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“How Art Is Made” In The Woodstock Times
A Century Under the Stars
Filmmaker Dwight Grimm, owner of Greenville Drive-In Outdoor Cinema, released a short documentary called A Century Under the Stars that brings back into the spotlight how Schoharie, a small Catskills village, became the host of the very first open-air motion picture presentation, entirely free to the public between 1917 – 1942. To learn more about this fascinating story, visit http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/site-of-the-first-known-free-openair-motion-picture-presentation. The Centennial Anniversary of the … Continue reading A Century Under the Stars
Featured Destination: Vanderbilt Mansion
Situated on the east bank of the Hudson River in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, Vanderbilt Mansion is a classic example of the Gilded Age country estate in America. The Gilded Age spanned from 1870 to 1900, and was an era characterized by rapid economic growth and wealth accumulation. Frederick William and Louise Vanderbilt bought the estate in 1895, and expanded and re-modeled the property in … Continue reading Featured Destination: Vanderbilt Mansion
How Art Is Made: In the Catskills
How Art Is Made: In the Catskills is a collection of interviews with some of the world’s most accomplished artists who live and work in the Catskill Mountains, New York. Five painters and illustrators, two ceramicists and printmakers, one sculptor, one weaver, and one writer discuss what inspires and moves them, what draws them to their medium of choice, what materials they use, how they … Continue reading How Art Is Made: In the Catskills
Miss Manhattan and Miss Brooklyn Installed on Flatbush Avenue
In December last year The New York Times reported that Miss Manhattan and Miss Brooklyn, two replicas of Daniel Chester French’s original sculptures re-created by Brian Tolle, were installed on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn by the Manhattan Bridge. Read excerpts from my interview with Mr. Tolle, conducted in November 2015 when we discussed this project among others. Mr. Tolle is one of the artists featured … Continue reading Miss Manhattan and Miss Brooklyn Installed on Flatbush Avenue
The Catskills
Featured Writer: Anique Taylor
Anique Taylor holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University, and an MFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute as well as a Diplôme from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She has co-authored works for HBO, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and others. She has given featured readings at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Dixon Place, the Speakeasy, Cedar Tavern, and group readings at What Happens Next, Tompkin’s … Continue reading Featured Writer: Anique Taylor
Featured Writer: Leslie T. Sharpe
Leslie T. Sharpe is an author, editor, and educator. She began her editing career at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and is currently an editorial consultant specializing in literary nonfiction, literary fiction, and poetry. A member of PEN American Center, she is the author of Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing (Cambridge University Press, 1994), which is regarded as a “modern editing classic” and … Continue reading Featured Writer: Leslie T. Sharpe
Thanksgiving Literature with Writers in the Mountains at the Woodstock Library
Writers in the Mountains presented at the Woodstock Public Library, as guest of the Poetry Barn, Thanksgiving Literature, Friday, November 18, 2016. Readers included Lillian Browne, Geoff Rogers, Sharon Israel, Lissa Kiernan, Bonnie Lykes, Carrie Bradley Neves, Nina Shengold, and Anique Taylor. A feast for the soul! In 2017 Writers in the Mountains will celebrate a quarter century of creative writing and community in the … Continue reading Thanksgiving Literature with Writers in the Mountains at the Woodstock Library
