Almanac Weekly #43 2018

ALMANAC WEEKLY

A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 43 | Oct. 25 – Nov. 1

WHICH WITCH ?

Remembering Margaret Hamilton’s Dutchess County Connections also the exorcist in rhinebeck . . . Ways to celebrate Halloween . . . the five essential horror stories . . . woodstock invitational luthiers’ festival . . . Black box, bright lights in New Paltz . . . renowned oceanographer to speak at cary institute . . .

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Renowned oceanographer to lecture at Cary Institute

Millbrook’s Cary Institute hosts a presentation on Friday, October 26 at 7 p.m. by Jeremy Jackson, emeritus professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. Jackson will talk about his new book, Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises. Co-written with awardwinning journalist Steve Chapple, the book offers practical solutions to minimize the destruction caused by industrial agriculture, sea-level rise, wildfires, water mismanagement and extreme weather. Jackson is the author of 160 scientific publications and 11 books. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Haunted Mill/Monsters’ Ball at Wassaic Project

The Wassaic Project hosts its annual Haunted Mill and Monsters’ Ball event in celebration of Halloween on Saturday, October 27. The historic Maxon Mills will be transformed into a seven-story spooky exhibition by 17 unique artists from all over the world.

The party will continue well into the evening at the Lantern Inn for the Monsters’ Ball, a costume-only party with live music and deejay sets. The Haunted Mill opens with children’s attractions at 3 p.m., where children can enjoy the fun atmosphere and family-friendly activities such as hayrides, face-painting, snacks, festive Halloween games and more.

The one-night-only spooky exhibition created by artists throughout the Maxon Mills tower is open from 5 to 9 p.m. The Haunted Mill is free to attend and open to the public. Tickets for the Monsters’ Ball at the Lantern cost $20 and must be purchased in advance, except for local residents (Zip code 12592). Tickets for local residents cost $5 at the door; bring proof of residency.

Haunted Mill and Monsters’ Ball Saturday, Oct. 27 Maxon Mills 37 Furnace Bank Rd. Wassaic www.wassaicproject.org

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The Exorcist at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck

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pstate Films Theater and Oblong Books present a Halloweenoccasioned fiction-into-film screening of The Exorcist on Sunday, October 28. Inspired by the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the US, William Peter Blatty’s best-selling book and William Friedkin’s award-winning film follow the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and her mother’s attempts to win her back. It’s one of the highest grossing films in history.

Fiction-into-film screening of The Exorcist , Sunday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m., Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, (845) 876-4546. Advance tickets here: https://bit.ly/2D4W39g

Halloween Spirit Mediumship Circle at Mirabai in Woodstock In Pagan practice, Halloween/Samhain is the end of the cycle of the solar year and the best possible time for letting go of unproductive psychic baggage – not to mention for reaching out to loved ones who have crossed over to the other side of the Veil, now at its thinnest. An event coming up at Mirabai of Woodstock provides support for addressing these seasonal tasks.

From 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30, psychic medium Adam Bernstein will guide participants in a Halloween Spirit Mediumship Circle. His mission: to connect with the spirit world and bring through factual information to participants, as well as messages from those who have passed on. The workshop fee is $20 until October 28, $25 thereafter.

For more info or to register for either event, visit https://bit.ly/2yJ2GcR. Halloween Spirit Mediumship Circle Tuesday, Oct. 30, 6-8 p.m., $20/$25 Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock https://bit.ly/2yJ2GcR

Launch of Bard Center for the Study of Hate Last week Bard College announced the establishment of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH), which will work with faculty and students throughout the Bard network to increase the serious study of hatred. BCSH will identify ways to combat hate and to stimulate public discussion on this important and insufficiently understood part of the human condition. Part of Bard’s Human Rights Project (HRP), BCSH is funded by a gift from the Justus and Karin Rosenberg Foundation and will

led by longtime Bard professor Justus Rosenberg. For more information, visit www.bard.edu.

Leaving the house can be a wild ride...

geriatric years, folks who used to advise not trusting anyone over 30 have long since been forced to rethink that position.

In her 40s, documentarian Sky Bergman started filming her then-99-year-old grandmother, cooking killer lasagna and going to the gym and interacting with family. That grandmother, now 103, became the first of a series of dozens of profiles of inspiring people aged 75 and over that Bergman has been amassing for the past four years. “I began a quest to search out other people, who like my grandmother were living life to the limits,” the director explains. In her movie Lives Well Lived, 40 elderly people share their intimate memories and personal histories, their secrets and insights into living a meaningful life.

By popular demand, Upstate Films, which showed Lives Well Lived to an appreciative crowd in Rhinebeck a few months ago, is bringing the movie back for a special screening at its Woodstock venue. It will take place at Upstate Films Woodstock, located at 132 Tinker Street, on Saturday, October 27 at 2:30 p.m. Director Sky Bergman will be on hand for a question-and-answer session afterwards. Tickets cost $10 general admission, $8 for seniors and $6 for members. You can check out the trailer for Lives Well Lived at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Ev4d-ZBNBaU. Lives Well Lived Saturday, Oct. 27 2:30 p.m. $10/$8/$6 Upstate Films 132 Tinker St. Woodstock (845) 679-6608 https://upstatefilms.org

Lives Well Lived this Saturday in Woodstock

Mirabai of Woodstock Older people love reminding younger ones that in some of the world’s more enlightened cultures, the elderly are treated as national treasures, as repositories of history and wisdom. That perspective doesn’t really fly in America, with its tendency to glorify youth and innovation. Now that the population bulge that followed World War II is moving into its

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Dominic West and Keira Knightley in Colette.

A life well-written Colette sinks its teeth into the celebrated author’s stormy marriage

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f you know anything at all about the life story of French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (19731954), you don’t need to be told that the villain is her first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars, a notoriously decadent Parisian author, music critic and bon vivant who published under the nickname Willy. You already know that Willy was Colette’s Svengali, locking her in a room and forcing her to write. His greatest commercial successes were the

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first four of her novels, the Claudine series, based on reminiscences of her girlhood but touted as his own writing. Only after their divorce was the actual author able to reclaim them under her own name.

Consequently, making a movie version of Colette’s life is an undertaking fraught with the hazards of coming off like a Women’s Lit 101 course. During the days of feminism’s Second Wave, newly radicalized audiences would have cheered the story of a brilliant woman grossly wronged, eventually triumphing over her oppressor. Such a story, with such a , !

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one-dimensional villain, wouldn’t satisfy many thoughtful viewers anymore. It would seem too simplistic, too obvious.

Audiences would be asking themselves, “If she’s so intelligent and so strong and so unconventional, and he’s so blatantly awful, why did she put up with Willy for 17 years?�

To a large degree, Wash Westmoreland’s new biopic Colette succeeds because it addresses those concerns very thoroughly and deliberately. No matter how gorgeous the cinematography, the art direction, the score, the fabulous Fin de Siècle period detail, it would not have worked if Westmoreland hadn’t cast two actors in the central roles who were fully capable of bringing Colette and Willy to vivid, relatable life and of conveying the chemistry that kept them together for so long. As with Katherina and Petruchio in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, the modern audience needs to be convinced

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that these two people are passionately in love with each other, or we will not for a moment buy the ickiness of their marital arrangement. Fortunately, he found those actors in Keira Knightley and Dominic West.

First things first: Colette may go down as Knightley’s best role and finest performance ever. She is luminous, dynamic, capturing the great author’s steely intelligence, her sensuality, her exquisite powers of observation and expression. There are frequent flashes of indignation here, particularly whenever she discovers that Willy has been lying to her; his deceptions rile her far more than his infidelities per se. But there is never a jot of self-pity – nor do we pity Colette, though we are indignant on her behalf. Such is the indomitable life force of this character that we cannot see her as a victim; it would feel patronizing. For the time that it lasts, this is clearly a chosen, if horribly codependent, relationship.

West’s job here is the tougher one: to show us what Colette sees in him, as Willy is a vain, tyrannical, self-indulgent creature. His wife is not the only person who writes books and articles for which he takes the credit and most of the pay; he calls his writing shop “the Factory.�

Though commercially successful and the toast of Paris socially, with his razor wit and ability to boost or sink careers with a critical review, he wastes enormous quantities of cash on kept women, gambling and lavish entertaining. Then he complains to his employees and creditors that he’s always broke.

But Willy also wields immense charm, and intelligence enough to be a worthy verbal sparring partner. He uses his wife’s superior talent shamelessly, but does not shrink from acknowledging his admiration for it privately. When he tells Colette, every time she determines to leave him, that he could never love another woman the way he loves her, we want to believe him as much as she does. West convinces us that he believes it himself. There is ample toxicity in their arrangement, but there are also many moments of mutual inspiration and delight.

There’s enough juice in this pairing, and in Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Richard Glatzer’s sparkling screenplay, to propel Colette briskly through its 111-minute running time; I could gladly have sat through another 111 minutes following Colette’s further adventures after her split with Willy.

The author lived a long, scandalous and highly eventful life, after all, in addition to receiving eventual acclaim as one of France’s most gifted and accomplished literary figures. The movie ends when it’s seemingly just getting started. And I haven’t even mentioned the rest of the excellent cast, who include Denise Gough and Eleanor Tomlinson as two of Colette’s many female lovers, Mathilde de Morny and Georgie Raoul-Duval, and Fiona Shaw as her mother, Sido. If you have any taste at all for costume dramas, stormy romances, feisty women, smart writing and/or fine acting, check out Colette while it’s playing in our local art cinemas. You won’t be sorry. – Frances Marion Platt

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NIGHT SKY

Election, climate and meteor confusion

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f you live in Woodstock, you’re probably confused about the upcoming library vote. In brief, a “yes” will mean not to tear down the existing library. A “no” means to tear it down and replace it with a multi-million-dollar structure. A lot of people think it’s all the opposite.

This situation parallels the climate nonsense spouted by President Trump. In truth, the world’s climate experts are very much in agreement that the climate is changing due to runaway carbon dioxide caused by fossil fuels. Common sense dictates that we try to switch to “greener” energy sources such as solar. I for one drive a hybrid car and have solar panels, so I can’t pretend to be neutral about this.

People are talking about the unusual year we’ve had, weatherwise. We all know it’s been wet in our region. But not everyone is aware that, even when it hasn’t poured, it has been much cloudier than normal. There has been unusually high moisture around.

Normally our region has a cloudy season that runs from November through April.

Then come our clearest months of May through October. During the latter period – especially from July through September – our skies average one-third cloudy and two-thirds clear. But this is reversed during the cold section of the year, when we see a depressing average of 67 percent cloud cover. That is our normal scenario.

But this year it has been cloudier than usual. The question: Was this just an odd year? Or is there change afoot, thanks to shifting jet streams caused by climate alterations?

If we must have climate change, it’s better to have extra rain than too little, like in California, because life needs water. Nonetheless, we’ll have to keep our eye on what’s happening. Paul Huth, director of research emeritus at the Mohonk Preserve’s Daniel Smiley Research Center, told me that their century-long measurements and observations show that birds are sticking around here longer nowadays, with some that previously migrated south now wintering over. And autumn leaves are changing color almost two weeks later than they did in the 1970s. It really looks like climate change is occurring here. But in some areas like this cloud business, it’s way too soon to draw any conclusion.

Our final topic under this big umbrella of “confusion” involves meteors. There are more than a dozen meteor showers each year, but currently only two major ones. I say

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Birds are sticking around here longer nowadays, with some that previously migrated south now wintering over. And autumn leaves are changing color almost two weeks later than they did in the 1970s. It really looks like climate change is occurring here.

“currently” because the best shower of our lives was the Leonid display in the predawn hours of November 18, 2001. Under cloudless skies, our area saw five brilliant green meteors every minute, and this persisted for hours. Nearly all left glowing trains that lingered in the sky for one to four seconds. I know that some of you took the advice on this page and set the alarm and saw that one. Unfortunately, a similar Leonid display is not expected to recur until 2099.

This leaves many looking at some website or other that urges everyone to “Go out and see meteors tonight!” when it’s only one of the minor showers that deliver just a few an hour. And, additionally, the Moon may be bright, cutting down the numbers further.

So let’s clarify the meteor business by saying that, with the Leonids gone, only two annual showers are reliably worth staying up for. We have the Perseids every August 11 or 12, and we have the Geminids every December 13. If the Moon is fatter than a half Moon, it reduces the number that are visible. So the upcoming don’t-miss meteor showers will be the Geminids on December 13 this year (under a harmless crescent Moon), then no meteor showers next year, and then both those showers in 2020.

Hope all of this is helpful.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com. Check out Bob‘s new podcast, Astounding Universe, co-hosted

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Virginia Haggard and her daughter, Jean McNeil, in the snow

draws on that, but it’s fiction.”

Some of the pieces were inspired by Haggard’s memoir, My Life with Chagall: Seven Years of Plenty with the Master, as Told by the Woman Who Shared Them.

Others were influenced by Barry’s contact with Jean McNeil, now in her 70s and a painter in England. In their conversations, Barry learned that the time in High Falls had been a difficult one for McNeil, a sensitive child who watched the adults in her life closely and got a bit lost in the shuffle as the daughter of another man whose mother was pregnant with Chagall’s son. McNeil revealed to Barry that she had been shipped off to boarding school after arriving in High Falls, which provided inspiration for several of the pieces that Barry wrote.

Chagall and Haggard would stay together for seven years all told. Writing in Virginia’s voice came naturally to her, Barry says, but Jean’s voice was a little trickier: finding a way to suggest the way a child thinks without resorting to cuteness. The written works form an impressionistic picture of what Haggard and McNeil’s lives might have been like during their two years in High Falls – a collective of telling moments rather than a linear chronological narrative.

As an artist and former designer of textiles and children’s clothing, Barry has a strong visual sensibility that affects how she puts words together. “I do think very visually; and in writing, you create your own pictures of what a scene looks like, what a person looks like. And because I’m around so many artists, I couldn’t help but think of how they would have rendered it. And that gave me the idea to really see how they would do it, and create a show using artists’ interpretations of my writing.”

Barry reached out to some artists she already knew, and found others online.

A few were recommended to her through other artists participating in the project. “I chose artists because I liked the way they expressed themselves visually. I picked pieces to send to them that I thought they could relate to. Then, from those pieces, they chose which one to work from. I was giving the artists images, and they could do whatever they wanted to with it, use it

was intrigued to discover that renowned artist Marc Chagall and his decadesyounger lover, Virginia Haggard (pregnant with their son David), had made a similar move from New York City to High Falls in 1946, living in the hamlet for two years in a small frame house with adjoining studio that still stands not five minutes from where Barry and her artist husband, Bob Barry, live.

Inspired to learn more about Virginia Haggard and her five-year-old daughter, Jean McNeil, who accompanied her mother and Chagall to live in High Falls, Barry was taken aback by the lack of information that she could find about Haggard in materials written about the artist, even in reading about the exhibit, “Chagall in High Falls,” mounted at the D & H Canal Museum in 2011. “If Virginia was mentioned at all, she was described as the tall woman at his side: a pretty appendage to the whole story. Sometimes she was referred to as his maid – which she had been for a short time, but became so much more than that – and sometimes as his mistress, which she never was, because Chagall’s wife had died shortly before he and Haggard met.”

Barry eventually discovered that Haggard was an accomplished and interesting woman in her own right who spoke several languages. She was cosmopolitan, the well-educated daughter of a diplomat and an aspiring artist herself, who became a portrait photographer and wrote a memoir.

or not; but they were there to work with.”

And choosing a diverse group of artists was purposeful, Barry adds. “I wanted people who work in all sorts of media, and styles from very realistic to conceptual.

But it’s been surprising to me what’s come back; much of the work has been so unexpected. The two artists who had the most emotional pieces, with the most action, came back with very conceptual,

Out from Chagall’s shadow “The Virginia Project” opens on Saturday in High Falls

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nless you’ve been in a slumber as deep as Rip Van Winkle’s, you know that the #MeToo movement is casting light into every shadow of female disempowerment these days. So when a gallery exhibition opens focusing on the underestimated female partner of a famous man, it seems timely indeed. But while poet and short-story writer Tina Barry says that she has long considered herself a feminist – “I can’t believe we’re still having this conversation,” she says, as echoed by so many others – the impetus to curate “The Virginia Project” at the Wired Gallery in High Falls was not directly related to current events.

“The Virginia Project” is a written-word and visual arts collaboration among Barry and 14 women artists who interpreted prose poems written by Barry, in styles that range from realistic illustration to site-specific installations. The words that inspired the art will be displayed in the exhibit alongside the artwork.

An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 27 from 5 to 7 p.m., with the show remaining on view through Sunday, November 25. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

While the exhibit is not directly tied to current politics, “I do think it’s important to be looking at women at this time,” Barry says, “to have women looking at other women to say, ‘I see you, I appreciate what you’re doing,’ and keep that going.

There’s only so much you can do about what’s happening in the world, so the act of making art is a way of dealing with it.”

The project actually began with a simple bit of synchronicity. In 2015, when Barry moved from Brooklyn to High Falls, she

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Detail of Lori van Houten’s mixed-media installation White Flannel

Feeling the injustice in Chagall’s partner being reduced to a footnote to his legacy, Barry began to write prose poems meant to give voice to Haggard and McNeil, allowing mother and daughter to speak for themselves in the pieces. “I felt that they had been trivialized and diminished in history, and had no voice in Chagall’s story. I wasn’t trying to write a historical account of their time in High Falls; it

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ART

David Fox exhibition at Green Kill Gallery

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ne night, standing outside the brightly lit Green Kill Gallery in Midtown Kingston, I confront a huge pair of eyes, which stare back. They peer out of the scrunched-up face of a mammoth head, drawn in black ink on a giant piece of canvas hung on the back wall. The head bulges from a thick, elongated neck attached to a humongous naked chest, and the edges of the neck and shoulders are framed by bright red strokes of paint, as if licked by flames. The Mannerist-bordering-on-grotesque phallic neck-and-head resembles a periscope, except that, far from being barely visible over the waves, the form is fully exposed. The title of David Fox’s piece, The Watcher, underlies its irony: Its nakedness and overpowering scale are exhibitionist. The figure gazes back somewhat defensively, as if we threaten him as much as he overpowers us. For all the figure’s colossal size, the roughly painted, delicately toned nuances of his naked flesh suggest vulnerability.

Fox – who grew up Irish Catholic in London and has shown in Chelsea, as well as in Berlin, London and other European cities – has an amazing facility for drawing and painting, which has the effect of effortlessly pulling us into his conjectures of Heaven and Hell.

His solo show at Green Kill consists of a smattering of styles and subject matter, constituting a small sampling of his rich and varied oeuvre. The splotches and drips of four enormous ink drawings of tortured figures, taken from two series – one based on Dante’s Inferno, the other from drawings of prisoners inspired by the Iraq war and Abu Ghraib prison – suggest violence and pain, and their black-and-white coloration a graphic starkness. One standout is of a seated, blindfolded naked man threatened by a gun barrel; the dramatically foreshortened figure, supported on huge feet that intrude into the viewer’s space, conjure up the feats of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The piece was one of several that illustrated an article by Scott Horton on the Bush administration’s torture crimes in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

The show also includes several of Fox’s large-scaled paintings of cathedral interiors: rough, textured depictions with a Turnerlike conjecture of the sublime.

“I do recognize the spirituality of the edifice,” said Fox. “These paintings sum up my relationship to faith: a little bit raw and unfinished and full of doubt.” There’s also a self-portrait depicting his head lying on the floor, whose lack of sentimentality and profound discomfort echo the work of Lucien Freud. Fox said that the painting is from a series of 50 self-portraits in which “I put myself in contorted positions and photographed myself, a kind of performance piece.” These works related to the largescale pieces that he’d painted based on the plays of Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and other Absurdist playwrights, all of which sold. There are large paintings in red, sienna and black of mysterious, spectral robed figures ascending and descending stairs; he created small clay sculptures as a model, which served further to abstract the images, originally inspired by his observations while sitting on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London. Smaller-scaled cinematiclike scenes are done in a much tighter, realistic style, playing on the themes of voyeurism and intimacy.

Fox grew up in Wimbledon (the community of tennis fame), dropped out of school at 16 and attended a local art school before moving to London, where he studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, did plein air paintings of construction and demolition sites

“If you can draw the figure, you can draw anything,” Fox said.

“There’s an analogy with music: If you practice scales as a musician, after a while it’s playing you.”

very intellectual work, boiled down to very few and small images. It’s been so interesting to see. And I enjoyed the process; I wanted to discover people.”

The 14 women who participated in “The Virginia Project” include Leslie Bender, Barbara Danin, Jenny Lee Fowler, Jaime Caul, Trish Classe Cianakis, Wendy Hollender, Heige Kim, Ingrid Keppler Lisowski, Kate McGloughlin, Giselle Potter, Adie Russell, Amy Talluto, Anique Sara Taylor and Lori van Houten.

The gallery show has been in the works for approximately a year at this point, Barry says. When she approached gallerist Sevan Melikyan about mounting the show at the Wired Gallery, she didn’t know that he had an interest already in the time that Haggard and Chagall lived in High

Falls. “That was a lucky accident that I approached him and he was so receptive.

And I’m hoping this becomes a book; that was the original idea for this, but that’s still evolving.”

