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NEWS AND POLITICS

WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS SUPPLEMENT

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C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer examine the rising interest in ethanol as gasoline prices soar, and how biofuels could starve the world’s poor.

30 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC

Laurie Capps talks to local experts about how to craft a sustainable ceremony.

80 FAMILY FUN TIME Sukey Pett offers suggestions for entertaining family in town for a wedding.

Larry Beinhart questions reports that the US is in a sustained economic recovery.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 32 GOING WITH THE FLOW Theresa Keegan reports back from last year’s Great Hudson River Paddle in advance of this year’s trip from Albany to Manhattan in early July.

37 ART OF BUSINESS: BETTER BLOOMS Ann Braybrooks visits Stems, Inc. at the Chocolate Factory in Red Hook and gets a whiff of what goes on behind the bulbs at a floral and event design studio.

94 BE YOUR OWN HERBAL EXPERT Susun S. Weed gives an introduction to herbal allies.

98 HEART SONG Composer/performer Bill Vanaver talks about his near-death experience.

BUSINESS SERVICES 68 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

BED & BREAKFAST/LODGING GUIDE

88 BUSINESS DIRECTORY

85 A COMPENDIUM OF HOTELS, INNS, AND B&BS

100 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY

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A compendium of advertiser services.

For the positive lifestyle.

Buckets of blooms at Stems, Inc. Art of Business

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ARTS & CULTURE 44 PORTFOLIO Performance artist Linda Montano.

46 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson reviews an exhibition of minipaintings by Lucio Pozzi at BCB Art in Hudson.

49 GALLERY DIRECTORY What's hanging in galleries and museums throughout the region.

52 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles Poughkeepsie-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee.

Plus local scenester DJ Wavy Davy’s Nightlife Highlights and reviews of CDs by Mark Donato I Haven’t Wasted All This Time Alone Reviewed by Jason Broome.

Mighty Girl Long Gone Reviewed by Mike Jurkovic.

Scott Helland and the Traveling Gypsy Nomads Catapult Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

56 BOOKS Nina Shengold chats with novelist, editor, and Bard professor Bradford Morrow.

58 BOOK REVIEWS Kim Wozencraft reviews The Futurist by James P. Othmer.

Jane Smith reviews Against the Grain by Geoffrey Nyarota.

Anne Pyburn reviews a trio of books about the legacy of the Vietnam War: The Making and Un-making of a Marine by Larry Winters, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive by Richard Boes, and Vietnam: Our Father-Daughter Journey by Ed and Zoeann Murphy.

62 POETRY Poems by Beth Balousek, Kenneth Brown, Jesica Davis, Joann Deiudicibus, Lisa Duff, Dennis Lucas, Kate McNairy, Imogene Putnam, Danielle Woerner.

64 FOOD & DRINK Jennifer May holds back the tears in her exploration of sweet and sharp Hudson Valley onions.

144 PARTING SHOT Grilling in the Suburbs, a photograph by Tom Bamberger, part of the “Utopian Mirage” exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery.

THE FORECAST 117 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 115 “Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan,” an exhibit of images by Chad Hunt at KMOCA in Kingston.

116 Cowboy Junkies headline Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival at Croton Point Park, June 16 and 17, in Croton-on-Hudson.

122 Jan Harrison’s show of animal paintings and sculptures, “Bestial Beings,” will be on view through June 24 at Cabaret Voltaire in Poughkeepsie.

125 Jennifer Camp’s exploration of love and loss, “Natural History,” will be staged at Ellenville’s Shadowland Theater, June 22 through July 15.

126 Philip Gröning's doumentary about the cloistered life of Carthusian monks, Into Great Silence, screens at Upstate Films beginning June 8.

129 St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble stages three “Notable Women” concerts celebrating female composers at Dia:Beacon this month.

130 Three concerts in June, scheduled for June 8 in Troy, June 9 in Hudson, and June 10 in High Falls, showcase the work of Deep Listening artists.

135 Author and wolf expert Scott Ian Barry will read and sign copies of Wolf Empire: An Intimate Portrait of a Species at Mirabai in Woodstock on June 9.

PLANET WAVES 138 GROWING UP

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Jazz legend and Poughkeepsie native son Joe McPhee.

MUSIC

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Eric Francis Coppolino examines some of the personal growth challenges activists face when they organize for action on environmental issues. Plus horoscopes.

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LOCAL LUMINARIES

LEADING LIGHTS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY For 33 years, John Cronin has dedicated himself to the protection of the American environment. Most of Cronin’s career has focused on the restoration of the Hudson, and he is best known for serving as Hudson Riverkeeper from 1983 to 2000. His work in citizen enforcement and for the rights of commercial fishermen, along with his lobbying on behalf of the Hudson, earned him the title of Time magazine’s Hero for the Planet.

The Wall Street Journal has described Cronin as “a unique presence on America’s major waterways” and People magazine praised the Yonkers native as ”equal parts detective, scientist, and public advocate.”

Cronin co-authored The Riverkeepers, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and has written extensively on environmental policy for the New York Times. He is director and CEO of the Beacon Institute, for which he is overseeing the planning for a $100 million global science, technology, and policy research center dedicated to advancing the understanding and protection of the world’s rivers and estuaries. Cronin is also the director of the Pace Academy for the Environment at Pace University where he serves as the resident scholar in environmental studies.

—Brian K. Mahoney

Why do you choose to live in the Hudson Valley?

The Hudson Valley chose me. I was born and raised on the Hudson, in Yonkers. In my early twenties, I traveled around the country for a couple of years, settling briefly in the Southwest. But my heart was here. I returned to the Hudson and never again left. I now live in Cold Spring. The Yaqui shaman Don Juan Matus told anthropologist Carlos Castaneda that every person has a “spot,” “a place where a man could feel naturally happy and strong.” The Hudson is my spot.

Who are you in awe of?

Physicist Freeman Dyson. His integrated vision of science, ethics, spirituality, environmental concerns, and future thought has established him as one of the world’s most original thinkers and futurists. The collection of his Gifford Lectures, Infinite in All Directions, and his memoir, Disturbing the Universe, should be required reading at all colleges and universities.

What was the worst job you ever had?

Door-to-door book salesman. I attended sales school in Nashville, Tennessee, and was dispatched to South Bend, Indiana, for the summer.

I worked for eight weeks, six days a week, from nine in the morning until nine at night, peddling a book called The Volume Library. I sold 23.

What are you reading at the moment?

I am an impatient reader, usually poring through multiple books.

Currently: The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil, Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana by Peter Redfield, and I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan. Also, long-term reading of Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton.

What are some of the things you’d like to see change about this area?

What are some of the things you’d like to stay the same?

The future of the regional and global environment depends upon the human becoming a successful species. Our region can contribute by emerging as a global center of innovation, learning, and creative expression. Our environmental vision must mature to an interdisciplinary one, embracing the convergence of science, technology, policy, culture, and education. There are vast untapped resources here—116 colleges and universities are located in the Hudson River watershed, for example.

We must retain and apply the great diversity of human talent and experience that calls our region home.

What ordinary thing is very hard for you to do?

Deciding to sleep.

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BONUS FEATURE

“Weeds in Your Garden? Bite Back!” by Susun S. Weed

AUDIO

Hear tracks from Joe McPhee, Mark Donato, Mighty Girl, Scott Helland

BLOGS

Organic Schmorganic, The Uncertainty Guru, Chow Town, and more

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com ART DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com SENIOR EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com VISUAL ARTS EDITOR Beth E. Wilson visualarts@chronogram.com CAPITAL REGION EDITOR Timothy Cahill tcahill@chronogram.com PROOFREADERS Christopher Hewitt, Laura McLaughlin CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Beth Balousek, Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Ann Braybrooks, Jason Broome, Kenneth Brown, Laurie Capps, Amber S. Clark, Eric Francis Coppolino, Jesica Davis, DJ Wavy Davy, Joann Deiudicibus, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Lisa Duff, Hillary Harvey, Thomas Hilton, Annie Internicola, Mike Jurkovic, Theresa Keegan, Dennis Lucas, Jennifer May, Kate McNairy, Sharon Nichols, Wally Nichols, Sukey Pett, Imogene Putnam, Anne Pyburn, Fionn Reilly, C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Nina Shengold, Jane Smith, Tom Tomorrow, Susun S. Weed, Beth E. Wilson, Danielle Woerner, Kim Wozencraft

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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS

A Hudson Valley resident since 1994, Kim Wozencraft lives in Accord with her three children.

She is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the internationally bestselling Rush (adapted to a feature film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric). She was executive editor at Prison Life magazine and has written for HBO. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, Texas Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous literary magazines.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.

The paperback edition of her latest novel, The Devil’s Backbone, will be out in October from St. Martin’s Press. Kim’s review of The Futurist appears on page 58.

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Wally Nichols lives on a horse farm/B&B in Kerhonkson. He has written a major motion picture (Desert Saints), been awarded a US patent on a useless kitchen gadget, another on a industrial snowplow, prefers to not wear shoes, and is currently working on a novel about Fire Island called Beach Plum. Before farming and writing, he lived on a boat off Manhattan with his wife. Before that, he was an English major at Brown University in Rhode Island. Before that, he doesn’t quite remember, except he always has been, and still is in, a rock band. His music and blogsite is www.wallynichols.com. Wally wrote this month’s First Impression on page 20.

Theresa Keegan is a freelance journalist who has transplanted herself from California to the Hudson Valley and continually marvels at the sanctuary of the Hudson River. When not kayaking she enjoys watching sunrise on the river with her fellow rowers in a crew boat—at least on warm days. Her work has appeared in USA Today, the Miami Herald, Newsday, Hampton Family Life, Hudson Valley Connoisseur, and on National Public Radio. Theresa’s recounting of kayaking down the river as part of 2006’s Great Hudson River Paddle appears on page 32.

Kiersten Miench began her career at Chronogram as a design intern in January 2005. At the end of her internship, after graduating from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in graphic design, Kiersten joined our staff as a production and design assistant. Last year, Kiersten became our production coordinator, overseeing ad trafficking for our publications. The June issue is Kiersten’s last with Chronogram, her final day being two years to the day she was hired, June 1. Kiersten is moving on to become production director for New York House magazine. We wish her the very best.

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ON THE COVER

Representation #15 (ice cream) CYNTHIA GREIG

| BORDERLESS CHROMOGENIC PRINT | 2002

Cynthia Greig’s latest Representations series blurs the line between drawing and photography, exploring the concept of photographic truth and its correspondence to perceived reality. Focusing on the representation of ordinary things—coffee cups, matchbooks, televisions—Greig draws directly onto three-dimensional objects—painted over in white paint—creating visual hybrids that appear to vacillate between drawing and photography, black-and-white and color. Greig’s innovative picture-making process references conceptual art, Dadaism, and traditional still life portraiture, building on those foundations to call into question both the photographic process and the inviolability of objects—think of her work as Object Revisionism.

“My photographs intend to draw attention to how we see,” says Greig. “They examine the illusory nature of representation, and challenge those assumptions we might have about photography and its relationship to what we believe to be true.”

Greig’s photographs imply that reality is perceived rather than fixed. “My work is about subversion—subverting conventional ways of representing and categorizing,” says Greig. “I’m interested in creating images that unite what appear to be opposites, to throw assumptions off-guard and thwart passive viewing.”

An MFA graduate of the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design, Greig has exhibited her photographs across the country and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions of Greig’s Representations series include stints at San Francisco Camerawork and Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. This summer, Greig’s work will be included in “Relative Closeness: Portraits of Family & Friends,” an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Greig will be exhibiting her photographs from the Representations series this month at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson, as part of a two-woman show, “Altered States,” with Israeli artist Michal Bachi. “Altered States” will be on view at Nicole Fiacco Gallery, 506 Warren Street, Hudson, June 9 through July 21. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, June 9, from 6 to 8pm.

For more information, call (518) 828-5090 or visit www.modogallery.com. Portfolio: www.cynthiagreig.com.

—Brian K. Mahoney 18 CHRONOGRAM.COM 6/07

CHRONOGRAM SEEN PHOTOS: ROBERTA ALLEN, ERICA QUITZOW (FIONN REILLY); OPENING WORDS:JENNIFER MAY; JEFF GOLDEN AND JANUS WELTON, TRACEY GLOVER (THOMAS HILTON)

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community. Here's some of what we saw in May: CAFE CHRONOGRAM / CABARET MODERNE / OPENING WORDS AT INQUIRING MINDS / SUSTAINABLE SALON.

Clockwise from bottom left: At the May 19 Cafe Chronogram at the Muddy Cup coffeehouse in Poughkeepsie, Roberta Allen; Erica Quitzow. Les Sans Culottes perform at Cabaret Moderne at the Bearsville Theater on May 19; Alison Gaylin, Erin Quinn, and Nina Shengold at the Opening Words reading at Inquiring Minds in New Paltz on May 19; Jeff Golden of Common Fire Foundation, Janus Welton of EcoArch Design Works, and Tracey Glover at Chronogram’s Sustainable Salon at Backstage Studio in Kingston on May 11.

CHRONOGRAM SPONSORS IN JUNE: CAFE CHRONOGRAM (6/9) WITH HARVEY KAISER, NINA SHENGOLD, AND HILLARY HARVEY; CHRONOGRAM MASQUERADE BALL (6/23) DANCE PARTY WITH DJs LEMAR SOULFLOWER & G-PACE, MC ISIS VERMOUTH.

For more information, visit www.chronogram.com.

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FIRST IMPRESSION Llama For Sale

A little background first: It would have cost us more to make a decoy â&#x20AC;&#x153;companionâ&#x20AC;? horse out of plywood than it would have to buy Tono De Blanco, our white-wooled Peruvian llama.

His one cerulean blue eye (the other eye is â&#x20AC;&#x153;meadow muffinâ&#x20AC;? brown) rendered him virtually valueless. But as long as the eye worked, and even if it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care.

Tono has a long, distinguished nose down which condescension rolls unchecked toward all. His arrogance, for some reason, is both superb and irrepressible. His gait is careful and cautious. Except at dinnertime when he gambols in a fleeting moment of reckless abandon, he moves around the pasture with extreme disapproval, inspecting each part of the grass carefully before deigning to place his fair hoof on it.

Watching him fuss, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reminded of the time I got lost and my prom date was forced to walk with me over a stream and then mount a fence in high heels to get to the dance. (It was only a very small stream and the barbed wire dull.)

Though Tono can not speak to prove it, one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help feel grossly inferior in the presence of his always judgmental, sideways smirk. However, he is exceptionally well-heeled and his barn etiquette downright WASP-y despite the fact he paces the fence line with the righteous indignation of the wrongly incarcerated.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent time trying to figure him out. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve even considered the Eastern notion that llamas are spiritually evolved, perhaps having cycled through reincarnation orbits.

In his own estimation, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smarter than we are by a lot. But at the end of the day, we still know how to open the feedbag and he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

For the first two weeks, Tono was a model pasture companion as he grazed lightly and offered palliation to the quivering equine nerves. Four hundred dollars well spent.

Then he got sick.

Tono came with no manual, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need documentation to know a prostrate llama with a half gallon of saliva pouring out of his mouth was not good.

Tono was not going to survive, it seemed, unless we went to the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, many (many) hours away in a truck I was pretty sure wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to survive the return trip.

We made it to Ithaca somehow without mechanical incident, and I alerted the animal hospital staff that our 1am arrival was imminent. The fourth-year residents mustered. Transferring Tono out of the truck was like moving a 300-pound waterbed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking him to the Llama ICU,â&#x20AC;? they screamed at me, whisking him through huge steel doors.

Two thoughts came to mind almost simultaneously: 1) Do they really have a llama Intensive Care Unit? And 2) This is gonna cost some serious cake.

I received 14 daily reports that Tono was doing well, then not so well, then well again. Finally they summoned me to retrieve him and cautioned me that stuffing the empty trailer with $20 bills would only start to address the enormous medical bills my llama had incurred.

Two weeks in a hotel room in Ithaca during peak foliage season. Then there was the room service bill. And the in-stall movies. And the massages. And all the presents he gave to the staff but charged to his (my!) account.

The five-star service suited Tono just fine, and being doted on up there left him almost unmanageable down here.

So, for sale: One $6 million llama. Because if you can afford that, you can afford to keep Tono in the lifestyle to which he is accustomed. And after our initial outlay of $400, plus medical expenses, we will make a handy profit of $23. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wally Nichols

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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: It was a late spring day much like today. The wind was gusting, whipping the trees about the canopy. It made a powerful rushing, rustling sound as it blew through the virile new leaves.

Bright sunshine made me squint. My chair was oriented toward the sun, but I dared not move, as I was facing my teacher.

I was an awkward teenager preparing to be vaulted into the maelstrom of life. I had asked him what he thought I should study at college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How about art school?â&#x20AC;? he suggested, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re creative.â&#x20AC;? This sounded OK, but I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfied.

After a pause, he asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What do you like?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like meaning,â&#x20AC;? I said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want a meaningful life.â&#x20AC;?

He looked at me for a long time, emanating a stillness in contrast to the buffeting wind and beating sunshine of the day. An atmosphere of calm began to form around us as we balanced precariously on wooden kitchen chairs on the grass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To have a meaningful life,â&#x20AC;? he began, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to be generous with your life. You are given life in order to give it away. Your life is not for you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;But what about happiness?â&#x20AC;? I asked dumbly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be happy I have to get the things I want, right?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happiness is not the issue,â&#x20AC;? he replied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need direction. True happiness is a measure of what you give. The task is to be a conduit for life. Giving creates a vacuum. The more you give, the more you are given to give.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;But how do you know what to give, and who to give it to?â&#x20AC;? I asked.

At that moment, his wife pulled into their driveway. She stepped around the car and opened the trunk, which held several bags of groceries. My teacher looked at me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Excuse me.â&#x20AC;?

He walked to the car, kissed his wife, and helped her carry the grocery bags into the house, disappearing for several minutes.

I was baffled by what he had been saying, and at first I felt annoyed that he had left the thread of our conversation dangling. But as I watched him walk slowly back across the lawn I realized that he had just demonstrated what he was talking about. As he sat down, I felt ashamed of my initial irritation. Not seeming to notice my conflicted state, he continued as though there had been no pause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What you need to give is apparent if you have your eyes open. Needs are presented in every moment. Noticing a need is a gift from the absolute. It means you have been given a task to completeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a mission. But you must be ready to obey.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obedience is forcing yourself to do something you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do. It is bending to someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will,â&#x20AC;? I complained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That wont make anybody happy except a slave or a soldier.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is ordinary obedience,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Real obedience is connected to the root meaning of the word, which comes from the Latin audireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to hear. With true obedience there is no gap between the hearing or perceiving of the need and the response to it. It is consciously chosen, not compelled. Obedience is a joyful dance with life.â&#x20AC;?

I could see that the conversation had gone far beyond what to study at college, but I still wanted to know what to do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So what should I study at college?â&#x20AC;? I asked, dully. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want a meaningful life, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to college. Just practice what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m telling you. Start with the small things. If you see a piece of paper on the floor, pick it up and consciously put it into the wastepaper basket. If you see that a person needs your help, drop what you are doing and help them. In that moment they are an agent of the absolute.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I want to do something important,â&#x20AC;? I said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How will picking up trash and helping old ladies cross the street make me anything other than a do-gooder?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;To serve in a meaningful way you need to build a capacity for service. Starting with small things is practice for larger tasks. If you follow what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m telling you, the absolute will give you very big things to do. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long way off. Begin where you are.â&#x20AC;?

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Editor’s Note Spring draws us outside. To our gardens and our lawns. To our other lives, the kind not lived shuttling from one heated indoor space to another, the world we just coldly pass through. As the season progresses, late spring draws us outside at night. Under the stars we exist again out of doors like children set loose on the playground after a too-long day of tests, assemblies, and teachings. We set up our backyards, our decks, and our porches to maximize evening utility, for dinner and conversation, for long stares off into darkness on balmy nights.

Inspired by a recent article in this very magazine about creating outdoor rooms (“Take It Outside” by Laurie Capps, 5/07), Lee Anne and I recently purchased a pair of Adirondack chairs and a yellow bush daisy, a flowering five-foot tall shrub we planted in half a whiskey barrel and named Susan. We positioned the ensemble in a corner of our back deck in early May, admired the arrangement for a few minutes as being just so, and retreated inside, as the afternoon was chilly verging on cold.

In late May I finally had the opportunity to enjoy our backyard setting in the full flower of night, spending a couple hours just sitting and listening to the night.

Two years ago in July, I wrote what I termed “a transcription of the aural landscape of my backyard” in this space, describing the variety of noises I heard one early June morning. This month, I have endeavored to capture the evening sounds of that same space. Some similarities occurred. For instance: As my house is just three blocks from Rt. 9W as it rips through the southeast section of Kingston, four lanes wide, what I mostly heard were the sounds of machines equipped with internal combustion engines. Morning, noon, and night, these noisy beasts create the background traffic surf that all other noises foreground against or die without overpowering. Other human sounds dominate the aural life of cities as well—voices, domesticated animals communicating to their owners or each other, the sounds of technology: radio, television,You Tube.

Comparing my evening list to my morning list revealed more contrasts than sonic synergies. Morning is generally louder, the night—not surprisingly—subdued.

There was an absence of birdsong, so forthrightly cacophonous from dawn on in every neighborhood tree. I also noted the pleasant absence of the pealing bells from the three churches hard by my block, which as I wrote before, strike the hour slightly out of sync, “like a lunatic carillonneur.” And not only that, the bells toll on beyond reason: one o’clock, four o’clock, nine o’clock, 20 o’clock.Twenty o’clock? Does St. Dymphna’s operate on military time? Mass at 08000 hours?

How we managed to triangulate ourselves between them when we bought the house is no doubt a sacred conundrum.

The night has its own noise to make, however, and I offer the following faithful transcription.

The crackle of the street light as it buzzes on.

The wet throb of an air conditioner. Can it really be on so early in the year and on so temperate an evening?

Multiple pops like gunfire from car doors closing in rapid succession.

The jolly, bantering profanities of the new, young neighbors as they grill dinner.

An operatic beer-drinker’s belch, a backyard sonic boom.

The whir of low gears on a poorly maintained bicycle as it struggles up the hill in front of my house.

The hollow whinny of wide-gauge chimes in a light breeze, like metallic horses in a snorting cluster.

A police siren’s staccato chirp and sudden silence.

The dental drill whine of a crotch rocket, heard in the bones behind the ears.

The deep throated roar of an accelerating Harley.

A car with a hole in its muffler.

A car with no exhaust system at all, shouting up the street.

The propulsive strains of Van Morrion’s Veedon Fleece reverberating from Lee Anne’s workshop. Shining our light into days of bloomin’ wonder…

The steady scrape of a 32-gallon trash can as its dragged along the asphalt, pebbles caught underneath as it rolls along.

Glass bottles bouncing in a recycling bin like a broken xylophone.

Lily, the neighbors’ Jack Russell, barking at the television in their living room. The dog’s high-pitched throating more of a tentative question than a definitive answer.

A bleating train horn and the train’s immutable rumble edging insistently closer, flattening the darkness. Then the horn again, receding in short bursts like goodbye, good-bye, good--bye.

My stomach, not so much rumbling as gurgling.

The rustle of leaves. A soft sound. How do you describe a sound so soft you could use it as a pillow?

A cat fight cut mercifully short. Two elongated hisses that overlap, one murderous screech, and silence.

The popping mmwahh as I pull on my cigar. The whooshing exhale of gray smoke.

The prop buzz of a low-flying plane, preceded across the sky by a streaking white light and a blinking red light.

The scratch of an ever dulling No. 2 pencil across the paper as I write, a comfortingly familiar second-grade sound.

A mysterious garbled beep from out on the street like the sound of the blip striking the paddle in Pong. At one-minute intervals, imagining the beep to be from a game of Pong played on a TV screen 50 yards long.

Half-melted ice in an empty glass tumbling with a wedge of lime, tinkling and thudding as I swirl the glass until the ice is gone. I’m left with a soggy lime splashing playfully like a toddler in a kiddy pool.

All these sounds caught like fireflies in a jar, dead and gone come morning.

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WHILE YOU WERE

SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed.

Despite having the most expensive health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms other industrialized nations in terms of performance, according to an annual study by the Commonwealth Fund, a private health care advocacy group. Compared with five other nations—Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—the US health care system ranks last or next-to-last on five dimensions of a high-performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives. The Health and Human Services Department reports that up to 30 percent of current health care spending in the US ($300 billion) is inappropriate, redundant, or unnecessary.

In particular, the US (and Canada) provide inadequate access to care. The report states: “The US and Canada rank lowest on prompt accessibility of appointments with physicians, with patients more likely to report waiting six or more days for an appointment when needing care.”

The US is the only country in the study without universal health insurance coverage, partly accounting for its poor performance on access, equity, and health outcomes, according to the report.

Source: Commonwealth Fund In early May, Sheriff Bill Bergquist of Clay County, Minnesota, denied a concealed weapons permit to Carey McWilliams, a 33-year-old North Dakota man who has concealed weapons permits from North Dakota and Utah. Sheriff Bergquist’s rationale: McWilliams is blind.

“I’m trying to prove a point that people without sight still can carry [a gun] because brains are more important than eyesight in securing public safety,” McWilliams said.

“The shooter at Virginia Tech had really good eyesight and he killed 32 people.”

McWilliams said he completed the required class and shooting exercise with a National Rifle Association instructor and that he uses special low-range, hollow-point bullets that are effective only in tight quarters. “If I use a gun it will be at point-blank range, period,” he said. “A sighted shooter is probably more dangerous because they can see something scary and pull their gun in haste.”

Under Minnesota law, an applicant must be issued a license for a gun or a concealed weapon if he or she completes the class and shooting exercise and passes a background check—unless “there exists a substantial likelihood that the applicant is a danger to self or the public if authorized to carry a pistol under permit.”

McWilliams believes Minnesota officials have violated his constitutional right to keep and bear arms. “It’s nobody business that I’m blind,” he said.

Source: Associated Press On April 30, the State Department released statistics on the number of “individuals in Iraq killed, injured, or kidnapped as a result of incidents of terrorism” in 2006. For the year, the number was 38,813, an increase of almost 50 percent over the previous year.

In 2005, the number of “individuals in Iraq killed, injured, or kidnapped as a result of incidents of terrorism” was 20,685.

Source: Salon The Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to settle a lawsuit on April 20 with a group suing to add the Wiccan pentacle to the list of religious symbols approved for engraving on veterans’ headstones. The suit was brought by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State on behalf of Roberta Stewart, whose husband, Sgt. Patrick Stewart, was killed in September 2005 in Afghanistan. The Wiccan pentacle is the 39th symbol to indicate the faith of deceased service members on memorials that the Veterans Affairs department has approved. It normally takes only a few months for a petition by a faith group to win the department’s approval, but the effort on behalf of the Wiccan symbol took about 10 years and a lawsuit, said Richard B. Katskee, assistant legal director for United for the Separation of Church and State.

According to a Pentagon survey, there are 1,800 Wiccans serving in the military.

Source: USA Today

According to a countrywide survey by Johns Hopkins University, infant mortality has dropped by 18 percent in Afghanistan since 2001. Health officials in Afghanistan view the statistic as one of the first real post-Taliban signs of recovery in the country. The 18 percent decrease means that 40,000 to 50,000 fewer infants are dying now than in the Taliban era, according to Dr. Muhammad Amin Fatimi, Afghanistan’s health minister.

World Bank officials attribute the lower infant mortality rate mainly to the expansion of health clinics to rural areas and more widespread vaccination against measles, polio, and tetanus.

Afghanistan still ranks behind Chad and Somalia in terms of infant mortality, however, and the number of women dying in childbirth remains the second highest in the world after Sierra Leone.

Source: New York Times REUTERS/HENRY ROMERO

The government of Kazakhstan announced in early May that the canine distemper virus appeared to be the cause of a wave of seal deaths this spring in the Caspian Sea. Approximately 1,000 dead seals have washed ashore in Kazakhstan in March and April, most of them pups. The deaths have raised concerns about seals in the Caspian, which is heavily polluted by industrial contaminants and is a major transit route for oil and the site of a network of oil-pumping platforms. Environmentalists have warned for years that exposure to oil and heavy metals in the sea had weakened the seals’ immune systems. Caspian seals live only in the Caspian Sea and are listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Source: New York Times

On May 6, approximately 18,000 naked people in Mexico City’s principal square, the Zócalo, posed for Spencer Tunick. Male and female volunteers of varying ages, crouched in the fetal position, heads tucked, in the anonymous pose favored by Tunick. Known for his mass nude photographs, the Middletown-born photographer has shot flesh spectacles across the globe, including 7,000 people in Barcelona in 2003, as well as a number of shoots in the Hudson Valley. Tunick first made his name in New York City in the early 1990s when he was arrested on five separate occasions for shooting mass nudes in Manhattan; Tunick became a bete noir of the Guiliani administration, but was never prosecuted, as the courts ruled Tunick was operating within his First Amendment rights as a photographer.

Source: Associated Press According to a study in the May 15 issue of American Journal of Epidemiology, sending soldiers to war puts their children left at home at higher risk of abuse and neglect. The study, conducted among military families in 2002-03, shows that reports of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, and child neglect peaked during the main deployment of troops to Iraq. When deployments began, reports of abuse quickly jumped from 5 in 1,000 children to 10 in 1,000. The study found that victims were typically age four or younger and the abuser was usually the parent who remained at home while a spouse was deployed. Military families had lower rates of child maltreatment than civilian families before war. The study found that abuse rates soared when parents were sent to active duty.

Previous studies have linked military deployment to higher divorce rates and spousal violence, but this study is the first to suggest a link to child abuse.

Source: USA Today At least 46 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are participating in a hunger strike, according to H. Candace Gorman, a civil rights attorney representing Abdul Razak Ali, an Algerian being held there. The exact number on hunger strike is unclear because the military will not release details. Each hunger striker is force-fed the nutrition supplement Ensure twice a day via a plastic tube approximately 30 inches in length which is inserted into his esophagus while he is strapped to a chair.

Source: In These Times On May 4, a four-foot sewer pipe broke in Yonkers, uprooted by a tree that came loose during a landslide near the Greystone Train Station. The total amount spilled: 7.5 million gallons of sewage. Health officials said that the sewage had contaminated the Hudson from the north Bronx, through Westchester, and into the southern end of Rockland County. Mary Landrigan, a spokeswoman for the Westchester County Department of Health, stressed that drinking water was not affected by the problem, and added that the volume of water in the Hudson would dissipate the sewage within days.

Source: Journal News

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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region

THE CORN CONUNDRUM How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor

by C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer

THE ETHANOL BUBBLE In 1974, as the United States was reeling from the oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Congress took the first of many legislative steps to promote ethanol made from corn as an alternative fuel. On April 18, 1977, amid mounting calls for energy independence, President Jimmy Carter donned his cardigan sweater and appeared on television to tell Americans that balancing energy demands with available domestic resources would be an effort that was the “moral equivalent of war.” The gradual phaseout of lead in the 1970s and 1980s provided an additional boost to the fledgling ethanol industry.

(Lead, a toxic substance, is a performance enhancer when added to gasoline, and it was partly replaced by ethanol.) A series of tax breaks and subsidies also helped.

In spite of these measures, with each passing year the United States became more dependent on imported petroleum, and ethanol remained marginal at best.

Now, thanks to a combination of high oil prices and even more generous government subsidies, corn-based ethanol has become the rage.There were 110 ethanol refineries in operation in the US at the end of 2006, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. Many were being expanded, and another 73 were under construction.When these projects are completed, by the end of 2008, the US’s ethanol production capacity will reach an estimated 11.4 billion gallons per year. In his latest State of the Union address, President George W. Bush called on the country to produce 35 billion gallons of renewable fuel a year by 2017, nearly five times the level currently mandated.

The push for ethanol and other biofuels has spawned an industry that depends on billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies, and not only in the United States.

In 2005, global ethanol production was 9.66 billion gallons, of which Brazil produced 45.2 percent (from sugar cane) and the United States 44.5 percent (from corn). Global production of biodiesel (most of it in Europe), made from oilseeds, was almost one billion gallons.

The industry’s growth has meant that a larger and larger share of corn production is being used to feed the huge mills that produce ethanol. According to some estimates, ethanol plants will burn up to half of US domestic corn supplies within a few years. Ethanol demand will bring 2007 inventories of corn to their lowest levels since 1995 (a drought year), even though 2006 yielded the third26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 6/07

largest corn crop on record. Iowa may soon become a net corn importer.

The enormous volume of corn required by the ethanol industry is sending shock waves through the food system. (The US accounts for some 40 percent of the world’s total corn production and over half of all corn exports.) In March 2007, corn futures rose to over $4.38 a bushel, the highest level in 10 years.

Wheat and rice prices have also surged to decade highs, because even as those grains are increasingly being used as substitutes for corn, farmers are planting more acres with corn and fewer acres with other crops.

This might sound like nirvana to corn producers, but it is hardly that for consumers, especially in poor developing countries, which will be hit with a double shock if both food prices and oil prices stay high.The World Bank has estimated that in 2001, 2.7 billion people in the world were living on the equivalent of less than $2 a day; to them, even marginal increases in the cost of staple grains could be devastating. Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires over 450 pounds of corn—which contains enough calories to feed one person for a year. By putting pressure on global supplies of edible crops, the surge in ethanol production will translate into higher prices for both processed and staple foods around the world. Biofuels have tied oil and food prices together in ways that could profoundly upset the relationships between food producers, consumers, and nations in the years ahead, with potentially devastating implications for both global poverty and food security.

THE OIL AND BIOFUEL ECONOMY In the US and other large economies, the ethanol industry is artificially buoyed by government subsidies, minimum production levels, and tax credits. High oil prices over the past few years have made ethanol naturally competitive, but the US government continues to heavily subsidize corn farmers and ethanol producers.

Direct corn subsidies equaled $8.9 billion in 2005. Although these payments will fall in 2006 and 2007 because of high corn prices, they may soon be dwarfed by the panoply of tax credits, grants, and government loans included in energy legislation passed in 2005 and in a pending farm bill designed to support ethanol producers.

The federal government already grants ethanol blenders a tax allowance of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol they make, and many states pay out additional subsidies.

CORNUCOPIA One root of the problem is that the biofuel industry has long been dominated not by market forces but by politics and the interests of a few large companies. Corn has become the prime raw material even though biofuels could be made efficiently from a variety of other sources, such as grasses and wood chips, if the government funded the necessary research and development. But in the US, at least, corn and soybeans have been used as primary inputs for many years, thanks in large part to the lobbying efforts of corn and soybean growers and Archer Daniels Midland Company [ADM], the biggest ethanol producer in the US market.

Since the late 1960s, ADM positioned itself as the “supermarket to the world” and aimed to create value from bulk commodities by transforming them into processed

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Consumption of ethanol in the US was expected to reach over six billion gallons in 2006. (Consumption of biodiesel was expected to be about 250 million gallons.) In 2005, the US government mandated the use of 7.5 billion gallons of biofuels per year by 2012; in early 2007, 37 governors proposed raising that figure to 12 billion gallons by 2010; and last January, President Bush raised it further, to 35 billion gallons by 2017.

Six billion gallons of ethanol are needed every year to replace the fuel additive known as MTBE, which is being phased out due to its polluting effects on ground water.

The European Commission is using legislative measures and directives to promote biodiesel, produced mainly in Europe, made from rapeseeds and sunflower seeds. In 2005, the European Union produced 890 million gallons of biodiesel, over 80 percent of the world’s total. Brazil, which currently produces approximately the same amount of ethanol as the US, derives almost all of it from sugar cane. Like the US, Brazil began its quest for alternative energy in the mid 1970s.The government has offered incentives, set technical standards, and invested in supporting technologies and market promotion. Other countries are also jumping on the biofuel bandwagon. In Southeast Asia, vast areas of tropical forest are being cleared and burned to plant oil palms destined for conversion to biodiesel.

This trend has strong momentum. Despite a recent decline, many experts expect the price of crude oil to remain high in the long term. Demand for petroleum continues to increase faster than supplies, and new sources of oil are often expensive to exploit or located in politically risky areas.According to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest projections, global energy consumption will rise by 71 percent between 2003 and 2030, with demand from developing countries, notably China and India, surpassing that from members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development by 2015. The result will be sustained upward pressure on oil prices, which will allow ethanol and biodiesel producers to pay much higher premiums for corn and oilseeds than was conceivable just a few years ago. The higher oil prices go, the higher ethanol prices can go while remaining competitive—and the more ethanol producers can pay for corn. If oil reaches $80 per barrel, ethanol producers could afford to pay well over $5 per bushel for corn.

With the price of raw materials at such a high, the biofuel craze would place significant stress on other parts of the agricultural sector. In fact, it already does. In the US, the growth of the biofuel industry has triggered increases not only in the prices of corn, oilseeds, and other grains but also in the prices of seemingly unrelated crops and products.

The use of land to grow corn to feed the ethanol maw is reducing the acreage devoted to other crops. According to Vernon Eidman, a professor emeritus of agribusiness management at the University of Minnesota, higher feed costs have caused returns to fall sharply, especially in the poultry and swine sectors. If returns continue to drop, production will decline, and the prices for chicken, turkey, pork, milk, and eggs will rise. A number of Iowa’s pork producers could go out of business in the next few years as they are forced to compete with ethanol plants for corn supplies.

Proponents of corn-based ethanol argue that acreage and yields can be increased to satisfy the rising demand for ethanol. But US corn yields have been rising by a little less than two percent annually over the last ten years, and even a doubling of those gains could not meet current demand. As more acres are planted with corn, land will have to be pulled from other crops or environmentally fragile areas, such as those protected by the Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program.

