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20 while you were sleeping

66 The way of the cow: a talk with martin ping

New Yorkers scores lowest in the country on driver’s test; EPA cracking down on Amish farmers’ manure management; UN advocates for global switch to vegan diet.

24 what the frack? welcome to gasland Brian K. Mahoney reports on the debate over hydraulic fracturing, a new method of natural gas drilling and the subject of the documentary Gasland by Josh Fox.

28 beinhart’s body politic: ThE PARALYSIS OF SANITY Larry Beinhart on how oil unbalances the politics of the entire world.

regional notebook 13 local luminary: brendan burke

The artistic director of Shadowland in Ellenville discusses the work being done at the theater and how regional theaters enrich lives, communites, and local economies.

feature 30 the sacred science of the ancients

Jason Stern interviews maverick Egyptologist John Anthony West.

community pages 35 rural collaboration: millerton

Anne Pyburn Craig reports on Millerton and Amenia’s transformation as the population grows, and their place in the region as a hub of political activism.

61 River Town Rising: Rosendale

Rosendale resident Sari Botton illuminates the surprisingly happening, environmentally progressive small town known best for its many festivals and cement.

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Carl Frankel asks Martin Ping about sustainability through change of consciousness.

culinary adventures 79 eat your scenery:fable

Karin Ursula Edmondson talks with the Warrens about dining at their farm, Fable.

whole living guide 88 help, I’m stuck in overwhelm: too much stuff, too little time Lorrie Klosterman examines strategies to make the most of our time and our lives.

92 Flowers Fall: spring: a love poem A poem by Bethany Saltman for her daughter, Azalea..

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arts & culture 42 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 46 music Peter Aaron’s look at Club Helsinki’s new home in Hudson.

Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Casket Architects Future Wounds. Reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz.

David Malachowski The Secret Life of Colonel David.

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Roswell Rudd Keep Your Heart Right. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson.

50 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles author Robert Kelly.

52 BOOK reviews Marx Dorrity reviews A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer. Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Leaving Rock Harbor by Rebecca Chace. Plus Short Takes.

54 Poetry Poems by Paul Assey, Miriam Newell Biskin, Geordie de Boer, Richard Donnelly, Bonnie Enes, Andy Fogle, Gretchen Gibbs, Dean Goldberg, Atticus Lanigan, Brenda Le, Emily Nelson and Eden O’Clair.

70 food & drink

Weehawken 2 by Richard Deon is being exhibited at the Hudson River Museum.

the forecast 100 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events.

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

PREVIEWS 99 Steve Reich, NEXUS, and So Percussion perform at Maverick Hall on July 31.

101 New exhibits at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville.

103 Spiegeltent returns for another season at Bard College on July 9.

105 The Mount Tremper Arts Festival kicks off on July 10.

107 The 2010 Powerhouse Theater season is in action at Vassar College with John Patrick Shanley’s “Pirate” and Tracy Thorne’s “We Are Here” on the mainstage.

112 “A Snake That Sheds Its Skin is Still a Snake” by Steven Strauss and Phil Hennion exhibits at Surprenant Art and Design in Kingston.

113 “Imagining Madoff” is at Stageworks/Hudson starting July 21.

planet waves 114 The Element: Water Eric Francis Coppolino on the emotional element and the Gulf. Plus horoscopes.

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Peter Barrett talks vinegar with Brother Victor-Antoine. Plus Food & Drink events.

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Alban Berg in the Atelier Madame D’Ora, Wien, 1909. © ÖNB/Wien, 203481-D

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still from Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait philippe parreno | digital video | 2005

One of the distinguishing marks of French artist Philippe Parreno is his total blindness to established boundaries. His work is the shaded center of the Venn diagram. He blends mediums, reality with fantasy, old with new, philosophy with art, ultimately creating his own narratives. Maria Lind, curator of the upcoming exhibition “Philippe Parreno” at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, suggests that his “obsessive collaborating” with other artists even challenges traditional notions of ownership and authorship.

Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait, by Parreno and Gordon Douglas, falls somewhere between documentary and the idolization of the male figure in Michelangelo’s David. The film shadows French soccer star Zinedine Zidane— regarded as one of the greatest players of all time—during the entire Real Madrid versus Villarreal game on April 23, 2005. Seventeen cameras were placed around the stadium, focusing on Zidane (not the movement of the ball), capturing his every expression and muscle twitch. A contemplative, haunting soundtrack by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai plays in the background as the noise of the crowd fades in and out. You can hear Zidane’s yells, utterings, breathing, his cleats on the stadium grass, and the small explosions of sound when he or a nearby player makes contact with the ball or each other. Zidane’s words scroll in white text across the bottom of the screen, offering no real context or information about the current action. For example, “As a child, I had a running commentary in my head when I was playing. It wasn’t really my own voice, it was the voice of Pierre Cangion, a television anchor from the 1970s. Every time I heard his voice, I would run towards the TV, as close as I could get for as long as I could. It wasn’t that his words were so important but the tone, the accent, the atmosphere, was everything.”

In her essay, “The Who and How: Thoughts on Philippe Parreno’s work,” curator Maria Lind writes that Zinedine Zidane “is portrayed not only as an outstanding football player, but as an object of erotic desire. In the film, on the one hand, he is celebrated as the perfect image of an alpha male super ego.

A man whose every body movement, every little gesture is deemed not only important but also pleasurable to watch. On the other hand, an abundance of cameras make his facial features become a miniature landscape in transition.”

“Philippe Parreno” at CCS Bard is part of a series of retrospectives taking place from through 2011 at the Kunsthalle Zurich, Pompidou Center in Paris, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and in London at the Serpetine Gallery. The exhibit at CCS Bard runs through September 26 and examines Parreno’s work with moving images, focusing on Zidane:A XXIst Century Portrait and June 8, 1968, a montage of vignettes of crowds and individuals watching a passing train, inspired by Paul Fusco’s photos of Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train. Zidane will be screened at CCS Bard in September. (845) 758-7598; www.bard.edu/css.

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What does the job of an artistic director at a regional theater consist of?

Basically, a responsibility from an artistic perspective, to stick to the mission of the theater. Normally, its more like a two-headed monster. There’s a managing director who will take care of the business administration side and there’s the artistic director who will do the production of the artistic side. Here, one person does both. It’s a little bit of everything. I administer, I write grants, do all the payroll, pay all the bills. Then there’s casting, directing a few shows, and really monitoring that the theater is sticking to its mission. I’m the only full-time, year-round employee.

How does the Shadowland define its mission?

The core of it is that its socially relevant, thoughtprovoking work with a vision, which I break down to three things. It’s being relevant: The stories that we choose to tell should be important. That’s where we’ve been most successful; we found our niche there, we found our audience through that. Accessibility is the second part.

We’re not doing high art that people have to stretch to get. We’re not doing “Oklahoma!” or “Pippin” either, but we’re doing shows that are stories and are accessible to our audience. The third thing, with accessibility, is affordability. We’re probably the most affordable theater—at least that I know of—that’s doing the work we do. Tickets are $28 at top price, subscriptions are as low $100 for five shows, and we have this pay-asyou-can program, when we take the available seats and people can just come and pay whatever we want.

We’re not just a theater for folks who can afford it, we

In 1985, some idealistic New York City theater types established a professional theater in a shuttered Art Deco movie house on Canal Street in Ellenville. Their opening night, on July 4th weekend, featured Kit McClure and Her All-Girl Swing Band as well as skits and song-and-dance numbers by the theatrical cooperative—the 400-seat theater was standing room only. (A reunion of the original company is planned for July 3, followed by a performance of Shadowland's current production, “Guest Artist,” starring John Astin.)

Shadowland has been rolling along ever since, staging a half dozen productions of first- and second-run plays in the former Borscht Belt town each summer. Recent seasons have included productions of Yasmina Reza’s “Art” starring Judd Hirsch; John Cariani’s “Almost, Maine”; and Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winner, “How I Learned to Drive.” In addition to its summer season, Shadowland has branched out into children’s educational programming with classes in the fall and winter months and with four plays for children each year. Shadowland also encourages new plays and developing playwrights with its off-season reading series. (Elliot Gould, who played wiseguy detective Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, is slated to read a treatment of a new play based on the charcter in October.)

Brendan Burke, a freelance actor and director who went to high school in the Hudson Valley (Washingtonville), returned in 2004 to take over as artistic director at Shadowland. Burke’s most recent achievement has been to acquire permanent housing for visiting artists. (Actors and directors usually stayed in local homes and rented apartments.) Provident Bank donated a house in downtown Ellenville for this purpose, which was renovated over the past six months by a dedicated core group of volunteers.

This season, Shadowland is staging five plays “Two Jews Walk Into a War…” (which ended its run June 20); “Guest Artist” (June 25-July 18); “The Marvelous Wonderettes” (July 23-August 15); “Red Herring” (August 20-September 12) and Yankee Tavern (September 17-October 3).

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want to be here for everybody. The “with a vision” part of the mission I interpret as keeping up with what the better regional theaters are doing as far as the choice of work we’re doing. We’re doing unpublished works, new works—we’re developing plays now, trying to stay current with what’s going on with the better playwrights in the country. That’s kind of a fun mission to be able to do. We’re not really locked into doing plays that are going to sell very well. Our first show this year—“Two Jews Walk into a War”—is unpublished, got no stars in it, and we’re doing 95 percent attendance for the first two weeks of the season.

How’s the season going so far this year?

Actually, despite the economy, we’ve had our best year ever—by a lot, too. I think that was probably the pattern for smaller, regional theaters outside of metropolitan areas.

We can present ourselves as an option to metropolitan theaters where you have to travel and spend more money.

You can get something of quality locally and cheap.

How do you get these well-known actors like Judd Hirsch, John Aston, Stephanie Zimbalist to come to Ellenville and perform at Shadowland?

We ask them! Some are contacts that we know or we know somebody that knows someone. But they tend to come for the kickoffs of the show that we choose to do.

John’s an old friend and we’ve worked together before and it’s a perfect role for him. [Astin stars in Jeff Daniels’s “Guest Artist” through July 18.] They’re not working for any more than any other actors. It’s great that we’re not buying them in or anything. They’re really doing it because

of the story. I think they kind of sense that it’s our priority and it’s worth doing.

What do you think the role of a regional theater is in the community?

Particularly [in the case of] Shadlowland in Ellenville, it serves as a cultural hub for the community. These days, the perspective to look at it is, it’s an economic catalyst.

In an economy like this, sometimes it’s hard for people to rationalize funding for the arts, and certainly not art for art’s sake anymore, but there are restaurants on this street that probably wouldn’t be here if the Shadowland wasn’t here. The bottom line is we’re bringing people out on the weekend to Ellenville which is fantastic. People are looking for a place to eat, they’re spending money, money is going back into the town. From the business perspective, the role of theater and large organizations like this has a very important business side as well. I think it’s an important thing for folks to realize, when they start looking at funding for the arts: It’s a quality-of-life issue but it’s also smart business. You do get a lot for your investment if the money you’re spending on the arts is being spent well.

Particularly, I think that theater is a living newspaper, I think that it adds perspective to your life. We do stories that when folks come to see and hear these stories, they’re gaining another perspective on looking at things. Stories that are relevant in that way are important. It’s a multiplicity of perspectives, it advises people of the world from many different directions. We try to enliven folks perspectives by the theater and stories we present.

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Hudson Valley: Two Worlds I enjoy your magazine immensely, but...

I wonder if you might consider a bit more representation of the poor and minority communities that live within the Valley’s ghettos—Peekskill, Beacon, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Hudson, Kingston. This valley has another world that is not represented at all in Chronogram, or to my knowledge by any of the other local publications which are full of lovely photos, articles about local luminaries, new age agendas, special events, etc.

Why not represent that there is a very large community of people living in poverty and need within this lovely valley?

Just for instance: In October there was a Federal arrest in Peekskill of 47 young black and Hispanic men and one Hispanic woman—for selling cocaine to the rich and upper middle class white communities of Westchester and Dutchess County. With the exception of two defendants, every single one of those nonviolent, some first-time offenders, are still languishing in jail because they cannot afford the bail which the Feds have set at $50,000 and above. Many of them face 10 years in federal prison because of the crime of selling cocaine.

This case may drag on for years while these young men are behind bars. The fact is that these men were selling cocaine to upper and middle class white people who go to the local bars seeking out young black and Hispanic men and approach them to purchase drugs. The well-off white drug users will not suffer from this arrest, except as it may temporarily interfere with their drug use until they can find another poor local to purchase some drugs for them. When I went to the first hearing for these defendants, they were all marched into court, chained together, handcuffed, and seated in a long row with their courtappointed lawyers standing behind them. None of their families can afford the bail that is being set, so they will just stay in jail until sentencing, which could take a year or more. In their press release, the Feds announced how much safer the streets are now with these criminals behind bars. Out of 48 defendants, they found one gun.

I wonder and want to see and hear more about the other community which lives in the Valley and seems so unrepresented. How about some photographs on your covers of the blacks in Hudson; the Hispanics in Beacon, the Newburgh and Peekskill housing ghettos? Or, a trailer park for seasonal workers? I know that may not appeal to your mission of “stimulating and supporting the creative and cultural life of the Hudson Valley”—but why not?

Ellen Chrystal, Germantown Newburgh: City of Faith What a rosy picture Chronogram photographer Julie Platner captured in your 6/10 issue of our Liberty Street neighborhood. And Emily Nelson’s article, “Texture and Tension,” wove a fine, urban-scape story. Thanks.

Good neighbors evidently radiate positive energy. Six houses in the vicinity were empty when I moved in some 14 years ago. These include a pilot from Argentina, a NYU art critic from New Orleans, a professor from Brooklyn College, and an engineer from Nyack. The immediate enclave has become safer. No more break-ins. More flowering front yards. The youth are menacing one another but meanwhile the rhododendron keep blooming.

It helps to have faith in Newburgh. It’s probably why we have 68 plus churches, a few temples, and a mosque. New enterprises such as the restaurants, galleries, and theaters mentioned in the article add to the dynamic. And, as you article inferred, to be captivating, art needs tension. No wonder artists arrived daily. As does a cosmopolitan mix of newcomers from Brooklyn, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central and South America. The streets may be littered but every once in a while you get a whiff of home cooking that is absolutely delectable.

We appreciate you keeping a newsworthy eye on Newburgh.

Mona T. Paschke, Newburgh

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Esteemed Reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Come, Come whoever you are, Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, It doesn’t matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.

Come, yet again, come…

—Rumi It begins again.

In the mythology of western religion there was a beginning. Heaven and earth arrived and then a proclamation: Let there be light! In a newer gospel, the beginning was a word. From light and sound everything that exists came into being.

Let us not misunderstand that parable by seeing it through the time-bound perspective of Flatlanders. In the grand scheme, time and space, and everything born from that marriage, are of a piece. There is only One, and that one has always been, and always will be; and all of it—past, present, and future—exists concurrently.

Look at the microcosm of the body. Millions of cells are born, live, and die in the course of a life, but the body continues as a discrete, singular entity, with a resident consciousness that calls itself “I”. From the standpoint of a cell, the life of the body is eternity.

The beginning is always now. It begins again.

Walking in the woods on the first day of summer, thoughts arise—eager, active thoughts of the new leaves I will turn and old habits to break. Just now, an owl flies across the path and lands on a limb. She looks at me with charcoal black eyes, stopping all thought. She utters a piercing scream, and flies into the trees.

And into my mind comes John Lennon singing to his young son: “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”

I begin again to follow my breath, savoring air, sensing feet in shoes and the sound of sneakers padding on the mountain trail.

It begins again.

Each Friday evening my family marks the end of the week with a small ritual, generally drawn from the Jewish tradition. We welcome the Sabbath and bless and drink wine. And then we wash our hands in preparation for the meal. Sometimes we don’t even use water—we use the stuff of intention to wash away all the baggage of the week.

We release everything we have said in anger or joy, everything we have thought, suffered, and done, and rubbing hand over hand, allow ourselves to become empty and ready for the new cycle.

It begins again.

Our world is out of balance, with humanity destroying the beautiful garden that is home, that is earth, like so many parasites consuming and poisoning, even as we kill our host. Following the news we see primitive, tribal social structures and purposeless activity pervading every aspect of life. In the face of this, hope is difficult to muster.

Where to go from this seeming dead end?

The current pulls from one non-choice to another. But occasionally something like grace enters, and a chance is given to choose. In those moments we may remember what we wish for—peace, connection, truth, justice, integrity, abundance, love—each of us has our own name for that real wish.

Remembering what I wish for is another doorway to return to freedom and possibility in this moment. In wish there is nothing to attain, for its fulfillment is itself the dance of doing. There is no outer measure of accomplishment besides the knowing that I am being true to what I am.

It begins again.

“Existence gives us two gifts,” a teacher told me, “breath and sensation. They are always available as doorways to return to ourselves from whatever fantasy has captured our consciousness. In any moment attention can be guided back to the rhythm of breathing, to the sensitive energy that flows through the whole body.”

These are tools to help begin again.

There is a mercy and tenderness in the availability of the moment to take us back again and again. It is like the sun that rises each day, and shines on all without exception.

It is like the air that holds bodies together with its pressure, and bathes the biosphere in a delicious solution of nourishing gases. It is like the earth always underfoot, always providing a fertile place for seeds to sprout and grow.

The moment welcomes us back, though we have departed again and again, and it holds no grudges. The moment doesn’t remember that we betrayed or neglected.

The moment is all-welcoming and all-forgiving, and we can return to her like a baby to mother’s breast for the sustenance, hope, and inspiration we need to continue our work, whatever that joyful, engaged work may be.

Now. It begins again.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Everything Old Is New Again Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the lever. As we continue our headlong sprint through post-modernity, our technologies emerging and then cycling into obsolescence at an ever faster pace—our old cell phones and VCRs and cassette tapes collecting dust in the attic or covered in the plastic shroud of forever in the landfill—I find comfort in simple machines.The lever is the distilled essence of mechanical advantage: Apply a small amount of force at one end, and if you have a proper fulcrum, force is multiplied by dint of only a rigid object.

The Greek philosopher Archimedes figured all this out in the 3rd century BCE, working with the lever, pulley, and screw. (When I dug a garden in the side yard of my house and discovered a 150-pound medicine ball of cement, stones, and rebar that the previous owner buried a foot below the turf, no amount of Googling was going to help me move it. But a six-foot long pry bar did. ) To Archimedes’s list of simple machines, Renaissance scientists added the wheel and axle, inclined plane, and the wedge. Around that same time, Gallileo worked out that these machines do not create energy, only transform it.

This month, somewhat unintentionally, we’ve put together what I’m calling our “Throwback” edition. While we view the notion of Human Progress— the march of technology unconstrained by the larger contexts of ethics and ecology—with a gimlet eye here at Chronogram, it became quite clear while looking over the proofs of the July issue that many of the ideas presented in these pages suggest a return to old ways, a restatement of first principles— transformation rather than creation.

In his interview this month with Carl Frankel, Martin Ping, executive director of the Hawthorne Valley Association, notes a transformative power at work on his daily walk across the farm that instructs him in how to act: cows.

Cows take energy from sunlight and rain (via the grass), subtract what they need for nutrition, and then return to the soil what will make it better for future generations of cows.

Ping also tells of a simple machine older than even those articulated by Archimedes, and twice as transformative. “I’ve learned there’s one all-purpose tool you can always reach for: love,” says Ping. “If you can love what you’re doing, love the person you’re with, and love the world you’re a part of, that goes a long way toward overcoming the areas where you may feel deficient.” (“The Way of the Cow,” page 66.)

In Lagrangeville, another transformative power is put to delicious work: bacteria. At Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette has been making artisanal vinegar since moving to the Hudson Valley 40 years ago, employing a “mother” (an amalgam of bacteria) that he brought from his hometown in France, and following 12th-century recipes.The bacteria are not the only ones laboring away, of course, Brother Victor-Antoine, a Benedictine monk, adheres to the edict of his order: pray and work. For the

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last few years, Brother Victor-Antoine has been the sole monk at the monastery, and performs almost all the tasks required of monastic life himself. He counsels patience in the practice of making vinegar—“You can’t rush it,” Brother VictorAntoine says, “when it’s ready, it’s ready”—and I suspect that advice might be put to good use in other areas of our lives as well. (“Labor of Love,” page 70.)

Josh Fox is also a proponent of patience. When he was approached by an energy company to lease the 20 acres surrounding his Pennsylvania home for natural gas drilling through the hydraulic fracturing in 2009, Fox set out to find just what was entailed in this new drilling process. What Fox found— water contamination, environmental degradation, industry deception—is the basis of his documentary, Gasland. The Woodstock Film Festival is sponsoring a screening of the film on July 17 at Onteroa High School. Fox and Rep. Maurice Hichey will lead a question-and-answer session after the showing. I chatted with Fox about what might happen if the energy industry drills for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, part of which runs through the New York City watershed in Ulster County. (“What the Frack?” page 24.)

The old ways—the very old ways—are what maverick Egyptologist John Anthony West has been investigating for the past 40 years. Recently,West traveled to an archeological dig in Turkey, Goebekli Tepe, to research his contention that civilization, as we understand it, is much older than the societies that developed in Egypt and China around 3,000 BCE. Looking backward, West sees societies that valued the development of the soul, something he believes sorely lacking on the contemporary scene, a condition he refers to as “civilized barbarism.” “We have a job to do,” West tells Jason Stern, “and that involves us acquiring a level of consciousness we’re not born with.” (“The Sacred Science of the Ancients,” page 30.)

Of course, as Larry Beinhart reminds us, we forget the even the not-so-old ways all the time as well. Just as the widening spill in the Gulf has triggered a call for cleaner energy from Obama, every president since Richard Nixon has also urged the US to “end our dependence on foreign oil.” And yet we are no closer to energy independence—and the reduction of consumption doesn’t seem to be on the table—than we were in 1970. (“The Paralysis of Sanity,” page 28.)

Which brings me back to the lever. Complex machines run our world, but complex machines can develop complex problems. (See oil rigs, Deepwater Horizon.) I’m not advocating for a return to the 18th century. I like my iPhone and the technology behind the titanium plate that helped knit my arm back together. But the refuge of simplicity, of transformation, has a practical dimension. My garden, which began with a shovel and a lever, is now a five-year-old transformation machine. It converts sunlight, rain, and natural material into food. No gas was extracted or Google search engine was consulted to achieve it—just the old ways at work, the ones that continue to sustain all life.

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In a recent survey by Feeding America, one in eight Americans use a food bank to help keep themselves and their familes fed. The survey looked at data from approximately 37,000 food banks. In response to hunger in the United States, Wal-Mart pledged to donate $2 billion to food banks across the country. As part of this effort, the corporation plans to spend $250 million providing food banks with refrigerated trucks to help them increase the availability of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, and dairy products. The Target Corporation donated $1.2 million to Feeding America and $2.3 million to be used to create pantries in schools that also offer nutrition education.

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According to a report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 12 commonly purchased fruits and vegetables could contain 47 to 67 pesticides per serving.

Dubbed “The Dirty Dozen,” these fruits and vegetables (including celery, spinach, potatoes, and bell peppers) absorb high levels of pesticides due to their soft skin. Produce with a stronger outer layer, like asparagus, onions, and watermelon, were found to contain little or no pesticides. The EWG advocates limiting ingestion of pesticides by opting to buy organic versions of “The Dirty Dozen,” which can reduce your exposure by up to 80 percent. According to the EPA, consuming small amounts of pesticides isn’t harmful but longterm studies don’t yet exist. Amy Rosenthal of the EWG warns, “Pesticides are designed to kill things. Why wait for 20 years to discover they are bad for us?”

Source: CNN A study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that children are twice as likely to be born with autism if their mothers took fertility drugs such as Clomid. Additionally, the longer a woman takes these infertility drugs, the higher her chances are of giving birth to a child with an autism spectrum disorder. The study was presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia in mid-May along with a paper by an Israeli research team that found a link between in-vitro fertilization and autism.

Source: Time The Marist College Bureau of Economic Research studied housing patterns in eight counties from 2006 to 2008 and concluded that more people are moving out of the Hudson Valley area than are moving in, with the exception of Ulster and Sullivan Counties. Many households that moved within the region changed to less expensive housing instead of housing closer to work. Despite increases in Ulster, a resident was found nearly twice as likely to move out of state than an out-of-state household was to move into the region.

Source: Marist College Bureau of Economic Research Each year, GMAC Insurance administers the written driver’s test to already-licensed drivers across the country. They estimate that if retested today, approximately 38 million drivers would fail. Using data from the 5,202 individuals tested this year, GMAC finds Kansas has the smartest drivers and New York, the dumbest.

Source: Consumerist;GMAC Insurance On May 25, one of the biggest oil spills in the trans-Alaska pipeline’s 33-year history occurred when a pump station controlled by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company was undergoing a standard test of the station’s battery-controlled backup system.

When the batteries failed, valves opened filling and overflowing a 2.3-million-gallon storage tank. In response, the 800 miles of pipeline between North Slope oil fields and the Valdez tanker port was shut down for three days but oil already in the pipeline continued to flow and leak out. According to the Department of Environmental Conservation in Alaska, the entire spill totaled 210,000 gallons and was contained in a lined, bermed area. As of June 2, approximately 56,000 gallons of crude oil have been cleaned up and sent to the tanker terminal in Valdez to be recycled. The pipeline makes up about 10 percent of US oil production. Alyeska is owned by an oil-company consortium, with BP’s share making up nearly half at 46.9 percent.

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that approximately 17 percent of sexually experienced teenage girls have used the rhythm method for birth control, an 11 percent increase since 2002. The findings are concerning because the rhythm method (only engaging in sexual activity on nonfertile days) is only found to be effective 75 percent of the time. The teenage birth rate dropped from the early ‘90s to 2005 but has since reversed its trend with the exception of a two percent drop in 2008. Bill Albert, spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, observes, “We’ve known the decline in childbearing stalled out. This report kind of fills in the why.” Along with birth control methods, the survey found changes in teen attitudes toward pregnancy and childbirth. Sixty-four percent of teenage boys believe it’s okay for an unmarried female to have a baby, a 50 percent increase since 2002. Seventy percent of teenage girls felt the same way, a 5 percent increase since 2002. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention noted that at the time the survey was conducted, the high-profile teen pregnancies of Bristol Palin and Jamie Lynn Spears dominated the news and the movie Juno, about a teenage girl’s pregnancy was extremely popular.

Source: Google News The SUNY New Paltz Center for Research, Regional Eduction, and Outreach (CRREO) ranked the mid-Hudson Valley’s “Regional Well-Being Index” at 50 out of 100. To determine the score, Dutchess, Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster Counties were sized up according to economy, education, environment, community and equity, governance, health, arts and culture, and safety. Individually, Ulster had the highest score at 57, followed by Dutchess at 51, Orange at 47, and Sullivan at 41. Tobin Flussher from the CRREO believes the index can prove useful to people working in all spheres of the community and will be updated each year. CRREO Director Gerald Benjamin commented, “We hope this first Regional Well-Being report will dramatize how much a regional vision in the Mid-Hudson Valley is broadly shared, and provide a continuing agreed focus on how we may together progress toward agreed goals.”

Source: Mid-Hudson News In an effort to protect the Chesapeake Bay, the EPA is cracking down on Amish farmers who don’t have adequate systems for storing cow manure. Runoff from manure has been responsible for reducing oxygen rates and killing fish in the bay since the 1970s.

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania—where 50 percent of the farms are owned by Amish families—is one of the top polluters. On average, the county generates 61 million pounds of manure each year, about six times more than other counties in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. With a historic distrust of governmental intrusion, members of the Amish and Old-Order Mennonite communities in Lancaster County have been split in their approach of dealing with the issue. Some have accepted government grants to build manure pits, while others refuse government involvement and are constructing manure management systems on their own. The penalties on those who refuse financial assistance from the government but can’t afford manure management systems have yet to be seen.

Source: New York Times In early June, the United Nations Environment Program’s International Panel of Sustainable Resource Management released a report announcing a worldwide switch to a meatand dairy-free diet is essential to stave off further climate change, depletion of energy resources, and mass starvation. Within 40 years, the human population is expected to reach 9.1 billion—the majority of growth occurring in non-Western countries—necessitating a 70 percent increase in food production. The panel found that countries with rising affluence had diets higher in meat and dairy, and therefore, greater fossil fuel consumption and environmental impact. Much of the world’s food crops and fresh water is used by the meat industry and raising animals to be eaten is more damaging to the planet than producing materials like cement, metal, and plastic. The panel warned developing countries not to mimic the West’s meat-and-dairy laden diet and fuel consumption. Currently, agriculture (meat and dairy products in particular) uses up 70 percent of the world’s fresh water and 38 percent of the land, and creates 19 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions.

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what the frack? welcome to gasland

By Brian K. Mahoney

the largest natural gas drilling boom in history is sweeping across the united states. a new method of drilling, hydraulic fracturing, has opened up previously unavailable deposits in 34 states, including new york. industry officials contend the practice is safe, though critics cite numerous instances of groundwater contamination as a by-product of drilling. the concerns over “fracking” heats up as state legislators debate a drilling moratorium and an anti-fracking film, gasland, is released.

“This is the rhythm that we’ve gotten into in this country: A reporter, a muckraker, or a filmmaker goes in and bunks.Then the industry debunks.Then the regulators come in and say,‘We did our part.’ Meanwhile, there are all these people who are suffering, and they have nowhere to turn and no one to trust. Is this just a matter of, are we expecting too much that sucking something out of the earth is going to be a harmless process?”

—John Stewart, interviewing Josh Fox, director of Gasland, on the June 21 “Daily Show”

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he US has proven natural gas reserves of 20 trillion cubic feet, placing it seventh on the world list behind Russia, Iran, Qatar, Turkmenistan, and Saudi Arabia. In 2009, for the first time in 10 years, the US extracted more gas than Russia. This was due to a recent drilling boom in the US of previously inaccessible rock formations. The method used to get at the hard-to-reach gas is hydraulic fracturing.

Here’s how hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, works: A horizontal well is drilled into a gas-bearing rock formation. The wells are usually quite deep, and can be as far as 10,000 feet below the surface. Once drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into the well. The pressure fractures the rock and props open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.

Fracking is especially good at getting gas out of “tight” rocks like shale. One such shale formation that has begun to be drilled in this manner is the Marcellus Shale, which stretches deep underground from Ohio and West Virginia into Pennsylvania and south-central New York. Energy companies have referred to the Marcellus Shale, estimated to contain between 200 and 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, as a “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Texas oil- and gas-millionaire T. Boone Pickens has suggested using this new surfeit of energy to help wean the US off foreign oil, turning it into vehicle fuel.

(Natural gas currently supplies the US with 20 percent of its electricity needs.

Viewed as a “clean” alternative to coal—coal provides 50 percent of US electricity—natural gas is expected to supplant coal as the majority electricity supplier in the US by 2034.)

Not only is the Marcellus Shale (in addition to other shale deposits across the US) seen as a possible answer to our dependence on foreign oil, in rural communities, it’s seen as economic salvation. Proponents of drilling in New York claim that Pennsylvania, where hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale is underway, has created over 40,000 jobs and had a positive economic impact of almost $2 billion.

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be able to afford to stay on their land in an increasing difficult economic climate.

The environmental problems associated with fracking, however, have led critics of the procedure to wage a campaign which has stalled approval of drilling in NewYork. State legislators are currently considering two bills that would enshrine the de facto moratorium on fracking in law. The first bill would delay fracking for at least a year, and the other would predicate any approval be based upon the release of a study by the Environmental Protection Agency into how natural gas drilling processes affect drinking water supplies. At year’s end, the NewYork State Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to release its own set of guidelines on gas drilling.

Natural gas drilling isn’t new in New York; there are 13,000 active wells in the state. Critics claim, however, that fracking is fundamentally different from regular gas drilling. The intensive fracking process requires millions of gallons of water, and uses a proprietary mixture of chemicals that contain many known volatile organic compounds. A study by ProPublica has documented more than 1,000 cases of groundwater contamination from fracking.

Part of the reason that fracking exists at all dates back to 2005, when Vice-President Dick Cheney crafted the Halliburton Loophole, which was then inserted with little fanfare into that year’s energy bill.The Halliburton Loophole authorizes oil and gas drillers, exclusively, to inject known hazardous materials directly into, or adjacent to, underground drinking water supplies, bypassing the regulations required by the Clean Water Act, the Clean Water Drinking Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Superfund.

