Ashland Ladies Auxiliary Hosts Fundraising Fair

Ladies Auxiliary of the Ashland Fire Department (seated, left to right) Samerna Rion and Wendy Slater joined by (standing, left to right), Jennifer Hamilton, Roxanne Holton Geller, Yvette Blain (secretary), Heather Younes (president), Kelly Decker (financial Secretary) and Jennifer Thielen. Not present were Bonnie Jean Diamond (treasurer), Beverly Mannino, Darlene Mattice (Vice President), Emily Lacombe, Amanda Porter, Gloria Blum and Renee Pine.

Famous firefighter chefs include (left to right) Tim Buckner, Heather Younes, Michelle Fancher, James Thorington, Jeremie Younes and (supervising at the sink) Randy Tuttle

Ashland Fire Department, proudly serving the community for one hundred years, and returned to full strength following a massive fire in 2010 that destroyed the firehouse and equipment.

 

50 years and counting. 

By Michael Ryan

ASHLAND - A rejuvenescence of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Ashland Fire Department is underway even as the mountaintop unit makes ready to celebrate its centennial and host the 2026 Greene County Volunteer Firemen’s Association Convention.

That’s a lot said in one sentence so let’s start with the Vendor & Craft Fair scheduled for Sunday, August 10, in support of the Auxiliary’s revival.

Those festivities are happening at the firehouse on Main Street, featuring a homemade-style breakfast, cooked in their famous fashion by the local firefighting volunteers, from 8 to 11:30 a.m.

There will be a variety of vendors (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and live music with The Torpedoes, led by legendary, hometown kid drummer Sonny Rock, playing favorite classic rock tunes (noon to 4 p.m.).

Normally, that would be enough. These are not ordinary circumstances. The fair will also hold a Cornhole Tournament, run by the Mountaintop Cornhole League (registration 10:30 a.m., bags fly at 11).

And wait. Catch your breath. An assortment of baskets will be set up at the raffle table, with the Auxiliary serving up burgers, hotdogs, sausage and peppers and hot meatball subs, 11:30 a.m. until closing at 5 p.m.

Everything is centered on raising funds for the acquisition of new uniforms for the Ladies Auxiliary, according to Auxiliary president Heather Younes.

The uniforms are their current goal, but not their primary mission. “We need to support our firefighters,” Younes says.

“When I became the president [in January 2025], we had only two Auxiliary members. Now we have fourteen and more are wanted.

“We want to provide sandwiches and coffee on the front lines and when the firefighters return to the station house. I’m in the fire department so I know how important that caring is to our volunteers,” Younes says.

In quieter times, uniforms will allow the Auxiliary to represent firefighters and themselves at public events such as holiday parades, etc.

And speaking of parades, a mammoth procession will be unfolding in Ashland in the fall of 2026 when the local company hosts the annual Greene County Volunteer Firefighters Association convention.

2026 also marks the centennial anniversary of the formation of the Ashland department, serving as hosts for the countywide convention for only the second time in the past 82 years.

Creation of the Ladies Auxiliary came in 1974, lead by Charter members Carol Truesdell, Carol Partridge, Donna Tompkins, Marilyn Soule, Lolita Aplin, Janis Knox and Nellis Newcombe.

Also involved were Joan Holdridge, Ruth Cross, Susan Tuttle, Alice Dewell, Ruth Tompkins and Elaine Mattice, as well as others (an official plaque containing all names was lost in the infamous 2010 firehouse blaze).

Relighting that grassroots torch, new officers are Darlene Mattice (vice-president), Bonnie Diamond (treasurer), Yvette Blain (secretary), Kelly Decker (financial secretary) and Younes.

While participation ebbed in recent years, the Ladies Auxiliary is once again vibrant, standing behind and next to the men and women in the trenches.

Younes, who also serves as an EMT for the town’s ambulance corps, says, 

“we are here to foster and extend the interests, welfare and growth of the firemen’s activities, and to assist in all possible ways in the work of the Ashland Fire Department.

‘We’ll support the firemen’s functions by helping at the dinners, breakfasts, all fundraisers and parades. What better way to get involved with your community?” Younes says.

“Please reach out if you are interested in becoming a member. My contact information is 518-734-3636 or younestownofashland@gmail.com.”

