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Editor’s Notebook 10 Years Young By Chip Rowe

decade ago, tomorrow, a new venture on Main Street in Cold A Spring was unveiled: a news site called Philipstown Dot Info. Its driving force was Gordon Stewart, a corporate executive, former vice presi- dent at the American Stock Exchange and former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He had moved full-time to Garri- son from New York City with his wife and daughter three years earlier. The first articles posted on July 4, 2010, covered an ongoing rezoning debate in Phil- ipstown and upcoming hearings on Main Street parking and composting toilets. A story posted two days later profiled The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. (Michael Turton follows up with the band on Page 17.) Anyone who stopped by the office that hot day was offered a Philipstown.info bumper (Continued on Page 11) Drive-in Theater Planned for

SUMMER FUN — A boy and his bubbles waited on June 26 at Dockside Park in Cold Spring for the Clearwater to arrive from Beacon Beacon. For more photos from the sloop’s stay in the village, see Page 24. Photo by Ross Corsair Arts, cultural spots prepare to reopen in Phase 4 Donor Train By Leonard Sparks Kidney recipient part of a ith indoor theaters shuttered because of the COVID-19 five-state swap W shutdown, including at Story Screen Beacon, drive-ins in Hyde Park and By Michael Turton Poughkeepsie have been the only way to meeting in which the recipient of see a movie on the big screen. But Beacon a new kidney was able to meet her may soon be an option. A donor “face-to-face” was cathartic, On Sunday (June 26), Story Screen despite happening over Zoom. announced it is working with city offi- The Current has chronicled Leesa Thomp- cials to convert the University Settlement son’s journey from Feb. 23, 2018, when she property on Wolcott Avenue into a drive-in learned she needed a new kidney or would theater for 40 to 50 cars. face dialysis and a shortened life. More than The plan is to show two movies on Ed Holowinko, Leesa Thompson and Dr. Anthony Watkins in 2018 after her transplant. 100,000 Americans are facing this dilemma. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, File photo by M. Turton Thompson, who lives in Cortlandt beginning in mid-July at a facility under Manor and has been a member of the didn’t know Leesa but agreed to donate incompatible donors “swap” the organs. construction. Concessions will be deliv- Beacon Sloop Club for more than 35 years, after learning of her predicament in an Meanwhile, in Peoria, Arizona, Dr. Kerri ered to cars. was lucky. A donor was found, and seven- email blast sent by her partner. Tanner was about to become the other part “We’re absolutely thrilled to bring and-a-half months later she underwent Because their blood types didn’t match, of the equation. She had joined the paired entertainment back to our community, transplant surgery. Thompson couldn’t receive Holowinko’s exchange program as an “altruistic donor” who have done so much for us in our first In the end, two people donated kidneys kidney, but he could still donate through — someone who offers a kidney without year at Story Screen Beacon Theater,” on Thompson’s behalf. what is known as a “paired exchange”: Two knowing who will receive it. organizers wrote on Facebook. Ed Holowinko of Norwalk, Connecticut, people in need of kidneys who each have (Continued on Page 7) (Continued on Page 6) 2 July 3, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

FIVE QUESTIONS: CHARLEY KRACHY

By Leonard Sparks How did you wind up selling instru- What do you love about jazz? ments made in Taiwan? What I do is I take a standard tune By Michael Turton harley Krachy, of Garrison, is the A guy had tried one at a trade and put my take on it. If I do my owner of Old Dog New Saxophones. show in China and posted a posi- job, at the end of the night, you If you’re in a funk, C tive review. So I bought one. It will walk out of that club feel- was a quality horn. I emailed ing happy, a little uplifted and what music snaps How did you get introduced to the Gu Tai Corp. and said, “How you’ve heard original stuff saxophone? would you like someone in New you’ll never hear again. When you out of it? At the end of the school year, high schools York to represent your horns?” you connect like that with have a presentation with the chorus and the audience, it’s just a good band. My parents took me to Croton High Who is your favorite saxophonist? feeling. That’s it. School to see it when I was 10 or 11. This kid Lester Young. Bird [Charlie That’s the top. Rock-soul-funk, came out with an alto sax. The next morn- Parker] and Prez [Young], I especially Lenny ing, I said, “I want to play the saxophone.” came up on that. In the 1980s, I got into [Stan] Kravitz and When did you decide to go pro? Getz, Lee Konitz Erykah Badu. It was always a hobby. I got a degree in and Warne Marsh. finance [to pay the bills]. But in 1989, I did That’s where I’m my first concert at the Greenwich House at. I’m back there. Music School. We recorded the perfor- Lester Young, to mance and put it out, and this guy from me: My God. One The Village Voice wrote a review. A month note. Just listen later, we’re at the Blue Note. to one note.

~ Meghan Spiro, Beacon

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NEWS BRIEFS Hustis Pleads Not Guilty Beacon Council Asks Discussions continue about plea deal Police for Numbers harles E. “Chuck” Hustis III, a former Weapons, calls, interactions all part of C Cold Spring trustee and mayoral candi- discussion date who was charged by federal authorities s protests against police practices and with the attempted enticement of a minor spending continue nationwide, the for sex, pleaded not guilty on Thursday (July A City Council on Monday (June 29) contin- 2) during his arraignment in White Plains. ued its review of policies at the Beacon Police Hustis was arrested by the FBI in Decem- Department by sorting through its weapons ber while authorities say he waited to meet inventory and reviewing calls that officers a teenage boy after making arrangements have responded to in the last 18 months. online. A judge released Hustis on $150,000 Officers responded to 12,519 calls in 2019, bond but placed him under home detention with around 2,800 related to the patrol of with a monitoring device. various sectors of the city. More than 2,000 The Thursday hearing took place by were traffic stops. audioconference; Hustis, 37, was indicted The department’s inventory of firearms by a grand jury on June 30. The next hear- includes rifles, air guns that fire projectiles, ing will take place later this month, and pistols, shotguns and Tasers. Notably, the Hustis’ public defender continues to nego- inventory also includes a fully automatic tiate a possible plea deal. Thompson “Tommy” submachine gun that was purchased at a hardware store in Beacon Beacon School Board in the 1930s but is not used by the department. Member Resigns For the full story, see highlandscurrent.org. Also: Superintendent contract extended five years Village Board Accepts Resignation ichael Rutkoske, who with Meredith MHeuer and Antony Tseng was part of a Officer was involved in 2012 shooting first wave of newcomers elected to the nine- death in New York City member board four years ago, said at its he Cold Spring Village Board on June 23 10 Years, annual reorganizational meeting on Wednes- accepted the resignation of Officer Scott day (July 1) that he will resign as of next week, T Morris. He had been hired late last year but citing work and other commitments. agreed to resign after residents protested his The board will begin discussing how to fill role as supervisor at the scene of a police kill- 10 Puzzles! the seat at its next meeting, which is sched- ing of an 18-year-old man in the Bronx in 2012. uled for July 20. Its options include holding Morris was not charged but faced New York a special election, an appointment or stick- Police Department reprimands for “failure to ing with eight members until the 2021 vote. Enter to Win! notify police communications” and “failure to At the same meeting, the board elected supervise members during a police incident.” Heuer as president. She succeeds Anthony He agreed to resign from the NYPD in 2017. White, who won reelection last month but The vote was 3-0. Mayor Dave Merandy chose to step aside as board head. Heuer Ten years ago on July 4th, "Philipstown.info" appeared was absent and Trustee Fran Murphy had been its vice president for the last two abstained, saying later that she felt the on a storefront on Main Street in Cold Spring. It was years; Elissa Betterbid, a board member board had done its due diligence before since 2018, was elected to succeed her. the beginning of a new community news source that is hiring Morris. Earlier this month, the board extended “I didn’t want him to resign; it wasn’t now the independent nonprofit newspaper you're the contract of Superintendent Matt fair to him,” she said. Murphy said Morris, Landahl for five years, until June 21, 2025. reading today: who provided details of the 2012 incident Landahl was hired in 2017 after a year- when interviewed by the board, had indi- long search for a new schools chief. He will cated he would resign if the incident ever earn $197,676 this year, and his salary in became an issue. subsequent years will be based on perfor- mance evaluations. To celebrate our 10th anniversary and to thank you, our readers, for your support, we're giving away 10 CURRENT CONVERSATIONS puzzles featuring some of our most iconic photos.

