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November 2015 2 | October– Explore Hudson Valley

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Different paths to explore Our editor urges engaged contemplation

the wilder destinations.

As with all times in this region, Exploring the Hudson Valley in fall involves disparate approaches. Some want to engage all that’s offered; others

seek a retreat, some contemplative time.

Best, our writers here say, to mix a bit of the two to bring deeper explorations. Onward, now, to winter!

Contributors to this issue include:

Writer’s Studio and the New England Young Writer’s Conference.

Andrew K. F. Amelinckx of Catskill, who writes about crime, food and art, though not necessarily at the same time.

Ed Breslin is a writer and former book publisher who lives in New York City and in the Hudson Valley with his wife, dog and cat.

Jennifer Brizzi writes on food and health for newspapers, magazines and books, and does recipe development, cooking demonstrations and teaching. Her website is www.jenniferbrizzi.com.

Sharyn Flanagan is a Gardiner-based freelance writer and regular contributor to New Paltz Times, Saugerties Times and Almanac Weekly. She plans to find time soon to dive back into her lifetime stash of fabric, yarn and art supplies and start making stuff again.

Elisabeth Henry, a writer and an actress, lives with her husband in Hunter, where they raised their children.

Jeremiah Horrigan has been a newspaperman nearly all his life and a grandfather for 14 years.

He lives in New Paltz.

Fifteen-year-old Onteora High School student Cally Mansfield is a veteran newspaper essayist and a rising star at the Paul Green Rock Academy.

Harry Matthews lives on an old farm on the Kaaterskill Creek outside of Palenville with his partner Catherine and their three cats. He can most often be found in the woods building things, gardening, or plucking his tenor guitar on the porch of his cabin by the creek.

Paul Smart, who writes for a living and edits several publications, is father to a nine-year-old, husband to an artist, and protector of two cats, a turtle and a puppy.

Margot Wolff. eleven, is the daughter of poet, novelist and editor Rebecca Wolff of Hudson. She goes to school in Germantown.

Lynn Woods, long-time Kingston resident and Ulster Publishing writer, is co-author of Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges and co-director of the film Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal.

This issue’s cover images were adapted from Wikicommons photos of leaves, abstracted. Thanks to veteran Ulster Publishing layout maestro and drummer extraordinaire Joe Morgan for his vision making it what it is.

By Paul Smart

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his time of year everything turns a bit abstract, color-wise, and then barren. Within a month we’ll be able to look deep into local forests for signs of the recent summer’s detritus, or up onto ridgelines for the criss-crossed evidence of old roadways and fencings.

It’s a season of many events. If you’re in the prime of your life, a period that’s decades long these days, there’s an array of festivals, cultural events, exhibits, concerts, and dinner gatherings to choose from. Or long hikes, leaf-peeper drives, and piles of chores calling out to be completed before the first snow flies. For an active parent or involved grandparent, there’s sports, open houses, Halloween (a week of decisions and aftermath in its own right), and the countdown into the holidays to engage.

Some of us are traveling new routes this year, drawn by new schools or jobs. Others have begun to discover the gifts the Hudson Valley’s many colleges offer...including the need to be extra-careful when driving near such campuses, given the newness of the extra-confident drivers in such places.

Hunting season will be starting during these coming weeks; the time before and just after mark great times to enjoy the many trails within the Catskill Park, Shawangunks, Taconics and nearby Berkshires. A growing network of rail-trails link

Dante DeCecio Kanter has been a Woodstock resident for 14 of his 16 years, and has received multiple awards for his poetry and short stories. He has attended the Iowa Young

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November 2015 4 | October– Explore Hudson Valley

A kid’s autumn in Hudson Everything gets more complicated, but also clearer?

By Margot Wolff (with help from her mother Rebecca)

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’M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DOESN’T LIKE TO feel hot, as in, overheated: hairs sticking to the back of my neck, undergarments and shoes binding and hateful. I like to be cool and wear sweaters and cook soup. Right around midAugust in the endless feeling of blue sky and inescapable moisture I begin to look forward with great anticipation to the coming crisp air and sharp smells of rotting fallen leaves, not to mention the excuse/opportunity to sit inside by a lamp or candle, hovering over a book or knitting a blanket or huddling under a blanket with a book and a bowl of soup. This is my old age, blanketed in childhood adoration of everything cozy. This is when the days become shorter and I count down to the nights when one can without dispute hit the

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sack by 9 p.m.

What does a real child think? I decided to ask my daughter, Margot. Margot hates to go to bed, no matter what the season.

I was feeling sad when summer was ending and I didn’t want to have to wake up early every morning and have to do homework every day. However, I was also excited to start a new school year. In the fall everything gets much more complicated, for instance me and a lot of other people start school and grownups have to get warmer clothes like long pants and sweaters. Also, people have to worry about raking leaves and things like that. When the leaves turn into a flood of color and you start seeing silly scarecrow and pumpkin decorations that make cheesy plastic smiles that’s when you know that it’s fall. You see the Catskills turning orange and yellow and crimson and not everything is that leafy green. School starts and you see old friends or maybe you’ll make new ones. Fall in the Hudson valley is when the nights grow colder and the breezes get windier and stronger.

Some of my favorite things to eat in the fall are comfort foods such as soups and pies. Pies are good to eat in fall because they are delicious and they are almost meant for the season, especially pumpkin pies.

Fall also smells kind of like pumpkins. It smells earthy and leafy at the same time. It is one of my favorite smells. Sometimes in the first days of fall you’ll get a whiff of that fall smell in the morning

just walking to the bus stop or just outside.

Especially when I’m walking down the streets of Hudson do I really see fall. I see the colorful trees and from them the leaves scattering across the sidewalks and streets all crumpled up like tinfoil. And up above I see the clouds and the geese squawking as they fly south for the winter.

Art in the Hudson valley is everywhere. There are many artists that paint the Catskill mountains at this time of year. There are also many local artists around the Hudson Valley. In fact, I know many artists. Every year in our city of Hudson in fall there is an Arts Walk. The Arts Walk is a celebration of the art in the Hudson Valley.

The fall is a beautiful season. However, all seasons must end at some point. Luckily, though, winter comes next, and winter is also full of fun.

But in fall there is Halloween where you dress up as anything you want and go trick or treating. And on Thanksgiving you get together with your family and have a feast mainly of turkey.

And that’s what I think about fall.

Thank you, Margot.

I know what I think, which is that I am going to do my darnedest to actually get out of the house and take advantage of the chance to be in personal proximity to the art as it happens all around us. This is the bounty of the Hudson Valley, along with the apples and the pumpkins and the ramps to come again next spring.

I’ll even do the Arts Walk.

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Living the season “Autumn ... the year’s last, loveliest smile.”

By Harry Matthews

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h, the fall in Greene County.

The summer now gone, the hordes departed, I think of all the things I have left to accomplish before the ground freezes up and the snow flies.

I wield my old axe up in a copse of hemlock, a stand up the hill beyond the tumbled-down stone wall. My chain saw hums, cutting the silence of the shortening day. My axe thuds, echoing in these cool surrounds. The red golden leaves fall crisp, then gently to the ground.

Over there, a chipmunk, cheeks filled like Dizzy Gillespie ready to blow, stares me down before scurrying off with another load of nuts for his larder back home. Right here, amidst these tall beauties, these great hard oak, these sweet sugar maple, I too head off with another load for our hearth, to keep us warm, in these soon-to-be long cold nights where we make our fire.

Enough poetic blathering! I love the fall, almost more than any other season. The summer, despite all its sun-drenched glory, its barbecues, its creekside leapings and its garden pickings, is often just a bit too hot for my seemingly far-northern blood. For whatever reason, I sweat enough for three, like I imagine the polar bears in Central Park Zoo must. So when the dog days growlingly move on and those first really cool nights of autumn sweep in from Canada my body naturally reacts with great sighs of relief and thankfulness.

For some of us it is also a time of intense work, readying what we will need to get through the coming winter. As some of you may be aware it’s no longer the nineteenth century (though certain hipster-beard men might contest this point), nor even the twentieth century for that matter, so it’s our choice to decide how we want to live. The houses we live in are fully insulated with modern stuffing, and are equipped with heat that magically arises from the push of a button or the turn of a dial. And with giganto megamarkets in every village, we no longer live in fear of starving to death if our crops fail. Hell, the way things are going if I get really lazy I might soon be able to have a pizza and a six-pack delivered right to my door by an Amazon drone!

For many, our modern world has made it too easy to be complacent, where the only exercise we might get is walking to and from our cars. Where once living in the country and the chores that went with such a life naturally kept one fit, we now have to seek out exercise in gyms to keep trim. And I, like many, have a natural aversion to gyms.

Luckily, living where we do with easy access to lots of outdoor activities makes it easier for some us to push back against having that harmful level of convenience in our lives. With mountains to climb, rivers to paddle, bikes to ride up steep hills, we have many valid reasons to stay out of gyms for as long as possible. Equally, knowing where our food comes from is becoming as important, and what better option than to have it come from one’s own backyard, whether literal or theoretical. And what better time than right now to get outside and climb a mountain or pick a lovely piece of fruit hanging from a tree!

Autumn in our beautiful neck of the woods abounds with amazing produce and the festivals and parties that go with their harvest. As the days

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Sunny Morning in the Hudson Valley, an 1827 painting by Catskill’s Thomas Cole, captures the moodiness that still makes autumn a favorite season in the region. get cooler the apple trees ripen and soon it’s time for apple-picking, pies, and fresh cider, and maybe even an Appletini or three! If one feels in the mood for it, most orchards let people pick their own apples. And with many of them come fun for the kids; corn mazes, hay rides, potato cannons, haunted houses and pumpkin patches.

