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Long-term fallout from tech fire in

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The changing face of retirement

Mental health advocate Alan

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Woodstock/New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair

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36 The Power of the Mind Even some in the medical profession can’t deny the link between our mental state and our physical state.

24 Beyond the Sunbelt From low-cost to high-end there are new retirement options to please even the most discerning baby boomer.

40 Breaking Down Boundaries Alan Skerritt broke down racial barriers to change the state’s mental healthcare system.

34 Generation Q & A: Joan Snyder Local artist Joan Snyder shares her inspirations and insights.

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5 Editor’s Note It’s never too late to get out and conquer

6 Happenings Some of early fall’s highlights are Bacon Fest 2012, Harvest Day and many other musical and culinary celebrations

12 Boomer BulletinTM News The new Tappen Zee Bridge, the state Conference on Aging, illegal bath salts, and more

16 Travel Adventure vacations for any age group

20 Finance Saving for college

22 Technology When back to school means more than pencils and staplers

44 Health The benefits of stretching

46 Reflections The choices we make

Large cover Image: A Walk the The World group explore the northern part of

Corsica with a walk to famous cliff-top tower near Bastia, Corsica.

Fire photo by Lance Wheeler. David Robertson by Franco Vogt.

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Joan Snyder, p. 30Birchez at Chambers is proof that retirement has never looked better

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When I was in my 30’s I read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air in one sitting on an airplane. I remember looking

out the window and thinking that those crazy people were climbing at almost the level of our cruising altitude. Wow. I became fasci-nated — some might say obsessed — with the idea of Mt. Everest. I was smart enough to know that, let’s face it, I was never going to climb Mt Everest. I had plenty of trouble making it through an entire kick-boxing class at the gym. So what else could I do to satisfy my growing obsession?

After much research I discovered that you can hire a com-pany to lead you on a trek to base camp. It was still a pretty rigorous workout, hiking through the hills of Nepal for close to three weeks, but the odds of not dying in the process were better than they are if you climb the mountain! I tried to enlist a friend to go with me, did the requisite comparing of companies and prices, and started to make plans. But my job was getting more demanding, my kids were getting more demanding, and life got in the way.

I gave up on the idea years ago as so many of us give up on the dreams we have. I know, that sounds cliché, but it's true. I had really forgotten all about it until recently. When I first read Joanne Michael’s cover story on adventure travel it all came back to me; the passion with which I wanted to see one of nature’s great miracles and the challenges I wanted my body to triumph over. Her story made me realize that

just because we age doesn’t mean we can’t still challenge our bodies and reach our goals and pursue our dreams.

The irony has always been that now that the kids are grown and the job demands might be a bit more flexible we feel too old to do the things we wanted to when we were young. But this story made me, and I hope makes you, realize that it is simply not true. It is NOT too late to take risks and fulfill our dreams. I wish for you to be as inspired as I was by this story and go out and do something – big or small – that you have always wanted to do. And have fun!

As always I want to hear from you. Let me know what you think and what you would like to see on our pages. Send commnts to:[email protected].

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We touched base with a host of our readers around the region to see what people are look-

ing forward to doing in September … if anyone can find the time.

Ulster CountyIn Ulster County, key items include …

The historic Maverick Con-certs series, at its historic open-air hall in the woods, is perfect in Sep-tember. On the 1st, they present a special chamber orchestra concert, “La Bonne Chanson: A Celebration of French Song,” and on Sept 2 the celebrated Tokyo String Quartet. 845-679-8217, or http://maverickconcerts.org/.

Hurley’s 350th Anniversary will be a big day … with a BBQ, activities, music, revolutionary war encampment, crafts, and a corn maze. It’s on September 15. Call 845-331-7474 or visit www.townofhurley.org for information.

The Woodstock Farm Festival, on Wednes-day afternoons from around 3:30 to dusk is home-grown fun … with music, of course. And lots to eat! Call 845-679-6234 or visit

www.woodstockfarmfestival.com for more info.

The Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair takes place at the County Fairgrounds over the Labor Day Weekend with more than 300 craftspeople and artists. Call 845-245-3414, 845-679-8087, or visit www.quailhollow.com.

The 22nd annual Taste of New Paltz, taking place at the Ulster Coun-ty Fairgrounds on September 16, dem-onstrates what it is about New Paltz restaurants and farms that makes the

place a culinary Mecca. call 845-255-0243 or visit:www.newpaltzchamber.org/.

Jenny Bell Pie Festival at Kelder’s Farm on Route 209 in Accord has pies galore, and loads of other fun in a great location. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29. www.jen-niebell.org.

The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum Benefit Auction offers up some of the best historic and contemporary 20th century art around … at great prices. 845-679-2940 or www.woodstockart.org.

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The Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair will include an exhibit of

Alpacas, from Scio, New York.

Fall for ARt The Jewish Federation of Ulster County’s annual juried art show, sale and cocktail reception, takes place on Thursday, September 6th at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston. It’s one of the cultural events of the year! Call 845-338-8131 or visit www.fallforart.org.

