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The Hudson Valley Symphonic Wind Ensemble performs at a concert on Railroad Green in Warwick in early June. Photo by David McIntyre COMMUNITY PAGES, PAGE 36

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6 On the Cover: Swim: States of Being

31 Meet the CannaMoms

A new work on paper by Ashley Williams.

11 Esteemed Reader Jason Stern appreciates the deep, living canvas of nature.

13 Editor’s Note Brian K. Mahoney obsesses about food on our behalf.

FOOD & DRINK 14 Bittersweet Taste of Home In summer, the backyard of Nice & Neat Dry Cleaning transforms into a Cambodian food pop-up in a lush oasis.

19 Sips & Bites Recent openings include Rosie General, the Jet Set, Que Lo Que, and Calcutta Kitchens.

HOME 20 Kitchen Confidence In the reno of her c.1840 Colonial, chef and food writer Anna Stockwell makes the kitchen her command center.

Through advocacy, entrepreneurship, and open conversation, local CannaMoms are working to destigmatize cannabis.

HEALTH & WELLNESS 33 Mobilizing for Abortion Rights All across New York State, reproductive rights advocates are bracing for the possibility of a post-Roe America.

COMMUNITY PAGES 36 Warwick: Smart Development In a village characterized by cooperative spirit, Warwick has achieved quality of life through responsible development.

CHRONOGRAMMIES 43 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards The results of the Chronogrammies are in! Close to 20,000 people voted to determine the 2022 winners.

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60 Music

At “Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema,” hosted by Hudson Hall, poet-performers revive the art of neo-benshi.

“Incorrigibles,” at Ann Street Gallery, gives voice to those sent to the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson.

Live Music: Some shows we’re going to this month include Graham Nash at Mahaiwe and DakhaBrakha at Colony.

The Short List: Voices from the Woodstock Fringe, “Romeo and Juliet,” Rosendale Street Festival, and more.

Art exhibits: Shows from across the region, including companion Marc Swanson exhibitions at Mass MoCA and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.

Album reviews of The Solomon Diaries by Sam Sadigursky; Gramppappies by Grampfather; and The Way Up by Reeya Banerjee. Plus listening recommendations from Al Olender, singer-songwriter and Kingston resident.

61 Books Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Elegy for an Appetite, chef Shaina Loew-Banayan’s insightful, freeform, and lyrical memoir about life as a professional chef with an eating disorder. Plus short reviews of Human Blues by Elisa Albert; With Different Eyes by Paul Smart and Richard Kroehling; The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman; The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki; and This Might Be Too Personal by Alyssa Shelasky.

62 Poetry Poems by Deirdre Alpert, Bella Barbera, Daniel Brown, Madelyn Crews, Alec Gourley (Algo), John Grey, Steven A. Grogan, Patrick Hammer, Jr, Shelby Lintel, Dawn Marar, Kayla Noble, Richard Smyth, Susan Liev Taylor, and Roger Whitson. Edited by Phillip X Levine.

HOROSCOPES 76 Early Fireworks and a Cosmic Sea Change What the stars have in store for us this month.

PARTING SHOT 80 So Long Old Friend A digitally manipulated photograph by Ben Eichert.

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Ashley Williams Swim: States of Being, oil on paper, 22” x 30”, 2020

s part of a series called “New Work On Paper,” the detail of the painting featured on this month’s cover suggests an aquatic dreamscape in a fluid surreality, featuring two feet with fish submerged in water. Inspired by the life of environmentalist Rachel Carson, painter Ashley Williams wanted to tell a story about Carson’s direct, sensory experiences in nature and her deeply romantic relationship with her friend Dorothy Freeman. “It’s a story about desire, impending environmental disaster, and the power of dreams,” Williams says. Initially, Williams wanted to create a comic book based on Carson’s life, but found that the illustrations quickly became too abstract to function as a linear narrative. “Over time, the project evolved into a series of paintings, but the graphic novel/comic format stuck,” she explains. “I’ve always been drawn to the aesthetics of comics: dividing an image into cells, moving the reader through the space of a page.” Completed during the pandemic, the painting echoed Williams’s feelings of isolation. “I found myself thinking about how we divide our days, the patterns of the sun and moon, the strange ways that time seems to speed up and stand still when we spend so much time alone,” she says. Williams, a resident of South Hadley, Massachusetts, is also inspired by nature. “I believe 6 CHRONOGRAM 7/22

we can learn from plants, animals, and rocks about how to be better humans,” Williams says. Rachel Carson believed this too. “I often ask myself how fully can we understand a cloud, a tree, or a rock? Can we develop a vocabulary that enables us to do that? What does our desire to engage with the non-human world tell us about ourselves? My central goal as an artist is to discover alternative, more empathic ways of interacting with nature and with each other,” she adds. Rendered in oil on gessoed paper, the painting is an exploration of touch and sense-based communication. “This is also a story about an impending environmental disaster, which you can see in the final frame of the series,” Williams says. Though this particular piece will not be on display, other works by Williams will be featured in “Urgent Beings,” an exhibit at the newly opened Headstone Gallery in Kingston, from July 2 to 31. “I have created an enormous painting of a lichen-covered rock and a series of painting and sculpture pairs,” Williams says of the works that will be featured in the exhibition. “I’ve been playing with light, shadow, and layers of oil painted paper.” Much of the work is paired with “data” and “field notes,” which serve as a record of Williams’s attempts to connect with the nonhuman world. The text and color “core samples” contain

information about animal communication, questions about the nature of language, and her deep desire for interspecies understanding. The newly refurbished 1,200-square-foot gallery space at Headstone was created by artists Lauren Aitken and Chase Folsom and features exhibitions of contemporary artwork by emerging and established artists from all over North America. Folsom and Williams attended grad school together at UC Boulder and have stayed in touch ever since. “We were thrilled to know that Ashley was close by in Massachusetts and that she was available to show with us,” Aitken and Folsom replied via email. In all of her work, Williams endeavors to communicate desire. “My work is always a kind of reaching out—a desire for human and nonhuman connection,” she says. “I call all of my work ‘communication attempts.’ These attempts sometimes fail. There are so many mumbles and missteps in the process. I am deeply interested in the failures of language and in our eagerness to connect with each other despite how difficult that often is. I think mumbles and stumbles are weirdly beautiful.” —Mike Cobb Artist Portfolio: Aerofauna.com Gallery: Headstonegalleryny.com

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y favorite sentence in the magazine this month is this one: “Even as head chef, walking into a high-end kitchen ‘packing a vag’ means condescension, kisses on the head, and lingerie for Christmas.” It’s from Anne Pyburn Craig’s review of Shaina Loew-Banayan’s memoir Elegy for an Appetite (page 61). It packs a syntactic wallop and also has a lot to unpack in its feminist critique of professional kitchen culture. It’s the kind of sentence that contains a few of my favorite things: pointed analysis, technical details, economical wording, and a bit of insider lingo. The reader gets a real sense of what Loew-Banayan, a young nonbinary chef with an eating disorder, had to deal with while working in a series of high-end restaurants, some Michelin-starred, in a field where toxic masculinity is still regularly on the menu. The good news: Loew-Banayan made it out with her food-joy intact and opened Cafe Mutton in Hudson, which, like her freeform memoir Elegy for an Appetite, is a boundary-smashing adventure receiving critical acclaim. Recent menu items from a brunch during Pride weekend at Cafe Mutton included potato chip and onion dip omelet, blackened bluefish, and a fried bologna sandwich (the bologna is made in-house). As Loew-Banayan told Chronogram’s Kerri Kolensky in October of last year: “My ethos is that it doesn’t have to be a basic cafe—it can be anything that we want it to be. I really just want to cook food that I like, that I feel is authentic, and makes good use of what’s around in the area.” Race you to Hudson for fried bologna! If you couldn’t tell, we’re a bit food obsessed here. It’s a (wellfed) living, as they say. We’ve been chronicling the region’s food scene since 1993—against all odds, Chronogram turns 30 in 2023—and its constant evolution has gotten more evolutionary in recent years. Pandemic pivots, pandemic closings, pandemic openings have kept us busy in our reportage. The dizzying pace of change in the restaurant sector seems to be slowing down, however. Here’s how I believe I know: For the past 30 months, we’ve had to whittle down a long list of new eateries to choose the five we would feature each month in Sips & Bites (page 19). This month, we had to redouble our efforts to scout out some new spots. I’m most excited for the Jet Set, a tiki bar on the Newburgh waterfront from Mike Kelly, of Liberty Street Bistro, and crew. A round of Singapore Slings, please. Food isn’t just about stuffing your face with the latest pleasure, however. Food is culture, as Marc Ferris beautifully conveys in this month’s feature “A Bittersweet Taste of Home” (page 14). In the backyard of their dry cleaning business Nice & Neat on Route 9 in Cold Spring, exiled Cambodians Sokhara Kim and Chakra Oeur host a weekend Cambodian food pop-up amid a lush oasis complete with a babbling creek, handmade structures, and Buddhist statues. Here, Kim serves up food as homage to a lost and beloved country with traditional dishes ranging from dumplings and egg rolls to fish curries like Nam Banh Chok and vegetarian options like Ktis Duong, rice noodles smothered with vegetables, coconut milk, peanuts, and spices. S&C Food Cart is no mere supplemental income stream (in fact the prices are anachronistically cheap). Rather, it’s a subtle (and flavorful) act of defiance. Ferris writes, “As cultural caretakers, they help preserve the fragile heritage of the Khmer people, the country’s main ethnic group, with art and food that evokes history and tradition.” (If you’re as curious as we are about the region’s constantly evolving food scene, sign-up for our Food Friday newsletter at Chronogram.com/eps.)

Department of Corrections Last month, in our coverage of the Harvey Fite sculpture exhibit “Let the Stone Tell the Story,” we ran an image of a plaster bust of opera singer Marian Anderson that we attributed to Fite. Turns out it was made by one of his students Margit Malmstrom, under his guidance, and has a neat backstory. Curator Robert Langdon wrote us the following note: “The work has been in the Fite family’s collection for decades and they believed it to be one of Harvey’s works but we just discovered that, in fact, it is not. Malmstrom began as a painter but struggled with making round, dimensional figures. Her instructor suggested sculpture and she entered Harvey Fite’s class at Bard where she found her home. During her senior year, Fite suggested she enter the Lady Bird Johnson sculpture contest, part of her Beautify America program, with a sculpture for the Garden of Patriots in Coral Gables, Florida. Fite suggested she sculpt either Marion Anderson or Everett Dirksen [senator who helped write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964]. She chose Anderson, researched her at the New York Public Library, and on a work-stay arrangement that Fite engineered, she spent her time sculpting the bust of Anderson while being a nanny in the mornings at Fite’s home. She won 2nd prize, $5,000 which financed her first trip to Europe. Margit said she was flattered to think her work would be mistaken for Mr. Fite’s.” “Let the Stone Tell the Story” is on view through at Emerge Gallery and the Lamb Center through July 10.

Plaster bust of Marian Anderson by Margit Malmstrom.

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Bittersweet Taste of Home COLD SPRING’S CAMBODIAN FOOD POP-UP By Marc Ferris

t’s easy to drive right by Nice & Neat Dry Cleaning on bustling Route 9 in Putnam County. The nondescript building and understated wood sign barely catch the eye, but when the backyard transforms into a Cambodian food stand during the warm months, savvy locals know where to go. At the weekend food pop-up, conversation flows as patrons devour savory dumplings, grilled meat skewers, and more daring traditional Southeast Asian fare. The serene surroundings along the western bank of gurgling Clove Creek make it possible to ignore the traffic roaring by. But behind the façade, there’s a lot more than a make-good on the American Dream. Flanked by the Hudson Highlands to the west and rugged Fahnestock State Park to the east, Cambodian dissidents Sokhara Kim and Chakra Oeur have found a safe harbor and a base from which to protest their home country’s plight. As cultural caretakers, they help preserve the fragile heritage of the Khmer people, the country’s main ethnic group, with art and food that evokes history and tradition. Oeur writes poetry, works on his memoir, and maintains a gallery of sketches, paintings, and sculptures that 14 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 7/22

reflect his experience with the infamous Killing Fields of the 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge regime killed over a million people. They both got out in 1981 and their painful past is palpable. Describing her escape from a labor camp, Kim pauses and closes her eyes, as if blotting out the feelings. “There were 300 teenagers in the camp,” she says in a muted voice. “Only 15 survived.” Persecuted by the Khmer Rouge, Oeur joined a guerilla insurgency after the Vietnamese invasion in 1978. “I walked through bullets falling like rain and never got wet and walked through fire as bombs dropped from B-52s, but I didn’t get burned,” the poet says. “I must be made of Kryptonite.” Oeur’s face furrows when speaking about his homeland and he often looks off to the distance, searching for an answer to the question that his stern stare seems to ask: What can I do to end the centuries of suffering? They have returned home several times, but the experience is unsettling because the oneparty government stifles dissent and siphons off the country’s wealth. “As a Cambodian,” Ouer says, “I can’t even go into a restaurant in

Above: Chakra Ouer checks on a bitter melon growing in his garden. Opposite, from top: Sokhara Kim prepares dumplings at the S&C Food Cart. Cambodian Spring rolls. Nom Banh Chok, fermented Cambodian noodles that come in many regional variations across the country. Photos by Ross Corsair/Highlands Current

Sihanoukville” (the country’s resort region, where casinos and drab high-rises are displacing the local population). Kim’s rural province, Kampot, is particularly hard hit by poverty and neglect, so she collects money to buy backpacks, uniforms, and even shoes for schoolchildren. Someday, she wants to build a library filled with books about Khmer history, a subject not taught in school, she says. “When I go home, I enjoy it for about five days and then it hits me: My people are so poor in their own country and they can’t even talk about it,” she says. “They have nothing.” Curious Cuisine To help forget, Kim stays in motion, often working 12-hour days making alterations and serving customers at the dry cleaning operation. So why prepare, cook, and serve pretty much everything from scratch on hot summer weekends? “I should rest and relax, but it’s fulfilling to see the curious faces people make when they take that first bite,” she says. “All the hard work melts away and it makes me want to keep going.” Kim’s cuisine elicits puzzled looks as diners try to identify the layered flavors and textures. That’s chayote squash, sesame paste, and carrots in the vegetarian dumplings. The popular lotus blossom cookies include rice flour, coconut milk, sesame seeds, and palm sugar. “I’m trying to offer a summer breeze of flavors,” says Kim. Using coconut oil, she contends, offers a light touch that doesn’t soak into the ingredients in a greasy way like soybean or peanut oil. Though many people will recognize Cambodian flavors as familiar from the cuisine of Vietnam and Thailand, Cambodia actually predates its neighbors, exerting a large cultural influence over the region during the Khmer empire, between 802 and 1432. At home for her family, Kim uses prahok, a pungent fermented fish paste similar to concentrated anchovies. But she sticks with more subtle seasonings at the food cart. Her generic menu descriptor “Cambodian spices” draws from a palette of lemongrass, lemon leaves, fish sauce, palm sugar, ginger, turmeric, tamarind, garlic, honey, jicama, and galangal, a cousin of ginger with a rougher texture and a piney, citrus flavor. In Cambodia, snakehead fish is a delicacy, though it’s typically viewed as an acquired taste outside of Southeast Asia. Instead, Kim uses branzino in summer pop-up specials. Dumplings and egg rolls (carrots, glass noodles made from mung beans, and malanga root, similar to taro) are always on the menu. Also, marinated beef and chicken as entrees or sandwiches, which are served on a roll with a spear of crisp cucumber, mild jalapeno, pickled vegetables and a sprig of cilantro. One of the most interesting specials, amok, a curry-style dish with fish, chicken or vegetables over a bed of rice noodles, presents a distinctive mix of flavors that pops like a carbonated beverage. Nam banh chok is another curry-based plate, typically with branzino, rice noodle and a green fish sauce. “There aren’t a lot of food options in the area,” says Bailey McCollum, a regular who lives nearby. 7/22 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 15

Two visitors look for fish and frogs in a koi pond on the grounds of S&C Food Cart. Photos by Ross Corsair/Highlands Current

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“Everything is fresh and the spices and dips are interesting. Where else can you get something like this around here?” McCollum also appreciates the vegetarian offerings, including ktis duong, rice noodles smothered with vegetables, coconut milk, peanuts, and Cambodian spices. And the prices: this year, $12 is the limit. To enhance the eating space, Oeur constructed a sitting area along the creek and decorated the garden with tropical plants and whimsical sculptures. He also nurtures rice sprouts in plastic containers that will serve as the centerpiece of a traditional Fall harvest ceremony featuring hand tools, folk instruments, and colorful clothing. The Long and Winding Road Kim and Oeur first met at a refugee camp in Thailand. But they were separated when he went on to settle in Washington, DC, and found steady work restoring churches. Kim landed in Westchester County and acquired the Nice & Neat property in Cold Spring with help from her sponsor, opera singer Mary Judd. Around 1984, she opened a restaurant, Sambata Cuisine, which specialized in Chinese dishes with a Cambodian accent. “There wasn’t much around here back then, and people weren’t ready for that kind of food,” Kim says. Sambata closed in 1992 and Kim pivoted to Nice & Neat. Drawing on the sewing skills she learned growing up on her family’s silk farm, she offered alteration and tailoring services in addition to dry cleaning. She reunited with Oeur in 2006. He needed a kidney; she obliged. Then came marriage, the second one for both. Oeur is one of the most accomplished Cambodian-American artists to emerge from the diaspora of war, exhibiting at the Smithsonian Institution and the Field Museum in Chicago, among other venues. His outdoor studio, entered beneath a wooden archway, centers on a handmade shed, trellises, several birdhouses, and piles of raw material that may or may not be used in future projects. Although his ongoing kidney ailment causes him to move a bit more slowly these days, Oeur is constructing an eight-foot-tall fiberglass-coated elephant that will occupy a corner of the property. These majestic animals, which dragged the stones that built Cambodia’s great temples, remain a symbol of pride and tradition. As for Kim, her method of transmitting Cambodian pride and traditions is through the kitchen. And she’s not precious about her cooking secrets. “I’d like to teach customers how to make and cook the dumplings,” she says. “People tell me, ‘if you teach them how to make them, they won’t buy them from you anymore,’ and that’s fine. They can eat them in the winter when I’m not open. I think people would be excited to learn and it would be fun.” S & C Food Cart. Saturdays and Sundays, May to September or October, depending on the weather. 3154 Route 9, Cold Spring. (845) 265-2770.

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Padrona After a long-imposed pandemic hiatus, mixology royalty Kat Dunn has returned to her 2020 plans for a fast-casual cocktail bar in Hudson, called Padrona. Her beloved endless summer pop-up, Buttercup, which emerged in the interim, will continue serving lobster rolls and Coney Island hot dogs on the sidewalk out front during the day, operating out of the same kitchen. Come evening, Padrona will open sometime in July with a 28-foot bar inside and patio service outside. Padrona’s cocktail concept keeps it casual with drinks on draft, bottled cocktails, slushes, and a range of beer-and-shot specials, plus all the classics by request. On the food front, Padrona will serve up lighter fare like conservas, charcuterie, local cheeses, tinned seafood, and trout rillettes to soak up the booze before you totter out into the night. 17 N 4th Street, Hudson | Buttercupeats.com

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the house Anna Stockwell in the garden she began last spring. “It’s definitely a work in progress,” she says. “I haven’t been a novice at anything in a long time, and I love the discoveries it brings, both good and bad.” This year, the garden includes tomatoes, leafy greens, beets, eggplant, peppers, and a variety of herbs—all of which she’ll incorporate into dishes to be shared. “Starting my vegetables from seed and eventually eating the fruits of my labor is incredibly satisfying,” she says.