 

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Lank Featured at Hawk + Hive on Andes Community Day

Dusk Sleeper, painting by Zachary Lank

Lucky Strike, painting by Zachary Lank

The Fool, painting by Zachary Lank

St. Sebastian, painting by Zachary Lank

By Brett Rollins

ANDES — Opening to coincide with the Andes Community Day festivities on August 2nd, Hawk + Hive gallery hosted a solo exhibition of new paintings by Zachary Lank. Titled “Revenant Blues” it is the second solo show of the artist’s work at Hawk + Hive.

The series of oil paintings depicts figures in the landscape, with one key element missing: the figures themselves. Outfits traditionally associated with manly pursuits—hunting caps, plaid jackets, rugby jerseys, work gloves—float among pastoral scenes, alongside their accessories like shotguns, paper targets and packs of Lucky Strikes. They are striking images, in rich, warm colors; at once haunting and comic. 

Born in Maryland and now based in Brooklyn, Lank painted the works on display within the last 10 months, but it’s part of an artistic exploration that began several years earlier. On the origins of this painting cycle, the artist explained: “During the pandemic, my wife and I both lost our jobs, and left the city briefly…it broke me out of a period of real artist block to have the world kind of shut off. Nobody’s looking, nobody’s listening, I can do what I want.”

He went on to discuss the origins of the paintings’ themes. “The work is largely an exploration of this cross-section about ideas of masculinity. You take all of these hallmarks of a certain kind, the idea of man, particularly from the culture I was coming from when I was younger. A lot of hunting, things like that, that I kind of enjoyed because it got me outside and I liked spending time with my dad. But the actual activities themselves I felt very alienated by.” The works make visual the concept of how traditional masculine roles were once grounded in industries and activities that have, in many communities, disappeared. “Now, looking back and with the kind of discourse about what is a positive version of masculinity that we can espouse, and tying that in with social and labor history, there’s a lot of this that has just fallen away. A lot of the structures that used to support you. You had a societal role. For me, looking back at personal family history but also regional history, like de-industrialization, the hollowing out of that sector of industry, and that expression of your identity and culture, becomes the literal hollowing out of these entities, these ghosts. On the one hand, it’s this metaphor, and on the other hand it also gestures toward, I hope, an invitation to transcend. To break these hard-set boundaries of what you are not only as a man, but as a human.”

Lank’s work vividly incorporates art historical and pop cultural references, including surrealist art, cartoons, and perhaps most significantly, the murals created by artists paid by New Deal program, the Works Progress Administration in the 1930’s. The artist agrees that he “situates it in that historical narrative, communicating with WPA works, Mexican muralists, American regionalists, who get papered over in favor of the high Modernism [art movement] that comes after. But this was a painting movement that was deeply invested in labor, in locality, that didn’t have the same kind of transcendental aims. It was work for hire, it had a different social purpose, and there are some true works of genius that kind of got lost in the shuffle.” 

As art that directly addresses the breakdown of traditional work roles and how that impacts society, and that is unapologetic about its art history influences, the exhibition feels timely as our culture is grappling with the influence of AI. When asked how he feels about the role of the artist in this moment: “I think the role of an artist is as a reminder that human labor, the human capacity to create and to find meaning, is not only worthwhile to participate in, but you’re making the case for why it’s worthwhile to be human.”

Revenant Blues is on view at Hawk + Hive through September 7th. Zachary Lank also has a painting included in the exhibition Calico & Tin Horns at the Andes Hunting Tavern Museum, on view through October 25th.

 

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Why Art? - WHEN HYPERBOLE BECOMES REALITY

Placing participants at the core of the art experience indicates that people can find solutions rather than be sucked up into the problem.

In my family everyone had a story to tell at the table. All the stories had to be told at the same time. The most dramatic ones were heard first, the ones that were loudest or most urgent. As a child there always seemed to be a crisis going on in the family. Eventually, you got to see that some things were and some were not, crises.

Here we are choking on smoke ridden air, again. I think about my own FRESH AIR sculpture, in 1990. People were breathing clean, fresh air from plants in sealed glass chambers on mobile wagons. Breathing through hospital grade respiration masks and tubes it seemed like a hyperbolic art work providing pure air in contrast to the pollution at the time. There was something serene and beautiful about the contact of people with plants and people with people. 

In Victoria Vesna’s [ALIEN] STAR DUST (ASD) mobile app art we can zap pollution particles floating amidst micrometeorites, in the room around us. 

