Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 9-12: The premise of the play was inspired by an actual classroom roleplaying game that Sheppard experienced as a child in Hanover, Pennsylvania, in which middle schoolers were divided up into Union and Confederate battalions tasked with either retrieving or freeing black dolls representing escaped slaves.
Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 12-13: Conceived and promoted by longtime antiques dealer Frank Gaglio, Barn Star allows antiques professionals to display and sell in a hands-on, approachable atmosphere.
Saturday, Oct. 12: Located in the heart of Woodstock for 70 years, Matt, Heather and Kathy Longyear’s farm has hosted a benefit for the Woodstock Land Conservancy for the last five years. This event is a celebration of community for all ages and features opportunities to learn about the farm and the environment while enjoying crafts, kids’ activities and local foods and music.
Friday, Oct. 11: Phair’s storied career begins with, and is still mostly celebrated for, Exile in Guyville, her super-witty and rocking musical and feminist 1993 retort to the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street.
Saturday, Oct. 12: Cirque Mei features a company of 40 elite traditional and contemporary circus artists and acrobats.
Sunday, Oct. 13: On his latest, Let It Slide, Woodstock’s surreal cabaret ringleader ups his game once again as a singer and a writer, leading to a delightful blip-pop record that somehow manages to make sense in the barns of Woodstock and the basements of Brooklyn.
Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 12-13: Anna Librada Mazo Georges, who grew up in New Paltz, returned to the region with a mission to make flamenco accessible to the masses, and even a participatory celebration, the way it has always been in Spain.
Friday-Sunday, Oct. 11-13: The bust, designed by Czech sculptor Marie Seborova, was commissioned and donated by Art for Amnesty founder Bill Shipsey in recognition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’s 70th anniversary. Identical busts have been placed in sites of significance around the world: France, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and at Columbia Law School.
This setup typically lets cold polar air pour into the Northeast, and can set the stage for early snowstorms.
Tuesday, Oct. 22: Kimball left city life behind and, with her new husband from New Paltz, took on the immense job of starting and running a CSA near Lake Champlain, known as Essex Farm. It currently comprises 1,100 acres and is managed with horsedrawn farm machinery rather than tractors, using no chemical pesticides or fertilizers. The goal was to supply its 150 members year-round (up to 200 now) with ingredients for three organic meals a day – not just vegetables, salad greens, herbs and a few fruits, but also grains, flour, beans, eggs, meat, dairy, honey, maple syrup, cut flowers, even soap. Kimball calls it “the world’s first full-diet CSA, as far as we know.”