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Gwen Christie stars in Midsummer Night’s Dream on Sunday at Rosendale Theatre The wonderful British theatrical productions captured live on film and distributed by National Theatre Live don’t make it to all participating US cinemas at the same time, and sometimes the Rosendale Theatre is one of the last to get them. That means that you have another chance this weekend to catch Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as rendered by London’s Bridge Theatre under the direction of Nicholas Hytner, if you didn’t when it first made the rounds last fall.

Dream may be the most frequently produced of the Bard’s plays, and it takes something special to coax some of us out to see it yet again. This is one of those special productions, conceived

by Hytner in part as homage to Peter Brook’s groundbreaking 1970 version. The performance is immersively staged with half the audience on their feet, moving around the perimeter and interacting with the actors. There’s no fourth wall to speak of – nor much of a ceiling, with the faefolk often dangling from silken trapezes.

Scattered brass bedsteads conceal trapdoors, allowing surprising entrances and exits in this enchanted forest. And gender-fluidity is a provocative part of the magic, with the squabbling young Athenian couples sometimes kissing the wrong guy instead of the wrong gal and vice versa. Most audacious of all, some of Titania and Oberon’s lines get swapped, with the Fairy King the one who drinks

the love potion and becomes enamored of the donkeyfied Bottom.

For many, the big draw here will be the casting of the splendidly regal and funny Gwendoline Christie – who memorably played Brienne of Tarth, the formidable woman warrior (and only genuinely honorable knight, though she couldn’t claim that title) in Game of Thrones – in the dual role of Titania and Hippolyta, with Oliver Chris as her counterparts, Oberon and Theseus. David Moorst drew critical praise for his petulant Puck, and Hammed Animashaun for his winsome portrayal of the innocent “rude mechanical” led astray by fairy revenge schemes, Bottom. Paul Adeyefa plays Demetrius, Tessa Bonham Jones is Helena, Isis Hainsworth is Hermia and Kit Young is Lysander.

The Guardian termed this production “pleasantly bonkers” and “a delirious

party.” Catch it on Sunday afternoon for $12 general admission, $10 for Rosendale Theatre Collective members. Showtime is 2 p.m. on February 23.

– Frances Marion Platt A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sunday, Feb. 23, 2 p.m. $12/$10 Rosendale Theatre 408 Main St. (Rte. 213), Rosendale (845) 658-8989 www.rosendaletheatre.org

Clare Beams reads from The Illness Lesson on Monday at Bard Clare Beams, Bard Fiction prizewinner and writer-in-residence at Bard College, will read from recent

work on Monday, February 24. Beams received the Bard Fiction Prize for her debut collection of short stories, We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books, 2016). Her newest book, The Illness Lesson (Doubleday, 2020), was released on February 11. “The nine stories in Clare Beams’ debut collection of fiction, We Show What We Have Learned, range from factual, historical settings and characters to eerily fantastical ones, displaying a startling depth and an epic scale of imagination,” writes the Bard Fiction Prize Committee. “While the characters, and the situations they find themselves in, are sometimes surreal, their psychologies are always absolutely real – fully, compassionately drawn.”

This event is free and open to the public.

Clare Beams: The Illness Lesson Monday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m., Free Reem-Kayden Center, László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (845) 758-7087

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For many, the big draw here will be the casting of the splendidly regal and funny Gwendoline Christie – who memorably played Brienne of Tarth, the formidable woman warrior (and only genuinely honorable knight, though she couldn’t claim that title) in Game of Thrones – in the dual role of Titania and Hippolyta

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Winter Tree ID walk Saturday, Feb. 22, 10 a.m.-noon John Burroughs Sanctuary 261 Floyd Ackert Rd., West Park (914) 213-7079 http://jbnhs.org

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n Thursday evenings each February – a time of year when our desire to engage with the world of nature may be at war with our instinct to stay warm as much of the time as possible – the Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership (SRBP) entices us out to the Lecture Center at SUNY-New Paltz with its annual free public lecture series, “Secrets of the Shawangunks.” It may not be your favorite season to hit the trails, but expanding your knowledge about conservation topics and biodiversity on the Shawangunk Ridge is an enjoyable way to tide yourself over until prime hiking weather returns in springtime.

On Thursday, February 20 from 7 to 8:30 p.m., you can learn all about a shy, elusive mammal that, while rarely spotted in the wild, has been making a comeback in the Gunks in recent decades. Once widespread and then nearly eradicated, the fisher – one of the largest members of the weasel family – has since recovered much of its former Eastern range, thanks to conservation efforts and the creatures’ own behavioral adaptations. Find out more about the fisher’s ecology and conservation, including some updates to recent and ongoing studies across New York State, by coming to hear “Fishers Past and Present,” a talk by Black Rock Forest research scientist Dr. Scott LaPoint.

This presentation will take place at Lecture Center Room 102 on the SUNY-New Paltz campus. Admission is free, courtesy of co-sponsorship by the college’s Biology Department. Cancellations due to winter weather will be announced online at www. mohonkpreserve.org/events.

Fishers Past & Present, Thursday, Feb. 20, 7-8:30 p.m., Free, LC 102, SUNY-New Paltz, www.mohonkpreserve.org/events

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Winter Tree ID Walk at Slabsides on Saturday Do you wish you were better at telling different tree species apart? Particularly with deciduous trees, it can be a challenge during winter, when we can’t rely on such visual cues as the deeply lobed shape of an oak leaf, the helicopterlike samaras by which maples and ashes disperse their seeds, the spiky seedpod of a sweetgum that looks like a tiny medieval morningstar. If you want to identify species accurately without these seasonal tipoffs, you need to learn to look at a tree both more closely – examining its bark – and from farther away, by the shape of its silhouette.

While a field guide is a useful thing to have, even better is a living expert who

can point out telltale details as you go for a hike together. On Saturday morning, February 22, Tom O’Dowd of the John Burroughs Natural History Society will lead a two-hour Winter Tree ID Walk along the trail that connects the Burroughs Sanctuary in West Park with Chodikee Lake, showing you how to identify trees by bark, structure and bud.

The outing ends up at Slabsides, where you can learn more about the great 19thcentury naturalist himself.

The group will meet at the Pond House at 10 a.m. Follow the “Path through History” signs at the intersection of Floyd Ackert Road and Route 9W; turn west onto Floyd Ackert Road (at the Global Palate restaurant) and continue for nearly a mile, then take the first left after Burroughs Drive. To reserve your spot or find out more, contact the trip leader at tkodowd@gmail.com or (914) 213-7079.

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Recipient of Billboard’s inaugural Comedian of the Year award, comedian, actor and best-selling author Sebastian Maniscalco performs no fewer than six times at the Nesheiwat Convention Center in Poughkeepsie from February 28 through March 1. The multi-talented Maniscalco kicked off last year with four shows at Madison Square Garden, the release of his Netflix Original special Stay Hungry, hosting honors at the 2019 MTV VMAs and a film performance alongside Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. Ticket prices begin around $60 and jet up from there.

Sebastian Maniscalco Friday-Sunday, Feb. 28-Mar. 1, $60+ Majed J. Nesheiwat Convention Center 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie https://midhudsonciviccenter.org

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“RACE & SCIENCE” LECTURE ON TUESDAY IN NEW PALTZ

T Carte de visite image of Sojourner Truth, circa 1866 (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)

he Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz presents the third in its series of four substantive and challenging events celebrating Black History Month on Tuesday, February 25. The series curators have not shied away from the more troubling dimensions of this story, and on the 25th, they bring us face-to-face with an entire history of heinous distortions and expedient lies passed off, to generations of Americans, as fact and science. The popular New Paltz High School teacher Albert Cook speaks on “Race and Science,” offering a distilled version of a curricular focus that he has been developing for years in his Black History classes.

Cook will present an exposition on social categorizations often confused with race, the economic function of racial caste and the problematic history between race and science: heady and heavy stuff. We managed to grab a minute of Cook’s time (before he returned to school after the Albert Cook long Presidents’ Day weekend) to help us tease out some of the implications of this presentation synopsis.

Stone House Day in Hurley for the past two decades. Bergmann and Bagwell’s presentation will follow.

– Frances Marion Platt

Your subject – the scientific truths of race, the (mis)use of science to rationalize oppression and many other heinous realities – gets deep into the heart of racism and how it’s propagated and justified. Why were you drawn to this complex subject and how does it help you get through to students?

Sojourner Truth Life Walk Saturday, Feb. 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free Shuttle bus: Dietz Stadium 170 North Front St., Kingston Walk begins: Sojourner Truth Park Salem St./Rt. 9W, Port Ewen Bergmann/Bagwell talk Old Dutch Church 272 Wall St., Kingston https://bit.ly/3bKCAc2

I found the topic to be of importance as I attempted to teach my students the basic fundamentals of race as a social construction. Using science to support the idea of the biological mythology of race was very helpful.

Jared Reinmuth talks about new graphic novel Big Black: Stand at Attica in Saugerties

Do you find your students today are more savvy regarding these histories that lie beneath the official story? In this post-Howard Zinn age, and with really powerful documentaries out like 13th and so many others, do you find your students already aware when they enter your class?

Sojourner Truth Life Walk this Saturday ends with slideshow by two sculptors of famous activist

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s reported in Almanac Weekly last summer, Hudson Valley heroine Sojourner Truth’s image is being added to a 15-foot-tall bronze statue planned for the Central Park Mall that was originally designed only to include Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (https://bit.ly/3bKYiwt). A statue of Truth by herself, also in bronze and seven feet high, is soon to be erected near the Highland entrance to Walkway over the Hudson. The sculptors creating both – Meredith Bergmann and Vinnie Bagwell, respectively – will give a joint slide presentation and talk about their research into Sojourner Truth’s life, their monumental artworks and the power of art to tell our stories this Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston.

A reception will follow at 5 p.m., which is good, because a lot of the audience will likely be in need of refreshments after participating in an energetic highlight of local Black History Month celebrations: the second annual Sojourner Truth Life Walk from Port Ewen to Kingston.

Marchers will congregate at Dietz Stadium at 11 a.m. to catch a free bus to the starting point of the walk: the site in downtown Port Ewen where a tavern once stood, in which Truth worked as a young girl, still a slave, and where New Paltz sculptor Trina Greene’s statue of her now stands. As the group treks back across the Rondout into Kingston, there will be brief pit stops with readings highlighting different aspects of the great abolitionist, suffragist and orator’s career. A trolley will be available for those who want to witness the events but are unable to walk the full route, which totals about 3.5 miles.

Once back in the Stockade District, actress/minister Deborah Zuill will give a live in-person reenactment of Truth’s famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, which Zuill has been performing annually at

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Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth and art by Améziane, is the memoir of Frank Smith, a prisonernegotiator during the Attica prison revolt.

In the summer of 1971, New York’s Attica State Prison was a symbol of

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Spencer Wells wrote a book, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, that is very influential to the lecture that I give on the topic. Also, I utilize a documentary produced by California Newsreel entitled Race: The Power of an Illusion. Of course, there are many other readings about the History of Phrenology and Eugenics that have probably assimilated into my understanding on the matter.

