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What does autumn mean to you?

This is the best time for traveling the region’s roads in search of history, events, culture, fun and buoyant scenery

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Autumn: On the Hudson River, an 1860 work by Jasper Francis Cropsey now found in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., was completed in England but then seen as the zenith of the Hudson River School’s autumnal works.

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ho doesn’t like autumn? Okay, there are some who resent the loss of summer, remember

fears from the start of school, take forever to get used to the chillier days and even chillier nights.

This publication is meant to be a tonic for those folks, as well as for everyone who celebrates this time of year for its harvest, its many regional events, its spe-

cial holidays, and its exchange of summer visitors for busy students. We return to the business of making the Hudson Valley the place we know it is.

Halloween and Election Day come within eight days of each other. It’s time to let kids, students, bus drivers, authors,

Our contributors this issue...

Andrew Amelinckx is a freelance writer, visual artist, and author who writes about historical true crime.

Debra Bresnan is a self-employed writer/editor and a prolific iPhone photographer who is fascinated by creative people and the small wonders of our world and, yes, she’s writing a book.

Jennifer Brizzi is a writer, editor, recipe developer, cooking teacher and Culinary Crawl tour guide and is based in Rhinebeck. See her website at jenniferbrizzi.

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to also working as a local school bus driver.

Lisa Childers is from Youngstown Ohio, lives in Woodstock, and makes good pancakes.

Milo Smart is a fifth grader at the Albany Free School who likes Magic, soccer, his pets, and sophisticated television comedies. He lives in Catskill.

Lynne Crockett teaches English at Sullivan County Community College and is a contributing essayist to several Hudson Valley publications.

Elisabeth Henry is a free lance writer and actress who lives in Hunter, New York.

Jodi LaMarco writes and edits for various print and web publications in addition

Paul Smart is a writer, an editor, and Milo’s father. He keeps a desk in the capitol press room in Albany so he can drive his son to and from school.

Violet Snow writes for Woodstock Times, Energy Times, Civil War Times, and other fine periodicals and is addicted

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candidates, poets, freelancers, cooks, moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas all tell their stories.

We have celebrated where we are and what we have. We have sketched out some clues for exploring what’s around

us here. Now it’s up to you. Get out there and enjoy!

Table of contents Electioneering as fall sport: When campaign signs fill the landscape,

by Sparrow Cozy time: For a ten year old, it’s sports and apple pie

by Milo Smart

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Gone are the supermarket lines: Getting our homes back again

by Elisabeth Henry

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Fall Semester, 2016: Teaching has its complications

by Lynne Crockett

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Autumn as spectator sport: What do visiting students here see and feel?

by Nick Tantillo 16 Cooking the harvest: Go with the flow, just hold those ‘pumpkin spices’

by Jennifer Brizzi 20 Party time in the Hudson Valley: Fall is full of the craziest festivals

by Andrew Amelinckx

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Live music is still alive: Wherever you look you can find your vibe

by Debra Bresnan 28 My theater experiences: All the world’s a stage in our towns & villages

by Violet Snow 34 Indoors & out: There’s a cultural

to researching her ancestors.

Sparrow is a poet, essayist, musician and perennial presidential candidate, based in Phoenicia. His latest book is How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (And Other Helpful Hints).

Nick Tantillo is a Ulster County native and a journalism student at the SUNY New Paltz.

This issue’s cover is a Public Domain photo of autumn color in the Taconic/ Berkshires region of eastern New York, with design elements from Joe Morgan.

The Thanksgiving story: There’s history, but also a great sense of community

by Lisa Childers

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36 Fulminant outflowings: A season for deep routines and memories

by Jodi LaMarca

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Electioneering as fall sport When campaign signs fill the landscape

By Sparrow id you hear? Bernie appeared at a rally with Zephyr Teachout in Hasbrouck Park!” Janet told me. Bernie Sanders has shed his surname, and become a one-word celebrity on the level of Cher and Rihanna.

It’s the fourth day of autumn, and a few red, orange and yellow trees dot Tremper Mountain above Phoenicia (where I live), like gnomes in colorful hats peeking out from the foliage. The huge chorus of crickets each night has dwindled to a few soloists.

Six-year-olds and college kids are debating which persona to adopt for Halloween: a werewolf, a princess, Beyoncé, Popeye? Squirrels scamper around collecting nutritious meals for the winter, and politicians race around collecting votes.

Campaign signs have not yet sprouted on lawns. Each election year Shandaken’s town board passes a resolution requesting citizens to refrain from erecting political signage until after Columbus Day. First let us celebrate the unbalanced imperialist who “discovered” our continent, then let’s pursue the solemn business of self-governance (seems to be the logic).

But let’s talk about Zephyr. I met Ms. Teachout at Half Moon Books in Kingston two years ago while west wind, known as the gentlest wind. she was promoting her book Corruption (Interestingly, Zephyr’s job is to teach out in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s at Fordham University Law School.) She Snuff Box to Citizens United. The book’s was virtually unknown when she conthesis is quite simple: the Founding Fatested Andrew Cuomo in the 2014 Demothers deeply feared “corruption” would cratic primary, receiving an astonishing destroy our political framework. And what 35.5 % of the vote. Now she’s running for did they mean by corruption? Exactly the Congress, in my district (the 19th). system we have today, where seductive Speaking of this election, I myself am lobbyists dispense millions of bucks to running for president of the United States, hustle legislation. as I do every four years, but mine is a I was surprised to discover, on Wikifairly low-key campaign. My one official pedia, that Zephyr Teachout is her birth appearance was at the Golden Notebook name. Zephyr was the Greek god of the

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in Woodstock, where I read from my campaign journal, which records my dreams, promises and doubts about my candidacy.

For example: I am, I believe, the only presidential candidate with palindromic slogans (i.e. phrases that are exactly the same backwards and forwards). For example: Toll a ballot!

We’d limit NASA’s anti-mildew. e.g. Never revenge!

National plan: O, I tan!

Selah. We revere whales. y father, who is 97, vividly remembers Civil-War veterans visiting his classroom when he was a child. (“Also, you’d see them at parades,” he remembers. “There’d be a car for CivilWar veterans.”) Most of them had been drummer boys in the War Between the States. And possibly some of those Civil-War soldiers had met old men who, in their youth, knew George Washington.

So I am two removes from the revolution that begat this nation.

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t’s a shame that no one is allowed to sleep in a museum. Wouldn’t it be nice to awaken surrounded by Vermeers and Manets? Once I am president, I will launch a pilot program allowing six people a night to bed down in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. If this is a success — if no one pees on a Rubens — we’ll slowly expand the program, until every night thousands of lucky Americans sleep in our citadels of art.

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nyway, this gives you a sense of my program. Meanwhile, the current presidential contest is so divisive almost no one discusses it in real life. All the venom emerges in the unlikely venue of Facebook, amid the elephants holding paintbrushes and cats being fed with chopsticks. I’m talking about arguments among liberals. Bernie, Hillary and Jill Stein (the Green Party candidate) battle it out like trident-wielding gladiators.

Because Facebook collects “friends,” I’ve never seen Trump and Hillary supporters cross paths.

Incidentally, please don’t vote for me — I am not a third-party candidate; I’m a noparty candidate. Vote for someone else!

Personally I’m addicted to the mechanics of voting — especially to the old lever machines. When I was in high school I

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knew a tall, rather severe girl named Isabel who revealed to me that she was Greek Orthodox. “Do you go to confession?” I asked for some reason.

“Yes, I kneel before the priest, he enfolds me in his robes, and I make confession,” Isabel explained. I’ve never forgotten that image — so reminiscent of the curtains in a voting booth.

