This spot was used briefly in Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest: the bit where the train comes to a halt for an unscheduled stop and the Feds get on. It’s thought that the facility could possibly reopen as an active passenger station, if the idea of extending Metro-North’s Hudson Line commuter rail service farther north is ever realized.
Julia Santos Solomon looks back — with paint and gold leaf — at her Dominican Republic childhood. “You see the world from those eyes – where you’re from,” says the Woodstock artist whose work has been collected by the Smithsonian.
“For over 25 years we have enjoyed viewing the wildlife and natural scenery of the property. It was a playground for our children and has provided us with warmth (firewood) each year. With Winnakee Land Trust’s assistance, we now can be assured that the natural beauty and resources of our property will be protected in perpetuity.”
“Stay small, give quality, don’t oversize or go too big, because you cannot take care of it.”
Vly-Atwood, known hereabouts as “the Vly,” was a hamlet where people attended school and church, and gathered for social congress. Named from the Middle Dutch word vley or valeye, meaning valley or swamp, the Vly is actually situated in an upland area of the Town of Marbletown, above the buried aqueduct that takes water from the Ashokan Reservoir to New York City, and the Esopus Creek, which flows through a narrow canyon below.
It’s often the case that survivors of a life-threatening disease really know how to celebrate life. They’ve come through
Dutchess Habitat for Humanity faced a challenge: to move an intact house from Staatsburgh and reposition it on an empty lot in Poughkeepsie, and do it fast.
Aether is described as “a KLUB, undefined by one particular space, but notably an art commune…a gang of prolific local artists running in social circles thru the Hudson Valley.”
He was the fourth-century patron saint of sailors and children – talkin’ about Sinterklaas here – and was brought to the Hudson Valley over 300 years ago by the original Dutch immigrants who populated the area before the Brits took over.
Chocolate vendors, a skateboard race, a Chocolate Wars dessert-making competition, the Chocolate Olympics at the Red Hook Public library and a theatrical performance at the Chocolate Factory. A horse-drawn haywagon will take folks to and from the village to the Factory at no charge.