive but elusive, and “a fate we cannot guess.” —WS

Set Theory proves less abstract than its title might suggest, quickly establishing an elegiac confidential domestic tone (“I will tell you everything.”) that focuses on mortality (“one misfire behind the eyes/ a migraine’s clutch rush of regret.”). Millman work is rooted in the region and in everyday life, including connubial bliss: “Slick rapture—I am full of anticipation.” From her Catskills window she sees “a shock of fresh blood” in a snowstorm whose flakes seem no less than “lovers in free-fall.” —WS

(Nevertheless Enjoyment

Love in the City of Grudges

Elizabeth Bryant

Will Nixon

Quale Press, 2010, $13

FootHills Publishing, 2010, $16

Single paragraphs float like little boats beneath lower-case titles: “of what, in what was wanted)// “Little dark flower cup a black mouth or slippershaped flower.” Beautiful, but what does it mean?

Readers choose! In Bryant’s thoughtful prose poems, we play, experiencing how language shapes our responses to each other, the world, ourselves. Thus “Some secretive shy birds must be flushed out.” —LG

“My body tingled as if trying to grow feathers / Letting go, I grabbed at clouds…” So Will Nixon introduces his picaresque “irony-addicted” hero. Recasting his family as zombies, he yearns after “elfin-booted” blondes in “hip-hugging red.” Ultimately, he finds love, struggles with loss: “Once we read Yeats in bed / now we never stay home.”

An affecting verse memoir. —LG

What’s Left While I Was Dancing

Susan Sindall

Steve Clorfeine, etchings by Christoph Zihlmann

Cherry Grove Collections, 2010, $18

Codhill Press, 2010, $18

What’s Left is the joy that comes of acceptance. Contemporary Eve finds snakes “dangling everywhere…in curves deep as elephant trunks,” but “she’s adjusted.” Even contemplating death, Sindall finds comfort: “When I lay me down to stones, /they accept me as I am.” Her poems are intricately musical, passionately life-affirming: “Clamp your knees to / night’s wandering mare…The moon is mine, and I’m rising.” —LG

Clorfeine based these poems on free-writing texts generated when he and a partner practiced “moving and writing” in alternation. In the opening poem, the dance provides a triumph of symbolic gesture: “Victory to fingertips / (their willingness to fill the air).” The remaining poems range in reference from Buddha to Cracow and in style from the lyric to the gnomic. Zihlmann’s Neo-Expressionist etchings offer a fruitful juxtaposition of words and visual art. —WS

Inchworm Season I-Formation: Book 1

Pauline Uchmanowicz

Anne Gorrick

Finishing Line Press, 2010, $12

Shearsman Books, 2010, $15

Uchmanowicz’s intelligent, rhythmically precise poems focus on instability in a seemingly coherent world. “While above the scenery, the moon lifted writing postcards only it could decipher.” Cape Cod visitors “quick-waddle crosswalks with toddler // decoys…while year-rounders reminisce: “until names of the dead—by overdose/ blood disease or drowning… pass among ourselves like lighted sparklers…” All are “Tourists” on this unpredictable planet, the poet reminds us. —LG

Like a mad-genius English gardener, Gorrick constructs intricately patterned verbal and visual labyrinths, easy to get lost in, thrilling to decode. In a painterly cycle of garden poems, phrases flash like red lilies. A second cycle, “The Michelangelo Variations,” weaves an idiosyncratic fabric of artistic, biblical, and automotive imagery.

“In order to establish fact, we exchange seats / The I spreads out and it writes.” Indeed it does. —NS

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here is much to praise in Scott Spencer’s tenth novel, Man in the Woods. The Rhinebeck-based best-selling author and National Book Award nominee is known for stories that dissect the exigencies of love, life, and personal responsibility. This book is no exception.

Man in the Woods burrows beneath the skin of Paul Phillips, a carpenter who accidentally kills a drifter and adopts the man’s dog as penance.

Phillips’s random crime challenges his view of a just world and, most unsettlingly, his view of himself.

The resultant trauma cramps his every breath, his every step, and soon affects his loved ones.

Spencer’s tale offers deftly etched emotional quandaries and a sharp eye for the rituals—and reassuring falsehoods—of American life.

But Man in the Woods can be as ham-fisted as revelatory; for every 10 pages that enlighten, there is one that rankles.

Longtime fans will encounter familiar territory; Man takes place in Leyden, a fictional upstate New York town where previous novels have unfurled. Two central characters—writer Kate Ellis and her child Ruby—appeared in Spencer’s 2003 A Ship Made of Paper. Spencer’s gift for dense and thoughtful characterizations remains undimmed: Paul, Kate and a constellation of family, friends, and neighbors are engaging in their jumble of dreams, fears and contradictions—even if Spencer insists on lending each a self-awareness that is usually noted by the omniscient narrator.

Above all, Man in the Woods is a morality tale of faith in crisis. Paul’s religion is nature: the wood he carves, the forest animals he observes. Kate’s Christianity is a respite from alcoholism. By novel’s end, both watch their totems topple. (Setting the novel during the Y2K furor in 1999, seemingly to gin up the apocalyptic vibe, is a serious miscalculation, given the benign outcome of that situation.)

Spencer fleshes out the tale with keen observations on woodworking, best-seller fame and the cultish fans it brings, police investigatory techniques, the fears that underlie midlife romance, and even small-town gentrification. A friend of Paul laments, “I mean, come on, we walk in the woods and we hear the sound of bulldozers and then hedge-fund fuckers come jogging by.”

Rich descriptions fill the book. Lottery tickets are “pitiful little prayers,” a Christmas tree is “weeping tinsel,” and an old barn is “slowly collapsing in a long, splintery sigh of defeat.” But the veteran author is also capable of these sentences: “Yet what Paul is thinking is: Every step I take I go deeper into the darkness.”

(The reader may lose count of how often “darkness” is used to describe Paul’s conundrum.)

If you adore Spencer’s prose, Man in the Woods is a bonanza at 300-plus pages.

But overwriting abounds; the author cobbles lengthy histories for every person that frets his time upon the stage, including tertiary characters. For example, at Ruby’s school recital Paul sits next to a couple, and we must slog through four paragraphs of backstory although we never see them again. Ultimately, Spencer’s narrative touch is heavy-handed: Implausible plot twists lurch into view. For instance, to connect killer with victim, Spencer makes sure “Paul exits the highway on a sudden impulse,” then adds disingenuously, “He is not entirely sure why he is here.” In another scene, Paul’s sister Annabelle voices a recurring fear of being hit by a car. Guess what eventually happens?

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POETRY

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

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

I don’t want you to go to yourami.

Sometimes, the world isn’t how it seems.

—Nico Castello (4 years)

It’s how it is.

To dad about to go on business trip to Miami

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A Banner Year for Apples

Boat Sound/Ship Sound

Provocation I

A year ago it was enough to live on the tart leavings of our stooped pair of trees. They weren’t tall enough for shade or to do anything but drop miserly fruit. Still, the black bears came and took what was offered.

if you listen closely, you will hear the boat.

Round the great ring of my walled city You march Sweeping like the hand of a clock The leg of a compass The spoke of a turning wheel, Arms of lightning outstretched To measure the bounds of my domain.

Now the sow pushes her cubs up the trunk for the juicy red ones.

The bold will risk the thinnest branch to reach the sweetest.

It’s what she’s waited for all winter through spring.

In summer the harvest came just within grasp.

Now that cooler shadows fall, the grass is littered with her leftovers mulching slowly into the soil.

A year ago it was enough to have two crooked trees in a yard because it’s our yard.

Next year, if there’s not another blight, you and I will pick the best the branches are willing to grant. The promise ripens just before the frost.

no, not the waves. of course you hear the waves! listen, the boat is moving and making that quiet sad boat sound, the sound only big boats have and make. maybe it is a ship, maybe it is a ship sound; not a boat, tiny and cheerful, bobbing up and down, little engine humming happy. maybe it’s the old old sound of a ship keeping on course and all the time wishing it was different, all the time wanting to just sink down, under, finally quiet, quiet quiet and rest.

—Leigh Vandebogart

—Amanda Nicole Gulla

Kaaterskill Falls The man who wore dress shoes to his death hadn’t planned it that way.

But with the roar of the falls in his ears, the right shoes might have seemed a minor consideration if one at all.

The narrow muddy path above the rocks offered no opinion though the facts suggest a bias towards descent. A whim is a whim.

We have to admire the man’s insouciance, to credit the quicksilver leap of spirit that chose against all prudence the falls cascading like Rip’s long beard. Not even the dress shoes make this news though we read it in the news.

It’s the airy freefall of his plummet we want reported—the split second of fatal cognition that all bonds to earth were broken as he fell to the rocks below.

—Annajon Russ

Morning Light At dusk We sought the trolleycar or trod the whole of wind and snow from Sorrentino’s to Fusco’s Bar. Fuel for one more morning row.

Oil leak on the kitchen floor from rim onto linoleum.

Window broken.

Splinters jut the darker door.

In the distance churchbells toll to granulated windowglass and sugar in the bowl.

Start and stop, start and stop and hush.

A shoe to drop.

—Pat McMullan

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Swift surge of urgency Swelling my founts My watermains and waterspouts Sweeping down avenues, boulevards Feeling your way through underground alleys Dredging out my harbors For commerce with your fleets; Enfoliating my parks with leaf Green ears of hedge and moss; Cozying in my hideaways Flooding my halls with song My windowpanes with beams of light My weathervanes with wind; Raiser of citadels: Where you march I will march Where your feet rest so rest my own.

What you build in me of brick and steel I shall build in you with stone.

Round the great ring of my walled city My city of eleven gates You march on swiftly Arms of lightning outstretched To measure the bounds of my domain.

—R. Dionysius Whiteurs

Gently induct me, back slick fingers clenched.

Shivering spines curled around bedposts, my teeth autographed his shoulders.

I couldn’t believe this slow sweet tease, my legs bending slight sight pulses.

This steady combustion, this faithless intrusion.

—Emma McCann

Morning light sketches my room as ducks doppler south in raucous reediness.

—Dane Pawloff

Constellations

Midlife Crisis

Told You So

Orion’s belt shines in three-point precision as we huddle, eyes raised, in the frigid, crystalline air.

Even the Pleiades have shed their hazy filaments, rejoined the company of breathing lights.

Because I was so tired I wanted to cry, the brussels sprouts froze in the garden.

I could no longer be held responsible for the peaches.

So I picked up a pencil, instead of a pen, And wrote this poem on the back of a dear friend’s obituary.

Clearness is not about seeing: I want to lie with you—folded, silent, barely sleeping. I want the glow of meteors to course though our veins. I want the slow reflected glory of light years to extend our time.

—D.E. Cocks

So when you yanked that rib from me, I think I mentioned that I felt myself a tad imbalanced, listing as it were, and that I feared, not that I am a fearful man, that I would soon be walking in circles. But you, knowing all—or so you said— assured me that we’d see murder and mayhem, screaming childbirth, babbling incoherence, floods and boils, before that came to pass.

Hold me again, as on a February night

by Provincetown harbor, fill the sky with Latin names, animal heads, gods and ghosts.

Undress me with assurance, make the surface of my skin a celestial map, one unknown sun— discovered.

—Ann Bookman

Grapeseed I love your mouth Pillow lipped Tongue like dancing.

Alchemy of Saliva and desire Helix upon helix Merging, Lust in soft.

Tongue on cheek Chin, teeth, Lips on lip Chest, belly, cock.

Filaments of silver Stretch.

My mouth Custard warm, custard soft.

Drinking now Your blood Thick Iron-filed catamenia Core of you In my throat. Viscose Globular.

Drink the grapeseed red and white Blood and semen.

Drink each other Till too drunk To stand, Ecstatic, delirious In the darkest wine Of our deepest selves.

—Nigel Gore

Once Upon the Ears of a Child Anger will get their attention,

but remember, as with you, love will let them listen.

Our children ask us to be as attentive, caring, gentle, brave, trusting, funny, and most of all, as forgiving as they.

Do not take their gifts for granted, or soon they will sour.

Learn from those small moments that so enlarge the heart.

Respect each even when different than you, as each of us is.

If we offer our best that is what they will learn, about us … for once upon the ears of a child a tone of voice resonates a lifetime.

—Checko Miller

Meadowbrook, July 15 Today was for the three that stopped traffic— the five that stopped traffic— but the three that had their hearts stop along with it.

Tonight, I think about the blood, the girl kneeling in the middle of the road.

The helicopters so loud that I thought it was war.

Tomorrow, we’ll pass the spot like we usually do.

Unless there’s a piece of that road, that parkway, waiting to stop us too.

Yet here I am, post murder and all that mayhem, one clubfoot following another, an eternal satellite of my own unintended creation.

—Steve Lewis

The Potter Laughs you keep making bowls and leaving them empty. your head is filled with the idea of conception. not of a baby girl, not now but that of the body— curves that fit that hand. made with the pressure of fingers on clay, the spinning wheel keeps everything centered, waste is only affected by the centrifugal force of the meaning of the act. my hands aren’t that accurate— my thumbs get stuck in arthritic posture. only good for pinch pots: organically unsymmetrical, but still have form and purpose— keepers of my secrets. when the bowl breaks, the potter laughs. when the bough breaks, that unconceived baby girl falls through a dream and the circle of my arms. you’re the one who wanted her. make a bigger bowl next time, we could sleep in it with milk.

—Branda C. Maholtz

Thrill of Death This death thrills me New every year— Trees undressing, Shamelessly tossing Their glory aside, Offering their bare bones To be gnawed upon By ravenous winter.

—Nina JeckerByrne

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And since 1683, when Frances Rombout and Gulian Verplanck purchased 85,000 acres from the Wappinger Indians, this southwestern corner of Dutchess County has proven bountiful. Indeed, driving Route 9 during rush hour, one might almost conclude that the area’s been bountied half to death, with a strip of intense commercial development offering just about every consumer option imaginable.

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Springing Back to Life The Village of Fishkill is much beloved by residents and those who do business there, newcomers and old-timers alike. “It’s just a wonderful place,” says Paul Stokes, proprietor of Hudson Valley Photo Studio. “We’ve been here since 1983, and it’s been a great ride. Everybody bonds—we have block parties and craft fairs that bring everybody out. The cops stop in just to say hi and you know they’re keeping an eye on your store after hours. The village politicians really care.”

They do, if village trustee Rafael Delgado is any example. “I went to some board meetings years ago, and the next thing you know they started finding things for me to do,” he says. “It’s very open and nonpartisan.You have a good idea, something you want to do? Come in, sit down, and let’s get to work. It’s a very supportive environment.”

Delgado creates, sells, repairs and restores fine watches and other jewelry at his Main Street store, the Watchpital, and is adding new product lines for the holiday season: scarves and aprons handmade by his daughter. “When Walmart first opened

in town, almost 10 years ago now, it devastated Main Street for a while,” he says.

“Lots of places closed. People from Garrison and Cold Spring who used to drive up here to shop stopped coming. But then they renovated the old Union House—it was a stage stop—into the Sapore Steak House, which is just a wonderful place to eat, and things started springing back to life. Now we have, let’s see, several great restaurants, a shoemaker, small engine repair…Whatever we’re doing here, it seems to be working.”

Jennifer Lopez agrees. Not to be confused with the J-Lo who’s targeted by paparazzi, Fishkill’s J-Lo is a transplanted California girl who opened up Maizie’s Tea Room with her caterer mom six months ago. “I was scared that I was going to have to become some super-competitive business person, but it’s been more like moving in and all the neighbors bring plates of cookies,” she says. “I’m a people person—I spent nine years studying psychology, sociology, and philosophy—and I love hearing people’s stories,” Lopez says. “We’re building up a fascinating group of regulars—one woman brings us antique teapots, the local harpist comes in. It’s a great mixture of hip and quaint, this town.”

Fishkill Supervisor Joan Pagones says that it’s a sense of balance—making room for the hip and the quaint, the historic and the modern, the business-friendly and the ecologically aware—that keeps the town thriving; while Maizie’s Tea Room and the Watchpital thrive in the village, construction giant Toll Brothers is doing a brisk business creating and marketing town homes. “Because they’re pricing them under $300,000, which is downright affordable compared to places south of here,” she says.

“And we do have actual affordable housing too; we require it of every developer. Our master plan calls for one-third open space, and I think we’re actually doing a little better than that, because the businesses are concentrated in the village and on Route 9 where they belong.”

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Fishkill: At the Crossroads Fishkill’s location at the crossroads of Route 84, Route 9, and the Taconic Parkway, with easy access to the Thruway, has brought in a wide variety of players over the years.

There’s the Castle Point Veterans Hospital and a state correctional facility, affordable baseball at Dutchess Stadium (the kind of place, Pagones notes, where you can not only afford to take the kids but can feel safe letting them head to the restroom on their own) and Splash Down Water Park. It’s a place of contrasts, as Delgado points out. “We just put together a great new park, 52 acres along Fishkill Creek. I can take the kids canoeing and feel like we’re lost in the Amazon, then hop in the car and be home—or at a great restaurant—in under 15 minutes. All those posh hotels and motels? When the kids get antsy in the dead of winter, we’ll take a night off and check in, hit the sauna and the pool, have a great meal, let them spoil us—and again, be home in the blink of an eye.”

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The diversity is indeed dazzling. On Route 9D in the village, you’ll find the Amish-themed At Home in the Woods, offering fine finished furniture. Out on Route 9, the Hawaiian-based Bad Ass Coffee Company has just opened its latest franchise, offering java and reggae to all—among a mix of indy and national outlets thriving in a competitive yet nurturing mix that offers just about any service or artifact a person could ever conceivably need.

And down in Fishkill, they’re busily nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs at the Fresh Air Fund’s Sharpe Reservation, home to Camp Mariah (Carey) and Camp Tommy Hilfiger, both of which aim to help inner-city kids find not just fresh air but also a sense of career possibilities. “And Tommy and Mariah both do stop in and spend time with the kids,” says Pagones proudly. “In the winter, the scouts and other community groups can use the facilities…Somehow it all just works.We’re a great big small town, and I love it.”

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Hedge fund managers complaining to President Obama that they feel like papier-mâché dummies being hung up and beaten at a party, to which the rest of us never got invited. Billionaire brothers with Daddy issues convincing a whole bunch of regular people that big business is their best friend, and that if we just stop trying to accomplish anything at all through public collaboration, everything will be all better. A constant onslaught of pundits’ pronouncements on the Dow, the deficit, how various industries are faring and what that indicates. The recession may have been officially declared over, but it certainly cannot be said that all is calm throughout the world of finance, and it seems unlikely to be for some time.

That doesn’t mean, however, that the best place for your money is buried under your favorite tree. Barring a complete apocalypse, there are still some basic, sound principles that can help you venture into that world and be better off for it in the long run. According to Beth Jones of Third Eye Associates, it’s about following time-tested wisdom and avoiding the trendy notions that can lead straight off a financial cliff.

“Short term money that you might need within three to five years, you should keep in CDs or the bank, not in the stock market. It’s not the place for short term gain right now,” she says. “There’s still an awful lot of nervousness in the market. We have a pretty good indication that the worst is over, but every time a little news comes out, people react—the market will continue to be volatile mainly because of emotion. Everyone gets afraid that a stock will go down so they sell, which of course then makes it go down. We’d all be better off if we take the emotion out of the picture, and let money do its thing.”

That thing it still does, over the long term, is grow, and Jones says that diligence and patience can still yield results that will afford you a comfortable old age. “For starters, don’t spend more than you make, and save 20 percent or more a year toward your retirement. That’s the long term money, and you

should have it properly diversified among stocks and bonds. Mutual funds are usually best, because people can’t afford to diversify sufficiently on their own.

If you own five stocks and two vaporize, you’re SOL.” Motley Fool writer Dan Caplinger concurs with Jones about avoiding panicky overreactions. “It's always scary when a stock you own drops a lot.

But selling after such drops often proves to be a terrible mistake when the stocks inevitably recover,” he writes. Jones is not a fan of index funds in times like these. “Indexing does not work in a volatile market. For example, take Standard and Poor’s. The top 30 companies comprise a huge amount of the market, but with an indexed fund, nobody’s minding the store.You’re not truly diversified. The best way to go is good quality, active management that can anticipate and analyze, and allocate tactically—that outperforms indexing in a volatile market. And while I do believe we’ll see a return to stable markets and single-digit, steady returns, there are likely to be several more years of volatility first.”

What effect will the recently enacted financial reforms have on individual investors? Jones believes it’s too soon to say for sure. “We’ve had deregulation in progress since the 1980s, starting with Ronald Reagan, and it’s continued under both parties. And our current troubles didn’t just begin in 2007—it started with the Tech Bubble at the turn of the century, and the craziness just accelerated.You can’t use your house as a bank account while the bank makes fifty grand on the $10,000 they loan you and expect good results, but people bankrupted themselves doing what the banks were recommending. The bottom line has always been one plus one equals two, and it always will be. People think they’re missing the boat if they don’t get in on hedge funds or day trading or the latest thing, but the lack of oversight led to a great many Ponzi schemes and shell games. And the way things like E-Trade work, with automatic stop-loss sell orders—no human brain involved—is guaranteed to make the volatility worse.

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“Now the pendulum’s swinging back toward regulation. But the financial services lobby will keep fighting tooth and nail against it. I don’t know yet what impact the new legislation will have, or what will happen with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. One thing that needs to be in place is the requirement of fiduciary duty.”

Fiduciary duty, a concept rooted in English common law, is an obligation to act in the best interest of another party. While independent financial advisors are bound by it, brokers and other financial salespersons are not, and it’s a distinction Jones believes that investors should be aware of. “Brokers follow a suitability standard, which is entirely different. You can have a mystifying product that’s truly terrible, and still push it under suitability. The insurance lobby managed to convince Congress that widening the requirement of fiduciary standard would restrict consumer choice. ” In short, these are still curious and volatile times, in which anything could happen and very well may. Some of the best minds out there, such as Kingston-based trends forecaster Gerald Celente, don’t believe we’re anywhere near out of the woods yet; reform or not, we’re a long way from 1937, when William O. Douglas ran the Securities and Exchange Commission with the stated philosophy: “We are the investor’s advocate.” And even Jones, who isn’t the type who scares easily, sees a possible scenario in which things could get considerably worse before they get better: “The TARP bailout and the stimulus program may have been frustrating, but they were absolutely necessary. If that had not been done, the whole thing would have fallen apart completely. And all this screaming about the deficit right now is absolutely wrong,” Jones says, echoing the 300 economists who recently signed on to a statement to that effect. “Even more than ordinary people, the politicians ought to be leaving emotions out of their financial decisions right now, not playing on them. But they have this desire to appear ‘strong.’ If the Tea Party attitudes prevail, and those folks get elected, we could be headed for a recession that’s deeper and worse, because they don’t know what they’re doing. In a recession, when people can’t spend, the government has to spend to keep the whole thing moving. Otherwise not only is the suffering worse, but the eventual deficit will dwarf what we’ve got now.”

