This week's calendar ( 1/10-1/16/21/2022)

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▲ Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual event hosted by the Putnam History Museum • What do we know about stone walls? About the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by enslaved people, Native Americans, indentured servants, and children. Written by Susan Allport, Sermons in Stone is the illuminating history of the walls, a story that begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use, by American waves of immigration and suburbanization • LINK


Image: Paul Fiene, Penguin, 1932, Marble. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.

▲ Seeing in Three Dimensions: Sculptors of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony – The Modern Wave, Part 2
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual lecture • Part of a series of lectures by Dr. Bruce Weber, American Art Historian. This lecture covers the sculptors Paul Fiene, Gaston Lachaise, Alexander Archipenko, Lu Duble, Isamu Noguchi and Carl Walters. • Register, here: Link


Discovery of a Masterpiece
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual event via Zoom hosted by the Tivoli Free Library, the Staatsburg Library, Morton Memorial Library and the Starr Library • Mallory Mortillaro shares the story of how she uncovered a Rodin masterpiece that had been lost to the art world since the 1930s, becoming one of the biggest art finds in recent history • Register at bit.ly/DiscoveryMasterpiece


Weir Tour
Thursday, January 13, 2022 • 11am • Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park • Meet at the benches in front of the Joseph Caputo Center, which is located at 95 Broadway, Ossining, NY 10562, just west of Rte. 9/Highland Ave. at the junction of Croton Ave. (Rte. 133) (from Metro-North Ossining Train Station by taxi or 15-minute uphill walk). (Parking lots nearby) After a brief walk, descend into the Weir in Ossining and explore the original 1842 brick water tunnel and learn its history. Less than a half mile and two hours. Required: pre-registration (limited number); masks, and social distancing. Walk will be rescheduled if weather does not cooperate. To register, visit: https://aqueduct.org/events • (914) 693-5259


Village of Rhinebeck – Compost Info Session + Call for Participants
Public Online Info Session: Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 10am • Deadline to participate: February 4, 2022 • Got food waste? We all do! Did you know that rotting food waste in landfills produces methane, a major contributor to climate change? Climate Smart Rhinebeck and the Village government are taking steps to change that with a municipal composting program. They need 100 Village households to take part, and are inviting Village businesses as well. Learn about how Village Compost will work and apply for one of the spots via: www.climatesmartrhinebeck.org/village-compost-pilot. If you already compost, please fill out the form at the link above, so the org can track how many total households are composting. Your data will help the community climate goals and applying for grants moving forward.


Weird Science with Professor Sparks
Saturday, January 15, 2022 • 10:30am • Free • 117 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson • Come spend the morning exploring the science of fire! Professor Sparks and her robot canine companion, Spot 2000, will present an interactive program that is full of surprises! After the program make your own “slime” to take home! Only Professor Sparks can make learning about science this much fun. This hands-on program is appropriate for children ages 5 and up • http://www.fasnyfiremuseum.com/museum-events


The Unsinkable Margaret Beekman
Sunday January 16, 2022 • 11am • Virtual via Facebook Live • Known as Clermont’s most important matriarch, Margaret Beekman Livingston is featured in all of the major stories of this house’s history. Today, hear from the lady herself as she shares what it was like to be from two influential and local families, to mother 10 children, and to see this house burned and rebuilt • Tune in, here: https://www.facebook.com/ClermontSHS

Flag Changing Ceremony
Sunday, January 16, 2022 • noon - 1pm • Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park • The American Legion Post 739 organize and present monthly Flag Changing Ceremonies on the Walkway to honor our region's veterans and their service to our country. These events, organized and presented by these local veterans' organizations, are open to all who wish to attend • (845) 834-2867.

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House Tours at Olana
Fridays - Sundays from 11am to 3pm • Olana State Historic Site, Hudson • Olana's 250-acres will continue to be open and free to roam every day from 8am - sunset • Visit Olana.org for more information.

