Books

Suppose the Garden of Eden’s tree of the knowledge of good and evil had hallucinogenic fruit? Suppose the Creator in...

In the 1950s, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore branched out into publishing ground-breaking books such as Allen Ginsberg’s Howl...

The Elverhoj Arts and Crafts Colony began with high aspirations, as all such utopian ventures do. Established in 1912 on...

Lowell Thing’s Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong, is an 8 by 11-1/2-inch, hard-cover, lusciously illustrated workwhose...

Stephen Blauweiss and Karen Berelowitz are two such strivers. Their impossibly detailed book The Story of Historic Kingston, Featuring 950...

The fifty-four-page hardcover volume contains twenty-four color reproductions of McGloughlin’s luminous oil paintings and twenty of Straub’s inspirational reflections on...

The 198-page book, issued by a modestly sized New York City publishing house called The Experiment, contains lavish illustration, some...

John Barry’s new book, Levon Helm: Rock, Roll & Ramble—The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight...

A down-on-his-luck septuagenarian ex-private investigator receives an outrageous offer that he’d love to refuse, in Woodstock author Larry Beinhart’s new novel,...

Looking at the trees that surround us, it seems there could be nothing in nature more solid and immutable. But...

Paul Smart and Richard Kroehling will read from, discuss and present With Different Eyes, A Covid Waltz in Words &...

Elizabeth Bayou-Grace grew up on Coffee Lane in New Paltz, the youngest of seven children and the daughter of Steve...

Well, Paul Smart has reinvented himself once again, or if not himself then his prose style to produce a memoir...

As part of the NEA Big Read Hudson Valley, Franklin Street temporarily changes name to Mango Street.

The Gardiner Library presents a Book and Art Series for children ages 4 to 6 years with Carolyn. On Saturday,...

The Elting Memorial Library has joined the Coalition for Understanding Racism through Education for the Five Towns: One Book program....

A J Schenkman had some big shoes to fill when he took the post of Gardiner’s town historian in 2015: His...

The story of some lost years and the struggle of musicians who were once at the top to regain relevance...

‘I’ve always had a very strong connection to animals and the earth and was mostly a vegetarian growing up…’ —...

Storm Lake won the Best Documentary award at the Woodstock Film Festival this year. We confess this film is near...