Saturday & Sunday, 3/11-12: Perambulating a city and contemplating life on its streets, like Stephen Dedalus in his odyssey across Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses, is certainly a time-honored Irish tradition worth reviving. Here are three mid-Hudson communities presenting appealing opportunities to do just that this coming weekend, in an organized fashion in the company of other perambulators
Exploring Hudson in 1991, Linda Bruce and Claudia Mussmann walked into an affordable building – a one-time bakery built in 1929 – and recognized its potential as an ever-evolving space for artists and community members to come together.
You’ll see familiar surnames emerge when you scroll through a list of the members of the Saugerties Sports Hall of Fame. For the third straight year and the fourth year out of the last five, a member of the Dodig family will make the cut. Randy Dodig, Sr. will be inducted as part of the hall’s Class of 2017.
The only known horse-drawn wagon used for grassroots suffrage organizing that remains in existence today, the Spirit of 1776, will be a featured artifact in the exhibition.
Novel organizing techniques such as wagons took the women places in rural areas where they could otherwise not travel.
Kingston Stockade FC announced their 2017 schedule this week, with the season set to begin with a home match at Dietz Stadium against Hartford City FC on Saturday, May 6.
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.”
In the end it was the team that won it all. It’s become a tradition at little Highland.
The Chili Bowl Fiesta fundraiser put on each February by the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) just gets more popular and more successful every year.
The refuge for the Huguenots that became the New Paltz we know today will be the subject of an eight-week PowerPoint presentation and lecture series about the history of New Paltz to be conducted by Carol Johnson with technical help from Margaret Stanne, her assistant in managing the historical collections at Elting Library.