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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Ca l en d a r & Cla ssif ied s | Issu e 7 | Feb. 1 3 – 20

One Billion Rising began as a call to action based on the staggering United Nations statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.

The 2/14/13 demonstration turned out to be the biggest mass action in human history, and it’s happening again throughout the Hudson Valley this Friday (p. 4-5)

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Guitar great Bucky Pizzarelli performs and exhibits his art at Ritz Theater

“An Evening of Music with Rachel Loshak and Morgan Taylor� will take place on Sunday, February 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts at 36 Tinker Street in Woodstock. The event is a benefit for Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley. Tickets cost $10 with advance purchase or $15 at the door. For tickets, visit www.ppaction.org/site/ calendar?id=109423&view=detail.

Poughkeepsie Galleria hosts German Heritage Day this Saturday Celebrate German culture in Poughkeepsie at the annual German Heritage Day held at the Poughkeepsie Galleria’s Center Court on Saturday, February 15 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. The Germania Men and Ladies’ Chorus, together with the GTV Germania Almrausch Schuhplattler and Kindergruppe, will perform at 12 noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. The Germania Chorus was founded in 1850 as the Germania Singing Society, and is the oldest German singing society in the state outside New York City.

For more information, call (845) 4526219 or (845) 471-0609.

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The Ritz Theater at 107 Broadway in Newburgh will host an intimate evening of music and art with jazz legend Bucky Pizzarelli, featuring guitarist and vocalist Ed Laub, on Saturday, February 15 at 7 p.m. The concert will be followed by an artist’s reception with wine and food and a special viewing of Pizzarelli’s original artwork.

Tickets cost $30. For tickets or more information, call (845) 784-1199 or visit www.ritztheaternewburgh.org.

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Musical couple Rachel Loshak (above) and Morgan Taylor will perform at a special Planned Parenthood benefit concert this Sunday, February 16 at 6 p.m. at the Kleinert/ James Center in Woodstock.

Repair CafÊ this Saturday in New Paltz Don’t toss those small appliances or furniture that still have life to them; instead, bring them to the Repair CafÊ at the New Paltz United Methodist Church on Main Street on Saturday, February 15 at 10 a.m. Tools and materials will be supplied to repair small housewares, clothes, crockery, toys, appliances and furniture with assistance from repair coach John Wack-

the richard b. fisher center for the performing arts at bard college

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Break the chain Kingston’s Old Dutch Church hosts Natalie Merchant’s Shelter film premiere, all-star panel discussion on domestic violence this Friday

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n this issue of Almanac Weekly and elsewhere you’ll be hearing a lot this week about the global One Billion Rising movement to resist violence against women – and in particular about events being organized locally to take place on V-Day, as activist playwright Eve Ensler rechristened Valentine’s Day 16 years ago. One of the mid-Hudson’s One Billion Rising flagship events takes place in Uptown Kingston at 9:30 a.m. this Friday, February 14, and it’s a great way to kick off the day’s activities. At Bethany Hall in the Old Dutch Church on Wall Street, singer Natalie Merchant will introduce the premiere public screening of Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence.

Part concert film, part consciousnessraising tool, the documentary centers on a June 2, 2013 benefit concert for local women’s shelters that Merchant organized after being inspired by her participation in the first annual One Billion Rising commemoration last February. Beautifully shot, lit and recorded at Bard College’s

Natalie Merchant (above and on cover) will introduce the premiere of Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence on Friday morning, February 14, at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston.

Fisher Center, the “Shelter� concert featured the Kalmia String Quartet, Simi Stone, Yungchen Lhamo and Amy Helm in addition to Merchant. In between the performances, survivors of domestic violence and relatives of victims told their personal stories – some bone-chilling, some heartening. The documentary develops these themes with cutaway interviews with local experts that provide sobering data about the magnitude of the problem in our own communities.

About 35 minutes in length, Shelter builds gradually, opening with a heartfelt duet by Merchant and Stone that casts a sinister new light on the lyrics of the traditional ballad “Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies.� That performance segues into a stirring account by survivor Gwen Wright of how she was able to escape her abusive husband thanks to the Washbourne House, Family of Woodstock’s Ulster County domestic violence shelter.

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She does people’s souls.�—New York Times

THESE GRIM PERSONAL ACCOUNTS AREN’T EASY TO LISTEN TO. But they need to be heard, because behind the closed doors of seemingly tranquil homes in our own neighborhoods, such scenarios are being played out every day.

The good news is that there are practical actions that can be taken to reduce the suffering, and there appears to be growing political will these days to do something about the worldwide epidemic of violence against women.

Wright, we discover, was one of the relatively lucky ones. Kathy WelbyMoretti, director of the Washbourne House, and Renee Fillette, executive director of the Grace Smith House in Dutchess County, talk about the factors that make it so hard for battered spouses and children to leave living situations that, from an outsider’s perspective, seem utterly unbearable. They cite the names and circumstances of real women who died at the hands of their domestic partners in recent years, in our own communities.

Teresa Letterio of Saugerties brings those statistics to wrenching life as she tells the story of the murder of her aunt, Tracey Lee

Ingrassia-Passaro, by her husband – in front of their two children – in 2007.

Though interspersed with lovely, uplifting musical interludes, these grim personal accounts aren’t easy to listen to.

But they need to be heard, because behind the closed doors of seemingly tranquil homes in our own neighborhoods, such scenarios are being played out every day.

The good news is that there are practical actions that can be taken to reduce the suffering, and there appears to be growing political will these days to do something about the worldwide epidemic of violence against women.

In fact, this Friday’s screening of Shelter

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One Billion Rising speak-out & flash mob in New Paltz

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iolence against women isn’t talked about openly. Those who have suffered through it often endure in silence; they don’t tell anyone about it.

Yet, according to statistics published by the United Nations in 2006, one in every three women worldwide will be sexually abused or beaten at some point in her life. That equates to approximately one billion women and girls.

And that statistic led to One Billion Rising, a global human rights campaign that began last year. It was the brainchild of LAUREN THOMAS | ALMANAC WEEKLY Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and founder Last year’s One Billion Rising flash mob dance in downtown New Paltz of “V-Day,” a movement that she started 16 years ago to raise awareness of violence against women and girls in an effort to end it. Ensler upped entire community – not just students and not just women, but also the men who the ante last year, creating the One Billion Rising 2013 campaign, asking women love them.” everywhere to gather together on “V-Day,” February 14, to dance in solidarity to the Organizer Johanna Longbotham says that they would love to see the day when stirring anthem “Break the Chain” in their own communities. New Paltz was among boys dance alongside the girls at the annual One Billion Rising events. “We haven’t them. gotten to that point yet, but so much of it comes down to education. How fabulous Now the same local organizers who put together last year’s New Paltz Rising would it be to have boys raised up in a world where they realize that [violence against have morphed into Hudson Valley women] is completely unacceptable?”

Rising, preparing for a reprise of the In the meantime, says organizer Mary Goggin, they’re gratified to see more young event to be held this year on campus at girls this year come out to dance alongside their mothers and other women in the SUNY-New Paltz on Friday, February community.

14. A “speak-out” and flash mob Longbotham agrees. “The song we dance to is very powerful, and when you see dance begins at 4 p.m. in front of the young girls doing the dance, you realize it’s sort of changing them at the cellular Administration Building outside the level to not accept violence in their own lives. People can certainly change the course of their lives when they get older, but to go into it at a young age, looking around Atrium. Afterward, a dance will be at strong people in the community who all believe this is something that shouldn’t held inside the multipurpose room (MPR) in the Student Union Building. happen to you – for a young girl, that’s tremendously powerful.”

(In the event of extreme weather Dance as a form of solidarity came into the picture through Ensler’s work in the Congo, where the author and activist helped raise funds to build a healing center that day, meet inside the MPR.) there, says Goggin. “The women danced, and she experienced this incredible way The speak-out is an informal open mic, where anyone can speak out about of healing and bringing women together; it’s the life-affirming power of movement why they’re rising, says Corinna Coracci, and celebration of the body, spirit and soul.” director of Residence Life at SUNY-New Paltz and one of the local organizers. At The speak-out and flash mob event at SUNY-New Paltz will also have information last year’s event, she organized a flash mob dance on campus while another group available on ways in which people can support local women and children’s domestic danced on Main Street; this year they’re uniting as one and holding a singular event violence shelters and female and child anti-violence movements locally and on the SUNY campus. throughout the world.

“It’s not a protest,” Coracci says. “It’s about empowerment.” It’s also a historic event “It’s really about breaking the isolation that comes with silence, on all levels,” says in which to participate, she adds. “New Paltz is getting together with the rest of the Longbotham. “Women who experience violence don’t talk about it; they don’t know how to share it. But when the silence is broken, it’s less likely to happen again.” world. Every one of us plays a part.”

The organizers held rehearsals for the flash mob dance a week ago, and while those – Sharyn Flanagan are over for this year, those who missed the sessions can still learn the dance through One Billion Rising Speak-out & Flash Mob Dance, Friday, February 14, 4 p.m., AB/ instructional videos on the website www.onebillionrising.org and on YouTube. And SUB Plaza, SUNY-New Paltz, 1 Hawk Plaza, New Paltz; (845) 702-4506, Hudson whether people are interested in doing the flash mob dance themselves or not, says Valley Rising on www.facebook.com.

Coracci, everyone is invited to attend. “Come out and watch,” she says. “It’s for the

“Come out and watch.

It’s for the entire community – not just students and not just women, but also the men who love them”

will be followed by a panel discussion with Elizabeth A. Culmone, senior assistant district attorney for Ulster County’s Special Victims’ Bureau, and Marjorie Smith, assistant district attorney and bureau chief for Dutchess County’s Special Victim’s Bureau – both of whom appear in the film – along with New York State senators Cecilia Tkaczyk and Terry Gipson, Ulster County executive Michael Hein and Dutchess County executive Marc Molinaro. Many civic leaders are also expected to attend and join the highlevel discussion.

“The purpose of our panel is to see where we’ve come since One Billion Rising 2013 and where we are going. It’s also to have lawmakers accept accountability.

We’re very excited to have lawmakers from both Ulster and Dutchess Counties involved,” said Jillian Fisher, Tourism and Cultural Affairs coordinator for the City of Kingston, who is promoting the event.

“This is really a big deal.”

Admission to the film premiere and panel discussion is free, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. The Old Dutch Church is located at 272 Wall Street in Uptown Kingston. Parking space nearby is scarce, so come early if you can. And if you didn’t get enough sleep the night before, you can console yourself with the thought that you’re one amongst the One Billion Rising on behalf of battered women that day. What better way, on Valentine’s Day, to have a heart?

– Frances Marion Platt

Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence premiere & panel discussion, Friday, February 14, 9:30 a.m., free, Bethany Hall, Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston; (845) 383-1361.

Here are some other One Billion Rising local events Friday, February 14, 4 p.m.: One Billion Rising flash mob dance with the Grace Smith House in front of Family Court at 50 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. No dance experience or skill is required to participate, and signs with statistics are available to hold for those interested in joining but not dancing. For rehearsal and additional event information, visit www.facebook.com/gracesmithhouseinc or contact Himali Pandya at himali@gracesmithhouse.org or Monica Idema at monica@gracesmithouse.org, as well as www.gracesmithhouse.org. To learn the “Break the Chain” dance choreography, visit www.onebillionrising.org.

Thursday, February 13, 6 p.m.: One Billion Rising flash mob dance with Safe Homes Orange County at the Galleria at Crystal Run, located at 1 North Galleria Drive in Middletown.

Wear red, pink and black. For more information, contact Inaudy Esposito at (845) 562-5365, extension 104, or

iesposito@safehomesorangecounty. org. For more information about the organizers, visit www.safehomesor-

angecounty.org. To learn the “Break the Chain” dance choreography, visit www.onebillionrising.org.

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The Fab Faux recreates the full Beatles discography, including and especially the production-heavy material of the later albums. They leave Beatles fans (who are everybody) in tears of joy and gratitude

LO+VEIN The Anchor in Kingston hosts O+ Festival kickoff concert this Friday

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ingston’s O+ Festival has shown real legs and a long-haul commitment to its novel idea of trading art and music for healthcare. O+ has also made a strong aesthetic statement, becoming the local flagship for the indie, the alt and the artsy.

The O+ Festival announces its KickOff for 2014 submissions on Friday, February 14 at 8 p.m. at the Anchor in Kingston. The music lineup features notable locals like Simi Stone and the Old Double E alongside the exceptional young Massachusetts band (and 2013 O+ standouts) And the Kids. It’s a night of music, games, fun and a silent auction to herald the call for artists and musicians to be part of the 2014 O+ Festival.

The Anchor is located at 744 Broadway in Kingston.

– John Burdick Blind Boys of Alabama

Chris Washburne & SYOTOS to play Bard on Valentine’s Day Even for a Valentine’s Day special concert, don’t expect something unchallenging or conventionally crowdpleasing at Bard. It’s a different crowd.

On Friday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m., the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS jazz band, a long-running New York City institution that renders Latin jazz as 20th-century chamber music, exploring advanced harmony, polyrhythm and adventurous ensemble counterpoint in ways that you might fail to notice due to the unfailingly burning grooves. In a concession to lovers on their special day, Washburne and SYOTOS will be joined on this date by vocalist Claudette Sierra.

SYOTOS’ name is an acronym for “See you on the other side.” It refers to a time in 1992 when Washburne was diagnosed with severe nerve cancer and told that he

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Robert Randolph & Blind Boys of Alabama at Bearsville

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xpect a rousing weekend at the Bearsville Theater. On Friday, February 14, celebrate Valentine’s Day with the ever-popular Robert Randolph and the Family at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $35 and $45. On Saturday, February 15, the Blind Boys of Alabama take the reins, with Nicole Atkins opening at 9 p.m. Tickets go for $30, $40, $50 and $60.

Those who want to make a weekend of it will be rewarded with a $10 discount on general admission tickets for both shows. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock. For more information, call (845) 679-4406 or visit www.bearsvilletheater.com.

had only a 50/50 chance of surviving an operation, but no chance whatsoever of playing the trombone again. He insisted that before going into the hospital he play one more gig. After the show, he turned to his bandmates and said, “See you on the other side.” Washburne survived the operation, but was left with severe nerve loss and damage to one side of his face.

Proving the experts wrong, he managed to remaster his instrument.

The concert takes place at the Fisher Center’s Theater Two. Tickets cost $20 and are available at the Fisher Center box office at http://fishercenter.bard.edu or by calling (845) 758-7900.

– John Burdick

Fab Faux play the Egg in Albany this Saturday The world’s premier Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux, does not even attempt to look like the famous Liverpudlians or master their stage footwork and wardrobe. Instead, this group of music industry veterans and standouts devotes all its attention and resources to the accurate and spirited recreation of the full Beatles discography, including and especially the production-heavy material of the later albums. The Fab Faux leaves Beatles fans (who are everybody) in tears of

joy and gratitude.

With their usual modules the Crème Tangerine Strings and Hogshead Horns in tow, the Fab Faux rock the Egg at the Empire State Plaza in Albany on Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $35 and $45. For more information, call (518) 473-1845 or visit www.theegg.org/event/ the-fab-faux.

– John Burdick

Rosendale Theatre screens opera André Chénier this Sunday Imagine traveling to a realm of operatic magic and yet staying close to home. The Rosendale Theatre will bring a taste of Austria’s Bregenz Festival – famous for its floating stage, gorgeous outdoor setting and striking multidimensional sets – to the Theatre in a series of three high-definition cinema experiences. The operas are sung in their original languages, with English subtitles.

The first screening will be held on Sunday, February 16 at 2 p.m. Umberto Giordano’s rarely seen 1896 opera André Chénier: An Opera in Four Acts dramatizes the life story of French poet Andrea Chénier, a precursor to the Romantics who was associated with the French Revolution and guillotined for

alleged “crimes against the state.” The production was directed by Keith Warner; David Field’s set uses an almost 78-foothigh-statue of the dying Jean-Paul Marat sinking into the water. The running time is approximately 130 minutes. The opera contains a well-known aria, “La Mamma Morta.”

Future screenings in the series will include Mozart’s beloved The Magic Flute (2013) on March 16 and Verdi’s grand Aïda (2009) on May 18.

Tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for Rosendale Theatre Collective members and $6 for kids age 12 and under. For more information, call (845) 658-8989 or visit www.rosendaletheatre.org.

Simi Stone plays the Falcon in Marlboro this Saturday Simi Stone brings a legitimate allstar band, Mountain Motown, to the Falcon in Marlboro on Saturday, February 15. The multi-talented Stone has assembled a group that includes players who have worked with David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, the B-52s and many others. Stone will no doubt be performing material from her upcoming Kickstarter-funded album.

The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7. The Falcon is located at

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AQUARIUS ENTERTAINMENT OF WOODSTOCK RELEASES HIP HOP COMPILATION

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oodstock-born producer, musician and label-owner Alex Law was assured by no less an authority than Michael Lang that Law’s parents were the first locals to create and sell Woodstock concert apparel, posters and grassroots branding, bringing iconic designs to market within two years of the Bethel festival. Two years? It is hard for us to imagine that the glorification and cultural exceptionalism of Woodstock was not a fait accompli, a natural fact in place and inarguable by Tuesday, August 19, 1969.

But no: Altamont, Woodstock’s gashed and bloody underbelly, went down a mere four months later. Regarding rock festivals, the culture at large was ambivalent: terrified and titillated. The myth of Woodstock was not assured or inevitable; it had to be nurtured through an endangered infancy by a vanguard of invested advocates and stewards of the story. And it still requires regular maintenance and legacy planning. Such is the cultural process.

Clearly, Alex Law is heir to his parents’ scrappy, can-do spirit of promotion, art and opportunity. Young but savvy and experienced beyond his years, Law seems to have at least one appendage in every dimension of the music game.

He is an experienced live engineer, mixing shows at the Bearsville Theater and elsewhere. He runs and brands a recording facility and record label, a roving half-physical, half-conceptual operation with shingles in Brooklyn and upstate.

He is a musician himself, with wide, multi-generational ears and fluencies in the languages of electro and acoustic. And encompassing it all is an uncomplicated and undelusional sense of selfbranding as both a necessity and a natural joy. Aquarius Entertainment is his umbrella brand, signifying the happy accident that this direct heir of the Aquarian Age happens to be a zodiacal Aquarian.

So what does the Aquarius Entertainment product line sound like? Maybe a little jam rock and neo-psychedelia? Some retro-folk, earthy singer/songwriter and faux-ppalachia? Not so fast. The first formal taste of the line is the album D1TC, an impressive and thoroughly engaging multi-artist compilation of straight-up contemporary hip-hop.

In a way, it makes sense. For wonderfully complex cultural reasons, hip hop seems to have been spared the shame and self-revulsion cycle of the rock process, the part of the story where incorruptible bands feign indifference, nausea and contempt for the tokens of success. Hip hop thus shares an unironic Aquarian optimism, even as it documents street realities. In hip hop’s value system – to my outsider eyes, at least – it appears that success is simply good and does not require apologies and immolations.

DITC kicks off with a shimmery celestial overture that quotes Hair. From the first proper track, “Do Right,” on, D1TC core rappers Brooklish and Omerta work in the “positive” rap vein, but also very much in the spirit of the streets: plenty of danger and temptation on the periphery. Thanks to the sonic wit of Law’s production moves and the impressive verbal chops of the performers, the songs never descend into simple didacticism. Some songs, like the standout, surreal track “Pornstarwars,” are just pure, joyous language and reference play.

Law impresses throughout with both an assured command of the genre and a wild streak of imagination, creating settings and magic moments that range freely from the ominous to the comic. When I asked Law whether hip hop would be his main thing going forward, he laughed and said, “Goodness, no.” He wants to make indie rock in the tradition of favorites like Pavement, electro-pop in the style of his childhood favorites Erasure. And of course he has big ears for the earthy sounds of classic Catskill rock as well. (One could hear it all coming together in something that sounds like the best of Beck). But when the time comes to produce hip hop, Law respects the current style and the expectations of his artists, honing his production and composition skills safely within the genre boundaries that – you can be sure of it – he will someday bust down.

– John Burdick

Law impresses throughout with both an assured command of the genre and a wild streak of imagination

Sample D1TC and other Aquarius Entertainment releases at http://aquariusentertainmentny.com.

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Zappa Plays Zappa at the Bardavon

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weezil Zappa plies the family trade at the Bardavon on Saturday, February 22 at 8 p.m. Like his father before him, Dweezil’s bands are always populated by young players of outrageous skill. As a rule the younger Zappa favors Frank’s fusion- and guitar-heavy output of the early-to-mid-‘70s over both his early conceptual prog/rock or the commentary-rock of Joe’s Garage and beyond. At the Bardavon, Zappa Plays Zappa will recreate Frank’s classic 1974 live album Roxy and Elsewhere.

Tickets for Zappa Plays Zappa cost $53 general admission, $48 for Bardavon members, and are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston; or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

– John Burdick

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Summer country shows at Bethel Woods Bethel Woods Center for the Arts will once again offer the concert “Megaticket” package admission to four shows of top country artists featured at the Center this summer. The four shows included in 2014 Country Megaticket series are Lady Antebellum with Billy Currington and Joe Nichols on Sunday, June 1; Toby Keith (with supporting act to be announced) on Sunday, July 27; Keith Urban with Jerrod Niemann and Brett Eldredge on Sunday, August 17; and Miranda Lambert with Justin Moore and Thomas Rhett on Sunday, August 31.

The Megaticket offers the opportunity to buy tickets first and lock in the same seat to each show. Three different

packages are available for a limited time. Individual concert tickets are not available for sale at this time. Shows take place rain or shine. Tickets are available online at www.bethelwoodscenter.org, www.megaticket.com or by calling (800) 745-3000. For more information, visit www.bethelwoodscenter.org.

Conservatory students’ competition at Bard Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, February 15 at 10 a.m. and Sunday, February 16 at 1 p.m. at the Laszlo Z. Bito Conservatory Building at Bard College in Annandale. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call (845) 7586822, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@ bard.edu or visit www.bard.edu/conservatory/events.

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This tiny squad was authorized by FDR in 1943 to track down the great art that Nazi troops were looting for the Führer’s private museum and dissuade advancing Allied forces from wholesale bombing of art repositories like museums and churches

The Monuments Men stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett.

Old stuff worth saving The Monuments Men is an entertaining throwback to early ‘60s war movies

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What inspires this particular grumble is the drubbing, largely undeserved, that George Clooney’s latest labor of love The Monuments Men has been receiving from the critics. Yes, the movie is perhaps a bit too earnest and preachy, a bit too disconcertingly sunny in overall tone for a story about misdeeds of the Nazis. But the generation born just after that war can still remember a time – before the unnecessity of Vietnam installed much darker lenses over our worldview – when World War II was regarded as the “good war,” characterized by real heroism and

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American-made war movies of that period reflected that view. It was not yet regarded as intellectually dishonest, or as a trivialization of the Holocaust, to turn the camera aside from depicting the carnage of war in gruesome detail. Before Catch-22 and M.A.S.H., it was considered perfectly okay to make un-dark comedies about the war. And even dramatic films could feature jokey camaraderie, jaunty scores and upbeat conclusions that had audiences leaving the movie palaces of the day with a spring in their steps: Think of The Bridge on the River Kwai or The Great Escape. Some of the WWII epics of the ‘50s and ‘60s were actually damn good movies, even if they seem a little naïve in retrospect.

