Hi Readers –
Last week, I wrote the piece, “Warning! Read This Before Moving Upstate!”
That touched a nerve; I wasn’t expecting such a response.
I have a few more opinion pieces in the draft folder, but I’m thinking I should hold off. Not every post is going to be a winner…
There are only a few weeks left of Bard’s Spiegeltent – just twenty minutes away – visit their website, pick a show and go! There are too many events and shows for me to list them all.
Some nights, there are dance parties afterwards. If you cannot make a show, maybe go and just dance.
Also, neighbor Aaron Boisvert started a new cookie business, “Lunchbox Cookie Co.” Aaron bakes cookies twice a month. You can pick up boxes of cookies right on Warren Street. Check out his instagram account for details. I bought my first box last week and they were delicious!
(I bought a box of cookies – ME – like I need more cookies in my life). Support local.
Buy cookies from the Lunchbox Cookie Co
I know what you’re thinking. Trixie, are you promoting your competition?
Yes. If someone else wants to have no social life on Fridays, wake up at 3:30am on Saturday mornings, bake cookies in a hot kitchen, package them, schlep them over, and pretend to be nice to people for four hours at the Hudson Farmers’ Market, go for it. If someone puts me out of business, I might be a happier person.
It would give me more time to write these sardonic fabulous blog posts…and “opinion pieces“.
Happy Summer!
-Trix
Warning! Read This Before Moving Upstate!
Trixie gives you the advice that no realtor will EVER tell you!
Trixie’s List Reviews the Mac-Haydn’s performance of
“The Sound of Music”
Here’s the Mac-Haydn Summer Schedule:
Jacob Leisler Institute announces
Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation Grant
All Together Now for Summer Reading at the Hudson Area Library!
The Hudson Area Library kicks off its 2023 Summer Reading Program July 10 – August 19
Events listed in Chronological Order (ish)
Opening Reception:
Annual Photo Exhibit
Columbia County Photo Club
Friday, July 28th – 5:00-7:00pm
Claverack Free Library
On View until September 8th
Ailey II in Hudson!
Friday, July 28th – 5:30pm
Hudson Area Library
Hudson Farmers’ Market Spring-Summer 2023
26th Season!
Saturday, July 2th – 9am-1pm
Columbia Street bet. 6th and 7th
Abi Balingit Book Signing: Mayumu
Saturday, July 29th – 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Talbott & Arding
HUDSON MILLINER ART SALON PRESENTS:
SITting…three approaches
Saturday, July 29th – Noon to 6pm
On View until October 31st
Hudson Milliner Art Salon
Invisible Cities by Processional Arts Workshop
“Invisible Cities” Procession July 29, 5:30 PM
“Save The Last Dance For Me”
by Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy)
Saturday, July 29th – 7:00pm
PS 21 – Chatham
Artist Talk: Brian Dickerson
Constructed Paintings and Drawings
Artist talk: Sunday, July 30th 3:00pm
Lighforms Art Center
Community Wellness Class at Top Form
Monday, July 31st 1pm-2:30pm
Chatham
Qigong~TaiChi
Tuesdays, August 1st – August 29th – 10:00-11:00am
Hudson Area Library
Hey DJ! Keep playing that song!