In June of last year, two identical bills—the FRAC Act—were introduced to both the US House and the Senate. FRAC stands for Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act. The House bill was introduced by Diana Degette (D-CO), Jared Polis (D-CO), and Maurice Hinchey (D-NY).These bills are designed to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate hydraulic fracturing and require the energy industry to reveal what chemicals it uses in the process.

The debate about how and whether to extract natural gas from deep underground, and the environmental toll of hydraulic fracturing is the backdrop for Gasland, a film by Josh Fox that was shown on HBO on June 21. Fox travels through 25 states during the course of the film, meeting homeowners who’ve leased their land for hydraulic fracturing. Most can see the wells from their front porches.

Amazingly, some of the people can set fire to their tap water, due to—among other carcinogens and neurotoxins—natural gas leaking into their water supply.

Some complain of neurological ailments, some of respiratory conditions. Most conspicuously, in the town of Dimock, Pennsylvania, 50 miles from Fox’s home,

scenes from gasland: mike markham lights tap water on fire in his home, near fort lupton, colorado. markham leased his land for natural gas drilling to an energy company that used hydraulic fracturing to extract the gas. shortly after drilling began, markham’s water was severely contaminated with natural gas, which rendered it undrinkable and highly flammable.

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state officials permanently shut down some wells run by Cabot Oil and Gas and fined the company $250,000, in addition to providing drinking water in perpetuity for 14 families whose water was ruined by drilling.

I spoke with Josh Fox in late June, as he was barnstorming across Pennsylvania and New York to build support for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.

On July 17, at 7:30pm the Woodstock Film Festival will present a screening of Gasland at Onteora High School in Boiceville. Tickets are $5 at the door. A discussion with director Josh Fox and Rep. Maurice Hinchey will following the screening. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com; www.gaslandthemovie.com.

How did you first get involved with the issue of hydraulic fracturing and come to make Gasland?

We got a letter in the mail about leasing our land for gas drilling, and I started to look into it.The narrative from the gas industry was very different from the story I was hearing from the environmental groups in my area. I was wondering what the truth was, as it seemed to be the future of our land on the line.

So I went to a nearby town where fracking was taking place, Dimock, and I found the whole place was a disaster. Water contamination left people feeling extremely betrayed, confused, and the children getting sick. The water tests I saw were very disturbing, with quantities of natural gas in the water capable of being lit on fire. There were also heavy metals in the water. The big impression I got, back in 2009 before there was a lot of reporting on Dimock, was of a place that had almost been erased from the map.The people were afraid and had no idea who to trust. The atmosphere of fear was palpable because they had been overrun and they weren’t getting any help. They were very frustrated with the Department of Environmental Protection and they felt that there was very little recourse for them to undo the damage to their homes and their water supply. The residents are currently engaged in a class-action lawsuit.

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The State of Pennsylvania fined one of the energy companies $250,000 for fracking-related violations in Dimock. Has the drilling stopped there?

No, the drilling has not stopped. The drilling has doubled. One company was partially shut down for a time, but other companies keep drilling.

Are there other instances of drilling close to your home?

In my area, in the Upper Delaware River Basin, there are exploratory wells that have been allowed to go in. Currently in my county,Wade County, there is drilling.

The process is starting and it’s very upsetting.

In NewYork, there is a moratorium bill that is very close to passage in the State Senate, and that’s because of the disaster that is unfolding around the country.

Why is the Marcellus Shale so important to protect from hydraulic fracturing?

The Marcellus Shale is 50 percent of New York State, 65 percent of Pennsylvania.

If they were to develop the Marcellus Shale to the degree to which the industry is proposing, there would be a wholesale redefinition of NewYork and of Pennsylvania. New York State’s chief industries currently are agriculture and tourism. Both of those industries would be decimated by fracking.

The other reason why it’s so important is because there are so many people near the proposed drilling. This is a wholesale invasion of drilling companies in that area with a process, hydraulic fracturing, which has never been proven safe and has a disastrous track record across the US. It’s unconscionable to me that state governments permit this process without really thorough ecological and health studies. There should be a five-year moratorium while the government conducts ecological and health studies.

If the health studies you suggest came out five years from now stating that hydraulic fracturing was safe, would you give it your blessing?

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Protesters against hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, a method of extracting natural gas, take part in a demonstration in Albany on January 25, 2010.

I think that’s a rather far-fetched hypothetical question. The industry sells fracking as a very sophisticated, high-tech process, but it’s basically brute force and a huge number of toxic chemicals pumped under the ground. In the current state of hydraulic fracturing, we know that it’s incredibly contaminating.

You visit many towns with fracking wells in the movie. They all seem to have problems. Did you visit anywhere that wasn’t experiencing problems related to hydraulic fracturing?

No, I didn’t. In fact, I’ve put out a challenge to the industry: If you’ve got a town where there are 100 wells or more and everything’s going fine, and everybody’s rich and happy, and there aren’t water contamination issues and air pollution problems, take me to that town. So far, no response.

The gas industry refused to sit down with us during the entire year and a half we were making the film.

What were the people like who you interviewed for the film?

The resilience and character of people that I found was remarkable to me. First of all, they’re cornered; they have no options, no way out. When your property is unsalable because of water contamination, you’re trapped. You have to make the best of what’s in front of you. What I found was so unbelievably moving about the people featured in the film was that they had found a way to think about their situation that was very articulate and clear, and not angry.

If we don’t frack today, we may end up fracking tomorrow, when easier stores of gas are gone.

The natural gas industry has forced us all into a very difficult conversation. We have a problem on our hands, and we need to look at it in a sophisticated way, and not one that says, “We’re going to pulverize the landscape and contaminate at will in order to get our energy.” We have to look at a shift to renewable energy, which is not only possible but absolutely necessary. We have to look at an energy profile that combines renewables and conservation to address the problem, because we’re

talking about the water supply. Once you contaminate an aquifer, you can’t go back. We know we’re going to need water forever.

We’re not here to talk about energy solutions. We’re here to talk about gas company profits. They’re allowed to make a buck off of natural gas because they’re forcing us to pay for the cleanup.

Now that you’ve made Gasland and it’s been shown on HBO, what would you like the movie to achieve?

I’m hopeful that this will help effect change. It’s not just me who’s getting this right now. When I first started making the film, there was very little consciousness of the issue in the East. In the West they knew all about it, but they weren’t getting the kind of media attention the problem merited. In the last year and a half, there are hundreds of grassroots organizations that are springing up all over New York State and Pennsylvania. People are enormously concerned, and not just because of the film but because of the thorough research that’s documenting what’s happening in 34 states.

Think about what’s happening in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s very easy to see what’s happening in the Gulf—there’s a camera down there. But when chemicals are being released underground, you don’t have those kind of stunning visuals. And natural gas wells have lots of blowouts. There are 450,000 wells in America right now and there are blowouts every day.

We’re at a stage right now where we’ve seen so many problems with fracking that there needs to be moratorium. With the water supply on the line, we have to employ the precautionary principle. As my good friend Victoria Sweitzer [a resident of Dimock, whose water was contaminated by fracking] is fond of saying, “We have to hit pause, because there is no rewind.”

The natural gas industry has done a mind-boggling job of promoting gas as clean energy. It’s not clean energy. It’s a dirty fossil fuel that contaminates when it’s extracted and the hydraulic fracturing process is so labor intensive and vents off so much gas into the atmosphere, it’s debatable as to whether or not natural gas is cleaner than coal.

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

The paralysis of sanity

It’s the astonishment of helplessness.

The inertia of rigor mortis.

The inability to act on the firm grasp of the obvious.

The paralysis of sanity.

The relentless march of oblivious stupidity.

The inaction of the many.

The magnificent recalcitrance of a miniscule minority.

Never have so few made so much money from the political paralysis of the multitude. Never have so many of the few been the last people in the world to deserve to get rich.

Oil. Drill, baby, drill! Spill, baby, spill!

Did you know that BP is only the world’s 19th-largest oil company?

The biggest is the Saudi Arabia Oil Company. A very close second is the national oil company of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Then there are the national oil companies of Iraq, Venezuela, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Nigeria, Libya, and Algeria. Numbers 11, 12, and 15 are Russian oil companies. Exxon/Mobil is number 17.

Oil unbalances the politics of the entire world.

In 1953, the CIA overthrew the democratic government of Iran in order to stop them from nationalizing part of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which later became BP.The war in Afghanistan, the Russian conflict with Georgia, the civil war in the Sudan, all are at least partially motivated by oil interests.We are still mired in a war in Iraq that was, largely, about oil.

Oil finances some of the world’s most oppressive regimes. It leads to monumental levels of corruption.

American politics is grotesquely distorted by oil interests, oil money, and oil lobbyists.

One third of our trade deficit is from oil.

That’s been the case, give or take a few points, for at least a quarter of a century.

Our fundamental economic problem—the one that underlies everything else—is that we are no longer a production economy. We are a consumption economy.

This is guaranteed to become disastrous at some point. Our immediate economic problem is a scarcity of jobs.

Pumping oil and burning oil hurt the environment. There are huge downstream costs. Damage to health and to other business that are not paid for when we pay for the oil, but are paid for by the people who are injured by it.

The BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a very dramatic example. In this case, BP will pay a great deal for the damage done. But that devastation is dwarfed by the damage that oil spills have done in Nigeria. Nigeria is a third-world country. It’s weak and it’s the seventh most corrupt country in the world, mostly from oil money. They’ve collected next to nothing, the spills keep on spilling, 28 news & politics ChronograM 7/10

and the oil companies, Exxon/Mobil and Shell, among them, are doing next to nothing to stop them.

The solution to all of these problems is domestic production of energy from nonoil sources.

Solar, wind, tidal, and geothermal are the top choices.

Nuclear is more problematic. France gets 70 percent of its electrical power from nuclear plants. Switzerland gets 40 percent, and Japan gets 34.5 percent.

The difference is that those are countries where the people trust their institutions—government, businesses, and unions—and, relatively speaking, they are right to do so. As much as the Swiss, for example, love money—and they do, oh they do—I have trouble seeing Swiss regulators being bought off, wholesale, with sex and cocaine in a sauce of free market ideology, to let safety regulations slide. If a French worker in a nuclear power plant wants to slow things down or even shut the plant for safety reasons, his union will back him.

In America, I’d expect such a person to be fired. As happened to the supervisors who warned of danger in the BP drilling rig explosion in the Gulf. And the Japanese—in spite of this hiccup with Toyota—have a well-documented reputation for meticulous manufacturing and business practices.

It’s hard to trust American corporations. It’s hard to trust that American regulators wont be bought off. It’s hard to believe that American politicians who take money from corporations won’t put pressure on regulators to go easy on business. It’s hard to imagine that workers will risk their jobs for the public good or that they’ll have unions that will give them the strength to do so. The real problem with nuclear power is a cultural one. If we recognize it, we can solve it. If we pretend it doesn’t exist, we can’t. With that proviso, it should be on the table.

To production, we should add conservation of energy and energy efficiency.

This ranges from better insulation to better transportation to rebuilding our power grids. All of these are infrastructure intensive. They’re about building things. Instead of burning money (in the form of oil), we are investing money. Instead of sending money down a pipeline to oppressive and corrupt regimes—some of them, at times, our enemies, financers and supporters of terrorists—we will, of necessity, spend it on American jobs.

President Obama has just called, in his moderate way, to at least begin to do that. He has firmly grasped the obvious. But, as reported on the June 16 “Daily Show,” George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Billy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon all called for us to “end our dependence on foreign oil.” Eight presidents in a row gave stirring speeches, swearing to solve the problem. (Apparently “The Daily Show” is the only organization capable of looking back in the files.)

So why hasn’t it been done?

It’s the astonishment of helplessness.

The inertia of rigor mortis.

The paralysis of sanity…

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A Conversation with John Anthony West

Courtesy of R. Schoch

The Sacred Science of the Ancients

By Jason Stern

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John Anthony West is a Hudson Valley resident who is known internationally as a maverick Egyptologist. He won an Emmy for his 1993 documentary “Mystery of the Sphinx,” which brought forth the controversial theory that the Great Sphinx of Giza is much older than previously thought, as evidenced by water erosion on its surface. I interviewed West upon his return from an archaeological visit to Turkey.

It’s a pleasure to see you. Welcome back.

I thank you, Jason. Turkey was extremely enjoyable—hot, but cool.

Tell me what brought you to Turkey.

My geologist colleague, Robert Schoch, and I, more or less invited ourselves to this amazing place that’s been getting a certain amount of press, particularly in Europe—less so here—called Goebekli Tepe, which is in southeastern Turkey, some 40 or 50 miles north of the border with Syria. What’s interesting about this place: It’s, in my view, arguably one of the most spectacular archaeological finds of the last century, or really, in a sense, ever. It’s a hill, or it’s on a hill. It turns out that the hill is, as far as anyone knows, entirely artificial. The site is only about 5 percent excavated at the moment. The work’s being done by a very meticulous German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt. What’s been found so far are four or five stone circles, like mini Stonehenges, each circle comprised of two massive, between 10 and 15-ton central stone pillars, and surrounded by two concentric circles of smaller pillars. The pillars themselves are decorated with exquisite high relief, the most difficult kind of carving. You have to carve away the rest of the pillar to leave whatever is carved jutting out from it. There are all kinds of animals—wild boar, foxes, cranes, an incredible lizard—and some of the pillars are anthropomorphic. They’re huge ,T-shaped slabs with arms and hands integrated into the form, as though they’re stone men.

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How big is the site?

The inner circle is maybe 50 feet; the outer circle, maybe 60, something like that.

The circles are placed very near to each other where they don’t quite interlock, but they’re very closely packed. It’s known that there are at least 22 subsites.

Whether or not they’re all circles yet, nobody knows. But the most spectacular part of it, from our point of view, is the dating, which is done in part through carbon dating of material around these circles, which were completely, and deliberately, covered over around 8,000 BC. How do we know that they were deliberately covered over?

Because the material that’s packed around them has to have been put there. It couldn’t have accumulated there. This is an archaeological conclusion backed up from a number of different points of view. The dating is done, some of it by carbon dating organic material within this fill, and some of it by geologists and geophysicists analyzing what are called microstalactites forming on the stone pillars themselves. When they get covered over, they get moist, and they form tiny crystals, and those can be dated; they contain organic material. This is the clincher: Schmidt dates those pillars to at least 10,000 BCE. What’s the significance of the dating?

These dates, from an archaeological point of view, are absolutely shattering. They completely destroy the reigning paradigm of when and how sophisticated civilization began, because normally it’s thought that real civilization in our sense, sophisticated architecture—carving, painting, et cetera—dates from around 3,000 or 3,500 BCE; that it developed coevally in Egypt and Sumeria and China and probably in Mesoamerica. Before that, there were simple Neolithic settlements that produced rough pottery, combs, fish hooks, spears—little things like that. Before

that, it’s all hunter-gatherers.This paradigm has been chipped away at over the last 15, 20 years or so, but there’s been nothing like a sophisticated site discovered.

But Goebekli Tepe is such a site?

Putting up a 10- or 15-ton block of stone, and carefully orienting it, is not the work of hunter-gatherers; or rather, these are very smart hunter-gatherers who can wrestle around 15-ton blocks of stone. And the carvings on them are spectacular. They’re reminiscent a bit of the Maya and also of much later but early Dynastic Egypt. They’re really elegant. But at 10,000 BCE! This means the current theories have got it all wrong. It was already highly developed at 10,000 BCE. Subsequently, for reasons that we absolutely don’t understand, civilization degenerated until it again rose with the onset of these major civilizations that we’re all familiar with—Sumeria, Egypt, China, et cetera.

In my reading about Goebekli Tepe, the assumptions were that these were hunter-gatherers, but they happened to build a nice temple.

[Laughs] Yeah, well…10- to 15-ton blocks of stone that they were bringing from a half mile away, up the hill.

It’s assumed that they were slave drivers, that this is the only way that they could have done it, and that the whole complex was a primitive temple of some kind.

Yes, it’s definitely a ceremonial site. Schoch and I believe that, in all likelihood, the animals and birds and figures that are carved there have an astronomical significance. This notion is based on that seminal book written in the late ‘60s by the two MIT historians of science, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, called Hamlet’s Mill. Their main contention is that ancient myth and legend from around the world contains exact and extensive astronomical references. In other words, those much-maligned myths are not colorful attempts by primitives to account for the mysterious universe around them; rather, they are ingenious means of transmitting exact science through stories.

So what’s at stake here is an extraordinarily advanced civilization. They didn’t have pottery, as far as we know. They didn’t have a written language, as far as we know. But they could carve hard stone, in their own way, quite as well as Michelangelo or Rodin. These things are brilliant.

What do the carvings mean?

One of the lessons derived from Hamlet’s Mill is that when ancient legends refer to “gods,” those are planets, and when they talk about or refer to “animals,” they mean stars and constellations.

Schoch and I think that the astronomical context, if we can figure out what that is, may tell us why which animal is on which pillar and so on. It’s complicated. But as soon as you have astronomy involved, you know that even if people are hunting and gathering their food, they’re not primitives. They’re busy encoding astronomical information into a fairly sizable stone structure. It may be that before too long, somebody is going to start getting a sense of what their cosmology is like.

How does all this connect with your work in Egypt?

I’ve been studying and writing about symbolist Egypt for—what?—35, 40 years now. I developed the theory that the Great Sphinx was much, much older than it’s supposed to be, based upon a single observation made by the genius with the unpronounceable name R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. He noted in one of his books that you can actually calculate the date that the ancient Egyptians ascribed to the beginnings of their own civilization. It’s somewhere around 34,000 or 36,000 BCE, which is unthinkable to an academic Egyptologist.

When Egyptologists read that, they think they’re just exaggerating?

They think they’re just nuts and that they’re inventing things, as if modern-day archaeologists or Egyptologists know more about ancient Egyptian history than the ancient Egyptians, which is typical of “quackademic” arrogance.

How does Goebekli Tepe support your view?

The main point of Goebekli Tepe, from our point of view, is the dating, because our work—backtracking, going back to Schwaller—is the observation that the Great Sphinx of Giza has been very severely weathered by rainwater, not by wind and sand. We presented our evidence at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting back in ’91. It was unanimously accepted by the dozens of geologists attending our presentation but was met by fury from the Egyptologists and the archaeologists.

The controversy’s lurched on over all of these years without, let’s say, the smoking gun that we needed to establish the theory once and for all. But now Goebekli Tepe—that’s our smoking gun. One of the arguments always raised against us, was that it’s all hunter-gatherers back then, so how could the Sphinx be that much older than anything else we regard as sophisticated civilization? We had no major answer to that, certainly nothing visually exciting. Now we have it, since nobody is arguing about the dating of Goebekli Tepe.

The question is, what’s the importance of this dating in terms of our collective worldview, our sense of our history?

What it means for civilization in general, this is a big question. It’s not just a quibble about dating or about chronology. Who really cares if it’s 10,000 BC E or 3,000 BCE? How does that affect our daily lives? What’s at stake actually is the story of civilization itself and what civilization actually entails. Because now, every time you turn on the television, or every time you read the front page of the newspaper, it’s clear that we’re living at the end of a civilization— certainly the end of something.

Now, our educational system inculcates in us the notion that we are the most advanced human beings that ever existed on the face of the Earth. No one has ever learned anything different at any contemporary Western school. We’re at the top of the evolutionary totem pole, with our hydrogen bombs and our Disneyland and our striped toothpaste and our Wal-Marts—this is the best we’ve ever done. That notion is the central dogma of what may be the silliest and most sinister religion yet invented: I call it the Church of Progress Actually, we don’t even need Goebekli Tepe or the Sphinx to know better.You only have to walk into the cathedral at Chartres, for example, to know that this is not the case. There were periods in human history when somebody knew something that, from an emotional point of view and also actually from a technological point of view, is pretty staggering.

If the prevailing paradigm is this notion of a linear development that started slowly, then accelerated, all in one direction, what does it mean if that is not true?

When this is pushed back into ancient Egypt and it’s understood through the symbolist interpretation for what it actually is, this whole scenario of everything going from primitive cavemen to hunter-gatherers to smart old us has to be thrown out the window. We see that extremely advanced beings lived way, way, way back when, and if we again extrapolate—we can’t do this yet with Goebekli Tepe—but if it’s fair to assume that whatever the spiritual doctrine that prevailed in Egypt and in China and in India, and all of these other places, was also prevalent when Goebekli Tepe went up in 10,000 BCE, then we take an entirely different view of our own human existence, of our past and also potentially of our future. So that instead of it being just a scholarly quibble, it is actually something that profoundly challenges the reigning philosophical view, which is solidly materialistic and rationalistic. In other words, you talk to a Darwinian devotee about the meaning of life, and they will laugh at you. But when you can point to these extraordinary civilizations, and realize that they go way, way back—that their bizarre gods and irrational legends actually represent the interplay of cosmic principles, that they enshrine exact science, and that it all dates from almost unimaginable antiquity—we realize that history is not what we’ve been taught. This can be a major element, at least potentially, for positive change. Everything can be changed, individually and collectively.

So there’s more than superstition here, there’s lost knowledge relating to both the cosmos and the psyche, and we need to find it.

Oh, yeah, but it’s actually already been done. It’s there. It’s there through the work of Schwaller de Lubicz, through Gurdjieff, through Hindu and Vedic philosophy, ancient China. It’s all there for us. It’s just not taught in schools, or in universities for that matter. These ancient great civilizations stand as models for us, actually. And in fact, apart from its incorrect chronology, our Church of Progress has grievously misrepresented history. In order to understand it, you can ignore most of the historians, all of whom have their own agendas, and simply look at what these ancient civilizations have produced. You can say, as a rule of thumb, that a civilization can be judged very objectively by what it does with its creative energies.

If you look at Egypt—which is particularly interesting since there’s so much of it left to experience—Egypt is a single-issue civilization. All of it— anyway, all that remains of it—is consecrated to the immortality of the soul.

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Rather different from our current culture.

Right. You look at where our own creative energy goes, probably 60 percent of it, if not more, goes into weapons of mass destruction or military something, one way or another. Probably another 30 or 35 percent goes into frivolity, into Hollywood and Disneyland. And maybe 8 or 10 percent actually goes into real science, medicine, things that are genuinely useful. But almost none of it is directed toward the development of the soul, the development of any spiritual discipline. From my point of view, without that, there is no civilization; it’s just progress, which I describe as “shiny barbarism.”

What do the ancient civilizations say is the purpose of life, and human life in particular?

Really, it’s probably best expressed in a contemporary context by Gurdjieff: his pupil J. G. Bennett called it The Theory of Reciprocal Maintenance. In the simplest terms: If we human beings don’t do our job (call it striving for immortality) the whole planet, and probably the solar system and all the rest, is affected one way or another. We have a job to do, and that job involves us acquiring a level of consciousness we’re not born with. If we look around us in the chaos of today, it is self-evident that the vast majority of us are unaware that such a possibility even exists. Unfortunately, that unawareness is particularly prevalent in many who call themselves “religious.”

So what can we learn from direct contact with these ancient cultures?

Two weeks in Egypt, and you understand it viscerally. Egypt is like sex: You

can read all about it; you can even look at pictures. But until you experience it, you understand nothing. You do not have to be religious to understand the truth of “By their fruits you shall know them.” So two weeks in Egypt and, unless you are emotionally retarded and spiritually dyslexic, you came to understand what a true functioning civilization once was like. And you also understand that we have nothing remotely like it on the face of the Earth at the moment.

But once you’re there, bombarded day after day with one masterpiece after another, and once it’s explained via Schwaller’s “Symbolist” interpretation, it all makes a luminous sense. After a trip there, you know something that you might have suspected but, you’ve had it proved to you: We are more, much more than our material bodies, a chance conglomeration of molecules. The ancients understood this very well and built their civilizations upon that understanding. We are always taught that they were obsessed with death and trapped in a bizarre, superstitious, religious doctrine. But understood correctly, it was not so much religion as science, a “sacred” science of cosmic principles, directed toward the development and ultimate immortality of the soul.

Florence Nightingale visited Egypt back in 1849 and wrote perceptively back to her friends and family in England, “One wonders that people can come back from Egypt and live lives the way they lived them before.”

Join Chronogram and John AnthonyWest for a lecture and slide presentation on Egypt and Goebekli Tepe in August, at BEAHIVE in Kingston. Subscribe to the 8-Day-Week enewsletter on www.chronogram.com for particulars.

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astern Dutchess County is beyond a doubt some of the loveliest territory in all New York. Rolling farmlands stroke the senses, speaking of many long decades of collaboration between the land and its inhabitants, punctuated by long-range mountain views. If the stunning landscape were all the neighborhood had to offer, that would be plenty.

But this particular swath of glorious countryside has long been at the north end of the Harlem Valley rail line, allowing a cross-pollination with Manhattan and points worldwide that’s fertilized these bucolic view-sheds with a wildflower mix of intense creativity. And today, that rail line—turned rail trail— has become connective tissue for the downtowns of Amenia and Millerton, two world-class communities quietly bursting at the seams with endeavors, innovations, and optimism.

“My husband and I moved to Millerton 30 years ago because it had a bookstore,” says Lisa Wright, a manager at Oblong Books, the warmly and fiercely independent bookstore that’s been a Main Street fixture for 35 years. “A bookstore means something—that there are curious, thinking people around.

This place, the movie theater, Irving Farm [coffee house]; over the years we’ve watched it go from being an agricultural town to an area with a lot more second-home owners. It’s been fascinating to watch the changes, even the ones that seem negative at first—dairy farms go under, but truck farms and horse farms come in. We get a huge influx of people moving in after 9/11—and the arts and business communities explode with their distinctive innovations. Millerton has become a much more interesting downtown to walk around.”

“We have an enviable Main Street,” says Millerton Business Association founding member Marta Reynolds. “It’s really evolved. About seven years ago, a bunch of people came along and saw the potential in a bunch of dusty, unused buildings, and said ‘Let’s do the work here.’ It turned into fabulous shops, and the world started coming. I can’t believe I was lucky enough to happen to move here. Art Frommer [publisher of Budget Travel] called us one of the 10 coolest small towns in America—we revel in that and earn it every day.”

“Our business district has gone from a sweet little fading town to an upand-coming, thriving, place and Marta’s responsible for a whole lot of that,” says Jenny Hansell, director of the Northeast Community Center (NECC) in Millerton. “She bought that inn [Simmons Way] a few years ago, and ever since, she’s been out walking around with her dog, talking to people, putting things together, solving problems.”

The NECC began as the North East Community Council in the late'80s, beginning with a program for at-risk teens and a Care Car that got seniors safely to their medical appointments, and has expanded to coordinating a wide range of community programs and services. Tentacles of collaboration extend every which way—Gilmor Glass Works, Reynolds tells me, sponsors teens from the NECC as glass-blowing interns. The arts community has a variety of festivities planned—including one to coincide with the Bike New York Harlem Valley Rail Ride on July 25. “That’s how I first got involved,” recalls Reynolds. “I was helping plan the Ride and somebody asked me if I could find a couple of firemen who could cook. I found more than that—I found a world of camaraderie.”

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He is assisted by his teacher, Gilmor employee Dean Smiley.

Along with Oblong Books, downtown Millerton boasts its own indie cinema, The Movie House, offering fare ranging from the highbrow and subtitled to Adam Sandler and a red-carpet party for the latest offering in the Twilight series. A thriving farm market bursts with local produce every weekend. Irving Farm Coffee Roasters, an outgrowth of a Manhattan coffee shop, roasts its carefully selected beans here in a vintage carriage house and serves the results to a grateful local populace; Millerton has been a good place for Irving Farms, and plans for a new green roasting facility are in the works.

Creativity and Isolation Amenia, a scant and pretty 15 minutes down the road (should one opt for car rather than rail trail), has its own nascent farmers’ market—and its own wealth of destinations for all tastes. Its name translates from the Latin as “pleasant to the eye.”

“I live right in between—I get my mail in Amenia and I vote in Millerton,” says official town artist Elizabeth Tilly Strauss, a 24-year resident of the farm her grandfather bought many decades earlier. “They’re both exciting places for me right now. There are a lot of creatives drawn by the beauty and isolation, and the economic meltdown is bringing us out of the woodwork. The creativity is on every level. The new diner is serving all local ingredients, and they’re being really careful to find a niche that won’t take away from existing places.

And we have a huge group of artists, people who had never met coming out and working and talking together. We throw up random shows in vacant real estate. We help each other.

“I’m excited by a lot that’s going on—you should see the Wassaic Project.

It’s these three amazing women who’ve taken over the old Maxon Mill and they’re fixing up this ornate old schoolhouse for a place for artists’ residencies.

We have 11 artists coming from Berlin in August—there’s just so much going on. People from their twenties to their sixties, seventies—just pursuing their dreams, right out there in the open.”

Indeed, there would seem to be some ingredient in the air around here that smoothes the path from dream to reality. It was in Amenia that Lewis Mumford lived and wrote and raised his family, developing seminal ideas about the relationships between people and communities. “Mumford offered a hopeful vision of an advanced technological society in which wholeness, balance, and respect for multiple sources of creativity were central to building sociotechnical patterns,” wrote his friend Langdorn Winner in a meditation on the resale of the Mumford family home, which Mumford and his wife called “the Great Good Place.”

In Amenia, acclaimed chef Serge Madikian has created Serevan, a restaurant that has swept the gamut of foodie awards and won lyrical raves when its opening. Madikian, a student of history and philosophy as well as gastronomic excellence, would seem to have created a cuisine and an ambiance that are nothing short of transformational, working timeless Mediterranean and Middle Eastern magic on fresh local foodstuffs.

It was in Amenia that a group of citizens formed Imagine Amenia, speaking up for open government and open space—and their vision has clearly informed the dialogue that has shaped the process of change in the region. A major new development, Silo Ridge, has built solid community support for their “environmentally friendly residential community and resort,” to include 297 condominiums, 41 single-family homes, and a resort condominium-hotel with a total of 300 units, a conference center, spa and wellness center, among other amenities. The project will preserve 80 percent open space and provide a wastewater treatment plant, a projected 2,000 construction jobs, and 1,200 7/10 ChronograM millerton + amenia 37

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The harmonious convergence of beauty, transit, and creativity that seems to rule this corner of the world has drawn thriving, large-scale spiritual centers to each of the two towns. Amenia is home to the World Peace Prayer Society; down the road in Millerton, Buddhafield will be hosting Lama Shyalpa Rinpoche for a two-day teaching July 24 and 25. Originating in the Sutras, the concept of a Buddhafield is “an environment in which all conditions are perfectly conducive to spiritual practice and in which to gain Enlightenment.”

Perhaps all that enlightenment is contagious; perhaps the mischievous spirit of Lewis Mumford is casting a protective shadow. But there does seem to be a common positive thread in the way folks in this area conduct their affairs.

“Our residents help make it a wonderful place to live,” says Amenia Supervisor Wayne Euvrard. “We have a great community spirit, many volunteers and we always rise to the occasion if someone needs assistance. I notice that many neighboring communities have trouble filling volunteer positions—planning board, zoning board, et cetera. Here in Amenia we always have to interview, because so many citizens come forward.” Three local hair salons are donating hair to help soak up the Gulf oil spill. Jack’s Auto Repair, a staple of Route 22, takes pride in customer education and community involvement. Proprietor Jack Gregory was selected NAPA/ASE Technician of the Year in 2009, from a field of 400,000.

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tions all wanting to make Millerton the best place it can be, and the arguments are about means, not ends. I’ve been here 10 years, and I came from Brooklyn. It might sound odd, but this community reminds me of Brooklyn in one way—the level of public engagement. Whether you’re talking about the Lions Club or the American Legion, the library, the PTO, the arts community—there are an amazing number of avenues to come together. It contradicts the stereotype of the modern world—the community’s so vibrant, it’s amazing.”