When the exhibit closes in High Falls in November, it will travel to the galleries at Long Island University. “We’ll see after that,” Barry says. “I’m open to it being open-ended and see what develops, if anything. Maybe another woman would want to jump in and do something else – maybe take a look at another marginalized woman and spin something off that.”

Tina Barry is the author of Mall Flower: Poems and Short Fiction. Two pieces in the book were nominated for the Pushcart Prize; one of the stories was included in the Best Small Fictions 2016

David Fox, Prisoner at Gunpoint

and got a job at a prestigious advertising agency doing Magic Marker ads. In 1981 he moved to New York City and showed his work at SR Rage Gallery, in the East Village, before earning an MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), studying under Grace Hartigan. MICA awarded him a painting fellowship, enabling him to move back to New York City and set up a studio. He and his partner moved to Brewster 20 years ago, and he teaches life drawing at SUNY-Westchester.

Drawing the figure is integral to his practice. “If you can draw the figure, you can draw anything,” Fox said. “There’s an analogy with music: If you practice scales as a musician, after a while it’s playing you. I’ve drawn the figure for 40 years, and it helps me think.” He often begins a work abstractly: “I use the old Surrealist/Dadaist technique of automatic drawing, in which you make marks and the figure emerges.

“All my work is informed by moral and ethical concerns,” he added. “I also like a joke. I’m a big comic in my personal life, but in art, irony and joke-making don’t carry well.” If he had to choose one word to describe his work, what would it be?

“Spiritual.” Fox is also a poet, playwright and musician. His upcoming book, Between Heaven and Earth, which will include a CD with his songs and spoken-word pieces, is due to be published by Christmas.

– Lynn Woods David Fox solo show, Tuesday-Saturday through October 28, 3-6 p.m., Green Kill Gallery, 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston; (347) 689-2323.

anthology. Her poems and flash fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University, Brooklyn, in 2014.

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STAGE Black box, bright lights Check out Denizen Theatre’s impressive debut production, Cal in Camo

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t has been a long time coming, but downtown New Paltz finally has a small-scale professional theater, dedicated to bringing challenging new plays to audiences in an intimate black-box setting. And if its inaugural production, William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, is any indication of the level of professionalism that we can expect, Denizen Theatre seems likely to prove a magnet for drama buffs from near and far.

The show opened on October 12 and will run Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. until November 4, with cast talkbacks following every Wednesday performance.

Ticket prices are remarkably affordable for high-quality live stagework: $24 general admission, $20 for seniors, $15 for those under 30 and $5 for students; a three-show season subscription costs $60. With an audience capacity of only

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If its inaugural production, William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, is any indication of the level of professionalism that we can expect, Denizen Theatre seems likely to prove a magnet for drama buffs from near and far.

50 to 70 seats, the space is equipped for modular staging; the audience for Cal in Camo wraps around three sides of the stage, and every seat is a terrific one.

And Cal in Camo, directed by Stephen Nachamie, is the perfect play to show off the strengths of this immersive theatergoing environment. With a cast of only four, it’s a taut, provocative drama about that most perennial of subjects for classic American theater, the dysfunctional family struggling to reconnect. This production is only its third-ever: Cal in Camo had its world premiere in May 2016 at the Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theater in New York City and its second run at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago, playwright Hoffman’s former home base, in 2017.

There’s a lot to unpack, thematically and philosophically, in this tragicomic tale of Cal (Valerie Lynn Brett), a new mother from rural Missouri whose abandonment in early childhood by her own mother and subsequent shuffling among foster homes has left her aching for a sense of family, but ill-equipped to nurture her own infant. Her Chicago-bred husband Tim (Michael Siktberg) struggles to reestablish his career as a beer distributor, along

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with his confidence in his ability to be a provider, in the new home in the country where the couple intend to raise their newborn daughter. Tensions run high between the two, and some beautifully choreographed arguments vividly illustrate the vehemence with which husbands and wives can endeavor to communicate without ever truly hearing one another.

Into the lives of Cal, Tim and their inconsolable baby comes an improbable, slightly crazy angel: C a l ’s redneck brother Flynt ( Jo h n Hartzell), who cared for her in the immediate aftermath of their mother’s flight and with whom she has recently reconnected. Among this fine cast, Hartzell does a particularly sublime job in rendering Flynt, who is reeling from the recent drowning death of his own wife but still manages to trace a transformative arc from disruptive influence to healer in the course of the 85-minute one-act

narrative. This family’s metaphoric Moby Dick takes the form of an enormous sinkhole lurking beneath the surface of the lot on which Cal and Tim’s home has been constructed, waiting for the rains to come and further shake the family’s foundations. Also in the cast, in the small role of a reluctant country bar-owner to whom Tim pitches his trendy brews, is Craig Patrick Browne.

It’s a h a n d s o m e production, with credit going to Water Street Market o w n e r /a c t o r Harry Lipstein, the producing artistic director of Denizen, and Ben Williamson and Brittany Proia, co-artistic directors of the new space. Special kudos are also due for the extraordinarily evocative lighting design by Ryan E. Finzelber, assisted by Kayleigh Marshall. Deidre Works is the production stage manager, assisted by Liz Corey. Technical director Sean Breault also designed the simple-but-effective

This family’s metaphoric Moby Dick takes the form of an enormous sinkhole lurking beneath the lot on which Cal and Tim’s home has been constructed.

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Friday, October 26. With images and text from Cole’s newly released book of the same title, alongside Iyer’s improvised live score, Blind Spot investigates humanity’s blindness to tragedy and injustice throughout history.

A book- and album-signing with the artists will follow the performance.

Ticket prices start at $25.

Blind Spot Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m. $25+ Fisher Center, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson (845) 758-7900 www.fishercenter.bard.edu

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he Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli presents 10 Hairy Legs on Saturday, October 27. An allmale repertory dance company performing existing and newly commissioned works, the mission of 10 Hairy Legs is to advance the understanding of the male role in dance through the creation, acquisition and performance of exceptional work. Under the artistic direction of Randy James, 10 Hairy Legs has commissioned 16 works from choreographers Doug Varone, Doug Elkins, Tiffany Mills, Manuel Vignoulle, Julie Bour, Megan Williams, Al Blackstone, Raja Feather Kelly, Nicholas Sciscione, Yin Yue and founder James himself since 2012. Tickets cost $30 for adults, $10 for students and children.

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set, Scott Stauffer the sound and Heather Carey the costumes; Geoff Fryer was production assistant. Corey and Marshall, it should be noted, are both alumnae of New Paltz High School’s Drama Club, now wielding their baccalaureates in theater, from SUNY-Purchase and Vassar College, to formidable effect.

You can read more about Cal in Camo, its playwright, director, cast and crew, in the electronic program downloadable on Denizen Theatre’s website at www. denizentheatre.com. That’s also the place to go to purchase tickets and to find out more about the Theatre itself – located in the upper level of the Water Street Market at 10 Main Street in New Paltz. Or call the Denizen box office at (845) 303-4136.

– Frances Marion Platt

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stage and on screens of all sizes. In 2012, she joined forces with veteran producer Page Hurwitz to form Push It Productions, a production company dedicated to creating quality comedybased programming for network and cable television outlets. Their first set of specials, Herlarious, aired in the summer of 2013 and January 2014 on Own and was the recipient of a 2014 Gracie Award.

Sykes was seen in the Fox comedy Snatched with Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn in Hawaii, and also in the feature films Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty, in which she co-starred with Steve Carell; the New Line feature Monster-in-Law, starring opposite Jane Fonda; My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Pootie Tang, Nutty Professor 2, The Klumps and Down to Earth. Tickets cost $91, $61 and $41; there are no member discounts for this show.

Wanda Sykes Friday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. $91/$61/$41 UPAC 601 Broadway Kingston (845) 339-6088 www.bardavon.org

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The Bardavon presents comedian Wanda Sykes on Friday, October 26 at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston. Called “one of the funniest stand-up comics” by her peers and ranked among Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Funniest People in America, Sykes has found success on-

New York City’s longest-running short film exhibition, Asbury Shorts USA, presents its 37th Short Film Concert at the Phoenicia Playhouse on Saturday, October 27. Acclaimed broadcast journalist Rolland Smith will serve as the guest host of the evening’s screening.

Asbury Shorts USA combines awardwinning films from past years with new international festival honorees, creating a rare opportunity for audiences to see world-class short films on a real cinema

screen as opposed to You Tube or smartphones. Academy Award nominated director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking) calls Asbury Shorts “the best short film show I’ve ever seen.” Tickets cost $20.

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Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole’s Blind Spot this Friday at Bard’s Fisher Center

Since 2014, Gardiner-based writer/ TV producer Ed McCann has been organizing a Web-based literary performance project originally titled Writers Read, now known as Read650. “Recently described as ‘the true-story Selected Shorts,’ Read650 is the opposite of an open-mic event, and its name references the maximum word count for submissions: 650-word essays that can be read aloud within five minutes.

Organized around broad themes, our submission-based readings are carefully curated to build an engaging show for the audience,” McCann explains. Authors submit their stories on each year’s assigned theme to the website, and an advisory committee of novelists, memoirists, journalists, editors and playwrights selects a group of them to perform their winning submissions aloud, to be recorded and archived.

This year’s theme was “Lessons Learned,” and a showcase featuring 14 writer/performers will be hosted at 3 p.m. this Sunday, October 28 at 3 p.m. at Vassar College’s Sanders Auditorium. The event inaugurates Vassar’s new Lifelong Learning Institute session. “We’ve framed this show around the theme of life lessons,” says McCann, “because learning never stops.” The cast of “Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth and Wonder” includes writers from New Paltz, Gardiner, Rosendale, Highland, Cold Spring and Garrison. Admission is by a suggested minimum donation of $10. Seating is limited, and registration at https://bit. ly/2OwpGMk is strongly advised. To learn more, visit www.read650.com and https:// lifelonglearning.vassar.edu.

“Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth and Wonder” Sunday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m., $10+ Sanders Auditorium Vassar College 124 Raymond Ave. Poughkeepsie https://bit.ly/2OwpGMk

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son Hamilton Meserve, who had been a small child at the time the movie was made, that green makeup nearly scarred Margaret Hamilton for life – and not simply in a metaphoric sense. The scene in which the witch vanishes from Munchkinland in a flash of fire had to be reshot because a glimpse of the trapdoor appeared in the frame. On the second try, the trapdoor jammed and, instead of dropping through, Hamilton’s costume caught fire. The actress’ arm was badly burned. The green color in her makeup contained copper, which ignited, causing painful facial burns that kept her bandaged up, hospitalized and unable to return to the set for six weeks.

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his being the time of year especially reserved for contemplations of all things spooky, one can hardly escape the realization that what one person or another finds frightening varies a great deal – and often reflects fear-inducing

By all accounts, Margaret Hamilton was a gentle person in real life, and got on well with children.

The green-tinted visage and screeching voice of the Wicked Witch of the West became the stuff of nightmares. formative experiences from childhood, seared into the seahorse-shaped brain structure known as the hippocampus. For writers, filmmakers and other artists, finding common themes that will reliably trig-

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the witch’s scenes, including the skywriting bit, and ended up being injured even worse than Hamilton when her smoking broom exploded under her.

By all accounts, Margaret Hamilton was a gentle person in real life, and got on well with children. Before getting her first big stage break in the 1932 Broadway play Another Language (and reprising the role onscreen a year later), she taught kindergarten in Rye; later, in between gigs in Hollywood, she founded another kindergarten in Beverly Hills

ger a sense of horror for many or most is a specialized and difficult skill. Too many “scary” archetypes have been turned into familiar tropes, benign images seen everywhere hanging on front doors to greet trick-or-treaters. So we jaded consumers rightly admire those who still manage to figure out how to scare audiences, in an entertaining way.

In the newspaper The Guardian a couple of weeks ago, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood – crafter of a prime literary spark of terror among contemporary feminists, The Handmaid’s Tale – paid tribute to the artistry of one of her peers who knows how to invoke the dark and disturbing, Neil Gaiman. Atwood opened her article with this anecdote: “Once, during an onstage discussion of the type literary festivals go in for, I frightened Neil Gaiman by channeling the voice of the Wicked Witch of the West from the film The Wizard of Oz. ‘And your little dog, too!’ I cackled. ‘No! No! Don’t do that!’ cried Neil. He then explained that he had been petrified by this greentinted witch as an eight-year-old. Behold: a literary influence had been discovered!”

Double kudos are due Atwood for unveiling what scares an eminent scarer.

But Gaiman is far from the only person whose hippocampus was permanently invaded by a scene from the 1939 movie

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version of The Wizard of Oz. The greentinted visage and screeching voice of the Wicked Witch of the West that became the stuff of nightmares. Margaret Hamilton did her job well.

According to stories often retold by her

that reportedly still exists. She became an active supporter of animal protection charities during her years of living in New York City, when she was working mainly in live theater. She appeared on Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, attempting to

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REMEMBERING ELENA LUCREZIA CORNARO PISCOPIA AT VASSAR LIBRARY Lecture, original theater piece in Poughkeepsie honors first woman to obtain a doctorate

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n 1678 in the Hudson Valley, Huguenot refugees settled the community that would come to be known as New Paltz. So busy were they clearing land, building houses and trying to patch up relations with the indigenous people with whom they’d recently been at war that they failed to notice a scandalous development that was happening back across the Pond: For the first time in history, a woman was winning her doctoral degree. On June 25, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, scion of a Venetian patrician family, brilliantly defended her dissertation in front of university professors, political dignitaries and common folks. This milestone has been immortalized in the central stained-glass window of the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College.

On Friday, November 9, Vassar will celebrate the 340 th anniversary of DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY Cornaro Piscopia’s achievement in This milestone has been immortalized in the central stained-glass window of the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library the same library with a lecture and at Vassar College. theatrical performance dedicated to her life. Professor Patrizia Bettella of the University of Alberta, an expert on female vassar.edu or visit https://vassarpresents.tix.com. academicians of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, will give a talk based on The Most Learned Woman, Friday, Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m. lecture, 7:30 performance, her research about Cornaro Piscopia at 5:30 p.m. in the Class of 1951 Reading Free (by reservation), Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Room. At 7:30 p.m., the Cornaro Room will host a performance of The Most Avenue, Poughkeepsie, (845) 437-5370, boxoffice@vassar.edu, www.vassar.edu, Learned Woman, an original theater piece in spoken word and music that was https://vassarpresents.tix.com developed by Laura Caparrotti, artistic director of the Kairos Italy Theater. Both events are free and open to the public. To reserve tickets, e-mail boxoffice@

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Born in Cleveland in 1902, Hamilton spent her final years living in Millbrook in Dutchess County, near her grown son and only child, Hamilton Meserve, then owner of the Taconic Newspapers. Her body was cremated at the Poughkeepsie

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Usually typecast as a prudish spinster or matron, Hamilton had a long and busy career as a character actress. In her more than 80 movies she worked with such comic luminaries of Hollywood’s Golden Age as Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Mae West and W. C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, and with famed directors including Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William A. Wellman…even Robert Altman, in Brewster McCloud, and in the William Castle 3-D horror feature 13 Ghosts. She also found roles in numerous TV programs, including the soap opera As the World Turns.

Her later acting work, after she left LA, mostly concentrated on live theater; she appeared in Lincoln Center productions of Oklahoma! (as Aunt Eller) and Show Boat (as Parthy Anne) and toured for nearly a year as Madame Armfeldt, who sings “Liaisons,” in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Her last TV role, in 1982, was veteran journalist Thea Taft on Lou Grant. Playing Cora the New England storekeeper in a long-running Maxwell House commercial campaign, Hamilton is said to have sold more coffee than any

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John Langan navigates a world of fear

Sefira and Other Betrayals, a collection of stories that will include a new short novel, will be published by Hippocampus Press.

Halloween seemed like the right time to have a chat with my old friend.

I think about my son’s generation, or at least his wing of it, and their abiding interest in morphing identity, from the multiculturally sourced myths of LARPing to the fluid play of drag, et cetera, and it occurs to me that every day is Halloween now. How does the horror fiction community feel about Halloween?

Perhaps a bit like we hardcore football fans feel about the Super Bowl: “Who are all these people, and why do they understand nothing?”

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got to know the horror novelist, critic and teacher John Langan in the early ’90s. I was playing the part of the (untenured) Young Professor (without a PhD), while he was one of the undergraduate stars of the SUNY-New Paltz English Department – already a conceptually ambitious fiction writer with more verbal resources than any three writers would know what to do with. In that program, Hemingway’s curt Modernism set the top-down tone, charismatically espoused by the great American Lit scholar H. R. Stoneback.

If the students had one non-canonical rebel hero of their own, it was, of course, the puke-obsessed and blunt outsider named Bukowski. Loquacious, anachronistic, opulent and smarter than everyone, Langan didn’t make a lot of sense then and there: part Oscar Wilde, part Henry James, blossoming in a field of Raymond Carvers, Denis Johnsons and Ann Beatties.

And horror was already his thing: a genre. “Genre” is the word that serious literature uses to marginalize and mock the various camps of commercially successful fiction, perhaps to rationalize

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Well, it’s our Christmas. A number of my friends have started talking about the entire month of October as the “horror month.”

Let’s clear this up for once and for all: Were you aware of Bob Waugh and his critical interest in Lovecraft and sci-fi before you chose to attend SUNY-New Paltz, or was it just dumb luck that you went to a local college where this big-hearted, optimistic dude was busy legitimizing your marginalized genre?

It was a coincidence of the happiest kind. I can still remember being there for the very first H. P. Lovecraft Forum the fall semester of my freshman year, and thinking how strange it was that this genre that was, as you say, marginalized, was receiving serious scholarly attention.

John Langan is the author of four books, among them The Fisherman, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a novel.

their material achievements and popularity. Detective, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Romance, Horror: These are “the genres.”

Genre writers, or so the bias goes, leverage

the cheap tools of expedient storytelling and story-selling: default styles and voices, plot templates, a paid-by-the-word prose aesthetic. Genre writers exploit a weakness in the readership for one specific, repeatable kind of satisfaction or effect, like the “click” that a good murder mystery makes when everything comes together.

Of course, many “genre” writers command respect in the academy. My sense of the current scene froze around 1996, and I hear that some things have happened since then; but Stephen King, I recall, was generally well-regarded as a stylist and a writer of range, as were Samuel Delaney and Ursula Le Guin.

Other writers transcended their genres and found outright literary importance, elevating the genres in the process.

Vonnegut may be the most famous example of that. And, as one learns hanging around the halls, many if not most literary critics and professors are genre junkies of some kind themselves, openly or secretly. Even so, it is a weird circumstance when the writing star and young buck in your English Department aspires to be…a genre writer. Where did we go wrong?

But Langan went to SUNY-New Paltz, where professor Robert Waugh was just beginning to turn his lifelong love of H. P. Lovecraft into a big piece of his scholarly program, developing several classes in Horror Studies and founding an internationally significant Lovecraft conference right here in the village. I’ll never know whether Waugh’s example – eccentric, brilliant, infectiously indifferent to what anyone thought of his Lovecraft obsession – helped Langan find the strength to resist the pull of stylish Minimalism, but we are all glad he did.

Langan followed Joseph Campbell’s bliss all the way to a career as a significant and internationally recognized writer of serious horror fiction.

John Langan is the author of four books, among them The Fisherman, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a novel. He’s one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during their first three years. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. In early 2019, his next book,

Even among the genres, horror is an odd bird. People assume it takes a certain type to write and to enjoy these stories, these feelings. Is there a common predisposition of some kind among horror writers and fans?

The simplest answer to the question would be no: There’s no necessary predisposition for either creators or fans of the genre. That said, I have noticed that a number of the field’s most prominent practitioners suffered rather

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due to the quasi-poverty his mother was plunged into. Ramsey Campbell’s father and mother split while he was young, but his father continued to live in the same house with them, although he refused to have any face-to-face contact with his son – this as Campbell’s mother was sliding into what appears to have been paranoid schizophrenia. H. P. Lovecraft’s father was confined to an asylum when Lovecraft was a young child because of what Lovecraft was told was insanity, but was in fact the first signs of tertiary syphilis. And so on, for so many of the genre’s great creators.

And then, also as a child, each of them encounters the horror genre (for the more recent writers, frequently in the form of Lovecraft’s work; for Lovecraft, in the form of Poe’s stories), and there’s something about that kind of fiction that they immediately respond to, and which I suspect is the way in which it offers a narrative language – a set of plot conventions, images and tropes – for engaging their own emotional history.

Crucially (I think), it’s a narrative language whose very excessiveness mirrors the way their various childhood traumas feel to them.

This is not to say, however, that the sources of horror are or must remain confined to childhood trauma. The daily life of the last three-quarters of a century or so, with its regular accounts of genocide, its threat of annihilation from nuclear, biological and now climate sources, is an unending source of stress. Heck, you could even throw in the revelations of Freudian psychology and Derridean deconstruction, which call into question what we think of as the stable structures of the psyche and the language it uses to express itself.

I suppose I see the fundamental material of the horror genre as those moments when the epistemological ground drops out from underneath us and we have to deal with the consequences of that.

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Maybe it is a mistake to assume that horror serves its own unique set of psychological functions and purposes, apart from those of art in general, but you could say science fiction has a special predictive or prophetic calling, or that the concerns and conventions of the fantasy genre are especially resonant with the liminal condition of adolescence. What necessary itch does horror scratch?