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Stockwell’s 1840 Colonial sits in the middle of Hurley. Despite its historic facade, it’s the ideal setting for contemporary gatherings. Her dinner party manifesto is simple: “Welcoming friends into your home and gathering around the table is really what’s special,” she explains. “Sharing food feeds more than just bellies. It’s what helps us stay connected, form new relationships and lasting bonds with our chosen families.”

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Stockwell’s kitchen is open to the rest of the house and includes plenty of seating and extra counter space for guests. When she was house hunting in 2020, a proper kitchen— that is open and ample—was paramount on her must-have list. “I love that I can be cooking while people lounge,” she says. When Stockwell moved in, she added the central island, a Bertazzoni professional range, and a vintage yellow pendant light she found on Etsy. The island’s lazy Susan, made by Concrete Cat, is one of her favorite kitchen items.

Admittedly problem solving in the kitchen is kind of Stockwell’s thing. A recipe developer, tester, and food stylist—For the Table, a cookbook and guide to throwing dinner parties around two easily prepared entrees came out in April—she has a knack for taking complicated culinary concepts, and breaking them down into manageable bites. “Of course, you need a certain amount of knowledge and skills, but once you’ve internalized some techniques you can start riffing,” she explains. “You just have to trust your instincts.” This philosophy has served her well on her journey upstate. Her sprawling 1840 Colonial, sitting on almost an acre of lawn and towering spruce trees, seems ideally suited to her particular mission of welcoming people into her home and feeding them. Centered around an openconcept kitchen with a living area large enough to accommodate a grand piano at one end and a formal dining table at the other, the first floor looks out over an ample patio for barbequing and Stockwell’s fledgling garden. It required some improvisation, but now her home has all the color, texture, and careful placement of a welldesigned charcuterie board.

Kitchen Wisdom A native of New Hampshire, Stockwell grew up in a home where cooking was a central passion. “My mother was a great home cook,” Stockwell says. “There were cookbooks and food magazines everywhere in the house and I was always devouring that content.” There was also the freedom to experiment. “My mother is very intuitive and often just cooked based on how she felt,” says Stockwell. All this left a huge imprint on Stockwell, who shared her mother’s passion but didn’t realize it could translate into an actual job until her twenties. She began her career in New York City as the photo editor of a luxury magazine, but it didn’t stick. “I spent all my free time thinking about food, learning to cook for myself, and hosting dinner parties in my tiny Brooklyn apartment,” she explains. “Even in that tiny apartment, the space was completely prioritized for dining.” Stockwell became an editor at Saveur, where her job was food adjacent—but still not close enough. “It was a terrific crash course in magazine publishing,” says Stockwell. “But I was constantly in the test kitchen, tasting the food and watching what they were doing.” It spurred 7/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 23

her to enroll at the International Culinary Center in SoHo—a year-long intensive program that gave her the credentials to back up her homegrown skills. Afterward, she began her tenure as a recipe tester and editor at Bon Appetit and Epicurious. The Evolving Recipe After 12 years in Brooklyn, Stockwell began to outgrow both her editorial job and her apartment. In 2020, she felt it was time to strike out on her own, so she and her partner decided to move out of the city and buy a house. They made a list and started searching “in a kind of mad, random dash,” she explains. Casting a wide net, they toured towns throughout upstate New York and Connecticut before happening on the Kingston area. “Kingston just felt right,” says Stockwell. “But what did we know? Everything was closed because of the quarantine, but it just felt right.” The 19th-century Colonial in Hurley appealed immediately. “I loved the old, crooked floors,” says Stockwell. “I grew up in an old white Colonial house with pine floors, so I felt right at home.” It was the home’s open kitchen that really drew her in. “Having a kitchen that was an open integrated space was at the very top of my list,” 24 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 7/22

she says. “I cook constantly for everyone and I didn’t want to be hidden away. I wanted an open space where guests can join.” The couple decided to jump at the opportunity, but at the last minute, Stockwell’s partner walked away. “The night before the contract was due he backed out and I had to decide if I was ready to move on my own.” She was heartbroken but ready for change. She decided to buy the house and fix up the whole 2,356 square feet of it herself. Substitutions and Additions “I healed my broken heart painting walls and decorating my home as an expression of myself, a space I could entertain and host in, and a place I could work and cook and grow in,” Stockwell says. She began by transforming the kitchen into her Command Center. Cooking, to Stockwell, especially during a dinner party, is a fun, collaborative project, so the space needed to be both accommodating and a workhorse. Adding a custom, oversized island was key to making her design work. The butcher block-topped island delineates the kitchen from the living area, providing seating for guests and extra work space. Stockwell installed a new, fire-engine-red stove along one wall and refreshed the adjacent counters with poured concrete, extending the

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Stockwell converted the home’s former dining room into an office. She hung curtains festooned with flowers from Society6 and added a vintage green armchair she found at Kingston Consignments. Her collection of cookbooks lines the wall behind her desk.

Creating comfortable spaces for entertaining has always been a priority for Stockwell wherever she’s lived. The dining alcove looks out onto her garden. She brought the Danish Mid-Century Modern table and credenza from Brooklyn and added a mix of vintage chairs inherited from her grandparents or purchased secondhand. A nearby seating nook includes a custom '70s loveseat and swivel Otis chairs, as well as vintage tables and lamps. She installed Hay light fixtures to the space and painted the walls a shade called Artichoke Hearts.

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concrete up the wall with a spackle brush for an ad-hoc backsplash. Rows of open shelving keep all of Stockwell’s pots and pans at the ready and on colorful display. Stockwell’s cooking is inspired by all five senses. “I create meals according to the sensory experience I want to have,” she explains. “Sometimes I want something I can sink my teeth into, sometimes I want something heavy, sometimes it’s about texture or colors.” She took the same multisensory approach to home design. She painted the home’s formal dining room dusky blue and converted it into her office with shelves thick with cookbooks. Stockwell painted the downstairs parlor walls pink, added new light fixtures and an heirloom rug to the cozy fireside space. Wallpaper resplendent with pomegranates and lemons extends along the home’s wood-spindled staircase from the firstfloor landing to the second-floor hall. Upstairs, four bedrooms and two baths provide plenty of space for guests to sleep any excess festivity away. Stockwell added a coat of burgundy along a hallway wall for a fauxwainscoting effect and painted the bedrooms shades of blue and green. She finished the home’s primary bathroom with blue-printed tiles and an up-cycled sink from Zaborski’s, a salvage emporium in Kingston. A compact, two-

story red barn outfitted to accommodate guest overflow sits behind the house and features another patio—this one with a fire pit and cedar barrel hot tub. If You Build It They Will Come The winter of 2020-21 found Stockwell holed up in the house alone, tending to the somewhat ironic task of writing a book celebrating dinner parties. As quarantine slowly ended and the snow melted away, she started venturing out, and realized that she’d stumbled into just the right place at just the right time. Stockwell began to make friends in the area—friends and people to cook for. She met her new partner soon after and introduced him to her house on their second date. “He said it immediately felt like home to him and seeing me in it just confirmed his feelings,” she says. The two have called the place home for over a year. These days Stockwell regularly finds herself in party-planning mode. She maps menus, assembles shopping lists, and has pans at the ready. But if something goes wrong, or there’s an unexpected twist of events—if the cream doesn’t whisk or she can’t find the right melon—she welcomes the creative challenge. “You know, sometimes what happens in the end is better than what you planned,” Stockwell says. 7/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 29

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f you type “wine mom” into the search bar of any popular e-marketplace that peddles quirky creative goods, you’re deluged with stemless glasses with sassy sayings like “It’s Mom’s turn to wine” in the Live Laugh Love font. This lighthearted public embrace of parental alcohol consumption is not new. Long before it became a meme, it was viewed as harmless and even cathartic for parents to wear their vices on their sleeves. There’s the coffee mom, the chocolate mom, the online shopping mom, and so on. But one group has a lot of catching up to do. Meet the CannaMoms. Despite most Americans supporting legalization, cannabis being authorized for adult recreational use in New York (plus 16 other states and Washington, DC), and the fact that cannabis consumption rose 55 percent among females last year, many moms still worry about coming out of the cannabis closet. Their reasons range from nagging social and medical stigmas to fear of legal repercussions, the latter remaining a disproportionate concern for women of color. It’s a conundrum that has many local mothers concealing what they consider to be a cornerstone of their health and lifestyle. This doesn’t sit well with activists like Tanya Osborne, event director for the Women Grow network and founder of the CannaDiva, who has been consuming cannabis for 30 years and has a 14-year-old son. “The wine moms? Everyone is okay with them,” says Osborne, who grew up in the Bronx and now lives in Yonkers. “They can walk down the street drinking from the bottle, and everything is fine. But if a CannaMom wants to smoke a joint or eat an edible, it’s the clutching of the pearls. It’s truly not fair.” Softening the Grind Through advocacy, entrepreneurship, and open conversation, many CannaMoms are working to destigmatize cannabis and push it toward acceptance as another tool to soften the grind of raising kids. That’s what cannabis has come to be for Anique Nicholson, who lives in Kingston with her husband and two-year-old. “Cannabis keeps me grounded and present with my son,” she says. “It helps me with sensory processing and just generally quieting all the other things going on in my mind so I can tap into my own sense of wonder and joy.” Nicholson is open with friends and family about cannabis, and while she has historically consumed for relaxation and anxiety reduction, she is “finding it helpful in parenting in so many unexpected ways.”

On the other end of the spectrum is Jennifer, who agreed to speak anonymously due to the nature of her job. The Highland mom of two says she’s been shamed by her immediate family for consuming cannabis as a parent. “I find [the judgment] completely ludicrous,” says Jennifer, whose youngest child is autistic and epileptic. “I have never smoked in front of my children, or even while they are awake. I have a highintensity job and a high-needs child. We all have our way that we like to unwind at the end of the day. Cannabis just happens to be mine.” She also hides it from her colleagues in the healthcare field, where she says there remains a “great deal of judgment” against weed. Theoretically, since the legalization of recreational cannabis, this shouldn’t be an issue for New York moms anymore—yet it is. And more mothers are using legalization as an opportunity to educate the public and provide sanctuaries for CannaMoms to live their truths. A Safe Space for Consumption For Tiffany McPhail, a mother of three in Newburgh, this work started in her own community when she decided to open a business with fellow CannaMom Alexia Brown. The pair met through their children who were in the same class, and they’d hung out several times before McPhail finally felt comfortable enough to pull out her

Alexia Brown and Tiffany McPhail opened Leaf Love Cafe, a member's-only BYO THC space on the Newburgh waterfront, in April.

vape pen while hiking with Brown. “I’m hanging out with this mom, and she and I have no idea that we have this thing in common because we’re too afraid to say it,” says McPhail. They launched Leaf Love Company last year and started out selling products like smell-proof pouches with locks for CannaMom safety. But McPhail, inspired by the stories she’d heard of the coffee shops in Amsterdam, dreamed of opening a smoke-friendly cafe on the Newburgh waterfront. “I wanted a safe space in our area for people like me who choose to consume cannabis as opposed to going out drinking,” says McPhail. “There was nowhere for us.” When their dream space on Front Street became available, Leaf Love Cafe was born, officially opening on 4/20 this year. While operating day-to-day as a members-only BYO THC cafe, the space has played host to cannabis-related wellness education events and has a packed calendar of puff-and-paint parties, yoga, game nights, and karaoke. While the opening of spaces like this is undoubtedly a win for moms who, as Osborne says, “party different,” some parents are still too spooked by the infancy of New York’s cannabis laws to be celebrating in public just yet. A “big blind spot,” Osborne notes, is the persistent threat of Child Protective Services. “Someone can call, whether warranted or not, and the potential of someone leaving with your child is a big issue—for cannabis, which is legal in our state,” says Osborne. “That can happen, and I know people that has happened to. The fear around it is 100-percent acceptable.” Osborne says changes are happening, but not nearly as fast as the industry is taking off. With CPS cases strictly related to cannabis ongoing, and with the agency still sorting out how it will treat cannabis with consideration to legalization, the threat seems to be going nowhere fast. “Being a Black woman, that is a very, very major concern,” says McPhail. Nicholson adds: “I’m not particularly afraid of the state getting involved with my family because of how I manage my mental health, but it isn’t enough for white moms to feel comfortable using cannabis if moms of color are still being criminalized for it.” Osborne says while much more work and basic Cannabis 101 education is needed, the needle is slowly moving toward CannaMom acceptance. “We’re not hiding anymore,” says McPhail. “We are in the light. Join our tribe.” 7/22 CHRONOGRAM HIGH SOCIETY 31

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hese are bleak times for reproductive rights. By now, most Americans are aware of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion from Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case currently before the 6–3 conservative-leaning court. The draft opinion forecasts what many abortion advocates around the country have been warning: Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned, reversing a half-century of legal precedent and effectively removing the constitutional right to an abortion. New York saw it coming and, as a backstop protection, passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) in 2019, codifying the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe decision in the state constitution. The statewide legal protection guarantees the right to an abortion within 24 weeks of pregnancy (or through the full duration of pregnancy if the health or life of the pregnant person is at risk, or if there are fetal indicators). After years of effort from abortion rights advocates, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the RHA during a Trump presidency that appointed three new conservative justices to the high court. US public policy has historically ignored the fact that abortion is a common and popular healthcare procedure. Six in 10 Americans support Roe’s right to end a pregnancy in all cases, and according to research from the Guttmacher Institute, nearly a quarter of women seek abortion care at some point in their lives. Yet many states in the US have been working to politicize abortion and erode access for decades, placing burdens on patients and providers alike, and proactively alienating it as a separate medical service outside the health insurance system. The current uptick of restrictions is startling: More than 1,300 abortion restrictions have been enacted since the Roe decision almost 50 years ago, and 2021 was the worst year on record for abortion rights, with more than 100 restrictions passed in a single year. A 2021 Texas law banned abortion procedures after just six weeks (when many people don’t yet know they’re pregnant) and deputized citizens to enforce it. Florida’s 15-week ban was signed into law in April of this year, and in May, Oklahoma became the first US state to outright ban abortion post-Roe. Thirteen states have so-called trigger provisions that institute bans if Roe falls, and others have bills reducing access. “Most Americans, even in these red states, were not looking to overturn Roe v. Wade,” says New York State Senator Liz Krueger, sponsor of the RHA alongside fellow Manhattan colleague

A mass mobilization on May 14 in Manhattan. Photo courtesy Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.

and Assembly member Deborah Glick. At this pivotal moment, New York’s Democratic lawmakers and reproductive rights activists are mobilizing urgently to ensure that abortion will remain accessible here for anyone who needs one, whether or not they’re a resident. But will these efforts be enough to keep abortion in the continuum of health care? And can New York successfully serve as a refuge state for abortion if Roe falls? Protecting Patients and Providers Alike According to abortion advocacy groups, the Reproductive Health Act was a vital first step, but it didn’t go far enough to protect New Yorkers from the unnecessary barriers they face when trying to access reproductive health care. Uninsured and underinsured people often fall through the cracks of affordability, and while the RHA permits more healthcare professionals to perform abortions than ever before, there is a shortage of providers statewide. If Roe falls, the Guttmacher Institute projects that New York could become the closest abortion care destination for anywhere between 190,000 to 280,000 pregnant people living in states that ban abortion. Suddenly, ensuring and expanding affordable access is a top priority here. “New York needs to step forward as a national leader and actively protect pregnant people across

all pregnancy outcomes,” asserts a coalition of reproductive health and justice organizations in a set of recommendations called the Abortion Access Roadmap. One of the coalition’s recommendations is to enact Senator Krueger’s new Equality Amendment bill, which would amend the state constitution to include proactive protections that clarify once and for all that discrimination based on a person’s pregnancy or pregnancy outcome is sex discrimination. The Equality Amendment bill is ambitious in that it seeks to protect not only abortion patients’ rights, but equal rights in regard to disability, race, origin, gender, sexual orientation, and more. Unfortunately, the bill stalled out and didn’t move forward with agreed-upon language from all stakeholders before the end of the 2022 legislative session in June. “[We] want to make sure that one set of people’s protections and rights doesn’t supersede and violate someone else’s rights, and the place we hit a blockade is actually religious freedom,” Senator Krueger says of the delay. Six other “starting-off point” bills Senator Krueger and her colleagues did recently pass insulate New York’s abortion providers and patients from various post-Roe threats. Medical malpractice and licensure issues for performing abortion care to non-residents will now be stymied. Practitioners won’t have to fear being 7/22 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 33

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Organizing Manager Aura Lopez Zarate at a Women’s March in 2020 at Polhill Park in Beacon. Photo courtesy Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.

individuals,immigrants, and multiple identities pushed to the margins of society due to this country’s long history with racism and discrimination,” says PPGNY’s Marrero. “These are the same types of communities that will be impacted by abortion bans in other states.” Considering abortion is on the continuum of reproductive health care that also includes birth control methods like implants and tubal ligation, and miscarriage management procedures, expanding these services and knowing where they’re offered is vital for patients. Miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies can require immediate medical invention. Some smaller upstate general hospitals that have historically provided abortion care have been forced to merge with religious hospitals and lose those services in order to survive financial struggles. In many cases, would-be patients in those communities aren’t aware until it’s too late. A proposed bill, sponsored by Hudson Valley state Senator Michelle Hinchey and Queens Assembly member Nily Rozic, will better publicize available services and help lawmakers get a more accurate sense of the reproductive healthcare landscape around the state. Reproductive Justice for All For Newburgh resident Aura Lopez Zarate, who is involved in the reproductive freedom movement both through her job and in the community, the days following the leaked draft of the Dobbs opinion have been busy. Having prepared for this outcome over months of “educational programming like teach-ins, film screenings, and panel discussions” as an organizing manager for PPGNY, she’s now shifted to rapid response. Lopez Zarate has been working to get supporters to rallies including the “Bans Off Our Bodies” New York City event in May. She has been lobbying in Albany and facilitating phone and text banks to push for Krueger’s Equality Amendment in the state Capitol. And she’s continued collaborating with

statewide and national partner organizations as well as local, BIPOC-led groups. “This work has to be done through a sexual and reproductive justice lens,” insists Lopez Zarate. She encourages everyday folks eager to get involved in the abortion rights movement to do three things: (1) volunteer with their time to help push for legislation in Albany and remind other New Yorkers that abortion is still legal here, (2) donate to organizations that help people to directly access abortion care, and (3) follow the guidance of organizations anchored in the reproductive-justice space that have been doing this work for decades. “They are led by and center the people that [the fall of Roe] will impact the most,” she says. Part of Lopez Zarate’s day-to-day work is making sure that supporters and volunteers are using inclusive language at rallies and centering people most impacted by abortion access issues—often communities of color, people who are already parents, and those under significant economic strain. Sometimes it means providing guidance on tactics to avoid. Some rally-goers, for example, have worn handmaids’ costumes from the popular Hulu show (based on the dystopian Margaret Atwood novel) The Handmaid’s Tale as a way to warn against a frightening future of forced birth. But for Black and indigenous women in the movement, those costumes represent an insensitive, non-hypothetical reminder of their communities’ and ancestors’ painful pasts. This reality is not lost on Senator Krueger. In collaboration with colleagues in other blue states to game out and protect against worst-case abortion-law scenarios, she’s been studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This set of federal laws permitted slave owners and bounty hunters to seize and return enslaved individuals who had escaped to free states. “We ended up in a civil war over this,” says Krueger. “What the hell are we walking ourselves into?” 7/22 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 35

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n a recent spring morning, Harry Littell brewed coffee in Warwick Fire Department’s Station No. 1 on Church Street in the village. A half-dozen veteran firefighters—with between 23 and 65 years of service among them—gathered at a table to drink that coffee and chat. Nearly all of them were raised in Warwick. The town’s changed over the years, but they’d never move. “It’s home,” says Buzz Joslyn, 84, who’s a 65-year member of the department. “There used to be a lot more farms around here, but it’s still home.” Most of them remember when Wickham Woodlands Park off Kings Highway was the “state school for boys” before becoming Mid-Orange Correctional Facility. In fact, town residents themselves named the prison, through a survey the town offered when the facility converted from the state school, says firefighter John Batz (63 years of service). That spirit of cooperation— and responding to residents’ wants and needs—is a hallmark of Warwick, a 104.9-square-mile town with 32,000 residents, a mix of native-born Warwickians and newcomers from New York City and elsewhere. 36 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 7/22

Warwick’s geographic diversity is different from most other Orange County towns. It spans the mountains near Sterling Forest to the Appalachian Trail (with a mandatory stop for a vanilla cone at Bellvale Creamery), Greenwood Lake, the agricultural centers in Florida and Pine Island, and the bustling village of Warwick. Situated in a valley, far from interstate highways, it’s physically set apart. Along with that comes a sense—but not in a mean way—of a “Warwickian bubble,” where residents don’t venture far from the town’s boundaries. That’s not entirely wrong, according to people in the know. “People have their needs met here,” says Michael Newhard, who’s been mayor of the village of Warwick for more than two decades. “There’s been a greater self-reliance within the villages and the town: Historical amenities, parks, programs, we’ve always recognized we can do it ourselves, because it serves the immediate community. Quality of life is an infrastructure we all appreciate and need.”