In addition to these fundamental forces, speculative pressures have created what might be called a “biofuel mania”: Prices are rising because many buyers think they will. Hedge funds are making huge bets on corn and the bull market unleashed by ethanol.The biofuel mania is commandeering grain stocks with a disregard for the obvious consequences. It seems to unite powerful forces, including motorists’ enthusiasm for large, fuel-inefficient vehicles and guilt over the ecological consequences of petroleum-based fuels. But even as ethanol has created opportunities for huge profits for agribusiness, speculators, and some farmers, it has upset the traditional flows of commodities and the patterns of trade and consumption both inside and outside of the agricultural sector.

The drive for energy independence, which has been the basic justification for huge investments in and subsidies for ethanol production, has already made the industry dependent on high oil prices.

High oil prices and hefty government subsidies of corn have fostered a surge in the use of corn-based ethanol. Corn prices are higher than they’ve been in 10 years and farmers are rushing to replace other crops with the golden kernels. This “nirvana” for corn producers, as C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer point out, may eventually end up starving people in developing countries. Chronogram asked Cliff Bradley, an expert on biofuels and sustainable energy who leads product development for Montana Microbial Products, to add commentary to Runge and Senauer’s article. Bradley is also a member of the Montana-based Alternative Energy Resource Organization (AERO), a group promoting sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and conservation, environmental quality, and community self-reliance.

As a member of AERO’s energy task force, Bradley recently helped to complete the group’s Energy Blueprint for Montana. Recommendations in the blueprint begin with the recognition that “all energy sources, in particular petroleum and coal, receive taxpayer subsidies in many direct and indirect forms. As taxpayers, we should have the choice of subsidizing the energy supplies we want and penalizing or taxing those that are not sustainable.” In this article’s two sidebars, Bradley comments on of the price of corn raising food prices and the issue of biofuels and global hunger.

—Lorna Tychostup, Senior Editor Despite the dire predictions of this article, I think $4-per-bushel corn is a good thing. For the first time in decades the price of corn and other grains are above production cost for an extended time and farmers might, with good weather, finally make a decent living this year.

Farmers just can’t win. For more than 30 years, politicians and agribusiness companies promised to raise the price of corn and increase farm income. From “food as a weapon” in the 1970s to the “freedom to farm” farm bill, the WTO, and global free markets, the price of corn stayed stuck at $2.50 a bushel, thousands of farmers went out of business, rural economies declined, and towns died. It took a boom in ethanol, creating domestic demand largely independent of ADM and Cargill, to finally get the price up to where farmers can make a living. Never mind that even at $4 per bushel the corn in a box of corn flakes still costs less to produce than the box itself, you would think that the world was coming to an end for US consumers.

What might be coming to an end if corn prices stay high is the huge subsidy enjoyed by a small group of big grain companies and meat packers. Government payments keep grain farmers hanging on by their fingernails, while the global grain companies and a handful of meat packers and poultry companies have an endless supply of corn (and wheat) at below production cost.

Ethanol from corn will not replace US gasoline consumption; nothing will save SUVs with 25-gallon gas tanks. Above all we need efficiency. We need new biofuels feedstocks; cellulose is coming fast. We also need to foster diversity in ownership of biofuels. ADM is expanding their ethanol production but much of the recent boom in ethanol and biodiesel is new smaller companies and farmer-owned co-ops or LLCs. Diverse and local ownership will sustain rural economies. Plug-in hybrid electric cars running on ethanol and biodiesel-fueled light rail might save farmers and our transportation systems, if not the planet.

—Cliff Bradley

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STARVING THE HUNGRY Biofuels may have even more devastating effects in the rest of the world, especially on the prices of basic foods. If oil prices remain high—which is likely—the people most vulnerable to the price hikes brought on by the biofuel boom will be those in countries that both suffer food deficits and import petroleum. The risk extends to a large part of the developing world: In 2005, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, most of the 82 low-income countries with food deficits were also net oil importers.

Even major oil exporters that use their petrodollars to purchase food imports, such as Mexico, cannot escape the consequences of the hikes in food prices. In late 2006, the price of tortilla flour in Mexico, which gets 80 percent of its corn imports from the US, doubled, thanks partly to a rise in US corn prices from $2.80 to $4.20 a bushel over the previous several months. (Prices rose even though tortillas are made mainly from Mexican-grown white corn because industrial users of the imported yellow corn, which is used for animal feed and processed foods, started buying the cheaper white variety.) The price surge was exacerbated by speculation and hoarding.

With about half of Mexico’s 107 million people living in poverty and relying on tortillas as a main source of calories, the public outcry was fierce. In January 2007, Mexico’s new president, Felipe Calderón, was forced to cap the prices of corn products.

The International Food Policy Research Institute [IFPRI], in Washington, DC, has produced sobering estimates of the potential global impact of the rising demand for biofuels. Mark Rosegrant, an IFPRI division director, and his colleagues project that given continued high oil prices, the rapid increase in global biofuel production will push global corn prices up by 20 percent by 2010 and 41 percent by 2020. The prices of oilseeds, including soybeans, rapeseeds, and sunflower seeds, are projected to rise by 26 percent by 2010 and 76 percent by 2020, and wheat prices by 11 percent by 2010 and 30 percent by 2020. In the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where cassava is a staple, its price is expected to increase by 33 percent by 2010 and 135 percent by 2020. The projected price increases may be mitigated if crop yields increase substantially or ethanol production based on other raw materials (such as trees and grasses) becomes commercially viable. But unless biofuel policies change significantly, neither development is likely.

The production of cassava-based ethanol may pose an especially grave threat to the food security of the world’s poor. Cassava, a tropical, potato-like tuber also known as manioc, provides one third of the caloric needs of the population in sub-Saharan Africa and is the primary staple for over 200 million of Africa’s poorest people. In many tropical countries, it is the food people turn to when they cannot afford anything else. It also serves as an important reserve when other crops fail, because it can grow in poor soils and dry conditions and can be left in the ground to be harvested as needed.

Thanks to its high starch content, cassava is also an excellent source of ethanol. As the technology for converting it to fuel improves, many countries—including China, Nigeria, and Thailand—are considering using more of the crop to that end. If peasant farmers in developing countries could become suppliers for the emerging industry, they would benefit from the increased income. But the history of industrial demand for agricultural crops in these countries suggests that large producers will be the main beneficiaries. The likely result of a boom in cassava-based ethanol production is that an increasing number of poor people will struggle even more to feed themselves.

Resorting to biofuels is likely to exacerbate world hunger. Several studies by economists at the World Bank and elsewhere suggest that caloric consumption among the world’s poor declines by about half of one percent whenever the average prices of all major food staples increase by one percent.When one staple becomes more expensive, people try to replace it with a cheaper one, 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 6/07

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products that command heftier prices. In the 1970s, ADM started making ethanol and other products resulting from the wet-milling of corn, such as high-fructose corn syrup. It quickly grew from a minor player in the feed market to a global powerhouse. By 1980, ADM’s ethanol production had reached 175 million gallons per year, and high-fructose corn syrup had become a ubiquitous sweetening agent in processed foods. In 2006, ADM was the largest producer of ethanol in the United States, making more than 1.07 billion gallons. In early 2006, it announced plans to increase production by close to 500 million gallons by 2009.

ADM owes much of its growth to political connections, especially to key legislators who can earmark special subsidies for its products. Vice President Hubert Humphrey advanced many such measures when he served as a senator from Minnesota. Kansas Senator Bob Dole advocated tirelessly for the company during his long career. As the conservative critic James Bovard noted over a decade ago, nearly half of ADM’s profits have come from products that the US government has either subsidized or protected.

Partly as a result of such government support, ethanol (and, to a lesser extent, biodiesel) is now a major fixture of the US’s agricultural and energy sectors. In addition to the federal government’s 51-cents-per-gallon tax credit for ethanol, smaller producers get a 10-cents-per-gallon tax reduction on the first 15 million gallons they produce. There is also the “renewable fuel standard,” a mandatory level of nonfossil fuel to be used in motor vehicles, which has set off a political bidding war. Despite already high government subsidies, Congress is considering lavishing more money on biofuels. Legislation related to the 2007 farm bill introduced by Wisconsin Representative Ron Kind calls for raising loan guarantees for ethanol producers from $200 million to $2 billion.

Advocates of corn-based ethanol have rationalized subsidies by pointing out that greater ethanol demand pushes up corn prices and brings down subsidies to corn growers.

REDUCING POVERTY AND HUNGER WITH BIOFUELS The chronic hunger suffered by more than 800 million people in the world results from poverty, not a global shortage of food.

The causes and solutions to poverty are more complex than the criticism that biofuels will raise food prices or that corn used to make fuel would otherwise feed the world’s hungry.

At an agriculture conference a couple of years ago, I met a Mexican agricultural economist who hoped that every last kernel of US corn would be used to make ethanol so global grain companies would stop dumping heavily subsidized US corn at below production cost in Mexican markets. Poverty and hunger in rural Mexico (and immigration to the US) increased because NAFTA and subsidized US corn displaced two million Mexican farmers.

In this analysis, domestic demand that takes subsidized US and European grain out of global markets will reduce poverty and hunger. Grain and cotton dumped by the US and Europe on world markets at below production cost drives farmers off their land and ruins rural economies in poor countries where most hungry people live. It was the poor countries that stalled (if not killed) the WTO over the issue of subsidized crops exported by rich countries.

World commodities markets have been awash in cheap, subsidized grain for the past 30 years without ending hunger.

For decades the US and Europe used food aid to poor countries as a sink for domestic overproduction. This saves lives during short-term crises, but has done nothing to solve the poverty that causes chronic hunger. I don’t doubt that the corn to fill an SUV gas tank contains enough calories to feed a person for a year. But the US does not grow corn to feed the world. A more relevant comparison is that the corn to make 25 gallons of biofuel now makes enough high-fructose corn syrup to sweeten 250 gallons of soda. Ethanol does not take food from the hungry or drive prices, any more than the corn we grow to produce marbled beef, fat hogs, Chicken McNuggets, and high-fructose corn syrup to sweeten junk food and soda. Ethanol competes with high-fructose corn syrup for the starch in corn; the leftover protein still gets fed to cattle.

Domestic US demand for ethanol has driven up corn prices above production costs for the first time in decades, and US and European futures markets do drive the price of grain marketed by global grain companies. The rich countries need to help consumers in poor countries that have been hurt by high grain prices. But to reduce poverty, global trade and foreign aid need to strengthen rural economies, not flood markets in poor countries with subsidized grain. In the long run poor rural economies will be stronger, with less poverty and hunger, if farmers in poor countries can make a living.

—Cliff Bradley

but if the prices of nearly all staples go up, they are left with no alternative.

In a study of global food security conducted by Foreign Policy magazine in 2003, it was projected that, given the rates of economic and population growth, the number of hungry people throughout the world would decline by 23 percent, to about 625 million, by 2025, so long as agricultural productivity improved enough to keep the relative price of food constant. But if, all other things being equal, the prices of staple foods increased because of demand for biofuels, as the IFPRI projections suggest they will, the number of food-insecure people in the world would rise by over 16 million for every percentage increase in the real prices of staple foods.

That means that 1.2 billion people could be chronically hungry by 2025—600 million more than previously predicted.

The world’s poorest people already spend 50 to 80 percent of their total household income on food. For the many among them who are landless laborers or rural subsistence farmers, large increases in the prices of staple foods will mean malnutrition and hunger. Some of them will tumble over the edge of subsistence into outright starvation, and many more will die from a multitude of hunger-related diseases.

THE GRASS IS GREENER And for what? Limited environmental benefits at best. Although it is important to think of ways to develop renewable energy, one should also carefully examine the eager claims that biofuels are “green.” Ethanol and biodiesel are often viewed as environmentally friendly because they are plant-based rather than petroleum-based. In fact, even if the entire corn crop in the US were used to make ethanol, that fuel would replace only 12 percent of current US gasoline use.Thinking of ethanol as a green alternative to fossil fuels reinforces the chimera of energy independence and of decoupling the interests of the US from an increasingly troubled Middle East.

Should corn and soybeans be used as fuel crops at all? Soybeans and especially corn are row crops that contribute to soil erosion and water pollution and require large amounts of fertilizer, pesticides, and fuel to grow, harvest, and dry. They are the major cause of nitrogen runoff—the harmful leakage of nitrogen from fields when it rains—of the type that has created the so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, an ocean area the size of New Jersey that has so little oxygen it can barely support life. In the US, corn and soybeans are typically planted in rotation, because soybeans add nitrogen to the soil, which corn needs to grow. But as corn increasingly displaces soybeans as a main source of ethanol, it will be cropped continuously, which will require major increases in nitrogen fertilizer and aggravate the nitrogen runoff problem.

Nor is corn-based ethanol very fuel-efficient. Debates over the “net-energy balance” of biofuels and gasoline—the ratio between the energy they produce and the energy needed to produce them—have raged for decades. For now, corn-based ethanol appears to be favored over gasoline, and biodiesel over petroleum diesel—but not by much. Similar results emerge when biofuels are compared with gasoline using other indices of environmental impact, such as greenhouse gas emissions. Another point of comparison is greenhouse gas emissions per mile driven, which takes account of relative fuel efficiency. In short, the “green” virtues of ethanol and biodiesel are modest when these fuels are made from corn and soybeans, which are energy-intensive, highly polluting row crops.

The benefits of biofuels are greater when plants other than corn or oils from sources other than soybeans are used. Ethanol made entirely from cellulose (which is found in trees, grasses, and other plants) has an energy ratio between 5 and 6 and emits 82 to 85 percent less greenhouse gases than does gasoline.As corn grows scarcer and more expensive, many are betting that the ethanol industry will increasingly turn to grasses, trees, and residues from field crops, such as wheat and rice straw and cornstalks. Grasses and trees can be grown on land poorly suited to food crops or in climates hostile to corn and soybeans. Recent breakthroughs in enzyme and gasification technologies have made it easier to break down cellulose in woody plants and straw. Field experiments suggest that grassland perennials could become a promising source of biofuel in the future.

For now, however, the costs of harvesting, transporting, and converting such plant matters are high, which means that cellulose-based ethanol is not yet commercially viable when compared with the economies of scale of current corn-based production. One ethanol plant manager in the Midwest has calculated that fueling an ethanol plant with switchgrass, a much-discussed alternative, would require delivering a semitrailer truckload of the grass every six minutes, 24 hours a day. The logistical difficulties and the costs of converting cellulose into fuel, combined with the subsidies and politics currently favoring the use of corn and soybeans, make it unrealistic to expect cellulose-based ethanol to become a solution within the next decade. Until it is, relying more on sugar cane to produce ethanol in tropical countries would be more efficient than using corn and would not involve using a staple food.

The future can be brighter if the right steps are taken now. Limiting US dependence on fossil fuels requires a comprehensive energy-conservation program. Rather than promoting more mandates, tax breaks, and subsidies for biofuels, the US government should make a major commitment to substantially increasing energy efficiency in vehicles, homes, and factories; promoting alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind power; and investing in research to improve agricultural productivity and raise the efficiency of fuels derived from cellulose. Washington’s fixation on corn-based ethanol has distorted the national agenda and diverted its attention from developing a broad and balanced strategy. In March, the US Energy Department announced that it would invest up to $385 million in six biorefineries designed to convert cellulose into ethanol.

That is a promising step in the right direction.

This article originally appeared in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy.

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Commentary

Beinhart’s Body Politic

CAPITALISM 105

BUSHENOMICS—AS HE IS TO WAR, SO HE IS TO MONEY Supposedly we are in a sustained economic recovery and have been since 2002.

Part of this is Bush hot air and the Republican Noise Machine, which the media quotes verbatim.

By a certain measure, however, it’s real.

The economy has grown. Corporate profits are at an all-time high. Average income is up. There’s lots of money around.

But the recovery has some really strange features.

Oddities never before seen in a recovery.

Jobs: During Bush’s first term the US actually lost private-sector jobs. It finally improved in 2005, and now job creation is almost keeping pace with the increase in population. Still, over all, it’s the worst record since Hoover, the fellow who presided over the onset of the Great Depression.

How do you have a recovery without creating jobs?

Income: Yes, average income is up during the tenure of the current administration, but the joke about average income is: Bill Gates walks into a bar.

The average income of every person in the room immediately goes up 10,000 percent.

But median income, the amount that people in the middle of the group earn, barely budges. So let’s look at that figure. Median income is down. The average person makes less now than when Bush came into office.

Not only that, the downward pressure on wages is no longer just a blue-collar issue, it’s moved up to white-collar workers, the educated classes, even doctors.

How do you have a recovery when people are making less than before the recovery?

Cost of living: Key factors of the cost of living are much higher than they were six years ago. In particular, fuel is up 100 percent, higher education costs are up about 44 percent, health care premiums are up 80 percent, and affordable housing is scarce.

Normally, when the cost of living goes up, we have inflation. But we’ve had low inflation during the Bush years.

How can the cost of living go up while the cost of money stays low?

Here’s the most peculiar statistic of all.You may have been hearing that the Dow Jones Index is at an all-time high. It’s true. However, it is only 16 percent higher than the day George Bush came into office. By comparison, when Clinton left office the Dow was 320 percent higher than when he came into office.

It’s a very rough measure of course, and there are many others. But by that measure, during the 30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 6/07

Clinton years investment in America’s leading business had grown more than three times over. Under Bush it’s only grown 16 percent in six years. Since the consumer price index is up 18 percent over the same period, when the new all-time high is adjusted for inflation, growth is effectively below zero.

How can there be a “recovery” in which not even businesses grow?

When a government wants an economy to grow, it throws money at it.

The administration did that with spending on pharmaceuticals, homeland security, and a couple of wars. But their most important weapon of choice was tax cuts for the rich, especially on unearned income (capital gains, inheritance, dividends, and interest).

This was sold, and accepted, on the myth that the rich—the investing class—are the most creative and daring members of our society. Just unleash them and they will march off into the wilderness—actual, urban, or cyber—with sacks of cash over their shoulders and they will build things!

Factories! Airlines! Housing! Toys! Computers!

Undreamed wonders! Entire new civilizations!With jobs! jobs! jobs! Like an Ayn Rand novel!

But that’s not what happened.

Because a shortage of cash was not the problem.

The country, the world, is awash with cash.

The good old version of capitalism, folks risking their money with a daring sea captain sailing off to the Indies, still exists. In recent years it’s given us FedEx, Wal-Mart, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

But alongside it, over the last 50 years, the economy of credit has grown up.

In vastly oversimplified terms it works like this.

You own a house. It’s worth $100,000.

Someone buys the house, no money down. They borrow that money. Let’s say it’s a straight-line 8 percent, 30-year mortgage. Forget closing costs, points, and any other complications—that’s a $220,000 debt. It goes on the bank’s books as an asset.

Now you have $100,000.The bank has $220,000 (on paper). The buyer has a house worth $100,000.

The bank has a lien on it, but the buyer will be gaining equity, plus he can get a second mortgage and home-improvement and other loans on it.

Again, this is a vast oversimplification, but that transaction has “created” something like $420,000 that is now “in play,” as part of the economy.

No “thing” has been created—no new business, no product, no jobs, no idea, no intellectual property,

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BY LARRY BEINHART

no entertainment.

But money has been created.

If you buy a dress on your Visa card or organize a consortium to buy a company, the same thing happens—debt creates money. In every transaction, there’s profit to be taken off the top.

The number one industry in America today is the money business—debt swapping. In a closed economy, that might have a positive effect, as people look for something to do with their money.

But there’s a hole in the bucket. The hole is called globalization.

I’m writing this on a Mac. When I bought it, the money went through American Express (which took a few points) to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, where Steve Jobs dipped in his ladle, then the rest poured out though the hole in the bottom to China, where it was actually made.

That’s the economy that the statistics describe.

Lots of money is moving. As it passes through the company, the company profits. The company isn’t going to build anything, so profits are spent on executive compensation. The actual work is outsourced (the money flows out), and no jobs are created. Nor does the actual business grow very much either, except as a middle man, taking American money and passing it on to foreign businesses (and oil producers).

At the same time, this creates downward pressure on normal working people.

Remember those old movies, with 200 men at the factory gate? A foreman inside with three jobs to give out, saying, “You. You. And you. The rest of you, go home.” Those three didn’t demand health insurance, pensions, or job security.

Now it’s India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, China, Korea, and many others at the gate. American companies tell their workers they have to be competitive. Not only do wages go down, but benefits begin to disappear.

This may be bad for America as a society, but it keeps inflation from wiping out the profits that are made from a debt-and-credit economy. The money people love it.

If we are to invest public funds—through government borrowing or spending—we have to be aware that rich people running around with bags of money won’t necessarily do what is good for the wealth of our nation. They may run us into bankruptcy, the way the smartest guys in the room ran Enron into bankruptcy.

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The Great Hudson River Paddle

by Theresa Keegan photos by Fionn Reilly

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he setting sun transforms the river vista as rays of pinks and yellow wind through billowing cumulus clouds. Orange streaks brighten the horizon, and all that’s missing is a gilt frame to permanently capture this quintessential Hudson River scene.

Water lapping against the rocks at Norrie Point creates a rhythmic beat, the cadence increasing as barges chug past and cigarette boats chase their wake. At times the water’s lull creates an eerie, quiet void, supplemented only by the buzz of conversation in the background.

Soon, mosquitoes will force people into the sanctuary of their hot, steamy, yet bugless tents. But for a few magical hours, we 30 people will revel in the peace we earned. After a day of kayaking 17 miles, crossing the shipping channel of the Hudson, and swimming in the shadows of the Esopus Lighthouse, our muscles are tired. Upon arriving at Norrie-Mills State Park in Staatsburg, showers do more than clean bodies—they refresh spirits. Our unified contentment comes from a day of successfully pushing physical limits; of the sun baking into our skin despite the SPF 45 sunscreen we all use; of sharing a huge communal feast of lasagna, salad, homemade venison sausage, and apple cobbler.

Folding chairs are brought in and playing cards are shuffled on picnic tables.

People who were strangers a few days earlier share intimacies usually reserved for therapists as distant friends catch up on events from the past year. Some poke and prod their kayaks, fold and unfold various maps, and make the small talk that bridges the challenges of group dynamics.

Behind it all, the Hudson River is both the backdrop and the focus.

This is day five of a 10-day kayak trip from Albany to Manhattan, and the people camped out on this patch of green lawn on the edge of the river are slowly falling into routines.

It’s a rhythm and adventure that’s been repeated for the past six summers, as the Great Hudson River Paddle has become a signature summertime event.

A MILLION MILES AWAY Like the river itself, this outing has evolved. The trip’s early years—when it was the dream of a few wacky paddlers—ignored tide pulls, sleeping arrangements, and hygiene requirements. In 2001, the group went down the Hudson because kayaker Camilla Calhoun suggested it and, well, because it was there.

“My initial reaction was, ‘We’ll get involved because we don’t want anybody to get hurt,’” said coordinator Scott Keller, a trails and special projects coordinator for the Hudson River Valley Greenway, the state agency charged with spearheading preservation and development along the river. “It wasn’t until 2003 that I really realized what we had and how valuable it was for our program. Now it’s our signature event to promote the Greenway Water Trail on the Hudson.”

As additional state agencies and outside sponsors became more involved, logistics were addressed. The current annual trip includes guides, catered meals, and hot showers. Participants come from as close by as Albany and as far away as California, and range in age from 20 to 70. The outing may be too cushy for die-hard outdoorsy-types, and with an average speed that covers four miles an hour, it may be too slow for avid kayakers. But it opens up America’s First River in an intimate and beautiful manner to all participants.

As the miles pass, it becomes evident this majestic waterway, with its banks that evolve from rural refuges to urban population centers, is as diverse as the people on each paddle.

“Different people bring different skill sets,” says Keller, who has seen both novice and experienced kayakers revel in the trip. “They’ve all gotten a really good look at what it’s like to live along the Hudson Valley.”

For Pat Slaven, the opportunity to experience the Hudson was something that plagued her when she moved to Yonkers 12 years ago and couldn’t find a way to get on the river. A guided tour boat from Kingston offered the best access at the time, but when she learned of the GHRP a few years back, she jumped right on board.

“It’s this marvelous adventure and it’s right here in my backyard,” says the senior project leader at Consumer Reports. She’s since become an avid kayaker, and has been on two full paddle trips and several shorter outings. “I’m never [more than] two hours away from my home and [it feels like] I’m a million miles away.”

WHERE EAGLES THRIVE Last July, in a misty daybreak near Albany, my boat finally hit water and that magical feeling of no turning back and not knowing what lay ahead overcame me. I was floating, both literally and figuratively.

I marveled at the harbor activity. Immense tugs and barges passed us. Their closeness defied perception and they looked like huge Broadway sets, brilliantly colorful against the gray morning, carrying cars, trucks, and whatever else, northward.

On the first day, from Albany to New Baltimore, six mature bald eagles were spotted. Their white heads glistened among the dense green that lines the Hudson’s shores. Fellow paddlers take pictures, share binoculars. The eagles are actually offspring from an innovative 1976 experiment, undertaken when only one pair of bald eagles remained on the Hudson. Although the pesticide DDT was banned in the state in 1971, the chemical’s impact was still undermining the environment. Because it becomes concentrated in the food chain, DDT was profoundly affecting birds of prey, causing the thinning of eggs produced by the parent birds. In an innovative experiment, scientists traded the last pair’s corroded, DDT-poisoned eggs with fake eggs, replacing them in the nest at hatching time with tiny eaglets, which the adult birds raised. At the same time, other eaglets were placed in abandoned nests. Although the tiny birds were initially fed and cared for by humans, they ultimately survived on their own. It’s the first time human intervention has successfully brought back a species. Now, up to 80 pairs of eagles nest in the state.

On that first day the tide, complemented by heavy rains a week earlier, was in our favor, and we reached our evening destination, New Baltimore’s Cornell Park, by 1:30pm. I was pleasantly shocked that after 15 miles my arms were still moving and no individual muscle group was shrieking for Ben-Gay. This shoreline park, like the others we descended upon, was quickly transformed when kayaks were pulled onto land and a variety of colorful tents popped up. Portable toilets had already been placed in the parking lot, and vans shuttled us to a nearby boathouse for showers. We eagerly anticipated dinner.

Although the trip had many delicious catered meals and fine restaurant visits, nothing compared to the delightful barbecue hosted by the New Baltimore Land Conservancy at member John Wallner’s home. As we walked through the streets, people stopped to welcome us. In the yard, musicians played and we were given first dibs on the food before the locals, who had come out to celebrate our journey with us. Under normal circumstances, our gluttony would have embarrassed us.

Instead, we reveled in it and eagerly went for seconds on Saratoga ice cream.

This magical evening came to intimately illustrate all the past and the potential of the Hudson, what life must have been like before the Thruway existed, when the river was the heart of the area and neighbors welcomed waterway travelers.

From the first Native Americans welcoming the fur traders to Henry Hudson’s exploratory journey almost 400 years ago, even to a modern-day kayak trip, the river unifies people.

THE RIVER THAT FLOWS BOTH WAYS The Hudson starts as tiny droplets in the Adirondack Mountains, grows into a trickling stream that emerges from Lake Tear of the Clouds, and ultimately flows into the bustling New York Harbor.

It travels along an ancient path created by glaciers, tectonic crashes, and the uplifting of mountains, holds both fresh and saltwater, and is affected by tides, hence the name given it by the Mohicans: Muhheakunnuk, or “the river that flows both ways.”

It has taken hundreds of millions of years for the Hudson to reach its current status, says William Kelly, head of the New York State Geological Survey.

“In large sense, the geology from the river is a confluence of two worlds that come together.” The rocky peaks on the east side, the Taconic Range, are about 500 million years old, he explains, while those on the west bank, the Catskills, are “only” 320 million years old.

“We think there are two separate mountain-building periods,” he says. “What is known for certain is that the faults created low and valley like conditions.”

But for millions of years there was no river formation or connection to the Atlantic Ocean. A solid land mass existed until about 120 million years ago, when the Atlantic opened up along what is now the East Coast. This geological shift slowly created a drainage system that allowed the river valley to develop about 100 million years ago. “The Hudson Highlands might have blocked things up for a while, Kelly says, “but eventually they eroded and the drainage continued southward.”

About 20,000 years ago glaciers filled the valleys and topped the mountains and began the slow process of moving southward. “Ice is not a bulldozer—it’s a conveyer belt,” Kelly says. A dam of churned debris was created somewhere near modern-day Staten Island. The ice began to melt backward and about 12,000 years ago a huge glacial lake formed, stretching from Manhattan to Glens Falls.

“That failed and drained, in a series of steps,” Kelly says. “It didn’t all go at once. The current river valley was formed in the floor of that glacial lake.”

Tidal forces, which range from five feet in Manhattan to two feet in Albany, affect the river’s depth. Salt water intrudes as far north as Newburgh. It is actually possible to fish in this area and, depending on tides, capture both freshwater and saltwater fish from the same location.

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PREVIOUS SPREAD: KAYAKERS EXITING ESOPUS CREEK IN SAUGERTIES DURING 2005’S GREAT HUDSON RIVER PADDLE. ABOVE: THE AUTHOR WAIST DEEP IN THE HUDSON AFTER TIPPING OVER JUST OUTSIDE SAUGERTIES ON LAST YEAR’S TRIP.

THE FLOW OF HISTORY As we paddled, the eight guides, representing a mixture of Boy Scout readiness, river-savviness, and clear compassion, herded us into a diamond-shaped group for safety. They talked about Frederick Church and the Hudson River School as we passed the Olana site; pointed out the now abandoned and decaying factories that once produced the bricks that built lower Manhattan; and spoke about the world leaders who took in the Hudson views from FDR’s mansion in Hyde Park.

Our nights were filled with a variety of guest speakers, such as the ones who discussed the river’s geology and the storyteller who offered tales of Rip Van Winkle’s adventures; our mornings included stretching and debriefings.

As the trip progressed, personalities started to mesh and—in a few cases—clash.

Camp settled into snoring and nonsnoring sections. The outside world’s influence, with its Iraq war and North Korean nuclear threat, faded from our consciousness. The calm of being on a river trip enveloped the group and our giddy separation from our workaday lives loosened us up. Adults roughhoused on the docks, playing “king of the hill” with youthful abandon. Bug spray and sunscreen became our perfume and we strategized our approach to an upcoming water pistol fight with true seriousness.

Midway through the trip, retired US Army Col. James Johnson joined us for a few days, recounting the river’s role in the American Revolution. The vivid realization of what had transpired on this exact river long before we were here was humbling. With West Point in the background, we gathered on Constitution Island and could imagine the tons of iron being hauled down for the cross-river chaining that blocked British boats. At Stony Point, we were greeted with a cannon salute that reverberated off the shorelines. We landed and toured the fort where Revolutionary soldiers had raided the British encampment. Their stealthy approach by land in the dark of night, rather than a much-anticipated water attack, resulted in a needed victory for the struggling American army in 1779.

And the battles didn’t stop in the 1700s.

CHANGING TIDES In the Highlands, one guide passionately recounted the fight that began in the 1960s to halt Con Edison’s plans to build a power plant on Storm King Mountain.

It took 17 years to get the final court verdict, but this landmark ruling validated the environmental movement’s legal-defense strategy and decreed that the rights of people and the environment must be considered in development efforts. This area, just south of Beacon and north of Cold Spring, boasts some of the steepest and most beautiful canyon formations along the Hudson.

The fact that mallards, osprey, and red-winged blackbirds were often seen throughout our journey is testament to the river’s ever-improving health. However, a handful of communities such as Coxsackie still have streets that face away from the Hudson, reflecting the decades-long era when the river was used as a dump. At this stop, we saw the cast-off bricks, cement, and other detritus that can make the shoreline hazardous for boaters and swimmers.

Yet many areas are embracing a river renaissance as the water that flows past them becomes cleaner and more inviting. Kingston, Newburgh, and Poughkeepsie are striving to utilize their waterfronts for business and housing opportunities, engaging the communities of the river’s postindustrial cities in a conversation about what the next phase of development will look like along the river.

“Things are way better than they were,” says Jack Gilman, who has been paddling on and swimming in the Hudson River since 1982. “The Hudson flushes

out all its problems,” he says, citing the ongoing joke paddlers ironically share in regards to the communities who’ve traditionally used the river as a solution to sewage problems. Because the waste is ultimately diluted and washed to sea, it had been an acceptable practice for years, but stricter environmental laws now limit and restrict the practice. He is the only guide who has been on every day of every trip for the GHRP and still can’t name just one favorite spot. “I’m on the water and I feel like I’m just playing. The scale and size of the river—it’s compelling.

It draws you to it.” Gilman works as a graphic artist and builds his own kayaks.

He met his significant other, Maggie Atkins, on the trip in 2003.

Gilman’s familiarity with the river means he gracefully maneuvers on it and that he has great respect for the wind that can wreak havoc and for navigational danger points like the deep bend near World’s End. “Whatever the river wants to do, it does,” Gilman says matter-of-factly. The only option is for kayakers to be cautious. He knows all too well how dangerous this trip can be, having through the years, towed in tired paddlers, and helped with rescues when the wind and tides have sent paddlers in various directions away from the group.

Barges and tugs, which passed us daily, can weigh up to 10,000 tons and create wakes with waves in excess of three feet. Because of the massiveness of the river, our group of 30 or so people in 16-foot kayaks was mistaken for a pile of debris by a passing boater. Afternoon winds often squashed any advances made with the morning tides. Heat exhaustion sent one veteran paddler to the hospital and at times others opted to travel to the next destination on the support truck rather than face the grueling demands of the water. A few people left altogether, unable to endure the physical trials.

No doubt about it, an undertaking to propel yourself 142 miles on water is exhausting. But the challenge forces introspection, offering answers to the “whys” of undertaking such a journey. From grasping a better understanding of the river’s geology, nature, historical significance, or even the role of yourself in the world, paddlers undertake this journey for myriad reasons.

Devoid of outside entertainment, the paddlers became enmeshed with the rhythms and patterns of natural life. The monarch butterflies that zoomed past us were actually en route to Mexico. The water chestnuts, an introduced alien species with devilish features and painful thorns, hampered us as we neared shorelines.

Our place on the river seemed at once significant and fleeting. Those who have been on the journey are rewarded with treasured memories, yet no trace of our travels remained along the path. The powerful tide erased our footprints, as it has done for others for centuries.

On day eight we were 109 miles into our journey and 33 miles short of our Manhattan destination. At Croton Point, lightning storms surrounded us and forced us to abandon the trip. Even if the following day had been clear, we could not have made it into New York Harbor in our allotted time. For one last time together we packed away the life jackets, the paddles, and the boats. We left tired, dirty, and certainly wiser and more sensitive about ourselves, and the river that winds through New York. But we were also painfully aware that no matter how much people plan, we cannot control everything.

The 2007 Great Hudson River Paddle will be held July 1-11. Participants can still sign up for two- or three-day outings. Local outfitters also offer day trips in conjunction with the event. Festivals for the public are also planned at sites along the river. www.hud songreenway.state.ny.us/ghrp.

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THE ART OF BUSINESS

MAGGIE OYEN ARRANGES A BOUQUET FOR A CLIENT’S BIRTHDAY AS SOPHIA TARASSOV PAINTS BIRCH CUPS FOR PETAL FLOWERS.

BETTER BLOOMS Stems Inc.

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t Stems Inc., a wedding, floral, and event design studio in Red Hook, Maggie Oyen and her staff don’t use black buckets, the staple of most florists and grocers. Instead of placing their product in black containers, which mask the condition of the water, they coddle their stems in white buckets, allowing them to gauge the cleanliness of the water and to change it often.

Stems also doesn’t use a cooler, another rarity in the business. “Our flowers are never put into a cooler—never,” Oyen says. “They get to drink and revive.”

A former pilot and flight instructor, Oyen is adamant about how flowers should be treated after traveling thousands of miles by air. “Flowers are living things,” she says. “After flowers are harvested, they’re put into boxes. They’re thrown into unpressurized cargo bins on airplanes, without oxygen. It’s freezing cold at 37,500 feet when you’re not sitting in the passenger cabin.” She winces when comparing her product’s journey to that of a dog trapped for hours in the belly of a plane.

After the flowers land, they are loaded onto trucks and delivered to wholesalers. Then they are picked up by other wholesalers or florists. “They get chopped and thrown into cold water and put into a 42-degree cooler,” says Oyen. “How well would you do?”

Over the past 10 years, Stems has gone from being a company that ships flowers throughout the US, including Alaska (which is “very difficult,” according to Oyen), to a small but successful event design studio. Instead of operating as a traditional flower shop, or being located in an area with constant foot traffic, Stems is based at the Chocolate Factory, a restored 19th-century industrial building that now houses galleries, shops, and businesses, and that is tucked away a short distance from the intersection of Routes 199 and 99 in Red Hook. The Stems space is loftlike, with sleek wood floors, a high ceiling, and skylights.

While individuals are welcome to purchase flowers directly from Stems, they need to order ahead of time. “Our position on purchasing is that we do not

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purchase unsold perishable materials,” says Oyen. Occasionally, on a Monday or Tuesday, after the weekend’s weddings and events, there are flowers to sell.

Yet there is no guarantee. “Walk-ins should preorder,” says Oyen. “We have one nice woman who comes up from New York City, and she’s the only one who will stop in by chance. Sometimes she’s lucky.”

Every Wednesday, Oyen drives to New York City to hand-select the flowers that she will need for the coming week. After returning to the studio, she places the stems in warm or tepid water, depending on the variety of stem. While some florists chop all stems the same way, Oyen cuts them according to the type of flower. Roses are cut on both sides at a 45-degree angle. Woody stems are smashed with a hammer. Stems that are pulpy, like those of a tulip, are cut straight across. “Each flower requires a different procedure for taking care of it,” she says. “When people say ‘A rose is a rose is a rose,’ that’s not true.” Each rose has its own personality. “Some roses take three weeks to open, and they need to be cultivated,” she says. “Other roses pop full-blown if they’re not cooled. They are full-blown in a day and a half, and just stay there. You have to know your product. Flowers dictate to you. You don’t dictate to them.”