Mask up indoors, again
Through February, 2022 • Masks are required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. “This determination is based on the state's weekly seven-day case rate as well as increasing hospitalizations … The new measure brings added layers of mitigation during the holidays when more time is spent indoors shopping, gathering, and visiting holiday-themed destinations,” according to a state press release. The requirement applies to all non-private residences, including office spaces. If a business, office space, or venue does not require proof of vaccination as a condition of entry, everyone must wear masks at all times regardless of vaccination status except when eating, drinking, or alone in an enclosed room • More info

“WinterOver?”
On view through Spring 2022 • Time & Space, Ltd. 434 Columbia Street, Hudson • Featuring the sculpture of Pamela Blum, Jeremy K. Bullis, Nurya Chana, Dan Devine, Mimi Graminski, Chiarra Hughes-Mba, Linda Mussmann, Gelah Penn, and Katharine Umsted. George Spencer, the curator of “WinterOver?”, asked the artists to produce outdoor sculptures that will deteriorate over time. With the pieces standing in the yard of TSL for 6 months they will be exposed to nature’s extreme elements. Heat, wind, rain, snow, insects, mold, and mushrooms will cause the work to bend, crack, warp, fade and dissolve. Spencer uses this deterioration as a metaphor for the destructive changes (like the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the countless unnecessary deaths resulting from the incompetent response to COVID-19, the attack on the Capitol, and so much more) occurring in the world around us. In the early Spring of 2022 the artists will be asked to revisit their work and assess the damage done during the Winter months. Is their sculpture still standing; do only fragments remain; it is disfigured but still recognizable? (Much like the questions Spencer asks about our Country.) What then is the individual artist’s response to these changes? Do they rebuild; build something new; make repairs; or leave things as they are? (These are the questions we must constantly ask ourselves about life.) • http://timeandspace.org/

What Comes After
On view through March 19, 2022 • Saturdays, noon to 5pm; Third Fridays: 1/21, 2/18, 3/18, 4 to 6pm • Maxon Mills, Wassaic • Curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Will Hutnick,What Comes After, the Wassaic Project’s 2021–2022 winter exhibition, presents ten artists throughout the seven floors of Maxon Mills who are, in one way or another, reflecting on life in the aftermath — no cause, all effect. • LINK

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Winter of Weird: An Online Exhibition
Starting Monday, January 17 and continuing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday through mid-February • Join Clermont’s staff via Facebook and Instagram as they highlight unusual, interesting, and quirky things inside the mansion! This curated series of social media posts will showcase objects the public never gets to see – or things they might walk past without a second thought!  • Facebook: Clermont State Historic Site, Instagram: @clermontfriends

"History and Future of Grain Races"
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 • 7pm • Virtual lecture hosted by the Hudson River Maritime Museum • For over 200 years grain was shipped by sailing vessel around the world, and in May we're celebrating by hosting the competitive and climate-friendly Northeast Grain Race. This lecture will share the history of sail freight and what to expect of the race later this year • $7, free for members of the HRMM • LINK

Art Omi Presents: Borders, Identity and Constructs in Architecture
Thursday, January 20, 2022 • 6:30pm • A virtual conversation with Art Omi: Architecture residency alumni about recent projects, tackling notions of geopolitical identity and systems. Featuring Miguel Braceli (2021), presenting his recent project, Here Lies A Flag; Dream the Combine (Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, 2018)—presenting their recent project Columbus, Columbia, Colombo, Colón; and BASE Studio (Felipe Sepúlveda, 2019 and Bárbara Barreda, 2018)—presenting their recent project Flocking Tejas. Moderated by Julia van den Hout, Art Omi: Architecture Curator and Program Director • This virtual event is free to attend, but pre-registration is required - register, here.

Print, Gossip & Duel: Alexander Hamilton & the Art of Political Combat
Thursday, January 20, 2022 • 7-8pm • Virtual lecture hosted by the Putnam History Museum • Don't let Alexander Hamilton's polished manners fool you: he was a political brawler at a time when the new nation's survival was at stake. The Founding Fathers didn't have cable tv or social media, but they did have their own battlegrounds and tactics to make sure their vision of the republic won. Dr. David Head explains how early American politicians like Hamilton battled each other in public, in private, and, sometimes, on the dueling ground • LINK

