D & H CANVAS August 2012

FREE Monthly Arts, Entertainment & Buy Local Guide

August 2012 Covering Orange, & Sullivan Counties & the neighboring towns of Milford, Dingmans Ferry, Beacon, Marlboro & Ellenville

art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

Publisher’s Column

by Barry Plaxen As CANVAS enters its ninth year of being published, I’d like to thank everyone who has participated in preparing, reading, giving out, recommending and proselytizing our newspaper.

We have had many writers submit articles and that we love them for that. We’ve had many columnists in the past who helped us get started and we have columnists presently

writing for us every month, including J.A. DiBello, Derek Leet, Susan Handler, who took a hiatus for August, and Tine Piaquadio who, via her The CANVAS Beat, has brought a new readership to CANVAS. And lastly, of course, our advertisers who keep the paper free for you. Please, please visit them, patronize them, and thank them for supporting CANVAS and all the wonderful arts and entertainment that make this locale special and unique. Read on!

The CANVAS Beat with Tina Piaquadio

The Dedication is a Newburgh based band, formed in July of 2011, beginning with singer/guitarist Matt Booth, who brought in Drew Hansen on percussion. They then recruited guitarist Jimmy Petro, bass player James Witman, and guitarist Anthony Scanzano, completing the project.

Putting their own twist to cover songs, The Dedication's audience will hear covers of The Script, Gavin Degraw, and Adele, as these are the artists who have had the most influence on the band. In writing their originals, these influences shine through.

Other music they cover is a wide variety from Joe Brooks, Parachute, Lil Wayne, and The Maine, to name a few. Matt Booth has described their style as a broad range of music from acoustic to pop/rock.

An important aspect to standing out among

other bands is finding the ability to sound like their studio recordings when they play live.

Much of the credit goes to hard work, hence the name "The Dedication."

They recently made a video of their cover of The Script's The Man Who Can't Be Moved, and were pleased by the positive response. They attribute their thousands of Youtube views to their networking on Facebook and Twitter, and love the fact that they have made fans in other countries. With that, their hopes for success lead to hopes of being able to tour Europe within the next five years.

There is certainly a brotherly vibe among them. Unlike many bands, The Dedication members feel they have grown closer since playing together, and their loyalty to one another stands strong through their vision of the band's future.

The Dedication can be seen on August 3 at The Historic Paramount Theatre in Middletown performing at the world premiere of the movie Collar starring Tom Sizemore and Rebecca DeMornay.

Look for The Dedication coming to your local venues. They are busy on the circuit!

For samples of their music, go to www.facebook.com/thededication and click on the music tab.

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Letters to the editor Barry, Marc & Tod, Great job guys!!! I hear they're out of papers in a lot of spots all over Livingston Manor and I'm sure your articles contributed! I keep hearing that we're in for a crowd!

Thanks for being the best Art newspaper around!

Kate Hyden Livingston Manor Barry, Compliments to you and your staff. Despite the short time frame you were able to accommodate Mad Maz's information regarding MazFest in a grand fashion.

Hope to see you and your crew at MazFest!

Colleen Freitas Mad Maz Productions

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On the Cover Meditating on the Dog Days of Summer see page 17

INSIDE Destinations Cornwall ............................................................5 Ellenville ..........................................................23 Goshen ............................................................31 Jeffersonville-Youngsville ..................................4 Liberty..............................................................38 Livingston Manor ........................................6,7,8 Middletown ................................................32,33 Milford ........................................................10,11 Montgomery......................................24,25,26,27 Monroe ............................................................38 Narrowsburg ....................................................17 Newburgh ..................................................12,13 Pine Bush ........................................................39 Port Jervis........................................................31 Sugar Loaf ..................................................36,37 W alden ..................................................14,15,16 W urtsboro ..................................................34,35 Calendars Music, Lectures & Books ................................18 Category Calendar ..........................................19 August 2012 Calendar................................20,21 Art & Photography Calendar ..........................22 Children & Teen s Calendar ............................22

Arts & Agriculture ..............................................4 Catskill Artists Gallery........................................9 Delaware Valley Opera....................................17 Forestburgh Playhouse ..................................28 Fort Montgomery ............................................10 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series ....24 Holistic Living ..................................................17 Hudson Valley Jazz Festival ......................30,37 Jeffersonville Jamboree ....................................4 Meet Me in the Green Room w/ J.A. Di Bello ......28 Meet Me in the Library w/ J.A. Di Bello............16 Meet Our Advertisers ............................23,29,33 NACL Theatre....................................................3 Newburgh Jazz Series ....................................27 New Windsor Cantonment ................................3 OCAC Car & Cycle Show ..................................9 Pacem In Terris..................................................3 Railroad Playhouse ........................................12 Shandelee Music Festival..................................6 S U N Y Orange Middletown ..............................32 The CANVAS Beat with Tina Piaquadio ............2

Art & Music for Vatican II Anniversary NACL’s Family-Fun-Filled Day with Eco-Loco!

Frederick Franck and Pope John the XXIII Frederick Franck was born in 1909 in Maastricht in Holland.

From the time he was a very young man he studied D.T Suzuki's writings on Zen. He also deeply admired Albert Schweitzer's Frederick Franck philosophy of Reverence for Life and worked at his African hospital during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

However during the dark days of the Cuban Missile Crisis the hope and profound humanity contained in Pope John's call for the renewal of the Catholic Church struck a chord in Frederick and he and his wife Claske left for Rome immediately.

He became the only artist to draw both sessions of the Second Vatican Council. For this he received the Medal of John's Pontificate. Upon their return from Rome, Frederick and Claske were inspired to build Pacem in Terris. It is dedicated to Pope John the XXIII, Albert Schweitzer, and D.T. Suzuki.

Frederick Franck's drawings of the Second Vatican Council are currently on exhibit at Pacem in Terris, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II. They will be on view through October. Admission to the exhibit is free, donations are always welcome.

Anca Nicolau and the Loma Mar Quartet Violinist Anca Nicolau was born in Romania, where she began studying the violin at the age of four.

At ten she was accepted as a student of George Manoliu, a former pupil of George Enescu. She Anca Nicolau later performed in master classes held by David Oistrakh and Yehudi Menuhin, and at the age of fifteen, was the winner of the Romanian National Youth Competition, and soloist with the Romanian Radio Orchestra, as well as a finalist in the George Enescu Competition.

Nicolau studied with Ivan Galamian, a teacher at the Juilliard School, for three years, and also studied with Ruggiero Ricci.

Nicolau, one of the special dozen world class performers at the magnificent inaugural 2012 Pacem concert in June, is a member of the Loma Mar Quartet along with Krista Bennion Feeney, Joanna Hood and Myron Lutzke. They are performing at Pacem in Terris, 96 Covered Bridge Road in Warwick, on August 12 at 5:00pm.

Suggested donation is $10.

Phone 845-986-4329 or visit www.frederickfranck.org.

Eco-Loco is an afternoon celebration of Ecology with a featured performance by Richard Grunn.

Bring the Family and a potluck dish to share! Families are invited to spend an afternoon at NACL enjoying performances, workshops, film, and music celebrating sustainability and environmental stewardship.

Organized in collaboration with community environmental groups including The Delaware Highlands Conservancy and Sullivan Association for Sustainable Development, the day will begin with a potluck lunch, followed by Urbano’s Circus, a family performance by Grunn created with found objects; a children’s puppet-making

Urbano & Vincenzo

workshop; sustainable energy information presentations; and much more. This family fun event in Highland Lake is scheduled for August 19 from Noon-5:00pm.

For more information: 845-557-0694 .

Encampment by Candlelight

Windsor Cantonment’s A Revolutionary Camp at Night: Tthe Last Encampment at New Windsor, before most of the Continental Army returned home after 8 years of war.

Costumed historians will perform military drills and fire muskets.

The Cantonment is located on Route 300 in the town of New Windsor, just north of Vails Gate.

Bring the family on August 11 from 7:00pm- 9:00pm.

Experience by, candlelight, the dramatic For information please call 845-561-1765, last days of the Continental Army at the New ext. 22.

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Destination........................................................Jeffersonville / youngsville Jeffersonville’s Joyous Jamboree

Arts & Agriculture: Nourishing Body & Soul sponsored by the Wallkill River School

Down on the Farm Day 2012: Stone Wall Farms

When the Board of Supervisors removed the eastern section of Fremont from that Township in 1870, they named the new Township Callicoon, from a Dutch word, Kollikoonkill, which translated into "cackling hen", after the many wild turkeys native to the area.

When the New York & Erie Railroad came into the area, access to this beautiful wild area opened up. People began to settle and towns were born. One of these settlements in the Town of Callicoon was Jeffersonville.

Progress and increased population continued to encourage changes in Jeffersonville. In 1849, a Post Office opened in town. A school was built near the Lion’s Field in 1869. Over 140 years later the popular Lion’s Field is the site for the Jeffersonville Jamboree 2012. I n the 1990s, the Jeffersonville Chamber of Commerce began the family-oriented event which is returning to “Jeff’s” calendar in 2012 after a few years hiatus.

The exciting roster of planned events includes: Various food vendors, including a few from Jeff’s Main Street, and featuring the local Diehl Family’s maple syrup cotton candy, Live music by the multi-genred (bluegrass, country, rock, oldies) Latimer Brothers, Face-painting, balloon animals, inflatable big bounce houses, horse rides, a giant slide & obstacle course and Jeffersonville Fire Company trucks for the kids to check out.

Cindy Herbert, Chamber Board member (and Town of Delaware historian) co-

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The Latimer Brothers

coordinates the Jamboree, “mostly with the help of Kathy Herbert and Kristin Fischer from Main Street’s The Towne Gift Shoppe,” she said.

“We’ll have a tent and tables for dining out of the sun, hay bales to sit on to watch and listen to the music, and a ‘nice’ petting zoo.

There’s even a local honey guy bringing honey and exhibiting honey bees, an Imagine Alpacas products demo with alpaca fiber, and in the late morning, a performance by members of the Janice Center.

“The Jeff Jam 5k 8:30am race is that day with registration at 7:30am around Lake Jeff (akrunner@hotmail.com). And it’s all thanks to major sponsor Jeff Bank, and to additional help from Peck’s Market.”

Chamber info: phone 845-482-5688 and www.jeffersonvilleny.com.

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Down on the Farm Day is an annual family event organized by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County to give the public a chance to learn more about the farms in Sullivan County.

This year’s Down on the Farm Day will be on August 4 from 10:30am to 3:00pm, hosted by the Moran Family of Stone Wall Farms - both at the main facility (139 Callicoon Center Road) and the Likel Road Facility.

There will be variety of activities for the family to learn about Sullivan County agriculture and the Sullivan County BOCES Animal Science Program. A horse demonstration, 4-H Moo-Juicer animal exhibit, and other Sullivan County farms are among the exhibits. The Geiger Family will provide machinery demonstrations at the Likel Road Facility and Nature's Reserve Alpacas will be exhibiting their animals at the main facility.

As it is today, Stonewall started in 1993 when Ed and Barb Moran returned home to build a new horse barn and riding arena.

The training and lesson facility also hosts

A family checking out one of the farm exhibits during Down on the Farm Day, 2010

shows and charity shows. In 2003, they added a barn facility for farm animals on Likel Road.

The farm now consists of 35 to 40 boarding horses for both show and pleasure. Primarily quarter horses are seen on the inside and outside arena and in their paddocks. Some of the horses are rescued. They are accompanied by 10 ponies, 10 feeder cattle, 25 ewes, 13 goats, 30 rabbits, and chickens. Ed and Barb also breed dogs; redbone coonhounds, mountain curs, and terriers.

For information call Elizabeth Higgins, Agriculture Program Leader: 845-292-6180.

Destination.............................................................................Cornwall cornwall / woodbury calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Society for Music, Potluck Concerts, & Peggi’s Place

Cornwall Strings Go West

All events are in Cornwall or Cornwall-on-Hudson unless otherwise noted

Art & Photography Exhibits

Museum

Paul Gould Hudson Valley Gallery, ongoing

World of Bees & Brook Trout Exhibit Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm

Emily Waterfield photography Gary Hoff & Terri Clearwater paintings Clearwater Gallery, ongoing

Meet the Animal of the Week Sat & Sun, 2:30pm

Book Discussion “Packing for Mars” Aug 1, 7pm Cornwall Public Library

Cinema “Mid-August Lunch” Cornwall Library, Aug 4, 6pm

Holistic Living Psychic Lisa Ann Private Readings The Trestle, Aug 19, 2pm-5pm

HHNM Wildlife Education Center

Music

Cornwall String Ensemble Classical Cornwall Bandstand, Jul 31, 7pm

Gregory Philips

Heitor Villa-Lobos

by Derek Leet

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Aug 4, 6pm

Palaia Vineyards Highland Mills see page 18 Hurley Highway Aug 7 Groovy Tuesday Aug 14 K J Denhart Aug 21 Johnny Jake Aug 28 Village Bandstand 7pm

Lectures

Recreation

“For Goodness Snakes” Aug 4, 10am & 11:30am “Noisy Neighbors” insects Aug 11, 10am Birds of Prey Aug 11, 5pm Fossil Hunters Aug 18, 10am Reading the Forest Aug 25,10am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

Discovery Quests Saturdays & Sundays, 9am-1pm HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

Children’s Activities Nature Strollers Tuesdays, 9:30am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

Orange County’s only classical string orchestra, the Cornwall String Ensemble, is having a busy mid-summer with a July 31 concert at the Cornwall Bandstand, an August 2 concert in Montgomery’s Senior Center, and an August 4 concert at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville.

Musical Director Gregory Phillips conducts the fourteen musicians from the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra in music of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, as well as music from the twentieth century by Leroy Anderson and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

One of Philips’ favorite pieces is an arrangement of Villa-Lobos’ exquisite and melodic Bachianas Brasilieras # 5, which includes solos for violin, viola and cello. The piece is most famous for its “aria” which is often sung in concerts and on recordings by the world’s leading sopranos.

The other 20th century piece to be performed will be one of Anderson’s semipopular/semi-classical novelty works (not

Leroy Anderson

chosen at press time), the titles of which were well-known during and just after the 1950s: Sleigh Ride, The Typewriter, Blue Tango, A Trumpeter’s Lullaby, The Waltzing Cat, etc.

Anderson’s music is often pooh-poohed because of the “lightness” of his pieces. Even his melodic and inspired score for the Broadway musical Goldilocks is underrated and neglected. Goldilocks was the first musical in which the now-legendary Elaine Stritch had the original starring role, after a series of musical and dramatic supporting roles (and star replacement roles) in a few major musicals and dramas, including William Inge’s Bus Stop.

“We could play for a week straight and not have to repeat a single note,” Philips said.

“There is so much literature for string orchestra.. You can be sure there will be a work or two by Bach, Handel, Purcell, and Vivaldi will round out the Baroque period.

Then there must be some Mozart. Still classically minded, I hope to perform some Tchaikovsky and Johann Strauss, and interspersed will be some old standards and show tunes,” he concluded.

K.J. Denhert at the Bandstand

Karen Jeannne (sic) Denhert was the first of her Grenadian family to be born an American citizen. She cites the primary influences of her folk-jazz style as James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, but also Sergio Mendes, John Hartford, Carole King, Laura Nyro, Steely Dan, and Hubert Laws.

Denhert performs at the free bandstand concerts on August 21 at 7:00pm.

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Shandelee Sings Out!

The Shandelee Music Festival (SMF) is branching out for its 19th season. In addition to the Festival’s annual August world class An Evening of Chamber Music (August 4, 7 & 9) and International Artists of Shandelee (August 16 & 18) series, SMF is also presenting a new “genre” for the 2012 Festival: An Evening of Choral Artistry.

“The Sunset Concert Pavilion’s acoustics are ideally suited for the richness of sound that could only come from live voices,” writes SMF administrative assistant Matthew Giannotti.

The idea came directly from Daniel Stroup, SMF’s Co-Chair and President.

Stroup is a choral conductor, presently on the faculty of the United Nations School in NYC for which he conducts four choirs, from beginners to advanced.

“Choral conducting is one of my passions,” he explained. ”Our advanced choir rehearsed choral music in the hall last fall, so we knew the acoustics were great.

“I was preparing our most advanced group for a tour of London and we going to perform Bruckner. I started looking for Bruckner motet performances as models for the students and came across Antioch’s, the finest

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Antioch Chamber Ensemble

International Artists of Shandelee

recordings of Bruckner I have ever heard. I investigated them and found that they are in NJ and lights went on and I thought ‘hey, they are not too far from Shandelee!’”

Widely regarded as one of the finest professional choral music ensembles in the United States, The Antioch Chamber Ensemble is currently celebrating its 15th season of exceptional music-making, having made its debut at the gala opening of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in 1997.

Under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Joshua Copeland, the ensemble strives to present as diverse a program as possible of the world's greatest choral literature, both sacred and secular, and has performed works ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary masterpieces

with a core group of ten to twelve of the New York metropolitan area's finest singers.

Besides a Bruckner Motet, the SMF 2012 program will include the above diverse variety: music set to poems by e e cummings, Italian madrigals, brief jazz selections, and sacred and secular chorale music by known and unknown composers, from Renaissance to contemporary The 2012 Festival runs form August 4 thru August 18 in the beautiful Sunset Concert Pavilion. The chorale performs on August 11 at 8:00pm.

For tickets, more information and directions to the Shandelee Music Festival on Shandelee Mountain (between Livingston Manor and Youngsville), phone 845-4393277 or visit shandelee.org.

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All About Yueh!

In 2004 13 year old Allen Yueh was one of five solo pianists to perform at the Shandelee Music Festival, .along with legendary pianist Earl Wild, who has been called “one of the 20th century’s greatest pianists” and a “super virtuoso.”

Yueh’s upcoming performance for the Festival’s 2012 chamber music evenings is his third appearance at Shandelee. This time around he will play favorites such as Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Op. 15, Schubert’s Impromptus, Op. 90 Nos. 2-4, and Beethoven’s Sonata in E-flat, Op. 81a, "Les Adieux" Liszt’s innovative and difficult Sonata in b minor (see story on page 24), rounds out the chamber program on August 9 at 8:00pm, a week before the International Artists perform.

