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12 local luminary: kathy stevens

72 green flame

The director of the Catskill Animal Sanctuary talks with Kaitlin Pitsker.

news and politics 20 while you were sleeping Sexually active adults over 50 at risk for diseases; underground fires raging across the US; girls showing signs of puberty at a younger age; suicide among US soldiers.

Jesse Ordansky offers tips on saving money and minimzing your carbon footprint.

locally grown 90 locally known: the rondout valley growers association

Gregory Schoenfeld on the farmers of the Rondout Valley, who have banded together to market themselves and preserve open space. Plus a listing of pick-your-own farms.

24 what we talk about when we talk about terrorism Vassar professor Amitava Kumar, author of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book, talks about the cultural logic of the War on Terror.

28 beinhart’s body politic: recessions & recoveries Larry Beinhart explains the three types of recessions. Guess which one we're in.

community pages 58 cool & quaint: saugerties

Peter Aaron reports on how the strip of land jutting into the Hudson along the Rondout Creek has maintained these 300 years since Sir Edward Andros bought it.

76 serendipitous crossing: pawling & hopewell junction

Jamie Larson talks with residents abou the developments afoot in the villages of Pawling and Hopewell Junction.

green living 68 it's a bird...it's a plane...it's the creative class Carl Frankel talks with Richard Florida, author of The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, about the changing economy.

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whole living guide 104 fierce & powerful love: an interview with marianne williamson Lorrie Klosterman talks with the spitritual leader and social activist.

108 Flowers Fall: Why parenting won't keep you up all night

Bethany Saltman talks kids with mindfulness guru Jon Kabat Zinn.

advertiser services 29 hotels & lodging Where to stay when you’re staying in the Hudson Valley 54 beacon A collection of businesses in the.southern Dutchess city.

56 rhinebeck A collection of businesses in the nothern Dutchess County town 57 poughkeepsie A collection of businesses in the Queen City of the Hudson.

65 columbia county A collection of businesses in and around Hudson.

88 the hudson valley wine & Food Festival 96 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

98 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

109 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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84 food & drink Peter Barrett visits Local Ocean outside Hudson, where fish are being farm-raised in an environmentally sustainable fashion. Plus Food & Drink events.

woodstock film festival preview by Jay Blotcher 32 33 34 37 38 39

Impertinent questions for Woodstock Film Festival director Meira Blaustein.

Selected previews of films to be screened at the festival.

Producer Larry Fessenden talks about the making of Bitter Fest.

2010 Maverick Award recipient Bruce Beresford revisits his career.

Jon Bowermaster on the genesis of SoLA: Louisiana Water Stories.

Director Jeff Malmberg explains the wondrous world of Marwencol.

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136 parting shot Westfrisian Ringdike Walk: Fast Forward on an Ancient Dutch Dike, a film by Pe Okx, will be screened on September 11 at the Arts Society of Kingston.

the forecast 116 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events.

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

44 music Peter Aaron profiles hip-hop group ReadNex Poetry Squad.

Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Brian Goss The Firing Line. Reviewed by Michael Eck. The David Arner Trio Out/In the Open. Reviewed by Peter Aaron.

Klessa Aloha Demons. Reviewed by Mike Wolf.

48 BOOKS A preview of River of Words, a new book by Nina Shengold and Jennifer May.

50 BOOK reviews Marx Dorrity reviews Here Comes Another Lesson by Stephen O'Connor.

Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Red Rain by Bruce Murkoff. Plus Short Takes.

52 Poetry Poems by Elizabeth Caffrey, Shane Cashman, Esther Cohen, Bonnie Jill Emanuel, Diana Festa, M. Hotvedt, Lee Gould, John Hopper, Stephen Liss, Chris Macort, Joe Millar, Sonia Pereira Murphy, Will Nixon, Guil Parreiras, Elizabeth J. Taylor, and Amy White.

PREVIEWS Jim Jarmusch curates this year's All Tomorrow's Parties in Monticello.

Dawn Breeze" The first Watman f the Voice sings out August 13-15.

Yvon's Paris celebrates the music of Alban Berg and the culture of early 20th-century Vienna in a series of performances and talks through August 22.

123 Catskill Studio Tour� pairs the modern masters at the Clark Art Institute.

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planet waves 130 The Mighty Equinox Eric Francis Coppolino provides a warning against the upcoming Mercury in retrograde. Plus horoscopes.

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What wonders emerge from the mountaintop artistic redoubt of Kathy Ruttenberg.

She ships out sculptural assemblages as if jotting off postcards from a brisk vacation along the frontier of her unruly subconscious. In Tree Hugger, who is the dearhead creature? An old lover who bounded away after a moment of being trapped in the headlights? And why does he wear striped pants like a dandy from the 1930s? What does it mean that the tree wears heels and fishnet stockings? And why are no branches/arms embracing the stag? Should the tree figure be viewed primarily as a woman or part of a deciduous forest? The work, exquisitely crafted and engineered—Tree Hugger, minutely detailed, stands over seven-feet tall— offers few clues. We are merely invited into the world Ruttenberg has created.

And what a world. It's fully realized, with all manner of flora and fauna, some actual and much that is fantastic. After the initial shock of discovery, it is the details that catch the eye and hold the key to unlocking the symbols in Ruttenberg's work.

The bird perched in the tree's upper branches. The golden leaves that adorn the pedastal the couple stands on. The incredibly blank, deer-like look on the stag's face as he stares out at the viewer. The female deer painted on the stag's back, who seems to be in his past but not so far in his past. And the blood red heart that peaks out through a hole in the stag's back. All part of the enduring enigma.

Ruttenberg has also just launched a line of limited-edition jewelry, based on her sculptural designs, which can be viewed at her website.

Currently, Ruttenberg's work is on display at the the 2010 International Cermaics Biennial in Vallauris, France, through November 15. She also has many upcoming shows. Ruttenberg will be a part of the “On Earth” exhibition held at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, from October 15 through December 5. The Sherrie Gallerie will bring her Enchanted Forest installation of Kathy’s to SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) Chicago, November 5-7. In January of 2011, Ruttenberg will be an artist in residence at the Singinawa Foundation in Kanha, India. Portfolio: www.kathyruttenberg.com.

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EDITORIAL Come celebrate the publication of

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The main barn at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS) in Saugerties is the gathering place for an ever-growing number of free-range animals. Horses hover over chickens, goats meander from stall to stall, and Rambo the ram searches out the nearest human willing to massage him. In the midst of it all, Kathy Stevens, CAS director, pets Atlas, a crippled goat who was recently fitted for a wheelchair. As Stevens continues through the barn, she stops frequently to say “Hello, beautiful!” to a horse or tell a goat “I love you.”

She pauses just as often to check in with the staff and volunteers about the logistical and administrative arrangements. The 80 acres surrounding the barn are the haven that roughly 260 rescued animals currently call home.

Stevens left her teaching career and, along with Jesse Moore, founded Catskill Animal Sanctuary in 2001. It has been at its current location since 2003. Dino, the sanctuary’s first resident, survived a Brooklyn fire that killed 23 other horses. In the nine years since CAS opened, nearly 2,000 animals in need of a place to heal from abuse, neglect, or abandonment have come to CAS. Most have been rehabilitated and adopted. Each animal’s individualized care at CAS includes generous room to roam, a special diet, medical care, and the loving attention of staff, volunteers, and visitors. In addition to caring for the animals, CAS provides educational programs for the community, including vegan cooking classes and tours on Saturdays and Sundays from April through October.

Stevens has penned two books: Where the Blind Horse Sings (Skyhorse Publishing, 2007) and her most recent work, Animal Camp: Lessons in Love and Hope from Rescued Farm Animals (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010).

Both works tell the ongoing story of the sanctuary and the animals who live there. I spoke with Stevens on the grounds of CAS in August. For more information: www.casanctuary.org.

—Kaitlin Pitsker

What’s your typical day at work like?

If there’s one truth about animal rescue, it’s that no two days are ever the same. The typical day has something atypical in it everyday. This is essentially a farm, it’s just composed of rescued animals, and the day begins very early and ends quite late. My typical day is to come down and do the morning check-ins to make sure there are no issues from the previous day, to make sure nothing’s happened in terms of health care or a weird animal drop-off in the middle of the night. I suppose I’m the “big-picture” girl—the one with the vision and voice, whose primary roles are to nurture and support my lovely staff in their roles—farm manager, animal care, buildings and grounds, outreach, education—and to keep everyone’s eye on the prize: more compassion, less suffering. Other than that though there’s a lot of unpredictable stuff. The best-laid plans change regularly—somebody dumps 16 fighting, bleeding roosters at the top of the driveway, or somebody drives down with two boa constrictors in plastic bags.

How did your love of animals evolve into the founding of CAS? I grew up on a horse farm, so I was lucky to be around animals as a child. I’ve always had a deep connection with animals and love for animals. I was a teacher, and after I completed my 10th year I was offered a job as a principal of a new high school. It was a very pivotal moment, at which I could have stayed in education, which is what I always envisioned. When I found myself turning down a role that I thought I wanted, it was a time to say, “What do you want to do with the rest of your life?” What came to me, after a few months of taking lots of long walks with my dogs, is that I wanted to combine my deep love for animals and a recognition that they’re so much more than most people have a chance to realize, with my belief in education. So I started looking at ways of combining those two passions in one entity, and CAS was born.

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What do you view as CAS’s responsibility to the community?

We’re a large animal rescue—large in terms of our capacity to take animals and care well for them. It’s our job to do everything in our power to say yes as often as we can. We have a nine-page waiting list, so to always be expanding our capacity without ever losing that individualized care, that’s our signature—knowing every name, knowing their histories, knowing what makes them unique from the others.

The second piece is ultimately more important, and that is to be the voice that says to people that kindness is a universal value, and it’s generally a value that we hold so close and we don’t make exceptions to it. As human beings it’s important to most of us to consider ourselves kind people, and to act in ways that are kind. Where we stop is with our diet. We participate in the consumption of food in a way that causes suffering you wouldn’t wish upon your worst enemy. Why on Earth would we want to subject 100 living things that feel pain and suffering the same way we do to a life of torture from birth to death? As an educator, I can’t say it like that to people. That’s too confrontational, too threatening. I think you have to be a voice of compassion and a voice of encouragement.

How do you go about engaging people in a dialogue about rethinking their diets without being confrontational?

The way we try to do it is by providing a place for people to come where they can be thrown off guard, because they don’t expect a sheep to walk up to them and demand a massage and they don’t expect a turkey to want to sit in their lap. You have to meet each person head on. I call it meeting each person at his or her own state of readiness. If a defensive person comes down, that first meeting is probably not the time to engage in dialogue. What I want to do is make sure that that

person has a deeply personal experience with a pig or with one of the food animals. I get them here on this ground with me and watch this pig be so delighted to see them. I never want people to feel judged or threatened.

I want people’s hearts to open. If every single person who drives up that driveway has at least been touched enough to let their guard down and acknowledge their participation in enormous suffering, then that feels like a huge accomplishment.

How do you handle witnessing cruelty in everyday life when you can’t always intervene?

Rage doesn’t work for me. There are plenty of people who do what I do who do walk around in a constant state of rage. I feel my feelings very deeply, and if I feel anger or sadness I feel it very intensely; it moves through me very quickly and then I get right back to my natural state which is a state of joy. That’s the only way I can function.

I think it’s the only healthy state. It’s the only way you can last in this work. I don’t want to take anger and rage into that barn. Joy is the only emotion that serves me and serves these animals.

In the first part of Animal Camp you take three animals of different species away from CAS for the summer to live together. What was gained from that experience?

What we learned was fascinating! Generally, on a farm one groups animals by species, and in the case of Tucker [cow], Hope [horse], and Franklin [pig], they were such outcasts in their herds. We learned that sometimes needs transcend species. All three of them gained a lot of confidence and Franklin shed his knee-jerk timidity and belief that any other animal was after him. The summer away at camp gave them all confidence and a new standing to come back and ultimately be a part of a group of animals of their own species.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note It’s Complicated

We’ve written quite a bit in these pages about the so-called War on Terror, that ceaseless battle against an abstract noun. We interviewed Ambassador Joe Wilson back in December 2003, when he was trying to expose the Bush/Cheney intelligence fraud.We’ve reported extensively on the human toll within the civilian population in both Iraq and Afghanistan; and also on the soldiers who return to the US with posttraumatic stress disorder.The issues surrounding civilian trials for suspected terrorists have been discussed in these pages, as has the efficacy of torture. We’ve talked with an expert in the field of military robotics about the future of unmanned warfare and with the head of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center about global jihad.

True to our principles, we’ve advocated for social justice in each instance while not glossing over the messy realities of international politics. For instance: while waging war may be a morally reprehensible act, and the instigation of dual conflicts by the previous president might be roundly condemned, the idea that the US could just pull up stakes and leave Iraq and Afghanistan was always problematic. Having dismantled the infrastructure of these societies by force of arms, the US is dutybound to rebuild them—and then get the hell out and turn its back on imperialism masquerading as proactive securitization.

The messy realities and big ideas of international politics don’t leave a lot of room for discussions of people—individual people, particular people, a particular person with a complex personal narrative unconstrained by reductive political portraiture. When we debate what Iraqis really want, we talk about an abstraction of 30 million people. What summary of the wills and desires of this immense and diverse group can we come to that makes any sense? (We are hard-pressed to agree on what to order for lunch in my office, let alone get half a dozen of us to form a coalition government.)

To extend the point, what about the approximately 1.5 billion Muslims on the planet? Have we exoticized and alienated the prayer rug, the hijab, and the minaret enough to view these symbols as evidence of invasion in every instance? Are all Muslims terrorists? Are they out to get us?

Amitava Kumar, author of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, made this point in a piece he posted recently to the Vanity Fair website about the proposed development of a Muslim community center a few blocks from the former World Trade Center site. “What has really been happening in this debate is the annihilation of the individual.There is no longer a conversation about a particular person; we can talk only about a faith. But is that one that is practiced by real people?

No, because instead of people, we are always talking only of politics and symbols.”

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I interviewed Kumar this month (“What We Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism,” page 24) about the War on Terror, and the ways in which it reduces individuals—especially Muslim individuals—into stereotypes, regardless of citizenship status or longstanding in the community. For instance, one of the young men (born in the US) who was put on trial for giving material aid to terrorism in the Lackawana Six case was described in the media as Yemeni-American—his parents came fromYemen. My grandfather, Patrick O’Mahony, was an immigrant too, but you won’t see me referred to as Irish-American. (Perhaps if I’m arrested for public intoxication.)

In talking with Kumar, an Indian-born Vassar professor, I was reminded of how little real diversity there is in the Hudson Valley. While there are immigrant pockets in some of the cities along the river—Hudson has the fourth-largest Bangladeshi community in the US—we are fairly lily white. This is reflected in the pages of Chronogram; I hope neither for better nor worse. This magazine seeks to be a mirror of the community of readers it represents. Most of us just happen to be white, progressive-minded, yoga-practicing, healthy-eating, outdoorsy, eco-sensitive types. (Look who’s stereotyping now.)

But when we’re confronted with diversity, when we’re asked to put our money where our mouths are with regard to multiculturalism, what then?

When we rolled out our new website in 2007, we threw a big launch party in an industrial space in Kingston and had the hip-hop group ReadNex Poetry Squad perform. ReadNex is loud, in-your-face hip-hop with a positive message.

(Peter Aaron profiles the band this month: “Words to Live By,” page 44.) And ReadNex, by the standards of this magazine, is pretty “diverse”: Five youths of varying shades of brown. At the party, a reader I knew came up to me while ReadNex were performing and said, in a disappointed-verging-on-angry tone, “This is not Chronogram’s kind of music.” We engaged in a brief discussion of the merits and flaws of loud hip-hop, and then she left. I didn’t blame her for leaving then and I don’t now. It was a great party, but I wouldn’t stay at a party where I didn’t enjoy the (loud) music.

If that reader is still out there, I hope she’ll give ReadNex another chance.

Chronogram doesn’t have a type of music. An analogy here: ReadNex is to hip-hop as Natalie Merchant is to pop music. The generalization works for about a second and then disintegrates. ReadNex’s music is more complicated then the hip-hop label, or the preconceived notion we bring to hearing a group of brown-skinned youths rhyming into microphones. Or praying to Mecca, for that matter.

hitting line-up of talent at the first annual Hudson Valley Green Festival on September 4 at Mills-Norrie State Park in Staatsburg. www.hudsonvalleygreenfestival.com Concert to Re-Light the Beacon Pete Seeger and special guests perform to raise money to restore Beacon's historic live performance venue, the Beacon Theatre, on Saturday, September 18 at 2pm. www.thebeacontheatre.org River of Words Book Launch Party Celebrate the publication of River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers by Chronogram contributors Nina Shengold and Jennifer May at the Rhinecliff Hotel on Sunday, September 19 from 4-6pm to benefit Clearwater. www.riverofwordsbook.com Read for Food Avant garde poets Janet Hamill and Christopher Wheeling read at Boughton Place in Highland on September 24 at 7pm

at a benefit for local food pantries. www.readforfood.org An Evening in Tuscany Celebrate the 40th anniverary of Always There Home Care with a dinner and performances by Robbie Dupree, mezzo-soprano Maria Todaro, and others at the Lazy Swan Golf Course in Saugerties on September 24 from 6-10pm. www.alwaystherehomecare.org.

Rosendale Zombie Fest This festival of the undead includes bands and DJs, zombie parade, and a monster movie following the music on September 25. Parade starts at the Willow Kiln Park at 12:30pm. Rosendale Zombie Fest is on Facebook.

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Esteemed Reader When we’ve been here ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun.

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’ve first begun.

—John Newton, “Amazing Grace” Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I was recently on a mission in northern New Mexico and in between necessary tasks I traveled to the wilderness around Abiquiu. This was the place, near Ghost Ranch, that Georgia O’Keefe chose to live and paint. At seven thousand feet, the daytime sun is relentless, but at night the air is cool and the stars are close.

The sense of being in the sky is remarkable in contrast to the more habituated experience of standing on the ground with the sky “up there.” It arouses the realization that we are, in fact, always in the sky—our planet and solar system swirling with all the celestial bodies through the galaxy and universe. With the stars so bright, and the Milky Way an almost opaque cloud of light, the earth feels not separate, but a part of some great organism.

Standing there in the high desert, I forgot, for a moment, both my insignificance and the desire to be significant. My personal concerns melted into the backdrop of that eternal skyscape. And I was reminded of an organization out in California called the Long Now Foundation.

Long Now is a think tank that studies how issues affecting humanity and the planet will play out over ten thousand years. Remarkable projects and talks come out of this organization, which is directed by Stuart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog and the first NASA photograph of Earth from space (which image he thought would raise the consciousness of everyone on the planet; alas...). Long Now aside, it is interesting to consider ourselves and our actions from the standpoint of a tenthousand-year impact.

This consideration is not without precedent. Back when the flow of life and events seemed to unfold at a slower pace, people considered larger time cycles.The Common Era is a blip in the almanac created by the ancient Mayans, whose calendar moved in 26-thousand-year cycles (one coming to an end in 2012 as our solar system eclipses the galactic core); or the Hindu ages of 400,000 to 1.7 million years.

It is a fascinating exercise to consider our place in such long spans, though the apparent end of this line of thought is that an individual human life is like the insignificant flash of a firefly in the long night of time. Such a sense of nullity and insignificance can lead to in two directions—selfishness and hedonism being the more common.

But what about making it a practical exercise, rather than an intellectual one? Can the activity of a moment be experienced in terms of its impact over ten thousand years? Or as the Hopi tradition teaches: “Before you take any decision, consider its effect on the next seven generations.”

History becomes moot over such a long period. In other words, specific names and achievements are lost, the record of individual lives erased. Only the results, and the results of the results, and the generations of events spawned by particular acts will remain. In this context the future anonymous unfolding of events which proceed one from another are the only legacy we can expect.

George Gurdjieff, a spiritual teacher of the last century, aphorized the attitude thusly: “Use the present to repair the past and prepare the future.” In this formulation all the emphasis is on the fulcrum of present moment, and indeed there is no other time in which to effect reparation or preparation. In this context actions carry a responsibility to the future, and hopefully one that is not too heavy to bear.

Knowing that what I do, and the choices I make matter to unknown parties in the future, adds gravitas to the moment. And knowing that any trace of my individuality will be scrubbed from the results brings a liberation from the bonds of ego and selfpicture that tarnish the noblest intentions.

Against the backdrop of the lives of stars we are called upon to serve with every deed. Remembering this, I place my coffee cup on the table with renewed care, feeling the kiss of ceramic on wood—for such an insignificant deed, performed consciously, produces reverberations. Suffice it to say that all acts taken unconsciously, without fullness of attention, are washed away like footprints on a seashore; while any act done with the whole of a human’s being leaves an indelible mark that persists.

In this moment, each of us is a funnel into which many threads of relationship are ceaselessly pouring. We can, in this moment, bind them into a rope or brocade with our attention; always bringing order to chaos, raising the level of what has been, and producing a trail of refinement as we traverse our lives to their end.

No conscious effort is lost.

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Thirty-two United States soldiers killed themselves in June—the highest number in a single month since Vietnam. No trends can be seen among a unit, camp, post, or station, says Col. Chris Philbrick, head of the Army’s suicide prevention task force, and there’s no answer as to why there has been an increase in the number of soldiers committing suicide. In 2009, a record-breaking year for US military suicides, 245 soldiers killed themselves. The 32 soldiers who committed suicide in June brings the total number of US Army suicides for the first six months of 2010 to 145 soldiers. As a follow-up to their response to the 2009 suicides, the Army released a suicide prevention video, “Shoulder to Shoulder: I Will Never Quit,” which will be incorporated into suicide prevention training for new troops and the yearly training for all soldiers.

Source: CNN According to the latest annual US National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration’s report, global warming is undeniable and the shifting climate is to blame for much of the extreme weather witnessed in 2009. The past decade has been the hottest on record (reliable record keeping began in the 1880s), with surface air temperatures from more than 7,000 weather stations worldwide reporting increased temperatures. The most recent report marks the first time that scientists have compiled data on numerous climate indicators, including ocean temperature and sea-ice cover, to examine overall climate trends.

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As many as one in 78 American homeowners is facing foreclosure on their property this year, according to Reality Trac, Inc., a foreclosure listing firm. Of the 1.7 million homeowners who received foreclosure-related warnings during the first half of this year, up 8 percent from the number of homeowners who received them in the first half of 2009, more than a million are likely to have their properties foreclosed upon by the end of 2010. Unemployment, slow job growth, and a weak housing market have spread the risk of foreclosures beyond the previously affected top-tier metropolitan areas.

Source: Yahoo! News World War II, the most expensive war in US history, cost $4.1 trillion in 2010 dollars. The $1.15 trillion tab thus far for post-9/11 war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan comes in second—and the House of Representatives recently approved spending another $59 billion to fund President Obama’s troop-increase plans in Afghanistan. The latest spending provisions include $33.5 billion to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and other military costs, and $6.2 billion for State Department aid programs in the region. A 2007 estimate by the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could more than double by 2017.

Sources: CNN; BBC News Adults over age 50 are as much at risk as the young when it comes to consequences from unprotected sex, warns the Health Protection Agency at the International Aids conference in Vienna. According to the HPA, a UK organization that works to protect the public from disease and environmental hazards, 299 people over the age of 50 were diagnosed as HIV-positive in the UK during 2000. In 2007 diagnosed cases within the same population more than doubled, to 710. Though patients who were diagnosed may have contracted the virus earlier in their lives, at least half had been infected recently—suggesting that they had been engaging in unprotected sex. Those over the age of 50 account for only 8 percent of newly diagnosed HIV cases.

Source: Guardian (UK) Cell phones, television, video games, and the Internet are significantly cutting into shut-eye time for many teens. According to the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, teenagers are averaging 2.5 to 3.5 fewer hours of sleep than the nine hours recommended for the age group—and much of this discrepancy comes from technological distractions. Adequate sleep is necessary for long-term memory, learning, attention, and health.

Source: Chicago Tribune

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Girls are showing signs of puberty at a younger age, reports a study published by the journal Pediatrics. Though the age of first menstruation remains between 12 and 13, the study show that girls as young as seven or eight have started developing breasts.

Early puberty may be caused by the additional body fat and sex hormones in overweight girls, but environmental chemicals that mimic estrogen are also believed to play a part. The longer lifetime exposure to estrogen and progesterone that comes with early puberty can slightly increase the risk of breast cancer. The study also shows that, weight considered, Black girls often develop significantly earlier than white and Asian girls.

Source: New York Times Licensed midwives will soon be able to practice independently in New York State.

Professional midwives have been licensed in New York State for decades to provide prenatal care, deliveries, and gynecological care but have been required to do so in conjunction with an obstetrician or hospital. When St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan closed its doors last April, midwives associated with the hospital and its physicians were left unable to practice, due to the termination of their written practice agreements.

Hundreds of patients were left without care. The Midwife Reform Bill rescinds the requirement for a written practice agreement. The vote passed through the Assembly with a vote of 95-17, and passed the Senate with a vote of 61-0. Signed into law by Governor Paterson on July 31, New York is the 16th state to allow midwives to practice without signed agreements.

Source: New York State Assembly; Local Care Midwifery Ebrahim Hamidi, an 18-year-old heterosexual Iranian, is facing execution on false charges of homosexuality. Accused of sexual assault following an arrest two years ago, Hamidi’s accuser has since admitted he lied. In Iran, those convicted of homosexual acts can be lashed, hanged, or stoned to death. Seventy-six nations prosecute people based upon sexual orientation and in seven of those nations, same-sex acts are punishable by death. Comparatively, 53 countries have antidiscrimination laws on sexuality and 26 countries recognize same-sex marriage.

Sources: Guardian (UK); The Independent (UK) Between 100 and 200 underground fires are burning across the US. Caused by spontaneous coal combustion, lightning, or a single spark, many of these coal fires have been burning for years or even decades. Concealed beneath the ground, these conflagrations are expensive to fight and nearly possible to extinguish, which leaves firefighters few options but to monitor the blaze. An underground fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, was allowed to burn for 48 years, because extinguishing it would have cost $600 million—in 1983. Though largely unseen and ignored, these fires, according to geologist Anumpa Prakash, harm both our health and the environment. According to geologist Glenn Stracher, surface vents emit at least 40 toxic compounds; including carbon dioxide, methane, and mercury and are estimated to spew 40 tons of mercury and 3 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions each year.

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what we talk about when we talk about terrorism An Interview with Amitava Kumar

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riting recently on the Vanity Fair website about the controversy surrounding what has become known as the Ground Zero Mosque, Amitava Kumar wondered if both sides in the affair had missed the point—both those who frame the development as an affront to hallowed ground and those who invoke the Constitutional right to freedom of religion to defend it. (For the record: The site of the proposed Park 51 Community Center—not a mosque—is three blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center, on a side street.) Kumar quotes Huxley—“The propagandist’s purpose, is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human”—and himself concludes: “The real subject of the furor we have been witnessing is not a building but rather the question of whether to grant [Muslims] a measure of ordinary humanity.”

In his latest book, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book (Duke University Press, 2010), Kumar, a professor of English at Vassar, examines how this quality of “ordinary humanity” has been denied to Muslims and those ensnared, correctly or unjustly, in the War on Terror. At the heart of the book are two men, Hemant Lakhani and Matin Siraj, who were caught up in questionable sting operations and are now serving long prison sentences for terrorism-related crimes. In retelling their stories, Kumar paints a more complicated portrait of these men than the common stereotype of the Muslim radical allows for. Kumar suggests that if we question the application of the stereotype when confronted with prepackaged terrorism narratives, and allow for the ordinary humanity of those reduced to cultural ciphers, we, too, are helping to end the War on Terror. And doing so without torture, confinement, or intimidation—just imagination.

Where does the title of your book—A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb—come from?

An Egyptian poet named Edmond Jabés, fleeing Egypt, wrote, in the earlier part of the 20th century, a book called A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book.

That paradigm has now shifted. The foreigner is no longer fleeing with a tiny piece of sacred knowledge pressed to his heart. In the popular imagination, particularly in the West, the foreigner is now coming with some clandestine knowledge, knowledge which bears the seeds of destruction. So I wanted to comment on that, and, in some ways, question it.

You use a quote from Jabés as a jumping off point for your book. Jabés writes: “What is a foreigner? He is man who makes you think you are

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at home.” From the beginning of your book, you invoke this question: How do we relate the Other?

That is central to it: What is the impression we carry in our minds of the Other?

And whether the Other always conforms to our deepest prejudices or not.

A good portion of the book is taken up with the stories of two men, now serving long prison sentences for terrorism-related crimes, Hemant Lakhani and Matin Siraj. Talk a bit about Lakhani’s story.

Lakhani was a failed used women’s clothing salesman. He was contacted by a man— Muhammad Habib Rehman—who was an FBI informant, originally from Pakistan.

Rehman heard from an Indian gangster in Dubai of this fellow [Lakhani ] who was interested in doing arms trading. And that’s when Rehman contacted Lakhani and asked him what he wanted to sell. But Lakhani wasn’t really an arms trader. He had ambitions to be one, but he had ambitions about various things, including owning an airline. Lakhani offered his services, and everything Rehman asked for, Lakhani said, “I can get it, no problem.” At his trial, Lakhani’s lawyer said, “The only thing Rehman didn’t ask for was a submarine.” But everything else, Lakhani said yes.

Hundreds of missiles? Yes! He promised everything.

Except, years passed and there was no missile. Until the FBI had the KGB sell one to Lakhani [on credit]. But Lakhani didn’t know how to get it here. So the FBI magically arranged for it to be brought here. That’s how Lakhani became an arms smuggler.

Lakhani is arrested at the meeting to sell Rehman—posing as a terrorist in this government sting operation—the missile, in a Newark hotel room.

Exactly right. The hotel room, incidentally, had been booked by Rehman. Lakhani arrived [from London] the previous night. Upon meeting Rehman, Lakhani expressed his amazement at seeing the missile. You can see it on YouTube actually.

Minutes later, he is arrested, and now he will die in prison.

What is Matin Siraj’s story?

Siraj was a young Pakistani-American who was befriended by an NYPD informant—Osama Eldawoody—an unemployed Egyptian immigrant who claimed to be an out-of-work nuclear scientist suffering from cancer. Eldawoody was befriended/recruited by the NYPD, but not forcibly. The NYPD had stopped by his apartment to investigate some boxes that had been reported by neighbors, and he opened them to show that they were some cheap clothes that he had

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ordered online with the intention of reselling them. He didn’t seem offended that they would suspect a Muslim man, and he said, “I want to help you.” Here is a man looking at small deals selling clothes, so he gets a job in this way with the NYPD. They promise him a good income if he’ll be an informant.

So Eldawoody becomes a mentor to Siraj?

Yes. Eldawoody became a mentor/father figure to those who didn’t have fathers, and would preach to them about Islam and its teachings. Eldawoody preached to them that it was okay to kill the killers, and Americans were seen as killers.

Eldawoody showed Siraj a picture of a 13-year-old Iraqi girl who has been raped by a dog held by an American soldier, and this enraged him. These pictures you can find on the Net. They are used to stoke the passions of those who don’t seem purposeful in wanting to commit random destruction in this country. Frankly, I’m not sure of the veracity of the picture.

But Eldawoody, in this way, gives Siraj a reason, and then plants in his mind the idea of bombing a bridge. But Siraj resisted. He said, “Jihad? But planning is also jihad.” This is all laid out very clearly in the court transcript. Siraj was not interested in spilling any blood.

The informant pushes a bit more, and then Siraj says, “I’ll have to ask my mother.”

Eldawoody nevertheless suggests they go check out the subway station. [Eldawoody and Siraj had also spoken of bombing the Herald Square subway station.] Eldawoody asks, “Can you do a drawing?” After Siraj draws a map of the subway station, showing where the garbage cans and benches are, they go back to the car and Siraj is arrested. And you know, 30-odd years in prison.

So the prosecution for both cases goes on fairly similar tracks?

Indeed, and so does their defense.The prosecution charges that you cannot wait for an act to be committed before you arrest the criminal.You have to act to preempt any such act and that these people, because of the things they said, were pretty clearly anti-American.

Lakhani and Siraj both admitted to, or were caught on tape, saying things like, “We’re going to fuck them.”

Yes, similar sentiments are espoused by each of them. I understand that you can-

not wait till the bomb has been exploded to arrest the person. On the other hand, you also have the defense argument. This person might be willing to commit that crime, but was he able to commit that crime? Being such stunning failures, would Lakhani or Siraj have been able to actually organize and execute an attack?

Would Lakhani, who had failed at everything he had tried in his life, and was extravagantly unsuccessful at each of his endeavors—would he have been able to acquire a missile and sell it to a terrorist? Would in fact a real terrorist have gone to a person like Lakhani to purchase something like this? I think the answer is quite persuasively no.

In the case of Siraj, a similar argument was used by the defense, and even his lawyer states, “This is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.”Would he have been able to, without this consistent prodding, this consistent pointing out, would he have been able to go and bomb a crowded train station? It’s very unlikely.

An NYPD detective you spoke to about Siraj’s alleged entrapment said, “If they had stopped the 9/11 hijackers, their lawyers would no doubt have made the same case.”

Yes, a wonderful point. I would like to accept it, and not something like a desperate defense lawyer who does not want to admit the very reasonable proposition that had one of the hijackers not died, someone might have just said that there was entrapment.

That is the quandary. That we must act and yet we must be aware that none of this might be well-founded. That reasonable assumption that there would be people who would have defended the hijackers, shouldn’t allow us to dismiss all legitimate questions of civil liberties. Yet again, I want to ask, as a writer: Are there complicating factors that we simply need to pay attention to, like, what does it mean to be human? Should we actually admit in the Other in any vestige of humanity? Are we all agreed, as a nation, that all Islamic people are bloody assassins? That they are here to wipe our civilization off the map?

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under surveillance.You’ve made the point that when this happens, the US loses its strongest ally.

After the Lackawanna Six were arrested, the uncle of one of them said, “We are living in a time of fire.” That feeling of being under siege is directly in opposition to that other reality—which is that someone in that particular community had actually been the individual who reported to government officials that the young men had gone over to an al Qaeda camp. In other words, the brutal and horrible suspicion of that community never for a moment admits that it was that community itself, through an act of self-surveillance, that offered up these men.

The use of these informants whose own nature and own motives, whose own histories are at least very suspect, to produce knowledge about communities that is dubious and in questionable circumstances, also casts this huge pall over the community. No one trusts anyone else anymore. It introduces suspicion and bad faith. And that means that you rely only on the worst people of a community to come forward and report to you; not its best angels. Reducing people either to criminals or to collaborators is no way which to heal the fabric of society that has been ripped.

not by seeing the other as the brutal criminal and discovering inside of us the brutal torturer that is going to promise us salvation. That is only ushering us into a bigger and more savage war. And that cannot offer us any protection from anything, ever.

You’re referring to 9/11.

Yes. And the healing that could have happened. It could have been expressed to the Muslim people: This is an injury to you and to us, you are a part of us. Instead, at every point, such as this mosque in New York City, to think that it is yet again an invasion or an attack. This is to constantly occupy the position, in bad faith, of a victim, when you’re actually, in some ways, the oppressor.

Give me an example. Can you talk about Hasan Elahi and his work, which deals with issues of self-surveillance?

Here is an artist, a professor of art, who is detained at the Detroit airport after he returns from an art camp in Senegal. Hasan’s name is on a list of suspects because he was reported to be an Arab by a couple whom he had rented space from. He is not Arab, he is Bangladeshi. He’s American, but his parents are from Bangladesh.

The couple report that this “Arab” man has removed a box from his storage space, and therefore they are suspicious. And so Hasan is able to prove—over a series of interviews and polygraph tests that take months—that he was at his dentist, that he was talking to his students, that he was shopping. At those moments when he was suspected of terrorism, all that saves him is his Blackberry. He has taken the idea of surveillance as the FBI might practice it and imposed it upon himself. “I will surveil myself. I will carry out my own surveillance activities.” Every time he uses his credit card, that information goes up on his website www.trackingtransience.com.

His cell phone has a program hacked into it that records his movements. So right now if we were to open our laptops and look at his website, we would know where he is. Every time he uses a bathroom in a public place or goes up on a plane and orders airplane food, he always takes a picture of that and immediately uploads it to his site. In other words, he’s offering all the information he can about himself to the government. To me, this is a cunning, subversive exercise of the imagination that holds up a mirror to what the state is doing, and in a way overwhelms it. In fact, Hasan joked to me that if each one of us started surveilling ourselves, the US would be overwhelmed and need to outsource their own activity to other countries like India.

In your book, you present a sympathetic picture of these young men, the Lackawanna Six, who go to Pakistan to train with al Qaeda. They go, they train, and then most of them don’t like this whole idea of training with al Qaeda and return to Western New York. You’re also sympathetic toward John Walker Lindh’s father, a Catholic who allows his son to go learn about Islam in Yemen, after the kid watches Malcolm X and becomes intrigued by Islam.You state that these are acts of courage in a way, that these people are trying to learn about other cultures and it puts our ideas about multiculturalism to the test.

Yes. I want to insist on the ethics, if not the aesthetics, of the writer. I want to know for example, that the mattresses in the camps were uncomfortable. Al Qaeda camps sucked big time. For these basically Western kids, that is not what they had gone there for. And that interests me vastly. Not simply the issue of crime, but the issue of the little contradictions that complicate life and complicate crime and complicate the identities of these young men. They tried something and they found it utterly lacking, that it was not what they had wanted. And they came back to their own country, which is the US. They came back to Buffalo in all of its glory and rust.

You write in your book about the attacks in Mumbai of November 2008, when 10 men, members of the Pakistani militant group Lashkare-Taiba, killed 173 people across the city. You telescope in on one of the young men as he is setting fire to an opulent room in the Taj Hotel while talking to his handler in Pakistan.

Yes, you can actually watch it on YouTube I think. But I also have the police transcript of the calls that were intercepted as the Mumbai attacks were going on, between the handlers in Pakistan and the terrorists as they went about their work in the hotel setting fires and killing people. You hear the handler’s voice urging the terrorists to go ahead and set fire to things, but for a moment the terrorist, whom I imagine to be from a small town or small village in Pakistan, is dazed. He is dazed by the opulence of his surroundings and he tries to tell the handler about the curtains, the huge windows; he’s looking at the tiles, the huge potted plants.

Indian hotels can be dazzling. He recognizes a future that is not his. This place isn’t hell, it is actually paradise and he wants to acknowledge that before he sets fire to it. And the handler says, “Forget that, go on, set fire to it.” When the young man talks about the carpets, the handler says, “Bunch it together, set fire to it.” When the young man says that the computers are so big—which are actually plasma TVs on the walls—there’s a part of me that can see this. I came from a small town and then I came to this country, and I recognize the great charm, allure, and fascination of a place that offers those things that are denied to you.

These are the little moments to see the human in others, and the human in you, and that is what will rescue us. What will rescue us is precisely our own humanity and what is the denied humanity of the other. So that will be the connection. It is

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Your book is a mixture of reportage and cultural criticism.You discuss different artists whose work relates to the War on Terror in some way.

Why didn’t you just write a book of straight reportage? Why did you feel the need to include the artists?

I’m very much interested in the artists because I’m interested in how someone responds imaginatively to a given situation. Every time I have been stopped by a policeman or a customs agent or a border patrolman, I feel that that person is lacking imagination. He or she is reducing me to something that I am not and that is the failure of the state: When it cuts you down to the size of an imagined terrorist.

And therefore I am interested in those readings of reality when someone, instead of reproducing the stereotypical response, actually goes elsewhere with something.

And each of these artists whom I’ve included make clear how interpretation is always involved in constructing a picture of reality. That is a more complicated thing.

After 9/11, other countries began adopting the language of the War on Terror to their own ends.

Everyone wants a piece of the American Dream. But America also exports the American Dream, and the most recent American Dream is the War on Terror. It is the hidden, dark, repressed part of the American Dream. President Bush’s rhetoric on the War on Terror has been adopted by people in India, for instance, which has conducted its own draconian campaign against minorities, particularly Muslims from Kashmir. The rhetoric has been adopted by dictators, people like Robert Mugabe, who labeled all the jailed journalists who opposed his brutal regime unlawful combatants. So rulers all over the world have taken the stick to dissidents by saying: You’re either with us or against us. This is how people elsewhere have wanted to imitate America.

You say to that incident in the book, “the fundamental inequality of power is a wall that cannot be breached without violence.” Are you referring to the occupied rising up against the occupier?

Maybe I’ve not been very clear there. I’m trying to say terrible violence is inherent in that situation. So violence will be practiced. The wall will be there and if it is breached, that will also involve violence. And our insurgencies involve IEDs. So for people to think that the wall will be breached by the most benign, benevolent, anodyne applications of policies, that’s not going to happen.There has to be a recognition of the brutality of war right now and of the cost it is taking on the people who are occupied, but also on the occupier, so that we recognize the reality, which we have been screened from. And I’m saying partly, that this screening has been done by the

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Hemant Lakhani is driven by FBI agents into the Federal Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey on August 13, 2003. lakhani was convicted of providing material support to terrorists and illegal weapons dealing after being ensnared in a government sting operation, and is serving a 30-year prison sentence.

War on Terror. There are these spectacular announcements of arrests so that we can feel free, but we don’t understand that the terrible violence in places like Iraq means that we will never be free from the consequences of such violence.

It is because of the utter inequity of the situation.You occupy two positions. As an occupier and the occupied. You are placed in two positions that are so at odds with each other, but also so indifferent in terms of access to power, that terrible acts will inevitably be committed by one party.