None of which—barring the complete meltdown of capitalist civilization—changes the long view. If the 300 economists manage to get heard, and the powers that be do ‘take the high road to fiscal balance,’ perhaps the ship of Finance will gradually correct its course and sail on. If they’re drowned out, and a greater crash is yet to come, bear in mind that these phases play out over decades, not months or even years. No less a financier than Warren Buffet himself has just proclaimed that it ain’t over till it’s over. “We're still in a recession and we're not gonna be out of it for a while. But we will get out of it, ” he told CNBC’s Becky Quick. (“Has Warren Buffet gone bonkers?” wonders a writer at the Globe and Mail.)

“We had a bad recession that lasted from 1968 till 1981,and then a long bull market that followed that,” Jones observes. “Right now, the market is actually right about where it was 10 years ago. This is a time to breathe, get centered, and not do anything crazy.”

Gabriel Sottile, president of Sawyer Savings Bank, agrees: Caveat emptor, and keep a clear head. “The next three to five years are going to be rough going,” Sottile says. “I would have to advise playing it safe right now, sticking to insured banks and treasury bonds. I’m disgusted by the things that have happened in the business world—no, nobody held a gun to those people’s heads and made them buy huge houses they couldn’t afford, but the people in the banks knew better, and shouldn’t have been blinded by commissions. Thank God we never did sub-prime or credit cards; we lost customers to those who did, but we’ve had no layoffs, and only two foreclosures in 10 years.

“The real bottom line is, it won’t get better until people realize that your value is not your net worth,” says Sottile.

RESOURCES The Motley Fool www.fool.com Sawyer Savings Bank www.sawyersavings.com Social Investment Forum www.socialinvest.org/resources/mfpc Third Eye Associates www.thirdeyeassociates.com

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EDUCATION

Tradition and Change

Rebranding the New York Military Academy

By Kelley Granger

students from the cross-country team at new york military academy.

Courageous and gallant men have passed through these portals.

S

o reads an inscription above a doorway looking over the quad on the campus of the New York Military Academy, a college preparatory school for day and boarding students in grades 7 through 12 in Cornwall-onHudson. Inside that doorway in the administration building, one will find halls covered with black-and-white photos of notable alumni since the academy’s founding in 1889 by Charles Jefferson Wright, a Civil War veteran and school teacher.Those same doorways opened to women in 1975, when the institution became coeducational.

As grand and long as the history may be, something may still feel amiss during a visit. It’s somewhat jarring to see the property, given its close proximity to prestigious West Point and with wealthy alumni like Donald Trump. It feels a bit like a ghost town. On a typical afternoon, you may only encounter half a dozen students on their way in from athletics practice on the entire 140-acre campus. Some dormitory buildings are completely vacant, and the current boys’ dorms appear worn on the exterior, paint flaking from years of inattention. A 30-stall equine facility sits vacant in disuse, except for the storage it was being used for. A huge girls’ dorm is occupied by only eight students.

Still, upon closer inspection, you’ll see that these are the very things Major Jeffrey Coverdale, the interim superintendent who took the reins just this past July, is adamant about changing. He and a new administration team are preparing to take the academy from the brink of closure and overhaul it, inside and out.

A Second Life Just this past May, The New York Times reported that the NYMA was facing indefinite closure after years of financial troubles. The school needed at least $7 million to turn things around and keep its doors open. The situation was so dire that the academy’s director of admissions had to place calls to parents of cadets and help them find alternate placements for their children in the upcoming academic year.

Among other issues, including low enrollment and the economic climate, the article pointed a finger at NYMA alumni for a share of the financial troubles. “Still, the most galling and perhaps damning thing for NYMA is that its own alumni have never been loyal financial supporters,” the story stated. It’s a point that vexes Coverdale. After all, it was actually the alumni who were mostly responsible for finding the means to save the school from closure by bringing investors to the plate, who have helped set the school on a more sustainable track and have provided the financial resources to start revamping the campus and the curriculum.

“Too many times it was said that the alumni didn’t support the academy but I really feel like we didn’t get the alumni involved in the school enough,” says Coverdale. In the past, Coverdale believes NYMA didn’t work well enough with its alumni to keep the legacy of the school going. It’s not about just consistently asking them for their money—it’s about showing them that the school is changing with the times to focus on quality education and involving them so they understand the changes that are needed in the programs to make the 10/10 ChronograM education 75

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school successful. “I remember we had a contingent go down and ask [alumni] Donald Trump about supporting the school and one of the statements he made was that he felt that military schools were obsolete, or something to that effect,” says Coverdale. “And he was part right. If you stay in the old mold of the military schools, then you’re going to become obsolete. Military schools are just as valid today as they were yesterday, but you have to change some components of them.”

Major Changes One of the most critical roadblocks for the academy’s growth has been the notion that NYMA and other institutions of its kind are depositories for troublemaking teens. Coverdale recalls many instances when the academy has had a booth at education fairs and parents will walk by with their kids, threatening that that’s where they’ll end up if they don’t straighten up their act. “If you don’t have your act together you’re not coming to school here,” Coverdale says. “A troubled kid for us isn’t working up to expectations in the classroom or isn’t turning in homework on time; these are troubled kids for us. The old days of getting in trouble with the law and being suspended from school— those kids can’t come to school here.”

If there’s one thing that the NYMA wants to stress, it’s this selectivity and their new approach to achieving academic excellence. Coverdale says that the position of the school isn’t like it used to be, where the only competition was other military schools. Now, every other school is a competitor. And he wants NYMA to be as good—and better—than them.

A fresh focus has been placed on learning with the hiring of a new dean of academics, Evan Jones, and the changes are significant. For one, honors level courses have been made the standard. Though they don’t bear the AP label, Alisa Southwell, the director of admissions, says that all students are taught at that level and have the opportunity to take and pass the AP exams for college credit. In conjunction with an International Baccalaureate program,

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members of the lady knights volleyball team at new york military academy.

NYMA also just introduced the “tracks of intention,” a program that provides an academic pathway for cadets to explore the subjects they’re interested in studying in college.Tracks include those dedicated to classical college prep, international diplomacy, a service academy, and others. In addition to a rotating schedule of classes, athletics, and military customs like formation and reveille, students will also be participating in new exploratory programs held on and off campus one Saturday each month. Called co-curricular discovery programs, they offer students hands-on opportunities to explore history, culture, science, and other subjects in the surrounding area.

All these changes were drafted just recently and put into effect with the goal of realizing a new level of academic excellence at NYMA. “If we say we’re a college prep school we really want to prove that we’re offering our cadets everything to best equip them for college,” says Southwell. “We really researched what we were offering and what we could offer on top of that. Our new dean of academics has worked with several schools in the past and has set up very productive ways of enhancing what we have.”

But academics are just the beginning. Coverdale, during a tour of the campus, lists all the improvements he intends or has already begun to make. In the cafeteria, he points out that cadets and their advisors now meet for lunch every Thursday in the hopes that it will encourage more interaction and accessibility.

At the dorms, he mentions a renovation project that was implemented costing hundreds of thousands of dollar to initiate, and points out that the flaking exterior paint is in the process of being fixed. In the fitness center, he talks of new Nautilus fitness systems and a new floor that will be installed by an alumni with a flooring business—and example of how money is not the only way an alumni can support the school. He passes the empty stable and talks of organizing an equestrian troop—it’s already in the works.

Academy Assets Most of the changes can be chalked up to one primary goal—to increase enrollment. NYMA currently has only 60 cadets, down from 145 during last spring, before the threat of suspended operations cost them a big portion of their student population. But aside from changing or enhancing the marketing strategy of the academy, Coverdale says the most valuable asset for winning new cadets are the current cadets themselves.

The maxim that a cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal and will not tolerate those who do is taken to heart. Coverdale calls it a counterculture. They’re given an honor code and asked to be responsible for themselves and to be role models for others. Instead of being in an environment where drinking or skipping classes is the norm, cadets are surrounded by peers who are training for multiple sports, waking before six am for physical training, and immersing themselves in their education. The academy calls these kids “intentional learners.”

“The kids are our best teachers,” says Coverdale. “I teach an ethics class, but that’s not where they learn that a cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal. They learn that from their fellow cadets.”

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Food & Drink

The Duck Whisperer Robert Rosenthal and Stone Church Farm

By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

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any people are obsessed with food, for better and for worse. Very few are able to take that fetish and diligently channel it to create products that become beloved by the greatest chefs in the country, setting new benchmarks for quality and sustainability. After a hiatus, Robert Rosenthal of Stone Church Farm in Rifton is back in business producing the best-tasting ducks in America, if not the world.

Rosenthal and his wife Noelia moved up from New York City and in 1984 began raising poultry at a lovely 19th-century bluestone church in Rifton that they renovated using salvaged rough-hewn barn beams. By 1986, they had stopped; the birds were noisy and kept getting flattened by the traffic on Route 213 outside their house, and unhappy neighbors complained. Rosenthal leased some land, bought some ducks at auction, and continued production, building a loyal clientele among restaurants, but it was a lot of work. Eventually, he made a deal with Mennonite farmers in Pennsylvania to raise birds according to his system, which left him free to research and market.

The only problem was that he was operating under a Pennsylvania State license that forbade transporting animals out of state. Flouting this law ever more brazenly, it got to the point where an inspector urged Rosenthal to turn himself in to authorities to avoid any serious sanctions. “I was an agricultural criminal,” he says of that period. “I was arrogant, and I never said no; there were Fed Ex trucks coming and going all the time.” By 2006, the business was shut down, and Rosenthal began to plot his return to production in a sustainable (and fully legal) fashion.

Rosenthal’s driving motivation has always been to achieve the best possible flavor, and as a result he ended up raising animals in what is essentially their natural habitat.

Climbing a steep stairway to a cavernous upstairs room where a pile of thick planks waits to be turned into a dining table, Rosenthal says, “We want to eat what lives where it’s happy; it’s exactly the same as for vegetables. The best food in the world has always been a result of animals raised in an environment of their choosing.” The fact that the best-tasting animals grow in the most humane and bucolic environment is hardly surprising, but it shows how far most of today’s farming has strayed from its origins. “You can’t put an animal in a cage,” he insists.

Rosenthal calls his approach “ecological food” since it begins with the land. Protecting and caring for the land lets the animals thrive: “Happy animals give back to people, both in taste and sustenance.” The public enjoys the superior quality of the food, and the farmer prospers, ensuring that the land remains agricultural. His approach gives the ducks large amounts of open space, including bodies of water, where they can eat grass, herbs, bugs, snails, frogs, and anything else they like. Any fences are to keep the predators out, not the animals in. In the last few weeks of their lives, they are given a custom blend of grain to add fat, and for the last days they come indoors to spacious, dimly lit barns to calm them and relax their muscles.

Currently, he’s working with five farms in the Finger Lakes, and visits regularly to check that all is being done exactly according to his rigorous standards. “I’m unforgiving when it comes to quality control, and I have the customers to prove it,” he says, listing the pantheon of top French chefs in America who all know him on a firstname basis. The law allows for each of his client farms to raise 20,000 of each kind of bird per year, and his sales target is 1,000 birds per week in the coming months. By November—in time for Thanksgiving—Rosenthal plans to be retailing to the public through smaller, high-quality markets around the state.

Rosenthal refers to Stone Church Farm as “first and foremost a research center.”

His process begins with talking to chefs, listening to what they want but can’t find.

Then he hits the books, scouring his library and the web for any relevant information not already within his capacious memory. Next he begins experimenting with breeding, feed, and different terrain until he gets the result he wants, and codifies the process in a contract with the farmers. “I’m sort of the architect [he studied architecture briefly before dropping out] with a blueprint; I bring the prototype, farmers follow it, and the result is a handmade product but made in quantity.” On average it takes him 18 months to reach a complete plan for a given animal.

Years ago, Rosenthal remembers reading about some ducks in France that were the result of random interbreeding between wild and farm birds. “They combined the best qualities of both types: the fat and mild flavor of non-flying domestics with the rich, gamy flavor of wild animals.” He made it his mission to replicate this hybrid, and began catching wild ducks in Pennsylvania and breeding them with domestic varieties. After trying countless combinations, he developed a bird that had the quality, size, and complex flavor he wanted. Soon after, while looking through a book on French food and culture, he saw a picture of his duck. He contacted the farmer mentioned in the book, sent many pictures, and it turned out that sight unseen he had exactly reproduced the Duclair duck of Normandy. Not only that, but he had done so at the time when the bird had become commercially extinct due to the difficulty of raising it.

To illustrate the uniqueness of his Duclairs, Rosenthal likes to recall a tasting with chefs Alain Ducasse and Daniel Boulud where they were served the meat cooked pink and trimmed into small pieces and they both refused to believe that it was duck.

“Somewhere between veal and lamb” is how Rosenthal describes the flavor. An ingredient of this quality needs mindful cooking to do it justice. Rosenthal emphasizes

the need to keep the meat pink, always erring on the side of rare, when cooking his ducks. Wes Dier is the chef-owner of The Local, a restaurant that just recently opened in Rhinebeck that serves Rosenthal’s ducks. “The taste is unparalleled. It has a different, meatier nuance—the flesh is almost purple—and you can crisp the skin without overcooking the breast.” Dier serves rare seared breast over confit made from the legs, showcasing the two best ways to eat duck.

Stone Church Farm currently sells Normandy and Duclair ducks as well as small poulard chickens with paper-thin skin and a delicate, refined flavor. During his hiatus, Rosenthal has developed models for growing lamb and foie gras. The lamb will be the famous salt marsh lamb so prized in France, where the animals graze in certain seaside areas and ingest salt along with the flavorful wild herbs of the coast, thus seasoning themselves from the inside. The foie gras will come from geese that do not need to be forcefed. It was a book on oysters that provided him an inspirational spark in both cases; the uniquely fertile properties of estuaries connected the dots between the seemingly unrelated species.

Wild geese feed heavily prior to migration, accumulating fat in their livers; foie gras originated as the result of this normal part of the life cycle of migratory birds.

Gavage (force-feeding) is simply an industrial exaggeration of what the birds do naturally. Rosenthal’s point is that by working more closely with the birds—letting them live the way they would in the wild, with minor interventions like giving them lots of grain when they start to naturally fatten themselves—they will taste extraordinary and not require any manhandling. “An animal raised in this particular way can be the greatest food you’ve ever eaten,” he says, citing as proof a Spanish goose farmer who, using this method, recently won a prestigious French award for the best foie gras in the world. Rosenthal has found the sites, knows the breeds, and is ready to go. He has also begun working with a Canadian breeder of rare chickens to develop eggs that he describes as being “so good, it’s like eating an egg for the first time.”

As a result of his stubbornly unorthodox career trajectory, Rosenthal is hitting his stride at an age where most people are retiring. As a result, he is developing a franchising model that will allow farms around the country to raise animals according to his stringent guidelines and then sell them with a Stone Church Farm label.This will allow the business to grow and be sustainable moving forward. When Rosenthal started, he says, local foods had no cachet at all. Now the world has risen to meet him, and his integrated methods and peerless products represent the expert synthesis of green and gourmet. Good duck is one of the most pleasurable of foods to begin with, and when bred and raised to Rosenthal’s near-manic standards, it becomes lavishly luxe. “I have found my place in the world,” he says, smiling: neither farmer nor chef, but a producer who shares the knowledge, standards, and palate of the very best in both fields.

Stone Church Farm poultry is served at many restaurants in the region, including:The Local, Rhinebeck; Beso, New Paltz; the Rhinecliff Hotel; Red Onion,Woodstock; Le Chambord, Hopewell Junction; Red Devon, Bangall; and at the restaurants of the CIA in Hyde Park.

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Fresh baked breads, sweet delicious desserts, hot pizza, sausage and peppers, panini, pasta and coffee! Each vendor will be offering a sample for you to taste as well as selling other mouth-watering Italian specialties. Come be a part of all the fun! Open to all.

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Venetian Masquerade Mask Cannoli Eating Contest Mama’s Meatball Contest

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Woodstock resident and editor of the new alternative science and history anthology Lost Knowledge of the Ancients – A Graham Hancock Reader, will be also be speaking.

For another evening that promises to challenge and change your perception about the evolution of human civilization and its future direction, visit BEAHIVE

October 23rd at 7:00 PM Admission is $10 314 Wall Street in Kingston, NY For more information call: 201-245 7098 or 845-334-8600 x 107

Food & Drink Events for october Gomen Home-Style Sushi Experience October 3. Join Youko Yamamoto, owner of Gomen-Kudasai Japanese Restaurant, for a sushi making workshop. Yamamoto was born in Yokohama and learned traditional Japanese cooking skills in her mother’s kitchen. She has been teaching home-style cooking since 1998 and will demonstrate how to make Futomaki (thick sushi rolls), and GomokuZushi, sushi in a bowl of rice. 3pm-5pm at Gomen-Kudasai in New Paltz.

Sponsored by Unison Arts and Learning Center, $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers. (845) 255-1559; www.unisonarts.org.

22nd Warwick Applefest October 3. Celebrate the apple harvest with more than 200 craft vendors, dozens of food vendors, 50 local nonprofit exhibitors, and five stages of music and entertainment all day. Applefest is produced by the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce and was named one of the “Top 100 events” in the US by the American Bus Association. It attracts more than 35,000 visitors each year. There will be an apple pie baking contest, farmers market, children’s carnival, and apple picking at eight local orchards. 10am-5pm in Warwick. Admission is free. (845) 987-8300; www.warwickapplefest.com.

Beer Tasting at Hudson Beach Glass October 8. Sample fine crafted beers suggested by Scott Vaccaro, owner and head brewer of Captain Lawrence Brewery from Pleasantville. Vaccarro began brewing at 17 years old and graduated from UC Davis Fermentation Science Program. The beers will be paired with selected cheeses. There will also be local bread from Beacon’s new bakery, Crumb. 6pm at Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon. Tickets are $45. The tasting pint glass is hand blown and signed by Kathleen Anderson who will demonstrate how the glass is made. (845) 440-0068; www.hudsonbeachglass.com.

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Fermentation Workshop October 9. Learn how to turn cabbage into tasty and healthful sauerkraut with Amie Baracks, longtime sauerkraut enthusiast and maker.

Baracks promotes local agriculture that is ecologically sound, community oriented, and economically viable. 10am-12pm at Phillies Bridge Farm Project in New Paltz. $10 members/ $15 nonmembers.

(845) 256-9108; www.philliesbridge.org.

Hudson Chili Contest October 9. Taste a variety of chili samplings including meat, vegetarian, and seafood at the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Hudson.

Enter your own recipe and win up to $500 for first place. Beer and wine will be available. There is also going to be a table decoration contest and live performance by country-rock band Thunder Ridge.

Price of admission is $5 and includes a ballot to judge. (518) 392-9696; www.hudsonvalleybounty.org.

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A Taste of Little Italy October 10. Downtown Poughkeepsie’s Little Italy (in the shadow of the city’s entrance to the Walkway over the Hudson) hosts a mangiarific day of food, entertainment, and live music. The event features 11 local eateries serving Italian specialties like , including Caffe Aurora, The Milanese Restaurant, Café Boca, and Amici’s. And don’t miss the cannoli eating contest or the mama’s meatball contest! 10am-6:30pm.

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Oktoberfest October 16. Indulge in local, homemade, German-style food and beverages such as bratwurst, pierogies, gilled seasonal vegetables, beers of the season, and desserts. 6pm-9pm at St. Andrew’s Church in New Paltz. $20 per person or $10 with student ID, includes entry to the silent auction. (845) 255-5098; www.standrewnp.dioceseny.org.

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Jones Farm Since 1914

Jones Farm & Country store SeaSonal Homegrown Produce local & gourmet FoodS grandma phoebe’s kitChen Homemade baked goodS Clearwaters distinCtive giFts PerSonal & Home acceSSorieS,candleS, Toys, Jewelry & more • A desTinATion for Handmade & Fair trade Clearwaters gallery & Custom Framing ArchivAl frAming • originAl ArTwork by Terri A. cleArwATer

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Every day, enjoy 5% off any 6 bottles of wine, 10% off any 12 bottles of wine On Tuesdays receive 8% off any purchase, 13% off any 6 bottles of wine, 18% off any 12 bottles of wine

Open 7 days For information on our upcoming wine school, e-mail us at ingoodtaste@verizon.net

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Voted “The Destination Restaurant” ~Culinary Institute of America

The Local

Wesley Dier, former chef/owner of 40 West restaurant of Rhinebeck, returns with The Local, serving culturally diverse cuisine made from regional recipes with local products. A few menu selections are pickled quail eggs prepared with laurel and mustard seeds ($6); sweet potato agnolotti served with shallot crisps, toasted pine nuts, and garden sage brown butter ($12); and black angus ribeye steak frites served with sherried onions, maître d’hôtel butter, smoked salt, and hand-cut fries ($28). Some dessert options are the banana-white chocolate bread pudding with housemade cinnamon ice cream ($8), or a chocolate torte covered in toasted coconut served with warm dulce de leche ($8). There is a full bar with an all American beer and wine list including Keegan Ale’s Mother’s Milk Stout ($7.50); and a dozen West Coast wines ($7-$14 by the glass).