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EDITOR LETTERS AND COMMENTS Chip Rowe [email protected] Pride/Black Lives treated with the dignity that makes us all Email Legislator Neal Sullivan at putco- I’d like to extend my deepest thanks to feel heard, connected and protected. [email protected] and demand he SENIOR EDITOR the organizers of the Putnam Pride/Black This work doesn’t start in September and put the Human Rights Commission on the Leonard Sparks Lives Matter march and rally held June end in November every two years or four July agenda. 22 in Carmel, and would especially like to years. We can’t wait for something horrible I am committed to continue this chal- ARTS EDITOR commend the participants (“Two Causes, to happen here, or for some awful legislation lenging, important work. With your help, Alison Rooney One Voice,” June 26). to be proposed, to push us toward action. we can get it done. [email protected] Living in small, tight-knit, rural towns Let’s take a proactive approach to inclusivity Nancy Montgomery, Philipstown SENIOR CORRESPONDENT like Philipstown and Putnam Valley, we in our communities. We need to be working Montgomery represents Philipstown on Michael Turton often focus on the things that unite us as all the time, now more than ever, to make the county Legislature. neighbors, unite us as friends, unite us sure that everyone in Putnam County has REPORTERS as parents, and bring everyone together a voice, and that when we envision what Some thoughts from a veteran public Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong toward a common cause. But in pursuit our communities look like and feel like, it is school teacher on the Beacon school board Brian PJ Cronin • Joe Dizney of focusing on what makes us alike, we so something we can all be proud of. adopting a statement supporting the Black Pamela Doan • Deb Lucke frequently overlook all of the individual, One way that we can work toward change Lives Matter movement (June 26): Skip Pearlman • Jeff Simms unique differences each of us brings to the today is by establishing a Human Rights Empathy, acceptance and understanding table. By taking an opportunity to celebrate Commission for Putnam County. We are the are essential factors to embed in relation- LAYOUT DESIGNER and elevate those perspectives and identi- only county in the downstate area that does ships and the overall culture of a school. Pierce Strudler ties, hopefully we can widen the lens of what not have such a commission. In January, I Change cannot be reduced to bullet points sponsored legislation to establish one. Dozens in a list of “to-dos,” such as an updated ADVERTISING DIRECTOR makes Putnam County a great place to live. of folks came out in support. Since then, the reading list or minor tweaks to curriculum. Michele Gedney One thing we have learned from this For information on advertising: ongoing pandemic is the importance of chair of the Rules Committee has been slow This is going to be a hard sell, and will 845-809-5584 relying on our neighbors and our commu- to answer my requests to put the proposal take ongoing advocacy, commitment and [email protected] nity for support. But whenever anyone feels back on the agenda for discussion and a vote. time, but supporting real change in our highlandscurrent.org/ads unsafe or unwelcome or unable to take Now is the time. It’s time for all commu- schools will require comprehensive reviews advantage of that network, its connections nities across Putnam County to have a safe, of everything — including staffing diversity, are weakened for everyone. It is our respon- formal venue to foster mutual respect and class size and standardized assessments. sibility as leaders, as allies and as neigh- understanding, and to promote equity, These all play a role in how successful a bors to make sure everyone across Putnam acceptance, unity and humanity for us all. student can be in our public school systems. THE HIGHLANDS CURRENT Please help move this initiative forward. The only way forward is through funda- (USPS #22270) / ISSN 2475-3785 County feels included and valued, and is mental reshaping of how and why we July 3, 2020 educate our children. I hope our commu- Volume 9, Issue 27 nities are ready for the challenge and will is published weekly by Highlands Current Inc., 142 Main St., Cold Spring, support necessary changes. NY 10516-2819. Periodicals Postage Paid Mai Jacobs, Beacon at Cold Spring, NY, and at additional offices. POSTMASTER: Send address Beacon police changes to The Highlands Current, Thirty people speaking out to cut police 142 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516-2819. Mail delivery $30 per year. funding in no way represent the opinion highlandscurrent.org/delivery of the 15,000 people who live in Beacon [email protected] (“Beacon Police Face Scrutiny,” June 26). Distribution audited by the Circulation I’ve lived in the city for more than 40 years Verification Council and have never had anything but positive deal- © Highlands Current Inc. 2020 ings with any of the police officers (yep, even All rights reserved. No part of this when I got a ticket years ago). Hopefully the publication may be reproduced in any form, mechanical or electronic, without City Council doesn’t act erratically due to a written permission of the publisher. few people who may have some personal issues when the majority is in support of our police. Charles Symon, Beacon * Winner: 45 Better Newspaper Contest Awards Wanting more funds to go to our children * New York Press Association, 2013 -18 and to strengthening the community does not necessarily mean people don’t “support NNA* Winner: the police.” It means we want to prioritize 31 Better other things. We can still have a police force Newspaper to respond to violent crimes with a fraction Contest Awards of what is spent now. * National Newspaper Association, 2016-18 Spending 25 percent of our city’s budget on policing is wasted money and an oppor- NYNPA* Winner: tunity. I favor putting this to a citywide vote. 8 Awards for What if we could vote on the police budget the same way we vote on the school’s budget? 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LETTERS AND COMMENTS

(Continued from Page 4) families cheered. They received scholar- 2020 2010 2000 1990 Upon consulting with and the agreement Counting the ships with a virtual presentation and of the family involved, I want to announce Cold Spring 68.0 69.1 71 72 picked up their yearbooks and diplomas. Highlands The icing on the cake was the chance for that a bench placed in memory of Officer Putnam County 65.3 66.8 67 56 Dustin James outside City Hall will be moved Response rates to the seniors to see themselves on the big screen to the entrance to the Beacon police station. 2020 U.S. census, as Philipstown 64.7 66.2 67 64 at the Hyde Park Drive-In Theatre. I want to thank the family for their of July 1, along with They say it takes a village — and the historical data, at right. If a Nelsonville 62.1 66.5 67 65 gracious accommodation. Dustin James Parent-Teacher-Student Organization can household doesn’t respond was a fine human being and a fine police 18th District 61.9 66.0 - - attest to that. Thank you to the entire online at 2020census.gov, Beacon City School District administra- officer. I attended his memorial service. National 61.8 67.2 65 61 the agency sends a paper tion, faculty and staff for their efforts to A portion of the bench reflects his career, questionnaire. If there is Beacon 60.9 65.8 54 66 work around the regulations and closures which some members of the community still no response, a census to provide opportunities for our kids to may feel is inappropriate in front of the city taker will be dispatched. Dutchess County 60.7 65.7 68 64 courthouse and municipal entrance. It is Although “nonresponse celebrate their graduation. more fitting and appropriate for this bench follow-up” operations were New York State 57.3 64.6 67 62 Thanks also to Key Food, Ron’s Ice Cream, Libby funeral home, Melzingah to be placed in front of the police station. As delayed by the pandemic, New York City 52.9 64.0 55 53 this is an administrative matter, this deci- the bureau’s offices in Tap House, Antalek and Moore, Riverview sion is made by the mayor. Peekskill and Pawling have Newburgh 38.4 50.2 45 44 funeral home, Slaterpalooza, Chris Bopp, reopened. As with most decisions in a democratic, Source: 2020census.gov Stintson’s Hub and Dawn Sela Photography, pluralistic society, where people have as well as Rob Lanier, Suzi Higgins and Tim diverse opinions, this may not make anyone and Susan Pagones, for providing a person- fully satisfied, let alone everyone. I would Short-term rentals space, and the farm is great for children to alized lawn sign for each graduate. encourage tolerance and respect for one This is wonderful news (“Beacon Legal- see, as well as for the high school students Thank you to community members for another on this and all issues. izes Short-Term Rentals,” June 26). I am so who attend programs there. Please do not buying and displaying yard signs. In addi- Lee Kyriacou, Beacon glad I got involved in this matter, attending sell this land. tion to raising spirits, the money raised was Kyriacou is the mayor of Beacon. meetings in person and online. I am glad I Nadine Fletcher, Carmel used to provide face coverings that read emailed council members with my thoughts. “BHS 2020” and a graduation movie-night Be kind to cops and they will return the This is a huge win for all the people who 2020 grads goodie bag filled with snacks for each family. favor, regardless of pigmentation. Returning rent Airbnb units, rooms or homes. Beacon What a school year this has been! As Over their four years in high school, safely to their families is the prime objective. needs what you have to offer our visitors, parents, we anticipate certain rites of members of the senior class worked hard James Rossouw, via Facebook families and vacationers. They are coming passage for our children, one of which is to raise funds to help pay for the events, here for weddings, reunions, to see their their high school senior year. We envision as well. This money was used to rent the It’s funny how everyone is protective grandchildren’s first birthdays, to look at them dressing for prom, loading buses movie theater and for a group photo. of their tax dollars when it comes to the real estate, to become homeowners. I have for senior trips and approaching a stage Although the seniors lost out on many police. These officers put their lives on the met so many wonderful people of all ages to receive recognition for academic and traditional pieces of their final year, many line; we should pay them less? When crime and have not had one incident in three athletic achievements. The big finale is traditions were created, allowing them to increases and it impacts each person, crit- years with anything due to Airbnb. Thank their graduation day (“Congratulations to be loved and celebrated in new ways. ics will say the police aren’t doing their jobs. you, Beacon City Council. the Class of 2020,” June 26). Christine Galbo, Beacon Moving funds away from the police depart- Laurie Gallio, via Facebook This year things were different, but This letter was also signed by other ment will come at a cost to the community our seniors were celebrated in new and members of the Senior Parent Committee unless the community can maintain order Putnam land creative ways. With much fanfare, Beacon of the Beacon High School PTSO. and civility on its own. As a resident of Putnam County and a High School teachers and administrators Donald O’Sullivan, via Facebook homeowner, the last thing I would want is visited each senior’s home to deliver a cap Lee at West Point for the county to sell the land at Tilly Foster and gown. The Athletic Department orches- What would Abraham Lincoln do with Pizza delivery is a more dangerous job Farm or the golf club to developers (“Virus trated a tribute to senior athletes. Each Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s demand to than policing. If we’re paying on a danger Takes a Divot at Putnam Golf Course,” June senior had the chance to walk across the erase the memory of Robert E. Lee from scale, let’s pay groundskeepers, farmers, 26). Both properties have beautiful green stage as their name was called and their West Point (“Maloney Again Asks West garbage collectors, truckers and fishermen Point to Remove Lee’s Name,” June 26)? more than police, who all do a heck of a lot What would this assassinated president, more for this country anyway. The myth of who invoked the Christian virtue of forgive- policing as a dangerous profession gives ness and permitted Confederate soldiers to cops the idea that their job is a battlefield, return to their homes, do? and a lot of innocent people have died for Remember his words: “With malice their war fantasies. toward none and charity for all, for firm- Ryan Biracree, via Facebook ness in the right as God gives us the right to see, let us strive on to bind up the nation’s It’s ironic how we think of police as tough wounds.” Our nation was wounded and people and yet they completely melt down Lincoln was the healer. But those wounds at any sort of criticism. are being reopened and deepened by the Steven Saltzman, via Facebook likes of the Maloney, whose rampage of moral arrogance is wrecking the founda- What is happening in this country is tions of our nation. disgusting. I can’t believe that anybody would Ann Fanizzi, Carmel ever want to consider defunding the police department. We are a nation of law and order. Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. His Respect the law and there will be order. accusers cannot say the same. Rose Scanga, via Facebook Nina Pidala, via Facebook