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Dutchess CountyIn Dutchess County, full of cities, rivers and the Taconic foothills, the happenings are diverse:

The Stormville Airport Antique Show & Flea Market, one of the nation’s largest, is located on a private airport right off the Taconic State Parkway. Takes place September 1 through 3. www.stormvilleairportfleamarket.com.

Town of Clinton Heritage Day, on Saturday, Sept. 1, is an old-fashioned day in the country in Frances J. Mark Memorial Park, 337 Clinton Hollow Road, County Route 18, Clinton Corners. 845-266-5740

The 11th Annual Hudson Valley Wine & Food Festival celebrates the gourmet lifestyle of the region with food sampling from some of the region’s best restaurants, lots of New York State wine, and live entertainment. Sept. 8 and 9 at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. Call

888-687-2517. www.hudsonvalleywinefest.comAt Your Service: Behind the Scenes at Vanderbilt

Mansion takes place at 1:00 PM on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM through October. Think Downton Abbey with American flavor. Call 845-229-7770.

Second Saturday Beacon runs on September 8, full of art openings and other fun, all along Main Street. See what’s making this small city boom! www.beaconarts.org.

The 13th Annual Hispanic Heritage Celebra-tion in Poughkeepsie’s Waryas Park on Saturday, Sep-tember 15 matches Latin rhythms to Latin music. This fundraiser for the Hudson Valley Latino High School Scholarship Fund, from 10 AM to 6:00 PM, is noth-ing but fun. At 1 Main Street; call (845)451-4100 or visit: tinyurl.com/hispanicheritagecelebration.

We hear that the 3rd Revolutionary War Weekend in Fishkill on September 15 and 16 is going to be great fun, and educational, too. Drills, demonstrations, and lots of re-


Annual Hudson Valley Wine and Food Festival

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The Happening Hudson Valleyenactors at the Van Wyck Homestead Museum, 504 Rte. 9 in Fishkill. (845)896-9560.

Peace Bells will be rung from 10 AM to 2 PM on Satur-day, September 22 at the Walkway Over the Hudson His-toric State Park, 61 Parker Ave. in Poughkeepsie. (845) 226-6752 or www.peacebellfoundation.org

Harvesting Time is Cornell Cooperative Extension’s way of getting folks out to work side by side with gardeners in the Demonstration Gardens at their Farm and Home Cen-ter, 2715 Route 44 in Millbrook. It takes place starting at 9 AM on Saturday, September 29, and reservations are sug-gested. (845) 677-8223 x115 or www.cce.dutchess.org

Celtic Day in the Park, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Sunday, September 30, is an outdoor festival of all things Celtic on the majestic great lawn at the Mills Mansion in the Staatsburgh State Historic Site. (845) 889-8851.


Art of the Needle Exhibition

Celtic Day in the Park at the Mills Mansion in the Staatsburgh State Historic Site.

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This takes place at the Mount Gulian Historic Site for the 20th time, featur-ing hundreds of pieces representing all areas of the needle arts created by local artists. 10 AM – 4 PM on Saturday, Sept. 15. (845) 831-8172 or www.mountgulian.org.

"My Quaker Lady" by Jane Minor on 28 Count Linen


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Crafts at Rhinebeck is both huge and select … and great Fall Fun on September 29 and 30 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. (876) 876-4001 or www.craftatrhinebeck.com.

Columb ia CountyColumbia County, from the bustling riverside city of Hudson to the Berkshires, is busy with cultural events. Try these hap-penings …

The annual Farm, Food, and Music Festival at Cler-mont celebrates locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music. It all takes place overlooking the Hud-son on Friday evening, September 7 from 4 to 7:30 PM in Germantown. (518) 537-4240.

Bacon Fest 2012 will take place on Sunday, September 2nd on the banks of the Henry Hudson Waterfront Park on Water St. in Hudson, NY, rain or shine. Located 45 minutes from Albany, 45 minutes from the Berkshires, and a 2 hour train ride from NY. Visit www.baconfestny.com.

The Columbia County Fair opens on August 29 and runs through the following week. It all goes down off Route

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Harvest Day, on Sept 15, celebrates the importance of agriculture to our eighth president—and its continued im-portance to Columbia County. It’s also a great excuse to visit the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook. (518) 758-9689 or tinyurl.com/harvestday.

Sebal’s Star is a theater performance taking place on September 15 at 7 PM at the Arts Center Theater at Columbia-Greene Community College outside of Hudson. (518) 828-4181. tinyurl.com/sebalsstar.

The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company presents Dance Inspired by Children’s Stories at the fabulous Wagon House

Education Center up at Olana State Historic Site outside of Hudson. Showtime is 4 PM on Sept. 15. (518) 828-1872 x109 or www.olana.org.

Rural Columbia County is a real treat in autumn, and the self-guided Ancram Farm Tour on Sept 22 can be taken on bike tour or in the car. (518) 392-5252 or www.clctrust.org.