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his machine kills fascists,” said one very famous acoustic guitar, while others have said all kinds of beautiful and revolutionary things in all the genres and across music history. In its tenth year now, the wonderful Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Festival reinvests the acoustic guitar with some of that political agency that it has owned in 20th-century America.

This year’s world-class lineup of luthiers features women luthiers of note from around the world, as well as a prevalence of women performing artists and instructors. From renowned builders of international reputation such as Linda Manzer, Kathy Wingert and Joshia de Jonge, to younger up-and-coming makers dedicated to the craft, like Maegen Wells and Jayne Henderson, a significant percentage of this year’s exhibiting luthiers are women. These makers of fine instruments will be gathering from across the US, Canada, England, France, Italy, Switzerland and the Canary Islands.

Performing artists and clinic instructors will include Della Mae, Rory Block, Cindy Cashdollar, Michael Chapdelaine, Vicki Genfan, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Mary Flower, Jamie Stillway, Tony McManus, Julia Toaspern, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams and many more. The event takes place October 26, 27 and 28 at the Bearsville Theater and Utopia Soundstage in Woodstock. There will be continuous live music, including luthier mini-concerts, demos and special appearances during show hours, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.

minds and in our world – can often seem so stylized that horror’s stock voice is a fussy Victorian maximalism? Hell, I’m not mocking your style. If I could write half as richly as you do, I would be…well, let’s just say an even more unusual and eccentric provincial music critic.

As for the tension between language and subject matter, I see that as going all the way back to the dawn of the Gothic novel in the later 18th century, when you have a form that arises (in part) in reaction to the era’s faith in human reason to apprehend an essentially knowable creation. No, the Gothic says, it’s all much stranger and weirder than that. (This is how I’ve come to understand Melville’s praise of Hawthorne’s fiction as saying, “No in a voice of thunder,” or whatever the exact quote is.) That engagement with the ir- or a-rational is handled in a language that tries to approximate and even embody that concern with excess, with those times when existence overflows our understanding of it.

Dig. What, to your mind, are five essential horror stories, and why? People like lists.

1) M. R. James’ “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”: simultaneously a ghost story and a parody of the imagery of a ghost story. A mild-mannered academic in his day job, James wrote occasional ghost stories in which he explored the variety of ways stories of supernatural horror might be told. Really, you can’t go wrong with any of them; if you like this one, take a look at “Casting the Runes” (the inspiration for Jacques Tourneur’s wonderful film, Night of the Demon).

2) Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”: a compelling firstperson portrait of a woman struggling with postpartum depression whose husband has confined her to her room and deprived her of her books in an effort to cure her.

It will come as no surprise to learn that this only exacerbates her condition. When she begins to see a woman trapped within the yellow wallpaper with which the walls

I really like Michael Chabon’s idea that the function of any art is entertainment, in the word’s root sense of entangling-ment.

Thomas Ligotti once said that the function of horror fiction is to let you know that you’re not alone in your anxieties about the world/yourself/whatever. I like that idea, though there’s also something to be said for the thrill-ride that some forms of the genre provide.

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are covered, it’s easy enough to read as a stress-induced hallucination. But it may be more.

3) Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover”: a short piece about the way in which promises made in the heat of youth and passion may still be fulfilled, even when the person to whom they were made is no longer among the living.

Known as one of the mid-20th century’s practitioners of the Realist novel, Bowen wrote a number of understated, chilling tales of the supernatural.

4) Shirley Jackson’s “The Witch”: a story in a single scene about a disturbing encounter between a mother traveling with her children and a man who is far worse than he at first appears. It’s about evil as a contagion, a notion Jackson would explore in a number of her other stories. Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a staple of high school and college reading. and deservedly so, but there’s a great deal more to her work.

5) Paul Tremblay’s “A Haunted House is a Wheel upon which We Are Broken”: Among the most restless and experimental writers working today, Tremblay rocketed to well-deserved fame with his most recent novels, A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and The Cabin at the End of the World, which no less an authority than Stephen King had highly complimentary things to say about. Tremblay’s short fiction is equally accomplished, as in this story, which uses the choose-your-own-adventure format to unsettling effect.

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his year’s benefit for Basilica Hudson will celebrate the achievements and legacy of musician/songwriter/actor/performer Courtney Love on Sunday, October 27. Featuring readings and performances by Love’s peers, along with innovative artists who have been influenced by Love’s work, the benefit will be hosted by Melissa Auf der Maur, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Aaron Dessner, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Ryan McGinley, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Elvis Perkins, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stipe, Brandon Stosuy, Yelena Yemchuk, Jack Walls and other special guests.

Ticket prices begin at $50. For tickets and additional information, visit http://basilicahudson.org. Basilica is located at 110 South Front Street in Hudson.

Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20, solo artist), “I asked Marc to open up a 10,000-seat gig for me, just him and his guitar; he killed it!”

A fixture in listening rooms and better venues everywhere, Marc Von Em returns to Unison Arts on Friday, October 26.

Tickets cost $25, with discounts for members, seniors and students.

Marc Von Em Friday, Oct. 26 8 p.m. $25 Unison Art Center 68 Mountain Rest Rd. New Paltz (845) 255-1559 www.unisonarts.org

The singer-songwriter Marc Von Em has a well-earned reputation as the kind of solo performer who makes you not miss a backing band. Owner of a sprawling, consistent catalogue of earthy, acoustic soul/pop, Von Em brings technique, fire, wit and total commitment to his singing and his percussive acoustic guitar-playing.

His shows convert first-time listeners to fans at a rate approaching 100 percent. Some of his fans are fairly wellregarded performers themselves. Said

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ell, here is an interesting one. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and local dignitary Garth Hudson teams with the composer and multi-instrumentalist known as High Water (and also as Will Epstein) to perform live soundtracks to the experimental films of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson at BSP in Kingston on Sunday, October 28. Smith (best-known as the folk music anthologizer) and Belson were legendary experimental filmmakers who met in Berkeley in the late 1940s, and together developed remarkable independent bodies of work in film, painting and recorded sound. Influenced by hermeticism, alchemy and the occult, they were both devotees of Kandinsky’s principles of Non-Objective painting and carried these interests into films. Both were pioneering figures in the development of light shows and psychedelic art.

Also on the bill are Hudson’s wife, Sister Maud Hudson, singing selections from Harry Smith’s Folkways anthology and special guest Peter Silberman from the Antlers. Admission costs $25.

Garth Hudson & High Water perform live soundtracks to the experimental films of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson, Sunday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., BSP, 323 Wall St., Kingston, www.bspkingston.com

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her yearly New York pilgrimage last year, so this upcoming run of Sekanjabin shows will be their first since 2016. Sekanjabin performs at Colony in Woodstock on Thursday, November 1. Tickets cost $8 in advance, $10 at the door.

Sekanjabin Thursday, Nov. 1 8 p.m. $10/$8 Colony 22 Rock City Rd. Woodstock (845) 679-7625 www.colonywoodstock.com

Help make the Augusta Savage tribute mosaic at SUNY-Ulster Help artist/activist group Art Force 5 create mosaic tiles for a mural at SUNY-Ulster honoring the legacy of Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, who spent the last 17 years of her life in Saugerties. For more on this fascinating artist, read our article from last week’s Almanac here: https://bit.ly/2PMR3Zv. Come prepared to paint a tile between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 25 at the Student Life Center on the SUNY-Ulster campus in Stone Ridge.

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The Wailers play Colony on Sunday

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t’s not just the Wailers are synonymous with the popularization of reggae music; it is more profound than that. No single ensemble has ever been quite so singularly representative of its genre and responsible for its global spread. The Wailers – Bunny, Bob, Peter and the rest – are reggae music to most people, plain and simple. Paradoxically, their wildfire international fame and ironclad association with the music of Jamaica set the stage for the breakout of countless other reggae, ska and rocksteady artists over the decades.

The Wailers that will appear at Colony in Woodstock on Sunday, October 28 are no Menudo – no distant descendants of the founders, with maybe “the original gear,” as the joke goes. These Wailers are led by famed bassist and founder Aston “Familyman” Barrett, joined by fellow original Wailers Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey.

Upstate Reggae continues its legacy of booking outsize names (the biggest in the field, really) in the small and intimate venues of Woodstock. Freddy Larrosa opens the show. Ticket prices range from $35 to $60.

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to BSP on Friday, November 2. Moore hasn’t slowed down much in the postSY years. Efforts like 2017’s Rock N Roll Consciousness are worthy and listenable extensions of Sonic Youth’s innovations: expansive, exploratory guitar rock that teases with pop built off a bed of VU cool, and then takes you as far out into sonic agitations and novel guitar abuse as you care to go.

In New Noise Guitar Explorations, Moore focuses on the 12-string guitar.

He is joined by James Sedwards (who has been playing in Moore’s band since 2014), by longtime associate Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and, as if to make this unbearably huge for fans of avantnoise rock, My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Googe. Music critic and spoken-word artist Byron Coley is on hand for some spiel.

Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

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Sekanjabin to perform at Colony

The (many) members of the deliriously good New Paltz collective Sekanjabin are emphatic that what they play is by no means traditional Turkish music. These players are all worldmusic aficionados, and it is important to them that we know that they know what their music isn’t. How do they describe it? A rich mongrelization of

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Farm to Bowl/Farm to Table lunch & fundraiser in Accord A flavorful autumn-inspired menu by chef Christine Atkinson of Graze Farm to Table will be featured at a special “pup-centric” lunch this Saturday, benefiting the Animals for Adoption shelter. This is a dog-friendly event where well-behaved dogs (on leash) are encouraged to attend.

The afternoon will start at 12:30 p.m. with a dog agility demonstration, and “pet parents” can sign up for a ten-minute trial. Attendees will then enjoy lunch for themselves and their pups, with products locally sourced and handcrafted. Stone Ridge Wine & Spirits will provide a variety of wines to complement the cuisine, while musician Bruce Sconzo performs live.

Tickets cost $75, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Animals for Adoption shelter. Visit www. animalsforadoption.org to register.

Farm to Bowl/Farm to Table lunch Saturday, Oct. 27, 12:30-3:30 p.m. $75, Animals for Adoption 4628 Route 209, Accord www.animalsforadoption.org

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Haunted Huguenot Street is baaaaack Haunted Huguenot Street connects Halloween with history where it happened. This year’s theme is about disease and the terrifying techniques used in 1700s healing. Tickets cost $25 general admission, $22.50 for seniors, armed forces, veterans and members. Tours run hourly from 5 to 10 p.m., Thursday to Sunday through October 28.

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by Erica Chase-Salerno, kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com The Halloween Spooktacular gives your youngest ghosts and goblins a chance to trick-or-treat, dress in costume, do science experiments and make creative pumpkin characters.

Reservations are recommended.

Friday, Oct. 26 5:30-8 p.m. $13/$9 Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum 75 North Water St. Poughkeepsie (845) 471-0989 https://mhcm.org/event/halloweenspooktacular-3 A Turn of the Screw is based on Henry James’ ghost story. And if you’re swamped with Halloweenness, you can choose to attend the following weekend instead!

Oct. 26-28, Nov. 2-4 Friday/Saturday 7 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. $15/$10 Doctorow Center for the Arts 7871 Main St. Hunter (917) 687-6646 www.greatnortherncatskills.com/events/ turn-screw www.katactors.com Halloween Fest celebrates the holiday with trick-or-treating, a costume contest, crafts and snacks and bouncy houses.

Saturday, Oct. 27 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Vassar College, Josselyn Beach 124 Raymond Ave. Poughkeepsie (845) 437-5860 www.facebook.com/ events/528931074236346 Residence Hall-oween offers allergy-free and traditional treats, crafts, games and a costume contest.

Saturday, Oct. 27 Noon-2 p.m.

Marist College, Foy Townhouses 3399 North Rd. Poughkeepsie (845) 575-3000 www.marist.edu/ events?searchText=residence_hall-oween Halloween Animal Myths and Stories shares truths and falsehoods about bats, wolves, spiders and tradi-

Cemetery tour & tales at Clermont Legends by Candlelight Ghost Tours share stories about local residents in a historic cemetery setting on Friday and Saturday. Tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for members and $5 for children.

Friday/Saturday, Oct. 26-27 6-9 p.m. on the hour & half-hour Clermont State Historic Site 1 Clermont Ave. Germantown (518) 537-4240 www.friendsofclermont.org/events

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tional (and local) symbols of the season, followed by a scavenger hunt.

Saturday, Oct. 27 1-2:30 p.m.

Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, 1024 Route 66, Ghent (518) 828-4386 www.ccswcd.org HalloWoodstock is the go(at)-to place for sweet treats, costume fun, pumpkins, vegan treats, hayrides and more – all in support of the animals.

Saturday, Oct. 27 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $10/$5 Woodstock Farm Sanctuary 2 Rescue Road High Falls http://woodstocksanctuary.org/ hallowoodstock-2018 Trick-of-Treat in the Halls gives the kids an advance look at college by exploring all of the dorms for trick-ortreating and games in each residence hall on campus. For ages 12 and under.

Sunday, Oct. 28 3-5 p.m.

SUNY-New Paltz, every dorm 1 Hawk Dr., New Paltz (845) 257-SUNY (7869) www.newpaltz.edu This Halloween Bash gives goodie

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McCann Ice Arena 14 Civic Center Plaza Poughkeepsie (845) 454-5800 www.midhudsonciviccenter.org The Woodstock Halloween Parade means a highly anticipated party with drummers, dancers, hula-hoopers and of course, trick-or-treating throughout the town.

Wednesday, Oct. 31 5 p.m.

Village Green Woodstock http://woodstock.org The annual Night of 100 Pumpkins follows Trick-or-Treat on Huguenot Street and the 6 p.m. New Paltz Halloween Parade. Enjoy free pumpkin bread, hot cider and cocoa while admiring the illuminated Jacks on display.

Wednesday, Oct. 31 6 p.m.

The Bakery 13A North Front St. New Paltz (845) 255-8840 https://ilovethebakery.com There will be a Zombie Skate and Halloween Party at the Kiwanis Ice Arena in Saugerties on Saturday, October 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. Come in costume and skate, or just enjoy the other activities. There will be a haunted house in the back room as well as face-painting and spooky slime with music on and off the ice for dancing.

All proceeds will benefit the Skating Club of Saugerties.

Saturday, Oct. 27 4-6 p.m.

All aboard the Catskill Fall Flyer Pumpkin Express The Pumpkin Express puts the “go” in “gourd” on this family-friendly fall foliage train ride, complete with a pumpkin to take home! Admission costs $18 for adults, $12 for ages 2 to 12, $16 for seniors, military and veterans.

October 27-28, 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.

Catskill Fall Flyer Pumpkin Express 149 Aaron Ct., Kingston (845) 332-4854 www.catskillmountainrailroad.com Carve a pumpkin at Long Dock Park Pumpkin-Carving in the Park gives all ages an opportunity to create a creepy cat or a friendly fairy or whatever they like. Pumpkins are provided, but Jacks remain on-site for illumination on Halloween. These workshops are free and open to the public of all ages.

Carving: Thursday, Oct. 25, 3-6 p.m.

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Long Dock Park, 8 Long Dock Rd., Beacon (845) 473-4440, ext. 273 https://bit.ly/2pXQP6t Halloween Journey at Catskill Center If you long for more of a sense of enchantment in your life, hoping for a glimpse of the realm of Faerie that lies just beyond the veil that grows thinnest this time on the Wheel of the Year, check out the Halloween Journey, which makes its annual visit to the Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center in Mount Tremper.

Conceived by actress Cara Cruickshank as “an event that promotes wonder, not fright,” and produced in partnership with the Pine Hill Community Center, Café de la Culture and 100,000 Poets for Change, the Halloween Journey is subtitled “A Mysterious and Magical Celebration of Catskills History, Ecology and Folklore.”

It’s a fully immersive nighttime theatrical experience, set outdoors and lit mainly by candles and jack o’ lanterns, but totally kid-friendly.

The evening begins with a bonfire and live folk music, with seasonal treats including hot apple cider and homemade chili for sale. Next, you embark on an adventure into the forest to encounter

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The Halloween Journey will be staged twice this year: between 6 and 9:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27 (the rain dates are October 28 and 29).

Online in advance (or at the gate if space is still available), tickets will cost $25 per adult, $18 per child. To reserve tickets or view a trailer of the Halloween Journey, visit www.halloweenjourney.com/home.

Friday/Saturday, Oct. 26/27, (rain dates: Oct. 28/29) 6-9:30 p.m., $25/$18,

Catskill Interpretive Center 5096 Route 28, Mount Tremper www.halloweenjourney.com Wimpy Kid Live in Pine Plains Wimpy Kid Live: The Meltdown Show with Jeff Kinney is coming to town in celebration of the latest release of

the 13 th book in the Wimpy Kid series, The Meltdown. Fan tickets cost $16.99 and include a copy of the book, a prepersonalized bookplate signed by the author and a photo with the author.

Companion tickets are free for parents, guardians and children under 6 when accompanied by a correspond-

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8am Catskill Science Conference. The conference will include contributed and invited oral

presentations, contributed posters, workshops and field trips. This year’s conference theme is “Interactions Between Human and Natural Systems” with a focus on trends in recreational use of public lands and management implications. The conference keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Chad Dawson, Professor Emeritus of Recreation Resources Management at the SUNY College of

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Halloween to harvest Cake Box Bakery/Cafe Halloween & Fall Cakes, Pies & Pastries now Available!

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8 Fair St. Kingston, NY 12401

845-339-4715 Hours: Tues - Sat: 7A-5P Sunday: 7A-2P Closed Monday

Haunted Huguenot Street

115 Main Street

Saturday, October 27th 81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY | (845) 255–1889 | huguenotstreet.org

October 25, 26, 27 & 28 Discover new interpretations and special night-time tours inspired by the legends and history of Huguenot Street. Tours sell out quickly. Register now at huguenotstreet.org/haunted2018

Trick-or-Treat October 31, 3:30 to 5:30 pm Sponsored by Americas Best Value Inn of New Paltz and Ulster Savings Bank.

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Come Celebrate the Magic of Autumn Come to the Harvest Hop and have a great night out, all while helping raise funds for local children with autism

November 3rd, 7-11 • The Château, Kingston Auctioneer, Bob Siracusano • Auction Chair, Deborah Sinon

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and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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As a KidsPeace foster parent, you can make all the difference in the life of a child. fostercare.com 845-331-1815 200 Aaron Court Kingston, NY 12401 We respect our clients’ privacy. The models represented in this publication are for illustrative purposes only and in no way represent or endorse KidsPeace. © 2015 KidsPeace.

11am-12pm Woodstock Senior Level One (Moderate) Yoga with Susan Blacker. Centering, warm-ups, posture flow, relaxation and meditation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11am-12:30pm Soup Sale. Call 845-876-6149 beginning at 10:45am. Rhinecliff Firehouse, corner of Shatzell & Orchard, Rhinecliff.

12:15pm-12:45pm Fall Fine Arts at Old Dutch Concert: Jay Shulman & Lorraine Nelson Wolf, Cello & Piano. Part of the Uptown Fine Arts Music Series! Info: 845-338-6759. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm Lunch & Learn: Hudson River Lighthouses. Registration for this program is required, a light lunch is provided by the library at 12:30pm, all are welcome to join us for dessert at 1pm. Clinton

Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings, Intuitive Guidance and Tarot with Timothy. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

1pm-3pm Annual Project Presentations for COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning).

This year students from Universidad de la Salle NoroEste from Obregon, Mexico will present a presentation of their project to the community.

SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. free.

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

Packed to the rafters with fun, practical & hard-to-find merchandise Minnetonka Moccasins | Homemade Fudge | Jewelry Local Books & Maps | Old-Fashioned Candies Old Time Games | Souvenirs & So Much More!

Come visit us for a unique shopping experience 84 Main St, Phoenicia, NY | 845.688.5851 | www.nesteggshop.com

An Evening of LIVE Performances at BSP 323 Wall Street in Uptown Kingston, NY 12401

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Come to our TOURING TUESDAY Open House Tuesday, November 13, 2018 • 9:00 –11:00 am “KCS is an investment in the hearts, minds and souls of your children.

It is not something you can put a price on.

By all means, come and see for yourself! ” — Arlene Weber, Parent Kingston Catholic School provides every child with a well-structured education grounded in dignity and respect. We invite you to experience our high quality Pre-K 3 through Grade 8 classes for yourself — on November 13th or another convenient time.

Across both campuses — our Elementary School at 159 Broadway and our Middle School at 235 Wall Street — we work together as a single school community to create and deliver a value-based, academically challenging education for children of every faith.

RSVP At: (845) 331-9318 or CatholicSchoolsNY.org/admissions

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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, taraspayneuter.org.

Woodstock Art Exchange (Fri - Sun, 11am-6pm & Mon 10am-4pm). Cool art and gifts and Hot Glass! Glassblowing demonstrations open to the public most weekends, 12 – 4pm. Free admission. Woodstock Art Exchange, 1396 Route 28, West Hurley. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 11am–6pm; Mondays 10am–4pm. For more info, call 914-806-3573. .

4th Annual Living History Cemetery Tour (Saturdays in October, 7pm).

Theatre on the Road and The Old Dutch Church Kingston, New York bring characters to life who contributed to Kings-

Bridge. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

1:30pm-5:30pm Medicare Counseling. The Ulster County Office of the Aging will be here to give free, personalized counseling. Call 845-3403456 to make an appointment. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www. phoenicialibrary.org. free.

