For breweries, the season launches at Hunter Mountain at the end of April with the TAP New York Craft Beer & Food Festival. The 2018 gathering that I attended last weekend was the 21st year running, making TAP NY itself old enough, technically speaking, to drink legally.
Psychodrama is a form of psychotherapy in which patients act out events from their past. The Hudson Valley has become an international hotbed of psychodrama training, thanks to the work of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute.
On Saturday, April 21, Earth Day came a day early to the grounds of the Reformed Church of New Paltz, and it seemed like the community didn’t want to wait one day more to celebrate the return of spring’s greenery and warmth after a lingering winter. With bright blue skies, temperatures in the low 60s and plenty to do and to learn, both the weather and the venue couldn’t have been more welcoming for a big turnout.
Saturday, April 28: There’s a huge open field perfect for dancing horses and processions of mummers, a ritual stone circle and a maypole and an outdoor stage where the Vanaver Caravan conducts the elaborate pageant featuring world musicians, young dancers and giant puppets that’s the cornerstone of each year’s Festival.
There are four main criteria that must be met: Non-Discrimination and Staff Training; Patient Services and Support; Employee Benefits and Policies; and Patient and Community Engagement. “It’s very prescriptive. You have to change the language in your policies on things like human resources, visitation and residents’ rights, to make it explicit that the facility does not discriminate” with regard to gender identity as well as sexual orientation.
In its heyday, the Open Space Commission scored two major successes with the permanent protection of two major tracts of Gardiner agricultural land: the Kiernan Farm, on Bruynswick Road, and the Hess Farm, on Sand Hill Road, where agreements for the purchase of development rights with the help of the Open Space Institute were finalized in 2010 and 2014 respectively.
Natural Power Group, Inc. of Wallkill would provide the power. Residents can also participate.
“Save Tillson Lake” is the name of a new ad hoc advocacy group of citizens alarmed over the Palisades Interstate Park Commission’s plan to “dewater” Tillson Lake, a 23-acre reservoir near the foot of the Shawangunk Ridge. The commission says the lake’s dam is unsafe.
The breakthrough movie to put the Hudson Valley on the map is John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, which was filmed at recognizable locations – a farmhouse in Pawling, a market in Beacon, the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail bridge in New Paltz.
Saturday, April 21: Lowell Thomas (1892-1981), who long made his home in Pawling, was a pioneer broadcaster, journalist, lecturer, author, globetrotter, raconteur and media technology innovator.