RESOURCES Buddhafield www.shyalparinpoche.org Gilmor Glass Works www.gilmorglass.com Harlem Valley Rail Trail www.hvrt.org Imagine Amenia www.imagineamenia.org Irving Farm Coffee House www.irvingfarm.com The Movie House www.themoviehouse.net Northeast Community Center www.neccmillerton.org Oblong Books www.oblongbooks.com Simmon’s Way www.simmonsway.com Town of Amenia www.ameniany.gov Village of Millerton www.villageofmillerton.com The Wassaic Project www.wassaicproject.com World Peace Prayer Society www.worldpeace.org

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William Steig, Untitled Drawing (Swatting Flies) Cover illustration for The New Yorker, August 14, 2000, Ink and watercolor on paper “william steig: love and laughter� will be exhibited through october 31 at the norman rockwell museum.

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Laurie Hogin, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Diorama with Rozerem and Black Alligators), oil on canvas. Part of “Beastiary,” through July 25 at Maxon Mills in Wassiac.

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“Dots, Lines and Figures.” Paintings by Jeff Briggs and Ben Shecter, works in mixed media by Donise English, and the bronze sculptures of Michael McLaughlin. Through July 5.

“Summer Group Show.” New works by David Konigsberg, Joseph Maresca, Monica Mechling and Shawn Snow. July 8-August 8.

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“Lependorf & Shire: Field of View.” Through July 31.

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

“Works by Phillippe Parreno.” Through December 19.

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“Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny.” Works by Andrew Neumann. Through August 29.

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JOIE DE LIVRES GALLERY 19 MAIN STREET, SALISBURY, CONNECTICUT (860) 248-0530.

“Berenice Abbott: Portraits & Places.” Photography exhibition. Through July 31.

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

“Rooted: A Tribute to the American Farm.” Through July 18.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON kmoca.org.

“Facing the System.” New paintings by Tona Wilson on the theme of immigrants in the legal and prison systems. July 3-31.

Opening Saturday, July 3, 5pm-7pm.

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

“Markings: Clay and Ink.” Jeff Shapiro and Noriko Maeda. Through August 1.

MAXWELL FINE ARTS 1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-8622.

“Guardians/Watchers/Warders.” New sculpture in cement by Jo-Ann Brody. Through October 17.

“Works in Progress.” William C. Maxwell. Through October 17.

MERRITT BOOKSTORE 57 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 758-2665.

“Lens and Brush.” Natural year in photographs & paintings by Ellen Stockdale-Wolfe. July 5-October 31.

Opening Saturday, July 10, 6pm-8pm.

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MILL STREET LOFT’S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

“Elizabeth Dama the Studio: Art Installation & Retrospective 1975-2010.” Through July 10.

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

“Moments of Longing.” Solo exhibit by Mimi Czajka Graminski. Through July 27.

MOUNT TREMPER ARTS 647 S. PLANK ROAD, MOUNT TREMPER 688-9893.

“Seven Summits.” July 10-August 15.

Opening Friday, July 16, 6pm-9pm.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090.

“Myths of the Near Future.” Group show. Through July 17.

“Terra Firma.” Photographs by Victoria Sambunaris. July 31-September 4.

Opening Saturday, July 31, 6pm-8pm.

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

“Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica.” Through October 31.

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

“Roger Mason: Oil Paintings.” July 4-28.

Opening Sunday, July 11, 3pm-5pm.

ONE MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035.

“Josh Vogel: New Works.” Through July 31.

PALENVILLE BRANCH LIBRARY 3335 ROUTE 23A, PALENVILLE (518) 678-3357.

“Palenville Photography Club Group Show.” Through August 31.

PARK ROW GALLERY 2 PARK ROW, CHATHAM (518) 392-4800.

“Light and Astigmatism.” Solo exhibition of oil paintings by Roger Mason. Through July 31.

PIERMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY 25 FLYWHEEL PARK WEST, PIERMONT 359-4595.

“Works by James Kimak.” Giclee prints, original paintings, drawings and photographs. Through July 31.

POSIE KVIAT GALLERY 437 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (917) 456-7496.

“Jason Baerg: New Paintings.” Through July 19.

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“Paintings by Michael Davidson.” Through July 30.

RED EFT GALLERY 159 SULLIVAN STreet, WURTSBORO 888-2519.

“Outside Inside.” Works by 17 artists. Through July 24.

Opening Saturday, July 3, 6pm-8pm.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Robert Louis Ferrucci: New Directions.” Through July 5.

Roos Arts 449 Main Street, Rosendale (718) 755-4726 www.roosarts.com “Made in Rosendale (and nearby...)” Through September 11.

Opening Friday July 23, 6pm - 8pm.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.

“Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises.” Through July 25.

THE SMALL GALLERY AT VALLEY ARTISANS MARKET 25 EAST MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE (518) 677-2765.

“Fiber Art Sculpture by Julie Branch.” Through July 18.

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“Bears, Bunnies, Beavers and Other Things.” Lora Shelley and Zoya Geacintov. Through August 1.

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“John Yerger: Master of Trompe L’oeil.” Trompe L’oeil paintings of American and European masters.

Through July 12.

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“Work by Ann Marshall.” Through August 12.

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“Peaceful Nature.” Watercolor and ink paintings by Roberta Rosenthal. Through August 14.

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“Words and Images.” Works by Cheryl Noelle. Through August 14.

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“Kat Capillino.” Mixed media, collage, ink, gouache, watercolor, and acrylic on paper. July 17-August 13.

Opening Friday, August 13, 6pm-8pm.

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005.

“7th Anniversary Exhibit.” Through July 4.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.

“Arts for Ulster Collaborative Exhibition and Fundraiser.” 50 artists, 50 works, 50 great causes.

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Music

by peter aaron

Home, Again Club Helsinki They certainly built this place to last. Tall, solid, unshakeable brick walls.

Sturdy, heavy, local wood. Grand, soaring ceilings in the front wing, with massive windows that soak the space in sun. They were William I. Traver and his son,William H. Traver, who constructed the two-story building as Traver’s Sash, Blind, and Door factory. The elder Traver had started the business on the site in 1842 as a modest carriage shop and in 1851 expanded it to include a lumberyard, before the family finally built the present structure in 1863.

Standing proudly in Hudson at what was then the corner of North Fourth and Diamond Streets—in the 1950s the town bulldozed and renamed the once brothel-lined latter road Columbia Street, in an effort to erase its internationally infamous, vice-ridden past—the property would later see use as a maintenance facility for city buses and as a garage and car dealership.

“Yeah, I actually bought a Jeep here back in 1976,” says Marc Shafler as he stands inside the yawning main room and points to the rear wall. “Drove it right out the back, right there. The part that’s the prep kitchen now used to be a salt shed, and the section where the offices are was where they stored the lumber to dry.” If there’s a dash or two of irony in his voice, it’s not so surprising: Shafler and his life and business partner, Deborah McDowell, bought the building in 2004 and have just reopened it as the new location of Club Helsinki, the celebrated music venue and eatery they ran in Great Barrington for nearly 15 years.

Thanks to its highly judicious bookings and popularity with artists, the tiny (capacity: 75) original Club Helsinki enjoyed an impeccable reputation as a connoisseur’s mecca for topnotch music—though that wasn’t originally the plan. “We opened it as a café at first, Helsinki Tea Company,” McDowell recalls. “We started out by doing poetry readings and before long local folk musicians kept asking if they could play, so we ended up having them, too.

Then Marc suggested we try a little jazz on some nights, and it just took off from there. [The club] became a kind of refuge for artists, because we always fed them well and treated them like friends.”

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PHOTOS BY FIONN REILLY

The list of “friends” that eventually played the cozy room is formidable, indeed: Norah Jones, Ralph Stanley, Burning Spear, Pete Seeger, the Tom Tom Club, Mose Allison, Carly Simon, Hamiet Bluiett, Guy Clark, Phish’s Mike Gordon, Steve Earle, Odetta, Gogol Bordello, Levon Helm, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Michelle Shocked, Olu Dara, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Leo Kottke, and Shawn Colvin are just a few of the artists who performed at the more than 1,500 shows that took place at the Massachusetts venue. It’s a lot to live up to, to say the least. But Shafler, McDowell, their partner Cameron Melville, and their eager and excited new staff are clearly ready to not only uphold the venerated establishment’s standing but also raise it to previously undreamed-of levels.

And a tour of Helsinki’s new home, with its stunning, acoustically flawless, no-detail-overlooked restoration, leads one to believe such a goal shouldn’t be too far from reach. With its two performance rooms (235 capacity in the multilevel main space; 250 in the upstairs ballroom), stateof-the-art audio and video recording studio (configured for live webcasting), art gallery, performer’s lounge and shower amenities, and full-service, 175-seat restaurant, the place is a working shrine to music, entertainment, and dining. “Our theme, food-wise, at the old place was Scandinavian and Eastern European, and we intend to keep that but expand on it; comfort food, but a little more boldly seasoned,” explains Shafler. “For the building’s renovation, which we’re still working on, we’ve been keeping it as green as possible, using a lot of antique and salvaged materials and hiring local workers and craftspeople, and a lot of them are also musicians or artists.

The windows, for example, were made by a luthier we know who lives right nearby.” In the works are an outdoor dining area and the conversion of one the adjacent buildings into artist lodging.

Whether they predicted their futures or not, each of the couple’s upbringings prepared them well for running a successful nightclub and restaurant. Columbia County native Shafler grew up working at Camp Nat-

ABOVE: the interior of club helsinki on columbia street in hudson.

OPPOSITE: (L-R) marc schafler, deborah mcdowell, cameron melville, hillary melville

chez, the Borscht Belt resort his family owned, while McDowell, a singer and guitarist herself, divided her formative years between her home state of Maine and Finland, where she worked for her grandfather at the capital city’s landmark Hotel Helsinki (yes, the club is named for the historic inn).

So after having such a hit in Great Barrington, what made the pair decide to make the leap to a much bigger site in a different town?

“We didn’t own the building the old club was in [and] the landlord raised our rent, which sort of forced our hand,” says Shafler. “We’d put on some higher-profile events at the Mahawie Theater [in Great Barrington, around the corner from the club’s earlier incarnation], so we had some experience with bigger acts, which got us thinking about buying a larger place.

Deborah and I live in the area, so we’ve always spent a lot of time in Hudson and we know the town. It was bittersweet, closing the old club [in August 2009]. But we were so excited to find this place, and it’s just been a nonstop effort since we bought it—we’re still working on it now. Thankfully, though, Cameron got involved; we wouldn’t’ve been able to do this on sweat equity alone.”

Called a “social visionary” by the couple for his shared philosophy of using food and music as ways to unite communities, the part-time Californian Cameron Melville, who signed on as a partner in 2005, is also a top rock and blues organist who performs under the name Bo Hammond and whose wife, Hillary, runs stage lights at the new location. “Anytime you bring live music and good restaurants into a community, it positively affects that community,” says Melville, who is currently also working to open the Alchemist Properties, a “more political and philanthropic” space in Los Angeles. “I saw how what Marc and Deborah were doing in Great Barrington was improving that town, and I knew right away we had the same kind of awareness. And as a musician, I’m just blown away by the new place. The acoustic design is absolutely exquisite­—the room sounds amazing, whether the band is amplified or playing acoustic.” Also allying himself with the cause is Lenny Kravitz

producer Henry Hirsch, who runs Waterfront Studio, just blocks away, and sees potential gigs or residencies at Helsinki as added incentive for attracting out-of-town bands to his studio, and vice versa.

Melville and Hirsch, however, aren’t the only music types keyed up about the new venue. “We’re so happy about [the club],” says Sarah Borges, who leads Boston-based roots rockers the Broken Singles, a staple act of the old Helsinki that recently performed as part of the new nightspot’s buzz-building Sound Check Series. “The people behind it obviously love what they do and you really feel that, whether you’re in the audience or in a band. And it’s one of the only places we’ve played that seems to actually care about the musicians. If only there was a Club Helsinki in every city, touring would be a lot more enjoyable. Hey, for dessert tonight they served us cherry cobbler made with cherries from the tree right next door—I mean, come on!”

In addition to the club’s renowned headlining performances, Shafler, McDowell, and Melville are planning and hosting regular events for the offtimes (many of which are already running in the ballroom space, which is also available for private functions), such as poetry readings, chamber recitals, yoga classes, and swing-dancing nights.

“We originally started Club Helsinki because we wanted a place that was a supportive sanctuary for artists, that would have a sense of community,” says McDowell. “We want this to be a place that people can be confident that they can come to hear great music and have great food, and to be inspired, to just come together and enjoy some conversation—to get away from TV, Facebook, all of this stuff that we get so wrapped up in. We’re really looking forward to meeting everybody, to having everybody be a part of this great community.”

Sounds like an approach built to last. Just like its new home.

Club Helsinki’s Sound Check Series continues with performances by Grupo Fantasma (July 10), Locos por Juana (July 23), Eilen Jewell (July 24), the Wood Brothers (July 25), and Inner Visions (August 7). www.helsinkihudson.com.

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

Newburgh Jazz Series July 1-August 26. Now in its fourth year, the exciting Newburgh Jazz Series, held at the city’s waterfront Unico Park, recently announced its 2010 lineup—and it’s another hot one. A complete listing is available online, but highlights include: the Chiku Awali African Dancers and Drummers with Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure (July 1), Mark Morganelli and the Jazz Forum Brazil Project (July 14), Eric Person and Meta-Four (July 21), string quartet Sweet Plaintain (August 4), and Sam “Magic Man” Waymon and the Magic Band (August 25). 6:30pm. Free. Newburgh. (845) 568-0198; www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Bryan Zimmerman July 3. Spotty Dog Books & Ale has become one of the area’s most promising small venues as of late, and this WGXC-co-sponsored show by Brooklyn’s Bryan Zimmerman fits well with the shop’s overriding low-key coolness. Zimmerman, an interdisciplinary artist/ photographer perhaps best known for his work with skewed underground Americana unit the Dust Dive, here celebrates the release of Corpse of Discovery (2010, free103point9 Records), a collaborative effort that also features Jason Lowenstein (Sebadoh, Fiery Furnaces). With Jeremy Kelly. (MooseBearBuffalo stampede in July 16.) 8pm. $5. Hudson.

(518) 671-6006; www.thespottydog.com.

Oleksander Kozarenko July 3. The Music and Art Center of Greene County’s architecturally unique Grazhda hall, part of the striking St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church complex, is home to the Music at Grazhda Series, one of the region’s longest-running classical events. This date sees pianist-composer Oleksander Kozarenko playing his own works and several from the repertoire, and boasts the world premier of an original piece commissioned by the Ihor Sonevytsky Memorial Fund. (Cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky play July 17.) 8pm. $15, 12. Jewett. (518) 989-6479; www.grazhdamusicandart.org.

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July 10. It may be a shock to many dyed-in-their-leather, hippie-baiting punks, but Joey Ramone was actually a part-time Woodstocker, spending many of his off days in the artsy upstate town. So it’s not so inappropriate for the nearby Bearsville Theater to host this multimedia evening celebrating the late, great vocalist and the acclaimed book by his brother, Mickey Leigh, I Slept With Joey Ramone (2009, Touchstone Press). In addition to reading, discussing, and signing the book, Leigh will perform with his band STOP. Hey-ho, let’s go! (Langhorne Slim and the Low Anthem slide in July 20; My Morning Jacket’s Jim James sings with Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore July 29) 8pm. $15, 20. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

Windham Chamber Music Festival Gala Orchestra Concert July 10. Another hot ticket for classical nuts, this stellar program under the baton of conductor Robert Manno stars award-winning soprano Nancy Allen Lundy, pianist Stephen Gosling, and cellist David Heiss, and includes selections by Beethoven, Dvorák, Mahler, Haydn, Richard Strauss, and others. The pristine acoustics of the town’s 1826 Presbyterian c.hurch, the festival’s home since its 1997 inception, are totally breathtaking. (Jazz pianist Bill Charlap performs August 14.) 8pm. $35, $30, $25, $5. Windham.

(518) 734-3868; www.windhammusic.com. bryan zimmerman performs at the spotty dog on JUly 3.

cd reviews Casket Architects Future Wounds (2009, Altercation Records)

The sticker on the jewel case of the Casket Architects’ new long player gives the listener ample aural warning: “Sci-fi death metal.” A glorious, blazing sprint of thrash guitar, squelchy synths, and battering-ram drums, Future Wounds will make your speakers bleed. Traversing the sonic borderline between art-metal, early hardcore, and industrial music, the Caskets grab on by both lapels and don’t let go. Future Wounds is the Orange County-based trio’s third album and second with Austin, Texas-by-wayof-Kingston label Altercation Records. The band has been thrilling local audiences with a pulverizing live show for the better part of the last decade. This release, paired with a slot on this summer’s Warped Tour, should go a long way to spreading their ear-piercing gospel beyond the Hudson Valley.

Front man/guitarist Mike Shaw’s primal scream is particularly fearsome. His raw, brittle vocals seem perpetually on the verge of combustion during the nearly 36-minute album, and are all the better for it. Evan Schlomann’s melodic bass lines give the songs that manic punk momentum, while drummer Anne Terror supplies the big and battering beats. The X-factor in the band’s sound, counterpoint to the high-decibel assault, is the electronic synthesized lines that envelop the grinding core of the sound. The eerie whine and alien bleeps are seamlessly and effectively deployed on songs about asteroids and extra terrestrials wielding proton beams. If you dig the misanthropic sounds of Skinny Puppy, Lost Sounds, or the Misfits, give Future Wounds a spin.You won’t be disappointed. www.myspace.com/casketarchitects.

—Jeremy Schwartz

David Malachowski The Secret Life of Colonel David (2010, Independent)

David Malachowski has made his name as a globetrotting guitar slinger, ace producer, esteemed critic for the Albany Times Union, and musical director of Broadway-styled entertainment. Apparently, none of that has kept the wolf from his door, and, thus, the language this Woodstock-area Renaissance man speaks most fluently—as evidenced on his debut EP, The Secret Life of Colonel David—is the blues. Delta, Chicago, British Invasion, all dialects are represented here, deftly distilled into a haunting, rollicking, and transcendent 23 minutes. Threaded throughout this assured one-man show—Malachowski plays everything and wrote all but one tune—are aural treats and textures that set this collection apart.

Although the opener, “Jump Up,” conveys joy, with lines like “My baby makes me wanna jump up and never come down,” the heartbreak that carved the room for that joy is apparent in the first keening electric lead, sent like a Roman candle from within a funky bedrock of Levon Helmesque drums and low-down bass. Acoustic-driven ballad “Day Is Done,” by contrast, shows the darkness of an imploding love affair: “I brought you roses while you were sleeping, then I turned around and you were gone,” Malachowski sings in his unshowy, hurt-drenched voice, leavening resignation with ascending guitar figures. “I’m Going Down To Newberg” is that rare rave-up that veers effortlessly between two different time signatures, sounding very much like J.J. Cale fronting Led Zeppelin. The Dickie Betts-style country rock of the instrumental “New Circle Ride” offers a breath of mountain air from a window rolled down on the way to a smoky, BBQ-smellin’ roadhouse. www.davidmalachowski.com.

—Robert BurkeWarren

Roswell Rudd Keep Your Heart Right (2010, Sunnyside Records)

Trombonists scripted their own argot within the bebop era. When notes got quick, ’bones got slick. And players like J.J. Johnson didn’t forget to sing through their instrument for their supper. Another was Kerhonkson resident Roswell Rudd. He joined his voice with free jazz players like saxophonists Steve Lacy and Archie Shepp in the ’60s.

The Rudd of today has developed quite an international tongue—most recently with Mongolian and Latin musical folk traditions—and all the while singing past sign posts that could have restricted his curiosity and mobility as a player and composer. Keep Your Heart Right features vocalist Sunny Kim, whose prowess as an interpreter is rewarded by Rudd’s colorful personal experiences put to music.

Be it the beseeching “The Light is With Me,” the quirky “I’m Going Sane (One Day At a Time),” or the churchy “Loved by Love,” Kim’s versatility reveals itself in each song. She is unrestrained, soulful, cool, throaty, and, most importantly, present to the music’s asking. Rudd leads and follows her; sometimes loping alongside her, as he does in his oft-revisited “Bamako.” His sound is raspy and wide-cut in all ranges, but he senses when to adjust to the subtleties of his singer. Whether it be a beautifully bowed introduction (“Whatever TurnsYou On Baby”) or a dashing solo (“Suh Blah Blah Buh Sibi”), bassist Bradley Jones and pianist Lafayette Harris gracefully support and enhance the 10 performances on KeepYour Heart Right. To quote Rudd, “Songs—it’s about the songs.” www.sunnysiderecords.com.

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Books WORLDS WITHOUT END The Sudden Fictions of Robert Kelly

by Nina Shengold

Photograph by Jennifer May

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don’t like to begin a day without writing,” says Robert Kelly, author of more than 60 books of poetry and fiction. “A word comes to mind. I write it down and see what happens. When you do this every day for 50 years, you learn how to wait.”

Kelly has a velvety baritone voice, expressive hands, and piercing blue eyes, framed by jutting cheekbones and a dense growth of bristling white eyebrow.

There are two fountain pens in his shirt pocket. Around his neck is a maroon blessing cord with a circular conch-shell bead, formerly part of a prayer wheel cylinder. “When they get worn down, they’re removed,” he explains. “They’re thought to contain all the recitations from the prayer wheel. It was a gift from Lama Norlha Rinpoche, abbot of the Kagyu Thubten Choling monastery in Wappingers Falls. When he gives it to you, you don’t take it off.”

Outside Kelly’s office at Bard College, a late-summer thunderstorm rumbles. As wind lashes trees and rain pounds the pavement outside, the poet’s book-filled lair seems a true sanctuary. Behind his head, a computer monitor displays an animated screensaver of a night sky, so that Kelly appears to be at the helm of a fast-moving spaceship, burrowing through constellations.

It’s an apt backdrop for his recent novel, The Book from the Sky (North Atlantic, 2008), a nonpareil melding of visionary poetics and vintage space fantasy. In the opening pages, 12-year-old Billy is abducted by aliens who create a changeling double, replacing his organs with a clock, an old postcard, and a tobacco pouch, with two gray squirrels where his lungs used to be.Years later, he will be sent back to earth as charismatic spiritual leader Brother William (“I used to be a little boy, like you, and now I’m a religion.”) Ultimately, he and his earthly doppelganger are joined by a murderous act; it’s a Cain and Abel story in which Cain is Abel.

It’s also a feast of language from an effusive polymath—language, in fact, is one of its central concerns. When Billy wonders how he can understand his captors’ speech, he’s told, “Our language knows how to fit inside your language. Our sentences are like water, they find the spaces left in your ideas.”

Kelly’s The Logic of the World and Other Fictions, just released by Kingstonbased publisher McPherson & Company, delves deeper into the open spaces within ideas. Its 30 pieces range from “sudden fictions” of a page or two to stories more conventional in length, though not necessarily in structure. In the title story, a young Parsival engages in a Socratic dialogue with a preternaturally wise dragon, which may or may not exist solely within the knight’s mind.

Trigonometry, or the Autopsychography of My Life, consists of 44 cryptic chapter headings, prefaced by a wickedly funny authorial note (“The reader is urged to regard with welcoming alertness any image, of whatever sort, that may happen to arise in mind as the following chapter headings are read.”) A Simple Room unfurls an exhaustively detailed description of the objects in the largest room of an alpine chalet; in a playful homage, its title and opening reference Flaubert’s A Simple Heart, which was translated by Kelly’s wife, NEA Award-winner Charlotte Mandell, in 2004. Many of the fictions in The Logic of theWorld are not so much narratives as sly provocations. “They ask for activity.The reader is invited to do,” affirms Kelly. “They open a door to the reader and draw the reader in.”

The book is divided into five numbered sections, suggesting the movements of a musical suite. Is there an organizing principle? “Poets have no principles.

You should know that by now,” Kelly quips, explaining that “each of the five sections leads up to something. Or down to something.” Or, in the Mobius strip of Kelly’s imagination, possibly both at once.

“One thing that struck me is that there are more stories in this volume that emanate from dreams,” says publisher Bruce McPherson. “The essence of dreaming is the startling juxtaposition of different images—images that startle, and yet demand that sense be made of them. Robert is a genius at bringing to prose those kinds of dislocations, and making them very powerful and very enjoyable.”

The two men share a long history. Kelly contributed a blurb to McPherson’s first publication, Jaimy Gordon’s novel Shamp of the City-Solo, in 1974.

They reconnected through mutual friend George Quasha when McPherson moved to the Hudson Valley a few years later. McPherson went on to publish eight volumes of Kelly’s fictions, poems, and limited-edition collaborations with German visual and verbal artists Brigitte Mahlknecht, Schuldt, and Birgit Kempker. “He can do anything,” the publisher says, citing Kelly’s affinity for

reimagining biblical stories, quest legends, ghost stories, and science fiction.

“He’s one of the best-read people I’ve ever met.”

Indeed, reviewers have compared Kelly’s work to Borges, Nabokov, and Calvino. In the incantatory sudden fiction The Ritual, he writes, “What pale eyes a father has! How far away they see! How they never face anything that is here. Years ago he had started walking, to get away from that place his father refused to look at, him, there, wherever he was, and reach that place his father was looking at always. Reach that place and do something there.”

Kelly grew up as a bookish misfit in Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay. As he describes the view east of Canarsie in the days before JFK Airport, his voice grows rhapsodic. “Miles and miles of marshland, a few shacks built on stilts, fishermen. Open space, a great sky,” he intones. “Marshland pleases me.”

Asked why, he lifts both arms, wordlessly drawing a wide circle in the air. “I grew up very nearsighted, and didn’t have glasses until I was 12. I liked the unfocussed impression. The horizon doesn’t require glasses.”

Enamored of words, lists, and names, the young Kelly was happiest during the private hours between school and his parents’ return home from work.

At 14, he applied for a library card at the main branch of the New York Public Library. The application form had a blank for “Occupation.” After a brief hesitation, he put down WRITER. Then he set about making it true.

Kelly published his first book of poetry, Armed Descent, in 1961, the same year he started teaching at Bard. “A lot has changed since 1961,” he asserts. “Rhinebeck had no food. If I wanted a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese, I had to go to the Italian market in New Paltz, or up to Hudson. It was all Wonder Bread.”

There’s a sudden immense bolt of lightning and near-simultaneous thunderclap. Three soaked students charge into the front hall for cover, screeching and giggling. Intrigued, Kelly opens the door to look out at them. He returns to his chair with a satisfied smile.

“Suddenness—it’s all about that,” he says. “A poem is suddenly there, or a story. It occurs to you. That kid outside will remember that lightning bolt for years.” As a teenager, Kelly saw a Sean O’Casey play at the Provincetown Playhouse. He still remembers the sound of feet pounding upstairs as the characters ran from the IRA, the vibration of air and sound all around the theater: “It was an electric moment. We were inside the play.”

Kelly’s poems are full of such sudden, electrical bursts. From “A Lithuanian Elegy”: You saw a man bleeding on the river bank We wash and wash and never come clean We know each other by the way we walk Red ribbons like strips of meat in the rain.

He observes that “we look at poems in two ways: as a whole shape on paper, in the same way one might encounter a painter’s canvas, and sequentially, while reading from left to right, top to bottom.When we view a whole poem, certain words grab the eye, prompting subliminal connections which may run counter to the poem’s sequential narrative.” He enlarges the poem he’s been revising on his computer and points out some words which link in this way: naked, wicked, legal, debtor’s prison. “You see? It’s a dark undercurrent quite different from the poem as read from beginning to end.” Kelly is working with neurologist Barbara Luka “on what actually happens to us as we read a poem.

I’m very interested in peripheral vision.”

“Everything is connected,” he says. “A poem is a painting, or an aria. I like to think of a sonnet as a syllogistic work: there are eight lines in opposition, then you solve it in the next six. It’s a thought experiment.”

A passionate teacher, Kelly treats his writing students “as if they’re already who they’re going to be. I treat them as poets. Well, that’s what we do, isn’t it? If you meet someone and want to go to bed with her, you treat her as if she’s already your lover. Anyway, they are poets. A poet is someone who’s written poems, and if they keep doing it, they’ll be buried under that name with a flag flying.”

Robert Kelly will read from The Logic of the World at Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, on Friday, 7/23, at 7:30pm.

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DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace Simon and Schuster, 2010, $16

Inspired by the true story of Jackie Mitchell, a 16-year-old girl who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931 and was banned from baseball, Wallace imagines a female pitcher whose life has a different trajectory, landing her among legends. Supporting her two orphaned nieces and fending off Prohibition gangsters between no-hitters, Ruby is a pip. Reading at Pawling Book Cove, 7/10 at 1pm.

DOUBLE HAPPINESS Mary-Beth Hughes Black Cat, 2010, $14

Gallatin author Hughes follows her acclaimed debut novel Wavemaker II with a story collection praised by Mary Gaitskill, with whom she shares an affinity for sharply etched explorations of human behavior. These 11 stories bristle with unsentimental emotion and telling detail. Reading at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, 7/16 at 7:30pm.

LOOKING FOR A LOVE STORY Louise Shaffer Ballantine Books, 2010, $15

The bond between writers and dogs is unshakable.

After the breakout success of her canine-centric first novel, Shaffer’s heroine faces hideous writer’s block and a divorce. But she gets the dog, and her Act Two is full of surprises in this breezy page-turner. Reading with Akiko Busch & Katherine Russell Rich at Maple Grove, Poughkeepsie, 7/18 at 3pm.

CUT, PASTE, KILL: A LOMAX AND BIGGS MYSTERY Marshall Karp St. Martin’s, 2010, $24.95

The bestselling author of The Rabbit Factory and Flipping Out returns with another roller-coaster ride: murder most foul, laced with hilarity. Detectives Lomax and Biggs wisecrack their way through a scrapbookthemed maze of high-profile killings with aplomb. Only Karp could have imagined this particular species of mayhem, and it’s irresistible fun.

FEEDING MRS. MOSKOWITZ and THE CAREGIVER Barbara Pokras and Fran Pokras Yariv Syracuse University Press, 2010, $19.95

These paired novellas by two sisters, an Emmy awardwinning Woodstock film editor and a West Coast screenwriter, offer insight into the complex emotions and logistics of caring for elderly parents. Calling on their experience with their own mother, the authors bring a welcome light touch to a difficult subject.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Lee Kravitz Bloomsbury, 2010, $25

When former Parade editor Kravitz lost his job, the self-proclaimed workaholic devoted a year of his life to redressing past wrongs and reconnecting with estranged family and friends. His spiritual bucket list, taking him from a Clinton Corners Little League field to a refugee camp in Kenya, will inspire those seeking to turn lemons into lemonade.

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A Fierce Radiance Lauren Belfer

Harper Collins, 2010, $25.99

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enicillin is the precious substance that glimmers in the thick of things in Lauren Belfer’s novel of espionage, bacteriology, and romance in the midst of World War II. Tracing a steady path of intrigue, this story of a mycological researcher’s murder gives way to an epic context in which the scales tip precariously in the war against germs and Germans.

Claire Shipley, the heroine of A Fierce Radiance (a title that may be meant to suggest the infectionfighting wonder drug as much as it does Claire herself) is a LIFE photojournalist and single mother in Manhattan. She is content staying close to home doing fluff spreads on chorus lines and society balls, while letting others chase the more relevant images of the day. Her focus, however, is suddenly redirected when an assignment on Rockefeller Institute scientists who are busy testing the not-yet-manageable fungus draws her into more adventurous terrain. The drama of a dying patient’s near recovery moves her deeply—in part because she is aware that the medication might have saved her own daughter, for whom a minor scrape worsened into a fatal infection. To Claire’s disappointment, LIFE shelves her heartfelt photo-essay for national security reasons. It is 1941, after all—the US is gearing up for war and does not want to chance giving the enemy any clues about antibiotics.

Claire’s talent, nonetheless, catches the eye of Vannever Bush, our government’s wartime technology czar (indeed, a major historical figure; no relation to the two presidents). Bush taps her to spy on pharmaceutical companies—i.e., Pfizer, Merck— to determine if they are conducting secret antibacterial research in a corporate race for patents, and disobeying the government’s command that they concentrate efforts on penicillin. The shadowy zone in between profiteering and patriotism is mapped out and judiciously elucidated in the novel by Claire’s father, an instinctual capitalist so sharp that he corners the milk bottle market after learning from his daughter that milk bottles are used to culture the new miracle mold. Likewise, Claire is not out of touch with the limits of her own idealism, and knows that should the wrong side win the war, she can depend on her father’s wealth to protect her and her son.