2pm-5pm Investing in Place: Upstate Capital’s Event. This program is designed to connect entrepreneurs, angel investors, and business leaders from the Hudson Valley and beyond to discuss opportunities in the evolving startup & investment ecosystem in our region. Networking starts at 2pm. Program begins at 3pm, with a reception to follow at 4:30pm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. upstatecapital.org.

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details.

Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. http://woodstockultimate.org/.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class.

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

3:30pm-6:30pm Free Math Tutoring. Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Trigonometry, and SAT/ ACT Prep. Call to sign up 845-255-1255; MathTutoringwithMisha.com. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

5pm-10pm Haunted Huguenot Street. Each year, Haunted Huguenot Street returns with new interpretations and special nighttime tours inspired by the legends and history of Huguenot Street. Find out what this year’s stories have in store by attending a tour. This event is sponsored by America’s Best Value Inn of New Paltz and Ulster Savings Bank. Info: 845-255-1660. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz. huguenotstreet. org/calendar-of-events.

5:30pm Discussion with James Schamus.

Award-winning producer, screenwriter, director, former CEO of Focus Features, and professor of film theory. Event is free and open to the public.

Sanders Classroom Building, Spitzer Auditorium at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5632, https://bit.ly/2IO2RIw. 5:30pm HYPE-O-Ween. Come enjoy a bonfire with snacks. Costumes being encouraged, but not required! If you wear a costume, we will be holding a costume contest where there are awesome prizes to win! Categories for the costume contest include: 1) Best Costume 2) Funniest Costume 3) Best LastMinute Costume. This event is free and open to all, but in order for us to know who will be attending please register online. Info: 845-255-0243. Kalleco Nursery Garden Center, 801 Rte. 32, Tillson. newpaltzchamber.org.

6:30pm-7:30pm Political Discussion by Sarah Kendzior. A talk about the current political landscape in the US. Taylor Hall, Room 203, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4375632.

6:30pm Talk: Information, Data, and Power in the Era of Alternative Facts”. By Sarah Kendzior.

What does information access and manipulation mean for the political process in the Trump Era? Taylor Hall, Room 203, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5632, http://www. vassar.edu.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Tribal HarmoniesFall Harvest of Song. Celebrate Native American Culture, Song & Ceremony. Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

7pm Author Talk and Book Signing with Susan Stessin-Cohn. coauthor of In Defiance: Runaways From Slavery In New York’s Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831. In the Henry A. Wallace Center. This is a free public event but registration is required.

Visit the website to register. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

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.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing

ton’s wars, industry, art and growth.

Event held on Saturdays in October at 7 pm guests will move through the Church’s cemetery where they’ll meet six ghosts in authentic costumes, played by members of Theatre on the Road.

Each historical figure will talk about their role in the community. Guests meet at the Wall Street door and tours are one hour. Tours begin in 1659 and end in 1910. Guest will meet Jacob Adriansen, a young man who fought in the EsopusIndian War when Kingston was Wiltwyck, Jacob will lead guests to John Vanderlyn, a Kingston born, internationally known artist. Next on the tour

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.

Friday

10/26

7am-8:30pm A Turn of the Screw. Henry James’s classic ghost story about an inexperienced governess and two small orphans in a haunted house.. or is it? Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7950 Main Street, Hunter. Info: 917-687-6646, kaaterskillactors@ yahoo.com, http://KATactors.com. Cash only; no credit cards.

7:30am-9pm Flower of Iowa: A Dramatic Reading. A talk about soldiers in love, plus World War I songs. Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. https://tinyurl.com/ yavrbdcj.

8am-5pm Veterans Day Dramatized Reading.

Poughkeepsie-based Lance Ringel and Chuck Muckle will perform a dramatized reading of Ringel’s acclaimed WWI novel Flower of Iowa.

The event will feature songs from World War I, discussion and refreshments. Admission is free.

Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

8am Catskill Science Conference. The conference will include contributed and invited oral presentations, contributed posters, workshops and field trips. This year’s conference theme is “Interactions Between Human and Natural Systems” with a focus on trends in recreational use of public lands and management implications. The conference keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Chad Dawson, Professor Emeritus of Recreation Resources Management at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Dr. Dawson will speak about monitoring and managing the impacts of public use on state Forest Preserve lands. Info: ashokanstreams.org/conferences-training/research-conference/. Belleayre Ski Center, 181 Galli Curci Rd, Highmount. ulster.cce. cornell.edu.

9am-3pm Hike the Art Trail: Sunset Rock and Bear’s Den. Hike alongside Carey Russell, artist, writer, and photographer, while taking in the views that inspired the Hudson River School artists. Info: 518-943-7465; info@thomascole.org. Thomas Cole Historic Site, Parking Area Laurel House Road, Haines Falls. thomascole.org. $25.

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-5pm Goshen Farmers’ Market. Info: 845-294-5557; goshennychamber.com. Goshen’s Village Green, Goshen.

10:30am-4:30pm Haunted Harvest Fest.

Haunted houses, crafts, archery, BB shooting, monkey bridge, & bounce houses. Two locations: Camp Nooteeming in Salt Point & Camp Bullowa in Stony Point. Hudsonvalleyscouting.org.

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups & Salad. Homemade soups and salad. Two varieties of soup, with a vegetarian choice, salad, & desserts. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@ gmail.com, http://newpaltzumc.org/.

12pm-7pm Local Landscapes & Scenery. Presenting a dedicated room of local landscapes, scenery and artists of the Catskills. Exhibit displays through the end of December. Windham Fine Arts, 5380 NY-23, Windham. Info: 518-734-6850, media@ windhamfinearts.com, www.windhamfinearts.com.

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

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

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Readings and Chakra

will be General George Sharp, Kingston native and Civil War hero. Returning from the hereafter to preside over her actual paintings will be Julia Dillion, Kingston artist and industrialist. Also making appearances will be philanthropist and donor of the park that bears her name Mary Forsyth, and Roswell Randal Hoes, an Old Dutch Churh 19th century clergyman and historian. $15, $10/students. $1/12 & under. Purchase tickets by visiting theatreontheroad. com. Information and private tours: 845-475-7973. Event takes place at The Old Dutch Church, Wall St, Kingston.

Kingston Proud Award. Nominate someone or a business you know in Kingston who has achieved great success to win this award. Visit our page for more information. John H. Fisher, 278 Wall Street, Kingston. Info:

Energy Attunements with Mary Vukovic.

Every Friday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. $85 for one hour crystal healing energy session. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/45minutes & chakra energy attunement, $30/25 minutes.

845-802-0047; support@fishermalpracticelaw.com.

Comedy Night at The Phoenicia Playhouse! (11/03, 7-8:30pm). It’s Saturday night, so it’s time to have fun! Come out for an evening of hilarious stand-up comedy. Recommended for ages 18+.

Phoenicia Playhouse at 10 Church St in Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-2279; info@ phoeniciaplayhouse.com. The ticket link is:eventbrite.com/e/comedy-night-inphoenicia-tickets-50829036015?aff=e bdssbdestsearch phoeniciaplayhouse. com.

Three Rites/Happiness (10/20, 8pm).

Delirious Dances/Edisa Weeks creates performance rituals (rites) about life, liberty, and happiness in Three Rites. and Happiness. Mount Tremper Arts, 647 South Plank Rd, Mount Tremper.

Info: 845-688-9893.

ing. Info: 845-471-0589. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, 75 North Water St, Poughkeepsie. mhcm. org.

1pm-2pm Chair Yoga. Samantha Free leads this class that will help you stretch and strengthen as you move through gentle poses and breathing exercises. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

6pm-9:30pm 9th Annual The Halloween Journey. Celebrating Catskill history, ecology and folklore through an immersive theater experience.

Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 New York 28, Mount Tremper. www.halloweenjourney.com. early bird tickets on sale until October 20th, price goes up after that (General Admition Child:$18, Adult: $25).

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 Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

6pm-8pm Walkway at Night: Moonwalk.

Twilight views from 212 feet above the Hudson River. View the night sky with telescopes (weather permitting). Walkway Over the Hudson, 61 Parker Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-9649, events@ walkway.org, walkway.org.

3pm-6pm The Bloody Tea Party. Victorian Parlor games, hot drinks & lots of blood! Historic Oddfellows Hall, 220 Main St, Saugerties.

6pm-8pm Pumpkins in the Park. Take a walk through the lighted display throughout the park.

Dress for weather and bring a flashlight. Info: 845-473-4440. Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Long Dock Rd, Beacon.

4pm-5:30pm Film-Making Class for Kids with Allyson Ferrara. Students will work together as a team, both crew and actors, in order to create their own short movie with instructor Allyson Ferrara.

Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. https://bit.ly/2Qm47Wm. $180.

4pm-6pm Let’s Move! 8th Annual Ulster Health & Wellness Fair. Hosted by Kingston’s own Center for Creative Education (CCE). Events include; participation in a “flash mob,” facilitated by CCE Executive Director, Bryant “Drew” Andrews and fitness demonstrations such as DXF® – Dance Xross Fitness®, Yoga, Elite Youth Boxing, Zumba®. Live performers include P.O.O.K (Percussion Orchestra of Kingston), Energy Dance Company and Special Guests! The fair is also a chance to learn and engage with community vendors in the health and wellness industry. Info: 845-338-7664; letsmoveulster@cce4me.org. Andy Murphy Midtown Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. cce4me.org.

4:30pm-8:30pm The Haunted House. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for students 12 years and younger. The Haunted House is not recommended for kids aged six and younger. Come and enjoy a spooky maze through the shadowy interior of the Catskill Veterans Outreach Center, where lurking creatures and things that go bump in the night create a walk of fear, guaranteed to make you loose your nerve – don’t be scared to scream! Info: 607-326-7908. The Catskill Veterans Outreach Center, Main St, Stamford. roxburyartsgroup.org.

5pm-10pm Haunted Huguenot Street. Each year, Haunted Huguenot Street returns with new interpretations and special nighttime tours inspired by the legends and history of Huguenot Street. Find out what this year’s stories have in store by attending a tour. This event is sponsored by America’s Best Value Inn of New Paltz and Ulster Savings Bank. Info: 845-255-1660. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz. huguenotstreet. org/calendar-of-events.

5pm Sunset--Labyrinth Walk for Peace and Healing. This contemplative walk will provide a time to return to our center and pray for healing, peace and justice. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

5pm-7:30pm Monthly Computer Fixer. Come to our Computer Fixer for help – Joris Sankai Lemmens will be available to answer technical questions in 15 minute increments. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. free.

5pm Halloween Public Sail. Purchase your tickets to sail with the Clearwater. Wear your costume and take part in special activities or simply sit back enjoy the colors of autumn. Info: 845-2658080. Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. clearwater.org. $50, $15/child.

5:30pm-7:30pm Peanuts Halloween Party.

Wear your costume for pizza and games for all.

Info: 845-896-9215. Blodgett Library, 37 Broad St, Fishkill.

5:30pm-6pm Tom Lee Question Tour. The Question Tour inverts the traditional house tour model and seeks to layer historic fact with audience perceptions. Info: olana.org/calendar/. Olana State Historic Site, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1872, education@olana.org. $15.

5:30pm-8pm Halloween Spooktacular. A night of spooky play, costume contest with prizes, Halloween themed activities and trick or treat-

6pm-9pm Legends by Candlelight Ghost Tours.

The highlight of Clermont’s fall season! Guests will find themselves traveling back in time, as the house is filled with ghosts from throughout the mansion’s 250-year history. Tours followed by roasted marshmallows. Each year features dozens of hand-carved, flickering jack-o-lanterns. Evening Tour times: 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00 Reservations Required. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historic Site, 87 Clermont Ave, Germantown. friendsofclermont.org. $12, $5/child.

6pm Author Signing: Colonial Revival Architecture Expert William B. Rhoads. Dr. Rhoads will discuss his latest work, Charles S. Keefe (1876 to 1946): Colonia Revival Architect in Kingston and New York. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Info: 845-687-7023. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

6pm-7:30pm Movie Night: A Quiet Place. A family must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. PG-13, 90 mins. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www. phoenicialibrary.org. free.

6pm-7pm Rails of Terror – Haunted Train Rides. When this train leaves the safety of the Kingston station, you are tossed into the hands of the unknown. Creatures are sure to frighten!

Additional departure time at 7:30pm. Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR), West Brook Lane Station, 149 Aaron Ct, Kingston. http://catskillmountainrailroad.com. $38.00 Adults, $30.00 Children (ages 2-12), $36.00 Discounted Adult (Senior, Military, Veteran).

6:30pm-7:30pm Intermediate Swing Dance Workshop. Learn turns and spins not commonly seen on the dance floor. Practice adding them to your swing dance moves. Nelson Rodriguez & Zahava Wilson. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www. hudsonvalleydance.org. $20.

7pm-9pm Manifest Destiny’s Child. A memoir play by Dennis Trainor Jr. Critically acclaimed writer/director and activist, Trainor brings his experiences at Occupy, Standing Rock and the Jill Stein Campaign to the stage for an inside look at idealists and screw-ups, at revolution vs. reform, and at “good white liberals” and the myriad ways that privilege manifests itself. Info: mecr@ mideastcrisis.org or 845 876-7906. Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Ave, Woodstock. mideastcrisis.org. $15.

7pm Talk: Breakpoint - Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises. By Jeremy Jackson of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Smithsonian Institute. Free admission. Info: 845-677-7600; caryinstitute.org.

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 Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

7pm-9pm Women’s Concert - Benefit for Leadership Ulster. ARTBAR, Midtown Music, and the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce presents an evening of music performed by all

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8am-5pm Saturday at the Woods. Held at The Conservatory at Bethel Woods, the program offers sequential, arts based explorations that develop artistic skills. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel. Info: 1-866-781-2922, info@ bethelwoodscenter.org.

8am-5pm FrankenToys & Stuffed Animal Taxidermy. It’s ALIVE! Come make monstrous creations just like Dr. Frankenstein. Call for donations of old/broken toys and stuffed animals. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, NY. Info: 845-7573771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, www.tivolilibrary.org. FREE. For ages 6 & up.

8:30am-11am MHS PTSA Pumpkin Run/Walk 5K. Costumes HIGHLY ENCOURAGED.* Best costume prizes.* Race medals for top 3 finishers in ea. age range. Free kids fun run – concessions available.

Info: trisha7777@live.com. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.org. $25.

9am Hudson Farmers’ Market. 30 vendors will be offering farm fresh goods and products including vegetables, fruit, herbs, honey, nuts, mushrooms, cheese, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, cut flowers, plants, medicinal herb and body care products, bread, baked goods and a host of prepared foods.

Rain or Shine! Info: hudsonfarmersmarketny.com.

6th Street & Columbia, Hudson.

Joe Gurrera, author and owner of New York City’s famed Citarella chain of fish stores and of Lockwood & Winant, a wholesale company located at the Fulton Fish Market.

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hocking as it may sound to seafood fanciers, there are plenty of people out there who never grow out of the belief that they dislike fish.

And indeed, if you live very far inland, where fresh ocean fish is hard to come by, such an attitude may be shaped by lack of opportunity for positive culinary experiences with what famed fishmonger Joe Gurrera terms “meat without feet.” Fish doesn’t keep well, after all, and just isn’t the same after freezing.

But even in places within a few hours of the seacoast, many are turned off to fish by poor preparation – usually overcooking, or overuse of heavy sauces to add flavor to blander varieties. Many more feel intimidated about cooking fish at home, imagining it to be some challenging artform. This couldn’t be further than the truth, according to Gurrera, owner of New York City’s famed Citarella chain of fish stores and of Lockwood & Winant, a wholesale company located at the Fulton Fish Market. “When you cook fish, it doesn’t take much to make it delicious. The key: freshness and timing,” writes Gurrera in his new book, Joe Knows Fish: Taking the Intimidation Out of Cooking Seafood.

Gurrera is 40-year veteran of the seafood business whose parents ran a fish store in Greenwich Village. He purchased the first Citarella’s, on the Upper West Side, in 1983. His commitment to quality was unsurpassed, and he gained a large and loyal customer base that enabled him to open more stores, incorporating produce, meat, cheese and gourmet foods. Written in his no-nonsense style and geared toward beginners, Joe Knows Fish guides readers through more than 85 of his best seafood recipes. It also offers pointers on what to look for when purchasing fish; developing a relationship with your fishmonger; how to portion, handle and store fish; and where and what to buy when it comes to essential kitchen tools.

This Saturday, October 27 from 3 to 5 p.m., the Bluecashew Kitchen Homestead at 37B North Front Street in Uptown Kingston will host a talk and book-signing with Joe Gurerra. He’ll also offer a tasting of one of his specialties, sausage-andcalamari Italian Surf & Turf. To learn more, call (845) 514-2300 or visit https:// bluecashew.com.

Joe Gurrera talk and tasting, Saturday, Oct. 27, 3-5 p.m., Free, Bluecashew Kitchen Homestead, 37B North Front St., Kingston, (845) 514-2300, https:// bluecashew.com

female musicians. Artbar Gallery, 674 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 718-433-8925, midtownmusickingston@gmail.com, https://bit.ly/2IbJusE. Tickets go on sale on Facebook starting October 1st.

7:30pm-11pm Swing Dance to the Ray Blue Quartet. Straight from the heart of Jazz & Blues in NYC! Friendly & fun community dance. No experience necessary. No partner needed. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, www.hudsonvalleydance.org. $20, or $15 for students.

7:30pm-11pm Flicks: Young Frankenstein (Rated:PG). The American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel. Info: 1-866-781-2922, info@bethelwoodscenter.org.

8pm Vijay Iyer and Teju Cole: Blind Spot.

Pioneering jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and Nigerian American writer, photographer, and Bard faculty member Teju Cole present a powerful live collaboration. With images and text from Cole’s newly released book of the same

title alongside Iyer’s improvised live score, Blind Spot investigates humanity’s blindness to tragedy and injustice throughout history. A book and album signing with the artists will follow the performance. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. $50.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Jimmys. Seven piece, Killer horns, greasy guitars, funky keys! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Vito Petroccitto & Little Rock. Roots & Swamp Rock. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm East Meets West. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts presents Ustad Shafaat Khan, a worldrenowned Indian classical musician who has performed at concert halls and music festivals all over India, America, Europe, China, and Japan.

Doors open AT 7:30PM. Info: 845-679-2079.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock. woodstockguild.org. $20.

9am-1pm Coat Drive. Giving to our community previously used/new winter coats, scarves, mittens for adults and children. Held in the Church Hall.

Donations or questions: call 845-338-6126 (leave message) Email: comfortercobblestonethrift26@ gmail.com. Reformed Church of the Comforter, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store.

Open Every Saturday 9am - 12noon. Featuring previously enjoyed clothing for men, women, children, household, jewelry, and misc items. Open through December 29th. Closed for the winter January-March. Re-opening the first Saturday in April. Take basement stairs to left of church steps.

Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston.

9am-2pm National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Properly dispose of potentially dangerous, expired, unused and unwanted medicines, needles and other sharp medical devices during Health Quest’s take-back event. The service is free and anonymous. Medications should be kept in original packaging with the patient information removed. Info: healthquest.org/takeback. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel.

9am-11am Halloween at Harris. Join CLC educator Heidi Bock for a kid-friendly guided Halloween hike at Harris Conservation Area. Come dressed in costume! Harris Conservation Area, 105 Bloody Hollow Road, Chatham. Info: 518-392-5252, https://bit.ly/2AdSJGb. 9am-2pm Kingston’s Uptown Farmers’ Market.

Featuring 46 local food growers/makers and live music every week. Info: 347-721-7386; kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Wall Street between John St and Main St, Kingston.

9:30am-4pm Minnewaska Preserve: Rainbow Falls and Lake Awosting Hike. Approximately eight-mile hike. This hike includes some hiking over rock slabs, tree roots, a stream crossing and a rock scrambling section, which some hikers may find challenging. 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.

10am Marist College Grad Program Open House. Hear from Faculty & Program Leaders. A full schedule can be found here: marist.edu/admission/graduate/admission-information-session.

Marist College/Lowell Thomas Building, 3399 North Rd, Pough.

- a perfect family friendly way to start your Halloween. The event includes options for all levels of competitors: a FREE 1K Fun Run for kids, a 5K timed race and Zombie Escape, and a 1K walk/ hike. All participants will receive a medal. All proceeds from the event go to support UlsterCorps.

Register: zippyreg.com?event=1111. Info: zombies. ulstercorps.org. (Rain-date: October 28th, 2018).

Williams Lake, 424 Williams Lake Rd, Kingston.

10am-12pm Hudson Valley Foster and Adoptive Parent Support Group; Middletown. Free for all Adoptive Parents, Relative Caregivers and Foster Parents. Childcare provided and light refreshments will be served. Middletown Thrall Library, 11 Depot St, Middletown. Info: 845-679-9900, info@affcny. org, http://bit.ly/midTo18. FREE. 10am Hike: Fall Colors. Walk the Byrdcliffe/ Mt.Guardian Trails with Dave Holden, DEClicensed Hiking Guide and Woodstock Trails. Hike starts at 10am and average 2 1/2 to 3 hours in duration, meeting at the Byrdcliffe Theater Parking Lot (380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd). Trail is very steep in sections, wear sturdy shoes, bring water, trekkingpoles, sunscreen, insect-repellent & a snack. Heavy rain cancels. $20/person suggested donation. Preregistration required, group limited to 12 ppl. Info & resv: 845-594-4863 or email peregrine8@hvc. rr.com.