These two interactive examples of contemporary art, FRESH AIR and [ALIEN] STAR DUST, integrate elements of environmental crises. In FRESH AIR we experience how our breath nourishes the plants that give us, in turn, life sustaining oxygen. In ASD, the simple zapping of pollution particles with a finger touch makes easy and satisfying the removing of pollution from our atmosphere with almost childlike glee, like in a video game. 

The last time Austrian born, Margret Wibmer visited Delhi in 2023, she participated in SURFING THE APOCALYPSE KARAOKE (reported in Mountain Eagle by Robert Brune), soon to be recreated in September at Birdsong Farms, in Hamden.

At the time, as today, we were choking on smoke from forests burning to the north, in Canada. 

Feeling the smoke in my chest,  I become enraged that yet again, I cannot breath in comfort. My lungs are more sensitive because I had locked myself in a sealed glass house with 10,000 plants, breathing once per minute for 10 days, in 1989. Did I know making that “hyperbolic” art that the hyperbole would become today’s reality? 

I’ve written too many times in this column that “artist/visionaries often include an element of crisis in their art to be gently digested by the audience through a shock (sublime trauma), by the grace of seeing the art in the cloistered, safe space of the art gallery.” 

In SALON D’AMOUR, at the Birdsong Farm Gallery, artist Margret Wibmer subtly introduces the sublime trauma through a few key things; 1. soundscape produces a nurturing atmosphere; 2. the preparation of the participants by “guides” comfortably assist participants into their roles; 3. Margret’s sculpted, alternately horrific and playful masks; 4. A book of love letters to be read aloud in coupled groups; and, 5. the experience of “swimming in the river” of human, interlaced, layered voices in the “salon” during the immersive performance. 

For persons wearing the masks, silently hearing the reading from their partners, their personalities are subdued within the anonymity of the mask. As they are “hidden” and perhaps challenged hearing their own inner voices simultaneously with the melodic confluence of the community around them, they perhaps realize the complexity of stories that form our identities. And that perhaps the one inside us embracing all this is the real “me” co-existing in the love-symphony of the collective community voice. 

So, in Margret’s work its the “pause” from hyperbole that becomes the intense “non hyperbolic” reality, the substance connecting us all. 

The labor of making this art is intended to activate artists and non-artists in a creative practice of life. The art empowers community to intervene with the hyperbolic realities facing us today, problems which, perhaps, we all participated in creating. 

SALON D’AMOUR Birdsong Farms Gallery, Aug. 8th & 9th, 7:30-9:30PM.

Please reserve tickets: john@studioicai.org 

Or just come by and swim with us.

For the Birdsong Program by ICAI, visit www.studioicai.org

Designed by, PEACH Wien

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A Conversation about … Queen's Lace and Carrots

Daucus birdsnest

Daucus carotus

 

Daucus constellation

By Jean Thomas

Lately there are constellations of white scattered across meadows and fields, and encroaching on the neatly mowed lawns of suburbia. They are the Daucus carota, or Queen's Anne Lace flowers. It's a familiar wildflower to anyone who ever spent time outdoors in late summer. As usual, while admiring them, I started to wonder about some things. Why the plant is called Queen Anne's Lace, and how come it's also called wild carrot. Easy answer to the wild carrot name... Linnaeus named it and apparently the domestic carrot (Dausus sativus) was already in use as a vegetable.

As to nicknames: “Queen Anne's Lace” has two wildly different accredited sources. The consensus is that Queen Anne II of England (1665-1714) is the queen of the legends. She is said to have pricked her finger while tatting a lace doily, and the droplet of blood landed in the center. This is compared to the single purple floret at the center of an otherwise all-white flower. Oh, and you know that one colored floret at the middle of the umbel? The experts are still debating its use. 

A less charming attribution claims that Queen Anne neglected personal hygiene and had hairy legs(gossip never changes), therefore the hairs on the stems and underpinnings of the florets. There is a collection of other legends about Queen Anne I, and some about Saint Anne, patron saint of lacemakers. The plant was introduced to North America as a medicinal plant. 

What about the other nicknames of “birds nest” and “Bees nest”  as well as “Devil's Plague?” The nest descriptions refer to the basket shape the flower assumes when the seeds begin to develop, and the plague reference is because a rampant growth of queen's lace makes a field unusable from the difficulty of removing its roots. 

