Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney and creative entrepreneurs to host book talk at Rhinecliff library
Featured speakers at the event include a graphic designer, two restaurateurs, an interior designer and an emerging-business consultant.
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Joe Donahue interviews Alan Cumming onstage at Bard this Sunday
The legendary actor/singer/ writer Alan Cumming will talk with WAMC’s Joe Donahue about his new collection of photographs accompanied by autobiographical essays, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures.
Slide lecture on Borscht Belt history at SUNY-New Paltz
Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld, who grew up in the Catskills, has been haunting what remains of the Borscht Belt – resorts that lie in ruins, are abandoned, converted into something else or in a few cases still operating – capturing large-scale color images of lobbies, pools, dining rooms, guestrooms, showrooms and stages.
Elizabeth Lesser discusses Marrow: A Love Story in Woodstock & Rhinebeck
When Elizabeth Lesser learned that she was the only person who could offer life-saving bone marrow to her sister Maggie, she didn’t hesitate. The story of their experience is chronicled in her latest memoir.
New book by local historians tracks slavery in the Hudson Valley
“Ulster County was one of the worst [counties] in the state. There’s only one person so far in this county that I’ve been able to identify as an abolitionist. Even the Quakers didn’t want to let go of their slaves.”
Book, panel examine legacy of naturalist John Burroughs
What we now call natural history or the biosciences were once known as “natural philosophy,” and it was assumed that
Rosendale’s Widow Jane Mine hosts Subterranean Poetry Festival Sunday
“The Word Itself” is the theme of the 26th annual Subterranean Poetry Festival to be held in Rosendale’s Widow Jane
Joyce Carol Oates to give book talk in Woodstock
Bookies will lay you odds on anything; they have to keep a finger on the broader zeitgeist at all times,
Spiral House in Saugerties publishes vegan cookbook
Every cookbook ever written has what comic book writers call an “origin story.” There’s always a reason – at least
Poetry Barn hosts “Skywriting: Poems & Planes”
The Poetry Barn, a new literary center in the Hudson River Valley situated by the spillway of the Ashokan Reservoir,