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! An Old Dutch Tradition in the Hudson Valley

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2019 RHINEBECK, NEW YORK

Facebook.com/sinterklaasrhinebeck SinterklaasHudsonValley.com Facebook.com/sinterklaaskingston THINGS YOU The Spirit of Sinterklaas MUST DO AT He was Odin. SINTERKLAAS! And Good King Wenceslas. Père Nöel, Father Frost. 6 Then he was St. Nicholas. He became Sinterklaas. MAKE YOUR CROWN Be sure to get your STAR 1. for the Children’s Star Then Santa Claus. and Decorate your Branch for the Parade. Crowns & Branches in the Fire House— WELCOME! Celebration after the parade. He’s even been called more info on page 6. This is the celebration where CHILDREN are Look for them on sale at “Sandy Claws.” transformed into KINGS and QUEENS and honored as shops with the Sinterklaas He is Mother Teresa, Gandhi, “Stars for Sale Here” sign, and the bringers of the light at the darkest time of year. at the “Ask Me” table. the Dalai Lama and Schindler. Read more on page 12. But whatever name we have MAKE YOUR WISH 2. Kids and parents alike—visit the WISH LADY and The tradition of Sinterklaas comes all the way from the called him, he has always the PEACE DOVE. Details on page 6. been the same. Netherlands, brought by Dutch settlers who arrived WHY YOU NEED A He loves children, is generous, in Hudson Valley over 300 years ago. Sinterklaas, protects and honors the poor, the patron of children and sailors, finds a welcoming STAR brings blessings and gifts, At the end of the parade, GET YOUR STAR everyone will gather for the protection, food and clothing. 3. Read all about it in the blue box. community in the Mid-Hudson Valley as we re-create final ritual of the pageant, the moment you and your STAR He comes at the darkest time the story through the lens of modern-day America. have been waiting for. The Master of Ceremonies will call to remind us of the light. upon all those present to honor He is the good king, Our revived tradition is non-denominational and all our children, our hope for the VISIT THE GIANT FISH! future, our joy of today. the kind teacher; 4. DON’T MISS the Mermaid and her sea star. inclusive ­— everyone is invited to participate! The He will ask you to honor the he “flies” to those in need, Receive a pearl of wisdom and the blessing children. At that time you will young, the old, the in-between ­— absolutely everyone hold your STAR at the children’s the creatures all love him, of the bubbles. waist level elevating them, for a brief moment, on a sea of stars he comes with good intent. and anyone who wants to be part of a community of above everyone in the commu- His bag is really full of love nity. Then you will be asked to hope for a joyous and peaceful world are all welcome. stand again and raise your star and hope and caring... above your heads – thus placing He is humanity at its best. FIND THE FISH? you, the children and the entire 5. Throughout this book there many fish, Inside this book you will find more than a schedule to community in its proper place in the firmament—all of us as one although not as many as in the Hudson River. help you navigate the plethora of events and activities. and at peace under the stars. How many can you find? You will also find the history, the stories, and the details that will add to the richness of the experience COME TO THE PAGEANT for you and your family! 6. After the PARADE passes, follow along to the PAGEANT and the STAR CEREMONY. Remember to bring your STAR! sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 3 THIS YEAR’S HONORED ANIMAL: THE STURGEON Longevity ~ Regal ~ Vitality ~ Deep Awareness ~ Luck ~ The Sacred Feminine ~ Endurance ~ Higher Self thethe MagicMagic ofof BelievingBelieving

BIG FISH… BLESSINGBLESSING OFOF THETHE STURGEONSTURGEON Little Fish… “What“What isis youryour wishwish ?”?” askedasked thethe fish.fish. IfIf itit isis toto swimswim withwith meme -- thenthen comecome !! II amam Sturgeon,Sturgeon, ancientancient one.one. Ancient fish… ComeCome withwith meme ,, longlong bellybelly andand lowlow WhereWhere fertilefertile riversrivers flowflow FromFrom thethe waterswaters ofof youryour mother-mother- Newborn fish… BelowBelow thethe surfacesurface andand intointo thethe deep,deep, WeWe willwill swimswim withwith bodiesbodies brightbright -- And every one in between — EnterEnter thethe dreamersdreamers sleepsleep atat nightnight WhereWhere thoughtsthoughts maymay movemove inin those are our Hudson River fish--268 varieties The STURGEON and The Mermaid, synchronizedsynchronized time,time, of them! (and yes there is a shark, a dart and AndAnd wordswords areare formedformed inin ancientancient the MENHADEN the Sea Star rhyme-rhyme- a seahorse among them!) The Sturgeon, known as the dinosaur of the Hudson, is an and You… PressedPressed intointo prehistoricprehistoric rockrock ancient creature millions of years old. Some speculate that Water is the element of ItIt isis writtenwritten withwith ourour bonesbones And all are endangered if even one is neglected. Jonah’s whale was really a sturgeon. Known as a Royal Fish— dreams and the Imagination. ListenListen carefullycarefully !! “This“This isis youryour homehome !”!” meaning that no one can eat it or sell it if caught—it must be And so we asked the All of them are needed to make our estuary work! turned over to the King and Queen, so no one can profit from Mermaid—a creature of the Menhaden,Menhaden, BigBig Eye,Eye, Ladyfish,Ladyfish, EelEel its capture, and it is thus protected. Today, the sturgeon is imagination to team up with Shiner,Shiner, Walleye,Walleye, Pumpkinseed,Pumpkinseed, ShadShad protected by federal law and still it is the most endangered a Star Fish (a creature that Stargazer,Stargazer, Goldfish,Goldfish, Dace,Dace, andand ChubChub . species in the Hudson River. presents as both imaginary OpenOpen ourour eyeseyes BALANCE They are among the longest-lived of the fishes, living well and real) and together call We can be delighted by the appearance this year of a 14 foot sturgeon over 100 years, and they can grow to immense sizes! In June attention to the plight of Carp,Carp, Herring,Herring, Minnow,Minnow, RuddRudd 2018 a 14.1-foot-long female was seen leaping out of the water The Sturgeon and all Hudson leaping out of the River near Hyde Park and read all about it in all the River fish right down to the Alewife,Alewife, Sucker,Sucker, Snapper,Snapper, PikePike at Hyde Park. It seems mythical, but here have always been Stonecat,Stonecat, Redhorse,Redhorse, Pickerel,Pickerel, andand TroutTrout papers at the same time that we are unaware that the tiny stories from “old timers” of giant sturgeon that big. Of course, humblest of them all—the OpenOpen ourour earsears and humble Menhaden--a fish called “The Most Important Fish in no one believed them! Menhaden.