Conductor Richard F. Regan leads the Hudson Valley Symphonic Wind Ensemble at a concert on Railroad Green in early June. Opposite: Warwick Town Supervisor Michael Sweeton at Wickham Woodlands, the former site of the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility. The 733 acres have been reimagined for recreational use, conservation, and a corporate park.

Building with a Conscience Responsible development helped shape that quality of life. An aerial view of the town would reveal a patchwork of village centers—Warwick, Greenwood Lake, Florida—within a quilt of bright green and Black Dirt farmland. By the late 1990s, town officials recognized the need to preserve that farmland, and came up with the Community Preservation Project Plan and Purchase of Development Rights (PDR), where the town uses a fund to “buy” the right to prevent development of farmland. The farm owner gets a monetary boost, and the land remains farmland in perpetuity. “In 2006, we led an effort to begin the Community Preservation Fund that’s funded by real estate transfer taxes,” says Town Supervisor Michael Sweeton. “So far, 4,400 acres have been preserved. There are 38 farms in that program, and we have eight more farms in the application process that would encompass another 750 acres.”

In 2013, the town flexed its preservation chops in acquiring the 733 acres of former MidOrange Correctional Facility land. Now, visitors can hike and kayak at the 400-acre Wickham Woodlands Park; more than 200 additional acres are dedicated to recreation and public use; and the rest of the property has been purchased from the town by a multitude of commercial operations, including Hudson Sports Complex; Citiva and Green Thumb cannabis industries; a CBD extraction facility and testing lab; the Drowned Lands brewery; and a whiskey maker. The 1841 Manor House on the property has been renovated into a business-incubator space run by the Orange County Industrial Development Agency. “The taxpayers will begin to see tax revenue and jobs come out of a space where, when the prison closed, all people expected were job losses,” Sweeton says. “And the development is in harmony with the setting there.” Two

years ago, the town took another step in its conservation plan and bought the 85-acre former Kutz Camp between the preserved Weiss Farm and the Orange County Land Trust’s Fuller Mountain preserve. Those preservation efforts, though lauded by most, sometimes rub developers the wrong way. In 2019, Stephen Kitar proposed Pulpit Rock Inn on West Street, along the town/village border. Comprising a 7,000-plus-square-foot main inn and six 2,000-square-foot, eightunit cottages, the project met resistance from neighbors and other locals. Kitar himself ran for the village board in the 2020 election, on a platform that encouraged business growth. He lost. The inn proposal has lain dormant since. Conversely, plans for the Village View Estates development, across the village from Pulpit Rock, is a lesson in give and take, though it took a class-action lawsuit brought by some residents 7/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 37

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against the developer and the village. The final plan is a cluster-zoned design that cut the original 42 mixed single- and multifamily homes down to 28 single-family homes and keeps 60 percent of the land as open space. Newhard acknowledges that growth can be difficult in an area without a lot of developable space. “We’re pretty much built out,” he says. “And when infrastructure issues arise with development plans, well, [developers] are getting a lot of things, and there should be a price put on those things.” The COVID pandemic put a premium on real estate in the villages and the town, too. “The values have risen tremendously here,” Newhard says. “Many new residents are coming from New York City, and they’re not looking for a three-acre spread. Here, everything is accessible and doable on foot.” Old-time Charm, Modern Investments Those amenities lured Damien Georges and his wife, Lisa, from the Upper West Side. Originally from Australia, Georges and his wife met in Japan. They were living in Manhattan when Lisa discovered Warwick on an apple-picking trip. By 2014, they’d purchased a home that was once owned by actor Richard Kiley, intending to use it as a weekend escape. Three years later, however, they made it their permanent home with their children Noah, now 16, and Mia, 14. “We came in kind of blind, but Warwick has great schools, a great community, and the people have just been wonderful,” Georges says. The PDR program was a factor in encouraging the Georges family to make Warwick their full-time residence: “There’s an environmental benefit I’m in favor of here, plus an economic factor, too—because your property values aren’t going to go down because a huge development is built across the street from your house,” he says. Georges has invested in Warwick himself, opening the Fourteen Railroad restaurant in the village on Christmas Eve 2020 and recently opening Next to 14, a ramen shop next door. He’s also invested in 10 other area properties, and he’s a member of the Monticello Motor Club, just an hour northwest of Warwick in Sullivan County. 40 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 7/22

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He and his family have all found friends and activities that align with their own values, Georges says. “It’s the people we’ve met here who have surprised me,” he says. “It comes off as a small town, but it’s intellectually engaging.” Over the years, there’ve been rumblings about discord between old-timers and newcomers, but Georges said he hasn’t experienced that sentiment. “I feel like I’ve been embraced,” he says. “If that [dislike of new residents] were the case, there would be problems with permitting and other issues, and that hasn’t happened.” The fact that new businesses can coexist with longtime village shops—Mayor Newhard and his sisters have successfully run Newhard’s, a department store/gift store, on Main Street for more than 30 years—adds to the charm of the town and its villages. And it’s encouraged other longtime businesses to revisit their offerings. Pennings Farm operates in the south-central end of the town on 100 acres of farmland that Jacob and Johanna Pennings began as a dairy farm 80 years ago. Now, that land holds a farm market with a beer garden, grill, and pub; a barn with an ice cream parlor, a garden center, and a bakery; and a cidery and orchard that gets so busy that autumn apple-picking is reservations-only. “We’ve evolved over time, but Warwick has always been filled with residents who appreciate farmers and all of this natural beauty,” says Tori Pennings Cosimano, Pennings Farm’s co-owner and general manager and granddaughter of the dairy farmers. “A lot of longtime Warwick residents have farming backgrounds themselves.”

Community Spirit In 2009, Hannelore Chambers and her husband moved from New York City to Greenwood Lake, where Chambers’s husband’s family would visit during his childhood. Ten years later, Chambers became a driving force in helping raise $350,000 over two years to fund a community-built, handicap-accessible playground in StanleyDeming Park in Warwick. “Warwick offered the lifestyle we wanted for our children,” Chambers says. “To realize there was all of this beauty—and I guess you could call it wilderness—just 55 minutes from the George Washington Bridge, and that we were able to have all the peace and quiet here. Especially in this day and age of video games, it’s great to offer alternatives to be physically active in nature.” There’s a vibrant cultural scene throughout the town, as well. “Our valleys are alive all year round with the sounds of music, whether it is lakeside jazz at the Cove Castle [on the lake], Broadway performers [Paul Loesel and Chuck Ragsdale and their guests] performing cabarets at Baird’s Tavern [in Warwick village] or the many local bands playing across our town’s breweries and wineries,” Chambers says. During the pandemic, Chambers joined a group of town residents and business owners to form HelloWarwickValley.com, a clearinghouse of events, activities, and cool places throughout the town. “Our purpose was to help everyone, visitors and residents alike,” Chambers says, “from the family in the village of Florida to that person on the couch in Brooklyn, who is looking

for things to do here.” The site is a compendium of the entire town, from Warwick to Greenwood Lake to the Black Dirt of Florida and Pine Island. “It’s been a well-received initiative,” she says. “I met people who’ve lived in Warwick their whole lives and never made it to this side of town [on Greenwood Lake]. People didn’t know you could rent a boat on the lake, or eat at a restaurant lakeside.” Back at the firehouse, the firefighters sip their coffee, tease each other, and reminisce. “Our core group is getting older,” Littell concedes, as he hands over a coffee mug emblazoned with a photo of Father Reynor Santiago, chaplain of the department. “We’re taking in young people, but a lot of them move on once they go to college.” It’s hard to find volunteers, too, when the area is filling with what some of the men said were “12-hour residents” who spend a good portion of their days commuting to jobs in Manhattan and just don’t have time to join the fire department. “When I joined, you went to an alarm and your employer understood that you had to leave,” says Frank Fotino, a 63-year member. “But now, a lot of people who live here work in the city.” “If you work here, you can’t afford to live here, and if you live here, you probably don’t work here,” agrees fellow firefighter Batz. But the native Warwickians appreciate the town’s efforts to keep the land nearly as pristine as it was when they were boys themselves. “I think the PDR is the greatest thing ever,” Fotino says. “You can go up to Bellvale Mountain, and all you see is green.” 7/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 41

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They say the third time’s a charm, and we’re certainly charmed with the results of the 2022 Chronogrammies Readers’ Choice Awards. Since emerging from their pandemic cocoons, people have demonstrated quantifiable eagerness to support their favorite local entities. So let’s quantify: Since the first round of voting kicked off on January 1, close to 20,000 readers participated, casting over 300,000 ballots for their favorite shops, restaurants, cultural venues, and organizations across a whopping 247 categories. That’s almost double last year’s numbers, and we are counting. One thing that’s clear from this year’s ballot? People love their bagels. This was the most-voted Chronogrammies category, with longtime Kingston favorite Sunrise Bagel & Deli winning by a landslide. (They really schmeared up their fans, eh?) Oh, and people also swear by their hair stylists, a new category this year. Shout out to Becky Bugarin at Fringe Hair Design, who snatched first place with thunderous support from the well-coiffed folks of Woodstock. Other new categories included physical therapist, bridal boutique, pho, and education institutions of all levels. Congratulations to all the Chronogrammies winners and a big thanks to readers and supporters. We can’t do the “Readers’ Choice” Awards without you, our readers! P.S. Scan the QR code to the right and take a moment to appreciate the unfettered joy our winners have expressed in this infectious video.

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CHRONOGRAMMIES

WINNERS ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION AFFORDABLE HOUSING ORGANIZATION

LIBRARY WINNER: GARDINER LIBRARY RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES PUBLIC LIBRARY RUNNER-UP: STONE RIDGE LIBRARY

LIVE MUSIC VENUE WINNER: COLONY RUNNER-UP: LEVON HELM STUDIOS RUNNER-UP: THE FALCON

WINNER: RUPCO RUNNER-UP: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DUTCHESS COUNTY RUNNER-UP: ULSTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

LIVE THEATER VENUE

ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANIZATION

LOCAL BAND/MUSICIAN

WINNER: ULSTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER RUNNER-UP: BARDAVON RUNNER-UP: CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS AT RHINEBECK

WINNER: ULSTER COUNTY SPCA RUNNER-UP: CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY RUNNER-UP: NOTHING BUT LOVE CANINES

WINNER: THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS RUNNER-UP: HILLBILLY PARADE RUNNER-UP: IAN FLANIGAN

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION

MUSIC FESTIVAL

WINNER: CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY RUNNER-UP: HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER RUNNER-UP: SCENIC HUDSON

WINNER: O+ FESTIVAL RUNNER-UP: BETHEL WOODS RUNNER-UP: ROSENDALE STREET FESTIVAL

FOOD JUSTICE ORGANIZATION

MUSIC SCHOOL

WINNER: PEOPLE'S PLACE RUNNER-UP: FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON YMCA FARM PROJECT

WINNER: THE ROCK ACADEMY RUNNER-UP: BARD CONSERVATORY RUNNER-UP: THE VANAVER CARAVAN

LGBTQ ORGANIZATION

PERFORMANCE SPACE

WINNER:

HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER RUNNER-UP: DUTCHESS COUNTY PRIDE CENTER RUNNER-UP: NEWBURGH LGBTQ CENTER

WINNER: LEVON HELM STUDIOS RUNNER-UP: CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS AT RHINEBECK RUNNER-UP: ULSTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION

PUBLIC ART

PLANNED PARENTHOOD KINGSTON HEALTH CENTER RUNNER-UP: FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE

WINNER: OPUS 40 RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON O+ MURALS RUNNER-UP: STORM KING ART CENTER

RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION

WINNER: RADIO WOODSTOCK WDST 100.1 RUNNER-UP: RADIO KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: WAMC NORTHEAST PUBLIC RADIO

WINNER:

WINNER: RISE UP KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: BLACK LIVES MATTER HUDSON VALLEY RUNNER-UP: YMCA OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER CO.

SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION WINNER:

ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK RUNNER-UP: GRACE SMITH HOUSE RUNNER-UP: RISE UP KINGSTON

YOUTH ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION WINNER:

AWARENESS INC.ORG PEER TO PEER ADOLESCENT ADVOCACY RUNNER-UP: FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK RUNNER-UP: MENTOR ME OF ULSTER COUNTY

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ART CLASSES WINNER: WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON CERAMICS STUDIO RUNNER-UP: WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP

ART GALLERY WINNER: EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE RUNNER-UP: ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: THE LOCKWOOD GALLERY

ART MUSEUM WINNER: SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART RUNNER-UP: DIA BEACON RUNNER-UP: FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

ARTS ORGANIZATION WINNER: O+ POSITIVE RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES ARTISTS TOUR RUNNER-UP: CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS AT RHINEBECK

CINEMA WINNER: ROSENDALE THEATER RUNNER-UP: UPSTATE FILMS, RHINEBECK: STARR THEATER RUNNER-UP: UPSTATE FILMS, SAUGERTIES: ORPHEUM THEATER

RADIO STATION

REGIONAL PODCAST WINNER: KAATSCAST RUNNER-UP: CIDIOT RUNNER-UP: HERD AROUND THE BARN: CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY

SCULPTURE GARDEN WINNER: OPUS 40 RUNNER-UP: INNISFREE GARDEN RUNNER-UP: STORM KING ART CENTER

DRINK BARTENDER (PERSON, BUSINESS) WINNER: RANDY BENSON, OLD DROVER’S INN RUNNER-UP: CHRYSTAL VERDICHIZZI, LITTLE ITALY RUNNER-UP: EMILY JOHNSTON, MARINER'S HARBOR

BEER LIST (BAR/RESTAURANT) WINNER: KEEGAN ALES RUNNER-UP: GREAT LIFE BREWING RUNNER-UP: HAPPY VALLEY ARCADE BAR

BLOODY MARY WINNER: MARINER'S HARBOR RUNNER-UP: PAKT RUNNER-UP: TINKER STREET TAVERN

BREWERY WINNER: KEEGAN ALES RUNNER-UP: GREAT LIFE BREWING RUNNER-UP: WEST KILL BREWING

CIDERY WINNER: ABANDONED HARD CIDER RUNNER-UP: BAD SEED CIDER TAPROOM RUNNER-UP: BROOKLYN CIDER HOUSE

CRAFT COCKTAILS (BAR/RESTAURANT) WINNER: OLD DROVER'S INN RUNNER-UP: HAPPY VALLEY ARCADE BAR RUNNER-UP: STOCKADE TAVERN

HISTORICAL SITE/MUSEUM

DISTILLERY

WINNER: OPUS 40 RUNNER-UP: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM RUNNER-UP: OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE

WINNER: ARROWOOD FARM BREWERY RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY DISTILLERS RUNNER-UP: TUTHILLTOWN SPIRITS DISTILLERY

Randy Benson Bartender Old Drovers Inn Craft Cocktails It shouldn’t be any surprise that Old Drovers Inn Bed & Breakfast in Dover Plains won the Chronogrammie for craft cocktails when the one pouring drinks is Randy Benson, winner of the bartender category. Dating back to 1750, Old Drovers Inn is steeped in Hudson Valley history. But beverage director Benson brings a modern-day spin to the tavern’s drink list. Since he first started going off-menu two years ago, he has created a new signature cocktail weekly. The first was inspired by a conversation with customers. “When you crash while skiing and your equipment goes all over it’s called a ‘yard sale,’ so I thought that would be an interesting drink to make,” Benson says. “I just started throwing things together like bourbon with rye and Carpano, and customers went crazy over it.” Benson’s creativity is driven by a curiosity about the simplest things. “We have a lot of roses growing in the gardens, and I wondered if they were edible,” he says. When he found out they were, Benson put together a drink with rose wine, lemonade, vodka, and ginger with a splash of lemon and edible rose petals on top. Old Drover’s specialty cocktail menu usually includes at least six drinks, including a muchloved twist on the Old Fashioned made with local maple syrup, Luxardo cherries, Jim Beam Black, and an orange twist. Customers flock to the bar to taste Benson’s latest distinctive concoctions, like the yuzu margarita and pomegranate lemon drop. It was one of these regulars that nominated Benson for a Chronogrammies. “I had tears in my eyes for two hours when I found out I won,” says Benson, a resident of Dover Plains. “It just meant so much to know that not just our small community but people all over the Hudson Valley appreciate what we do for them.” Visit Benson and see for yourself at the Old Drovers Inn tap room, which is open for dinner and drinks Thursday through Saturday and Sunday brunch. —Lisa Iannucci 7/22 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAMMIES 45

VIRTUAL LEARNING WINNER: CLUB ASL RUNNER-UP: HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM RUNNER-UP: THE BUTTERFLY ACADEMY

FAMILY FUN BOWLING ALLEY WINNER: PATEL'S KINGSTON LANES RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES BOWLERS CLUB RUNNER-UP: SPINS BOWL, POUGHKEEPSIE

CAMP WINNER: YMCA SEEWACKAMANO RUNNER-UP: GIRL SCOUT HEART OF THE HUDSON CAMP RUNNER-UP: WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL

DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATER WINNER: HYDE PARK DRIVE-IN THEATER RUNNER-UP: HI-WAY DRIVE-IN THEATER RUNNER-UP: OVERLOOK DRIVE-IN THEATER

KIDS ATTRACTION WINNER: CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY RUNNER-UP: FORSYTH NATURE CENTER RUNNER-UP: KELDER'S FARM