The author’s glimpses into the sanctums of the mighty have a plausible air, and readers may be impressed by Claire’s smooth dealings with such bigwigs as Time Inc. publisher Henry Luce. Yet her appeal is formulated on her common touch, and Belfer takes pains to delineate Claire’s egalitarian mindset. A lifelong Greenwich Villager raised by a mother who moved in Bohemian circles, she is bored by the monied, uptown crowd.

A serious career woman, she has little patience for the chess playing slackers and “intellectuals” who inhabit her neighborhood’s cafés. She has a gift for rapport building with colleagues and underlings, and possesses a verbally alert style reminiscent of Myrna Loy. Sexually liberated and lonely, she falls for a scientist who is brilliant, modest, and ripe for distraction. But the caprices of history keep them mainly apart, and their yearning is tempered by the dire, encompassing realities of war.

Belfer is era-precise with an evenness that is an atmospheric feat, and the national psyche as it was once mediated by LIFE’s covers and photo spreads—with their flickering of reassurance and alarm—is terra firma for this writer.

—Marx Dorrity Lauren Belfer is reading 7/10 at Merritt Books at 2pm (Red Hook) and 5pm (Millbrook), and 7/14 at 7:30pm at Oblong Books, Rhinebeck.

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Rebecca Chace, whose résumé includes teaching writing at Bard College, is gifted with a keen eye and ear for real life; in this novel, it’s the real life of a New England mill town. Coming of age right along with the 20th century is Frankie Ross, a young woman with intelligence, spirit, and a vast well of feelings that she barely understands herself, even while following them headlong.

The Ross family moves to Rock Harbor to allow Papa to get a fresh start.

Papa is what we moderns would probably diagnose as bipolar, and his suicide attempt has somewhat devastated his 14-year-old tomboy daughter and deeply devoted wife. Resilient folk, they pull up stakes in Poughkeepsie, where they’re surrounded by kin, and start over in the shadow of the mill.

Frankie, who’s never been encouraged to think much of herself by her boy cousins in Po-town, is promptly taken up by not one but two boys: Winslow and Joe, best friends from the opposite sides of the tracks. Winslow’s father is a state senator. Joe is Portuguese (locally “Pawtugee”), working a weekly shift in the mill; their friendship transcends social barriers, and their playful energy enchants Frankie completely. It is through their eyes that we—and Frankie herself—see her emerging beauty.

Frankie is a hugely loveable blend of wisdom beyond her years and nervously snarky adolescence. Teen life is no simpler to navigate for her than it is now or ever has been, from butting heads with her mom over corsets to comprehending the apparent word on the street that Poughkeepsie girls are up for anything, and the contradictions inherent in the current local flavors of racism.

Then, as now, war and sex and alcohol and the need to make life decisions cast huge shadows over teenage lives. Frankie is molested and cherished, miserable and joyous, empathetic and thoughtless; she may not make the “right” choice at every turn, but Chace makes sure we feel the pressures that are moving her.

Then, as now, people faced maiming and premature death, postpartum depression, and financial reversal. Then, as now, lives were shaped by their responses and choices, pieced together into complicated patchwork crazy quilts of interaction. Chace has an elegant and natural voice that never gets in the way, lending insight without shoving it down the reader’s throat. What might have been melodrama —She Loved Two Men!—emerges instead as a natural evolution, and the three good-hearted souls who’ve grown up together do their best to cope gracefully, as decent people always have and always will.

At novel’s end, Frankie is making a decision that is bold and completely lifealtering and likely to scandalize everyone. But we are not “everyone.” We are looking at this through her eyes, comprehending, and wondering what memoir her young son Geoffrey might write one day.

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POETRY

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

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

ABC Poem

all my dreams have come true and all my nightmares

A Bird was

all that remains is determining

Chirping

which is which

Down by the tree.

Every shining, fluffy Feather was full of Glitter, as it sat by the bird House In the tree.

Just the sound of the bird, and the Kitten who was sitting next to my Leg, purring. It was almost Midnight, and No One was making a noise.

Peace, Quiet, Resting, Sounds of The Universe. The bird’s chirp sounded like Violins and Wind flutes, along with Xylophones.

Yes, I would listen to the song for ever, but the bird Zoomed away.

—Eden O’Clair (13 years)

Compulsive Repetition Ghazal The bottle form, fluid—what if A love so violent unwanted persists.

An enraging desire with just a whiff Despite advice, I still persist.

Nothing else matters, I must admit.

I am not myself, unless you persist.

The bottle breaks, it cuts my fist.

The pain is broken because I persist.

You touch my lips, call it a kiss I cannot get enough, I must persist.

Addy and I, it was an informal tryst We are not allowed, we shouldn’t persist.

—Brenda Le

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Lines blank sheet of paper not totally blank there’s that left margin line and it seems such a waste of paper instruction given by the teacher in first grade was students were not to venture over or under it for fear of trolls waiting for some little girl or boy having felt adventurous today and angry about waste of paper the line is hereby crossed and it’s freeing who put it there anyway another word can be added per line which adds up to more words per page learned in second grade that if you were the poor kid in class who lived in the town poor farm down on the river and didn’t have the money you couldn’t go on the class trip no matter how loud you screamed and no matter how hard you held on to the coat rack and the teacher with the help of the principal could unclench your little fingers and take you down the hall to sit in another class while the rest of your classmates went to somewhere don’t even remember where all that is remembered about the class trip is Michael screaming i wanna gooooo i wanna goooo i wanna goooooooooooooooooo feeling exceptionally brave and creative more left is ventured across before it was accomplished shoulders had to be set back feet firmly planted on the floor and fear of the unknown ignored still no trolls now two and a half words can be added per line in third grade the teacher stood a girl up in front of the class said you should be ashamed it is very unladylike of you to display emotion in public after she had hugged her grandfather when he stopped in the classroom to say hi while driving by the school on his way to somewhere what about over here this space beyond this right margin line more waste overtaking this line is a claim to freedom from lines and square holes and round pegs in fourth grade the teacher as she rationed out the little yellow vitamins knew she could demean a black girl in front of the class for again not having her vitamin money and no one would say or do a thing —Bonnie Enes

At the Gate “As you already know, I watched them die: my mother and father, my two brothers, my wife and only child. With that much heartache crammed into the last quarter of my life, who would blame me if I scribbled God’s name on the back of an envelope and buried it under the azaleas between what’s left of my wife’s Siamese cat and my son’s cocker spaniel? But I didn’t,” he said as if scoring points in a long and tedious debate. “I hate to be repetitious but what about faith, what about unconditional love, what about good deeds? Those have been the top three answers since I got here,” Peter replied, raising one eyebrow and then the other. “You seem to have forgotten, your boss has been known for two thousand years as a Man of Sorrows. Hell, doesn’t that name aptly describe me in the final chapter of my life? So, Pedro, are you letting me in or not,” he asked and continued toward the gate....

—Paul Assey

Bracelet

Simplicity

Crossing the Interstate

The beads of the sky blue bracelet contain clouds that shimmer as the beads move. The girl shuttles her wrist back and forth watching the clouds change.

How many of us are there now?

The bracelet rings against the playground slide, catches on the ropes of the swing, stretches but does not break.

There are holes in the stitching where the itch of want leaks to traipse loose in all kinds of weather. Frail goose bereft in the rain, you’ll find no shelter among the welter of silk and tulle. Don plain toile or tarlatan, tell all charlatans, be gone.

—Gretchen Gibbs

—Geordie de Boer

She fingers her beads as the teacher chastises her sloppy homework and her dirty hands.

Fresh off the exit ramp, waiting at the light, a break in the drive, head bowed towards something just below the steering wheel.

—Andy Fogle

Volcano

“Never mind.”

He rolled over to the side of the bed.

She touched his shoulder, too late by a decade.

—Dean Goldberg

A Word From a Place Other Than Your Face* *joy, an intoxicating pollen my face, grown weary and weathered my eyes, grown beady they die, collect dust in their rims my skin, grown leathery to the touch, bumpy along the edges, hair gone missing but still my arms flail about and people recognize me love does not grow in the eyes, in the skin, in the face but in the place other than my face

Navigating Through a Broken City There are things I will and will not do, Certain brothels I will not inhabit, Certain dueling pistols I will not buy, And certain houses in Amsterdam Where I do hope to end up if Everything else fails and There’s nothing left but for me to go to that brothel that I Do like where there’s Hawaiian music, weed, a man in a derby, And all sorts of other trifles.

—Emily Nelson

Frustration

Love: a word from a place other than my face —Atticus Lanigan

I’ve always had a passish to write verses Ogden Nashish; Or have my simple romantic say like weepy old Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Or chant tribal ballads with tom-tom whimsy on days I’m as savage as Vachel Lindsey; Or claim a “poem is a poem is a poem” is mine redundantly rhymed á la Gertrude Stein.

Or expound words of philosophic dope like classicist Alexander Pope; But poor wretch, I, lacking talent to please those editors who just reject with ease, With rhyming couplets I’m wont to cuss Their messages reading, “Wonderful, but not for us.”

we’d made it through all right she said don’t you think the kids are happy Loren likes college thank goodness she never liked anything else and Colton seems to be fine and we we are making it don’t you think he sat on a Mexican beach with a margarita his fifth yes he said it’s all so wonderful but in his mind he walked a narrow path with palm trees and a gorge dropping down and a volcano just to the right an ominous cloud and the porters unsure the sky red and a groan from beneath as though the gods were mad once again —Richard Donnelly

—Miriam Newell Biskin

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By Sari Botton Photos by Natalie Keyssar and Kelly Merchant

Friends greet each other in front of the Rosendale Cafe before the Baby Gramps performance in June.

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t’s not at all unusual for people to be charmed by Rosendale.Whether they’re just driving through “downtown,” catching an indie movie or live performance at the Rosendale Theatre, or attending the bustling annual Rosendale Street Festival—the 32nd edition of which takes place July 24 and 25—many are instantly enchanted the first time they pass through this simultaneously quaint and progressive town.

The first time I visited, on a July night in 2000, I fell head over heels. After an uphill walk to the former train trestle overlooking the town, dinner and music at the Rosendale Café, a walk past the Rosendale Theatre and the town’s assorted shops, I was struck.What a beguiling combination of small-town charm, cultural sophistication, and a gritty lack of pretension, I thought. It was as if I’d just met the country cousin to my own stomping grounds at the time, the East Village. I felt strangely at home.

Five years later, my husband and I would get kicked out of our large but disheveled Avenue B loft and find ourselves unable to afford even a studio in New York City for the same low rent we’d been paying. And so, now, for the past five and a half years, we’ve been stationed right on Rosendale’s Main Street.

It’s been the perfect perch for observing this remarkable place. It’s an unbelievably colorful town, marked by so many diverse characteristics: a rich history; a spectacular natural landscape replete with mountains to climb and a river to kayak; a fertile arts scene; a variety of good restaurants; and quirky rural characters many liken to those on the ‘90s television show “Northern Exposure.” Above all—despite the usual small-town divisions between the old-old timers and the relative newcomers—Rosendale has an increasingly tight-knit, environmentally and socially progressive community, in the true sense of the word.

From my vantage point, I find it fascinating to keep watching this 20-squaremile town of roughly 6,400 people grow and change. The Rosendale I first observed 10 years ago was a very different place than the town I moved to, and different still from the town I live in now. It’s definitely coming up—although at its own pace.

The More Things Change Rosendale has a storied history rooted in the natural hydraulic cement business that was strongest in the 19th century. Sadly, last year town historian Dietrich Werner passed away.Werner ran the Snyder Estate and the Widow Jane Mine, an astoundingly vast limestone cave where occasionally musical performances and drumming sessions are held. A couple of years ago, Werner spoke to me about stories that Main Street had once been a red-light district for limestone miners, with many bordellos. He went on to tell me about the town’s more recent history, the 1960s through the 1980s, when there were something like 18 bars on Main Street. In addition to booze, he said, you could easily purchase a joint or a tab of acid. These days, Rosendale is a lot tamer than that.

Lately, there’s been a lot of positive change. The biggest news:The Rosendale Theatre, the town’s anchor business owned and operated for 62 years by the Cacchio family, is now in the process of being purchased by the Rosendale Theatre Collective, a community group.The group has drawn closely together many diverse people from the town. And in a feat of impressive social networking, they got about 3,000 people to vote daily for a month for the group to receive a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh grant. The group won.

Also, the Wallkill Valley Land Trust and the Open Space Institute last year purchased the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, a huge town asset. They’ve already begun restoring the existing path, and will also repair the defunct northern half of the railroad trestle to expand the trail all the way to Kingston.

Finally, thanks to the hard work of many in town—in an effort helmed by Environmental Commission Chair Jennifer Metzger—NewYork State has finally provided new sidewalks, extending all the way from the town’s senior center, past the Community Center and pool on Route 32, to Main Street, making Rosendale a more walkable town. “Our vision has been for a whole loop of sidewalks around town, including James Street,” Metzger says, noting that much of James Street is still without sidewalks. Two pedestrians were killed on James Street in recent years. “We want this to be a pedestrian town, and so we’re 7/10 ChronograM Rosendale 61

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hoping for more.” Many in town prefer to walk and bike when they can. With a Community center that’s powered partly with solar panels, and heated and cooled geothermically, and an annual Earth Expo, Rosendale is an environmentally progressive town. “We’ve signed the Climate Smart Communities Pledge,” Metzger reports, “which means we’re committed to setting a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and use of fossil fuels.”

These are only the most recent changes. If you ask people who’ve lived here many years, they’ll tell you Rosendale has always been in flux. “There’s always been that kind of feel here,” says Wayne Montecalvo, a musician and artist who also moved up from the East Village, but back in 1982. Montecalvo has watched people and places come and go here for going on three decades. He was a founding member of the popular Rosendale-based band The Fighting McKenzies, which played from the mid-’80s to about 2002, and also the creator of “Trash Town,” a summer-long art project in 1999 that culminated in a sort of musical performed in a minitown made of castoffs from the dump, in the parking lot of what is now the Rosendale Café. “New people are always coming here, from the city and elsewhere, and there’s always this sense that that town is on the verge of turning into something big, but then it never really does,” says Montecalvo. “I think that actually adds to the character.”

We hear it again and again: Rosendale is repeatedly declared the “next hot town.” Because it’s less affluent than nearby towns that are more attractive to weekenders, it always seems ripe for gentrification. But it never quite happens.

There are many long-standing theories as to why the town never fully takes off—not enough parking, the main street doing double duty as a state highway with too high a speed limit—but the truth is, many of the locals are quite happy to keep it just the way it is.

Talking Shop I should probably bite my tongue, but it’s hard to imagine Rosendale ever becoming a major shopping destination. The downtown area is small, and there

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Micheline Tilton hands out cheese samples and answers questions behind the counter at The Big Cheese.

seems to be a particular critical retail mass the town can handle before stores start shuttering. On the edge of town, there’s The Shopping Plaza That Time Forgot, known more formally as Fann’s Plaza, which is less than half filled with stores. That said, those stores and restaurants—Rosendale Liquors, Peppino’s Pizza, Chinese Gourmet Kitchen,Tiny Bubbles Laundromat, Martin Dry Cleaners, Miss Peggy’s Hair Salon, and 32 Lunch, a greasy-spoon diner with great food and an animated chef—thrive, especially because many in the Rosendale community believe in supporting local businesses.

There are some great stores on Main Street too, and they all seem to be holding their own.

There’s The Big Cheese, selling—you guessed it—hundreds of delicious varieties of cheese, but also Middle Eastern foods and an impressive selection of secondhand clothes. Always busy is Favata’s Table Rock Tours, a relocated iteration of an existing bike shop that also sells skateboards, owned by professional mountain biker Christian Favata. Vintage fashion and furniture abound at Soiled Doves, and at Rosendale Wares. There are two nice art galleries in town, Roos Arts, and Wings Gallery. The Alternative Baker, relocated from Kingston’s Rondout neighborhood, offers fine baked goods, often using alternative grains for those with special diets.Vision of Tibet, a gift shop featuring clothes, jewelry, books, and Buddhist-themed spiritual merchandise, was a welcome addition last summer from Manhattan’s West Village. Planet Pet offers dog grooming.You can get attractive cabinets designed for your home at Woodstock Custom Woodworking. And you can join a drumming circle, shop for drums, and purchase CDs at The Drum Depot.

When the town holds some of its many festivals, such as Frozendale Day in December, the shops are especially packed. One of Rosendale’s mottoes is that it is “The Festival Town,” and with eight or so, it seems like truth in advertising.

The most renowned is the Rosendale Street Festival, which this year features 71 bands on five stages, plus a kids stage, and a wide variety of vendors offering food, clothing, jewelry, crafts and more. Second in the running must be

the International Pickle Fest, the 13th edition of which will take place at the Community Center on Sunday, November 21. Founded by town barber and character Bill Brooks after some friends from Japan who were coming to visit mentioned, “We like pickles,” the Pickle Fest attracts a diverse group of picklers, and thousands of visitors.

More Than Just Pickles For a small town, Rosendale has a surprising number of restaurants. On Main Street alone, there are four. The Rosendale Café, in business since 1993, offers a nice selection of vegetarian dishes, and doubles as a respected blues and folk music venue on the weekends. The Bywater Bistro features an eclectic menu that ranges from bar food—three varieties of chicken wings, for example – to haute cuisine. In the warm weather, it’s a treat to sit out on the porch or near the beautiful gardens out back. Occasionally, Mary Logan, also known as “Deejay Doe,” will spin out there on weekend nights. The Big Cheese serves breakfast, lunch, and a light dinner, especially to the crowd attending movies and shows at the theater. And the casual and homey Red Brick Tavern, run by the owners of the erstwhile Loft restaurant in New Paltz, has been busy since the day it opened a couple of years ago. (We were pleasantly stunned, one Saturday night in February, when we were turned away for lack of a reservation.) The menu is vast, filled with interesting appetizers, salads, pastas, fish, and steaks.

An interesting thing is happening at the Red Brick: Old Rosendale meets New Rosendale.The restaurant attracts a mixed crowd, which is good, promoting the sense of community. There’s a similar thing happening over at the intersection of Route 32 and Madeline Lane, at Market Market, a hip café that three years ago replaced the much loved Springtown Green Grocer. There, people from what used to seem like different “cliques” are crossing paths, and divisions seem to be disappearing. Market Market, owned and run by Jenifer Constantine and Trippy Thompson, expats of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, seems also to be a place where other refugees of downtown NewYork City and Brooklyn find each other. “I met 7/10 ChronograM Rosendale 63

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a guy there who lived two blocks away from us in Carroll Gardens,” says John Cox, a furnishings finisher who moved to the area in 2005.

In addition to foods that are otherwise easier to find in the city—fresh tacos, Korean bibimbap, Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches—Market Market has also brought younger, edgier entertainment and nightlife to the town. There’s indie rock karaoke every six weeks, live music from local and even nationally popular bands, and the wildly popular “Tributon,” in which local musicians perform covers of a chosen artist’s music. So far, Madonna, Prince, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, the Kinks, and the Pixies have been covered, and every time, the place is jam-packed.

The Rosendale You Don’t See from the Street Driving through, one might get the impression that Rosendale is a sleepy little town with not much going on. But there’s a whole other Rosendale you don’t see from the street. There’s a community life that is so active, many of us can hardly keep up with it.

On many weekends, my husband and I will go to three or four different events in town—a live music show at Market Market or the Rosendale Café; a party at someone’s house; a movie; an art opening at one of the galleries or at the Women’s Studio Workshop; a play put on by the local theater troupe, Starling Productions, helmed by local actresses Julie Novak and Eva Tenuto. Meanwhile, while we’re doing all that, we’ll still be missing three or four other things. I swear, we are more booked here, socially and culturally, than we ever were in New York City.

The longer you live here, the more people you know, and the more rooted you become in the community. And, thanks to group efforts like the Rosendale Theatre Collective and the group pursuing the sidewalks, the community seems to be getting stronger and more tightly bound.

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lived in various other places around the country. “Rosendale just felt like a place where we could really fit in, and it had beautiful mountains like Colorado, which I missed,” Petersen says. Now they know just about everyone—old and new.

They’ve been holding the pig pickin’ for six years, and every time, there are more people in attendance, including the latest newcomers.

The first year we lived here, we went and knew no one. Each year since then, there have been progressively more people we know, plus a bigger crowd in general. This year, there were over 200 people lining up for pork pulled from a 150-pound pig cooked on a smoker built into the ground in the backyard, plus a chance to catch up with their neighbors. At one point, local graphic designer Carla Rozman suggested a group photo. It didn’t take much to gather everyone on the couple’s side lawn. Photographer Jim Fossett climbed on the roof to take the shot. And everyone in the contented crowd smiled.

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The Way of the Cow A Talk with Martin Ping

By Carl Frankel Photos by Jennifer May The self-described “executive servant” at the Hawthorne Valley Association brings a philosopher’s touch to his leadership role at the Columbia County model of sustainability.

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above: Cows at pasture behind the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store opposite: Martin Ping on the grounds of Hawthorne Valley

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he Hawthorne Valley Association is an unlikely institution. Located in the Columbia County hamlet of Harlemville, it includes a 400-acre biodynamic farm, a K-12 Waldorf school, a bakery, an organic dairy, a farm stand, a publishing house, a smorgasbord of arts and cultural programs, and—well, I’ll stop now (space constraints). Steeped in the philosophy of the extraordinary early-20th-century social and esoteric thinker Rudolf Steiner, its mission is as inspiring as it is ambitious: Social and cultural renewal through the integration of education, agriculture, and the arts.

The Hawthorne Valley Association is also an organization that has been dedicated to the principles of sustainability since well before the concept existed.

It is steadfastly local and committed to not scaling up to play at the global corporate level, although at this point it probably could if it wanted to. Its cultural programs address issues of social equity, for instance, bringing inner-city kids to experience life in a natural setting. Its approach to farming is dedicated to enhancing the carrying capacity of the land.Without even trying, it has become a local (and increasingly, national and global) exemplar of how an organization can be totally local, deeply sustainable—and, miracle of miracles, thrive.

It wasn’t always that way.When Executive Director Martin Ping first became part of the organization in 1982, it was, in his words, “woefully cash-strapped.”

Today, with over $10 million in annual revenue and about 75 employees, it is financially healthy and also sizable, assuming we use “local and reasonable” as our benchmark, as distinguished from “global and insane.” Much of this growth has occurred during Ping’s tenure.

Chronogram caught up with Ping recently for a discussion about his life, the organization he runs, and (though we weren’t expecting it) the nature of leadership. The tone for the conversation was set early when we asked what his title was. His answer: “executive servant.”

Martin, tell me about the path that brought you to your current position.

If there’s been a single motif in my journey, it’s been this: community. I grew up in a small town on the Jersey shore with four brothers and four sisters. I became aware quite early that I was being raised not only by my family, but my friends’ parents as well. Different houses had different rules, but it was always clear that you were being loved and held.

When I started my own family in the early 1980s, I wanted to be in a place where there was community like what I’d grown up with. I’ve never really been motivated by traditional notions of wealth. For me, prosperity is created by community and relationships. This is what brought me to Hawthorne Valley.

At the time, I was a builder. Hawthorne Valley needed help, so I helped.

I’d bring in my crew and we’d volunteer on building projects. Things expanded from there. Eventually I was offered a paid position to shepherd the buildings and grounds. Then I started teaching woodwork and metalwork in the high school.

Over the years, I got more and more involved. Eventually I got burned out and decided I needed a sabbatical—this was in 2003. I wanted to build a very small home for my wife and myself—450 square feet, too small for us to argue in (it would raise the temperature too much). A couple of months into my sabbatical, I was asked to be the executive director. I couldn’t say no. I was really committed to building a just and sustainable food system. I’ve been in that role ever since.

And now you’re something of a luminary in the local-economy movement!

It’s a mystery to me how it happened. I’ve simply been putting one foot in front of the other. And in fact, this status is a bit intimidating. Sometimes I look in my tool kit and am amazed at how empty it is. But I’ve also learned there’s one all7/10 ChronograM Green living 67

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purpose tool you can always reach for: love. If you can love what you’re doing, love the person you’re with, and love the world you’re a part of, that goes a long way toward overcoming the areas where you may feel deficient. I reach for that tool all the time, and it works.

At the same time, though, I must acknowledge that I own my own destiny.

Life has put amazing people in my path—the universe has extraordinary beauty in how it self-organizes to respond to the needs of the time. We need to pay attention to the messages it’s giving us.We need to be awake, and silent—we need to listen long and carefully.We need to align attention with intention.When you do that, remarkable things happen that otherwise would be way beyond my or anyone’s individual capacity to bring about.

I walk to work every day on a cow path, and I find that I’ve learned by thinking about the cow. We’re rushing and racing full-speed ahead—toward what?

All our actions have consequences and only a small percentage are intended.We need to use our innate capacity to pause and reflect. We need to honor silence and allow understanding to emerge. What does the cow do? It ruminates. It digests and digests and digests.

Grass is stored energy. A lot of forces go into growing the grass. There is cosmic energy in the form of sunlight and there are earthly nutrients such as rain. The cow eats this stored energy and digests it. What is the cow thinking as it does this? In my imagination, the cow is wondering, “What is the Earth asking for?” The answer the cow hears is, “To improve the quality of the soil so there will be better grass for future generations of cows.” Then the cow does its part in helping to make that happen.

What do you think people see when they look at—or maybe I should say, “digest”—Hawthorne Valley?

They see something that looks like community. They see people caring, working with each other, and having real relationships. People yearn for this. In our DNA, we remember what community is.

Still, we shouldn’t gloss over how much work has gone into creating Hawthorne Valley. Where we are now was 40 years in the making. Community isn’t without its conflicts. We don’t always succeed in our relationships.

In our time, as a society we’ve played the individualism card to the hilt. We experience ourselves as separate from nature, others, and our own higher self.

We’re trying to reconnect at all these levels, but it’s very hard to do that on our own. The best way to proceed on this journey is in community with other 68 green living ChronograM 7/10

people who share your goals and values. It’s not a neat, clean, and tidy process, but it’s definitely worthwhile.

Freedom is one shared value. Trying to grow food in a way that’s sensitive to the Earth’s needs is another. These shared values give us something to rally around when we’re bumping into each other karmically.

What is your vision for the future of the Hudson Valley?

First, let me say that we’re thrilled to be part of the greater Hudson Valley community—and we’re also grateful to Chronogram for being a driving force in promoting new and necessary ways of thinking, and for recognizing the role of creative, free thinking as a catalyst for positive change.

Here in the Hudson Valley, we have the natural resources, market possibilities, and human intelligence to bring about a real renaissance in our food and social systems. I’m betting it will happen.

What will be required for this renaissance to come about?

All change requires a change in consciousness—for instance, by becoming more conscious about our money transactions. Beyond that, we need patience—but not too much of it. We need patience coupled with a sense of urgency.

We also need to nurture our relationships. We need to find the compassion and tolerance to realize we’re all in this together. We need to find ways to break down the walls between us. We need to find bridge-building language that recognizes how much we have in common rather than encouraging us to obsess about the few things we disagree on.

Last but not least, we need gratitude. Without gratitude, we tend to only go into the place of what’s wrong. Even if we do that for altruistic reasons, we miss two essential points: The earth is a beautiful place, and we humans have a higher self to aspire to.When we fail to recognize these things—when we fail, in other words, to be grateful—we don’t invite into daily manifestation the positive changes that might otherwise occur.

Martin, if this renaissance happens, your leadership will have been a factor. How would you most like to be remembered?

As a smiling, really happy grandpa.

Carl Frankel writes regularly for Chronogram about sustainability and green living issues. He is the author of Out of the Labyrinth:Who We Are, How We Go Wrong, and What We Can Do about It.

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By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

the benedictine monk holding two bottles of his artisanal vinegar

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ost of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about vinegar. We have a bottle or three (actually, full disclosure: 12) in the cupboard at home, and we use it on our salad, or to balance a sauce that is too sweet, or to wash our windows. Unless we’ve paid upwards of $50 for a small bottle, most of us have never tasted real balsamic vinegar. And it’s a safe bet that very few of us have tasted vinegar made by hand, in small batches, by a Benedictine monk at Our Lady of the Resurrection monastery in Lagrangeville, near Poughkeepsie. As a result, most of us have never tasted real vinegar.

Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette was born in the French Pyrenees, but he has been living in the Hudson Valley for 40 years, and in his current monastery since 1977. The Benedictine order is predicated on a simple rule: ora et labora. “Pray and work” is the essence of the monk’s life. In Brother Victor’s case, the work is the patient, painstaking crafting of superlative artisanal vinegars in a dark, quiet room full of five-gallon glass carboys pungent with the complex sweet and sour smells of fermentation. His red and white vinegars are made in two larger, 18-gallon jugs, and all the vessels have paper tags taped to them showing the variety and date of the contents. All of the containers are open, allowing the vinegars to breathe, since the “mother” needs oxygen to do its work.

Vinegar—acetic aid—is made by bacteria that oxidize alcohol. The mother is a combination of acetic acid bacteria and soluble cellulose that forms naturally on alcohol exposed to air for a long period. Brother Victor-Antoine uses a mother brought 40 years ago from a farm near his hometown in France where vinegar has been made for centuries, and he has been using the same batch since to make his own. “Nobody makes artisanal vinegar the old-fashioned way anymore,” he explains, “but we do it for love and quality. It cannot be done artificially; we have to learn to be patient.” Brother Victor-Antoine makes seven varieties of vinegar, based on a 12th-century French recipe. He simmers the wine or cider with herbs and spices at the outset, before adding the mother, then strains out the aromatics for fermentation. He stresses that his vinegars are not herb-infused; rather, the herbs impart a savory richness to the result without overpowering the qualities of the fruit. And the results are astonishingly good; due to the patient care that goes into their production, the vinegars have tremendous subtlety and depth of flavor. These vinegars make mass-market versions taste like cleaning products.

The apricot vinegar is made from white wine, and aged with organic dried apricots. The fruit gives an elegant character to the vinegar, and the Special Reserve—fermented for over a year—is wonderfully balanced and versatile.

The raspberry is made from equal parts of the white wine vinegar and raspberry juice, then left to ferment for more time. It’s not at all cloying, like some commercial varieties, instead offering a delicate raspberry note within the bracing acidity of the vinegar. The white and rosé examples are very strong and assertive. The sherry has a beautiful walnutty core, like a good oloroso, that begs to be whisked together with some walnut oil and poured over greens, pears, toasted nuts, and local blue cheese. The cider vinegar is bright, sharp, and clean, with the taste of a sweet, juicy red apple floating in the middle like a hologram. It almost wants to be drunk as is. The red wine—regular and Special Reserve—turns a humble homegrown salad into something profound, with unexpected overtones hovering over the greens. Any of the above mixed with honey or maple syrup would make for a superlative gastrique to glaze duck, pork, tofu, or anything else that likes to be sweet and sour. The vinegars all age at room temperature between three and twelve months, depending on the contents and the season. Brother Victor knows when a given batch is ready by tasting: “You can’t rush it; when it’s ready, it’s ready,” he says. “All of a sudden, one day it turns into vinegar.” Those with added fruit tend to ferment faster, due to the extra sugar.

The apricots, rosé, and sherry come from California, but just about everything else is locally sourced, and almost all the ingredients are organic.

The monastery bottled 1,200 bottles in 2008, but only 800 in 2009 due to decreased demand in the recession. Brother Victor-Antoine hopes to be back up around 2,000 this year as the economic climate improves. Every summer, the monastery holds its annual vinegar festival on the weekend following the July 11 feast of Saint Benedict. This year it will take place July 17 and 18, and will include other local producers and retailers whom Brother Victor-Antione has invited to participate. Ann Shershin, a self-described “friend of the monastery,” volunteers once a week and helps organize the festival. “It’s educational

and fun, and it gives people a chance to learn about and taste the vinegars,” Shershin says, remembering, “one year, a couple came all the way from Atlanta and bought some of everything.” The monastery also holds a Christmas fair in December.

