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Photo of Haunted Huguenot Street in New Paltz by Mookie Forcella
Nights of the living, days of the dead

Mid-Hudson towns offer plenty to do during Halloween season


As autumn wanes and the nights lengthen, the Witches’ New Year draws nigh and the veil between the realms of the living and the dead grows thinner. Unless you are blessed with the Second Sight, you...

October 23, 2011 08:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The undead are the fun dead

Zomstock invades Saugerties this Saturday evening


On Saturday night, October 22 starting at 7 p.m., Saugerties will be overtaken by zombies. Perhaps as many as a thousand bruised and bloody humanoids in various dress, from elegant evening dresses ...

October 20, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Photo of Author Kristin Kimball by Deborah Feingold
Farm from the madding crowd

Couple behind The Dirty Life speak at SUNY-New Paltz this Monday


“You don’t get to change your life without letting go of some things.” So says Kristin Kimball, author of The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love, a tale of her life-changing decision to let go o...

October 16, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Redcoats are coming!

Burning of Kingston reenacted this weekend


If you visit Uptown Kingston on the afternoon of Sunday, October 16, you may find yourself caught in a melee between rifle-toting Colonial bluecoats and British redcoats. No, it’s not that the resi...

October 13, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Photo by Beth Blis
Built to last

Brick collectors’ website sheds light on historic Hudson Valley industry


A century ago, New York was a city primarily built of bricks, many of which were manufactured on the banks of the Hudson River, which was lined with massive brickworks from Little Ferry, New Jersey...

October 11, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Everything you always wanted to know about…

Vassar offers community free lectures on panorama of subjects, performances, tours & exhibitions on October 15


Living in the workaday grownup world, there’s many a moment when I wish that I could be a professional student instead. For all the challenges involved in completing one’s postsecondary education, ...

October 09, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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William Wegman’s Andromeda
Picture this

Center for Photography at Woodstock holds annual Benefit Auction & Gala this weekend


Fine art photography has long been a world all its own. And even though it now swamps large compendium exhibits and dominates the giant art fairs, it maintains its own associations and gatherings, ...

October 06, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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B-52s
Happy landings

B-52s play UPAC this Sunday


Even though they’ve lived in the Catskills for a quarter-century, recorded much of their music here and even shot some of their most popular music videos in Phoenicia, Woodstock and Plattekill, amo...

September 29, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Photo of Pat Reppert by Beth Blis
Holy aïoli!

Garlic Festival returns to Saugerties this weekend


There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic…Without garlic I simply would not care to live. – Louis Diat It helps to love garlic more than just a little when you go to the Hudso...

September 22, 2011 11:39 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Look back in wonder

Ulster County Cultural Heritage Week offers many ways to delve into our celebrated past


There are so many fascinating activities that are part of Ulster County Cultural Heritage Week that you might be having a hard time figuring out how to fill out your schedule. Even if you packed in...

September 15, 2011 12:21 PM | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Outward bound

    Hudson River Valley Ramble presents outdoor events for everyone the next three weekends

    by Frances Marion Platt
    09.08.11 - 12:25 pm
  • Celtic conclave

    The Strand hosts Hooley on the Hudson in Kingston this Sunday

    by Lynn Woods
    09.02.11 - 08:00 am
  • Think globally, shoot locally

    Woodstock Film Festival to honor Ellen Barkin & Mark Ruffalo, present world premiere of drama starring Bernadette Peters & US premiere of Bruce Beresford flick with Jane Fonda

    by Frances Marion Platt
    09.01.11 - 08:00 am
  • Superstars al fresco

    Bethel Woods hosts Stevie Nicks this Saturday, Elton John next Saturday

    by Crispin Kott
    08.25.11 - 10:39 am
  • Blues summit

    Buddy Guy, Robert Cray & Elvin Bishop to headline Bluestock at Hunter Mountain

    by Crispin Kott
    08.18.11 - 11:00 am
  • Creativity crawl

    Saugerties Artists’ Studio Tour returns this weekend

    by Lynn Woods
    08.11.11 - 11:55 am
  • Put out to pasture

    Stone Ridge couple adopts retired NYPD patrol horse

    by Ann Hutton
    08.04.11 - 10:00 am
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