10am-11am Museum Storytelling: Family Tours Inside Olana. Join master storyteller Tom Lee’s tour using art, objects, history and interactivity to help young people (and grown-ups!) love museums! Info: olana.org/calendar/. Olana State Historic Site, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1872, education@olana.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.

10:30am Pumpkin Carving Contest. They provide the tools, you provide the pumpkin! Carve your pumpkins at the library and enter to win the carving contest! Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan.

10:30am-3pm Boo at the Zoo. Come to the bear den to make spooky snacks for the black bears and watch them enjoy their treats. Touch real animal skulls, autumn crafts and learn about bats, owls and vultures. Family friendly activities. Info: 845-786-2701. Trailside Museums and Zoo, Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain.

10:30am-4pm HalloWoodstock 2018. Celebrate fall with family-friendly fun, sweet treats, pumpkins and more to benefit rescued farm animals.

Dress up like your favorite animal resident, animal hero or other Halloween character. Refreshments available. Info: 845-247-5700. Woodstock Animal Sanctuary, 2 Rescue Rd, High Falls.

11am-3pm Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: “I Spy” Halloween Trail. Families looking for a fun but not-so-spooky Halloween adventure can drop in at any time between 11am-3pm. Brave adventurers will discover which items belong in nature, like skulls and bones, and which ones do not. Find them all and earn a prize. See live animals in the “Creepy Crawly” room, play a game or make a spooky craft. 120 Muser Drive, Cornwall.

845-534-5506 ext. 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall.

11am-5pm Psychic, Healing & Music Festival.

An enlightening day of spiritual and psychic healing featuring Psychic Readings by acclaimed psychics Lois T. Martin, Lorry Salluzzi, George Koury, Joanna McNally, and Jennifer Zara Starchild, Reiki Masters, Electric Acupuncture demonstrations, Origami for Healing, Balkan music by “Greek Night”, vendor booths. $25 per psychic reading-cash only. Info: 845-688-2828.

The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com. $10 entry fee.

10am-11:30am Free Public Walking Tours of Vassar College. Highlights will include such historic locations as Main Building, Thompson Memorial Library, and the Vassar Chapel. Offered Saturdays in October and November. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie.

11:30am-3pm Children’s Day. Presented by Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses.

“A Tiny Taste of Terror.” On Children’s Day, the park tones down its scare level, offering a daylight hayride with a friendly storyteller telling scary tales. Info: 845-339-2666. Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses, 778 Broadway, Ulster Park.

10am-2pm Saugerties Farmers’ Market.

Fresh and local foods of all kinds, music, & chef demo. Saugerties Farmers Market, 115 Main St., Saugerties. Info: 845-853-5694, Contact@ SaugertiesFarmersMarket.com, SaugertiesFarmersMarket.com.

11:30am-12:30pm Halloween Sugar Cookie Dance Party. Kids ages 2-5 are invited to come in costume to decorate an assortment of Halloween themed sugar cookies and show off their dance skills. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. Info: 845-2551255, nlane@rcls.org, https://bit.ly/2yLBSZz.

10am-11am All-Level Yoga. All-Level Yoga is a floor class taught by instructor Mia Tomic. You will be guided through a variety of stretches and poses. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

12pm-2pm 14th Annual Marist College Residence Hall-oween. Get your costumes and treat bags ready! A safe trick or treating event for children of Marist employees and the local community. Marist College, 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie. https://www.marist.edu/events?

10am Pet Photo Halloween Extravaganza. Dress your pet up for a cause and help support the arts in the Hudson Valley. Fall festival includes local artisans and makers booths. Info: 845-454-3222.

Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

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.com. $18.

10am-1:30pm 9th Annual UlsterCorps Zombie Escape. Runners of all ages are invited to run for their lives, dodging zombies and other spooky surprises hiding in the woods, tunnels and caves

12pm-7pm Local Landscapes & Scenery. Presenting a dedicated room of local landscapes, scenery and artists of the Catskills. Exhibit displays through the end of December. Windham Fine Arts, 5380 NY-23, Windham. Info: 518-734-6850, media@ windhamfinearts.com, www.windhamfinearts.com.

12pm-3pm Barrett Art Center Open House.

Family Friendy Exhibition Tours, Halloween Mask Making Workshop, Music & Treats! Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon St, Poughkeepsie. Info: (845)4712550, info@barrettartcenter.org, https://bit. ly/2zDZtNg. Free.

12pm-2:30pm Historical Society of the Town of Middletown Annual Meeting, Luncheon and Program. Charles Yaple on “The Revolution Comes to Pakatakan.” Reservations required by

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ERICA’S CANCER JOURNEY

Spooky scans “Double, double toil and trouble / Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

– Macbeth, William Shakespeare

W

hat frightens you? A jump scare? The sight of blood? An oatmeal raisin cookie mistaken for chocolate chip? How about a brain scan?

My scan specters are better than anything I find at a costume shop.

Mine show actual skulls, real brains and an authentic midline. My other scans and X-rays show what else lies beneath other parts of my body. How else could I see my own insides?

Since the pictures are of my own body, I don’t personally find them creepy. I mean, it’s not like looking at a French bulldog puppy; but the fact that this technology can be used for more than seasonal spine-tingling shivers is a gift. Each update allows my doctors to measure my cancer levels, as well as where they are located.

People have varying tolerances for terror. My biggest horror is getting blood draws from my veins. My veins are the definition of overpromise, underdeliver: They look promising to poke, but they never produce, and the pain is agonizing, with vividly colored bruises to match. So now my blood brew comes from my port. I love my port for precisely this reason: After the initial prick, it’s pain-free – take as much as you like!

My port is a fingerprint-sized raised bump just under the skin in my right clavicle.

Like Dracula, my port can move blood out, or put a witch’s eye-of-newt in (chemo).

I used to numb the area with a spray that is now known to compromise healthy skin tissue, then various topical meds that never worked for me; then I tried ice, but by the time everything got set up for the draw, it was more hassle than it was worth.

So now I go commando and just suck it up.

I could add to my Halloween décor with other elements, too, having cycled through so many tubes, wires and IVs like Dr. Frankenstein’s creature. Fright shows do require a number of props, right?

To me, skeletons are a different gory category. How many of us separate out skeletons from having once been a person or animal? I feel detached from a skeletal image; it’s challenging for me to imagine the flesh and other body characteristics that would make that being recognizable. Even ghosts, like the one at the Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz, have a sense of humanness to them (unless they’re Casper).

Halloween is literally the one day folks seek scare. The fear? I propose it’s a safe way to encounter death. We get close, right? From moaning, coffins, death rattles, bones, morbidity and comas from devouring too many chocolate peanut butter cups

Oct. 21. Call 845-586-2860. Info: 845-586-4973; history@catskill.net. Historical Society of the Town of Middletown Hall, 778 Cemetery Rd, Margaretville. mtownhistory.org. $20.

12pm-4pm Trick or Treat Weekend. Dress in costume and enjoy trick or treating all over the farm. Info: 845-227-2306. Barton Orchards, 63 Apple Tree Ln, Poughquag. bartonorchards.com.

12:30pm-6:30pm Tarot Readings with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/half hour.

12:45pm Halloween Parade. Costume parade down Main St. Line up at 12:45pm. Games and treats at the Youth Center following the parade.

1pm. Info: 845-887-5634. Main Street/Callicoon, Callicoon.

12:55pm-4:22pm Met Live in HD: Met Live: La Fanciulla del West. Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, alongside star tenor Jonas Kaufmann. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton. Info: 518-789-0022, events@ themoviehouse.net, http://bit.ly/2Ac GLN 2.

General / Gold Members.

1pm-4pm Trick-or-Treat in The Fields Sculpture Park. A free afternoon of Halloween fun!

We’ll provide art-making, hayrides, and a candy hunt amongst the sculptures. Art Omi, 1405, Ghent. Info: 531-392-8031, cmassa@artomi.org, https://bit.ly/2Ne3ShA. 1pm-4pm Annual Cupcake-a-Palooza. Hosted by the Safe Harbors of the Hudson. Lobby at the Ritz Theater, 107 Broadway, Newburgh. www.safeharbors.org. at the door.

2pm-4pm Rondout Valley Food Pantry Haunted Open House. Come and celebrate the Rondout Valley Food Pantry’s new space. Halloween treats, face painting and other activities for kids! Info: 845-687-4013; church@ctkstoneridge.org. Former Marbletown Town Hall, 3775 Route 209 (Main St.), Stone Ridge.

2pm-3pm Book Reading by Steve Goodman.

Author Steve Goodman reads from his book, It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, https://bit.ly/2PITzjL. 2pm-3pm Haunted Library. Ages 4 and up. No registration required. Parents: please use your discretion when bringing younger children to this program. The Haunted Library is fun, but it can be scary. Info: 518-789-3340. NorthEast-Millerton Library, 75 Main St, Millerton.

2pm Night on Broadway. Join Marist Singers in an annual Benefit Concert for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. $10, Students/Seniors $5.

Marist College/Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie.

2pm-4pm Blood and Bone: a meditative guided journey to discover your Ancient Tribe with Wiccan High Priestess Kat Manaan. As we approach Samhain, the Wiccan new year, Kat will take us on a group regression to locate the source of your being, your original ancient tribe and the primitive forbears on whose shoulders you stand.

Prepare to hear the wisdom they wish to impart, purify and be purified, release and be released. A profound, life-changing evening as we open to love beyond all reason. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25.

2pm-6pm Dracula Set-Making Workshop for Kids. This Dracula Set-Making Workshop for kids is a chance for all ages to create scenery for this nocturnal nightmare, and it even includes a ticket to attend the October 27 show! $10 for kids. Info: 845-255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. bit.ly/2ylwj4n.

3pm Discussion with Ginnie Gardiner & Carter Ratcliff. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: info@ woodstockart.org, www.woodstockart.org.

3pm-4:15pm The Linden Players My Song Shall Be Always. A program of sacred English vocal and instrumental music by Purcell, Handel, and including well-known hymns. Donations welcome. Info: 917-202-0330; claire.ferner@gmail.com. Church of St. Francis de Sales, 109 Main St, Phoenicia.

LINDSEY TURNER

( just me?), we give death an annual trial run.

I wish we could follow that path to real life, where we make sound choices about our end-of-life wishes. Until then, Happy Trick-or-Treating, ghouls and boos.

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.

Buroker, James Meyer, Marilyn Johnson, Sam Tuftnell, Dave Channon. Info: 845-688-2977; Dave@ ShandakenArt.com. Rail Explorer’s Mt. Tremper Train Station, Rt. 28,, Mount Tremper.

4pm-5:30pm Book Signing: World Renowned Artist - Brice Marden. Marden will sign copies of two new catalogs of his work. The purchase of a book by the artist from Oblong is required to join the line. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, http://bit. ly/2CnkPQC. 4pm-7pm 5@10 Art Opening. Paintings and mixed media: Barbara Leoff Burge, Isis Heslin, Bridgette Mahoney, Laura Shapiro, Cynthia Wininka. Info: 845-527-1175; lshapiro501@gmail.com. 5@10, 10 Grove St, New Paltz.

4:30pm-8:30pm Bauernball. A dance celebrated throughout the fall consisting of live music by a famed German/American band, ample German specialties including; schnitzel, bratwurst, sauerbraten among countless others, flowing German beer and wines. At the start of the night patrons will notice the dance floor adorned with various colored ribbons hanging candies tempting those as they pass. The idea of the game is to successfully take a candy without the “sheriff ” catching you in the act. A modern twist on an age old good time. Info: 518-622-3751. Mountain Brauhaus, 430 Winter Clove Rd, Round Top. crystalbrook. com/mountain-brauhaus.

3pm-8pm Halloween Doggie Meet & Greet!

Chance to win a Doggie gift basket! Text: 845-2435443; Jessdogcare.com. Village of Wappingers Falls Recreation Park, 95 Robinson Ln, Wappingers. Jessdogcare.com.

4:30pm 157th Annual Turkey Supper. A local farm-fresh fabulous feast! Two seatings. Call for seating tickets early as always sold out. Take out available. Info: 845-876-4595. St. Paul’s Lutheran Chuch of Wurtemburg, 371 Wurtemburg Road, Rhinebeck. stpaulswurtemburg.com.

3pm-8pm Halloween Fest with MyKingstonKids. (Rain Date Sunday, October 28.) 2nd Annual Halloween extravaganza in partnership with MyKingstonKids! Featuring hay wagon rides; music, puppets, storytelling, and theater; you-pick pumpkins; farm animal visits; vendors of food, refreshments, and information for families; spooky house; costume show; giant bonfire and more. Free admission to the festival, though there will be a fee for food and some activities. Seed Song Farm, 158 Esopus Ave, Kingston. seedsongfarm.org.

4:30pm-7pm Halloween Costume Karaoke with DJ Posie Strenz. In the Great Room. Complimentary for all ages. Kids - trick or treat through the Emerson 4:30 to 5pm. Costume Karaoke 5-7pm.

Dress the part and sing your heart out! Win Emerson Resort & Spa gift cards! “Thriller” dance performance courtesy of the Pine Hill Community Center & Olive Library’s Autumn Dance Workshops. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

4pm-6pm Zombie Skate & Halloween Party.

Come in costume and skate or just enjoy the other activities - haunted house in the back room, face painting, bake sale, spooky slime & dance party.

There will be music both on and off the ice for dancing. Event for all ages. $10 to skate and party; or $5 to just party. All proceeds to benefit the Skating Club of Saugerties. Kiwanis Ice Arena, 6 Small World Ave, Saugerties.

4pm-8pm Train of Thought @ Art Info Depot.

Outdoor Sculpture show opening. Works by Susan

4:30pm-8:30pm The Haunted House. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for students 12 years and younger. The Haunted House is not recommended for kids aged six and younger. Come and enjoy a spooky maze through the shadowy interior of the Catskill Veterans Outreach Center, where lurking creatures and things that go bump in the night create a walk of fear, guaranteed to make you loose your nerve – don’t be scared to scream! Info: 607-326-7908. The Catskill Veterans Outreach Center, Main St, Stamford. roxburyartsgroup.org.

5pm-6pm Artist on Art Tour Inside Olana.

Artists offer a unique lens with which to “read” an artist’s home & landscape, partnered with the Institute for Arab and Islamic Art in NYC. Info: olana. org/calendar/. Olana State Historic Site, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1872, education@ olana.org. $15.

5pm-7pm Pine Plains Free Library’s 220th Anniversary Celebration Silent Auction. Enjoy refreshments as you bid on generously donated items. Info: 518-398-1927; ppflibrary@gmail. com. Stissing House, 7801 S Main St, Pine Plains. pineplainslibrary.com.

5pm-10pm Haunted Huguenot Street. Each year, Haunted Huguenot Street returns with new interpretations and special nighttime tours inspired by the legends and history of Huguenot Street. Find out what this year’s stories have in store by attending a tour. This event is sponsored by America’s Best Value Inn of New Paltz and Ulster Savings Bank. Info: 845-255-1660. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz. huguenotstreet. org/calendar-of-events.

5pm-6pm Woodstock Library Forum: Diet & Nutrition From a Historical Perspective. A discussion with Marty Korn on diet and nutrition through the ages. Diets have deep historical roots and precedents that provide us with a fascinating perspective and help guide us to a better understanding of today’s confusing diet and nutrition world. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock.

6pm-9pm Legends by Candlelight Ghost Tours.

The highlight of Clermont’s fall season! Guests will find themselves traveling back in time, as the house is filled with ghosts from throughout the mansion’s 250-year history. Tours followed by roasted marshmallows. Each year features dozens of hand-carved, flickering jack-o-lanterns. Evening Tour times: 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00 Reservations Required. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historic Site, 87 Clermont Ave, Germantown. friendsofclermont.org. $12, $5/child.

6pm-7pm Rails of Terror – Haunted Train Rides. When this train leaves the safety of the Kingston station, you are tossed into the hands of the unknown. Creatures are sure to frighten!

Additional departure time at 7:30pm. Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR), West Brook Lane Station, 149 Aaron Ct, Kingston. http://catskillmountainrailroad.com. $38.00 Adults, $30.00 Children (ages 2-12), $36.00 Discounted Adult (Senior, Military, Veteran).

6pm-9:30pm 9th Annual The Halloween Journey. Celebrating Catskill history, ecology and folklore through an immersive theater experience.

Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 New York 28, Mount Tremper. www.halloweenjourney.com. early bird tickets on sale until

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Oct. 25, 2018

GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Sowing my not-so-wild oats

“S

ome men there are who never shave (if they are so absurd as ever to shave), except when they go abroad, and who do not take care to wear polished boots in the bosoms of their families. I like a man who shaves (next to one who doesn’t shave) to satisfy his own conscience, and not for display, and who dresses as neatly at home as he does anywhere. Such a man will be likely to put his garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay.” So wrote Charles Dudley Warner in his wonderful little book (much more than a gardening book) My Summer in a Garden (1898). I gave up shaving a few months ago, but I am putting my garden in order for autumn.

The scene is quite pretty as I look out my upstairs bedroom window upon my garden – my vegetable garden – each morning. Weeds have been removed from the paths and the beds, and spent plants have been cleared away. What remains of crops is a bed with some tall stalks of kale that were planted back in spring. Yet another bed is home to various varieties of lettuce interplanted with endive, all of which went in as transplants after an early crop of green beans had been cleared and the bed was weeded, then covered with an inch depth of compost. Also still lush green is a bed previously home to edamame, which was subsequently weeded, composted and then seeded with turnips and winter radishes back in August.

From my window, the remaining eight beds in the garden present mostly grasses in various states of lushness. The “grass” in this case is oats, sown in any bed no longer needed for vegetables at the end of this season. I had cleared such beds of spent plants and weeds, sprinkled oat seeds (whole “feed oats” from Agway), watered and then, as with the other beds, covered them with an inch depth of compost. One bed was finished for the season except for six floppy cabbage plants. I staked those plants up tall and out of the way, and then gave the bed the same treatment around the cabbages’ ankles.

Oat roots pull up nutrients that rain and snow might otherwise leach away into the groundwater.

That’s it: It all looks fresh, green and neat – but more than that, what I did is also good for next year’s garden. Cleaning up weeds this year makes for less self-seeding of annual weeds and seeding and establishment of perennial weeds.

Cleaning up spent plants takes any pest-ridden plant parts off-site, reducing chances for future pest problems.

Dense growth of oats protects the soil surface from pounding rain, so that water percolates in rather than skitters off the surface, promoting erosion. Belowground, oat roots pull up nutrients that rain and snow might otherwise leach away into the groundwater.

And finally, that inch depth of compost that each bed gets helps support the many beneficial fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes and other soil microorganisms that make up the soil food web. In so doing, it will provide all the nutrition that my vegetable plants – even intensively planted vegetables – need until this time next year.

October 20th, price goes up after that (General Admition Child:$18, Adult: $25).

7pm-10pm Halloween Dance Party with Soul Purpose. Prizes for best costume, specials, dancing and fun! Dinner reservations highly recommended. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe. com. No cover charge but donations are welcome.

7pm-8:30pm A Turn of the Screw. Henry James’s classic ghost story about an inexperienced governess and two small orphans trapped in a house that’s haunted… or is it? Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7979 Main Street. Info: 917-687-6646, kaaterskillactors@yahoo.com, katactors.com. Cash only at the door; no credit cards.

7pm-10:30pm Jack O+ Lanterns: Pumpkin Art Show and Benefit Auction. Artists & creatives enter the Pumpkin Art Show & Benefit Auction!

Viewing & auction open to the public. art bar, 674 Broadway, Kingston. https://www.seedsongfarm. org/. Free to enter!

7pm-10pm Halloween Dance Party with Soul Purpose. Prizes for best costume, drink specials and dancing to this terrific 7 piece R&B band.

Reservations recommended. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@ lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe.com. No cover charge but donations are welcome.

7pm-9pm Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Adapted

by Crane Johnson. Distributed by Dramatists Play Service. Produced and Directed by Frank Marquette for Theatre on the Road. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. https:// bit.ly/2prevAc. $25.

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.

7pm 4th Annual Living History Cemetery Tour.

Theatre on the Road and The Old Dutch Church of Kingston, New York bring characters to life who contributed to Kingston’s wars, industry, art and growth. Event is held on Saturdays in October at 7 pm guests will move through the Church’s cemetery where they’ll meet six ghosts in authentic costumes, played by members of Theatre on the Road. Each historical figure will talk about their role in the community. Guests meet at the

Wall Street door and tours are one hour. Tours begin in 1659 and end in 1910. Guest will meet Jacob Adriansen, a young man who fought in the EsopusIndian War when Kingston was Wiltwyck, Jacob will lead guests to John Vanderlyn, a Kingston born, internationally known artist. Next on the tour will be General George Sharp, Kingston native and Civil War hero. Returning from the hereafter to preside over her actual paintings will be Julia Dillion, Kingston artist and industrialist.

Also making appearances will be philanthropist and donor of the park that bears her name Mary Forsyth, and Roswell Randal Hoes, an Old Dutch Churh 19th century clergyman and historian. $15, $10/students. $1/12 & under. Purchase tickets by visiting theatreontheroad.com. Information and private tours: 845-475-7973. The Old Dutch Church, Wall St, Kingston.