...............................................................................Livingston Manor CAS Presents: “Shape of the Woods”

The Catskill Art Hayek completed her Society is presenting graduate work in Arts Shape of the Woods, a Administration at Bank two person exhibition Street College of featuring the work of Education and Parsons Eric Baylin and School of Design.

Kathleen Hayek at the According to Hayek, CAS Arts Center, 48 she is humbled and Main Street. awed by the power of Eric Baylin is a life to destroy and create sculptor who divides his “Shape of the Woods” features the work of itself endlessly. The time between North Eric Baylin (left) & Kathleen Hayek (right) work she's created for Branch and Brooklyn where he teaches high Shape of the Woods has been inspired by the school art at Packer Collegiate Institute. He has trees and forests of her roots in south Louisiana, degrees in art from the San Francisco Art and her new home in Delaware County.

Institute and the University of North Carolina The CAS Arts Center is wheelchair accessible Chapel Hill. and open to the public.

Baylin makes sculpture using tree branches.

The exhibit runs through August 26.

His work for this exhibit was inspired by fallen For more information call 845-436-4227. branches that were snagged on descent and left to dangle out of place: instant sculpture in the woods. Similarly, Baylin's work is not Make sure to stop by the Catskill Art permanently fastened but relies on balance and Society on Fridays in August at 11am for gravity to sustain its form.

Story Hour with Carol Christensen.

Kathleen Hayek is a painter and printmaker Ideal for 3, 4 and 5 year olds, big/little that divides her time between Walton and brothers and sisters are also welcome!

Brooklyn, where she is co-founder of the South For information and to reserve a spot, of the Navy Yard Artists (SONYA), a non-profit call Ann at 845-436-4227. artist network.

Kids korner

Livingston Manor , Parksville, Roscoe area Calendar All events are in Livingston Manor unless otherwise noted.

Music

Cinema

MazFest Music Festival Roscoe, Aug 3-5, Noon-Midnight

“Battle for Brooklyn” documentary Catskill Art Society, Aug 4, 7pm

Music - Classical

Exhibits Ron Lusker “Six Decades” Drawing Room Gallery, DeBruce ongoing Rolling River Cafe, Parksville Eric Baylin & Kathleen Hayek thru Aug 26 Gregory Davis, Chip Forelli, & Kit Sailer Sep 1-Oct 7 Sep 1, Talk 3pm, Reception, 4pm-6pm CAS Arts Center “Roscoe UpstArts Summer Show” thru Sep 2 Bethany Bldg. at Lake’s End, Tennanah Lake Outsiders Studio RM Farm Real Estate, thru Aug 11 closing reception: Aug 11, 5pm-7pm

Arman Alpyspaev viola & Cullen Bryant piano Aug 4, 8pm David Requiro cello & Cullen Bryant piano Aug 7, 8pm Allen Yueh piano Aug 9 Antioch Chamber Ensemble chorale Aug 11 International Artists piano: Aug 16, 8pm & Aug 18, 3pm Shandelee Music Festival

Poetry Reading Poetry Potluck Catskill Art Society, Aug 5, 11:30am

Recreation Summerfest & Hardy Cup Jubilee Weekend Fly Fishing Center & Museum, Aug 3-7 “Covered Bridges of Livingston Manor” Tour departs: Water Wheel Junction, Aug 4, 10am

Festival

Storytelling

Covered Bridge Day Aug 4 Departs Water Wheel Junction, 10am

Yarnslingers “Pet’s Eye View” Morgan Outdoors, Aug 11, 6:30pm

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Destination ......................................................livingston manor Meet Manor Ink

LM’s “Covered Bridge Day” August 4

Shirley Fulton of Wildlife Gift Shop has always been interested in covered bridges. A few years ago she wrote an article on covered bridges and that led to her write a book about them. “It’s amazing how many people come from all over the US to see our bridges.

Vermont used to have a few, but they either burned down or were vandalized,” she explained. “The scenic beauty of Sullivan County is enhanced by covered bridges.”

The tour visits the Bendo (Willowemoc) Covered Bridge, now the location of the Covered Bridge Campsite, the Livingston Manor Covered Bridge, originally known as Mott Flats Bridge and more recently called the Vantran Bridge which was built by John Davidson in 1860 and restored to its original beauty in 1984 by the Division of Public Works, and the Beaverkill Covered Bridge built by Davidson in 1865 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The final stop at the Vantran Bridge is our picnic stop. Laminated arches were added to increase the capacity of the structure. The bridge is 103 feet long and spans the famous Willowemoc Creek, where visitors are welcome to fish. Bring your own food or “we can provide a great box lunch for $10. Maps with bridges and other area landmarks will be available for free,” Fulton explained.

Meet at WaterWheel Junction, adjacent to Fulton’s gift shop, on Main Street at 10:00am on August 4. The event is free and local historian, Fred Fries, will explain each bridge’s colorful background. Fries, part of the Sullivan County Historical Society is

Indoor Storytelling at Morgan Outdoors

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the Manor’s historical storyteller. The tour ends 12:30pm.

“People can also do the tour on their own, if they wish,” Fulton said, “and they can extend the day by visiting other covered bridges in the areas such as the Halls Mills bridge in Claryville which was damaged by the 2011 storms and undergoing restoration.

When Hurricanes Irene and Lee passed through in late August, high waters and a large number of whole trees passing downriver severely damaged one of the original stone abutments, leaving a marginal amount standing to hold the weight of the 90 ton bridge.

For Reservations for the caravan or to order a box lunch, call Shirley Fulton at 845-4393938.

And don’t forget to save some time to visit Fulton’s Wildlife Gift Shop where you can purchase her Covered Bridges book.

The Yarnslingers

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Top row, standing, l-r: Brandon Sparkman, Logan Thomas, Tyler Young, Brent Carlson, Jennifer Meade, Leif Johansen, Briteny Young & Ariel Mears.

Middle row, kneeling: Gem Helper, Nathaniel DePaul and Tara Carlson.

Bottom row, kneeling: Kyle Sherwood, Kamryn Sherwood, Osei Helper and Ke'y Aleace Sherwood.

Staff missing from photo: Khris DiBartolo, Rheanna Fiddle, Alyssa Watts, Ian Mears, Kaitlyn Jacobs, Emily Pierpoint and Erin Carlson. photo courtesy of Wilkes & Bernard Photography

Businesses Display Art

Art in business establishments?

It is nice to be able to facetiously say “what else is new?”, because when you walk around the Manor, you will see many of the enticing fine retail shops displaying fine art: Willow & Brown, Wildlife Gift Shop, Plunk, to name a few.

At the ArtWalk in July you could also see art hanging in a barber shop and in a real estate office (among other places).

That realty office, RMA Farms, is displaying the unique robots of Mark

Sullivan’s storytelling group Yarnslingers continues to increase the number of its performance locations and will perform in “The Manor” for Morgan Outdoors. The theme for the August presentation is Pet’s Eye View (speaking from a pet’s first-person view).

They will perform on August 11 at 6:30pm.

For information, contact Lisa Lyons at Morgan Outdoors, 845-439-5507.

For Yarnslinger updates visit www.facebook.com/yarnslingers.

Whilst delivering the June CANVAS with our intrepid distributor in late May, the unofficial Main Street “Hostess”, Sarah Madison, was at her station: the window-onthe-street of her take-out establishment, Madison’s Main Street Stand.

Always a community-oriented individual, Sarah makes sure periodicals are displayed and available for her walk-up customers, CANVAS included.

On that late May day, she excitedly handed me a copy of Vol.1, Issue 1 of Manor Ink. I was only on page 2 when I realized why she was so thrilled. The paper was created by local youth, ages 12-21, and their imaginative and intelligent reporting, editing and printing efforts are a reason for rejoicing.

Manor Ink is indicative of what no hamlet should be without. Through its existence, all members of the community are linked together, no matter their age or interest.

Heartily supported by the local business community, the Livingston Manor Library is its headquarters and Carolyn Bivins of Quik Type is the Adult Mentor.

For information or to participate, contact the paper at manorink@yahoo.com or call the Library at 845-439-5440.

Larrison, a member of the Outsiders Studio, in addition to art by eleven other Outsiders members.

The exhibit continues through August 11, with a closing reception from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.at 54 Main Street.

Art on the walls at RM Farms Realty 54 Main Street

CAG Exhibits at the Old Stonehouse The Catskill Artists Gallery (CAG) recently closed its "bricks-and-mortar" store after nine years on Main Street in Liberty to become a "gallery without walls." Three former consignors have joined the five original members to take the gallery in new directions.

There has been a lot of enthusiasm as the eight members schedule shows at local venues and sign up for art/craft fairs in New Jersey and farther-flung places in New York, as well as the wonderful events held right here in Sullivan County. They recently had a successful art exhibition at the Liberty Museum & Arts Center. They have also built a brand-new website.

The new site is a total revamping to create a compelling graphic look and enable selling online. It includes individual pages for each artist, biographies, a schedule of events, and a blog to which all members will contribute. “Leaving Home� by Buff McAllister.

Check it out at www.catskillartistsgallery.com.

Members of the "new" CAG are: Nada Clyne, Robert Friedman, Cate Pottery by Gundlah, Margaret Helthaler, Kathy Jeffers, Kathy Jeffers Tom Kelemen, Buff McAllister and Hank Schneider. They will be exhibiting their work at The Old Stone House, 282 Hasbrouck Road in Hasbrouck (Woodbourne P.O.) weekends, assortment of food and drink; and the artists will August 11 thru August 19. be on hand.

The reception is on August 11 from 4:00pmFor more information, visit the new and 7:00pm offering CAG's usual delicious improved website!

Cars & Art & Music! Oh My!

by Tod Westlake If you've ever stared longingly at the fins on a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, you know full well that a automobile can be a work of art. And there is at least one local organization that knows this too.

The Orange County Arts Council (OCAC) will host its first ever Art in Motion Car and Cycle Show on August 12, and will bring together artists and automobile enthusiasts, who, it turns out, have quite a bit in common.

The event will take place - rather fittingly - at the Warwick Drive-In Theater, and will include classic automobiles and motorcycles, food and entertainment, vendors, family-friendly activities - and, of course, displays of art work from various local artists.

It is the brainchild of Linda Nilon who, with her partner Gilbert Monge, spends her days as the proprietor of Gillin Custom Design of Middletown, a company that specializes in upholstery, car interiors in particular. Nilon says that she has always been enthusiastic about supporting local arts, and she thought that bringing together automobiles and the arts was a great idea. "I actually have an arts background, including an art history degree, and an interior design degree," Nilon says. "So I've always been a huge fan of art, and a big supporter of the (OC) Arts Council."

And reupholstering a car interior, it turns out, 1s very much an artistic endeavor, Nilon says.

People who come through her shop make meticulous plans when it comes to finding a color scheme and choosing the correct materials.

"So it seemed like an interesting idea to display the cars as art, and maybe bring together two groups of people who may not normally meet, and also have a different perspective on the typical car show," Nilon says. "And, of course, people take pride in their classic cars, and they love displaying them."

"Linda talked about how what she does is very artistic and very creative, and the ways that you can look at a car in terms of paint and detailing and interior," OCAC director Dawn Ansbro says. "So we began to think about how would could make an Arts Council car show."

The event will run from 10:00am to 3:00pm with music from the Hudson Valley Jazz Fest Ensemble. The Drive-in is at 5 Warwick Turnpike Visit www.ocartscouncil.org for info.

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Fort Mongtomery: Music in New York at Time of Revolution

Fort Montgomery was the scene of a fierce Revolutionary War battle for control of the Hudson River. Visitors today can tour the remains of the 14-acre fortification, perched on a cliff overlooking the magnificent Hudson. There is a spectacular view of the Hudson River from the Grand Battery, where reproduction cannon stand guard and are occasionally fired by the fort's staff.

Archeologists have revealed many of Fort Montgomery's remains, including stone foundations of barracks, the gunpowder magazine and eroded redoubt walls. The past comes alive at Fort Montgomery with living history demonstrations of artillery, musketry, music and camp life activities.

A special music presentation, sponsored by the staff and friends of Fort Montgomery, is

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happening on August 18 at 7:00pm. You can listen to music played and known by the British and colonists, featuring the harpsichord, violin, sackbut, recorder, fife, and drum.

From the looks of the drawings sent with

Medieval Sackbut

the promotional materials, perhaps they’ll be performing some of Johann Christoph Pepusch’s music for John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera.

The sackbut is a trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, i.e., a musical instrument in the brass family similar to the trumpet except characterized by a telescopic slide with which the player varies the length of the tube to change pitches, thus allowing them to obtain chromaticism, as well as easy

and accurate doubling of voices. More delicately constructed than their modern counterparts, and featuring a softer, more flexible sound, they attracted a more sizeable repertoire of original chamber and vocal music than many instruments contemporary with them.

There are various uses of sackbut-like words in the Bible, which has led to a faulty translation from the Latin bible that suggested the trombones date back as far as 600 BC, but there is no evidence of slides at this time.

Operated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Fort Montgomery State Historic Site is located at 690 Route 9W, just north of the Bear Mountain Bridge.

Phone: 845-446-2134.

..Destination...............................................................................Milford Milford’s BlueStone Studio

BlueStone Studio opened its doors officially with a Grand Opening Gala on June 22. Artists David Greenbaum and Joann Wells Greenbaum, an award-winning potter and painter duo, are back in the center of things as proprietors of the lively new pottery studio and gallery space at 206 Broad Street.

The BlueStone Studio storefront in the legendary Forest Hall building has been beautifully renovated as both a public work space for David, complete with his wheel, spray booth and kiln, and an intimate gallery space that displays Joann's gouache paintings as prints and framed originals. Additionally, BlueStone Studio showcases David's well-

known Shohola Bells line, and the exquisite work of other nationally recognized potters.

For more information about BlueStone Studio, call David or Joann Greenbaum at 570-409-4500.

Linda Bock-Hinger is the featured photographer for the Highlands Photographic Guild’s August exhibit entitled, Texture - Experience Texture from a Visual Perspective.

Bock-Hinger, loves to travel and record people and places around the world. Her photos chronicle her global travels from Australia to Zanzibar. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions, juried art and photography shows, public buildings & museums, private homes, corporate offices, and several publications in this country and others. Her international photographs have won many awards and prizes.

Ms. Bock-Hinger explains, “It starts with opening the mind and heart along with the eye to capture a feeling, then I catch it with my camera.” She has photographed Masai tribes in East Africa, villages in China, ancient ruins in Cambodia, temples in India, labyrinth souks in Morocco, wild animal safaris on the Serengeti, dancers in Bali, pyramids in Egypt, fishermen on the Amazon

River, and lovely cottages in town. Her photographs aim to make the viewer feel a connection to her subjects and thereby experience their lives and places in the world.

Bock-Hinger has studied photography and art and now combines them into “artography”, which uses photographs as the cornerstone of her mixed media work.

The exhibit runs from August 11 thru September 7. The Guild is located at 224 Broad Street in the Wells Fargo Bank Building.

For information call 570-296-2440.

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Photo by Linda Bock-Hinger

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Painting With Pencils

William Davies, a lifelong resident of New Jersey, taught art at Bergen Community College and William Paterson University until accepting a position at the prestigious Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, teaching drawing, painting, ceramics, art history, sculpture, photography, and film making. He retired in 2006 to pursue his art on a full time basis.

Davies will be exhibiting his Colored Pencil Paintings, in which he uses the pencil in a manner that simulates the effects of pastels, with a much higher degree of detail; as well as small watercolor landscape paintings. His works have been noted for their atmospheric effects and strong sense of place.

Davies restricts his subject matter almost exclusively to landscapes of places he has frequented, mostly New England and the Eastern Seaboard. “I believe the role of visual artist is that of a Journalist; someone who documents and comments about the natural world, life experience and human condition.

“I am completely fascinated by every aspect of the natural world, it’s complexity, simplicity, mystery and magnificence, and enjoy sharing this experience with the viewer (who may not have the time to stop and notice).”

Join The ARTery Gallery in welcoming Davies as one of it’s newest members and featured artist for an exhibit August 10 thru September 10. His reception during ‘Art After Dark’ a town-wide celebration of the arts, is on August 11 from 6:00pm-9:00pm.

The ARTery Gallery is at 210 Broad St. 570- 409-1234 www.arteryonline.com

Destination.................................................................................Milford Ragtime by Ikemiya

Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century, descending from the jigs and march music played by black bands.

By the start of the 20th century it became widely popular throughout North Masanobu Ikemiya America and was listened and danced to, performed, and written by people of many different subcultures.

A distinctly American musical style, ragtime may be considered a synthesis of African syncopation and European classical music, especially the marches made popular

by John Philip Sousa.Some early piano rags are entitled marches, and "jig" and "rag" were used interchangeably in the mid-1890s.

Ragtime was also preceded by its close relative the cakewalk.

In 1895, Ernest Hogan published two of the earliest sheet music rags. Fellow musician Tom Fletcher said, Hogan was the "first to put on paper the kind of rhythm that was being played by non-reading musicians." While the

song's success helped introduce the country to ragtime rhythms, its use of racial slurs created a number of derogatory imitation tunes, known as "coon songs" because of their use of extremely racist and stereotypical images of blacks. In Hogan's later years he admitted shame and a sense of "race betrayal" for the song while also expressing pride in helping bring ragtime to a larger audience Ragtime was one of the main influences on the early development of jazz , along with the blues. In 1899, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag was published and demonstrated more depth and sophistication than earlier ragtime.

For part of the Kindred Spirits 2012 Concert Season, classically trained pianist Masanobu Ikemiya plays ragtime with all of its exuberance, innocence, humor, and energy. Ikemiya appears regularly at the major ragtime festivals, and is founder and leader of the New York Ragtime Orchestra with which he has toured the U.S. and Japan.

The show is on August 18 at 7:30pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 Catharine Street.

For tickets www.kindredspiritsprograms.org. or go to Books & Prints at Pear Alley.

