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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

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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

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Humans of the Catskills

Humans of the Catskills: Laurie Boris

Journey to the Catskills: I’ve actually been here for generations! My grandparents owned Boris Bungalow Colony in Glen Wild in the 1940s -1960s. My parents met while they were both working for a hotel in Loch Sheldrake over their summer break in 1950. After a few years in the City, they settled in the Hudson Valley, and even though I was away for a while, … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Laurie Boris

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Humans of the Catskills

Humans of the Catskills: Jessica Reed

Journey to the Catskills: I was an Idaho girl living in Manhattan for a decade. I was very happy there. Love brought me to the Catskills. I met a man named Michael in NYC. He owned a historical country house in Walton situated on 100 acres that we visited most weekends, and it was the best of both worlds. He promised we would never completely leave … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Jessica Reed

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Book Release: Silver Dollar Girls by Margaret DiBenedetto

24-year-old Mae McCain flees from New York City at the beginning of the COVID lockdown to her great-grandparents’ abandoned farmhouse in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York. In the attic of the old house, Mae finds a family secret and gradually discovers why it was hidden for so long.  Ruth is an aviator of another time, blazing new history as she breaks through old boundaries. Silver Dollar Girls, … Continue reading Book Release: Silver Dollar Girls by Margaret DiBenedetto

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TEN REASONS TO LOVE THE CATSKILLS

By Simona David 1. AIR AND WATER QUALITY The Catskill Park, situated a hundred miles north-northwest of New York City, is known as America’s First Wilderness, because of its role in the environmental conservation movement. The New York State Legislature established the park in April 1904 to recognize and protect this magnificent mountainous area, which is part of the Appalachian plateau, and is dated back … Continue reading TEN REASONS TO LOVE THE CATSKILLS

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Featured Destination: Andes Academy of Art

A group of Catskills creatives led by William Duke, Peter Mayer, and Erwin Karl launched the Andes Academy of Art during the summer of 2022 to bring together artists working in all disciplines and nurture creativity in a way that forges camaraderie and recognition. Artists need both solitude – to distill new ideas and create new works of art, and companionship – to receive feedback, … Continue reading Featured Destination: Andes Academy of Art

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Humans of the Catskills

Humans of the Catskills: Clover Archer

Journey to the Catskills: I came to the Catskills on an artist’s residency at the Prattsville Art Center in 2019. I decided it was fated to be when I found out that the director of the Prattsville Art Center is the amazing Nancy Barton, with whom I studied at NYU twenty years ago. Vocation: In my “day job” I am the director of an academic … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Clover Archer

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