Race & Science: A discussion with Albert Cook, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m., Free, Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main St., New Paltz, www.eltinglibrary.org

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Who are some of the scholars and writers who have most shaped your thinking on this complex subject: race and science?

I have found my students to be eager to learn from non-traditional historical narratives, which has been helpful; but I have found that, unless teachers are explicit and intentional in exposing their students to material that is critical of a narrative that either ignores Western bias, white supremacy/racism or even actively promotes these ideas, students will remain well-intentioned in their disposition toward systemic racism, but uninformed.

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much that was broken in America: rampant racism and a blind eye turned toward injustices perpetrated on the powerless. When the guards at Attica overreacted to a minor incident, the prisoners decided they’d had enough – and revolted against their jailers, taking them hostage and making demands for humane conditions.

Negotiations failed and state troopers stormed the prison, firing indiscriminately into a yard obscured by tear gas. Among the 43 dead, ten hostage correctional officers were killed by police gunfire, though “fake news” reports spread allegations, unsupported by medical reports, that their throats had been cut by their captors.

Beatings, humiliations and other reprisals against the prison population followed the quelling of the uprising, and two of the three volumes of the 1975 Meyer Report on the state’s investigation of the matter were sealed from public scrutiny for 40 years. Despite the secrecy, some reforms to the state prison system followed in the wake of Attica, including the institution of a grievance procedure for inmates.

At the center of the uprising was an inmate named Frank “Big Black” Smith.

He was assigned the role of head of security, helping maintain order in a volatile situation and keeping the hostages and observers safe. The story of the nation’s most famed and deadly prison riot is now told from his perspective in a newly released graphic novel, Big Black: Stand at Attica. One of its authors, Saugerties resident Jared Reinmuth, will do a presentation on the new work he created with Frank Smith and Améziane, described as “an unflinching look at the true story about the price of standing up to injustice,” at the Saugerties Public Library at 6 p.m. on Saturday, February 29, wrapping up the library’s Black History Month activities.

The Saugerties Film Society and ShoutOut Saugerties are co-sponsors of this event, which is free and open to the public. It will also include a screening of Cinda Firestone’s highly regarded 1974 documentary Attica, which uses primary footage from surveillance and news cameras along with prisoner, family and guard interviews to reconstruct the events of that terrible week in September of ’71.

– Frances Marion Platt Big Black: Stand at Attica Saturday, Feb. 29, 6 p.m.

Free Saugerties Public Library 91 Washington Ave., Saugerties (845) 246-4317 http://saugertiespubliclibrary.org

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HISTORY Poughkeepsie pioneer: Meet Jane Bolin, first black woman judge in the US

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n the spring of 1939, as the US struggled to drag itself out of the Great Depression and with World War II looming on the horizon, a grandiose attempt by a group of New York businessmen to lift the City out of its doldrums, a World’s Fair dubbed the World of Tomorrow, opened its gates to the public on the site of a cleaned-up ash dump in Flushing Meadows. Then-mayor Fiorello La Guardia was a big booster of the project and loved using the Fair as a staging area for public relations events; he’d even brought in Albert Einstein to participate in the Grand Opening ceremonies.

So on July 22 of that year, when a 3 1- y e a r - o l d Po u g h k e e p s i e born attorne y who worked for the City’s Office of the Corporation Counsel was summoned by the mayor to show up at the fairgrounds, she was worried that she might be getting fired, or at least publicly reprimanded for some misfeasance. As a gifted and ambitious young mixed-race woman, Jane Bolin (1908-2007) had encountered public hostility many times before. Although she was smart enough to skip grades and graduate high school by the age of 15, her neighborhood college, Vassar, wouldn’t admit her because one of her paternal grandfathers was African American and the other Native American (her mother was a white immigrant from Northern Ireland who died when Jane was only 8).

At Wellesley College, Bolin was ostracized so completely by her fellow students – other than being asked to play Aunt Jemima in a school skit – that she quickly moved off-campus to room with the only other black girl in her year.

Although when she graduated in 1928 she was named a Wellesley Scholar, meaning that she was among the top 20 students of the class, her guidance counselor tried hard to talk her out of applying to Yale Law School. So did her father, Gaius C. Bolin, a Poughkeepsie lawyer and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organizer who was the first black graduate of Williams College and later became the first black president of the Dutchess County Bar Association. He thought that girls shouldn’t be exposed to the ugliness of human behavior that is part of an attorney’s job.

Nevertheless, she persisted. Jane went to Yale anyway, one of three women in her class and the only black person, enduring more mockery from fellow graduate

students who found it amusing to slam doors in her face. She became the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, in 1931, and the first to join the New York City Bar Association, setting up a joint practice in the City with her first husband, Ralph E. Mizelle. Following an unsuccessful 1936 run for State Assembly on the Republican ticket, Bolin went to work for the Corporation Counsel and was assigned to Domestic Relations Court.

She needn’t have worried, but it’s a good thing that she took her husband with her for moral support to that meeting with La Guardia in the New York Pavilion at the Wo r l d ’s Fa i r.

Turned out that the mayor wanted to name her, then and there, with flashbulbs popping all around, the first black woman in the US to become a judge. The ceremony made news across the globe. Her appointment was to the same Domestic Relations Court (renamed Family Court in 1962) where she already did much of her work. She presided there with distinction for four ten-year terms, reappointed to the bench by three different mayors: O’Dwyer, Wagner and Lindsay. (For the first 20 of those years, she remained the only black female judge in the country – a fact that she said “embarrassed” her.) There was even talk of bumping her upstairs to a federal judgeship, but Bolin thought she was making her most meaningful contribution right where she was. It was with great reluctance that she accepted mandatory retirement at the age of 70, in 1978.

During her tenure in Family Court, Bolin worked to encourage racially integrated child services, ending the assignment of probation officers on the basis of race and the placement of children in child-care agencies on the basis of ethnic background. She collaborated with Eleanor Roosevelt to establish and sustain the Wiltwyck School, a remedial program in the Town of Esopus that helped African American juvenile offenders from New York City reshape their lives; its most illustrious graduate, Floyd Patterson, went on to become the world heavyweight boxing champion and to found a boxing school for at-risk boys.

Other than a brief stint after graduation from law school working with her father and brother in their Poughkeepsie law firm, and her later work with the

For the first 20 years, she remained the only black female judge in the country – a fact that she said “embarrassed” her.

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Jane Bolin collaborated with Eleanor Roosevelt to establish and sustain the Wiltwyck School, a remedial program in the Town of Esopus that helped African American juvenile offenders from New York City reshape their lives; its most illustrious graduate, Floyd Patterson, went on to become the world heavyweight boxing champion and to found a boxing school for at-risk boys.

Wiltwyck School, Bolin didn’t maintain much of a connection with her Hudson Valley origins, although she is buried in the Bolin family plot at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery. In a 1944 interview, she called her still-segregated hometown “fascist to the extent of deluding itself that there is superiority among human beings by reasons solely of color, race or religion.”

After her retirement, she remained a Queens resident until her death in 2007 at the age of 98, staying engaged as a consultant to the National Council of Negro Women and a school-based literacy volunteer, as well as serving on the boards of the NAACP, the National Urban League and the Child Welfare League and on the Regents Review Committee of the New York State Board of Regents. She was awarded honorary degrees by the Tuskegee Institute, Williams College, Hampton University, Western College for Women and Morgan State University.

Jane Bolin is survived by her son, Yorke B. Mizelle, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter. Though in her

lifetime she shrugged off her many “firsts,” citing only her desire to do her life’s work whatever obstacles she might have encountered, Bolin left a powerful legacy, and not only in the Family Court and foster care reforms she championed.

She has been lauded as a role model by judge Constance Baker Motley, the first African American woman appointed to the federal bench, and by Judith Kaye, the first woman to serve as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. A mural at the Dutchess County Courthouse prominently features Jane and Gaius Bolin, Sr., and the Poughkeepsie City School District’s headquarters was renamed the Jane Bolin Administration Building. And in 2017, District 35 assemblyman Jeffrion L. Aubry introduced a bill to rename the Queens-Midtown Tunnel the Jane Bolin Tunnel.

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MUSIC On Sunday, pastor Edwrin Sutton of Brooklyn will perform. An author, musician, psalmist, songwriter and preacher, Sutton has on numerous occasions appeared as the featured preacher on The Word Network’s television broadcasts.

Poughkeepsie hosts Hudson Valley Gospel Festival this weekend

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imed to coincide with Black History Month, the Hudson Valley Gospel Festival 2020 honors the cultural, spiritual and musical impact that the genre of gospel music has had on the world. This weekend-long celebration takes place February 21 through 23 at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel and Conference Center, Majed J. Nesheiwat Convention Center and Changepoint Theater in Poughkeepsie. Subtitled “Ain’t that Good News” and presented by the Hudson Valley Gospel Festival Committee, the

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festival features numerous chorus and solo performances over the course of an inspirational weekend.

Friday evening kicks off with a dinner buffet, a performance from the Hudson Valley Community Gospel Choir and a Gospel Walk through History, exploring the genre through time. Each concert throughout the weekend will include a performance by the Hudson Valley Community Gospel Choir, a local ensemble formed in conjunction with the festival, led by director Dr. Mary Mclymore and minister of music Rev. T. Motley-Epps.

Saturday offers an array of workshop sessions addressing both traditional and contemporary gospel with focuses on calland-response, spoken word, shedding, open voice, visual arts, music direction, youth choir directing (ages 13 to 18) and drum-and-dance ministry. The workshop will be followed by a red-carpet headliner concert. Lastly, Saturday features brunch and a hat parade before a final headliner concert with Everett Drake, a Nashville singer/songwriter and long-time vocalist for BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel television show. Joining Drake on Saturday is the Livingstone College Gospel Choir from Salisbury, North Carolina.

On Sunday, pastor Edwrin Sutton of Brooklyn will perform. An author, musician, psalmist, songwriter and preacher, Sutton has on numerous occasions appeared as the featured preacher on The Word Network’s television broadcasts. The local gospel quartet Just Voices will also perform.

Weekend passes are available, as are individual tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday concerts. See the website for full ticketing options.

Hudson Valley Gospel Festival Feb. 21-23 Various Poughkeepsie locations https://dutchesstourism.com/hvgospelfestival

1960s Soul Dance Party on Saturday at Bacchus The spacious bar, restaurant and poolhall Bacchus in New Paltz hosts a Soul Dance Party on Saturday, February 22. Soul Dance Party No. 1 features deejays Chas Gibson and Ivy A. Gogo spinning rare 45s to eye-popping ’60s video mashups on multiple screens. The dancing goes on all night and into Sunday morning. There is no

Saturday features a final headliner concert with Everett Drake, a Nashville singer/songwriter and long-time vocalist for BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel television show. Joining Drake on Saturday is the Livingstone College Gospel Choir from Salisbury, North Carolina.

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Soul Dance Party Saturday, Feb. 22, 10 p.m.