Youth DJing Workshop
Youth DJ Workshops:
Tuesdays, August 1st – August 15, 3 – 5pm – Hudson Area Library, with two field trips to local record stores
Youth DJ Performance for All Ages:
Tuesday, August 15, 5 – 7pm – Hudson Area Library
Crafting Kindness
Wednesdays, August 2nd – August 16th 11:00am – 1:00pm
Hudson Area Library
Crafting for Money:
Craft Entrepreneurship for Teens
Wednesdays – August 2nd – August 9th, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Hudson Area Library
Waterfront Wednesdays
Hudson Riverfront Park – Wednesdays – 5:00pm – Sunset
Summer Movement & Music Storytimes
Thursdays – August 2nd until August 24th – 4:00-5:00pm
Hudson Area Library
Hudson Thursday Market
Thursdays – 7th Street Park – 4-7pm
The 2023 Bard Music Festival
Vaughan Williams and His World
WEEKEND ONE • August 4–6
Fisher Center at Bard
Program One
Vaughan Williams:
Becoming an English Composer
Friday, August 4th – 7:00pm
Fisher Center at Bard
Program Two
Between Two Worlds: London and Berlin
Saturday, August 5th – 1:30pm-6:00pm
Fisher Center at Bard
Cave Concert
Dust Bowl Faeries (trio) + Jude Roberts
Saturday, August 5th – 3pm
Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale
AN AFTERNOON ON THE PIAZZA
Saturday, August 5th – 4:00pm
Claverack Free Library
House Blend Concert II
Saturday, August 5th – 7pm
PS 21
Program Three
The Symphony and Composing for the Stage
Saturday, August 5th – 8:00pm
Fisher Center at Bard
27th Annual Golf Tournament
Monday, August 7th – 8:00am – 3:00pm
Columbia Golf & Country Club
295 NY-217, Claverack, NY
Half Moon Karaoke
Wednesdays – August 9th and 23rd – 8:00pm
Half Moon
Banned Books Book Club
August 7th and August 14th – 5:30 – 7:00pm
Claverack Free Library, 9 Route 9H, Claverack
Year 14 The Hudson VALLEY Jazz Festival
Wednesday-Sunday, August 9 – 13th
Click here for more info
Cooking Up Community
Tomato Tenga
Thursday – August 10th 6pm
Hudson Area Library
Plein Air Plays
August 10th – 13th & 17th – 20th
Various times
Ancram Opera House
This Party Is Killing You! The Robyn Party
Friday, August 11th – 9pm
Avalon Lounge, Catskill
Boat Tours to the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse
departing from Hudson
Tours Depart from Hudson
August 26, Sept 23 at 10 am, 11 am and 12 pm
October 14 at 10 am and 12 pm
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Tours Depart from Athens
August 12, Sept 9 at 10 am, 11am and 12pm
October 14 at 11am and 1pm
Country Life: Book Signing and Reception
Thursday, August 17th – 6:00-8:00pm
Hudson Milliner
Community Care Clinic
Saturday, August 19, 11am – 2pm
Saturday, September 16, 11am – 2pm
Hudson Area Library
Raven Sings the Blues presents:
Deep In The Valley 2023
Saturday, August 19th – 11:30am – 9:30pm
From the Ground Brewery – Red Hook
Infant Toddler Playgroup and Parent Support
Monday, August 28th – 2:00 – 4:00pm
(Takes place on the fourth Monday of each month)
Spencertown Academy Festival of Books
Friday, Sept 1st – Monday, Sept 4th
Spencertown Academy Arts Center
2nd Annual Bacchus Barley & Bounty
Saturday, November 4th – 5-8:00pm
Hudson Hall
ON-GOING Events/Exhibitions
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents
Evergrowth by Emily Ritz
On View until August 27th
D’Arcy Simpson ArtWorks
ON VIEW: ROBIN RICE GALLERY AT LAVA ATELIER
On View Every Weekend until Thanksgiving
LAVA Atelier – Franklin, NY
Shaker Museum Pop-Up Exhibition
“The Commercialization of Shaker Knits”
Curated by Emily Adams Bode Aujla
Thursdays – Saturdays from 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sundays from 11:00am – 4:00pm
Until September 10th, 2023
The Kinderhook Knitting Mill
Opening Reception: Vision, Light, and Structure
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 9th – 1:00-3:00pm
CREATE Gallery – 398 Main St, Catskill, NY
Exhibition and Opening Reception:
Black and Brown Families of Hudson
Exhibition: Thursday, July 6 – Monday, August 28
Hudson Area Library
Neil Gaiman: The Bard Lectures
April 15th – October 14th – Various Times
Bard – Fisher Center
“Margin & Verge”:
Paintings by Anna Cypra Oliver
June 30 – July 30, 2023
510 Warren Street Gallery
Open Mic with Loki
Fridays – 8-10pm
Lightforms Art Center
IMPROV!
Thursdays – 7-9pm
Lightforms Art Center