As the days grow shorter and colder and the forests start their autumnal display of color, soon we will be seeing the yearly migration of the northern leaf-peeper. (This particular species might seem contentious to some, as a foreign invasion might be contentious to the invaded, but they are surely not as annoying or destructive as the hordes that invade our lovely creeksides all summer, leaving in their wake mountains of diapers and broken glass. And thankfully, at least until next summer, they are gone.)

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od bless the leaf-peepers, all decked out with their cameras, binoculars, and fancy leaf-peeping hats, causing near accidents along some of our more scenic vistas. And I get it. There have been certain trees, certain mountain sides, that were so frigging unbelievably glorious in their fiery fall color that it was all I could do to not swerve into oncoming traffic!

What I think I love most about the fall though is not the departing masses of vacationers, the end to the constant buzz of lawnmowers, or the steadily cooling days, but the quiet that seems to descend on our mountains and valleys almost immediately after Labor Day. It’s as if by midnight on that Tuesday morning, we’re suddenly whooshed back to reality. Is it that the kids are back to school? Is it that all one might hear in the woods are squirrels getting nuts up a tree, or the mournful honking of Canada geese flying v-shaped overhead?

Soon I’ll be pulling on thick sweaters and big boots, finding my favorite old hat, hauling in wood for the seasons first fire, and generally drinking a lot more hot cocoa (amongst other things), which all sounds really good. And like everything else — the birds, the bears, the chipmunks and the trees — we either make our preparations for the cold hand of the coming winter or we head south to avoid it. And maybe, for many of us, that preparation is more on the psychological side. For me a lot of it’s also physical.

As I write this I’ve just finished filling my woodsheds with what I split last fall, and soon will start cutting and splitting the wood for next year’s winter. Then there’s all of the buttoning up that has to take place: plastic on windows, draining hoses, bedding down flowers, insulating this, repairing that, all the particular seasonal work we have here in the north.

I, like many of my neighbors, have come to love all of it and thrill in the experience of living through every season in its fullest measure.

And though I might sweat too much for comfort through the summer, I also make sure I swim in the creek as often as I can. And though I might go out less during particularly bad cold spells in the winter, I also regularly follow animal tracks through the snowy woods and at least consider tobogganing on local hills or skating on local ponds (maybe this year I actually will). So in the fall I try to spend as much time as I can out in the woods, under the electric psychedelic canopy of the changing leaves, watching for migrating birds heading south, feeling my skin tingle in the cool crisp air, and always knowing there is a cup of warm spiced cider and a fire crackling in the grate waiting for me when I get home.

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The best of Dutchess County Something for everyone, whether indoors or outdoors, pure culture or pure activity, but always pure fun

By Jennifer Brizzi

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his time of year, when the weekends roll around, it’s a challenge to pack in all the things we’d like to do.

There’s so much out there, and fall weekends are in limited supply. If you find yourself in Dutchess County, you can find festivals galore, along with plenty of other events to suit your fancy. The weather has now cooled off enough to make outdoor activities a refreshing treat.

Whether it’s arts and cultural events that push your buttons, or outdoor pleasures like hiking and biking (organized or not), or festivals like the one in Tivoli celebrating street painting on October 4, you’ll find so much to choose from as those alltoo-few fall weekends fly by.

Following are a few fall favorites, many of which I’ve enjoyed in my 19 years here. You may notice my foodie bent, theatrical leanings and predilection for outdoor fun, but there’s lots more to love as well. Museums, galleries and cultural centers are many and varied, with ever-changing exhibits, too many to list here. (Although I have to plug Dia:Beacon’s huge, dramatic 3-D art that will awe the whole family).

Plenty of theatre is around all fall, from Seussical the Musical Octiber 2 to 11 at the Beacon Theatre in Beacon (not the NYC venue), to the Rocky Horror Show October 31 and November 1 from Trinity Players at The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie, to the Newvember New Play Festival November 5 through 8 at the Tangent Theatre Company in Tivoli, to Of Mice and Men the first three Fridays and Saturdays in November at the County Players Falls Theatre in Wappingers Falls.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Wait Until Dark, and Miracle on 34th Street, are at The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.

For music, check out the quartets and trios that will perform this season from the Howland Chamber Music Circle at Howland Cultural Center in Beacon and concerts from the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society, including a free family show of Sleeping Beauty on November 8. The Bardavon 1869 Opera House will bring us Lucinda Williams, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and much more.

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ur county’s colleges insure that there is plenty of entertainment. Among Bard, Marist and Vassar, and even the Culinary Institute of America, there is no dearth of theater, music or dance. The American Ballet Theater is visiting Bard’s spectacular Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Annandale, with four shows Columbus Day weekend. Later in the month you can see performances of Euripedes’ Iphigenia Among the Taurians, and from December 17 to 19 The Object Lesson. While you’re at the Fisher Center, don’t miss the ongoing exhibition “Adrift” by the skilled photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood.

Nearby Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli has a full schedule of ballet and other dance performances throughout the fall.

Although there are too many galleries to list, look to Vassar College for an exhibition of Asian art in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Project Gallery.

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Whether it’s the quieter events at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds or the grand vistas along the Hudson at Rhinecliff, there’s plenty to fill days for those not up for all the fall events.

Catch The Diary of Anne Frank October 8 through 11 at Marist College. Even the CIA gets in on the arts and culture action, with its Half Moon Theater presenting I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti October 9 to 25 and A Christmas Carol December 4 to 19, in the Marriott Pavilion.

The Culinary Institute of America also offers several student-run, on-campus restaurants. For a great way to see how the school ticks and watch students and chef-instructors in action, don’t miss their regular tours Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. plus Monday mornings at 10 a.m. (reservations are required).

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hile we’re in a culinary frame of mind, I have to mention the Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, which began in 2006 and now runs twice a year. It’s a great way to try all those places you’ve been wanting to check out but at a lower price. From November 2 to 15 you can get a taste and satisfy your curiosity at more than 200 venues, many in Dutchess County, with prix-fixe lunches for $20.95 and dinners for $29.95.

Check out the Rhinebeck Culinary Crawls on Sundays at 1 p.m. through October 18 for lots of sampling and tasting. Advance booking only (full

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At Crown Maple in Dover Plains, there will be a special maple-themed dinner at 6 p.m. on Friday, November 13. On Saturdays and Sundays you can tour Madava Farms and see how the luscious syrup is made. Another great place for sampling that’s also fun for the kids is Sprout Creek Farm on Lauer Road in Poughkeepsie. This educational center slash farm produces several award-winning and scrumptious cheeses from the milk of gently raised and loved animals.

At pick-your-own farms you can get some fresh air with your healthy treats, Dozens of delicious apple varieties are coming in and going out of season all the time throughout autumn. Cider donuts are generally not to be missed. Many farms offer other activities that are even more fun than apple-picking, like corn mazes, hay rides and inflatable bouncy houses. For fun family activities, check out Barton Orchards in Poughquag, Fishkill Farms in Hopewell Junction, Wigsten’s Farm in Pleasant Valley, and Hahn Farm in Salt Point. A few more of my favorite pick-your-own orchards include Cedar Heights in Rhinebeck, Mead Orchard in Tivoli and Fraleigh’s Rose Hill Farm and Greig Farm in Red Hook. If you just want a large selection of delicious apples -- including some varieties you may not have heard of -- and you don’t have time to pick them yourself, check out the farmstand for Montgomery Place Orchards on Route 9G in Red Hook.

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o burn off all those calories, our many parks like Mills-Norrie and Poets Walk entice, as well as rail-trails in the Harlem Valley and the one that connects with the awesome Walkway over the Hudson, which transports you

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When late fall days are balmy (we hope), remember the 79-year-old Trevor Zoo at Millbrook School in Millbrook, open year-round and delightful for all ages. And in early December (this year on December 5) the annual Sinterklaas Festival in Rhinebeck is much more fun when the weather smiles. This unique pagan festival has its roots with the area’s Dutch settlers and offers tightrope walking, fire juggling, strolling musicians and many performances of all kinds, capped off in the early evening by the mystical magical children’s starlight parade.

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For additional interesting strolls, check out the Beacon Second Saturday, on the second Saturday of every month (natch), with special events and a festive atmosphere. If Halloween-themed scares appeal, check out the guided Historic Graveyard Tours Friday and Saturday evenings through October 24 at St James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, or “Scary Stories in the Barn” at the Mount Gulian Historic Site in Beacon, at 7 p.m. on October 24.The Old Rhinebeck aerodrome museum and air shows continue through mid-October.

When it gets too cold out for outdoor fun, my own kids love Bounce Trampoline Sports in Poughkeepsie or Roller Magic in Hyde Park. Although they’ve now outgrown the Mid-Hudson

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For a kid, fall in the Catskills comes with its distractions

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all is the period of distraction.

Though some might feel that this is the time to haul out the wool sweaters and start focusing and preparing for work or school, for me it’s different.

I’m writing this article with one eye on the trees, or in the light, or on that one tree that shaped itself in a new way to avoid the electrical wires. Seriously, how did the tree get like that? All these distractions are part of the familiar comfort I get from fall, the time when I see things in a new way.

This change in outlook prompts a group meeting between the items in my summer closet and my fall/winter wardrobe. I get together all my pants, which replace shorts and other skimpy articles of clothing. The fact that I get to bring out my pants is an incredibly joyous experience. I like caging my legs in for a tight ride in skinny jeans, leggings or tights. I love the feeling of my legs knowing that the cold is about to get on them, but they’re ready for it. My favorite part of fall is No Shave November, wherein I spend six months not shaving.

I’ve engaged in many other riveting distractions this fall. I went apple-picking. The last time I went apple-picking was when I was in the girl scouts: Troop 97 in Olive. We all got in our family’s cars

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Summer sticks to one, winter catches the breath, spring awakens a host of feeling, but fall embraces all the senses with the warmth of a fresh bowl of harvest soup. and took a trip into actual nature, as opposed to the elementary-school cafeteria where we most often met. I picked so many apples I didn’t know what to do with them all. Actually, I didn’t pick.