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Spyro Gyra plays Towne Crier in Beacon on Friday

Driven by the effortlessly tuneful, graceful playing and composing of reed-player Jay Beckenstein and a light-touch, globally spiced approach to groove, Spyro Gyra unfortunately became a pivot point in the argument about jazz fusion: Were they true heirs of jazz gravity and genius like the first wave of great fusion bands (from Weather Report to early Pat Metheny Group), or were they the godfathers of lite jazz and ’70s TV themes, just a few stone-throws away from you-knowwho, with the Kenny and the G? Nope. They were and are a genuinely important and delightful fusion band. Yes,

they were user-friendly in a way that, say, Weather Report’s I Sing the Body Electric will never be. But truth be told, if Spyro Gyra had not used a steel-drum sound on “Morning Dance,” I am not sure that anyone would have ever mistaken them for crass populists of jazz. Funny how one little sonic meme can do so much damage.

They have a dense catalogue dotted with greatness, melodic imagination and an unfailing animation of groove. And Beckenstein has never stopped making new SG records: one every year or two from then to now, suggesting that – rightly – he doesn’t give a f *ck. Listen to 2011’s A Foreign Affair: gorgeous, heavy stuff.

Now that the culture has really awakened to the musical substance of the ’70s and ’80s, be it quiet-storm soul, world-pop or yacht-rock, Spyro Gyra should get theirs. I saw them twice in the ’80s. They were a delightful blast, and I am sure they still are. Spyro Gyra plays at the Towne Crier in Beacon on Friday, February 21. Tickets cost $55 in advance, $60 at the door.

– John Burdick Spyro Gyra Friday, Feb. 21, 8:30 p.m. $60/$55 Towne Crier Café 379 Main St., Beacon (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com

February 22 is ’80s Night at Colony I used to believe that nostalgia worked in 20-year cycles: An idealized vision of America in the 1950s

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Reed master Don Byron plays Falcon on Sunday

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he great jazz reed-player and student of style Don Byron is a dedicated pusher of envelopes whose career has proceeded in a series of deeply committed, even reverent genre explorations and studies, beginning with the fusion of klezmer and modern jazz that brought him to national attention, moving through episodes of funk, eccentric swing, gospel, serious Minimalism and (surprisingly little) free-jazz skronk. There is no jokey referentiality to his appropriations. Byron confers seriousness and the harmonic depth of jazz upon the genres that he studies and masters. The genres, in turn, render Byron’s catalogue one of the most listenable, joyous and unpredictable in all of serious and cerebral jazz.

When Don Byron returns to the stage at the Falcon on Sunday, February 23, he and his quartet will offer Byron originals, standards and interpretations of Hank Williams, as well as the Bach sonatas and partitas for violin. Sounds like Don Byron. There is no cover charge at the Falcon, but generous donation is why we get the likes of Don Byron here.

– John Burdick Don Byron, Sunday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m., Donation, The Falcon, 1348 Rt. 9W, Marlboro, (845) 236-7970, www.liveatthefalcon.com

dominated the cynical, recession-era ’70s; an idealized ’60s counterculture myth gained weird traction in the ultra-materialist ’80s. But ’80s nostalgia grabbed the reins about 20 years ago and has not relinquished control. I was there. I don’t get it. Meanwhile, the ’90s are nowhere to be found and show no signs of imminent nostalgia.

Colony continues the ’80s madness with the Ultimate Live Bands ’80s Night Experience on Saturday, February 22.

Sean Matthew Whiteford (“Rock of Ages”), who recently brought Rocky Horror & Hedwig to Colony Woodstock, now brings us ’80s Night, a live theatrical experience featuring powerhouse vocalists and musicians performing renditions of ’80s favorites. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the show.

– John Burdick Ultimate ’80s Night Experience Saturday, Feb. 22 8 p.m. $25/$20 Colony 22 Rock City Rd. Woodstock

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Russell Hall & the Enigmatics February 28 at Mountain Top Library Emmy-, Grammy- and Golden Globenominated jazz artist and bassist Russell Hall leads an exploratory study of the enigmas of jazz on Friday, February 28 at the Mountain Top Library in Tannersville. Presented by the ever-adventurous 23Arts Initiative, the Enigmatics investigate the singularity and mysteries of some of jazz’s greatest iconoclasts: Eric Dolphy, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Dunn, Charlie Mingus and others. The ensemble features Russell Hall, Ruben Fox (saxophone), Mathis Picard (piano) and Evan Sherman (drums). Bandleader Hall has worked with legends such as Edward Norton, Kathleen Battle, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Barry Harris, Wayne Shorter, Roy Haynes, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mwenso and the Shakes, Emmet Cohen and Jonathan Batiste

nnovative guitarist and composer Kaki King performs at BSP in Kingston on Saturday, February 29, along with the prolific modern singer/songwriter Tamar Eisenman. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist King launched The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body in 2015: a groundbreaking multimedia performance that used her guitar as projection screen to explore the genesis of the instrument and her relationship to it, as well as her own origin story. She has released nine albums over the past 14 years and toured extensively all over the world, presenting her work in such prestigious arts centers as the Kennedy Center, MoMA, LACMA, the Met and Smithsonian Design Museum. Tickets cost $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the show.

Kaki King, Saturday, Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m., $30/$25, BSP, 323 Wall St., Kingston, www.bspkingston.com

and Stay Human. Once again putting money where mouth is, 23Arts has made this a free public event. People of all ages are welcome.

Russell Hall & the Enigmatics Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.

Free Mountain Top Library 6093 Main St., Tannersville www.23arts.org

Tix on sale now for Lake Street Dive at UPAC One of the superstar outfits spawned by the inclusive new folk and earthy soul movement of the 2010s, Lake Street Dive likes to get cozy and intimate even still, and is willing to do what it takes to keep that avenue

of access open. The Bowery Presents brings the popular Massachusetts group’s Lounge Around Sounds Tour to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston on Thursday, April 16. This easygoing, semi-acoustic fireside evening with Lake Street Dive includes a revue of their 16-year catalogue of songs. Deep cuts, worksin-progress and fan favorites are all sung around a grand piano, and silk pajamas are encouraged. Ticket prices start at $40.

Lake Street Dive Thursday, Apr. 16 8 p.m. $40+ UPAC 601 Broadway, Kingston https://www.bowerypresents.com

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Although she’s long past the age of 13, this role was clearly made for the chameleonic Terri Weagant, who cut her one-woman-show teeth on a couple of productions of Lily Tomlin’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and wowed Denizen audiences last spring in Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing.

Terri Weagant dazzles in Elizabeth Heffron’s Bo-Nita at Denizen Theatre through March 1

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emember Halley and Moonee, the young mother and daughter who eke out a precarious, picaresque existence in a seedy Orlando motel in the 2017 movie The Florida Project? Didn’t your heart ache contemplating their probably-harsh future? Well, picture that pair about seven years later, only with the locus of their existence transported to St. Louis. That’ll give you an idea of the dynamics behind the dyad at the core of Elizabeth Heffron’s edgily funny play Bo-Nita, currently running at Denizen Theatre in New Paltz.

Here, mother and daughter are two of seven characters brought to vivid life by the only one we actually meet onstage: Bo-Nita herself, 13-year-old offspring of the feckless Mona, who’s not long out of prison, drinks too much and brings home a succession of gullible men she thinks she can con out of some material thing that she and her daughter need to keep afloat (the latest, Leon, is a tile salesman). More on Bo-Nita’s mind the day we meet her is another man, Gerard, whom Mona almost married before he started molesting her prepubescent daughter.

A very bright, spunky girl who hasn’t become entirely cynical and worldly despite having lived through many awful experiences, Bo-Nita still believes in miracles, and sets her wild story in motion by telling the audience about one that recently happened to her: Gerard having a heart attack just as he was about to assault her. It’s Bo-Nita’s chance to channel her accumulated rage. Then Mona arrives with Leon in tow, to find Gerard’s lifeless 300-pound carcass on Bo-Nita’s bedroom floor, his face pummeled to a pudding and sporting an awkward rigor mortis erection. Leon, who’s already worried about the fact that he’s cheating on his wife, immediately decides that this mess is not his problem. Mona has other ideas.

Mona screws up a lot, but she always has ideas. They need two cars to dispose of the body by driving it into a lake and then return, so Leon is drafted into the caper.

Sound ridiculous? It gets ever more so as Bo-Nita spins out the tale. Along the way we are introduced to other bizarre people in the girl’s orbit – notably Grandma Tiny, who looked after Bo-Nita while her mom was serving time and whose long career as a belly dancer-slash-stripper supplies the

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On the most superficial level, Bo-Nita is outrageously dark comedy that evokes frequent guffaws. But there’s ample drama here as well, often revealed in nonchalant asides and much of it unsettling. The playwright digs deeper into the girl’s past as we go along, the horrors that become commonplace in the lives of working-class women working their way inexorably under our skins. As some Holocaust writer I once read memorably observed, “Heaven defend us from the things that one can get used to.” It’s definitely not an entertainment for reallife 13-year-olds.

This play has some of the smartest, loopiest writing I’ve heard in a contemporary stagework in a long time, with an acerbic undercurrent of social commentary; but it takes an extraordinarily versatile and nimble actress to dart from one of these characters to another to another, even making them have conversations in various voices, while always keeping brave, resilient, resourceful, highly observant, wistful, goofy Bo-Nita at the center of our focus.

Although she’s long past the age of 13, this role was clearly made for the chameleonic Terri Weagant, who cut her one-woman-

show teeth on a couple of productions of Lily Tomlin’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and wowed Denizen audiences last spring in Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing – also a solo outing – under the direction of TMI Project’s Eva Tenuto.

Weagant and Bo-Nita director Summer Wa l l a c e h av e worked together on this play several times before, and it’s impossible at this point to say where one’s genius leaves off and the other’s picks up. If your mental image of a monologue performance resembles a guy standing at a podium or sitting at a little table with a pitcher of water, prepare to be disabused of that notion. Weagant’s all over the place, making the most out of the small stage, a park bench, a trash can, her backpack, bringing the kinetic restlessness of a young adolescent with only half-quashed dreams and a lot of heart and imagination to her bravura portrayal. It’s an astonishingly demanding play, and Weagant gives it her all and then some. You don’t want to miss this one – especially in as intimate a setting as Denizen’s little black box.

Bo-Nita continues its run through March 1, with showtimes at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesdays through Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets cost $28 general admission, $24 for seniors and

You don’t want to miss this one – especially in as intimate a setting as Denizen’s little black box.

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Chicago the Musical Friday-Sunday, Feb.21-Mar. 1, 8 p.m./2 p.m., $12/$6 Nelly Goletti Theatre, Murray Student Center, Marist College 3399 North Rd. (Rt. 9), Poughkeepsie boxofficemccta@gmail.com www.marist.edu

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nison Arts in New Paltz and Arts Mid-Hudson team up to present Cave Dogs: Liquid States, a presentation of shadow performance art on Saturday, February 22 at McKenna Theatre at SUNY-New Paltz. Starring Suzanne Stokes, Jim Fossett, Adam Mastropaolo, Trudy Trutwin and Dillon Paul, Cave Dogs features live shadow performances with an original musical soundtrack that conjures a dreamlike and nostalgic feeling for adults and children alike. The show opens with a shadow art performance by Kingston High School students who participated in a workshop series funded through the Arts Mid-Hudson grant and in collaboration with Unison Arts. Tickets cost $15 general admission, $12 for seniors and Unison members and $5 for students under age 12.

