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ALMANAC WEEKLY

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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar Ca l e n da r & Classifieds | Issue 1 | Jan. 5 – 12

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Southlands’ horse trails are open for winter rambles

Take a detour to Tinseltown with La La Land

Write your way to a lucky new year & Snoopy on stage

Eva Hesse’s short but brilliant career

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January 5, 2017

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Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land

Detour to Tinseltown La La Land is a lovely, lightweight retro -Hollywood diversion

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escape. This retro tribute to the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical – a pile of fluff leavened with a dab of Millennial cynicism on the subject of romance versus careerism – was utterly perfect for that application.

I might have liked it more, however, had I not just rewatched a clip of a celebrated song-and-dance routine from Singin’ in the Rain (“Good Morning�) that was all over social media in the wake of the demise of Debbie Reynolds. While La La Land opens with a blockbuster musical number (“Another Day of Sun�) in which dozens of incredibly athletic dancers spill out of cars stuck in a traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway overpass and proceed to wow us with their choreographed parkour moves, it soon hones its focus onto the two leads, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.

Both act with soulful conviction, and they have great chemistry together; but as hoofers, neither one would have survived being wedged between two old pros like Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly.

Their singing is adequate, and emotionally on point, but doesn’t rise to great heights either – with the exception of one number, “Audition,� in which Stone isn’t quite pitch-perfect but manages to

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belt admirably well. Though it’s a waltz, it has the defiant, anthemic quality of songs like “Cabaret� or “What I Did for Love,� and may leave you with half a tear in your eye. And that leads us to the heart of La La Land’s winning formula: good songs.

Really good songs, courtesy of Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

Lyrically, they’re not complex enough to bear much dissection, but Hurwitz knows how to spin a mighty earworm. “City of Stars,� in particular, seems poised to nearly become as ubiquitous over the next few months as “Let It Go� was in the year following the release of Frozen. And more than anything else, of course, it’s great songs that make a great musical.

Surprisingly, director Damien Chazelle’s original concept for La La Land – a student film from his Harvard days, titled Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench and developed with then-classmate Hurwitz – was set in Boston. It wasn’t until they adapted it into one of those paeans-toitself that Hollywood loves so much that they were able to find backers. (The critical and commercial success of Chazelle’s 2014 project, Whiplash, didn’t hurt either.)

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coffeeshop on the Warner Brothers lot and keeps getting humiliated at casting calls; Gosling a mean pianist who dreams of opening a nightclub catering to the tastes of jazz purists like himself. They meet cute (giving each other the bird in the opening traffic jam), keep running into and grating on each other, until, predictably, the swoony lights of Tinseltown at dusk prompt them to dance, sing and fall in love. Conflicting ambitions soon create romantic complications. Yeah, we’ve been here before, many times – but not lately; not in the old-school Hollywood musical mode. La La Land is the sort of product that people have in mind who ask, wistfully, “Why don’t they make movies like that anymore?�

Like the glittery musicals that were so beloved by stressed-out Americans during the Great Depression, La La Land makes for a pleasurable, at moments even rapturous couple of hours of cinematic diversion from life's harsh realities. It will undoubtedly win a passel of Oscars – likely even Best Picture, even though it’s far from the past year’s most impressive piece of filmcraft. See it, enjoy it, and then get back to reality, because there’s a lot of work left to be done. It’s okay to keep humming “City of Stars� while you’re doing it. – Frances Marion Platt

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Noisy & nosy neighbors The Jazz Loft according to W. Eugene Smith at Rosendale Theatre

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y any measure, W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) was one of the giants of the art of photojournalism. He is credited with being the originator of the “photo essay” concept, beginning in 1948 with a series about a country doctor in Colorado and culminating with the heartrending Minamata (1975), a book documenting the horrific effects of mercury poisoning on the residents of a fishing town in Japan. He spent many years working for Life magazine, producing iconic images of US Marines and Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Pacific Islands during World War II, impoverished Welsh

W. Eugene Smith, Thelonious Monk and his Band, 1959. © 1999, 2015 The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith

mother, Carmen Smith Wood, Smith’s first wife and a 1979 DCC graduate. The works are displayed in the Martha Reifler Myers Gallery on the DCC campus in Poughkeepsie. The Crum Elbow Cemetery in Hyde Park is the final resting place of W. Eugene Smith’s cremains.

Now, another of Smith’s legacies has been brought to light, thanks to the efforts of WNYC radio culture guru Sara Fishko: a documentary film revealing the exhaustive records, both visual and audio, that the photographer compiled while living next door to a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan’s Flower District from 1957 and 1965. That loft was a Mecca for the jazz artists of the era, who would meet there to jam and rehearse. Smith installed microphones throughout the building, even in the stairwells, capturing off-the-cuff conversations between legendary artists along with their musical collaborations.

In those seven years, he collected an astonishing 4,000 hours of reel-to-reel audiotape and nearly 40,000 photographs.

Besides having full access to the collection, Fishko recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving habitués of the gathering place. The resulting film, The Jazz Loft according to W. Eugene Smith, includes portraits of composer/ arranger Hall Overton – a resident of the loft – and the protean saxophonist Zoot Sims. The rise and fall of Ronnie Free, a jazz drummer from the South whose career succumbed to heavy drug use, is largely related by Free himself.

Thelonious Monk rehearses for his celebrated 1959 big-band concert at Town Hall. The ’50s give way to the ’60s; Smith begins to record his own phone calls and visits from the local police; the world changes – and Smith gets evicted. “The bohemian paradise of this environment had a dark side, and the movie doesn’t give it short shrift.

Nevertheless, a genuine exhilaration holds throughout,” wrote New York Times W. Eugene Smith, Self-portrait at loft window. © 2009, 2015 The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith

miners during the 1950 election in the UK, Spanish villagers under the Franco regime and a series depicting Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s clinic in Gabon. The muchreplicated image that closes the famous 1955 international photo exhibition and book The Family of Man is “The Walk to Paradise Garden,” Smith’s shot of two

small children emerging hand-in-hand from a dark wood, silhouetted against brilliant sunlight.

The photographer also had Hudson Valley connections. After his death, his son, K. Patrick Smith, donated 25 of his father’s photographs to Dutchess Community College in honor of his

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The Jazz Loft according to W. Eugene Smith will be the 24th film to be presented in the Rosendale Theatre’s ongoing curated Music Fan Film Series, with screenings at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 10 and 11. Tickets cost $7 general admission, $5 for Rosendale Theatre Collective members. Located at 408 Main Street (Route 213) in Rosendale, the Rosendale Theatre is handicappedaccessible and offers ample parking in the rear. For more info, call (845) 658-8989 or visit www.rosendaletheatre.org.

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January 5, 2017

ARE YOU WILLING, the image and the music ask, to accept “just Mike” as a hippie conduit of energies and truths from the other side? Are you willing to receive the archetypal and atavistic magic in all your friends?

wise, but ultimately optimistic: “Found” follows “Lost.” Via art or philosophy, it is the head-on grappling with loss and ephemerality – the basic terms of life here in the carbon world – that transforms “Just Us” into “Myth Us.” Mike Hollis celebrates the release of Lost and Found at the Falcon Underground in Marlboro on Thursday, January 5 at 7 p.m. Dante Defelice opens. Per usual at the Falcon, there is no cover, but generous donation is encouraged. The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon.com.

– John Burdick

Euphonic quest Mike Hollis to debut Lost and Found at Marlboro’s Falcon Underground

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efore I begin to describe Lost and Found – the glowing new EP by New Paltz’s versatile guitarist and songwriter Mike Hollis – let’s talk about branding for a moment. Sometimes I think it is half the battle in this business, but only when it is done this well. Hollis’ Breakfast in Fur bandmate Kaitlin Van Pelt designed the Lost and Found cover. As she has done twice for her own band, her art gets so cozy with the essence and intent of the project that you’ll know the music’s character before the needle even hits the platter. You’ve been prepped, your expectations tweaked to receive this odd and lovely little record in the most sympathetic way.

Van Pelt’s portrait imagines Hollis as a stoned pastoral god or hermit of some kind, a woodland man/creature with Francis of Assisi’s gift for birds and Jesus’ way with a flowing beard. This blissedout Mike-of-myth also appears to be subtly trussed, cocooned, swaddled by his own downward-and-inward-spiraling effusion of fluid hair and by the flora and fauna caught in its flow – a suggestion that speaks directly to the one-personas-world, insular quality of this true solo release.

But the myth is only the half of it. For all its otherworldly evocations (KVP, you devil!), this image flatly states: “just Mike,” unmistakably “just Mike,” an almost-photorealistic transcription of the agreeable face that anybody who has spent more than a week in New Paltz in the last ten years knows and loves. And that

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Lubitsch films with live piano accompaniment on Sunday in Rosendale Known for elegant settings and lushly artistic productions, Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch began his career directing silent films during Germany’s prolific and influential Weimar Era (1918-1933). Two of these important works of early cinema will be shown at the Rosendale Theatre on January 8 at 3 p.m., in celebration of Lubitsch’s 125th birthday.

The Doll (1919), starring German ballerina Ossi Oswalda, derives from the same narrative source material as the ballet Coppelia. In it, Lancelot flees to a monastery to avoid a forced marriage and the monks suggest that he marry a mechanical doll instead. The dollmaker’s assistant accidentally breaks the doll and

Cover art of Mike Hollis' Lost and Found by Kaitlin Van Pelt

paradox – “Myth Mike” and “Just Mike” – gets right at the mystery of Lost and Found, its cool blend of remote ethereality and homely, bucolic garage folk. Are you willing, the image and the music ask, to accept “just Mike” as a hippie conduit of energies and truths from the other side?

Are you willing to receive the archetypal and atavistic magic in all your friends?

Not coincidentally, of all the music that Hollis has released in the last few years (a jazz quartet record, the jam-leaning indie rock of Blue Museum, a film score), Lost and Found is, by far, the one that shares most in the luminous naïveté and insular otherworldliness of Breakfast in Fur. Like Hollis’ early solo releases, Lost and Found takes on the organic freak-folk aesthetic of Devendra Banhart and others, built off a bed of delicate acoustic guitars and defiantly uncorrected vocal performances.

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But as in the music of Breakfast in Fur, this is a vision of “organic” in which synthesizers and audio manipulation – wheezy, buzzing, blooping, comic, abstract and disruptive – are quite at home: an unpredictable dream-folk, you might call it.

The lyrics waft in and out of clarity in an artful way, but the themes are lucid: birth, death and rebirth for the most part, taken on in broad and simple language that is fixed neither in the pedestrian present nor in any mythic, pastoral past, though it manages to evoke some of both.

The music, too, plays by a fairly strict set of coherent rules: meditative, gently acoustic and sonorous, avoiding “groove,” sudden dynamics and the dialects of any particular genre, for the most part.

The aesthetic is clean and strict, but at the same time oddly permissive of interlopers and sonic visitations – the squealing fuzz guitars that lace through “Plug Me In,” for example, or the reedy bed of crickets and peepers that supports the paradoxically elegiac EP highlight “Your Wish,” or the palpable electronic sound objects provided by Daniel Morgenstern on two tracks.

Morgenstern is one of only three guest contributors on Lost and Found. Hollis’ Blue Museum bandmate Joseph Ruotolo (Tongue, Royal Psalms) drums on the EP opening “Oh October,” the record’s most propulsive and insistent track. The talented singer/songwriter Amy Regan – who died a year ago, at the age of 30 – sings on “Home.” Regan’s presence, and Hollis’ experience of the loss of a friend, seem to hover across the album’s many reflections on mortality and eternality.

The tone on Lost and Found is wistful and

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tyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele and Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut.

One half-hour prior to curtain time, ticketholders are invited to enjoy a talk at the Bardavon led by music critic/teacher Leslie Gerber. Tickets for Nabucco cost $28 general admission, $26 for Bardavon members and $20 for children aged 12 and under. They are available at the Bardavon box office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the Ulster Performing Arts Center box office, 601 Broadway, Kingston, (845) 339-6088; and through Ticketmaster at (800) 7453000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit www.bardavon.org.

inquiries from landowners in the area in 2016. Find out what plans are on WVLT’s docket for the coming year while you sample some of Bad Seed’s line of six different craft cider types.

This event runs from 3 to 5 p.m. on January 7. Admission costs $25 for WVLT members (you can join at www. wallkillvalleylt.org) and $30 for the general public. All proceeds go to southern Ulster County land conservation. To register or for more information, visit the website, call (845) 255-2761 or e-mail info@wallkillvalleylt.org.

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A toast to land preservation Tasting at Bad Seed Cider in Highland on Saturday to benefit Wallkill Valley Land Trust

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Siren Baroque at Olive Free Library

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ew York City’s only all-female early music ensemble, Siren Baroque presents a concert of rare music from the convents of 17thcentury Europe at the Olive Free Library on Thursday, January 5 at 7 p.m. A prime example of a “little venue that could,” the remote Library has been roping in outsize serious music bookings for quite a few years now, due in part to the curatorial involvement of the composer George Tsontakis. This concert features music composed by nuns: works that have almost never been heard outside the cloisters of 300 years ago. The lauded musicians of Siren are especially committed to shedding light on rarely heard music by women composers.

There is a $15 suggested donation at the door. The Olive Free Library is located at 4033 Route 28A in West Shokan. For more information, call (845) 657-2482 or visit www.olivefreelibrary.org. For more on Siren Baroque, visit http://sirenbaroque.com.

– John Burdick

convinces the real girl to mimic the doll.

The Oyster Princess (1919) is a satire of wealthy Americans abroad searching for aristocratic alliances. It stars again Ossi Oswaldo, known as “the German Mary Pickford.”

Live piano accompaniment will be provided by Marta Waterman. The Rosendale Theater is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. For information, visit www.rosendaletheatre.org.

Placido Domingo in Verdi’s Nabucco on Bardavon screen The Bardavon continues the 2016/17 season of The Met: Live in HD with Placido Domingo performing in Verdi’s masterpiece Nabucco on Saturday, January 7 at 1 p.m. at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie. Met music director James

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Kortney Wilklow and Devin Britton of Bad Seed Cider. Co-owner Albert Wilklow is not pictured. (Photo by Lauren Thomas | Almanac Weekly)

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n Colonial times, hard cider was the alcoholic beverage of choice in the Hudson Valley; now, after a long hiatus, its time of coolness has come around again. Cidery tours have joined wine trails and microbrewery crawls as a festive way to spend an afternoon. An acquaintance who became a hard cider evangelist following a recent trip to England claims that the finest product in our region comes from the Bad Seed Cider Company, based in the orchard country of the Town of Lloyd.

You can put this local cidery’s offerings to the taste-test and simultaneously support a worthy environmental cause this Saturday afternoon, January 7, when Bad Seed’s Tap Room, located at 43 Bailey’s Gap Road in Highland, hosts a Craft Hard Cider-Tasting Fundraiser for the Wallkill Valley Land Trust (WVLT). With the US economy gradually bouncing back from recession, development pressures are on the upswing, and the not-forprofit conservation organization fielded a marked increase in land protection

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Harvard-trained landscape architect Margie Ruddick will speak at the Cary Institute on Friday, January 6 at 7 p.m. Ruddick integrates biodiversity and ecological purpose in her public and private landscape design work.

In her new book, Wild by Design, Ruddick explains the five guiding principles to creating landscapes that are sustainable and emotionally powerful places: reinvention, restoration, conservation, regeneration and expression. Her lecture will showcase her projects from New York’s Queens Plaza to Chengdu, China’s Living Water Park.

Ruddick has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Parsons School of Design and Schumacher College in England. She is the recipient of several honors, among them the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.

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ART The luck of the draw Free Kakizome workshop at Arts Mid-Hudson this Saturday

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ew Year’s resolutions are a lovely tradition, if honored more often in the breach than in the observance. But if you’ve already slacked on some of your intents for self-improvement for 2017, maybe it’s time to pick up on a less pressured approach to looking ahead. The Japanese like to visualize good fortune to come by making their first calligraphy of the year an auspicious Chinese character called a kanji, encapsulating the particular flavor of positive energy that one next wishes to embody. The practice is called Kakizome, meaning “first writing.”

Intrigued? You can pick out your own lucky kanji for 2017 and bring it to life in ink this Saturday afternoon at Arts Mid-Hudson in Poughkeepsie, with a little guidance from knowledgeable volunteers from the Mid-Hudson Japanese Community Association. The event is free and open to the public, and brushes, paper and ink will be provided.

The Kakizome workshop will run from 2 to 4 p.m. on January 7. Stop in and try your hand! You might just get luckier.

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Artist Eva Hesse in 1963.

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Plastic fantastic Eva Hesse documentary at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on Saturday

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he downtown New York art scene of the 1960s was dominated by male artists whose work had a characteristic clean, static Minimalist look. Eva Hesse’s sculptures were different: Though mainly employing latex, fiberglass and plastics as materials, they were messy, complex, organic, out-of-control. Art critic Arthur Danto described her work as “full of life, of Eros, even of comedy.”

Hesse died too young – in 1970, at age 34 – to enjoy the level of critical regard that would eventually attach to her oeuvre, but today she is seen as a pioneer of Post-Minimalism. Drawing on the artist’s journals, correspondence and interviews with her contemporaries, a new documentary simply titled Eva Hesse was recently released, directed by Marcie Begleiter. The film’s producer, Karen Shapiro, will be on hand for a discussion this Saturday, January 7 at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. The screening begins at 1 p.m.