7pm-9pm Author Talk and Star-Watching Party: The Heavens by Barbara Bosworth.

Photographer Barbara Bosworth discusses her newest book followed by a star-watching party on the grounds of Churchtown Dairy. Churchtown Dairy, 357 County Route 12, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary. org, https://bit.ly/2EcWAHx. Free.

7pm-8:30pm Sacred Sound Ceremony Within the Indigenous Realms. Our ceremonies help us find our way back to Oneness with an open heart that does not shut down in the midst of turmoil.

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

7:30pm The 37th Asbury Short Film Concert.

Award winning broadcast journalist Rolland Smith will host The 37th Asbury Short Film Concert. recommended for ages 16 and way above. Highlights of the October 27th showcase include “The Quality of Mercy,” “Fait d’Hiver,” & “Love at First Sight,”. Info: 845-688-2279. Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church St, Phoenicia. phoeniciaplayhouse.com. $20.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Ed Palermo Big Band’s Fusion Prog War 2018. The world’s zaniest Big Band plays Zappa, Pink Floyd & more! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm-9:30pm Guest Recital by A Palo Seco Flamenco Company. Skinner Hall at Vassar

LEE REICH | ALMANAC WEEKLY

An oat cover crop rotects the soil surface from pounding rain, so that water percolates in rather than skitters off the surface, promoting erosion.

Mr. Warner, I think, would approve. Even my non-shaving: I do trim my beard regularly.

A lot of compost is needed to cover all those vegetable beds. For all the beds in my two vegetable gardens, as well as those in my greenhouse, I estimate my annual needs at almost five cubic yards per year.

My compost is made from hay that I scythe from my small field, kitchen scraps, spent vegetable plants and weeds from my garden, some horse manure in wood shavings and, for fun, old cotton or woolen clothing and leather gloves and shoes.

Yes, I’ve read about striking a balance between feedstuffs high in carbon and those high in nitrogen in order to get a compost pile chugging along. As important are good aeration and moisture. Most compost piles that I see suffer from thirst.

A lot of water is required to wet the inner layers of a compost pile, and applying it requires more patience than I have. So I no longer do it manually.

I purchased a small sprinkler, which I connected with half-inch black plastic tubing (the same as I use for drip irrigation mainlines) along with some L connectors to lead the water line from the top center of a pile neatly down to ground level. Water pressure is variable from my well, so I also put a pressure reducer, to 15 psi, in the line; a valve needing just one-time adjustment keeps the sprinkler wetting only the top of the pile.

A U-shaped metal pin keeps the sprinkler firmly in place in the center of the pile.

All that are needed after adding a batch of material to the pile are to set up the sprinkler, turn on the spigot and set a timer for about 20 minutes. The droplets cover the pile right to the edges, and in a day or two, temperatures soar to 140 degrees or more.

Next year at this time, this year’s piles will be ready to do their part in putting my garden neat and in order.

– 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.

College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-437-5632.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Trapps. Acclaimed Americana, folk, rock. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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.

9:30pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cult classic. Prop bags for sale for $5.00; no toast, rice, or water, please. R-rated. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@ rosendaletheatre.org, www.rosendaletheatre.org. $10/$8 in costume.

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

Every Sunday through 11/18. Info: 845-986-2720.

South Street Parking Lot, Warwick. warwickcc.org.

9:30am-5pm Hike to the Shingle Gully Ice Caves - Photography Edition. Join other photographers to explore and photograph the Shingle Gully Ice Caves. 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. This particular hike will move at a slower pace to allow you ample time to take that perfect picture. Pre-registration is required by calling 845-647-7989. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration deadline: October 23rd. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are well-practiced in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-

8700, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-2pm Highland Falls Art Walk and Farmers Market. Ongoing display of sculpture and art installed along Main Street. Pair with a visit to the Highland Falls Farmers Market on Sundays from 10am-2pm. Village of Highland Falls. Info: highlandfallsartwalk.org.

10am-3pm Zombie Fun Run. Be a Runner (human) and run from the Zombies or be a Zombie and steal the runner’s flag as they run through your Zombie Zone! Valley Central High School, 1175 NY-17K, Montgomery. Info: VCScholarshipCouncil@gmail.com, https://goo.gl/forms/FIcPDqBPT. $25 ages 11 and up; $15 ages 8-10.

10am-3pm New Paltz Farmers’ Market. Products available from local growers and producers offering farm fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh baked goods, meats and cheeses. Activities for the kids. Church Street, between Main & Academy, New Paltz.

10am Pumpkin Painting Day. Free small pumpkins for kids to decorate and take home. Larger ones for purchase. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market, 61 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

10am-12pm Minnewaska Preserve: Two Cliff Views Hike. Two-and-a-half-mile hike in the Peter’s Kill Area to reach two picturesque vistas.

Meet at the Peter’s Kill Park Office. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am-3pm Beacon Farmers’ Market. Info: beaconfarmersmarket.org. Veterans Place, between Main & Henry Street (next to the Post Office), Beacon.

10:30am-12:30pm Free Meditation Class. Info: 845-658-8556. Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation & Retreat Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11am 5K Fun Run. Hosted by Vassar College.

Registration will start at 10am and race will begin at 11am. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5632, https://bit. ly/2xXimJb. 11am-3pm Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: “I Spy” Halloween Trail. Families looking for a fun but not-so-spooky Halloween adventure can drop in at any time between 11am-3pm. Brave adventurers will discover which items belong in nature, like skulls and bones, and which ones do not. Find them all and earn a prize. See live

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26 animals in the “Creepy Crawly” room, play a game or make a spooky craft. 120 Muser Drive, Cornwall.

845-534-5506 ext. 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Saints of Swing. Swing & More! Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

12pm-2pm Opening Reception: The 2018 Small Works Show. A Non-Juried Exhibit of TwoDimensional Artwork. Exhibit will display through 1/7/19. Info: wjc.arts@gmail.com; wjcshul.org; 845-679-4937; facebook.com/gallerylevshalem.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock.

12pm-1:30pm Tales from Hudson’s Crypts: The Tour with Kelley Drahushuk. Walking tour - A virtual treasure trove for historians and enthusiasts of American funerary art! Cedar Park Cemetery, 20 Columbia Turnpike, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, https:// bit.ly/2E0ilu0.

12pm Halloween at the Woods: Monsters Inc. Celebrate Halloween all day and take part in the candy scavenger hunt and monstrous craft from 12-2pm! At 2pm the movie starts. Rated PG. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel.

BethelWoodsCenter.org. $8, $5/child.

12pm-4pm Trick or Treat Weekend. Dress in costume and enjoy trick or treating all over the farm. Info: 845-227-2306. Barton Orchards, 63 Apple Tree Ln, Poughquag. bartonorchards.com.

12:30pm-6pm Voyager Tarot Readings with psychic reader Sarvananda. Walk-ins welcome.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

1pm Phoenicia Halloween Parade. Spooktacular event! Parade route begins at Phoenicia school through Main St. Enjoy free fall sweet treats. Phoenicia Elementary School, 11 School Lane, Phoenicia. phoeniciany.com/events.

1pm Jack O’ Lanterns and Jollity: Hallowe’en Celebrations of the Gilded Age. In this new program, historian Carol Kohan will trace how the ancient Celtic festival was fashioned into a high-spirited celebration in Gilded Age America, presenting a bewitching look at traditions and trends in Hallowe’en entertaining. A special Hallowe’en tea & treats menu will be served.

Costumes are encouraged - prizes will be offered!

Reservations required. Info: 845-889-8851. Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. $35.

1pm-3pm Pets Alive Kids Team. Humane education for all ages! Come join us for story time and craft. Glen Arden, 214 Harriman Dr, Goshen. Info: 845-386-9738, info@petsalive.org, https://conta. cc/2Oy3N9Q. 1pm-3pm Children and Families: Pumpkins and Painted Faces. Have fun sculpting pumpkins and enjoy creative face painting. Info: 845-534-3115.

Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. stormkingartcenter.org.

1pm-2pm The Second Wind Performance: Bits ‘n Pieces. Ensemble performs Bits ‘n Pieces, exploring the theme of aging through monologues, group poems, rap songs, limericks and short vignettes. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, https://bit. ly/2OsBJEV. 1pm Halloween Party. Put on your best Halloween costume. Prizes for best costumes, refreshments, crafts, games and more. Hackett Hill Park, E Market St, Hyde Park.

2pm National Theatre presents Julie. Brand new production broadcast live from National Theatre featuring Vanessa Kirby and Eric Kofi Abrefa, directed by Carrie Cracknell. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, www.rosendaletheatre.org. $12.

2pm Halloween Parade. Costume parade down Main Street. Prizes for the best costume and refreshments too. Info: 845-897-4430. Main St/ Fishkill, Fishkill.

2pm-4:30pm Broadway at Bannerman’s: Bannerman Island Fundraiser. A musical revue featuring esteemed Broadway actresses, Nancy Johnston, Denise Summerford and Nancy Auffarth. Featuring extraordinary tunes, comedic skits, jazzy standards and soulful songs - all under the impeccable music direction of Elaine Miller.

Info: 845-831-6346. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon. bannermancastle.org. $35.

2pm-4pm Family Day at the Dorsky. Exhibitioninspired activities for children and their families in conjunction with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Trans List. Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@ newpaltz.edu, https://bit.ly/2PA3fgK. $5 suggested donation.

2pm-9pm Flicks: Monsters, Inc. (Rated: G).

Celebrate Halloween all day and take part in our candy scavenger hunt and monstrous craft from 12-2pm! Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel. Info: 1-866-781-2922, info@ bethelwoodscenter.org.

2pm-4pm Build a Bird Activity for Kids at Sam’s Point. Come learn about the amazing world of bird diversity, including hands on demonstrations of different bird adaptations. After the lesson, participants can mix and match beaks, wings, legs, and more to design and draw a bird of their very own! The possibilities are endless.

This program is recommended for children eight years old and above, but everyone is welcome to join us. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s

ALMANAC WEEKLY Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

2pm A Celtic Halloween Party. Did you know that many of our Halloween traditions are rooted in Samhain, the Celtic New Year celebration the Irish carried with them to the US in earlier immigrations? In the true Irish tradition of inclusion, traditional Celtic music as well as other favorite “party pieces” will provide a rich and varied program of songs, jigs and reels and instrumentals. All are invited to come in costume! Info: 845-528-7280.

Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, 729 Peekskill Hollow Rd, Putman Valley. tompkinscorners.org. $10/suggested donation.

2pm-3:30pm New Castle Historical Society Lecture: NY State Archivist Thomas Ruller.

Presentation on NY’s contributions to the war effort during WWI, highlighting the stories of several individuals. Free. Info: 914-238-4666; director@ newcastlehs.org. Millwood Fire House, 100 Millwood Rd, Millwood. newcastlehs.org.

2pm-4pm Needle Arts From the Past for Today: Cross Stitch. Join Penny Coombe and friends to learn some of the history of cross stitch, view examples and try your hand at a small project.

Age eight and up are welcome - no experience is needed! Pre-registration required. Info: 845-9857700. Time and the Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville. Info: 845-985-7700, info@ timeandthevalleysmuseum.org. Members: FREE, non members: $3.

2pm-6pm Sunday Jazz. J. Drechsler Quartet/ Septet with special guest artists in concert at 2pm.

Daily featured composers and theme based selections. Sign up at 3:30pm to sit in with the band at 4pm. All musical levels given time! Great coffee, baked goods, friendly service, relaxed atmosphere.

No worries. No cover! Info: 845-633-8287. Cafeteria Coffeehouse, 58 Main St, New Paltz.

2pm-3pm Pamela Badila’s Folktales & Stories.

Material is for children 6-11 years old. All are welcome to come hear stories from around the world. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@ hudsonarealibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2Pg3c8J. 2pm-3:30pm Akashic Records Revealed with June Brought. The Records offer one of the most powerful tools to help us remember our oneness with God/Spirit/Source & to create action in our lives. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, http://sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

2pm-3:30pm A Turn of the Screw. Henry James’s classic ghost story about an inexperienced governess and two small orphans trapped in a house that’s haunted.. or is it? Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7979 Main Street. Info: 917-687-6646, kaaterskillactors@yahoo.com, katactors.com. Cash only at the door; no credit cards.

3pm Blue Wave or Battle of the Billionaires?

The Nation writers: Liza Featherstone & Doug Henwood. An Election Eve Discussion and Q&A. The Kingston Artist Collective & Cafe, 63 Broadway, Kingston. $10/suggested donation, $5/ student/senior/unemployed.

3pm-5pm Friends of Tillson Lake Benefit Concert. Featuring music by Soul Purpose, dancing,& refreshments. $30/door, $25/adv,$7/ children. RSVP to infor@savetillsonlake.org. The Greenhouse Barn, 2187 Bruynswick Rd, Wallkill.

3pm-4:30pm Free Community Concert at Saugerties. Featuring Students from the Bard Conservatory Prep Division, Families and Kids Welcome! Piano, Violin, Cello, Flute, Voice.

Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties. https://bit.ly/2CvSeZz. 3pm-5pm Liza Featherstone & Doug Henwood (The Nation): Eve of Election Discussion! “Eve of Election Discussion” with Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood (from The Nation). Come early.

The Kingston Artist Collective & Cafe, 63 Broadway, Kingston. Info: (845)399-2491, kidbusy@ gmail.com. $5 Students / Seniors.

3pm Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth, and Wonder. For more information visit Read650.com. Sanders Classroom Building, Spitzer Auditorium at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4375632, https://bit.ly/2OWpGMk. 3pm-5pm Evergreen Chorus presents: Radio Plays-On the Air. Women’s a capella, 4-part harmony chapter of Sweet Adelines present our annual show performing several genres of music.

Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge #275, 29 Overocker Rd, Poughkeepsie. Info: 516-449-8353, evergreenchorus1@yahoo.com, www.evergreenchorus. org. $18.00 - Seniors, $0 >12.

4pm-6pm Aston Magna Chamber Players: A Baroque Concert for a Fall Afternoon. The program includes sonatas by by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, and J.S. Bach’s “A Musical Offering.” Info: 888-492-1283, info@astonmagna.org, https:// astonmagna.org. (888) 492-1283 or online at: https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/ list.aspx?epguid=acd16971-0a0e-437c-a0903dfb2979ed6d& 5pm-6:30pm 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.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

5pm-10pm Haunted Huguenot Street. Each year, Haunted Huguenot Street returns with new interpretations and special nighttime tours inspired by

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the legends and history of Huguenot Street. Find out what this year’s stories have in store by attending a tour. This event is sponsored by America’s Best Value Inn of New Paltz and Ulster Savings Bank. Info: 845-255-1660. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz. huguenotstreet. org/calendar-of-events.

8pm-9:30pm Faculty & Guest Recital: Shouldering the Dead. Songs for soprano, cello, and piano on the themes of death, sensuality, longing, and separation. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4375632.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Reuben Wilson Combo.

Legendary Soul-Jazz Organist. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Monday

10/29

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.

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.

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.com. $18.

12:15pm-1:15pm Senior Strength and Stamina with Linda Sirkin. Low impact aerobics performed with light weights. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Tarot Readings and Chakra Clearing Attunement with Mary. Walkins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/45 minutes, $30/30 minutes.

2:30pm-3:30pm Tai Chi. Meditation in Motion.

Vince Sauter leads this weekly class. No experience necessary, wear comfortable clothes. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

3:45pm-5pm Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Fall Frenzy! ( Grades K – 2). Come hike and explore our forest, fields, ponds and streams during a very busy time of year. There is a frenzy of activity in all of our habitats of the Outdoor Discovery Center! We’ll become naturalists and train the eye to determine what animal signs are being left behind. Collect, study and release the many critters that call these places home. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $90.

4pm-5pm Retro Game Night! Come play board and card games from the 80s and 90s (and earlier).

Play our games/bring your own! It will be totally tubular! Kids: 8-12. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-7573771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www. tivolilibrary.org/. In the East Room.

4:30pm-5:30pm Art Hour: Spooky Coloring Pages. Come in to color some Halloween inspired coloring pages. All are welcome! Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www. phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 6pm-8pm 6-Week Reset: Rediscover Feeling Great. In this six-week course, Dee Pitcock guides you through a deep dive into the diet, lifestyle, and exercise practices. Woodstock Healing Arts, 83 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-393-4325, ino@ woodstockhealingarts.com, www.woodstockhealingarts.com. $540.

6pm-9pm Understanding the Syrian Conflict: Complexities and Consequences. Featuring Sana Mustafa ’17, Diplomat-in-Residence Frederic Hof, and Dean of International Studies James Ketterer as speakers. This event will explore where things stand in the complex situation in Syria, including an assessment of domestic and international actors, the broader regional context, the refugee crisis, and the direction of U.S. policy. An audience Q&A with the speakers will follow this event. Info: 845-758-6822; civic@bard.edu. Bard College/ F.W. Olin Humanities Building, Annandale-OnHudson. bard.edu.

6:15pm-7pm CoHousing Potluck. Family Friendly Neighborhood. 19 homes, Community Center/ CommonHouse. One home for sale. For directions:845-246-8601; heidinys@earthlink.net. family friendly potluck.

6:30pm-7:30pm Flow & Restore Yoga. Floor class taught by instructor Mia Tomic. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meeting. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm Library Referendum Forum. Both sides of the library issue will present their positions and take questions from residents. Moderated by the Woodstock Democratic Committee. Info: 845-6635420. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

7pm The 19th Congressional District Debate.

Antonio Delgado (D) vs. Rep. John Faso (R). The public is invited to attend, or watch the debates live at https://www.facebook.com/OCcitizensfoundation or www.recordonline.com/livedebate. SUNY Sullivan, 112 College Rd, Loch Sheldrake.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Sekanjabin. 10 piece international ensemble of Turkish-World music.

Opener: Boom Boom Shake Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Tuesday

10/30

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 Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Nature Strollers. Unique hiking group for families with babies, toddlers, and young children.

Join in for a one-hour hike with the tykes led by a Museum educator! Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $5/family.

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-10:30am MVP Gentle Yoga Moves – Free Six Week Class. Experience the benefits of increased balance, flexibility, & muscle strength. At YMCA Kingston. Reg. Required. Keri-Ann Laurito, Instructor. MVP Community Health. Info: 845-8976037. Registration Required.

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. $18.

10:30am-11:30am Medical Qigong for Older Adults with Celeste Graves, 6-week series.

A program of simple yet profound exercises via ancient Taoist traditions & Chinese medical system.

Must commit to full series. Ages: 55+. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http://www.tivolilibrary.org/. Wear comfortable clothing. Contact library to register; space is limited.

10:30am-12:30pm Free Meditation Class. Info: 845-658-8556. Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation & Retreat Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

12pm-3pm Medicare Counseling. Do you have questions about enrolling in Medicare and want assistance? Call 845-340-3456 to set up an appt. for counseling at OFL. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit. ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

12pm-3pm Medicare Counseling. Free Medicare Counseling, provided by the UC Office of the Aging.

Call 845-340-3456 to make an appointment. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, https://bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates (Introductory Level) 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. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Angelic Readings and Intuitive Guidance with Maureen Brennan-Mercier. $75 for one hour Reiki Healing Healing Session. Walkins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

1pm-5:30pm Call for Photography Submissions.

ASK’s 2018 Juried Photography Exhibition. Submit your photos. $250 cash prize. Juror: Douglas Baz Juror, sponsored by ColorPage. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-3380333, ask@askforarts.org, https://bit.ly/2P9R1Ol. Cost to submit work.

1pm-3pm Falls Prevention Workshop at Putnam Hospital Center. The seven-week Stepping On program is for adults 60 and older who live independently and do not rely on a walker, scooter or wheelchair most of the time. Participants will learn strength and balance exercises, safe footwear, home modifications, the impact medication and vision have on falls, as well as community safety.

Research has shown workshop participants reduce falls by more than 30 percent. Seven consecutive Tuesdays through November 23rd. Registration required: 845-279-1785. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. $25.

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.

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. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, http://www.woodstockyogacenter.com. drop-in rate.

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details.

Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. http://woodstockultimate.org/.

5:30pm Talk: Mary Ping ‘00. This fashion designer who has designed under has designed under her own name as well as in a more conceptual line.

Mary will speak on her work as a fashion designer and her conceptual line “Slow and Steady Wins the Race.” Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie.

5:30pm-7pm Mary Ping ‘00 will speak on her work as a fashion designer and her conceptual line “Slow and Steady Wins the Race.” Mary is a fashion designer who has designed under her own name as well as in a more conceptual line, “Slow and Steady Wins the Race.” Taylor Hall, Room 203, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5632.

5:30pm-6:30pm Italian Conversation Class.

Weekly class is designed for people who have some

knowledge of the Italian language and would like to improve their conversational skills. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@ rcls.org, https://bit.ly/2p1Uekl.

6pm-8pm 6-Week Reset: Rediscover Feeling Great. In this six-week course, Dee Pitcock guides you through a deep dive into the diet, lifestyle, and exercise practices. Woodstock Healing Arts, 83 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-393-4325, ino@ woodstockhealingarts.com, www.woodstockhealingarts.com. $540.

