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…
Grape expectations
With a bit over two acres of land to play around with, I could have a woodlot. But I don’t. (I do harvest a lot of sunlight, though.) Still, because this is what…
The fossil photographs of Art Murphy
For most people, “local history” means names and events dating back at best a century or two. But for Art Murphy, a fine art photographer who lives on a winding, wooded road in…
Master the maypole at 23rd annual Beltane
For many people, the mention of May Day instantly brings to mind the image of a ribbon-festooned Maypole. We know that people are supposed to dance around it to celebrate the departure of…
Reformed Church of New Paltz hosts 10th annual Earth Day Fair
The thing about environmental issues is that they can lack a sense of immediacy. “It just doesn’t register sometimes,” says Jim O’Dowd, a member of the Caring for Creation committee, which is organizing…
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”…
Tasteful time capsule: Kingston’s Fred J. Johnston Museum
With the arrival of spring’s gentler weather comes the urge to get out and about more. But if you’re a native Northeasterner, you know that in these parts there’s a “fifth season” that…
Runaway star
Can you get out of here? That’s the question pondered for centuries: How to leave Earth permanently. A cannonball fired upward has always returned. With a greater explosive charge and a higher speed,…
Fowl is fare at Quattro’s Farm Store in Pleasant Valley
I broke my own rule: If a place is known for a thing, you get the thing. At Schlesinger’s Steak House in New Windsor, you get Schlesinger Steak. They don’t put it in…
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…