The community is loudly saying that Lee was asked by Lincoln to lead the order and civility are not being maintained ONE-MAN STAND — A solitary supporter of President Donald Trump erected a banner Union army and refused in order to lead by the police departments of this country. on Route 9D in Cold Spring near St. Mary’s Church on Tuesday (June 30), prompting an armed insurrection based on preserv- The function of defunding departments is four Philipstown residents to stage their own protest of the president a short distance ing and expanding the right to own other to reallocate tax dollars to better maintain away. No one would give his or her name. Some residents contacted Village Hall to human beings as property. order and civility. question whether the banner violated local law because of its size, but the code only Tristan Elwell, via Facebook Dan Breindel, via Facebook prohibits signs that block the street or sidewalk. The area between the sidewalk and Route 9D is part of the state highway right-of-way. Photo by Michael Turton 6 July 3, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

With entry allowed for up to five people, Pick-Your-Own in the COVID Era ages 2 and older, picking at Fishkill Farms can still be a family activity. Among the COVID-19 by Farms balance high season Now, socializing has been replaced by changes, however, is a one-hour limit for social-distancing. Local farms in the midst picking and requirements that participants the Numbers with safety of their high season are running their pick- wear masks and attest that they haven’t had COVID-19 symptoms in the past few By Leonard Sparks your-own programs in a new way — requir- PUTNAM COUNTY ing visitors and CSA members to reserve a weeks, said Morgenthau. Number of confirmed cases: t this time last year, members of time slot so farms will not be overrun with There is also a handwashing station the Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s people at a time when crowds are viewed as that visitors must use before picking and (+21) community-supported agriculture a risk for spreading the virus. a prohibition on eating fruit in the field. 1,332 A New Cases in Philipstown: 0 (CSA) program would socialize while on the Fishkill Farms in Hopewell Junction is The Poughkeepsie Farm Project is limit- taking reservations to pick sweet cherries, ing picking to CSA members, who must also farm to pick crops. Tests administered: Executive Director Ray Armater likened raspberries and other fruits and produce. reserve a time slot. Entry is restricted to the individual and one family member. Like Fish- it to “an open house on the farm.” “Demand has been great,” said owner (+1,822) “Folks would hang around in the shade Josh Morgenthau. “We’re getting the same kill Farms, the farm project requires that visi- 17,734 and talk and wait for other friends to type of attendance we would normally get tors wash their hands before picking. Percent positive: come,” he said. but it’s been spread out over more days and “Our CSA members are great,” Armater That was pre-COVID-19. more hours, which is the goal.” said. “They really get it.”` 7.5 (-0.7) Number of deaths:

(+1) ings and social distancing. be able to reopen, as some had anticipated. 63 (from Page 1) Phase 4 The list of approved places includes In Garrison, Boscobel lost the Hudson Meanwhile, other arts and cultural orga- botanical gardens, museums, nature parks, Valley Shakespeare Festival to COVID-19 DUTCHESS COUNTY nizations prepared to again welcome visi- historic sites and outdoor zoos. when it canceled its 2020 season. Number of confirmed cases: tors under Phase 4 of the state’s re opening Professional sports, excluding auto and But over the last two months, Execu- plan, which could begin in the Mid-Hudson horse racing, can also resume in Phase 4, tive Director Jennifer Carlquist said this (+49) Region (including Putnam and Dutchess) although without spectators. The state is week, the organization also found some- 4,225 as soon as Tuesday (July 7). asking higher education institutions to thing “life-affirming”: the pandemic-weary Active Cases in Beacon: 14 submit plans for reopening in the fall. doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and Businesses and organizations offering Tests administered: “low-risk” indoor and outdoor arts and During Phase 4, social gatherings of up other health care workers given free access to 50 people and indoor religious services at to the gardens, trails and grounds, along entertainment, along with film and music (+6,068) productions, will be allowed to resume as up to 33 percent of capacity will be allowed, with their families, as a respite. 61,625 long as employers monitor workers’ health with social distancing restrictions. But movie The ongoing program “kept us going Percent positive: and adhere to guidelines for facial cover- theaters, gyms and shopping malls will not when we were mourning,” Carlquist said. “The pandemic has refocused us and shown 6.9 (-0.6) us how incredibly lucky we are to have the resources that we do, and motivated us Number of deaths: even more to share them in new ways.” NOTICE The Boscobel mansion will remain 151 (+0) closed, but the organization began offer- ing a limited number of grounds passes last Source: New York State Department of Health, with weekly changes in parentheses, PHILIPSTOWN PLANNING BOARD month. As Phase 4 begins, more people will as of July 2. New cases in Philipstown for Public Hearing – July 16th, 2020 be allowed on the grounds for self-guided week ending June 25. and guided tours. For $12, a visitor can have the run of the The Philipstown Planning Board for the Town of Philipstown, property for two hours, whether hiking, face coverings, Magazzino will allow only New York will hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 16th, picnicking or visiting its gardens, Carlquist 10 people to enter every 30 minutes and 2020 starting at 7:30 p.m. via zoom to hear the following said. “You get to essentially treat one of the limit the number inside to 30. Each group appeal. most beautiful homes in America as your will be given 90 minutes inside the gallery. own front lawn,” she said. Visitors will be given a device that buzzes If you would like to attend, please email kmacintyre@ In addition to Boscobel, Magazzino Ital- and lights up when they are closer than 6 ian Art and Storm King Art Center are feet to someone in another group. philipstown.com to request login information before 7:00 pm preparing to reopen to guests. Storm King, in New Windsor, plans to on July 16th, 2020. “I’m excited for Magazzino to go back reopen on July 15. “We have developed strict to being an active member of the commu- protocols for opening our site and services CRS International Self-Storage Warehouse/Office, 2761 Route 9 nity,” said the museum’s director, Vittorio in stages,” said John Stern, its president. TM# 38.-3-64 Calabrese. “I’m also careful because I see Visitors will have to buy tickets online for what’s happening in other states.” timed entry, follow social distancing rules (The applicant is seeking Amended Site Plan re-approval Magazzino is planning to debut an and wear face coverings when distancing for the existing self-storage site plan, similar in scope. The exhibit, Homemade, with about 30 works is impossible. created by eight New York-based artists The art center store and cafe will remain property is approximately 2.47 acres located in the “HC” during the pandemic. closed, as will Storm King’s tram and shut- (Highway Commercial) zoning district.) In addition to requiring reservations and tle services. At said hearing all persons will have the right to be heard. Copies of the application, plat map, and other related materials may be seen in the Office of the Planning Board at the If you are looking Pruningfor a “natural finish” is and an do notart want to see your Philipstown Building Department. ornamentals cut back severely to dead wood, choose artful pruning. Artful Pruning allows your ornamentals to keep looking good. Dated at Philipstown, New York, June 18th, 2020 Artful Pruning gracefully brings your ornamentals back to a more appropriate smaller size. 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organ transplant can be challenging, the “I’m sorry I’m not fully able to appreci- children, but this is a close second.” (from Page 1) Donor Train program doesn’t allow a donor and recipi- ate the gift you’ve given me,” Thompson Tanner said the long wait to learn who After two attempts to donate fell through ent to learn each other’s identities for at continued, saying she has been unable to received her kidney was difficult. She was due to the recipient’s health issues, Tanner least a year. Thompson only knew her return to work. cautioned during counseling before being was matched with Thompson. kidney was coming from California. While the coronavirus has kept Thomp- approved as a donor that she might never Because the psychological effects of On Oct. 9, 2018, one of Tanner’s kidneys son at home, she walks regularly and has know. “Not knowing if my kidney made was removed at UCLA Hospital in Los started an online fitness group that Tanner someone’s life better was something I had Angeles, flown to New York and implanted has joined. to put out of my mind daily,” she said. “But into Thompson the next day. Thompson said with a laugh that she had the pros far outweigh the cons.” Simultaneously, one of Holowinko’s nicknamed her kidney “Baby Kerri.” Holowinko said it feels “a little strange” kidneys was removed, sent to Massachu- Asked why she donated an organ to to still not know who received his kidney, setts General Hospital and implanted in a a stranger, Tanner, a senior team leader although he recently learned the recipient recipient who has not been identified. with OptumCare in Arizona, said: “I felt a is doing well. This week, Tanner, Thompson and calling. To feel you have helped someone in Giving up a kidney “puts a different Holowinko attended the Zoom meeting a way that 99.9 percent of the people will perspective on life,” he said. “People waste and invited a reporter from The Current. never know — that’s elation. I’m incredibly their lives on stupid things. There’s so much Ten days earlier, Tanner had introduced proud of it. I’m ridiculously proud of my more we can do.” herself to Thompson in a letter. “I cried and cried and cried when I read Kerri’s letter,” Thompson said. She said receiving Tanner’s kidney was NOTICE a huge relief, though mixed with months of frustration and depression, which is a BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT side effect of the medications to keep her SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM | OPEN SITES body from rejecting the organ. Thompson The Beacon City School District is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals also had complications such as a hernia and will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless a heart condition, which can’t be treated of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the until she is stronger. course of the meal service. Meals with be provided, at a first come, first serve basis, at the She broke down while thanking Tanner sites and times as follows: for helping her, expressing guilt over her DATE SCHOOL BEACON TIME slow recovery. “I feel sad that I’m having all these complications,” she said. “It’s not your July 8 - August 19 South Avenue School 60 South Ave. Mon & Wed 10 - 10:30am Dr. Kerri Tanner after her surgery in which fault, Kerri; I wish I was better!” July 8 - August 19 Beacon High School 101 Matteawan Rd. Mon & Wed 10 - 10:30am she donated a kidney to someone who “It’s not your fault, either, Leesa,” Tanner was then a stranger. Photo provided reassured her. July 8 - August 19 Tompkins Terrace Apts. 194 Tompkins Terr. Mon & Wed 11 - 11:30am

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights NOTICE activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the PHILIPSTOWN PLANNING BOARD Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Public Hearing – July 16th, 2020 Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