MINI-GOLF COURSE WINNER: PUTTIN PLUS RUNNER-UP: ASCOT PARK RUNNER-UP: THE SPORTS CONE

Drive-In Hyde Park Drive-In There’s nothing like a night out at the drivein, and Chronogram readers have spoken: Their favorite place to spend a night under the stars is the Hyde Park Drive-In, run by Barry and Carol Horowitz. If you’ve never had the drive-in experience, which can happen these days with fewer than 300 of the theaters still operating in the US, make this the summer you give it a try. The drive-in makes for a perfect family night out—the kids can run free, getting their ya-yas out without bothering anyone, then settle down for the show, and even fall asleep, comfy in the car. It’s an outstanding date night—bring a tailgate picnic and a blanket to sit out under the stars and canoodle. The Horowitzes have been doing it right since Carol’s father opened the destination in 1949, making it the Hudson Valley’s oldest continuously operating outdoor theater. The concession stand offers hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, and pizza, along with cinema classics like popcorn, candy, pretzels, ice cream, and milkshakes. And they’ve kept up with the times (projection is digital-friendly) while keeping it simple: reasonable prices, good shows, tasty snacks, and a welcoming spirit. That said, we’re lucky to have the drive-in at all. “The property was almost sold in ’89; it would have become a Walmart, but Scenic Hudson stepped in and bought the land and we’re part of FDR National Historic Site now, since 2011,” says Barry. “During the pandemic, Amazon actually kept us alive by providing movies—that and school graduations.” During summer, the Hyde Park Drive-In is open seven days a week showing two films a night on their one screen. The double-feature of new releases on the big, big screen makes for a lovely, come-as-you-are night out. “We’re hands-on and we deal with customers directly,” Barry says. “It’s been a lot of fun. Most people are pretty happy at the drive-in.” —Anne Pyburn Craig 46 CHRONOGRAMMIES CHRONOGRAM 7/22

TOUR DIVE BAR WINNER: SNAPPER MAGEE'S RUNNER-UP: EXCHANGE HOTEL RUNNER-UP: SNUG HARBOR

WINNER: HUDSON RIVER CRUISES RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY ROVER TOURS RUNNER-UP: O+ MURAL TOURS

TOURIST ATTRACTION

WINNER: SANTA FE UPTOWN RUNNER-UP: ARMADILLO RUNNER-UP: MAIN STREET

WALKWAY OVER THE HUDSON STATE HISTORIC PARK RUNNER-UP: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM RUNNER-UP: STORM KING ART CENTER

MARTINI

U-PICK FARM

WINNER: RED ONION RUNNER-UP: IRON & GRASS RUNNER-UP: TERRAPIN RESTAURANT

WINNER: GREIG FARM RUNNER-UP: KELDER'S FARM RUNNER-UP: MINARD'S FAMILY FARM

MARGARITA

WINNER:

NEW BAR WINNER: TINKER STREET TAVERN RUNNER-UP: HAPPY VALLEY ARCADE BAR RUNNER-UP: LUNCH NIGHTLY

FINANCE/SERVICES

TASTING ROOM

WINNER: ULSTER SAVINGS BANK RUNNER-UP: KEY BANK, KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: RONDOUT SAVINGS BANK

WINNER: GREAT LIFE BREWING RUNNER-UP: ARROWOOD FARMS RUNNER-UP: BOUTIQUE WINES, SPIRITS & CIDER

WINE LIST (BAR/RESTAURANT) WINNER: BRUNETTE RUNNER-UP: IRON & GRASS RUNNER-UP: RED ONION

BANK

CREDIT UNION WINNER: MID HUDSON VALLEY CREDIT UNION RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY CREDIT UNION RUNNER-UP: ULSTER FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

FINANCIAL PLANNER

EDUCATION & LEARNING

BRENDA HOTALING, CETERA INVESTORS RUNNER-UP: MID-HUDSON VALLEY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION RUNNER-UP: SICKLER, TORCHIA, ALLEN & CHURCHILL CPAS

COLLEGE

LAW FIRM

WINERY WINNER: ROBIBERO WINERY RUNNER-UP: MILLBROOK WINERY RUNNER-UP: WHITECLIFF VINEYARD & WINERY

WINNER: SUNY ULSTER RUNNER-UP: BARD COLLEGE RUNNER-UP: SUNY NEW PALTZ

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINNER: THE MIDDLE WAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HIGH SCHOOL WINNER: KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

WINNER:

WINNER: BASCH & KEEGAN LLP RUNNER-UP: INGRAM LAW FIRM RUNNER-UP: LOBIONDO LAW OFFICES

LAWYER (PERSON) WINNER: ALEXANDER MAINETTI RUNNER-UP: DEREK J. SPADA RUNNER-UP: JULIANA LOBIONDO

TAX PREPARER/ACCOUNTANT WINNER:

SICKLER, TORCHIA, ALLEN & CHURCHILL CPAS RUNNER-UP: GAGNON & ASSOCIATES, CPAS RUNNER-UP: MATTHEW C HALL

WINNER: THE MIDDLE WAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: POUGHKEEPSIE DAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL

FOOD

MIDDLE SCHOOL

AL FRESCO DINING

WINNER: WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: BAILEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WINNER: OLE SAVANNAH RUNNER-UP: HARANA MARKET RUNNER-UP: MARINER'S HARBOR

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BAGEL WINNER: SUNRISE BAGEL & DELI RUNNER-UP: LOX OF BAGELS RUNNER-UP: MOONRISE BAGELS

BAKERY WINNER: THE MELTAWAY BAKERY RUNNER-UP: COOKIE DOUGH & MOE RUNNER-UP: DEISING'S BAKERY

BBQ WINNER: OLE SAVANNAH WINNER: HICKORY BBQ SMOKEHOUSE RUNNER-UP: LEGAL SWINE BBQ

BREAKFAST SANDWICH WINNER: SUNRISE BAGEL & DELI RUNNER-UP: LOX OF BAGELS RUNNER-UP: MOONRISE BAGELS

BRUNCH SPOT WINNER: PHOENICIA DINER RUNNER-UP: MAIN STREET BISTRO RUNNER-UP: PAKT

BUFFET WINNER: MID-HUDSON BUFFET RUNNER-UP: CINNAMON RUNNER-UP: OLE SAVANNAH

BURGER WINNER: THE ANCHOR RUNNER-UP: BUNS BURGERS RUNNER-UP: MOONBURGER

CARIBBEAN WINNER: TOP TASTE RUNNER-UP: NELLY'S RUNNER-UP: SEASONED DELICIOUS FOODS

CHEAP EATS WINNER: DALLAS HOT WEINERS RUNNER-UP: ABA'S FALAFEL RUNNER-UP: DIETZ STADIUM DINER

CHICKEN WINGS WINNER: THE ANCHOR RUNNER-UP: MCGILLICUDDY'S RUNNER-UP: URBAN FORK

CHILI WINNER: P&G’S RUNNER-UP: THE ANCHOR RUNNER-UP: CUB MARKET

CHINESE WINNER: ENG'S RUNNER-UP: ASIA RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON WOK

COFFEE SHOP WINNER: ROUGH DRAFT BAR & BOOKS RUNNER-UP: HALF MOON RONDOUT CAFE RUNNER-UP: MONKEY JOE ROASTING COMPANY

CSA WINNER: KELDER'S FARM RUNNER-UP: GREIG FARM RUNNER-UP: LONE DUCK FARM

DELI WINNER: ROSSI ROSTICCERIA DELI RUNNER-UP: TERRI'S MARKET & DELI RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK MEATS

DINER WINNER: PHOENICIA DINER RUNNER-UP: DIETZ STADIUM DINER RUNNER-UP: KING'S VALLEY DINER

DOG-FRIENDLY DINING WINNER: KEEGAN ALES RUNNER-UP: ARMADILLO RUNNER-UP: SCHATZI'S

DONUTS WINNER: HALF MOON RONDOUT CAFE RUNNER-UP: DEISING'S BAKERY RUNNER-UP: PEACEFUL PROVISIONS

DUMPLINGS WINNER: YUM YUM NOODLE BAR, KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: ENG'S RUNNER-UP: HELENA SPECIALTY PIEROGIES

FALAFEL WINNER: ABA'S FALAFEL RUNNER-UP: JOSHUA'S CAFE RUNNER-UP: OPA! GYROS

FARM STAND WINNER: DAVENPORT FARMS RUNNER-UP: STORY FARMS RUNNER-UP: WALLKILL VIEW FARM MARKET

FARMERS' MARKET WINNER: KINGSTON FARMERS' MARKET RUNNER-UP: RHINEBECK FARMERS' MARKET RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES FARMERS' MARKET

FINE DINING WINNER: SAVONA'S TRATTORIA, KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: ANNARELLA RISTORANTE RUNNER-UP: SILVIA

FOOD TRUCK WINNER: OFF THE HOOK RUNNER-UP: MI CABAÑITA SALVADOREÑA RUNNER-UP: PIPPY’S

FRENCH WINNER: LE CANARD ENCHAINE RUNNER-UP: LE PETIT BISTRO RUNNER-UP: ORIOLE 9

FRIED CHICKEN WINNER: BLACK-EYED SUZIE'S UPSTATE RUNNER-UP: RUBY MAE RUNNER-UP: PAKT

GERMAN WINNER: MOUNTAIN BRAUHAUS RUNNER-UP: GUNK HAUS RUNNER-UP: JAEGER HAUS

GLUTEN-FREE FRIENDLY WINNER: GARDEN CAFE RUNNER-UP: BLACK-EYED SUZIE'S UPSTATE RUNNER-UP: SISSY'S CAFE

GREEK WINNER: OPA! GYROS RUNNER-UP: JOSHUA'S CAFE RUNNER-UP: ZAYTUNE MEDITERRANEAN CAFE

GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH WINNER: BREAD ALONE BAKERY RUNNER-UP: CIRCLE W MARKET RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON BREAD + BAR

HOTEL RESTAURANT WINNER: MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE RUNNER-UP: BEEKMAN ARMS & DELAMATER INN RUNNER-UP: HOTEL KINSLEY

ICE CREAM STAND WINNER: BOICE BROS DAIRY RUNNER-UP: ALLEYWAY ICE CREAM RUNNER-UP: THE JOLLY COW

German Restaurant Mountain Brauhaus One Christmas, when Mark Ruoff ’s parents asked him and his siblings if anyone was interested in taking over the family business, Mountain Brauhaus, Mark raised his hand. “It’s been our family’s place and there was so much nostalgia attached to it,” says Rouff, who now co-owns the German restaurant in Gardiner with his wife Veronica and his sister Ilka and her husband Kevin Casey, who is also the chef. The restaurant has been serving German cuisine for more than 60 years with popular dishes like schnitzel, sauerbraten, Sachertorte, and Black Forest cake. “We added braised pork shank and we bake our own Bavarian pretzels like crazy too,” says Ruoff. The pretzels are made with caraway seeds, sweet and spicy mustards, and warm smoked gouda. While German food is the specialty of this family-run business, the addition of chef Casey means there are more menu options now. “Kevin makes great vegan dishes and he does seafood beautifully,” he says. Even though the menu has changed a bit over the years, Ruoff knows that the customers still crave what has made the Mountain Brauhaus so popular and won them this Chronogrammie— their German cuisine. “Our customers like the longer-process cooking we do that many of our moms and grandmothers would do, such as roulade, which is pounded beef stuffed with bacon, paprika, onion, cornichons, and wholegrain mustard,” he explains. Ruoff has his own fond memories of childhood eating wienerschnitzel that his mom cooked. “It was crispy and the filling was everything,” he says. Winning this award, Ruoff says, was a huge honor. “German food has sort of made a resurgence in recent years after many years of decline, so winning has become more meaningful for that reason,” he says, “because more people have chosen to enter this particular area of food preparation.” —Lisa Iannucci 7/22 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAMMIES 49

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VEGETARIAN-FRIENDLY

WINNER: CINNAMON RUNNER-UP: NAMASTE INDIAN RESTAURANT RUNNER-UP: NEW PALTZ INDIAN RESTAURANT

WINNER: GARDEN CAFE RUNNER-UP: MOONBURGER RUNNER-UP: THE ROSENDALE CAFE

ITALIAN

WAIT STAFF & SERVICE

WINNER: FRANK GUIDO'S LITTLE ITALY RUNNER-UP: ANNARELLA RISTORANTE RUNNER-UP: SAVONA'S TRATTORIA, KINGSTON

WINNER: FRANK GUIDO'S LITTLE ITALY RUNNER-UP: BRICKYARD PIZZA RUNNER-UP: HARANA MARKET

JAPANESE

WATERFRONT DINING

WINNER: GOLDEN GINZA RUNNER-UP: KYOTO SUSHI RUNNER-UP: SUSHI MAKIO

JUICE BAR WINNER: LITTLE APPLE CAFE RUNNER-UP: SUNFROST FARMS RUNNER-UP: TURN UP THE BEET

LATE NIGHT EATS WINNER: DIETZ STADIUM DINER RUNNER-UP: KING'S VALLEY DINER RUNNER-UP: TERRAPIN RESTAURANT

MEXICAN WINNER: CASA VALLARTA RUNNER-UP: CASA VILLA RUNNER-UP: MAIN STREET

NEW RESTAURANT WINNER: BRICKYARD PIZZA RUNNER-UP: GOOD NIGHT RUNNER-UP: MOONBURGER

OYSTERS WINNER: BOWERY DUGOUT RUNNER-UP: LE PETIT BISTRO RUNNER-UP: MARINER'S HARBOR

PASTA WINNER: FRANK GUIDO'S LITTLE ITALY RUNNER-UP: ANNARELLA RISTORANTE RUNNER-UP: SAVONA'S TRATTORIA, KINGSTON

PHO WINNER: YUM YUM NOODLE BAR, KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: IPHO RUNNER-UP: PHO TIBET

PIZZA WINNER: SLICES OF SAUGERTIES RUNNER-UP: BRICKYARD PIZZA RUNNER-UP: OLLIE'S PIZZA

SANDWICH WINNER: ROSSI ROSTICCERIA DELI RUNNER-UP: JOE BEEZ RUNNER-UP: TERRI'S MARKET & DELI

SEAFOOD WINNER: BOWERY DUGOUT RUNNER-UP: GADALETO'S RUNNER-UP: SHIP TO SHORE

SOUP WINNER: STONE SOUP FOOD COMPANY RUNNER-UP: BOWERY DUGOUT RUNNER-UP: YUM YUM NOODLE BAR, WOODSTOCK

STEAK WINNER: END CUT RUNNER-UP: RED ONION RUNNER-UP: SHIP TO SHORE

SUSHI WINNER: KYOTO SUSHI RUNNER-UP: GOLDEN GINZA RUNNER-UP: SUSHI MAKIO

TACO WINNER: SANTA FE UPTOWN RUNNER-UP: DIEGO'S TAQUERIA RUNNER-UP: TORTILLA TACO BAR

TEA HOUSE WINNER: IMMUNESCHEIN TEA HAUS RUNNER-UP: HARNEY & SONS RUNNER-UP: THE RIDGE TEA & SPICE SHOP

THAI WINNER: AROI THAI RUNNER-UP: ASIA RUNNER-UP: BANGKOK CAFE

VEGAN-FRIENDLY WINNER: GARDEN CAFE RUNNER-UP: LAGUSTA'S LUSCIOUS COMMISSARY! RUNNER-UP: THE ROSENDALE CAFE

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WINNER: OLE SAVANNAH RUNNER-UP: FRANK GUIDO'S PORT OF CALL RUNNER-UP: MARINER'S HARBOR

HEALTH & WELLNESS ACUPUNCTURIST WINNER:

NEW PALTZ COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE RUNNER-UP: ANDREA BAROUCH-HEBB ACUPUNCTURE RUNNER-UP: SAMANTHA YURKOSKY ACUPUNCTURE

BARBER SHOP WINNER: PUGSLY'S BARBERSHOP RUNNER-UP: HORSE AND LION BARBER CO. RUNNER-UP: UNION SHAVE

CANNABIS DISPENSARY (MA ONLY) WINNER: CANNA PROVISIONS RUNNER-UP: THE PASS RUNNER-UP: THEORY WELLNESS

CBD PRODUCT WINNER: HEPWORTH CBD RUNNER-UP: WOODS & MEADOW RUNNER-UP: YOUR CBD STORE, KINGSTON

CHIROPRACTOR WINNER: CHRISTA ST.GERMAIN RUNNER-UP: JOHN BOYLE DC RUNNER-UP: UPSTATE CHIROPRACTIC CARE

COUNSELOR/THERAPIST WINNER: IT’S A GIRL THING RUNNER-UP: DENISE SIMRANY RUNNER-UP: FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK

DAY SPA WINNER: MIRBEAU INN & SPA RHINEBECK RUNNER-UP: GLO SPA RUNNER-UP: WHITE LOTUS AESTHETICS

DENTIST WINNER: PINE STREET DENTAL RUNNER-UP: ALAN DEROSA, DDS, PLLC RUNNER-UP: TAYLOR TRUNCALI, DDS, PC

GENERAL PRACTITIONER WINNER: DR. MICHAEL E. SHERAN, MD RUNNER-UP: DELEO FAMILY MEDICINE RUNNER-UP: DR. ELIZABETH COSTLEY

GYM WINNER: BODIES BY COLOTTI RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY AMBITION RUNNER-UP: YMCA OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER CO.

