The Pine Hill Main Street Initiative Committee held a potluck dinner at the Community Center last Tuesday to discuss an application for Historic District status for the Main Street area of Pine Hill. Jill Fisher, a historic district consultant with the firm Fisher and Larson Associates presented an illustrated lecture on the achitectural history of Pine Hill from the late 1700's to the present. She said that Pine Hill is replete with Gothic Revival and late Victorian Queen Anne style buildings. Shandaken Town Supervisor Rob Stanley, a resident of Pine Hill, and Shandaken Town Board members Doris Bartlett and Jack Jordan also attended the presentation. Bill Kratinger from the NY State Department of Historic Preservation attended the dinner, and informed the people attending about the criteria used by the state in determining which areas can receive a historic distric designation. Pine Hill has excellent prospects for designation as a historic district based on its historic buildings and bridges, four of which have already received historic landmark status. Read more
Drag performer Isis Vermouth and musician Kitty Cannibal headline the "Cabaret Gothique" show at the Pine Hill Community Center next Saturday, February 18. Isis Vermouth will be the MC for the show, which takes a dark Carnivale approach to the carnival/Mardi Gras season and the advent of Spring. Nothing is as it first appears. Musical magician Artie Martello, singer/songwriter Francisco Damon III, poet and performance artist Richard Treitner, folksinger and whistler Rusty Mae Moore, science phantasy writer and keyboardist Chelsea Elisabeth Goodwin and other special guest performers to be announced will make this a night not to be missed. Show starts at 6pm. Light refresshments will be provided by the Pine Hill Book Store and Gallery. Admission is free, but voluntary donations to cover expenses of the Community Center and the performers will be appreciated.
This poster announces updates on the 21st Century Vaudeville show which will be presented at the Pine Hill Community Center from 6:00-8:00PM on Sunday January 15.
This show is a part of the Shandaken Pan Arts Festival, which kicked off on Saturday, January 7, at the Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia with a presentation of the NativeTongue Dance band. See the interview with Dave Channon in the Daily Freeman for information on the entire festival. (http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2012/01/06/entertainment/doc4f066bb...)
The Pan Arts Festival is a part of the Ulster County Arts and Music Week from January 7 to January 17, 2012.
Chelsea Goodwin is the organizer and host of the Vaudeville show at the P{ine Hill Community Center on the 15th. Goodwin is the regular host of "In Goth We Trust" carried on www.wioxradio.org from 11:00PM to 1:00AM on Thursdays, and 12:00AM to 1:00AM Monday mornings.
Kitty Aquapuss Cannibal is a singer and ukeleist/guitarist well known in Goth circles in Kingston. Read more
Pine Hill Books is collaborating with the Pine Hill Community Center to sponsor an event in the Shandaken Pan Arts Festival on January 15. The event at the Community Center will feature the Goth singer Kitty Cannibal and her ukelele, rock guitarist Damon Francisco, poet and graphic artist Richard Treitner, magician and illusionist Artie, and MC Chelsea Goodwin.
The show will start at 6:00 PM. Light refreshments will be served, courtesy of the Pine Hill Books store.
The Pine Hill Community Center is located on Main Street Pine Hill.
Chelsea Goodwin, the Manager of Pine Hill Books, has accepted an invitation to host a new "Goth" oriented show at WIOX FM Roxbury. The show is named "In Goth We Trust," and will air weekly at 12:00AM TO 1:00AM Sunday nights. The first show will be at midnight on October 30. Sharon Nichols, who organizes the annual "Vampyre Ball" in Kingston, will be a guest on the first show. Goodwin will mix present day music in the Goth genre with representative music from the past. The show will be streamed live at http://www.wioxradio.org, or can be heard on 91.3 FM on the radio.
Pine Hill Books, at 300 Main Street Pine ill, next to the Post Office, across from the Community Center, features a broad collection of books for the book loving reader. Many of the books are in the Goth, fantasy, science fiction, and Steam Punk genres.
The store hosts a reading group on the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00PM, and also readings by authors, and meetings of social groups.
Tomorrow is the first Wednesday of the Month. Time for the meeting of the Goth, Sci-Fi, Dark Fantasy/Steam Punk Book group at Pine Hill Books. The discussion willl focus on the novel "Dhampir" by Barb and JC Hendee. The discussion starts at 7:00PM at 300 Main Street, Pine Hill (next to the post-office). All of the three exits from Rte 28 to Pine Hill lead to Main Street. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone with an interest in talking about books with the general genre of "Goth, Sci-Fi, Dark Fantasy/Steam Punk" is welcome. The meeting will end around 9:00 or so. Chelsea Goodwin will lead the discussion.
We had a great day at the Margaretvill Antiques Fair yesterday even though we had to pack up when the rains came. There was a lot of interest in our books on Catskill history. We sold works by local authors John Burroughs, Alf Evers, Bob Steuding, Robert Titus, John Ham and Tim Weldner among others from farther afield. Books on the local railroad history continued to get a lot of interest, even though John Ham's major books are expensive. Apart from books the classic rock vinyl records sold well because of the attractive and informative album covers as much as the actual recordings. Comics were a hot item too. Children's books are always popular, and it was bittersweet to see our large book with the cover art of Dennis the Menace go off with a happy new owner.
We packed up in the rain, saving all the books from damage, and headed off for 4 hours in the rain at the Phoenicia Voicefest production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni." Thank goodness they had a big tent for the audience, so we didn't have to huddle under the blue tarp we brought with us. The music was sublime. I do not recall ever having heard opera sound better. Read more