It’s a lot less fun to sit at a desk and fill in a circle with a pencil. (Phoenicia now uses paper ballots.) Nevertheless, voting may be most pleasurable in a small town, where an amiable, almost familial bemusement accompanies this civic duty. I personally know the woman with the ledger book, the official observer, and quite often the next voter standing behind me. Furthermore, we are all inside that great American institution, the volunteer fire department, where neighbors selflessly sacrifice to protect the homes of their enemies and friends.

Meanwhile, Janet — do you remember her from the first sentence of this essay?

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Cozy time For a ten year old, it’s sports and apple pie

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Apple pie can be as simple or a poached delicacy. Some like it with a local cheddar, or a dollop of vanilla ice cream. For our young author, it marks the perfect end to an active day, or a great breakfast for chillier mornings.

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utumn is my second most favorite season because the weather is not too cold and not too hot. It’s just right — perfect for soccer, basketball and football, picking apples and sleeping under lots of cozy blankets. Last summer, I played soccer in the hot, sweaty weather, and now we know why soccer is a fall sport.

Every October, my school goes applepicking at an orchard near Kinderhook.

We play manhunt -- a combination of tag and hide-and-seek while collecting enough apples to make apple cider and apple sauce for the whole school for the year. Sometimes we throw apples at each other from long distances and hide behind trees.

There is an apple tree on the corner near our house. It must be an old tree because it is not in anyone’s yard. It

has a thick trunk. The apples from this tree are not the shiny ones you see in the grocery store. My mom and I wait for them to get ripe and grab enough apples to make a pie, my favorite kind.

In the last week, we’ve added two fluffy white blankets and one thick red comforter to my bed. We put the fan away and my daddy took the air conditioners out of the windows. I wrap the softest blanket around my shoulders.

The coziest one goes on my legs.

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Some youth soccer leagues give their teams names, others mark their allegiance through the colors of their shorts. As the season progresses, afternoon games end in darkness, and many players play with sweatshirts to fight the chill. By then, ot has been established who is friend and who is foe.

Outside I’ve seen the squirrels gathering nuts. They drive my dog Berry nuts. The trees overhead are starting to change colors. Soon they will drop their leaves. Daddy says he has to mow the lawn one more time, and mommy has to clear the garden.

At the end of October it’s Halloween, my third favorite holiday after Christmas and Hanukah. I like the idea of dressing up as a villain, with lots of fake blood and candy.

Maybe I should start working on my costume today. One year I was a flying monkey. Two years in a row I was a ninja. When I was a baby, I went as an elephant called Ganesh. Maybe I’ll be a really bloody Donald Trump this year.

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y three favorite TV shows have a new season in the fall: Once Upon a Time (the story-book mash-up), America’s Funniest Home Videos and Dancing With the Stars. I can’t wait for 7 p.m. tonight when Once starts. My

favorite character is Emma Swan, the sheriff of Storybrooke, the beautiful, blonde mother of Henry and daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White.

My mom’s favorite character is Killian, also known as Captain Hook. On Dancing with the Stars, we are only two episodes in. There has been an audience protest against Ryan Lochte, the Olympic swimmer who got in trouble in Brazil. He will probably get voted off the show because he’s a bad dancer and everyone hates him. Looks like Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, is on his way out, too. We like Calvin, the football player, because he smiles a lot and he can really dance.

Speaking of football, it’s the season.

I don’t really watch football, but I like to play touch football at school. My basketball team starts in November.

My first year, I was on an undefeated team, and last year we won some and lost some. Now my soccer team is doing really well. We have not lost a game al-

though I have to play goalie a lot when I am also good at scoring goals, but I don’t get the chance because they need me to stop the other team from scoring.

You know, my first favorite season is spring because of baseball.

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Gone are the supermarket lines Autumn is when we get our Valley back again

By Elisabeth Henry t’s so quiet. High noon, blinding blue sky. One feels like a medieval French peasant called away from the sheaves for midday prayer.

Drive down Main Street. There will be no other cars on the road. No tourists walking calmly, as in The Zombie Apocalypse, in front of your moving vehicle. The bathing and sunning enthusiasts (the local term is ditch swimmers) who clutter the narrow mountain pass and who pick their way down the rocky ledges to splash in the stream below have deposited their tons of detritus, clambered back up the stony rock face to peel parking violations off their windshields and left, sun-kissed and sucker-punched.

This is the meanwhile, the meantime, the interim, the grace note. This local yokel loves it.

Tourism is the mainstay of this area’s commerce. What you may not know is that tourists, like migrating birds and but-

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terflies, travel in groups and on schedule.

Befriend a waitress, and she can tell you which weekend belongs to which group.

We have the Mountain Jam group, the Country Fest group, the cyclers, mountain bikers, geezer bikers, German Festival, Irish Festival, Beer Brewers and Iron Men. And Iron Women. Concurrent with these flocks are the more entrenched skiers, hikers, cyclers, vintage-car enthusiasts and Hasidim. They all have something in common. They all leave.

And they are happy. They are vacationing! So what if one has to wait on line at the one and only grocery store for miles around. What’s half an hour? What does it matter, anyway, if your favorite coffee hideaway, where you write and think and reminisce and conjure, can be likened now to a crowded barnyard? What matter the clucks, clacks, whines and grunts? Or that the waitperson is so distracted that the coffee machine ran through the filter twice, resulting in a pale, weak, apologetic brew?

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ithin each migratory group one can encounter an individual with whom one can rediscover one of the wonders of the area. There we were, traffic jammed up in town at dusk, when a grouping of deer gallop across the road, legs synchronized like Busby Berkeley had rehearsed them for weeks.

All the passengers in all the cars gesture and emit sounds of awe, and you are among them. It never gets old.

There is a time to play The Old, Wise Mountain Woman. It helps if you are costumed in muck-crusted boots, very worn jeans, flannel shirt and a messy up-do. They come to you, especially if you are caught on one of those lines at the supermarket. With questions.

The subject is not new to you. In fact, you have developed a patter, a bit, about such facts as these: Q. What are those brown, round things in the trees? Baby bears?

No. They are turkeys.

Q. Really? Up so high?

Yes. Wild turkeys can fly and roost.

Q. You’re wrong. I still think it’s a baby bear.

Okay.

Sometimes one is saddened by what one knows.

Tourist: I’m so excited! I can’t wait for snow! I want to learn to ski! I just rented a ski house! It’s way, way up on a hill with a long, long winding driveway. About a half-mile long!

I back away smiling, not having the heart to bring up the subject of how this will morph with the changing constellations. How different the forecast is up here compared to, say, Prospect Park. And how excitement fades when one is hauling luggage and bags of groceries, at midnight,

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through hip-deep snow, after a three-hour drive, only to find that the power is out.

And all posted snow-plow guys are chugging away, far away, in the deep of night, unwilling to take on more clients. ome lessons are best not learned the hard way. Listen to me. Do not come here, do not even get in the car, or on the bus, with inadequate footwear. Are you listening? No flipflops!

No strappy sandals, or crocs or UnderArmor pool shoes. This landscape is treacherous and unforgiving, and you must have the proper footwear for it.

You have been told. I will be watching.

We have had far too many very sad stories unfold here when this message goes unheeded.

It’s the beginning of the final harvest.

Garlic and pumpkins are ready, or almost so. It’s harder to find certain locally grown crops, because this is not California. But it is apple-eating weather, and despite the weird springtime that hurt many apple blossoms, our protected valleys will give us a nice yield.