Children under 15 are free. Phone: 570-2962600. Kindred Spirits: 570-828-2319

milford & DIngmans Ferry calendar Art After Dark Receptions Aug 11 The ARTery, 6pm-9pm Highlands Photographic Guild, 6pm-9pm The Forge, 6pm-8pm

Art & Photography Exhibits David Greenbaum pottery Joann Wells Greenbaum paintings BlueStone Studio, ongoing

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Rosalind Hodgkins & Debbie Gioello, “Mythic Allegories” thru Aug 6 William Davies Colored Pencil Paintings Aug 10-Sep 10 The ARTery

Full Moon Drumming Circle, Maxwell Kofi Donkor Aug 31, 7pm

Pocono Environmental Education Center

Lectures Thom O’Connor “Empty City” thru Aug 5 Linda Bock-Hinger “Textures” Aug 11-Sep 7 Highlands Photographic Guild

Monarch Madness Aug 18, 1pm Nature at Night Aug 18, 8pm Frog Frenzy III Aug 19, 10am Pocono Environmental Education Center

Hemlock Farms Artists & Friends, “Signs of Nature” Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Aug 29

“Lincoln & Slavery” Aug 1 “The Great Debates” Aug 15 The Columns Museum, 7pm

Drums at PEEC

Greenville resident Maxwell Kofi Donkor is leading a Full Moon Drumming Circle at the Pocono Environmental Education Center in Dingmans Ferry on August 31 at 7:00pm.

For information, call 570-828-2319.

Museum “Witness to History” Forestry exhibit ongoing Architecture Tour Aug 26, 1:30pm Grey Towers

Music - Ragtime Masanobu Ikemiya piano Milford Theatre, Aug 18, 7:30pm

Recreation Festival of Wood Aug 4 & 5 Free Fee Day, Ice Cream Social Aug 11, 10am-4pm

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Bake your Way into History!

The Pike County Historical Society is hosting a historically-inspired baked goods contest on August 12 at the Columns Museum in Milford. They are asking interested parties to tour the museum and look for inspiration in their holdings and exhibits. The contest entries should depict something or someone that you think best represents Pike County history. The final products will be judged at 2:00pm and prizes will be awarded for the “Best Historical” and “Most Creative” baked goods.

The idea for this contest evolved when one of the Museum’s interns, Grace D’Agostino, mentioned she could bake cookies that looked like the noose used in the only public hanging to ever take place in Milford. Discussion ensued, and the idea for the historical bake off was launched! What will inspire you to create a historical cake or cookie?

Simply stop in, take a look around and create a delectable, historical masterpiece.

For information call 570-296-8126 or visit www.pikecountyhistoricalsociety.org.

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World Premiere on the Railroad

Comedian Tom Briscoe was fired from these jobs: A Billboard Painter - with a fear of heights.

A National Sales Manager - who never held or went to company meetings.

A Heineken beer Truck Driver - who only drank Budweiser. (But who now enthusiastically drinks only Newburgh Brewing Company brands!)

A Limo Driver - who refused to hold up name signs at the airport.

A Copier Sales Rep (not Xerox) - who called his copiers Xerox machines.

Plus a bunch of other jobs he simply made up - or forgot about!

Briscoe openly credits both getting fired

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from various day jobs while pursuing a career in standup comedy (he stopped counting at 25!), as well as living in a girly-girl house with his wife and two daughters, for providing him rich comic inspiration and a flourishing career.

Breaking out of the cycle of full-time blueand white-collar jobs into the world of a fulltime comedy career wasn't easy. In his original, world premiere one-man show, So I Got Fired From THAT Job!!!, Briscoe puts a comic twist on the challenges and travails of never finding one's 'place' in the workplace.

Briscoe has secured closing spots in "A" clubs all over the country. He regularly performs in Las Vegas at corporate events and premiere comedy clubs. A busy cruise ship schedule has brought him from Alaska to Australia, Tahiti to Tierra Del Fuego, to all 7 continents and over 90 countries.

As part of Railroad Playhouse’s Box Car Play Series, Briscoe’s one-man “play”, directed by Seth Soloway, will have two world premiere performances on August 11th at 8:00pm and 10:00pm.

Railroad Playhouse is located at 27 South Water Street. Phone 845-565-3791 or visit www.rrplayhouse.org.

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“Free” Kites Over the Hudson

Soaring high into the sky over the Hudson River - it won’t be Superman - but kites at Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site - during Kites Over The Hudson. Free tours of the historic headquarters will be given.

Free kites will be given to the first 150 children, 15 and under. There will also be free balloon twisting and free refreshments!

Bring your chairs and blankets and plan on relaxing for awhile in the park. Enjoy the view of the Hudson Highlands. Experience the breezes coming off the Hudson River.

Have some refreshments. Stay for the awarding of prizes.

The event is on August 25 from 2:00pm 4:00pm, at 84 Liberty Street.

Call 845-562-1195.

.................................................................................................Newburgh Kasterine Photos: Indoors & Outdoors

Dmitri Kasterine was born in London in 1932. His photographic career began in 1961 when his work began appearing in the leading publications of the time. Kasterine began a long association with film director Stanley Kubrick in 1964, when he began shooting stills on his film Dr Strangelove and later A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In addition to his professional career, Kasterine has produced important personal photographic surveys including England and the English. Presently, Kasterine is working on his book Newburgh: Portrait of a City scheduled to be published by Norton in the

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The Newburgh Preservation Association (NPA) rebuilds, preserves, and promotes the architectural heritage and historic viewsheds of Newburgh..The NPA is an all-volunteer organization founded in 1978.

Trestle Inc supports and applauds NPA and the other non-profits who created the Harvesting History Gardens at the Diutch Reformed Church on Grand Street.

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Art & Photography Exhibits

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Kelly Patton Caffe Macchiato Diane Churchill “Blue” thru Aug 26 Karpeles Museum

“People and Places 1955-2011”

fall, with a book signing in the Ann Street Gallery on September 8, the last day of the exhibit.

The Gallery's new exhibition presents Kasterine’s work People and Places 19552011 inside, along with Kasterine's not to be missed, outdoor mural size photographic installation Newburgh: Portrait of a City series.

Since the early 1960s, Dmitri Kasterine has photographed some of the most eminent cultural figures of the twentieth century: Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, Stanley Kubrick and David Hockney. Selections of these portraits (also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery) plus 40 other notables will be on view inside the gallery.

The opening reception is on August 4, from 6:00pm-9:00pm. at 104 Ann Street.

Visit www.annstreetgallery.com.

Phone: 845-562-6940 ext.110.

“Being Born a Micropremie” w/Petite Belle Hammond Newburgh Free Library, Aug 25, 11am

“Sculpture for a New Century” SUNY Orange, thru Sep

Museum Exhibit Sigmund Freud manuscripts Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Aug 31

“A Class Act: The Desmond Show: Summer 2012” Desmond Campus Mount St. Mary College, ongoing

Music - Classical SUNYO Symphonic Band Kaplan Hall, Aug 2, 6:30pm

Dmitri Kasterine “Newburgh: Portrait of a City” Ann Street Gallery, Aug 4-Sep 8 Reception: Aug 4, 6pm-9pm

Poetry Reading Hudson River Poets Newburgh Library, Aug 2, 7pm

Book Discussions

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“Oblivion” Jul 30, 7pm Great Books Discussion Aug 24, 11:30am Newburgh Free Library

National Night Out Delano-Hitch Park, Aug 7, 5pm-8pm

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“Kites Over the Hudson” Washington’s headquarters, Aug 25, 2pm

“Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” w/Margaret O’Brien & Edward G. Robinson Newburgh Free Library, Aug 8, Noon

Comedy

Theatre - Play “...So I Got Fired From THAT Job!!”

Railroad Playhouse, Aug 11, 8pm & 10pm

The Best of the Boston Comedy Festival Railroad Playhouse, Aug 10, 8pm

Flowers by Elaine Ralston

Still Life by Gayle Clark Fedigan

A Class Act displays the work of sixteen student artists at the Desmond Campus of Mount St. Mary College.

The exhibit gives the public a chance to see the results of excellent instruction in the nurturing and beautiful environment of the Desmond.Estate campus in Balmville.

Some of the students, who study with Gayle Clark Fedigan, are looking forward to a trip in May 2013 to Provence, France.

A Class Act will run through the summer of 2012. For information or hours of viewing email Sandra.Brandman@msmc.edu or call 845-565-2046 from 9:00am to 4:00pm weekdays.

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Sam Wright and Theatre as a Populist Art Form

“The Miracle Worker”

Samuel E. Wright

Adam L. Troy & Dee Wright in “Barefoot in the Park”“

by J. A. Di Bello A meeting with Samuel E. Wright, veteran Broadway actor, playwright, is to embark on a journey to a place you may not have been before. "You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop:" the New Rose Theatre, Walden, NY! (Thank you Rod Serling) In terms of theatre, Sam has composed and supervised a modern trilogy, a series of

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“Barefoot in the Park”

murder mysteries to be staged at the New Rose Theatre. The series is sponsored by the Parents of Performing Students (POPS) and features free wine, hors d'oeuvres and an opportunity to meet and greet the cast as well as Walden's popular playwright, Sam Wright.

The initial murder The Rehearsal was committed in July, its purpose: to set the stage for the remaining murders, The Bingo Murders on August 3-5, and You Can't Cheat, August 17-19.

Sam is a man who relishes the opportunity to talk theatre. Discussions reveal an academic foundation unbridled by a fertile imagination. He mentions tragedy and comedy in the terms of the dramatic genres established by the ancients. He also visions

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his "black box theatre" in terms of social dynamics as well as its potential for artistic creativity.

Sam’s plays are not Iberian windmills; they represent more than a vehicle designed to bolster the continuance of the POPS or the New Rose Theatre. To tip-toe on a short limb, it's not about the plays. The dramatic creations of Samuel E. Wright are about people, people known to most. They live in Orange County; they live in the Town of Montgomery and they live in the Village of Walden. The actors are those known there, too.

It's the concept of promoting theatre as a populist art form that appears to surface.

“Sleeping Beauty”

Produce the same cast, playing different parts in a variety of plays, written by a variety of non-mainstream playwrights and as they call "Places," it will be apparent that a community based repertory theatre is in the making.

To see what it' all about, contact the theatre for ticket information at 845-778-2478.

The theatre is located on Route 52, 35 East Main Street.

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Free Concerts

The Olsen Court Band ends the August concerts in Wooster Grove, East Main Street (Route 52) on August 25 at 6:30pm.

Six Stories Told (photo above) , as female fronted pop band has made every minute together count with over 150 high energy shows at places all along the East Coast and

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Book Discussion “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss” Edmund DeWaal Josephine-Louise Library, Aug 30, 6:30pm

Music Sarah D. Aug 4 Big Brother Band Aug 13 Olsen Court Aug 25 Wooster Grove, 6:30pm

Recreation Chess Club Mondays, 6pm-8pm Chess Club Mondays, 6pm & Saturdays, 10am

Scrabble Club Thursdays 6pm Knitting Group Thursdays, 6pm Josephine-Louise Library Third Annual 6k Race Olley Park, Aug 4, 8:30am National Night Out Against Crime Bradley Park, Aug 7, 6:30pm

Theatre - Murder Mysteries “The Bingo Murders” Aug 3-5 “You Can’t Cheat” Aug 17-19 New Rose Theatre

the prestigious Bamboozle Festival at The Meadowlands.

The band is influenced by artists from Hot Chelle Ray and Big Time Rush to Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson. All six members show individuality in their appearance and personality, yet blend them together into an incredible unit.

Lead singer Rilee O’Neill is a power house whose emotions come through in every note she sings. Now back that with bass player Nikki Conero, guitar and vocalist Jesse Sheppard, guitarist Travis de Jong, keyboardist Ben Langer and drummer Tyler McDermott and you have a very powerful, high energy stage performance Six Stories Told and other local bands will perform at Walden’s National Night out Against Crime event.

It’s a wonderful opportunity for communities nationwide to promote policecommunity partnerships, crime prevention, and neighborhood camaraderie. While the one night is certainly not an answer to crime, drugs and violence, National Night Out does represent the kind of spirit, energy and determination that is helping to make many neighborhoods safer places throughout the

year. It is a night to celebrate safety and crime prevention successes.

A great night for families, the 29th Annual National Night Out, a unique safety and community event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATO), offers food sampling from local eateries, raffles, giveaways, demos, and games & crafts for kids. And it all ends with an exciting fireworks display.

The event takes place in Bradley Park on August 7, beginning at 6:30pm.

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Destination...................................................Walden Meet Zane Grey - Baseball Player, Fisherman and Father of the Adult Western (1872-1939) Zane and LIna Grey in Austrailia

by J. A. Di Bello Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile Rider of the Purple Sage’, pg. 9 In a surprising incidence of dramatic irony, questions concerning the novels of Zane Grey were the topic of discussions at the JosephineLouise Public Library last week. As director Ginny Neidermier stated, "It was a question of space." Zane Grey is too important a writer, his themes too germane to be tucked away somewhere. But, the irony is not lost. The summer of 2012 marks the centennial anniversary of the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, a trend-setting,

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best-selling novel that marked the beginnings of a successful career for a local novelist.

Zane Grey began as a child in Zanesville, Ohio, where his father was a dentist, his love of sport and the rugged outdoor life gained him recognition as an exceptional baseball player. He subsequently received an athletic scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he understandably studied dentistry, poetry and reportedly coeds. His sport of preference beyond the diamond was fishing the Upper Delaware, especially the stretches of that great river that caresses the shores of Orange and Sullivan Counties.

So much did Grey love this area he married a local school teacher in Lackawaxen, PA who became his financial advisor, publicist and proofreader. It was while living in their farmhouse, literally on the banks of the Upper Delaware, that Riders of the Purple Sage became a best seller. The house still stands; well cared for, it serves as the Zane Gray Museum and is maintained by The National Park Service. It is easily accessible by way of NYS 97, (aka the Hawk's Nest) and is almost as famous the Roebling Aqueduct. Yes. This is the same Roebling, as in Brooklyn Bridge

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fame. Exact location: 135 Scenic Drive Lackawaxen, PA 18435. Phone: 570-685-4871 Riders of the Purple Sage continues to stand as a significant contributor to the Adult Western genre. By establishing and creating archetypal characteristics of the Old West, the dramatic functions of honor, righteousness and loyalty combine to create the foundations for the modern "Adult Western."

Applicable not solely, the Gentile referenced by Grey are the moral dilemmas between honor, duty and religious doctrine and/or observance.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is one example. More to the point, however, is Amy Fowler from Carl Foreman's screenplay, High Noon. (1952) Amy, a devout Quaker, chooses the life of the man she loves over her religious beliefs and shoots his adversary in the back.

Fortunately, and through the competence of Ginny Neidermier the place of Zane Grey in American literature remains justifiably secure at the Josephine-Louise Public Library, in Walden.

There will always be a place on the shelf for writers who pass the test of time.

In literature as life, relevancy matters.

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Meditation: A History

The history of Meditation dates all the way back to ancient times.

There has been proof found in Indian artifacts of the history of meditation dating back 5000 years.

Researchers suggest that primitive hunting and gathering societies may have discovered meditation and its many different states of consciousness while gazing into the flames of their fires.

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Holistic Calendar Psychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes Unitartian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, 1st Tuesdays, 7pm Message Circle Aug 10, 7pm Spiritquest Healing Center, Slate Hill,

Patricia Quinn, MS, LCAT, NBCCH Art Therapy, Hypnosis & Healing 10 Colonial Avenue, Warwick, NY 10990 845-649-0953

Dinner and Reading w/Lisa Ann The Trestle, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Aug 19, 2pm-5pm Full Moon Drumming Circle w/Maxwell Kofi Donkor ..

Pocono Environmental Education Cetner Dingmans Ferry, Aug 31, 7pm

Destination..................................................................Narrowsburg An Unsung (literally) Comic Masterpiece at the Delaware Valley Opera

by Philip Ehrensaft

Among the 270 and counting adaptations of Shakespeare for the opera stage, Otto Nicolai's gem, Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), is a standout.

Mysteriously, it is rarely performed. Opera experts scratch their heads trying to figure this out. Thanks to the Delaware Valley Opera, Mid-Hudson audiences can see and hear Merry Wives, from August 10 through 19, sung in English translation.

Nicolai's librettist, Salomon Hermann Rosenthal, produced a fine German libretto that captures the structure and spirit of the Bard's script: a delightful sixteenth century predecessor of sitcom.

Merry Wives' music is a masterful marriage of Italian lyricism and the disciplined German musical systems of Bach through Beethoven.

Nicolai was an opera composer who paid his rent by being one of the leading conductors of his time. That included founding the orchestra that became the Vienna Philharmonic.

Tragically operatic is an apt adjective for Nicolai's short life. He was born in 1810, in the central German town of Kรถnigsberg. His youth involved a constant struggle with his minor musician father's attempts, shades of Mozart's

papa, to market his child prodigy son. After repeated attempts to run away from home, Nicolai finally made it to Berlin when he was 16. After tough impoverished years, a wealthy patron discovered Nicolai's potential and sponsored the youngster's studies with ranking musicians.Then Nicolai felicitously landed a job as the organist for the Prussian embassy in Rome. Beyond material sustenance, Nicolai plunged deeply into Italian music, art and literature. Musically, his interests extended to the Italian Renaissance. When Nicolai subsequently became an important conductor, his expertise in Early Music played a significant role in defining classical music's core repertoire.

Italy's enduring impact on Nicolai was a passion for the lyricism of Bel Canto opera, plus an equal determination to wed Italian lyricism to the disciplined systematics of German composition. His inspiration for that marriage was, naturally, Mozart.

Nicolai's first commissioned opera, Enrico II, premiered very successfully in 1839, in Trieste.

Before becoming the Kapellmeister (musical director) of Vienna's Hofoper (Imperial Opera) in 1841, Nicolai premiered three more operas.

The idea of composing a Shakespearean opera gestated during Nicolai's time in Vienna.

It almost didn't gestate because the overly

perfectionist Nicolai (drawing above) hesitated Hamlet-style in the face of his imposing Shakespearean project. At times he questioned whether only Mozart was worthy of the challenge. But Nicolai persisted and created Merry Wives, only to have it rejected by power brokers at the Hofoper.

So Nicolai packed up his baton and headed off to Berlin, where he became Kapellmeister at Berlin's Royal Opera. His Merry Wives of Windsor premiered in Berlin in 1849, and was a smashing success.