Clooney was born in 1961, at the tail end of the Baby Boom, and I’m willing to bet that this mini-Golden Age of Hollywood war moviemaking was what he had in mind when he decided to base a movie on Robert M. Edsel’s book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History.

The story itself is a compelling one: the dogged determination and remarkable successes of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section of the US Army. This tiny squad was authorized by FDR in 1943 to track down as much as possible of the great art that Nazi troops were looting for the Führer’s private museum, as well as to dissuade advancing Allied forces from wholesale bombing of art repositories like museums and churches.

But the movie is also clearly an hommage to the feel-good war movies of the first couple of decades following the war – the bouncy themes supplied by composer Alexandre Desplat are an immediate giveaway, as is the brightly burnished cinematography – and as such, it succeeds wonderfully. Older viewers are going to take The Monuments Men

to their hearts; younger adult and teen audiences, more conditioned to expect a darker palette and much more gore in a war film, may not know what to make of its mostly cheery tone.

The high-ticket ensemble cast isn’t tasked with the greatest collective acting challenge of all time, the characters being rather sketchy and the action taking off in medias res in terms of personal histories.

Matt Damon plays James Granger, the youngest of the crew of art experts, restorers and conservators recruited by Clooney’s character, Frank Stokes, to join the audacious salvage expedition. Granger apparently has been spared conscription into the military due to a heart ailment.

The other Americans – Bill Murray as Richard Campbell, John Goodman as Walter Garfield and Bob Balaban as Preston Savitz – are all too old to be called up, but they’re hankering to play their part in the war effort somehow. We aren’t offered much backstory, but their collegial bickering seems to have been going on for many previous chapters. Balaban is the funniest, chafing at being the only member of the “elite” infiltration force to be assigned the rank of private.

Other bits of humor – Granger’s averred Francophone being out-of-service, Garfield’s girth getting in the way of boot camp exercises – come across as a bit forced, but still provide the shiny foil needed to set off the darker aspects of the story. Critics may complain that we don’t see enough of the human costs of Nazism; the beach at Normandy is unsettlingly cleared of all bloodstains by the time this landing party arrives, quite late in the war. But as the Monuments men work their way closer to the front, things get more dangerous: They’re assigned a German/Jewish driver/translator (Dimitri

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Loki versus the plebeians Tom Hiddleston stars in London National Theatre Live’s Coriolanus in Rosendale & Rhinebeck

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sk random Shakespeare fans what their favorite is among the Bard’s plays, and the likelihood is very low that many – if indeed any, unless they’re actors – will mention Coriolanus.

T. S. Eliot reportedly preferred it to Hamlet, but most audiences find it a tough play to like. And it tends not to get staged very often, so many have never had a chance to see it performed. The exception occurs in periods of social unrest and unpopular military campaigns, when the tragedy’s themes begin to seem more pertinent to modern times.

What makes the play, set during ancient Rome’s conflict with the Volscians, so off-putting to many readers and potential audiences is the highly flawed personality of the protagonist. Caius Marcius Coriolanus is a bold, talented and principled military leader, but he’s crippled by his unbending pride and unwillingness to compromise. His contempt for the lower classes of his city – who riot in the streets because they are starving due to wartime grain rationing – may have played well with Shakespeare’s royal patrons, but it doesn’t jibe with contemporary democratic values. Coriolanus comes home a war hero and runs for consul, but eventually goes over to the enemy side after his political opponents contrive to have him banished for his outspoken snobbery. Predictably, there’s no happy ending for anyone.

But what makes Coriolanus so challenging to audiences is precisely what makes the character so enticing to actors at a certain point in their careers. The general is neither an outright villain like Macbeth nor a hero like Hamlet, and he’s too unsympathetic to fit the category of antihero. He’s ethical and honorable, according to his own terms, but he’s undeniably a stiff in any era, and comes off as a one-percenter jerk in our own day. In other words, it’s a complicated role that an actor can really get his teeth into. Making things meatier is the renowned warrior’s toxic, codependent relationship with his mother Volumnia: one of literature’s great pushy stage Moms, falling somewhere in the middle of the continuum between Mama Rose in Gypsy and Eleanor Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate.

These being unsettled times, marked by unpopular wars and lots of political

These being unsettled times, marked by unpopular wars and lots of political backstabbing, revivals of Coriolanus are on the upswing

Simone (Cate Blanchett) – a curator at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, who alone knows where a lot of the stolen art has been sent – that the Americans aren’t there to take it all back home to the Met. Yes, it’s all a bit corny, a bit square and predictable; in quite a few ways, this isn’t a movie that stands up well to 21st-century cinematic expectations. But still I got a lump in my throat whenever a long-sought treasure like the van Eycks’ Ghent altarpiece or Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna finally turned up. Call me a throwback, but I still walked out of the theatre with a smile on my face and a bounce in my stride. If the idea of a movie that’s a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Great Escape tickles your atavistic fancy, don’t

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Leonidas) who had family sent to Dachau; they come under sniper fire; in time, major characters die.

A scene juxtaposing Campbell listening to a recording of Christmas greetings from his family with a hellish group effort to patch up casualties from the Battle of the Bulge is perhaps the most effective at mixing the light and dark elements of the narrative. But the scene that tugs the heart the most is one of panicked Nazis torching priceless paintings just before they flee the Allied advance.

Saving people’s cultural heritage, not saving individual people, is what this mission and this movie are about. And Clooney’s Stokes, who has to talk the feds into funding the operation in the first place, gives one too many speeches about the righteousness of their cause. We get it. Moreover, since the historical outcome is already known, there isn’t really all that much suspense in The Monuments Men, beyond the question of how long it will take Granger to convince Claire

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backstabbing, revivals of Coriolanus are on the upswing. And one of the hot contemporary actors recently tempted to jump into the role was Tom Hiddleston, best-known to American audiences for his performances as the slightly-mad-butcharismatic bad guy Loki in the Thor and Avengers movie franchises. Hiddleston has been getting enthusiastic notices for his nuanced interpretation of the embattled Roman in the production of Coriolanus by Britain’s Donmar Warehouse, directed

by Josie Rourke. Also starring are Mark Gatiss as the senator Menenius, Deborah Findlay as Volumnia, Hadley Fraser as the Volscian commander Aufidius and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Coriolanus’ wife Virgilia, with Alfred Enoch as Titus Lartius, who later went on to become Rome’s first dictator.

The London run is ending this week, but a performance on January 30 was captured for posterity by the National Theatre Live from London folks. Serious Shakespeare aficionados and Marvel Comics geeks alike should be pleased to hear that two cinemas in our area will be screening it next week: On Wednesday, February 19 at 1:30 p.m., Coriolanus will be shown at Upstate Films Rhinebeck, with tickets going for $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and students and $11 for Upstate members. And on Sunday, February 23 at 2 p.m., there will be a screening at the Rosendale Theatre, at $12 general admission and $10 for Rosendale Theatre Collective members.

Check it out, and discover a Shakespeare work that isn’t overly familiar and that resonates with today’s geopolitical zeitgeist – or just feast your eyes on that guy who got voted Sexiest Man Alive by MTV readers in December. For more information, call the Rosendale Theatre at (845) 658-8989 or Upstate Films Rhinebeck at (845) 876-2515.

– Frances Marion Platt London National Theatre Live’s Coriolanus starring Tom Hiddleston, Wednesday, February 19, 1:30 p.m., $15/$13/$11, Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery Street/ Route 9, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-2515, http://upstatefilms.org; Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m., $12/$10, Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale, (845) 658-8989, http://rosendaletheatre.org.

let the naysayers talk you out of checking out The Monuments Men. – Frances Marion Platt

UPAC to screen Moonstruck The Bardavon will continue UPAC’s sixth season of classic films on the big screen with the 1987 movie Moonstruck on Friday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston. General admission tickets cost $6.

The romantic comedy stars Cher in her Oscar-winning role of Loretta. Danny Aiello plays Loretta’s fiancé, Johnny

Cammareri, the duty-bound son who must visit his dying mother in Italy. Nicholas Cage is the lovestruck brother Ronny, who has never forgiven Johnny for the accident that crippled his hand. After a torrid affair, Loretta tries to avoid Ronny out of respect to Johnny, but she just can’t resist. Meanwhile, Loretta’s father is fooling around with his mistress while her mother is wooed by a college professor, and her grandfather’s dogs howl at the spellbinding moon.

Tickets are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, or the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 3396088. For more information, visit www. bardavon.org.

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with Kimberly Kay, Justin Lazard, Richard Scofield, & Robert Sheridan February 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm Sundays 2pm The Hall of St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church 2578 Rt. 212, Woodstock NY (1/4 mile east of Rt. 375) Tickets $20, $15 Senior Citizens and Students RESERVATIONS: 8456797900 performingartsofwoodstock.org

SUNY Ulster’s music ensembles under the direction of Victor Izzo, Jr. performs a benefit concert to support music scholarships to honor the memory of Lee Herrington, former band director at SUNY Ulster.

The scholarship is awarded annually through the Ulster Community College Foundation, Inc. to an entering or returning SUNY Ulster music student.

Snow date: February 26, 7:30 p.m. Tickets at the door. Adults $3. Students/Seniors $2. Family $10.

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Anna Deavere Smith is perhaps best known for her examination of race relations, having written and performed Fires in the Mirror, a view of those affected by the Crown Heights riots of 1991, and Twilight: Los Angeles, which tackled the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Reality show Anna Deavere Smith performs at Bard this Saturday

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nna Deavere Smith, who performs at Bard College’s Fisher Center this Saturday, February 15, has been hailed by Newsweek as “the most exciting individual in American theater.”

She’s recognizable for her film and television work, but her primary reputation is that of a stage trailblazer who writes and performs one-woman shows about the political underbelly of contemporary America.

Anna Deavere Smith in Let Me Down Easy (above) and on West Wing (left).

she has. According to the New York Times, “Anna Deavere Smith is the ultimate impressionist. She does people’s souls.”

– Paul Smart An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith, Friday, February 15, 7:30 p.m., $25+, Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale; (845) 758-7900, www.fishercenter.bard. edu.

She’s a perennial Drama Desk Awardwinner who has been a finalist for Tonys and Pulitzer Prizes and gets rave reviews for her investigative “documentary style” theater. Yet she was also a regular on The West Wing, and more recently Nurse Jackie, who cut her teeth on daytime soaps before taking on such films as Philadelphia, The American President and Rachel Getting Married.

Smith has won a Dorothy & Lillian Gish award for theatrical achievement, as well as a MacArthur “genius” grant. She has been granted a National Humanities Medal by the president, and a host of honorary degrees. She has published several books, and teaches at New York University.

What to expect from “An Evening” with Smith? Think of an original – like Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, early Whoopi Goldberg and Lily Tomlin – who has created monologues from an assortment of characters. The works she’ll be pulling from include: Fires in the Mirror, based on the Crown Heights controversy in 1991 New York; and Twilight: Los Angeles, written in response to the 1992 LA riots. She’ll also draw from her House Arrest, Let Me Down Easy, the Arizona Project and magnum opus, The Americans. Smith works from interviews, like Eve Ensler, and then sharpens what

Patti LuPone coming to Woodstock Playhouse Two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, with Sirius XM radio’s Seth Rudetsky accompanying LuPone as pianist and host, will perform in a lively evening of conversation and song in “Broadway” on Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m.

LuPone is best-known for her performances of Eva Perón in Evita, Mama Rose in Gypsy, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. LuPone’s most recent Broadway appearances include David Mamet’s The Anarchist and the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle awards. The concert at the Woodstock Playhouse will include selections from Evita, Gypsy, Sunset Boulevard and more.

The evening will be hosted by Seth Rudetsky, whom The New York Times just dubbed “the Mayor of Broadway.” The unique performance will feature LuPone and Rudetsky in a seamless mix of intimate behind-the-scenes stories stemming from one of Broadway’s biggest stars and prompted by the encyclopedic-minded Rudetsky’s probing, funny, revealing questions, along with LuPone’s stellar singing of musical theatre repertoire.

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The gala presentation will kick off the new season of theatre at the Woodstock Playhouse, located at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock. Tickets are available now, beginning at a cost of $150. Special opportunities include a pre-performance dinner at Cucina of Woodstock at 5:30 p.m. and a post-performance reception meet-and-greet with LuPone and Rudetsky.

For more information, call (845) 6796900 Tuesday through Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m., or visit www.woodstockplayhouse. org.

Red Hook hosts reading from Oncology Support Group memoirs Every Thursday, members of the HealthAlliance Oncology Support memoir-writing group gather to share their written work aloud. In the fall of 2013, the group published Holding On, Letting Go, an anthology of stories “by people who’ve learned to look death in the eye and to savor life’s gifts.” Works from this book and others will be read and available for purchase at a “Love Heals” Valentine’s reading on Saturday, February 15 at 7 p.m. at the Red Hook Village Hall, located at 7467 South Broadway in Red Hook.

The event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. Mature subject matter may not be appropriate for children under age 14. For more information, call (845) 758-2667, e-mail julietharrison@earthlink.net or visit www.holdingonlettinggomemoir.org.

Café Mezzaluna in Saugerties hosts Valentine’s Day show “Love, Romance and Eros” will be in the air at Café Mezzaluna in Saugerties on Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. with an evening of spoken word, music and art. Hosted by Molly from County Cork and Pookie Mellow, the participating talents include Jennifer Lewis Bennett, Joe Bones, Leslie Gerber, Susan Hoover, Christian Ortega, Cheryl Rice, David Temple and perhaps some

special surprise guests. The cost is a suggested $10 donation for performers. Reservations are suggested.

Café Mezzaluna is located at 626 Route 212 in “Saugerstock.” For more information, call (845) 246-5306 or visit www.cafemezzaluna.com.

Sudbury School to host roleplaying fundraiser next Saturday The Hudson Valley Sudbury School in Kingston will be the scene of a unique fundraising event to benefit the Hero Fund on Saturday, February 22 from 6 to 10 p.m. A family-friendly evening of roleplaying, mystery, fun and surprises will feature a “Tavern Scene Adventure Game” in which one can take part in audacious events unfolding or sit back and talk to a mysterious man in the corner while drinking hot cider. How much a participant gets involved is up to the individual.

More information about the fantasy world to be inhabited will be available on the website; based on that information, participants can make up their own character or get some help from experts at the door the night of the event.

Admission costs $10 or $25 for a family of three or more. The Hudson Valley Sudbury School is located at 84 Zena Road in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 481-0776 or visit www.sudburyschool.com.

Documentary on black GIs based on Vassar professor’s book to premiere on Smithsonian Channel In 2002, Maria Höhn, professor of History at Vassar College, published GIs and Fräuleins: The GermanAmerican Encounter in 1950s West Germany (UNC Press), exploring the experiences between German women and US soldiers stationed in Germany post-World War II. The book included just one chapter about how black soldiers fit into that unique time and

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Crazy for you Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck stages Next to Normal

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ot someone within your family circle who’s more of a challenge to love than most, on account of the fact that he or she suffers from a serious mental illness? Welcome to the club, friend: Your situation is more common than you might guess. In fact, you might call it next to normal.

Next to Normal is also the title of a rock musical that was nominated for 11 Tony Awards in 2009 and won three. In 2010 it claimed the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: an unusual honor indeed for a stage musical. The Broadway production ran for nearly two years and grossed more in ticket sales than any other play that has ever run at the Booth Theatre. It then went on to tour nationally. There have since been scores of regional productions in the US and Canada, not to mention translated versions in at least 17 other countries around the globe.

With book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, Next to Normal tells the story of a bereaved mother’s descent into bipolar I disorder with psychotic features (including persistent hallucinations of her dead son) and the effects of her worsening illness on the rest of her family. It deals with issues like suicide, controversial treatments like hypnosis and electroconvulsive therapy and the tendency to overmedicate the severely mentally ill to the point where they can feel nothing at all.

The play has been praised for its sympathetic portrayal of the psychotic character Diana as someone who can eventually get better and learn to fend for herself, rather

This rock musical won three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

place, but it inspired the new documentary A Breath of Freedom due to premiere on the Smithsonian Channel on Monday, February 17 at 8 p.m.

Narrated by Cuba Gooding, Jr. and featuring interviews with such prominent black veterans as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, A Breath of Freedom tells the little-known story of the unexpected freedom that AfricanAmerican GIs experienced in occupied and Cold War West Germany, while racial segregation was still legal and the norm in much of the US. Powell, who was a young Army lieutenant stationed in Germany in 1959, later referred to this experience as a “breath of freedom”

in his autobiography My American Journey. In the documentary, he says that despite the civil rights gains in the US at the time, black soldiers were “in many ways better off when we were stationed in Germany.”

Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, Charles Evers (older brother of civil rights leader Medgar Evers), former Tuskegee airman Roscoe Brown and famed jazz vocalist John Hendricks are among the many African-American veterans interviewed in the film. Among other subjects, the veterans discuss their confrontation with Nazi racism in the liberated concentration camps in Germany and the impact of witnessing

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than as a stereotypical throwaway “crazy person” or just a helpless drain on her family. The New York Times called Next to Normal “something much more than a feel-good musical: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts.”

This weekend only, the Trinity Players are bringing a new production of Next to Normal to the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, directed by Chris Vallone with musical direction by Amy Gustin. Kevin Archambault, who has been directing some of the best shows at the Center this past year or so, will get a chance to flex his acting skills this time around. Also in the cast are Nathan Dotson, Marta Fuerst, Heather Martyn, Wendell Schereer and Chris Vallone.

Evening performances of Next to Normal will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, February 14 and 15, with matinées at 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, February 15 and 16. Regular ticket prices are $26 and $24, available online at www. vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=6ee3a040ae7bca55636916d8cdbfad4d or by calling the box office at (845) 876-3080. And because this is a show about a tough kind of love, the Center is offering a Valentine Special: Bring a date to any performance of this show and get two tickets for $44, purchased at the door only.

– Frances Marion Platt Trinity Players present Next to Normal, Friday/Saturday, February 14/15, 8 p.m., Saturday/Sunday, February 15/16, 3 p.m., $26/$24/two for $44, Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck; (845) 876-3080, http:// centerforperformingarts.org.

Nazi brutality upon Jews and other minorities.

Höhn says that when revising her doctoral dissertation for publication (which would become her book GIs and Fräuleins), she began to hear from black GIs who felt that their experiences had been “written out” of the stories of World War II. “They were saying, ‘We were there, we helped liberate the country from Nazism, but nobody tells our story.’”

Poughkeepsie residents Joe McPhee, now a world-renowned jazz saxophonist, and Walter Patrice, the first African-

American from his hometown to be commissioned as an officer, were among several black veterans interviewed in the film. Höhn served as historical consultant for the film.

A Breath of Freedom will also be screened at the US Military Academy at West Point and at USAREUR, the US Army Europe Headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, in honor of Black History Month. This fall a German version of the documentary will air on the German and French TV channel ARTE. Plans for a Poughkeepsie screening are in the works.

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Taking stock Grafting won’t defeat most tomato diseases, but may increase your yield

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y friend Sara had a question about graft, which made me immediately think of a recent article in the New York Times stating that, for the first time, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires.

You rarely hear about graft these days – perhaps because dollars are so ubiquitous a lubricant for our political machinery. No need anymore to elevate the practice with a special word.

But Sara was talking about grafting, not graft, and it was for tomatoes. Apples, peaches and other fruit trees have been

Tomato grafting is relatively recent in this country grafted for centuries. Tomato grafting is relatively recent, at least in this country.

Sara wanted to know my thoughts about grafting tomatoes and whether we should pool our resources to get some plants.

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salty, wet or cold soils. A grafted plant has a specially chosen rootstock – Maxifort, Beaufort and Emperador are some common ones – upon which is grafted a good-eating variety, often an heirloom variety. Whether or not and which positive traits the resulting composite plant possesses depends on the choice of rootstock. Grafted plants have allowed farmers to keep growing tomatoes in greenhouses and soils where the plants would have otherwise petered out from nutrient problems or buildup of disease.

With decades of grafting fruit trees under my belt, I’d feel confident grafting tomatoes.

There are a few differences, of course: Tomatoes are grafted when small (with two to four leaves); they are succulent and in leaf, so need to be kept in high humidity until the graft heals; and, best of all, you see results quickly, within a week or two.

You start by sowing seed of the rootstock variety, followed, a week later, by sowing the scion (eating) variety. Once rootstock and scion plants are large enough to graft, you lay their stems side-by-side and make an angled cut into both at the same time with a straightedge razor. Set the bottom cut of the scion atop the top cut of the rootstock, and then hold the stems aligned with a tomato grafting clip or piece of tape. After a week or so of warmth, high humidity and indirect light, the graft should be healed and the composite plant ready to acclimate to brighter light, cooler temperatures and lower humidity – and eventually, outdoor growing conditions.

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As with tomatoes, an apple rootstock can impart certain desirable characteristics to the resulting composite tree.

route would be to purchase grafted tomato plants. Sources such as http:// territorialseed.com and www.johnnyseeds. com sell grafted plants as well as rootstock seeds and grafting clips.

Do I want to grow grafted tomatoes?

Yes, I’d give the plants a try – if grafted plants of an heirloom variety landed in my lap, which is to say that I’m not ready to spend much money or effort on grafted tomatoes.

One reason is vigor. Grafted tomatoes grow more vigorously, but my ungrafted, staked tomatoes always start to grow out of reach by the end of August. More vigor? No thanks. Also, there’s often an inverse relationship between vigor and fruitfulness.

As far as diseases, I avoid planting tomatoes where they’ve grown for the past three years, clean up old stems, leaves and fruit thoroughly at the end of the season and mulch each year. In so doing, buildup of soil pests is avoided, overwintering inoculum at the beginning of each season is reduced and spores of overlooked diseased tissue are buried.

When asking me about grafted tomatoes, Sara probably had in mind late blight disease, which has devastated tomatoes in recent years. Grafted tomatoes offer direct protection only against soilborne diseases, such as verticillium and fusarium wilt.

Around here at least, early blight, septoria leaf spot, anthracnose and late blight are what strip plants of leaves and pockmark the fruits. Grafted plants would not be resistant to these diseases.

Increased vigor might help a plant pump out extra fruits in spite of disease – or not. I’m not going to any special efforts to plant grafted tomatoes.

Apples are another story – one for which I am turning to rootstocks and

grafting.

First, a little background: I have an especially poor site for growing apples.

