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
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
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“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
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
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
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
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
Arts Inn opened earlier this year as a bed and breakfast and events venue, and defines itself “as a place to restore, renew and connect.” The owners, Randy Leer and Heidi Stonier, have had family connections to the area since the 1940s when Kitty Leer, the matriarch, arrived in Fleischmanns with her parents as refugees from WWII; the family opened an eatery, and bed and … Continue reading Newly Opened Arts Inn Participates in the AMR Open Art Studios Tour This Weekend
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