SAUGERTIES, N.Y. ShoutOut Saugerties and Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley are taking applications for three arts-based grants for projects that would enrich the quality of community life or highlight a significant aspect of the town. Susana Meyer Creative Arts Award applications can be submitted through Friday, April 5, for a $2,500 grant to […]
A new exhibit, "Let the Stone Tell the Story," which explores sculptor Harvey Fite’s studio work will run June 3—July 10 at Emerge Gallery and the Lamb Center in Saugerties.
Rocky the stowaway owl brought Saugerties national
attention back in 2020, but its the town’s creative and entrepreneurial residents that really fuel its fire.
Saugerties, N.Y.: A Congenial Place With a Colorful History
The Ulster County town with its quaint village has attracted creative urban transplants for decades with the promise of new beginnings.
By Julie Lasky
May 19, 2021Updated 2:46 p.m. ET
For 51 years, Johanna Hall has been living in Saugerties, a Hudson River town 100 miles north of New York City brushed with forests, dotted with hamlets and cradling a quaint village with shoulder-to-shoulder Victorians. She calls her home on four acres in West Saugerties “the house that Janis built,” because she and her then-partner, John Hall, bought it with money earned from writing a song for Janis Joplin (“Half Moon,” the B-side of 1971’s “Me and Bobby McGee”). It was one of those watershed moments. Ms. Hall, now 75, went from being an urban rock critic for