In addition to a number of spiritual texts, Brother Victor-Antoine has written six vegetarian cookbooks, with a new one—The Pure Joy of Monastery Cooking—coming out this fall from Countryman Press in Vermont. He has an obvious love of food, and displays the sort of deceptively casual mastery that separates a chef from a cook. Though he’s lived here for much of his life, Brother Victor’s culinary roots are evident in all that he does. His cookbooks are heavily French-influenced, and he also makes and sells some classic condiments from his home region of Southern France: tapenade, eggplant “caviar,” pesto, and poivronnade (a paste of red peppers and garlic). From his traditional cross-shaped herb garden, with brick paths, a low wooden fence, and an appealingly haphazard planting of 50 or so varieties, he picks, dries, and blends a mixture that is also for sale in the monastery’s small shop along with his jams, chutneys, herbal teas, and books, as well as a variety of handmade nativity scenes from around the world.

Robert Mullooly is an assistant professor at the Culinary Institute and chefinstructor at the CIA’s St. Andrew’s Café, which focuses on local ingredients.

“I just think they’re fantastic,” Mullooly says of the vinegars. “They have good acid, but a subtle sweetness at the same time.” He’s using the cider vinegar in chutneys and smoked ketchup, and the sherry vinegar on salads. Of the sherry, he says, “I’ve never tasted anything like it before. It’s so obvious that it’s natural and not processed in any way.” François Bizalion owns Bizalion’s Fine Food in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he sells Brother Victor-Antoine’s vinegars. (He will also be at the vinegar festival, selling some of the smallproduction European olive oils that his store specializes in). “The monastery vinegar has a distinctive taste; it is not overly acidic, so one can discern the wine or the apple at the source. When on the palate, you can taste the mild sugar of the fruit and its distinct aroma. It also has a cooling effect, a freshness that cannot be matched by commercial products.”

Brother Victor-Antoine’s gifts are such that he could easily have a cooking show and be a commercial success. But his humble devotion to his vows means that he only makes enough to live, and no more. The rule of Saint Benedict, by which Brother Victor-Antoine lives, dictates that he charge only as much as the cost of the materials, plus a small amount more to keep the monastery running. “We don’t charge for the time. It’s very time-consuming to make it this way.” The monastery has regular tables at the Arlington and Millbrook farmers’ markets, and several retailers in the area carry the vinegars, though with a significant markup, and Brother Victor-Antoine hopes to find more retail outlets for his products. For the last few years, he has been the sole monk at the monastery, doing almost everything himself. He does get interns from Vassar every year, who help with office and gardening work, and Ms. Shershin is there weekly, but the effort is principally his own. “We must live from the work of our hands,” he says, though he acknowledges that his profit-free way of doing business is anachronistic in our aggressively capitalist society. But that’s the whole point; the vinegar is both a means and an end. Res ipsa loquitor.

Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery is located at 246 Barmore Road in Laarangeville, NY, 12540.The Vinegar Festival will take place at the monastery on July 17 and 18 from 11am to 5pm. The Saint Joseph workshop, where the vinegar and other products are sold, is open Saturday afternoons. Appointments can be made for other times by writing to Brother Victor-Antoine at the address above.

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Growing Backyard Berries July 15. Garden writer and former Cornell University fruit scientist Lee Reich will be holding a backyard berry workshop from 6:30 to 9 pm at his garden in New Paltz. The workshop will cover all the berry bases, from soil preparation, watering, and fertilizing to pruning and harvesting. It will also include tastings of Reich’s plantings of blueberries, strawberries, currants, raspberries, juneberries, gooseberries, and blackberries. Enrollment is limited. $35 until July 10, $40 thereafter. (845) 255-0417; garden@leereich.com.

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Cooking Demonstration with Chef Peter Shelsky July 17. Chef Peter Shelsky, graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education and owner of Pete’s Eats (Brooklyn) comes to Rogowski Farms to teach a free class about cooking with the farm’s morning harvest. Specializing in fusion dishes, Shelsky plans to prove that bok choi can be used in more than just stir frys.) At Rogowski Farm in Pine Island from 10am to noon.

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Farm to Table Dinner at Katchkie Farm New York lake smelt with Roxbury Farm’s corn vinaigrette; rosemary and fennel grilled Pigasso Farms chicken; slow cooked baby turnips and tops with Katchkie Farm pepper-infused vinegar; locally grown assorted vegetables tossed with Katchkie Farm pesto, whole grain salad, sour cherries, and fennel; and more. Save room for cherry, peach, and mixed berry tarts or shaved ice with cucumber lime, garden rosemary with lemon, or blackberry basil infused syrups for dessert. At Katchkie Farm in Kinderhook from 5pm to 9pm. (518) 392-5252 ext. 214; www.clctrust.org. $125/$150 with a gift bag of organic vegetables.

Annual Monastery Vinegar Festival July 17 and 18. Our Lady of Resurrection Monastery’s organic, artisanal vinegars are based on a recipe handed down from the Middle Ages. Seven different types of vinegars including red, rose, white wine, and apple cider will be available to taste and purchase along with dried herbs, cookbooks, plants, prepared food, and other local vendors. At Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery in LaGrangeville from 10am to 5pm. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com/monasticvinegars.htm

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2nd Annual International Great Beer Festival July 24. From 2 to 6pm at the Neversink Valley Area Museum in Cuddebackville, 30 brewers present over 75 of their finest brews at Orange County’s 2nd Annual International Great Beer Festival A pay-one-price ticket gets you a tasting glass and the ability to sample 2 oz. pours from any participating brewery, including Dogfish Head, Spaten, Old Speckled Hen, Kronenbourg, and many more. Plus food and live music to accompany the suds. $40 in advance/$55 at the door. www.greatbeerexpo.com.

Black Dirt Feast July 27. “Country smart” is the suggested attired for this al fresco, fivecourse meal with entree selections such as Hudson Valley braised short rib, beef tenderloin, and foie gras; angel hair pasta with sauteed chicken breast, chicken sausage, broccoli rabe, fresh and sun-dried tomatos; and Edenbrook Farms trout, broiled with a Livornese sauce, served with creamy polenta and fontina cheese. Meals will be paired with wines and other beverages from Peck’s Wine and Liquors and The Warwick Valley Winery and Distillery. Local, guest chefs will include Heather Kuroz of Black Dirt Gourmet, Vito Viviano of Trattoria Viviano, and Jean-Claude Sanchez of Jean-Claude Pastisserie. Dinner will be served in the fields with music from Warwick Valley Chorale and the Skye Jazz Trio. The feast will benefit the Pine Island Park Beautification Project. From 6pm to 9pm at Scheuermann Farms & Greenhouses in Warwick. RSVP by July 14 at (845) 258-9004. $150 couple/ $80 single.

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Eat Your Scenery Fable

Text and Photos by Karin Ursula Edmondson

stone and thistle farm in east meredith hosts weekly meals at its onsite farm-to-table restaurant, fable.

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arm-to-table eating is the latest term for the art of eating locally—an activity wonderfully well suited to the farm-endowed Hudson Valley and Catskill region. Interest in local foods and supporting local farmers in their endeavors to produce pure, organic, cruelty-free, and natural foods has developed over the last 10 years morphed from something on the foodie, hippie, naturalist fringe to more mainstream American demographics. Michelle Obama introduced America to the term hoop house. Rising oil prices’ effect on formerly cheap industrial food prices combined with inopportune (or perhaps, propitious) food-borne epidemics prompted whole new folds of citizens to utter local and organic. Thing is, up until the turn of the last century but disappearing in earnest after the two world wars, farm-to-table eating was the standard food model.

Chemicals, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, genetically modified seeds, preservatives, and cheap oil relegated local and farm fresh to the dusty, outmoded bin. In 2010, farm-to-table eating is important all over again—advancing even over organics because organic food has been coopted by large-scale companies.

Farm-to-table means local food and eating with the seasons, essentially eating what is available at farm stands, in resurrected general stores, and at farm markets. Farm-to-table supports culinary creativity—an overabundance of garlic scapes right now means eating them raw like scallions, sautéing them, or pureeing them into pesto. Farm-to-table supports nutritious eating— nature grows seasonally what our bodies seasonally require—heavier, more fibrous foods (squash, potatoes) in winter and foods with higher water content (cucumbers, tomatoes, melons) in summer. Farm-to-table eating supports local economy, keeps farmers on farmland, and keeps the scenery pastoral.

Farm-to-table eating is also a taste of place, a gastronomic tour de terroir.

No Fairy Tale Fable at Stone and Thistle Farm in East Meredith combines farm and table and—romantic as it may sound—Fable is no fairy tale. Fourteen years ago, Tom and Denise Warren chose to raise animals on pasture because “we were broke and grass was free.” The Warrens raise cows, pigs, rabbits, lambs

and goats, chickens and turkeys on organic meadows without pesticides or artificial fertilizers. The animals’ diets are supplemented with certified organic grain. No antibiotics or growth hormones are used. “We were a decade ahead of the grass-fed movement only because we were financially strapped,” says Denise. The reality at the core of Stone and Thistle Farm— the name is a play on Tom’s Irish optimism, “stones and thistles are two things farmers don’t want”—is also the beauty and importance of Fable.

Yes, the herbs—basil, sage, thyme, rosemary—are fresh snipped, onions freshly dug, ramps foraged, goat milk from the goats afield churned into goat milk ice cream, and basil transformed into syrup for drizzling over raspberry pavlovas—a meringue-based dessert named after Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. All very gourmet in the back-to-the-land sort of way heralded today.

Yet there exists the certain actuality that the goat milk for the ice cream (or the yogurt for the rhubarb yogurt cream cake) was milked by Tom the night before. There is also the fact that the roast loin of pork came from a pig that was slaughtered three days before a Fable’s weekly dinner on Saturday. “I do not fork food into my mouth without thinking about where it came from or what ingredients are in it,” says Denise.

Fable embodies conscious eating. Guests are dining at a working farm in Delaware County and are reminded via panes of floor-to-ceiling windows framing views of cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep that are, for today, in the field. The aforementioned pig that supplied the roast loin of pork (served with rhubarb-orange-mint chutney) also comprised part of the pâté de Campagne appetizer presented with a side of dandelion jelly and a pickle.

The week prior, several chickens were harvested and served up—roasted with herbs, dandelion preserves, and spring turnips with browned butter.

Livers from those chickens were set aside and made into the chicken liver mousse appetizer for the next week’s dinner. Snout-to-tail eating for the Warrens is customary—they’ve been eating the ears and head and neck and trotters and livers for years. While ingesting the unusual bits of pigs and cows is au currant for foodies, it is intimidating for everyone else. This year, Fable will offer a snout-to-tail dinner with the intent of demystifying the off-bits of animals.

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A Serendipitous Error In 2007 an architect’s error of scale transformed the kitchen of the Warrens’ 1860 Greek Revival farmhouse from modest cooking space to soaring aerie.

Years of recipe inquiries from friends and neighbors helped prompt the Warrens to take the step from farmers to chefs. “We collect old agriculture books and especially enjoy the manuscripts on agriculture from Thomas Jefferson.” Denise proffers her copy of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s tome The River Cottage Cookbook Meat Book, where she finds inspiration for many of her dinners. “I feel like I’m reading my life,” she says, due to the combination of farm stories with recipes for offal and other off-cuts.

Wild forageables are frequently featured on the menu—ubiquitous perennial plants like lambs quarters, sorrel, and dandelion. Nasturtiums and borage regularly grace salads. Lemon balm and lemon verbena re-create the citrus flavor of decidedly unlocal lemons and oranges. An orange-scented mint was used in the aforementioned rhubarb-orange-mint chutney. Honey ricotta cheesecake arrives with a lemon balm coulis one night. Another night, lemon verbena panna cotta is the featured dessert. Fable is a reflection of the Warrens’ personal eating habits—seasonal and local—with the few exceptions of coffee, olive oil, and sugar. “If we can’t eat local, organic food, we choose local over organic food,” Denise says. “We have relationships with the local farmers and can have conversations about the how the asparagus is raised or how the strawberries are raised. We always choose a local nonorganic strawberry over an organic strawberry from California.”

Fable dinners are überlocal—“If we do not raise the food served at Fable, it is sourced from less than 20 miles away,” says Denise. There is one exception: The unsalted butter from Evan’s Farmhouse Creamery in Norwich, west of Oneonta—something so creamy and delicious, it requires two slices of bread to fully appreciate it. Every Saturday Denise bakes the no-knead bread based on a venerable NewYork Times recipe. Fable entrees are always meat culled from animals on their farm so fish is not an option. For 2010, Denise added rabbit to the menu after she began working with New Zealand and California rabbits this year. “For homesteaders or back-to-the-land people, they are the easiest animal to raise,” says Denise. On busy nights, young ladies from local families help serve but usually the Warrens’ daughter Katey helps out. Adirondack water is served and local and organic beer and wine is available.

The menu for July 3 is titled A Catskill Barbecue and features victory vegetable skewer appetizer, a main meal of country pulled pork, mountain sausages, and Catskill sauced chicken with sides of sunset potato slaw and Delaware slaw, followed by Shandaken strawberry pie with goat milk strawberry ice cream and lemon verbena biscotti.

The personal ethos of local community extends to the Warrens’ farmers market choices of Oneonta Farmers Market on Main Street, Pakatakan Farmers Market at the Round Barn on Route 30, and Callicoon Farmers Market in Sullivan County. Asked if they’ve ever sold at any of the New York City Greenmarkets, Tom answers, “We never entertained the New York City markets.We like doing our small local farmer’s markets. One hour and twenty minutes is the farthest away.” The Warrens—like celebrated Virginia farmer Joel Salatin, featured in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma—do not ship products but ask that interested people contact them for a list of stores that distribute Stone and Thistle products.The recent farm revitalization with focus on local foods, made into a movement by author Pollan and Salatin, is perhaps threatening to lapse into a faddish trend, fueled by rising price points and fixation on boutique cuts of meat. The Warrens, like numerous other farmers, have been quietly farming for a decade in the way that Pollan and Salatin have made famous during the past three years.

Fable/Stone and Thistle Farm is not nationally known, but it is certainly recognized in the Catskills by theWatershed Agricultural Council-funded Pure Catskills and the grassroots organization Farm Catskills. In 2004 the Warrens were selected to be part of the Catskill delegation to Terra Madre—Slow Food’s yearly international meeting of food communities. In 2005, Stone and Thistle Farm was awarded a $27,500 Value Added Producers Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to process and market grass-fed and certified-organic goat milk yogurt.

Meat products from animals raised on pasture in small batches is more expensive than industrial counterparts, something the Warrens are keenly aware of because “we are asking people to rethink food—to eat consciously—

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which means paying more,” says Denise. Selling directly to the consumer helps keep their price point down. The Warrens do supply products to Marlowe and Daughters butchers in Brooklyn, but adding the middleman raises prices higher. Tom refers to the recent Times article about boutique meats—some producers are asking $8 per pound for ground beef. Stone and Thistle charges $4.95 per pound for ground beef. To facilitate direct consumer relationships, Stone and Thistle has a farm store open seven days from 9am to 6pm, just steps from Fable. On Saturday nights, the store is open to departing guests to stock larders with frozen retail cuts of pig, cow, lamb, goat, and chicken, Kortright Creek Creamery goats’ milk, and goats milk yogurt and goat milk fudge with or without walnuts.

The Fable dining experience begins at 6:30 with an optional farm tour led by Farmer Tom. Once that’s completed, he deposits his muck boots by the entryway, cleans up in the Fable bathroom, and sits for a home-cooked meal with anywhere up to 24 strangers. He’s put in a full (usually, 14 hours) day of chores. Fable Saturday dinners don’t allow him a night off. On the contrary, his role as candid spokesman for farm life has just begun. At Fable, underneath the candles and crème fraiche—lies a fundamental truth about life, death, and the muddy boots in between.

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New York State Reds served: Red Newt 2008 EFT, Brotherhood Merlot, Heron Hill Eclipse Red and Arrowhead Springs Red Meritage. There are two organic offerings—True Earth Red & True Earth Chardonnay. Beers available are from Cooperstown Brewing: Nine Man Ale and Old Slugger, and from Belgian-style Brewery Ommegang: Witte and Rare Vos. You are welcome to bring your own wine or beer. A $10 corkage fee is charged per wine bottle. By reservation only, via phone or e-mail. (607) 278-5800; www.stoneandthistlefarm.com.

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Help, I’m Stuck in

Overwhelm too much stuff, too little time

Balance among life’s activities and demands is something we all want—or do we? by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola

T

he sun rises and the sun sets. It sounds trite, but when a friend said it some years ago, it was a profound realization of why the closeness in our relationship was waning. Pressures to produce, waves of relentless deadlines, multitasking ourselves toward distant goals—these were consuming us, even though being silly and outrageous and philosophical together seemed vital soul nourishment.

There seems to be just too little time for everything—or more accurately, there is too much to do for the time we have. Maybe for a while (years, even) we try to cram everything in, while stressing about it, losing sleep, berating ourselves, leaning on stimulants of choice, and postponing favorite pastimes until a lull appears in the schedule, if it ever does. Eventually, health problems may arise, depression may set in, relationships can suffer... we know the downside.

Instead of this picture, how can one find a nourishing balance of work and play, productivity and relaxation, and other elements from the realms of the body, mind, and spirit?

Easy Fixes “There are no easy fixes,” the saying goes, but actually there are. If you can jettison things you really don’t want to be doing but are hanging on to them out of “shoulds,” let them go! What are you waiting for? Imagine the time you would have for other interests, and draw courage from that delicious vision.

A relieving bottom line I learned years ago (but still have trouble believing sometimes) is that nobody cares as much as I do about the choices I make. If I make a choice that disappoints somebody, their own life will soon sweep them onward with less and less thought about my decision. If I make a choice that pleases somebody, ditto.

If other people rely on you for something you want to bow out of, affirmations like these can give you courage to do so: Somebody else with fresh energy and ideas will bring something great to this. Doing this because I feel I should is blocking the natural flow of creative energy, for me and the project. I am the 88 whole living ChronograM 7/10

expert on “me,” and I know better than anyone what I need. Change sparks growth and discovery, so I’m giving everyone involved a chance to do that.

Besides ending the things you care for least, other easy fixes include sharing tasks with friends (such as child-care groups held at different people’s houses each week); hiring somebody to help out, even if a few hours a week; and getting a new piece of equipment to streamline a task.

Some changes may not be easy but are important to consider, such as paring down on work hours by saying no to overtime. Ask other people who know you—or who don’t know you as well—for feedback about your situation; they may think outside your worry-worn scenarios very creatively. Try saying “That might work!” to each new suggestion before dismissing it, and think through how it could help you.

Time Transitions Perhaps you’ll find something familiar in Billy Internicola’s story. He is a teacher, drama club director, and head of the English department at a Poughkeepsie middle school. He is also a husband; father of three children (ages 2, 4, 7); a writer of scripts, fiction, and poetry; a musician; and a volunteer with his son’s Boy Scouts troop. Over the summer he and his wife Annie, a freelance artist, will add co-directorship of a kids’ summer camp. And this is with less time than he had before the kids and the fulltime job, when he and Annie lived in New York City.

“Before, I used to be involved with lots of different creative endeavors,” says Internicola, “like poetry, fiction, theater, and painting. It was possible to get a toe dipped into a lot of things.You can sort of convince yourself you’re committed to all of them, until you have to really make some hard decisions to let some things go. Now I have to focus on what is really most important. The transition was difficult, and at times I felt resentful and angry about it.” But in a way, he says, having children and a traditional job has made him more focused. “You have to be more careful with how you divide your life, and more sincere with what you do.” So he has narrowed the most-important list to four things: creative arts, family, work, and service with a spiritual component—still a very full plate.

How did he choose from a multitude of must-do tasks, should-do tasks, passions, and talents? “If your heart is fully in something, no matter how busy you are, you find a way,” says Internicola. “It just may have to be in a different way. I used to be able to spend hours at a time reading. I wasn’t doing that anymore, which was driving me crazy. But I realized there are several breaks during the day when I could read a few pages at a time, and now I may read even more than before.”

Still, the Internicolas sometimes imagine returning to a nontraditional working life, exchanging the income of Billy’s fulltime job for more time, freedom, and energy to weave the multifaceted web they crave. “I like my job,” he says, “but it does take a lot.”

making drawings, gluing on photos from magazines, or creating other enticing visuals. Then hang the board where you will see it every day. “It really does work,” says Phillips, “to remind you of what’s important to you. The rewards are great.The first time I did a vision board [in a workshop setting] I was cranky about it and didn’t want to. But then I became so moved by it and engaged in it that I didn’t want to stop.”

You can get together with friends to create vision boards, and couples can create one together. “As a couple,” says Phillips, “you are having a real-time connection about what’s coming up as you make the board and figure out what’s important to you.The discussions may not always be easy. It takes commitment to get through the parts that may be uncomfortable and move past them.”

Clarity of Hindsight, Now A classic suggestion for identifying where you might be paying out too much time and energy is to consider what you want to do before you die. It sounds morbid, but imagine having to say good-bye to this lifetime right now. What seems a unique, thrilling expression of who you are but feels tragically ignored or unfinished? Then write those down and make them priorities. Doing so honors your life—now, not after you’ve died. You may have to make big changes, or perhaps only small ones. Maybe all you need is a weekly timesheet to keep on track.

Creating a list of life priorities is something Sharron Phillips, a life coach in Chester, helps her clients do. “There are so many opportunities today, for kids and adults, with a lot of pressure to be everything you can be, do every thing you can do. People are asking, ‘Where am I in all this? I’ve lost myself in this life.’ A lot of times they don’t think they have a choice about what they are doing. Women especially don’t know that they do have permission to let go of things, say no to things.” Phillips keeps her own perspective by asking about her life: Did I love? Did I live? Did I matter?

One practical tool Phillips likes is creating a vision board. On a large piece of cardboard or paper, depict what you want to aim for in the next five years by

What Are We Teaching Our Kids?

Kids have lots to do too, and may struggle constantly to fit everything into their schedules. But the high demands of academic achievement may skew the balance, as Jim Handlin, head of Woodstock Day School, explains. “The danger in this wired-up society is that it’s so easy to reduce everything to academics and your computer, and lose sight of the arts, theater, music, community service—any of those things that give life richness and depth. It’s important not to lose those. More and more that’s something we have to teach, because kids can really lose their way from finding their inner calling, their voice. The more you know about your voice and how it works, the better you’ll be able to make choices.”

That voice is a precious guidance system toward a life of personal fulfillment. If you can help a youngster identify it, you can foster it.You can even use it to teach skills and knowledge. “As teachers, we’re interested in strengthening a kid’s voice,” says Handlin, “and in understanding their learning patterns.

We find an area where the kid is passionate and can have success, and then put other skills onto that. If a kid’s passion is being a chef, then he has to learn some math to do the measurements, and he’s doing chemistry by freezing or cooking something.”

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With a keen awareness of how important work is in adulthood, Handlin wants kids to find vocations where their voices can keep singing. He helps them find a good fit. For kids with multiple passions and talents, he has this practical advice: “Find a job where you can use all those gifts. Teaching is a traditional match for that, where you can do your academics during the day, and do other things like head up a musical production after school. Another place where many talents are needed is some of these new tech companies that are entrepreneurial—you can go into a lot of different directions. But a job that has an outlet for just one talent is not going to work.”

Handlin also notes how often kids are not getting attention from adults, even though an attentive adult figure is of utmost importance to a child’s development. Perhaps it’s no wonder, as adults out of balance also lack inperson attention. Phillips observes that “a lot of us live in our heads, and when we talk to others we think we’re communicating, but we’re not really connecting. We’re using so much technology to communicate, it’s more important than ever to get that juicy connection with each other in person.”

The Joy of Extremes Is being able to balance a multitude of interests and activities overrated? What about some other strategies, like serial obsessiveness, flowing from one allout investment of your being into one thing, then another, and another? Creative artists may produce their best work this way, and even court imbalance intentionally, to tap into realms not reached by everyday balance. Probably each of us has an experience of being obsessively devoted to one thing for days or weeks at a time, whether by choice or not, and found it productive, transformational, or at least a very good story in the telling.

One example that Barbara Bash of Accord recently experienced, as she does every spring with delight and exhaustion, is a week-long event called Authentic Leadership in Action (ALIA). ALIA is an ever-growing conference that brings together people (250 of them this year) who are interested in creating change in the world without burning out and losing their idealism.

Bash is a freelance artist, an author, and the creator of the visual blog True Nature; she says ALIA is a hopeful and visionary time, where she serves as a teacher and performer. As the event grows it becomes more taxing. “I get really stretched with putting forth,” she says, “and I feel really used up—in a good way. I’m completely engaged, and stretching psychically, physically, and emotionally. There is real aliveness and happiness that comes from that. But it’s like a marathon—there’s no way I could go on like that week after week.

It’s like breathing out and breathing in. The conference was a big exhale, and now I’ll do things to recharge, breathing in.”

Recharging makes overdoing it possible. Some of Bash’s favorite ways are massage and “anything where you can drop into the subconscious, especially involving water, like swimming in a pond or taking a bath.” She also immerses herself in the joyful movements and exuberance of African dance, and attends to her body’s needs to get enough sleep. She also recommends deeply connecting with others. “Whenever I feel depleted,” Bash says, “I get an infusion of having a conversation, where I am really listening to the other person, and I am really being heard by them.”

Chaos with Grace If you’re attached to more endeavors than you can manage, here is a different approach besides paring them down. Look deeply at who you want to be, and choose underlying principles or purposes to live by. Then imbue everything you do with them. For instance, you may recognize a gift for finding solutions to problems. Whenever you are struggling with overwhelm, you can remind yourself that you are accomplishing your purpose by affirming, “I am creating solutions in the world.”

And remember that stories abound of people who found their greatest satisfaction—and left a unique imprint on the world for it—by going with their inner impulses of joy. The brain is very good at coming up with “what makes sense,” but when it comes to parsing out your life’s song, hopefully there will be a bold voice from the heart section that sounds out over the chorus of neurons.

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Spring: A Love Poem

For Azalea

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

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Sitting on our deck in June, you are surrounded by green as if it comes from you, this outrageous life of grass and sun and sprinklers, and the combination of all three, plus you, marking this territory as divine, this funky cedar table and these rotting benches, some burgundy pansies, spindly, drying up, in a too-small pot, the entire effect just off enough to make it ours, and not someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

And your body, too, is real, bruised down the shin, elbow scabbed, dried blood in a little chunk just above your ear, an old bug bite hidden in the depths of your hair, so soft, so yours, so tendriled from all this humidity.

2.

Watching you bite into a tomato sandwich with mayonnaise and salt, it is like I am the one who has arrived.

That is one way I love you, and it.

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This morning I woke up and heard a bumblebee pass my window. I thought of Emily Dickinson and how much I love to be alone in a room with wooden furniture, and how sometimes I worry about it.

How can I care so much about two things?

Instead, I lifted my body from sleep, feeling the length of these mountains, the depth of my longing, the unlikelyness of being alive at all.

Maybe someday you will rise like this, too.

And you will remember how to look in any direction for yourself, the creek at the bottom of the hill, the owl calling out in the night, and you will gather whatever shape hope takes into your hands, offering every mistake, every good thing, into the curtain-calmed morning light, releasing something, who the heck knows what it is, and giving it up for good.

Bethany Saltman spent the month of June at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock as an artist-in-residence (with a modified parent-friendly schedule). She wrote this poem on her first morning at Byrdcliffe.

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New Paltz Community Acupuncture

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

(You decide what you can afford)

Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautifulcommunity setting Active Release Techniques Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com

Acupuncture

Phyllis Bloom, L.Ac.: Healing with Chinese Medicine 2568 Rt. 212, Woodstock, NY (212) 967-1393 (845) 657-2710 phyllisbloomtcm@gmail.com Detailed Pulse Diagnosis assesses the subtle and manifest condition of the body's energy and health. Using this and other classical diagnostic methods, we create an acupuncture and/or herbal treatment. Attention is given to the therapeutic exploration of what co-creates our situations, and how we open to new energetic possibilities.

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

Classical & Chinese Herbs 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7353

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine, Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. 87 East Market Street, Suite 102 Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com crabiner@highridgeacupuncture.com.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060

New Paltz Community Acupuncture — Amy Benac, L.Ac. 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com $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

Allergies & Sinus Michele Tomasicchio ­— Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com 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.

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

let us help you achieve your health and wellness goals

Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info

21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz TEL: 845-255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

Lynn Walcutt, LMSW Clairvoyant

Readings, Classes, Animal Communication

By Phone & In Person by appointment

845.384.6787

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts Acupuncture Chinese Herbal Medicine Tuina Diet Therapy Exercise Therapy Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac., Dipl. C.H. Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine (NCCAOM) 87 East Market St. Suite 102 Red Hook, NY 845-758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com

See also Massage Therapy.

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Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica.

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®.

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.

Divorce Mediation www.hudsonvalleymediators.com

Come to the table Move forward Call for a free consultation today Meeting sites throughout the Hudson Valley

Affordable and cost-effective process Confidential and private negotiations Non-adversarial and respectful environment Bridge differences to reach an equitable settlement Experienced mediators help you explore options Attorney available to prepare legal documents

Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie 845-876-6100 Kingston & Highland 845-338-9638

Art Therapy Deep Clay New Paltz/Gardiner and Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 417-1369 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading expressive healing sessions. Women’s art group “Dreamfigures.” Child play therapy.

Psychotherapy and grief counseling, individuals and couples. Workplace/agency/ in-school/ in-hospital expressive therapy workshops.

Publication: “Getting the Inside Out” in Speaking about the Unspeakable, Dennis McCarthy editor.

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

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT

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Rubenfeld Synergy® Psychodrama Training

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25 Harrington St, New Paltz NY 12561 (845) 255-5613

Body & Skin Care (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com

Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

Body-Centered Therapy

(845) 485-5933 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.

New Paltz, New York • (845) 594-3366

julieezweig@gmail.com

www.zweigtherapy.com

Susan DeStefano

Counseling IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org 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. Appointments sign up at: www.instant-scheduling.com/ sch.php?kn=128796.

CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com

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Crystals and Gifts Crystals & Well-Being Center 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, NY (845) 888-2547 www.thecrystalscenter.com crystalscenter@gmail.com Come! Be WOWed by the Power and Beauty of our SPIRITUAL SPACE. See! feel! experience amazing CRYSTALS, HEALING tools, art jewelry, beads and so much more... Consult our ENERGY healers, teachers, readers who can help with "past lives," ‚"the here-now," "drama," and "emotional blocks." Join the community that cares!

Notions-N-Potions 175 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.notions-n-potions.com

Clairvoyant Beauty

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services

Imago Relationship Therapy

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.

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

Dentistry & Orthodontics Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 HOLISTIC ORTHODONTICS: I believe in expansion and gentle forces, not extraction, not heavy pressure. When you lose teeth, you loose bone, and the face is affected. As people age, the lower face recedes; therefore, treatment of children must consider how age changes the face. I offer early treatment for children to help growth and development and to avoid extraction of permanent teeth. Holistic orthodontics considers the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on the individual’s health.

At every treatment, I do cranial adjustments to help create balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign. We treat children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available. Check out my website, www.holisticortho.com

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

Holistic Health 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, One Light Healing Touch Energy Healing and Mystery School

Massage Therapy Jesse Scherer LMT

High Falls/Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net

New Paltz, Kingston and NYC, NY

Energy Healing and Mystery School is for those seeking personal growth/transformation and for all healthcare practitioners/healers. Based in Esoteric, Shamanic and Holistic practices and includes 33 techniques for healing oneself and working with others. Increase your health, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. NYSNA/NCVRMB CEUs. Enroll now. School begins Oct. 1st. Introductory weekends are August 7-8 in NYC, August 14-15 and September 4-5 in Stone Ridge, NY. Call for a brochure.

Jesse delivers sessions based on the clients

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports

(800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org

Hospitals Health Alliance

www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com

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.

Massage, Medical Massage. Some Insurances Accepted

Bodhi Holistic Spa 323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhistudio.com

(845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org

Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy

Northern Dutchess Hospital

692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY

Rhinebeck, NY www.health-quest.org

(845) 658-8400

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

www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com

My Sciatica is gone.

I injured my back and suffered a disc herniation and sciatica 2 months before the NYC Marathon.

Then I saw Dr. Ness and between his use of Active Release Techniques to release the nerves from my back to my leg, and Spinal Decompression, with 12 treatments in 6 weeks I was able to run in the NYC Marathon. Thanks Dr. Ness.

F. Stewart

Active ReleaseTechniques® A patented state of the art treatment used by Olympic and professional athletes to remove scar tissue from injured muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons and nerves.

