Tag Archives: Overlook Mountain

Celebration for Pocket Guide to Woodstock, by Ann Hutton

Posted on July 5, 2012 by admin

(“Summer Celebration at Comeau Property to launch Pocket Guide to Woodstock” by Ann Hutton appeared in the June 28, 2012 issue of Ulster Publishing’s alm@nac.) How does one decide what to put in and what to leave out when writing … Continue reading →

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A “Walking Woodstock” Classic: The Founding of Modern Woodstock

Posted on March 16, 2012 by admin

(A “Walking Woodstock” column published in the September 29, 2011 Woodstock Times.) If we think of modern Woodstock as the Colony of the Arts, the description promoted by the Chamber of Commerce to emphasize our hundred year history of fine … Continue reading →

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A Short History of Poetry in Woodstock, 1873—2008

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

(Published in the Woodstock Times, April 10, 2008) By Michael Perkins Part I The first bard to sing or chant in the shadow of Overlook Mountain was probably a son of the Leni Lenape, the small, gentle people who had … Continue reading →

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In Praise of “The Effort to Hold Light” by Guy Reed

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

Every day before lunchtime, the boxy white mail van pulls up for a moment to the mail box across the road. Upstairs in my bathrobe at my computer with a window view of the road I’m tempted to interrupt whatever … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Dick Voloshen

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

Several Sundays ago, after my first hike up Overlook Mountain in ages, whom I did run into upstairs at Joshua’s where I’d gone for my latte and chocolate chip cookie reward for my exercise, but Dick Voloshen , who has … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Crispell performs for the late poet Frank Parker

Posted on October 25, 2011 by admin

My friend, Marilyn Crispell, the jazz pianist, leads a bifurcated life. In Woodstock, where she’s lived for thirty years, she’s a homebody kept busy by errands and chores, which includes spending hours on the computer arranging her concert tours. She … Continue reading →

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Michael Perkins’s “Overlook Mountain Invocation”

Posted on August 16, 2011 by admin

For the finale of our book launch party for Michael Perkins’ Carpe Diem: New and Selected Poems, I read Michael’s poem, “Overlook Mountain Invocation,” which, I should admit, he dedicated to me, though I would dedicated it in turn to … Continue reading →

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Bird with an Attitude

Posted on April 1, 2011 by admin

I have a tin ear for birds. So I appreciate the dozen or two songsters so distinctive I can’t forget them. I’ll even take the phoebe that arrives on an early spring day along with the warmth and sunshine to … Continue reading →

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