Solo Show

Date: July 24-August 29
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Hours: Thursday 10 am - 5 pm, Friday 10 am – 6 pm, Saturday 10 am – 7 pm, Sunday 11 am – 4 pm. Closed Monday through Wednesday.
Information: 518 263 2060
Email: gallery@catskillmtn.org

Image: "Mind the Gap," by Kulvinder Kaur Dhew

This accomplished young artist was born and raised in England, has taught in universities in New Zealand, Borneo and the U.S.  Her work is in private collections worldwide.  She is also on the faculty of the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts.  Currently using various media to explore notions of ‘witness’ and ‘melancholia,’ Kulvinder is drawn to examining near-to-almost-epic events from an emotive point of view, rather than a simply descriptive one.  Interested in the distance[s] between landscape, personal context, drawing, painting and response, Ms. Kaur Dhew attempts to engage the viewer through memories of their own paths into or out of the natural environment.

Date: July 30, 2010 through August 1, 2010
Location: Hunter and Windham, NY
To Register: www.bikereg.com
Online registration closes July 23!
For more information, click here to visit the Tour of the Catskills Web site.

A three-day stage race:
Prologue Time Trial - 2.3 miles - Friday, July 30 - Tannersville, NY
Catskill Epic RR - 51 miles - Saturday, July 31 - Windham, NY
Mountaintop Classic RR - 51 miles - Sunday, August 1 - Hunter, NY

Featuring:
• An Epic Climb Up Devil's Kitchen
• Bike, Saranac Beer & Boogie at Windham Mountain on Saturday, July 31st @ 5:30 pm

Presented by Anthem Sports, proud presenters of the "Tour of the Battenkill"

Presenting Sponsors:
Catskill Mountain Foundation
GreeneTourism.com
Town of Hunter Chamber of Commerce
Windham Chamber of Commerce
Windham Chapter

Corporate Sponsors:
Saranac
Hunter Mountain
Windham Mountain
Cycle for Health

Date: Saturday, July 31, 7:00 pm
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, Rte. 23A, Village of Hunter, NY 12442
Tickets: $8 adults/$6 children and students
Reservations: 518 263 2063

Under the direction of internationally acclaimed Jacques d'Amboise, former principal ballet dancer of the New York City Ballet, this delightful performance features NDI's Celebration Team of young dancers and local children who have completed a summer workshop with NDI in Hunter.

Botanist turned forest historian, railroad history buff and retired professor; author of many books & articles, including “The Catskill Forest: A History”

Location: The Paint Studio (old church building, immediately to your right on entering Maplecrest), Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Maplecrest, NY
Time: 4:00–5:00 pm
Admission is FREE!

Interested in nature, local history and industry, Big Hollow, and the surrounding mountain ranges? Join us at Sugar Maples (the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Maplecrest campus) from 4:00 to 5:00 pm on Saturday, July 31, for a special public lecture by Dr. Michael Kudish,botanist turned forest historian, railroad history buff and retired professor; author of many books & articles, including The Catskill Forest: A History.

The talk will be followed by Q&A at Sugar Maples, and an optional visit to 19th c. mill ruins at the upper end of Big Hollow (an easy 10-minute walk from the Blackhead Mountain trailhead).

Known for making history and nature come alive, Dr. Kudish will be addressing a wide range of topics—from the Maplecrest Bog and its fossils to the boreal spruce-fir forest’s present distribution, settlement & agriculture in the valley/Catskills, roads and turnpikes, bark peeling, logging and mills, land acquisition by NY State and much, much more. Please join us!

Michael Kudish received his Ph.D. at the New York State College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. In 2000, Purple Mountain Press published The Catskill Forest: A History. As a professor emeritus in the Division of Forestry at Paul Smith's College, Kudish has also written four books on the vegetation of the Adirondacks, including Adirondack Upland Flora and a number of articles on forest history of both the Catskills and Adirondacks. He is currently working on a four-volume set on the Mountain Railroads of New York State.

From The Catskill Forest: A History Purple Mountain Press, 2000:
“ …[Michael Kudish] began a life-long study of the history of these forests, beginning with Vegetation History of the Catskill High Peaks, his dissertation at the New York State College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University in 1971.  In the intervening 39 years, his study has expanded to include an examination of Catskills soils, climate, ecological personalities of tree species, human disturbance and history, and the history recorded in the rings of living and just-fallen trees.  Such examination could push the clock back only 300 to 400 years, the maximum age of the oldest living trees and of the writings of European settlers. In 1994, he realized that tree fossils preserved at high-elevation peat bogs also could be used to reconstruct forest history and that the age of the peat could be determined by radiocarbon dating.  Forest history has now been pushed back to 14,000 years.” www.mknhp.com

For more information, contact Chris at translateinthecatskills@gmail.com