Tickets cost $12 general admission, $10 for seniors, $8 for students and members of Upstate Films and the Woodstock Artists’ Association & Museum. Upstate Films is located at 6415 Montgomery Street (Route 9) in Rhinebeck. For more information, call (845) 876-2515 or visit http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/eva-hesse.

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Dutchess Turnpike (Route 44) in Arlington in the Town of Poughkeepsie, just east of the city limits. For more info, call (845) 454-3222 or visit www. artsmidhudson.org or www.facebook.com/ artsmidhudson.

Andres Serrano retrospective at The School in Kinderhook

For 175 years or so, the main claim to fame of the Village of Kinderhook in Columbia County was the fact that it was the hometown of America’s eighth president, Martin Van Buren. But the tiny community is developing an edgier reputation in the art world, since renowned Chelsea gallerist Jack Shainman transformed the former Van Buren High School into a spacious new venue for viewing contemporary artworks beginning in 2014.

One of two new exhibitions opening on Saturday, January 7 at the School, as Shainman’s upstate outpost is simply

called, spotlights an artist so outré that some of the area’s Dutch settlers must be spinning in their graves: Andres Serrano. The 66-year-old New York City native, of Honduran and Afro-Cuban extraction, became a high-profile bad boy of the “culture wars” of the 1990s, targeted by the likes of senator Jesse Helms for his transgressive artworks, especially the notorious photograph of a crucifix immersed in a flask of urine that he titled Piss Christ. Bodily fluids, religious iconography, kinky sexuality, homeless people and the Ku Klux Klan all figure prominently in Serrano’s highly provocative imagery.

“Compositions resembling pre-17thcentury religious paintings challenge the viewer with a perspective of a cultural history of our own design, in all its radiant beauty and stark repulsiveness,” reads the School’s official description of the show. “Serrano entwines the mortal with the spiritual, the holy with the diabolical and the pure with the sullied, allowing the messiness of carnal existence to spill over onto sacred subject matter.

By combining paradigmatic symbols that have historically been ritually separated, his photographs violate taboos, while imparting a profound, visceral dissonance that resonates on a subterranean frequency.”

Included in this exhibition are selected photographs from various series including America (2001-2004),

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Group Exhibition” dual opening, Saturday, January 7, 11 a.mm.-5 p.m., Jack Shainman Gallery/The School, 25 Broad Street, Kinderhook; (518) 758-1628, www.jackshainman.com/school.

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Inside the Gallery@Rhinebeck

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he newly opened Gallery@Rhinebeck occupies the space on Market Street once filled with nuts and bolts and other necessary tools of living. In fact, gallery founder Patrick D’Antonio says that he was in search of hardware after moving to the village last May. “I was familiar with the area because I’d been a weekender a decade before. I got up the next day and said, ‘I need some hardware,’ and I went into town. Apparently, the old-fashioned hardware store had been gone for years. In its place was a fancy housewares store. I walked in and made a joke: ‘I guess you don’t have any half-inch drywall screws.’

“A couple of days later, I walked by the storefront and it was gone – just cleared out! I looked at this big, beautiful bare brick-wall space with a high ceiling, and I thought, ‘This would make a terrific gallery.’ I’ve never been in the art game before; I don’t know what I’m doing. But I got introduced to the grand dames of art in Rhinebeck – Joanna Hess and Betsy Jacaruso – and I talked with them about the idea.”

They were enthused about a street-level retail gallery space, but it turns out that a traditional co-op was not exactly what D’Antonio had in mind. “‘What if I can combine the services of a full-commission gallery with the volunteerism of a co-op, and get the artists to buy memberships? We can get the base money to rent and open the space.’ I reached out to the community, the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations and Rhinebeck Savings Bank. We formed a nonprofit corporation with the slogan ‘Art, Performance and Public Service.’

“The gallery is built to be flexible, so we can turn it into a small-venue performance space with 60 or 70 seats, in which we can have local artists, writers, performers come in and do small-scale performances. And the artists get more exposure, and we can charge a little to defray our costs. Artist memberships only cover about half of our costs. We’re looking to the community for private donations, and in the next year, we’ll be applying for grants through foundations to make up the difference.

“The Public Service part: In a traditional co-op, artists are asked to volunteer in the gallery in support of themselves. I didn’t really want to do that. So we’re developing programs where the artists go out into the community and maybe mentor a fledgling art student. We’re meeting with the people at Brookmeade Retirement Home, where they have a very successful seniors’ art program, and we’ll go to volunteer at that and also learn how it’s run. One of our members has a connection to a writing project she’s volunteered for at the Veterans’ Center up in Hillsdale. Perhaps we can help even longtime veterans to express their service through some kind of art.

“We feel, if we’re asking for the community’s financial support, the artists will in turn do something for the community.

It’s not really a co-op where artists band together to run a gallery themselves; it’s a membership gallery. Here, the nonprofit corporation runs the gallery, runs the performances and manages the public service. Artists can hang their art and walk out the door and not worry about the display and sales. We say, ‘With your membership fee comes the responsibility to reach out to the community.’”

The gallery is accessible to the street’s pedestrian traffic, and D’Antonio explains how holding events during the week will get people out of their homes to patronize local restaurants and other businesses on what would otherwise be off nights. “We’re partnering up with Upstate Films and Oblong Books. While they do a great job showing movies and offering books, they have limited public space to have, like, a party afterwards. Our space can accommodate them.” It’s a model of cultural cooperation that becomes inclusive, rather than competitive.

Since taking possession of the space on November 1, D’Antonio’s crew has renovated the interior and begun to hang art, taking advantage of the holiday activities in the village by moving $15,000 worth of artworks in the process: money that goes directly to the artists. “It was a great soft opening, and lots of people have gotten to know us. We had an Open House for the artists and their friends that was very successful.” Plans for three invitation-only opening celebrations are on the books this month to thank supporters and art patrons, and generally let the greater community know what’s happening at The Gallery@ Rhinebeck.

Check out the website to learn about these events. Meanwhile, the gallery will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 11a.m. to 6 p.m., with extended hours on Friday and Saturday evening. The Gallery@Rhinebeck is located at 47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck; (845) 876-1655, www.galleryrhinebeck.

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a panorama of American society; The Morgue (1992), an investigation of death; History of Sex (1995-1996), graphic images that have been taped to repair previous vandalism; and Torture (2015), his most recent work.

Alongside “Andres Serrano: Selected Works 1984-2015,” a multimedia group exhibition titled “Home Room” will also open on January 7 at the School, featuring works by Huma Bhabha, Nick Cave, Turiya Magadlela, Enrique

Martínez Celaya, Claudette Schreuders, Laurie Simmons, Michael Snow, Becky Suss and Carlos Vega. Meant to “explore the tremendous power inanimate objects and spaces have to reach out, remind, transform, possess and heal, while considering where and if the self ends and the peripheral world begins,” the group show plays off the concept of “home room” in a school exemplifying a base, a safe space, a recurring point of origin populated by the familiar: “The

clothes we wear, the things with which we live and the places we have been are personified by the spiritual traces of our individual histories with which we mark them.”

Located at 25 Broad Street in Kinderhook, the School is open on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

– Frances Marion Platt “Andres Serrano: Selected Works 19842015”/“Home Room: A Multimedia

Byrdcliffe announces its annual Members’ Show for 2017, “Byrd & Image” (referencing the art journal Word & Image). The opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, January 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts at 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock. This non-juried exhibition features works drawn from the artists among the organization’s more than 600 members. The exhibition runs until February 17.

Also as part of the exhibition, on January 28, Byrdcliffe presents its third annual Open Mic Night, hosted by the Woodstock singer/songwriter Marc Delgado. “Singers, poets, banjoplayers, comedians, storytellers, actors, pontificators and variants thereof ” are invited to take the mic. The Kleinert/ James’ historic Steinway B will be rolled out the occasion. Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information on these events, visit www.woodstockguild.org.

Exhibition of landscapes by Kevin Cook's students opens in New Paltz Artist Kevin Cook will exhibit landscapes created by his painting students at the Elting Memorial Library at 93 Main Street in New Paltz from January 8 until February 4. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, January 10 at 7 p.m., with a snow date of January 12.

Cook is an accomplished landscape painter whose style is strongly influenced by 19th-century Romanticism. His students learn classical techniques to create their paintings, based on the spiritual aesthetics and environmentalist leanings of the 19th-century Hudson River School.

The exhibit will include works by Jane Boden, Lisa Byerly-Curtis, Joyce Gartrell, Rick Greener, Jean Ann Hanson, Andrea Mannix, Deborah Masterson, Aileen O’Hara, Janine Privratsky-Winslow, Sara Shepard, Mark Simmons, Phyllis Sturm, Karol Sylcox, Anne Wandres and Alan Warshauer.

For further information on Cook’s classes, visit www.kevincook.com.

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DEBORAH DOWS TRAVELED THE WORLD – “sleeping in haystacks and palaces� – and is said to have associated with general George Patton when he was still a major, and to have done a stint at the renowned Spanish Riding School in Vienna (where Patton famously rescued the Lipizzaner stallions from the Nazis in World War II).

The nonproďŹ t Southlands Foundation on Route 9 in Rhinebeck operates primarily as an equestrian center, but it opens its nearly 200 acres of trails to the public for hiking, crosscountry skiing, snowshoeing and birdwatching for free, seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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trails for hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and birdwatching, open to the public seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no cost to visit the site, but donations to help maintain the trails are welcome.

The property overlooks the Hudson River, with trails that go through many open fields. Several rare species of birds nest on the site, according to executive director and riding instructor Allison King. The Foundation does at least two guided walks on the property per year. A

he nonprofit Southlands Foundation on Route 9 in Rhinebeck operates primarily as an equestrian center. Horses are boarded there, and classic dressage is taught at the School of Horsemanship.

The riding school provides summer and afterschool programs and holiday camps for youth, along with opportunities to participate in horse shows and specialized clinics taught by internationally recognized instructors. Less-known is the fact that it has nearly 200 acres of

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winter walk may yet happen, she says; but a spring walk when the birds begin migrating is a definite. Details will be posted on the Facebook page and website when that happens.

In the meantime, individuals are welcome to visit on their own, with signage and maps for visitors a project in the works. Parking is available in the main lot, with the only request from Southlands being that visitors check in and check out at the office, so that they know when there are people on the property.

Any gear needed to snowshoe or crosscountry ski must be brought in by visitors for themselves. No motorized vehicles are permitted, but dogs are welcome as long as they are kept on a leash. The latter is very important, says King, given the number of horses that live on the property.

The complex offers quite a few amenities for the riding enthusiast, including a large heated indoor arena and two large outdoor arenas, along with a climate-controlled spectator viewing

room.

Horse rentals for the day-rider are not available. To schedule a private introductory riding lesson or a pony ride for children, King recommends that visitors call ahead by at least three days to set that up – perhaps more for a weekend.

King teaches riding to students at all levels of experience, with her youngest regular student age 7 and her oldest 76.

She is one of six teachers at the site. “We’re very happy that we are the oldest, longeststanding riding school in the Hudson Valley,� she says. “We were founded in the 1930s by Deborah Dows, who had the forethought to protect the land to keep it open, and to create a nonprofit organization to reach out to people who want to learn horsemanship, but may or may not have the finances to own their own horse.�

Most of the land at Southlands is protected by an easement from Scenic Hudson and will never be developed. The history of the property spans 300 years, dating back to the original king’s grant

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caused the fire. There was no loss of life or injury to the people and animals on the property, but much of the personal effects of Deborah Dows are now gone.

– Sharyn Flanagan Southlands Foundation, 5771 Route 9, Rhinebeck; (845) 876-4862, www. southlands.org.

To read more about the Dows' family during the first three decades of the 20th century, read the critically acclaimed new book, Our Time at Foxhollow Farm,

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Deborah Dows opened her riding school at Southlands Farm in the late 1930s. An avid horsewoman, her aim was to teach people of all ages to respect and love the land and its animals.

to the Livingston and Beekman families, from whom Southlands founder Deborah Dows was descended. When she passed away in 1994 at age 79, it was the end of eight generations of continuous family ownership of the property.

The Dows family had an impact on local history. They were distantly related to the Roosevelts, with FDR arranging for Deborah’s brother, Olin, to paint the murals at the Rhinebeck Post Office in 1940 (reputedly after another distant cousin, Daisy Suckley, put the bug in his ear to do so).

And Thomas Wolfe wrote seven chapters of Look Homeward, Angel while living in the guesthouse of the family estate, Fox Hollow, in the summer of 1927.

Deborah Dows and her two siblings inherited Fox Hollow when their father, Tracy Dows, died in 1937. He had built the home in 1909 upon acquiring 1,000 acres of land with his marriage to Alice Dows, a well-off descendant of Margaret Beekman Livingston. When the estate was broken up at his death, Alice got another piece of family property, the Beekman Arms, and the children got equal shares in Fox Hollow, which was then sold to Vincent Astor (the son of John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic).

With her share of the proceeds, Deborah Dows bought back 200 acres of the “south land” on the property from Astor for her Southlands Farm. (Alice sold the Beekman Arms to a consortium of investors in Rhinebeck for $35,000 and moved in with her son Olin at Glenburn, a home inherited from her side of the

family.)

Deborah Dows opened her riding school at Southlands Farm in the late 1930s. An avid horsewoman, her aim was to teach people of all ages to respect and love the land and its animals. By all accounts, she was a larger-than-life character, eccentric and colorful, remembered by those who knew her as a lively personality and a stern taskmaster, who was nevertheless e x t r e m e l y supportive of her students: tough love, as it were.

In Lessons from Southlands: A Portrait of Deborah Dows, a short film made by Kathryn Windley, Dows is characterized as someone who came from wealth and position, but who had no patience for social pretensions. “That was one of the things that made her so free,” remembers one man. “She was just eccentric enough to do things that other people wouldn’t do, and go places other people wouldn’t go.”

Another former student said that the six-foot-tall Dows “had a tremendous elegance and presence about her,” despite being most often seen around the barn wearing moth-eaten sweaters and trousers with holes in them. Dows traveled the world over the course of her lifetime – “sleeping in haystacks and palaces” – and is said to have associated with general George Patton when he was still a major, and to have done a stint at the renowned Spanish Riding School in Vienna (where Patton famously rescued

The six-foot-tall Deborah Dows “had a tremendous elegance and presence about her,” despite being most often seen around the barn wearing moth-eaten sweaters and trousers with holes in them.

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the Lipizzaner stallions from the Nazis in World War II).

Brutally honest though she could be, Dows was demanding because “she knew you could do better,” according to a longtime student. “She built your character from the inside out. And there was never a time when you couldn’t talk to her about anything.” Always one to look out for the underdog, Dows was “very kind to anyone underprivileged or who just needed some help.”

Over time, many of the children and grandchildren of the original students came to Southlands to learn to ride, too, and learn the lessons about the land and nature that Dows sought to pass on. “She taught us a lot – and not just about riding – and it’s carried over into our everyday lives.”

Before she died, Dows arranged for the easement on the property, in order to preserve the land and what it had meant to so many. “What was here was what she wanted to leave, and she wanted it to continue,” said a former student. “She wanted to leave everything as it was, as much as she could.”

The main house on the property that Dows built in the 1930s, modeled on a German farmhouse that she’d seen in her youth, was lost to fire on the morning of October 31, 2011. King explains that when the power came back on after a big snowstorm, faults in the electrical wiring

The Hudson River estuary and the mid-Hudson Valley are home to a wide variety of bird species, both migratory and year-round residents. There are nearly 200 breeding species in the valley, many in need of conservation and habitat protection. With recent improvements in water quality, many species that were near extinction or absent for many years have returned – notably the bald eagle.

Living in the midst of the Atlantic Flyway, dotted with diverse and productive bird habitats, is a joy that can be enhanced by greater knowledge of the region’s avian population. On Thursday evening, January 12, the Beacon Sloop Club provides an opportunity to learn more about the “Birds of the Hudson River” with an expert: Alan Peterson, a veterinarian, zoologist and lifelong birder who currently serves as education co-chair of the Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club of Dutchess County.

Admission to the “Birds of the Hudson River” lecture and interactive discussion is free. It begins at 7 p.m. on January 12 at the Beacon Sloop Clubhouse, located at 2 Flynn Drive in Beacon (adjacent to the harbor, across from the train station). For more info, call (845) 463-4660 or (914) 879-1082 or visit www.beaconsloopclub. org.

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FREE PUBLIC EVENT Wild by Design Friday, January 6 at 7 p.m.

Harvard trained landscape architect Margie Ruddick will discuss her new book, Wild by Design.

Her presentation will draw on 30 years of public and private design work that integrates biodiversity and ecological purpose. Discover five basic principles that can be applied to create landscapes that are both sustainable and emotionally powerful places.

Free and open to the public, the event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium, located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, NY. Seating is first come, first served. Books will be available for purchase by Merritt Bookstore.

Visit our website at www.caryinstitute.org or call (845) 677-7600 x 121.

