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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 20 | May 17 – 24 event Gooden & Dykstra at Civic Center Sports Expo

taste Gardiner Cupcake Festival at Wright’s Farm

music Indigo Girls on stage at UPAC in Kingston

stage Play about Leni Riefenstahl in Catskill

history House Tour in Saugerties explores Palatine past

art Sign up now for demos aboard the GlassBarge

nature Endangered species weekend at the Trevor Zoo

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2 Gooden & Dykstra headline Expo at Civic Center this Saturday The ’86 Mets may be one of baseball’s starkest lovethem-or-hatethem propositions. Hatred for them is the one thing in the world that unites Yankees and Red Sox fans. To the Mets faithful, the believers, they are a vivid memory of the pride and second-tono one attitude that are, theoretically, possible for New York’s second team.

Their personalities – Strawberry, Carter, Hernandez, Backman and more – were cocky and arrogant. They had to be, to do what they did.

Two utterly critical players on that team, the great ace Dwight “Doc” Gooden and Lenny “Nails” Dykstra, headline the first annual BG Sports & Memorabilia Expo at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center this Saturday, May 19 from 2 to 7 p.m. Highlights include memorabilia blowout sales, autograph-signing, sports challenges, food vendors, silent auctions

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and much more.

This event will benefit the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $7 for children.

For more information, visit http:// bgentertainment845.com. The MidHudson Civic Center is located at 14 Civic Center Plaza in Poughkeepsie.

Dutchess Fairgrounds host Northeast Outdoor Sports Show The Northeast Outdoor Sports Show takes place on the weekend of May 19 and 20 at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. An event for those with a deep passion for anything and everything outdoors, it will feature fishing, hunting, boating, camping, cycling, recreational vehicles and travel. The event will also include celebrities, workshops, seminars, children’s and family activities and more.

Saturday hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Single-day passes cost $12 for adults and $5 for those 12 to 16. Two-day passes go for $20 adults and $10 youth. Children under 12 are admitted free. For more information, visit http://neoutdoorsportsshow.com. The

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he ever popular 5K – a little more than a snack, a little less than a meal – is the order of the season in the mid-Hudson Valley this spring.

The Huguenot Co-op School 5K and Family Fun Run takes place on Saturday, May 19. Festivities also include raffles, food, entertainment, face-painting and more. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Huguenot Street Cooperative Nursery School, located at 92 Huguenot Street in New Paltz.

The Family Fun Run begins at 9:30 a.m., the 5K at 10.

For the hardcore, there is Rock the Ridge on the same day: a 50-mile endurance challenge and environmental fundraiser set in the natural beauty of the Mohonk Preserve. For participants, the goal is to complete a 50-mile course within 24 hours by walking, running or any combination thereof. Registration for Rock the Ridge required. For advance registration and additional information, visit www.mohonkpreserve.org/rock-the-ridge or call (845) 255-0919.

Dutchess County Fairgrounds are located at 6550 Spring Brook Avenue (Route 9) in Rhinebeck.

Maifest this Saturday at Germania in Poughkeepsie Germania of Poughkeepsie hosts Maifest, a celebration of spring, on Saturday, May 19 from noon to 10 p.m.

Enjoy Munich’s finest beers (featuring Spaten), German food and baked goods, Bavarian pretzels, vendors and kids’ entertainment, as well as German singers and Bavarian dancers, including the Bandltanz around the

Maypole. Admission for adults costs $5. Children under 16 are admitted free.

Germania is located at 51 Old DeGarmo Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, visit www.germaniapok.com.

Draft Horse Association square dance at Ulster Fairgrounds on Saturday The Mid-Hudson Driving Association and the Hudson Valley Draft Horse Association join forces to present a square dance and potluck dinner at the Ulster County Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 19 at 6 p.m. This annual event features a live caller and plenty of willing teachers. The price of admission is a dish to share and $10 per adult. Kids under age 12 are admitted free. Reservations are required for the potluck dinner.

The event takes place in the Ulster County Fairgrounds’ 4-H Building, located at 249 Libertyville Road in New Paltz. For reservations and additional information, call (845) 294-9016 or e-mail dmjure33@frontier.net.

“Break All the Rules” tours at Catskill Animal Sanctuary on Saturday

The Catskill Animal Sanctuary presents a “Break All the Rules” allaccess Sanctuary visit and tours on Saturday, May 19. This unique tour gives visitors the opportunity for unprecedented access to the Sanctuary’s barns, fields and stalls. Snuggle with pigs, pet cows, smooch chickens and more, all while hearing the Sanctuary’s behind-the-scenes stories from founder Kathy Stevens, author, rescu-

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many of the environmental protections that we take for granted. For more information, visit http://johnburroughsassociation.org.

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Gardiner Cupcake Festival on Saturday

Wildflower Festival/ Heirloom Seedling Sale in Kerhonkson

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et them eat cupcakes, every year, in Gardiner, with music, all manner of vendors and family-friendly entertainments and (why not?) a 5K road race, the Cupcake Classic. The tenth annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival and 5K Cupcake Classic take place on Saturday, May 19 at Wright’s Farm, located at 699 Route 208 in Gardiner. Attractions for kids include cupcake-decorating, a petting zoo, orchard wagon rides and several bouncy houses.

Race registration runs from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. The race starts at 11 a.m. For more details, visit www.gardinercupcakefestival.com.

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er, educator and thought leader in the vegan community.

The first tour departs at 11 a.m., the second at 1:15 p.m. Tickets are purchased in advance: $20 for adults, $8 for members, $8 for seniors and children under age 13. Children under 3 are admitted free of charge. For tickets and additional information, visit https:// casanctuary.org. The Catskill Animal Sanctuary is located at 316 Old Stage Road in Saugerties.

Nicholas Robinson to speak at Slabsides Day this Saturday Nicholas Robinson, professor at Pace and Yale, is the keynote speaker at the Slabsides Day O p e n House on May 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Slabsides, the great naturalist John Burroughs’ cabin and land in West Park. Robinson began his law career before environZena Rommett Floor-BarreTM classes An integrative form of subtle and effective training to core strengthen, lengthen and create space in the whole body while lying on the floor. For dancers, athletes, injured and active bodies. ZRFB, a ballet based technique that is an evolutionary step in body improvement training and refinement. No dance experience needed! All levels are welcome.

Weekly classes available in Kingston and Woodstock NY Contact: Andrea Pastorella 845-282-6723 email: Movitadance@gmail.com

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mental law existed as a field, and he quickly became its champion. As a law student at Columbia University, he

drafted New York’s Tidal Wetlands Act and lobbied it through its adoption. Today Robinson’s work touches

A full weekend for both novice and experienced gardeners, the Wildflower Festival and Heirloom Seedling Sale is especially designed for home gardeners who want to become more self-sufficient by successfully growing delicious and nutritious edibles in the Hudson Valley. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20 at the Catskill Native Nursery at 607 Samsonville Road in Kerhonkson. This rain-or-shine event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (845) 626-2758 or visit www.catskillnativenursery.com.

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BARDSUMMERSCAPE Eight inspired weeks of opera, theater, dance, music, film, cabaret, and the 29th Bard Music Festival: Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

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New Production Music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein After the play by J. M. Barrie Adapted and directed by Christopher Alden

By Anton Rubinstein American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger

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Returning to New York for the first time since 1950, the Broadway smash hit is rediscovered for Leonard Bernstein’s centennial.

July 27 – August 5

Boasting rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, Demon vividly depicts the isolation and despair of a fallen angel doomed to eternal damnation. All is upended by a chance encounter with the princess Tamara with whom he falls desperately in love.

dance World Premiere SummerScape Commission

FOUR QUARTETS July 6–8

Text by T. S. Eliot Choreography by Pam Tanowitz Music by Kaija Saariaho, performed by The Knights Images by Brice Marden with Kathleen Chalfant Three visionary artists join together to create a thrilling new performance of dance, music, painting, and poetry.

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August 10–12 Inventing Russian Music: The Mighty Five

August 17–19 Rimsky-Korsakov and His Followers

Tickets and Information: 845-758-7900 fishercenter.bard.edu Subscriptions, group discounts, and gift certificates available.

CABARET, JAZZ, & MORE June 29 – August 18 Hosted by Mx. Justin Vivian Bond

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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV AND THE POETRY OF CINEMA July 26 – August 19

World-renowned Jazz Trumpet Legend WARREN VACHE with the inimitable JOHN DI MARTINO TRIO!

Thurs, May 24 7:30 pm Senate Garage 4 N Front St, Kingston, NY 12401 Tickets $25 available at Rhino Records (Kingston) 845-802-0029 • www.jazzstock.com

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MUSIC Jules Taylor show this Saturday in Saugerties

On his third record, Mountain Time, the Woodstock-area songwriter/producer Jules Taylor quickly announces the turf: a kind of high-drama ambient American rock with equal parts grit and ether. Its affinities are many: Wilco, Calexico, Ryan Adams, Driveby Truckers, Neil Young‌do I need to continue? What the references don’t necessarily suggest is how nicely crafted and layered these relatively crunchy, hard-rocking tracks are: dark, shimmering, electric desert snarl; good stuff, well-played and even-better-conceived. It is not hard to imagine any of these songs showing up in a stylized modern Western.

Jules Taylor and his band celebrate the release of Mountain Time with a show on Saturday, May 19 at the Love Bites CafÊ, located at 69 Partition Street in Saugerties. Joining Taylor on this stacked bill are the Mead Mountain Resonators and John Holt’s long-running songwriting project Hallow Dog. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $13.50. For more information, visit www.projules.com. – John Burdick

Woodstock’s Colony presents Arlen Roth this Friday Longtime poster child for the Fender Telecaster and a roots virtuoso with tremendous range and stylistic fluency, the great Arlen Roth has also been a fixture at the regional clubs in the last couple of years. Roth has played with Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Phoebe Snow, Levon Helm, Ry Cooder, John Sebastian, Janis Ian, Eric Andersen and the Bee Gees, to name a few, and was famously the guitar coordinator in the popular movie Crossroads. The man can play.

Arlen Roth visits Colony in Woodstock

Indigo Girls

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Indigo Girls at UPAC on Saturday

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ew Folk trailblazers, massive hitmakers and ardent social activists, the Indigo Girls are synonymous with the lighter side of ’90s music – which is to say pretty darn dark themselves, but leavened with a fine sense of close harmony and with songs that sport at least glimmers of hope and redemption. They have remained productive in the studio and are a failsafe concert attraction.

On Saturday, May 19, Bardavon presents the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston (UPAC). Ticket prices for this Indigo Girls concert range from $48 to $62 ($5 off and preferred seating for members).

Tickets may be purchased at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; and online at www.bardavon.org. – John Burdick

on Friday, May 15 at 8 p.m. Patrick Collins opens. Tickets cost $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Colony is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.colonywoodstock. com.

Ashokan Center screens The Yellow Ticket with live score this Sunday

formance of music of music scored for it. One of the first representations of the anti-Semitism of Russia in the early 1900s, The Yellow Ticket was nearly destroyed by Nazis. After a copy was recovered in Berlin, the Washington Jewish Music Festival asked Alicia Svigals to compose a new score to accompany the film. It’s that score – and that performer – that will accompany the showing at the Ashokan Center.

The performance will take place at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for adults and $20 for youth. The Ashokan Center is located at 477 Beaverkill Road in Olivebridge.

Ani Kalayjian this Saturday in Saugerties

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started to share all drums from all nations, accompanied with some vendors and some food. This free celebration brings together numerous drum groups: Spirit of the Mountain, the band of the Tainos, Maxwell Kofi Donkor and friends. Bring a chair.

The Big Indian Native American Cultural Center is a nonprofit organization sharing culture through drums, dancing, stories, crafts and more. Big Indian Park is located at 8280 Route 28 in Big Indian.

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eggae vocal group Culture featuring Kentayya Hill, a touring and studio powerhouse since the ’70s, performs at the Bearsville Theater on Saturday, May 19 at 9 p.m. Culture garnered US and international acclaim for its long series of classic “roots” albums, including 1977’s Two Sevens Clash, which was acknowledged by Rolling Stone Magazine (April 11, 2002) as #25 of the 50 All-Time Coolest Records (the only reggae album to make the list).

Songs of Solomon opens. Stick around for an afterparty with Max Glazer Federation Sound.

Tickets cost $35, $40 and $45. For more information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

chamber works by the Argentinian tango master Astor Piazzolla, Beethoven and Brahms.

The concert takes place at 3 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, on the corners of Washington Avenue (#67) and Post Street in Saugerties. Ticket prices are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors, with all students admitted free. For more information, visit www. saugertiespromusica.org or call (845) 679-5733.

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Drums along the Esopus in Big Indian Park this Saturday

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Nick Hallett’s opera To Music this Saturday at Mount Tremper Arts Mount Tremper Arts has become known for bringing experimental, edgy and contemporary art to a virtually unpopulated swath of land in the Catskills.

Strange, but we’ll take it. The 11th season opens with To Music, a new opera by experimental composer Nick Hallett in collaboration with filmmaker Josh Thorson. This darkly comic opera looks at the nature of inspiration, originality and illusion to attempt to answer the question: Where does music come from? It draws from pure vocalese, glossolalia, poetry and profanity weaving through German lieder, mobile-phone ringtones, Modernist dissonance and Top 40 radio.

To Music (Scene 3) will be performed at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 19 at Mount Tremper Arts. Tickets cost $15 and can be purchased online at www. mounttremperarts.org, by phone at (845) 688-9893 or at the box office one hour before events. Mount Tremper Arts is

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Master keyboardist Pete Levin is no stranger to the world’s stages, with or without his rock-star brother Tony.

Pete returns to the Falcon on Sunday, May 20 at 2 p.m. His résumé takes a back seat to no one’s: His diverse career spans four decades, with credits including Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius and 15 years with the legendary jazz composer/arranger/bandleader Gil Evans.

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Saturday, May 26 @8 pm Doctorow Center for the Arts The Labyrinth Baroque Ensemble, directed by Richard Kolb, will present a concert featuring rarely heard works for three sopranos by Luzzaschi, Rossi, and Strozzi, and 3-violin sonatas by Fontana and Castello, with a richly varied continuo section of theorbo, archlute, harpsichord, and violone. The tradition of these unusual works began at the court of Ferrara in the 1580s, where they were reserved for the “Secret Music” of Duke Alfonso II and his inner circle of courtiers and very special guests.

Romance and Glamour: A 19th-Century Piano Soirée Featuring Guest Artist, Pierre Goy, with Audrey Axinn, Maria Rose and Yi-heng Yang Sunday, May 27 @ 8 pm Doctorow Center for the Arts This concert will feature different pianos, from a late18th century Viennese piano to French and English pianos from the Romantic era. Works by Frederic Chopin will be performed by Pierre Goy, a specialist in 19th-century performance practice, invoking the intimacy of the Paris salon of Chopin’s time. Also included are works

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information, visit www.liveatthefalcon. com. The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro.

– John Burdick

BSP presents Monks of Doom next Thursday Still often referred to as a Camper Van Beethoven side project, the Monks of Doom have been releasing records since the mid-‘80s, which seems plenty long enough to escape the shadow of their former band.

Across six records of angular, moody and menacing guitar-rock, including 2018’s impressively discomfiting The Bronte Pin, the Monks of Doom have justified their name in sound. They perform at BSP in Kingston on Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m. Beacon’s Stephen Clair and the Pushbacks open.

Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. For tickets and additional information, visit www.bspkingston. com. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston.

Senate Garage to host Warren Vache and John Di Martino Trio

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Mammals play Colony on Saturday

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he Mammals, featuring Mike + Ruthy, have been making records throughout the new millennium. Their latest record, the locally recorded Sunshiner, is very much of the current indie/folk moment: stylistically various and ranging in production quality from state-of-the-moment naturalistic recording to scratchy lo-fi.

The Mammals perform at Colony in Woodstock on Saturday, May 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Colony is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.colonywoodstock.com.

No street-level city revitalization is complete without some jazz, and in fact the quality of that jazz may even be some kind of reliable index of the quality and stamina of the community revitalization. Good news, then, that Jazzstock – the local collective of players, promoters and advocates of America’s serious music – keeps the top-tier programming coming to

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Kingston at the Senate Garage, right in the heart of the Uptown action.

Jazzstock was dealt a sucky hand when some kind of inscrutable, arcane state law regarding liquor and dangerous music stipulated that they cannot sell tickets at the door at this otherwise-ideal venue. You’d think someone could do something about that.

But Jazzstock, which has many other venues at its disposal, has stuck with Uptown and is making it work. Get your tickets in advance.

On Thursday, May 24, Jazzstock welcomes trumpet/flugelhorn legend Warren Vache and the John Di Martino Trio to the Senate Garage at 7:30 p.m.

Vache’s “played with” credits aren’t so shabby. Any list that begins with Benny Goodman…and goes on to include Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, Hank Jones, Gerry Mulligan and Woody Herman tells you something about the man’s history. John Di Martino is a consummate jazz pianist, arranger, composer and producer: the model of the modern working jazz musician, serious and versatile. His own trio dates as leader, including 2012’s bluesy, lucid

and sophisticated Turnaround, speak to a musical identity you might call traditional – which, in jazz, implies profound mastery.

Remember the unfortunate ticket deal.

I wish you could stumble upon this show, drawn in by the smoky jazz without the smoke, but you can’t. You have to plan.

Tickets cost $25. They are available next door at Rhino Records, online at www. jazzstock.com or by calling (845) 8020029. Wine is available at the event, as well as sandwiches, courtesy of Bread Alone. The Senate Garage is located at 4 North Front Street in Kingston.

– John Burdick

up to the iconic works of Dinah Washington and Nina Simone, Ladies of the Blues takes place on Saturday, May 26 at 7:30 p.m.

Described by The New York Times as “A trumpeter of abundant poise,” the Cleveland native Farinacci has been a

Ladies of the Blues next Saturday at Woodstock Playhouse

featured guest on ABC’s Good Morning America and was credited as Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center by Wynton Marsalis. Jones has performed and recorded with Dominic Farinacci, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ulysses Owens, Jr., Ronnie Burrage, Eddie Palmieri and many others.

Ticket prices range from $40 to $55, plus a $3 handling fee. The Woodstock Playhouse is located at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock. For tickets and information, visit www.woodstockplayhouse.org.

In its debut at the Woodstock Playhouse, the high-end jazz advocate and incubator the Catskill Jazz Factory presents Ladies of the Blues, featuring the Dominick Farinacci Quintet with special guest vocalist Shenel Johns. A retrospective spanning the early blues of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday

Keifer Sutherland to play Bethel Woods Did you know that Keifer Sutherland rocks, too? The famous film and television actor brings the “Reckless” Tour to the Event Gallery at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Saturday, May 26 at 8 p.m. A former record-label owner, Sutherland has long maintained an interest in music, but he didn’t release a record until 2016’s crunchy roots/rock workout, Down in a Hole, in which he sets his convincingly gritty-but-musical voice to a variety of populist and personal rootsy anthems. The Bethel Woods show is part of a sprawling 43-date tour. Rick Brantley opens.

Ticket prices range from $32 to $42. For tickets and additional information, visit www.bethelwoodscenter.org. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is located at 200 Hurd Road in Bethel.

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STAGE Failure of the will Leni opens this Thursday at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre

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o what extent are we responsible for decisions we make as younger people without the knowledge of hindsight? And to what extent does the world have the right to pass judgment on us for those decisions? These are questions addressed by Sarah Greenman’s play Leni, which examines the moral and aesthetic complexities inherent in history’s evaluation of the career of Leni Riefenstahl, “Hitler’s chosen filmmaker.”

Riefenstahl is widely acknowledged as a giant of documentary cinema, but she allowed her talent to be put to use by the Nazi propaganda machine. In the postwar era, she tried very hard to rewrite what her role had been, spinning her work as cinema vérité. Susan Sontag was one of many film critics who derided her attempts at revisionism as “nonsense,” but also had to admit that “Triumph of the Will and Olympiad are undoubtedly superb films (they may be the two greatest documentaries ever made).”

Leni depicts the filmmaker late in life, trying to come to terms with her own inner conflict. In a limbo resembling a semi-abandoned soundstage, Helene (the aged Riefenstahl) hovers in a dream somewhere between life and death. There, she encounters Leni (her youthful self ) and is forced to confront the moral implications of the works she created and the ways in which those works helped to empower a fascist regime. Was she complicit or merely an artist attempting to create the finest films of which she was capable, blinding herself to their implications and to the evils of the party that engineered their creation? Together, the two Lenis (who are really one) attempt to create one final film that will justify both their work and their life.

A searing examination of narcissism, denial and artistic responsibility, Leni stars Olivia Howell as Leni and Roxanne Fay as Helene; John Sowle directs this Bridge Street Theatre production. The show opens on Thursday, May 17 and runs through May 27. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with Sunday matinées at 2 p.m. Bridge Street Theatre dramaturg Steven Patterson will be presenting a preshow talk before each performance to put Riefenstahl’s life in context; come half an hour early for the presentation. Admission is free with your ticket. Tickets cost $22 general admission, $10 for students.

To purchase, call (518) 943-3818 or visit https://leni.brownpapertickets.com. For more info, visit http://bridgest.org. Bridge Street Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill.

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Leni Riefenstahl is widely acknowledged as a giant of documentary cinema, but she allowed her talent to be put to use by the Nazi propaganda machine.

thousand different accents from all over the world. But if we had to distill its voice down to a single one, that would undoubtedly be Runyonese: the politely profane dialect assigned to the streetwise characters in the glitzy/shady world of the Manhattan demimonde of the 1920s and ’30s in the short stories of Damon Runyon.

The sound, the diction, the mode of expression impressed themselves indelibly on the public consciousness of his time and never truly faded. If someone acting in a film or TV show made outside the US wants to put on a “New York accent” (as if there were only one), the odds are great that its sound originated in Runyon’s renditions.

Even if you’ve never read a Damon Runyon story, you know their flavor well. They were made into many a radio show and movie (including Little Miss Marker, The Lemon Drop Kid, Pocketful of Miracles, A Slight Case of Murder

and The Big Street) and their characters replicated in Looney Tunes fare that became Saturday-morning staples in the early days of TV. Most purely and enduringly of all, they were captured in

the Frank Loesser stage musical Guys and Dolls, whose book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows merged the plots of two Runyon stories: “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown” and “Blood Pressure.”

8 When Guys and Dolls first opened on Broadway in 1950, it charmed the crowds and the critics, snagged five Tonys and was supposed to get the 1951 Pulitzer for Best Drama (though the latter was quashed due to Burrows being blacklisted). It went on to become a perennial classic, and for good reason. All these decades later, the dialogue remains as fresh and funny and snappy as ever, the songs as sprightly and singable: “Fugue for Tinhorns,” “A Bushel and a Peck,” “Adelaide’s Lament,” “If I Were a Bell,” “Luck Be a Lady,” “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” the title tune – you know them, even if you don’t realize that you do.