Triton DTS Spinal Decompression

A non surgical chiropractic treatment for disc herniations, sciatica, arthritis and facet syndrome.

Power Plate®, Acceleration Training™

Improving strength and balance with exercise against vibration.

3 Cherry Hill Road New Paltz, NY 12561

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.

Hypnosis

Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei

Dr. Kristen Jemiolo

tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and

Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

organ chi massage).

Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage — Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Vesa Byrnes, LMT 7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT

hvtmassage@gmail.com

New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302

Do you have chronic neck, back or shoul-

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.

der 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.

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal

Integrated Kabbalistic Healing

grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant,

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

classes and keynotes. Offering full line of

(845) 485-5933

Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supple-

Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.

ments, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

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Vassar Brothers Medical Center

(845) 255-1200 ● www.PerformanceSportsAndWellness.com

Menopause Treatment

Weekend RetReat FoR teen GiRls Facilitated by Amy Frisch, LCSW Come discover yourself... a little art, a little yoga, a little R&R for the teenage soul.

July 10,11,12 and July 16,17,18 Montgomery, NY Tuition: $250 For more information call: 845-706-0229 or visit: www.itsagirlthinginfo.com

Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner

Lynn Walcutt

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

Psychically Speaking

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.

Midwifery Womanway

John M. Carroll H ,T ,S C EALER

EACHER

PIRITUAL

OUNSELOR

“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.”

—Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now

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“ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.”

—Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events

johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420

Get started on your path to wellness today!

Bluestone Acupuncturepllc Clinic and Herbal Dispensary Acupuncture has been used for centuries to manage stress, allergies, illness, fatigue, pain and so much more. Come see what it can do for you!

Call Today for a Free Consultation

845-986-7860

www.bluestoneacupuncture.com

1081 High Falls Road, Catskill, NY (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com 35 years experience as holistic, out of hospital, homebirth midwife. NYS licensed and certified. 100 mi radius from Catskill NY, serves informed committed women who desire homebirth services.

Osteopathy

Store Hours:

Monday-Saturday 10:00-6:00 Sunday 12:00-5:00

215 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, NY 10536 Tel. (914) 232-0382 96 whole living directory ChronograM 7/10

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

Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Psychotherapy New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229

Stone Ridge Healing Arts

Debra Budnik, CSW-R

Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218

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.

Pharmacy Medical Arts Pharmacy 37 North Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-DRUG

Physicians Hometown Pediatrician

Books, Crystals, and more.

Tarot, Shamanic Healing, and Energy Work. www.awakeningskatonah.com

(845) 384-6787

Amy R. Frisch, LCSW

44 West St, Warwick, NY Open Tuesdays and Thursdays, Saturdays by appointment

ENINGS K A W A Celestial Treasures

Psychics

7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1667 www.yourhometownpediatrician.com

Pilates Conscious Body Pilates 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 semi-private apparatus sessions available.

Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

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, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com JanneDooley@gmail.com Free monthly newsletter. Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people grow individually and in community.

Janne specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, codependency, inner child work, EMDR, and Brainspotting. Janne also coaches parents and people in life transitions.

Programs of Brigid’s Well: Mindful Parenting and Living Serenity. Facebook Group: Brigid’s Well

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) 594-3366 www.zweigtherapy.com

Throughout the ages, people have created spaces for relaxation, meditation, reconnection, healing, and celebration. Be it an outdoor garden, an inner sanctum, a clearing in the woods, an entrance, a table top, a vessel, an event, or anything imaginable, I transform spaces into places of transformation. Alternatively, I can provide guidance to those who wish to do the work with their own hands, but want an experienced, imaginative, intuitive resource to tap into as needed.

Residential Care

Spiritual

Mountain Valley Manor Adult Home 397 Wilbur Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1254 www.mountainvalleymanor.com

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

670 Aaron Ct., Kingston, NY (914) 466-0090 www.hudsonvalleyinterfaithminister.com

Structural Integration Charles Ruland Woodstock, NY (845)532-1323 www.rolf.pro zber@hotmail.com Dr. Rolf Method of Structural Integration is a series of myofascial sessions designed to balance your body in gravity, improve posture and release long held tension in your body and mind.

Charles Ruland NYS LMT since 1983, Structural Bodywork since 1986, Cert. Zero Balancing Teacher, Cert. BodyMind Practitioner.

Tarot Awakenings

Emerson Resort & Spa

215 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, NY (914) 232-0382 www.awakeningskatonah.com

(877) 688-2828 www.emersonresort.com

Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack

Marlene Weber Day Spa

Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com

Yoga

Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change, in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River — Milarepa's Songs of Realization, June 29-July 4.

Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org

Shyalpa Rinpoche at Buddhafield Millerton, NY (315) 449-2305 www.shyalparinpoche.org info@shyalparinpoche.org

Sacred Space Design Inner Garden - Mark Oppenheimer (845) 677-0484 innergarden@aol.com

Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com

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Consultations by Gail Petronio Internationally Renowned Psychic Over 20 years Experience Sessions In-Person or By Phone

845.626.4895 212.714.8125

www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.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 (866) 200-5203 www.kripalu.org

Yoga Nude in Albany Albany County, NY (518) 577-8172 www.yoganudeinalbany.com yoganudeinalbany@yahoo.como ...A Healing Modality...Transcend body & mind.

Transcend societal & religious negativity around the body. Experience your sensual self with naked bodies flowing in movement ignited by their ujjaji breathes. Private sessions for couples or individuals.

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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!

Reverend Diane Epstein

Love & Laughter June 12 to October 31, 2o1o

Š William Steig. All rights reserved.

Brilliant drawings from The New Yorker to Shrek and the artistry of Jeanne Steig.

nrm.org

open daily

9 Route 183

Stockbridge, MA

413-298-41oo

kids & teens free! A gift to families from Country Curtains, Blantyre, and The Red Lion Inn.

Where the writers are.

Kurt Andersen Roy Blount Jr. Elizabeth Brundage Frank Delaney Tad Friend John Hockenberry Katy Lederer Elinor Lipman Martha McPhee Laura Miller

Susan Orlean Francine Prose Ruth Reichl Katie Roiphe Elizabeth Samet Dani Shapiro Jim Shepard Judith Thurman Simon Winchester

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Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen, and Eric Beach of So Percussion. The ensemble will be performing Steve Reich's Drumming at Maverick Concerts on July 31.

Phase Me, Bro Called “the minimalist shot heard ’round the world,” Steve Reich’s 1971 masterpiece Drumming is, like several of the revered composer’s works, pretty much exactly what its title promises. The four-part piece, which Reich will perform on July 31 at Maverick Hall with percussion groups NEXUS and So Percussion, utilizes eight small tuned bongo drums, three marimbas, three glockenspiels, two or three female voices, and one whistler/piccolo player to conjure a tour de force of hypnotic, austerely augmented beats. It’s also the last of Reich’s major works to explore the phasing concepts of his earlier compositions like Piano Phase and Violin Phase (both 1967). Lore has it that Drumming draws on the music of master Ghanian players, but, according to the work’s creator, that’s not entirely accurate.

“People twist that around a bit,” says Reich, who both the New York Times and the Village Voice have called America’s greatest living composer. “I started out as a drummer myself, from when I was 14. When I was at Mills College studying under Luciano Berio, I wondered, ‘Where is there music that uses percussion as its dominant voice?’ His Steve Reich

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answer was ‘Africa and Bali,’ and I made a note of that, read about African drumming and listened to that and Balinese gamelan music. So later, when Stockhausen and Cage were using electronics to go beyond traditional classical instrumentation, and I’d already done the phasing works for tapes, violin, piano, and so on, I wanted to try something else. Yes, I did go to Ghana in the summer of 1970 to study. But [Drumming] isn’t directly based on [African or Balinese] styles, even though they did inspire me to write music for rich-sounding, acoustic percussion instruments only.”

Although after Drumming Reich largely bid adieu to phasing, the approach continues to stand as one of his trademarks. The technique calls for two main players (or one player and a recording) to repeat a single pattern in unison, usually on identical instruments; one musician changes the tempo slightly while the other remains constant. Eventually the two players will be out of sync with each other, sometimes by several beats, creating the phased effect. Depending on the piece, the musicians either continue or phase the music even further.

After La Monte Young and Terry Riley, Reich, who was born in New York and raised there and in California, is considered the third pioneer of minimalism. Following his tutelage by Berio and Darius Milhaud and work with the pivotal California Tape Center, Reich shook the avant-garde with his use of phased tape loops on such compositions as It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966). His later key efforts include the selfexplanatory Clapping Music (1972); his most seminal work, Music for 18 Musicians (1974); and the Grammy-winning Different Trains (1988). Among Reich’s numerous awards is a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Double Sextet (2007).

Formed in 1971, the four-member NEXUS has performed around the world and has a repertoire ranging from 1920s ragtime to works by Reich and John Cage. The Brooklyn-based quartet So Percussion began in 1999 and features rock-reared players.

Reich calls the troupes “two of the greatest percussion ensembles on Earth.” Seeing them in action along with the minimalist master will bring maximum thrills.

Steve Reich, NEXUS, and So Percussion will perform to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Drumming at Maverick Hall in West Hurley on July 31 at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and $40 ($5 for students). (845) 679-2079; www.maverickconcerts.org.

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THURSDAY 1 Body / Mind / Spirit Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 7pm-8pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes The Printed Book Call for times. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.

Sculptural Paper: 3D Techniques Call for times. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.

Portrait & Figure Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

3 Dimensional Design 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Dance Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal 8pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

Camille A. Brown and Dancers 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

Events Family Artmaking with Nina Katchadourian Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

UFO Circle 6:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Film Independent & International Film Series 7pm. Call for film title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Kids Day Camp Session 1A Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Sleepaway Summer Camp Session 1 Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Fairy Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Dance Friday Night Swing Dance 8pm. Lesson at 7:30pm. Featuring Alan Thomson's Little Big Band. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Vaughn Sills & David Moore 6pm-8pm. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. www.DavisOrtonGallery.com.

Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal 8pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

Mirrors and Faces 8pm. Live music, wine and cheese reception. Wings Gallery and Shop, Rosendale. (646) 229-7889.

Camille A. Brown and Dancers 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Chiku Awali African Dancers & Drummers & Abdoulaye Alhassane Tour 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Live Simulcast: Dion Boucicault's London Assurance 7pm. National Theatre of London. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Miss Angie's Karaoke 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Conversations in French 1pm-2pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Big Sister 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

9th Annual Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-6pm. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. www.berkshiresartsfestival.com.

Classes

Grizzly Adamz 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Vegan Comfort Food 10am-4pm. $60. Cooking class. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

Elysium Theory 9pm. CD release party. Keegan Ales, Kingston.

331-2739.

Dance

The Gil Parris Band 9:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham.

(518) 392-3353.

Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087.

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut.

(860) 927-3377.

Music Barbara Dempsey & Dewitt Nelson 6:30pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Chernobyl 7pm. With T.G.Vanini. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

The Ed Palermo Big Band Plays Zappa 7:15pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Alexis Cole Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Vixen Dogs Band 8pm. Rock. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Rebel Red 8pm. Roots. Harmony, Woodstock.

New York Opera Studio Concert 8:15pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5900.

The Geoff Hartwell Band 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The 3 of a Kind Band 11pm. Covers. Pineapple Larry's, Newburgh. 568-7007.

The Outdoors A Father/Child Fly Fishing Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA's Straus Center Inn, Claryville. (800) 454-5768.

Spoken Word Isadora Duncan and Flora's Feast 8pm. Presentation of research. Tempio di Danza, High Falls. www.idii.org.

Theater Or 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Taming of the Shrew 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$47.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-7858.

Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisation of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

Or 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir 8pm. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

SATURDAY 3

Gretchen Schermerhorn Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.

From Fiber to Fresco 3pm-5pm. Solo show by Rita Schwab. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

100 forecast ChronograM 7/10

Freestyle Frolic Outdoor Summer Series 8:30pm-1am. R&B, world, funk, hip hop and electronica. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8319.

Spoken Word

Events Independence Days Call for times. Variety of Revolutionary War activities.

New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Summer Celebration Benefit Fundraiser Call for times. Wilderstein Preservation, Rhinebeck.

876-4818.

Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities, Millerton. www.neccmillerton.org/farmers.htm.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Berries Da' Bomb. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Catskill Region Farmers' & Artisan's Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. www.welcometocatskill.com.

9th Annual Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-6pm. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. www.berkshiresartsfestival.com.

Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 5pm-8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Those Two Guys 7:30pm. Deranged and unpredictable slapstick humor. $25/$20 members/$10 children. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Film Casino Jack and the United States of Money 3:15pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Kids

Facing the System 5pm-7pm. New paintings by Tona Wilson. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.Kmoca.org.

Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Jim Berkheiser. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 294-8085.

Theater Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir Call for times. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Or 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

The Wizard of Oz 8pm. Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Staged Reading of "Milk" 8pm. Actors & Writers theater ensemble of Olivebridge, Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Troilus and Cressida 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$47.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-7858.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Workshops Ariel Shanberg & Gerald Slota: Getting Known/ Being Shown Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Ikebana Flower Arrangement Lesson 10am-12pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

SUNDAY 4 Art Artist's Way Cluster 11am-1pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Body / Mind / Spirit Amma Sri Karunamayi One-Day Silent Retreat 8am-6pm. Meditation, yoga, talks on ayurveda & living a well-balanced spiritual life by a Self-realized holy lady from India. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Clay for Kids 9am-11am. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Bubble Trouble with Jeff Boyer 11am. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Music

Classes

Paul Roach & The Young Lions 12pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Art

Call for times. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Singles and Sociables Hike: North/South Lake Loop 9am-4:30pm. 10-mile hike. Thruway Exit 20 Park and Ride, Saugerties. 255-9933.

Workshops Food without Poison-What a Concept 7pm-8pm. $15. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

The Outdoors

Camille A. Brown and Dancers 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

New York Philharmonic Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

FRIDAY 2

Private Angelic Channeling

Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal 8pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

ART

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music at Grazhda Concert 8pm. $15/$12 members and seniors. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479.

Energy Fluffs 3pm-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Theater

Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir 8pm. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Red, White & Bluegrass 8pm. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. $20-$65.

Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

The Wizard of Oz 8pm. Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Steve Hackett and Renaissance 8pm. $29.50-$39.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Events

Joe Medwick's Memphis Soul 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Jack Grace Band 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Ayako Shirasaki Trio 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

NewFound Road 8:30pm. Bluegrass. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Young Actors' Summer Workshop 12pm-4pm Sunday, August 1. Ages 13-18. $450.

Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Derrik James 7:30pm. With Dave Bryant (piano) Don Miller (bass) and Chris Bowman (drums). $10. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

Chakra/Aura/Body Energy Fields 1:30pm-3pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Joey Eppard 8:30pm. Frank Guido's Port of Call, Catskill.

(518) 943-5088.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Marianne Heigeieir: Pastels 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Outside Inside 6pm-8pm. Works by 17 artists. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

Young Actors' Summer Workshop 9am-12pm Sunday, August 1. Ages 6-12. $450.

Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Music

The Hudson River in Watercolor 5pm-8pm. Solo show by Ray Curran. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Pete Seeger and Friends 1pm-3pm. If I Had a Hammer Concert for Habitat for Humanity Newburgh. $15/$10. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 568-6038.

Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS (2787).

Dance Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal 2pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

Julian Miles Davis 2pm. Singer/songwriter. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Camille A. Brown and Dancers 2:15pm. Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts.

(413) 243-9919 ext. 37.

Music Without Walls Project 7pm. Around the World with Sharon Klein. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Events

Singer/Songwriter: Fred Gillen, Jr, and Matt Turk 7:30pm. $5. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Independence Days Call for times. Variety of Revolutionary War activities.

New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Art Storm king Jerry L. Thompson

clockwise from upper left: Ursula von Rydingsvard, LUBA; Mark di Suvero, Old Grey Beam; Darrell Petit, Kiss; Alyson Shotz, Mirror Fence.

New Landscapes Collecting dust is just part of the beauty of the exhibits at Storm King Art Center. So is strolling across knee-high fields of Hudson Highland grasses (and maybe even getting a touch of sunburn). The outdoor sculpture park’s mammoth works of art consciously exist against a background of earth and sky. The wear and tear of the seasons joins color and medium as part of the artist's creative process.

The center was founded in 1960 by Ralph E. Ogden and H. Peter Stern. A museum of Hudson Valley artists was originally planned, but the vision for Storm King was turned out-of-doors after Ogden visited sculptor David Smith’s residence in upstate New York.

Ogden was impressed by his oversize stainless steel and bronze creations standing in fields around the house. Thirteen Smith sculptures became the foundation of the Storm King collection.

Since then, Storm King has transformed from overworked farmland into a mountainframed, 500-acre creative landscape with approximately 100 monolithic exhibits. Among the most iconic structures at Storm King is Mark di Suervo’s Mon Pere, Mon Pere. The 40-foottall, bright orange sculpture’s industrial steel beams reach up to the sky like open arms.

Storm King’s metal artwork is balanced with sculptures composed of natural elements.

Maya Lin’s Storm King Wavefield explores the relationship between movement and stasis, especially when the wind blows the grasses on the 15-foot-high "waves." Like Lin, Andy Goldsworthy used found materials for his creation, Storm King Wall. Inspired by the property’s dilapidated stone walls, Goldsworthy created a 2,278-foot-long stacked stone sculpture using no mortar that meanders across the fields and curves tightly

around 100-year-old oaks and maples.

2010 marks Storm King’s 50th anniversary and the opening of two new exhibitions.

“5 + 5: New Perspectives” features recent work from well-known Storm King artists like Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez. Inside the museum building, “The View from Here: Storm King at Fifty” examines the center’s history through photographs and acrhival documents.

Each visit to Storm King is a new experience, as the light shifts and the seasons change. On a stormy day, shadows surrounding a sculpture can make it look like an apocalyptic vision, while under a cloudless summer sky, the same piece might convey feelings of tranquility and connectedness to the Earth.

Fortunately, one thing Storm King’s visitors can expect to remain the same is an undisturbed mountain vista behind the sculptures. The center actively works to protect its “view-shed” and 2,100 acres of Schennemunk Mountain is now preserved by the state. Conservation is integral at Storm King at all levels, from combating invasive grass species to preventing rust on a sculpture, making the center not only a place where art and nature can exist side by side but also a conscious reminder of the needs they share.

“5 + 5: New Perspectives” and “The View from Here: Storm King at Fifty” (an inside exhibit on Storm King’s history) open on June 5. (845) 534-3115; www.stormkingartcenter.org.

—Lisa Parisio 7/10 ChronograM forecast 101

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.

9th Annual Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-5pm. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. www.berkshiresartsfestival.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Events

Kids

Spirit Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein Call for times. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Greene Family Fun Day Call for times. Come celebrate Catskill's 50th Anniversary. Catskill Lanes, Catskill. (518) 943-4980.

Atlantis, Legend of a Lost City!

1pm. Ages 5 and up, crafts, activities, and snacks.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Evening Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:30pm. $40 series/$12 class. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-7pm. Live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Woodstock Farm Festival, Woodstock. jflynnny@yahoo.com.

Music

Classes

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Drawing & Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Test 5:30pm. $3 pool fee/$20 membership fee. Moriello Pool, New Paltz. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

All American Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Film

Barefoot Dance Center Summer Camp Call for times. 3-week session. Barefoot Dance Center, West Park. 384-6146.

Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films.

Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Dance

Events

Casino Jack and the United States of Money 5:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Music

Film

New York Opera Studio Concert 2pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5900.

Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Shanghai Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Kids

Theater Guest Artist 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Summer Arts Program for Children 9am-Saturday, July 31, 1pm. Weekly session for ages 5-7. $210/$190 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Or 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Common Ground Farm Summer Programs for Kids 9am-Friday, July 9, 12:30pm. Ages 4-6. $125. Common Ground Farm, Fishkill.

The Wizard of Oz 3pm. Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

On Your Feet Improv 4:30pm-7pm. Http: hudson teen theatre project offers a theatre workshop for teens. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Writing Box Program 3:15pm-4:30pm. Weekly activities that will encourage children to express themselves through writing. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Troilus and Cressida 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$47.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-7858.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Workshops Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Soul Energy Readings Call for times. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Amma Sri Karunamayi Individual Blessings 10am. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & the Community. Talking Stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Kids Day Camp Session 1B Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Camp Kindness at Catskill Animal Sanctuary 9am-Friday, July 9, 2:30pm. Gardening, barn chores, vegan cooking classes, and spend plenty of quality time with the animals. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Spoken Word Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Theater We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Workshops Photographic Artists Books Call for times. Ann Lovett in collaboration with Women's Studio Workshop. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

TUESDAY 6 ART Works by Wallkill River School Teachers Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

102 forecast ChronograM 7/10

Music Afternoon with Bob Lusk 12:30pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Test 5:30pm. $8 park fee/$20 membership fee. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

Film The All-Time "Best" Baseball Movies 7pm. Call library for specific title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music David Kraai with Sean Powell 2:45pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Reese Project 6:15pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Jazz Series 2010. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Hurley Mountain Highway 7pm. Pop, soft rock. New Windsor Town Hall Park, Newburgh. 565-7750.

Melissa Etheridge: Fearless Love Tour 2010 8pm. $37-$102. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

The Outdoors Couples Fly Fishing Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA's Straus Center Inn, Claryville. (800) 454-5768.

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: High Peters Kill.

9:30am-1:30pm. 5-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-7059.

Shadow & Light: Partners in Creativity Call for times. Jung-on-the-Hudson Seminar Series.

Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Theater Troilus and Cressida 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$47.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-7858.

Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Spoken Word

Through the Looking Glass 6pm-7pm. Women's' support group focusing on selfesteem, nutrition, setting goals and making personal boundaries. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Beating the Blues 6pm-7pm. Men's support groups focusing on depression and anger, caring for yourself, what it means to be a healthy male. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Theater Troilus and Cressida 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$47.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-7858.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

WEDNESDAY 7

THURSDAY 8 Body / Mind / Spirit Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 7pm-8pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Plein Air Watercolor In The Hudson Valley 12pm-4pm. Weekly through July 29. $220/$200 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

3 Dimensional Design 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Portrait & Figure Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Dance

Art

A Mid Summer Night's Dream Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

A Disappearing Icon 5pm-7pm. An exhibition of barn paintings by Bob Crimi.

Gallery at B&G Wines, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4882.

Bard SummerScape Opening 8pm. Trisha Brown Dance Company. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Trisha Brown Dance Company 8pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Channeling Group 7pm-9pm. Guidance from a very wise, loving and compassionate spirit to help us on our journey. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm; Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Summer Dance Fun 2010 Call for times. 2-week session. Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes. 228-2685.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Milton 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Jacob's Ladder 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

The Lee Boys 8pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

The Stoners 9pm. Country. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.

Spoken Word Conversations in French 1pm-2pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Theater Troilus and Cressida 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$47.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-7858.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

FRIDAY 9

Spoken Word

Open Mike Night & Songwriters Summit 6:30pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

American Short Stories 4pm-5pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Events Greene Family Fun Day Call for times. Come celebrate Catskill's 50th Anniversary. Catskill Lanes, Catskill. (518) 943-4980.

2010 Aum Conference Call for times. Manifesting the Spiritual Destiny of America. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Dance

Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling series. $26/$24 in advance. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

A Mid Summer Night's Dream Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

HVWC Open House 7:30pm-9pm. The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Tarrytown. (914) 332-5953.

Body / Mind / Spirit Cooking for Peace Call for times. The Yoga of Food: a vegetarian approach to eating. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Trance Journeying with Peter Blum 6:30pm-7:30pm. Going into a chamanic-hypnotic journey guided by Soundscapes and Voice. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Photographing the Nude in the Landscape 12pm-6pm. With Dan McCormack. Weekly through July 30. $220/$200 members/$80 model fee. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Dance Balanchine/Dove Martins/Wheeldon Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Friday Night Swing Dance 8pm. Lesson at 7:30pm. Featuring The Berkshire Bop Society. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Trisha Brown Dance Company 8pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

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.

Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087.

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut.

(860) 927-3377.

Film Outdoor Movie: Fame 8pm. Pocket Park, Hudson. (518) 822-8100.

Music Rick Z 7pm-10pm. Frank Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Italy, Kingston.

340-1682.

The Saints of Swing 7pm. Jazz. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

The Renowned Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Aston Magna 8pm. Lecture at 7pm. $30/$25/$90 series. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

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The Circus Comes to Town The Spiegeltent returns to Bard this summer, setting up their dazzling, old-world cabaret tent with its theater-in-the-round, beveled mirrors, carved-wood details, and velvet canopies. On summer afternoons, Speigeltent offers family fare acts such as the Princess Moxie puppet show and the clowning around of Cirque Voila's Mini Cirque. If you're over 18, come for eye-popping evening cabaret like John Kelly's "Paved Paradise Redux" and the trapeze-swinging Wau Wau Sisters. Speigeltent's Thursday Night Live features an ecletic mix of live music and on Friday nights, the tent transforms to Speigelclub, a late-night dance party from 10pm to 1am. The season runs July 8 to August 22 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter,bard.edu/speigeltent. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lisa Parisio 7/10 ChronograM forecast 103

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

The Parkington Sisters 8pm. Louis Landon opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Harvest Of Hope 8pm. Concert with Kim and Reggie Harris and Magpie. $15. WAMC The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233 ext. 4.

Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Blue Food 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jakob Dylan and Three Legs 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Will Van Sise & the Wolfpack 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Corn Roast. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. www.welcometocatskill.com.

Stone House Day 10am-4pm. Explore America's oldest private homes in a National Historic Landmark village. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Secret Gardens of Saugerties Tour 10:30am-4:30pm. 6 area gardens featured. $25/$15 in advance. Call for location. 246-0710.

Theater

3rd Annual Mount Tremper Arts Festival 3pm-7pm. Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Ethel. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Machinal 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

A Bit About It 7pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

The Wizard of Oz 8pm. Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

A Long and Happy Life 8pm. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

SATURDAY 10

Tiny Yoga Call for times. Babies and toddlers form their earliest connections to yoga, body movement, and breathe, alongside parents and caregivers. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Emotional Freedom Technique Workshop 2pm-5pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing 2pm-4:30pm. With Lea & Philippe Garnier. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Dance A Mid Summer Night's Dream Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Contradance 8pm. Fern Bradley calling, with music by The Russet Trio. $10/$9 members/children 1/2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Workshops

Parker Quartet with Shai Wosner, piano1 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

A Waking Dream: Learning from the Romantics 10am-12pm. Poetry workshop weekly through August 10. $150. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Evening of Classic Jazz Standards 5pm-8pm. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.

Creative Writing Workshop 1pm-3:30pm. Iris Litt. Every other week through August 21. $60. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Outdoors

Warren Kitchen & Cutlery Summer Sale July 10-July 18. Everything in the store is on sale, up to 50% off and more. Rhinebeck. 876-6208.

It's A Girl Thing: Weekend Retreat For Teen Girls July 10-July12. Facilitated by Amy Frisch, LCSW. Montgomery. 706-0229. www.itsagirlthinginfo.com

SUNDAY 11

Film The Dry Land Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Kids Clay for Kids 9am-11am. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

The Wisest Man in the World 11am. Premiere of a new musical comedy written for kids by local playwright Ed Gibbons-Brown. $8/$6 children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music

Sidestep 2pm. Folk music, new age, jazz, original compositions. $12. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.

Woodstock Legends: An Evening with Folksinger Happy Trauma 6pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Graz Graziano 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Anais Mitchell / Mike & Ruthy 8pm. $15/$17. WAMC The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233 ext. 4.

Windham Chamber Music Festival Presents the 2010 Gala Orchestra 8pm. $35/$30 seniors/$25 contributors/$5 students.

Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham.

(518) 263-5165.

Art Pastels, Past and Present 3pm-5pm. Vincent Connelly. High Falls Studios, High Falls. 389-5825.

Roger Mason: Oil Paintings 3pm-5pm. Old Chatham Country Store Café and Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227.

Body / Mind / Spirit Psychic Fair 11am-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Intro to Channeling Your Guides & Angels 11:30am-6pm. $125/$95. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Be Your Own Psychic 2pm-4:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

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 (2787).

Dance

Events

The New York Uproar 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring poets Carl Rosenstock and Richard Levine. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

Annual Book Sale Call for times. Stockbridge Library, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-5501.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Elting Library Fair 9am-4pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Annual Membership Meeting and 10th Birthday Celebration 11am-2pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Theater

Events

Machinal 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Test 5:30pm. $20 membership fee. The Rosendale Pool, Rosendale. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

A Bit About It 7pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Film

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

The Wizard of Oz 8pm. Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Legends of Tap and excerpts from Great Feats of Feet: Documentary of a Jazz Tap Dancer Call for times. $10/$6 children. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities, Millerton, www.neccmillerton.org/farmers.htm.

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Reading and Discussion with Lauren Belfer 5pm. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

Spoken Word Capturing Vietnam: A Panel of Photojournalists Who Covered Vietnam 2pm. Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Theater A Long and Happy Life Call for times. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Guest Artist 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Wizard of Oz 3pm. Up In One Productions. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

A Bit About It 3pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Machinal 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

The Bethany & Rufus Roots Quartet 8pm. Gaida opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Hedon 9pm. Alternative. Rondout Bay Marina and Cafe, Kingston. 339-3917.

Dog Days of Summer 1pm-3pm. 4-mile hike to bring your dog on. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Kundalini New Moon Meditation 6:30pm-8pm. With Yogi Bajan's student Nidhi Huba. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Trisha Brown Dance Company 3pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Grupo Fantasma 9pm. Latin orchestra. $15. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

7th Annual New Paltz Regional Garden Tour 11am-5pm. $30/$25. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce Office, New Paltz. 255-0243.

On Your Feet Improv 4:30pm-7pm. Http: hudson teen theatre project offers a theatre workshop for teens. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Patti LuPone: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda 8pm. $20-$75. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount.

(180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

An Evening with The Moody Blues 8pm. $29-$89. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Singles and Sociables Hike: Lake Awosting Hike and Swim 9:30am-3pm. 8-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

New Moon Cleansing with Sound Crystal 4:30pm-5:30pm. With Philippe Garnier, sound healing, group session. . $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market prestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

Trisha Brown Dance Company 8pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Fifth Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert 3pm. $30/$25 members. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

I Slept With Joey Ramone 8pm. A tribute event to the voice of punk rock with Mickey Leigh, Joey Ramone's brother. $20/$15 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny 5pm-7pm. Andrew Neumann. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Body / Mind / Spirit

The Bendy Effect 1pm. Blues. With Lot 14. Bertoni Gallery, Sugar Loaf.

Adam Smith 6pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Paul Roach & The Young Lions 12pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Threads 7pm-11pm. Solo exhibition for Carla Goldberg. Gallery G, Nellsonville. 222-0177.

Live Simulcast: Dion Boucicault's London Assurance 1pm. National Theatre of London. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. $110/$90 session/$350/$300 series.

Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Young People's Concert: Elizabeth Mitchell and Family 11am. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Hudson Valley Landscape Sculpture 6pm-9pm. Charles Zigmund. 475 Gallery, Beacon. charles910ny@lycos.com.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Music

Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 5pm-8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Origami Kingston 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Summer Group Show 6pm-8pm. New works by David Konigsberg, Joseph Maresca, Monica Mechling and Shawn Snow. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Sleepaway Summer Camp Session 2 Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

The Renovators & Guest Singer Manda Mosher & Ashley Raines 5:30pm-7:30pm. Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring.

Piano Summer Faculty Gala Call for times. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Lens and Brush 6pm-8pm. Natural year in photographs & paintings by Ellen Stockdale-Wolfe. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook.

758-2665.

A Long and Happy Life 8pm. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Kids

Novel Writing Seminar with Eileen Charbonneau 10am-5pm. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

Art

Brigitte Carnochan, Floating World 5pm-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

We Are Here 8pm. $25. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Workshops Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Healing Arts Day 12pm-5pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 6pm-7:30pm. Saugerties Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.

A Call to Power: Grandmothers Speak 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Hoe Circle: Spirit and Angel Communication 7pm-8:30pm. Spirituality and psychic development with medium Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Kids Youth in the Outback Summer Youth Program Call for times. $35/$25 half day. Catskill Outback Adventures, Big Indian. 254-9888.

