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While the selection of things like biodegradable baby bibs, natural loofahs, and horsehair brooms has proliferated online in the past few years, there are still very few sustainable home goods boutiques where you can touch and try products before bringing them home. The recently opened Kaaterskill Market in Catskill fills this gap with flair. At the Main Street brick and mortar, you’ll find a range of items that are as utilitarian as they are beautiful, made with natural materials and ethical labor.
After a Fashion After growing increasingly disenchanted with the fashion industry both with the crazed consumerism it begets and the mistreatment it is built upon in 2019, Katie Hartsough left a job as a VP of merchandising in the city to live full time in her upstate home. She had learned about production practices, visited factories in China, and ordered merchandise from those same places to
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! This week, as we honor King’s work, life, and legacy and celebrate the inauguration of a new administration that includes America’s first African American vice president, we offer this list of alluring local activities.
Paul Bermanzohn Presents “King Was a Revolutionary” | January 18
At 4pm on January 18, Dr. Paul Bermanzohn will host “King Was a Revolutionary,” a Zoom talk sponsored by the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center in Kingston. The presentation discusses two of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most famous speeches: his celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech and “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” an anti-Vietnam War and pro-social justice speech. Bermanzohn, a Poughkeepsie psychiatrist, is a survivor of the 1979 Greensboro, North Carolina, attack on civil rights marchers by Ku Klux Klan and Nazi assailants that left five dead. The talk is free, but registration is required.
The couple, who moved to the area from Maryland, had long planned to open a restaurant together that builds on Kwang’s 18 years of experience in professional kitchens and catering operations. When a vacant storefront on Route 9 at the south end of Poughkeepsie, near the IBM building, became available last fall, they decided to go for it. “We thought, even though the pandemic was going on, this was a good opportunity to open,” Ji says. “There is no Korean restaurant in this area.” (While that may be true for Dutchess County, across the river in Newburgh, we should note that Seoul Kitchen serves up lip-smacking homestyle Korean cooking.)
click to enlarge Among the numerous ways the pandemic has shaken Americans is food insecurity, which has skyrocketed nationwide alongside record unemployment. With nearly one in eight households lacking sufficient food in the pandemic economy, food pantries are experiencing unprecedented demands in their communities, and the Hudson Valley is no exception. A fundraiser to combat hunger in the Hudson Valley, “Cooking for a Cause” is a five-part virtual cooking instruction series featuring top chefs from the Hudson Valley. The classes, which started on January 12, will take place on Zoom at 6pm every Tuesday during January and February. Each class will feature a different local celebrity chef teaching home cooks how to prepare one of their signature dishes. Tickets, which can be purchased for any of the classes, are $50 each, with 100 percent of net proceeds going to the chef’s ch