Cave Dogs: Liquid States, Saturday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m., $15/$12/$5, McKenna Theatre, SUNY-New Paltz, (845) 255-1559, www. unisonarts.org

youth under 30 and $5 for students.

Wednesday-night shows feature an actor talkback afterwards. To order tickets, visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/35097/ production/1018799. Denizen Theatre is located on the upper level of the Water Street Market, at 10 Main Street (Route 299) in New Paltz.

– Frances Marion Platt Bo-Nita Wednesday-Sunday through Mar. 1, 7:30 p.m./2 p.m. $28/$24/$5 Denizen Theatre, Water Street Market 10 Main St., New Paltz (845) 303-4136 www.denizentheatre.com/bo-nita

Final weekend for Almost, Maine at Falls Theatre In the widely popular John Cariani play currently running at the Falls Theatre, it’s midwinter in the not-really-organized town of Almost, Maine, and the average temperature is three below zero Fahrenheit. But its residents find warmth in the cold, under the glow of the Northern Lights. This very human play takes a look at love, connection and disconnection in a genuine, funny and sometimes-awkward way.

Kit Colbourn directs the County Players’ production of Almost, Maine that wraps up its run this weekend. The remaining performances begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22.

Tickets for Almost, Maine cost $20 general admission, $15 for seniors (60+), children under 12 and members of the military. To order, call the box office at (845) 298-1491 or visit https://app.artspeople.com/index.php?show=99634.

Almost, Maine Friday/Saturday, Feb. 21/22, 8 p.m. $20/$15 Falls Theatre 2681 West Main St., Wappingers Falls (845) 298-1491 http://countyplayers.org

Chicago opens this Friday at Marist’s Goletti Theatre While its original production starring Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera had the misfortune of opening in the same year, 1975, as A Chorus Line, thereby getting skunked out of all but one Tony Awards, Chicago went on to cop six Tonys, six Drama Desk Awards and become the longest-running American musical in Broadway history when it was revived in 1996 with Ann Reinking and Bebe Neuwirth.

Boasting a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, Fosse’s iconic choreography and great songs by Kander & Ebb – nota-

bly “All that Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango” and “Roxy” – Chicago is a delightfully cynical romp about women literally getting away with murder during the Roaring ’20s. As a satire on the American public’s propensity to side with celebrity over virtue, it’s a piece of theater whose timeliness never fades – but perhaps suits the current national mood more than ever before.

The Marist Theatre Program opens a new production of Chicago on Friday in the Nelly Goletti Theatre on the Marist College campus, with a cast of 19 students supported by a professional 13-piece orchestra. Performances begin at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, February 21, 22, 28 and 29, with 2 p.m. matinées on Saturday, February 22 and Sundays, February 23 and March 1. Seating is firstcome, first-served, with all tickets going for $12 general admission and $6 for students, seniors and military personnel.

Chicago is recommended for ages 13 and older, and no children under 6 will be admitted. To reserve your tickets, e-mail boxofficemccta@gmail.com.

The Grammy Award-winning comedian Lewis Black brings his 2020 “It Gets Better Every Day” tour to the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on Saturday, February 22. Explains Black, “When I say, ‘It gets better every day,’ you might be wondering, ‘Is he being facetious?’ Come to the show and find out. Or stay home and wallow in your sadness.” Widely regarded as the king of the intemperate rant, Black’s trademark style involves yelling and animated finger-pointing, skewering anything and anyone that gets under his skin. While his segments on The Daily Show may have sparked his fame, Black has been a respected industry insider as a writer and a performer for decades. Ticket prices start at $48.

Members get $5 off.

Lewis Black Saturday, Feb. 22, 8 p.m. $48+ Ulster Performing Arts Center 601 Broadway, Kingston (845) 339-6088 www.bardavon.org

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CALENDAR Plan your weekend: Each issue of Almanac Weekly is packed with local activities. It’s the best guide to Hudson Valley art, entertainment & adventure. We’ve printed this weekend’s events here, but if you'd like to read what’s happening during the workweek, visit our website at https:// calendar.hudsonvalleyone.com/events.

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1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with Ed Reisner. 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.

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/.

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.

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.

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.

12pm The 2020 Tournées French Film Festival: Identities. The festival will feature six critically acclaimed films. All screenings are free and open to the public. Festival continues through 2/27. For more information and show times, log onto: bit.ly/2tYSOge. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, Rm 203, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-437-5370.

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

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

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.

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3pm-6pm Farm Hub Winter Market in Kingston. The Farm Hub is once again partnering with the Kingston YMCA Farm Project on the weekly winter market to make fresh produce available to Kingston and surrounding communities through the coldest months. Runs every Thursday. YMCA lobby, 507 Broadway, Kingston. hvfarmhub.org/ winter-production-ramps.

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.

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.

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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.

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

4pm-5:30pm Live Well Commission Meeting.

3rd Wednesdays. Conference Room #1, 3rd Floor.

A public meeting and all are welcome. RSVPs are appreciated. Email Emily at eflynn@kingston-ny. gov. To see our agenda’s please visit kingston-ny. gov/Agendas. Kingston City Hall, 420 Broadway, Kingston. livewellkingston.org.

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

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

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

5pm RUPCO’s HomeOwnership Center’s 15th Anniversary Celebration. Live music, food + drink. Special guests: Patrick K. Ryan, Ulster County Executive, Kingston Mayor Steve Noble, Kevin O’ Connor, CEO at RUPCO, Joan Straussman, Northeast Regional Vice-President, NeighborWorks America as well as some of our HomeBuyers and our financial partners that helped make it happen. The Kirkland, 2 Main St, Kingston. rupco.org.

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

5:30pm-7pm T(w)een Labs. Make and copy your very own zine to share with the world! (Or just your cat :)) Ages 10 and up welcome. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. Info: 845-338-7881, events@townofulsterlibrary.org, bit.ly/2OZxgYz. Free.

5:30pm-8:30pm Amphibian Migration & Road Crossing Training. During this training volunteers will learn how to document and collect data, amphibian identification, and tips to assist amphibians safely across roads during their annual migration. Random Harvest Market, 1785 NY-23, Craryville. clctrust.org/event/amphibianmigration-road-crossing-training.

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. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org.

6pm-7:30pm Terrarium Class – A Garden Under Glass. The workshop will begin with a short presentation by Master Gardeners on the history and science of terrariums. You will learn practical maintenance and troubleshooting tips, see imaginative terrarium examples, and then create your own covered terrarium! All workshop materials will be included. Pre-registration is required. Limited space. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu/ terrariums2020. $40.

6pm-7pm Hudson Valley String Quartet Recital. Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with the Hudson Valley String Quartet, featuring David Fiedler and Jeanne Fox. Black Box Theater, 53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie. Info: 844-431-8916, christian.lopez@sunydutchess.edu. Suggested $10 donation.

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.

com/hvgospelfestival.

6:30pm Screening of Dark Waters with Panel Discussion of PFAS Issues in New York. Inspired by a true story, Dark Waters reveals a systematic coverup of PFAS drinking water pollution. Panel discussion to follow screening. Space is limited, please RSVP: forms.gle/963eza9M1p43X17o8.

NCG Kingston Cinema, 1300 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

8am-5pm AARP Tax Free Assistance. IRS certified tax preparation provided by AARP Taxaide at sites through Ulster County through 4/13. For an appointment and location information, call 845-443-8823 or log onto UlsterTaxAide@mail. com. Throughout Ulster County.

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-9pm Ensuring Safe Nuclear Decommissioning w/ Manna Jo Greene. Manna Jo will discuss environmental and safety issues facing local communities. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. beaconsloopclub.org/. Free.

7pm Reading by Film Professor Sarah Kozloff.

Author of The Nine Realms a four-volume fantasy series which follows a queen on her journey to claim her rightful throne. A reception in the Rose Parlor will follow the read. Sanders Classroom Building, Spitzer Auditorium at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370.

7pm-8:30pm SRBP Lecture Series: Fishers Past and Present. With Dr. Scott LaPoint, Black Rock Forest Research Scientist. Once widespread, and then nearly eradicated, the fisher has since recovered much of its former eastern range, thanks to conservation efforts and their own behavioral adaptations. Lecture Center 102. No pre-registration is required. Free. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 102, New Paltz.

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 Live @ The Falcon: Dylan Doyle presents..Diana DeMuth. Presenting veterans and new comers from his tours. Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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-10pm Words Carry Us, Every Thursday.

Poet William Lessard will host with the featured readers Ruth Danon and James Belfower. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston. Info: 347-4689-2323, 229greenkill@greenkill.org, greenkill.org. Contribution.

Fri

2/21

Hudson Valley Gospel Festival 2020 (2/212/23). Come celebrate Black History Month at the First Hudson Valley Gospel Festival that will honor the cultural and spiritual impact the genre has had on the world. Featuring a full weekend of events beginning Friday night with a Walk Through Gospel History. Followed on Saturday with youth and adult workshop sessions and the evening is the red-carpet headliner concert.

Sunday begins with brunch and a hat parade before a final headliner concert. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel and Conference Center, 40 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie. dutchesstourism.

9:30am Mid-HudsonADK: 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-3pm Workshop for New and Beginning Farmers: Berry and Grape Production for Beginning Farmers. We will cover a range of topics including farm business, using online tools for a “first look” at a site, basic equipment needs for new growers, and farming in a changing climate. We will also have a grower presentation on challenges faced in getting started with farming. Lunch is included. Space is limited. Preregistration is required. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. ulster.cce.cornell.edu/ NewFarmerSeries2020.

11am Mid-HudsonADK: Fahnestock State Park. Leader: Georgette Weir, georgette.weir@ gmail.com. If conditions permit, X-country ski at Winter Ski Center. Trail pass, $12 adult, $10 age 62 and over. If no snow, a moderate hike, location TBD. Confirm with leader. Fahnestock State Park, 1570 NY-301, Carmel. midhudsonadk.org/ outings-events-list.

11am-4pm Artists Choose Artists. Invitational Artists Choose Artists Show plus Members’ Group Exhibit. Opening reception Sat. Feb. 15, 3-6pm.

Longyear Gallery, 785 Main St., Margaretville.

Info: 845-586-3270, gfreund2@yahoo.com, longyeargallery.org.

11am-12:30pm Women’s Cancer Support Group for Women. Share common concerns and learn about living with cancer during and after treatment. Meets on the 3rd Fridays through 5/17, 11am-12:30pm. Info: 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.

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups. Soup and some stimulating conversations! New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

Info: 8456258087, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com.

12pm Celebrate the birthday of Mira Alfassa, known as The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. A noon meditation followed by a vegetarian lunch (please bring something to share).

At 2 pm, Julian Lines, will present a slide show giving an historical overview of Integral Yoga in the USA featuring a slew of personalities and institutions including Ram Dass, Michael Murphy and the Esalen Institute and Lindisfarne which were influential in America’s spiritual awakening and counterculture. Info: 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. matagiri.org.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Attunements and Chakra Attunements with Owl Medicine Woman, Mary Vukovic. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. Astrology Chart Readings available (by appointment).

