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The anatomy of an enigma: The unknown Hervey White
From Life magazine, August 22, 1938 Part One Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, Hervey White [1866-1944] is better described as godfather of a town he personally...
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The Land of Tomorrow: The Unknown Hervey White
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Part two (read part one) Those who begin to study this town’s most elusive character at his end rather than at his beginning, won’t ever capture Hervey White. That’s why the...
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The Death of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White
Photograph of Hervey White by Konrad Cramer. In 1944, Alf Evers, the 39 year old children’s-book-author-turned-Catskill-historian, was hurrying to an important appointment when he heard his name called...
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Performing Arts of Woodstock’s timing feels perfect with The Realistic Joneses
The cast of The Realistic Joneses. Most agree that hope is necessary to human survival. And that there’s precious little of the stuff around these days. Without hope we’re vulnerable to chronic...
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Woodstock’s Fletcher Gallery closes after 28-year run
Tom Fletcher (Photos by Dion Ogust) Art lovers don’t walk in off the street anymore in Woodstock — at least not to buy works by the artists who first put the town on the map. So Tom Fletcher, whose art...
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The Heart of the Matter: The Unknown Hervey White
Ralph, Hervey and Fritz — the photo that raised no suspicion Part IV The English millionaire (and future founder of Woodstock’s first art colony) Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, was a painfully polite and...
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Milton Glaser: Spending eternity in Woodstock
On June 26, the day of his birth, Milton Glaser, international superstar of graphic design, artist, gourmet, educator extraordinaire, and Woodstocker for more than 60 years, died of a stroke. He was...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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