The Philipstown Planning Board for the Town of Philipstown, New York will To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 16th, 2020 starting at 7:30 p.m. via Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the zoom to hear the following appeal. information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. If you would like to attend, please email [email protected] to request login information before 7:00 pm on July 16th, 2020. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture (2) Fax: (202) 690-7442; or Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Slope Line, LLC C/O The Scenic Hudson Trust, (3) Email: [email protected] 1400 Independence Avenue, SW 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 200 Poughkeepsie Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 This institution is an equal opportunity provider. TM#16.-1-19, 16.-1-18, 16.-1-11, 16.11-1-11, 16.-1-12, 16.-1-15, 16.-1-14, 16.-1-13, 16.-1-20, 16.-1-17, 16.-1-16, 16.11-1-1, 16.11-1-2, 16.11-1-3, 16.15-1-40 (Approval of the subdivision of the 770 acres into 3 parcels. Parcel A - 520 acres is unimproved and will be protected by conservation easement or conveyed to New York State. NOTICE NOTICE Parcel B - 190 acres is improved with small recreational structures. It will be conveyed to an HOA associated with the existing residential community THE PHILIPSTOWN THE PHILIPSTOWN surrounded by the Slope Line Land, and it will be subject to a conservation PLANNING BOARD CONSERVATION easement. will hold their regular Monthly BOARD Parcel C - 50 acres is already improved with residential structure and out Meeting on July 16th, 2020 at will hold their regular Monthly outbuildings. If and when it is conveyed by Slop Line, it will be conveyed 7:30 p.m. virtually via Zoom. Meeting on July 14th, 2020 at subject to a conservation easement. 7:30 p.m. virtually via Zoom. If you would like to attend, At said hearing all persons will have the right to be heard. Copies of the If you would like to attend, please email application, plat map, and other related materials may be seen in the Office please email [email protected] of the Planning Board at the Philipstown Building Department. [email protected] to request login information to request login information Dated at Philipstown, New York, June 18th, 2020 before 7 pm on 16th, 2020. before 7 pm on 14th, 2020. 8 July 3, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

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 CAUGHT WITH THE CURRENT — A reader catches up on the news at Dockside Park in Cold Spring. Photo by Ross Corsair

 BEAR RESCUE — On Sunday  VIRTUAL HOLIDAY — The annual (June 14), two state environmental Independence Day Celebration at conservation officers were called Mekeel’s Corners Chapel at Routes 9 to Beacon to help a bear that had and 301 in Philipstown will not take been seen wandering on North place this year, but organizers posted a Walnut Street. Officers Mike 30-minute recorded program at bit.ly/ Hameline and Kevin Wamsley found mekeels that honors Ed Cleary, a former the bear in a tree, where it had president of the chapel, who died in  OFFICER AND PARTNER RETIRE drawn a crowd. A state biologist April. According to Town Historian Mark —Sgt. Scott Lombardo of the Putnam came to the scene to tranquilize the Forlow, the 1867 structure — shown here County Sheriff’s Department retired animal, which fell onto cushions in the 19th century — was originally a on June 26 after 23 years in law set up below the tree. It was fixture in what was known as Griffin’s enforcement. His partner, K-9 Char, removed to a less-populated area Corners, which included Griffin’s Hotel, a also retired. Deputy Sheriff Michael of Dutchess County. school and a blacksmith shop. Sutherland was promoted to Photo provided Photo courtesy Mark Forlow succeed Lombardo. Photo provided

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By Alison Rooney

ike many others before them, Frankie Martinez and Steve Yount L set their sights on having a weekend home in the Hudson Valley. The couple had a look at Beacon and found it had a similar vibe to Asheville, North Carolina, the artsy city in the Smoky "The Lords & Ladies of Solstad House" — Mountains where Yount grew up. past or present members of Frankie and They bought a house and soon the week- Frankie Martinez and Steve Yount. "I promise you, behind these masks, we are smiling," Steve's senior rescue "dog pack" ends expanded into the weekdays. Three Martinez says. Photos by A. Rooney years ago they left Brooklyn and came north full-time with their five dogs (now six). dog who had lived her whole life getting restrictions, in early June. What customers in New York, from a good mix of minority- Not long after that, they decided to open nothing,” Yount says. “Once she got love, it will find inside is a mix of “consumables, owned businesses — basically, small compa- a business. Yount has experience in retail; doubled her life.” textiles, pottery, books, cards, apothecary nies with people doing it themselves.” he was an operations manager in the early The retail concept was “a community items, personal-care products, puzzles and The rear of the store is home to an array days of Bed, Bath and Beyond, among other general store that focuses on handmade dog- and cat-related items,” says Yount. of vintage lamps; 100 percent of each sale management positions. Martinez works in products,” Martinez says. They called it “We are very much skewed to locals, is donated to an organization based in software development. Solstad House after a band Yount played in maybe because we’re off the beaten path Tennessee called Old Friends Senior Dog Their first thought was a restaurant while living in Brooklyn, which in turn was and there’s no stampede of tourists, like on Sanctuary. “I’m part of a large Southern featuring Venezuelan street food because named for a character in the Paul Thomas Main,” Martinez says. “We’ve made so many family and had to endure big family meals Martinez is from Venezuela and his mother Anderson film, The Master. great friends, human and canine. We’ve with crazy old lamps!” says Yount. “This is an amazing cook, Yount says. But the The shop, located across the street survived the past few months because the started out as nostalgia, but we discovered licenses and paperwork were daunting. from The Roundhouse and down the hill town decided we would survive.” each lamp had quirk and character.” They reconsidered and settled on the idea from the dummy light, opened on Nov. 1. The partners, who have been a couple for of “a cute little shop” they could use to After strong holiday sales, it had to close 20 years, find stock by scouring trade shows Solstad House, located at 17 E. Main St., publicize senior dog rescue. to customers in March because of the “for what could fall under a rustic Scandi- is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Their mutual affection for older dogs pandemic. Fortunately, the early sales have navian aesthetic,” Martinez says. “We want from noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. began with an 8-year-old who thrived in helped them weather the shutdown. to feature mainly handmade artisan prod- to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. their care and lived to age 17. “This was a Solstad House re-opened, with Phase 2 ucts, made in America, and preferably made Call 845-440-7281 or visit solstadhouse.com. 10 July 3, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Remember These 200 Headlines?