38 W. Market Street, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-2214; www.thelocalrestaurantandbar.com.

Bull and Buddha

A half block down from the Artist’s Palate on Poughkeepsie’s Main Street is the chic Bull and Buddha, an Asian fusion restaurant with luxe appointments, including a 2,000-pound handcarved Tibetan Buddha. B&B is three restaurants in one: sushi bar, American steak house, and Asian-fusion tapas joint. There’s the straight-up panAsian dishes—shumai ($6), pad thai ($10); Asian-influenced sandwiches like the hoisin BBQ beef brisket sandwich ($9); small plates like char sui bao (steamed pork bun, $5) and steamed mussels in sake-butter broth with Chinese sausage ($9); and carnivore-centric entrees like the dry-rubbed 20 oz. ribeye ($26) or the Korean BBQ short ribs ($18). This tripartite approach extends to the beverage list as well, with 8 kinds of hot and cold sake, signature cocktails like the Thai martini (green tea-infused vodka, coconut milk, honey, and toasted coconut, $8), a diverse selection of international and domestic beer ($4-$7), and a smart wine list with 15 bottles under $20.

Japanese Restaurant

319 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. (845) 337-4848; www.bullandbuddha.com

TIVOLI

Dermot Mahoney’s

The latest addition to Kingston’s bar scene is an Irish pub run by an authentic Irishman, the eponymous Mr. Mahoney, on the former Acapulco Grill site in the Rondout. Irish staples Guinness and Smithwicks are on tap (in addition to Stella Artois, Sam Adams, and Bass), and the menu leans hard on bar staples like fish and chips (two pieces for $9.95/three pieces for $12.95) and cheese fries ($6.95). Everything is tinged with a bit ‘o Blarney here, though, like the Black and Tan O’Rings ($7.95), onion rings coated in Harp batter and drizzled with Guinness. Irish specialties include Scotch eggs ($8.95) two quartered hardboiled eggs with sausage, breaded and deep-fried; bangers and mash topped with onion gravy and served with Irish soda bread ($10.95) and shepherd’s pie ($10.95). Live music every Sunday. Happy hour weekdays from 4 to 7pm.

40 Broadway, Kingston. (845) 853-8620; www.dermotmahoneys.com

74 Broadway (845) 757-5055 or (845) 757-5056

6367 Mill Street, Rhinebeck. (888) 936-3649; www.zendogcafe.com

22 Garden St (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278

“Best Sushi”~Chronogram & Hudson Valley Magazine Rated “Excellent”~Zagat for 15yrs • “4 Stars”~Poughkeepsie Journal

Hudson Street Cafe Restaurant and Catering

ZenDog Cafe

Documentary filmmaker D. J. Kadagian has built a palace to his favorite things in Rhinebeck. The result is a hybrid bistro-lounge-bookstore-gallery. The first floor features the wine bar and café in front, three lounges in the rear with selectively curated books and jazz CDs on the shelves for sale. Upstairs are two art galleries, one housing a rotating collection of signed lithographs by 20th-century masters like Picasso and Chagall, the other exhibiting local artists. Kadagain’s ambition is all directions is a bit breathtaking. For instance, iced coffee is made with a specialty Kyoto coffeemaker that distills one gallon of iced coffee over a 24-hour period. ($4 for iced coffee.) The food is also adventurous, featuring Peekytoe gazpacho—chilled soup with tomato, cucumber, and crab ($11) and pizzas like the Mumbai pie, made with tomato-curry sauce and summer squash and paneer-style cheese. Entrees include tagines of lamb ($20 for one/$33 for two) or chicken ($19 for one/$31 for two) and roasted pork tenderloin ($19). The wine list specializes in small, family-owned vineyards. 12 wines are available by the glass. ZenDog also serves flights of beer ($14) and wine ($16), both paired with charcuterie or cheese.

RHINEBECK

GOOD FOOD SERVED HERE! OPEN SEVEN DAYS 6AM TO 3PM DINNER THURSSAT 5PM TO 9PM

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237 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY Hudson Valley’s Premier Caterer Offering fine catering for 38 years in the Hudson Valley

O’Leary’s Restaurant

The former Lenahan and Lopez roadhouse north of the village of Red Hook on Route 9 has undergone an extensive makeover and reemerged as O’Leary’s restaurant, an upscale eatery. Carol and Mark O’Leary, CIA grads, recently returned to the Hudson Valley after 20 years in the Hawaiian restaurant scene. Carol runs the front of the house, Mark the kitchen. The food is rustic and eclectic, with simple dishes from around the world. Starters include Peking duck rolls with plum sauce ($10) and fried calamari ($10). The main dish selections are anchored by steaks and pastas. Filet mignon is an option, served au poivre or béarnaise ($27), as is pasta putana, roasted garlic, Sicilian and Kalamata olives, Serrano peppers, tomatoes, anchovies, and feta cheese over linguine ($15). The wine lists mirrors the diverse menu, with selections from across Europe and a few New World and Australian bottles. The bar features eight beers on tap, rotated seasonally.

7100 Route 9, Red Hook. (845) 758-2267 —Sunya Bhutta & Brian K. Mahoney

1118 State Route 17K Montgomery, NY 12549

www.holbertscatering.com holberts@frontiernet.net

Fine Catering for All Occasions

(845) 457-5806

Fax: (845) 457-4019

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Voted best Sushi 2008, Zagat award of distinction

Enter the world of

Eat healthy & enjoy every mouthful.

Exit 7B Rt. 84; Exit 17 NYS Thruway; Rt. 300 Newburgh next to Ramada Inn

Dine on fine Asian Cuisine & relax amidst babbling brooks or in the rain fall lounge.

Serving vegetables grown in our own garden. We provide catering and can accommodate rehearsal dinners. See our party menu for parties of 8-60.

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Bakeries

The Crafted Kup 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY

The Alternative Baker

14 MOUNT CARMEL PLACE / 845 483 7300 / WWW.CAFEBOCCA.NET

One block up from the Poughkeepsie Train Station

(845) 483-7070 www.craftedkup.com

407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355

The Tomato Cafe

www.lemoncakes.com 100% all butter scratch, full-service, smallbatch, made-by-hand bakery. Best known for our scones, sticky buns, Belgian hot chocolate, all vegan soups & sandwiches (Goat Cheese Special is still winning awards). Plus varied treats: vegan, wheat, gluten, dairy or sugar-free. Wedding cakes too. Lemon Cakes

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Serving Lunch, Jane’s Ice 4CCream ad and the Best Pie in the World!

WED  SAT : 10AM  6PM, SUN: 10AM  3PM

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Superfood Citizen Cafe 484 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8344 www.superfoodcitizencafe.com www.superfoodcitizen.com

giving. Closed Tues/Wed but open 7 AM for

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Catering match PMS158U M65 Holberts Catering Y80 1118 State Route 17K, Montgomery, NY

948 Route 28, Kingston, NY

(845) 457-5806

(845) 340-9800

www.holbertscatering.com

www.bluemountainbistro.com

holberts@frontiernet.net

Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast,

Terrapin Catering

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.

Hudson Coffee Traders 288 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1300 www.hudsoncoffeetraders.com

Searching for good Hudson Valley distributors.

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www.tomatocafefishkill.com

the best egg sandwiches ever!

Products Sold in the Hudson Valley for 30 Years!

www.mistersnacks.com

(845) 896-7779

shipped nationwide and for local corporate gift

lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring

Contact Mister Snacks 1-800-333-6393

1123 Main Street, Fishkill, NY

Hudson Street Cafe

845-255-8811 215 MAIN ST NEW PALTZ NY CLOSED WEDNESDAY

5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available.

Terrapin’s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.

Delis

237 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-2450

Jack’s Meats & Deli

www.hudsonstreetcafe.com

79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY

hudsonstreetcafe@gmail.com

(845) 255-2244

Pubs & Taverns Stockade Tavern

Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY

313 Fair Street, Kingston, NY

(845) 564-3446

(845) 514-2649

Route 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY

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

(845) 838-3446

Celebrate Autumn with one of our refreshing beverages

22 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall , NY (845) 534-3446 www.leospizzeria.com

Maya Café

American Glory BBQ

2776 W Main St, Wappingers Falls, (845) 632-3444, 448 Route 9, Fishkill, (845) 896-4042,

342 Warren Street , Hudson , NY

www.mayacafe.com

(518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com

Momiji Restaurant

Legendary American barbeque, and classic

43 East Market St, Rhinebeck, NY

American comfort food.

(845) 876-5555

Baba Louie’s Woodfired Organic Sourdough Pizza

Our new Momiji restaurant in Rhinebeck has a

517 Warren Street, Hudson NY, 286 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA,

fabulously fresh sushi bar & 4 hibachi tables & the full-service bar is now open. Experience a great contemporary atmosphere for families,

(518) 751-2155

private parties and large groups. Try our exten-

www.babalouiespizza.com

sive eat in & take out menu! Hours: Mon-Thurs 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri–Sat 11:30am-10:30pm,

Cafe Bocca

Sun 2:30pm-9:30pm. Catering available,

14 Mount Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie, NY

full-service bar, outside dining, handicapped

(845) 483-7300

accessible. Reservations recommended.

www.cafebocca.net info@cafebocca.net

7100 Albany Post Road, Rhinebeck, NY

Culinary Institute of America

(845) 758-2267

1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY

Osaka Restaurant

(845) 452-9600 www.ciachef.edu/restaurants/default.asp 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. Andrew’s Café, menus highlighting locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.

22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278, 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5055 or (845) 757-5056 , NY www.osakasushi.net

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

Soul Dog 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Gilded Otter

(845) 454-3254

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY

www.souldog.biz

The Natural Gourmet Cookery School For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of

healthy cooking.

They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry.

(845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro

overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill

6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY

River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering

(845) 876-3330

dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu,

www.terrapinrestaurant.com

and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold

custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com

Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier.

Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chro-

Chef driven and brewed locally!

nogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the

Gino’s Restaurant

world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle.

Route 9, Lafayette Plaza, Wappingers Falls, NY

comes something surprising, fresh, and dy-

Out of elements both historic and eclectic

(845) 297-8061

namic: dishes to delight both body and soul.

www.ginoswappingers.com

Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Local. Organic. Authentic.

John Andrews Restaurant Route 23 at Blunt Road, South Egremont, MA

Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY

(413) 528-3469

(845) 564-3848

www.jarestaurant.com

www.yoborestaurant.com

With the growing awareness of the effect that food has on health and well-being, there is a great demand for culinary professionals who can prepare food that is not only beautiful and delicious, but health-supportive as well. Our comprehensive Chef’s Training Program, the only one of its kind in the world, offers preparation for careers in health spas and restaurants, bakeries, private cooking, catering, teaching, consulting, food writing and a variety of entrepreneurial pursuits.

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Accommodations Hampton Inn

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1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600 www.kingston.hamptoninn.com ramona.vazquez@hilton.com 122 Westfall Town Drive, Matamoras, PA (570) 491-5280 www.matamoras.hamptoninn.com monique.olivier@hilton.com

Holiday Inn Express 2750 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-1151 www.hiexpress.com/poughkeepsie

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

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

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

Animal Sanctuaries Pets Alive www.petsalive.com events@petsalive.com

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org

Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org

Memento Mori: Contemporary Vanitas Exhibition: The exhibition explores works of contemporary artists who create Vanitas. Vanitas is a type of symbolic still life depicting a moralizing message on the ephemeral aspects of life and its sensuous pleasures. Artists featured: Kira Greene, Tara Giannini, Kirstin Lamb, Monika Malewska, Christopher Peters, and Justine Reyes. Present exhibition runs thru to Saturday, October 30, 2010 Ann Street Gallery 2nd High Tea Party Fundraiser: Sunday, October 24 from 2–4 pm. Enjoy the afternoon tasting a fine selection of teas from Harney & Sons, sandwiches and desserts, live chamber music, a raffle drawing and tealeaf readings will add to the entertainment.

The cost of the tea party is $ 40 per person, kindly RSVP by October 10, as there is limited seating. All proceeds benefit the gallery.

Artforms Galleries 9 Munchkin Lane, Kingston, NY (732) 996-1605 www.artformsgalleries.com artformsgalleries@gmail.com

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

Barrett Art Center 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2550 www.barrettartcenter.org

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

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

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

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

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org A multi-arts center offering a range of educational programs for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Millbrook and Red Hook. Programs include the award-winning Dutchess Arts Camps (building self-esteem through the arts for ages 4-14); Art Institute (pre-college portfolio development program); art classes, workshops, and outreach programs for economically disadvantaged urban youth.

Omi International Arts Center 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY www.artomi.org

One Mile Gallery 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2035 www.onemilegallery.com onemilegallery@gmail.com

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

Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media, offers year-round exhibitions, weekend and multi-week workshops, lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/ video screenings, and much more.

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Country Gallery

Kristy Bishop

1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY

195 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8835

(845) 297-1684

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1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum

Art Instruction

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

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 419-2189

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!

Banks Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union (845) 336-4444 www.MHVFCU.com

Rhinebeck Savings Bank www.rhinebecksavings.com

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Williams Lumber & Home Centers

87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7000 www.sawyersavings.com

(845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

Clothing & Accessories

Ulster Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com

Beauty Supply Columbia — Wigs, Costumes, Beauty Supply 66 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996

Beverages (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!

Bookkeeping

Spirit Halloween Lafayette Plaza, 1671 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-3739 www.spirithalloween.com

Utility Canvas

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

Collaborative Workspace

Bookstores Half Moon Books 35 North Front St., Kingston, NY (845) 331-5439 halfmoonusedbooks@gmail.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.

Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 26 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3797 www.oblongbooks.com

Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock

314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com

Computer Services Blue Screen Repair 244 Clinton Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 594-7924 www.bluescreenpcrepair.com eric@bluescreenpcrepair.com

Brainstorm Computers & Technology 321 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5659 www.brainstormkingston.com

Consignment Shops Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

The Present Perfect

Building Services & Supplies

23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

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

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

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

Crystals and Gifts Hands of Serenity Healing 1119 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1915 www.handsofserenityhealing.com

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

Events ASK - Art Society of Kingston (845) 338-0331 www.askforarts.org

Celebration of the Arts Historic Hugenot Street, New Paltz, NY www.CelebrationoftheArts.net

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Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

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Certied Biodynamic/organic artisanal bread, pastries, cheese, yogurt and sauerkraut all made on our Biodynamic farm. PLUS local produce, farm raised meat & more!

Jones Farm 190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com

Kingston Farmers’ Market Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-8512 www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

Kingston Natural Foods Market 33 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 802-0265 www.kingstonnaturalfoods.com

Mother Earth’s Store House 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products.

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

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

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N & S Supply

Natural Gourmet Cookery School

Beahive Kingston

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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store

Woodstock, NY (845) 684-5074

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Boughton Place Theater, 150 Kisor Road, Highland, NY

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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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

Harvest Spirits 3074 US Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-7683 www.goldenharvestfarms.com

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

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Hair Salons Allure 12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com

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

Internet Services

Cheri Voss 102 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2138

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

Salon Doriano 1131 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 897-2300 www.myspace.com/salondoriano

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

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Yankee Clipper Barber Shop 40 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 383-1924

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

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Hardware Stores

Clove Branch Gift Shoppe

Herzog’s True Value Home Center

1122 Route 82, Hopewell Jct., NY (845) 227-1816 www.clovebranchgiftshoppe.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Lounge High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 Hudson, NY (518) 822-0113 www.loungefurniture.com

Marigold Home Interiors 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0800 www.marigold-home.com

The Futon Store Route 9, Poughkeepsie, (845) 297-1933

Insurance Carter MGM Insurance 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-1500 www.cartermgm.com

Interior Design Albergo Delmar 325 Warren Street , Hudson, NY (800) 224-7359 albergodelmar.com albergodelmar@gmail.com Design atelier - Master upholsterer

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

Landscaping Coral Acres — Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634

L. Browe Asphalt Services (518) 794-0490 www.broweasphalt.com (518) 479-1400

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Lawyers & Mediators Jane Cottrell (845) 266-3203 www.janecottrell.com

Schneider, Pfahl & Rahmé, LLP Woodstock: (845) 679-9868, New York City: (212) 629-7744, www.schneiderpfahl.com

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

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! B&B for cats, with individual rooms— lower cost than caged boarding. Full house/pet/plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us since 1971.

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

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Shakespeare & Company

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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

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New York Military Academy 1 Aftab Road, Cornwall on Hudson, NY

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Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY

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Performing Arts

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Schools Bard College Center for Environmental Policy Bard College, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 758-7071 www.bard.edu/cep cep@bard.edu

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

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P.O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org

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

Eagleton School 446 Monterey Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4385 www.eagletonschool.com admissions@eagletonschool.com

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Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-9860 www.sks.org admissions@sks.org

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

The Graduate Institute 171 Amity Road, Bethany, CT (203) 874-4252 www.learn.edu

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330 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org

The Marvelwood School

High Meadow School

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Trinity-Pawling School

Indian Mountain School 211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org

Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com

Mount Saint Mary College 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-3225 www.msmc.edu

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

Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc.

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

Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235

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.

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

JK’s Liquors

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Tailors Michelle Garesché 275 Fair Street, Suite 17b, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0864 www.michellegaresche.com

Tattoos

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Workshops Honeybee Lives www.honeybeelives.org

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R & F Handmade Paints

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Tourism Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce www.dutchesscountyregionalchamber.org

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Videography Life -Portraits Videography www.life-portraits.com

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

Weddings 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

R & F has been internationally recognized as the leader in manufacturing high quality Encaustic Paint and Pigment Sticks for over twenty-two years. R & F’s ongoing workshop, demonstration and exhibition programs have introduced thousands of artists to these exciting mediums. The Gallery at R & F continues to offer bi-monthly exhibits of wax and oil-based artworks from around the world.

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Writing Services CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page (845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Our small team works with writers nationwide—memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

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getting fit Yes, You Can

by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola Exercise weighs in as a basic need, not an optional pastime.

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e’ve heard for decades that exercise is valuable, and those who get it regularly attest to the benefits. Nonetheless, for many of us the decision-making flowchart about whether to exercise leads at every branch point to “no”—except for the question, “Shall I do it later?”

Rather than berate ourselves for shrugging off exercise in the past, consider each new day a chance to join the ranks of the fit—and join them we must. “It’s absolutely true that there is nothing out there more effective than regular exercise for keeping most of our chronic diseases at bay and warding off the ravages of age,” says Jane Brody, longtime personal health columnist for the New York Times and a fitness enthusiast from Woodstock. “I know of a hundred studies that show that people who are physically active are healthier, happier, and mentally more alert, including into their 80s and 90s. Even a simple activity like tai chi, which doesn’t require sweat or any special equipment or clothing, can be done at any age, and has been shown to improve balance and reduce the risk of falls. Exercise helps people sleep better, too, which goes to hell in a handbasket as you get older.”

Mike Arteaga, owner of Mike Arteaga’s Health and Fitness Centers in Poughkeepsie and Highland, avidly follows fitness and health research. “The medical community is finally recognizing the fact that exercise is the most important thing we can do to prevent premature death and thousands of diseases,” he explains. “For many years research about the benefits of exercise used questionnaires, but a study done about those studies found that people greatly exaggerate the amount of exercise they get. So that had really been watering down any appearance of a health benefit.” Now researchers work directly with study participants and collect accurate data. “They find a tremendous correlation between getting regular exercise and disease prevention,” says Arteaga.

Destination: Invigoration Daily living in a mechanized world, unless your vocation is fitness or manual labor, puts few demands on our biological systems. They languish in underutility, like an orchestra waiting for sheet music. Regular physical activity gets the symphony under way: blood circulating, lymph stirring, immune cells prowling, toxins clearing, tissues regenerating, muscles building, bones reinforcing, lipids shuttling, mental faculties revving. Activities that put demands on the cardiovascular system and muscles, and which increase flexibility and coordination, are ideal. Engaging in them at least three times a week is best.

Luckily, the Hudson Valley is a buffet of outdoor recreation opportunities like walking, jogging, bicycling, or skiing the rail-trails or Scenic Hudson’s many open space parks; canoeing or kayaking the Hudson River and its tributaries; rock-climbing in the Shawangunks (or the indoor climbing walls in New Paltz and Albany); hiking or mountain biking in the Catskills; snow skiing on surrounding slopes.

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working are examples. Guidance and motivation for individual workouts abound in exercise videos, the cable fitness channel, and online websites.

But quantity and quality of exercise at home often fizzles over time. “If you are doing something that’s challenging, it’s almost impossible to do it on an ongoing basis by yourself,” says Arteaga.” He cites research that followed people who exercised long term: “The vast majority did so at a club.” And those home fitness machines that look so tempting in the infomercials? “I get a lot of knowing smiles when I ask people how many pieces of clothing are hanging on it.”

Gyms, Boots, Yoga Imagine exercising with like-minded people surrounded by views of the Hudson Valley in fall colors, in winter sparkle, in the flourish of spring. Imagine taking in a classic movie, on a large screen with surround sound, while tread-milling or cycling.

Envision yourself rocking out in an aerobics class with choreography and music from world-class fitness experts in Australia. Arteaga made these reality at his Poughkeepsie fitness center. “It helps people stick to their exercise,” he affirms. “One woman said she had to work out longer because the movie was just getting to a really good part. It’s a gigantic home run if we can get people to work longer.”

Ambiance varies among fitness facilities, as does size, clientele, cost, and staff persona. Different gyms appeal to different folk. “Each person needs to find the place they feel comfortable in,” says Arteaga, “because if you hate going there, it’s not the gym for you, and you’re not going to keep it up.” Check out private fitness clubs, the YMCA, a yoga or dance studio, a local school or hospital, a senior club— someplace to enjoy exercise, not just suffer through it. Many offer a free trial class or membership period.

Some cost a bundle; others are surprisingly affordable—especially compared in the long run to health care costs. “Staying healthy is the best way to keep health care costs down,” notes George Prisco, manager of Mike Arteaga’s. “It’s a proven plan, and we’re trying to sound the trumpet on that one. We’ve made it easy for corporations look at us as an integral part of their corporate wellness program, because the way to keep costs down is to get employees healthier instead of waiting until they have some problem that could have been prevented with regular exercise.”

An interesting trend in exercise options is the “boot camp” approach. Lest reality TV shows mislead you, they’re about getting tangible results in a fun format, not humiliation. “I cringe at that trend,” says Terri Stuart who has been teaching bootcamp style exercise for 30 years since her first job as a trainer for the Navy. Today, she runs Hudson Valley Boot Camp, with ongoing classes in Newburgh, Goshen, and Warwick that draw new moms, baby boomers, empty nesters, working people— just about anybody. “We’ve got a woman who is 78 who could hardly get up the stairs because of arthritis,” Stuart says. “Now her bone density has reversed and she’s blowing everyone away.”

