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Lives of the Painters: Pele the conqueror
Popular Song by Pele deLappe, lithograph, 1935. Part II (In last week’s Part I, a 15 year old San Franciscan Pele deLappe found herself in Woodstock in the early 1930s, befriended by Diego and Frida...
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Film festivities
Interview of Peter Bogdanovich by Annie Nocenti in Kleinert/James Gallery. (photo by Alan Carey) Andres Mudge’s The Forgotten Kingdom, a tale of reconnection in South Africa was presented with The...
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Crawling man
Many in the area know Robbie Leaver. For years he and his wife Blair lived in West Shokan. He’s written screenplays with Olive-based filmmaker Larry Fesenden and shown his own short works in the...
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Noche Flamenca comes to Kaatsbaan
(Photo by Dion Ogust) “The Jews were massacred, the Gypsies humiliated and persecuted, the Arabs exterminated, the Moriscos (converted Arabs) expelled, and the Andalucians generally exploited…if we do...
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Ars Choralis presents its completed work, ten years in the making
Barbara Pickhardt and Johanna Hall. (photo by Catherine Sebastian) It’s by no means a revisionist version of the Nativity, but when Ars Choralis performs Miracle in Bethlehem, an opera composed by...
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Byrdcliffe Guild announces new director
Jeremy Adams The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild — now calling itself Byrdcliffe at Woodstock — announced the hiring this past week of New York arts administrator Jeremy Adams, a British-born resident of...
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Old Laundromat becomes a canvas
(Photo by Dion Ogust) It’s a complex wall at this point, the mash up of bits and pieces on the wall of the old Laundromat on Library Lane, which is pegged to come down in the coming year to be replaced...
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Jeremy Adams set to take top spot at Byrdcliffe Guild
New Guild director Jeremy Adams at the 5×7 show. (photo by Dion Ogust) “My vision for Byrdcliffe at Woodstock is currently very broad,” writes Brydcliffe’s new, incoming executive director, Jeremy...
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Bolton Brown and the making of modern Woodstock
Bolton Brown, The Bather, 1921, Lithograph on paper, 14 x 17.5 inches, Collection of Morgan Anderson Consulting. Woodstock as we know it begins with Bolton Brown (1866-1934), a prodigy whose gifts...
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Prana’s meditative practices
(Photo by Sarite Sanders) He who knows the secret of sounds, knows the mystery of the whole universe.–Hazrat Inayat Khan If you are as prone to anxiety and racing thoughts as I am, relaxation can be...
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Sailing Directions
Anne Benson (Jolanta Photo) It seems logical that a bookstore owner would be a writer — especially the former proprietor of Woodstock’s used bookshop, The Reader’s Quarry, where owner Anne Benson used...
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A lost brother comes to life
Self-portrait by Deyo. John Kedzie Jacobs was in his 80s when he discovered, in the attic of his childhood home in Highland, a trove of letters to and from his older brother, Edward, who had died in...
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Film festivities
Interview of Peter Bogdanovich by Annie Nocenti in Kleinert/James Gallery. (photo by Alan Carey) Andres Mudge’s The Forgotten Kingdom, a tale of reconnection in South Africa was presented with The...
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Paul Green, new owners talk about plans for former Zena Elementary
Paul Green directs at his Rock Academy. (photo by Dion Ogust) Speculation about the plans for the former Zena Elementary School has run rampant ever since the Kingston City School District’s Board of...
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Caigan revamps the Colony Café’s musical approach
Pete Caigan (photo by Dion Ogust) “This is one of my Woodstock dreams coming true,” said drummer and recording engineer Pete Caigan, who, after several years working with Jerry Marotta at the revived...
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The return of Woodstock Chamber Orchestra
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. The big classical music news this month is the return of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. With the demise of numerous American orchestras over the past few years, including...
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Woodstock Writers Fest provides plenty to chew on
Bar Scott and Abigail Thomas. (photo by Dion Ogust) “Napping is a crucial part of being a writer. A good nap is like an oasis. When sinking into a nap, I get my best ideas.” — Abigail Thomas “I’m more...
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Old Folkies Never Die
Dean Gitter We’re on the outer edge of an era when everyone in the Catskills has known of Dean Gitter. But not as the folk singer making a return to the stage at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the Emerson...
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Jim Rooney returns to Woodstock with his new book
Jim Rooney’s journey through American music has taken him from low down barrooms to fine halls and grand stages throughout the world. Originally from Boston, he began playing guitar and singing with...
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Woodstock’s music is enshrined in Utopia
(Photos by Dion Ogust) If not for that single, tantalizing word on the windowless white wall — six black capital letters, spaced wide, like a line on an eye chart: U T O P I A — a passerby might...
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