The Wallkill Valley Land Trust will hold its 30th Anniversary Gala Dinner Benefit on October 1 at Garvan’s. The event will feature a live and silent auction and will honor its founders: Kitty Brown, Fran Dunwell, Kate Hudson, Jim Ottaway Jr., William Rhoads, Johanna Hecht Sokolov, Jean Bartlett, John Jacobs, Robert Lasher, Jay LeFevre and Seward Weber.
The first Elting Memorial Library Fair was held on August 4, 1956. It raised $439. Another fair was held the following year, with profits nearly doubling to $833. Imagine what people at the time would have thought if they could have looked into the future to 2017, and known that not only is the Library Fair still a New Paltz tradition, but that last Saturday’s event on September 23 would be the 61st iteration of an annual fundraiser that now brings in some $30,000 each year to support the library.
New Paltz’s founding families owned slaves, a fact the community continues to grapple with. Earlier this month SUNY New Paltz’s president announced the college would look into whether it should rename buildings named for the community’s founders. Last week, five writer-storytellers participated in “Reclaiming Our Time: A Live Performance by TMI Project,” delivering monologues after spending the night a former slave quarters in a historic Huguenot house.
The Highland native has written her first book, a young adult fantasy novel planned as the first in a series. Possibilities Publishing Company will release Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters on November 1.
Overheard at Taste of New Paltz 2017, between two young girls: “I have sprinkles all over my shoe!” “I have hot sauce in my shoe.” That more or less sums up the particular genius of this annual event at the Ulster County Fairgrounds.
Returning for the fifth time Saturday afternoon, Sept. 23, the annual Harvest Hoedown & Local Food Barbecue is the “main community friendraiser and fundraiser” for the programs of the Rondout Valley Growers’ Association (RVGA).
The event features a raffle, children’s activities, live music and a book sale.
The sun shining down from a clear blue sky illuminated Hasbrouck Park in New Paltz like a flaming metaphor last Saturday afternoon, as people gathered for the first annual Recovery Fest.
Now its 27th year, the event, which began as a food festival, is now much more.
Because the program is for children 5 and under, families transition out of it when the kids enter school. They’ve gathered at Phillies Bridge for the last 12 years at the end of the summer to celebrate good health at the source of much of the fresh produce they receive.