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Apple Blossom Day: A Red Hook tradition

by Frances Marion Platt
May 14, 2017
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Apple Blossom Day: A Red Hook tradition
(Photo by Dion Ogust)

Regardless of garden guru Lee Reich’s oft-repeated warnings that apple trees are persnickety houseguests in this part of the world, the fact remains that historically, the mid-Hudson Valley is orchard country. Many a community hereabouts celebrates the onset of autumn with an Apple Festival. But precious few bother to mark blossoming time in the spring with a seasonal ritual – despite the fact that in Europe of old, folks used to go a-wassailing around their blooming apple trees, singing and pouring libations to the nature spirits to encourage a bountiful harvest.

The Village of Red Hook is a rare exception, conjuring up an Apple Blossom Day on an annual basis. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, May 13, Main Street and Broadway will come alive with fair food and free festivities for all ages, including live animals, arts and crafts and a stage with live music. At the center of the action will be the Red Hook Public Library at 7444 South Broadway, whose front lawn will host a giant bubble station, face-painting and “unconventional electronics” beginning at 11 a.m. The Orchestra Now from the Bard Conservatory will perform modern classical music on the Library’s front porch from noon to 1 p.m.

Elsewhere downtown, check out the fun, discounts and specials offered by the following businesses: Pause Dog Boutique, Equis Art Gallery, Rainbow Body Yoga, Maggie’s Royal Tearoom at the Red Hook Country Inn, With You Lockets, the Welltree, Boulevard Vintage & Antiques, Rhinebeck Dance Centre, Felicity Designs, Clove Kitchen Market, Living Eden and Annex Antiques. For more details, call (845) 758-0824, e-mail info@redhookchamber.org or visit www.facebook.com/events/632277703628938 or www.redhooklibrary.org.

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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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