the Sea” is also endangered. Sturgeon have bony plates covering the head and five rows of At its heart, Sinterklaas is an exercise in learning the power Salmon,Salmon, Kokanee,Kokanee, Rockling,Rockling, CodCod similar plates along the body. The tail fin’s upper lobe is longer Mummichog,Mummichog, Silverside,Silverside, Needlefish,Needlefish, One is seen leaping while the other goes unnoticed breeding, than the lower. The toothless mouth, on the underside of the of art to change the world. SmeltSmelt feeding, cleansing and nourishing the River and all its fishes. snout, is preceded by four sensitive tactile barbels that the fish This year we call on art AND drags over the bottom in search of invertebrates and “small imagination to encourage Madtom,Madtom, Lizardfish,Lizardfish, Moonfish,Moonfish, andand HakeHake fishes.” our children to take action OpenOpen ourour heartshearts in support of a real world Namely the lowly Menhaden—known as the “most important creatures. LargemouthLargemouth Bass,Bass, Schoolmaster,Schoolmaster, ScadScad fish in the sea” it is also the most expendable. Menhaden are filter feeders. They swim in vast schools of hundreds of Puffer,Puffer, Croaker,Croaker, Warmouth,Warmouth, ScupScup thousands of fish. Mouths agape as they feed, menhaden Stoneroller,Stoneroller, Butterfish,Butterfish, Tonguefish,Tonguefish, are living vacuum cleaners sucking up algae blooms that andand DrumDrum deplete inshore waters of oxygen and create biological OpenOpen ourour voicesvoices deserts in the sea. A single adult menhaden can clean four to seven gallons of water in a minute. Mackerel,Mackerel, Hogchoker,Hogchoker, Sleeper,Sleeper, SpotSpot The name menhaden is a corruption of Goby,Goby, Bluegill,Bluegill, Bowfin,Bowfin, JackJack “munnawhatteaug,” which means fertilizer in Catfish,Catfish, Pollack,Pollack, Pipefish,Pipefish, PerchPerch Algonquian. Native Americans taught the pilgrims to plant them with their corn, enabling colonists to OpenOpen ourour handshands toto healheal thethe waterswaters coax a crop from rocky New England soils. Bony Mothers,Mothers, Fathers,Fathers, Sons,Sons, andand DaughtersDaughters and smelly, menhaden have rarely been caught for food. But their oil greased the wheels of America’s —— GigiGigi Alvaré,Alvaré, 20192019 machine age after the Civil War, replacing whale oil as a cheaper alternative. Now they are the “fish oil” touted as a cure for most everything. And they are service ~ sacrifice ~ fertilizer ~ enricher ~ balance endangered, too. MENHADEN

sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 4 Sinterklaas 2019 • sinterklaashudsonvalley.com 5 CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH 6436 Montgomery Street UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 83 E Market St 11 3 RHINEBECK FESTIVAL DAY: DECEMBER 7 2:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:00pm • HORNS A PLENTY!• 2:00 Brasskill SAMUEL’S SWEET SHOP 42 E Market St 21 INTO THE LIGHT: FIRE HOUSE 76 E Market St 6 2:30 Giglio Band • 10:00am–4:00pm 3:00 Hungry March Band BEGIN your Sinterklaas Day . . . • A Holiday Spectacular 3:30 Demolition Brass Band 10:00am BEAR BEAUTY CONTEST Dress your favorite bear up in CROWNS & Presented by The Vanaver Caravan & The Arm of the Sea Theater. 4:00 Funkrust Brass Band anything you wish, meet other bears, and maybe win a prize. All children and A Holiday story of a young girl’s journey throughout the world BRANCHES WORKSHOP searching for the light. Features giant puppets and international Inspired by the Hudson Valley adults are invited to submit entries! Many categories! Many honors! BrassRoots Festival. Children are at the heart music and dance! of the Sinterklaas story: Use the MAP on page 8 BEEKMAN ARMS 6387 Mill St (Rt 9) 2 They are KINGS & QUEENS of the Day to find all the Sinterklaas 12:00pm — 2:00pm and we honor them in the Parade and the METHODIST CHURCH PARISH HALL FOSTER’S PARKING LOT Center of Town 7 83 E Market St (next to the Church) 12 venues in the Village. Match • Pageant. Make sure they get a chance to make their crowns and adorn their • the numbers from the schedule OPENING presented by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus branches for the evening events! • to the numbers on the map to find your way! CEREMONY • CHILDREN: Before you leave the TOY THEATER THE JOSHUA J. SUPERSHOW HOME SPUN workshop be SURE to visit the Words Before All Else BIG PUPPET SHOWS starring Joshua J. Superstar. TINY This spectacle fuses side-splitting with Jeanne Fleming, Creator of : Make your wishes 1:00-5:00 MERRY-GO-ROUND WISH LADY comedy, nail-biting circus stunts, Take a whirl around! Sinterklaas. Become a fish, join our for your family, your community CONTINUAL PERFORMANCES and tons of audience participation. school with the Holders of the Flame and the world. Tie them on your 1 • Modern Times Theater: Imaginarium Ask Me 2019—The Terranova Family. Enjoy branch. PLUS SPECIAL GRUMPUS PERFORMANCE appearances from the King of the Sea, With the Bozo Brothers • ADULTS be sure to place YOUR wishes • Poseidon and some MerFolk who will • Sarah Nolan: Lisa The Wise Ladies! in the Peace Dove! Have questions? Want to teach us to breathe under water with this • Parents: PURCHASE YOUR STARS so • Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets: buy Official Sinterklaas Stars, year’s Honored Animal, the Sturgeon. Little Red Riding Hood Bejeweled Fish and Headbands, See the Polar Bear Swim and be there you can participate in the Children’s ALL AROUND TOWN Flags, and more? The Ask Me to pick the first Pocket as Mother Holly Star Celebration following the Parade. Ladies can help. Find their booth opens the doors of the Storytelling • Grab a flag for the Parade Roaming the streets for your entertainment… in front of the Beekman Arms. Or House. There will be tales of big fish THE GALLERY 47 E Market Street look for the ladies on the street. 24 and on The“Thorough Fair”Starting at 2pm! and little fish and lots of songs. Famed East Market Street — between Rte. 9 to Center St. when the street closes. wearing their Ask Me hats. storyteller, Jonathan Kruk will tell the tale REFORMED CHURCH SANCTUARY corner of South St. & Route 9 • of the Mermaid of the Hudson and the 19 FISH BOWL THEATER ALL THE BRASS BANDS: THE POLAR BEARwith his Trainer & legend of St. Nicholas and Dutch New 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00pm Ol’ Factory Brass Band, Musical Sidekick Sing a song & watch the York, Hanukkah Stories, and more! SONGS OF • Leela Puppet Theater bear transform. . Classic Rajasthani circus featuring Giglio Band, Hungry March Sinterklaas’ HOT MEALS! death-defying acts and magic THE POCKET LADY Fun food all over town. UPSTATE FILMS 6415 Montgomery St FREEDOM & FAITH Band, Brasskill, and Symbol of Generosity. Find her with her Visit Our Local Restaurateurs 2:00 Southern Dutchess Demolition Brass Band “Pocket Lady Pal” just about anywhere 23 Community Choir around town. Go inside her beautiful cape And the Churches are serving : THE COURTYARD E. Market St. and see what secret surprise she has in BINDLESTIFF 2:30 Souls United • BATALA Church of the Messiah Parish Hall • Interfaith Gospel choir 16 store just for you! 1:00-5:00pm 4 11:00am–5:00pm • LE VELO ROUGE FAMILY CIRKUS 3:00 Reggie Harris with MOTHER HOLLY Hear stories of Perfect for ages 3 + up Betty and the Baby Boomers • •Reformed Church Enter the • FAERIES OF THE FOREST creatures large & small. 