Queen's lace is a biennial. This means the life cycle from seed to seed takes two seasons. Like many biennials, the plant is humble and unassuming in year one. It's a rosette of pretty fern-like leaves that don't produce a flower. That's because they're busy producing a strong tap root (you know, a carrot). It's tempting to leave it in place because it's a pretty companion to your other plants. If you leave it, it will stay green over the winter and leap into a frantic growth spurt in the spring. It will become a two- to four-foot plant that looks like a feathery bouquet of doilies. It will also be a brute to remove, and in its final stages looks pretty disheveled. 

The story of queen's lace is full of dark episodes. It's a pretty wildflower, but it contributes little as a pollinator.  It's similar in appearance to a couple of very dangerous plants that cause dermatitis, and in fact it can be caustic to some very sensitive people. Be sure you know the difference before handling the plant. The dried stems can be used in floral arrangements but moving the seed heads can start a whole new population, and even though they are pretty, they will overtake a garden very quickly and crowd other plants out. The ultimate good news is that a subspecies of this pretty wildflower is the familiar carrot from the grocer's produce aisle. The carrot's domestication was apparently a development from early medicinal use of the wild carrot, to finding some that were edible. The history of the domestic carrot is full of controversy, too. You can learn more at: 

Missouri Botanical Garden

https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org › PlantFinder

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THE CATSKILL GEOLOGISTS BY PROFESSORS ROBERT AND JOHANNA TITUS - Foot erosion?

One of our favorite hiking trails in the Catskills is the Blue Trail where it heads north from North Lake. It roughly follows the edge of the Wall of Manitou, the Catskill Front, and that affords it with a number of very fine views, looking east down into the Hudson Valley. Then there are several locations where you just have to stop and gaze, transfixed, across the whole valley towards the Taconic Mountains and, below them, the Hudson River itself. One of our most common goals is the top of North Mountain and that offers a sweeping view of the whole region. The hike can sometimes be a challenging trek. Along the way there are several very steep ascents. And they all seem to be so much steeper than they used to be! The final one carries you to the very top of North Mountain. 

                      

But there are smaller, more special views along the way. These include things that you just might not notice. But, if you have a sharp eye, then these can be among the most fascinating sights on the whole trail. Take a look at our photo. This site is about a 15-minute hike north of the campground. Right there you get funneled into a narrow slot between two masses of bedrock. Take a good look at this. Do you see what caught our attention? No? Well, let’s talk about it. You have to remember that people have been doing this hike for centuries. And all of those people have also been funneled into and through this same slot. Now, look again and you should see it. The upper slope shows the creases that mark the bedding of the stratified rock – sandstone – that comprise this outcropping. Yep, below those strata, the lower slope of the slot is footworn, in fact, very badly footworn. The markings of those strata have been altogether eroded away. It’s a testimony to the slow steady effects of erosion. As the centuries continue to pass by, this worn stretch will only get more and more smoothed out. We will have to coin a new word to describe this. It will stop being footworn and become “footgrooved.”

Think about this. Generations of hikers have hoofed it along this stretch of the Blue Trail and all of them have been forced to squeeze into this short narrow stretch. That includes almost all of the abled-bodied visitors to the Catskill Mountain House Hotel. And those include many of the most important, celebrated and influential people of 19th and early 20th century America. Writers, musicians, painters, inventors, industrialists, politicians, etc. etc. All of them placed their feet down right here. All of them, even if only a little bit, contributed to the erosion of this surface. Take your turn sometime soon. As you walk this way think of those who preceded you. The list of people who almost certainly passed this way includes Presidents Ulysses Grant, Chester Arther and Theodore Roosevelt. There were literary figures such as Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Oscar Wilde and, of course, John Burroughs. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman was there. Then there was the famed singer Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale.” Endless numbers of great artists came to visit. And on it goes; the list goes on almost forever. And it would seem certain that all of them passed through this little gap in the bedrock and each of them contributed to its erosion. And so can you. When you get there, kneel, look around and wave your arm through the space around you. Think about all the people who have occupied this very space and breathed its air.

Contact the authors at randjtitus@prodigy.net. Join their facebook page “The Catskill Geologist.” Read their blogs at “thecatskillgeologist.com.”

