Free telescope: Just explain why you want one
Night Sky columnist Bob Berman has two telescopes that he wants to give away to stargazers who need them.
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First phase of New Paltz’s River-to-Ridge Trail nears completion
Avid cyclists in the New Paltz area have been agitating for decades for an alternative route west of the Wallkill River to the Shawangunk Ridge and now the Open Space Institute is making it happen. Check out the first section of the River-to-Ridge Trail, while not yet officially open or fully landscaped, is now walkable.
Upstate Films in Rhinebeck screens Dramatic Escape
Saturday, Nov. 4: The documentary transports viewers into the lives of maximum-security prisoners at Sing Sing in Ossining as they mount a stage production of A Few Good Men.
Vying for the vista: Carleton Mabee’s final opus, Saving the Shawangunks
The book is positioned as a celebration of nature’s fragile ecosystems and of the David v. Goliath community members (for David’s tactics, in this case, were largely litigatory) banded together to protect them. But in the moment-to-moment of the prose and in the very consciously balanced, 360-degree management of his facts, Mabee reveals himself mostly as a fastidious historian and no polemicist at all.
Seeking reminiscences of Splendor in the Grass filming in High Falls
Warren Beatty’s big-screen debut was Splendor in the Grass, which co-starred Natalie Wood. The movie, which was directed by Elia Kazan, came out in 1961 and was filmed at the waterfall near Kazan’s summerhouse in the Hudson Valley.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Brain bling
My husband estimates that my innate worth has grown 47 cents due to the three new tiny gold seeds in my head (probably as close as I’ll ever get to wearing a tinfoil hat). This metal trio is smaller than rice and glued onto my skull to help point the radiation beam to the correct spot in my brain. My husband was delighted that the doctor jokingly said he could bring his own drill along.
Thompson Square to perform at the Bardavon
Saturday, Nov. 4: The popular country duo of Keifer and Shawna Thompson topped radio charts across the US, Canada and Australia with hits “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not?” “If I Didn’t Have You” and
“Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About.”
What’s happening in Poughkeepsie After Dark
“I’m a diehard New York Mets fan, so I guess I love the underdog. That’s how I view the City of Poughkeepsie.”
Temple Grandin to speak in Middletown
Thursday, Nov. 9: Considered one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world, Grandin will give a talk titled “The Autistic Brain: All Kinds of Minds Can Succeed.”
Watershed for women at Time and the Valleys Museum
Sunday, Nov. 5: “The Right to Vote: 100th Anniversary Commemoration” exhibition opens with lecture by Charles Ford. The Museum was founded by locals interested in preserving the history of the communities taken by the building of the reservoirs.