Cold or cool moist air collects in this low spot, making plants prone to disease and frost, and the 6,000 acres of woods 50 feet away provide haven for insect pests.

The site is also wetter than I realized.

Still, when I do get to harvest apples, their delectable flavor makes them worth the effort.

As with tomatoes, an apple rootstock can impart certain desirable characteristics to the resulting composite tree. My present planting is a row of superdwarf trees. These small trees, although earlybearing and productive, need coddling with perfect soil. My plan is to make new trees that are more tolerant of less-thanperfect soil conditions and, being taller, might hold their heads in slightly more buoyant air to reduce disease pressure.

Apple has been grown so widely and for so long that many rootstocks have been developed. Thus far in my research, a rootstock named G.30 seems the best option, creating a mostly self-supporting (except with certain varieties and heavy crop load when young), medium-sized tree tolerant to wet soil and fire blight disease. Best of all, it promotes early bearing of the scion variety grafted on it.

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

You can also visit Lee’s garden at www. leereich.blogspot.com and check out his instructional videos at www.youtube. com/leereichfarmden. For more on local homes and gardens, go to Ulster Publishing’s HomeHudsonValley.com.

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The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum is located at 75 North Water Street in Poughkeepsie. For cookie reservations or event information, call (845) 471-0589 or visit www.mhcm.org. To learn more about the West African performers, visit www. fakolidanceanddrum.com.

One Billion Rising One Billion Rising: Have you heard about it before? It’s inspired by the

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From the onebillionrising.org website: “Our stories have been buried, denied, erased, altered and minimized by patriarchal systems that allow impunity to reign. Justice begins when we speak,

release and acknowledge the truth in solidarity and community. One Billion Rising for Justice is an invitation to break free from confinement, obligation, shame, guilt, grief, pain, humiliation, rage and bondage. The campaign is a recognition that we cannot end violence against women without looking at the intersection of poverty, racism, war, the plunder of the environment, capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy. Impunity lives at the heart of these interlocking forces. It is a call to bring on revolutionary justice.”

Here are some One Billion Rising events happening locally: Thursday, February 13, 6 p.m.: One

Billion Rising flash mob dance with Safe Homes Orange County at the Galleria at Crystal Run, located at 1 North Galleria Drive in Middletown.

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Kids’ Almanac Continued from page 15 Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence, in Bethany Hall at the Old Dutch Church located at 272 Wall Street in Kingston. “In this short film directed by musician/activist Natalie Merchant, a group of women living in the mid-Hudson region of New York State respond to the crisis of domestic violence in their community with compassion and creativity. Musicians, advocates, criminal prosecutors, victims and survivors all take to the stage, illuminating the darkness surrounding this public health epidemic.” A panel discussion about positive changes since last year’s One Billion Rising Ulster County follows the film, including senator Cecilia Tkaczyk; senator Terry Gipson; Michael P. Hein, Ulster County executive; Marcus Molinaro, Dutchess County executive; Elizabeth A. Culmone, Ulster County senior assistant district attorney, Special Victims’ Bureau; Marjorie Smith, Dutchess County assistant district attorney, bureau chief Special Victims’ Bureau. This event is free and open to the public; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call Beth Bengtson at Hale Advisors at (845) 383-1361. The film will be available for viewing at www.onebillionrising.org after the event.

Friday, February 14, 4 p.m.: One Billion Rising speak-out and flash mob dance with New Paltz Rising at SUNY-New Paltz, outside the Atrium Plaza/Administration Building, Route 32 entrance. At 5 p.m. there will be a dance party in the campus MultiPurpose Room. Parking is available in the lot across the street along Route 32. Wear red. For rehearsal and additional event information, visit www. facebook.com/hudsonvalleyrising.

To learn the “Break the Chain” dance choreography, visit www.onebillionrising.org.

Friday, February 14, 4 p.m.: One Billion Rising flash mob dance with the Grace Smith House in front of Family Court at 50 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. No dance experience or skill is required to participate, and signs with statistics are available to hold for those interested in joining but not dancing. For rehearsal and additional event information, visit www.facebook.com/gracesmithhouseinc or contact Himali Pandya at himali@gracesmithhouse.org or Monica Idema at monica@gracesmithouse.org, as well as www.gracesmithhouse.org. To learn the “Break the Chain” dance choreography, visit www.onebillionrising.org.

Presidents’ Day Weekend festivities In the Hudson Valley, Presidents’ Day weekend isn’t just a holiday; it’s a chance to commemorate our history.

Did you know that the first director of the FDR Library was a Monuments Man? Here are some highlights of this weekend’s events: Saturday, February 15, 3 to 5 p.m.: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum, located at 4079 Albany Post Road (Route 9) in Hyde Park, hosts a video presentation and family-friendly activities, as well as a display of Presidential Autographs, “original documents from the Roosevelt Library archives bearing the signatures of many of our nation’s Presidents including: Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy.

More than 30 signatures will be on display – most of which were collected

by Franklin Roosevelt himself.” This event is free and open to the public.

For information call (845) 486-7745 or visit www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu.

Saturday, February 15 through Monday, February 17 are Free Entrance Days in the National Parks, which means that you can visit the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site for free! The FDR site is located on the same grounds as the FDR Library & Museum, but they are run independently, and they have different addresses: The FDR home is located at 4097 Albany Post Road (Route 9) in Hyde Park. For more information about the FDR site, call (845) 229-9115 or visit www.nps.gov/ hofr. To learn more about the parks included in the Free Entrance Days, such as the Vanderbilt Mansion also located in Hyde Park, and additional fee-free dates, visit www.nps.gov.

Saturday, February 15 through Monday, February 17 from 12 noon to 4 p.m., celebrate our first president’s birthday at Washington’s Headquarters, located at 84 Liberty Street in Newburgh. All three days include a chance to meet the general in his office, while crafts, demonstrations and reenactors engage visitors in familyfriendly interactive presentations. For a complete schedule and more information, call (845) 562-1195 or visit http://nysparks.com.

Saturday, February 15 and Monday, February 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., experience the challenges faced by the Continental Army during the winter of 1782 to 1783. Witness a reenactment of the troops’ final encampment with musket and cannon firings at 11 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., as well as blacksmithing, medical demonstrations and other aspects of daily life.

After the firings, children may “enlist” in the Continental Army, drill with wooden muskets and get “paid” in Continental currency for their service.

The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site is co-located with the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor on Route 300, 374 Temple Hill Road, in New Windsor. For more information, call (845) 561-1765, extension 22, or visit http://nysparks.com.

Sunday, February 16, visit Kites over the Winter of 1780 to 1781 at Knox’s Headquarters, located at 289 Forge Hill Road in Vails Gate. Tours of the house are available on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a small cannon firing at 11:45 a.m., 1:45 and 3:45 p.m. For more information, call (845) 561-1765, extension 22, or visit http:// nysparks.com.

MUSIC New Dog on Fleas album due Congratulations to Grammy Award-winning Dean Jones on his band Dog on Fleas’s newest album release on February 18, Buy One Get One Flea! I can’t wait to check it out and share my impressions with you. In the meantime, you can learn more at http://dogonfleas.com.

Rachel Loshak & Morgan Taylor at Woodstock’s Kleinert A special concert with Rachel Loshak and Morgan Taylor means great music for you while supporting an upcoming album of their duets, as well as fundraising for Planned Par-

If your family hasn’t seen Black Violin yet, you are in for an amazing experience. Head over to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston on Tuesday, February 18 at 10 a.m., or the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, February 19 at 10 a.m. or 12 noon. These guys are fun, fierce, skilled, loud, classically trained and they get the entire place moving!

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They perform on Sunday, February 16 at 6 p.m. at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, located at 36 Tinker Street in Woodstock. Tickets cost $15 general admission, $10 online advance purchase.

Loshak’s recent album So Bright was produced by Dean Jones (see above), and husband Morgan Taylor is the artist and musician behind the popular Gustafer Yellowgold phenomenon, to which my kids know all the words. For tickets or more information, visit www.rachelloshak.com.

Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. with live piano accompaniment in Saugerties Movies with sound have their place, but if you’re looking for an alternative to mini-fig declarations that “Everything is awesome!” or plaintive choruses of “Let It Go,” head over to the Saugerties Library on Monday, February 17 at 6 p.m. for a free viewing of the Buster Keaton silent film Sherlock Jr., accompanied by piano improv by Marta Waterman.

Marta plays the piano for silent film presentations at the Rosendale Theatre and other venues. She watches each movie multiple times beforehand to see the pacing of the action and get ideas about what she will play. At showtime, she watches along with the audience and improvises an accompaniment in real time based on the actions and emotions of the film. It’s a fun, creative challenge for Marta, and you will enjoy it too!

The Saugerties Library is located at 91 Washington Avenue in Saugerties. For more information, call (845) 246-4317 or visit http://saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

To learn more about the performer, visit http://martawaterman.com.

Black History Month Step Show at the Bardavon Clear your calendar for the 2014 Price Chopper Black History Month Step Show, including regional and local Step Teams competing for cash and prizes; but this year’s event also includes a Hypest Dance Contest as well. Over the past 50 years, step has incorporated elements of popular artistic forms including military drills, children’s games, cheerleading, martial arts, hip hop and tap dancing, to name just a few. See it for yourself!

Advance tickets cost $17 for adults; $12 for students with ID and youth 12

and under; $10 for groups of 15 or more; $17 for day-of-show tickets; and there is a $2 discount with your Price Chopper Advantage card.

The Bardavon is located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. For tickets or more information, call (845) 473-2072 or visit www.bardavon.org.

Black Violin plays UPAC & the Bardavon If your family hasn’t seen Black Violin yet, you are in for an amazing experience. Head over to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Tuesday, February 18 at 10 a.m., or the Bardavon Opera House on Wednesday, February 19 at 10 a.m. or 12 noon.

These guys are fun, fierce, skilled, loud, classically trained and they get the entire place moving!

Tickets cost $6 for school groups; $6 for youth; $10 for adults. For tickets or more information, call (845) 473-5288, extension 106, or visit www.bardavon. org. UPAC is located at 601 Broadway in Kingston; the Bardavon is located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. To learn more about the performers, visit http:// blackviolin.net.

Saugerties hosts West Point Highlands Brass Quintet The West Point Highlands Brass Quintet is performing at Saugerties Pro Musica on Sunday, February 16 at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $12, seniors get in for $10, students get in free. The concert takes place at the Saugerties United Methodist Church, located at 67 Washington Avenue in Saugerties.

For more information, call (845) 6795733 or visit http://saugertiespromusica.org.

AREA EVENTS Fun-a-Day reception at Art Riot in Kingston I’m not saying that I love doing abbuilding planks; I hate doing planks.

But I will admit that I’m hooked. The daily practice continues to be transformative. And that’s precisely the idea behind taking up an activity and performing it daily. So when I heard about Art Riot’s Fun-a-Day reception for local folks who created an art piece every day during the month of January, I had to share. On Saturday, February 15 from 5 to 9 p.m., join the opening

reception and view the diverse works and meet the artists behind them. The exhibition lasts through February 28.

Art Riot is located at 36 John Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 331-2421 or visit www.theartriot. org. To learn more about the Fun-a-Day project, visit http://artclash.com.

The Pirate, the Princess and the Pea in Rhinebeck You could attend this weekend’s puppet performance of The Pirate, the Princess and the Pea because it’s at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and it’s great, or because it’s a production of the Crabgrass Puppet Theatre and it’s great. Either way, it’s a win for your family. On Saturday, February 15 at 11 a.m., this show will enchant and amuse your crew. Tickets cost $7 for children, $9 for adults and seniors.

The Center is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http://centerforperformingarts.org. To learn more about the performers and to see preview of the show, visit www. crabgrasspuppets.com.

American Girl fans meet I heard Rosanne Oslacky set up the March calendar for the Friends of Girls in American History’s “American Girl Club” for girls ages 6 to 12. Local American Girl enthusiasts are invited to participate in activities on Saturday and Sunday afternoons to “encourage the many attitudes and lifestyle skills from the past in a fun and playful atmosphere. It’s an opportunity for girls to step back in time into their favorite books, learn new skills and make friends.”

To reserve your child’s spot or to request a current calendar of events, contact Oslacky at (845) 427-2592 or friendsofgirlsinamericanhistory@yahoo. com.

SCIENCE Going-out-of-business sale at Parent Teacher Store in Poughkeepsie Our family loves our science experiments from the Parent Teacher Store in Kingston, and I’m sorry to report that the Poughkeepsie store is closing soon as well. In the meantime, merchandise is 50 percent off, so stop in and support them as you bid them a sad farewell.

The Parent Teacher Store is located in the Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall at 2600 South Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 559-0037 or visit www.parentteacherstore.com.

Reptile Expo returns to Mid-Hudson Civic Center I had no idea that some of you Kids’ Almanac readers were Reptile Expo groupies until recently. In case any of you haven’t heard, the Hudson Valley Reptile Expo takes place on Sunday, February 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, located at 14 Civic Center Plaza in Poughkeepsie. This show features gators with showtimes at 10:30 a.m., 12 noon, 1:30 and 3 p.m. I also just learned about the Hudson Valley Reptile Rescue, which will provide animal drop-off services at the Expo.

For more information about the Reptile Expo, call (845) 616-5838, (845) 902-8952 or visit www.herpnerds.com. As a reminder, it’s Fee Free Day at the nearby FDR and

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Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, so you can make a day of it. Later, ‘gators!

Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show at State Museum Sulfur is a fluorescent yellow: one of my favorite takeaways from our 4H group’s recent exploration of minerals. I had no idea; I thought that it just smells bad.

Do you love looking at, or even buying, crystals and other wonders of nature?

On Saturday and Sunday, February 15 and 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the James E. Campbell Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show takes place at the New York State Museum. Admission costs $5 each day, and children 12 and under get in free.

The New York Museum is located at 222 Madison Avenue in Albany. For more information, call (518) 474-5877 or visit www.nysm.nysed.gov.

Mad Science takes on air pressure in Kingston Mad Science means interactive science fun, and that means that you want to be at Kingston Library’s Super Saturday event. On Saturday, February 15 at 10:30 a.m., experience “Up, up and Away,” a program about air pressure but with unforgettable and fun demonstrations.

The event demonstrates the power that lies dormant in the air around us. The children are introduced to Bernoulli and Otto von Guerike, to the vacuum pump and the Magdeburg sphere. They see air crush objects and defy the strength of the strongest people in the room. Even toilet paper will amaze them!

Mad Science will also introduce the students to common uses of air pressure.

Mechanical devices and chemical reactions create vortices of expanding air that students can see, feel and hear.

By using common objects, the emphasis is on the science present in everyday life. Garbage cans, soda bottles and even toilet plungers are used to demonstrate scientific principles.

Audience participation is stressed throughout the show. Volunteers assist with most of the demonstrations… even parents are included during this interactive presentation!

This program is free to the public and geared for school-aged children.

The Kingston Public Library is located at 55 Franklin Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 331-0507, extension 7, or visit www.kingstonlibrary. org.

Astronomy Night at SUNY-New Paltz Prefer your science up high in the sky? Want to be more like Almanac Weekly “Night Sky” columnist and astronomer Bob Berman? Here’s your chance. This Thursday, February 20 is Astronomy Night at SUNY-New Paltz, an event offered on the first and third Thursdays of the month, including a Planetarium Show in the Coykendall Building at 6:30 p.m. followed by time in the Observatory from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. if skies are clear.

Attendance at Astronomy Night is free, but advance tickets are required, which are available at www.newpaltz.edu/ planetarium/shows.html. SUNY-New Paltz is located at 1 Hawk Drive in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 257-3818 or visit www.newpaltz.edu.

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onto our snow here? Unlike the Olympics, the Cross-Country Ski Clinics are open to skiers of all abilities, you don’t have to travel all the way to the Sochi mountains and they are free!

On Monday, February 17, Vic Izzo, Professional Ski Instructors of America member, former ski racer and high school cross-country ski team coach of 18 years, leads two clinics at Minnewaska State Park Preserve: 10 a.m. is the Classic CrossCountry clinic; 11:15 a.m. is the Skate Cross-Country Clinic. Each clinic lasts for one hour. Preregistration is required, and class size is limited.

Minnewaska State Park Preserve is located at 5281 Route 44/55 in Kerhonkson. To register or for more information, call (845) 255-0752 or visit http://nysparks.com.

Bounce! Trampoline Sports in Poughkeepsie I’ve been hearing great reviews, and I can’t wait to check it out myself.

Bounce! Trampoline Sports hosts its grand opening on Saturday, February 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pricing is $15 per hour, $22 for two hours during the grand opening, and the first $15 is donated to the charity of your choice: Boys & Girls Clubs of Kingston; Boy Scouts of America Hudson Valley Council; or Vassar Brothers Medical Center.

Bounce is located at 2 Neptune Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 206-4555 or visit http://bounceonit. com/poughkeepsie.

Sign up now for YMCA indoor mini-triathlon Just a reminder that Saturday, February 15 is the last day for early registration for the YMCA of Kingston indoor mini-triathlon, which takes place on Sunday, March 2. For more information or to register, visit www. ymcaulster.org.

NOTES Strengthening Families series in Port Jervis I like the concept of this Strengthening Families series taking place in Port Jervis and wonder if we might have something like it up here. This free seven-week program involves communication tools for parents with their 10-to-14-year-olds; free childcare provided for children ages 3 to 9 years; and a family meal. The series begins on Wednesday, February 19 and continues weekly through April 2 from 5:45 to 8:45 p.m. at

the Drew United Methodist Church, located at 49 Sussex Street in Port Jervis. The program is limited to ten families. For more information or to register, call (845) 858-3100, extension 12640.

“Public Education Now” forum in New Paltz Here’s an important forum to explore some of the current concerns around public education: “Public Education Now: Reform, Resistance and Solutions in New York State.” The forum takes place on Wednesday, February 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium at SUNY-New Paltz, located at 1 Hawk Drive in New Paltz.

This panel discussion will address current educational policies and their effects on students, educators, parents and communities. Speakers will discuss the latest developments in resistance to these policies, as well as actions to reclaim public education for the public good. Topics of discussion include: excessive high-stakes testing; Common Core Learning Standards; teacher evaluation by student test score; student privacy; the unprecedented influence of private corporations in public education; standardization of teacher education; and financial costs to school districts and taxpayers, among other topics.

Speakers include Carol Burris, New York State Principals; Leonie Haimson and Karen Sprowal, Class Size Matters; Monty Neill, FairTest; Katie Zahedi, principal, Red Hook School District; Bianca Tanis, special education teacher; Ken Mitchell, Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents; Julie Gorlewski, SUNY-New Paltz; Barbara Madeloni, teacher educator; and Diana Zavala, Change the Stakes. For more information, contact Dr. Nancy Schniedewind at (845) 257-2827 or schniedn@newpaltz.edu.

Winter break day camps For those of you with kids on vacation from school this week, keep these programs in mind for some unique ways to spend the day! Ashokan Winter Day Camp, http://ashokancenter. org; Wild Earth February Break Camp, http://wildearth.org; and Snapology Minecraft Camp, www.highlandculturalartsstudio.com.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno isn’t sure what the question is, but the answer is surely Lagusta’s Luscious Sea Salt Almond Slate. She lives in New Paltz with her husband Mike and their two children: the inspirations behind hudsonvalleyparents.com. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

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“SHOW ME A MAN WITH A TATTOO and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past” – Jack London

The story of skin

Brian DiNicola’s tattoo paintings now on view at Anvil Gallery in Kingston

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ake a look at the tattoo paintings by Brian DiNicola that are showing alongside the work of local eminence Scott Michael Ackerman and pop portraits by noted illustrator Jason O’Malley of Stone Ridge in a show at Tech Smiths’ Anvil Gallery in Uptown Kingston called “About Face.” They’re not paintings in a tattoo form, but classic painterly works of those who define themselves and tell personal narratives via their body’s embellishments.

“I’m in love, just now, with painting people in tattoos,” DiNicola said by phone this week. “I’ve been painting since I was 7, and got a BFA from U-Mass Dartmouth in Illustration, but then went on for an MFA in Painting and have just been out since May. I’m working construction by day and painting at night, lining shows up and building my résumé. In fact, some of the works will have to leave this show in a couple of weeks for another exhibit in Chicago. And I just heard I’ll also be showing in Hudson at Limner.”

DiNicola, who lives in the Berkshires of nearby Massachusetts, says that he hadn’t been to the Hudson Valley until he got asked to show his portraits at Guts ‘n’ Glory Tattooists in Rosendale last fall.

He’s liking Kingston, in particular, a lot, but says that his current plans call for him to pursue a teaching gig, after building his exhibition résumé and completing more of his own work.

“I keep myself on a strict regimen; I’m pretty disciplined when it comes to painting,” he says, noting how he has returned to live with his parents, setting up a studio in their basement, until he reaches his next step as an artist – and hopefully a teacher. “I started charting the progress of a work every two hours or so, making what feels like an animation of my process. But when I showed these as

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part of my thesis presentation, it seemed many spent more time connecting with the ‘video’ than the work itself.” That is a true shame, given the textural element inherent in DiNicola’s work, which incorporates bits of cardboard and various tricks to achieve a myriad of “painterly” effects in his portraits.

“Some of what I work with feels like great globs of Play-Doh,” he adds. “I look at my work now and it feels like it’s by a different person from the painter working with still-lives and form a few years ago. But then I recall my methodology building boxes, using my fingers on the surface.”

DiNicola says that much of his work fits in with a new portraiture movement based in California of late, and rising rapidly in Chicago. It’s about the simple narratives inherent in a person’s look. “I

had been painting myself for a while under colored lights, and then realized I wanted to paint someone with colored skin,” he recalls, telling of how he found a model with “full-sleeve” tattooing. “It’s raised so many ideas and questions, within and outside the painting itself; there’s always a narrative at play...and recently I’ve been adding in other adornments people wear, from certain shirts to plaid hats. If you just look carefully at a person, there’s always a narrative there.” Coming up, the painter adds, is a series of portraits of people in masks, from his own adornment of the “models” with paint to the masks that they bring in.

“The dermis is just weird and interesting in general,” he says of his fascination with painting skin in two dimensions. “At one point, working with the ways tattoos turn grey on one’s skin, I was trying to see how

many greys I could work with in a row...

It’s like I’m relearning the color wheel!”

“I had been wondering why these people out in California were picking people as their subjects,” DiNicola adds.

“Then it hit me: You can always relate to another person; there’s no secondguessing. And the details are fun, from one’s look to the way clothes wrinkle.

Endlessly fascinating.” Just as it’s great to have artists such as DiNicola launching themselves from our midst.

–Paul Smart “About Face” with Brian DiNicola, Scott Michael Ackerman & Jason O’Malley, through March, Anvil Gallery, Tech Smiths, 45 North Front Street, Uptown Kingston; (845) 443-4866, www.techsmiths.com, http://bDiNicola.blogspot. com.