12:30pm, 1:45pm, 3:15pm 3:30 Vassar Devils 19 Spaghetti DInner 4:00–6:00pm • ROGER THE JESTER OUR OWN GRUMPUSES SINTER CIRKUS GIANT FISH!! Dancing all around town. • LIBERTY PUBLIC HOUSE • POKINGBROOK MORRIS 9 with The Bindlestiffs 6417 Montgomery St DANCERS THE CHINELOS Traditional dancers Get a Keepsake of the day from 1:00pm, 2:30pm, 4:00pm • in spectacular costumes from the state In the Bar • BOND STREET STILT BAND of Morelos, Mexico. Sinterklaas PhotoBooth 18 3:00 Caprice Rouge, RAZZLE DAZZLE Eastern European Music in front of CVS. Have your • Presenting Comedy Magic for Families DON’T MISS the Mermaid and her children’s picture taken while Sea Star. Receive a Pearl of Wisdom After Party… REFORMED CHURCH South St. & Rte 9 sporting their crowns and branches! 9:00 Hot Jazz & Raise a Glass with and the Blessing of the Bubbles. SAPLING 6423 Montgomery Row 3RD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN Heartstrings Hot Club & 19 CHURCH 31 Livingston St. 10 2:00–5:00pm 13 5:00pm Sinterklaas Cast TOWN HALL 76 E Market St LIVING NATIVITY For Your Convenience 20 Hudson Valley Wild presents • • 13 • 7 short films about DAPSON-CHESTNEY PARKING LOT • Baby Changing Station at MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! 6420 Montgomery St. OBLONG BOOKS 15 MUSIC & DANCE 5:30pm 5 Saplings (Montgomery Row,• 2:00 Caprice Rouge 2:00 Roger the Jester • 2:45 Uptown Lowdown Dancers LIFE UNDER WATER next to Paper Trail) 2:30 Hudson Valley Gamelan STORYTIME Reading & Book Signing featuring our honored animal the HAVDALAH Candle Lighting• 3:00 Susan Cooper: “The Shortest Day” 3:00 Mid-Hudson Mexican Walk 2 blocks west from the traffic light. • Find Porta Potties in the 3:00 Bard College Georgian Choir • Sturgeon and other sea creatures. 14 A reading to herald the winter Folkloric Group Led by the Northern Dutchess Hebrew Municipal Parking lot. 3:30 Grumpus Magic Continuous loop. solstice. For families and children 3:30 Ol’ Factory Brass Band School, J.A.N.D. and Temple Emanuel. 4:15 Raspberry Hill Players • ages 4-8 4:00 Dog on Fleas 6 Sinterklaas 2019 • sinterklaashudsonvalley.com sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 7 Bring your Crowns & Branches, STARS & Flags to the: 14 • 17 CHILDREN’S STARLIGHT EVERYONE THE• 6:00 pm Parade begins Follow the Parade PAGEANT on West Market St. and to the Pageant including the Children’s STAR CEREMONY proceeds through the Village and continues to Bring your Stars! the Municipal Lot for the In the Municipal Parking Lot immediately following the Parade. Star Pageant. See the Completion of the Day … Join together at the end of the Parade and be a part of the PARADE map for the route. Children’s Star Ceremony. See all the members of the parade plus Fire Juggling, the Grumpus Dance, the Blessing of the Sturgeon and Their Friends, live music, sing along, The Peace Dove, and more. WHO’S WHO IN THE PARADE & PAGEANT FOLLOW THEIR LEAD! Rhinebeck Rotary Club & Be sure to join the parade after it passes by! Interact Club: Partners, Marshals & Puppeteers! HEAR, HEAR! THE POLAR BEAR! HONORED ANIMALS from the PAST: Thank you for your support! Bring your STARS to the Pagaent! Uncle DeWitt’s Bell heralds the way. Sing to him and watch him dance. BUTTERFLY • ELEPHANT • OWL • HONEYBEE • HUMMINGBIRD • FOX • HORSE• THE CROW • GOOSE • BEAR • with his white horse. SINTERKLAAS ALL THE KING’S HORSES TURTLE the Hobby Horse Brigade. THE HOLDERS OF THE LIGHT 2019 The Terranova Family— GRANDMOTHER EARTH A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS. KEY TO THE MAP Lucas, Maureen, Saxton, Sterling & Sabine on whom we all live. She’s the mother of 1. “Ask Me” Ladies (get information) us all, the Guiding Spirit of the Parade For good luck. 2. Beekman Arms RHINEBECK FESTIVAL MAP THE CHINESE LION. 3. Church of the Messiah reminding us to take care of her. 4. Church Of Messiah Parish Hall THE SEVEN SISTERS Stars 5. Dapson Chesney Funeral Home PARK AT THE FAIRGROUNDS from the cosmos that look down A SWARM OF BEES. Community. 6. Fire House (Crowns & Branches) Two lots at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds: one at Mulberry & Platt Street on us from afar and allow us to 7. Foster’s Lot Lot and another Mulberry Street & Fair Cross Way (at Mulberry Street THE 4 SEASONS 8. The Thorough Fair entrance to Fairgrounds). look up The moods of Grandmother Earth. We Visitors from the arctic. 9. Liberty Lounge & Public House Find more and dream. especially honor Winter this time of year. THE PENGUINS. 10. 3rd Evangelical Lutheran Church 11. Methodist Church 3 Church of Parking 12. Methodist Parish Hall Third Evangelical Information 13. Montgomery Row •the Messiah Lutheran on THE TWIN SERPENTS: LUX & LUMEN 14. Municipal Lot: Site of the Parade MONTGOMERY STREET /ROUTE 9 10 THE HONORED ANIMAL Into The Light Church the website Grand Finale & Pagaent Find the story on page 3. (Porto-Potties, too) MUSIC!• THE STURGEON: WILD WOMEN—If you have Wild Men (The 15. Oblong Books 4 16. The Giant Fish in the Courtyard Grumpuses) you have to have Wild Women. 17. Parade Route ••••• Montgomery • LIVINGSTON STREET Thanks to Abby Saxon we do have a fantastic 18. Photo Booth by CVS THE ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE 19. Reformed Church Sanctuary 13 Row gaggle! CENTER STREET The most ancient Dance ever recorded. There 20. Rhinebeck Town Hall 21. Samuel’s Bear Beauty Contest • Oblong are 12 characters representing a deer hunt. The 22. Starr Library 9 LIBERTY 15 pattern of the dance mimics the way in which 23. Upstate Films: Public House Books MUSIC OF ALL TRADITIONS: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus • a deer walks through the woods—in a figure 8 Bagpipe, Dixieland, Irish, Didgeridoo, Balkan, 14 24. Fish Bowl Theater • 16 pattern—to the accompaniment of a haunting Ukrainian, Samba, African, Bolivian, Upstate Films The Methodist12 GARDEN PARADE Church slip jig. Mexican & Indonesian. 23 CIRKUS GIANT FISH • Methodist are Sinterklaas’ wild in• the Grand Finale THE GRUMPUSES Courtyard Church Parish Hall• sidekicks who carry out his judgment on the 24 The PAGAENT 11 Toy Theater STREET in the BRASS • FISH BOWL children—either switches for the bad or A child’s Toy Box writ large! Whirling reminders of Mexico Foster’s THEATER Municipal Lot Bands THE CAROUSEL CHINELOS. OAK STREET 7 • candies for the good. But, our Grumpuses are • and its Holiday Traditions. Lot Puppet Circus Open Air 17 people you know in the community who are Dapson Fun!• EAST MARKET STREET 5 8 • candy men, there for joyous revels and to THE BLUE DOG Funeral delight the children. Some things have no explanation! Our symbol of 6 THE POCKET LADY More •Home WEST MARKET STREET • Samuel’s Photo TOWN generosity CROWNS Parking Ask Me The Beauty Booth • 20 HALL at the Bear & 1 MILL STREET /ROUTE 9 Highway Ladies Thorough FAIR Music & ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON Information & From 2pm on East Contentst 18 BRANCHES THE SNOW KING & QUEEN Depart. 17 in the • Dance from the celestial realm. A cosmic play of Good and Evil. Our wish for the 22 Sinterklaas • Market Street 21 THE PEACE DOVE Library Swag! Beekman closes to traffic Fire House world. The night ends with a wish for • between Route 9 and • • 2 Arms Center Street— it Peace in the world so that we will all will become filled • at the Parking THE STAR CHILDREN: THE TURTLE. On whose back the live in community with Parking •OPENING with music & street Rhinebeck High School, Prince + Princess who brings us the Earth was formed. for SInterklaas Parade performances 45 North Park Rd. each other, enjoying and Ceremony behind the Assembles Sinterklaas Star year. celebrating our differences, Starr Library! Reformed Here Church 19 CREATURES FROM THE FARM hoping for Joy for All in this, Sanctuary The sheep, the cows, the llamas, the rams. our precious World. Have Questions? Need • . Porto-Potties are in the Municipal THE CRESCENT MOON MUSIC! Restrooms Parking Lot. Restrooms are available at all venues They join their wild brothers. help? Look for the SOUTH STREET Ask Me Ladies! and all over town at friendly merchants.

