click to enlarge An architectural rendering of Arm-of-the-Sea's proposed Tidewater Center in Saugerties. Since 2001, Arm-of-the-Sea's Esopus Creek Puppet Suite, performed in Tina Chorvas Park for a weekend every August (2015 and 2020 excluded), has been an annual cultural ritual. Summer in the Mid-Hudson Valley just wouldn't be the same without that magical evening—sitting on a blanket on a sloping lawn after a picnic repast watching a performance recounting the building of the Ashokan reservoir, or a migrant's thwarted efforts to cross the border, or the chemistry o...