The other girl scouts did. For the most part I ate my crop and pilfered from other scouts.

I just made a new apple-picking memory. I went picking with a few dapper friends of mine at

sunset. I must say, that is the time to go. You can smell the grass and apples warmed by the sun as it creeps lower until all around the orchard is a subtle, vibrant orangey yellow. Once again, I ate all of my apples, so I cannot tell you of the extravagant desserts that I made. I can tell you that it was one of the most serene and beautiful moments of my year, perhaps only second to the moment when I

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November 2015 10 | October– Explore Hudson Valley flipped off my razors, and whispered to them in sweet vengeance, “You’ll never catch me.”

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round mid-August I start to freak out about going back to school To calm myself, I got organized. I did the sweep of big-box stores for supplies. This year was unusual.

I kind of just went to school with a bag and one folder. The minimalist route, some might say.

I decided to wait until I knew what I needed for school. I suffered some anxiety, but when I did shop I went in with the eyes of a freakin’ shark.

I had two helpers, my friend Grace and my dad. I put them both to work. Things were going smooth-

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ly until once more I got distracted. The notebook.

The notebook with the ducky on it. I mean come on … a ducky, for Pete’s sake, who doesn’t need that?! I grabbed that notebook as though it was my child.

I have been using the same backpack since I was six. It literally looks just as big as it did then — like a boulder on my back. Also, it did not age well or go up in cool factor. It just got more nasty.

After trying so hard to fit all my stuff into cool-looking Jansport bags or very pretty leather messenger bags, I settled on a sturdy basic black model. Grace was helpful. Dad was impatient.

One could argue that if you’re starting college, or like me heading back to high school, that being distracted might not be the best thing. I strongly disagree. Distractions are my muse. Distractions make me feel free.

The fluorescent lights in my school are no match for the light of fall. Something about the fall’s blue sky is awe-inspiring. It seems a little bit bluer than other seasons, like it knows winter clouds will cover it soon and show off. I notice the leaves doing their last hurrah, too, before being shaken off by wind, or by squirrels, before being forced to subordinate themselves to children who jump on them. Kids just don’t get it sometimes.

This fall is starting out particularly well for me — much better than freshman year. Being in tenth grade gives me a power I never expected. It is a beautiful source of newfound energy that keeps me going. Turns out, if you yell “freshman!” at a ninth grader many others will join in. Call me Machiavelli, but I just love some power.

This year, my school subjects have proved to be kind of fun. I’m not gonna lie, they are challenging too. The difference is my attitude. I think last year goes the way of the leaves — you’re not supposed to keep the past. Now is the time of duck notebooks, apple-tree sunsets, and triumphant rust on razors. All these play again through my mind as I feel a little gleam of hope that rests on the distractions of fall. Really, an ending is just a beginning.

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The Demon Barbers of Tinker Street All Hallowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve is a celebration of death

By Dante Decicio Kanter

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or who knows how long, on every October 31 Woodstock, teenagers and pre-teenagers have covered both each other and the unsuspecting in shaving cream. The tradition has faded away somewhat with my generation, leaving only a spattering of the most zealous of vandals to paint the streets. But it still lives.

The tradition has been one of the many secret rituals and customs shared among children. Once the streets were well settled into night, and the last buckets of candy were emptied, they would appear. You could catch them if you stayed out late enough, but even then, as a child, you would only catch the first glimpses. A figure around a corner, a shout echoing from down the street. A rustling in the bushes.

They would never make themselves plainly known, preferring to wait in hiding and then, in short bursts, explode into conflict. I once saw a kid, already sudsy with shaving-cream injuries, limping down the streets. Four other children scrambled out from underneath a bench on the sidewalk, emptied their cans into their hands, and pinned the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arms behind his back. They began to massage the cream into his hair. The smell was sharp and sour: Gillette Fusion Hydra Ultra Sensitive Shave.

In middle school I was round-faced, strangely disproportionate, and decidedly and obnoxiously intellectual. I both hated and envied those who went out on shaving-cream night. They represented everything I was too scared to express and therefore rebelled against. They were the joyful stupidity of being young, while I prided myself on having an old soul. Growing up as an only child who sat in art galleries surrounded by the drunken conversations of old painters, I was willfully separated from the world of children, stiff and awkward around people my age during my most formative years. I took no chances. My absolute fear of death kept me from taking anything resembling a risk. If I had another shot at my early childhood, I would spend it running through the dark, sweating and stinking of hygiene product.

Every Halloween I found solace in the company of other wimps, those who still dressed up and still trick-or-treated in their senior year of high school.

My then and now good friend Jack told me his childhood fantasy to cover himself head to toe in armor and stalk the ten oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock Woodstock streets, spraying down shaving-cream revelers with a super-soaker. He would be a masked avenger.

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he shaving-cream kids were hardly the worst vandals of Halloween. Mischief Night brought in tales of delinquency from across the country. Mischief Night takes place the night before Halloween. The frustrated teenage population of a community purge their anger and primal urges by vandalizing and/or property and terrorizing locals in a kind of unholy catharsis.

The people of Detroit have called it Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night since the Seventies, when the crime became so intense that it resulted in serial arson and murder.

The Demon Barbers of Tinker Street were simply participating in the therapeutic ritual of destruction.

Some of the Demon Barbers invested their lives into shaving-cream night, which became more than an outlet or a way to pass the time. It became a war. One year, when I had seen piles of shaving cream lining the street, sidewalk and buildings, phrases that I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have seen in my tender age painted onto storefronts, I saw two of them hiding in the bushes, panting, huddled close in fear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Paul?â&#x20AC;? said one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spotted him by the CVS. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much time. Go!â&#x20AC;? Said another, and they ran off, keeping quiet-footed and low to the ground. They seemed to be cradling their cans of shaving cream

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like assault rifles.

There is a higher purpose to vandalism then the public allows. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reminder that nothing is sacred, that nothing is owned, and that everything is subject to disaster. What better holiday than Halloween to give that reminder?

Nothing is more connecting than fear. A shared sense of danger establishes an instinctual trust between people: they have faced death and survived. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the reason people go to haunted houses, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the reason people squirm through horror movies, and its one of the mainstays of Halloween.

For bystanders like me, the Demon Barber were that fear. I asked my family to pick up a hitchhiker in the pitch-black dead of night, and watched my father keep his hand on the glove compartment where he kept his hunting knife for emergencies.

I saw a fight between two men in front of their children, one dressed as R2-D2, the other as Yoda.

Each Halloween something strange and almost supernatural would leave me awake at night with a plastic bag full of Laffy Taffy under my arm.

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he day is a celebration of death, the death of crops, the slaughtering of livestock, death by disease brought by winter chill, the death of nature. The days are getting shorter, the nights longer. We celebrate the Gaelic pagan of the 13th century, samhain, the pagan root of Halloween. Faced with the possibility of tragedy and disaster, the Irish didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t despair. They drank and danced among the dead and the fairies.

The spirit of the Celts lives on in the Demon Barbers of Tinker Street. It lives in the angry vandals of Mischief Night. It lives in those revelers in need

of escape. It lives to celebrate fear, and by celebrating fear to accept it. It represents to me the victory over darkness of sheer determination and will.

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Fall in Kingston is a busy time The city goes O Positive, gets burned, hosts trains, and is all about community

By Lynn Woods

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ooler temperatures and shorter days signify the eventual return of the dreary days of winter. Fortunately you don’t have to despair yet, since first we get to experience the best season of all.

Soon the buses, caravans of cars and cruise ships will be delivering their freight of leaf-peepers, but most of us locals need go no farther than our door sills to witness the spectacle of the fall foliage. But it isn’t just nature that’ll be putting on a festive show: Kingston will be at its liveliest, with a total of five festivals happening in October.

At the end of the month, the museums close and the boat rides come to an end, but meanwhile there’s something fun going on every weekend.

And the crispness of the days means that one can actually enjoy being outside, watching costumed artisans dip candles or forge iron tools, say, or feasting on zeppoles and sausage-and-pepper heros while being feted by Italian accordion players, or bouncing atop a hay-filled wagon through Forsythe Park, without sweating in the summer heat.

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irst on the roster is the autumn festival on Sunday, October 4, at the Senate House state historic site, the stone building where the legislators met in 1777 when Kingston was briefly the state capital. It’s the city’s oldest museum. The pretty grounds are transformed into a showcase of 18th-century life, with costumed colonial period re-enactors demonstrating cooking over a wood fire, candle dipping, cider pressing, blacksmith forging, and meat smoking. Kids can make cornhusk dolls and dried apple wreaths, and a juggler will be walking around on stilts.

It’s free, but don’t miss a visit to the museum (admission is $4 for adults), which has some wonderful folk-art paintings on display as well as paintings and drawings by native son John Vanderlyn, the first American artist to study abroad (and creator of the amazing in-the-round panorama of the gardens at Versailles on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City).

Two of Kingston’s most popular events, one a long-standing tradition commemorating the city’s place in American history, the other just six years old but with such a powerful appeal it’s expanding to other cities, occur in October. The burning of Kingston by invading British troops, occurring on October 13, 1777, was a tragic event, but it hatched a really fun festival, to be held this year October 16-18. But first, over the Columbus Day weekend, Kingston is treated to the 0+ Festival, which was conceived as a way to bring top-notch musicians, artists, muralists and performers to the city in exchange for free or reduced medical or dental care.

It’s been a smashing success, bringing thousands to Kingston and hatching O+ festivals in other cities (this year, in Petaluma, California, and Chicago; Kansas City is coming up next year).

