Almanac Weekly #49 2019

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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 49 | Dec. 5 – 12 Holiday Celebration of Lights, fireworks & parade in Poughkeepsie | Winter Walk in Hudson | Snowflake Festival in Uptown Kingston Music Hunter Gathering: Celebrating the life and art of Robert Hunter | Haley Heynderickx at BSP Night Sky Best Moon of 2019 Movie Knives Out serves up murder with a sociopolitical twist | Hollywood-on-Hudson: Mohonk hosts Billions as local filmmaking ramps up

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A loving homage to all the classic whodunits that have gone before (especially in the Agatha Christie mode), Knives Out addresses the problem of every possible plot twist having already been used at least once by introducing a topical subtext of class warfare and anti-immigrant bias. It’s not mere PC window-dressing; it drives the plot in ways that can’t be ignored.

Knives Out serves up murder with a timely sociopolitical twist

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ow I wish I had managed to catch an advance screening of Rian Johnson’s new feature Knives Out! Then I could have alerted Almanac readers a week earlier to a fabulous opportunity for something to do with visiting relatives over the long holiday weekend: Say, batting your eyelashes all innocently, “Hey, let’s go catch a movie!� to that racist uncle who made you listen to him pontificate about how “Our ancestors immigrated here legally� over Thanksgiving dinner. Let him hear how absurd that rant sounds, coming pitch-perfect out of the mouth of one of the obnoxious nouveau-riche Thrombey clan (in this case, son-in-law Richard, played by Don Johnson). It would’ve been a juicy moment.

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immigrant bias. It’s not mere PC windowdressing; it drives the plot in ways that can’t be ignored, and it makes this otherwise-conventional murder mystery a tale that’s truly of and for our times.

The setup is one we’ve certainly seen before: A wealthy man of advanced age invites his grasping relatives to his morbidbric-a-brac-filled mansion for a party, and in the course of the evening, at least one of his presumed heirs finds out something about his or her inheritance that is not to his or her advantage. By morning, the old man is dead. The bumbling police inspectors declare it a suicide. Everyone on the scene has a motive for murder, and everyone has an alibi, some flimsier than others.

Enter the brilliant private investigator, who doesn’t even know who hired him.

Benoit Blanc is portrayed with great glee and a thick Deep South accent by Daniel Craig. Presumably the director, who also wrote the screenplay, wanted to make sure that viewers didn’t think they were watching James Bond, and he gives Craig license to wallow in a geographically unplaceable drawl as Blanc

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waxes philosophical about his pursuit of the truth. It’s not the worst-ever effort of a talented British actor at replicating an American regional dialect (I’d hand those wilted laurels to Tom Wilkinson as LBJ in Selma), but when one of the Thrombey scions accuses Blanc of doing a Foghorn Leghorn impression, he pretty much nails it.

Craig isn’t the only actor here who seems to be having altogether too much fun in Knives Out. Christopher Plummer – whom we see mainly in flashbacks of the night of the crime from various points of view, since his character dies almost immediately – is delicious as Harlan Thrombey, who made his fortune writing extremely popular mystery novels and therefore tends to stay a step or two ahead of his scheming relatives. Jamie Lee Curtis plays his daughter Linda, who’s in real estate and married to the abovementioned Richard; Chris Evans is their playboy son who goes by his middle name, Ransom.

Widowed daughter-in-law Joni (Toni Collette) makes no discernible living as a “lifestyle guru” and has a “woke” daughter in college, Meg (Katherine Langford).

Younger son Walt (Michael Shannon) runs a publishing empire fueled entirely

by Harlan’s best-sellers; he and wife Donna (Riki Lindhome) have a teenaged son, Jacob (Jaeden Martell), who’s a fulltime Internet troll of the 4Chan variety.

Harlan’s offspring are so awful – blithely describing themselves as “self-made” despite their obvious dependence on the paterfamilias who set them up in business – that we seem to be headed for an “everybodydunit” denouement, as in Murder on the Orient Express. It’s nothing so simple, of course.

Harlan’s ancient, doddering, seemingly oblivious mother Wanetta (K Callan) is also on the scene. Then there are the household staff: Fran (Edi Patterson), the housekeeper who discovers the corpse, and Marta (Ana de Armas), the dedicated Latina nurse who has long taken care of Harlan, administered his meds and become his confidante. It’s a running joke that all of the younger Thrombeys have different notions of her country of origin, and they treat her like a maid.

Rounding out the cast (aside from cameos

by Frank Oz and M. Emmet Walsh) are the two cops: Noah Segan gets some funny moments as the goofy sidekick who’s a mystery-novel fanboy, but Lakeith Stanfield, who was such a delight as the lead character in Sorry to Bother You, is largely wasted as the straight man of the duo. That’s part of the price one pays with such a large acting ensemble: Not every character gets a chance to shine. Much more could have been done with the altright grandson, for example. Overall, we get it that this family is a nest of vipers, shining examples of contemporary white privilege at its smuggest and most hypocritical.

The breakout role here belongs to de Armas, whom Blanc immediately identifies as his trustworthy key to reconstructing what he presumes is a murder. Most conveniently (and this is Rian Johnson’s least plausible narrative ploy), Marta is a sort of human lie detector. Due to some past trauma, she cannot lie, or knowingly listen to someone else do so, without vomiting. That doesn’t mean that she has no secrets of her own – including the fact that her mother is an undocumented immigrant who could be exposed by someone who wants to

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On December 2 and 3, Mohonk Mountain House served as a set for a party scene in the fifth season of the Showtime series Billions, which stars Paul Giamatti as a US attorney (loosely based on Preet Bharara) and Damian Lewis (shown above) as the hedge fund tycoon he’s pursuing.

manipulate Marta. Thus the plot thickens.

To say much more would spoil the abundant fun of Knives Out. Visually witty and stylish to match the cleverly twisty, snark-laden script, it’s one of the most enjoyable romps to hit the big screen this whole year. And it might even give that racist uncle some incentive to rethink his assumptions about brown people who are new to America.

– Frances Marion Platt

Hollywoodon-Hudson Mohonk hosts Billions as local filmmaking ramps up ver since New York State tax credits for filmmaking projects were expanded in Ulster County in 2016, we’ve become a hotbed of production for both the large and small screen. Last time Almanac Weekly took a deep dive into what movie and TV projects were tying up our roadways and lining up our citizens for casting calls, the excitement was mainly focused on I Know This Much Is True, Derek Cianfrance’s HBO series starring Mark Ruffalo, Kathryn Hahn and Melissa Leo. The massive undertaking wrapped in October after a full year of production, its 200-or-so days of shooting including plenty of exteriors in the Mount Carmel neighborhood – Poughkeepsie’s Little Italy – and a scene

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involving a schoolbus that required shutting down a section of Route 209 in the Town of Ulster last April. But a lot of other such projects have been shooting in our region in recent months. Seems like high time for an update.

On December 2 and 3, Mohonk Mountain House served as a set for a party scene in the fifth season of the Showtime series Billions, which stars Paul Giamatti as a US attorney (loosely based on Preet Bharara) and Damian Lewis as the hedge fund tycoon he’s pursuing. A call went out in mid-November for New Paltz area residents to audition as background extras for the scene, where they portrayed “wealthy upscale eventgoers.”

Also currently filming – primarily in Ulster and Dutchess Counties, according to Laurent Rejto of the Hudson Valley Film Commission – and set to wrap in early December is Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Things Heard and Seen, a thriller feature for Netflix. It’s based on Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear, which is set primarily in a (possibly haunted) farmhouse. One

scene was reportedly shot at the Red Hook Public Library. Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer and F. Murray Abraham star, but Rejto reports, “In addition to providing locations, the Film Commission recommended over 25 local crew hires, including the background casting agency that has hired hundreds of regional actors.”

Already wrapped are two projects that took over sections of the City of Kingston in recent months. Monsterland, an anthology series for Hulu based on Nathan Ballingrud’s Shirley Jackson Award-winning short story collection North American Lake Monsters and directed by Babak Anvari, required the closing of sections of North Front, John and Wall Streets in the Uptown Stockade District for three days in mid-November.

The historic neighborhood will stand in for New Orleans in the Southern Gothicflavored episode, starring Kaitlyn Dever and Jonathan Tucker.

For several weeks in late June and early July, there was barely a parking space to be found for residents of the Rondout District, especially surrounding the Wurts Street Bridge, which spans the Rondout Creek connecting Kingston with the Town of Esopus hamlet of Connelly. Production buses lined up nose-to-tail gobbled up on-street parking for blocks around, and jammed the parking lots of the waterfront neighborhood’s many churches. The bridge was the focal point for a dramatic sequence – including helicopter shots – in The Undoing, an HBO miniseries starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland. Susanne Bier directed the show, which is based on the novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. This production also involved a temporary closure of Route 209, and some green-screen scenes requiring more than 250 crew took place at Tech City, Kingston’s former IBM campus.

Noah Jupe, the young actor who portrays the son of Kidman and Grant’s characters in The Undoing, had a busy summer with several visits to the midHudson. He had already made an impression on local moviegoers with his role as a kid hiding from sound-sensitive

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alien monsters in A Quiet Place, shot in 2017 in Pawling, Beacon and New Paltz.

Although that character’s father died at the end of the first film, John Krasinski returned wearing his director’s hat for A Quiet Place 2, also starring Emily Blunt.

While the sequel filmed primarily in Erie County, new scenes were shot in September 2019 at locations that had become iconic in AQP 1, including the Pawling farmhouse and the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail bridge in New Paltz. A portion of West Dover Road/County Route 20 in the Towns of Dover and Pawling was shut down for several days of filming.

Also in September, Kingston played host to some scenes from The Plot against America, the new HBO miniseries created

by The Wire’s David Simon, based on Philip Roth’s alternate-history novel about the fortunes of a Jewish family from New Jersey when Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR for the presidency in 1940 and America begins to embrace antiSemitism. Starring SUNY-New Paltz graduate John Turturro, Winona Ryder and Zoe Kazan, the show used locations in Bearsville, Coxsackie and Hudson as well. “We found everything we were looking for locally: 1940s picture cars, props and period-correct set dressing, facility support, a local contractor who built us a dirt road, a horse wrangler – the list goes on. Everyone went out of their way to make it happen for us,” line producer Joe Guest wrote appreciatively.

“The Hudson Valley Film Commission provided exceptional support from Day One.” Earlier this year, Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) came to Orange and Dutchess Counties, primarily Fishkill, to shoot the twisty horror film I’m Thinking of Ending Things, based on Iain Reid’s novel of the same name, for Netflix. Kaufman’s first movie since his 2015 animated feature Anomalisa, its cast includes Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis and Abby Quinn. The latter got her start as a teenaged actress in The Sisterhood of Night, a low-budget indie film shot in Kingston that premiered at the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival.

Two other films shot locally were nominated in late November for four Film Independent Spirit Awards. Diane, directed by Kent Jones and largely shot in Rosendale, Kingston and Saugerties, is a nominee in two categories: Best First Feature and Best Female Lead for Mary Kay Place. Driveways also got two nominations: Best Female Lead for Hong Chau and Best First Screenplay for Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen. Directed

by Andrew Ahn and also starring Brian Dennehy, Driveways was filmed in Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, New Paltz, Rosendale and Kingston. And among the three nominees for the $50,000 Bonnie Award for a mid-career female director (sponsored by American Airlines in honor of Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo, who in 1973

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his weekend, the Ulster Ballet Company will present its 25th anniversary season of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic A Christmas Carol, exquisitely choreographed and directed by Sara Miot, formerly of the New York City Ballet. Featuring a cast of more than 60 dancers, actors and stage professionals from the Hudson Valley, the company presents this heartwarming and emotional tale of redemption through the use of narration and dance. With great lighting, special effects and colorful costumes, A Christmas Carol boasts breathtaking backdrops designed and painted by local artist Leslie Bender.

Performances take place at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 6, 4 p.m. on Saturday, December 7 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 8. Tickets cost $25 general admission, $22 for senior citizens and Bardavon members and $18 for children 12 and under.

To purchase tickets, call the UPAC box office at (845) 339-6088 or Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

In an effort to reach out to the community, the Ulster Ballet Company is offering a discounted ticket price of $18 to employees of HealthQuest; Health Alliance; Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center; Marist, Bard, UCCC and Vassar Colleges; City of Kingston and County of Ulster employees; and members of the YMCA. Present your employee/student ID or membership card to the UPAC box office when purchasing tickets.

Ulster Ballet Company’s A Christmas Carol, Friday-Sunday, Dec. 6-8, 7:30 p.m./4 p.m./2 p.m., $25/$22/$18, Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, (845) 339-6088

became the first female pilot to fly for a major US airline) is Kelly Reichardt, who’s a faculty member at Bard College.

All in all, our neck of the woods’ ascendancy as Hollywood-on-Hudson continues apace. In Laurent Rejto’s view, 2019 has quite simply been “the most successful year to date for regional film and TV production.”

– Frances Marion Platt

“Live radio” version of It’s a Wonderful Life opens at Shadowland It’s that time of year when people

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have already been asked, probably more than once, to respond to the question, “What’s your favorite Christmas movie?” One of the most popular answers, if not the most popular, is always the 1946 Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life. If this fanciful tale of small-town redemption is close to your own heart, you won’t have much difficulty finding it televised somewhere, now that Thanksgiving is past.

You might even own a copy on DVD. But have you ever seen it done live?

There’s a terrific stage adaptation of the screenplay by Joe Landry, in the format of a 1940s radio show, complete with vintage-sounding musical commercial breaks. Each actor is expected to take

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on multiple parts, changing his or her voice while standing at the microphone.

Foley artists are employed to create the sound effects. The Rosendale Theatre mounted a very successful production of this version of It’s a Wonderful Life in 2013 and reprised it in 2014; Half Moon Theater performed it in 2014 as well, at the Culinary Institute of America. It’s a stage vehicle that bears frequent revival – and now it’s time for Shadowland Stages to get into the act.

Brendan Burke directs It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play for three weekends in December at the former vaudeville venue in Ellenville. The cast includes Emma Currie Smith, Ally Farzetta, Robert Anthony Jones, Kate McMorran, Justin Pietropaolo and Michael Irvin Pollard. Previews will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 6 and 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 7 (kids can take a Foley workshop at noon that Saturday as part of the Wawarsing Wassail event, and literally chime in during the matinée performance). Curtain time for the official Opening Night performance is 7 p.m. on December 7, and on every Friday and Saturday evening thereafter, with Sunday matinées at 2 p.m., through December 22.

Ticket prices for It’s a Wonderful Life at Shadowland are $31 for previews, $39 for evening performances and $34 for matinées. To order, call the box office at (845) 647-5511 or visit https:// shadowlandstages.org/2019-season/itsa-wonderful-life.

– Frances Marion Platt

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NIGHT SKY

Best Moon of 2019

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o most people, the lunar phase that first comes to mind is “Full Moon,” with “crescent” serving as runner-up. Cartoonists portraying a night sky always include one of those two. Ask friends to name a lunar phase and you can count on no one saying “First Quarter” or “Last Quarter.” Many don’t even know that those are the names of the Half Moons – or appreciate the oddity that only in astronomy do “half ” and “quarter” mean the same thing.

Another fully ignored phase is “gibbous,” even though, each month, the Moon appears gibbous for more nights than any other phase! For the record, the Gibbous Moon is sort of football-shaped.

It’s defined as a Moon that’s fatter than half but less than full.

Now, December, is when the Full Moon gets highest in the sky of the entire year. So moonlight is at its brightest. Let’s celebrate that by giving it some attention during this lunation. It so happens that, right now – from Thursday through Monday nights, December 6 through the 9th – the Moon is gibbous, positioned and also illuminated at its very best.

That’s because the action already began on Wednesday the 4th, the First Quarter Moon, illuminated on its right side, which stood highest at sunset. Now, Thursday, a gibbous just a tiny bit fatter than half is highest up at nightfall: just perfect.

Experienced observers know that only around the half phase, or a day or two later, can

Moonlight is at its brightest. Let’s celebrate that by giving it some attention during this lunation.

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A Christmas Carol opens this Friday at Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck

Singing Anchors Sunday, Dec. 15, 12:30 p.m. $30 Venue Uptown, Best Western Plus 503 Washington Ave., Kingston

The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck presents its 14th annual production of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. The production is directed by Diana di Grandi, adapted

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Copernicus, a magnificent, isolated crater with terraced walls, is regarded by many as the Moon’s most handsome feature. It’s now at its best.

they see optimally illuminated craters near the middle of the Moon, rather than those closer to the edge that are foreshortened and have a faraway appearance. So, people who enjoy up-close lunar features (and who doesn’t?) drool on their eyepieces when they point any telescope – even a small cheap one – at the Moon these nights.

Even naked-eye, the current slightly gibbous Moon vividly pops out as it hovers against the darkest, most polarized part of the blue sky, smack on the meridian at dusk. And there, right on its own sunset line, stand the magnificent Lunar Apennines, the Moon’s most striking mountains.

Saturday and Sunday night, that same shadow line, the Terminator, uncovers Copernicus, a magnificent, isolated crater with terraced walls. Regarded by many as the Moon’s most handsome feature, it’s now at its best. If you only have binoculars, brace your elbows steadily and you’ll see Copernicus even with just that low magnification.

Because December gives us the Moon at its best. And this week is the absolute optimum time.

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

tion by Paul and JoAnne Schubert.

Regular shows run on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between December 6 and 21. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 8 p.m., Sunday shows at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $27.

The final performance of A Christmas Carol, on Sunday, December 22, will be a fundraiser for the Center. Carols will be distributed so that the audience may participate in this sing-along show. Drinks will flow, goodies will be provided and

Santa will show. It’s a $50 ticket, and all proceeds will benefit the Center.

A Christmas Carol Friday-Sunday, Dec. 6-22 8 p.m./3 p.m.

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Will Nixon reads from the new Pocket Guide to Woodstock at Golden Notebook on Friday For an insider’s take on the most famous little town where that infamous rock concert did not take place, The Pocket Guide to Woodstock, by poet/publisher/ artist/part-time gallery-owner Will Nixon, is the perfect gift purchase this holiday season. Nixon spent the better part of last spring and summer wandering through the village, checking in with the people and places featured in the original edition that was published in 2012 and poring over the material. He found that, though the history of the village is unchanged, folks were eager to talk about it all over again. Stories came at him. New places and characters have emerged. Readers will take a walking tour and head out to local nature preserves. And they’ll learn more about the history of the arts colony and the remarkable casts of artists, musicians and independent icons who’ve made the town legendary.

Now celebrating the tenth anniversary of Bushwhack Books, Nixon looks back fondly on his long collaboration with Michael Perkins. Their idea to walk across Woodstock grew into the “Walking Woodstock” column for the Woodstock Times, which led to Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town, Perkins’ The Woodstock Flaneur: A Saunterer’s Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Famous Small Town and Nixon’s Acrostic Woodstock, a town portrait in poems. No surprise that in 2018, the Woodstock Land Conservancy honored the authors with its

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William R. Ginsberg Stewardship Award.

Nixon will be at the Golden Notebook as part of the Woodstock Holiday Open House this Friday evening.

– Ann Hutton Author signing: Will Nixon, The Pocket Guide to Woodstock Friday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m.

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Global Write for Rights at Rough Draft this Sunday Amnesty International USA MidHudson hosts a Global Write for Rights event at (where else?) Rough Draft in Kingston on Sunday, December 8. Join thousands around the world to write a letter to challenge systemic human rights abuses like torture, the death penalty and gun violence and to stand up for women’s rights, LGBTQI+ rights and climate justice. This year, letters will be written on behalf of ten youth human rights defenders.

The cases include José Adrián, arrested and beaten by police in Mexico; indigenous Anishinaabe Grassy Narrows youth, growing up with mercury poison in Canada; Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, fighting against the climate crisis in the Philippines; and Yasaman Aryani, in prison for advocating for women’s rights in Iran.

Global Write for Rights Sunday, Dec. 8, 1-4 p.m.

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Release party at Spotty Dog this Sunday for William Shannon’s The River’s Never Full Two-Headed Calf Press and Spotty Dog Books and Ale in Hudson host a release party and book-signing for William Shannon’s new novel Th e River’s Never Full on Sunday, December 8. Shannon’s novel is a work of great regional significance. Based on a controversial 2012 incident, it follows a group of eccentric anglers who face eviction from their long-held river shanties on public land in Hudson.

A young newspaper reporter is fascinated with the shanty-dwellers and seeks to make sense of their plight.

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OLD DUTCH CHURCH HOSTS DZIECI THEATRE’S FOOLS MASS IN KINGSTON ON SUNDAY

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here being no historical record of Jesus’ actual birthdate, the early Church assigned it a date close to the Winter Solstice and the feast of Saturnalia, when Romans were already used to taking a couple of weeks off from work to party. The Roman custom of celebrating Saturnalia with a temporary topsy-turvy social order, during which servants were permitted to lord it over their masters, persisted well after the Christianization of Europe. In his Anatomy of Abuses in England in Shakspere’s Youth (1583), the pamphleteer Phillip Stubbes railed against the ongoing practice of a Lord of Misrule being appointed by a mob to take over a country church at Christmastime.

That odd tradition has largely been forgotten, but the Brooklyn-based Dzieci Theatre – known hereabouts for its performances of Makbet at Opus 40 – does its best to keep the memory alive via a performance that the troupe calls Fools Mass (with no apostrophe). In Dzieci’s living example of Holy Theatre, a group of medieval village idiots are forced to enact their own Mass, due to the untimely death of their beloved pastor. Bursting with buffoonery and comic audience participation, Fools Mass is balanced with lovely hymns and chants dating from the eighth to the 14th century, creating a work that has been Dzieci’s signature piece since 1998.

On Sunday, December 8 at 4 p.m., Dzieci brings Fools Mass to the Old Dutch Church in Kingston’s Uptown Stockade District. A light supper and conversation with the actors will follow the performance. It’s family-friendly fare, and admission is by a free-will offering. To learn more about the piece, visit http://dziecitheatre. org/the-work/fools-mass.