8 Sinterklaas 2019 • sinterklaashudsonvalley.com sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 9 THE GIFT OF THE WHALE St. Nicholas, Sinterklaas, A Special Story for the Year of the Fishes and Santa Claus in the A little Sinterklaas History Hudson dined at an inn and, after eating their fill, His association with Amsterdam goes Valley The Tradition of informed the innkeeper that they could back to the time of the Spanish Inquisition, When the early Dutch not pay their bill. To exact payment, the which had spread to Holland in the Middle settlers came to America, Sinterklaas Day innkeeper chopped them up into little bits Ages. Rumor had it that a Nicholas was they brought with them Many people ask: what is this celebration and cooked them in a stew. Bishop of the Cathedral in Amsterdam. their venerated old hen the Great Sprit created this land, he made that happens early in December? Why have Nicholas heard about the awful deed When the Spaniards came from Spain to bishop, St. Nicholas, and a special interest and pride in this time of and came to the inn to find pieces of the trade with the Dutch, they also smuggled many beautiful and good things. He made the sun their favorite holiday, and the moon and stars. He made the wide land, year? boys boiling away in the pot. He told the in adults and children whose lives were Sinterklaas. Indeed, after W The answer: we are honoring the Hudson innkeeper that if he, Nicholas, could find threatened by the Inquisition against Jews landing in the New World, the Dutch explorers, white with snow, and the mountains and the ocean. He made Valley’s Dutch heritage by recreating one little piece of each boy that was good, in Spain. Nicholas took in all the children led by Henry Hudson, built their first church fish of all kinds and many birds. He made the seals and the customs that the settlers from Holland he would perform a miracle and bring all no matter their faith. on the island of Manhattan in 1642, dedicating walrus and the great bears. Then the Great Spirit made the brought to the Hudson Valley. The Dutch three back to life. Now, what child does not it to Sinterklaas. When the British took control Inupiaq. He had a special love for the people and showed them people who came to Rhinebeck over 300 have at least one little piece of good in him? of New Amsterdam in 1664, they adopted the years ago brought a celebration with them And so Sinterklaas returned the boys to life Today in Holland how to live, using everything around them. Dutch recognition of Sinterklaas and merged it Then after making all this, the Great Spirit decided to that was already a deeply rooted part of and took them into his care. There is not a with their own observance of the Winter Solstice their traditions. There is also the story of the three single family and Father Christmas—the merry, roly-poly, make one thing more. This would be the best creation of all. The ritual was simple enough. Each year sisters: Once upon a time there were three in Holland Falstaffian figure in high boots. Eventually, these The Great Spirit made this being with great care. It was the on December 6 (that’s the Dutch tradition, beautiful daughters of a poor peasant. The that does not two old gentlemen, both commemorated in Bowhead Whale. It was, indeed, the most beautiful and the ours is the first Saturday in December), a first was very blonde, the second had raven in some way December, merged into one. finest of the things made by the Great Spirit. As it swam, it town resident dressed up as Sinterklaas (that hair, and the third auburn. When they grew or another Over the next few generations, Sinterklaas is, elegantly garbed in a bishop’s tall hat, red up they fell in love with three pleasant honor the old flowed through the ocean. It sang as it went, and it was in found his way into American literature. In 1809, perfect balance with everything around it. cape, shiny ring, and jeweled staff ). Mounted young men. But the sisters could not “Bishop” and the writer Washington Irving (who lived in the on a white steed, this Sinterklaas would ride get married because they had no dowry. his servant, the lower part of the Hudson Valley) created a jolly But the Great Spirit saw something else. He saw that the through town knocking on doors late at night. That made them very sad. One night, Grumpus, with Sinterklaas for his popular Knickerbocker Tales. Inupiaq people needed the Bowhead Whale. Without the He would be accompanied by his long-time as Sinterklaas was out riding, he looked a party, a small get-together or by going Then in 1822, a Dutchess County man, Henry whale, it would be hard for them to survive. They needed to sidekick, the Grumpus. Also known as Black through a window and saw the three lovely, to somebody’s else’s house to celebrate. Livingston, Jr. wrote a lighthearted poem –“A eat muktuk, the flesh of the whale, to keep warm and healthy Peter, the Grumpus — a wild looking half- but sad sisters. When he heard why they There may be many presents, or just a few, Visit from St. Nicholas” (until recently wrongly man, half-beast character — rattled chains could not marry the young men they loved, tables laden with traditional candles and during the long, cold nights. They needed its bones to help attributed to Clement Moore) which featured build their homes. They needed every part of the great whale. and threatened to steal away the naughtiest he went back to his palace and gave the cookies, or just a pot of hot chocolate. The a jolly old elf, his descent down a chimney on children in his big black bag. And for those Grumpus three little bags. Each contained house may be teeming with children, or Christmas Eve, and a sleigh drawn by eight tiny So the Great Spirit gave the Bowhead to the Inupiaq. He gave “less bad” he had switches for exacting lesser a hundred golden ducats. He asked the have perhaps just a few grown-ups around reindeer (like Odin’s flying horse!). The Father them a way to hunt it from their boats covered with walrus punishments! And for the good children — Grumpus to drop the little bags into the the dining room table—but the Sinterklaas Christmas image stuck, but he acquired an hide. He made a special time each spring, when the whales Sinterklaas and the Grumpus would deliver a girls’ shoes, and an hour later they were spirit is everywhere. English name—Santa Claus—a direct derivation would swim. In that whale road, the Open Lead, the whales bag of goodies. rich. They married the three nice young Every December Sinterklaas arrives from Sinterklaas. men and lived happily ever after! in Amsterdam by boat. He comes from would come to the surface and wait there to be struck by the And to bring things full circle, Rhinebeck is harpoons of the Inupiaq. They would continue to do so every To this day, children leave a carrot in