Stuart’s classes are outdoors whenever possible. “You’ll be enjoying the beauty of Mother Nature, getting in the grass, sometimes out in the rain,” she says. “And it

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is intense interval training—short spurts of intensity alternating with short rests. I work out with them so they can see my form, because form is everything.” A neat collaboration Stuart has devised is two days of boot camp plus one of yoga at Happy Buddha Yoga in Goshen. “I call it yoga boot camp fusion, and it gives you flexibility and stretching in addition to the kick-butt workout.”

Personal Coaching Coaches and trainers offer a one-to-one relationship that adds specially tailored fitness plans, plus motivational clout. Like fitness centers, personal trainers come in diverse personalities, price ranges, and areas of expertise (or lack thereof, so select carefully).

Dorothy Hamburg has an MS in exercise physiology and is owner of Personal Strength and Training in New Paltz who specializes in one-to-one strength/weight conditioning and in therapeutic exercise for people with special physical concerns such as a previous injury. “We start with something that will build confidence,” says Hamburg, “something that is an attainable level where you are making gains without too much stress. And I’m not just designing an exercising program. I’m also teaching you to recognize what’s happening physically, what the muscles should feel like while they are contracting, to know we are in the right spot for the muscles we are trying to train.”

Hamburg’s clients often find that as fitness goals are accomplished, bigger ones beckon—even the triathalons in which she participates herself, and coaches. “Someone might begin with fast walking, and slowly work up to running. As they gain confidence, they might branch off into perhaps participating in a 5K run, and I’ll work on a program with them for that. One of my clients ran her first 5K last year and loved it.” Hamburg is a great role model: She wasn’t athletic until her adult years, and knows you don’t need an athletic background to become fit now.

When seeking a personal trainer, research their credentials. Hamburg says to look for a graduate of a top, accredited program such as from the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the American Council on Exercise. Ask for details about any other special training or certifications.

The Weight You Love Lifting or moving weights to build strength may conjure images of massive, sculpted bodybuilders, but some degree of weight-bearing exercise is recommended for nearly everyone, especially as we age. Weight borne by the skeleton, plus the stronger pull from muscles at their attachment points, stimulates bone to add density and durability.

Of course, gyms have equipment galore for this, but you can get a weight-bearing workout on your own by such things as hiking or snowshoeing with a backpack; doing yard work that moves weight around (mulch, landscaping plants, a push-ityourself lawn mower); rowing and paddling against the current; and clearing snow with a shovel (but educate yourself on doing so safely!). When somebody asks why you are doing it “the hard way,” show them your muscles.

Added strength makes ADLs­—activities of daily living—easier and safer. Such a goal may mystify younger people, yet a sedentary lifestyle, even for them, can make ADLs a challenge. For elders, strengthening muscles especially around the joints of the legs confers better balance and coordination to avoid, or minimize the impact of, a fall. An exercise specialist will have a host of strategies and some fun equipment to safely improve strength, flexibility, and joint support regardless of age or existing activity level.

Keeping on Track Sustaining a fiery motivation for regular exercise isn’t always easy. A classic antidote to wimping out is to schedule regular exercise and consider it as essential as everything else in your schedule. Making it a routine—the same time of day, and same days each week—helps. Having friends to exercise with is a powerful sustainer too, and camaraderie is a prominent reason people join gyms, classes, teams, and community activity groups.

“My biggest motivation for regular exercising is really the social aspect,” Brody says. “You have to think of it as not just doing it for your physical body but also for your mental health.” Her favorite activities include ice skating, morning walking, and swimming, through which she has made lifetime friends. “We have wonderful conversations, share information—that in and of itself is so rewarding that the exercise almost becomes a bonus. And I know they are waiting for me to show up each time.”

Arteaga’s top suggestion for somebody stalling on exercise is to read the bestselling Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Dr. Harry Lodge. “Dr. Lodge is brilliant, and the book explains very entertainingly why exercising every day is important. If that book doesn’t turn somebody into an exerciser and change their life, nothing will.”

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Will What’s Real About Childhood Please Stand Up? Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

Last night I had the pleasure of sitting with Azalea and reading a fine book called The World’s Biggest Tea Party. It is about the My Little Pony crew and how on “one bright spring day in Ponyville, a group of pony friends gathered at Sweetberry’s Sweetshoppe.” One pink pony named Rainbow Dash, Azalea’s personal favorite, posed the question of what they should do that day and they came up with the crazy idea of having a tea party, and not just any tea party, but, as suggested by Pinkie Pie, “the world’s biggest tea party!” Azalea was riveted.

It’s such a trip learning who my daughter is—what she likes and how her mind works. And the craziest part is that she really is just four and a half, meaning she’s not faking it. When T and I first got our Siamese cat Jimmy we used to joke that he felt to us so sentient, so totally aware, that he seemed like a human in a cat suit. And when I look at Azalea sometimes I see a grown-up in a kid suit. Not because she acts like an adult, but because I kind of can’t believe that her kidness is so real, so true, even honorable. Azalea really likes cartoons. She loves to put rings on her toes, a scarf around her waist, be tickled, and then jump from the couch to the chair, and then back again. Not only would I rather not do any of those things now, I don’t think I ever let it rip like she does; according to my family, I have always been pretty serious. It is just impossible to imagine myself popping up and down from the dinner table in order to check on my horses in the next room, or hiding under my covers, begging to be found. Again! To people who know what it’s like to feel that type of playful exuberance, perhaps my dawning realization that childhood is real might seem bizarre, or even absurd. But I actually think that we are all parenting based on some pretty funky assumptions about who our kids are and what they’re capable of.

The Buddhist term for these assumptions is conditioning. It often feels like what we believe about the world is utterly personal, idiosyncratic, and sometimes it is. But conditioning also comes from forces larger than ourselves or our families. One of my very favorite books about the cultural conditioning of children is called Preschool in Three Cultures, Revisited: China, Japan, and the United States. In the original edition of this juicy ethnography, the authors traveled (in 1984) to these three countries, spent time in preschools, interviewed teachers about their pedagogy, shot lots of video, then showed video clips to teachers in other countries, asking them to respond to what the other countries’ schools were doing. In the Revisited edition, the authors returned to the schools in 2002, asking the current teachers to reflect on their schools’ past practices, as well as what is presently happening in the other countries via updated videos. What results is a cornucopia of conversations about who we think children are, and should be.

In the 2002 edition, the authors discuss how, as they continued to travel around the world, one incident in the 1984 Japanese classroom persisted as 100 whole living ChronograM 10/10

the most controversial. The Japanese preschool was housed in a Buddhist temple, which is typical. The incident of intrigue, however, was not about Buddhism so much as Japanese ideas about children (though the two are certainly related), and involved a boy named Hiroki, who in our great land would have been given a hefty dose of Ritalin (or worse, see the NewYork Times article on medicating children, from September 1, 2010) right off the bat. He fought with other kids, pulled out his willie during circle, threw flashcards off the balcony, and sang loudly while other kids were trying to talk. And the amazing part is that the teacher did nothing to intervene. She sent the other children to fight their own battles with him and generally ignored his misbehavior.

The authors, Western-trained educators, said it took everything within their power to not put their cameras down and tell the kid to cut the crap. Likewise, Chinese and American teachers who watched the video were appalled at the boy’s “spoiled,” disruptive behavior and what was seen as the teacher’s lack of control.

At one point the authors asked the principal of the preschool if the teacher ever punished Hiroki, and he responded by asking, “What do you mean? Like, tie him up or something?”

The Japanese teachers believe that deliberate and respectful waiting is the most effective strategy for working with children, and believe that Hiroki and his classmates benefit from learning how to deal with one another, becoming “more complete human beings.” While we in the US tend to foster independence, Japanese preschools give kids as much space as possible to discover, for themselves, their amaeru, a word that describes the presumption of benevolence of others, and thus, dependency. Hiroki was not seen as a problem that needed to be fixed, but just a kid exhibiting tereru, the behavior of someone who is ashamed of his wish to be dependent.

When the authors asked the Japanese teachers what kind of children they thought they were shaping, they answered, “Kodomorashii kodomo,” which means “childlike children.” Cultivating child-ness in children. Something for me to consider.

And another thing to consider is how much all these people care. It’s heartbreaking, really. Human beings have wildly different opinions about childhood, education, and adulthood, not to mention radically different resources and capacities. And I think it’s really important to know where we are coming from and where we get our big ideas. And to ask questions. But it’s also incredibly healing to look around and see how many people try really hard to do the right thing for kids. Most educators just want a good life for their students. And parents love their kids! Around the world they get them ready for preschool, ribbons in their hair, favorite shoes on their little feet, little pockets stuffed with random things. Regardless of what I happen to think is real, there is something unconditioned there.

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ART® is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up.

ART® works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ART® doctors are trained in over 500 hands-on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ART® doctors attend yearly continuing education and recertification by ART®.

Classical & Chinese Herbs — Dylana Accolla 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7353 www.daccolla.gmail.com Classical Acupuncture is closed, and Dylana Accolla will be out of the office on health sabbatical until further notice. Thank you for your patronage!

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Art Therapy

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Deep Clay

21 S. Chestnut Street, NEw Paltz Tel: 845-255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

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, including “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women, child and family play therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and brief intensive counseling for teens and adults.

Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

$25-$35 sliding scale (you decide what you can afford). As a community-style practice, treatments occur in a semi-private, soothing space with several people receiving treatment at the same time. This allows for frequent, affordable sessions while providing high quality care.

Pain management, relaxation, headaches, TMJ, smoking cessation, Gyn issues, anxiety, depression, trigger point release, insomnia, fatigue, recovery support, GI issues, arthritis, muscle tension, chemo relief, immune support, allergies, menopausal symptoms, general wellness, and much more.

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Aromatherapy

1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060

21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

$25-$40 a session

Treating allergies (food & environmental) and sinus symptoms in an effective, holistic manner. A unique blend of modalities, supplementation, herbs and nutrition will be utilized to bring you back to a vibrant state of health.

If you need help becoming healthy again call or e-mail for a consultation.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC

New Paltz Community Acupuncture – Amy Benac, L. Ac.

Amy Benac, M.S., L.Ac.

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com

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Acupuncture

New Paltz Community Acupuncture

individuals/couples/groups in person & by phone Joel Walzer Spiritual Healer, Pathwork Helper & Channel 845.679.8989 33 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock

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Beacon Bath & Bubble 464 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6782 www.beaconbathandbubble.com

For those avidly pursuing the truth

Clairvoyant Beauty (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com

Essence MediSpa, LLC — Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com

Rosendale Family Practice

Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley

110 Creek Locks Road, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.acupunctureofrosendale.com

166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

Transpersonal Acupuncture

Primp Beauty Lounge

(845) 340-8625

88 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY

www.transpersonalacupuncture.com

(845) 679-6869

Deep Clay

Psychotherapy Dream Work Sand Play Women’s Group Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC 845-255-8039 deepclay@mac.com www.deepclay.com

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Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933

The playshops are a time for the ”Inner Child” to come out to play in a beautiful setting in Gardiner NY. Activities include: fun and easy artwork, music, movement, and meditation. Small groups. Supplies and refreshments included.

For more details, and to register call: Meg Costa @ (845) 256 8248 meg@ocsh.biz ❀ www.freethespiritwithin.us

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Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist. In addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® 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 at (845) 255-1200.

Teachings on The Black Madonna & The Magdalene * Dreams * StarGazing * * Sacred Sound * Oracles * So much more Women’s Mysteries for Women Who Want to Go Deeper® Lifebridge Sanctuary, High Falls, NY December 3-6, 2010 womensmysteries@gmail.com www.ministryofmaat.org Ione’s 15 Annual Dream Festival October 1-November 30 www.deeplistening.org/dreamfestival

Counseling

Internationally Renowned Psychic Over 20 years Experience Sessions In-Person or By Phone

www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

Facilitator: Amy Frisch, CSWR some insurances accepted space is limited

(845) 706-0229 for more information

A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more.

Group sessions include expressive art activities - it’s not all talk!

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I believe in expansion and gentle forces.

Too much pressure squeezes out essential blood supply and there is no support for tooth movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated.

As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plague and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign. I treat snoring and sleep apnea as well as joint and facial pain. We welcome children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted.

Payment plans available.

Stanley E. Kacherski, DDS, MS, PC 129 Clove Branch Road, Hopewell Jct., NY (845) 223-3050 www.hopewelldentist.com

Thomas F. Cingel DDS

(845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org

(845) 331-1085 www.cingeldental.com

CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — 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.

Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com

IONE — Healing Psyche

IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at: ioneappointments@gmail.com

Consultations by Gail Petronio

845.626.4895 212.714.8125

By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/ healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.

Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD

Crystals and Gifts Notions-N-Potions 175 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2410 www.notions-n-potions.com

Dentistry & Orthodontics

Fitness Trainers Paula Josa-Jones MA, CMA, RSME/T (860) 364-9313 www.paulajosajones.org josajo@vineyard.net MOVING WIDE AWAKE Conscious movement training for: • Awareness and ease of movement • Balance, flexibility and strength • Wholeness vs. fragmentation • Increased expressivity, resiliency and vitality • Reduction of stress and bodily tensions • 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.

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

Holistic Healing

Center for Advanced Dentistry

Chatham Holistic Healing Arts

494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

Dr. Jane McElduff

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

616 Route 52, Beacon, NY (845) 831-5379 www.drjanemcelduff.com

Balance the Mind, Body and Spirit. Offering Reiki, Hypnosis, Yoga, Wellness Consultations, Massage Classes and Workshops.

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.

Nancy Plumer, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net Nancy is an intuitive healer, spiritual counselor and long-time yoga teacher. Sessions with Nancy help release blocked or stuck energy that shows up as dis-ease/illness/anxiety/discomfort/fear. She helps people to restore vitality, gain balance and to claim more of themselves.

Healing is any communication between the body and spirit that allows one greater selfacceptance, integration and wholeness.

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

Hospitals Health Alliance www.hahv.org

Northern Dutchess Hospital

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

Hypnosis Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753

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.

Integrated Kabbalistic Healing 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 BodyCentered Therapy Directory.

Coby McNaughton, LMT (845) 527-0772 newpaltzmassage@yahoo.com

(845) 471-7213 bvalente@dutchessmediation.org

We are each an expression of the life force within.

Yoga guides us into a relationship with this life force.

Through the breath, the physical body, a concentrated mind, and an open heart, we encounter a more authentic way of being ourselves— whether on a yoga mat, in the kitchen, hiking, leading a meeting, or dancing with abandon. At Kripalu, we guide people into yoga, the yoga of life.

Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 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

Discover your unique self in one of our R&R programs, health immersions, or experiential workshops with world-renowned faculty.

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage – Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Vesa Byrnes, LMT 7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 hvtmassage@gmail.com

yogini: Liza Bertini, yoga teacher and studio owner, River Edge, New Jersey

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.

Jesse Scherer, LMT New Paltz, Kingston and NYC, NY (914) 466-1517 www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com Jesse delivers sessions based on the client’s individualized needs, addressing injury rehabilitation, muscular stagnation, flexibility, and stiffness due to lyme and other chronic illness, as well as relaxation and restorative massage.

Utilizing Neuromuscular and other Specific Deep Tissue Techniques; with strength and precision Jesse supports the bodies natural inclination to move from a place of strain and fatigue to its preferred state of flexibility, suppleness and integrity. Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Massage.

Some Insurances Accepted.

Massage Therapy 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.

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

800.741.7353

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Acupuncture and Natural Medicine Stephanie Ellis, L.Ac. Acupuncture and Massage Herbal Medicine Nutritional Supplements Celebrating 10 years of bringing acupuncture to Rosendale many insurances reasonable rates sliding scale

110 Creek Locks Road at Rosendale Family Practice www.hudsonvalleyacupuncture.com • (845) 546-5358

Susan DeStefano

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Meditation

Lawyers & Mediators Mediation Center Of Dutchess County

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Massage Therapy

Sky Lake Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8556 www.skylake.shambhala.org

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HolisticOrthodontics Rhoney Stanley CertAcup, RD, DDS, MPH Fixed Braces Functional Appliances Invisalign Snoring & Sleep Apnea Appliances Cranial Adjustments at every visit Children and Adults Insurance Accepted Payment Plans

In a Magical Setting at: 107 Fish Creek Road Saugerties, NY 12477 845-246-2729 | 212-912-1212 (cell)

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.

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts

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Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 1 38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.

Physicians Express Pediatrics 1989 Route 52 Suite 3, Hopewell Junction, NY 847-897-4500

12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 845.876.7774 Email: allure7774@aol.com

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7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1667 www.yourhometownpediatrician.com

Premier Medical Group 111 Mary’s Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 471-9410, (845) 437-5000 www.premiermedicalhv.com

Pilates Conscious Body Pilates

Back To Health Wellness Center 332 Main Street, Beacon | 845-440-0770 Massage, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy.

Acupuncture available with Caroline Ruttle by appointment.

692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semiprivate apparatus sessions available.

Pilates of Kingston

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

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39 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0986 www.pilatesofkingston.com

Psychics 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

Deep Clay 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, including “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women, child and family play therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and brief intensive counseling for teens and adults.

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated?

Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 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.

Bi-weekly workshops on MINDFUL PARENTING and LIVING SERENITY at the Sanctuary, New Paltz — on Thursday evenings. Call for information. Newsletter sign up on website. FB page: www.BrigidsWell.com/facebook

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

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected

to physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.

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Sally Roth, LCSW

33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com

Rhinebeck, NY (917) 566-4393 20 + years of psychotherapy experience successfully helping people cope with stress, feelings, and life & relationship problems. Training and expertise in insight-oriented and couple’s therapy, eating disorders, women’s issues, chronic illness, anxiety and depression.

Spiritual Flowing Spirit Healing

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Reverend Diane Epstein 670 Aaron Ct., Kingston, NY (914) 466-0090 www.hudsonvalleyinterfaithminister.com

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Reflexology Soul 2 Sole Reflexology, Arlene Spool 701 Zena Highwoods Road, Kingston, NY (845) 679-1270 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.

Residential Care (845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org

Resorts & Spas Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com The new Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa resides in the heart of the historic artists colony of Woodstock NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects Gallery provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two bedroom apartments conjoined to a 2000 sq. ft. cedar and glass enclosed climate controlled spa with 40’ saline pool, 64 jet jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna. Enjoy a leisurely poolside bar brunch or order an organic gourmet candlelight dinner prepared by your host French chef Lio Magat- sommelier for famed international chef Paul Bocuse. Bienvenue et bon appetit!

Marlene Weber Day Spa 751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com

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

Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change. Featuring People Who Work with People–Tools for Resiliency, with Sharon Salzberg, Gina Sharpe and Cheri

215 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, NY (914) 232-0382 www.awakeningskatonah.com

Tarot-on-the-Hudson—Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

Yoga Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz

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71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com

New Paltz, New York • (845) 255-3566

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Jai Ma Yoga Center

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69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

The Yoga Way 2 Commerce Court #3, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-3223 www.yogaway.info yogaway@earthlink.net

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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. Meditation series being offered during the month of October. Affiliate of Lakulish Yoga LLC. Jahnvi Formisano, Director.

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A Festival of Storytelling, Puppetry, Music, and Dance Sunday, October 24, 2010 11:00am to 5:00pm, Rain or Shine Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz, NY

Storytelling for all ages by The Storycrafters, James Bruchac, Ms. Wendy of Mountain Top School Performances by

Arm of the Sea Theater, Star Penny Puppetry The Bernstein Bard Quintet and The Vanaver Caravan Dance & Music Co. Horse Drawn Carriage Rides, Artisans Children's Games with Thomas Gallo, Dynamic Games Leader

Fabulous food from the Harvest Café, The Village TeaRoom & Restaurant, Gabriel’s Café and others.

Single Admission $10 / $25 per family, Children 5 and under free For information call 845-255-0033

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Floriana Frassetto and Pietro Montandon of Mummenschanz performing a signature piece with toilet paper masks.

The Masquerade Continues On the stage, a pair of giant bodiless hands moves as though attached to an invisible being. The two hands come together in a clasp of choreographed precision. The right hand releases itself and points its index finger to the audience, motioning up and down, counting.

The movement progresses by switching to the left hand. This whimsical and abstract display is the essence of Mummenschanz, the world renowned Swiss pantomime troupe who will be performing at Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on October 23.

Mummenschanz (roughly translated as masquerade) explicates moments of love, hate, greed, fear, and selfishness without a sound. Instead of using their voices, Mummenschanz operates with surreal masks, costumes, and specially designed props to convey emotional storylines and messages of criticism. Since 1972, they have been transcending cultural boundaries and language barriers with nonverbal theatrical performances, playing to mesmerized fans on six continents.

The abstract forms and expressive visuals have successfully related to diverse audiences through four decades of evolution. Co-founder Floriana Frassetto said she believes the interpretation of the performance may vary, but the emotions are universal. “It’s very important that we leave that freedom of interpretation to the audience. The chemistry of the audience changes from show to show, and from country to country,” Frassetto said.

“There’s always a little variation because its like [they are] our orchestra director.”

Mummenschanz takes ordinary objects and turns them into fantastical characters with human sensibilities. The troupe finds inspiration in simple situations such as watching a

worm wiggle beneath a rock, or visualizing what a seed growing might look like. Moments of mystery and suspense are presented in a series of nonlinear scenes.

When the troupe was formed in 1972, original members Bernie Schurch, Andres Bossard, and Floriana Frassetto were reacting to the unhappiness of young people impacted by the Vietnam War. For them, art and theater was one way of defending the rights of those with different ideas. “People of all nations might not really speak to each other on the streets, but in the theater their all laughing the same way. Its a communion of playfulness,” Frassetto said.

In 1977, Mummenschanz made it to Broadway expecting to stay only four weeks.

The engagement lasted three years. Its extended run was longer than any other show in history without words or music. They also performed their humorous sequences on “The Muppet Show” and “Sesame Street.”

The death of Bossard in 1992 was a terrible loss for the troupe, but Schurch and Frassetto continued to perform with new members Pietro Montandon and Raffaella Mattioli, and technical director Jan Maria Lukas. “As long as I enjoy doing it, I want to continue,” said Frassetto. “The day I don’t enjoy it anymore then I’ll stop.”