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pieces of found metal, colored foil and beads to a ground. LeFevre-Stratton says that she is drawn to “artforms that are graphically bold and geographically connected.” The exhibit includes the artist’s varied interpretations of the Tree of Life, the simple beauty of primitive sea creatures, designs and devices found in English ceramics, portrait miniatures and flower basket compositions inspired by traditional folk art.

ASK is located at 97 Broadway in Kingston. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m. or by appointment. For more information, call (845) 338-0331 or visit www.askforarts.org.

Women’s Studio Workshop’s Chili Bowl Fiesta The Rosendale Recreation Center on Route 32 in Rosendale will host the seventh annual Women’s Studio Workshop Chili Bowl Fiesta on Saturday, February 22 from 2 to 7 p.m.

Admission costs $5 or is free after 4 p.m. Chili from area restaurants is free with your purchase of handmade bowls and tumblers. For more information, call (845) 658-9133 or visit www.wsworkshop.org.

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rtist Bruce Bundock pays tribute to the hardworking people behind the scenes of the college’s day-to-day operations in the upcoming exhibit “Faces of Vassar.” An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 20 from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit remains on view in Vassar’s Palmer Gallery through March 13. The gallery is open daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is free of charge.

Educated at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Bundock’s paintings are held in public and private collections. He has also designed over 30 postage stamps for Gambia, Lesotho, the Maldive Islands, Antigua, Barbuda and the British Virgin Islands. Bundock is also museum preparator at the college’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

“Faces of Vassar” features 22 acrylic paintings of Vassar staff members, including carpenters, electricians, maintenance workers and food services personnel. The idea for the project came to Bundock more than a year ago, and he worked from photographs that he took of his subjects.

Each painting is a close-up portrait of the subject’s face; Bundock sought to portray their individuality. “We see them every day, but in some ways we don’t see them,” he says. “They make valuable contributions to the college. My show is simply what the title says: an appreciation.”

Vassar College is located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 437-5370 or visit www. vassar.edu.

“Rouge Show” opens this Saturday in Rhinebeck An artist’s reception will be held for “Rouge Show,” the new exhibit at the Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery at 43 East Market Street in Rhinebeck, on Saturday, February 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show features paintings depicting the heart and passion of the season. For more information, call (845) 516-4435 or visit www.betsyjacarusoartist.com.

Arts Mid-Hudson seeks submissions for pop-up shows Arts Mid-Hudson curates pop-up art exhibits in office buildings, restaurants and other venues for artists to display and sell their work. The organization is currently seeking artists to

submit work for inclusion. There is no entry fee, but artists are encouraged to become a member of Arts Mid-Hudson.

All work must be suitable for the gallery.

Artists are responsible for delivering or shipping work to the specified location and must provide their own insurance.

A 20 percent commission is paid to Arts Mid-Hudson on work sold as a result of the exhibition. If hanging work, the art must have wires securely fastened on the back. If art is unframed, the work will be hung with binder clips.

For more information, contact Arts Mid-Hudson at (845) 454-3222 or e-mail qcs@artsmidhudson.org.

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In operation since 1945, Gadaleto’s began as a Highland grocery store operated by Nat and Angelo Gadaleto and morphed into a seafood truck fleet, New Paltz fish market, and finally an adjoining restaurant

Branzini, Dorado, Bluefish and Red Snapper (above) at Gadaleto’s in New Paltz.

Prime piscatorial pickings Where and how to find the freshest seafood in Ulster County

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’m crazy for seafood. Put me on a desert island, and with just fish and maybe some cheese, I’d be happy. But I know how crucial it is for seafood to be perfectly fresh to be delicious – and how tricky it can be to find a good source for this delicate and highly perishable source of good lean protein, nutrition and taste.

The key is to jump in with all senses on alert to get the tastiest possible specimens, but it can be challenging to find quality seafood in this landlocked region. One local place that I’ve had great luck with is Sea Deli: a little hole-in-the-wall, full of character if not charm, on Broadway in Kingston. Not only is its restaurant a great spot for a variety of always-fresh, killer fried seafood, but the market usually has a few great specimens to take home and cook.

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just happened to be 40 years to the day since it opened, Dave Piccoli told me.

He is the chief cook, there for the past 17 years. Frank Sr. and Marge opened the business in 1974, and Dave’s uncle and father, Frank Jr. and John, still choose the fish every Monday and Wednesday in the Bronx at the night market of the New Fulton Fish Market.

“You want wild-caught, not farmraised,” was Dave’s advice on how to pick fish. That day Sea Deli had whole whiting and porgies, and fillets of catfish, haddock, flounder, sole and organic salmon. There were also sea scallops, shrimp in various sizes, littleneck clams, crabcakes, stuffed clams and seafood salad. In the adjoining restaurant everything is made in-house, from batters to sauces to soups and even the coleslaw, without preservatives. Don’t expect fancy ambiance, but laid-back comfort, great service and impeccable seafood. Sea Deli also offers party platters and lunchtime delivery within the Kingston area, and Frank and John take special requests for their trips to the Bronx.

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In operation since 1945, Gadaleto’s began as a Highland grocery store operated by Nat and Angelo Gadaleto and morphed into a seafood truck fleet, New Paltz fish market, and finally an adjoining restaurant. Although Steve Gadaleto passed away three years ago, it is still owned by his daughter Stacie, along with Steve Kraus of the Gadaleto family. One of the market “mongers” told me Kraus shops for seafood in the Bronx “a couple times a week.” Gadaleto’s also supplies seafood for many area restaurants, and got Readers’ Pick in the Best Fish Market category by Hudson Valley magazine the past several years.

It’s not just about finding the right place, but knowing how to choose the freshest fish. It’s generally best to go in with an open mind, rather than a specific planned menu. “A good first step is to wait until you are at the store,” says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association on the matter, “before deciding which type to buy. Here you will be able to select the freshest items in the case.”

In any market, no matter how lauded or

low, start with your eyes. Look at the fish as closely as you can, then get even closer and get a good whiff. Fish should smell like nothing, or like the sea: slightly briny.

If its scent is fishy, sour or ammonialike at all, put it back. It can take nerve to ask for a whiff of the fish that you’re about to buy, but do it!

Take a good look at those fillets and steaks. They should look translucent, wet and shiny, not dry, and the fibers or grains should be clinging together, not separating or pulling apart at all.

Coloring should be even, without light or dark spots; and look at the edges for any drying out or mushiness that betrays that the fish is old.

If you poke the fish, an indentation should not remain, but the flesh should spring back right away. Any liquid around the fish should be clear, not milky. If you’re in a grocery store and the fish is pre-wrapped, look for a pack date and disregard the “sell by” date. That pack date should be today, or maybe yesterday in a pinch; never earlier.

Fillets are convenient and quick to cook, so whole fish is harder and harder to find; but the flavor of a fish cooked on the bone is incomparable. If you find whole fish, look at the eyes first; they should be clear rather than clouded over, and bulgy rather than sunken. The fish should be displayed on ice. Make sure that the gills are bright red or pink and moist-looking, and the scales tight and bright-looking, without dullness.

If you’re seeking shellfish, look for a place with a high turnover, ask their source and make sure that they are alive – which means that their shells are either tightly closed or briskly snap shut when you tap them. Oysters, clams and mussels should smell fresh, and don’t buy any that have broken or cracked shells.

If they stay closed after cooking, discard them.

Scallops should smell good, too, and be pale with no browning, and moist but without milky liquid. Whole squid should have clear eyes like the best fish, and pristine skin, without tears. Live lobsters and crabs should be perky and lively and not too long in the tank …ask!

Sometimes frozen or previously frozen seafood is the best that you can find, and not always a bad thing. Often it is frozen at sea as soon as it’s caught, so it’s great.

But if thawed it should be eaten right away and never refrozen. If you’re perusing frozen fish to buy, make sure that you can see into the package and there are no ice crystals or frost, and that the fish looks

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okay – not discolored or spotted. Thaw it out slowly in the fridge overnight, or more quickly, in a bowl of cold water.

Once you buy your fish, if the day is warm, put it on ice for the trip home. I carry around an insulated bag, and put some ice packs in it if I think that I might buy fish. Once you have carefully chosen your piscatorial prize, when you bring it home, put it on ice in the fridge – crushed, if you have it, to touch more surfaces of the fish – and cook it ASAP. So choose your vendor wisely and your fish even more carefully. Fresh seafood prepared right is one of the greatest gifts to the tastebuds.

– Jennifer Brizzi Sea Deli, Monday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., 654 Broadway, Kingston; (845) 338-5522, www.theseadeli.com. Gadaleto’s, daily, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 246 Main Street, New Paltz; (845) 255-1717, www.gadaletos. com. Read more about local cuisine and learn about new restaurants on Ulster Publishing’s DineHudsonValley.com or HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

Fundraiser for Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome this Saturday The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum will host its second annual winter fundraiser on Saturday, February 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20, which include a buffet dinner of eggplant parmesan, meatballs and baked ziti, an audiovisual presentation about the Aerodrome and live music from a number of Hudson Valley musicians, including the Real Men (Karl Allweier, Freddy Sire and Tom Polapink), Geri Lougherly, Greg Douglas, Mike Cole, Saja Lindsay-Sudlow, Willie Smith, the Mr. Jimis (Jim Hare and Jim Streider), Annie Fox and a special performance by the King’s Highlanders (battlefield music of the 18 th century).

Items donated by local businesses and individuals will be auctioned, with proceeds raised to be used toward restoration of the Museum’s collection.

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Songs & food from New Zealand at Uptown Gallery in Kingston The Uptown Gallery in Kingston will host “New Zeal and Song: A Fusion of Contemporary and Traditional New Zealand Cuisine and Culture” on Friday, February 21 at 7 p.m. The event is a fundraiser for the Opera Theater of Kingston. Tickets cost $35.

The menu, selected by New Zealand opera singer and Kingston Festival of the Arts founder Kerry Henderson, will feature distinctive dishes from New Zealand, including roast lamb with mint sauce, kiwifruit and the tasty appetizer “devils on horseback.” Dessert will be Pavlova, a crisp meringue with a chewy center named after the famous dancer.

New Zealand’s sauvignon blanc and pinot noir will be featured. Chef Curt Robair, executive chef at Menla Mountain Retreat and former owner of Elijah’s Cafe in Woodstock, will oversee the preparation and service. Vegetarian, dairy-free and gluten-free options will be available.

Baritone Kerry Henderson will sing New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn’s haunting song cycle “Sings Harry,” and poems and stories by noted New Zealand writers including James K. Baxter, Janet Frame and Katherine Mansfield will be shared. Gallery pianist Peter Cody will perform on the Uptown Gallery’s 100-year-old Knabe parlor grande.

The gallery walls will exhibit “Pete Seeger: Memories” throughout the month of February with community-sourced photographs, art and memorabilia celebrating the life and music of Pete Seeger. The Uptown Gallery is located at 296 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 331-3261 or e-mail info@kingstonfestival.org.

Cornell Coop offers backyard chickenraising class in Kingston There are many benefits to raising your own flock of backyard chickens: They’re easy and inexpensive to maintain; their eggs are fresh, great-tasting and nutritious; they act as great bug and weed control for your yard; and they produce the world’s best fertilizer for your garden.

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County (CCEUC) will offer an introductory course to help area residents get started on raising backyard chickens on Tuesday, February 18 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at CCEUC’s Education Center, located at 232 Plaza Road in Kingston.

The fee is $5 per person or $10 per family or farm. Register by February 14

for guaranteed admission. Walk-ins are welcome, but space is limited. All ages are welcome to attend.

The course will include a focus on rules and regulations, how to get started, housing, feeding and watering needs and weather and predator concerns.

The course is the first in a series to be held this spring. Future classes will go more in-depth into housing, health, egg production, manure management, breeding and raising meat birds.

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On its opening day in 1902, more than 1,600 people rode its sturdy passenger cars up 2,200 feet of sheer mountainside track to a scenic location atop Mount Beacon

Funiculi, funicular!

Exhibit brings planned restoration of Mount Beacon Incline Railway to 3-D life

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he Mount Beacon Incline Railway was once the world’s steepest passenger funicular.

On its opening day in 1902, more than 1,600 people rode its two sturdy passenger cars up 2,200 feet of sheer mountainside track to a scenic location atop Mount Beacon, 1,540 feet above sea level.

By 1926, more than 110,000 passengers were riding the railway to the mountaintop every year. They came from all over the region, by railroads that converged on the Beacon/Newburgh area or by steamship from New York City up the Hudson River, where upon arrival a short trolley ride brought them to the base of the mountain.

Engineered by the Otis Elevator Company – which had already designed and built two other successful mountain railways in the region, one in the Catskills and another in Lake George – the Mount Beacon Incline Railway featured technological advancements over its predecessors. The funicular in

Beacon was the first to have an electrically driven powerhouse (the older railways were steam-driven), and its cars were equipped with electric lighting and signaling systems.

Those who journeyed up the steep incline were rewarded with not only stunning mountaintop vistas and a natural setting to enjoy, but a casino and a hotel. They are still recalled nostalgically by older local r e s i d e n t s like Jean Maselli of Newburgh, who remembers how she took the funicular up the mountain in the 1940s to dance to big-name Big Bands of the day under moonlight on the Hudson. The railway ceased operation in 1978. Destroyed by fire in 1983, the funicular’s ruins are owned and preserved by Scenic Hudson in its Mount Beacon Park.

Now the nonprofit Mount Beacon Incline Railway Restoration Society (MBIRRS) is committed to returning incline railway service to the region, creating a destination attraction easily accessible by Metro North and within

The free hikes are meant to generate interest in Mount Beacon, let people know about the site’s history and its status as a National Historic Register property

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Postcard of the Mount Beacon Incline Railroad (above); the funicular in 1905 (below)

minutes of major highways. When restored to operation, the new Mount Beacon Incline Railway will take visitors up the steep incline to a natural park setting, with visitors coming not only for the ride up the mountainside but also for what they’ll find at the top: miles of pristine hiking trails, scenic outlooks and spectacular views – even all the way to Manhattan on a clear day.

An investment of $20 million to build the railway and establish the park areas is expected to generate $30 million in the region annually. The funds are to be raised through private and corporate donations, fundraising events, member support and government grants. The project was recently awarded a $100,000 grant instigated by assemblyman Frank Skartados (D-104th District).

Stacy Dedring, chief communications officer for MBIRRS, says that at this point there isn’t a definite timeline for completion of the project. “There are a lot of things that have to take place first before the site will be shovel-ready,” she says, “getting funding, getting the land transferred to the state – we’re still very much in the middle of the process.” The City of Beacon has to approve the project, and environmental impact and economic development studies have to be completed. “But the state has agreed to purchase the 200-plus-acre parcel at the top of the mountain,” slated to become part of the Hudson Highlands State Park, Dedring adds. “We’re hitting our stride at this point.”

Once the project is complete, the Mount Beacon Incline Railway Restoration Society will step back to become more of a “Friends of the Mount Beacon Incline Railway,” Dedring says, to support and raise funds for the continuation of the railway while the state actually takes over

and runs it.

Currently MBIRRS offers interpretive hikes up the mountain from April through October; free of charge and open to the public. The hikes are meant to generate interest in the site, and let people know about its history and its status as a National Historic Register property.

In addition, there is an exhibition on view daily through Sunday, March 9 at Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon that focuses on the plans for the railway restoration, along with the proposed development of the Beacon Greenway Trails that will follow Fishkill Creek as it flows from the town line through the city’s urban center, then down to the Hudson River. The five-week-long “Beacon Reimagined” exhibition incorporates 3D animation, archival footage and photographs, architectural renderings and ambient sounds to show the vision for Beacon’s future.

There is also a very well-made video on the MBIRRS website (www. inclinerailway.org) that gives the history of the Incline Railway and demonstrates what it could be again; it’s worth watching.

– Sharyn Flanagan “Beacon Reimagined” exhibit, through Sunday, March 9, daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street, Beacon; www. beaconreimagined.org, www.inclinerailway.org.

Free fly-tying classes in Phoenicia The Phoenicia Fish and Game Association is 90 years old this year. Take advantage of all that experience in free fly-tying classes, open to age 14 and

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NIGHT SKY

The dark crystal Or, Bob sheds light on the secrets of snow

O

ctober was so warm, perhaps we imagined that we’d get a mild winter.

Instead, the combo of lots of snow and unusual cold has made this a doozy.

Oh well, we may as well enjoy the magic behind that white stuff falling from the sky.

Most folks assume that water turns solid when the temperature reaches 32 degrees.

In actuality, water’s solidification requires 80 calories of extra energy for each gram the size of a sugar cube. Water needs a push, an extra bit of frigid encouragement, to turn solid. Moreover, ice is not a good heat conductor, which means that it is a poor cold conductor, too, so it thickens only gradually.

To use real numbers, if the air temperature stays at an unwavering 14 degrees Fahrenheit, studies show that ice will form and grow to four inches thick in two days. That’s the minimum recommended thickness for ice fishing or other activities pursued on foot.

How much time to double that to eight inches? Not another two days, but rather a full extra week. Ice starts fast, but then takes a go-slow approach. It requires an entire month more to achieve the 15-inch thickness that can support the weight of cars.

And an odd cloud dance has to happen for snow to materialize. First, several water molecules have to collide before a potential ice structure can begin to form. A single molecule cannot freeze.

Second, if the droplets are pure water, the ice-crystal process is reluctant to get underway at all. It won’t happen anywhere near the freezing mark. As if bureaucratic red tape is gumming up the process, ice won’t form unless the temperature reaches 72 degrees below the freezing point: 40 below zero. So for ice or snow to materialize at a more reasonable and common temperature, the cloud’s droplets need a seed or nucleus around which to grow. Since air normally contains lots of tiny floating debris, this is usually no problem.

Germs are the most common snowflake starters and lie at the heart of 85 percent of all flakes

above, taking place on the next four Saturdays, February 15 and 22, March 1 and 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring tools, although there will be a number of vises available for use. Feathers and hooks will be supplied.

Registration is required at (845) 2545904. The Phoenicia Fish and Game Association is located at 5419 Route 28 in Phoenicia. For more information, visit www.phoeniciafishandgame.com.

Birding expedition to Stony Kill Farm The Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club of Dutchess County provides numerous opportunities to observe and learn about birds through monthly programs held on the fourth Monday of most months, featuring guest speakers with presentations on birds, wildlife and environmental issues. Regularly scheduled birding field trips are conducted each Wednesday and on some weekends throughout the year.

All programs are open to the public and free of charge.

This week the group will lead a birding field trip on Saturday, February 15 to Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center, located at 79 Farmstead Lane in Wappingers Falls. Meet at the barns at 9 a.m. To attend, reserve a spot with group leader Barbara at (845) 297-6701.

For more information (read against a backdrop of cheerful birdsong), visit www. watermanbirdclub.org.

Snowshoe to Litchfield Ledge this Saturday Enjoy the Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables outing to Litchfield Ledge, a moderate-to-strenuous snowshoe (or hike if there isn’t enough snow) on Saturday, February 15 at 10 a.m. at Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Gardiner. Meet in the lower

lot. The cost is $8 per car. Participants should be age 18 and older. No reservations are required. For more information, contact group leader Martin Bayard at (845) 229-2216.

Lecture on dogs’ role in modern Japanese history Aaron Skabelund, an expert on the cultural history of Japan, will give a talk, “Can the Subaltern Bark? Dogs, Japan and the Making of the Modern Imperial World,” on Wednesday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at Vassar College in the Sanders Building’s Spitzer Auditorium, Room 212. The event is free and open to the public. The lecture is sponsored by the History Department and the Asian Studies program.

Skabelund’s presentation will explore why researchers in the social sciences and the humanities have directed their attention almost entirely to human affairs, relegating the study of the nonhuman world to the natural sciences. He will also delve into whether two modern technologies, photography and taxidermy, allow some animals to “speak.” To explore these issues, the talk focuses on two moments of human/canine relations in Japan: the latter half of the 19th century, when Japan was the object of Western imperialism, and the 1930s, when Japan become a major imperial power.

An associate professor of History at Brigham Young University, Skabelund specializes in modern Japanese history, with an emphasis in the social and

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But you’d never guess what the best ice-generating specks might be. Germs! A droplet readily freezes into a crystal around a living airborne microbe, a bacterium, at any temperature below 28 degrees Fahrenheit. They’ll form around a tiny speck of floating clay (kaolinite) a bit more reluctantly, and only if it’s colder than 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

And if all they have are specks of silver iodide – the compound used in cloud seeding – they’ll start to make crystals below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. But germs are the most common snowflake starters and lie at the heart of 85 percent of all flakes.

So next time you gaze at a lovely snowstorm, inform your favorite germophobe or hypochondriac that living bacteria sit shivering in most of those untold billions of flakes.

Then hand him or her a snowcone or organize a catch-a-snowflake-on-your-tongue party.

Once the ice-forming process is started, more molecules join the party, and the crystal grows. It can ultimately become either a snowflake or a rough granule of ice called by the odd name graupel. A snowflake contains ten quintillion water molecules. That’s ten million trillion. Ten snowflakes – which can fit on your thumb tip – have the same number of molecules as there are grains of sand on the Earth, or stars in the visible universe.

How many flakes, how many molecules fashion the snowy landscape out your window?

(That was a rhetorical question. But if you know the answer, let me know.)

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

cultural history of imperialism, animals and the military. He has produced original scholarship in Japanese and German as well as translated numerous Japanese sources into English for publication. Skabelund holds a PhD in Modern Japanese History from Columbia University.

Vassar is located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 437-5370 or visit www.vassar.edu.

Cary Institute to screen documentary on songbird poaching The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook will offer a free screening of the documentary film Emptying the Skies on Friday, February 21 at 7 p.m. The film is about the widespread poaching of migratory songbirds in the Mediterranean and the heroism of a team of Italian bird-lovers trying to put an end to the practice. Seating is first-come, firstserved. The doors open at 6:30 p.m.

A question-and-answer session with director Roger Kass will follow the 78-minute film.

The footage, shot in Cyprus, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, sheds muchneeded light on the widespread illegal trapping of songbirds. In parts of Southern Europe, songbirds are a culinary delicacy, commanding top dollar on the

black market. Learn about the millions of protected songbirds that wind up on dinner plates, why the harvest is unsustainable and how citizens can help turn the tide.

The film is based on a New Yorker essay by writer Jonathan Franzen. Using discreet cameras, filmmakers traveled to poaching hotspots with international activists.

The event will take place in the Cary Institute auditorium, located at 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Route 44) in Millbrook.

For more information, contact Pamela Freeman at (845) 677-7600, extension 121, or e-mail freemanp@caryinstitute.org.

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Thursday

CALENDAR 2/13

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-5PM Health Care Enrollment Assistance.

Open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace continues through March 31. Health Care Navigators available by appointment. Call for appointment: 800-453-4666.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz.