This year’s O+ event kicks off with a parade featuring the Hungry Marching Band on Friday, October 16, starting at the 721 Media Center, a new festival venue. Throughout the weekend, a total of 60 bands will perform at locations in Uptown and

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upper Midtown. They include the Screaming Females, Prince Rama, Quilt, the eighties band The Bongos, Corey Clover, lead singer of the Living Color, Roz and the Rice Cakes, and Christopher Paul. Twenty-five performance and installation artists will also participate, including six visiting muralists, leaving a legacy of public art on the city’s walls. The murals will be curated by Gaia, who, perched on a sky-high lift, painted a mural in the city at the 2013 festival. This year, he’ll be contributing a work incorporating Sojourner Truth and Kingston-born artist John Vanderlyn.

O+ fuses cutting-edge music and art with a wellness expo on Saturday. Local acupuncturists, massage therapists, Reiki experts and other health-related practitioners will be represented, and herbalist Hillary Thing will lecture on what’s perhaps the biggest local threat to health, Lyme disease. Classes in yoga, dance, meditation, and sound healing will be held, along with bike rides,

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hile you’re in Kingston over Columbus Day weekend, particularly if you have kids in tow, head to the Forsyth Nature Center for its annual autumn festival, held October 11 from 10 am to 4 pm. Hobnobbing with the pig, tortoises, donkey, peacocks, goats, llamas, and other animal residents in a facility that’s geared toward environmental education is always a compelling reason to visit the center. This is your chance to support the facility by bidding on an item at the silent auction or purchasing some home-baked goods. You can take a hayride through the park, wander through the corn maze, hear live music, watch craft demonstrations and shop for items made by local artisans.

Also on October 11, definitely find time to head downtown to Gallo Park on the Strand to catch the Italian Festival, scheduled from noon to 8 pm.

Sponsored by the newly formed Italian American Foundation, the festival will feature the voice of opera star and Phoenicia Festival of the Voice co-founder Maria Todaro, big-band music by the Michael Dell Big Band, oldies by the Hot Rod Band, and traditional Neapolitan singers and accordion players.

Food is one of the major reasons to travel to the

Octoberâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; November 2015 Explore Hudson Valley old country, and the festival will have plenty, including desserts, fine olive oils, and locally grown garlic. Learn a smidgeon of Italian from the Walking Italian Language Lessons, admire the Lamborghini and other classy Italian sports cars on display, and watch your kids have a blast making bracelets, Venetian masks and pizza.

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uring the Revolutionary War, invading British troops marched into the settlement of Kingston and burned down more than 300 buildings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a calamity that only served to harden the colonistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; resolve to achieve independence, not to mention promptly rebuild the town. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Burning of Kingston starts with a re-enactment of the colonistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Committee of Safety meeting at the historic Persen House, the county-owned reconstructed 18th-century stone house museum in Uptown Kingston, on Friday night, October 16. Watch how the residents react when they learn of Burgoyneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defeat at Saratoga and learn that a British fleet lies just off Kingston Point.

There will also be food, colonial games, and colonial maritime exhibits at the Hudson River Maritime Museum and spooky testimonials from the risen dead in the Old Dutch Reformed Church courtyard.

On Saturday morning, the British soldiers land at Kingston Point and encounter some minor resistance from the colonists. (Reservations recommended for this part of the program; visit burningofkingston.com for more info.) In the afternoon, the troops advance up North Front Street toward the Senate House, where the colonists barely escape with their lives. Skirmishes between the two forces, expertly impersonated by costumed re-enactors, occur in Uptown Kingston before the mayor is put on trial. A grand ball is held in the evening at the city hall, with instructions on the 18th-century dance moves to live music (Powdered wigs, tri-colored hats and petticoats are welcome). On Sunday you can visit the camps of the re-enactors and observe their military drills and tactical battle demonstration at Forsyth Park.

You can learn more about the historic event and the Senate Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in helping forge the new nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s democracy at two lectures presented at the Senate House Museum as part of its popular free â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buried Treasureâ&#x20AC;? monthly lecture series.

Hank Yost, member of the First Ulster Militia re-enactors, will give a talk entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Burning of Kingston â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Phoenix Risesâ&#x20AC;? on October 17 and Thomas Kernan will speak on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Senate House â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cradle of Democracyâ&#x20AC;? on November 21.

The lectures start at 5:30 pm. Visit the city websiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calendar of events, www.kingston-ny.gov for details.

Also worth a visit is the county-owned Persen House, a stone house encompassing five centuries, whose partial reconstruction and displays of items discovered in an archaeological dig constitute a chunk of tangible Kingston history. Ulster County Clerk Nina Postupack is sponsoring an exhibit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whispers of Revolution: Matthewis Persenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern and the Burning of Kingston,â&#x20AC;? about what happened at this very spot during the time of the conflagration. Also on display is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rondout Revisited,â&#x20AC;? highlighting three periods of history in Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waterfront district, sponsored by the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History.

The house is located on an incredibly historic cross street in Uptown Kingston in which each of the fours corner is occupied by an stone house, the only such crossroads in America (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also just two blocks from the Kingston Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market, held Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm on Wall Street through November 21. The Persen House is open Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm through November 21. Admission is free.

McEntee at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. The Kingston exhibit is open Friday and Saturdays through the end of October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lighthouses of the Hudson,â&#x20AC;? at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, focuses on the dozen lighthouses that once guided ships up and down the Hudson, touching on the architecture, changing technologies of the lights, and the life of the lighthouse keepers. Several of these were women, including Catherine Murdock, who ran the Kingston Lighthouse for 50 years, rowing her children to shore so they could attend school.

The museum on the West Strand also has a fascinating collection of artifacts, artworks, and photographs in its permanent exhibition gallery touching on the mostly vanished maritime and industrial history of the river. It is open every day through October 31.

The best time to be out on the river, of course, is in the fall, when the wooded shores are aflame with color, and Hudson River Cruises makes it easy, offering two-hour tours of the river on the Rip Van Winkle. The boat, which is docked at the Rondout waterfront, goes out most afternoons in October, with the last tour scheduled on October 25. Tickets are $22 for adults ($20 senior, $14 kids under 12). www.hudsonrivercruises.com.

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ingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become known as a great place to hear contemporary bands, thanks to the excellent programming of BSP (Back Stage Productions), located on Wall Stret in a former theater and furniture emporium in Uptown, as well as neighborhood microbrewery

Keegan Ales, The Anchor, and, on occasion, the hip, elegant Stockade Tavern (which specializes in vintage cocktails). Comedy acts are an up-andcoming trend, and BSP is bringing comedians to Kingston with its Mad Laughs Comedy Show, on October 17. Visit bsp.com for a full listing of upcoming bands.

Kingston also has theater: The local theater company Coach House Players do an excellent job of resurrecting theatrical classics (and sometimes great but not so classic plays). They perform in an actual late-Victorian brick coach house. Their performance of George Bernard Shawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pygmalion on the weekends of November 13-15 and 20-22 will be lots of fun. (www.coachhouseplayers.org) Railroad enthusiasts will be flocking to Kingston for the Kingston Model Railroadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 77th anniversary open house on Susan Street off Pine Grove Avenue, on weekend afternoons throughout November. For more information call 334-8233.

A fundraiser for Sinterklaas, a Dutch-inspired Christmas festival that commences with a lively parade of bobbing handmade stars and boats down lower Broadway, will be held at the Old Dutch Church on November 20. The parade itself will be held November 29 â&#x20AC;Ś but by then it will be winter. The city wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t entirely shut down: its music venues, many restaurants, and specialty shops will be open as usual, and besides Sinterklaas, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Snowflake Festival, concerts at the Old Dutch Church, and New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve to look forward to.

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A few of his drawings, photographs of McEntee and his friends and family, and other memorabilia, accompanied by informative text, fill out the show, which complements a current solo show of

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Explore New Paltz and Rosendale Centering regional harvests, these Valley towns become more festive as the air chills

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he late Maeve Binchy, Irish journalist-turned-novelist, had a funny take on autumn. I say â&#x20AC;&#x153;autumn,â&#x20AC;? rather than â&#x20AC;&#x153;fall,â&#x20AC;? because that was the premise. She wrote about how when she was a child in Ireland one summer an American visitor went on at length about wishing she could stay long enough to see â&#x20AC;&#x153;just one fall in this part of the world.â&#x20AC;? It would be wonderful, the woman added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;what with there being so much greenery already.â&#x20AC;?

Binchy was bewildered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was odd to look forward to and be wistful about seeing a fall of any sort,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I had no idea what greenery had to do with anything.â&#x20AC;?

Eventually, of course, Binchy figured it out. But whether you live in a part of the world that calls this time of year â&#x20AC;&#x153;autumnâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;fallâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which apparently is simply an abbreviation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fall of the leaf â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it is a season for nostalgia. Growing up in a beach city in southern California, I never understood what my Midwestern mom was talking

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many Northeastern autumns under my belt, I get it. And getting out to enjoy the season seems to be of utmost importance given its brevity and with the knowledge that the still of winter awaits.

Asked to write about special things to do in New Paltz and Rosendale at this time of year, I was on board. I asked around, given that I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in the area very long. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss mentioning something important that I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet learned about. I discovered that â&#x20AC;&#x153;fallâ&#x20AC;? is synonymous with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Halloweenâ&#x20AC;? to some people, which presented another situation for me. Without munchkins to dress up and with an aversion to zombies, I recognize that Halloween isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my strong suit.

Looking into it, I found Halloween-related activities in New Paltz and Rosendale that would make an ideal fall excursion for those looking for something other than strictly-for-kids or invasions of the Walking Dead â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tales of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;? live performance at the Rosendale Theatre.

A live theatrical performance adapted from Washington Irvingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rip Van Winkleâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Legend of Sleepy Hollowâ&#x20AC;? will be held at the Rosendale Theatre on Saturday, October17 at 11 a.m. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a one-day-only deal, approximately an hour in length and suitable for the entire family.

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Tickets cost $10 for general admission, $9 for Rosendale Theatre members and $5 for kids age 12 and under. Family admission costs $20. The Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. More information is available at 658-8989 or visit www. rosendaletheatre.org.

