Montgomery’s Thomas Bull Memorial Park is a winter wonderland
The park features a sledding hill, skating pond, dog park and holiday light display in its arboretum.
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A boy learns life lessons from the afterlife in Coco
Coco’s look is derived from the friendly-skeleton iconography of Día de los Muertos celebrations and the delightfully lurid colors of the monster figurines known in Mexico as alebrijes.
Nuclear war, Part II
As Hawaii resumes H-bomb air raid warnings, and nuclear brinksmanship continues, we take a further look at what a strike on New York City would mean for the Hudson Valley.
Nude Party at Colony in Woodstock
Saturday, Dec. 9: Look, even their own press kit warns that the Nude Party are called that for a reason: an aberrative behavioral tendency to disrobe. But even in Woodstock, where nudity was largely invented, local ordinances apply, and them pretty-faced Carolina bucks would do well to keep their trousers fastened unless they want to taste the salt on the cold concrete floors of the taxpayers’ mighty fine county detention center.
Unison Arts Center hosts Holiday Fair Dec. 2-3 on SUNY campus
Unison Arts Center will host its 27th annual Holiday Craft, Art and Design Fair on Saturday and Sunday, December 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the glass atrium student union building on the SUNY New Paltz campus.
Sinterklaas comes to Rhinebeck
Saturday, Dec. 2: Sinterklaas will ride into Rhinebeck on his white horse, and the festivities go on all day long, with live dance, theater and music happening all over the village. The Children’s Starlight Parade, featuring two-story-tall animated puppets carried by hundreds of volunteers, unfolds at twilight.
Hudson hosts Winter Walk
Saturday, Dec. 2: Thousands of visitors are expected in Hudson’s historic center for Winter Walk, happening from 5 to 8 p.m., and there’s plenty to do to keep them all busy. Santa Claus arrives in his horsedrawn sleigh. He will listen to children’s holiday wishes and distribute a free gift-wrapped book to every child. As the grandfather clock strikes eight o’clock, fireworks light up the winter sky from Promenade Hill.
Fireworks, parade & The Princess Bride in Poughkeepsie
Friday, Dec. 1: The 24th annual Celebration of Lights is conducted in conjunction with the Bardavon, which will be showing the Rob Reiner’s classic 1987 film at 8 p.m.
Woodstock Holiday Open House
Saturday, Dec. 2: The festivities include a Holiday Restaurant Crawl, a cozy bonfire with s’mores, live bands, carolers, Santa and Mrs. Claus, ice-carving and a tree-lighting on the Village Green at 4:30.
Huge toy raffle at Saugerties’ Holiday in the Village
Sunday, Dec. 3: The Chamber of Commerce combines forces with the citizenry and more than 30 local businesses to bring joy to one and all. Children between the ages of 1 to 12 will be eligible to enter for a chance to win a coveted bike and more than 250 other prizes.