HAIR SALON WINNER: FRINGE HAIR DESIGN RUNNER-UP: HEADSPACE RUNNER-UP: JENAE YELINA, SHANGRI-LA

MASSAGE THERAPIST WINNER: THE REPAIR SHOP RUNNER-UP: SPA LINDITA RUNNER-UP: TIM MCARDLE, LMT

MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY (NY, CT, NJ, MA) WINNER: THEORY WELLNESS RUNNER-UP: BERKSHIRE ROOTS RUNNER-UP: ETAIN HEALTH, HUDSON VALLEY

MEDICAL SPA WINNER: CATSKILL CRYO RUNNER-UP: MEDICAL AESTHETICS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY RUNNER-UP: REV FACIAL BAR

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR WINNER: IT'S A GIRL THING RUNNER-UP: MAVERICK FAMILY HEALTH RUNNER-UP: PHILIPSTOWN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HUB

Medical Spa Catskill Cryo “Cryotherapy is like a cold shower on steroids,” says Sandy Dylak, owner of Catskill Cryo, which won the Chronogrammie for Medical Spa. “It’s three minutes, it gets your skin cold, and these extreme temperatures send your brain into fight or flight without any real danger.” Like many new businesses, Catskill Cryo grew out of a personal need that wasn’t being fulfilled locally. “I was doing triathlons and was dealing with injuries,” says the Athens resident. An MRI showed that Dylak had extensive back issues that might require surgery, something she didn’t want to do. “I discovered cryotherapy, something my athlete friends knew about it and used, and when I tried it, my pain went away,” she says. What is cryotherapy? Well, you’ve probably heard of a computer hack, food hack, or a house hack, but Sandy Dylak describes her business as a biological hack. “Cold is trending as a way to alleviate pain and reduce inflammation,” says Dylak. “It’s exhilarating and resets us.” The temperature in a cryotherapy chamber is extreme: -230 degrees Fahrenheit in nitrogen chambers and -160 degrees in electric chambers. Your body responds to this perceived threat by reducing inflammation, pain, and anxiety and improving sleep. Instead of surgery, Dylak traveled around trying all different kinds of cryotherapy chambers and talking to the experts. Once she learned enough and realized there was a need in the Hudson Valley for this therapy, she decided to open her own place on Main Street in Catskill. After retiring from her position at Purchase College, selling her New Paltz home, and giving up her Westchester apartment, Dylak began building Catskill Cryo in March 2020, only to have the shutdown happen. “Now there’s enough word of mouth that there is quite a buzz and it takes time to get an appointment,” she says. Dylak says that winning the Chrongrammy makes her feel rewarded for all of the work that she has done. —Lisa Iannucci 7/22 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAMMIES 51

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YOGA STUDIO WINNER: THE YOGA HOUSE RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES YOGA RUNNER-UP: THE LIVING SEED YOGA & HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER

NATURE & THE OUTDOORS BIKE SHOP WINNER: OVERLOOK BICYCLES RUNNER-UP: BIKE BROTHERS RUNNER-UP: REVOLUTION BICYCLES

BIKE TRAIL WINNER: RIVER-TO-RIDGE TRAIL RUNNER-UP: JOCKEY HILL, WOOD ROAD TRAIL RUNNER-UP: LIPPMAN PARK

CAMPGROUND WINNER: NORTH/SOUTH LAKE CAMPGROUND RUNNER-UP: WHIP-O-WILL CAMPGROUND RUNNER-UP: YOGI BEAR’S JELLYSTONE PARK CAMP-RESORT AT LAZY RIVER

DOG PARK WINNER: KINGSTON POINT DOG PARK RUNNER-UP: GARDINER DOG PARK RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK DOG PARK

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Furniture Maker Hoppy Quick Like the trees he carves from, furniture maker Hoppy Quick’s roots run deep. “I’m a woodsman and a forager,” says the artisan and two-time winner of the Chronogrammie for furniture making. “I’m a very spiritual man and connected to nature. Every day I create something, but really I just do what spirit tells me to do.” Inspired by the forest around him, Quick handcarves or builds everything from wooden spoons and bowls to rough-edged gazebos and garden structures, as well as the furniture pieces from reclaimed and recycled wood. However, Quick is best known for his distinct wood carvings of bears and other local wildlife borne out of his deep connection to the Catskills’ native fauna. “I have bear claws tattooed on the back of each hand,” he explains. “So when I look down, I realize I’m an animal first before I’m a human being. That puts me in connection to what I’m doing.” Quick’s free-will artistry is informed by generations of craftspeople who abided in the forests, mountains, and streamsides before him. “My family has been in the region since 1658,” says Quick, who credits his father with introducing him to old-school carpenters, masons, quarrymen, and farmers who shared their skills and knowledge with him. “I sat in many maple syrup huts as a child,” he remembers. “I was the respectful kid who appreciated the old timers. I would learn and listen.” By the age of 10, he was fascinated with carving and began to learn traditional, sustainable forestry practices as well as woodlore from local woodsmen and sawmill operators. “I was schooled in the Catskills,” he says. “I have a love for everything here—the trees, the mountains, the animals, and the people. That’s what I’ve been getting by on all these years.” Now located in Accord, Quick’s workshop is open to the public in the fall, and his work is available year round through his Facebook page, the Catskill Mountain Woodsman. —Mary Angeles Armstrong 52 CHRONOGRAMMIES CHRONOGRAM 7/22

OPTICAL CENTER WINNER: PARK OPTICAL RUNNER-UP: EMPIRE VISIONWORKS RUNNER-UP: KENCO OPTICAL

ORTHODONTIST WINNER: SUNSHINE SMILES: RHINEBECK RUNNER-UP: EFROS ORTHODONTICS RUNNER-UP: VAN VLIET ORTHODONTICS: MARTIN F. VAN VLIET, DMD

PEDIATRICIAN WINNER: DR. WENDY BACON RUNNER-UP: DANIELLE CIGLIANO, DO RUNNER-UP: DR. JOSEPH APPEL, MD

PERSONAL TRAINER WINNER:

RYAN NACCARATO, HUDSON VALLEY AMBITION RUNNER-UP: JULI COLOTTI, BODIES BY COLOTTI RUNNER-UP: OLIVIA GRIMSLAND

PHARMACY WINNER: DEDRICK'S PHARMACY RUNNER-UP: NEKOS-DEDRICK'S PHARMACY RUNNER-UP: VILLAGE APOTHECARY

PHYSICAL THERAPIST WINNER: CHRISTY KEEGAN, PT RUNNER-UP: MOMENTUM PHYSICAL THERAPY OF NEW PALTZ RUNNER-UP: PATRICK ZELL, PT

PILATES STUDIO WINNER: BODY BE WELL PILATES RUNNER-UP: PILATES OF KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: RHINEBECK PILATES

REIKI STUDIO WINNER:

REIKI, HEALINGS & READINGS BY SENSEI LORRY SALLUZZI RUNNER-UP: AROMAGEE MASSAGE & HOLISTIC WELLNESS RUNNER-UP: REIKI WITH G

RESORT/HOTEL SPA WINNER: MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE RUNNER-UP: EMERSON RESORT & SPA RUNNER-UP: MIRBEAU INN & SPA RHINEBECK

SPIRITUAL/CONTEMPLATIVE SPACE WINNER: HUDSON VALLEY HEALING CENTER RUNNER-UP: OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES RUNNER-UP: ZEN MOUNTAIN MONASTERY

VETERINARIAN WINNER:

CREATURE COMFORTS ANIMAL HOSPITAL, P.C. RUNNER-UP: HURLEY VETERINARY HOSPITAL RUNNER-UP: RHINEBECK ANIMAL HOSPITAL

WELLNESS CENTER WINNER: SPA 21 (NOW ORIGIN WELLNESS) RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY HEALING CENTER RUNNER-UP: OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES

WINNER: WILTWYCK GOLF CLUB RUNNER-UP: RIP VAN WINKLE COUNTRY CLUB RUNNER-UP: THE TWAALFSKILL CLUB

HIKE WINNER:

MINNEWASKA STATE PARK PRESERVE RUNNER-UP: MOHONK PRESERVE RUNNER-UP: POET'S WALK

OUTDOOR APPAREL & GEAR SHOP WINNER: KENCO OUTFITTERS RUNNER-UP: POTTER BROTHERS SKI AND SNOWBOARD SHOP RUNNER-UP: ROCK AND SNOW

PARK/PRESERVE WINNER: MOHONK PRESERVE RUNNER-UP: ASHOKAN RESERVOIR RUNNER-UP: WALKWAY OVER THE HUDSON

PICNIC SPOT WINNER:

VANDERBILT MANSION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON POINT ROTARY PARK RUNNER-UP: SAUGERTIES LIGHTHOUSE

PLACE TO PADDLE WINNER: RONDOUT CREEK, KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: ESOPUS CREEK RUNNER-UP: HUDSON RIVER

PUBLIC SWIMMING AREA WINNER: LAKE TAGHKANIC STATE PARK RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON POINT BEACH RUNNER-UP: MINNEWASKA STATE PARK PRESERVE

RAIL TRAIL WINNER: ASHOKAN RAIL TRAIL RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY RAIL TRAIL RUNNER-UP: WALLKILL VALLEY RAIL TRAIL

SKI AREA WINNER: BELLEAYRE MOUNTAIN SKI CENTER RUNNER-UP: HUNTER MOUNTAIN RESORT RUNNER-UP: WINDHAM MOUNTAIN

SUNSET SPOT WINNER: ASHOKAN RESERVOIR RUNNER-UP: OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE RUNNER-UP: WALKWAY OVER THE HUDSON

PEOPLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVOCATE/ ACTIVIST WINNER:

RASHIDA TYLER, REAL KINGSTON TENANTS UNION AND ULSTER COUNTY COALITION FOR HOUSING JUSTICE RUNNER-UP: ALEXANDRIA WOJCIK, VILLAGE OF NEW PALTZ DEPUTY MAYOR RUNNER-UP: FRANK ROBUSTO, RUPCO

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ARTIST WINNER: JENNIFER DELORA RUNNER-UP: DREW MILLER RUNNER-UP: SCOTT MICHAEL ACKERMAN

AUTHOR WINNER:

KATHY STEVENS, CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY RUNNER-UP: RIC ORLANDO RUNNER-UP: THOMAS J DEVENS

AUTO MECHANIC WINNER: ELI RINZLER, FLEET SERVICE CENTER RUNNER-UP: KEVIN DOMITROVITS, HANS AUTO RUNNER-UP: MIKE BREWER, MY MECHANIC

CHEF WINNER: WILSON COSTA, MISTO RUNNER-UP: JESSE FREDERICK, BUTTERFIELD STONE RIDGE RUNNER-UP: TJ EADES, GREIG FARM MARKET

ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATE/ACTIVIST

YOUTH ADVOCATE WINNER:

GRACE LOUIS, HEAD OF SCHOOL, MIDDLE WAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: SEAN BAILEY, FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK RUNNER-UP: STEPHANIE DOYLE, MENTOR ME OF ULSTER COUNTY

RETAIL ANTIQUES SHOP WINNER: BAIRD'S GENERAL RUNNER-UP: ANNEX ANTIQUES CENTER RUNNER-UP: HYDE PARK ANTIQUES CENTER

ART SUPPLY STORE WINNER: CATSKILL ART SUPPLY RUNNER-UP: MANNY'S ART SUPPLIES RUNNER-UP: RHINEBECK ARTIST'S SHOP

AUTO DEALERSHIP WINNER: SAWYER MOTORS RUNNER-UP: COLONIAL SUBARU RUNNER-UP: RUGE'S SUBARU

BOOKSTORE WINNER: ROUGH DRAFT BAR & BOOKS RUNNER-UP: INQUIRING MIND BOOKSTORE & CAFE RUNNER-UP: OBLONG BOOKS, RHINEBECK

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FOOD JUSTICE ADVOCATE/ACTIVIST

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GREG SHAHEEN, KINGSTON LAND TRUST RUNNER-UP: HAYLEY CARLOCK, SCENIC HUDSON RUNNER-UP: KRYSTAL FORD WINNER: CHRISTINE HEIN, PEOPLE'S PLACE RUNNER-UP: CARYN SOBEL, HUDSON VALLEY FOOD BANK RUNNER-UP: JESS DAVIS, ULSTER COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

FURNITURE MAKER WINNER: HOPPY QUICK RUNNER-UP: MILLSPAUGH FURNITURE RUNNER-UP: SAWKILLE

HAIRSTYLIST/COLORIST WINNER: BECKY BUGARIN, FRINGE HAIR DESIGN RUNNER-UP: JENAE YELINA, SHANGRI-LA RUNNER-UP: JULIAN NORMAND, JEWELDOESHAIR

LGBTQ ADVOCATE/ACTIVIST WINNER: JULIE NOVAK RUNNER-UP: SIGNY FURIYA, HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER RUNNER-UP: VICTORIA BOHMORE, DRAG QUEEN

LOCAL CELEBRITY WINNER: JENNIFER DELORA RUNNER-UP: JIMMY FALLON RUNNER-UP: PAUL RUDD

MAKER WINNER: BRENNA CHASE, WILLOW DEEP STUDIO RUNNER-UP: KIT BURKE, SMITH JEWELRY RUNNER-UP: PIERRE BOWRING, BOW GLASS WORKS

POLITICIAN WINNER: ULSTER CO. EXECUTIVE PAT RYAN RUNNER-UP: LT. GOVERNOR ANTONIO DELGADO RUNNER-UP: SENATOR MICHELLE HINCHEY

PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATE/ACTIVIST WINNER: CAROLE KELDER, RYAN RUNNER-UP: JEN METZGER RUNNER-UP: JOE CONCRA, O+ FESTIVAL

RACIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE/ACTIVIST WINNER:

RASHIDA TYLER, YMCA OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY AND THE REAL KINGSTON TENANTS’ UNION RUNNER-UP: AMY BROWN WHITE RUNNER-UP: QUAY SMITH, RISE UP KINGSTON

RADIO PERSONALITY WINNER: NADINE FERRARO, RADIO KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: GREG GATTINE, RADIO WOODSTOCK RUNNER-UP: IDA HAKKILA, RADIO KINGSTON

SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE/ACTIVIST WINNER:

ROBIN SHORNSTEIN, LIBRARIAN, WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL RUNNER-UP: CALLIE JAYNE, RISE UP KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: JEN METZGER

WINNER: SMOKE HOUSE OF THE CATSKILLS RUNNER-UP: BARB’S BUTCHERY RUNNER-UP: THE MEAT WAGON WINNER: KRAUSE'S HOMEMADE CANDY RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON CANDY BAR RUNNER-UP: SAMUEL'S SWEET SHOP

CHEESE SHOP WINNER: ADAMS FAIRACRE FARMS RUNNER-UP: CHEESE LOUISE RUNNER-UP: THE BIG CHEESE

CHOCOLATIER WINNER:

KRAUSE'S CHOCOLATES OF RHINEBECK RUNNER-UP: FRUITION CHOCOLATE WORKS RUNNER-UP: LAGUSTA'S LUSCIOUS

COMIC BOOK STORE WINNER: WORLD'S END COMICS RUNNER-UP: MEGABRAIN COMICS & ARCADE RUNNER-UP: POW! CARD GAMES & COMICS

CUSTOM FRAME SHOP WINNER: CATSKILL ART SUPPLY, KINGSTON RUNNER-UP: RHINEBECK ARTIST'S SHOP RUNNER-UP: WHITE MULE FRAMING

ECO-FRIENDLY BUSINESS WINNER: BARE MINIMUM GOODS RUNNER-UP: LAGUSTA'S LUSCIOUS RUNNER-UP: LOVEWILD DESIGN

FISHMONGER WINNER: ADAMS FAIRACRE FARMS RUNNER-UP: GADALETO'S RUNNER-UP: SASHA’S SEAFOOD

FOOTWEAR STORE WINNER: MONTANO'S SHOE STORE RUNNER-UP: KENCO OUTFITTERS RUNNER-UP: PEGASUS FOOTWEAR

GIFT STORE WINNER: BAIRD'S GENERAL RUNNER-UP: BOP TO TOTTOM RUNNER-UP: RITUALIST

GOURMET FOOD STORE WINNER: ADAMS FAIRACRE FARMS RUNNER-UP: ACCORD MARKET RUNNER-UP: BLUE MOUNTAIN BISTRO TO GO

GREEN BUSINESS WINNER: BREAD ALONE BAKERY RUNNER-UP: ACCORD MARKET RUNNER-UP: THE O ZONE

GROCERY STORE WINNER: ADAMS FAIRACRE FARMS RUNNER-UP: ACCORD MARKET RUNNER-UP: MOTHER EARTH'S STOREHOUSE

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Yarn Shop Perfect Blend Yarn & Tea Shop The fiber-loving folks among our readers have spoken: Perfect Blend Yarn & Tea Shop in Saugerties is the region’s favorite yarn store. As crafty souls well know, a yarn shop is about much more than the stacks of soft, lustrous skeins in every hue. A good yarn shop is a center for its own artistic community, a place people can go when they’re stuck on a tricky bit, feeling freshly inspired, seeking ideas, or eager to share their newest completed piece with people who’ll understand how much love and agony it took. Perfect Blend owner Mary Ebel gets it. Nothing brings her greater joy than discovering a new and beautiful yarn for the shop. Customers rave online about discovering the latest treasures amid an array that mixes the works of local hand-dyers and imported exotica, along with an on-point selection of necessary notions, kits, magazines, and tote bags. The yarn selection includes mohair and cashmere, alpaca, merino wool, cotton, and blends, and Ebel even offers yarn swatches. A play on words that spans both offerings, Perfect Blend also sells bags of loose leaf tea and accessories like teapots, infusers, and mugs as well as a small selection of local provisions. There’s always something new at Perfect Blend, and Ebel and her team are happy to guide you to the perfect choice for your project and chat about it over a mug of tea or coffee. Never worked with fiber, but think you might like to try? You’ll get a warm welcome and all the help you need. “Mary has an intuitive sense of where you should begin; she provides excellent guidance along with plenty of tea and conversation,” says a newbie on Facebook. “Excited over my first project.” Perfect Blend is participating in the 2022 Hudson Valley Yarn Trail Crawl, happening through August 20, one of 17 yarn shops on the self-guided itinerary. And as soon as pandemic precautions finally allow, the in-person gatherings that fiber fans love will resume: “yarn tastings,” trunk shows, book signings, knit-alongs and crochet-alongs, and classes; still pending at this writing. Tea will flow and the laughter, likewise. Stay tuned. —Anne Pyburn Craig 7/22 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAMMIES 55

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JEWELRY STORE WINNER: J BLISS STUDIOS RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON FINE JEWELRY RUNNER-UP: SCHNEIDER'S JEWELERS

KIDS' CLOTHING STORE WINNER: LILY'S BOUTIQUE RUNNER-UP: LITTLE PICKLES RUNNER-UP: STARRYBIRD KIDS

KITCHEN STORE WINNER: WARREN KITCHEN & CUTLERY RUNNER-UP: BLUECASHEW KITCHEN HOMESTEAD RUNNER-UP: THE CULINARY WAREHOUSE

MEN'S SHOP WINNER: HAMILTON & ADAMS RUNNER-UP: KENCO OUTFITTERS RUNNER-UP: LAST OUTPOST STORE

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT STORE WINNER: WOODSTOCK MUSIC SHOP RUNNER-UP: ALTO MUSIC, WAPPINGERS FALLS RUNNER-UP: WOODSTOCK PERCUSSION

PET SITTING WINNER: WAG INN BOARDING RUNNER-UP: CAMP BELLY RUB RUNNER-UP: DAWN'S DOG BOARDING & PET SITTING

PET STORE WINNER: SAUGERTAILS PET SUPPLY RUNNER-UP: LUCAS PET SUPPLY RUNNER-UP: PAUSE DOG BOUTIQUE

RECORD STORE WINNER: RHINO RECORDS RUNNER-UP: DARKSIDE RECORDS RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY VINYL

REMOTE WORK SPOT WINNER: ROUGH DRAFT BAR & BOOKS RUNNER-UP: CITIOT RUNNER-UP: ONE EPIC PLACE

TATTOO PARLOR WINNER: GRACELAND TATTOO RUNNER-UP: HUDSON VALLEY TATTOO COMPANY RUNNER-UP: STACK TATTOOS

WINNER: BAIRD'S GENERAL RUNNER-UP: KINGSTON CONSIGNMENTS RUNNER-UP: NEWBURGH VINTAGE EMPORIUM WARE-HOUSE

WINE/LIQUOR SHOP WINNER: JK'S WINE & LIQUOR RUNNER-UP: BOUTIQUE WINES, SPIRITS & CIDER RUNNER-UP: TOWN & COUNTRY LIQUORS

WOMEN'S BOUTIQUE WINNER: BOP TO TOTTOM RUNNER-UP: LA MERE CLOTHING AND GOODS RUNNER-UP: RIVER MINT FINERY

YARN STORE WINNER: PERFECT BLEND YARN & TEA SHOP RUNNER-UP: BEETLE AND FRED RUNNER-UP: LOOPY MANGO

SHELTER APPLIANCE STORE WINNER: EARL B. FEIDEN APPLIANCE RUNNER-UP: CLARKSON'S APPLIANCES RUNNER-UP: H. L. SNYDER & SONS

ARCHITECT WINNER: RIVER ARCHITECTS RUNNER-UP: BARRY PRICE ARCHITECTURE RUNNER-UP: DUTTON ARCHITECTURE

BED & BREAKFAST WINNER:

THE HOMESTEAD AT CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY RUNNER-UP: HASBROUCK HOUSE RUNNER-UP: THE FORSYTH B&B

CARPENTER WINNER:

HUDSON VALLEY KITCHEN DESIGN CENTER RUNNER-UP: PROSPECT STREET DESIGNS RUNNER-UP: PURE FORM HOME & GARDEN

CHILD CARE WINNER: YWCA ULSTER COUNTY RUNNER-UP: AUNT JENN'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER RUNNER-UP: YMCA OF KINGSTON & ULSTER CO.