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Winter hijinks FRIDAY, JANUARY 6

Peanuts crew at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck If you didn’t score Hamilton: An American Musical tickets this holiday season, don’t despair; stay local and see another quality, live performance right here in the Hudson Valley, such as You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck! In this musical, you and your family will see familiar characters such as Lucy, Schroeder, Sally, Linus, Snoopy and of course, Charlie Brown, along with some new songs, which means that everyone will have a great time. The show runs from Friday, January 6 through Sunday, January 22 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $26 and are available online or via telephone.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http://centerforperformingarts.org/ mainstage/item/you-re-a-good-mancharlie-brown?category_id=34.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7

Kakizome workshop at Arts Mid-Hudson in Poughkeepsie What are your resolutions for 2017?

Did you happen to resolve to learn more about New Year traditions from around the world? Well, whether you set an annual intention or just appreciate the blank canvas of a new calendar, families will have a good time trying out “Kakizome: The First Writing of the Year.” Kakizome means “first writing” and is a Japanese tradition celebrating the creation of the first calligraphy writing of the year, and Arts Mid-Hudson invites you to try it!

On Saturday, January 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Arts Mid-Hudson, families can

Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip characters come to life in the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which will be directed

by Lisa Lynds and performed by Tom Bunker, Fred Fishberg, Patrick McGriff, Kate Podell, Jeremy Ratel and Sabrina Roberts at the Center for Perfoming Arts at Rhinebeck.

drop in at any time and discover how to write kanji characters to honor a positive sentiment or a wish that they would like to carry throughout the year, such as good health or patience. Open to all ages, this program is free and open to the public of all ages, and all supplies and instruction are provided.

Arts Mid-Hudson is located at 696 Dutchess Turnpike (Route 44) in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 454-3222 or visit www. artsmidhudson.org/kakizome-2017.

Winter Animal Tracking in Woodstock Do your kids leave a trail behind them whenever they enter the house, like mine do? This weekend, your family can follow a different type of trail, and no cleanup is necessary!

On Saturday, January 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Julie Seyfert-Lillis leads “Winter Animal Tracking: Let’s Piece Together Animal Stories” at the Thorn Preserve. All ages are welcome to find clues left by animals such as bear or

Best of both worlds

Winter Open Barn at Stony Kill Farm in Wappingers Falls You have attended your share of Open Houses, but have you ever been to an Open Barn? Here’s your chance!

Head over to the Winter Open Barn at Stony Kill Farm this Saturday, January 7 between 3 and 6 p.m. Your kids can see real farm animals, participate in hands-on outdoor activities, and if you made a New Year’s resolution to help out more in your community, consider filling out a volunteer application while you’re there!

Stony Kill Farm is located at 79 Farmstead Lane in Wappingers Falls. For more information, call (845) 831-3800 or visit http://stonykill.org or www.facebook. com/events/1025409897586695.

Snowpeople drawings at Kingston’s Storefront Gallery Wish there were a way to experience snow without getting cold or wet in it? Drop in at the “Let It Snow: Opening Reception” this Saturday, January 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Storefront Gallery. A terrific, manageable space for even young art aficionados, give your crew inspiration about drawing their own snowpeople by seeing the whimsical sketches in this show. Artist and curator Jennifer Schimmrich explains, “Think Calvin and Hobbes and Steampunk, and you have a good idea of what you will see in this pencil-work show.”

The Storefront Gallery is located at 93 Broadway in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 3388473 or visit www.facebook.com/ events/1440256876015306 or www. thestorefrontgallery.com.

Join FeederWatch, learn to snowshoe at Sam’s Point The bird is the word this weekend at the Sam’s Point area of the Minnewaska State Park Preserve! Gather your

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The Thorn Preserve is located on Joy Road in Woodstock. For more information, call (845) 679-6481 or visit www.woodstocklandconservancy.org/ index.php/programs/first-saturdays-onthe-trail.

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flock of all ages and levels of birding experience for Project FeederWatch and use binoculars to observe birds and identify them; then feed them by making your own pinecone birdfeeder to take home and keep the fun going for your budding-birder citizen scientists. Project FeederWatch takes place this Saturday, January 7 from 10 to 11 a.m., and again from 1 to 2 p.m.

And if snowshoe lessons are what you want, you can do that here, too! Every Saturday at 11 a.m. from January through March, beginning Saturday, January 7, is a chance to learn to snowshoe at the Sam’s Point area of the Minnewaska State Park Preserve. Instruction is free, and snowshoes are available for a discount rental of $5.

These programs are free with park entry, which costs $10 per vehicle, or free for Empire Passport holders; but registration is required. The Sam’s Point area of the Minnewaska State Park Preserve is located at 400 Sam’s Point Road in Cragsmoor.

For more information or to register, call (845) 647-7989 or visit www.nysparks. com/parks/193.

Bengali Cultural Celebration at Hudson Area Library Were you as blown away by the Lion movie as I was? Wow, what a story!

Whether you are brushing up on your Bengali knowledge or you are simply curious to learn about the culture, make a plan to attend “A Bengali Cultural Celebration” this Saturday, January 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Hudson Area Library. Sample authentic Bengali food and enjoy Bengali entertainment, including music, dance and more!

The Hudson Area Library is located at 51 North Fifth Street in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 828-1792 or visit http://hudsonarealibrary.org/2016/12/ bengali-bandhan-cultural-celebration.

Winter Wildlife Walk at Hand Hollow Need to walk off those holiday carbs?

Make it a nature outing with you and your crew! Join the Winter Wildlife Walk at the Hand Hollow Conservation Area this Saturday, January 7 at 10 a.m. for a guided hike exploring winter wildlife. Open to all ages, this program is free and open to the public, but registration is required, and remember to dress warmly for this outdoor experience.

The Hand Hollow Conservation Area is located at 4079 County Route 9 in New Lebanon. For more information or to register, call (518) 392-5252 or visit http:// clctrust.org/events/133/winter-wildlifewalk.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8

Ice harvesting programs at Hudson River Maritime Museum With automatic icemakers, or even regular freezers, we can enjoy a cold drink whenever we like; but back in the day, this process was a little more involved. Learn more about ice harvesting along our great estuary at the January installment of the new Sunday series of programming for children at the Hudson River Maritime Museum (HRMM). On Sunday, January 8 at 1 p.m., kids will hear the story The Ice Horse, perform a science experiment comparing modern and historical insulation methods, see real-life ice-harvesting tools and enjoy light refreshments. This program is open to all ages with paid museum admission, and advance registration is requested.

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place on Sunday, February 12, “Craft a Sailor’s Valentine from Sea Shells”; Sunday, March 12, “Make Scrimshaw from Soap and Learn about the Local Whaling Industry”; and Sunday, April 9, “Create a Micro-Watershed and Learn about the Hudson Estuary Ecosystem.” Admission costs $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and children aged 18 and under, $20 family rate for two adults and children under age 18 and free for members, active-duty military with identification, and HRMM members.

The Hudson River Maritime Museum is located at 50 Rondout Landing in Kingston. For more information or to register, call (845) 338-0071 or visit www. hrmm.org/for-kids.html or www.facebook. com/events/343549886023453.

Birding for Children at Mohonk Preserve As parents, our kids will eventually leave the nest. So, let’s help them earn their wings – through nature!

Join “Winter Wings: Birding for Children” this Sunday, January 8 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. the at Mohonk Preserve.

Kids will learn about winter adaptations, flight patterns and field marks to identify birds, and they will even use binoculars (borrow theirs, or bring your own). This program takes place indoors, with a brief outdoor component, and is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

The Mohonk Preserve Visitor Center is located at 3197 Route 44/55 in Gardiner.

For more information or to register, call (845) 255-0919 or visit http:// mohonkpreserve.org/events/winter-wings.

MONDAY, JANUARY 9

“Teen Visions ‘17” art show at Vassar Do you like to get a jump on up-andcoming artists? Could your kids use some artistic inspiration from area peers?

Make it a point to check out “Teen Visions ‘17” between Monday, January 9 and Tuesday, January 24 at the Palmer Gallery at Vassar College. The exhibit features more than 60 paintings, drawings and photographs from youth at more than 30 regional high schools! Criteria for selection include “artistic statement, vision and visual acuity, as well as individual accomplishment.” The show is free, and the Palmer Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; but you are encouraged to call the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370 before coming to be sure that the gallery is open. Or attend the opening reception on Thursday, January 12 from 5 to 7 p.m.

While you are there, why not double down on art and visit the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, too? Its excellent collection features a number of famous artists such as Picasso and Matisse, and countless others. Vassar College is located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie.

For more information, call (845) 4375370 or visit http://arts.vassar.edu/news/ announcements/2016-2017/170109-teenvisions.html.

Children’s Theatre Program at Mid-Hudson Civic Center With the Academy Awards coming up next month, perhaps you would like to encourage your own young resident thespians to cultivate their art. Have you heard about the new Children’s Theatre Program offered at the MidHudson Civic Center? Offered to children ages 8 to 12, this weekly workshop takes place for eight Mondays from January 9 through February 2 from 4 to 5:15 p.m., and culminates in a February performance. The series costs $200 per person, or $375 if you register with

a friend.

The Mid-Hudson Civic Center is located at 14 Civic Center Plaza in Poughkeepsie.

For more information or to register, call (845) 454-5800, extension 1208, or visit www.midhudsonciviccenter.org/eventlisting.php#.WGLd8bYrLow.

required in advance for this film, visit www.tugg.com/events/yarn-oira. For more information, visit www.facebook. com/events/1441179982573769. To see the Yarn movie trailer, visit http:// yarnthemovie.com.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10

Erica Chase-Salerno can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2017! She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

Yarn: The Movie at Hudson Valley Mall Calling all ages of knitters, crocheters and anyone interested in the fiber arts: Yarn: The Movie is coming to Kingston! Give your family a chance to see this handcraft highlighted on the silver screen this Tuesday, January 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hudson Valley Mall’s Regal Cinemas; but you need to purchase your tickets in advance, since it’s a special independent showing. You may get “hooked” on the trailer; it’s easy to catch the enthusiasm of these women from around the world who bring this work into public spaces in innovative, interesting ways. Tickets cost $12.

The Hudson Valley Mall is located at 1300 Ulster Avenue in Kingston.

To reserve your tickets, which are

AlmanacWeekend Sign up for the Almanac Weekend newsletter and receive a briefing on local arts and events delivered fresh to your inbox every Friday morning. hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/newsletter

THECENTERFORPERFORMINGARTS 845-876-3080 ATRHINEBECK For box office and information:

www.centerforperformingarts.org

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

Jan. 6 - 22 8pm Fri & Sat; 3pm Sun • Tickets: $27/$25 Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip characters come to life in Clark Gesner’s classic musical. The whole gang is here: Lucy, Schroeder, Sally, Linus, Snoopy, and the “blockhead” himself, Charlie Brown. In this revised version, with additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and dialogue by Michael Mayer, the sweet, joyful innocence of the “Peanuts” gang is celebrated. Directed by Lisa Lynds for CENTERstage Productions. APPROPRIATE FOR ALL AUDIENCES. The Center is located at 661 Rte. 308, See you 3.5 miles east of the light in the at The Village of Rhinebeck CENTER!

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6:30am-8am Mysore Ashtanga Practice.

Intended to help you build a personal, selfled practice. A teacher is on hand to guide you along. Meets every Mon-Thur, 6:30-8am.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

8am-9am Senior Feel Good Aerobics with Diane Collelo. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792880. $1 donation.

8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

9am-9:50am Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John.

Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels.

A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

9:30am-10:30am Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening.

Woodstock Town Hall. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents. More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4853445 x. 3423.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only.

No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@taraspayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org.

10am-11am Women’s Yoga with Cory Smith.

A variation of Gentle Yoga, this is a sacred space for women to deepen their spiritual practice while enhancing their health and well-being.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. Info: 845 679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two.

10am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Ongoing, every Thursday at 10 am. Current study: Book of Jeremiah. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information 845 246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties.

11:15am-4pm Crystal Light Healing Bed sessions with energy healer Amrita Eiehm.

First Thursday of every month at Mirabai.

Personally blessed by John of God, the Crystal Bed is a powerful healing modality that utilizes seven vogel cut crystals each aligned with a different chakra center, radiating light and energy in specific rhythms to realign, balance and synchronize the chakras to support spiritual and physical healing. Amrita received training with John of God himself in his Casa in Abadiania, Brazil and obtained his personal blessing to connect clients in the U.S. to the healing spirit guides at the Casa. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $75/1 hour healing session.

12:15pm-12:45pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for half-hour of silent sitting meditation. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Admission by donation. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/community-meditation.

1pm-4pm Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a

short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge.

Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Rescue Squad Community Room, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

4pm Free Fitness Class. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30 pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed

by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Meditation Support Group.

Meets at Mirabai every Thursday. Walk-ins welcome, no registration necessary. Donation appreciated. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100.

5pm-6pm Sacred Movement and Alignment with Clyde Forth. We will work with postural alignments and their relationship to expressive movement and balance to build strength and increase mobility. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

5:15pm Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6pm Book Club: The October List by Jeffery Deaver. A clever thriller that moves backward in time over a three-day weekend. All welcome to join the conversation, especially beginners!

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

6pm-9pm Free Fly Tying Night at Anglers’ Den in Pawling. All experience levels welcome.

Feel free just to come hang out to If you plan on attending, we recommended that you call the shop or email prior to give us a heads up so we can best accommodate you! (845) 855- 5182.

Anglers’ Den, 11 West Main St, Pawling. Info: 845-855-5182, anglersden.net.

6pm-9pm First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series hosted by Maureen and Don Black.

Maureen and Don welcome Phil Miller and Betty Altman, Fran Palmieri and Friends, and Mark Brown to the Cafe stage. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-6872699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe.com. Pass the hat.

6pm-7pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing. Free and open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

6pm Tasty Tunes Open Mic. Each musician gets to perform 2 songs or 10 minutes (whichever comes first) of family friendly music. Meets every Thursday night at 6pm. Sign up for musicians begins at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Taste Budd’s Cafe, 40 West Market St, Red Hook.

6pm First Thursday Book Club. Ongoing.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845 688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org/.

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:30pm-8pm Reggae Yoga. This Vinyasa class uses reggae music to evoke the spirit of Jamaica to create an irie yoga time. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. Free, by donation.

6:30pm-8pm Crystal Attunement Healing Circle with astrologer Mary Vukovic. First Thursday of every month. This is a free-form gathering and group crystal healing for likeminded individuals wishing to attune to the current energies for personal expansion. Topics include crystal communication, current astrological placements and subjects related to the ascension process. No registration required.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2100. $10.

6:30pm-8pm STEPS OF MEDITATION. Free weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls.

Info: 518-589-5000, peacevillage@bkwsu.org, bkwsu.org.

submission policy contact

e-mail calendar@ulsterpublishing.com. postal mail: Almanac Calendar Manager Donna Keefe c/o Ulster Publishing, PO Box 3329, Kingston, NY 12402 phone: (845) 334-8200 ext. 104, fax at (845) 334-8809. when to send

Almanac’s Calendar is printed on Tuesdays. We must receive all entries no later than the previous Friday at noon. what to send

The name of the event, time, date, location of event, a telephone number (for publication) and admission charge (specify if free). A brief description is helpful, too. how it works

Instructional and workshop listings appear in the calendar when accompanied by a paid display ad or by a paid individual calendar listing. Community events are published in the newspaper as a community service and on a spaceavailable basis.

6:30pm-9:30pm Astronomy Night. On the first and third Thursday of each month, Raj Pandya and Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New Paltz Department of Physics & Astronomy offer a free planetarium show. Followed by telescope observing (when the sky is clear) at the Smolen Observatory to the entire community including the general public. Tickets for the planetarium shows are required. They are available one week prior to show time. Tickets are NOT required at the Smolen Observatory. SUNY New Paltz/ John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3818, pandyar@ newpaltz.edu.

845-679-3484.

7pm-10pm Live@ The Falcon Underground: Mike Hollis EP Release. Opener: Dante DeFelice. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

8am NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon 2017.

Tix: facebook.com/events/1806588486280791/.

Various locations, Main St, Beacon. Info: info@ thisisourmusiclive.com, winterjazzfest.com/. $45 for single day passes, $80 dollars for two-day passes (Jan.6th and 7th).

7pm-8:30pm Siren Baroque Concert. New York City’s only all-female early music ensemble unearth rare music from the convents of 17th-century Europe. Suggested donation $15 at the door. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, helpdesk@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary.org.

Suggested donation.

7pm SIREN Baroque. The critically-acclaimed all-female baroque ensemble will offer a concert of rare ancient music. The concert will feature music composed by cloistered women during the 1600s in Europe. This rare glimpse into the often reverential, sometimes naughty inner worlds of these ancient women will be a sensual delight for audiences. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, emailprograms@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary.org. $15/suggested donation.

7pm-8:30pm Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney present The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People. “The Doulas” introduces a new generation of direct care workers who believe in transformation and unconditional support. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452558300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

7pm-8:30pm Free Holistic Self-Care Class: Organic Hair Care with Allison Demorest & Tina Betterton. Learn to make healthier choices in beauty, hair care & hair coloring products. See demonstrations of styling, smell & touch product samples. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: info@ rvhhc.org, rvhhc.org.