Women In Science Winter Speaker Series: Demolishing Dams and Stereotypes
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 • 3-4 pm • DEC's Hudson River Estuary Program for a virtual Women in Science Winter Speaker Series, six free webinars which take place January - March 2022. Meet and learn from scientists, community leaders, and environmental educators who work at the intersection of research, education, and environmental justice. This webinar features Laura Wildman, P.E., who will discuss the women who are removing dams and restoring our rivers • Learn more and register • Continues Feb. 2, 3-4 p.m. with A Love Affair in STEM, with Shihadah “Shay” Saleem. Learn how a Black woman’s love of marine science blossomed into a holistic passion for STEM education, empowerment, and community elevation for New York City youth. Learn more and register • Field-Based Learning Connects and Empowers Students, Feb. 16, 3-4 p.m., Explore how youth on the Hudson and in Greenland are working to bring hands-on, intergenerational learning into their education with Margie Turrin. Learn more and register • Turning Data Into Action, March 2, 3-4 p.m., Hear about ways that scientists and advocates are working together to bring about a cleaner environment while letting data tell the story with Tracy Brown. Learn more and register • Reaching Local Communities With Equity, Access, and Inclusion in Environmental Education, with Eli Caref, March 9, 3-4 p.m. Learn how bringing more equity and inclusion into the environmental field is the best way to reach our communities. Learn more and register.

Germantown History Talk: Reformed Cemetery on Main Street
Thursday, January 27, 2022 • 6:30-8pm • Virtual event via Zoom • Free • LINK

Call for Seeds for National Seed Swap Day
The Morton Seed Library is planning a virtual seed swap for Saturday, January 29, 2022 (National Seed Swap Day). Did "your garden grow"? Did you save seeds? Would you like to share? Please contact sandy@mortonrhinecliff.org with your inventory by January 15 and it will be added to the master list before the swap on the 29.

Hudson Valley Hard Cider Virtual Talk & Tasting
Saturday, February 5, 2022 • 5 - 6 pm • Love cider? New to cider? Or just curious about apples and cider history & heritage? Then this event will satisfy all of your curiosity! Featuring Dutchess County authors Dan Pucci & Craig Cavallo, and ciders from Metal House Cider, Esopus NY. All proceeds from this event support the Putnam History Museum. • Tickets are available from $15 - $100, with or without cider. • For more information & registration: Link

“Lost Amusement Parks of the Hudson Valley”
Wednesday, February 9, 2021 • 7pm • Virtual event hosted by the Hudson River Maritime Museum • local historians Wes & Barbara Gottlock, authors of the book Lost Amusement Parks of the Hudson Valley, will highlight some of the impactful parks that reigned as recreation meccas for millions of people for over 50 years • $7, free for HRMM members • LINK

HUDSON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022
February 10-13 & February 17-20, 2022 • Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson • Expanded, two-weekend festival features performers The Baylor Project, Alexis Morrast, Daniel J. Watts, Warren Wolf, Jazzmeia Horn, and Jimmy Greene; film, visual art, and spoken word/music partnership with Louis Armstrong House Museum & Archives • Single event tickets start at $25, Weekend Festival Passes (Valentine's Weekend or President's Weekend) start at $68. Tickets and information at hudsonhall.org or by phone (518) 822-1438.


Friday Night Film Series: “The Wedding Singer” (1998)
Friday, February 11, 2021 • Bardavon, Poughkeepsie • Followed by “Akeelah and the Bee” (2006) February 25 at UPAC, “A League of Their Own” (1992) March 18 at the Bardavon, “Monterey Pop” (1968) on April 8 at UPAC • $6 all seats, free for members • https://bit.ly/BardavonFridays2021

D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents: Looking Up
Saturday, February 12, 2022 • 5 - 8pm • Free • D'Arcy Simpson Art Works, 409 Warren Street, Hudson • D’Arcy Simpson Art Works is pleased to feature new work by Jeremy Bullis and Michael Larry Simpson in Looking Up, opening on Saturday, February 12th, 2022. The large scale color field paintings by Simpson shown alongside Bullis’ ethereal kinetic mobiles fashions an immersive atmosphere of movement filling this intimate gallery with music for the eyes. In this exhibition, each artist explores ideas of movement, balance, tension and harmony within their own practices of composition and construction • https://www.darcysimpsonartworks.com/

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