Gratefully Yours plays Bearsville
Friday, April 6: Alex Mazur’s band is fed by a player stream that the Dead itself has drawn from.
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Frank Cabot biopic The Gardener on screen in Millerton
Saturday, April 7: Frank Cabot inherited the Quebec property, Les Quatre Vents, when he was 40, and began dividing his time between it and the summer home in Cold Spring that he and his wife called Stonecrop. On hand for the question-and-answer session that follows the screening will be Gregory Long, CEO/president of the New York Botanical Gardens and a longtime colleague and friend of Frank Cabot, along with designer Bunny Williams.
Saugerties celebrates International Sculpture Day
Saturday, April 7: Opening of “ISDay: Saugerties” exhibition. Throughout April, Saugerties will join hundreds of artists, organizations and institutions in more than 20 countries in celebrating sculpture.
Piano Plus at Olive Free Library features Joanne Polk
Saturday, April 7: Extraordinary piano music in the woods: The Olive Free Library’s Piano Plus Series continues to situate an incongruously high level of musical programming at the Little Library that Could in the middle of nowhere.
SUNY-Ulster Poetry Forum presents Martín Espada
Thursday, April 12: A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston’s Latino community, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also the author of more than 20 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.
Operation BBQ Relief benefit at Emerson Resort
Friday-Saturday, April 13-14: Mount Tremper will play host to Grill’n and Chill’n in the Catskills, at which top pitmasters, celebrity chefs, distillers and outdoor guides will display their skills. Cast-iron and Dutch-oven demos with sampling, jerky-making, open-pit cooking and bourbon-tasting are just a few of the culinary experiences that attendees will be able to enjoy, while contributing to a great cause.
Learn about ethnobotany and new ALS & Alzheimer’s treatments at SUNY-Ulster
Tuesday, April 10: Among the researchers racing to find cures for deadly diseases within the world’s threatened ecosystems is renowned ethnobotanist Dr. Paul Alan Cox, director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Dr. Cox’s current focus is on finding new treatments for ALS and Alzheimer’s disease. Aside from common concerns about ecological issues, that makes his work of especial relevance to Northeasterners, considering recent indications that ALS may be connected to late-stage Lyme disease.
How to get started kayaking talk in Gardiner
The Gardiner Library will host a talk: “Kayaking: How to Get Started” on Sunday, April 8 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Adirondack Mountain Club trip leader and ACA instructor, Don Urmston will tell you how to get started, what gear you’ll need, where to go paddling, where to meet other paddlers and where to get instruction on your technique.
Arrested Development to perform in Woodstock
Sunday, April 15: The legendary hip hop collective, Grammy-winners, hitmakers and originators of conscious hip hop in the heart of the era of “gangsta” to play Colony.
Kingston Times letters (3/29-4/4)
Thanks, Paul O’Neil; why 2nd Amendment exists.