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FRIDAY, December 7, 2007

Comfort and Joy: Paintings by Cathy Nichols and Marisa Haedike
Opening reception 5-9pm.
East Village Collective, 8 Old Forge Road
Woodstock, NY 12494
845-679-2174
eastvillagecollective.com

Art Exhibit: Hudson in Black & White
Photographs of Hudson by regional artists;
Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street,
Hudson, NY
822-8448
Time & Space

Out of the Shadows: Exhibition of photographs by Agi Clark
Photographs explore shadows that break loose from their source becoming abstract entities
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sun 12-5pm
Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street
Hudson, NY
822-1438
Hudson Opera House

2007 Winter Celebration at Lindenwald
The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site will celebrate the season with music, drama and special tours of President Van Buren’s mansion decorated and lighted for the season. The home and farm of eighth President will be aglow with the warm light and holiday greens that evening. On the inside, guests will be treated to the talents of the Kinderhook Garden Club whose members beautifully decorate the President’s home.
Admission to the house is free, but reservations for house tours are a must which are scheduled from 4:30pm – 8:30pm .
Reservations MUST be made by phone at 518-758-9689
Route 9H, Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

SATURDAY, December 8, 2007

A Mexican Holiday
Holiday house tours discuss the holiday traditions Church would have witnessed on his annual winter trips and emphasizing paintings of and objects from Mexico.
Olana State Historic Site
Route 9G, south of Hudson;
10am-4pm; 828-0135
Olana.org

“Cyrano”
Copake Theatre Company presents Walking the dog Theater’s acclaimed production of the classic “Cyrano de Bergerac,” weekends from November 30 to December 9, at the Copake Grange
Empire Road, Copake, NY.
Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 & 8 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m.
Admission: adults $15 on Friday, $18 on Saturday and Sunday
seniors, $12 on Friday, $15 on Saturday and Sunday
Students, group (20 or more) and children’s rate, $12 all shows
Call 518-325-1234 for tickets or purchase them at Dad’s Copake Diner.
Copake Theatre Company

Christmas at Clermont
Clermont State Historic Site
off Route 9G, Clermont
11am-4pm
537-4240
Friends Of Clermont

Robert Selkowitz Studio Open House
11am -5pm
3024 Route 28, Ashokan, NY
(845)657-6982,
artfolks.com

SUNDAY, December 9, 2007

Christmas dinner-dance
Live music provided by the Mountain Tops. Delicious grand buffet dinner available for $20 or $6 for only live music and dancing. Children’s price $6.
2-7 PM
The German-American Club of Albany
32 Cherry Street, Albany, NY 12205
(518) 482-5845.
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Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), eighth president of the United States, was was born in the village of Kinderhook, NY, in what is now part of Columbia County. He was the third of five children and the first president born in the United States, as all previous ones were born before the American Revolution.

Van Buren was educated at the common schools and at Kinderhook Academy. In 1796, he began the study of law, completing his preparation in 1802 in New York City, where he studied under William Peter van Ness. In 1803, he was admitted to the bar and continued an active and successful practice for 26 years.

Nicknamed Old Kinderhook, Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency he served as the eighth Vice President (1833-1837) and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. He was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, Welsh, or Scottish descent. Van Buren was the first President who did not experience the American Revolution firsthand. He is also the only president not to have spoken English as a first language, having grown up speaking Dutch.

Members of the Friends of Lindenwald, representatives of the Martin Van Buren Historic Site and of the resident of the United States, the town of Kinderhook, the military and the villages of Kinderhook and Valatie will take place in a ceremony today at 12:45 pm to honor Van Buren’s 225th birthday.

The ceremony will be held in the Kinderhook Cemetery on Albany Avenue.