The Haunted Huguenot Street tours feature a succession of costumed interpreters who draw on authentic historical material to offer visitors an interactive experience with in-the-moment-style interpretations inside the historic houses and on the burial grounds at the Crispell Memorial French Church. Tours will be offered Friday and Saturday, October 16-17, 23-24 and 30-31, departing from the DuBois Fort Visitor Center hourly from 5 to 9 p.m. (except for Halloween night, when tours go out on the hour from 7 to 10 p.m.).

The tours are “PG-rated.” Pre-registration is encouraged, since tickets often sell out in advance.

Tours cost $25 with pre-registration or $30 on the day of. A discount of $5 is given to the military, seniors, members of the Historic Huguenot Society and students with ID. Kids are invited to go trick-or-treating at the historic houses on Huguenot Street from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 31 (the houses will be otherwise closed during this time). The DuBois Fort Visitor Center is located at 81 Huguenot Street in New Paltz. More information is available at 255-1889 or visit www.HuguenotSt.org.

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inally, the 25th annual “Night of 100 Pumpkins” will take place at The Bakery on North Front St. in New Paltz on Friday, October 31. Anybody who brings a decorated pumpkin to The Bakery on October 30 will get a free jack o’lantern cookie in exchange. Local artists serve as judges for the pumpkin-carving contest.

Lots of prizes, all donated by local businesses, will be awarded. Adults and kids are judged separately. The pumpkins will all be lit up on Halloween night at 6 p.m. when the winners of the contest are revealed. The Bakery will serve free hot cider, cocoa and freshly baked pumpkin bread. Check out photos from previous years on The Bakery’s website at www.ilovethebakery.com.

The event was the occasion last year for a marriage proposal, when “Janice, Will You Marry Me?” was carved into a pumpkin. The proposal was accepted, and the couple married this summer.

More than 1000 people come to see the pumpkins every Halloween night, says David Santner, owner of The Bakery, with many more coming the next day. “It’s tons of fun and people come back year after year.” A new website devoted to the event with more details about the contest should be up by the time this goes to press. More information is available at 255-8840 or at www.ilovethebakery.com.

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Fall foods and festivals Apples, squash and Brussels sprouts are but the beginning

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he days are getting shorter, the nights cooler. It’s the time of year when appetites turn to warm and hearty autumn foods. Here in New York we are blessed with some of the best fall fruits and vegetables anywhere, from apples (and the delicious products they are turned into) to Brussels sprouts to squash (and their kin) to — wait for it — green tomatoes (I’ll explain later).

For me, apples are the quintessential fall food.

There is little that can compare with the joy of walking through a u-pick orchard and plucking a Northern Spy or a Winesap from the tree and biting into one of those crisp, not overly sweet apples.

Besides the apples themselves, there’s the sweet and hard cider produced from the juice. Hard cider has been having a renaissance over the last few years. Our region is again producing some great examples of the variety of flavors and styles that are out there. Two are Bad Seed Hard Cider from Highland and Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider in Staatsburg.

Also, let’s not forget apple-cider donuts, a treat that I was unfamiliar with until moving to the Hudson Valley. I am now a dedicated adherent to these fried delights that are best eaten warm while wandering through an apple orchard.

Several area festivals celebrate the apple and its byproducts. There’s a chili, cheese and cider fes-

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Brussels sprouts are a fall favorite of mine, but alas our area does not have a festival celebrating this brassica that’s high in vitamin C and K. You’ll have to party one-on-one with these little guys.

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My favorite way to prepare them is pretty easy.

All you need is a little salt and pepper, a drizzle of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and bacon bits sprinkled on top of the halved Brussels sprouts. Then throw them into a 400-degree oven to roast for about 30 minutes.

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y mind turns from thoughts of bacon to those of other cured meats, the kind you might consume with a nice Bavarian pilsner. It’s Oktoberfest time! Over at Hunter Mountain there’s a celebration of all things German every weekend through October 18, with free admission.

Let’s turn our minds to the large group of fall vegetables, the Cucurbitaceae family, which includes squash and pumpkins among others. One of this vegetable family’s best attributes is their ability to work in both sweet and savory situations. You can cook an entire dinner, soup to dessert, with them. For a fun and healthier take on a hearty pasta dish, I like to substitute spaghetti squash for that starchy spaghetti. The squash will stand up to a heavy tomato sauce just fine.

I’m a bit of a tomato fanatic, so when the summer turns to fall I feel a bit depressed knowing fresh-off-the-vine Caprese salad is nearing its end.

As a Southerner, though, I get excited about the cooking possibilities of the green tomatoes that aren’t going to make it past the first frost. At our house they get a new life as fried green tomatoes with shrimp remoulade sauce. My wife Kara, has a delicious version you can find on her website “The New 19th Century Kitchen). It may become your new favorite fall food.

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here are other area food and beverage festivals that are worth a look, including Benmarl Winery’s annual October harvest grape-stomping festival the weekend of October 10 and 11. Yes, you really do get to stomp grapes (and drink local wine).

On October 31, the FarmOn! Foundation in Copake is having a fall harvest festival and Halloween event that will feature live music, a costume contest, educational activities for the kids, and lots of local food. The event benefits FarmOn!, an organization that supports local farmers.

In the late fall, the Hudson Valley Wine & Chocolate Festival brings together two of my favorite autumn treats (who’s kidding whom, I like wine and chocolate year-round). The event, scheduled for November 22 in Fishkill, features the region’s best wine, spirits, hard cider and craft beer as well as chocolates of every description along with other specialty foods and fine crafts. The event benefits children and adults with developmental disabilities through the organization Partners with Parc.

So go get out this fall, enjoy the weather before you have to start shoveling snow, celebrate the food and drink our region has to offer, and maybe try something new in the kitchen. Autumn foods are found so bountifully very close to where we live.

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Is there still a Hudson Valley art season?

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rowds for select art veryone’s been trotting openings are bigger now. out their black wardrobes There’s Jack Shainman’s down in New York City. Startnew Columbia County gallery-ining in early September, the an-old-school. Kinderhook draws city art season’s been underupwards of a thousand for its big way, with openings throughworld-class city openings. Mt. out Chelsea, Bushwick, and wherever else Tremper Arts in Shandaken draws the scene’s decided to land this year. The regular raves, Hudson keeps the cognoscenti are talking up Latin Amerihome fires burning. Basilica Hudcan and Eastern European artists newly son space down by the riverfront discovered at MOMA, the Flavin neons keeps upping the ante on its prodown in Chelsea, Book Arts in Queens gramming, drawing New York preand the resurgence of Lichtenstein and PIviews with increasing regularity casso around town. Tickets are selling out and spurring on the small city’s mufor BAM and the Joyce and the new flicks sic, theater and performance scenes Cross Contemporary gallery in Saugerties is making its name showing midcoming to town via the stalwart local film in its wake. Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe career artists such as Mark Thomas Kanter of Woodstock. festival. continues to draw decent crowds What about the Hudson Valley’s scene? for increasingly edgy work. cluding Beacon’s grand extravaganza, as well as Does the grand autumnal splash that started to Big regional exhibitions, like the Olana/Cole art openings at the college galleries (at least those come together a decade or so ago still live? Are House RIver Crossings, or the Samuel Dorsky not closed this year for renovations, like Bard Colopenings the new club concerts, the salons of our Museum’s regional compendia, open in late spring lege’s Hessel). day where one needs to see and be seen? or early summer. Which is also when the big outThe first weeks of October will be filled with The grand plans for coordinated Saturday-night door sculpture shows tend to open. Splashy benethe big O + Festival in KIngston, now in its sixth art openings in specific towns and cities up and fit events, such as Art Omi’s recent feast and Wave year and drawing together visual, musical and down the Hudson River were promising someFarm’s Transmission Arts celebrating Groundperformance arts with an increasingly Hudson thing different a decade or so ago, when it seemed swell, happen in early September, when the Valley singularity. There’s the now-regional (and every weekend was rife with art happenings. weather’s more conducive for outdoor fun. The Folks seemed to be starting to come to the rerock-solid) Arts Walk in Hudson and environs. big college gallery shows open in early winter (or gion for tours that included such big draws as the Expect a month of Woodstock festivals from film just before students return in late August). then-new Dia: Beacon, Mass MOCA (in the Berkto the many musicians and craftspeople that come But it’s not the same. What happened to the shires), Tang and other Capital District museums. to town now as luthiers. Recent weeks have alonce-blossoming scenes in Poughkeepsie, PhoeniThere were rising galley scenes in Kingston and ready witnessed a variety of art studio tours, incia, Newburgh and other locations up and down

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what everyone shows -- continues to be impressive compared to other regional scenes across the country, or within equal distance of the nation’s giant art scenes in New York and Los Angeles.

I’ve been a big booster of the Hudson Valley’s potential as an arts center, but also appreciative of its failure to fully reach the levels of achievement and attention everyone’s wanted for it. The problem, I and many have noted, is as much one of today’s art world, where sales and appreciation are dictated by a few highly elitist elements from city galleries and publications (as well as the Lemming-like results of art fairs and curator-driven MFA and exhibition tendencies of recent years), as it is anything local. You can only sell art at only so high a level outside a major city.

The artists I speak with, here and in cities around the globe, are quick to note how hard it’s gotten to sell anything of late. It’s as though there’s no more room on people’s walls, or even in their storage units, for anything beyond the giant screens and dramatic interior design flourishes that keep vying for space these days.

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oes this diminish what we have now in the Hudson Valley, given the crowds that still come out for cultural events like O +, Arts Walk, and all the other events whose crowds still count, and actually seem to be more than what was?