7pm Winter Flight Nights. Enjoy 6 oz. Craft Beer Flights paired with Venison, Beef and Sausage Sliders. Enjoy at the Woodnotes Grille bar or cozied up next to a roaring fire on the deck or in the Great Room. $20 per pair! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm-11pm A Not Too OPEN MIC! Hosted by Ras T Asheber. Calling ALL Rappers, Poets, Story Tellers, Actors, Comedians, Singers and Players of Instruments, Every Thursday night, 8pm - 11pm. Artists sign up 7pm - 8pm. For info call/text 212-920-1221 or email showtime@ gothamcitywork.com. No cover. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, thelodgewoodstockny@gmail. com, thelodgewoodstock.com/.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Free, $5 donation welcome. All proceeds go directly to FOW. Ongoing. Family of Woodstock, 39 John St, Kingston. Info: 845 706-2183.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander,Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info:

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7:45am-8:45am Low-Cost Dental Clinic. TARA now offers low-cost dental cleanings for those in need. This service is for previously spayed/ neutered dogs and cats only. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org.

9:30am-10:30am Bliss Body Yoga with Linda Freeman. Gentle, Individualized and Therapeutic Yoga for your body and soul. Two locations offered: Classes Fridays and Sundays 9:3010:30am at Studio87-The Wellness House, 87 Liberty Street, Newburgh; and Wednesdays 9:15-10:15am at the New Paltz Community Center on Route 32 North in New Paltz. $10 drop in. Linda Freeman is certified in Integrative Yoga Therapy. Visit http://www.blissbodyoga. com/ or 845-236-3939. Studio 87 The Wellness House, 87 Liberty St, Newburgh. Info: 845-2363939, got2lindy.com.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with increasing detail and a slower, flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9:45am-10:45am Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

11:30am-5:30pm Private Past Life Regression and Private Angelic Channeling with Margaret Doner. First Friday of every month.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2100. $125/90 minute session.

11:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvementof balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility.

Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

1pm-3:30pm New Bridge Group at Community Center. Free. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. Info: 617-308-9993.

4pm “Knit Wits” Knitting Club. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

5:25pm Jessica Scott, Photographer. Hours: M, Tu 10-5:30, Wed 10-8, Thur 11-5, Fri 10-7, Sat

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Jamaica to create an irie yoga time.

Taught and DJ’ed by Devin Schepetin. Free, by donation. Info: Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, (845) 679-8700, www. woodstockyogacenter.com.

premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Coach House Players Audition Notice: The Enchanted Cottage.

Auditions will happen at the Hudson Valley Senior Residence, 80 Washington Ave, Kingston on 1/9,1/11 & 1/12, 7- 9 pm. Cast Requirements: 5 men & 4 women; age ranges 20’s to mid 50’s.

Performance dates: 3/31, 4/1, 4/2,4/7, 4/8, & 4/9 at the Coach House Players Theater, 12 Augusta St, Kingston.

Info: www.coachhouseplayers.org.

Call for Entries Woodstock- New Paltz Art & Crafts Fairs 36th Anniversary Year. Memorial Day Weekend, May 27, 28, & 29, 2017 Labor Day Weekend, September 2, 3, & 4, 2107 Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz, NY Application Deadline January 15, 2017 Applicants can apply directly online at www.quailhollow. com. No jury fee required. Quail Hollow Events,PO Box 825 Woodstock, NY 12498 Info: scottr@quailhollow.com or 845 246-3414.

Indian Music Concert: New Year’s Ragas (1/7, 7:30-9:30pm). Keep the New Year’s celebration alive by joining us for a special Indian Music Concert of New Year’s Ragas on Saturday at Woodstock Yoga. Led by Steve Gorn on bansuri flute and Ray Spiegel on tabla, it will be an evening of deep reflection and jubilation. Presented by the Woodstock Indian Music Circle.

Doors open at 7:00 pm, $20, cash only please. First come first seated: floor, bolster or chair. Advanced reserve tix and seats online. Info: (845) 679-8700, Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

Dutchess Chamber accepting nominations for 12th annual Forty Under 40 Awards. The Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Forty Under 40 Shaker Awards, an honor presented

annually to laudable people under the age of 40 making the Hudson Valley a better place to live and work.

Complete details and an online nomination form are available at dcrcoc. org/40under40. All nominations must be received by January 27 and winners will be notified in late winter.

Nominees must be between 18 and 39 years of age before April 27, 2017.

Prior years’ Forty Under 40 nominations can be re-submitted for consideration. A panel of judges comprised of previous Forty Under 40 Award recipients will determine the 2017 honorees.The Forty Under 40 Shaker Awards celebration is scheduled for Thursday, April 27, 2017. Info: dcrcoc. org/40under40 or 845-454-1700, ext.

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New Reggae Yoga Class Starting Jan. 5th (Every Thursday, 6:307:45pm). This Vinyasa class uses reggae music to evoke the spirit of

10-4, Sun closed. Info: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library/Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845.331.2699, infotech@ hvc.rr.com, esopuslibrary.org/.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. Dylan Doyle Band. Blues Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Rejuvenating and supported postures that soothe the nervous system and alleviate tension. Lots of props and dim lights. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. The Funk Junkies with Corey Glover. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

6pm-9pm Opening Reception: Petit Deux: A Group Exhibition of Smaller Sized Art. Over 60 local and national artists are participating in this exhibition of artwork 16”x 20” and under.

Various mediums and styles. Show exhibits through 1/30, 11am-6pm. Emerge Gallery & Art Space, 228 Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845-2477515, emergegalleryny@gmail.com, emergegalleryny.com.

6pm Newburgh Beginner Swing Dance Series. Friday Nights, four-week swing dance series: January 6, 13, 20, 27 and February 3, 10, 24 and March 3 with Linda and Chester Freeman, Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Beginner sessions 6-7pm, no experience or partner needed. Intermediate level 7-8pm. T $85 per person per four-week series. Private lessons in swing and ballroom and for wedding couples available by appointment. For more information and to register visit got2lindy.com or 845-2363939. Studio87 The Wellness House, 87 Liberty St, Newburgh. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy. com.

6pm Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck. Spiritual Judaism in New Paltz: Kol Hai Jewish Renewal Shabbat Services. See website for details & location. New Paltz. kolhai.org.

6pm-9pm Nick From No Where. Featuring 40’s standards and covers. Vigneto’s, 890 Vineyard Ave, Highland. Info: 845-834-2828.

6:30pm Cathy Wilkerson What’s Next. A special evening for TSL Members only. For four decades, Cathy Wilkerson has worked with the NYC public schools, at New Visions for Public Schools, written curriculum for CUNY adult education, and taught at the New School and Bank Street College. She has presented talks about racism and ways of supporting communities of color. Cathy has offered to talk to TSL’s members about the questions they could be asking themselves at this time and place.

RSVP. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, timeandspace.org. $10.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-6923, cdfcirone@aol.com.

7pm-9pm Who Was Ezekiel Cooper? Rev Alfred Day to speak about Ezekiel Cooper, one of the founders of Methodism in this country.

Will dispel rumors. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: (845) 419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com.

7pm-8:30pm Peter Aaron presents The Band FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Fathers of Americana. Aaron digs deep to discuss different facets of The Band’s collective and individual stories that make The Band the fathers of Americana. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452558300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

7pm-9pm Star Nation Sacred Circle. A not for skeptics discussion group concerning all things paranormal. Dedicated to acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on earth. Bring a drink, snack to share & a comfortable lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch.

Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson. Info: 845-331-2662, airstudio@aol.com, AirStudioGallery.com.

7pm Friday Night Jazz. NYC saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

Info: 518 678-3101.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845 647-3902. $1.

8pm Community Playback Theatre. Audience stories brought to life onstage. See your story improvised! Contact Betty MacDonald. Info: 845-883-0392. Boughton Place,, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. Info: 845-691-4118. $10/donation.

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8am-1pm Talk: Eva Hesse, film w/producer.

EVA HESSE film + post-screening discusson w/ producer Karen Shapiro Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists.

Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845 416 7509, steve.leiber@gmail. com, upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/eva-hesse. $12/gen adm, $10/seniors.

8am-6pm CatskillMercantile.com Online Shopping Hub. CatskillMercantile.com officially launches this month with an online shopping hub featuring products inspired by the Catskill and Adirondack regions of NY State. With the innumerable events, activities and attractions during the weekend, there can be limited time to shop. An increasing number of visitors are looking to the web for gifts and souvenirs that can be ordered online and delivered direct to their home. Today, Almanac Weekly readers receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”. Available Saturdays & Sundays through 1/22. receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”.

8am NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon 2017.

Tix: facebook.com/events/1806588486280791/.

Various locations, Main St, Beacon. Info: info@ thisisourmusiclive.com, winterjazzfest.com/. $45 for single day passes, $80 dollars for two-day passes (Jan.6th and 7th).

8:30am-9:30am Vinyasa Yoga with Laura Olson. A fast-paced vinyasa flow class that works up a nice sweat while keeping things light and fun. Great for kickstarting the weekend.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

9am-4pm Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Renewal Course. This course is a recertification for the PALS course. You must be certified in PALS to take this abridged course. Course completion results in a two-year PALS certification card from the American Heart Association.

You will need to complete a pre-course assessment in the text prior to class. Current AHA PALS textbook required. Preregistration and payment are required. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-475-9742. $125, $165 with text.

9am-9:50am Maintaining Wellness Tai Chi.

Artist Call for Entry. Gallery Lev Shalem at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation is calling for entries for next exhibition. The theme is Other Places: A juried show 0f two dimensional artwork January 15-April 24,2017. Allison Constant, curator/ owner of Artbar Gallery, Kingston, NY is the juror. Artists are invited to bring work to the Gallery on Monday, January 9, 2017 between 11am-3pm.

Artists may submit from 1-2 ready-tohang, 2-dimensional artworks up to 40”. Work must interpret the show’s theme, Other Places, real or imagined. Submission fee is $5 per entry.

Work not accepted must be picked up on Tuesday, January 10, 1-3pm. You will be notified via email the status of your entry. Opening reception is Sunday, January 15, 12-2pm. Gallery Lev Shalem, Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-246-5170 or

wjc.arts@gmail.com or whg1045@ aol.com.

Ongoing Open Call. Athens Laundry is seeking projects in art, writing and design for the arts and literary publication by Friends of D. R. Evarts Library in Athens. Print and Electronic editions • Visit athenslaundry.tumblr.com for more info • Email friends@drevartslibrary.org today .

Washbourne House Shelter Seeks Volunteers! Info: volunteers@familyofwoodstockinc.org or 845-3317080x157.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. $95 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Mobile Clinic for Cats( call for location and dates). $70 per cat includes spay/ neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed by appointment only; & Low-cost vaccine & dental Clinics available. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Pl, Middletown. Info: 845-343- 1000, tara-spayneuter.org.

With certified instructor Jing. 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month 9-9:50am (Introductory movements) & 10-10:50am (Different themes).

For all levels. Minimum donation is $5. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. elegantevidence.com.

babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, you are welcome to join. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-0624, newbabynewpaltz@ yahoo.com, newbabynewpaltz.com.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9am. All welcome. No charge.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-3285.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9am Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

9:30am-11am Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going. Everyone welcome. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8800.

10am-11am Minnewaska Preserve/Sam’s Point: Project FeederWatch. Become a Citizen Scientist and help learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. At the end of winter they will send their data to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help other scientists learn about these birds as well. During the program you will use binoculars to observe birds and learn how to identify them as they visit the feeders. Then you will make pinecone starter feeders for you to take home so you can continue your observations in your own yard. This program is recommended for beginner and experienced bird watchers of all ages. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Pre-registration is recommended. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor. Info: 845-255-0752.

10am QSY Society Amateur Radio Club’s January Meeting. Feel free to bring any projects, items for show & tell or swap & sell, and questions you may have on any aspect of ham radio. They’ll do their best to get you an answer then and there. The public is welcome to attend.

Social half-hour begins at 10am, meeting begins at 10:30am. East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Route 376, Hopewell Junction. Info: 914-582-3744, n2skp@arrl.net, qsysociety.org.

10am-12pm Winter Animal Tracking. Join naturalist/tracking specialist Julie Seyfert-Lillis for a memorable morning of animal tracking.

All ages are welcome as you search for clues left behind by animals ranging from bears to mink.

Tracks, scat, tree markings, dens, and kill sites are all things you’ll search out and discuss. The event is free and open to the public. The best footwear are waterproof winter boots. Thorn Preserve, 55 John Joy Road, Woodstock. woodstocklandconservancy.org.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents. More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4853445 x. 3423.

10am Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck. Spiritual Judaism in New Paltz: Kol Hai Jewish Renewal Shabbat Services. See website for details. Woodland Pond at New Paltz/ Performing Arts Center, New Paltz. kolhai.org.

10am-12pm Saturday Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas,

10am-12pm Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845 687-7023, stoneridgelibrary.org/.

10am-9pm Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Candlewax in any condition to be recycled.

Ongoing. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10:30am-3:30pm Introduction to Beekeeping Class. This free course covers all the basics of keeping honeybees. Pre-registration required: 845-657-2482 or programs@olivefreelibrary. org. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, helpdesk@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Ukulele Lesson & Jam. All are welcome to join us for a good old uke lesson and jam, from beginners to more advanced players. Ukes available to borrow. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO,. Cornell St PO, Kingston. Info: 845 399-2805.

11am-5pm Andres Serrano: Selected Works 1984-2015. Also, Home Room, a multimedia group exhibition featuring works by Huma Bhabha, Nick Cave, Turiya Magadlela, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Claudette Schreuders, Laurie Simmons, Michael Snow, Becky Suss and Carlos Vega. The School / Jack Shainman Gallery, 25 Broad St, Kinderhook. Info: theschool@jackshainman.com, jackshainman.com.

11am-5pm Minnewaska Preserve/Sam’s Point: Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. Every Saturday through March, weather permitting. It is designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing as a new winter activity. Each session will be run by a Sam’s Point employee who will provide instruction on how to properly wear and adjust the snowshoes, as well as work with you until you are ready to head out on your favorite trail with confidence. The lesson may last up to one hour. Snowshoes are available to rent for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor. Info: 845-255-0752.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. 3 computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11am-4pm Winter Olana Tour. Friday-Sunday, first tour 11 am, last tour 3 pm. Olana, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. olana.org.

12pm-5pm Winter Holiday Art Exhibition.

Presented by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. and Bannerman Island Gallery. Show will exhibit through 1/29. The exhibition will be a small works art show. Gallery Hours for the duration of the show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon – 5pm and weekdays by chance and appointment. Bannerman Island Gallery (BIG), 150 Main St, Beacon. Info: 845-234-3204 or 845-416-8342, bannermancastle.org.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for

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a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Donations appreciated. Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. sarah@ womenspowerspace.org.

12:30pm-6:30pm Tarot Readings with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walkins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $30/25 minutes.

12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz.

1pm-5pm Art As Ritual: Blessing the New Year. A Hands-on Half-day Retreat to Set the Year Right, Facilitated by Meagan Lara Shapiro. $75 includes all supplies. Participants will make altars to bring home, no prior art experience needed. Advance registration required: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/art-as-ritual.htm.

Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz.

1pm-2:30pm Free Puppet Workshop & Demo.

Ages 5-8 FREE Workshop to make sock puppets.

Past puppet NYC president will demo and all will create their own.Show and tell to follow.

Admission by optional -donation for supplies.

Renaissance of New Paltz, One Old Route 299, New Paltz, NY. Info: 845-419-2133, ina.renaissanceofnewpaltz@aol.com, Therenaissanceofnewpaltz.com.

1pm-5pm Voice Journey: Vibration as Meditation, Medicine, and Magic with Stephanie Rooker. Together we learn to use our voices to shift mood and mind state. No previous singing experience necessary. Free. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge.

Info: info@rvhhc.org, rvhhc.org.

1pm The MET: Live In HD:Nabucco. Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character. Ticket holders are invited to a pre-opera talk by Leslie Gerber 30 minutes prior to curtain time in the theater.

Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-473-2072, bardavon.org. $28, $20/12 & under.

1pm Sit and Knit. Bring a project or start a new one while sitting on the comfy couches in the Information Room window area. Meets every Saturday at 1 pm. All are welcome. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

1:30pm-4:30pm Robot Club. On the first Saturday of the month, parents & kids work together on a robotics project using Lego Mindstorm

EV3.

Ages 9-16. Call 845-688-7811 to register.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

2pm-5pm Kakizome. A Japanese cultural program celebrating the traditional first calligraphy writing of the New Year. Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-3222, artsmidhudson.org.

2pm-4pm Hudson Area Library Presents A Bengali Cultural Celebration. Bangladeshi poetry, song, dance, & samples of authentic food.

Free admission. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda. shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org/.

2pm Lighting the Lighthouse. Frank Almquist will present an illuminating talk on the history of lighthouse lighting from candles to modern LED lamps. His talk will include information about the Fresnel lens, the lens that was ultimately used in almost all lighthouses to provide a strong light beam for ship navigation. Frank uses illustrations and images to shine a light on this fascinating subject. Free and open to anyone who is interested in history. The talk will be cancelled if the Library is closed for inclement weather.

Check with the Library or go to the Friends of Historic Saugerties FaceBook page. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845-246-4317.

2pm Free Meditation Instruction. Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience.

