Kids’ Almanac (12/27-1/3)
Spider-Man: New Year’s for kids at Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie; New Paltz offers family-friendly New Year’s Eve; Into the Spider-Verse animates comic adventures in high style.
Voices
Flipping the House
Now that all the votes are counted, it’s even more clear how motivated local Democrats were in November.
In praise of the present
The local gift economy is really something. I’ve lived in a lot of places, large and small, and nowhere is the tradition of handing off random stuff to your friends and neighbors so strong and vital.
2018 was good for some harvests, disastrous for others
Little damage was suffered by my blueberries, probably thanks to some experimental traps developed by Peter Jentsch of Cornell University.
The ice age at the Mountain Top Arboretum
The Mountain Top Arboretum, located just north of Tannersville, is home to a collection of mostly local and native tree species.
Jumpstarting the census
How the federal census has grown from its modest beginnings!
The worst time for clouds
On Saturday and Sunday nights, Dec. 15 and 16, Bob expects Comet Wirtanen to achieve naked-eye visibility – the first comet in years to do so.
Kids’ Almanac (12/13-12/20)
See It’s a Wonderful Life on the big screen at UPAC.
Kingston After Dark: BillyBio’s crazy Petri dish
Graziadei kindly spoke to me in advance of his upcoming tour with Thy Will Be Done which touches down at The Loft in Poughkeepsie on Thursday, Dec. 13.
You can buy a home…maybe
“Participating homebuyers may be able to put down as little as one percent of the purchase price because of SmartMove New York’s low-interest loans.” Sounds too good to be true? If you have good credit and don’t have too much income, it isn’t.