Kids’ Almanac (6/7-6/14)
KING TRIES HOT DOG AND ASKS FOR MORE | National Get Outdoors Day | GlassBarge demos in Poughkeepsie, Kingston and Catskill | Happy Birthday, Forsyth Nature Center!
Columns
A voice in the night
The voice of the small and frail is a mighty thing. And it is astonishing how ferocious even the tiniest combatants can be, when they decide not to surrender.
Kingston After Dark: For what it’s worth
Did you know there is an Anatolian Mother Goddess-worshipping LGBTQ friendly temple and Pagan spirituality center in misty and forested Palenville?
Kids’ Almanac (5/31-6/7)
Family fun as Bethel Woods turns ten | See Phoenicia on a Rail Explorer — a cart you drive on the train tracks!
How might extraterrestrials communicate with us?
We always assume aliens would know about circles and pi, and realize that hydrogen is the element that dominates the universe, even though most humans don’t know these things.
Dispatch from Death’s door
Having been dead, I can’t testify to exactly what happened as I lay on my back.
Stalking the wild gerrymander
A recent Rolling Stone article on the NY-19 Congressional race repeated the common fallacy that our congressional districts are gerrymandered. They’re not.
Kids’ Almanac (5/24-5/31)
Make your own binoculars at the Catskill Interpretive Center’s Family Day; History Scavenger Hunt in Uptown Kingston; World War II events at FDR Library & Museum; Map Launch Party at Arrowood Farms.
Building a human habitat
To get help from a Habitat for Humanity, a household needs to be making less than 60 percent of local median income; in Ulster County, that’s about $48,000 for a family of four. Habitat seeks to help families that are living in unsafe or overcrowded housing, or paying more than 30 percent of their income in rent. That’s a description that fits a shockingly large slice of the local population.
Kids’ Almanac (5/17-5/24)
Endangered Species Weekend at Millbrook’s Trevor Zoo, Slabsides Day in West Park | Make seed paper and seed balls at Clermont | Spring Land of Chocolate MyKingstonKids Fest