She says that tulips are another misunderstood—and mishandled—flower.

“Chopping tulips—which are supposed to be [like] erotica from the pond—down to one-inch stems and making them stand up like soldiers in a square box, that’s not what a tulip is,” she says. “You can’t make a Chihuahua out of a Labrador.

But you have to love the Chihuahua for what it is.”

In 1997, Oyen started Stems after she became pregnant and, at 20 weeks, could no longer work as a pilot and flight instructor due to FAA safety rules. Unwilling to sit still and be bored, she decided to form a business that would draw upon her affection for flowers and her knowledge of transporting cargo.

“I have a British mother, who has always been a flower person,” she says, “and I’ve always had an understanding of flowers. Although we had a home in 6/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 37

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KAREN JERRO TENDS TO NEWLY ARRIVED ORCHIDS.

the Hudson Valley, my husband, a commercial pilot, was based in St. Louis. When I used to fly to St. Louis to see him, I realized that you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any fresh flowers in the Midwest.â&#x20AC;? She also realized that consumers who lived beyond a 100-mile-or-so radius of the three major flowerimport centersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;JFK in New York, LAX in Los Angeles, and Miami Internationalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;had trouble finding quality flowers.

Since Oyen knew, as she describes it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;how things get from A to B,â&#x20AC;? she started Stems Inc., which she cites as being the pioneer in shipping flowers from the wholesaler to the end-user without a middleman. With her business, Oyen could prepare all of the flowers â&#x20AC;&#x153;correctlyâ&#x20AC;? in the studio, she says, and then observe them for 14 to 24 hours prior to shipping them via UPS from Red Hook to anywhere in the country. About 18 months later, according to Oyen, Martha Stewart Flowers began shipping directly to the consumer. Other floral delivery companies followed.

Stems no longer ships flowers, in part, Oyen says, because of the way that Martha Stewart Flowers undermined consumer confidence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Martha Stewart Flowers proved the fiscal viability of what we were doing,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it well.â&#x20AC;?

At Stems, Oyen and her crew â&#x20AC;&#x153;tubedâ&#x20AC;? flowers. To keep each stem fresh, they placed it in a 72-hour water tube. According to Oyen, Martha Stewart Flowers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tube. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flowers are a crop like anything elseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bananas, apples, potatoes,â&#x20AC;? says Oyen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The minute you harvest, you are on damage control. So the more conscientious you are, from the point of harvest, the longer your flowers are going to live. Tubing takes time and labor and additional cost.â&#x20AC;? Consumers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to purchase expensive flowers that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last longer than a day or two.

Today Oyen uses her floral and business skills to design events, principally weddings, and to provide floral arrangements and installations to private homes and locations. For events, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can do everything, from lighting, to security, to full event coordination.â&#x20AC;?

For weddings, Oyen has expanded her original made-to-order couture line to two others: Ready to Wear, for budget-conscious brides, and DIY (as in â&#x20AC;&#x153;do it yourselfâ&#x20AC;?), for brides and family members who are creative and able to follow the instruction cards that Stems provides. Clients can also mix and match, drawing upon elements from the different packages.

Each bride is asked to fill out a questionnaire to determine the components she wants and the budget category into which she fits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People need to be treated with respect, regardless of their budget,â&#x20AC;? says Oyen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we do first and foremost. We sit. We listen. And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re respectful about it. We call ourselves â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;smiths.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We smith our trade.â&#x20AC;?

Sophia Tarassov works with Oyen on advertising and marketing, including the website, and she oversees Stems Ink, which is responsible for all printed materials. Tarassov also assists Oyen in designing a tabletop look. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most tabletops begin with linens,â&#x20AC;? says Oyen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sophiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of color begins the process.â&#x20AC;?

Karen Jerro handles Stemsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; finances and is involved in customer service, vendor relations, and event coordination. Oyen does all of the floral design herself. All three women cut flowers, wash buckets, and mop the floors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No job goes undone by anyone here,â&#x20AC;? says Oyen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all know how to wear each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hats.â&#x20AC;?

The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success is in the details, says Oyen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every client wants their event to be memorable. People who attend the event never quite understand why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so memorable, but when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the details, when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got every detail down, they think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How lovely is this?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Oyen refers to what she calls an old pilotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adage, which all pilots need to know before and during communication with air traffic control. A pilot, she says, has to ask herself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who are you? Where are you? And what do you want to do?â&#x20AC;? This means knowing the name and make of the aircraft, the exact location upon initiating communication, and your intentionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what you want to do.

In planning decor and design, the staff at Stems asks each client, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who are you? Who are you?

We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t design for you unless we know who you are. What place are you in right now? And what the heck is it that you want to say, what you want to do? Our job is to interpret the client and make it so that when the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends walk into the party, they say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is so her.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Stems Inc. 54 Elizabeth St., Red Hook (845) 758-8080; www.stemsinternational.com.

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ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM

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Portfolio LINDA MONTANO

Linda M. Montano has explored art, life, and spirituality in her innovative performance work for almost 40 years.

A native of Saugerties, she earned a reputation in the 1970s and ’80s for her long-term performances—for example, spending days or weeks blindfolded, taping a stethoscope to her heart to learn how to listen, telling the story of her life while walking on a treadmill— always focusing on intensifying the experience of life in art and art in/as life. For Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh’s Art/Life: One Year Performance, she spent a full year roped at the waist to him. (The rope was eight feet long; their only rules were that they could never touch, and they had to stay in the same room.)

Over the last 20 years, she has developed the concept of art/life counseling, engaging her audience increasingly directly and individually. She will continue this practice with a new, seven-hour piece titled Lighten Up, which will take place from noon to 7pm in a cell at the former Ulster County Jail, on the opening day of the 2007 Kingston Sculpture Biennial on July 7.

Portfolio: www.bobsart.org (Full disclosure: I am co-curator of this year’s biennial, and invited Montano to participate.)

—Beth E. Wilson

LINDA MONTANO ON HER WORK Genetic programming

Recycling

Art in the world

At Beth’s invitation, I’m time-traveling. I was born in Saugerties, raised in Saugerties, I’m back in Saugerties.

That’s going to be on my tombstone! No, actually, the tombstone is going to say, “Art Is Life, Life Is Art/Linda Montano, Performance Artist.” I was mentored by my mother-painter, my musician-father, and my incredibly talented maternal grandmother, who made the art of her life during her life, 24/7. My Italian grandparents mentored me with a kind of European gentility and dignity that was very appealing, and then, added to that, was the accent, the Italian accent, which fascinated me. You can see that in my video, Learning to Talk [1978], where I become seven different people and talk in accents, never to make fun of them, but to go back in time, to make art of the fact that I was fascinated with accents as a child.

After deaths, I made death art. After job losses, I made jobloss art. After not getting a job, I made art about not getting a job. Everything that was going on I used as raw material for my work. Nothing passed by my psyche that was not recycled into the work. I am a lover of recycling to this day, and I’ve recycled everything in my life. It all got into my work somehow, all became material for my work, transformed into another form. I noticed that I felt a lot better if I wrote a play about [some problem], or if I wrote a story about it and put all the pain, the sorrow, the joy, the questions, the longing into these fictional/non-fictional phenomena called “art.”

The function of the artist is either to mentor or [to] reflect, but current events are too overpowering. In fact, two movies out now, [that I learned of] as I went past the Orpheum Theater [in Saugerties] were described as “nail-biters.” Nailbiters! Given Iraq; given global warming; given the number of people killed in Iraq, the number wounded and coming back with half-skulls, no eyes, no legs, no arms, burns, shrapnel, never being able to hold their new infants again; given 9/11; Katrina; the tsunami—the list is nail-biting. We performance artists have no appropriate response, we’re all in jail. Such an appropriate place to do an event. We are collectively silenced, shocked, grief-stricken, creatively gagged, incarcerated, until we have a way to address this time of tests. Performance art is over, and we wait in jail, and the only response is light and laughter.

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If I didn’t know what to do, I made art about not knowing what to do.

Opposite: Three Day Blindfold/How to Become a Guru, Los Angeles, 1975, photo by Minnette Lehmann. Clockwise from top left: The Story of My Life, San Francisco, 1973, photo by Mitchell Payne; Lying: Dead Chicken, Live Angel, Berkeley, 1972, photo by Mitchell Payne; A Tribute to Mitchell Payne, San Diego, 1977, photo by Pauline Oliveros.

The role of humor I’ve always used humor—not specifically laughter, but humor as metaphor or as cynicism, mockery; not always happy laughter, but in an oxymoronic fashion. Laughter has always been a coping mechanism, an interesting find before it became a scientifically studied, Norman Cousins healing device. Pauline Oliveros introduced me to the tradition of the heyoka, the sacred clown. I’m not sure which particular Native American tribe uses it, but it’s a person who is there during the sacred act/ritual, doing the opposite action, eliciting laughter and guffaws, which discharge from the audience members the intense energies that are brought up by the deep sacredness of the ritual. The laughter creates balance.

That teaching on the heyoka and the sacred clown in a sense has given me permission to continue to use humor always.

I trained with Steve Wilson of World Laughter Tour a couple of years ago, and became a certified laughter therapist. It’s meant for people who work with medically compromised populations, occupational therapists, geriatric workers, and the like. I wanted to study laughter more thoroughly. Now I feel like I’m using it more consciously.

On Catholicism (and returning to it) I think it was a great training in transformation, along with the theological training that came from growing up in a very strict 1950s Roman Catholic, pre-Vatican II environment.

It had almost a monastic quality, the mass, Gregorian chant. [Editor’s note: Montano briefly entered a convent to be trained as a nun in the early 1960s.] The 1950s were really pre-psychology, [a] pre-analysis of one’s human condition. Art became a way to transcribe one’s concerns/ideas/fears/phobias, et cetera. I had fabulous mentors, one being the nun who allowed me to run around the sculpture studio at the College of New Rochelle, Mother Mary Jane, who’s still alive and unspeakably fabulous. She gave me free run of the studio, and I’m trying to get her to collaborate with me on a 40-foot-high Visitation—Mary and Elizabeth embracing, both pregnant. That was the theme of my BA thesis, where I made five variations of the Visitation, using car parts, plaster, clay...and since then [the idea] has just evolved. What’s “art/life” about the Visitation? It’s the need for the appreciation and recognition of the importance of relationship and touch, [of] generosity of communication. I’m sure all of those things were happening at that time of my life, in those college years.

We all have a spiritual quadrant inside our brain stems; we all must honor the Great Mystery. If we are born into an orthodox system that takes our innate desire for order and patterns and that system structures those desires into a theology of beliefs, then it is only logical that we might return to those roots once we get to middle age and start coming down the other side of the mountain singing, “What’s it all about, Alfie?”

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Lucid Dreaming

BY BETH E. WILSON

ADD VIEWER, STIR GENTLY once heard NYU professor Neil Postman say, while musing some years ago on the then-hot topic of “cyberspace,” that although we understand that term to mean something like the place where we focus our consciousness while we’re surfing the Web, sending e-mail, and the like, for him the big question is: Where is our consciousness the rest of the time?

An exhibition of minipaintings by Lucio Pozzi now up at BCB Art in Hudson demonstrates the aptness of Postman’s observation.

Much has been made of the deceptively neutral space of the classic “white box” gallery—all those silent surfaces that invisibly frame the contemporary experience of art, yet without which the presumed autonomy of the modern painting would be impossible. The architecture fundamentally structures the experience but is ultimately meant to be forgotten in this kind of encounter with art. (You can see the ultimate extension of this logic in the new MoMA, which, with the simple introduction of clothing racks in place of painting and sculpture, could easily become the world’s largest Gap store.)

Pozzi’s work stands in stark contrast to this willful erasure of the viewing context. His minipaintings—none more than seven inches tall—work the logic of architecture from the inside out, spreading their influence far beyond the relatively small surface area of the paintings themselves. Typically, he arrives with just a suitcase full of paintings, selecting a few and installing them in the gallery space in question in order to maximize their presence. At BCB, the paintings are all one-and-one-quarter-inches deep, the canvas stained to match the predominant color of the finished work, ranging from flat grey to spring green to ochre. Over that base he lays two broad bands of saturated, contrasting colors (orange/black, blue/green, et cetera), which are largely obscured by a

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thick coat of paint matching the base-level stain. While it’s still wet, he digs into this top layer to reveal tantalizing bits of the bright colors underneath—small passages that activate the surface of the painting, just as the small painting itself activates the broad, even surface of the wall itself.

As a sort of coup de grace, Pozzi dots the top level of the works with spots of the underpainting’s colors, once again inverting/subverting simple concepts like near and far, top and bottom, major and minor. The depth of the stretchers lends a sculptural dimension to the paintings, which then initiates a dialogue with the architecture in which they’re placed—on one large wall at BCB, a single painting is hung far to one side, uncannily emulating the size and position of a thermostat fixture on the opposite side. The subversiveness of this move is both subtle and powerful. When was the last time you saw art that intentionally made you think about electrical outlets and light switches?

The illusionistic appeal of paint on canvas is abandoned here, leaving us in a position to encounter, through ingeniously modest means, the fundamental realities of space, of light, of color—not just within the bounds of the painting, but everywhere outside it as well. Like that old saw about the tree falling in the forest, this art truly exists only when there is a viewer to complete the equation, and it opens the discussion in a way that permits these small paintings to ingest the horizon of the world itself.

Each installation of this work is unique, dependent on Pozzi’s response to the environment and nature of the space in question. As a result of this, in the late ‘60s, during his early career, he found himself labeled a “site-specific” painter, a term he treats with bemusement. He’s since worked out a sliding scale of site-specificity, ranging from the most acute cases to a looser application of

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the term that he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;site-acknowledgment.â&#x20AC;? And, in light of this evolving scale, he now calls the usual approach to hanging traditional paintings â&#x20AC;&#x153;site-adaptableâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the comic truth of which points out how dependent all art ultimately is on the context of its presentation. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as completely autonomous work, work that exists independent of the architecture, the institutions, even the art criticism that surrounds it. The title of the exhibition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Void that Holds Stars and Pebbles in their Placeâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;gains enormous traction in this light.

It all boils down to that question of consciousnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which, of course, is a many-splendored thing. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zen mind, BlackBerry mind, walk-in-the-park mind, anxiety mind. Each and every one of these states opens up certain experiences and closes the door on others, including the particular layers of meaning in a work of art that are apparent to us at any given time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Realityâ&#x20AC;? is a term that by rights always ought to be plural.

In a brilliant twist, Pozzi has invited the â&#x20AC;&#x153;minimal interferenceâ&#x20AC;? of artist Raquel Rabinovich in the show. These disturbances in the flow of space/time/consciousness take the form of four miniscule works, none larger than a thumbnail, installed in odd locations (high on a wall; on the moulding surrounding a window). Drawn from Rabinovichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;River Libraryâ&#x20AC;? project, which involves coating and/or impregnating already dense handmade paper with the muddy sediment of rivers from around the world, they make Pozziâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mini-paintings seem enormous by contrast, and call upon a markedly different mental register in the viewer. Some of these tiny works are composed of mud from two or more different rivers, condensing the macrocosmic scale of the world into a thimble-size fragment. Taken together, the work of both artists provides the perceptive viewer an opportunity to explore new continents, new galaxies of space, both within and outside of ourselves.

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galleries ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT GALLERY ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ALBANY (518) 242-2241.

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION FINE CRAFTS AND ART GALLERY

EAST VILLAGE COLLECTIVE 8 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2174.

“Mohawk Hudson Regional Juried Exhibition.” Contemporary art 7950 MAIN STREET, HUNTER (518) 263-2060. by artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region. Through September 30. “Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibit.” Broad range of mediums.

Through June 24.

“Le Coeur a ses Raisons.” Paintings by Louis Cannizzaro.

Through June 27.

ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

FLAT IRON GALLERY

258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.

THE CATSKILLS GALLERY

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

“Arturo Herrera: Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps.”

Through September 2.

106 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5552.

“New York Landscapes.” Works by Jan Aiello. June 1-July 1.

Opening Friday, June 1, 5pm-8pm

“Dario Robleto: Chrysanthemum Anthems.” Through June 10.

“Recent Works.” Works by Tor Gudmundsen & Nancy Cambell.

Through July 8.

“Elana Herzog and Michael Schumacher: W(E)AVE.” Through June 10.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.

“Illumination.” Works by Michael Somoroff. June 24-October 14.

59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

Opening Sunday, June 24, 3pm-5pm

“Rough Beauty.” Photographs by Dave Anderson.

June 9-August 18.

“AfterWar: Veterans from a World in Conflict.” Photographs exhibit.

Through June 2.

“Kysa Johnson: Blow Ups—Spores, Pollen, and Pollutants.”

Through June 10.

“North America.” Paintings by Neil Jenny. June 24-September 3.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS BEACON GALLERY

“Photography Now 2007.” Annual juried exhibition.

June 9-August 18.

FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5631.

Opening Sunday, June 24, 3pm-5pm

Opening (both shows) Saturday, June 9, 5pm-7pm

“On This Site Stood.” Historical markers by Norm Magnusson.

June 24-August 12.

CHACE-RANDALL GALLERY

Opening Sunday, June 24, 3pm-5pm

49 MAIN STREET, ANDES 676-4901.

FRESHMEN FINE ARTS GALLERY

“Studies in Segmented Form.” Works by Mary Judge.

June 24-September 3.

“Birds.” Prints and boxes by Rimer Cardillo. Through June 24.

4 SOUTH CHESTNUT STREET, BEACON 440-8988.

Opening Sunday, June 24, 3pm-5pm

CHEFS ON FIRE DEPUY CANAL HOUSE, HIGH FALLS 687-7778.

ARTS UPSTAIRS

“Landscape Watercolors of Maria Lobosco.” Through June 17.

60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.

209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

Opening Saturday, June 9, 5pm-7pm

24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136.

“Many Eyes, Many Views.” June 9-30.

DIA: BEACON

Featuring a raffle of red carpet gift bags Saturday, June 9, 6pm-8pm

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

Opening Saturday, June 9, 4pm-7pm GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS “Collaborations Exhibit.” June 9-August 4.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER

“Plantscapes-Transforming Images.” Large-scale color drawings by Denise Mastrosimone Smith. June 9-July 10.

“Drawing Series.” 14 key works from Sol LeWitt.

Through September 10.

“An-My Le: Trap Rock, 2006.” Photography exhibit.

Through September 10.

“bau 29: Christopher Staples.” Large scale black and white photography and mixed media. Through June 3.

“Fresh Ink.” A printmaking event by Elizabeth Winchester.

June 9-July 8.

DONSKOJ AND COMPANY

Opening Saturday, June 9, 6pm-9pm

“Species.” Egg tempera paintings by Stephen Ladin. June 2-30.

93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-8473.

Opening Saturday, June 2, 5pm-8pm

“Metaphysical Ground.” Photographs by Vincent Serbin.

June 22-July 23.

Opening Saturday, June 23, 5pm-7pm “Ordinary Magic.” Photographs by Keith Carter. Through June 18.

Opening Friday, June 1, 6pm-8pm GALLERY 37 37 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-3700.

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“Music and Art Show.” Eclectic mix of work in many different media by more than 50 artists. Through June 10.

“Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film.” Through July 29.

“Benjamin Levy.” Sculptures and works on paper.

June 16-August 1.

Opening Friday, June 15, 5pm-7pm GALLERY 384 384 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 947-6732.

“The Shadow of Babel.” New Work by John Mullen and Alexander Weiss. Through July 7.

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

“The Void That Holds Pebbles and Stars in Their Place.”

Mini paintings by Lucio Pozi. Through June 24.

BE GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS 687-0660.

“Contemporary Mexican Art and Folk Art.” Through June 12.

BEGINNER’S MIND GALLERY AND STUDIO 401 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-9100.

“Genesis.” Photographic-encaustic series by Lee Anne Morgan.

Through June 30.

I’m Talking About the Future Matthew Kelly, oil on canvas.

From “The Walks,” a show of Kelly’s paintings at R&F Gallery, June 2 through July 28.

CABARET VOLTAIRE ART CENTER 358 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-7800.

“Bestial Beings.” Recent and early works by Jan Harrison.

Through June 24.

CAFFE MACCHIATO 99 LIBERTY STREET, NEWBURGH 564-4616.

“Process of Being.” Works by Mary Grisey. June 3-30.

Opening Sunday, June 3, 3pm-12am CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.

“New Paintings.” Works by Greg Decker, Douglas James Maguire, and David Eddy. Through July 8.

Opening Saturday, June 2, 6pm-8pm

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June 8-July 31.

Opening Friday, June 8, 4pm-7pm GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;About Face.â&#x20AC;? 6 artists not afraid of U-turns.

Through June 12. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fallen Angels.â&#x20AC;? Works by Philip Chan. Through June 12.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Applied Vision.â&#x20AC;?

Works by Joan Kehlenbeck and Rosalind Hodgkins.

June 27-July 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;River Valley Artists Guild Summer Show.â&#x20AC;?

June 27-July 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Views of Greenwood Lake.â&#x20AC;? Pastels, watercolors and oil by three female artists.

Through June 23.

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PRITZKER GALLERY 257 SOUTH RIVERSIDE ROAD, HIGHLAND 691-5506.

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

â&#x20AC;&#x153;2 People 2 Visions - Moscow & St. Petersberg.â&#x20AC;? Photographs by Barbara Birmingham & Wendy Chan. Through June 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paradox and Conformity.â&#x20AC;? New works by Richard Deon.

June 16-July 14.

Opening Saturday, June 16, 6pm-8pm

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Overglazed.â&#x20AC;? Hand painted porcelain tiles, vases and objects by Paola Bari. June 3-30.

Opening Sunday, June 3, 2pm

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

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Walks.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Matthew Kelly.

June 2-July 28.

Opening Saturday, June 2, 5pm-7pm

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Size Matters: XS.â&#x20AC;? Recent small-scale paintings. June 9November 10.

REAR VIEWS GALLERY

Opening Saturday, June 9, 5pm-7pm

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pastels on Paper.â&#x20AC;? By Hedina Christiner.

Through June 10.

296 MAIN STREET, BEACON 849-2443.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sculpture by Trudy Solin & Renee Iacone Clearman.â&#x20AC;?

Through June 30.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER

RHINEBECK STARR LIBRARY 68 WEST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-5797.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youth Photography Show.â&#x20AC;? Works by children ages 8-14.

Through June 11.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americans Who Tell the Truth.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Robert Shetterly. Through June 24.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY

KINGSTON MUSUEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contemplative Landscapes.â&#x20AC;? Oils by E. Virginia Donovan.

Through June 4.

103 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON WWW.KMOCA.ORG.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faces of War.â&#x20AC;? Photographs of Afghanistan by Chad Hunt.

June 2-July 6.

Opening Saturday, June 2, 2pm M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380.

172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Landscapes, Here and There.â&#x20AC;? Works by Patrick Milbourn.

June 1-30.

Opening Friday, June 8, 4pm-8pm

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

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Uncanny Valley.â&#x20AC;? Works by Hudson Valley artists.

June 23-September 9.

Opening Saturday, June 23, 6pm-8pm

TERENCHIN FINE ART 462 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 945-1808.

MIDDLETOWN THRALL LIBRARY DEPOT STREET, MIDDLETOWN 341-5454.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America.â&#x20AC;? June 1-30.

Opening Wednesday, June 6, 7pm-8pm

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ether.â&#x20AC;? Explores strategies used to convey the notion â&#x20AC;&#x153;change is the only constant.â&#x20AC;?

Through July 8.

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

MILL STREET LOFT GALLERY 455 MAPLE STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Works.â&#x20AC;? Works by members of the Art Institute of Mill Street Loftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chapter of the National Art Honor Society.

Through June 9.

MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY 24 SHARON ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CONNECTICUT (860) 435-0898.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Paintings and Drawings.â&#x20AC;? Works by Laura Ball, Peter Barrett & Josh Dorman. Through June 24.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings of Lorraine Archacki.â&#x20AC;? June 3-24.

Opening Sunday, June 3, 4pm-6pm

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

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings by George Chaplin.â&#x20AC;?

Through June 30.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM

460 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995.

EMPIRE STATE PLAZA CULTURAL EDUCATION CENTER, ALBANY (518) 474-5877.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;No East No west.â&#x20AC;? Works by Elisa Pritzker. June 9-30.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unseenamerica NYS.â&#x20AC;? Photographs and stories by workers, immigrants and refugees. June 2-October 21.

Opening Thursday, June 14, 6pm-8pm

Opening Saturday, June 9, 6pm-9pm

VISITORS CENTER GALLERY DOWNING PARK, NEWBURGH 565-5559.

OPALKA GALLERY THE SAGE COLLEGES, ALBANY (518) 292-7742.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calligraphy and Paintings by Sister Sylvia Bielen.â&#x20AC;?

June 1-30.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dahlgren, Hope, Marlowe and Morrell.â&#x20AC;? By four of the fulltime visual art faculty of the Sage Colleges. June 1-July 29.

Opening Saturday, June 9, 2pm-4pm

Opening Friday, June 1, 5pm-9pm WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM ORANGE HALL GALLERY

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;2007 Middletown Art Group Spring Exhibition.â&#x20AC;? Through June 23.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family Album.â&#x20AC;? Photographs by Elise Pittelman.

June 9-July 8.

Opening Saturday, June 2, 1:30pm-4pm

Opening Saturday, June 9, 4pm-6pm

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BY PETER AARON

PO BETTER BLUES JOE MCPHEE In the world of music journalism, we like to throw around terms like “legend” or “highly influential” when referring to artists whose work we feel has been undervalued. In most instances, the situation is usually one of overreaching, of we scribes letting our enthusiasm get the better of us in order to grab the reader’s attention and make us feel like we’re doing our jobs. But in the case of Poughkeepsie multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, any such advocacies are rooted in pure, documented fact.

McPhee, 68, is widely revered as one of the most important avant-jazz musicians to take the 1960s “new thing” ideas of icons like John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, and Pharoah Sanders to the next level. His incendiary early albums, Underground Railroad (1969), Nation Time (1970), and Black Magic Man (1970), burn with radical political themes, their rousing, often funk-fueled sound a preternatural balance of aggressive experimentalism and melodic sensibility. His incorporation of psychologist-theoretician Edward de Bono’s principles of lateral thinking into his approach has inspired other players to reevaluate their own methods, while his efforts at the now common concept of blending standard jazz instrumentation with electronics date from the early Seventies. McPhee’s discography continues to swell, with more than 70 recordings as a leader, on solo dates, with his bands Survival Unit and Trio X, and as a collaborator to Donald Cherry, William Parker, Rashied Ali, Matthew Shipp, DJ Spooky, Peter Brötzman, and other luminous names. And he’s a veritable god in Europe, where he tours multiple times each year.

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“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett, curator of Atavistic Records’ Unheard Music Series, which has re-released several of the artist’s earliest titles. “He can find the music in any situation. There can be the most insane, noisy stuff going on around him on stage and he’s able to pull the music out of it, and not in a way that’s predictable or cloying. Joe is just so deeply musical in everything he does. Just his way of being in the world is musical.”

While the seeds of his gifts are innate, the tree that bears their fruits is one at which the reed and horn player has toiled long and hard to perfect, both on and off the bandstand. “I worked for 18 years in an automotive ball bearing plant to be able to keep playing this music,” McPhee says with stark seriousness. But he starts to chuckle when he thinks back to that period. “The people I worked with at the factory knew I was a musician, that I would go to Europe to play. And they kept bugging me to let them hear my music,” he recalls. “So finally I brought some tapes in for them to hear. Their reaction was, ‘People actually pay to hear you do this?!’ But, hey, that job paid the bills. Although it’s always been a struggle.”

Today, however, it’s a day off—highballs in High Falls, actually. McPhee is kicking back at the bar of The Egg’s Nest restaurant, and the eatery’s interior, an explosion of color with its wild murals and collages of quirky oddments, seems a more than adequate metaphor for the man’s always-surprising music. Dignified in a tweed sportcoat and black turtleneck, he looks like a retired college

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Instead of this horrific, soulless bullshit thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting pushed as a substituteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of this phony Hollywood stuff weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being fed thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about instant gratification.â&#x20AC;?

Joe McPhee was born to Bahamian parents in Miami, Florida, in 1939. When he was three years old, the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the event forced a change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to start all over again down there, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to raise a family in the South,â&#x20AC;? McPhee recounts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He found work in Poughkeepsie, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we moved to.â&#x20AC;?

McPhee started playing trumpet at age eight, sticking with it through high school and a stint in the Army, which stationed him in Germany. But in 1968, during the heady early days of free jazz, he switched to tenor sax as his main instrument. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had been a huge Miles fan early on, but trumpet players had pretty much fallen off the map by then, in terms of new stuffâ&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of the innovations were coming from saxophonistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Trane, Ornette [Coleman], Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy. The trumpet just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to lend itself that well to the new ideas I wanted to pursue.â&#x20AC;? In the years to follow, McPhee would add soprano sax, fluegelhorn, valve trombone, and clarinet to his arsenal.

McPheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first recording session took place in 1967 with him as a member of trombonist Clifford Thorntonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Art Ensemble for the album Freedom & Unity (released in 1969 on Thorntonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Third World label and reprised by Atavistic in 2001). Soon after, he began leading his own live and recording dates, performing at supportive area venues like West Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holy Cross Monastery. He fell in with New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loft-centered free-jazz scene, befriending Donald Cherry, Coleman, and others but choosing to continue living upriver over the intensity of life in the Big Apple. Yet his reputation as a fiery improviser continued to spread, reaching across the ocean and catching the ear of Switzerlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Werner X. Uehlinger, who started up his now-renowned HatHUT label in 1974 initially to release McPheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. So began McPheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing and rewarding association with the Europeans, many of whom he records and performs with. But does he miss playing Poughkeepsie? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like to play more around here, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nowhere for musicians like us to play, no clubs for this kind of music,â&#x20AC;? he laments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to move around the planet [to work].â&#x20AC;?

In the early 1980s, McPheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life reached another turning point when he read Edward de Bonoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity. A Maltese-born academic who has been an advisor to corporations like Coca Cola, IBM, and AT&T, de Bono has advanced the concept of applied psychology by making theories about creativity and perception into problem-solving tools. The root component of lateral thinking is a method de Bono calls Po, or provocative operation, which is used to provide an idea that may not necessarily be the solution or a â&#x20AC;&#x153;goodâ&#x20AC;? idea itself but will move the thinking forward to a new place where new ideas will be produced. In a nutshell, it means turning obstacles into pathways. McPhee hit on the idea of applying de Bonoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precepts to his music, making several albums under the banner of Po Music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way of steering the music and taking it to places you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have gone to otherwise, of making new discoveries,â&#x20AC;? he explains. He points to his 2004 album Oleo (HatHUT/Hatology), with its two labyrinthine versions of the titular Sonny Rollins classic, as a ready example of the process in action.

Although having to care for his aging parents forced McPhee to the sidelines for much of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, by the following decade he was back on the scene, his stature boosted by reissues of his vanguard work and new recordings on vital labels like Thirsty Ear, CIMP, and Okkadisk. And earnest praise from younger groundbreakers like Chicago saxophone giant Ken Vandermark, who first encountered McPheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music via the latterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1976 solo LP, Tenor, certainly hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt, either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Hearing the album] was as close to an epiphany as I can imagine,â&#x20AC;? Vandermark enthuses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I heard that and literally said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is what I want to do. This is the way I want to go. This is the music I want to play.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

So while Vandermark and other adventurous listeners have heeded the call, why should the rest of the world hear McPheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I might have something to say,â&#x20AC;? he offers, humbly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here on Earth now, so the time to hear me is now, instead of when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gone. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always tried my best at what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done, tried to keep the music honest. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always done it as though I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a moment to waste. Really, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a choice: I have to do this. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully,â&#x20AC;? he continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;people will hear my music and discover something newâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like my music, hearing it may lead them to something else that they do get something from. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a journey, a continuum.â&#x20AC;?

Survival Unit III, featuring Joe McPhee, drummer Michael Zerang, and cellist Fred Longberg-Holm, will play at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York on June 20 as part of the 2007 Vision Festival.

Trio Xâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Train and The River DVD and AIR: Above and Beyond CD are out now on CIMP. www.joemcphee.com.

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7pm. $5. Stone Ridge. (845) 687-9794. www.jackandlunas.com.

A TRIBUTE TO BOBBY DARIN June 9. If anyone can convey the artistry of Darin and other legendary male crooners, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mark Raisch, Dutchess Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s answer to the Rat Pack. Raisch, who mastered American song stylings long before Rod Stewart made his attempts, will be backed by Rich Conleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Band, and insists that â&#x20AC;&#x153;this show is not an impersonation.â&#x20AC;? Group discounts are available for these two shows at the Cunneen Hackett Art Center.

4:30 and 8pm. $25. Poughkeepsie. (845) 464-5836. www.marksings.com.

JESSE MOORE June 9. Singer-songwriter Moore, also known as The HooDoo Man, followed his calling from Ulster County to New Orleans, where his roots were only slightly dampened by Hurricane Katrina. After he and his music catalog survived the broken levees, Moore didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate to jump back on stage and hit the road as an ambassador of good times. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to pick up his excellent CD, More Than Life Itself, at this Rosendale Cafe show. 8pm. $10. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048. www.jessemoore.com.

CHRISTINE SPERO GROUP June 9. Beacon, like Hudson, Kingston, and other small riverside cities, has become a model of mixed-use real estate, allowing artists and galleries to flourish in a pool of cool spaces. The Howland Cultural Center brings back the way-cool Christine Spero and her combo for a benefit concert supporting geothermal project Going Green.

Go tropical to Speroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lush Brazilian and Latin jazz-pop vocals as her bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soulful rhythms glide alongside its sexy sax and percussion. 8:30pm. $10. Beacon. (845) 831-4988. www.HowlandCulturalCenter.org.

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June 12-16. The opening program of this stellar festival comes straight from Carnegie Hall. Titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modern Romance: Jazz Meets Classical,â&#x20AC;? the June 12 roster features Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jazz ambassador, Igor Butman, on saxophone and composer Igor Raykhelson on piano. Festival director Sherrie Brittain has put together a full five-night program at Mohonk Mountain House of other works by Tchaikovsky, Bach, and Vivaldi.

Chef-prepared dinner and concert/reception ($90/person); concert and reception ($50/person); full overnight packages are also available. (Deadline for payment is June 8.) 9pm. New Paltz. (800) 772-6646. www.classicsonthemountain.com.

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June 16, 30. Slam â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Manâ&#x20AC;? and his Soul Workinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Band rock the Firebird Lounge on Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day eve with a brand new trick bag straight from Sweet Home Chicago, a city Allen often revisits to maintain his chops.

Latin dance powerhouse band Sonando (June 30) may cause the Firebird to roll up the carpets for this barn-burner. Both shows will pack the house, so early arrival is recommended. 10pm. Call for cover info.

Rhinebeck. (845) 876-8686. www.myspace.com/firebirdlounge.

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SLAM ALLEN WILL PERFORM AT THE FIREBIRD LOUNGE ON JUNE 16.

CD REVIEWS MARK DONATO I HAVEN’T WASTED ALL THIS TIME ALONE RAG AND BONE SHOP RECORDS, 2007

Like many Hudson Valley residents, West Shokan’s Mark Donato left New York City in search of some space to do his thing. The space he sought was a garage and his thing is music. The garage, however, is more Replacements than Stooges, and I Haven’t Wasted All This Time Alone sprinkles pedal steel, mandolin, accordion, organ, and dobro over a bed of solid singer-songwriting. But don’t let the instrumentation trick you too far down Folk Lane: Even though there are folk nuances, this isn’t the time to smell the flowers and then put them in your hair. The record’s tone, alternating between earnest and tongue-in-cheek, morbid, and wry, creates some interesting results. For Donato, never-again relationships, never-to-be loves, imminent death, loneliness, and the unrepenting music industry are what great songs are made from. Especially when they are presented with a dash of Caribbean pop (“Moods of Extreme Desire”) and country-tonk charm (“Caretaker”). The album was recorded in a variety of local and regional studios, and, despite the large cast of friends and changing locations, it is cohesive and well articulated.

Donato will play at the American General Store in West Shokan on June 9. www.ragandboneshop.com.

—Jason Broome

MIGHTY GIRL LONG GONE INDEPENDENT, 2007

Someone’s been studying the melodic chapters of the Velvet Underground songbook. Skipping over the chapter titled “Black Angel’s Death Song,” Mighty Girl has gone straight to “Pale Blue Eyes,” “Femme Fatale,” and “All Tomorrow’s Parties.”

Mighty Girl’s members—vocalist and guitarist Lena Fahringer, drummer Bill Fahringer, and bassist Bob Torsello (ex-Shrubs)—have studied those passages intently, too. You’ll hear the Velvets’ subversive, lurking cross melodies at play throughout “On the Rise,” and the unwinding textures on “Back To You” and the namesake track. There’s a deceptive, folksy tunefulness at play on “Dread the Notion” and “Dream.”

Listen on for the poignant pop of “Sleepless” and “Gathering.”

Lena Fahringer’s vocal style is a cool Nico having lunch with Aimee Mann at an uptown ’60s chanteuse festival.

Though to these ears that coolness could use a push into passion at times, her vocals do fall comfortably into an often bouncy but still ominous lushness that few trios can maintain. But, instrumentally, the Monroe-based band still holds the pace and time throughout these 11 songs.