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill

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ALMANAC WEEKLY

Feb. 20, 2020

NIGHT SKY

It’s stranger than you can imagine

I

s there a unity to all things? An inseparability?

A century ago, quantum mechanics answered “yes” to such inquiries. Experiments showed that particles of matter or light don’t independently exist except as probabilistic entities (whatever that means). The act of observation causes their mere probabilistic “wave function” to “collapse,” resulting in an object abruptly materializing as an actual entity in a real location.

With entanglement, two particles are born together and secretly share a wave function.

If one is observed, its wave function and that of its twin simultaneously collapse. Two items then materialize at the same moment. And they do so regardless of the distance between them.

Even if the twins are separated by half the diameter of the universe, says quantum mechanics, the observation of one twin will cause both to become actual entities. During this process no time will elapse, no matter their distance apart. It’s as if there’s no space between them. They’re essentially two sides of the same coin, and separation between them is nonexistent even if, to us, it’s half the width of the cosmos.

Einstein hated this because he believed in locality: that an object can only be acted upon by something that’s right there in its neighborhood – meaning, a leaf in Saugerties could be stirred by a gust of wind, but it can’t be jostled by the air disturbances generated by a lively peasant revolt on a planet in the Andromeda galaxy.

In 1935, Einstein and two colleagues, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, wrote a now-famous paper in which they addressed this aspect of quantum theory. Examining the prediction that particles created together (“entangled”) can somehow know what the other is doing, the physicists argued that any such parallel behavior must be due to local effects, some contamination of the experiment, rather than some sort of “spooky action at a distance.” That “spooky action” line, often quoted for decades to come, was a putdown of this ridiculous idea that – on some fundamental level – there could be no space between objects, or no time lapse between events.

A lot hinged on this. That pre-World War II period was a pivotal time between clinging to classical deterministic physics that accepted “locality,” as Einstein insisted on doing, versus traversing the strange blurry quantum alleyways that, ironically, Einstein had helped create with his 1905 explanation of the photoelectric effect.

The classical viewpoint says that physical objects are real, regardless of whether they are being observed. Moreover, unless they’re in contact, or emit something like photons that can create contact, or at least are caught up by some sort of influence via an electric or magnetic field or through gravitation, individual objects cannot influence each other.

And certainly they cannot if they are so widely separated that electromagnetic energy from one has not yet had enough time to reach the other. As for instantaneous influence involving no time at all, or influence that acts as if no intervening space exists between the objects: Forget about it, said Einstein and his colleagues.

But recent experiments, including additional ones from 2015, show that Einstein was wrong. Moreover, the “connectedness” implications of all this make perfect sense if the universe is actually a consciousness-based entity. If so, the matter-based, deadstupid-random cosmos long assumed by the physical sciences may have to be revised in a major way. The actual underlying basis of the cosmos may be something akin to life/consciousness/intelligence, which is all-pervasive and is unconstrained by space or time.

Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes,.

1pm-2pm Chair Yoga. A form of yoga practiced sitting on a chair, or standing using a chair for support. Please wear comfortable clothing.

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. Tile-based game at CCL! Clinton Community Library.

3pm-6pm Senator Jen Metzger’s 2020 Mobile Office Hours. Walk-ins are welcome and no appointment is necessary to meet with Senator Metzger’s staff. For questions about mobile office hours, call the Senator’s office at 845-344-3311 or e-mail metzger@nysenate.gov. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

5:30pm-7:30pm Book Release & Signing: The Last Negroes at Harvard. Written by local residents Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. An adventurous journey that took the authors from a film documentary short to a completed book that tells the “untold story of the Harvard class of 1963, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.” Info: 607-326-7908. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury.

6pm-8pm Land in Black Hands 2020. This annual conversation is for African Americans to explore black land access and economic development strategies in our communities. There is a 25-minute screening of the 2019 “Land in Black Hands” panel highlights. Then, the discussion continues with ownership/sovereignty, black-led food/agricultural cooperatives, challenges, victories and resources. Refreshments will be served.

Clinton Avenue United Methodist Church, 122 Clinton Avenue, Kingston. facebook.com/ events/481121325919561. Free.

6pm-9pm Homeopathy for Emergencies: Three-Hour Hands-On Workshop with Kristine Flones. Learn how to respond quickly and adeptly with homeopathic remedies at those critical times when you need them quickly. We will focus on how to choose a remedy, establish

correct potency and frequency and learn the chief remedies essential for a home emergency kit for yourself, your family, pets and even your plants and gardens. Bring a pen and notepad.

Kristine will be available for private consultations at Mirabai on 2/23. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30.

6pm-7:30pm Kabbalat Shabbat Services.

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

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 Book Signing: Downriver: A Tale of Moving Pictures Before Hollywood. A new novel

by Evan Anderson set during cinema’s early days.

Barnes and Noble, 177 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

7pm-10pm Hudson Valley Queer Youth Project Presents Teen Night. Meets on the 3rd Friday of each month from 7-10pm. Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter. org.

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.

8pm Marist Theatre Presents: Chicago.

Tickets: boxofficemccta@gmail.com. Marist College-Nelly Goletti Theatre, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie. $12 General Admission, $6 Students/Seniors/Military.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Quinn Sullivan Band.

A blues player of jaw-dropping virtuosity. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Dire Wolf. Honoring the legacy of Jerry Garcia and the music of the Grateful Dead - Dire Wolf goes beyond the standard cover band with original style and flair.

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

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

In 1935, Albert Einstein and two colleagues, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, wrote a now-famous paper in which they addressed one particular aspect of quantum theory.

Examining the prediction that particles created together (“entangled”) can somehow know what the other is doing, the physicists argued that any such parallel behavior must be due to local effects, some contamination of the experiment, rather than some sort of “spooky action at a distance.” But recent experiments, including additional ones from 2015, show that Einstein was wrong.

This view, expressed by numerous philosophers for millennia, lies at the core of Buddhism and Hinduism. In recent times it has been scientifically advocated in biocentrism and explained in the books I co-authored with Robert Lanza, which have now been published globally in so many editions and languages that I’m starting to believe it may actually catch on.

I guess it’s okay to mention all this once or twice a decade. Stay tuned for more about it sometime around 2025. Meanwhile, I promise to remain totally silent when our new third book on biocentrism is published later this year.

Update on Betelgeuse Here at the Willow Observatory, we keep monitoring the famous Orion shoulder star, both visually and spectroscopically. I hope you’re watching it too.

The past few weeks it has been steady but dim, exactly matching the brightness of Bellatrix, which marks Orion’s other shoulder – meaning it has displayed a magnitude of 1.6. But last Friday, February 14, it seemed ever-so-slightly brighter than Bellatrix.

Is this finally the turnaround? Keep watching it!

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

Sat

2/22

9:30am-11am Free Ukulele Program. A free 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. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org.

9:30am-10:30am Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point. Become a Citizen Scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the Visitor Center. Preregistration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor.

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, matthew.stgregorys@gmail.com. free.

10am-2pm Fly Tying Class at Phoenicia Fish & Game. 4 week class to teach basic fly tying skills. Call Hank Rope 845-254-5904 to register.

Phoenicia Fish and Game Association, 5419 State Route 28, Mount Tremper. phoenicialibrary.org.

10am-1pm Tracking Snowshoe Hike along Mossy Glen at Minnewaska. Approximately four-mile hike. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area. Pre-registration is required by calling 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10:30am-1:30pm Monthly Computer Fixer.

Our computer fixer will be available to answer technical questions in 15 minute increments.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary.org.

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

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 4th Annual Black History Month at The Lace Mill Art Exhibit. Features works reflecting African- American culture and history.

Info: 347-387-6874; jwcornbroom@gmail.com.

Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

12pm Food Seminar: Pizza Crust. With Teresa Morgan, 825 Main Sauces. So many choices of pizza crust. Come taste your favorites with 825 Main sauces. Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

12:30pm-6:45pm Tarot Readings and Expert Palmistry Every Saturday with Stephanie.

Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30minutes.

12:30pm Music on Market presents New Children Series - Not Just For Kids. Free. Ellenville Public Library & Museum, 40 Center St, Ellenville.

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

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.

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

1pm-3pm Tea and Tarot. Intuitive and accurate readings, 1-3pm Saturday and Sunday. Call 845-750-4169 or drop in. 7 Maple Lane, Woodstock.

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.

1pm-3pm Scrabble at the Library. Held each Saturday in the Art Books Room. Come play with old friends or come play and make new friends!

Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock.

1pm-2pm Author Talk: Paranormal Activity in

14 The Hudson Valley. Dr. CS Matthews has studied paranormal experiences and reports for over 4 decades. She will present on her book: Mysterious Beauty. Q & A to follow. For adults. Happens in the East Room. Refreshments will be available. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Free.

1pm-2pm Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point.

Become a Citizen Scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the 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.

1pm-2pm Author Talk: The Catskills in the Ice Age. Authors Robert & Johanna Titus will be here to talk about their book. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary.org.

1pm Garden Seminar: Pollinators. With John Benzinger, Garden Center. Info: 845-336-6300.

Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

1pm Seminar: Sustainable Beekeeping. With Dennis Remsberger, Remsberger Honey. Learn about sustainable beekeeping. Info: 845-4544330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

1pm-4pm UU Catskills’ Go Musical Talent!

Features performances by members of the Congregation. A fundraising event for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills. The Sanctuary at UUCC, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston. Info: 845 331-2884.

Refreshments $1 to $3.

2pm-5pm Opening Reception: Ties That Bind.

See over 100 quilted story vignettes made from antique mens’ silk ties on exhibit. Created by Wendy Brackman and “The Catskilled Crafters”.

The Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St., Pine Hill. Info: 845-254-5469, gfreund2@yahoo. com, pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

2pm-5pm Marist Theatre Presents: Chicago.

Tickets: boxofficemccta@gmail.com. Marist College-Nelly Goletti Theatre, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie. $12 General Admission, $6 Students/Seniors/Military.

2pm-3:30pm Lecture: ‘Idylls of the Imagination: American Landscape Painting and the Shape of Memory’. Author Raymond Frizwell traces the history of landscape painting as it slowly evolved in the United States. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. Info: 338-0071, info@hrmm.org, hrmm.org.

Members Free; General Public $5.

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-5pm Into the Frog Swamp: Jungian Conceptions of the Unconscious in Practice.

Michael Monhart explores some central ideas in Jungian psychology and how they manifest in both a clinical and personal context. Info & reg: eventbrite.com/e/into-the-frog-swamp-jungianconceptions-of-the-unconscious-in-practice-tickets-88174445139. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. $25-$45.

3pm-5pm Presenting American Fever & Discussing the Covid-19 Coronavirus. Author Peter Christian Hall presents American Fever: A Tale of Romance & Pestilence and discusses the perils of Covid-19 coronavirus. The Golden Notebook Bookstore, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Info: (845) 679-8000, pchcontact@yahoo.com, bit.ly/2SNbnNj. Free.

3pm Food Seminar: Coffee 101. With Jimmy Topaltzas, Chris’ Coffee. Coffee basics and sampling. Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

5:30pm The Mid-Hudson Misfits Roller Derby’s Annual Cupid Scuffle. There will be raffle baskets and a 50/50. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Mid-Hudson Misfits’ scholarship fund. For the first time, the event will also include a junior’s scrimmage for skaters under 18.

