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Kids’ Almanac: Jan. 26-Feb. 2
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Kids’ Almanac: Jan. 26-Feb. 2

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Brush off your Shakespeare, Moccasin Workshop in Pine Hill, share post-Inaugural strategies with Playback Theatre, Alice through the Looking Glass in Kingston, Pirate School & Party at New Paltz High, musical instruments from around the world at Kingston Library, rhythms of Black History in Poughkeepsie, FDR Library highlights Women in Tech, HV YA Society hosts author Ellen Hopkins in Rhinebeck, Young Performers Showcase at Helsinki Hudson, Hudson Valley Horrors Boot Camp in Hyde Park, Chinese New Year art workshop at Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum and more.

Nellie McKay performs A Girl Named Bill: The Life and Times of Billy Tipton in Hudson
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Nellie McKay performs A Girl Named Bill: The Life and Times of Billy Tipton in Hudson

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It wasn’t until his death that his three adopted children found out why this talented musician had shunned the spotlight (and doctors): Billy had been born, in 1914 in Oklahoma City, as Dorothy Lucille Tipton. She adopted a male persona in order to break into a music business that was still not very friendly to women performers, and went on to live as a man so persuasively that the two women with whom he had multi-year common-law marriages claimed never to have known that “Billy” was biologically female.

Kids’ Almanac: 1/19-26
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Kids’ Almanac: 1/19-26

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Including: Write It Out special needs writing workshop, SUNY Social Skills Group for Adolescents, Women in Rock Workshop, Kids’ Night Out at MAC Fit Kids in Kingston, Free Bubble Trouble show at SUNY-Dutchess, Birding workshop, snowtubing at Orange County Arboretum, “Winter Wildlife Survival” workshop at Sam’s Point, Little Gym of Kingston hosts “Parent Survival Night” and Coloring Night at Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie