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WAAM readies for its July 20 centennial bash

WAAM readies for its July 20 centennial bash

The Woodstock Artist Association’s 100th Anniversary heats up again in the coming week as it heads towards its big Birthday Bash on Saturday, July 20, complete with cake and ice cream party in a tent out back of the classic building just off the Village Green.

Jennifer Deering’s new book gives tips on how to avoid, recover from Lyme disease

Jennifer Deering’s new book gives tips on how to avoid, recover from Lyme disease

New Paltz resident Jennifer Deering knows all about the dangers of undiagnosed Lyme disease; in 2011, it left her effectively crippled for about six months with extreme joint pain and a raft of neurological symptoms triggered by her autoimmune response. Deering has written and self-published a book about her experiences, Stronger than Lyme: My Battle and Blueprint for Overcoming This Strange Disease, and will be giving a presentation about it from 4 to 6 p.m. this Saturday, July 13 at Roost Studios.

Producer to screen new Toni Morrison documentary at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck

Producer to screen new Toni Morrison documentary at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck

Saturday, July 13: Beloved won her the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, and her body of work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to being a writer for the ages, Morrison helped plenty of other black writers get published and taken seriously by critics during her 15 years at Random House, where she was the first black woman senior editor in the fiction department.

The Secret Garden cast is in fine voice at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

The Secret Garden cast is in fine voice at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

The musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved 1911 children’s novel by Lucy Simon (Carly’s sister)is varied in style and technically challenging. Elizabeth Thomas delivers a stunning vocal performance as Lily, whose death in childbirth led to her widower Archibald’s ban on anyone ever again entering the walled garden that was her favorite haunt in her lifetime.