I want to bring up the comparison that you make between the Hollingsworth/Pickard case and the Siraj and Lakhani trials.

Pickard was an orthodontist who had an offshore account he was trying to sell in 1990—perfectly legal—when he was contacted by US agents who convinced him and his friend Hollingworth to launder $200,000 through the account. At their trial, defense lawyers maintained—as Lakhani’s and Siraj’s lawyers would later at their trials—that Pickard and Hollingsworth had been entrapped. And they were acquitted, unlike Lakhani and Siraj.

Hollingsworth is the classic entrapment case. I just wanted to point out that the needle of suspicion pointed to them because on that very day the customs agent had taken a seminar on money laundering and on his lunch break, he saw Pickard’s ad in USA Today. And this little detail interests me. It’s almost like this customs agent has been entrapped in a way because he’s entrapped by the suggestion so powerfully made by the state. He believes that someone will place an ad to sell a license because they are interested in money laundering. Why would they sell the license if it is profitable? Pickard and Hollingsworth were business partners who had failed at every bloody enterprise. It interested me that here were two men who had the character of failed men, like Lakhani and like Rehman, the man who entrapped him.

I presented the Hollingsworth case because of the clear contrast between that time and this time. The logic of the defense against entrapment—that you had been incited to perform a crime—worked in the pre-9/11 period. But post-9/11, incitement is all you have if you want to arrest someone. That is how the logic of the state works. You can only provoke someone to say, “Yes, I’m going to bomb this country.”

What do you mean you can only provoke them?

The state believes that the only way to catch criminals is by getting evidence on tape—evidence of a foreigner or minority saying that they will go and blow up a plane or an airport or building.

Well, the other way to catch them would be to wait for them to blow up a building.

Although that clearly is not a good policy, right?

Where do we draw the line then?

Here’s the difference: The state is willing to draw a line deeply and implacably, when it comes to someone who fits the profile of Lakhani or Siraj. And I’m saying that line is not clear, and therefore we should not act on that line as if it has been drawn indelibly and forever. Because there is a lot of blurring, and we, as humane and vigilant citizens, need to guard the blurriness of that line.

Earlier, you mentioned complicating factors. For instance, the Lackawanna Six did, in fact, go to an al Qaeda training camp. And yet their testimony suggests that they returned to the US disillusioned with radical Islam. This is not a clear-cut situation of homegrown radicals who are plotting against the US. That being said, I’m not sure the US, or any other state, deals effectively with these types of complications.

States tend to view security issues in a black-and-white manner.

But that doesn’t mean that nonstate actors—people like you and me—should give up our responsibility. It also doesn’t mean that we should allow the widespread dissemination of erroneous facts in the public space. One of them being an example that I liked in the work of the artist Martha Rosler, referencing the case of the trapped child and the ticking time bomb. When people talk about the ticking time bomb, they say, “Is it not logical to torture a terrorist who in 24 hours is going to kill your own child?” Well, when was the last time that happened? Maybe on “24” it happened, but when did torture prevent the explosion of a ticking time bomb in real life? When, when, when? So that is what I’m trying to argue. That the state does not admit this question.The state is actually uncomplicated, but the state is only uncomplicated in the way that error is uncomplicated.

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

Recessions and Recoveries

There appear to be, roughly, three types of recessions.

There are Post-War recessions. These are easy to understand. There’s an abrupt decline in military spending, demobilization reintroduces a large number of people into the workforce, and businesses supplying the war machine need time to switch to consumer products. We’ve had them after World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. They tend to end more or less by themselves as society adjusts to a peacetime economy.

There are Fiscal Policy Recessions. These are triggered either by cuts in government spending, as in 1937 and 1973, or a hike in interest rates to tighten the money supply, as was done in 1949, 1958, 1960, 1969, and 1980.

Historically, these have been relatively brief and shallow. They end when the deliberate policies that brought them on are reversed.

Finally, there are Boom-and-Crash Recessions. The first of these was in 1929, and the collapse that followed was called the Great Depression. The others were 1990, 2000, and 2007, the one we’re in now, starting to be called the Great Recession. (Except for 2000, these also included massive bank failures.)

Economists, historians, and, as we move into the present, journalists and pundits, offer a mixed multitude of reasons for each of them. But now that we’ve had four of them (including the crash of 2000), we can see a pattern emerging.

Coming out of World War I we had a top marginal tax rate over 70%.

From 1921 to 1925 it was cut, in steps, down to 25%. There was a boom, particularly in the fiscal sector. The crash came in 1929.

When Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981, the top marginal rate was, once again, 70%. Reagan started cutting in 1982, down to 50%, then to 38.5% in 1987, and 28% in 1988. There was a boom in the fiscal sector.

In the mid-`80s the collapse began, and over 1,600 banks failed. There was a huge bailout. It was followed by the recession of 1990. George H. W. Bush raised the rate to 31%. It cost him reelection. Then, under Bill Clinton, the top rate went up to 39.6%.

That was followed by the longest sustained period of economic growth in modern times. However, in 1997, the Republican Congress pushed Clinton into cutting the capital gains tax from 28% down to 20%. It was called The Taxpayer Relief Act. It marks the moment when the dot-com boom turned into the dot-com bubble. It burst in 2000, and, along with the 9/11 attacks, there was another recession.

George W. Bush launched another round of tax cuts. The top rate went down to 35%. Capital gains rates were cut to 5%. This was followed by the

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Bush boom. There was huge growth in the fiscal sector, but “mysteriously,” it was a jobless recovery. The boom was hollow. It was a bubble. It led to the Crash of 2007, with massive bank failures, followed by our current recession.

How does this type of recession end?

In 1932 Herbert Hoover raised taxes. He did it to balance the budget. In 1933 the economy changed direction and began moving upward.

In 1991 George H.W. Bush, disturbed by the huge deficits that followed Reagan’s cuts, raised taxes. The economy subsequently turned around.

After the 2000 recession there was no tax hike. There were tax cuts. Corporate profits rose, there was a boom in real estate and in the fiscal sector generally. But there was no recovery. The recession continued for normal people. There were no new private sector jobs. Median income went down.

Manufacturing continued to decline.

The historical record suggests that this recession won’t end until there is a tax increase.

Economies are complex. There’s always a multitude of factors that affect booms and busts, growth and recessions. It is also a commonplace that conjunction does not necessarily imply causality.

Nonetheless, if the same sequence takes place a multitude of times in different circumstances and the sequence takes place four out of five times— tax cut, fiscal sector boom, bubble, crash, bank failures, and recession or depression—it makes a very good case for causality.

The one exception—the fifth significant tax cut—took place in 1964 and 1965. Tax-cut enthusiasts always refer to them as the Kennedy tax cuts, but they took place under Lyndon Johnson. They also always cite them as a great stimulus to the economy. In truth, they had virtually no effect. It didn’t improve anything. It didn’t destroy anything. The economy stayed flat.

The Dow Jones stayed flat. It’s possible that the difference between 90% and 70% was not enough to unleash a search for short-term profits over longterm growth and an ensuing frenzy of speculation.

Our public policy dialogue has little basis in fact or rationality.

Much of it, even in the academy, is bought and paid for. There is no interest group willing to pay foundations, endow universities, and buy radio ads for commentators who will advocate higher taxes. But there’s lots of money willing to invest in propaganda that calls for lower taxes and claim that they’re good for the economy.

So you won’t hear calls for higher taxes. You won’t find politicians who dare to propose higher taxes. Hopefully the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will work as tax hikes. That will mark the beginning of a real recovery.

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Donald Robitaille A still from Hoop, a film by Marites Carino. hoop will be screened at EMPAC in troy on October 2 at 2pm, part of the filament festival, a presentation of new work in performance, visual art, sound, and media october 1 to october 3 at empac. hoop is part of the DANCE MOViES Commission program. for more information on the filament festival: http://filament.empac.rpi.edu

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woodstock film festival preview By Jay Blotcher

That orgy of cool, the Woodstock Film Festival, returns later this month for five days of exhilarating but calculated excess: 150 films, concerts, panels, and parties throughout the region. Anchored by its commitment to indie films, music, and progressive politics, the annual event has become an autumn tradition: For a few days, the tie-dyed local flower child gets to wear high-priced shades and strut about like a Hollywood insider.

To commemorate the 11th year of this Mid-Hudson Valley tradition, Chronogram has expanded its special preview coverage of WFF. Festival co-founder Meira Blaustein is quizzed about how she makes this low-budget event fly by the seat of its pants and still makes it soar. The men behind three WFF films with local connections are interviewed. Also interviewed is director Bruce Beresford, recipient of the 2010 Maverick Award, who recently set up camp in our backyard for a film starring Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener.

While everyone else has been romping in the summer sun, I have again eschewed daylight for a marathon screening of new films slated for the festival schedule. Traditionally, the opening and closing night films are not made available to me in advance. They tend to be big-screen commercial works that will be in your cineplex within a few weeks.

Impertinent Questions for Meira Blaustein Each year, Chronogram compiles its Woodstock Film Festival coverage, and each year co-founder and Executive Director Meira Blaustein is asked the same questions about this cultural event, which has evolved into a Mid-Hudson Valley tradition and an admired part of the national film festival circuit. This year, Chronogram’s Jay Blotcher went off-script in his questions for Blaustein.

However, I duly absorbed 37 WFF feature films in 40 days. This was the number made available to me. (To be accurate, I was actually loaned 40 films. However, an Israeli narrative film was pulled from competition after I had screened it and two additional narrative films were screened past deadline.)

My reviews are intentionally idiosyncratic, perhaps even, at times, cranky or combative. They should not dissuade someone from viewing a film. Rather, I welcome a dissenting view. Spirited disagreement is healthy for the film community.

If you place any store by my taste, then you will want to head to www.chronogram. com for companion WFF coverage. There, I have named the WFF films that I feel deserve the title of Best Documentary and Best Narrative Film. (To see if the Festival judges are as sober and discerning as I, be sure to attend the WFF Awards ceremony on Saturday, October 2 at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston.)

The Woodstock Film Festival runs September 29-October 3, 2010. For schedules for films, panels, concerts, and special events, as well as for ticket orders: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com; (845) 679-4265.

Writing is very important. But you can forgive things that are done due to budgetary reasons, such as low lighting.

Was there a film that got away? Something you wanted to program…

Always. Always. It never fails. Programming is a very difficult process. Everybody thinks, “Oh, it’s so much fun, to sit and watch movies all the times.” It’s very difficult; there’s a lot of thought that goes into each and every film. Every year there are films that we want to show and end up not showing. Sometimes there are films that we end up turning away and they end up being nominated for an Academy Award.

And what were we thinking? Nothing is perfect. One of the things that is very painful is that we just can’t accommodate everything. Every year there are films that we would love to show. But for all kind of reasons, we end up not being able to show them. Maybe because the program is too full; maybe there are better films about the same subject. You can’t show two films about veterans coming back from Iraq.

The day that we send rejection letters is the most painful day.

What film are you proudest of showing in 11 years?

Oh God, a lot of them. Last year, The Messenger was the opening-night film. [Ben Foster plays an Iraqi War veteran who must inform families of casualties.] It was a very important film, just beautifully done.

This is the eleventh year of the Woodstock Film Festival. Looking back, please identify your “Sundance moment” at the festival, that is, discovering an obscure film that possessed a really hip vibe?

Last year, we had a film called Easier with Practice, which had screened in one place before Woodstock. It was a very, very under-the-radar movie and we accepted it.

It was a quirky film about a phone-sex relationship. It was a great film. It ended up winning an Independent Spirit Award the next February. But when it came to the festival, it was totally under everybody’s radar. I loved it, but not all of the programmers wanted to go along with it. So that was one of the Sundance moments. The filmmaker [Kyle Patrick Alvarez] is now making this big-budget movie—and he was a nobody!

How have your instincts grown in the past 11 years, as regards judging whether a film is a good fit for the Festival?

I feel like I definitely have much more of a handle on what makes a good program and what kind of combination you want to have—the kind of filmmakers and the kind of films. I also understand our audience so much more because I’ve gotten to know them better and better each year.

If a film is fascinating but flawed, would you greenlight it anyway because the subject matter was particularly strong?

If a particular film has a very strong subject that I think is powerful, that I think is compelling, that I think our audience would be interested in, and I think it’s worthy in terms of the value and subject matter that it brings to an audience, we could definitely take into consideration the way it was made and the budget it was made with, and if we think the filmmaker has promise. Like Easier with Practice, I could tell that the filmmaker had promise and he was talented, even though it was a very, very lowbudget film. I could tell his next film would be much better. You can definitely forgive all sorts of production flaws. It’s hard to forgive acting; acting is very, very important.

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Which film polarized WFF audiences the most?

I remember [several] years ago, we showed Gus van Sant’s movie Jerry, and a couple of people actually walked out. It was not a controversial movie; it just had Casey Affleck and Matt Damon walking across the desert. It was gorgeous, gorgeous—a technically beautiful film. But in terms of the dramatic arc of the story, there was little of that. Every now and then, people get upset when it comes to political films. But by and large, we don’t have that many controversial [films] that people stand up and shout [at]. I don’t remember the title of it, but there was one [it played with the William Kunstler documentary by his daughters]. It was a Cuban short and some people got very upset about it. The fact of the matter was that it was very truthful to the subject.

Which actor appearing at the Festival intimidated you the most?

Tim Robbins—he came when we gave him the Maverick [Award]. He gave us a little bit of a hard time; he had issues with the quality of the theater and the way the film [Bob Roberts] was projected there. But he was great, and a very intelligent human being and activist of course­—an excellent writer and director. I remember when Adrian Grenier came here. That was before “Entourage” but he was still a teenage heartthrob. He partied all night and he went very late to sleep. He went skinny-dipping in the pool at Allaire Studios, which is where we had our party that year. Parker Posey was supposed to be on a panel with Marcia Gay Harden. The panel starts and Parker is not there. The panel is in process; Parker is nowhere to be found. I’m calling the various cell phones I have, trying to locate Parker. I’m told [by her assistant] she’s riding around in the woods, looking for a house—goodbye.

So finally, she arrives. She makes an entrance and then takes over the panel.

Every year, WFF holds panels featuring industry experts. Which panel discussion of them all was the most heated?

The very first year the panel was “From the Novel to the Screen.” I heard the panelists were yelling at one another; the novelists and the screenwriters were in such big disagreement. When you go into political [topics] it sometimes gets heated.

Is there a film festival on which you modeled WFF? No, definitely not consciously. The Festival has been compared to other film festivals.

It has been compared to Telluride. It has been compared to Mill Valley. People have called it “Sundance of the East,” which I think is ridiculous. It’s very far from that. The vision for the Festival was there from the get-go in 2000. The structure of it—all the venues, so much of the focus on music—was right there from the beginning.

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy (Dir. Bobby Sheehan)

The chameleon in mascara, pancake, and black silk known as performance artist Joey Arias finally attains canonization. Sheehan’s film begins with a recent spectacle, in which Arias was showcased with equal outrageousness and reverence by the gifted puppeteer and set designer Basil twist. Sheehan careers puckishly between Arias’s New York City beginnings (he was a singer, video artist and collaborator with the otherworldly Klaus Nomi) and his recent works, including an unlikely stint with Cirque de Soleil in Las Vegas. Thierry Mugler, Kenny Scharf, and Isabel and Ruben Toldeo attest to this genius, a prominent member of the gloriously chaotic 1980s East Village art scene. A struggle with drug addiction is glossed over, puzzlingly, for it would have enhanced the scope of Arias’s achievements. A richly errant profile of a man who defies categorization.

Camp Victory, Afghanistan (Dir. Carol Dysinger)

and more common relapses. We meet a police officer assigned to monitor addicts and take away their kids when necessary. Gritty moments of defeat are interspersed with moments of raw emotion. Family is a film that demands attention, but never does it sacrifice the inherent dignity of the addicts or their children.

Gerrymandering (Dir. Jeff Reichert)

Long before WikiLeaks, director Dysinger was gathering information about the American presence in Afghanistan and our training of the ragtag Afghan National Army. (If this were a sitcom, their ineptitude would be laugh-out-loud.) Her astoundingly unrestricted access has uncovered a litany of operational failings that should force the resignations of a number of top-brass personnel. Bottom line: more evidence of our folly that will somehow be ignored by the Pentagon.

* Don’t Quit Your Daydream (Dir. Clark Stiles-Merritt Lear) This grown-up version of “Schoolhouse Rock” explains, with alternating laughs and scolds, the deeply entrenched American political tradition of redistricting voter blocs to change election outcomes. The story focuses on a spirited California campaign for redistricting reform, and Golden State governors Gray Davis, Pete Wilson, and the current “Governator” weigh in. A funky and engaging civics lesson.

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts (Dir. Lilly Rivlin)

Nobody recalls Abinsthe, a hot `90s band whose debut album tanked. The band broke up and destroyed friendships. Two former group members, the immensely appealing Nathan Khyber and Clark Stiles, shove aside resentments and embark on a creative experiment: They drive into a town, connect with a local musician, and record a newly composed number. The results are refreshingly tuneful. The viewer, in turn, learns much about the elusive creative process. A magical voyage whose wonderment slowly accumulates and washes over you. Featuring Entourage star Adrian Grenier as musical collaborator number seven.

* Family: The First Circle (Dir. Heather Rae, Russell Friedenberg, Randy Redroad)

Director Heather Rae has several family members who are crystal meth addicts. She follows them to Boise, Idaho, where poverty and drug availability keep them tethered to their demons. Afforded incredible access due to her proximity to these people, Rae and her co-directors follow inveterate addicts through their incremental advancements

The quirky Grace Paley was a brilliant short story writer whose advice was succinct: “Write what you don’t know about what you know.” She was an even more impassioned leftie activist. For many years, you could find her either reading at a Manhattan bookstore or being dragged off by cops at an antiwar protest. Sometimes both. Collected Shorts is a placid, respectful celebration of this protean creature, fortunately leavened by Paley’s own wry, self-deprecating remarks, as well as by footage of the poet-writer reading her own works, and a chorus of admirers, including Alice Walker and Allan Gurganus.

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*Journey from Zanskar: A Monk’s Vow to Children (Dir. Frederick Marx)

In an isolated part of India, schoolchildren languish, cut off from their Tibetan heritage and teachings. A group of Zanskari Buddhists decides they must take the children to a school 180 miles away over snow-covered mountains and narrow trails. Relying on horses and modest supplies, they begin the trek, followed by courageous filmmakers working under horrific conditions. While I doubt this was the filmmaker’s intention, Journey is a troubling look at the lengths to which people will go to honor the tenets of religious dogma. Narrated by Richard Gere.

Made in India (Dir. Rebecca Haimowitz-Vaishali Sinha)

While the British may have left, India still toils in the shadow of colonialism. This time, however, occupation occurs in the wombs of this country’s women. A surrogate pregnancy business thrives in Mumbai, and Texan couple Lisa and Brian Switzer are availing themselves of the services of a fertile woman named Aasia. The directors illuminate the red tape of the process as well as the emotional impact on all players, but they also confront the ethical issues.

* Marwencol (Dir. Jeff Malmberg)

Kingston resident Mark Hogancamp welcomes you to the complex world he has created—internally and externally—to deal with a traumatic attack that changed his life.

(See interview with Jeff Malmberg, page 39.)

*Mi Vida Con Carlos (Dir. German Berger-Hertz)

For Chilean national Berger-Hertz, his father is only a ghost, calling to him from the eight-millimeter films that capture moments in his brief and fiery life. Carlos, a dissident in the time of Pinochet, was one of tens of thousands of people executed in the 1970s during the dictator’s regime. Mi Vida is an unabashed tribute to Carlos but also a brazen attempt by the director to force Carlos’s surviving brothers to remember his late father’s existence; he summons his uncles (one now living in Canada) back to visit places where his father lived, struggled, and eventually died. Fiercely intelligent and merciless in its embrace of painful memories, Mi Vida also attains a visual poetry in its celebration of grief.

*My So-Called Enemy (Dir. Lisa Gossels)

Building Bridges for Peace is a New Jersey-based organization that brings together young Israeli and Palestinian women for a weekend of discussions about the ceaseless bloodshed that marks their people’s conflicts. What starts as a bleeding-heart-liberal exercise in self-congratulation, destined to end in a group hug and choruses of Kumbaya, takes an unsettling and revelatory turn. Director Gossels follows the participants back to their respective worlds, where ongoing border disputes and suicide bombers exact their toll on hopes for resolution. This thought-provoking study arrives just as these two factions return to the negotiating table for the first time in almost two years.

One Lucky Elephant (Dir. Lisa Leeman)

For 16 years, an African elephant named Flora has been the star attraction of David Balding’s St. Louis-based circus, charming audiences with a repertoire of tricks such 34 2010 woodstock film festival preview ChronograM 9/10

Producer Larry Fessenden on Bitter Feast

After watching the film Bitter Feast, it is more than fair to wonder whether screenwriter-director Joe Maggio is either a brilliant filmmaker or a brilliant sadist.

Producer Larry Fessenden responds, “I think he’s a little of both.” The result is a highly stylized horror film that easily transcends the confines of its genre.

Bitter Feast concerns celebrity chef, Peter Grey, (indie film legend James LeGros) at the end of his tether. After years of omnipotence as a celebrity, hosting a cooking show and running a trendy bistro, the arrogant chef loses both jobs on the same day. (Mario Batali more than holds his own in the role of Grey’s business partner.) Grey becomes unhinged and launches a vendetta against restaurant blogger JT Franks (Josh Leonard), whose poisonous reviews he blames for his downfall. After kidnapping the foodie and stashing him away in the basement of his upstate New York home, Grey subjects his hostage to a series of cooking challenges, each of them more twisted than the next. Consider Bitter Feast the gourmet version of Rob Reiner’s Misery.

While unsettlingly effective, Bitter Feast is a departure of style for the director. “It’s funny,” says Fessenden, a Brooklyn-based veteran indie director and producer, and principal of Glass Eye Pix. “Maggio doesn’t make horror films by trade. He’s a neorealist, small-ensemble-movie kind of storyteller.” But Fessenden, who had seen the director’s previous works, recognized in them “a sort of suppression and then an eruption of violence. So I knew it was in him.” When he suggested Maggio write and direct a horror film, something preternatural was unleashed.

“Well, of course he came out with both guns firing,” Fessenden says of the script and final cut. “Clearly, there’s an anger problem there.”

Bitter Feast offers entertainment far more substantial than that of the typical slasher-on-the-rampage-killing-teens fare. Along the way, the film provides potent social satire. It dispenses pointed observations about America’s fetishization of gourmet food, our hero-worship of chefs, the unbridled power of the Internet when used to wound reputations, and moral issues surrounding what we place on our dinner plates. Maggio provides ample moments for the thrill-gore junkies.

But he also gives the thoughtful filmgoer plenty to er, chew on.

Larry Fessenden, whose own films (including Wendigo, a 2001 Woodstock Film Festival winner) depict man’s carelessness towards nature, was pleased to see that Maggio explored these themes in Bitter Feast without his counsel.

“It makes me happy to have [Bitter Feast] part of the Glass Eye Pix canon, this rather scathing comment on how we’re all butchering each other.”

The first draft of the screenplay originally involved a love triangle between the male leads and a woman. Fessenden and two colleagues from Glass Eye urged Maggio to streamline the storyline and instead concentrate on the “torture porn” set pieces that dominate the film.

“We helped Joe,” Fessenden says. “There were things about the script that we really liked and I think we wanted to telegraph them.” The producer also shows up onscreen as a rumpled detective, obsessed with the case of the missing blogger.

Anchoring the story is James LeGros’s portrait of the talented but repellent Chef Grey. Maggio had envisioned the character as slightly more rugged, given to hunting and slaying his own food on his country property. Instead, LeGros made Grey a haughty, overly fussy culinary fascist, trapped in a world of philistines with pedestrian taste buds.

While Grey and Franks, cut from the same wretched cloth, seem to deserve one another, the filmgoer is nonetheless caught up in their duel of wits, nerve, and culinary expertise, Fessenden says. “You enter into that world of male egos, both of them damaged and how they respond, one with violence and one with a poison pen.”

The rigors of the 14-day shoot are evident onscreen: Both leads must bash at one another physically and psychologically. But the daily tension was offset by the joy of the surroundings, the producer said. Fessenden opened up his Ulster County weekend home in Olive last summer, the house serving double-duty as both set and lodgings for cast and crew.

“It’s a real upstate film in the greatest sense,” Fessenden says. People would kick back in the evenings with “lychee martinis and beers and badminton,” and when the new day dawned, “we went down into the basement and we tortured each other.” For more information: www.glasseyepix.com.

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as packing a suitcase. Offstage, she holds Balding’s hand with her trunk when they walk, clearly devoted to him. But when Flora exhibits a listlessness, Balding decides it is time to return her to the wild. But can he? In a variation on the film Born Free, Leeman explores the challenges of placing wild animals in captivity and separating long-term friends while honoring the unique relationship forged by the pair. A bittersweet tale that is never mawkish.

*Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune (Dir. Kenneth Bowser)

ful achievement that effortlessly tears at the heart while also reaffirming the notion that forgiveness is our only recourse.

The Kids Grow Up (Dir. Doug Block)

Watching a child leave home is never easy, but Doug Block seems to have been preparing fearfully for this moment since his daughter Lucinda’s birth, as evidenced by the extensive footage he has shot. Yet the Manhattanite continues to videotape his collegebound child, despite her protests. Block’s commentary is lackluster, but he is blessed with a wise wife and son who astutely, if mercilessly, analyze his cinematic motivations.

The result is an unexpectedly affecting meditation on youth, age, and family ties.

The Singularity Is Near (Dir. Anthony Waller)

This fanciful mash-up of a film, part fiction, part documentary, suggests a near-future when computer-generated beings may well be considered individuals with rights.

Waller plays loose and fast with the facts in service to his far-flung concept, the story enhanced by dazzling graphics. Featuring a parade of seers and hucksters, including self-help guru Tony Robbins, Alvin (Future Shock) Toffler, and lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

The perfect computer geek date movie.

*William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (Dir. Yony Leyser)

The folk singer-activist, purer of intention, sweeter of plaintive voice, and rawer of poetry than his friend/rival Bob Dylan, is rescued from undeserved obscurity by this farreaching, kinetic retrospective. Ochs’s rambunctious life, shaped by the watershed moments of the civil rights movement, is remembered by Joan Baez, Peter Yarrow, Billy Bragg, Sean Penn, and Van Dyke Parks. Vintage footage and a soundtrack of 30-plus Ochs songs complete this illuminating time-travel.

SoLA: Louisiana Water Stories (Dir. Jon Bowermaster)

When someone takes a dump in your backyard, you can either ignore it or raise hell.

Meet a number of Louisiana residents pushed to the brink who are fighting back against the corporate pollution and willful destruction of their wetlands. (See interview with Jon Bowermaster, page 38.)

Sounds Like a Revolution (Dir. Summer Love)

Political manifestos are a drag, but a good protest song can rock the house—and perhaps the Republic—to its foundation. This slick and fast-paced film, ideal for VH1, celebrates the artists who jettisoned Top 40 fame to craft songs of dissent. Whether musicians led youth to the polls for Obama, as this doc suggests, is your call. Featuring several generations of troubadours and rabble-rousers, including Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Michael Franti, David Crosby, Steve Earle, Henry Rollins, and Jello Biafra.

Addict, homosexual, mystic, novelist. These are but a few of the facets displayed by Beat legend Burroughs. He would probably have a good phlegmy horselaugh, however, over Leyser’s fervent attempts to explain his inherent contradictions and the specifics of his indisputable legacy. The director calls on Patti Smith, John Waters, Iggy Pop, Amiri Baraka, Laurie Anderson, and Gus Van Sant for tributes, but their assessments bring to mind the six blind men describing the elephant: All have merit, but all differ substantially.

Other interviewees, in an attempt to nail down Burroughs’s sexuality—straight or gay or bi?—offer cocktail psychology observations that are little more than self-inflicted Rorschachs. Ultimately, the value of this appropriately hyperactive film lies in the raucous, scattershot journey rather than the arrival at one purported destination.

*Windfall (Dir. Laura Israel)

In our quest for renewable energy, wind power seems a green and blameless nobrainer. Guess again. An Irish consortium called Airtricity makes overtures to Meredith, a small farm town in Delaware County. They want to install a fleet of 400-foot wind turbines along the countryside. However, in a slyly effective fashion, Windfall ticks off the number of hazards associated with wind power. Director Israel has a marvelous eye for the telling detail, and her treatment of both advocates and opponents in the ensuing battle is both compassionate and pointed. A sobering look at the downside of yet another alternative energy source.

NARRATIVE FILMS 3 Backyards (Dir. Eric Mendelsohn)

Strange Things (Dir. Alexandria Hammond)

The devastating earthquakes in Haiti only exacerbated an already untenable situation: Now more than one million kids live on the streets, vulnerable to crime and drug use.

Hammond deftly juxtaposes the conflicting elements in this scenario: the sweet-faced children with hard hearts, the bright island colors amid relentless poverty. We hear from officials who consider the children vermin, as well as social workers intent on helping them regain their lives. Mostly, we hear from the children themselves, who cite the daily threats to their lives, from police abuse to the taunts by upper-class school kids. Oddly lyrical in its examination of young lives in crisis.

*The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan (Dir. Henry Corra)

Veering between passages of experimental film imagery, stark naturalism, and occassional pretentiousness, Mendelsohn pricks at the psychic wounds of several separate stories: among them, a suburban businessman (Elias Koteas) who has forgotten how to communicate, a helpful neighbor (Edie Falco) taking a troubled actress (Embeth Davidtz) to the ferry, and a young girl wandering onto the property of the local sex offender. The performances are deep, bleeding a helpless sense of alienation that plagues every suburban redoubt—not merely these Long Island neighborhoods.

*Bitter Feast (Dir. Joe Maggio)

Foodies beware: A perfectionist chef is on the rampage. What ensues is as much a blood-spattered thriller as it is a cathartic social satire. Gleefully sadistic, relentlessly troubling, and a stomach-churning laugh riot. (See interview with producer Larry Fessenden, page 34.)

Cherry (Dir. Jeffrey Fine)

The wounds left on America by our presence in Vietnam refuse to heal, and this staggering documentary explains why. In November 1967 a rural Texan named McKinley Nolan went AWOL in Vietnam and has not been seen since. Some say he took a Vietnamese wife and, sickened by American atrocities, went over to the other side. When a fellow veteran, Lt. Dan Smith, claims to have seen him in 2005, Nolan’s family is alerted and his brother Michael journeys to Vietnam with Smith. A voyage for answers stirs up dormant pain of more than four decades on both American and Asian sides. A master36 2010 woodstock film festival preview ChronograM 9/10

Technogeek Aaron (Kyle Gallner) has arrived at college, intent on asserting his independence from a suffocating home life. But he gets more than he can handle when he meets sexy older classmate Linda (Laura Allen) and her sullen daughter Beth (Brittany Robertson). Both are drawn to his virginal nerdiness and Aaron learns the downside of getting what you wished for. Cherry allows the myriad traumas of freshman year to pile up quickly, exhausting the viewer. But an ensemble of strong actors keeps the tale from being dragged down by the sheer weight of its subplots.

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Joining a list of recipients that includes Tim Robbins, Steve Buscemi, and Woody Harrelson, film director Bruce Beresford, 70, has been named the 2010 Maverick Award winner. The annual distinction is bestowed on an artist who has wedded an idiosyncratic vision to a lifetime of cinematic work. Stateside, the Australian director is best known for four releases: the art-house successes The Getting of Wisdom (1978) and Breaker Morant (1980), and the box-office hits Tender Mercies (1983) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Beresford just wrapped the film Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (pictured above). Shooting on location in Ulster County generated Hollywood-caliber excitement, thanks to a high-profile cast and several opportunities for locals to play tie-dyed extras.

In Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, Catherine Keener plays Diane, a workaholic lawyer resolutely avoiding her softer side. Diane feels the tug of familial obligations and brings her children to Woodstock, where she attempts a reconciliation with her counterculture mother Grace (played by an icon of `60s rebellion, Jane Fonda).

Speaking in late July, a gleefully self-deprecating Beresford discussed his reputation in American film circles, why the Best Picture Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy still sticks in his craw, and why lifetime achievement awards fill him with dread.

—Jay Blotcher

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Does an honor like the Maverick award make you nervous, or do you welcome them?

Oh no, they’re catastrophic for a career. Everyone assumes that you’re dying.

What drew you to your current project, Peace, Love & Misunderstanding?

Oh, just the very clever, well-written script. It’s funny and touching. Good story.

Relax. Laugh. Get Beautiful.

What is it like working with Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener?

Well, they’re tremendously professional and great to work with. They’re very, very focused and on the ball. Sharp, on-time, and all that stuff, which is great news.

Is there a concerted effort to deal with subject matter that you haven’t dealt with before?

I always try to do that, because it’s boring to feel you’ve already made this film.

That can happen. I mean, after I did Driving Miss Daisy, I was offered a lot of similar films set in the South. Of course, I turned them all down. I said, “Well, I’ve done that. I want to do something different.”

Is there a film of yours that you feel has been unfairly overlooked and you wish that it would be reconsidered?

Well, I thought the one I did about Alma Mahler was much better than the critics ever allowed—Bride of the Wind [2001]. I thought that was quite a good film and it had such a critical slamming that nobody ever wanted to show it. When I was working on it, I thought, It’s not as bad as all that.

Of your many awards, which were you most flattered by?

Well, it was nice when Driving Miss Daisy won the Academy Award [Best Picture, 1990], even though I wasn’t nominated for directing it. It still won—you know, somebody directed it. [Laughs.]

Bruce Beresford will receive the WFF Maverick at the 11th annual Woodstock Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 2, at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston. To reserve tickets, visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com or call (845) 679-4265.

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You know, after they’ve been finished, I’ve never seen any of them ever again. So I don’t know how they stand up. The thing is, I see them so many times when I’m editing them and finalizing them. The ones that are finished, I’d rather just move on. I saw a bit of Driving Miss Daisy on TV recently; I was just flicking though the channels and it came on. And I saw one or two scenes and I thought it still looked pretty good.

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Don’t Go in the Woods (Dir. Vincent D’Onofrio)

If there’s an audience out there waiting for the first slasher film replete with power ballads, director D’Onofrio has answered your prayers. The film has a familiar storyline: A bunch of clueless teens—in this case, the members of a Brooklyn rock band—goes on a camping trip to extract inspiration for their next album. Their girlfriends surprise them, bearing weed, booze, and breasts. But another visitor lurks beyond the campfire circle.

Mayhem, as the saying goes, ensues. Songs by Sam Bisbee.

Hello Lonesome (Dir. Adam Reid)

Far more compassionate than Todd Solondz, yet not as manipulative as Miranda July, director Reid opens a gentle window onto three disparate and troubled worlds: a voiceover actor (Bill Chase) seeks forgiveness for bad parenting skills, an elderly woman (Lynn Cohen) bonds with a cynical younger neighbor (James Urbaniak); and two lonely Manhattanites (Sabrina Lloyd, Nate Smith) meet through an awkward computer date. While the highs and lows seem more scripted than organic, one appreciates the director’s adoration of his flawed characters.

Inuk (Dir. Mike Magidson)

Shot in Greenland against a canvas of snow and ice, this tale combines the glory of ancient legend with the sting of modern social problems. Inuk (Gaba Petersen) lives in the projects with his mother and an alcoholic stepfather who beats him. A social worker intervenes and remands Inuk to a group home for at-risk children, where he is brought on a traditional seal hunt to reinstill the pride his generation has lost. The symbolism of this saga is writ large but is no less affecting for it.

Nice Guy Johnny (Dir. Edward Burns)

A sweet, formulaic rom-com that acts as if the Apatow era never happened. Struggling Bay Area DJ Johnny Rizzo (the winning Matt Bush) heads East for a job interview, compelled by his castrating girlfriend. Along the way he collides with a blond, leggy free spirit (Kerry Bishe). Can you guess what occurs? Director Burns, who also plays Rizzo’s horndog Uncle Terry, maddeningly takes his time arriving at the inevitable. But there are tender moments and off-color laughs along the way.

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director Jon Bowermaster on sola

Hurricane Katrina was not the first wholesale devastation suffered by Louisiana, nor will British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion be the last insult.

In the alternately lyrical and sobering SoLA: Louisiana Water Stories, longtime journalist and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster, 56, traces a chronic pattern of maltreatment of this delta state. The wholesale suffering, Bowermaster explains, stems from several factors: among them, natural gas and oil companies, illegal loggers, corrupt politicians, wetland developers. Even the heroic Corps of Engineers, the fabled levee builders, miscalculated; their exuberant taming of the waterways of the mighty Mississippi has eroded the fragile ecosystems that traditionally protected residents from hurricanes and floods.

Bowermaster, a resident of Stone Ridge for 23 years, is rarely at home. His 11 book projects have taken him to places as remote as the Antarctic Peninsula and Aleutian Islands and French Polynesia, transported in modes as varied as seaplane, kayak, sailboat and on foot. (He refers to those past exploits as “adventure for adventure’s sake.”) A few years ago, he switched gears to making films for National Geographic Television, but maintained the same themes: an examination of the tenuous and increasingly dangerous relationship between man and nature, accompanied by an unabashed plea for environmental sanity.

Everyone has a tale to tell of this beleaguered area and Bowermaster locates some of the most urgent, heartfelt and eloquent testimonies for SoLA. We meet environmental scientists, professors and neighbors who woke up one day to the growing pollution around them and became environmental activists. If dissenting voices are absent in this bracingly informative documentary, Bowermaster offers no apologies. “We didn’t go and talk to the petrochemical plant owners, we didn’t go and talk to the oil companies. Over the years I’ve talked to enough of those guys. I know what I’m going to get from them. So we made more of a personal piece about Louisiana by just allowing people who live there to speak.”

Interweaving first-person stories with facts and figures—and generous amounts of buoyant Zydeco music—SoLA builds the argument that state and federal governments have simply sold out the Pelican State to big business, which has fecklessly exhausted its resources and utilized it as a glorified sewer.

(Louisiana plays host to one-third of this country’s hazardous landfills.)

SoLA was the first domestic documentary for Bowermaster in more than a decade. He looked forward to the relative ease of working in this country, having access to modern resources and, especially, speaking the same language as his subjects. “Of course, we get to Louisiana, I get off the plane and I have no idea what anyone is saying. I can’t understand a word. It’s like another world: there’s different foods, different music, truly a different culture than the rest of the US.” Filming began in July of 2008 with a crew of five people on a modest budget and continued over the course of two years. Everywhere Bowermaster’s crew went, they bore witness to environmental destruction: the harvesting of old-growth cypress trees. The systematic drying up of the wetlands. The swift disappearance of the Louisiana coastline—a football field’s worth every 30 minutes, scientists estimate. The marked reduction of the fishing industry, due to environmental pollution, caused by fertilizer runoff. Most damning of all, the petrochemical plants that stand menacingly along the coast. The spike in local human birth defects and disease account for the area’s current sobriquet: “cancer alley.”

Bowermaster was wrapping the film and heading towards post-production in April when British Petroleum provided the filmmaker with a dubious epilogue to SoLA. Adding material regarding the oil rig explosion and its aftermath was not an easy task, Bowermaster says. “We went back down and opened the film back up and re-interviewed everybody and changed the structure of the film and added a coda about the current events. The mess in the Gulf changed the tenor of the piece.”

Films like SoLA may appear to be a political broadside, but Bowermaster considers himself a storyteller, not an activist. (That assertion, however, does not prevent the director from making SoLA available to environmental groups such as Riverkeeper for fundraising.) In addition to making films and writing books, he visits schools to relay his experiences. “That’s all I’m doing; I’m going out and bringing these stories back and trying to share them with as many people as possible.”

For more information: www.jonbowermaster.com.

—Jay Blotcher

DIRECTOR JEFF MALMBERG ON MARWENCOL

Norman (Dir. Jonathan Segal)

A wise-ass high schooler, Norman (Dan Byrd) has reason to be snarky; his mother died in a car accident and his father (the pitch-perfect Richard Jenkins) is succumbing to cancer. In a grand screw-you to the world, Norman claims that he is the terminal case in question and luxuriates in the sudden burst of compassion from his classmates and teacher (Adam Goldberg). A sweet-sour trifle elevated by wonderful performances.

*Some Dogs Bite (Dir. Marc Munden)

To the list of magical places that includes Kubla Khan’s Xanadu and Alice’s Wonderland, we may confidently add Marwencol. While this place actually exists—it is a miniature town, located in a backyard in Kingston—Marwencol thrives more audaciously within the mind of its creator Mark Hogancamp, the subject of Jeff Malmberg’s humane and compelling documentary. Marwencol powerfully confounds our simplistic definitions of disability and genius.

With equal parts skill and compassion, Malmberg illuminates the fitful journey of Hogancamp, 48, whose world was carpet-bombed in 2000 when five men attacked him outside a local bar. He awoke from a coma after nine days, but physical rehabilitation took several months. Hogancamp’s mental rehabilitation continues, in the form of his meticulously created World War II-era Belgian village, populated by dolls dressed as stalwart soldiers and sleazy bar girls. “No matter how much art it seems to be,” Hogancamp says during the film, “it’s still my therapy.”

Malmberg, 38, first encountered Marwencol and its architect in 2006, in a copy of the art magazine Esopus. Within a month, he was on Hogancamp’s doorstep.

Malmberg, until then an editor of documentaries, had no funding in place when he arrived in Ulster County, nor a game plan. “I didn’t know what it was,” he says.

“Maybe a short film or something. So I just went and shot.” Marwencol—and Hogancamp—would consume the next four years of Malmberg’s life.

Whether Hogancamp welcomed the filmmaker as a newfound friend or an attentive audience is not clear. But a symbiotic relationship was sparked.

Hogancamp was soon confiding to his newly appointed videographer, literally opening up the drawers and closets of his life to the camera’s scrutiny. “He had so much to say,” Malmberg says. It appeared that Hogancamp, six years after the beating, “was ready to verbalize what had happened to him.”

Marwencol is cut deftly, the contradictions and mysteries of Hogancamp’s life linked together to puzzle, tantalize and eventually win over the filmgoer.

Hogancamp is a reliable narrator, recounting facts, thoughts, impressions, and visions with a simple but profound delivery and a rough-hewn eloquence that fiction writers would kill to possess.

As the layers of his life fell away and powerful secrets were shared freely, Hogancamp never experienced a moment of confessor’s regret, Malmberg said.

“I was always surprised how much faith he had in me,” Malmberg says. “I don’t know if he thought I was a bigger force than I was. I think it helped that I was from Los Angeles. He would always say, ‘Well, you’re from Hollywood!’”

Malmberg initially wanted the film to focus on his subject alone, to mimic his isolated life, “kind of quiet and peace and being alone.” But Malmberg eventually welcomed other voices to explain their relationship to the unique but fragile being in their midst. We meet Hogancamp’s mother, several friends, and the district attorney who handled his legal case. (Each valued friend in his life is honored with a doll and placed in the built-to-scale town.) During one day of filming, Hogancamp ran into the woman who had found his battered body by the side of the road a decade ago. But Malmberg eschews manipulative tactics; the segment was cut from the film. Nor does the director present a psychologist to assess Hogancamp’s cerebral state, sparing the film what he terms a “lab rat quality.”

Malmberg’s empathic treatment, wedded to his subject’s unique aesthetic, has made Marwencol a hit on the festival circuit. It premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, taking home the Grand Jury Prize.

Throughout the film, Hogancamp narrates and dramatizes key moments in the life of Marwencol, which are alternately romantic and horrific. There are boozy nights when soldiers unwind at the bar, entertained by scantily clad female wrestlers. There are also recurring surprise attacks by the Nazis, which Hogancamp depicts by energetically disfiguring the dolls. Most poignantly, the Hogancamp of Marwencol finds love, which eludes his real-life counterpart.

Malmberg dismisses the notion that his filming motivated the artist’s ongoing construction of Marwencol. “If nobody had come along, myself included, he’d still be doing it today. It really is that much of a personal thing for him.”

For more information: www.marwencol.com.

—Jay Blotcher

A trio of British halfbrothers—one an infant, one with a mental impairment, and the third consumed with rage—escapes a welfare system that has separated them. They head to Inverness, Scotland, where a suitcase of stolen cash awaits them, and possibly their father. Along the way they collide with a pair of girls just as raw and emotionally starved as they are. Beautifully shot and realized with a tough-minded tenderness, Some Dogs Bite owes its formidable power to a strong cast of young actors, including Thomas Brodie Sangster as the childlike Casey, Aaron Taylor as the emotionally calloused H, and Michelle Asante as Venetia.

The Colonel’s Bride (Dir. Brent Stewart)

As quirky and elliptical as a Flannery O’Connor short story, this film depicts an embittered, widowed Vietnam veteran (JD Parker) awaiting an Asian mail-order bride (Alicia Truong). The tale is expressed in a series of brief but vivid vignettes, many of them wordless, the strangled emotions lurking beneath the surface. A love story of belated redemption.

The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (Dir. Zeina Durra)

This deadpan tale of love and identity politics among some Manhattan hipsters possesses a mongrel 1980s indie film vibe. At the center is Asyah (Elodie Bouchez), a Palestinian-Jordanian conceptual artist and her new boyfriend Javier (Jose Maria de Tavia). The lovers spend as much time debating conspiracy theories as they do shagging in this ambitious but muddled comedy.

*The Locksmith (Dir. Brad and Todd Barr)

A delightful shaggy dog story set in New York City, The Locksmith wears its heart on its sleeve while still making some trenchant observations about how New Yorkers talk at and over one another. A work-release ex-con (Anslem Richardson) is employed by a locksmith.

On one job, he is asked to drill a stubborn lock by a sweetly ditzy woman (the beguiling Ana Reeder). Only too late, he learns she is breaking into her boyfriend’s apartment.

*The Tested (Dir. Russell Costanzo)

Dre (Michael Morris Jr.) attends Manhattan’s Washington Irving High School where he’s trying to stand up to the thugs as much as he covets their brutal power. His mother (the powerful Aunjanue Ellis) remains obsessed by the slaying of her older son. Julian (Armando Riesco), the cop who shot the boy, tries to rebuild his life amid the suffocating guilt. As much an opera as an urban saga, The Tested soars thanks to naturalistic performances from an unknown cast and the nimble touch of its self-assured director.

White Irish Drinkers (Dir. John Gray)

Brooklyn, 1975. John Gray drops us into a world that echoes both Mean Streets and the story of Cain and Abel. Danny (Geoff Wigdor) is a thug in the making; Brian (Nick Thurston), his younger brother, more interested in art than petty crimes. The target of his father’s (Stephen Lang) drunken beatings, Danny wants to pull one more robbery before leaving home for good. When Brian’s boss at the local theater announces a Rolling Stone concert, Danny plans to steal the box office receipts but needs Brian’s help. Powerful performances from the ensemble cast (including Karen Allen as the mother) surmount the plot mechanics and occasionally sentimental overwriting.

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Susan Phillips, Wooster Street, photograph, 13” x 20”, 2007 Showing at The Doghouse Gallery in Saugerties as part of the exhibit, “Oil paintings of Patti Ferrara and photographs of Susan Phillips.”

September 25-October 17.

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“Motile: Just Add Water.” Kirsten Olson. Through September 5.

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“Squiggles and Giggles.” Paintings by RT Vegas. September 18-November 13.

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“Fades To Black.” Solo room featuring Bonnie Carlson Diana. Through September 11.

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“Katharine L. McKenna.” Solo exhibit. September 4-25.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 5pm-8pm.

“The Volunteers Exhibit.” September 4-25.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 5pm-8pm.

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“Bellissima! 3 Women Photographers in Italy.” Photography by Mary Ann Glass, Christine Irvin, Rita Pignato. September 1-30.

Opening Saturday, September 11, 6pm-8pm.

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

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

September 24-October 11.

Opening Saturday, September 25, 5pm-8pm.

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199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

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

129-600 MAIN STreet, BEACON www.beaconarts.org.

“Windows on Main Street.” Art exhibition displayed in storefront windows located along Main Street.

Through September 11.

BLACKBIRD ATTIC 442 MAIN STREET, BEACON 418-4840.

“Applied Biology.” Featuring artist Jason Levesque. September 11-October 9.

Opening September 11, 6pm-9pm.

CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490.

“Music|Sound|Art Exhibition.” A multimedia show with a variety of artists from around the country.

Through September 10.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.

“Landscapes.” Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Thomas Locker, Harry Orlyk, Leigh Palmer, Laura Von Rosk. September 23-October 31.

Opening Thursday, September 23, 6pm-8pm.

“Edward Avedisian: Retrospective.” Previously unseen paintings. Through September 19.

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

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

“Works by Phillippe Parreno.” Through December 19.

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Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis Through Nov. 14, 2010

Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection Thru Dec. 12, 2010 Reopens Jan. 26–Mar.18, 2011

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DC Studios Stained Glass

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“Either/And.” Group photography show. Through September 12.

“Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny.” Works by Andrew Neumann. Through September 12.

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

THE DOGHOUSE GALLERY 429 PHILLIPS ROAD, SAUGERTIES 246-0402.

“Oil Paintings of Patti Ferrara and Photographs of Susan Phillips.” September 25-October 17.

Opening Saturday, September 25, 5pm-8pm.

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“Photographs by Henry Linder.” September 4-25.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 5pm-8pm.

ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

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“A Collaboration: Kate Brittin Shaw and Hardie Truesdale.” Photography and sculpture.

Through September 29.

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

“Reveries of Imagination.” Angela Bacon-Kidwell. Through September 6.

“Undertow.” Rita Bernstein. September 10-October 18.

Opening Saturday, September 11, 5pm-7pm.

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

“Paintings by Charles Forsberg.” Through September 18.

GARRISON ARTS CENTER 23 GARRISON LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960.

“PHOTOcentric 2010.” Photography competition exhibition. September 3-26.

Opening Friday, September 3, 6pm-8pm.

GAZEN GALLERY OF ART 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4278.

“Love Our Local Landscapes.” Through September 6.

HEALING ART GALLERY ELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, ELLENVILLE 647-6400 ext. 286.

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

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ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS 389-5825.

“Pastels, Past and Present.” Vincent Connelly. Through September 30.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-4531.

“After the Fall.” Emerging contemporary art from East and Central Europe, by artists who were educated at the transitional period between communism and democracy. September 19-July 24.

Opening Sunday, September 19, 3pm-12am.

“Leonardo Silaghi: Artist-in-Residence.” September 19-December 31.

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“Concept Alters Reality.” Sculpture by Caroline Ramersdorfer. Through September 12.

“Paintings by Priscilla Derven.” September 16-October 10.

Opening Saturday, September 18, 6pm-8pm.

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“Joseph Yetto.” Paintings and drawings that examine nature close up. Through September 4.

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“Artistic Women Past and Present: Looking Forward from the Hudson River School Tradition.” Emily Cole, Candace Wheeler, Louise Kamp, Doris Frye and Dorothy Saengar Nancy Campbell, Edith Marcik, Kate McGloughlin, Lauren Sansaricq, Sue Story, Ruth Wetzel. September 4-October 3.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 4pm-6pm.

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

“Shy as a Shrimp: A Year Spent Studying the Art of Children.” Mixed media paintings by Jacinta Bunnell. September 4-30.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 5pm-7pm.

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

“Painting And.” Recent paintings and photographs by Gary Stephan. Through September 12.

KOLOK GALLERY 121 UNION STREET, NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 664-7381. “home·less·bound·ness.” Installation & sculptures by Robert Mateo Diago. Through September 20.

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

“Photographs by Jillian Brown.” Through September 10.

“Road Home.” Paintings by Sandra Nystrom. September 12-October 7.

Opening Sunday, September 12, 5pm-7pm.

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

“Standing on the Peel.” Charles Thomas O’Neil. September 10-October 22.

Opening Friday, September 10, 5pm-7pm.

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

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

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

MERRITT BOOKSTORE 57 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 758-2665.

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

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MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY 26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK (800) 662-9463.

“Art in the Loft Exhibit.” Through September 5.

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6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.

“A Look Around.” Vindora Wixom’s works in pastels, encaustics, acrylics, and oil, as well as threedimensional wall art made out of copper and brass wire, felt, and a whole variety of textile media.

Through September 28.

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113.

“Intimate Perspectives: A Survey of Contemporary Figurative Work.” Debra Goertz, Michael Peery, Cheryl Wheat, Victoria Selbach and Kathy Stecko. September 10-October 1.

Opening Friday, September 10, 6pm-8pm.

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

“Nothing to Fear.” Recent works by Ken Polinskie. September 18-October 16.

Opening Saturday, September 18, 6pm-8pm.

“Terra Firma.” Photographs by Victoria Sambunaris. Through September 4.

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

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

Through October 31.

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

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

“Lonny Kalfus: Photography.” September 5-29.

Opening Sunday, September 12, 3pm-5pm.

“Pamela Dalton: Scherrenschnitte.” Through September 1.

ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790.

“Building Bridges to Understanding and Peace.” Sculptures, prints, and paintings by Caroline P. Schulz and Najim H. Chechen. Through September 10.

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

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

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RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“The Horizon Line.” New works by Ellen A. Lewis. Through September 6.

SAUNDERS FARM 853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON 528-1797.

“Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2010.” 60 art installations. September 4-October 6.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 1pm-6pm.

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“An Odyssey in Watercolor: Paintings by Ray Curran.” September 4-19.

Opening Saturday, September 4, 5pm-8pm.

THADDEUS KWIAT PROJECTS 1536 ROUTE 212, STUDIO #C, SAUGERTIES (917) 456-7496.

“Show Untitled.” Kira Greene, paintings; Conor Foy, paintings; Cynthia Fetty, photographs.

Through September 26.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.

“Interiors.” Exhibit of paintings, photography, fine crafts by 15 artists. Through September 19.

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“Emotionalism.” Through October 9.

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

“Judith Zeichner, Paintings.” September 12-October 3.

Opening Sunday, September 12, 4pm-6pm.

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

“Lost & Found.” Molly Rausch. Through September 13.

“Submerged.” 3rd annual mini works show. September 18-October 11.

Opening Saturday, September 18, 4:30pm-7pm.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 137 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995.

“The Picture Show.” Group show. Through September 5.

Military & Naval History Auction September 116PM & 12 Noon 600 Items valued at 3 million dollars and Spanning3 Centuries

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005.

“Woodstock World Peace Project.” Art exhibition of over 70 Artist Designed Peace signs.

Through September 6.

VASSAR COLLEGE’S JAMES W. PALMER GALLERY RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370.

“Summer Work.” Students from the Vassar College Studio Art Department. September 13-25.

Opening Monday, September 13, 5pm-7pm.

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

“Pinajian: Master of Abstraction Discovered.” Through October 10.

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“Forth Estate: Recent Editions.” Group of recently completed editions produced at the Forth Estate, a Brooklyn, NY-based print publisher. September 19-26.

Opening Sunday, September 19, 5pm-7pm.

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Words to Live By

ReadNex Poetry Squad

ReadNex Poetry Squad: Decora, Latin Translator, Jarabe Del Sol, DJ H20, Free Flowin 44 music ChronograM 9/10

T

here’s a dude in the corner of the room playing the piano. And doing it well. He’s putting down some soft and beautiful tinkling, like maybe he has a few Bill Evans or George Shearing records at home. It’s late in the afternoon and he’s making the place feel more like cocktail time at the Rainbow Room than happy hour at Kingston’s Keegan Ales, which is what it is, actually. Probably not what you’d expect from a mike-rocking hip-hop MC. “I can fake it okay, I guess,” says a grinning Jarabe Del Sol, who, with his coMCs Decora, Freeflowin, and Latin Translator and turntablist DJ H20, makes up Hudson Valley words-and-music crew ReadNex Poetry Squad. Further confounding expectations, perhaps, is the fact that Del Sol is actually a multiinstrumentalist: “I play guitar, too, but I’m more of a drummer,” adds the rapper known as Cuttz El Colombiano on the group’s early releases. “I was playing the drums before I could speak English.” For ReadNex, however, defying the general public’s perception of what it means to be a hip-hop band—and what hip-hop itself means—is par for the course. Heroically so.

Right from the group’s 2001 inception, when the members met as students at Middletown’s Orange County Community College during a campus openmike night, ReadNex has been as much about effecting positive social change as it has been about music. The band is an out-and-out activist machine, for whose members art and progressive work are simply inseparable. Besides releasing three albums on the band’s own DeBefore label; playing on HBO Latino and at hallowed venues the Apollo Theater and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; touring the US, Canada, Europe, and Brazil; and performing regionally as a group and as individuals at spoken-word gigs, ReadNex maintains a packed itinerary of educational and public advocacy efforts. Along with steady appearances at benefit and awareness-raising events—the group was en route to a climate-controlthemed affair at the time of its Chronogram interview, after having played a state education conference in Hew Hampshire the night before—examples of the outreach actions the outfit regularly organizes include food and clothing drives, inner-city farmers’ markets, youth-mentoring programs, and student-empowerment workshops. But because the media only likes to occasionally play up the odd cause-boosting but less-than-sincere photo op by splashy money men like P. Diddy or his swaggering gangsta peers, for many ReadNex’s steady regimen of altruistic endeavors will likely be another expectation-shattering revelation.

“Mahatma Ghandi said,‘Be the change you want to see in the world,’” quotes Decora, who, like his band ates, is a perpetual font of wisdom-bearing axioms.

“There are four elements that make up hip-hop culture: rapping, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing. We’ve added a fifth, ambiguous element, which is more personal and can be anything you want it to be. Not that you can’t do more than one thing, but for some people that extra element might be spoken word or poetry; for others it could be comedy. And for some it might be the kind of social change activities that we do.”

But with all this talk about ReadNex’s extracurricular doings, there’s the danger of taking the focus off its music—do so at your own risk, however.

At a Kingston performance shortly after the release of the group’s second album, Social IssUes (DeBefore Records; reviewed in the December 2006 issue of Chronogram), the group was devastating, the four MCs stalking the stage and discharging their words with angry abandon while DJ H2O threw up a dense storm of sounds and beats behind them. Integral to the band’s studio sound has been its behind-the-scenes sixth member, producer Charlie “Fox” Graham, who’s been on board almost since the beginning. “I would see them play at the open mikes back in 2001 and their energy was just amazing,” Graham recalls.

“We ended up doing a demo and then the first album [2004’s F.O.S.S.L., also DeBefore], and things just kept going. As far as I know they’re one of the first groups to apply such eclectic styles to the music. Especially on [new album] Day before Sound (DeBefore), which has rock, Latin, reggae, folk, and world music, along with hip-hop, house, and spoken word.”

With its alchemical, psychedelic blend, Day before Sound holds such provocative tracks as Del Sol’s eerily prescient—in light of the Gulf oil spill—ecology commentary “Deaf Ears Can’t Be Environmentally Sound” and Freeflowin’s flamenco guitar-laced lover letter to the music that freed her mind and allowed everything else to follow, “When Life Gives You Capital-ism Choose Hip-Hop.”

But it’s with the record’s power-packed closer, “Be Dif’Rent,” that the band has waxed a new anthem for young outsiders, one that aims to let them know they’re not alone and that it’s okay to be, yes, different. Over a loud and relentlessly throbbing electro-pulse, the MCs trade rhymes sure to resonate with any disaffected or inner-city kid who hears them: “This is for the Chinese-Dominican with the cinnamon-colored hair / This is for the Puerto Rican on the weekend lookin’ to express his poetry through guitar / This is for the black kid in the moshpit with the Mohawk / the white kid in the rhyme circle with the ’frohawk / This is for the IED-ADD’s / on the way to GED / Low test scores and didn’t take your SAT / Yellow, purple, black, or brown / growin’ up with no cops around / Gun clappin’ was the sound / that put you to sleep.” The group recently completed a video for the song, to be released this month.

Day before Sound features guest artists from the underground hip-hop world—Red Clay’s Baron and R&B duo Indigo Brown—but there’s another, likely unexpected contributor, a musician whose family lineage links ReadNex straight to a protest music legend: Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, who appears on the intriguingly titled “America Bolivariana: The Reflection of Self-Revolution.”

“The ReadNex [members] are totally fearless when it comes to music,” says Rodriguez-Seeger, the grandson of Pete Seeger. “They sat in with my band at the Clearwater Festival once, and Decora and Jarabe rhymed in English and Spanish over the music. I’d never done anything like that before, and it was really incredible. We definitely did the most exciting version of ‘This Land Is Your Land’ I’ve ever played.”

Bringing the noise—and the message—from sea to shining sea has opened not only the ears, eyes, and minds of their audiences, but also those of the MCs and DJ themselves. In 2008 the unit embarked on its Frontlines Tour, a mammoth, self-funded expedition (another anachronism for a genre whose mainstream stars won’t hit the road unless it’s in a corporate-sponsored sleeper bus) that took the group to 40 cities and towns across the US. “We visited these tiny places like Whitesburg, Kentucky [pop. 1500], where they really hadn’t had hip-hop before.

And they were crazy for it. After the show we ended up jamming at someone’s house. H20 was spinning while people were playing mandolins and fiddles— some were even drinking moonshine,” says Latin Translator, today sipping ginger ale, like his bandmates. “Wherever we go on tour, besides doing the performance we try to also hold one of our workshops and also talk to the people to learn about the issues they’re facing locally,” explains Decora. “So in places like Kentucky and Virginia we got to know more about the lives of the coal miners and their families, about how black lung is still a huge problem. And about oxycoton addiction in rural areas, how mountaintop-removal mining has been destroying the environment there. We try to take what we discover and pass it along at the next places we go to: ‘Learn, Educate, Repeat’ is one of our main mantras.”

To that end, the group’s self-devised, interactive “Next to Be Read” and “Hip-Hop and Poetry Saved My Life” school workshops have been major hits with students and educators. Both are customizable symposiums that, according to the group’s website, include such activities as “lyrical adaptation of school work; hip-hop-oriented phonetic and kinesthetic learning; using poetic devices for writing English essays; and using hip-hop and poetry as a platform to understand academic subjects and convey sensitive topics in schools.” “HipHop and Poetry Saved My Life” is the more immersive program, with students spending 10 days with members of ReadNex. “[The latter workshop] is more than us doing musical and spoken-word performances and leading the students through activities,” says Freeflowin. “It encompasses a lot of personal stories in which we talk about how hip-hop and poetry impacted each of us specifically, and about how we use them in our daily lives.”

With all of the band’s thankless self-sacrificing and constant toiling in the good fight, however, how long does she think the group can keep going? “Forever,” she says. “This is what we do. We’re married to each other.”

But, still, if there ever did come a day when the members of ReadNex Poetry Squad decided to go their separate ways, what would each of them do?

Decora answers without hesitation: “The right thing.”

And what else would you expect?

Day before Sound is out now on DeBefore Records. www.debeforerecords.com.

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Wall Street Jazz Festival September 3-4. For its seventh year, the Wall Street Jazz Festival again brings hot and cool sounds to the Stockade area. It kicks off at the Beahive with a duet by tap dancer Brenda Buffalino and vocalist Jay Clayton, followed by pianist Peggy Stern and saxophonist “Sweet” Sue Terry, and swings across the street to Backstage Studio Productions the next night for guitarists Vic Juris and Claire Daly, singer-pianist Dena Denarose, Latin band Estrella Samba y Salsa, and more. September 3: $10. September 4: Free. Kingston.

(845) 246-4106; www.wallstreetjazzfestival.com.

Hudson Valley Green Festival September 4. True to its name, this Chronogram-co-sponsored event focuses on alternative energy and related themes. But, of course, we’re really here for the music. The lineup for the fling at Mills-Norrie State Park (adjacent to the Staatsburgh State Historic Site) is impressive: Blues Traveler, Donna the Buffalo, Amos Lee, BeauSoleil, Mike & Ruthy, the Duke and the King, John Brown’s Body, and others. Extras include local food and the Green Beans Tent for kids. $45, $50, $55, $100. Children under 12 free. Staatsburgh.

(800) 594-8499; www.hudsonvalleygreenfestival.com.

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TICKETS ONLINE AT

THELINDA.ORG OR CALL 518.465.5233 x4

September 10-11. The seasonal bookend to last spring’s WDST Mountain Jam, this two-day jamboree is co-headlined by guitar virtuoso Keller Williams and beloved New York funk unit Soulive. The event also promises appearances by the New Mastersounds, U-Melt, Easy All-Stars, Yarn, Particle, Toubab Krewe, DJ Logic, Caravan of Thieves, and many more, and happens at Delaware County’s Camp Minglewood (chosen in tribute to the Dead’s version of “New Minglewood Blues,” perhaps?). $85, $95, $115. Hancock.

(845) 265-5559; www.catskillchill.com.

The Sweet Clementines September 10, 11. New Paltz’s Sweet Clementines somehow join the dots between angular artsiness (Zappa, XTC), chiming country rock (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers), and classic ’60s pop (Beatles, Kinks). With a lineup that includes local-scene vets singer-guitarist John Burdick (Wormwood), bassist Jason Sarubbi (the Trapps), and drummer Matt Senzatimore (Rat Boy), the band recently added vibraphonist Paul Carroll to bring still another magic twist to its intriguing blend. This month the Clems play the Wherehouse in Newburgh (September 10) and Bacchus in New Paltz (September 11). Call for cover prices. Wherehouse: (845) 561-7240. Bacchus: (845) 255-8636. www.myspace.com/sweetclementines.

John Fogerty September 12. No rock’n’roll band is more quintessentially American than Creedence Clearwater Revival. During the group’s 1967-72 heyday, rock was in the throes of psychedelia and in danger of losing its head in the clouds. But CCR, led by songwriter, guitarist, and roaring belter nonpareil Fogerty, brought the music back down to its gritty, swampy roots and into a rich gumbo of rockabilly, R&B, country, and pop. You know the hits: “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Fortunate Son,” and “Born on the Bayou,” to name a few; not to mention Fogerty solo smashes “Centerfield” and “Rockin’ All Over the World.” Here, the man makes a rare area showing at HITS-on-the-Hudson. $50.

Saugerties. (845) 246-8833; www.bardavon.org.

John fogerty performs at hits-on-the-hudson in saugerties on september 12.

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cd reviews Brian Goss The Firing Line (2010, BTG Records)

Well, this was unexpected. Brian Goss’s solo debut, The Firing Line, is a genteel, sui generis masterstroke miles removed from his previous work: the noisy acid rock of Dripping Goss, the hardcore of Warzone, and the Les Paul histrionics of Fuzz Deluxe. Unfortunately, the lyrics suggest that Goss had to go through his fair share of hell to get to this level, and a note on his website confirms that the creator “describes it as a record about heartbreak, perseverance and conciliation.” From the majestic, quietly shimmering opening chords of “Trainwreck in Your Eyes,” one is transported to a hermetic world peopled with characters named—“Tina,” “Hey Marianne,” “Gig,” “Mary’s Leather Clown”—and unnamed—the son in “Trainwreck,” the estranged lover in “Time to Fold,” and the nemesis (“I’m a criminal, made her heavy”) in the title track.

Occasionally, the stories are cryptic, and Goss’s frequent faux-Brit accent seems borrowed from his brother, who spent time in London; but overall there’s an enchanting, dream-like quality that makes The Firing Line perfect for late-night drives and bleary mornings after. Soaking in Goss’s melancholy seems a bit perverse, but it’s sonically rewarding just the same. Goss’s voice is at the center of this journey, but contributions from his brother Tom (drums), Jane Scarpantoni (cello), Adam Widoff (keyboards), Simone Felice (vocals), and others make The Firing Line not such a lonely place after all. www.briangossmusic.com.

—Michael Eck

The David Arner Trio Out/In the Open (2009, Not Two Records)

It’s gratifying to see David Arner finally getting some acknowledgement from beyond the, shall we say, rarified confines of the local free-jazz scene. After giving of himself for several years as the curator of the revelatory New Vanguard Series, the Port Ewen pianist bowed out of that role to concentrate on his own music—a well-earned move that’s very quickly paid off, artistically speaking. Besides performing at New York’s prestigious Vision Festival—the music’s World Series, if you will—Arner has caught the ears of some key labels. With his trio of Troy bassist Michael Bisio and New York drummer Jay Rosen, the leader recently waxed two CDs of his impressions of Porgy and Bess material for CIMP, as well as this superb outing for Poland’s Not Two imprint.

Intimately and pristinely recorded in the pianist’s living room, Out/In the Open is an aural delight, six lengthy, spontaneous performances that add up to an hour of astonishing music. Fans of Bisio revere him for his exceptional arco technique and right away they’ll be satisfied by the opener, “Double Nature,” which begins with his bow scraping the strings with deliciously painful slowness. Arner’s churning chops have won him comparisons to Cecil Taylor, but to these ears his touch is more wistful, not nearly as heavy-handed. Perhaps a less bluesy, more abstract McCoy Tyner is more accurate. In that light, it’s the closer, a poignant but exploratory deconstruction of Rodgers and Hart’s “My Romance,” that offers the most telling glimpse into Arner’s Great American Songbook roots. www.nottwo.com.

—Peter Aaron

UPSTATE MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS: Your work deserves attention. Which means you need a great bio for your press kit or website. One that’s tight. Clean. Professionally written.

Something memorable. Something a booking agent, a record-label person, a promoter, or a gallery owner won’t just use to wipe up the coffee spill on their desk before throwing away.

When you’re ready, I’m here.

PETER AARON Music editor, Chronogram.

Award-winning music columnist, 2005-2006, Daily Freeman.

Contributor, Village Voice, Boston Herald, All Music Guide, All About Jazz.com, Jazz Improv and Roll magazines. Musician.

Consultations also available. Reasonable rates.

Klessa Aloha Demons

See samples at www.peteraaron.org. E-mail info@peteraaron.org for rates.

(2010, Independent)

If Klessa had formed in, say, an upscale neighborhood of Brooklyn, the band’s peculiar mix of instrumentation— piano, clarinet, bells, and accordion are prominent; the drums are softly hammered or whisked; guitars are an afterthought—would likely come clad in preppie corduroy and bourgeois pretension. As it is, this charming New Paltz quartet projects earthy sincerity and a deceptively ramshackle DIY sensibility; just because the 10 songs on Aloha Demons clatter and shuffle and proudly show their seams doesn’t mean they haven’t been painstakingly arranged (for example, all four members sing in constantly varying combinations and intensities).

The welcoming tone of the title isn’t ironic: Aloha Demons finds Klessa engaging ghosts of all sorts—wrestling with the past, filling houses with poltergeists, and dancing with the layers of personality we all wear around like clothes in winter. Midway through the rhyming lament “Song Never Sung,” the tune falls away, leaving the group to solemnly intone, “You pushed your head under pillows in your bed / Screaming: ‘I want back what has been made dead.’” As carefully crafted as each song is, however, the energy level slumps in the second half, as too many of the band’s songs follow similar pacing and a (novel, at first) refusal to build songs along a standard verse-chorus-verse structure. As a first effort, Aloha Demons has oodles of spirit; in time, expect Klessa to find better ways of showing off its low-light magic. www.myspace.com/plancakes.

—Mike Wolf

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by peter aaron

FIONN REILLY

Music

Words to Live By

ReadNex Poetry Squad

ReadNex Poetry Squad: Decora, Latin Translator, Jarabe Del Sol, DJ H20, Free Flowin 44 music ChronograM 9/10

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here’s a dude in the corner of the room playing the piano. And doing it well. He’s putting down some soft and beautiful tinkling, like maybe he has a few Bill Evans or George Shearing records at home. It’s late in the afternoon and he’s making the place feel more like cocktail time at the Rainbow Room than happy hour at Kingston’s Keegan Ales, which is what it is, actually. Probably not what you’d expect from a mike-rocking hip-hop MC. “I can fake it okay, I guess,” says a grinning Jarabe Del Sol, who, with his coMCs Decora, Freeflowin, and Latin Translator and turntablist DJ H20, makes up Hudson Valley words-and-music crew ReadNex Poetry Squad. Further confounding expectations, perhaps, is the fact that Del Sol is actually a multiinstrumentalist: “I play guitar, too, but I’m more of a drummer,” adds the rapper known as Cuttz El Colombiano on the group’s early releases. “I was playing the drums before I could speak English.” For ReadNex, however, defying the general public’s perception of what it means to be a hip-hop band—and what hip-hop itself means—is par for the course. Heroically so.

Right from the group’s 2001 inception, when the members met as students at Middletown’s Orange County Community College during a campus openmike night, ReadNex has been as much about effecting positive social change as it has been about music. The band is an out-and-out activist machine, for whose members art and progressive work are simply inseparable. Besides releasing three albums on the band’s own DeBefore label; playing on HBO Latino and at hallowed venues the Apollo Theater and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; touring the US, Canada, Europe, and Brazil; and performing regionally as a group and as individuals at spoken-word gigs, ReadNex maintains a packed itinerary of educational and public advocacy efforts. Along with steady appearances at benefit and awareness-raising events—the group was en route to a climate-controlthemed affair at the time of its Chronogram interview, after having played a state education conference in Hew Hampshire the night before—examples of the outreach actions the outfit regularly organizes include food and clothing drives, inner-city farmers’ markets, youth-mentoring programs, and student-empowerment workshops. But because the media only likes to occasionally play up the odd cause-boosting but less-than-sincere photo op by splashy money men like P. Diddy or his swaggering gangsta peers, for many ReadNex’s steady regimen of altruistic endeavors will likely be another expectation-shattering revelation.

“Mahatma Ghandi said,‘Be the change you want to see in the world,’” quotes Decora, who, like his band ates, is a perpetual font of wisdom-bearing axioms.

“There are four elements that make up hip-hop culture: rapping, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing. We’ve added a fifth, ambiguous element, which is more personal and can be anything you want it to be. Not that you can’t do more than one thing, but for some people that extra element might be spoken word or poetry; for others it could be comedy. And for some it might be the kind of social change activities that we do.”

But with all this talk about ReadNex’s extracurricular doings, there’s the danger of taking the focus off its music—do so at your own risk, however.

At a Kingston performance shortly after the release of the group’s second album, Social IssUes (DeBefore Records; reviewed in the December 2006 issue of Chronogram), the group was devastating, the four MCs stalking the stage and discharging their words with angry abandon while DJ H2O threw up a dense storm of sounds and beats behind them. Integral to the band’s studio sound has been its behind-the-scenes sixth member, producer Charlie “Fox” Graham, who’s been on board almost since the beginning. “I would see them play at the open mikes back in 2001 and their energy was just amazing,” Graham recalls.

“We ended up doing a demo and then the first album [2004’s F.O.S.S.L., also DeBefore], and things just kept going. As far as I know they’re one of the first groups to apply such eclectic styles to the music. Especially on [new album] Day before Sound (DeBefore), which has rock, Latin, reggae, folk, and world music, along with hip-hop, house, and spoken word.”

With its alchemical, psychedelic blend, Day before Sound holds such provocative tracks as Del Sol’s eerily prescient—in light of the Gulf oil spill—ecology commentary “Deaf Ears Can’t Be Environmentally Sound” and Freeflowin’s flamenco guitar-laced lover letter to the music that freed her mind and allowed everything else to follow, “When Life Gives You Capital-ism Choose Hip-Hop.”

But it’s with the record’s power-packed closer, “Be Dif’Rent,” that the band has waxed a new anthem for young outsiders, one that aims to let them know they’re not alone and that it’s okay to be, yes, different. Over a loud and relentlessly throbbing electro-pulse, the MCs trade rhymes sure to resonate with any disaffected or inner-city kid who hears them: “This is for the Chinese-Dominican with the cinnamon-colored hair / This is for the Puerto Rican on the weekend lookin’ to express his poetry through guitar / This is for the black kid in the moshpit with the Mohawk / the white kid in the rhyme circle with the ’frohawk / This is for the IED-ADD’s / on the way to GED / Low test scores and didn’t take your SAT / Yellow, purple, black, or brown / growin’ up with no cops around / Gun clappin’ was the sound / that put you to sleep.” The group recently completed a video for the song, to be released this month.

Day before Sound features guest artists from the underground hip-hop world—Red Clay’s Baron and R&B duo Indigo Brown—but there’s another, likely unexpected contributor, a musician whose family lineage links ReadNex straight to a protest music legend: Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, who appears on the intriguingly titled “America Bolivariana: The Reflection of Self-Revolution.”

“The ReadNex [members] are totally fearless when it comes to music,” says Rodriguez-Seeger, the grandson of Pete Seeger. “They sat in with my band at the Clearwater Festival once, and Decora and Jarabe rhymed in English and Spanish over the music. I’d never done anything like that before, and it was really incredible. We definitely did the most exciting version of ‘This Land Is Your Land’ I’ve ever played.”

Bringing the noise—and the message—from sea to shining sea has opened not only the ears, eyes, and minds of their audiences, but also those of the MCs and DJ themselves. In 2008 the unit embarked on its Frontlines Tour, a mammoth, self-funded expedition (another anachronism for a genre whose mainstream stars won’t hit the road unless it’s in a corporate-sponsored sleeper bus) that took the group to 40 cities and towns across the US. “We visited these tiny places like Whitesburg, Kentucky [pop. 1500], where they really hadn’t had hip-hop before.

And they were crazy for it. After the show we ended up jamming at someone’s house. H20 was spinning while people were playing mandolins and fiddles— some were even drinking moonshine,” says Latin Translator, today sipping ginger ale, like his bandmates. “Wherever we go on tour, besides doing the performance we try to also hold one of our workshops and also talk to the people to learn about the issues they’re facing locally,” explains Decora. “So in places like Kentucky and Virginia we got to know more about the lives of the coal miners and their families, about how black lung is still a huge problem. And about oxycoton addiction in rural areas, how mountaintop-removal mining has been destroying the environment there. We try to take what we discover and pass it along at the next places we go to: ‘Learn, Educate, Repeat’ is one of our main mantras.”

To that end, the group’s self-devised, interactive “Next to Be Read” and “Hip-Hop and Poetry Saved My Life” school workshops have been major hits with students and educators. Both are customizable symposiums that, according to the group’s website, include such activities as “lyrical adaptation of school work; hip-hop-oriented phonetic and kinesthetic learning; using poetic devices for writing English essays; and using hip-hop and poetry as a platform to understand academic subjects and convey sensitive topics in schools.” “HipHop and Poetry Saved My Life” is the more immersive program, with students spending 10 days with members of ReadNex. “[The latter workshop] is more than us doing musical and spoken-word performances and leading the students through activities,” says Freeflowin. “It encompasses a lot of personal stories in which we talk about how hip-hop and poetry impacted each of us specifically, and about how we use them in our daily lives.”

With all of the band’s thankless self-sacrificing and constant toiling in the good fight, however, how long does she think the group can keep going? “Forever,” she says. “This is what we do. We’re married to each other.”

But, still, if there ever did come a day when the members of ReadNex Poetry Squad decided to go their separate ways, what would each of them do?

Decora answers without hesitation: “The right thing.”

And what else would you expect?

Day before Sound is out now on DeBefore Records. www.debeforerecords.com.

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SEP 8 / 8pm

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SEP 11 / 7:30pm SEP 16 / 67

PM -RECEP PM- FILM

SPECIAL WAMC BENEFIT CONCERT

SEP 17 / 89

PM -DOORS PM- SHOW

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BUCKY AND JOHN PIZZARELLI

SEP 18 / 7pm

SEP 19 / 6pm

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

Wall Street Jazz Festival September 3-4. For its seventh year, the Wall Street Jazz Festival again brings hot and cool sounds to the Stockade area. It kicks off at the Beahive with a duet by tap dancer Brenda Buffalino and vocalist Jay Clayton, followed by pianist Peggy Stern and saxophonist “Sweet” Sue Terry, and swings across the street to Backstage Studio Productions the next night for guitarists Vic Juris and Claire Daly, singer-pianist Dena Denarose, Latin band Estrella Samba y Salsa, and more. September 3: $10. September 4: Free. Kingston.

(845) 246-4106; www.wallstreetjazzfestival.com.

Hudson Valley Green Festival September 4. True to its name, this Chronogram-co-sponsored event focuses on alternative energy and related themes. But, of course, we’re really here for the music. The lineup for the fling at Mills-Norrie State Park (adjacent to the Staatsburgh State Historic Site) is impressive: Blues Traveler, Donna the Buffalo, Amos Lee, BeauSoleil, Mike & Ruthy, the Duke and the King, John Brown’s Body, and others. Extras include local food and the Green Beans Tent for kids. $45, $50, $55, $100. Children under 12 free. Staatsburgh.

(800) 594-8499; www.hudsonvalleygreenfestival.com.

Catskill Chill Music Festival FILM AND DISCUSSION WITH CATE LABARRE

FLAME

SEP 23 / 7pm

SEP 24 / 8pm

TICKETS ONLINE AT

THELINDA.ORG OR CALL 518.465.5233 x4

September 10-11. The seasonal bookend to last spring’s WDST Mountain Jam, this two-day jamboree is co-headlined by guitar virtuoso Keller Williams and beloved New York funk unit Soulive. The event also promises appearances by the New Mastersounds, U-Melt, Easy All-Stars, Yarn, Particle, Toubab Krewe, DJ Logic, Caravan of Thieves, and many more, and happens at Delaware County’s Camp Minglewood (chosen in tribute to the Dead’s version of “New Minglewood Blues,” perhaps?). $85, $95, $115. Hancock.

(845) 265-5559; www.catskillchill.com.

The Sweet Clementines September 10, 11. New Paltz’s Sweet Clementines somehow join the dots between angular artsiness (Zappa, XTC), chiming country rock (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers), and classic ’60s pop (Beatles, Kinks). With a lineup that includes local-scene vets singer-guitarist John Burdick (Wormwood), bassist Jason Sarubbi (the Trapps), and drummer Matt Senzatimore (Rat Boy), the band recently added vibraphonist Paul Carroll to bring still another magic twist to its intriguing blend. This month the Clems play the Wherehouse in Newburgh (September 10) and Bacchus in New Paltz (September 11). Call for cover prices. Wherehouse: (845) 561-7240. Bacchus: (845) 255-8636. www.myspace.com/sweetclementines.

John Fogerty September 12. No rock’n’roll band is more quintessentially American than Creedence Clearwater Revival. During the group’s 1967-72 heyday, rock was in the throes of psychedelia and in danger of losing its head in the clouds. But CCR, led by songwriter, guitarist, and roaring belter nonpareil Fogerty, brought the music back down to its gritty, swampy roots and into a rich gumbo of rockabilly, R&B, country, and pop. You know the hits: “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Fortunate Son,” and “Born on the Bayou,” to name a few; not to mention Fogerty solo smashes “Centerfield” and “Rockin’ All Over the World.” Here, the man makes a rare area showing at HITS-on-the-Hudson. $50.

Saugerties. (845) 246-8833; www.bardavon.org.

John fogerty performs at hits-on-the-hudson in saugerties on september 12.