 

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Whittling Away with Dick Brooks - Summer Days

It’s one of those hot summer days I was dreaming of during the throes of the miserable winter we just survived.  It’s 93 degrees, not a leaf moving and the humidity is hovering around a hundred and thirty percent.  The heat index is over a hundred, like I really needed to know that.  What was I thinking of during that January snow storm?  I should have just enjoyed the cold and snow instead of complaining.  You can bundle up and shovel fairly comfortably, no way am I going to mow the lawn like I had planned to do today.  I have peeled off all the outer clothing that decency will allow me to peel without frightening the dog and offending the neighbors.  The fan I’m sitting in front of isn’t drying the perspiration, just moving it around from place to place.  I’d feel sorry for myself if it wasn’t for Telly, my trusty canine companion.  I can’t imagine running around with that thick fur coat.  The solution is just down the road.  We scurry from the relative coolness of the house through the steam bath waiting for us outside the kitchen door and hop into our trusty Kia.  I didn’t know that Kia made saunas!  It’s about two hundred degrees in there.  I grab the key and insert it before the blisters start to form.  The engine fires and I flip the heater switch to the artic setting and turn the fan up full force. I crack the windows to let some of the hot air out. 

Just before the little button on my chest pops out like the one on the Thanksgiving turkey, the air starts to cool.  I send a quick mental thank you to the unknown soul who had the wisdom to think of installing air conditioning in cars and using part of my shirt as a pot holder, I shift into drive and we’re off.  Five minutes later, we arrive at our destination, the little park next to the river.  The air is cooler and there’s a soft breeze coming off the river.  Telly doesn’t waste any time doing his usual bush, tree and rock sniff and tinkle but heads right for the water.  He dashes in, swims a bit, runs out, shakes and heads right back in.  I sit on a log and envy him.  Being psychic soul mates, he swims back to shore, walks up beside where I’m sitting and delivers about three gallons of cooling water to my exterior with one good shake.  He heads back to the river for another load and continues his soak and shake routine until I’m almost as wet and cool as he is.  He finally tires and lies on the sand near me.  We sit there in the cool shade smelling the river and watching the sun sparkles as it flows slowly towards far away places.  The hot sticky humid nasty day is gone, replaced by the peace of a shady favorite place, the tranquility of slowly moving water and the company of a truly good friend.  Hot, sticky, tired, troubled?  I’d recommend a sit near the river for a half and hour or so.  Don’t have a friend to do it with?  Call me, we’ll take Telly.  He’ll cool you too.  You’ll like him.

Thought for the week—Why is it called “after dark” when it’s really “after light”?

Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Whittle12124@yahoo.com    

 

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Salazar Announces Supreme Court Bid

TROY — Rensselaer County attorney Dana Salazar today announced her candidacy for state Supreme Court in the Third Judicial District.  The Third Judicial District encompasses Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties.

Salazar, an Albany Law graduate and practicing attorney for almost 20 years, is seeking the Republican and Conservative Party nominations at judicial conventions which will be held on August 8th and 10th, respectively. Salazar resides with her family on their small farm in Rensselaer County.

“I’m pleased to announce my candidacy for state Supreme Court in the Third JD.  As a practicing attorney in the Capital Region for almost 20 years, I understand the vital role the courts play in ensuring equal justice for all.  Supreme Court is the primary trial level court where litigants come to adjudicate disputes.  Having had extensive practice on behalf of my clients before the Supreme Court, I understand the key role this court plays in the lives of families and businesses. 

“It is critical for our judges to be fair and impartial. While we must seek endorsements of political parties to run for this office, I pledge that if elected, politics will play no role in my decisions.  I look forward to campaigning across the seven counties of the Third JD over the summer and fall and having the opportunity to meet and discuss my candidacy with all of the voters of our district”, said Salazar.

“I’m honored to endorse the candidacy of Dana Salazar for Supreme Court”, said former Court of Appeals Judge Susan Read.  “I worked closely with Dana when she clerked in the Court of Appeals. I was impressed with her understanding of the law and the importance that justice be administered in a fair and impartial manner.  Dana Salazar is ready to become a judge and I’m confident that she will be an outstanding Supreme Court Justice”, continued Read.

“Dana Salazar brings an unmatched combination of legal expertise, integrity, and community commitment to the bench,” said Mayor Carmella R. Mantello, City of Troy. “From representing children in family court to handling complex litigation and serving on the Committee on Character and Fitness, Dana has demonstrated the fairness, compassion, and judgment we need on the State Supreme Court. As a proud Rensselaer County resident, Dana understands our values and will serve the entire Third Judicial District with distinction.” continued Mayor Mantello.

