Opening May 13: The Oracle of Lacuna is the latest in Heather Hart’s interactive “Rooftop Oracles” series in which viewers are invited to crawl over and inside what appear to be the severed roofs of houses, life-sized.
The pay is ludicrous — I’m teaching four courses in this spring semester for $10,000. For a typical class size of 20 students, that works out to a per course instructional cost of $125 per student, or $500-625 for a typical semester course load of 4-5 courses taught exclusively by adjuncts (and they do teach over one-third of the courses at New Paltz).
Esopus Creek Conservancy is sponsoring a free guided kayak and canoe tour of Esopus Bend Nature Preserve on Saturday, May 13.
Saturday, May 13: Hit songwriter, art-rock bandleader, A-list producer and genuine technology visionary: Only Todd “Is God” Rundgren comfortably fits that description. The Wizard of Mink Hollow returns to his former home region.
A shrine for devotees of horticulture, it’s the earliest surviving private garden created by one of America’s most celebrated and influential landscape designers, Beatrix Farrand. While most of her gardens have been lost to time, notable exceptions include the Rockefellers’ Eyrie Garden in Maine, large portions of the Princeton and Yale campuses and Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, DC: indisputably one of the great gardens of the world.
Despite the heavy rain, the 62nd New Paltz Regatta was held last Sunday, May 7 beginning with a parade of competing watercraft trundling on wheels down Plattekill Avenue from the village firehouse to Sojourner Truth Park off Plains Road, from whence they set sail — or sank, depending on how well the crafts were crafted.
Keegan Ales’ latest release “Fun” won the silver in the India Pale Ale category at TAP New York, the craft
The six-mile loop trail will lead directly from the Village of New Paltz to the Mohonk Preserve and the Shawangunk Ridge.
Selections from the May 4 edition of Kingston Times.
We all lose if we do not treat the immigrants in our communities, and one another, with the respect and trust that we all deserve.