Catskill Mountain Region JULY 2019 COMPLIMENTARY GUIDE catskillregionguide.com WITH A SPECIAL SECTION: VISIT SAUGERTIES July 2019 • GUIDE 1 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com www.catskillregionguide.com IN THIS ISSUE VOLUME 34, NUMBER 7 July 2019 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Barbara Cobb Steve Friedman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Simona David, EA Murphy, Garan Santicola, Jeff Senterman, Laura Taylor, Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson, Robert Tomlinson ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Justin McGowan & Isabel Cunha On the cover: The Saugerties Lighthouse. Photo courtesy iStock.com/Nancy Kennedy PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing Services 4 THE ARTS DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation 10 ARTS LEADER: Nancy Barton, Prattsville Arts Center By Robert Tomlinson EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: July 10 12 TRI-COUNTY BEAUTY AT THE GILBOA MUSEUM The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box By Garan Santicola 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you would like to have covered, please send them by e-mail to tafts@ catskillmtn.org. Please be sure to furnish a contact name and in- 16 SPECIAL SECTION: VISIT SAUGERTIES clude your address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information on all correspondence. For editorial and photo submission guidelines send a request via e-mail to [email protected]. The liability of the publisher for any error for which it may be 26 ART IS AT HOME IN THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered By Simona David or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. A GREENE COUNTY GARDEN IN JULY The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in 28 Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. By Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly to www.catskillregionguide.com 30 LIGHT FALLING ACROSS DARK PLACES: Laura Taylor 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are distributed each month. It is distributed free of charge at the Plattekill, Sloatsburg and New Baltimore rest stops on the New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, 40 PHOENICIA MAGIC FESTIVAL By EA Murphy restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an 42 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS By Jeff Senterman additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. POETRY Curated by Robert Tomlinson All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without 46 written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- graphic rights reside with the photographer. 48 A WEEKEND IN ELLENVILLE 50 IMAGINE: The Catskill Mountain Foundation Annual Benefit 52 CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION GUIDE THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO 7971 MAIN STREET, P.O. BOX 924 HUNTER, NY 12442 Photos by Francis X. Driscoll PHONE: 518 263 2000 • FAX: 518 263 2025 WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG 59 JULY AT THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION July 2019 • GUIDE 3 THE ARTS Antonina Chehovska. Photo by Daniel Usenko 37 Years of Live Classical Music at “Grazhda” Music and Art Center of Greene County Soprano Antonina Chehovska will make her debut at Grazhda in July The oldest, acclaimed classical music festival in Greene County will open its 2019 summer season with a fundraising concert on July 6. The young, up-and-coming soprano Antonina Chehovska will make her debut at Grazhda in works by Barber, Puccini, Dvorak, Sap- run and Sonevytsky. Ms. Chehovska participated in a concert at Carnegie Hall as a soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Vivaldi’s Gloria this past May. The Artistic Director of Music and Art Center, Volodymyr Vynnytsky, will be at the piano. On July 10 at 7 pm Grazhda will resonate with the sound of children’s voices in a concert of Ukrainian folk songs. Serhiy Salov, the internationally renonwned pianist and winner of the 2004 prestigious Montreal International Music Competition, will play music by Chopin, Schumann, Lysenko, and Shamo. The featured artists on July 13 will be soprano Kayleen Sanchez and pianist-composer Paul Sanchez in music by Grieg, Bernstein, Sanchez, and Vassilandonakis. Peter Nelson Jazztet will bring a bit of cultural variety to Grazhda’s audience on July 20. Trombonist Peter