But chickens lay fewer eggs now, and mares stop their winking at stallions, and wean their foals. Sheep, however, find the cool evenings perfect for love-making, thus the occurrence of spring lambs.

This is also a very good time — warm, sunny days and lower temperatures at night — to sow grass seed. And it’s time to plant next year’s garlic.

As quiet as these interim days are, and as summer-like as the weather can be, once the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, one is very aware of the breath of autumn. The light is different. So are the shadows.

Something rustles in the eaves of the house as I fall asleep. Owls hoot. Coyote pups, born in early spring, are out in

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the moonlight, learning the ropes. They vocalize in weird yips and calls and make the dogs howl. Night is taking over, and it’s less friendly.

Autumn is breeding season for porcupines, which segues with removing porcupine quills from dog snouts becomeing cottage industry at many veterinary hospitals. Deer, turkey, partridges, bear and raccoons take the place of wandering tourists in stepping in front of your car.

This is all to the good, however. It keeps you in training for February, when it’s skunk mating season and the little stinkers seemed determined to die, taking your olfactory sense along straight to hell.

These late warm days are heavy with the perfume of goldenrod and sweet grass.

Soon enough there will be wood smoke in the morning air. The lines are gone from the supermarket and the deli. Without the crowds, I get to see my neighbors there.

No one is at the lake during the week.

Bring bread crumbs and make the fish sound at dusk. A single scarlet maple leaf twirls earthward, something sad but pleasurably so, in the spiral.

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Yes, long shadows go out from the bales; and yes, the soul must part from the body: what else could it do?

The men sprawl near the baler, too tired to leave the field.

They talk and smoke, and the tips of their cigarettes blaze like small roses in the night air. (It arrived and settled among them before they were aware.)

The moon comes to count the bales, and the dispossessed— Whip-poor-will, Whip-poor-will — sings from the dusty stubble.

These things happen ... the soul’s bliss and suffering are bound together like the grasses ....

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What’s the autumn correlative of spring fever? Those who teach recognize the ways cooling temperatures can spur concentration.

Fall Semester, 2016 Teaching has its complications this time of year

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eptember, 1966. First day of school, third grade. I loved the summer-to-fall transition: the anticipation of classes, of Halloween, of Thanksgiving. The stories of Pilgrims and Indians. The new school outfits. The books. I would flip through my math book, amazed that in a few months these symbols would have meaning. And I read my English story books straight through, well before they were assigned. I felt guilty about this, as though reading ahead were cheating.

August 29, 2016. 5 a.m. Bleary eyed.

Anxious. First day of classes at SUNY Sullivan. First week in my new position as Chair of Liberal Arts. Time to gear up for intensity, the anticipation of days spent with students, presenting problems in the classroom; and with faculty, solving problems outside of it. For weekends planning lessons and grading. For panic attacks when it seems impossible to do everything that needs to be done.

And yes, I love my job. The intensity forces me to strip my life to its essentials, to establish priorities, to understand myself and my goals. The intensity also is one reason why teaching has such a high turnover rate. It is a complex and

demanding job.

I have been a college professor for 23 years. In spite of my life-long love of reading and writing, and in spite of the fact that, with the exception of grades 7-12, school was the one place I felt I belonged, I never intended to become a teacher. I know many educators who played school when they were young and envisioned themselves in front of a classroom. Not me. I had no desire to force a bunch of bored kids to learn math and memorize the planets in the solar system. Or grammar, for that matter.

So I came to teaching late in life, in my thirties. By that time I had had several

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jobs. With each, after a year or two, I lost interest. I didn’t know if I was afflicted with my maternal grandfather’s inability to stick to one occupation or whether I just hadn’t found my vocation. In 1993 I quit a well-paid administrative position that consisted of me haggling with students over money (ugh) to attend graduate school as an English major. Now I haggle with students over ideas.

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ugust, 1968, My family had just moved to a small, picturesque town so that my brother Tom and I could enjoy a Norman Rockwell type of upbringing. I was 12; Tom was 9. I have always loved transitions — the seasons, new places, new experiences — and the move was exciting to me. Until I started school. Within the first month I had received my first zero in math because we were on a family trip when the teacher gave a test. Not only did the zero upset me, but the teacher announced my grade to the entire class. Being the new kid in seventh grade is tough, but having teachers and classmates sneering at me made life pretty miserable.

All of the sudden no one cared that I was the smartest kid in class; now I was a skinny, unattractive girl who was vulnerable to bullying. A target. The same behavior apparently occurred in Tom’s grade, as he developed chronic stomach ailments.

Fall, 2005. I had graduated with my Ph.D. and was teaching writing theory to prospective high school English teachers.

To my surprise, I discovered that, like me, many of my students had suffered in

school. They chose to become teachers to help students, to improve the profession.

And the field of education has changed radically since the 1970s, back in the days when teachers were still allowed to beat kids with paddles — as though that would improve their learning experience. Now many teachers are creative and caring, yet they are blamed for their students’ failures. Back in the 70s everything was the student’s fault. Now everything is the teacher’s fault. Reality lies somewhere between.

Fall semester, 2016. During my first week as Chair of Liberal Arts I received several complaints about teachers. One firstyear student was feeling overwhelmed and wanted to vent her frustration. She blamed her teacher for her emotional meltdown.

Not everyone thrives in college, even when they have great teachers who truly care about them. When I started teaching I assumed that my students were all like me. I was incredibly naïve for a woman in her thirties. I am now aware of the diversity that exists in our student population — individually and mentally, not just racially and ethnically. But the pressure is on. These kids who hated high school are told they will never succeed in life without a college degree. So they attend college. One of our jobs as teachers is to mentor our students, to help them understand their interests and goals — to understand themselves.

Spring, 1974. I barely graduated from high school. The move to the small, picturesque town was a failure. Everyone in my family agreed. When my brother

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It wasn’t the great cultural meeting that you might have expected.

During high school I grew apart from the farm. I ran cross-country and wrote for my high-school newspaper. I moved away for college, and the orchard became fodder for conversation. Often I fielded questions like “What kinds of animals do you have?” The implication was that a farm should have animals. I knew where this conversation was going. Apples and

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Scarimbolo is the president of the Union Programming Council, the group that schedules events on the campus calendar.

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Her friend, Shannon Quinn, is a junior who studies business. She is also from Long Island. Unlike Warren, she spends her autumn in haunted houses or picking apples and pumpkins.

Both students prefer going to school in the autumn than the spring. They feel energized when they return after the long summer break. The weather is mild, and there is more to do, like hiking on the mountain or walking on the rail-trail.

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The three women in neon tops and man in grey sweats are members of Navigators for Christ. There are more members in the club who just aren’t playing Frisbee at the moment. Soon the man peels off from the group. He isn’t a student.

Elizabeth Apace is a senior who studies childhood education. Like many of the students I spoke with this day, she is excited about fall-related activities, not the least of which is playing Frisbee. When she does participate in outdoor activities, she feels more involved in other aspects of campus life which she notes that students don’t experience in the winter.

“What are you going to do in the snow?”

Apace asks. “Build a snowman?” She riffs on the topic. “I mean we could give out awards for the best snowman.”

Zoe Minddendorf is a senior who studies Spanish. She says she looks forward to seeing friends, going to class, attending the club and going to church. Compared to the fall semester, she says college in the spring is like “coming back to the grind.”

For Middendorf, spring 2017 will not be just another semester. It will mark the end of her college career. How does she feel about graduation? “Weird, but distant,” she replies. “There is the impending doom.

But I don’t have to be an adult yet.”