Day Camp Session 2 Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Camp Kindness at Catskill Animal Sanctuary 9am-2:30pm Friday, July 16. Gardening, barn chores, vegan cooking classes, and spend plenty of quality time with the animals. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

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Karinne Keithley in "Montgomery Park, or Opulence," part of the Mount Tremper Arts Festival.

The Avant-Garde Invades Mount Tremper The term “avant-garde” is out of fashion. Matthew Pokoik and Aynsley Vandenbroucke use the phrase “hybrid artist,” referring to performers who combine dance, storytelling, visual art, and other forms. Hybrid artists will speak, gyrate, sing, and pirouette at the third Mount Tremper Arts Festival, beginning July 10. Vandenbroucke and Pokoik, the founders and directors of Mount Tremper Arts, are themselves a “hybrid couple”: she's a choreographer, he's a photographer. At 33 and 35 respectively, they may be the youngest impresarios in the Hudson Valley—and among the most impressive.

An all-day free celebration kicks off this year’s festival, including “NOX,” a collaboration between the writer Anne Carson and members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. ETHEL, the Juilliard-educated string quartet known for vigorous performances of contemporary composers, will play works by Terry Riley and Julia Wolfe. Then the Cunningham dancers and ETHEL will collectively perform a piece titled “Event.” The day will culminate in a meal featuring roast pig (for a fee). “The day is meant to encompass everything we do, from the finished, professional, polished work, to the work-in-progress, to a pig roast,” Pokoik remarks.

On July 17, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People will dance with text projections in what Pokoik describes as an “untitled project with Jenny Holzer but I’m not allowed to give it a name yet.” (Holzer is a visual artist known for her “Truisms” such as ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE.) Gutierrez, who recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship, mobilizes dynamic groups of dancers, and (like many of us) has a love/hate relationship with pop culture.

On August 7 and 8, Foofwa d’Imobilité will present the US premiere of “Pina Jackson

in Mercemoriam,” inspired by the deaths of three major figures in the dance world during a five-week period in 2009: Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, and Michael Jackson. In this satirical performance, d’Imobilité plays a 500-year-old Italian dancer-zombie who reenacts Dante’s voyages through hell, purgatory, and heaven, meeting the souls of the departed choreographers. The dancer does perfect imitations of the three stars. “He’s incredibly beautiful and meticulous physically, but also a clown,” Vandenbroucke notes.

Following the Saturday night performance will be a Michael Jackson dance party.

This year the festival will inaugurate a Friday night series of meals, Food for the Arts Barbecues, serving local, grass-fed meat and vegetables from their three-quarter -acre garden. Along with the dinners will be lectures and presentations–including Vandenbroucke challenging Cory Nakasue to a “choreographic duel” (August 6). The directors envision an outdoor rural salon, like a cross between John Cage’s loft and Robin Hood’s hideout. “It’s been so valuable for us as artists ourselves working up here, and then watching other people come up here, where they unplug—like, the cellphones don’t even work!” Vandenbroucke observes, with a laugh.

The visual aspect of the festival is a photography exhibition, “Seven Summits,” featuring seven photographers, many of whom are inspired by the history of painting. The opening reception on July 16 is free, and will include slide shows, videos, and talks by the artists.

The Mount Tremper Arts Festival will run July 10 through August 15 at Mount Tremper Arts, 647 South Plank Road, Mount Tremper. (845) 688-9893; www.mounttremperarts.org.

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Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

The Christine Spero Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Aston Magna 8pm. Lecture at 7pm. $30/$25/$90 series. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Mini Movies: Video Making Workshop 12pm-Thursday, July 15, 3pm. Ages 13-18. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Classes

Fred Hersch & Nico Gori Duo 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

Music Boston Symphony Orchestra 8pm. $11-$51. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Spoken Word Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Theater Machinal 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Workshops Phil Mansfield: Teen Photography Camp Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Historic Window Sash Restoration Mondays-Thursdays, July 12-22. $1100. Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon. (518) 794-9100.

Davis & Orton Create Your Website 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

TUESDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Evening Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:30pm. $40 series/$12 class. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Healing Meditation Circle 6pm-7:30pm. $15. Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock.

679-6700.

Finding and Sounding with Your Sacred Voice 7pm-8:30pm. With Cantor Robert Michael. $18. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Drawing & Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Events Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

After-Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. $15. Under The Magenta Moon, New Paltz. 255-0900.

Film Les Choristes/The Chorus 8:30pm. CCC Vocal Ensemble directed by Sheri BauerMayorga 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm; Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-7pm. Live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Woodstock Farm Festival, Woodstock. jflynnny@yahoo.com.

Hudson Valley Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Networking session for people in the environmental fields and sustainably minded. $5.

Mahoney's Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 454-6410.

Film The All-Time "Best" Baseball Movies 7pm. Call library for specific title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Environmental Film Screenings: After the Storm and RiverWebs 7pm-9pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio 8pm. $11-$51. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

The Track 8:30pm. Classic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Black Creek 9:30pm-1:30pm. Black Creek, Esopus. 255-0919.

Theater Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

THURSDAY 15 Art Guilford Art Center Craft Expo 12pm-9pm. $7/$5 seniors/free children and members.

Guilford Green, Guilford, Connecticut. (203) 453-5947 ext. 12.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Dana Leong's MILK & JADE Quartet 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Arkhams 9pm. Rock. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.

Pendulum Dowsing Workshop 6:30pm-8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

FRIDAY 16 Seven Summits 6pm-9pm. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

The Outdoors

Judy Norman 8pm. Acoustic. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Workshops

Mark Morganelli & Jazz Forum Brazil Project 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Boston Symphony Chamber Players 8pm. $11-$51. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Joseph Arthur & Meghan Wolf 8pm. Singer/songwriters. $20. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 8:30pm. $9-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Art

Dancing On The Air 8pm. $10. WAMC The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233 ext. 4.

Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Music

Joan Armatrading 8pm. $34.50-$49.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Bonfire Night 8pm. Book, music and lyrics by Justin Levine. $30.

Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Body / Mind / Spirit Choose, Change and Become ... A Story of Transformation Call for times. A retreat for young and emerging leaders 18-34 years of age. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Experiencing Prayer and Meditation: Journey Into the 11th Step Call for times. A retreat for those who are in 12 step programs. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Alexis P. Suter Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.

The Outdoors Toddler Stroll 10am-11:30am. Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 473-4440 ext. 273.

Toddlers on the Trail: Stream Walk 10am-12pm. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Theater Romeo and Juliet 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

A Bit About It 7pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

The Compleat William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP fauclty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Healing with Grandmother Barbara Threecrow 6:30pm-8:30pm. Sacred feminine & ancient shamanic vessels. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Forest Garden Immersion Series Call for times. Hands-on skill-building, design, install, caretake, enjoy. $285/$205 commuter. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

The Rocky Horror Show 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Miss Firecracker Contest 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

My Life with Menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;And Other Animals 8pm. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Dance

Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. $15/$10 in advance. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

A Bit About It 7pm. Cocoon Choreography Workshop. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

The Rocky Horror Show 11:45pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 876-3080.

Meditation 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Workshops

Music

Friday Night Swing Dance 8pm. Lesson at 7:30pm. Featuring Alan Thomson's Little Big Band. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Classes

Afternoon with Bob Lusk 12:30pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Events

Portrait & Figure Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Beginning Witchcraft Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Dave Matthews Band 7pm. $40.50/$75. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Native American Weekend with Grandmother Nancy Call for times. Multiple class and packages available.

Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

3 Dimensional Design 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Food without Poison-What a Concept 7pm-8pm. $15. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Dance

It's A Girl Thing: Weekend Retreat For Teen Girls July 16-July18. Facilitated by Amy Frisch, LCSW. Montgomery. 706-0229. www.itsagirlthinginfo.com

Chatham Farmers Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham.

(518) 392-3353.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Writing Box Program 3:15pm-4:30pm. Weekly activities that will encourage children to express themselves through writing. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 7pm-8pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Jammin' Jazz and Blues Night 7:30pm-10:30pm. Chill Wine Bar, Beacon. 765-0885.

Balanchine/Dove Martins/Wheeldon Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Todd Rundgren 8pm. $50/$40. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Events

Spoken Word Tuesday Afternoon: An Adult Reading Group 4pm-5pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Through the Looking Glass 6pm-7pm. Women's' support group focusing on selfesteem, nutrition, setting goals and making personal boundaries. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Beating the Blues 6pm-7pm. Men's support groups focusing on depression and anger, caring for yourself, what it means to be a healthy male. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Workshops Flying Fish: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. $3. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Film The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Kids Mola Art - Eileen Stelljes 4pm. Grades K-6. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Who's Who of Bluegrass Music Call for times. Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. Walsh Farm, Oak Hill. www.greyfoxbluegrass.com.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz.

255-3976.

Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087.

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut.

(860) 927-3377.

Tipper CoSM Benefit Party 7pm-12am. $20. CoSM, Wappingers Falls. 297-2323.

Kids Kids' Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-11. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Family Picnic and Concert 6:30pm. Performance by Jeffrey Friedberg of the Bossy Frog Band. Bring a picnic dinner. Library summer program kick-off. Roe-Jan Park, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Music The Skye Jazz Trio Call for times. Dautaj, Warwick. www.thedautaj.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Young at Heart 7:30pm. Reinterpreting rock, punk, and R&B classics from a unique perspective. $25/$35/$75. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Arthritis 7:15pm-8:15pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Tin Pan 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

The Trapps 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

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SATURDAY 17 Art Slideluck Potshow Woodstock Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Printwork '10 4pm-6pm. 5th national juried printmaking and print/mixed media exhibition. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Love Our Local Landscapes 6pm-9pm. Gazen Gallery of Art, Rhinebeck. 876-4278.

Artist Studio Tour 6pm-10pm. Group show and featured in the Solo Room is Rita Schwab. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Arts for Ulster Live Auction 6pm-10pm. With a performance by Liam Wood. $10. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Body / Mind / Spirit Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. Free 20 minute Reiki sessions on a first come, first serve basis. New Paltz Recreation Center, New Paltz. 616-1219.

Drumming Energy Circle 1:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

theater powerhouse © Vassar College/ Buck Lewis Photography

Adam Rothenberg, de'Adre Aziza, and Adriane Lenox rehearse "We Are Here" by Tracy Thorne, directed by Sheryl Kaller, a mainstage production at Powerhouse Theater this summer.

Public Works At Vassar College, when the tests and papers are finally done, “Pomp and Circumstance” marches out the graduating class, and the last student overstuffs her car and drives away, it’s time for the theater people to emerge. For the past quarter century, Vassar and New York Stage and Film have combined forces to present Powerhouse Theater, an artistic laboratory for both aspiring and established playwrights, directors, and actors.

For an eight-week summer residency, approximately 250 intensely creative people converge on Vassar’s campus to produce as many as 20 different works for their test subjects, a largely Hudson Valley audience. As Academy Award-winning screenwriter and Powerhouse regular John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck) says, “The audience is genius. They know everything and you just have to listen to them.”

Since 1985, over 2,000 artists have participated in the program, resulting in plays like “Tru” by Jay Presson Allen, “Debutante Ball” by Beth Henley, and “Necessary Targets” by Eve Ensler. The residency has hosted directors like Jo Bonney and Mark Brokaw and actors such as Olympia Dukakis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Frances McDormand. Ed Cheetham, Powerhouse’s producing director says, “We have a great return of people who are just excited to be here, and that’s really key. That makes me thrilled every summer.”

Part of Powerhouse’s recipe for success is the variety of performances—mainstage productions: fully staged works-in-progress; Martel musicals: concert readings of worksin-progress; Inside Look: semistaged workshops; performances by the Apprentice Company; and two free Readings Festivals. Talk-back sessions follow the mainstage productions, providing formal feedback for writers and directors. Cheetham says, “There are a lot of subscribers, people who have been coming here for years and years, and they feel free to tell you exactly what they think.”

John Patrick Shanley’s “Pirate, ” introduced as a reading last year, will be a mainstage production this season. According to Shanley, “Pirate” is “about a very bad man; sometimes, he looks one way, sometimes he looks another, but he is always bad.” In

true Powerhouse fashion, debuting on the same stage as the world-famous Shanley is up-and-comer Tracy Thorne. Her play “We Are Here” tells the story of multiple generations in a tight-knit, mixed-race family examining life after the youngest family member dies.

The Martel musicals will feature the Lerner and Lane classic, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” directed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer. Justin Levine’s “Bonfire Night,” based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his English Catholic followers conspired to blow up the House of Parliament, will also be staged.

“Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir” by Keith Bunin, “A Long and Happy Life” by Bekah Brunstetter, “My Life with Men—And Other Animals” by Maria Cassi and Patrick Pacheco, and “Interviewing the Audience” by Zach Helm will round out the Inside Look series.

“Interviewing the Audience” will play out as the title describes. Cheetham says Helm specifically wanted to develop this project with the Powerhouse audience and he’s just as curious as anyone to hear what questions Helm will ask.

This season’s Readings Festivals will feature 10 new works, including “The Rest of Your Life” by Meagan Mostyn-Brown, “I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls around the World” by Eve Ensler, and Richard Nelson and Pete Golub’s “Unfinished Piece for a Piano Player.”

This year’s Apprentice Company will be putting on “Machinal” by Sophie Treadwell, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, and “1940s Radio Hour” by Walton Jones.

Cheetham says, “You really don’t know what’s going to happen other than you have to trust that it will happen. We ask a lot of them and I’m always amazed at the amount of work they can do and the openness with which they approach that work.” His goal for the students: “I want them to leave here with more questions, asking themselves what they can do as artists, human beings, and citizens of the world.”

The 2010 Powerhouse Theater season runs through August 1. (845) 437-5907; www.powerhouse.vassar.edu.

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Vortexhealing and Personal Transformation 2pm-4pm. With Linda Raphael. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Healing the Split: Using Imagery to Heal Emotional Trauma 6pm-8pm. With Nurit Nardi. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes

Jonah Smith Band 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Peter Tork & Shoe Suede Blues 8:30pm. $35/$30 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert 8:30pm. $18-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Catskill Animal Sanctuary Cooking Class: Vegan Main Courses 10am-4pm. $60. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Joey Eppard and The Bergkamp Bros Band 9pm. Harmony, Woodstock. 679-7760.

Dance

The Outpatients 9pm. Annies 40 Western, Marlboro. 236-2667.

All Balanchine Call for times. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People 8pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Freestyle Frolic Outdoor Summer Series 8:30pm-1am. R&B, world, funk, hip hop and electronica. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free.

Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8319.

The Trapps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Core 9pm. Rock. Dockside Grill, Athens. (518) 444-8080.

A Tribute to the Fillmore II 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Alchemy 9:30pm. Contemporary. Elsie's Place, Wallkill.

895-8975.

Events

Spoken Word

Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Sadee Brathwaite 5:30pm-7pm. Lecture and visual art exhibition. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities. Millerton, www.neccmillerton.org/farmers.htm.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Tell Me About It: The Storytelling Series continues with Joe Peck. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Theater Romeo and Juliet 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Music Piano Summer Call for times. Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko.

SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Carlos Santana Call for times. $30-$100. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Young People’s Concert: Imani Winds 11am. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Paul Roach & The Young Lions 12pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Woodstock Legends: Steve Gorn and Friends in Indian Ragas 6pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 7pm. Country. Millbrook Band Shell, Millbrook. 894-7291.

Marilyn Miller 7pm. Country. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Pianist/Vocalist Nina Sheldon 7:30pm. $10. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

Stratospheerius 7:30pm. $8. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Belleayre Festival Orchestra Plays Romantic Classics 8pm. $20b-$65. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount.

(180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

A Perfect Gift: All That is Jazz 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

Music at Grazhda Concert 8pm. $15/$12 members and seniors. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479.

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Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Theater

Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Test 5:30pm. $20 membership fee. The Rosendale Pool, Rosendale. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

2010 Summer Performance Workshop 10am-Friday, July 30, 2pm. Ages 13-21. $500. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Film

Romeo and Juliet 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Workshops

The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Phil Mansfield: Intro to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Music

Davis & Orton Create Your Website 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Boston Pops Orchestra 2:30pm. $21-$115. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Imani Winds 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

TUESDAY 20 Art Flying Fish: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Audra McDonald 8pm. $18-$60. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Intensive Painting Workshop Call for times. Through mid-September. Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes. 228-2685.

The Outdoors A Red Hill Fire Tower Hike 1pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Drawing & Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Spoken Word

Events

Words Words Words 3pm. Akido Busch, Katherine Russell Rich, Louise Shaffer. Maple Grove Restoration, Poughkeepsie.

471-9651.

Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Film

Theater

Singin' In The Rain 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

The Miss Firecracker Contest 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Magic and Beyond 11am. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Spoken Word

Guest Artist 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Annual Monastery Vinegar Festival 10am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.

Kids

Judy Norman 8pm. Rock. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Jude Roberts with Ernest Troost 7:30pm. $20/$15 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Gasland 7:30pm. Film screening presented by Woodstock Film Festival. $5. Onteora High School, Boiceville. www.woodstockfilmfestival.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.

Music

My Life with Men: And Other Animals 8pm. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Rondout Valley Garden Tour 10am-4pm. Reception at the Inn at Stone Ridge 4pm5pm. $25. Saunderskill Farms, Accord. 626-2676.

Film

Sinterklaas Artisan Faire 10am-4pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck.

876-8799.

Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Buddy Traina & The Beau Beats 5:30pm-7:30pm. Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

An Evening at Willow Ridge: Lupus Fundraiser 7pm-10:30pm. Garden party with silent auction and live music for the Alliance for Lupus Research. $30. Willow Ridge Nursery, Fishkill. 896-6880.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Kids

A Bit About It 7pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Catskill Region Farmers' & Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. www.welcometocatskill.com.

Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 5pm-8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Annual Monastery Vinegar Festival 10am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.

Bonfire Night 8pm. Book, music and lyrics by Justin Levine. $30.

Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

The Rocky Horror Show 8pm. Followed by a special costume party fund-raiser. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. $110/$90 session/$350/$300 series.

Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

My Life with Men—And Other Animals Call for times. $20. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Bonfire Night 2pm. Book, music and lyrics by Justin Levine. $30.

Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Guest Artist 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

A Bit About It 3pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Cooking Demo with Chef Peter Shelsky 10am-12pm. Using the morning's harvest. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

The Rocky Horror Show 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Ikebana Flower Arrangement Lesson 10am-12pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

The Miss Firecracker Contest 3pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Backyard Medicine Chest 11am-1pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

SUNDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Women's Circle 2pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Classes The Roosevelts Call for times. Week-long session includes classroom instruction, related field trips, appreciation of the local arts and a scenic cruise on the Hudson River. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076.

Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS (2787).

Catskill Animal Sanctuary Cooking Class: Vegan Soups & Stews 10am-4pm. $60. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Rip Van Winkle Wacky Raft Race 8am. Proceeds from the race will benefit Village of Catskill Beautification. $25. Riverfront Park, Athens.

(518) 943-7117.

Romeo and Juliet 6pm. Powerhouse Apprentice Company Performance.

Outdoor Amphitheater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged) 8pm. Performed by Chenango River Theatre & copresented with Exit 18 Theater Company. $24/$20 members and NP faculty/$12 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Workshops Making Toys and Games Call for times. Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes. 228-2685.

Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Angel Channeling 6:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & the Community.

Talking Stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 7pm-8:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Evening Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:30pm. $40 series/$12 class. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Classes

Kids Make a Splash! Read!

Call for times. Water-themed stories and activities.

Grades K-3. Roe-Jan Community Library, Hillsdale.

(518) 325-4101.

ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Writing Box Program 3:15pm-4:30pm. Weekly activities that will encourage children to express themselves through writing.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Afternoon with Bob Lusk 12:30pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Langhorne Slim And The Low Anthem 8pm. $15/$12. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Spoken Word Beating the Blues 6pm-7pm. Men's support groups focusing on depression and anger, caring for yourself, what it means to be a healthy male. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Through the Looking Glass 6pm-7pm. Women's' support group focusing on selfesteem, nutrition, setting goals and making personal boundaries. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Workshops Ancient Tonics for Health 7pm-9pm. $25/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

WEDNESDAY 21

Classes

Art

Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Prehistoric Marine Life: Teen Craft Program 2:30pm-4:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling.

855-3444.

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Stephen Singer plays Bernie Madoff in the Stageworks/Hudson production of "Imagining Madoff" this month.

The Bilking Ilk The man who bilked people out of $65 billion seems an unlikely subject of a play. But in an era rife with antiheroes, when even the Enron suits merit a Broadway musical, why shouldn’t Bernie Madoff’s rise and fall be the stuff of stage drama?

But celebrated off-Broadway playwright Deborah Margolin, whose "Imagining Madoff" opens this month at Stageworks/Hudson, wasn’t looking for a theatrical equivalent of angry mobs with torches. Instead, she wanted to understand what motivated Madoff to maintain his Ponzi scheme for two decades, before a judge sentenced him to 150 years for crimes against humanity.

“The beauty of theater,” says Margolin, who has been writing and acting since the late 70s, is that “you’re going to have to find a clinical compassion for whomever you are representing—to drop down into the body or the mind of the character you’re writing for, or portraying, and see the world through that person’s eyes.”

When the playwright began "Imagining" last year, she had to do so literally; Madoff had been notoriously tight-lipped, betraying neither motive nor emotion as he testified in court before the world. Therefore, Margolin was forced to speculate what possessed the man to persist in his pyramid deals and how he rationalized it personally.

“I listened for his voice,” she says. In the play, Madoff sits in his cell, discussing his situation with an obedient assistant and a wise man that challenges his amorality.

(The wise man was originally meant to be Eli Weisel, but the philosopher-Holocaust scribe balked at being depicted.)

Margolin depicts a deeply cynical man who sees only a greedy world and, bolstered by his presumptions, simply mirrors that persona. Nonetheless, even this monster tailor-made for a new “Me Decade” emerges, under Margolin’s expert treatment, as a complicated person weighing the chances for redemption. (The scenario brings to

mind Roy Cohn in "Angels in America," railing on his deathbed.)

“I sought and found his humanity,” she said, “twisted, numb, and neglected by him as that was.”

One of the first people to read the first draft was Laura Margolis, founder and artistic director of Stageworks/Hudson. At the time last summer, she was staging a Margolin one-act titled "This Is What I Wanted" for their annual one-act festival. Margolis offered to mount the Madoff play this summer, Stageworks’ 15th season, “I think she’s an astonishing, visionary director,“ says Margolin, an Obie award winner for lifetime achievement, of Margolis, who offered direction and support for a second draft of the text. “I have been educated by every conversation I’ve had with her.”

Presenting offbeat works is the mandate of Stageworks/Hudson, Margolis says.

Conventional “kitchen sink plays” are avoided, as are revivals of crowd-pleasing classics. In the past, when Margolis strayed from her commitment to edgy pieces, “our audiences have gotten angry at us.”

Joining "Imagining Madoff" this season is "Or," a postmodern imagining of a feminist rebel in 1660s England by Liz Duffy Adams (ending July 4); "The Amish Project" by Jessica Dickey (August 18-September 5), which examines a tragedy in this close-knit community; and the annual Play by Play Festival (September 29-October 10).

"This year’s plays," says Stageworks’ Margolis, ”send a very strong message but without being political.”

"Imagining Madoff" by Deborah Margolin, July 21-August 8 at Stageworks/Hudson, 41-A Cross Street, Hudson. Tickets $18-$29. (518) 822-9667; www.stageworkshudson.org.

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Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Channeling Group 7pm-9pm. Guidance from a very wise, loving and compassionate spirit to help us on our journey. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm; Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Margaret McDuffie 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Events

String of Pearls 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Business Luncheon 12pm-1:30pm. New Paltz Chamber of Commerce. $25/$20. Ship Lantern Inn, Marlboro. 795-5400.

Basically Baroque 7:30pm. Music Institute of Sullivan and Ulster Counties.

St John's Episcopal Church, Ellenville. 647-7084.

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Theater

Film The All-Time "Best" Baseball Movies 7pm. Call library for specific title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Eric Person & Meta-Four 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Kathleen Edwards 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Highlights from the Hancock Shaker Village Collection: Recreational Artifacts and Shaker Pets 2pm. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(800) 817-1137.

Theater Imagining Madoff 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Imagining Madoff 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

FRIDAY 23 Art A Little Space for Artists 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Friends and Family—A Multicultural Retreat Call for times. A retreat for families, ages 5 years and up.

Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls.

(518) 589-5000.

Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Interviewing the Audience 8pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Miss Firecracker Contest 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Workshops Ed Kashi: Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Flexible and Forgiving Recipes and Improvisations for Your CSA Share 5pm-9pm. $70. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent.

(518) 672-7500 ext. 105.

SATURDAY 24 Art Photography Now: Either/And 5pm-7pm. Part 2: The New Docugraphics. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Brenda Goodman: Work: 1990 – 2010 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

Body / Mind / Spirit Zero Balancing Review Day Call for times. NYS CEU approved. Charles Ruland NYS LMT. Call for location. 532-1323.

Master Teachers Channeling Intensive 1pm-5pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $40. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Full Moon Ceremony 6:30pm-12am. $10. CosM, Wappingers Falls. 297-2323.

Dance

Workshops

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.

Shaker Seminar: Hancock Shaker Village Call for times. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

Crystals Experience Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Phil Mansfield: Intro to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Events

Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham.

(518) 392-3353.

Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities. Millerton. www.neccmillerton.org/farmers.htm.

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut.

(860) 927-3377.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

THURSDAY 22 Body / Mind / Spirit Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 6:30pm-8pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Psychic Development 6:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Teen Yoga 6:30pm-7:45pm. Ages 11-16. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 6:30pm-8pm. Catskill Public Library, Catskill.

(518) 943-4230.

Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge.

687-4836.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 7pm-8pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Portrait & Figure Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

3 Dimensional Design 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Events Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Film The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Kids Make a Splash! Read!

9am-10am. Water-themed stories and activities. Grades K-3.

Roe-Jan Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Mad Science: Science Mysteries and Fantastic Forces 1pm-4pm. Grades 3-6. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

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Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087.

Film Fantastic Mr. Fox 6pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Kids Backyard Detectives 10am-11am. Stories and activities about backyard creatures. Ages 3-5. Roe-Jan Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Kids' Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-11. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Music Kitt Potter & Matt Finck 7pm. Jazz. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Norm Wennet 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Push 8pm. Rock. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

The Rocky Horror Show 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Imagining Madoff 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Eric Erickson 9pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Theater The Rocky Horror Show Call for times. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Pirate 2pm/8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

Interviewing the Audience 5pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Imagining Madoff 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Miss Firecracker Contest 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Workshops Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. $110/$90 session/$350/$300 series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Tarot Journey: Discovering Simple, Yet Profound Tarot

Events

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

The Third Annual Otis Arts Festival 9am-3pm. Artists and artisans. Farmington River Elementary School, Otis. (413) 269-0220.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. In a Pickle: The Healthy Eating Series. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. www.welcometocatskill.com.

Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 5pm-8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Millay Colony Open House 5pm-8pm. Music, cocktail part, art exhibit. $75/$20 children. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Kids Origami Foldfest - Marine Life with Anita Barbour 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Cinderella 11am. Kids on Stage. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music

Celtic Woman Call for times. Irish music. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Will Rawls: Census 8pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Sabor Con Colour 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Theater

LA & the Hit Squad

Pet Communication Workshop

Piano Summer Call for times. Pianist Haesun Paik. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Vickie Russell 8pm. Contemporary. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

831-4988.

8pm. Country. $25-$75. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 094-2690 ext.1344.

New England Dance Party 8pm. Contras, squares & waltzes with live music, lesson at 7:30. $10. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

The Arturo O'Farrill Family Band 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Charlie Daniels Band

Paul Roach & The Young Lions 12pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Doug Marcus 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Pedja Muzijevic, Piano 6pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Stewart Lewis 7pm. Singer/songwriter. $5. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie.

483-7300.

Cosi Fan Tutte 7pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

11am-1pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Readings 11:30am-3pm. $50/$40. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

SUNDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-4pm. The recording of our soul imprint revealed with June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Arts in the Hudson Valley Call for times. Week-long session includes classroom instruction, related field trips, appreciation of the local arts and a scenic cruise on the Hudson River. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076.

Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-ARTS (2787).

Catskill Animal Sanctuary Cooking Class: Vegan Desserts 10am-4pm. $60. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

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.

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.

Catskill Mountain Chapter of ASD-Dowsers Meeting 1pm-3pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Guided Walking Tour 2pm. $5. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Test 5:30pm. $20 membership fee. The Rosendale Pool, Rosendale. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

TUESDAY 27

Film Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films.

Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Kids Sleepaway Summer Camp Session 3 Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Music Aleksis Bilmanis 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Trio Solisti 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Walsh-Drucker-Cooper Trio 5pm. $35/$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Painted Betty 5:30pm-7:30pm. Acoustic country blues and jazz.

Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring.

Spoken Word Commemorating Operation Babylift 2pm. Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Theater Pirate 2pm/8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Imagining Madoff 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Interviewing the Audience 2pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

The Rocky Horror Show 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Miss Firecracker Contest 3pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Workshops Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit Message Circle 7pm-8:30pm. Receive messages from your loved ones in the after life. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Ukrainian Folk Art: Embroidery Call for times. $60. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett.

(518) 989-6479.

Mudpies and Masterpieces Call for times. For younger children. Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes. 228-2685.

Pencils, Clay and Paint Call for times. For older children. Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes. 228-2685.

Ukrainian Folk Singing Call for times. $110. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett.

(518) 989-6479.

Ukrainian Easter Eggs Call for times. $60. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett.

(518) 989-6479.

Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Kids The Vanaver Caravan's Summer Dance 9:30am-Friday, August 13, 3:30pm. Ages 9-teens.

Vanaver Caravan, New Paltz. 256-9300.

Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Spoken Word Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Theater Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Workshops Phil Mansfield: Intro to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Davis & Orton Create Your Website 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Aura Reading & Third Eye Initiation 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Art Artist's Salon 7pm. Middle Main Revitalization storefront artists to speak. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-0407.

Sea Monster Shadow Puppets: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. $2. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Evening Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:30pm. $40 series/$12 class. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Full Moon Crystal Sound Healing 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Garnier. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Drawing & Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Events Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 7pm-9pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 853-5798.

Film Bells Are Ringing 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Kids Make a Splash! Read!

Call for times. Water-themed stories and activities.

Grades K-3. Roe-Jan Community Library, Hillsdale.

(518) 325-4101.

ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Writing Box Program 3:15pm-4:30pm. Weekly activities that will encourage children to express themselves through writing. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Afternoon with Bob Lusk 12:30pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Eddie Fingerhut and John Pinder 8pm. Acoustic. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 4 PM TOKYO STRING QUARTET SATURDAY, JULY 3, 8 PM ACTORS & WRITERS THEATRE Admission by contribution

SUNDAY, JULY 4, 4 PM SHANGHAI QUARTET SATURDAY, JULY 10, 6 PM HAPPY TRAUM SUNDAY, JULY 11, 4 PM PARKER QUARTET, with SHAI WOSNER, PIANO SATURDAY, JULY 17, 6 PM STEVE GORN & FRIENDS SUNDAY, JULY 18, 4 PM IMANI WINDS SATURDAY, JULY 24, 6 PM PEDJA MUZIJEVIC, PIANO SATURDAY, JULY 25, 4 PM TRIO SOLISTI

YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS Saturdays at 11 am July 10, 17, 31, August 7

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Workshops Photo Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Landscape photographer Robert Rodriguez, Jr., Long Dock Beacon, Beacon. 473-4440 ext. 273.

WEDNESDAY 28 JULY

Online & Phone Ticketing 800-595-4TIX

845-679-8217 • MaverickConcerts.org www.vanavercaravan.org

Beating the Blues 6pm-7pm. Men's support groups focusing on depression and anger, caring for yourself, what it means to be a healthy male. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Theater

$25 General Admission Students $5 with ID Reserved Seats $40

120 MAVERICK RD., WOODSTOCK NY 12498

Spoken Word

Through the Looking Glass 6pm-7pm. Women's' support group focusing on selfesteem, nutrition, setting goals and making personal boundaries. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

TICKETS

Join us at our annual SummerDance and SummerDance On Tour! programs at beautiful Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz, NY Caravan Kids Week July 19-23, 9-3 Ages 4-8 yr. olds

SummerDance July 26 - Aug. 6 Ages 9-teens

SummerDance On Tour!