Two months later, the 39 years-old Nicolai, at the very pinnacle of his career, died of a stroke. Cut down like your prototypical opera hero or heroine.

Thanks to the essential online Naxos Music Library, with its 73,981 albums, I compared six recordings of Nicolai's ultimate achievement.

My enthusiasm and respect for Nicolai's rendering of Shakespeare's comic masterpiece mounted with each listening. My favorite, a 1993 EMI recording with Robert Hagen conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra, is out of print, but is available via Amazon Marketplace or as a high quality MP3 download at www.classicsonline.com.

Only a handful of opera composers got Shakespeare right: Verdi, of course; Britten; Ades, perhaps; and Nicolai, most assuredly. I now join the ranks of the mystified, scratching my head as to why Merry Wives is not a frequent pleasure in today's opera houses.

All the more reason to grab the rare occasion to catch Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor at the Delaware Valley Opera this month where it will be performed in Narrowsburg, Lake Huntington and Hawley under the Artistic Direction of Carol Castel (photo above).

Visit DelawareValleyOpera.org for schedule.

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Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

Open Mic & In-house music PV.........................................................................................................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills SA.............................................................................................................................. Sounds Asylum, Middletown

Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ......................................Eddie’s Roadhouse, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic ........................................................................Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Stacy & Friends Musicians Gathering ....................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, 7pm Open Mic ..................................................................................................PV Aug 2, 7pm-11pm John Beacher, Cabinet......................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Aug 3, 7pm Al Westphal ................................................................................................................PV Aug 4, 2pm Steve Wells ..............................................................................................PV Aug 5, 2:30pm-5:30pm MiZ ..................................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Aug 10, 8pm Jack Higgins ............................................................................................................PV Aug 11, 2pm The New Kings ................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Aug 11, 8pm Evan & Lesley ......................................................................................PV Aug 12, 2:30pm-5:30pm Slam Allen........................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Aug 17, 8pm Rich Weiss ............................................................................................PV Aug 19, 2:30pm-5:30pm Nailed Shutt ....................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Aug 24, 8pm Bruce Perone............................................................................................................PV Aug 25, 2pm “ELVIS Tribute” w/Patrick Perone ............................................................PV Aug 25, 7pm-10pm Paul E. Mitchell & the Ain’t Broke Band ..........................................PV Aug 26, 2:30pm-5:30pm Somerville ..........................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sep 1, 8pm

lectureS / DEmos / SymposiumS / Forums /Master Classes sponsored by Hannah Brooks, MD, FACS HHNM ............................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall NVM ..........................................................Neversink Valley Museum of History & Innovation, Cuddebackville PEEC ...................................................................... Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SKAC ............................................................................................................ Storm King Art Center, Mountainville

“Lincoln & Slavery” Allen C. Guelzo ................................The Columns Museum, Milford, Aug 1, 7pm “For Goodness Snakes” ........................................................................HHNM Aug 4, 10am & 11:30pm Bees Making Honey beehive tour ........................................SKAC, Aug 4, 11 & 18, Noon, 1pm & 2pm Watercolor Demo w/Jim Adair............Orange Hall Gallery, SUNYO, Middletown, Aug 5, 2:45pm-4pm “The Hotels of the Catskills” Lawrence Strickler ................................................NVM Aug 10, 7:30pm “Noisy Neighbors” insects ......................................................................................HHNM Aug 11, 10am Birds of Prey..............................................................................................................HHNM Aug 11, 5pm “The Great Debates” Allen C. Guelzo ..............................The Columns Museum, Milford, Aug 15, 7pm Fossil Hunters ........................................................................................................HHNM Aug 18, 10am “Monarch Madness” butterflies ................................................................................PEEC Aug 18, 1pm Frog Frenzy III ..........................................................................................................PEEC Aug 19, 10am Reading the Forest Doc Bayne................................................................................ HHNM Aug 25,10am “Being Born A Micropremie” w/Petite Belle Hammonds ..........Newburgh Free Library,. Aug 25, 11am SYMPOSIUM: “Transforming Communities Through Art” ................................SKAC Aug 25, 3pm Architecture Tour ........................................................................Grey Towers, Milford, Aug 26, 1:30pm SYMPOSIUM: “I Remember Woodstock”......................Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 26, 2pm The Night Sky w/Kevin Manning ......................................................Newburgh Library, Aug 27, 6:30pm Liberty Jazz Festival Performers Interview ....................Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 30, 7pm

books Book Lover’s Club ..........................................Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm Book Discussion “Oblivion” ....................................................Newburgh Free Library, Jul 30, 7pm Book Discussion “Packing for Mars” by Mary Road..........Cornwall Public Library, Aug 1, 7pm Book Discussion “A Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly ......Cornwall Library, Aug 23, 7pm Book Discussion Great Books Discussion ......................Newburgh Free Library, Aug 24, 11:30am Book Discussion“The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss”................

by Edmund DeWaal Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Aug 30, 6:30pm

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Concerts PVT.............................................................................................Palaia Vineyards Outdoor Tent, Highland Mills

Shallows Band ......................................................Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 31, 6:30pm FREE The Dan Brother Band “on the lawn” concert series ..Sugar Loaf Station, Aug 2, 6:30pm FREE Akie B & The Falcons soul, jazz ..............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 2, 7pm MazFest Music Festival 2012 ..................................MazMyth, Roscoe, Aug 3-5, Noon-Midnight Bob Martinson Band ................................................................Pine Bush Bandstand, Aug 3, 7pm Route 66, 60s, 70s, 80s..........................................Festival Square Middletown, Aug 3, 7pm FREE Midnight Image ..............................................Downtown Montgomery, Aug 4, 6pm-10pm FREE Sarah D. ..................................................................Wooster Grove, Walden, Aug 4, 6:30pm FREE Groovy Tuesday ..................................................................................PVT Aug 4, 6:30pm-9:30pm Tom Freund & Friends, Whispering Tree ..............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 4, 7pm JB’s Soul Jazz Brunch w/Connor Kennedy & Lee Falco ............The Falcon, Aug 5, 10am-2pm Joe Cocker & Huey Lewis and the News........................................Bethel Woods, Aug 5, 7:30pm The Ponytails Nbgh Pop, Rock & Doowop Series Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 7, 6:30pm FREE “Big Time Rush” w/Cody Simpson & Rachel Crow ..............................Bethel Woods, Aug 7, 7pm Hurley Highway rock, folk, blues ....................................Cornwall Bandstand, Aug 7, 7pm FREE Love Assassin, Ava Rae Heatley “on the lawn”series....Sugar Loaf Station, Aug 9, 6:30pm FREE Nailed Shutt Newburgh Jazz Series ......................Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 9, 6:30pm FREE Murali Coryell Band ..................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 9, 7pm Shallows Oldies Band Doo-Wop, r&r, r&b ........Festival Square Middletown, Aug 10, 7pm FREE Robbie Dupree & Friends ........................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 10, 7pm Brad Paisley w/The Band Perry & Scotty McCreery ..................Bethel Woods, Aug 10, 7:30pm Brokedown & Busted, Small Town Shieks ..Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, Aug 11, 4pm FREE The Cupcakes Cornerstone Arts Alliance ....................................Goshen Music Hall, Aug 11, 7pm “Rod Stewart Tribute” w/Rick Larrimore ................................................PVT Aug 11, 7pm-10pm Out of the Blue 60s, 70s, 80s ..................Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 11, 7:30pm FREE New Trad Quartet ..........................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 12, 10am-2pm Lucky Peterson, P.P. Junior blues ..........................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 12, 7pm Dan Brother Band..................................................Wooster Grove, Walden, Aug 13, 6:30pm FREE In The Pocket Nbgh Pop-Rock-Doowop Series ..Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 14, 6:30pm FREE Groovy Tuesday 60s, 70s, 80s ..........................................Cornwall Bandstand, Aug 14, 7pm FREE Blackberry Blues Band “on the lawn” concert series..Sugar Loaf Station, Aug 16, 6:30pm FREE Funk Junkies ............................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 16, 7pm Alexis P. Suter Band, Walter Park’s Swamp Cabbage blues, soul ......The Falcon, Aug 17, 7pm Groovy Tuesday 60s, 70s, 80s..............................Festival Square Middletown, Aug 17, 7pm FREE Nir Felder 4 jazz, blues, rock ....................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 18, 7pm Woodstock Festival w/Rob Schiff, “Back to the Garden 1969 Band” ..PVT Aug 18, 3pm-9:30pm Dan Brother Band, Jeremy Langdale ....Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, Aug 18, 4pm FREE Rod Stewart Tribute ..............................Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 18, 7:30pm FREE Kelly Clarkson & The Fray..................................................................Bethel Woods, Aug 19. 7pm Gordon Michael & Trio Newbgh Pop-Rock-Doowop Series ..Arboretum, Aug 21, 6:30pm FREE K J Denhert urban pop ....................................................Cornwall Bandstand, Aug 21, 7pm FREE Stone Temple Pilots................................................................................Bethel Woods, Aug 22, 8pm Pat O’Shea & The Honest Men ..............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 23, 7pm In The Pocket 60-2000s ......................................Festival Square Middletown, Aug 24, 7pm FREE 8 Days of Blues music & BBQ ............................................Neversink Area Museum, Aug 24, 7pm Slam Allen blues, soul................................................................The Falcon, marlboro, Aug 24, 7pm Deep Chemistry, Lords of the Parish ....Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, Aug 25, 4pm FREE Irish Night ..............................................Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 25, 7:30pm FREE Tumbling Bones bluegrass, blues, folk, r&r ..................................The Falcon, Aug 26, 10am-2pm Sock Hop Newburgh 50s & 60s Dance Party......Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 28, 6:30pm FREE Dan Brother Band..................................................Wooster Grove, Walden, Aug 13, 6:30pm FREE Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Rachel Farley, DeeJay Silver ..........Bethel Woods, Aug 26, 7:30pm Johnny Jake 50s r&r ........................................................Cornwall Bandstand, Aug 28, 7pm FREE Jim Campilongo Electric Trio & Tony Mason blues, country, rock........The Falcon, Aug 30 7pm Elizabeth & The Catapults pop, jazz ......................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 31, 7pm Hotrod 50s, 60s, 70s, ............................................Festival Square Middletown, Aug 31, 7pm FREE The Garden 1969-Woodstock....................Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, Sep 1, 7:30pm FREE Bob Dylan & his Band, Ben Harper ......................................................Bethel Woods, Sep 2, 8pm

CANvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation, Monroe ART TOURS / walks “Covered Bridges of Livingston Manor” w/Fred Fries Water Wheel Junction, Aug 4, 10am Second Saturday in Beacon Beacon Galleries ....Downtown Beacon, Aug 11, all day to 9pm Art After Dark Milford Galleries ................................Downtown Milford, Aug 11, 6pm-9pm

cabaret Pre-Show Dinner & Cabaret ..................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Tues, Wed, Thu, 6pm Post-Show Cabaret ......................................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Fri & Sat, 10:30pm

cinema Reel Eclectic Film Series ........................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Aug 2, 7pm FREE “True Grit” ..............................................................................Bethel Woods Museum, Aug 2, 7pm “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” ................................Bethel Woods Museum, Aug 4, 7pm “Battle for Brooklyn” documentary ..............................................Catskill Art Society, Aug 4, 7pm “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” Margaret O’Brien ........Newburgh Free Library, Aug 8, Noon Senior Citizen movie ......................................Hamptonburgh Town Hall, Aug 8 & 22, Noon FREE “The Magnificent Seven” ........................................................Bethel Woods Museum, Aug 9, 7pm “Blazing Saddles” ..................................................................Bethel Woods Museum, Aug 11, 7pm Afternoon Movie ..................................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Aug 15, 2pm FREE “Mid-August Lunch” ......................................................................Cornwall Library, Aug 16, 6pm “Roustabout” w/Elvis Presley ............................Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Aug 24, 6:30pm

comedy The Best of the Boston Comedy Festival ................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Aug 10, 8pm Nick Cobb The Laugh Tour ..........................Nutshell Arts Center, Lake Huntington, Aug 11, 7pm

festival Jeffersonville Jamboree ..................................................................Lion’s Field, Aug 4, 10am-4pm Festival of Wood............................................................................Grey Towers, Milford, Aug 4 & 5

museums Forestry Exhibit ..............................................................................Grey Towers, Milford, thru Oct “Light and Landscape” ..................................Storm King Arts Center, Mountaindale, thru Nov 11 “Portrait of a Family: Papers from the Westbrook Family from the 1700 and 1800s” ..............

Neversink Valley Museum, thru Nov 25 Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ........................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives ............................Hurleyville. ongoing Civil War Artifacts ....................................................................Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters”..............................Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Jul 22 Sigmund Freud..............................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Aug 31 Frederick Franck Sculpture Garden and Galleries................Pacem In Terris, Warwick, thru Oct Rondout & Neversink watershed areas ........Time & the Valley Museum, Grahamsville, thru Oct

music - broadway - tin pan alley - light classics - Ragtime Callicoon Center Band ....................................Callicoon Bandstand, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22, 8pm FREE SUNY Orange Symphonic Band ..................Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Newburgh, Aug 2, 7pm FREE Alumni Green, SUNY Middletown, Aug 4, 5pm FREE Gravichord Music ..........................................................Pine Bush Bandstand, Aug 10, 7pm FREE West Point jazz Knights “A Night at the Movies” ..Trophy Pt. Amphitheatre, Aug 12, 8pm FREE Masanobu Ikemiya piano “All About Ragtime”..........................Milford Theatre, Aug 18, 7:30pm Broadway Concerts Direct ........................................Wurtsboro Community Church, Aug 18, 8pm Song of the Valley, Sweet Adelines female barbershopPine Bush Bandstand, Aug 24, 7pm FREE “Lovely Songs for a Summer Night” ............................Pine Bush Bandstand, Aug 31, 7pm FREE

music - classical Cornwall String Ensemble ................................................Cornwall Bandstand, Jul 31, 7pm FREE Cornwall String Ensemble................................Senior Center, Montgomery, Aug 2, 7:30pm FREE Deborah Lifton soprano ....................................Sullivan County Community College, Aug 2, 8pm Cornwall String Ensemble ..............................Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Aug 4, 6pm Arman Alpyspaev viola, Cullen Bryant piano ..................Shandelee Music Festival, Aug 4, 8pm David Requiro cello, Cullen Bryant piano ........................Shandelee Music Festival, Aug 7, 8pm Allen Yueh piano ..................................................................Shandelee Music Festival, Aug 9, 8pm Antioch Chamber Ensemble chorale ..............................Shandelee Music Festival, Aug 11, 8pm Loma Mar Quartet ............................................................Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Aug 12, 5pm International Artists of Shandelee piano ....Shandelee Music Fest., Aug 16, 8pm & Aug 18, 3pm Music in NY at Time of Revolution ................Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, Aug 18, 7pm Karine Poghosyan piano, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Senior Center, Sep 2, 3pm FREE

music - jazz Joe Heider’s Lite Fuse Newburgh Jazz Series ....Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 1, 6:30pm FREE The Belly Warmers Newburgh Jazz Series ..........Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 2, 6:30pm FREE Nasheet Waits Group, Tristen Napoli ......................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 3, 7pm West Point Jazz Knights Dancing Under Stars ....Trophy Point Amphitheatre, Aug 5, 7pm FREE

Lindsey Webster Band Newburgh Jazz Series......Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 8, 6:30pm FREE Wil WiIson Quintet Newburgh Jazz Series ..........Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 9, 6:30pm FREE Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble ..................................................The Dautaj, Warwick, Aug 10, 8pm Taylor Egisti, Eric Harland & Julian Lage, Hiroya Tsukamoto ............The Falcon, Aug 11, 7pm Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page 30 ................................Warwick, Aug 16, 3:30pm-Midnite Donna Singer & the Doug Richards Trio Newburgh Jazz Series ..................................................

Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 16, 6:30pm FREE Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page 30 ......................................Warwick, Aug 17, 7pm-Midnite Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page 30..........................................Warwick, Aug 18, 1pm-10pm Pucell Pastorius Kopek Trio ..........................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 19, 10am-2pm Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page 30 ....Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Aug 19, 6:30pm Bean Runner Project Newburgh Jazz Series ......Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 22, 6:30pm FREE Multitraverse Theatre Newburgh Jazz Series ....Arboretum, Montgomery, Aug 23, 6:30pm FREE Jason Miles “The Spirit of Miles Davis” ................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 25, 7pm Liberty Jazz Festival Benefit Performance ..............Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 26, 4pm Swing Dance Night w/Saints of Swing Lindy dancing ............The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 26, 7pm Liberty Jazz Festival ..................................................Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 31, 7pm

opera “Suor Angelica” Puccini - OperaOggi Company ..............................Liberty TBA, Aug 3 & 4, 8pm “The Merry Wives of Windsor” Delaware Valley Opera, by Nicolai ..............................................

Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Aug 10, 17-19 & Sullivan West HS, Lake Huntington, Aug 11, 8pm Hudson Opera Theatre w/Ron DeFesi ..........................Pine Bush Bandstand, Aug 17, 7pm FREE Delaware Valley Opera ”A Shakespeare Finale or All’s Well That Ends Well” ..............................

Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Aug 25 8pm “Barber of Seville” Rossini - OperaOggi Company ................Liberty TBA, Aug 31 & Sep 1, 8pm

poetry & prose readings Hudson River Poets................................................................Newburgh Library, Aug 2, 7pm FREE Teresa Marta Costa....................................................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Aug 2, 7pm Samuel Claiborne & Walter Worden Calling All Poets Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Aug 3, 8pm Council of Poetic Experimentation Poetry on the Losoe ..................................................................

