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Uneasy waters: Is Yankeetown Pond being saved or endangered?
Yankeetown Pond. The water level is lower by about 12-15 inches, which is the target level. You can see in places where the water level used to be below the grasses. The water is flowing out two pipes...
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Kingston production of Oscar Wilde classic delights
The wit of Oscar Wilde on full display in an age dominated by text messaging is like an ice-cold bottle of Piper Heidsieck exploding into a Dixie cup at a temperance meeting. It is both delightful for...
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Obit: Tom Fletcher (1956-2023)
Tom Fletcher. “There wasn’t a single painting hanging from a single wall in our entire sprawling family home.” —Tom Fletcher After 28 remarkable years of representing Woodstock’s best-loved artists,...
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Iconic artist honored in Hudson Valley gallery retrospective
John Kahn on Easter Island. (Photo by Anita Rapu) In 2004, fourteen years after the death of the genius puppeteer Jim Henson, Disney purchased the entire Muppet franchise and set about installing...
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The last man to know Hervey White
The single-most influential individual in the creative genesis of Woodstock was Hervey White, whose “Maverick Colony” consisted of artists who didn’t quite starve, traded partners often, and usually...
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Timeless Tennessee Williams play performed triumphantly by area theatre...
In his heyday Tennessee Williams was America’s greatest lyric playwright. Today, in a moment which feels anything but lyrical, he seems the only one still relevant. For proof? Treat yourselves to one...
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Karl Berger, music pioneer: His mind and work will live on
Karl Berger With the death of Karl Berger on Easter Sunday at the age of 88, Woodstock and the world lost not only a master musician but a prolific, ground-breaking, internationally renowned composer...
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Rock City Vintage Fashion Show at Colony
Molly Farley and student On Friday, April 26, a fashion show at Colony Woodstock will celebrate styles of the 1970’s fifty years later, predominantly created by a mother-daughter team of seamstresses,...
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Chogyi’s time
Chogyi Lama No legend in the making is impervious to the first gush of early praise. But a roster of remarkable players have much to say on behalf of Chogyi Lama so we’ll have to gamble on his humility...
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Publishing legend Betty Ballantine dies in Bearsville at 99
(Photo by Franco Vogt) Last Tuesday, on what turned out to be Lincoln’s Birthday, Betty Ballantine, editorial half of the husband/wife team who pioneered the American paperback, died — as she’d wished...
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Woodstock Lives: The Grinch whose soul was Christmas
Bud, after returning from the war. I’m not going to pretend, friends, that America in the year 2018 and The Spirit of Christmas are subjects easily corralled into the same article, except for the...
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Obituary: Kiriki Metzo
Kiriki Metzo, daughter Woodstock legend Julio de Diego and imbued with a colorful history all her own died at home in her Westbeth apartment in lower Manhattan on November 3. She was 90 years old....
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America, in eight books
Joseph Luzzi (photo by Dion Ogust) A full-page ad in Ulster Publishing’s newspapers some weeks back first announced a One Day University lecture, to be given by Bard College’s interdepartmental...
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Zulma Steele: Gender blender extraordinaire
Hail, Zulma — The young Zulma Steele. Sketch by Joel Iskowitz The unique name Zulma belonged to the mother, daughter and grand-daughter of a once-famous Vermont poetess named Julia Ripley Dorr...
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Gender blending in early Woodstock & our first female genius
This photo is apparently mislabeled — Zulma’s on the right and Edna’s on the left. The idea that a feminine impulse could save testosterone-driven capitalism from itself is not new. In fact the notion...
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Yankeetown Pond bought for a dollar! (Part 2)
(Photos by Dion Ogust) Part II Read part 1 here In the fall of 2013 Woodstock Town Supervisor Jeremy Wilber was asked by New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for a...
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Voice Theatre’s All My Sons at Byrdcliffe Theater
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Even before the lights come up it’s obvious this is a magnificently audacious production. In 50 years I’ve never seen such a lavish set on a Woodstock stage. So for a moment I...
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Sally Grossman, icon of Bob Dylan cover art, dies at age 81
On the morning of March 12, Sally Grossman, the widow of Bob Dylan’s foremost manager, Albert “the Baron of Bearsville” Grossman, failed to answer her locked front door. A spare key was fetched, and...
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Woodstock’s Leon Gast, Oscar-winning director of When We Were Kings, dies at 85
Leon wasn’t born to greatness; he earned it. And like his hero, Ali, he triumphed against all odds . . . This page can be viewed only by subscribers. Have an e-subscription or Hudson Valley One Premium...
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Woodstock’s Joe Beesmer passes
Joe Beesmer On Saturday, February 13, Covid-19 added Joe Beesmer — beloved husband, guitar hero and band leader — to its gruesome toll. Joe tested positive to the virus at Vassar Brothers Hospital in...
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