From utilizing their imagination in the woods with friends to learning to care for gentle giants at an equine nonprofit, Summer in the Hudson Valley is a great time for kids, even during a pandemic!
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Scenes from Beneath The Surface: A Film About Living with MS Last December, it dawned on Marylou Kandur that it had been over nine months since the members of her Parkinson s disease support group had seen each other s faces. While many other groups had pivoted online after COVID hit back in March, her Rhinebeck Parkinson s Support Group most of them senior citizens lacking in digital fluency lagged behind. Let me see if I can get these people together, thought Kandur, a retired entrepreneur in Red Hook who has had a manageable form of Parkinson s for 22 years. But what will I say to them?
Renowned chef, food writer, and podcaster Julia Turshen takes a healthier approach to 110 easily prepared comfort foods in her new cookbook, Simply Julia.
Last Updated: 03/05/2021 1:10 pm click to enlarge Winona Barton Ballentine Laurie Ylvisaker’s 2,000-square-foot farmhouse sits at the top of what she and her neighbors have dubbed Rainbow Hill. Her grandfather, a best-selling author, and her grandmother, a German immigrant, were the first year-round residents of the Maverick Colony of the Arts, invited by colony founder Hervey White. Ylvisaker spent much of her childhood visiting them and “as a 13-year-old existentialist, I always knew this was where I’d ultimately be,” she explains. Although she s roamed like the quintessential rolling stone, Laurie Ylvisaker s life has truly come full circle. A descendant of Woodstock art colonists, her childhood was colored by the artists, musicians,