Camp YMCA Camp Seewackamano The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County’s Camp Seewackamano is a summertime favorite among families in the Hudson Valley, earning the organization a Chronogrammie for best camp. At the campus in Ashokan, campers enjoy time on the lake for swimming, boating, and fishing; fields for sports; two ropes courses; and access to 37 miles of hiking trails in the Catskill Forest Preserve. Kids come from all over to spend the day catching newts, observing tadpoles, and playing outside with their peers. To foster a connection with other kids and with nature, Camp Seewackamano is completely technology-free. “It allows for pure play,” says Caitlin Roone, youth development staffer at the YMCA Kingston & Ulster County. “Kids are running around all day, getting tired, getting a little dirty, it’s just pure outdoor play—something that is sometimes lost these days.” Camp Seewackamano attracts families and campers from a range of backgrounds, making it a diverse place to meet people. The YMCA also offers a financial aid program to help cover the cost of attendance, making the camp more accessible to everyone. “We’re not turning away anyone based on financial ability to pay,” Roone says. This summer, the camp is fully moving away from the COVID precautions of the last two summers, returning to unmasked normalcy. Moving forward, their goal is to open up the location to more family and community events. This year, the YMCA hosted its first Easter egg hunt at the Ashokan location. Currently, they have plans to winterize one building on their campus and train more staff, giving them the ability to open up for more events year round. —Micaela Warren 7/22 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAMMIES 57

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music Sam Sadigursky

The Solomon Diaries Vol. 1 (Adhyaropa Records)

An evocation of the lost world of the Jewish Catskills, inspired by photographer Marisa Scheinfeld’s visionary project, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland, Sam Sadigursky’s The Solomon Diaries Vol. 1, a suite for duo—almost minimalist by definition—is a monumental achievement. In Sadigursky’s postmodern musical vision, new music, folk, jazz, chamber music, and klezmer blend into a unique and highly personal cross-genre hybrid. The 104 minutes of music spread across three CDs features Sadigursky’s compositional and instrumental talents on clarinet, aided nobly by accordionist/multi-instrumentalist Nathan Koci. The interplay between the duet partners is strikingly telepathic, as on “Callicoon,” where clarinet and accordion perform such speedy, acrobatic flips that they seem to morph into one another. Found sounds, archival clips, and a few appearances by Broadway star Katrina Lenk leaven the mix. Compositions range from free-metered reveries patterned after Old World doinas to ballads to dance tunes, with titles that often refer to specific hotels—“Grossinger’s Bride,” “Pines Hora”—and other Catskills locations, including “Fallsburg Steps” and “Goodbye, Sullivan.” While the music often returns to klezmer and Yiddish modes, it is never confined by them, and Sadigursky refrains from relying on traditional sounds or nostalgia. In its totality, the instrumental cycle addresses the 20th-century American Jewish experience, but its spirit is generous and open enough to reflect that of any population of immigrants and refugees, transcending the particular to address the promises of the American dream, both realized and broken. —Seth Rogovoy

SOUND CHECK

Al Olender Each month here we visit with a member of the community to find out what music they’ve been digging.

Grampfather Gramppappies

Reeya Banerjee The Way Up

Kingston’s eclectic quartet Grampfather is a quintessential “slash” band. This describes the multiple genres their music encompasses. On the band’s fifth full-length album, the sounds include forays into psychedelia, garage rock, chill, and thrash. The one consistent throughline in Grampfather’s career has been James Kwapisz (songwriter, guitar, vocals). He’s ably joined on this release by Andrew Blot (lead guitar), Tony DiMauro (drums), and Jake Offerman (bass). The opening track, “Murder Hornets,” crystallizes the band’s dynamic approach, with a hazy, sing-song verse melody about how society is desensitized to violence through lies and manipulation, before erupting into a frantic psychedelic-punk chorus that concludes “So long to linear time / Fate’s not a straight line / It was all inside my mind.” The closing track, “The Grampening,” morphs from a pastoral mantra-like jam into a menacing thrash with plenty of wah-wah, crashing cymbals, and thudding riffs. Adventurous listeners should dig in! —Jeremy Schwartz

The Way Up is probably my favorite album I have ever discussed in these pages. Reeya Banerjee might pendulum between the Hudson Valley and New York City, but her brilliant indie sound speaks to the universe at large within you/without you. The vocals scratched my Rainer Maria/Tele Novella itch while having a warmer, more soulful depth—and even more wit and attitude than those aforementioned, top-shelf true indie acts. “Rag Doll” takes things to another level. Lyrics like “I’m desperate but confident / convincing myself that I’m hanging from a thread” are full of utterly relatable angst. “Need You There” makes me think of what it would be like if Scandal’s epic 1980s hit “Goodbye to You” was more ’90s/K Records-influenced—perfection. It’s thrilling to hear someone who’s really keeping awesome alt rock alive but isn’t overly commercial—just super catchy and insightful. Listening to this album feels like finding a way up. —Morgan Y. Evans

(Independent)

Driving back from the most recent tour I was on, I listened to “In My Corner” by Charlotte Cornfield, “Sunset Strip” by J. E. Sunde, and “Omaha” by Toro Y Moi on repeat for hours. Those three songs really seemed to sum up some parts of tour I really needed a song for. A mix of nostalgia and newness. It felt like the soundtrack to ending something (in this case, the tour) and beginning something else. I sang along so loudly, by myself, obviously crying too. I listened to Joyride by Adam Melchor and “New Apartment” by Ari Lennox a lot this last month and revisited Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens again to savor each delicate sound and word of that record. Manticore by Shovels & Rope is a masterpiece. I’ve been listening to more music than ever before, and that makes me happy. Hudson Valley singer-songwriter Al Olender’s self-released debut album, Easy Crier, is out now. Alolendermusic.com/.

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Independent

books Human Blues Elisa Albert AVID READER PRESS, $28, 2022

Broken up into nine menstrual cycles, Human Blues is an intimate examination of a woman’s struggle with infertility. In this new novel from Albany resident Elisa Albert, musician Aviva Rosner is on the verge of putting out her fourth album. She desperately wants to be a mother but is weary of technological intervention. Simultaneously grappling with overbearing record producers and her own inability to have a child, Rosner finds herself at a crossroads. Written in an immediate, casual style, readers will feel like they are a friend of Rosner hearing her tumultuous journey firsthand.

With Different Eyes Paul Smart and Richard Kroehling MOUNTAINS & RIVERS, BARRYTOWN, $30, 2022

Deftly written by Paul Smart with visceral art by Richard Kroehling, this memoir examines an ever-changing view of life in 2020 amid the pandemic. While struggling to grasp the immense and lurking prevalence of death and abrupt changes, Smart pens each pithy page like a diary entry, giving an aching window into daily life. From the first trip to the emergency room to watching his son spend formative years inside without his friends, the stories hit uncomfortably close to home. With Different Eyes is a time capsule for the cascade of uncomfortable emotions triggered by the pandemic. Author readings on July 10 at Greenkill, 8pm, and at the Bearsville Theater on July 31, 2pm.

The Disinvited Guest Carol Goodman HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, $16.99, 2022

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, a small group of friends and family members take refuge during a global health pandemic. One of the residents, Lucy Harper, begins to uncover the island’s haunting past as a quarantine site for typhus patients. Over the course of this latest novel from New York Times bestseller and Red Hook resident Carol Goodman, the heroine’s sense of reality begins to tumble, forcing her to confront her lingering fears and theories about who is causing the panic on the island. Could it be her closest friends and family? Carol Goodam will be in conversation with Sarah Stewart Taylor on July 12 at 7pm. Details at Oblongbooks.com.

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post Allison Pataki RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP, $28, 2022

Garrison resident Allison Pataki writes a captivating historical fiction novel about feminism, leadership, and the search for love. Set in Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie Post spent her days as a child gluing together cereal boxes for her father’s company Post Cereal. As heir to this empire, Post is American royalty and one of few women in a leadership role in the 20th century. She goes on to become the wealthiest woman in the US before turning 30, leveraging her power to live an extraordinary and glamorous life, hosting presidential dinners and rubbing elbows with celebrities, all while helping people in need. She seemingly has everything, but after four failed marriages, all she wants is a love that lasts.

This Might Be Too Personal Alyssa Shelasky ST. MARTIN’S PUBLISHING GROUP, $17.99, 2022

In this intimate series of essays, Rhinebeck resident Alyssa Shelasky deftly uses humor to unpack her fascinating life and career as a sex, relationship, and celebrity writer in New York City. Opening with her disastrous public breakup with an uninspiring fiancé, Shelasky quickly pivots to a life suddenly full of adventure, dates, and sex— the kinds of things she did while engaged, but struggled to justify. Readers will enjoy Shelasky as she fearlessly implores her own messy sexual, romantic, and professional history. —Micaela Warren

Elegy for an Appetite Shaina Loew-Banayan PANK BOOKS, 2022 $18.00

Society has a way of building conflictual, arbitrary structures around basic truths: sex, love, beauty, food. The basics of survival come laden with enormous baggage, so much so that hardly any human manages to survive to adulthood without developing conflicts they need to untangle. Consider the case of Shana Loew-Banayan, whose passion and talent for fine food came hand-in-hand with an eating disorder. The chef/owner of Cafe Mutton in Hudson, Loew-Banayan (who uses they/them pronouns) loved food and studied cooking from a young age, but learned early that peer pressure and restrictive cultural concepts about body image complicated the purity of that passion. They tell their story eloquently in Elegy for an Appetite, an insightful, freeform, and lyrical memoir that traces their trajectory from earliest culinary experiences through the kitchens of elite New York eateries and up to Hudson. “To worship starving and cooking side by side was to dance compulsively around a circle of longing and loathing,” they write of their internal conflict, “but we don’t always consider those things before apprenticing ourselves to the mind’s twitching jigsaw.” Anybody who’s been a tween will relate to the body image stressors and pressures to conform that led Loew-Banayan to confound the simple joy in cooking and the turmoil of eating. “Chubby began to stalk me like a shadow does just nipping at your heels as though if you stop moving it’ll consume you & even if you don’t it might swoop around and face you anyway at the fickle whim of the sun,” they write. “At my birthday party a girl told me that the whipped cream on my ice cream sundae would make my butt fat. I don’t think I really knew what that meant or that I even had a butt but I could tell that a Fat Butt was very bad.” By 15, Loew-Banayan had “begun to swap out food for words and pictures & my brain devoured information about all I desired to eat but couldn’t.” The skills and knowledge base they acquired were the foundation for a career that led to progressively higher-end jobs, and the bright and shiny world of Michelin-starred restaurants proved to add still more layers of complication to an already complex relationship with nourishment. It’s not news that behind the orderly, glittering facade of a highly rated restaurant lies the hot and hectic world of the kitchen, where egos clash like knives amid high expectations and challenging realities. Through Loew-Banayan’s sharp eyes and incisive retelling, we get a sense of the dynamics that are sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartachey. They’re all about seeing through the pretentious, pointless aspects to the flavor at the heart of the matter: “Chef said ok so cooking is work not fun. Jesus Christ what a douche I had thought in that moment but it didn’t really matter either way I had tried his desserts; they tasted so precise almost like he could hear the ingredients,” they write of one experience. “Most people couldn’t hear them too drunk too nourished & therefore too distracted but I was so hungry I never missed a note.” Through it all, the tension of their own relationship to food adds layers of uncommon insight—along with a thorough condemnation of the sexism and fatphobia rampant in that milieu. Even as head chef, walking into a high-end kitchen “packing a vag” means condescension, kisses on the head, and lingerie for Christmas. It’s absurd, and they call it out deliciously. Loew-Banayan offers no oversimplified solutions because there are none. (They were once told by a therapist that being a chef with eating issues was impossible and just never went back.) Their journey to Hudson, a joyful marriage, and a kitchen where the rules are their own will fascinate foodies in particular; their insights into becoming one’s own person are fresh and delicious, sticking to the ribs like a perfect stew. —Anne Pyburn Craig 7/22 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 61

poetry

EDITED BY Phillip X Levine

The Map Man

One Hundred Miles North

I Watch Him Play The Piano

He could read all kinds of topographic maps, and spoke at least five languages. He dressed well, if a little behind the times, and his hands were smooth, his voice lilting, and his shoes as polished as a general’s.

Two hours and ten minutes by coach, one hundred miles north of Manhattan, en route to visit Saugerties via Kingston.

With marionette hands, he strikes the keys. The action hidden; the felted hammers strike my chest.

He didn’t laugh loudly, preferring a polite chuckle. And was no drinker, save for the occasional glass of port. What he did for a living was mostly rumors. Some said he was a nuclear scientist. Others figured him for a spy. But he gave no indication of either. Except, from time to time, he’d been seen doing what looked like lip-reading a conversation across the room. He lived alone in one of the new townhouses. No one ever saw him with a woman, just the occasional male friend in a fancy wine bar. The maps would be spread out on the table. And someone once overheard what sounded like German or even French, as he pointed at various brown contours, bright blue lakes and rivers. Maybe he’s planning an invasion, was one old guy’s suggestion. He was a local mystery, one desperately needed, for knowing everybody else’s business could only take a person’s boredom so far. Folks would stop and stare when they saw him out and about. If not for him, they never would have wondered. —John Grey Commonality When scraping away at dead leaves blanketing forest floors one finds newts When scraping away daily towards some human condition one finds theology There is much commonality, here.

I take in highways, distant mountains, shifting towns, step at length into the flowing Catskill foothills. The still-naked early orchards, the seeming silence of silo farms, the why of abandoned homesteads. Rivers rise and fall. Picked up, I arrive in Saugerties by the Esopus. Business shingles, not neon, welcome me. Under the cure of a blue sky, all things here sweetly different: doggie bowls at the Partition, pickle juice after bourbon. Poets sitting at portables, typing haiku for anyone who asks. I even write my own: On the sidewalk today in the shade of a shoe store writing poetry with soul I savor the Jane Street Art Center, Emerge Gallery, spend hours at Inquiring Minds and Our Books. Marvel at the abundance of benches in the village, and the friends remembered on small plaques on its lampposts. A cop walks his beat, smiling. BLM activists assemble in peace. I sit, am still, take it all in. —Patrick Hammer, Jr. Fire Isn’t Red, It’s Iridescent

Winter never settled on permanent polar zones Spring is some fling always leaving The sun melts our summer again Autumn in a graveyard, alive, misleading. There is much commonality, all year.

I watched a car as it burst into flames on 84 going toward Beacon. I watched it end as fast as it began; The corridor of headlights glistening. In the presence of a flight to another life from the driver’s side, I saw a rainbow in the night.

—Steve Grogan

—Deirdre Alpert

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The music rack, a skeleton; he plays from memory. And they become one, a horse pawing the ground. I see the whites of stallion eyes; the pupils, accidentals. The tempo changes, dove wings and grackles stir my heart. Like a gang of kids who scatter when the cops arrive, I watch, breath bated. The furor subsides. No witness protection program for me! I’ll take the stand. Your Honor, there was no crime. Just harmony. The piano startles under my friend’s touch like a newborn foal akimbo. Again, the Prelude grows, becomes stable. My friend spurs on his baby grand. Steinway holds the shiny black curved lid mane upright. On the fall board, his hands reign, and I’m right beside him, although across the room, riding side saddle. I watch knowingly, listen knowingly although I’m no musician. My hands ache to take to my dapple gray, the laptop keyboard where I compose myself. —Dawn Marar The Wound Because we are through and no one is to blame there is a hole in my throat that once held laughter. —Susan Liev Taylor

The Method of Mountain Trees Stone no barrier to growth, tree roots snake into solid rock, finding cracks to access what they need: wet soil and the blood of planets. They hold the stone the way hands hold onto a cliff, which is what I am doing right now. Holding on. How much longer must it be like this? How much longer must I be cheek-to-cheek with this rock face, cold lover, feet seeking something solid to stand on? I feel her five billion years of indifference and wonder what, ultimately, is the point. Then I remember the miracle of trees growing on mountains, or how weeds sprout from highway roadsides, and I find, once again, a way to climb up off the edge. —Richard Smyth

Spring Arrives In Five Senses fresh green salad tart lemon zest dressing yellow Forsythia a morning hug the aura of her perfume lingered all day beaks break through warm blue shells ancient songs are born the oar splintered and dry cuts through chilly water seeds explode with color before you realize —Daniel Brown

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Paper Planes Make Great Poetry shoots across a sky a hundred tiny papers form the shooting stars I wish upon at night. A hundred tiny letters fill a page, maybe two. Fold it up for fun, stare at it but only for a few. Throw it out and watch the story you had written fly up to the moon. All these paper planes one belongs to you. So next time you scribble down some words, Fold up your paper and throw it to the moon because for some reason paper planes make great poetry. —Bella Barbera Lover’s Awbaed Parting is such painful sorrow What’s sweet is your soft sleepy smile Yes, I know we’ll see each other tomorrow But twenty-four hours proves too long a while Lush from last night’s dew drops: shiver to alarmed air Petal plucked limbs flutter from fae flowered bed My Aurora, than in these precious moments you’re never more fair Without our sappy Saphic mornings, I’d rather be dead But alas, duties summon us beyond kiss-sealed doors Ghouls pound and shout: full-force of unfun tensions Necessary self-necromancy: phantom touches haunt me more I can’t fault the world for wanting your affections —Madelyn Crews Truth Takes A Mental Health Day Truth started dressing differently, cut off all of its own hair And walked in, announcing it was buying a drink for everyone. It looked different, laughed differently and held its cigarette strangely. This is now where truth lies, In the badly lit mess of a dive bar, Angry at being restrained by strangers from hurting itself. —Alec Gourley (Algo) I Want to tell you about the other House. where my fingers can dance through your Thick curls long fingers sweet mouth I could play them like harps– reverberating notes of linen or heavy cream. where I could read out loud to you and the air moves through the minds of plants and the sounds that frogs make. I listen for whale sounds. Deep, mournful, and longing– like what sounds my chest would make if I reached in with my hands and found the spot that felt things. —Kayla Noble