Kerry Clingain, a senior who studies English and art history, is graduating in four short months. This, she says, compels her to spend time outside and soak up her last moments at SUNY New Paltz —at least while the good weather holds out.

“It’s exciting to think about what I will be doing,” says Clingain, “though graduate school is scary to think about.”

Fall in the Hudson Valley is relatively short. Soon the cold will arrive. Outdoor activity will be reserved for the hearty few. On the farm, I have watched for months as the trees have become heavy with fruit. These days, passengers from the buses take the apples from the trees and tomatoes from the garden. Any yield that isn’t harvested will fall to the ground and ferment into nature’s wine.

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Cooking the harvest Go with the flow, just hold those ‘pumpkin spices’

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While I love a good well-made pumpkin pie made with a pie pumpkin and appropriate sweet spices, in my opinion that taste doesn’t belong in my latte or ale, but that’s just me. Preparing and enjoying fall foods is so much more than flavoring everything with “pumpkin spice.” Pumpkin, an icon of the fall harvest season, is a vegetable (usually: some types are edible, The

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other season, my consolation for that loss is the return to the complex braises and stews that have little appeal when it’s hot out. Along with the soups and the roasted things, they let us leave the oven or stove on for a while, enjoying their cozy fragrance.

With cooler temps, our desire grows to build sumptuous soups and stews with layers of flavor, which begin with caramelized aromatics and pan juices and expand in complexity with other additions, from tomato to wine to local proteins, vegetables, whole grains. We can also now bake pies and cakes with fall fruits, and breads for the therapeutic meditative benefits of kneading dough and a calm mind when thinking about the oncoming winter. You can leave the oven on all day as seductive aromas waft through the house, and no one will mind at all.

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Organic pears have a tart tastiness perfect for cooking. Late-season raspberries are the stuff of perfect tarts, as well as sauces and jams. ety of exteriors, from the bland-looking butternut to the bumpy, warty kabocha.

Squash is easy to love and versatile, with its sweet flesh and range of flavors and textures, from nutty to earthy, from moist and delicate to dense and drier.

With them I make smooth purees, rich gratins, soups silky or chunky, ravioli gilded with sage butter. Or often just simple roasted chunks, or steaming, mashing and sprinkling with salt and pepper and a hint of butter or oil. Either is all they need to be perfect, no need to fuss. And before you get around to that — no rush — they beautify the kitchen counter and make you happy.

Fall mushrooms that the lucky forager in field, market or restaurant table might find around now include oysters, maitake (hen of the woods) or black trumpet. If foraging, as always have everything identified by an expert before consumption, but after that you will be richly rewarded with the unique fleeting flavors of wild mushrooms in their season.

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n ten million trees New York grows more varieties of apples than any other state, and as they’re yet another thing in the good keeper category, we can enjoy the ones just coming into season, like the Ida Red and the Mutsu, as well as the ones that were picked ear-

lier and kept in cold storage. As snack, dessert, or even ingredient in a savory braise, the possibilities are endless.

Most pear varieties may be out of season too but evoke fall, and work just as well as apples as snack, pie filling or savory stew ingredient.

Potatoes are another good keeper long after harvest, why they are almost always on our holiday tables in mashed form.

But varieties are many these days, and

they agree with the roasting oven, the grill and the well-seasoned cast iron pan.

Don’t forget your roots and tubers, more good keepers from beets to yellow turnips, and many more.

This is peak season for many of our tasty and healthful cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kale, including those that are sweeter after a frost, like Brussels sprouts, another old friend on holiday groaning boards.

Roasted squash circles with sage butter This simple and pretty side is festive with a rack of lamb or a roasted quail. Delicata also slices into nice shapes for this dish but I prefer the bolder look and taste of the acorn.

Serves 2 1 small-medium acorn squash 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 tablespoon thinly slivered sage leaves Salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 400˚ F. Slice squash into half-inch rounds and remove seeds and pulp with small sharp knife. Brush both sides of circles with oil and place in a single layer on baking tray.

Roast for about 30-35 minutes for acorn, (20-25 for Delicata), or until squash is tender to knife, turning once halfway through cooking time.

When squash is almost done, melt butter in small saucepan, add sage leaves and keep over low heat a few more minutes or until the sage wilts. Season butter to taste with salt and pepper and pour over squash rounds.

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Check out small and big farm stands like Davenport Farms in Stone Ridge. And of course the municipal farmers markets all over the Hudson Valley; Rhinebeck’s runs until Thanksgiving on Sundays 10 to 2 before moving indoors for the winter. Adams Fairacre Farms’ four locations feature local produce and an expanding organic line. For all-organic, check out Mother Earth Storehouse’s produce departments in Kingston, Saugerties and Poughkeepsie (full disclosure: I work part-time for them but don’t get paid extra for saying that their produce departments really are awesome).

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economic impact, which in turn means more money spent at local businesses and more outside money via taxes.

A 2014 SUNY New Paltz study titled “Mid-Hudson Arts & Culture: The Economic Impact” estimated that that arts and culture (of which festivals are a part) brought 3.6 million visitors to the sevencounty region. At that time, an estimated $498 million was injected directly into the area’s economy. In Dutchess County, 644,000 visitors spent $62 million. In Ulster County an estimated 1.4 million visitors spent $161 million.

A similar study on the economic impact of tourism commissioned by New York State claimed that tourists in Columbia County spent about six percent more in 2015 than they had in the previous year, pushing up local tax revenues up by 6.8 percent.

Here are a handful of events I especially recommend. There are many others. hen you think of fall, your mind’s eye may picture a pumpkin patch. You can get your fill of these lovely members of the Cucurbitaceae family on October 16 in Beacon. The Beacon Sloop Club’s annual pumpkin festival from noon to 5 p.m. at Riverfront Park features pumpkins of every stripe and in various edible delights such as pie. Plus, you can take a ride on the ferry sloop, Woody Guthrie.

If sheep are more to your liking than pumpkins, the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival is taking place the weekend of October 15 and 16 at the Dutchess County fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. The two-day event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, has everything you’d want from a sheep-centric event, including shearing demonstrations, a livestock show and sale (you may end up bidding on one after the free wine tasting that’s also on hand), as well as workshops, a petting zoo, and a meet-and-greet with various authors. sheepandwool.com.

On October 9, two festivals in Columbia County deserve attention for familyoriented fun. The Hawthorne Valley Fall Festival in Ghent, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., includes hay rides, cider pressing and even a cow parade. www.hawthornevalleyassociation.org. And in Austerlitz, you can witness 19th-century craft demonstrations, listen to music, slurp down a bowl of homemade soup and maybe even win a quilt via a raffle. The event, Autumn in Austerlitz, takes place at the Old Auster-

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The Woodstock Film Festival and FilmColumbia Film Festival draw local celebrities and appreciative crowds to their increasingly influential gatherings.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase has become a favorite for anyone who appreciates acoustic music and musicmakers. litz site on Route 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Also, don’t forget the Forsyth Nature Center’s 14th annual Fall Festival taking place on Sunday, October 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Forsyth Park in Kingston.

Activities for this family-friendly event will include live music, a variety of children’s games, wagon rides, bounce houses, vendors, raffles, and more. The Forsyth Nature Center will also be open for visitors to see the resident animals, which include recent addition Franklin, a young steer, and new goats Cliff and Norm, who join the peacocks, tortoises, and many more furred, feathered, and

shelled friends. Admission to the festival is free. Fall Festival is sponsored by Friends of Forsyth Nature Center and Kingston’s Department of Parks & Recreation. Forsyth Park is located at 157 Lucas Avenue in Kingston.

