The Amherst Method Creative Writing Workshop
Writers in the Mountains (WIM) presents The Amherst Method, a generative writing workshop with poet Sharon Israel, the last Friday of the month from 3 to 5 pm at the Roxbury Library, 53742 State Hwy 30, Roxbury, NY. The first session will be held on March 29. Advance registration is recommended. Never written before? Know you have a writer’s soul but haven’t yet been able … Continue reading The Amherst Method Creative Writing Workshop
Rebecca Rego Barry Book Reading and Signing Event
Rebecca Rego Barry reads from and signs copies of her latest book The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells (2024) at the Emerson Resort in Mt. Tremper, NY. You can read about Rebecca’s book in the Saturday Evening Post at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/considering-history-americas-forgotten-women-writers-carolyn-wells/ and Publishers Weekly at https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/editorials/article/94384-rebecca-rego-barry-on-mystery-author-carolyn-wells-and-the-erasure-of-women-in-literary-history.html Barry’s articles and essays about books, history, and collectibles have appeared in Financial Times, Literary Hub, CrimeReads, Atlas Obscura, Lapham’s Quarterly, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, … Continue reading Rebecca Rego Barry Book Reading and Signing Event
Interview with Architect Ted Sheridan
Ted Sheridan is an architect and artist based in New York City and the Catskills. As an artist, he uses combinations of oxidized and pure metals as a marking medium on paper that is then transformed through immersion and corrosion of the metals. An instrument maker, and musician he has instructed courses on architectural acoustics and the physics of musical instruments at the Parsons School … Continue reading Interview with Architect Ted Sheridan
WRITERS IN THE MOUNTAINS’ LITERARY RETREAT
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ART IN THE CATSKILLS COLORING BOOK: REVISED EDITION
“Art in The Catskills Coloring Book: Revised Edition” is an interactive project for colorists of all ages to better appreciate and enjoy the tranquility of the country life. The book includes twenty illustrations printed on one side only that depict the everyday life in the Catskill Mountains, Upstate New York. REVIEWS My family has been vacationing in the Catskills for generations. This book brings back … Continue reading ART IN THE CATSKILLS COLORING BOOK: REVISED EDITION
Edward Renehan, Biographer of Jay Gould and John Burroughs, to Speak at the Zadock Pratt Museum
The Zadock Pratt Museum hosted a lecture by Edward Renehan, author of Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons (2006), and John Burroughs: An American Naturalist (1992) on Saturday, May 27, 2023. In his lecture, Renehan explored the tangled and calamitous tale of Gould’s first large business venture of the 1850s, a venture transacted in league … Continue reading Edward Renehan, Biographer of Jay Gould and John Burroughs, to Speak at the Zadock Pratt Museum
Humans of the Catskills: Gloria McLean
Feature Photo by Steven Pisano Journey to the Catskills: I will admit that I did not find the Catskills. The Catskills found me after my husband the stone sculptor Ken Hiratsuka found the Catskills and the reservoir and the trout streams and the bluestone and then the amazing barn and old farmhouse that has become our own little bit of heaven in Andes. Then, right … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Gloria McLean
April is National Poetry Month: News from WIM’s Literary Community
Upcoming Events from Writers in the Mountains (WIM) Literary Community: Weekly figure drawing at Andes Academy of Art, 506 Main Street in Andes, every Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm. State of the Art publication closes the 15th of the month prior to its printing and two months prior to its cover date. Poetry and micro-fiction can be submitted to Andesacademyofart@gmail.com. The Power of Words to Heal: Post Traumatic Press @ … Continue reading April is National Poetry Month: News from WIM’s Literary Community
Shows We Love: Farms, Farmers, and Farming at Longyear Gallery
Longyear Gallery is hosting Farms, Farmers, and Farming: A Tribute to Local Agriculture, a group show on view through April 23. Featured artists include Ann Lee Fuller, Margaret Leveson, Gary Mayer, Helane Levine-Keating, Hedi Kyle, Patrice Lorenz, Gail Freund, Robert Axelrod, Ron Macklin, Elaine Grandy, and others. The Gallery is located at 785 Main Street in Margaretville, NY. It’s open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 … Continue reading Shows We Love: Farms, Farmers, and Farming at Longyear Gallery
WIOX DJ Alan Reynolds to Be Inducted in The Cowtown Society of Western Music Hall of Fame
Alan Reynolds, host of Pure Country on WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury, is being inducted in The Cowtown Society of Western Music (CSWM) Hall of Fame at its 23rd Annual Western Swing Fest which will take place in Mineral Wells, Texas on May 5 – 6 this year. Reynolds, one of the founding program hosts on WIOX, has been hosting Pure Country for over a … Continue reading WIOX DJ Alan Reynolds to Be Inducted in The Cowtown Society of Western Music Hall of Fame
Art in the Catskills 