Due for a revisit? Need to hang out for a couple of hours with some goodhearted gamblers, brassy showgirls and naïve street missionaries? Come see the County Players’ new production of Guys and Dolls, currently running at the Falls Theatre in Wappingers Falls. And if you know any “theater kids” who think that musicals started with Andrew Lloyd Webber, bring them along. The director is the estimable Christine Crawfis; it stars Brian Apfel as Sky Masterson, Amy Schaffer as Sarah Brown, Rick Meyer as Nathan Detroit and Michele George as Miss Adelaide.

The show runs for one more weekend, with performances beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19 and a 2 p.m. Sunday matinée on the 19th.

Tickets cost $25 general admission, $20 for seniors (60+), military and children under age 12. To purchase, call (845) 2981491 or visit https://bit.ly/2wv2rE7. Find more info at http://countyplayers.org. The County Players Falls Theatre is located at 2681 West Main Street in Wappingers Falls.

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Kahn & Selesnick’s 100 Views of the Drowning World in Hudson Acquaint yourself, if you haven’t already, with the mysterious dreamlike visions of the artist team of Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick. Inspired by Dada, Surrealism and the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, self-proclaimed absurdists Kahn and Selesnick have been collaborating since they met while attending art school at Washington University in St. Louis in the early 1980s. They work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious his-

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REQUIEM FOR ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA, WITH PUPPETRY, THIS WEEKEND AT FISHER CENTER

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hen journalists die in action, it typically happens when they’re embedded in a military unit or otherwise covering the frontlines of a war zone. A few find that the most dangerous place to be is their own country.

When Ukrainian writer/activist Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was assassinated by contract hitmen in 2006, her body was found in the elevator of her Moscow housing complex. It happened on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, and some observers of the Russian political scene believe that someone was sending him a present.

Politkovskaya’s dogged coverage of the Second Chechen War (1999-2005), particularly her exposés of corruption and human rights abuses, won her a long list of international journalism awards along with some powerful enemies in the Russian government and military. By the time of her death she had already survived two poisonings, a mock execution, detentions and beatings, rape and death threats and frequent official interrogations. None of the danger deterred her in her work.

Now, Alexander Bakshi, a Georgian composer living in Moscow, has written an oratorio to commemorate her heroism, titled Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya. It has been transformed into a puppet opera by Amy Trompetter, founder of the Rosendalebased Redwing Blackbird Theater. The hybrid work will be unveiled this weekend at the Luma Theater in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, featuring musicians and singers from the Bard College Conservatory of Music and undergraduate performers.

Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday, May 18 to 20, with 2 p.m. matinées on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $15; admission is free for the Bard community with ID. To purchase, visit https://bit. ly/2KoHqgG.

tories set in the past or future. Hudson’s Carrie Haddad Gallery has been a longtime champion of the duo’s creations, which Art + Design has described as “cautionary mythology.”

In addition to exhibitions and installations, the pair have already published three books with Aperture Press: Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt and Apollo Prophecies. Their latest, 100 Views of the Drowning World, was issued

by Candela Books in 2017, and will be the basis of their live presentation on Saturday, May 19 at Hudson Hall in the historic Hudson Opera House.

Against a backdrop of ecological decline, this

memoir/travelogue follows Dr. Falke, Count Orlofsky and Madame Lulu, three members of an itinerant theatrical troupe known as the Truppe Fledermaus, as they perform in various locations in Europe, England, America and Japan.

The book, modeled on ukiyo-e series such as Hiroshige’s 100 Views of Edo, contains photographs of the Truppe, their travels and their performances with corresponding text narrating the images. It is the authors’ preference to have the pages of the book be loose and nonlinear, so that readers can explore the images and story in any order they prefer.

A reading of 100 Views of the Drowning World will begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May

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Rabbit Hole Ensemble performs Disappearing Act in Woodstock The Rabbit Hole Ensemble, a novel and small New York City-based theatrical company, introduces itself to the Woodstock community with a staged reading of Disappearing Act at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts on May 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, May 20 at 2 p.m. Written

by Rabbit Hole artistic director and NYIT Award-winner Edward Elefterion, Disappearing Act examines the cost of making art in a world of increasing indifference. Cindy is a budding playwright who is studying (and having an affair) with her professor Dale, who chose a career in academia over moving to New York and trying for an acting career. Dale’s old flame Eleanor, who moved to New York and has just won the Pulitzer for Drama, is invited to speak at Dale’s college.

While rehearsing the play, the three actors are forced to reassess their own careers, motives, goals and definitions of success/failure.

The suggested donation is $10. The Kleinert/James Center for the Arts is located at 36 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

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MOVIE The monthly Movies with Spirit series, organized by Gerry Harrington of Kingston, seeks to stimulate people’s sense of joy and wonder and evoke a deepened understanding of people’s integral connection with others. The films are screened in diverse houses of worship across Ulster and Dutchess Counties at 7 p.m. on the third Saturday of every month.

The series has no religious affiliation.

For more information about Short Term 12 and the rest of the series, visit http:// movieswithspirit.com.

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he film RBG celebrates the achievement, endurance and unlikely cult status of US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, at 84, has become an unexpected pop-culture icon (“the notorious RBG�), racking up victories for gender equality since the early 1970s and writing brilliant dissenting opinions on important issues. The film’s codirector Julie Cohen will be on hand for a question-and-answer session when Upstate Films in Rhinebeck screens RBG this Sunday, May 20 at 1:30 p.m. Afterwards, there will be a reception at the Amsterdam in Rhinebeck.

Tickets cost $20 general admission, $18 for members. For tickets and additional information, visit https://upstatefilms.org.

Upstate Films is located at 6415 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.

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The sixth annual Taste of Woodstock, which benefits the Woodstock Film Festival, happens on Wednesday, May 23 from 6 to 9 p.m.. More than 20 participating restaurants and hosts will serve up delicacies on behalf of the WFF. Guests receive a walking map and a voting card to pick their favorite dishes. Participants include many of the town’s restaurants: Oriole 9, Bread Alone, the A&P Bar, Mountain Gate Indian Restaurant, Colony and many more. Tickets cost $50 and are available online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com, by phone at (845) 679-4265, and in person at the Woodstock Film Festival Film Center

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The 2013 film runs 1 hour 36 minutes and is rated R. Written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, it won 35 critic and film festival awards, including the LA Film Festival’s Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature. Larson won 12 festival awards for Best Actress.

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This year being celebrated worldwide as the Bernstein centenary, Bard’s Fisher Center will present a live talk with Kushner on Saturday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. (The focus of the conversation will be the playwright’s relationship to the music of Leonard Bernstein, including the daunting task of adapting one of the composer’s most beloved works.

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“Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.”

– William Alexander

May 17-24 FRIDAY, MAY 18

Endangered Species Weekend at Millbrook’s Trevor Zoo

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KIDS' ALMANAC Red pandas like me best. You can tell by the way they keep looking past you for me. If you want to encounter this most adorable animal ever (tell them Erica says “Hi”), head over to Millbrook this weekend! On Friday through Sunday, May 18 to 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., come to the Trevor Zoo to glimpse the finned, feathered and furred eye-candy that are all on the endangered species list. You and your family will appreciate discovering this terrific animal treasure: It’s the perfect-sized center for all ages to discover, learn, explore and experience endangered animals from around the world, as well as many others! And each purchase at the gift shop helps to save endangered species.

Endangered Species Weekend takes place at the Trevor Zoo at the Millbrook School, located at 282 Millbrook School Road in Millbrook. Daily admission costs $6 for adults, $4 for seniors and

Slabsides Day in West Park

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rom what fact or event shall one really date the beginning of spring? The little piping frogs usually furnish a good starting-point,” wrote local naturalist John Burroughs in “A Spring Relish,” Signs and Seasons, 1886.

Spend some time immersed in his world of nature right at his cottage during the Slabsides Open House happening this Saturday, May 19. Tour the cabin between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., enjoy the gorgeous woods, delightful hiking trails and notable speaker Nicholas Robinson for his talk, “Writing Nature, Saving Nature,” at 12 noon. Robinson, Professor for the Environment at Pace University, and Adjunct Professor at Yale University School of Forestry & Environment, played a significany role in constructing environmental legislation for New York State and developing international environmental organizations and laws to safeguard the planet.

This event is free and open to the public. Come see why this is one of my favorite hiking spots in our area! Slabsides is located off Floyd Ackert Road on Burroughs Drive in West Park. For more information, e-mail info@johnburroughsassociation.org or visit https://bit.ly/2rKNAjx. – Erica Chase-Salerno

children ages 3 to 13 and is free for children under 3 years of age. For more information, call (845) 677-3704 or visit www.facebook.com/trevorzoomillbrook or www.millbrook.org/page/trevor-zoohome. Afterwards, keep the fun going at

the Millbrook Tribute Playground and Gardens, located in the village at 3269 Franklin Avenue in Millbrook. It’s free and open to the public of all ages.

SATURDAY, MAY 19

Make seed paper and seed balls at Clermont Channel your inner Tears for Fears rock star and be a part of Sowing the Seeds of Love on Saturday, May 19 at the Clermont State Historic Site.

From 1 to 3 p.m., make your own seed paper or seed ball, using your own seeds or those from Clermont’s reserves. The day rounds out with garden and nature activities: a great way to spend the afternoon for individuals

and families ages 8 and up. Admission costs $10 per person, free for children aged 2 and under. Advance registration is required.

The Clermont State Historic Site is located at 87 Clermont Avenue in Germantown. For more information or to register, call (518) 537-6622 or visit www.friendsofclermont.org/events.

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ave you ever desired some homemade pie, but couldn’t resolve the craving yourself by baking one? That used to be me. I had fears of crust complications and suffered from rolling-pin repulsion. After a baker’s dozen of sticky and dusty, floury failures, I stopped

trying.

If you can relate, I have a filling for this week’s column that just might ins-piere you. One day, I discovered this pie-ce de résistance, and everything changed.

Introducing Slacker Pie Crust! Its charming, (c)rustic look and delicious taste transformed me from a dough dork to a crust connoisseur.

SLACKER PIE CRUST Ingredients: ½ cup of melted butter (or vegetable oil) ¼ cup of milk ½ teaspoon of salt 1 ½ cups of flour Mix all of the ingredients together (I melt the butter in the pie plate in the microwave and mix everything in the same dish). Then press along the bottom and sides of the pan. That’s it. You’re ready to fill or prebake it at 350 degrees.

Pinch off the edges, or make more dough for a crumb topping. It’s as easy as pie!

“A cherry pie is…ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.”

– Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World I see parallels with Slacker Pie Crust in my cancer journey. The biggest one is that the impossible can be possible. Just as I couldn’t imagine pie crusts ever being in my future, I never expected I’d get terminal cancer, yet here we are. I never thought I’d get my family to Disney World, but we did, thanks to Inheritance of Hope. I never anticipated experiencing unendurable pain in my body, but I also never guessed I would surpass my pre-cancer weight levels at the gym. Not driving continues to be an intense struggle. Yet catching rides with friends brings me joy to spend that time together.

Making homemade pie invites me to be present, assembling the ingredients and creating the dessert step-by-step, just like organizing the who, what, where, when and hows of my daily schedule and our family calendar requires mindfulness.

I am grateful for the wafts of aroma from the oven that draw my kids into the kitchen wondering when we get to eat! Meds swirl through my body like my love for this family fuses into the food.

No matter how we slice it, life is short. Perhaps we would all do well to follow Shel Silverstein’s example: “I might as well have one more piece of pie. / MMMM– OOOH–MY! / Chomp – Gulp – ‘Bye.” Head On and Heart Strong!

Love, Erica Kids’ Almanac columnist Erica Chase-Salerno was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer in the Summer of 2015. To read more about her experience, visit https://hudsonvalleyone.com/tag/ericas-cancer-journey.

9:30 a.m.; candymaking, live performances, a Red Velvet Tea Party and, of course, lots of chocolate!

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County residents, since it’s a Super Saturday event.

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Grow Your Own Mushrooms at Sam’s Point

Family Fun & Fish Day in Mt. Tremper

“Life is too short to stuff a mushroom,” proclaims writer Shirley Conran. But not too short to cultivate them! Learn all about fun with fungi at Grow Your Own Mushrooms this Saturday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center.

The program is free, but advance registration is required. Park admission costs $10 per vehicle.

Minnewaska State Park Preserve at Sam’s Point is located at 400 Sam’s Point Road in Cragsmoor. For reservations or more information, call (845) 647-7989.

Square Dance and Potluck Dinner at Olive Fire Department Remember the Huey Lewis and the News hit, “Hip to be Square”? Kick your heels up a notch and join this weekend’s annual Square Dance and Potluck Dinner on Saturday, May 19: Dinner starts at 6 p.m.; easy round and square-dancing runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Olive Fire Department Company. Do-si-do your way in with a dish to share, and $10 if you’re an adult (free for children under 12).

The Olive Fire Department is located at 9 Mill Road, at the corner of Route 213 in Olivebridge. This is a change of location; please help them spread the word! For more information or potluck reservations, call (845) 294-9016 or e-mail dmjure33@ frontiernet.net.

SUNDAY, MAY 20

No more excuses: Get yourself and your kids outside for some quality family traditions, like this weekend’s Family Fun and Fish Day at the Kenneth L. Wilson State Campground.

The fun takes place this Sunday, May 20 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. and is geared to families of all ages who are new to fishing. All activities are free, including fishing supplies, but park entry costs $6.

The Kenneth L. Wilson State Campground is located at 859 Wittenberg Road in Mount Tremper. For more information, call (845) 688-3027 or visit https://bit.ly/2L1sWV3.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus rehearses at Hudson Hall Celebrate spring and enjoy animalfree entertainment at the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus this weekend! On Sunday, May 20 at 3 p.m., you can watch an open rehearsal of the creative, fun and renowned antics of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Hudson Hall. What a great way to see the hard work that goes into seemingly effortless performances!

Hudson Hall is located at 327 Warren Street in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 822-1438 or visit http:// hudsonhall.org.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno is hooked on Paris Fog at Underground. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

Water Wars at Museum of Firefighting in Hudson Have your mini fearless firefighters been pleading to run a real firehose?

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HISTORY that ultimately led to the founding of Greenmarket in New York City.

Today, Benepe and his wife, Judith Spektor, divide their time between their home in Greenwich Village, which he has had for decades, and their Saugerties farmhouse, bought in 1983. Married three times (Benepe notes that the twists and turns of his career were in some instances determined by his relationships), he has five children. His son Adrian followed in his father’s footsteps, serving as New York City’s parks commissioner for eleven years (currently he is senior vice president and director of city parkland for the Trust for Public Land). Benepe remains active in local planning efforts, serving as vicechair of Saugerties’ Comprehensive Planning Committee and a member of its Historic Preservation Commission. He is also a founder and active organizer of the Saugerties Farmers’ Market. Almanac Weekly’s Lynn Woods recently interviewed Benepe.

Root of the matter One of the founders of NYC’s wildly successful Greenmarket (as well as the one in Saugerties), Barry Benepe recalls planting the seeds of a green revolution

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ver the course of his long career, Saugerties’ Barry Benepe has had a beneficial impact on the quality of life in our cities and towns. His greatest contribution is perhaps the founding, with colleague Bob Lewis, of Greenmarket, the network of New York City farmers’ markets that began in 1976. The rest is history: New York City now has 70 market days – some locations, such as Union Square, have two or more markets a week – and the trend has spread to cities and towns all over America.

Benepe, who looks amazingly fit for age 89 – he still climbs the stairs to his fourth-floor walk-up apartment in Greenwich Village – earned degrees from Williams College and MIT, with a stint at Cooper Union in between.

He is a licensed architect who worked at several architectural and planning firms starting in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he was a planner in Newcastleupon-Tyne, England, designing and overseeing the engineering of a series of pedestrian walkways and public squares; it was a radical departure from the job he was hired to do – design new highways and malls – but won the support of the municipality.

Back in America, he did design and planning work for New York City’s urban renewal agency, creating plans for the Upper West Side. By then, planning had evolved from Robert Moses’ brutal slum clearance, and the projects that Benepe worked on sought to rehabilitate existing buildings for low-income housing and preserve others, as well as tear down some tenement buildings on the basis of their poor design. He created a design that would integrate the American Museum

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of Natural History and other institutions into the neighborhood and streetscape, made renderings of multifunctional street amenities and benches and designed ways to improve that area’s walkability. While some of his plans sat on the shelf (one of the frustrations of the municipal planner is that he or she lacks the political clout and administrative tools to get the job done), decades later certain elements became reality.

In 1968, Benepe brought his planning expertise to Newburgh, when he was hired as the city’s first planner. He discovered that the Newburgh Urban Renewal Agency was tearing down chunks of the early-19thcentury streets that had attracted him to the city in the first place. He fought for plans that would harmonize with the existing neighborhood and save rather than destroy the historic buildings. He was successful in proposing a mixed-income housing project and spearheaded the creation of the East End Historic District, which stopped the bulldozers and saved many buildings of historic significance, such as the Dutch Reformed Church, the County Courthouse and several homes along Grand and Montgomery Streets.

Benepe’s passion for historic

preservation manifested in two books: Early Architecture in Ulster County, commissioned by the Junior League of Kingston, and Newburgh Revealed, a survey of outstanding Victorian architecture, including buildings that had been torn down by urban renewal, with

“Space can have a profound emotional impact, even if it’s not occupied.” photographs by John Bayley and Benepe and text by Arthur Channing Downs, Jr. and Benepe.

In the late 1970s, he started spending time in Woodstock and had a hand in creating its first zoning map, which incorporated contour lines, floodplains and water bodies. It was at this time that he hired Bob Lewis to work at his planning firm. The two men began talking about how to save the farmland that was vanishing around them: a conversation

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You were born in 1928 and grew up in Gramercy Park. What did your parents do, and what were your childhood and student years like?

My mother was an artist who did fashion illustration, and my father had an embroidered-linen business on Madison Square. His company also imported Madeira wine from Portugal.

I went to Friends’ Seminary, walking to school through a neighborhood dating from the mid-19th century: an exposure that probably explains why I have always been attracted to older parts of the city. I later went to St. Andrew’s, a boarding school in Delaware, then attended Williams College, where I initially majored in Economics and Spanish because I thought I would go into my father’s business. I took an art class in my junior year, which got me interested in European culture, and switched my major to Art History.

My dad paid for me to spend the summer in Europe; I traveled around on a bike with a roommate, staying in hostels. The influence was pretty profound: Amiens Cathedral impressed me, because even though it was so massive, the columns met the floor on a human scale. On a later trip, I saw Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel, which is extraordinary.

I entered a painting and a mixed-media piece into a student art show in my senior year, and both won First Prizes. I did stage design for the theater and worked on the class musical with Stephen Sondheim, who was a fellow student. After graduating from Williams, I went to Cooper Union.

My father was really encouraging: When I was a child, he’d always take me to his office on Saturday and give me art materials. He had a resident artist who designed his printed cottons, and he had him teach me art. My mother gave me all her drawing materials and was a big influence also. I had an older brother who did go into the family business, so I was off the hook.

You were first exposed to planning principles at Cooper Union.

One of the basic courses I took at Cooper was Architectural Rendering, taught by Robert Stein, who was a member of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture, an interdisciplinary group of architects and artists who were following Le Corbusier. We would meet in the evenings at his office and discuss planning principles. I was part of a team project in which we had to design an outdoor museum. My task was to draw the site plan and coordinate the location of the buildings; even then I was doing planning, though architecture was the focus.

Stein talked about how to define communities in terms of their population.

May 17, 2018 Planning intrigued me because it involved people and real life. Space can have a profound emotional impact, even if it’s not occupied. There’s a highrise by Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill in Montparnasse, in Paris, that works with classical forms in a modern way. The building rises on classical columns and the scale is massive, but at the bottom of the building, people are having a good time running around.

It works in a human way. Whereas the Barbican Center, in London, is dead.

You made a significant art purchase when you were at Cooper Union.

One of my teachers told me about a show at the Sidney Janis Gallery, so I went. The artist was Willem de Kooning, and I wanted to buy a small pastel priced at $350, entitled Woman. I only had $200 in my bank account, so Sidney said I could have it for that. I learned later I was the only buyer except for the Museum of Modern Art. De Kooning’s studio was in back of my loft, which was on the top floor and had a skylight; I never met him, but would see him painting. I later sold the pastel for $5,000. Recently it was featured on the cover of a brochure for an auction at Sotheby’s and was sold for $3.2 million.

What brought you to MIT? Any interesting summer jobs during this time?

One of my teachers suggested I apply to MIT, so I left Cooper after my second year (and never consulted my father; he was furious). I went to Morristown, New Jersey one summer to work on a housing project designed by Abraham Geller, who studied under Marcel Breuer. I was impressed with his approach: His ranchstyle houses had low shed or peaked roofs and were connected to the garage or a carport with a breezeway, and he varied the texture of the board exteriors, which were vertical and horizontal, and painted them in earth colors. He also sited the houses so they fitted the land well. Part of my job was shaping the land, which I’d rake, like Rodin doing a sculpture.

One of the lecturers at MIT was Buckminster Fuller, and Carl Koch was a teacher of Architecture who designed a housing project in which the houses had a glass gable end, from the peak to the ground, outside of Cambridge. I took a course in Planning and left with a degree in Architecture, graduating in 1955.

What were some aspects of your plans for the Upper West Side?

The plan that encompassed West 86th, Central Park West, West 96th and Columbus Avenue had a three-pronged approach based on conservation, especially along Central Park West, rehabbing the brownstones on the side streets and redevelopment of Columbus Avenue. We tried to convert rooming houses into single-family homes. I was doing propaganda for urban renewal – making before-and-after renderings that showed a room with a single lightbulb, which after rehab had a modern elegant bedroom with good daylight.

Some of the tenements were bought by the New York City Housing Authority and converted into apartments, which was the most successful low-income housing because it was integrated into the existing housing. I made models of high-rises with glass fronts that weren’t great. We created pedestrian walkways that were set back 100 feet from the avenue, which didn’t make sense; later we refocused the sidewalk back to the avenue, to emphasize the traditional retail component. I also had open spaces created mid-block between the sides of the buildings. It didn’t happen in this project, but the concept has been adopted in the last 30 years.

What are your ideas for affordable housing?

When I was in Newburgh in 1968, I designed a housing project for singleperson houses. I called them patio houses, since each had a veranda. The problem with public housing is the design is separate from the city, and there’s no

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What was different about your experience in England?

Newcastle-upon-Tyne was unique because enormous numbers of people walked to the center or took buses. We linked the walkways to the center, the heartblood of the city; and we valued the historic architecture, including stairs that went down to the waterfront. All that history was still there. In England they take planning seriously; here it’s seen as advisory, with developers making the determination.

How did you learn about Newburgh?

I read about Newburgh in The New York Times and was intrigued by the photos of cobblestone streets; it was a hotbed of Romantic 19th-century architecture. I was hired by the city manager as the first city planner. John Stillman, who came from a lot of money – his family had given money

“Those artists in the 1850s had a vision of nature and architecture working together that’s very relevant today.” for Palisades Park – was the director of urban renewal. He’d been hired through the Democrats and was a friend of Hubert Humphrey.

I learned about the Hudson River School of painting and landscape architecture and how that tradition was represented in Newburgh, and I found out on the job that it was being destroyed. I went into the houses, which were pretty much owned by black people, such as the Samuel Hodge funeral home on Montgomery, designed

by Calvert Vaux for W. E. Warren in 1857.