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At "Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema: A Night of Neo-Benshi," Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers, will set poetry and dance to the final scene of 1963’s epic comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Here in the 21st-century US, we can trace so much of our current popular culture to East Asia. Think about it: What would life in modern America be like without sushi, manga, or karaoke? And now, add to the list the art of neo-benshi, which sees its practitioners replacing the dialogue of scenes from popular films with their own new, original—and often side-splittingly surreal— dialogue for audiences at live screenings. After making its debut there four years ago, the craze will again return to Hudson Hall on July 30, when the Flow Chart Foundation will present “Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema: A Night of Neo-Benshi.” “It’s a kind of poetic theater, really,” says Jeffrey Lependorf, the foundation’s executive director and the event’s curator. “Besides being hysterically funny and weird, it can also be serious and deeply moving. It’s not improvised: The poets who perform are each given a scene to work with, and they create and rehearse their pieces. It really runs the gamut, from high to low art.” The medium of neo-benshi has its roots in the silent-film era in Japan, where, in lieu of running actual translated dialogue on screen, movie houses would hire benshi artists to narrate, describe, or explain what was being depicted. “Benshi is short for a term that roughly translates to ‘moving picture translation person,’” explains Lependorf. “These were very highly paid performers, and a lot of the American Westerns and other movies that the Japanese audiences were going to see were weird for them; something like, say, a saloon would’ve been unfamiliar to most Japanese people back then.” Although the benshi vocation died out with the advent of talkies, the form was revived as neo-benshi several years ago by experimental poets in San Francisco and Los Angeles, who came up with the concept of adding poetry and other creative disciplines to the films being

shown, instead of simply aping the storylines. The Flow Chart Foundation, an archive partially established to, according to its mission statement, “[explore] poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of American poet John Ashbery and promote engagement with his work,” picked up on the phenomenon. The foundation hosted its first neobenshi night at Hudson Hall in 2019 (last year’s program featured famed local musician Stephen Merritt). Lependorf’s own segment will incorporate a poem by Ashbery, a longtime Hudson resident. The show’s other performer-poets include Madhur Anand, Dara Barrois/ Dixon (nee Dara Wier), Sheila Maldonado, and Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers, whose piece will set poetry and dance to the final scene of 1963’s epic comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Also performing: Tracie Morris, whose short Black Spring, a “poetic conversation in film” that “touches on Black trauma and police brutality among other themes,” will screen before the main performances. The other films whose scenes will be neo-benshiized for the evening are A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Anna Karenina (1935), and The Women (1939) and the Japanese cult classics The Thousand Faces of Dunjia (2017) and Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963). “The previous times that we did it sold out, and we’re expecting another great turnout this year,” Lependorf enthuses. “[The event] is a way to present poetry in a new context—one that even people who might find the term ‘poetry night’ scary will really love.” “Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema: A Night of Neo-Benshi” will take place at Hudson Hall in Hudson on July 30 at 7pm. Tickets are $20. Hudsonhall.org. —Peter Aaron

What’s My Line? “FLOW CHART CABARET CINEMA: A NIGHT OF NEO-BENSHI” AT HUDSON HALL July 30 Hudsonhall.org

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Artist's book by Alison Cornyn, part of the Incorrigibles Project Photo by Karina Eckmeier

They Wouldn’t Let Ella Sing “INCORRIGIBLES: BEARING WITNESS TO THE INCARCERATED GIRLS OF NEW YORK” Through September 9 Safe-harbors.org/ann-street-gallery

“No one would’ve known about these girls if the box hadn’t been found,” remarks artist Alison Cornyn. She is referring to a box of documents an antiques dealer in Hudson bought at a yard sale for five dollars. The archives were from the New York Training School for Girls, at one time the largest correctional facility for young females in the nation. At its height, 500 residents lived in a “cottage system” overseen by housemothers, and sometimes housefathers. While doing research in Hudson, Cornyn found the box of documents, and began studying them. This led to “Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York” at the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh. The show runs until September 9. Founded in 1904, the Training School housed girls ranging in age from 12 to 18. Some were remanded for extremely minor offenses, such as playing hooky or running away from home. The average stay at the Training School was two years. Examining the records shows that many girls were victims of sexual or physical abuse before they arrived. They were often described by a judge as “incorrigible”—meaning “incapable of being corrected.” The term creates a paradox; why attempt to “correct” someone who’s beyond hope? (Governor Cuomo signed a bill in 2021 removing the word from

the Family Court Act.) Photographs of “incorrigibles” from the 1920s show young, dreaming faces—and long dresses. One of the inmates was 15-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, described by the court as “ungovernable…will not obey the just and lawful commands of her mother.” At the Training School, Fitzgerald lived in segregated housing, and was forbidden to sing in the choir because she was Black. She never spoke of her experience at Hudson, and when invited back by a later superintendent to speak to the girls, refused. A class-action suit by the NAACP ended segregation at the institution in 1938. Most schools—even ones that close—have alumni associations, but the Training School does not. Cornyn has become a de facto link between former inmates, and also their families. Relatives of residents discover their connection to the school through Ancestry.com and contact Cornyn. (Census records show girls who lived at the facility.) One family member was searching for a baby who was born at the Training School and removed from his mother. Cornyn has created a “testimony archive” of recorded interviews with inmates and relatives. What do you call art that seeks to transform the

world? The current term “social practice art” seems inadequate. Cornyn has found a lawyer to help two former inmates pursue cases of sexual abuse at the Training School in the 1950s. Both litigants are now in their 80s. “I would do anything for these women,” says Cornyn. “I mean, they’re amazing.” Contemporary art tends to be unemotional, but this exhibition activates pity and anger. Watching the video Incorrigibles, I wept. “The only issue, that is always an issue, is funding,” Cornyn remarks. Rich people generally don’t buy this sort of artwork. She receives grants from Humanities New York, sells T-shirts and tote bags, but it’s never quite enough. Still, miracles occur. Cornyn was searching for a way to record stories of former inmates at the gallery, when a friend of a friend donated a $14,000 state-of-the-art recording booth. From July 9 to 19 there will be a series of workshops, including story-share events, a writing class, and a wand-making project. Cornyn has gathered twigs and pinecones from the grounds of the Training School to be transformed into personal scepters. She explains: “Wands are for empowerment and self-protection and wisdom.” —Sparrow

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DakhaBrakha plays Colony in Woodstock on July 29. Photo by Bill Smith

Tisziji Munoz Quartet with Paul Shaffer and John Medeski

“Masters of the Telecaster” with G.E. Smith and Jim Weider

July 10. Billed as a tribute to beloved venue owner Tony Falco, who was felled by COVID in 2021, this date at the Falcon features a returning favorite: Tisziji Munoz, whose quartet is augmented for the night by two of the avant-garde jazz guitarist’s frequent collaborators, Paul Shaffer (“The Late Show with David Letterman”) and John Medeski (Medeski, Martin and Wood). After several years as a sideman with Pharoah Sanders, Munoz made his debut as a leader with the 1978 album Rendezvous with Now on the seminal India Navigation record label and has appeared on dozens of discs since then. (Becca Stevens and the Secret Trio sneak in July 3; Cuboricua! slings salsa July 9.) 7pm. Donation requested. Marlboro. Liveatthefalcon.com

July 15. This evening at the Bearsville Theater brings together two of the leading exponents of the Fender Telecaster electric guitar: G.E. Smith, who led the Saturday Night Live Band for 10 years and has toured and recorded with Bob Dylan, Hall and Oates, Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, and others; and local luminary Jim Weider, who took over Robbie Robertson’s slot when The Band reunited in 1985 and was a steady member of the Levon Helm Band. The show’s blues rock-heavy set list will include songs by Roy Buchanan, Little Richard, Neil Young, Jimmy Reed, Steve Winwood, Sam Cooke, and more. (Sean Rowe sings July 3; Gratefully Yours honors Jerry Garcia July 30.) 8pm. $40$60. Bearsville. Bearsvilletheater.com

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July 14. “Ready to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight!” Detroit’s unchallenged kings of hardcore punk, the great Negative Approach, bash their way mid-month to Empire Live’s offshoot club Empire Underground. Formed in 1981 and fronted by the blow-torch throat of the tough-as-the-streets-he-walks vocalist John Brannon (Laughing Hyenas, Easy Action), the pioneering Midwestern band’s first album, 1983’s Tied Down, is regularly cited as one of the genre’s most influential classics. Live, the band’s brick wall of life-affirming, cathartic, majestically mean-ass rock ’n’ roll is truly something to behold. With Raw Brigade, the World, Buzzard, and Street Hassle. (Spoon dishes it up July 8; the Goddamn Gallows hang out August 3.) 7pm. $20, $25. Albany. Empirelivealbany.com

July 23. Grammy Award- and OBE-winning singersongwriter Graham Nash has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not once, but twice: as a founding member of British Invasion greats the Hollies, and as a charter member of the folk rock super group Crosby, Stills, and Nash/ Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Among his most ubiquitous compositions are the hits “Marrakesh Express,” “Teach Your Children,” and “Our House,” the latter a song he wrote as a loving tribute to Joni Mitchell. Here, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee makes a visit to the stately Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. (The High Kings ascend July 21; Chris Isaak croons July 27.) 8pm. $41-$86. Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Mahaiwe.org

Gordon Lightfoot July 26. You know the voice—as full and deep as Lake Superior, which borders his Canadian homeland—and the songs he’s written and sung—“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway,” “Sundown,” “That’s What You Get for Lovin’ Me,” “Rainy Day People,” and so many more. In a rare and overdue return to the Hudson Valley, the legendary singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot comes to UPAC for this late-July performance, bringing hits and deep cuts from across his over-50-year career. (The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie welcomes Girl Named Tom on July 15 and Graham Nash on July 22.) 8pm. $56-$131. Kingston. Bardavon.org

DakhaBrakha July 29. “I think one of the most powerful things that DakhaBrakha can offer is that they show both that there is a very rich past in Ukraine, and they show this by bringing together a diversity of musical practices from different regions of Ukraine, from different ethnic groups within Ukraine,” says Bard College ethnomusicologist Maria Sonevytsky about the Kyiv group, who bring their defiant folk/ cabaret/jazz/rock/hip-hop stew to Colony. “And they fuse them together in a beautiful way that also suggests a future for Ukraine. It gives the lie to Putin’s propaganda that Ukraine has no culture or history of its own.” (Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads do Talking Heads in a reggae style-ee July 2; Stephen Clair strums and sings July 24.) 7pm. $20, $25. Woodstock. Colonywoodstock.com

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“Voices from the Woodstock Fringe”

July 9, 10, 16, 17 at Byrdcliffe Theater As the Woodstock Fringe festival celebrates its 20th year, the event will present “Voices from the Woodstock Fringe,” a grouping of three new solo plays at the historic Byrdcliffe Theater. “Brother’s Keeper,” written and performed by Wallace Norman, follows the life of its LGBTQ+ central character, William. In Bette Carlson Siler’s comedy “Doris Does the Edinboiger Fridge,” the elderly titular character holds forth on risqué, taboo topics. Ric Siler’s “Like a Sack of Potatoes” is described as “a hillbilly gothic tale of an Appalachian tobacco farmer’s love for his family and the extremes he will go to to protect them.” $30. Woodstock. Woodstockfringe.org

THEATER

“Romeo & Juliet”

July 15-September 18 at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and its director, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, will offer audiences a daring new interpretation of the play that’s perhaps Shakespeare’s most iconic romantic tragedy: the tale of two star-crossed lovers known as “Romeo & Juliet.” Starring longtime HVSF favorite actors Kurt Rhoads and Nance Williamson in the title roles, this new spin on the immortal work reinforces the notion that, as per the festival’s description of the production, “while youth may be only skin-deep, true beauty is a quality of the soul, and—in the end—love conquers all.” $10-$95. Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org

FESTIVAL

Rosendale Street Festival

July 16-17 on Main Street, Rosendale Following a two-year pandemic hiatus, the glorious and beloved Rosendale Street Festival will once again take over the town’s Main Street for a full weekend of family fun, food, vendors, and live music by more than 80 local bands. Founded in 1978 by Rosendale icon and festival emcee “Uncle Willy” Guldy to celebrate his birthday, the free, volunteer-run fair draws delighted festivalgoers from far and wide to take in its colorful parade with performances on seven stages, kids crafts and activities, film presentations at the Rosendale Theatre, and more. Rosendale. Rosendalestreetfestival.org

FILM

“Punk Rock Movie Night”

July 21 at Colony Never mind Hulu’s recent Sex Pistols dramatized series “Pistol,” here’s the real deal. Colony will present a special screening of two new documentaries that focus on the culture-rattling punk rock explosion of the late 1970s. The main feature, Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC, produced by Danny Garcia, centers on one of the crucial crucibles of the early New York punk scene: the legendary nightclub Max’s Kansas City. First up, however, is the short feature Sid: The Final Curtain, which contains rare footage of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’s very last performances at Max’s in 1978. 7pm. $8-$10. Woodstock. Colonywoodstock.com

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THEATER

New York Stage and Film Presents “Sweet Chariot”

July 22-24 at Powerhouse Theater “[A]n Afrofuturistic exploration of the sorted [sic] line between escape and resilience, posing the question: Is true liberation only possible for Black people beyond Earth?” That’s how New York Stage and Film describes playwright Eric Lockley’s new play “Sweet Chariot,” which is being developed with the Movement Theatre Company through NYSF at Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater, where it will be staged this month. The sci-fi yarn spins its web around the lead character Marcus, “a down and out teacher [who] launches himself on a journey across planets and centuries.” $25. Poughkeepsie. Newyorkstageandfilm.org

VISUAL ART

Beacon Open Studios

July 22-24 across the city of Beacon This free, city-wide, weekend-long event showcases artists who live or work in Beacon, encouraging them to open their private art studios to visitors, who can follow a map that shepherds them along a self-guided tour of over 50 artists. This year marks the 14th anniversary of the event, which has become one of the largest of its kind in the Hudson Valley. Participating artists for 2022 include Devin Mattera, Tom Kenny, Rob Lundberg, John Procario, Chris Sanders, Kat Spontak, Jan Dolan, Beth DeWit, Meghan Spiro, Alyssa Follansbee, Katrin Reifeiss, Evan Samuelson, and others. Beacon. Beaconopenstudios.com

MUSIC

Taiko Masala

July 30 at Widow Jane Mine After several legendary performances at the site, the traditional Japanese percussion troupe Taiko Masala will make another thunderous return to the Snyder Estate’s Widow Jane Mine at the end of this month. Led by master drummer Hiro Kurashima, the ensemble fuses Japanese martial arts with dance and music played on traditional instruments like shakuhachi, fue, and koto, along with powerful, precise, and complex drumming that utilizes an arsenal of handmade instruments that range from small hand-held drums to the mammoth, 250-pound o-daiko drum. 2pm. $25. Rosendale. Centuryhouse.org

Raymond McDonald: musician, multi-disciplinary artist, Scotland Josephine Ganter: visual artist, Scotland George Burt: musician, Scotland Marilyn Crispell: pianist, musician, NY Melinda Stickney-Gibson: visual artist, NY Including Upstate Art Weekend, July 22-24, special events planned. For more info and upcoming events www.janesteertartcenter.com GALLERY HOURS

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art exhibits

Untitled photo from the "Tlazotl: Waever's Wings" exhibit of traditional costumes of indigenous peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico, at the Trolley Barn in Poughkeepsie, July 30-August 5.

1053 MAIN STREET GALLERY

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“P.O.I/P.O.V.” Works by Robin Factor. Through July 24.

“Flood.” Installation by Portia Munson. Through September 25.

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Marilyn Orner: “Seductive Nature.” Recent paintings focusing on landscape and the natural world. Fridays-Sundays, 12-6pm.

“Harold Granucci: Geometry.” Works on paper by self-taught artist and math genius. Through July 19. “Summer Joy.” Group show including Helen Marden, Harriet Korman, Stephen Westfall, Anne Brown, Mary Carlson, and Kathryn Lynch. July 21-September 6.

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26 BEECHFORD DRIVE, BOICEVILLE “Linear Dimensions.” New work by Andrew Lyght. Curated by Sophie Landres and Candice Madey. Through July 24.

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BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN 5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA

"Symbiosis." Outdoor sculpture exhibition throughout BBG's gardens curated by art collector Beth Rudin deWoody. Through October 28.

BERNAY FINE ART

296 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA “Summertime.” Works by Sonya Sklaroff." July 15-August 15.

BEVIER HOUSE MUSUEM

2682 ROUTE 209, KINGSTON

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

“Let the Song Play On.” Group show of painting, sculpture, and sound works. Through July 10.

“Art Colonies of Ulster County: Elverhoj, Cragsmoor, and Byrdcliffe.” Major exhibition featuring the arts and crafts of three important Ulster County art colonies. Through October 31.

“52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone.” The exhibition celebrates the 51st anniversary of the historic exhibition “26 Contemporary Women Artists,” adding a new roster of 26 female-identifying or nonbinary emerging artists that in 1980 or after to the original group. Through January 8, 2023.

ASSEMBLY

BUSTER LEVI GALLERY

258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT

ANN STREET GALLERY

108 E STRAND STREET, KINGSTON

397 BROADWAY, MONTICELLO “Assembly 1: Unstored.” Work by Izumi Kato, Ugo Rondinone, and Shiro Tsujimura. Through April 30, 2023. “Contemporary Sculpture from Mexico.” Curated by Dakin Hart. Through April 30, 2023.

104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH

BEACON ARTISTS UNION

"Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York." This exhibit gives voice to the untold stories of those sent to the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson throughout the 20th century. Through September 9.

506 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Can I have a minute?.” Paintings by Alyssa Follansbee. July 9-August 7. “Interludes.” Works by Carole Kunstadt curated by Robyn Ellenbogen. July 9-August 7.

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“Ted Braggins.” Monontypes. July 3-31.

"Ginirose Sivilli Solo Exhibit." Sixteen watercolor paintings. Through July 28.

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2 SOUTH CHURCH STREET, GOSHEN

121 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING “Island to Island.” Sculpture, papers, and prints by Ada Pilar Cruz. July 1-31.

CARRIE CHEN GALLERY

16 RAILROAD STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA “Further Notice.” Works by D. Jack Solomon. July 2-31.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON "My Own Backyard." Group exhibit featuring paintings by David Konigsberg, Ragellah Rourke, and Frank DePietro; encaustics by Allyson Levy; and photography by Jeri Eisenberg. Through July 31.

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 474 BROADWAY, KINGSTON

“Wild Place: People of Kingston.” Photographs and interviews with residents of Kingston. Through July 17. “English Landscapes.” Photographs of England by Fionn Reilly. July 23-September 4.

6571 SPRING BROOK AVENUE, RHINEBECK “Paintings by Melanie Delgado and Alicia Mikles.” Recent work. Through September 30.

CREATE CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL

"Picture This! From Painting to Page." A showcase of children’s book illustrators Meryl Learnihan, Laura Rader, James Ransome, Esme Shapiro, Hudson Talbott, and Rodney Alan Greenblat. Through July 30.

CUNNEEN-HACKETT ARTS CENTER

9 & 12 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “The Secret Garden.” Photographs by Ivone Milani. July 1-August 31.

DANIEL ARTS CENTER

84 ALFORD ROAD, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA “Persist.” Works by Parasevi “Toula” Taliadoros, Deirdre McKenna, Merudjina Normil, Arian Kolins, Lindsay Neathawk, Natlia Bystrianyk, and Elizabeth Nelson. Through August 6.

DASH GALLERY

253 WALL STREET, KINGSTON “Beats and Buddhas.” Photographs and drawings by Allen Ginsberg and selected prints and original work by Gonkar Gyatso. Through August 27.

art exhibits

Near Blackburn, a photograph by Fionn Reilly from his exhibit "English Landscapes" at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

DAVIS ORTON GALLERY

114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Girls!” Photographs by Karen Marshall, Karen Davis, Julia Arstorp, and Lora Brody. Through July 17.

DIA BEACON

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON Richard Serra, Michael Heizer, Mario Merz, others, on long-term view. Ongoing.

EMERGE GALLERY

228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES “Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Opus 40 Sculptor Harvey Fite.” Exhibits at Emerge Gallery and the Lamb Center will recreate the quixotic odyssey of Harvey Fite. Through July 10. "Randy Bloom: New Work." Recent work by SoHo abstract artist Randy Bloom. July 23-September 11.

FENIMORE ART MUSEUM 5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80, COOPERSTOWN

"Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies." This exhibit focuses on N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth’s figurative studio and academic studies. Through September 5.