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cd reviews Brian Goss The Firing Line (2010, BTG Records)

Well, this was unexpected. Brian Goss’s solo debut, The Firing Line, is a genteel, sui generis masterstroke miles removed from his previous work: the noisy acid rock of Dripping Goss, the hardcore of Warzone, and the Les Paul histrionics of Fuzz Deluxe. Unfortunately, the lyrics suggest that Goss had to go through his fair share of hell to get to this level, and a note on his website confirms that the creator “describes it as a record about heartbreak, perseverance and conciliation.” From the majestic, quietly shimmering opening chords of “Trainwreck in Your Eyes,” one is transported to a hermetic world peopled with characters named—“Tina,” “Hey Marianne,” “Gig,” “Mary’s Leather Clown”—and unnamed—the son in “Trainwreck,” the estranged lover in “Time to Fold,” and the nemesis (“I’m a criminal, made her heavy”) in the title track.

Occasionally, the stories are cryptic, and Goss’s frequent faux-Brit accent seems borrowed from his brother, who spent time in London; but overall there’s an enchanting, dream-like quality that makes The Firing Line perfect for late-night drives and bleary mornings after. Soaking in Goss’s melancholy seems a bit perverse, but it’s sonically rewarding just the same. Goss’s voice is at the center of this journey, but contributions from his brother Tom (drums), Jane Scarpantoni (cello), Adam Widoff (keyboards), Simone Felice (vocals), and others make The Firing Line not such a lonely place after all. www.briangossmusic.com.

—Michael Eck

The David Arner Trio Out/In the Open (2009, Not Two Records)

It’s gratifying to see David Arner finally getting some acknowledgement from beyond the, shall we say, rarified confines of the local free-jazz scene. After giving of himself for several years as the curator of the revelatory New Vanguard Series, the Port Ewen pianist bowed out of that role to concentrate on his own music—a well-earned move that’s very quickly paid off, artistically speaking. Besides performing at New York’s prestigious Vision Festival—the music’s World Series, if you will—Arner has caught the ears of some key labels. With his trio of Troy bassist Michael Bisio and New York drummer Jay Rosen, the leader recently waxed two CDs of his impressions of Porgy and Bess material for CIMP, as well as this superb outing for Poland’s Not Two imprint.

Intimately and pristinely recorded in the pianist’s living room, Out/In the Open is an aural delight, six lengthy, spontaneous performances that add up to an hour of astonishing music. Fans of Bisio revere him for his exceptional arco technique and right away they’ll be satisfied by the opener, “Double Nature,” which begins with his bow scraping the strings with deliciously painful slowness. Arner’s churning chops have won him comparisons to Cecil Taylor, but to these ears his touch is more wistful, not nearly as heavy-handed. Perhaps a less bluesy, more abstract McCoy Tyner is more accurate. In that light, it’s the closer, a poignant but exploratory deconstruction of Rodgers and Hart’s “My Romance,” that offers the most telling glimpse into Arner’s Great American Songbook roots. www.nottwo.com.

—Peter Aaron

UPSTATE MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS: Your work deserves attention. Which means you need a great bio for your press kit or website. One that’s tight. Clean. Professionally written.

Something memorable. Something a booking agent, a record-label person, a promoter, or a gallery owner won’t just use to wipe up the coffee spill on their desk before throwing away.

When you’re ready, I’m here.

PETER AARON Music editor, Chronogram.

Award-winning music columnist, 2005-2006, Daily Freeman.

Contributor, Village Voice, Boston Herald, All Music Guide, All About Jazz.com, Jazz Improv and Roll magazines. Musician.

Consultations also available. Reasonable rates.

Klessa Aloha Demons

See samples at www.peteraaron.org. E-mail info@peteraaron.org for rates.

(2010, Independent)

If Klessa had formed in, say, an upscale neighborhood of Brooklyn, the band’s peculiar mix of instrumentation— piano, clarinet, bells, and accordion are prominent; the drums are softly hammered or whisked; guitars are an afterthought—would likely come clad in preppie corduroy and bourgeois pretension. As it is, this charming New Paltz quartet projects earthy sincerity and a deceptively ramshackle DIY sensibility; just because the 10 songs on Aloha Demons clatter and shuffle and proudly show their seams doesn’t mean they haven’t been painstakingly arranged (for example, all four members sing in constantly varying combinations and intensities).

The welcoming tone of the title isn’t ironic: Aloha Demons finds Klessa engaging ghosts of all sorts—wrestling with the past, filling houses with poltergeists, and dancing with the layers of personality we all wear around like clothes in winter. Midway through the rhyming lament “Song Never Sung,” the tune falls away, leaving the group to solemnly intone, “You pushed your head under pillows in your bed / Screaming: ‘I want back what has been made dead.’” As carefully crafted as each song is, however, the energy level slumps in the second half, as too many of the band’s songs follow similar pacing and a (novel, at first) refusal to build songs along a standard verse-chorus-verse structure. As a first effort, Aloha Demons has oodles of spirit; in time, expect Klessa to find better ways of showing off its low-light magic. www.myspace.com/plancakes.

—Mike Wolf

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Books

RIVER OF WORDS

A Celebration of Hudson Valley Writers

By Nina Shengold

Photographs by Jennifer May

Seven years ago, I sent a personal essay about swimming to a Chronogram contest and got a phone call from editor Brian Mahoney, who (after gently informing me the contest was for fiction), asked whether I’d like to write profiles. My first assignment was New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan, such a treat that I couldn’t believe I was going to get paid.

Soon after, Chronogram invited me to become its books editor. It’s been my privilege to profile more than 50 area writers, often working with photographer Jennifer May. While crossing the Hudson on one of many scenic drives to an interview, we started to dream about collaborating on a book. SUNY Press enthusiastically accepted our proposal for River of Words: Portraits of HudsonValleyWriters, and the real work began.

The Hudson Valley is home to thousands of writers, and choosing our 76 subjects was a daunting task. Jen and I wanted to offer a glimpse of the region’s astonishing literary diversity, including writers of all genres, of various ages and backgrounds, living in different parts of the river’s long watershed. She wanted great faces; I wanted great stories. At some point we realized we could include more people by interspersing the magazine-length profiles with single-page “minis.” Here is a selection of these shorter pieces and Jen’s eloquent portraits. Consider them amuse-bouches, a tasting sampler not only from River of Words but also from the magnificent bounty of the Hudson Valley’s literary feast.

ALISON GAYLIN How many Edgar Award nominees have been thrown out of David Hasselhoff’s wedding? “There are not many more embarrassing things that can happen to you,” laughs Alison Gaylin. Fresh from a theater major at Northwestern University, she was hired by the LA bureau of the Star, where her beat included going undercover as an extra on TV sets and crashing Fred Savage’s bar mitzvah.

At Columbia journalism school, the former tabloid reporter was richly amused by the required course on journalistic ethics. “For everything I did at the Star, I never falsely reported there were weapons of mass destruction,” Gaylin maintains.

A lifelong reader of mysteries, true-crime classics, and “darker fiction” by authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Gaylin loves an adrenaline rush. “I never minded having nightmares,” she says. “I liked the feeling of being scared.” So she started writing a crime novel called Hide Your Eyes.

Her first draft didn’t sell. “I had great characters, but not the suspense,” she reports. Gaylin taught herself structure by reading a hundred mysteries, rewrote “top to bottom,” and sold her manuscript to Signet—10 years after she started it. Then her career hit the fast track with an Edgar nod. In short order, she turned out a sequel (You Kill Me) and two hardcover stand-alones (Trashed and Heartless). “My work process involves lots of Red Bull and Rock Star,” she deadpans.

Woodstock, where she lives with her filmmaker husband and their young daughter, may counterbalance the energy drinks. Or not. Gaylin’s just started writing a new series about a missing-persons investigator with a rare form of total recall. Like her previous books, they’ll feature smart, feisty women and plenty of blood. “I write crime fiction with a fair amount of humor, but also some grisly murders,” she says, grinning. Bring on the nightmares.

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EDWIN SANCHEZ Eddie Sanchez knows how to make a theatrical entrance. As he steps onto the deck of his mountainside home in Sullivan County, he’s joined by a peacock in full iridescent plumage. This is Percy, who showed up “out of nowhere” three years ago. Sanchez and his partner of 28 years, Alden Thayer, lured him with birdseed and music; Cher did the trick. “We looked at each other and said, ‘Oh, he’s gay. Another dresser.’”

Sanchez was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. His family lived in the Bronx till he was 13, then returned to Puerto Rico. At 20, he moved to New York to be an actor. “At that time, the only roles available to me were stereotypical: You were either a gang member, a pimp, or a drug dealer, and your one big line would be ‘Yo!’” He wrote his play “Trafficking in Broken Hearts” “to explode a stereotype”: the complex lead, Papo, is a gay hustler. “At the first staged reading at South Coast Rep, they posted a sign that said Adults Only, so of course the whole staff went—they’re no fools. I was so nervous, I was climbing the walls.” The Q&A afterward wowed him.

“They were so kind. They called it a lovely play, a love story.” The play launched his career.

He went on to upend other controversial topics, including a priest’s love for a 10-year-old boy (“Clean”) and serial murders (“Unmerciful Good Fortune”). A professor at Yale Drama School once told Sanchez he’d be more successful if he didn’t write so many Hispanic characters. “So of course I wrote more.” He shrugs defiantly.

Sanchez just finished his first novel, Diary of a Puerto Rican Demigod (“I love it when people ask,‘Is it autobiographical?’”). But he’ll never be far from the theater. “I still adore writing plays,” he says. “You’re creating this whole world. My favorite moment is tech week, when you see all these people working: actors, people with tool belts—everybody came here because one day I looked at a blank page and wrote down ‘At Rise.’”

opposite: alison gaylin, edwin sanchez; above: sparrow, kris carr.

SPARROW “Is it just me, or is there something about the Hudson Valley that makes every single person who lives here eccentric?” asks Sparrow. He’s wearing a parka over an unseasonably bulky sweater, and removes his shoes after sitting in Kingston’s Wing Shui Chinese restaurant. He always carries a bag full of books in case he gets stuck in an elevator. “I have anxiety—that’s why people think of me as a humorist.”

Sparrow’s laugh is a sharp, percussive double bark that sounds almost as if he’s saying, “Ha. Ha.” At readings, he riffles through dog-eared piles of paper painstakingly lettered in different-colored inks. His comic timing is impeccable. Bob Holman once posted a sign outside the Bowery Poetry Club billing Sparrow as “the world’s wisest, funniest, and worst poet.”

The native NewYorker got his mononame from a fellow employee at Mother Earth Health Foods in 1975. He moved to Shandaken when his wife, writer Violet Snow, started yearning for greenery. “I begged her to go to Mexico—at least they have a culture. As you may have noticed, living in America is like living in a shoebox.”

Sparrow has run for president in every election cycle since 1996, when he ran as a radical communist in the Republican party. His books Republican Like Me; Yes, You ARE a Revolutionary! and America: A Prophecy are published by Soft Skull Press. He also writes for The Sun and the New York Observer; his Phoenicia Times column “Heard by a Bird” includes fictional gossip, imaginary bumper stickers, and biweekly portraits of actual clouds. (Sparrow is also a frequent contributor to this magazine, as well as a former columnist.)

Sparrow calls himself “a subsistence writer. I grow just enough words to live.”

Where would he most like to subsist? He scratches his beard, then remembers a National Geographic he saw at a laundromat. “The cover photo was this arid but bizarrely beautiful landscape, and I thought, ‘That’s where I want to live!’ It was Mars.”

KRIS CARR A lovely young woman is framed in the window of Woodstock’s Garden Café. Her name is Kris Carr, she has cancer, and she wants to rock your world.

The former actress got an out-of-nowhere diagnosis in 2003, after a strenuous yoga class left her with abdominal pains. Doctors found 24 tumors of a rare, inoperable cancer called epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Two weeks later, she started a video diary, which became the Learning Center documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer.

Carr explored every form of alternative healing she could find and bonded with other “survivor-babes.” Along the way, she married her cameraman, wrote a bestseller called Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, and wound up on Oprah.

“It usually takes a trauma for people to wake up.When you wake up, you look around.

That’s what happened with me,” Carr says, stirring soy milk into her chai. A vegan and raw-foods enthusiast, she calls health food stores and farmers’ markets “my pharmacy.”

Though she’d been an “obsessive” journal-keeper since age 16, Carr didn’t envision herself as a writer. But healing opened the floodgates. “Crazy sexy cancer” was her subject line on e-mails to friends. “I wanted to prove I still had my sense of humor; I’m still the same girl,” she says. “I didn’t want to be safe about it.”

Carr grew up in Pawling and moved to Manhattan at 19, but “after the diagnosis, I wanted to be back in nature.” So she and husband Brian Fassett moved their production company upstate. Carr wrote Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor in 2008; Crazy Sexy Diet, a lifestyle and diet book, is forthcoming. She’s also developing a TV series based on her motto “Live Like You Mean It.” Being Kris Carr is a cottage industry, and she does it with irrepressible style. “I broke up with hijiki,” she says of her macrobiotic period.

“Hijiki and I are ex-lovers.”

Seven years later, her tumors remain stable. “I could wake up tomorrow and it’s worse, I could wake up tomorrow and I’m cured, but I don’t think about either of those things,” Carr asserts. “It’s the same old, same old: Gotta change the world.”

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SHORT TAKES Build a castle, draw a plant, put on a show, self-publish a book, or just clean your closet—a Labor Day tribute to do-it-yourselfers of every persuasion.

Castles of New York Scott Ian Barry Excelsior Editions, 2010, $29.95

Woodstock wolfmeister Barry (Wolf Empire) turns his lens on New York State’s castles, exploring the romance and beauty of Olana, Cat Rock, Wing’s Castle, Lyndhurst, and many more. Eye-filling photos and detailed essays celebrate the architectural vision and deep-dish eccentricity of men who would be kings. Book launch party 9/10 at 7:30pm, Oblong Books, Rhinebeck.

Botanical Drawing in Color: A Basic Guide to Mastering Realistic Form and Naturalistic Color Wendy Hollender Watson Guptill/Random House, 2010, $24.99

Ever wished for a flower that wouldn’t fade? This gorgeously illustrated manual offers expert advice on the fascinating art of drawing plants. With exercises, examples, and guidance on everything from choosing art materials to positioning subjects and drawing from life, Accord resident/CSA farmer Hollender’s book is inspiring and instructive for both beginning and advanced artists.

A Jew Grows in Brooklyn Jake Ehrenreich HCI Books, 2010, $14.95

Expanding on his hit Off-Broadway musical memoir, Orange County writer/performer Ehrenreich spins poignant, funny stories about growing up as the son of Holocaust survivors and his long road from mortal embarrassment at his Yiddish nickname “Yonkee” to self-acceptance. You should read it already.

Amos and the Cosmos: A Rollicking Journey Through America’s Heart and Soul Alan Schwartz iUniverse, 2010, $18.95

Amos Boris Lardowitz’s journey in search of his cultural and spiritual self mirrors that quintessentially American dilemma: what is our collective identity? Spanning the explosion of awareness from the 1950s to the century’s end, author and Rhinebeck veterinarian Alan Schwartz’s first novel is a thought-provoking character study.

Minka Ray: The Heartstone Eliza Praetorius, illustrations by Julie Besancon EarthWorks-Books.com, 2010, $12.95

Now here’s an original premise: space-child meets igloo. Bred from half-human stock on an orbiting Mothership and trained as a Navigator, spirited Minka is drawn to Earth by a grieving mother’s song. She lands in the Arctic, where old-ways shamanism and traditional culture are as endangered as whales. Woodstocker Praetorius based her book on a children’s opera.

Be Clutter Free: Sorting Made Simple Rosalyn Cherry, MS, CHT White River Press, 2010, $20

Depressed by accumulations of domestic flotsam and jetsam—but don’t know where to begin—or how to find time? In this slender, colorful book, New Paltz clutter-buster Cherry offers a cheerful, step-by-step approach to reclaiming space without getting utterly overwhelmed.

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Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor

Simon and Schuster, 2010, $15

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tephen O’Connor knows how to use the power of myth—as his story “Ziggurat,” about a minotaur playing with its child victim, demonstrates—to give the void a good hard stare. His literary skill set is daunting. Readers of Here Comes Another Lesson, the Albany County resident’s new story collection, will be entranced by his unexpected metaphors while being led into his gleaming, apocalyptic landscapes.

In his story “Paradise”: “Utterly unfamiliar birds in various combinations of turquoise, school-bus orange and birthday-cake green f litted constantly from branch to branch or darted across the open sky.” On the other side of paradise, where knowledge of good and evil is situated, O’Connor’s breeze bristles with an equal and opposite force: “The leaves were black or blood sausage purple; many were barbed and some of the grasses along the trail were as sharp as razor wire.”

In “Love,” a story about a woman who retreats to an upstate cabin to write a dissertation, the author relays outdoor patters and hisses with methodical precision. His tree branches respond to the woman’s moods like vibrating tuning forks. Nearly every paragraph of the 40-page story gives mention of the shifting that is occurring above her in the leaves and sky. O’Connor brings this descriptive motif to a climax with a palette of glints and grays that are never dull and even mildly shocking. To give imagery an arc displays a rare ability, a poet’s gift. The woman becomes obsessed with ill-perceived threats. She wonders if it is a rural stalker or a bear that she hears. She ponders whether her Williamsburg boyfriend can be trusted. A sleepless night in bed with her father’s hunting knife at her side ends like this: “Only when the ashen light of approaching dawn turned the leaves outside her window the color of cooked liver did she fall briefly into restorative oblivion.”

It is not just the striking correctness of color but also the comic morbidity of a plate of liver causing eyelids to drop that makes this small payoff so bracing.

O’Connor crosses smoothly among narrative modes. The plaintively real, the instructional fable, and the farcically transfigured are all familiar waters. The various figures in his otherworldly designs—a pothead mom, a talking cormorant, an adulterous dentist, an owl flying over someone drunk in a truck—seem to be set in motion by a cosmic force that has the feel of a simple dream. It is fitting, somehow, that conversations drift toward dialectical quandaries such as the difference between belief and knowledge. A professor of Atheistic Studies at a fictive Christian college discovers a book with his name on the cover that he does not remember writing. His driver’s license picture is on the back. It is titled Every Known Delight: Gullibility and the Invention of Believability. When I read what the professor finds between the covers, I laughed so hard that I nearly cracked a rib.

O’Connor’s art is shaped from the labyrinthine sources that have always bestowed fiction with a kind of occult power. His devices are ancient, and an introductory omen usually determines the course. In “White Fire,” a soldier returning from Iraq nearly runs over the toddler in his driveway. The story raises the impossible question of how we can love some children and destroy others. “I know it’s going to be. You know. Very bad,” says the soldier, glimpsing his fate. In O’Connor’s stories, the lessons dangle like forbidden fruit and then drop precisely into our lap.

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t is 1864, and the port town of Rondout bustles. The Hudson is probably the busiest thoroughfare in the whole of the young United States, well situated between New York and Albany, throbbing with commerce and brawling, messy life. The waters of— as Stone Ridge author Bruce Murkoff puts it—“named and unnamed streams” all converge at the great river’s edge, carrying with them the careers and fortunes of the weak and the strong alike. The Civil War is raging, an ominous drumbeat in the near distance.

Will Harp is a gentleman soldier from a military family, back home from the West to try to make sense of his father’s legacy, his unsettling experiences battling native folks, and the changes time has wrought in his Ulster County homeland.

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by Grieves as an enforcer, doing things that tear the siblings apart in ways they could never have imagined. Pearl House is a young woman coming of age in a settlement of free people of color, trying to understand “something about the river town that both repelled and attracted her, much like the taste of sweet onions dug fresh from the earth.”

These people, the events that befall them, and the choices they face form the core of Murkoff’s meticulously researched and beautifully drawn vision of Ulster County life in the middle of the 19th century, when a trip from Kingston to High Falls and back was a long day on horseback, and the Rondout docks teemed with hardened working folk and the harder-still thugs who preyed upon them. It’s not an easy place or time to be a teen orphan, a young woman—or, for that matter, a hardened thug, or a power-hungry landowner.

Experiencing Murkoff’s Rondout is like recognizing your kid’s bone structure in a sepia photo of a distant ancestor—so that’s where that nose came from!

So that’s how we got here!

And like those named and unnamed streams, individuals and events will converge to shape and change one another. Mastodon bones are discovered, dogs are shot; some people die horribly and others fall in love. Each character’s various dilemmas form a gripping storyline of their own, drawing readers in until we can smell the river, hear the horses neighing and the dockmen shouting, and truly care what becomes of these long-ago lives.

Will Jane’s fiancé make it home from the war? Will young Coley manage to resist the allure of the underworld? Will Pearl be able to keep the foundling child she loves? Can sociopathic Mickey somehow be redeemed? Will Grieves succeed in his dastardly designs? And can Will Harp come to terms with his father’s death and what we moderns would call PTSD, and regain a sense of home? In lesser hands, this could be the stuff of melodrama; in Murkoff’s, it’s very real: life as it was lived. His characters change, lust, and mourn, through everyday realities very different from our own, made vivid by Murkoff’s precise rendering. Red Rain is powerful, lyrical, accessible, and great fun.

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POETRY

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

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This is why your Spirit is here!

if i had a nickel for every nickel i’ve had

—Rachel Mol-Wapner (6 years)

i’d be even

To her friend Erik Holmlin as he twirled her around.

but i’m not i’m either up or down —p

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The Mechanics of Sleep

At my grandmother’s I used to sit by the front door holding der Forverts, the almost-dark interrupted

Dear Non Deity Who is nonetheless unfamiliar And familiar both Open receptive Not even a little mundane Dear I don’t like The word spirit Do you? It’s too Much like spirit And those too sweet Native American clove cigarettes.

Dear what word can we use That will make us happy enough Dear Wily Cantalopes Dear Unknown Centers As well as Edges Dear I have a soft spot for Tillie Dear Tillie we always need one all of us do New Year ok I have no choice but to ask for help without beseeching pleading help for life that is not more but less. chaotic. frantic. seeking. looking.

This year we will all have another chance another opportunity more days to imagine less.

365 more days give or take a few to pay attention to walk more slowly to try less hard to learn what kindness means to say I love you.

If I turn left I’m facing her front or back.

If I turn right there’s the door we men have been guarding since the cave.

My back’s to her now, whom I trust awake or asleep, the two of us in our ruts, worn as wheels.

by the glittering edges of glass vases, gilt demitasses, the porcelain child’s starry dress; worn oriental rugs swirled over the floors like water. My grandfather would lift me onto his lap, hear my aleph bet, then send me outside to play among the rosebushes in the dirt patch between the house and the garage, six bushes across to the twisted wire fence with the scallops on top, six back to the locked door, the Chrysler sleeping like a whale in shallows. Over my head, perfect roses with the names of kings and queens unfolding on sparse stems of tear-shaped leaves; on the ground, nothing.

My first eyeglasses sparkled, the frames plaid as the wrappers on Lorna Doones. As I walked to school, my feet came up and the houses along Chauncey slid from side to side over my head as though the earth were a bubble I was inside of, but in school I could see the board, Conservation next to a chalk tree, its roots sucking up pastel blue water.

When I lied to my friends, I’d be blind by 13, the world stopped, there was music, and I swelled through the leaves like a fairy-tale giant. The halos of stars looked like cars coming. Now it’s hardest to see in the mornings and evenings, Bradford pear leaves melt into house paint; alternating lights and darks become racing animals. On sunny days, the world divides itself into planes, clear and sharp as glass stained with bright organisms. I become a child, the lens of my eye, the curve of the Earth.

—Lee Gould

—Esther Cohen

Disease Between blue and red, lives a disease that burns.

It is addiction without water.

When it is water, it drowns and returns to flame.

When it flames, it hurts.

When it names itself art, it becomes saltwater that returns to flame.

—Guil Parreiras

Poplar I say I don’t mind you are dying.

True, you are still mine—tall, towering, easy over the farm and valley.

None of the oak’s sober majesty nor the doomed elm’s lithe grace, not even the tidy graciousness of the maple, you are of less account, weedy poplar.

Tongue of my longing: Restless pivots, your leaves rattle in summer as much as in fall; leaves that shudder hilarious before the storm.

And, upwards you go when all around is crosswise.

Guardian, come down slowly.

—Amy White

Over the many springs the trees have changed their minds on how the rocks should look.

—Joe Millar

Ulster County Hike eight miles up in denim bikini suede boots and jadedragon eardrops, drink-in psychedelic tattoo town, south African blanc, happy, would die before disinterest, she is so splendid he says her neck’s salty, golden caterpillars and northern white cloud morels meet there near sky.

—Bonnie Jill Emanuel

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—John Hopper

I’ve killed three spiders since I moved here.

I feel bad about it.

I ask myself if this carnage was necessary.

When I saw spider #4 contemplating me I had had enough of killing.

We see each other frequently now neither of us having anyplace else to go.

—Elizabeth Caffrey

Homesteaders

Gas Station Sunrise

Drink

They churn the butter and feed the horse in the red barn.

I don’t trust gas stations

I scribbled poetry at 11 Hope, peace, hungry tongues Burgeoned perfume from my New pen Shiny, streaming, eternal Black ink.

As the Sugar Maples turn in sadness, they discuss work-hewn hands (dry as old leaves), the black squirrel stooping on the porch, round and unexpectedly sprightly, the gentle joys of rice paper.

The day unwraps for their eyes, coral, hungry, and bed-wet.

In the middle of the night the wife will open her hands and turn everything to sweet bread.

—Sonia Pereira Murphy

The White Cross There is a white cross in the pasture, a reminder of the gentle horse buried there in the shadow of the great mountain the earthbusy with its bones.

A light rain begins to fall.

I take my time walking up the road to the old white house.

—Chris Macort

You should be old enough to know better, but I won’t stop you. In fact, I’ll join you. I’m old enough, too.

—Will Nixon

God Skimming Stones At the end of the day it’s just God, skimming stones across the pond.

Some go further, while others are more exciting to watch.

But they all sink peacefully to the bottom.

—Stephen Liss

The bald spot to Convertible Ratio Is outstanding I’ve most my hair For now But my sunroof Only goes halfway I already forgot What number pump I left my car Oil leftovers Rainbow in the gravel With the cracked face Of an old pueblo woman Clean these spills With alpaca fur or Alfalfa aftermath or Bermuda grass or Crabgrass or Bluestem or fescue Or—just nuke it off the map, Russia would The big-breasted redhead Ashes reckless As she fills Then shakes her nozzle Urinal-like I only have a quarter-tank’s worth The all-night cashier fumes Framed with The American flag of cigarette variety behind her And hands me fingerprinted change That has belonged to I-don’t-want-to-know-who The drifting 18-wheeler driver Modern highway ship-captain Steps off his freight machine Adjusts his belt Takes in the view As this town Looks just like the last town The sun Competes Beneath The fluorescent awning Headlights weaken In the new day And my sunroof opens Enough to stretch the smell Of the gasoline Lingering on my fingertips Trust aside I might Idle here a while —Shane Cashman

I painted plum-dusk at 13 Wind-swept fires and ghost stalks Alit the adolescent hills and Fresh fields Continuous sunshine, moonshine Haphazard ink.

I took ribbons irreverently at 16 Talent, potential…

Bloating lethargy inside my belly Steady tide Humming youth, living pen and Black ink.

In bed, weak, at 21 Pink and brown circles Fold cheaply against my body Empty-eyed Inspiration dry and sparse faucet drips Depredating drink.

—Elizabeth J. Taylor

Disquiet Not blackened out, but wrapped in a clear blackening air, the avenues lead only into night

—John Hollander, Power Failures A porcelain bowl on the slate table, white on black, and the pictures hanging side by side, Chinese horses, a Japanese garden brushed in ink, held in dark frame— colors were absent. I smeared scarlet on the plastered wall to remember days of desire, a semblance of drama against monotony.

Had I hung my portrait, it would have a scowl against time looting seasons, the frown on the ceiling that stares down at an impoverished face.

I spy words in their swaying between truth and pretense, a mute alphabet unpredictable, meandering, to tints and objects.

I keep circling the dragon of fear stirring from black and white, from a red wall and the million pages of books— the fear of crowds and of aloneness, of life and life waning.

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It’s the last of these attributes that makes Saugerties—which is the name of both the village and the town that surrounds it—geographically unique to other Hudson Valley locations. Saugerties lies exactly 100 miles up the NewYork State Thurway from Manhattan and is spread out over 68 square miles along the base of the Catskill Mountains to its west. At the town’s heart is the 2.3-mile-square village, which is bordered on its east by the Esopus Creek, a tributary with walkable shorelines that’s connected to the Hudson River. Saugerties not only has the easy mountain access of its neighboring Catskills towns, but also its own beach making it known as “the place where the mountains meet the river.”

Hamlets, Here Art Thou Cross cut by Main and Partition streets, the village of Saugerties is a Christmas cardworthy tableau of clapboard and brick buildings holding a diverse array of stores, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and other amenities including a renovated 1890 vaudevilletheater-cum-movie house, the Orpheum. Also still to be found in both the village and outlying town are many of its original 17th- and 18th-century stone houses, such as the Kiersted House, home to the Saugerties Historical Society. Dotting the map around the village are a considerable number of hamlets, 24 in all; mostly small but distinctive, blink-and-you-might-miss-’em spots like Mount Marion, Malden-on-Hudson, Glenerie, Quarryville, Glasco, Fish Creek, Canoe Hill, and Veteran.

The name Saugerties is thought to be a variation on an old Dutch word meaning “sawyer,” or a person who operates a saw mill, and has been traced to one Barent Cornelius Volge, the builder of such a structure at nearby Sawyer’s Kill in the 1600s. The sawyer term lives on as the name of the high school’s sports teams, as does the blue-

collar base that was for generations linked to the area’s saw and paper mills. Although today the mills are gone (the largest, the Cantine Paper Mill, burned down in 1978), Saugerites retains its proud working roots, and is lauded for its good school system, low crime rate, and welcoming, family-oriented sense of community. Notable natives include “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon, baseball historian John Thorn, herbalist Susun Weed, and John Henson, son of late Muppets creator Jim Henson.

“It’s a really special place, with a lot of history,” says another well-known Saugertiesian, Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who grew up in the town. “Overall, people are very friendly, and the town government does well for them. There are a lot of great economic opportunities, and just about every building in the village is inhabited and operating—there really aren’t very many vacant storefronts there these days.”

A Beacon That Beckons The shining icon of the community is the Saugerties Lighthouse. Located at the tip of a wooded peninsula extending into the Hudson, it dates from 1835, when it used whale oil lamps to guide river traffic.Today the lighthouse, which was rebuilt in 1869, serves as an atypical bed-and-breakfast and each August stages the all-ages Between the Tides Festival.

Another of the town’s beloved waterside family attractions is the Arm-of-the-Sea Mask and Puppet Theater. Every August, the 20-years-and-running troupe presents two nights of performances, known as the Esopus Creek Puppet Suite, at Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park (located on a bank of the Esopus Creek adjacent to the village’s two functioning marinas). Using handcrafted papier-mâché masks and props, the players weave enchanting stories of magical realism centering on environmental and social topics.

If Saugerties had an official flower it might very well be the garlic blossom, in tribute to the wildly popular Hudson Valley Garlic Festival.The event, held every September for the last 22 years, rain or shine, at the Cantine Field sports complex (this year it takes place September 25 and 26), has drawn upward of 40,000 people and offers a never-ending variety of traditional and inventive dishes made with the so-called “stinking rose”—garlic chicken, garlic soup, even garlic chocolates and ice cream—plus live entertainment and vendors.

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Accent on Art “I kind of fell upon the place by accident,” says English-born Adrian Frost, a long-time local resident, internationally shown artist, and curator of the cutting-edge 11 Cross Street Gallery. “I’d been living in Mount Marion and got to know the rest of the town from there. The arts scene is wonderful, there’s a lot of great artists working here. But what drew me in originally was the geographical beauty. I can step out my studio door and walk to the Esopus Creek Beach in five minutes, or take a short drive and go hiking up on Overlook Mountain. The down-to-earth feel of the town just really suits me.”

Frost is a regular participant in August’s annual Saugerties Artists Studio Tour, which also features other galleries like Half Moon Studio, P. Fox Gallery, the Image Factory, and that of expatriate Belgian sculptor Ze’ev Willy Neumann, as well as displaying local art in restaurants and businesses.

The patron saint of Saugerties art, however, is the late sculptor Harvey Fite, who created the magnificent outdoor environmental sculpture Opus 40. Located in the hamlet of West Saugerties, the sprawling stone work was begun by the quarryman/ artist in 1938, and he worked on it until his death in 1976. The site also comprises a museum (another stop on the Saugerties Artists Studio Tour), hosts public outdoor concerts and private events, and has been called “one of the largest and most beguiling works of art on the entire continent” by Architectural Digest.

In addition to the visual arts the town has long been a haven for music, a tradition that stretches back at least to the 1960s, when the Band recorded its landmark album Music from Big Pink and, with Bob Dylan, The Basement Tapes in West Saugerties. In 1994 the town made headlines when it staged the three-day Woodstock ’94 festival. Today, live music happens regularly at Inquiring Mind Bookstore and Cafe, New World Home Cooking, and the Dutch Ale House, while the long-running John Street Jam (second and fifth Saturdays), an intimate evening of acoustic singer-songwriters in the round, is always packed.

The many renowned musicians who currently call Saugerties home include jazz bassist Dave Holland, singer and producer Genya Ravan, and bassist, producer, and synthesizer pioneer Malcolm Cecil.

From Old Comes New After the mills shut down and other industries moved out in the late 1950s and ’60s, Saugerties hit a deep slump and for years remained mired in bleak economic depression, the majority of its shop windows boarded up.What brought the town back to life in the mid 1970s, however, was the sizeable influx of antique dealers who make it the prime antiquing destination it remains today. “[The village] was really depressed,” recalls Saugerties-raised Harold Swart, manager of the Central Hotel Antiques Center. “It was just empty store after empty store, a lot of burnt-out buildings. But because of that, rents were cheap, and antique dealers started moving in. Because of the world economy over the last few years, the antiques business has taken a dip, but it seems to be on the upturn now. It’s an interesting and fun business to be in—and browsers are always welcome.” Among the village’s numerous other similar vendors are Green, the multi-dealer Saugerties Antique Center, and Saugerties Antiques Gallery.

Yet vintage objects aren’t the only treasures waiting to be discovered in Saugerties.

Also lining its streets are some fine apparel merchants, such as Montano’s Shoe Store (in business since 1906),Ya Ya’s Emporium (for funky accessories and vinyl LPs), vintage clothing spot Pistol Whip, and hip designer boutique Dig, as well some truly top-shelf bookstores: the antiquarian OUR Bookshop (the acronym is for Old, Used, and Rare) and Inquiring Mind Bookstore and Cafe.

“We’re all about offering people a comfortable place to sit and relax and enjoy good books,” says Inquiring Mind owner Brian Donoghue, whose plush armchair-populated store opened at the corner of Partition and Main in 2001. “And to find some good conversation and have a nice cup of coffee or tea.”

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A Bit of Horse Play Saugerties got an economic boost in 2005, when plans were made to open the 100acre HITS-on-the-Hudson horse show complex on what had been an abandoned golf course just outside the village. Run by production firm Horse Shows in the Sun, which oversees 36 nationwide equine events from its Main Street office, HITS-on-the-Hudson presents world-class hunter/jumper shows at the site during the spring, summer, and early fall seasons. The events draw competitive horse owners from around the world, and 100 percent of the gate from every show goes to benefit public assistance organization Family of Woodstock (HITS makes its money from stabling costs and other fees).

“Horse jumping is one of the few sports in which athletes of both sexes and a wide range of ages—athletes meaning both the riders and the horses—can compete equally,” says HITS Senior Vice President Tony Hitchcock. “We’re thrilled with our relationship with Saugerties, it really is a great community. We’re definitely here to stay.” Hitchcock points to other happenings at the HITS location that are designed to introduce new audiences to its events, such September 12’s Pfizer Animal Health $1 Million Grand Prix, which also features a concert by rock legend John Fogerty.

No doubt all of the horse play was the inspiration for the yearly Hors’n Around Saugerties public art show.The affair sees ceramic horses decorated by local artists and installed along the village’s sidewalks, where they remain on view from July through early September and are auctioned off to benefit local charities.

Plans and Projects Recently residents united to successfully beat back the proposed building of a casino complex on the town’s Winston Farm plot in 2007. In June ground was broken for what’s being called the Partition Street Project, a 30-room boutique hotel with a 400-seat catering hall, a 100-seat restaurant, and 215 parking spaces on the 7.8 acres where the Cantine Mill once stood. While most saw the proposed casino as a potential magnet for vice and criminals, for many business owners, at least, the Partition Street Project is encouraging news. “I’m for it,” says Inquiring Mind’s Brian Donoghue. “Anything that brings the right kind of business into the village is good, I think.”

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Run by co-owners and erstwhile local mushroom foragers Mark Grusell and Juan Romero, the cozy but creative Love Bites is one of the area’s recent success stories.

“Business has been just awesome since we opened in 2007,” says Grusell. “Saugerties is an an up-and-coming town with a really young vibe, and it’s turning into a real foodie destination. We have a great local following and get regular visitors from Manhattan and Brooklyn.”

Diners nursing a postmeal sweet tooth are directed south on Partition Street to gourmet organic and fair-trade confectioniers Lucky Chocolates, 1929-founded Krause’s Chocolates, and seasonally open ice cream parlor Stella’s Station, a converted service station that also features a raw bar and outdoor dining. On Main Street is allnatural artisan bakery the Hudson Valley Dessert Company, whose homemade granola has been spotlighted by TV’s Food Network.

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“Saugerties is a fantastic place to be,” says Town Supervisor Greg Helsmoortel. “It’s rich in history, the arts, antiques, and fine restaurants. I believe economic development is a positive thing but that it needs to be done right, with a green approach.”

On the side of one of its storied brick buildings is a large mural depicting the town and bearing the legend “Let Saugerties grow gracefully…It’s up to you and me!” It’s a motto the town seems to have very much taken to heart. How cool is that?

RESOURCES 11 Cross Street Gallery www.11crossgallery.com Arm-of-the-Sea Mask and Puppet Theater www.armofthesea.org Cafe Tamayo www.cafetamayo.com Central Hotel Antiques Center (914) 388-4445 Dave’s Coffee House & Tobacco Outfitters (845) 246-8424 Dig www.digtheshop.com Dutch Ale House www.dutchalehouse.com Fez (845) 247-7198 Fish Creek Real Estate www.fish-creek.com Green (845) 418-3270 Half Moon Studio (845) 246-9114 HITS-on-the-Hudson www.hitsshows.com Hudson Valley Dessert Company (845) 246-1545 Hudson Valley Garlic Festival www.hvgf.org Image Factory (845) 802-6109 Inquiring Mind Bookstore and Cafe www.inquiringmindbookstore.webs.com John Street Jam www.johnstreetjam.net Krause’s Chocolates www.krauseschocolates.com Love Bites (845) 246-1795 Lucky Chocolates www.luckychocolates.com Main Street Bar and Grille (845) 246-6222 Miss Lucy’s Kitchen www.misslucyskitchen.com Montano’s Shoe Store www.montanosshoestore.com New World Home Cooking www.ricorlando.com Opus 40 www.opus40.org Orpheum Theatre (845) 246-6561 P. Fox Gallery (845) 247-0054 The Pig Bar & Grill (845) 246-6904 Pistol Whip www.myspace.com/pistolwhipboutique Red Onion www.redonionrestaurant.com Saugerties Antique Center www.auctionsac.com Saugerties Antiques Gallery (845) 246-2323 Saugerties Artists Studio Tour www.saugertiesarttour.com Saugerties Farmers Market www.saugertiesfarmersmarket.com Saugerties Historical Society www.saugertieshistoricalsociety.com Saugerties Lighthouse www.saugertieslighthouse.com Stella’s Station (845) 246-5998 Town of Saugerties www.saugerties.ny.us Village of Saugerties village.saugerties.ny.us Welcome to Saugerties www.welcometosaugerties.com Ya-Ya’s Emporium (845) 246-5110 Ze’ev Willy Neumann www.zwneumann.com

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Florida first came into the public eye with the 2002 publication of The Rise of the Creative Class, in which he argued that high concentrations of creative people are what drive the success of metropolitan regions. Since then, Florida’s star has continued to rise with the publication of follow-up books, including the wryly titled Who’s Your City?

Florida’s latest offering is The Great Reset: How NewWays of Living andWorking Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. It frames the current economic crisis in the context of previous bust-and-recovery cycles beginning in the 1870s and 1930s, respectively. Florida argues that we are heading toward a third “Reset,” driven by the creative class and likely to produce a step-change in our values and where and how we conduct our lives.

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Richard, you were born to a working-class family in New Jersey. No academic thinks in a vacuum. How, if at all, did your upbringing shape your take on the economic and social issues you analyze?

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, more specifically, in the Italian district of North Newark. It was a very real, walkable, ethnic Italian neighborhood. My parents then moved around 1960, when I was about three, to North Arlington, a mixed-ethnic Italian, Polish and Irish working-class suburb with migrants from Newark and Jersey City.

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dreds of working-class men and women—Italian, German, Irish, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Black—begin a long decline and ultimately shutter its doors. These were my fundamental influences. I wanted to make sense of this. After I read all the books in my Catholic school library and local public library, which took me to the age of about 13, my father started taking me on weekends to the Newark Public Library, where I would peruse the stacks and read everything I could about urban affairs.

