The Catskill Chronicle

Story and photos by Ted Waddell The 1st Annual Eurasia Arts Festival was held on the grounds of the Ardmore Mansion at Mountain View Resort, for the last 35-some years, the venue of the popular Ukrainian Festival. The first-ever event, August 21-23, was co-sponsored by the Eurasia Dance Society (EDS) of Washington, D.C. and the [...]

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Story and photos by Ted Waddell There’s a little bit of “Woodstock” in everybody. In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Aquarian Exposition, known around globe as Woodstock, local award-winning author Rilla Askew penned “By the Time We Got to Woodstock,” an original world that was unveiled during a world premier at the [...]

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Story and photos by Leni Santoro On Friday, August 21 and Saturday, August 22 Act-Up Teen Theater presented Venus Fly Trap, a radio play, at the CAS Arts Center in Livingston Manor. Written and directed by Ramona Jan with musical direction by Andre Turan, the radio play presents the daydream of an aspiring musical performer [...]

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This photo was taken in 2006 during the CSNY Concert when so many people showed up the parking lot at Bethel Woods wasn’t yet large enough to hold them. The years pass, but the spirit remains true. Story and photo by Jason Dole It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since it’s been 40 [...]

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Story and photos by Carol Montana As you walked along the rows of rides and food stands, vendors selling their wares, and community organizations offering information, one thing became perfectly clear about the Little World’s Fair: it’s consistent and down-home, good country fun. The Little World’s Fair, alternately known as the Grahamsville Fair, has been [...]

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  Story and photos by Ted Waddell “It gives students another chance to perform out in the community,” said Lana Ivanov, artist director of the Shandelee Music Festival of the festival’s popular outreach program, in which the International Young Artists of Shandelee perform free concert piano recitals in the local area. On Wednesday, August 12, [...]

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Story and photos by Ted Waddell The Shandelee Music Festival continued its well-received outreach program on Tuesday, August 11 as four of the 2009 International Artists of Shandelee performed for folks at the Recovery Center in Monticello. On August 7, the other five young pianists took center stage at the Sullivan County Adult Care Center [...]

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   Story and photos by Ted Waddell On Saturday, August 15, the Manor was ‘the place to be in the local art scene’, as the village hosted two simultaneous opening receptions of  “The Book Show” at Hamish & Henry Booksellers” and just down the main drag a few doors, “Twisted Sisters” at the Catskill Art [...]

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Story and photos by Ted Waddell What better place to have an art show about books, altered and those that alter, than a local independent bookstore? The Outsider’s Studio presented “Artist Books and Altered Books” at Hamish & Henry Booksellers with an opening reception on Saturday, August15. Andrea Brown, who founded the Outsider’s Studio, (bringing [...]

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Story and photos by Ted Waddell It took Rilla Askew almost 20 years to get to Woodstock, but it was worth the wait. As a 16-year teenager growing up in Bartelsville, Oklahoma, the future award- winning novelist was going to meet up with a friend who was headed out to the Aquarian Music & Arts [...]

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Katie Rudy, founder of RJR (Richard Jacob Rudy) Memorial Scholarship Fund (center) with friends and family helping raise money for the scholarship fund at 2nd Annual RJR Car Show hosted by Orange County Choppers on July 18-19th.  The RJR Memorial Scholarship Fund is also administered by the Community Foundation. – Provided photo [NEWBURGH] – The [...]

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[ LIBERTY] – On Wednesday, August 12, members of the Sullivan County Adult Care Center (SCACC) Family Council held a reception at the facility to celebrate its 20th anniversary.    The Family Council of the SCACC was established in 1989 by William Wallace, who was, at the time, a director of social services at the facility, [...]

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Story and photos by Carol Montana Every August, residents and visitors in Sullivan County get to enjoy a very special show. For  the past 50 years “Antiques in August” has delighted both serious antique collectors and the casual browser. This year, the show -presented on August 9 and 10, was moved, due to construction, from [...]

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[SULLIVAN COUNTY] – On Friday August 14, 2009, Liz Bucar and Leni Santoro will begin their road trip to light up the Delaware River Basin. "The two granny-somethings" are hitting the road to personally invite Delaware River Basin residents to a September 6 Labor Day River Party. Beginning  in Philadelphia, PA on  Friday August 14 [...]

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[KAUNEONGA LAKE] – On Sunday evening  8/9/09, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a woman missing from Kauneonga Lake. Lisa Feingold, age 42, of New City in Rockland County, who reportedly suffers from a bi-polar disorder, left her family’s summer residence in the Town of Bethel earlier that afternoon and did not [...]

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[SOUTH FALLSBURG]—The Honorable Anthony Kane and Mrs. Nancy Kane of Forestburgh are the recipients of one of Sullivan County’s highest honors—the 24th Annual SYDA Foundation Community Service Award. The Kanes are being honored for their many contributions to the Sullivan County community over a period of nearly forty years. Since 1986, the SYDA Foundation Board [...]

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[HASBROUCK] – Local artists Nada Clyne and Judy Schafman splash plenty of shimmering light on the canvas in their current show, called “ A Thousand Luminous Secrets.” The show opened last weekend with an opening reception on August 8 at the Old Stone House.  Schafman, who has shown locally for several years, paints one foot [...]

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Story and photos by Carol Montana It’s the night all the Renaissance volunteers wait for; the night when they hold their breath, waiting  to hear their county-beautification project acknowledged and hoping to hear their team announced as a winner in their respective category. The award ceremony was held on Monday, August 10 at the Tri-Valley [...]

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Story and photos by Ted Waddell “One lovely elderly resident tentatively asked me as we were preparing to leave if she could have a photo taken with the ‘beautiful young people’, [and] I, of course, said yes,” said Barbara Konvalin, head of corporate development/community outreach for the Shandelee Music Festival. On Friday, August 7, five [...]

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Sullivan County Democrat file photo Story written and compiled by Leni Santoro When I was in college, not so long ago at that, a man came to talk to my Journalism class about what it was like to be the son (and grandson) in a family run newspaper business. The man was Fred Stabbert III. [...]

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Story and photos by Carol Montana  Barbara Bell has been planning this day for quite some time. And even though her butterfly house has only been open to the public for a year, she still managed to pull off a beautiful day full of exhibits and music and fun. Barbara’s son Austin is a 15 [...]

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Story and photos by Leni Santoro When Ben Halpern left Livingston Manor he must have left a piece of his heart behind, for he has been returning ever since to recapture those illusive pieces of a town’s spirit on bits of film which, when printed, become the photographs now on exhibit at the Livingston Manor [...]

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  Story and photos by Ted Waddell One part of the demanding curriculum during the Shandelee Music Festival’s two-week long session for a selected few of the world’s most promising young piano students is Lana Ivanov’s program on how to market themselves to the world as a performer. In the session conducted in the stately [...]

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Story and photos by Ted Waddell Christopher Kennedy has a long standing love affair love affair with all things piano, especially the inner working of the Steinways at the famed Shandelee Music Festival, now in it’s “Sweet Sixteenth” year in the hills of Sullivan County. For the past decade, he has served as resident keyboard [...]

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