Mighty Girl will play at the Bertoni Gallery in Sugar Loaf on July 15. www.myspace.com/mightygirlmusic.

—Mike Jurkovic

SCOTT HELLAND AND THE TRAVELING BAND OF GYPSY NOMADS CATAPULT EXOTIC AQUATIC RECORDINGS, 2006

ing acoustic guitarist, creating stimulating, passionate instrumentals that may cause little flowers to bloom in your heart. Once a successful hardcore punk bassist, his music’s now dubbed “medieval” or “Renaissance,” and I can certainly envision him performing at some May faire and knocking everyone on their keisters. But, quite simply, Helland appeals to more than just gypsy lovers and goth-heads, because, let me tell you, he’s damn good. On this, his seventh recording, the six-string minstrel works all acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and percussion in what sounds like a band of gypsies but is really just his royal self on 12 jubilant tracks. He keeps it light, but finger picks those guitars as if they were percussion instruments themselves. His rhythms are stellar, upbeat, and always interesting. He’s a wonderful visual artist too, scattering his intricate, Edward Goreyesque drawings throughout the CD booklet. He performs live with percussionist Samantha Stephenson, and from the look of their insane tour schedule, these gypsies are hitting just about everywhere in the US in upcoming months except their Hudson Valley home. Perhaps, with some prodding (ahem...guys?), they’ll squeak in a performance for Chronogram readers some time soon. www.myspace.com/scotthelland; www.scotthelland.com.

—Sharon Nichols

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BRADFORD MORROW OUTSIDE HIS BARN ON HIS PROPERTY IN SULLIVAN COUNTY

DESERT BLOOM BRADFORD MORROW’S LITERARY FLOWERING

by Nina Shengold photo by Jennifer May

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. S. Eliot’s “cruelest month” has been kind to Bradford Morrow.

This April, the novelist, editor, and Bard College professor received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Two weeks later, he learned that he’d won the PEN/Nora Magid Award for his excellence in the editing of the literary journal Conjunctions.

How is he planning to celebrate? By working of course.

Morrow plans to spend his “Guggenheim year” concentrating on his novelin-progress, The Prague Sonatas. “I’ve had it in my head for a decade at least; I have mountains of notes. I’ll finally have time to pull together everything I’ve been thinking about,” he exults. “I adore it as you would an unborn child—it’s not here yet, but I know I’m going to love it.”

Morrow has already fathered five novels—Come Sunday, The Almanac Branch (a PEN/Faulkner finalist), Trinity Fields (winner of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Giovanni’s Gift, and Ariel’s Crossing; he’s just finished a new novel with the working title The Diviner’s Tale. He’s also published five collections of poetry, and just released his first children’s book, DIDN’T Didn’t Do It, a deft feat of linguistic gymnastics with illustrations by Gahan Wilson.

Morrow writes like an architect, using intricate mathematical structures to create three-dimensional worlds full of beauty and light. Jonathan Safran Foer (a former student and guest editor of a 2000 issue of The Review of Con56 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM.COM 6/07

temporary Fiction devoted to Morrow’s work) wrote, “His narratives careen from the American West, to Central America, to the Northeastern United States, connecting these blazing sites like a sign of the zodiac that had never been noticed.” Foer paints Morrow as a “writer of the Americas,” but he could have added a couple of continents. Giovanni’s Gift leapfrogs from rural New Mexico to the churches of Rome; Trinity Fields traces a path from Los Alamos to the killing fields of Southeast Asia.

Morrow’s writing, editing, and teaching career forms its own trinity. It’s hard to say which voice sings lead in the trio: He seems to be going full-throttle in all three directions at once. No wonder the bed in his preternaturally tidy Greenwich Village apartment looks as if no one has slept in it. The walls are lined with books, their library-bound spines in perfect alignment. One of Morrow’s two cats licks her paw on a kilim rug.

After ordering a “red-eye” (black coffee with a shot of espresso) at a neighborhood eatery, Morrow proposes a stroll to Washington Square Park. The Village is in full flower—wisteria cascades over brownstones, tulips erupt from windowboxes—and more than once he stops to appreciate an especially beautiful redbud or Japanese cherry. Selecting a bench in the dappled shade, he notes that he once saw a peregrine falcon here.

Morrow has lived in the Village since 1980, the same year he founded Conjunctions. He also maintains a house in the Catskills, and commutes up-

state weekly to teach at Bard. He spends most of his editing time in the city, but retreats upstate for long stretches of composition. He writes in intense bursts, especially when starting a project, but “once I’m embarked, I can work anywhere, anytime.”

Morrow’s voice has the flattened vowels and lilt of his native Colorado, and, in spite of his polished black shoes and the round dark-framed glasses he takes on and off, he retains an air of the Western outdoors. His complexion is ruddy, and his hay-colored hair seems more in tune with the wind than the comb. He’s proud of his “pioneer stock”: His paternal grandfather founded a miners’ hospital in Steamboat Springs, Colorado; his maternal ancestors homesteaded in Willa Cather’s Nebraska.

His mother was “a great storyteller” who spun “tales of the old days, narrated with great passion and intensity. I can still hear her stories in my head: The snake that got into the chicken coop, hiding from tornadoes, the lean times after my grandfather lost his farm.”

Morrow’s father recruited scientific talent for aerospace programs and secretive projects his son later came to connect with high-tech weaponry. Both parents were outdoor enthusiasts, driving their children all over the Four Corners states. “Those landscapes are just seared into my memory,” says Morrow.

Trinity Fields opens with a trio of boys joyriding toward Santuario Chimayo, an adobe church built on a site sacred to ancient indigenous peoples.

“That one little valley, so near where the atom bomb was,” he says, “politics, secularism, and high physics represented by the one place [Los Alamos] and the pure spirituality and sense of the divinity of the Earth itself, the ancient practice of spiritual questing that’s inherent to Chimayo. It’s really the yin-yang of everything. The political and the spiritual are two poles I work with a lot in my writing,” he asserts.

Morrow has made a Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo half a dozen times, walking with the penitentes. “I’m not a practicing Catholic, I just like being around those people,” he says, adding that he considers the 15-mile journey “more of a Buddhist meditation.”

That Morrow is able to make such a pilgrimage is its own miracle. A congenital weakness in his digestive system first manifested when he was four, and he’s battled diverticulitis throughout his life.

In 1994, an acute attack of peritonitis ruptured his colon. “I had no business surviving that,” he says with an air of puzzlement tempered by gratitude.

Living with chronic illness forced young Morrow to narrow his multiple interests, which also included painting and music. “It was easier to read a book than play piano when convalescing on my back,” he told novelist Patrick McGrath in an interview. He also considered becoming a doctor.

At 15, he went to Honduras on a foreign-exchange program with Amigos de los Americas, working with Peace Corps volunteers to inoculate thousands of people in desperately poor rural villages.

The experience radicalized him, and led to a deep ideological rift with his father. The Vietnam War was raging, and Morrow applied twice for conscientious objector status. Saved by a high draft lottery number, he threw himself into the anti-war movement, and still sports a “proud little bump” where his nose was broken in a demonstration.

Shards of these experiences are scattered like Southwestern pottery fragments throughout Morrow’s fiction. He likens writing a novel to

climbing a mountain, except that “you’re climbing it and inventing it at the same time.”

Narrative voice is paramount. “How it’s being said is part of what’s being said,” he explains. “I think musically—narrative arcs are musical arcs.”

Morrow plays the guitar, mostly classical now; he played in rock and jazz-fusion bands when he was younger. “I just got rid of all my electric guitars,” he says wistfully, lingering over a 1930s Epiphone Emperor he found in a pawnshop in Denver.

He’s divested beloved possessions before. During his twenties, Morrow ran a rare-book shop in Santa Barbara, where he befriended poet Kenneth Rexroth, then in his seventies. “He was a real mentor to me. He was a great, great polymathic autodidact, a great poet, a hugely influential translator.”

When the older man died, Morrow sold the store and most of his books, and moved to New York to publish a magazine.

Conjunctions was supposed to be a one-shot deal honoring New Directions publisher James Laughlin. It’s now been in print for 25 years; Conjunctions 48: Faces of Desire was released this May. Over 1,000 authors and artists have contributed to its hefty paperback volumes and online edition (www.conjunctions.com). Frequent flyers include Paul Auster, John Barth, Robert Creeley, Ann Lauterbach, Gilbert Sorrentino, Paul West, and Can Xue, alongside such wild cards as Red Grooms and Don “Captain Beefheart” Van Vliet. Mary Caponegro, Rick Moody, and William T. Vollmann

all launched early works in Conjunctions.

Morrow calls his editing style “intuitional.”

His eclectic literary tastes led the PEN judges to marvel, “The range of writers he publishes is a sort of who’s who of 20th/21st century serious writing, and he’s found a way to keep reinventing it. The fiction, poetry, criticism, drama, and art is sometimes described as ‘experimental,’ but we would also say innovative, daring, indispensable, and beautiful.”

“To be a good editor, you have to really love to read. You also have to be willing to read manuscripts that aren’t successful,” Morrow says. “I have a lot of respect for anyone who uses that tool we all share, language, to express some sort of vision. I think that’s such an honorable enterprise.”

Though he describes editing in almost monastic terms (“a kind of devotion...a seven-day-a-week involvement”), he somehow finds time for another devotion. “I take my teaching really seriously. I love my students at Bard,” Morrow asserts. It’s a tough sort of love: Morrow’s Narrative Strategies students read a book every week, covering a long list of contemporary fiction. “I’m always shocked when young writers don’t read,” he says. “One feeds the other, like inhaling and exhaling.”

It’s time to head back to his Village apartment, where Conjunctions awaits Morrow’s attention. He looks up at a lilac in radiant bloom. “I’m in no hurry to get back inside,” he sighs, then amends, “I can’t wait to write.”

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SHORT TAKES Summer reading in many flavors, including three books with upcoming launch parties, plus two more from some of our finest regional publishers.

The Futurist

by James P. Othmer Anchor Books, June 2007, $13.95

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photos of actual local teens in fictional stories displayed like an ultrahip scrapbook.

Book signing and casting call for teen photo models for an upcoming volume on June 29 at 7pm at the Kingston Barnes & Noble.

Kingston Point Park.

ames P. Othmer, a Mahopac resident and former executive at the megalithic advertising firm Young and Rubicam, hits his stride on page one of The Futurist and doesn’t let up, delivering a wickedly deft satire that is by turns hilarious, touching, foreboding, frightening—and consistently brilliant. The novel cuts a swath through political culture, national governments, corporate hegemony, religious fundamentalism, mass media, advertising, activism, fashion, Faith B. Popcorn, Bill Gates, and assorted other major players. Even NASA isn’t spared.

We meet Yates, a “delusional, sociopathic prognosticator” (his girlfriend’s words), in the first-class cabin, sipping Maker’s Mark. He’s en route to a scheduled appearance as a VIP speaker at the Futureworld Conference, where he will mingle with the stars (corporate, political, and movie), utilizing his legendary talents to jumpstart tomorrow for the ravaged Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. But in flight, Yates discovers a note from his girlfriend tucked in his laptop case. She’s left him—The Futurist—for a sixth-grade history teacher. Yates ponders the irony. In Johannesburg, he secludes himself in his hotel room, turns away the complimentary hooker who shows up at his door, and, instead of writing his speech, lays siege to the minibar.

One cocktail hour leads to the next and Yates decides it’s enough already with the future; he’s tired of logging frequent flyer miles and dispensing “prepackaged bullshit” in exchange for fame and money. The speech he delivers, written in a fever, proclaims that he doesn’t have a clue as to what the future holds. He knows nothing. Intent on committing career suicide, he declares himself the “founding father of the Coalition of the Clueless.”

Booed offstage, shunned by Futureworld attendees, Yates is handed a keycard and told to go to a room. There he meets the two Johnsons (Johnson & Johnson?), middle-aged white men who work for either A) the US military; B) a multinational corporation; C) an anti-terrorist group that likes to play rough; or D) some combination of the above. The Johnsons want Yates to do what he does, or did, only they want him to do it for them. Exclusively. He’ll travel the world and report to them via e-mail. He’ll have a personal travel agent available 24/7 and a credit card with no preset spending limit.

“He had wanted to walk away from it with dignity. No, that’s not true. He had wanted to destroy himself, perhaps with dignity, but implosion was the primary goal. And now this, an option that is utterly devoid of dignity and likely to lead to the darkest of all possible worlds.

Which is precisely what the jilted, hungover, morally confused Yates finds so compelling. Why not? Why the hell not?”

Yates is on his way. But the plan to ruin himself backfires almost immediately. People the world over respond to the Coalition of the Clueless, and Yates is more popular than ever. Someone builds a website. He begins receiving e-mails signed by that other well-known prognosticator, Nostradamus. Yates travels to Greenland. There, he hooks up with Campbell, an old college buddy whose wealth dwarfs that of Bill Gates and who is addicted to watching the “spectacular calving of ’bergs from the great ice sheet” in the pristine bay outside his window. Campbell also enjoys taking verbal abuse from his Inuit girlfriend, who spits out strings of truly poetic profanities while lobbing household objects in his direction.

Yates flees from Greenland to Italy, then to a remote island in Fiji, and finally to a war-torn country called Bas’ar (Iraq, anyone?). There, life gets really weird; the only thing even approaching any kind of consensus reality exists in manufactured sound bites and staged video clips to be beamed out to the world in an attempt to bring big business and development to Bas’ar even before the war is over. When Yates resists participating, things get way past weird.

Othmer has done a marvelous dissection of early 21st-century culture, tossed the pieces into a blender, and poured out a first-rate satirical novel in which tomorrow is to die for.

—Kim Wozencraft COMING IN AUGUST: A SPECIAL BOOKS SECTION CELEBRATING NEW PUBLICATIONS BY HUDSON VALLEY CHILDREN’S AUTHORS, EDITED BY SUSAN KRAWITZ &NINA SHENGOLD

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Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman

by GeoďŹ&#x20AC;rey Nyarota Zebra Press, 2006, $29.95

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ou may never have heard of Geoffrey Nyarota, but, a world away in Zimbabwe, many consider him a contemporary folk hero. In 1999, Nyarota founded the Daily News, a newspaper whose lifespan was brief but whose determination to tell the truth about President Robert Mugabeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noxious government is now legendaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not to mention brave. Though Mugabe is not exactly tolerant of criticism, the upstart Daily News dragged his ruinous economic policies and human rights abuses out in the open for all to see. By the time the government banned the newspaper in 2003, Nyarota had been jailed six times and stalked by a would-be assassin, and the newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s printing presses blown to 7KH 0RXQW LV VXFK D VSHFLDO SODFH kingdom come.

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Vietnam: Our Father-Daughter Journey

by Ed and Zoeann Murphy Philmark, 2006, $14.95

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The Making and Un-making of a Marine

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by Richard Boes iUniverse Inc., 2007, $12.95

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s our nation fiercely debates the proper causes, objectives, and end point of yet another war, three veterans of the previous generationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conflict in Vietnam have stepped forward to offer powerful testimonies on how they got there, what they saw, what it did to themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the struggle to come all the way home.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth noting that all three of these Hudson Valley authors volunteered. Murphy, who served as an intelligence agent, left a Paulist seminary to join the military and was convinced that the war was wrong before he ever arrived. Winters and Boes both joined up because it seemed like a better option than staying home. Whatever illusions of glory any of them might have had were soon blown sky-high by the reality on the ground.

Murphy began working with Vietnam Veterans Against the War soon after his discharge, and his book is the most political and academic of the three. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a peace manifesto by an expert, proving that â&#x20AC;&#x153;military intelligenceâ&#x20AC;? is not always oxymoronic. His numerous return trips, one with his daughter, Zoeann, left him with a passionate love of the land heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been sent to fight in and a large dollop of Buddhist philosophy flavoring his spiritual life. Numerous photos (by both father and daughter) help us to experience Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely love affair with a country.

Larry Winters was a Marine grunt, bunking in a tent referred to by the rest of the platoon as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wild Kingdomâ&#x20AC;? for the shenanigans and radical politics of its inhabitants. A young poet in the making with his beliefs in God and country shot to hell, Winters lived to come home and then found homecoming to be a struggle all its own. His healing journey led him to study psychodrama and become a therapist, and that perspective informs his look back at life before, during, and after â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nam. Like Murphy, Winters returned to Vietnamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but he went as one of a group of psychologists there to study post-traumatic stress disorder. And like Murphy, he sought and found a sense of atonement. Yet both books make one thing abundantly clear: We should think at least twice before we teach young men to kill, and expecting them to do so for the wrong reasons is tantamount to spiritual rape.

Richard Boes has written a ripped-from-the-heart memoir of the years of struggle, substance abuse, and failed relationships that followed his combat experience. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painful, yet richly rewarding. Imagine sitting down in a pub next to a slightly scary-looking fellow who buys you a round and then begins to talk, his words spilling out in a heated rush, things bottled up within him all flooding to the surface. And although some of what he is saying is hard to hear, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made compelling by his wry, ironic perspective and stream-of-consciousness style, which is akin to that of Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac. At closing time, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be inviting him home for a nightcap to hear the restâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if it disturbed your sleep for weeks to come.

It has taken these men decades to process their various experiences into art, and powerful art it is. It is a truism that any organization will be badly run unless the men in the boardroom understand the perspective of those in the trenches; one senses that if the current cabal of neocon opportunists had had to go where these three have been, war as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;problem-solving strategyâ&#x20AC;? might cease to exist. A new round of post-combat memoirs has already begun (see Derek McGeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches From Fallujah, Short Takes 4/07). And these veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offerings will become ever more valuable as more and more young menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;return from the unforgiving desert in need of a light on the path homeward.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our July issue is June 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.

I’m not going to cry.

They’re only words.

Biopsy, April, 2005

On Submitting Poetry

Biopsy, by your leave.

Fresh frightened? You feel okay?

And the heart muscles heave.

the rejection slips I can handle but the death threats take some getting used to.

Bear this in mind. I guess must try to be reborn, look out the window, “We’ll just do a biopsy.” Oh, yes.

—Piper Jaden Levine (2 years, 9 months) In our May, 2007 issue I published a made-up song I heard my daughter singing. I was struck by it so much that I felt it called for presenting it here. The above also resonates deeply with me. I also know there are other young, really young, poets out there, so I’m inviting all

—Dennis Lucas

you parents of young ones: Listen, write ‘em down, and send ‘em in. I’d love to see and consider them for this small corner. (Please include your young poet’s age.)

Bushy spring blooms, one day soon (a feisty yellow now, in the backyard) will be dead too.

Be these forsythias my last?

(For Sythia, for Cynthia, my nursery teacher.

Bright flowers remember me my past.)

Because of this biopsy: I see Cynthia, and darling lover press, undress, and breathe, and try just to be…

Speak Unspoken Will you come to me Speaking unspoken No one need know We are not the norm Make me honest I’ll make you true We really are ordinary —Kate McNairy

Biopsy, see what.

Try to see it as a gift that helps me know how lucky I am to be here. But

Gone But what narrative will later describe April oh-five when this spring is being looked back at, by those others, who are still alive?

Being a kind of ninth months pregnant. Baby soon to be born: coming any minute now, named Miss Benign? or Ms. Malignant, maybe?

Bow, then, to Sergeant Second Opinion?

Bushwhack the Cancer Landscape, or scout the valley of the Preventative Surgery Dominion…

Boldly will I rappel a radiation ravine?

Spelunk miles of dark chemotherapy caves? Is that me?

Surfing the sweaty night-mirror dream...

February flakes its tarry roof in a burning blizzard of shingle ash, singed pages, and melted tools for calculating some infinite amount that cannot be made to cover the cost of living.

This is what life becomes: business. The active rush from rise, like a steep pitched attic touching the lawless sky to fall as smoke-sallow leaves to the ground, where everything comes to lie.

Beastly stupid plastic tubing snaking in and out bubbling my body’s places. Vast hospital tundra, where people wear their smiles professional, to try to hide all doubt.

—Joann Deiudicibus

Biopsy, by the way, and they try to reassure, but is it “Good-bye?”

Soon? Later? or Today?

Lingering in bed, Exotic night-lily me, Petals all curled back.

—Imogene Putnam

—Danielle Woerner

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First Impression I do not like my knees they. Offend my sense of aesthetics.

So. Jammed into my leg so. Unbony my knees belong on a FAT GIRL’S body I am. Fat. Really. Just look. Oh NO, I don’t mean really look— look. Past me please.

Look into my. EYES into. Not the color of my eyes the brown that leads. There such a pedestrian. Soul I’ve got it my. Comfort ZONE here at the tip of my index finger LOOK. Just there, right there at the tip. NO! Not the cuticle but the whisper of fingernail that shows here at the end.

That crescent. That moony sliver ah yes. That’s it.

That’s the spot.

—Beth Balousek

The Stink of Zen krishna never had much to say about my black and barren days. except “it was an unavoidable act of god.” his lip quivered. i didn’t believe him. he exploded with delight and disappeared.

Don’t Run!! i gave her a sniff. yeah. it’s everywhere these days. master of bait and switch, she deftly, easily, substituted her concerns for mine in the mirage of our conversation with nowhere else to go i sat, sipping her mercy and favor from a dirty chalice a stubborn lipstick smudge from the last customer mocking me

(rat bastard) abandoned in a blizzard of ashes in my own ghost town who would be my pinup hero now? loath to be alone, i sought refuge at the tabernacle of the rowdy but she was there in all of her volatile glory, mercury running in her veins, putrid daisies in her hair her smile a twisted secret she was an old school trickster, masquerading as a friend, in on the joke from the beginning she ordered enlightenment on kosher smaltz.

I looked away as she paid with counterfeit two dollar bills. what is that fishy smell? she asked, sticking her nose into an underarm. it’s the stink of zen, she said, knowingly

she pulled a late model luxury soapbox from her pocket and climbed aboard. “by the way,” she preached, “thou shalt not micro-manage god.”

Though it wore no cloak nor carried a scythe Me and Jim both...we knew it was him.

To see it in person...an ominous fright.

Its eyes close together; a predator like no other we were locked in his sight.

Us two; his quarry, awaiting his burst.

Me; I was praying...don’t go for me first.

Terror-stricken...my heart quickened My feet were like lead. Jim started to gun it He thought he could outrun it; but the beast won instead.

Grim was on his neck quick...Jim’s blood running thick.

My stomach turning; I thought I would be sick.

I was hearing; flesh tearing...I heard his bones break I wasn’t sure, how much more I could take.

The beast gobbled and slurped...made a sickening burp Grim ate him whole; ate Jim down to his sneakers.

Then I was left standing; the beast filled his fun This advice I’m willing to only give once If Grim ever finds you, just stand there...

—Kenneth Brown (Active-duty soldier currently serving in Iraq)

Saving What Is Lost in Translation

i sucked hard on my vodka gimlet. her admonishing rant bulldozed me toward inebriation, desperate for its shallow promises

We drank cheap but decent red wine, zwei Euro funfzehn mixed with Coca-Cola pretending we were old men from Spain while watching Lost in Translation on quiet laptop speakers lacking proper cables, lacking lots of things, our first week in Berlin.

a belligerent parrot caged nearby, echoed her condescending manifesto. “thou shalt not micromanage god... ...braaawwwk.”

Never had I been so estranged from language, quickly grew tired of giving shrugs and cute smiles when I do not understand you, or why.

how long had i been here? my watch had stopped during the blizzard. imitation rolex ain’t what it used to be

Mein Deutsch must improve; I do not want to be another dumb American just here for the music, speaking Doner stand German, scraping by, for a while, on a little savings.

i performed the only sleight of hand i knew. forged her signature on the check, and slipped out through a hole in her argument

Supplies dwindle quickly.

Most of all: time.

So remember amidst difficulty, more than anything: I am here, things will never be this way again, not like this.

Not like this.

—Lisa Duff —Jesica Davis

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Food & Drink

Sweet & Sharp ONIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY story and photographs by Jennifer May

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(ABOVE) JOSH KRONER, CHEF AND OWNER AT TERRAPIN RESTAURANT IN RHINEBECK, DEMONSTRATES HIS ONION CHOPPING TECHNIQUE, WHICH HE PERFORMS WITHOUT LOOKING. (OPPOSITE) AN ONION SEEDLING IS SET INTO THE SOIL AT THE HEARTY ROOTS COMMUNITY FARM IN TIVOLI.

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hat would any kitchen be without the ubiquitous onion? A native of Asia and the Middle East, onions have been cultivated for over five thousand years. Chopped, roasted, boiled, or grilled, today they appear in dishes the world over. And it’s a good thing, too, as the health benefits of onions are spectacular. Regular consumption promotes blood sugar-lowering effects; may lower your risk of several common cancers; and has been shown to lower high cholesterol levels and blood pressure, which reduces the risk of heart attack or stroke. Whether you favor the large yellow and purple globe onions grown in cold weather climates (such as ours), or the mild and sweet warm weather onions (Maui and Walla Walla), or the more elegant scallion and pearl varieties, there is nothing like an onion plucked directly from the soil.

“I don’t know which varieties of storage onions are sold in supermarkets,” says Benjamin Shute, farmer and co-owner of the Hearty Roots Community Farm in Tivoli. “But fresh market onions are a whole different product. We bunch them with their big green tops and they are beautiful and juicy. I’ve seen kids eat the sweet white onions raw, like apples.”

The illustrious history of onion farming in the Hudson Valley most certainly began in the famed black dirt of Orange County. Only 45 years ago the farmlands between the towns of Florida and Pine Island in Orange County produced half of all onions used in the country. Maire Ullrich, Vegetable Crops Educator at the Cornell Cooperative Extension only half jokes when she offers the technical name for the soil as “muck.”

The exceptional soil was formed over hundreds of thousands of years as receding glaciers carved a hole into the land, which then filled and became a lake.

Over the millennia as plants grew and died with the seasons the area became a swamp. When settlers arrived from Holland and Poland they recognized the soil as similar to a type in their home countries. They set to work digging ditches so the water would drain into the Wallkill River, leaving in its wake about 12,000 acres of rich potting mix. Then they sowed the area’s most famous crop.

“Onions grow well in the black dirt, but so does everything else,” says Ullrich. The soil is regularly 50 to 60 percent organic matter and is sometimes as

high as 80 percent (compared with a mere 10 percent organic matter on higher ground). It can hold nine times its mass in water, and because it is so fertile and rich in nitrogen and other minerals, plants such as onions, which have a high water requirement, flourish. As onion leaves don’t do well with overhead irrigation in humid New York, they thrive in the black dirt without massive irrigation equipment.

The onions of the “drowned lands,” as the area is known, are ready by the end of July and can be stored over the winter until about the middle of March.

However, this once special niche has been usurped by the onions of Texas, Mexico, India, and Brazil, which are available year round. Today the area’s onion production ranks only sixth in the country. In shopping centers in the Hudson Valley, locally grown storage onions are recognizable by their dark skins and firm flesh.

They remain dense when cooked, and because they are high in sugar they easily caramelize to bronze. Out-of-state onions, which arrive in late spring, are identified by their light and flaky skins and soft flesh, which turns mushy when cooked.

“They are different both visually and in the culinary sense,” says Ullrich.

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nions are started in one of three ways: sets (started from seed the previous year); direct seeding; and transplants from seed started in the greenhouse. On organic farms, where weeding is done by hand, starting onions from seed is often a losing enterprise. “When the weeds go crazy at the end of May and in early June, we are too busy with our orchard.

We would rather do apples than onions,” says Hanna Bail of the Threshold Farm in Philmont. Debbie Kavakos of the Stoneledge Farm in South Cairo echoes the woes of keeping onions weed free. Her solution is to plant unusual scallions and chives. She defies weeds and impresses her CSA members by sowing clusters of Purplette, a scallion with a striking purple bulb and a sweet, red onion flavor.

The ambitious farmers at the Hearty Roots Community Farm tackle organic onion farming in yet another way. Each May they host an onion planting party during which seedlings started in the greenhouse in early March are transplanted into the fields by as many helpers as they can tempt with the massive project.

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read Alone is a European style bakery nestled in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. We offer traditional hearth-baked breads. Our organic grains are ground on millstones to our specifications. Our breads are slowly fermented and shaped by hand to fully develop their unique flavors, then baked on the hearth of our wood-fired brick ovens.

Bread Alone cafés offer fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at four mid-Hudson locations.

Boiceville, NY Route 28 845-657-3328 (headquarters)

Kingston, NY 385 Wall Street 845-339-1295

Rhinebeck, NY 45 E. Market Street 845-876-3108

Woodstock, NY 22 Mill Hill Road 845-679-2108

visit us on the web: www.breadalone.com

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healthy cooking.

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

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

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FRIENDS AND MEMBERS OF THE HEARTY ROOTS COMMUNITY FARM IN TIVOLI GATHER FOR THE ANNUAL ONION PLANTING PARTY IN EARLY MAY. WORKING TOGETHER TO CARRY TRAYS OF YOUNG TRANSPLANTS, DIG ROWS, AND SEPARATE AND SET THE SEEDLINGS IN EARTH, OVER 17,000 ONIONS AND LEEK SEEDLINGS WERE PLANTED.

including the sweet white onion Superstar; yellow storage onions Copra and Prince; and red onions Mars, Red Bull, and Red Wing.

While Chad Ogletree, chef and co-owner of Beso Restaurant in New Paltz, admits he relies on consistently available Spanish onions for his famed caramelized onion, beet, and goat cheese tart, he eagerly awaits the arrival of local baby onions, which he will roast, and also spring onions, which he purchases from Taliaferro Farms. “Spring onions are similar to green onions but they are much bigger and have a larger bulb. They are spicier but also sweet, and they caramelize nicely,” says Ogletree. Look for his seasonal spring onion and garlic soup this month.

At Terrapin in Rhinebeck, chef Josh Kroner makes a point of incorporating as many fresh, local ingredients into his dishes as possible. “One of my favorite things to do on a Sunday is stroll over to the Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market and shop for the restaurant,” says Kroner. Look for spring onions, cipollini onions, and later season varieties from Blooming Hill Farm and the Migliorelli Farm Stand in his dishes throughout the year. They might be baked in root vegetable potpies, floating in soup, or providing a piquant note in many of his salads.

“I love to make vinaigrettes that feature the flavor of local onions. On a leaf of lettuce it really stands out,” says Kroner. He offers this recipe for salad dressing to try at home: Take a local white onion, cut it in half, and grill. Drop half the grilled onion in a blender with four tablespoons of cider vinegar and blend until you have a thick puree. Add a half cup each of olive and canola oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Toss with greens.

A tip from Kroner for fresh salsa for people who don’t like their onion flavor too sharp: Place chopped onions in a strainer, rinse with cold water, and dry. “This takes the sharpness out, leaves the aromatic qualities in, and gives a much milder onion flavor,” says Kroner.

Health-wise, consider that the more pungent the onion, the greater the benefits. Shallots top the list of antioxidant activity, and any onion that makes your eyes water is going to deliver beneficial phytonutrients. Whether sweet or sharp, white or red, bulbous or stocky, pearl or gigantic, freshly harvested onions can be much more than a bland staple item on the grocery list. This season look for unfamiliar varieties at your local CSA farms and farmers’ markets and taste the difference.

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Japanese Restaurant tastings directory

VOTED â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Sushi in the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;?

Chronogram & Hudson Valley Magazine Poughkeepsie Journal Rating EXCELLENT

by Zagatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vegetarian dishes available â&#x20AC;˘ 2 great locations

www.osakasushi.net 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck (845) 876-7338 (845) 876-7278

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Sukhothai

Monday afternoon & Evenings

Casual Dining

Authentic Thai Cuisine 516 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508

Ph 845-790-5375 www.sukhothainy.com

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Catering Take Out Private Parties Zagat Rated!

74 Broadway, Tivoli (845)757-5055 (845)757-5056

tastings directory BAKERIES

Chef-owner Erickson. 1633 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-8519.

The Alternative Baker “The Village Baker of the Rondout.” 100% Scratch Bakery. Stickybuns, Scones, Muffins,

www.bluemountainbistro.com

Claudia’s Kitchen

Breads, Focaccia, Tartes, Tortes, Sea-

Personalized celebrations and weddings, us-

sonal Desserts featuring local produce, plus

ing fresh local ingredients to create delicious

Sugar-free, Wheat-free, Dairy-free, Vegan,

and elegant menus. Homemade artisanal

Gluten-free, and Organic Treats! Cakes

breads, Hudson Valley cheese, fabulous ap-

and Wedding Cakes by Special Order. We

petizers, meat and vegetarian entrees, out-of-

ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide, $30

this-world desserts. Claudia works one on one

2-pound bundts. Open Thursday-Mon-

to custom design your menu, your party, your

day 8am-6pm; Sunday 8am-4pm. Closed

wedding or special event. (845) 868-7338 or

Tuesday and Wednesday. Well Worth The

(914) 475-9695. www.claudiascatering.com.

Trip! 35 Broadway, at the historic waterfront district, Kingston. 35 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5517 or (800) 399-3589. www.lemoncakes.com.

Fresh Company At our kitchen in the Hudson Highlands, we gather great local and imported ingredients

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for events of all sizes and pocketbooks,

BEVERAGES

from grand affairs to drop-off parties. True to our name, we emphasize the freshest, finest ingredients, because great food is

Leisure Time Spring Water

the spark that ignites a convivial gathering.

Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring

Our style is reflected in meals that encour-

located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring

age hospitality and leisure at the table, the

delivers water at 42 degrees Fahrenheit year-

elemental enjoyment of eating and drinking

round. The water is filtered under high pressure

well. Garrison, New York. (845) 424-8204.

through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispens-

www.FreshCompany.net

ers available. Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504.

Pad Thai Catering CAFE

Delicious, affordable, and authentic Thai cuisine served with authentic Thai hospitality to your group of six or more. Lunch or dinner served in your

Bread Alone Cafe

home by Chef & Owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please

Bread Alone cafés offer fresh breads, pastries, call for prices and information. (845) 687-2334. soups, and sandwiches at four mid-Hudson locations. Boiceville, NY Route 28 (845) 6573328 (headquarters). Kingston, NY 385 Wall

COOKING SCHOOLS

St., (845) 339-1295. Rhinebeck, NY 45 E. Market St., (845)876-3108. Woodstock, NY 22 Mill Hill Road (845) 679-2108.

Natural Gourmet Cookery School For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avo-

CATERING Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Co.

cational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to pre-pare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry.

On and off-premise catering. Sophisticated

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serving the Hudson Valley with a complete selection of products that are good for you

Bobolink Dairy & Bakeyard Bobolink Dairy & Bakeyard features raw milk

and good for the planet, including an extensive alternative health dept.

Nutritionist on staff. 348 Main Street, cheeses made from the milk of our own grass-fed Beacon, NY. (845) 838-1288. cows. We also make rustic breads on the farm in a single-chamber, wood-fired oven designed

by Alan Scott. Also available are free range eggs and pasture raised beef. Set on a 200acre farm in the hills of Vernon, you can see pastured animals and taste food as it should

PASTA La Bella Pasta

be! Bobolink LLC, 42 Meadowburn Road,

Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of

Vernon, NJ. For class schedule, directions,

ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the

and mail order visit www.cowsoutside.com.

factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver

(973) 764-4888.

our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call

FARMERS MARKET Rhinebeck Farmers Market

for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock. Route 28W. (845) 331-9130. www.labellapasta.com.

The Hudson Valley’s best farmers bringing you farm-fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, wine, honey, bread, flowers, jam, pickles, herbs and much more. Free live music every week. Tastings and special events all season long. Municipal Parking

RESTAURANTS Catamount Restaurant Located near Phoenicia and Woodstock, the

www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

Catamount Restaurant has been a locals

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Lot on East Market St.

and visitors favorite for years. Experience the pastoral beauty of the surrounding Hudson

HOME COOKED MEALS Order, Please!

Personal Chef Elisa Winter

Valley as you dine creekside in the warm, inviting dining room. Enjoy the locally-inspired menu that features perfectly seasoned steaks and chops, creatively prepared fish and poultry and several vegetarian dishes.

Come home to fresh, delicious, gourmet

And don’t miss the house-made desserts.

meals cooked in your own kitchen by your

Available for private parties and business

own personal chef. Chef Elisa Winter (former-

functions. 5368 Route 28, Mt. Tremper,

ly of Mother Earth’s Storehouse and a gradu-

NY. Call (845) 688-2828 for reservations.

ate of The Natural Gourmet Cookery School)

www.emersonresort.com.

does the meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, storing, and clean up. Dinner time is pure pleasure instead of a chore. Special care for those managing diabetes, celiac, allergies. Extra special care for elders.

Licensed, insured, and ServSafe certified. www.orderplease.com. 845-594-7415.

Gilded Otter A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Dar-

NATURAL FOOD MARKETS

ren Currier. Chef driven & brewed locally!. 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1700

Beacon Natural Market

Hana Sushi

Lighting the Way for a Healthier

Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley!

World...Located in the heart of historic Bea-

Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best

con at 348 Main Street. Featuring organic

authentic sushi with extended Dining Area.

prepared foods deli & juice bar as well as

Sit at the counter or tables and enjoy all your

organic and regional produce, meats and

favorites from Chicken Teriyaki and Udon to

cheeses. Newly opened in Aug. ‘05, propri-

Yellowtail and Special rolls. Eat-in, Take-out,

etors L.T. & Kitty Sherpa are dedicated to

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Broadway, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-4333.

Broadway, Newburgh, NY. (845) 562-6478.

www.hana-sushi.com.

www.machupicchurest.com.

