Lion movingly depicts one lost child’s quest for home
Mumbai native Sunny Pawar, who reportedly never even saw a Western movie before this one, blazes across the film like a comet.
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Historic Huguenot St. seeks new exec director, plans wigwam
The New Paltz historical group hasn’t had an official, full-time, permanent executive director since 2010.
New Paltz Historical Society presents free genealogy workshop
You can spend a fortune on genealogy websites, but there are plenty of free resources- if you know where to look.
Want to help immigrants? Become a literacy tutor
Volunteers don’t need to be bilingual, but should expect to learn some conversational Spanish as they go along.
Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck stages How I Learned to Drive this weekend
Set in the 1960s, it follows the adolescence of a girl called Li’l Bit in flashback as her alternatingly supportive and abusive Uncle Peck exacts a high emotional price for driving lessons on the rural roads of Maryland.
Ally Sheedy directs Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre
“Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda Blackmon’s stirring tale lets audiences of all ages experience the courage it took to help change American history.”
Modern trends, historical undercurrents at the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz
On view- “Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts”; Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s “Gloves Off;” Text/ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy” and “Intimately Unfamiliar: New Work by SUNY-New Paltz Art Faculty.”
Local girls learn the ropes of skateboarding at Gardiner’s Majestic Park
“To work for a day when all females have the strength and confidence to never feel limited in any ability, choice, activity or opportunity because of their gender.” It sounds like it could’ve been an excerpt from a keynote speech at one of the Women’s Marches, but in fact, it’s part of the Vision Statement of the Girls’ Riders’ Organization, a national not-for-profit founded to encourage more participation by girls and young women in “action sports,” notably skateboarding.
All Animal Veterinary Services has a new home on Route 32 in Modena
The name is no mere hyperbole: Acworth works with everything from “pocket pets” like Guinea pigs to pot-bellied pigs, hens to horses.
Good libations at Tuthilltown Spirits’ weekend tours
Its Hudson Whiskey line, distributed worldwide by William Grant and Sons, includes the well-established Baby Bourbon, Four Grain Bourbon, Single Malt Whiskey, New York Corn Whiskey, Manhattan Rye Whiskey and Maple Cask Rye Whiskey.