On-going. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

4pm-6pm Opening Reception: Annual Members’ Show for 2017, Byrd & Image. ,, This non-juried exhibition gives voice and opportunity to the many artists among the organization’s over 600 members. Exhibits through 2/19. ,.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2079, woodstockguild.org.

4pm-7pm Opening Reception: Four Generations. Art making by four generations of one family. Show exhibits through 1/14, every day 12-4pm. Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, WARWICK. Info: 707-236-5775, amitygallery110@gmail.com, amitygallery110.wordpress. com.

4pm The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People, Mary Mahoney & Lauren Mitchell. As more feminism migrates online, full-spectrum doulas remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships. The Golden Notebook, 29

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Tinker Street, Woodstock. Info: 845 679 8000, info.goldennotebook@gmail.com, goldennotebook.com/event/mary-mahoney-and-laurenmitchell-doulas.

6pm-7:30pm Peter Aaron presents The Band FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Fathers of Americana. Aaron digs deep to discuss different facets of The Band’s collective and individual stories that make The Band the fathers of Americana. Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845-255-8300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

6pm-8pm Katherine Mojzsis, “Shapes Effect,” Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY. Katherine Mojzsis, Paintings at John Davis Gallery in January. John Davis Gallery, 124 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: 5188285907, art@ johndavisgallery.com, johndavisgallery.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. George Boone Blues Band. Blues. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover. Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Homophobia, Transphobia and Misogyny LGBT Issues. The civil rights of the transgender community are being affirmed, but the backlash has been intense. What’s going on? How does the controversy about LGBT rights, especially the rights of transgender women, reflect our society’s view of women in general? How is our cultural misogyny shaping the conversation about LGBT issues? What do terms such as gender identity and gender expression mean?

And what’s the big deal about bathrooms? - A community conversation, facilitated by Drew Herzig. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham.

Info: 518-766-2992, oldchathamquakers.org.

7:30pm Indian Music Concert: New Year’s Ragas. Keep the New Year’s celebration alive by joining us for a special Indian Music Concert of New Year’s Ragas on Saturday at Woodstock Yoga. Led by Steve Gorn on bansuri flute and Ray Spiegel on tabla, it will be an evening of deep reflection and jubilation. Presented by the Woodstock Indian Music Circle. Doors open at 7 pm, $20, cash only please. First come first seated: floor, bolster or chair. Advanced reserve tix and seats online. Info: (845) 679-8700.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com. $20/cash at the door (no checks or cc).

7:30pm-10:30pm Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt at the Eighth Step. Tickets are $26 advance / $28 day of show / $40 Gold Circle (front center). Eighth Step at Proctors, 432 State Street, Schenectady NY. 8thstep.orgp. $26-$40.

7:30pm-10:30pm Holiday Swing Dance.

Kingston, 1st Saturday, Special Ring In the Holiday Swing Dance with the Swing Shift Orchestra. $15 admission includes basic lesson at 7:30pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Also, Swing Dance on February 4 same location and time DJ dance til 10:30pm. $10 admission.

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7:30pm Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Caller: Judi Rivkin. Band: Tiddley Pom: Stewart Dean on concertina, Sue Polansky on clarinet, Katie Jeannotte on piano and others.

Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen. Info: 845 679-8587. $10/adults, $5/ students.

10pm Dance Party. Featuring DJ Majic Juan.

Every Saturday night. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792814, lodgewoodstock.com.

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8am JBNHS Wallkill Valley Raptors. Join Christine Guarino for a minimal walk on this popular roadside trip between New Paltz and Wallkill. Wintering raptors and waterfowl as well as half hardies will be the focus on this outing. Free. RSVP - chrissy.guarino@gmail.com.

Info: info@jbnhs.org, http://www.jbnhs.org.

8am-6pm CatskillMercantile.com Online Shopping Hub. CatskillMercantile.com officially launches this month with an online shopping hub featuring products inspired by the Catskill and Adirondack regions of NY State. With the innumerable events, activities and attractions during the weekend, there can be limited time to shop. An increasing number of visitors are looking to the web for gifts and souvenirs that can be ordered online and delivered direct to their home. Today, Almanac Weekly readers receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”. Available Saturdays & Sundays through 1/22. receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”.

8:30am-4pm American Heart Association Friends & Family CPR AED Course. The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the life-saving skills of adult Hands-Only® CPR, child CPR with breaths, adult and child automated external defibrillator use, infant CPR with breaths and relief of choking in an adult, child or infant. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment by using the AHA’s research-proven, practice-whilewatching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible. This course is NOT suitable for community professions that require a CPR certification card.

Preregistration is required as class size is limited.

Text included. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-475-9742. $35.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Workout with Terry Fister. For those who want to get up and go on a Sunday morning. Combines traditional asanas with modern core exercises. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

10am Behind the Scenes Winter Tours. Join us for the first ever Winter Tours at the Thomas Cole Site for a sneak preview into the installation of the Parlors Project. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. Info: 5189437465, eventbrite.com/e/behind-thescenes-winter-tours-tickets-30223910530. $10.

10am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon Main Stage. Times Square: Classic A Cappella Doo Wop. DooWop. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

10am Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Animal Tracks & Traces. Search for clues that tell the tale of who lives in the forest and what they do during the winter. Learn to identify common animal tracks and signs, plus make a plaster animal track casting to take home!

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall.

Info: 845-534-5506, x204, hhnm.org. $7, $5/ child.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are well-

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January 5, 2017 practiced in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10:30am-12:30pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video.

Free and open to the public. Ongoing. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

11am-12pm Conversations over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

Info: (845) 242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail. com, facebook.com/ConversationsOverCoffee/.

12pm-5pm Winter Holiday Art Exhibition.

Presented by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. and Bannerman Island Gallery. Show will exhibit through 1/29. The exhibition will be a small works art show. Gallery Hours for the duration of the show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon – 5pm and weekdays by chance and appointment. Bannerman Island Gallery (BIG), 150 Main St, Beacon. Info: 845-234-3204 or 845-416-8342, bannermancastle.org.

12:30pm-6:30pm Tarot and Psychic Readings with Sarvananda Bluestone. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $30/half hour.

12:30pm-3pm Newburgh - Create Your Life / Create Your Year Workshop. With Linda Freeman, plan your perfect year and learn how to make it happen! Sliding scale $25-$45 per person. 12:30-3pm. For more information and to register visit got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939.

Studio 87 The Wellness House, 87 Liberty St,

Newburgh. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

1pm-4pm David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti.

Two sets of fine country folk music featuring acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonica, pedal steel and fiddle! The Angry Orchard, 2241 Albany Post Road, Walden, NY. Info: info@davidkraai. com, davidkraai.com. No cover.

1pm Hudson River Maritime Museum Sunday Series For Children. The general public can attend the program with the purchase of a regular price museum admission. In this first series, the museum will host activities themed around the ice harvesting industry.

There will be a story time reading of Candace Christiansen’s picture book The Ice Horse, and a science experiment comparing modern and historic methods of insulation to demonstrate how people could harvest ice in the winter and keep it from melting all year long. Kids will be able to compare ice harvesting tools pictured in The Ice Horse with real-life artifacts from the museum’s collections. Snacks and hot cocoa will be served. Advance RSVP is requested: education@hrmm.org. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. Info: 845-338-0071, hrmm.org.

1pm Sunday Football Brunch. Happy Hour begins from 6-8pm. No cover for this event.

Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-7148, rizka@hvc. rr.com.

1pm-3pm Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm. Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette,Medusa Antique Center Building, 215 Main St, New Paltz.

1:30pm-3:30pm Elting Library Scrabble

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Club. Ages 18 & up please. All levels of play welcome. Scrabbles sets provided. Meets in the Study Room. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-5030 ext. 2, eltinglibrary.org.

or $8 for students.

2pm-3:30pm Girl to Goddess: Open House Orientation. For girls ages 9-12 & their parents, facilitated by Nada Khodlova, MA BC-DMT LCAT. Includes meet and greet, brief overview of the curriculum, and sample hands-on creative activity for the upcoming 6-Session “Girl to Goddess: Dancing with Growth” group that begins Jan 26th. Supplies fee for orientation is $10. Advance registration required: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/girls---parents.html. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com.

3pm Sunday Silents: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Two silent films, The Doll and The Oyster Princess, directed by the famous Ernst Lubitsch, will be shown, accompanied by Marta Waterman’s original piano music. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-6588989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $7.

2pm-4:30pm CFD Death Cafe with Presentation. CFD Death Café is not a grief support group, it does offer a safe space to openly discuss your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. This month’s presentation “A Creative Planning Workshop,” will both guide and offer considerations to focus and create your personal end-oflife plans. Continuing with our new format, the CFD Death Café conversation will be preceded by a presentation with Q&A. Free admission. Info: ThirdOpinion.net. Zen Mountain Monastery, 871 Plank Rd, Mount Tremper. Info: 845-3392526.

3pm-5pm LGBTQ Task Force to Undo Mass Incarceration and Institutional Racism.

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. Info: 845-797-7691.

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. Ongoing games -Sundays at 3pm. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Dr, Woodstock. WoodstockUltimate.org.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

4pm-5:30pm Fran Wishnick presents Craig Climbed a Tree: His Lifelong Struggle. Craig Climbed a Tree, challenges us to improve how to support and treat the strangers, friends, and families who have difficulties. Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845-255-8300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

2pm Sunday Salons: Reinventing Thomas Cole’s Home. Elizabeth Jacks, Alan Wallach, Nancy Siegel. Tickets for the Salons range from $10-12 and tickets for the Winter Tours are $10.

Winter Tours: 1:00 & 3:30pm. thomascole.org/ events. $12.

4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle. Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast on Woodstock 104 at 8pm. All drummers, dancers are welcome.

Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3pm-6:30pm Swing Dance. Swing to the Bernstein Bard Quartet. Spend a cold afternoon with some hot dancers having fun! Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845 679-8587, hncd.dance. $12,

5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga with Kate Hagerman. A gentle, supportive practice designed to bring stillness to the body and mind.

A perfect way to wrap up the weekend. Wood-

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ALMANAC WEEKLY

January 5, 2017

GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Stalking my greenhouse Volunteer celery is the best that I’ ve ever tasted

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rchids are one group of plants that I’ve regularly sidestepped. It seemed to me that if you grew orchids, you became crazed over orchids, to the exclusion of other plants. You then fill your home with as many of the more than 20,000 species as you can cram onto your windowsills. I feared being led down that path.

My sidestepping took a turn into orchidland 25 years ago, when a local orchid enthusiast gave me a plant of Odontoglossum pulchellum, which I today learned has also been called lily-of-the-valley orchid. But more importantly today, the plant is in bloom. Blossoms from this plant are no rare occurrence; it has bloomed every year for about the past 20 years, some years around now and other years waiting until February to unfold.

Odontoglossum pulchellum doesn’t sport knock-your-socks-off, traffic-stopping blossoms; instead, they have a soft, subtle beauty. Right now, delicate, arching flower stems rise up from clusters of torpedo-shaped green pseudobulbs that are perched up out of the “soil.” Eight to ten dainty, waxy white blossoms line up along each flowering stem and waft a sweet fragrance – more like paperwhites than lily-ofthe-valley to me – that transports me to spring.

I get all this for very little effort, and without becoming orchid-crazy. For years, I didn’t know the name of my plants, so couldn’t even look up how to grow them.

Rather than pot them up in any special orchid soil, I merely mix an equal volume of wood chips from my outdoor pile into my regular homemade potting soil, along with a bit of soybean meal for extra nitrogen. I keep the plants in a sunny window in winter and sometimes move them outdoors in summer, dividing and repotting the pseudobulbs to make new plants.

For this bit of effort, I get fragrant white blossoms every winter, and they last for at least a month. Odontoglossum pulchellum is easy to multiply, yet I’ve happily managed to restrain myself to keeping only three or four plants after I’ve divided and repotted them each spring.

Ventura is an openpollinated, rather than a hybrid, variety, which means that I can save my own celery seed for replanting each year.

Growing good celery demands a gardener’s greatest skill; and this year, in the greenhouse, I have the finest celery that I’ve ever tasted or grown. The stalks are large, thick, juicy, even a little sweet. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that I can take credit for this horticultural achievement.

Every summer I sow celery seed to transplant into my minimally heated greenhouse to provide stalks for salads and soups throughout winter. I do take credit for selecting a good variety: Ventura, available from Fedco Seeds and Johnny’s Selected Seeds. I also take credit for providing good soil conditions; each year I slather an inch or so of

stock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. DeadGrass. Jerry Garcia. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon. com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. Tisziji Muñoz Quartet with John Medeski. Interplanetary Jazz. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

8pm Live Latin Jazz. Every Sunday! Happy Hour begins from 6-8pm. No cover for this event. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

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7:30am-8:30am Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation. For optional beginner instruction, please arrive at 7:20. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Donations welcome. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/ community-meditation.

8am-5pm Low-Cost Spay Neuter. Cats $70.

Dogs $120 & up. All surgeries include rabies vaccine. By appointment only. 845-343-1000. tara-spayneuter.org. Multiple locations. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, taraspayneuter.org.

8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-679-5906. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9am-9:50am Senior Fit Dance for Seniors with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for

strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Bring a mat. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

9:30am Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. Info: 845 399-2805, ssipkingston.org.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-12pm Senior Drama with Edith LeFever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

11am-3pm Gallery Lev Shalem at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation Call for Entries.

Theme: Other Places: A juried show of two dimensional artwork January 15-April 24,2017.

Allison Constant, curator/owner of Artbar Gallery, Kingston, NY is the juror. Artists are invited to bring work to the Gallery on Monday, January 9, 2017 between 11am-3pm. Artists may submit from 1-2 ready-to-hang, 2-dimensional artworks up to 40”. Work must interpret the show’s theme, Other Places, real or imagined.

Submission fee is $5 per entry. Work not accepted must be picked up on Tuesday, January 10, 1-3pm. You will be notified via email the status of your entry. Opening reception is Sunday, January 15, 12-2pm. Info: 845-246-5170 or wjc.arts@gmail.com or whg1045@aol.com.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock.

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ripe compost on all the beds in the greenhouse. And I’ll take credit for providing timely watering – with drip irrigation until a couple of weeks ago, and by hand through winter.

Ventura is an open-pollinated, rather than a hybrid, variety, which means that I can save my own seed for replanting each year. Beginning a few years ago, I’d allow one or two of the greenhouse Ventura plants that began to form flower umbels to do their thing and make seed, which they did prodigiously. I’d collect seed for planting the following season’s outdoor and indoor celery.

Some of those seeds would drop to the ground and germinate right in the greenhouse.

These “volunteers” sometimes grew into seedlings as good as or better than the plants that I would later transplant back into the greenhouse.

So, a couple of years ago, I decided to let the celery self-sow freely in the greenhouse.

Later in winter, I’ll transplant some of those seedlings into pots for eventual planting out in the garden.

In the greenhouse, I thin out excess seedlings, keeping the largest ones, which are already large enough for harvest. The stalks – especially welcome in winter – are, as I wrote above, “large, thick, juicy, even a little sweet.” I like to think that I had a hand in horticultural achievement.

Nothing like a little snowfall to clean everything up in the garden. December 11 was the date of the first snow, followed by a second one on the 17. The white blankets have covered the pile of crocosmia leaves lying on the ground and waiting to be carted over to the compost bin; some weeds that sprouted in the mulched area beneath the dwarf apples; some of the smaller plants that I haven’t yet cleared from vegetable beds; and numerous other messy distractions. The whole view is now knit together in the sea of whiteness.

Spells of warmer weather and bright sunshine have eroded away some of the snow, mostly taking the fluffy white lines and dots that rested atop fences and their fenceposts.

The ground, as I write, is still pretty much covered in a white blanket. While I’m enjoying the wintry scene, I can forget about the few odd jobs still left to do that are patiently waiting beneath the snow.

– Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. To read Lee’s previous “Gardener’s Notebook” columns, visit his garden at www.leereich.com/blog.

11am-12pm Chair Yoga with Kathy Foley.

Chair yoga is a very helpful way for those who need extra support in enjoying the benefits of yoga. Using chairs for support. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

6pm-8pm MEETING OF ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network). A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone St, Kingston. Info: 845-475-8781, enjan.org.

12:15pm Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill St, Rhinebeck. Info: 914 244-0333.

6pm-8pm Quiz Bowl Practice. If your child is interested in everything the dairy or equine industry has to offer, this is the 4-H program for him/her! Youth must be between the ages of 8 and 18. Extension Education Center, 479 Rt. 66, Hudson. Info: 518-828-3346 x201, ormms426@ cornell.edu.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Readings, Tarot Readings and Chakra Clearing Sessions with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Monday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $30/25 minutes.

1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-3385580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

2pm-4pm Senior Painting. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

3pm-5pm Math Help. Get those pencils sharpened! Phyllis Rosato is here to answer all of your math questions, from kindergarten to calculus.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

4pm-5pm Muay Thai for Kids. For ages 5 to 13.

Children learn the basics of the art of the eight limbs with our knowledgeable instructors. Build confidence and personal strength. Free. Free ongoing class. Stockade, 302 Wall St, Kingston. stockademuaythai.com.

4:15pm-5:30pm Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12/class.