Or you may be sipping a pumpkin latte while you read this story. There are many attractions In the beverage, food and music category. At the Oktoberfest at Hunter Mountain in Greene County, a multi-weekend event that features German beer and food, plus bands to get you on the dance floor so you can burn off some of the calories you’ll be racking up.

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The event runs every weekend through October 16. Admission is free, but the beer and brats are not. http://www.huntermtn. com/summer/festivals/oktoberfest/. ur area has long been a hotbed of artistic activity. The artistic out[put hasn’t stopped somnce America’s first internationally-recognized artistic movement, the Hudson River School, was born here in the mid-1800s.

We’re blessed with several fall film festivals, including the Woodstock Film Festival in Ulster County and the FilmColumbia Film Festival in Columbia County.

The Woodstock Film Festival, launched in 2000, has brought some of the finest independent films in the world to the Hudson Valley. This year’s no exception.

A-list feature films and documentaries will be screened at the festival, which runs October 13 through 16 at venues in Woodstock, Rosendale, Saugerties, Rhinebeck and Kingston. A highlight this year is expected to be the attendance of megastar Alec Baldwin. http://www. woodstockfilmfestival.com/ FilmColumbia, October 25 through 30, is screening more than 70 major studio and independent features, award-winning foreign films, documentaries, and animation in Chatham and Hudson. There are special meet-the-filmmaker events as well.

The festival launched by the Chatham Film Club and Crandell Theatre in 2000, and it’s still going strong. www.filmcolumbia.org.

If music is more your speed, try the Luthiers Fest, also in Woodstock, an acoustic guitar extravaganza that will make your folkie head spin. The event is held at Bearsville Theater and Utopia Soundstage from October 21 to 23, with lots of live music, a ton of guitar and other stringed-instrument makers (luthiers, thus the fest’s name). There are clinics where you can pick up tips for everything from songwriting to finger-picking. http://www.woodstockinvitational.com/.

Another event for a great cause is the Hudson Valley Dance Festival on October 8 at Historic Catskill Point, a converted 19th-century warehouse on the banks of the Hudson River in the Village of Catskill.

The event is produced by Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to help provide grants to service organizations across the country, including nine based in the Hudson Valley. The festival hosts some of the top contemporary dance companies,

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dancers and choreographers in the world. https://www.dradance.org/hudsonvalley-dance-festival-2016.

The O+ Festival in Kingston is a nonprofit arts festival October 7 to 9 that gives underinsured artists and musicians the chance to create and perform in exchange for a variety of wellness services donated by local doctors, dentists and other caregivers. The weekend boasts live bands, visual and performing arts, film screenings, and a dance party, among other events at various venues in the city’s historic Uptown. opositivefestival.org/Kingston.

Halloween is right around the corner.

The Hudson Valley’s history is filled with dark deeds and blood-thirsty denizens, from a turn-of-the-century serial killer named Lizzie Halliday to a slew of Prohibition gangsters like Dutch Schultz and Jack “Legs” Diamond. A few Halloweenthemed events provide a nod to our bloody past. On the weekends of October

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21 and 29, Clermont State Historic Site, the 250-year-old home of the Livingston family — who played a major role in the founding of the country — will feature special nighttime tours of the home.

Legends by Candlelight Ghost Tours sounds like a rollicking good time as you come face-to-face with ghosts from the mansion’s long history. Reservations are required. friendsofclermont.org/events.

In New Paltz, historic Huguenot Street will be haunted by ghosts and ghouls on two weekends starting October 14 to 21.

Take an evening or nighttime tour and get a little history with your hauntings. huguenotstreet.org/calendar-of-events.

In Woodstock, there’s a massive parade, with adults in greater gear than many kids, all ending with a contest on the Village Green with treats for all. It takes place right on the big day itself starting at 5 p.m.

There is spookiness everywhere. Just as there are festivals everywhere, too.

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Live music is still alive From medium size halls to restaurants, you can find your vibe

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ooking to explore the Hudson Valley with your ears? This absolutely non-comprehensive starter list, presented here by locality in alphabetical order, offers some inspiration to get off the couch and discover your own favorite live-music venues.

While there may not be live music every single night in your town, if you do a little digging, talk to the locals, and take a drive once in a while, there are plenty of places in the Hudson Valley to hear live music. Most local musicians I know make their living from creating music.

We’re fortunate to have so many talented ones who choose to live and work here.

It’s not easy to make a living from sharing your joy of making music, as those who have worked long years to land gigs with touring bands or major recording deals can tell you.

Please give generously to the tip jar and buy recordings from local musicians. Support live music!

Catskill The New York Restaurant has live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night and a Sunday jazz brunch, hosted by talented trumpet player Chris Pasin, as well as casual dining with a PolishAmerican flair.

High Falls At High Falls Café, all your favorite album covers line the high shelf below the ceiling, sending a clear message that music lovers own the joint. Its lively, warm atmosphere made me feel right at home, even though I was flying solo. A great all-originals band, Trio Mio, is there every third Thursday, and the rest of the calendar is devoted to weekend bands,

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Among great spots for intimate musicmaking in the area are Catskill Mountain Pizza in the heart of Woodstock, and the High Falls Cafe in the historic hamlet of the same name.

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weeknight singer-songwriters, open mics and a few solo artists. Full menu with specials like burger and 50-cent wing nights, too.

Hudson Haven’t been to Club Helsinki lately for a music show, but before dinner in the restaurant the other night I snuck into the Café to let a quick flashback flood over me. I was reminded of many happy listening hours there in this cozy, acoustically sophisticated room. I stopped in The Half Moon early: they have bands on the stage in front of the shiny red curtains on many weekend nights with room for dancing.

For an intimate listening experience, Spotty Dog Books & Ales surrounds you with high shelves of books and Dalmatian statues while you enjoy live music and light refreshments. On the night I stopped in, a talented young folk-jazz trio from Brooklyn, Everything Turned to Color, enthralled the attentive crowd with their originals. Upcoming shows range from solo artists to acoustic brass. Tips from the friendly Spotty folks included American Glory, which sports a regional barbecue menu in a restored firehouse in walking distance from the train station.

There’s live music on the weekends and an open mic on Wednesdays.

There’s also music at Second Ward Foundation (a repurposed 1924 elementary school), Basilica Hudson and Hudson Opera House (New York’s oldest surviving theater, currently in its final phase of restoration and preservation). These three eclectic non-profit performance spaces focus on all the arts, ranging from live music, dance and theater to art exhibits,

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films and readings. Newcomer Basilica Hudson, just a bit down the road from the Hudson train station in a reclaimed 19th-century factory building, has created buzz as an independent music and theater venue. It’s also used for special events, fundraisers and festivals. On the night I peeped inside, glittering lights were suspended from soaring ceilings and the parking lot was packed for an antiques emporium.

Kingston There are many places to hear live music in the happening three-neighborhood city on the west bank of the Hudson. Uptown, BSP (a 1900s former vaudeville and movie

house) leads the way with several monthly concerts in two amazing spaces that attract musicians from around the world (and around the block) and allow BSP to host special events like O+ Festival, Chronogram block parties, fundraisers and more. Things are heating up on Friday nights at the new Alley Cat Blues and Jazz Club. You’ll sometimes find live music at The Stockade Tavern (where their tapas menu and classic crafted cocktails are both renowned). Uncle Willy’s is a favorite for local rock and blues bands.