* *Or maybe you were there 2010 Spring Boat Club • Little Enthusiasm Locally 2017 A Creative Dry Spell Led to Her Tamales • Cold for School Consolidation • Concept of Linking Beacon Boys Must Forfeit Wins • GE on Spring Village Board Passes Law Allowing Cold Spring and Beacon with “Fjord Trail” Hudson River Cleanup: We’re Done • New Composting Toilets at Parks • Understanding Advances • Mystery Point Sold to Billionaire Superintendent in Beacon • Tourism Board Donald Lusk • Michael Bakker Wins Cold Philanthropist • Our Lady of Loretto Says Chair Charged with $10 Theft • Major Crime Spring Triathalon • The Sad Demise of the Goodbye to Fr. McSweeney • DA Sues Sheriff in Beacon Falls to Five-Year Low • Rev. Geer Once Proud Word Awesome • Cold Spring for $5 Million • Constitution Island Education to Retire from St. Philip’s • Cold Spring Board Meetings to be Televised • Three World Center Proposed for Main Street • Ailes and Mayor’s Race Too Close to Call • 300-Plus War II Veterans Receive French Medal and Shea Discuss New Senior Center at American Unit Development Proposed for Beacon Gratitude at Waterfront Ceremony • “Impeach Legion Post • Manhunt for Suspected Train Station Area • Philipstown Forbids Obama” Effort by LaRouche Group Draws Murderer Unnerves Cold Spring • Towne Crier Aiding Immigration Arrests • Philipstown, Support, Debate, Near Foodtown Plaza • Leo Cafe Re-opens in Beacon • Handel’s Messiah Cold Spring Merge Building Departments • the Cat Has Been Found • Cold Spring’s Radio Comes to Cold Spring • Plumbush School Putnam Sheriff Settles Defamation Case • Station • Serradas, Hustis Attack Mayor and Approved by Town Planning Board • Public Village Raises Concern About Herbicide • Special Board Funding • Guy Fawkes’ Element Officials React to Train Tragedy Craig House Sale Pending • Airbnb Bookings Issue 100 Dropped from Boscobel’s Bonfire Night • Jump 75 Percent in Philipstown • Nelsonville John Adams Receives Presidential Medal of 2014 Residents Object to Cell Tower Plan • Beacon Maloney and Florke Announce Wedding Plans Freedom • Cold Spring Foresees Ending Fiscal on Board for Skate Park • Too Many Visitors, • Weekend Residential Village Proposed for Year with About $40,000 Extra • Village Board or Not Enough? • Beacon Adopts Building Philipstown • Diagonal Parking Proposed for Approves “Dark Skies” Lighting for Waterfront Freeze • Langley is New Putnam Sheriff Main Street • Bowman and Fadde Running as • Vincent Leibell Will Not Take Office as Team • Trustee Hawkins Receives Legal Threats Putnam County Executive 2018 • Library Turns a Page with New Director Jen Development in Beacon: What Next? • Local 2011 McCreery • Shea Seeks Public Input into Cell Dreamers Fight to Stay • Are Schools Safe Another Great “Listening Room” Lineup at Tower Decision • Emotional Haldane Budget Enough? • Cell-Tower Company, Verizon Sue Philipstown.info • Rescue on Breakneck Ridge Forum Outlines Program Cuts • Butterfield Philipstown • Philipstown Names Anti-Drug • Rezoning Brings Praise, Even from Former Zoning Approved • President Delivers West Coordinator • Students Protest Gun Violence Critics, and Scattered Complaints • Draft Point Commencement Address • Philipstown. • Philipstown Enacts Safe-Storage Gun Law Law to Ban Weapons from Town Property Info Becomes Charitable Organization • Lost • Beacon Police Add Body Cameras • Jean Draws Immediate Salvo from NRA Lawyer • Hikers Pose a Challenge • Maloney Retains Marzollo, Children’s Book Author, Dies at PhilipsTalk with Richard Shea • Nelsonville Seat in a Republican Year • Haldane’s Girls’ 75 • Sign Lands Beacon Man in Court • to Hold Rare Event: A Contested Election • Soccer Wins First State Championship • Gordon Assemblyman Skartados Dies at 62 • Rise Will Route 9 Traffic Light Finally Become a Stewart, Our Founder, Dies in “Vaping” Causes Alarm • Beacon Solar Farm Ready to Shine • Little Stony Point Gets Reality? • Dancing Boys Likely to Tear the 2015 House Down at Grease • New Sand for Tots a Facelift • Goose Problem Continues at Many Car Tires Cut at Metro-North Parking Lot Park Sandbox • NRC Declares Indian Point Mayor’s Park • Grannies Head to the Border Issue 200 • Beacon Pool to Reopen to General Public Safe • Dr. Peter Gergely and Stacy Labriola • Beacon to Consider Municipal IDs • Beacon • Concept of Garrison Fire District Prompts Join Phil Donahue as Desmond-Fish Honorees Schools Taking Steps to Diversify Staff • Debate at Town Board • Town Board Urges • World’s End Theater Debuts withThe Seagull Beacon Launches Free Bus Loop • Tires Action to Prevent “Bomb” Train Accidents on • Hockey Coming to Haldane? • Village Board Dumped Into Indian Brook • Silver Spoon May Hudson • State Testing a Divisive Issue in — Skeptically — Weighs Idea of New Firehouse Become Hotel • For Sale: Beacon Prison • Local Schools • This Romeo and Juliet Has a at Butterfield Site • Chapel Restoration First to Montgomery Take District 1 Seat • Beacon Very Happy Ending • State Police Say Kayaker Invite Local Same-Sex Weddings • Split Village Council Reconsiders Pinball Ban a Killer • Pataki Declares for Presidency • Board Scuttles Bid to Allow Higher Fences Beacon 3D Sculptures Transform Main Street • Philipstown.info to Host First Candidate 2019 • Beacon Reviews Merging Fire Houses • Don Nice, Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 86 • Forum at Haldane • Fracking with Our Future Groundbreaking Day at Butterfield Site • Town Beacon Mayor Has Challenger • Anti-Abortion • Philipstown Man and Companion Accused of Board Votes to Pave Part of South Mountain Draft Ignites Debate at Putnam Legislature Selling Heroin • Continental Village Residents Pass • Six Alternatives to Breakneck • The • Challengers Sweep in Nelsonville • Could Seek Help with Lakeland School Taxes • Beacon Theatre Sold • Made in Philipstown Parking Meters Come to Beacon? • Does Haldane Girls’ Varsity Volleyball Team Brings Strikes a Chord • Santos Family Ready to Cold Spring Need Another Traffic Light? • Home Gold • Residents Tell EPA, Village Board Rebuild • Merchants Happy to See Seastreak New Nelsonville Mayor Says He Will Resign of Ongoing Worries over Marathon Site Visitors • Beacon Will See More Hotel Rooms • Judge Reitz Dies at 57 • Putnam Passes Secrecy Law • Maloney Says He Would Vote 2012 2016 Pop Warner Football Wants to Install Lights at for Impeachment, But Prefers Ballots • For First Parking Meter for Cold Spring • Beacon Mayor’s Park • Online Petition Urges Repeal Some, Vaccination Law Stings • Huge Fishkill School Leaders Under Fire • Questions of Mayor’s Salary Hike • Mayor Faces Marion Development Looms Over Beacon • Trolley Issue 300 Raised About Putnam Tourism Office • Avenue Wrath • Mining Returns to Philipstown? Struggles to Get on Track • Putnam Visitors’ Parking Woes as Beacon Grows • Our Town • Cold Spring Board Introduces Global Warming Bureau Disappears • Beacon to Add Three Attracts Plenty of Local Characters • New Pledge • Villanti Proposes Improvements to Firefighters • Mental-Health Hub Opens in Senior Center Will Be Named for Ailes • Haldane Football Field • Dunkin’ Donuts Study Cold Spring • Haldane Coach Arrested • Beacon and Fishkill Discuss Sharing Police Predicts No Traffic Problems • Butterfield Beacon Has New Mayor; Philipstown, New • Challengers Prevail in Beacon School Race Committee Walks Site and Ponders • Cold Clerk • Three-Story Limit on Main? • Former • Pastor Spots Intruder on Doggie-Cam • Spring Says No to Fast Food • Cleanup Follows Cold Spring Trustee Arrested by FBI Three Thousand Hikers Storm Breakneck • Hurricane Sandy Through Philipstown • Late-Night Motion Stirs Protest at Beacon 2020 Scuccimarra Defeats Rosario • Gallagher Says School Board • Coast Guard Proposes More Putnam Sheriff Releases Three Defendants He’s Done with Mayor’s Job Barge Parking Areas • Ailes Pulls Funds for Under Bail Law • ZBA Rules Against Rock- 2013 Senior Citizen Center • Hello (Again) Dolly! Crushing Firm • Whistling Willie’s Closes Putnam Clerk Says No to Gun-Info Request • • Modern Art Space to Open in Philipstown Its Doors • Nelsonville Approves Cell-Tower Residents Ponder Local Solutions to Address in 2017 • Feds to Beacon Police: You Are Settlement • Putnam Settles Hossu Case for Climate Change • Rector Sounds Alarm on Free to Go • Beacon Historical Society Finds $750,000 • Route 9 Firm Sues Philipstown Church Finances • Post Office at Butterfield New, Larger Home • Garrison Fire Company for $50 Million • Coronavirus on the Move • or “No Place,” Warns Mayor • Town and Spending Jumps 27 Percent • Antidote Saves Breakneck Burns • Students and Teachers Village Ban Firearms • Route 9 Biker Assault Two Heroin Users on Same Day • Neighbors Adjust to New Plan • Open Space Institute at Former Hardware Store • Charge Against to Ask State to Close Indian Brook Falls • Buys Breakneck Chalet • Beacon Prison Mazzuca Draws Surprise and Support • DEC Butterfield Developer Wants $2.5 Million Virus Cases Highest in State • Hudson Valley Issue 400 Coal Tar Cleanup Question Looms Over Cold from Village Shakespeare Festival Cancels 2020 Season highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current July 3, 2020 11 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