Nelson and his colleagues will play jazz pieces and improvisations on Ukrainian melo- dies. The August 3 concert will spotlight the noted Gould String Quartet. The Lithuanian-born violinist-extraordinaire Atis Bankas, director of the Niagara Music Festival, and his chamber musicians will play music by Puccini, Donizetti, and Verdi. The final concert of the season will feature cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky on August 24. This concert of works by Bach, Tchai- kovsky, and Chopin will be dedicated to the memory of Lubomyr Krushel’nytsky, a great, loyal friend of “Music at Grazhda.” All concerts begin at 8 pm, with the exception of the July 10 Children’s Concert. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 seniors and $12 members. The July 6 fund-raising concert tickets are $35. Grazhda Concert Hall is located on Rt.23A in Jewett and adjacent to the Ukrainian Church. For additional information and reservations, please call 518 989 6479. Music and Art Center also organizes courses in Ukrainian folk arts for adults and children ages 10 and up. GERDANY (Beadmak- ing) takes place July 29-31 with instructor Lesia Lasiy. Sofia Zielyk will be the instructor in PYSANKY (Ukrainian egg decorating) on August 1-2. Lubov Wolynets will teach EMBROIDERY August 5-8. UKRAINIAN FOLK MOTIF PAINTING (Instructor TBA) takes place August 5-7, CHILDREN’S FOLK SINGING COURSE July 29-August 9 with Anna Bachynsky and Melanie Serbay. Reg- istration deadline for the courses is July 15, 2019. The fee for a two-day course is $40 and $75 for three- and four-day courses. The fee for singing is $75 per week. Please call Melanie at 518 263 4670 or e-mail [email protected] for registration and additional information. 4 • www.catskillregionguide.com THIS SUMMER! Dive Into a Unique Art Experience with Painting Classes Linda Schultz Rita Schwab Dmitri Wright Chinese Brush Painting Abstract Expressionist Painting Plein Air Painting in the with Linda Schultz with Rita Schwab Catskills Session II: August 24-25 August 23 to August 25 with Dmitri Wright September 6 to September 8 See www.sugarmaples.org for our many workshops & weekly classes and complete information July 2019 • GUIDE 5 Stars and Stripes Kitchen Where the pursuit of happiness is great food Now Open for Breakfast & Lunch VOICES OF CHANGE: National Dance Institute Mountain Top Summer Catering Residency Performance National Dance Institute returns this summer to conduct a two-week dance Hunter Village Square intensive for local children which cul- 7950 Main Street • Hunter, NY 12442 minates in a fully-staged performance featuring local students and the NDI 518-263-2033 Celebration Team of young dancers from New York City. Every year, this popular Find Us on Facebook at Stars & Stripes Kitchen event draws large crowds. Colorful ban- ners celebrating the theme of each year’s Hours: 7am to 3 pm Thursday to Monday NDI program provide a backdrop for Closed Tuesday & Wednesday the young dancers. This is a high energy performance that celebrates the creativity of youth in our area. This year’s theme “Voices of Change,” explores political and artistic activism through individuals who have used their voice to inspire move- ments and effect positive world change, including Martin Luther King, Gloria Steinem, Lin Manuel Miranda, Malala Yousafzai, and many more. This perfor- mance explores the many ways in which voice is an essential part of the journey to finding our own. This performance will take place on Saturday, July 20 at 7:00 pm at the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. All tickets are $12 and can be purchased at catskillmtn.org or by calling 518 263 2060 6 • www.catskillregionguide.com CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION PRESENTS A T T H E N E X U S O F A R T I S T R Y , A M B2019I T I O CONCERTSN , A N D A C &H CONVERSATIONSI E V E M E N T SERIES MANHATTAN IN THE MOUNTAINS FUNJ U L INY 2 8THE T O A U MOUNTAINSG U S T 1 8 , 2 0 1 9 Manhattan GinUEST AtheRTISTS: PMountainsIANIST SHAI WOSNER VIOLIN ISFacultyT JENNY KOH Concert A concert of chamber music, featuringPIAN OMinM faculty andV IaO fewLIN select students,CE LfocusingLO on humorCLAR IinN EclassicalT music.VIOLA Included in this concert will be pieces by Peter Schickele,JOANN Ean P OinternationallyLK J ArenownedRAM KIM composerMAR IofO Nmany FELD humorousMAN H AworksNA KI Munder G theEOR pseudonymGE TAYLOR “PD.Q. 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