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“Where once a tannery operated, this sculpted rock ledge and pristine waterfall over which the Tannery brook flows has been a hidden jewel for many years,” starts the dedication that will be formally placed at the new Woodstock Waterfall Park between Galerie BMG and Sweetheart Gallery on Tannery Brook Road, set for a special ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, May 18. “Constructed on land generously donated by Lila and Norman Bacon, inspired by The Woodstock Beautification Task Force, and ...
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The city’s chief legal counsel said this week that city code enforcement officers have accumulated a case against the Catskill Mountain Railroad that could result in the closure of the tourist rail line’s maintenance and repair facility off Cornell Street in Midtown.
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I was back in Texas for a funeral. The cemetery is out on what I call “the old home place,” the family farm. My cousin Neil farms it, but it is mostly raw land now. We talked about farming: what he is putting in and why, what he thinks he will get out of it.
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Elijah Santner, 16, is spearheading a poetry gathering, workshop and open-mic session titled “Bridging the Gap” on Saturday, May 18 on the Springtown Road pedestrian bridge that spans the Wallkill River along the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, as a fundraiser for the Hudson Valley Writers’ Project (HVWP) Young Writers’ Program. “I do a lot of my writing on that bridge,” said Santner, a 10th-grader at the Poughkeepsie Day School who recently was selected as Scholastic Magazine’s Writer of the Mon...
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You grow up with adults telling you not to judge a book by its cover, not to make a decision about something until you understand its intentions. And it’s a truism, an unavoidable absolute that everyone has made at least one false judgment based on someone’s outlook or demeanor.
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