9:30AM-10:30AM Fit After Fifty with Diane Collelo. Three-part class offering movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-11AM Preschool Story Time. “Boogie Woogie Books!” with Amy Dunphy. Meets on Thursdays.. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

10AM Mohonk Preserve – Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve. Hear about napping animals, hungry birds, or icy tracks and celebrate the snowy season. Info: 255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve, Visitor Center, New Paltz, free.

10:30AM Book Explorers Storytime. For ages 4 and up. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580.

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

1PM-4PM Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Most players are elementary and intermediate players.

Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1:30PM-2:15PM Free Lunchtime Meditation Group. On-going, Thurs, 1:30-2:15pm. Open to all levels, weekly guided meditation and relaxation exercises. Donations welcome. Web: www. lindamlaurettalcsw.com. Serenity Counseling & Meditation, 101 Hurley Ave, Kingston.

3:30PM Math Regents Prep. Every Wed. @ 3:30pm Certified Math Teacher - Don’t fail Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. Empowering Ellenville, 159 Canal St, Ellenville, 877-576-9931.

3:30PM-5PM Movie Madness. The Phantom Tollbooth. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

5PM “Ancient Greek Bronzes: From the Essence of Form to Hellenistic Realis.” Sean Hemingway, Curator of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give a talk.

Info: www.vassar.edu. Vassar College, Poughkeespie.

5:30PM-6:30PM Mixed Levels -Tai Chi. Led by

... a display of fine art lovingly hand created by residents of Woodstock Commoms! ... food & fun also on tap along with music performances and other resident performing art. ... Valentine’s Day 2/14/14 5:00 pm — 8:00 pm Woodstock Commons Community Room Playhouse Lane, Woodstock, NY FREE, OPEN TO ALL 845-331-2140 or www.rupco.com

Martha Cheo. Winter session is from Jan 2 March 27. Beginners need to call Martha Cheo directly to join the winter session at 256-9316. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

6PM-7PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm. Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public.

Contact info: 658-8556 orwww.skylake.shambhala. org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln,Rosendale.

6:30PM-7:30PM Introduction to Meditation.

Susan Olin-Dabrowski of “Whole Person Healing” will lead this free workshop. Info: www.beekmanlibrary.org or 724-3414. Beekman Library, 11 Town Center Blvd, Hopewell Junction, free.

6:30 PM-7:15 PM Advanced Tai Chi. Led by Martha Cheo. Winter session is from Jan 2 March 27. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

7PM-9PM Grow Your Own! Winter Lecture Series for Home Gardeners. Four different two hour courses each containing two different lectures designed to prepare the avid home gardener for the upcoming growing season. Reg. reqr’d. Info:3403990 ext. 335 or www.cceulster.org. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston, $15 /per class, $50 /for 4 classes.

7 PM -9 PM Kingston-Rhinebeck Toastmasters Club. Practice public speaking. Guests are welcome. Info: 338-5184 or KingstonRhinebeckTM@gmail.com or www.Kingston-RhinebeckToastmasters.com. Ulster County Office Building, 244 Fair St, Kingston.

7PM Doug Marcus. Keegan Ales, St. James St, Kingston.

7PM-8:30PM Shawangunk Ridge Free Public Lecture Series: Climbing and Conservation in the Gunks. With Mohonk Preserve Director of Conservation Science John Thompson and Mohonk Preserve Research Associate and climber JoeBridges, Ph.D. Info: www.mohonkpreserve.org/ events. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center, Room 102, New Paltz, free.

7PM-8:30PM Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response. A group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Info: 876-7906 or www.mideastcrisis.org. Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

7PM “Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended: Abraham Lincoln and The Struggle for Freedom.” Rutgers University Professor Dr. Louis P. Masur will trace the evolution of President Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about emancipation, the place of blacks inAmerican society. Info: 341-4891 or www.sunyorange. edu. SUNY Orange, Gilman Center for International Education, Middletown, free.

7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley.

No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

7PM “She Loves You – The Beatles and New York.” Multi-media lecture will explore the impact of the British invasion on New York, led by The Beatles in February 1964, their historic concert at Shea Stadium, John Lennon’s NYCconnection and discuss how their music continues to be an inspiration. Info: www.bethlehempubliclibrary. org or 518-439-9314. Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave, Delmar.

7PM -9PM Japanese Movie Night: Free screening of “Porco Rosso” or “Kurenai no Buta”, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, story by Hayao Miyazaki, starring Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Bunshi Katsura, Yuko Kotegawa, 1992, 94 minGomenKudasai Noodle Shop,The Rite Aid Plaza, 232 Main St. New Paltz, 255-8811.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Casey Erdmann + Band.

Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM-9:30PM Life Drawing Classes. Tuesdays & Thursdays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

8:30 PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch and Bill Keith. 679-3484 Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

2/14

Mid-Hudson ADK Outing: President’s Day Weekend at Wiezel Cabin at Heart Lake. Contact Pete McGinnis for additional information pmcgin1@aol.com. Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org.

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Sustainability Leadership Workshop. (2/14-2/16) Offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business. Info: www.c2cfellows.org or 752-4514., Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Frost Valley Family Weekend (2/14- 2/17). A winter wonderland of fun: skiing, skating, tubing, and hot cocoa by the fire. 2 or 3 night packages.

Info: 985-2291; info@frostvalley.org or www.frostvalley.org. Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville.

9:30AM-3:30PM The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program provides free, reliable tax preparation service for low to middle income families, individuals and seniors. By appointment only. Please call 2-1-1 to schedule an appointment. Info:www. poklib.org or 485-3445 x 3702. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie, free.

9:30AM-12PM Minnewaska Preserve: Valentine’s Day Waterfall Snowshoe. Approximately 2.5 mile long snowshoe hike. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Peter’s Kill Climbing Area, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

9:30AM One Billion Rising Event will feature the premiere screening of Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence.

Natalie Merchant will introduce the premiere public screening.Panel discussion with:Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk,Senator Terry Gipson,Michael P. Hein, Ulster County Executive Representativesand Dutchess Countywill address the issue of domestic violence as a regional crisis that requires a cooperative response. Many civic leaders will also be in attendance and encouraged to contribute to this urgent conversation.Info: 383-1361. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston, free.

9:45 AM - 10:45AM Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol: Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation.Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-1PM Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum Valentine’s Day Cookie Workshop. $5 per participant plus admission to the museum, $7.50 for adults and children. Info: 471-0589 or www.mhcm. org. The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum,75 North Water St, Poughkeepsie.

10:30AM Toddler Tales Storytime. For ages 2-3.

Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

12PM-5PM Arlington Farmers’ Market. Every Thursday from 12 to 5pm, when school is in session. Info: www.vassar.edu or 437-7035 Vassar Main Building, College Center, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

12:05PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM Valentine’ Day Party. Info: 626-2115; www.townofrochester.net. Rochester Community Center, 50 Scenic Rd, Accord.

3:30PM After School Crafts. For ages 8-12. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

3:30PM-4:30PM After School Story Hour. Theme is The Dewey Decimal System. Sessions for second and third graders meet on Fridays. Info: www. stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

4PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Scene in the Hudson Valley.” Features images of Hudson Valley barns, as well as images from Sapienza’s “Scene in the Hudson Valley” series. Info: www. parkavenueartphoto.com. Grand Cru Beer and Cheese Market,6384 Mill St, Rhinebeck.

5PM-8PM Art Opening: “Share the Love.” Resident artists will show their work - a display of art lovingly created by residents of every age group.

Info: www.rupco.org. Woodstock Commons, Woodstock.

5PM-8PM Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park : “Save a Heart - Buy Some Art.” Fund-raiser for the American Heart Association. Music & dancing, gourmet desserts, door prizes, & raffles. Info: 229-9029. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, 4338 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, $10.

6PM Bill & Brian Robinson’s Wildlife Program.

For animal lovers of all ages. Free. Info: 338-5580.

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

6:15PM Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner.

Kosher dairy or parve please. Followed by services at 7:30p.m. The Kerhonkson Synagogue, 26 Minnewaska Trail, Ellenville, 626-2010.

6:30 PM -9:30 PM Dinner and Dance and Romance. -Rio de Samba. Bossa Nova Vocal Jazz. BYOB. 338-7161. Gabriel’s Café, 316 Wall St, Kingston.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Frank Luther on bass, John Esposito on piano, Mike DeMicco on guitar, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists. No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville, 518- 678-3101.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Alexis P. Suter Band’s Valentine to The Falcon! Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Valentine’s Evening of Love, Romance, and Eros. Featuring spoken word, music, art. Hosted

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Suggested. Info: 246-5306. Café Mezzaluna, 626 Route 212, Saugerties, $10.

7PM-9PM MK Trio. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

7:30PM Chris Washburne & The Syotos Band.

Featuring vocalist Claudette Sierra. Info: 758-7900 or www.fishercenter.bard.edu Bard College, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, $20.

7:30PM Friday Film Series: Moonstruck. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $6, 339-6088.

7:30PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsOfWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Rt 212, Woodstock, $20, $15.

8PM O+ Festival Kick-Off for 2014 Submissions. Join the O+ folks and musicians: Simi Stone, and the Kids, Old Double E, for a night of music, games, and a silent auction. Call for artists and musicians to be part of the 2014 O+Festival.

Info: www.opositivefestival.org. The Anchor, 744 Broadway, Kingston.

8PM Free Faculty Concert: A Tale of Two Voices. Cabaret with Drew Minter, who explores the tension between his three-decade career as an internationally renowned countertenor and the baritone voice that has traveled with him throughout. Vassar College, Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

8PM Valentine’s Day Second Friday Jam - All You Need Is Love Beatles Tribute Night with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8pm. Joining the guys will be Larry Balestar, Larry Federman, Vince Sauter, Fran Palmieri, Lauren Tully, and Shana Entin. The High Falls Café @ The Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls, 687-2699.

8PM-12AM Dutchess County Singles Dance.

Meets every second Friday of the month. There will be a wide range of music by DJ Johnny Angel and a light dinner buffet with dessert and coffee.

Admission is $15. Door prizes and 50/50 raffle.

Info: www.dutchesscountysingles.org or e-mail: dcsingles28@yahoo.com. Mercury Grand Hotel, 2170 South Road (Rte9), Poughkeepsie.

8PM Amy &* Leslie Valentine’s Concert. Info: 658-9048. Rosendale Café, Main St, Rosendale, $15.

8PM Next to Normal. Trinity Players presents the rock musical Broadway sensation of 2009: mental illness within a suburban family forces us to question the price of happiness. Info: www. centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080. Center forPerforming Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24.

9PM Robert Randolph & The Family Band.

Valentine’s Show. Info: www.bearsvilletheater. com or 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $35.

10PM Valentine’s Day Party featuring SPIV UK. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

11PM-3AM Mosaic Foundation. Original Roots Reggae! 21 +. Snug Harbor Bar and Grill, 38 Main St, New Paltz, $5.

Saturday

2/15

Mid-Hudson ADK Outing: Presidents Day Ski Weekend in the Adirondack Park West-Central Region. Leader: Ron Gonzalez - iamrongon@ gmail.com. Open to experienced backcountry skiers. Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org.

9AM Waterman Bird Club Field Trip to Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center. Meet at barns. Call: Barbara @ 297-6701 if you plan to attend. Web: www.watermanbirdclub.org. Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center, 79 Farmstead Ln, Wappingers Falls.

9 AM-10:30 AM Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 679-8800.

St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

9AM Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 246-3285.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

9:30AM Wiltwyck Quilter’s Guild Monthly Meeting. Community service sewing will take place after the meeting. Grace Community Church, Lake Katrine.

10AM-2PM Free Fly-Tying Classes. (2/15, 2/22, 3/1 & 3/8) Fun with feathers and fur! Open to ages 14 or above. Bring your own tools although there are a number of vises for youngsters to use.

Feathers and hooks will be supplied.Registration is required. Info: 254-5904. Phoenicia Fish and Game, Rt 28, Phoenicia.

10AM-12PM Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Workshop. Fee: $25 plus flower fee. Instructor: Suzumi Adams Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop,The Rite Aid Plaza, 232 Main St. New Paltz, 255-8811.

10AM-5PM Bounce! Grand Opening Fundraiser! Trampoline Sports will open a third location.

Donations will benefit three local groups. Make a reservation in advance and mentions one of theorganizations, 100% of the proceeds will be donated.

Info: www.bounceonit.com. Bounce!, 2 Neptune Rd, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-2PM Middletown Historical Society Bake Sale. Fundraiser for a new roof. Info: natty55@ verizon.net, or 607-326-4817. Freshtown, Margaretville.

10AM-2PM Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market.

Info: lori@kingstonfarmersmarket.org . Offering breads & baked goods, fresh fish, meat & eggs, fruits & veg, gourmet peanut butter & local wine. Cooking Education Series: Farmers’Market Cooking. Classes 11 am-1pm on the 3rd Sat of the month thru April . $30 /per class. Old Dutch

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Upcoming Benefit Concert: “An Evening of Music with Rachel Loshak and Morgan Taylor” to benefit Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley (2/16, 6-8pm). 15 at the door, $10 in advance, online. Support local music and Planned Parenthood by attending this musical event. Tickets and sponsorships are available online www.ppaction.org.

Kleinert/James Center, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Audition Notice: Les Miserables (4/5 & 4/6). Needed: Adult male & female actors and singers, two young girls, and one young boy. Prepare: 16 bars of a song either from the show or in the style of the show. Bring a copy of your sheet music. Info: upinoneprod@aol. com. The Center for Performing Arts, Rt. 308, Rhinebeck.

Raise a Guiding Eyes Puppy. Guiding Eyes for the Blind is currently accepting applications for puppy raisers in the Ulster, Dutchess and Orange County regions. Orientation classes begin soon so don’t delay! RSVP. Contact Maria Dunne at 230-6436 or visit www. guidingeyes.org.

The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus meets every Wednesday night, 7:30pm. An evening of singing, fun & fellowship.The Newyorkers Chorus is a male a cappella group that sings in the American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight reading not required. Info: wwwnewyorkerschorus. org.St. Andrews Church 110 Overlook Rd. Poughkeepsie.

Need Free Help Registering for Health Care? A Health Exchange Navi-

gator will be visiting Phoenicia Library starting in January to help people sign up. If you would like an appointment to register with a Navigator at the library.

Call Lynda Davis 518-221-9889 for an appt. You should bring all your tax information. Appointments necessary.

Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser (2/27).

Shea O’Brien’s, Main Street New Paltz. $20 at door includes food, acoustic music, door prizes, silent auction and great silent auction items from local businesses. 100% of money raised goes directly to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is put towards research to fine a cure. Come support local families who battle Cystic Fibrosis daily.

Broadway @ The Woodstock Playhouse (5/3, 7:30pm) . Mark Cortale presents Two Time Tony Award Winner Patti LuPone. Featuring Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as Pianist & Host.

Tickets: Begin at $150Gala details can be found at: www.woodstockplayhouse. org or 679-6900. Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Call for Entries: Juried Exhibit, “The Print Show.” Deadline 3/1. Entry fee for up to two images is $25. Good quality jpegs only, no photographs accepted.

Full details and prospectus can be downloaded at www.woodstockschoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rt 212, Woodstock.

DC Studios LLC Moves to Germantown! New address: 136 East Camp Road, Germantown. Hours: Tuesday Sunday, by appointment (please call ahead) 876-3200 (the studio telephone number remains the same). E-mail: dcstudios@msn.com. Digital photos

Church, Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St, Kingston.

10AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing – Litchfield Ledge Snowshoe or Hike.

Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate to strenuous, 8-mile snowshoe or hike (if not enough snow) led by Martin Bayard(2292216). Info: 255-0919. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Lower Lot, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

10AM-4PM New Windsor Cantonment: Soldiers will bring to life the Continental Army’s final winter encampment with musket and cannon firings, blacksmithing, medical demonstrations and other aspects of daily life. Info: 561-1765 ext.

22. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, 374 Temple Hill Rd, New Windsor.

10AM-5PM Jewelry Trunk Show with Designs by Barbara Walters. One-of-a-kind, unique, handmade jewelry by designer Barbara Walters. Info: www.emersonresort.com. Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mount Tremper.

10AM-3PM Friends of the Kingston Library Used Book Sale. The sale helps raise funds to support library programs, such as the popular children’s Super Saturday series. Info: 331-0507, or www. kingstonlibrary.org. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

10AM Repair Café. Led by repair coach John Wackman. Tools and materials to help you make the repair you need: on furniture, small appliances & housewares, clothes, crockery, toys. Info: /www.facebook.com/RepairCafeNewPaltz. Info: 646-302-5835 or email: jwackman@gmail.com.

New Paltz United Methodist Church, Main St, New Paltz.

10AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Bear Facts. Learn about Orange County’s largest mammal the Black Bear. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506, ext 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, &/adults, $5/children.

10AM Concerto Competition. Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. Info: 758-6822 or conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu. Bard College, Laszlo Z. Bito Conservatory Building, Annandale-onHudson.

10AM-2PM Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market . Offering breads & baked goods, fresh fish, meat & eggs, fruits & veg, gourmet peanut butter & local wine. Cooking Education Series: Farmers’ Market Cooking. Classes 11 am-1pm on the 3rd Sat of the month thru April . $30 /per class. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston.Info: lori@ kingstonfarmersmarket.org .

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Open every Saturday, 10am-9pm. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10:30AM Super Saturday Series: “Mad Science Up Up and Away.” Discover the science of air pressure with unforgettable fun demonstrations. Info: 331-0507, or www.kingstonlibrary.org. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

10:30AM-11:30AM Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO, Kingston, 339-0637.

10:30AM League of Women Voters of the MidHudson Region presents “Could Term Limits Break Up Congressional Gridlock?” is a question

(.jpg’s) available Info: www.dcstudiosllc.com.

Are You Flummoxed by The Upcoming New York State Health Exchange Options? You are not alone. Red Hook Public Library will be offering sessions with Navigators to help citizens sign up for the various health plans from 10:30 - 6 pm on Mondays - ,2/ 10, 3/ 3, 3/ 24 and 3/ 31. There will also be Saturday sessions, from 10:30 am -2:30 pm -Saturdays, 2/ 22 and 3/15. These are private sessions; please call 1-800-4534666 to schedule an appointment. This service is free and open to the public.

Info: 758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary. org. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics for cats Feb 10, and 24 Newburgh; Feb. 11, 18, and 25 Monroe; Feb. 12, 19, and 26 Middletown; Feb. 17 Monticello; Feb. 27 Port Jervis. Performed by appointment only, by NY state licensed veterinarians of The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.) mobile clinic. $70 per cat includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, and nail trim. Newburgh residents, $10 per cat. Mamakating residents, $25 per cat. Also available for an additional fee: distemper vaccine, flea treatment, deworming, and microchipping. 855-754-7100. tara-spayneuter. org.

Sign-Up Now! 5th Annual Morton Memorial Library & Community House (by 3/1)Talent Show: Take Five! An evening of jokes, jug bands, storytelling, guitar playing, dance - you name it, if it’s your talent we want to see it. Deliver visual art to the library .

Morton Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinebeck.

to be discussed. Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting House, 249 Hooker Ave, Poughkeepsie, free.

10:30AM-12:30PM The Playwrights’ Lab. Playwrights, actors, and directors gather once a month at ASK to discuss and provide feedback on a member’s short play as read by actors. Open to the public. Info: 338-0331 or www.askforarts.org.

Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston.

11AM-12PM Hula Hooping Hoop dancing is growing in popularity as a new exercise regime practiced by women and men of all ages. Info: www.beekmanlibrary.org or 724-3414. Beekman Library, 11 Town Center Blvd, Hopewell Junction, free.

11:30 AM -2 PM Gardiner Winter Farmers’ Market. Offering organically grown seasonal vegetables; organic free range meats and eggs; local honey and honey products; organic breads and pastries; dried, pickled and preservedvegetables and fruits. Held on the third Saturday of every month thru May from 11:30am to 2pm. 484-5534602. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

12PM-1:30PM Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka, certified hypnotist.Sponsored by the Health Alliance and Open to the community! Saturdays 12-1:30pm, 2/15, 4/19, 5/17, 6/21. To register: call Doris 339-2071 oremail: Doris.Blaha@hahv.org or www.CallTheHypnotist. com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

12 PM Annual German Heritage Day. The Germania Men and Ladies Chorus together with the GTV Germania Almrausch Schuhplattler and Kindergruppe will be performing at 12 noon, 1:30PM and 3PM. Info: 452-6219 or 471-0609.

Poughkeepsie Galleria, Center Court, Poughkeepsie.

12 PM-4 PM George Washington’s Birthday Celebration! General will be greeting visitors in his office, while balladeer Thad McGregor will be entertaining them. Reenactors will be performing military drills and giving presentations. Info: 562-1195. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Liberty and Washington St, Newburgh.

1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Puppet Story Time. Ongoing on Saturdays, 1-3pm.

The Green Palette, 215 Main Street inside of the Medusa Antique Center Building, New Paltz.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going every Saturday, 2pm in the Amitabha Shrine Room.

60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 x 1012 Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

2PM An Afternoon of President’s Day Weekend Events: Historian Hugh Howard will present an author talk on his latest book, Houses of the Presidents: Childhood Homes, Family Dwellings, Private Escapes, and Grand Estates. Info: 486-7745 orclifford.laube@nara.gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Henry A. Wallace Center, Hyde Park, free.

2PM Neurofeedback Demonstration. Lincoln Stoller, a quantum physicist, will explain neurofeedback and demonstrate how it’s done. Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28 A, West Shokan.

2PM Book Reading & Signing: Christina Starobin, author of This Book is For the Person I Love.

Info: 679-8000 or nan.goldennotebook@gmail.

Early Registration YMCA Indoor Triathlon 15-February 15. $20 early registration ends, $50 late registration after 2/15. Event date: 3/2. This event is geared for all abilities and ages starting at 12 & up. You can do this. 15 minute swim, 20minute bike, 20 minute track run. Info: 338-3810. www.ymcaulster.org. YMCA, 507 Broadway, Kingston.

Register Now! Tractor Safety Certification Course for Teens. Meets March 25, 27, and April 1, 3, and 8 at 7 pm.

Practice Drive: April 24 & 25, time TBA, Driving Test: April 26, 8 am. Info: 340-3990 or www.cceulster.org. Stone Ridge Firehouse, Rt 209, Stone Ridge.

Calling All Bakers! Middletown Historical Society Bake Sale (2/15) needs homemade chocolates, baked goods and help to staff the table for one hour shifts. Info: natty55@verizon.net, or 607-326-4817. Freshtown, Margaretville.

Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka. Certified hypnotist. Sponsored by the Health Alliance and Open to the community!

1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm. 1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm. (Excluding 3/5) 4/2, 5/1, 6/4 8/6, 9/3, 10/1, 11/5, 12/3.

To register: call Doris 339-2071 or email: Doris.Blaha@hahv.org or www.

