Mike and Heidi Ferraro took over Saugerties’ famous Deutsche Metzgerei in 2001 when its former owners, Austrian-born brothers Bill and Peter Muellner, hung up their aprons after more than 50 years of butchering and smoking meats for the local clientele.
Saturday, April 7: It is one thing to have fame reignited in a wave of nostalgia, and quite another to be up for capitalizing on it. Thing is, Valli, the most famous falsetto in rock, has never gone away.
The walls have a fresh coat of white paint, the aged carpet is gone from the staircase, and the former Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia’s community gallery that closed in February, is about to reincarnate under new proprietors and a new name.
A site adjacent to the village’s Tina Chorvas Park off Bridge Street is being cleared to become the future home of the Arm-of-the Sea-Theater, the Saugerties-based organization which performs socially relevant productions with a mix of puppets and costumed players.
Completely new this year at the Woodstock Bookfest will be its first gathering of writers who specialize on the subject of autism, at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock.
Saturday, March 24: Each kit will feature a unique recipe, easy-to-follow instructions, the ingredients needed to brew five gallons of beer and a promotional item from a different independent craft brewery. To celebrate the launch of the Keegan Ales homebrew kit, which will feature Keegan’s limited-edition California Common beer, Brewmates will be hosting a party. Admission is free, and guests aged 21+ can sample a free pint of California Common. There will also be drawings to win Brewmates recipe kits, tickets to the Tap NY Festival and other prizes.
Make an instrument at SUNY-Ulster’s microtonal music festival, check out the new Buddhist elementary school in Saugerties, see Dia:Beacon for free, hop onto the Easter Bunny Express!
Wednesday, March 28: The Hudson Valley Farm Hub, Seedshed and Oceans 8 Films premiere a new film — Seeds of Hope — that follows the planting and harvesting of at-risk Native American seeds on a 28-acre plot at Hurley’s Farm Hub. (One species of red corn had been reduced to just two ears; last year hundreds of pounds of corn were produced.) The film, part of Jon Bowermaster and Oceans 8 Films’ Hope on the Hudson series, documents the shared effort of local farmers and seed experts with the Akwesasne tribe to preserve both seeds and culture.
Saturday, March 24: Struck by the presence of High Point Mountain looming outside her home, the natural world of the Catskill Mountains and her relationship with it became Straub’s bedrock. “I would not be who I am without this body of water and this mountain range.”
Area residents typically think of the John Burroughs Association as a local not-for-profit organization that maintains Slabsides and the surrounding nature sanctuary and trails in West Park. But the Association also has a national profile as a respected conferrer of annual literary awards in the genre of nature writing, helping to keep alive the primary profession of the great 19th-century naturalist himself.