Aug. 7 - 13

Highlights of this year’s program will include: Dances of India, Site Specific Dance, Tap & Percussive, Modern Release, Ballet, Afro-Brazillian Capoeira & West African Drum and Dance

Art Prehistoric Marine Life: Teen Craft Program 2:30pm-4:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

(845) 256-9300 • Waterstreet Market, 10 Main Street, Suite 322, New Paltz, NY

Body / Mind / Spirit Skin Health & UV Safety 7:15pm-8:15pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm; Intermediate Level: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Butchery 101 Call for times. Weeklong course. Fleisher's Grass-Fed, Rhinebeck. 876-7507.

Dance Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 8pm. $40. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Events 28th Annual DeLisio Memorial Golf Tournament Call for times. benefits the Special Olympics of New York. $105. Woodstock Golf Club, Woodstock.

705-7584.

Summer Business Card Exchange 7:30am-9am. $15. Woodland Pond, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Antique Fair and Flea Market July 31 & Aug 1 - 2010 at the

WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, Rt. 29, GREENWICH, NY (12 mi. East of Saratoga Springs, NY)

$2 admission,

(65+ $1, under-16 - FREE)

Old-Fashioned Antique Show featuring 160+ dealers, free parking, great food, and real bathrooms. ($10 - Early Buyers Fridays before show)

$85 - Dealer Spaces Still Available: FAIRGROUND SHOWS NY PO Box 3938, Albany NY 12203 www.fairgroundshows.com fairgroundshows@aol.com Ph. 518-331-5004

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FRIDAY 30

Film The All-Time "Best" Baseball Movies 7pm. Call library for specific title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Taeko 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Theater Imagining Madoff 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

Workshops Phil Mansfield: Intro to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THURSDAY 29 Body / Mind / Spirit Clark Strand's Green Meditation Weekly Practice 5:30pm-6:30pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 7pm-8pm. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Art

Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Electric Windows Call for times. 23 artists painting live. Open Space Gallery, Beacon. www.electricwindowsbeacon.com.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Events Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for times. Fun, food, music, sales and activities for all ages. Kent, Connecticut. www.kentct.com.

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.

Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087.

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut.

(860) 927-3377.

Film Into the Wild: The Documentary 6pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Kids

Classes

Backyard Detectives 10am-11am. Stories and activities about backyard creatures. Ages 3-5. Roe-Jan Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Portrait & Figure Painting 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Kids' Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-11. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

3 Dimensional Design 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Music

Events

Piano Summer Call for times. Symphony Gala with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for times. Fun, food, music, sales and activities for all ages. Kent, Connecticut. www.kentct.com.

Franz Schreker: The Distant Sound 7pm. $25/$55/$75. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

An Evening with STING 8pm. Featuring the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. $36-$180. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Film The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Kids Make a Splash! Read!

9am-10am. Water-themed stories and activities. Grades K-3. Roe-Jan Community Library, Hillsdale.

(518) 325-4101.

Treasure Your Library Costume Party 1pm. Come as a pirate, mermaid, sea creature, shell or sailor. Crafts, activities, and snacks. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

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Javon Jackson Quintet 8pm. $25. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

Steve Earle: Hot Tuna 8pm. $36.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Roswell Rudd Quartet 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert 8:30pm. Boston Symphony Orchestra. $9-$89.

Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Reality Check 9pm. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.

Terra Firma 6pm-8pm. Photographs by Victoria Sambunaris. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.

Body / Mind / Spirit Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Classes Catskill Animal Sanctuary Cooking Class: Tempeh, Tofu, and Seitan 10am-4pm. $60. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Events Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for times. Fun, food, music, sales and activities for all ages. Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-1463.

Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls.

297-8110.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities. Millerton, Millerton. http://www.neccmillerton. org/farmers.htm.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Senior Day. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326.

Hyde Park' Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Catskill Region Farmers’ & Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

4th Annual Ann Street Market 10am-4pm. Ann Street Municipal Lot, Newburgh.

562-6940 ext. 109.

Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 5pm-8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Kids Cinderella 11am. Kids on Stage. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra Call for times. Featuring soloist Idina Menze. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Young People’s Concert: Betty MacDonald 11am. Jazz. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 6798217.

Music

Spoken Word

Paul Roach & The Young Lions 12pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Professional Development Series Discussion III: The Fine Art of Negotiation 9am-11am. $15. SUNY New Paltz School of Business, New Paltz. 255-0243.

4th Annual Blues and Jazz Festival 5pm-10pm. Downtown Peekskill, Peekskill. downtownpeekskill.com.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jesse Lege and Bayou Brew 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Jazz Pioneers 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Matthias Goerne and Andreas Haefliger 8pm. Brahms and Schumann. $17-$51. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Appalachian Voices: 9pm. Yim Yames (Jim James of My Morning Jacket), Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore. $25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Theater Imagining Madoff 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 8pm. $30. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

I Am an Emotional Creature 8pm. The Secret Life of Girls Around the World. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Rocky Horror Show 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Doug Tallamy 7pm. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook.

677-5343.

Theater A Midsummer Night's Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Pirate 8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

Imagining Madoff 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Rocky Horror Show 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

F TO M 8pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 8pm. $30. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Workshops Archives and Ephemera: Poetry with Ronaldo Wilson Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Color, Light & Feeling Workshop Call for times. Taught by Alex and Allyson Grey. $300.

CosM, Wappingers Falls. 297-2323.

Chico Hamilton 7pm. Brown Drown opening. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Providers 9pm. Blues. Lia's Mountain View, Pine Plains.

(518) 398-7311.

Spoken Word Alexander Dumbadze on Dan Flavin 1pm. Gallery talk. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

Theater A Short History of Women 2pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Pirate 2pm/8pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

A Midsummer Night's Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere 5pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Imagining Madoff 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

1940's Radio Hour 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Karinne Keithley - Montgomery Park, or Opulence 8pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper.

688-9893.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Workshops Art Workshop Series Call for times. Henry Horenstein The Unseen Landscape Portia Munson Scanner as Camera. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. $110/$90 session/$350/$300 series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

SUNDAY 1 AUGUST Art Artist's Way Cluster 11am-1pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Classes Butchery 101 Call for times. Weeklong course. Fleisher’s Grass-Fed, Rhinebeck. 876-7507.

A Wealth of History and Fine Food in the Hudson River Valley Call for times. Week-long session includes classroom instruction, related field trips, appreciation of the local arts and a scenic cruise on the Hudson River. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076.

Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-.

Photographing the Nude in the Landscape 12pm-6pm. With Dan McCormack. Weekly through August 22. $220/$200 members/$80 model fee. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Events

Upstage NY Community Coffeehouse 7pm. $5. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for times. Fun, food, music, sales and activities for all ages. Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-1463.

Open Mike Night 7pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro.

888-2547.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country 7pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

19th Annual Woodstock Beat Concert 8pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

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.

Regina Carter's Reverse Thread 8pm. Jazz. $25. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount.

(180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Test 5:30pm. $20 membership fee. The Rosendale Pool, Rosendale. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

Benefit Concert. Happy Birthday Frederick Chopin!

8pm. $20. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett.

(518) 989-6479.

Film

Boston Symphony Orchestra 8:30pm. $18-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Los Straitjackets 8:30pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Soul Purpose 9pm. Gold Fox Restaurant, Gardiner. 255-3700.

David Kraai and Saddletramps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Core 9pm. Rock. Creekside Restaurant, Catskill.

(518) 943-6522.

Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films.

Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Music Karen Davis 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Cosi Fan Tutte 2pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

art a snake that sheds its skin is still a snake

2:30pm. $19-$99. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Stephen Clair Band 5:30pm-7:30pm. Urban roots troubador. Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring.

Doc Watson with Richard Watson & David Holt 7:30pm. Mix of mountain music, blues and early country music. $34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra 7:30pm. $65-$110. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Theater On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Call for times. $30. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Pirate 2pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5599.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Imagining Madoff 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Friends with Kids 2pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

The Rocky Horror Show 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Umbrage 5pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-5902.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

Workshops Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 2 AUGUST Classes Ukrainian Folk Art: Traditional Ritual Baking Call for times. $60. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett.

(518) 989-6479.

Ukrainian Folk Art: Gerdany Call for times. $60. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett.

(518) 989-6479.

Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

Kids Camp Kindness at Catskill Animal Sanctuary

Stills from the video Hymyth by Steven Strauss and Phil Hennion. 2010.

9am-Friday, August 6, 2:30pm. Gardening, barn chores, vegan cooking classes, and spend plenty of quality time with the animals. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Cirkus Arts Summer Program 2:30pm-Friday, August 6, 5pm. Ages 8-11. $175.

Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts, West Taghkanic. (518) 851-5501.

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Music

This month at Surprenant Art and Design, “A Snake That Sheds Its Skin Is Still a Snake,” a two-man show featuring new work

by Steven Strauss and Phil Hennion. The exhibition intertwines three strands: geometric paintings by Hennion, “Memento Mori”; photographs by Strauss, “Rampage”; and an eight-minute digital video, Hymyth, that is a collaboration between the two artists. The images above, selected from Strauss’s “Rampage” series, examine the decomposing line between artist and amateur in the age of digital photography, and question the validity of living our lives out loud online, posting the unvarnished, intimate details of our existence, as if we were all actors in one global reality show. “We impulsively and compulsively add to [the Internet] hoping to stake a claim and leave an enviable illusion,” Strauss says. “Striking any pose to attract a voyeur, people and places meld to create a glossy new world of desperate exhibitionism.”

“A Snake That Sheds Its Skin Is Still a Snake” will be exhibited from July 3 through August 3 at Surprenant Art and Deisgn, 324 Wall Street, Kingston. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 3 from 5 to 7 pm. www.gallerysurprenant.com.

—Brian K. Mahoney

Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra 7:30pm. $65-$110. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Workshops Historic Timber Frame Construction and Restoration 8am-Thursday, August 12, 6pm. $1100. Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon.

(518) 794-9100.

Davis & Orton Create Your Website 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

The Element: Water

A

s the past two months have developed, the situation in the Gulf of Mexico has reached new dimensions of dire, and the story has followed the pattern of every other chemical disaster, only on a scale that few people can imagine.

It’s as if human greed and hubris have unleashed a pestilence of mythical proportions. The undersea well uncontrollably gushing out oil, turning the ocean to blood, is like a vision of the end of days more apropos of the Book of Revelation than the New York Times. The question is: What is the message?

After many failed attempts to stanch the flow of oil, BP used robots to cut the riser pipe and installed a new “top hat” to collect some of the oil. This has increased the flow substantially, and the company may actually be siphoning up less than the overall increase. Currently, that oil is being burned—not collected—because BP lacked the foresight to move a second tanker to the scene to hold the oil. This, despite its promise that the collected oil would be sold and the proceeds used to help wildlife. This is consistent with BP’s pattern of incompetence and pathological lying.

Here, we have a key component in the spiritual piece of this issue: the constant transaction of deception that keeps these big industries alive, and which allows them to do the damage that they do. Now, we need to investigate further and look for our own role in the problem. If we’re going to move past this, we need to figure out what this says about us.

A Change to the Natural World In addition to the economic costs of this disaster, we are losing one of the world’s most beautiful ecosystems, as we watch. The Gulf of Mexico is a magnificent inland sea; it’s a world apart, with warm water on average less than a mile deep, and a sea floor comprised of canyons, continental shelf, reefs, and many other features. Its vast wetlands—the marshy places where land meets water, and the brackish places where river meets sea—are breeding grounds for many of the creatures who live there. Before humans arrived, the Gulf of Mexico was an aquatic paradise, and is no doubt home to numerous living relics of other epochs of history.

Every time you hear someone talk about cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico, you can be sure they have no clue. It’s one thing to shovel up sludge—that’s a cosmetic cleanup.

There seems to be little effort to get the oil out of the water, and most of the booms (which are barely effective) are not being tended.

Petroleum is a concentrated toxin and water is extremely sensitive. We learned from the Exxon Valdez spill that oil is toxic to fish eggs at one part per billion. That’s like a quart of oil in 250 million gallons of seawater. A single drop can render 21,000 gallons of seawater a substance toxic to fish. We may be far past an average of one part per billion in the Gulf, and unless we distill the entire Gulf of Mexico, or those petroleum-eating

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microbes really work and someone uses them, we cannot get that out of the water.

Then there are the millions of gallons of dispersants (which might harm the oileating microbes, if anyone thinks to use them), which are toxic in themselves and which convert the oil into plumes of benzene-laced snot. These are being injected underwater for the first time in history, and are made of secret ingredients (the ingredients are proprietary), but to the best of my knowledge seem to consist of kerosene and propylene glycol. The latter has a property of sucking oxygen out of the water. A gallon of propylene glycol in seawater does the oxygen depletion damage of a million gallons of raw sewage. Countless fish in the Gulf of Mexico are dying of asphyxiation in oxygen-depleted waters.

I hate using the words millions and billions, but there are few other ways to convey the scale of the situation, or the relative toxicity of the chemicals involved. And in truth you don’t need that. You just need to imagine a dolphin with her eyes burning, or see an oil-soaked pelican, to know the truth.

BP filed fraudulent permit applications with the United States Government, and the Minerals Management Service and other agencies approved them. The application talks about protecting walruses, which are native to the Arctic. The application said there was zero chance of damage to coastlines and wildlife. BP listed a University of Florida professor who had already been dead four years as a contact in case of a spill, though claiming there was no chance of a spill happening, and no chance of oil from a rig 48 miles from shore ever reaching the coastline.

If you’re familiar with the history of the chemical industry, you know this is same old, same old. Nothing ever goes wrong, nothing ever will, and no matter how bad a chemical is, nothing is ever toxic. If people get sick, something else caused that. The places where the chemical spill happened are then decreed to be cleaner than other places. There is a word in the antichemical movement for people who get on TV and spew toxic lies: nozzleheads, a reference to the device that sprays pesticides into the air.

We need a word for the people who believe these lies, because it takes two to tango.

The Emotional Dimension If you’re into esoteric studies you have no doubt started to make the connection to what this means for the element water. Water is the element of the emotions, and much else. Now toxic material from another dimension is spewing up into the pool of our feelings. We have an image of what this says about the human condition.

There are many watery references in our current astrology. Jupiter and Uranus were in Pisces at the time of the blowout, and both will return there for a brief spell this summer. Neptune has been getting many transits lately.

And Chiron entered Pisces the very day of the blowout. Chiron last left Pisces in the

late 1960s and has not been there since. Chiron calls attention to the flaws in systems, and focuses attention on whatever it touches—in this case, water. We know we have emotional issues in our culture. We know from the anger, frustration, confusion, fear, jealousy, resentment, and depression that are so representative of our culture’s emotional body. We tend to treat these issues like they don’t exist, and stuff them into the unconscious. If the truth hurts, there’s nothing like a lie to make us feel better—­­and that explains why we love to be lied to so much—why, indeed, we nearly insist upon it.

Now we have an uncontrolled toxic release contaminating the realm of feelings, dreams, and visions. More significantly, the sensitive, fertile meeting places where land meets water are taking the worst beating, and will take the longest to return to a position where they can sustain life. This region where land meets water is where we go for inspiration, rejuvenation, and those rare moments of relaxation. And now that space, on the Earth and in our psyches, is being fouled.

The late Ted Andrews, author of Animal Speak, said the element water is “the symbol of creation, passion and even sexuality. It is the element of all life. It is the symbol of new dimensions and new forces.” In other words, water is the breeding ground of consciousness, and represents an inner frontier. We are getting a vivid picture of the toxicity we already carry. How we are responding tells us how we respond to our own inner toxicity. Can we face the truth? Do we sink into despair? Do we give up or commence the work that needs to be done?

Totem Readings for Three Gulf of Mexico Creatures As I witness images of struggling animals in the Gulf, I’ve wondered what their totem meanings are: that is, what they represent. The animals all have gifts and represent different parts of our human experience. I wanted to scope out this information, so I looked up in Animal Speak three of the creatures who used to thrive in the Gulf of Mexico.

Pelicans. These gorgeous, friendly, and ancient shore birds were around for 37 million years before humans arrived. Andrews says that a common misconception about pelicans is that they store food in their beaks, which is not true; their stretchy bill is like a fishing net. He suggests that when the pelican shows up, we need to consider whether we are storing something that should not be stored.

Pelicans are cooperative birds. They don’t compete for nesting grounds. They have a self-sacrificing quality. And under normal conditions, they cannot sink. They can take off and fly even when their feathers are laden with water. “Symbolically, this hints at being able to be buoyant and to rest on top in spite of the heaviness of life circumstances,” Andrews writes. “The pelican teaches us that no matter how difficult life becomes, no matter how much you plunge—you can pop up to the surface. The pelican holds the knowledge of how to rise above life’s trials.”

Turtles. We live on Turtle Island. According to Gary Snyder, this was one of the names given by the natives to North America. The earliest known turtles date from 215 million years ago. Sea turtles generally breathe air, but under dire conditions can also extract oxygen from water. They are opportunistic eaters; they eat what’s available, and thus represent our relationship to opportunity.

Andrews suggests that the turtle “unites heaven and earth” and he refers to it as the Keeper of the Doors: the gateway to the fairy realm. Because turtles live so long­—some live for 80 years, and their species is one of the most ancient among reptiles—the turtle is about understanding our perception of time.

“The turtle is the symbol of the primal mother,” he writes. “To the Native Americans, the turtle was a symbol of Mother Earth and a reminder that she provides for all our needs”—if we take care of her. Because all turtles lay eggs on land, they are a link between the earthly and watery realms. In one version of the cosmic story, existence rests on the back of a turtle, who stands on the back of another turtle, and it’s turtles all the way down.

Dolphins. Dolphins, too, are world bridgers. Extremely intelligent, they are among the seafaring mammals. Like sea turtles, they live underwater and breathe air. What is interesting about dolphins is that despite their many reasons to distrust humans, they still offer us their friendship, trust, and curiosity. Many divers have been saved from shark attacks by dolphins, and Elian Gonzales, the refugee boy from Cuba, was found surrounded by them. Andrews says they represent the power of breath and sound.

“Dolphins can open new creation and dimensions to a great degree. Water is essential to life, but so is breath. Many techniques for breathing exist that teach how proper use of breath can be used to induce altered states and align oneself with new dimensions of life.”

He adds: “When you can align yourself with the dolphin through breathing you can have dolphin take you to all the places and times that existed before the great seas covered most of the world. Dolphin can lead you to underground caverns and the primordial beginnings of yourself.”

They both communicate and navigate by sound, which Andrews describes as “the creative life force. Sound came forth out of the womb of silence and created all things.

Learning to create inner sounds so that you can create outer manifestations is part of what dolphin can teach.”

This is enough to give the impression that the Gulf of Mexico is like a portal to another dimension—one that is rapidly vanishing, as most of us merely watch.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes ARIES (March 20-April 19) Free will, and freedom in general, is among the greatest challenges that most people ever face. One common response is to panic at the notion of potential and the opportunity to choose. Another is to run away with power and see how much abuse one can foist on the world. But the most common response is to go to sleep and pretend that there is no freedom. As it works out, none of these are viable for you; rather, you’re finally in a position where you must take on both potential and the responsibility of freedom, as well as the power and the sense of danger that comes with it. These are all acting simultaneously on your chart, and therefore your psyche. You have the right to be nervous, but I would not call that a privilege, and I don’t suggest you indulge it any more than is necessary. Simmering down more aspects than I could write about in a good-length article, we get one bold theme: you’re ready to step into an expanded vision of yourself. This means being fully present for your own life and showing up for your relationships in a new way. If there’s a sacrifice involved, it’s a kind of habitual insecurity that you ignite on the altar of progress. This comes in the form of one decision that is imminent now that affects both your most intimate private life and your most assertive professional life.

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One thing you get to figure out this month is the extent to which your emotions and your thoughts influence one another. I guess a male chauvinist would call this “thinking like a woman,” but plenty of men are famous for it. Our whole society, supposedly so male dominated, seems to be based on an exaggerated form of emoting that passes for reason. To the extent you feel trapped inside something, it may be this very phenomenon. Part of where you get lost is believing that the opposite of sensitivity is brutal rationality: the kind found in law books. Therefore, the obvious place to retreat is into the soft world of sentimentality. By the way, such a trip may be an exaggerated version of your parental drama, wherein you are caught in the middle. Both sides in this supposed struggle for reality are cartoons. There is an emotional basis for intelligence, and all learning is a process of listening, reasoning, and synthesis.

You’re an intuitive thinker, and you may indeed know things before you know them. If you find yourself demanding proof, the wise thing to do would be to pause for a little while and wait for confirmation. You’re probably not building skyscrapers, chemical plants, or nuclear bombs; you’re navigating your way through the uncertainties and creative opportunities of life. A lower standard of proof is appropriate. There’s such a thing as true enough, as long as you leave your mind open to learn more.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) You may be afraid that you’re going to lose your focus, so recently discovered after so much effort. But what good is focus if you can’t keep it? It’s a little like being fully committed part of the time. What would happen if you were fully committed all of the time? I know the C-word has implications something you cannot get out of. Yet if you’re unable to do what’s important to you, that also has a feeling of something you cannot get out of. Here’s my theory: You usually don’t know what you want, or you don’t let yourself admit it. When you do know, or when you do admit it, you’re perfectly capable of sticking to a goal. When your awareness slips, so, too, does your power to achieve.

The only thing that’s really changed during the past couple of months is that you’ve been aware of what you want, in specific terms. Perhaps you’ve refined “wanting to be a writer” to “wanting to write screenplays.” Somehow you forgot the part about how doing the thing you want allegedly prevents you from doing everything else. Now all you need is to remember that one thing, without the reminders or accidental opportunities you’ve been lucky enough to have. You really can do this on your own. You have the strength to focus, and you’re finally a good enough sailor to move with the tides of your emotions without drowning.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’re getting a rare glimpse into how others experience you in your relationships. This is another way of saying you have an opportunity to feel how much you influence the people in your life—and how much they influence you. This is an important topic of study for you now because your relationships have the feeling of being under some unusual pressure (and I speak here for both Cancer Sun and ascendant). This involves the longterm placement of Pluto in your 7th house of partners. It would be an understatement to say that the metabolism of your relationships is increasing, and that you’re rethinking entirely your role as a partner, lover or spouse.

It would also be an understatement to suggest that most people have little sense of how “their” concept of what it means to be in a relationship is an antique that’s been passed down through the generations, and is treated by each new generation like it’s some kind of precious heirloom or brilliant new innovation, when really it’s nothing of the kind. Pluto moving through this house is unearthing many previously concealed dysfunctional old values, at the same time bringing new life into your desire to connect with individuals, with humanity, and with your environment. An unusually potent total eclipse of the Sun in your own sign on July 11 emphasizes the point that one must be one’s own partner first, and anyone else’s partner second.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) As far as I can tell, most of what we do in relationships involves compensating for some sense of our “self” being missing or incomplete.

That’s why after a while we notice that we “don’t quite feel ourselves” in the relationship, or that we’re not who we want to be; then we get restless and leave the relationship in order to “be” that self. In many ways your whole life has been a quest to go beyond this: to not just define but to actually experience yourself as a whole person, capable of relating to another whole person. What you may not have factored in is that generations of conditioning have led what you’ve been overcoming. In this conditioning, so common to the human experience, we’re taught to be self-sacrificing before we have the experience of self-actualizing. Events this month will shine some light on your distant past, and that of your family, so that you can see the origins of your tendencies. You may make discoveries about what happened to ancestors, about the folklore through the line of women that has shaped your experience of life, and certain facts about your gestation that formed you into who you are and what you are now outgrowing. Note that all of these discoveries will come with a factor of “plausible deniability.” The truth will be easy to evade, and equally possible to embrace, if you are willing. By now, you are surely able.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) You may sense or fear that an impact is coming, and you’re tired of living like a shock absorber. With any luck, those days are behind you, though you have one little project left: learning how to stabilize your feelings about yourself. Much of the impact you take comes from various judgments you inflict on yourself. Most of these, in turn, come from not having the same opinion of yourself from day to day; and you might want to address this point. You could, for example do a study and determine who you are, and establish what kind of a person you are, and test that out and see if it’s true. What I’m wondering, though, is why you’re so obsessed with your opinion of yourself, no matter what that turns out to be. Perhaps you’re doing the job of someone whose judgments of you were dire and negative. One possibility is that the whole exercise proves you exist. This became a burden you took on, feeling like if you did all the judging, they would never get the chance. There is now someone in your life presenting a different influence entirely, whose example teaching you how to let go of your self-conscious quality. This person’s influence is saying: your concept of “self” is a trap, and if you can let go of that, you can find the way to freedom. And that, by the way, is the “impact” you sense arriving.

LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Saturn enters your sign this month. After a brief visit earlier in the year, it retreated to Virgo and will now spend the next 24 months right with you. This journey starts off with some thunder and lightning: the 5th and final opposition of Saturn and Uranus, capping off a sequence of events that began on Election Day 2008. The prior four oppositions took place in late Virgo and Pisces, veiled from your direct view. July’s event is the one and only opposition across the Aries-Libra axis, which makes it especially personal. Saturn’s role is to help you tie up the loose ends in your life, and there seem to be many. I suggest you overemphasize matters of commitment, consistency, and follow-through. There will be times you’re called upon to make firm, clear decisions, which may contrast with the style of wait and see you inherited from your child-self. Remember that you’re only and always deciding one thing, which is who you are. Many external forces are influencing you to change and grow. Yet something deeper and more substantial is at work, which is a return to the deepest core of your self-awareness and a fundamental coming-to-terms with both your true nature and your true potential. This is about taking action, and one thing you can be confident of is that when you do that, the world will rise to the occasion and meet you full on.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) You’re been in pursuit of your core creative fire, and so far this has been an interesting jaunt. Plenty else is going on around you. But most of has been developing in the next room over, speaking in the psychic sense of that: You’ve known it affects you. You can now shift your focus to this other objective: actively removing the emotional impediments to action. Let’s call these two things Project One and Project Two. Project One has called on you to give up attachment to your goals as a way of accessing something deeper in yourself, what we could call a pure essence and a devotion to service. Project Two is about attaining your goals, while keeping that pure essence fully in your awareness. You are now embarking on a new path of achievement without compromising your integrity. This tells you something about the order of operations: integrity check first, then actions taken in accord with that, and then a return to the level of integrity to verify that you’re focused the way you need to be. As you do this, you’ll have a new sense of accomplishment: a bit like riding a bicycle without training wheels for the first time. You will know that you’re the one maintaining your focus and devotion, and cultivating your faith as an act of will. The next few weeks contain potent astrology that establishes patterns and magnifies intentions. What you do now will help you for many months.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) You are an optimist. You know that if you expect things to go wrong, they are much likelier to; and you’ve proven to yourself many times that if you envision things going well, that’s a kind of implicit choice.

The question we all face is how to handle obstacles, and the optimist’s method is to turn them into opportunities. It seems “the world” has some catching up to do with how much you’ve accomplished, with how creative you are and with how passionate you are about what you do. You might ask: Why does “the world” make it so difficult for someone to succeed? The answer can be found in psychology. Let’s say someone pretends to be something that they’re not, and then they meet someone who is that actual thing. How is the pretender going to respond? A bit of jealousy, perhaps? A bit of anger and insecurity? And how might they compensate? Which brings me to a story around your father that’s appearing in bold colors. Imagine you had a parent who had these very characteristics. Perhaps they concealed then through some haze of denial, ambiguity, “nice guy,” alcoholic, or “gone missing.” As a kid, you made up a story to compensate for those deficiencies; then one day you realized your story was not true. This means one thing, at least: You don’t have to live up to his supposed expectations, because most likely you conjured them up yourself.

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You may feel like you’re being pushed beyond your limits, but they’re precisely the limits you don’t want. You may be coming up to the age-old question: Am I changing, is my partner changing, or is a relationship changing? The answer is all three. You may wonder whether you’re willing to take on all the responsibility (and for some, authority) that is being handed to you, and the answer is: Why would you be getting it if you were not ready? Has there ever been a time in your life when you felt more confident and safer on the planet? If so, I suggest look closely at what was influencing you, though I’m inclined to think that this moment is the time when you’re working with the most solid foundation you’ve ever had. The reason is because you finally feel safe embracing change. You know that security comes not from false confidence in who you are, but rather from embracing a measure of uncertainty and appreciating the value of mystery. You’ve probably figured out that the things that most people think make them safe don’t actually do so, and that most attempts at being certain of who one is involve clinging to what their parents taught them. You seem more determined than ever to break free from these false notions of security, and the best step you can take now is to encourage the people around you to do the same. This will be the true test of your confidence.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) This month, the two rulers of your sign—traditional planet Saturn and modern planet Uranus—face off for the fifth time in 19 months.

The opposition moves toward a conjunction that takes place in 2032, so let’s say this is an important aspect, aided by many other factors.

For example, the signs involved are Aries and Libra rather than Virgo and Pisces. The net effect is that things you’ve been thinking about, perhaps obsessively, are about to translate into a rapid sequence of decisions, movement, and action. Your planets say you’re done being reactive; you’re done being defensive; the time when you make the second move has drawn to a close. You might notice your tendency to need something to push back against, or to define yourself by what you are not. Part of what the Saturn-Uranus opposition offers is healthy contrast. You’re learning to see things in more vivid shades than you have in the past, which is a form of commitment. I suggest that you think back to November 2008, when this process began.

What can you see clearly now that was not so easy to observe then? Count the ways in which you’re obviously different than certain people you come into contact with on a regular basis. You seem to have noticed this before, though you were less likely to think that the distinctions were meaningful or worth acting on. What is your opinion today?

PISCES (February 19-March 20) Your astrology this month is all about stepping into a more visible role as a contributor to culture. It’s as if a veil gets pulled back, revealing who you are. From the outside it looks like you have some kind of creative role, and like you take the chances to bring that quality into your experience. Obviously, you’ve taken some chances, though you may at times wonder what good that did. I assure you, it did as much good as anything can, which is to both cultivate and preserve your passionate approach to existence. Take away any one of those daring endeavors and you wouldn’t be the same person, nor would you be in the same place you are now. Yet behind that veil is something else: the ability to have not just impact but also actual influence. You’re part of a changing world, and you’re part of that process of change. This is what becomes undeniable. Yet to get there, you must shed some baby fat and a few other childhood tendencies. In order to take on your new role, something about your old role must transform entirely. In your new incarnation you’ll take with you all the talent, commitment and sensitivity you started with, and leave behind your insecurity, feelings of abandonment, and tendency to struggle. Looked at one way, you are about to grow up fast. Looked at another, you’ve reached an inevitable threshold of development that you’ve been eagerly awaiting your entire life.

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Parting Shot

Richard Deon, Weehawken 2, acrylic on canvas, 58” x 47”, 2008.

A Richard Deon work contains all the elements of a political cartoon—easily discernible images, symbols, and a message. But the pieces don’t fit together. After a double-take, squinting at it, or taking a step back, it’s still puzzling.

That enigmatic encounter is exactly what Richard Deon is after. “I like to have a work that has maybe two or three different meanings that could be just as valid,” he says. “You can feel a strong sense of direction, a narrative starting to form, and you don’t know the beginning or the end but it’s in progress.”

Deon got his start doodling in his junior high social studies textbooks, creating new scenes and drawing mustaches on characters used to inform children about public institutions and history. This pastime led him to the realization that “these kinds of accidents or even technical accidents or thinking accidents could be seen as art.” Fascinated with the recurring figures in circus posters and the 1950s textbook Visualized Civics, Deon was drawn to the continuity of images suggestive of our shared exposure to the same logos 120 ChronograM 7/10

and famous faces.

Deon’s paintings are composed from a group of primarily black-and-white motifs, characters, and shapes—recognizable, universal subjects like Abraham Lincoln or Roman armor—that he places in confusing juxtapositions, creating surreal scenes. His precise, editorial eye developed in his second career as a graphic designer spills over into his art.

The empty, mustard-colored sky in Weehawken 2 looks like it’s waiting for text.

Deon likens his work to composing dreams. “You think, I’ve had this chase nightmare before but it’s a little bit different,” he says. “If dreams reuse things over and over again, maybe I should make my paintings run on a track.” For those of us who look for meaning in our dreams, Deon draws a curious link between commercialism and the subconscious.

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—Lisa Parisio