CallTheHypnotist.com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

Sign Up Now! 185th Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Flower Show(3/6) .Deadline Feb. 28. Buses will load at 6:45am. Info: 340-3990 ext. 335 or www.cceulster. org. Kingston.

Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka. Certified hypnotist. Sponsored by the Health Alliance and Open to the community!

com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2PM-5PM Use of Facility Trained Dogs in The Courtroom and in trauma-informed therapy.

Presenters: David Crenshaw Phd, ABPP, Lori Stella LCSW, Stephanie Carnes LMSW, Sherry Burger, ECAD. RSVP call or email: Glenn Soberman atglennsoberman@gmail.com or 255-2443 SUNY New Paltz, CSB Auditorium, New Paltz, free.

3PM President’s Day Weekend Celebration.

View a selection of presidential autographs from the Roosevelt Library archives. A short video presentation and family-friendly activities relating to presidential history. Info: 486-7745 or clifford.

1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm. 1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm. (Excluding 3/5) 4/2, 5/1, 6/4 8/6, 9/3, 10/1, 11/5, 12/3.

To register: call Doris 339-2071 or email: Doris.Blaha@hahv.org or www.

CallTheHypnotist.com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

Wanted: Hands On! The Hudson Valley Needs 10 Community Volunteers! Can you attend 36 hours of free training to become a NYS Certified Long Term Care Resident Advocate? Will you contribute approximately 3-4hours per week to educate residents about their rights. Reserve your seat today. Hudson Valley, 229-4680x 105 or DoreenHOHV@gmail.com.

2014 Woodstock A-I-R Program for Artist of Color Working in the Photographic Arts. Deadline: 2/28/14. Info: www.cpw.org or info@cpw.org. The Center for Photography, 59 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Sign-Up Now! 5th Annual Morton Memorial Library & Community House (by 3/1.)Talent Show: Take Five! An evening of jokes, jug bands, storytelling, guitar playing, dance - you name it, if it’s your talent we want to see it. Deliver visual art to the library .

Morton Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinebeck.

Ulster County 4-H Seeks Host Families for Foreign Exchange Students.

Have an opportunity to experience Japan by hosting an exchange delegate between the age of 12 and 16 for four weeks from July 21 through August 19.

Info: klf37@cornell.edu or 340-3990.

Free Income Tax Assistance. Time: Walk-in hours on Mon, Tues, and Thurss: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Wednes: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; and Fri: Noon – 8 p.m. For individuals with a gross income below $50, 000. Info: 257-2662 or hansenv@ newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz.

laube@nara.gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Henry A. Wallace Center, Hyde Park, free.

4PM Artist Talk: Beth Haber & Exhibit: “Ripe Figs and Rich Pomegranates” The Garzoni Series. Info: www.riverwindsgallery.com or 838-2880 RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main St, Beacon.

4PM-6PM Opening Reception: Landscape in Oil and Florals in Watercolor. Works by Sylvia Ruth Weinberg. Info: 246-5306. Cafe Mezzaluna, 626 Route 212, Saugerties.

4:30PM-9:30AM Torchlight Bash. An after hours film screening at 4:30pm. New Orleans flavored

UNIQUE SECOND EMPIRE 4 bedroom, 2 bath Home is located in the tiny hamlet of BLOOMINGTON midway between New Paltz and Kingston. This HISTORIC home maintains an unspoiled grandeur but with many recent updates including NEW HEAT/CENTRAL AIR, new electric panel, new baths and kitchen, interior and exterior paint and rear deck lanai.... Asking only $219,000

MOUNTAINSIDE FARMHOUSE in the Town of OLIVE has been completely redone while still maintaining period charm and character. Set up off of a quiet country road on two acres with seasonal MOUNTAIN VIEWS. Beautiful oak and fir floors throughout. FIRST FLOOR master bedroom with vaulted ceiling, NEW kitchen and spacious renovated bathrooms. Bonus Third floor STUDIO SPACE is accessed through an attic trap door. .........................Asking $275,000

TWO STORY HOUSE PLUS COTTAGE Is located close to PHOENECIA and across the road from the STONY CLOVE CREEK. The main house has lots of MIDCENTURY details and the rear cottage has been completely renovated with an open CONTEMPORARY feeling and a private rear deck. Lots of options for rental income ............. Asking only $224,000

REASONABLY PRICED 3 bed 2 bath BRICK home is located in the beautiful BLUE MOUNTAIN area of Saugerties and features a new roof and freshly painted interior and brick exterior. The LARGE GARAGE is great for cars or storage. It is close to the mountains but not far from village amenities, check it out! ............. Asking only $128,500

Call SHERI @ (914) 466-4576

We Buy Houses • Cash Paid • Quick Closings Email: Dan@winn-realty.com or Call 845.802.3954 Winn Realty Associates, LLC 616A Route 28, Kingston, NY 12401 845.514.2500 • dan@winn-realty.com

Daniel Winn

26 Roots Rockin R&B musical stylings of Crawdaddy from 5:30pm to 9:30pm. Info: www.belleayre.com.

Belleayre Mountain, The Great Room, Highmount.

5PM-7PM Opening Reception: “Rouge.” Paintings that reflect the Heart and Passion of the Season.

Exhibits through 2/28. Info: 516-4435 or www. betsyjacarusoartist.com. Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, The Courtyard, 43 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

5PM “Kid to Kid.” Film screening & pen pal event to benefit the I:AM International Foundation. Info: www.www.artomi.org. Omi Visitors Center, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, free.

5PM-6:30PM Panel Discussion: Students will discuss their creative process and their participation in the Art Institute’s rigorous Senior Project course. Info: 471-7477 or tpoteet@millstreetloft. org. Mill Street Loft, 45 Pershing Ave, Poughkeepsie.

6PM-9PM Potluck Party & Opening Reception.

Info: nfo@artsupstairs.com or 688-2142. The Arts Upstairs Gallery, 60 Main St, Phoenicia.

6PM Torchlight Parade. to kickoff the Torchlight Rail Jam on Lower Wanatuska at 6:30pm. Info: www.belleayre.com. Belleayre Mountain, Lower Yahoo, Highmount, $10 /w/lift ticket.

6PM Sanctuary Dinner & Cabaret. An evening of entertainment and dining. Beef dinner & desserts prepared by CIA Chef-Instructor Gerald Fischetti and his team . $30/person $55/ per couple. Info: 691-2284. United Methodist Church of Highland, 57 Vineyard Ave, Highland.

6PM “Shorts & Sweets for Sweethearts.” A dinner theatre experience, which will include short stories and songs about love and romance. All proceeds will benefit the UMC’s purchase of new media and sound system equipment for thechurch. Info: 707-1417. United Methodist Church of Monticello, Fellowship Hall, 445 Broadway, Monticello, $15.

6:30PM-9PM An Evening of Music Featuring Breakneck Annie. Item for food pantry or monetary donation. Resevations: 647-5700, leave message include name # of people & phone #.

Kimble Hose Firehouse, 6 Berme Rd, Ellenville.

7PM A Venitian Valentine’s Masquerade. A masked ball in an historic mansion with opera, excellent wine, great food and dancing. Black tieMasks required. Info: www.Spillian.com or 800811-3351. Spillian Mansion, Fleischmanns.

7PM Love Heals - Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the HealthAlliance Oncology Support Memoir Group. Readings with Honesty, Humor, Poignancy and Grace by members of the HealthAlliance Oncology Support Program’s Memoir Writing Group will be offered to the public. n the Fall of 2013 the Memoir Group published an anthology of some of their writings titled, holding on, letting go. The volume is a collection of stories by people who’ve learned to look death in the eye and to savor life’s gifts. holding on, letting go will be available to purchase for $15.00 a copy. This event is free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

All funds and donations go to support this and other programs provided for those who have been touched by cancer. Info: 758-2667 orjulietharrison@earthlink.net. Red Hook Village Hall, 7467 South Broadway, Red Hook.

7PM-9PM El Rancho Deluxo’s Cuban Blues. Every Third Saturday. Info: 246-5306. Cafe Mezzaluna, 626 Rt 212, Saugerties.

7PM An Evening of Music & Art by Jazz Legend Bucky Pizzarelli. Concert followed by an artist’s reception that includes wine and food and a special viewing of Bucky’s original artwork. Info: 784-1199.

Ritz Theater, 107 Broadway, Newburgh, $30.

7 PM-9 PM Live Music & Noodles. Featuring

ALMANAC WEEKLY Ultrasphere, jazz covers. No cover, $5 donation to musician recommended. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop,The Rite Aid Plaza, 232 Main St. New Paltz, 255-8811.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Grammy winner Malcolm Cecil on bass, guitarist Steve Raleigh, pianist Peter Tomlinson, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists.

No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville.

7PM Movies With Spirit. ‘Red Like the Sky, ’ Fairytale-like true story about sightless boy. Info: (845) 389-9201 or gerryharrington@mindspring. com. Christ Episcopal Church, 20 Carroll St, Poughkeepsie, $5.

7:30PM An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith.

Impressionist. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 758-7900. Bard College, Theater Two, Annandaleon-Hudson, $25.

7:30PM Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffee House Series Open-mic format followed by featured performer, Kevin O’Connell. Info: 380-6337 or hvfolks@aol.com. Unitarian Fellowship, South Randolph Ave, Poughkeepsie, $6, $5 /senior.

7:30PM The Fab Faux. Featuring the Crème Tangerine Strings and Hogshead Horns. Info: www.theegg.org/event/the-fab-faux or 518-4731845. The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany, $45, $35.

7:30PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsOfWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Rt 212, Woodstock, $20, $15.

8PM Full Moon Drum CIrcle. Drummers, dancers, singers & musicians - all welcome! Potluck refreshments.Free. Commun ity Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, 679-1025.

8PM Special Valentine Concert - The first Ars Choralis “Artist Within” Series Concert for 2014 Performed by the SAGAD Trio (violist Anastasia Solberg, guitarist & arranger Greg Dinger, and cellist Aaron Cush Solberg) with guest vocalist Stephanie Backofen. The program features music and poetry (read by Christina Gardner and other Ars Choralis members) linked to the theme of love.Admission is by donation, with all monies helping to further Ars Choralis programming this year. Seating is limited so reservations are recommended. Info: 687-4360 or 679-8773 or thesheeeleyhouse.com or www.arschoralis.org.

The Sheeley House B&B, 6 Fairview Ave. (off Lucas Ave),High Falls.

8PM Heather Maloney. Info: www.rosendalecafe. com or 658-9048. Rosendale Café, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $10.

8PM Next to Normal. Trinity Players presents the rock musical Broadway sensation of 2009: mental illness within a suburban family forces us to question the price of happiness. Info: www. centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080. Center forPerforming Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24.

8PM Laura Kaminsky. Composer and musician w/political and social themes. Info: 518-822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.org. Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St, Hudson, $18.

8PM 2nd Annual Winter Fundraising Dinner Party Extravaganza! A fundraising event for the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum. Includes dinner, an audio-visual presentation about the aerodrome and live music from a number of musicians. Info:876-7711. CJ’s Restaurant, 353 Old Post Rd, Rhinebeck, $20.

8PM-11PM Tanager. Straight-up bluegrass, folk

February 13, 2014

& country. Landmark Grille, 4072 Route 28, Boiceville.

8:30PM Freestyle Frolic Community Anniversary Dance. Barefoot, smoke-free, no drugs or alcohol allowed.No partner necessary. $5-10/ adults, $2-7/teens & srs, free/kids & volunteers.

Info: www.freestylefrolic.org or 658-8319. Knights of Columbus, 389 Broadway, Kingston.

8:30PM Singer/songwriter Spencer Day. One Night Only! A reception following the show with complimentary Prosecco and chocolates. Info: 518-822-9667 or www.stageworkshudson.org.

Stageworks/Hudson, 41 Cross St, Hudson, $20.

8:30PM Bernie & Mike. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9PM Blind Boys of Alabama. Opening Act” Nicole Atkins. Info: www.bearsvilletheater.com or 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $50, $40, $30.

9PM Karaoke /Live Music Every Saturday. $5 cover includes a Free Drink! Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

9PM Joe Louis Walker. Info: 692-3227. Brian’s Backyard BBQ & Blues, 1665 Route 211 East City, Middletown.

9:30PM Flash. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

Sunday

2/16

9:30AM-4:30PM Minnewaska Preserve: Six Mile Snowshoe Outing. Approximately 6 mile long, challenging snowshoe outing. For experienced and physically fit individuals only. Participants must come prepared to spend the day outside. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Peter’s Kill Climbing Area, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

10AM-3PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Spring Farm Ski or Hike. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate, 6-mile ski or hike (if not enough snow) led by Bill Jasyn (255-7805). Info: 255-0919. Meet at the Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz, $12.

10AM-4PM Kites Over the Winter of 1780-81.

Tours of the houseat 10 am, 11am, 12:pm, 1pm, 2pm & pm and a small cannon firing at 11:45 am, 1:45 pm & 3:45 pm. Info: 561-1765 ext. 22. Knox’s Headquarters, 289 Forge Hill Rd, Vails Gate.

10AM Mid-Hudson ADK Outing: Black Rock Forest, Northern Loop Walk. Plan to meet at the trailhead at 10 am but call leader for carpooling.

Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org. Black Rock Forest, Trailhead, Cornwall.

10AM-5PM Jewelry Trunk Show with Designs by Barbara Walters. One-of-a-kind, unique, handmade jewelry by designer Barbara Walters. Info: www.emersonresort.com. Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mount Tremper.

10AM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Saints of Swing w/ Rene Bailey. Info: www.liveatthefalcon. com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10:30AM-12:30PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Sunday, 10:30am-12:30pm .Meditation instruction available.Video teaching by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche with short discussion at 11:45am. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 orwww. skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

12 PM-4 PM George Washington’s Birthday Celebration! General will be greeting visitors in his office, while balladeer Thad McGregor will be entertaining them. Reenactors will be performing military drills and giving presentations. Info: 562-1195. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Liberty and Washington St, Newburgh.

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

1 PM Concerto Competition. Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. Info: 758-6822 or conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu. Bard College, Laszlo Z. Bito Bito Conservatory Building, Annandaleon-Hudson.

1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm.

Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette, 215 Main Street inside of the Medusa Antique Center Building, New Paltz.

2PM A Moon for the Misbegotten. Play by Eugene O’Neill. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. Info: 679-7900 or www.PerformingArtsOfWoodstock.org. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2575 Rt 212, Woodstock, $20, $15.

2PM Mini Cinema Festival: Three Screenings: Umberto Giordano’s rarely seen André Chénier (2011), Mozart’s beloved The Magic Flute (2013) and Verdi’s grand Aida (2009). Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org or 658-8989. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale, $12, $6 /12 & under.

2PM Open Mic with Jeff Entin. Sign-Up 1:30pm. nfo: 229-7791 x 205 for more info or to reserve a spot in advance. Hyde Park Free Library Annex.

Suggested Donation $5. I 2:30PM-5PM Argentina Tango in New Paltz.

Tango by donation & 10% discount on lunch. instructor: Nina Jirka, Basic Tango Intro starts @2:30pm, Mini Milonga starts @ 3pm. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop,The Rite Aid Plaza, 232 Main St. New Paltz, 255-8811.

2:30PM M.R. Poulopoulos - Rebel Darling.

Genre: americana. Info: 518-822-1234 or www. americanglory.com. American Glory BBQ, 342 Warren St, Hudson.

2:45PM Lecture: Making Iron. As part of “George

Washington’s Birthday Celebration”, Doc Bayne will be presenting his lecture about making iron.

Info: 351-5907. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, West Gallery, Newburgh.

3PM Koh Kazama, Guitar Concert. Info: www. mhcgs.blogspot.com or midhudsoncgs@gmail. com. Morton Memorial Library & Community House, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, $10.

3PM Saugerties Pro Musica. West Point Ragtime Band. Info: 679-5733, 246-5021; www.saugertiespromusica.org. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Washington Ave. & Post St, Saugerties, $12, $10 /senior, free /student.

3PM Free Faculty Concert featuring The French Muse. James Ruff, tenor, and Miriam Charney, piano. A vocal recital featuring La Bonne Chanson Gabriel Fauré, set to the poetry of Paul Verlaine.

Info: 437-7319 Vassar College, Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

3PM Symphonic Band Brass Ensemble Concert.

The SUNY Orange Symphonic Band will open its 2014 African Composers Series with a concert. The ensemble will be joined by Craig Williams, organist and choirmaster at the United States Military Academy. Grace Episcopal Church, 58 North St, Middletown, free.

3PM Next to Normal. Trinity Players presents the rock musical Broadway sensation of 2009: mental illness within a suburban family forces us to question the price of happiness. Info: www. centerforperformingarts.org or 876-3080. Center forPerforming Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt. 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24.

3PM St. Gregory’s Young Artist Valentine Concert Performance by Juilliard violinist Daniel Yue. Performing works from Beethoven, Bach & others. A complimentary Valentine from your friends at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock. Open to public; plenty of parking. Families invited.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Drummers on The Green are hosted by Birds of a Feather. Singers & dancers are all welcome. Bring your drums and percussion instruments. On-going on Sundays, 4-6pm. Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

4PM-6PM Open Mic. Performer sign up begins at 3:30pm. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559.

Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $7.

5:30PM-6PM West Coast Swing Dance Beginners Lesson. Dance to DJ’d music 6-9pm. Admission $8/$6 full time students. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 255-1379. The Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem St, Port Ewen.

6PM-8PM Benefit Concert: “An Evening of Music with Rachel Loshak and Morgan Taylor” to benefit Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley.

15 at the door, $10 in advance, online. Support local music and Planned Parenthoodby attending this musical event. Tickets and sponsorships are available online http://www.ppaction.org. Kleinert/ James Center, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-9PM West Coast Swing Dance. to DJ’d music 6-9pm. Admission $8/$6 full time students. Beginners lesson 5:30-6pm. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 255-1379. The Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem St, Port Ewen.

6PM An Evening of Music with Rachel Loshak and Morgan Taylor. To support Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley. Info: rl@rachelloshak. com or 212-505-8199. Byrdcliffe, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, $10 /gen adm, $8 /adv.

7PM Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby. First home teams game of the 2014 season. Tickets @ www.brownpapertickets.com/event/536824.

Hyde Park Roller Magic, 4178 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

7PM Jazz at the Falls Valentine’s Singer Showcase. Vocal performers include Barbara Dempsey, Robin Baker, Fran Palmeri, Lydia Pidlusky, Neil Herlands, Mark Houghtaling, Louise Van Aarsen, Stephanie Reich, Debbie Lane, and Tyna Hull..

Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net.

High Falls Café, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Ben Flocks CD Release “Battle Mountain.” Info: www.liveatthefalcon. com or 236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM Jane Monheit, Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo. Info: www.theegg.org/events or 518-4731845. The Egg, Swyer Theatre, Albany, $29.50.

9:30PM Dharma Bums. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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7AM Rip Van Winkle (RVW): Lone (3721‘) and Rocky (3506‘). Strenuous bushwhack: 10 miles, 9 hours. Note: snowshoes & crampons may be required. Info: 246-8074 or www.newyorkheritage.com/rvw.

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-9:50AM Senior Fit Dance for Seniors with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Bring a mat.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM Fakoli West African Dance and Drum Performance and Workshop. Celebration is geared for children and includes traditional instruments and costumes. $5 per person. Info: 471-0589 or www.mhcm.org. The Mid-Hudson Children’s

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February 13, 2014 Museum,75 North Water St, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-12PM Senior Drama with Edith LeFever.

Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donationrequested.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-11:30AM Healthy Living with Diabetes.

Registration required. Info: 800-844-3258. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, 45 Reade Pl, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-11AM Minnewaska Preserve: Classic Cross-Country Ski Clinic. Vic Izzo, Professional Ski Instructors of America member, will be leading the clinic. Class size is limited. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Wildmere information kiosk, Gardiner, $8 /per car.

10AM-4PM New Windsor Cantonment: Soldiers will bring to life the Continental Army’s final winter encampment with musket and cannon firings, blacksmithing, medical demonstrations and other aspects of daily life. Info: 561-1765 ext.

22. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, 374 Temple Hill Rd, New Windsor.

10AM-11:30AM Healthy Living with Diabetes.

Reg. rqr’d. Info: 800-844-3258. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, 45 Reade Pl, Poughkeepsie.

11AM-12PM Senior Qigong With Zach Baker. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

12 PM-4 PM George Washington’s Birthday Celebration! General will be greeting visitors in his office, while balladeer Thad McGregor will be entertaining them. Reenactors will be performing military drills and giving presentations. Info: 562-1195. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Liberty and Washington St, Newburgh.

12:15 PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

1PM Needlework Group. On-going every Monday, 1pm. Info: 338-5580 x1005. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

2PM-4PM Senior Art with Judith Boggess. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $2 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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

5:30PM-6:30PM Qigong With Zach Baker. No evening class on the 2nd Monday of the month.

Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

6PM Sherlock Jr. Experience Live Piano Accompaniment to Buster Keaton’s silent film. Pianist Marta Waterman will create music in real time as she and the audience watch the film. Saugerties Library, Washington Ave, Saugerties, free.

6PM-8PM Pine Bush Area Chamber of Commerce February Mixer. RSVP: pinebushchamberofcommerce@gmail.com by February 13th please. Curves of Pine Bush, 70 Boniface Dr, Pine Bush, $10 / guest.

6:30PM-8PM “A Photographer’s Life.” Photographer and Photojournalist Chet Gordon will offer a photography master class. Info: 341-4891. SUNY Orange, Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown, free.

8PM Open Mic / Poetry Night!. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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per class. 657-581. American Legion, Mountain Rd, Shokan.

9:30AM-12:30PM Cover Crop and Soil Health Forum. Special emphasis will be given on hearing from farmers who have improved soil health to increase profitability on the farm. To register call 518-622-9820 x 0 by Thur, 2/13. Info:www.ccecolumbiagreene.org. Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 State Route 23, Acra, free.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinsons Exercise Class w/ Anne Olin. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston, 679-6250.

10:30AM Babies & Books Storytime. For ages 0-2.

Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11AM-7:30PM Health Care Enrollment Assistance. Open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace continues through March 31. Health Care Navigators available by appointment. Call for appointment: 800-4534666.

3:30PM-5:30PM Teens & Technology. (2/18 & 2/20) Teens learn to create 3-D animation. Info: www.poklib.org or 485-3445. Adriance Memorial Library, Strba Teen Room, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie.

3:30PM-4:30PM After School Story Hour. Theme is The Dewey Decimal System. Sessions for kindergarten and first graders meet on Tuesdays. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com.

Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

4PM -8PM Free Community Holistic Healthcare Day. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in, from 4-7:00PM. Though no money or insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Info: www.rvhhc.org.

Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St. (Rt 209),Stone Ridge.

5:30PM-7:30PM Writers’ Circle. Writing of any genre with a peer critiquing group facilitated by

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9AM-10AM Dance Exercise with Inyo Charbonneau. An emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock.

9:15AM-11:15AM Senior Art with Judith Boggess.