Midtown, there’s music at The Lace Mill (a repurposed factory reconstructed as artists’ housing units that hosts occasional concerts); The Anchor (with 20 tap lines

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All varieties of music are available throughout the Hudson Valley these days. There’s been a noticeable revival of jazz, including the explorations of several veteran players who get together weekly at Kindred Spirits in Palenville on the Greene/Ulster county line. doubled on drums and the white grand piano) and upright bass man Lew Scott on a recent evening, and this trio took some of my favorite jazz standards to another level. These musicians were soulful and talented. A friendly staff, warm pinewood

ambiance, Catskills décor and a full menu round out the reasons why you should check this place out.

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here’s nothing like getting outside to attend a sports contest this time of year. There are many opportunities through October, including some spectacular night games under big lights at the region’s larger high schools and colleges. For a place where community sports still are the way they used to be, visit Cantine Field in Saugerties practically any time.

Start by checking out your town’s youth soccer and fall-ball baseball leagues. The

The Derby is one of the longest-standing jams in the area for good reason. It attracts a high caliber of musicians, both established players and up-and-comers, and the vibe and New Orleans-style menu are appealing.

games are often fast and energetic, or at least cute when the youngest get out there to start learning sports and sportsmanship. High schools list their seasons online, and love big audiences to spur their athletes on. On the college level, Bard, Dutchess Community College, Marist, Mount St. Mary’s, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Ulster, Vassar and our Albany-area institutions keep up busy schedules with top teams from throughout the Northeast, and often farther afield.

The Shelter, tucked away downstairs, is a sweet find if you like delicious tapas, a nice selection of wine, and live music on Saturday evenings. The Rhinecliff Hotel has a Sunday jazz brunch in a 150-yearold-plus building overlooking the Hudson River not far from the train station.

Rosendale Rosendale Café is one of the Hudson Valley’s most popular live music venues and it has a tasty vegetarian menu, too.

It features weekend performances by national and regional favorite artists.

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Saugerties Annarella Ristorante, one of the best Italian restaurants I’ve tried lately, hosts sure-to-please jazz on Wednesday nights.

The atmosphere is cozy and friendly, the rooms are beautiful, and it’s a great midweek spot for a date or a night out with friends. Pete Levin (keys), Teri Roiger (vocals) and John Menegon (bass) are the house trio. New Home World Cooking has presented a Celtic music jam on

Monday nights for many years, so stop by, especially if you are also a foodie who appreciates a chef who favors local growers and producers. You can sit close enough to see the bows cross fiddle strings and hear breath between notes. Your Irish eyes will be smiling when you leave.

Stone Ridge Lydia’s Café has live music, usually jazz, every Saturday night, and the line-up

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here to go to get a full blast of color these coming weeks, or that long-view sense of the more brittle part of autumn that comes once the leaves fall, and before hunters take over the deeper woods of the region? How about a long drive?

On the east side of the Hudson, head towards the ridge lines that separate New York from Connecticut and Massachusetts, making sure to take the time to explore the Stissing Mountain rise that stretches through the center of Dutchess and Columbia counties headed north (the Taconic Parkway pretty much follows this, providing an easy landmark). There are great little communities to center day trips around — Millbook, Pine Plains, Millerton, Spencertown, Chatham and New Lebanon among them. But don’t forget the glories of the Hudson River as well; it’s not all crowded, and much of it holds on to autumn leaves longer than the higher ground around. Staatsburgh and the route south of Beacon towards the Bear Mountain Bridge are windy and quaint. Be sure and stop in Germantown, as well as the old river town of Stuyvesant,

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where it’s easy to spend long hours just watching the river flow.

Over in the land of the Shawangunks and Catskills, the key is to head up in to the higher elevations and their long, often dead-ended valleys. The farther west you go, the wider the views open up. But en route, keep an eye out, as the leaves fall, for signs of old bluestone roads and stone walls criss-crossing the rugged landscape.

Great spots to use as destinations include Hunter/Tannersville and Windham, Prattsville and the vast expanse of very rural Delaware County, the Rondout Valley hamlets of High Falls and Stone Ridge, as well as the shifting small city of Ellenville.

Just beyond all of thos is Sullivan County, filled with the ghostly ruins of what was once heralded as the Borscht Belt.

But again, as on the east side of the mighty river that gives our region its identity, you shouldn’t forget to check out such river towns as Coxsackie and Athens, Catskill and Saugerties, Esopus and the Route 9W pathway chock-a-block with old monasteries and private schools en route to West Point.

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Across the street, at Harmony Café, the excellent Saturday Night Bluegrass Band holds forth Thursday nights. There’s jazz on Sunday nights, and almost every night of the week you can dance to live blues, rock, reggae, soul, disco and sate your appetite for Chinese food and sushi.

Haven’t yet been to Havana Club at The Woodstock Lodge yet (for locals, the revived Pinecrest) or Station Bar & Curio (an Ulster & Delaware railway station relocated from the Ashokan Reservoir).

The lodge has Latin jazz on Sunday nights and an open mic on Thursdays. The station has live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Check the schedule for The Bearsville Theater.

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Performing Arts of Woodstock, like a growing number of other local theater groups, performs a line-up of cutting-edge dramas and comedy, drawing their audiences once the summer schedule of popular musicals abates.

My theater experiences All the world’s a stage in our towns & villages

By Violet Snow t started 15 years ago, when my daughter was in the Woodstock Youth Theater, and I was helping out backstage. There was something about the view from the wings, watching the transition from person to character, that made me deeply envious of the kids blooming out there onstage.

Then I had a dream that I had decided to audition for a play, and when I asked about the schedule I found I had just missed the audition. The next day, in real life, I inquired about the upcoming production of Fiddler on the Roof at the STS Playhouse. The following week, my daughter and I auditioned and were both given small parts. That opportunity launched

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my fascination with local theater — from both sides of the footlights.

Hudson Valley theater has the tremendous advantage of proximity to New York City, with the availability of seasoned professionals happy to lend their skills in the lower-pressure atmosphere of community theater. Meanwhile, the colleges and semi-professional theaters also draw freely on urban talent. While summer is the time for crowd-pleasing musicals and comedies, directors focus in on more serious work from October through May, when audiences are smaller but more open to both innovative and classical theater.

While I can’t cover all the local venues, here are Hudson Valley theaters where I’ve seen extraordinary, nuanced, and sometimes groundbreaking work over

the past decade or so.

My daughter was 13 when we went to see the Gate Theater of Dublin production of Waiting for Godot at Bard College. There’s no one like supremely talented Irishmen to make Vladimir and Estragon, the hoboes created by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, come to life with searing accuracy.

My daughter said it changed her life. (She went on to major in philosophy.)

Bard brings in the best of the best for its shows at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, which features one of my favorite flashy modern architectural designs as well, with a giant metal roof that ripples over the building, designed

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cialty of PAW. The company also ventures into classics (The Importance of Being Earnest), politically relevant plays (Arthur Miller’s All My Sons), and challenging modern drama (Clybourne Park

by Bruce Norris).

The shows at SUNY-New Paltz similarly run the gamut from Shakespeare to the avant-garde, such as the genre-busting explorations of Caryl Churchill. Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle was a memorable production several years ago. Another state college, SUNY-Ulster, although a smaller school, boasts a 500seat theater at the Stone Ridge campus.

Last spring saw the production of the documentary-style play The Laramie Project, a look at the role of anti-gay bias in a Wyoming murder and how the community of Laramie reacted to the event.

