Festivals
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 11:40 am
No, not pigs: motorcycles. Two Wheels to Anywhere, a YouTube "motorcycle touring / reality travel show," just dedicated several of its episodes to the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association dual sport rally, which was staged at Hunter Mountain last fall. In... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:36 pm
It's May Day, otherwise known as Beltane, which good students of the Goddess know means it's time to have one hell of a party.
Mike Madsen is celebrating Beltane on his blog, the Kingston Progressive:
With a high density of immigrants from Ireland and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 8:30 pm
First the farmer's market got moved downtown. Now the village elders are moving the fireworks, too. Quoth village board president Vincent Seeley in the Freeman:
“There is a potential public safety issue with cramming upwards of 3,000 people down at the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 - 2:05 pm
Photo of a Delaware County sunset by Catskill05, via Flick. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catskill05/ / CC BY-ND 2.0
Ah, Earth Day, one of the most nebulous holidays of the year. Celebrations and commemorations are underway, and it seems like pretty much... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 11:29 am
Britain's TRUCK music festival, which describes itself as "a village fete meets Woodstock with a cutting edge musical policy sharp as your suit," is coming to the Catskills next week for a three-day American show. They promise big things, including an... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 2:49 pm
So sayeth Dick May in his latest Greene County roundup:
Paganism evidently is alive and growing in GreeneLand. It is practiced with special fervor in Palenville, in a three-acre grove and a venerable 18-bedroom former inn (Central House) that houses the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:44 am
Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 2:49 pm
We had no idea that she was an angler. Turns out, Sally Jessy Raphael is an avid one, so much so that she and her husband will be the first to fish on Saturday morning on April 10 in Roscoe.
The Catskills town of Roscoe, N.Y., always celebrates trout... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 9:46 pm
The Watershed Post interviews George and Duane LaFever, Catskill maple syrup producers.
It's the peak of New York's annual maple festival, and local tappers are saying the maple syrup yield in the Catskills is worse than it's ever been.
An evaporatorSugar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 8:07 pm
The annual St. Patrick's Day parade got rained out in Halcottsville last week. No worries: The tiny village's doughty citizens celebrated yesterday instead. Erin go bragh!
Photo courtesy of the Halcottsville Fire Department. More where that came from on... Read more
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