Ski jumping over downtown Rosendale: a history
As Joppenbergh’s day as a cement source ended, Rosendalers, with the urging of Nordic skiing enthusiast Gus Williams of Williams Lake, found another use for the mountain.
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“Linda Montano: The Art/Life Hospital” at Dorsky Museum
January 23 to April 14: The “durational” works that established the Saugerties artist’s creative reputation include Art/Life: One Year Performance, in which she was bound by rope to Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh 24 hours a day for a full year.
Modfest at Vassar
January 31 – February 10: Vassar serves up nearly two weeks of thematically connected music, lectures, films and more in venues around the Vassar campus and – for the first time this year – off-campus as well. Modfest’s 2019 theme is “In Motion.”
Enveloping vision: Former Stone Ridge firehouse to become Blue Marble Arts
Viewers find themselves surrounded by mysterious imagery painted on a 100-foot-long length of raw canvas, eight feet high, that encircles the room. The space is now the permanent home of Marilyn Reynolds’ Composition in the Round. Reynolds and her family are in the process of renovating the former firehouse into a studio, gallery and workshop space for community art classes.
Children’s Labyrinth at Forsyth Nature Center was inspired by Erica Chase-Salerno
“I hope this project, like Erica, inspires young families to get out and enjoy the natural world and do it with big cheesy smiles on their faces.”
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “Living testament”
Updating my will feels solid and secure – like good shoes in the snow.
Bald eagles are back, and midwinter is the best time to spot them in the Hudson Valley
Measuring 30 to 36 inches high and with a wingspan that extends from six to seven feet, “Eagles are definitely conspicuous,” said naturalist Mark DeDea.
The newest American Girl doll, brainchild of local author Jennifer Castle, lives in Ulster County
Her name is Blaire Wilson, and she lives on a family farm-turned-B&B/wedding venue in a fictional rural community called Bluefield – which, according to Castle, is tucked in somewhere between New Paltz and Gardiner, at the base of the Shawangunk Ridge.
How a kid from Newburgh became a mega-best-selling author
James Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most number-one best-sellers (67 at last count) and was the first to top The New York Times’ best-seller lists in both the adults’ and kids’ categories simultaneously. His novels account for roughly six percent of all hardcover novels sold in the US – more copies than those of Stephen King, John Grisham and Dan Brown combined.
The opulent songs of Laura Stevenson
The Long Island, then-Brooklyn, now-Saugerties singer/songwriter Laura Stevenson splits her bandwidth just about evenly between a rambunctious, stormy and keenly melodic power-pop on one side and a delicate (though still stormy) chamber Americana on the other.