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A Record 46 Artists Open Their Doors in Saugerties
The Saugerties Artists Studio Tour will be held Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 8 and 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. With 46 artists participating, it will be the largest in the history of the annual event. Founded in 2002 with eleven participating artists, the tour was first organized by landscape painter Nancy…
Hunter Historical Map Project Enters Next Phase as Planners Wrap Up Townwide Tour
Mountain Top Library Director Jaki Elmo and Town Historian Diann “Dede” Terns-Thorpe joined town residents Carol Dale and Lisa DiNino Nemerson last week at the library in Tannersville, narrowing a final list of historical…
Big Indian Cultural Festival Holds Final Celebration of Unity and Tradition
The Pine Hill Community Center was filled with movement, music and color on Saturday, celebrating unity and Native American and African heritage as the cultural center behind the event prepares to dissolve after more…
The Felice Brothers Record Album for Sony Music Nashville in Saugerties
Two years ago in Woodstock’s Bearsville Park, a group of music industry allies urged James and Ian Felice to sign with Sony Music Nashville. The group included Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers and his…
The Blues Project Brings Its 1960s Roots to Bearsville Theater
Roy Blumenfeld was born in the Bronx, grew up in Yonkers, and spent weekends as a teenager at his family’s home on Ohayo Mountain Road in Woodstock. Now 82, Blumenfeld will return Friday, July…
In Photos: Honoring Dawn Neal-Ellsworth
Family, friends, and fellow emergency responders gathered in Kingston on Monday, July 13, to remember the longtime Woodstock Rescue Squad captain, who died July 1 at 51.
Wildfire Smoke Shrouds Catskills
Canadian wildfire smoke cast a gray haze over the Catskills this week, dimming mountain views and obscuring familiar landscapes. Photos by Roy Gumpel/The Overlook.
Pine Hill Pride Parade Highlights LGBTQ+ Visibility in Rural Catskills
About 30 people, including motorcyclists and a stilt walker, marched alongside a pink decommissioned hearse down Pine Hill’s historic Main Street on Saturday, July 11, in a Pride celebration intended to increase LGBTQ+ visibility…
Catskill Mountain Shakespeare Makes Joyful Work of “Much Ado About Nothing”
There’s an old theater saying that an actor who overdoes it is “chewing the scenery.” In Catskill Mountain Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” however, little is more diverting than watching the actors play with…
Windham, Tannersville Mark America’s 250th With Parades, Fireworks
America’s 250th anniversary brought parades, music, and fireworks to the mountaintop on Saturday, July 4, as Windham and Tannersville marked Independence Day with community celebrations that stretched from afternoon into night. The Overlook’s staff…
Boiceville’s Sun Mountain Studio Draws Musicians From Near and Far
David Baron was sitting in the audience at Bearsville Theater last October when U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. gave him an unexpected shoutout from the stage. “I normally sit at the back and I…
Writers of the Catskills: In Conversation with James Lasdun
James Lasdun, a Woodstock resident since the early 1990s, has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories, essays, and a memoir. He has also written screenplays and contributed to The New Yorker. In our conversation,…
Who Goes There? New York Forest Ranger Rob Dawson
To say that New York State Forest Ranger Rob Dawson wears many hats is an understatement. Aside from his olive-green and black baseball cap, several helmets hang from the roof of his black Ford…
Haines Falls Talk Traces Greene County’s History of Slavery
Inside the Mountain Top Historical Society’s 1913 train station in Haines Falls on Saturday, June 27, Greene County Historian Jonathan Palmer described a past often hidden in scattered records: the lives of enslaved people…
Elias Hasbrouck at the Revolution and the Founding of Woodstock
George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States on April 30, 1789. Administering the presidential oath on that spring day in New York City was Robert R.…
Hunter-Tannersville Students Share Title Role in “Matilda the Musical”
Two Hunter-Tannersville students will share the title role in “Matilda the Musical,” which opens Thursday, July 2, at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville. The musical, based on the 1988 Roald Dahl novel,…
WAAM’s First Juneteenth Show Reunites Curator, Long-Dormant Friend
Prizewinning poet and author Kathy Price long admired the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum from afar, never dreaming that a long-dormant family link would help build the foundation of the museum’s first Juneteenth show…
Shuttered Phoenicia Hardware Store Becomes Upstate Art Showcase
Phoenicia’s late, lamented hardware store is taking on new life – if only briefly – as “Building Light,” an installation by female-identifying art collective Studio Hinterland that incorporates sound, smells and unique lighting techniques…
Lanesville Reaches to the Past to Create Map Charting Hunter’s History
Local residents took a trip into the past last week at the Stony Clove Rod and Gun Club in the hamlet of Lanesville as the Town of Hunter kicked off five public discussions aimed…
Pride Takes Center Stage in Woodstock
Woodstock’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade on Sunday meant many things for thousands of participants and spectators: Visibility, community, resilience, joy—and above all, the freedom to be fully seen. Crowds lined Tinker Street shoulder-to-shoulder for a…
Grahame Lesh, Daniel Donato Play Free Surprise Show in Woodstock
Two Bearsville Theater headliners played a free, unannounced show Saturday afternoon for about 200 jam band fans on Tinker Street in Woodstock. The guitar-and-vocal duo featured Grahame Lesh, son of the late Grateful Dead…
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