It was described by professor George Tatum as “the most outstanding of Vaux’s residential designs in the United States.”

These people were middle-class black families who had moved to Newburgh early on, and the owners were proud of their homes. There were still remnants of professionalism and a solid middle-class community, but people were moving out to the Town of New Windsor.

What were some of your ideas?

Part of Colden Street had been torn down when I got there, and I brought in the developers Bogdanoff and Tangredi, who worked in Westchester, to show how the waterfront could be built. The city manager was very supportive and arranged a meeting with mayor George McNeally. After McNeally refused to meet with the developers, they concluded, “We know when we're not wanted.”

I designed Palatine Square, a public space fronting the monumental 1835 Dutch Reformed Church. My design served to integrate the historic structure with three existing buildings around a square with a view of the Hudson; parking was provided underground. Unfortunately, it was never built. [Instead, the new public library was constructed with little regard for the adjacent church, which is now in a desperate state of neglect and serves as a backdrop for parked cars.]

Rosen Associates had produced a plan in 1966 that would have leveled the entire East End, which Stillman supported. After a public hearing at which I spoke about the value of 33 historic buildings slated for demolition, Stillman said, essentially, “Drop dead.” The Federal Housing Act had just been amended to require urban renewal plans to take into account historic resources, which the Rosen plan did not do. One of the Republican members of the City Council supported my plan for the East End, because retaining the buildings meant there would be less pressure to relocate people.

Was racism a factor in making these decisions?

In 1970 I was living on Grand Street, and an interracial couple wanted to get married in a public park, where there was a natural amphitheater of evergreens.

They had a permit, but at the last minute the city prevented them from having the wedding. I said, “You can have it on my lawn,” which they did. I had a sailboat, and I later heard from the head of the Planning Board, who was a member of the Yacht Club, something disturbing.

A county legislator, who was head of the Yacht Club, had told the members, “Benepe wanted to become a member of the Yacht Club, but I told him I didn’t want him or his nigger friends here.”

Wow, that’s terrible. And this was in the early 1970s. Did anything positive come out of your plans?

Mario Cuomo was wrong when he championed the people in Queens who didn’t want low-income housing in Forest Hills Gardens. I proposed that the Lake Street District low-income project in Newburgh planned for the West Side of the city include middle-class housing and shopping. Mid-Hudson Patterns for Progress enlarged my project to three times the size and made it work. The state wanted to reroute a proposed arterial to the west, but I opposed that, and lobbied to keep Route 9W as an avenue and create a greenway that links to the waterfront.

After your job was eliminated by the new city manager, you didn’t go away.

With others, I started the Greater Newburgh Arts Council to carry through a plan for the East End Historic District.

We produced an alternate plan entitled Newburgh Revealed, which was funded by the National Trust and New York Council of the Arts. Jack Present, who took over from Stillman, wanted to tear down the Dutch Reformed Church. That plan led to the creation of the Historic District by the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, one of the earliest state-designated Historic Districts.

You and Bob Lewis had a great idea: starting urban farmers’ markets as a way to keep local farms in business. How did you actually make it happen?

We had a model in Syracuse, which we read about in The New York Times. I got in touch with Susan Snook, director of the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, who started the market, and found it was very successful. We went to foundations to fund a feasibility study and presented a proposal to the Council of the Environment of New York City, a nonprofit run by city agencies and businesses. I became their consultant and the head of the newly formed Greenmarket. My role was to raise money to pay my salary.

An employee of the Kaplan Foundation suggested using a lot near her house, on 59th Street and Second Avenue, which was used by the police to park their cars; I had to meet with a lot of people to make this happen. The market opened in 1976, and the locale was ideal because Bloomingdale’s and Alexander’s department stores were a block away. I

was in charge of publicity, sending out news releases, since there was no money for ads. The TV networks covered the story as a wrap-up on the weekend news.

The word was out big-time.

The next year two additional markets opened in the city, including one at Union Square. The park was dying on its feet; drug traffic had taken over, and the adjoining stores were closing. After seeing the market at 59th Street, the head of the Manhattan Planning Office asked if we could open a market at the Square as a way to help save the neighborhood.

I said, “Sure, if you can get the required permits from the Traffic and Highway Departments.” We got them, and the first few years were dismal.

But people began writing about us.

Bob also opened a market in Harlem, partnering with Harlem Teams for Self-Help, and got writer John McPhee to work at the market behind a stand, which led to a story published in The New Yorker entitled “Giving Good Weight.”

“Giving Good Weight” was read into the Congressional Record by a congressman from California. The farmers’-market movement went national.

You’re currently active in planning efforts in Saugerties. What are the challenges?

I’ve spoken to the woman who runs the HUD office in Saugerties, and she said the waiting list for low-income housing runs into the hundreds. There’s a great need and a lot of resistance. Although there is a provision in the zoning law that stipulates ten percent of new housing in conservation subdivisions should be affordable, no developers have adopted this. The provision allows for cluster planning, which creates an average zoning density for a given parcel, saving open space and allowing for ribbons of open space connecting development; but no such developments have yet been built.

There’s also a proposal by the town to allow illuminated moving-image signs.

I’ve done drawings showing both how bad they would look and how much better the normal permitted signs appear.

Any suggestions on how to change this mindset?

We should go back to the 19th-century roots of the Hudson River School of painting, architecture and landscape architecture. Those artists in the 1850s had a vision of nature and architecture working together that’s very relevant today. One positive effort is the creation of the Saugerties Farmers’ Market, which connects people to the land and saves working farms.

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7:30am 20th Annual 4-H Golf Classic. Benefit for the Ulster County 4-H Youth Development Program. Registration begins at 7:30am with a four-person scramble! Followed by a shotgun start at 9am. The $100 entry fee includes 18 holes of golf with a cart, continental breakfast, snacks on the course, and an awards luncheon following the tournament. Info: 845-340-3990; tdk36@ cornell.edu. Apple Greens Golf Course, 161 South St, Highland. tinyurl.com/4hgolfclassic2018. $100.

9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating 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. $10.

9am-5pm Woodstock Chimes Spring Warehouse Sale. Woodstock Chimes opens to the public for this four-day shopping event. Chimes, gongs, fountains, drums, kid’s instruments and much more! Woodstock Chimes, 167 Dubois Rd, Shokan. Info: 845-657-0445, Fatimah@chimes. com, www.chimes.com/sale.

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock 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. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior

Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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10am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice.

This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

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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. Cost varies.

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12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings, Tarot Readings and Expert Intuitive Guidance with Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai.

Walk-ins warmly welcome. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes.

1pm Kerhonkson - Accord Seniors Meeting.

Meets on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month.

Activities, games, parties, & movies. Info: 845-626-8213. Accord Firehouse, Main Street,

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1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and cards are available, or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments.

Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red hook.

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1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2pm-5pm Phoenicia: Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

2pm-4pm Meet with Merritt. Are you in the arts? Looking for help with grants or professional development? Drop in sessions are available throughout the community. Emerge Gallery & Art Space, 228 Main St, Saugerties. beaconarts. org/meet-with-merritt-help-with-grants-andprofessional-development/.

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3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. 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-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & 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. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

5pm-9pm Italian Center’s 24rd Annual Festa Italiana. Lunch 11am-2pm. Entertainment

by Bill’s Toupee. Info: 845-454-3021; John. mazzetti@yahoo.com. Italian Center, 227 Mill St, Poughkeepsie. theitaliancenter.com.

5:30pm-6:30pm What’s Happening? Marcia Slatkin reads from, Cheese After Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet. Confronting climate-dangers that threaten life on earth.

Join local author and poet, Marcia Slatkin, as she reads from her latest book. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org/. She will read from all three books, which will be available for purchase (local checks/ cash only).

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5:30pm-7:30pm Hudson Valley HorsePlay Professionals’ Mixer. What HORSES Can Teach Us Professionals’ Mixer & Demonstration. There is no riding involved and no horse experience is required. Pre-registration for the HorsePlay Mixer is required. The event is held rain or shine.

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5:30pm-7:30pm Teen Art Night- Jewelry Making. Learn to make jewelry with local artist Cathie Shultis. Open to tweens/teens grades 6 & up. Preregistration is required. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

6pm-7pm Zena Rommett Floor-Barre(TM) Classes. An evolutionary step in body improvement training. Contact: Andrea Pastorella, 845-282-6723. 65 Albany Avenue, Kingston.

6:30pm Phoenicia Library 2018 Board Meeting. Everyone welcome. Meetings held monthly - every 3rd Thursdays, 6:30pm. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6:30pm-9:30pm Astronomy Night. Meets on the first and third Thursday of each month, Raj Pandya and Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New

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May 17, 2018 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. Info: 845-257-3818 or pandyar@newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. bit.ly/2fKrjN0.

6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-589-5000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.

7pm-8pm Financial Literacy Workshop.

Money Talks. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: bigBANG. Large Ensemble Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

7pm-8:30pm Caving in the Hudson Valley.

Geologist Cara Gentry leads an exciting multimedia program on cave exploration and preservation in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Presented by the Mid-Hudson Sierra Club. RSVP: mhsierraprograms@yahoo.com. Free & open to public.

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7pm-8:30pm Book Reading with Mystery Novelist John Essick. John will read from his novel, Last Respects. Q & A and book signing will follow! Free admission. Inquiring Minds New Paltz Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. https:// bit.ly/2FESBPu. 7pm-8pm PageTurners Book Club: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. The comedy world’s fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary. org/. Contact the library to reserve a copy of each month’s book.

standing our Changing Environment: a series exploring climate change impacts and solutions on a local level. Free and open to the public.     Woodstock Elementary School, 8 West Hurley Rd, Woodstock. woodstocklandconservancy.org.

7pm-9:30pm Movies that Matter Beacon: Fix It Health Care at the Tipping Point. This documentary examines our health care system and how it’s damaging our economy, and it’s un-affordable to a third of society. Info: moviesthatmatterbeacon; 845-831-5322. McKinley Hall, 50 Liberty St, Beacon. moviesthatmatterbeacon.org.

7pm Book Talk: June Trop. Author of Miriam

bat Isaac Mystery Series. This free event will take place in the Steinberg Reading Room of the library.   Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. eltinglibrary.org.

7pm-8:30pm Third Saturday Christian Open Mic (Coffee House). Come play or to listen.

Doors open 6:30pm. Acoustic solo, duo, groups welcome, perform original Christian songs & hymns. Hosted by Patrick Dodge. Refreshments available. Free will offering for SmileTrain. patrickdodgemusic@yahool.com. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker St, Woodstock. smiletrain.org.

7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm-9pm Session I: Aquatic Ecosystems.

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7:30pm Music on Market- World Music Concert Series: Latin Jazz Express: Red-hot rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the streets of NYC. $15/adults, $10/seniors and students,& free/children under 12. Info: 845-3773727. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Market St, Ellenville.

7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Thursday.

Open to all chess players. Free admission. Info: 845-419-2737; albiebar@aol.com. Woodland Pond, New Paltz.

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. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock/Kingston, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.

7:30pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Thursday night at 7:30pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions. Listen or read. Every Thursday. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-6892323. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Lipbone Redding.

One-Man Orchestra! Singing & Storytelling.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, & Geoff Harden.

Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9am-4pm Kingston Auxiliary of HealthAlliance Annual Geranium Sale. Featuring geraniums, vincas & spikes, herbs, hanging baskets.

Geraniums $4.40; vincas & spikes $4.50 hanging baskets. Info: 845-331-6562; Darlene.Bover@ yahoo.com. Central Fire House, 24 East O’Reilly St, Kingston.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II with Alison Sinatra. This class is ideal for students transitioning from beginners to intermediate yoga.

Basic poses are explored with increasing detail interspersed with a flowing sequence. $18 dropin. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

9:45am-10:45am Woodstock 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am-4pm Annual Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Sale Fundraiser. All proceeds from the plant sale go towards supporting our Master Gardener program! Master Gardener volunteers grow and sell a wide variety of plants. Some of

these varieties are “tried and true” favorites; others are exciting new introductions. They sell annuals, herbs and vegetables grown from seed or from plugs grown commercially. We also sell perennials, the majority of which are usually donated by Master Gardener volunteers. Info: 845-677-8223. Dutchess County Farm & Home Center, 2715 Route 44, Millbrook. ccedutchess. org/gardening.

10am-6pm The Rhinebeck Annual Spring Sidewalk Sale. Twice a year our merchants participate in the spring and summer sidewalk sale. It takes time and effort, usually adding additional staff to keep an eye on the sidewalk aspect of the sale. We encourage you to shop local, these events provide an excellent opportunity for holiday/hostess/birthday gifts or treats for yourself. Also, if you’ve asked any of the merchants for donations to your selected cause, make sure you return the favor and honor them with your business. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce Office, 23 F East Market St, Rhinebeck. rhinebeckchamber.com/events.

11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

11am-2pm Ulster Savings Bank’s annual “Community Appreciation Day” celebration.

This year’s event is even more special as the Bank celebrates 10 years in Woodstock! 10th Anniversary Cash Grab Money Booth! FREE Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Etching will be available throughout the celebration courtesy of our friends at Safelite Auto Glass - a process of etching the vehicle identification number (VIN) on the windows of the vehicle, which reduces auto theft and may improve auto liability insurance rates. A live radio remote by our friends at Radio Woodstock 100.1FM WDST between 11:00am and 1:00pm! Popular DJ Justin Foy will be there, so stop by and say hello! A K-9 demonstration from the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Department. Hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, soda and water will be served during the branch’s “Community Appreciation Day” festivities. Games and raffles will also be part of this great anniversary celebration! Info: 845-6798434. Ulster Savings Bank/Woodstock, 68 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

12pm-6pm Apt 1 Pop-up Gallery & Music Event. Six Hudson Valley Artists display over 300 works filling three rooms at the Pop-up. 378 Ohayo Mtn Road, Woodstock.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Pilates - Mixed Level with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. $1/donation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

5pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission. Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com. Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie.

HudsonValleyFair.com.

5pm-7:30pm Computer Fixer. Joris Sankai Lemmens will be available to answer technical questions in 15 minute increments. Phoenicia

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Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. free.

5pm-10pm Germania of Poughkeepsie Maifest. Features live German bands, German food, home baked desserts, German beers, children’s entertainment, Bavarian dancers and singers. Event will be held Rain or Shine under tents. Parking is free! Info: 845-471-0609; president@Germaniapok.com. Germania Festival Grounds, DeGarmo Rd, Poughkeepsie. germaniaPok.com. $5, $4/Veteran/Active Military with ID, free/under 16.

5pm-10pm Italian Center’s 24rd Annual Festa Italiana. Lunch 11am-2pm. Entertainment by Bill’s Toupee. Info: 845-454-3021; John. mazzetti@yahoo.com. Italian Center, 227 Mill St, Poughkeepsie. theitaliancenter.com.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind.Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6pm SUNY New Paltz Graduate School Commencement Ceremony. < t a b l e width=”100%”> <tbody> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>. SUNY New Paltz/Athletic and Wellness Center, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu.

6pm-8pm Movie Night: Coco. Rated PG, 105 minutes. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary. org. FREE. 6:30pm House of Gospel. A monthly entertainment gathering featuring music, food, poetry and comedy. In addition to Grammy-nominated singer Jermaine Paul and the Paul Family Faithlock, BET comedian Ms. Jones will perform.

An open mic poetry reading and music by the Newburgh International Choir are also part of the evening’s festivities. The evening is the first House of Gospel gathering of the season. Others are scheduled for the third Friday of each month.

Info: 845-670-3835. First United Methodist Church/Newburgh, 245 Liberty St, Newburgh. eventbrite.com. $20, $10/under 12.

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

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

7pm Movies That Matter Film Series: The Post. Doors open 10 minutes before film.

Refreshments and discussion to follow. Rated PG-13, 116 minutes, 2017. Free admission. Info: 845-795-2200. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56 Main St, Milton.

7pm Disappearing Act. A staged reading presented by Rabbit Hole Ensemble. Written and directed by Artistic Director/NYIT Award winner Edward Elefterion. Info: 845-679-2079.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. rabbitholeensemble.com). $10/ suggested donation.

7pm Key of Q Chorus Spring Concert: Prom Again. Pop/Soft Rock. Info: 845-331-5300.

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

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.

7pm Fragile Explosion - Nina Simone. A Celebration of a Life of Genius, a 90 minute musical.

A play within a concert. Sheds new light on one of America’s earliest and most fearless fighters for civil rights. An unsung hero revealed. Free.

Info: 914-338-3092. . A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library, 43 Gill St, Kingston. Info: 914-388-3092. Free.

7:30pm-9pm Kabbalat Shabbat Services.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation Friday evening services. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. http://www. wjcshul.com.

7:30pm Fundraiser for Boughton Place: An Evening of Psychodrama. What’s a Meta-For? Sponsored by the Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Presented by Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW, PTR, CJT, M/S. Open sessions are two to two and a half hour psychodrama sessions offered by certified psychodramatists to the general public. You may participate as little or as much as you want. This series provides an opportunity for community members as well as students and professionals in the fields of mental health, counseling, human services, creative arts therapy, medicine, psychology/sociology and education to learn about and participate in psychodrama first-hand. No reservation necessary. Contribution: $10/ $5 for students and those on limited income Info: 845-440-7272. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland.

8pm The Little Foxes. Muddy Water Players present “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman.

Ticket includes Dessert at Intermission. Info: 845-294-9465. Museum Village, 1010 State Route 17M, Monroe. ctmwp.org.

8pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

8pm-10pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fast-paced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-2279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams. Roots Rock Icons. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover. High Energy Funk-Rock-Soul. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Saturday

5/19

8am-5pm Rock The Ridge. A 50-mile endurance challenge and environmental fundraiser set in the natural beauty of Mohonk Preserve.

The goal is to traverse a 50-mile course within 24 hours by walking, running or any combination thereof. Registration required. Info: 845-2550919. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. mohonkpreserve.org/rock-the-ridge.

8:30am Huguenot Co-Op School 5K and Family Fun Run. Run or walk the scenic rail trail and Historic Huguenot Street. Festivities also include raffles, food, entertainment, face painting. Reg 8:30am, Family Fun Run 9:30am, 5K 10am. Huguenot Street Cooperative Nursery School, 92 Huguenot St, New Paltz. facebook. com/huguenotnurseryschool.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation.

Meets every Saturday. All welcome. No charge.

845-246-3285 for more info. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

COME SHOP UNTIL YOU DROP

Woodstock Chimes® WAREHOUSE SALE! off Rt. 28 in Shokan, NY

LILA BACON PAINTING SALE Limited Sale Opportunity In conjunction with the Woodstock Sidewalk Sale May 19th-20th - 11:00-5 Get your flowers now.

Lila is a recognized local Woodstock artist.

Sweetheart Gallery 8 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.2622

Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm

May 17, 18, 19, 20 UP TO 80% OFF

MANY ITEMS BELOW WHOLESALE! Dollar Bamboo Chimes in this sale

* Hand Carved Wooden Ducks * Garden Bells * One of a kind Chimes * Hanging Bells * In-stock Chimes * Kid’s Instruments * Crystal Chimes * Discontinued Products * Fountains * Bamboo Chimes * Drums * ... and much more! * Gongs Directions: From F the th Kingston Ki t roundabout, west on Rt. 28,10.5 miles to 167 DuBois Road, Shokan, NY. Follow the signs.

www.chimes.com/sale

9am-3pm Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Renewal Course. This is a recertification of the ACLS course. You must have an ACLS certification to take this course. The class is for students ages 18 and up. Preregistration and payment are required. Call 845-475-9742 to register. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. $125, $165 with text.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. Not-for-profit store featuring previously enjoyed household and misc. items, jewelry, and clothing for children and adults. Take stairway to the left of the church entrance down to the basement. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Comforterofkingston.org.

9am-1pm Free Tech Help. Our teen tech expert Samantha will help solve your computer quandries. You can call 845-266-5530 to schedule a time or drop in 9am-1pm. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

9am-2pm Annual Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Sale Fundraiser. All proceeds from the plant sale go towards supporting our Master Gardener program! Master Gardener volunteers grow and sell a wide variety of plants. Some of these varieties are “tried and true” favorites; others are exciting new introductions. They sell annuals, herbs and vegetables grown from seed or from plugs grown commercially. We also sell perennials, the majority of which are usually donated by Master Gardener volunteers. Info: 845-677-8223. Dutchess County Farm & Home Center, 2715 Route 44, Millbrook. ccedutchess. org/gardening.

9am-4pm St Peters Flea Market, Plant & Bake Sale. Herb and plants for sale; bake sale; raffle table including 20 different vendors offer new, vintage, collectible & edibles. Rain or Shine. Info: 845-687-9057. St. Peters-Rosendale, 1021 Keator Ave - Rte 213, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-3117, ckf3@msn.com.

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9am Saugerties Historic Bus Tour. From the comfort of a tour bus, knowledgeable historians guide you on a captivating route through history with stops at three houses where you can stretch your legs and tour inside. Refreshments will be offered at the last house. Offering two trips at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saugerties High School, 310 Washington Ave, Saugerties. housetour.brownpapertickets.com.

9am-5pm Wildflower Festival and Heirloom Seedling Sale. A full weekend for both the novice and experienced gardeners with a special focus on home gardeners who want to become more self-sufficient by successfully growing a multitude of delicious and nutritious edibles to put on their tables and in their pantries. The Hudson Valley Seed Library returns with an extensive selection of organic heirloom vegetables, herb and flower seedlings. Free and open to public. Rain or shine. Info: 845-626-2758.

Catskill Native Nursery, 607 Samsonville Rd, Kerhonkson. catskillnativenursery.com.

Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org.

9:30am-11am Centering Prayer. Open to people of all faiths. Info: 845-679-8800. Centering prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation. On-going, Saturdays from 9:3011am. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

9:30am-12pm Wiltwyck Quilters Guild. Susan Sato presents Japanese Fabric Techniques and Trunk Show. Class available:see website. Grace Community Church, Lake Katrine. wiltwyckquilters.org.

9:30am-4pm Minnewaska Preserve: Millbrook Mountain Hike. 8-mile hike. Participants must come with appropriate footwear and

enough food and water to sustain themselves for the day. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area.

Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

9:30am-5pm Tenth Annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival and 5k Cupcake Classic. A day full of live music, local food, shopping, art and craft vendors, raffles, kids’ activities, cupcake contests and, of course, lots of yummy cupcakes. Festival noon-5pm. 5k Cupcake Classic registration 9:1510:45am, race 11am. Wright’s Farm, 699 Route 208, Gardiner. gardinercupcakefestival.com.

10am-4pm Vinyl Record, CD, DVD, Audio Book Sale. Begins May 5 runs through May 24. Vinyl records and CDs will be 50 cents per record and disc. DVDs and audiobooks will sell for $1 each. More than 20,000 quality used books

MAY 19 & 20 10AM - 6PM

9am-1pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Garden & Native Plant Sale. Get advice from experienced gardeners, and purchase native plants to attract butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds In addition, create a Garden Toad House and meet a real American Toad (10am – 12pm), make Native Wildflower Seed Balls for your garden (10am – 12pm), and go on a Guided Nature Walk through the fields and forests of the Outdoor Discovery Center (11am). Info: 845-5345506 x204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/

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9am-4pm Friends of the Kingston Library Spring Used Book Sale. Pick up some reading for the warm months to come. The sale raises funds to support library programs, such as the popular children’s Super Saturday series. Held in the Library Basement. Info: 845-331-0507.

Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

9am-4pm American Heart Association Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Course. The Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED course is designed to meet the regulatory requirements for child care workers in all 50 states. Preregistration and payment are required. Call 845-475-9742 to register. Sharon Hospital, Sharon. $65.

10 minutes from Woodstock!

Lily’s • Changes • Pegasus • The Freewheel Pottery Woodstock Design • Woodstock Trading Post Sparkle • Birchtree • Walkabout • Lotus Sweetheart Gallery • Jean Turmo • Loominus

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will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less during the sale in a wide variety of other categories including history, travel, fiction and children’s books. The Book Store is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Info: 845-485-3445 x 3423. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. facebook.com/PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/timeline.

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-2pm Volunteer Restoration Workday – Esopus Meadows Preserve. A semi-monthly session which offers a great way to learn about native flora while removing invasive plants that hinder their growth. Please wear clothes you won’t mind getting dirty, including long pants, sturdy closed-toe shoes and a hat. Also plan to bring gardening gloves, water and a lunch.

Participants under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Info: 845-473-4440, ext. 273. Esopus Meadows Preserve, Esopus. scenichudson.org.

10am Qigong Classes. All level class including chair Qigong led by Steven Michael Pague.

Ongoing every Saturday at 10am. Classes meet by the back door to the library. In case of inclement weather, class will be held in the Community Room. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

10am The 2018 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Commencement ceremony for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. SUNY New Paltz/Old Main Quad, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu.

10am-1pm 2018 Kitchen Class: Sugar Paste Flowers. Add handmade decorations to your special cakes. Join Janie Greenwald, long time cook, and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County (CCEUC), for the 2018 Kitchen Classes series. All classes are small and hands on.

Sign up early to save your seat! Info: jhg238@ cornell.edu; 845-340-3990 ext. 326. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/events.

10am-2pm Geothermal Energy Open House.

Find out what this exciting development is by attending an Open House featuring a pioneering geothermal heating and cooling system. This Open House showcases a modernized energy

system and will point out new features and benefits during the house tour. This free public event will be hosted by the environmentallyminded homeowners. Please RSVP by May 14 to help the hosts plan for food and drinks under a tent. Contact: beckyjmeier@gmail.com. This is a “rain or shine” event! Becky Meier and Bob Connors, 1409 County Rte 5, Canaan.

House Tour on Saturday explores Saugerties’ Palatine history

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-12pm Master Gardeners Offering Perennial Division Workshop. Learn how to successfully divide perennials and ornamental grass at the Perennial Division Workshop and go home with a few great new plants for your very own garden! Rain or shine. Please dress appropriately. It’s recommended that you bring gardening gloves and tools such as pitch forks, spades and trowels. Participants will work in small groups guided by Master Gardeners and leave with some prize divisions from the Xeriscape Garden. Pre-registration is required by May 16 to participate. Info: 845-340-3990 ext. 335; dm282@cornell.edu. SUNY Ulster/Xeriscape Garden, 491 Cottekill Rd, Stone Ridge. tinyurl. com/2018-Division. $20.

10am-2:45pm Orange County Arboretum Plant Sale. 300+ species of plants for sale.

Gardeners on hand to answer questions. Spring blooms on display. Info: 845-615-3830. Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416,, Montgomery. orangecountyarboretum.org.

10am-12pm New Baby New Paltz’s Saturday Social Circle. Meets every Saturday, 10am12pm. Info: 845-255-0624. This group 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. There is time for socialization so you can connect with old friends and get to know new ones. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz.

10am-5pm Millbrook Literary Festival.

Featuring authors participating in panel discussions, readings, and signings throughout the day.

A special line-up of children’s programs as part of its anniversary celebration. All events are free.

Info: info@millbrookliteraryfestival.org. Millbrook Library, 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook. Info: 845-677-5857, Stacey@merrittbookstore.com, http://bit.ly/2gJrxES. 10am-2pm Junk in the Trunk. Vendors open their trunks and display treasures. $15 car/van/

After a hiatus of six years, the Saugerties Historic House Tour is back. Two bus tours, each carrying a guide, will be available on Saturday, May 19: a morning excursion leaving Saugerties High School at 9 a.m. and an afternoon tour leaving from the same location at 1 p.m. Each tour will last approximately three hours.

The tours are sponsored by the Town of Saugerties Historic Preservation Commission, and they will focus on the northern quadrant of Saugerties, where tourgoers will learn about the area’s historic connection with the Palatine immigrants of 1710, who established a community in West Camp.

Some members of that original community moved west, reaching central New York and northern Pennsylvania, but others stayed in Saugerties, particularly in the Asbury area. Earlier this year, the Town of Saugerties Historic Preservation Commission began the process of designating the Asbury settlement as a historic rural landscape district – a first for Saugerties, according to Preservation Commission member Susan Puretz.

“We have individual houses registered as historic,” she says, “but this is the first district.” The designation will include the Trumpbour Homestead (a National and State Historic Register landmark) along with several stone houses, two Colonial roadbeds, a Methodist cemetery of national significance and archaeological sites of lost settlement areas recorded on old surveys.

The bus-tour route will offer views of some of the 68 stone houses in Asbury, Saxton and Blue Mountain. In addition to the Palatines, the influence of the English,

pick-up. Tables available to rent. Reserve at 845-246-7846. &nbsp; St. John the Evangelist Church - Saugerties, 915 Rt 212, Saugerties.

10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

10am-2pm Repair Cafe - New Paltz. It’s Spring Cleaning time! Who knows what beloved but broken items you will find. Bring them to the Repair Cafe to be fixed for free! Info: 646-3025835. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: 646-302-5835, jwackman@gmail.com, http://www.repaircafehv.org/.

10am-6pm The Rhinebeck Annual Spring Sidewalk Sale. Twice a year our merchants participate in the spring and summer sidewalk

May 17, 2018 German and Dutch settlers is also found in the northern quadrant. While there are many similarities in construction techniques of the various groups of settlers, there are also notable differences. The guide on each bus will point out interesting details on the drive, and an informative brochure will be provided with route descriptions as well as useful architectural and historic facts.

The bus will stop to explore the interiors of three of these stone houses, which date from the late 1700s to the early 1800s.

The first house, says Puretz, is an elegant home that was built on land farmed by one of the original Palatines. House two is a working farm, in the owners’ family for many generations. The third house, where the tour concludes, is an example of a “bank house,” built into the side of a bank. “You enter downstairs,” Puretz explains. “If you look at it from one side, you only see the top floor, but on the other side, you can see it’s actually two-and-a-half stories.”

Complimentary refreshments will be served at the third house, whose owner is also on the Preservation Commission committee organizing the tour. In a fun twist on the historic theme for the day, she will offer refreshments of a type that would have been served in the era when the house was built.

Tickets for the Saugerties Historic House Tour cost $20, and are available online only at https://housetour. brownpapertickets.com. A service fee is charged, making the end cost $21.69 per ticket. Seating is limited, making early purchase advisable.

– Sharyn Flanagan Saugerties Historic House Tour, Saturday, May 19, 9 a.m./1 p.m., $21.69 online only, departs from Saugerties High School, 310 Washington Avenue, Saugerties; www.facebook.com/historichousebustour, www.historichousetour. com. The schoolbuses used for the tour do not have a restroom, but bathroom facilities will be available at the beginning and end of the tour (at the high school departure and the tour ending opposite Cantine Field), and a porta-potty will be set up outside the second stone house on the tour.

sale. It takes time and effort, usually adding additional staff to keep an eye on the sidewalk aspect of the sale. We encourage you to shop local, these events provide an excellent opportunity for holiday/hostess/birthday gifts or treats for yourself. Also, if you’ve asked any of the merchants for donations to your selected cause, make sure you return the favor and honor them with your business. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce Office, 23 F East Market St, Rhinebeck. rhinebeckchamber.com/events.

10am-12pm Saturday Knitters. All ages and experience levels can participate and drop-in knitters are also welcome. Bring your own supplies. 845 687-7023 for more info. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

10am-1pm Grow Your Own Mushrooms at Sam’s Point. Hands-on workshop during which they will explore the mysteries of mushrooms and you will learn how to grow your own. Children

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included 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.

Butterfly Sips Golden Nectar. Tai Chi Chuan at Fighting Spirit Karate in Gardiner Yang Style (short form).

Tai Chi Chuan is strength through softness: building stronger bones, resilient muscles and a dynamic energy body.

Instructor: Roy Capellaro, PT.Tuesdays 9:45-11am. Fighting Spirit Karate is on 19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner. Register: roycapellaro@gmail.com or call 845518-1070; 12 sessions/$240.

Call for Artists. For an art exhibit at HOPE Rocks Arts and Music Festival on

Aug. 18 & 19th. Submit photo of any 2D artwork to judydefino5@gmail. com. The theme for the art is Hope.

The festival will take place at Cantines Memorial Complex in Saugerties.

Woodstock Art Exchange - Mother’s Day Cookies all Weekend. Unique gifts, glass and art. “Small Works” – paintings by Barbara Adrienne Rosen and Michelle Moran. Friday, May 11; Saturday, May 12; & Sunday, May 13.

11am - 6pm. Woodstock Art Exchange, 1396 Route 28, West Hurley. Info: 914-806-3573.

must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided).

Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated.

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.

12pm-4pm Newburgh Youth Leadership Summit. Fun leadership activities for elementary kids: 12-2PM. Poster presentations by middle schoolers 2-3PM. TED styles talk by high schoolers 3-4PM. Free. Reg. req’rd. Info: 845-9052892; jhesse.ptech@gmail.com. Newburgh free Academy Main Campus, 201 Fullerton Ave, Newburgh. newburghyouthleaders.wordpress. com.

10:30am-1pm Book Signing: Blackbeard the Pirate with Author Kevin Duffus. Hendrick Hudson Free Library, 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose. Info: 914-737-7878 Ext. 0, nmhs@ seahistory.org, http://www.seahistory.org/2018. $5 donation appreciated.

10:30am-11:30am Story and a Craft- Tea Time. A special edition of story and a craft: Tea Time! Feel free to dress in your finest. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. https:// bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. 10:30am-11:30am Managed Long Term Care Info Session. Independent Consumer Advocacy Network will be here. They can help you if you are in a Medicaid and need long-term care services.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 11am-7pm Open Recreation. Pool table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org.

11am-12:30pm Hat Making Intro Class. Learn to make and personilize your own Fedora or Straw hat in 4 easy sessions! No previous sewing experience needed. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon. http://www.howlandculturalcent. $50/ per person and students are 1/2 price.

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

11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

11am-4pm Slabsides Day Open House. Noon program. Nicholas Robinson presents “WRITING NATURE, SAVING NATURE.” John Burroughs’ Slabsides, Floyd Ackert Rd, West Park. JohnBurroughsAssociation.org.

11am-4pm MyKingstonKids Fest 2018: Land of Chocolate. This event provides an opportunity for children of all ages to enjoy an exciting day of activities and fun including puzzle party, Red Velvet Tea Party, candy making workshop, art show, performances and many surprises to come.

The theme this year is Land Of Chocolate similar to Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Info: 845-282-0182; info@mykingstonkids.com. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. mykingstonkids. com.

11am-8pm Springfest. Street festival with live music, local vendors, craft beer, cornhole tournament, shopping cart relay, & inflatable obstacle course. Main Street/Highland, Main Street, Highland. Info: 845-691-2144, highland. springfest@gmail.com, www.highlandspringfest. com. free.

11:30am-10pm Italian Center’s 24rd Annual Festa Italiana. Lunch 11am-2pm. Entertainment by Bill’s Toupee. Info: 845-454-3021; John. mazzetti@yahoo.com. Italian Center, 227 Mill St, Poughkeepsie. theitaliancenter.com.

12pm-10pm Germania of Poughkeepsie Maifest. Features live German bands, German food, home baked desserts, German beers, children’s entertainment, Bavarian dancers and singers. Event will be held Rain or Shine under tents. Parking is free! Info: 845-471-0609; president@Germaniapok.com. Germania Festival Grounds, DeGarmo Rd, Poughkeepsie. germaniaPok.com. $5, $4/Veteran/Active Military with ID, free/under 16.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s

12pm-6pm Apt 1 Pop-up Gallery & Music Event. Six Hudson Valley Artists display over 300 works filling three rooms at the Pop-up. 378 Ohayo Mtn Road, Woodstock.

12pm Relay For Life of Kingston. Celebrating cancer patients in treatment and beyond; remembering those lost to cancer and fighting back against cancer. Info: tina.eckert@cancer. org. Dietz Stadium, Kingston. RelayForLife.org.

12pm-3pm Adoption Event. *Dogs for Adoption *Giveaways *Ask the Trainer. Lake Katrine Animal Hospital, 1842 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

12:30pm Yoga Immersion Workshop with Kate Hagerman. The Subtle Body: Embodying the Endocrine System and the Chakras An experiential yoga immersion of the chakras (energy centers) and their corresponding endocrine glands. All levels welcome. To learn more about Kate or to register for this workshop please visit www.woodstockyogacenter.com, or call 845-6798700. $40 workshop price, and Woodstock Yoga Members receive 10% discount. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

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.

Nick Hallett Opera at Mount Tremper Arts (5/19, 8pm). Composer Nick Hallett’s opera To Music (Scene 3) is a cautionary tale of a fictional composer’s social media behavior - a portrait of the artist on Facebook. Info: MountTremperArts.org/Hallett;845688-9893. Tickets $15 at the door or $10 online with discount code CATSKILLS. Mount Tremper Arts, 647 South Plank Rd, Mt. Tremper.

Yoga Immersion Workshop with Kate Hagerman (5/19, 12:30-3pm).

The Subtle Body: Embodying the Endocrine System and the Chakras An experiential yoga immersion of the chakras (energy centers) and their corresponding endocrine glands. All levels welcome. To learn more about Kate or to register for this workshop please visit www.woodstockyoga-

vations not required. Info: 845-471-2550; info@ barrettartcenter.org. Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon St, Poughkeepsie. barrettartcenter.org.

4pm-6pm Around the World Harp Concert.

Harper Julia Haines will present songs and stories from a variety of world harp traditions throughout time. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit. ly/2xuq5Qj. $12.

5pm-7pm Opening Reception: Knots and Flowers. Works by Michael Lokensgaard. First solo show by the Bloomington-based artist since the ’90s. Exhibits through 6/3. . Wired Gallery, 11 Mohonk Rd, High Falls. thewiredgallery.com.

5pm-8pm Rhinebeck’s ArtWalk. Ongoing, every third Saturday of each month, 5-8pm.

Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

5pm-6pm Woodstock Library Forum: Living With Maurice Hinchey. Perspectives From Legislative Aides Of Maurice D. Hinchey. egislative aides Vernon Benjamin and others to Assemblyman Maurice D. Hinchey will discuss his importance and influence on New York State. Free and open to all. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

5pm-7pm Art Omi: Writers, Spring Reading & BBQ. A distinguished group of international writers currently in residence at Art Omi will read from their works, followed by a BBQ feast.

Art Omi, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent. Info: 531-392-8031, cmassa@artomi.org, https://bit. ly/2ruwiqv.

5pm-7pm Book Reading: Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick. Authors of 100 Views of the Drowning World. Reading followed by a reception with the authors. Free and open to all.

Reservations encouraged. Hudson Hall, Hudson. hudsonhall.org.

1pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission. Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com. Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie.

HudsonValleyFair.com.

6pm-9pm Square Dance and Potluck Dinner.

Annual square dance with live music and caller, potluck dinner. Admission is a dish to share and $10 per adult, kids under 12 free, reservations required for potluck dinner. Sponsored by MidHudson Driving Association and Hudson Valley Draft Horse Association. At the 4-H Building.

Info: 845-294-9016; dmjure33@frontiernet. net. Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz.

1pm-2pm Blockchain, Bitcoin & You. Exciting presentation about the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency revolution. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE.

7pm-8pm Latin Dance for Everyone. Meets every Saturday, 7-8pm.$5/suggested donation.

Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter.org.

1pm-3pm BitterSweet: Exploring Art, Emotions, and Chocolate. Art making workshop and conversation: each participant who creates drawings or sculptures will receive a specially designed chocolate bar. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. https:// bit.ly/2Jo97G1.

7pm Disappearing Act. A staged reading presented by Rabbit Hole Ensemble. Written and directed by Artistic Director/NYIT Award winner Edward Elefterion. Info: 845-679-2079.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. rabbitholeensemble.com). $10/ suggested donation.

1:30pm Sunday Scrabble Club at Elting Library. The Sunday Scrabble Club is seeking new members to play! Come meet new people, test your knowledge and spelling skills, and share some laughs! Boards and equipment, including the Official Scrabble Dictionary (5th edition) will be provided for use. The Sunday Scrabble Club meets every Sunday between 1:30 and 3:30pm at the Library, and is open to all aged 18 and up.

Attendance is free. Info: 845-255-5030. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

7pm A Celebration of a Life of Genius. Passing the Torch Through the Arts is proud to present its finest production yet about the life and work of the talented, controverial and troubled Nina Simone. It’s a 90 minute musical – A play within a concert (like a jelly doughnut), with outstanding local talent. Info: 845-831-4988. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon. howlandculturalcenter.org. $15.

1:30pm-2:30pm Senior Fitness: Core Strength & Balance. 4 weekly classes that improve postural stability, core strength, spatial body awareness, sensory integration, agility & coordination. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@ hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2GFDUjO. 2pm-3pm Free Kids Concert: Glimmers and the Snazzleraffer. Robert Agnello will sing songs and tell stories about characters he has created. For kids who like to listen to stories.

Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, WARWICK . Info: 845-258-6030, amitygallery110@gmail.com. adults $10 donation.

3pm-4pm Fun House Artist’s Talk. Featuring Betsy Lewis, Matthew Dercole, Wayne Swarthout. Free and open to the public, reser-

center.com, or call 845-679-8700. $40 workshop price, and Woodstock Yoga Members receive 10% discount.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Pure Yang Qi Gong (Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm). Ancient meditative movements that align breath, body and intention. Gentle practice for all to build strength, flexibility and coordination. The Hot Spot, Plaza Rd, Kingston. $20 (pay what you can). Info: gibbonscharlotte@yahoo.com.

Antique Fair & Flea Market (8/48/5). Old-Fashioned Antique Show featuring 200+ dealers, free parking, & food. $10/early buyers - Friday before show. Info: 518-331-5004. $4/gen adm, $3/srs, free/16 7 under. Washington County Fairgrounds, Rt 29 Greenwich.

7pm-10pm Spring Fling Swing! Dance the night away at the Armory. The Fabulous Versatones will play while you dance the night away in the library’s community room. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2q9zHKH. 7pm-10pm Short Term 12. Grace, a young foster-care staffer, looks after troubled teens and reckons with her own past alongside co-worker and boyfriend Mason. Refreshments will be served. Info: 845-389-9201; gerryharrington@ mindspring.com. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church/ New Paltz, 163 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-389-9201, gerryharrington@mindspring. com, https://goo.gl/6uB9pS. Donation.

7pm-10pm Nancy Tierney & the Boys. Vocalist Tierney and her band will be performing jazzcentric pop music at Lydia’s, known for great food. Dinner reservations recommended. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-6876373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe.com. No cover charge but donations are welcome.

7pm-9:30pm A Revolutionary Camp at Night at the Historic Huts. Experience by candlelight military drills, musket firings and other period activities at the encampment at New Windsor.

Free admission. The Last Encampment of the Continental Army, Fisher Lane, New Windsor.

Info: 845-561-1765, chad.johnson@parks.ny.gov, www.nysparks.com.

7pm-10pm Open Mic! Hosted by Jeffrey Alan Cella & Kid Busy. Info: 845-383-1663; kidbusy@gmail.com. The Kingston Artist Collective & Cafe, 63 Broadway, Kingston. facebook. com/events/370453880124525/.

7:30pm-10:30pm Folk Guild to Feature Linda Breithaupt. With a strong, clear voice, Linda Breithaupt is at home with folk, gospel, and blues, with the occasional humorous tale.

Hudson Valley Folk Guild Poughkeepsie Chapter, 67 South Randolph Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-592-4216, HVFGPoughkeepsie@gmail.com, hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org. $6.

7:30pm Tony Kushner on Leonard Bernstein.

Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner is best known for his Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning plays. In this conversation with theater critic and scholar Alisa Solomon, Kushner will reflect on his relationship to the music of Leonard Bernstein, including his current work with Stephen Sondheim developing a screenplay of Bernstein’s West Side Story. Presented as part of the worldwide Bernstein centenary celebration. Q&A and book signing to follow talk. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. $25.

7:30pm-9pm The Cosmic Egg: Breathwork for Oneness. Breathwork is a powerful breathing technique practiced while lying down that can be both highly stimulating and deeply meditative. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

7:30pm Rhinebeck Choral Club Spring Concert. Celebrate the season of hope and renewal with us as we sing Songs of Love and Springtime. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, 6368 Mill St, Rhinebeck. Info: 518-537-2884, taylor. susan33@gmail.com, www.rhinebeckchoralclub. org. Admission FREE-donations welcome.

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he Town of Highland celebrates a daylong Springfest on Saturday, May 19 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. This Main Street festival features local vendors, craft beer, a cornhole tournament, shopping-cart relay, inflatable obstacle course, petting zoo, kids’ games, street performers, an art exhibit and live music in the later part of the day from the Sweet Clementines (4:30 to 6:30 p.m.) and David Chapman and Rivergrass (7 to 8 p.m.). For more information, call (845) 691-2144 or visit www.highlandspringfest.com.

8pm Jazz @ The Morton: The Jeff (Siege) Siegel Quintet. A high energy, spiritual, straight-ahead post-bop group featuring five virtuoso musicians - each with a personal sound and identity. Refreshments will be available. Info: 845-876-2903. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff. $10/suggested donation.

8pm-10pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fast-paced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-2279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Garland Jeffreys Trio. Legendary Rock Soul Reggae Singer Songwriter. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

8pm-9pm Nick Hallett Opera at Mount Tremper Arts. Composer Nick Hallett’s opera To Music (Scene 3) is a cautionary tale of a fictional composer’s social media behavior - a portrait of the artist on Facebook. Info: MountTremperArts. org/Hallett;845-688-9893. Tickets $15 at the door or $10 online with discount code CATSKILLS. Mount Tremper Arts, 647 South Plank Rd, Mt Tremper. Info: 845-688-9893, info@mttremperarts.org, https://bit.ly/2KLLPv4. General Admission.

8pm The Little Foxes. Muddy Water Players present “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman.

Ticket includes Dessert at Intermission. Info: 845-294-9465. Museum Village, 1010 State Route 17M, Monroe. ctmwp.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Dylan Doyle with Althea Grace. Roots Blues Rock Jam Funk.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

9pm Matthew Logan Vasquez. 6pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail. com, http://bit.ly/2H4W5g3. 15-Dec.

