Still Life: Flowers, Fruits & Foods in Repose
This year’s botanical show features scenes of tabletops and other settings where flowers, fruits and food items provide glimpses into daily life that can be restful, playful or downright intriguing! […]
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Events
Putting Your Garden to Bed
A live presentation at Spencertown Park Pavilion with Donna Peterson, a Horticulture Educator and Certified Master Gardener with Cornell Cooperative Extension since 1994. Donna tells us how to get a […]
Whimsy Opening Reception
We are trying our hand at an opening reception for the first time in a very long while. Refreshments will be served outside, the number of visitors in the Gallery […]
Rishi Reddi. Passage West. and Dexter Palmer. Mary Toft or, The Rabbit Queen
Two authors will discuss their historical fiction with Daphne Kalotay, prize-winning author of short stories and novels (Russian Winter; Sight Reading; Blue Hours). Passage West tells the story of a […]
Free but registration required
Members Only Day: Special Book Room Online Store
More than 400 carefully selected volumes in like-new condition, as well as CDs, DVDs, vinyl LPs and ephemera, fill the virtual shelves of the Special Book Room. Richly illustrated coffee […]
Open to All: Special Book Room Online Store
More than 400 carefully selected volumes in like-new condition, as well as CDs, DVDs, vinyl LPs and ephemera, fill the virtual shelves of the Special Book Room. Richly illustrated coffee […]
Rick Rodgers. Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from Classic Cafés
Culinary professional and author Rick Rodgers will conduct a cooking demonstration while being interviewed by Madaline Sparks, Festival Committee member. On the menu will be Almas Pite, or Hungarian Apple Pie, a classic pastry found in most any kaffeehaus and maybe soon your home. Their conversation will range from baking tips to celebrities and famous […]
Free but registration required
Peter Sís. Nicky and Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator of books for children and adults. He will discuss his latest title, and how it fits in with his overall work, with Carl Atkins, Festival Committee member. Nicky and Vera is true story of the Holocaust written for children but with a message of decency, action and courage […]
Free but registration required
Ayad Akhtar. Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author for his play Disgraced, and recently named New Your State Author, blends fact and fiction in his latest work, the story of a Pakistani immigrant and his American-born son in post-Trump America. Homeland Elegies is a deeply personal narrative that explores fault lines that occur in families and countries, and […]
Free but registration required
Russell Shorto. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
Russell Shorto, historian and author of Amsterdam and The Island at the Center of the World, turned his research and writing inward with his latest book. In Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob, the author reveals how his grandfather and great-uncle ran the mob in his hometown in Pennsylvania. It’s a story […]
Free but registration required
Children’s Program: Nancy Castaldo. Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Nancy Castaldo turns her own fascination with the natural world into science-themed books that inform and engage children, sometimes calling them to action. Her topics range from saving animals from extinction to the biology of their brains, and from how farms feed us to the vital need to save seeds. […]