The Great Reset seems to have been written in part to provide a sense of perspective on our current depression—a word I use in both its psychological and economic senses. In a time when people feel daunted, to put it mildly, by our economic circumstances, The Great Reset appears intended to provide a sense of context—and also some optimism. Is this a fair assessment? Why should we feel optimistic?

Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis.

It’s a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries and tired consumption habits make way for new goods and services, and for new careers and forms of employment. Meanwhile, the population realigns itself in the landscape. All these developments are connected to lifestyle changes.

Each of the previous two Resets—one in the 1870s, the other after the Great Depression—were vibrant periods of innovation. Inventors and entrepreneurs rushed to fill the voids left by struggling industries with new ideas and new technologies that led to new forms of infrastructure such as railroads, subways, and highway systems. All that innovation powers economic growth. The same thing has to happen today—and if past is prologue, it will. The new core products of the creative age—biotechnologies, educational services, entertainment, and information—need to fuel our future economic vitality.

At this moment one-fifth of Pakistan is under water. There’s this thing called climate change, and though our media and citizenry

are doing a superb job of denying this, it’s already at a theater near you. Global warming isn’t mentioned in your book. A plausible case could be made that if your analysis had included this “exogenous factor,” your conclusions would be much less optimistic.

Your thoughts on this?

We have to live better and be better environmental stewards. As I meet with city officials and economic development leaders, my message about sustainability is clear: Sustainability has to be a common practice rather than an added value in the future. Many of the economic forces—the concentration of assets, for example—will require us to evaluate our choices and needs more holistically. For example, infrastructure will have to develop and adapt to our new economic reality. Green buildings, better urban planning, and more recycling are already changing the way we live and work in our communities. We will see a return to denser communities and more value being placed on walkable communities—this will be critical to the revitalization of many of our outlying suburbs and communities that are deteriorating.

The Great Reset also appears to be a call for step-change, or breakthrough thinking. Out with the old, in with the new! It is a call for boldness. Agreed? If so, why is this so important?

Yes, we have to be bold. Most important, we have to define wealth and success differently and develop new approaches to consumption. This will be critical to our ability to be happy and drive further innovation. Things that have always signified wealth and security—homeownership, new cars, luxury goods—have become a burden for many people and will be replaced by more experiential consumption like travel and recreation, selfimprovement, and so on. By divesting themselves of big-ticket possessions that have been keeping them tied down, people will gain a new freedom to lead more meaningful lives. Changes in consumption and lifestyle are key to Great Resets.

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One of the central passages of your book, as I see it, is on page 84: “So what can be done? Instead of spending millions to lure or bail out factories, or hundreds of millions and in some cases billions to build stadiums, convention centers, and hotels, use that money to invest in local assets, spur local business and development, better employ local people and utilize their skills, and invest in improving quality of place.” This strikes me as a concise and excellent summary of the “Go Local” credo that is viewed by many sustainability advocates as the necessary and inevitable antidote to global corporate capitalism. Is this a fair interpretation of your words?

Do you agree with the aforementioned sustainability advocates?

What role do you envision for the “Go Local” movement in the Great Reset?

I am not sure it as much as an endorsement of the “Go Local” movement as a call for maximizing the creativity of every individual. As I have written many times before, I believe every single human being is creative, and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That’s what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time—a challenge for nations, enterprises, and individuals—is to find ways to tap into every human’s creativity.

For the US, given that many of our jobs are now service oriented, this means finding ways to transform our 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of US employment. We have to do this by rewarding workers financially, encouraging and empowering creative participation, creating professional communities, and so on. We can look to any number of new companies— from Zappos to Starbucks—for examples of how this idea might play out. We need to do more to transform service jobs into creative, higher-paying, family supporting jobs of the future.

If you were to single out one single innovation for its likely positive impact on the Great Reset, what would that innovation be, and what will be its contribution?

This has to be high-speed rail. It’s not “new” per se, but it is so critical. We are the only major developed nation that isn’t investing meaningfully in highspeed rail, and I believe we’re making a mistake. Transportation systems that are fast and efficient and environmentally clean are going to enable the formation of the new megaregions that will be such an important part of how we resolve our economic crisis geographically. We need to be able to accelerate the movement of people, goods, and services—really, the movement of ideas, knowledge, and creativity—between our major population centers. We have to build these links.

The Hudson Valley is blessed by much natural beauty, a robust creative class, and proximity to New York City and Albany. It’s dotted with microcities like Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and Kingston that have reinvented themselves (or not) with varying degrees of success. Our industrial base has largely evaporated. Like a thousand other places, we’re struggling to come up with effective strategies for creating regional prosperity. What path would you recommend for us?

To compete effectively in this rapidly changing economy, communities have to increase their connectivity to their respective megaregion. This is crucial for long-term success. As I explained in Who’s Your City? and reiterated in The Great Reset, economic activity is leading to the concentration of a select group of megaregions. Worldwide there are only 40 significant megaregions, which collectively are home to one-fifth of the world’s population, two-thirds of the global economic output, and 85 percent of all worldwide innovation.

For smaller communities to compete in the growing global economy, they have to increase their connectivity to their respective megaregion and major economic engine. Communities and regions in the Hudson Valley should look to strengthen their position and advantage within the Boston-Washington, DC, mega-region, which ranks second in the world for economic output and scientific citations and eighth for innovation.

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he most common of today’s home heating practices are efficient and keep us cozy in the winter months. However, with respect to environmental issues, the efficiency of oil, gas, and electric heat are trumped by increasingly popular, and dare we say, “green” heating methods.

Over the past decade, home heating devices were forced to evolve due to the rising necessity of reducing greenhouse gasses. Still, consumers are slow to make the transition, and many are still employing harmful technology.

Oil heat, for example, requires the burning of liquid petroleum products less refined than automobile diesel fuel. Upon combustion, heating oil emits gaseous byproducts including carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide.These gasses, in turn, are emitted into the atmosphere each time energy is harnessed from an oil-powered boiler.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a normal firing utility boiler will emit 1.04 pounds of organic compounds for every 1,000 gallons of fuel oil burned. In the context of one home, these emissions may not seem like much. However, on an exponential level, where millions of homes are each burning thousands of gallons of heating oil annually, the numbers add up.

Oil is considered to burn very “dirty” due to these emissions, and many Americans choose to heat their homes using natural gas or propane. Although propane and natural gas burns cleaner than oil, emissions are still present due to the necessity of a combustion source.

The EPA cites emissions including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide, volatile organic compounds, and sulfur dioxide with respect to natural gas-fired boilers. Homeowners who choose to heat their

house using propane or natural gas might use about 500 gallons per year, depending on climate and weather. At an EPA-calculated rate of 1.6 pounds per 1,000,000 cubic feet of propane or natural gas, organic compound emissions will total about .291 pounds annually—significantly less than oil heat, though still leaving the consumer with a carbon footprint over the course of a homeowner’s life.

While electric heat leaves no carbon footprint from the home, energy used to heat a structure electrically is harnessed from power plants. Some sort of fossil fuel, most likely coal, usually powers these plants. Where regulations have forced plants to better clean emissions, they are still spewing a certain amount of organic waste into the sky. It’s a vicious cycle: The more electricity a homeowner demands, the more power plants must manufacture in turn, creating more gaseous byproducts.

Although traditional heating may not include the most environmentally sound options, hope is alive for those who wish to stay warm while minimizing pollution. One option increasing in popularity is direct exchange (DX) geothermal heating.

As Paul Auerbach, cofounder of Total Green, a geothermal heating company in Monroe, explains in layman’s terms, DX geothermal heating operates by pumping heat stored within the Earth’s crust into a consumer’s home. He views the area 15 feet below ground that remains constant at 53 degrees yearround as a never-ending energy supply. “[Geothermal energy] is a completely renewable resource that will be there forever,” Auerbach says. “All we have to do is plug into it.”

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To absorb energy from the ground, an electric pump is employed that operates at varying BTUs depending on the home’s square footage.The energy is then compressed and distributed throughout the home in the form of heat or hot water.

When comparing DX geothermal heat to traditional petroleum combustion, Auerbach says, “The best and most efficient heating systems using fossil fuel might get 93 percent efficiency.” The remaining fuel is converted into organic compounds and sent out of the exhaust system.

“For every dollar you put in, you get 93 cents worth of heat,” he says. With a geothermal system, “for every dollar worth of electricity used, you get back four dollars” worth of efficiency.

One of Auerbach’s customers is 30-year-old Todd Boyd of Milton—he is a chief control operator at a local power plant.

Boyd installed his geothermal system during the construction of his first home two years ago. Heat is transferred into his 2,400-square-foot colonial with a four-ton pump operating at about 50,000 BTUs. Boyd says that since his initial investment of about $40,000 has already been recuperated. “There’s not question whether [geothermal heating] can meet expectations or standards,” he says. “There are really no drawbacks that I can think of. I haven’t come across one yet.”

Although the electric pump runs on electricity and Auerbach admits that about 40 percent of electricity comes from coal plants, he believes there is no comparison between geothermal systems and traditional oil, gas, or electric systems. “Coal is dirty,” he says. “But we’re trading in a load of oil for a small amount of electricity. DX is the next generation of geothermal heating.”

The EPA held geothermal energy in high regard in a March 2010 publication called Energy Efficiency Reference for Environmental Reviewers. Geothermal energy is noted several times as an “energy conservation” means and a “renewable energy reserve.”

Alongside geothermal heating, cogeneration is another form of green heating technology gaining its accolades. This method employs both a traditional boiler system operating on either oil or natural gas/propane and a natural gas/ propane powered generator.

Joseph Sayegh, a technical engineer for Gentech, a generator supply and maintenance company in New Windsor, explains the system as a means of heating utilizing fuel as well as propane/natural gas exhaust. When a consumer demands hot water from the system, the running generator gives off exhaust. This exhaust then almost fully heats water requiring the boiler to do very little work. All the while the generator is running, Sayegh said, “power is being sold back to the grid, making you money.”

The generators primary purpose is to feed energy back into the nationwide power grid—while its secondary purpose is to produce exhaust, which, in turn, heats your water and your home.

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“You are getting the money you spent on fuel back in the form on kilowatt hours,” Sayegh says. “Some systems pay themselves off within five years. After that, sometimes you pay the utility company a small sum and sometimes they pay you for the power your generator is supplying.”

This method of heating basically recycles its own byproduct into a usable energy source. Sayegh admits that the natural gas/propane generator emits some waste; however “the emissions that it’s giving off are far less that, the utility companies rule of thumb standard for carbon per kilowatt hour.”

Those who may not be sold on the “latest and greatest” approaches to heating—as Auerbach describes geothermal energy—might be lured by a more rustic, back-to-basics approach to home heating with a twist.

Wittus Fire by Design, based in Pound Ridge, has marketed Europeanstyle woodstoves since 1978. Units are generally designed to heat up to 1,300 square feet and are tailored to both EPA and European clean-air standards.

Alyce Wittus assures that her products are as green as they are quaintly decorative. According to Wittus, Fire by Design’s wood stoves emit “zero carbon monoxide” into the atmosphere. Although smoke is directed through a chimney, Wittus guarantees homeowners that no additional atmospheric pollution is occurring. “You could not produce any more pollution by burning the wood than if you left it to decay in the forest,” she says.

Wittus takes pride in her environmentally friendly product and said that her company holds green standards in high regard. “The key is that we’re not burning fossil fuel,” says Wittus. “And the integration of design and technology with respect to the environment is very synergistic.”

If and when the decision is made to be a green homeowner, a low-emission heating system is not the only adjustment to be made. Homes must be insulated efficiently as well.

Foamco, a spray-foam insulation company based in Bullville, offers homeowners foam insulation called icynene, which is extracted from the castor bean plant.

According to Dale Giraudin, owner of Foamco, icynene is composed primarily of castor bean oil, alongside “a large percentage of recycled materials.” Giraudin is proud to say that he sells a green product, however, he also says that its quality is just as important. “One of the biggest things is comfort,” he says. “And that’s what we do.We give people a comfortable home with the insulation packages we offer. The home is equally heated and the foam keeps the heat inside.”

He cited fiberglass as a main competitor despite its possible toxicity and tendency to let heat out when cut to allow room for things like electrical boxes and joists. Giraudin says that Icynene foam is 35 to 40 percent more efficient than fiberglass.

“People even say their energy bills are 50 percent less,” Giraudin says. “The proof is in the pudding. With fiberglass you can have seven to fifteen air leakages, foam has maybe one or two.”

Although many green heating methods require a significant initial investment, Giraudin explains that the playing field between icynene foam and fiberglass is leveling out. During the economic downturn, foam prices dropped while fiberglass prices rose.

“Now we’re only maybe 50 percent more expensive—which is more appetizing considering fuel is about three dollars per gallon,” says Giraudin.

“Propane or fuel oil is going up but foam prices are going down, and you’re going to get immediate energy savings as soon as it’s installed and then for the duration of the structure.”

Foamco, like most spray foam insulation companies, warrantee their products for as long as the building stands.

Although the trend of green homes is not yet a mainstream ideology, Auerbach believes that America must make some serious changes in the near future. “This is serious stuff,” Auerbach says. “There doesn’t have to be a flame to get a hot shower or two, and we don’t have to be held hostage to fossil fuels. We’re not going to change overnight. It’s a process, and at least people are thinking about it.”

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Historically, Pawling has seen many travelers and migrants. Before its first European founders, Town Historian Robert Reilly writes, Pawling was mostly just passed through by journeying Mahikan Indians, who roamed the area that is now Dutchess County.While two burial sights have been discovered in Pawling, Reilly says there is little evidence to conclude they lived there.

In 1728 the Quakers arrived, settling the area called “the back lots” atop what is now Quaker Hill. In 1742 the growing community built the Oblong Meeting House. It was in that unassuming meeting house, nearly a century before Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, that the Pawling Quakers voiced the first official opposition to the institution of slavery in the Colonies, stating that if God resides in everyone, enslaving anyone is to enslave God. During the winter of 1778-79, the Oblong Meeting House was commandeered by General George Washington for use as a make shift hospital.

Washington himself stayed in the nearby John Kane House, which he made his headquarters while positioning forces. Both buildings, along with many others in Pawling, are now recognized as protected historic places.

When the Harlem train line was extended to Pawling in 1848, the once primarily agricultural community was given a new source of influence as travel to and from New York City became much easier. The short commute by rail brought with it powerful new residents and visitors.

The connection to the city only 70 miles south of the town remains extremely important.

“Having that stop is critical to Pawling’s development,” says Chamber of Commerce President Peter Cris, standing on the sidewalk of the village’s postcard-worthy main street, Charles Colman Boulevard, near the historic train station that serves as the Chamber’s office.

When entering the village by train, Pawling’s architecture and overall aesthetic feels very much like a piece of New England.The large and striking brick building known as the Dutcher House, which contains a number of Pawling’s storefronts, is the centerpiece of the village.

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clockwise from upper left: The Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling John Kane House; Ripe peaches hang in the orchards of Fishkill Farms; Golfers finish a hole on the Dutcher Golf Course; The early dinner crowd arrives at Mckinney & Doyle restaurant on Charles Coleman Blvd.

for all the building’s stores. Beyond the Dutcher one can get unpretentious, thin-crust pizza at Mama Pizza II or order homemade Mexican food from thewhite board at the El Quetzal restaurant and deli.

The Pawling Green Despite the recession, Pawling is working on a number of substantial development projects. Cris is currently courting a number of hospitals and investors for the creation of a 66,000-square foot medical office building on Route 22 for what he says is a medically undeserved community. But the most immediate and substantial project is the Pawling Green, which is expected to break ground on Charles Colman Boulevard this month.

The Pawling Community Fund was able to privately raise over $2 million for the green, which will transform the landscaping between and around the boulevard and the railroad into a pedestrian-friendly park. Cris believes that a more walkable and attractive village will attract visitors as well as further development.

With the influx of residents from NewYork City, from the super rich—four billionaires currently call Quaker Hill home, or a home—to young commuter families reliant on the train for work, the population of Pawling has actually continued to grow, Cris says, a trend that runs contrary to nearly all the other local municipalities.

(Pawling has a long legacy of rich and famous full or part-time residents, including former Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Edward R. Murrow, and Dr. Norman Vincant Pearl, who established the Center for Positive Thinking on Main Street, an institution that still attracts many visitors.)

Throughout the Hudson Valley, this northern migration has often beenscorned by those born and raised in the country. Cris admits this culture clash exists in Pawling and surrounding Dutchess. Cris says there has been resistance from some native Pawling residents and business owners to the Pawling

Green and a collaborative business development plan for the village, but he’s confident that, eventually, as the town improves, everyone will begin to see the value. “If you get involved in the change you can affect the quality of that change,” says Cris.

The Great Swamp Beyond the draw created by history and business, travelers also come to Pawling to experience its unique natural setting, situated as it is in the center of the Great Swamp, a 6,000-acre ecosystem that stretches through Dutchess and Putnam Counties for 20 miles.

The village of Pawling is situated right in the center of the the Great Swamp’s watershed, which has a total coverage of 63,000 acres. From the divide in Pawling, the swamp flows in two different directions. The Swamp River flows north from the village into the Ten Mile and Housatonic Rivers before eventually emptying into the Long Island Sound. To the south, the swamp flows into the Croton Reservoir system, the water supply for millions in New York City.

But aside from all the statistics, Mac Rand, owner of Great Blue Outfitters, says the allure of the Great Swamp is simple—it’s beautiful. He recalled the day, when rowing slowly down the river between reeds and thick forest, he saw the heron he would name his new store after. Rand moved to Pawling four years ago from Carmel, and says the first time he kayaked the swamp’s south passage with his son he was enchanted.

Rand retired from his previous careers as a teaching science and running a Canadian summer camp to open Great Blue Outfitters off Route 22 at Pawling’s southern border with Patterson, out of which Rand leads unreasonably affordable tours and rents equipment for those looking to kayak or canoe the Swamp.

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to get out and get their feet wet to climb around an obstructive beaver dam or two, but that’s all part of the experience. “A lot of people, even local people, don’t know about the Great Swamp,” says Rand, pacing around his store one afternoon. A three-time competitor in Ironman triathlons, he’s not the type to stand still long. “I think because we want to protect places like that, we need people to see them and experience them, in order to develop a relationship with the place.”

Since moving to the area Rand has become a board member of the organization Friends of the Great Swamp (FrOGS). FrOGS’s mission is to undertake activities “to conserve, protect, and promote the functions, values and integrity of the Great Swamp wetland and its watersheds in Putnam and Dutchess counties.”

The group of volunteers has been operating since 1990, providing environmental education opportunities, promoting new scientific research in the Swamp, working on conservation land-use planning with landowners and local governments, and supporting sustainable use of the Swamp and its watershed for nonintrusive recreation uses.

One of the organization’s largest accomplishments to date occurred in 2003 when FrOGS, along with coalition of other partners, procured a North American Wetlands Conservation Act grant to acquire lands and conservation easements in what is considered the widest and most vulnerable part of the Great Swamp.

“Working against time and skyrocketing land prices,” a FrOGS statement reads, “FrOGS, the Nature Conservancy, the State of NewYork DEC, the Town of Patterson, and the Putnam County Land Trust have acquired 471 new acres and easements on an additional 112 acres more.”

FrOGS has work to do with so much area to cover and all the habitat for hundreds of species of mammals, reptiles, and birds—39 of which are listed as rare in New York. Rand believes the cultural attitude toward the value of wetland resources has shifted in FrOGS’s favor, and now the organization’s best tool is education.

Nature lovers are not without options in Dutchess County. Along with the opportunities provided by the Swamp, the Appalachian Trail, which runs from Georga’s Springer Mountain to Mount Katahdin in northern Maine, passes through Pawling. While some “through hikers” do the entire trail over the course of the spring and summer, Rand says jumping on the trail for a few miles in town is a worthwhile experience.

Through hikers often take a break in Pawling. After grabbing a bite to eat they often stop into Great Blue, or Rand sees them about, as they’re pretty easy to spot. “I tell through hikers, ‘The good news is you’ve got 1,400 miles south of you,” Rand says with a grin. “The bad news is, you’ve got 700 more to go.” (Most through hikers start in Georgia and work their way north.)

Rand says he started his business a year ago not just because he loves nature and being active but to get others out as well. “I feel a very emotional attachment to the outdoors,” Rand said. “We miss a lot because our lifestyle is so frantic. I’m trying to get people out to experience it and educate them a little.”

A tradition of service Back in civilization, the roads wind away from Pawling to other seemingly inconspicuous dots on the map. Along the Taconic Parkway, flying by at 55 mph, is the small hamlet of Hopewell Junction in the town of Fishkill. Commuters may know it for its large and easily accessible gas station, but most aren’t aware that just down the road one of the town’s oldest farms, thick with historical relevance, and now in its third generation, is beginning a new chapter.

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In August, the farm held a ribbon cutting for its new barn that was attended by numerous local and state officials. Last year, a disastrous fire claimed the old barn, which along with providing cold storage for produce, housed numerous Morgenthau family heirlooms.

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Henry Morgenthau, a Cornell graduate, quickly began to split his time between the farm and public service. He was appointed chairman of the Agricultural Advisory Commission in 1928 and the state’s Conservation Commissioner in 1930. His work, a farm history tells, “paved the way for the Federal Civilian Conservation Corps, an organization that sent many young, urban men out into the country to save forests and farmland.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then governor of NewYork, and living in nearby Hyde Park, was a friend of Morgenthau.When elected president, FDR appointed the Hopewell farmer Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration, which saved many family farms from foreclosure. He was appointed secretary of the Treasury in 1934, where he served for the rest of the Roosevelt presidency.

FDR frequented Fishkill Farms throughout his terms in office. On one occasion, in June 1942, Prime Minister Winston Churchill came with him. According to a family history provided by the farm, “Henry’s son Robert, then a 22-year-old Navy ensign home on leave from his destroyer, served the president and prime minister mint juleps in the garden as they discussed the course they would take in the war.”

In the 1960s, after the passing of the patriarch, operation of the 270-acre farm was passed to Robert Morgenthau. After his service in World War II, Robert, like his father, turned to the public sector. He eventually became US Attorney in New York State under President Kennedy, and later, Manhattan’s district attorney, the job he has held for 35 years.

“When you visit it,” North says, “it’s kind of like visiting sacred ground.”

Tours of the farm go on during the week and include old film of some of the more memorable events, including Churchill’s visit with FDR. The farm diversified again under Robert’s watch. While continuing the apple orchard, he reintroduced other produce. In the 1990s the family began leasing the farm to other growers when the family’s long time manager Ray Morris retired.

In 2008 Robert and his son Josh took back over farm operations and a plan to take the farm organic has begun in earnest. New projects include reintroducing 800 free-range chickens, starting a large organic garden, and even the complicated process of taking sections of the orchards off pesticides.

Then, in the summer of 2009, what is believed to have been an electrical fire broke out in the large barn, billowing thick black smoke that could be seen for miles and completely destroying the structure.

While the fire took away a piece of the farm’s history, Fishkill Farms Marketing Manager Hannah Geller says the new pole barn stays true to the farm’s old aesthetic while offering a number of modern improvements. The farm recently received a grant from the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program to install solar panels on the roof of the barn, something she said the Morgenthaus see as a part of their plan to make the farm “greener.”

The solar array will run the barn and cold storage room, and is expected to meet over 50 percent of the farm’s energy needs.

“In the long run,” Geller says, “hopefully [becoming certified organic] will be rewarding financially and ethically. Most farms here don’t have that in mind.

That’s the most exciting thing to me.”

Hopewell Junction and Pawling sit quietly at the bottom of Dutchess County. To some, the towns are just road signs passed by in cars and trains on paths to and from busy lives. To those who may take a moment to stop, they can be much more.

RESOURCES The Annex Florist (845) 855-9612 Center for Positive Thinking www.guideposts.org Dutchess County Chamber of Commerce www.dutchesscountyregionalchamber.org Fishkill Farms www.fishkillfarms.com Friends of the Great Swamp www.frogs-ny.org/ Great Blue Outfitters www.greatblueoutfitters.com John Kane House www.pawling-history.org Mama Pizza II (845) 855-9270 McKinney & Doyle www.mckinneyanddoyle.com Pawling Chamber of Commerce www.pawlingchamber.org

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he gently rolling hills of Columbia County are rightly famed for the agricultural bounty they produce.The pastured meat and poultry, vegetables, fruit, and cheese produced on area farms are world class.

And the flounder is pretty good too.

Many ocean fisheries are in serious peril as overfishing depletes stocks of popular species and pollution contaminates more and more seafood. Much of the world’s farmed fish is raised with little oversight, using methods and materials that harm wild species and the larger environment. To address this situation, a company called Local Ocean has recently begun shipping the first of their sustainably farmed ocean fish from a facility just outside of Hudson.

Local Ocean is licensed to grow six species of saltwater fish: sea bream (royal dorado), flounder, yellowtail, and three kinds of sea bass: black, white, and Mediterranean (branzino). Five of these species are in the water, and inside of a year, all six will be in full production. Sea bream and flounder are currently being sold to restaurants. Jonathan Eisenberg, vice president for corporate development, is emphatic: “This will be the next generation of salt water inland fish farming. We see ourselves as locally fresh, environmentally friendly, and sustainable.”

Local Ocean has just begun offering their sea bream at six capital region Price Choppers, where it is labeled as “locally fresh and sustainable” and sells for $9.99 per pound (a whole fish is about a pound).

Using the original patent for a closed-loop aquaculture system developed at Hebrew University in Israel, Local Ocean developed proprietary technological upgrades to the process so it can function at a commercial scale. And the scale is large: The former factory that houses phase one contains 55 large plastic tanks, each holding 2,850 gallons and teeming with fish. The system is particularly noteworthy because it produces no waste; municipal water is mixed with sea salt (from the Red Sea in Israel) and the water is continually cleaned by an innovative biofiltration system.

In an adjacent area, two large, open rectangular settling tanks, though full of dark, mucky water, are odorless. Colonies of algae and microbes digest the fish waste, and the result is filtered and returned to the tanks; the full volume of each tank is replaced two times per hour with clean water. Other than approximately 1 percent

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lost to evaporation, no water ever leaves the system and solid waste is consumed in the algae tanks. “We reproduce what happens in nature, which is very efficient,” Eisenberg says, explaining the complicated choreography involved in maintaining a balance between the populations of fish and the algae; it’s like two interdependent farms under one roof, and ensuring a steady output requires vigilant attention.

In about two months, Local Ocean will enter phase two: a more than fivefold increase in capacity as a brand-new facility behind the current one comes online.

Since the new building—made from polycarbonate panels, and looking like a series of huge greenhouses—is custom built, it will be more efficient, using gravity to reduce pumping and passive solar to cut electricity consumption for lighting and heating. The huge volume of water will act as a massive heat reservoir, meaning that once up to temperature (70˚-73˚F) the water will heat the air, and since the water is recirculated no heat is lost in a waste stream. The new building houses 120 tanks, each holding 7,258 gallons, with below-grade settling ponds between each row of tanks. Heating such a large volume of water to Mediterranean temperatures does use a lot of energy, though, so the company is exploring ways to reduce consumption through increased efficiency, and is talking to NYSERDA about possibly adding solar, geothermal, and wind power technologies to further reduce the carbon footprint.

The large plastic tanks have a rotational current, created by the pipe delivering clean water near the top, and the fish swim in constant circles against the gentle flow.

They are packed pretty tightly; the efficiencies of the system allow for much more intensive farming than conventional aquaculture. Within a year, their maximum capacity will be 1,000 tons of fish per year. Fingerlings come from a hatchery in New Hampshire, Great Bay Aquaculture, bought by Local Ocean two years ago to gain control of the entire process.

Fish spend the first several weeks in smaller tanks in a separate part of the building, quarantined from the main population, while they are observed and tested for any signs of illness. Water from the tanks is sampled daily, and a veterinarian makes biweekly visits in addition to the constant attention from staff biologists (a biologist is required to be present while any visitors are inside the quarantine area, and there

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ABOVE: Sea Bream swimming in saltwater tanks at Local Ocean. opposite: Local Ocean is undergoing an enormous expansion. Shown here is a nearly completed production pool in the greenhouse expansion.

are hand washing stations and bleach mats for shoes at every door). Improvements in the taste, size, and growth rate of the fish are made solely through breeding, not hormones; eggs are harvested from exemplary specimens and sent back to New Hampshire for fertilization and hatching. No prophylactic antibiotics are ever used, as in some other aquaculture systems; sick fish are isolated and treated.

Eisenberg says Local Ocean only plans to deliver within about a six-hour driving radius, to ensure optimal quality. “We’re redefining freshness within the aquaculture business; most fish is delivered four to five days out of the water. Ours is same-day.”

With phase two just about up and running, Eisenberg says, phase three will be an expansion into other markets with similar facilities around the country; the company has been approached by markets and governments in Florida,Texas, California, and Illinois. Phase three may also include retail outlets at the fish farm, allowing the public to come buy direct from the source.

So how does it taste? I met Gerard Viverito, instructor at the CIA and a national expert on sustainable seafood (see the February 2009 issue of Chronogram) for lunch at Ca’ Mea in Hudson to sample it and discuss Local Ocean within the context of global aquaculture. Ca’ Mea is one of the restaurants that regularly feature Local Ocean’s fish on the menu, and Chef Massimiliano Cenci kindly invited us to come try the sea bream. Chef Cenci prepared the fish, which in Italy is called orato, several ways: poached, with fresh vegetable salsa; baked with butter and herbs; and origanata, with garlicky breadcrumbs and oregano on top and lemon for squeezing. The flesh is soft and mild, and seems to favor more assertive preparations like the origanata. Cenci feels that “it’s pretty close to the Mediterranean—the flavor is really there. And it’s antibiotic free, and very fresh. People like it.” In countries around the Mediterranean, it’s commonly grilled or roasted whole, often with some herbs and garlic tucked into the cavity. The softness and delicacy of the flesh suggests that this is indeed the best route to take with this fish, though it is also prized for sushi in Japan.

Viverito brought up a key area where sustainability might be an issue: the fish food. Local Ocean uses custom blends of fish feed from a major national supplier, the same one that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

uses for state-run fish hatcheries. Local Ocean does not disclose the contents of the feeds they use, but commercial fish feeds often include fish meal made from smaller Atlantic fish like herring, anchovy, and menhaden (shad or alewife). A problem with using these fish to feed farmed fish is that it removes them from the food chain so that the larger, predatory wild fish whose populations need to recover from overfishing have less to eat.

Particularly troublesome is a method often used for catching the small feed fish: purse seining, using enormous bag-shaped nets that cinch shut around entire schools of fish, and which Viverito describes as “strip-mining the ocean.” Some commercial fish food also contains byproducts from industrial pork and poultry operations.

Viverito’s verdict? “They have a phenomenal waste-recovery program, and their intentions are good. There’s room for improvement, but this is about as good as aquaculture gets right now.” Eisenberg agrees: “We’re the best that’s out there.We’re allowing depleted fish stocks to replenish, and our fish are the cleanest available anywhere.”

While this is a factory farm, Local Ocean avoids many of the problems associated with other aquaculture operations. They discharge no waste at all, recycling all of the water and solid waste through their biofilter system. Their fish have negligible quantities of the mercury and other toxic metals that represent a serious problem in wild fish populations, and are hormone and antibiotic free. The company also brings 40 jobs to the Hudson area, and plans to add 10 more in the coming year, which is a real benefit to the local economy. And it’s not insignificant that sashimi-fresh fish will soon be available to anyone within range of a supermarket, and at a reasonable cost since it didn’t travel on a plane.

Considering the state of the oceans, we should be glad that people are working to bring more sustainable seafood to our tables. It’s pretty clear that this endeavor has been designed conscientiously, and that they’re doing the best they can given the larger issues surrounding the food system right now. And since farms like this may very well be the future of seafood, we owe it to ourselves to engage with this farm as we would with any other local source, learning more about it and building a relationship with producer and product alike.

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Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest September 11 and 12. Spend the weekend at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck sampling food and drink from across the region—55 wineries from across the state and 70 market vendors. Educate your palate at wine education seminars or learn cooking secrets from the professionals through cooking demonstrations by Chef Vincent Tropepe and Chef Maria Liberati. Live music by regional jazz, folk, and rhythm and blues performers can be heard throughout the weekend. Saturday 11am-6pm. Sunday 11am-5pm. Wine tasting tickets are $30/day or $50 for the weekend. Tickets for those who do not wish to sample wine are $15/day or $25 for the weekend. Food samples start at $1. (845) 658-7181; www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com.

Jennie Bell Pie Festival September 25. From noon to dusk, it’s all things pie-related at Kelder’s Farm in Kerhonkson, the centerpiece being a pie sale and contest.

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Brunch in the Fields September 25. Have brunch in the fields at Common Ground Farm, a CSA and educational center, which grows crops without the aid of fertilizers or chemicals. Feast upon locally grown produce, breads, quiches, cheeses, and more. Programs for children, including a sing-along, craft project, and a barn tour are included. 10am at the Stonykill Environmental Center in Wappingers Falls. $20 per person or $50 per family with up to three kids. 845-231-4424; www.commongroundfarm.org.

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andering amidst rows of brightly colored flowers, fruit trees, and overflowing boxes of fresh produce, customers are making their selections: an armful of sweet corn, a hanging petunia plant, an extra bag of mulch for the garden. Opened in 1960, at the corner of Route 209 and Cottekill Road in Stone Ridge (“the junction of anywhere and everywhere,” as one customer calls it), Davenport Farms’ Farm Stand and Nursery sits a mile-and-a-half down the road from the hundred acres of farm and where their celebrated sweet corn (and broccoli, and pumpkin, and watermelon, to name just a few others) is grown. Over the years, Bruce Davenport’s place has become a Marbletown standard, and a hub of local activity.

To one side of the building is a simple red picnic table, where families casually take their lunch and relaxing shoppers meet and chat. At any given time, one might also find the principals of the Rondout Valley Growers Association (RVGA) there, discussing the next chapter of their organization’s growth. To get an even fuller picture, however, of the mission, and the depth of purpose, that drives the RVGA forward, a bit more perspective might be of service.

The story begins, give or take, about 25,000 years ago.

At about that time, glacial ice that covered the northern portion of the continent began to melt, forming rivers that carried rock and other primary elements to naturally selected regions; materials that would, one day, produce the kind of ideal soil that is the lifeblood of the New York’s agricultural regions. By 1828, when Maurice and William Wurts’ D&H Canal opened routes and communities in the rich and largely uncharted valley along the Rondout 90 locally grown ChronograM 9/10

Creek, a new wave of settlers began to find out what Native Americans had discovered many centuries before: This was an extraordinary place to farm.

When Davenport, president of the RVGA, states that “producing an ear of corn in the Rondout Valley is like completing a work of art thousands of years in the making,” there is a sense that something more than business-as-usual is happening here.

Buy produce, not land In 2000, Marbletown residents collected for a “visioning” workshop, its goal to discern the most pressing issues and concerns confronting the township, and how best address them looking forward. “It was immediately clear,” says RVGA board member Susan Krawitz, “that the most important thing to us, and the future of Marbletown, was agricultural preservation.” A Stone Ridge resident and local writer, and an integral part in the growth of the RVGA, Krawitz recalls a time when local farmers were under siege from rising land prices and development pressure. “Farming is not always the most profitable of endeavors,” Krawitz explains. “suddenly, somebody offers you more money than you ever thought you’d have and says: ‘Sell me your land.’ The question was how to make the farming as viable as the selling.”

At that fateful meeting, an unlikely pair formed what was then called the Marbletown Farm Preservation Task Force: Davenport, a lifelong resident of the area and a fourth-generation farmer, and graphic designer Fabia Wargin, a recent transplant. In order to begin organizing the multitude of different farms

Beyond fruits and vegetables Of course, at the very center, there is the land itself. RVGA Executive Director Susan Perrin, whose experience as a manager, community organizer, and teaching artist is as eclectic as the community she represents, sees a clear duality in the impact of Rondout Valley’s cherished landscapes. “Farms are more than just food,” Perrin asserts. “Farms are open space.” She explains that the land provides an opportunity for community consciousness that is the platform for the outreach and education efforts that have become an essential part of the RVGA. “Besides producing food, besides just beautiful vistas, it kind of provides a mindset that focuses us on where we live, our neighbors, the Earth, and the land around us. It brings you home.” Recent years have seen a welcome shift from land acquisition to preservation, especially in the wake of the collapsing real estate market, revealing a wellspring of conservancy action— and funding—available to be tapped. Creating a more discernible, regional farming collective effort has allowed the RVGA to work in concert with land

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operating in the area, they began a monthly local newspaper column profiling Marbletown farmers. Using Davenport’s well-known name and reputation as an entrée, Wargin, later with the help of Krawitz, would chronicle the business and farming practices, specialized techniques, and particular challenges of each grower. Writing the articles provided an opportunity to share their vision of presenting a unified effort to raise exposure and awareness, and the grassroots organization began to expand.

In 2003, New York magazine ran a widely publicized cover story touting Ulster County, and surrounding regions, as “the new Hamptons.” Though the real estate bubble was still ballooning, property was plentiful and relatively inexpensive—and the close proximity to New York City, stunning landscape, and comparative anonymity available made places like New Paltz, Stone Ridge, and Woodstock preferred destinations. Celebrities—names like Buscemi, Thurman and Hawke, De Niro, and Bowie—traveled up the New York State Thruway, followed by those who aspired to their lifestyle. Though not as a direct response, that same year, the larger, more inclusive RVGA was born. The inspiration of the Marbletown Farm Preservation Task Force, rising costs, and the increasing threat of having the agricultural land base co-opted by developers and vacation seekers, made the concept of a full community agricultural organization a necessity, and then a reality. Billboards sprang up along Route 209. A website was launched, and the first of the RVGA’s trademark “Farm-toTable” events was planned. A true Rondout Valley brand identity began to take shape; it’s message: Buy our products, not our land.

“We realized that we needed to get larger, and there was a natural agricultural region, between Ellenville and Kingston, the Shawangunks and the Catskills, that was right there,” says Bruce Davenport. “What we really were trying to do, at first, was get people to make just one more stop, on their way to the supermarket, for fresh food.” The core mission of the RVGA is not much more complex than that, to this day: In order to preserve the land, the farms—and the families whose livelihood depends upon them—must thrive.

In pursuit of that accomplishment, regional farmers began to understand that their competition was not one another; rather, it was a lack of exposure and customer awareness, which left commerce in the long-established hands of big business.

“The idea,” comments Christopher Kelder, whose family has lived and farmed in the Rondout Valley for almost 200 years, and who was a founding member of the organization, “was that if people bought locally, and supported their local farms, it would help encourage open space to stay in agriculture.”

Kelder’s Farm in Kerhonkson is a telling example of the diversity that the Rondout Valley can boast: More than just a farm stand, customers can pick their own berries, visit the petting zoo, or play a round of miniature golf in the world’s only sustainable, edible course (under the watchful eye of what was, until this past year, the world’s largest garden gnome). “In my opinion,” adds Kelder, a Cornell School of Agriculture graduate, “that is the only way of having agriculture stay in area: to ensure that it is profitable.” The RVGA’s stated goal of being “committed to strengthening the region’s family farms and preserving open space for future generations” has been, and continues to be, the backbone of its purpose. What continues to blossom from those efforts, however, is a consistently widening spectrum of community involvement, service, and consciousness.

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conservancy organizations like Scenic Hudson, and, most notably, the work of the Open Space Institute (OSI). Since 1964, OSI—in conjunction with its land acquisition affiliate, the Open Space Conservancy—has worked throughout the Northeast to preserve scenic, natural, and historic land.

OSI’s multitiered enterprise in the Hudson Valley includes a committed farm preservation movement, helping to access significant available resources like Purchase of Development Rights grants awarded by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Farmland Protection Program (the state provides up to 75 percent of the funds, with a land conservation organization like OSI funding the remaining portion). OSI has been responsible for the purchase and preservation of hundreds of acres of local farmland, much of which are actively being farmed by RVGA members, and the relationship fostered between the organizations continues to expand.

“RVGA is an outstanding educational and local marketing organization,” posits Robert Anderberg, vice president and general counsel for OSI. “In large part they are working on the same goals that OSI is—to preserve productive farmland for future generations.” Once the land is moved through OSI’s process, their conservancy restrictions stipulate that it cannot be subdivided or commercialized. “We’re interested in letting farmers do what they do best—farming,” says Anderberg.

Following a progression outward from the root principles of local sustainability, fresh food, and community, a larger consciousness-raising impact continues to emanate from the RVGA’s core. Perrin and the RVGA have created a corollary nonprofit organization called the Rondout Valley Growers Education Project. Again, the RVGA has partnered with OSI, this time working through their Citizen Action Program, an environmental nonprofit support network. Some of the outreach element has sprung from within the organization, none more significant than the efforts of founding member Fabia Wargin. Her Farm-to-Food-Pantry program works with RVGA growers, and has bloomed in both participation and effectiveness. Volunteer efforts led by Wargin, such as gleaning sweet corn from the larger RVGA corn growers and then freezing them for winter distribution, last year collected a total of over 25,000 pounds, which was given to pantries and soup kitchens throughout the region. “That is really raising consciousness, about local farms, and about community,” Perrin adds enthusiastically.