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7:30am-12pm Off Broadway 5K. Info: safeharbors.org. Safe Harbors of the Hudson, 111 Broadway, Newburgh. $30 pre registration, $40 same day, $10 student (k-12).

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. $18.

9am 5k Run & Walk with the Dogs. All proceeds from the event will go towards the rescue, shelter and care of hundreds of cats and dogs. This dog friendly, fun family and non-competitive event is packed with tons of post-race activities, including winner’s trophies, vendor interactive booths, step and repeat photo section, music, entertainment, face painting, raffles, giveaways. Bring the children and your well-behaved, vaccinated dogs

for a fun filled day in the park. The participants can pick up their bibs and tshirts starting at 9am.

Run starts at 10am. Beacon Memorial Park, 200 Robert Cahill Dr, Beacon. runsignup.com/Race/ NY/Beacon/ARF5K. $30.

9am-4pm High Falls D&H Canal Flea Market.

Flea Market runs every Sunday through Oct. Vendors offer a variety of Art, Antiques, Collectibles and Crafts. Grady Park, 23 Mohonk Rd & Rt 213, High Falls. Info: 845-810-0471, jonicollyn@ aol.com, http://www.canalmuseum.org/. free.

9am-5pm Wildflower Festival and Heirloom Seedling Sale. A full weekend for both the novice and experienced gardeners with a special focus on home gardeners who want to become more self-sufficient by successfully growing a multitude of delicious and nutritious edibles to put on their tables and in their pantries. The Hudson Valley Seed Library returns with an extensive selection of organic heirloom vegetables, herb and flower seedlings. Free and open to public. Rain or shine. Info: 845-626-2758.

Catskill Native Nursery, 607 Samsonville Rd, Kerhonkson. catskillnativenursery.com.

9am-2pm Warwick Valley Farmer’s Market.

Every Sunday May 13 – Nov 18. Info: 845-9862720. South Street Parking Lot, Warwick. warwickcc.org.

9am-1pm American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certification.

This class is appropriate for new or recertifying students. The textbook is required (February 2016 AHA BLS) and AHA allows students to use it when taking the written exam. Course completion results in a certification card from the AHA valid for two years. The course is for students ages 16 to adult. Preregistration and payment are required. Call 845-475-9742 to register. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. $50, $65 with text.

9:30am-12pm Minnewaska Preserve: Citizen Science Hike for Families on Beacon Hill.

Learn all about phenology, the study of how plants and animals change throughout the seasons, and contribute as a citizen scientist in this new monthly series. We will be offering this hike once a month, to monitor seasonal changes in plants along the Beacon Hill loop hike. This two-mile hike offers beautiful views of the Rondout and Wallkill Valleys as well as the Catskill Mountains. This program is recommended for adults and children over the age of eight, accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Minnewaska Nature Center. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed 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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am Sunday Meditation. Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of various Buddhist topics, followed by Tibetan yoga, sitting meditation and compassion practice,all of which help participants nurture their inner strength and grow spiritually. Potluck lunch. Free. Suitable for all; you may join for some or all of the morning. Info: dharmakayacenter.org/events; retreats@dharmakayacenter.org; 845-203-1275.

Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Rd, Pine Bush.

10am-6pm The Rhinebeck Annual Spring Sidewalk Sale. Twice a year our merchants

11am-3pm Windham Mountain Resort Wedding Expo. Welcomes Brides, Grooms and Families to meet and greet with local Bridal professionals. Each bride and a guest may take a skyride to view Windham Mountain’s Wedding deck, enjoy a champagne greeting and hors d’oeuvres. Info: 518-734-4300; edewitt@windhammountain.com. Windham Mountain Resort, 19 Resort Dr, Windham. windhammountain. com. $5.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation!

Pool Table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 11am-2pm Mid-Hudson Walk for Celiac Disease. Help raise money and awareness of Celiac Disease by joining them for a walk and a gluten-free fair at Walkway over the Hudson.

Rain or Shine, Chidren 5 and under are free— dogs welcome! Info: 845-249-8554; jagnolet@ gmail.com. Walkway Over the Hudson, 61 Parker Ave, Poughkeepsie. $25.

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, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Pete Levin & Co. Jazz Blues Funk. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

May 17, 2018 Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

2pm-5pm Opening Reception: Art for God’s Sake. Works by Hudson Valley Artist, Joan Monastero. Wine and Cheese Reception. The installation will hang through September, 2018. Info: 845-658-3439; info@lifebridge. org. Lifebridge Sanctuary, 333 Mountain Road, Rosendale. lifebridge.org.

2pm-3:30pm Attunement to Cosmic Consciousness. Darlene Van de Grift will guide you in reaching out and expanding exponentially through your co-creative Cosmic relationship.

Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

2pm-4pm The History of Ellenville. Henry “Bucky” Green, Town of Wawarsing Historian will speak on his book on Ellenville. Books will be available for sale. Refreshments will be served.

Time and the Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville. Info: 845-985-7700, info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org. Members: FREE, non members: $3.

2pm-4:30pm Moon Over Buffalo . A fastpaced, door-slamming farce about the back stage shenanigans of a once-venerable traveling theatre family in the 1950s. Directed by Michael Koegel.

Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-2279, onfo@phoeniciaplayhouse. com, http://bit.ly/phpltix1. 20/ gen adm, 18/srs & students.

2pm Disappearing Act. A staged reading presented by Rabbit Hole Ensemble. Written and directed by Artistic Director/NYIT Award winner Edward Elefterion. Info: 845-679-2079.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. rabbitholeensemble.com). $10/ suggested donation.

11am Catskill Animal Sanctuary Tour. Meet rescued animals and hear their stories. Understand what caring for these amazing animals has taught us. Learn about the plight of farmed animals and how you can help. Tours every Saturday and Sunday, through November - beginning at 11am. Tours leave every 45 minutes. The last tour leaves at 2:45pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. Info: (845) 336-8447, https://bit.ly/2Ghba1w. $12/adults, $8/kids & srs, free/ 2 & under.

3pm Kairos’ Bach Cantata Series: Cantata No. 127. Kairos will present Bach Cantata No. 127, “Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott”, with chamber orchestra, as part of Kairos’ Bach Cantata Series, which will enjoy its 12 year. The service will also include an instrumental work by the Baroque master. It is suggested that audience members arrive at the Monastery at least 20 minutes before the service to ensure admission as seating is limited. Holy Cross Monastery, Route 9W, West Park. kairosconsort.org. $10/ suggested donation.

12pm-6pm Germania of Poughkeepsie Maifest. Features live German bands, German food, home baked desserts, German beers, children’s entertainment, Bavarian dancers and singers. Event will be held Rain or Shine under tents. Parking is free! Info: 845-471-0609; president@Germaniapok.com. Germania Festival Grounds, DeGarmo Rd, Poughkeepsie. germaniaPok.com. $5, $4/Veteran/Active Military with ID, free/under 16.

3pm-7pm Women’s Studio Workshop 11th Annual Gala & Auction. This celebratory afternoon will include cocktails, gourmet hors d’oeuvres, and silent and live auctions. This year, they are proud to recognize honorees Dani ReStack and Annie O’Neill for their dedication to serving artists and the community. Tables for eight may be purchased for $800. Info: 845-6589133. Senate Garage, 4 North Front St, Kingston. wsworkshop.org/support-us/gala18/. $125.

1pm-2pm Folktales & Stories for Children & Families. Pamela Badila performs, tells and reads folktales from around the world in this special story hour. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, http:// hudsonarealibrary.org.

3pm The Little Foxes. Muddy Water Players present “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman.

Ticket includes Dessert at Intermission. Info: 845-294-9465. Museum Village, 1010 State Route 17M, Monroe. ctmwp.org.

1pm-11pm Hudson Valley Fair. All live entertainment and shows are free with fair admission. Info: 813-486-7057; info@fairproductions2.com. Dutchess Stadium, Poughkeepsie.

HudsonValleyFair.com.

1pm-9pm Italian Center’s 24rd Annual Festa Italiana. Lunch 11am-2pm. Entertainment

by Bill’s Toupee. Info: 845-454-3021; John. mazzetti@yahoo.com. Italian Center, 227 Mill St, Poughkeepsie. theitaliancenter.com.

1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Woodstock.

1pm-2pm New Volunteer Day. An information session and tour of the Museum to learn how you can help and all the benefits of volunteering. Refreshments served. Time and the Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville. Info: 845-985-7700, info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org. FREE. 1pm-3:30pm Family Fun and Fish Day. DEC fisheries staff and volunteers with local Trout Unlimited chapters will introduce youth and others to the sport of fishing and provide education on fish identification and aquatic ecology. Other family-friendly activities include a barbeque, and arts and crafts under the pavilion. Please let us know in advance if you have special needs related to the day’s activities. All fishing supplies will be provided, though you are welcome to bring your own if you have them. No fishing license is required. DEC charges a $6 fee per car for admission to the campground -- all other activities are free. Register by May 17, 2018 in order to participate. Register online. Info: 845-688-3047; bwg37@cornell.edu. Kenneth Wilson State Campground, 859 Wittenberg Rd, Mt Tremper. ashokanstreams.org.

1:30pm-3:30pm Library Scrabble Club. Meets every Sunday, 1:30-3:30pm. Play is free and open to all. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

1:30pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

3pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Professional company open rehearsal. Free. &nbsp; &nbsp; Hudson Hall, Hudson. hudsonhall.org.

4pm-6pm Film Screening: Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution. Free film screening of this documentary http://hummingbirdfilms.com/symbioticearth Wheelchair accessible. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. https://bit.ly/2KHDqZz. 4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle. Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast - Woodstock 104 at 8pm. All drummers, dancers are welcome.

Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. At the community center when raining or cold, on the green when warm.

Village Green, Woodstock.

4pm Rhinebeck Choral Club Spring Concert.

Celebrate the season of hope and renewal withSongs of Love and Springtime. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, 6368 Mill St, Rhinebeck.

Info: 518-537-2884, taylor.susan33@gmail. com, www.rhinebeckchoralclub.org. Admission is FREE-donations welcome.

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. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

6pm May 2018 Monthly Meeting of the Hudson Valley Humanists. A video of the book tour by T.R. Reid of his book “The Healing of America” (2009) will be viewed, followed by a discussion of health insurance. Is a change from the previous system even necessary? Hudson Valley Humanists will be collecting toiletries and other necessities for Family of New Paltz.

Free and open to the public. Info: auer1@att. net. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz.

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May 17, 2018 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Jason “Malletman” Taylor. High Energy Funky Groove Vibraphonist. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Monday

encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley.

10:30am Children’s Story Hours. Toddler Time Tuesday (18 months to 3 years). Followed by crafts and music. Info: 845-331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. kingstonlibrary.org.

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12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility.Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. $1 donation.

7am Free Shuttle for Low Cost Spay/Neuter Services. T.A.R.A.’s FREE “Spay Shuttle” will now be in Poughkeepsie (7am) and Fishkill (7:30am) on Mondays. Appointment required.

Multiple locations. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org/shuttle. htm. Shuttle is free, price of surgery ranges base on weight.

1pm-3:30pm Esopus Artist Group. Ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

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

9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey! A fun class, lightly paced. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9am-9:50am Woodstock Senior Fit Dance with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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. Info: 845-303-9689. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. ssipkingston.org.

9:30am-12pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:304pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-2470094. Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

10am Muffin Mondays. Freshly baked muffins with your coffee. Info: 845-254-5469. $1 each.

Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.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 Woodstock Senior Drama with Edith Lefever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues and scenes, and offers public performances. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12pm The Celebration of Aging. Free for all Dutchess residents who will turn 100 or more in 2018, plus one guest. Free for all Dutchessresident couples married 70+ years in 2018. Info: 845-486-2544; bjones@dutchessny.gov. Villa Borghese, 70 Widmer Rd, Wappingers Falls. dutchessny.gov/aging. $40.

1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

2pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Painting with Jennifer Schimmrich. In addition to instructions, art supplies and periodic group exhibitions, the calss offers freindship adn camaraderie.

Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3pm-5pm Study Hall. Meets every Monday, 3-5pm. A safe space for homework & tutoring.

Open to grades 6-13 7 GED students. Snacks provided. Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org.

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter.org.

3:30pm-4:30pm Amateur Guitar Jam. Join this casual gathering of acoustic musicians.

Bring your own guitar. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm 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. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12.

4pm-5:30pm Girls Inc at Family of New Paltz.

For girls ages 13-15 learn how to make Zines.

Free. 845-255-7957. Family of New Paltz, 51 N Chestnut St, New Paltz. girlsinc.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & 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. 845-246-4317.

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REGISTER FOR GLASSMAKING DEMOS ABOARD GLASSBARGE

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he Corning Museum of Glass is a must-see stop if you’re touring New York’s Southern Tier or the Finger Lakes, but Corning is a bit of a schlep from the Hudson Valley for a day trip. Now, in honor of the 2018 bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and the 150th anniversary of the relocation of the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company to Corning, this center of the US glassmaking industry is bringing its fascinating art right to us, via a one-of-a-kind floating venue called GlassBarge. This 30-by 90-foot steel canal barge has a glassblowing demonstration studio built-in, and it’ll be on tour in the mid-Hudson in June.

GlassBarge will be open for free public deck tours each day, and provide free glassblowing demonstrations from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. All demos are approximately 30 minutes long, and seating is limited, so guests are strongly encouraged to register online for specific demonstration locations and times. Registration will be available four to six weeks prior to each stop – which means that you can sign up now, folks. This opportunity won’t last.

Launching in Brooklyn Bridge Park on May 17, GlassBarge will make its way up the Hudson, stopping at Poughkeepsie’s Waryas Park June 8 through 10, the Hudson River Maritime Museum on Kingston’s Strand June 15 to 17 (joined by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica canal schooner Lois McClure) and Historic Catskill Point on June 19. It will then travel north on the Hudson, then westward along the Erie Canal before making its way to the Finger Lakes.

To sign up for one of these amazing shipboard hot-glass demonstrations, visit https://bit.ly/2IoXBde.

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

5:30pm Beekeeping Support Group. Monthly topics related to supporting beekeeping are covered. Beginners and seasoned beekeepers are all welcome! hvhives.com for details. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Free.

5:30pm TIPS to HELP YOU make a difference in someone’s life. A workshop on helping someone who will benefit from your coaching and compassionate guidance! Sponsored by RAISING HOPE an Ulster County mentoring program for women.

The Raising Hope Coordinator along with others who are part of the program will lead a round table discussion and offer suggestions on how you can support another person as she works through a change or challenge in her life. This is a FREE event and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Info: 845-331-4199. Town of Ulster Library, 860 Ulster Ave, Town of Ulster.

6pm-7:30pm Know the 10 Signs. Free educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association on how to recognize the 10 signs of Alzheimer’s.

Info:800-272-3900. 2642 E Main St, Wappingers Falls. Info: 800.272.3900, info@alzhudsonvalley.org, https://bit.ly/2FhUKk0.

6:15pm Cantine’s Island Pot Luck Dinner.

Meets on the third Monday of every month.

Learn about co-housing. RSVP by calling 845-246-3271. Info: cantinesislandcohousing. org. cantinesislandcohousing.org.

6:30pm-7:30pm Rondout Rowing Club Informational Meeting. Free Informational Meeting to Learn about the recreational sport of rowing.

Riverport Wooden Boat School, 86 Rondout Landing, Kingston. Info: (845) 328-0153, rondoutrowingclub@gmail.com, https://rondoutrowingclub.org/.

6:30pm-7:30pm Board of Trustees Meeting.

Meet your board of trustees at the Library!

Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meetings.

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

Tuesday

5/22

8am Minnewaska Preserve: Early Morning Birders. Designed for birding enthusiasts or those just looking to learn the basics, this series will offer various outings led by experienced birding volunteers. Participants will meet at the Minnewaska main entrance and should come prepared with binoculars. Outing destinations will be determined the day of the program. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

9am-10am Free Weekly Community Meditation. On-going on Tuesdays 9-10am. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation. For optional beginner instruction, please arrive 10 minutes early. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Check website for cancellations: wellnessembodiedcenter.com. Wellness Embodied: A Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, 126 Main St, New Paltz.

9am-10am Woodstock 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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. Info: 845-255-0609.

Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz.

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.

9:30am-1:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: Tuesday Trek- High Peter’s Kill/Awosting Falls Loop Hike. Approximately five-mile hike.

This hike does include rocky, narrow sections of trail that may be challenging for some. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

9:30am-11am Iyengar Yoga Level I-II with Barbara Boris. For all students new to Iyengar Yoga. The basis of the method is taught in standing poses, and other fundamental postures.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. $18.

10am-12pm New Mother’s Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas and babies (ages 0-8 months) for friendship, answers about your new baby, and socialization.

(Siblings are welcome.) A different weekly discussion topic with Q & A. Continues through May 31. Info: 845-255-0624. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. newbabynewpaltz.com.

10am-10:45am Community Play Space. Rugs, toys and books are spread out for kids to play with after laptime. Everyone welcome. Meet new friends, see old friends. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-2551255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org.

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

1:30pm-4:30pm Play Bridge. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz. Free.

2pm-3pm Building Your Family Tree. With Moe Lemire. Learn the tips and tools available to research and build your family tree. Bring a laptop computer if you own one. Free. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org. free.

2pm-3:30pm Yoga Level I – Basics. This class reviews the fundamentals. It is a perfect class to start your yoga practice. This is not a “flow” class. open to all levels. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com; woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://www.woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

3:30pm-6:30pm Free Math Tutoring. Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Trigonometry, and Calculus AB (or college level Calc 1). Call to sign up 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. www.MathTutoringwithMisha.com. Free.

4pm Scrabble. Come test your vocabulary against your friends and family. Info: 845-2464317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

4pm-5:15pm Stress Reduction through Meditation. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a great way to find inner balance and deep relaxation. This program is free and all are welcome.The event is on-going,e very Tuesday, 4-5:15pm, Info: 845-339-8567. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

4:30pm-5:30pm Tunezday. A youth musical jam session! Bring your own instrument and let’s start making some music! An informal, fun way to make music together. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://%20http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Free.

5:30pm-7pm Magic: The Gathering Night. Join us for a casual, relaxed evening of Magic: The Gathering. Beginners are welcome, and experienced players are welcome as well! Free. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@ gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org. Recommended for teenagers and adults. Happens in the East Room.

6pm-7:15pm Vinyasa Community Class with Selena Reynolds. A $10 drop-in community class to make Yoga financially accessible to all.

This class is open to all levels and is fun and informative. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. Drop-in rate.

6:30pm-8pm The Creative Seed Artist Group.

A support group for artists to have a space to develop & share their work in progress- Actors, poets, playwrights & musicians welcome. Every Tuesday. Info: bluehealing or 203-246-5711.

By donation. Call ahead. Blue Mountain Co-op Retreat Center, Woodstock.

7pm-8pm Scrabble Night. Every Tuesday! Bring snacks to share starts 7pm. All welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

7pm-10pm Open Mic Nite at Woodnotes Grille. Hosted by Ben Rounds. Open Mic Nite makes Tuesday night the new Friday night for great entertainment. Listen to talented local singers and bands or showcase your own talents!

No cover. For more information, contact us at 845-688-2828 or emersonresort.com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

7pm-8:30pm Singing Just For Fun! New Paltz Community Singers! Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 7 to 8:30pm. Info: genecotton@gmail.com.

Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, New Paltz.

7:15pm Nothing is Truer than Truth. Documentary about Shakespeare during the years he traveled in Europe to places that became the settings for some of his most famous plays.

Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre. org, rosendaletheatre.org. $8.

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10:30am-11:30pm Woodstock Senior Strengthening with Linda Sirkin. Sponsored

by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1/ donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12pm-1pm Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. This lunchtime class will leave you feeling less chronic pain, more stretched out and walking taller than before. Let’s get rolling! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. $18.

1pm-3pm Pinochle. Card Game every Wednesday! Looking for a 4th player Anyone interested - email info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 1pm Community Chorus Meet-Up. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

1pm-4pm Individual Medicare Counseling.

Call Office for Aging to make your appointment - 845-340-3456. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@ rcls.org, https://bit.ly/2vvXevz.

1pm-3pm Social Circle. Good conversation!

Every Wednesday. Everyone welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

1:30pm-4pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:30-4pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-247-0094.

Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

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.

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Michelle Shocked

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MICHELLE SHOCKED TO HEADLINE THE FALCON’S SPRINGFEST NEXT SATURDAY

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he Falcon began as a labor-of-love venue for intimate house concerts, but it expanded rapidly to a new building (a renovated button factory) with great acoustics and top-tier jazz, blues, world, folk and rock musicians. Then it added a second stage to provide airtime for more experimental (and local) music. From its early days, it has also been an actively curated art gallery and – as of recently – a museum as well (the Avalon Archives, located in the Falcon Underground). Given this scope, it is not really such a surprise that the Falcon’s Springfest all-day event on Saturday, May 26 is a highly conceptual unified multimedia event: The Falcon in Delusionville, a festival revolving around Ron English’s Rabbits in Delusionville rock opera and artwork.

Curated by Ron English, the three-stage, noon-to-close show boasts an impressive list of performers, including the incendiary folk/rocker Michelle Shocked, legendary jam band (and Soulive antecedent) Moon Boot Lover, local star Decora, former We Must Be songwriter Christine Dominguez and many more. Per usual at the Falcon, there is no cover charge – even for a full-day, 12act festival in an utterly classy environment by the stunning Marlboro Falls– but generous direct-to-the-artist donation is what keeps the boat afloat.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon.com.

– John Burdick

Wednesday

5/23

8:30am-9:15am Universal Prayer Group.

Sitting together a table, personal prayers will be shared aloud. All religious and spiritual beliefs are honored. MaMA. Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge.

9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

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 warm-ups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1/donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II with Alison Sinatra. This class is ideal for students transitioning from beginners to intermediate yoga.

Basic poses are explored with increasing detail interspersed with a flowing sequence. $18

drop-in.Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. $18.

10am-10:45am MaMA’s Universal Prayer Circle. Ongoing - every Wednesday, 10-10:45am.

Meeting is open to the community, free and dropin. All spiritual and religious beliefs are honored.

Turns are taken voluntarily in offering prayers aloud and natural periods of silence may occur.

Trust is encouraged within the group by acknowledging that anything shared will remain confidential. Info: 845-687-6090 and leave a message for Susan Richmann. Marbletown Multi-Arts Center, 3588 Main St, Stone Ridge.

10:30am Children’s Story Hours. Preschool Wednesday (3 years to 5 years). Followed by crafts and music. Info: 845-331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. kingstonlibrary.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Senior Writing Workshop in Woodstock Welcomes New Members Spring and Summer Dates. Writers at all levels of experience, beginner to expert, are invited to join the Writers Workshop of the Woodstock Senior Recreation Program. Whether interested in non-fiction, short stories, plays, memoir, or poetry, writers age 55 and above may join the group, which will meet the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. The workshop stresses trying out new forms and content in a supportive atmosphere. No fee is required. The workshop is led by experienced writer, editor, and instructor Lew Gardner. For further information:

2pm-3:30pm Mah Jongg. Learn to play this ancient Asian game. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm Battle of the Books Organizational Meetings. Elting Memorial Library invites middle and high school aged students to organizational meetings on Wednesday, May 23 at 4:00 p.m. (middle school) and 5:00 p.m. (high school) to join in its 2018 Battle of the Books teams .