– Frances Marion Platt Fools Mass with Dzieci Theatre, Sunday, Dec. 8, 4-5 p.m., Free/donation, Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St., Kingston, (845)338-6759

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The River’s Never Full release party Sunday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.

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Pearl Harbor book talk with Lew Paper at FDR Library this Saturday

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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a Pearl Harbor author talk and booksigning with Lew Paper, author of In the Cauldron: Terror, Tension and the American Ambassador’s Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor, on Saturday December 7. In the Cauldron recounts the story of Joseph Grew, America’s ambassador to Japan. It documents Grew’s frantic effort in the months before the Pearl Harbor attack to orchestrate an agreement between Japan and the US and avert the war that he saw coming. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

Upcoming Events Shamanic Drum Circle w/shamanic healer Rebecca Singer Mon. Dec 9 6:30-7:30PM $10 The 60’s Resurrected: Astrological Aspects of the 2020’s w/ astrologer Alexander Mallon Fri. Dec 13 6-8PM $20/$25* Private Astrological Readings w/Alexander Mallon Sat. Dec 14 12-6PM - by appointment $75 for 60 minutes /$125 for 90 minutes *Lower price for early reg./pre-payment made at least 48 hrs. in advance

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Lew Paper book talk Saturday, Dec. 7, 2 p.m.

Free/preregister FDR Presidential Library & Home 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park (845) 486-7745 www.fdrlibrary.org

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Young Voices for the Planet workshop at SUNY-New Paltz

We’ve all been hearing a lot of late about Greta Thunberg, but she’s not the only young person out there trying to save the planet from climate change. Lynne Cherry, an author and illustrator of popular children’s books including The Great Kapok Tree and A River Ran Wild, who recently relocated to New Paltz, is the originator, producer and director of a film series called Young Voices for the Planet.

She’ll be offering a workshop aimed at educators, followed by a book-signing, at SUNY-New Paltz on Tuesday, December 10.

The mission of the Young Voices for the Planet series is to limit the magnitude of climate change and its impacts by empowering children and youth, through uplifting and inspiring success stories, to take an essential role in informing their communities and society at large, challenging decisionmakers and catalyzing change. The films document youth speaking out and creating solutions to the climate crisis, including stories of California kids banning plastic bags, Florida students saving their school $53,000 in energy costs and an 11-yearold German boy planting millions of trees.

The Benjamin Center and the MidHudson Teacher Center will sponsor Cherry’s visit to Room 215 in the Old Main Building on the SUNY campus from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on December 10.

To register, visit https://bit.ly/2Dg565p or e-mail mhtcnp@gmail.com. To learn more about Young Voices for the Planet, visit https://youngvoicesfortheplanet.com.

Young Voices for the Planet Tuesday, Dec. 10, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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hough the event has happened annually for the past 23 years, and has turned into a destination for out-oftowners, drawing some 20,000 participants last year, Hudson’s Winter Walk has prided itself from the get-go on a spirit of spontaneity. It started out as a way for a resurging urban area to encourage after-dark visitation, as antique stores and art galleries began to snap up vacant storefronts and industrial buildings one by one. Performances by modern dancers, a saxophone-playing Santa and the like, who used to appear in store windows on the evening of the Walk, have now had to relocate outdoors as the Warren Street corridor boomed. Some aspects of the event, such as the fireworks that cap it off, remain constant, however.

From 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 7, a mile stretch of downtown Hudson will be lit up with festive window displays, roamed by horse-drawn carriages, carolers, buskers and Christmastime cosplayers, with music coming from every arts venue, tavern and restaurant doorway and free or discounted treats offered by shops all along the way. Mr. & Mrs. Claus hold court at Hudson Hall. There’s plenty of kid-friendly activities, so bundle up the whole family to be ready for a full evening of fun – and arrive early to find a good parking spot nearby, as Warren Street will be closed to traffic. Municipal parking lots can be found on Columbia, Union and Warren Streets, at the John L. Edwards Elementary School, the Consolidated Firehouse at Seventh and Washington and the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park. County lots on Columbia and State Streets will also be available.

For more details about Winter Walk, visit https://hudsonhall.org/winter-walk-2.

Winter Walk, Saturday, Dec. 7, 5-8 p.m., Free, Warren St. & environs, Hudson, https://hudsonhall.org/winter-walk-2

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org

Poughkeepsie’s Celebration of Lights returns on Friday

Biodiversity talk to be podcast live from Cary Institute on Friday The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook presents “Big Biology Podcast Live: Is Biodiversity Good for Our Health?” a talk with ecologists Felicia Keesing and Rick Ostfeld on Friday, December 6. Join the Cary Institute for a live taping of the podcast and discover how diverse ecosystems affect disease risk for people, wildlife and plants. Having a diversity of plants and animals around us makes the world a richer, more interesting place. But can diversity also be good for our health? Hosts Marty Martin and Art Woods will lead the conversation with Felicia Keesing, the David & Rosalie Rose distinguished professor of the Sciences, Mathematics and Computing at Bard College, and with Rick Ostfeld, a distinguished senior scientist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. This event is free.

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Home float, Red Knights Motorcycle Club, Roaring Thunder Car Club and Arlington Auto and Tire. Also joining in the parade will be performances by Armof-the-Sea Theatre, the Vanaver Caravan and Nego Gato African Drumming & Dance, with 200 children from Warring, Morse, Clinton and Kreiger elementary schools. Finally, Santa Claus will arrive on a City of Poughkeepsie fire engine.

Parking is readily available in City of Poughkeepsie municipal lots. For further information, visit the Bardavon website at www.bardavon.org or call the Bardavon at (845) 473-2072.

Celebration of Lights Parade & Fireworks Friday, Dec. 6, 6:30 p.m.

Free Main St., Poughkeepsie

The City of Poughkeepsie, the Bardavon and various sponsors present the 26th annual Celebration of Lights Parade and Fireworks on Friday, December 6. Thousands typically attend this event. The parade will commence at 6:30 p.m. at Main and Garden Streets and proceed to the evening’s first Christmas tree-lighting on Main, near Market Street.

The Celebration of Lights Parade is led by mayor Rob Rolison and members of the Common Council, and will be joined by the Amerscot Highland Pipe Band, Redwing Blackbird Theater, Poughkeepsie High School Jazz Ensemble, Spackenkill High School Marching Band, Brasskill marching band, McClearn’s Majorettes, Dutchess Jeep & Dodge, Mid-Hudson Rowing Association, Vassar Warner

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Snowflake Festival returns to Uptown Kingston this Friday The Kingston Uptown Business Association hosts the annual Snowflake Festival on the first Friday of each December. This year, Snowflake falls on Friday, December 6. This community celebration provides horse-drawn wagon rides, live music, lighting of the Uptown tree and a visit from Santa Claus himself. Other attractions include magicians, fire-torch jugglers, clowns, ice sculptors and a scavenger hunt. Victorian carolers take to the streets at 5 p.m., followed by the roving

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8 Bond Street Stilt Band. The tree-lighting with Santa takes place on North Front Street at 6 p.m. Personal introductions to Santa can be arranged at the Senate House Grounds from 6:15 until 8 p.m. as, nearby, there is a Festival of Lights, roasted chestnuts and the Strawberry Fiddlers’ concert at 7 p.m. inside the Senate Garage.

The Main Stage on Wall Street features performers from 6:15 to 8 p.m. There are also rich schedules of activities and performances at the LGBTQ Community Center, on Fair Street and at Ulster Savings Bank. For a full schedule of activities, visit the website.

Snowflake Festival Friday, Dec. 6, 5-8 p.m.

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last decade as an integrated pest management consultant and agricultural auditor assessing farms, packinghouses and greenhouses to international Good Agricultural Practices standards. Locally, Farmer is a small-scale organic grower and co-owner, with his wife Tara, of the Rail Trail Café in Rosedale.

Hemp & Cannabis in the US Wednesday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m.

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Mountain Laurel Waldorf School hosts Winter Faire & Outdoor Marketplace on Sunday

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BOOK The Mountain Laurel Waldorf School in New Paltz hosts its annual Winter Faire and Outdoor Marketplace on Sunday, December 8. The event features food, outdoor fun, puppetry, live music and more. In this particular celebration, the goals are communal and pedagogical; fairs, festivals and community outreach play an important role in the education provided at the Mountain Laurel School. This event is free and open to the public.

Winter Faire & Outdoor Marketplace Sunday, Dec. 8, 11 a.m-4 p.m.

Free Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut St., New Paltz (845) 255-0033 https://mountainlaurel.org

Hemp & cannabis talk at Cornell Coop in Kingston December 11 Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County presents Brian Farmer speaking on “Hemp and Cannabis in the US: An Ongoing Saga and Personal Report from the Frontline” on Wednesday, December 11. The event is part of the Extension’s annual meeting. Farmer is the founder of The Cannabis Conservancy (TCC), a third-party standards developer and certifier for the sustainable production of cannabis. Since 2016, TCC has been certifying growers in the US and more recently in Canada. In addition to launching TCC, Brian has spent the

SUSAN COOPER READS “THE SHORTEST DAY” IN RHINEBECK ON SATURDAY You’ve long known it as one of the coolest places around to buy holiday gifts made by local artisans at reasonable prices, but you’re probably used to it happening early each December at the New Paltz Middle School. This year the Unison Arts Center’s Craft, Art and Design Fair – its 29th annual outing – will be held in a new location: the Ulster BOCES Conference Center, located at 175 Route 32 North in New Paltz. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8, this popular holiday show will feature handmade work in diverse materials: functional and decorative ceramics, fiber and wearable arts, wood-turnings, baskets, paintings in oil and pastel, jewelry in silver, cloisonné, mixed metals and beads, plush animals, puppets, holiday ornaments, decorative cards, jams and pickles, natural soaps and crafted wreaths.

Entry to the crafts fair, which includes a raffle ticket, costs $4 general admission, $3 for Unison members and students and is free for children 12 and under. The event is an important fundraiser for this precious community cultural resource. To learn more, call (845) 255-1559.

Unison’s Craft, Art & Design Fair Saturday/Sunday, Dec. 7/8. 10 a.m.-5 pm. $4/$3 Ulster BOCES Conference Center

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mong all the riches offered up for our enjoyment as part of the Sinterklaas festivities in Rhinebeck on Saturday, here’s one that you must not let escape your notice, if you’re any kind of a fan at all of fantasy literature: Susan Cooper, author of the much-loved, Newbery Medal-winning five-book series The Dark Is Rising, will be on hand at Oblong Books & Music to do a reading of her poem “The Shortest Day.” Illustrated volumes of the work will be available for sale and signing, along with a selection of Cooper’s other works.

Born in Buckinghamshire, Cooper learned to love literature in the family bomb shelter as her mother read aloud by candlelight to pass the time during the Blitz. Holiday visits to her grandmother’s native village in Wales exposed her to ancient Celtic and Arthurian lore that made its way into her writing.

She went to lectures by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien while attending Oxford University, worked with Ian Fleming at the Sunday Times, eventually moved to Massachusetts, where she still lives. She’s the widow of actor Hume Cronyn, with whom she wrote the play Foxfire and whom she married following the death of his wife of 50 years, actress Jessica Tandy.

“The Shortest Day,” a celebration of the Winter Solstice, was written at the behest of John Langstaff, founder of the long-running Boston-based Yuletide pageant known as the Revels (a likely source of inspiration for the founders of Sinterklaas). It’s recited onstage at every winter performance by every Revels troupe worldwide. Hearing the poem read aloud by its revered author is a rare treat, not to be missed!

– Frances Marion Platt

Cooper, the author of the much-loved, Newbery Medal-winning fivebook series The Dark Is Rising, learned to love literature in the family bomb shelter as her mother read aloud by candlelight to pass the time during the Blitz.

Susan Cooper: “The Shortest Day” – A Reading to Herald the Winter Solstice, Saturday, Dec. 7, 3 p.m., Free, Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, https://bit.ly/38cIpxg

175 Rt. 32 North, New Paltz (845) 255-1559

1960s Resurrected astrology workshop at Mirabai on December 13 Mirabai of Woodstock presents “The ’60s Resurrected: Astrological Aspects of the 2020s,” a workshop with astrologer Alexander Mallon on Friday, December 13. A professional

astrologer, counselor and spiritual therapist for more than 30 years, Mallon has been a pioneer in combining astrological practice with the fields of psychotherapy and healing, providing counseling services to clients as well as training to traditional counselors and therapists in astro-mythology. In this workshop, he directs our attention back to the Aquarian Age and the promise of the freedom of the individual spirit, arguing that the major cycle experienced in the ’60s is about to be

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week after his arrival on the Rondout waterfront in Kingston, where a major focus will be on this year’s “honored animal,” the noble sturgeon, Sinterklaas will return to Rhinebeck on Saturday, December 7 to lead the festivities in what has by now become a well-established, slightly modernized Hudson Valley version of an old New Amsterdam tradition. Whereas the Dutch antecedent of this revered character employed a rather scary entourage of grumpuses to chastise naughty children with birch rods (and carry the worst ones off in a sack), our kids get to carry the branches themselves – transformed during Crowns & Branches decoration workshops into royal scepters. They’re designated kings and queens for a day, and tasked with bringing light into a dark time. “They each have to tie wishes into their branch: one for the community, one for the family, one for the world,” says Sinterklaas creator Jeanne Flemming. “They understand their responsibility to be a good king or queen.”

Flemming presides over the Sinterklaas opening ceremony at noon at the Beekman Arms. After that, all of downtown Rhinebeck comes alive with cultural activity. There’s live music from all over the world: bagpipe, gospel, Dixieland, Irish, didgeridoo, Balkan, Ukrainian, samba, African, Bolivian, Mexican and Indonesian. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Arm-ofthe-Sea Theater and the Vanaver Caravan will perform, as will stilt dancers, Chinelos dancers from Mexico and a Morris side reenacting the ancient Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. Roaming the streets will be Roger the Jester, the Wish Lady, the Pocket Lady, Mother Holly, the Polar Bear, grumpuses, faeries, magicians, storytellers and a plethora of brass bands. Sinterklaas Rhinebeck winds up with the Children’s Starlight Parade along Market Street at 6 p.m., followed by a Pageant in the Municipal Lot on East Market.

Download the program at www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/Sinterklaas2019_PROGRAM_web.pdf for the full list of entertainers, venues and start times, a map and good advice on where to park.

Sinterklaas Festival Day Rhinebeck, Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Free, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-4030, www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/sinterklaas-festival-day-in-rhinebeck

resurrected as we enter the ’20s. Alexander will also be on hand at Mirabai the next day, Saturday, December 14, for private astrological readings. Admission to the workshop costs $20 on or before December 11, $25 if after.

The ’60s Resurrected: Astrological Aspects of the 2020s Friday, Dec. 13, 6-8 p.m. $25/$20 Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock www.mirabai.com

Nominations sought for Kingston’s Distinguished Artist Award The City of Kingston Department of Art & Cultural Affairs and the Arts Commission are requesting nominations for the second Distinguished Artist Award. All nominees must be Kingston residents of at least two years. Nominees can include artists from any discipline: music, theater, dance, literary, visual or media arts.

Finalists and recipients will be chosen based upon the level of their artistry, commitment to the artform, commitment to the community and recognition in the field locally, nationally or internationally.

For additional information, submission forms and full requirements, visit www. kingston-ny.gov/artscommission.

Linda Lynton’s “Sawkill: A Catskill Journey” opens on Saturday at ASK “Sawkill: A Catskill Journey,” a solo exhibition by artist Linda Lynton, opens on Saturday at the Arts Society of Kingston and runs through December 31.

The opening reception begins at 5 p.m. on December 7. The show features new works that explore the Sawkill River, which runs through the Woodstock Valley. It includes oil paintings, pastels, ink drawings and monotypes showing the landscape and natural features that stood out during Lynton’s journey along the waterway.

“This unpretentious river runs through Woodstock and the surrounding

countryside like a leitmotif in a symphony: It is ever-present, reappearing at unexpected turns,” says Lynton. “It has been a part of my life since I moved to Woodstock 12 years ago, so I decided to explore it from start to finish. Beginning with Echo Lake in the mountains just below Overlook peak, I followed it through the forests of the Indian Wilderness to the valley and village of Woodstock. It then passes the hamlet of Sawkill, where it empties out into the Esopus Creek by Kingston, which feeds into the Hudson River.”

Lynton followed the river through the Indian Wilderness Preserve with a licensed outdoor guide, and had the help of many people living along its banks, from farmers in the hills to homeowners in the valleys. The surprises weren’t all human, either, she adds. “We have new neighbors. Beavers are moving in upstream in the hills, which I feel is a wonderful sign of the resilience of nature, despite what humanity has been doing to the environment, and the pressures the Catskills have faced over the past 200 years.”

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HUNTER’S PARALLEL CAREER as a performer of his own versions of the Dead’s repertoire suggests that Jerry was the blade: Pound to Hunter’s Eliot, Lish to his Carver.

Hunter Gathering Celebration of the life and art of Robert Hunter at Colony in Woodstock

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. S. Eliot’s long poem “The Wasteland� is of course the centerpiece of Modernist poetry, a shot still heard ’round the world. It is dedicated with deference to his friend, the fellow American expat poet Ezra Pound, whom Eliot calls il miglior fabbro: the greater maker. Pound may not have possessed a poetic gift equal to Eliot’s (that is arguable), but his ever-shrewd sense of the moment in art made the “The Wasteland� what it was and what it would became. He is said to have excised as many as 500 lines from Eliot’s manuscript. It was Pound who gave the work its fractured, disjunctive and elusive texture, the definitive texture of Modernism. Thanks?

Similarly, editor and fiction-writer Gordon Lish is now rightly understood to be the virtual creator of Raymond Carver, the pathologically concise and lowaffect father of Minimalist fiction whose clipped, clinically lean style ruled the literary landscape of the ’80s, when I was studying creative writing. This story has a more tragic dimension, as recently released short-story manuscripts reveal Carver to be the exact opposite of the figure that Lish fashioned. In letters to his wife, the great poet Tess Gallagher, Carver confessed that Lish’s ruthless postmodern reductions of his considerably more expressive drafts agonized him, but he went with it because it served him well materially.

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the fruitful relationship of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and his career-long collaborator and friend, the Dead’s nonmember lyricist Robert Hunter, who passed away in September. Jerry didn’t write lyrics himself, but he was a super-smart, verbally engaged cat who knew what he wanted to sound like and who knew how to compose tight, classic tunes, later to be exploded by jam exploration. Hunter’s parallel career as a performer of his own versions of the Dead’s repertoire suggests that Jerry was the blade: Pound to Hunter’s Eliot, Lish to his Carver.

Hunter supplied reams and reams of narrative verses – psychedelic, yes, but also rooted in the same weird old American myth that Dylan, the Band and Tom Waits have mined so effectively. Garcia, however, slashed those narratives to evocative ribbons, leaving a feeling of narrativity and imagery without much in the way of whole-cloth stories that you could ever hope to paraphrase. It is a magical, beautiful and Modernist effect, and no doubt it sprung from a tacit understanding between the two.

And it was true throughout the era that if you wanted to hear all 37 verses of “Wharf Rat,� you had to go to a Robert Hunter show.

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Grateful Dead is long overdue, as is his appreciation as a prolific and seminal rock poet. On Sunday, December 15, Colony in Woodstock presents the cleverly titled “Hunter Gathering: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Robert Hunter.�

The program will begin at 7 p.m. with a swirl of bagpipes, a drum invocation, eulogies, stories, poetry, solo and duet musical performances and will culminate with a full-on Grateful Dead-inspired dance party. Performers and speakers include, well, a lot of people: Avinash, Rhoney Stanley, Michael Densmore, Gerrit Graham, Nicole Quinn, Sarah Fimm, Timothy Hill, Joel Bluestein, Joel Harrison, Doug Yoel, Denise Parent, Kyle Esposito, Doug Marcus, Peter Dougan, Jeremy Baum, Bob Resnick, Don LaSala, Johnny Stevens, Richmond Johnston, Mike Dubois, Ken Schneidman, Martin Mills, Erin Cadigan, Alan Trist and more.

And get this: Admission is free – kind of like the Dead’s radical approach to bootlegging.

We will probably look back on 2016 to 2017 as the years in which the cultic quarantine of the Grateful Dead finally ended for good, and for the good. The band’s legacy shed its love/hate binary and was free to rejoin the grand culture buffet as “just another� long-running classic rock band that you are free to like a little or a lot, if you please, without giving your goddamned soul to it. The band’s reputation and cultural associations were so polarizing, it had kept many ordinary

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people from even liking songs like “Brokedown Palace.� Who in their right mind wouldn’t like “Brokedown Palace�?

That’s how bad it had gotten.

For decades, the Dead’s bottomless catalogue of great songs in multiple streams –Bakersfield, electric ragtime, world fusion, psych-punk and that rarest bird, a truly American take on prog-rock – had been a no-fly zone for all but the most thick-skinned of hipsters. Those selfsame hipsters could revere Dylan, Neil or the Band without smudge, but for reasons not entirely musical, the Dead were denied their obvious place in that hip tradition and were instead stamped as the apotheosis of stoned hippie indulgence.

The Deadheads alone forced your hand: a monomaniacal cult of zealots feverishly cataloguing live shows and taking over cities with a druggy and privileged trustafarian hedonism, dancing in certain very specific ways to music that, for all of its purported out-on-a-limb extemporaneity, could sound pretty samey and lethargic from a distance, especially in those fatigued years – the ’80s – when their live popularity peaked and the deified Garcia, a guy who genuinely loved talking to people, could not leave the hotel. Imagine waking up with very serious health issues at 45 to find that you were functionally Elvis.