10 Years (from Page 1) sticker and T-shirt. Nearly two years later, Gordon decided Philipstown.info should have a weekly print edition. He called it The Paper. It launched on June 1, 2012, with the banner headline, “Bridge Snarl Ends This Month.” The paper immedi- ately began to win state and national awards — more than 80 so far. After 10 years, 15,768 stories, 9,008 online comments and 421 weekly issues, we are grateful to be here. We hope we have built on Gordon’s gift to his new community. Chip Rowe, Editor Michele Gedney, composing Deb Lucke draws her dismount

Something You Don’t Traveling the world ending up teaching Michele Gedney Know About Me me a lot about my current career: Namely ADVERTISING DIRECTOR (2011-PRESENT) that everyone, all over the globe, has a story I wrote my first song, “Runner,” by playing to tell. It’s just a question of being curious the first string of an old guitar to harmonize and respectful enough that they’ll feel with the melody. I saved the handwritten comfortable telling it to you. lyrics and, no, it wasn’t any good. The Staff Fifty-two years and hundreds of songs Editor’s Note: For the past Joe Dizney later, I have had the honor, for the past eight few months, while COVID- FOOD COLUMNIST (2010-PRESENT) years, of helping others find their inspiration In my 30s, I washed up in the East Village as a songwriting instructor at Dar Williams’ 19 has suspended in-person — by day, an art director; by night, a fledgling “Writing a Song That Matters” retreat. We performances, Arts Editor rocker. I played guitar for a nine-piece, instru- usually gather each summer at the Garrison Alison Rooney has been profiling mental-only art-rock band, The Ordinaires. Institute, but we’ll meet virtually this year. residents who share unexpected We had two violins, two saxophones, two We are a unique community, compelled to How It Began stories from their past. We guitars, cello, bass and drums. We were a express ourselves through song, joyful at For those unfamiliar with our origin mashup of Booker T. & the M.G.’s and The story, which has been told in The New thought, for our 10th anniversary, finding kinship in each other. Mothers of Invention. Composer, saxophon- My songwriting journey has guided Yorker, a bestselling book, a documen- we would ask the same of the ist and fellow traveler Kurt Hoffman defined so many life choices and led me to my tary and elsewhere: In 2008, Roger people who put the paper together. it as “a big, loud contrapuntal mess that you husband, Rick, my musical partner in our Ailes, then the chairman of Fox News can dance to” — also apt, also limiting. duo called Open Book. and a Garrison resident, purchased the Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong We shared stages with The Beastie Boys, 142-year-old Putnam County News & REPORTER (2010-PRESENT) Max Roach, They Might Be Giants and Deb Lucke Recorder, based in Cold Spring, to the I have a master’s degree in medieval Camper Van Beethoven. We had an MTV INVESTIGATIVE CARTOONIST (2016-PRESENT) dissatisfaction of many members of the history, specializing in 14th-century politi- video (a “Buzz Bin” cover of Led Zeppe- I have fallen off horses a lot. community. cal-military history and the Anglo-Scottish lin’s “Kashmir”). We haunted CBGBs, The As an inexperienced but enthusiastic Gordon Stewart would later say he borders, where nocht was “no” and ne’er Knitting Factory and The Bottom Line, and rider I found out that: wasn’t as bothered as some. But there meant “never.” drove around the country for months in two • Horses spook. were meetings and talk of launching That led to what is probably my best vans. We rocked, we rambled, we fell apart. • Horses have saddles which can flip an alternative paper. It would be costly, investigative reporting ever: a scholarly Words still can’t do it justice — you had to upside-down if the cinch is too loose. and while many people wanted to write article revealing a 600-year-old cover-up by be there. I’m happy to say I was. • Horses play tricks. Like running under columns, few stepped up to cover the a corrupt king who promised to drain the apple trees. Village Board. political swamp but became a murderous Pamela Doan And then there are the horses that buck. After mulling it over for about a year, despot. The sorry tale involves a tragic hero GARDENING COLUMNIST (2013-PRESENT) I bought Sugar with my babysitting earn- Stewart decided to launch a digital news (Sir Harry Percy, aka “Hotspur,” accused of After years of anti-apartheid work and orga- ings. She bucked me off every day for a source, at his own expense, that he felt treason and killed by the aforementioned nizing a speaking tour in the Pacific North- month. But I kept getting back on. would better serve the community. He king – the real Hotspur, not Shakespeare’s west for the African National Congress in 1993, Finally, we compromised. We’d mince kept the site at philipstown.info a secret make-believe version) and burgeoning senti- I was invited to join an ANC Youth League slowly away from the barn. If I squeezed hard and covered the signs on a storefront ment for a proto-parliamentary democracy. Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. enough, maybe we’d trot. The moment we he rented at 69 Main St. until shortly The conference was canceled days before I turned around, she’d gallop back pell-mell. before the Fourth of July parade. Brian PJ Cronin was to leave but friends there convinced me As the 5-foot-high gate that stood between us By that day, the site had three staff REPORTER (2014-PRESENT) to come anyway. It was four months before and the barn drew closer and closer, I’d rise members: Michael Mell, the website Although I did write for the school paper the first democratic elections brought Nelson up in the saddle preparing for the inevitable editor; Joe Dizney, the lifestyle editor; in college, I assumed journalism was too fun Mandela and the ANC into governing. jump. At the last second, she’d skid to a stop and Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong, the to do as an actual job, so I majored in theater My trip included representing Seattle’s and lift her hind quarters skyward. news editor. Soon after, former PCNR and made my living in my 20s as a theater sister community project and meeting with Later, I played polo in college. One of our reporters Michael Turton and Alison technician. My main gig was running union organizers from the Domestic Work- practice drills was dismounting at high Rooney came aboard. Dizney later sound for the infamous, legendary, much- ers Union as an exchange with my union, speed. I excelled. recalled that the grand opening on a discussed-but-never-understood experi- the Service Employees International Union. busy holiday had been “auspiciously mental playwright and director Richard It was illuminating. Alison Rooney commonplace,” but added: “We were Foreman in his tiny theater on the second One of the highlights of my life was going ARTS EDITOR (2010-PRESENT) aware of being it in for the long haul.” floor of St. Mark’s Church in the East Village. out with ANC volunteers to do voter educa- I was once a passenger-service liaison Gordon died in November 2014, at age As a big fan of Richard’s work, this was tion in Cape Town. It’s impossible to describe during an icebreaker expedition to Antarc- 75, but not before converting his enter- a dream come true. He would create and the energy and hope for a better future and tica. During the three-week trip, my duties prise into a nonprofit to keep it going rehearse a new show every fall. We’d open the confidence that voting was a step to get consisted mostly of checking with seasick with community support. In 2016, after in the winter and play five nights a week there. The revolution was happening. passengers who hadn’t emerged from their expanding our coverage to Beacon, we until summer, then pack up and tour festi- I wanted to stay. I wanted to return. I cabins during the first days of the journey changed the name to The Highlands vals around the world until it was time to knew in my heart, though, that as a white in the Southern Ocean, when we passed Current. create the next show. American my work was here. (Continued on Page 11) 12 July 3, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Leonard Sparks in Iraq Jeff Simms, punk rocker “Maddog” Turton in 1987

The thing is, I was sloppy. Like many gene- shows in our own makeshift “club.” With Airport and was driven to Ali Al Salem Air The Staff (from Page 11) alogists, I wanted so badly to believe. You can’t the help of a friend who was a year older, we Base. My baggage included far too many through the “Roaring Forties” winds. imagine my joy when I was able to connect to rented a small space in then-desolate down- clothes, a portable satellite, a Kevlar helmet Sporting a bulky parka — though I found the charts in an old book and extend my line town Winston-Salem, North Carolina. and a bulletproof vest. the weather was less fierce than a typical to Adam and Eve. (Later, I apparently had It had most recently been a sweater shop. Part of the adventure was getting to February in the Hudson Valley — I was able doubts because I wrote along the top of my Once we took over, we painted the walls black Camp Speicher, the base in northwest Iraq to partake of all the history lectures and carefully typed line of descent, “Disputed.”) and built a stage, calling the club New Start. where the 298th was stationed. The only slide shows (that’s how long ago it was). Once I became an adult and a journal- We printed and distributed flyers and safe way to travel was by military trans- For some people, traveling to Antarctica is ist, I became more meticulous — and once charged a few bucks to get in. We never port, usually helicopters. It took days to a dream. It never was for me. I am not overly I learned more U.S. history, I had to be made enough to cover rent, so we pitched in catch a flight to Baghdad, where I had to fond of winter. But I was amazed at how honest about what I found. For instance, my with what we’d made working summer jobs. get my press credentials. Getting to Camp magical it was. We sailed from Tasmania grandmother was a descendent of Stephen Sadly, none of this could ever happen today. Speicher took another two days. and returned to New Zealand, using Zodiac Hopkins of the Mayflower, which is great. Avail, a Richmond, Virginia, band that After reuniting with the unit, I joined craft to land at places such as Macquarie My grandfather was a descendant of a last year sold out a reunion gig in less than a them for two supply runs — long, nighttime Island, where thousands of royal penguins Kentucky slaveholder. Not so great. minute, played its first out-of-town show at convoys of trucks accompanied by security packed the beaches. We visited scientific After moving to Philipstown 14 years ago, our venue. Another band, Shelter, achieved personnel. On each trip the convoy stopped bases and explorer Douglas Mawson’s I thought “Putnam County” sounded famil- commercial success by the mid-1990s, but in because of suspected improvised explo- perfectly preserved hut and saw the Ross iar and dug into my old charts. It turns out 1991 the band had to sleep on the floor of our sive devices. I also rode with soldiers from Ice Shelf, which is sadly now melting. We my ancestors had lived in Carmel — Joseph dingy club because none of us could convince another unit to meet an Iraqi general. We encountered elephant seals, leopard seals Hopkins (1751-1833) and his wife, Elizabeth our parents to let them crash at our homes. stopped to meet some Iraqi children and see and albatrosses, and the air and light felt Townsend, are buried near the historic the ruins of Hatra, an ancient city, that were as if they were from a different dimension. courthouse. In fact, a fraktur made in 1801 Leonard Sparks later razed by ISIS. I returned to the U.S. with that lists their children was carried to SENIOR EDITOR (2020-PRESENT) a more informed perspective on the world. Chip Rowe Michigan and now has returned to Putnam. Who wants to go to Iraq amid an insur- EDITOR (2013-PRESENT) So I’m not a transplant at all. gency? I did. Michael Turton I would like for the world to be organized, There was no hesitation when my editor REPORTER (2010-PRESENT) and so, when I was in elementary school, I Jeff Simms at the Baltimore Afro-American asked me, Until now it’s been a well-kept secret: I fell hard into genealogy. It was appealing REPORTER (2015-PRESENT) in 2006, to travel to Iraq under the Penta- answer to two nicknames. The staff at the to fill in the names and dates, although you In high school, I consumed nothing but gon’s “embed” program, which paired Conservation Authority where I worked in quickly learn the entire exercise is a black punk rock. reporters with military units. In my case, Ontario for 25 years participated in numer- hole because you’ll never finish. My local My college applications would have it would be the U.S. Army Reserves’ 298th ous co-ed sports. When our overly compet- newspaper in Michigan profiled me — the surely looked better had I participated in Transportation Co., whose job was to truck itive manager insisted our softball team 14-year-old family historian. I made several a single extra-curricular activity at school, supplies between bases in Iraq. have an overly serious name, a small revolt lifelong friends who were in their 70s — all but I had no interest. I met the soldiers in Pennsylvania as they put me in charge of selecting a lighter, of them long gone now, but we traded many Beginning in 1990, my junior year, a hand- trained. Once the unit was settled in Iraq, conservation-related moniker. letters. They liked giving me advice. ful of friends and I began booking punk I hopped a flight to Kuwait International I considered The Little Brown Bats and The Least Flycatchers before selecting a native plant with an intriguing name. The team became The Mad Dog Skullcaps and I became “Maddog.” Around the same time, while golfing with three friends, I happened to be wear- ing heavy, salmon-colored denim jeans; a threadbare, fuzzy, mottled brown sweater; and a bright new multicolored paisley shirt. One of my golf mates suggested it was an outfit that only Ozzie Nelson would wear. “Ozzie” stuck, as did my fashion sense.