I’ve just returned from a weekend of sound art outside of Olana before roiling skies, poetry explorations inside a Rosendale cave, the inauguration of a friend’s treehouse sculpture in the woods between Catskill and Saugerties, an opening of riveting weather-balloon sculptures in Germantown, and studio visits in rural and town settings all over the Hudson Valley. Our creativity may be at a peak, whether it’s got its own market or not.

Now one of the stalwarts of the Hudson Valley art scene, Elena Zang Gallery in Shady shows top names who are often best known for their museum exhibitions. the valley. Where are the tram-like art buses making their way from the Rondout to Uptown Kingston these days? Or the several dozen intrepid artists and art aficionados that could be spotted, reliably, at openings in Beacon, Stone Ridge and Germantown on a single night?

The biggest “arts” events of each year still take place during the holidays, in late November and early December, when amateurs and mid-career professional artists come out and mingle with those looking for gift ideas at huge fundraising group shows. The underlying problem isn’t the getting of artists to show, or show up, but finding collectors to buy what’s on view.

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here’s no short supply of member-reliant spaces to show art, like Unframed in New Paltz, ASK and Cornell Street in Kingston , and Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia. Or more selective artist-run spaces, like Storefront, KMOCA and One Mile Gallery in the Rondout, or SUNY Ulster’s Muroff-Kotler Gallery space, which keep its eye open for new work that keeps an eye on the region’s relationship with the rest of the global art world, particularly back in black-clad New York.

The few intrepid gallerists who have built up sustainable markets of collectors, such as Albert

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Autumn sports The stunning natural beauty makes watching any contest worthwhile

By Ed Breslin

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he glory of autumn sports in the Hudson River Valley is hard to beat.

Between the spectacular scenery and the energetic excellence of the games played, no sports fan will be left unsatisfied — even if his or her team suffers a crushing defeat and even if his or her offspring is on the losing side. The experience of watching a good contest played in a stunning natural setting more than makes up for the sting of defeat.

I can attest to this, having attended five games played to the hilt over a span of 45 hours during the second weekend in September. Every game was played within an easy drive of where I live in Woodstock.

On Friday I started at Dietz Stadium with the late-afternoon girls’ field hockey game between the Kingston Tigers and the Webutuck Warriors.

It was my first field hockey game. I enjoyed it, and followed the ebb and flow, keeping in mind ice hockey and soccer, to which it bears similarities.

I loved watching an agile and fast attack forward for Kingston named Erin Connors score a hat trick: three goals in a single game for a 3-0 Kingston shutout win.

After the game I chatted with Kingston coach Debbie Eaton. She confirmed my impression that Kingston demonstrated better possession and passing skills, combined with slick teamwork and deft stick handling. That’s how Kingston dictated the game’s cadence, rhythm and flow. On Erin’s second goal I thrilled to the masterful assist by Olivia Prizzi. It was the outstanding example I saw all weekend of the power of teamwork.

Dietz Stadium is a solidly built and handsomely equipped facility for high school sports. With a capacity of 2500, it has a field of modern artificial turf, a prominent electronic scoreboard, and a sizable press box with unobstructed views.

When I arrived, two helpful gentlemen welcomed me, stadium manager Jim Palacco and head of security Harry Waltman. The instant I asked how the stadium got its name, Jim showed me an article pinned to his office wall. It celebrated Army staff sergeant Robert Herman Dietz, a Kingston native killed on March 29, 1945 while preventing the retreating German army from blowing up the bridge spanning the Rhine at Kirchain.

Sergeant Dietz facilitated the invasion of the fatherland, saving many lives on both sides by shortening the war. For this he won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Previously he had won a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He was one of 3000 men from Kingston who served in World War II.

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few hours later, this was highly relevant. Before the start of the football game between Kingston and Washingtonville, Gene Maisch, who oversees all athletics for the Kingston school district, conducted a ten-minute

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Then the game broke out, with announcer Jerry Spratt calling it with his signature brio, as he has for 37 years. The action on the field was spirited, brisk and exciting. Unfortunately, the Kingston Tigers wound up on the short end of a 28-7 score.

Yet the game was closely contested during the first quarter, which ended with Kingston ahead by a single point, 7-6.

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spread offense too complicated for high-school kids, featuring pro sets and three wide receivers, a slot receiver, and a tight end, all of them on the line of scrimmage. The quarterback operated alone in the backfield in the shotgun, or with a lone running back beside him in the pistol.

In contrast, the Wizards of Washingtonville ran a simple wishbone. They chewed up the clock with a potent ground game and complemented it with a sturdy defense to dominate ball control and take charge of the game. They might have scored more touchdowns had they not fumbled on two potential scoring drives.

Washingtonville needs to work only on ball security. Otherwise they are a highly polished, wellcoached squad. This is a credit to the knowledge and teaching prowess of head coach Don Clark and his staff. Another credit to coach Clark is that he declined twice near the end of the game to run up the score, opting instead to take kneel-downs to kill the remaining time and spare the Kingston kids embarrassment. He’s a good coach and a classy sportsman.

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Octoberâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; November 2015 Explore Hudson Valley front of the goal and Kingston keeper Josh McNutt stopped it, I thought I was watching European professionals.

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After the game, referee Randy Rollin remarked: “The thing about women’s soccer is that they pass more and play the ball more. It’s a more interesting game. It’s much more about teamwork than the men’s game, where every guy is trying for the long spectacular shot that rarely goes in.” I mentioned to Randy that the same superior teamwork held true in women’s basketball. Then I shook hands with Randy and his two assistants, Jacob

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value old things.

Old things like grandfathers, for example.

And, I think in New Paltz most especially, people value and remember grandfathers of grandfathers of grandfathers. Take a stroll down Huguenot Street (“the oldest street in America”) and you’ll see the names of the of the country’s Europe-fleeing (white) founding fathers emblazoned not only on headstones in the quaint Huguenot cemetery but also on the street signs and on those Cub-Scout blue-and-yellow historical markers.

The even-older grandfathers of country — the natives who were displaced by the newcomers — have suffered a less friendly fate, a local echo of the terrible fate suffered by countless grandfathers who spoke neither Dutch nor English and whose histories can only be guessed at today. I hope my grandchildren will understand the importance of remembering those old geezers as well as more recent vintages.

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he question was tantalizing.

What memories, experiences and places would I bequeath to my grandchildren, should they ever wonder why the old geezer lived in the Hudson Valley for nearly 40 years?

The question, I think, requires some imaginative context. In 20 years, my eldest grandson will be 34 years old; the youngest will be 20. Between the two of them — and the two additional boys whose birthdays I chronically forget — my fondest wish is to be remembered as someone who loved them as much as my grandparents loved me, which was a lot.

After that, should one of them wonder why I chose to live here with their grandmother all these years, I’ll say this: the Hudson Valley is crawling with history. Which is to say the folks around here

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grandfathers, intent on making a living in a new land, found it necessary to start industries that employed other grandfathers intent on raising families in every corner of the valley. So it was that boho-friendly Rosendale was once a smoky, dusty company town whose only product was a naturally occurring cement that had to be mined from the mountains that surround it. The stuff was toasted in local kilns, hauled by horses to various waterways where it was finally unloaded, mixed with water and used to create some of the most astonishing buildings of my own grandfathers’ day.

It was a great thing and supported many families, until it didn’t. Rosendale cement went the way of the ice houses on the Hudson and the bluestone cutters in Kingston and the brick-making factories of Saugerties.

The cost of all this industrialization, necessary as it was to survival in the new land, wasn’t much appreciated back then. The cost was the countryside itself. The valley’s first-growth forest was among the first victims of its settlers’ needs. Vast swaths of land were cleared of primieval forests to make room for dairy farms that thrived in Dutchess and Ulster and Orange counties until they didn’t any more. In too many instances, those acres have lately been home not to resurgent forests but to homely, lonely-looking things called McMansions, visual afflictions which Malvina Reynolds, were she alive today, might write a cheerfully mordant song about.

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down in the back yard, have patience with them, treasure them.

Trees, like the grandfathers they eventually become, will welcome you in their springtime, let you crawl through their limbs and dangle from their highest reaches in their youth. Even as they grow older and swap their green days for fiery furnishings, even as they creak in the wind and fall to pieces in the winter, they’re worth hanging around for in this valley you’ve grown up in. They’re there for you, just as my grandfathers were there for me, as I am there for you. Even if I don’t always remember your birthdays.

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I learned to appreciate trees by growing up in suburban South Buffalo, where all the trees stood in small patches of grass in front of compact cottages and Cape Cods that, like the tree, lined Turner Avenue. The trees were American elms whose lush summer leaves, in addition to playing havoc with streetside fly balls and punts, turned a crinkly brown and dropped like dead grasshoppers all over the neighborhood. They were all eventually taken out by something called Dutch elm disease, a fact I didn’t much mourn at the time.

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Robert Frost wrote about roads not taken, but that was back before comfy cars with great sound systems. Not that one needs anything more than the smell and sound of fallen leaves to get one remembering, maybe even lamenting the passage of time.

Autumnal heart Who knows what goes on in the Forbidden Park?

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h, how the falling leaves, the frost in the morning, the longer nights, the withered vines, and most of all, that yellow school bus chugging right past my home without stopping, tease me to reflect and be sad. And, oh, how easy that would be.

Just listen to Eva Cassidy sing The Falling Leaves and you will know my heart.

Screw that. I am getting old, and that’s plenty sad enough. And when I was young, very young, the vicissitudes of autumn were adumbrations of a youth well spent. And I have the stories to prove it.

I was eight years old, standing in a pumpkin patch with my father, who was engrossed in a lengthy conversation with some fellow. This gave me plenty of space and time to contemplate the pumpkins, the lowering clouds at dusk, and the scintillating fact that Halloween was the next night! I distinctly remember shivering with delight. It was definitely delight, and not chilliness, because I was wearing corduroys.

Back then, mothers opened doors to the street with a smile, and sent their little goblins, werewolves, brides, princesses, and cowboys into the night with nary a worry. That was the delight!

