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Under the Weather
(LISTEN HERE) The Sick Bed (1836) EDWARD PRENTIS (1797–1854) / PUBLIC DOMAIN You’ve probably heard that this is a particularly nasty flu season. Apologies for my cough. As a matter of fact, you may be...
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Enjoying Dinner with our Neighbors
(LISTEN HERE) Eat Here Ghent community dinner, February 2018 MARIANNE ROSSANT Here’s some advice if you’ve been invited to a community dinner. Get there early. By the time we wandered in halfway...
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Ski Bum for a Day
(LISTEN HERE) Cable car on Czarna Góra, top station (Śnieżnik Mountains, Sudetes, Poland) MAREK TOMASZEWSKI, BARLINEK / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Of all the days to go skiing we had to pick the one last week...
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When the Lights Go Out
(LISTEN HERE) CREDIT MIKECPECK / FLICKR.COM That does it. We’re getting a generator. The lights went out during last week’s Nor’easter. Not once. Not twice. But three times. That’s not counting the...
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Yoga 101
(LISTEN HERE) Instructor Alec Butterfield at Supersoul Yoga in Chatham, NY RALPH GARDNER, JR. I didn’t choose yoga. Yoga chose me. Or rather my body told me there was no excuse at so youthful an age –...
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What’s the Matter with the View?
((LISTEN HERE) Photograph of Perry Lake, Kansas from an airplane window on 2012-04-01 ROBLA / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Fair warning – this is a rant. But not on the subject you might expect. It has...
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King and the Comic
(LISTEN HERE) President Lyndon B. Johnson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. meet at the White House, 1966 CREDIT PUBLIC DOMAIN / LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Martin Luther King Jr. and...
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A Shaker Dinner Party
(LISTEN HERE) These are times that test men’s, and even more so, women’s souls, especially when it comes to dinner parties. The mark of a decent dinner party with resourceful guests is one where the...
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Counting Down to Spring
(LISTEN HERE) Ralph’s wren box Some years, this being one of them, spring needs a little encouragement. So I went out and bought a wren box at my local hardware store, Mario’s True Value in Valatie,...
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An Hour of Grace
(LISTEN HERE) Elisabeth Grace at Ooms Pond, Chatham, NY April, 2017 RALPH GARDNER, JR. Exactly one year ago my commentary involved a walk I took at the start of migratory season with birder and WAMC...
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Fishing for Prizes
(LISTEN HERE) Kolby Michalak with his prize trout at the Ghent Sportsman Association’s fish derby RALPH GARDNER JR. Is there really any better, faster, more efficient way to build self-confidence in a...
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Every Picture Frame Tells A Story
LISTEN HERE A Hudson Valley landscape by Page Curry Ginns CREDIT RALPH GARDNER JR. I’m going public with my addiction because it needs to be nipped in the bud. If I don’t acknowledge it now there’s no...
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Visionary Women
LISTEN HERE Author Andrea Barnet at the White Horse Tavern RALPH GARDNER JR There were a couple of obvious questions to ask Andrea Barnet about her book “Visionary Women” when we got together at the...
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Foraging With Family Members
LISTEN HERE Lucy Gardner foraging for morels CREDIT RALPH GARDNER JR I’d been told many years back that we had horseradish down by our stream. For all I know we still do but I’ve never been able to...
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Seasonal Study
LISTEN HERE As someone who’s been visiting the Hudson Valley since the 1960’s, and religiously since the late Seventies when my grandparents passed away and I assumed management of the house where we...
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A Rural Resident
LISTEN HERE A tribute to Timothy Dunleavy RALPH GARDNER JR We ran into a friend as we arrived last Friday for the inaugural Design Hudson Festival. The event, spread over Memorial Day weekend,...
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No Hostility Allowed
LISTEN HERE Columbia County Sheriff David Bartlett and Congressman John Faso (NY-19) respond to questions at a guns and school safety discussion at Hudson High School on Friday, June 1, 2018 RALPH...
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Catching up with Philip Marshall
LISTEN HERE Photo credit: Bobby McTigue I couldn’t make it to Philip Marshall’s keynote address at an elder abuse conference in Newburgh, NY last week. Then again, Philip couldn’t make it to...
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Go Ask Ruth
LISTEN HERE Kinderhook municipal historian Ruth Piwonka with Kinderhook,NY mayors Every community, every town and village in America ought to have its own Piwonka. I’m referring to Ruth Piwonka, the...
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The Heat
LISTEN HERE The Sun photographed at 304 angstroms by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA 304) of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). PUBLIC DOMAIN / NASA/SDO (AIA) In the same way that a...
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