Hickory BBQ Smokehouse

Main Course

Located on historic Route 28 between Kingston

Four-star, award-winning, contemporary Ameri-

and Woodstock, Hickory offers diners Hudson

can cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-

Valley’s finest barbecue and smokehouse

range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and

cuisine such as ribs, pulled pork, smoked beef,

Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu

fish and free-range chicken. Whether enjoying

available. Voted “Best Caterer in the Hudson

your meal by the fireplace in Hickory’s three-

Valley.” 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845)

star dining room or sipping a cocktail at the

255-2600. www.maincourserestaurant.com.

wood bar, Hickory’s staff is trained to make you feel as comfortable as you would at home.

Hickory also features several vegetarian op-

Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant

tions, steaks, homemade desserts, happy hour

Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant is casual water-

specials, a complete take-out menu, and cater-

front dining at it’s best. Patio Dining on the wa-

ing and special events in our private dining

ter in the historic Rondout district of Kingston,

room. You can enjoy live music featuring the

Mariner’s has for years taken regional awards

area’s hottest bands on Friday and Saturday

for their high quality of cuisine and service at

night. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 743

affordable prices. Serving the freshest seafood

Route 28 (3.5 miles from NYS Thruway Exit

and raw bar, Angus steaks and a wide variety

19.), Kingston, NY. (845) 338-2424.

of time tested classics, Mariner’s now offers

www.hickoryrestaurant.com.

new and even more healthy menu choices like fresh local produce, organic wild salmon,

Joyous Café Is it any wonder that Joyous Café is the most

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exciting new eating experience in Kingston?

Whether it’s Breakfast, Lunch, or Sunday Brunch, the wonderfully prepared food and attentive service are outstanding. Open Monday through Friday 8am-4pm. Sunday Brunch 9am-2pm. Serving Dinner evenings of UPAC events. 608 Broadway, in The Heart of Broadway Theater Square, Kingston, NY. (845) 334-9441. www.joyouscafe.com.

Kyoto Sushi Kyoto Sushi. 337 Washington Ave., Kingston, NY. (845) 339-1128.

Luna 61

grass-fed beef and vegetarian dishes. From intimate dinners for two to large gatherings, a meal at Mariner’s is more than just eating out, our friendly ambiance and recently refurbished décor, and our not to be outdone waterfront location, makes dining at Mariner’s Harbor a treat for the palette and the senses. Party and In-House catering menu available. Open Tuesdays – Sundays for lunch and dinner, open on Monday’s at 4 pm for dinner. Find our menu and schedule of special events online at www.marinersharbor.com. Mariner’s Harbor, 1 Broadway, Kingston, NY 845-340 -8051.

Marion Nestled inside the beautiful compounds of the Woodstock Lodge, near Woodstock.

20 Country Club Lane, Woodstock, NY. (845)

“Best Vegetarian Restaurant.” Hudson Valley

679-3213. www.MarionsCountry

Magazine. “Food is simply delicious, four

Kitchen.com.

stars.” Poughkeepsie Journal. “Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie you’ve ever eaten.

Join the Culinary Revolution.” Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic. Organic wine and beer. 55 Broadway, Tivoli, New York. (845) 758-0061. www.luna61.com

Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Or-

Mexican Radio Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A Great Place for Parties! Hudson, NY and 9 Cleveland Place, NYC; (212) 343-0140. 537 Warren Street, Hudson, New York. (518) 828-7770. pmljs@ecoipm.com. www.mexrad.com.

ange County, NY. Family owned and operated since 1990. Serving the community traditional dishes from the mountains and coast of Peru.

Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive. Wine list available. 301 72

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Monster Taco When you have a hunger that only Mexican food can satisfy, visit Monster Taco. With fresh

food, reasonable prices, and a funky atmo-

nities including luxury bedding, linens,

sphere. 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY.

jacuzzis, fireplaces and wireless internet.

(845) 452-3375. www.monster-taco.com.

The dining room at the Inn, Roasted Garlic, features a mixture of French, American and

Neko Sushi & Restaurant

Mediterranean menus with a focus on flavor

Voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Sushiâ&#x20AC;? Restaurant by Chrono-

and affordability. Meet Chef Nabil Ayoub

gram readers and rated four stars by Pough-

and Hostess Patricia Holden as you enjoy

keepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner

charm, exquisite cuisine and warm hospital-

daily. Eat in or Take Out. We offer many

ity. Red Hook, NY.

selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special Rolls and kitchen dishes.

Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted. 49 Main Street, in the Village of New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0162.

Osaka Japanese Restaurant Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Veg-

Soul Dog Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts & many glutenfree items prepared in-house. Redefining the hot dog experience!. 107 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254.

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WEDDINGS ON THE GREEN CRAFTING A SUSTAINABLE CELEBRATION

by Laurie Capps

BRIDESMAIDS WITH BOUQUETS OF FALL FLOWERS

Throughout the Hudson Valley, the month of June is typically packed with storybook weddings unfolding in a variety of settings. Rich in clusters of tropical flowers, elaborately decorated cakes, and exotic menus, the ceremonies certainly create places where dreams take hold and root, and no one can dismiss the romance or magic of these elements. But this is, after all, a tradition that often results in a lot of waste. Long after the happy couple and guests have departed, mounds of disposable plates, uneaten entrees, and plastic wineglasses all head to the landfill. Concerned with the environmental impact of their weddings, some brides- and grooms-to-be are planning celebrations of the greener variety.

So before you take the first step down the aisle, take a moment to consider the ways your wedding can make a statement past its date. With a little information and planning, you can have an event with the extra-positive aspect of a minimized environmental impact.

Where to start Luckily for those soon to be wed in the area, the Hudson Valley is overflowing with creative, enthusiastic, and environmentally conscious vendors and artisans who strive to surpass expectations while maintaining a commitment to their own ecophilosophies. A great place to start searching for such providers is Hudson Valley Weddings (www.hudsonvalleyweddings.com), a huge online resource of vendors, services, and products covering every considerable aspect of wedding planning—and even those you haven’t thought of yet. Judy Lewis, the Kingston resident who manages the site, says this area is chock-full of ecofriendly businesses—which also means it’s much easier than it has been in the past to plan such an event. So stop worrying about tofu cake and dandelion wine—thinking green doesn’t mean skimping on style or taste. In fact, the most important aspect of planning a green wedding is communication. “The toughest thing is when the couple interviews professionals, “ Lewis explains.

“They need to communicate, immediately and from the start, their desire for a green, ecofriendly wedding.” Don’t be shy about speaking up—it is, after all, your day.

The elements Every wedding begins with an invitation, and what better way to put your greenest foot forward than with an ecofriendly invite to your wedding. “It sets the tone for the wedding,” says Maureen Missner, who, along with Serine Hastings, owns the Paper Trail stationery shop in Rhinebeck. “[Invitations are] the first thing people are going to see.” Options abound for environmentally friendly invitations, announcements, and thank-you notes. Recycled and handmade paper and soy-based inks are readily available. And while it would be easy to think that larger companies are less environmentally responsible, Missner points out that the stationery giant Crane’s has always used cotton to make paper, fitting the bill for both green thinking and presentation. This addresses the concerns of many environmentally aware couples, she says, since most are requesting recycled or nonwood pulp invites because of worries over deforestation.

Once the invitations are sent, couples turn their attention to the ceremony and reception. Food is an important part of any celebration, and especially so for weddings. But is it more difficult to create an ecofriendly menu? Lewis predicts that most caterers in the area will accommodate requests for menus featuring local and organically grown ingredients. Bruce Kazan, executive chef and proprietor of Main Course Catering & Restaurant (www.maincourse catering.com) in New Paltz, agrees. “Organic is totally in,” he says. “Everyone knows it’s better for you.” As ecoawareness has moved to the mainstream, it’s become that much easier for couples to plan organic, vegetarian, or vegan menus. Kazan estimates that approximately 55 percent of the couples he speaks with want organically grown food as the focus of their menus. It can be more expensive than traditional fare, he says, but it’s easy to create environmentally aware menus to fit smaller budgets. And in addition to produce and meats, it’s possible to take things a step further with organic wine and beer.

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happy to hear the phrase “Use what’s in season.” Indeed, one important element of a green wedding is recognizing the environmental cost of shipping nonlocal or nonseasonal produce and flowers. Local organic and natural ingredients are more affordable than the Californian variety, especially when transportation is factored in. Plus, says Kazan, there’s so much available locally, it’s often unnecessary to go too far afield. “The source is right here,” he points out. Which assures the dishes will be as fresh and flavorful as possible.

This philosophy is echoed by Essell Hoenshell-Watson, owner of The Alternative Baker (www.lemoncakes.com) in Kingston, which uses local ingredients as much as possible. When it comes to wedding cakes, Hoenshell-Watson’s view is substance over style. Slabs of uneaten, tasteless cake are simply wasted effort—a wedding cake should be a joy-filled, epicurean treat, he says, whether it’s made with traditional ingredients such as white flour, eggs, and sugar, or is vegan or wheat-free. Some clients request vegan cakes for health reasons, and others out of environmental concern. One of his most memorable creations was a completely organic cake, covered in organically grown flowers, which proved that environmental consciousness and elegant simplicity are often natural partners.

The at-the-source approach applies to floral bouquets as well. Purple orchids from Singapore are certainly beautiful, says Melissa Bruce of Stem Life by Stephen Bruce Designs (www.stephenbrucedesign.com), a Stone Ridge-based floral art company. As with the menu, it’s important to consider not only the shipping costs, but also whether nonlocal flowers are truly a necessity when there are so many wonderful options just down the road. Bruce says the company always tries to encourage couples to consider more environmentally friendly options. Instead of a rigid floral checklist, Bruce says, for green weddings it’s ideal when a couple says, “Give us what you can get.” Melissa and her husband, Steve Bruce, strive to combine their innate creativity with the environment in order to sculpt centerpieces, bouquets, and decorative arrangements that bring the beauty of the Hudson Valley area into the ceremony and reception. Their goal is to “work with nature, not against it.”

For example, when working on a Tuscan-themed wedding, the pair designed vegetable-filled arrangements of edamame, scallions, green tomatoes, squash, and grapes, and incorporated organically grown sunflowers from a friend’s farm in Roxbury. And for a recent wedding, they filled metal tubs with succulent plants, ferns, lavender, herbs, and river rocks to create a lush, forestrich effect, like “cutting a square from a stream,” says Bruce. Favors can also be environmentally friendly. For several weddings, Bruce created potpourri from local woodland flora, so that “guests could take a little of the Hudson Valley home with them.”

Waste not What about afterward, when those hormone-free filets and organically grown roasted asparagus have been gobbled up, and all that’s left are dirty plates and smudged silverware? Yes, china, crystal, and silver may be more ecofriendly than toss-away paper plates and plastic forks, but it takes a lot of hot water

(and effort) to wash all the dishes. A more casual option, Kazan suggests, are disposable plates made of paper pulp, and “silverware” crafted from potato pulp. Both are quick biodegraders that can be easily composted, fitting perfectly in line with the philosophy behind green weddings. As Hudson Valley Weddings’ Lewis says, “Ideally, the trash bin in the back of the catering hall needs to be empty.”

Kazan’s group recycles as well, and couples can always inquire into donating leftover food to local charitable organizations. And consider the business’s commitment to recycling as well—Hoenshell-Watson’s bakery generates only one bag of garbage a week.

Locale Many couples planning a green wedding in the area envision an outdoor ceremony, with the Hudson River or Catskill Mountains as a backdrop. One gorgeous site to consider is the Wilderstein Preservation (www.wilderstein.org), a private nonprofit historic site in Rhinebeck. “It’s a very naturalistic, romantic landscape,” says Gregory J. Sokaris, executive director of the preservation.

Steeped in history (renown American Romantic landscape designer Calvert Vaux designed the grounds, and Joseph Burr Tiffany designed the interior of the mansion), the pathways and lawns are arranged to guarantee maximum appreciation of the river views. But what makes this site an even greener location for an ecofriendly wedding is the fact that all money raised by the organization of 200 volunteers goes directly into maintenance and restoration. “A little money goes a long way for us,” says Sokaris.

So booking a wedding ceremony and reception on the property is a way to take advantage of the Hudson Valley’s picturesque scenery while creating a social impact that will last long past the ceremony. And it eliminates the transportation pollution generated by traveling between two sites.

Other resources and ideas There are, of course, other things to consider. The digital age has made wedding photography much more Earth-friendly, says Lewis. Instead of multiple paper proofs that will be discarded after the perfect shots are chosen, couples can now view prints online and select their favorites that way. And while there’s no arguing their convenience, it’s probably best to forego the disposable cameras, she says, as they go directly into the landfill after processing.

In the end What it comes down to is not just ensuring that your wedding has less of an environmental impact, but that it also encourages the growth of area businesses with Earth-friendly philosophies. If there’s a typical couple that plans a green wedding, says Lewis, it’s people who are looking toward the future, and considering their effect on the world today and tomorrow. So as you plan for the main event, consider inserting a little green into the program. By taking fuller advantage of what the Hudson Valley can offer, the day after your big day can contribute to more than just the landfill.

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FAMILY FUN TIME ENTERTAINING VISITING RELATIVES

by Sukey Pett

Congratulations. Your wedding/civil union/hand-binding ceremony has arrived, and it’s happening in the Hudson Valley. Everything has been lovingly planned, from the bridesmaids’ matching flip-flops to the music. The meat is grass-fed, the cheese, artisanal and raw. All is in readiness.

Then it hits you. You’ve got an entire weekend with mismatched families, ranging from Ivan The Terrible Two-year-old, to your intended’s high-energy Grandma, who can outlast the whole mishpocheh. If you don’t act fast, it could devolve into Meet the Fockers. Relax. Knock back some Old Gristmill Authentic American Corn Whisky. Chronogram can help. Here are our (selective) suggestions.

Locust Grove is the house and gardens of telegraph inventor Samuel F.B. Morse. Set on 150 acres in Poughkeepsie, Locust Grove hosts trail walks, garden parties, art exhibitions, tastings, and other events. The Visitors’ Center is open daily from 10am to 3pm through November 30. The gardens are open from 8am to dusk. Admission to the gardens and grounds is free; entry to the mansion and exhibits is $9 for adults, and $5 for ages 6-18. www.morsehistoricsite.org In nearby Hyde Park is the Vanderbilt Mansion. The 50-room home designed by architect Charles McKim, of McKim, Mead and (Stanford) White was primarily a weekend getaway for Frederick Vanderbilt and wife Louise.

The Mansion and formal gardens are open daily from 9am to dusk. A guided tour of the Mansion is $8 for adults; kids 15 and under, free. Reservations are required for guided tours; the last tour is at 4pm. www.nps.gov/vama For kids large and small, there is the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie, full of interactive exhibits. In the Great Bubble Machine, for example, you can see the world—not through rose-colored glasses, but through a bubble. Hours of entertainment for the wee ones. www.mhcm.org No visit to Hyde Park is complete without eating at The Culinary Institute of America. The CIA boasts five restaurants, all student-staffed. St. Andrew’s Café and Apple Pie Bakery Café are the most family-friendly. The Apple Pie Bakery Café doesn’t require reservations, and shorts, jeans, and sneakers—verboten elsewhere at the CIA—are accepted. American Bounty Restaurant, Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici, and Escoffier Restaurant are open for lunch and dinner and require reservations and business or business/casual attire. If classic French food is your glass of Pernod, try Escoffier.

The foodie in your midst can attend demos or one- or two-day workshop at the school. Some are geared toward kids, such as “Do It Yourself Diner Food for Kids” and “Party Food for the Sophisticated Teen Chef,” both slated for June 9. The CIA offers gift certificates for restaurants and courses—an excellent wedding gift! www.ciachef.edu For oenophiles, there are wineries and wine tours on either side of the Hudson.

A trip to a winery can be a satisfying way to taste some local wines and spirits, and catch a bit of a buzz while admiring the Hudson Valley. Tours around the winery, which usually include a walk through the vineyards and the pleasantly musty cave,

or cellar, are usually complimentary. There is a per-person charge for tastings where you will sample an assortment of wines. Expect to pay a higher price for reserve or vintage wines. Some wineries sell food; others encourage you to bring a picnic and relax on the grounds with a bottle of house wine.

There are also the wine trails. Here, you pay an entry fee that entitles you to shuttle between wineries. The Dutchess Wine Trail covers Alison Wines & Vineyards, Clinton Vineyards, and Millbrook Vineyards. www.dutchesswinetrail.com In Ulster County, the Shawangunk Wine Trail has 10 vineyards on it: Adair Vineyards, Applewood Winery, Baldwin Vineyards, Benmarl Winery, Brotherhood Winery, Glorie Farm Winery, Rivendell Winery, Stoutridge Winery, The Warwick Winery & Distillery, and Whitecliff Vineyards. www.shawangunkwinetrail.com Time to...go tubing down the Esopus? Yep! A local attraction in Phoenicia, Town Tinker Rental promises a safe, exhilarating ride. Put on your wet suit and Tevas and hop into an inner tube! www.towntinker.com One way to get really high is to…get really high. In a hot-air balloon, that is.

Bill Hughes of Blue Sky Balloons has been piloting hot-air balloons for close to 40 years. Blue Sky schedules sunrise or sunset flights, weather permitting.

They depart from Sprout Creek Farm in LaGrange or James Baird State Park, both off the Taconic in Dutchess County. www.blueskyballoons.com You can sail the Hudson River on the sloop Clearwater, or its sister ship, schooner The Mystic Whaler. There are three-hour cruises from assorted local destinations, and the Clearwater has an eight-hour trip between Kingston and Catskill. Another outfit to try is Hudson River Cruises’ Rip Van Winkle.

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business directory ANTIQUES River Stone Antiques & Design Center Featuring 10,000 square feet of elegant booths and showcases of fine antiques, mid century furniture and decorative accessories in the newly renovated historic Stone Building. In addition there is River Stone Arts, a spectacular 10,000 square feet gallery of sculpture, paintings and mixed media installations with new shows regularly. 37 West Broad Street, Haverstraw, NY. Hours 11-6 Fri-Sun. For information contact: (845) 786-8600 (River Stone Antiques), (917) 532-3090 (River Stone Arts).

APPLIANCE Earl B. Feiden A full-service appliance store with a long history in the community and pioneers of the home-appliance industry. We provide premium products, premium service and stock name-brand appliances. Our commitment to customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of our business. Visit us when you decide to shop for your next appliance at 661 Broadway, Kingston, New York, (845) 331-2230 or 785 Route 9, Latham, New York, 12110 (518) 785-8555.

DiGuiseppe Architecture Inspired, sensitive, and luxurious. These are the words that describe the quintessential design work that is Diguiseppe. The firm, with design studios in Accord, New York City, and Boca Raton, provides personalized architecture and interiors for each and every client. Whether the project is a sensitive historic renovation, a Hudson Valley inspired home or luxurious interiors, each project receives the attention of the firm’s principal, Anthony J. Diguiseppe, AIA RIBA, an internationally published architect and award-winning furniture designer.

Accord (845) 687-8989; New York City (212) 4399611. diarcht@msn.com. www.diguiseppe.com.

EcoArch DesignWorks Award winning design, harmonizing spirit, health and the environment, solar and “green” design.

Licensed in New York, New Jersey and California, EcoArch DesignWorks specializes in planning, architecture and interiors for single family or multi-family homes, entertainment, retail or office environments. Recent projects in New York include the Oriental Emerson Spa, the Ram Dass Library @ Omega and numerous private homes and additions. Unlock the potentials of your site, home or office, to foster greater design harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity. (845) 247-4620. ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

Van Brunt Gallery Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists. Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work. 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-2995. www.vanbruntgallery.com.

ART SUPPLIES Beacon Art Supply A source for locals and tourists selling art and design-related gifts, specialty papers, kids stuff, note cards, books & journals in addition to art supplies. Papers. Paint. Gifts. Canvas. Crayons &Then Some. Create Something! Open daily 12-6, Thurs until 8 pm, closed Tues. 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 440-7904. www.beaconartsupply.com.

Manny’s Since 1962, big city selection and small town service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, custom picture framing, bookmaking supplies, and the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store. 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-9902.

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

Terenchin Fine Art “Ether.” Inaugural show explores the notion “change is the only constant.” International artist roster includes Hudson River painters of the 19th century, contemporary photographers, Formalist sculptors. May 12 - July 8. 462 Main St, Catskill, NY 518-943-5312. Opening Saturday, May 12, 6pm.

AUTOMATED WATERING SYSTEMS

Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison NY. (845) 424.3960. www.garrisonartcenter.org.

H2O Sullivan Custom Automated Watering Systems for gardens and lawns. Gives you controlled watering where you want it and when you need it. Perfect for time saving and water savings that is more important that ever. These systems are ideal for weekend homeowners and people on the go. Designed, Installed, and maintainanced, fully insured. 845-626-2085. jerryo1317@hvc.rr.com

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-9957.

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Catskill Art & Office Supply Traditional fine art materials, studio furnishings, office products, journals, cards, maps, and gifts.

Creative services, too, at all three locations: photo processing, custom printing, rubber stamps, color copies, custom picture framing, and full-color digital output. Pushing the envelope and creative spirit for over 20 years. Woodstock (845) 6792251; Kingston (845) 331-7780; Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250.

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

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BANQUET CENTER Mount Tremper The Catamount Banquet Center. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa, 5340 Route 28. For more than 10 years, weddings and special events have taken on a magical quality at the Catamount. A large pavilion lends itself to stunning outdoor weddings or parties, while the warm, comfortable interior of the Catamount dining room provides many flexible options for hosting a one-of-a-kind gathering. For your wedding or special event, call the Catamount’s in-house event planner at (845) 6882828 or e-mail msmith@emersonresort.com.

BED & BREAKFASTS / INNS Storm King Lodge Bed and Breakfast Come and enjoy our cozy lodge, converted from an early 1800’s post-and-beam barn, and guest cottage in a country setting with gardens, pool, and mountain views. The Great Room offers a comfortable place to relax, with a roaring fire on winter evenings; or enjoy those summer nights on the covered veranda. Choose from six comfortable guest rooms with private baths. Comforts include central AC, several fireplaces, spacious lawns, gardens, and the grand swimming pool.

Located near Storm King Art Center, West Point, DIA: Beacon, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, and 1 hour from NYC. Great restaurants nearby. 100 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville (Cornwall), NY. (845) 534-9421.

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Leisure Time Spring Water Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring delivers water at 42 degrees Fahrenheit year-round. The water is filtered under high pressure through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispensers available.

Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504.

BICYCLE SALES / RENTALS / SERVICE Overlook Mountain Bicycles 93 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498. (845) 679-2122. Open everyday except Tuesday, 10-6, 11-5 on Sunday. Brands: Kona, Giant, Marin, Scott, Seven Cycles, Intense Cycles, Vicious Cycles, Mondonico/Torelli. Friendly, Integral sales repairs, and rentals. Professional bicycle fitting on site. Come check out Woodstock for the day and see for yourself why Overlook Mountain Bikes was voted Best Bicycle Shop in the Hudson Valley in 2006!

BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali. Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/ interpretation available. 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-2100. www.mirabai.com.

BUILDING SUPPLIES WIlliams Lumber & Home Centers The name you know and the name you trust. Our Design Centers are located at our Rhinebeck and Millbrook locations. Come meet with our outstanding design team and start creating your perfect kitchen or bath today! www.williamslumber.com.

CARPETS / RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings Direct importers since 1981. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets; Balouchi tribal kilims; Russian sumaks; antique Caucasian carpets; silk Persian sumaks; Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5311.

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CRAFTS

The School for Young Artists An Extraordinary Art Experience! The School for Young Artists provides you with the tools, materials, instruction and support to achieve your goals. Our studio is about the joy of learning and the power of making art. Classes and individual sessions for children and adults. Call Kathy Anderson. (845) 679-9541.

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

CINEMA Upstate Films Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck, NY. 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2515.

CLEANING MerryMaids One thing you can count on when the rest of the afternoon has let you down. (845) 297-1009.

CLEANING SERVICES, NON-TOXIC Bless Your Hearth Experienced, Professional, Non-Toxic Cleaning and Organizing Service. Pet sitting. Home/ Office Blessing. Excellent References. (845) 706-8447. Soundofspheres@aol.com.

CLOTHING

White Rice Clothing & accessories for women & children.

Furniture & home furnishings. With an Asian sensibility. 531 Warren Street Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500. Open 7 days.

COLLEGES Mount Saint Mary College An independent liberal arts college offering more than 30 undergraduate programs; graduate programs in business (MBA), education, and nursing; and noncredit courses. 2,500 women and men. Its beautiful campus overlooks the Hudson River and is conveniently located off I-84 in Newburgh, NY. (845) 5693222. www.msmc.edu.

COSMETIC AND PLASTIC SURGERY M. T. Abraham, MD, FACS Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC Dr. Abraham is Double Board Certified and a Clinical Instructor in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is an expert in the latest minimally invasive techniques (Botox, Restylane, Thermage, Thread Lifts, Lifestyle Lifts, IPL Laser Hair & Vein Treatments), and specializes in rhinoplasty. Offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck & NYC with affiliated MediSpas. Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-8025. www.NYfaceMD.com.

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Lindal is known around the world for their signature post and beam home designs, quality building materials and detailed craftsmanship.

We believe that your home should be a realization of your wishes. We take the time to explore them with you, and to develop your design in accordance with those wishes, your budget and your property. (845) 265-2636.

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Pegasus Footwear Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Ecco and Uggs and lots more. Open 7 days a week - or shop online at PegasusShoes.com.

10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock and New Paltz, NY. (845) 679-2373. www.PegasusShoes.com.

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DOG BOARDING Dog Love Personal Hands-On Boarding and Daycare tailored to your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual needs. Your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised playgroups in 40 x 40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats. New Paltz. 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-8254. www.do gloveplaygroups.com.

EDITING Carol Rogovin Experienced editor will edit manuscripts with a focus on optimizing reader understanding.

Will also consult on whether graphics could be a persuasive addition to the text.

Carolrogovin@earthlink.net.

ELECTRONICS Burts Electronics Over 30 years experience. Exclusive Authorized Dealer. 549 Albany Ave. Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

FARM Blackberry Hill Farm Blackberry Hill Farm is a small family farm. We raise llamas, alpacas, fine-fleeced sheep, and Angora rabbits, all for their luxurious fiber. We offer a variety of fleeces, roving, yarn, and fiber art as well as two Llama Garden programs. See our display ad and visit our website: www.blackberryhillfarm.org.

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FAUX FINISHES

HOME DECOR

Faux Intentions Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhiliration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away.

(845) 532-3067.

Nectar Fairtrade Items & Unique Gifts from Around the World. (845) 687-2870, Rt. 213. High Falls. www.nectarimports.com.

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Feldenkrais Method Training Program For more information or to request a free catalog of tapes and books call 800-482-3357. www.FeldenkraisTrainingPrograms.com.

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FENG SHUI Eco-arch Design Works Janus Welton, AIA, BBEI is an award-winning design architect, offering over 15 years of Traditional Chinese Feng Shui expertise to her Ecological and Healthy Building Design Practice: combining Building Biology, Solar Architecture, and Feng Shui to promote “Inspiring and Sustainable” environments for the 21st Century.

Unlock the potentials of your site, home, or office to foster greater harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity. Services include: Architecture, Planning, Commercial Interiors, Professional Seminars and Consultations. (845) 247-4620. Email:ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com or www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS Burlock 508 Main Street (845) 440-7904. Home accessories for the contemporary design lover, selling organic sheets and towels, funky textiles, exotic botanicals and fine art in addition to tableware, lighting and decorative items. Open daily 12-6, Thursday until 8pm, Closed Tuesday.

GARDENING & GARDEN SUPPLIES Mac’s Agway in Red Hook/ New Paltz Agway Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs.

We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers and organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more.

Mac’s Agway, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY. (845) 876-1559; New Paltz Agway (845) 2550050.

The Phantom Gardener At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products and books. We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services.

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INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Webjogger Blazing fast broadband internet access.

Featuring symmetrical bandwidth, superior personal attention and technical support, rocksolid security and reliability, and flexible rates.

Complementary services include e-mail, Web hosting, accelerated dialup, server collocation and management, and customized networking solutions. Webjogger is a locally grown company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. Kingston, NY. (845) 757-4000. www.webjogger.net.

mediation. On average, mediated agreements are fulfilled twice as often as litigated court decisions and cost half as much. I draw on my experience as a Financial Planner, psychotherapist, and pro se litigant to guide couples in a responsible process of unraveling their entanglements, preserving their assets, and creating a satisfying future. Cornwall, New Paltz, and NYC. Cornwall, NY. (845) 534-7668. www.mediated-divorce.com.

MOVING & STORAGE Always Moving & Storage Accurate - Free Estimates. 85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY. (845) 339-5676. www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com.

MUSIC

Robert George Design Group Landscape, construction, consulting, design, masonry, project management. woodstockbob@aol.com.

(845) 679-1095.

Burt’s Electronics Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs. 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

LITERARY

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

LANDSCAPING

Ione Writing workshops and private instruction for writers. (845) 339-5776.

Submit to Chronogram Seeking submissions of poems, short stories, essays, and article proposals. Accepting pieces of all sorts. With SASE, send submissions to Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 1st floor, Kingston, NY. info@chronogram.com.

LUMBER & WOOD PRODUCTS Ghent Wood Products 483 Rte 217, Hudson, NY. (518) 672-7021. meltzlumber.com.

MAGAZINES Chronogram The only complete arts and cultural events resource for the Hudson Valley. Subscribe and get the lowdown first. Whether you live in the Hudson Valley or just visit, you’ll know what’s going on. Send $36 for yearly subscription to: Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 1st floor, Kingston, NY 12401. info@chronogram.com.

MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children.

This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web at www.Pathways MediationCenter.com. (845) 331-0100.

Rodney Wells, CFP, Member AFM & NYSCDM If you’re separating, divorcing, or have issues with child support, custody, or visitation, choose

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 34 Tinker St. Woodstock NY. (845) 679-2079. wguild@ulster.net.

MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir (845) 677-5871. www.cpdmusic.com.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS McCoy’s Guitar Shop Is your guitar or bass performing up to its fullest potential? Do you have fret buzz? Is your action too high/ too low? Is your instrument just plain old hard to play? Guitars and basses regularly need set ups, much like cars need oil changes and tune ups to keep them running well. Here at McCoys Guitar Shop our aim is to make your instrument play as well, or better than, you ever thought possible. Remember, if your instrument isn’t playing up to par, perhaps neither are you!

Come to McCoys Guitar Shop and fall in love with your instrument all over again! McCoys Guitar Shop: Expert repairs, restoration, guitars and basses bought, sold and traded. Give us a call; you’ll be glad you did! Rosendale, NY. (845) 658-7467.

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

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full housepet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets. (845) 687-0330. www.pussyfootlodge.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY China Jorrin Photography A Hudson Valley based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability.

(917) 449-5020. www.chinajorrin.com.

Michael Gold Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-wall personalities.

Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed. The Corporate Image Studios, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-5255. www.michaelgoldspho tos.com and click on to the “Headshots” page.

France Menk Photography events / portraits / advertising / cds/dvds / corporate / bookjackets / editorial. iam@francemenk.com. www.france-menk.com. (845) 7505261

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Piano Clearing House Piano Clearing House. 8 John Walsh Blvd. Suite 318A, Peekskill, NY. (914) 788-8090. www.pianoc learinghouse.com.

PLUMBING AND BATH N & S Supply N & S Supply. 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY. (845) 896-6291. cloijas@nssupply.com.

PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason - to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information.

(845) 896-0894.

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology ITP is an accredited graduate psychology school offering clinical and nonclinical certificates, MA and PhD degrees. The curriculum combines mind, body, and spiritual inquiry with scholarly research and self discovery. Graduates have strong clinical skills and can communicate in a variety of complex relational circumstances. (650) 493-4430. itpinfo@itp.edu. www.itp.edu.

Maria’s Garden Cultivating creativity, compassion and a lifelong love of learning. Serving children 3 years through 3rd Grade in a country schoolhouse surrounded by gardens, woodlands and streams. (845) 256-1875. www.mariasgardenmontessori.com.

Poughkeepsie Day School Bringing joy to learning since 1934. Prekindergarten through 12th grade, college preparatory school serving 330 students from throughout the mid-Hudson Valley. We encourage independent, critical, and creative thinking through a challenging, interdisciplinary curriculum. 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. For more information, call the Admissions Office at 845-462-7600, ext. 201. or email admissions@pou ghkeepsieday.org. www.poughkeepsieday.org.

Woodstock Day School Work Play Inform Inspire. At Woodstock Day School, we believe there is no such thing as an average student. Admissions office Liza Mones (845) 246-3744 ext. 103, lmones@woodstockdays chool.org. www.woodstockdayschool.org.

SINGING LESSONS Ann Panagulias - Singing Lessons Concepts of classical, Italianate technique complimented by alignment and deep breathing rhythms of Eastern callisthenics; repertoire grounded in 17th-19th century Art Song extending to vintage and contemporary musical theater; training at Oberlin College and San Francisco Opera; performing professionally on three continents for twenty years. (845) 677-1134. annpandora@aol.com.

High Meadow School Mission: To create a learning community that is inclusive & tolerant, and prepares students to be positive contributors as well as constructive problem solvers within our diverse society. Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY. (845) 687-4855. www.high meadowschool.org.

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers. Aesthetics School: Maria Ferguson (845) 255-0013. 256 Main St., New Paltz, NY. info@hvsaesthetics.com.

TREE SERVICE AND LANDSCAPING Midavies Tree Service For all your tree care needs. We are a small personalized business dedicated to our customers and their trees. Free estimates and consultations.

(845) 658-9507. www.midaviestreeservice.com.

WEB DESIGN Beyond The Box [+ Game Face] Web Design For websites with a personal touch and a marketing focus, we offer face-to-face design and marketing support, with offices in Kingston and Red Hook. Call for a free consultation! Our new division, Game Face Web Design, specializes in sites for a competitive online marketplace. Game Face sites are designed for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and ROI (Return On Investment).

Hosting for web design clients is $120/year. (845) 750-6204. beyondboxweb.com. (845) 750-6554. gamefacewebdesign.com Curious Minds Media Inc. Want a website that works for you? We’ve got solutions to fit any budget, and we understand the needs of small businesses. Flash, E-commerce, database applications. CMM has what it takes to get you results. Mention this ad and receive 3 months FREE hosting! Call now toll-free, at (888) 227-1645. (888) 227-1645. www.curiousm.com.

WEDDINGS HudsonValleyWeddings.com The Only Resource You Need to Plan a Hudson Valley Wedding. Hundreds of Regional Wedding Service Providers. FREE, Extensive, On-line Wedding Guide & Planner and much more. 120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY. (845) 336-4705. judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com. www.Hudson ValleyWeddings.com.

SNACKS

WRITING SERVICES

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

CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Invite your muse to visit every day. Author & workshop leader with 19 years’ experience offers writers truthful, compassionate guidance.

Nonfiction & fiction book proposal & manuscript consultations, editing, rewriting. Coaching relationships. Yoga As Muse facilitator training.

Workshops: Woodstock, Taos, & elsewhere. Jeff Davis, Director. Accord, NY. (845) 679-9441. www.CenterToPage.com.

SUNROOMS SCHOOLS

Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome.

Tarot Readings in person or by phone. Also see ad. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5797. rachel@rachelpollack.com.

Four Seasons Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms has been selling and installing Four Seasons Sunrooms since 1984.

We offer sales, skilled installation and service, as well as exprienced consultation on residential and commercial sunroom projects. We welcome you to visit our showroom located just south of Kingston on Route 9W. We provide free in-home estimates. Call us at Kingston: (845) 339-1787 Beacon: (845) 838-1235. Visit our website at: www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com.

TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson - Rachel Pollack Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with

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Adam’s Piano Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom. Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures, at adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November.

Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos! (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com.

www.HVSAesthetics.com. Massage School: Rosanna Tudisco (845) 691-2547. 72 Vineyard Ave., Highland, NY. info@hvsmassagetherapy.co m. www.HVSMassageTherapy.com.

WRITING WORKSHOPS Wallkill Valley Writers Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated. (845) 255-7090. khamherstwriters@aol.com.

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BE YOUR OWN HERBAL EXPERT INTRODUCE YOUR BODY TO NATURE’S GREEN ALLIES

HERBAL MEDICINE IS THE MEDICINE OF THE PEOPLE. IT IS SIMPLE, SAFE, EFFECTIVE, AND FREE. OUR ANCESTORS KNEW HOW TO USE AN ENORMOUS VARIETY OF PLANTS FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. OUR NEIGHBORS AROUND THE WORLD CONTINUE TO USE LOCAL PLANTS FOR HEALING AND HEALTH MAINTENANCE. YOU CAN TOO.

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nformation on herbs and their uses has been passed down to us in many ways: through stories, in books, set to music, and incorporated into our everyday speech.

Learning about herbs is fun, fascinating, and easy to do, no matter where you live or what your circumstances. It is an adventure that makes use of all of your senses.

Reading about herbal medicine is fascinating, and a great way to learn how others have used plants. But the real authorities are the plants themselves. They speak to us through their smells, tastes, forms, and colors.

You can begin enjoying herbs by preparing teas or infusions from fresh or dried plants purchased from an herbalist, a natural foods store, or a farm market. But one of the greatest delights is to learn to recognize native plants growing around you, right here and now! Then you can explore how these plants nourish, invigorate, heal, and please you. Not everyone responds to the same herb in the same way, and different herbs will be right for you at different times.

Once you begin to learn about herbs, you will be surprised how easy it is to identify common medicinal plants that grow in your own backyard, such as the common “weeds” dandelion, violet, and plantain. In fact, most of us have more than 10 edible herbs growing within walking distance of our front doors, and even children (especially children!) can identify, harvest, and prepare wild plants for food and medicinal use. With just a few common ingredients such as vinegar, oil, and alcohol, you can be your own herbal expert in just a few weeks. Take a “weed walk” with a local herbalist, attend a class, or study by going outside with a good identification book. Before you know it, wild plants will be speaking to you everywhere you go.