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SUN 12 tell stories Decoda designed for children in KATONAH grades 1 to 3 p.m. Caramoor 5. Register 914-232-1252 | caramoor.org THE WEEK AHEAD for the Edited by Pamela Doan ([email protected]) The wind players will perform a Zoom event family friendly concert. Cost: $10 by emailing [email protected]. For a complete listing of events, see SUN 12 highlandscurrent.org/calendar. Robert Tellefsen FRI 10 BEACON Tween Summer Book Club 7 p.m. Towne Crier GARRISON facebook.com/townecriercafe 5 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library COMMUNITY The Brooklyn native grew up bit.ly/TweenSummerBookClub playing in Greenwich Village cafes Talk about what you’re reading SAT 4 with Bob Dylan and Richie Havens. Drive-In Fireworks and find out what mystery novel will be discussed next time. The WAPPINGERS FALLS TALKS group will meet every two weeks 9:30 p.m. Dutchess Stadium through August. 1500 Route 9D | facebook.com THURS 9 dutchesscogov Virtual Sanctuary CIVIC The gates will open at 7:30 p.m., GARRISON with the first 500 cars admitted. 4 p.m. Garrison Institute Meetings are closed to the public but No concessions or bathrooms will garrisoninstitute.org streamed or posted as videos. See be open. No alcohol will be allowed. Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, the highlandscurrent.org/meeting-videos Free author of Most Intimate, a book on Zen practice, will lead a meditation MON 6 TUES 7 on how we can respond to a City Council Listening Town Hall changing world. Whispering Tree, July 10 BEACON POUGHKEEPSIE 7 p.m. City Hall 5:30 p.m. Dutchess County KIDS & FAMILY MUSIC Graham Du Bois. There will also 845-838-5011 | cityofbeacon.org bit.ly/2NIfyYw be a panel discussion on the work. MON 6 People of color are invited to Register online. Cost: $10 THURS 9 Mummies and More TUES 7 share their experiences in Dutchess Drum Circle County via Zoom during a forum GARRISON Putnam County BEACON FRI 10 hosted by County Executive 4 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library Legislature 6 p.m. Long Dock Park | 23 Long Dock Road Space Out, Outside Marc Molinaro with U.S. Rep. bit.ly/MummiesAndMore CARMEL facebook.com/beacondrumcircle Sean Patrick Maloney, members BEACON Experience ancient Egypt in this 7 p.m. Historic Courthouse of the Dutchess Human Rights Bring your drums, percussion 6 p.m. Polhill Park Zoom event. 845-208-7800 | putnamcountyny.com Commission and the NAACP, instruments and a chair. The band 4 Airports — guitarist and former Homeland Security Participants must wear masks and Craig Chin and synthesist Nathan TUES 7 Secretary Jeh Johnson. Register observe social distancing. Yeager — will perform electronic TUES 7 online. music. Gender 101: Teen Gender Board of Trustees Workshop COLD SPRING VISUAL ARTS FRI 10 PUTNAM VALLEY 7:30 p.m. Village Hall The Whispering Tree 5 p.m. Putnam Valley Library 845-265-3611 | coldspringny.gov SAT 11 bookwhen.com/putnamvalleylibrary BEACON The Donate $10 7 p.m. Towne Crier Teens ages 13 to 18 are invited WED 8 to register with a school email for Fundraiser and Arts facebook.com/townecriercafe Village Board this discussion about gender and Opener The folk-rock duo will perform identity led by Tony Arrien from NELSONVILLE BEACON songs from its latest album, the Loft and Gina Sanchirico from 7 p.m. Village Hall Invisible Forces. Noon – 6 p.m. BAU Gallery GLSEN, along with drag queens 845-265-2500 | nelsonvilleny.gov 506 Main St. | 845-440-7584 Angel Elektra and Shay D’Pines. baugallery.com THURS 9 SAT 11 WED 8 In its first exhibit since the Listening to Tom-Tom Judith Tulloch Band THURS 9 School Board shutdown began, BAU will offer its KATONAH BEACON walls to any artist who donates $10 Robert Rivest GARRISON 7 p.m. Caramoor 7 p.m. Towne Crier to Community Action Partnership. BEACON 7 p.m. Garrison School 914-232-1252 | caramoor.org facebook.com/townecriercafe Through Aug. 2. Gallery visitors 4 p.m. Howland Public Library 845-424-3689 | gufs.org In this livestreamed event, must wear face coverings and keep The band’s sound has been 845-831-1134 | beaconlibrary.org performers will present excerpts from described as “world-pop-fusion with social distance. In this one-man performance, the first opera written and staged by a jazzy edge.” Rivest will use mime and comedy to an African-American woman, Shirley

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Strong says she avoids the “conflict then Lynn Steger Strong (from Page 9) denouement” curve of many novels. In fact, dreams,’ but I don’t think that’s ever been she’s been told “nothing ever happens” to true. Elizabeth is exhausted because the her characters, which she says is not true dream is unattainable. Money as the ultimate at all. “A lot happens, though because of the determinate of value feels so pervasive.” specific shape of Elizabeth’s life it stays in For Strong, personally, “everything was the same tone,” she says. pretty much check the boxes, the privilege Though releasing a long-awaited novel COVID19 PANDEMIC of doors opening at Columbia.” Yet, there during a pandemic is a challenge, Strong were hiccups. “I found an agent through says “it’s very useful to have had a failed It has been a busy few months here at Gergely Pediatrics trying to keep our doors recommendations from professors. She sold novel — two actually! I had to learn to find open and everyone safe. Our patient and staff safety remains our number one priority. my first book. There was a conversation satisfaction and pleasure from individual Since Wednesday, March 25th, we have been seeing all sick children via telehealth about whether it would be marketable. It readers finding something in the book video appointments only and will be continuing to use telehealth for all sick visits wound up not selling many copies. that was valuable to them. We’re at a point until we feel it is safe to resume in office visits. We are now seeing well children “I wrote another book, and it didn’t sell, where I just want things to be OK, and my ONLY in our office. Please call today to schedule your annual physical. We are largely because my sales for the first were so personal ambitions are small.” following the guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics to continue low. It was rough. Three years of work and One thing that’s interesting to Strong is that seeing all healthy, well children in our office. I thought it was a big declaration of what some readers who received advance copies of We are taking the following precautions: I could do as a writer. At the time, it was Want wrote that they found Elizabeth to be • Pre visit COVID symptom and history screening for all visits like falling off a cliff, but in this case falling “cripplingly depressed.” Strong says she hears • Modified Provider Schedules with reduced patient volume off that cliff was great because then I could that less often now, post-quarantine, because • Remote Check-in: we will have a streamlined check-in process. Forms and co- write anything at all. I wrote most of Want readers seem more understanding of the roots pays can be processed remotely. at 4 a.m. — time that doesn’t count!” of the character’s frustrations. • Where possible, patients will skip the front desk and proceed directly to the exam room. • Upon arrival, everyone who is 2 years and older (who will tolerate) will have to wear masks. • In addition to prescreening for COVID-19 symptoms before arrival, screening Current will be done upon arrival, including but not limited to temperature screening. Classifieds • Social Distancing: We have changed appointment time slots in order to space out scheduled appointments FOR RENT no pets, all utilities except oil. Large • Disinfection and Cleaning: Our locations are repeatedly and thoroughly sani- private patio leading to a garden and tized after every patient is seen throughout each day. Exam rooms arecleaned brook. Private off-street parking for 2 cars. GARRISON — 2 Bed/1 Bath, 1st-floor with EPA approved wipes between patient visits. 1 month rent + 1 month security, lease, apartment with eat-in kitchen, large living • Staff and Patient Protection: Our care teams follow CDC guidelines, have the credit check and reference. $2,000/mo. room with fireplace, new washer and dryer, proper personal protective equipment (PPE) and wear it at all times. We have Email [email protected]. freshly painted, new floors. No smoking, also established screening and testing protocols for our care teams. TAG SALE? Car for sale? Space for rent? Help wanted? Place your We remain dedicated to serving our patients and community. From all of us at ad here for $4.95. See highlandscurrent.org/classifieds. Gergely Pediatrics we thank you for your support and patience during this time.

We will be remaining closed on Saturdays but still available by phone. If you should get the answering service and feel that you cannot wait until we open up again, please leave a message with the service. We will continue to keep you informed as events change. Please continue to check our website for update: gergelypediatrics.com What is a Virtual Visit? Instead of traveling to Gergely Pediatrics, you can video conference with a provider using your mobile phone, computer or tablet device (equipped with a camera). You and your provider will be able to see and talk with each other in real time – so you can ask questions and have a conversation the same way you would in your provider's office. Your provider will review your condition, guide you about moving forward after a procedure or have a prescription sent to your pharmacy, as needed. Will my insurance cover a Virtual Visit? Most insurance carriers will now cover this service, and are waiving copays associated with COVID19. Feel free to call your insurance company’s member service number on the back of your insurance card to get exact benefit information for your own plan, as some company plans may vary. NOTICE COVID -19 Hotline at NY Presbyterian Hospital: 646-697-4000 THE PHILIPSTOWN Center for Disease Control: CDC.GOV ZONING BOARD World Health Organization: will hold their regular Monthly WHO.INT Meeting on July 13th, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. virtually via Zoom.