An after party will be hosted at Hot Shotz Pub & Grill in Kerhonkson. Skate Time 209, 5164 Rt. 209, Accord.

6pm-7:30pm Saugerties Film Society Honoring Black History Month. Jump at the Sun, a doc directed by Sam Pollard, 2008, 85 mins., about author Zora Neale Hurston who wrote, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. free.

6pm-8pm Mighty Times: The Children’s March. 2004 documentary about the 1960s Birmingham AL civil rights marches highlighting young activists in the Children’s Crusade, plus discussion. A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library, 43 Gill St, Kingston. Info: 845 802-0035, africanrootslibrary@outlook.com, bit.ly/2OjPOTa. 6pm-8pm A Mid-Winter Fireside Concert: Grand Piano Trios-Schubert and Brahms.

Two enduring treasures lift us into the realm of the transcendent: Schubert’s Trio in B flat Major and Brahms’ in in B Major. Saint James Place, 352 Main Street, Great Barrington. Info: 8008430778, cewmusic@aol.com, cewm.org. $52.

ALMANAC WEEKLY

Feb. 20, 2020

NATURE

WINGS OF DESIRE OSI’s Campaign for Minnewaska Visitor Center hopes that you will sponsor a personalized bird tile

M

ajor change is afoot at the end of the winding road that leads up from Route 44/55 to the top of the cliff that overlooks Lake Minnewaska. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is installing a new septic system and burying utility lines underground; the parking lots are being radically reconfigured and landscaped; and, very near the footprint of the grand old Wildmere Hotel that burned down in 1986, a new four-season $6.1 million, 5,421-squarefoot visitors’ center will soon rise, with completion slated for fall 2020.

The 24,000-acre Minnewaska State Park Preserve draws nearly half a million visitors annually and is widely regarded as one of the most spectacular destinations in the state parks system, home to a rare dwarf pitch-pine ecosystem in the Sam’s Point Area, along with 35 miles of carriage roads, 50 miles of trails, four pristine sky lakes and numerous waterfalls. Old-timers who have been visiting Minnewaska since the park’s founding – and perhaps even before that, when it was a privately owned resort, established by the same Smiley twins who founded Mohonk Mountain House and taken over in 1955 by the late Kenneth B. Phillips, Sr. – still lament the days when there was a building near the lake where you could thaw out after cross-country skiing, or use a flush toilet and wash your hands, or obtain snacks and drinks.

That’s about to change. Once complete, the Minnewaska Visitor Center will offer a welcome/information desk to help visitors explore the park’s expansive trail network and other features; drinking water stations and public restrooms; a warming hearth to complement the use of the park during cold months; an outdoor patio overlooking Lake Minnewaska, where visitors can take in the park’s dramatic views; and a classroom for education and interpretive programs.

The new building is part of a $28.2 million public/private investment in Minnewaska State Park Preserve under Governor Cuomo’s NY Parks 2020 initiative, which includes $21.2 million in state funding. When the multiyear project, currently underway, is complete it will include the restoration of more than 21 miles of carriage roads, creation of the Shawangunk Gateway campground, a reconfigured main entrance on Route 44/55 to relieve traffic backups, improved parking areas, new walkways, public drinking water, new self-composting restrooms and other site improvements.

Here’s where the public/private part comes in, and how you can contribute: The Open Space Institute (OSI) has raised $2.5 million and is launching a public campaign to raise the final $500,000 toward the project, matching the state’s contribution of $3.1 million. OSI’s involvement has already been crucial to improvements to the park; a recent example is the $1.9 million restoration of a 4.5-mile stretch of the Smiley Carriageway, which used to carry hotel guests up to Cliff House and Wildmere from Ellenville – literally via horse-drawn carriage – back in the early days of the resort. The section of trail that was refurbished in 2019 begins behind the old ranger station opposite the swimming beach on Lake Awosting and leads westward past the trailhead for the Stony Kill Carriage Road, which affords access to the top of Stony Kill Falls. It also connects with the Upper Mine Hole segment of the Long Path, filling in a missing link in the 358-mile trail network that enables hikers to walk from New York City to the Capital District.

Now OSI has announced the public phase of its campaign to match state resources in the building of the new Minnewaska Visitor Center. The fundraising effort focuses on features that will transform the visitor experience and expand access to and appreciation of the park for all audiences, including state-of-the art interactive exhibits highlighting the park’s geology, natural history, cultural significance and conservation. “From the park’s establishment, when those who loved its precious sky lakes, cliffs and historic carriage roads rallied to ensure its protection, it has needed a central welcoming location,” says campaign co-chair Jim Ottaway. “By participating in OSI’s forward-thinking campaign, we can ensure that future visitors to the park understand and care for its treasures.”

One way to participate, and to honor or memorialize a loved one or celebrate hiking excursions, engagements and other fond memories of the park, is to sponsor a window tile in an exhibit depicting one of the “Birds of Minnewaska.” Each window tile will feature a full-color five-by-four-inch songbird ($500 level) or ten-by-four-inch raptor ($1,000 level) and will include a personalized dedication or other inscription.

The Birds of Minnewaska window tiles are available for sponsorship through OSI’s website at www.openspaceinstitute.org/minnewaskabirds. For more information about the campaign, including other ways to donate, visit www.minnewaskavisitorcenter.org.

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7pm-10pm Vinnie Martucci Trio. Vinnie Martucci – piano, Rich Syracuse – bass, Jeff Siegel – drums. Great Jazz, excellent food, nice vibe.

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

7pm-9pm Shadow Performance Art Sponsored

by Unison Arts and Arts Mid-Hudson. Cave Dogs creates an interdisciplinary, multi-sensory performance. Opening performance by Kingston High School Students. SUNY New Paltz/McKenna

Theater, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, ally@ unisonarts.org, bit.ly/2v7KnQ8. 15-May. 7pm-8pm Latin Dance for Everyone. Meets every Saturday, 7-8pm. $5/suggested donation.

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

8pm Marist Theatre Presents: Chicago.

Tickets: boxofficemccta@gmail.com. Marist College-Nelly Goletti Theatre, 3399 North

Road, Poughkeepsie. $12 General Admission, $6 Students/Seniors/Military.

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premier listings Contact Donna at Donna.ulsterpublishing@gmail.com to be included Centering Prayer (Wednesdays, 5:30-7pm). Offering a space to take a break from the world’s noise, listen for something greater than ourselves and access a deeper wisdom. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

New Meeting: Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) Meeting. Similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, has been formed and will be meeting every Thursday, 6pm-7pm in the Conference Room @ The Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St Red Hook Info: EDAHudsonValley@gmail.com.

Ulster County Master Gardeners’ Spring Seedling Sale. Perennials, Peach Trees and More. The deadline for orders is March 13, 2020 but act now so you won’t be disappointed.

2020 Pick-up dates: Thursday April 30, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday May 1, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday May 2, 2019, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pick-up your order at Cornell Cooperative Extension Office, Kingston. See details: ulster.cce.cornell. edu/2020seedlingsale.

The 21st Annual Spring Garden Day - 2020 Garden Vision. April 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Features 16 classes and a keynote address by Dr. Margaret Ronsheim, Professor of Biology at Vassar College. Dr. Ronsheim will focus on the history and evolution of the gardens at Vassar that were first planted in 1919 to study

ecosystems. Dig your hands into topics that will have you looking at your 2020 garden with fresh eyes and a “can do” attitude. Pre-registration is highly recommended as classes fill up fast. For complete details and registration visit ulster.cce.cornell.edu/ GardenDay2020. The cost for the day is $50 in advance; $55 at the door. A catered lunch is available and must be purchased upon registering, or you can bring your own. Info: 845-340-3990 x335 or email dm282@cornell.edu.

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Signing with Comic Writer Christopher Hastings (Every Wednesday, 4-7pm). October Country Comics, 246 Main St #15, New Paltz. Info: octobercountrycomics.com.

Sign-Up Now! Intuitive Imagination Workshop (through2/20). Develop & practice it safely? Boughton Place, Highland. Info: class@intuitionuse. com; BeYourOwnPsychic.org; Facebook@BYOP.TWAI; EtaoquaMahicanu@Etaoqua.

Trivia Sing-A-Long with Michael Dell (Every Wednesday, 6-9pm ).

Food, drinks, music & trivia! For reservations, call 845-334-2828 or text Dino at 845-332-6189. Vigneto Cafe Restaurant, 80 Vineyard Ave, Highland.

Live @ Lydia’s Cafe. Info: 845-6876373; lydias-cafe.com. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209 Stone Ridge.

Create Your Life/ Create Your Year Workshops (2/23 & 2/29). Discover what you really want and how to get it with Certified life coach Linda Freeman. Held in Newburgh on February 23 Part I and March 1 Part II in Newburgh; & February 29 Part I and March 14 Part II in Red Hook. Visit createyourlifeworkshops.com for more

Music on Market (2/22, 12:30pm).

New Children’s Series “Not Just for Kids!” Ellenville Public Library, 40 Center St, Ellenville. Free admission.

Call for Event Submissions - WHMK. Submit an event for March 2020 now through February 10 online at WHMK. org to join our community collaboration, celebrating Women’s History.

Info: whmkingston@gmail.com. For details log onto whmk.org/.

SongClub with Debbie Lan. Learn a song, harmonize, make a video! A drop in singing event where the Audience is the Choir. $10 fee at the door, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. MaMA, Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge.

Info: 845-853-5154, cometomama.org/ event/the-daily-flame-listening-to-thevoice-of-our-inner-wisdom-a-booktalk-with-lissa-rankin-md/.

Meeting Notice: Overeaters Anonymous. Meets on Wednesdays, 10-11am at Woodstock Reformed Church on the Village Green. For more info go to midhudsonoa.org. Enter door in back by parking lot.

case for wedding planners, florists, travel experts, photographers, makeup artists, florists, and more! Snow date is March 1st. Surf Club on the Sound, 280 Davenport Ave, New Rochelle. Info: 914.345.0601, westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/Unveiled/Homepage. Free for brides & grooms, guest tickets $10.

12:55pm-4pm Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake.

Tchaikovsky’s essential masterpiece broadcast live from the Bolshoi Theatre to cinema screens.

The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton.

Info: 518-789-0022, events@themoviehouse. net, themoviehouse.net. General $21 / Gold Members $16.

10:30am-11:30am Jazzberwocky Sunday.

Featuring special Jazz guests and The Jabberwocky. Everyone welcome. Info: 845-246-2867.

Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St, Saugerties.

1pm-3pm Tea and Tarot. Intuitive and accurate readings, 1-3pm Saturday and Sunday. Call 845-750-4169 or drop in. 7 Maple Lane, Woodstock.

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-2pm Sunday Brunch @ the Falcon: Saints of Swing. Swing, standards & more!

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

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-6pm Private Consultations with Homeopath, Kristine Flones. These private sessions provide an opportunity to specifically address chronic and acute physical issues and recurring emotional responses that affect you, a family member or a pet. Homeopathic interviews are concerned with grasping the whole picture—the totality of symptoms—in order to find the most effective remedy to bring balance when and where it is needed. $75/1 hour, $40/30 minutes. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

12pm-4pm 4th Annual Black History Month at The Lace Mill Art Exhibit. Features works reflecting African- American culture and history.