Accessing, supporting, and ed ucating students is truly the final, limitless frontier for the RVGA, and new member Nicci Cagan exemplifies the success that can be achieved there. Cagan first gained notice when her own grassroots organization, known as From the Ground Up, planted a sustainable garden at Stone Ridge’s Marbletown Elementary School. Her Farm-toSchool efforts mirror a larger, national movement for healthier, fresh food in public schools, and fostering environmental awareness in students. She continues to be impactful in the Rondout Valley, partnering with the strength of the RVGA and working with New York Governor’s Mansion Executive Chef and noted whole food activist Noah Sheetz. Recently, Cagan played a key role in hiring a new food service manager, with Farm-to-School experience and training, at Accord’s Rondout Valley Central High School. The RVGA is hopeful that the school will be ready to get more local food into the district, and plans to flash-freeze local produce with the help of Kingston food packaging facility Farm-to-Table Copackers, so that the school would have access to reasonably priced, locally grown food year-round. “This is a prime opportunity to show how it can all work,” Cagan confidently asserts, “to show how we can really feed ourselves.”

So, the RVGA story is still being told, as a self-sustaining loop of family, commerce, and community continues to grow. Besides a day trip through the area—be sure to bring plenty of tote bags for your produce—one of the best ways to connect with the vibrancy and diversity that are the building blocks of the RVGA is through their annual events. RVGA’s 7th annual Orchard Dinner and Wine Tasting takes place on September 11 from 6pm to 9pm at Stone Ridge Orchard on Route 213 in Stone Ridge. The Orchard Dinner celebrates the autumn harvest by featuring RVGA-grown foods prepared by local chefs paired with New York State wines; there’s live music as well as a silent auction. Proceeds help support farmland preservation, local agriculture, and the RVGA’s Farm-to-food-pantry and farm-to-school projects.

For more information on all RVGA’s projects: www.rondoutvalleygrowers.org.

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11:30am - 10:30pm, Sun 2:30pm - 9:30pm.

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Catering available, full-service bar, outside dining, handicapped accessible. Reservations

Cafe Bocca 14 Mount Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie, NY

recommended.

(845) 483-7300

No. 9 Restaurant

www.cafebocca.net

Millerton, NY

info@cafebocca.net

(518) 592-1299

Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering

www.number9millerton.com

O’Leary’s

4258 Rte 44, Millbrook, NY

7100 Albany Post Road, Rhinebeck, NY

(845) 677-5888

(845) 758-2267

www.charlottesny.com A few of our reviews: “...wonderful food, delight-

Osaka Restaurant

ful ambiance...a treasure!” “...gorgeous lawn

22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY

REGIONAL ITALIAN PRIX FIXE - $30

dining in the summer. The wood-fired grill will

(845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278

supercharge your appetite;” “tremendous food

MONDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHTS

74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY

from a varied and original menu that ranges

(845) 757-5055 or (845) 757-5056, NY

from devilish to divine.” Perfect for a romantic dinner for two to a jovial family lunch. Also, availand showers. Restaurant Hours: Wed & Thurs 5pm – 9:30pm, Fri & Sat 11:30am – 10:30pm, Sun 11:30am – 9:30pm. Gift Cards.

Gilded Otter

The River Bank 3 River Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY

(845) 256-1700

Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston, NY

River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu,

2.2 MILES WEST OF THE VILLAGE

Zagat Rated

Closed Monday & Tuesday

PATIO DINING PRIVATE ROOM CARRY OUT CATERING

www.therollingrockcafe.com

Soul Dog 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier.

(845) 454-3254

Chef driven and brewed locally!

www.souldog.biz

Gino’s Restaurant

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro

Route 9, Lafayette Plaza, Wappingers Falls, NY

6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY

(845) 297-8061

(845) 876-3330

Gomen Kudasai — Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking

WWW.JARESTAURANT.COM

(845) 382-2233

and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold

www.ginoswappingers.com

SOUTH EGREMONT, MA

www.theriverbank.biz

Rolling Rock Restaurant and Bar

overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill

PHONE 413.528.3469

(845) 534-3046

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY A warm and inviting dining room and pub

ROUTE 23 AT BLUNT ROAD

www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com

Great food you can bank on!

Seasonal Menu • Thin Crust Pizza • French • Asian Italian Signature Dishes • Martini & Wine Bar 3 RIVER AVE, CORNWALL ON HUDSON 845.534.3046 ~ TheRiverBank.biz

Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram

215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY

Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s

(845) 255-8811

most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes

John Andrews Restaurant

something surprising, fresh, and dynamic:

Route 23 at Blunt Road, South Egremont, MA

dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving

(413) 528-3469

lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local.

www.jarestaurant.com

Organic. Authentic.

Leo's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria

The Dutch Ale House

1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY

(845) 247-BEER

(845) 564-3446

www.dutchalehouse.com

Hudson Valley’s Premier Caterer Offering fine catering for 38 years in the Hudson Valley

253 Main Street, Saugerties, NY

1118 State Route 17K Montgomery, NY 12549

Route 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 838-3446

Yobo Restaurant

22 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, NY

Route 300, Newburgh, NY

(845) 534-3446

(845) 564-3848

www.leospizzeria.com

www.yoborestaurant.com

www.holbertscatering.com holberts@frontiernet.net

Fine Catering for All Occasions

(845) 457-5806

Fax: (845) 457-4019

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able for reunions, weddings, rehearsal dinners

www.osakasushi.net

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Accommodations Hampton Inn, Kingston

Pomarico Design Studio

1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600 www.kingston.hamptoninn.com ramona.vazquez@hilton.com

181 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-0448 www.healthcaredesign.com mike@healthcaredesign.com

Hampton Inn, Matamoras 122 Westfall Town Drive, Matamoras, PA (570) 491-5280 www.matamoras.hamptoninn.com monique.olivier@hilton.com

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

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

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Architecture

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

Precision Flow Technologies, Inc. 3 Tower Drive, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0810 www.precisionflow.com

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

Wittus — Fire By Design (914) 764-5679 www.wittus.com

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

Antiques Fed On Lights Antiques Corner of Market & Livingston Streets, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8444 www.fedonlights.com

Louis J. Dianni Antique Marine Art West Point, NY (914) 474-7710 www.LouisJDianni.com

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

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Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org Memento Mori: Contemporary Vanitas Exhibition: Artist Reception, Saturday, September 18, 6-9pm.The exhibition explores works of contemporary artists who create Vanitas.

Vanitas is a type of symbolic still life depicting a moralizing message on the ephemeral aspects of life and its sensuous pleasures.

Artists featured: Kira Greene, Tara Giannini, Kirstin Lamb, Monika Malewska, Christopher Peters, and Justine Reyes. Present exhibition runs thru Saturday, October 30, 2010.

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

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

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

Back Door Studio

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

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

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

Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries 199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org

Art Instruction Kristy Bishop 195 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8835

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media, offers year-round exhibitions, weekend and multi-week workshops, lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/ video screenings, and much more.

Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org

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

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

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

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

Jessica Wickham, Woodworker 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.jessicawickham.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Clove Branch Discount Muffler & Brake 1122 Route 82, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 221-9898

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

Bakeries Me Oh My Pie Firehouse Plaza, 7466 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8340 www.meohmypieshop.com The best pie in the World! Wednesday Saturday:10:00am-6:00pm,Sundays: 10:00am3:00pm. Serving Lunch, Jane’s Ice Cream and the Best Pie in the World!

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

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

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

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

Bicycle Sales, Rentals & Service Pawling Cycle & Sport 12 West Main Street, Pawling, NY (845) 855-9866 www.pawlingcycle.com

Maria R Mendoza NYS Certified Interior Designer

BLOWOUT

fuRnituRe saMple sale!

CustoM fRaMing • CustoM dRapeRies

Furniture & home decor • Decorative interior moldings Indoor and outdoor lighting • Wallcoverings Reupholstery • Area rugs • Outdoor furnishings • Mirrors and clocks Tabletop and accessories...plus lots of gift items!

For the Hair You’ve Always Wanted..

The ONLY Professional Smoothing Treatment That Improves the Health of Hair

brazilian blowout

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A BEAUTY BOUTIQUE 101 Main Street, New Paltz

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747 Route 28, Kingston NY 12401 | 845-338-0800 | open 7 daYs! Located 3.5 miles west of NYS Thruway Exit 19

Book Publishers

Utility Canvas

Custom Artist Books

2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY www.utilitycanvas.com

Frog Hollow Farm

(203) 431-4381 or (860) 354-1118 www.customartistbooks.com Roysco@aol.com

White Rice

Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

Bookstores

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

Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing.

Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet.

Expert Tarot reading.

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

The Book Cellar 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen, NY (845) 338-5580

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Equestrian Services

WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603 (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com

Marvin Windows and Doors (800) 328-0268 www.mymarvin.com

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

Collaborative Workspace

Computer Services

The Present Perfect 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

Cooking Classes

(845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

Natural Gourmet Cookery School

Dig 89 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3833 www.facebook.com/digsaugerties

Echo Boutique 470 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0047

Magnolia’s 30 Charles Coleman Boulevard, Pawling, NY (845) 855-5664 www.magnolias-boutique.com

Sorella Woodstock, NY (845) 684-5074

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Events Hudson Valley Garlic Festival Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3090 www.hvgf.org

KidsPeace

A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

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

Counseling

Sky Top Restaurant, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1815 www.kidspeace.org

Locust Grove — The Samuel Morse Historic Site (845) 454-4500 www.lgny.org

Magical Egypt: A Symbolist Tour with John Anthony West 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 x107 www.JAWest.com jason@chronogram.com

New Paltz Chamber of Commerce — The 350 Project SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0243 www.the350project.net www.newpaltzchamber.org

Quail Hollow Events (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com The WOODSTOCK-NEW PALTZ ART & CRAFTS FAIR returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds this Labor Day Weekend for its 29th anniversary year. In addition to the juried exhibition area, Specialty foods & healthcare products, this Fall’s show will feature two new vibrant demonstrations in Windsor chair constructions & leather handbag making.

The expanded food court will be continued for the Fall show. Discounts & details at www.quailhollow.com.

Queens Galley www.thequeensgalley.org

Vital Behavior Services, Inc.

Read for Food

(845) 765-0463 www.vitalbehaviorservices.com jweinstein@vitalbehaviorservices.com

Boughton Place Theater 150 Kisor Road, Highland, NY

Custom Home Design and Materials

Watershed Agricultural Center www.buypurecatskills.com

Rhinebeck, NY (888) 687-2517 www.hudsonvalleygreenfestival.com www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com

Williams Lumber & Home Centers

Clothing & Accessories

(845) 255-1559 www.unisonarts.org

244 Clinton Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 594-7924 www.bluescreenpcrepair.com eric@bluescreenpcrepair.com

1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com

www.thebeacontheatre.org

3315 Route 343, Amenia, NY (845) 789-1177 www.horseleap.com info@horseleap.com

Hudson Valley Green Festival

Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique

The Concert to Re-Light the Beacon Unison Arts & Learning Center

Blue Screen Repair

Consignment Shops

grimwolf2000@yahoo.com

Horse Leap LLC

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

Rosendale Zombie Fest 2010

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989

Atlantic Custom Homes

River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers

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

Rhinecliff Hotel, 4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY Sunday, September 19, 4pm-6pm

Woodstock Invitational LLC Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockinvitational.com

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

Earthgoods Natural Foods Inc. 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5858 www.earthgoodsmarket.com

Gray Horse Farm 286 Hobbs Lane, Clinton Corners, NY (845) 266-8991 www.grayhorsefarm.org

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

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 Route 21C, Ghent (Harlemville), NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Certified Biodynamic/organic artisanal bread, pastries, cheese, yogurt and sauerkraut all made on our Biodynamic farm. PLUS local produce, farm raised meat & more!

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

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

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

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

Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!

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

Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy.

And so much more!

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

Internet Services DragonSearch (845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net

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

Interior Design Albergo Delmar 325 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 800 224 7359 albergodelmar@gmail.com albergodelmar.com

Italian Specialty Products La Bella Pasta

Phantom Gardener

(845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

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

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts

Allure

Bellizzi Jewelers

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

792 Route 82, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 227-2550 www.bellizzijewelers.com

Androgyny

Clove Branch Gift Shoppe

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

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

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

Shear Intensity 5455 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-4074 www.shearintensityhairsalon.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Hammertown Barn Pine Plains, Rhinebeck, NY and Great Barrington, MA www.hammertown.com

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

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

English Riding foR All AgEs We now have a new Olympic sized indoor arena with heated viewing area and dust free footing.

Boarding and Training • Summer Program for Kids and Adults

visit our web site at www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

EsoPUs, n.Y. (845) 384-6424

3314 Route 343, Amenia, NY

HORSE LEAPLLC A Specialty Tack Shop

845-789-1177

Riding Clothes for children and adults, Tack, Horse Clothes, Fox Hunting Apparel & Appointments, Gifts & Consignment

info@horseleap.com Mon, Wed - Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4, Closed Tues

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Hair Salons

Celebrating the Partnership of Human & Horse

Design atelier — Master upholsterer.

Gardening & Garden Supplies Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8606 www.thephantomgardener.com

frog hollow farm

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

Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

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

Emil Alzamora www.emilalzamora.com

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

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

Landscaping Appleseed Permaculture (845) 594-4518 www.appleseedpermaculture.com

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

KA Landscaping (845) 878-6849 cell: (845) 721-2486 www.ka-landscaping.com

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

ninebark, llc (845) 758-4184 www.ninebarkllc.com info@ninebarkllc.com

Virginia Luppino Landscapes, LLC

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(845) 246-2047 www.luppinodesign.com

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

Music Lessons Local 845 www.local845.com

Networking Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce 23F East Market Street, P.O. Box 42, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com Professional business membership organization comprised of approximately 400 members.

Benefits include monthly networking events, newsletter subscription, referrals, group insurance, business directory listing, web site listing and link. Affordable advertising available.

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Zupcu Photography

Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org

40 Carpenter Road, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 592-0807 www.zupcuphotography.com zupcu@aol.com

Paramount Center for the Arts 100 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-2333 www.paramountcenter.org

Pawling Concert Series (845) 855-3100 www.pawlingconcertseries.org

Shakespeare & Company 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA (413) 637-3353 Shakespeare.org

WAMC — The Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 ext. 4 www.thelinda.org

Weekend Rock Gods (518) 331-7249 www.weekendrockgods.com thor@weekendrockgods.com We’re not your average rock n’ roll party band.

We are a real rock band- not a wedding band in disguise, playing the best of rock/soul/new wave at an affordable price. Want to be a Rock God too? Come sing or jam with us at your next party! Oh yeah.

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

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

Bonded and insured.

Photography Dmitri Belyi rawpixelz@gmail.com

Fionn Reilly Photography

Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com

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Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com

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

There are moments that occur once in a life time and we wish that they could be tastefully remembered. We have a deep commitment to understand client’s personality, objectives, budgets and happy to produce images that are going to remain forever. Call us for portraits, weddings and events.

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

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Fierce and Powerful Love: Compassion as a Global Force An Interview with Marianne Williamson by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, a leading thinker in social change and spiritual development, and the author of nine published books, including the NewYork Times bestsellers A Return to Love, Everyday Grace, and her latest, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife. She also edited Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century, a remarkable collection of essays by a diverse array of respected luminaries (Deepak Chopra and Paul Hawken among them) about humankind’s pressing issues and visionary solutions to them. Ms.Williamson is also a prominent force in charitable service, including founding Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program serving over a thousand people a day in Los Angeles, and the Peace Alliance, a nonprofit grassroots organization fostering peace.

On October 13 Ms. Williamson will be in the Hudson Valley, joining Robert Thurman, Therese Schroeder-Sheker, Frank Osteseski, and other presenters for “The Art of Dying” conference at the Menla Mountain Retreat Center in Phoenicia. The conference, in its fourth year, is open to the public and explores spiritual, scientific, and practical approaches to living and dying. (Information at www.artofdying.org; 845-688-6897.)

I spoke with Marianne Williamson by telephone last month.

Your latest book, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, is a powerful reminder that our middle years are a time to live with intention, and that accepting that we’re aging can be the catalyst to doing that.

Carl Jung said that failure to deal with the issue of death robs the second half of life of its meaning. There comes a time in our lives when our morality dawns on us. A younger person holds on as long as possible to a kind of magical thinking. We know that we are going to die one day, but we don’t really believe it. But something happens, usually around our forties, where the knowledge that we may one day die settles into our cells in a whole new way. Powerful, even if, statistically, you may still have decades left.

Jung’s comment is so very relevant because if we deal with the issue in an enlightened way, it isn’t depressing but powerful.You owe it to yourself to demonstrate mastery in your own affairs and not run off into tangential projects and career choices. No more five-year detours into things that you know will be a waste of your time and resources.

Interestingly enough, the subject of death, held nobly, is an important ingredient of a well-lived life, a healthy life, a vital life. I think when you are young, you take so much for granted. Intellectually, you know you don’t have forever, but you’ve never known not being vital. Once you pass through those years, a common experience is that we look back and regret that we didn’t know them more fully. But for me, and other people I’ve seen, having felt I missed some of my youth has made me deeply committed to not missing my years now. I live life more intentionally, in large part because I didn’t when I was young.The time I have left on this Earth is not what it used to be, and I want to live it with care.

You describe in your writing how helpful it is to start the day giving thanks, and that doing so for even five minutes can help to keep things in perspective throughout the day.

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Afghan village held by the Taliban? In so many situations, I have thought how lucky I am. I’ve gone to give seminars in prison, and once I met a young woman who was the most beautiful, sweetest woman. She was an alcoholic, and one night she was drunk and driving a car and killed someone. She’s now in jail—though that’s not going to serve society—and the tragedy is that she did not get sober in time to avoid that.

To me that is the gratitude issue—that despite the problems we have, whatever issues we deal with, everyone reading this right now lives like a king. A billion people on this planet live on $1.25 a day. Seventeen thousand children die of hunger every day on this planet. Fifty-six million children don’t get to go to elementary school. And we are upset because we cannot afford the new MP3 player.

You’re getting the word out about some of these issues as well as directly working to make progress on them. Do you want to say a bit about that?

A lot of people are taking action in their own ways, and you see all the impulses by people who want to help and serve. These efforts are very important. An example is RESULTS [www.results.org], a grassroots antihunger and antipoverty group.

Their mission is to empower people to use personal and political power to end poverty in this country. When President Obama was campaigning for office, he suggested that the US kickstart the Global Education Fund. But that subject has not come up again. So RESULTS is very much supporting legislation—HR 5117, the Education for All Act of 2010—that is up in Congress now. Supporting that bill is a direct action we can all take right now so that developing nations have our support to educate each of their children at the primary-school level.

I also strongly support the Millennium Development Goals. In the year 2000, all 189 members of the United Nations came together and agreed on a set of global goals and set the year 2015 as the deadline to achieve them [www.un.org/ millenniumgoals]. I am particularly attracted to the Millennium Goals because it is a collective global effort to achieve eradication of the greatest sources of suffering.

The goals include cutting extreme poverty and hunger in half, achieving universal education for children, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-fourths, halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development. On September 20 I’ll be speaking at a summit meeting at the United Nations, called by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to accelerate progress on these goals.

You’re the founder of the Peace Alliance, and working toward creating a Department of Peace within our federal government. Can you tell us about those movements, and where the effort to create such a department stand?

In 2001, I started a group called the Global Renaissance Alliance. It has grown and evolved into the Peace Alliance and the Peace Alliance Foundation, which empower civic engagement toward a culture of peace [www.peacealliance.org]. The Peace Alliance is a network of organizers and advocates across the country, including

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One of the things the Peace Alliance is working on is establishing a cabinet-level Department of Peace. In 2003 Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced legislation to do that. The idea is to develop a department in the executive branch of the federal government with the sole purpose to research, articulate, and foster nonviolence options to resolve issues domestically and internationally. Kucinich’s idea was that if we could identify all the extraordinary ways that people in the world are already working on projects that foster brotherhood and genuine justice, we could therefore foster peace. Violence is the absence of peace. There are different kinds of peace.

Negative peace is an underlying anxiety. Positive peace is based on brotherhood. We want to foster positive peace.

The legislation needs support in Congress, so call your representative’s office and ask if he or she already is a sponsor. If so, say that you are very grateful, and if not, that you very much would like them to be.

Is there something in particular that has made you so attuned to the struggles of others?

My father was an immigration lawyer, so I grew up in a home hearing a lot of stories about poverty. My parents took us traveling all over the world. I saw the contrast between the relative abundance in the United States and other places, which gave me a real gratitude and love of being an American, and also a deep sensitivity to what other people go through.

I also went through an experience where I suffered deeply, and while I was going through it, I looked at other people around me and wondered if they ever hurt as much as I did. The answer I felt in my heart was yes, they do, but I just never noticed before. When you suffer, you get an X-ray into the suffering of others. It makes you never again able to turn a blind eye to the pain in others, the way you might have before.

One of my favorite quotes from your book The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life is “The fact we think love is a fierce and awesome power doesn’t mean we’re wimpy thinkers.”

There are those who would denigrate a conversation about love as a broadscale social source of good. But would they denigrate Martin Luther King about it, or Gandhi?

While it is easy to mock those who repudiate the dominant cultural conversation, the alternative conversation—a new, sustainable image of the world in which cooperation, sharing, and love are the bottom line—is indeed becoming more prevalent and sophisticated, and more obviously relevant to the times in which we live.

Love is a radical stance. The Course in Miracles talks about how a thought system based on fear dominates the consciousness of the human race, and has for ages.

Gandhi said the problem with the world is that humanity is not in its right mind, and what is considered reasonable is arguably insane. Just look at the number of bombs on the planet. So to be considered sane is to go along with a status quo worldview that would be labeled insane.

It has always been true of people at the forefront of change—those who said we should abolish slavery, or give women the right to vote—that at the time, they are considered fringe, crazy people. We should not let that stop us from making love, rather than economics, the bottom line. Anyone who thinks we can continue as a human race the way we are now, with greed and domination and economic obsession as the organizing principles of human civilization as they are today, is naïve.

Your books have had such a strong following. That alone gives me hope, because it means that many people want to hear, and are being touched by, your messages about love. I wish everybody had the courage to act on those messages as they go about their day.

I think we are living in a time where it isn’t about theology, it’s about experience.

The change of this time isn’t coming about because of soloists but because of a choir of people, each rising up out of the neurotic, narcissistic tendencies that have been holding us back. We might not all get to be enlightened masters, but while we are walking a serious spiritual path, being more loving and forgiving, compassionate, in service, and devoted to the possibilities for humanity in the future, we are collectively moving forward.

There are also very regressive forces that abound, and sometimes it feels there is a race for time going on, like the Titanic racing to the iceberg. However, we have the capacity as human beings to make a leap past what was probable when our minds were more narrow, into what is possible when our minds expand and our health expands, and we have more openness. With those internal dynamics, we will create something more beautiful than anything we can imagine, for us and for our children and for our grandchildren.

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Why Mindful Parenting Won’t Keep You Up All Night: A Conversation with Jon Kabat Zinn Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

Last weekend I went to Omega Institute’s conference on Mindfulness and Education, imagining a Flowers Fallstyle back-to-school column on the topic. Before going, I set up an interview with one of the keynote speakers, Jon Kabat Zinn, the author, speaker, and mindfulnessbased stress-reduction guru. The conference was exciting, turning me on to the ways kids can awaken in and out of school. But watching Jon Kabat Zinn was even more inspiring. Not only was he a generous and engaging speaker, but as our interview happened at the end of the day, I got to stand there for an hour, watching him connect to each and every person who approached him with their story, request, or gratitude. And I was deeply impressed by his gentle responsiveness.

Our conversation happened on the porch of his cabin. It went all over the place, but—surprise, surprise— it was the practice of parenting (he has grown children of his own) that seemed to get both of us most riled up.

So in editing this piece, that is what I have chosen to highlight.

The column I write is about my personal practice as a parent and how I work with the challenges that arise.

Parenting is the hardest work in the world. And the best!

Right. I have been practicing in a pretty traditional Zen setting for some time, and it’s a challenging path for parents. How is it within the mindfulness tradition?

When people have kids, you can’t expect them to train in the zendo for 15 years before they know what to do with their newborn.

Exactly.

I have a formal meditation practice and my wife doesn’t.

It would be absurd for us to suggest that you have to be a meditator in order to be a mindful parent.

Do you find that people really can awaken in a meaningful way without a serious sitting practice?

I think the question of what is a “serious sitting practice” may be different for different people. I see parenting as the highest meditative practice there is. You get these little live-in Zen masters who are parachuted into your life and push every single one of your buttons. And you can either butt heads with them or honor them as miraculous beings and find 108 whole living ChronograM 9/10

out through that dance of relationality, moment by moment, what it means to be human, passing on life to the next generation. And yet, often you reach a point where you get so exasperated. You hurt your children! It can drive you that far into madness and distraction. But really that is attachment to your own idea. It’s like, I don’t want this to be happening, I didn’t sign up for this. I didn’t think this is what it would be like to be a parent, or a wife, or whatever. Well, too bad! It’s what’s happening! Mindful parenting is: Can you really listen, can you really see who your child is, and delight in their need of you? I mean, they didn’t ask to be born.

I know. I think about that all the time.

What blows my mind is when people have children and then hire other people to raise them, and I see the end result of that 40 or 50 years later when I hear people’s stories.

One of the things you talk about in your book about parenting [Everyday Blessings] is putting your child first. And that has such an interesting edge for people, especially women who have fought a lot of conditioning that always said to put others first. Then we grow up and have children and we’re supposed to take the backseat again. It can be very confusing.

Well, that’s not what I meant about putting your child first. What I meant was that being a parent means you take responsibility for your child’s life until they can take responsibility for their own life. That’s it!

That’s a lot!

True, but it doesn’t mean you can’t get help. I’m not expecting anyone to be supermom but just to be real, to ask deep questions about why am I in this situation in the first place, especially if you chose to have children. There’s no one way to be a mindful parent.

But it turns out how you are as a parent makes a huge difference in the neural development of your child for the first four or five years.

That is so frightening.

[Laughs.]

I find that kind of information, as an adult child, can be very healing, but as a parent, it’s terrifying.

All that’s required, though, is connection. That’s all.

But the source of suffering is separation and that suffering happens a lot.

That’s true.

And I don’t want to be connected all the time.

I see. Well, everything has consequences.

Absolutely.

And you don’t know what the consequences are.

Exactly. So when I read some of this research that lays out the consequences— Then it’s scary. How old is your child?

Four-and-a-half.

Well, I gotta say, I have very strong feelings about that kind of thing. As I said, she didn’t ask to be born. On the other hand, it’s perfectly understandable that a person wants to pursue her own life. How you negotiate that with your husband, other parents, in-laws, or whatever, those things are important. And there’s no one right way to do it, but there are an infinite number of ways to that are really seriously unwise— Like with anger, resentment— Exactly. We’re not talking some ideal like you shouldn’t be angry. And you know, kids are really quick to forgive.

But not if you don’t name it.You’ve got to name it.

For myself first.

Right, and then you’re teaching emotional intelligence.

Liberation is about seeing the impulse to get caught in something that is going to be harmful to you and her— or repairing it if you’ve gone too far.

And noticing the habits of only noticing what I do wrong.

That’s another story you’re telling yourself. What good does that do? It’s so judgmental. Everyone, in some sense, is, I believe, doing the best they can. But if they were more able to be in alignment with what’s deepest and best and most beautiful in themselves, that’s the work of no time. It’s just realizing you’re not as bad as you think. Maybe you’re beautiful, and you can share that beauty with your daughter. And they don’t need that for more than a few seconds. It’s not like this is going to keep you up all night. They just want to know that you care and that you’re there.

Did you have good parenting as a kid?

My wife would say no. But I’m an optimistic guy.

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

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

Stone Flower Mountain Health 1310 Route 28, West Hurley, NY (845) 679-4872

Allergies & Sinus Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Treating allergies (food & environmental) and sinus symptoms in an effective, holistic manner. A unique blend of modalities, supplementation, herbs and nutrition will be utilized to bring you back to a vibrant state of health.

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

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

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Art Therapy Deep Clay New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com

The playshops are a time for the ”Inner Child” to come out to play in a beautiful setting in Gardiner NY. Activities include: fun and easy artwork, Qi Gong, dancing with scarves, learning simple reflexology techniques for relaxation, meditation, and more. Small groups. $120 per session- supplies included Upcoming “Playshop” dates and time, contact Meg Costa.

(845) 256 8248 ❀ meg@ocsh.biz ❀ www.freethespiritwithin.us

Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts healing sessions, including “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women, child and family play therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and brief intensive counseling for teens and adults.

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

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

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

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

Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley

Edward. F. rossi, Md

Your Hometown PediatricianPLLC PEdiatric & adolEscEnt MEdicinE A unique approach of integrative pediatric medicine for your child’s healthcare

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

Primp Beauty Lounge 88 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6869

Sound Earth www.soundearth.com

Body-Centered Therapy

845-544-1667 7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY 10990 • email: edwarddoc@aol.com www.yourhometownpediatrician.com Affiliated with NYU and Mount Sinai

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.

Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com

Imago Relationship Therapy New Paltz, New York • (845) 255-3566

julieezweig@gmail.com

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Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist. In addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions from injured muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Dr. Ness also uses non-

surgical chiropractic traction to decompress disc herniations in the spine. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment call Dr. Ness today at (845) 255-1200.

Counseling IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at: ioneappointments@gmail.com

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

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

Crystals and Gifts Notions-N-Potions 175 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2410 www.notions-n-potions.com

Dentistry & Orthodontics Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com I believe in expansion and gentle forces.

Too much pressure squeezes out essential blood supply and there is no support for tooth movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated. As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plague and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign.

I treat snoring and sleep apnea as well as joint and facial pain. We welcome children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted.

Payment plans available.

Stanley E. Kacherski, D.D.S., M.S., P.C. 129 Clove Branch Road, Hopewell Jct., NY (845) 223-3050 www.hopewelldentist.com

Energy Healing

Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

Hawks Healing Heart 2 Oak Street, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 226-6755

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

Hudson River Community HealthCare (877) 871-4742

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

Nancy Plumer — One Light Healing Touch Energy Healing and Mystery School

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies 1 (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org

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

Massage Therapy Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).

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

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

www.hahv.org

Do you have chronic neck, back or shoulder problems? Headaches? Numbness or tingling? Or do you just need to relax? Utilizing a blend of soft tissue therapies, we can help you resume the activities you need to do and love to do with freedom from discomfort and pain.

Northern Dutchess Hospital

Jesse Scherer, LMT

Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

New Paltz, Kingston and NYC, NY (914) 466-1517 www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com

Hospitals Health Alliance

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

(845) 876-6753

Jesse delivers sessions based on the client’s individualized needs, addressing injury rehabilitation, muscular stagnation, flexibility, and stiffness due to lyme and other chronic illness, as well as relaxation and restorative massage.

Utilizing Neuromuscular and other Specific Deep Tissue Techniques; with strength and precision Jesse supports the bodies natural inclination to move from a place of strain and fatigue to its preferred state of flexibility, suppleness and integrity. Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Massage.

Some Insurances Accepted.

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT

Joan Apter

New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302

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

Hypnosis Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

Kary Broffman, RN, CH

Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change Your Outlook. Gain Control. Make Healthier Choices. Certified

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(845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net

Integrated Kabbalistic Healing

Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products.

100% Natural & Organic Skin Care

We see a beautiful future for your skin...

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special introductory 25% off online coupon code CHRO125 - exp. 9/30/10 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com 888.758.1270

www.mountainvalleymanor.com

Nestled on nine acres in a country setting, we provide: Complete Health Care Coordination All Inclusive Amenities Unparalleled Activities

On your own, but never alone.

397 Wilbur Ave. Kingston (845) 331-1254

Voted Best Adult Assisted Living and Building Project of the Year by the Ulster Chamber of

Locally owned and operated by the De Poala and Mc Naughton Families

NYS DOH Licensed Adult Care Home

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John M. Carroll H ,T ,S C EALER

EACHER

PIRITUAL

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

OUNSELOR

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

—Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.”

—Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

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

johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420

Psychically Speaking

Meditation Meditation Center Of Dutchess County (845) 471-7213

Sky Lake

Poughkeepsie, NYC (845) 380-0023

Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8556 www.skylake.shambhala.org

Menopause Treatment

(845) 255-4832

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Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D.

New Paltz, NY

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

essentialhealth12@gmail.com

Teachings on The Black Madonna & The Magdalene

Helping women to move through the process

* Dreams * StarGazing * * Sacred Sound * Oracles * So much more Women’s Mysteries for Women Who Want to Go Deeper® Lifebridge Sanctuary, High Falls, NY December 3-6, 2010 womensmysteries@gmail.com www.ministryofmaat.org

techniques are utilized to help you to become

of menopause with ease. A unique blend of healing modalities, nutrition and self-care balanced through this transition. If you need assistance becoming your vibrant self call or e-mail for a consultation.

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors.

We treat newborns, children, and adults.

By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.

Physicians Hometown Pediatrician

CELEBRATING 15 YEARS SERVING THE HUDSON VALLEY

ANDROGYNY

Pilates

www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com

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

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

(845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com

www.yourhometownpediatrician.com

(845) 658-8400

sylvia zuniga owner-designer New Paltz, N.Y. 845 256 0620

New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW

692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY

A one of a kind place to be

Amy R. Frisch, LCSW

(845) 544-1667

Conscious Body Pilates

NAET – Allergy Elimination Certified Complementary Cancer Care Chinese Herbs Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture

Psychotherapy

7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY

GALLERY/SALON

Stone Flower Mountain Health

pain management • sports injuries stroke rehabilitation • women’s health infertility • digestive disorders asthma • depression/anxiety • addictions

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

bvalente@dutchessmediation.org

Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner

WOMAN OF THE DUAT

Psychics

Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping

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.

Integrative Psychotherapy 129 Clove Branch Road, Hopewell Junction, NY 1591 Route 22, Brewster, NY (845) 309-4571

you achieve and maintain a strong healthy

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit,

(845) 485-5933

whatever your age or level of fitness. Pri-

Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

vate and semi-private apparatus sessions available.

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people heal and grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing childhood trauma, recovery from addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR, and Brainspotting. Bi-weekly workshops on Mindful Parenting and Living Serenity at the Sanctuary, New Paltz on Thursday evenings. Call for information.

Newsletter sign up on web site. FB page: www.BrigidsWell.com/facebook

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

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

Sally Roth, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (917) 566-4393

Residential Care

Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change, in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River. This fall, retreats with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Gelek Rimpoche, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler and Fr. Carl Arico, and Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein.

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

Yoga

Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com The new Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa resides in the heart of the historic artists colony of Woodstock NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region.

Aspects Gallery provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two bedroom apartments conjoined to a 2000 sq. ft. cedar and glass enclosed climate controlled spa with 40' saline pool, 64 jet jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna.

Enjoy a leisurely poolside bar brunch or order an organic gourmet candlelight dinner prepared by your host French chef Lio Magat — sommelier for famed international chef Paul Bocuse. Bienvenue et bon appetit!

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

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

(845) 706-0229 for more information

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

Group sessions include expressive art activities - it’s not all talk!

Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com

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

Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa

Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack

(845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org

Resorts & Spas

daccolla@gmail.com 303 Fair Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, New York 12401 845.853.7353

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

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

m.s.,l.ac.

The office is closed until further notice, but herbal consultations and formulas may be available to previous patients only. Contact Dylana via email for more information.

Office space available for healthcare providers.

Email for more info.

Awakenings

Always There Home Care

397 Wilbur Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1254 www.mountainvalleymanor.com

dylana accolla

Tarot

Jai Ma Yoga Center

Mountain Valley Manor Adult Home

C lassiCal a CupunCture & C hinese h erbs

Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

H YPNOCOaCHING m I N d / B O d Y I N T e G r a T I O N

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20 + years of psychotherapy experience successfully helping people cope with stress, feelings, and life & relationship problems.

Training and expertise in insight-oriented and couple’s therapy, eating disorders, women’s issues, chronic illness, anxiety and depression.

Retreat Centers

Hypnosis • Holistic nurse consultant• coacHing Manage Stress • Apprehensions • Pain • Improve Sleep Release Weight • Set Goals • Change Habits Pre/Post Surgery • Fertility • Gentle Childbirth Immune System Enhancement Past Life Regression • Intuitive Counseling Motivational & Spiritual Guidance

Relax • Release • Let Go • Flow

HYPNOSIS

f O r B I rT H I N G Kary Broffman, r.N., C.H. 845-876-6753

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

Transcend body & mind. Transcend societal & religious negativity around the body.

Experience your sensual self with naked bodies flowing in movement ignited by their ujjaji breathes. Private sessions for couples or individuals.

The Yoga Way 2 Commerce Court #3, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-3223 www.yogaway.info yogaway@earthlink.net

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT

Rubenfeld Synergy® Psychodrama Training

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The Kingston Land Trust presents

Harvest Moon BENEFiT CONCERT featuring POOK (the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston) and the Kingston High School Jazz Combo With a special guest appearance by world renowned jazz bassist Larry Grenadier

Wednesday, September 22nd Live at the Falcon www.liveatthefalcon.com 1348 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 Doors 6pm, Showtime 7pm

$25 suggested donation. Youth 18 and under are free.

For more information, contact Rebecca Martin, Executive Director of the Kingston Land Trust at 845/877-LAND

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event listings for september 2010

Iggy and the Stooges play Raw Power in its entirety at All Tomorrow's Parties in Monticello on September 3.

Declaration of Independents It seems most big rock festivals, especially those in America, are more concerned with turning a profit than turning audiences on to iconoclastic and forward-thinking music.

Too many of these so-called “altruistic,” peace-and love-posing events are almost as populated with trinket vendors and corporate signage as they are with attendees.

And after one has spent a few days blistering in the sun next to the porta-potty zone, it’s tempting to say, “Never again.” But all of this is not the case with the musically adventurous, British-born All Tomorrow’s Parties, which on September 3, 4, and 5 makes its third consecutive run at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello.

Last year’s main act at the sponsor-eschewing indoor festival, the commercially successful but still defiantly individual Flaming Lips, is about as close to the mainstream as the event’s US programming has gotten thus far; the Lips’ rags-to-riches credibility and championing of the underground made for a perfect conceptual fit. Founded by promoter Barry Hogan in 1999, ATP is for connoisseurs of influential and cutting-edge sounds, not the usual teeming festival fodder in search of a soundtrack for a posthot-dogs-and-mosh-pit puke-fest. Sure, it’s a party—that’s right there in its Velvet Underground-derived moniker—but it’s a party for those who tend to think while they rock. And for sheer hipster-pleasing quality, diversity, and all-out rock action, this year’s lineup looks like the best yet.

As part of ATP’s Don’t Look Back segments, in which artists perform one of their classic albums in its entirety, the weekend opens on September 3 with a monolithic bang: Iggy and the Stooges playing Raw Power, Mudhoney revisiting Superfuzz Bigmuff

(plus early singles), Sleep doing Holy Mountain, and influential Australian postpunk quartet the Scientists, who in their first-ever US appearance will present 1983’s Blood Red River. Among others, September 4’s bill boasts Sonic Youth, the Breeders, Tortoise, Shellac, Explosions in the Sky, and Hallogallo 2010 (featuring Neu!’s Michael Rother); the September 5 roster was handpicked by this year’s guest curator, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and stars Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, the Wu Tang Clan’s Raekwon, Wooden Shjips, Fucked Up, the Vivian Girls, a collaboration by Sunn 0))) and Boris, and many more. Additional attractions include DJ sets, film screenings, tasty and healthful food choices, live comedy, and on-site bars and lounges. (At press time all of Kutsher’s guest rooms were booked; other local accommodations may still be available.)

“It’s always a pleasure to play on an ATP bill,” says Mudhoney front man Mark Arm, whose band is “especially psyched to be playing with both the Stooges and the Scientists. When I think about what’s gonna go down on September 3, I feel like my brain is either going to freeze or explode.”

Which is either a rabid endorsement or a not-to-be-missed bonus act. Or how about both?

All Tomorrow’s Parties takes place at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello on September 3, 4, and 5. Tickets are $110, $120, and $250. (845) 794-6000; www.atpfestival.com.

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WEDNESDAY 1 Art The Scrapbooking Club 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5. Pawling Free Library, Pawling.

855-3444.

Decorative Wall Plaques 7pm-8:30pm. $5. Pawling Free Library, Pawling.

855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Kids Class 5pm-6pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events Woodstock Fringe Festival Check website for specific events. Call for location. www.woodstockfringe.org.

Open Jazz Jam 7:30pm-10:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston.

340-4277.

Rascal Flatts 7:30pm. With special guests Kellie Pickler and Chris Young. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

First Looks: The Music of Jared Dembowski 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock.

Jon Cobert & Friends 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. Rock. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.

Music Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Alley, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

Crosby, Stills, and Nash 7:30pm. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-1600.

Theater Showboat Mac-Haydn Theater, Chatham.

The Amish Project 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

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

Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

FRIDAY 3 PHOTOcentric 2010 6pm-8pm. Photography competition exhibition. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Projective Dream Group 7pm-9pm. With Melissa Sweet. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance Friday Night Swing Dance 7:30pm. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121.

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

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

(518) 392-3353.

The Amish Project 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

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

(860) 927-3377.

Workshops

Film

Seeing Color and Light 9am-Friday, September 3, 4pm. $440. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

11th Woodstock Museum Annual Free Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films and times. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.WoodstockMuseum.org.

Carborundrum Printing Wednesday, September 1, 9am-4pm. $215. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

THURSDAY 2 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Green Meditation Practice 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Clark Strand. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 8pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on sacred scriptures. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Film Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Three Seasons 7pm. In Vietnamese and English with English subtitles.

Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Music The Organik Vibe Trio Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

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

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Private Lives 7pm. Dinner and performance by Taconic Stage Dinner Theater. $40. Light House Restaurant and Marina, Copake Lake. (518) 325-1234.