STS Playhouse periodically breaks with convention to perform such plays as Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years. This musical tells the story of a five-year relationship almost completely in song, with the man tracing the story from start to finish, while the woman sings it backwards, from breakup to first meeting. STS produces all kinds of plays in the heart of Phoenicia in its old-fashioned theater, formerly an Odd Fellows Hall, always a delight to visit. compilation of serious local drama would not be complete with a mention of Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater, although it operates only in summer. New York Stage and Film brings over 200 professional artists to Vassar each year, along with fully produced plays, musical workshops, and readings of works-in-progress.

Many Powerhouse productions go on to theaters across the country and around the world. The program has helped to launch the careers of playwrights such as John Patrick Shanley and Beth Henley and continues to nurture up-andcoming writers, directors and actors.

Many other extraordinary theatrical experiences are available in the region.

While a sojourn in Manhattan is essential for a career in theater, so are visits to the Hudson Valley, where both aspiring and experienced professionals can stretch their wings, experiment, and kick back in nature. Don’t miss the chance to see excellent work — usually at lower-thancity prices — when theatrical city dwellers come upstate to collaborate with talented locals in helping us get through the winter.

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But TV cannot compare with witnessing in person a show like The Rivalry by Norman Corwin. This play, presented at StageWorks in Hudson during the Civil War sesquicentennial, recapitulated highlights of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, expressing both the personalities of the two men and the essence of their stances on slavery. StageWorks is an Equity theater that produces a mix of recent and new work, always thoughtprovoking and superbly produced.

Voice Theatre is run by director Shauna Kanter, who recently shifted the company’s base from Manhattan to the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock. She obtained a donation to winterize and air-condition the rustic building, making it more comfortable in summer and available for fall

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and spring performances. It has become a venue for socially conscious shows such as Birds on a Wire, a play written by Kanter about a Midwestern family struggling to survive in the Dust Bowl. Lovers: Winners

by Brian Friel was a poignant, beautifully performed play about star-crossed young lovers in Ireland. Kanter’s casts include stellar local actors as well as colleagues from New York City. ot all shows in the darker months are tragic. Performing Arts of Woodstock (PAW) presented David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers, about an amnesiac who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must imprint the facts of her life. The result is a bedlam of comic errors, articulated by a fast-moving ensemble of finely meshed actors, a spe-

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Indoors & out There’s a cultural harvest all around, as well

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utumn splits the creative soul. We want to be outside enjoying the crisp days, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the bright colors and removal of haze from the heat-stressed nature of summer vision. Yet we also want to hunker down inside, hanging out in studios or homes,

or visiting museum or gallery spaces.

With the start of the school year, many kick their art viewing into high gear. College galleries are a pleasure to visit now that our area’s campuses are again abuzz with activity. Field trips can involve a joyful mix of high-brow appreciation and fun excursions to orchards and hiking trails. And we’re still months away from the fever-pitch road trips of winter, when

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galleries and museums form a web of destinations seemingly designed to curb latent cabin fever.

What’s on my radar these coming months? My kid, almost eleven at this point, seems to be returning to the idea that museums and galleries can be fun.

What’s available geographically?

We have the unique O+ Festival taking place in Kingston the weekend this publication comes out, but lasting much longer via the various murals, wall paintings and other splashes of very public art in places around the City of Kingston.

There has been much talk of a new MAD (Midtown Arts District) bash this season, as well as the usual array of art exhibits around town.

What’s got our eye? Catching the work of R&F Paints instructors and other employees at this venerable “factory” these coming weeks; stopping by this month’s poster art exhibit by rock illustrator extraordinaire Mike King at One Mile Gallery; whatever ArtBar has to show; eyes open to the talents on view at ASK (the Arts Society of Kingston), especially in November; not to forget the “treasures” show up at the Friends of Historic Kingston gallery on Wall Street.

The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz has up the continuation of their compendium of new artists, Campsite; works by the school metalwork master Myra Minlitsch-Gray, and a revival of Woodstock artist Bradley Walker Tomlin, whose Guston-like abstracts seem particularly apt for current times. Of course, what’s a visit to town there without further cultural edification from a stop by Mark Gruber’s collection of modern Hudson River School painters, as well as Unison’s exhibit of refreshing Mohonk landscapes

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ber 9). The Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Race, Love & Labor show of works by its artists in residence of recent years is also an eye-opener (and only open into mid-October), especially in terms of today’s political and societal tensions;. The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum’s All Creatures Great & Small exhibit, with works curated from the institution’s permanent collection by new executive director Janice LaMotta, is a perfect introduction to a town’s many art moods. Also coming up and worth seeing will be the big, multi-artist monoprint exhibit of recently commissioned works utilizing the revived printmaking studio at the Woodstock School of Art. And be mindful of what’s also popping up in local galleries and restaurants, including the Woodstock Framing Gallery’s showing of rock drummer and master book creator/publisher Joe Stefko’s collection of legendary rock and roll images. Plus, there’s a new Mary Frank show at Elena Zang Gallery in Shady.

Finishing off one’s art forays in Ulster County, be sure to check out Cross Contemporary’s Melinda Stickney-Gibson exhibit; normally, one only sees this painter’s complex work in top galleries elsewhere. Wired Gallery has venues in the High Falls area. Arts Upstairs always has something going on at its creative and fun outpost in Phoenicia. And did we not

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Carrie Haddad, BCB and John Davis galleries, Limner’s collection of modern surrealist works, classic pieces mixed with newer art at Terenchin, Jeff Bailey, Hudson & Laight, and Davis-Orton, along with whatever’s on view in the various high-end antiquaries and at the Hudson Opera House.

Why visit this neck of the Hudson Valley without a stop in at Frederick Church’s magnificent Olana estate overlooking the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. Or, for that matter, such bastions of worldly contemporary art as Jack Shainman’s astounding new School in Kinderhook. Art Omi, outside Ghent, offers Francine Hunter McGivern’s CR-10 experiment, as well as whatever

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they’ve curated over at the nearby Clermont Mansion overlooking the river. Hey, even Chatham’s up and coming now, with Thompson Giroux Gallery showing various new abstracts and conceptual works while stalwart North River gets ever better in its offering of works from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries.

Across from Olana, the Thomas Cole House in Catskill has started showing contemporary works among the Hudson River School founder’s masterpieces and effects, some in his recently rebuilt studio.

Down on Main Street in Catskill, meanwhile, the Greene County Council for the Arts keeps up its idea-oriented shows with fashion and continuing examples from the rural county’s world-class artist population. Windham and Tannersville have new galleries in the form of the former’s Gallery on Main and the latter’s Say What? Space. Off in Palenville, the quaint Zaddock Pratt House (along with nearby

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re this year’s politics getting you down. Looking for something a bit more edifying, and social, than another evening curled up with a book, or pretending that your binge-watching of the television has innate cultural rewards? Head out to a lecture at one of our local colleges, libraries, bookstores or art institutions.

Now’s the season for some big-time workshops and conferences on local campuses, in addition to the more commercial festivals. Various Hudson valley lecture series focus on spiritual matters, artistic inquiries, foreign relations, and even the intricacies of the economy. Check out websites for Bard College, Marist, Vassar and Mt. St. Mary’s.

Pay attention to the calendars at SUNY New Paltz, Dutchess Community College and SUNY Ulster. Get involved with your local libraries, as well as great independent bookstores in Hudson, Kingston, Millerton, New Paltz, Rhinebeck, Saugerties, and Woodstock. And best of all, read these pages, and our weekly calendar, at Ulster Publishing, in print or online at hudsonvalleyone.com. Don’t let those brains wither.