Seligmann Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Aug 4, 3:30pm FREE Poetry Potluck ..........................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, Aug 5, 11:30am Franklin Schneider Poetry in the Gallery ....................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 5, 8pm FREE Poetry Night ..................................................Ruthie’s Restaurant, New Windsor, Aug 8, 7pm FREE Poetry Night................................................Bank Square Coffeehouse, Beacon, Aug 15, 7pm FREE Poetry at the Church..........................................................Goshen Methodist Church, Aug 27, 7pm Poetry Night....................................................Liberty Green Bldg. 3, Warwick, Aug 28, 7pm FREE R. Dionysius Whiteurs Poetry on the Loose Seligmann Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Sep 1, 3:30pm FREE

recreation Jeffersonville Jamboree....................................................................Lion’s Field, Aug 4, 10am-4pm Historic Homes & Gardens Tour Port Jervis Council for the Arts ....Port Jervis, Aug 4, 1pm-4pm “A Revolutionary Camp at Night” ..................................New Windsor Cantonment, Aug 11, 7pm “Art in Motion” Car & Cycle Show Benefit ......................Warwick Drive-In, Aug 12, 10am-3pm Social Dance ....................................................Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Aug 14, 6pm Civil War Weekend ..................................................................Museum Village, Monroe, Sep 1 & 2

storytelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Raising Our Voices”............Florida Library, Aug 8, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers “Pet’s Eye View” ....................Morgan Outdoors, Livingston Manor, Aug 11, 6:30pm

theatre - musical “West Side Story” ........................................................................Forestburgh Playhouse, thru Aug 5 “The Sound of Music” ..................................................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 7-19 “SHOUT! The Mod Musical....................................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Aug 10-Sep 9 ‘The Producers” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ..Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Aug 17-26

Theatre - Physical “There There” ............................................................NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Aug 12, 4pm “Struck” ........................................................................NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Sep 2, 7pm

theatre - play Two one-act comedies Theatre at the Lake..,Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 3 & 4, 7:30pm “The Bingo Murders” by Samuel E. Wright ..........................New Rose Theatre, Walden, Aug 3-5 “A Song at Twilight” by Noel Coward ..........................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Aug 5 “...So I Got Fired From THAT Job!!” ......Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Aug 11, 8pm. & 10pm “You Can’t Cheat” by Samuel E. Wright ............................New Rose Theatre, Walden, Aug 17-19 “Murder Among Friends” w/Loretta Swit ..................................Forestburg Playhouse, Aug 21-26 “Barefoot in the Park” ............................................................Forestburg Playhouse, Aug 28-Sep 2 August 2012

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= Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players, Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe = Downing FIlm Center, Newburgh, 845-561-3686 = Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point = The Falcon, Marlboro = Forestburgh Playhouse 845-794-1194 = Festival Square, Middletown

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Newburgh Gospel-Doo Wop-Rock Series Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

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Cornwall Bandstand 7pm

Music Callicoon Center Band The Bandstand, 8pm

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Newburgh Gospel-Doo Wop-Rock Series Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

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Cinema “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” NFL Noon Theatre-Musical “The Sound of Music” FP 2pm & 8pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie TL 2pm Theatre-Musical “The Sound of Music” FP 2pm & 8pm Cabaret & Dinner FP 6pm Newburgh Jazz Series Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Music Callicoon Center Band The Bandstand, 8pm

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Cabaret......................Pre-Show Dinner & Cabaret ....................FP 6pm Music - Jazz...Newburgh Jazz Series ................Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Music...................The Dan Brother Band ............Sugar Loaf Station, 6:30pm Music.......................SUNYO Symphonic Band ....................SUNYO-KH 7pm Cinema............................“Ture Grit” ..................Bethel Woods Museum, 7pm Cinema................................Reel Eclectic Film Series........................TL 7pm Poetry Reading........................Hudson River Poets..........................NFL 7pm Poetry Reading ........................Teresa Marta Costa ........................NCR 7pm Music - Soul-Jazz ..................Akie B & The Falcons ........................FAL 7pm Music - Classical.Cornwall String Ensemble Montgomery Senior Center, 7:30pm

Theatre - Musical ......................“West Side Story” ............................FP 8pm Theatre - Play ..........“A Song at Twilight” by Noel Coward ............ST 8pm Music - Classical ..................Deborah Lifton soprano ..................SCCC 8pm Open Mic............Musicians Gathering ..............Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

= NACL Theatre, Highland Lake = Neversink Area Museum, D&H = Noble Coffee Roasters, Camp = Newburgh Free Library = Pocono Environmental Educa = Paramount Theatre, Middletow

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Music - Jazz..........Newburgh Jazz Series ....Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Music........................................Murali Coryell Band ..........................FAL 7pm Cinema ................................“The Magnificent Seven” ....Bethel Woods, 7pm Storytelling...............Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ......Florida Library, 7:30pm Music - Classical.............Allen Yueh piano ....Shandelee Music Festival, 8pm Theatre - Musical ..................“The Sound of Music” ..........................FP 8pm

Music..Brad Paisley, w/The Band Perry & Scott

Music........Shallows Oldies Band ....F Music ..................Robbie Dupree & F Music....................................Gravichord Conc Music.........Love Assassin, Ava Rae Heatley........Sugar Loaf Station, 6:30pm

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Theatre-Musical “The Cabaret & Dinner, FP 6pm Music - Jazz ................Hudson Valley Jazz E Sound of Music” FP 8pm Opera....”The Merry Wives of Windsor” Dela Newburgh Jazz Series Music-Classical David Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering....Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy ..............The Best of the Boston Co

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= Greenwood Lake Public Library = Grand Montgomery Chamber Music, Montgomery Senior Center = Howland Cultural Center, Beacon = Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall = Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf = Liberty Museum & Arts Center

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Newburgh Gospel-Doo Wop-Rock Series Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

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Music - Jazz.Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page 30 3pm-Midnite Cabaret ......................Pre-Show Dinner & Cabaret ..............FP 6pm Cinema..................“Mid-August Lunch” ..........Cornwall Library, 6pm Music..................Blackberry Blues Band Sugar Loaf Station, 6:30pm Music - Jazz...Newburgh Jazz Series ..Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Music......................................Funk Junkies..........................FAL 7pm Music - Classical....Int’l Artists piano ..Shandelee Music Festival, 8pm Theatre - Musical ............“The Sound of Music” ....................FP 8pm Theatre - Musical ......“SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ..............ST 8pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Cabaret ......................Pre-Show Dinner & Cabaret ..............FP 6pm Music - Jazz...Newburgh Jazz Series ..Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

Music ..........................Pat O’Shea & The Honest Men ..............FAL 7pm Theatre - Play ......“Murder Among Friends w/Loretta Swit ........FP 8pm

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Festival..........................Jeffersonville Jamboree ......Lion’s Field, Jeffersonville, 10am-4pm Festival ..............................Festival of Wood ................................Grey Towers, Milford TBA Music......................................MazFest Music Festival ............................Roscoe, Noon-Midnight Poetry Reading ...Council of Poetic Experimentation ....Seligmann Gallery, Sugar Loaf, 3:30pm Music - Classical...........Cornwall String Ensemble ......Storm King Art Center, Mountainville 6pm Cinema.............................“Battle for Brooklyn” ........Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, 7pm Cinema ......................“Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid”..........Bethel Woods Museum, 7pm Music ......................Tom Freund & Friends, Whispering Tree ......................................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play.............................One-Act Comedies ............Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm Music - Classical ..................Arman Alpyspaev viola ..................Shandelee Music Festival, 8pm Theatre - Play ............“A Song at Twilight” by Noel Coward............................................ST 8pm Theatre - Play...............................“The Bingo Murders”....................New Rose Theatre, Walden, 8pm Theatre - Musical ......................“West Side Story”............................................................FP 8pm Cabaret ....................................Post Show Cabaret....................................................FP 10:30pm

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Festival Square, Middletown, 7pm Art Walk ........................Second Saturday ..............................Downtown Beacon, all day Music.Brokedown & Busted, Small Town Sheiks.Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, 4pm riends ............................FAL 7pm cert....Pine Bush Bandstand, 7pm Art Walk ........................................Art After Dark ..............................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pm

ty MacCreery ..Bethel Wds 7:30pm Storytelling......................................Yarnslingers......Morgan Outdoors, Livingston Manor, 6:30pm ct plays ............LC Pavilion, 8pm Comedy.................Nick Cobb The Laugh Tour ........Nutshell Arts Center, Lake Huntington, 7pm Musical” ............................ST 8pm Cinema ......................................“Blazing Saddles” ........................................Bethel Woods, 7pm .Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music ............................................The Cupcakes ....................................Goshen Music Hall, 7pm nsemble....Dautaj, Warwick, 8pm Theatre - Play............................”...So I Got Fired From THAT Job!!”...................... RRP 8pm & 10pm Theatre - Musical ..............“SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ..................................................ST 8pm aware Valley Opera ........TT 8pm Music - Classical ..............Antioch Chamber Ensemble..............Shandelee Music Festival, 8pm medy Festival ..............RRP 8pm Opera............”The Merry Wives of Windsor” DVO........Sullivan West HS, Lake Huntington 8pm usic” ................................FP 8pm Theatre - Musical ..................“The Sound of Music” ........................................................FP 8pm aret ............................FP 10:30pm Cabaret ....................................Post Show Cabaret....................................................FP 10:30pm

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estival Square, Middletown, 7pm

= Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville = Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Orange, Newburgh = Orange Hall, OCCC, SUNY Orange, Middletown = Thrall Library, Middletown = Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg = Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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= Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills = Palaia Vineyards Outdoor Tent, Highland Mills = Quarter Note Cafe, Walden = Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh = Sullivan County Community College, Seelig Auditorium = Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, Rivoli Theatre, South Fallsburg

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Music - Jazz.........Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page 30 ..................1pm-10pm Poetry Reading......Third Saturdays Series................Wisner Library, Warwick, 3pm

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Festival ................................Festival of Wood............Grey Towers, Milford TBA Music..JB’s Soul Jazz Brunch, Connor Kennedy, Lee Falco ....FAL 10am-2pm

Poetry Reading.....Poetry Potluck ..........Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, 11:30am Music................MazFest Music Festival ..............................Roscoe, Noon-Midnight Theatre - Play ............“A Song at Twilight” by Noel Coward ......................ST 2pm Theatre - Play.....................“The Bingo Murders” ........New Rose Theatre, Walden, 3pm Theatre - Musical ......................“West Side Story” ......................................FP 3pm Music.............Joe Cocker & Huey Lewis and the News ......Bethel Woods, 7:30pm Music - Jazz.....West Point Jazz Knights ..............Trophy Pt. Amphitheatre, 7:30pm Poetry Reading ............................Franklin Schneider ......................................WAA 8pm

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Music ....................New Trad Quartet ....................FAL 10am-2pm Theatre - Musical.......”SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ..........ST 2pm

Recreation....”Art in Motion” Car & Cycle ShowWarwick Drive-In, 10am-3pm Theatre - Musical ............“The Sound of Music” ............................FP 3pm Theatre - Physical..................“There There” ..............................NACL 4pm Music - Classical......Loma Mar Quartet......Pacem In Terris, Warwick, 5pm Music - Blues..............Lucky Peterson, P.P. Junior ......................FAL 7pm Music - Hollywood..West Point Jazz KnightsTrophy Pt. Amphitheatre, 7:30pm

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Music - Classical....International Artists of Shandelee piano ....Shandelee Music Festival, 3pm Music - Jazz ...............Pucell Pastorius Kopek Trio..........FAL 10am-2pm

’s Swamp Cabbage ....FAL 7pm Music ....................................Woodstock Festival......................................PVT 3pm-9:30pm

Music - Jazz......Hudson Valley Jazz Festival see page30........11am-9pm e ......Pine Bush Bandstand, 7pm Music.......Dan Brother Band, Jeremy Langdale ..Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, 4pm Music - Jazz, Blues, Rock ..........Nir Felder 4 ..........................................................FAL 7pm Theatre - Musical ......“SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ......................ST 2pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Ragtime ....................Masanobi Ikemiya................Milford Theatre, Aug 18, 7:30pm Theatre - Musical ................“The Producers” ........................SCDW 2pm Delaware Valley Opera ..TT 8pm Music.............................Rod Stewart Tribute ..............Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm Opera......................”The Merry Wives of Windsor” Delaware Valley Opera ........TT 8pm Theatre - Musical ............“The Sound of Music” ............................FP 3pm New Rose Theatre, Walden, 8pm Music - Broadway, etc.........Broadway Concerts Direct ..Wurtsboro Community Church, 8pm Theatre - Play........“You Can’t Cheat” ....New Rose Theatre, Walden, 3pm Musical” ........................ST 8pm Theatre - Play......................“You Can’t Cheat” ................New Rose Theatre, Walden, 8pm Opera....”The Merry Wives of Windsor” Delaware Valley Opera TT 3pm rs” ..........................SCDW 8pm Theatre - Musical ..........“SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ..............................................ST 8pm Theatre - Musical ....................“The Producers” ................................................SCDW 8pm Music ..........................Kelly Clarkson & The Fray ......Bethel Woods, 7pm usic” ............................FP 8pm Theatre - Musical ..............“The Sound of Music” ..................................................FP 8pm aret ........................FP 10:30pm Cabaret ................................Post Show Cabaret ..............................................FP 10:30pm

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Music...Lords of the Parish, Deep Chemistry ..Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, 4pm

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Music - Blues, R&R, Folk.....Tumbling Bones ........FAL 10am-2pm

& BBQ ........................NAM 7pm Music - Jazz ...............Jason Miles “The Spirit of Miles Davis” ............................FAL 7pm Theatre - Musical ......“SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ......................ST 2pm es....Pine Bush Bandstand, 7pm Music. ..........................................Irish Night ......Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm Theatre - Play ..“Murder Among Friends w/Loretta Swit..............FP 3pm ....................................FAL 7pm Theatre - Musical ......“SHOUT! The Mod Musical”..........................................ST 8pm Theatre - Musical ................“The Producers” ........................SCDW 3pm

ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Theatre - Musical ................“The Producers”............................................SCDW 8pm Music - Jazz ....................Benefit Performance ........................LMAC 4pm Musical” ........................ST 8pm Opera..Delaware Valley Opera “Shakespeare Finale All’s Well That Ends Well” TT 8pm Music ................Swing Dance Night w/Saints of Swing ............FAL 7pm

rs” ..........................SCDW 8pm Theatre - Play ..“Murder Among Friends w/Loretta Swit ................................FP 8pm Music.........Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Rachel Farley Bethel Woods, 7:30pm Cabaret ............................Post Show Cabaret ..........................................FP 10:30pm w/Loretta Swit ..............FP 8pm aret ........................FP 10:30pm tival ........................LMAC 7pm

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Recreation ......................Civil War Weekend ..................Museum Village, Monroe TBA

Poetry Reading........R. Dionysius Whiteurs ....Seligmann Gallery, Sugar Loaf, 3:30pm

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Recreation..........Civil War Weekend ..........Museum Village, Monroe TBA Theatre - Musical.......“SHOUT! The Mod Musical” ..................ST 2pm

atapults ........................FAL 7pm Music............The Garden 1969-Woodstock ......Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm Theatre - Play ................“Barefoot in the Park” ............................FP 3pm ht” ..Pine Bush Bandstand, 7pm Music ..........................................Somerville....................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Classical ..........Karine Poghosyan piano ..................GMCM 3pm Musical” ..........................ST 8pm Theatre - Musical ......“SHOUT! The Mod Musical”..........................................ST 8pm Theatre - Physical ......................”Struck” ..................................NACL 7pm

Park” ................................FP 8pm Theatre - Play ................“Barefoot in the Park” ..............................................FP 8pm Poetry Reading ..................Poetry in the Gallery ............................WAA 8pm

aret ........................FP 10:30pm Cabaret ............................Post Show Cabaret ..........................................FP 10:30pm Music...............Bob Dylan & his Band, Ben Harper ..........Bethel Woods, 8pm August 2012

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Art & photography receptions

ART exhibits CAS ................................................................................Catskill Art Society Arts Center, Livingston Manor DAC ..................................................Alliance Gallery & Loft Gallery, Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg OSH..........................................................................................Old Stone House, Hasbrouck (Woodbourne) SUNYO ..........................................SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 SUNYO-KH..........................................................................................SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall WAA ..............................................................................................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance WRS ..................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery 845-457-2787

“A Class Act: The Desmond Show, Summer of 2012” ....................................................................

Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery ..............................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Mike Jarozsko luminist paintings ............................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Lisa Strazza ............................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joann Wells Greenbaum potter, paintings ..............BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing Kelly Patton ............................................................................................Caffe Macchiato, Newburgh Bill Winters “A Moment in Time” ........................The Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, thru Aug 2 “Nature Interpreted in Fiber” Fiber Art ................................................................DAC thru Aug 4 Fran Cox collage ......................................................................................................DAC thru Aug 4 “A Midsummer Might’s Dream” 14 artists ................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, thru Aug 4 Alison Palmer & Gail Cunningham ................................Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, thru Aug 5 Rosalind Hodgkins, Debbie Gioello “Mythic Allegories” ....The ARTery, Milford, thru Aug 6 Nancy Copley Architectural Design ......The Healing Gallery, Ellenville Hospital, thru Aug 10 “Cityscapes” WRS members ..................................................................................WRS thru Aug 14 Diane Churchill “Blue and Other Thoughts” ................Karpeles Museum, Newburgh thru Aug 26 Eric Baylin & Kathleen Hayek ..............................................................................CAS thru Aug 26 Hemlock Farms Artists & Friends “Signs of Nature” ....Chant Gallery, Lords Valley thru Aug 29 Ron Lusker “Six Decades” ....................................Drawing Room Gallery, De Bruce, thru Summer Roscoe UpstArts 2012 Summer Show 21 artists ................Lake’s End, Tennanah Lake, thru Sep 2 Cheryl Kolb “Animals & Farms” ........................................River Gallery, Narrowsburg, thru Sep 8 “Sculpture for a New Century” eight sculptors..................................SUNYO Newburgh, thru Sep “Light and Landscape” sculpture ....................Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, thru Nov 11 Chaim Gross sculpture................................Seligmann Center for Surrealism, Sugar Loaf, thru Dec

New art Exhibits Hal Gaylor ........................................................................................Elant at Goshen, Jul 30-Aug 27 River Valley Artists Guild 2012 Summer Show ....................SUNYO Middletown, Jul 31-Aug 23 “The SUNY Orange - SUNY New Paltz Connection” ..........SUNYO Middletown, Jul 31-Aug 23 Nancy Reed Jones & Lisa O’Gorman, Jacqueline Doyle Schneider ....................WRS, Aug 1-31 “Celebrating the Basha Kill” ................................................ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 4-Sep 9 “Spaces & Places” Catskill Artists Gallery ..............................................................OSH Aug 11-19 “Beach/Vacation” WRS members......................................................................WRS Aug 15-Sep 14 New Hope Client Art Show ..................................Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Aug 7-21 “Art in Bloom” florists & gardeners ........................................................................DAC Aug 10-12 Michael Berbue “Baroque Down Convergences” paintings ..............................DAC Aug 10-Sep 1 Kathleen Hayek & GG Staniewicz “Time & {lace” prints, paintings, etc ........DAC Aug 10-Sep 1 William Davies “Colored Pencil Paintings” ..............The ARTery Gallery, Milford, Aug 10-Sep 10 Catskill Artists Gallery ............................................................................................OSH Aug 11-19 Hal Gaylor jazz portraits & other artists “High Note” ..WVFA Gallery, Warwick, Aug 15-Sep 28 Resident Art Show............................................................................Elant at Goshen, Aug 27-Sep 24 Gregory Davis, Chip Forelli & Kit Sailer..............................................................CAS Sep 1-Oct 7 Catskill Artists Gallery ..........................................................Bethel Woods Harvest Festival, Sep 2

photography exhibits FOV ........................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon HPG....................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown James Hiller ..............................................................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing John Strazza ..........................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing “Liberty & Justice (for All)” 68 photographers ......................................................FOV thru Aug 5 Thom O’Connor “Empty City” ................................................................................HPG thru Aug 5 Jackie Horner “Grossingers” ..........................................Liberty Museum & Art Center, thru Sep 8

New Photography Exhibits “Celebrating the Basha Kill” ........................................ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 4, Noon-4pm Dmitri Kasterine “Newburgh: Portrait of a City”......Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Aug 4- Sep 8 Linda Bock-Hinger “Texture from a Visual Perspective” ..................................HPG Aug 11-Sep 7

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Nancy Reed Jones & Lisa O’Gorman, Jacqueline Doyle Schneider ................WRS, Aug 4. 5pm-7pm Dmitri Kasterine “Newburgh: Portrait of a City”........Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Aug 4, 6pm-9pm River Valley Artists Guild 2012 Summer Show ........................SUNYO Middletown, Aug 5, 1pm-4pm “The SUNY Orange - SUNY New Paltz Connection” ..............SUNYO Middletown, Aug 5, 1pm-4pm New Hope Client Art Show ..............................Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Aug 7, 6pm-9pm “Art in Bloom” florists & gardeners ................................................................................DAC Aug 10-12 Michael Berbue “Baroque DownConvergences” paintings....................DAC Aug 10, 7pm-9, 7pm-9pm Kathleen Hayek & GG Staniewicz “Time & {lace” prints, paintings, etc ........DAC Aug 10, 7pm-9pm “Spaces & Places” Catskill Artists Gallery............................................................OSH Aug 11, 4pm-7pm Linda Bock-Hinger “Texture from a Visual Perspective”....................................HPG Aug 11, 6pm-9pm William Davies “Colored Pencil Paintings” ................The ARTery Gallery, Milford, Aug 11, 6pm-9pm Hal Gaylor jazz portraits & other artists “High Note” ........WVFA Gallery, Warwick, Aug 15, 6p,-9pm Catskill Artists Gallery ..........................................................................................OSH Aug 11 4pm-7pm

clubs Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip................................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels Josephine-Louise Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays, 6pm Friday Night Chess ....................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch ........................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitters & Crocheters Crochety Knitters ......................................Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10am Knimble Knitters ..................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10:15am Knitting Club....................................................................Newburgh Free Library, Jul 10 & 24, 7pm Knitting Group ............................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Thursdays, 6:30pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org......Last Sundays, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild ..............................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop........St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Country Quilters Guild............................................Mondays, all day, Walker Valley School House Science Cafe ““Yoga and Medicine: How Yoga can treat back pain and other common problems” Dr. Loren Fishman Diana’s Restaurant, New Windsor, Aug 22, 7pm Scrabble Players................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Thursdays, 6pm Scrabble Players ............................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ............................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Women’s Support Dinner Diva Night ......................................Fauchere Patisserrie, Milford, TBA Woodcarving Guild....................................................Valley Cabinets, Harriman, Wednesdays, 7pm

School and Conservatory Be Dif Rent rap & spoken word TEENS............................ArtsWAVE, Ellenville, Aug 2, TBA “The Living Newspaper” King’s Youth Theatre..................Lycian Centre, Aug 17 & 18, 8pm

Children and teens calendar Festivals, Lectures & Recreation - adults & children, see page 20 HHNM ........................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ..............................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ...................................................................... Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SKAC ............................................................................................................ Storm King Art Center, Mountainville

festival - Music - Theatre - Puppets ECO-LOCO Family Ecology Festival ............NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Aug 19, Noon-5pm

Lectures “Bee Here On The Lawn” w/Jerry Meemken ......................Montgomery Library, Aug 4, 10:30am “Art: Representation, Abstraction, Stylization” w/Wally McGuire................SKAC Aug 26, 1pm

museums Meet the Animals .. ........................................................HHNM CoH Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm World of Bees and Brook Trout Exhibits ........................HHNM-CoH, Fri, Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm

Recreation Nature Strollers..........................................................................................HHNM Tuesdays, 9:30am

Theatre “Sleeping Beauty” musical ......................................Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 2 & 4, 11am “The Little Mermaid” musical ..............................Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 9 & 11, 11am “Tarzan and the Ruby of Ropar” musical ..........Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 16 & 18, 11am

Destination.................................................................................................ellenville Meet Our Advertisers

Matthew’s Pharmacy

by Naomi Kennedy

There are many reasons why we should shop locally, but one reason stands out in the town of Ellenville: Matthews Pharmacy.

Ray and his dad Ronald are the proud proprietors of Matthews Pharmacy located at 101 Canal Street. Ray became a 3rd generation pharmacist in the 1980's because of family tradition. "It seemed like the natural thing to do," said Ray. Ray's grandfather, Clyde Matthews, who was raised in Kingston, moved into Ellenville in the 1920's. The pharmacy stands by their motto "Continuous Operations since 1848".

Ronald Matthews started working with the family pharmacy in the 1960's.

Some of their business is done online through their website: www.matthewspharmacy.com.

Ray realized how important it is to have a website in this day and age; however, he feels this does not represent who they are. "We are brick and mortar; we are people-persons. Our satisfaction is gained from face to face interaction," said Ray. Both Ray and Ronald, and all of their employees, come from Ellenville. There is a sign on the pharmacy window that encourages the community to buy local. "We also shop locally. All of our dollars go back into this community including donations, organizations, churches, insurance and legal needs, and the

Extra Performances for 3 Stars

Extra 2:00pm matinee performances have performance on Broadway been added on Saturday, July 28 and as Joanne in the TonySaturday, August 4 to meet ticket demand for winning revival of Noel Coward's A Song at Twilight which Company, which was filmed runs at Shadowland through August 5 for Great Performances on Joining stars Orson Bean and Alley Mills PBS, and she is best known is Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh (see for her Tony nominated photo) who replaced Paula Prentiss in this performance as Trina in production. Prentiss had to leave the show for William Finn's Falsettos for which she also medical reasons. received the Drama Desk and Drama League Walsh received critical acclaim for her nominations.

purchase and servicing of cars. "The reason I ask people to shop locally is because the money truly stays in this community.

We take great pride in that," said Ray. Ray also feels very strongly about New York State's economy and the Ray Matthews national economy. His philosophy is to purchase on United States soil. "Ninety nine percent of our wholesale purchases for the pharmacy come from New York State," said Ray. The employees of Matthews Pharmacy are very important to Ray and his dad. "We take pride in our veteran employees of 30 years and our newer employees of 10 years. They are critical to our business," said Ray. Ray believes in his community and feels there are good things happening every day in Ellenville. Ray jokes, "Who says there's nothing Chicago cast of Shout to do in Ellenville? It's a wonderful town to live Throw your head back and shout “hooray” in. We also have a lot going on in the for the groovy blend of foot-stomping songs, surrounding areas. Our children are thankfully eye-popping fashions and psychedelic dances exposed to the arts and participating in them. We in Shadowland’s SHOUT: The Mod Musical. appreciate being able to read about the arts and SHOUT! travels in time from 1960 to 1970 all the events in the CANVAS calendar," said Ray. For more information about Matthews at 101 Canal Street, or to get prescriptions filled, call 845-647-6222.

Shout Hooray for the Liberating 60s

chronicling the dawning liberation of women, covering a decade of great hits by the likes of Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, and Lulu, including To Sir With Love, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Son of A Preacher Man, Goldfinger, and many more. .Created by Phillip George and David Lowenstein, and co-produced by Candido & Maria Perez, TJ & Debbie Briggs, Barbara & David Vazquez, and the White Wolf Restaurant & Lounge, this musical journey runs at the Hudson Valley’s premier Equity theatre from August 10 to September 5.

As Petula Clark advises, “phone to Downtown Ellenville for tickets right away.”

845-647-5511.

ellenville calendar Exhibits

Poetry Reading (Teens)

Skoler Gallery ongoing

“Be Dif Rent” ArtsWAVE, Aug 2 TBA

Bill Winters “A Moment in Time” The Gallery Link, thru Aug 2 Nancy Copley Architectural Design thru Aug 10 The Healing Art Gallery, Ellenville Hospital

Theatre “A Song at Twilight” thru Aug 5 “SHOUT! The Mod Musical”Aug 10-Sep 9 Shadowland Theatre

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Karine Poghosyan Liszted for September 2 Concert

After stunning audiences with her outstanding talent playing Tchaikovsky and

Rachmaninoff for the Greater Newburgh SYmphony Orchestra, Howard Garrett had the smarts to hire Karine Poghosyan for the first concert of the 25th season for his Greater Montgomery Chamber Music Series.

Poghosyan will perform Bach, Stravinsky and Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor.

Dedicated to Robert Schumann, it is often considered Liszt's greatest composition for solo piano and has been often analyzed, particularly regarding issues of form.

The sonata is constructed as a single movement of non-stop music; however, it is widely believed that Liszt’s piece still fits the mold of a traditional four-movement sonata within the mold of one long sonata form.

The sonata is notable for being constructed from five motivic elements that are woven into an enormous musical architecture The free concert is on September 2 at 3:00pm in the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street..

For information: 845-457-9867.

devoting all her time to teaching her skills at the Wallkill River School.

O’Gorman-Hofsommer grew up in Yonkers, and moved to the Hudson Valley in 1990. She has a successful pet portrait business, donating portraits to foundations such as the Rock Hill ASPCA, Rescue for Life-Labrador Retriever Rescue, and Art for Shelter Animals Project.

The August “emerging artist”, Jacqui Doyle Schneider, is a ceramic artist, and art teacher in

the Valley Central School District. This is her first solo show in Orange County, and will feature both ceramic sculpture and paintings and drawings.

The exhibit is on display during the month of August, along with WRS members artwork in the main lobby: Cityscapes thru August 14 and Beach Vacations from August 15 to September 14, at the school and gallery, 232 Ward Street (same as 17K) in the historic Patchett House The reception is August 4, 5:00pm-7:00pm with appetizers from Wildfire Grill and wine, and is free and open to the public.

For more information: 845-457-ARTS.

Romancing the Landscape” on 17K

The Wallkill River School (WRS) announces Romancing the Landscape, an exhibition of fresh, new works by two Orange County’s artists; Nancy Reed-Jones and Lisa O’Gorman-Hofsommer (see photo).

Originally from Long Island, ReedJones studied at the Huntington Art League and became a well established oil and acrylic painter. Jones owned her own mural business for many years before

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..........................................................................................Montgomery Honeycomb, Won’cha Bee My Baby

by J. A. Di Bello

Art & Photography Exhibits Mike Jaroszko luminist James Hiller photography James Douglas Gallery, ongoing

"...the Lord made the bee And the bee made the honey And the honeybee lookin' for a home And they called it honeycomb" Few if any will recognize the name of popular writer, lyrist of the 50's Bob Merrill.

But hum a bar, a measure or two, or "sing" a few lines from one of his songs, as above, and begin a nostalgic journey to that magical time. Start with How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? or If I Knew You were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake. Or try even Mambo Italiano.

Escaping literary, musical or cinematic allusions to the 50's or the days when father did know best is a scarce event. If by chance or intention the Montgomery Free Library's Bee on the Lawn is on a list of events for August 4, refresh your memory of the popular Honeycomb, written by Bob Merrill and sung by Jimmy Rogers. It was charted at number one on the Billboard Top 100 in 1957.

Betsy Comizio of the Montgomery Free

montgomery calendar sponsored by Di Bello Gallery

“Cityscapes” thru Aug 14 Nancy Reed Jones & Lisa O’Gorman, Jacqueline Doyle Schneider Aug 1-31 Wallkill River School

Library has ambitiously scheduled Jerry Meemken, a local beekeeper from the Albany Post Road to visit the lawn of the Library on Clinton Street, August 4 at 10:30am.

To the best of this writer's knowledge, neither Jerry nor Betsy plan to croon those familiar lyrics. Hey, who knows? Jerry Meemken will show the assembled how bees are kept and how they produce the honey.

There will be various types of equipment on display, including an observation cube. It will bee of interest to many who mistakenly believed that honey for one's toast is the single product of the beekeeper.

Note: In addition to the honey, bees produce other commodities such as beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly. Bee there!

Dining Out and In

“Midsummer Night’s Dream” Wolfgang Gallery, thru Aug 4

The Belly Warmers Aug 2 Lindsey Webster Band Aug 8 William Wilson Quintet Aug 9 Donna Singer & Doug Richards Trio Aug 16 Bean Runner Project Aug 22 Multitraverse Project Aug 23 Gabriele Tranchina Quartet Aug 29 Eric Peterson Quartet Aug 30 Arboretum, Thomas Bull Memorial Park 6:30pm Midnight Image Aug 4 Downtown, 6pm-10pm Small Town Sheiks , Brokedown and Busted Aug 11

Cinema Senior Citizen Movie Hamptonburgh Town Hall, Aug 8 & 22, Noon

Jeremy Langdale, Dan Brother Band Aug 18 Deep Chemistry, Lords of the Parish Aug 25 Hill-Hold Museum, Hamptonburgh, 4pm

Music - Classical Cornwall String Ensemble Aug 2, 7:30pm Karine Poghosyan piano Sep 2, 3pm Greater Montgomery Chamner Music Series Senior Center

Museum A Salute to Veterans Aug 18-19 Orange County Farmers’ Museum

Poetry Reading

Music Newburgh Gospel-Doo Wop-Rock Series The Ponytails Aug 7 In The Pocket Aug 14 Gordon Michaels & Trio Aug 21 Sock Hop - 50s & 60s Dance Party Aug 28 Newburgh Jazz Series Joe Heider’s Little Fuse Aug 1

Teresa Marta Costa Aug 2, 7pm Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

Recreation Storytime w/Miss Roseann & “Bee Here on the Lawn”w/Jerry Meemken Montgomery Library, Aug 4, 10:30am

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The Art of Flying

by J. A. Di Bello As fleet-footed torchbearers completed the Olympic Torch Relay on 27 July, few in London or even Orange County were aware of the struggle and dream of Logan Dooley, an exceptionally courageous young man with local roots.

As a child, Logan was ridiculed and tormented as a person with learning disabilities.

And yet, he dreamed of becoming an Olympic gymnast.

He was different.

Logan Dooley, son of Jim and Nancy Dooley, is a member of the United States Olympic Gymnastics Team. His event: the trampoline.

His mom Nancy is the former Nancy Bettcher of Montgomery. As a preschool youngster, his mental and physical growth was monitored by his parents. It was quickly observed that Logan loved to jump and bounce. Only a step or two beyond the walking stage, Logan would climbed to the third or fourth step of stairs and jump to the floor below.

Jim and Nancy thought him to be a child with a "daredevil" nature. That is until he took to the beds as a way to satisfy his need to jump and climb. "He was always a jumper, a leaper, a

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climber," Nancy Dooley said. When Logan's jumping and bouncing resulted in a broken bed, his parents cautiously purchased a trampoline for Logan's seventh birthday. In short order, Logan was soaring 10, 15 and then 20 feet above the mat, completing flips, twists and usually landing on his feet.

Recognizing the dangers of the activity, Logan was whisked off to a school where instruction included simple jumps in the pike, tuck or straddle position. There he developed sophisticated, complex combinations including forward or backward somersaults and twists.

Other areas of Logan's development quickly became of greater concern. He was noticeably behind developmentally when compared to his siblings and school companions. Language processing and some manual skills were in the forefront of Jim and Nancy Dooley's concerns.

Logan was tested, diagnosed as dyslexic and promptly placed in a Resource Specialist

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Program (RSP) at the local school. As most are aware, children are frequently the cruelest when one is discovered to be "different." The RSP assignment generated ridicule and taunts from classmates. It was the class for "Really Stupid People."

Discarding the initial trauma, the RSP environment provided Logan with the skills necessary to combat and defeat the conditions of his disability: dyslexia. He quickly learned that he was not stupid and was capable of leaning with the best of his peers. However, it

also appears that the adversarial situations and determination necessary to overcome mental and social challenges provided him with the strength and fortitude necessary to successfully participate in competitive gymnastics.

After various degrees of success and failure, Logan persisted and has made it. His dream achieved. He is a member of the United States Olympic Gymnastics Team!

And as reported by Scott Reid of "The Orange County Register," "Logan was different. He could fly."

.........................................................................................Montgomery Grassroots Jazz in the Arboretun: Newburgh Jazz Series 2012

by Philip Ehrensaft Grassroots venues, like the Newburgh Jazz Series organized by Aquanetta Wright, are crucial in building a future for "America's classical music," jazz.

Paradoxically, as jazz thrived and centralized in New York City, dozens upon dozens of regional jazz clubs in secondary cities closed their doors.

These regional clubs were the base for nurturing future jazz musicians and fans were nurtured.. Young aspirant musicians felt comfortable walking right up to the stage and asking pros for gladly given advice. As did dyed-in-the-wool jazz fans who wanted to chat with the people who made the music that moved them so profoundly.

Erosion of this regional jazz base has a great deal to do with current audience woes of major jazz venues and record labels. Fortunately local summer festivals like the Newburgh Jazz Series sprouted up across North America. I'm not talking about the biggies in New York, San Francisco or Montreal, but places like Cedar Falls, Iowa; the small industrial city of Rimouski in northern Canada; or Newburgh.