Mummenschanz will perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway in Kingston on October 23 at 7pm. Tickets are $30, $25, and $10. (845) 339-6088; www.bardavon.org.

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White Flags Call for times. Aaron Fein will demonstrate and discuss the creative process of his project, which envisions the flags of all 192 United Nations member states rendered entirely in white. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Filament Call for times. A festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. Festival pass $35 / individual tickets $15/10. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

10th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival 8am-5pm. Music, water, food, and public painting of the streets. Tivoli. forcords@hvc.rr.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Tiny Yoga for Toddlers 9:30am-10:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga for Babies 10:30am-11:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Channeling with Wendy Kennedy 7:30pm-9:30pm. $35/$30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.

Simchat Torah 7:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange.

223-5925.

Film 12th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival Call for times. 10 finalists all 15 minutes or less. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

Woodstock Film Festival Double Horror Header 8pm. Don't Go Into the Woods and Bitter Feast. Prescreening banquet at 6:30pm. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-7900.

Woodstock Film Festival Check website. Films at venues in Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, +. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Music The Magnets 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Chris Cubeta & the Liars Club 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Ben Bolt 8pm. Classical guitar. $19/$15. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Don't ASK 8pm. Performance by Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine. $12/$10 members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

The Doc Marshalls 8pm. Cajun, country. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Luka Bloom: Dreams in America 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000.

Chris Trapper 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Mojo Daddyo CD Release Party 9pm. From Out of the Big Blue. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Four Guys In Disguise 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Nikki Armstrong Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisation of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Play by Play 8pm. Blue Moons. Stageworks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

Recycled Grease 8pm. $20/$15 seniors. Southwinds Retirement Home, Middletown. 733-5869.

Workshops Panxi Xu: Decorative Floral Painting 9am-Friday, October 1, 4pm. $290. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Weather as Muse: Video with Bernadine Mellis Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144

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2010 ASK Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

American Craft Week Celebration 11:30am-6pm. Demonstrations and works on display.

Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-CLAY. E.S. DeSanna: Thinking of Italy Artist Reception 4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Paintings and Printwork by Lora Shelley 4pm-7pm. Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty, Kingston. 331-5357.

New Work by Elena Sniezek 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

Judy Glasel: Recent Works 5pm-7pm. 3257 Route 212, Bearsville. 594-1180.

John MacDonald 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-1700.

The Mask Show 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Collegiate of 18 Watercolorists Annual Show 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Sylvia Plachy: Photographs 6pm-8pm. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. www.DavisOrtonGallery.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Channeling Workshop with Wendy Kennedy 10am-5pm. $195/$175. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Introduction to The Sedona Method 10am-11:30am. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. Offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Dance English Country Dance 7:30pm. Workshop at 7pm. $10. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 679-8587.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Wide range of dance music in a drug and alcohol free environment. $5/$2 teens and seniors.

Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org/index.php.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Holiday Bowl Flea Market 8am-3pm. Benefits the LaGrange Challengers Bowling League. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Get Crafty. Uptown Kingston. 853-8512.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

21st Huguenot Street Apple Festival & Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz.

255-1660.

Dutchess County SPCA Paws in the Park Petwalk & Canine Carnival 11am-3pm. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. www.pawsintheparkpetwalk.com.

The Value and Necessity of Indigenous Plants and Animals 11am-5pm. Forum with keynote speaker Dr. Douglas W. Tallamy, "Bringing Home Nature." Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown. 341-4891.

Film Woodstock Film Festival Check website. Films at venues in Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, +. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

River of Words at the Movies: Benefit for the Woodstock Film Festival 1pm. Literary montage of movie-themed scenes read

by Academy Award nominated local screenwriters Ron Nyswaner, Zachary Sklar, and a cast of Hudson Valley writers. $10/$50. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

Kids Steve Charney and Harry 11am. Ventriloquist. $8/$6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music Davell Crawford Call for times. MassMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 662-2111.

Pine Hill Folk Festival 11am-11pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

African American History & Culture Festival: Music as the Pulse of Life 1pm-7pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston.

338-2786.

World Music with Balkan, Klezmer & Middle Eastern Influences 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Mark Dziuba 7:30pm. Jazz guitar. $10. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

Jazz with the Rufus Reid Quintet 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Beatlemania Again 8pm. $430. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Symphony Concert I: Gold Medalist 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

ClaverackLanding 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Four 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Taarka 8pm. Acoustic. $19/$14 +$2 at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Johnny Mathis 8pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Bernie Williams 8pm. Jazz, rock. $24.50-$34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Maria Muldaur 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Bryan Gordon 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Soul Purpose 9pm. Motown, R&B. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

Vixen Dogs Band 9pm. Rock. Greenville Inn, Greenville. (518) 966-5219.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables: High Peterskill 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Ridge Wildlife for Kids 2pm-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Robert Roth. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Theater Live Simulcast: Phedre 1pm. National Theatre of London. $22/$15 children.

Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Play by Play 8pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Recycled Grease 8pm. $20/$15 seniors. Southwinds Retirement Home, Middletown. 733-5869.

Workshops Did the Pilgrims Really Eat Pumpkin Pie: The Truth about Thanksgiving?

Call for times. Geared towards 3rd to 9th grades.

Bevier House Museum/Ulster County Historical Society, Kingston. 336-4746.

Studio Lighting Call for times. Angelika Rinnhofer. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Ben Bolt Classical Guitar Workshop 10am-4pm. $45/$40 members/$15 audit. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

2-Day Memoir Writing Workshop 10pm-Sunday, October 3, 4pm. By NYT bestselling author Da Chen. $495/$265 one day. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 901-8560.

SUNDAY 3 Art American Craft Week Celebration 11:30am-6pm. Demonstrations and works on display.

Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-CLAY. Walk and Talk 12pm. Raquel Rabinovich will discuss two series, Emergences and River Library, and walk to the river bank to see her latest site-specific installation. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600.

Prints and Animation by Christopher Ursitti 2pm-5pm. Stone Window Gallery, Accord. 626-4932 .

Body / Mind / Spirit Purna Yoga Retreat: Embrace the Gift of Life Through the Wisdom of Purna Yoga Call for times. $1100. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck.

(800) 944-1001.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Pleiadian Lecture: The Holographic Earth 2pm-5pm. Wendy Kennedy. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Annual Chili Cook-Off 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

2010 Annual Bluestone Festival 12pm-6pm. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. bluestonefestival@yahoo.com.

Blessing of the Animals 3pm. Wild Wolf Activist Elke Duerr will lead the ceremony and the Elder Drum Circle will lead an open participation jam. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Film Woodstock Film Festival Check website. Films at venues in Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, +. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Music Jazz Brunch with Bernstein Bard Trio Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Marc von Em 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Chapel Restoration Music Festival 3pm. Motherlode Trio, Conversations in Taal, David Rothenberg Trio. Chapel Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelofourlady.com.

Ellis Paul 3pm. Potluck refreshments. $30/$25. Morrison Hall Mansion Music Room, Middletown. 341-4891.

Music Faculty Concert: Blanca Uribe and Richard Wilson 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Music Alive! with a Touch of Klezmer, Latin, and Blues 3pm. $5-$20. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Bob Stump & The BlueMountain Band 4pm. Americana. Mahoney's Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie.

471-3027.

American Brass Quintet 4pm. Pre-concert talk at 3:30pm. $25/$5 student. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckmusic.org.

An Evening with Marc Cohn 7pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Tim O'Brien and Bryan Sutton 7:30pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Pamela Pentony 7:30pm-10:30pm. Jazz. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff.

876-0590.

Jack Grace Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Spoken Word Franz Erhard Walther in Conversation with Yasmil Raymond 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Theater Play by Play 2pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Recycled Grease 3pm. $20/$15 seniors. Southwinds Retirement Home, Middletown. 733-5869.

Workshops Sushi Making 3pm-5pm. Presented by Unison. $35/$30 members.

Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

MONDAY 4 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Peter Blum and community. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Youth Boxing Call for times. Ages 12-18. $7. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

ART TILLAMOOK CHEDDAR at one mile gallery image provided

(l-r) John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston, oil stick on paper, 24" x 18", 2010; Jimi Hendrix, 1967, oil stick on paper, 20" x 14", 2010; Tillamook Cheddar at the opening reception at One Mile Gallery.

Jackson Paw-lick Artists are often unpredictable, but on a recent studio visit in Brooklyn, I was surprised when the painter greeted me by barking out the window, with her son. The artist is Tillamook Cheddar, an 11-year-old Jack Russell terrier. (She’s named after a type of Oregonian cheese.) Tillamook’s owner, who refers to himself as her “art assistant” and has the remarkable name Bowman Hastie III, immediately handed me a set of ear plugs.

Then he explained how his dog’s art career began. One day, when Tillamook was still a puppy, Hastie was sitting with a yellow legal pad, writing, when the dog came up and began scratching at the pad. Curious what the scratches would look like if made visible, Hastie found a sheet of carbon paper. He placed it under the top page, and quite soon Tillie had completed her first “drawing.” The rest is history. The dog has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “The Tonight Show”—and now her paintings are at the One Mile Gallery in Kingston. The show is titled “People Magazine” and prices range from $1,700 for Joe Perry (1977) to $10,500 for the nine-panel title work of the exhibition.

(Hastie’s friend, a poet named Sean Flaherty, titles the works.)

I saw Tillie make one of her paintings—technically a monoprint—at her “workstation,” a window seat in Hastie’s garden apartment. Hastie took out a piece of clear plastic, coated it with an orange oil stick (he chooses the color, of course), and taped it over a 12” x 16” piece of watercolor paper, backed by cardboard. The artist immediately took one corner of the coated page in her mouth and began gnawing at it. Then she started scratching, almost as if running, on the Mylar. In between bouts of scratching, she licked the surface. Occasionally she would stop and loudly bark, as if asking for assistance. This process continued for 20 minutes. Right at the end, Tillie tore off a piece of paper shaped like the bottom half of Israel. Was this a comment on the delicate Israeli “peace process” then under way? After finishing the work, the dog showed no interest in it whatsoever.

The final drawing was a web of scratches almost filling the page. The violent swirl of orange lines resembled a hand-woven cloth made by a seven-year-old at summer camp. The corners were more spare, with visible claw marks.

Held in the arms of her art assistant, Tillie agreed to a brief interview.

Tillamook Cheddar’s art show, “People Magazine,” will be at the One Mile Gallery, 475 Abeel Street in Kingston, through October 23. Meet Tillamook at the Art Along the Hudson tour, October 2 from 1 to 5 pm. She will do live demonstrations at 2 and 4 p.m.

(845) 338-2035; www.onemilegallery.com.

—Sparrow

Sparrow: Do you suspect that the middle period of Matisse is slightly overrated?

Cheddar: [Gazes to my right, slightly panting.]

Sparrow: How long have you been painting? Bark once for one year, twice for two years, thrice for three years, etc.

Cheddar: [Looks up towards her “art assistant.”]

Sparrow: Is your work symbolic, or largely process oriented?

Cheddar: [A look of deepening ennui.]

Sparrow: Can you name some artists you admire?

Cheddar: [Stares directly into my eyes, her tongue hanging out.]

Sparrow: Do you sometimes feel a complete lack of inspiration?

Cheddar: [Licks her mouth, right to left.]

Sparrow: Don’t you sometimes worry that the contemporary art world is full of gimmickry and self-promotion?

Cheddar: [Licks her mouth three times.]

Sparrow: How important is gesso?

Cheddar: [A look of boredom.]

Sparrow: What is your relationship to your audience? Do your paintings confront the viewer, collaborate with her, quietly seduce her—or employ some other strategy?

Cheddar: [Stares at the rug, sadly.]

Sparrow: Do you have a “style,” or is each work a new beginning?

Cheddar: [Gazes directly into my eyes, as if wishing to speak.]

Sparrow: Do you draw on material from your dreams?

Cheddar: [A very low grunting sound.]

Sparrow: Do you consider your art political?

Cheddar: [Looks away, as if to say: “I’d rather not answer that question.”]

Sparrow: What do you say to people who feel an MFA is necessary to be an artist nowadays?

Cheddar: [Closes mouth.]

Sparrow: How is your art evolving?

Cheddar: [Slightly raises right eyebrow.]

Sparrow: Do you ever consider making videos?

Cheddar: [Smiles.]

Sparrow: Do you secretly feel that dogs are better artists than people?

Cheddar: [Raises ears—as if in amusement.]

Sparrow: What do you think of art by cats?

Cheddar: [Lowers eyelids—a suave, mystical expression.]

Sparrow: Have you seen that video on YouTube of an elephant painting?

Cheddar: [A look of ennui.]

Sparrow: Do you sometimes think you would give up art for a nice tasty bone?

Cheddar: [Gazes off to the right.]

Sparrow: I just want to thank you for your patience. This is the longest a dog has ever allowed me to interview her.

Cheddar: [Jumps onto floor.]

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Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Dance Fitness Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 member series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com

Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Spoken Word Reading by William Kennedy 6:30pm. Pulitzer-prize winning author reads, followed by screening of Ironweed. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087.

Workshops Holiday Bookfair Workshop Event 6:30pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

TUESDAY 5

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Classes Juggling and Circus Arts Classes for Ages 8 - 13 Call for times. 10 Wednesday sessions. $150. Morris Memorial, Chatham. (518) 828-7470.

Tai Chi Qigong 4pm-5pm. $10/free wellness center members. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (914) 388-7496.

Events Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Healthy Eating Series. Uptown Kingston.

853-8512.

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Kids Weekly Family Storytime 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Family Bilingual Storytime 4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Art

Music

Adventures of Volitia: Paradise, Again 5pm-7pm. Melissa Marks. Vassar’s James Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

John Lennon Birthday Tribute 7pm. Featuring The Quarrymen & Nowhere Boy film preview. $18. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys 8pm. $35/$29. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-0038.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Catskills Culinary, A Cooking Class 5pm-6:30pm. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

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.

Events Monthly Supper Club 6:30pm. Gourmet food from field to fork with live music. $83. 28 W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

Film Italian Film Festival 6:30pm. Films related to contemporary social, work, politics, and immigration issues. Preston Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7377.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Sky Top 9:30am-1pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Monolake: Live Performance in the Age of Super Computers 4pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 5pm. Brutus, Rhetoric Verbal and Visual by Garry Willis.

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Agrarian Change, Elite Cuisine, and Forest History in Southern India 6pm. Anthropologist Kathleen Morrison. Taylor Hall, Vassar College. 437-5370 Monolake: Live. Max. Max For Live. What is it Good for?

7pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Theater Play by Play 7:30pm. Blue Moons. Stageworks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

String Theory 8pm. Experimental Theater of the Vassar College Drama Department. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Music Blues & Dance party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

A.A. Bondy 8pm. Indie series. $15/$12. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar 5pm. Caesar, Might Yet by Garry Willis. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Georgia's Kitchen: Jenny Nelson 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Workshops The Balancing Act: Family Survival Series 6pm. Develop an action plan for managing stress and creating wellness during tough economic times.

Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

WEDNESDAY 6 Art In Golden Field 4pm-7pm. Printmaking artwork of Ustya Tarnawsky.

Unison Gallery @ Water Street Market, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong 10:30am. $12/$40 series. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Vinyasa Yoga Class 5pm-7pm. $10. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

New Moon Cleansing with Sound Crystal 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

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THURSDAY 7 Art Kate Gilmore Performance and Lecture 6pm. Noyes Circle, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Shadow-walks 7pm. Public talk about her sound project with Dream Festival Artist In Residence Viv Corringham. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Green Meditation Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation Class 7pm-8:30pm. $22/$55 series. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 series of 10. 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.

Events After-Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. $15 non-members. C2G Environmental Consultants and Green State Services, New Paltz.

255-0243.

Broads Regional Arm Wrestling League 7pm. Lady arm wrestlers. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm. Guy Finley. Moffat Library, Washingtonville.

725-7666.

Jaffa 7pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jon Cobert & Friends 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Reading of The Spot 5pm. By Associate Professor of English David Means.

Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871.

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar 5pm. Antony, The Fox Knows Many Things by Garry Willis. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Monolake Live Surround Performance 8pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Theater Play by Play 7:30pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

Doubt: A Parable 8pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

String Theory 8pm. Experimental Theater of the Vassar College Drama Department. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others Call for times. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 8 Art 16th Annual ArtsWalk Opening Night Party 6pm-9pm. $10. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. www.artscolumbia.org.

Body / Mind / Spirit Suffering, Hope, and Healing Call for times. Weekend retreat with Kathleen Norris.

Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

Tiny Yoga for Toddlers 9:30am-10:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga for Babies 10:30am-11:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

New Moon Trance Journeying 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Peter Blum. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Ballet Hispanico 8pm. $22-$67. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Zydeco Dance with Johnny Ace & Sidewalk Zydeco 8pm-11pm. Lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

Events Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Chatham Farmers Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.

Evening Under the Stars! Gala 6pm. $125. 75 Haviland Road, Highland. 691-2066.

Mid Hudson Animal Aid Fund Raiser 6pm-12am. Featuring Marji Zunitz, David Kraai and Amy Laber, Lulu's Accent, Ben Murray, Dan Lavoie, Lee Brown, Nina Vyedin and Sadler Bakst. $20. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Music O Positive Festival Check website for shows and times. Music and art at venues across Uptown Kingston. www.opositivefestival.org.

Alex Jornov Quintet Call for times. Blues. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff.

876-0590.

The Chad McLouglin Trio 7:30pm. $10. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

An Evening with Gordon Lightfoot 8pm. $50/$40. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-0038.

Celtic Thunder 8pm. West Point Academy, West Point. www.celticthunder.com.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

Natalie Merchant with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic 8pm. $100 golden circle/$60/$55 members. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

David Kraai & Amy Laber 8pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Galileo's Daughters 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Judy Norman CD Release 8pm. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.

Sonos 8pm. A capella. $17. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Split Bill/Brian Charette Trio 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Refugees 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Four Guys In Disguise 9pm. Rock. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

The Coverup Band 9pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

The Dave Fields Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Reading, Film and Discussion with Poet Nick Flynn 5:30pm-7pm. Cady Hall, Chatham. davekingwriter@gmail.com.

Eartheartistry Book Group 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Theater One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Play by Play 8pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Doubt: A Parable 8pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

String Theory 8pm. Experimental Theater of the Vassar College Drama Department. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Workshops What is Your Real Work?

Call for times. Exploration of sisterhood, self-expression and personal power in the "work" place. $600. Spiritplay Studio, Woodstock. 679-4140.

SATURDAY 9 Art 16th Annual ArtsWalk Call for times. $10. Call for location. (518) 671-6213 www.artscolumbia.org.

Celebration of the Arts Fine & Performing Art Fair 11am-5pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz.

255-1660.

Quintet Photographers Capturing Life: Focus on Our World 2pm-4:30pm. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Eugene Gregan: Paintings from Forty Years in the Catskills 3pm-6pm. Emerson Resort and Spa, Mount Tremper.

(877) 688-2828.

Imagine: the Alternative Realities of Isaac Abrams 4pm-6pm. Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Hunter. (518) 263-2060.

Works That Traveled the World by Jan Sawka 4pm-7pm. Mohonk Arts, High Falls. 687-7022.

Nancy Graves Encaustics 5pm-7pm. Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.

New Paintings by Michael Gaydos 6pm-9pm. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

Hudson Pride Foundation Silent Auction 6pm-9pm. 554 Warren Street, Hudson. www.hudsonpridefoundation.org.

Vintage Inspired 6pm-10pm. Oil paintings, watercolors, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, photographs and handmade crafts. Cornell Street Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Body / Mind / Spirit Marathon of Dreamers 2pm-6pm. Short presentations throughout the day.

Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Meditation on the Tarot Workshop 7pm-9pm. With Pamela Cucinell. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Contradance 8pm. Dave Colestock with music by Flappityback. $10/$9 members/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Events Healthy Harvest 5K Run/Walk Walker Valley Fire House, Walker Valley. www.wvfcladies.webs.com.

ARTFORMS GALLERIES project

a WOODSTOCK Soiree hosted by Charlotte Tusch Scherer

During the height of the color season, celebrating the return after a brief hiatus, ARTFORMS GALLERIES Charlotte T Scherer invites you to an Arts Soiree featuring a collection of fine art, photography, sculpture, craft and jewelry. Come and enjoy the surprises of the season with us at ARTFORMS! ALL WORK WILL BE FOR SALE!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 16th SOIREE 12-5pm SUNDAY OCTOBER 17th OPEN HOUSE and SELECT STUDIO VISITS 12-5pm 9 MUNCHKIN LANE, KINGSTON NY, 12401 FEATURED ARTISTS: LICHTENSTEIN, HARING, WESSELMANN, SICA, CALDWELL, HIRSCH, NEUMANN, DINE, SCHEELE, PARRIOTT, TICE & more…

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LENOX, MA

SEPT 18–NOV 7 • BERNSTEIN THEATRE

by TOM STOPPARD directed by JONATHAN CROY

“It all fits together with a sort of demented clockwork precision.”

BRITISH THEATRE SCHOLAR JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR

Shakespeare.org or 413-637-3353 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA

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Highland HudsonFest Call for times. Hudson Valley Rail Trail, Highland.

691-8880.

Holiday Bowl Flea Market 8am-3pm. Benefits the LaGrange Challengers Bowling League. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Healthy Eating Series. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

Bicentennial Celebration: Guided Cemetery Tour 10am. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

Glenn H. Curtis Day 10am. Featuring a special air show at 2pm. Old Rhinebeck Aerodome Museum, Rhinebeck. 752-3200.

Living History Encampment by the Third Ulster Militia 10am-5pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston.

338-2786.

Walking Tour of Historic Vassar College 10am. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7405.

Octoberfest 1pm-4pm. With the Mountain Brauhaus Band. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

An Afternoon in the Garden 9pm-1am. Benefit for the Greene County Council on the Arts. Beattie-Powers Place, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Rosendale Drumfest 9pm-12am. Drum and dance workshops. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.

Kids Predators of the Wild with Bill Robinson 11am. $8/$6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Music O Positive Festival Check website for shows and times. Music and art at venues across Uptown Kingston. www.opositivefestival.org.

Mary Gauthier Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

687-4143.