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often? Fear. We fear that we will use the wrong plant. We fear poisoning ourselves. We fear the plants themselves. These fears are wise. But they need not keep us from using the abundant remedies of nature. A few simple guidelines can protect you and help you make sense of herbal medicine.

Virtually all plants contain poisons. After all, they don’t want to be eaten! Because we have evolved to eat plants, we have the capacity to neutralize or remove (through preparation or digestion) their poisons. Not all poisons kill, and even poisons that are deadly often require quantities far larger than can easily be obtained from foods to be fatal. (Apple seeds, for instance, contain a lethal poison, but it takes a quart of them to cause death.)

Our senses of taste and smell are registered in the part of the brain that maintains respiration and circulation—in other words, the survival center. Plants (but not mushrooms) advertise their poisons by tasting bad or smelling foul. Of the four primary kinds of poisons found in plants—alkaloids, glycosides, resins, and essential oils—the first two always taste bitter or cause a variety of noxious reactions on the oral tissues, and the last two usually do so too, especially when removed from the plant or concentrated.

Sometimes the taste of the poison in a plant is hidden by large amounts of sweet-tasting starch. Fortunately, human saliva contains an enzyme that breaks down these carbohydrates, exposing the nasty taste of the poison. Still, tiny amounts of some poisons can have strong effects. So for safety’s sake, take your time (and take small tidbits) when tasting. It is best not to put poison ivy or poison oak in your mouth, and do not taste houseplants.

SIMPLES Because our sense of taste protects us against poisonous plants, it is always best to take herbs in a form that preserves flavor. Consuming just one plant at a time, with as little preparation as possible, gives us the greatest opportunity to taste poisons and is therefore the safest way to use herbs. One herb at a time is a “simple.”

When we ingest a simple herb—whether raw, cooked as a vegetable, brewed fresh or dried in water as a tea or infusion, steeped in vinegar or honey, or dried and used as a condiment—we bring into play several million years of plant wisdom collected in our genes. When we ingest many plants together, or concentrate their natural poisons by tincturing, distilling, or standardizing, we increase the possibility of harm. Powdering herbs and putting them in capsules is one of the most dangerous ways to use them, especially those containing poisons. For ultimate risk, play with essential oils; they are far removed from the plant, very concentrated, and as little as one-quarter ounce can kill.

When we use simples, we allow ourselves an intimacy that deepens and strengthens our connections to plants and their green magic. There are lots of interesting plants, and lots of herbalists who maintain that herbal medicine means formulae and combinations of herbs. But I consider herbs as lovers, preferring to have only one in bed with me at a time. I even go so far as to ally with one plant at a time, usually for at least a year. By narrowing my focus to just a single herbal ally, I actually find that I learn more than if I used several together or in quick succession.

When I use one plant at a time it is much easier for me to discern the effect of that plant. When I use one plant at a time, it is easy for my body to communicate with me and tell me what plants it needs for optimum health. When I work as an herbalist helping others, and someone has a bad reaction to the remedy, it is obvious what the source of the distress is if I am using one plant at a time.

TEA FOR YOU? Teas are a favorite way to consume herbs. Made by brewing a small amount of herbs (typically a teaspoonful to a cup of water) for a short time (generally one to two minutes), teas are flavorful, colorful drinks.

Herbs rich in coloring compounds—hibiscus, rose hips, calendula, and black

tea—make enticing and tasty teas. They may also contain polyphenols—phytochemicals (phyto refers to “plant”) known to help prevent cancer. Since coloring compounds and polyphenols are fairly stable, dried herbs are considered best for making teas that will be rich in these compounds.

Herbs rich in volatile oils—ginger, chamomile, cinnamon, catnip, mint, lemon balm, lemon grass, lavender, bergamot, fennel, anise, and cumin seeds—make lovely teas that are effective in easing spasms, stimulating digestion, eliminating pain, and inducing sleep.

Since much of the volatile oils is lost when herbs are dried, fresh herbs are considered best for teas rich in these, but dried herbs can be used with good results too.

I enjoy a cup of hot tea with honey. But teas fail to deliver the mineral richness locked into many common herbs. A cup of nettle tea, for instance, contains only 5 to10 milligrams of calcium, while a cup of nettle infusion contains up to 500 milligrams. For optimum nutrition, I drink nourishing herbal infusions every day.

INFUSION FOR ME! An infusion is a large amount of herb brewed for a long time. Typically, one ounce by weight (about a cup by volume) of dried herb is placed in a quart jar, which is then filled to the top with boiling water, tightly lidded, and allowed to steep for 4 to 10 hours. After straining the plant matter out, squeeze it well to get the most nutrients from it and enjoy drinking a cup or more. Chill the remainder to slow spoilage. Drinking two to four cups a day is usual. Since the minerals and other phytochemicals in nourishing herbs are made more accessible by drying, dried herbs are considered best for infusions.

I make my infusions at night before I go to bed, and they are ready in the morning.

I put my herb in my jar and my water in the pot, and the pot on the fire, then brush my teeth (or sweep the floor) until the kettle whistles. I pour the boiling water up to the rim of the jar, screw on a tight lid, turn off the stove and the light, and go to bed.

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In the morning, I strain it and drink the liquid. I prefer it iced, unless the morning is frosty. I drink the quart of infusion within 36 hours or until it spoils. I use any that is left over to water my houseplants, or pour it over my hair after washing, as a final rinse that neednâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be washed out.

My favorite herbs for infusion are nettle, oat straw, red clover, and comfrey leaf, but only one at a time. The tannins in red clover and comfrey make me pucker my lips, so I add a little mint, or bergamot, when I infuse themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just enough to flavor the brew slightly. You may also want to try a little salt in your infusion. That may make it taste better than honey will.

ALL HERBS ARE NOT EQUAL There is a wealth of plants from which you can make teas, infusions, or other preparations. How do you choose which to use? All herbs are not equal: Some contain poisons, some donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t; some of the poisons are not so bad, and some can kill you dead. I divide herbs into four categories for ease in remembering how (and how much) to use. Some herbs nourish us, some tonify, some bring us up or ease us down, and some are frighteningly strong.

Nourishing herbs are the safest of all herbs. They contain few or no alkaloids, glycosides, resins, or essential oils (poisons). Nourishing herbs are eaten as foods, cooked into soups, dried and infused, or, occasionally, made into vinegars. They provide high-level nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, proteins, phytoestrogens and phytosterols, starches, simple and complex sugars, bioflavonoids, carotenes, and essential fatty acids.

Examples of nourishing herbs are burdock roots, chickweed herb (chickweed tincture dissolves cysts), comfrey leaves, elder blossoms and berries, mushrooms, nettle leaves and seeds, oat straw, plantain leaves and seeds, red clover blossoms, seaweeds, and violet leaves and blossoms.

Tonifying herbs are generally considered safe when used in moderation. They may contain alkaloids, glycosides, or essential oils, but rarely in quantities sufficient to harm us. Tonifying herbs act slowly in the body and have a cumulative, rather than immediate, effect. They are most beneficial when used for extended periods of time. Tonifying herbs may be used regularly (but usually not daily), for decades if desired.

Examples of tonifying herbs are burdock seeds, especially in an oil base; chasteberry; mug/cronewort herb, especially in vinegar; dandelion leaf, root, and flowers; echinacea root; ginseng root; hawthorn berries, leaves, and flowers; horsetail herb; motherwort leaves and flowers; and yellow dock leaves, roots, and seeds.

Stimulating or sedating herbs frequently contain essential oils, alkaloids, glycosides, or resins.

Because these substances cause strong physical reactions, stimulating/sedating herbs are known for their rapid and pronounced effects, some of which may be unwanted. Stimulating/sedating herbs are most often prepared as tinctures (and wines), vinegars, teas, and infusions. Many stimulating/sedating herbs are used as seasonings in cooking as well. Despite my cookbookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s injunction to use only a little, I long ago learned that more aromatic herbs in my soups gave a â&#x20AC;&#x153;livelierâ&#x20AC;? result.

Examples of stimulating/sedating herbs are leaves of aromatic mints such as catnip, lemon balm, lavender, sage, and skullcap; cinnamon bark; coffee beans; ginger root; kava kava root; licorice root; tobacco leaves; uva ursi leaves; valerian root; and willow bark and leaves.

Potentially poisonous herbs always contain alkaloids, glycosides, resins, or essential oils. And they contain large quantities or very potent forms of those poisons. Potentially poisonous plants can cause death directly through the actions on their targets (such as cardiac glycosides that stop the heart), or indirectly by causing the liver and/or the kidneys to fail (as they attempt to cope with and clear the poison from the system).

Some potentially poisonous herbs are belladonna, castor beans, cayenne, cotton root, goldenseal, liferoot/groundsel, nutmeg, poke root, tansy leaves and flowers, and wormwood.

With this introduction to our green allies, you are ready to learn more! I welcome you to sign up for Weed Wanderings, my free online newsletter, filled with simple, successful herbal wisdom. And you can take a class with an herbalist to discover a wealth of herbal remedies and plants that support our wellness.

Be sure to visit the Wise Woman Center online for a bounty of ideas and information to expand your herbal explorations.

Excerpted from Be Your Own Herbal Expert by Susun S.Weed. Wise woman, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health expert, and green witch, Susun S. Weed is the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series. Weed offers workshops, intensives, apprenticeships, and correspondence courses in herbal medicine and personal empowerment. www.susunweed.com.

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HEART SONG BILL VANAVER’S DANCE WITH DEATH

BY LORRIE KLOSTERMAN PHOTO BY DEBORAH DEGRAFFENRIED

hat would you ask someone who has returned from the threshold of death’s door? “What did you learn?” and “How has it changed your life?” certainly come to mind.

So when I recently had a chance to speak with Bill Vanaver, who survived a nearly fatal heart attack just over a year ago, I couldn’t resist asking those questions. The now healthy, exuberant performer/ composer, world music and dance enthusiast, and cofounder of the Vanaver Caravan kindly tackled them. What follows are some of his thoughts, with perspectives also from his wife, Livia.

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Bill notes that his learnings didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come in the form of the heavens opening up or as lightning bolts of clarity. Instead, they have been gradual, evolving over his recovery period, and they continue. Some are perspectives and values he already held, now with the volume turned up; others are unique and bizarre experiences, such as the hallucinations he had while on strong medications in the early stages of recovery (fodder for another story).

A key theme of Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musings during our conversation was the importance of compassionate connection with others. Very early in his recovery he perceived, as a specific imperative, the need to weave a fabric of connection among people who entered his hospital roomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even during the period he was intubated and unable to speak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I developed a sense of the nurses beyond their role of nurse,â&#x20AC;? he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was very cognizant of the hierarchy and wanted to go beyond it the whole time I was in the hospital.â&#x20AC;? He recounts an incident with an X-ray technician. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This technician, who was always in kind of a grumpy mood, came in one day to take an X-ray. I perceived and I pursued her discomfort. I insisted on connecting with her. I pointed to a poster from one of the cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I play at. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk, but she understood what I meant. She said she used to play the guitar. By the time she left, she was totally changed, and said, happily, to Livia on her way out, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start playing the guitar again.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Bill is modest about his impact on this woman and others, but sensed a powerful motivation for orchestrating such encounters as he lay there in the hospital bed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to take credit, but there was something about the kind of focus I had then. It was one of those opportunities that shock provides. I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned something from that.â&#x20AC;?

Bill and Livia have continued their connection with the hospital caregivers by going back to visit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a part of my healing, putting the pieces together,â&#x20AC;? Bill says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives me cues to my current life. It is also a reinforcement [that shows] that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve healed, and that I can stand up and hug the nurses. The nurses have been putting all their energy into healing you, totally taking care of you, then you leave the hospital and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see you again. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a symphony I wrote onceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never been able to hear it back, that would have been terrible. So visiting them is like seeing the results of all their work.â&#x20AC;?

Livia says that when they visited, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The staff at the nurseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s station did double-takes and were blown away seeing Bill out of his pajamas and talking! First they passed Bill by, not recognizing him. Then they looked at me and immediately looked back at him. It was so satisfying to all of the staff to have one of their patients who was on the brink of death and with them on the units for an extended time, returning to acknowledge them and thank them for their great work. So much of this experience (and indeed what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced of life in general) is about creating relationships, which ultimately are nourished by loving kindness.â&#x20AC;?

Bill praises a very different type of connection that kept him going through his many weeks in the hospital and months of at-home rehabilitation: an Internet-based service for patients called Caring Bridge (www.CaringBridge.com), the likes of which are now available at many hospitals.

That service hosts a web page for each patient, which serves as an online hub of information and support. The patient and family can post health updates and anything else they wish to communicate to those concerned about the patient. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Visitorsâ&#x20AC;? to this virtual community can post messages for all to read.

The outpouring of supportive expressions that appeared on Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Caring Bridge page daily was phenomenal, he says, adding that early on in recovery, when he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write or talk, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Livia would come every day with her batch of Caring Bridge e-mails from people sending good wishes and love and prayers and jokes. I was buoyed up on an ocean of love from all these people. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what level of my physical healing to attribute to that, but it all plays a part. And it was a healing experience for the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a sense that each person was playing a part in helping.â&#x20AC;? It helped the hospital staff as well, he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The nurses would listen to the e-mails being read, and see the kind of people who came to visit, and it was also a healing experience for themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they told me that.â&#x20AC;?

It was through the postings on that site, too, that Bill first began expressing feelings and perspectives (and poems) that were emerging. For instance, about a year ago he posted this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just a note, and this comes from my experience as I improve. When you are having an issue or conflict with someone, it always helps to look past the conflict and see the person and realize that they are you.â&#x20AC;? A month later, he wrote more about the importance of connection: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned much on this journey, and the two things that stand out at this moment are these: That we each need to make the time to love and take care of ourselves; and how important it is to look into each othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eyes, especially [those of] our loved ones, and go beyond issues and agendas to find a connection to that personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential self.â&#x20AC;?

Another musing Bill offered to my question about what he learned from nearly dying turned to the question itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you a little metaphor,â&#x20AC;? he smiles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the images I had [while semiconscious in the hospital] was that I had a note in my hand, and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open my hand.

Finally, several months later, I had the image of opening my hand, and what the note said was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have a note in my hand, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open my hand.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The way I interpret that is that the whole point is to stay in question. Not knowing is the best place to be. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whole point of spirituality, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whole point of science, even though we think of science and spirituality as being so different.â&#x20AC;?

Echoing his perception that we must love and care for ourselves, Bill adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If our interest in ourselves could be a curiosity, rather than an anxiety, and if we could ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Who am I right now?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;with love, not with blameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d really be on our way.â&#x20AC;?

Bill and Livia Vanaver will be performing with the Vanaver Caravan at the Clearwater Revival June 16 and 17 in Croton-on-Hudson.

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completed a three year post-graduate study in Alchemical Acupuncture, which specializes in psychological and spiritual healing. She has over eight years of experience working with a certified nutritionist and knowledge of Western herbology, homeopathic medicine, nutritional supplements and dietary/lifestyle counseling. Her main goal is to restore balance and to facilitate the innate healing power within each of her clients. She focuses on connecting the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the self and breaking blocks that contribute to pain, disease, trauma and lifestyle imbalances. She welcomes clients who are interested in relief from acute or chronic pain, Facial Rejuvenation treatments and quitting smoking. Please call (845) 340-8625 to make an appointment or visit www.transpersonalac upuncture.com if you would like to learn more about Transpersonal Acupuncture and Jipala Reicher-Kagan.

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CHI GUNG: This meditative practice incorporates and integrates both stillness and motion to strengthen the body and mind. Its deep breathAROMATHERAPY ing techniques, stretching and massaging of the acupuncture meridians, tendons, ligaments and Joan Apter muscles help to fend off disease and old age.

TAI CHI CHUAN, based on the same principles See also Massage Therapy directory. (845) as CHI GUNG, further embodies the expression 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.apteraro of our intrinsic energy (CHI) in general physical matherapy.com. movement and stillness meditation, as well as the deeply intricate movements found in the self-defense aspect of the Tai Chi form. Both of ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING these practices were founded on the combination of Shaolin Buddhist meditation, Shaolin Eric Francis: Astrological martial body mechanics and Taoist spiritual Consultations by Phone. Special discount alchemy, but the first step in attaining results on follow-ups for previous clients from the in these arts depends on setting the body and mind to the true nature of things. There are Hudson Valley. Lots to explore on the Web

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no short cuts. These esoteric practices have brought health, vitality and youthfulness to myself and my students, some of which are in their 70’s and 80’s. The only requirements for Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan are: determined practice of the principles and the will to persevere. (845) 750-6488

CHILDBIRTH Catskill Mountain Midwifery Home Birth Services Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup. (845) 687-BABY.

CHIROPRACTIC Dr. David Ness

Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition Holly’s Cooking Classes have been inspiring people to cook since 1999, and will inspire you too! We use seasonal, organic ingredients including produce from local farms. At the end of each class we sit around the table to enjoy a delicious feast. So come on your own or grab a friend, and join us for a great class that is sure to spark creativity in your kitchen! Visit www.nourishingwisdom.com or call (845) 687-9666 for a list of upcoming classes.

COUNSELING IONE - Healing Psyche IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer and inter-faith minister, who is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Women’s Mysteries programs and leads retreats to sacred locations throughout the world. An author and playwright, her works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color and Listening in Dreams. Offices in Kingston and New York City. (845) 339-5776. Fax: (845) 331-6624. www.ionedreams.org.

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Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today. (845) 255-1200.

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DENTISTRY Philmont Family Dentistry

Nori Connell, RN, DC Nori combines 28 years as a registered nurse with 18 years of chiropractic experience to offer patients a knowledgeable approach to removing the interferences in the body that lead to disease.

She combines accredited techniques such as Neuro-Emotional technique, kinesiology, and Network Chiropractic to work with the body’s innate intelligence and its ability for healing. Dr. Connell also offers workshops on natural health care for the family and is also one of the directors of Alternatives Health Center of Tivoli (845) 757-5555. Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5556.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Connie Schneider, Advanced Level I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist Colon Hydrotherapy is a safe, gentle, cleansing process. Clean and private office. A healthy functioning colon can decrease internal toxicity and improve digestion; basics for a healthy body. See display ad. New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1516.

Caring, modern dental practice for year-round and second-home owners in Upper Hudson Valley (Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Albany, Rensselaer, Berkshire). A sophisticated urban practice in a beautiful rural setting, one mile from Taconic Parkway in Philmont. Restorations (crowns, bridges, veneers, implants), cosmetic dentistry (whitening, bonding), root canal, extractions, emergencies. Call for appointment. 1078 Rte. 217, Philmont, NY. (518) 672-4077. www.philmontfamilydentistry.com.

The Center For Advanced Dentistry Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD; Jaime O. Stauss, DMD Setting the standards for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes “old school” care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18. 494 Route 299, Highland, NY. (845) 691-5600. www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com.

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ENERGY HEALING Nancy Plumer, MS Energy/Spiritual Healing & Sacred Ceremony

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Nancy is an intuitive healer, teacher and guide. Integrates visualization, breath work and grounding with her hands on touch to support physical, emotional and spiritual healing. She has helped people with life threatening illnesses as well as those who have chosen the path of higher levels of consciousness. A certified One Light Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner, a long time Kripalu yoga teacher and a gifted intuitive. Offices in New Paltz and Stone Ridge, distance healings or telephone consultations. She also facilitates sacred ceremonies. Call for a consultation, (845) 687-2252.

EQUINE FACILITATED HEALING Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor EquisessionsÂŽ with Ada, a life long rider, are therapeutically oriented, equine facili-

tated encounters based on the Epona Method from The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov.

Riding is involved in later sessions. This year Ada will present an all day pre-conference workshop for Region 1 of NARHA, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, on Chi Kung as a tool for mounted equine facilitated healing work. She will also present, for the second time, her Chi Kung for Horse People at the conference itself. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

FENG SHUI Janus Welton, AIA, BBEC, IFSG Architect and Feng Shui & Ecological & Building Health Consultant

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka Facials, Counseling, Restorative Yoga and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment (845) 255-3337.

HERBS Monarda Herbal Apothecary In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment and healing, we offer organic and ecologically wildcrafted herbs using tradition as our guide. Certified Organic Alcohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Essential Oils, and more. Product Catalog $1.

Workshops and Internships. (845) 339-2562. www.monarda.net.

Priscilla A. Bright, MA Energy Healer/Counselor Specializing in women’s stress, emotional issues, and physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, and physical burnout.

Women in transition, businesswomen, mothers, all welcome. Experienced counselor. Faculty, Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Convenient offices in Kingston & New Paltz. Initial phone consultation no charge. Kingston, NY. (845) 688-7175.

John M. Carroll, Healer John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands.

John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer. Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation.

Kingston, NY. (845) 338-8420.

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Omega Institute welcomes the local community as we celebrate 30 years of awakening the best in the human spirit. Join us for an evening event on our Rhinebeck campus or sign up for a women’s only Saturday workshop with holistic fitness expert Sierra Bender. www.eomega.org or 800-944-1001.

Kimberly Woods C. HOM. With 25 years of experience and extensive training with world renowned master homeopaths and herbalists, she has helped 1000's of individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, from physical problems to psychological illnesses. Kimberly is truly gifted at educating the individual in natural approaches to health and well-being. (845) 688-2976. www.naturalhealthsource.us.

HOMEOPATHY Kimberly Woods C. HOM. See extended directory listing under Holistic Health. (845) 688-2976. www.naturalhealthsource.us.

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Aa pioneer of feng shui in the U.S. since the 1980’s, Janus incorporates the wisdom traditions of classical feng shui and advanced compass techniques as well as vastu shastra from India; and grounds these practices into the 21st century architecture & design combined with ecological and building health practices.

Not confined to interiors, classical feng shui begins with good site planning & siting of a building, and follows through the design placement of important entries, rooms, and functions, and recommends the most appropriate directions, elements, colors and shapes and timing for the site, the clients, and for the building itself. Both new and existing residential and commercial buildings can be balanced and enhanced with these cutting edge techniques! (845) 247-4620. ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonD esignWorks.com.

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Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology.

New Paltz/Kingston, NY. (845) 389-2302.

consultation. Poughkeepsie area office or phone appointments available. (845) 462-1182 or www.JeanneAsma.com .

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NGH Certified Hypnotherapist in practice since 1994. Freddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolutionary, three session, smoke ending program helps clients stop smoking for as long as they desire. Freddie asserts that smoking is a symptom, and that once the cause of the symptom is eliminated, the symptom, smoking, drops away.

A licensed practitioner since 1988, Ada currently prefers the modalities of Chi Nei Tsang, Chinese internal organ massage, and Shiatsu, pressure point massage. Classes offered in CNT. House call fees are commensurate with travel time.

Kingston. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential. Hyde Park, NY. (845) 876-6753.

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Madhuri Yoga Spa Bodyworkâ&#x20AC;Ś with a twist!

Pamper yourself, relieve stress & pain, and nourish body, mind & spirit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers personalized aromatherapy massage, Therapeutic Yoga, Ayurvedic treatments & products, and master-level Reiki.

By appointment only; call 845-797-4124 or visit www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com. Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT. 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. Integral YogaÂŽ Hatha I Beginners class starts 6/19.

Joan Apter

One-Session Hypnosis with Frayda Kafka CHT Building on my success with smoking cessation in 1978, I have continued to help clients with weight loss, pain, childbirth, stress, insomnia, habits, phobias, confidence, and almost any behavior you can think of. Known for my easy, light manner and quick results, I have an intuitive knack for saying just the right thing at the right time so that a major shift can be initiated. Groups, home visits, gifts and phone sessions are available.

Kingston, NY. (845) 336-4646. info@CallThe Hypnotist.com. www.CallTheHypnotist.com.

Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.apteraromatherapy.com.

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JEWISH MYSTICISM/KABBALAH Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance. 6 session Introduction to Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman.

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(845) 485-5933.

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Custom Massage therapy for all body types and conditions. Modalities include: Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swedish, Shiatsu. I also offer Aromatherapy massage using the purest grades of essential oils. Come enjoy a therapeutic touch tailored to your specific needs. Gift Certificates available. Appointment only.

286 Fair Street Kingston NY, (914) 388-5007.

Violet Alchemy Dona Ho Lightsey, LMT, IET Master Instructor. 44 S. Ohioville Rd. New Paltz. (845) 883-7899. www.violetalchemyhealing.com.

MEDITATION Zen Mountain Monastery Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: introductions to Zen

meditation and practice; programs exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies, and social action; and intensive meditation retreats. South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper, NY. (845) 688-2228.

Holly Anne Shelowitz, CNC Director of Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition In addition to private sessions, our programs include cooking classes, teaching tangible ways to incorporate nourishing foods into your

MIDWIFERY Homebirth and Gynecology Practice of Judy Joffee, CNM This practice offers a unique and exquisite opportunity for woman care in a powerfully compassionate and sacred manner. I offer complete prenatal care focused toward homebirth. For the nonpregnant woman, individualized gynecological care, counseling, and self-determination await you. Also offering school, work, and general physicals for all ages. Call for consultation. (845) 255-2096.

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Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND. Free Your Mind - Release Your Body - Energize Your Spirit! Solve health issues, enhance wellness, and gain awareness. Scientifically proven naturopathic solutions for challenging and/or chronic health concerns. I offer naturopathic expertise in a sacred space to help you feel better. Graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5556. www.drfrancescott.com.

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Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 489-4732.

puncture available. Gynecology - treating our patients through the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available, combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics - working with you to create the birth experience you desire. Many insurances accepted. Evening hours available. Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496; Kingston (845) 338-5575.

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PILATES Beacon Pilates A fully equipped classical studio that tailors each workout to fit the individual.

181 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Beacon, NY. (845) 831-0360. www.beaconpilates.com.

Pilates of New Paltz / Core Pilates Studio

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These studios offer caring, experienced and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities. Each student receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energizing flow of the classical pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accomodate any schedule.

Pilates of New Paltz: (845) 255-0559; Core Pilates in Poughkeepsie: (845) 452-8018.

The Moving Body www.themovingbody.com.

276 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-7715.

PSYCHICS Psychically Speaking Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of ones life and destiny.

Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone. Visit www.pyshicallyspeaking.com.

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

PSYCHOLOGISTS Peter M. del Rosario, PhD Licensed psychologist. Insightoriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, 108

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sexual/physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/lesbian issues. Free initial consult. 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (914) 262-8595.

Faster symptom relief. Feel better and make healthier choices. Sliding scale, Certified Hypnotherapist and Counselor. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Hypnosis. New Paltz, NY. (845) 389-2302.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY Jeanne Asma, LCSWR Psychotherapist & Life Coach Individual, couples and group sessions for adults. Women’s issues groups now forming.

Specializing in relationship issues, improving self-esteem, binge eating and body image, life transitions including divorce and grief issues, trauma and abuse. Many insurances accepted or sliding scale available. Office located in Poughkeepsie location. (845) 462-1182. www.JeanneAsma.com.

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW Counseling & Psychotherapy

Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. Offering traditional psychotherapy and EMDR for healing from trauma and changing limiting beliefs, Breathwork for relieving stress and breathing difficulties, and Realization Process, a body-oriented meditation for deepening contact with oneself and others. For individuals and couples. NY State licensed. Offices in Kingston, Willow and NYC. (845) 679-7005. www.realizationcenter.com.

Debra Budnik, CSW-R 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. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4218.

Change Your Outlook, Heal, and Grow - Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. With combination of "talk" therapy for self-knowledge and hypnotherapy to transform negative, self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt Holistically-oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy.

Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles, childhood abuse, codependency, addiction, recovery illness, and grief. Some insurances accepted. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. Free half hour consultation. New Paltz, NY. (845) 883-9642.

Amy R. Frisch, CSWR

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Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative blocks. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy.

Sliding scale. Offices in Woodstock and Uptown Kingston. (845) 679-5511 x4.

Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC. Short term counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy. Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma and dissociative disorders. Women’s group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, teens. (845) 255-8039 deepclay@mac.com. www.deepclay.com.

Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted. New Paltz, NY. (845) 706-0229.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services. See also Body-centered Therapy directory.

(845) 485-5933.

Jamie O’Neil Offering a variety of approaches, both short and long tern to help you regain a sense of personal control, meaning, and connections in your life. Specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, abuse, addictions, loss, eating disorders, and relationship/communcation difficulties. Serving inividuals and couples; adults and adolescents. Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie (845) 876-7600.

Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Energy Psychology – Beth Coons, LCSW - R Mind-Body, Experiential, as well as traditional talk therapy used to access inner resources for deep emotional healing. Adult and childhood trauma, including physical, emotional and sexual abuse, PTSD, stress reduction, relationship issues and personal growth. Free initial consultation. (845) 702-4806.

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Dianne Weisselberg MSW, LMSW Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed?

Frustrated? Depressed?

THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees. (845) 688-7570. dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com.

Julie Zweig, M.A., Licensed Mental Health Counselor See also Body-Centered Therapy directory. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz.

NY. (845) 255-3566.

REIKI The Sanctuary - Reiki

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Rev. Denise Meyer offers Usui Reiki treatments. Experience the benefits of deep relaxation and energetic releases through this method of healing touch. Reiki energy supports and heals the mind, body, heart and spirit through the delivery of Light Energy into the energy field of the receiver. The Sanctuary, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-3337 ext. 2.

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ROSEN METHOD BODYWORK Julie Zweig, M.A., Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner.

Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, the practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension. As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge.

The practitioner responds with touch and words that allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension. As this process un-

folds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being.

SCHOOLS & TRAINING International Feng Shui Institute Workshops in Woodstock and Manhattan.

Starting October 20, 2006 over 6 weekends /year. The IFSI is the only Institute of Professional Feng Shui Training to integrate Classical & Compass Chinese Feng Shui with BTB Tibetan Bhuddist Feng Shui techniques with a focus on Individual Coaching, Consultations, and Design Applications w/ a practicing architect. Brought to you by Director, Eric Shaffert, BTB Feng Shui Coach and author of Feng Shui and Money; Janus Welton, AIA, Architect, Classical & Compass Feng Shui & Ecology in The 21st Century; and Susanna Bastarrica, President, United Nations FSRC; BTB transcendental teacher and Universal Minister. Call for registration by Oct. 20. (845) 247-4620. ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

Emerson Resort & Spa There is a Silk Road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa. A place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa goers will also appreciate more well known treatment like Swedish, sports and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials and body wraps. Individually-tailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room and relaxation area... all included with your Spa visit. Day spa appointments available. www.emersonresort.com. (845) 688-1000.

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birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don't we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully, the love and the abundance of God's universe. We can have it in any moment.

We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth. Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork; and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions. (845) 679-8989. www.flowingspirit.com.

Tarot-on-the-Hudson - Rachel Pollack Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone. Also see ad.

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

THERAPY Toni D. Nixon, Ed.D. Therapist and Buddhist Practitioner Offering a unique combination of techniques that integrate therapeutic goals and spiritual practice. The basic principles of Buddhism and psychotherapy are concerned with the goal of ending human suffering. Both paths to liberation are through greater self awareness, a broader view of one's world, the realization of the possibility of freedom and finding the means to achieve it. In essence, effective psychotherapy moves toward liberation and Buddhist practice is therapeutic in nature. Eidetic Image therapy is a unique and powerful method that encourages the liberation of the mind and spirit from obstacles that block the way to inner peace. Specializing in life improvement skills, habit cessation, career issues, women's issues, and blocked creativity. By phone, online, and in person.

(845) 339-1684. www.eidetictherapy.com.

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WORKSHOPS Wallkill Valley Writers Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator.

Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. Wallkill Valley Writers provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.

(845) 255-7090. khamherstwriters@aol.com.

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FACES OF WAR This month, Chad Hunt will be exhibiting work at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art (KMOCA) from two trips he made to Afghanistan last year as an embedded photographer with the 10th Mountain Division. “Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan” is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of US soldiers on the front lines.

There will be an opening reception at KMOCA on Saturday, June 2, from 5-7pm.

Chad Hunt’s photographs will also be shown as part of the “Photography Now 2007” exhibition, curated by Alison Nordstrom, at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, June 9 through August 18. www.kmoca.org.

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Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, the oldest environmentally conscious outdoor fest of its kind in the country, returns this Father’s Day weekend to Croton Point Park in Westchester. Founded by Pete Seeger in 1966, Clearwater is a Poughkeepsie-based nonprofit seeking to protect the Hudson through education and public advocacy. The Revival brings together a diverse array of performers, including jugglers, clowns, acrobats, puppet theater performers, storytellers, and over 50 musical acts on multiple stages. Headlining this year’s festival are alt-rockers Cowboy Junkies. Also appearing will be Buffy Ste. Marie, Bruce Cockburn, Leo Kottke, Paul Winter, and the Bruce Molsky Band with Tony Trischka. Limited camping is available on-site. The 2007 Clearwater Music and Environmental Revival Festival will take place on June 17 and 18, from 10am to 8:30pm, at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson.

(800) 67-SLOOP; www.clearwaterfestival.org.

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FRI 1 ART Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. Summer Kickoff event- tours of the collection, refreshments, and live entertainment, all in the company of works

by Picasso, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe, Pollock, and many more. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Rosycross and Gnosis

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8pm. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Art Explorers

TomFoolery 8pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

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6:30pm-Thursday, June 21, 7:30pm. 9-week course about the science of soul rebirth. $25. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799.

Great Millbrook Paint-Out and Art Auction

Amma Sri Karunamayi

Wood Objects Group Art Show

8am-6pm. Silent meditation retreat. $80/ $100. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 6794406.

Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human Call for times. Tradition effective tools for meditation. $95. Campus Arts Center, Albany. (518) 375-7041.

DANCE African Dance & Drumming 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by Nzhinga Women. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

EVENTS Membership Mixer 5pm-7pm. Ulster County Chamber of Commerce. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties.

338-5100.

Casting for Recovery Call for times. Retreat for women who have suffered from breast cancer. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

FILM Eve and the Fire Horse 6:30pm. Part of the Undiscovered Gems Series. $7/$5 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

MUSIC 7:30pm. Rhythm international. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Eddie Fingerhut 7:30pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Amelia Piano Trio 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 6875263.

Big Kahuna 8pm. Dance music. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook.

677-2985.

Call for times. Thorne Building, Millbrook.

471-2550.

5pm-9pm. Scott Dutton Associates Building, Kingston. 339-2039.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. $120/$145/$12/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

Qigong for Seniors Call for times. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Reunion With Creation Through Imaging 1am-6pm. What images can do for mental & physical & environmental health. $85/$155 couple. Call for location. (914) 656-5323.

Developing Your Creativity: A Yoga-Art Retreat 9am-4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

297-9243.

Yoga 1pm-1:30pm. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program 1:30pm-2:30pm. Resource Center for Accessible Living, Kingston. 331-0541.

Full Moon Meditation 2:30pm-4:30pm. Use the power of the full moon to set your intentions. $10. Inspired Books and Gifts, Kingston. 331-0644.

Personal Growth Classes 7:30pm-8:30pm. $10/$12. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

11am. Presented by Tanglewood Marionettes. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

1pm-4pm. Flower tea party, plant walk, herbal crafts and games for ages 3-12. $20. Shawangunk Ridge Farm, New Paltz.

256-1206.

Meet the Animals 2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Live Jazz Call for times. Jack and Lunaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Stone Ridge.

687-9794.

Mourka and the Russian Folk Ensemble Call for times. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Hurley Mountain Highway 11am. Pop, soft rock. Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40 Western, Marlboro. 236-2667.

Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open mike night with hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046.

3 Up 3 Down 8pm. 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard rock. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.

Eric Erickson 8pm. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Dave Frishberg 8pm. Piano and vocals. Marbletown Chamber Arts Festival. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster. 687-5263.

Joe Medwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memphis Soul 8pm-12am. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck.

876-6816.

Pat Horgan and Thunder Road 8pm. Classic rock. The Juliet Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 452-2234.

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CLASSES Exploring Monoprinting Call for times. Yasuragi Center, Mahopac.

261-0636.

DANCE The Vanaver Caravan

8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Alex Torres and the Latin Jazz Orchestra 8pm. $25. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

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Larry Harlow and the Latin Jazz Orchestra

6pm-10pm. Benefits the Vanaver Caravanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Company. $15. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

8:30pm-11pm. Interpretations of bebop and Latin standards and ballads. 410 Espresso Cafe, Rosendale.

8pm. $25. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Freestyle Frolic Summer Dance Series

Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience

Southern Drawl 8:30pm. Southern rock with an edge. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.

The McKrells 9pm. $20/$17.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

SPOKEN WORD Book Talk and Dramatic Reading 6:30pm-8pm. Magdalen Rising by Elizabeth Cunningham. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Friends of Clermont Scholarly Symposium Call for times. Focuses on the bicentennial of the steamboat. $50/$30. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. (518) 537-4240.

Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

THEATER Man of La Mancha 7pm. A musical play. $12/$10 students, seniors, and STS members. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theatre, Phoenicia. 6882279.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Stories told by audience members are brought to life by this improv troupe. $6.

Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

Elliot, a Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fugue 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Ringamarole 8pm. The Present Company. Sunnyside Theater, New Paltz. 255-9081.

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Joan Armatrading

Call for times. Grades K-2. Mahopac Library, Mahopac. 261-0636.

8:30pm-2:30am. Non-smoking, non-alcohol barefoot dancing. $7/$3 teens and seniors/ children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. 658-8319.

EVENTS Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale

9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

EarthBeat 9pm. World music dance band. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Louis Landon

Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

9pm. Piano and vocals. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Little Dutch Barn Auction

The Real Men

Call for times. Proceeds go to reassembly of a 1760 barn. $5. Kiersted House, Saugerties.

246-8262.

