Catskill Mountain Region July 2012 GUIDEwww.catskillregionguide.com CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 2012 Annual Benefit PLEASE JOIN US! Name a Seat at the Orpheum! $500 per seat. Select your seat on July 14 at the Benefit, or call Toni at 518 263 2001Saturday, July 14, 6 pm Orpheum Performing Arts Center Main Street, Tannersville, NY Featuring a showcase performance by The Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Company, in collaboration with Kenneth Hamrick, Artistic Director, Piano Performance Museum. Visit www.catskillmtn.org or call Toni Perretti at 518 263 2001 for more information and to purchase tickets. TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 27, NUMBER 7 July 2012 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami Steve Friedman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Tara Collins, Kenneth Hamrick, Jeff Senterman, Alix Hallman Travis, Carol and David White ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Toni Perretti Laureen Priputen PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation On the cover: Violinist Mark Huggins will perform on Saturday, August 4 at the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter. For more information about this performance, see page 18. EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: July 6 The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year 2 HIDDEN STUDIOS OPEN DOORS: by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you Andes, Roxbury, Margaretville 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- Open Studios Tour 2012 By Alix Hallman Travis 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 4 CATSKILL FOREST FESTIVAL: held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for Celebrating Catskills Forests errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. 6 AFTER IRENE: An Exhibit of Documentary The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly Photographs by Larry Gambon to www.catskillregionguide.com 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 8 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, By Jeff Senterman restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Greene, Delaware, Ulster, Schoharie and Otsego counties. Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain 11 INDIAN HEAD MOUNTAIN LOOP Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. By Carol and David White ”2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region VISIT YOUR LOCAL FARMERS’ MARKET: Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- 14 graphic rights reside with the photographer. Buy Fresh. Buy Local By Tara Collins THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN NEW SCIENCE (RE) CREATES FOUNDATION 18 7970 MAIN STREET VIOLIN MASTERPIECES P.O. BOX 924 HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 FAX: 518 263 2025 21 JULY AT THE WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION July 2012 • GUIDE 1 like buildings, in a 19th century blacksmith shop with its old Hidden Studios Open Doors forge and tools, a garage, the extra room upstairs, and a green- Andes, Roxbury, Margaretville house on what used to be the estate of Helen Gould Shepard, daughter of railroad magnate Jay Gould, a village shop along the Open Studios Tour 2012 East Branch of the Delaware River and more. By Alix Hallman Travis The common feature of all these studios is that each is a dedicated space devoted to art; a space where the artist’s tools wenty-two artists in the Andes, Margaretville and Roxbury need not be put away after each use but may remain in place to Tarea are offering the public a rare opportunity to visit their be picked up again when the artist returns to work. Some of these varied studios on Saturday and Sunday, July 28-29, from 10 am spaces are very private and seldom seen by anyone other than the to 4 pm. These diverse work spaces belong to sculptors, painters, artist; others are galleries and shops where an artist’s work can also weavers, potters, printmakers, a hooked rug designer, a mosaic be shown and classes are taught. artist, a quilter of contemporary quilts, a furniture maker, and a The lush, low mountain landscape that surrounds these work designer and maker of contemporary leather outerwear. spaces acts as both a source of inspiration and a point of depar- This remote area, deep in the heart of the Catskill Moun- ture for many of the artists. Their interpretation of landscape tains, has attracted working artists for well over 100 years. In runs from the smallest particular to the universal, from realism to fact, Studio Tour Stop no. 6 was formerly the late 19th century abstraction. studio of noted landscape painter J. Frances Murphy. This cluster Printmaker Gerda van Leeuwen, tour stop 13, has a gar- of wood shingled buildings, situated on a steep hillside, shaded dener’s view of the Catskill landscape. Her prints are inspired by by trees in Arkville is the current home and studio of landscape the abundance of nature around us. Taken together her prints painter, Margaret Leveson. Leveson recently exhibited a series become a visual diary of what is blooming and active throughout of paintings documenting this historical complex of which her the growing season. Her prints are a combination of printing and buildings are a part, at the Erpf Gallery in Arkville. painting, using a self-developed printing process several days long In addition to this 19th century art colony structure the involving paper, rusted metal wire templates and water based other studios are as diverse as the work that is performed in them. inks. Multiple imprints of colored rust on the paper are produced The artists labor and display their work in old barns, in new barn- and to these she adds details with ink and paint. 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com Gary Mead at the Gary Mead Gallery at Fruitful Furnishings, the first stop on the Studio Tour map, uses local woods to com- pose one-of-a-kind furniture and sculptures. Mead designed and constructed this gallery building on the grounds of his millworks and it is a work of art by itself. Boards of local woods are laid in a pattern on the floor; walls support a mural painting of trees. His poetry is in Mead original frames and hangs on the walls near the furniture piece to which each poem pertains. Landscape painter Marilyn Silver, studio no. 18, often paints the most intimate of mountain landscapes. Silver supplements her upstairs room studio with the great outdoors to create paintings of flower-lined paths, country hamlets and roadways wending their way through the land. Kenichi Hiratsuka, stop no. 21 outside Andes, sculpts a con- tinuous, undulating line on blocks of granite and local bluestone. Kenichi Hiratsuka, “Reservoir, 2004,” Catskill bluestone 2’x 3’x1” The line twists, curves, widens and narrows, reminiscent of local kills or streams. Hiratsuka began his concept of “one continuous The Andes Margaretville Roxbury Open Studios Tour, with line” carving on New York city granite sidewalks, and has created its opportunity to peek into artists’ studios, is only one compo- stone monuments in 22 countries. In Andes since 1997, his work nent of the adventure waiting the tour taker. In addition, the embraces the Catskill landscape within his universal language thrill of the hunt for each studio will complete the visitor’s experi- model of carving the surface of the earth as one huge rock. ence: finding those studios nestled on the little streets of moun- Further along route 28 to Andes and a little beyond is the tain hamlets, comfortably settled on the hillsides of former farms farmstead studio of landscape painter Joanna Murphy. Murphy or secreted in forested isolation. The adventurous seekers will also is spare in her depiction of a domesticated Catskill landscape. find galleries, restaurants, overnight accommodations, recreational She often depicts the farm animals that are a feature of the local opportunities and evening entertainments to complete their hillsides. weekend. Visit www.AMROpenStudios.org for details. July 2012 • GUIDE 3 Catskill Forest Festival Celebrating Catskills Forests istorically, land in the Catskill Region was cleared for farm- H ing practices. Today, the region is dominated by forests, which provide residents and visitors alike with incredible benefits that are often overlooked or taken for granted. Some of these benefits include: • Source of Timber • Maple Syrup & Sugar • Food • Recreation • Water Filtration • Wood products, paper, and fuel-wood • Economic Growth • Air Quality Most of these products are provided by Forest Landowners that society has and will depend upon for its resources. The Catskill Forest Festival celebrates all of our forest’s Last year’s Game of Logging competition benefits! The 3rd Annual Catskill Forest Festival is scheduled for Saturday, July 28 at the Pavilion in the Village of Margaretville, • Forestry equipment conveniently located on State Route 28 just 15 minutes west of • Firewood processor & sawmill Belleayre Ski Center.