Sunset/moonrise hike at Poughkeepsie’s Peach Hill Park
Sunday, 3/12: Enjoy Daylight Savings Time and the Full Moon from a lovely perch with a 360-degree view in a park that you may not yet have discovered.
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Make scrimshaw out of soap at the Maritime Museum, ceramics at the Dorsky and hamantaschen at a Purim Carnival.
Yale Russian Chorus Alumni to perform at Bard
Saturday, 3/11: Perhaps you need to have lived through the Cold War to realize how remarkable it was for Russians to stumble upon a band of American singers in downtown Moscow.
Long Day’s Journey into Night on stage in Rhinebeck
Friday-Sunday, 3/10-12: The posthumous publication of Eugene O’Neill’s acknowledged masterpiece left us with one of the most memorable dysfunctional families ever staged.
RFK Jr. to speak about the environment at SUNY-New Paltz
Monday, 3/13: The address, entitled “Our Environmental Destiny,” will provide a reminder of the role that natural resources play “in our work, our health and our national identity.”
Spending some time at Time & Space, Ltd.
Exploring Hudson in 1991, Linda Bruce and Claudia Mussmann walked into an affordable building – a one-time bakery built in 1929 – and recognized its potential as an ever-evolving space for artists and community members to come together.
Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman is an existential whodunit
We know that Rana has been interrupted in her shower by a mysterious intruder; we know that she has been injured, and that bloody footprints lead away from the scene of the crime.
Apply now for summer 2017 Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Program
Does the idea of being cut off from the distractions of the internet, television, cellphones and society in general while you work on your next magnum opus intrigue you?
The Dead Beat: Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest who tried to reconcile science and religion
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is buried in a small cemetery at the Culinary Institute in Poughkeepsie. “It is doubtful,” Flannery O’Connor wrote, “if any Christian of this century can be fully aware of his religion until he has seen it in the cosmic light which Teilhard has cast upon it.”