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.
The Columbia County Historical Society presents an illustrated lecture with Dr. James Mundy, the Vassar Museum Director. The lecture is titled, “What Can You Give Me for Seven Dollars?” ~ Building the Founding Collection of Hudson River School Art at Vassar College.
The Columbia County Historical Society presents an illustrated lecture with Dr. James Mundy, the Vassar Museum Director. The lecture is titled, “What Can You Give Me for Seven Dollars?” ~ Building the Founding Collection of Hudson River School Art at Vassar College.
The Vassar College Collections & Hudson River School Paintings (1825-1875) are the theme of this April lecture sponsored by the Columbia County Historical Society.
Dr. James Mundy is a graduate of Vassar College, returned to campus in 1991 to become the first Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has held teaching positions at Northwestern University and Mount Holyoke College. From 1986-91 he was the chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum. He has published and organized exhibitions on many diverse topics from Italian Renaissance art to American art and the history of photography,
DATE/TIME:
Saturday, April 28 2018, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
LOCATION:
Van Buren Hall
6 Chatham Street,
Kinderhook NY 12106
ADMISSION:
Tickets will be available at the door: $15 for CCHS members;
$20 for non-members.
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.
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Columbia County Current 