Certain sanguine hipsters (Elvis Costello comes to mind) were always unashamed and vocal in their affection for the Dead, but they were so rare in that sphere that I can hardly name another. So, what precipitated the change? Martin Scorsese’s illuminating six-episode 2017 documentary signaled that the culture at large was ready to drop its extramusical contempt for the Dead’s cultic singularity and to regard them as what they were: a great band in their way, a far-out mythic narrative in a straight line of descent from the Beats and a treasure chest of cool songs haunted by the fractured American mythos of Robert Hunter’s lyrics.

But for me, a more telling and muchless-publicized sea change arrived the year before: 2016’s Day of the Dead, a massive 59-track tribute record released as the 25th compilation benefiting the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. The homage itself was unsurprising; again, the Dead have hundreds of irresistibly great classicist songs that can be easily extracted from the band’s distinctive way of playing them, so they made an ideal topic for this kind of play. What was shocking – and what would have been all-but-impossible in the decades before – was who was paying the tribute.

Day of the Dead was forged (locally, in fact) under the artistic direction of Brooklyn producer (and former New Paltz resident) Josh Kaufman and brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner from the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Ohio band the National, who, along with Arcade Fire, are one of the few arena-grade bands that the Indie Decade produced. The tracks came, by and large, from their people: the hip people of the borough and its satellite scenes, from the War on Drugs and from Kurt Vile, from Jenny Lewis, Cass McCombs, the Walkmen, Real Estate.

The record featured no fewer than three scintillating contributions from the whoknew Deadhead Will Oldham, also known as Bonnie “Prince� Billy. His daring choice of the Garcia solo record epic “Ruben and Cherise� (a quintessential Hunter love

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“Black Muddy River,� and there are a few other artists represented with jam-world cred: My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, for example, and drummer Joe Russo.

Still, the record, and the current Dead reappraisal now underway, expose an interesting and culturally difficult dimension of the rescue and repair of reputations, a story in which the Grateful Dead are essentially airlifted – like the Chili Peppers off the tarmac at Woodstock ’99 – out of the sprawling mess they made with their own hands. Who owns what?

Can we agree to share the Grateful Dead?

Even more improbably optimistic, can this reappreciation of their achievement broaden everyone’s purview and perhaps reduce some of the critical belittlement and cruel vitriol reserved, seemingly, for jam-rock alone? I have my doubts. – John Burdick Hunter Gathering: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Robert Hunter, Sunday, December 15, 6 p.m., Colony, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock; www.colonywoodstock.com.

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SERVICE OF LESSONS & CAROLS AT VASSAR CHAPEL THIS SUNDAY

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assar College’s annual Service of Lessons and Carols is an Advent service of readings, choral anthems and congregational carols that culminates in a candle-lighting ceremony. It takes place at Vassar’s historic Chapel on Sunday, December 8. The program feature Advent and scriptural readings and an ensemble of 190 singers, including the Vassar College Choir, Vassar College Chamber Singers, Vassar College Women’s Chorus and the Cappella Festiva Chamber, Treble and Cor Capriccio Choirs. This event will feature the music of J. S. Bach, Brian Mann, Greg Gilpin, Richard Allain, Nicholas White, Allan Naplan and Ola Gjeilo. “We encourage people to arrive early to this very popular event, which usually fills our over-1,000-seat chapel to capacity.� This event is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will also be taken to support the college’s annual philanthropic campaign, Community Works, which provides funding to several Hudson Valley not-for-profit organizations.

On her indie-folk debut I Need to Start a Garden, the startlingly mature Portland-based songwriter Haley Heynderickx positions herself squarely in the freak-folk tradition: able fingerpicking on nylon-string and gritty electric guitars; lyrical concerns that straddle bucolic imagism and deep symbolism; and rustic production values that occasionally sprout surprising and strange sonic developments.

Yes, it has been done before, but she does it quite well, and the people have

Service of Lessons and Carols, Sunday, Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m., Free/donation, Vassar Chapel, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie

story) is one of the record’s highest highs.

It is certainly cool that so many of the hip artists of the aughts were enthused by the project and undeterred by jam contamination (which is real), but therein also lies the friction. The Dead already had a vital, commercially humming downstream legacy, you know. Yes, it is all the bands you hate, from Phish to moe. to String Cheese Incident, but they did huge numbers at the gate and operated squarely in the Dead’s tradition of unscripted improvisation and fancentric soundboard bootleg values. These Balkanized jam states inherited the Dead scene seamlessly after Jerry died, and the party, if anything, only got bigger in the ‘90s. And in the post-Jerry years, Bob and Phil’s touring projects raided that scene for replacement players, such as keyboardist Rob Barraco from the Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra and bassist Oteil Burbage and

guitarist Jimmy Herring from jam-scene stalwarts Aquarium Rescue Unit.

Day of the Dead was not completely free of association with the jam scene. Weir himself, of course, appears on the record, performing a savage and spot-on live rendition of the psych-rock masterpiece “St. Stephen� with Wilco: Tweedy as delightfully unsteady-of-voice as vintage Jerry, and clearly loving it. ‘80s- era Dead celebrity keyboardist Bruce Hornsby

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Haley Heynderickx performs at BSP on Sunday, December 8. Tre Burt opens.

Tickets cost $15 in advance, $18 on the day of the show.

– John Burdick Haley Heynderickx Sunday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m., $18/$15 BSP 323 Wall St., Kingston www.bspkingston.com

Fred Hersch plays Senate Garage this Saturday

in numerous directions. In his case, the targets tend to be not less but more rarefied, challenging and cerebral than the default jazz piano trio. His inventive solo interpretations of Jobim (2009’s Fred Hersch Plays Jobim) reimagine the music of Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim as introspective and almost classical in its internal, contrapuntal complexity.

Hersch’s stunning Leaves of Grass (2005) is a brainy chamber-vocal-jazz setting of the poetry of Walt Whitman. It is “jazz” only insofar as it borrows from jazz’s harmonic language, and because it swings from time to time. On 2017’s House of Many Rooms, Hersch departs the genre completely in a work billed as “new concert music.” Not long after that, however, Hersch dives headlong back into the native tongue with a tribute to Bill Evans, the default hero of all cerebral and classically influenced jazz pianists, and 2017’s solo outing Open Book.

Even by Jazzstock’s consistently lofty standards, this is a big get. Jazzstock presents modern jazz legend Fred Hersch on Saturday, December 7 at the Senate Garage. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the concert.

– John Burdick Fred Hersch, Saturday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., Senate Garage, 4 North Front St., Kingston; www.jazzstock.com.

Lisa Gutkin plays the Falcon December 11 Pianist Fred Hersch is a kind of model for what a top-tier jazz career looks like anymore. His is not a household name; serious contemporary jazz doesn’t mint so many of those. While his jazz legitimacy has been notarized by high-level collaboration with heavies like Stan Getz, Art Farmer and Toots Thielemans, Hersch’s CV is mostly a gaudy peacock fan of fellowships, grants, residencies and French awards – for jazz has become a largely academic and patron-driven art. What did Fats Waller know from fellowships?

But great jazz players and composers these days (and Hersch is quite simply among the best at both) are commercially marginalized, and this is how they make a go. They have borrowed the currencies of success and acclaim from the economy of “serious” music. Hersch also happens to be a 15-time Grammy nominee.

Like many of today’s more ambitious jazz minds, Hersch has “crossed over”

Best-known as a violinist, singer and songwriter with the long-running and Grammy-winning New York City band the Klezmatics, Lisa Gutkin brings her new ensemble Lisa’s Pieces – also featuring Mark Murphy, Michael Sassano and Wayne Fugate – to the Falcon in Marlboro on Wednesday, December 11. Once described as “one hot fiddler”

by Cyndi Lauper, Gutkin has experienced a surge of national attention in recent years for her role as performer in and composer for the hit musical Indecent. There is no cover charge at the Falcon, but generous donation keeps the big names coming.

Lisa’s Pieces featuring Lisa Gutkin Wednesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.

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John Medeski joins Club d’Elf at the Falcon on Monday

Family of Woodstock’s Hotline and Textline present Eric Redd’s second annual Redd Hot Christmas at Levon Helm Studios on Friday, December 6. The new tradition was created by Woodstock resident, recording artist and dancer Eric Redd, who has parlayed his initial success as a teenage regular on Soul Train into a four-decade career. The lineup also features a local legend and favorite of Levon himself, the Alexis P. Suter Band. Proceeds will benefit the Family of Woodstock Hotline and Textline. Tickets cost $35 and can be purchased online.

A rotating-member, Boston-based world electro-groove project led by bassist Mike Rivard, Club d’Elf has found a home at the Falcon, like so many other merchants of jazz, groove, blues and world music. When Club d’Elf returns to the Falcon for the umpteenth time on Monday, December 9, one of the most famous of their occasional members, keyboardist and local resident John Medeski, will be back in the fold. The band kills no matter what, but having a willing improvisor of Medeski’s caliber onboard never hurts. As usual, there is no cover charge at the Falcon, but it is your direct-to-artist donation that keeps the good times flowing.

Redd Hot Christmas Friday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.

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NDSO to perform “Sounds of the Season: Santa at the Movies” on Saturday at FDR High Under the direction of William Stevens, the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra presents its annual holiday concert on Saturday, December 7 at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. Titled “Sounds of the Season: Santa at the Movies,” the program features songs from stage and screen, including selections from March of the Toys, Miracle on 34th Street, The Polar Express, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Tchaikovsky’s classic The Nutcracker. Joining the orchestra for the second half of the program will be the combined vocal resources of the Rhinebeck Choral Club and students from both Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Jay High Schools.

The concert will conclude with the heartwarming standard “White Christmas,” three holiday songs from Home Alone and Leroy Anderson’s iconic “Sleigh Ride.” Ticket prices are $28 for adults, $23 for seniors and $5 for students.

Sounds of the Season: Santa at the Movies Saturday, Dec. 7, 3 p.m. $28/$23/$5 Franklin D. Roosevelt High School 156 S Cross Rd., Staatsburg (845) 635-0877 www.ndsorchestra.org

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Eric Squindo fronts Tom Waits tribute this Thursday at Colony As a subject of tribute, the great Tom Waits presents a complex challenge. In some ways, he was born for covering.

As avant-garde as his noisy, clanking, barking records can be, he remains, underneath the elegant cacophony, a purely classicist writer. The melodies are simple and strong, the chords and forms and grooves generally traditional and rooted in…well, roots of various kinds, from blues and circus waltz to lightly implied Afro-Cuban and a dash of louche cocktail jazz. And while his language and imagery can get pretty old-blues-weird on one hand and dark and surreal Weimar cabaret on the other, he is always a storyteller, and – when he wants to be – a gifted writer of injured, unsentimental love songs and laments. Sneaks up on you and breaks your heart.

So, what’s the problem? This: Once you have heard a Waits song sung by Waits, it is almost impossible to unhear it. His character voices – guttural, raspy, mad, barking, broken and tender – have a way of stamping the songs permanently, and even tunes that are candidates for the Great American Songbook (and he has many) can just sound wrong sung in any other way, Scarlett Johansson’s album of Waits covers notwithstanding.

So, as a subject for tribute, Waits is both irresistible and forbidding. Cool! Let’s do this. Following the success of previous Colony tribute nights (Townes Van Zandt, The Basement Tapes), local songwriter Eric Squindo presents “Trampled Roses: The Songs of Tom Waits” performed at Colony in Woodstock on Thursday, December 5. Performers include the Gold Hope Duo, Stephen Clair, Lorkin O’Reilly, Marc Delgado, Kyle Esposito, Jules Taylor and more of the region’s elite songwriters and interpreters. Admission costs $15 in advance, $20 on the day of the show.

– John Burdick Trampled Roses: The Songs of Tom Waits, Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., $20/$15, Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock;

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Do you prefer your masterpieces fully aware and cognizant of their own ambition (Sergeant Pepperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lonely Hearts Club Band) or perhaps something born the moment just before such self-awareness sets in, when some naĂŻvetĂŠ survives but the talent, confidence and musical range are surging (Rubber Soul and Revolver)?

Do you prefer art when it knows it is art, or when it thinks it might still just be rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll?

Of course, there is a third road: Abbey Road, the Beatlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; second swing at a conceptual masterwork, and arguably the more successful one, even if they could never hope to duplicate the world-changing novelty of the first one.

Abbey Road in fact sounds nothing like Sergeant Pepperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. It is deeper, darker, more assured, more beautiful and more broken, showing all the wear and tear of the interceding years and all that they had learned. Consider: They are only separated by two years. Two years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yearâ&#x20AC;? must have meant something different back then.

And what kind of swan song do you prefer? An epic, groping masterwork utilizing every tool at the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; considerable disposal as the credits roll, or a return to basics, the camaraderie and the original impulse of rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll? With the Beatles, of course, you get both. The stripped-down, rooftop Hail Mary rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll record Let It Be was the last the Beatles ever released. There was a desperation in it, more apparent in the film than in the vinyl grooves, as the lads tried somewhat in vain to recapture the feeling and chemistry of the Cavern and Hamburg.

Well, of course it is a great record, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the f *&#ing Beatles; but they were too far gone for rapprochement. Think, just for a moment, what the previous seven years had been like. In some respects, you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wish it on your worst enemy: a quarantine of fame that extreme.

The very last album they recorded, Abbey Road stands as their self-conscious and almost-corporate finale, the fitting classic at the back end of their mindboggling eight-year achievement: grandeur, conceptual ambition, maturity and command of all the materials of music and production, a songwriting skillset far beyond and yet still belonging to rock, and â&#x20AC;&#x201C; between â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maxwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Silver Hammerâ&#x20AC;? on one pole and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Want You (Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s So Heavy)â&#x20AC;? on the other â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a measure of how irreconcilably far apart Paul and John had grown. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pawprints are all over the Side Two medley, and you can almost

hear Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contempt for the whole idea in his throwaway contributions to it like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mean Mr. Mustardâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polythene Pam.â&#x20AC;?

(Would that my symphonies were half as good as his throwaways.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polythene Pamâ&#x20AC;? might be a silly little thing, but John shines on Abbey Road.

With â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come Togetherâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Want You (Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s So Heavy),â&#x20AC;? he initiates the embrace of primitivism that would manifest in his solo masterpiece Plastic Ono Band a year or so later. With the lush impressionism of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Becauseâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sun Kingâ&#x20AC;? he invented an entire subgenre, without which we would have no Elliott Smith, among others. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brilliance is everywhere on the record, in such achingly beautiful songs as â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Never Give Me Your Moneyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;She Came in through the Bathroom Windowâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and in all the othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; songs as well, for Paul was the record-maker in the Beatles. It has often been said of George that he was good for two great songs per Beatles record and, excepting the spectacular All Things Must Pass, for two great songs per George Harrison solo record as well. Did he ever have two better songs on a record than â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somethingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here Comes the Sunâ&#x20AC;?? Has anyone?

Well, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of questions for you.

That Woodstock clique of ace players who have been staging fastidiously detailed and loving tribute shows to Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Traffic, and the Beatles (a/k/a The White Album) the last few years is at it again, this time setting their sights on the recently remixed Abbey Road.

The Beatles themselves never tried any of this stuff live, but the long-running and ultra-high-end tribute band the Fab Faux has set a very high bar for faithful live reproductions of late Beatles. I think it is impossible to do Beatles tribute work anymore without awareness of the daunting accomplishments of Will Lee, Rich Pagano, Jimmy Vivino, Jack Petruzelli and Frank Agnello in the field of Beatles Studies. The first time I saw them, the principal harpist of the New York Philharmonic sat in for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leaving Home,â&#x20AC;? and the late, legendary Lou Soloff played the piccolo trumpet solo on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Penny Lane,â&#x20AC;? so, yeah, the Faux have some resources.

And yet, we look down the lineup for this upcoming show and there is no doubt it is going to excel and astound. The band features a litany of local luminaries: Joey Eppard, Danny Blume, Adam Widoff, Scott Petito, Tyler Wood, Leslie Ritter, Steve Taylor, Andy Stack, Jeff Mercel. If I were to get into their credits, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be owed a lot of overtime. And besides, you probably already know.

Colony in Woodstock hosts a tribute to Abbey Road on Friday, December 6.

Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 on the day of the show. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; John Burdick

events, the SUNY-Ulster Music Department presents Tuba Christmas on Saturday, December 7. This brassy holiday celebration features the music of the tuba and its close relative, the euphonium. Tuba and euphonium players pay $10 to participate and perform Christmas music from around the world. Registration begins at noon, followed by a rehearsal, and the concert, free and open to the public, begins at 3 p.m.

Tuba Christmas Saturday, Dec. 7, noon/3 p.m. $10/free College Lounge, Vanderlyn Hall, SUNYUlster, 491 Cottekill Rd., Stone Ridge (845) 687-5000

Bard College Conservatory Orchestra spotlights Florence Price this Saturday Under the baton of conductor James Bagwell, the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra performs a concert at the Fisher Center on Saturday, December 7. The program features Symphony No. 1 by Florence Price, the ascendant 20 th-century African American woman composer whose works are receiving long-overdue attention. Price is also the subject of the preconcert talk â&#x20AC;&#x153;Florence Price and the Emergence of African American Composers in the 21 st Centuryâ&#x20AC;? at 7 p.m. The concert also features Coplandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballet Billy the Kid and the premiere of Polaris by Bard student composer Jackson Spargur (Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;20). Tickets are available by a suggested donation of $15 to $20. All ticket sales benefit the Conservatory Scholarship Fund.

Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Saturday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.

Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (845) 758-7900 https://fishercenter.bard.edu

Chris Smither returns to Towne Crier on Friday

In one of the most popular of the institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many annual musical

Chris Smither Friday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m., $40/$35 Towne Crier CafĂŠ 379 Main St., Beacon (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Debussy & Tonalismâ&#x20AC;? lecture at Dorsky Museum this Sunday In a cross-art exploration, SUNYNew Paltz pianist, professor and Piano Program coordinator Alex Peh joins the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education manager, Zachary Bowman, for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Debussy and Tonalism,â&#x20AC;? a discussion on the relationship between late-19th- and 20th-century tonalist artworks and the historically concurrent impressionistic music of the great French composer Claude Debussy and others. This is a free event, with a $5 suggested donation.

Debussy & Tonalism Sunday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m.

Free/donation Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY-New Paltz www.newpaltz.edu/music/concertseries.html

McKrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas visits Towne Crier on Saturday The Towne Crier CafĂŠ in Beacon hosts McKr ellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas on Saturday, December 7. The McKrell/Melick interpretation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Visit from St. Nicholasâ&#x20AC;? is a classic of comedic appropriation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the best Marx Brothers routine that the Marx Brothers never did â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with Kevin McKrell playing a mix of wisecracking Groucho and straight-man Zeppo, while the bugeyed, puppy-dog-eager Brian Melick channels the genius of Harpo. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

McKrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30 p.m., $25/$20 Towne Crier CafĂŠ, 379 Main St., Beacon (845) 855-1300, www.townecrier.com

The highly regarded veteran American roots specialist Chris Smither performs at the Towne Crier in Beacon on Friday, December 6. Well into his 70s, Smither shows a continued vitality in exploring his bottomless multiroots inheritance: some blues, some

Abbey Road tribute concert, Friday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m., $30/$25, Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock; www.colonywoodstock.com

Tuba Christmas returns to SUNY-Ulster this Saturday

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9am-5pm Northern Dutchess Hospital’s Holiday Plant Pop-up Shop. Hospital volunteers host holiday plant and décor sale fundraiser in the main lobby of the hospital. A consecutive pop-up shop will open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the lobby of the Thompson House, Rhinebeck. Purchase poinsettias, kissing balls, wreaths and garland as well as handmade holiday decorations and gifts while supplies last. All

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9am-12pm Under the Bridge: The True Story of Reena Virk. Author Rebecca Godfrey will discuss her acclaimed true crime book, Under the Bridge. Panel of professionals available for Q & A. Ulster County Community College, 491 Cottekill Rd., Stone Ridge. Info: 845-340-3927, ulster.safeharbour@gmail.com.

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9am-10am Woodstock Senior Senior Feel Good Fitness with Diane Collelo. All aspects of fitness: flexibility, balance, strength and aerobic capacity done to music from many decades that makes us feel like dancing. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

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10am-4pm Boscobel Holiday Tours. The mansion will be decorated for 19th-century holidays. Guides share stories of Yuletide traditions past. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison. boscobel.org/events/guided-housetours.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/ index.htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

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

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

10am-2pm Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads.

Informal weekly social gathering for rug hookers, knitters, crocheters, and all other yarn crafters.

Drop-in. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org/.

Bring a snack to share.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies.

10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For PD patients, caregivers and friends to address the symptoms of PD and other neurological disorders. Balance, gait, muscle strengthening, improving flexibility &

fluidity and having fun are all included. Weekly, on-going group meets every Thursday at 10am.

Info: Anne Olin, 845-679-6250; anneolin.com.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. $12 for one or $22 for two.

11am-3pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Enjoy lavish turn-of-the-century style holiday decorations while touring the mansion. Tickets: $8, $6/seniors & students, children 12 & under are free. Info: 845-889-8851; parks.ny.gov/historicsites/25/details.aspx. Staatsburg State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Drive Rd 1, Staatsburg.

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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11:30am-2pm Hudson Valley Magazine’s 4th Annual Women in Business Luncheon. This three-course sit-down luncheon features a special keynote while recognizing the accomplishments of the women profiled in the December issue.

Guests will be able to network at the beginning and the end of the event. Tickets: $65, $600/

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12pm Sign-up Now! Archery, Karate, Yoga, Dance, Sewing, Chess & Ceramics. Register online 845-246-3744, ext 156. Woodstock Day School, 1430 Glasco Tpke, Saugerties.

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

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle and Tarot Readings with Timothy Liu. Every Thursday. Walkins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes,.

1pm Kerhonkson - Accord Seniors Meeting.

