Festivals
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 - 12:57 am
Above: Victorian holiday strollers in Athens. Photo from the Athens Cultural Center's Facebook page.
They're tuning the harps and decanting the holiday spirits in the riverfront town of Athens for this Saturday's Victorian Stroll. Tour the proceedings in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 - 12:39 pm
Above: Hand-painted glassware by Lilian Miccio, one of the artisan vendors at the Holiday Extravaganza at the Roxbury Arts Center, Dec. 7-8. Photo from the Roxbury Arts Group's Facebook page.
Holiday shoppers: Looking for something you can't find on... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 - 12:26 pm
Above: Half-sour garlic pickles from Puckers Gourmet, first-place winner at the 2010 Rosendale Pickle Festival.
Spicy, tangy, salty, sweet: Pickles of all varieties will star in Rosendale this Sunday, at the town's annual International Pickle Festival.... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 11:28 am
Above: Pumpkins at Sunfrost Farms in Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Kat Stan; published under Creative Commons license.
Halloween may not formally arrive until next Thursday, but celebrations of ghoulies and ghosties and all manner of beasties are in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 10:30 am
Above: A headpiece in progress at Martin Keith Guitars of Woodstock, exhibiting at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase this weekend.
If you love fine stringed instruments and the sweet sounds they make, come to Woodstock this weekend for the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 - 11:57 am
Fickle fortune befell last year’s Pine Hill Steampunk Festival in the form of Hurricane Sandy. "A lot of people decided not to come to the Catskills that weekend, and some who did come left early as the situation worsened," said Pine Hill Books owner and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 - 10:28 am
On Friday, October 11, crowds (and food trucks) will start to gather in Kingston’s Stockade in mid-afternoon, while the Kirkland Hotel buzzes with joyous and purposeful chaos. At 5:45pm, it’s time to strike up the band: a surreal and beautiful mob of... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 - 2:31 pm
Top: Families tour the Hanford Mills Museum during the Miller's Harvest Festival. Photo courtsey of Hanford Mills.
Above: A video of the first public operation of the Museum’s restored 19th century water turbine, which was brought back online in 2012.... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 - 10:46 am
We found the Great Pumpkin: It's in Grahamsville. Photo from the Daniel Pierce Library's website.
Long before Starbucks ever dreamed up a Pumpkin Spice Latte, the good folk of Grahamsville were celebrating the iconic orange squash. This weekend, outsized... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 - 3:54 pm
It’s been lauded as “simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking,” (Ethan Hawke) “unique in its combination of cinematic sophistication, user-friendly scale and down-home hospitality,” (Godfrey Cheshire in the New York Times) and... Read more
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