The Amish Project 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Private Lives 7pm. Taconic Stage Company. $40 dinner and show.

Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake.

(518) 325-1234.

Showboat Mac-Haydn Theater, Chatham.

Film

Common Ground Farm Summer Programs for Kids Friday, September 3, 9am-12:30pm. Ages 6-9. $125.

Common Ground Farm, Fishkill.

A Midsummer Night's Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Art

Kids

Showboat Mac-Haydn Theater, Chatham.

Theater

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, picnic area, live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Theater

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Music The John Secret Project Opening Act: The Post-Modern Jazz Trio. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

First Looks: The Music of Jared Dembowski 5pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock.

Sonando 7pm-10pm. Mariner's Harbor, Kingston. 340-8051.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Features Kurt Henry and Cheryl Lambert. $3.

Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Teresa Storch 7:30pm. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

John Brown: Trumpet of Freedom 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock.

George Conrad 8pm. Americana. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Dan Brother Band 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

Rhett Tyler Band With Ruby Hogg. 8:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Joe Louis Walker 9pm. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Four Guys In Disguise 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Core 10pm. The Inn at Leeds, Leeds. (518) 943-9820.

The Outdoors Labor Day Family Weekend Call for times. Featuring family-oriented activities. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Workshops Phil Mansfield: Intermediate Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

SATURDAY 4 Art New Watercolors by Staats Fasoldt and Ed Berkise Call for times. The Doghouse Gallery, Saugerties.

246-0402.

Woodstock New Paltz art and Craft Fair Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.quailhollow. com.

Art Studio Views 2010 Tour 11am-5pm. Visit northern Dutchess artists in their studio. www.artsnortherndutchess.org/asv.

Open Studio Tour and Glass Cutting Demonstration 11am-5pm. Doris Cultraro, stained glass artist. DC Studios, Rhinebeck. 876-3200.

Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Watercolors & oils by Betsy Jacaruso. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2010 1pm-6pm. 60 art installations. Saunders Farm, Garrison.

528-1797.

Artistic Women Past and Present: Looking Forward from the Hudson River School Tradition 4pm-6pm. Emily Cole, Candace Wheeler, Louise Kamp, Doris Frye and Dorothy Saengar Nancy Campbell, Edith Marcik, Kate McGloughlin, Lauren Sansaricq, Sue Story, Ruth Wetzel. Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Hunter. (518) 263-2060.

Shy as a Shrimp: A Year Spent Studying the Art of Children 5pm-7pm. Mixed media paintings by Jacinta Bunnell.

Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

An Odyssey in Watercolor: Paintings by Ray Curran 5pm-8pm. Seven21 Gallery, Kingston. 331-7956.

Still Life 5pm-7pm. Stanley Bielen, Kim Denise, & Lucy Kalian.

The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(413) 458-1700.

Photographs by Henry Linder 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Katharine L. McKenna 5pm-8pm. Ask Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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

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

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

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. No Reason to be Sour: sauerkraut demonstration. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

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

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

Festival of Books 10am. Author readings, panel discussions, children's events, cookbook cafe, giant used book sale.

Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown.

(518) 392-3693.

Michael Devine Private Garden Tour 10am-1pm. Live music, refreshments, and gardening tips. $10. 10 Broad Street, Kinderhook. renshu5@aol.com.

Catskill Mountain Eco-Heritage Festival 11am-11pm. Daytime events, dinner, concert and dance. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Film 11th Woodstock Museum Annual Free Film Festival Check website for specific films and times. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.WoodstockMuseum.org.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Music Julian Lage Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Erin Brown 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Radio Deluxe 2pm. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

First Looks: Jerry McGee 2pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock.

Wall Street Jazz Festival 5pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.wallstreetjazzfestival.com.

305 8pm. Rock. $3. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls.

297-8110.

Tyler Bejoian & Elana Belle Carroll 8pm. Rising stars on Hudson scene. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson (518) 671-6006.

Aaron Neville Quintet 8pm. Featuring Charles Neville. $20-$65. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

Good Buy Columbus! Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock.

Highlights from the Footlights 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Violinist Elmar Oliveira 8pm. $25/$20 seniors/$15 members/$5 students.

Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham.

(518) 263-5165.

The Volunteers Exhibit 5pm-8pm. Ask Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Levon Helm Band 8pm. Midnight Ramble, Woodstock. www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm.

West Wall Cross River Fine Arts. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook.

758-9244.

The People's Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Laurence Hobgood Trio 8pm. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Introduction to The Sedona Method 10am-11:30am. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Maura O'Connell 8:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Retreat with Swami Yogatmananda 10:30am-Sunday, September 5, 4pm. Monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India. Vivekananda RetreatRidgely, Stone Ride. 687-4574.

The Providers 8:30pm. Blues. American Glory, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.

VortexHealing & Personal Transformation 2pm-4:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

The Coverup Band 9pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm and 12:15pm-2:15pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

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

Events Hudson Valley Green Festival Call for times. A one-day music, alternative energy, food and beverage festival. Blues Traveller headlines. Mills Mansion, Staatsburg. hudsonvalleygreenfestival.com.

Connor Kennedy Band 9pm. Roots. Starr Alley, Rhinebeck. 876-2924.

Andy Aledort & the Groove Kings 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Simply Noted 10pm. Country. Top Notch Bar and Grill, Walden.

778-0277.

The Outdoors Singles and Sociables: Lake Awosting and Beyond 9am-4pm. 11-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. "How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

ART dawn breeze image provided

Free Now, an environmental sculpture by Dawn Breeze from 2009.

Where Life Touches Down “I’m interested in the points where life touches down,” says artist Dawn Breeze. “Here’s a life and here’s a death, and when something big like that happens, it turns you inside out. My work celebrates that. This show is about recognizing the continuum of life; accepting the constant transformation, the constant motion, that no moment will be the same as the last, and that there is no finality.”

In 2008 two events forever transformed Breeze’s life and work, the birth of her first child and the death of her sister. Her response, to process each as if they were equally beautiful, pushed her art into new territory. Known primarily for her abstract landscape paintings, Breeze began venturing beyond canvas, experimenting with sculpture, filmmaking, performance art, and photography. “Finding Joy,” a selection of that work, including paintings, photography and the show-stopping installation Shrine of Summer Shells, is on exhibit through September 12 at Deffebach Gallery in Hudson.

Shrine, made up of a bureau, along with clothing and seashells that once belonged to her sister, is, in Breeze’s words, a monument to “the beautiful shells my sister left behind. Her clothing collection is in itself a beautiful body of art. Amassed during her life, each piece holds stories, memories, smells, and visual clues into her radiant spirit.” The flat-out prettiness of the dresses bursting from the bureau—as if escaping confinement—can be enjoyed equally, with or without the weighty backstory. The paintings are similarly bright, airy, and exuberant. Nothing is too literal; something is always being obscured or overtaken by something else—abstract flowers, greenery, and mile markers along the highway peek out from behind a layer of snow.

“If we think about the metaphor of flowers, we can sometimes believe they’re only beautiful in full bloom,” says Breeze. “I’m not interested in cut flowers that last for just

a minute. I’m interested in the challenge of finding beauty in all of it.”

Wendy McDaris, director of Deffebach Gallery, counts the show among her all-time favorites. “I’ve had people cross the street from the other side, they are just…lured,” she says. “The implication of those clothes cascading out of those drawers is so mysterious because first, clothes can’t do things like that by themselves, but also, quite obviously they’ve been vacated—it’s an allusion to the ultimate transformation.”

Breeze describes her process as being intentionally unplanned. As a painter, she does little if any underdrawing, as a sculptor she has nothing fabricated, preferring to feel pieces out as she goes. “They are poetic puzzles,” she says, “all very emotive.” Rather than evolving from blueprint to build, Breeze says her installations come to her as fleeting visions. “They are a way of me seeing my emotional response to something. When I started making them, I tried not to hesitate—I had to move really quickly, because how do you rationalize traipsing out to the middle of nowhere to build a giant sculpture out of dresses?” The piece she refers to, Free Now, an environmental sculpture, was erected on a hill surrounded by farmland near her home in Germantown. Seemingly, hundreds of dresses climbed a 20-foot ladder to the sky. “As soon as I start to think, the fear becomes stronger and starts to become an editor. If I think about any idea too much, it dilutes itself,” says Breeze.

“Finding Joy” runs through September 12 at Deffebach Gallery, 135 Warren Street in Hudson. A reception for the artist will be held on September 4 from 4:30 to 7:30pm.

(518) 828-2535. Portfolio: www.dawnbreezepaintings.com.

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Spoken Word

Film

Film

Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Anne Hanson. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

11th Woodstock Museum Annual Free Film Festival Check website for specific films and times. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.WoodstockMuseum.org.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Theater Showboat Mac-Haydn Theater, Chatham.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

A Lady of Letters 4pm. Taconic Stage Company. $15. Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Copake Falls. (518) 325-1234.

Screening of Beyond Iconic 7:30pm. Followed by Q and A. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Music

Private Lives 7pm. Taconic Stage Company. $40 dinner and show.

Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake.

(518) 325-1234.

Private Lives 7pm. Dinner and performance by Taconic Stage Dinner Theater. $40. Light House Restaurant and Marina, Copake Lake. (518) 325-1234.

Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Amish Project 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Workshops Alternative Digital Processes Call for times. Katherine Wright. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

The Female Eye: Women Seeing Women Call for times. Connie Imboden. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

SUNDAY 5 Art Woodstock New Paltz Art and Craft Fair 10am-6pm. $8/$7 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.quailhollow.com.

Art Studio Views 2010 Tour 11am-5pm. Visit northern Dutchess artists in their studio.

Call for location. www.artsnortherndutchess.org/asv.

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

Open Studio Tour and Glass Cutting Demonstration 11am-5pm. Doris Cultraro, stained glass artist. DC Studios, Rhinebeck. 876-3200.

Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Watercolors & oils by Betsy Jacaruso. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

The 8th Annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction 1pm. To benefit the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum 28, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Summer Arts Festival and Picnic 6pm-9pm. Saugerties Village Beach, Saugerties.

246-5577.

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

Cleansing With The Sound Of Crystal 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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

Hooley on the Hudson IX 11:30am-9pm. Irish festival includes live music and storytelling. T.R. Gallo Park, Kingston. www.ulsteraoh.com.

Jeremy Bar-Illan 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

The Eddie Daniels-Bob James Quartet: Broadway Boogie 2pm. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Friends of Maverick Concert 3pm. Mei-Ting Sun, piano: The Chopin I Love. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Good Buy Columbus! Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 5pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0123 Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams 7:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Julian Lage Group 8pm. The Donal Fox Quartet: Piazzolla to Bach Project with special guest Maya Beiser, cello. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

The Outdoors Singles and Sociables: Black Rock Forest Call for times. 10-mile hike. Call for location. 534-2886.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

The Outdoors Morning Hike on Wappingers Creek Trail Call for times. 4 miles. Call for location. 462-0142.

TUESDAY 7

A Lady of Letters 4pm. Taconic Stage Company. $15. Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Copake Falls. (518) 325-1234.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

MONDAY 6 Art Woodstock New Paltz art and Craft Fair 10am-4pm. $8/$7 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.quailhollow.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Soul Energy Readings Call for times. $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-9pm. Meditation, Dharma Talk and Dharma Cafe. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron & Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 4:30pm-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Film Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Jackson Browne 7:30pm. With David Lindley. $60-$80. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

WEDNESDAY 8

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

New Moon Kundalini Salon 5:30pm-7:30pm. With Yogi Bajan's student Nidhi Huba. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Classes

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Open Level Class 5:15pm-7:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz.

255-4375.

Channeling & Sensing The Vastness Of Being 8pm-9:30pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events

Classes

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer's market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

Mad Dash 8:30am. To support the Outreach Charities of the Church. 5K run, 5K walk, 10K run, mini-dashes for kids. $20/$16 in advance/$2 child. Church of Messiah, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeck-episcopal.org.

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Kids Class 5pm-6pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Festival of Books 12pm. Author readings, panel discussions, children's events, cookbook cafe, giant used book sale.

Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown.

(518) 392-3693.

Festival of Books 10am. Author readings, panel discussions, children's events, cookbook cafe, giant used book sale.

Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown.

(518) 392-3693.

Hudson Valley Green Drinks Call for times. Networking & farm-to-table tapas night for people in the environmental fields and sustainably minded. $25/$20 in advance. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 454-6410.

Alpaca Festival 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

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THURSDAY 9 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Green Meditation Practice 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Clark Strand. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 8pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Richard Edelman: Advanced Digital Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Film

Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & the Community. Talking Stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Workshops

Jennifer Berne & Keith Bendis Call for times. Calvin Can't Fly: Story of a Bookworm Birdie. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665.

Events

Ellenville Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Shaupeneak Ridge 9:30am-1:30pm. Meet at 299/9W Park and Ride, Highland. 255-0919.

Spoken Word

Body / Mind / Spirit

Outdoor Farm Food Feast 10am-2pm. $70. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent.

(518) 672-7500 ext. 105.

The Outdoors

Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling series. $26/$24 in advance. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Sharing Shabbat 9am. Breakfast, Torah study, service. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

Dancing On The Air 8pm. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Simply Noted 10pm. Country. Top Notch Bar and Grill, Walden.

778-0277.

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm and 12:15pm-2:15pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

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

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Alley, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

Monthly Supper Club 6:30pm. Gourmet food from field to fork with live music. $83.28. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

The Amish Project 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Kids

Music

Events

Red Herring 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Retreat with Swami Sarvadevananda Call for times. Monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India.

Vivekananda Retreat- Ridgely, Stone Ridge. 687-4574.

Artist Talk with Gary Stephan 4pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Showboat Mac-Haydn Theater, Chatham.

Film

Body / Mind / Spirit

Spoken Word

Theater

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, market, children’s activities, farm fresh food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com. jflynnny@yahoo.com.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

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

Open Jazz Jam 7:30pm-10:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston.

340-4277.

Petey Hop Open Mike 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Dutchess Community College: Information Table.

2pm-5pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Theater Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Workshops Shaker Cooking For Today 11am. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

FRIDAY 10

Events Art

Standing on the Peel 5pm-7pm. Charles Thomas O'Neil. Leibowitz Art Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. mcherin@simons-rock.edu.

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White Lightning Cold Spring writer Max Watman is drawn to trouble. “I like adventure,” he says. “I like for things to get weird, and I like adrenaline.” Watman found plenty of trouble while researching his latest effort, Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine (Simon & Shuster, 2010).

In White Dog Watman tags along with an ex-crackhead on a tour of Danville, Virginia, nip joints (illegal bars serving moonshine); he rides along with the Virginia Alcohol Control Board’s Illegal Whiskey Task Force; and he finds himself in cahoots with both sides in a protracted liquor violation trial. He also spends time with NASCAR legend and former bootlegger Junior Johnson; visits legitimate microdistillers in Colorado; and tries the wares at the annual Tales of the Cocktail conference in New Orleans.

Perhaps most curiously, Watman, who’s also written extensively on horse racing, chronicles his own efforts at making moonshine—quite illegally—at home in Cold Spring.

Had the Feds found him in situ, the subtitle might not read “Amateur,” but Watman feels making his own whiskey was an important part of the journey.

Watman, a Shenandoah Valley native, moved from Manhattan to Cold Spring almost six years ago to start a family and raise a few chickens. He says he’s just as comfortable here as he ever was in Virginia. “I feel very much at home around mountains and moving water.”

On September 19 at 4pm, Watman will read, along with David Hollander, Erika Wood, and Jeffrey Yang, as part of the Sunset Reading Series at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, 45 Market Street in Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.com.

—Michael Eck

Do you remember your first taste of moonshine?

Growing up in the Shenandoah Valley, moonshine was pretty ubiquitous, so in the same way that I don’t remember not knowing what the taste of beer was like, I also don’t really remember not ever having had moonshine.

I certainly remember a few of them, though. There was one moonshine that still stands as the best I’ve ever had. It was made out of tomatoes. It smelled like brushing up against a tomato plant in August. It tasted a little bit like that too. It was just sweet and perfect and clean and summery. That was a really early moonshine—very misleading in retrospect.

Is it safe to assume that both sides—the moonshiners and the law—want to get their story out?

Everybody wants to be justified. In the case of the police they knew if I publicized the industry by writing a book that says moonshine is huge it would be easier for them to procure funding.

On the other side, many of the people who have been arrested or are suspected moonshiners just don’t want to talk. They don’t have that kind of heroic vision of themselves. They just want to sneak off into the shadows and hope everybody goes away. From others you got the idea that they would like to set the record straight or at least have the opportunity to voice their side of the story outside of court.

Did being from Virginia help you gain entree into the Southern moonshine community?

It did. The main trick with that is simply persistence, but you certainly do get points for being able to hop into trucks and walk through fields and all those simple kinds of country things that I’ve seen journalists fail at.

At one point, a few moonshiners had gotten loose enough with me that they were making fun of a reporter who had come out from Washington, DC. They were like, “He just came out here in his black shoes, didn’t know anything about what we were doing, and looked lost.” They were making fun of the guy and, in essence, that guy was me.

But I guess I can fall into the country rhythm easily enough not to alienate people. I pulled a lot of redneck out of the woods where I grew up, so I can relate.

Where is microdistilling as an industry now?

It has expanded very quickly—not as quickly as the microbrewing movement did, but quickly for something as complicated and expensive as it is. It faces special hurdles in that you can’t open a bar and sell your whiskey right over the counter like you can sell beer in a brewpub.

You have to buy much more expensive equipment and if you’re making something that’s aged, it’s going to be a few years before you even know if it’s any good.

It’s a difficult industry. I think it has reached an odd point where we’re going to see a second wave and things are going to get serious and some people are going to fall out and some people are going to take off.

Some of your travels were in pretty tough places, were you scared at any point?

There were a couple of times when I was chasing the nip joints and hanging around in Danville that I felt a little nervous, and maybe scared, because they were out of my control.

I didn’t necessarily know where we were going, or what was going to happen next.

Everything I’d heard about the nip joints was that they were horrible, rough places, which in fact they were. Danville itself is a pretty rundown and dangerous town. So, yeah, you’re driving around with a former paratrooper/pot dealer/crackhead and it’s a little nerve-wracking.

As you noted, the Hudson Valley has plenty of mountains and moving water—are people making moonshine here?

Absolutely. I meet them constantly. I’ve been to many parties or little events in the Hudson Valley where someone will say, “Really, you wrote a book about moonshine?

Gosh, we should talk,” and then they drag me off to the side to tell me about their big distilling project.

I’ve met enough people over the course of the last year that I started suggesting to them that would we could organize, have a little club, share recipes—all of them were too afraid to do it. The level of paranoia is high. They’re all on orange alert.

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Intimate Perspectives: A Survey of Contemporary Figurative Work 6pm-8pm. Debra Goertz, Michael Peery, Cheryl Wheat, Victoria Selbach and Kathy Stecko. Muroff Kotler Visuals Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.

Body / Mind / Spirit Honoring The Divine Feminine Weekend celebration with many guests. $375 with camping/$300. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Journeying With Philippe Pascal Garnier 6:30pm-7:30pm. Travel into a Shamanic/hypnotic journey guided by Soundscapes and narrative from Alberto Villoldo's Soul retrieval perspective. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

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

Adirondack Mountain Road Tour and Luncheon 10:30am. $50. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, CT (860) 927-3377.

Live on Stage Gala 7pm. Dine, dance, and decant select wines, bid on luxury items and rare wines at the silent and live auctions. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Film Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then 8pm. A stop-action film accompanied by musical narrative telling the poignant and darkly humorous true story of a man who built a bizarre "healing house". $15/$10/$5. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Music Bill Galanin Call for times. Acoustic jazz. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Vic Juris Trio Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Main Street Restaurant, Saugerties. 246-6222.

The Big Takeover 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Michelle LeBlanc 7:30pm-10:30pm. Jazz singer. Division Street Grill, Peekskill. (914) 739-6380.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

Music Faculty Concert 8pm. Terry Champlin, guitar, with guests Helen Avakian, voice and guitar, Vilian Ivantchev, guitar, and Sabina Torosjan, violin. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

Sonando 8pm. Frank Guido's Little Italy, Kingston. 340-1682.

Post-Modern Jazz Trio 8:30pm-12am. Chill Wine Bar, Beacon. 765-0885.

Steve Wexler and the Top Shelf 8:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Sweet Clementines 8:30pm. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh.

561-7240.

GamVille 9pm. Hosted by The Wiyos. $15. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Al Kooper and the Funky Faculty 9pm. $45/$35/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Mishti & The Fame 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

I'll Be Back Before Midnight 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Proof 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Phil Mansfield: Intermediate Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

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SATURDAY 11 Art Local Color 12pm-Sunday, September 12, 7pm. M Gallery, Catskill.

(518) 943-0380.

Third Annual Artist Studio Tour 12pm-5pm. Refreshments and conversation with area artists as one visits home studios, gallery and museum exhibitions and special installations. Call for location.

(518) 943-3400.

"Dazzling Dolls and Floral Fantasies 1pm-4pm. 60 floral exhibits on display presented by the Garden Club of Kinderhook. James Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9265.

Undertow 5pm-7pm. Rita Bernstein. Galerie BMG, Woodstock.

679-0027.

Applied Biology 6pm-9pm. Featuring artist Jason Levesque. Blackbird Attic, Beacon. 418-4840.

Body / Mind / Spirit Private Sessions with Pamela Cucinell, Life Path Astrology Call for times. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation on the Tarot Workshop 7pm-9pm. With Pamela Cucinell. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance Contradance 8pm. Live music by The Russet Trio. $10/$9 members/ kids 1/2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

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

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

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

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

Sharing Shabbat 9am. Breakfast, Torah study, service. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

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

Westfrisian Ringdike Walk: Fast Forward on an Ancient Dutch Dike 8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Music Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio Opening act Julian Pollack. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

The Barr Brothers Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Maggie Seligman 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Four Nations Ensemble 3:30pm. 18th century music. $75. Call for location.

(212) 928-5708.

Stolen Heart 7pm. Thorne Building, Millbrook. www.millbrookartsgroup.org.

Stephan Crump with the Rosetta Trio 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Ali Ryerson 7:30pm. Jazz flute. $10. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge.

687-9794.

Power Tools For The 2012 Transformation 2pm-4pm. With Ethan Campbell. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Alexander Turnquist & Jake Plourde 8pm. Banjo and 12-string guitar. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson (518) 671-6006.

Open Book: Marc Von Em 8pm. Acoustic. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

831-4988.

The Levon Helm Band 8pm. Midnight Ramble, Woodstock. www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm.

The Harvest Band 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

John Stewart Band 8:30pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

We Are Jeneric 9pm. Indie collective. $5. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.

Singles and Sociables: Bonticou Crag 10am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Film Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Asbury Shorts New York 7:30pm. 30th anniversary "An Evening of the World's Best Short Films". WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Kris Delmhorst 8pm. Folk, traditional Indie-rock. $19/$14/+$2 at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Wiltwyck Quilt Guild Meeting 9:30am. Fall welcome back business meeting and commemorate our military by donating quilts to Castle Point Veterans Hospital and Army Babies Quilts. Town of Ulster Town Hall, Lake Katrine. 876-2556.

Catskill Cabaradio 7pm. Live variety show. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Road Home 4pm-7pm. Paintings by Sandra Nystrom. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

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

Singles and Sociables: Rhodedendron Bridge 10am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

September Celebration 6pm. Cocktail party and dinner to unveil the plans for Thomas Cole's New Studio. $225/$75 cocktail party only. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill.

(518) 943-7465.

Judith Zeichner, Paintings 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Don Sparks 8pm. Country, American, jazz. $5. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

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

Military & Naval History Auction 6pm. Thayer Hotel, West Point. (914) 474-7710.

Lonny Kalfus: Photography 3pm-5pm. Old Chatham Country Store Café Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

Hudson River Paddle at No. Germantown 9:30am. North Germantown Landing, Germantown.

876-4642.

Benefit for September 11th Annual Benefit Fund 1pm. $15. Orange Lanes, Walden. www.hoebowlfamilyfun.blogspot.com.

Third Annual Artist Studio Tour 12pm-5pm. Refreshments and conversation with area artists as one visits home studios, gallery and museum exhibitions and special installations. Call for location.

(518) 943-3400.

C.B. Smith Band 8pm-10pm. "Flesh & Bone" record release show. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Kingston Walks for the Heart, Body and Mind 9am. Sponsored by Kingston Hospital. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 334-2760.

Grand Tasting & Live Auction 1pm. $75. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Harvest Bounty Open Studio 12pm-4pm. Dove Cottage, Germantown. (518) 537-2298.

Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Sweet Clementines 10pm. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636.

2nd Annual Taste of Hudson Festival 11am-2pm. Over 20 restaurants, caterers, food purveyors offer tastings of their menu items. Hudson, Hudson. www.belo3rd.com.

"Dazzling Dolls and Floral Fantasies 12pm-4pm. 60 floral exhibits on display presented by the Garden Club of Kinderhook. James Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9265.

Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Storytelling by Maggie Whelan, Linda Fay and Faye Zemgulis. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

853-8512.

Trade Tasting 11am-1pm. $75. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

SUNDAY 12 Art

The Outdoors

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Monarchs, Magic, and More!

11am-1:30pm. Ages 7 and up, 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

A Water Ecology Hike 1pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring Dennis Doherty and James Sherwood.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.woodstockpoetry.com.

Theater Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

I'll Be Back Before Midnight 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Channeled Tune Up & Crystal Bowl Realignment 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly & Philippe Pascal Garnier. $40. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. and 12:15pm-2:15pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance The Vanaver Caravan's "Swing Sundaes!"

6:15pm-8pm. $15. Gina Marie's Timeless Sweets, Rosendale. 256-9300.

Events Woodstock Music Shop Fundraiser and Celebration Call for times. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-3224.

Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix and John Fogerty Grand Prix 1:30pm, concert 5pm. HITS Show Grounds, Saugerties. 246-8833.

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

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Jazz Brunch & Auto Awards 11am. Saratoga National Golf Course, Saratoga.

(518) 584-9330.

Taste of New Paltz 11am-5pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz.

255-0243.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

Military & Naval History Auction 12pm. Thayer Hotel, West Point. (914) 474-7710.

Cornelia Tappan Clinton 1pm. Special first person experiential tour.

Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Bowling for Brains 4pm-6pm. Fundraiser event for The Brain Aneurysm Foundation. Hoebowl on the Hill, Kingston. 417-1711.

Film

Proof 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay Call for times. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Workshops

Music

Encaustics & Photography Call for times. Fawn Potash & Danielle Correia. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Mountain Music Festival 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

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

Bob Lusk 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

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An untitled photograph of a gargoyle atop Notre Dame from Yvon's Paris.

The City of Half-Light & Afterglows Pierre Yves Petit, aka Yvon, is a name little known outside the world of vintage postcard collectors. Yet his images have become iconic documents of Paris in the early 20th century, and a particular view of that city. Think of them as documents of the Paris before it was fully electrified and earned the moniker “City of Lights.” Yvon’s Paris rarely emerges in the glare of full sunlight but looks through the gauzy halflight of sunrise and the afterglow of sunset. Yvon captures the city’s rivers, cathedral balconies, and alleyways cloaked in fog. The people who run its outdoor book stalls, fish in its rivers, and sweep its parks are just another dark smudge on the scenery, a mute piece of the landscape.

In his introduction to Yvon’s Paris (W. W. Norton, 2010), photo historian Robert Stevens, a professor at the School of Visual Arts (and Kerhonkson resident), explains how Yvon came upon on a typical scene: "[Yvon] noticed an old, bearded man wearing wooden shoes—sabots—and smoking a pipe. He was one of the many booksellers—bouquinistes—who sold their wares on the quai next to the riverside. Behind him, across the river, accentuated by the light of the afternoon sun, loomed the great Notre Dame de Paris. The photographer wanted to make a photograph but the old man, who was tired, cold, and anxious to return home, would stay only if paid. The photographer agreed, gave him five francs, set up his camera, and made what would become one of the best-known photographs of Paris."

Yvon’s Paris is a collectin of 75 images of the city between the two world wars taken

by Yvon as he endlessly ambled about the city, the ultimate flaneur.

Stevens will sign copies of Yvon’s Paris on September 15 at 7pm at Inquiring Minds, 6 Church Street in New Paltz. (845) 255-8300; www.newpaltzbooks.com.

—Brian K. Mahoney

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Satori 3pm. Mixed ensemble of winds, strings, and piano, and plays both traditional and contemporary chamber music.

Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

John Fogerty 5pm. Presented by HITS-on-the-Hudson. $50. Call for location. 473-5288.

Anita Rose Merando 5pm. Jazz. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.

An Evening With Dar Williams 7pm. $40/$35 in advance. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Carolina Chocolate Drops and Guy Davis 7:30pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Outdoors Sketchbook + Camera Hike: Lake Awosting Call for times. 8 miles. Call for location. (914) 779-0936.

Hudson River Valley Ramble: Millbrook Mountain 9:15am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Stories of Spring Farm: A Historic Walking Tour 9:30pm-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Sunset Reading 4:30pm-7pm. Stroll in spirit with Washington Irving, who found inspiration ambling the paths that wind through the sunlit meadows and quiet woodlands at Poets' Walk.

Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 473-4440 ext. 273.

Theater Red Herring 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Proof 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 13 Art Summer Work 5pm-7pm. Students from the Vassar College Studio Art Department. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Sounding With Your Sacred Voice 7pm-8:30pm. $18. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

The Path of Practice with Shawn 7:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Classes Open Level Class 4:30pm-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz.

255-4375.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Events Berkshire Forum 8pm. Featuring FODfest. Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, MA (413) 997-4444.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

Spoken Word Insights on Site 12pm. Chemistry professor Christopher Smart discusses the stained glass windows in the Chapel.

Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Workshops Collaboratory 6pm. 1st meeting of new project incubator: visual, movement, sound, video, word, light, costume etc. Call for location. 340-1280.

Making Ends Meet: Family Survival Series 6pm. Teaching you how to develop and use a household spending plan. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

Own your Future: Planning for your Retirement.

6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Spoken Word Friends of the Starr Library Meeting 1pm. With guest speaker Brent Robison, local author and editor discussing the transformation of ideas into fiction. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

Book Signing and Discussion with Sherry Skramstad 6pm. Author Wendy's Wisdom: The Challenges and Accomplishments of a Woman with Down Syndrome.

Fallsburg Library, South Fallsburg. 436-6067.

Workshops Richard Edelman: Advanced Digital Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THURSDAY 16 Art

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Green Meditation Practice 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Clark Strand. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 8pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Dance Into the Landscape: Dance Rehearsal 12pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Events

Home Circle: Spirit and Angel Communication, Spirituality & Psychic Development 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Kidspeace Resilience Building Fundraiser 6pm-9pm. Fundraiser to provide enriching programs for local children in foster care. Food, a live jazz performance and unlimited house beer and wine. $50/$90 two tickets. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston.

340-4277.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 5:15pm-7:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Zumba Dance Fitness Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 member series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Kids Clay Shop Call for times. Ages 5-9 or 10+. Weekly through October. $125/$110. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Music Mid-Hudson Women's Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston.

382-2499.

Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Workshops How to Talk So Kids Will Listen 6pm-8pm. 2-week course. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.

Fly Like a Butterfly: The Alchemy of Transformation 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

TUESDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-9pm. Meditation instruction available, Dharma talk and Dharma cafe. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

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Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Kids Class 5pm.-6pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

The Bhagavad Gita & the Secret of the Meaning of Life 10:30am-11:30am. Three weekly classes through Sept.

29. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-7pm. Live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Woodstock Farm Festival, Woodstock. jflynnny@yahoo.com.

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Ally, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

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

(518) 392-3353.

Yom Kippur 8pm. With Kol Nidre. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

Music

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

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

Body / Mind / Spirit

Body / Mind / Spirit

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

A Girl Scout Leaders' Training Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Kids

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

Events

Fall for Art 14th Annual art Show and Sale 6pm-9pm. To benefit Jewish Federation of Ulster County, Family of Woodstock, area soup kitchens and Angel Food East. $40/$35 in advance. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-0700.

Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

WEDNESDAY 15

Zero 8pm. Dance performance by alumna Kathy Wasik '04.

Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

437-7470.

Film Food For Thought 6pm. An evening of socially relevant cinema. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Music Matt Mayhall Call for times. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Open Jazz Jam 7:30pm-10:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston.

340-4277.

Spoken Word Understanding Memory Loss 2pm. Presented by the Dutchess County Alzheimer's Association. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls.

297-3428.

CrossTalk 6:30pm. Literary agent Molly Friedrich and New York Times writer Lisa Belkin. $25/$20 in advance. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555.

FRIDAY 17 Body / Mind / Spirit Transformation With Shamanic Sound 7pm-9pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow Healing At Sage. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Toddlers on the Trail: Trees of the Shawangunks 10am-12pm. Ages 2-6. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Stillwell Project Call for times. Frank Guido’s Little Italy, Kingston.

340-1682.

Cyro Baptista & Friends Call for times. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Connor Kennedy Band 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

The Ya Yas 7:30pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

Lisa Dudley and Ed Kenney 8pm. Country. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000.

Rudy 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

Chris & Lolly Swicegood 8pm. Country-hued Americana. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson (518) 671-6006.

Sam and Ruby 8:30pm. $17.50 advance/$22.50 door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Four Guys In Disguise 9pm. Rock. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

An Evening of Northern Country 9pm-1am. Featuring Robert Burke Warren and Pitchfork Militia. $5. Harmony, Woodstock.

Reality Check 9pm. Rock. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Spoken Word Tracey Morgan 8pm. Comedy. $46.50/$36.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Theater I’ll Be Back Before Midnight 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Proof 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. $15/$10 in advance. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Workshops Phil Mansfield: Intermediate Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

SATURDAY 18 Art Squiggles and Giggles 4pm-12am. Paintings by RT Vegas. Art and Zen Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 473-3334.

Submerged 4:30pm-7pm. 3rd annual mini works show. Unison Gallery at the Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Classes

Paintings by Priscilla Derven 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Nothing to Fear 6pm-8pm. Recent works by Ken Polinskie. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.

The Outdoors

Dance

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Minnewaska Land and Beacon Hill 9:30am-1:30pm. 3-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Wally Cardona & Rahel Vonmoos: A Light Conversation 8pm. $15/$10/$5. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

The Leaping Trout Project Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Diana Ross 8pm. More Today Than Yesterday greatest hits tour. $59.50-$119.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Sedona Method Support Group 10am-11:30am. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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A piece by Kiki Smith shot in her Catskill studio: Little Sisters, ink and colored pencil on Nepalese paper, 20.5" x 30.25", 2010.

What Do Mike Tyson and Kiki Smith Have in Common?

Students of the Hudson Valley art scene have noticed the slow rise of Catskill, a sleepy multicultural rivertown in Greene County. Though Thomas Cole germinated the Hudson River School in Catskill during the 1820s, only in the last decade has visual art begun to flourish there. The third annual Artist Studio Tour will take place on the weekend of September 11-12. It is free of charge.

The tour includes 15 artist studios plus 10 galleries and museums. The Thomas Cole House will present “Remember the Ladies,” the first exhibit of female Hudson River School painters ever assembled. Delicate nature drawings by B.B.G. Stone, a 19thcentury Catskill artist, will be shown at Beattie Powers House, a 171-year-old mansion included in the National Register of Historic Places.

A more recent museum was built by artist-architect Matt Bua—the People’s Museum of Catskill. It’s a massive replica of a cat, one paw raised, made of scavenged wood.

Inside, anyone may donate artifacts of Catskill lore past, present and future. Currently, Bua is investigating the history of boxing in Catskill. (Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson trained there.) The cat-shaped museum opens September 4.

Bua’s home is also included on the tour. Each room is a separate structure: kitchen, bedroom, shower, bathroom, sauna, library. The buildings are made of found wood, combined in a semi-improvised manner. Bua is supported by a grant from the Harpo Foundation, Oprah Winfrey’s organization.

How does geography affect art? Catskill is a woodsy town of 64.2 square miles, where wild freshets cascade from the mountains. It appeals to strong, eccentric artists with environmental politics. “There are a lot of people attracted to living here because they have access to some raw landscape,” notes Fawn Potash, gallery director of the

Greene County Council on the Arts and an artist herself. Photographer-inventor Jared Handelsman has constructed a giant camera obscura in the form of a tree house. Visitors may enter the structure and watch the scene outside projected, upside down, on the rear wall. Handelsman’s wife, Portia Munson, will show her flower-mandala photographs, and work from her upcoming show at MASS MoCA. “There’s no Sunday painters on this tour,” explains Potash. Each of the studios harbors a serious artist.

A drawing by prominent sculptor Kiki Smith appears in the “Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley 3” show at the BRIK Gallery. Smith has been a weekender for two years in Catskill (though she prefers to call herself a “two-timer”). Nature is a theme in her work, and she says: “It’s wonderful to see animals in their own domain. That’s the most exciting thing, for me, is to see turkeys, fox.”

Catskill throws a good party, and Potash advises visiting outlying studios during the day, then hitting the village at night, for the celebrations (which run from 5 to 8 pm on Saturday, September 11). I suggest that you don’t eat brie a full 10 days before the tour.

“There’s no ‘A-list’ in Catskill,” avers Potash. “Everybody hangs out with everybody.”

How many villages would allow an artist to construct a giant cat on a main street?

Catskill is a town that bears investigation.

Catskill’s Third Annual Artist Studio Tour will take place Saturday, September 11, and Sunday, September 12. All participants must sign up either at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street, or at The Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street, to receive a map of tour sites. (518) 943-3400; www.catskillgalleryassociation.com.

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Akashic Records Revealed 1pm-3pm. With June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Cleansing With The Sound Of Crystal d 3pm-4pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance National Ballroom Dance Week Kickoff 7pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Wally Cardona & Rahel Vonmoos: A Light Conversation 8pm. $15/$10/$5. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

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

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

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

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

Land Art for Families 1:30pm-3pm. Using only natural materials gathered outdoors, create your own inspiring art. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Artist Marketing: An Evening of Tips and Resources for Professional Artists 5:30pm-7pm. With Richard Heyl de Ortiz: Having Your Head in Both Worlds-Business and Art. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Having Your Head in Both Worlds-Business and Art 5:30pm-7pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz.

255-3976.

Theater I’ll Be Back Before Midnight 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Proof 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Oedipus After Colonus 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Workshops Making the Ordinary Extraordinary Call for times. Constantine Manos. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Discover grains. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Slavery in the Hudson Valley Call for times. Geared towards 5th to 12th grades.

Bevier House Museum/Ulster County Historical Society, Kingston. 336-4746.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton.

Gardening with Native Plants on a Budget 9am. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent.

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

14th Annual Craft Fair & Apple Festival 10am-4pm. Golden Hill Health Care Center, Kingston.

340-3818.

Yom Kippur 10am. Followed by Torah study at 1:45pm, family service at 2pm, concluding ceremony at 3pm.

Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

Kids Go Green and Make a Scene 10:30am. Robert Rivest Mime Theater. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music An Evening with Britishmania Beatles Tribute Call for times. $25. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Dave Liebman Group Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Arlene McCann 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Trans-Fusions National Tour 7pm. Celebrate the release of the Trans Fusions II CD compilation through unique and poignant art, music, and theater. $5-$10. WallSpace, Kingston. 338-8700.

Ray Blue CD Release 7:30pm. Jazz. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Tommy Sharp and Friends 8pm. Rock and vlues classics. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson (518) 671-6006.

Joe McPhee + Trio X 8pm. Jazz. $10/$8 students and seniors. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org.

The Mid Nite Image Band 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

The Levon Helm Band 8pm. Midnight Ramble, Woodstock. www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm.

The Kennedys and Patrick Fitzsimmons 8pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Acoustic Strawbs 8:30pm. $35/$30. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Groovy Tuesday 9pm. Top Notch Bar and Grill, Walden. 778-0277.

Stuff Brothers and the Parker Brothers 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Rock. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

The Outdoors Awosting and Rainbow Falls Call for times. 8 miles. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. (917) 613-2043.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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Cartooning Workshop 2pm. With artist Charles Barnett for Grinnell's Sept.

Anime/Manga Club. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls.

297-3428.

SUNDAY 19 Art Altared Spirits 2pm-5pm. Local artists celebrate the dead. The Outside In, Piermont. 398-0706.

After the Fall 3pm-12am. Emerging contemporary art from East and Central Europe, by artists who were educated at the transitional period between communism and democracy. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-4531.

Leonardo Silaghi: Artist-in-Residence 3pm-5pm. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-4531.

Forth Estate: Recent Editions 5pm-7pm. Group of recently completed editions produced at the Forth Estate, a Brooklyn, NY-based print publisher. Re Institute, Millerton. www.theReInstitute.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga as Muse: A Retreat for Embodied Mind and Imagination Call for times. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck.

(800) 944-1001.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

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

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Tryntje Hasbrouck 1pm. Special first person experiential tour.

Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Planning For College: 5 Ways to Minimize High School Senior Stress 6:30pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

KIDS Hansel and Gretel 2pm. Arts Center Theater, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Music Doug Marcus 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Impollinazione: the Cross Pollination of Italian and American Popular Song 3pm. Cabaret entertainment, sung in English and Italian. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Piano Concert: Marc Peloquin 3pm. Saugerties Pro Music event. $12/$10 seniors.

Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties.

246-5021.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Solas 7:30pm. $35/$30. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Elf Power 8pm. Indie collective. $5. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.