Spain where he lives throughout the year.. now home to Leopold Quarles von Ufford, who Over the years, as towns developed and their shoes hoping to attract Sinterklaas’ We reenact this journey, in our bi-coastal for 40 years was the Dutch Ambassador and year as long as the Inupiaq showed respect to the Bowhead, as houses grew closer together, Sinterklaas’ attention and rewards. celebration, with Kingston playing the played Sinterklass around the world. long as the Inupiaq only took the few whales that they needed ride turned into a Parade that still happens How this kindly 4th-century bishop role of Spain and Rhinebeck the role of America, a country of invention and in order to survive. in Holland to this day, and is the most made his way from Asia Minor through Holland. Our Sinterklaas makes his way opportunity, a land where everyone could write But the Great Spirit decided this also. At that time each year popular of all Dutch holidays. Italy, Spain and all of Northern Europe in a Children’s Maritime Parade in the their own life’s where he is still honored today is hard to Rondout of Kingston, boards the Tugboat when the Open Lead formed, when the whales came to the story, added the surface to be hunted, the Great Spirit made it so that a heavy say, but by the 11th century he had become Cornell, sailing off to reappear a week later latest chapter to Who was Sinterklaas? in Rhinebeck. cloud of thick mist would hang just above the ice, just above At the start, Sinterklaas was a real person the patron saint not only of children and a tale that had In Holland he is traditionally greeted by named Nicholas, born in the 4th century unwed maidens, but of sailors and the City begun in ancient the heads of the whales and the Inupiaq. That thick mist would a group of Grumpuses and a million people in Myra, Asia Minor. As a grown man he of Amsterdam as well. times with Odin, hang here between the sea and the sky. “Though I give you come out to see his arrival and triumphant became a bishop. Little else is known about a mythical figure permission to kill my most perfect creation,” the Great Spirit parade through the streets of the city. The him—except that he loved children. embodying the rest of the country watches on TV. It is far said, “I do not wish to watch it.” A story is told about Sinterklaas to archetype of The Good King, who rode through and away the most wonderful and exciting illustrate this point: Three little boys the night in the land of the reindeer on his flying festivity in the land! white horse doing good deeds for children. 10 Sinterklaas 2019 • sinterklaashudsonvalley.com sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 11 It took a Village, a Town, a Valley, and 2,500 Stars! We all know that Sinterklaas was NEVER just one person—he is only the NAME we give to a certain spirit of generosity, love and sense of community that sus- THANK tains us at the darkest times and lights us up with wishes for peace and good MAKING THE CELEBRATION OUR OWN will toward all. Here are his local embodiments called by their more familiar names... (list up-to-date as of noon November 17, 2019) its future, for these are no ordinary stars! From the moment you take possession YOU. Thank you for lighting up our Universe! Transforming the Story of your STAR, you assume a key role in Good children, bad children; naughty a community ritual. On Sinterklaas Day or nice; coal or presents. Judgments and hundreds of your neighbors, friends, and Beyond the Beyond Star Clusters HOW IT $75 – $124 contrasts abound. $5000 + family will join in an illuminated pageant Jill Lundquist and Right alongside the Sinterklaas legend through the heart of Rhinebeck. The Stinchcomb Doug Baz Today we create our there is a more ancient story of the You will carry your STAR in your own Family Fund Ed Bergstraesser ALL Bel Snickle, the Grumpus, the Rupelz, way—perhaps close to your chest and Robert C. Duffy and Mike and Colleen Bloxham Shab, the Krampucz. A sort of scary his children Victoria Elaine Collandrea own version of the cradled with care, or held aloft dangling and Caldwell character—who comes out of the woods The Galaxy The Milky Way Dodd and Dorothy Crane HAPPENS freely in the winter breeze. A gathering The Frost Memorial Fund SINTERKLAAS myth and and who stands in marked contrast with $250 – $499 $125 – $249 Peter Dolese Sinterklaas is truly constellation will light the path for the Aroi Thai Restaurant Aba’s Falafel Joseph and Nancy Drago an event that takes a the kindly Sinterklaas, the Good King. A many children who, adorned with their Sandra and John Blair enact it in our own way, leftover from a harsher time. And even Infinity and Beyond Anonymous Ryan Fortwendel community. Actually Crowns and Branches of their own $2,500+ Buns Burgers Atelier Renee Fine Framing Oliva! Gourment Olive Oils though he is played by someone from the Karen Burke & Vinegars it takes a really creation, are the honored Kings and Thomas Thompson Trust Ellen Bowe BIG for our own time. neighborhood, and even though he does Central Hudson Ruby Palmer Studio Queens of the Day. Foster’s Coach House & Assemblyman community of friends and Charny and Wheeler P.C. Kevin A. Cahill The Pelosi Family not REALLY cart children away in his black You and your STAR play an important Heermance Farm We focus on the Good College Planning Hannelore Chambers Kurt and Lisa-Sue neighbors, near and far, bag or punish them with the birch rod that role in the pageant that takes place at the he carries, he is still there—a reminder that Connections, LLC CJ’s Italian Restaurant Quackenbush who love the magic that end of the parade. Mike and Cecily Frazier and Pizza Hector and Debbie King, the Noble Soul, the The Universe happens in the telling of if you are not good, well…punishment will After the evening’s festivities are over, $1000-$2499 Vicki L. Haak, CPF Clear Yoga Rodriguez follow. Dorna Schroeter one who brings light out take your STAR home with you to grace Arts Mid-Hudson Haggerty Law Offices The Courtyard this very special story, in In Rhinebeck, we turn that tradition your hearth throughout the dark winter Douglas Baz Photography Jen Hammoud DF Craft Construction George Reskakis our own voices, filled with upside down by turning a negative symbol Sarah Bissonnette-Adler Hetta Glogg Darryl’s The Tourtelot Family of darkness, befriends with the vivid memory—like a burning The Wollens Family and reverence for into an empowering one. ember—of when we all came together to Production Coordination Katharine Malaga Dr. Tom’s Tonics LOVE Carolyn Marks Blackwood Wendy Bush Lyons, Esq. Anne Moehle Ferrara Van Norstrand & the time of year and for Hoolihan CPA the children and all the celebrate our children, our community, our Cale Communications Monique Martin Sarah Hill and Chiling Weng the children of the world. lives