Arya conquers Kingston
Sunday, Mar. 3 and Tuesday, Mar. 5: Then Came You screens in Rhinebeck and Rosendale with director talkbacks.
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Rosendale hotelier Anita Williams Peck remembered for prodigious volunteerism
Joining family members from across the map, hundreds of Rosendalers and other residents of Ulster County turned out at the SUNY Ulster gymnasium on a recent Saturday to pay tribute to the memory of Anita Williams Peck, who operated Williams Lake Hotel from 1987 until it was demolished.
Retaining wall on Rondout Creek threatened by Joppenbergh runoff
According to Rosendale’s Highway Superintendent, recent snowmelt has caused an unusually high volume of water accumulating in caves under Joppenbergh Mountain to flow down into the Rondout Creek, eroding the footings of the retaining wall on the Creek’s northerly bank below the Keator Avenue bridge and causing the wall to separate from the bank.
WWI doc They Shall Not Grow Old sets thrilling precedents for reviving historical footage
The film is a true passion project, and it shows. Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, has been a lifelong World War I buff, the grandson of a veteran of the Great War. He hired lipreading experts to figure out what the Great War soldiers must have been saying. Jackson has also invested much of his hit-moviemaking wealth into collecting memorabilia, including more than 40 fighter planes that still really fly, which he keeps in an aerodrome in his native New Zealand.
Women’s Studio Workshop’s Chili Bowl Fiesta at SUNY-Ulster
Saturday, Feb. 23: At the Chili Bowl Fiesta you can choose among nearly 1,000 ceramic bowls and mugs handmade just for the occasion.
Hudson filmmaker hopes to make documentary about Ella Fitzgerald’s reform school sojourn
The institution now known as the Hudson Correctional Facility in the City of Hudson was, from 1904 to 1975, the state’s only reformatory for delinquent girls. Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald arrived there in April 1933 – described in the logbook as “ungovernable” – and soon became one of the notorious institution’s runaways.
Local group aims to save hemlock trees
The third most common tree in New York State is under assault by an invasive pest. But there’s something you can do about it.
Black History Month in Kingston features talks, performance, The Wiz & dance this weekend
Friday-Sunday, February 15-17: This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America, at Jamestown.
Coogan & Reilly persuasively embody Stan & Ollie
Their humor ages amazingly well.
The long, twisty career of film director Peter Bogdanovich
The son of Eastern European immigrants, Peter was born in Kingston in 1939. His first language was Serbian.