55 and older. Sept. thru June. $80. Drop-in $5

Lew Gardner. Meets on the third Tuesday of the month. Info: 338-0331 or www.askforarts.org. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston.

6PM-7PM Public Sitting & Walking Meditation at Sky Lake. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm. Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public.

Contact info: 658-8556 orwww.skylake.shambhala. org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6PM “Temple Grandin.” This film depicts the life story of Dr. Temple Grandin, a woman who refused to let her autism limit her true potential.

Info: 341-4891. SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Great Room, Newburgh, free.

6PM-7PM Weekly Sitting Meditation w/ walking meditation (instruction available). On-going Tues, 6-7pm. Free & open to the public. 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6PM-8PM Conversation Spanish Discussion Groups Aimed towards individuals with intermediate to advanced Spanish skills. Reg. Reqr’d.

Info: 339-4260 x14 or www.kingstonlibrary.org.

Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

6PM-8PM Kingston’s Meeting - End the New Jim Crow Action Network, a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). 475-8781 or www.enjan.org.

6:30PM Introduction to Raising Chickens in your Backyard.Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County (CCEUC). $5 per person or $10 per family or farm. Register by February 14 - walk-ins are welcome but space is limited!

All ages welcome to attend. Info: 340-3990 x327 or email eac266@cornell.edu.CCEUC’s Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd,Kingston.

6:30PM-8PM Save Energy- Save Dollars. Learn how to reduce energy bills with low-cost actions, how to get a free comprehensive home energy assessment, what grants, financing, and incentives are available in New York State to install energysaving measures. Info: 417-8659. Kirkland Hotel, RUPCO Offices, 2 Main St, Kingston.

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7PM Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. High Falls CafĂŠ, Stone Dock Golf Club, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

7PM Open Mic with Chrissy Budzinski. Info: 246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

7PM-10PM Jazz Jam. Every Tuesday, 7-10pm.

452-3232. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop .

Meets every Tuesday night, 7pm-8:30pm.Free to attend: learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Novellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 2 Terwilliger Ln, New Paltz.

7:30PM An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith, impressionist. Tickets start at $25. Info: fishercenter.bard.edu or758-7900.The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

7:30PM-9:30PM Life Drawing Classes. Tuesdays & Thursdays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

7:30 PM TheaterSounds Hudson Valley Playreading Series What the Night is For. Play

by Michael Weller. Weller shows us how two people who have a desperate need for each other can still entertain different dreams. UnitarianUniversalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston, free.

7:30PM Winter Evening Speakers Series: Wildlife Encounters. Join environmental educator Pam Golben to hear interesting and funny stories of Wildlife Encounters between people and backyard wildlife. Info: www.hhnaturemuseum.org or 534-5506, ext 204. Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, , 222 Hudson St, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

8PM The Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association Monthly Meeting. Info: www.midhudsonastro.org. SUNY New Paltz, Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz.

8:30PM Jimmy Eppard. Harmony CafĂŠ @ Wok â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

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9AM Waterman Bird Club Field Trip to Norrie Point. Call: Adrienne @ 264-2015. Web: www. watermanbirdclub.org. Norrie State Park, Museum parking lot, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg.

9AM Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker.

Gentle yoga class offering warm-ups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30AM-1:30PM Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Bonticou Crag. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate, 4-mile hike with an optional strenuous rock scramble. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz, $12.

10AM-11AM Toddler Time. A story and play time combination designed to give toddlers, babies and their caregivers time in the library listening to stories, singing songs and having fun with sensory activities. Meets on Weds. Info:www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

11AM-1PM Transfer Fair. More than 40 four-year colleges and universities will be represented. This event is open to SUNY Orange students as well as members of the community-at-large. Info: 341-4070. SUNY Orange, George F. Shepard Recital Student Center,Fireplace Lounge, Middletown, free.

11:30AM-12PM Lunch & Learn Series: End-oflife Planning and Ethical Issues. Dr. Kenneth Doka, Professor of Gerontology, The College of New Rochelle. $5/lunch and program; $2/program only; 471-0430. Community Center, 110 S. Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie, $5/lunch & program $2/ program only.

12PM Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellowship, lunch, and an informative and interesting

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Christinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

3:30PM-5:30PM Teens & Technology. Teens learn how to write a script, film, edit and add special effects for a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How-Toâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; video that they can use to enhance their college portfolio. Info: www.poklib. org or 485-3445. Adriance Memorial Library, Strba Teen Room, Poughkeepsie.

3:30PM-5:30PM Online Consumer Research.

Participants will discover how to use the Web to make informed, consumer decisions; consult user reviews and perform price comparisons. Prerequisite: Internet 101 or equivalent experience.

Regreqrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Info: www.poklib.org or 485-3445 x 3381. Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie.

3:30PM-4:30PM Creative Writing for Kids and Tweens. A workshop for children ages 8 to 12, led

by Kanani Schnider, a junior at Rondout Valley High School. Meets on Wednesdays. Registration is limited, and registration is recommended. Info:www. stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

5:30PM-7:30PM Online Consumer Research.

Google It takes patrons on a virtual tour of the popular search engine. Prerequisite: Internet 101 or equivalent experience. Reg reqrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Info: www. poklib.org or 485-3445 x 3381. Arlington Branch Library, 504 Haight Ave, Poughkeepsie.

6PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can the Subaltern Bark? Dogs, Japan and the Making of the Modern Imperial World.â&#x20AC;?

An expert on the cultural history of Japan, Aaron Skabelund, will give a talk. Info: 437-5370. Vassar College, Sanders Classroom Building, Poughkeepsie.

6 PM Monthly Quilting Workshops. Third Wednesday of the month. Marjorie Devine leads the monthly quilting workshops focused on hand sewing and creating a Sawtooth Star block. Info: 331-0988 or reference@kingstonlibrary.org.

Kingston 6PM-8PM Lego Club. For kids in grades 1-7 meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m.

Participants are led through projects that spark their creativity and problem-solving skills. Please call ahead to reserve a spot. Info: 657-2482.

6:30PM Morton Movie Night presents Amelie Info: www.mhcgs.blogspot.com or midhudsoncgs@gmail.com. Morton Memorial Library & Community House, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff.

6:30 PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Public Education Now: Reform, Resistance, and Solutions in New York Stat.â&#x20AC;?

Will address current educational policies and their effects on students, educators, parents, and communities. Info: 257-2827 or schniedn@ newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz, Coykendall Science Auditorium, New Paltz.

6:30PM Spanish Storytime. Weekly on Wednesdays. Led by Stephanie Santos. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turnpike, Gardiner.

7PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can a Declining America Remain a Dominant Superpower?â&#x20AC;? Dr. Ray Raymond, associate professor at SUNY Ulster, will discuss the United States within the realm of world power during his lecture. Info: 341-4891. SUNY Orange, Gilman Center, Middletown.

7PM-9:30PM Jazz Wednesday at Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee House. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on bass and special guests will be performing an ongoing jazz night starting at 8pm Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee House, 69 Main St, Saugerties.

7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admissionno dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale CafĂŠ, Rosendale.

7:30PM The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. Meets every Wednesday night, 7:30pm. An evening of singing, fun & fellowship.The Newyorkers Chorus is a male a cappella group that sings in the American â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barbershop Styleâ&#x20AC;? of close four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight reading not required. Info: wwwnewyorkerschorus.org.St. Andrews Church 110 Overlook Rd. Poughkeepsie.

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DEVELOPMENT/DATABASE ASSOCIATE: Experienced data entry specialist for fast-paced fund raising/membership office. Responsibilities include daily data entry & letter processing; creating queries and building reports; customer service & membership support. Minimum 2 years database experience; experience with point of sale software. Superior computer skills required; Raiserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge and Crystal Reports exp. preferred. Salary: low $30s/yr. based on exp.; excellent benefits. Cover letter & resume by February 21 to employment@mohonkpreserve.org (Word 97 and above or Adobe PDF only).

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Full Time position for ground personnel with a tree service

657-7125 DRIVERS, CDL-A: Local Northeast Regional Routes! New Equipment! 2 yrs.

CDL-A Exp. Req. www.gopenske.com/ careers Job #:1306527. Call Today: 1-610775-6068.

EXPERIENCED SOLAR INSTALLERS NEEDED for April Hire. Looking for honest, reliable, smart technicians that want a role in a growing company. Must be willing to work hard in all weather. No smokers.

Send email to Jason@solargeneration.net 845.399.7918.

Family Practice Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant. FirstCare Medical Center in Highland is looking for a physician extender to participate in a holistic based out-patient family practice. Part-time to fulltime is needed, flexible hours. 845-691-3627 ext. 4. Ask for Virginia Leitner.

FRONT DESK- Health Care Practice near Woodstock seeks person experienced in scheduling, medical invoicing, filing, insurances, A/R. Responsible and detail-conscious. $11/hour, 40 hour week. Tues-Sat. E-mail cover letter with resume: joannemillerjm@yahoo.com.

Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson needs FIELD AIDES in Kingston, Ellenville, Warwarsing. Field Aides deliver programs to girls in group settings. Training provided.

Flexible schedule, own transportation. $12/ hour. E-mail: gshhjobs@yahoo.com The Elting Memorial Library seeks a PARTTIME (up to 15 hrs.) CUSTODIAL and MAINTENANCE PERSON to manage dayto-day cleaning, upkeep and minor repairs; an eye for maintaining both a well-kept and appealing environment for the community is desired. Send resume and letter of interest to: John Giralico, Director, jgiralico@yahoo.com

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CENTRATINGSOLARPOWERUTILITY. COM A 6-year old solar start-up with 3 revolutionary high temperature solar patents is seeking angel investors. Please e-mail us at info@solarmhd.com for more information.

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Popular turn-key â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bistro-styleâ&#x20AC;? restaurant in downtown New Paltz. Motivated seller will consider financing for qualified buyer(s).

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LOOKING FOR PRIVATE DUTY. Live in or out. 25 years experience with Dementia, Alzheimers, terminally ill & disabled clients.

Excellent references. Call Dee @ 845-3991816 or 845-399-7603.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

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WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GROUP FOR SURVIVORS of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Gently release the past and move into a more peaceful future.

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ADULT VIOLIN... Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re never too old to learn. My students end up in orchestras and quartets. 20 years on the faculties of Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School for Strings and Westchesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Talent Education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love my lessons. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re my therapy.â&#x20AC;? J.P. Kingston, NY. Ages 3-80. (845)679-9250.

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Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana invite you to to come & play! If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re curious or would like to learn how to play gamelan, drop by Bard Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olin Building, 3rd Floor Moon Room at 7pm to observe the Bard College student gamelan rehearsal or stay & join the 9 pm Gamelan Gir Mekar community ensemble rehearsal.

Instruction is free of charge w/master musician, Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadin. Saturday Workshops for Beginners w/Ibu Sue are designed to assist newcomers and provide some cultural context. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be shy. Gamelan is fun. Donations to help offset our production costs are always appreciated & tax deductible. To register or make a donation pls. contact Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kenchana at Bard College on FB; Visit our Events page at: http://www. facebook.com/events/259714224163790/ , email pillasdp@hvc.rr.com or call 845-6887090.

RETIREDPHOTOGRAPHYPROFESSOR AVAILABLE for individual & small group instruction. 40 years in the field. All aspects.

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ONE-ON-ONE EDITING FICTION, NON-FICTION, POETRY with widely published novelist & poet Michael Brownstein

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$104,900 IN WOODSTOCK! Newly renovated 3 bedroom home. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this sweet deal! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mile from the village green. Chloe Dresser Real Estate Broker: 845-399-9897 MARLBORO: SUPER VALUE! 1700 sq.ft. 3-BEDROOM. FSBO. Renovations recently completed: New Floors, New Paint, Large Kitchen, Oak Cabinets, Walk Out Deck to fenced backyard, Heat oil and Pellet Stove, Washer & Dryer. Great village location; Grand St. $115k- possible short term financing, 15% down. Info & Pictures at www.hpictures.biz.ly or 845-309-9237.

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PRIVATE BUYER ( n o n - r e a l t o r ) SEEKING PROPERTY to purchase w/a private natural waterfall. 2-10 acres needed. Maybe subdivide? Can be either a vacant, SECLUDED parcel of land, OR property w/a house with a natural, private waterfall (w/year-round views, NOT just seasonal). Must be secluded (absolutely no homes in view), AND MUST BE WITHIN 10 MINUTES DRIVE TO WOODSTOCK. CASH OFFERED, CAN CLOSE IMMEDIATELY! Contact: sabe1970@yahoo.com.au w/photos/info. or call (518)965-7223.

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M Soaring ceilings, open floor plan and an abundance of natural sunlight in this local builder’s own custom home. Wood floors and artisan touches bring warmth and charm. The perfect “close to town yet totally private” Woodstock location. Take a leisurely bike ride or walk to the village Restaurants, theaters, galleries, music, farmer’s market, hiking trails, swimming holes. $575,000

Gently lived in Colonial with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths is on 1.4 acres in the town of Marbleltown. With a wonderful open floor plan on main level for easy living and entertaining. Sliders connect large kitchen to sunny back deck with remote-controlled retractable awning for shade when desired. Four bedrooms upstairs and an office, den or media room, beautiful tiled bathrooms. $375,000

Old Charm with modern amenities, perfect for people who desire an older home exuding character, but do not want their entire lives to revolve around caring for it. Flowing floor plan, bright custom kitchen, wide plank floors, fireplace, and cedar shake exterior on over 1.5 acres. Private, yet not isolated. Centrally located between Windham and Hunter! $399,000

asonry Building w/ mostly open interior, 3820 square feet, 15-foot ceiling and 164 feet of Route 28 frontage near intersection of Route 42. Suitable for a variety of purposes (currently used as a warehouse), with on-site parking for up to 40 cars & bus transportation to door! For Sale: $185,000 or Rent: $2,200/mo. + Utilities.

Contact Joyce Greenberg Licensed RE Salesperson 845-679-7321 x 119 joyce@westwoodrealty.com www.joyce.westwoodrealty.com

FOR SALE $399,000 Quaint Dutch Colonial Inn/Restaurant 2½ hours from NYC • 5,000 sq. ft. building Excellent Condition • View Ski Windham

518-755-4211 WE BUY HOUSES! Spacious floor plan with large master suite and all bedrooms on second level; extra features include breakfast room in kitchen, formal dining room, family room, living room & full walkout basement! Freshly painted and new carpeting too---move right in! New roof in 2009 & large rear deck are some of the extras.

Enjoy the benefits of being within walking distance to the county pool & Fairgrounds. $339,900

A Woodstock artist home, bright & airy w/ gorgeous views over pond to meadow, forest & hillside, set in Catskills Mt glory & close to all the Hudson Valley variety of pleasures. Multiple private exterior decking faces views while enjoying living. In the cooler days enjoy warmth radiating from the bold hand-crafted fieldstone fireplace in L/R or woodstove in loft like studio/ family room. $629,000

A modern Colonial full of natural light from all directions in a semi secluded location on a quiet Cul-De-Sac street in the quaint and sophisticated Sleepy Hollow Lake community with front and back porches to lounge and watch sunrises and sunsets.

Features a large Gourmet kitchen with stainless steel appliances, Saratoga Spa hot tub, sun room, central air, and more! $429,000

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845-679-5800 54A Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498

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GREEK REVIVAL BEAUTY This rare Greek Revival home sits on a knoll overlooking a beautifully landscaped meadow in the charming hamlet of Malden-on-Hudson in the cool, hip town of Saugerties, minutes from Horse In The Sun, and within easy traveling time to Woodstock and skiing. This bygone beauty boasts 4 bedrooms, 4 fireplaces, a renovated Kitchen, high ceilings, wide board floors, a marble bath, and fabulous studio above the 2 bay garage. Call Marcia F. Avery Licensed R.E. Salesperson, mobile 845-802-4777 ...........$399,900

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office space commercial rentals

NEW PALTZ: OFFICE/PROFESSIONAL SPACE(S) for rent. Large, beautiful Soho loft-like space(s) w/brick walls & new large windows. Faces the Gunks w/great views.

71 Main Street. Best downtown location.

Former architect office(s). Will divide. Call owner (917)838-3124.

OFFICE SPACE, 375 sq.ft. $800/month includes heat & A/C. 396 Wittenberg Rd., Bearsville. Call (845)679-5762.

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highland/ clintondale rentals

HIGHLAND EFFICIENCIES at villabaglieri.com Furnished motel rooms w/micro, refrig, HBO & WiFi, all utilities. $135-$175

Weekly, $500-$660 Monthly, w/kitchenettes $185 or $200 weekly, $700 or $760 monthly + UC Taxes & Security. No pets. 845.883.7395.

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milton/marlboro rentals

MARLBORO. Country setting. SPACIOUS GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT. Open floor plan w/separate kitchen, bathroom & washer/ dryer. ALSO, 1-BEDROOM furnished, second floor. Heat & electric included. Suitable for 1 or 2.

No dogs. No smokers. References. Security. Both $895/month. 845-795-5778; C: 845-489-5331.

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new paltz rentals

1 ROOM. Share modern kitchen & bath. Good student location. Wi-fi & utilities included. $475/ month. Security required. Call 845-304-2504.

NICE ROOMS; $415 & $470/month.

Excellent location. Close to SUNY college.

All utilities included. Call (914)474-5176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (845)255-6029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message.

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

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in center of New Paltz behind Starbucks. 1 block walk to SUNY, Post Office, stores and restaurants. 2 person max. Small pet friendly. No smoking. $990/month includes heat, off-street parking, garbage & snow removal.

845-255-2062,marker1st@yahoo.com.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in village.

Kitchen & bath. Parking available. Ideal for couple or 2 singles. Walk to everything. No pets. $1000/month includes all utilities. First, last and security. Available now. 845-255-8817.

CASH PAID, QUICK CLOSINGS! Will look at any condition properties. We are the largest private buyer of homes in Ulster County and can provide references. Please call Dan @ Winn Realty Associates, LLC, 845/514-2500 or email dan@winn-realty.com.

2-BEDROOM, $1050/month, includes cable TV, internet and electric. Heat and propane not included. FURNISHED ROOMS. $585/month/room. Everything includedelectric, heat, cable & internet. 3 miles south of S.U.N.Y. Call (917)721-0351.

3-BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOUSE. New hardwood floors, modern kitchen & bath, open floor plan, large master suite. 2 acres, basement, barn. 1 mile to SUNY, village & Thruway. New Paltz schools. $1800/month plus utilities. ALSO FOR SALE. (201)8197685.

NEW PALTZ/HIGHLAND. 4 ROOM APARTMENT. Small, country setting. 2 miles Exit 18. $800/month, as is, plus heat and utilities.

References. Pets okay.

718-851-7940.

NEW PALTZ: 3-BEDROOM APARTMENT Beautiful mountain views. $1225/month plus utilities.

Washer/dryer, central air, dishwasher.

No pets. No smoking.

Call (845)256-1119.

GARDINER- Brand new 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home w/breathtaking mountain views. Asking $1100/ month, includes all utilities. Non-smoker, no pets. References, 1st & last month and security a must. Please call Jody (845)255-4509 to set up an appointment.

LARGE BEDROOM. Share large apartment w/modern kitchen & bath, dishwasher, washing machine, Wi-Fi. $625/month includes all utilities. Security required. Call 845-304-2504.

MULBERRY SQUARE: LARGE 2-BEDROOM. First floor walk-in unit.

Central A/C, washer/dryer connection, dishwasher, private balcony. $1300/month. No pets. References. Call (845)255-5047.

ROOM FOR RENT in 2-bedroom apartment; $500/month all utilities included.

Half mile from SUNY campus. Call 914850-1968.

ROOMS AVAILABLE for STUDENT HOUSING. Close to SUNY, New Paltz.

Newly renovated, clean, large kitchen, appliances, WiFi/computer access/TV,

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Available now. 845-705-2430.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2014 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.

TILLSON: Brand New Private basement; 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR RENT. One regular size & one small bedroom - or office. Huge walk-in closet in large bedroom. Large living room w/ double sliding glass doors w/view of the Wallkill river. Closet space in living room.

Full bathroom. Private entrance. This apartment is very private & secluded.

Fishing - 4-wheeling - boating. Lots of room for playing or just relaxing. Serious inquiries only. $1000/month including everything except propane heat. First month, last month & security a must. Call 845-849-4501.

WINTER SPECIAL!! COTTAGE FOR RENT. Full bath, 2-bedrooms, living room, kitchen. No pets. No smoking. Call 845-255-2525, leave name & number.

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rosendale/ high falls/tillson/ stone ridge rentals

3-BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOUSE. Country setting. Hardwood floors, modern kitchen, dishwasher, W/D. Large Master suite w/bath/jacuzzi, private deck. 3 miles to Thruway, 10 miles to Woodstock. Rondout Schools. $2000/month plus utilities. First, last, security. Credit, references required.

845-332-3419.

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2-BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR RENT. One regular size & one small bedroom - or office. Huge walkin closet in large bedroom. Large living room w/double sliding glass doors w/view of the Wallkill River. Closet space in living room.

Full bathroom. Private entrance.

This apartment is very private & secluded. Fishing - 4-wheeling boating. Lots of room for playing or just relaxing. Serious inquiries only. $1000/month including everything except propane heat. First month, last month & security a must.

Call 845-849-4501.

LARGE 1-BEDROOM PLUS LOFT PRIVATE COTTAGE in Stone Ridge near Rail Trail. Newly renovated. $975/month plus utilities. Security & references. Available now. No smoking. No dogs. Ideal for 1. 845-687-7822.

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kingston/hurley/ port ewen rentals

2-BEDROOM SPACIOUS APARTMENT. Plenty of closet space. Covered & off-street parking. $1100/month includes all utilities.

Security required. Just outside Port Ewen.

Some pets allowed, no dogs. (845)3892132.

NICE, CLEAN, APARTMENT. 1 block from Kingston Hospital. Second floor.

First, last, security, 1-year lease, references required. 2 occupants preferred. Pet friendly. 845-331-8258.

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saugerties rentals

NEWLY RENOVATED 1-BEDROOM STUDIO. Private entrance. Heat, parking, trash included. $750/month plus 1 month security. First & last month required. Small pet ok w/additional deposit. Available now.

845-706-0710.

LOVELY, EXTRA LARGE 2-BR to Share in High Falls. Roommate wanted. Bedroom comes with two other rooms for studio or storage PLUS sharing living room, bath, kitchen, deck. Ample closets, living space, nature, quiet. $650/month plus reasonable utilities and internet. Security and references. 845-687-2035.

Nice, comfortable 1-BEDROOM GUEST HOUSE on 3.5 acres. 8 minutes to town.

Warm, well-insulated, 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings in LR w/ open kitchen. Safe, clean, great neighbors on the property. In Saugerties near Palenville.

Broadband/cable available. Decent credit & excellent references required. One pet considered. $795/month + gas/electric.