and each other. ENTA Education Network Maya Kaimal Foods LLC Guillermo Fesser CROWNS AND BRANCHES Justin Watrel creatures, and inspires And then, as custodian of your for Teachers and Artists Fr. Richard McKeon and Fraleigh & Rakow What’s the nitty gritty of What is the meaning of the Crowns and Matthew Fass Website Tim Lewis, Church of Insurance Linda Woznicki communal STAR, you can bring it back it all? Its a lot of people our souls. Branches that are made by and carried by next year, adding to an ever- Design the Messiah David and Joanne Gelb Jeanne Fleming and Merriweathers Veronique Guccione working many hours, the Children in the Parade? expanding universe of stars, Wonderworks Be A Star No Sugar Edward J. Haas $20 – $74 Since St. Nicholas loved children so helping to build our special Dal LaMagna ­— some We continue the tradition Roger and Cheryl Norton Hudson Valley Pottery Gail Bennek VOLUNTEERING much, it makes sense that on his Name Sinterklaas tradition. Mid Hudson Federal Credit Oblong Books & Music Hudson Valley Vintage of us all year long — to Union Liza Berdnik Day, children—who at all other times of the Kimberly and Brian Orcutt Iconic Hair of making Sinterklaas a Mirbeau of Rhinebeck Charles Buehler coordinate, schedule, year are the least powerful people in the Felicia Keesing and JSA Sustainable Wealth Deborah Duke M. Suzy Morris Costume Rick Ostfeld Management promote, make, build, touchstone—one through society—are turned into the most powerful Design Nancy Ebel THE HAVDALAH Phyllis G. Palmer The Kroeg assemble, borrow, poster, for just this one day. Children are crowned Omega Institute Linda Faber Right before the Parade Paula Redmond Real Andrew Stewart and which we can come Kings and Queens with Crowns and Richard Prouse Stage Estate, Inc. Cricket Lengyel Steven and Susan print, phone, deliver, begins, a special ceremony Scenery Gauspohl Sceptors (Branches) of their own making in Susan Ragusa Liberty Public House monitor, cook, feed, clean, takes place at the foot of the Albert Shahinian Fine Art Howard and Jane Korn together in community, a bustling and beautiful workshop! Warren S. Replansky, Robby Long hill on West Market Street. Stewart’s Shops Attorney at Law Anne McGrath and create, and . . . well the list In Rhinebeck, the birch rod—the Greg and Sheila Lynch Stephen Mosto Led by Rabbi Yael Romer ThinkingPartners Rhinebeck Animal Hospital could go on. putting aside what indispensable instrument of medieval Mark and Gretchen Lytle Barbara Pokras and the children and folks Iliana Van Meeteren Rhinebeck Architecture education—is transformed by imagination The Mabreys: Vicki, M. Christine Shaffer from the Jewish Alliance of Northern Martha Tobias Special Rhinebeck Department Sienna & Grant And the divides, to focus on what and art into a symbol of empowerment and Events The Sullivan Family BIGGEST Dutchess and Temple Emmanuel, this Store Mike and Sally Mazzarella of all is to love. It becomes the Branch—the Royal Williams Lumber The Rogovic Family Jon Wechsler CHALLENGE beautiful Jewish Ceremony marks the end Momiji Hibachi & Sushi raise the funds it takes brings us together—our Scepter—a symbol of creative power in the Winter Sun & Samuel’s Sweet Shop of the Jewish Sabbath and opens up the Summer Moon Montgomery Row hands of today’s children. James and Abby Saxon Patricia O’Connor to produce this big, humanity, our love for secular time of The Sinterklaas Parade. Sunflower Market And so, on this day in Rhinebeck, Olde Rhinebeck Inn c. 1745 This project is made complicated and growing The Havdalah Ceremony is a weaving The Super Nova The Turpin Foundation children are raised up from being those together of all those in the community in $500 – $999 Thomas Ostrofsky possible, in part, event. We need your help. children, our hopes for least powerful to the most powerful! The Andy and Linda Weintraub Peter Amendola a through funding from a web of interdependence, symbolized by A. L. Stickle Variety Store Al and Aida Wilder Jerry Pagliari Dutchess Tourism, Inc rods are turned to Royal Scepters and The Art of Building Al Boutin and Lindy Wright and administered by the future. intertwined candles. Pegasus Footwear Arts Mid-Hudson. the Children are crowned royalty for one The Beekman Arms Emily Houpt and Periwinkles at Rhinebeck glorious day! Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Victor Zelek Georgia Dent and Having seen the Wish Lady, each child Gallery Jeff Perry will leave the workshop with something to CO: A Co-Working Space Susan Phillips Be sure to get your Enjoy Rhinebeck carry in the Parade and to take home. Pilates Center, Hammertown Rhinebeck Beth Graziano DONATE WHAT YOU STAR for the Children’s Haven Spa Pizzaria Posto CAN. BUY A STAR. BE A Margaret C. Howe Diana Devlin and STARS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE Star Celebration after Hummingbird Jewlers David Reynolds FRIEND AND SUPPORTER What are the STARS that every family will Jordan Matthews Rhinebeck Convenience Store OF SINTERKLAAS. carry in the Parade? What is their purpose? the Parade. Look for Paper Trail Rhinebeck Yoga Center The Stars are what make Rhinebeck’s Rhinebeck Bank sinterklaashudsonvalley.com Rikert’s Auto Body, Inc. them on sale at shops Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market celebration unique from all other Smoky Rock BBQ Tatiana Serafin Thank you to: Sinterklaas celebrations. These STARS Staley Read Estate LLC in town, and at the Sue Sie make families, friends and relations the Twin Ponds Nursery Renee and Craig Snyder active myth makers of our community and “Ask Me” table. Zimmer Brothers

12 Sinterklaas 2019 • sinterklaashudsonvalley.com sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 13 It truly takes a whole HOST of folks to come together in a beautiful way to make Sinterklaas happen. It STREET ART! at Chancellor A FEAST! All those who THE SINTERKLAAS Livingston—Cynthia Baer and donated food for the hundreds includes everyone: those who donated time and money and all those who sat in meetings, answered Kathy Giles, and at Rhinebeck of performers and volunteers. COMMITTEES millions of questions, made extraordinary suggestions, cut a branch, served up tea, and everyone who High School—Fawn Johnson and Thank you to Johanna Bard and THANK YOU ALL! comes to the event. Sinterklaas forms a close and sweet community as it gathers steam throughout the the Art Club for their original Colleen Bloxham for keeping this paintings that hang in the trees! army running with good food! Steering Committee: year. We thank all of you who form this creative community! Le Petit Bistro, Bread Alone, Lila Pague, Chair SAINT PAT! You can findley Maya Kaimal Fine Indian Foods, lay down your cross. Sunflower Market, Migliorelli’s, George & Phebe Banta Bubby’s Burritos, the Matchbox Kimba