Those entering 9th grade in the fall may select whichever team they prefer (or both). Battle of the Books participants read selected titles and compete against other Mid Hudson library teams, game-show style, about what they have read. Anyone interested in participating in the Battle of the Books, but not able to attend the organizational meeting, should contact Deborah Engel-Di Mauro at dengel-dimauro@eltinglibrary.org. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. eltinglibrary.org.

4pm Family Lego. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

4:30pm-6pm Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed 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, http://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.

5:30pm-8:30pm Teen Night Wednesdays.

Every Wednesday of the school year. Food, Teen Topics, Activities, Life Skills. For those 14-18.

This program is made possible by a partnership between Family of Woodstock, Inc. and Mid-Hudson Valley Planned Parenthood. Free.

Everette Hodge Community Center, 21 Franklin St, Kingston.

May 17, 2018 6pm-9pm Sixth Annual Taste of Woodstock.

Celebrate the culinary diversity and delicacies that the region has to offer. Twenty participating restaurants and hosts. Guests receive a walking map and a voting card to pick their favorite dishes. Tickets $50 are available online over the phone, and at the box office. - 13 Rock City Road.

Info: 845-679-4265. Woodstock Film Festival Center, 13 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

6:30pm Gurdjieff Study Group. Meets on Wednesdays, 6:30pm in Stone Ridge. For information and directions, respond to Jim by email: gstudygroup@gmail.com.

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. Info: 845-679-8989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Meetup.flowingspirit.com.

Free/donations welcomed.

6:30pm-8:30pm Yin Yoga with Diane Davis.

This yin class will be slower, where asanas are held for longer periods of time. For beginners and advanced students. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

6:30pm-7:30pm New Baby Workshop. A complimentary workshop led by Donna Bruschi, IBCLC and Dr. David Lester. Lester Chiropractic, 3 Paradies Ln, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-3300, Lester.chiropractic@gmail.com.

6:30pm-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”). Info: 845-4758781. Family Partnership Center, 29 North Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie. enjan.org.

7pm-8:30pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. 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. 845-679-5906 for more info. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Poet Gold’s POELODIES. Spoken Word, Hip Hop & Nu Music. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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. 845-616-0710.

Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. $6.

7pm-11pm Chess Night. Free every Wednesday.

Players should bring their own boards & pieces.

Info: 845-658-9048. The Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale.

7pm-10pm Calling all Trivia Nerds – Trivia Night. Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes at our 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! For more information, contact us at 845-688-2828 or emersonresort. com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

7pm Ashokan-Pepacton Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited, #559 Meeting. General membership meeting. Info: 845-657-8500.

Boiceville Inn, Rt 28, Boiceville.

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. 845-679-8989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Meetup. flowingspirit.com.

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.

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, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus.org.

5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. 845-563-8043 for more info.

Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh.

7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Thursday.

Open to all chess players. Free admission. Info: 845-419-2737; albiebar@aol.com. Woodland Pond, New Paltz.

6pm-8pm Garrison Institute Writer’s Circle.

A free monthly collaborative writing workshop that includes time for meditation, reflection, writing, and sharing. All writers are welcome.

Monthly, as scheduled. Info: 845-424-4800; writerscircle@garrisoninstitute.org. Garrison Institute, 14 Marys Way, Garrison. garrisoninstitute.org/event/garrison-institute-writerscircle-may/.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Latin Jazz Express.

Salsa, Dance, The music of Tito Puente. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

6pm-8pm League of Women Voters Annual Meeting. Agenda includes a pot luck supper, welcoming former LWV Saugerties members and other new members, learning about the local league’s committees and activities, and passing the budget and nominating slate. Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties. lwvmidhudson.org.

8pm Bob Dylan Birthday Show with Pat O’Shea and Special Guests. 6pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail. com, https://bit.ly/2jGJs09. $15.

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9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John. Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and

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NIGHT SKY

Tangles of yarn An update on String Theory

F

or nearly a century, science has tried to create a Grand Unified Theory.

It’s a noble goal, attempting to tie together all the universe’s forces. Einstein struggled unsuccessfully with this most of his life, and he wasn’t alone. But, listening to PBS specials or self-serving books, the struggle seems almost over, the goal almost at hand. Its name is String Theory.

String Theory claims that at the tiniest levels of existence – a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth the size of an atomic nucleus – vibrating threads can link up in various ways to produce the universe’s four forces. Such an image is simple, but the actual theory is complex and fragmentary. Right from the get-go, many physicists – including those in our region at Vassar and Bard – have been shaking their heads.

Problem One is that String Theory doesn’t work in our reality of three dimensions, plus a dimension of time. To make it work, its creators had to invent seven additional dimensions, for which our own senses and the rest of science have not a shred of evidence.

Nor can the existence of any of those dimensions be tested.

Problem Two is that String Theory is unfalsifiable. This means that no experiment can tell if it’s right or wrong.

Problem Three is that String Theory’s only prediction proved to be incorrect by 50 orders of magnitude.

All this made Columbia University physicist Peter Woit adapt Wolfgang Pauli’s old exclamation from a lifetime ago. Woit says of String Theory: “It’s not even wrong!” (Not Even Wrong is also the title of Woit’s 2006 book on the subject.)

We might wonder why universities and the mass media would play with strings for decades if it’s imaginary and untestable. Until recently, science dealt with new theories mercilessly – by testing them. Confirmed ones were kept; wrong ones were tossed. But this time, string theorists have managed to include dreamlike dimensions, argue that no testing is possible, and yet somehow keep the fantasy train chugging along.

Peter Woit thinks the main reason is because it’s the only game in town, the hot-button label, the sure way to get funding and publicity. But he wonders how much longer the

String theorists have managed to include dreamlike dimensions and argue that no testing is possible.

fitness levels. A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock 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. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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. Cost varies.

10am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice.

This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm-2pm Lunch & Learn. History of the Walkway Over the Hudson! Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and cards are available, or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments.

Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red hook.

1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2pm-5pm Phoenicia: Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3pm-5pm Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease. Information about legal and financial issues to consider. Presented by the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, https://bit.ly/2jO316V. 3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy

class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & 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. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

RON BRINKMANN

String Theory claims that at the tiniest levels of existence – a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth the size of an atomic nucleus – vibrating threads can link up in various ways to produce the universe’s four forces.

media will focus on a well-promoted-but-never-successful theory that has no connection with the physical world.

In a Scientific American blog last April, John Horgan wrote: “At its best, physics is the most potent and precise of all scientific fields, and yet it surpasses even psychology in its capacity for bullshit.” To support this harsh assessment, he offered a recent conversation that he had with Woit, who said, “Experimental results from the Large Hadron Collider show no evidence of the extra dimensions or supersymmetry that string theorists had argued for as ‘predictions’ of string theory. The internal problems of the theory are even more serious now, after another decade of research. These include the complexity, ugliness and lack of explanatory power of [efforts] to connect String Theory with known phenomena, as well as the continuing failure to come up with a consistent formulation of the theory.”

Yet another string aspect is its fallback on multiverses. Said Woit in the Scientific American Horgan blog, “The problem with such things as String-Theory multiverse theories is that ‘The multiverse did it’ is not just untestable, but an excuse for failure.

You might as well say, ‘The Jolly Green Giant did it.’”

To be fair to multiverses, there are different versions of them – like the edition that’s central to quantum theory’s “Many Worlds Interpretation.” That multiverse topic is a realm unto itself. Let’s devote a column to it soon.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@ gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. All ages!

7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Thursday.

Open to all chess players. Free admission. Info: 845-419-2737; albiebar@aol.com. Woodland Pond, New Paltz.

6pm-7:30pm Community Soup Dinner. Come and join us for a soup dinner sponsored and served by Boy Scout Troop 163. All are welcome!

Donations go to the Troop. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-6572482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https:// bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

7:30pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Thursday night at 7:30pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

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.

6pm-7pm Zena Rommett Floor-Barre(TM) Classes. An evolutionary step in body improvement training. Contact: Andrea Pastorella, 845-282-6723. 65 Albany Avenue, Kingston.

6pm-8:30pm Green Business Challenge Volunteer Training. Volunteers are needed to become Green Building Challenge Ambassadors to help area business take significant Climate action. The goal of Ulster County Climate Smart committee is to get 100 businesses to undertake an energy audit and retrofit, insulate and airseal their building, switch to LED lighting or air- or ground-source heat pumps, install solar, purchase locally generated renewable energy, reuse food waste by participating in the HV Food Bank or composting, purchase an electric vehicle or install an EV charging station, and more. To accomplish this ambitious goal, a team of experts will train volunteers to work with Ulster County businesses, organizations and/or municipalities to implement these and other climate solutions that will really have an impact -- then to speak with their favorite business to help them take action, with support from the trainers.Free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required.

Info: 845-807-1270 (cell) mannajo@aol.com.

Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster, 94 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. surveymonkey.com/r/GreenBusinessChallengeTraining.

6:30pm-8:30pm Black Power Mixtape. A unique documentary record of the Black Power Movement with Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and many others.

AJ Williams Myers African ROOTS Center, 43 Gill St, Kingston. Info: 914-388-3092. Free.

6pm-7:30pm Future Hudson: An Urban Designer’s Imaginings, What ifs, and Why Nots by Matthew Frederick. Hudson architect and bestselling author Matthew Frederick to explore how to repair Hudson’s trouble spots and shape its future. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, https:// bit.ly/2H8TCEb. 6pm-7pm Lego Projects. Each month a new creative challenge. Come and build with others!

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

Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary. org, http://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

6pm-7pm Tarot Club. Are you a seasoned tarot reader or just interested in learning about tarot cards? Led by Sabra Margaret. Tivoli Free

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. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock/Kingston, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Essential Eric Andersen Tour. Legend of the Greenwich Village folk scene. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-589-5000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.

8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions. Listen or read. Every Thursday. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-6892323. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Tribal HarmonyNative American Culture Series. Host: Evan Prichard – Special Guest: David Amram! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, & Geoff Harden.

Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm-8pm Open Mic Night. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

7pm Deborah Hanlon. 5pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, https://bit.ly/2qov40z. 35/40.

7:30pm Bethel Woods 2018 Flicks Series: This is Spinal Tap. Test your awesome skills with our “Air Guitar” contest and channel your inner rocker with our fun “Best Mullet” contest!

Snack on a “Mini Break Catastrophe” sandwich and “A Spinal Tap” specialty cocktail. Year: 1984.

Audience: (R). Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel. BethelWoodsCenter.org. $8, $5/child.

7:30pm World-renowned Jazz Trumpet Legend Warren Vache with John Di Martino Trio. Tix available at Rhino Records (4 N Front St, Kingston) or securely online at tickets or by calling 845-802-0029. Sandwiches and wine will be available for purchase. Senate Garage, 4 North Front St, Kingston. jazzstock.com. $25.

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9am-12pm Horticulture Hotline and Diagnostic Lab Now Open 3 Days a Week for the 2018 Growing Season. Volunteer Master Gardeners staff the hotline and are available to answer home horticulture questions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am to 12pm, through October. The phone number is 845-340-DIRT (3478). CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster. cce.cornell.edu/gardening.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II with Alison Sinatra. This class is ideal for students transitioning from beginners to intermediate yoga.

Basic poses are explored with increasing detail interspersed with a flowing sequence. $18 dropin. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

9:45am-10:45am Woodstock Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock

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GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Garden beds: To raise or not to raise?

M

y vegetable garden is in beds. Your vegetable garden is in beds. Seems like just about everybody plants in beds these days – and with good reason: Beds make more efficient use of garden space. Soil compaction is avoided because planting, weeding, pruning and harvesting can be done with feet in the paths. And the shapes of the beds can help make even a vegetable garden look prettier, especially with decorative plants edging the beds.

Raised beds are also one way to grow happy plants in otherwise-poorly-drained ground, or in ground that has been contaminated by lead or arsenic. Such contamination is likely to occur from past use of leaded gasoline near roadways, from old paint near buildings and from residual pesticides in sites that were once orchards.

My vegetable garden is laid out in threefoot-wide beds with 18-inch-wide paths between them that feed into one five-footwide bed down the center of the garden.

Many gardeners, when considering planting in beds, equate that with raised beds. My vegetable beds are not intended to be raised even a hair above the paths.

When I began my garden, I laid out the beds and covered them with compost, and then laid wood chips from local arborists in the paths. The difference in appearance of the two materials makes it easy to see where to walk and where not to walk. (For most people, that is: A well-known food writer once visited my garden. As I walked up a path, he tromped along next to me – right up the middle of the bed adjacent to the path! – until I let out a scream that brought him to an abrupt stop. Some lush plants in the bed were admittedly flopping onto the path, obscuring the difference between walking and planting areas.)

Most people bring in soil for raised beds, and, in the interest of having the best possible garden, make that “soil” compost.

Not a good idea.

Soil in raised beds is usually held there with boards or other edging. That edging material might itself be decorative: lumber, bricks, roof tiles or, in a “Colonial” garden, logs.

Ideally, any wooden edging is rot-resistant. Locust or redwood would be my top choices, but hard to get. “Manufactured” lumber, such as Trex, is another possibility. Then again, pine or spruce boards are readily available, relatively inexpensive and should last quite a few years.

A six-inch-high bed provides enough well-drained root depth for pretty much all vegetable plants.

One disadvantage to raised beds is that you have get soil to fill them up. That soil could, of course, come from what will be the paths. If the area is wet, though, taking soil from paths is going to lower them, making them that much wetter.

Most people bring in soil for raised beds, and, in the interest of having the best possible garden, make that “soil” compost. Not a good idea. For one thing, compost is mostly “organic matter,” meaning compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. With time, as organic matter decomposes to nourish soil microorganisms and plants, it disappears, literally, becoming carbon dioxide and water. So a raised bed filled with compost will eventually shrink down to almost nothing.

The thing to do is to fill beds almost to their brims with any well-drained soil. Fertility is not important; that will come from the one to two inches of compost with which the soil is topped. Replenishing the compost each year will provide all the nutrition that plants need for that year; no additional fertilizer is necessary. And no need to dig or rototill the compost into the ground.

One more thing about raised beds: The improved drainage also means that they dry out faster, so benefit from irrigation. residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Pilates - Mixed Level with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. $1/donation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind.Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6pm-7pm Lego Fun. Each month we offer a new creative challenge. Come and build with others!

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

Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary. org, https://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

6:30pm-7:30pm Learn the Texas Two-Step.

Workshop will teach the basics of this smooth country dance, then add exciting variations.

No partner needed. No experience required.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hudsonvalleydance.org. $20.

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

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

7pm-8pm Open Mic Night. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

7pm 15th Annual USO Show @ FDR Estate.

Show will feature two hours of entertainment including live Big Band music from the 1930s and 40s, comedy and juggling, historic newsreels. This evening of family entertainment is the kick-off event for the Memorial Day Weekend programs at the Roosevelt Library and Home.

Pre-registration is required for this event as seating is limited. Info & to register: fdrlibrary. org to register. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Durham County Poets. Folk & roots from Southwest Quebec.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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.

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If you were to walk into my garden, you might notice that my planting beds are indeed a bit higher than the paths. This was not deliberate.

Each year for many years, I’ve topped all my beds with an inch or two of compost.

Paths get replenished with wood chips only if they start to get weedy or bare soil starts peeking through.

If it weren’t for decomposition, those yearly additions of compost would have made each bed into a “table” more than three feet high. It hasn’t. QED. Upcoming event: Saturday, June 2 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. is my annual plant sale of permaculture plants, native plants, beautiful plants, luscious plants and beautiful-and-luscious plants – all organically grown. Contact me for more information or a plant list at garden@leereich.com.

– 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.

7:30pm-9pm Kabbalat Shabbat Services.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation Friday evening services. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. http://www. wjcshul.com.

7:30pm-11pm Swing Dance. Dance to the amazing energy of Paula Bradley and the Twangbusters. No partner needed. Beginner lesson 7:30. Info: 845-454-2571. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hvcd.info. $15, or $10 for students.

talism, by David Schuyler. Olana State Historic Site, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1872, education@olana.org, https://www.facebook. com/Olana.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

8pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. Not-for-profit store featuring previously enjoyed household and misc. items, jewelry, and clothing for children and adults. Take stairway to the left of the church entrance down to the basement. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Comforterofkingston.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Songs for Petra Petra Haden, Jesse Harris & The Julian Lage Trio.

Music by John Zorn; Lyrics by Jesse Harris.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

9am-1pm Free Tech Help. Our teen tech expert Samantha will help solve your computer quandries. You can call 845-266-5530 to schedule a time or drop in 9am-1pm. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

9pm The Big Takeover. 6pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail. com, https://bit.ly/2JxSMzm. $15.

9am-4pm Community Day & Yard Sales. Free spaces for vendors. Rain or shine. Free face painting and kids crafts. Free snacks and indoor bathrooms. Info: 845-795-5175; LCFmilton@gmail. com. Lattingtown Christian Fellowship, 426 Old Indian Rd, Milton. facebook.com/LattingtownChristianFellowship/.

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Olana’s First Ever Facebook Book Club Launches. A digital book club on Olana’s facebook, the first book Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmen-

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation.

Meets every Saturday. All welcome. No charge.

845-246-3285 for more info. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

9:30am-5pm Hike to the Shingle Gully Ice Caves. Explore the Shingle Gully Ice Caves,

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May 17, 2018 where ice persists into summer in deep crevice caves. These caves are in a backcountry area in Minnewaska State Park Preserve. This rugged, protected landscape is accessible only on guided tours led by park staff and volunteer docents.

This all-day, strenuous adventure ascends and descends 1,500 feet, includes off-trail bushwhacking and steep rock scrambles, and is only appropriate for experienced hikers. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration deadline: May 21st. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.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.

11am-2:30pm Step Into History. A Scavenger Hunt in Uptown Kingston. Explore the local area and participate in a fun, family-friendly scavenger hunt that takes you to five different historic sites in Uptown Kingston’s Historic Stockade District. Pick up your guide at any of the participating locations: Senate House State Historic Site, Volunteer Firemen’s Hall & Museum, Old Dutch Church, Friends of Historic Kingston or Matthewis Persen House Museum.

Info: 845-340-3040. Persen House, 74 John St, Kingston. ulstercountyny.gov/countyclerk/ persenhouse.html.

9:30am-1:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: Mine Hole Waterfall and Wildflowers. This moderately challenging two-mile hike leads to a small, but pristine waterfall, tucked away in the woods.

Though the distance is short, there are sections of trail with sustained hills and some rocky footing. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area.

Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

9:30am-11am Centering Prayer. Open to people of all faiths. Info: 845-679-8800. Centering prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation. On-going, Saturdays from 9:3011am. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

10am-5:30pm Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair. Now celebrating the 37th anniversary year, featuring high-quality juried creations of over 200 artists and craftspeople from across America. Features include furniture, architectural crafts, demonstrations, handcrafted specialty foods, healthcare products and live performances by the Hudson Valley’s best musical talent. Info: 845-679-8087. Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. quailhollow.com.

10am-4pm World War II Encampment & Military Displays. A weekend of historic military displays and a World War II encampment on the Library’s front lawn. Re-enactors in battle dress will be on hand to share their love of history with the visiting public. Collections of military uniforms, weapons, and insignia from 1917 to the present day will be displayed. Customized dog tags will be available for purchase, and period military vehicles will be on display. This year’s encampment will also feature members of the 240th Military Police Battalion, a National Park Service and Roosevelt Library living history program. The military policemen will be on hand all weekend to present the history of their unit, and demonstrate military equipment, including a period communications system. Free, public event. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary. org.

10am-12pm Saturday Knitters. All ages and experience levels can participate and drop-in knitters are also welcome. Bring your own supplies. 845 687-7023 for more info. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

10am-4pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Story Walk Opening Day. The Story Walk allows families to read their way along the Meadow trail with beautiful illustrations and nature references. Read “Forest Bright, Forest Night” by Jennifer Ward, and look for clues about these special animals as you stroll along our meadow trail. At 11am & 1pm take a guided walk along the StoryWalk™ Trail and meet one of the animals from the book. Info: 845-5345506 x204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/ Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $3/age 3 & up.

10am-3pm Saugerties Library Street Fair.

Family-friendly event with a petting zoo, face painting, bike helmet-fitting and giveaway along with a plant sale and live music. Used books for sale, plus sweets and popcorn. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Free or goodwill donation.

10am-5pm Knox’s Headquarters Opens for the Season. The headquarters of generals Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox and Horatio Gates opens for another season. Free admission. Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site, 289 Forge Hill Road, Vails Gate. Info: 845-561-1765, chad.johnson@ parks.ny.gov, www.nysparks.com.

10am-2:45pm Orange County Arboretum Plant Sale. 300+ species of plants for sale.

Gardeners on hand to answer questions. Spring blooms on display. Info: 845-615-3830. Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416,, Montgomery. orangecountyarboretum.org.

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-4pm Field of Honor Flag Display.

Hundreds of American flags will fly in a patriotic display honoring veterans, first responders and hometown heroes. Free, public event. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

10am Qigong Classes. All level class including chair Qigong led by Steven Michael Pague.

Ongoing every Saturday at 10am. Classes meet by the back door to the library. In case of inclement weather, class will be held in the Community Room. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

10am-5pm Barn Star’s Antiques at Rhinebeck.

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Who were the Palatines?

11am Catskill Animal Sanctuary Tour. Meet rescued animals and hear their stories. Understand what caring for these amazing animals has taught us. Learn about the plight of farmed animals and how you can help. Tours every Saturday and Sunday, through November - beginning at 11am. Tours leave every 45 minutes. The last tour leaves at 2:45pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. Info: (845) 336-8447, https://bit.ly/2Ghba1w. $12/adults, $8/kids & srs, free/ 2 & under.

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11am-12pm Drag Queen Ella Ghent Is Story Time Guest at the Library. Ella will be reading stories, accompanied with a ukulele, that celebrate diversity, self expression and creativity. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. https://bit.ly/2wloIEl.

Emigrants Leaving the Palatinate for America (Courtesy of Mainz University)

HISTORY

ost Hudson Valley residents are at least somewhat familiar with the history of Dutch, English and Huguenot settlements in the region; but who were these mysterious Palatines? And why did they come to these parts in the first place?

The Palatinate is a region in southwestern Germany, sandwiched between the Rhine Valley in the east and Lorraine in the west. It’s where Moselle wine comes from, among other desirable attributes. Its proximity to the French border was the source of most of its troubles in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Louis XIV was gradually expanding his empire by nudging out his frontiers wherever he could find some dubious document or other to substantiate France’s land claims. With his eye on annexing the rich agricultural Rhineland, the Sun King came up with a hypothesis that the Palatinate really belonged to his sisterin-law, and proceeded to try to take it over.

By the late 1680s, the mostly Protestant Palatinate – die Pfalz, in German – was already playing host to Huguenot refugees who had been forced to flee France when Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes. The Nine Years’ War between France and the Holy Roman Empire’s Grand Alliance commenced in 1688 when Louis’ army invaded the Rhineland. The Huguenots in the Palatinate – mainly educated, bourgeois families with the means to travel – escaped to England, South Africa and the New World, including the founding families of New Paltz.

