Woodstock’s Dean Shambach passes on
With the death of Dean Schambach October 25 Woodstock lost its Cyrano de Bergerac, its Don Quixote — a man of talents and ambitions so vast their full achievement became ‘The Impossible Dream.’
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Photos: Halloween in Woodstock
Halloween is a big deal in Woodstock.
Woodstocker Paige Elenson receives award for teaching yoga in Africa
“Our goal is to train a million yoga teachers in Africa,” said Paige Elenson, who recently received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Global Citizen Award for her Africa Yoga Project.
Conversation series at Ashokan Center explores eclectic range of topics
“One of the initial motivations for this series was our feeling that the Ashokan Center is an amazing venue for various groups of people to explore varied interests, a way to get away from the world at large and delve into some subjects with heart and brain.”
The ghost of Billy Batson: Memories of a one-time Woodstock musical legend
The guy had a vision. He came from somewhere twisted. Or maybe he came from somewhere that wasn’t twisted, and so perceived more clearly what the rest of us preferred to see as straight.
Remembering Supertots, Woodstock’s beloved preschool
Cheryl Chandler has retired, but her house is a welcoming shrine to the preschool. “I’ve invited parents to send their kids on sleepovers,” she said.
Woodstock church hosts immigration talk
‘People think, they’re coming to take our jobs. But we’re coming to have the rights that humans should have everywhere…’
Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute aims to increase women’s presence in Judaism
The Kohenet Institute, founded in 2005 by Hammer and musician and folklorist Taya Shere, has been training Hebrew priestesses, reclaiming the voices and traditions of women from biblical antiquity.
The Story of Father Francis, Part One
The clergyman, who presided over the Church on the Mount atop Meads Mountain from the 1930s until 1979, who enchanted Woodstockers, married many and guided the spiritual needs of an unruly community, said his great turning point was assisting Clarence Darrow in defending a high school teacher arrested for teaching evolution in “The Scopes Monkey Trail.”
Heather Longyear’s Little School on the Farm
Heather Longyear fills Woodstock preschool void left by Supertots.