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

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

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

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

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

1:30pm-3pm “Thursdays” Community Voice Ensemble with Debbie Lan. THURSDAYS, new weekly community voice ensemble directed by Debbie Lan. All genders welcome. No experience necessary. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: debbiemaxine@gmail.com,

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3pm-8pm Made In Kingston: 7th Annual Celebration of Kingston’s Artist & Maker Community. An expo of all things made in the City of Kingston. Open to the public and features more than 70 local artists, businesses, and organizations, over 20 of whom are first-time Made in Kingston vendors. BSP Kingston, 323 Wall Street, Kingston. madeinkingstonny.com. Free.

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5pm-8pm Holiday Mixer. Join with the staff, volunteers and members of the Board of Directors of the Catskill Center for an open house evening in Arkville to celebrate the holidays. We’ll have light snacks and drinks available and we urge you to bring your own favorites for your friends and neighbors to enjoy! Erpf Gallery at Catskill Center, 43355 NY-28, Arkville.

5pm-6:30pm New Paltz Climate Action Coalition Meeting. Meets every Thursday. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave, New Paltz. newpaltzclimateaction.org.

5pm-7:30pm Happy Testing Hour. Free HIV & STI testing. Meets on the 1st Thursday of each month from 5-7:30pm. Info: 845-704-7322; 845-331-5300;jdebella@hudsonvalleycs.org; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Commu-

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. 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. Meets every Thursday at 3:30pm. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. MathTutoringwithMisha.com. Free.

4pm-5pm Merry-Go-Read. Geared toward ages 3-5 (siblings welcome)! Just as a carousel goes ‘round, pre-schoolers will take turns travelling from station to station. Clinton Community Library.

4pm-5pm Intro to Tai Chi. Wear comfortable clothes. Clinton Community Library.

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

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

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

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nity Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

5:15pm Junior Rangers Girls Hockey League at McCann Ice Arena. Junior Rangers Girls Hockey League at McCann Ice Arena @ the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. Majed J. Nesheiwat Convention Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-454-5800, chance@icetimesports.org, midhudsonciviccenter.org. $395.

5:30pm-7:30pm December After Hours @ The Kroeg. Free for Chamber members and $20 for non-members. The Kroeg, 41 East Market St, Rhinebeck. thekroeg.com.

6pm Tech Time. Call the Library at 845-3387881 if you would like to reserve a spot or drop in for a fifteen-minute one-to-one session with a library staff member who will answer your general tech questions. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston.

6pm-9pm 4th Annual Holiday Vendor Fair & Christmas Cookie Walk. New Paltz Play School, 1 Grove St, New Paltz.

6pm Wine Night - Thirsty Thursday. Celebrate every Thursday at Woodnotes Grille with the Wine Club! Enjoy 25% off all bottles of wine and special selections from the cellar by the glass. Info: 845-688-2828; emersonresort.com.

The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

6:30pm-8pm Author Talk with National Book Award Finalist Julia Phillips. Author of Disappearing Earth, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. Info: 845-294-6606. Goshen Public Library & Historical Society, 366 Main St. goshenpubliclibrary.org.

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

7pm The Junior – Senior High School Band Concert. Snow date December 6th. Info: 845-247-6651, ext 1700. Saugerties Jr./Sr. High School, 310 Washington Ave Ext, Saugerties.

7pm-8pm Advent Bible Study. Incarnation.

Emmanuel. God With Us. What does that even mean & how does it matter to us?” Info: 845-2462867; refsaug.yahoo.com. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-2867, refsaug@yahoo.com, saugertiesreformed.org.

7pm-9:30pm Rough Draft Trivia with Rich!

Every Thursday at Rough Draft is trivia night with Rich Morrison - a fun-filled night of teamwork, friendly competition, and lots of laughs. Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston.

Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@gmail.com.

7pm-10pm NT Live: Present Laughter. Broadcast live from The Old Vic, UK. Andrew Soctt (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton. Info: 518-789-0022, events@themoviehouse.net, themoviehouse.net.

General $21 / Gold Members $16.

7pm-9pm Dramatists Guild Footlight Series:A Thousand Cranes. By David Caudle. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill.

Info: 914-739-0039, boxoffice@paramounthudsonvalley.com, paramounthudsonvalley. Free.

7pm-8pm Gardiner Library Knitting Group. Sit and knit. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls. org, gardinerlibrary.org.

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

7:30pm-9:30pm Voice Less Readings. Join guest host Tom Romeo for voice less reading, featuring Wendy Stewart. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston. Info: 347-46892323, 229greenkill@greenkill.org. suggested contribution.

7:30pm-9pm Hudson Valley Community Power. Open house! Learn about about Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and Community Solar. Q & A to follow.Info & locations: 845-8599099; hudsonvalleycommunitypower.com; info@ hudsonvalleycommunitypower.com.

7:30pm-8:30pm Ulster County Bass Masters Chapter of NY B.A.S.S. Federation Meeting.

General membership meeting. Info: 845-6799272. Anchorage Restaurant, 182 Canal St. Eddyville.

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

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Chris O’Leary Band with The Jimmys. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

Friday

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Find Your Holiday Spirits: A Mythic Catskills Adventure Weekend. Spillian is delighted to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills ciders, beers, and spirits and bring some back to your hearth for your celebrating this holiday season. Visit our website

for tickets and event details for each day. Info: 800-811-3351; events@spillian.com. Spillian, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Rd, Fleischmanns.

The Polar Express Train Ride. Take a magical trip to the North Pole while reading along with the classic children’s book. Santa and his Elves board the train add to the memories made on this unforgettable adventure. Call for ride times and availability. Runs Nov. 16-Dec. 28. Tickets & Info: 845-332-4854; catskillmountainrailroad. com/event/the-polar-express. Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR), Westbrook Lane Station, 55 Plaza Rd, Kingston.

8am-5pm MidHudsonADK: Fahnestock State Park Hike or Snowshoe. Level: Experienced.

Approx 7 miles, moderately strenuous. Leader: Georgette Weir. Bring water, snacks, lunch, proper clothing, footwear. Contact leader for meet time: georgette.weir@gmail.com. Perhaps 1000-1200 feet of total elevation. Bad weather will cancel. Hubbard Lodge, Route 9, Cold Spring.

8am-10am Introducing NPT’s Problem-Solvers Series Fall 2019. Retaining New & Recurring Donors. Coffee, bagels and conversation. Prompt start and finish. Lace Mill West Gallery, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9:30am MidHudsonADK: Ski with Marty Carp.

Every Mon & Fri until March 31. 3-5 hours, depending on conditions. No snow, they will do a moderate hike 6-9 miles. Questions welcomed.

Info: 845-214-8520 or martymcarp@gmail.com.

Meet @ the Mohonk Visitor Center for drive/ shuttle to trailhead. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/ outings-events-list.

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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am-4pm Boscobel Holiday Tours. The mansion will be decorated for 19th-century holidays. Guides share stories of Yuletide traditions past. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison. boscobel.org/events/guided-housetours.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/ index.htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

10am Madeline’s Christmas. The celebrated children’s book Madeline’s Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans comes to life on stage as a delightful holiday musical. Tickets: $18 for senior citizens & students 18 & under, $22 for adults. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-6900, WoodstockPlayhouseCGM@ gmail.com, WoodstockPlayhouse.org.

10:30am-4pm Thomas Cole National Historic Site Guided Tours. Tours run Friday through Sunday through December 15. They begin every hour on the hour from 11am-3pm. Each tour is limited to twelve people and lasts approximately 45 minutes. Tickets: $12; free/students, seniors 62+ & Veterans. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole.org.

11am-3pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Enjoy lavish turn-of-the-century style holiday decorations while touring the mansion. Tickets: $8, $6/seniors & students, children 12 & under are free. Info: 845-889-8851; parks.ny.gov/historicsites/25/details.aspx. Staatsburg State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Drive Rd 1, Staatsburg.

11am-3pm Sharpening Live. Hosted by Cutting Edge Custom Sharpening. We can sharpen anything you bring - knives, scissors, quilting and fabric tools. Info: 845-586-4177; hgom. net. Home Goods of Margaretville, 784 Main St, Margaretville.

11am-1pm Mah-jongg. Learn and play this game of skill and strategy each Friday morning. Beginners and more experienced players welcome.

Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. tivolilibrary.org. Free.

11:30am-4:30pm Past Life Regression and Private Angelic Channeling sessions with past life therapist and channel Margaret Doner.

First Friday of every month at Mirabai. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $125/90 minute session.

12pm-7pm Historical Society of Woodstock annual Holiday Exhibit and Sale. An opening reception will start at 3 p.m. Hot cider, chili, and homemade refreshments will be available. See artwork related to music and a display of 20th century holiday cards created by Woodstock artists. The sale offers hand-knit hats, mittens, scarves, homemade jam, local maple syrup, soap, jewelry, baked goods, and locally inspired books, cards, and maps. Buy a tax deductible gift and support the Historical Society at the same time.

Info: 845-679-2256. Eames House / Historical Society of Woodstock, 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY. historicalsocietyofwoodstock.org.

12pm-2:30pm New Paltz Student and Community Climate Strike. Check Facebook for details.

Fight like you live here! Info: mjdablan@gmail. com. DEC lawn, 21 S Putt Corners, New Paltz.

12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Art Opening & Reception: Sand Painting Artist, Joe Mangrum. Exhibit runs through January 15th. Info and location: hudsonundergroundgallery@gmail.com. Info: hudsonundergroundgallery@gmail.com, bit. ly/34TGriT. 1pm-2pm Chair Yoga. Practiced sitting on a chair or standing using a chair for support. Clinton Community Library.

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

2pm-3pm Mah Jongg. Mahjong is a tile-based game that was developed in China during the Qing dynasty. Bring your game on! Clinton Community Library.

2pm-3pm Marking Memories. Caregivers and individuals with dementia, and other cognitive challenges can participate in a free Museum visit program. The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren Street, Glens Falls. Info: 518-792-1761, frontofhouse@ hydecollection.org, hydecollection.org. RSVP kdudek@hydecollection.org or 518-792-1761, ext. 317.

3:30pm-7:30pm Twilight Tours. Tour of the mansion decorated for 19th-century holidays and resonating with live string music, followed by a reception with crafts. Tickets: adults $26, children $16, under 5 years of age free. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison.

Info: 845-265-3638, info@boscobel.org, tinyurl. com/y4s4ql2w.

4pm-7pm Holiday Open House & Education Fundraiser. Onteora Elementary students will be drawing portraits for visitors and Onteora High School students will be running a holiday crafting table. There will also be a delicious bake sale. Activities are open to all ages by donation, proceeds will help support the WAAM education program. Info: beth@woodstockart.org. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker ST, Woodstock.

4pm-8pm Woodstock Holiday Open House.

Stroll our delightful town to see all the magical holiday lights, windows and the tree on the green!

Some shops will offer free raffles, gift certificates, sales on special items and something to nosh on & holiday cheer. Great things for the whole family.

Mrs Claus will do face painting at Houst. There will be music, caroling, holiday cheer. Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock.

4pm International Festival of the Holidays Community Day. Join us around the fireplace for hot cocoa and holiday-centered games and crafts or enjoy traditional camp favorites like archery, hikes, climbing and more. The day concludes with a performance of the Bronx Opera in The Castle.

This festive event will give your holiday spirit a head start, allowing you to enjoy the true meaning of the season all winter long! Advanced registration is required! Email reservations@frostvalley. org or call 845-985-2291 ext. 450 to register. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville. frostvalley.org.

4:30pm Holiday on Huguenot Street and Community Tree Lighting. This event will highlight holiday and community traditions in New Paltz during the late Victorian era. Special tours feature costume interpreters portraying Huguenot Street’s past residents. Presented by Historic Huguenot Street and the Reformed Church. For more information, visit huguenotstreet.org/ holiday-2019. To register for tours visit: huguenotstreet.z2systems.com/np/clients/huguenotstreet/eventRegistration.jsp?event=172. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz.

5pm Saugerties Holiday Weekend in the Village - First Friday. Merchants open late.

Register at your favorite shops. Live music and holiday themed specials through town.

5pm-7pm Sips and Sweets (and Shopping). Join us for a little fun with your holiday shopping. We’ll have a special baked treat from Colleen McMurray and some sips for you to enjoy - mulled wine, prosecco, or beer for the guys. Info: 845-5864177; hgom.net. Home Goods of Margaretville, 784 Main St, Margaretville.

5pm-7pm Friday Night Lights Candy Cane Lane 2019 Parade and Tree Lighting. The parade steps off at 5:30. Tree lighting will be in front of Yum Yum Noodle Bar immediately following the parade. There will be live music and Christmas carols and you’ll even have a chance to meet Santa himself! Route 9 and Market Street, Red Hook.

5pm-7pm Opening Reception. Join us for the opening reception for the “BFA/MFA Student Thesis Exhibition.” Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, bit.ly/2XeAlqr.

5:30pm-7pm Participatory Art Opening.

Exhibits through 12/26. Info: 845-338-5580.

Duck Pond Gallery, Town of Esopus Library, 128

Dec. 5, 2019 Canal Street, Port Ewen.

5:30pm-7pm Ballroom Dance Classes at the Armory. Classes taught by Ballroom Instructor Andrew Rest to prepare for Winter Swing Dance on Saturday, Dec. 14, 7-10pm. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org. Free.

6pm-8pm Library Lover’s Holiday Party.

Bring your cheerful spirit and join The Friends at a Holiday Party for all those who support our Library, and to celebrate our many volunteers and program presenters. Come enjoy a spread of food and a cash bar. Hear updates on the progress of our New Building Project. The Holiday Open House night is going on too - a great time to shop local. Families with children welcome.

Woodstock Golf Course, Woodstock. newlibrarywoodstock.org.

6pm-8pm Snowflake Festival, Hosted by the Kingston Uptown Business Association. Open houses at Uptown businesses offering visitors treats and warm beverages. Explore Uptown’s charming streets as they are decorated and filled with live entertainers including magicians, horsedrawn carriages, fire torch jugglers, clowns, ice sculptures, lighting of the uptown tree and so much more. Santa will be waiting to meet all the good boys and girls on the Senate House grounds.

Nearby, chestnuts will be roasting and choirs will be singing. Held on Wall, North Front, John and Fair Streets in Uptown Kingston. kingstonuptown.org/2019-snowflake-festival.

6pm-7:30pm “First Friday” Shabbat Dinner.

Family-friendly Kiddush, candle-lighting, singing, and blessings. Dairy/vegetarian potluck dinner. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

6:30pm-8:30pm Jewish Renewal Shabbat Service. Joyful, musical, spiritual, and meditative services open to everyone. Vibrant, heartcentered, and soulful. All are welcome. Woodland Pond, Woodland Pond Circle, New Paltz. Info: 845-477-5457, hello@kolhai.org, kolhai.org.

6:30pm 26th Annual City of Poughkeepsie Celebration of Lights Parade and Fireworks.

The parade will begin at 6:30pm on Main Street and Garden Street and proceed to the evening’s first Christmas tree lighting on Main, near Market Street. Then at 7:15, Poughkeepsie River District Business Association and Legion Fireworks will present the area’s only winter fireworks display.

At 8pm the Bardavon will present a screening of the family film classic Sandlot. Info: 845-4732072; bardavon.org.

6:30pm-10pm Beacon Sloop Club Potluck Meeting. Meets every 1st Friday of the month at 6:30pm! Open meeting at 7:30pm, followed by a Song Circle. Everyone welcomed. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. beaconsloopclub. org. Free.

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

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

7pm-9pm Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson Benefit: Performance and Dance. Performance by Magdalena Gomez, Springfield, MA poet laureate, performance artist, & playwright followed by dancing to Pops and the Weasels. The Sanctuary at UUCC, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston. nobodyleavesmidhudson.com.

More if you can, less if you can’t.

7pm-8pm Is Biodiversity Good For Our Health? Join Cary Institute for a live taping of the podcast Big Biology, and discover how diverse ecosystems affect disease risk for people. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook. caryinstitute.org.

7pm-9pm Cowboy from the Bronx. Angelo Iodice (a.k.a. AJ Silver) brings his whip-cracking, trick-roping and boleadoras artistry to Newburgh in this Western variety show. Safe Harbors Lobby at the Ritz, 107 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12550, Newburgh. safe-harbors.org. $10.

7pm-9pm Eugene Tyler Band at Rough Draft.

Come join one of our favorites, the Eugene Tyler Band, a great local Americana staple. Grab a couple brews and hunker down on a cold night!

Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@gmail. com.

7pm-9pm Doc Faustus. A modern comic adaptation written by Terence Patrick Hughes and Directed by Claire Hewitt Raper. Presented by WDS Middle School. Three performances: Dec. 6th 7pm, Dec. 7th 1pm & 6pm. woodstock day school, 1430 Glasco Turnpike, Saugerties. brownpapertickets.com/event/3628240. $10.

7pm-9pm It’s A Wonderful Life. The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. Info: 845-6475511, info@shadowlandstages.org, shadowlandstages.org/2. 31-39.

7pm-9pm Free Addiction Recovery Acupuncture Clinic. New Paltz Community Acupuncture will be offering a Free Addiction Recovery Acupuncture Clinic on Fridays from 7-9pm. A specific treatment using ear points only will be available free of charge. Come by and let acupuncture help to reduce cravings, assist the detox process, calm your nervous system, and support recovery. It is helpful for all types of addictions and all stages of recovery. Walk-ins only - first

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premier listings Contact Donna at Donna.ulsterpublishing@gmail.com to be included Poughkeepsie Galleria Announces ‘12 Days of Giftmas’ Holiday Sweepstakes. Kicking off the gift-giving season, for the second year in a row, Poughkeepsie Galleria has launched their ’12 Days of Giftmas’ Holiday Sweepstakes where lucky shoppers will be chosen throughout the month of December to win over $500 worth of prizes. Customers can enter to win twelve days of gifts donated by Poughkeepsie Galleria merchants including Auntie Anne’s, Hallmark, JCPenney, Kirwan’s Game Store, Macy’s, Trollbeads, Ruby Tuesday and more by visiting Poughkeepsie Galleria’s website.

December 5 through December 20, excluding weekends, one winner will be selected at random to claim their gift from the store of the day. Info: PoughkeepsieGalleria.com.

Holiday Multimedia Open Studio Event 2019 ( 12/7 & 12/8, 12-4pm).

Do your holiday shopping from local artists! Featuring 25+ artists~many mediums. 77 Cornell St, Kingston.

Mexican Mondays (5-9pm). Mexican Cuisine offered: $5 Tacos $6 Margaritas Authentic. Info: 845-679-5763; oriole9.com. Oriole 9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Sign-up Now! Archery, Karate, Yoga, Dance, Sewing, Chess & Ceramics.

Register online 845-246-3744, ext 156.

Woodstock Day School, 1430 Glasco

Tpke, Saugerties.

Holiday Pottery Sale (12/14 & 12/15, 10am-4pm). Stephen Fabrico Designs invites you to the Studio for a Holiday Pottery Sale. and shop for some unique handcrafted gifts for the home and garden. Stephen Fabrico Designs, 76 Church St, Bloomington. Email: 845-331-4760; stephenfabrico@gmail. com.

Billy Stephen (12/7, 4-7pm). With Larry Packer, fiddle & Kyle Esposito, guitar. Billy has shared the stage with Pete Seeger and rocked out with John Lee Hooker. Backed by Larry Packer (The Last Waltz, Levon Helm Band) on fiddle & Kyle Esposito (A- List session here) on guitar, together they take Billy’s songs and Americana tunes for “A ride in the country with the top down.” Held over for the 14th week at Station Bar & Curio, 101 Tinker St, Woodstock. No cover.

Jazz at Senate Garage (12/7, 7:30pm). Featuring Fred Hersch, solo piano. Info: online@jazzstock.com or Rhino Records (6 North St). $30/adv, $35/door. Senate Garage, 4 N Front St, Kingston.

Three’s A Charm Tricycle Club (12/8, 11am). Refreshments and light fare will be served at the December meeting and test ride the Hase Trigo and see the new BerkelBike hand

come, first served. 21 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz. For more information, call 845-255-2145 or log onto newpaltzacu.com.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm.

50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Halftime complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

7pm-8:30pm First Friday Concert Series.

Local musicians offer a community benefit concert. Admission by free will donation. Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2336, bulletin@christwoodstock. org, bit.ly/2gaSj9e.

7pm Star Nations Sacred Circle. A not for skeptics discussion group concerning all things paranormal. Dedicated to acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on earth. Bring a drink, snack to share & a comfortable lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch. Meets monthly on the 1st Friday of each month, 7pm.

Info: 845-331-2662 or Symbolic-Studies.org. $5 suggested donation. Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson.

7:30pm-10:30pm Holiday Swing Dance, Potluck, Performance. Got2Lindy’s Annual Holiday Swing Dance. All are welcome. Beginner lesson 7:30-8pm. No partner needed. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY. Info: 845-236-3939, dancing@got2lindy.com, got2lindy.com. donation.

7:30pm Heal The Amazon. A concert benefiting Earth Alliance’s Amazon Forest Fund. The evening will include performances and prayers led by Celeste and Natavi Orion. This event is by freewill donation. Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7:30pm 25th Annual Performance of A Christmas Carol. Created by Artistic Directors Scarlett Fiero and Quiedo Carbone, together with Woodstock resident and former New York City Ballet dancer-turned choreographer Sara Miot producer. Tickets: ticketmaster.com. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. ulsterballet. org. $25/Adult, $22/Senior 65+/Member, $18/ Children 12 and under.

7:30pm-9pm Eric Roth. This classical guitarist will perform music by three women composers as well as Sor, Mertz, Barrios, Sagreras, Poulenc, & others. Half Moon Books Tivoli, 48 Broadway, Tivoli. ericjrothmusic.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Balkun Brothers.