Festivals are relatively new in jazz history.

Aquanetta Wright

Neil Alexander

The first Newport Jazz Festival kicked things off in 1954. Now, a reasonable estimate is that jazz musicians earn, on average, half their incomes from summer festivals. In smaller regional venues, there's also an easy mingling of fans, young musicians and pro performers.

Easy mingling of fans and performers is one thing that I've most liked about the Newburgh Jazz Series since it started in 2007.

Wright's twin objectives are providing opportunities for Mid-Hudson jazz talent, plus free admission to encourage local people to give jazz a listen. Orange, Ulster and Dutchess Counties brim with talented jazz musicians who cobble a living by combining freelancing (thank heaven for weddings and Bar Mitzvah's), teaching, or working outside music altogether.

Considering that Charles Ives became America's first great composer while he toiled successfully in the insurance industry, that latter option is

Donna Singer

Gabriele Tranchina

difficult, but possible.

Musicians in this regional talent pool may not have their names on the marquis of the Village Vanguard, but they are very fine musicians indeed. Fine musicians who make it eminently possible for Wright to offer quality jazz concerts every Wednesday and Thursday evening, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. . during July and August.

When the Jazz Series lost access to the Newburgh's waterfront park, part and parcel of the event's charm, there was anxiety about the Series' future. Thankfully County Executive Edward Diana stepped up to the plate by offererimg the Orange County Arboretum in Montgomery's Thomas Bull Memorial Park.

Come to think of it, there's something entirely appropriate about organizing a grassroots festival in an arboretum.

A sterling example of the Mid-Hudson talent that Wright presents is the August 16 concert by

vocalist Donna Singer. If you've heard Singer fronting the Swing Shift Orchestra, you know that her voice is knock-down gorgeous. Singer graduated from the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, studied music at Juilliard, and has a Ph.D under her belt. Hence her day job running "Dr. Donna's School of Song."

The "Bean Runner Project" on August 22 will be another standout. Top-flight musicians periodically gather in various configurations at Peekskill's Bean Runner Cafe to play straight, no chaser jazz. Five will at the arboretum to play the music of Monk, Coltrane, and Blakey.

All have performed in big-name Big Apple ensembles: Neil Alexander. piano; Premik Russell Tubs sax; Joel Gil trombone; Jim Cammack bass and Alex Raderman drums.

To wrap things up, here are concerts that I won't miss: a very promising young guitarist Joe Heider, who studied with the jazz virtuoso John Abercrombie at SUNY-Purchase; trumpeter Willis Wilson and vocalist Traci Tota, for their intriguing blend of jazz and urban music, on August 9; and the vocalist Gabriel Tranchina, on August 29, to hear her belt out class-act jazz with equal ease in Brazilian Portuguese, French, English, and her native German.

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Meet Loretta Swit - Actor, Activist, Author and Jersey Girl Cross the River to the Jersey Side.

With appropriate apologies to Tom Waites and Bruce, The Boss, a significant number of readers are familiar with the term "Jersey Girl." As romantic love ballads go, interpretations are as shifty and malleable as the sand at Asbury. One aspect, however, remains a constant: people who "cross the river to the Jersey side" will be witness to the incredible versatility and talent of a Jersey Girl, from Passaic, Loretta Swit.

Without exploring Ms. Swat's assignment to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, better known as M*A*S*H, the extraordinary, multifaceted Loretta Swit is best experienced up close and personal, i.e., via live theatre. It is with good fortune that Loretta Swit will appear this summer in three productions at the Forestburgh Playhouse.

Swit has been cast as the lead in Murder Among Friends (August 21-26), and will play the part of Corie's mother, Mrs. Banks in Neil Simon's hilarious, almost credible Barefoot in the Park. (August 28 - September 2), and a single performance on September 2, in Eleanor: Her Secret Journey, a one-woman

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Shirley Valentine Valentine

show depicting the recollections of an individual many consider to be the most courageous woman of the twentieth century: Eleanor Roosevelt.

Most recently, Loretta Swit appeared in two productions at the Forestburgh Playhouse, J. P. Shanley's Doubt, summer of '10 and Willy Russsell's Shirley Valentine, summer of '11. It was through the indisputable abilities of Swit that the full impact of Doubt confronted a captivated, mesmerized audience. Through her dynamic acting range, she was able to bring the assembled face to face with a raging conflict between a Bronx high school principal, Sister Aloysius, and teacher, Father Brendan.

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Moving to last year's performance of Shirley Valentine Ms. Swit's forte as an actress of note was abundantly clear.

Valentine is a one-woman play about an oppressed, chatty, unattractive, middle-aged British housewife who (ready for this?) talks non-stop to the walls of her kitchen.

For anyone who has ever been under the lights, the difficulty of mastering and delivering this this play borders on the unthinkable. However, to hold the stage, i.e., the attention of an audience for more than two hours of masterfully created digressions is a theatrical wonder to behold. It should be pointed out that Swit's portrayal of Shirley earned her the theatrical honor of Chicago's prestigious Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement.

It is perhaps here that one can discover the Forestburgh connection.

Interestingly, Loretta Swit credits her director at that time, Ron Nash (photo right), for bringing a "fresh approach" to this depiction. Recalling the circumstances she commented, "Of course,

part of your challenge doing theatre is keeping it fresh... that's the joy of it. For someone in the audience seeing it for the first time, you are having that experience with them and that's exciting for an actor in the theatre. When you have a good script and a great character like this, you can keep finding nuances and moments so it is easier to keep it fresh and alive."

The Forestburgh Connection mentioned above alludes to Ron Nash, who directed Loretta in her award-winning role. Ron is currently the Artistic Supervisor of the Forestburgh Playhouse and his directorial credits stretch from coast to coast and beyond, including supervision of numerous Broadway musicals, including the thirteen year run of Oh! Calcutta!.

If the opening metaphor failed to connect, consider literally crossing a bridge or two or maybe even the state line and heading for the Forestburgh Playhouse. Falling in love is worthy of an adventurous crossing. There's an accomplished Jersey Girl on stage there.

Tickets can be obtained online at http://www.fbplayhouse.org/ or from the box office: 845-794-1194.

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Warwick’s Impressive Hudson Valley Jazz Festival: Third Edition

by Philip Ehrensaft "New York City's sixth jazz borough" is an apt expression for the Hudson Valley's place in the jazz world. A sizable chunk of Big Apple jazz talent has emigrated to the Valley.

We're a natural destination for the world jazz capital's talent: a landscape that inspired the first school of American painting; lower housing costs than NYC; and close enough for commuting into the city for gigs, contract negotiations and international airports.

A Hudson Valley map of regular winners of Downbeat's Jazz Critics' Awards ranges from Joe Lovano just south of Newburgh, to Don Byron in Woodstock and Dave Holland in Saugerties, and on to Sonny Rollins in Columbia County. That's the tip of an iceberg formed by musicians who, once they've established a rep and networks in NYC, can consider moving out to the Valley.

This jazz migration helps someone like the drummer Steve Rubin launch a Hudson Valley Jazz Festival in his hometown, Warwick. The third edition of this impressive young festival opens on August 15 and concludes with a double concert and awards ceremony on the evening of the August 19 at the newly re-named Sugar Loaf's Performing Arts Center.

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Arturo O’Farrell

Will Calhoun

Hudson Valley jazz festival already has one chunk of the budget covered: travel costs per musician amount to a half tank or so of gasoline. Tapping musicians living in the Valley, plus nearby NYC networks, could populate the stages of ten festivals in short order --- conditional to the Big If of landing sponsorships, grants, and ticket sales to pay their fees. Rubin has gone a good distance towards surmounting this Big If. The festival's musical highpoint, to my ears, will be pianist Arturo O'Farrill's two sets at the Coquito Restaurant on Saturday night. O'Farrill is both a ranking straightahead pianist, as witnessed by his 2011 solo album, The Noguchi Sessions, and a leading light in Latin Jazz - check out O'Farrill's 40 Acres and A Burro.

Coquito's modest $15 cover charge per set is a fraction of what one pays to hear O'Farrill at major clubs or concert halls. Coquito is

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New York String Trio

Bobby Sanabria

certainly where I'll be on the evening of August 18. Another Coquito moment that's not to be missed is the Will Calhoun Trio on Friday night. While Calhoun is best known as a monster rock drummer, he is "also" a high calibre post-bop jazz musician --- "post-bop" meaning stretching jazz in new directions, and not worrying about labels.

Another don't-miss is the String Trio of New York, a swinging experimental "chamber jazz" ensemble founded in 1977 by bassist John Lindberg, guitarist James Emery, and the late Billy Bang, now succeeded by violinist Rob Thomas. They perform at 1:00pn on Saturday. Also on Saturday, at 4:00pm, jazz vocalist Gabriele Tranchina croons with equal comfort in Portuguese, French, English, and her native German, backed by an ensemble including the top Latin Jazz drummer Bobby Sanabria.

Rick Savage

Don Braden

Sunday evening's double finale in Sugar Loaf kicks off at 6:30pm with a trio deserving that over-used adjective "outstanding."

Trumpeter Rick Savage is best known as a recording engineer and producer. But is very high calibre musicianship is indicated by the company he keeps: drummer Eliot Zigmund, who made his name playing with the iconic Bill Evans and Michel Petrucciani; and creme-de-la-creme tenor saxophonist Don Braden. After the awards (see page 37), pianist Andy Ezrin is joined by a jazz drummer's drummer, Andy Nussbaum. The list of the musicians who have worked with Nussbaum is a who's who of modern jazz.

Quite a conclusion to a most impressive third edition of Warwick's Hudson Valley Jazz Festival.

For a complete program, visist warwickjazz@yahoo.com

Destination.....................................................................................................Goshen Cornerstone Cooking Up Cupcakes

Recipe for The Cupcakes: Start with 3 uber talented women; add 5-6 instruments, (3 at a time); then cream together with a bouquet of awards for songwriting and independent music. Stir in 6 CDs, sprinkle with jingles, tours with famous people, production credits, and videos. Ice the whole thing with humor and harmony. No need to bake: The Cupcakes definitely do the cooking!

Janice Kollar’s first memory with music goes way back to singing harmony with her grandfather at the age of 4.

Lyn Hardy has toured and recorded with Jay Ungar. In addition to being a Cupcake,

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she plays with her daughter Ruth Merenda, cellist Abby Newton and her daughter Rosie Newton in the Mother Daughter String Band.

Elly Wininger got her start in the NYC Folk Revival scene playing blues and ragtime guitar in the basket houses of Greenwich Village. When Elly is not being a Cupcake, she hosts a live Webcast variety show: Catskill Cabaradio and plays with The Cupcakes the Dave Kearney Trio.

The Cupcakes are on the Cornerstone Goshen Music Hall buiilding, 223 Main Arts Alliance menu for an August 11 Street, opposite the Harness Racing 7:00pm performance.

Musuem.

Cornestone events takek place in the For reservations: 845-294-4188..

Art Exhibits Hal Gaylor thru Aug 27 Resident Art Show Aug 27-Sep 24 Elant at Goshen

Music The Cupcakes Cornerstone Arts Alliance Goshen Music Hall, Aug 11, 7pm

Poetry Reading Teresa Marta Costa Aug 2, 7pm Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, Aug 27, 7pm

Destination..........................................................................Port Jervis Kawana Art at UpFront In 1987, Newark NJ resident Kea Tawana got fed up with the neglect of her city in the two decades since riots had devastated it and other American urban centers. So she began to gather up scrap lumber from abandoned buildings around town, and she built a huge grounded boat, three stories high and almost 90 feet long, in a parking lot at Humanity Baptist Church. It was a “new ark” for

Newark.

City officials said it violated building codes. Eventually, the state Superior Court said the ark must be razed. Tawana cut it apart for firewood, turning the ostensible hazard into a definite source of warmth.

Tawana’s stained glass artwork left from the ark will be at UpFront Gallery, opening August 18.

August 4 PJ Arts Council House Tour

The Port Jervis Council for the Arts (PJCA) is having a tour of historic homes and gardens on August 4, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.

Include on the list is the 1890 Hylas Residence, 1823 Healy Residence, 1890 Blanton-Radtke Residence and 1912 Zube Residence, all three a/k/a for the tour as Three Painted Ladies and a Southern Belle.

“This will be great fun, a good way to support the Arts in Port Jervis, and a way to showcase some of the beautiful architecture in Port Jervis,” said Jim Blanton There will be refreshments and live musica at each site, and tickets are tax deductible.

For the house locations, five locations to buy tickets, and more information, phone the PJCA at 845-856-6741.

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The SUNY Orange - SUNY New Paltz Connection

Tank Tour, Denise S. Isseks

December Apples, Sandy Marsh

Four artists will display their works in Orange Hall Gallery Loft through August 23. The show is entitled The SUNY Orange ~ SUNY New P a l t z Connection as they have all graduated from SUNY Orange and SUNY New Paltz.

The exhibit was conceived and organized by (photo left)

Kirstina, Jim Schofield

“River Walk” by Jim Adair

“Falls” by Susan Miiller

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Clouds Over the Ocean - Mitchell Saler

Denise S. Isseks, a photographer who also free and open to the public and is done with utilizes an array of media including gel the River Valley Artists Guild whose transfers, collage, charcoal, acrylics, summer show opens simultaneously.

Orange Hall watercolor, installations, and portraits. The is located at other three artists in the show are Jim the corner of Schofield, Mitchell Saler, & Sandy Marsh.

Wa w a y a n d a Jim Schofield is primarily a portrait artist, a n d who enjoys working in graphite, pastel, and Grandview colored pencil. Mitchell Saler’s drawings and Avenues and is oil paintings emphasize vastness, dramatic handicapped lighting, and atmospheric effects. Sandy accessible.

Marsh works in oils, encaustic, printmaking, For more etching, and mixed-media collage. information, A reception at which the artists will be at call Cultural 1:00pm - 4:00pm on August 5. The event is Affairs at 845341-4891 or

River Valley Artists Guild 2012 Summer Show

The River Valley Artists Guild 2012 Summer Show will be on display in Orange Hall Gallery, July 31 through August 23.

More than fifty artists will be represented through their artworks in this annual members exhibit.

Works in representational as well as abstract styles will be included in the following media: drawings, graphics, mixed media, plus paintings in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and airbrush. The president of the organization, Joan Kehlenbeck, a pastelist who resides in Cuddebackville, is also chairwoman of the show.

Although, most of its members come from

The Ridge, Mitchell Saler

LA Sunset by Jim Adair

communities bordering the Delaware River, some come from Middletown, Poughkeepsie, and Monroe as well as Branchville, NJ and Milford.

Orange Hall is located on the SUNY Orange campus at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown.

Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu 845-341-4891.

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Hillside Cemetery Mausoleum and Pond

via email: cultural@sunyorange.edu.

The reception is on August 5 Classical guitarist, Joy Zelada of Newburgh (photo left), will play from 1:00pm to 2:30pm.

A highlight of the reception will be an art demonstration given by Jim Adair of New Paltz. Mr Adair is the vice president of the North East Watercolor Society and a winner of many art & design awards. His art is included in the River Valley Artists Guild exhibit.. His Red Pump Studio is a recognized National Landmark.

The title of the demonstration, Aiming for the Dramatic, refers to his approach in the process of painting done in order to achieve a dramatic and a more interesting result. His presentation begins at 2:45pm.

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by Tod Westlake If you're looking for a restaurant that's high on the "cheese" factor, yet easy on the wallet, you should check out Middletown's Mix N Mac, an eatery dedicated to that decadent American favorite: macaroni and cheese. With over 20 varieties from which to choose, all of which are handmade from the freshest ingredients, Mix N Mac has a little something for everyone - and with entrees priced from just $6-$14. The restaurant was founded just last year by wife and husband team Michele and Jason Whipland (see photo).

"My husband and I founded Mix N Mac based upon the whole idea of great American comfort food," Michele says. "Our idea was to bring a great homemade mac and cheese within a shorter time frame."

Whipland feels that many people don't really have the time to go through 45 minutes of preparation in order to bake their own at home, and buying a number of different cheeses (if you really want to do it right) isn't exactly cheap.

And, given that most restaurant mac and cheese isn't the most memorable thing one will ever eat,

the Whiplands saw an opportunity to bring their high quality offerings to an eager public.

Whipland notes that all of Mix N Mac's food is made from scratch (except for the pasta), and that it is cooked to order in just a few minutes.

"We cook everything from scratch here, and then we bake it in about six minutes," Whipland says. "It's very unique."

Mix N Mac offers a lot more than the simple mac and cheese. Currently, the restaurant offers approximately 20 different varieties, including cheeseburger, buffalo chicken (spicy chicken with gorgonzola), veggie (with roasted broccoli, cauliflower and carrots), shrimp scampi, and a lobster variety that contains a quarter pound of lobster meat. There is even a breakfast mac and cheese, which contains ham, bacon, caramelized onion, egg and hash browns.

But the true mac and cheese enthusiast will likely want to try the "Mix it Your Way" option, which gives diners a chance to build their own cheesy delight out of more than 20 different ingredients. "Of course, our most popular are probably the bacon cheeseburger, the buffalo chicken, and the cheese steak," Whipland said.

"Those are the ones people seem to go for the

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Orange Hall Gallery "We've done Thai curried chicken, we've had pineapple express mac and cheese, and a lot of Music other creative varieties," Whipland says.

Route 66 Aug 3 And for those who aren't pasta lovers, Mix N Shallows Oldies Band Aug 10 Mac also specializes in amazing grilled cheese Groovy Tuesday Aug 17 sandwiches that are made on thick Texas-style In The Pocket Aug 24 toast, and can be done in any of the varieties that Hotrod Aug 31 are on the main mac and cheese menu. Of Festival Square, 7pm course, you can also build your own. And don't Local Bands worry if you're on a gluten-free diet. Mix N Mac Sounds Asylum can make your dish with gluten-free pasta upon 381-5536. Mix N Mac also has a website, request.

