The Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy is seeking volunteers to lead tours for the summer season. Tours occur on Sundays (noon–3 p.m.), between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. Volunteers lead visitors through the inside of the lighthouse and share its history (a fact sheet is provided). It’s a fun way to get involved and lend a hand to a local landmark. For more information or to volunteer, call (845) 247-0656 or email [email protected].
Saturday, May 4: The annual family festival brings historic fiber arts, culture and crafts to a bucolic scenario where live sheep, angora rabbits and alpacas take center stage.
During the recent push towards marijuana legalization that seems to now have stalled, much was said about societal effects, the benefits of CBD, and needed changes to legislation involving driving under the influence, as well as ways of undoing years of prison sentences predicated by the wars on drugs.
The New Paltz Regatta returns for its 64th iteration on Sunday, May 5. With any luck, the sun will shine, but even if it rains again as it did at last year’s event — and the event the year before — the show will go on.
The Woodstock Dress, which will be given its full measure with a fashion show featuring Sarah Stitham’s recreations of the 1920s garment, on Sunday, May 5, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., was designed by Augusta Allen, whose creations helped support her family after they migrated from Ohio to Woodstock in 1913.
A panel discussion will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston on May 4.
On a cold blustery day, the New Paltz baseball/softball faithful came out to cheer on their teams. Nine divisions of them. Three-hundred-and-fifty players strong. In an American Rite of Spring.
In 1917, when Woodstock’s growing Christian Science congregation took over the building at 85 Tinker Street from the Art Students League, the religion was popular with local artists, who were drawn to its emphasis on a personal relationship with God and a radical approach to problems of existence. But spiritual tastes change, and today, the church has a small group of devoted members.
At some point in our studies, it’s impressed on us that, if he had wanted to, George Washington could have become King of America. But we’re never told exactly where or under what circumstances that happened. The answer may surprise you.
Sunday, Apr. 28: Admission is free, and it’s an event offering hands-on activities for attendees of all ages. “Space” is this year’s featured theme.