Literary Events

 Lexington artist Athena Billias' art talk will be about her personal relationship to the Clove and how it and its history has inspired her to be an artist.  Starts at 1pm.  Free admission.

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 Carol will speak about her artwork of the Clove.  "As a lifelong resident and native of the Mountaintop Town of Hunter, my memories of "the mountain road" are etched into by psyche.  How it is now, and as it was when I was a child, riding in the back seat of the parent's car, watching in...

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 Local artist Patti Ferrara speaks about the spirit of Kaaterskill Clove.  She will speak as artist and local resident about the Kaaterskill Clove, why so many love it, and why so many trash it.  She believes that the most imporatnt part of this exhibit is to make people statewide and...

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 Historian Shirley Dunn will explore the relationship between the first European settlers and Native Americans.  Starts at 2pm.  Free admission.  Program at the Vedder Research Library.

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 The KRT is a 1.5 mile section of the abondoned Ulster & Delaware Railroad between the Mountain Top Historic Society property in Hains Falls and the DEC land at the end of Laurel House Road.  The trail will be open to public use for non-motorized, multi-use activities starting on June 1st....

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Mountaintop Historical Society, 5132 Route 23A, Haines Fall NY 12436
On Saturday, June 1, at 1pm, Dr. Kevin Avery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will give a lecture at the Zadock Pratt Museumin Prattsville to kick off an exhibit of cultural significance to the region entitled Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art. Dr. Avery's talk will focus on original Hudson...

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 Dr. Robert Titus, M.A. Ph.D., Boston University, and auther of The Catskills, A Geological Guide, The Catskills in the Ice Age and Hudson Valley in the Ice Age, will speak about the geology of Kaaterskill Clove.  Hours:  9am-5pm.  Free admission. 

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 Dr. Avery's lecture will concern chiefly the images of Kaaterskill Clove by the artists who worked there, especially Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Sanford Gifford, Jervis McEntee and others, in the context of the locale's contemporaneous reputation in the literature of Irving, Cooper, Bryant and...

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