FORELAND

111 WATER STREET, CATSKILL “Document.” Works by Anneke Eussen, Laura Letinsky, John Opera, and Kazuhito Tanaka. July 1-24. “Situations.” Work by Natalja Kent. July 1-24. “JAG Projects.” Works by Carrie Rudd, Rebecca Watson Horn, Ever Baldwin, Zoe Argires, Willa Wasserman, and Theodore Sefcik. July 1-24. “New Discretions.” Works by Hans Bellmer, Felix Beaudry, E.V. Day, Aneta Grzeszyowska,

Gordon Hall, Christina Kruse, Greer Lankton, Yeni Mao, David Anaya Maya, Douglas Rieger, Heidi Schwegler, Paul Shore, Vincent Tiley, Marianne Vitale, and Harley Weir. July 1-24.

FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE

"Beyond the Threshold: Tibetan Contemporary Art." This showhighlights the diversity of contemporary Tibetan creative expression, presenting works from 10 artists. Through July 31. "Master & Merit: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection." Through July 31.

FURNACE—ART ON PAPER ARCHIVE 107 MAIN STREET, FALLS VILLAGE, CT

“This There.” New paintings and works on paper by Gary Stephan. Through July 24.

GARRISON ART CENTER

23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON “Summer Arts.” Student works in progress. Through August 8.

GREEN KILL

229 GREENKILL AVENUE, KINGSTON “Gary Mayer, Brett De Palma, Bea Ortiz.” Curated by Gary Mayer. July 2-August 27.

GREENHOUSE

65 ST. JAMES STREET, KINGSTON “Resisting Erasure.” Photographs by Onaje Benjamin and mixed media, sculpture, and textile works by Shirley Parker-Benjamin. Through October 8.

HEADSTONE GALLERY

24 HURLEY AVENUE, KINGSTON

HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART/CCS BARD BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ONHUDSON

“Black Melancholia.” Featuring artists from the late 19th century through present day. Through October 16. “Dara Birnbaum: Reaction.” First US retrospective of groundbreaking video artist. Through November 7. “Martine Syms: Grio College.” Recent and never-before-seen video works that interrogate digital media’s influence on our lives and explore representations of Blackness. Through November 7.

HOLLAND TUNNEL GALLERY

46 CHAMBERS STREET, NEWBURGH “Dynamic Duo.” Abstract paintings by Judy Singer and installation by Judy Thomas. July 9-August 14.

HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER 477 MAIN STREET, BEACON.

“Reflections of a Local Life.” Multimedia group exhibition curated by Karen E. Gersch. July 2-24.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON

“Beacon Open Studios Group Show.” July 9-August 7.

HUDSON HALL

327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Annuals 199-2002.” Paintings by Alan Coon. Through August 28. “T. Klacsmann.” Linocut prints of animals and birds. Through August 28.

THE HYDE COLLECTION

161 WARREN STREET, GLENS FALLS “Transformations: The Art of John Van Alstine.” A sculpture exhibit. Through September 18.

JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY: THE SCHOOL

25 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK “Stressed World.” Works by El Anatsui, Shimon Attie, Radcliffe Bailey, Yoan Capote, Nick Cave, Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, Gehard Demetz, Pierre Dorion, Paterson Ewen, Vibha Galhotra, Barkley L. Hendricks, Hayv Kahraman, Anton Kannemeyer, Lyne Lapointe, Deborah Luster, Tyler Mitchell, Meleko Mokgosi, Adi Nes, Jackie Nickerson, Odili Donald Odita, Gordon Parks, Garnett Puett, Claudette Schreuders, Malick Sidibé, Paul Anthony Smith, Michael Snow, Hank Willis Thomas, Carlos Vega, Andy Warhol, Leslie Wayne and Carrie Mae Weems. Through December 3.

JAMES COX GALLERY

4666 ROUTE 212, WILLOW “White Magic.” Recent paintings by Leslie Bender. Through July 24.

JANE ST. ART CENTER

11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES "In Real Time + Place: A Collaboration." Artist residency with Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Raymond McDonald, Josephine Ganter, George Burt, and Marilyn Crispell. July 1-31.

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CALL FOR ADDRESS, GARRISON “Athena LaTocha.” Recent sculptures. Through July 24.

“Urgent Beings.” Work by Ashley Eliza Williams. July 2-31.

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“Barns in Art.” Group show. July 16-September 3.

“Singularity; Anima Mundi.” Work by Francesca Di Mattio, Nin Brundermann, Jicky Schnee, Anthony Akinbola, Justin Lowe, Josh Tonsfeldt, Joe Concra, Shaun Acton, and Luis Robayo. Through July 11.

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1040 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA “Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco.” These installations consist of sculptures and environments in a diverse array of materials that look at the relationships between humans, culture, and the natural world. In conjunction with an exhibit at Thomas Cole Historic Site. Through January 1, 2023.

MATTHEWIS PERSEN HOUSE MUSEUM 74 JOHN STREET, KINGSTON

"Gysbert’s Inventory: A Reflection of 1665 Dutch Life." Through September 3. "A Perpetual Memory: Artifacts of the Native Americans and Dutch Settlers." Through September 3. "MyKingstonKids: Photography Now!" A student photo exhibition. July 7-August 27.

MERGE

178 SCHOONMAKER LANE, STONE RIDGE “Center Street Studio.” Exhibition of prints, paintings, and sculptures by Center Street Studio Artists. July 22-24.

MOTHER GALLERY

1154 NORTH AVENUE, BEACON "We Flew Over the Wild Winds of Wild Fires." This exhibition centers the work of artists Zoë Buckman and Vanessa German in a dialogue that seeks to illuminate the complex and complementary processes that allow each artist a direct line of inquiry towards the reclamation of the ancestral. Through September 18.

MOTHER-IN-LAW'S

140 CHURCH AVENUE, GERMANTOWN “Mistakes Were Made.” The art of apology by Jennifer Dalton. Through August 21.

THE NEW GALLERY

610 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Full Circle.” Work by John “Crash” Matos. Through July 10.

Essence, Paul Villinksi, aluminum (found cans), steel, rivets, enamel, 72.5 x 48 x 48 inches, 2019. Part of the "Symbiosis" exhibition at Berkshire Botanical Garden. Courtesy of the artist and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans.

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4033 ROUTE 28A, WEST SHOKAN “Behind the Scenes.” Work by the Olive Free Library exhibition committee: Janette Kahil, Elaine Ralston, Sandra Scheuer, Linda Schultz, Jan Sosnowitz, and Kathy Yacoe. Through July 9.

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“Annotated Muses.” Illustrations and prints by Molly Crabapple. Through August 8.

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“Higher Ground.” Recent works by Remmy Jungerman. July 10-September 25. "Tradition Interrupted." July 10-September 25.

“Pathways and Waterways: Explorations into Light and Color.” Paintings by Dan Shorenstein. Through August 12.

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“Instruments of Light.” Exhibition and installation by cinema artist Tessa Hughes-Freeland. Through July 31.

“Imagining the Real.” Group show of paintings made in workshop with Zvi Szir of newARTschool. July 11-29.

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“Birds of a Feather.” Group exhibition curated by Joseph Ayers and Ethan Cohen. Presented by Ethan Cohen Gallery. Through July 31.

“Color: The Primary Material.” Works by Grace Wapner and Steven Alexander. July 2-30.

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“Stacey Davidson and Christian Eckert.” July 2-August 27.

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2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE “Mountain High, Valley Low: Artists of the Hudson Valley.” Group show. Through July 31.

LAMB HOUSE

41 MARKET STREET, SAUGERTIES “Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Opus 40 Sculptor Harvey Fite.” Exhibits at Emerge Gallery and the Lamb Center will recreate the quixotic odyssey of Harvey Fite. Through July 10.

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292 FAIR STREET, KINGSTON “Birds.” Paintings of birds by Steven Strauss. Through July 20.

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62 WATER STREET, CATSKILL “Fragmented Transparency.” Works by Jane Ehrlich. July 1-31.

MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART

2700 ROUTE 9, COLD SPRING “Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura.” The exhibition seeks to recount and illuminate the experience of a pioneering artist who in the 1960s opened a dialogue between Italy and the United States. Curated by Elena Re. Through January 9, 2023.

MANITOGA

584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON “Formfantasma at Manitoga’s Dragon Rock: Designing Nature.” Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma will present a selection of works in dialogue with the house, studio, and surrounding landscape at Manitoga. In collaboration with Magazzino. Through November 14.

362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON "Greetings and Offerings." Shari Mendelsohn. Through July 24. “Memento Mori.” Work by Portia Munson. Through July 24. “Para Pastoral.” Jennifer Coates. Through July 24. “Sessions.” Work by Phoebe Helander. Through July 24. “Wander.” Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond. Through July 24.

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“Hudson River Landscapes & Abstractions.” Through October 31.

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89 VINEYARD AVENUE, HIGHLAND “Ground Work.” Group show curated by Chloe Mossbacher. June 23-August 14.

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433 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Earteh Energies, Ancient Roots.” Recent works by Ashley Norwood Cooper and Jackie Schatz. Through July 31.

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137 ROUND LAKE ROAD, RHINEBECK. “Suzan Frecon.” Paintings. Through July 10. “Arlene Shechet.” Sculpture. July 16-August 28.

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218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL “Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration.” Explores the creative directions of the painter’s last years, the works left in his studio at his death, and his effect on the evolution of art in America. Through October 30. “Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco.” A companion exhibition to one at Mass MoCA. July 16-November 27.

TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI

“Exploring Paper.” Group exhibition. July 2-24.

TURLEY GALLERY

98 GREEN STREET, SUITE 2, HUDSON “Candy Flipping.” Paintings by Peter Eide and Ryan Garvey. July 2-31.

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2 MOSCOW ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA “Proximal Duality.” Graphite drawings and ceramic sculptures by Sergei Isupov. Through October 31.

UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST RD, NEW PALTZ

“Echo.” Recent works on paper. Through July 9.

WASSAIC PROJECT

37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC “A Tournament of Lies." Summer group show of 46 artists. Through September 17.

WHITE PINES AT BYRDCLIFFE 454 UPPER BYDCLIFFE ROAD, WOODSTOCK

“Shelter.” A group outdoor sculpture exhibition. Through October 23.

WEST STRAND GALLERY

23 WEST STRAND STREET, KINGSTON “Four Sculptors: A Semblance of Self.” Works by Osi Audu, Harris Diamant, Kazuma Oshita, and Eliezer Parrilla. Through July 30.

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"The Healer’s Wound.” Images and writings from Dan Taulapapa McMullin's book “The Healer’s Wound: A Queer Thierstory of Polynesia.” Through July 4.

“Wild Place: People of Kingston.” Photographs and interviews of residents of Kingston by Doug Menuez. Through July 17.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM (WAAM)

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

“Every Picture Tells A Story.” Paintings by Natalie Wargin. Through July 4. “Far and Wide: Risk & Experimentation.” Group show juried by Seph Rodney. Through July 4. “What Unites Us: Americana Art From the Permanent Collection.” A collection of images that celebrate America throughout the 20th century, drawn from WAAM’s permanent collection. Through August 21. “Radius 50.” Group show juried by juried by Jayne Drost Johnson. July 15-September 11. “Trouble in the Terroir.” Works by Kingsley Parker. July 15-August 21.

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"The Dorsky at 20: Reflections at a Milestone (Part II)." Through July 17. “Mary Frank: The Observing Heart.” Retrospective of the six-decade career of the acclaimed artist and activist. Through July 17. "The Material, The Thing." Hudson Valley regional group exhibition curated by Nicole Hayes. Through November 6.

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EARLY FIREWORKS AND A COSMIC SEA CHANGE Hey USA: The fireworks come early this year. July 1’s square of Mars in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn at America’s natal Pluto Return point is a tinderbox waiting for a spark. Mercury’s trine to Saturn and square to Neptune July 2 indicate confused communications between previously reliable institutions and societal structures. The level of external chaos and uncertainty is pushing each of us to find our own sure footing during this sea change. The Full “Supermoon” in Capricorn July 13 with Venus trine Saturn, Mercury square Chiron and sextile Uranus brings a cold clarity to your absolute must-haves—and therefore, illuminates everything that must go to achieve maximum flexibility (and portability!) in the face of changing times and reapportioned realities. If you’re not traveling light, you’re going nowhere fast. “Wounded Healer” Chiron stations retrograde July 20, and Jupiter’s retrograde begins July 29, both in war-like Aries. The heartbreaking cost of America’s addiction to violence is laid at the doorstep of political pharaohs who would rather see their firstborn die than restrict access to assault weapons. In the final hours of July 2022: Behold, a phenomenon not seen since 324 BCE, during the days of Alexander the Great: Mars, Uranus, and the North Lunar Node conjunct at 18/19 degrees Taurus. Square to Saturn in Aquarius, and echoing 2021’s three Saturn/Uranus squares, what we’re about to open the energetic door to is nothing less than an utter and complete shakeup of whatever was left of the firm foundation we the people thought would stand forever. On the timeline of history, we can point and say: “We are here.” Epochs and eras, cycles and sub-cycles ebb and flow, but you, the individual—all you have that lasts forever is your own soul, and the love she makes. Cherish and nourish it.

ARIES (March 20–April 19)

Jupiter in Aries through late October fuels restless vitality, though transiting Sun in Cancer during most of July challenges you to be energy-wise rather than wasteful over trivial matters. The square of Mars to Pluto July 1 is a power struggle between self-expression and self-interest, which you are shocked to suddenly discover are not the same thing. Mars enters Taurus July 5, slowing everything down and refocusing your attention on security matters. The Last Quarter Moon in Aries July 20 demands patience; learn your personal trigger warnings before Mercury squares Mars July 26. Some words can never be unheard.

TAURUS (April 19–May 20)

Venus in Gemini through July 16 makes the first half of July a bit more frenetic than you’d prefer, but Mars enters Taurus July 5, slowing things down for more comprehensive consumption. Venus trines Saturn and squares Neptune July 13–14, making boundaries (or lack of them) a personal issue. Venus enters Cancer July 17, bringing comfort and security, at least on a superficial level, but that might be enough for now as this unstable era erodes your faith in a previously firm foundation. Venus squares Jupiter July 25: a cosmic alert to avoid overindulgence of every kind. A practicing, professional astrologer for over 30 years, Lorelai Kude can be reached for questions and personal consultations via email (lorelaikude@yahoo.com) and her Kabbalah-flavored website is Astrolojew.com. 76 HOROSCOPES CHRONOGRAM 7/22

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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)

Mercury retrograde was so last month; why is everyone trying to gaslight you into believing you have major apologies to make? Mercury trines Saturn and squares Neptune July 2. Do not pass “Go!” or collect $200 until you scour your memory for overlooked transgressions. Mercury enters Cancer and sextiles Mars July 5; the urge to wear a hair coat in public to demonstrate remorse is strong! The square of Mercury to Jupiter July 9 demands an accurate assessment of reality. Your frank, honest, and humble response to confrontation saves you when Mercury squares Chiron and sextile Uranus July 13.

CANCER (June 21–July 22)

You’ve just got to talk about all those partnership potential feelings when Mercury enters Cancer July 5, followed by First Quarter Moon in Libra July 6. Main topic: Romance. Sub-topic: fairness and equity. Pragmatic passion takes precedence at the Full Supermoon in Capricorn July 13; someone steady and secure makes you hot and bothered when Venus enters Cancer July 17. Have you reached a plateau in your job and yearn for a new challenge? The Last Quarter Moon in Aries July 20 may give you your wish. Be generous with yourself at the New Moon in Leo July 28.

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You’re a little pugnacious with Sun square Chiron July 8; the defensive mode doesn’t become you! Your uniqueness shines when Sun sextiles Uranus July 10. The Sun conjuncts Mercury July 16 and trines Neptune July 17. Will you make beautiful music together or go to war? Power differentials must resolve when Sun opposes Pluto and Mercury enters Leo July 19. If you can share power, you can share harmony. Sun enters Leo July 22, and the New Moon in Leo July 28 brings a fresh surge of vitality and vivacity, strengthened by the Sun’s trine to Jupiter July 31.

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Mixed messages when Mercury trines Saturn and squares Neptune July 2. Are you being promoted, demoted, recruited, or retired? Are you really at the mercy of others? Your strong choices deserve respect. Mercury enters Cancer and sextiles Mars July 5, heightening security issues. Mercury trines Neptune and opposes Pluto July 17–18 before entering Leo July 19. Are you feeling pressured into deciding something you’re not ready for? Push back July 23 when Mercury trines Jupiter, but accurately perceive others’ boundaries; feelings of vulnerability may be triggered when Mercury squares Mars and trines Chiron July 26–27. Take a breath.

LIBRA (September 23–October 23)

Shake off the heaviness: July 6 is a day to invite new possibilities into your life, with Venus sextile Chiron and First Quarter Moon in Libra lightening your heart. Venus trines Saturn and squares Neptune July 13–14; you’re not inclined to tarry romantically with anyone who can’t give as good as they get. You’re a nurturing partner when Venus enters Cancer July 17 but beware of overkill with too much of everything July 25 when Venus squares Jupiter. You’re bound to pull back to reasonable human limitations and it may feel like rejection to others when it’s merely an appropriate adjustment.

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Too-vague communication facilitates family squabbles July 9 with Mercury square Jupiter; discussions around shared resources are always awkward. State your case clearly and without exaggeration when Mercury trines Jupiter July 23 and you’ll win both respect and agreement. Hold the line against overdoing just about everything when Venus squares Jupiter July 25. What you need most is moderation and Jupiter isn’t inclined to help with that; however, his retrograde beginning July 28 may teach you a few things about luck, love, and whether you still have it in you to revel with abandon when Sun trines Jupiter July 31.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)

Your powers of concentration and focus are fully engaged when Mercury trines Saturn July 2. Deep thinking about very precise and practical ways to make your life a better place to live dominates the first half of July. The Full “Super” Moon in Capricorn July 13 is trined by Venus in Taurus, a delightful transit which may serve to remind you how much you enjoy earthly delights and sensual pleasure. Give yourself permission to enjoy loving and being loved. Mercury opposes Saturn July 31, which is an opportunity to improve your negotiation skills by centering the needs of others.

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Mars and Pluto, your classical and modern planetary rulers square off (literally) July 1, exposing the unresolved tension between your physical and spiritual health and well-being. You push yourself so hard, eventually your body and soul will push back. Stop thinking of yourself as impervious to the need for self-care. Integrate a somatic mindfulness practice into your life when Mars enters Taurus July 5. Balance your mind-body connection and seek wholeness, even when life tries to throw you for a loop concerning things over which you have absolutely no control, especially with Mercury and Sun opposite Pluto July 18–19.

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Your mind-body connection takes precedence in July. Someone who spends as much time in their head as you do needs reminding to give your body tender care. The Sun and Mercury both sextile Uranus July 10–13; this is the time you need to create new systems and routines for yourself which support development and integration of sensible, healthy habits. Remember: your body carries your brain around! You’re not going anywhere without it! Mercury squares Uranus July 28; if you ignore your needs earlier in July, by month’s end you’ll be forced to confront them, like it or not.

PISCES (February 20–March 19)

Say what you mean and mean what you say July 2 when Mercury squares Neptune. The likelihood of vagueness causing confusion isn’t limited to mundane matters; the square of Venus to Neptune July 14 puts your intimate relationships in possible danger of misunderstandings. Avoid these pitfalls and you’ll be gloriously clear and concise when Sun and Mercury trine Neptune July 17. Your classical planetary ruler Jupiter’s retrograde July 28 reminds you that money doesn’t grow on trees, except for the money tree in your imagination; tend your garden, water it well, and it will pay off by late November. 78 HOROSCOPES CHRONOGRAM 7/22

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