Baker FRESH FROZEN! the Snow Cafe, Gaby’s, Grand Cru, Johanna Bard Here are some who deserve special mention! We thank… King, Queen, and Star Child: Rhinebeck Bagels, Terrapin, Aba’s Mayor Gary Bassett Sarah Bissonnette-Adler Stefan Handl, Suzy Morris and Falafels, Aroi Thai Restaurant, AHOY MATES! Those Actually there’s Oceans of care!!! patient, long-standing, and Colleen Bloxham COUNTY & STATE NO LEAKS! OUR MERMAID AND HER AND JILL! Lark Wright. Pete’s Famous Restaurant, Marybeth Cale County Executive Mark Molinaro nothing secret about how much we supportive husbands: Al Boutin, Cait Johnson and Samuel’s, Osaka Japanese Stephen Cook and Dutchess County Sheriff Butch love the Great Leader of the Crowns SEA STAR! Steven Michael Pague, Bernard Terry O’Keefe. Pearls of Girls! With WHAT IS YOUR WISH, ASKED TIBETAN WOOD for the Restaurant, Tops, and BUNS. Meg Crawford Anderson, Sue Serino and Kevin and Branches Workshop, Joanna Greenwald, Mike Bloxham, Peter wisdom to share. THE FISH? Our Ask Me Ladies! branches! Scott Cruikshank Cahill for their support! Hess. These women know what they are APTLY NAMED! The Starr Muste, David Gelb, Doug Baz, Colleen Cruikshank talking about! Dorna Schroeter, SHE PLUNGED RIGHT IN! Library for its warm welcome to Donald Corrin, Dave Tobias, Revs. Steven & Nan Ernst The Village AND THEIR MERFOLK: Elena Erber VILLAGE & TOWN OUT OF THE DEPTHS! Mark Perez and Jeniece Schroeter. Fearless Leader. Gwen Bardon, The utterly talented and relentless all our stars—human and puppet! Albert Shahinian, Foster Reed Board, Mayor Gary Bassett for all Sarah Bissonnette-Adler and Joanne & David Gelb Joanna Hess, Kiki Steele, Mary Suzy Morris creator of The Stephen Cook and the Board and Harlan Matthews who play you do! Sgt. Pete Dunn continues to Matthew Fass. Surface! Sue Hartshorn and Dan Shorstein Burns, Ana San Juan, Cecily Frazier, Mermaid, the Sea Star, the Snow of Trustees, Brooke Stevens, greater roles than anyone could be extraordinary! And the Rhinebeck ROCKIN’ ROBIN ever imagine. Suzanna Hermanns for years and years and years. Garnette Arledge, Amy Tully, Val King, Snow Queen, Star Child, Dave Wanzer, Ed and Veronica Joanna Hess Fire Department for inviting us into SIZE DOESN’T MATTER! Kilmer, Diana Devlin, Marie Dynes, the Owlettes, the Owl Queen of Schroeder. Emily Houpt your home! Kyle and Crissy Eighmy! The Toy Theater and Roberto Rossi! Nancy Suthhard, Risa Getman and the Night and her Mouse, the 12 YEARS!!! WHO COULD Rebecca Holt The Town Board, Elizabeth Spinzia, WHERE WE LIVE! Janice Hulst-Murphy. And for set gorgeous Sinterklaas Robe, those FISH FACE!! Thanks to Evelyn Well, we Cait Johnson Supervisor, and the Rhinebeck She Who HAVE IMAGINED IT! STAYING POWER! CELEBRATION SPACES: up and tear down: David Gelb, Al crazy Kukeri, African and Indian Avelado for the beautiful designs ALL did! We imagined it minute Alex Kahn Chamber of Commerce. Does Not Quit! Empress Becky Holt! We thank the Rhinebeck Fire Richard Kopyscianski Boutin and Rudy Younger. Elephants & the Caterpillar! and to Nan Jackson at the by minute and idea by idea. And special thanks to the well- Department for their generosity for Starr Library for the Coloring Dede Leiber Sinterklaas continues to be an Peggy & Bruce Lubman The Rhinebeck Rotary known trinket lady extraordinaire, the Crowns and Branches space! Cindy Kubick, Workshops and Joanne Gelb for FAMILY! SHAPESHIFTER! ever astonishing achievement and Doug Baz & Jill Lundquist and Interact Club for Puppeteers Laura D’Attore and her Mermaid We thank the United Methodist WHAT’S THAT YOU’VE GOT formerly Mrs. Beekman, creates a putting it all together. Thanks to shows what a community can do Liz Mazzarella and Parade Marshals. Thank you, Jeniece Schroeter for making sure all Church for the SWAP, the Workshop, IN YOUR POCKET? IT’S A new role as Mother Holly with her all who colored the 700 beautiful working and dreaming together. Sally Mazzarella Rotarians for your vast and deep the creative needs of the wee kings and Horns a’plenty! And the FISH!!! Given joyfully by our Pocket house made by Ania Aldrich and fish masks for the children— Thank you again to the greater Rev. Richard McKeon support! We truly can’t do it and queens are met. And to Jeff Bantas for our Star Party and Green Lady Carla Carbone, with Dani Terry O’Keefe. especially Roger Norton, Becky Rhinebeck community for the Sophia Michahelles without you! Newman: solid ground. Room at the Beekman Arms. Betsy Reuben and retired Grumpus and Holt, Nancy Karimi and friends . privilege of being allowed to do Paul O’Connor Jacaruso Gallery for the Grumpus Fr. Luis Perez Pocket Mate, Wally Carbone. GOLDEN BOY! The brilliant the work. WARMTH! To the Frost Memorial SQUIRRELS AHOY! Hideout! Connie Bathrick and the actor and artist Richard Prouse Joseph Phelan Fund!! Never forgotten. The Swap Team strikes again! Courtyard! Liberty Public House for ICHTHYOLOGIST, BEAUTY whose performance as Poseidon It’s widely said that Sinterklaas Richard Prouse Lindy Wright, Jill Lundquist, Linda our fabulous After Party! And Ruby will live forever in the minds of all is magical. Foster & Tricia Reed Rabbi Yael Romer Helbing, Nancy Karimi, Mel Dean, Star for the bird’s eye views. Foster’s QUEEN, CARPENTER, who saw it and whose painting A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT Abby Saxon to Elijah Bender whom we have Debby Franke Ogg, Cheryl Norton, Coach House for opening the heart CATCH OF THE DAY! How does one create magic? MARKETER AND SCHOLAR— genius for our stage always takes Grace Schultz, Sarah Bissonnette- Dorna Schroeter of our Village (the White Corner!) Is it hocus pocus? gotten to know! Dorna Schroeter, Suzy Morris, Dorna Schroeter! (notice how many us into different worlds. And Mr. Adler, Stephen Kurowski, Jeff Pat Sexton and forging a Town Green for all our Anne Ballantine, Tina Shaffer, times her name appears in these Barry Cohen who keeps it real. Newman, Tom Dressel, Peter I say: it’s hocus FOCUS! Martha Tobias performers and folks to gather. Our TERRANOVA! New Land! Under Dee Ballantine, Jillian Ballantine, thank you pages!) And the Village of Red Hook for Muste, Matt Rymkiewicz, Ricky Lou Trapani Vaudeville House and Cirkus Tent: It’s paying attention to every the sea! Holders of the Flame & the Gail Benneck and Joanne Gelb. the loaner! de Zubiaurre, Alyssa Greenway, Sup. Elizabeth Spinizia breath 2019, The Terranova Family: DeDe Leiber and Upstate Films. detail and caring for everyone Julie & Lou Turpin A SEA OF VOLUNTEERS! JJ Muste, Jen Hammoud, Vicki along the way. That’s what makes Lucas, Maureen, Saxton, Sterling and ALWAYS BEA THERE! Tricia Reed and Ana Sanjuan for of Distinction, Livia & Bill Vanaver THE DRONE… Rivera, Mark Schuyler, Mike magic. Linda & Andy Weintraub Sabine. Keep breathing. Bea Lambert for continued