Pakatan Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Located five miles north of Margaretville / Arkville on Route 30. No location specified.

Kingston Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

331-7517.

Civil War Living History Weekend

10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck.

876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Sixth Annual Mid-Hudson ADK PaddleFest 1:45am-4:45pm. Plum Point, New Windsor.

473-4172.

Gertrudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nose Hike 10:30am. Difficult 8-9 miles. Meet at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve Wildmere Lot, New Paltz. 255-7059.

11am-5pm. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 2551889.

SPOKEN WORD

Afternoon Tea with Mrs. Dyckman

Call for times. The Muddy Cup, Kingston.

331-2670.

2pm-3:30pm. $20/$15 children. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

3rd Annual Benefit for the Arts 7:30pm. Benefits the Putnam Arts Council.

Putnam National Golf Club, Mahopac. 2160636.

FILM U-Carmen Call for times. Women square off against patriarchal leaders. $7/$5 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

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Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

Reading of â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Think, Therefore Who Am I?â&#x20AC;?

1pm-2pm. With author Peter Weissman.

Inspired Books and Gifts, Kingston. 331-0644.

Sandor Katz 4pm. Author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Underground

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3rd Annual New Paltz Pride March and Festival Rally

Book Reading with Kathy Stevens

12pm-5pm. Hasbrouck Pa, New Paltz. 3315300.

5pm. Author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where the Blind Horse Sings.â&#x20AC;? The Golden Notebook, Woodstock.

679-8000.

THEATER Rounding Third 12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Ringamarole 8pm. The Present Company. Sunnyside Theater, New Paltz. 255-9081.

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657-9760.

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Meet the Animals 2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

Baby Signs Storytime 3pm. Storytime with Allison Boek from Babysigns Institute. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

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Playwriting Workshop

Call for times. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

1pm-3pm. $150/$120 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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2pm. Piano recital. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 8222027.

Call for times. Self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Attunement for Channeling 2pm-4pm. With psychic medium Adam Bernstein. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

CLASSES Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 5:30pm-7:30pm. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/$28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS 2nd Annual Puerto Rican Parade & Festival Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

Ride the Ridge Benefits the Marbletown First Aid Unit and the new High Meadow Performing Arts Center. $15$20. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon.

597-5028.

Civil War Living History Weekend 11am-5pm. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 2551889.

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Anima Baroque 3pm-5pm. Baroque music ensemble. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Unsung 3pm. Works by Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Miriam Gideon, Rebecca Clarke, and Asha Srinivasan. Dia: Beacon, Beacon.

440-0100.

Tempesta di Mare 4pm. Baroque ensemble. Marbletown Chamber Arts Festival. Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster. 687-5263.

Empire State Youth Orchestra 4pm. Classical. $15/$10 students and seniors. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

Bach Cantata No. 21 Concert 7pm-8pm. Accompanied by chamber ensemble. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park.

256-9114.

THE OUTDOORS Five Rivers In Five Days Call for times. Fly fishing in the Catskills. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

SPOKEN WORD Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols . Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

Call for times. Call for location. 206-5197.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market

11am. Music by Tirendi. Toscaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, New Paltz. 255-6770.

The Most Wonderful Music

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32nd Annual Artists on the Campus Outdoor Art Show and Sale Call for times. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3337.

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Party after Pride!

1pm-2pm. $60/$15 per class. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

5:30pm. Highlighting the bounty of the Hudson Valley. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

Contemporary Gypsy Dance

9th Annual Sculpture Garden Opening Reception

Full Moon Feast

5pm. Women square off against patriarchal leaders. $7/$5 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

9am-5pm. Biodynamics and the Environment. A Peiffer Center Workshop. The Pfeiffer Center, Chestnut Ridge. 352-5020.

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338-2500 ext. 4453.

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8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

8pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

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Day Camp and Resident Camp Open House 11am-2pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291 ext. 205.

Tales from the Road 8pm. Stories from Nepal and India accompanied by music. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

THEATER Elliot, a Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fugue 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Rounding Third 2pm. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Ringamarole 3pm. The Present Company. Sunnyside Theater, New Paltz. 255-9081.

TomFoolery 3pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Man of La Mancha 4pm. A musical play. $12/$10 students, seniors, and STS members. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theatre, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

MON 4 CLASSES Qigong 6pm-7pm. Generate the flow of Qi energy throughout the body. $12. Inspired Books and Gifts, Kingston. 331-0644.

Beginning Calligraphy 6:30pm-8:30pm. 6-week course. $180. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

EVENTS Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale

Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7900.

THEATER Auditions for Cabaret 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15. Call for location. 679-8256.

Vocal Toning 7:30pm-9pm. $95. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 4318916.

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MUSIC

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Open Mike Night

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

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CLASSES

The Psychology of Metabolism

GamaLataki Rhythm/Music Mind Course

6pm. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 8381288.

The Body 8pm. Panel discussion as part of Dance Across Borders. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7900.

THEATER

WORKSHOPS

Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

8pm-12am. Hosted by singer-songwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

7:45pm-9:15pm. Explore the elements governing the universal power of sound and music. $75. Call for location. 679-7532.

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DANCE Modern Dance 5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Auditions for Cabaret 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Marketing 101 for Artists 7pm-10pm. With art consultant, coach and gallery director Elisa Pritzker. Gallery on the Green, Pawling. 855-3900.

Spirit Readings with a Psychic Medium Call for times. Receive messages from spirit guides . $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 11am-12:15pm. The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing, New Paltz. 255-3337.

Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

6th Annual Golf Tournament 9am. Anderson Center for Autism. $150.

Casperkill Golf Club, Poughkeepsie. 4630900.

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

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6:30pm. Pazzos Italian Grill, Montgomery.

457-4078.

Open Mike Night Guided Imagery and Reiki Healing Circle

7pm. Hosted by Fred Gillian Jr. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

7pm-9pm. $20. Spirit of Woodstock, Woodstock. 688-5672.

Jay Unger and Molly Mason

CLASSES Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Not Just For Public Speaking 7pm-9pm. Ulster County Office Building-6th Floor, Kingston. 340-3900.

7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Celtic Jam Seisun 7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

EVENTS

Lute Suite

Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale

8pm. Classical guitarist and composer David Temple. $16/$14 sneiors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

FILM An Inconvenient Truth 7pm. Presented by the Mid-Hudson ADK Chapter. Central Hudson Auditorium, Poughkeepsie. 592-0204.

KIDS Auditions for the Hudson Valley Youth Chorale Call for times. Grades 2-7. Call for location.

679-8172.

Open Mike 9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson.

(518) 828-7303.

SPOKEN WORD Classics in Religion Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

The Body and The Community

Community Music Night

8pm. Panel discussion as part of Dance Across Borders. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7900.

8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters.

Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

THEATER

MUSIC

Open Mike Night 8:30pm. Hosted by Pete Laffin. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

Elliot, a Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fugue 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 8229667.

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THE OUTDOORS Early Birds 7am. Observe the morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bird activity.

Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sufi Zikr 5:45pm. Heal through the unconditional love of God. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

The Body, The Community, and The World

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

8pm. Panel discussion as part of Dance Across Borders. Bertelsmann Campus

6:30pm-7:30pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville. (518) 678-3357.

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CAT WITH RAW NOSE, JAN HARRISON, BEESWAX, DAMAR RESIN AND ENCAUSTIC SCULPTURE, 2006.

ANIMAL ESPERANTO

Jan Harrison has invented her own language, literally. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animal Tongues,â&#x20AC;? and she began speaking it in 1979. Though she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider herself a performance artist, Harrison sometimes publicly singsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and speaksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in Animal Tongues. One such occasion will be June 24 at the Cabaret Voltaire Gallery in Poughkeepsie. A show of Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bestial Beings,â&#x20AC;? is at the gallery until that day.

As Harrison prepared to speak her language for me, she explained: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always have to take my

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glasses off. It just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem right with the glasses.â&#x20AC;? Then she began:

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It sounded like a combination of Chinese, baby talk, and a born-again Christian speaking in tongues. When she addresses animals in this language, they often nuzzle her or gaze respectfully, Harrison said.

Her visual art is similarly a meditation on animal life. Recently Harrison has been sculpting heads of cats out of beeswax. The heads are hollow, about 6â&#x20AC;? x 6â&#x20AC;? x 8â&#x20AC;?, with titles like Lace Mummy Cat and Cat Origin.

Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wax sculptures evolved from her previous paintings in wax on wood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was doing the encaustic paintings and, you know, working with the wax, and then I picked up the wax one day and just started modeling it,â&#x20AC;? Harrison recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then I realized, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My God! They look like they have jumped out of the paintings!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an element of collaboration between Harrison and her materials. She just lately made her first bronze sculpture, Bronze Tendril Cat, depicting the head of a cat whose jaw has sprouted tiny tentacles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so interesting to me is that the bronze one is going to last much longer than me. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be around forever!â&#x20AC;? Harrison observes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The wax ones are pretty sturdy, but the bronze one you could throw!â&#x20AC;?

Also, bronze suggests a monument, like a statue of President Grantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but in this case, the sculptor is honoring a tentacle-cat. (Harrison grew up in West Palm Beach, and would observe creatures in the sea: starfish, brilliantly hued fish of all kinds, and even octopusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of which influence her art.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bestial Beingsâ&#x20AC;? includes four encaustic paintings, each composed of 20 wooden panels. (The panels are one foot square.) They were all painted within the past four years. The titles are: Nativa, Fuser, Dog plus Cat, and Scratcher.

A prolific artist writes many titles. She becomes a kind of one-word poet, choosing words to express ideas that are hidden in the paintings. Harrison pays close attention to her titles. She also closely watches her five cats, including a feral pixie bob named Zoe. Zoe has seven toes on each foot, lives outdoors, and only visits to be fed and petted. Her face, with its wild intelligence, often appears in Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the most profound moments Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had have been spent very quietly with an animal,â&#x20AC;?

Harrison says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, they know a lot. And so I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m their spokesperson, somehow.â&#x20AC;?

Jan Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bestial Beingsâ&#x20AC;? will be exhibited at Cabaret Voltaire, 358 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, until June 24. The artist will give a gallery talk, and speak and sing in Animal Tongues on Sunday, June 24, at 6pm. For more information, call (845) 473-7800. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sparrow

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Breaking Off Sugar 7pm-8:30pm. 10 top ways to beat your sugar addiction. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

CLASSES Beginning Calligraphy 1pm-3pm. 6-week course. $180. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

Adult Acting Classes 7pm-9pm. $120. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

The Secret of Good Luck: Understanding Karma 7pm-9pm. American Buddhist teacher Andres Villalon. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

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DANCE Dance Across Borders Performance 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

EVENTS Plant Spirit Medicine Conference Call for times. Learn the shamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way with plants. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 5863225 ext. 2.

Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

KIDS

The Llama Garden Retreat Call for times. Experience life on the farm.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

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MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

Murali Coryell

THE OUTDOORS Hike for Tykes 10am. Exploration walk for parents and children up to age 6. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

SPOKEN WORD 2007 Arts Fund Individual Artists Fellowship Program in Fine Crafts and Decorative Arts Application Seminar 6pm. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Metsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Essential 7pm. Matt Silverman with baseball discussion and a book signing. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

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Rounding Third 12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Auditions for Cabaret 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Elliot, a Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fugue 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

FRI 8 DANCE African Dance & Drumming 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by Nzhinga Women. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 8pm. $26/$22 seniors/$13 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Dance Across Borders Performance 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

EVENTS Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale

Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

MUSIC The Night Owls

7:30pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Roy Hargrove Big Band 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

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Red Molly 8pm. Folk. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Four Guys in Disguise 9pm. Classic rock. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Exit 19 10pm-1am. Hot funk. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

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SPOKEN WORD Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

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THEATER Rounding Third 12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

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Elliot, a Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fugue 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Ringamarole 8pm. The Present Company. Sunnyside Theater, New Paltz. 255-9081.

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TomFoolery 8pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Fiction Connection 2pm-3pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

SAT 9 ART Beacon Open Studios Call for times. Beacon Artists will open their studios to the public. Call for location. 4018798.

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Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Show Splash 1pm-3pm. Works by students ages 5-13.

Imagination Station, Red Hook. 758-9719.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. $120/$145/$12/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Qigong for Seniors

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Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program 1:30pm-2:30pm. Resource Center for Accessible Living, Kingston. 331-0541.

Flowing Spirit Guidance Open House 4pm-7pm. Learn how spiritual healing and counseling can improve your life. Flowing Spirit Guidance, Woodstock. 679-8989.

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Woodstock Sufi Center Open House 4pm-7pm. Learn and experience how Divine Love can heal. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Personal Growth Classes 7:30pm-8:30pm. $10/$12. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Exploring Monoprinting Call for times. Yasuragi Center, Mahopac.

261-0636.

Nonviolent Communication-The Basics 1pm-5pm. How to bring nonviolent communication skills and consciousness into everyday life. $60. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston.

246-5935.

Expressive Botanical Watercolor 1:30pm-3:30pm. Learn expressive watercolor painting in 4 sessions. $135/4 sessions. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

DANCE Swing Dance Party and Performance 7:30pm. Featuring Chesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cool Cats & Kittens. $8. Reformed Church of the Comforter, Kingston. 236-3939.

Dance Across Borders Performance 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

PAUL COWELL WALKER JONES AND BRENDAN PATRICK BURKE (REAR) IN A 2006 PERFORMANCE OF â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE GOOD GERMAN.â&#x20AC;?

MUSEUM PIECE

Patrons of Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s American Museum of Natural History, still shuddering over last Christmasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ben Stiller film Night at the Museum, no doubt will be heartened to learn that the august institution has inspired art of greater consequence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natural Historyâ&#x20AC;? is a bittersweet chamber piece staged as part of the new summer season at Shadowland Theater, the plucky company based in Ellenville and housed in a sleek, refurbished 1920s art deco theater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four different vignettes in four different rooms of the Museum of Natural History,â&#x20AC;? says Brendan Burke, returning as Shadowlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic director for a third season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an exciting new work that fits

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the Shadowland quirkiness. It cannot be pigeonholed as comedy or drama.â&#x20AC;?

Written by fledgling playwright Jennifer Camp and directed by James Glossman, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natural Historyâ&#x20AC;? stars Broadway actors and real-life couple Michelle Pawk and John Dossett. Glossman, who often collaborates with Burke, notably directed the 2005 Shadowland production of Arthur Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;All My Sons,â&#x20AC;? starring husband-and-wife team Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. Glossman was wooed to the script by Pawk and Dossett, longtime friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natural Historyâ&#x20AC;? explores the themes of love and loss among several people on one single day in the museum.

Pawk won the Tony Award as featured actress in the 2003 play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hollywood Arms,â&#x20AC;? co-written by comic legend Carol Burnett and based on her memoirs. John Dossett received 2003 Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his role in the revival of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gypsy.â&#x20AC;?

Glossman, charmed by the play, began searching for a theater to host a production. This past December, he called his friend Burke, who immediately placed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natural Historyâ&#x20AC;? on the summer schedule.

Completing the three-actor cast is Anthony Blaha, whom Glossman calls, â&#x20AC;&#x153;an extraordinary find.â&#x20AC;? Only 22, the actor suggests â&#x20AC;&#x153;a combination of James Dean and John Cleese.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we could mount â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Les Mizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; if we really needed to,â&#x20AC;? Burke says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure we could do it justice.â&#x20AC;?

Rounding out the schedule are productions that touch upon both humor and tragedy. The season begins on June 8 with the crowd pleaser â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rounding Thirdâ&#x20AC;? by Richard Dresser, about a pair of suburban dads coaching a Little League team. The black comedy â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cripple of Inishmaanâ&#x20AC;? opens on July 20.

Written by celebrated Irish wunderkind Martin McDonagh, it depicts the chaos caused by a Hollywood film company that descends on an Irish town.

The season ends with a show sure to unsettle the senior citizens who buy season subscriptions and twitter in their seats. The Pulitzer Prize-winning â&#x20AC;&#x153;How I Learned to Driveâ&#x20AC;? by Paula Vogel (opens September 14) is a lacerating memoir of a teen girl and her amorous uncle, which Burke himself will direct. He fully expects some disgruntled reactions, but insists that The Shadowland Theater should be

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"Natural History" will be staged June 22 through July 15. www.shadowlandtheatre.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jay Blotcher

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lies a tale of heartbreaking setbacks and intermittent triumphs. But when German filmmaker Philip GrĂśning inevitably mounts the podium to collect his Oscar next year for Into Great Silence, his story will best them all.

Anointed by BAFTA (the British Academy Awards) in 1984 as a young Munich-based director on the rise, GrĂśning embarked that year upon an audacious project: a documentary about the secretive monks of the Carthusian order of the French Alps. A letter seeking entry to their secret world was answered tersely: It was not the right time. So GrĂśning went about his career, making features and winning awards. In 2000 the monks summoned GrĂśning. Now, they told him, it was time.

Founded in 1084 by Saint Bruno of Cologne, this order settled in an alpine monastery near Grenoble, France. In addition to an intense devotion to religious studies, they are also farmers, craftsmen, and, most famously, distillers of a potent verdant herbal brew known to connoisseurs as Chartreuse. Their plain, hooded garb suggests a cult of medieval Jedi knights.

GrĂśning ultimately spent six months living among the monks of La Grande Chartreuse, serving as sole filmmaker and soundman for his documentary. Even those monks who opposed the project eventually helped him carry equipment. Those seeking an exposĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Carthusians: Beneath the Hood?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;will find unanswered prayers in this digital scrapbook. GrĂśning makes no effort to dig beneath the surface of monastic life nor religious commitment.

There is no narration to the film. The monks, who spend each week in silence and are allowed conversation only on Sundays, do not speak to the camera. GrĂśning does not interview them.

(However, several do agree to sit for the camera and stare placidly into the lens. The effect is both fascinating and unnerving.) When these wards of heaven do chat amongst themselves, they passionately debate scriptures.

In its narrative austerity, Into Great Silence still offers myriad rewards. In every scene, the director wields his camera like a modern-day Vermeer, obtaining stilllifes of startling depth and muted color.

We watch the change of seasons from mountaintops, observe melting icicles. We see monks emerge from their simple cloisters to pray with an intensity incomprehensible to our ADHD society. All moments are recorded by utilizing natural light and sounds. When the brothers unexpectedly â&#x20AC;&#x153;kick backâ&#x20AC;? on a wintry Sunday afternoon, their laughter is like a splash of ice water on our lulled senses.

Painstakingly, GrĂśning has conjured the Carthusian existence. Biblical epigrams about servitude to God and renunciation of earthly goods flash recurringly on the screen to complete the effect. Whether you find the filmic experience hauntingly transcendent orâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at 162 minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;incredibly mind-numbing depends on your own capacity for simple joys.

Into Great Silence will be screened at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck beginning June 8. (845) 8762515; www.upstatefilms.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jay Blotcher

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8pm. David Kaynor calling, music by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $10/$9 members/$5 children. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

9pm. $25/$22.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Flames of Discontent

Legacy Farm Cohousing

9:30pm. Novo protest ensemble performs songs of social change. 60 Main, New Paltz.

255-1901.

Call for times. Learn about the community.

Call for location. 943-9005.

THE OUTDOORS

EVENTS

Piece of Joy Community Fundraising Event Call for times. Live art auction to benefit Hudson River HealthCare and The Preservation Company. Tallix Inc., Beacon.

838-1111.

Pine Bush Farmers Market 1am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists and kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale

10am. Easy 2-mile hike to discover the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flowers. Meet at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve Awosting Lot, New Paltz. 255-7059.

SPOKEN WORD Symbols of New York

Wolf Talk and Book Presentation

Antique Machinery, Truck & Motorcycle Show 10am-Sunday, June 10, 4pm. Antiques in action. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 266-5212.

Art Etc. 12pm-4pm. Auction to benefit Woodstock Democratic Committee. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4854.

6th Annual Shindig 12pm-6pm. Food, entertainment, demos, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activites. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

FILM Woodstock Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Get There From Here 8:30pm. With filmmaker David McDonald.

410 Espresso Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3713.

2pm. With Scott Ian Barry author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wolf Empire.â&#x20AC;? Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Cadmium Text Series 2pm. Poetry reading featuring Steve Hirsch, PF Potvin, and R. Dionysius Whiteurs. $5. The Gallery at R& F Handmade Paints, Kingston.

Woodstock Poetry Society Meeting 2pm. Featuring poets Iris Litt and Jana Martin. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock.

679-6345.

THEATER Rounding Third 12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

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Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, New Paltz.

255-3102.

Elliot, a Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fugue 3pm/8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Super Saturdays for Kids 10:30am. Featuring the Leela Puppet Theater. Kingston Library, Kingston. 3310507.

Meet the Animals

8pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Embracing Your Fertility

MUSIC

Drawn Home with Meriel Hoare

The Christine Spero Group Call for times. Jazz. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

Baystock 12pm. Featuring Fifty Habit and other bands.

Rondout Bay Marina and Cafe, Kingston.

339-3917.

Contemporary Gypsy Dance 1pm-2pm. $60/$15 per class. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Playwriting Workshop 1pm-3pm. $150/$120 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

SUN 10 The Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way Creative Cluster Call for times. Self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Jesse Moore

CLASSES

8pm. Acoustic. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Joe Medwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memphis Soul 8pm-12am. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 8766816.

The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Sarah Kramer-Harrison 8pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 6795342.

Teri Roiger & John Menegon 8pm. Jazz. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston.

331-2662.

Deep Listening 8pm. A musical event in collaboration with Deep Listening Institute. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

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7pm. Country rock. $25 - $69.50. Times Union Center, Albany. (518) 487-2000.

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams Jr.

9:30am-Sunday, June 10, 5pm. A life drawing life experience. $200/$180 members.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open mike night with hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046.

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WORKSHOPS 9:30am-5pm. Chinese medicine and hypnobirthing fertility workshop. $150/$125.

Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. (914) 388-7789.

Call for times. Jazz. Jack and Lunaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

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2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

Shock Exchange

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Art Explorers Call for times. Grades K-2. Mahopac Library, Mahopac. 261-0636.

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Kingston Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market

9am-2pm. Located five miles north of Margaretville / Arkville on Route 30. No location specified.

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7am-9am. $10/$7 children. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

Pakatan Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market

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13th Annual Snapping Turtle Walk

Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

331-7517.

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Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 5:30pm-7:30pm. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/$28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS Starr Library Annual Big Book Sale Call for times. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon.

597-5028.

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IMAGE PROVVIDED COMPOSER JOAN TOWER. THE ST. LUKEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WILL PLAY WORKS BY TOWER AND OTHER FEMALE COMPOSERS AS PART OF ITS â&#x20AC;&#x153;NOTABLE WOMENâ&#x20AC;? SERIES AT DIA:BEACON THIS MONTH.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pick up any program from a classical concertâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;any orchestra, any chamber group; look at how many women composers there are,â&#x20AC;? suggests Joan Tower, composer and Bard professor. She estimates that about two percent of the compositions are written by women. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers,â&#x20AC;? a chamber festival at Dia:Beacon over the first three weekends in June, attempts to redress that inequity. The St. Lukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chamber Ensemble will perform music by American women

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composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Tower, whom the New Yorker described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the most successful women composers of all time,â&#x20AC;? is composer-in-residence with St. Lukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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In her string quartet â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kalpitha,â&#x20AC;? the instruments veer toward an Indian intonation, then back into Mozart territory. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like watching an actor speak alternate phrases in two different languages.

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stepmother, represented by a string quartet written in 1933. The second, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Notable Women: Unbound,â&#x20AC;? features works by prominent composers such as Tania LĂŠon and Tower herself, whose first string quartet, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Night Fieldâ&#x20AC;? (1994), will be played. The third concert, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unleashed,â&#x20AC;? presents contemporary works such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Four Movements with Delaysâ&#x20AC;? by Pamela Z and Eve Beglarianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cave,â&#x20AC;? which includes electronics. (As in other styles of music, computers have altered classical composition.)

Question-and-answer sessions will follow each performance.

Music in performance is also a visual art. Rarely does one hear a string quartet in a gallery of world-class paintings. (In previous concerts, the players were surrounded by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shadows,â&#x20AC;? a series of

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a friend, the Internet is our generationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most miraculous way for people to stay connected. The possibilities at our fingertips seem endless. Pauline Oliveros of the Deep Listening Institute is no stranger to the intangible Internet and is taking full advantage of it by using the free, state-of-the-art Web telephony network called Skype to bring her musical trainees together from different locations around the world.

After receiving a grant from the New York State Music Fund, Oliveros was able to establish an online virtual residency, which began in January. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skype allows you to call people, computer-to-computer, and do conference calls, 10 people at a time," she says. "The musicians are calling each other up, setting up group appointments and jamming, creating large scale pieces and ensembles.â&#x20AC;?

Oliveros has been hosting instructional retreats on her Deep Listening musical/philosophical concepts for the past 17 years, recently teaching a three-year certificate program that enables participants to teach Deep Listening workshops themselves. Currently, there are 30 certificate holders in Switzerland, Canada, and the US, and their virtual residency is called the Deep Listening Convergence. The result of the online jams? The musicians will be coming together for three concerts in June here in the Hudson Valley, all rehearsals having been done online. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The Internet] is an amazing place. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful that you can hear each other, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing one-to-one, you can do a video conference, but the audio conferences are for up to 10 people.â&#x20AC;? She mentions one conference in which people were working on a piece that involved uploading files to the Internet, writing the files, doing several generations of mutation to the files, then dumping them into a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sound poolâ&#x20AC;? to use for improvisation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The members are jamming on Skype, holding message forums on Basecamp, and posting recorded sessions on Imeem [an online community for promoting music, video, blogs, and more],â&#x20AC;? she says.

The array of instruments used is vast: trombone, accordion, cello, harp, percussion, colombine/ amaranth, recorder, shakuhachi, piano, koto, guitar, vocals, laptop; visual performance is also sometimes added to the activities. Musicians improvise in different combinations, such as two vocalists and two pianists each in a different city in Switzerland jamming with an amaranth player in Canada and a vocalist in Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The resulting sound is] very mixed,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as there are different ways that people improviseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;free improvisation to guided improvisation. It will be diverse, and there are quite a few vocalists involved and also some local musicians, as well. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working with 45 musicians, so there will be some very large ensembles as well as smaller ones, each concert with different configurations of those musicians, each curated by a different member of the group.â&#x20AC;?

The concert schedule is as follows: June 8 at 8pm at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy; June 9 at 8pm at Time & Space Limited in Hudson; and June 10 at 3pm at The Lifebridge Sanctuary in High Falls. (845) 338-5984; www.deeplistening.org/site/convergence. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sharon Nichols

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Friends of the Newburgh Free Library Book Sale 11am-2:30pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.

Annual Beacon Sloop Club Strawberry Festival 12pm-6pm. Sailing, tours of Clearwater, strawberry refreshments. Riverfront Park, Beacon. 542-0721.

SPOKEN WORD Starting Out Sideways 7pm. Author Mary E. Mitchell book signing.

Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

The Body and The Media 8pm. Panel discussion as part of Dance Across Borders. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7900.

KIDS Museum of the Hudson Highlands Discovery Quests 1am-4pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Capture the Flag 1:45pm-3:15pm. $10. The Open Center for Autism, Hurley. (800) 661-1575.

Meet the Animals 2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

TUE 12 FILM Favorite Son 7pm. Documentary explores the life of Alexander Hamilton. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

KIDS Auditions for the Hudson Valley Youth Chorale Call for times. Grades 2-7. Call for location.

679-8172.

MUSIC

MUSIC

Sunday Brunch

Open Mike Night

11am. Music by Tirendi. Toscani’s, New Paltz. 255-6770.

8:30pm. Hosted by Pete Laffin. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

Harvey Reid & Joyce Andersen

Modern Romance

3pm-6pm. $25. SUNY Orange, Middletown.

343-3049.

Unbound 3pm. Works by Joan Tower, Tania Leon, Libby Larsen, Jennifer Higdon, and Kati Agocs. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Cheryl Wheeler 8pm. $25/$22.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

White Knuckle Rodeo 10pm. Alternative rock. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Five Mountains In Five Days

9pm. Jazz meets classical music. Classics on the Mountain music fest. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

THE OUTDOORS Early Birds 7am. Observe the morning’s bird activity.

Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

SPOKEN WORD Book signing with Jason Gehlert 7pm. Author of Quiver II. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Travis Bowman 7pm. 200 year-old story behind the inventing of the first practical steamboat. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.

SPOKEN WORD

The Body, The Community, and The World

Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

8pm. Panel discussion as part of Dance Across Borders. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7900.

THEATER

THEATER

Rounding Third 12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap 2pm. Presented by the Stormy Weather Players. $12/$11 seniors and children. Call for location. 298-8734.

Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Ringamarole 3pm. The Present Company. Sunnyside Theater, New Paltz. 255-9081.

ASK Playwrights’ Lab 6pm. New play readings. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Richard III 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Vocal Toning 7:30pm-9pm. $95. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 4318916.

TomFoolery

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3pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?

12pm-1:30pm. Catskill Community Center, Catskill. (518) 943-4950.

8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock.

679-4101.

WORKSHOPS The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program Orientation

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie.

229-8391.

10:30am. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2164.

CLASSES

Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe

Nonviolent Communication on the Green

1pm-4pm. $25 per class. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MON 11 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reiki 1 Certification and Attunements 6pm-9pm. Help others heal while you help yourself. $80/$70. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

CLASSES Basic Oil Painting 12pm-3pm. 4 sessions. $135. Red Eft

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Call for times. Hiking the Catskills peaks.

Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext.

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6pm-8pm. Be the peace you want to bring into the world. $15. Vita’s Galerie, Woodstock. 246-5935.

GamaLataki Rhythm/Music Mind Course 7:45pm-9:15pm. Explore the elements governing the universal power of sound and music. $75. Call for location. 679-7532.

DANCE Modern Dance 5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

EVENTS MUSIC

Open Mike Night 8pm-12am. Hosted by singer-songwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

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Celtic Jam Seisun 7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

Classics on the Mountain

Classics on the Mountain: Vivaldi

9pm. Chopin, von Weber, more. Classics on the Mountain music fest. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

9pm. Corelli and Vivaldi. Classics on the Mountain music fest. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

Reading and Book Signing with Kathy Stevens

9pm. Piano and vocals. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

THEATER

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Open Mike

12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Louis Landon

9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson.

(518) 828-7303.

Rounding Third

Richard III

SPOKEN WORD Classics in Religion Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Tarot-on-the-Hudson

Legal Issues for Filmmakers 7pm. Seven21 Media Center, Kingston.

679-4265.

2pm-4:30pm. Monthly Tarot study and play with Rachel Pollack. $25. Call for location.

876-5797.

The Body and The Community 8pm. Panel discussion as part of Dance Across Borders. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson.

758-7900.

THEATER Richard III 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

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FRI 15 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Call for times. With Robert Thurman and Mark Epstein. $250. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

Psychodrama for Substance Abuse Groups 9am. Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute, New Paltz. 255-7502.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 11am-12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Sufi Zikr 5:45pm. Heal through the unconditional love of God. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

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An Evening With the Afterlife 7pm-9pm. $35. Divine Enlightenment, Catskill.

(518) 947-6413.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Circle 7pm-8:30pm. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

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758-7900.

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Dance Across Borders Performance 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Evenings of Psychodrama 7:30pm. Featuring Mike Traynor. $6/$4 students and seniors. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502.

7:30pm. Country. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Mr. E aka Greg Englesson 8pm. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston.

338-2424.

David Kraai 8pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

The Subdudes

KIDS The Llama Garden Retreat

9pm. $40/37.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Call for times. Experience life on the farm.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 851-7661.

The Felice Brothers 9pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

MUSIC

Classics on the Mountain: All Bach

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

9pm. All Bach program. Classics on the Mountain music fest. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

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8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

TomFoolery 8pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080.

WORKSHOPS Newspapers Online 2pm-3pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

SAT 16 ART Woodstock: Paint the Town Auction 11am-7pm. Exhibit of works inspired by Woodstock for auction. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 6792940.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Show Splash

4pm-6pm. Opening of the sculpture parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new exhibits. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. $120/$145/$12/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

Yoga 1pm-1:30pm. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program 1:30pm-2:30pm. Resource Center for Accessible Living, Kingston. 331-0541.

Personal Growth Classes 7:30pm-8:30pm. $10/$12. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Line Drawing Class Call for times. For ages 15 and older.

Freshmen Fine Arts Gallery, Beacon. 4408988.

Green Home Building and Renovation Course 10am-3pm. $59. SUNY Ulster Continuing and Professional Education, Kingston. 339-2025.

DANCE Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pillow Dance Festival Gala Call for times. A celebration of the past, present and future of the festival. Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts. (413) 2439919 ext. 37.

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Dance Across Borders Performance

12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Nature/Not Nature and Bivouac

Call for times. Jack and Lunaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Stone Ridge.

687-9794.

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6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by Nzhinga Women. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

Live Jazz

7pm-9pm. American Buddhist teacher Andres Villalon. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

7pm. Author of Where the Blind Horse Sings.

Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen.

338-5580.

1pm-3pm. Works by students ages 5-13.

Imagination Station, Red Hook. 758-9719.

Adult Acting Classes

The Secret of Good Luck: Understanding Karma

12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

African Dance & Drumming

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Symbols of New York

Discovery of Mother Voidness: Integrating Buddhism & Psychotherapy

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Dance Across Borders Performance 8pm. Noémie Lafrance’s site-specific work.

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Freestyle Frolic Summer Dance Series

Classics on the Mountain: Moscow Soloists Orchestra 9pm. Tchaikovsky, Raykehlson. Classics on the Mountain music fest. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

8:30pm-2:30am. Non-smoking, non-alcohol barefoot dancing. $7/$3 teens and seniors/ children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. 658-8319.

The Kurt Henry Band

EVENTS

9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Historical Dinner and Conversations with Abraham Lincoln Call for times. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

Secret Garden Tour Call for times. Tour of the best private gardens in Putnam County. $25/$20. Call for location. 278-7272 ext. 287.

Pine Bush Farmers Market 1am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists and kids’ activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

331-7517.

9pm. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 6872699.

Four Guys in Disguise

Slam Allen 10pm. Motown, r&b. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

KIDS Museum of the Hudson Highlands Discovery Quests 1am-4pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Capture the Flag 1:45pm-3:15pm. $10. The Open Center for Autism, Hurley. (800) 661-1575.

Meet the Animals 2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC THE OUTDOORS 6th Annual Long-Distance Swim 10am. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 895-5012.

Survival Hike 10am-1pm. Learn indigenous skills and outdoor safety. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

SPOKEN WORD

Sunday Brunch 11am. Music by Tirendi. Toscani’s, New Paltz. 255-6770.

Father’s Day Jazz Brunch 12pm-3pm. $20/$17.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Unleashed 3pm. Works by Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, Eve Beglarian, Joan La Barbara, and Erin Watson. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Pakatan Farmers’ Market

Symbols of New York

9am-2pm. Located five miles north of Margaretville / Arkville on Route 30. No location specified.

12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike

THEATER

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Rounding Third

7pm. Americana. $25. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Travel around the World in 80 Miles 10am-6pm. Shawangunk Wine Trail wine tastings from ten countries. $25/$30. Call for location. 255-2494.

2007 Clearwater Music and Environmental Festival 10am-8:30pm. CrotonPoint Park, Croton-onHudson. (800) 67-Sloop.

Family Fun on Huguenot Street 3pm-4:30pm. Tour of LeFevre House.

Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 2551660.

An Actors and Writers Book Party 6:30pm. Readings by A & W members.

Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties.

657-9760.

The Monastery 8pm. A look at monastic life with director Helen Whitney. $10/$7.50 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

8pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

THE OUTDOORS

TomFoolery 8pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

10am. $5/$3. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Museum of the Hudson Highlands Discovery Quests 10am-4pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Meet the Animals 2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Judi Silvano 3pm. Newburgh Artisans, Newburgh. 5657540.

Folk Saturday Music Series 4pm. Music of the Andes by the Ecuadorian band IntiAndino. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222 ext. 11.

Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open mike night with hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046.

Neil Alexander & Nail

10:30am. Arts in Orange, Middletown. 9560005.

THEATER

Playwriting Workshop 1pm-3pm. $150/$120 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

SUN 17 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Artist’s Way Creative Cluster Call for times. Self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Prosperity Ritual 1pm-4pm. A Kundalini yoga and meditation intensive. $45. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.

CLASSES Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 5:30pm-7:30pm. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

TomFoolery 3pm. Tribute to the great songwriting satirist, Tom Lehrer. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Richard III 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25 per class. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Arts Community Grants Application Workshop 6pm. Crawford Library, Pine Bush. 744-3375.

Aromatherapy Workshop 7pm-8:30pm. $10/$8 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MON 18 EVENTS

EVENTS

9am. Discover SUNY Ulster events, and admissions help. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

(800) 724-0833 ext. 5028.

2007 Clearwater Music and Environmental Festival

10am-4pm. Art, crafts, gift merchandize and automobilia. Tannersville. 430-4030.

Travel around the World in 80 Miles

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul

10am-6pm. Shawangunk Wine Trail wine tastings from ten countries. $25/$30. Call for location. 255-2494.

8pm-12am. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 8766816.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market

Hotflash and the Whoremoans

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon.

597-5028.

8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

Father’s Day Ice Cream Social 12pm-3pm. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park.

9pm. With Helmet of Gnats. $20/$17.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/$28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Cruisin’ on the Mountaintop Fathers Day Car Show

Frogs’ Cafe

Rounding Third

Life Drawing Classes

Pink Martini

8pm. Jazz. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 6772985.

SPOKEN WORD 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols . Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

10am-8:30pm. CrotonPoint Park, Croton-onHudson. (800) 67-Sloop.

Cafe Jazzbo’s

Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291 ext. 205.