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Mouths to Feed All the while my peas were whispering, Hey, hello? What about us? Finally, a lull. “Annette,” I ventured, Peas and Cues “about that recipe you mentioned…” And By Celia Barbour relief! Not just for me, who was happy to learn that the soup featured fresh peas and mong the new not dried (as I’d feared), but for the group, experiences which seemed delighted to drop politics Annette’s Fresh Pea A 2020 has and talk about peas for the next 10 minutes. and Mint Soup ushered into our lives I’ve never grown peas before. I’ve never is the tumble-jumble grown much of anything until this year, 2 tablespoons olive oil start of a Zoom gath- when we carved several garden beds into 3 shallots, chopped ering. One face after a sunny slope (the rest of our yard is quite 1 garlic clove, minced another pops onto the shady). Ever since I popped my first home- 3 cups shelled fresh peas or about 5 screen — hello, hello! — as someone begins grown pod into my mouth a few weeks ago, cups sugar snap peas, stems removed talking with the mute on, forcing others to I knew I had to write about sugar snap peas 3 cups vegetable (or chicken) broth shout: “You’re muted! Hit the mute button!” this week. That first one I ate was not quite 2 tablespoons fresh mint leaves while side conversations ignite about some- fully plump, yet already conveyed such an Salt and pepper, to taste body’s brother or book club. abundance of both sugar and snap that I Lemon juice and mint leaves, optional, It was during such a spell the other day vowed to take my snacks straight from the for garnish that I overheard one member thanking garden for the rest of the summer. Feta dip, optional, for topping (see below) another for her delicious pea soup recipe. In France, sugar snap peas are called mange 1. In a heavy-bottom saucepan over Photo by Henry Weed What’s the Zoom protocol for barging in tout, which means “eat everything,” and is medium heat, warm the olive oil, on others’ conversations? You can’t physically almost but not quite accurate, as the strings then add shallots and garlic and pull them aside, nor can you bang a trash can along the seams of the pod are often tough and thought: Something worth writing about! sauté until translucent. Add peas. lid to hush the entire group in order to extract worth tearing away. The pod, however, has a Then it occurred to me that dips are party Cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes. the tidbit you want. So, I had to shelve my curi- delicate shattering crispness that is sublime. food, and where’s the party these days? On osity. Meanwhile, just outside my window, my And the little orbs of tender grassy greenness Zoom. Zoom-party dips are sad and lonely. 2. Add broth, bring to a simmer, then peas were fattening on their vines. within are pure garden candy. Moreover, even after our region resumes reduce heat and cook just until The purpose of our gathering was to Yet after my 30th such experience, I in-person social gatherings, it will probably tender, about 8 minutes. write and decorate postcards encourag- started craving something a little less whole- take us a long while to revive the practice of 3. Working in batches, puree soup ing people to sign up to vote by mail, since some in which to dip my pea pods. Peas get blithely dunking our veggies and chips into with the fresh mint leaves, until going door-to-door is no longer an option. along wonderfully with feta, mint and dill, communal bowls of goop. So, Annette’s soup very smooth. (If using a blender, Given our goal, the conversation naturally so I pureed these last three in my blender arrived as all kinds of blessing: A private make sure it’s never more than turned to the election and politics, then and the pale-green result complemented party in a bowl, with my own dollop of 1/3 full at a time). COVID-19. Our Zoom-lit faces grew dour. the pea pods perfectly. Fiddle-dee-bingo, I politely festive feta dip to swirl in the middle. 4. Taste, and adjust seasoning, adding more mint, as well as salt, pepper, and lemon, to taste. Serve warm or chilled, topped with a swirl of feta, fresh herbs, and… The Gift Hut Feta dip Feta cheese varies enormously in saltiness and intensity depending Online Ordering with Scheduled on its origin and the milk it’s made Curb Side Pickup or Shipping from. 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Finally Haldane’s Class of 2020 graduates The 65 members of Haldane’s Class of 2020 had to wait but, after two delays, received diplomas on Sunday (June 28). The ceremony had been scheduled for June 20 but was postponed because, under state COVID-19 restrictions, socially distanced commencements of up to 150 people could not take place until June 26. An approaching thunderstorm then pushed the event from June 27 to 28. The ceremony was split into two shifts; the valedictorian, salutatorian, class president, senior of the year, principal and superintendent each gave their speeches three times, including once on tape in the event the weather never cooperated. The photos here are from the first shift, for students with last names from A to L, which began at 9 a.m. Photos by Megan Shields highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current July 3, 2020 17 The Circus Stays in Town Tink Lloyd and Joziah Longo, who live in Tink: Someone said Mother Earth told Cold Spring, are members of The Slambo- everyone: “Go to your room!” There’s vian Circus of Dreams, a folk-rock group been too much of this cycle of hate, that formed in 1998 and also includes Shar- disunity and dysfunction. We’ve had to key McEwen of Cold Spring, Felipe Torres unplug. The good things that can come and Bob Torsello. The couple spoke with out of this will outweigh the difficulties. Michael Turton recently about how the Joziah: We hope it slows us all down. We’ve pandemic has affected the band. been on a treadmill jumping through hoops, doing what we’re told to do, going to school What was life like just before the shut- so we can get a job and work for the Man. down? We’ve never been able to break the cycle. Tink: We were taking a month or two off This is the first time the world has been to be in the studio, not running around all forced into asking, “What’s it like with- over the place. The universe amplified the out all that?” The worst virus is the never- trajectory of our plans. ending political arguing, the addiction to Joziah: We needed to hit the reset button, being negative toward everybody. Shut up Joziah Longo amd Tink Lloyd in their home studio Photo provided dig in on unfinished songs, videos and a and do something! Don’t blame others for couple of musicals. It took a lot of forced every freaking thing you did wrong in your Joziah: Escape for me is Pink Floyd and exist if we had not been homeless with five discipline. Then we found ourselves in life. In a world of almost infinite abundance The Beatles. And Dylan, but not when I’m kids. The only way we ever overcome these a super-extended, slightly more fearful and resources, and our creativity, how can trying to relax and get refocused. things is with community. We had family and version of what we were already trying to do. we make a world where things work? loyal friends. In this area, it’s important we Will the Slambovians emerge in good hang together, because without the support Are you booking shows? What is the role of music? shape? of community, the tribe can’t survive. Joziah: We schedule gigs a year in advance, Joziah: Musicians chronicle things but Joziah: This is not pie in the sky. Some 20 but now everything is shifting to 2021. We you also have to maintain a certain levity, years ago we were homeless with five kids. You moved to Cold Spring in 2005. were supposed to do Fairport Convention in to escape the anger. Musicians can create We want to tell people, even if you lost your Has it influenced your music? the U.K. in August; they moved it to next year. things out of nothing, cheer people on, savings, you didn’t lose anything of essen- Tink: All the time. We love it here. Our We have to figure out how to survive for a year. lift them up off the ground. Our job isn’t tial value. You can come out of this with dream when this is all over is to do another just to record the facts. It’s to give hope. something better on the other side. As long concert on the river. What’s been most difficult? as you’re not creating negative panic that Joziah: It’s our Liverpool. This town is an Joziah: Worrying about everybody. We What music takes you away? makes you do something stupid to yourself, amazing stage. When we’ve played on July know what our friends are like, and we Tink: Anything unrelated to my work, you can always start again. 4, there was no higher or deeper thing for made a lot of phone calls to make sure they anything pre-1960s. I love early classical Tink: We had a major shutdown in our us. There is magic here. were locking down. We have five kids [now and medieval stuff, simpler chamber music. lives, but it gave birth to where we are now. ages 30 to 36], all crazy in their own way. And old country. Simple is best. The Slambovian Circus of Dreams would not Once we realized they had figured out how to survive this, the kids became our parents. HIGHLAND STUDIO Tink: Our kids became like hall moni- tors. They shopped for us, brought food. One of them got sick, but everybody is good COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES now. We’re lucky to be self-employed — except now we’re self-unemployed.

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Roots and Shoots your vegetable garden. If you’re trying to gardens from seeds dispersed by the wind. kill Japanese barberry, we can talk more For both vegetable and flower beds, use about flame-weeding in a different column. mulch to suppress weeds. Straw is easy to Weeds and When controlling weeds, it’s important buy and spread and I always have a lot of to understand the weed. Know its name, its wood chips that have been sitting around habits, its likes and dislikes, how it repro- at least a year to put on, too. Mulch holds Jumping Lilies duces and when. Annual weeds could theo- in moisture for plants as another benefit. By Pamela Doan retically be eradicated in a season with For lawns, consider over-seeding in the controlled circumstances. Biennial weeds fall to grow the grass more densely; make Q: Weeds are out could be wiped out in two seasons. Peren- sure that the type of seed is right for the of control in my nial weeds are a longer-term project. conditions; let the clippings sit in the lawn yard. The lawn, Removing weeds before they set seed as mulch; and mow high at 3 inches or the flowerbeds, obviously helps but many weeds spread by more. my new vegetable rhizomes and tubers. That’s why it’s impor- Epsom salt is salt. It’s adding salt to the garden. I even have tant to know what you’re weeding. soil and your plants will not like it at all. It weeds in the cracks of a concrete Disturbing the soil by tilling, digging or is not an effective herbicide. walkway. Roundup has a bad reputa- pulling weeds can bring weed seeds that tion, but I’m not spending all my free were below the surface to the top where I have a patch of daylilies in my yard time weeding. What can I do? Does the light and air and water will help them and I’ve noticed them appearing far Epsom salt work? germinate. When preparing to plant, try to away in places where they weren’t A: We’re in the “Oh geez, this sucks” go on top of the soil instead of into it and planted. I thought they were bulbs. phase of the gardening season. It happens outsmart the weeds. How does a bulb distribute itself? just before the tomatoes ripen and right The problem with weeds is that they will Daylilies from my garden also show up in The ubiquitous daylily isn’t actually a after the excitement of seedlings and first take all the water, nutrients and sunlight surprising places. Photo by P. Doan lily or a bulb (aka a member of the Lilium blooms has worn off. July brings the full- from the plants you want to succeed. family). Instead, it’s Hemerocallis fulva, on reality of what we committed ourselves Annual vegetables, meant to grow and fruit vegetables, to maximize space and mini- comes from Asia and grows from thick to for the summer. If you got an “isolation and live their entire life in a single season, mize weeding. Any patch of bare ground roots that spread to become colonies. puppy” and it’s now a 60-pound animal are the most susceptible to damage. Priori- will be filled by nature. It produces seeds that disperse and with the energy and spirit of the puppy but tize weeding the vegetable garden if you Covering the soil between plants using germinate in the right conditions. Since the size and weight of a full-grown dog, want to enjoy a harvest. landscape fabric, cardboard or newspa- this plant grows in poor soil and full sun to it feels pretty much the same as trying to There are a lot of tools advertised for effi- per is another solution. I prefer newspaper part shade, it can show up in many places. tame and train your garden. ciency and effectiveness, but I hand-pull because it’s gone in a season. But in a high- I’m fascinated with flame-weeding and weeds. You could try a hoe if you have room volume situation, like a community garden this week I found a tractor-pulled flame- to work it in. My raised beds are planted so or urban gardens where your neighbor’s Anniversary Note: This is Pamela Doan’s weeder online that looks amazing. Fanta- tightly that it doesn’t work for me. There’s weeds become yours, tougher measures 210th Roots and Shoots column. The first sies aside, this is not a good method for another secret. Plant densely, even with may be necessary. Row covers protect appeared in the March 25, 2013, issue.

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River Connection The Clearwater, launched 51 years ago by Pete Seeger, docked at Cold Spring on Friday (June 26) as part of a journey from Albany to New York City to demonstrate that “our river connects us.” Due to stormy weather, the sloop tarried in the village a day longer than planned, but by Wednesday, it had reached Yonkers. At the Cold Spring stop, the crew invited children to touch a river eel. Photos by Ross Corsair