The Outdoors Singles and Sociables: Catskill 3 Peaks Call for times. 10-mile hike. Call for location. 436-6046.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Ramshorn-Livingston Sanctuary Paddle 11am-2pm. Dutchman's Landing Park, Catskill.

473-4400 ext. 273.

Spoken Word

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events The Gangaji Foundation Silent Retreat Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

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

Old Chatham Hunt Club Open Trails Day 10am. Horseback ride or hike the historic hunt trails at the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company. $45/$25.

Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, Old Chatham.

(518) 392-5252 ext. 214.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Earth Day in Autumn 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

TUESDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit The Sedona Method Support Group 10am-11:30am. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron & Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation In Everyday Life 7:15pm-9pm. Shambhala Buddhism Meditation Class with Arawana Hayashi. $20. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Meditation in Everyday Life Class 7:15pm-9pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Classes Close Encounters with Saugerties History 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext. 452.

Gentle Yoga: Healing, Relaxing, Energizing 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.

Comparative Religion 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.Biology for the New Decade 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.

Adult Development: Understanding Life Experiences 11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext. 452.

Playback Theater -- Oral History in Action 11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext. 452.

Raise Your Vibration with Tuning Forks 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Democracy, American Style: What have we come to, where are we headed?

11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext. 452.

Hudson Valley Poets Benefit Reading 2pm. 12 poets read to benefit Rosendale Theater Collective, including Will Nixon & Dennis Doherty.

Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Writers on Writing 11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext. 452.

Sunset Reading Series 4pm. Featuring Max Watman, David Hollander, Jeffrey Yang and Erika Wood. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 265-4445.

Theater Yankee Tavern 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

I’ll Be Back Before Midnight 2pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Proof 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Oedipus After Colonus 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

Workshops Henna: The History, Tradition, and Art of Henna 1pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

MONDAY 20

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

Workshops

Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & the Community.

Talking Stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 5:15pm-7:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Zumba Dance Fitness Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 member series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Music Mid-Hudson Women's Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston.

382-2499.

Honoring the Blank Page 1:30pm-2:45pm. Creating a handmade book with stillness and reflection. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.

Great Poems for Good Discussions 1:30pm-2:45pm. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.

A Nest Of Vipers: The British Invasion of the Hudson-Champlain-Mohawk 1:30pm-2:45pm. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.

Hudson Valley Wildlife 1:30pm-2:45pm. Lifespring, Saugerties.

246-2800 ext. 452.

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 4:30pm.-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Hudson Valley Latino Forum Round table discussion, networking, job fair. Call for location. info@gethudsonvalley.org.

Film Tosca Call for times. Opera. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

Spoken Word Plastic Waste and the Seas Around Us 7pm-8:30pm. PowerPoint presentation about the discovery of plastic in the oceans of the world. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Workshops Making Ends Meet: Family Eating Healthy On Any Budget.

6pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

WEDNESDAY 22

Dance

Art of the Needle 10am-Sunday, September 26, 4pm. Skyllkill Needlework Chapter of Embroiderers' Guild of America showcase.

Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

Events

ART

Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Full Moon ceremony With Crystal Sound 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Classes Timberframing: A Traditional Approach Call for times. Participants learn the craft of timber frame construction using 18th and 19th century tools and techniques. $475/$430 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 684-3223.

SUNY New Paltz Lifetime Learning Institute Fall Semester Call for times. Check website for specific courses for individuals 55+. $115/year. Call for location. 257-2892.

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Kids Class 5pm.-6pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, picnic area, live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Kingston Land Trust Harvest Moon Benefit Concert 7pm. POOK, Kingston HS jazz combo. Falcon Arts, Marlboro. $25 suggested donation. 877-5263.

Kids

Into the Landscape: Dance Rehearsal 12pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson.

(518) 828-0135.

Baby and Children's Consignment Sale 9am-7pm. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham.

(518) 754-1058.

Film The Shadow Effect 7pm. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Open Jazz Jam 7:30pm-10:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston.

340-4277.

Kath Bloom 8pm. W/Bunnybrains. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson (518) 671-6006.

David Kraai 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Wherehouse, Newburgh.

561-7240.

Theater Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Workshops Intro. To Sufi Healing Techniques 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Introduction To Social Networking Workshop 7pm. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

FRIDAY 24 Art

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Starr Library's Annual Art Auction 5pm-7pm. Bid on selected art from Marj Wheeler and Howard Knots in a silent auction at the opening reception. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

Music

Body / Mind / Spirit

Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Ally, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

Bright Shadows/Dark Radiance: The Chod Practice 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Dr. Craig Lennon, Psychologist. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

The Outdoors

Classes

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Cedar Drive and Beyond 9:30am-1:30pm. 6-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Spoken Word From Founder to Farmers: An Archaeologist's View of Hudson Valley Homes of the 19th c.

7pm. Dr. Eugene Bosch- Speaker, NY Council for the Humanities. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Workshops Richard Edelman: Advanced Digital Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

True Confections 7pm-8pm. With Betsy Ern of BaklaJava Cafe and Bakery. $5. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

THURSDAY 23 Art Landscapes 6pm-8pm. Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Thomas Locker, Harry Orlyk, Leigh Palmer, Laura Von Rosk. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.

Dance

Mark Morris Dance Group 8pm. $36/$32 seniors/$18 students. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Events Baby and Children's Consignment Sale 9am-5pm. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham.

(518) 754-1058.

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

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

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

(860) 927-3377.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

An Evening in Tuscany 6pm-10pm. Wine and dine celebrating Always There Home Care's 40th anniversary. $100. Lazy Swan Golf Course, Saugerties. 339-6683.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 8pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

BOS is a city-wide art event connecting over 50 artists with the public

Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Music by Teresa Broadwell and Thrivin' on a Riff. Beginner's lesson at 8pm, intermediate lesson 6:30pm. $15/$10 FT students + $15 intermediate lesson. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie.

545-2571.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Green Meditation Practice 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Clark Strand. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Sept. 25 & 26 12 - 6pm

Into the Landscape: Dance Rehearsal 4pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

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

(518) 392-3353.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Emil Alzamora Open Studio

Sukkot Family Service 7:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange.

223-5925.

Music The Jazz Knights Call for times. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Classes

Sonando 7pm-10pm. Frank Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Italy, Kingston. 340-1682.

Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Eddie Fingerhut 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Midnight Slim and The Strangers 7:30pm. Blues. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

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Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com.

Mid-Hudson Sierra Club Annual Tag Sale 1am-3pm. Mulligan's Irish House, Poughkeepsie.

338-0300.

Flame 8pm. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

4th Annual Ann Street Market 1am-4pm. Ann Street and Liberty Street, Newburgh.

562-6940 ext. 109.

New York Chamber Brass 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

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

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Featuring Betty-Jean Hagen in a performance of Vivaldi's complete "Four Seasons." $20/$5. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-9270.

The Quarrymen 8pm. John Lennnon's original band. Plus screening of new Lennon biopic Nowhere Man. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Push 8pm. Rock. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Tannahill Weavers 8:30pm. $35/$30. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Push 9pm. East Side Bar, Walden. 778-2039.

The Harvest Duo 9pm. Dance. Starr Alley, Rhinebeck. 876-2924.

Spoken Word Swing Away Stress 6:30pm-10:30pm. Twelfth annual stress-reducing fund raiser. $100. Christos, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext.

1305.

Brian Regan 8pm. Comedy. $38.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Theater I’ll Be Back Before Midnight 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Proof 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Workshops Women & Power: Our Time to Lead Call for times. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

The Mission of Art Call for times. Alex Grey & Allyson Grey. $300. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Phil Mansfield: Intermediate Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

SATURDAY 25 Art Beacon Open Studio Call for times. Self-guided tour of many studios in Beacon. Beacon, Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios.org.

Woodland Style 5pm-7pm. Berkshire Museum. Pittsfield, MA. (413) 443-7171.

Oil Paintings of Patti Ferrara and Photographs of Susan Phillips 5pm-8pm. Doghouse Gallery, Saugerties. 246-0402.

Water 5pm-8pm. Paintings and photographs by local and internationally-known artists. Basilica Industria, Hudson.

(518) 828-0131.

Body / Mind / Spirit Full Moon Ceremony 6:30pm-12am. $10. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Classes New Paltz Trapeze School Open Level Class 10am-12pm. and 12:15pm-2:15pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance Into the Landscape: Dance Performance 6pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Events 13th Annual Hancock Shaker Village Country Fair Call for times. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137 or (413) 684-3223.

30th Anniversary Dinner Call for times. Wilderstein Preservation, Rhinebeck.

876-4818.

The Harvest Ball Call for times. Hudson Opera House fundraiser. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Mid-Hudson Woodworkers Woodworking Show Call for times. $3/children free. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. www.midhudsonwoodworkers.org/ Midhudsonshow.htm.

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

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Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Sharing Shabbat 9am. Breakfast, Torah study, service. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

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

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

Theater

Music

I’ll Be Back Before Midnight 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Inc., Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Jazz at the Falls 12pm-3pm. Vocalist Terry Blaine and renowned pianist Mark Shane. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Proof 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Randy Niles 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Featuring Betty-Jean Hagen in a performance of Vivaldi's complete "Four Seasons". $20/$5. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 758-9270.

Herb Marks Freelance: Make Me an Offer I Can Refuse 8pm. The Air Pirates Radio Theater. $15. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Workshops Publishing a Photographic Book Call for times. David Maisel & Alan Rapp. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

A 3-D Archery Shoot 9am. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Weekend Earthen Oven Intensive Call for times. $200. Center for Bioregional Living, Ellenville. Contact@homebiome.com.

Baby and Children's Consignment Sale 9am-3pm. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham.

(518) 754-1058.

The Breath Of an Angel 9am-Sunday, September 26, 5pm. Melissa More. $240.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kingston Walks for the Heart, Body and Mind 9am. Sponsored by Kingston Hospital. Golden Hill Health Care Center, Kingston. 334-2760.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Autumn soups. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

853-8512.

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

SUNDAY 26 Art Beacon Open Studio Call for times. Self-guided tour of many studios in Beacon. Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios.org.

Harvest Bounty Open Studio 12pm-4pm. Dove Cottage, Germantown. (518) 537-2298.

Brunch in the Fields 10am. Common Ground Farm, Fishkill.

Sol y Canto 3pm. Latin music. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Annual Farm Fair & Art Auction 11am-3pm. Trails, children's activities, animals, music.

Phillies Bridge Farm Project, New Paltz. 256-9108.

Body / Mind / Spirit

ARTIculture Festival 1pm-5pm. Farmers markets, craft show, farm-themed rides, live music. Hurds Family Farm, Modena.

You Are Needed at Headquarters 1pm-5pm. Presentation on the important role of the Continental Army military headquarters, tours. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Music Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter Call for times. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Haale Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

687-4143.

Margaret Bernstein 2pm. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Dawn Meyer Family Benefit Concert 7pm-9pm. To support the family during a medical emergency. $30/$20. Little Falls School of Music & Arts Inc., Kinderhook. 822-1469.

Dark Star Orchestra 7:30pm. Grateful Dead Tribute. $31. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Leaf Peeper Concert 7:30pm. Baroque concert. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. (518) 325-3805.

Eric Sommer 8pm. Singer/songwriter. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.

Joe Crow Ryan, Karen Duffy, and Shane Murphy 8pm. Subway ukelele superstar, and others. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson (518) 671-6006.

Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

O.C. Blues Xpress 8pm. Blues. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh.

562-4505.

Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556.

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

Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Open Level Class 12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz.

255-4375.

Dance The Vanaver Caravan's "Swing Sundaes!"

6:15pm-8pm. $15. Gina Marie's Timeless Sweets, Rosendale. 256-9300.

The Outdoors Hudson River Paddle: Cold Spring to Arden Point & West Point 9:15am. Meet at Cold Spring Metro North Station, Cold Spring. 928-1730.

Singles and Sociables: Overcliff/Undercliff 10am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-3133.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Book Reading with Peter Richmond 4pm. Author of Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders. Oblong Books & Music, Millerton. (518) 789-3797.

Theater Yankee Tavern 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Proof 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops En Plein Air Creative Writing Workshop 10am. $10/$5 members. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Opening to the Nine Dimensions 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

MONDAY 27 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Me Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages 2 months-crawling. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Events

Message Circle: Receive Messages From Your Loves Ones in The After Life 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam F. Bernstein. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

13th Annual Hancock Shaker Village Country Fair Call for times. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 684-3223 or (800) 817-1137.

Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

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

Classes

Annual Pfalz Point Trail Challenge Ten Mile Fundraising Run 8am. $35/$25. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Open Level Class 5:15pm.-7:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Regina Carter 8pm. Jazz violin. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Explore the Arts 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

The Levon Helm Band 8pm. Midnight Ramble, Woodstock. www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Featuring Betty-Jean Hagen in a performance of Vivaldi's complete "Four Seasons". $20/$5. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 758-9270.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

The Outdoors

Ramblin' Jack Elliott 7pm. $35/$30 in advance. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

New Paltz Trapeze School

Zumba Dance Fitness Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 member series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Film The Complete Metropolis: 7:30pm. Silent movie with live music. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Music Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston.

382-2499.

Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Hawk Migration Workshop 9am-12pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Guided Walking Tour 2pm. $5. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Farmland Cycling Tour 9am. Pedal from Poets' Walk Park through the beautiful, rolling countryside of Dutchess and Columbia counties.

7-50 mile rides. Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 473-4400 ext. 273.

5th Annual Electric City Film Fest & Expo 4pm-10pm. Showcase of independent films made in New York State and will host the Paul Golding Retrospective.

GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Mohonk Preserve Interpretive Program 11am. “How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing" and "Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today.

Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Film

Spoken Word

Kids

Parenting the Explosive Child 6pm-8pm. 2nd session October 4. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.

Reading and Signing with Robert Stevens 7pm. Editor of the photography book Yvon's Paris.

Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Patterns in Nature 2pm. Ages 6-10, use nature to create art. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Messages from the Elders 7pm-9pm. With Barbara Threecrow. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

The Complete Metropolis: 2pm. Silent movie with live music. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Spoken Word Lecture on Global Water Crisis 7pm. Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.

Workshops

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TUESDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Classes

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Open Level Class 10am-12pm. Kids Class 5pm.-6pm.

Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

The Philosophy of Paul Brunton 7pm-8:30pm. With Robert Michael Esformes. $12. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Meditation In Everyday Life 7:15pm-9pm. Shambhala Buddhism Meditation Class with Arawana Hayashi. $20. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Classes Close Encounters with Saugerties History 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

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Gentle Yoga: Healing, Relaxing, Energizing 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

452.

Comparative Religion 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

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Biology for the New Decade 9:30am-10:45am. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

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Adult Development: Understanding Life Experiences 11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

452.

Playback Theater -- Oral History in Action 11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

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Democracy, American Style: What have we come to, where are we headed?

11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

452.

Writers on Writing 11am-12:15pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

452.

Honoring the Blank Page 1:30pm-2:45pm. Creating a handmade book with stillness and reflection. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext. 452.

Great Poems for Good Discussions 1:30pm-2:45pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

452.

A Nest Of Vipers: The British Invasion of the Hudson-Champlain-Mohawk 1:30pm-2:45pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

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Hudson Valley Wildlife 1:30pm-2:45pm. Lifespring, Saugerties. 246-2800 ext.

452.

Open Level Class 4:30pm-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz.

255-4375.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

Spoken Word Insights on Site 12pm. James Mundy, the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, discusses the exterior sculpture on Taylor Hall. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Workshops Credit & Debt Management: Family Survival Series 6pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

Parenting Challenging Teens 6pm-8pm. 3 weekly sessions. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.

Tips on Writing a Winning College Essay 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

WEDNESDAY 29 Body / Mind / Spirit Mommy and Toddler Yoga 11am-12pm. Ages walking to 3 years. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

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A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

New Paltz Trapeze School

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, picnic area, live music for the family, farm presentations, recipe contests, activities for the kids and lots of farm fresh food. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Chef's Choice Market Dinner Series 6:30pm. $35.95. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

FILM Woodstock Film Festival Screenings, panel discussions, concerts. Various locations. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Ally, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Peters Kill 9:30am-1:30pm. 50mile hike. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Columbia Land Conservancy's Wednesday Wandering 10am. Borden's Pond, Chatham. (518) 392-5252 ext. 202.

Spoken Word Lyme Disease Prevention & Treatment Seminar 6:30pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 7pm-9pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.

Theater Play by Play 7:30pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

Workshops Richard Edelman: Advanced Digital Printing 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THURSDAY 30 Art Group Show Opening 6pm-10pm. Featuring live music and performances.

Be Your Own Placebo, North Adams, Massachusetts.

(518) 225-6879.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates 5:30pm-7pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Green Meditation Practice 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Clark Strand. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Clark Strand's Spiritual Discussion 8pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FILM Woodstock Film Festival Screenings, panel discussions, concerts. Various locations. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Open Jazz Jam 7:30pm-10:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston.

340-4277.

Spoken Word Education Law Q&A: Focus on Special Education Law 6:30pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

Theater

Bernie Williams

Play by Play 7:30pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

8pm. Jazz, rock. $24.50-$34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

9pm. Motown, R&B. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1000.

Workshops

Theater

Weather as Muse: Video with Bernadine Mellis Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER Art Filament Call for times. Biennial festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. Check website for specific events and times. $35 festival pass/$15/$10 individual events. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

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

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.

Simchat Torah 7:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange.

223-5925.

FILM Woodstock Film Festival Screenings, panel discussions, concerts. Various locations. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Music Magnets Call for times. With Kim Clarke. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000.

Luka Bloom 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Four Guys In Disguise 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Theater Yankee Tavern 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

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

Play by Play 8pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

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Soul Purpose

8pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

Workshops Did the Pilgrims Really Eat Pumpkin Pie: The Truth about Thanksgiving Call for times. Geared towards 3rd to 9th grades.

Bevier House Museum/Ulster County Historical Society, Kingston. 336-4746.

Studio Lighting Call for times. Angelika Rinnhofer. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

2-Day Memoir Writing Workshop 10pm-Sunday, October 3, 4pm. By NYT bestselling author Da Chen. $495/$265 one day. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 901-8560.

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER Art Filament Call for times. Biennial festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. Check website for specific events and times. $35 festival pass/$15/$10 individual events. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

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

Walk and Talk 12pm. Raquel Rabinovich will discuss two series, Emergences and River Library, and walk to the river bank to see her latest site-specific installation. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600.

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

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

Ellenville Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music.

Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

Art

Warwick Applefest

Filament Call for times. Biennial festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. Check website for specific events and times. $35 festival pass/$15/$10 individual events. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

10am-5pm. 200 craft vendors, dozens of food vendors, more. Village of Warwick. www.warwickapplefest.com.

10th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival 8am-5pm. Music, water, food, and public painting of the streets. Tivoli. forcords@hvc.rr.com.

Herb Farm Extravaganza

Franz Erhard Walther Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Jason Baerg Thaddeus Kwiat Projects, Saugerties. (917) 456-7496.

Body / Mind / Spirit Introduction to The Sedona Method 10am-11:30am. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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

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

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

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

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

FILM Woodstock Film Festival Screenings, panel discussions, concerts. Various locations. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Annual Chili Cook-Off 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

12pm. Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com.

FILM Woodstock Film Festival Screenings, panel discussions, concerts. Various locations. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Music Marc von Em 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

An Evening with Marc Cohn 7pm. $50/$45 in advance. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Tim O'Brien and Bryan Sutton 7:30pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Spoken Word Renewable Energy at the City of Peace: Shaker Water Power and Archaeology Tour 3pm. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(800) 817-1137.

Theater Yankee Tavern

Music

2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Burton Greene Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Play by Play 2pm. Blue Moons. StageWorks, Hudson.

(518) 822-9667.

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

The Mighty Equinox

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any people are wondering what just happened over the past six months.

What, exactly, you went through, what it meant. and where it’s left you. You may be wondering how, with every passing day, life seems to be more intense, less certain, and a few shades more dangerous.

This is a good time to reassess. Mercury is retrograde through September 12, and one of the most natural uses for that particular condition is to review—particularly when Mercury is in Virgo.

Yet the Libra equinox is also about to arrive, which is a turning point in the year— a moment to gather energy, release the old season, and move forward. So, first let’s review, and then let’s consider the equinox chart.

I think we’re all noticing the level of insanity in the world, the sense of pressure, and, perhaps most challenging, not knowing how far from the edge we really are as we sprint along that edge or toward it, into the future or the abyss or whatever it is. All summer long, a planetary alignment has come in and out of focus (currently, it’s taking a little breather). This is a grand cross on the four cardinal points—those four anchors into physical reality that connect individuals with the collective and bring collective experiences into our living rooms. These are Jupiter and Uranus dancing back and forth between Pisces and Aries; the lunar South Node (and therefore) eclipses in Cancer; Saturn shifting between Virgo and Libra (now in Libra till October 2012); and Pluto solidly in early Capricorn, along with the lunar North Node (and eclipses).

The four signs I mentioned—Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn—are the cardinal signs. They have one thing in common, which is when the Sun enters one of them, a season changes. They have another thing in common, which is that when any other planets are gathered there, existence takes on a larger-than-life, at times overwhelming, sensation.

Slow-moving planets are orchestrated such that we keep shifting into energy surges that flare up and then settle down, only to bubble up again. The slow-moving bodies in the arrangement (the ones I just named) keep realigning in new ways, which is in part responsible for the ebb-and-flow effect. Then, fast-moving bodies (Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury) jump into the fray for a little while and the feelings both reach a new level of intensity and are all the more personal and emotional.

Our lives have been reflecting this process in our assortment of minicrises, largerthan-minicrises, turning points, moments of despair, and incidents of progress, all in a condensed sequence of events. Through the summer months it’s seemed that more than 130 planet waves ChronograM 9/10

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the usual number of people were close to melting down, and we’re all flirting with the sense of things running out of control. There are days when it feels like we live through everything all at once. Various metaphors for amusement park rides that you can’t quite get off of keep coming to mind, and it’s always a relief to eat a meal that’s neither cotton candy nor friend dough (they still exist, but you have to go searching).

For those who dare to watch cable news without doubling up on their anxiety meds, clearly the insanity is as bad as it gets—and then it gets worse. It may be that paranoia is easy to manufacture and inner peace cannot be made artificially. Scared people getting together is still a news story, and calm, focused people sharing ideas is a nonevent.

There are legitimately troubling questions, such as, How can anyone possibly take Sarah Palin seriously? Will she beat Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential debates because she’s less intelligent and therefore more appealing? And then what?

We live in an age of continuous buildup without release, of endless preparation without the main event. This is partly why 9/11 was so cathartic—it really had that feeling of something actually important happening and we all latched on to it. It’s also why end-of-the-world scenarios associated with 2012 are so entertaining: More than we fear that something important will happen, we hope that it will happen and therefore resolve this tension that we’re living with.

And I admit, it’s a particularly challenging form of tension. We desperately want to oppose evil, but it has no identity, and then we discover that we’re caught in the devil’s bargain. An oil well gushes out of control into the Gulf of Mexico for three months as we watch helplessly on television day after day. That got a good few people to think about how much plastic we use, but even if you literally work at it fulltime it’s impossible to remove plastic from your life.

Watching day after day, we had this image of a huge pipe on the sea floor, thick as an oil barrel, then it turns out to be the diameter of a dinner plate. BP tries to cap it five times (dome, golf balls, another dome), then one day they just stick a cap on it and that’s that. Three months to design a bottle cap? It was supposedly the worst oil spill in American history, then a government report came out saying that 75 percent of the sludgy crude oil is gone, and educated people actually believe it.

Here is a source of tension: We live with one outrage after the next, but who, exactly, gets angry? Have you raised your voice once about what you see in the news? Have you pounded a tabletop? Have you smashed anything? Or are you taking your anger out

on yourself? I think that we live with the fear that if we express the least modicum of anger, rage, passion, or determination, we’re going to lose control totally.

And our stress keeps building. I’m not impressed by our collective tension level so much as I am by how we live with the mystery of where it’s coming from. We all agree that it makes perfect sense to be panicky, but what is the issue? The most downto-earth answer may be found in this thing we call the economy, but the kind of stress we’re living with predates the Great Recession by years.

On a personal level, we experience growth, and we may “work on ourselves,” yet there seems to be no obvious point of culmination or breakthrough, much less a destination. Every bit of progress demands another. Every healing process opens the way to another; turn your awareness inward and there is always a deeper layer. Relationships present us with the same questions no matter whose face we’re looking at. Eye contact in a mirror is still shrouded in taboo. We’re always in this process of awakening, but collectively we never seem to get up and face the day. We’re confronted by repeated, seemingly important events or personal turning points that are supposed to help us “get it.” They keep rolling along, challenging us again and again to reorient ourselves. Looked at one way, these may be part of a series of microcorrections that will eventually add up to an actual shift of direction that we will notice only after it has happened.

Our current astrology, large though it seems, is really midstream of a long process, one that is closely associated with this thing we call 2012. (I covered that in the June 2009 article “The Road to Xibalba,” which is easy to search online.) I have described the cardinal cross a few paragraphs up. Planets all move at different speeds, and two of the slower-moving planets come into exact aspect in 2012. That’s the Uranus-Pluto square, which is the Sixties-like piece of the puzzle; this is close to alignment now but the precise alignments come in a series of seven events between 2012 and 2015. So even if we reach some kind of a peak in 2012, that energy extends several years into the future as this aspect works itself out.

What all of these events have in common is being relatively close to the beginning of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. You might call these the cosmic orientation points that help us see what direction we’re going as a society and as individuals. Whether we get to actual peak events or not, we have an imperative to stay awake, which is a challenge, given all the things we create to lull us back into the dream. And when we reach a real defining moment, it’s all the more urgent that we actually focus and take a realistic view, or things can get a lot worse.

For example, the 9/11 attacks were an Aries Point event (associated with a total solar eclipse on the first day of summer 2001). At the time, nobody questioned whether we should go to war with Afghanistan. Now, nine years later, that war has no point, terrorists seem to be hanging out everywhere but Afghanistan, many are dying, the whole thing is extremely costly when we simply cannot afford it, and there is no easy way out. So if we’re hoping for some kind of peak event, some kind of big thing that assures us that now is the time to wake up, we had better actually wake up and get a grip, because in that very moment we will have a lot to lose if we don’t.

This is the dangerous game we play when we depend on external sources or events for validation or orientation—but it looks like we’re about to get some. On September 18, Jupiter and Uranus come back into alignment for the second of three times, this time in late Pisces (the first of the cluster was exactly on the Aries Point—the first degree of Aries—earlier this year). The Sun opposes this conjunction at full intensity as it moves through late Virgo on September 21. This has the feeling of magnificent orchestration. When the Sun reaches equinox on September 23 (a way of saying that it opposes the Aries Point), the Moon makes a conjunction to Jupiter-Uranus, and then a few hours later there is a Full Moon on the equinox.

The Full Moon goes exactly, precisely across the first degrees of Aries and Libra—the “personal is political” Aries Point. This precipitates the energy contained in the cardinal cross, literally lighting up all those planets and nodes, activating a bunch of old eclipses that are still vibrating, collecting the energy and transmitting it into events on Earth.

Specifically, the Full Moon is conjunct Jupiter and Uranus, opposite Saturn, square Pluto, and square both lunar nodes. This is precisely the kind of event that, shall we say, makes big news, and this one comes on like a storm. The Full Moon is exactly six hours after the autumn begins, and this kind of synchronicity always gets results. So when that happens, remember that how you respond influences many people around you, and if enough of us respond in a sane way, the direction of the world might shift in a slightly saner direction.

Yet there is a deeply personal turning point indicated: that bit about how the Full Moon aspects the Moon’s nodes. That is a picture of how deeply we want to release these old emotional patterns (South Node in Cancer) and get on with our lives. We keep trying, I know. And to the extent that we do gain a sense of what is possible, of some human contact point besides total overdependency, we have plenty of peer pressure to get back into the three-legged race. And that particular sporting event, if you ask me, is where our whole society is bound up. If only we could take up our calling to be free men and women, and by that I mean emotionally free, the world would, in fact, get a little better every day.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes ARIES (March 20-April 19) The only reason developments will take you by surprise this month is because you’ve become distracted by less important things. In particular, I strongly suggest you not get involved in petty dramas and seeming problems in your workplace. These will only ensnare you in trivia. If you’ve already become involved, then snip and slip out of the web, cease giving your opinion and focus on working out old, persistent problems rather than anything that makes its appearance as something seemingly new and exciting. One thing it’s time to consider carefully is if the work you do every day matches your passion, your intelligence, and your creativity. If it doesn’t, that could be the root cause of any turbulence in your life. Yet there are deeper regions that the current Mercury retrograde is guiding you to explore, and one of them is your family’s connection to religion. This may be the source of a “work ethic” that consistently guides you a way from what you love to do, and what you’re the most talented at. One last factor is understanding the way in which your state of mind influences your relationships. This factor is not imaginary— how you feel, and the thoughts that you think, influence the people who are closest to you. Many of these ideas are, in turn, influenced by your relationship to the past, and that is what is coming to the surface now. Remember: Love brings up everything unlike itself.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) We often hear the admonition that “relationships are mirrors,” and often that works out to be true. Yet there is a mirror we often don’t consider, which is the looking glass of gender. Part of the “other” we seek in relationships is the seemingly polar opposite that lets us feel or experience existence from the viewpoint of the other sex. The differences between men and women are so exploited that we live with many false ideas about who this mysterious other really is. We make expectations on them, and on ourselves, that emphasize artificial differences rather than natural similarities. And we lose sight of something even more precious, which are the subtle shades of humanity that are authentically male and female, and which give us access to something that we can’t quite reach any other way. Yet what these differences also teach us is that we contain our opposite. That is part of the beauty of the reflection: What we see is interesting or beautiful because it shows us something within ourselves that we don’t usually see. That something exists in same-sex relationships as well, where we see another beautiful or challenging or curious reflection of self-as-other and other-as-self. As Venus and Mars move into your opposite sign Scorpio, you’ll be taken to some deep places on these explorations of the mirror effect in your relationships, and can gain some unusual insight into yourself. Mercury retrograde in Virgo emphasizes what I’ll call the psycherotic nature of this journey: the mind as the most profound sexual instrument.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) One of your parents had a mental sticking point, and it’s the place where you most often get stuck. This affects your work, your emotional health, and most of all, your sense of safety (which could translate into habitual anxiety). In other words, something that belonged to one of them—your father was the likely source—is affecting your life in ways that you may not recognize. The problem is that it’s a blind spot; you can look directly at it and still not see it clearly. Also, you may have a question about whether the issue even exists; in the face of considerable evidence, you still don’t believe it consistently enough to address the situation, or even to have specific information about what to address. The planets are set up such that a new level of truth is dawning on you, in a series of revelations. It’s like you’re unearthing layers of the past, including from past generations, that are influencing your life today, and that you can actually process and let go of. A few of these may take you by storm. Others will gradually come into focus. Whatever you suddenly discover, keep paying attention to the details, and gather your facts meticulously. Be aware that certain aspects currently in force, lasting well past midmonth, could be stirring up more than the usual amount of fear or emotional discomfort.

Think of these feelings as being set free and bubbling to the surface. Then let them go.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Yours is said to be an emotional sign, ruled by the Moon. In truth, Cancer is one of the most mentally active signs. The two are related.

Mental habits affect emotions and emotional tendencies affect our habits of thought. Think of the emotional realm as the energy source (sea currents) and the mental realm as the resulting expression of energy (waves crashing on the beach). Mercury’s current retrograde in Virgo seems to be suggesting that you reorganize, sort out your ideas, and focus your mind. I suggest that if you start deeper, on the level of your emotions, the mental level will sort itself out without much intervention. You can use your frustrations or complications as hints that you need to focus inwardly, though if you think of this more of needing to meditate and find some inner peace rather than needing to clean out closets or reorganize your desk. If you’re the genuinely restless type, then cleaning your desk might make a good meditation, but I suggest that your ultimate aim be to move away from the mental realm and go in as deep as you can. Once you do, you’ll see that your immediate concerns are actually of little relevance, and that your energy will shift in the direction of your long-term plans and your true aspirations. Let’s admit, you want more freedom than you have, and the way you’re going to get there is by tuning into the feeling of what it would be like to experience that freedom, and letting that sensation guide you home.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) In good times and bad, anywhere you go people seem to be obsessed with money. That’s because it’s one of the few tangible ways we have to express power. It can be acquired; it has the potential to make people equal. But more often it stacks the deck in strange ways, creating the illusion that if you have money you’re somebody; if you don’t, you’re not. I think you recognize the futility of this philosophy. You’re also talented at making your money go a long way, and the reason, I believe, is because you recognize the value of money, and invest yours in ways that are actually meaningful to you. Mercury retrograde in your 2nd house—both your cash and your values—suggests that it’s time to reexamine your opinions and attitudes that pertain to your resources. Make sure that your spending is actually in line with your philosophy of life. Most important, make sure that all your cash outlays are accurate. Read your bank statements carefully. Spot-check going back six months. Check the interest rates on various credit cards and adjust your commitments accordingly. You are likely to learn a few things that you didn’t know, but another discovery awaits: Your real wealth has nothing to do with your monetary assets. It’s all about what you share with others and what they share with you—those places where the whole adds up to more than the sum of the parts.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Honesty with yourself is not just the core issue; it’s the best reward that you can give yourself. Self-honesty may be the most important necessity faced by our society. Indeed, we live in the midst of an epidemic of denial that many people comment on and few have ideas for how to help our culture sober up. The current Mercury retrograde (through September 12) is bringing many things to the surface, facets of your emotional life that you cannot deny. You may be feeling an urge to criticize yourself for not having worked through this material sooner, or for allowing it to still bother you. I suggest you do nothing of the kind.

What you’re experiencing has roots in the distant past, most likely several generations. Multigenerational material has to be worked with carefully, and approached gently. If you take any form of a self-blame position, you’re doing neither. Search carefully the various people on your father’s side of the family who have influenced your life. Look at their patterns of alcohol use, what may have motivated their choices, and how they responded to their limited choices. Don’t be afraid to notice when you were actually treated without any moral or ethical sanity. The idea here is not to lay blame as much as it is to witness what has shaped your character, at a time when you actually can make some decisions about who you are and who you want to become.

LIBRA

(September 22-October 23)

A tense dynamic is gradually leaving your life; it has been slipping away with the season, so gradually you may not even know when it’s gone, though I hope you feel a sense of relief. You’re replacing this tension with an element of stability and familiarity that leaves you free to explore more of the subtle facets of life, and of your own mind.

Saturn is now in Libra for the long run, and Saturn’s presence in your life is easier for you than it is for most other signs of the zodiac—this, owing to a long and deep friendship between this planet and your sign. You may be feeling a deep craving to reveal the true nature of who you are, and to expose your layers. This, rather than doing the usual thing we’re brainwashed into doing, which is to hide them behind several coatings of excuses and ulterior motives. So, take the chance and be real; be true. As you do, you’re likely to discover something that is a threshold in any growth process, which is tapping into what’s called the unconscious level of the mind. Of course, it’s not so unconscious once we’re aware of it, but it has a way of dipping back down below the surface. So keep your inner eyes open. When we see the ways that our fears and self-criticisms have dragged us through the psychic mud, we’ve got that much more motivation to pay attention.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) Sex always seems to ask more questions than it provides easy answers.

Indeed, with the many ways sex is exploited by people and by business, it’s amazing we have any peace of mind at all. You’re in a healing process right now, one that is focused on your sexuality, though in ways that are not usually discussed in women’s magazines or on Oprah.

One involves a deep exploration of your sexual orientation, and by that I include your gender orientation. We are given a lot of rules about what it means to be male or female, and we’ve usually swallowed and digested them long before we know what happened. Perhaps the most meaningful aspect of this involves cultivating your relationship to your feminine side. For decades men have been expected to express their feminine side while women have been pressured—by many factors, including economic—into suppressing theirs. With Venus about to be retrograde in Scorpio (October 8 through November 18, with early effects beginning now), you’re being summoned to some deep introspection about who this inner woman is, and how she expresses herself in a world still dominated by conflict and consumerism. It seems like you’re embarking on exploring a lost or concealed attribute of your inner nature. She may have hidden herself away because the environment feels so hostile. As regards sex, I would leave you with one question: Is it about power, or is it about pleasure?

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Planet Waves Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) It looks like your ability to express yourself is at odds with how much you have to express. I suggest you take the long view of your creative process. Rather than focusing on your immediate desires, what are the ideas and projects that have been on your mind for years? What have you attempted many times and not actually brought to fruition?

The amount of creative energy that you’re holding in your body, and its particular extraordinary quality, suggest far greater things are possible than you’re currently imagining. Indeed, the petty frustrations that may be hanging you up at work, or that are throwing delays and stumbling blocks into your immediate plans, are part of where your vision is getting stuck. None of those things are really the issue, or speak to the deeper possibilities—I suggest you not let yourself get too hung up. Separate what must be done or solved this week from where you want to be in a year or five years. Or, forget time—consider what is your highest creative vision for yourself, and organize your life and your mind around focusing on that. There’s an element of this that involves how you think of relationships. You may be caught in some old-fashioned (that is, outmoded and painful) concepts of what a relationship is supposed to be. Part of your creative process is reinventing your way into an entirely new concept of love and sharing, despite many past impediments to that.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20)

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You have not just turned a corner in your life—you have turned many. Your ruling planet Saturn has been through a series of oppositions to Uranus and squares to Pluto. This has been a two-year project, and the peaks of energy and the most difficult transitions are behind you. Yet I want to caution that you may be carrying trauma in your energy field from so many changes—indeed, what may feel like too many changes. This can affect your sense of well-being, of what it’s possible for you to achieve, of your freedom of movement, and whether you’re trusted by the people whose lives you influence. I suggest you suspend your doubts, and work on your own mind and feelings. All of these changes, and all the work you’ve done, both on yourself and in the world, are going to pay off. The signs are likely already there. There have been times when you’ve felt not just safe but also invincible, as if you were protected by a force beyond your own understanding. Who knows— that may be true. But your best moments have come at times when, by being uncompromisingly yourself, you notice the world moves over and makes room for who you are. As I have said many times, you are on a mission at this time in your life, one that blends the deepest levels of personal growth and the highest calling to leadership. On with the show.

AQUARIUS

(January 20-February 19)

You know you’re intelligent, indeed, in a way that few people get to experience or even know exists: quirky, analytical, able to see five sides of an issue. You have a connection to the future that can seem strange even to you. Yet the discipline and luck that it takes to manifest your ideas can be rare commodities in the world, which tends to want the kind of innovation that was big last year. That said, you’ve recently had a taste of how influential your ideas can be. I think you figured out that there is a connection to being unequivocally yourself in the development of those ideas—which is to say, fearless about who you are. You see, this really is the key. Among the few things that could actually stop you, and have ever stopped you, is hesitation, self-doubt, and the odd sense that your mind is divided. These are all deeply personal matters, barely even environmental; true, your relationships can exaggerate the effect, but you know that how you use your mind is all about you. You’re in a moment of relative calm, though it does seem like you have a lot on your mind. I suggest you take whatever you’re working through and make it as simple as possible. Does it come down to money? Does it come down to what’s important to you? Does it come down to the fear of being independent?

Name your issue, and address it directly.

PISCES (February 19-March 20) I suggest that, in your relationships, you count on what you give without even trying. Trust that people are drawn to you for good reasons, though they may not fully understand them. Those reasons are about who you inherently are, which is something that you’ve gradually been getting a grasp on over the years. In terms of what years, let’s count back just seven. That’s long enough, and it happens to define a phase of your existence, your development, and your self-discovery that is reaching its culmination right now, in the current season.

It’s true that you’ve paid a price in terms of instability and enduring constant change, both inner and outer. This has been the influence of Uranus in your life that dates back to your birthday in 2003. Around that time a process was set in motion. It took a little while to heat up, though by 2004 the signs were unmistakable. You’ve learned many things, and lots about yourself—among them, how to exist with any peace of mind on a planet where so little is certain. And yet all the while, you have no doubt noticed that you sacrifice very little when you give up any form of false certainty. Now you’ve reached a point where the benefits of your journey, of your many journeys, will gradually become apparent. Yet you have a few peak moments about to arrive, hinting of the gifts you have yet to receive.

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Parting Shot

Stills from Westfrisian Ringdike Walk: Fast Forward on an Ancient Dutch Dike, Pe Okx, 2008-09

Much of Holland is underwater. Well, not underwater per se as much as below sea level.

The ingenious Dutch can live like this because of their massive system of dikes that keeps the Atlantic Ocean from rushing in and drowning them all. One such seawall, the Westfriese Ringdike, became an obsession for Dutch artist Pe Okx. Living alongside the dike for 30 years, Okx began to walk the 80-mile-long dike in 2008, shooting a photograph every three feet and eventually amassing 48,000 stills. Okx then combined the stills into a 45-minute film Westfrisian Ringdike Walk, a flurry of images of the dike in all seasons and times of day, from rainy winter mornings to pink summery sunsets. The magazine Nordhollands Dagblad described the film as “a monument for a monument. It’s almost hypnotizing how one is pulled at high speed through the Westfrisian landscape.”

Okx, who has shown his work throughout Europe, was one of nine Dutch artists who participated in an Ulster County artists’ residency as part of the Hudson Quadricentennial in 2009. Westfrisian Ringdike Walk will be screened at the Arts Society of Kingston on September 11 at 8pm. (845) 338-0331; www.askforarts.org.

—Brian K. Mahoney

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Work as Action Opening October 2, 2010

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Constellation Congress Opening November 5, 2010

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