Arts Community Grants Application Workshop

7pm. Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse, Beacon.

831-0359.

8pm. 12-piece nouveau cabaret band.

McKenna Theater, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Stretch And Stride: Yoga And Hiking In The Catskills

Symbols of New York

WORKSHOPS

KIDS Toad-Ally Terrific Toads

Arlen Roth Band

Richard III

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FILM

12am. A story about Little League dads.

Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

4pm-6pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Instant Admission Day

Dutchess County Arts Council 25th Anniversary Golf Tournement 11am. $175. Dutchess Golf and Country Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222.

MUSIC Gwen Laster 5:30pm. Violinist. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Open Mike Night 8pm-12am. Hosted by singer-songwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

SPOKEN WORD An Evening of Verse

Candlelight Tours 7pm-8:30pm. $7. Locust Lawn, Gardiner.

255-1889.

7pm. With Frannie Lindsay and Paul Violi.

Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.

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Open Mike Night

KIDS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

8:30pm. Hosted by Pete Laffin. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

Discovering Animals Together Activities

Guided Imagery and Reiki Healing Circle

THE OUTDOORS

9:30am-10:30am. Ages 2-4. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

7pm-9pm. $20. Spirit of Woodstock, Woodstock. 688-5672.

CLASSES

Early Birds 7am. Observe the morning’s bird activity.

Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

Integral Yoga Hatha I Beginners Class Call for times. $14. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.

KIDS Auditions for the Hudson Valley Youth Chorale

WORKSHOPS Vocal Toning 7:30pm-9pm. $95. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 4318916.

Call for times. Grades 2-7. Call for location.

679-8172.

Discovering Animals Together Activities 9:30am-10:30am. Ages 2-4. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters.

Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Bar Scott

GamaLataki Rhythm/Music Mind Course 7:45pm-9:15pm. Explore the elements governing the universal power of sound and music. $75. Call for location. 679-7532.

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Debbie Major and Louis Mandon 6:30pm. Pazzos Italian Grill, Montgomery.

457-4078.

Open Mike Night 7pm. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 8551300.

Celtic Jam Seisun

CLASSES

7pm-8pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

7pm-9pm. $120. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

Misadventures of an Intrepid Naturalist 7:30pm. Slides of some of the most unusual landscapes on Earth. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz.

THEATER As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Open Mike 9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson.

(518) 828-7303.

THU 21 ART Women’s Clay Art Therapy Group 7pm-8:30pm. Deep Clay Art and Therapy, Gardiner. 255-8039.

THE OUTDOORS Babes in the Woods Hike 10am. Hike for adults with babies.

Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

Adult Acting Classes

Spring Cooking Class #2 7pm-9pm. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

The Secret of Good Luck: Understanding Karma 7pm-9pm. American Buddhist teacher Andres Villalon. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

KIDS The Llama Garden Retreat Call for times. Experience life on the farm.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 8517661.

MUSIC Jean Hattersley 12:15pm-12:45pm. Organ recital. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

Jam Session

12pm-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.

1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

Nursing Information Sessions

SPOKEN WORD

3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Classics in Religion

Sufi Zikr

Acoustic Thursdays

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

5:45pm. Heal through the unconditional love of God. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

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8:30pm. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

WED 20 CLASSES

MUSIC

Hamilton vs. Jefferson: A Battle in Print

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SCOTT IAN BARRY AN IMAGE FROM WOLF EMPIRE BY SCOTT IAN BARRY. BARRY WILL BE READING AND SIGNING AT MIRABAI IN WOODSTOCK ON JUNE 9, AND AT THE KINGSTON BARNES & NOBLE ON JUNE 22.

STANCES WITH WOLVES Scott Ian Barry’s photographs were once described by Ansel Adams as “striking and

evolved—cities and so on—there arose a competition over resources that continues

generous portraits.” Maybe that’s because Woodstock resident Barry focuses his

to this day. Wolves have been so slandered—remember Little Red Riding Hood? They

viewfinder on the passion that’s ruled his life: wolves. His first book, Kingdom of the

became “that thing out there.”

Then there’s the howl. That eerie sound went a long way to taint their image.

created Wolf Empire: An Intimate Portrait of a Species, a compilation of images and

Scientists have found that wolves howl the same notes that humans sing, so it’s a

essays for grown-ups, and has two local events coming up—a reading and signing

kind of primal resonance.

at Mirabai in Woodstock on June 9, and another at the Kingston Barnes and Noble on June 22.

AP: You’ve actually taught humans to howl like wolves?

His adventures have taken him to Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, Alaska,

SIB: Most memorably, perhaps, on the stage of Carnegie Hall in front of a packed

a Sioux reservation, hundreds of classrooms and local museums, and the White House.

house—2,200 people all dressed in their best [for a Paul Winter Consort performance].

Since 1972, wolves have been his constant companions; he has diapered and bottle-

I thought they might be reluctant about it, but they couldn’t wait to howl!

fed them, romped with them, mourned their passing, and been on the receiving end of mating overtures from a female in heat. Scott Ian Barry loves wolves, and it would

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Wolves, won an award from the National Science Teacher’s Association. Now he’s

My goal now is to teach everyone how to howl like a wolf. It’s life-affirming—very therapeutic.

seem they love him back.

He’s a proud Luddite, eschewing digital cameras and doing his writing on legal pads.

He’s an activist, fighting tirelessly to prevent the slaughter of his beloved canids.

AP: I notice there’s a lot of controversy surrounding wolves out West right now.

What’s that about?

“More than once, when I’ve lectured in ranch country, some guy will come up to

SIB: I’ve been fighting these same battles for 30 years. Wherever humans are, they

me, point to the wolf beside me and say, ‘Yep, shot one just like that last week,’” he

won’t allow wolves to live in peace. The very same organization that restored the wolf

says. “I answer, ‘Well, we all make mistakes.’ Who’s going to keep arguing with a guy

to Yellowstone National Park, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, is now proposing to

who has a wolf standing right beside him?”

kill them if they set one paw outside of the park. The wolves make a comeback, they —Anne Pyburn

rebalance the ecology, and then everybody wants to kill them.

Then there are the aerial hunts in Alaska—they take small, low-flying planes and

AP: Did you always feel wolves were your destiny?

literally run the wolf to exhaustion, then blast it. It’s inhuman and inhumane, and

SIB: I don’t want to sound too New Agey or disingenuous, but I describe the fascination

so wasteful. Wolves have the potential to teach us a lot about what being human

as immediately postnatal and enormously powerful. It’s as if I were one of them, as if I

should mean. Unfortunately, we have the worst administration in history right now on

had a wolf inside of me. When the other kids were being Superman, I’d be a wolf. There’s

environmental issues.

an old European legend of the Wolf Charmer, a spirit-man who lived among them; I felt that was me. That may be odd for a boy from Flushing, Queens, but that was me.

AP: Touring the country with wolves must have had some interesting moments.

I started actually working with them in my late teens and never looked back.

SIB: We were environmental pioneers. Nobody was doing anything like this—it was

Everything I love most—photography, the outdoors—became tied into one with wolves

highly suspect. I’ve been detained by border agents, spied on by a special agent while

at the center. It came to me, not so much me to it, as naturally as breathing air.

doing work at the Smithsonian. They thought we were out to overthrow the country.

AP: Why do you think wolves exert such a powerful pull on the human mind?

I’ve met Robert Redford and Jimmy Carter. Wolves have made my dreams come true.

Then there’s the flip side—we were the “wolf people,” and we got treated like rock stars.

SIB: Early on, human and wolf-pack social structures probably evolved on a sort of parallel track. Both species had to band together to hunt large game. Wolves were smart enough to follow human hunters and get the remains of the kills.

You would have thought there’d be a natural blending, but as so-called civilization

I’d love to see somebody make a biopic about the whole saga. We could call it "The Wolfman Cometh."

Scott Ian Barry will read and sign copies of Wolf Empire at Mirabai in Woodstock on Saturday, June 9, at 2pm. (845) 679-2100; www.mirabai.com.

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Summer Solstice Celebration

Natural History

Trio Solisti

9pm. Featuring Marc Black and his Band.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville.

647-5511.

8pm. $20/$17 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868.

THE OUTDOORS

WORKSHOPS

Midsummer Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hike

Plein Air Oil Painting Landscapes

6:30pm-8:30pm. Meet at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve Awosting Lot, New Paltz.

255-7059.

1:30pm-Sunday, June 24, 5pm. $180. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

Galeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Price It Antiques & Collectibles 2pm-3pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

THEATER Richard III 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

SAT 23 ART Sara Jane Roszak

WORKSHOPS Sunwise: a Druid Teaching and Ritual for the Solstice 7pm-9pm. Discuss Sun Cults of Ancient Europe and the sacred traditions of Solar Worship. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

FRI 22 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 12pm-1:30pm. Greenport Town Hall, Hudson. (518) 828-4656.

DANCE African Dance & Drumming 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by Nzhinga Women. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Music by The Lustre Kings. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

EVENTS 1st Annual Family Caregiverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conference 8:30am-3:30pm. Workshops by qualified presenters in the field of elder care issues,. $10.00. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 334-5169.

6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. $120/$145/$12/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

Nature and Spirits: Exploring the Ancient Healing of South Africa Call for times. What is the relevance of ancient traditions in our modern day lives?. $715. Margaretville. 586-3225.

Yoga 1pm-1:30pm. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program

FORECAST

Colonial Overnights

7pm-1pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Rickie Lee Jones 8pm. $30 - $45. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900.

Rebecca Martin 7pm. To benefit Sustainable Hudson Valley.

Body Tuning, Kingston. 331-2670.

Boston Early Music Festival: Lullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Psyche 7pm. Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

CLASSES Line Drawing Class Call for times. For ages 15 and older.

Freshmen Fine Arts Gallery, Beacon. 4408988.

EVENTS 1am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists and kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

9am-2pm. Located five miles north of Margaretville / Arkville on Route 30. No location specified.

Kingston Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

331-7517.

Scott Ian Barry 7pm. Signing his photo collection, Wolf Empire. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

THEATER Everywoman: Every Now & Then

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Call for times. Original Mussmann/Bruce production. $10. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

8am. Saugerties Village Beach, Saugerties.

246-5900.

SPOKEN WORD Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

THEATER Natural History

Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Everywoman: Every Now & Then 8pm. Original Mussmann/Bruce production. $10. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Richard III 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

1pm-5pm. Kiyana- preparative exercises and contemplative rhythmic. Living Seed Yoga Center, New Paltz. 334-8600 ext. 0.

Animal Communication: The Six Keys 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

SUN 24

4th Annual Orchard Dinner & Wine Tasting

Call for times. Self-help support group based on the books and seminars of Julia Cameron.

Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

6pm-9pm. Food by local chefs paired with NYS wines. Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge. 626-7919.

Museum of the Hudson Highlands Discovery Quests

2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Urban Survival Call for times. Jazz. Jack and Lunaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

Boston Early Music Festival: Lullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Psyche 7pm. Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open mike night with hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046.

Noe Venable

Indian Blood

7pm. To benefit Sustainable Hudson Valley.

Muddy Cup, Kingston. 331-2670.

Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Karl Berger and Friends

The Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way Creative Cluster

American Society of Dowsers 1pm. Monthly meeting of the Catskill Mountain Chapter of ASD. Guest speaker: Dona Ho Lightsey. . $3.00 for ASD members; $5.00 for non-ASD members at the door.

Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.

Eckhart Tolle Group Meeting 2pm-4pm. Call for location. 687-8687.

CLASSES Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 5:30pm-7:30pm. $12/$15/$40/$55. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. $8/$11/$28/$38. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS Western and Swing Week Call for times. Jazz, swing, country, western swing classes and dances. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market

8pm. Jazz. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon.

597-5028.

Joe Medwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memphis Soul

Olde Hurley Guided Walking Tour

8pm-12am. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck.

876-6816.

2pm. $3. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley.

338-5253.

As You Like It 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

Esopus Creek Conservancy Guided Bird Walk

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Meet the Animals

12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols . Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

THE OUTDOORS

12pm-6pm. Day of music, art, activities and community togetherness. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901.

10am-4pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Symbols of New York

10pm. Progressive rock. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

4th Saturday

Meg Johnson

Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

In Itself

Theoretical, Experimental Teaching

KIDS

Terwilliger Family Association

9pm. $8. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

WORKSHOPS

9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

SPOKEN WORD

Lovewhip

Indian Blood

7:30pm-8:30pm. $10/$12. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Four Guys in Disguise

10pm-1am. Americana, bluegrass, blues and classic rock. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

9pm. Classic 1974 electric lineup. $35/$32.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 8551300.

Personal Growth Classes

Pakatan Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market Cecilia St. King

The Strawbs

12am. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 6475511.

5pm. Children ages 8 to 14. $35/$32. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

MUSIC

9pm-12am. CD release concert and party.

Susanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resaurant, Peekskill. 737-6624.

1:30pm-2:30pm. Resource Center for Accessible Living, Kingston. 331-0541.

Pine Bush Farmers Market

KIDS

Judi Silvano and Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Work

KIDS Museum of the Hudson Highlands Discovery Quests 1am-4pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Capture the Flag 1:45pm-3:15pm. $10. The Open Center for Autism, Hurley. (800) 661-1575.

Meet the Animals 2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Sunday Brunch 11am. Music by Tirendi. Toscani’s, New Paltz. 255-6770.

Boston Early Music Festival: Lully’s Psyche 2:30pm. Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Maverick Concert Series 3pm. Featuring The Imani Winds. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

SPOKEN WORD

Mozart in the Mountains

5:30pm-7:30pm. Learn about the lives of honeybees from Bee Doctor Chris Harp. $25. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Celebrating Incarnation

Symbols of New York

Call for times. Learn to pray with our bodies using the ancient tradition of yoga. $290.

Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 384-6660.

12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

8pm. With fireworks. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Sufi Zikr

Dakota Lane

KIDS Auditions for the Hudson Valley Youth Chorale Call for times. Grades 2-7. Call for location.

679-8172.

Discovering Animals Together Activities 9:30am-10:30am. Ages 2-4. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

MUSIC Open Mike Night 8:30pm. Hosted by Pete Laffin. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

THE OUTDOORS Early Birds 7am. Observe the morning’s bird activity.

Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

7pm. Eagles tribute band. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

THEATER

Adam Snyder

6pm. New play readings. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Showcase Evening 7:30pm. $10. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

SPOKEN WORD Symbols of New York 12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols . Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

ASK Playwrights’ Lab

Astrology 101: Learning to Read Your Birthchart 7pm-9pm. With astrologer Greg Olear. $20/ $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Vocal Toning 7:30pm-9pm. $95. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie.

431-8916.

WED 27

Natural History

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Richard III

7pm-9pm. $25. Mizuna Cafe, Kingston. (518) 929-5397.

Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25 per class. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MON 25 CLASSES Conductors Institute Visual Score Study/Baton Placement and Body Movement Technique. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425.

An Evening With the Afterlife

CLASSES 7pm-9pm. $120. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

The Secret of Good Luck: Understanding Karma 7pm-9pm. American Buddhist teacher Andres Villalon. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

FILM

EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

KIDS Discovering Animals Together Activities 9:30am-10:30am. Ages 2-4. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

Taking a Bath with the Dog

9am-Friday, June 29, 2pm. Ages 10-16. $185/$160. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC

Call for times. Experience life on the farm.

Blackberry Hill Farm, Hudson. (518) 8517661.

Open Mike Night 8pm-12am. Hosted by singer-songwriter Bob Lachman. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

WORKSHOPS Preparing for Grade One 8:30am-5:30pm. Professional development workshop. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

Preparing for Grade Three 8:30am-5:30pm. Professional development workshop. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

Screen Play

Call for times. Tale of politics, history, and the city of Buffalo. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

As You Like It 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

WORKSHOPS 2pm-3pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Personal Growth Classes

SPOKEN WORD Symbols of New York

7:30pm-8:30pm. $10/$12. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

12pm-4pm. Learn interesting facts about our state symbols . Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-7781.

CLASSES

Journey into Mohawk Country

THEATER Natural History 12am. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 6475511.

EVENTS Pine Bush Farmers Market

9pm. $5. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

331-7517.

SPOKEN WORD

Pakatan Farmers’ Market

12am. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 6475511.

As You Like It

FRI 29 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Introduction to Zen Training Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper. 688-2228.

Open Mike

SPOKEN WORD

DANCE African Dance & Drumming 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by Nzhinga Women. $5. Call for location. 380-9026.

Classics in Religion Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

EVENTS Hudson Harborfest

6:30pm-8:30pm. Contemporary fabric, textile art quilt group. Call for location. 242-4955.

Call for times. Celebration of the Hudson community with local music and artists.

City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

THEATER

MUSIC

Quilting Group Meeting

Hudson Valley Divas

Preparing for Grade Two

Richard III

8:30am-5:30pm. Professional development workshop. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

THU 28

8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams 9pm. $20/$17.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Screen Play Call for times. Tale of politics, history, and the city of Buffalo. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

As You Like It 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

9am-2pm. Located five miles north of Margaretville / Arkville on Route 30. No location specified.

Irish Dinner

WORKSHOPS

5:30pm. Presented by the Hurley Heritage Society . $38. Twin Lakes Resort, Hurley.

331-0593.

A Plant Lover’s Journey 1pm-3pm. Use your senses and innate intelligences to learn about the plants. . $15. Shawangunk Ridge Farm, New Paltz.

256-1206.

KIDS Bee Buzz for Kids Call for times. Introduce your children to the world of honeybees. $10. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.

SUN 1 EVENTS Family Fun Day

Museum of the Hudson Highlands Discovery Quests 10am-4pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Meet the Animals

9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson.

(518) 828-7303.

TUE 26

Call for times. For ages 15 and older.

Freshmen Fine Arts Gallery, Beacon. 4408988.

Kingston Farmers’ Market

7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Cesaria Evora with Tcheka

2pm. Reading and book signing with George O’Connor. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

Line Drawing Class

The Flipsquad

THEATER

10pm. Latin. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

10am-1pm. Survey of wetland and stream areas. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz.

255-7059.

1am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists and kids’ activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

7:30pm. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley.

331-4121.

9pm. $30/$27.50 members. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Air to Water Walk

8:30pm. Jazz. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Hudson River 19th Century Industries

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

10am-4pm. $35/$40. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Call for times. $120/$145/$12/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.

12:15pm-12:45pm. Organ recital. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

7pm-9pm. Featuring blues by Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers. Dutchmen’s Landing on the Hudson River, Catskill. (518) 943-0989.

9pm. $8. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

11th Annual Woodstock Playhouse Garden Tour

Tai Chi Chuan Classes

1pm-1:30pm. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

Music in the Park

Amy Speace

THE OUTDOORS

SAT 30

Darren Motise

6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

8:30pm. Bodles Opera Hous, Chester.

469-4595.

Sonando

Heritage Guest Genealogy

Yoga

MUSIC

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 4731845.

MUSIC

Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge and the Trapps

12am. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville.

647-5511.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

KIDS

Celtic Jam Seisun Call for times. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Natural History

7pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

Natural History

Magic Summer with Carlo DeBlasio

Nature Explorers Summer Camp

8pm-12am. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck.

876-6816.

Duel: Hamilton vs. Burr

The Christine Spero Group

11am. Book reading and signing with Scott Menchin. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 3360590.

KIDS

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul

FORECAST

2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 6475511.

WORKSHOPS

7pm. Author of “The Secret Life of It Girls.”

Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Acoustic Thursdays

THEATER

6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-9575.

7pm. Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute, New Paltz. 255-7502.

The Llama Garden Retreat

WORKSHOPS

8pm. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THEATER Childwork/Childplay: Action Methods with Children’s Groups

Adult Acting Classes

Tequila Sunrise

7pm. To benefit Sustainable Hudson Valley.

79 Wurts Street, Kingston. 331-2670.

5:45pm. Heal through the unconditional love of God. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Lil’ Malcolm and the Zydeco Rockers

2:30pm. $3/free for members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-7781.

2pm-3:30pm. For ages 5-10 and their families. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

Bindlestiff Cirkus 2pm. Hudson’s vaudeville circus performs their summer variety show . Free. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

MUSIC Aston Magna’s 35th Anniversary Concert

MUSIC

3pm. Works by Vivaldi and Bach. The Clark, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(413) 458-0471.

Maverick Concert Series 6pm. Featuring Pedja Muzijevic and Joel Fan. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock.

679-8217.

Maverick Concert Series Joan Armatrading

3pm. Featuring The Calder Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

7pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 4732072.

The Kennedys and Nancy RocklandMiller 7pm. $12.50 - $15. Iron Horse, Northampton, Massachusetts. (413) 584-0610.

Richard Thompson Band 7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 4731845.

Showcase Evening 7:30pm. $10. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Circle Of Friends 7pm. Open mike night with hosts Nannyhagen Creek. $10. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046.

THEATER

CLASSES

ART

Integral Yoga Hatha I Beginners Class

Women’s Clay Art Therapy Group

PeachJam

Bob Dylan

Call for times. $14. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.

7pm-8:30pm. Deep Clay Art and Therapy, Gardiner. 255-8039.

10pm-1am. Swinging blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

7:30pm. $125/$75/$55/$25. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Natural History 12am. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville.

647-5511.

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Planet Waves

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

EMIL ALZAMORA

G N I W O R G

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t must be terrifying finding out you live in a dormitory contaminated with dioxin. Imagine: You’re 18 years old and you’re having a great time at college. Then one day at the end of the year, you find out that your building had an electrical fire so long ago that nobody remembers, but not so long ago that the toxins are any better than the day of the event. Nobody told you. You feel betrayed. You learn that the chemicals involved will affect you for life; that your children and even your grandchildren may be affected; that you were lied to; and that there is nothing you can do about it except prevent future exposures, if you can.

We always talk about life on a college campus being a microcosm of the “real” world, and SUNY New Paltz, with its inconvenient toxic truth—four contaminated residence halls—surely qualifies. When I get back to town, sometimes after many months away, I inevitably get involved in this issue again, 16 years after the toxic fires that spread contamination through Bliss, Capen, Gage, and Scudder Halls, Parker Theater, and the Coykendall Sciences Building. Writing about this issue has not made me John Grisham. More accurately, I sometimes feel like the Grim Reaper himself paying a friendly little visit, reminding people of the inevitable.

This has always been a tense relationship for me.

Most of you know me as an astrologer who helps light up the inner human world of growth and the personal choices we face. In this role, I can be a bit circumspect and less conclusive.When I slip into my role as a dioxin journalist and community organizer, I need to shift into higher-contrast language and ideology; I

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must apply my talent for confrontation; and bring up a subject that most people would rather forget about.

Yet that Grim Reaper thing has another side, which is, by raising these issues, we push people to confront their personal issues and to grow.

As I continue with this work, not entirely voluntarily, it becomes ever easier to see why so much goes unaddressed in the world. Initiating the discussion takes so much energy, and the messenger is often blamed for the message.

Very few people who become a community antitoxins activist have any formal training, expertise, or authority. Generally, they start with no knowledge and no preparation.

It’s more often people like housewives (Lois Gibbs of the Love Canal comes to mind) or, in the case of Erin Brockovich, a secretary.

My life is often thrust into chaos as a result of getting re-involved. My business typically suffers, my energy runs low, and, along the way, I have to face my own fears and inner demons. I have to be honest with myself about what it means to be alive at this time in history, particularly in the human environment, which rarely seems willing to stand for too much reality. I have to be willing to have many conversations that people would rather not have, when there are plenty of things I would rather be doing.

When we ask why the global environmental crisis (and the associated corporate responsibility crisis) is not being addressed more directly or more quickly, I think we really need to look at these personal-level issues. With the situation in New Paltz, we have a fairly typical community crisis in our world, but one that

is at least workable. Shutting down four buildings is possible, and it’s probably going to be easer than stopping Greenland from melting. Yet the task is daunting enough: challenging a massive, inhuman, and deceptive state bureaucracy to care about people.

One thing that’s different about the contamination issue as it exists in the spring of 2007 is that there are both students and local political leaders involved in taking action. Interestingly, they are almost all women, and the leadership is entirely composed of women. I wonder if this has something to do with their taking the reproductive issues associated with dioxin-like compounds more seriously. I have no other way to explain it.

One aspect of my work has been teaching, passing the torch, passing along information, and also carrying forward an environmental tradition that has its roots in the anti-pesticide movement of the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest, which has provided 90 percent of my education in these matters. In this role, I convey history, knowledge, information about key players and perpetrators, documents, contacts, and a general sense of awareness. I bring people into a larger tradition.

That other part of me who is the astrologer, the student of relationships, the observer and the participant in synchronicity, is watching myself and others as I do this. I am watching my connections with people and how they evolve, and also noticing the themes that emerge in the discussions. Participating with others who are new to these issues, I have a chance to see what it’s like to encounter them for the first time.

I don’t feel ready to write about the people who are involved. I am ready to say I’ve been truly impressed

by what I’ve seen (they probably don’t know this, because I push people pretty hard to know their stuff and be firm in their actions, and I probably give the impression that I’m impossible to impress), but that is the truth. I do feel ready to talk about some of the growth issues involved in taking action on the environment.

Fear To take action means to fully admit to the reality of a situation. When it comes to dioxins and their chemical cousins, the first thing you learn is that we are constantly exposed. According to Dr. William Farland, who supervised the reassessment of the toxicity of dioxin for the EPA in the 1990s, the current body burden of seven parts per trillion is, by itself, enough to cause serious disease in one out of 100 people. Learning about dioxin-like compounds is terrifying.

Yet students who are organizing have another layer, which is the necessity to explain this to other people. There is always that fine line to walk between being alarmist and being straightforward. Denial runs thick; you can be laughed at, your friends can give you a hard time, and you run the risk of being kicked off campus.

There is also fear of surveillance by government agencies, who seem to be back in the mode of their 1970s actions against the Black Panthers. Yes, it’s possible to get an FBI file doing this work; people may mess with you; we know the stories of activists who have had their houses burned down and their cars blown up.

Nobody that I know of is obsessing over these things, but they are all lurking around the back of our minds.

Confrontation Issues This is closely related to fear. To do environmental work involves a confrontation. Many people feel that they have to avoid confrontation at all costs. This is just not possible in a situation where you have public officials participating in poisoning students, or any similar issue. To confront someone, you need to get in touch with your power on some level: your anger, your sense of entitlement to be alive, your sense of justice—something.

Feeling powerful, even for a moment, tends to evoke fear and guilt. This can manifest as being afraid to make people angry, which is an essential thing to get over. You don’t need to proceed with the intent to piss people off, but if you’re scared of doing so, you’re going to get crushed.

All of this involves what we typically call parental issues. Taking on authority is a metaphor for challenging one’s parents. College administrators are in loco parentis, which means they are in the role of parent. Usually, people are much older than 19 or 20 when they do this.

Often, people allow their parents to run their lives long after their parents have made their bodily exit from this lifetime.

Toxic Emotions Students who are put in toxic dormitories sometimes come from toxic home environments, including those who have a history of being abused. Because their homes were toxic,

a few things are possible. They may not notice the state of their building being contaminated, or may not care; or, they may even believe a contaminated place feels great, because it is less toxic than where they came from. Their attackers are not there. They can live in relative peace. But they may still carry the fear of rising up against the people who hurt them or who held them down. In addition, they may be afraid to get out of their dormitories, fearing that they will be sent someplace worse. There is indeed a close relationship between emotional toxicity and physical poisoning, and both work on the body in similar ways. As we attempt to clean up our world, we need to start with our mental and emotional environments first, which will help us make room for the attention we need to give our planet.

Reproductive Issues Most environmental issues involve reproduction. Dioxin-like compounds (which include dioxins, dibenzofurans, PCBs, many pesticides and herbicides, and many heavy metals) mimic estrogen. In other words, they act like extremely durable, synthetic estrogen. Basically, they wreak hormone chaos, causing or being associated with a large array of issues from endometriosis to birth defects. Men are affected by being feminized; their sperm counts go down, boys born to PCB exposure victims are known to have smaller penises, and there may be many other effects caused by living in an environment of extremely durable female sex hormones.

To find out about this, and to learn that you may have been exposed, confronts one with reproductive issues, including negative (as in terrifying) ones, at a much younger age than would normally happen. The entire subject is sensitive.

Though people may have been sexually active for a while, that is different than being sexually aware. However, learning that your dormitory is contaminated with dioxins is a truly unfortunate way to become sexually aware.

But it’s an issue that we need to face. PCBs, dioxins, and heavy metals are what is called ubiquitous. They are in everyone’s blood; it’s a matter of at what level, and what level in an individual causes a response. The only way to control this, in the long run, is by diet, and as a young adult you still have a lot of eating ahead of you. It’s actually not a bad time to find out about these issues.

Death I’ve heard people say that young adults feel immortal. I never had that feeling, so I’m not sure I can relate, but I believe all the people who tell me it’s true. Encountering this issue of the deadly quality of toxins, or pushing others to do so, is a kind of meeting with death: the idea of death, and a shared reality that we all face collectively. Most people don’t want to do this at all, much less between the ages of 18 and 22, when they are in college.

All of this makes a good case for offering extra counseling services to New Paltz students, as well as for closing down Bliss, Capen, Gage, and Scudder Halls. The students need a therapist on their team. Are there any volunteers?

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Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino

ARIES (March 20-April 19) It’s unlikely you’re leaving any stone unturned or taking any insecurity for granted.

How could you, when your mind is working overtime attempting to figure out the source of what troubles you? The figuring may be part of the problem, however. It does not help that there are moments when you really do feel like you can calculate the nature of your emotional needs and odd hesitancies. That little taste of success is enough to keep you going in what amounts to the wrong direction (forward). Try orienting yourself in reverse: in time, in your assessment of what you want, and internally rather than externally. Consider the child you are rather than the adult you are forced to be. Consider what you do not say as being the most significant indicator of what you truly want to say. Look for your reflection in the fears and dysfunctional beliefs of others. Imagine what they are not saying, and you’ll have a clue what you are not saying. Then listen to yourself.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You may well be asking whether current developments amount to a union, or a separation. Let’s say they are both, and that one depends on the other. Many seeming opposites at the moment depend on each other, and what all the different factors have in common is encountering something, some situation, that feels much larger than yourself, perhaps more compelling than you’re accustomed to admitting, or even way over your head. The separating factor is about letting go of a past experience or model of yourself that you cannot bring into the new phase you’re entering. This transition has a lot to do with your parents; you are seeing, maybe for the first time, how vastly different you are from them. But also, however, the intellectual awareness of this difference matters not. What is happening is an energetic experience of being entirely different with every cell in your body, sloughing off so much weight and expectation, and emerging somewhere new with the ability to choose what you want, based on who you are.

GEMINI

(May 20-June 21)

You have better things to count than your pennies. Since you seem to be intent on counting, what I suggest you consider is yourself. You need to start in the past.

I can tell you from working as an astrologer for more than a decade that most people have no clue, none at all, of the effect that their early family environment had on their psyche. We all need to stop being defensive about this, stop being afraid to piss off our parents, moreover, stop kissing their asses, and get honest about what was done to us as kids. For those of us who are parents, this will make you a better parent, which is not beside the point at the moment. While you’re doing your damage assessment, I suggest you also note the ways that what happened to you has helped you; we are never injured without being given some corresponding, often greater, reward. But understanding just what was going on in those early reaches of the past deserves your full attention at the moment, and much of that involves the value you were taught to put on yourself. This is a rare opportunity to reckon your accounts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You have a right to change your mind. To do that, you have to know your mind, and for that, you need to find out what’s there. I trust that you’ll discover many things—ideas, beliefs, patterns of thought—that you don’t need, and once you identify them, you’re in an excellent position to let them go. I don’t propose you concern yourself with what is new, what you want to create, or what you are seeking, but rather with the process of identifying and releasing, in that order. In essence, you will be making room for what is new, and at the same time, learning to identify what is what, so that you have a basis for deciding whether you really want it; whether it’s useful; whether it helps or hinders you. Current aspects are providing you with the potential to reach an astonishing depth in this process, and to see and understand yourself in a way that is typically impossible for human beings. To do this effectively, you will need space and time, hopefully something more than evenings and weekends. www.planetwaves.net 140 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 6/07

Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino

LEO

(July 22-Aug. 23)

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You are in a long stretch of life where others are providing a great deal of your impetus, motivation, and creative fire. You have some excellent teachers, just the right kind: not just iconoclasts, but inventors. When you look back on these years, you will be blown away by how much you learned from the people who are closest to you, the people who you chose and those who chose youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and they are not done coming into your life. Once again, this energy comes to a peak, but now a strategy involving a group is becoming the focus. This may not be apparent until later in the month, and you will have plenty to keep you busy until then. The extra energy you put into your professional activities will be well worth it, as long as you remind yourself that your success is not a popularity contest. In actual fact, a little dissent is a good sign, and it will prompt you to invent the strategy for cooperation that seems like an inevitable development. If you find yourself searching for the right people with just a little edge of emotional irritation, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the right track.

LIBRA (Sep. 22-Oct. 23)

In the long story that is your life, this month presents you with an unusual development. You seem to be looking for a person, a place, or a specific niche in your community, and I reckon you are about to find it. The key is this: Do not hold yourself back.

I suggest that you abandon judgments about things like pride, being a show-off, seeming like the queen bee, or charging too much for your wares. Forget it. Come on at full strength, in the full flush of your power. Then, prepare for some kind of humbling experience that puts everything into context. This could be a meeting with a person whose authority you respect, with an institution or organization that recognizes who you are, or with some kind of limitation that you have to contend with. Whatever happens, it begins one way and winds up another: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to start off feeling quite uncomfortable, and end up feeling like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in exactly the right place at the right time.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 22)

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you sometimes wish you could scream and shake people and get them to be less passive? Well, of course you do. But you may not need to scream, and you may not need to say much at all. Key people in your life seem ready to take the authority that you need in order to trust them. You are an authoritative person by nature, though you tend to lose ground due to a certain passivity of your own, in particular, your reticence to reveal yourself too much, to offer praise, or to clearly state your needs. On the other hand, you can be extremely aggressive about getting those needs met. If you can understand your own relationship between where you push and where you hold back, you will have some excellent perspective on someone who is working through a similar set of emotional circumstances. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also be a lot more likely to recognize when someone is actually taking leadership, offering ideas highly valuable to you, and, in effect, saying yesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in their own way. www.planetwaves.net 6/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM PLANET WAVES 141

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Peaks and valleys, rushes and lulls, are streaming through your life. Take advantage of a relative calm spell to redistribute your energy. This may actually be a brief phase when less is demanded of you, when your ideas come on a little less furiously, and when the situation in your household is easier to consider. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all rather subtle, though, like the difference between a bolt of lightning (your usual state of energy) and a computer chip (what you currently have going on). There seems to be one particular belief or value youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re struggling with. I would describe it as a place where you want your ideas about life to be free, but where you feel youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck, restricted, or trapped in your ideology. Now, another person, someone you care about deeply, seems to be entering the same dilemma. I suggest you not fall for the limitation aspect of this idea, but rather go past that to the potential that it describes. Apply the concept of â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative space.â&#x20AC;? Something you see as an issue describes the whole world around itself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) Whatever crisis comes to a head this month, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well positioned to finally resolve it. You can now see it in both of its main aspects, one that has seemed to drag you through certain key relationships that are based on obligation, commitment and some form of debt, and the deeper struggleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you coming to terms with how challenging it is to be in any way idealistic. You are not, by nature, a cynical person, but something has done a good job of tempting you. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not particularly hopeful, either, but you are finally making contact with an aspect of yourself that wants to live in a perfect world, and believes that we can create a perfect world together. You just know too much about human nature to be a pushover or a Pollyanna.

The long story that seems to be coming to a conclusion has tested you, but, more to the point, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found out what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re made of, discovered what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to tolerate, and made some difficult decisions about what is important to you. In the end, you will probably forget this whole entanglement, but you will surely take with you what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Humans have a strange relationship to difficulty. For one thing, we call it â&#x20AC;&#x153;difficulty,â&#x20AC;? but we seem to be motivated by little else. This comes back to our rather strange (in my view) relationship to change. We all say we want to change, we make plans to change, we try and try to change, and for the most part things stay the same until we encounter a difficult or painful situation that forces us to respond in a tangible way. I would propose that you reassess at this point in your life the extent to which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re responding to your environment, and the corresponding extent to which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re responding to your own intent. What responsibilities do you put on others that you really need to take up yourself, and what do others put on you (or do you take on) that really belongs to them? You need to take some things back in the coming weeks, and you need to give some things back in the very next gesture. Or you can reverse the order; whatever feels right.

Just be clear what you are doingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and consider the possibility that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to say why.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Being brilliant is not enough. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice, but what you need is a strategy. Indeed, what you are likely to have coming through right now is precisely that, though it may seem like something that only has a value far in the future. I would differ with you on this point: what you are capable of thinking of now, you are capable of enacting now. The path to your goal, or rather, your next interesting destination, is unlikely to resemble winning the lottery, however. At this point, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being guided by three things, to which I can ascribe astrological aspects for those who are curious. One, you are reaching the conclusion of a long process of professional development, but have yet to claim your real achievement (Pluto through Sagittarius, your 10th solar house, working its way across the Galactic Core). Two, you are restless and brewing new ideas that are freer and more creative than anything youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced lately (Jupiter square Uranus).

Three, the process of invention can be extremely efficient (Pallas conjunct Uranus in Pisces).

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Parting Shot

Grilling in the Suburbs, Tom Bamberger, gelatin-silver print, 1991 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Filmâ&#x20AC;? will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie through July 29. The exhibition features 50 contemporary works by 20 artists, including Pierre Huyghe, Joel Sternfeld, and Rineke Dijkstra, who reconsider the utopian dream. http://fllac.vassar.edu.

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