(Photo by Dion Ogust)

Kids’ Almanac (May 23- May 30)

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. – President Dwight D. Eisenhower   Memorial Day commemorations The first Memorial Day was declared on May 5, 1868 by general John Logan…

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Kids’ Almanac (May 16-May 23)

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. – Groucho Marx   Sil & Eliza Reynolds, poet Bobbi Katz speak at Inquiring Minds I’ve been checking…

Dean Jones and Trooper (photo by Wayne Montecalvo)

Kids’ Almanac (May 9-16)

…if we all stand together and be a little brave, you never know where we’ll go. – Dean Jones   Rosendale’s Grammy Award-winning Dean Jones launches new album this week Every time Grammy…

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Kids’ Almanac (May 2-9)

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different? – C. S. Lewis   I Love My Park Day This year’s second annual I Love…

Young alien at the Pine Bush UFO Fair. (photo by Will Dendis)

Kids’ Almanac (Apr. 25-May 2)

Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson   This weekend we’ve got festivals galore, in every direction! Here’s my roundup.   Pine Bush UFO Fair Aliens call our world the “Water Planet”…

(Photo by Bruce Irving)

Kids’ Almanac (April 18-25)

You see, all living things depend on one another. – Lynne Cherry, The Great Kapok Tree   Breaking the Silence Teen Dance at Kingston’s LGBTQ Community Center “They had a broken keyboard, I…

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Kids’ Almanac (April 11-18)

Animal-lovers, you are in luck this weekend! Check out these two interesting, educational and fun animal events. Time it right, and you could do both!   “Barn Dancin’ on the Rondout” in Kingston…

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Kids’ Almanac (April 4-11)

That is the thing about nature: There is so much of it. – Dowager countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey   Romeo and Juliet with teenaged cast at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck…

(Photo by Dion Ogust)

Kids’ Almanac (Mar. 28 – Apr. 4)

Sweet spring fling Springtime means baby chicks, ducks and rabbits – at least in all of the magazine images that we see, but what about in real life? Yes! This Saturday, March 30,…

1st row, left to right: Tulsi Anna, High Meadow School, Julia Sheber, Saugerties High School, Emma Torrey, Rondout High School, Sophia Hover & Oliver Ferland, High Meadow School, 

2nd row, left to right: Acacia Mastropaolo, Kingston, Sara Freer, homeschooler, Olivia Epina, Rondout Middle School, Teague Stover, New Paltz High School, Ihor Shuhan, Rondout High School. There are two ensemble members missing from this picture: Matt Brady, Rondout High School, Jordi Espinasa, High Meadow School.

Kids’ Almanac (March 21-28)

“In the spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of four and 20 hours.” – Mark Twain   Spring break activities for kids Spring has sprung, and that means spring…

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