Stone secrets: Catskills cairns had deep spiritual significance for Native Americans, says Hudson Valley writer
Woodstock’s Glenn Kreisberg’s latest book, Spirits in Stone, published last year by Inner Traditions, reflects his effort to set the...
The Hudson River State Hospital, where natural beauty and humane treatment revolutionized mental health treatment, faces uncertain future
Designed by architect Frederic Withers on sylvan grounds landscaped by the famous team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux,...
Harry’s next act: Water St. Market developer revels in new stage of his career
Live theater, Lipstein said, can be subversive in a powerful and positive way. People enter a theater hoping merely to...
If Vaux could talk
Considering the other half of the Central Park design team.
Dispatch from Death’s door
Having been dead, I can’t testify to exactly what happened as I lay on my back.
Steve Lewis is letting his new stories tell themselves
“Writing is easy,” sportswriter Gene Fowler famously said. “All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper...
New Paltz physician aids poor women in developing countries
Maggie Carpenter is founder and executive director of Go Doc Go, as unique an NGO as you’re likely to find...
Stepping out
New Paltz filmmaker Gail Freedman’s documentary about competitive same-sex ballroom dancing to premiere Oct. 22 in NYC.
Sowing seeds to save societies
Thursday, Oct. 26: Learn about Seedshed's Native American Seed Sanctuary in Hurley, where Native American varieties of corn, beans, squash...
County Players’ Falls Theater opens season with Bell, Book and Candle revival
Opening on Friday, Sept. 8: This marks the group’s 60th anniversary season.
Welcome to Night Vale‘s Jeffrey Cranor launches new season of his other hit, Within the Wires
Tuesday, Sept. 5: The Saugerties podcaster asks himself: “How do you tell a true story to an audience that’s hungry...
The mom behind the mitzvah wall
Lagusta Yearwood remembers her mother with her latest innovation at Commissary, a vegan oasis in New Paltz. Here’s where the...
The near-death laughter of Malachy McCourt
During the course of his life, writer and raconteur Malachy McCourt started the first singles' bar in America, was a...
Check out the Historic Village Diner in Red Hook
It’s a classic of its type: a Silk City Diner, known in its day as the Cadillac of diners. Roughly...
Remember the Ladies: American Women in Song
Saturday, August 5: Learn herstory at Linda Russell’s performance on Huguenot Street in New Paltz.
The big voice that helped a small hamlet
Friday-Sunday, August 4-6: Opera singer Louis Otey and the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice
The Schindler of Kingston
Part mischievous trickster, part Old-World aristocrat, László Ocskay saved over 2000 Jews from the Holocaust. But because of Cold War...
A mission to recreate America’s “true cider”
The way he grows his trees, gathers his apples and makes his cider recalls the vital role that the apple...
The Art and Craft of guitar-picking
The surprising influence exerted on troubadour Kurt Henry.
Fashion-forward at the Accelerator
Lucky Bug Clothing Company finds new home in old barracks at Stewart.
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