Met Opera: Das Rheingold 1pm. $25/$15 children. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Four Nations Ensemble 3:30pm. 18th century music. $75. Call for location.

(212) 928-5708.

First & Oliveros: EGuitar & V Accordion 7pm. Concert with Pauline Oliveros & David First. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Stewart Lewis 7pm-9pm. With special guest Jeremiah Clark. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300.

Trixie Whitley with Greg Mullen 7pm. With The Paper Planets opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Sage 7:30pm. Women's jazz ensemble. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Eric Andersen 8pm. Folk. $22/$17 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

An Evening with Rhett Miller 8pm. $30/$25 members. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Mary Gauthier 8pm. One World singer/songwriter concert series.

Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.

The Acoustic Meltdown 8pm. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Leo Kotitke 8:30pm. Legendary guitarist. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Mr. Roper 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Outdoors A Fall Foliage Hike 9am-2pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291 ext. 205.

Singles and Sociables: Duck Pond 10am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word ArtsWalk Literary 1:30pm-6:30pm. Mary-Beth Hughes, L. S. Asekoff, Lynne Tillman, Justin Spring, Brooks Peters. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Gail Carson Levine: Betsy Red Hoodie 2pm. Author discussing her bestselling books. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

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Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring Brian Turner, Amy Ouzoonian and Tyler Wilhelm. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.woodstockpoetry.com.

ArtsWalk Literary 3:30pm-5pm. David Black. Chatham Public Library, Chatham. (518) 392-3666.

Rondout Valley High School Mock Debate 4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Theater Cynthia Hopkins' The Truth: A Tragedy Call for times. MassMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 662-2111.

Doubt: A Parable 8pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Play by Play 8pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

String Theory 8pm. Experimental Theater of the Vassar College Drama Department. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

The Diary of Anne Frank 8pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

SUNDAY 10 Art 16th Annual ArtsWalk Call for times. Call for location. (518) 671-6213 www.artscolumbia.org.

American Craft Week Celebration 11:30am-6pm. Demonstrations and works on display.

Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-CLAY. Celebrating the Palatines 300th Open Studio 12pm-4pm. Dove Cottage, Germantown. (518) 537-2298.

Cris Winters: Water Colors, Collages 3pm-5pm. Old Chatham Country Store Café and Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227.

Ten 4pm-6pm. An exhibition of contemporary printmaking, curated by Kristopher Hedley & Dylan McNanus.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Offerings of Beauty 5pm-7pm. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

Body / Mind / Spirit Meditation on the Tarot Workshop Private Sessions Call for times. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Detox & Change Your Life Call for times. Transforming obstacles & inspiring health & wellness. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 11:30am-12:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

7 Hour Glandathon 12pm-7pm. Featuring performance artists Linda Montano. A Dream Festival collaboration with 0+Festival.

The Coffey Gallery, Kingston. www.deeplistening.org.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 12:30pm-1:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

New Moon Kundalini Meditation 2pm-4pm. With Yogi Bajan's student Nidhi Huba. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

The Arts for Clean Energy Expo 12pm-7pm. Speakers artists, performers presented by 350.org. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Rosendale Drumfest 6pm. Master drum performances featuring Edwina Lee Tyler, Karim Bangora, Caru Thompson, Amadou Diallo, and more. $8. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-4136.

Teen Night 9:30pm-12am. $7. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls.

297-8110.

Film Rites of Passage 2pm. $10/$6 children. A film choreographed by Risa Jaroslow. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music O Positive Festival Check website for shows and times. Music and art at venues across Uptown Kingston. www.opositivefestival.org.

Jazz Brunch with Bernstein Bard Trio Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Jazz at the Falls 12pm. Featuring Matt Finck and Trio. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Core 2pm. Rock. Creekside Restaurant, Catskill.

(518) 943-6522.

Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Prometheus Brass. $12/$10 seniors. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.

Cambiata Chamber Players 3:30pm. $10. Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie.

452-8110.

Rosendale Drum Fest Showcase 5:30pm. $5. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Steve Chizmadia 6:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Pat Metheny 7pm. Jazz guitar. $42-$87. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

A Taste Of Little Italy 10pm. World. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables: Humpty Dumpty Path 9:30am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Questions Without Answers 1pm. Lively exchange between photographers who are committed to documenting conflict. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Outdoor Men: Manliness, Masculinity, and the Antebellum Landscape Painter 2pm. Art historian Sarah Burns. $7/$5 members. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

ArtsWalk Literary 2:30pm-7:30pm. Jaime Manrique and Rachel Kadish, Rebecca Wolff, Paul La Farge, and Susan Orlean.

Cady Hall, Chatham. davekingwriter@gmail.com.

Sherri Brooks Vinton 2:30pm-4:30pm. Author of Put 'Em Up, on canning and preserving. $25. Allium Restaurant + Bar, Great Barrington. (413) 528-2118.

Theater Play by Play 2pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Doubt: A Parable 3pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

Dance The Vanaver Caravan's "Swing Sundaes!"

6:15pm-8pm. $15. Gina Marie's Timeless Sweets, Rosendale. 256-9300.

Events 2010 Benefit Gala for the Center for Photography at Woodstock Call for times. Vision award honorees, benefit auction, preview exhibition. Call for location. 679-9957.

Rosendale Drumfest 7am-3pm. Drum and dance workshops. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Little Italy Festival 10am-6:30pm. Italian food, eating contests, music, more. Mt. Carmel area, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300.

Rustic Home Craft Festival 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

MONDAY 11 Art 16th Annual ArtsWalk Call for times. Call for location. (518) 671-6213 www.artscolumbia.org.

American Craft Week Celebration 11:30am-6pm. Demonstrations and works on display.

Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-CLAY.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Home Circle: Spirit and Angel Communication 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Youth Boxing Call for times. Ages 12-18. $7. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Dance Fitness Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 member series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Lecture/Demo and Sample T'ai Chi class 6pm-7pm. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Dance Country Hoedown 8pm. Featuring music by Boys from Little Creek. $8.

Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Events Rondout Valley High School MOAS Trivia and Flag Painting 4pm. Public trivia game. Barnes & Noble, Kingston.

336-0590.

Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com.

Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Spoken Word Halo: Alexandra Adornetto 2pm. Teen author. Barnes & Noble, Kingston.

336-0590.

Theater The Tell-Tale Heart 7pm. Vassar College's Drama Department and Powerhouse Theater Training Program. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5907.

TUESDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Sounding with Your Sacred Voice 7pm-8:30pm. With Cantor Robert Michael Esformes. $18. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Catskills Culinary, A Cooking Class 5pm-6:30pm. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

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.

Film Italian Film Festival 6:30pm. Films related to contemporary social, work, politics, and immigration issues. Preston Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7377.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Rodrigo y Gabriela 8pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Spoken Word Insights on Site 12pm. Discussion of the history of the Maria Mitchell Observatory. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Reading of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb 5pm. Author Amitava Kumar. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871.

Theater The Tell-Tale Heart 10am. Vassar College's Drama Department and Powerhouse Theater Training Program. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5907.

WEDNESDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Vinyasa Yoga Class 5pm-7pm. $10. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston.

331-0191.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

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Michael Rhodes as Father Flynn in the Tangent Arts production of John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt: A Parable," in Tivoli this month.

The Foibles of Father Flynn Veteran New York actors Michael and Andrea Rhodes and Keith Teller left the Off-OffBroadway scene 18 months ago, their love of small, independent theater battered by soaring Manhattan theater rentals. Back in the Valley, the prodigal trio—all hailing from Poughkeepsie—worked to reboot Tangent Arts, the company they established in New York City in 2000. They began a series of free monthly theatrical readings at The Black Swan, the hip Tivoli pub that brings together working-class heroes and local artists.

The gambit worked.

The appreciative crowds, says Michael Rhodes, Tangent Art’s artistic director, assured the three that “there is an audience that is hungry for the kind of theater we are interested in”—namely gritty, character-driven plays. Emboldened, Tangent Arts now mounts its first Mid-Hudson stage production: John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt: A Parable,” slated for Tivoli’s Watts de Peyster Hall from October 7 through 17.

Tangent’s core philosophy is that “truth is the motive.” If so, the Tony- and Pulitzerwinning 2005 drama—first staged at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theatre—is a curious choice: While seemingly a story of an alleged molestation of a young boy by a priest, the play is really a meditation on the many shades of truth that we all forge to get through life.

Small wonder that “Doubt” is subtitled “A Parable.” “But we don’t know what the truth is,” Michael Rhodes says, “and that’s the great thing about this play. That’s why we wanted to launch with ‘Doubt.’ As Shanley put it, act one is the play and act two is the discussion afterward.

“Both Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius hold firm to what they hold true—the events as they see them,” says Rhodes. “They are just steadfast in their resolve.”

Michael Rhodes plays Father Flynn, the priest whose kindness toward a mistreated

young boy suddenly becomes whispery accusations of carnal transgression. Jill Van Note plays Sister Aloysius, the steel-spined nun who makes this mysterious matter her fiery crusade, wielding a Bible and a moral certainty that threatens to capsize the entire parochial school. Anna Nugent plays Sister James, whose initial admiration for her mentor turns to fear and then disdain over the growing obsession. Jody Satriani plays Mrs. Muller, the mother of the boy at the center of this maelstrom, who must decide whether Father Flynn has been a godsend or predator. (Satriani recently played the role in a production staged at Performing Arts of Woodstock.) Keith Teller directs the production.

The show will be staged in the Watts De Peyster Hall, a former firehouse constructed in 1898 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The distinctive space will enhance the troubling tone of the production, says Andrea Rhodes, the producer of the show. “It just has a feel, architecturally, when you walk in, that reminds me of the church that I went to growing up, which is Holy Trinity of Poughkeepsie. “It just has this older, almost Gothic feel to it,” as well as last-century details, she adds, that meld nicely with the 1960s setting of the play.

Director Teller has staged the production as environmental theater: actors will enter and exit through actual doors in the room, and fulminate in close proximity to the audience. The message? In a moral crisis, there can be no innocent bystanders.

Tangent Arts presents Doubt: A Parable. October 7-17. Eight performances: Thursday through Saturday, 8pm; Sunday at 3pm. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. $15.

(845) 230-7020; www.tangent-arts.org.

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Weight Loss & Weight Loss Maintenance 7:15pm-8:15pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Sensing the Vastness of Being 8pm-9:30pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Tai Chi Qigong 4pm-5pm. $10/free wellness center members. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (914) 388-7496.

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Hudson Valley Green Drinks Call for times. Celebrating "Community Planning Month", network with people in the allied fields and sustainably minded. $5. The River Grill, Newburgh.

454-6410.

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Kids Weekly Family Storytime 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Dancing on Air 8pm. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Bonticou Crag.

9:30am-1:30pm. 4-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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Spoken Word Ulster Couny Photogrpahy Club 6:30pm. Talk by photographer Dan Burkholder. Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Theater One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 10am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Special Education Rights Workshop 10am-12pm. The Resource Center for Accessible Living, Inc., Kingston. 331-8680.

THURSDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Green Meditation Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation Class 7pm-8:30pm. $22/$55 series. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 series of 10. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling series. $26/$24 in advance. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm. Guy Finley. Moffat Library, Washingtonville.

725-7666.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

David Kraai 6pm. Singer/songwriter. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Tiempo Libre 7pm. $7-37. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Petey Hop Open Mike 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Eating Out Loud with Ruth Reichl 12pm. Best selling memoirist, former editor of Gourmet Magazine. Lecture at 1:45pm. $50/$15 lecture only.

Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

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Theater Doubt: A Parable 8pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

Israel Horovitz Line 8pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others Call for times. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

NOOK and Technology Use for Classroom Learning 6pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Lyricism: The Art of the Song Poem 7pm-9pm. Weekly through December 4. $150. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

FRIDAY 15 Body / Mind / Spirit Tiny Yoga for Toddlers 9:30am-10:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga for Babies 10:30am-11:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Transformation With Shamanic Sound 7pm-9pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow Healing At Sage. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Davidsbundlertanze 7:30pm. New York City Ballet. $10/$3 students.

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(413) 597-4444.

Rhythm of the Dance 8pm. Irish dance and music extravaganza. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Events De Kerk Wenkle 9am-8pm. Art work, crafts, collectibles, baked goods, books, jewelry, food available. Church and cemetery tours 10-2. Fishkill Reformed Church, Fishkill.

896-9836.

Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.

Friday Family Nights 6pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Masquerade Ball 7pm. Dinner, auctions, music, dancing. Benefits Saugerties CSD arts programs. $60/$100 couple/$500 table of ten. Lazy Swan Golf Course, Saugerties.

336-8906.

Film Paul Newman Film Festival Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Night of the Living Dead 7pm. Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Kids Fun with Energy with Jeff Boyer 10am. Grades k-8. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music Vague Assurances Call for times. Blues. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff.

876-0590.

Sex Mob 7pm. With Wu Li opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

The MurchKat Trio 7:30pm. $8. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

ASK for Music 7:30pm. Phil Miller and Betty Altman, Kimberly, Marc Von Em. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

Bruce Molsky 8pm. $20/$15 +$2 at the door. Unison, New Paltz.

255-1559.

SF Jazz Collective 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-CLAY. The Harvest Band Duo 8pm. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

The Black Crowes 8pm. $42.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

The Providers 8:30pm. Blues. American Glory, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.

Reality Check 9pm. Rock. Starr Alley, Rhinebeck. 876-2924.

The Core 9pm. Rock. Dockside Grill, Athens. (518) 444-8080.

Bob Stump & The Blue Mountain Band 9:30pm. Americana. The Dubliner, Poughkeepsie.

454-7322.

Stonefly 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Outdoors Toddlers on the Trail: In Search of Signs of the Glaciers 10am-12pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word John Edgar Wideman 7:30pm. Author of Philadelphia Fire speaks about the African Diaspora. LC 102, SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880.

Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. Spoken word, poetry performance. $20. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Theater Hay Fever 8pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Doubt: A Parable 8pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

Israel Horovitz Line 8pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Laurie Anderson: Delusion 8pm. A meditation on life and language through music, video, and storytelling, Delusion weaves a complex story about longing, memory, and identity. $15/$10/$5.

EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Workshops Special Education Rights Workshop 10:30am-12:30pm. Family of New Paltz Conference Center, New Paltz. 331-0541.

SATURDAY 16

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Holiday Bowl Flea Market 8am-3pm. Benefits the LaGrange Challengers Bowling League. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Kingston Walks for the Heart, Body and Mind 9am. Sponsored by Kingston Hospital. Meet at NYS Armory, Kingston. 334-2760.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

De Kerk Wenkle 9am-3pm. Art work, crafts, collectibles, baked goods, books, jewelry, food available. Church and cemetery tours 10-2. Fishkill Reformed Church, Fishkill. 896-9836.

Exemplars of Hudson Valley Architecture 9am-5pm. Hudson River Heritage 22nd Annual Country Seats Tour. $45-$55. Call for location. 876-2474.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

Walking Tour of Historic Vassar College 10am. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7405.

Ashokan Fall Festival 11am-5pm. Annual autumn event in a unique 19th century setting with hands-on activities for the whole family including: apple cidering, blacksmithing, 1817 schoolhouse, tinsmithing. $5/$3 children. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Octoberfest 1pm-4pm. With the Mountain Brauhaus Band. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

First Anniversary Celebration/Open House 3pm-6pm. New Paltz Community Acupuncture: Amy Benac, L. Ac., New Paltz. 255-2145.

OktoberFest 2010 6pm-9pm. Local food and brew of the season, glutenfree beer, silent auction and entertainment. $20/$15 students. St. Andrew's Church, New Paltz. 255-5098.

The Madman's Masquerade and Halloween Art Exhibit 7pm-12am. Readings, ghost stories, music, candy bar. $10. Shirt Factory, Kingston. www.MyEclecticMind.com.

Film Paul Newman Film Festival Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Art

Kids

4th Annual ArtEast Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Northern Dutchess. Call for location.

855-1676.

Artforms Galleries Soiree 12pm-5pm. Open house. Artforms Gallery, 9 Munchkin Lane, Kingston. (732) 996-1605.

A Sense of Place 5pm-7pm. Essays and poems from Dr. Bruce Hopkins new book When Foxes Wore Red Vests. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Wish You Were Here 5pm-7pm. Group multi-media show featuring the interpretive work of 12 artists as part of the region wide Lark in the Park promotion celebrating the Catskill Park. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

The Madman's Masquerade and Halloween Art Exhibit 5:30pm-7pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston. www.MyEclecticMind.com.

Multiples: Black-and-White Photos in Pairs and Series 6pm-8pm. Solo exhibit by Phyllis Marsteller.

Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670.

Katherine Bradford 6pm-8pm. A collection of small paintings. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

Man with a Past 6pm-8pm. Vito Giallo. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-0380.

Mad Science of the Mid-Hudson 10:30am. Spooky Halloween show. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

The Dragon King 11am. Tanglewood Marionettes' underwater fantasy based on Chinese folklore. $8/$6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Leo Lionni's Swimmy, Frederick, & Inch by Inch 11am. Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. $12. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Peter Rabbit Special Guest Storytime 2pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Sedona Method Support Group 10am-11:30am. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. Offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Sound Meditation and Blessing 1:30pm-3pm. Sage Center at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Coming Home to Your True Self: Accepting Your Body And Facing Food 9:30am-12pm. 7-week action oriented group to help people who are struggling with weight issues. Call for location. 505-9829.

Dance Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Wide range of dance music in a drug and alcohol free environment. $5/$2 teens and seniors.

Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org/index.php.

Events Zombie Village Invasion Call for times. Music, readings, contests, with a horror theme. Saugerties. www.crawlofthedead.com/crawls/info/village_invasion.

Music In the Pines Call for times. $15/$10 in advance. Theater @ University Settlement Camp, Beacon. www.local845. com.

Met Opera: Das Rheingold 1pm. $25/$15 children. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin 6pm. $40/$30. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

David Roth 7pm. Singer/songwriter. $15. The Reformed Church, New Paltz. 255-6340.

Todd Sickafoose 7pm. With Greg Klyma opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Upstage NY Community Coffeehouse 7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

The Two Guitars 7:30pm. $7. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701 Victor Wooten 8pm. Soul, funk and jazz. $29.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Psychedelic Furs 8pm. Performing Talk Talk Talk in its entirety. Bearsville Theater, Bersville. www.bearsvilletheater.com.

Cindy Cashdollar with Steve James 8pm. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Dan Brother Band 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

Jackson Browne 8pm. Solo acoustic show to benefit Rep. John Hall.

Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. www.johnhallforcongress.com.

The Wiyos 8pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Unison’s 35th Birthday 8pm. Performers TBA. $35. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Trapps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

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Storm Front: A Billy Joel Tribute Band 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk 8pm-8pm. Dutchess Stadium, Wappingers Falls.

(800) 227-2345.

The Outdoors

Film

Annual Ridge Hike 6:30am-5:30pm. Strenuous 14-18 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables: Coxing Trail 10am-4pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Paul Newman Film Festival Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Spoken Word Russell Dunn: A Kayaker's Guide to New York's Capital Region 3pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Chronogram Poetry Round Up 7pm. Featuring poetry readings by L.S. Asekoff, Frank Boyer, Steve Clorfeine, Lee Gould, Georganna Millman, Will Nixon, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Alison Koffler, Anne Gorrick, and David Appelbaum. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Thomas Brinson & Nina Jecker-Byrne 7pm. Featured poetry readers; open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884.

Theater Air Pirates Radio Theater 8pm. $15/$40 series. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf.

469-2287.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Doubt: A Parable 8pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

Hay Fever 8pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Israel Horovitz: Line 8pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Los Tres Balceneros: Pappy is a Rolling Stone 8pm. The Air Pirates Radio Theater. $15. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Workshops Truer than True: Mythology and Poetry Call for times. Weekly through December 4. $150.

College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Life Drawing Workshop 10am-Sunday, October 17, 5:30pm. Drawing with willow charcoal, we will explore an indoor landscape with live model. $150-$180. Shuster Studio, Hudson.

(518) 567-1332.

NOOK 101 Class 1pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

2/3 Confessional 1:30pm-3:30pm. Weekly through December 4. $150.

College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

SUNDAY 17 Art Art Forms Galleries Project Open Studio 12-5pm. Hosted by Charlotte Tusch Scherer. 9 Munchkin Lane, Kingston. (732) 996-1605.

4th Annual ArtEast Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Northern Dutchess. Call for location.

855-1676.

Artforms Gallery Soiree 12pm-5pm. Open house. Artforms Gallery, Kingston.

(732) 996-1605.

CTRLIMG: Artwork by Evan Schlomann 3pm-6pm. Tuscan Café, Warwick. 987-2050.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Harvest Gathering for Yogis/ Yogis For Food Fundraiser 1:30pm-4pm. Robert Post Park, Kingston. shaktiyogawoodstock@gmail.com.

Life Spirit Radiance Qigong 2pm-5pm. With Oojana Malagon. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Music Jazz Brunch with Bernstein Bard Trio Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Met Opera: Das Rheingold 1pm. $25/$15 children. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Trail Mix Chamber Concert 2:30pm. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan.

657-2482.

Buskin & Batteau 3pm. Potluck refreshments. $25/$22. Morrison Hall Mansion Music Room, Middletown. 341-4891.

Janice Hall 3pm. Cabaret. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm-6pm. $6/$5 members. Unison, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Marc Von Em and KJ Denhert 6pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses 8pm. $17. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables: Catskill 3 Peak Range 9am-4pm. Thruway Exit 20 Park and Ride, Saugerties.

255-9933.

Spoken Word Sunset Reading Series 4pm. Featuring Jo Ann Beard and Scott Spencer. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 265-4445.

Theater Hay Fever 2pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Doubt: A Parable 3pm. Presented by Tangent Arts. $15. Watts de Peyster Hall, Tivoli. 230-7020.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Peter Blum and community. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Youth Boxing Call for times. Ages 12-18. $7. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Call for location. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Dance Fitness Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 member series. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

T'ai Chi Class, Yang Style Short Form 6pm-7pm. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com

Classes

Workshops

Catskills Culinary, A Cooking Class 5pm-6:30pm. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Special Education Rights Workshop 10:30am-12:30pm. Ulster County Mental Health Department, Ellenville. 331-0541.

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.