Being out on the sidewalk, trooping with Susan, Agnes, Ellen and Rita, dodging eggs thrown by brothers and water balloons hurled by class mates.

Who was that Superman? Ugh, it was awful Emil, who smelled like poop. That’s what Rita said, anyway. His costume was pretty sweet, though.

We’d fill our pillow cases with Tootsie Rolls, Mary Jane’s, Bazooka Bubble Gum, Juicy Fruit Gum. red and/or black licorice, Snickers, Chunk-

ies, Mallomars, butterscotch and root beer hard candy, Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy, and strange peach-colored soft candy in the shape of a peanut.

Of course, there was always a spoilsport or two that chipped in a penny, an apple, a little Halloween paper bag of raisins. But they were the exception.

Once we covered the neighborhood, we knew it was time to return home. I remember gazing down the street, all the way to the Forbidden Park (That’s in Passaic! Who knows what goes on there?) wondering what sort of revel occurred in Forbidden Park on a night such as this.

Years later, in middle school, I was no longer wondering. Not yet allowed out at night, this typical tween again shuddered with delight as I joined my friends on the street, snatched away whatever remnant of a costume I had donned to satisfy my mother, and off we trotted! We quickly sprinted through the back streets to the avenue that led downtown. Our trim figures brought catcalls and whistles from passing cars, which we loved, but we clung together like a cluster of grapes.

We walked to Main Street, our breath vapor in the crisp air, and glanced left and right. Where to, now? The Forbidden Park? Nope. We weren’t that brave, and we each were uneasy about our curfew.

Giggling, we admitted we had run out of ideas.

So back we headed to our neighborhood, running this time and laughing at how liberated we felt.

Once close to home, we got some candy, but that was hardly the point. We had made a foray into coolness. Just wait for lunch tomorrow!

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hen all my college friends were getting engaged and planning weddings, I dreamed of nights in Manhattan. So, the autumn after graduation, I moved into that wonderful beast of a city. I remember rain-soaked streets reflecting in the lights of Lincoln Center, guys selling roasted chestnuts, the smell of coffee wafting out of Greek diners, standing on line at movie theaters, traffic lights turning green, then

yellow, then red, in succession, all the way down Second Avenue. The air seemed to crackle with excitement for the beginning of theater season, dance season, and the premieres of beloved TV shows, like Saturday Night Live and Hill Street Blues. Autumn in New York.

I remember walking with my infant daughter, my first-born, in my arms, on a very windy day in early October when we moved to the mountains.

When a leaf would pass close to her face, she would make a kiss with her lips and grin. Halloween in this town was a community-wide celebration of children. One family turned their entire home into a haunted house, complete with entrails from one of their doomed dairy cows, bones, things that grabbed at you as you blindly felt your way from room to room in the dark, and sound effects.

We were so close to the harvest, and made apple pies, and fritters, and sauce from our trip to the apple orchard, and brought home plenty of apple cider doughnuts. The air was fragrant with leaf litter and damp soil, and the moon was always so big and bright.

The days are shorter now, and soon the chickens will stop laying and the pigs are going to the butcher. Every time I go to New York, there are so many very young people on the street that it is almost an insult, and New York may not want me any more, as generous as she is. But, who knows?

Critters are making little scratch noises in the walls of my house, the cats hang around inside more, and the horses are wooly. It’s time to stack the wood and tie up bundles of kindling. We’ll eat soups and stews and corn bread and pie, and at that first warning of a big snow I will shiver with delight. Every season brings blessings and grace, and hardship and loss. There’s a blood moon tonight, though. The signs point to magic in the shadows. I will not wander into the woods, where poet and friend Doris West Brooks warned me, long ago, to keep out of on a night like this, and to stay away from what is forbidden. Who knows what goes on there?

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Fall calendar

8 PM Nick Lowe - Rootsy Power-Pop at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, 518-8284800, www.helsinkihudson.com.

7:30 PM Clarion Concerts: Baroque and Beyond at Kinderhook Reformed Church, Columbia County. 413-644-0007.

8 PM Zydeco Dance with Li’l Anne & Hot Cayenne, dance lessons at 7:00. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston. 914-388-7048.

8 PM Scottish singer Julie Fowlis performs Gaelic songs, Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Hunter. 518-263-2063 or www. catskillmtn.org.

8 PM Spencer Day in concert at Stageworks/ Hudson, 41A Cross Street, Hudson. 518-8229667, www.stageworkshudson.org.

Noon - 7 PM The 22nd Fiddlers Festival! Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Road, Roxbury. Performances by piles of great artists 607-326-7903.

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All Day Hudson Arts Walk centered on Warren Street, Hudson. Events throughout Columbia County. www.cccartswalk.com.

9 AM to 4 PM Free Horse Show in Woodstock ... family fun at 16 Broadview Road, with food vendors. www.woodstockridingclub.com 10 AM to 4 PM 21st Annual Hawthorne Valley Fall Festival, arts & foods, kids and adult events.

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11 AM-6 PM Phoenicia Flea. Offering food, drink, confection, jewelry, apparel, accessories, apothecary, housewares and vintage. Every month. Rain or shine. Parish Field, Phoenicia.

6 PM Heather MacRae Concert, singing songs made famous by her father, Gordon MacRae at Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, 518-828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson. com.

6:30 PM Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency, a unique interpretation of gospel music at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, 2367970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com.

8 PM Mac DeMarco. Opener: Alex Calder.

Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-4406.

Tuesday 10/6 8 PM Alex Peh & Friends Present Béla Bartók at the Studley Theatre, SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, 257-2700.

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Friday 10/9 8 PM Levon Helm Studios presents Maria Muldaur, Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock, www. levonhelmstudios.com.

Saturday 10/10 All Day Hudson Arts Walk centered on Warren Street, Hudson. Events throughout Columbia County. www.cccartswalk.com.

All Day Eighth Annual Guinness Festival.

Featuring Derek Warfield & The Young Wolf Tones, Celtic Cross Band, Susan & Gerard, Kitty Kelly Band, Jimmy Walsh, Gavin’s Irish County Inn, 118 Golden Hill Road, Cornwallville, 518634-2582 or www.gavins.com.

8 AM on Rosendale Runs and Health & Fitness Expo, Rosendale Rec Center, 1055 NY-32, Rosendale, 845-658-8198, www.rosendaleruns. org.

10 AM to 5 PM GOST - Gardiner Open Studio Tour, many studios offer refreshments, and some have live demonstrations. Free studio tour map and artist guide available at many local business and online at: www.GOSTartists.org.

10 AM - 3 PM Dalmatian Day at FASNY Museum of Firefighting, 117 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson. 518-822-1875 www.fasnyfiremuseum. com 11 AM to 6:15 PM Oktoberfest. Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl, Greene County. Features authentic German and German-American entertainment with a motorcycle rally, www.Huntermtn.com.

11 AM to 5 PM Sixth Annual “Plattepalooza” at Plattekill Mountain Ski Center, 469 Plattekill Mountain Road, Roxbury, 607-626-3500 or www. plattekill.com.

Noon-6 PM Second Annual Italian Festival.

Italian delicacies & food, kids’ spaghetti-eating contest, adults meatball eating contest, music & entertainment, specialty vendors. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, 1801-1805 Route 9W, Milton.

Noon – 4 PM Chili, Cheese & Cider Fest, with award winning chefs, Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson, www.hudsonvalleybounty.com 3 PM Mary Caponegro and George Quasha, poetry & book signing, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, 518-822-1438 www. hudsonoperahouse.org 5 PM, Hudson Valley Dance Festival produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will include performances by Brian Brooks Moving Company and Martha Graham Dance Company. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. www. dradance.org.

6 to 8 PM Old Time Campfire. Sing songs, enjoy silly skits and jokes, share s’mores, marshmallow and hot cider. Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 Route 28, Mount Tremper, www.CatskillInterpretiveCenter.org.

Monday 10/12 All Day Columbus or Indigenous Peoples’ Day Hudson Valley.

Wednesday 10/14 5 to 8 PM Hudson Valley Green Materials and Services Expo. Meet leaders of the New York Green Bank, along with developers, facility managers and other decision-makers who source building materials and services. SUNY New Paltz Student Union Building, Multi-Purpose Room, 1 Hawk Dr, New Paltz. http://greenupstateny.org/

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Thursday 10/15 8 PM Rasputina indie-rock cello band at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. 518-8284800 or www.helsinkihudson.com

Friday 10/16 4 to 7 PM The Burning of Kingston opening reception at the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s courtyard , plus candlelight tales in the Old Dutch Church cemetery. KIngston. www.burningofkingston.com 5 to 9 PM Kingston Night Market! Lower Broadway, from Spring Street to The Strand, Kingston. Rondout shops, galleries, eateries, Vendors stay open late on 3rd Fridays through October. 331-3902 or www.NightMarketKingston. com. Kingston’s Waterfront, 6 PM Legends by Candlelight Ghost Tours, Clermont State Historic Site, 87 Clermont Avenue, Germantown, www.friendsofclermont.org 7 PM Tribute To Louis Armstrong lecture at Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main Street, Tannersville. 518-589-5707 or Catskill Jazz Factory, www.23Arts.org.

8 PM Coming Out!: A T.M.I.dol Story Slam at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall Street, Kingston. www.tmiproject.org

Saturday 10/17 All Day... The Burning of Kingston throughout Kingston. Ends with ball. www.burningofkingston.com 9 AM 2015 Guided Art Trail. Kaaterskill Falls and Catskill Mt House sponsored by Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill.

518-943-7465 or www.hudsonriverschool.org 11 AM Tales of the Hudson Valley theatrical adaptation of the works of Washington Irving, at the Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St., Rosendale.

658-8989 or www.rosendaletheatre.org.