Propane heat. 917-667-3970 or jeremyjava@gmail.com

STONE RIDGE COTTAGE. Available January. 650 sq.ft. 2-bedrooms, 1 bath. 6 acres w/creek, beautiful, quiet, deck w/ Lilacs. Private but not isolated. Indoor cat only. $800/month plus utilities. Please contact rklin3000@aol.com

SAUGERTIES: 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE available immediately. Eat-in kitchen. Yard on Esopus Creek. Newly renovated. $750/ month + utilities, security, references. Ask for Helona at Win Morrison Realty 845246-3300.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT, SAUGERTIES Skyline Woods Apartments. Private country setting. Convenient location.

Under new management. Bright, updated, spacious, wall-to-wall carpet, lots of closet space. Laundry room and plenty of parking avail. 1- & 2-bedrooms starting at $750/month + utilities. Call Don at 845-443-0574

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woodstock/ west hurley rentals

WOODSTOCK; STORE on Tinker Street, next to Woodstock Wine Store. Heart of town. Great visibility. Large picture window. C/O for food. (845)417-5282, Owner/ Realtor.

WOODSTOCK 3 BDRM, 1½ BATH Furnished $1,500/mo plus utilities.

Short or long term.

www.jersville.com 845-679-5832 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Beautifully renovated in Woodstock Center. Kitchen w/dining area, living room, full bath w/ clawfoot tub. Walking distance everywhere.

Parking lot. No smoking/drugs/pets. For person with steady income, quiet, responsible w/recommendations. Security. $930/ month includes all utilities. 845-679-7978.

1-BEDROOMBEAUTIFULWOODSTOCK APARTMENT. Large rooms, clean, quiet.

Custom tiled 10-jet jacuzzi bathroom, EIK, private large deck overlooking woods & pond. Beautiful grounds. Close to town. No smoking. $950/month. References. 845679-6408.

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HISTORIC WOODSTOCK - Perfectly enchanting early clapboard farmhouse c. 1750 has been lovingly maintained & updated! Gracious 2400+ SF features wide board floors, beams, wainscoting, cozy fi replaces in LR & family rooms, formal DR, den/home office, vaulted ceilings, gourmet country kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, screened & covered porches, det. garage, stone patio, mountain views & creek frontage! VERY RARE! .........................$495,000

CUSTOM LOG - Nestled in the heart of the Catskills just minutes to Belleayre Ski Center! Rustically charming custom built Alta log Contemporary features soaring ceilings, skylights and window walls, 27’ living room with stone fi replace, full floor MBR suite w/ loft style den, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, custom kitchen & open plan dining and deck o’looking nature’s bounty.

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FARMHOUSE CHARM - Simple, unspoiled charm abounds in this vintage c.1865 cedar shake sided farmhouse on 4.5 acres with 36’ classic red barn. Gracious center stair design features all wood & wide board floors, true country kitchen, formal DR with cozy fi replace, living room w/ woodstove, den/library, 4 bedrooms & loads of nooks & crannies. Super rural Gardiner location. This is the real deal for the old house aficionado! ......$350,000

MID-CENTURY RANCH - Enclosed by 2+ acres of rolling lawn, woodlands and a babbling brook, c.

1960 brick ranch features freshly painted interior, 21’ living room with cozy fi replace, refi nished hardwood & ceramic floors, enclosed porch with brick hearthed woodstove, dining room, 2 bedrooms, updated full bath, deck & bluestone patio and attached 1 car garage. Great location between Woodstock & Saugerties. .... $179,000

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CHARMING 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT w/roof deck. Large porch, storage room, parking. Very private, 10 minutes to Woodstock. $1100/month, heat included. 2 year lease. References and security. Available 2/1. Call 646-339-7017 or 917-439-2519.

WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM. Quiet upscale residential neighborhood. Beautiful grounds. Small quiet apartment complex.

Excellent condition & well maintained. $845/month includes all utilities. ALSO, FURNISHED 1-BEDROOM. $875/month includes all utilities. No smoking. References.

No pets. (845)679-9717.

WOODSTOCK/LAKE HILL: Peaceful furnished room in restored colonial farmhouse/ tavern. $500/month includes all utilities.

NYC bus. Huge kitchen, living room, fireplace, balcony, gardens, piano, cat, parking, pond. NO Smoking/Pets. homestayny@ msn.com; 679-2564.

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GORGEOUS COTTAGE on 150 ACRE ESTATE. 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace. 10 minutes Belleayre, 20 Hunter/Windham. 13 miles to Woodstock. Hiking, cross country trails through-out. Borders on 1500 acres of state land. Seasonal, annual, reasonable.

845-688-5062.

Lake Hill: 1-BEDROOM, $600/month.

STUDIO w/bathroom. $500/month.

BOTH: Single person occupancy, includes

electric, heat, gas stove, trash. On bus route.

Security and references required. No pets/ smokers. Call 845-339-2127.

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FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

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OLIVE PLUM - Heather Martin listed a neat farmhouse with luscious panoramic views of Peekamoose, High Point, Little and Hanover mountains in Olivebridge. It’s got 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, open beams, a brick fireplace and freestanding woodstove, a large country eat-in kitchen and spacious living room, wonderful blossoming and vegetable garden areas and a new roof. If you’re thinking of have your own sweet little farm, you’ll love the barn, chicken coop and shed too! It will be the apple of your eye at $149,000

AN ELEVATOR IN BEARSVILLE? - Well, not exactly, there is, however, an electric lift chair that will take you down to the full basement (and back up again too!), at this sprawling 2300 square foot ranch, minutes from the village of Woodstock. Large comfortable rooms throughout, a huge 15 x 25 living room, 3 bedrooms, and 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, formal dining room, office, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, stone fireplace, meticulously maintained, new boiler and electric service, mountain views, and an in-ground pool! John Lavalle and Sylvie Ross listed this great home on 1.34 acres. Get elevated for $289,000

GEORGE CLOONEY RECOMMENDS THIS LAND- He said, “I like owning dirt. To me owning land means you can sell it at some point and have money.” So listen to this sage advice and check out Lynn Gentile’s listing of 11.30 acres in Saugerties that is ready to go. It has great character; cliffs, level areas, privacy, woods, rock outcroppings, a paved entry, it’s sub-dividable and even has a pond! There is a new drilled well and pump, and even a small slab. So if George Clooney thinks you should buy this, why wait? He may need to borrow some money from you in the future, and it’s only $79,999

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ARTIST LAKE RETREAT; 5 miles to Woodstock & Saugerties; 2-BEDROOM, 1000 sq.ft. DUPLEX in separate wing of large house. Private entrance. 7 landscaped acres w/lake & mountain views. Beautifully furnished. Short-term rental available through 5/15. 845-246-7598.

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COZY FURNISHED 3 BDRM 1½ Bath House on 6.5 Acres on Glasco Turnpike (one mile from center of Woodstock) Weekends, Weekly, Monthly, Summer Season or Long Term

EXTANG HARD TONNEAU COVER, trifold for a Toyota Tacoma, (can IMPROVE gas mileage by 10%) current 5’ bed style, black, excellent condition. Call (845)2558352.

FARM TABLES: Catskill Mountain Farm Tables handcrafted from 19th century barn wood. Heirloom quality, custom-made to any size. Also available, Bluestone topped tables w/wormy chestnut bases. Ken, Atwood Furniture, 845-657-8003.

LEG EXTENSION & LEG CURL MACHINE w/weights attached. Plus more exercise equipment.... Call (845)255-8352.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs- 2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

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www.jersville.com | 845-679-5832 FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

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ART SUPPLIES; rulers, paints, pens, pencils, markers, paper cutter, grease markers. If interested make an offer on all of it.

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CENTER WOODSTOCK VILLAGE; 2-bedroom, 1 bath house, plus studio w/ bath. Ample storage, secluded deck, 1/4 acre.

Fireplace, W/D, propane heat. Parking. $1500/month plus utilities, last, security, references. Available now. Gardner included. (845)679-7002.

JEWEL OF THE ESOPUS- Fully renovated top to bottom, with a new kitchen and stainless appliances, new floors, new tiled bath, new roof, new windows, updated electric and plumbing, high efficiency boiler and hot water combo, you cannot match the value of this delightful 3 bedroom, 1 bath, home. Cathedral ceilings, fresh paint, and a flood-safe view of the Esopus you won’t believe, makes this a Jewel of the Esopus that would impress Harrison Ford… especially at $129,800!

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buy and swap

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the highest prices for old furniture, antiques of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972). (845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old.

Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.) CASH PAID 657-6252 CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value.

(845)246-0214.

WANTED TO BUY GUNS. Cash for rifles, shotguns and handguns. Local federal and state licensed dealer. Johnson’s Gun Shop 845-338-4931.

640

musical services and instruments

DRUM LESSONS. Teacher w/20 years experience and BA in music performance from Bard College currently accepting students on Saturday mornings. All ages and levels are welcome. Centrally situated Woodstock location. $25 per 1/2 hour lesson. Spend your time practicing at home and I’ll show you what you need to improve and have a blast! 845-6796687.

914-388-9607 Getwood123@gmail.com We accept cash, checks, & credit cards.

www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!!

Made you look.

Ulster Publishing newspapers and websites reach over 50,000 readers a week. Go to www.ulsterpublishing.com/ advertise or 845-334-8200 to advertise.

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real estate

GET READY FOR SPRING!!!

2846 B Route 32, Saugerties, NY 12477 Phone: (845) 246-1001 Cell: (845) 532-0310

A WORLD OF YOUR OWN!

SAUGERTIES Panoramic Mountain views, stream plus waterfall and ponds is the backdrop for 3BR/3bath Contempo w/enclosed porch, great room, huge deck with built-in salt-water pool. 3BR/2bath guest house. 2-story building w/guest apartment. Barns and paddocks. All on privately sited 28 acres with small apple orchard, rock outcropings and trails. Make an offer! ............................................ $999,000

SAUGERTIES MAIN STREET INVESTMENT PROPERTIES:

1) ANTIQUES CENTER w 2 Loft Apartments. Fully rented with 9 CAP. ...................................... $750,000 2) STORE + 5, fully rented apartments. Add’l. lot/parking at rear. 7 CAP .................................. $550,000 Owner will finance qualified buyer and consider “package” price for both! Call for additional information!

Enjoy outdoor entertaining on the expansive rear deck overlooking the serene back yard with stream on 2 acres. A separate 2 car heated garage with access to storage.

Walk inside and be greeted by a spectacular newly remodeled kitchen with 6 burner gas stove and all new stainless steel appliances. Two full baths and two bedrooms with a possible third. Be minutes to hiking, mountain climbing, Mohonk Preserve & Minnewaska State Park. The time to buy is now................ $229,000

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

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

CATSKILL: At entry to Village over 12,000 Sq Feet, 2-Story building with loading dock, full attic & freight elevator. Second 2-story building plus street level building. Fenced w plenty of parking on almost an acre lot. Owner will finance or consider lease/purchase. .................................................................. $399,000

www.coluccishandrealty.com

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A Home As Unique as You Are

845-679-5800

Village of Marlboro

54A Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498

2003 home with vaulted ceiling, hardwood floors, newly painted.

3 BR, 2 1/2 baths, full finished basement. Deck with Hudson River views, nicely landscaped lot. Priced at $274,900.

CALL (845)532-6494

www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

STUNNING STONE HOUSE As elegant a stone-house restoration as one could wish for, the 1750 Wynkoop House has everything for the purist -kingboard floors, a nine-foot hearth, recessed windows, original hardware, large spaces for the period, and high ceilings on the top two floors. And there is much more -- a smartly renovated kitchen and bathrooms, a new two-horse barn, and private inground pool. A stylish, significant mini-estate, this would make a very profitable vacation rental when not in use. A rare find indeed. Call Sandra Lee H. Hutton License R.E. Associate Broker, mobile 845-706-9241 ..................................$899,000

FOR MORE INFO AND PHOTOS: zillow.com/homedetails/19-Hudson-Ter-Marlboro-NY-12542/80026389_zpid

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auctions

2450 ROUTE 145 EAST DURHAM, NY

518-634-2300

CELL 518-653-9152

WE BUY ESTATES

OUTSTANDING ANTIQUE AUCTION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH AT 10:00 AM WWW.MOONEYS.NET CHECK US OUT ON AUCTION ZIP

Al Cardamone, Appraiser & Auctioneer ~ Since 1978

670

yard and garage sales

20th ANNUAL FRENCH CLUB FLEA MARKET: Saugerties High School.

Saturday February 22th, 10a.m-3p.m.

Snowdate: 3/1. New & used items, antiques, collectibles & more. $2 admission, $1 seniors/students. Children free.

MYSTERY SPOT ANTIQUES 20% OFF SALE. Presidents’ Weekend Sat, Sun, Mon. 7 rooms packed! Vintage clothing, 1000’s of LPs, old books, Rusticalia, weird stuff. 72 Main St., Phoenicia 688-7868.

WE ALSO BUY! www.mysteryspotantiques.com

680

700

personal and health services

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area. (845)9018513 ULSTER COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING; SENIOR NUTRITION/ DINING PROGRAM. Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals from 11:30 a.m.-noon. Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. (845)336-7112. Open Monday, Wednesday & Friday. They also provide an opportunity to socialize w/others who have similar interests.

Guidelines: Please call the site between 10 a.m.-noon. the day before you plan to attend in order to be sure there are enough meals for everyone. Eligibility: You must be an Ulster County resident aged 60 or over. Cost: There is no set cost, but a suggested daily donation of $3 is requested.

702

710

organizing/ decorating/ refinishing

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

MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar@netzero.net (845)679-6242.

715

cleaning services

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932

717

caretaking/ home management

art services

• Interior & Exterior painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured 845-255-0979 • ritaccopainting.com QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980

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

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean outs. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

Experienced- TROMPE O’LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured.

Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-6160872.

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished.

Also frames & wood sculptures repaired.

Call Carol 687-7813. c.field@earthlink. net

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

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

counseling services

LAURIE OLIVER.... SPIRITUAL COUNSELING. Give the gift of wellness. Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis. Smoking cessation * pain management * stress relief * past life regressions. Certified Hypnotist

by NGH. Intuitive, sensitive guidance.

Spirit communicator. Specializing in dealing with grief, stress, relationship issues, questions about your life past & current life’s path. Call Laurie Oliver at (845)679-2243. Laur50@aol.com

*PAINTING STANDARD.* Affordable, On Schedule, Quality. Residential/ Commercial. Interior/Exterior. Neat, Polite, Professional. Now taking WINTER reservations. Call (845)527-1252.

703

tax preparation/ bookkeeping services

JOHN MOWER HAS PREPARED Federal & State tax returns for individuals, small business & S-Corporations for 17 years. As an Enrolled Agent, he can represent clients in tax matters w/the IRS. Call for an appointment 679-6744.

720

painting/odd jobs

“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. Interior/Exterior/Decorator Finishes, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Call 6799036 for Free Estimate. Senior Discount.

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

Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed. Snow Removal. Call Dave (845)514-6503- mobile.

HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845616-9832.

MAN WITH A VAN MOVING & DELIVERY SERVICE. 16’ trucks, 10’ van. Reliable, insured, NYS DOT 32476. 8 Enterprise Road, New Paltz, NY. Please call Dave at 255-6347.

YOU CALL I HAUL. Attic, basements, garages cleaned out. Junk, debris, removed. 20% discount for seniors and disabled. Gary (845)247-7365 or www. garyshauling.com

725

plumbing, heating, a/c and electric

& DEVELOPMENT. R e s i d e n t i a l / Commercial. Fully Insured. EXCAVATION: *Site Work *Drain Fields *Septic Systems *Driveways *Demolition *Land Clearing.

LANDSCAPING: *Lawn Installation *Ponds *Retaining Walls *Stone Work, & much more.... **Snow Plowing & Sanding.** Call William for your free estimate (845)4016637.

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845-688-7951

750

eclectic services

PHYSICAL MATTERS TRANSPORT

ADVANTAGE

ZEN MOVERS of your PHYSICAL REALITIES

“No Job Too Small!”

Call Michael at (845) 684-5545

30 years moving experience. Fine Art Antiques Handler.

Local, Long Distance, Fast, reliable, reasonable. Also, Dump runs, Estate clean-outs. Car service to all area Airports.

Well Pumps • Water Heaters Tankless Heaters • Boilers Radiant Heat

760

NEW & OLD CONSTRUCTION KITCHEN & BATHROOM REMODELLING • EMERGENCY SERVICE

• Licensed & Fully Insured • 9 Dover Court, W. Hurley, NY 12491

845.679.6758 Emergency Cell: 845.514.5623

Landscaping Lawn installation Ponds Retaining walls Stone work ...and much more

Stoneridge Electrical Services

gardening/ landscaping

Excavation Site work Drain ¿elds Land clearing Septic systems Demolition Driveways

Paramount

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Authorized Dealer & Installer

Contracting & Development Corp.

Low-Rate Financing Available

e w Emergency Generators r y LICENSED 331-4227 INSURED

locksmithing

1-800-NEW-FORD

www.AllAmericanFord.net

1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481

Plumbing & Heating

Exit 19 off NYS Thruway

www.tedsinteriors.com

845-657-2494 845-389-0504

you’re curious or would like to learn how to play gamelan, drop by Bard College’s Olin Building, 3rd Floor Moon Room at 7pm to observe the Bard College student gamelan rehearsal or stay & join the 9 pm Gamelan Gir Mekar community ensemble rehearsal.

Instruction is free of charge w/master musician, Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadin. Saturday Workshops for Beginners w/Ibu Sue are designed to assist newcomers and provide some cultural context. Don’t be shy. Gamelan is fun. Donations to help offset our production costs are always appreciated & tax deductible. To register or make a donation pls. contact Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kenchana at Bard College on FB; Visit our Events page at: http://www. facebook.com/events/259714224163790/ , email pillasdp@hvc.rr.com or call 845-6887090.

950

animals

FINNEGAN is about 5-months old. He’s a gorgeous LONG HAIR ORANGE TABBY and is neutered, up to date w/shots and is litter box trained. He gets along beautifully with others cats. He’s a shy boy who prefers to attach himself to one person. If you would like to know more about Finnegan please call (845)679-7922.

William Watson • Residential / Commercial

SNOW PLOWING & SANDING

Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

4983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat. org ~REWARD~.... for info leading to his safe return... “WALTER” went to a new home and got out of a doggie door 10 days later on 1/16/14 on Dug Hill Road, Hurley. Call 6874983 or 750-5433 w/any sighting. SOFT GRAY TABBY with crumpled deformed right ear. Very friendly. Not used to outdoors.

Might be scared/hiding...

WANTED: LOVING HOMES for KITTENS, CATS, PUPPIES, DOGS.....

Come meet them ALL in person at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, off Sawkill Road, Kingston. Call 331-5377.

960

pet care

pet’s reward..... VETERINARY HOUSE CALLS. Dr. B. MacMULLEN. (845)3392516. Serving Ulster County for 10+ years.

Very Reasonable Rates, Multiple Pet Discount... Compassionate, Professional, Courteous. *Pet Exams, *Vaccines, *Blood Work, *Lyme Testing, *Flea & Tick Prevention, *Rx Diet, *Euthanasia at home.

Pet Sitting Playdates Dog Walking s u l p PETWATCH Loving Cat Care est. 1987 1987 est.

679-6070 Susan Susan Roth Roth 679-6070

Down to Earth Landscaping Quality service from the ground up

YES VIRGINIA, Woodstock Lock does make house calls. For locks, safes and keys that work, call Woodstock Lock (845)6794444.

building services

D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations. Over 50 years of combined experience.

Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements. com (845)339-3017

Building with pride.

Professional Craftsmanship for all Phases of Construction

845-331-4844 hughnameit@yahoo.com AA Statuary & Weathervane Co. Liquidation Sale

Plaster and concrete saints, angels, bronzes, weathervanes, cupolas, more redrockgardencenter.com 845-569-1117 HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates.

References available. (845)616-7470.

PARAMOUNT

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1000

vehicles

From Walls to Floors, Ceilings to Doors, Decks, Siding & More.

ASHOKAN STORE-IT

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CONTRACTING

• • • • •

Specializing in: Hardscape Tree trimming Fences Koi ponds Snow plowing

255-8281

FINNEGAN is about five months old.

Benjamin Watson, Owner Phone: (845) 389-3028

810

lost and found

~REWARD~.... for info leading to his safe return... “WALTER” went to a new home and got out of a doggie door 10 days later on 1/16/14 on Dug Hill Road, Hurley. Call 6874983 or 750-5433 with any sighting. SOFT GRAY TABBY with crumpled deformed right ear. Very friendly. Not used to outdoors.

Might be scared/hiding

890

spirituality

Laurie Oliver — Spiritual Counseling GIVE THE GIFT OF WELLNESS Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis.

Smoking cessation • pain management stress relief • past life regressions.

Intuitive, Sensitive Guidance Spirit Communicator

(845) 679-2243 • laur50@aol.com

900

personals

Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana invite you to to come & play! If

He is a gorgeous long hair orange tabby and is neutered, up to date with shots and is litter box trained.

He gets along beautifully with others cats.

He’s a shy boy who prefers to attach himself to one person.

If you would like to know more about Finnegan please call (845) 679-7922

FOR ADOPTION: “Tuxedo Boy”; Older gentleman (about 10/11 years old) is a totally tame sweetheart who likes to rub against your legs and jump into your lap. He has FIV and is territorial w/other cats. Would be a great only cat. “Copper”, “Sweet Cream” & “William”; Copper (big, copper boy w/ marbleized swirl pattern) & Sweet Cream (petite cream color girl) were found together when they were feral. They’re now tame & oh, so sweet! William is especially shy. Perfect scenario is if all 3 could be adopted together as they support one another. If interested in just Copper & Sweet Cream or only William, please let me know! “Celty” (female black and white) & “Keuka” (female gray tabby); Caregiver moved out of state to senior housing. Kitties are about 7-years old & very sweet. Caregiver is totally heartbroken to have to leave the kitties. If you can adopt both, perfect!! But if you can only adopt one, please contact me. For more information about these wonderful cats, please email carriechapman@gmail.com or call (347)2582725.

PROJECT CAT is a non-profit cat RESCUE AND SHELTER. Please help get cats off the streets and into homes. Adopt a healthy and friendly cat or kitten companion for a lifetime. High Falls/Accord area. 845-687-

999

633-0306

vehicles wanted

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

Call 246-0214. DMV# 7107350.

TOP DOLLAR PAID for your old clunker (junker!). Call (845)246-1405.

THE HEN & THE COD The Codfish lays ten thousand eggs, The Chicken lays but one; But a Codfish never cackles to tell you what she’s done.

And so, we scorn the Codfish, while the humble Hen we prize; Which only goes to show you that: IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE!

ULSTER PUBLISHING

Phone: 845-334-8200 E-mail: ads@ulsterpublishing.com Web: ulsterpublishing.com/advertise

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