inspiration. AND OUR NEWEST reining them in and to all those who David Gelb. Long Live Drone Dunlap, Peter Muste, Susan Howie Traudt LOCATION! CO: Co-working + animated puppets! Now you are David! And his consort, Joanne! Bissonnette, Barry Cohen, The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Lindy & Al Wright AND THE LINEAGE: The Wright/ BIG FISH/ LITTLE FISH: meetings + events in an inspiring 300 strong!! Michelle Rafferty Cary Kittner, Wonderland says: “Imagination is Pearson Family 2018; The Hoolihan/ To Paul O’Connor for our GIANT FISH. space in Rhinebeck! That’s exactly WHEN HE’S NOT ON Mary Pat Davies, and Francesca the best defense against reality.” Kruger Family 2017; The Hewitt Abby Saxon, Jane Resnick and Lila what CO did for Sinterklaas by Hoffman. Jeanne Fleming ALL THOSE WILD VACATION… always there… I say it’s the best offense. Our Family 2016! The Cruikshanks 2015! Pague for our Little Fish. providing a space for our Grumpus Hudson Valley Community Productions GRUMPUSES! Mike Bloxham, , Harlan Matthews. imaginary mystical Creature—the and The Stickles, 2014! to dance! 118 La Bergerie Lane Andy Crispell, Kurt Fisher, Matthew SOUNDS RIGHT! Mermaid—and her half magical MOTHER OF THE BRIDE! Omega Institute’s Ken Kuter and Red Hook, NY 12571 The Exquisite Lila Pague Gelfer, Chris Gilbert Clifford Hart, FELLOW TRAVELERS and half real companion—the 845-758-5519 KEEPERS OF THE FLAME (to MFTA) Lindy Wright, Skip Backus for letting us hear! George and Phebe Banta for Richard Kopyscianski, Jamyang Sea Star—inspire us to become [email protected] Suzy Morris, and David Gelb showing up and believing in us! SHINE ON! Lauree Ostrofsky, our Lodoe, Robby Long, Harlan Howie Callies for driving the more aware of the reality around sinterklaashudsonvalley.com Crescent Moon! Matthews, Nick Matsakis, D. Miller puppet truck! us and how we can make it more FORTITUDE, COURAGE AND Terrance McCorry, Mark Perez, HALLELUJAH! THANK like what we imagine or dream. Stephen Robin, John Schmitz, The Church They call to us to save all the Elena Erber who designed ALL THE HELPERS AT THE HEAVEN FOR…! OUR OWN SPECIAL LOVE! Steven Young, Andy Weintraub of the Messiah, the Reformed endangered species—from the ALL our graphics, including this Special Thanks CROWNS AND BRANCHES THE FISH BOWL! and Victor Zelek. And Grumpus Church of Rhinebeck, The United SINTERKLAAS! exotic, ancient and magnificent beautiful book and a lot MORE! for Connie Bathrick for comfort and Scott Cruikshank, man with a WORKSHOP! Joanna Hess, Emeritus: Ricky Aldrich, Wally Methodist Church, and the Third Sturgeon to the smallest, most grace! golden heart. Coordinator, and her marvelous Carbone, Dodd Crane, David Gelb, Evangelical Lutheran Church expendable menhaden. Our QUEEN TRIGGERFISH: team: Johanna Bard, Mary Burns, Arun Lahiri, Bruce Lubman, , Steven imaginations allow us to live Martha Tobias! — we will say it again—folks Nina Doyle, Maribeth Feinberg, SPECIAL TANKS (OOPS, WE Pague, Richard Prouse, Heinz Sauer THE PUPPET MASTERS magnanimously, generously, filled with love and generosity Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles Karen Hinderstein, Melisca Klisanin, To the United & Bob Wills. Trained by Martha creatively and hopefully IN our MEAN THANKS!…) in their hearts: Rev. Richard whose vision and dedication to STILL COMMITTED: Robbie Puglisi, Sarah Miller, Tess Methodist Church and Pastors Steve Tobias. world. (Help!!! They won’t let us out!!! Can McKeon Jr., Fr. Luis Perez, the work is unmatched anywhere, Miller, Dorna Schroeter, Oona Shain, and Nan Ernst for our Celebration Pastor James Miller and Pastors you hear us???) After 12 years: The who hosted the workshop and Here’s the clue to Sinterklaas Loretta Spence, Saira Sukthankar, Space, Workshop, SWAP and Toy SMALL FRY! The 500 kids in the Steven and Nan Ernst, and Anna Wonder Women of the Sinterklaas taught so many in the skills of magic… Keep your imagination Linda Helbing, Norma Dolan and Theater and the Hornatopia! Chancellor Livingston School who Pavord, Liz Irwin and the ever Committee: Endless energy, the pageant puppetry and who made going at every moment of every Cecily Frazier. made fishy pictures! gracious and generous Bonnie extraordinary TEAM: Lila Pague, Pat that magnificent Horse and the day that you have on this earth Doug Reyero. The Jewish Alliance Sexton, Elena Erber, Lindy Wright, SWEET MEMORIES… Fox, Crow, Bear, Goose, Turtle, and create an world that is safe, To those who swoop in Baz for his 32 years of wonderful THOSE WILD WOMEN! Abby of Northern Dutchess, Rabbi Sarah Bissonnette-Adler, Martha CREW! Hummingbird, the Bees, the Owls, abundant and loved, where we at the end and make it work: The photographs that make it possible Saxon, the Wildest! Thanks to Yael Romer, Kimba Baker and Tobias, Joanna Hess, Tricia Reed, Jill the Elephants, Butterflies…and can all breath freely. Rhinebeck Rotary and Daytop. for us to tell the story and Dave June and Charlie Schreck for their Lundquist, Joanne Gelb, Suzy Morris, Temple Emanuel for a beautiful now the STURGEON! Tobias and Michael DiPleco who beautiful work decorating the Wild Dorna Schroeter, Joanna Hess, and moving Havdalah. And the KEEP HER IN OUR KITCHEN! have joined his ranks! Women sound cart (and pulling it!!) Dapson/Chestney Funeral Home LET’S BRING ABOUT Debby Franke Ogg, Nancy Karimi ALL THE ARTISTS AND Colleen Bloxham. She’s all ours, for hosting. A SEA CHANGE. and Colleen Bloxham who keep OURS! GREAT WAY TO START stirring the pot all year long. SINTERKLAAS CRAFT FAIR PERFORMERS! —Jeanne Fleming, Designer and presented by the Dancing Gelbs, THE DAY! Bear Beauty Contest. To Ania Aldrich and Gigi Alvare SCHOOL OF FISH! Coordinator SAY IT WITH A SONG! David and Joanne, and all the artists Samuel’s John Traver and Judge To Riverkeeper for your vast for the original work and setting Julia Haines, Harp and accordion. and crafts people participating in Hillary for keeping the tradition alive. knowledge and committment. us on the path. SPEAKING FOR All of US at Gigi Alvare for Don Gato! Blessings the Fair! Special thanks to Dorna Sinterklaas!! on you both! Schroeter and Bobby Fitzpatrick. To my son Jordan, who has taught us much and Samantha 14 Sinterklaas 2019 • sinterklaashudsonvalley.com Strong for keeping spirits alive. sinterklaashudsonvalley.com • Sinterklaas 2019 15 POSTER GALLERY Sinterklaas is announced in a most unusual way—by­ beautiful paintings hung in all the trees at the center of town. Here is a small sampling of the 350 paintings — especially the honored naimal paintings — made by our high school students, the Senior Citizens Artists’ Program at the Reformed Church, the Art Teachers and many other painters from around town! Be sure to visit EVERY one as you enjoy the day.

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