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BCD’s “Blame it on the Summer Night”

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Exhibit “Celebrating the Basha Kill Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 4-Sep 9 Reception & Auction, Aug 4, Noon-4pm

Jonathan Russell

Janice Hall

Celia Burke & Rich Flanders

Producer John Hiller's Broadway Concerts Direct’s next performance, Blame it on the Summer Night: Songs of Love & Everything Else, will feature of host of NYC singers and musicians: Celia Berk, Emily Buttner, Rich Flanders, Rob Gardner, Joanna Morton Gary, Janice Hall, Janice Meyerson, Mark Planner, Sarah Rice, and

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Eve Weiss

pianist Matthew Martin Ward, jazz violinist Jonathan Russell, classical guitarist Eve Weiss, Jim Russell on recorder and Joseph Brennan, percussion.

The concert will be held at the Community Church of Wurtsboro, 134 Sullivan Street, on August 18 at 8:00pm..

For reservations, call 845-888-5567.

Artists Benefit Basha Kill The Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area covers nearly 3,000 acres of wetlands and uplands located near Wurtsboro. As the largest freshwater wetland in southeastern New York, the area provides important habitat for many varieties of fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects and over 200 kinds of birds, including great blue herons, ospreys and bald eagles. It's natural ecosystem benefits humans as well, by helping to cleanse drinking water and control flood waters.

And, of course, it’s also beautiful. The area’s natural beauty offers a scenic backdrop for outdoor recreation, including hiking, canoeing, bird watching and fishing, and provides inspiration for artists and non-artists alike.

The Basha Kill Area Association (BKAA), a local volunteer organization, has as it mission to “protect the Basha Kill wetlands and surrounding area from ecological degradation, to promote education and respect for the environment in general and to preserve the beauty of the area.” The land is now managed by the NYS Department of

Music Air Supply, Jay Black Aug 16, 8pm KC and The Sunshine Band & Taylor Dane & Martha Wash Aug 30, 8pm Wurtsboro Music Festival Wurtsboro Airport

Music - B’way-Opera-Pop Broadway Concerts Direct Wurtsboro Community Church, Aug 18, 8pm

Poetry Reading Poetry in the Gallery Aug 5, Sep 2, 8pm Wurtsboro Art Alliance

Environmental Conservation.

According to Wurtsboro Art Alliance president, David Munford, "when we learned that this year is the 40th anniversary of the BKAA, we wanted to show our support and appreciation for all the work they have done over the years to help preserve and protect this vital natural resource. Presenting an art exhibit of the Basha Kill will help raise awareness and appreciation of this important local resource while providing enjoyment of beautiful and imaginative works of art."

Nature Watch, acrylic on canvas by As a unique local asset, the Basha Kill is Linda Lou Bartle being celebrated by members of the Alliance, many of whom have been drawn to the area's Fred Harding, a natural scenic beauty, pay tribute to this local favorite, as incredible resource in an upcoming show. special guest Celebrating the Basha Kill will be on auctioneer. A share of display at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery, the proceeds from 73 Sullivan Street, from August 4 thru auctioned artwork September 9, open Saturdays and Sundays will help benefit the from Noon. to 4:00pm. or by appointment.

Basha Kill Area There will be an opening reception and Association. benefit art auction, free and open to the For more public, on August 4, from Noon-4:00pm. information, please with an art auction at 1:00pm and will feature visit www.waagallery.org.

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Recreation Big Breakfast Benefit American Legion, Aug 25, 8am-11am

Rainy Day Basha Kill, oil on panel

by David Munford

Art by Sandy Spitzer

...............................................................................................Wurtsboro We Wholeheartedly Welcome Wurtsboro Music Festival 2012!

by Derek Leet The Wurtsboro Airport website reads: “Wurtsboro Airport offers gliders, power, scenic and antique biplane rides that are safe, fun and exciting.”

If you search further, you can see the offerings of expected “learn to fly” instructions given, gift certificate purchase, hangar services and quite a bit more.

The best thing about the site is that you get a sense of community: “Our Mission statement: To provide all customers with a safe, positive experience that will make them openly satisfied, eager to return and pleased with our service.”

(From 2011): Pine Bush High School and Wurtsboro Airport are teaming up to offer a unique learning experience for young people.

Approximately 35 students from Pine Bush are enrolled in an intensive program that includes flight time in a glider, presentations on a variety of aviation-related topics, and pilot instruction.”

Lectures in 2011 included a presentation by Linda and Edward Dubin about the historic flight of the Vin Fiz from Middletown, and other local historic events. And there are web

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KC & The Sunshine Band

links to many local area enterprises including the arts.

As if that was not enough, developer Shalom Lamm has (had?) a vision/idea to see the Airport become a major tourist destination. He persevered and VOILA!: The Wurtsboro Music Festival, the brainchild of Lamm, was born. ‘The Wurtsboro Airport has always had the potential to be a centerpiece of the best of Sullivan County,” Lamm said..

“It is world famous as a historic Airport, and now we hope it also becomes synonymous with grand entertainment.”

The venue will have a dance area, “Concert goers will be able to dance on the lawn and have some good old fashioned fun," said Bill Liblich, Wurtsboro Music Festival

spokesman.

“We purposely are starting with Thursday events so tourists can begin their long weekends here and spend three more days in the area. The concept has received great support from the County, the Town of Mamakating, and even NY State officials are all very excited about it. They believe the Festival will give impetus to the desired turn around for Sullivan to help increase the tax base.”

The Festival’s well-thought-out plan includes three price categories, with a “lawn” area not far behind the stage for those bringing their own chairs or blankets, food from Bernie’s Holiday Restaurant of Rock Hill, soft drinks and and beer, relationships

with local lodging establishments, special “designer blankets” for sale, two name acts for the price of one at each event, and there is close proximity to Route 17 and the breathtaking view of the Shawangunk Ridge!

Entertainment is provided by Charles Rapp Enterprises, the company responsible for bringing name acts to the County’s once burgeoning hotels. Most everyone knows the hit songs of the 2012 musicians (see page 40) for the titles), and now you have the opportunity hear them performed live by the people who made them famous.

Tickets are on sale at ticketweb.com, phone sales at 866-468-7619, and at the Wurtsboro Airport Box Office.

A limited number of VIP "Meet and Greet" seats will provide fans the opportunity to personally meet the stars. Lawn Chairs will be provided with VIP "Meet and Greet" and Premium seating.

Designer Wurtsboro Music Festival lawn blankets will be sold prior to the concert General admission concert goers are invited to bring their own blankets and lawn chairs.

Tickets can be purchased at TicketWeb.com, the Wurtsboro Airport Box Office, and at WurtsboroMusic.com.

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Warm Nights, Hot Bands, Cool Concerts

Thousands have enjoyed the variety of musical offerings over the past seven years of “On the Lawn” concerts. Concerts are on thursdays from 6:30pm - 8:30 pm, on the lawn at Sugar Loaf Crossing and free to the public.

The final concert of the season on August 16 features the Blackberry Blues Band, considered one of the seminal bands and influences of what has become known as the sound of Asbury Park.

Pamela Moore (Vocals, Percussion) who hails from the home of Rock and Roll, Cleveland, Ohio. She earned a platinum album for her work on Bob Seger’s Nine Tonight album. She is a Voice Over talent as well as a seasoned studio artist.

George Meyer (Keyboards, Vocals) has played with many artists including Meatloaf, Ellen Foley, Ian Hunter, and Little Sammy Davis. He has also written songs for Karla Devito (I'm Just Using You) and Meatloaf (If You Really Want To) for which he received a Gold Record.

David Meyers (Bass, Vocals) is a well known Jersey blues musician and is a continual influence on the local music and Jersey shore music scene.

Jim Verdi (Drums, Percussion) is a veteran

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drummer from Orange County and a seasoned studio drummer, engineer, producer, and successful songwriter, the "Imus in the Morning Show" for years.

Mario Casella (Guitar, Bass, Vocals).

Mario is an accomplished songwriter, singer, and studio musician. and has played with many local bands and recording artists over his many years in the business.

Blackberry Blues Band is Concert goers are welcome to bring lawn chairs, blankets, picnic baskets, family and friends.

Refreshments will also be available on site.

For more information about the concert series call 845-469-2713, or visit facebook.com/onthelawnatsugarloafcrossing.

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Youths Make News Come Alive!

The Living Newspaper was a WPA Federal Theatre Project during the depression when funding was put into art to create jobs. WPA alums were Orson Welles and John Houseman. There were several Living Newspapers around the county. One still exists in Portland, Oregon and has been continuous since the 30s.

Program participants took current events and news and put them into theatrical formats: one-act and full length plays, skits, monologues, etc. Clifford Odets’ The Cradle Will Rock is the most famous result of the program, dealing with steel strikes and the unions. Now Sugar Loaf is getting its own Living Newspaper.

Every summer for the last five years Paul Ellis has done workshops for youth, ending with a performance for the public. “We have done performances of Canterbury Tales, The Babbitt and Alice in Wonderland, he explains.

“But I wanted to introduce items of real substance and impact the kids. Today's news is that kind of stuff.

There are 12 kids in Ellis’ workshop, the youngest is 12, the oldest is 19.. The average age is 14-15. “They love the newspaper idea.

They email me news items they want to perform, and we survey them, too. Gay rights

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and marriage, both sides of the issue, is #1. I was shocked. It was not #1 on each list, but was on most lists, though not necessarily everyone’s first choice. Food issues is second, and the upcoming presidential election runs third” “Their overriding theme is that you cannot trust what you are hearing and it is harder to filter what is real news, important news, “disinformation”, For their performances in the Pavilion at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on August 17 and 18, at 8:00pm, “it now appears they will be short scenes.connected through dance and song”.

Linda Mensch is the choreographer and Jessica Rupert is the video editor.

For information: 845-469-7563

................................................................................................Sugar Loaf HV Jazz Fest Honors Musician & Artist Hal Gaylor

The Hudson Valley Jazz Festival is coming to Sugar Loaf. (see page 30) The final offering of the 2012 Festival will take place in the newly named Sugar Loaf Center for the Performing Arts (formerly known as Hal Gaylor, Lycian Centre) on Renaissance Man August 19 at 6:30pm when The Rick Savage Group with Don Branden and Eliot Zigmund perform, followed by The Andy Ezrin Group with Adam Nussbaum (with special catering by Healthy Thymes Market of Vernon NJ).

In between the two jazz gigs, presenter Steve Rubin will honor the recipient of the first Annual Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, bassist Hal Gaylor.

Long considered one of the finest bass players in jazz, Hal Gaylor is also a painter, architect,and licensed hypnotherapist.

Born in Montreal in Gaylor began to play clarinet at the age of nine. He gained his first practical playing experience with his high school band. The school was Montreal High, and fellow students included Oscar Peterson and Maynard Ferguson.

In 1948, his father suffered a heart attack and asked Hal to sub for him on bass. Hal had limited knowledge of the instrument, but he got through the job without complaint from the other musicians. But his interest in the bass had become whetted.

During that period, Montreal was a thriving Mecca of music and entertainment and when such performers as Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, and Edith Piaf came to town, Hal was the bassist of choice for their engagements. In 1953, he joined pianist Maury Kaye for the opening of the NYC’s legendary

chester / sugar Loaf Calendar sponsored by Orange County Citizens Foundation

Exhibits Chaim Gross sculpture Seligmann Center for the Arts, thru Aug

Music The Dan Brother Band Aug 2 Love Assassin, Ava Rae Heatley Aug 9 Blackberry Blues Band Aug 16 Sugar Loaf Station

Poetry Readings Council of Poetic Experimentation Aug 4 R. Dionysius Whiteur Sep 1 Poetry on the Loose Seligmann Gallery Art Tatum - Marian McPartland Sarah Vaughan - Nina Simone

El Morocco supper club.

Other Gaylor’s associates include Charlie Parker the Chico Hamilton Quintet, the Billy May band, Stan Getz, Kai Winding, Lena Horne, Mel Torme, Anita O'Day, Dick Haymes, the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands, Woody Herman and, in 1971, the Benny Goodman Septet.

In1972, Gaylor contracted a virus that destroyed the hearing in his right ear. Unable to hear the full spectrum of sound, he decided that music was no longer a practical career. Always a practicing architect, He designed and built his home atop a mountain in Greenwood Lake where his father-in-law owned a small resort hotel . After it burned down, Hal designed and built a new one that included a small theater in which he presented Broadway shows.

For the past several years Hal has begun to utilize his artistic talents in drafting and architecture to develop his drawing and painting abilities. His love of jazz and the musicians he has played with inspired him to create the “jazz portraits”.

For tickets and information: visit www.hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org.

Carmen MacRae - Roger Kellaway Eric Dolphy - Charles Mingus

T-shirts of Gaylor’s Jazz Portraits are available on his website, jazzportraits.com.

Shown here: the great Ray Charles.:

Theatre - Play “The Living Newspaper” King’s Youth Theatre Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center Aug 17 & 18, 8pm Hal Gaylor’s “Jazz Portraits” are on display (along with other artists) at WVFA Gallery in Warwick, August 15 to September 28, with a reception on August 15, 6:00pm-9:00pm, and at Elant in Goshen thru August 27.

artist opportunity

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Destination.................................................................................monroe Own a Piece of History

Museum Village is raffling off one of John F. Gould's original paintings on November 8, at Falkirk Estate and Country Club in Central Valley. 50% of the proceeds will go to the Museum for its Educational Programs.

There will be three prizes awarded: 1. 30x40 McQuoid Engine #3 framed original painting under glass. Valued at $20,000.

2. 24x30 McQuoid framed and matted giclee print non-glare glass and acid free backing.

3. 18x24 McQuoid framed and matted giclee print non-glare glass and acid free backing.

John F. Gould (1906-1996) was born in Worcester, MA and had a long career in art. He studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and later

Michael Sosler, Director of Museum Village & Robert Gould of the Bethlehem Art Gallery.

instructed there for 22 years. He was a prominent illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post and an illustrator for many national corporations.

Purchase tickets by calling 845-782-8247, or at the Museum on Route 17M.

Destination...................................................................................liberty Grossingers at Liberty Museum

Jackie Horner & Lou Goldstein

Liberty calendar sponsored by Katelyn’s Kreations

Cinema Summer Movie Nights LaPolt Park, Aug 10 & 24, 8pm

Lectures Snakes w/Jerry the Snake Man Liberty Library, Aug 9, 6:30pm

Music - Jazz Liberty Jazz Festival Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 26-31

The Dirty Dancing character Penny was loosely based on real-life entertainer, Jackie Horner. Her tales of teaching at Grossinger's were the inspiration behind the film Dirty Dancing.

Horner began taking dance lessons at the age of four and started as a touring professional at fourteen. She was a Rockette and a member of the legendary June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason TV show..

Grossinger's, as everyone knows, closed its doors in 1986 after decades of activity and notable guests TRIVIA: In 1952, Grossinger's earned a place in the history of skiing as the first resort in the world to use artificial snow.

Horner met her husband of fifty years, Lou Goldstein, at Grossinger's. He was the entertainment and sports director there and became known as "Mr. Simon Sez." Horner’s photos of Grossinger’s are on display at the Liberty Museum and Art Center, 46 South Main Street, thru September 8.

Phone: 845-292-2394.

Opera “Suor Angelica” Aug 3 & 4 “The Barber of Seville” Aug 31 & Sep 1 OperaOggi Location TBA

Photography Exhibit Jackie Horner “Grossingers” Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Sep 29

Poetry Reading The Alchemy Club Liberty Library Aug 16, 6:30pm

Symposium “I Remember Woodstock” Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 26, 2pm

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LFT Announces August Programs

Paul Austin

Ken Hada

Vaclav Havel

Mermer Blakeslee

Barry Wallenstein

Steve Carlin

Paul Austin, head honcho of the Liberty Free Theatre (LFT) has an interesting lineup of events for August to help support the LFT for its free performances.

In August, poet Ken Hada will help with A Celebration of Rivers, Mermer Blakeslee will debut her new work and there will be a full production of Vaclav Havel's Protest.

Havel has been a key figure in Czech public life.. As one of Czechoslovakia's leading dissident intellectuals, he became the

president of the country's first postCommunist government.

Protest is a one-act play which raises questions about the role and freedom of artists in a political context.

Then, Barry Wallenstein and Steve Carlin lead the audience into Labor Day with An Evening of Poetry and Jazz.

Exact dates and time are TBD. Phone 845292-3788. The theatre is located at 109 South Main Street

Destination..............................................................................pine bush Free Friday Concerts at the Bandstand

Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance.has been Song of the Valley (SOTV) was originally chartered in 1973 as the Kaatskill Chapter.

The name was changed to better reflect its geographic location, as well as its mission to contribute to the cultural life of the Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties community If you are a woman who loves to sing, you will love barbershop! You will also enjoy the friendship and camaraderie of this wonderful group of women.

Rehearsals for SOTV are held at the Mulberry House Senior Center, 62-70 West Main Street in Middletown.

Call June 845-928-9636 or Pat 845-928-6879.

The Bandstand Schedule

Hudson Opera Theatre is currently in residence at the United Presbyterian Church of Middletown. Artistic Director Ron De Fesi has sung over sixty roles in eight languages and won critical acclaim for his comic and dramatic portrayals.

De Fesi’s company has toured the Hudson Valley, The Bob Martinson Band performs Northern New Jersey and Covers, Country, and Contemporary music.

Western Connecticut with Bob Martinson has been actively pursuing inventive productions since 1977. his music career for over 30 years. Bob plays guitar and sings lead vocals in the bands.

Martinson is a true believer in the now-dying breed, the good old- fashioned bar band.

His repertoire runs the gamut from Bob Seager to the Eagles, and spans four decades.

He can easily rock with songs from Eric Clapton or the Rolling Stones, or slow it down with a song from Lionel Richie or Elvis Presley.

Although he plays mostly cover tunes in his show, Bob also prides himself in his ability to focus on original tunes. He uses well seasoned Professional Musicians who have years of experience and, of course,. State of the Art Equipment.

Phone: 845-463-2559.

Bob Martinson Band Aug 3, 7pm Gravichord Aug 10, 7pm Ron De Fesi’s Hudson Opera Theatre Aug 17, 7pm Song of the Valley Aug 24, 7pm “Lovely Songs for a Sumemr Night” Aug 31, 7pm

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