Catskill Mountain Region APRIL 2021 COMPLIMENTARY GUIDE catskillregionguide.com Catskills Dining Dine In • Take Out Including Recipes from Your Favorite Local Chefs! April 2021 • GUIDE 1 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com April 2021 • GUIDE 3 Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Piano Performance Museum presents ACADEMY OF FORTEPIANO PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL ORTEPIANO Connecting fortepiano lovers from Salon Series all around the world via Zoom SALON #4: “Women (some Men), Salons, and Pianos” With Special Guest Host Patricia Garcia Gil From the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, Florence, Italy SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021 @ 2 pm EST (11 am PST, 8 pm Europe) Monthly informal online performances and discussions with fortepi ano students and professionals anywhere, hosted by AFP faculty and guest artists around the world. Interested in performing or presenting your own piano? Please apply to [email protected] with a brief bio and description of the music and piano to be presented. FREE! REGISTER AT www.catskillmtn.org MORE INFORMATION: www.catskillmtn.org This event is made possible in part through the support of the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, www.academyfortepiano.org Greene4 County • www.catskillregionguide.com Council on the Arts, d/b/a/ CREATE, and Stewarts Shops. IN THIS www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 36, NUMBER 4 April 2021 ISSUE 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 & ARTISTS Aaron Martin, Jeff Senterman, Sarah Taft, On the cover: Photo courtesy of Chef Deanna Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson & Robert Tomlinson ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE 6 WORKS & PROCESS PARTNERS WITH Candy McKee REGIONAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS TO Justin McGowan & Hillary Morse SUPPORT DANCE DURING THE PANDEMIC PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing Services 10 HERE COMES THE SUN: New Music in the Catskills Edited by Robert Tomlinson, Interviews by Aaron Martin DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation 12 TODAY BUILDS TOMORROW: Carbon Footprint By Robert Tomlinson EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: April 10 The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year 14 SPECIAL SECTION: CATSKILLS DINING by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. 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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 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are 32 THE CATSKILLS ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS! 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, 41 WISH YOU WERE HERE: Vintage Catskills Postcards from the restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Collection of the New York Public Library Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. 49 ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. By Jeff Senterman All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- 52 CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION graphic rights reside with the photographer. 2021 PERFORMING ARTS SEASON 53 2021 COURSES AT SUGAR MAPLES CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 7971 MAIN STREET, P.O. BOX 924 54 DONATE TO THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 • FAX: 518 263 2025 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG 56 April 2021 • GUIDE 5 Left: “A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time” by Jamar Roberts and composer David Watson; Right: “Rhapsody in Blue, A Kaleidoscope of New York” by Caleb Teicher & Company. Both works were developed and filmed as part of Works & Process at Catskill Mountain Foundation residencies, and will premiere on YouTube this April. WORKS & PROCESS PARTNERS WITH REGIONAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT DANCE DURING PANDEMIC he Catskill Mountain Foundation and a number of New Works & Process at T York upstate arts organizations including Kaatsbaan Cultural Catskill Mountain Foundation Park, Bridge Street Theatre, Petronio Residency Center, and The Catskill Mountain Foundation welcomes the partnership Mount Tremper Arts have benefited from the partnership support support and according to Pam Weisberg, Director of Perform- of Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggen- ing Arts at Catskill Mountain Foundation, the bubble residen- heim. This project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Founda- cies provided a safe space where artists can create new work or tion and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, major funders of complete works in progress. “As an organization, we ensured the the Arts in the United States. necessary health and safety protocols were in place so the artists One of the driving forces behind the partnership is Duke could focus their efforts on creating and developing new pieces Dang, General Manager of Works & Process at the Guggenheim which would later premiere as part of the Works & Process at the and a resident of Catskill. According to Dang, the upstate New Guggenheim season,” noted Weisberg. York region was ideal to facilitate the series of dance residencies. Works & Process at Catskill Mountain Foundation virtual “Like New York City’s watershed which has its source in upstate programs will premiere on select Sundays at 7:30 pm ET this New York, the ecosystem of dance making during the pandemic spring and summer and will be available to view for free at www. has relied on residencies throughout upstate New York to provide youtube.com/worksandprocess and on Catskill Mountain Foun- a safe harbor for artists to safely gather, create, and perform to- dation’s YouTube channel. The six-part series gets underway in gether in isolation. The scarcity of studio space in New York City April with the first two digital episodes on April 18 and April 25, before the pandemic was forcing artists to look further afield for 2021. space to work, the pandemic only accelerated what I believe was inevitable, the need for devoted time and space to create, which A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time is necessary in normal times as well as during the most adverse of by Jamar Roberts and composer David Watson times,” noted Dang. April 18 Dang is a regular supporter of the arts in the region and was In March 2020, just as the pandemic hit, Works & Process delighted that Works & Process along with a number of other invited Jamar Roberts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s first donors were able to provide this support for dance during the resident choreographer, to develop a piece for Works & Process pandemic. “Unlike in New York City, upstate has many venues Artists (WPA) Virtual Commissions. Roberts created Cooped, where studio, stage, and housing are under one roof or in close with music by David Watson, which was described by The New proximity making it possible to house artists safely. These artists York Times as “one of the most powerful artistic responses yet will be a source of hope and healing, now and as we look ahead to the COVID-19 crisis.” At this two-week residency, Roberts into the recovery. What they do makes it possible for us to come continued to choreograph a new work that was first developed together digitally now, and as we reach herd immunity compels us in a summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency. Dancers to take the first steps into a social setting,” remarked Dang. include Patrick Coker, Ghrai DeVore-Stokes, Jacquelin Harris, 6 • www.catskillregionguide.com CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH THE ARTS THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS! F O U N A M D H A D T I N O I N W Education, Recreation, Arts, and Community Initiatives Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, The Greene County Legislature through the Cultural Fund administered by CREATE Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & Education (formerly The Greene County Council on the Arts), The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruder- hof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter 518 263 2001 • www.catskillmtn.org April 2021 • GUIDE 7 Courtney Celeste Spears, and Brandon Michael Woolridge, and an engaging and immersive experience inspired by the elements the commission will feature new music by Watson.