Salazar previously ran for Supreme Court in 2023, losing that race by just over 2%. In 2024, she became the first woman appointed Corporation Counsel for the City of Troy, New York. She practices law with her mother and daughter in the firm of Salazar and Erikson, LLP in East Greenbush, a three-generation female owned law practice.

The election for State Supreme Court in the Third Judicial District will take place on Election Day, November 4, 2025.

 

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Community, Celebration, and Tradition Shine Bright at Andes Community Day 2025

By Robert Brune

ANDES — The town of Andes came alive this past weekend with the joyful celebration of Andes Community Day 2025, a growing annual tradition that continues to reflect the heart and soul of this small but bustling Catskills hamlet.

The day began with a moving invocation led by Reverend Paul Moore of St. James Church, who offered words that set the tone for the entire celebration. His prayer resonated with deep gratitude and unity:

“Thank you every family whose made this legacy a part of their lives to make their own. Thank you for our volunteer fire department, our EMS, our school, our businesses, our churches. Every single person that plays such an incredible stock to live and call home. It’s so great, every one of them is a blessing. Come down and join us a day, if you love one another, lift each other over and lift up what it means to be a community. Bless this time, and please, please, please, bless Andes.”

From there, the festivities rolled into high gear with the ever-enthusiastic parade emceed by two local favorites, Robyn Ciccone of the Andes Diner and Derek Curl of the Andes Hotel. Their lively commentary kept the energy high as they introduced a colorful array of participants, including the Andes Garden Club (winner of “Best Float”), the Andes Library (awarded “Most Creative Float”), Gladstone Farms, and a long lineup of community organizations, families, and businesses.

For the first time in a decade, the Lake Delaware Boys Camp wowed the crowd with a 15-minute marching band performance right in front of the Andes Hotel. Their precision and spirit were met with thunderous applause from the crowd, including local fire departments from Andes, Margaretville, and Arena, all of whom marched in uniformed support alongside Andes EMS, drawing roars of appreciation from attendees.

Midday, the Andes Public Library hosted its beloved dog show, a family-friendly highlight full of wagging tails and smiling faces. Meanwhile, Andes’ thriving arts scene came into full view with multiple gallery openings. Hawk + Hive welcomed visitors to a solo exhibition by Zachary Lank; The Corner Gallery featured the evocative works of Ana Christina; and Leo Koenig Inc. presented a magnificent collection by twelve contemporary artists. The Andes Society for History and Culture also opened a major group show featuring sixteen artists exploring themes from the region’s Anti-Rent War history. ~ See our Arts & Culture section for full coverage of these exhibitions.

As the sun dipped below the Catskill peaks, the day concluded in dazzling style with a fireworks show orchestrated by Derek Curl, whose flair for the spectacular left the crowd cheering beneath the night sky. Andes Community Day 2025 proved once again that this town — rich in tradition, creativity, and camaraderie continues to define what it means to celebrate community in all its vibrant forms.

 

                        A salute to the Andes first responders at Andes Community Day 2025

 

Dede Shelton with her Garden Club float holding the first place trophy for the best float in the parade

Emcees Derek Curl and Robyn Ciccone kicking things off for the Andes Community Day Parade

                                                            Even canines got in on the fun.
 

Maggie McDowell of Magpies led the Andes Community Day pie eating contest with the owner of Andes Hotel Derek Curl. The winner was Charley Bornath

                            The Andes Community Day 2025 Group Photo by Robert Brune

 

The Dog Show at the Andes Public Library was one of highlights of the day. Betty Spaghetti was one of the big winners


 

 

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Timestruck, A Play

Director Garth Kravits and 24 students worked with the students for four weeks to produce the play. 24 students wrote the play and songs with help, but the work is their concept and words.

 

                                                Group shot of Timestruck by Kimberly Smith

 

The play Timestruck received significant attention Aug. 1 at Margasretville Central School produced by the Margaretville Arts Center and Delaware County School of Performing Arts. The mayor speaks in this photo. Special thanks to Terra Balcom for this photo.

                                                                   Play with group of girls

                                    The teacher explaining in this photo by Terra Balcom

 

 

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