Not so lucky were the masses of native German Palatines, who were largely illiterate and unskilled farm laborers. Throughout the Nine Years’ War and subsequent War of Spanish Succession, passing French armies devastated the region, ransacking towns, forcibly conscripting young men and torching the croplands. The Palatines were reduced to desperate poverty and famine; and although the region usually enjoys a mild climate, the winter of 1708 is said to have been so harsh that birds froze solid in midair and grapevines were blasted to the roots.

Meanwhile, agents from the American Colonies had been recruiting Germans to emigrate and work on plantations. Britain under Queen Anne began to create incentives for mass immigration to build up the nation’s workforce. So in 1709 German Protestant peasants began to flee down the Rhine Valley by the thousands, headed for England.

The trouble was that a divided Parliament couldn’t quite figure out what to do with the 13,000 or so “Poor Palatines” – so-called for their destitute condition – who arrived in that one year. Then as now, political parties had very different views on whether the most recently arrived crop of immigrants was an asset (the Whigs) or a scourge (the Tories). A huge winter camp for the refugees was set up on the outskirts of London, and efforts – mostly unsuccessful – were made to relocate them throughout the British Isles.

Most of the Palatines had already heard the siren call of the Golden Land of the Americas, however, and resisted being sent to the poorer parts of Scotland and Ireland. In 1710 the English acquiesced, providing ten ships to relocate nearly 3,000 of the refugees to New York, although hundreds of the malnourished passengers succumbed to illness and died en route. The survivors were settled in the mid-Hudson on both banks of the river, at the sites still known as West Camp, near Saugerties, and East Camp, on the Livingston estate in Columbia County, giving Germantown its present-day name. By 1711, seven Palatine settlements had been established on the Livingston manor.

To work off their passage, the Palatines were required to toil at the production of supplies needed by the British Navy. Unfortunately, what the Navy needed most were tar, which didn’t occur in significant natural deposits in the Hudson Valley; pitch, which the local species of pine were not suited to produce in reasonable quantities; and hemp, to whose cultivation the Northern climate was inhospitable.

So in 1712, the British government stopped supporting the Palatine settlements, and the inhabitants began to find themselves new places to live and new sources of livelihood.

– Frances Marion Platt

This event showcases products like americana and high country furniture & accessories, fine jewelry, silver, glassware, primitives, Oriental rugs, better collectables such as doorstops, decorated stoneware etc. No pets please. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rte 9, Rhinebeck. barnstar. com.

10am East Durham Irish Festival. Celebration of Irish music, song, dancing, language and crafts. With over 22 Bands from Ireland and the U.S. The Beer Garden is an intimate setting for those who like to listen to great music whilst enjoying a quiet pint. The Heritage Tent will feature Irish plays with young talented musi-

cians and actors. Info: 518-634-2286; info@ eastdurhamirishfestival.com. MJQ Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, 2267 Route 145, East Durham. eastdurhamirishfestival.com.

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 Shabbat Morning Services. Music

11am-2pm Clearwater Public Sail in Cold Spring. Sail aboard America’s environmental flagship at 11 AM with live music from the Sloop Singers. Cold Spring Dock, 2 Main St, Cold Spring. Info: 845-265-8080, sched@clearwater.org, www.clearwater.org. Adult $50/Member $35/Kids $15.

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

11am-12:30pm Ladybug Girl and The Rescue Dogs | Jacky Davis and David Soman Reading and Book Signing. Millbrook Farmer’s Market, 3263 Franklin Ave, Millbrook. Info: 845-6775857, Stacey@merrittbookstore.com, https:// bit.ly/2qhn4hF. 11am-4pm The Fred J. Johnston House Tour & Exhibit. Featuring art exhibit - Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York. Exhibit will display through October.

Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery, corner Wall-Main, Kingston. fohk.org. $10/gen adm, $2/16 & under.

11am-7pm Open Recreation. Pool table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org.

12pm-5pm Community Yard Sale Fundraiser.

Household items, clothing, toys, antique farm equipment and much much more will be available for sale. All proceeds go to PBFP. Rain date 5/27. Phillies Bridge Farm Project, 45 Phillies Bridge Rd, New Paltz. https://bit.ly/2rhb2EP. 12pm Live @ The Falcon: Falcon Springfest.

All Day Arts, Music, Food & Family Festival. Falcon Main Stage, Falcon Underground; Outdoor Beer Garden Stage Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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).

Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated.

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.

1pm Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. Tours held the last Saturday of each month. Free to FHK members. FHK will make special appointments for groups or private tours. City of Kingston Visitors Center, 20 Broadway, Kingston. fohk.org. $10, $5/under 16.

1pm-3pm Art Opening: Thomas Nozkowski. Featuring several paintings in the Charles B. Benenson Visitors Center and Gallery. Art Omi, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent. Info: 531-392-8031, cmassa@artomi.org, https:// bit.ly/2KKf6Gx. 1pm-3pm Plattekill Memorial Day Parade.

Memorial Day Parade + Warrior Wagon. Rt 44/55 Town Hall begins, south on Rt 32 to the Veterans Park on Patura Road. Info: 845-8836117. Plattekill Town Hall, Rt 44/55, Modena. town.plattekill.ny.us.

1pm-3pm Leave No Trace Principles for Families at Sam’s Point. LNT stands for Leave No Trace and is comprised of seven principles designed by The Leave No Trace Center for

26 Outdoor Ethics. At this family-friendly program, you will learn how to protect the outdoors as we teach you and your friends and family how to enjoy it responsibly. We will discuss and practice the seven principles of outdoor ethics to ensure that we leave no trace on the lands that we love!

This program will take place rain or shine and is recommended for adults and children over the age of seven accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

1:30pm Sunday Scrabble Club at Elting Library. The Sunday Scrabble Club is seeking new members to play! Come meet new people, test your knowledge and spelling skills, and share some laughs! Boards and equipment, including the Official Scrabble Dictionary (5th edition) will be provided for use. The Sunday Scrabble Club meets every Sunday between 1:30 and 3:30pm at the Library, and is open to all aged 18 and up.

Attendance is free. Info: 845-255-5030. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

1:30pm-2:30pm Senior Fitness: Core Strength & Balance. 4 weekly classes that improve postural stability, core strength, spatial body awareness, sensory integration, agility & coordination. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@ hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2GFDUjO. 2pm Arrow Park 70th Anniversary Weekend.

Celebrate the heritage and beauty of this historic property with 2 days of special events. Saturday: See Slavic Dance performances and music at 3:30pm. Make a reservation (845-421-0766) for the 6pm banquet and dancing. Sunday’s events include a guided hike around the lake (10am), a Poets Garden celebration (1:30pm), and an American folk Concert (4pm). Info: 845-7832044. Arrow Park, Orange Turnpike, Monroe. arrowparkny.com.

ALMANAC WEEKLY 8pm-11:30pm HVCD Ballroom Dance. One hour of ballroom dance instruction. Dance to be taught is chosen by students from last month’s ballroom dance. After the lesson, the dance consists of a mix of music usually from a live band, with DJ requests taken during the breaks: Waltzes, Foxtrots, Tangos (Ballroom and Argentine), Swings (West Coast, Lindy, Jitterbug, Balboas & Charlestons), Cha Chas, Rumbas, Mambos, Salsas, Merengues, Hustles, and Sambas. $15. For more information, call: 845-204-9833. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, 1151 NY-55, Lagrangeville.

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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. $18.

9am-4pm High Falls D&H Canal Flea Market.

Flea Market runs every Sunday through Oct. Vendors offer a variety of Art, Antiques, Collectibles and Crafts. Grady Park, 23 Mohonk Rd & Rt 213, High Falls. Info: 845-810-0471, jonicollyn@ aol.com, http://www.canalmuseum.org/. free.

9am-2pm Warwick Valley Farmer’s Market.

Every Sunday May 13 – Nov 18. Info: 845-9862720. South Street Parking Lot, Warwick. warwickcc.org.

2pm An Artist Talk with photographer Magda Biernat. Biernat will discuss her exhibit Adrift, currently showing at the same location and closing on May 26. This event is free and open to the public. Info: 607-326-7908. Walt Meade Gallery of the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury. roxburyartsgroup.org.

9:30am-5pm Hike to the Shingle Gully Ice Caves. Explore the Shingle Gully Ice Caves, where ice persists into summer in deep crevice caves. These caves are in a backcountry area in Minnewaska State Park Preserve. This rugged, protected landscape is accessible only on guided tours led by park staff and volunteer docents.

This all-day, strenuous adventure ascends and descends 1,500 feet, includes off-trail bushwhacking and steep rock scrambles, and is only appropriate for experienced hikers. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration deadline: May 22. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

4pm-7pm Opening Reception: Picturesque and Sublime. Come see the new exhibition in Thomas Cole’s New Studio. Info: 518-943-7465; eaaron@thomascole.org. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole. org. $14, $12/senior/student.

10am-4pm Field of Honor Flag Display.

Hundreds of American flags will fly in a patriotic display honoring veterans, first responders and hometown heroes. Free, public event. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

5pm-8pm Opening Reception: Fundamental Structures. New Weavings by Andrew Boos.

Exhibits through June 9. Info: 917-952-1654.

Kea Carpets and Kilims, 238 Warren St, Hudson.

10am East Durham Irish Festival. Celebration of Irish music, song, dancing, language and crafts. With over 22 Bands from Ireland and the U.S. The Beer Garden is an intimate setting for those who like to listen to great music whilst enjoying a quiet pint. The Heritage Tent will feature Irish plays with young talented musicians and actors. Info: 518-634-2286; info@ eastdurhamirishfestival.com. MJQ Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, 2267 Route 145, East Durham. eastdurhamirishfestival.com.

6pm Opening Reception: Clintel Steed, Painting with Leonid Lerman, Jane Culp, Alix Bailey, Margaret Grimes. Works will be exhibited as solo exhibitions in the Main Galleries, Sculpture Garden and Carriage House. Shows will exhibit through 6/17. John Davis Gallery, 124 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-5907, art@johndavisgallery.com. free.

7pm-8:30pm Full Moon Sacred Sound Ceremony Within the Indigenous Realms.

Using sacred sound tools and song, ceremonies help us find our way back to Oneness with an open heart. With Lea Garnier. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail. com, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

7pm-8pm Latin Dance for Everyone. Meets every Saturday, 7-8pm.$5/suggested donation.

Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter.org.

8pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON REVISION OF THE CHARTER OF THE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Ulster County Charter Revision Commission will meet and hold public hearings in the: Ulster County Legislative Chambers, County Office Building, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York, at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. and Ulster BOCES Conference Center, 175 Route 32 North, New Paltz, New York 12561, at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, May 31, 2018. for the purpose of gathering citizen opinion on the Charter Revision Commission’s proposed improvements to Section C-10 “Commission on Reapportionment (Redistricting)” of said Charter of the County of Ulster.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that copies of said Proposed Charter Amendments or Revisions are available at the Office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature and Office of the Ulster County Executive, County

10am-5:30pm Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair. Now celebrating the 37th anniversary year, featuring high-quality juried creations of over 200 artists and craftspeople from across America. Features include furniture, architectural crafts, demonstrations, handcrafted specialty foods, healthcare products and live performances by the Hudson Valley’s best musical talent. Info: 845-679-8087. Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. quailhollow.com.

10am-2pm Minnewaska Preserve: Drop In Program- Live Birds of Prey. Join Annie Mardiney, wildlife rehabilitator from Wild Mountain Birds, for an up-close and personal look at some of the raptors common to the Shawangunk Ridge. Live education birds may include red-tailed hawk, broad-winged hawk, American kestrel, barred owl, screech owl and great horned owl. Stop by the Minnewaska Nature Center to meet these amazing and beautiful animals in person! Pre-Registration is NOT required. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

Office Building, Kingston, New York, where they may be inspected or procured by any interested person during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, or on the County website at: http://ulstercountyny.gov/charter-revisioncommission ACCESSIBILITY: The hearings are accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.

DATED: May 17, 2018 Rod Futerfas, Esq. Chairperson Kingston, New York Ulster County Charter Revision Commission LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for RFP-UC18-041 COUNTY CLERK RECORDING SYSTEM will be received on or before Friday June 8, 2018 at 4:00 PM at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster. ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

10am-4pm World War II Encampment & Military Displays. A weekend of historic military displays and a World War II encampment on the Library’s front lawn. Re-enactors in battle dress will be on hand to share their love of history with the visiting public. Collections of military uniforms, weapons, and insignia from 1917 to the present day will be displayed. Customized dog tags will be available for purchase, and period military vehicles will be on display. This year’s encampment will also feature members of the 240th Military Police Battalion, a National Park Service and Roosevelt Library living history program. The military policemen will be on hand all weekend to present the history of their unit, and demonstrate military equipment, including a period communications system. Free, public event. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

10am-3:30pm Family Day at Catskill Interpretive Center. Free nature-themed outdoor fun for families with kids of all ages. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy a full day of hands-on activities, forest adventures and lots more - featuring a special afternoon performance by Arm of of the Sea Theater. Info: 845-688-3369. . Catskill Interpretive Center, Mt. Tremper. catskillinterpretivecenter.org.

10am Sunday Meditation. Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of various Buddhist topics, followed by Tibetan yoga, sitting meditation and compassion practice,all of which help participants nurture their inner strength and grow spiritually. Potluck lunch. Free. Suitable for all; you may join for some or all of the morning. Info: dharmakayacenter.org/events; retreats@dharmakayacenter.org; 845-203-1275.

Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, 191 Cragsmoor Rd, Pine Bush.

10am Arrow Park 70th Anniversary Weekend.

Celebrate the heritage and beauty of this historic property with 2 days of special events. Saturday: See Slavic Dance performances and music at 3:30pm. Make a reservation (845-421-0766) for the 6pm banquet and dancing. Sunday’s events include a guided hike around the lake (10am), a Poets Garden celebration (1:30pm), and an American folk Concert (4pm). Info: 845-7832044. Arrow Park, Orange Turnpike, Monroe. arrowparkny.com.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed 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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

11am-4pm Fleischmanns Memorial Day Street Fair 2018. Annual Memorial Day Weekend Event features Music, kids Bounce House, vendors-crafts, antiques, books, plants and food vendors including BBQ. Main St, Fleischmanns, NY. Info: 254-3030, http://www.fleischmannsny.com. free.

11am Private Herman Siegel Post 625 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America Memorial Service. All persons, Jewish or not, are cordially invited to this solemn ceremony. Schomre Hadad Cemetery, LaGrange Ave, Poughkeepsie.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Saints of Swing. Swing & More! Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation!

Pool Table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 11am Catskill Animal Sanctuary Tour. Meet rescued animals and hear their stories. Under-

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for RFP-UC18-042 ACTUARIAL SERVICES FOR WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SELF-FUNDED PLAN will be received on or before Friday June 8, 2018 at 4:00 PM at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster. ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Friday, June 8, 2018 at 4:00PM for Budget Analysis Consultant, BID #RFP-UC18-044.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

May 17, 2018 stand what caring for these amazing animals has taught us. Learn about the plight of farmed animals and how you can help. Tours every Saturday and Sunday, through November - beginning at 11am. Tours leave every 45 minutes. The last tour leaves at 2:45pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. Info: (845) 336-8447, https://bit.ly/2Ghba1w. $12/adults, $8/kids & srs, free/ 2 & under.

12:30pm Monroe Memorial Parade. Parade begins at 12:30pm starting at Smith’s Clover Park and continues down 17M to the Monroe Cemetery. Smith’s Clover Park, Monroe.

1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Woodstock.

1pm-2pm Folktales & Stories for Children & Families. Pamela Badila performs, tells and reads folktales from around the world in this special story hour. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, http:// hudsonarealibrary.org.

1pm Interactivearama Book Launch: Linda Mary Montano. Author of 14 Years of Living Art. Info: 845-679-8000. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. goldennotebook.com.

1pm Marlborough Memorial Day Parade.

Parade marches through hamlet of Milton, crosses Route 9W, and ends at the Cluett Schantz Memorial Park bandstand. Dignitary speakers will address the meaning of Memorial Day. Light refreshments will be served at conclusion. Info: 845-594-1711; TomSable@aol.com. Cluett-Shantz Park, 1801-1805 Rt 9W, Milton.

1:30pm-3:30pm Library Scrabble Club. Meets every Sunday, 1:30-3:30pm. Play is free and open to all. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

1:30pm Uncle Vanya . Play by Anton Chekhov.

Directed by Ellen Honig. Reservations/Information 845-679-7900. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. performingartsofwoodstock.org. $23, $20/senior/student.

2pm National Theatre presents Macbeth.

Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear lead in Shakespeare’s murderous tragedy in this 2018 National Theatre production. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre. org. $12.

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

Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. At the community center when raining or cold, on the green when warm.

Village Green, Woodstock.

4pm 2018 Sunday Music Series: Piano Quartet. David Chan, violin; Mark Holloway, viola; Julia Bruskin, cello; Aaron Wunsch, piano; Richard Strauss, Piano Quartet in C Minor; Mozart, Piano Quartet in G Minor. Contributions appreciated. Info: 845-424-3825. The Chapel Restoration, 45 Market St, Cold Spring. chapelrestoration.org.

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. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

7:30pm-8pm Flag Changing Ceremony.

Honoring the region’s veterans and their service to the country. Walkway Over the Hudson, 61 Parker Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: rosshartlipp@ aol.com, https://bit.ly/2w33Hyj. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Jeff Lederer’s Shakers n’ Bakers “Heart Love”. Shaker-based Pop songs by “FreeJazz” icon, Albert Ayler. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Friday, June 15, 2018 at 4:00PM for FLEXTECH ENERGY STUDY, BID #RFP-UC18-045.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 3:00 PM for ULSTER COUNTY TREE REMOVAL, BID#RFBUC18-043. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.ulstercountyny.gov/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

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LANDSCAPERS, GARDENERS WANTED. Experience necessary. 16-40 hours per week. Trustworthy, reliable, strong with endurance. Own transportation. Would primarily work in Woodstock area. Email experience to hire12498@gmail.com (put landscaper/gardener in subject line) or call 845-679-7377.

CLEANER, PART-TIME Kingston location Late afternoons, early evening Retail store

Call 845-362-0404

Join The Egg’s Nest team in High Falls!

Seeking enthusiastic & friendly: Manager/Servers/Bartenders.

Skilled & dependable: Line Cooks/ Cold Station/Prep Cooks. Email resume: theeggsnestjobs@gmail.com or call (845) 687-7255 to apply.

High Falls, NY I Est. 1973

Woodstock Land Conservancy seeks mature, highly-organized, energetic multitasker, with great personal skills and familiarity w/our community, for a position doing Outreach, Programming and Administration. Start in July, 2018. Work from home in Woodstock area. Create and publicize regular educational programming events. Excellent computer skills – Microsoft Office, publication software, Constant Contact, social media, and cloud-based programs. Experience in producing written materials, fundraising mailings, website content management and database management preferred. Environmental background a plus. Further Information www. woodstocklandconservancy.org. Please send resume and letter by May 22nd to: search. wlc@gmail.com

Part-Time Help Needed. Mostly weekends.

Real Estate background helpful. Rhinebeck area. Email resume: nealvan@aol.com Mechanic- Auto, Small Engine & Heavy Equipment. Excellent Opportunity for Experienced Mechanic. Large landscaping company in Hudson Valley looking for FullTime EXPERIENCED Mechanic to: diagnose, repair, perform preventative maintenance, service and adjust small engines, gas engines, diesel trucks, heavy equipment, snow equipment, lawn mowers, blowers, chain saws, weed wackers, etc. Some road service will be required. Must have clean driver’s license. Must have own tools. Must be team player with exceptional organizational skills. Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. Reply to this ad with resume and salary requirements- jesse@ lehighlandscaping.com We’re looking for someone to help us with Maintenance and Grounds Keeping (FullTime)! You must be dependable, reliable, honest, hardworking, and at a minimum slightly “handy”. No experience is necessary but it’s certainly considered a plus. Hours MAY be negotiable (dependent on a factors). If Interested, please apply in person at Americas Best Value Inn, 7 Terwilliger Ln, New Paltz, NY 12561 at our front desk and state preferred hourly wage on the application. This is not a seasonal position.

Impeccable Housekeeper with references wanted for private Woodstock homes. Walk to village. Must be local, bonded and insured. No allergies to animals. Hand-wash cottage floors. Once monthly for 1 house.

Other clean is as needed on same property.

Must be reliable. Contact us 845-802-6333.

Mason Wanted for Homeowner with small projects. $25/hour. Non-smoker. 845-4309037.

Private Nurse Required. Part-Time Nurse Needed for elderly gentleman in Willow, 8 miles from Woodstock, on SR 212.

LPN or RN required. Please call David at 941-321-5454.

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PART-TIME– SCHOOL MONITORS WORKING WITH STUDENTS WITHIN THE SCHOOL ATMOSPHERE. SALARY $11.00 PER HOUR. EMAIL: SSHIRK@ NEWPALTZ.K12.NY.US OR SEND A LETTER OF INTEREST AND RESUME TO: RICHARD LINDEN, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR BUSINESS, 196 MAIN ST., NEW PALTZ NY 12561.

CUSTODIAL POSITION- Village of New Paltz, P/T 10-15 hours per week. This work involves the responsibility to thoroughly clean and maintainall Village Hall offices and buildings, may require minor maintenance tasks. This position will require a criminal background check and fingerprinting. Please submit cover letter and resume to: Village Clerk, Village of New Paltz 25 Plattekill Avenue, New Paltz, NY 12561 or to Clerk@villageofnewpaltz.org no later than May 25, 2018.

Keller Williams Realty Hudson Valley United, the #1 office in Orange County for closed production units and the fastest growing real estate firm in the Hudson Valley is expanding into Ulster County. We are hiring new and experienced agents who want growth opportunities and unlimited income potential. KW offers higher commission splits, advanced marketing and technology, coaching, training and a culture where everyone wins and the agent and their business always comes first. Contact Anna Gibbs at 845-649-1055 to schedule a confidential consultation to learn more.

Animal Caregiver. Seeking dedicated, responsible person to help manage care of beloved animals of many varieties on upscale private residence in Bearsville area. 3-5 days/ week including weekends. Compensation based on experience. Contact: kzrapplicant@gmail.com HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED for Woodstock Bed & Breakfast. Experience preferred but not necessary. Will train. Must be reliable.

Weekends & possibly some weekdays. Call 845-679-9479.

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Horse Trail Riding Business opportunity in Saugerties w/high visibility to advertise along thruway. Available to rent 8 stalls, turnouts, and 120 acres of scenic trails. $2800/month. Hunter/Jumper business currently operating at the facility; great opportunity to add trail riding as requests are coming in weekly. Call Sean 516-903-2902 or email: Sfinn@rockmountequestrian. com END OF LIFE FREE DOULA CARE for 30 hours. Near Kingston. From a lifelong retired social worker. Doula’s give nonmedical support to a dying person & their caregivers to deal with acute or safety issues, to help organize details at the end of life. Continue to enjoy your favorite creative expressions w/Jana. Truth & beauty never dies. 845-684-5135.

