Literary historian, and Kinderhook resident, Jon Michael Varese comes to the Chatham Bookstore with his debut novel “The Spirit Photographer”.
Literary historian, and Kinderhook resident, Jon Michael Varese comes to the Chatham Bookstore with his debut novel “The Spirit Photographer”. The novel conjures the Reconstruction era South, replete with fugitive hunters, voodoo healers, and dangers lurking in the swamp. The Spirit Photographer is an intense tale of death and betrayal that will thrill readers as they unravel the dreadful mystery behind the spirit in the photograph and what ultimately became of her.
Varese will read from his book, then join Chatham Bookstore’s Thomas Chulak for a conversation, and Q & A.
DATE/TIME:
Saturday, May 5 2018, from 5pm to 7pm
LOCATION:
The Chatham Bookstore
27 Main Street in the Village of Chatham
Margaret Roach, of AwayToGarden.com, is teaming up with Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery to kickoff of the 2018 garden-visiting season. This Saturday, Margaret will open her garden for tours and a Broken Arrow Nursery will be on site for a plant sale.
Margaret Roach, author and blogger (AwayToGarden.com), is teaming up with Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery to kickoff of the 2018 garden-visiting season. This Saturday, Margaret will open her garden for tours and Broken Arrow Nursery will be on site for a plant sale.
Margaret’s garden features informal mixed borders, shrubberies, frog-filled water gardens, and container groupings covering the steep two-and-one-third-acre hillside. It’s a former orchard with a simple Victorian-era farmhouse and little outbuildings set in Taconic State Park lands on a rural farm road.
DATE/TIME:
Saturday, May 5 2018, from 10am to 4pm
LOCATION:
Garden of Margaret Roach
99 Valley View Road
Copake Falls, NY 12517
“May the 4th be with you”. What started as a pun shared by Star Wars fans has become a full-fledged Star Wars holiday, and an annual celebration of the galaxy far, far away. This year, the New Lebanon Library is joining the celebration with a fun idea for overdue fines.
“May the 4th be with you”. What started as a pun shared by Star Wars fans has become a full-fledged Star Wars holiday, and an annual celebration of the galaxy far, far away. This year, the New Lebanon Library is joining the celebration with a fun idea for overdue fines.
Here are the details:
If you can recite a Star Wars quote (3+ words), and the movie it came from, the library will take $1 off any existing fines (Only one per patron)
$5 off fines for an outstanding costume (Brownie points awarded for effort. T-Shirts don’t count).
$5 off fines for a passable Chewbacca imitation (the library will play a sound byte for you first).
DATE:
Friday, May 4th 2018
LOCATION: New Lebanon Library
550 State Route 20
New Lebanon, NY 12125
For the 5th year, the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, the Register-Star, and the Chatham Courier present the Best of Columbia County competition.
For the 5th year, the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, the Register-Star, and the Chatham Courier present the Best of Columbia County competition.
The Best of Columbia County allows county residents, and visitors to make their voices heard in deciding the best of the best in a broad field of over 85 categories–including best bar, best burger, best plumber, best florist, and best Real Estate Company. The awards also provide winners with a yearlong opportunity to tout their goods or services in advertising as the 2018 award recipient.
The first round of voting, the nomination round, began on April 1, and ends on April 30. The top three vote getters of each category will move on to Round Two, the final round (May 5 through May 31), which will determine a winner from each category. Winners will be announced during an Academy Award style show, held at the Columbia County fairgrounds in Chatham on June 22.
In each of the categories, you can select one of the listed options, or write in your own. Here’s my shameless plug – Beach & Bartolo Realtors has won Best Realtor for the past two years, and we would love to win again.
Once again, The Crandell Theatre has something for everyone this weekend with Avengers Infinity War opening, and a Sunday matinee of Itzhak.
Once again, The Crandell Theatre has something for everyone this weekend with Avengers Infinity War opening, and a Sunday matinee of Itzhak. Following is some info about the two movies showing over the weekend.
Avengers: The Infinity War
An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
TRAILER:
INFO:
Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude references)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Written By: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Runtime: 156 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
SHOW TIMES:
Fri 4/27, 7:00pm 2D, 9:45pm 3D
Sat 4/28, 2:00pm 2D, 7:00pm 2D & 9:45pm 3D
Sun 4/29, 2:00pm 2D & 7:00pm 2D
Mon 3/40 thru Thu 5/3, 7:00pm 2D
Itzhak
From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life; “praying with the violin,” says renowned Tel Aviv violinmaker Amnon Weinstein. Alison Chernick’s enchanting documentary looks beyond the sublime musician to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability. Itzhak himself is funny, irreverent and self-deprecating, and here his life story unspools in conversations with masterful musicians, family and friends, and most endearingly his devoted wife of 50 years, Toby. Itzhak and Toby’s lives are dedicated to their large, loving, Jewish family in NYC and their continual support of young musicians. As charming and entrancing as the famous violinist himself, ITZHAK is a portrait of musical virtuosity seamlessly enclosed in warmth, humor, and above all, love.
Literary historian, and Kinderhook resident, Jon Michael Varese comes to the Chatham Bookstore with his debut novel “The Spirit Photographer”. The novel conjures the Reconstruction era South, replete with fugitive hunters, voodoo healers, and dangers lurking in the swamp. The Spirit Photographer is an intense tale of death and betrayal that will thrill readers as they unravel the dreadful mystery behind the spirit in the photograph and what ultimately became of her.
Margaret Roach, author and blogger (
Columbia County Current 