Info: 347-387-6874; jwcornbroom@gmail.com.

Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

12pm Food Seminar: Shrimp Alfredo. With Doug Proto, Adams Seafood. Quick, creamy alfredo with sautéed shrimp. Info: 845-632-9955.

Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

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 Voyager Tarot and Psychic Readings with Sarvananda. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/ one hour, $30/30minutes.

1pm-2pm Pets Alive Kids Team. Humane education for all ages. We will start the afternoon off with the reading of Max Talks to Me, then a craft activity will follow. Glen Arden, 214 Harriman Dr, Goshen. Info: 845-386-9738, info@petsalive. org, petsalive.org. Free event but please register.

1pm-4:30pm Create Your Life/Create Your Year Workshop. Discover what you really want & how to get it. How do you make your life the best life ever? 7-Hour course over two Sundays. Union Church Fellowship Hall Upstairs Studio, 44 Old Balmville Rd, Newburgh. Info: 845-236-3939, linda@createyourlifeworkshops.com, createyourlifeworkshops.com. per workshop day or combo discount see website for details.

1pm Food Seminar: Canning. With Bobby Watzka, Adams Garden Center. Info: 845-3366300. Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

1pm Food Seminar: Healthy Eating and Cooking Demo. With Sue Knapp, The Pines at Poughkeepsie. Join chef Sue Knapp as she demonstrates healthy eating and cooking options. Info: 845-454-4330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

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.

Club Mahjong. Whether you are new to the game, or a seasoned player, there’s a seat at the table for you! Every Monday, 1-4pm at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation. For more information contact Heather at MJCRobinson1010@gmail.com; or text 914-388-3577.

City of Kingston Arts Commission Accepting Nominations for Distinguished Artist Award. Nominees must be Kingston residents for at least two years. Artists in any discipline may be nominated: music, theatre, dance, literary, visual, or media arts.

A small stipend will be provided to the awardee and additional funding may be available for a programming budget.

Submission forms can be found at kingston-ny.gov/ArtsCommission and must include a one-page narrative that highlights the nominee’s qualifications.

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.

Volunteer Drivers Needed To Transport Cancer Patients to Treatment.

The American Cancer Society needs individuals who can volunteer one

members.

2pm-5pm Marist Theatre Presents: Chicago.

Tickets: boxofficemccta@gmail.com. Marist College-Nelly Goletti Theatre, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie. $12 General Admission, $6 Students/Seniors/Military.

2pm NTL Presents A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Shakespeare’s most famous romantic comedy captured live from London. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-6588989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $12.

2pm Thomas Cole National Historic Site: The “Sunday Salons”. Elizabeth W. Hutchinson, Associate Professor of American Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, will discuss the complex meaning of Native Americans in Cole’s art. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole.org.

2pm-3:30pm Breath-Centered Sound Meditation with Josh Geisler. A series of breath awareness exercises followed by breath and sound meditation accompanied by traditional wind instruments. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20.

3pm-4:30pm Billy Martin Circus. Big Fun News! The circus is coming to town! $15 in advance; $20 at the door kids 12 years and younger free with an adult ticket. Two kids per adult ticket limit. Info: 845-255-1234; npzcircus@gmail.com. New Paltz High School, 130 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz.

3pm The Mid-Hudson Classical Guitar Society Pops Concert Theme Program. Members of the society perform popular works from film, the American song book and more. Info: midhudsoncgs@gmail.com. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff. mhcgs.blogspot.com. $10.

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

3pm-5pm Black History Month Celebration.

Join us as we come together as a community to celebrate Black History Month and Newburgh’s youth. Historic Green Room, 111 Broadway, Newburgh. safe-harbors.org.

2pm-4pm The Ecstatic Spoken Word. A poetry, meditation and yoga workshop with Eric Archer.

Open to those with any level of yoga or writing experience. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St (Rt 299), New Paltz.

Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed. com, thelivingseed.com. $30 drop-in, free for

3pm-6pm Olive Fire Department’s 10th Annual Brooks BBQ. Drive-thru chicken or rib dinners. Support your local Fire Department. All proceeds go to the Olive Fire Department to help restore the original 1936 Fire Truck of the town of Olive. Call to reserve your tickets now! Event cost: $12 – $15. Info: 845-657-2261; olivefire@

hour at least once a month to drive a cancer patient to a local cancer center in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, 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.

yahoo.com. Shokan Fire House, 3064 Route 28, Shokan. oliveusarestoration.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.

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.

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

8pm Live @ The Falcon: The Don Byron Quartet. Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, redefining every genre. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

9:30pm Mid-HudsonADK: Undivided Lot Trail End to End. Hike, spikes or snowshoes, 8 moderately strenuous miles, New Paltz area. Day pass $15 or free with yearly pass or free pass from local library. Leader: Roberta Forest 845-7507059. Meet at West Trapps Parking Lot. Rain or snow will cancel. Confirm with leader. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/outings-events-list.

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Fully Renovated Professional Office (5 rooms), handicap access- ideal for doctor, attorney, therapist, healing arts. Located in Denver N.Y. between Margaretville and Roxbury NY. In addition, lovely 2-bedroom apartment on second floor. Office formally used for a full-time counseling practice on first floor and Air BnB rental in the apartment upstairs. $1900/month plus heat and utilities. Call Deborah Frame 607-326-2893.

Store Front For Rent. Main Street, Pine Hill.

300 sq. ft. $400 per month. 917-418-4793

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Party Planning/ Catering

POTTIE FOR YOUR PARTY! HAVING A PARTY? TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly Rentals. We have Gray, White, Blue, Tan, Green (pine-scented), Pink (rose-scented), Red & Blue Handicap Accessible. (We also have a few w/sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street 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

380Â

Garage/ Workspace/ Storage

1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481

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Highland/ Clintondale Rentals

HIGHLAND: LARGE 1-BEDROOM END UNIT, heat & hot water included. $1025/ month for upper unit or $990/month for lower unit. Private, quiet neighborhood.

Private parking. Next to Highland Town Hall/Court on Church Street, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to SUNY New Paltz, Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. No pets. 845453-0047.

HIGHLAND: 2-BEDROOM second floor end unit. Heat & hot water included. $1190/ month. Separate entrance. Carpeted. Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking.

Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. 845-453-0047.

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1-BEDROOM in Private home. Mature, responsible person. Washer/dryer, Kitchen & bathroom privileges. Available immediately.

Near Rail Trail, bus station & campus.

Smoke-free environment. Call 917-9920702.

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, HUNTER, NEW YORK Scribner Hollow is located on Hunter Mountain and has the most fabulous view of the Ski slopes. This 3 bedroom, 1 ½ bath condo is less than one mile away from the snow making capital of the world. The mountain also hosts The Country Music festival, Oktoberfest’s, Beer and Wine tasting among many other events. Enjoy the built-in pool in the summer, a spa at the main lodge and dining at Prospect Restaurant and bar. The lodge has oor to ceiling windows and a huge circular bar with cast iron stoves for a real cozy mountain feeling. Listing by Karen Stanbrook and Siobhan Scanlan. ...............$149,000 RE PRIC DU E CTI ON !

WINDHAM, NEW YORK INVESTORS DELIGHT! Hotel Vienna Consisting of 29 chalet style rooms, a studio and onebedroom apartment.

Each guest room is equipped with energy efďŹ cient electric heating and cooling units. Alongside this completely TURNKEY BUSINESS there is an impeccable log cabin for owners or management. These 3 beds and 3 baths custom built log cabin boasts three levels of living space totaling 3,164 sq. ft. Enjoy many activities such as golďŹ ng, mountain biking, skiing, hiking, hunting and ďŹ shing. Outdoor lover’s dream! Listing by Nyasa Hoyte. .............................$3,199,000

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THE SNYDER FARM! SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK Multi-generation farmland ďŹ rst time offered for sale. This property, with land on two sides of Route 212, with sweeping views was selected for write up by National Geographic Magazine. Great Farmhouse on one side of the road with ďŹ elds and level land with a stream and small Apartment.

Stone House waiting for restoration projects and multiple barns and outbuildings await next owners’ imagination. “Snyder Hillâ€? has been the sleighing delight of children for years. Please contact Building Department for information regarding speciďŹ c uses.

Listing by Blanca Aponte. ............$975,000

SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK For the ďŹ rst time on the market since 1990...

This fabulous property also includes a separate building parcel. Appointed with a Chef’s kitchen, ample cabinets, central island, pantry, concrete counter tops and a spacious breakfast nook.

A formal dining room, living room with stone ďŹ replace, family room with French doors leading to a screened in enclosed porch, a half bath and an efďŹ cient laundry room complete the ďŹ rst oor with wood oors throughout. Upstairs, you’ll ďŹ nd an enormous master bedroom with walk in closet and a beautiful master bath, 2 guest bedrooms, full bath and an additional room used for extra guests. The outdoors are divine with beautiful landscaping and even a pond at the forefront of the property.

Listing by Nadina Truini and Sylvie Ross ................................................... $479,000

CATSKILL, NEW YORK Lovely 3-bedroom Ranch on 4 private acres. There are vaulted ceilings and skylights in the kitchen and living room with tile and hard wood oors throughout.

Kitchen and bath are nicely updated.

There is electric heat accompanied by a wood stove that can heat the whole house. Also, has a heated garage. Close to skiing and swimming. Great vacation home. Listing by Angela Galetto & Alan Kessler................................$169,900

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 GLE ROOMS LEFT. SHARE BATHROOM AND SMALL KITCHEN $625/ROOM/ MONTH. E-MAIL: DIETZRENTALS@ HVC.RR.COM FOR MORE INFO AND APPT. TO SEE. LEASE STARTS MAY 26.

SUBLETTING PERMITTED.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more! “Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!�

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

NEW PALTZ GARDENS APARTMENTS

21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts.

Pets welcome! No security deposit option.

3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.

845-255-6171 ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $600/month plus security.

Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. Available end of February. 845664-0493.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for SPRING 2020 and Short-Term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town.

845-255-7205.

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

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Halter Associates Realty Welcomes Brian Cafferty Brian is a lifelong resident of Ulster County with over 30 years of experience in the Marketing, Advertising and Sales industry. For the past 14 years, he has successfully assisted many buyer and seller clients achieve their goal of home ownership and sales. His background in building and development and years as a local town councilman have provided a unique knowledge base and skill set to assist both the buyers and sellers of real estate in Ulster County.

In addition, he offers more than 30 years of civic involvement in the areas of environmental advocacy, historic preservation and music & arts promotion. This has helped him both market his seller’s listings and has assisted his buyers in ďŹ nding the communities that best suit the quality of life they are seeking. A local history buff, Brian truly believes to know an area’s history Is the ďŹ rst step in making a lasting connection to a community.

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Esopus/Ulster Park Rentals

Large 2-Bedroom, 1 Bath Apartment in 2-family farmhouse in a quiet private neighborhood. Includes heat, electric, hot water, internet, cable with HBO and Showtime, private entrance, ceiling fans, trash removal, parking, storage area, gardening space.