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Adult Care

Care Giver, 845-663-8760, seeks private duty case. Home cooking, errands, MD appointments. Mature and experienced. References available. Ulster Co. area.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133

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Party Planning/ Catering

POTTIE FOR YOUR PARTY! HAVING A PARTY? TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly Rentals. We have Gray, White, Blue, Tan, Green (pine-scented), Pink (rose-scented), Red & Blue Handicap Accessible. (We also have a few w/sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festi-

ULSTER PUBLISHING POLICY It is illegal for anyone to: ...Advertise or make any statement that indicates a limitation or preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, handicap (disability), age, marital status or sexual orientation. Also, please be advised that language that indicates preference (i.e. “working professionals,” “single or couple,” “mature...professional,” etc.) is considered to be discriminatory. To avoid such violations of the Fair Housing Law, it is best to describe the apartment to be rented rather than the person(s) the advertiser would like to attract. This prohibition against discriminatory advertising applies to single family and owner-occupied housing that is otherwise exempt from the Fair Housing Act.

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, PRIC REDUC E TION!

BUILD YOUR COUNTRY DREAM HOME! This 4-acre parcel located in Saugerties offers Underground utilities and has previously been approved for a shallow trench septic for up to a fourbedroom home. Being only 4.5 miles from the village you have easy access to the local galleries, a beach, Eateries, movie theater, book stores, antiques, boutiques, kayaking, and all the village has to offer. Only 4 miles to the NYS thruway. Call Joanne Cobey today! ............................................................$65,000

SAUGERTIES 2-STORY Spacious, 2-BR, 1-BA, home in Saugerties, w/a generous EIK, w/a gas range & updated appliances. Inside, is H/W floors throughout much of the house & a partially-fenced backyard w/Mt views. An extra room could easily be used as a 3rd-BR, new H/W heater & a detached 2-car garage w/electricity.

Live in, or earn extra income w/HITS rentals, or yearly rentals. Conveniently located near the NYS Thruway.

Call Sara Nelson! ........................$134,900

CHARMING VILLAGE HOME! Completely new kitchen with lots of built-ins and with flow through to dining area. Living room has propane fireplace operated by remote; doesn’t need electricity. Back yard could really be turned into a private oasis by utilizing the Rondout Creek frontage... you can kayak and fish from your back yard. Three upstairs bedrooms and a full bath on each floor. Easy walk to Main Street for dining, movies and events, shops. Convenient to the Trailways bus stop for daily connections to New York City, Albany, etc. Close to all the local hot spots - Historic High Falls, Stone Ridge, New Paltz, all within 10 minutes. Call Janet Bell or Gloria Blackman today! .........$295,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 vals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-6588766, 845-417-6461 or 845-706-7197. email: TLKportables@gmail.com

GREAT NEW PALTZ LOCATION

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STU’S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the fare. Airports are our specialty.

Always ready to get you there. Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Call Stu’s Car Service for prices. Cell- 845-649-5350; stu@hvc.rr. com Look for me on Facebook.

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Entertainment

The Politically Savvy and Illicitly Literate Comedy Duo of Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine— tired of performing at Navajo bar mitzvahs, vegan rodeos, and burials at sea— Is NOW AVAILABLE for House Concerts in your very own home, although you might have to file an environmental impact statement prior to engaging them. For details, please call 845-657-2210 or 845246-7441, or zip an email to horowitz@ bard.edu or gillesmalkine@gmail.com

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Gorgeous, new, 2-story home on estate size lot with fishing pond. 3-bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Close to Rhinebeck. Deluxe finishes, huge rec. room. Terms offered to right buyer. Bruce: 914-388-7590.

Saugerties, Blue Mountain Area. Charming 2-bedroom renovated cottage, lovely deck, gas fireplace, screened porch, low taxes. Quiet road between Woodstock & Saugerties. Great price. $82,000. By owner.

917-282-0608.

Custom Brick House on 23 Lush Acre Estate. (Modena/Gardiner vicinity). Huge pond, 5-car detached garage, large rooms, 3-bedroom 2 bath master Suite w/full wall brick fireplace, large deck, 50ft. front porch.

10 minutes to New Paltz and Thruway. 3 always rented additional apartments bring in $1900 monthly. Owner built in 1972. $450K. Contact: mrbosco220@aol.com or 718-498-2854.

ULSTER COUNTY MORTGAGE RATES Mid-Hudson Valley FCU 800-451-8373 4.62 4.12 3.99

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WOODSTOCK MULTI-USE! PRIC REDUC E Commercial or residential!! THE TION! “Walk-About” building, located in plain sight on Tinker Street in Woodstock! A true look and feel and the colors of Woodstock. This 2-story building has a sought-after location w/drive-by-visibility and is part of the SCENIC FOOT TRAFFIC for shoppers and browsers. The first floor has large front display windows for shoppers, colorful perennial gardens and a welcoming blue stone walkway to the shops and apartments. Near the local pharmacy, B and B’s, café’s galleries, plus many interesting and unique shops. Live and work in the same location. Call Mary Ellen VanWagenen or Ken Volpe today! .......................... $899,000

/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

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Gardiner/ Modena/ Plattekill Rentals

MODENA: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. $700/month plus utilities. No pets. Call any time, leave message 845-255-2316.

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BARCLAY HEIGHTS PRIC REDUC E RANCH! TION! Recently renovated 4BR 2BA with replacement windows, updated kitchen, new counter top and beautiful tile back splash. New sliding doors leading to large deck for outside eating and entertaining.

Great fenced in yard, suitable for both pets and kids. Must see to appreciate! Call Mary Spinac today! ............................$224,000

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If interested in displaying rates call 973-951-5170.

Rates taken 5/14/18 and subject to change.

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For Sale By Owner: Well-maintained 4BR home in park-like setting. Go to 528 Plutarch Rd., New Paltz on Zillow.com to review info/photos. “Zestimate” listed will be minimum offer accepted.

Call 845-256-1611 for appt.

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Land for Sale

2.8 ACRES in OLIVEBRIDGE, (low tax Olive), awaits your new dream home! Seasonal mountain views. Can be subdivided. Has well & septic (concrete tank) & leach field.

Asking $60,000. 845-657-9864.

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Office Space/ Commercial Rentals

Shared Workspace: The beautiful Wellness Cottage at Boughton Place in Highland is now booking space for professionals to see clients/ work in a quiet and private space. 5 minutes from New Paltz thruway exit. Perfect for Psychotherapy, Massage, Creative Arts, Reiki, Health Coaching, Writing, etc. Rent $200/ month for one full day (9am-9pm) per week, everything included. For more info: boughtonplace@gmail.com or 845-691-7578.

Handsome Brick Victorian, Uptown Kingston. 3-room suite, ground floor, central air, and all utilities included, 1 off-street parking spot. $675/month. Call 845-331-8250

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ASHOKAN STORE-IT Ask About Our Long Term Storage Discount

5x10 $40 10x15 $90

5x15 $50 10x10 $70 10x20 $110 10x30 $150

845-657-2494 845-389-0504 1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481

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New Paltz Rentals

Large Studio Apt. in New Paltz, $925/ month. Includes all utilities except phone.

Space is suitable for one person, non-smoker, no pets. 845-901-2531

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs 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

NEW PALTZ GARDENS APARTMENTS

21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts.

Pets welcome! No security deposit option.

3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.

845-255-6171 2-Bedroom Apartments in 1870s barn.

Available May. $1360/month & up plus some utilities. NO DOGS. NO INDOOR SMOKING. 5 minutes by CAR outside village. Please call or text 256-8160.

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security.

Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

Completely New Renovation; Adorable 1-Bedroom Ground Floor Apt. w/separate entrance & parking. Part of private home

on 2 acres, a mile from Mohonk Mountain House. Open plan living room w/L-shaped kitchen. Separate bedroom w/French doors and wall-to-wall closet. Bathroom w/shower only and washer/dryer. $1300/month (or best offer). Rent includes everything except cable/internet. Professional (single or couple) or older student preferred. Credit check, 3 references, 2 months security, proof of income or guarantor. To View: call Judith 917-854-3415 or e-mail: judithsag@gmail. com 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home. Private entrance. Walk to SUNY. Off-street parking. Clean. Suitable for 1. No smokers or pets. $890/month includes all utilities, cable, WiFi. References. First, last, $500 security. Lease agreement. Available 5/28. 845-901-7748 or 845-255-9786.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for FALL 2018 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-2557205.

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Rosendale/ Tillson/High Falls/Stone

Ridge Rentals

High Falls: Charming, 2/3 bedroom house on Rondout Creek. $1100/month plus utilities. No dogs. 212-873-5089.

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

Kingston: STUDIO; Uptown. First floor.

On bus route. All utilities included. Eat-In kitchen, shower/bath, parking. Security, references. No smokers. No pets. Call 845338-4574.

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Esopus/Ulster Park Rentals

Beautiful, Bright Large 3-Bedroom Apartment on 10 wooded acres with fireplace and porch. Washer/Dryer and Dishwasher. $1575/month includes utilities.

Available now. Call 845-331-2292.

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Saugerties Rentals

Clean 1-bedroom cottage for one person.

New carpets. First, last and security required. $700/month plus utilities. No smoking, no pets. References required. 518398-0102

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GEORGE W. COLE

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GET ON THE INSIDE TRACK!

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10 CHURCH ST. BLOOMINGTON, N.Y. 12411 AUCTION TO BE HELD ONSITE: SUNDAY, MAY 20TH, 2018 • 1PM (BE PROMPT) MOVE IN READY, NEEDS NOTHING!!! 3 Bedroom/2.0 Baths Ranch Style Mother/Daughter House in Bloomington. A solid house on a nice parcel here and someone is going to snap it up...Could be you!

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ENERGY STAR! – Impressive, architect designed contemporary, set high on 3+ acres and flooded with natural light from glass expanses! Features include gorgeous wood floors, vaulted ceilings, 4 BRs incl. 2 main level ensuites, 4.5 baths, French doors in 21’ LR & family/media room, full length covered deck for al fresco dining, den/ home office, versatile floor plan perfect for entertaining PLUS Zero Energy Ready. NO ENERGY BILLS! Call for details! ................................................$799,000

PURE COUNTRY - Rustic chic ambiance abounds in this ultra-charming sunwashed modern farmhouse nestled on 7.7 acres with expansive pastoral views and the Mill Brook stream running through it. Airy & open floor plan with soaring ceilings and brawny exposed post and beam construction. Spacious 2700+ SF offering 22’ LR w/ stone fireplace, HW floors, DR, country EI Kitchen, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, 24’ family/media room, deck & stone patio. WOW! ............ $549,900

JUST LISTED

Off Route 32 between New Paltz and Kingston. Take left on Main St. coming South from Kingston.

(Right if going North). Turn rt. on Church St. Yellow House on the right near intersection of Lynwood Ct. (If you reach Firehouse Rd./Raymond Lefever Dr. you have gone too far).

All Buyers Must Bring Certified Check Or Cash In The Amount Of $20,000 In Order To Register And Receive Bid Card. You Hold The Funds During The Auction And If You Are The Winning Bidder And Your Bid Is Accepted You Will Be Required To Submit The Funds.

AUCTION TERMS AVAILABLE BY REQUEST BROKERS PROTECTED...FOR FURTHER INFO CALL 845-758-9114 GEORGECOLE@GEORGECOLEAUCTIONS.COM OR VISIT US AT WWW.GEORGECOLEAUCTIONS.COM

— SAUGERTIES — CHARMING 1 BDRM APARTMENT Second floor / 2 family house on the Esopus All utilities included except cable Washer / Dryer $1,300 — 1 month security Available May 15th

Call for appt: 845-706-5430

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

FABULOUSLY NEWLY RENOVATED 1-BEDROOM w/skylights, aqua glass bathroom, wood floors, charming kitchen w/ stained glass & large gazebo. 1 mile to center of town. $1290/month. Owner/Broker 845417-5282.

ROOM FOR RENT in quiet country house on a hill in Bearsville. $500/month. First month, security, references. I have 3 Chiwawas, so no other pets please. No smoking on premises. Available now. Call/text: 901201-7356.

SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in quiet Woodstock apartment complex.

Grill on your own deck. Eat-in windowed kitchen, plenty of cabinetry, recently painted w/newer flooring in living room & kitchen. $950/month includes ground care, shoveling/plowing, trash, water/sewer. Tenant pays separately zoned utilities. First, last, security. 1 pet TBD. Landlord is licensed Real Estate sales person. 845-802-4777. No fee.

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. $800/month plus utilities.

Owner/broker, call Mike 845-417-5282.

Wonderful Woodstock In-Town 2-Bedroom Carriage House Apt. 2 huge decks.

Overlook Mountain View from vaulted liv-

ing room. Hardwood floors, chestnut trim, stained glass window in bath w/claw foot tub and bronze shower surround. Eat-in country kitchen w/new storm/screen door to large deck to enjoy outdoor space. Large deck w/patio doors off living room. A/C, washer and dryer, wood stove. Walk to NYC bus and all Woodstock has to offer. Oil heat and gas for cooking. No smokers. Pet considered. 1-year lease. $1600/mo. Plus utilities. First, last, security, refs. Call 845-9016628. Available now.

CHARMING WOODSTOCK 1-BEDROOM HOUSE on Mink Hollow Road within walking distance to Cooper Lake, 4 miles to center of Woodstock. On 1 acre. All wood floors, newly renovated bathroom. $1100/month.

Broker 845-417-5282. No fee.

COZY VILLAGE STUDIO. Entire second floor. 1 Block movie theater. Private entrance, hardwood floors, separate kitchen, gas heat, large yard, off-street parking, 5 minute walk Village Green. $900/month plus utilities. 914-725-1461.

COTTAGE BY A WATERFALL. Cozy. Private. Workroom, sunroom, LR, 1-bedroom w/large window facing stream, kitchen, all wood floors, 3 decks. 2.5 miles to center of town. Short/long-term. $1250/month.

Owner/Broker; 845-417-5282.

WOODSTOCK: LARGE SUNNY STUDIO on a quiet street, steps from downtown Woodstock. Separate kitchen, use of garage & laundry room. 2 closets plus storage area. $1100/month includes utilities. Richard Miller, Win Morrison Realty, 845-389-7286.

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CRAGSMOOR RETREAT - Nestled on 1+ offroad acres in historic Cragsmoor Art Colony just minutes to 4600 Acre Sam’s Point Preserve.

Enchanting c. 1900 2-story has been smartly updated to retain original charm & is move-in ready. Freshly painted interior features crisp renovated kitchen, walk-in pantry, living & formal dining rooms, 3 upstairs bedrooms, refreshed full bath w/ laundry, HW floors & enclosed porch. SWEET! ......................$196,000

SAUGERTIES JEWEL - Absolutely adorable turn-of-century village two-story within walking distance to charming shops and services.

Tastefully refreshed interior features updated kitchen w/ custom cabinetry & 2 pantries, 1.5 renovated baths, LR, DR with refinished wood floors & French doors to patio for al fresco dining, 3 bedrooms, 31’ columned veranda, newer roof and windows, off-street parking and lovely established landscape. MUST SEE!!........$229,000

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LOOKING FOR 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Responsible, clean, quiet lady, nonsmoker. Within 10 miles of Woodstock. Will pay first month, security & provide references. Ready to move. Please call 845-2477520.

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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. Residential, Municipalities.

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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Shop Open Sat. & Sun. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appt. 845-901-5293 “Most beautiful clothing I’ve ever seen” - Monique Eastman

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First time on the market in over 25 years, this 3 BR, R, 2.5 bath Classic has all the attributes of country living 2 g with the city convenience. Offering a beautiful rocking w g chair front porch, an Updated kitchen w/ Granite c e counter tops, gas/electric range, stainless steel c el appliances, 2 pantries, built in seating and a large e island, it is a very open layout that opens to the ample size living room with gas fireplace. Large Master Bedroom with vaulted ceilings, 2 closets, window seating and master bath. Walkup attic has a large cedar closet and plenty of storage. Many updates throughout, plus thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a large shed w/ electric! Stop by the Open House this Sunday, call for more details & directions! $369,000

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GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you. Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Buying single piece or collections. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 914-3889286, leave message.

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Buy & Swap

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972).

(845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

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Antiques & Collectibles

Books Wanted. Quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian books bought (also typewriters, maps, and ephemera). Bring items to Barner Books; 3 Church Street; New Paltz or call 845-255-2635 or email: barnerbooks@gmail.com

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WANTED: VINTAGE COMICS Interested in the Golden Age; Silver & Bronze 1930s-1980s

$ CASH $ ON THE SPOT! TOP $ DOLLARS $ PAID! Also Seeking Star Wars Collectibles, Life-Size Advertisement Statues, Vintage Vinyl Records.

Call/Text Any Time 845-901-7379

WANTED-TOP DOLLARS PAID! We Buy Entire Estates or Single Items.

Actively Seeking Gold and Silver of any kind, Sterling, Flatware & Jewelry.

Furniture, Antiques through Mid-Century.

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We also do Estate/Tag Sales.

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Estate/Moving Sale

ESTATE SALE: 475 Ohayo Mtn. Rd. (past Yerry Hill Rd.), Woodstock. Saturday, 5/19 & Sunday, 5/20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Rain or shine. Antiques, collectibles, decorative items, art, housewares, books & more.

INDOOR ESTATE SALE (Rain or Shine).

May 19 & May 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. BRIDGEVIEW CONDO, 436 Gregory Court, Highland. Furniture, Glassware, Pots, Pans, Antique Collectibles, Jugs, Crock-pots & Miscellaneous Items.

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SPECTACULAR TWIN PONDS TOWNHOUSE

Top notch design for people on the run. Living space with feng shui flow! Very convenient 2 car garage with entry into the kitchen for easy grocery drop - kitchen with recessed lighting, newer stainless steel appliances and backsplash, dining room is large enough for the whole family. Wonderful sliding glass doors to take advantage of the view - pond and aerator, ahh so relaxing to listen to ! Living room has wood burning fireplace with builtins on either side. 3 bedrooms up, master en-suite and laundry area...but wait... lower level functions as a family room / office space/ craft room, even a workshop! Visit the Open House this Sunday, call for more details & directions! $274,900

Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you like to spend your summers on a clear, sparkling lake, listen to the birds singing? Well you can!

A warm friendly 3 BR home located on the northern end of Lake George, with your own private dock, could be yours. This home has a sprawling deck on three sides, a basement to store all your items, and lots of privacy.

This could be yours at a very affordable price.

Please call: 845-691-2770

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Yard & Garage Sales

Yard/plant and bake sale for the Woodstock Riding Club. Saturday, May 19 at 9AM at the WRC grounds, 16 Broadview Rd., Woodstock, NY. 845-679-9128 Art Studio Supplies Sale! Downsizing artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio. Art & craft supplies, papers, objects, tons of funky frames, lots more. Saturday May 19, 9am - 1pm. 509 Albany Post Rd., New Paltz.

Huge Yard Sale! The Reformed Church of New Paltz, at 92 Huguenot St., is having a yard sale. Saturday, 5/19, 9:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Church Lawn. (Social Hall if rainy) MOWERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SATURDAY/SUNDAY FLEA MARKET; Maple Lane, Woodstock. Every weekend starting May 19. Antiques, collectibles, produce & Reusables. 845-6796744. Join us for our 41st Year! For brochure: woodstockfleamarket@hvc.rr.com GOOGLE US!

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*Jessica Rice*; Beautiful Images Hair Salon, 123 Boices Lane, Kingston. Hair- 845383-1852; www.beautifulimageshairsalon. com Makeup- 845-309-6860; www.jessicamitzi.com GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253.

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Flea Market

HIGH FALLS Flea Market, Rt. 213 High Falls. Art, Antiques, Collectibles. EVERY SUNDAY, April 8-October 28; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Vendor info: (845)810-0471 or jonicollyn@aol.com

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LAKE GEORGE VACATION HOME FOR SALE

on a no thru traffic quiet country road near Borden Farm is ready to welcome you.

Your home was built by the owner/builder and offers 2+ bedrooms, 1.5 baths, custom kitchen cabinets, timber floors, vaulted ceilings and a bonus unfinished room above the garage offering you the opportunity to finish as you wish. The attached 2 car garage was built extra deep for storage and is heated. Plus you have an additional separate 2 car garage with a walk up unfinished studio space. Come meet your peaceful private home with pastoral views and season mountain views. ............................ $325,000

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CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)688-2253.

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Housekeeping, Gardening, Pet and Child Care, Cooking and Baking, and More! Flexible rates. Call Emily 631-965-9087.

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EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean-outs. Second home caretaking. All small/medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

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THORPE’S GMC 17 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk ilh k .............................. 13K Miles...................... $22,995.00 17 GMC Yukon XL SLT 4WD................................ 22K Miles...................... $54,995.00 17 Nissan Frontier SV 4WD................................ 14K Miles...................... $25,225.00 17 Kia Sorento LX AWD ..................................... 6K Miles........................ $23,995.00

MSRP $36,250 Your Cost $28,700 2018 GMC

15 GMC Sierra 1500 Crew Rocky Ridge .............. 24K Miles...................... $42,995.00

MSRP $58,725 Your Cost $54,500 #4304

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15 GMC Sierra 1500 Crew 4WD......................... 37K Miles...................... $35,995.00 15 GMC Terrain SLT AWD ......................................... 49K Miles...................... $19,600.00 #3123

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15 GMC Terrain SLT AWD ................................... 64K Miles...................... $18,600.00 14 Dodge Journey AWD...................................... 68K Miles...................... $14,595.00

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14 Chevy Silverado LT Crew 4WD ....................... 77K Miles...................... $25,900.00 14 Chevy Silverado LT Crew 4WD ....................... 69K Miles...................... $29,950.00 14 GMC Sierra 1500 Crew 4WD......................... 74K Miles...................... $26,900.00 14 GMC Sierra 1500 X Cab 4WD........................ 47K Miles...................... $24,995.00 12 Chevy Suburban LT 4WD................................ 68K Miles...................... $24,995.00

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Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity.

Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth!

I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3x). Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3x). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank-you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank-you for your mercy towards me and mine. The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted.

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ATHLETIC MALE AVAILABLE FOR nude photography projects. Seeks/prefers female photographer. Call Tom at (845)462-6305.

ALL PRICES INCLUDE REBATES • TAX NOT INCLUDED

of cats to foster. Come see us & all of our other friends at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston ( just off the traffic circle). Open 6 days a week, 11:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. (Closed on Mondays.) (845)3315377.

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Pet Care

WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents. The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at 347-2582725.

L&M Pet Sitting Professional pet care visits for cats, dogs, birds, and other exotic species.

Lauren Storm & Michael Steeley (607) 431-3392 LnMpetsitting@gmail.com

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$35.00 – Wash & Wax Buff Finish $25.00 – Interior Detailing (precision attention to detail) Schedule an appt. today!

Serving Ulster and Dutchess Counties Contact: Julio Jackson, Automotive Paint Tech, (845) 397-7134

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Vehicles Wanted

CASH PAID FOR USED cars & trucks regardless of condition. Junk cars removed.

Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.

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PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN. (Never known to fail.) Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God.

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