Opener: Jake Kulak & The Lowdown. Known for their explosive live shows, internationally touring rock n’ roll band, Balkun Brothers is reinventing the term “power duo” with their heavy hitting, new-age, psychedelic rock n’ roll. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Slam Allen’s Holiday Soul-o-Bration. Messenger of Holiday Love, Slam Allen, invites the world to swing in and celebrate the season! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8pm A Christmas Carol. Directed by Diana di Grandi, adapted by Lou Trapani with musical direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert. Info & tickets: centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. $27.

and foot cycle. 100 Plains Road, New Paltz. Info: threesacharmtricycleclub@ gmail.com; threesacharmtricycleclub. com.

Athens Holiday House Decorating Contest (12/8). Country, folksy, sophisticated? Lots of woodsy creatures, winter wonderland, or over the top bling? It’s time for the Athens Holiday House Decorating Contest!

Sponsored by the Athens Cultural Center, judging will take place the week of December 8th. One specially decorated home will be selected to win the grand prize, a bountiful gift basket courtesy of Black Horse Farms. The prize winning house will be announced during the Athens Victorian Stroll on December 14th. If you would like your house judged, contact us by December 7th at 518-945-1956 or info@athensculturalcenter.org.

Art Opening Reception for “Sawkill: A Catskill Journey” (12/7 at 5pm).

The show features new works by Linda Lynton that explore the Sawkill River which runs through the Woodstock Valley. It includes oil paintings, pastels, ink drawings, and monotypes showing the landscape and natural features that stood out during her journey along the waterway. Exhibit runs through December 31st. Info: lyntonart@gmail. com. ASK, 97 Broadway, Kingston.

Gingerbread House Competition &

8pm Eric Redd’s 2nd Annual Redd Hot Christmas Dance Party & Benefit. Hosted

by Eric Redd with Special Guests the Alexis P Suter Band. Proceeds will benefit the Family of Woodstock Hotline & Textline. There will also be a warm clothing drive. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at levonhelm.com. Levon Helm Studios, 160 Plochman Lane, Woodstock.

8pm-11pm A Tribute To The Beatles Abbey Road. Tickets: $25/advance, $30 day of show.

Get your tickets at: colonywoodstock.eventbrite. com. The Colony, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

8pm Community Playback Theatre. Audience stories brought to life onstage. $10 suggested donation. For information: 845-883-0392.

ANNOUNCING UPCOMING PERFORMANCE: Sunday, 3pm: 1/5/2020. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland.

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Find Your Holiday Spirits: A Mythic Catskills Adventure Weekend. Spillian is delighted to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills ciders, beers, and spirits and bring some back to your hearth for your celebrating this holiday season. Visit our website for tickets and event details for each day. Info: 800-811-3351; events@spillian.com. Spillian, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Rd, Fleischmanns.

The Polar Express Train Ride. Take a magical trip to the North Pole while reading along with the classic children’s book. Santa and his Elves board the train add to the memories made on this unforgettable adventure. Call for ride times and availability. Runs Nov. 16-Dec. 28. Tickets & Info: 845-332-4854; catskillmountainrailroad. com/event/the-polar-express. Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR), Westbrook Lane Station, 55 Plaza Rd, Kingston.

8am-3pm Ashokan Rail Trail - Something for Everyone: 5 Program Choices. WLC presents a special end of the year “First Saturdays on the Trail” Five Program Showcase at the new Ashokan Rail Trail. Pre-reg required. Ashokan Rail Trail, 1285 NY-28, West Hurley. Info: ellier.wlc@gmail. com, bit.ly/2rjdwGc. Free.

8am-5pm Phoenicia’s Miracle on Main Street.

Tree lighting 5-5:30pm. Parish hall party 5:308pm. Face painting, craft table, cupcake decorating, Santa pictures, complimentary food & drink, and music with Uncle Rock. Phoenicia Parish Hall, Phoenicia.

9am-1pm Free Tech Help. Bring your devices and questions. Clinton Community Library.

9am-4:45pm International Festival of the Holidays Community Day. Join us around the fireplace for hot cocoa and holiday-centered games and crafts or enjoy traditional camp favorites like archery, hikes, climbing and more. The day concludes with a performance of the Bronx Opera in The Castle. This festive event will give your holiday spirit a head start, allowing you to enjoy the true meaning of the season all winter long! Advanced registration is required! Email reservations@frostvalley.org or call 845-985-2291 ext. 450 to register. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville.

Holiday Open House (12/8, 12-4pm).

Over $800 in cash prizes! The Elmendorph Inn, 7562 N Broadway, Red Hook. Visit suncommon.com/gingerbread to enter.

Hudson Valley Community Power.

Q & A Open House to learn about how Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and Community Solar.

For location: 845-859-9099; hudsonvalleycommunitypower.com; info#hudsonvalleycommunitypower. com.

1st Art Opening - Uptown Gallery at Fair John ArtSpace and Music Salon. Gloria Waslyn curates first art exhibit in the new Uptown Gallery at Fair John ArtSpace and Music Salon!

Featuring work from artists James Martin, Kazuma Oshita, & Sean Bowen. Show exhibits for several months. Gallery hours are Tues.-Sun. from 11am-6pm. FAIR JOHN ArtSpace and Music Salon, 288 Fair Street, Kingston. Info: 917-697-6916; gloriawaslyn@gmail.com; jwcornbroom@ gmail.com.

Community Playback Theatre at Boughton Place (12/6, 8pm). Audience stories brought to life onstage.

Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Road, Highland. $10/suggested donation. Info: 845-883-0392. Upcoming performance: Sunday, 3pm on 1/5/2020.

Volunteer Drivers Needed To Transport Cancer Patients to Treatment.

The American Cancer Society needs individuals who can volunteer one hour at least once a month to drive a cancer patient to a local cancer center in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,

9am-3pm Christmas Craft Fair and Bake Sale. Theme gift baskets, fresh green arrangements, home baked goodies and local vendors.

Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-2867, refsaug@yahoo. com, saugertiesreformed.org. $1-25.

9am Holiday on Huguenot Street. This event will highlight holiday and community traditions in New Paltz during the late Victorian era. Special tours feature costume interpreters portraying Huguenot Street’s past residents. Presented by Historic Huguenot Street and the Reformed Church. For more information on all of the day’s events, visit huguenotstreet.org/holiday-2019. To register for tours visit: huguenotstreet.z2systems. com/np/clients/huguenotstreet/eventRegistration.jsp?event=172. Historic Huguenot Street, Huguenot St., New Paltz.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. More space has been added for more items! Store hours: Every Saturday 9-12 April through December. Located in basement of church. Take steps to the left of white church doors. Info: comfortercobblestonethrift26@ gmail.com. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston.

9am-1pm Free Handgun Safety Course. Course held in two different locations: Kingston & Phoenicia. Info & signup: gosafetycourse.cf; pfgsafetycourse.cf. Gander Outdoors, 705 Frank Sottile Boulevard, Kingston. Info: 845-605-2767, president.pfg@gmail.com, gosafetycourse.cf.

9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9:30am-12:30pm Hike to Indian Rock at Sam’s Point. An interpretive hike to Indian Rock.

Almost five-mile hike. Please bring a lunch, water, and appropriate clothing for the weather. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor.

9:30am-11:30am Free Ukulele Program. Intergenerational ukulele program for ages 10 and up.

This is a group that shares learning with each other. We usually do some folk music, popular music and anything else anyone might want to play. Remember beginners are welcome and encouraged! Direct your questions to Uke Coordinator Lynda at tofu.uke.group@gmail.com. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston.

9:30am MidHudsonADK: Blueberry Run End to End Hike. 8-9 miles, moderate to strenuous.

Joint with Mohonk Preserve. Leader: Roberta Forest. There may be ice or snow on the ground, please carry foot traction, such as microspikes.

Meeting place is lower Awosting parking area. $10.00 parking fee or use Empire Pass. Confirm with leader at 845-750-7059. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/outingsevents-list.

9:30am-10:30am Centering Prayer and Meditation. A receptive method of silent prayer. People of all faiths are welcome and no previous meditation experience is required. St Gregory’s Church, 2578 Route 212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8800,

Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan and Orange County. Locally, the greatest need is for drivers who can pick up patients at their home and take them to treatment -- even one time once a month would be tremendously helpful, according to Patrice Lestrange Mack, Communications Director for the American Cancer Society. All drivers must have: A current, valid driver’s license, A good driving record, Access to a safe and reliable vehicle, Regular desktop, laptop, or tablet computer access, & Proof of car insurance. To learn more about volunteering for the Road To Recovery program, visit cancer.org/ road.

Oncology Support Programs offered at HealthAlliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer. Info: 845-339-2071; oncology.support@ hahv.org; hahv.org/service/cancersupport-program.

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: 845-3431000, tara-spayneuter.org.

matthew.stgregorys@gmail.com. free.

10am-3pm Holiday Craft Fair & Luncheon.

Local artists and craftmans will be offering their jewelry, original watercolors, pottery, woodworking items, handmade soaps and a bake sale.

Lunch will be available. Grahamsville Church, 356 Main St/ Rt 55, Grahamsville. info: 845-9859427; 845-985-7222.

10am-11:30am Jewish Renewal Generations Shabbat Morning Service. Family-friendly, multi-generational, musical service with singing, sharing, and teaching from the Torah. All ages and faiths welcome. Woodland Pond, Woodland Pond Circle, New Paltz. Info: 845-477-5457, hello@kolhai.org, kolhai.org.

10am-11am All-Level Yoga. Wear comfortable clothes. Clinton Community Library.

10am-2pm Kingston Winter Farmers Market.

Featuring live music by jazz guitarist Michael Hollis with hot food from Samosa Shack and Willow Pond Sheep Farm and hard cider tastings by Abandoned Cider. We accept EBT/SNAP benefits at the market year round - for every $5 in SNAP you spend, you’ll get a $2 FreshConnect check to spend at the market! The Winter Market runs every other Saturday from December 7th through April 25. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

10am-4pm Hurds Trees for Troops. Price: $0—$35 for any size choose and cut tree for Police and Military. Thank you to our armed forces and their families. ½ price for police officers who show ID and any military personnel who were not able to sign up for the free trees. Includes a hayride to the patch for the whole family. Info: Information@hurdsfamilyfarm.com. Hurds Family Farm, 2187 State Route 32, Modena. hurdsfamilyfarm. com.

10am-2pm A Child’s Christmas. Drop in for stories read by Janet and Honoria Livingston’s nurse Ollie under the Christmas tree and treats for children ages 3-10. Cost: $4/person. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historical Site, Germantown.

10am-4pm Boscobel Holiday Tours. The mansion will be decorated for 19th-century holidays. Guides share stories of Yuletide traditions past. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison. boscobel.org/events/guided-housetours.

10am-4pm Sudbury Winter Gift Sale. The Sudbury Winter Gift Sale made its debut in 2006, and showcases local artisans. Homemade soups and chili for sale along with a wide variety of baked goods. A children’s area with holiday movies, art projects, games, books, a sensory table and supervision. Have fun in our photo booth.

Hudson Valley Sudbury School, 84 Zena Rd, Kingston. sudburywintergiftsale.org.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/ index.htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

10am-5pm Cheers Queers! The Newburgh LGBTQ Center & CelebrateWomxn845 present an indoor market featuring LGBTQ+ BIPOC, and WOMXN makers of crafts, clothing and curiosities. Newburgh LGBTQ Center, 102 S. William St, Newburgh. Info: celebratewomxn845@gmail.

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10am Holiday Weekend in the Village - Shop Saugerties Day. Our Saugerties Secret Santa will pick 3 registry cards and pay for $100 of the gifts you chose as a holiday gift from Saugerties to you!

Or if your gifts have been purchased already, we will give you a $100 gift card to a store of your choice!

10am-3pm St. Nicholas Bazaar Fine Crafts & Holiday Cookies. Sale of decorated holiday cookies and candies and handcrafted items made by local artisans. Grace Church, 3328 Franklin Ave, Millbrook.

10am-1pm Two Views for One Hike at Minnewaska. A hike to two scenic vistas in the Peter’s Kill Area. Pre-registration is required by calling Minnewaska at 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner. parks.ny.gov/parks/127.

10am-3pm Pine Hill Craft Fair & Chili Fest.

It’s Pine Hill Day! Chili fest, craft fair, and silent auction. Something for everyone. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill.

10am-8pm Sinterklaas Festival Day. A daylong, colorful celebration that features children’s workshops, dance, theatre and music all over the village. The spectacular Children’s Starlight Parade at 6pm features two-story tall, animated puppets carried by hundreds of volunteers Info: sinterklaashudsonvalley.com. Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

10am-5pm Unison Arts Annual Craft Art & Design Fair. Twenty four master craftspeople and fine artists will be displaying a wide range of handmade crafts in a convenient New Paltz location. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, info@unisonarts.org, bit.ly/2Nv2UN7. Kids 12 & Under Free.

10am 9th Annual FDR Student Gov’t Holiday Craft Fair. 100 vendors, crafts, homemade goodies, raffles and more. Food will be available to purchase (supporting the Class of 2022 and Class of 2023). Hosted by FDR Class of 2022.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, 156 S Cross Rd., Hyde Park.

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

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

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

10:30am-12pm Holiday Cottages Workshop.

These cottages are so easy and so much fun to make. Older children can do it on their own but parents will need to accompany children younger than seven and will enjoy this activity as well.

Cottages will be display for the Victorian Stroll on 12/14. Prizes awarded that day and then cottages can be piced up. Info: 518-945-2136; 945-2136.

Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens.

Free.

10:30am-11:15am Children’s Story Time & Craft. Free and no reservation needed. The Loft at Foundry42, 42 Front St, Port Jervis. f42home. com. Free.

10:30am-4pm Thomas Cole National Historic Site Guided Tours. Tours run Friday through Sunday through December 15. They begin every hour on the hour from 11am-3pm. Each tour is limited to twelve people and lasts approximately 45 minutes. Tickets: $12; free/students, seniors 62+ & Veterans. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Ukulele Lesson & Jam. Meets the first Saturday of the month for a uke lesson and jam, from beginners to more advanced players. Ukes available to borrow. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary. org. FREE. 10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston.

11am-5pm Holiday Sale at Sage. All sacred sound tools 20% off, including koshi chimes, crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, crystal pyramids, and shruti boxes. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail. com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com.

11am-3pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Enjoy lavish turn-of-the-century style holiday decorations while touring the mansion. Tickets: $8, $6/seniors & students, children 12 & under are free. Info: 845-889-8851; parks.ny.gov/historicsites/25/details.aspx. Staatsburg State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Drive Rd 1, Staatsburg.

11am-5pm Field of Vision. An exhibition of new watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso and Cross River Artist Exhibits through December. Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, 43 East Market St, Rhinebeck. betsyjacarusoartist.com.

11am A Seussified Christmas Carol. Performed

by Kids on Stage, The CENTER’s after school theater workshop program. Directed by Lisa Lynds. All seats just $8. Info & tickets: centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck.

11am-5pm Annual Fair Trade & Handmade Bazaar. This year, put your money where your heart is. Sponsored by the Dutchess County Interfaith Council. Info: 845-309-3853; patla42@ gmail.com. Hellenic Community Center, 54 Park Ave, Poughkeepsie. dutchesscountyinterfaith.org/.

11am-4pm Bethel Woods’ 10th Annual Holiday Market. Featuring over 85 vendors throughout the Market Sheds, Event Gallery and grounds, highlighting the talent from regional vendors and beyond, while offering a selection of food trucks and outdoor vendors. Museum admission will be 50% off. Families can create in the Holiday Craft Studio. Have your photo taken with Santa in The Main Exhibit in front of the iconic psychedelic bus from 3-5pm. Info: BethelWoodsCenter. org. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel. Free.

11am-3pm Cookie Walk & Soup Sale. Join us for a cookie walk and soup sale this holiday season.

Cookies will be $10/lb. Soups will be $5/pint and $9/quart and will be served cold. Hosted by Rosendale/Tillson American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1219. American Legion Post 1219, Springtown Rd, Tillson.

11am-3pm A Visit With Santa! Make your list and letters for Santa, he is ready to meet you!

Bring your own camera/phone/tablet and take your child’s photo with Santa. Hurleyville Arts Centre, 219 Main Street, Hurleyville. Info: 845-707-, info@hacny.org, bit.ly/350TjUd. free.

11am-4pm Adams Winter Fest. Join us for family friendly holiday fun, kids’ arts and crafts, free photos with Santa, food and more! Adams Fairacre Farms, 1240 Route 300, Newburgh.

11am-4pm U.C. SPCA Pet Photos with Santa + Fill the Van. Join us for Pet Photos with Santa and help us Fill the Van! Photos taken by a pro photographer. $5 suggested donation. Info: 845-331-5377; info@ucspca.org. Petsmart, Kingston.

11am-6pm Little Light of Mine @ Village Candle. Hours: Wed - Sun, 11am - 6pm. Village Candle, 8 South Chestnut St, New Paltz. Info: nplittlelightcandle.com; 845-800-1819.

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

12pm-4pm Holiday Multimedia Open Studio Event 2019. Do your holiday shopping from local artists! Featuring 25+ artists~many mediums. 77 Cornell St, Kingston.

12pm-4pm Historical Society of Woodstock annual Holiday Exhibit and Sale. An opening reception will start at 3 p.m. Hot cider, chili, and homemade refreshments will be available. See artwork related to music and a display of 20th century holiday cards created by Woodstock

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12pm-4pm Kingston Shirt Factory Holiday Open Studio Weekend. See 25+ artists in their own studios plus special guest artists in our 4th floor high-ceiling spaces with skylights. Highlights include continuous screenings of short films about regional artists, ceramics, music, poetry, fitness demonstrations, and more. Professional portrait photography pop-up will be Sunday only.

Info: 845-339-7834; stephen@blauweissmedia. com. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

12pm-2pm Phoenicia Library’s Annual Open House Holiday Celebration. It’s the staff and board’s chance to say thank you to our patrons for a great year. We’ll have cider, homemade cookies and plus a family musical performance by Uncle Rock at noon. Come sing along to the classics and hear some new ones. Also, we hear Felicia the Library Bear will be making an appearance, as she loves to boogie down to the holiday songs!

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

12pm-6pm Edgar Cayce Remedy Consultations with Jack Rosen. Former Chairman of the NY chapter of Edgar Cayce’s Association of Research and Enlightenment. Here to help those of us with arthritis, psoriasis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, carpal tunnel syndrome, sinus issues as well as muscle, ligament and bone injuries, Jack shares his vast knowledge and direct applications to relieve and heal with natural remedies channeled by Edgar Cayce. Private session. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $40/1hour.

12pm MidHudsonADK: Dutchess Rail Trail.

Section between Morgan Lake Trailhead & Titusville Rd (Gold gym parking lot), Easy, flat Walk 5 miles. Leader: Sayi Nulu 845-264-2270 (Text preferred) sayinulu@yahoo.com. Will shuttle people back to the Morgan Lake Trail head to get the car(s). Bad weather (heavy rain/snow) cancels. Contact hike leader in advance. This walk is part of a plan to walk the entire 13 mile Dutchess Rail Trail in sections. Titusville/Gold gym parking lot, Poughkeepsie. midhudsonadk. org/outings-events-list.

12pm-6pm Live Sand Painting with Artist, Joe Mangrum. Hudson Underground Gallery, 134 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: hudsonundergroundgallery@gmail.com, bit.ly/34TGriT. 12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

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

1pm-7pm Winterfest Celebration in Tivoli.

From kids crafts, a Santa visit and live theater, to a tree lighting and merchant open houses, Tivoli will be full of community spirit and festivities for all. All events free and open to the public. Village Hall/Tivoli, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. tivoliny.org.

1pm Harvesting History Family Workshop: A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Bird Seed Ornament Workshop. Learn how to make bird seed ornaments for the holidays! Decorate your backyard or make a gift for a friend. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required. Cost: $10 per person, free for children 12 and under. . Clermont State Historical Site, Germantown. friendsofclermont.org.

1pm Val-Kill Christmas Tours. Come see the Val-Kill decorated for the holiday season. Open Thursday through Monday for tours at 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 845-229-9422; nps.gov/elro/index. htm. Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, 54 Valkill Park Road, Hyde Park.

1pm-3:30pm Vegan Holiday Cookies. Back for the fourth year in a row - with an all-new menu!

Join Chef Sara, a baker and former pastry chef, in the kitchen as she demonstrates how to prepare a mouthwatering assortment of holiday cookies.

Chef Sara (for her classes) at 740-541-4043 or Chef Linda (for her classes) at 203-615-8139 and your registration fee will be applied to another class within 12 months. At The Homestead.

Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties. casanctuary.org.

1pm-4pm Wilderstein Holiday House Tours.

Wilderstein will be decorated for the holiday season. Tour at your own pace, with a guide in each room to share information. Tours run every Saturday and Sunday through 12/29. Tickets: $11/ adults, $10/students and seniors. Info: 845-8764818; wilderstein.org. Wilderstein Historic Site, 330 Morton Rd, Rhinebeck.

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artists. The sale offers hand-knit hats, mittens, scarves, homemade jam, local maple syrup, soap, jewelry, baked goods, and locally inspired books, cards, and maps. Buy a tax deductible gift and support the Historical Society at the same time.

Info: 845-679-2256. Eames House / Historical Society of Woodstock, 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY. historicalsocietyofwoodstock.org.

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1pm-4pm Five Years! Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Amity Gallery. Celebrating five years of art exhibits, music, poetry and performances. December Exhibit will exhibit through 12/22. Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, WARWICK. amitygallery.org.

1pm Read to Stella. A certified therapy dog.

Walk-ins welcome. Discover the joy of reading aloud and improving your reading skills. Meets the 1st Saturday of each month at 1pm. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

2pm “The Hamlets of Saugerties”. Using new and vintage images as well as historic facts, Rich Davis will present a virtual tour of nineteen hamlets in Saugerties. Explore the hamlets, learn where they are located and discover some-

Dec. 5, 2019 thing about the role they played in the history of Saugerties. All Friends of Historic Saugerties talks are free and open to everyone interested in local history. Seating is limited. Info: 845-2464317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

2pm Pearl Harbor Day Author Talk: Lew Paper.