Charming landscaped setting less than 20 minutes from Kingston, New Paltz and Poughkeepsie. $1470/month negotiable.

Perfect for 1 or 2 people. Dog and cat friendly with some restrictions. 1 month security.

No smoking. A complete rental application is required including background and credit check and a $20 application fee. 845-2554645.

520Â

Rentals Wanted

Single Individual w/Section Eight voucher Seeking 1-Bedroom, pet-friendly apartment (has one cat and one small dog) in Ulster County. Contact Dan at 255-2673.

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For Sale

KUBOTA TRACTOR B1550HST. Hydrostatic transmission, front end loader, midmount rotary mower, 2WD/4WD, turf tires, rear and midmount PTO. Very good working condition. $6700. 845-616-0710. springtown@netstep.net.

2017 Branson 4520R Tractor plus Backhoe, 300 hr. excellent condition, 1-yr manufacturer’s warranty, $24,000 or best offer.

Call 845-246-5650

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Portable Toilet Rentals

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Portable Toilet Rentals 845-658-8766 | 845-417-6461 | 845-706-7197

TLKportables@gmail.com tlkportables.com

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Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

FULLY INSURED

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING

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

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Firewood for Sale

SEASONED HARDWOOD FOR SALE. $150 a cord cut & split 16� length. You pick up- will need vehicle. 845-688-7463.

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Hunting/Fishing Sporting Goods

GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you.

Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 90 Dug Hill Rd., Hurley, NY. 914388-9286

620Â

Buy & Swap

BOTTOM LINE... HIGHEST PRICES PAID For old furniture through the 1960s & ANTIQUES of every description: Paintings, Lamps, Silver, Rugs, Pottery, China, Asian items, etc. One item-Entire Estates. Housecalls. Free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques. 35+ years in business. Call/text 845389-7286.

650Â

Antiques & Collectibles

PHOENICIA ARTS & ANTIQUES, 41 Main St.,Phoenicia, 845-688-0021. Friday-Monday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Jewelry, art gallery, clothing, blown glass, honey, mid-century and antiques. New Children’s Clothing Section.

695Â

Professional Services

*Jessica Rice*; Beautiful Images Hair Salon, 123 Boices Lane, Kingston. Hair- 845383-1852; www.beautifulimageshairsalon. com Makeup- 845-309-6860; www.jessicamitzi.com

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WALKABLE WOODSTOCK - No car necessary!

You can walk to all the shops, restaurants and services of vibrant Woodstock village from this super sweet Mid-Century era cottage on a quiet in-town street. Add your own personal taste and style to this charming 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home featuring a cozy stone fireplace, breezy screened porch, gleaming parquet floors, separate storage building and garden friendly yard. ................................................ $348,000

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PRETTY & PRACTICAL

Custom designed, this immaculate farmhouse was built to let the Catskills’ light shine throughout. The detached two car garage has space for a studio, guest or work space above.

Every detail in this home will enhance your Woodstock lifestyle. Woodstock $775,000

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Soothing views of the distinct lush landscape at every turn thru walls of glass. Features vaulted ceilings, rich wood floors, open plan LR/DR & gourmet kitchen with cozy woodburner, full floor ensuite MBR with nursery/office & deck.

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BEAUTIFUL ULSTER HOME PRICE REDUCED

Located in the town of Ulster is this 3 BR, 1 1/2 bath split level on a corner lot. Bright and open with living room flowing to the dining and gorgeous kitchen off to the right. Breakfast island separates the rooms and provides a wonderful open floor concept. Kitchen has beautiful cabinetry along with subway tiles back splash, newer appliances pendant lighting even has LED lighting underneath the cabinetry. Upstairs has 3 BRs & a full bath with ceramic tiled floor, newer vanity and that wow factor. Downstairs is the family room that has a lot of open space with could be used for a gym, media room, playroom or whatever your heart desires.

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M Move right into this 4 bdrm beauty situated on a quarter acre. The roof is new, all interior rooms q have been recently painted, new carpet, and h newly polished wood floors. Maintenance free n vvinyl sided exterior with freshly painted covered breezeway porch makes this home worry free from repairs and the concrete steps have been reconditioned. There is also a covered porch for easy driveway entrance leading right into the kitchen. This home is heated with a new Navien on demand hot water system and never a water issue with a 200’ drilled well with a 5 yr old well pump.

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C Come take a look at this large split level with vaulted ceilings. Open concept kitchen, dining v area with breakfast bar, that flows nicely into the a living room with cozy wood burning stove. Up just liv a couple stairs is where you will find 3 ample sized bedrooms with hardwood floors and a large full bath. Full finished family room with walkout on the lower level, great area for entertaining guests.

Sliders off the dining area leads you to a deck that overlooks your private backyard just waiting for your green thumb.

ADORABLE COUNTRY COTTAGE T This quaint 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom home is just perfect for weekend visits! Imagine cu cuddling up near the wood stove, reading a book in that charming loft or soaking up the sunshine in the garden out back!

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CONVENIENT AND COUNTRY This lovingly maintained ranch home is just minutes to SUNY. Freshly painted, newly finished floors, squeaky clean inside and out. This home is move in ready, featuring a Florida room with vaulted ceilings and skylights opening onto a spacious backyard landscaped with beautiful perennial gardens.

New roof, black top, landscaping, oil tank, dishwasher, refrigerator, washer/dryer, well pump and gutters. Rare Opportunity at this price point! .............. Asking $234,000

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

Gardiner Gables 2356 Rte. 44-55 Gardiner, NY 12525

www.coluccishandrealty.com

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Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253.

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SPORT OF IRON FITNESS- A Culture of Strength. NOW OFFERING $35/MONTH OPEN GYM. *State of the Art Strength Training Equipment* *Powerlifting, Strongman, Olympic Lifting Equipped* *9000 sq.ft. facility including 1400 sq.ft. of turf.

Group Training Sessions - Registered Dietician - Youth Programs - Personal Training.

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HOUSE CLEANING for a tidy sum. 845658-2073.

Residential, Commercial, Rentals Cleaning. SPECIAL FOR SENIORS: basic clean 2-bedroom/1 bath- $60. All services offered.

Green/all natural supplies. Flexible schedule. 7 day service. Insured. Free estimates.

845-235-6701.

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

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Woodstock 845.684.0304 www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

BRING YOUR BUSINESS HERE!

This unique building with 5800 sq. ft. is located just minutes from Woodstock and Saugerties and the NYS Thruway.

The first floor has almost 3,000 sq. ft. of open space plus private offices & reception area. 2nd floor has a one bedroom apartment with separate entrance and large storage area. An additional 3 bedroom residence sits privately behind the commercial building and brings in a monthly income. Call for additional features and possible occupancies. ...........................$689,000 Brenda Jean Graf, Lic. R.E. Salesperson, 845-389-7061. outs. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

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Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253 QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980 • Int. & Ext. Painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 Visit my website: Haberwash.com www.facebook.com/Haberwash House & Estate Cleanouts, Junk Removal, Dump Runs. Helping homeowners, realtors and property managers for 20 years. One call, it’s gone! Senior & disabled discounts.

845-247-7365. GarysHauling.com

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Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

• Free Estimates

Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc. www.stoneridgeelectric.com

Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com

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

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Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

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Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Gary Buckendorf

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

Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured.

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

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

Call Dave 845-514-6503- mobile.

917-593-5069

FINE HOUSE PAINTING — 15 Years experience —

Free estimates • Reasonable rates

PABLO SHINE

845-532-6587 • pabloshine@gmail.com

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EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean-

English Handyman , mature, friendly, experienced, reliable, educated. Painting, woodwork, repairs, etc. Also maintenance, management and pre-sale consultation. Quick response 917-3642157 .

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Adoptions

Clea, petite tuxedo mama cat, under 2-yrs. old, gave birth to 4 glorious kittens on 12/2/19.

When the kittens are 9-weeks old they’ll be ready to go to their forever homes. Would you like yours to be one of them? If yes, please contact 917-282-2018 (text or phone). Please leave full name, phone number w/area code & any questions you have about the adoptions, or email DRJLPK@aol.com w/full name & any questions you have about the adoption. Who is available for adoption? Mama CLEA, MIDNIGHT, the only boy, is all black, GERRI; tuxedo kitten girl, MONDAY; gray tabby kitten girl w/snowy white feet & RANDI; gray tabby kitten girl. This family is in Shokan.

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Look who’s being cared for at Saugerties Animal Shelter! We have such loving adult cats & kittens just waiting to become part of

your family. SMOKEY; 8-year old tiger cat boy, very handsome & so sweet. His sister, KELLY, medium hair calico, is also so sweet.

Their Dad passed away & their Mom is leaving to live w/her children in another state.

How wonderful it would be to give Smokey & Kelly a loving home together! ZAHAB; 3-yr. old buff orange neutered cat boy & super affectionate. PAULOWNIA; affectionate black kitten girl, 10-11 months old. LITTLE GIRL; petite black female cat girl, 7-years old & super sweet. She lived in the streets but now wants the easy life. How happy she’d be in a safe, loving home! BOB is a Pixie Bob. Bob is a very big brown tiger boy who’s as sweet as he is big! Bob needs lots of room & maybe daily walks on a harness. MISHU; 10-year old orange medium hair kitty. He’s been at the shelter the longest of all the animals. Mishu needs to be the only pet. That means Mishu would love only you! Remember: two kittens aren’t twice as much fun as one kitten; they are 10 times the fun! Also- They’ll always have each other as company. And- You’ll receive twice the love! If you’re interested in adopting a kitten, this is a perfect time to meet the adorable, lively kittens at Saugerties Animal Shelter. Kitten season is almost all year long!! We have lots of young & teenage kittens. Teenage kittens are between 10-14 months old. That time-frame can vary as each kitten is an individual. These are the DOGS at Saugerties Animal Shelter. Please come meet them and see who could be your new love. MOLLY; super sweet 7-year old Pittie Lab girl, spayed & good w/larger dogs but no cats, please. Molly’s tail never stops wagging! LILY; sweet, shy, 4-yr. old Pittie mix girl who is tan & white brindle & needs a quiet home. CHARLOTTE; Brindle Pittie mix girl who loves people. Children will enjoy growing up w/Charlotte. Charlotte needs to be your only pet. COURTESY POSTING: ROCKY; very sweet Sheltie/Border Collie mix boy. Rocky can be found at Ulster County Canines where he’s available for adoption. Saugerties Animal Shelter; located at 1765 Route 212 Saugerties, NY 12477 (behind the Saugerties Transfer Station).

(Closed Sunday & Monday). 845-679-0339.

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WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents.

The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at 347-258-2725.

L&M Pet Sitting Professional pet care visits for cats, dogs, birds, and other exotic species.

Lauren Storm & Michael Steeley (607) 431-3392 LnMpetsitting@gmail.com

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Vehicles Wanted

CASH PAID FOR USED cars & trucks regardless of condition. Junk cars removed.

Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for RFP-UC20-012 Architect and Engineering Services for the Relocation of Ulster County 911 will be received on or before Friday, March 20th, 2020 at 4:00 PM at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster. ny.us/purchasing.

Ed Jordan, Ulster County Director of Purchasing