Traffic jam on New Kingston Mountain Road. Local crime writer and Blues Maneuver frontman David Krajicek got this shot of a few of the Manhattan Country School's year-round residents on New Kingston Mountain Road in Roxbury last week. Shared with permission.
Check out more great Catskills photos from Watershed Post readers in our Flickr group pool.
Frieda Suess, of Roxbury, snapped this shot of a severe-looking owl a few days ago. (If we had to guess, we'd say it's a Great Horned Owl. But we may be wrong.) [Update, 10/20/12: I was wrong. It's an Eastern Screech Owl, as many of you -- including the man behind the Hungover Owls blog -- pointed out. Thanks. - JR.]
An owl this serious deserves a funny caption. So help us out: Send us a caption for this owl photo in our first-ever photo-caption-contest. Post your caption as a comment on this post, email it to us at editor@watershedpost.com, or tweet it to us @watershedpost. The winner will get huzzahs all around.
Watershed Post reader Cassie Perez sent us a video of a few baby bucks -- with miniature antlers -- play-fighting at dusk next to the Ashokan Reservoir last night. Yet another entry for the Wild Things Badge.
Cassie writes:
Here is a video I shot on 10/16/2012. I was walking the Dike at the Ashokan Reservoir as the sun was setting, and I stopped to watch the deer go about their ways. There were about ten deer, three of them decided to get frisky!
Above: Bucks Burnett, founder of the Eight Track Museum, with a Frank Zappa eight track. Bucks will be on hand at the opening of the Roxbury outpost of his museum this weekend. Below: The rare Sinatra/Jobim eight track. Photos by Robert Greeson.
The Catskills, with countless forgotten valleys and cheap real estate, is a magnet for obsessives. People come up here, buy a building, and then fill it with their treasures.
The newest addition to the list of Catskills oddities is the Eight Track Museum, a public homage to the obsolete audio format, which opens this weekend in the Delaware County town of Roxbury. Read more
Enough withthebears, you say? I couldn't resist: We got this fantastic bear video from Michael DiBenedetto today in which a black bear outsmarts a bear-proof bird feeder by implementing the mechanics of pulleys.
Really. Proof positive that humans aren't the only animals who can understand simple machines.
The video was shot at DiBennedetto's house in Delaware County in 2010. DiBenedetto writes that he sent this video to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, and that "they had never seen anything like it."
"Pretty amazing how he figured out how to get the bird feeder down," he writes. "I thought the bear must have studied the pictures the DEC puts out telling campers how to hang the food in trees." Read more
Watershed Post readers sure have seen a lot of bears. We've featured twoposts with reader-submitted bear photos so far this month, and more just keep coming in. Here are the latest.
Below, a photo by Brian Albanese, taken by his "stealth cam" on September 26. He writes: "This was taken on Public access land in the Cannonsville Reservoir! I guess you can call them The Cannonsville Cubs!"
Below: A photo by KC Jones, taken on July 13, 2012. "This bear was less than three feet from my front door in Roxbury."
Above: Jim Richardson of the Walton Theatre Preservation Association. All photos courtesy of Jim Richardson.
In June, the Walton Theatre, along with every other small movie theater across the country, received an ultimatum: Convert your 35mm projector to the new digital format by 2013, or the screen goes dark. With most big cinemas already switched to digital, film distributors will no longer ship old-fashioned 35mm reels to theatres.
In an effort to save the silver screen, the Walton Theatre Preservation Association reached out to the community. The task seemed impossible: Raise $70,000 for a new projector in six months. But with a December 31 deadline looming, the effort has already passed the halfway mark. Donations have come from across the country, ranging from hundreds of dollars in checks to a crayon-scrawled envelope with a single dollar in it. Read more
Above: Roger Waters, Joe Walsh, Mavis Staples, Jakob Dylan and others, performing The Band's iconic song "The Weight" at the Izod Center. Video by YouTube user clubdoc.
How many great roots-rockers does it take to save a barn? At least a few dozen -- or so the extended musical family of Levon Helm must have figured, when they decided to throw a big benefit concert at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
This year, the annual O+ Festival -- a citywide celebration of art, music and healthcare for everybody -- is bigger than ever. The festivities kick off at 6pm on Friday with a grand parade, from the Kirkland Hotel through the streets to the BSP Lounge, led by the Hungry March Band. (Expect skeleton puppets.) After the parade winds down, revelers will fan out to half a dozen venues, and the party will roll on. There's a concert at the Old Dutch Church featuring Richard Buckner and the Felice Brothers, up-and-coming local bands at BSP Lounge, and rocking into the wee hours with Mercury Rev's Grasshopper at the Stockade Tavern.
That, in itself, would be a banner night out in Kingston. But it's just the start of a weekend-long creative typhoon that will take Olde Uptown by storm. Read more