Author of In The Cauldron: Terror, Tension, and The American Ambassador’s Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor. In theHenry A. Wallace Center.

Info: 845-486-7745. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. fdrlibrary.org.

2pm-2:30pm Into the Light. Vanaver Caravan’s multicultural Holiday Spectacular, with Arm of the Sea’s giant puppets. The show celebrates worldly holiday traditions. Additional shows at 3pm & 4pm. Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-256-9300, vcoffice@vanavercaravan.org, bit.ly/2s5Res6.

2pm-5:30pm High Falls-Marbletown Christmas Tree & Menorah Lighting Ceremony. A program of holiday songs, poetry and readings will start at 4:30 at the D&H Canal Museum with the lights coming on at 5:30. Santa will be there to usher in the season. Hot Cider, Soups and other refreshments will be provided. After the festivities, the Community Church of High Falls invites everyone for hot chocolate and cookies. Tree and Menorah lighting will take place at Route 213 and Second Street.

2pm-4pm Holiday Art Making Workshop for Kids. Savannah Baker, printmaking instructor at the Woodstock School of Art, leads kids in making holiday cards and holiday-themed art for Christmas, Hannukah and the winter season.

Free admission. Kids under 5 require parents.

Presented by Marbletown Arts Association with the High Falls Civic Association. Advance registration required. Info: 845-399-1033; esmarkart@gmail.com. High Falls Kitchenette, 1219 Rt 213, High Falls.

2pm-3pm Madeline’s Christmas. The celebrated children’s book Madeline’s Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans comes to life on stage as a delightful holiday musical. Tickets: $18 for senior citizens & students 18 & under, $22 for adults. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-6900, WoodstockPlayhouseCGM@ gmail.com, WoodstockPlayhouse.org.

2pm-3:30pm Introduction to Meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. Taught by KTD’s lamas , this class offers brief, basic meditation instruction combined with a presentation setting meditation in the wider context of the practices and principles of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Time will be set aside for questions from the participants. The class is free of charge, and preregistration is not required. Info: managingdirector@kagyu.org or 845-679-1091. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

3pm Marist College’s Ecumenical Service of Lessons and Carols. Free and open to the public.

For more information contact the Marist Music Department: 845-575-3242 or musicdept@ marist.edu. Redeemed Christian Fellowship, 100 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie.

3pm-5pm Santa at the Movies - Sounds of the Season Concert. Climb aboard the Polar Express to hear NDSO’s annual holiday concert at **Roosevelt High School** in Hyde Park, “Sounds of the Season.” Franklin D Roosevelt High School, 156 S Cross Rd, Hyde Park. Info: 845-635-0877, info@ndsorchestra.org, ndsorchestra.org. $28 for adults, $23 for seniors, and $5 for students.

3pm-4:30pm Sinterklaas! Susan Cooper: The Shortest Day. Susan will read her poem and sign copies of her books at this event to celebrate Sinterklaas! A reading to herald the Winter Solstice. For more information please visit the Oblong Books website. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck.

Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, bit. ly/Shortest-Day. Free.

3pm-4:30pm Tuba Christmas. A seasonal favorite as a participant or audience member.

Tuba and euphonium players of all ages perform Christmas music. SUNY Ulster, 491 Cottekill road, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-5262, dziombas@ sunyulster.edu, bit.ly/TubaXmas. free and open to the public.

3:30pm-5:30pm Holiday Hustle 5K(ish) Fun Run. Dress up in your most festive holiday attire and walk/run/jog any distance up to about 3 miles for a chance to win a prize for most creative costume! Fastest male & female prizes also Online registrants will receive a Holiday Hustle recyclable bag and T-Shirt! Day of race registrants will receive giveaways on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration/sign-in begins at 2:30pm. $15 until 12/6, $20 on race day. Children under 10 FREE! Ellenville-Wawarsing Chamber of Commerce facebook for info. Wawarsing Wassail, 124 Canal St, Ellenville.

3:30pm-7:30pm Twilight Tours. Tour of the mansion decorated for 19th-century holidays and resonating with live string music, followed by a reception with crafts. Tickets: adults $26, children $16, under 5 years of age free. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison.

Info: 845-265-3638, info@boscobel.org, tinyurl. com/y4s4ql2w.

4pm 25th Annual Performance of A Christmas Carol. Created by Artistic Directors Scarlett Fiero and Quiedo Carbone, together with Woodstock resident and former New York City Ballet dancer-turned choreographer Sara Miot producer.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com. Ulster Performing Arts

Dec. 5, 2019 Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. ulsterballet.org. $25/Adult, $22/Senior 65+/Member, $18/Children 12 and under.

4pm-7pm Opening Reception: Holiday Small Works Show. Woodstock artist Renee Samuels showing monotypes & collagesin a Holiday Small Works Group Exhibition. Exhibits through 1/5/20. Info: 518-392-1060; amusechatham@ gmail.com. aMuse Gallery, 7 Railroad Ave., Chatham. amusechatham.com.

4pm-7pm Village of Wappingers Falls Historic Homes Holiday House Tour. Celebrate the holidays! Peek into several of the Village’s unique, historic private homes, plus the 1741 Mesier Homestead, all decorated. $15 suggested donation. Mesier Homestead, 2 Spring Street, Wappingers Falls. Info: 845-632-1281, christinaungar@wappingershistorical.org.

4pm-7pm Billy Stephen. Featuring Larry Packer, fiddle & Kyle Esposito, guitar. Billy has shared the stage with Pete Seeger and rocked out with John Lee Hooker. Backed by Larry Packer (The Last Waltz, Levon Helm Band) on fiddle & Kyle Esposito (A- List session here) on guitar, together they take Billy’s songs and Americana tunes for “A ride in the country with the top down.” Held over for the 14th week at Station Bar & Curio, 101 Tinker St, Woodstock. No cover.

4pm-6pm Opening Reception at WAAM. Opening reception for: 1 + 1 + 1 - The Gift - Eric Erickson: PAINTINGS - Small Works - YES: Bennett Elementary. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker ST, Woodstock. woodstockart.org. Free.

4:30pm-6pm Christmas Tree Lighting & Holiday Celebration. Join us as we welcome the season of good tidings and good cheer. Grab your camera for pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Free presents and crafts for the kids. Horse drawn carriage rides through town. Free hot dogs and hot chocolate by Windham Fire Dept. & PBA. Windham Ashland Jewett student chorus will lead us in song as we light the tree at 6pm then join in as they Christmas carol up and down Main Street. Stroll through the village stores & restaurants open late. Windham Civic Center, 5379 Route 23, Windham.

5pm-7pm Green Kill December Art Exhibition.

The Green Kill December Exhibition will include Edward Hueber, Kevin Paulsen and Ricardo Woo. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston. Info: 347-4689-2323, 229greenkill@greenkill.org, greenkill.org/events.

5pm-8pm U wear I poison ivy U. U wear I poison ivy U is a personal protection spell, a conceptual fashion-art-herbalism show based on a family experience of cancer. Music by DJ Jere, no-needle crystal acupuncture by Dr. Alexandra Garcia, wine from Kingston Wine Co., soup & glutenfree cookies by Outdated Cafe. Info: 845-4815387; sassafrasnewyork@gmail.com. Sassafras Mercantile, 37 Broadway, Kingston.

5:30pm Town Of Esopus Winter Wonderland Parade. Parade lines up at Medrex Bldg and proceeds on Braodway/9W South to W. Stout Avenue. Following the parade there is a gathering at the gazebo at MHV Credit Union. Visit from Mr. & Mrs. Claus & a tree lighting. Rain date 12/8, 5:30pm. Info: esopus.com.

6pm Annual Olive Tree Lighting. Crafts, snacks and movie. Santa will arrive at 6:30pm. Please bring a new, unwrapped gift to donate. Olive Meeting Hall, Bostock Road, Shokan.

7pm-9pm Jazz Pioneers Big Band. Cabaret night at West Point in Eisenhower Hall. Dinnerdance to classic big band sounds and a set of big band holiday arrangements. Reservations suggested. Includes dinner and music. Cash bar.

Info: 845-505-4929; richard.decrosta@gmail. com. West Point, Michie Stadium, West Point. $80.

7pm-10pm The Rob Scheps/Tony Jefferson Quartet Featuring Pete McCann & Peter Brendler. Jazz, R&B, soul, rock by UNBELIEVABLE musicians! Guitarists, check out Pete McCann.

Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe. com. Donations.

9am-3pm Santa’s Workshop - Pose for Pics at Pause: Christmas Made Easy. Pose with Santa for you own digital image. Families without a four-legged members are also welcome. Proceeds benefit Perfect Pet Rescue. $10 for the first child or dog, $1 each additional child or dog. Pre-registration required. Info: 845-758-4330. Pause Dog Boutique, 10 East Market St, Red Hook.

7pm-9pm It’s A Wonderful Life. The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. Info: 845-6475511, info@shadowlandstages.org, shadowlandstages.org/2. 31-39.

9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

7pm-8:30pm Gong Surrender. Sense the feeling of your body transform into a feeling of no body as we surrender to the gongs and allow them to do their work. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20.

10am-4pm Hurds Trees for Troops. Price: $0—$35 for any size choose and cut tree for Police and Military. Thank you to our armed forces and their families. ½ price for police officers who show ID and any military personnel who were not able to sign up for the free trees. Includes a hayride to the patch for the whole family. Info: Information@hurdsfamilyfarm.com. Hurds Family Farm, 2187 State Route 32, Modena. hurdsfamilyfarm. com.

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.

7:30pm Holiday Concert and Dance Party: Pops and the Weasels. Blues. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

5pm-8pm First Saturday Arts in Kingston.

Gallery receptions offer a glimpse of what Kingston has to offer. Events throughout the year include live music, open studio tours, theatrical performances, historical reenactments, arts and culture activities. Various Kingston locations.

Info: 845-338-0331; artsalongthehudson.com/ kingston.

The Polar Express Train Ride. Take a magical trip to the North Pole while reading along with the classic children’s book. Santa and his Elves board the train add to the memories made on this unforgettable adventure. Call for ride times and availability. Runs Nov. 16-Dec. 28. Tickets & Info: 845-332-4854; catskillmountainrailroad. com/event/the-polar-express. Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR), Westbrook Lane Station, 55 Plaza Rd, Kingston.

7pm-9pm Ars Choralis Presents It’s a Wonderful Life, Reimagined for the Holidays. A reimagined version of the holiday movie classic presented through spoken word and song.

Redeemer Lutheran Church, 104 Wurts St, Kingston. Info: 845-679-8172, bpickhardt@gmail.com, arschoralis.org. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; Students $10.

5pm-8pm “Desert Qween” Opening Reception.

Vibrant paintings, prints and drawings influenced by the New Mexico and Morocan deserts.

Refreshments served. Folk House Collective, 75B Broadway, Kingston. folkhousecollective.com.

5pm-8pm 23rd Annual Hudson Winter Walk.

Celebrating the spirits of winter walks past, present and yet to come. Honoring Ellen Thurston, “Queen of Winter Walk” and all those whose efforts have made Winter Walk a beloved tradition. The evening begins with the Santa Parade from City Hall to Hudson Hall We invite the public to join in, the more the merrier. Hudson Hall, 327 Warren St, Hudson.

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Find Your Holiday Spirits: A Mythic Catskills Adventure Weekend. Spillian is delighted to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills ciders, beers, and spirits and bring some back to your hearth for your celebrating this holiday season. Visit our website for tickets and event details for each day. Info: 800-811-3351; events@spillian.com. Spillian, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Rd, Fleischmanns.

7pm Madeline’s Christmas. The celebrated children’s book Madeline’s Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans comes to life on stage as a delightful holiday musical. Tickets: $18 for senior citizens & students 18 & under, $22 for adults. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-6900, WoodstockPlayhouseCGM@ gmail.com, WoodstockPlayhouse.org.

7pm-11:30pm Open Mic/Open Stage Acoustic Evening. Meets the first Saturday of each month.

The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford. touhey.com. $5.

5pm Roxbury Soup & Sip with The Wynotte Sisters in Concert. A healthy dose of holiday cheer, along with delicious soups and wine pairings. The event will culminate at 7pm with a throwback rockabilly-style holiday concert. The show is free, but reservations are required for the show and/or dinner. Tickets are $30 each or two for $50. Reservations: 607-326-7908; roxburyartsgroup.org. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury.

Sunday

9am-11am Santa Cares. Sensory-friendly visits before mall hours from 9am to 11am in Center Court. For those interested in attending, please RSVP by visiting Eventbrite. Abilities First, Inc., Taconic Resources for Independence and ThinkDIFFERENTLY Dutchess County will be present with resources and other information for families.

Poughkeepsie Galleria is proud to offer an American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreter during this event. Poughkeepsie Galleria, 2001 South Rd, Poughkeepsie. poughkeepsiegalleriamall.com.

5pm SUNY Ulster’s Annual Holiday Family Film: Elf. “Elf ” starring Will Ferrell as “Buddy,” the eccentric human raised by Santa’s elves, embarks on a fun-filled journey through New York City in search of his family and the true meaning of the holidays. Santa & Mrs. Claus will be at the event for meet, greet and photographs.

Proceeds to Benefit Lights for Learning emergency fund for students. $5 at the door. Ulster County Community College, 491 Cottekill Rd., Stone Ridge.

5pm-7pm Art Opening Reception: Sawkill: A Catskill Journey. The show features new works

by Linda Lynton that explore the Sawkill River which runs through the Woodstock Valley. It includes oil paintings, pastels, ink drawings, and monotypes showing the landscape and natural features that stood out during her journey along the waterway. Exhibit runs through 12/30, 12-6pm daily. For details & Gallery times, call 845-338-0333 or contact lyntonart@gmail.com.

Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-338-0333, ask@askforarts.org, askforarts.org.

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7:30pm Kingston Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse Series. Features: Dave Hemingway. Performances with an open mic format (sign-up at 7:00 PM) before and after the featured performers. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org.

7:30pm Jazz at Senate Garage. Featuring Fred Hersch, solo piano. Info: online@jazzstock.com or Rhino Records (6 North St). $30/adv, $35/ door. Senate Garage, 4 N Front St, Kingston.

7:30pm-10:30pm Hudson Valley English Dance. Alexandra Deis-Lauby will teach and call English Country Dances. Music by Tiddley Pom. Workshop at 7 is important for newcomers.

Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com. adults $10, full-time students $5.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Deadgrass. Interpreting the music of Jerry Garcia from his earliest Jug Band days, through Old & In The Way, JGB, Garcia/Grisman and to The Grateful Dead. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Alexis P. Suter Band.

Three-time Blues Music Awards nominee, Alexis P. Suter’s current CD “BE LOVE”, is the continuing evolution of Alexis’s musical journey - rich with timeless, blues-based songs, that are eclectic, soulful and hip. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8pm A Christmas Carol. Directed by Diana di Grandi, adapted by Lou Trapani with musical direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert. Info & tickets: centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. $27.

8pm Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Concert. Conducted by James Bagwell, director of performance studies and the Graduate Conducting Program at Bard Conservatory of Music. Tickets: $15-20/suggested donation. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu.

8pm-10pm Trivia Night At Chic’s Restaurant and Bar. Chic’s Restaurant and Bar, 226 Kingston Plaza, Kingston.

10am-2pm A Child’s Christmas. Drop in for stories read by Janet and Honoria Livingston’s nurse Ollie under the Christmas tree and treats for children ages 3-10. Cost: $4/person. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historical Site, Germantown.

10am-4pm Boscobel Holiday Tours. The mansion will be decorated for 19th-century holidays. Guides share stories of Yuletide traditions past. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison. boscobel.org/events/guided-housetours.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. All tours are free, today only. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/index. htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

10am-5pm Unison Arts Annual Craft Art & Design Fair. Twenty four master craftspeople and fine artists will be displaying a wide range of handmade crafts in a convenient New Paltz location. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, info@unisonarts.org, bit.ly/2Nv2UN7. Kids 12 & Under Free.

10:30am-4pm Thomas Cole National Historic Site Guided Tours. Tours run Friday through Sunday through December 15. They begin every hour on the hour from 11am-3pm. Each tour is limited to twelve people and lasts approximately 45 minutes. Tickets: $12; free/students, seniors 62+ & Veterans. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Open Meditation. Shambhala Meditation is based on the premise that the natural state of the mind is calm and clear. It’s a practice that anyone can do. Free/donations appreciated. Sky Lake Lodge, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11am-4pm Holiday Arts/Crafts Fair. Clothing, food, jewelry and more. Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Ave, Woodstock.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ the Falcon: Lyn Hardy & The Catskill Corral. Classic Country Music is Lyn Hardy’s favorite and now she’s joined forces with with a team of veteran pros! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

11am-2pm Holiday Sale at Sage. All sacred sound tools 20% off, including koshi chimes, crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, crystal pyramids, and shruti boxes. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail. com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com.

11am-3pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Enjoy lavish turn-of-the-century style holiday decora-

tions while touring the mansion. Tickets: $8, $6/seniors & students, children 12 & under are free. Info: 845-889-8851; parks.ny.gov/historicsites/25/details.aspx. Staatsburg State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Drive Rd 1, Staatsburg.

11am-12pm Storytime with Suzanne Morris and Huguenot Street Cooperative Nursery School. Local author Suzanne Morris will read her new children’s book, A Trapezoid is NOT a Dinosaur, as well as a craft. Inquiring Minds New Paltz Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz.

Info: 845-255-8300, inquiringmindsevents@ gmail.com.

11am A Seussified Christmas Carol. Performed

by Kids on Stage, The CENTER’s after school theater workshop program. Directed by Lisa Lynds. All seats just $8. Info & tickets: centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck.

11am-3pm Annual Fair Trade & Handmade Bazaar. This year, put your money where your heart is. Sponsored by the Dutchess County Interfaith Council. Info: 845-309-3853; patla42@ gmail.com. Hellenic Community Center, 54 Park Ave, Poughkeepsie. dutchesscountyinterfaith.org/.

11am-4pm Bethel Woods’ 10th Annual Holiday Market. Featuring over 85 vendors throughout the Market Sheds, Event Gallery and grounds, highlighting the talent from regional vendors and beyond, while offering a selection of food trucks and outdoor vendors. Museum admission will be 50% off. Families can create in the Holiday Craft Studio. Have your photo taken with Santa in The Main Exhibit in front of the iconic psychedelic bus from 3-5pm. Info: BethelWoodsCenter. org. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Hurd Rd, Bethel. Free.

11am-1pm Three’s A Charm Tricycle Club.

Refreshments and light fare will be served at the December meeting and test ride the Hase Trigo andsee the new BerkelBike hand and foot cycle. Info: threesacharmtricycleclub@gmail. com; threesacharmtricycleclub.com. 100 Plains Road, New Paltz, NY, 100 Plains Road, New Paltz.

Info: threesacharmtricycleclub@gmail.com.

11am-2pm Pogliani Pop-Up and Tasting. Join us for a finely curated selection of Italian delectable goods. We’ll have olive oil, balsamic, pasta, olives, organic honey and more. Info: 845-586-4177; hgom.net. Home Goods of Margaretville, 784 Main St, Margaretville.

11am-2pm Deck the Paws: Brunch & Holiday Shopping. Come deck the paws and share in the holiday season. Enjoy a spread and cocktails, bid on silent auction items, enter our holiday tabletop tree raffle – designed by select businesses in Ulster County, and enter to win our Coach bag raffle, including gift certificates to upscale stores and boutiques in Ulster County. Tickets: $50 per person. Seating is limited. Info: ucspca. org/deck-the-paws-brunch-holiday-shopping.

The Catamount @ the Emerson Resort & Spa, NY 28, Mount Tremper.

11am-4pm Olde World Christmas. Five area organizations will present Christmas traditions and desserts of their homelands. The Cafe will sell German food. Raffles & prizes. Hosted by Kingston Maennerchor and Damenchor and also includes Ulster County Italian-American Foundation, Ukrainian Natl. Womens League of America, White Eagle Ladies Auxiliary (Polish), and The Sons of Norway. Info: 845-338-3763. Kingston Maennerchor Hall, 37 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. kingstonmaennerchoranddamenchor.org.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open recreation!

Pool table, Foosball and ping pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 11am-12pm Conversations Over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail. com, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

12pm-4pm Boys and Girls Club 7th Annual Craft Fair. Buy local, buy handmade! 45 Parti-

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12pm-4pm Holiday Multimedia Open Studio Event 2019. Do your holiday shopping from local artists! Featuring 25+ artists~many mediums. 77 Cornell St, Kingston.

12pm-4pm Holiday Open House at the historic Elmendorph Inn. Join us for hot mulled cider, homemade holiday cookies and fresh-baked treats from the beehive oven. Live music begins at noon with the Dutchess Harp Ensemble (Lois Colin, Celeste Grosso and Maggie MacNichol-Skau on Celtic/Lever harps). They will be followed by flute and guitar duo by Helen Teck & Andy Skold at 1:15, Maggie Rothwell on the guitar at 2:00 and at 3:30, the Red Hook Middle School sax quartet.

Free and open to the public. Info: info@historicredhook.org;845-758-1920. Elmendorph Inn, 7562 U.S. 9, Red Hook.

12pm-4pm Historical Society of Woodstock annual Holiday Exhibit and Sale. An opening reception will start at 3 p.m. Hot cider, chili, and homemade refreshments will be available. See artwork related to music and a display of 20th century holiday cards created by Woodstock artists. The sale offers hand-knit hats, mittens, scarves, homemade jam, local maple syrup, soap, jewelry, baked goods, and locally inspired books, cards, and maps. Buy a tax deductible gift and support the Historical Society at the same time.

