“We’re aware of other ways of being than this capitalist madness. I barely ever sell my art because it makes me crazy. Art should be for everyone, not only a pasttime of the wealthy.”
After 30 years of selling imported crafts on Woodstock’s Tinker Street, west of Tannery Brook, Bryn Kelsey has moved her shop, Walkabout, to Rock City Road, just off the town green.
After a quick and successful fundraising effort, the arts organization, celebrating its 40th year, bought a building on Glasco Turnpike in which it could house its annual artists-in-residence. And not just any building, but the former home of artist Henry Mattson, built in 1824 and once home to the artist Frank Swift Chase, as well.
It’s an exciting but disconcertingly unsettled time here in the hinterlands between the vast and troubled rust belt to our north and west and the bustling problem-plagued metropolis to the south. All eyes are glued to the screen watching the soap opera that national politics, where one person’s narcissistic claptrap is another’s revealed wisdom. What is a poor soul to do?
On April 3, the Shandaken town board heard a presentation by New York State Department of Transportation on the planned replacement of the Route 28 bridge over the Esopus and Birch Creeks, east of the Peekamoose Restaurant in Shandaken.
Onteora Central School District Board of Education President Bobbi Schnell resigned her post as a trustee it was announced, with sadness, at Tuesday’s April 4, Board meeting at Phoenicia Elementary School. Vice President Kevin Salem had been filling in for her as she took a leave due to back surgery.
An agreement here could be a huge revenue boost for Ulster County.
Ulster County expects to receive bids for repair of three washouts along the county-owned railroad tracks in the Boiceville area. Meanwhile, Rail Explorers, the rail bike company that has contracted to run tours along the Phoenicia-to-Boiceville tracks this summer, is considering alternate routes in response to concerns from residents along Cold Brook Road, originally intended as the last leg of the tours.
Far from being a waste of time, resolutions by the a county legislature express a collective will more likely to be noticed by higher levels of government than statements by a single voter or group.
This is not your father’s real-estate market.