7:15pm Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Free Open Rehearsal. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, 35 Pearl St (corner of Fair & Pearl sts), Kingston. Info: 914-388-4630, midhudsonwomenschorus.org.

7:30pm Hudson Valley Railroad Society History Night. HVRRS Business meeting at 7:30pm, followed by program at 8pm. Meets the 2nd Monday of each month. Hyde Park Train Station Museum, 38 River Rd, Hyde Park. Info: 845 229-8562, hydeparkstation.com.

8pm Industry Night at The Lodge. Featuring live funk with Fishin’ Chicken. Happy Hour all Night! Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

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9am-10am Senior Dance with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise and celebrating life. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

9:30am-11am Level I Yoga with Terry Fister.

Taught in the Iyengar style. The basis of the

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ALMANAC WEEKLY

January 5, 2017

NIGHT SKY

What are the biggest questions?

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ew Year’s is the time for resolutions, and maybe doubled-down quests to understand long-held puzzles. Because I have written for or been involved with editing in three national science magazines, I can tell you that reader feedback and reactions to articles have convinced big-media editors that the hottest ongoing space topics are: finding another Earth; humans going to Mars; the search for extraterrestrial life; and comets and asteroids on a collision course with our own planet.

“Another Earth” is juicy because it dramatically contradicts something we grew up believing: that there is only one Earth in the universe. It also links with the ET theme reinforced in sci-fi movies. Actual professional astronomers don’t care about those issues. Instead, they’re obsessed with questions that escape general public awareness – e.g.: whether strange formations on the outskirts of many galaxies are caused by dark matter or, instead, gravity behaving oddly.

Me, I would love to know if the universe is infinite in spatial extent and in content. Still, I think that the three most important unsettled topics for the public, though rarely expressed, revolve around free will, consciousness and God. In the science community, none has been satisfactory probed or determined. God, in fact, is an off-limits topic for secular organizations and media; and anyway, what kind of evidence could ever be found?

The traditional scriptural God-concept is a turnoff for many. The Old Testament depicts an all-powerful deity who looks like an unshaven older human male who gets easily upset. He makes odd rules, such as insisting that one wear a hat on certain occasions but not others, and decrees when one may and may not work. He’s a homophobe, and imposes the death penalty for disobedience.

Yet believers say that they experience something else: a responsive, loving Presence that is all-powerful. So it seems to boil down to this: If God is a fictitious tale with no truth behind it, then believing would make one delusional. Conversely, if the Cosmos is indeed suffused with an Intelligence that is omnipotent, and whom anyone can contact and in return receive response and help, then being oblivious to this would mean overlooking a very important component of reality. Anyone unaware of God, if He truly exists, would be asleep to a central fact of existence.

Each of us has friends or family members who believe, and others who do not. Getting to the bottom of this would seem to be pretty important, to say the least.

For nearly a century, the general public has abandoned religious scripture as its most trusted source of information when it comes to questions of existence, and now largely

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prefers to trust experts in various science fields. Thus, call-in radio shows experience jammed switchboards, and questions are eagerly asked by live audiences, when the speaker is a geneticist, cosmologist or expert in artificial intelligence. As in olden times, if a person is perceived to be a genius, his or her views about deep issues are solicited.

That’s why even more than a half-century after his death, people are still fascinated with whether Albert Einstein believed in God. (Answer: If you mean a personal God who hears prayers, then no, he didn’t.) Some prominent scientists frequently offer their views about big-ticket subjects outside their field; for example, the famous astronomers Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson both lectured for atheist organizations.

In reality, the exercise may be pointless; the truth about God can probably not be found rationally, but through direct experience alone. So, on we go to the next topic.

Consciousness, though central to all that we perceive about everything, is generally ignored – mostly because it’s hard to get any kind of handle on it. It’s truly mysterious. All we have is guesswork, since science can’t explain how awareness might arise from non-sentient chemicals and elements. We don’t even know how consciousness comes to pass in individuals. In a fetus? At birth? How, exactly? And might it be a fundamental quality of nature?

As for free will, The New York Times has grown fascinated with it during the past few years, and has run several front-page articles about new research suggesting that it’s an illusion. If so, then all the fretting and squirming that some of us do is unnecessary, since our thoughts, plans and actions unfold “on their own” beyond our control, effortlessly, and we might as well just relax and enjoy every moment of life.

Anyway, do you have any deep “must-know” questions not on this short list? What are they?

– Bob Berman

Big-media editors are convinced that the hottest ongoing space topics are: finding another Earth; humans going to Mars; the search for extraterrestrial life; and comets and asteroids on a collision course with our own planet.

method is taught in standing poses and other fundamental postures. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9:30am Serving and Staying in Place - SSIP/ New Paltz. Regular Tuesday social breakfast meeting for seniors who want to remain in their own home and community. Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. Info: 845 255-0609.

9:30am The Saugerties Seniors Meeting.

Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP)is a social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845 255-0609.

9:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

10am-2:30pm Community Quilting - Project Linus. This group sews quilts for children who are homeless or gravely ill in Ulster County.

Quilting experience not necessary. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, helpdesk@olivefreelibrary.org, http://www.olivefreelibrary.org.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents. More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4853445 x. 3423.

10am The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker

Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley.

Info: 845 744-3055.

10:30am-11:30am Together Tuesdays. Janice leads this story, craft, and play hour for kids birth through preschool. Come join the friendly gang of local parents. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary. org.

10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

11am Successful Aging. Rhinebeck Senior Friendship Center/Memorial Lutheran Church, 1232 Route 308, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-758-0571, ofa@dutchessny.gov, dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/Departments/Aging.

11:30am-12:30pm Lunch & Learn: Steps to Maintaining a Healthy Brain. Special presentation and free lunch sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association of the Hudson Valley. RSVP required. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. Info: 845-3315300, t.martin@lgbtqcenter.org.

1pm-2pm Esopus Artist Group. Join this ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

3pm-6pm Weekly Community Acupuncture with Kristin Misik. For details and to schedule appointments: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/ accupuncture.html. Held in the Education Annex. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com.

4pm-5pm Youth Hang-Time. Ages 9-13 Event includes crafts, outdoor games, book discussions, movies, wii and informal hangouts. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen.

Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail. com, esopuslibrary.org.

5:30pm-9:30pm American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Renewal Course. This is a recertification class for BLS healthcare providers; participants must have a

Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

current BLS certification to take this recertification course. The new 2015 AHA Guidelines have been released and the material is all new this year. A new textbook is available (February 2016 AHA BLS) and AHA now allows students to use their textbook when taking the written exam.

Course completion results in a certification card from the American Heart Association, valid for two years. For ages 16 to adult. Preregistration and payment are required. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4759742. $50, $65 with text.

6pm-7pm Vinyasa Community Class with Selena Reynolds. An informative community class open to all levels. Reduced-price. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ ws?studioid=3496&stype=-7&sView=week&sLoc=0. $8.

6pm-7pm Weekly Sitting Meditation w/ Walking Meditation. Instruction available.

On-going Tues, 6-7pm. Free & open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-8556, skylake. shambhala.org.

6:30pm-7pm The Body’s Inner Wisdom. Part of the Complimentary Half-Hour to Health series led by Dr. David Lester and held at Lester Chiropractic, 3 Paradies Lane, New Paltz. Lester Chiropractic, 3 Paradies Ln, New Paltz. Info: (845) 255-3300, Lester.chiropractic@gmail. com.

6:30pm The Spotty Dog Trivia Night. Bi-weekly All-Nerd Throwdown. Free. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, 440 Warren St, Hudson. Info: 518-671-6006.

6:30pm-7:30pm Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Meditation with Donna Sherman. $80, pre-registration required.

This eight class series will meet twice a week for one hour - Monday & Wednesdays. $99/8 classes. This 8 class series will meet twice a week for one hour. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: contact@thelivingseed.com.

7pm-10pm Open Mic Nite. Hosted by Ben Rounds, Open Mic Nite at Woodnotes Grille makes Tuesday night the new Friday night for

great entertainment. Listen to talented local singers and bands or showcase your own talents!

No cover. Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm-8:30pm Singing Just for Fun! New Paltz Community Singers. Everyone welcome, everyone gets to choose songs. Going 20+ years. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, New Paltz. genecotton@gmail.com.

7pm-9pm Open Mic. On-going. Free admission.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

7pm-8:30pm Weekly Opportunity Workshop.

Learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Ongoing. Free to attend. Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln (across from Super 8), New Paltz.

7:15pm Music Fan Film Series presents The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith. This documentary is the first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith’s massive archive of photos and audio tapes documenting jazz greats.

Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre. org, rosendaletheatre.org. $7.

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9am-10am Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. A gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation.

Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Yoga. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz.

Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed. com, thelivingseed.com. $15.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with

18 Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with increasing detail and a slower flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9:30am-10:30am ACTing Up! Free weekly program for 2-4-year-olds and their adults Weekly sessions running through. Creative time of songs, stories, games and crafts all facilitated

by Jessica Coons. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. www.athensculturalcenter.org.

10:30am-11:30am Senior Strengthening with Linda Sirkin. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

11:30am-12:45pm Gentle Yoga with Donna Sherman. Soothe and balance the body, mind and spirit using breath and gentle yoga postures.

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-2558212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com. $10 - $11.

11:30am-1pm Free Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Practice Group in New Paltz.

NVC is the work of Marshall Rosenberg and is also known as Compassionate Communication.

Ongoing every 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month. Drop-ins welcome. Register at PracticingPeace-NewPaltz.com. Info: 914-584-9593.

12pm-1pm Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. A series of SOFT foam rolling exercises designed to address excessive tension and soreness which can inhibit proper alignment. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

12pm Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting.

Fellowship, lunch, and an informative and interesting presentation from a guest speaker. Meets every Wed at 12 noon. Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston. kingstonnyrotary.org.

12:30pm-2pm Esopus Stitchers. Cross-stitch, needlepoint, crewel and more- bring your current project or learn a new craft. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen.

Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail. com, esopuslibrary.org.

1pm-2:30pm Restorative Self-care with Gentle Acupressure. With L. Ruth Kalvert, MA, LMT, SME, RYT. Part of ongoing Living Wellness Series, offering monthly guest speaker workshops that introduce specific topics and practices for mindful, healthy living and thriving. Suggested donation $15. Limited space Advance registration required: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/living-wellness.html\. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com.

1pm The Sawkill Seniors Meeting. Beginning with a formal format, followed by a raffle, socializing & refreshments. Card game for those who wish to participate. New members are welcome.

Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Town of Kingston Town Hall, Kingston. Info: 845 336-5164.

1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo.

Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845 647-3902. $1.

2pm-3:30pm Mah Jongg. Learn to play this ancient Asian game. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-3385580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

3pm-5:45pm Tech Time. It’s never too late to become more engaged with the digital side of life. Come with questions about devices, the internet, programs, etc. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3pm The Chess Club. For experienced adult players from 3-4:30pm; Beginners will meet 4:30-5:30pm. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845 255-1255, librarian@gardinerlibrary.org.

4:30pm-6pm Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For more advanced students who are well-practiced in Iyengar Yoga. Taught

by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

4:30pm-5:30pm Art Hour. Fun for ages 3 to 103! From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5pm-7pm Teen Tech Tutor. Call to reserve a time or drop in. Need help with your laptop, tablet, smartphone, or other device? Complete beginners welcome. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, http://www.gardinerlibrary.org.

5pm-6pm Beginner Muay Thai for Adults.

For ages 14 to 65. Learn the ancient martial art of Muay Thai in this high intensity class.

Students of all levels and abilities are welcome.

Free ongoing class. Stockade, 302 Wall St, Kingston. stockademuaythai.com.

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January 5, 2017

5:15pm-6:15pm Italian Conversation Class.

Weekly class is designed for people who have some knowledge of the Italian language and would like to improve their conversational skills.

Taught by Dr. Ornella Lepri Mazzuca. Held in the library community room. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-2551255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org.

5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh. Info: 845 563-8043.

5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service. Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions. Everyone welcome. 845 679-9534.

First Church of Christ Scientist, 85 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-9534.

6pm-8pm MEETING OF ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network). A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). African Roots Library/ Family Partnership Center, 29 N Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4758781, enjan.org.

6pm-7:30pm Vinyasa Yoga with Lisa Watkinsa. Strengthen mind, body and spirit. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com. $15, $11 senior, $10 Vet Discount.

6pm-7pm Tween Program. Includes 3-D Modeling Projects, Advisory Board, Robot Club, Games & even Pizza! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-3385580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

6pm-7:30pm Creative Seed Support Workgroup. For artists to voice their works in progress in a supportive environment. For Songwriters, Playwrights & Actors.Held by Patrice Blue Maltas, Actress, Playwright, Musician and founder of Blue Healing Arts Center. Meets Wednesday nights, 6-7:30pm. Blue Healing Art Center, 107 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: Patricebluemaltas@gmail.com, bluehealing.co.

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:30pm-8pm Yin Yoga with Diane Davis. A slow, steady class that gently stimulates connective tissues to make them stronger, while cultivating mindfulness and awareness. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

6:30pm-9pm Roiger-Levin-Menegon Jazz Trio. Featuring Teri Roiger (voice), Pete Levin (piano), John Menegon (bass). No cover charge (but reservations are advised for the lounge area). Annarella Ristorante, 276 Malden Turnpike, Saugerties. Info: 845-255-8811.

6:30pm-7:30pm Ulster County Photo Club.

Photographers of all ages and skill levels are welcome to join this group. Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of Each Month. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

6:30pm-7:05pm Learn Remembrance. A very holy and deep form of prayer (with roots in the Old Testament - Remember my name in the night) which connects you with the Divine within. All are welcome, RSVP please. Free / donations welcomed. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8989, Meetup.flowingspirit.com.

7pm-10pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage: “Anything Mose” Richard Julian & The John Chin Quartet. Wed. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm-9pm Speed Friending & Queer-aoke.

Meet new LGBTQ friends and network at this fast paced speed-dating style hangout and then belt out tunes during queer karaoke. Even. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. Info: 845-331-5300, lgbtqcenter.org. $5/suggested donation.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground Jazz Sessions. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground Jazz Sessions. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Trivia Night. Calling all trivia nerds~Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes at their weekly Trivia Night! Play solo or as part of a team while enjoying extended Happier Hour Specials. Think of it as “Jeopardy Night“ – Catskills style! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm-11pm Music by DJ Madd Mike. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Steakhouse, 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

7pm-11pm Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-9048.

7pm-9pm Volleyball. A pickup volleyball game.

Ongoing every Wednesday, 7-9pm. Enter the Center at the entrance on the left side, as you face the school from Lucas Ave. Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. Info: 845 616-0710. $6.

Mug shot of Cathy Wilkerson that appeared on an FBI Most Wanted poster

EVENT

Weather Underground’s Cathy Wilkerson to speak about activism

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s there anything helpful that contemporary social activists can learn from the survivors of the most radicalized arm of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), known as the Weather Underground? How, for instance, can one engage in active resistance without crossing the line into violence?

For many involved in the peace movement of the 1960s, the moment when things began unraveling – when antiwar activists’ hold on the moral high ground became hopelessly slippery – occurred on March 6, 1970, when three members of the Weather Underground were killed in an explosion that destroyed a townhouse at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, where they were working on constructing a nail bomb in the sub-basement. Two of their colleagues, Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson, whose father owned the building, were upstairs at the time and managed to escape relatively unhurt. Both became fugitives, named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and Wilkerson successfully evaded the authorities for another ten years.

In 1980, Wilkerson gave herself up and served nearly a year in prison, convicted of criminally negligent homicide and illegal possession of dynamite. She has spent the ensuing four decades teaching mathematics and writing adult education curricula. Her memoir, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times in the Weather Underground, was published in 2007.

With a long track record of volunteer work in the Civil Rights movement prior to her involvement with SDS and the Weathermen, Wilkerson has offered to share the hard lessons of her past with the activists of today who are trying to plan a constructive way forward under the Trump administration. Time & Space Limited (TSL) in Hudson will host the former radical on Friday, January 6 at 6:30 p.m. in a talk titled “Cathy Wilkerson: What’s Next?”

With a $10 admission fee to cover the cost of a group supper (tamales, rice and beans, salad and beer), this event is intended for TSL members only. However, new members can sign up at the door. RSVP by calling (518) 822-8100 or e-mailing fyi@timeandspace.org. For more info, visit www.timeandspace. org. TSL is located at 434 Columbia Street in Hudson.

– Frances Marion Platt “Cathy Wilkerson: What’s Next?” supper/talk, Friday, January 6, 6:30 p.m., $10 members, Time & Space, Ltd., 434 Columbia Street, Hudson; (518) 8228100, fyi@timeandspace.org, www.timeandspace.org.

7pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. On-going. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 8/wk curriculum. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@ kagyu.org.

Music Fan Film Series presents The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith. This documentary is the first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith’s massive archive of photos and audio tapes documenting jazz greats. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-6588989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $7. Ends at 7:15pm.

7:15pm-8pm Silent Spiritual Practice. For people who would like to do spiritual practice together to increase the potency of the practice.

For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please, Free /donations welcomed. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8989, Meetup.flowingspirit.com.

7:30pm Chess Club. Mee ts e ver y Wednesday,7:30pm. Free admission. Woodland Pond at New Paltz/ Performing Arts Center, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-2737, albiebar@aol.com.

