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"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." - Samuel Johnson Good Saturday Morning,
It's going to be a cloudy today with "drenching rains", as the weather service calls it. But that's not going to stop you from coming to the rock show at the Cultural Center on Lake Carmel at 6:45 this evening. Hosted by Arts On The Lake, this show brings 6 young area bands together (Savoir Adore, French Horn Rebellion, Adam and the Animals (see video here), Locomotive Espada, Aspheradora and The Parthanon).
It's 6 bucks for 6 bands. You can't go wrong with that. I'll be in the back running sound and lights so make it a point to stop in and say hello.
Also at Arts on the Lake, registration is now in progress for Susan Ferri’s Landscape Painting: Alla Prima, which, using the beauty of the lake and the surrounding area, will meet the second week in September each day from 10-4 pm. Full information is at: www.artsonthelake.org/classes.
Close readers of their website will also notice that they are fast posting additional Fall Events, including an International Film Festival (9/20), a Fall Work Day, more performances from our friends at Blue Horse Repertory, a concert performance of a new musical and two Art Exhibits (the deadline for registration for the Fall Art Exhibit is September 5).
Earlier this year, AotL received a grant through the Putnam Arts Council to help in the creation of "Kent Stories: Neighbors Portray Neighbors", a theatrical portrait of Kent. Work has started, and the performances are scheduled for the first week in September, but more help is needed. If you’re interested in helping with the project, through transcribing, building or whatever, please contact: theatre@artsonthelake.org. If you're looking for something to do during the week this summer, Fort Montgomery has a new daily schedule of interpretive programs running Wednesday through Sunday. Learn about the history of the fort and the soldiers and citizens that lived, worked, fought, and died here. Witness musket and cannon firing demonstrations and camp life activities. Listen to period music and hear about its role in regulating military life and entertaining the public.
Guided Theme Tours: 11:00 and 2:00, Musket Demonstrations: 12:00 and 3:00, Artillery Demonstration: 1:00, Music Demonstration: 3:30 and periodic Camp Life Demonstrations.
Stop in at the Visitors Center or telephone 845-446-2134 for further information. You can reach Fort Montgomery by crossing the Bear Mountain Bridge, stay to the right into the traffic circle, and turn north on route 9W and it's right there.
The Town of Kent is putting together a committee of lake communities to help improve the overall environmental health of the town. If your lake community has an association or if not, and you still care about the lake you live on or, if you just have a lake or pond on your property, contact Councilman Lou Tartaro for more information.
If the sky is clear tomorrow (Sunday) night, join the Hudson Highlands Land Trust for their 2008 Take-a-Hike! Annual Night Sky Outing at the Garrison Golf Club. Join with amateur astronomer Frank Suits as they use sophisticated telescopes to gaze into a sky filled with planets and stars. Of particular viewing interest this night will be a crescent moon and several planets. More stargazing than hike, so bring a blanket and binoculars. If the outing has to be postponed due to limited visibility, notice will be given on the HHLT website and on the office voicemail 424-6068.
Next Saturday, August 9th, join the Sierra Club for a hike along the Appalachian Trail to Nuclear Lake in Beekman, Dutchess County, a popular spot for swimming and fishing. Learn the history of this remote, lovely lake with the unfortunate name, while exploring a diverse landscape of hemlocks, open woods, and small streams. About 4-5 moderately-paced miles, with gentle ups and downs. Meet 9:30 am at the trailhead on route 55 in Beekman, but contact leader for exact directions and last-minute changes. Serious rain cancels. Leader: Marie Caruso, 845-452-9086 or mariehv@verizon.net.
Later this month the Brewster Theater Company presents its Summer Teen Musical, "Time Warp". You should be prepared to fasten your seatbelt as The Brewster Theater Company takes you on a lively trip through the past 10 decades of Broadway musicals on August 14, 15, and 16 at 7:30 pm at The Brewster High School Performing Arts Center. The Performing Arts Center is located at 50 Foggintown Road, Brewster, NY 10509. Tickets are $18/adults and $13/seniors and students. To make reservations, go to www.brewstertheatercompany.org or call 845-598-1621 and tell them PlanPutnam sent you.
The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History opened a new exhibit a week ago called "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil". Visitors to the Museum will journey into the skin of the earth and explore the amazing world of soils. Completely familiar yet largely unknown, soils help sustain virtually every form of life on Earth. Dig It! will transport visitors to the world of fungi, bacteria, worms, and countless other organisms. Visitors will discover the amazing connections between soils and everyday life and think about this hidden world in a whole new way. So says their website.
Fall is rapidly approaching and as it does we run into the old suburban conundrum, how to get rid of all our leaves? Mostly we bag them and forget about them and someone comes and takes them away. But what they're taking away - no, what you're giving away - is the very essence of life in your gardens and grounds. This year, rake (please don't use those infernal noisy blowing machines!) them into a corner of your yard, mix in some grass clippings and vegetable waste from your kitchen and with a pitchfork, turn the pile every week or so for a few weeks. Keep adding lawn clippings and kitchen waste as you go along. You'll see two things happen: 1) the pile will get smaller as it begins to break down and 2) come spring, when you open the pile you'll find the richest, free fertilizer you can get.
Someone out there in Putnam-Land this Saturday morning is trying to tie a drug sting off Route 312 with Patterson Crossing hinting that if it is built, the surrounding neighborhood will become a hotbed of crime, drugs, raping and pillaging. Cut that out! Portraying unassociated crimes with commercial development is a cheap scare tactic that weakens other arguments that may be valid.
There is other news out there in the world today but I'll just play the Average American and ignore it.
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