Info: 845-679-2256. Eames House / Historical Society of Woodstock, 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY. historicalsocietyofwoodstock.org.

12pm-4pm Elmendorph Holiday Open House.

Enjoy live holiday music, hot mulled cider, homemade cookies and fresh-baked treats from the beehive oven. This year features a gingerbread house competition organized by SunCommon.

Gingerbread house entries will be on display from 12-4pm and winners receive cash prizes.

Free and open to the everyone. For more information and to enter, visit: historicredhook.org/ upcoming-events/dutch-christmas-open-house.

Elmendorph Inn, 7562 U.S. 9, Red Hook.

12pm-5pm Newburgh Historical Society Presents a Candlelight Tour. The Crawford House will be decked out in natural greens and floral arrangements, with wreaths and trees, and period decorations typical of the 19th century. This selfguided tour begins at the Society’s headquarters located at 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh.

Tickts: $35. Info: 845-561-2585; newburghhistoricalsociety.com.

12pm-4pm Kingston Shirt Factory Holiday Open Studio Weekend. See 25+ artists in their own studios plus special guest artists in our 4th floor high-ceiling spaces with skylights. Highlights include continuous screenings of short films about regional artists, ceramics, music, poetry, fitness demonstrations, and more. Professional portrait photography pop-up will be Sunday only.

Info: 845-339-7834; stephen@blauweissmedia. com. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston.

12pm-4pm Take Photos with Rockin’ Santa.

It’s a rock n’ roll spin on a classic holiday tradition. Take a photo with Rockin’ Santa to help raise money for CARE of DC. Darkside Records, 611 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-452-8010, info@darksiderecords.com, bit. ly/ds-rockinsanta. Free Entry.

12pm-4pm Come Warm Up at the Washingtons’. Historic interpreters in each seasonally decorated room will greet visitors and offer insight into what took place when the Washingtons occupied the Hasbrouck farmhouse during the last winter of the Revolutionary War. The Salmagundi Consort will perform period appropriate music, while cookies and warm cider will be served near an outdoor fire. Info: 845-562-1195.

Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, 84 Liberty St., Newburgh. Free.

12pm Saugerties Holiday Weekend in the Village. Free toy raffle sponsored by Sawyer Motors. Free horse & wagon rides sponsored

by Maryone Family. Santa & his Elf at Kiersted House. More activities for the whole family. Organized by Saugerties Chamber, details at discoversaugerties.com.

12pm-4pm Holiday Scavenger Hunt for Families. Start with a holiday tale by storyteller Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi then search the mansion’s decorated rooms, each featuring a hidden treasure. Tickets: $10/person, kids under 4 are free. Info: lgny.org. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie.

12pm-5pm Christmas Craft Fair and Bake Sale. Theme gift baskets, fresh green arrangements, home baked goodies and local vendors.

Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-2867, refsaug@yahoo. com, saugertiesreformed.org. $1-25.

12pm Oncology Support Programs of Health Alliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness, integrative and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer including cancer support groups for women of all ages, young women, men, caregivers, women with ovarian cancer, & people living with metastatic.

Info, times and dates: 845-339-2071; oncology. support@hahv.org; hahv.org/service/cancersupport-program. Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

12:30pm-3:30pm Hudson Valley Gingerbread Competition. Surround yourself in magical scenes and structures constructed in gingerbread and witness in awe the creativity and craftsmanship of the community. Join us as we kick off the holiday season with a friendly competition and plenty of artistic expression. $15 per person event fee (100% of the event fees

ALMANAC WEEKLY collected will be donated to the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley). For more details and event timeline, visit: mohonk.com/events/holidays-atmohonk/december-celebrations/gingerbread.

Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

1pm Val-Kill Christmas Tours. Come see the Val-Kill decorated for the holiday season. Open Thursday through Monday for tours at 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 845-229-9422; nps.gov/elro/index. htm. Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, 54 Valkill Park Road, Hyde Park.

1pm-4pm East Fishkill Historical Society Annual Christmas Open House. Enjoy nibbles, eggnog, period music, and mulled cider by the hearth. The Brinckerhoff House will be decorated in live greenery. Saint Nicholas and Randolph Brinckerhoff the Reingoat will also be visiting offering photo opportunities in our Portland Cutter sleigh for a small suggested donation. Info: 845-227-4136. Brinckerhoff House Historic Site, 68 N Kensington Drive, Hopewell Junction.

1pm-4pm Wilderstein Holiday House Tours.

Wilderstein will be decorated for the holiday season. Tour at your own pace, with a guide in each room to share information. Tours run every Saturday and Sunday through 12/29. Tickets: $11/ adults, $10/students and seniors. Info: 845-8764818; wilderstein.org. Wilderstein Historic Site, 330 Morton Rd, Rhinebeck.

1pm-4pm Amnesty Mid-Hudson Write for Rights. Write a letter, change a life! Amnesty International USA Mid-Hudson is hosting a Global Write for Rights event at Rough Draft!

Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@gmail. com.

1pm-4pm Food & Toy Drive. Have your picture taken with Santa. Enjoy hot cocoa or coffee with fresh baked cookies. Donate a new, unwrapped toy, food items, monetary donations, all to benefit the Rondout Valley Food Pantry. High Falls Firehouse, 7-11 Firehouse Rd, High Falls.

1pm-4pm Travel to The Snow Queen with the Library and Senior Center. Free transportation (1pm) and deeply discounted tickets ($5) to the Ancram Opera House’s production of The Snow Queen on Sunday, Dec. 8. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. hudsonarealibrary. org. Free transportation, $5 tickets.

1pm Elting Library Scrabble Club Meeting.

Scrabble sets and the Official Scrabble Player’s dictionary are provided. This club is intended for adult players 18 or older. Meets every Sunday, 1pm in a study room of the library. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

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

2pm-4pm Opening Reception: “Boats and Trees”. Rosedale Cafe’s Artist for December Katherine Gray. Info: 845-658-9048. Rosendale Cafe, Main St, Rosendale.

2pm-4pm Press Play: Printmaking. Pop Up in the Thompson Family Foundation/ Alan and Sandy Siegel and Works-on-Paper Studio. This exhibition is the culmination of work from the four participants in the Printmaking Studio Manager Trainee Program, Adam Casey, Nicole Frisbie, Izzy Van den Heuvel and Chelsea Vierstra.

For one day only, the prints will be on sale, priced between $50 and $200. Info: nina.doyle@woodstockofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 NY-212, Woodstock. woodstockschoolofart.org.

2pm-4pm Holiday Open House & Tree Lighting. All are invited to enjoy crafty activities, delicious refreshments, & a special magic / puppet show by “Mrs. Santa” at 3 pm. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Milton. miltonlib. org/.

2pm 25th Annual Performance of A Christmas Carol. Created by Artistic Directors Scarlett Fiero and Quiedo Carbone, together with Woodstock resident and former New York City Ballet dancer-turned choreographer Sara Miot producer.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. ulsterballet.org. $25/Adult, $22/Senior 65+/Member, $18/Children 12 and under.

2pm-4pm Concert and Gallery Talk. Pianist, professor and coordinator of the piano program at SUNY New Paltz, Alex Peh presents the relationship between Tonalist art and music. Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

Info: 845-257-3844, sdma@newpaltz.edu, bit. ly/2XeAlqr.

2pm-6pm A Visit With Santa! Make your list and letters for Santa, he is ready to meet you!

Bring your own camera/phone/tablet and take your child’s photo with Santa. Hurleyville Arts Centre, 219 Main Street, Hurleyville. Info: 845-707-, info@hacny.org, bit.ly/350TjUd. free.

2pm-3pm Madeline’s Christmas. The celebrated children’s book Madeline’s Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans comes to life on stage as a delightful holiday musical. Tickets: $18 for senior citizens & students 18 & under, $22 for adults. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-6900, WoodstockPlayhouseCGM@ gmail.com, WoodstockPlayhouse.org.

2pm-4pm Matthew Bourne’s ‘Cinderella’. The beloved fairy tale is now a thrilling and evocative love story set in London during the Second World War. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. 12 General Admission/$6 12 and under.

3pm-4:30pm Juilliard Voices Holiday Concert.

Start the season right with the St. Gregory’s Holiday Concert. Special guest Kerry Henderson performs with Julliard students. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Rt 212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8800, eastout1@hvc.rr.com. under 16, free.

3pm A Christmas Carol. Directed by Diana di Grandi, adapted by Lou Trapani with musical direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert. Info & tickets: centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. $27.

3pm-5pm Winter Wellness Make & Take. Come make fabulous self-care goodies for yourself and your loved ones featuring Young Living Essential Oils! MaMA, Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3564 Main Street, Stone Ridge. facebook.com/events/s/. Pay per item you make.

3pm-6pm Swing Dance to Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fi’s. Big Joe & the Lo-Fi’s are one of the area’s most popular dance bands. Join them for a great afternoon. No experience necessary. Lesson 3pm.

Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, hvcd.info/ calendar. $15, or $10 for students.

3pm The Hip Hop Nutcracker. It is a treat to view this remake of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

With a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, and a violinist, you will enter the reimagined world of this classic story Directed and Choreographed by Jennifer Weber. Contemporary hip hop dancers will soar to Mr. Tschaikovsky’s music. Free and open to all. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/.

3pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Sunday night at 3pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

3:30pm-7:30pm Twilight Tours. Tour of the mansion decorated for 19th-century holidays and resonating with live string music, followed by a reception with crafts. Tickets: adults $26, children $16, under 5 years of age free. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison.

Info: 845-265-3638, info@boscobel.org, tinyurl. com/y4s4ql2w.

4pm-6pm Strength In Community. Dance party at Unframed Artists Gallery, with the music of Soul Purpose. Light refreshments there. All donations-$10 suggested, go to Family of New Paltz.

Info: 845-527-7661. Unframed Artists Gallery, 173 Huguenot St. soulpurposehudsonvalley.com.

4pm International Festival of the Holidays Community Day. Join us around the fireplace for hot cocoa and holiday-centered games and crafts or enjoy traditional camp favorites like archery, hikes, climbing and more. The day concludes with a performance of the Bronx Opera in The Castle.

This festive event will give your holiday spirit a head start, allowing you to enjoy the true meaning of the season all winter long! Advanced registration is required! Email reservations@frostvalley. org or call 845-985-2291 ext. 450 to register. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville. frostvalley.org.

4pm-6pm Strength in Community Dance Party. Live music by Soul Purpose. $10 suggested contribution. All proceeds go to Family of New Paltz. Info: soulpurposehudsonvalley.com.

Unframed Artists Gallery, 173 Huguenot St, New Paltz.

4pm Dzieci’s Fools Mass. Actors playing medeival village “idiots” take over the church to enact their own Christmas mass. Light supper & conversation with the actors to follow. Free will offering.

Tickets: $20/adv, $25/door. Info: 718-638-6037; matt@dziecitheatre.org. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

4pm-5:30pm Youth Lacrosse Clinics. Youth boys lacrosse grades 3rd to 6th grade. Equipment and experience not necessary. Gear Up, 3050 State Rt 208, Wallkill. Info: Newpaltzlacrosse@ gmail.com. Includes four sessions.

4pm-6pm Ars Choralis Presents It’s a Wonderful Life, Reimagined for the Holidays. A reimagined version of the holiday movie classic presented through spoken word and song. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8172, bpickhardt@ gmail.com, arschoralis.org. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; Students $10.

4pm-8pm Sunday Supper. Remember the good old days when the family gathered around the table every Sunday for dinner? Carry on the tradition with Sunday Supper at Woodnotes Grille.

Enjoy house made selections ranging from Prime Rib dinner, seasonal roasts, or chicken and dumplings for $21 per person! Call 845-688-2828 for reservations. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

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

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

Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock.

5pm-6:30pm The Future Unknown. Hudson Valley teens sharing spoken word, poetry, art

Dec. 5, 2019 and music. A showcase of teens who took part in our fall workshop, “Teen Voices Rising”. DENIZEN Theatre, 10 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-4185227, info@mayagoldfoundation.org, mayagoldfoundation.org. Free.

5:30pm Second Sunday Supper. Meet and greet other members of the community and dine together! Free admission. Held on the second Sunday of each month - September through May. Info: 845-687-9090. Rondout Valley United Methodist Church, 25 Schoonmaker Ln, Stone Ridge.

6pm-7pm Meditation Session. Meets every Sunday at 6pm. Free and open to the public.

Info: skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation & Retreat Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

7pm Vassar College presents the Annual Service of Lessons and Carols. An Advent service of readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols that culminates in a candle lighting ceremony. Vassar Chapel, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370.

7pm-9pm It’s A Wonderful Life. The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. Info: 845-6475511, info@shadowlandstages.org, shadowlandstages.org/2. 31-39.

7pm Storytelling with Janet Carter. Info: 845-246-5775. Free admission. Inquiring Minds Saugerties Bookstore, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Guitar Summit Collective. Featuring Joel Harrison, Rolf Sturm, Steve Rust, and Harvey Sorgen - A new project spearheaded by four respected veteran players..

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

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8am-5pm Mexican Mondays (5-9pm). Mexican Cuisine offered: $5 Tacos $6 Margaritas Authentic. Info: 845-679-5763; oriole9.com. Oriole 9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.

9am-11am NED Corps Community Action (by appointment). Financial Assistance (Housing, Utilities, Prescriptions), Health Care Access (Referrals, Prescriptions, Nutrition), Ongoing Support. Clinton Community Library.

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

9am-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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9:30am MidHudsonADK: Ski with Marty Carp.

Every Mon & Fri until March 31. 3-5 hours, depending on conditions. No snow, they will do a moderate hike 6-9 miles. Questions welcomed.

Info: 845-214-8520 or martymcarp@gmail.com.

Meet @ the Mohonk Visitor Center for drive/ shuttle to trailhead. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/ outings-events-list.

9:30am-12pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:30-4pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-247-0094. Frank D. Greco Memorial Senior Citizens Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

9:30am Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community.

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

10am-4pm Boscobel Holiday Tours. The mansion will be decorated for 19th-century holidays. Guides share stories of Yuletide traditions past. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison. boscobel.org/events/guided-housetours.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/ index.htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

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.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10:30am Preschool Story Hour. Preschool Story Hour taps into the boundless energy of three to five-year-olds to get your child involved in this interactive story time. Info: 845-338-7881; townofulsterlibrary.org. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston.

11:30am-12:30pm Beginning Yoga. Whether you’ve done yoga before or are just interested in trying it out, this beginner class is perfect for you!

(Bring a yoga mat). Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, bit.ly/2lzmDjP. 12pm-1pm 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-2pm Chair Yoga. A form of yoga as therapy that has many benefits. Clinton Community Library.

1pm Val-Kill Christmas Tours. Come see the Val-Kill decorated for the holiday season. Open Thursday through Monday for tours at 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 845-229-9422; nps.gov/elro/index. htm. Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, 54 Valkill Park Road, Hyde Park.

1pm-2pm Something for Alz: Engagement with Life Visual Arts Program. A creative arts program for people with early stage dementia and their caregivers. Info: 845-797-9104. Advance Registration required. Call Alzheimer’s Association 800-272-3900. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock.

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

2pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Painting with Jennifer Wulfe Schimmrich. In addition to painting supplies and instruction participants will take part of periodic exhibitions, friendships and camaraderie! Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

2pm-3pm Tai Chi Easy – Mind Body Medicine.

A carefully designed method that makes it easy and fun to learn. Rapidly access the spectrum of mind body benefits. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. suggested donation.

3:30pm-4:30pm Amateur Guitar Jam. Join this casual gathering of acoustic musicians. Bring your own guitar. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm After School Program. Encourages learning through music, play, crafts and games. Each week is a different activity and snacks are provided. Ages 5 to 12 welcome. Check townofulsterlibrary.org for an updated list of activities for each week. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston.

4pm Alzheimer’s Support Group. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

4pm-5:15pm Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin.

Led by Anne Olin. Exercises to strengthen back and abdominal muscles and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays at 4pm. $12. Info: 845-679-6250; anneolin.com. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12.

4:30pm-5:30pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm. Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work.

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

6pm-9pm Messages of Love and Hope – A Fireside Chat with Mahdi. Inspirational talk with son and devoted student of Sufimaster Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal of Jerusalem. 6PM Potluck, 7PM Music and Fireside Chat. No one turned away. Info: 845-679-7215; St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. SufiCenterNortheast.org. $10/suggested donation.

6:30pm-7:30pm Flow & Restore Yoga. Many benefits, come to CCL. Clinton Community Library.

6:30pm-7:30pm Shamanic Drum Circle with shamanic healer Rebecca Singer. Second Monday of every month. Bring a drum and arrive early enough to be seated in circle by 6:30 p.m.

Please call ahead to ensure a seat. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $125/90 minute session.

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meeting.

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7:30pm Ryan Albert Miller/Álvaro Domene/Ben Vida. Info: facebook.com/ events/2328627380599032/. The Beverly, 224 Foxhall Ave, Kingston.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Club d’Elf with John Medeski. ..bold synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk to audiences as far away as Japan and South America.

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

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9am-10am Free Weekly Community Meditation. On-going on Tuesdays 9-10am. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation.

For optional beginner instruction, please arrive

10 minutes early. Drop-in attendance welcome.

Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Check website for cancellations: wellnessembodiedcenter.com. Wellness Embodied Community Education Annex, 126 Main St, New Paltz.

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

9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9:30am-1pm Tuesday Trek: Millbrook Mountain Hike at Minnewaska. Join us for a five-mile hike to Millbrook Mountain. Pre-registration is required by calling Minnewaska at 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner. parks.ny.gov/ parks/127.

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

Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/ index.htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

10am-12pm Comforter Fiber Connection Knit and Crochet Group. Learn, share, donate to local agencies. Tuesdays 10am-12 noon.

Contact: ewepurlly@hotmail.com; 845-9015330. Reformed Church of the Comforter, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston.

10am The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley.

10:30am-11:30am Toddler Story Time. Clinton Community Library.

11am-1pm Holiday Open House at the Mesier Homestead. See the decorated downstairs rooms, full of candlelight & greenery. Self-guided tour.

Docent available. Mesier Homestead, 2 Spring Street, Wappingers Falls. Info: 845-632-1281, christinaungar@wappingershistorical.org. Free.

12pm-5pm Gentle Intuitive Guidance, Angel Card Readings and Reiki Healing Sessions with Maureen Brennan-Mercier. Every Tuesday. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. $75 for one hour Reiki Healing session. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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.

1:30pm-4:30pm Play Bridge. Contact: 845-4195258. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz. Free.

2pm-3pm Building Your Family Tree. With Moe Lemire. Learn the tips and tools available to research and build your family tree. Bring a laptop computer if you own one. Free. Info: 845-2545469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/.

3pm-5pm Knitting & Crocheting with Tea & Cookies. In the Art Books Room. Some yarn, crochet and knitting needles available for beginners. Crafters share your knowledge! Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. Info: 8456792213, info@woodstock.org, woodstock. org/calendar. free.

4pm-6pm Scrabble. Test your vocabulary against your family and friends - all ages welcome. Meets every Tuesday, 4-6pm. Info: 845-246-4317.

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

4:30pm-6:30pm Youth As Catalysts for Change: Creating a Civic Engagement & Democracy Action Plan. The Benjamin Center and the Mid-Hudson Teacher Center welcome everyone to hear noted children’s book author and film producer, Lynne Cherry, share the work of Young Voices for the Planet (YVFP). The success stories featured in the YVFP, and an introduction

to the Civic Engagement and Democracy curriculum, will frame this discussion. Registration: mhtcnp@gmail.com. SUNY New Paltz, Old Main Room 215, New Paltz.

5pm Shai Secunda, “A Sea of Text, or A Material History of the Immaterial Oral Talmud”.

Professor Shai Secunda holds the Jacob Neusner Chair in Judaism at Bard College, where he directs the college’s Religion Program. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, Rm 203, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. bit.ly/2Kf98yQ. 5:30pm Author Talk - On Rising Together: Creative and Collective Responses to the Climate Crisis. Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.

Vassar College/Taylor Hall, Room 102, Poughkeepsie. bit.ly/2X79pJa. 6:30pm Who We Are in Our Own Texts: Seminal Documents from American Jewish History. Presented by Rabbi Douglas Kohn.

Bring your own dinner, we’ll provide drinks and dessert. RSVP 845-562-5516. Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh.

6:30pm-7:30pm WSW Slide Night. Meets every second Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm. Hear from current artists-in-residence about their work. Free admission. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston. Info: 845-6589133, info@wsworkshop.org, bit.ly/2HLZ9Sj. 6:30pm-8pm The Creative Seed Artist Group.

A support group for artists to have a space to develop & share their work in progress- Actors, poets, playwrights & musicians welcome. Every Tuesday. Info: 203-246-5711. By donation. Call ahead. Blue Mountain Co-op Retreat Center, Woodstock.

7pm Author Talk: Ronnie Citron-Fink. Author of TRUE ROOTS: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty. True Roots follows Ronnie’s journey from dark dyes to a silver crown of glory, from fear of aging to embracing natural beauty. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

7pm-8pm Fiber Arts. Fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. Clinton Community Library.

7pm-10pm Open Mic Night. Join host Ben Rounds and take your shot at becoming the next Catskills Singing Sensation! Woodnotes Grille No Cover. Info: 845-688-2828. Woodnotes Grill - Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. emersonresort.com.

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

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7am-9am U C Regional Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Meeting. The guest speaker will be Robert S. Ross, Executive Vice President for the Northern Region of WMCHealth. Will also feature the Kingston High School Caroling Ensemble, which will entertain breakfast attendees with festive holiday songs. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Info: 845-338-5100. Best Western Plus, Kingston. ulsterchamber.org.

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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30am FDR Christmas Tours. See the FDR estate decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. Info: 84-2295320; nps.gov/hofr/index.htm. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

even mean & how does it matter to us?” Info: 845-246-2867; refsaug.yahoo.com. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St, Saugerties.