7:30pm The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. All male a cappella group, that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight-reading not required.

Meets every Wednesdays at 7:30pm. Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeep-

sie. newyorkerschorus.org.

8:30pm-11pm Live at Catskill Mountain Pizza Company: Acoustic Jazz Trio. Featuring Syracuse/Siegel Duo, bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel. No cover or minimum! Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, 51 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-7969.

10pm Reggae Night. Featuring Queen Tubby spinning vintage vinyl every Wednesday starting at 10pm. No cover. Happy Hour from 6-8 pm.

Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

Thursday

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6:30am-8am Mysore Ashtanga Practice.

Intended to help you build a personal, self-led practice. A teacher is on hand to guide you along.

Meets every Mon-Thur, 6:30-8am. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

8am-9am Senior Feel Good Aerobics with Diane Collelo. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

8:30am-9:30am Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845

January 5, 2017 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

9am-10:30am Restorative Movement: 8-Session Alexander Technique Class. Facilitated by Elizabeth Castagna. Jan 12th-March 9th. Please see website for details and to advance register: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/restorative-movement.html. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com.

9am-9:50am Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John.

Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels.

A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

9:30am-10:30am Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening.

Woodstock Town Hall. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents. More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4853445 x. 3423.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only.

No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter. org, tara-spayneuter.org.

10am-11am Women’s Yoga with Cory Smith. A variation of Gentle Yoga, this is a sacred space for women to deepen their spiritual practice while enhancing their health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. Info: 845 679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two.

10am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Ongoing, every Thursday at 10 am.

Current study: Book of Jeremiah. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information 845 246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties.

12:15pm-12:45pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for half-hour of silent sitting meditation. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Admission by donation. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/communitymeditation.

12:30pm Old Dutch Village Garden Club Regular Meeting. Held the second Thursday of each month at 12:30pm. All meetings are free and open to the public, visitors welcome!

St. John’s Reformed Church, 126 Old Post Rd N, Red Hook. Info: 845 758-1184, olddutchvillagegc@gmail.com.

1pm-2pm Hearing Loss Support Group. Information & support to those who have or live with someone with hearing loss. Strategies for maintaining & improving quality of life. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, facebook.com/ events/690143374494649/.

1pm-4pm Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge.

Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Rescue Squad Community Room, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm-7pm Free Compassionate & Holistic / Alternative. Healthcare for free in Kingston.

Many Holistic Practitioners will be volunteering their time monthly to provide these services, including: Massage, Chiropractic, Reiki, Other Energy and Body Work, Acupuncture, CranioSacral Massage, Deep Tissue Body Work, and Hypnosis. They now have a LACTATION AND PRENATAL specialist offering a BREASTFEEDING CAFE, and a Doula coming on board very soon.

The Kirkland, Kingston. healthcareisahumanright.com.

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ALMANAC WEEKLY 4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

4pm Free Fitness Class. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30 pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed

by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

5pm-6pm Sacred Movement and Alignment with Clyde Forth. We will work with postural alignments and their relationship to expressive movement and balance to build strength and increase mobility. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

5:15pm Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

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7pm Winter Flight Nights. Enjoy 6 oz. Craft Beer Flights paired with Venison, Beef and Sausage Sliders. Enjoy at the Woodnotes Grille bar or cozied up next to a roaring fire on the deck or in the Great Room. $20 per pair! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm-11pm A Not Too OPEN MIC! Hosted by Ras T Asheber. Calling ALL Rappers, Poets, Story Tellers, Actors, Comedians, Singers and Players of Instruments, Every Thursday night, 8pm - 11pm. Artists sign up 7pm - 8pm. For info call/text 212-920-1221 or email showtime@ gothamcitywork.com. No cover. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, thelodgewoodstockny@gmail. com, thelodgewoodstock.com/.

7pm Bingo! Meet the 2nd & 4th Thursdays 7pm.

Doors open at 6pm. Prizes & food. Sponsored by the Beekman Fire Company Auxiliarly Inc. Beekman Fire House, 316 Beekman- Poughquag Rd, Poughquag.

7:30pm Woodstock Board of Fire Commissioners Meeting. Woodstock Fire Company #1, 242 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6pm-9pm Free Fly Tying Night at Anglers’ Den in Pawling. All experience levels welcome.

Feel free just to come hang out to If you plan on attending, we recommended that you call the shop or email prior to give us a heads up so we can best accommodate you! (845) 855- 5182.

Anglers’ Den, 11 West Main St, Pawling. Info: 845-855-5182, anglersden.net.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Free, $5 donation welcome. All proceeds go directly to FOW. Ongoing. Family of Woodstock, 39 John St, Kingston. Info: 845 706-2183.

6pm-7pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing. Free and open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

7:30pm Reading, Meditation & Discussion.

Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. Info: 845 679-8322, info@ matagiri.org.

6pm Tasty Tunes Open Mic. Each musician gets to perform 2 songs or 10 minutes (whichever comes first) of family friendly music. Meets every Thursday night at 6pm. Sign up for musicians begins at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Taste Budd’s Cafe, 40 West Market St, Red Hook.

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:30pm-8pm Reggae Yoga. This Vinyasa class uses reggae music to evoke the spirit of Jamaica to create an irie yoga time. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. Free, by donation.

6:30pm-8pm STEPS OF MEDITATION. Free weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls.

Info: 518-589-5000, peacevillage@bkwsu.org, bkwsu.org.

6:30pm-7:45pm Caregiver Support Group.

Phoenicia Fire House, Rt 214, Phoenicia.

7pm Fireside “Chat” at St. James’ Chapel.

“The History of the FDR Presidential Library”.

Lecture presented by Paul Sparrow, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. Reception will follow. St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park. Info: 845-229-2820, stjamesoffice@ stjameshydepark.org.

7pm Birds of the Hudson River – with Alan Peterson. The Hudson River estuary and the mid-Hudson valley are home to a wide variety of bird species, both migratory and year-round residents. There are nearly 200 breeding species in the valley, many in need of conservation and habitat protection. With the improvements in water quality many species that were near extinction or absent for many years have returned. This event is free and open to the public. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. Info: 845-463-4660, beaconsloopclub.org.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander,Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-3484.

Friday

4am-6pm Opening Reception: Devereux Art Show. Showcasing art work made by the adult Advanced Behavioral Health residents. Located in the Center Hall. Art Therapists Ellen Stewart and Gloria De Pietro have been working with the residents using a variety of media such as paint, paper maché, watercolor, clay, markers, colored paper and other found objects, investigating ways for creative expression. Show will exhibit through 2/1. Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. Info: 845-331-1660 ext. 221.

7:45am-8:45am Low-Cost Dental Clinic. TARA now offers low-cost dental cleanings for those in need. This service is for previously spayed/ neutered dogs and cats only. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are

7pm Thursday Night Live: Art by Susan Slotnick. All are invited. Free Admission. Susan graduated SUNY New Paltz with a BS in Art Education. Susan has since had many careers – as dance teacher, choreographer and writer.

Throughout, she paints! She will discuss how emotion and experience inform her art. Snow date Jan. 19th. Jewish Community Center, 30 North Chestnut St, New Paltz.

7pm-8:30pm MEETING OF MECR (Middle East Crisis Response). A group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East.

Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

Info: 845-876-7906, mideastcrisis.org.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground Stand Up. Comedy. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm-9:30pm Open Mic Night with Jeff Entin.

Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley to Open Mic night. Bring your instrument and talent to the Cafe stage.

High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls.

Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.

9:45am-10:45am Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

11:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

12pm-2:30pm Men’s Group: 8 Sessions. Facilitated by Paul Lichtenberg. Please see website for details & to advance register: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/men%e2%80%99s-group.html.

Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter. com.

12pm Opening: 20th Anniversary Chili Bowl Exhibition. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Ln, Kingston. Info: 845-658-9133, wsworkshop.org.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvementof balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility.

Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

1pm-3:30pm New Bridge Group at Community Center. Free. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. Info: 617-308-9993.

4pm “Knit Wits” Knitting Club. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Rejuvenating and supported postures that soothe the nervous system and alleviate tension. Lots of props and dim lights. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

6pm Movie Night: Florence Foster Jenkins.

Meryl Streep plays a wealthy heiress whose passion outweighs her talent as she attempts to become an opera singer. Rated PG-13, 110 minutes. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

6pm-9pm Nick From No Where. Featuring 40’s standards and covers. Vigneto’s, 890 Vineyard Ave, Highland. Info: 845-834-2828.

6:30pm-7:30pm Line Dancing. Join Deborah Silvestro as she teaches the steps that will let you dance to popular Country, Rock n Roll, Zydeco, Waltz and Cha Cha tunes. Town of

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7pm-10pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage: Frank Carillo. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Powerman 5000, Orgy, Hellride 102, Caustic Method. The Chance, 6 Crannell St, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-471-1966, thechancetheater.com. $20.

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Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail. com, esopuslibrary.org.

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7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. Murali Coryell. Blues Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

9am-3pm American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider Course. Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care.

It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large group sessions and small group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented. You must have a current BLS certification to take this course. Course completion results in a two-year ACLS certification from the American Heart Association. Preregistration and payment are required. Text included.

Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-475-9742. $225.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. Island Head Reggae. Reggae Fusion. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9am. All welcome. No charge.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-3285.

7pm Conversations at Boughton Place. Meets on the second Friday of each month at 7 pm.

Event takes place on Moreno Stage. Boughton Place,, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. $5 /suggested donation.

9am Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-6923, cdfcirone@aol.com.

7pm-8:30pm DC Caruso presents The Winner.

Meet the Davenports, a struggling young couple who quickly begin to question if winning the lottery is worth all the money. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452558300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail. com.

7pm Friday Night Jazz. NYC saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

Info: 518 678-3101.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845 647-3902. $1.

8pm-11pm Acoustic Excellence. Mike Hickey and Brien Milbauer play some of your favorite covers. Music every Friday night at the farm. Pennings Farm Market, Warwick. Info: 845-986-1059, penningsfarmmarket.com.

9pm Bindlestiff Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret.

Adult oriented show. Doors open 6pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 5188284800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, http://www.ticketfly.com/venue/25373-clubhelsinki/.

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Motorcycle parts and accessories for sale!

Admission fee includes access to both Venues.

Also, Motorcyclepedia, Newburgh 10am-2pm.

Resnicks, Newburgh. Info: 845-569-9065, motorcyclepediamuseum.org.

8am-6pm CatskillMercantile.com Online Shopping Hub. CatskillMercantile.com officially launches this month with an online shopping hub featuring products inspired by the Catskill and Adirondack regions of NY State. With the innumerable events, activities and attractions during the weekend, there can be limited time to shop. An increasing number of visitors are looking to the web for gifts and souvenirs that can be ordered online and delivered direct to their home. Today, Almanac Weekly readers receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”. Available Saturdays & Sundays through 1/22. receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”.

8am Writing Group. This writing group will offer bi-weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique & the opportunity to share work-in-progress. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

8:30am-9:30am Vinyasa Yoga with Laura Olson. A fast-paced vinyasa flow class that works up a nice sweat while keeping things light and fun. Great for kickstarting the weekend.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Wood-

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9:30am-11am Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going. Everyone welcome. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8800.

10am-12pm Learn to Meditate: One-time Introductory Classa. Open to All, facilitated by Carrie Schapker, LMSW. Fee is $25.

Please see website for details & to advance register:wellnessembodiedcenter.com/learnto-meditate.html. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com.

10am-2pm Indoor Motorcycle Swap Meet.

Motorcycle parts and accessories for sale!

Admission fee includes access to both Venues.

Also, Resnicks, Newburgh 8am-2pm. Motorcyclepedia Museum, 250 Lake St, Newburgh. Info: 845-569-9065, motorcyclepediamuseum.org.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents. More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4853445 x. 3423.

10am Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Starlab: Indoor Planetarium. Three Sessions: 10am, 11:30am, & 1pm. Take a celestial adventure in the magical night sky via the Starlab!

Come learn how to identify the major constellations and stars while hearing Native American and Greek stories of how they were created.

This inflatable planetarium is recommended for adults and children four years and up. Prepaid registration is required. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall. Info: 845-534-5506, x204, hhnm.org. $12.

10am-12pm Saturday Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, you are welcome to join. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-0624, newbabynewpaltz@ yahoo.com, newbabynewpaltz.com.

10am-12pm Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845 687-7023, stoneridgelibrary.org/.

10am-9pm Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Candlewax in any condition to be recycled.

Ongoing. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

January 5, 2017 photographer Steve Aaron, discussion of planning and gear, and some of Ken’s adventures during his 2013 record-setting thru-run of the trail. Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 State Route 28, Mt. Tremper.

Info: 845-586-2611, ejohanson@catskillcenter. org, catskillcenter.org.

10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO,. Cornell St PO, Kingston. Info: 845 399-2805.

1pm Sit and Knit. Bring a project or start a new one while sitting on the comfy couches in the Information Room window area. Meets every Saturday at 1 pm. All are welcome. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

11am-2pm WinterFest 2017. Chili contest, wagon rides, children’s events, toasted marshmallows, & roasted chestnuts. WinterFest 2017, 101 New Paltz Road, Highland, New York.

Info: 845.691.6313, peterbellizzi@optonline. net, hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net. $2/adults, free/ children 6 & under.

1:30pm-4:30pm Robot Club. This (semi) weekly club allows kids to come and work on robotics projects with fellow budding engineers! Ages 9-16. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. Call 688-7811 to register.

11am-12pm Growing Microgreens Workshop.

Learn to grow nutritious and delicious microgreens in your home. Preregistration for this free event required: programs@olivefreelibrary.org.

Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan.

Info: 845-657-2482, helpdesk@olivefreelibrary. org, olivefreelibrary.org.

11am-5pm Minnewaska Preserve/Sam’s Point: Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. Every Saturday through March, weather permitting. It is designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing as a new winter activity. Each session will be run by a Sam’s Point employee who will provide instruction on how to properly wear and adjust the snowshoes, as well as work with you until you are ready to head out on your favorite trail with confidence. The lesson may last up to one hour. Snowshoes are available to rent for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor. Info: 845-255-0752.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. 3 computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11am-4pm Winter Olana Tour. Friday-Sunday, first tour 11 am, last tour 3 pm. Olana, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. olana.org.

12pm-5pm Winter Holiday Art Exhibition.

Presented by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. and Bannerman Island Gallery. Show will exhibit through 1/29. The exhibition will be a small works art show. Gallery Hours for the duration of the show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon – 5pm and weekdays by chance and appointment. Bannerman Island Gallery (BIG), 150 Main St, Beacon. Info: 845-234-3204 or 845-416-8342, bannermancastle.org.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Donations appreciated. Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. sarah@ womenspowerspace.org.

12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz.

1pm-2pm Three Keys to Pain Free Living with Dr. Tieri. Dr. Tieri, who specializes in the holistic hands-on practice of osteopathic manipulation will show easy ways of stretching and strengthening in order to avoid or overcome pain associated with the “Golden Years.” Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, helpdesk@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary.org.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

1pm Running the Long Path. A 350-mile Journey of Discovery in New York’s Hudson Valley Mt. Tremper, NY – Everything you wanted to know about the Long Path..but were afraid to ask! Ken Posner will speak about this 358-mile Long Path which stretches from New York City all the way to Thacher State Park outside Albany. The presentation will feature the history of the Long Path, including the voice of historical figures like Walt Whitman and John Burroughs, landscape images by award-winning

Ulster County Legislature Local Law Number 6 Of 2016 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending The Code Of The County Of Ulster To Limit The Gifts That County Officers And Employees May Receive BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, as follows: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND FINDINGS. The Ulster County Legislature (“Legislature”) hereby finds that Ulster’s County’s current ethics law should be strengthened to preclude the possibility of improper gifting to officers and employees from members of the public.

The Legislature further finds that prescribing an annual, monetary limit for gifts received by officers and employees of the County from the same individual, business, or organization will reduce the opportunity for inappropriate influence to our County’s leadership.

SECTION 2. PROHIBITIONS. Section 44-4 Standard of conduct. C. Gifts. of Chapter 44. Ethics and Disclosure of the Code of the County of Ulster is hereby amended as follows:

C. Gifts. No County officer or employee shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, accept, or receive any gift(s) or financial benefit valued over $75 from any one person, business, or organization in a calendar year under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence such County officer or employee in the performance of his/her official duties or was intended to be a reward for any official action on his/her part.

SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. In the event that any portion of this Local Law is found to be invalid, such finding will not have any effect on either the remaining portions or applications of this Local Law or any provisions of the Code of the County of Ulster, which shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Office of the Secretary of State.

Adopted by the County Legislature: November 22, 2016 Approved by the County Executive: December 8, 2016 Filed with New York State Department of State: December 15, 2016

2pm Gardiner Library Music Lover’s Group Meeting. This free group meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2pm. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845 255-1255, gardinerlibrary.org.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

4pm-5pm Photography Exhibit Opening. Photographer and photo restorer Robert Every will have a solo photography exhibit in the Community Room highlighting landscape photographs of the Catskills and the Ashokan Reservoir. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, helpdesk@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary.org.