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Also in Poughkeepsie, the Barrett Art Center will be hosting its annual juried show of contemporary art from around the nation, while further upriver in Rhinebeck, Red Hook and Tivoli are vibrant mash-ups of classic art forms, many by long-past painters, alongside newer works, including crafts. Albert

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Shahinian, in Rhinebeck, has collected some of the region’s top artists over the years. At Bard College, the Hessel Museum will follow its current retrospective of works by Tony Oursler (also showing at MOMA, in the city) with “We Are The Center for Curatorial Studies,” a celebration of the museum’s increasingly influential mother institution curated by CCS’s new director of graduate studies, Paul O’Neill.

Of course, all this is but an introduction, given the ways new gallery spaces pop up these days, including single-day or singleweek pop-up galleries themselves. As the leaves turn and drop, one also starts to notice new stone cairns and naturalist sculptures showing up along Catskills roadsides or by the slower streams of the Hudson Valley. More local restaurants and stores seem to be filling their walls with new works by those who share these creative communities with all of us.

Best of all, what better time could there be for longer field trips to actual museum destinations such as Williamstown/ North Adams’ Mass MOCA/Clark/Williams College Art Museum nexus in the Berkshires (as well as the oft-forgotten Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield). To the west, Oneonta and its Hartwick College collection, as well as Cooperstown’s offerings, are a day trip away. To the north is Albany and its museums, college galleries, and airport exhibit spaces, as well as Troy’s new Empac Center at RPI. Beyond is Saratoga’s Tang Teaching Museum

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And of course to the south is that large metropolis that is supposed to have pretty good art in a bunch of places. Stop in at the Storm King Art Center for a breath of country air on the way in or out.

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The Thanksgiving story There’s history, but also a great sense of community

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he Hudson Valley provides plenty of local ways to express thanks, alleviate guilt or stuff bellies. Here are just a few scheduled local Thanksgiving events: If you have nowhere to go, or seek an alternative surrounded by diverse friendly people, Family of Woodstock’s 41st annual Thanksgiving dinner might be the place for you. It will be at the Woodstock

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His efforts were titled “Franksgiving” and met with anti-consumer backlash.

Roosevelt would be pleased to know that Christmas advertising usually begins before Halloween these days.

Thanksgiving can be a time when loneliness and depression set in for many people. For some reason deeply embedded in American culture, the local events celebrated now seem to focus on the two ends of the Thanksgiving experience, the overeating and the running events intended to counteract the gluttony.

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Family is always looking for volunteers during this time, for food pickup, help with cooking, dinner deliveries, and much-needed help during cleanup. If you are homebound and want dinner on that day, Family can deliver. To volunteer, donate or request delivery, call Family at (845) 679-2485.

Most restaurants offer vegetarian alternatives to turkey. However if you want to learn how to cook a vegan Thanksgiving meal, Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties will be offering a cooking class on November 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. The cost is $75, including dinner. If you arrive early, you can visit the turkeys who are not on anyone’s dinner menu. For more information go to casanctuary.org.

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The Ferncliff Forest 5K Turkey Trot on Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck takes place on November 24, from 8 to 11 a.m.

Proceeds go to the preservation of the Ferncliff Forest Nature Preserve. For information, registration and check-in time, go to fernclifforest.org.

Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club in Poughkeepsie will hold its annual Turkey Trot on November 24 beginning at Arlington High School in LaGrangeville.

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Phoenicia will be having a 2.5K Turkey Trot on November 26 at 10 a.m. beginning at Parish Field. Proceeds will go to the Pine Hill Library. For more information, check-in time, and to register, go to Phoeniciaturkeytrot.com.

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The Kingston Junior League will hold its fourth annual Turkey Trot 2-5K run on November 24 at 9 a.m. Free parking and check-in begins at Dietz Stadium.

In lieu of goodie bags, a donation will be made to The People’s Place food pantry.

For more information and registration go to turkeytrotkingston.com You can also donate at your local food pantry, and let us not forget family pets during this time of year. Most food pantries will take donations of dog or cat food. It allows people who have fallen on hard times be able to keep their pets and not forced to surrender them to shelters. he history of Thanksgiving, for the good or bad, will often lead to interesting conversation when we give our thanks during the big day. In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce provided a sense of the ambiguity of this quintessentially American holiday by calling it Yankskilling Day. It’s a time when family and friends come together surrounded by loved ones to appreciate being alive. The first Thanksgiving, held by the Pilgrims in 1621 for the purpose of celebrating their first corn crop, reportedly lasted three days. In what could possibly have been the continent’s first potluck slow-food movement, it was celebrated along with the Wampanoag native tribe, who also brought plenty of food. It sounded like quite a party.

The Native Americans of current times view Thanksgiving as not so rosy an event, recognizing it as a day of mourning due to this country’s historical bloodthirsty treatment of their people and culture.

One can however give thanks to these particular Pilgrims and native folks. They did lean on each other through rough times. The indigenous people were already being wiped out from disease brought by the early white settlers, and they too needed help.

The first Thanksgiving provides a story, albeit a flawed one, of tolerance, open immigration and assimilation. The two groups managed to maintain a 50-year peaceful alliance with each other.

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Fulminant outflowings A season for deep routines and memories

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’ve been driving a school bus for more than five years now. There’s a certain comfort in slipping into my old routine and observing the backto-school rituals I remember from my own youth. During the first few weeks of class, I see the same anxious expressions of new passengers looking for a seat. I hear the same raised voices of kids desperately trying to impress one another as they seek out their own little tribes.

Every year, there is always a girl wearing boots that are too warm for the first few days of September. I can almost hear her mother calling after her as she leaves the house to board my bus: “Aren’t you going to be hot in those?”

Of course she will be. She knows it and she doesn’t care. These are the new boots she bought when she went back-to-school shopping last week. Now she’s back at school and she wants to wear them, 70-degree weather be damned. I know this, because I felt the same way when I was fifteen.

Driving a busload of high-school students is much like carting around a troop of drunkards. Most of my passengers are alternately elated, miserable or comatose, and are prone to the same fulminant outflowings of enthusiasm or despair I remember feeling when I was a teenager. I remember the high of first love, the sting of first heartbreak, and the raw intensity of a thousand other virgin experiences. I also remember the adults around me saying that my emotions didn’t matter, that it was only puppy love, or that whatever was upsetting me was nothing to be upset over.

This is the short list of comments I make a point of never saying to my passengers.

I still remember what it felt like to be a teenager. It was love, and it was something

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Our big elections follow Halloween within a week (a little longer this year).

Does the cooler weather’s call for more fashionable layers breed a certain rebelliousness come autumn? to be upset over. Regardless of what the adults in my life thought, these feelings were real to me. I try to remember that my passengers are growing and changing daily, and that they deserve as much of my patience as I can give them.

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The note went on to say that he would begin the first phase of transgender surgery that summer. It turned out that

“she” identified as “he.” I had no idea.

I have also learned never to take a kid’s behavior personally. I once had a girl on my bus who ignored me for an entire year.

Every day, I would say “Good morning,” and every day she would avert her eyes and slink past me. On the last day of her senior year, she presented me with a box of home-baked treats, a smile, and six words: “You’re a really cool bus driver.”

I had always thought of her as rude or oblivious. She was neither. What she was, quite simply, was shy. I wonder how many adults had the same impression of me when I would crumple under the embarrassment of being 16.

I try to keep stories like these in mind when I’m having a tough day. Keeping my cool doesn’t always come easy. Driving a 15-ton vehicle while keeping watch

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Give yourselves a bit more time to get wherever you're rushing to this time of year, especially in the mornings.

And no, our author isn’t driving this bus. over 40 teenagers using nothing but an overhead mirror could be a challenge on one of those weird Japanese game shows.

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And then, I see her: the girl in the too-hot

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