Info: 845-246-2867, refsaug@yahoo.com, saugertiesreformed.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Senior Writing Workshop in Woodstock Welcomes New Members.

Writers at all levels of experience, beginner to expert, are invited to join the Writers Workshop of the Woodstock Senior Recreation Program.

Whether interested in non-fiction, short stories, plays, memoir, or poetry, writers age 55 and above may join the group. Rock City Writers provides new and experieinced writers a venue for selfexpression and sharing. No fee is required. The workshop is led by experienced writer, editor, and instructor Lew Gardner. For further information: woodstockny.org/content/Parks/View/3. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10:30am-11:30am 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11am Mysteries Around the World Book Club.

Discussing Pleasantville by Attica Locke. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

11am-1pm Holiday Open House at the Mesier Homestead. See the decorated downstairs rooms, full of candlelight & greenery. Self-guided tour.

Docent available. Mesier Homestead, 2 Spring Street, Wappingers Falls. Info: 845-632-1281, christinaungar@wappingershistorical.org. Free.

11am-6pm Little Light of Mine @ Village Candle. Hours: Wed - Sun, 11am - 6pm. Village Candle, 8 South Chestnut St, New Paltz. Info: nplittlelightcandle.com; 845-800-1819.

12pm Oncology Support Programs of Health Alliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness, integrative and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer including cancer support groups for women of all ages, young women, men, caregivers, women with ovarian cancer, & people living with metastatic.

Info, times and dates: 845-339-2071; oncology. support@hahv.org; hahv.org/service/cancersupport-program. Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

12:30pm-6pm Expert Tarot Readings with Malley. Every Wednesday. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

1pm-3pm Pinochle. Card Game every Wednesday! Looking for a 4th player. Anyone interested - email info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 1pm-3pm Social Circle. Good conversation!

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

1pm Kingston Community Singers Meetup New Members Welcome. Open to all men and women. No auditions necessary. Info: 856-3051546. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

1:30pm-4pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:30-4pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-247-0094. Frank D. Greco Memorial Senior Citizens Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo.

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10am-4pm Boscobel Holiday Tours. The mansion will be decorated for 19th-century holidays. Guides share stories of Yuletide traditions past. Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison. boscobel.org/events/guided-housetours.

10am Vanderbilt Mansion Christmas Tours.

See the Vanderbilt home decorated for the holiday season. Open daily for tours at 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 3:00. Info: 845-229-7770; nps.gov/vama/ index.htm. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

10:30am Baby & Me. focuses on developing your baby’s and toddler’s pre-literacy skills. This laptime story hour will introduce a love for books by using song, movement, rhythm and rhyme.

The program runs for an hour and snacks are provided. Info: 845-338-7881; townofulsterlibrary.org. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston.

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10:30am Reformed Church of Saugerties Advent Bible Study. Incarnation. Emmanuel.

God With Us. What does that even mean & how does it matter to us?” - Or Thurs. 5,12,19 7:00 pm. Info: 845-246-2867; refsaug.yahoo.com.

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2pm-3:30pm Breast Cancer Options-Support Group. Features speakers and topics. For more info/to register call 845-338-4673; email hope@ breastcanceroptions.org (group funded by State of NY). The Living Seed, 521 Main Street, New Paltz.

Info: 845-339-4673, hopenemiroff@yahoo.com.

4pm-7pm 50th Anniversary of the Kingston Post Office Demolition. Friends of Historic Kingston and Blauweiss Media are hosting an open mic in which the public is invited to share memories and anecdotes about the Old Post Office in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its demolition. The event will be recorded and archived by Radio Kingston. Friends of Historic Kingston, 63 Main Street, Kingston. blauweissmedia.com.

4pm Winter stories with Barbara and her Therapy Dog Maizie. Enjoy time with Maizie the therapy dog and hear some winter & holiday stories read by Barbara. Free time with Maizie and a holiday snack to follow stories. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

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

4:30pm-5:30pm Weekly Art Hour. Meets every Wednesday! Fun for ages 3 to 103! From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 5pm-7pm Emerging Artists Class for Young Artists. Students dig deep into their own interests and strengths while learning new techniques, including painting, wood sculpture, collage, etc.

Woodstock School of Art, 2470 NY-212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2388, woodstockschoolofart@gmail.com, bit.ly/2MRUOy5. scholarships available.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Adopting Proposed Local Law Number 6 Of 2019 A Local Law Increasing The Salary And Hours Of The Commissioner Of Social Services NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the County Executive of Ulster County, in the Ulster County Office Building, Legislative Chambers, 6th Floor, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York, on the 10th day of December 2019, at 10:15 A.M. or immediately thereafter, on the following local law: Adopting Proposed Local Law Number 6 Of 2019 A Local Law Increasing The Salary And Hours Of The Commissioner Of Social Services The local law is available for inspection by the public, during regular business hours, in the office of the County Executive, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, and can also be viewed on the County’s website at the following web address: https://ulstercountyny.gov/sites/default/files/ Proposed%20Local%20Law%20No.%20 6%20of%202019%20-%20DSS%20Commissioner%20Raise_0.pdf All interested parties shall have an opportunity to be heard on said local law at the time and place aforesaid.

DATED: December 5, 2019 Kingston, New York Patrick K. Ryan County Executive LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 11 of 2019, A Local Law Amending Various Sections Of The Ulster County Charter And Ulster County Administrative Code To Reduce The Ulster County Legislature To 21 Members NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Proposed Local Law No. 11 of 2019, (A Local Law Amending Various Sections Of The Ulster County Charter And Ulster County Administrative Code To Reduce The Ulster County Legislature To 21 Members), on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 6:00 PM or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York.

The proposed local law is on file in the office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, where the same is available for public inspection during regular office hours and is available online at: https://ulstercountyny. gov/legislature/2019/clone-resolution-no-411 PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all persons and citizens interested shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of the Open Meetings Law of the State of New York, that the Ulster County Legislature will convene in public meeting at the time and place aforesaid for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposed local law described above and, as deemed advisable by said Ulster County Legislature, taking action

ALMANAC WEEKLY 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.

5pm-6:30pm Hudson Valley LGBTQ’s Community Accupuncture Clinic. Reserve your spot today! Weekly community acupuncture takes place every Wednesday, 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 LGBTQacupuncture. $5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service.

Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions.

Everyone welcome. 845-679-9534. First Church of Christ, 85 Tinker St, Woodstock.

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

Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh.

6pm-7pm Tai Chi. Instructor: Vince Sauter. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes. Clinton Community Library.

6pm Saugerties Writers Club. Do you like to write? Club meets on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday at 6pm. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

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

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground. Sign-Up and Sit-In for Jazz cats. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

7pm A Christmas Carol by Theatre on the Road. Victorian carolers, three course dinner,

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DATED: December 5, 2019 Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Kingston, New York LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 13 of 2019, A Local Law Requiring That Property Owners Of Multi-Family Dwellings Located In Ulster County With More Than Twenty Units Have An Office In Ulster County NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Proposed Local Law No. 13 of 2019, (A Local Law Requiring That Property Owners Of Multi-Family Dwellings Located In Ulster County With More Than Twenty Units Have An Office In Ulster County), on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York.

The proposed local law is on file in the office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, where the same is available for public inspection during regular office hours and is available online at: https://ulstercountyny. gov/legislature/2019/resolution-no-452 PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all persons and citizens interested shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of the Open Meetings Law of the State of New York, that the Ulster County Legislature will convene in public meeting at the time and place aforesaid for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposed local law described above and, as deemed advisable by said Ulster County Legislature, taking action on the enactment of said local law.

DATED: December 5, 2019 Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Kingston, New York LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 12 of 2019, A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 2 Of 2006 (A Local Law Adopting A County Charter Form Of Government For The County Of Ulster, State Of New York) And Amending Local Law No. 10 Of 2008 (A Local Law Adopting An Administrative Code For The County Of Ulster, State Of New York), To Require Submission Of Departmental Budget Estimates From Elected Officials To The Legislature NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Proposed Local Law No. 12 of 2019, (A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 2 Of 2006 (A Local Law Adopting A County Charter Form Of Government For The County Of Ulster, State Of New York) And Amending Local Law No. 10 Of 2008 (A Local Law Adopting An Administrative Code For The County Of Ulster, State Of New York), To Require Submission Of Departmental Budget Estimates From Elected Officials To The Legislature), on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 6:05 PM or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York.

cash bar and the show. Tickets: $75/person including tax & gratuity. Info: 845-475-7973; theatreontheroad.com. Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill St, Rhinebeck.

7pm Author Ronnie Citron Fink. will discuss her book True Roots; What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me About Health and Beauty. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org.

7pm CCEUC Annual Meeting. Brian Farmer, co-founder of The Cannabis Conservancy (TCC), presents “Hemp and Cannabis in the U.S. - An ongoing saga and personal report from the frontline.” (snow date December 12) Free and open to the public, but please RSVP on the event webpage at ulster.cce.cornell.edu/2019annualmeeting.

Light refreshments will be served. Info: 845-3403990. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston.

7pm-8:30pm Alhambra: Judeo-Spanish Wedding Music, Love Songs & Instrumental Dances. Jenny Luna, voice, percussion; Adam Good, oud; Rami ElAasser, percussion; Marandi Hostetter, violin. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org/ hightl. Suggested donation. Everyone is welcome!

7pm-9pm Reading by Rachel Lyon, Author of Self-Portrait With Boy. Join us for this month’s featured Writer’s Retreat author, Rachel Lyons.

Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@gmail. com.

7pm-9pm The Ukuleleans- Gardiner Library Ukulele Club. All ages welcome, from beginner to experienced. Encourage one another along as we have fun with this uniquely upbeat instrument.

Gardiner Library, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, bit.ly/2VdADw2.

7pm-10pm Trivia Night. Calling all trivia nerds ~ flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes.

Play solo or as part of a team. Info: 845-688-2828; emersonresort.com. Woodnotes Grill - Emerson

The proposed local law is on file in the office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, where the same is available for public inspection during regular office hours and is available online at: https://ulstercountyny. gov/legislature/2019/resolution-no-450 PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all persons and citizens interested shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of the Open Meetings Law of the State of New York, that the Ulster County Legislature will convene in public meeting at the time and place aforesaid for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposed local law described above and, as deemed advisable by said Ulster County Legislature, taking action on the enactment of said local law.

DATED: December 5, 2019 Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Kingston, New York LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Adopting Proposed Local Law No. 9 Of 2019, A Local Law Amending Local Law 6 Of 2014, To Improve And Strengthen The Sustainable Energy Loan Program NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the County Executive of Ulster County, in the Ulster County Office Building, Legislative Chambers, 6th Floor, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York, on the 10th day of December 2019, at 10:45 A.M. or immediately thereafter on the following local law: Adopting Proposed Local Law No. 9 Of 2019, A Local Law Amending Local Law 6 Of 2014, To Improve And Strengthen The Sustainable Energy Loan Program The local law is available for inspection by the public, during regular business hours, in the office of the County Executive, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, and can also be viewed on the County’s website at the following web address: https://ulstercountyny.gov/sites/default/files/ Proposed%20Local%20Law%20No.%20 9%20of%202019%20-%20Amending%20 Energy%20Loan%20Program_0.pdf All interested parties shall have an opportunity to be heard on said local law at the time and place aforesaid.

DATED: December 5, 2019 Kingston, New York Patrick K. Ryan County Executive LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM for Highway Signs & Pavement Markings, BID #RFB-UC19-070. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Ed Jordan, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Dec. 5, 2019 Resort, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. emersonresort.com.

7pm-8:30pm Actors & Musician Creative Seed Support Group. Come share your work in progress! Weds nights 7 - 8:30pm. Admission by donation. Info: reikyogachant.com; 203-2465711. Reiki Yoga Chant Healing Arts Center, Stone Ridge.

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. 845-6160710. Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. $6.

7pm-8:30pm Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Class. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 845-679-5906 for more info. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

7:15pm Register Junior Rangers Girls Hockey League at Ice Time Sports. Junior Rangers Girls Hockey League at Ice Time Sports Complex. Each week there will be one practice and one game at convenient times for you. Ice Time Sports Complex, 21 Lakeside Rd, Newburgh. Info: 845-454-5800, chance@icetimesports.org, icetimesports.com. $395.

7:30pm The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. An all male a cappella group, that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony.

Guests are always welcome. Sight-reading not required. Meets every Wednesday at 7:30pm.

Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Lisa’s Pieces. Lisa Gutkin is best known as the Grammy Awardwinning violinist, singer and songwriter of the renowned Klezmatics.. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

Adopting Proposed Local Law Number 5 of 2019 A Local Law Amending The Code Of The County Of Ulster To Include Mandatory Food Scraps Composting By Large Generators NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the County Executive of Ulster County, in the Ulster County Office Building, Legislative Chambers, 6th Floor, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York, on the 10th day of December 2019, at 10:00 A.M. or immediately thereafter, on the following local law: Adopting Proposed Local Law Number 5 of 2019 A Local Law Amending The Code Of The County Of Ulster To Include Mandatory Food Scraps Composting By Large Generators The local law is available for inspection by the public, during regular business hours, in the office of the County Executive, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, and can also be viewed on the County’s website at the following web address: https://ulstercountyny.gov/sites/default/files/ Proposed%20Local%20Law%20No.%205%20 of%202019%20-%20Composting%20By%20 Large%20Generators%20ADOPTED%20 9.17.19%20CLEAN_1.pdf All interested parties shall have an opportunity to be heard on said local law at the time and place aforesaid.

DATED: December 5, 2019 Kingston, New York Patrick K. Ryan County Executive LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Adopting Proposed Local Law No. 7 of 2019, A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 3 Of 2019, A Local Law Establishing The Ulster County Electrical Licensing Board And Providing For The Qualifications, Examination, Licensing And Regulation Of Electricians In Ulster County, New York NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the County Executive of Ulster County, in the Ulster County Office Building, Legislative Chambers, 6th Floor, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York, on the 10th day of December 2019, at 10:30 A.M. or immediately thereafter, on the following local law: Adopting Proposed Local Law No. 7 of 2019, A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 3 Of 2019, A Local Law Establishing The Ulster County Electrical Licensing Board And Providing For The Qualifications, Examination, Licensing And Regulation Of Electricians In Ulster County, New York The local law is available for inspection by the public, during regular business hours, in the office of the County Executive, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, and can also be viewed on the County’s website at the following web address: https://ulstercountyny.gov/sites/default/files/ Proposed%20Local%20Law%20No.%207%20 of%202019%20-%20Electrician%20Amendments%20CLEAN_1.pdf All interested parties shall have an opportunity to be heard on said local law at the time and place aforesaid.

DATED: December 5, 2019 Kingston, New York Patrick K. Ryan County Executive

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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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HUDSON RIVER TREASURE/MANHATTAN; Superb & rare offering of this over 2100 sq.ft. home w/sweeping river & park views. 3 very large bedrooms, formal DR, 20x20 LR, fully equipped large kitchen, high ceilings, beautiful new floors, excellent renovated condition. 24 hr. doorman building in top location. $3,550,000.

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Mature, licensed Practical Nurse, life long area resident with 25+ years healthcare experience. Owner/Operator of a small adult home is available to assist with household, personal tasks, errands, appointments and pet care. References. 845586-2308

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Stone Ridge, 2-Bedroom with parking. $1000/month. Tenant pays utilities. No smoking, no pets. References, credit check required. First, last and security. Call 845657-8248.

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OLIVEBRIDGE, NEW YORK Totally renovated and freshly AM painted 2-bedroom, 1 bath home, including a nice size den.

Spacious kitchen with all new stainless-steel appliances and a blue slate floor. Living room and bedrooms also have newly refinished hardwood floors with nice size closets. The apartment is located above Tetta’s Market in the lovely country hamlet of Samsonville. Apt has a separate entrance and stairwell. No smoking and no pets. 2 Parking spots also included. This listing brought to you by Siobhan Scanlan ............................................$1,395 Month

PHOENICIA, NEW YORK This Real estate IS why people are moving to Phoenicia. 14 peaceful acres on the Esopus Creek, sun filled open living space, with a contemporary floor plan. This 3-bedroom, 2 bath expanded Cape offers the opportunity to enjoy recreational bliss in the heart of the Catskills. Featuring over 1,400 ft. of Esopus Creek frontage with walking trails throughout entire property. Property is on 2 deeds. One being the home on 4.76 acres and the other being 9.30 acres. Super-efficient Hydronic Baseboard Heat. The home is built flood plain compliant. This listing brought to you by James Boyd and Joshua Luborsky ....................................................................................$495,000

BEARSVILLE, NEW YORK If you like to get back to a quiet, country lifestyle, consider this 4-bedroom 2 bath home minutes from the heart of Woodstock.

Enjoy the fresh air from the back 8’ x 22’ deck. This cozy country home is warm and ready to be your weekend retreat or your first home. This house has good bones with several updates. Located in the soughtafter Woodstock School District. This house has the main living on the first floor with all the bedrooms upstairs along with an updated bathroom. This house offers original hardwood floors throughout. This listing brought to you by Eliana Amodio and Michael Barros .......................... $249,900

GERMANTOWN, NEW YORK Come see this magnificent 5-bedroom, 5-bath home. The oversized kitchen offers stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, along with custom cabinetry.

The house has a first-floor master bedroom with a private balcony. Large open rec space with a wet bar, children’s separate playroom, along with a movie theater. The exterior features a batting cage, playground, and more. Open the double French doors to a beautiful fenced in saltwater pool and hot tub. Included a fully finished large two-bedroom apartment. This listing brought to you by Eliana Amodio and Michael Barros .................................................................................... $729,000

SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK RE PRIC Sweet contemporary Cape Cod home DU E CTI in the woods of Blue Mountain in close ON ! proximity to Saugerties, Woodstock and Hunter. Immerse yourself in nature at this little oasis. Just 10 minutes to Woodstock and Saugerties for all the wonderful restaurants, galleries, music venues and the Art’s. Boat on the Hudson River and swim in the streams of Palenville. Ski at Hunter and enjoy hiking on the numerous mountain trails including Haines Falls, North and South Lake. Enjoy those cold winter nights in front of the fire and those warm summer days on the wrap around deck. Privately sited with driveway access on two roads. Storage shed. This listing brought to you by Blanca Aponte ....... $259,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 / Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Catskill 518.800.9999 / Commercial 845.339.9999

PANORAMIC MOUNTAIN VIEWS Custom Colonial on a quiet cul-de-sac is privately set on 4 park like acres in an area of fine homes. Entertain your family and friends from your cook’s kitchen adjoining the generous dining room and sunny breakfast nook. Enjoy all the seasons from the light filled oversized living room while snuggled in front of the fireplace. Full walkup attic offers many opportunities. The covered front porch is the place to be to watch the eagles soar over the ridge while enjoying the gorgeous sunsets or relax on the expansive rear deck overlooking your own private park. This special home is a stroll from Tillson Lake with access to miles of Minnewaska State Park hiking trails. Offered at ................... $419,000

Kingston 845.338.5832 Woodstock 845.684.0304 www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

187 secluded acres with farmhouse Mountaintop retreat with deep privacy 1 hour 30 minutes to NYC. 6+ bedrooms, 2 baths on 187 secluded nature-filled acres. 2 ponds, 8-stall horse barn with its own electric, septic and well, fenced fields, additional 2-stall horse barn, workshop, stream and endless possibilities.

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Woodstock: 4-Bedroom, 3 Bath House.

Quiet neighborhood one mile from Village Green. Private back deck overlooks beautiful, wooded property. Two-car attached garage. No smoking. Pets considered. $2,100/ month. 845-430-4730.

Charming 3-Bedroom Cape-Cod style House in Hurley. 1170 sq.ft. Kitchen, DR, LR, den, bathroom, washer/dryer in basement. Minutes to uptown Kingston & Thruway. Non-smoking. No pets. $1800/month plus utilities. 1 month security deposit.

Available 1/1/20. 845-750-2986.

QUIET STUDIO. Skylight, deck, hardwood floor. Near State park. Wireless internet.

Mountain views. 20 minutes Kingston, 2 miles Boiceville & Zen Monastary, 7 miles Village Green. $825/month plus utilities.

914-725-1461. $795/month; Newly renovated GUEST COTTAGE in BEARSVILLE. Large windows, brand new bathroom, kitchen. Wonderful grounds. On a private lane. Walking distance to Cub Market. Call 845-417-5282.

WOODSTOCK STUDIO APARTMENT; 5 min walk to town, restaurants, shops. Newly renovated. $650/month; plus utilities.

718-864-9312 NEWLY RENOVATED 700 sq.ft. LARGE STUDIO. New appliances, high ceilings, large windows, separate kitchen, bathroom.

Beautiful property, private compound. 2.5 miles to center of Woodstock. $1050/month plus utilities. Call 845-417-5282.

CHARMING 1-BEDROOM HOUSE on Mink Hollow Road within walking distance to Cooper Lake, 4 miles to center of Woodstock. On 1 acre. Wood floors, newly

renovated bathroom. $1000/month. 845417-5282.

WOODSTOCK COTTAGE; 1.5 miles from town. 1-bedroom, Galley kitchen w/lots of cabinets, stone fireplace, beamed Aframe ceiling, full bath, deck, nice grounds. $1000/month. 845-417-5282.

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Country Cottage for Seasonal or Longer Term Rental near Cooper Lake Reservoir.

Open to 3+ month rentals, from December 1 onward. Furnished; 2 lofted bedrooms, 1 lower den/guest room, open LR/DR/Kitchen on 2 acres with patio. 917-750-0326.

OWNER’S LUXURY RETREAT. Beautifully furnished house. Great room w/20’ ceilings. Large dining room w/16’ ceilings, 18x50 media/family room. 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, new chef ’s kitchen, 2 huge decks, indoor/outdoor fireplaces, outdoor shower.

Peaceful, sunny home. $4000/month. Brokers welcome. 917-969-7655 for photos.

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