Toddler Time 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music

Classes

Matthew Finck, Jay Anderson and Adam Nussbaum Call for times. Jazz. $15/$8. WallSpace, Kingston.

338-8700.

Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 series of 10. 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 Italian Film Festival 6:30pm. Films related to contemporary social, work, politics, and immigration issues. Preston Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7377.

Kids

Son of Aurelius 6:30pm. $15/$12. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Blues & Dance party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Project Catwalk 7pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Spoken Word LEED for Existing Buildings: It’s not just new construction that rates 6pm-8pm. Presented by U.S. Green Building Council, NY Upstate Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch. $20/$15 members/$10 members and students in advance. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston.

HVBranchCoordinator@gmail.com.

Humanists' Book Group 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

WEDNESDAY 20 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Vinyasa Yoga Class 5pm-7pm. $10. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston.

331-0191.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

The Feng Shui of Abundance for Difficult Time 7pm-9pm. With Betsy Stang. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Tai Chi Qigong 4pm-5pm. $10/free wellness center members. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (914) 388-7496.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Chef's Choice Market Dinner Series 6:30pm. $35.95. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Film Afternoon Movies for Grownups 2pm-3:45pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

Kids Weekly Family Storytime 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Classes

Kids

Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Rob Scotton: Scaredy-Cat, Splat!

6pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Family Bilingual Storytime 4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Music

Music

Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

The Goo Goo Dolls Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Workshops

Brooks Williams 8pm. Blues. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

2010 Conservation Award Reception Call for times. Presented to William C. Janeway.

Robibero Family Vineyards, New Paltz. 255-2761.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

Dedication of the Garrison Institute's New Labyrinth 3pm. With music and light refreshments. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

Wayzgoose 5pm-9pm. Stockade Tavern, Kingston. 658-9133.

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Photovoltaic (PV) Design and Installation Basics Course 8:30am-Thursday, October 21, 4:30pm. $899/$799.

SunDog Solar, Chatham. (518) 392-4000 ext. 105.

TUESDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Green Meditation Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation Class 7pm-8:30pm. $22/$55 series. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Events

THURSDAY 21

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Millbrook Ridge Loop 9:30am-1:30pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril 7pm. A conversation with the editors of a new book that asks 100 moral leaders this question. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

Events 5th Anniversary Luncheon and Hudson Valley Entrepreneurial Awards 11:15am-1:30pm. $55. Powelton Club, Newburgh.

787-4328.

Red is Green 5pm-7pm. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live music. Fall friend-raiser to honor arts supporters and proceeds will go to the scholarship funds to provide tuition assistance. Alumnae House, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm. Guy Finley. Moffat Library, Washingtonville.

725-7666.

Food for Thought 7pm. Food samples by Honest Weight Food Co-op, a feature film screening, and an open panel discussion. $6.

WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jay Collins & The Kings County Band 7pm. With The Mojo Myles Mancuso Band opening.

Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com The Rhodes 9pm. Rock. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh.

561-7240.

Spoken Word Classics Old and New Book Group 7pm. Michael Strong hosts a discussion of one of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Theater Israel Horovitz: Line 8pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others Call for times. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 22 ART Kim Kauffman, Florilegium Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

Body / Mind / Spirit Tiny Yoga for Toddlers 9:30am-10:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga for Babies 10:30am-11:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Projective Dream Group 7pm-9pm. With Melissa Sweet. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Rioult 8pm. Modern dance. $26/$22 seniors/$13 children.

The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Events Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

craft hudson valley furniture makers

Andrew Hunter

Josh Finn

Michael Puryear

Jeff Johnson

Kieran Kinsella

Integrity of Form Furniture created as sculpture is functional art at its best. Tweaking the traditional craft is a strong sense of design paired with the whimsy of personal expression, one that honors the materials used, which is mostly wood. The upcoming show of work by members of the Hudson Valley Furniture Makers gives us a rare opportunity to see a body of contemporary, one-of-a-kind furniture in a large, common space. This is the group’s third annual show and runs from October 8 through 11 at the High Meadow School in Stone Ridge.

There is a wide range of styles; each pushes the edge of form and function. Michael Puryear’s sense of elegance references Shaker and Scandinavian designs; the toned, balanced mix of woods and metals are thematic to furniture by Rob Hare; Johnny Poux’s solid, sleek lines dominate his work made of hardwoods, stainless steel, and concrete.

The sculptural stools and side tables by Kieran Kinsella seem to have oozed straight from the core of a tree to form solid, functional shapes sans glue or joinery.

Wood is the core material for these furniture makers. Their palette is the rippling patterns of the grain, the deep contrasting sap lines, the organic and lilting imperfections.

It’s a unique respect for the material that moves their creative energy. Josh Finn, who started the group three years ago, finds the wood inspires him to replicate many lines and shapes he sees in nature.

There is also a “green” thread running through the group’s ethic, an effort to curb the makers’ carbon footprint. Most pieces in the show are made from locally grown trees, rather than exotic woods from overseas. Andrew Hunter, who uses Japanese hand tools

to create his work, finds more wood from a downed tree in a backyard than from the mill. Many of the furniture artists also work with found objects.

The group runs on a shoestring budget but manages to keep up their website, advertise, and exhibit on a yearly basis. Their monthly meetings at one another’s studios strengthens a professional connection and camaraderie, necessary for furniture artists who work long, solitary, hours.

There’s a conscious hum of integrity and durability that accompanies this carefully crafted work. As contemporary as this furniture is, they are all heirloom pieces that defy our disposable culture. The makers’ passion to tailor a piece of furniture for a specific person or client is a shared experience: creating an original piece is the soaring antithesis to grabbing a chair off the showroom floor or choosing the dresser that comes in a box at Ikea. From design ideas to a finished piece of furniture, works at this show have been labored over for several months, if not longer, and will most likely prompt many questions that begin with “How long did it take?” or “Did you do this all by hand?” And, unlike other art shows, not only are the artists present and available to explain their work, but, the viewers are encouraged to touch, handle, sit, open, and close the furniture.

The Hudson Valley Furniture Makers 2010 Exhibition and Sale takes place at High Meadow School, Rt. 209 in Stone Ridge, October 8 through October 11. There will be an opening reception on Friday from 6 to 9pm. Exhibition and sale hours: Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 6pm; Monday, 10am to 4pm. www.hvfurnituremakers.com.

Edgar Degas, Nude Woman Drying Herself, 1884–86 —Abby Luby

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Linda Zimmermann: Ghost Investigator 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Film Night of the Living Dead Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Zombie Film Feast 3 Call for times. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

The Haunting 7pm. Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Music Rhythm & Blues Dance Party with Joe Medwick's Memphis Soul Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Eddie Fingerhut 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

All You Need is Love 7:30pm. Classic rock. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

String Sampler Concert 8pm. The Ara Dinkjian Trio and Vicki Genfan. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

The Mid Nite Image Band 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

The Outdoors Northern Saw-whet Owls: Mohonk's Silent Visitor 7pm-8:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Human Being in an Inhuman Age Conference on what it means to be human amidst superhuman technological advances. The Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Reading and Signing with Carol Johnson 8pm. Author of New Paltz Revisited. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Theater The Case of the Missing Mummy 7:30pm. By New Stage Theatre Company. $10/$7 members/$8 children/$3 children members. The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(413) 443-7171.

Israel Horovitz: Line 8pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Hay Fever 8pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

The Merchant of Venice 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Words of Choice 8pm. Combines real stories and creative writing by dozens of playwrights presented by Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley & YWCA of Ulster County. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

294-9975 ext. 115.

SATURDAY 23 Art Appraising Art, Re-appraising Vanderlyn 10am-4:30pm. Regional experts on Hudson Valley art and culture examine the artistic Vanderlyn family, including John Vanderlyn. $10. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Arts Forum: Appraising Art/Re-appraising Vanderlyn 10am-4:30pm. Talks and object evaluations to learn about Hudson Valley art and history, the Vanderlyn family of painters, and strategies for evaluating objects. $10. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston.

338-2786.

4th Annual ArtEast Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Southern Dutchess. Call for location.

855-1676.

Evening Reception with Leigh Keno 5pm-7pm. Wine, food, 19th-century chamber music and artful conviviality. $50. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Body / Mind / Spirit Full Moon Burial-Earth Initiation Call for times. Weekend workshop with Philippe Pascal Garnier. $225. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. Offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Herbal First Aid 3pm-5pm. $35. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

VortexHealing & Personal Transformation 5:30pm-6:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Events Millbrook Antiques Mall Central Asia Institute Call for times. Millbrook Antiques Mall, Millbrook.

677-9311.

Auditions for 2nd Annual RitzKidz "Newburgh's Got Talent!" Talent Show 1am-3pm. Must be student in Newburgh under age 18.

Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 784-1199.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Holiday Bowl Flea Market 8am-3pm. Benefits the LaGrange Challengers Bowling League. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Healthy Eating Series: Preserving the bounty for winter. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

Walking Tour of Historic Vassar College 10am. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7405.

23d annual M C Miller Middle School Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Miller School, Lake Katrine. 331-1448 ext. 1155.

St. James’ Tea Room and Craft Fair 10am-4pm. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

The Annual Michael R. Kelly Chili Cook-Off 1pm-4pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Reception with Leigh Keno and Regional Arts Experts 5pm-7pm. With wine, food and music. $50. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Duel Book Publication Event 7pm. Entangled a novel by Graham Hancock & Lost Knowledge of the Ancients an anthology edited by Glenn Kreisber. $10. Beahive Kingston, Kingston.

(201) 245-7098.

Film Full Battle Rattle: Part of the Youth and War Film Series 5pm. $7/children free. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Kids Special Halloween Storytime and Craft Event 11am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Dog on Fleas 11am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music 2010 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

The Met: Live in HD: Boris Godunov Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Dog on Fleas 11am. Children's music. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Met Opera Live in HD: Boris Godunov 12pm. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake. 434-5750 ext. 4303.

Baird Hersey 2pm. World music. Namaste Yoga Studio, Woodstock.

679-5369.

Harpsichord Recital by Władysław Kłosiewicz 6pm. St. Mary Church, Lakeville, Connecticut.

(860) 435-4866.

Maura O'Connell & Paul Brady 7pm. Contemporary Irish singers. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Ali Ryerson 7:30pm. Jazz flute. $10. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge.

687-9794.

Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Traveling Through the History of Jazz, Part 2: Swing is the Thing with the Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

The Feds 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

David Kraai & Amy Laber 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Elsie's Place, Wallkill.

895-8975.

Deni Bonet 8pm. Electric violin. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Helen Avakian 8pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Hugh Brodie & the Cosmic Ensemble 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Julie Ziavras and John Chimino 8pm. Silent auction at 7 p.m. to benefit Music for Humanity. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Angel Band 8pm. Folk, roots and blues. $19/$14. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

An Evening with Los Lonely Boys 8pm. $62/$58 in advance. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

The Providers 8:30pm. Blues. American Glory, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.

The Outpatients 10pm. Blues, punk, funk. Top Notch Bar and Grill, Walden. 778-0277.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing” and “Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today”.

Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Louis CK: Word 8pm. Comedy. $24.40-$44.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Theater Mummenschanz 7pm. $40/$25 members/$10 children. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

The Case of the Missing Mummy 7:30pm. By New Stage Theatre Company. $10/$7 members/$8 children/$3 children members. The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(413) 443-7171.

Israel Horovitz: Line 8pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Hay Fever 8pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

A Midsummer Night's Dream 8pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

The Merchant of Venice 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Native American Drum-Making Workshop 10am-2pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Fall Foods Forage 2pm. Spend this adventurous afternoon on a fall foods forage with a local naturalist and wildlife expert, and see what edible treats you can find. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

SUNDAY 24 Art 4th Annual ArtEast Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Southern Dutchess. Call for location.

855-1676.

Celebrating the Palatines 300th Open Studio 12pm-4pm. Dove Cottage, Germantown. (518) 537-2298.

2010 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Eliza Gilkyson Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

687-4143.

Rebel Red 1pm. Roots. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-CLAY1287.

Newburgh Concert Strings 3pm. Benefit concert for the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.

Cellist Rebecca Hartka 3pm. CD release of Folkfire. Camphill Copake's Fountain Hall, Copake. www.camphillvillage.org.

Joan Baez 7pm. $43-$66. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Eliza Gilkyson 8pm. One World singer/songwriter concert series.

Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.

Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

The Outdoors The Historic Preserve Landscape and Its People 10am-12pm. 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing” and “Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today”.

Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Audition Notice: Bye Bye Birdie 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables: Beacon Incline Railway 8:45pm-8:45pm. Strenuous 8-mile hike. Call for location. 878-6729.

Spoken Word Graham Hancock 5pm-8pm. Author of Fingerprints of the Gods, The Sign and the Seal, Underworld, Supernatural. $10. CosM, Wappingers Falls. 297-2323.

Theater Hay Fever 2pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

River of Words On Stage: a Benefit for the Rosendale Theatre Collective 3pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Mummenschanz 3pm. Using mime, acting, dance, and magic. $22-$67.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Merchant of Venice 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Classes

MONDAY 25 Art My Right Self 5pm. A documentary photography series with trans individuals and couples from Philadelphia. Vassar College’s James W. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Dance

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

The Vanaver Caravan's "Swing Sundaes!"

6:15pm-8pm. $15. Gina Marie's Timeless Sweets, Rosendale. 256-9300.

Events Millbrook Antiques Mall Central Asia Institute Call for times. Millbrook Antiques Mall, Millbrook.

677-9311.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

23rd Annual M C Miller Middle School Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Miller School, Lake Katrine. 331-1448 ext. 1155.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

2nd Annual Ann Street Gallery High Tea Party Fundraiser 2pm-4pm. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119.

River of Words on Stage: A Rosendale Theatre Collective Benefit 2pm. Hudson Valley actors reads works by Shalom Auslander, Helen Benedict, Mikhail Horowitz, Marie Howe, Valerie Martin, Susan Orlean, John Sayles, Janine Pommy Vega. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Jazz Brunch with Bernstein Bard Trio Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Message Circle 7pm-8:30pm. Receive messages from your loved ones in the after life 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.

T'ai Chi Class, Yang Style Short Form 6pm-7pm. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Events 18th Annual Columbia County Golden Gathering 9:30am-12:30pm. Co-sponsored by Senator Steve Saland, Assemblyman Marc Molinaro & C-GCC. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson.

(518) 828-4181 ext 5513.

Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/

Film The Rocky Horror Picture Show 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

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Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, John Vanderlyn, oil on canvas, 68 1/2" × 87", 1809-1814.

Meet the Vanderlyns The startling news of a Pieter Vanderlyn painting discovered hanging over a fireplace in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and auctioned for $1.1 million in May brought attention to a local artistic dynasty. The subject of the portrait is believed to be Anna Brodhead Oliver of Kingston, possibly celebrating her wedding of 1739. Leigh Keno, Manhattan antiquarian and star of “Antiques Road Show” on PBS, made the discovery.

Or is it a Vanderlyn? The painting is unsigned, and attributed to the “Gansevoort Limner.” But is the Gansevoort Limner Pieter Vanderlyn? The National Gallery says so, but others are uncertain. Vanderlyn was born in Holland in 1687 and came to America by way of the West Indies in 1718. He settled in the Hudson Valley and became a land speculator. Also, he was an amateur painter. (“Limner” suggests that the artist lacked formal training. “Gansevoort” refers to a celebrated portrait of Harme Gansevoort.)

Pieter Vanderlyn died at the age of 91 in Shawangunk.

His grandson, John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), went on to greater artistic glory—partly due to a talent for attracting patrons. As a youth, John worked in an art store in Manhattan, where he met the great painter Gilbert Stuart, who gave him lessons. Aaron Burr took the young artist under his wing, paying for him to study in France. Vanderlyn was the first American to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in 1798. The artist remained in Paris until 1815, painting portraits of visiting Americans, including James Monroe, who remembered Vanderlyn when he became president. During Monroe’s administration, the portraitist set up a studio in the East Room of the White House, and began churning out images of Washington notables.

Perhaps Vanderlyn’s greatest achievement was a panorama—360° painting—of the

Palace of Versailles, installed in a rotunda in New York City, where the World Trade Center once stood. The artist painted the work in a barn at the Rondout in Kingston, using a mockup of the final circular shape. After Vanderlyn’s death, the panels were stored in the attic of a bank in Kingston, and eventually forgotten. A campaign in the 1940s raised money to install the panorama at the Metropolitan Museum, where it now stands.

Within the panorama, Vanderlyn shows himself, speaking to a man whose head is turned—quite possibly his friend Robert Fulton, who had recently died in a boating accident. Also, Vanderlyn used Kingstonians as models for elegant Frenchmen loitering near the Palace of Versailles.

This family’s artistic legacy continued with John Vanderlyn Jr. (1805-1876), who was, strangely, the nephew of the childless artist. Posthumous recognition will be extended to the entire family in “Appraising Art, Re-Appraising Vanderlyn,” a forum at the Senate House in Kingston on October 23. The event also marks the inauguration of the Vanderlyn Catalogue Raisonné Project, the first complete accounting of works by this aesthetic clan. Leigh Keno will narrate his tale of finding the million-dollar Vanderlyn portrait, and other experts will speak.

“Appraising Art, Re-Appraising Vanderlyn,” a forum on the works of the Vanderlyn family, will be at the Senate House State Historic Site, 296 Fair Street, Kingston, on October 23, 10am-4:30pm. A party with period chamber music, wine, and hors d’oeuvres will follow the day’s events. (845) 338-2786.

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The Outdoors Audition Notice: Bye Bye Birdie 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

TUESDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Teachings of Paul Brunton 7pm-8:30pm. With Robert Michael Esformes. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Catskills Culinary, A Cooking Class 5pm-6:30pm. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison, 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.

Film Italian Film Festival 6:30pm. Films related to contemporary social, work, politics, and immigration issues. Preston Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7377.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Leo Leonni Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Joan Baez 8pm. $45/42/$35/$30. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

Spoken Word Historian Tony Musso 7pm. Lecture on Thomas Barrett in context: FDR and the WPA building Dutchess County Post offices. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Theater The Merchant of Venice 10am. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WEDNESDAY 27 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Vinyasa Yoga Class 5pm-7pm. $10. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston.

331-0191.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Gluten Intolerance vs. Celiac Disease 7:15pm-8:15pm. Dr. Sam Schikowitz. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Classes Tai Chi Qigong 4pm-5pm. $10/free wellness center members. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (914) 388-7496.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Kids

The Merchant of Venice 10am. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Three Stooges in Orbit and Mothra 7pm. Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Workshops

Kids

Special Education Rights Workshop 7pm-9pm. The Resource Center for Accessible Living, Inc., Kingston. 331-8680.

Special Halloween Night Storytime and Slumber Event 6:30pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

THURSDAY 28

Blues Dance Party with The Robert Ross Band Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

2nd Annual Americana MusicFest to Benefit Habitat For Humanity of Greater Newburgh 7pm-9pm. $10. Noble Coffee Roasters Cafe, Newburgh. www.habitatnewburgh.org/events/upcoming.htm.

Eddie Fingerhut 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

The Bob Meyer Project 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Buddy Guy 8pm. $41-$56. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Nikki Yanofsky 8pm. Jazz. $35/$29/$25/$15 student. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

Howard Fishman 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Art Kaleidoscope: Interdisciplinary Views on Art 6pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Green Meditation Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 series of 10. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events 2nd Annual Drop TV Screening and Halloween Party 7pm-9pm. Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie.

485-4480.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm. Guy Finley. Moffat Library, Washingtonville.

725-7666.

Russian Ark 7:30pm. Interweaves dance, opera, theater, and music in a poetic meditation on the flow of history. $5.

EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Ignacio Berroa 8pm. With The Erin Hobson Compact opening. Live@ The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Spoken Word Reading of Korean Folktales and Memories of My Ghost Brother 5pm. Author Heinz Insu Fenkl. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871.

Theater The Merchant of Venice 10am. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Almost, Maine 8pm. Half Moon Theater presents a romantic comedy.

Cunnenn-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie.

235-9885.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others Call for times. $5/$8 couples. Unison, New Paltz.

255-1559.

FRIDAY 29 Body / Mind / Spirit Tiny Yoga for Toddlers 9:30am-10:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga for Babies 10:30am-11:15am. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Weekly Family Storytime 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Leo Leonni Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

4 Troops 7:30pm. Pop, country. $29.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Table Rock 9:30am-1:30pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Bright Shadows and Dark Radiance: The Chod Practice 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Dr. Craig Lennon, Psychologist. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Events Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Ghost Walk 7pm-9pm. $10. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley.

339-6729.

Theater

Film

Basic Training Call for times. One-man show. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 12am. The Whip-it Outskirts. $8. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

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Spoken Word Fall Business Card Exchange 7:30pm-9pm. $15. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce Office, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Theater Accomplice Call for times. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Hay Fever 8pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Almost, Maine 8pm. Half Moon Theater presents a romantic comedy.

Cunnenn-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie.

235-9885.

The Merchant of Venice 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Spoken Word Claire Barliant on Franz Erhard Walther 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Theater Basic Training Call for times. One-man show. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Accomplice Call for times. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

The Merchant of Venice 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Hay Fever 8pm. $15/$12 members. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Almost, Maine 8pm. Half Moon Theater presents a romantic comedy.

Cunnenn-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie.

235-9885.

Workshops After Copenhagen: Ecopoetics with Jonathan Skinner Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Food Preservation 101 2pm. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

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Music

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Music

Music

Gamelan Dharma Swara 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Zombie Bash 8pm. $8-$15. WallSpace, Kingston. 338-8700.

Richard Thompson 8pm. British folk rock. $34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Segue 8pm. Flamenco music and dance. $19/$14. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Halloween Dance Party 8pm. With Breakaway. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

MacTalla Mor Band 8:30pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Four Guys In Disguise 9pm. Rock. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Art Ancient Circuitry 5pm-9pm. New work by Halsey Chait. Materia Locus, New Paltz. 255-0337.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Haiku Life: Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice 10:30am-5pm. $70. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Walk the Medicine Wheel: Sing with the Soul of the Mother Earth 4pm-6pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events 4th Annual Ann Street Market 9am-4pm. Ann Street and Liberty Street, Newburgh.

