Flower power in Red Hook
Battenfeld’s Farm, the world’s largest producer of hybrid anemones, grows primarily for the wholesale flower trade, but locals can pick up self-serve bouquets in their greenhouse.
All posts by Frances Marion Platt
New Paltz Methodists feel betrayed by church vote upholding ban on LGBTQ ministers, same-sex marriage
Traditionalists won out in a recent vote that pitted the current policy against one that would give individual churches more autonomy. Local churchgoers say the church has been a “big tent” and fear it’s moving in the opposite direction.
SUNY-New Paltz revives Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Thursday- Sunday, Mar. 7-10: One need not be either “colored” or a “girl” to be profoundly affected by this extraordinary, transformative work of theater.
“Gilsonfest” lecture launches Montgomery Place Spring Salon Series
Sunday, March 10: Part of what makes the Montgomery Place gardener Alexander Gilson (1824-1889) remarkable is the fact that he was born into slavery. After being freed, Gilson eventually opened his own nursery business, and had a cultivar of ornamental plant that he had bred named after him: Achyranthes verschaffeltii, var. Gilsoni.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World warms the heart, dazzles the eye
I never thought I’d be caught admitting that a movie series is markedly better than the books upon which it is based, but here we have it.
Mohonk Foothills healing from human impacts
Gazing over the patchwork landscape now under the stewardship of the Mohonk Preserve, it’s tempting – but misleading – to picture its evolution from its wild state as calm and gradual.
New Paltz tiki bar plans March 27 opening
“A little bit hole-in-the-wall, a little bit tropical escape, Fuchsia is the colorful community bar that will make you feel like you’re on vacation in Mexico while still in the Hudson Valley,” promises the PR for this new venture.
Denizen Theatre in New Paltz brings sense of surprise to new season
A play about mental illness directed by the TMI project’s Eva Tenuto and a one-person play that the actor is forbidden ever to have read or seen prior to getting onstage to perform it are two of the dramatic treats in store at New Paltz’s Denizen Theatre in 2019.
Crybabies podcast tapes live at Bard’s Fisher Center
Saturday, Mar. 2: It’s an imaginative notion for an interview show dreamed up by actress Sarah Thyre and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean. Sometimes the hosts as well as the guests end up weeping on-air – even when the tear-inducing event shared is something as silly as a TV commercial.
Everything is less awesome in Lego Movie 2
The original Lego Movie didn’t merely milk consumer interest in the parent product; it brazenly mocked its own brand and passive consumerism as an approach to living. Alas, much of the charm of the original has been lost in its sequel.