Community Calendar

Come one, come all and climb aboard the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s solar powered boat Solaris for a ride of historical scares, appropriate for all ages. Settle in and prepare to be spooked as our storytellers captivate you with specially selected tales for the Halloween season. You’ll hear about a headless horseman, ghosts stalking the river, and other local lores. These stories have floated along the Hudson River and beyond for generations, and they’re sure to delight. Cozy up with some hot cider and treats and enjoy the smooth, quiet ride only Solaris can offer as you learn the haunted tales of the mighty Hudson.

Skidmore Encore announces registration for its Fall 2025 lecture series delivered by the remarkable Skidmore College faculty for adult learners age 55+ from around the local region. Encore attracts intellectually curious people who are eager to learn. Join us! The 2025 program runs for seven weeks on Tuesdays from September 30 through November 11 in the gorgeous Arthur Zankel Music Center Skidmore College campus. Online registration opens Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM.

For more information: www.skidmore.edu/encore

Skidmore Encore announces registration for its Fall 2025 lecture series delivered by the remarkable Skidmore College faculty for adult learners age 55+ from around the local region. Encore attracts intellectually curious people who are eager to learn. Join us! The 2025 program runs for seven weeks on Tuesdays from September 30 through November 11 in the gorgeous Arthur Zankel Music Center Skidmore College campus. Online registration opens Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM.

For more information: www.skidmore.edu/encore

Skidmore Encore announces registration for its Fall 2025 lecture series delivered by the remarkable Skidmore College faculty for adult learners age 55+ from around the local region. Encore attracts intellectually curious people who are eager to learn. Join us! The 2025 program runs for seven weeks on Tuesdays from September 30 through November 11 in the gorgeous Arthur Zankel Music Center Skidmore College campus. Online registration opens Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM.

For more information: www.skidmore.edu/encore

Adam Johnson, major contemporary novelist, received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel of North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son. Writing in the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called it, “a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.”

He also received the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection, Fortune Smiles. His new novel is The Wayfinder (2025), a historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who embarks on a risky seafaring journey across a vast ocean empire built on power, consumption, and bloodshed. Born in South Dakota, Johnson is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 28
University at Albany
Recital Hall, UAlbany Performing Arts Center
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222

Free and open to the public. Books will be sold. A signing will follow the conversation.

Presented by the NYS Writers Institute.

In their first book Cat Dawson explores how shifts in social politics shape our relationship to public monuments. For this event, Cat Dawson, Researcher, Smith College & the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin, will be in conversation with Andrea Moore, Associate Professor of Music. Co-sponsored by SOFA, the Departments of Art and the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality.

Skidmore Encore announces registration for its Fall 2025 lecture series delivered by the remarkable Skidmore College faculty for adult learners age 55+ from around the local region. Encore attracts intellectually curious people who are eager to learn. Join us! The 2025 program runs for seven weeks on Tuesdays from September 30 through November 11 in the gorgeous Arthur Zankel Music Center Skidmore College campus. Online registration opens Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM.

For more information: www.skidmore.edu/encore

Professor Janice Ross (Stanford University) presents her new book The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design (2024). The event includes a screening of a rare 1991 documentary, “Lawrence and Anna Halprin: Inner Landscapes”. Sponsored by the Department of Dance , Department of Art, Landscape Studies Program, Design Thinking Initiative, and the Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA).

Volunteers Needed

Volunteer literacy tutors are needed for Warren, Washington and Saratoga Counties. Tri-County Literacy Center will be holding tutor training classes at the SUNY ADK Queensbury Campus, Wednesdays, October 8th through October 29, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. To register, call SUNY Adirondack's Continuing Education Office at 518-743-2238 or email conted@sunyacc.edu. For questions or to learn more, please call/text 518-793-7414 or email trilitcenter@gmail.com.

Join Kevin Clark from Rose Hill Farm as he discusses the importance and uniqueness of the apple, the genetic diversity which apples hold, as well as the importance of preserving that diversity. You will learn how apples have traveled around the world and the importance of apples in the Hudson Valley. Each variety of apple has a story, rich in humanity and culture. A collection of over 100 types of apples will also be on display during the lecture. The Follow the River lecture series is sponsored by Rondout Savings Bank.