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Getting off on the right foot: Day One walk in Kingston

by Frances Marion Platt
April 15, 2016
in Community, Entertainment
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11-@If your local government wants to call its alcohol-free New Year’s Eve events “First Night,” it’ll be obligated to pay the canny coiner of that term a fee. By contrast, if you try googling the phrase “Day One” or “Day 1,” you’ll find many hits, but no indication that it’s trademarked – nor that it’s the name of a worldwide social movement. But it may yet become one – spawned, like the catchy art-for-health bartering concept of the O+ Festival, in the City of Kingston.

What is Day One? “It is not a protest, a march or a parade,” according to its organizers. “Day One recognizes that there are 364 other days to discuss the issues, exchange ideas and work on solutions. This is just one day to simply walk together. In the face of so much that divides us, let us not forget that we are united by the bonds of our common fellowship in the human race.”

Wow. What a refreshing concept, for all who grow weary of the daily strife and polarization that so abound in our contemporary world! And what better time to let go of ideological and emotional baggage and move forward with a fresh start than on New Year’s Day?

The innaugural Day One Walk begins at Dietz Stadium in Kingston at 1 p.m. on Friday, January 1. The walk will head down Broadway, make a right onto Cedar Street, followed by a right onto Clinton Avenue and end at the Kirkland, located at 2 Main Street, where conversations can continue with hot beverages.

This walk is supported by the City of Kingston, the Kingston Police Department, the Center for Creative Education, the O+ Festival and RUPCO, as well as other community organizations. For more information, contact Micah Blumenthal at day1united@gmail.com. And expect to hear about more and more communities seizing onto this heartening concept in the years to come.

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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