11 AM to 4 PM Ashokan Center’s Fall Family Fun Festival with apple cidering, nature hikes, hay rides, food, pumpkin painting, face painting, blacksmithing, broom making, music, Crafts for a small fee and more! www.ashokancenter.org.

4 PM Kairos presents Bach Cantata at Holy Cross Monastery, 1615 Route 9W, West Park, http://kairosconsort.org/concert-schedule.html 4 PM Pumpkin walk at Columbia-Greene

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November 2015 30 | October– Explore Hudson Valley painting, live music, DJ, chili cook off competition, best apple pie competition, pie-eating contest.

1 PM on 99 Bottles of Beer on the Bar Festival at Aroma Thyme Bistro, 165 Canal St, Ellenville, www.AromaThymeBistro.com.

4 PM on A Great Sorrow: An early American funeral, Tours at 4 PM. Bronck Museum, 90 County Route 42, Coxsackie. www.gchistory.org 6 PM Vampire Ball Halloween Party to benefit HealthAlliance hspitals. 334-2760.

6 PM Halloween Parade, starts on Main Street and Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz and ends at the firehouse,where the Lion’s Club distributes apples and candy. 255-0243 or www.newpaltz. org.

6:30 PM Let’s Go to the Movies gala dinner and auction for the Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale (at The Belltower next door). www.rosendaletheatre.org.

7 PM Murder Mystery dinner cruise, Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson, 888-7641844 www.hudsoncruises.com 7:30 PM Clarion Concerts: angels and earthy delights at St. James Catholic Church in Chatham. 413-644-0007.

8 PM Actors & Writers staged readings, Unison Theater, 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz.

255-1559 or www.unisonarts.org.

Sunday 10/25

Thomas Moran, whose Autumn is seen here, was influenced by J.M.W. Turner’s dramatic works before moving to the Berkshires and visiting the Hudson Valley. He later became known for his paintings of the Rocky Mountains.

Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson; benefiting the Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties. 518-828-4619 www. mhacg.org 5 PM James Lasdun: A Reading. A Woodstock Library Forum at the Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. 679-2213.

7 PM Tribute To Louis Armstrong Concert. A Catskill Jazz Factory presentation, includes dinner, at the Deer Mountain Inn, 790 County Route 25, Tannersville. 518-589-5707 or www.23Arts.org.

7 PM The hot Latin sounds of Soñando at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com.

8 PM Zoe and Zak With Guests Melick & Bard in concert featuring African, Jewish, and other music traditions with Rabbi Zoe on accordion, piano, and vocals; Unison Theater, 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz. 255-1559 or www.unisonarts.org.

9 PM Fred Eaglesmith’s traveling steam show, Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. 518-828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com

Sunday 10/18 All Day The Burning of Kingston throughout Kingston. www.burningofkingston.com Noon to 5 PM Beacon Sloop Club’s Pumpkin Festival. Beacon Riverfront Park, Beacon. www. beaconsloopclub.org.

1 PM Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch, National Theatre production, Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, www.timeandspace.org 2 PM America The Beautiful Concert. Bend the Knotted Oak chamber music showcases American composers at the Spencertown Academy on Route 203 in Spencertown.

2 to 3 PM Rhinebeck Culinary Crawl guided walking and tasting tour includes a farmers’ market, with food and beverage tastings from local artisans, and tales of history and culture.

Tuesday 10/20 Noon on Film Columbia Festival, Crandell Theatre, 48 Main Street, Chatham. 518-392-3459 or www.filmcolumbia.com 4 PM to 7 PM Free Community Holistic Healthcare Day. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, firstserved basis upon check-in, at Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. www. rvhhc.org

Wednesday 10/21 Noon on Film Columbia Festival, Crandell

Theatre, 48 Main Street, Chatham. 518-392-3459 or www.filmcolumbia.com 5 PM Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados, with live music. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-9025 or visit www.woodstockinvitational.com.

7 PM Gratefully Yours tribute to The Grateful Dead at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

236-7970, www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Thursday 10/22 9 AM on Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados, with live music. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-9025 or visit www.woodstockinvitational.com.

Noon Film Columbia Festival, Crandell Theatre, 48 Main Street, Chatham. 518-392-3459 or www.filmcolumbia.com

Friday 10/23 9 AM on Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados, with live music. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-9025 or visit www.woodstockinvitational.com.

Noon on Film Columbia Festival, Crandell Theatre, 48 Main Street, Chatham. 518-3923459 or www.filmcolumbia.com 7 PM Hudson Valley Treasures at D&H Canal Historical Society and Museum by Anthony Musso at 23 Mohonk Road, High Falls. 687-9311, www.canalmuseum.org.

9:30 PM Rosendale Comedy 2Night Market, following market at Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale, www.rosendaletheatre.org

Saturday 10/24 9 AM on Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados, with live music. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-9025 or visit www.woodstockinvitational.com.

11 AM to 2 PM Mystic Krewe of Barkus Pet Parade and Festival with best costume owner/ pet look alike costume. Sponsored by United Way Columbia and Greene Counties, Warren Street, Hudson, www.uwcg.org Noon on Film Columbia Festival, Crandell Theatre, 48 Main Street, Chatham. 518 392-3459 or www.filmcolumbia.com Noon on Harvest Festival at Berme Road in Ellenville. Food, vendors, bounce house, face

11 AM Ghostly Gallop from Hudson High School, 215 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson... a Hudson Area Library fundraiser; www.ghostlygallop.info.

Noon to 4 PM A Modern Art Dealer and Her Artist Friends: Betty Parsons, Helène Aylon, and Saul Steinberg, a lecture at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz. 257-3844 Noon to 4:00 PM Repair Café, Gardiner for work on furniture, small appliances & housewares, clothes & textiles, jewelry, lamps & lighting, artwork, crockery, toys and more, with on-site “repair coaches.” Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. 255-1255.

2 PM The Amaranthus String Quartet at the Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz. 255-1559 2 PM Tisziji Munoz Quartet with John Medeski at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com.

2 PM to 3 PM Rhinebeck Culinary Crawl guided walking/tasting tour includes a farmers’ market, with food and beverage tastings from local artisans, and tales of history and culture.

44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill. 518-943-3818 or visit www.BridgeSt.org.

3:30 PM Aladdin and His Lamp from the National Marionette Theatre, at the Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Hunter. 518263-2063 7 PM Doo Wop Fund-Raiser Dance at St. Francis de Sales Parish Hall, 109 Main St., Phoenicia. BYOB. Costumes welcome. 688-5617 or www.stfrancisdesalesphoenicia.com.

8 PM Brubeck Brothers Quartet at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. 518-8284800 or www.helsinkihudson.com

Tuesday 10/27 7 PM The Green Prince, a film about a young Arab man arrested for smuggling guns for Hamas who becomes a spy for Israel. Screening at Congregation Emanuel of the Hudson Valley, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston.

Wednesday 10/28 60 PM Horror Double Feature: The Black Cat (1934) and Frankenstein (1931) at Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan. 657-2482

Thursday 10/29 6 PM Pumpkin Carving Contest. Olive Free Library, Shokan. 657-2482.

7 PM Trivia Night with Paul Tully and Eric Stamberg. High Falls Café, Route 213, High Falls.

687-2699.

8 PM The Felice Brothers at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. 518-828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com

Friday 10/30 8 PM Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club at UPAC, 601 Broadway, Kingston. 339.6088 or www.bardavon.org 9 PM Women’s World Poetry Slam winner Andrea Gibson at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia

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Saturday 10/31 10 AM on Sixth Annual Ulster Corps Service Sprint + Zombie Escape at Williams Lake, 434 Williams Lake Rd, off Binnewater Road, Rosendale, http://www.ulstercorps.org/events/6th-annual-ulstercorps-zombie-escape/ Noon to 5 PM FarmOn! Harvest Festival, Empire Farm, 556 Empire Road, Copake. 518-3293276 or www.farmonfoundation.org 9 AM to 3 PM The Growing Deer Debate, discussion at Catskill Forest Association, Arkville.

586-3054 or www.catskillforest.org.

Sunday 11/1 9 AM to 4 PM The Kaaterskill Postcard Club’s Annual Fall Show & Dale, at the Andy Murphy Mid-Town Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston.

3 PM Lon Chaney in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at Rosendale Theatre, with live piano, 408 Main Street, Rosendale. www.rosendaletheatre.org.

Tuesday 11/3 7 AM Polls open on Election Day. 7 PM Monthly Photography Meeting. Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, Palenville.

518-678-3357 or palenvillelibrary@hvc.rr.com.

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visations of audience stories of audience stories, Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. 6914118.

Sunday 11/8 All Day Quilting in the Valley Weekend for special anniversary weekend, Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville. 985-2291 ext.

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11:30 AM to 5:30 PM Red Wine & Chocolate at Whitecliff Vineyard, 331 McKinstry Road, Gardiner. 255-4613 or www.whitecliffwine.com.

7 PM Chaka Khan at UPAC, 601 Broadway Kingston. 339-6088 or www.bardavon.org.

Friday 11/13 6 PM to 9 PM Catskill Mountains Acoustic Slow Jam. A group of friendly acoustic musicians meets once a month to play bluegrass, old time, Irish, and Catskills fiddle tunes. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. 254-5469 or www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

9 PM Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys rockabilly at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. 518-828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com.

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Noon to 4 PM Big Indian Native American Cultural Center Potluck at Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main Street, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

7:30 PM Staged Reading: The Ding Dongs at First Reformed Church, 52 Green Street, Hudson.

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Sunday 11/15 All day Second Annual Day of Jewish Learning at SUNY Ulster with keynote speaker Rabbi David Seidenberg.

Tuesday 11/17 4 to 7 PM 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, at Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. www.rvhhc.org

Wednesday 11/18 6 PM Ukulele Circle. Pull up a ukulele and learn a song! Olive Free Library, Route 28A, West Shokan. 657-2482.

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November 2015 32 | October– Explore Hudson Valley All day Christmas aboard The Polar Express!

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