6pm-7pm Free Meditation Class. Info: 845-6588556. Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation & Retreat Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6pm-7pm Magic: The Gathering Night. A casual, relaxed evening of Magic: The Gathering. Beginners are welcome, and experienced players are welcome. Info: 845-266-5530. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, http:// www.tivolilibrary.org/. Recommended for teenagers and adults. Happens in the East Room.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE Notice Is Hereby Given Pursuant to Section 4-118 of the Election Law of the State of New York that the following Polling Places are open Tuesday, November 6, 2018, from 6am to 9pm:

6pm-8pm Halloween Spirit Mediumship Circle with psychic medium Adam Bernstein. Adam is able to connect with the sirit world and bring through factual information as well as messages to participants from those on the other side of life. Take this heart-centered journey with us and discover that true love never dies. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25.

6:30pm-8:30pm Talk: What’s at Stake for Immigrant Families. Panel on what’s at stake for immigrant families and the candidates for county, state and federal office stand on immigration issues?

Info: 845-858-9838; michelsonelana@gmail. com; abarriststern@gmail.com. Sponsored by Ulster Immigration Defense Network – Red de Defensa de Imigrantes de Ulster, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, La Voz radio, and La Voz magazine.

Holy Cross/Santa Cruz Episcopal Church, 30 Pine Grove Ave, Kingston.

7pm The 18th Congressional District District Debate. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D) vs. James

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following report is available for public inspection: 2017 Federal Single Audit with the following reports herewith: Independent Auditors’ Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards Independent Auditors’ Report on Compliance for Each Major Federal Program and Report on Internal Control over Compliance in Accordance with the Uniform Guidance SAID INFORMATION will be available for public inspection during normal business hours, in the Office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature at 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York.

DATED: October 25, 2018 Ulster County Legislature Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Kingston, New York LEGAL NOTICE Notice of General Election: Pursuant to section 4-120 of the New York State Election Law, notice is hereby given that a General Election will be held throughout the County of Ulster on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.

Hours for voting are 6:00AM to 9:00PM. The Public Offices and Propositions to be voted for are as follows: Governor Lieutenant Governor Comptroller Attorney General United States Senator State Supreme Court Justice 3rd Judicial District Representative in Congress State Senate 39th District State Senate 42nd District State Senate 46th District State Senate 51st District Member of Assembly 101st District Member of Assembly 102nd District Member of Assembly 103rd District Member of Assembly 104th District Ulster County Sheriff Village of Ellenville Village Justice Village of Ellenville Village Trustee Town of Plattekill Town Justice Town of Saugerties Town Justice Town of Saugerties Town Councilman Town of Wawarsing Town Clerk Town of Wawarsing Town Councilman Town of Woodstock Town Councilman Propositions for Ulster County, Town of Marlborough, Town of Olive, Town of Shandaken and the Town of Woodstock.

Notice is further given, Any voter wishing for copies of the aforementioned propositions may contact the Ulster County Board of Elections, 284 Wall Street, Kingston, New York 12401.

Given under the hands of the Commissioners of Election and the Seal of the County of Ulster Board of Elections on, October 22, 2018

Thomas F. Turco, President

Ashley Dittus, Secretary

Names and Addresses of the Candidates nominated are available at the Ulster County Board of Elections, 284 Wall Street, Kingston, New York 12401 or by calling 845-334-5470.

Given under the hands of the Commissioners of Election and the Seal of the County of Ulster Board of Elections on, October 22, 2018

Thomas F. Turco, President

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice to Bidders The Board of Trustees of Ulster County Community College (in accordance with Section 103 of Article 5-A of the General Municipal Law) hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for PRINTING & DELIVERING of marketing materials from September 2018 through August 2019 for use at the Stone Ridge Campus. Bids will be received until 10am on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 in the office of the Purchasing Agent for SUNY Ulster located at 491 Cottekill Road, Algonquin Building room 107, Stone Ridge New York at which time and place all bids will be opened. Specifications and bid form may be obtained from the same office. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Any bid submitted will be binding for

O’Donnell (R). The public is invited to attend, or watch the debates live at https://www.facebook. com/OCcitizensfoundation or www.recordonline. com/livedebate. Ritz Theater, Newburgh.

7:15pm-8:30pm The Foundation of Buddhism.

Essential Steps on the Path of Buddhadharma with Daniel Berlin. Held on Tuesdays, 7:15 - 8:30pm through 10/30. Info: Skylake.shambhala.org.

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7am-8pm Movie Night: A Quiet Place. Free scary movie with popcorn and soda! Rated PG -13. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, www. esopuslibrary.org. FREE. 9am NDH Auxiliary Halloween Bake Sale. All proceeds benefit NDH Auxiliary. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

30 days subsequent to the date of bid opening.

Dated: October 15, 2018 AA/EOE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on August 14, 2018, approved by the County Executive on September 12, 2018, and filed with the State of New York on September 24, 2018, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be hereinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions.

DATED: October 25, 2018 Ulster County Legislature Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Kingston, New York Local Law No. 4 Of 2018 County Of Ulster A Local Law Establishing An Ulster County Human Rights Law BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, as follows: SECTION 1. TITLE. This Local Law shall be known by and may be cited as “The Ulster County Human Rights Protection Act of 2018”.

SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND FINDINGS. The Ulster County Legislature hereby finds and declares that the County has the responsibility to act to assure that every individual within the County is afforded certain basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including but not limited to the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

The Ulster County Legislature recognizes, finds and determines that the laws and regulations of the United States of America and the State of New York prohibit acts of discrimination, including discrimination in employment, discrimination in public accommodations, resort and amusement, discrimination in housing accommodation, discrimination in commercial space and land transactions, and discrimination in the issuing of credit based upon impermissible considerations relating to a person’s race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, familial status, gender, including gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgender status, group identity, marital status, sexual orientation or disability.

In enacting this local law, the County is acting to empower its citizens and to provide local assurances for the safeguarding of basic rights and freedoms and the prevention of unlawful acts of discrimination. The Ulster County Legislature finds that the adoption of this law is an appropriate exercise of the police power for the protection of the public welfare, health and peace of the people of this County.

Article XXX of the Ulster County Charter (“Charter”) provides for the establishment of a Commission of Human Rights in and for Ulster County (“Commission”). Section C-102 of the Ulster County Charter provides that “The Commission of Human Rights shall have all of the authority, responsibility, obligations, powers and duties set forth in Article 12-D of the General Municipal Law and shall also have the authority to create bylaws for its own governance, proceedings and activities.”

The Commission exists to foster mutual respect for the rights of all citizens and to explore opportunities for improving relations among all people of Ulster County. Pursuant to Article 12-D of the General Municipal Law, the Commission is empowered to, among other things, seek the active assistance of the New York State Division of Human Rights (“State Division”) in the solution of complaints which fall within the jurisdiction of the State Division (G.M.L. Section 239-r) and where and to the extent authorized by local law, to report, but not initiate, any such complaints to the State Division (G.M.L. Section 239-q(2)(a)).

The Ulster County Legislature specifically

28 9am-10am Woodstock Senior Gentle (chair) Yoga with Susan Blacker. A gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $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.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700. $18.

10:30am-11:30pm Woodstock Senior Weights and Bands with Linda Sirkin. Improve muscle tone, protect bones and enhance balance. Fire Co. #1, Route 212. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Astro-Tarot Readings and Halloween Tarot Card Readings with tarot reader and astrologer Diane Bergmanson.

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

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

1pm Kingston Community Singers Meetup New Members Welcome. Open to all men and women. No auditions necessary. Info: 845-3317715. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

finds and declares that it is in the interest of the County to encourage its citizens to reason together to reduce tensions within the many diverse communities in Ulster County arising from alleged acts of discrimination, prejudice and intolerance by resort to the Commission, or its authorized designee, through a process of conference, conciliation and persuasion at the local level, and that it is imperative to include within the duties and responsibilities of the Commission, or its authorized designee, the task of actively monitoring and assisting persons through the process administered by the State Division for such claimed human rights violations that have not been successfully resolved by the Commission, or its authorized designee, at the local level through mediation and conciliation.

The Ulster County Legislature’s intent in creating this local law is to empower the Ulster County Human Rights Commission pursuant to Article 12-D of the General Municipal Law to engage in processes of conference, conciliation and persuasion, with the active assistance of the State Division, if needed, in the solution of complaints which fall within the jurisdiction of the State Division, including those complaints within the scope of State Regulation 9 NYCRR §466.13 pertaining to Gender Identity, Transgender Persons, and Gender Dysphoria, as such terms are defined by the State Regulation, so as to amicably resolve such complaints, reduce tensions, build consensus and foster harmony between the various diverse communities within Ulster County, and to otherwise report, but not initiate, such complaints to the State Division, and to include within the duties and responsibilities of the Commission, or its authorized designee, the task of actively monitoring and assisting persons with claimed human rights violations through the process administered by the State Division or the Hearing Officer for such claims that have not been successfully resolved by the Commission, or its authorized designee, through mediation and conciliation, or where respondent has refused mediation and conciliation.

SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS. The following terms are defined as follows in the implementation hereof and any terms not specifically defined herein shall be defined by reference to New York State Executive Law Section 292: “Place of public accommodation, resort or amusement” shall be defined as the term is defined in New York State Executive Law Section 292(9).

“Disability” shall be defined as the term is defined in New York State Executive Law Section 292(21).

“Discrimination” shall be defined as the term is defined in New York State Executive Law Section 292(19).

“Group identity” shall refer to race, color, religion, age, national origin (including ancestry), alienage or citizenship status, ethnicity, familial status, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

“Gender” shall include actual or perceived sex and shall also include a person’s gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the legal sex assigned to that person at birth.

“Gender identity” means having or being perceived as having a gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the sex assigned to that person at birth.

“Transgender” is an individual who has a gender identity different from the sex assigned to that individual at birth.

“Sexual orientation” shall be defined as the term is defined in New York State Executive Law

ALMANAC WEEKLY 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 Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

3:30pm-5:30pm Trick-or-Treat on Huguenot Street. Following four successful years of this annual tradition on Huguenot Street, children and families are welcome to once again walk the street on Halloween night, trick-or-treating at the historic houses. Free and open to the public, a portion of Huguenot Street will be closed to vehicular traffic while children trick-or-treat. Children and adults can expect to meet “residents” that span the National Historic Landmark District’s centuries-long history, including colonial-era women, Revolutionary War soldiers, a Victorian-era socialite and her housemaid, flappers from the Roaring Twenties, and other costumed interpreters. Info: 845-255-1660. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz. huguenotstreet.org.

5pm-6:30pm Hudson Valley LGBTQ’s Community Accupuncture Clinic. Reserve your spot today! Weekly community acupuncture clinic at the Center! The clinic takes place each Wednesday, from 5-6:30PM in a relaxed and low-lit group setting using points on the ears, hands and feet.

RSVPs highly suggested, though walk-ins will be welcomed when space is available. Reserve your spot at http://bit.ly/LGBTQacupuncture. $5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

come all, to the Woodstock Halloween Parade! Don your best costume and join in on the fun. Drummers, dancers, and hula-hoopers are especially encouraged to participate. There will be prizes for the best homemade costumes. Children can trickor-treat through town. Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

5pm-6:30pm Open Contemporary Drawing for Adults. Weekly drawing group offers time and space for individuals who wish to continue to hone their drawing skills in an independent environment. Art Omi, 1405, Ghent. Info: 531-392-8031, cmassa@artomi.org, https://bit.ly/2wJnjEu. FREE. 5pm-9pm Wallkill Fire Dept Bingo. Doors/ Kitchen Open at 5pm, selling starts @ 6pm & calling begins @ 7pm. Bingo held every Wednesday Night! Wallkill Fire Dept, 18 Central Ave, Wallkill. min admission.

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

6pm-10pm The Bakery’s Night of 100 Pumpkins. 28th annual pumpkin carving contest. Join us on Halloween to see the pumpkins lit, enjoy free pumpkin bread, hot cider & cocoa. The Bakery, 13a North Front St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8840, thebakery@ilovethebakery.com, https://ilovethebakery.com. Free.

5pm Woodstock Halloween Parade. Come one,

6pm New Paltz Halloween Parade. This is a parade for all ghosts and goblins. It starts at Main Street and Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz and ends at the firehouse, where the Lion’s Club will distribute apples and candy. Main Street/New

Section 292(27).

SECTION 4. Article XXX, Section C-102 of the Ulster County Charter is hereby amended to so read: The Commission of Human Rights shall have all of the authority, powers, duties and obligations expressly set forth in Article 12-D of the General Municipal Law, and shall also have the authority to engage in processes of conference, conciliation and persuasion, with the active assistance of the New York State Division of Human Rights (“State Division”), if needed, in the mediation and solution of complaints within the jurisdiction of the State Division, so as to amicably resolve such complaints, reduce tensions, build consensus, and foster harmony between the various and diverse communities within Ulster County and to otherwise report, but not initiate, any such complaints to the State Division, and shall also have the authority to create bylaws for its own governance, proceedings and activities, but shall not exercise any powers, duties or obligations not otherwise expressly set forth in General Municipal Law 12-D. The Commission is authorized to receive complaints of all persons in Ulster County with claimed human rights violations arising under any New York State, Federal or Local human rights law or regulation occurring in Ulster County and to engage all interested parties who consent to do so in an effort to mutually resolve such complaints through mediation and conciliation before the Commission or its authorized designee. In the event that no members of the Commission are able or willing to engage in mediation or conciliation of a given complaint as in the case of a conflict of interest then, subject to Legislative appropriation sufficient to pay the expense thereof in a sum not to exceed $10,000.00 per year, such complaints may be referred upon consent of all parties to the complaint, to an accredited community dispute resolution center within Ulster County operated under the auspices of Article 21-A of the Judiciary Law for the sole purpose of conducting such a non-binding mediation and conciliation as specified herein.

The Commission or its authorized designee shall actively monitor and assist persons with such claimed human rights violations through the process administered by the State Division, or pursuant to Section 5 hereof by the local Hearing Officer, for such claims that have not been successfully resolved by the Commission, or its authorized designee, through mediation and conciliation at the local level should such persons elect to file a discrimination claim with the State Division or the local Hearing Officer.

The assistance rendered under this paragraph shall not include the rendering of legal advice or legal representation to any party.

The Commission or its authorized designee shall maintain records of all complaints received by it during each calendar year and shall make a report to the County Legislature by March 31st of each year summarizing the number, type and disposition of such complaints. Such annual report shall not include names or personal identifying information of any party.

SECTION 5. Article XXX, Section C-101(B) of the Ulster County Charter is hereby amended to so read: The Commission of Human Rights shall have 11 members appointed to terms of three years, three members of whom shall be appointed by the legislative Chairman, three members by the legislative minority leader, and five members by the County Executive, one of whom shall be designated by him or her as the Commission Chairman. Appointments shall be representative of the various religious, racial, ethnic and nationality groups in Ulster County’s communities. No member of the Commission of Human Rights shall serve more than two consecutive terms of three years.

SECTION 6. INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING OFFICER.

1. An Independent Administrative Hearing Officer (“Hearing Officer”) is hereby created, established and authorized to hear complaints of persons in Ulster County with claimed human rights violations arising under any New York State, Federal or Local human rights law or regulation occurring in Ulster County where such claims have not been successfully resolved by the Commission, or its authorized designee, through mediation and conciliation at the local level, and to issue orders assessing monetary damages or other appropriate non-monetary relief where liability is determined to exist.

2. The Hearing Officer shall be appointed by the County Executive, subject to confirmation by the Legislature, and shall serve at the pleasure of the County Executive. Any Hearing Officer so appointed shall be an attorney admitted to practice law in good standing by the State of New York having been so admitted for no less than five (5) years. Such appointments shall first be made from a panel of retired Supreme Court Justices residing in Ulster County, but if none are able or willing to serve, from any eligible attorney.

3. The Hearing Officer has the authority to require the attendance of witnesses or the production of documentary evidence by subpoena.

4. The Hearing Officer may not accept any complaint hereunder unless it is accompanied by certification from the Commission that 30 days has passed since receipt of the complaint or that respondent has refused mediation and conciliation, whichever shall first occur, or in the alternative that mediation and conciliation of the complaint has been attempted but has not resolved the complaint, and by a waiver and relinquishment, sworn to by the complainant, of any and all rights to file a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights, any federal civil rights agencies, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), or with the commission on human rights of any city, town or village located in Ulster County, which is based upon the same transaction or occurrence or series of transactions or occurrences which are the subject of the complaint sought to be filed. The Hearing Officer shall promulgate and make available appropriate forms of complaints, certifications and of waiver and relinquishment.

5. The Hearing Officer shall give to respondent written notice of the complaint and an opportunity to request a hearing on the complaint.

6. The written notice shall include, at a minimum: (A) A concise statement of the factual basis for the complaint; (B) The amount of damages claimed; (C) The provisions of State, Federal or Local human rights laws or regulations alleged to have been violated by respondent; (D) The right to request a hearing on the material facts and/or the amount of the damages; and (E) A copy of the rules of the hearing procedures which have been promulgated by the Hearing Officer.

The hearing shall provide a reasonable opportunity to be heard, to assert any applicable answer, affirmative defenses, cross claims or counter claims, to move to dismiss, to crossexamine witnesses, and to present evidence free from interference, coercion, restraint, discrimination, or reprisal, and the parties shall have the right to be represented by a person of his/her choice at any stage of the hearing and proceedings at their own expense.

7. If the respondent fails to appear at the hearing without good cause being shown and the complainant presents a prima facie case against the respondent, the respondent may be found in default. The motion for default and a proposed default order shall be served by the Hearing Officer on all parties, and the defaulting party shall have twenty (20) days from service thereof to reply to the motion. The proposed default

Oct. 25, 2018 Paltz, New Paltz. townofnewpaltz.org/home/pages/ annual-happenings.

6:30pm Tai Chi. Meditation in Motion. Vince Sauter leads this weekly class. No experience necessary, wear comfortable clothes. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

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, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions. Sign-up & Sit-in Blues Jam. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

7pm-9pm Volleyball Game. 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-8pm The Five Bigs - Health Workshop.

Dr. Mark Jordan has over 45 years helping others understand and effectively apply the principles of healing. Info: 845-255-2225, drmarkjordan@ gmail.com. free.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Earl Slick & Mark Hudson “A Slick Rainbow”. Legendary rockers’ stories & music of Bowie, Lennon, Ozzy & Aerosmith, with audience Q&A! Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

order may be set aside for good cause shown in accordance with the Civil Practice Law and Rules. Default by the complainant shall result in the dismissal of the complaint with prejudice.

8. Should liability be found after a hearing, in determining the amount of monetary damages to be assessed, the Hearing Officer shall consider the seriousness of the violation(s); any history of such violations; the economic impact (benefit or harm) resulting from the violation(s) to complainant; the economic impact of the damages to be assessed to respondent; and such other factors as justice may require. Money damages, or other non-monetary relief, awarded hereunder shall constitute a judgment as that term is defined in the Civil Practice Law and Rules, which may be enforced in accordance with that statute.

9. The Hearing Officer shall establish rules and forms for discovery consistent with Article 31 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, and for administration and implementation of this section, including procedures for conducting hearings, motion practice, and other necessary proceedings.

10. Any person against whom money damages, or other non-monetary relief, are assessed under this section may obtain judicial review of such assessment in accord with Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.

11. The Hearing Officer shall maintain an abstract of all complaints received each year, which abstract shall include the date and subject matter of the complaint, the names of the parties, and the disposition of the complaint.

SECTION 6. DAMAGES. If a decision of liability is made by the Hearing Officer, money damages payable to the complaining party may be assessed of not more than $20,000, and/or such other non-monetary relief as the Hearing Officer may deem just, proper and equitable. The Hearing Officer may not award, and each party shall bear its own, attorney fees, costs and expenses.

SECTION 7. GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY/NO SPECIAL DUTY CREATED. This Local Law does not create any special duty by Ulster County. Any and all liability and consequential damage resulting from either (a) a violation of any provisions of this Local Law; or (b) the enforcement of any provisions of this Local Law is hereby disclaimed and governmental immunity is retained.

SECTION 8. SEVERABILITY. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section of part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

SECTION 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. This law shall take effect immediately upon its filing with the New York Secretary of State.

Adopted by the County Legislature: August 14, 2018 Approved by the County Executive: September 12, 2018 Filed with New York State Department of State: September 24, 2018 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 Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 2:00 PM for the Maintenance of Hydronic and Glycol Systems, #RFB-UC18-072. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.ulstercountyny.gov/ purchasing Edward Jordan, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

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Homecare Needed. Looking for Personal Care Aides for a 30-year-old quadriplegic in Olivebridge. $12 an hour, on the books.

8 a.m.-8 p.m., 8 p.m.-8 a.m. dayshift and nights. Contact Zach at 845-594-2414.

PART-TIMEâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; SCHOOL MONITORS. Working with Students within the school atmosphere. Salary $11.10/hour. SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AIDE(S). Working in classroom environment with children. Salary $13.50/hour. SUBSTITUTE SCHOOL MONITOR(S). Working within the school atmosphere with children. Salary $11.10/ hour. E-MAIL: 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.

Need Detailed Oriented Person to assist property manager full-time in daily operations of 2 Section 8 properties for senior citizens in Kingston, NY. Should have some experience working in a property management office. Must be proficient on computer w/strong phone/interpersonal skills, upbeat, fast learner, able to multi-task. Reliable person who works well under pressure. Fun environment and never boring. $15 per hour. Fax resume to 845-331-0956 or 338-9013.