562-6940 ext. 109.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Holiday Bowl Flea Market 8am-3pm. Benefits the LaGrange Challengers Bowling League. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Harvest time and comfort foods. Uptown Kingston. 853-8512.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

Wild Life Program 1pm. Andrew Simmons. $10/$7. Unison, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Rock n' Bowl Masquerade Party 8pm-12am. Saugerties Bowlers Club, Saugerties.

246-4969.

SUNDAY 31 Art Sy Balsen 3pm-5pm. Panoramic and pinhole photography. Old Chatham Country Store Café Gallery, Old Chatham.

(518) 794-6227.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/Metaphysical prayers, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

The Halloween Psychic Fair and Spirit Evening 10am-10pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

Gustafer Yellowgold and Halloween Costume Party 3pm. Multi-media performance of live music, animated illustrations and storytelling. $8/$4. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music

Kids Dream Art Workshop 10:30am-1pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Jazz Brunch with Bernstein Bard Trio Call for times. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Acacia & the Bandit 7pm. W/Jeremy Sunshine. Pistol Whip, 102 Partition Street, Saugerties.

Tin Hat 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Music

The Outdoors

Kids

John Keller 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. www.johnstreetjam.net.

AJ 7:30pm. $8. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Styx 7:30pm. The Grand Illusion/Pieces of Eight Tour. $69.50/$55.50/$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Edmar Castaneda 8pm. With Szélrózsa opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables: Rock Rift Crevices 10am-2pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Theater Accomplice Call for times. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Almost, Maine 8pm. Half Moon Theater presents a romantic comedy.

Cunnenn-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie.

235-9885.

The Merchant of Venice 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children/$15 students.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

Dancing in the Dark

T

he astrology we’ve experienced this year has picked up the world and spun it on its finger, leaving most of us feeling a bit dizzy. The biggest news events—the earthquake in Haiti at the beginning of the year, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the midterm elections, and the sluggish (some would say nonexistent) economic recovery all fit the same basic astrological picture of issues that are larger than life.

It’s been astrology on the largest possible scale, involving numerous outer-planet alignments and focused on the Aries Point—the first degree of the zodiac, which has a curious magnifying effect I’ve described in many recent editions. The feeling is confrontational. It’s the sense of everything about the world being at the edge of an abyss, and by default, we’re there too. I think that most of us cope by keeping our heads out of big-world stuff and focusing on our personal lives to the best extent we can. Who knows, maybe it’s true—if you feel okay, then everything with the world is going to be fine.

The astrology of midautumn has a different emotional tone than anything we’ve experienced for a while, because it involves Venus retrograde. Venus is a planet associated with our feelings, our values, relationships, and sexuality. It’s an inner planet, closer to the Sun than is the Earth. Retrograde motion is an illusion created when a planet is close to our own. Venus is about to pass between the Sun and the Earth, creating this effect. Venus is retrograde least of all the planets, just eight percent of the time—six weeks out of every eighteen months. Compare that to Mercury, which is retrograde for three weeks three or four times a year, or to Pluto, retrograde five out of twelve months.

Venus is now in Scorpio, and the retrograde begins in that sign on October 8, one day after a stunning Libra New Moon. I’ll come back to that New Moon in a moment—it has a message for us connected to Venus retrograde.

In traditional astrology, Venus is the ruler of two signs, Taurus and Libra. When a planet is placed in a sign opposite the sign it rules, that’s a condition called detriment.

It’s a harsh word, I know; many of us have natal planets that are in their detriment (Mercury is one of mine) and we may wonder what to do with them. Old rules of astrology need to be translated carefully into our modern context, but there is always a good translation, and by good, I mean the ancient scholars who gave us our astrology wanted us to notice something that was relevant now, even if the rule we’re applying is 2,000 years old. In astrology, “good” means useful.

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Venus in Taurus (one of her rulership signs) is confident in what she believes. The feeling of Venus in Taurus is rooted like a tree. Put Venus in Scorpio and she can feel a little lost—or sold out. Scorpio is a sign of relationships, representing a kind of boundaryless merger with another person. Venus wants to be fully self-possessed and self-defined; in Scorpio, she is totally subservient to the desires of another, or a situation in which she loses her self-definition. Once there, she might resort to manipulation as a way of getting back a piece of her lost power.

In many ways that sums up our lives right now, and the life of our society. Whether we’re talking about consumer debt, the Ponzi scheme that runs the nation known as Wall Street, or a political system that can produce the miracle of a 41-year-old virgin (okay, “secondary virgin”) Republican senatorial candidate who is actually taken seriously by a swath of the American public, we’re in pretty deep.

Venus in Taurus is about nourishment. If we put Venus into detriment, you get an effect like “that looks like food, but it really isn’t.” Indeed, most people don’t eat food.

I keep reading that 40 percent of the caloric value of the American diet comes from high fructose corn syrup (which is currently getting a linguistic detoxification as “corn sugar”). Corn syrup makes a lot of people sick—for one thing it turns right into arterial plaque, and it’s toxic in about 50 other ways. (It’s better for you than Nutrasweet, which is neurotoxic and has a brain cancer issue that delayed the product’s release for years—and look how many people drink that.) The American food supply is rife with trans-fats, gluten, genetically modified organisms, and nearly everything coming out of a factory. We in the Hudson Valley are fortunate—we have farmers markets everywhere; you can join winter and summer farm shares, and it’s possible to eat local food (if you can afford it, and if you care).

Then, one dollar out of every seven spent in the United States is spent on “health care” and yet tens of millions of people have no coverage, and many of them cannot afford to go to the doctor. The pharmaceuticals, the insurers, the hospitals, and the governments are all locked into a kind of daisy chain that circulates this 15 percent the gross domestic product. I have a friend who, in her late twenties, got Hodgkin’s disease. She had good health insurance, and spent the whole two years on chemo fighting with her insurance company, which wanted to dump her. She survived—and is still $100,000 in debt. The only place this could not be considered a scandal is a society with no values.

To me, the weird part is that you can (with the help of billionaire financial backers) build a political movement based on the notion that you should be able to go to the doctor but

your neighbor should not. This is supposedly fiscal conservatism, wherein poor people side with the ultrarich, not understanding they’re being played. In a similar situation, consider how Wall Street profited on playing games with mortgage-backed securities, leaving the lucky people with upside-down mortgages and the unlucky ones foreclosed.

Let’s get even more personal. Venus in Scorpio is one of those “all about sex” kinds of placements. Even the words have the aura of a nightclub strip tease, or a dark street in one of Amsterdam’s Feu Rouge districts. The times we’re in sexually are every bit as strange as our economics. It turns out that former Republican chairman Ken Mehlman, who organized many anti-gay marriage referenda, is gay. We’re supposed to believe that Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Bag Republican candidate for Senate from Delaware, is a remade virgin who does not experience orgasm because it would stir up too much lust in her heart. Famously, she came out against masturbation in the 1990s, saying it was not an adequate way to help kids refrain from risky sexual behavior because it’s a form of adultery. We need to be asking why people repeatedly fall for this kind of denial.

But of all the sexual weirdness I’ve found, purity balls win the prize. What’s that, you haven’t heard of purity balls? These are parties where fathers and teenage and preteen daughters attend. The daughters vow chastity till they’re married, and the fathers vow to protect their daughter’s honor, and also not to cheat on their wives.

The girls are dressed in white bridal outfits and the fathers in suits or tuxedos. They give the girls a ring; there’s lots of prayer and sometimes a big cross is in the middle of the room. It has the flavor of a neo-Pagan ritual combined with a burlesque act mixed with a 1950s prom crossed with a wedding blended with a Klan rally. (If you search my name and the phrase “purity ball” in Google you’ll get a vivid picture of such an event.)

Once again, we attempt to “solve” the “problem” of sex with denial. As someone on the Planet Waves blog commented the other day, “I would like the idea a lot better if the fathers pledged not to have sex with their daughters.”)

So, in the midst of all this vertigo, what happens when Venus in Scorpio turns retrograde? Well, we’ll get to see the shadow beneath the denial. I would reckon that plenty more is going to come out in the public realm; there is more unmasking to come. However, this is a transit with the deepest individual expression. We will be pulled into that underwater world of Scorpio and made to confront all the ways our purity trips are really denial trips. Venus retrograde in Scorpio will give a momentary glimpse, indeed, a brief tour, of what it is that we’re denying.

The healing potential here is rich. Venus retrograde will make it easy to revisit aspects of the past we’ve hidden from view, acknowledge the matter and experience the feelings. From there, it will be a lot easier to move on—far easier than if we have no idea what’s lurking under the surface. People we need to speak to, hear from, apologize to, or share love with can actually come back into our lives under Venus retrograde. It’s what you might call an opportunity to resolve karma. Since it often arrives with interesting sexual opportunities, it’s also a chance to have fun and/or make some new karma as well.

Within standing relationships, Venus retrograde is a chance to bring up subject matter that might otherwise be difficult to speak about, or that is so buried it’s usually inaccessible. People in nearly all couples have secrets they’ve never shared with one another, and these secrets can place a burden on intimacy and block a lot of happiness.

Many of them are sexual secrets. I suggest that you declare amnesty with your partner and get that stuff out on the table, where you can address it and heal it while the climate is viable for such a project.

Scorpio is one of the most important signs of marriage and other forms of commitment, and Venus is keen on exploring the inner depths of those bonds. So with Venus retrograde here, there’s a theme of understanding the interior nature of commitment— of the actual elements that make up a commitment, rather than the story we tell ourselves. There are many, ranging from desire, to obligation, to expectation, to need, to financial dependency, to sexual dependency. Venus retrograde will help you sort the material where you can understand what constitute the actual points of bonding rather than the stuff that seems like connection but really is not.

Shared finances also come into focus here, by the way; they are also under the realm of both Scorpio and Venus. If you need to work out issues where joint money matters are concerned, now is the time to go there.

On all these projects, I suggest you get an early start. The starting point just a day after the Libra New Moon of October 7. This is an event that will help us peer into that corner of the mind where we try to work out the issue of what makes us feel safe.

It’s fair to say, we don’t get to feel safe very often on the planet, whether we’re talking about our homes, our relationships or the aspects of our psyches were we mediate the issue. The Libra New Moon will help us start this discussion with goal in mind, on an inward level. If we begin with the awareness of our needs and stick to that as a value that guides us, we can use this Venus retrograde to take us to a deeper place emotionally, one where we can resolve some of our inner contradictions and make room to have our authentic desires fulfilled.

None of this will happen by itself, though, but let’s say that the psychic winds and currents are all going the right direction to help us get to that inner shore.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes ARIES (March 20-April 19) There’s only so challenging a relationship should be; only so many times that the same thing happens before a conscious attempt is made by both parties to shift the pattern. Yet you could say that within the seemingly endless workload that we create in our relationships, consciousness is the number one item on the agenda. Add a little of that and you are likely to notice that most of your struggle is pointless; that is to say, it lacks a tangible agenda, goal, or orientation. This is true particularly if the pattern is repetitive or if there seems to be some lesson that you’re not learning. The futility is veiled by everyone’s investment in the situation: it’s likely to be some combination of emotional, sexual, and financial, though lodged in what seems like an intractable place. It looks like you’re the one who has the power to move on, and the desire to let go of the past. It also looks like, as usual, you’re the one who is impatient and who is less willing to wait for something to happen, and more willing to work for a result. Yet a partner or love interest has a need to investigate a past issue. You may be too biased or too close to the situation to help out, but that does not dismiss the relationship. But it does emphasize the fact that a relationship is the meeting of two individuals, not two halves of a couple.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) The presence of another person in your life may feel so strong that you’re wondering whether contact on any kind of equal terms is possible. Yet there is no contact with another without contact with yourself. The deeper you go into your own sense of presence in your world, the deeper you’ll delve into your experiences of others. Your solar chart suggests that you’ve been keeping secrets from yourself. These secrets involve your relationship history, and in particular, what your values about deep connection are and where they came from. More specifically, Venus retrograde in Scorpio suggests that you’re deeply involved in a process of understanding your sexuality and how it manifests in your relationships. This is as much a quest for understanding the past and its influences as it is about letting go of out-of-date ideas and emotional responses—which in part means letting go of your attachment to them. This is not as difficult as you may think, particularly when you assess the cost of the attachments and get a feeling for the benefits that can come when you take your life into your own hands. I would offer these queries. What is the meaning that you put on sex, and how did it get there? What is the value you ascribe to it, and has it actually demonstrated that value? And, what did you leave behind in the distant past that you want dearly to retrieve?

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GEMINI (May 20-June 21) There are times when we take a risk and seem to hit a wall, a limit, or a restriction. Sometimes a seeming authority figure renders an opinion that something isn’t good enough. Other times, the idea of a risk is met by the response of fear. If any of that occurs in the next few weeks, remember: How you respond is more important than what happened. Your responses can range from discouragement to resentment to renewed determination. Yet once you go past the level of emotional impulse, there is a question about how you relate to your environment. What supports you, and what interferes with your creative process? I suggest you investigate everything from how your desk is arranged to the structure of your day. In considering people, are you seeking the approval of someone who seems incapable of offering it? The thing about any form of creative process is that it depends on answering to your inner authority; the notion of “authorship” is about you being the one to grant yourself authorization. If you are caught in a loop where (for example) you’re seeking the approval of an actual person in your life, or covertly striving for the approval of parents who never gave it to you, that is something to look at closely. The clue would be that you tend to go in circles specifically where you put in enough love, energy, and talent to make actual progress.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Saturn in your security and home angle is a new development as of this year. This is a challenging transit; it’s compelling you to be resolute about certain emotional matters that you would rather avoid, to go beyond the appearance of peace of mind and put your roots into the real thing. Every day brings another reminder that the past is over. This transit may be coming with a bottom-heavy feeling and a sense that you cannot escape from certain emotional loops. True, you’ve been through some profound changes in the past year, but you may wonder what they add up to. This is not a matter of setting your standards lower. What Saturn’s presence suggests is the need for some deep cleaning of your spiritual closets. This is a process that will last the next two years. On one level there is no rush. On another, the sooner you focus on what you know you need to address, the sooner you’ll have the satisfaction of progress. Most of what you’re sifting through and sorting out is inherited material that you ended up with. Far from having no effect on your life, these ideas stand on a thinly veiled guiding principle: for example, informing your notion of what is possible. Let’s put it this way. If you don’t feel deeply that anything is actually possible, then someone else’s ideas are holding you down. You can drop that weight any time you want. It’s no source of comfort. Feeling good surely is.

Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) Nearly all of the heavy lifting of our lives involves thought. It’s true that we still move house, move rocks, and build barns, but in the lives of most Westerners, the “burden,” if I could call it that, is careful consideration of our situation. With Saturn recently beginning a two-year trip across your solar 3rd house, the house of ideas, of communication, and of our relationship to technology, you’re seeing the value of involving yourself with these processes consciously. Recently this has involved finances; you seem to have worked out a complex issue, and are now finishing the cleanup. What you’ve learned the past two months has the power to set you ahead financially, if you will apply what you learned—and this is the time to do so. Early in the month, there’s some revelation where it all makes sense at once. The underlying theme is that money is not the mysterious thing that it’s made out to be by those who make a living flipping and stripping. It is a practical matter that facilitates other practical matters, and also some of the things you dream of. Yet many of the things that give us the most satisfaction require no funding at all. In our financially obsessed world, we need to remember that every single day. In the age of the $5 cup of coffee, few are the reminders that the best things in life are free. And that includes ideas.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Go beyond appearances—all of them. I suggest that you question anything you do to appear a certain way, from wearing makeup to “dressing for the occasion,” to purchasing anything so that others know you have it. Question whether any belief you hold is designed to please another person, or whether it’s coming from the core of who you are.

If you notice that you’re presenting yourself in a way designed to conceal something, or to please another person, it’s time to ask yourself the question so rarely asked: Why? The answer “I do it for myself” is not adequate now; you need to peel back that motive and see if there is something else. Knowing your real motives will only help you. It will help you, in particular, to move beyond any situation where you do the same thing over and over again, or where you don’t seem to get what you think of as “the lesson.” The only lesson you actually need is the awareness of what drives you. Making all of your motives conscious may be challenging and it may shake up certain things you think of as commitments, but at least you’ll be living on honest terms with yourself. It is almost always an unconscious motive that drives us in circles; that creates setups that prevent us from attaining what we think of as our goals. That level is usually the hardest to get to, and the most productive. If you get there, be grateful.

LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Our lives are filled with way too much effort. You have a knack for finding the efficient route, and the blessing of being easygoing enough that you’re able to keep your cool despite the considerable chaos that the world can inflict. But now is the time to focus on a kind of efficiency that will be remarkable even for you. You have a lot to do, and the first item on this agenda is to sort out several items that seem urgent but are not. This will leave room in your life for two focal points. One is a kind of external pursuit, something or someone you want and that wanting can be expressed by action, such as making a major decision, particularly a financial one. The other is an inward quest one may not be aware of yet. That quest is drawing you toward a contradiction about yourself that you’ve wanted to resolve for a long time. It typically has a repelling quality; involving yourself with it has all the allure of setting out to achieve the impossible on a day when your clothes and shoes don’t fit right. Yet something subtle is drawing you in; you may simply feel that it’s time, or you may decide that in order to feel like a complete person you must come to terms with this issue. It involves how you feel about yourself, and you might describe it as finally unraveling the conditions you place on unconditional love.

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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) What happens in your most intimate relationships this month will tell you more about yourself than it tells you about a partner. This is information you’ve wanted for a while, and now it seems certain that you will make the discovery you’ve been seeking. Yes, you have plenty to learn about your relationship dynamics, and this month’s unusual Scorpio astrology—involving both Venus and Mars in your sign—will help you make observations about the person or people closest to you. Yet the planets are set up to reveal one of the most difficult things about human nature, which is the source of what we project. Projection is when someone outside us becomes the subject of a drama that is purely internal. The implication is that the source of an image or a light is inside the projector. Nobody going through a challenge wants to hear that, and it will take some emotional processing to get you beyond any potential self-blame that comes up. One thing I suggest you remember is that the source of this situation is in the distant past. It’s back there, and it involves a specific person. Discovering this will require you to reassign new roles to colleagues and loved ones currently in your life, such as: “I had you cast in the role of the one who was holding me back. Now that I see I was doing that, I can give you some other role.”

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For months I’ve been hinting at a time when you could start to get things done: the real things, the big ones, the ones closest to your core passions. That time has arrived. Note that the planets are not offering you a free pass to anything—they are offering an extended opportunity to put the best of your talents to work. I don’t mean toil and I don’t mean what the Germans call “Sisyphus work”—pushing the boulder up the hill, only to do it again. To the contrary, your mission is to create such a state of inner harmony, willingness to succeed and authentic passion, that you evoke the cooperation of the world. You need to be observant and see specifically where your talents meet a need, or provide something that doesn’t exist. The key here is being authentic. “Authentic,” in part, speaks to the specificity of your mission. Your niche is not “kind of” what you want to do, it’s precisely what you want to do and what you do best. This is the objective that, in my reading, the planets are pointing to. So I suggest you pause and refine your plans. Be clear with yourself. Cross off the list anything that is not really supposed to be there. Now is the time to forget the details of how things are going to happen; pour your energy into the creative aspect of your mission and be precisely who you are.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) The past few seasons have taken you around a curve in your life, but it was more like taking an endless right angle, half expecting for the car to crack in half. It never did, but you had some tense moments.

This goes back to about one year ago. The sensation involved a transit called Saturn square Pluto, and this or something like it happens only about once every nine years. But this was different than any other; it involved not only your ruling planet Saturn but also Pluto in your sign. At the same time, Saturn made a series of oppositions to Uranus, and the effect was: one thing after the next; this is never going to end; where am I going to get the strength? But you had the strength and you are stronger today. I want to offer one thought from my experience as a counseling astrologer and survivor of many Pluto transits. When such alignments end, there can be a kind of post-traumatic stress. If you’re expecting the next thing to go wrong or shake up your life, consider that potential. Your current planets suggest that you have an open road ahead; that you are free to create plans and bring them into reality. Yet you may find yourself needing to deal with negative expectations first. Don’t stuff those feelings; let them out, listen to them, and allow yourself to have some authentic confidence from having gone through so much so well.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Is everything a matter of faith? It may well be. No matter how much preparation, planning, studying and vision you apply to an idea, or to yourself, the last step in the process is faith. You simply trust that you’re doing the right thing, or that you’ve done the right thing.

So you may want to consider starting from that point, rather than aiming to eventually end up there. This would be particularly true for any “impossible situations” you encounter, or for anything that you’ve tried dozens of times but never managed to get right.

You may be confident you have the fortitude to get through anything. But that’s not the kind of strength you want right now. What you want to stoke is the faith that there is a ray of fairness in the world. You want to feed the fire of equanimity. You want the people around you to trust that the decisions you make for yourself are the right ones, and call nothing less than that love.

Short of all that manifesting right now, you need to hold these values openly in your heart. It’s true you’re still living with a contradiction, a seeming split in how you feel about something or someone. Or this may be an inner division over what you want. When a deeper layer of the truth is revealed, you will see that it wasn’t a contradiction because one of those desires was something you could only give yourself.

PISCES (February 19-March 20) How’s it going? I trust your sponge is getting soaked again, and that you’re gradually forgetting the long dry spell you went through; those come and go. I trust you’ve sorted out some of the details of a relationship that was draining so much of your energy, and learned the value of detachment. Ah yes, that thing—supposedly, the most challenging lesson for a Fish, so attached to how everyone else feels. Yet with the high-stakes quality of your life lately, that is, with so many discussions where so much seems to matter, you need to be cool. Not to play it cool, but to actually be cool, so that you can use your mind and remember what you want.

This is different, indeed, precisely opposite than having expectations or hopes. Think more in terms of demands. Don’t use the word outside your mind or your notebook; maybe call them requirements, or something polite, but be clear that they’re demands; the things without which you don’t commit your energy or time. So, remember what you want and stick to it. Remember to consider every situation you’re in, and consider what it will take to have that situation work for you. Don’t sign any contract, or agreement or make any promise that you don’t think is eminently, admirably fair. This is also the time to allow what is distant to come to you, rather than you having to go to it. Take a breath and allow.

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Patient Admission, US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam, 2010, archival pigment print, 40” x 56 ½”, 2010. Courtesy of Murray Guy, New York.

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