Saturday, Nov. 4: “Everyone knows about the iconic 1969 concert, but there were seven decades of creatives coming together beforehand that laid the groundwork for what Woodstock is today,” says filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss.
Saturday, Nov. 4: At the height of production, 20,000 pounds of chocolate were produced each day in Red Hook. The Chocolate Factory was founded in Red Hook in 1888 by William H. Baker. Baker was no relation to the older and more famous Walter H. Baker Company, whose production of chocolate began in 1780 and whose name was synonymous with chocolate in America for a time; but Red Hook’s Baker was not above exploiting the coincidence to promote his business, starting what became known as the “chocolate wars.”
Saturday, Nov. 4: The documentary transports viewers into the lives of maximum-security prisoners at Sing Sing in Ossining as they mount a stage production of A Few Good Men.
The book is positioned as a celebration of nature’s fragile ecosystems and of the David v. Goliath community members (for David’s tactics, in this case, were largely litigatory) banded together to protect them. But in the moment-to-moment of the prose and in the very consciously balanced, 360-degree management of his facts, Mabee reveals himself mostly as a fastidious historian and no polemicist at all.
Warren Beatty’s big-screen debut was Splendor in the Grass, which co-starred Natalie Wood. The movie, which was directed by Elia Kazan, came out in 1961 and was filmed at the waterfall near Kazan’s summerhouse in the Hudson Valley.
Saturday, Nov. 4: The popular country duo of Keifer and Shawna Thompson topped radio charts across the US, Canada and Australia with hits “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not?” “If I Didn’t Have You” and
“Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About.”
“I’m a diehard New York Mets fan, so I guess I love the underdog. That’s how I view the City of Poughkeepsie.”
Thursday, Nov. 9: Considered one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world, Grandin will give a talk titled “The Autistic Brain: All Kinds of Minds Can Succeed.”
When Donald Elder, who opens an exhibit of new works at Elena Zang Gallery in Shady Saturday, October 28 (with an artist’s reception 2 p.m.-5 p.m.) for a three week run through November 19, moved into a new studio just steps from his garden-surrounded home several years ago, the painter seemed both enthused and exhausted.
Late October in Woodstock has a very special meaning for guitar lovers, which means almost everyone around here.