Senior Spanish speaking woman Looking for Spanish speaking person for Cleaning 2x/week. Cat friendly. Call 845-443-5566 for details.

Hampton Inn, New Paltz: Housekeeper Wanted. Bring Resume to 4 South Putt

Corners Road, New Paltz. Open Interviews on Tuesday 10/30/18, Wednesday 10/31/18, Thursday 11/1/18 between 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

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Instruction

Mobile Powers offers one-to-one technology support. We specialize in Apple hardware and software in addition to Windows operating systems. Additionally, we provide a mobile computer lab for on-site instruction for multiple clients. Contact: 207-3182511 â&#x20AC;˘ cbpowers@me.com â&#x20AC;˘ www.mobilepowers.me

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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 Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-658-8766, 845-4176461 or 845-706-7197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail.com

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Woodstock- FSBO , pre-MLS, prestaging. On Overlook Mt. Spectacular 4-season views. New Kitchen, 2+ of most other rooms, + garage, 2000 sq.ft., 7.5+ acres, additional building site. $725K . Helen @ 845-706-6987 .

Mav Knolls Condo: 3-BR , 2-story Condo: ver y well run HOA . First floor: extra room with closet, full bath; kitchen, DR, LR open plan. 2nd floor: 3-BRs, 2 full Baths. Ten closets; freshly repainted, Seller will buy new stove or contribute $600. Attached garage. Available now. Call 845-943-0472 to see unit. $314,900.

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Two Parcels: 5 Acres, private road, house site, swimming pond, mountain views, $110,000. 1.5 Acres forest land, 300 ft. frontage, $40,000. Hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing trails. Saugerties. 845-2465203.

1.59 ACRES in a beautiful Saugerties cul-de-sac. Minutes from Woodstock & NYS Thruway. BOH approved for 3-bedroom dwelling. $24,500; Home ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financing w/down payment & 5-year term. Call 516-768-9885.

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Beauty Salon for rent. Fully equipped, with parking. Will renovate for other use.

10 S. Chestnut Street New Paltz. 820 square feet. Please call Wayne 845-399-9697

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100 JAMES ST., ROSENDALE, NY Old world charm with a knockENy 10/28 12 P O unda out new kitchen. Rocking chair S front porch. 3 bedrooms upstairs, full bath on each floor. Propane fireplace. Backyard has frontage on the Rondout Creek. Oversized 3-season screened porch a delight for eating & relaxing overlooking the creek. Easy walk to Main St. for all amenities. Ten minutes to New Paltz, Stone Ridge, High Falls. Call Janet Bell or Gloria Blackman today........................................................ $288,000 Main St (213) Rosendale, take Keator Ave over bridge, at stop sign continue straight onto James St, #100 on the left. !

LAKE KATRINE, NY ION CT U Beautiful 5BR 2BA D E R Ranch sits on the Esopus Creek. This home is bigger than it looks!

Entertain your friends in the huge living room or family room--walk out to the deck and take in the sounds of the creek.

Downstairs another 3 BR apartment with full bathroom, kitchen and huge living room. Separate entrance. Utilities are separate. Call Kathy Shumway today! ............. $269,000

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KINGSTON, NY Vintage 1890 4BR 3.5 BA, 3 story Victorian home lovingly restored and upgraded while keeping its period charm. Original classic oak paneling and hardwood floors, recently painted inside and out, 1st and 2nd floor windows replaced with energy efficient glass, a new gas-fired furnace, several plumbing and structural upgrades. Detached heated 2 car garage with an expansive studio/office area above with separate utilities this could be extra income potential. Call Mike Barros or Alan Kessler today! ...................... $499,000

WOODSTOCK, NY Real Estate Only for Sale! Building is extremely unique and has many uses — Spa/ salon, Art gallery, Home design, Yoga and Pilates, Tavern/Restaurant. The possibilities are endless. Call Doreen Marchisella today for more information on this listing. .............................................. $499,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300

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Highland/ Clintondale Rentals

HIGHLAND: 1-BEDROOM end unit. $925/month heat & hot water included. Private, quiet neighborhood. Private parking in front of unit. Next to Highland Town Hall/ Court on Church Street, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to SUNY New Paltz, Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. 845-4530047.

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Milton/Marlboro Rentals

Marlboro; mountain views, 1-BEDROOM, Open floor plan, 800sf Cottage. NonSmokers only. No dogs. $1100/month includes heat, trash, lawn, snow removal. 845795-5778, please leave message #.

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3-BEDROOM. Barn/loft, full of great details. $1800/month includes all utilities. No indoor smoking, vaping and no dogs. 5 minutes by CAR outside village, 10 minutes by bike. Please message 845-256-8160.

OLIVEBRIDGE, NY Rare opportunity for Commercial Mixed-Use building with long term US Post Office as anchor tenant with lease until 2021, handicap accessible, loading dock with lift in rear and plenty of parking. Upstairs is newly painted 1446 SF, apartment with 3 BR/1 BA, wood floors, washer, dryer, large balcony, lots of storage and partially finished attic. Detached 2 car garage is currently rented. Total 2932 square footage. Cap rate of 8.12%. Don’t let this one get away! Call Cheryl Nekos 954-629-7697...........................................$329,000

/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $595/month plus security.

Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. Available now. (845)664-0493.

Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

845-255-6171

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 STUDENTS/PROFESSIONALS: ROOMS AVAILABLE. Close to SUNY, New Paltz.

Newly renovated, clean, large kitchen, appliances, WiFi/computer access/TV, plenty of parking. $550/month/room, electric & heat included. Available now. 845-705-2430.

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.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for SPRING 2019 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.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $485/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845-255-6029 or 914-474-5176, leave message.

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Ridge Rentals

1-Bedroom Furnished Studio Apartment in Rosendale. Everything included. $800/ month. Close to town and Rail Trail. First, last month and security deposit required.

Call: 914-255-5634.

ROSENDALE

SPACIOUS 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT Newly remodeled w/hardwood floors, new appliances, Washer/Dryer, basement, 2-car garage, private large yard.

Quiet neighborhood. $1400/month plus utilities.

Call 845-853-5595

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

UPTOWN KINGSTON: 1 Bedroom, with EIK, LR, full bathroom, second floor, Quiet location, no smoking, no pets, $850 +utilities, first month, security, references (845)338-2139

LARGE 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT In Port Ewen.

Newly remodeled w/new appliances, hardwood floors, open kitchen & living room, washer/dryer, full basement.

Private yard & garage. $1300/month plus utilities.

Call 845-853-5595 Rifton NY; Furnished 2-Bedroom, 1 bath w/eat-in kitchen stone house. 14 acres. WB stove. Available month to month; November-April. $1500/month. Interested parties- text Iris at 845-430-7749 or email: iris@raybradleyfarm.com STUDIO/EFFICIENCY APARTMENT in uptown Kingston. Near stores & bus route.

Off-street parking. Utilities included. No

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WOODSTOCK WONDERFUL! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Everything you want on one property and all just minutes to town. Beautiful 2 acre setting encloses this super versatile Mid-Century c. 1950 one level. Main section offers HW ďŹ&#x201A;oors, brick ďŹ replace, beamed cathedral ceiling, 2 bedrooms, NEW appliances & generous deck. Adjacent 1 BR apartment has HW ďŹ&#x201A;oors & its own private deck. Perfect for guests or INCOME! Separate STUDIO w/ full bath, too!

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Bright, Spacious 4-Bedroom on second floor. In quiet neighborhood. Wood floors.

Beautiful, large yard. Rent including utilities: $1375/month. Rent and hot water only: $1150/month. Security deposit required. Available to see immediately. Call 845-331-2292.

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Krumville/ Olivebridge/ Shokan Rentals

Looking for professional, writer or artists or someone looking for peace and quiet in totally private wooded setting, Tastefully Furnished House rental w/clawfoot soaking tub, sauna, woodstove 2-BRS or studio.

Home is currently available for sale- pay less than market value, $2000 month to month, includes utilities, and must be willing to accommodate potential buyer viewings. Call Nate 315-834-0005 for details.

HURLEY MID-CENTURY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; This classic c.

1962 ranch style home has showplace potential for your modern era furniture & collectibles.

Desirable location just minutes to Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibrant Stockade District. Features include cozy fireplaces in sunken 23â&#x20AC;&#x2122; LR and den/office, built-in bookcases, formal dining room, retro period kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 car attached garage & covered patio oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;looking lush rear yard. HURRY! ............................. $295,000

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

LARGE 1-BEDROOM, newly renovated w/ skylights, aqua glass bathroom, wood floors, charming kitchen, Bluestone porch, and large screened-in gazebo w/electric. Quiet location. 1 mile to center of town. $1200/ month. Owner/Broker 845-417-5282.

STUDIO CABIN. Great eat-in kitchen, bathroom. Parking. Perfect for 1 person.

Near town but nicely secluded. $800/ month. Security, deposit, references required. Call 845-417-5282. Broker/Owner.

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Well-maintained, year-round House for quiet living, non-smoking, single/couple. Mountainside estate, Catskill views. 5 minutes Woodstock. Zoned electric heat, air-tight wood-stove, W/D, fenced lawn, bluestone patios, storage. $1200/month, security. References, credit check, lease. 845679-6430

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QUIET STUDIO APARTMENT. Skylight, separate kitchen, private covered deck, hard-wood floor, country setting, Wittenberg Road, near State Park. Free internet. Views. 20 minutes to Kingston. $825/ month plus utilities. Call 914-725-1461.

Beautiful Woodstock In-Town Carriage House Apt. w/2 decks and 2 garden areas, seasonal Mtn. View, a/c, oil heat, woodstove.

Gas stove for cooking. Wood & tile floors.

1-bedroom w/walk-in closet, vaulted living room w/patio doors to deck. Kitchen w/door to deck & fenced-in yard facing Comeau property. Tile shower & vanity w/granite top. An oasis in-town w/off-street parking & all Woodstock has to offer. Walk to NYC bus.

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CONVENIENT LAKE KATRINE RANCH Located in the town of Ulster in Lake Katrine is this 3 bedroom 1.5 bath ranch with a 1-car attached garage on just over a quarter of an acre. Open floor plan with large bright window overlooking the front yard. Dining area next to the large galley style kitchen with solid wood, maple cabinetry, new refrigerator, built-in oven, and cooktop. Off the kitchen is a large family room/ den with 1 BR & 1/2 bath. The other end of the house is a large master BR, guest BR & full bath. 3-season room off the back that has a free-standing gas stove.

House has been freshly painted inside and has been well maintained over the years. Visit the Open House this Sunday, call for directions! $245,900

dryer & laundry sink. No smokers, no dogs.

Perfect for 1 quiet, clean individual w/refs. & credit check. $1400/month plus $400 for oil heat, electric, propane for cooking, water, sewer, garbage/recycling, lawn care, snow plowing of driveway & use of pool during summer. First, last & security. Available 11/15 for 1-year lease. Call 845-901-6628.

STUDIO APARTMENT in Carriage House on horse farm in Willow, 15 minutes from Woodstock. By stream. Wood burning stove.

(With electric back-up heat). Scenic area.

Rent-free in exchange for 2 hours of farm work/day. Utilities not included. 845-6796590.

WOODSTOCK: SPACIOUS 1200 sq.ft.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT in 4-family home. Great storage. Small deck. Eat-in windowed kitchen. Freshly painted w/new appliances. First month & security. $1350/ month includes heat, HW, sewer, trash, plowing. Tenant responsible for electric. 1 pet TBD w/pet fee. 914-649-5274 for appointment.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT on second floor. Center of town. Parking. Private deck.

Electric heat. Convenient to bus, shops & restaurants. $850/month plus utilities. 845853-2994.

WOODSTOCK COTTAGE; 1 mile from town. 1-bedroom, Galley kitchen w/lots of cabinets, stone fireplace, beamed A-frame ceiling, full bath, deck, nice grounds. $1075/ month. Owner/broker 845-417-5282.

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QUIET STUDIO APARTMENT. Skylight, separate kitchen, private covered deck, hard-wood floor, country setting, Wittenberg Road, near State Park. Free internet.

Views. 20 minutes to Kingston. $825/ month plus utilities. Call 914-725-1461.

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BEAUTIFUL, SPACIOUS FARMHOUSE. Monthly/Winter rental. Woodstock/Mt. Tremper. 3-bedroom, 2400 sq.ft. renovated 1880s farmhouse with large country kitchen, LR, den, office. 7 minutes to town.

Charming, high ceilings, light. $1800/ month + utilities. 917-328-3042.

$1500/3BR HOUSE CLOSE TO TOWN DECEMBER 1 - APRIL 1 Beautiful Woodstock home for rent.

Five minutes to center of town.

Furnished. Free cable, internet, heat.

All new appliances in kitchen.

Three bedrooms and home office.

Large living/ dining areas and kitchen.

Downstairs room great for studio.

Beautiful screened in porch.

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CHARMING, ANTIQUE 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE conveniently located between Woodstock & Phoenicia. Beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Available furnished/unfurnished. 1 dog TBD. Views. $2500/month.

Landlord is licensed Real estate sales person 845-802-4777.

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For Sale

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.

Pottery equipment for sale: Southern Ice Porcelain Clay (new, in 22# bags); Talisman sieve ($75); Large compressor; Paint sprayer; Gas kiln with shelves ($600, 1988 18/12 cu ft. Bailey Studio Propane Gas Kiln with 16 Shelves and fluke pyrometer); Giffin grip $50. 845-616-0710.

Call/Text Any Time 845-901-7379

Artic Cat 500cc 4-Wheeler. Has tracks in place of all wheels; comes with original wheels, tires, snowplow, low hours (157hrs). $5400. Call 657-6357.

Rolex, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, Breitling, IWC, Zenith, Panerai, Cartier, Piaget, Patek Philippe, and other quality makers in working and non-working condition.

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Snow Plowing

Snow Plowing. *Free Estimates * Insured * Commercial & Residential* Give us a call (845)810-0428.

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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.

FULLY INSURED

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LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING

ALLEN LAWLESS • 845-247-2838 SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK CELL.: 845-399-9659

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Hunting/Fishing Sporting Goods

We Buy Entire Estates or Single Items.

Actively Seeking Gold and Diamond Jewelry of any kind, Sterling, Flatware & Jewelry.

Furniture, Antiques through Mid-Century.

We Gladly do House Calls. Free Appraisals.

We also do Estate/Tag Sales.

35 years experience. One Call Does It All. Call or text anytime 24/7.

617-981-1580

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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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Yard & Garage Sales

MOWER’S SATURDAY/SUNDAY FLEA MARKET; Maple Lane, Woodstock. Weekends through October & Veteran’s Day weekend- 11/10 & 11/11. Antiques, collectibles, produce & Reusables. 845-679-6744.

Join us for our 41st Year! For brochure: w o o d s t o c k f l e a m a r k e t @ h v c . r r. c o m GOOGLE US!

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Professional Services

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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.)

CASH PAID 657-6252

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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Personal & Health Services

SPORT OF IRON FITNESS- A Culture of Strength. NOW OFFERING $35/MONTH OPEN GYM. *State of the Art Strength Training Equipment* *Powerlifting, Strongman, Olympic Lifting Equipped* *9000 sq.ft. facility including 1400 sq.ft. of turf. Group Training Sessions - Registered Dietician - Youth Programs - Personal Training. 120 State Route 28, Kingston. Call Today 845-853-8189.

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Art Services

HABE HABERWASH PRESSURE WASHING PRE & EXTERIOR PAINTING & STAINING. Residential and Commercial Residentia Specializing in decks, fences, roofs, driveways, patios.

FREE ESTIMATES, FULLY INSURED Accepting All Major Credit Cards

845-331-4966, 845-249-8668 Visit my website: Haberwash.com QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980

*CONSCIOUS CLEANING, CONSCIOUS ORGANIZING!* ZEN ENERGY w/a DERVISH APPROACH. ATTENTION TO DETAIL. PUNCTUAL. METHODICAL. LET’S SHIFT THE ENERGY & PUT CLARITY & BEAUTY BACK IN YOUR HOME. ALLERGIC TO CATS. ROSENDALE-KINGSTON-SAUGERTIES-WEST HURLEYWOODSTOCK. ROBYN 845-339-9458.

ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO. **Estate, **Residential. **Free Estimates, Fully Insured.

Call 679-3879 Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932 CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)688-2253.

Residential, Commercial Cleaning. SPECIAL FOR SENIORS: basic clean 2-bedroom/1 bath- $60. Rentals, All services offered. Green/all natural supplies. Flexible schedule. 7 day service. Insured. Free estimates. FALL CLEANUP- ask about services. 845-235-6701.

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Help at Home Available. Animal Care, Gardening, Housekeeping Available. Call Sam at 845-943-9796.

• Int. & Ext. painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com

Gary Buckendorf Painting: Interior - Exterior Plastering, Taping, Structolite Wall coverings, Color Matching Many references in Catskill area and Manhattan garybuckendorf@gmail.com

917-593-5069

HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut.

Call Dave 845-514-6503- mobile.

House & Estate Cleanouts, Junk Removal, Dump Runs. Helping homeowners, realtors and property managers for 20 years. One call, it’s gone! Senior & disabled discounts.

845-247-7365. GarysHauling.com

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Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc. www.stoneridgeelectric.com

• LED Lighting

• Standby Generators

• Heated bathroom floor tiles

24 Months to Pay, 0% Interest (if qualified)

• Service Upgrades • Roof deicing cables

Authorized Dealer & Installer Low-Rate Financing Available

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Building Services

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Painting/Odd Jobs

EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, cleanouts. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

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TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly rentals.

We have Gray, white, blue, tan, green (pinescented), pink (rose-scented), red & blue handicap accessible. (We also have a few w/ sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc.

Call 845-658-8766, 845-417-6461 or 845706-7197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail. com

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Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253 “ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura, since 1997.

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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.

sultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. (845)332-7577. Senior Discount. References. Free Estimates.

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Cleaning Services

Excellent references.

LET ME HELP YOU ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE. PERSONAL ASSISTANT, 18 years experience. Home Office Admin. Shopping, errands, cooking. Home Organization. Karen Sawdey 845-443-6296. Full or half days available.

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.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable.

Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured.

MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar1@gmail.com (845)6796242.

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GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you. Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 90 Dug Hill Rd., Hurley, NY. 914-388-9286

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Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

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Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate

845-591-8812

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HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates.

References available. (845)616-7470.

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We have wonderful adult cats at the Saugerties Animal Shelter! Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for homes where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be loved, cared for and given the kindness all animals deserve.

In return, you will get unconditional love and a companion of a lifetime. Why adult cats? You know how large or small theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be, their temperament which, by the way, only gets sweeter when taken out of the stress of being in a cage in a shelter. Speak to Elly, Morgan, or any of the volunteers to see which one or ones would do best in your home. All adult cats have been spayed/neutered, up to date w/shots and litter pan trained. SALLY; gorgeous cat girl whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approximately 1-year old. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white w/gray markings and green/gold eyes. Sally could be one of the sweetest cats ever!! ATHENA; 2-year old affectionate black and white tuxedo cat girl. She was a wonderful mama to many kittens; so wonderful that she took in some orphaned babies and loved them like they were her own. Athena does well w/other respectful kitties. BOBBI; approximately 2/3 years old. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white w/gray stripes. If you have attention to give, Bobbi will happily be on the receiving end. REBEL; less than a year old handsome boy (all white w/a

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black tail) & loves other kitties. Do you have a kitty who needs a BFF? DOLLY; approximately 2-years old mostly gray w/white paws, a white bib and chin. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outgoing, beautiful and would love to be your one and only! MOO; 2-year old black & white cat girl. A laid back gal & was a great mama to her kittens. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her turn to be loved.

BRITTANY; approximately 3-years old mostly black cat girl w/a white bib & muzzle.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love a home where she could be the star of the show. CINNAMON; handsome 10-year old orange cat boy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a terrible year. First his caregiver, whom he loved dearly, passed away. Then, in his next home, the resident cat & dog didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want another brother and were mean to Cinnamon. Now Cinnamon has been in a cage for many months just waiting to be loved again. Saugerties Animal Shelter can welcome you Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Call (845)679-0339. MEOW!!!

AKC Cocker Spaniels. Beautiful pups. Vet checked, first shots. Also, stud dogs. Breeding 33 years. Visit website: breeders.net (google); email: harmonyhr@aol.com. Call 845-687-7978. Reasonable. Terms available. Harmony ToKalon Kennels.

Want to help but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t adopt a cat? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about our Foster Program! Visit our website UCSPCA.org, for details & pictures 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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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 347-258-2725.

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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Boats/ Recreational Vehicles

Artic Cat 500cc 4-Wheeler. Has tracks in place of all wheels; comes with original wheels, tires snowplow, low hours (157hrs). $5400. Call 657-6357.

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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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BMW 2006 530XI Sedan; (Woodstock).

Great condition inside/out. AWD. Perfect for country driving every season. Very comfortable. Heated steering wheel/seats. Sunroof. 150k. Clean CarFax. Most major mechanical parts that tend to be a problem at y this mileage replaced within last year.

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HOU

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BAL

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SEATTLE AT DETROIT

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SEA

DET

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8 5 63 36 NO

10 3 62 37 MIN

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58

48

49

61

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