Learn the benefits of Modern American Manners
Fred Mayo & Michael Gold to discuss their new book on etiquette in Gardiner and New Paltz Sunday, April 2.
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Yale Russian Chorus Alumni to perform at Bard
Saturday, 3/11: Perhaps you need to have lived through the Cold War to realize how remarkable it was for Russians to stumble upon a band of American singers in downtown Moscow.
RFK Jr. to speak about the environment at SUNY-New Paltz
Monday, 3/13: The address, entitled “Our Environmental Destiny,” will provide a reminder of the role that natural resources play “in our work, our health and our national identity.”
The Dead Beat: Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest who tried to reconcile science and religion
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is buried in a small cemetery at the Culinary Institute in Poughkeepsie. “It is doubtful,” Flannery O’Connor wrote, “if any Christian of this century can be fully aware of his religion until he has seen it in the cosmic light which Teilhard has cast upon it.”
Dorsky Museum to host Family Day
The Dorsky Museum at SUNY-New Paltz was recently praised by Huffington Post for hewing close to its mission to serve both the college campus and the artistic culture of the mid-Hudson region, “the Cradle of American Art,” calling it “unlike any other regional museum.”
New Paltz to honor memory of former slave, “Aunt Judy” Jackson
At the age of 14, Judy was presented as a “wedding gift” from Philip Lefevre to his son.
Did New Paltz’s Mohonk Mountain House inspire The Shining? Thoughts on a local legend
It’s one of the most enduring and tantalizing local legends you’ll ever wonder about. Was novelist Stephen King inspired to write “The Shining,” one of his most famous horror stories, after visits to Mohonk Mountain House?
The ascendancy of the humble uke
The ’50 and ’60s were the nadir of the uke’s history. But today, Hawaii’s most famous musical instrument is no longer a four-string punchline. And nowhere is this more obvious than in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
650 at SUNY Ulster features writers reading short works on the theme ‘What We Wore’
It works like this: Founder, editor and producer Ed McCann announces an open-ended “theme” meant to prompt writers of every background, professional and amateur, young and old, to address that theme in as many as 650 words – maybe four, five minutes of reading time.
Refugee resettlement in the Hudson Valley resumes following judge’s ruling
While the constitutionality of the president’s order is argued in the courts, the local non-profit and volunteer group moves ahead with plans to settle 75 more refugees in the Mid-Hudson Valley.