4:30pm-6pm Awaken the New Year. The Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, under the baton of guest conductor Ronald Besmirch, offers a concert of choral gems for the New Year. Christ Episcopal Church, 20 Carroll St, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-8537765, info@cappellafestiva.org, cappellafestiva. org. $15 ($13 Advanced Sale) ~ General Admission $12 ($10 Advanced Sale) ~ Senior Citizens $5 ~ Students.

5pm-7pm Second Saturday - Sugar Loaf Art & Craft Village. A community art event with extended store hours, art exhibits, jewelry demos, refreshments and artists sharing their unique talents.

Sugar Loaf Art & Craft Village, Sugar Loaf. Info: 845-467-8427, sugarloafnewyork.com.

6pm Opening Reception: New Year/New Works.

A showcase of never-shown works by the entire gallery membership. . Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. The exhibit will feature brand new works of the artists and/or new works to the gallery never before shown, and is an opportunity for all members to be featured. Exhibits through 2/6.

Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-2667, tivoliartistsgallery.com.

6pm-7:30pm Exhibit Opening: People of the Civil Rights Era Seen in Photographs by Jim Peppler. This exhibit features photographs Mr. Peppler took while reporting for The Southern Courier 1965 - 68. It will run through February 28.

Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org/.

7pm Discussion on Presidential Transition.

Featuring American political strategist and Showtime producer Mark McKinnon with the host of PBS’s “The Open Mind” Alexander Heffner. Registration required. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

7pm-8:30pm DC Caruso presents The Winner.

Meet the Davenports, a struggling young couple who quickly begin to question if winning the lottery is worth all the money. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452558300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. Roseann Fino. Urban Americana. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. Soñando!

Latin Dance. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm-11:30pm Acoustic & Electric Evening of Music. Meets the Second Saturday of each month.

Bring a plate and or beverage to share. The Gallery is open from 2- 11:30pm. Music formally begins at 7pm, ending at 11:30pm. Come earlyand tour the artwork! The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford. tim@ touhey.com. $5/donation.

7:30pm The Princes Of Serendip. Folk/Traditional. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 670-2079, info@woodstockguild. org, woodstockguild.org/delgadobell.html.

8pm Common Ground on the Mountain. Aztec Two-Step, Walt Michael, Professor Louie & the Crowmatix, Greg Dayton, and the Greene Room Show Choir come together at the Orpheum!

Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville. Info: 518-263-2000, cmf@catskillmtn.org, catskillmtn.org/events/ performances/2017-01-14-common-ground-onthe-mountain-a-concert-of-folk-bluegrass-andacoustic-music-916.html. $7 - $30 Ticket prices vary.

8:30pm Good Time Feeling Tour 2017: The Brothers of the Road Band. Rock. Towne Crier Cafe, 379 Main St., Beacon. Info: 845-855-1300, townecrier.com.

10pm Dance Party. Featuring DJ Majic Juan. Every Saturday night. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewood-

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Always ready to get you there. Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Going to LaGuardia Airport? There is limited parking. Call Stu’s Car Service for prices. Cell- 845-649-5350; stu@hvc.rr.com Look for me on Facebook.

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January 5, 2017 w/220 electric, heated w/wood stove. Full basement that could easily be finished living space. $1700/month plus utilities.

First, last, security. Background check, references and past rental history required. No dogs. Call 845-401-6637 or email: watswill8@aol.com

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Help Wanted

2017 is the year!

Let your heart lead you to a great place to work...

As one of the area’s largest employers, we provide heartwarming opportunities every day where you motivate and enrich the lives of others. We continue to grow, and are filling direct support positions in our residences in Kingston, Saugerties, Stone Ridge, Hurley, Woodstock, Olivebridge, Catskill, New Paltz, Ellenville, and more!

Residential Specialists support and encourage the wonderful people at these residences in many areas of their lives, as they strive to achieve their personal goals and desires.

We offer an informative paid new hire orientation in a comfortable learn¬ing environment at our Training Center. A HS diploma/GED is preferred; an Associates or Bachelors degree in Human Services, Psychology or a related field is a definite plus. An acceptable NYS Driver’s license is required.

Starting salaries are $10 to $11 per hour, and may include training compensation bonuses, and shift differentials for evenings, overnights and weekends.

Contact our Recruitment Team today at (845) 331-4300, ext. 246 or 233

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BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE SUMMER HOME , located on the north end of the Lake, 66 plus feet of Lake Front comes with this home. Watch the sun set from your expansive deck which encompasses 2/3 of this home. Three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen and full bath. 3 sliding glass doors looking directly to the lake. Basement for storage, all on 6/10 of an acre. As a bonus there is a commercial dock for your boat and others. Please call for more information and price 845-691-2770.

EFFICIENCY: UTILITIES INCLUDED. No pets. No smoking. Country setting. Quiet. Available now. 5 miles from New Paltz.

Call 845-883-0072.

HIGHLAND: 2-BEDROOM upstairs end unit. $1150/month. Heat & hot water included. Freshly painted. New carpet. Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking.

Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. 845-453-0047.

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The Ridge at New Paltz: Energy-Star 2-bedroom unit. Private entry leads into open-floor plan. Kitchen includes gas range, dishwasher, microwave & refrigerator. Living room w/sliding patio doors onto private deck, fireplace, ceramic tiled entry, kitchen & bath, washer/dryer connection, large windows & walk-in closet. Quiet country setting. Walking distance to village. Security & references required. No pets. No smoking. $1450/month plus utilities. 845-255-5047 or debbie@seakill.com

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21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts.

Pets welcome! No security deposit option.

3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.

NEW PALTZ: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT at Village Arms. Top floor end unit w/view. Hardwood floors, A/C. Asking $115,000. Maintenance= $323/ month. Call owner/broker at 845-5944433.

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New Paltz: Five Room Office Space located at 235-B Main Street, New Paltz, NY. Please call 845-256-0775 and ask for Vincent.

Two Separate Rooms available in a lovely Victorian building in New Paltz.

All utilities and WiFi included. $415/ & $450/month. (845)255-0559.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2017 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $480/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845-419-2568, leave message.

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT, second floor.

Wood floors, newly renovated, full bath, great light. 1870s barn. $1300/month in-

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1-BEDROOM GUEST COTTAGE, Rhinebeck. Kitchen, dining, living room, laundry, deck, carport. No pets/smoking. $950/month plus utilities. Rental application, references, 1-year lease, first, last & security deposit. 845-392-3682 or 845453-8562.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

Woodstock: 3-Bedroom Unfurnished House for rent in village. Quiet side street. 3-bedrooms, full bath, stainless kitchen appliances, working fireplace, front yard, veg garden, shed. $2250/mo.

Text/call 845.807.1233.

COTTAGE. 2 miles to the center of town of Woodstock. Large windows. Full bathroom. Wood floors. Furnished. Beautiful plantings & grounds, big trees. Walk to Bear Cafe. On 2.5 acres of land. $700/ month plus utilities. Owner/broker, call Mike 845-417-5282.

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1-BEDROOM/STUDIO, Kingston Uptown. On bus route, walk to Stockade area, shopping, conveniences. No smoking or pets. Heat & hot water provided.

Security & references required. Call 845338-4574.

cludes all except WiFi & electric. No dogs, cats, indoor smoking. Available 1/15/17. 5 minutes by car outside village. Please call 845-255-5355 or text 256-8160.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

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Ridge Rentals

Near Rosendale, efficiency apartment, suitable for 1 person. Quiet park-like setting with pond on beautiful Shawangunk Ridge with hiking trails at your door. $725/ month with utilities. First, last and security.

Non-smoker. No pets. 845-658-9332

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

3-Bedroom, 1 bath Cape in Hurley. 5 minutes from NYC bus. About 1-acre of land, situated back from the road. Large back yard. Full house length screened-in front porch w/optional storm windows. Newly refinished hardwood oak floors, remodeled bathroom, all walls & ceilings painted within the last year. Recently upgraded furnace w/baseboard heat. House has two drilled wells. The work shed/garage is equipped

WONDERFUL WOODSTOCK WALKUP. In town (Neher Street). High ceilings flooded w/light from 2 huge North-facing windows. Sleeping loft. Small deck w/view of mountains. Single, mature, quiet individual only. $850/month plus utilities.

845-901-1020.

CREEKSIDE STUDIO APARTMENT. Walking distance to Woodstock & bus route. $525/month utilities not included.

References required. Please call or *text preferred 845-594-9257.

Woodstock: Lovely 1-BR in quiet, small apartment complex, beautiful grounds.

Immaculately maintained! Hardwood floors, newly painted. 16 min. walk to village of Woodstock. $885/month includes all utilities. NO smoking. NO pets. References. (845)679-9717.

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New & Used Books

Books Wanted. Barner Books buys quality used, rare, and out of print books wanted. Cash for your books and related goods (typewriters, maps, pens etc). Visit the store (3 Church Street, New Paltz), email us barnerbooks@gmail.com, or call, 845-255-2635.

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Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259.

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HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259.

Residential, Municipalities.

Firewood for Sale. Pick-up Truckload= $160. (less than a cord). Local delivery.

Call 658-8766 or 845-706-7197.

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ACCORD HOME WITH POND Bright sky-lit home on a generously sized property with a wood stove in the living room. In the back there is a spacious garage with adjacent green house and privately sited swimmable pond. This is a nice well maintained house ready for its new owners to enjoy.........................................................$249,000

NEW YEAR, NEW STRATEGY! Thinking of selling or buying in 2017? Your Westwood professional will analyze every aspect of the local Real Estate market to provide you with a winning strategy to reach your Real Estate goals. With over 36 years’ experience and decades as a residential sales leader, our cutting-edge technologies and commitment to service gets results. Beat the expected interest rate increase NOW!

CALLING ALL PRIVACY SEEKERS! Nestled in the woods sits this contemporary home on 13.7 acres filled with natural light due to several skylights. Above the garage there is guest space or an access apartment with the installation of a small kitchen. There is an additional 6.2 acres adjacent to this property listed separately that’s available as well. ...................................$389,000

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KINGSTON OPPORTUNITY - Much admired MULTI-USE bldg. offers 3200+ versatile SF in a pre-eminent live/work location. Irreplaceable architectural detailing, impressive double entry, ceramic fireplace mantels, gracious stairway, HW floors, French doors & more!

Restore to a grand & gracious single family home or continue as multi-use OFFICE SPACE PLUS rental INCOME from 2 apartments with sep. entrance. MOTIVATED SELLER! $299,900

HEART OF THE CATSKILLS - Perfectly adorable wood-sided home on a quiet country road just minutes to vibrant Phoenicia’s shops, restaurants and services. Framed by established gardens, this cutie features a spacious open plan eat-in country kitchen, hardwood & ceramic floors, 23’ living room with cozy wood burner, 3 bedrooms + office with separate entrance, deck and huge attic for possible expansion. .......................... $187,500

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ALL DRESSED UP - Picturesque country road provides the perfect 3.9 acre setting for this completely & stylishly updated Mid-Century ranch (c. 1956). Superb open floor plan unites living and dining spaces around a stunning custom kitchen with granite counters & SS appliances.

Three BRs include 22’ ensuite MBR w/ cozy brick fireplace & luxe bath, NEW hardwood floors throughout, NEW windows, roof, mechanicals & 2 car garage, too! JUST MOVE IN! ....... $334,900

KINGSTON CLASSIC - Meticulously restored & renovated c. 1865 brick Greek Revival in fine Uptown location. Ultra-gracious interior with w/ abundant original detail & smart modern updates including new eat-in kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, fireplaces in LR & formal DR, ensuite MBR w/ sleek bath, 24’ family/media room, 3rd level den/office, private fenced yard with charming 2 car garage perfect for studio or guest house. MUST SEE! .................... $600,000

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L IS FOR LOVELY This 3-bedroom home was handcrafted and converted from an original barn with spacious rooms & high ceilings, making this home a “one of a kind, open concept” original. The property has been thoughtfully landscaped to provide a great setting for outdoor entertainment. The rear of the property borders natural woods for a wonderful sense of privacy. The garage has very high ceilings, it would make for a spacious workshop with plenty of room left over for autos, ATVs and/or motorcycles. Just minutes from Mohonk, Gardiner, New Paltz and downtown Highland, as well as the NYS Thruway for a quick commute to NYC. Call George Graham or Mike Crocitto .........................$349,000 BUILT FOR THE FAMILY By the seller’s grandfather, this one he built to raise the family, and he also constructed several houses in Ulster County. Built from the trees harvested from the property, the family enjoyed growing up in this well-made, 3-bedroom 2½ bath, home with lots of period custom cabinets included in the original mid-century kitchen and in good condition. The living room is very large and has an office area complete with pine walls and built in shelves.

Cast iron baseboards throughout provide nice even heat. The stucco exterior gives this home real charm and is low maintenance. The 3-car detached garage is of a concrete block construction with a good roof and has a steel I-beam. A nice, big, level yard for outdoor family gatherings with complete privacy from neighbors. Call George Graham or Mike Crocitto today! ........................................................................................$189,000

Happy 2017! The new year may bring to some new joys and happiness, some will make New Year’s resolutions, others will let the “chips fall where they may.” Whatever this year brings to you, the agents at Win Morrison Realty will always be here to assist you with your wants and needs. If you are looking for a first or second home, or if you just want a piece of property for your dream home in the future. Have a look at these New listings and a Reduced Price ad my agents have listed for the first week of 2017, then give Wi us a call! nM o

JUST ENOUGH! Charming Rosendale Village home perched on the banks of the Rondout Creek. The 1-bedroom home has been completely renovated with a modern flare, all new everything including; framing, insulation, kitchen, bath, roof and siding, heating, hot water and the eclectic too. The bright & airy living room has a mansard ceiling, recessed lights and gleaming bamboo floors. The custom kitchen shines with granite counters, bold white cabinets and new stainless appliances. The bedroom has its own balcony overlooking the Creek and railtrail bridge. The deep 1.80-Acre lot property extends far above the stone outcropping in the backyard and could also offer a great lookout spot high above the home. Rosendale has lots of eateries, stores and seasonal events. Call Greg Berardi ................$149,900 MANY POSSIBLE OPTIONS REDPRICE A great opportunity to own a legal, UCE D! 5-unit, multifamily property, at an in-town Woodstock NY location.

Tenants can walk to everything, shopping, banks, restaurants, galleries, the playhouse and the bus to NYC or points north. This could be a profitable Air-BnB, or a long-term rental property, or a combination of both. Needs some renovations, updating to make it work for its best use. Richard Miller says, “the property is being sold “AS IS”, there are 4 studio apartments downstairs and 1 large 2-bedroom upstairs.” All rental amounts include utilities. Roof is 3 years old, furnace has new heat exchanger.

Property has municipal water and sewer. Call Richard Miller today! ..............$329,000

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SPACIOUS ROLLING MEADOWS SPLIT LEVEL S on a nice-sized corner lot, this home Set e o s offers 4 BRs, 2½ baths, hardwood floors a g and many recent improvements. The living rroom, featuring a wood-burning fireplace & a new large picture window, flows nicely into dining room. The eat-in kitchen is charming with painted wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances and solid surface counter tops. A beautiful screened-in porch, located off the dining room, overlooks the large backyard.

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Beautiful and completely renovated 4 BR Kingston classic awaits your arrival.

Experience all the wonderful details of yesteryear with beautiful wood work, along with modern upgrades you will appreciate!

New roof, new furnace, new kitchen, new bathroom, lighting fixtures, fresh paint.

Also don’t miss the walk up attic which can be used for Studio, office, playroom, or whatever your needs may be. Easy to show, call today! $239,900

HAS ALL THE “I WANTS” Set privately at the end of a blacktopped drive, this tidy and sparkling 3BR, 2B home is the perfect compromise between convenience and country. New paint, beautifully updated kitchen, new roof, siding and windows, GENERAC whole house standby generator, low-maintenance deck, freshly remodeled family room and MORE on gorgeous grounds in New Paltz Schools! Asking $299,000

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This 3 BR, 2 full bath home with high ceilings, 1920’s charm, and abundant natural light is the perfect home for anyone who wants a sense of spaciousness in a manageable space.

Located in an excellent neighborhood where you can bike or walk to restaurants, waterfront & local festivities. Many updates throughout.

Oak deck overlooks a partially fenced yard & fenced raised bed garden. A large shed stores all of your garden tools. There is even a mini-workshop in the full basement for the hobbyist! Low taxes & municipal utilities as well. Stop by the OPEN HOUSE this Sunday, ccall for directions! $184,900

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C Country two story with open floor plan, new kkitchen in 2010 offers hickory wood cabinets, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. g Good size dining room opens to both the kitchen G and living room. Downstairs den/play room and a full bath make this first floor a comfortable and fu convenient living space. Upstairs you’ll find a master BR with sitting area, walk in closet and bath with Jacuzzi tub, two additional BRs plus an office. The 1,600 sq ft, 3 bay garage, built in 2007 offers 960 sq ft first floor w/ 10’ ceilings, electric & tubing for radiant heat. The second floor with it’s own entrance is waiting to be finished. $284,000

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Art Services

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717

Caretaking/Home Management

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725

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703

Tax Preparation/ Accounting/ Bookkeeping

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710

Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

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720

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Animals

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960

Pet Care

PROJECT CAT is a non-profit cat RESCUE & SHELTER. Please help get cat off the streets & into homes. Adopt a healthy & friendly cat or kitten companion for a lifetime. High Falls/Accord area. (845)6874983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat. org

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