The Hudson Opera House Gala 2012 may be this part of the valley’s social event of the year. September 29, at 6:30 PM. Check website for updates:www.hudsonoperahouse.org.

Barry Chase with a cow at Chaseholm Farm, one of the farms on the Ancram Farm Tour.

Bacon Fest 2012

The annual Paint Out taking place at Hudson River School legend Frederick Church’s estate, Olana, on Sept 27 and 28 and is the perfect way to visit this side of the valley’s cultural heritage. (518) 828-1872 x109 or www.olana.org.

Greene CountyIn Greene County some of the key happenings include: The annual Catskill Mountain Thunder Motorcycle Rally,

the largest in Upstate New York with stunt shows, rodeo games, live music, a bike show and spaghetti wrestling, runs September 13 through 16 at the Blackthorne Resort in East Durham. www.catskillmountainthunder.com/ The HITS Triathlon Series, the biggest in the Northeast, returns to Hunter Mountain September 22 with swimming, biking and running elements.www.huntermtn.com. 18th Century Green, on September 8, is a series of special content tours at the Bronck Museum in Coxsackie discussing the environmental impact of the early American lifestyle. They run all day. (518) 731-6490 or www.gchistory.org A Heritage Craft Fair on September 30 will feature exhibits and sale of traditional American crafts, with accompanying live music, at the historic Bronck Museum in Coxsackie, NY, (518) 731-6490 www.gchistory.org The Greene County Council for the Arts Annual Gar-den Party, on September 22, takes place at the scenic and historic Beattie-Powers Place in Catskill, September 22 from 1 to 5PM. It’s simply delightful! (518) 943-3400 or www.greenearts.org.


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The Lyric Piano Quartet plays as part of the Windham Chamber Music Festival at the renovated church on Main Street in the beautiful mountain town. Call (518) 734-3868 5379 or visit www.windhammusic.com. On September 15, try the Athens Animation Festival at Crossroads Brewery, 21 Second Street in Athens. It’s an adult-oriented evening event showcasing 30 new works in a tasty setting. http://www.athensanimationfest.com/.

Postcards From The Trail, on September 23, features the work of contemporary artists who have painted or drawn in the footsteps of Thomas Cole on the Hudson River School Art Trail. It takes place at Cedar Grove, Cole’s House, located at 218 Spring Street in Catskill. (518) 943-7465 or http://www.thomascole.org. n


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At the end of August Governor Cuomo requested federal help in building a new Tappan Zee Bridge. The request came at an event along Rockland County’s waterfront, where Cuomo was joined by dozens of public officials for a signing of a letter to the U.S. Secre-tary of Transportation. “This is a project that has been discussed for over 13 years now and enough is enough,” Cuomo told reporters. “At some point you have to stop talking and consulting and actually get something done.The state applied for a $2 billion federal loan, a large portion of the projected $5.2 billion cost of the bridge, which is scheduled to be finished in 2017. But critics are concerned that not enough is known about how the bridge will be paid for and that the projected toll increase of $9 is unreasonably high. Stay tuned…

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COLUMBIA COUNTY - The biggest story this summer in Columbia County was the August 1 fire at the TCI equip-ment recycling business on Route 9H in Ghent, leading to a mandatory evacuation around the site, and a warn-ing for anyone within a 15-mile radius to stay indoors and

close windows for several days after the accident. Multiple county fire departments and the Columbia County Hazmat team responded to the fire, and a state of emergency was declared in Columbia and Rensselear counties as officials

Aerial view of the TCI fire.

Tech Fire Has Longer Repercussionstried to gauge the seriousness of the large fire that caused a series of explosions in the presence of electrical equipment, PCBs, bulk oil, propane, and other dangerous compounds. Businesses, libraries, and other public places closed for the day, and numerous events were cancelled.

Although the federal Environmental Pro-tection Agency and state Department of Environmental Conservation quickly lifted precautionary measures (with a caveat that produce showing signs of soot from the fire be disposed of immediately), serious study of what happened at the TCI site—and any long-term effects from the fire and subse-quent explosions—will be continuing over the coming months. TCI is one of a growing number of compa-nies in the region handling waste products for the energy and other high tech industries, and the crisis could point to what’s to come as the Hudson Valley and Capital Region are remade as a world nanotechnology center. Regulatory reports for the EPA and DEC show TCI reported eight transactions in-volving PCBs and other liquids containing levels of 50 to 500 parts per million, which

is considered a hazardous concentration. The company also reported it transported 2,700 pounds of “solid waste that ex-hibits the characteristics of ignitability” this year. This was TCI’s second fire in 2012.


DUTCHESS COUNTY - There’s about to be NO ex-cuse for not checking out the Hudson Valley’s—and Dutchess County’s—latest great attraction. Last month, plans were announced to add a single-shaft elevator and stairway from ground level to the Walkway Over the Hudson, a state park connecting Ulster and Dutchess counties over the Hudson River. Congressman Maurice Hinchey helped secure federal funding for the elevator, which will be located on the Dutchess County side of the bridge near Water Street in the City of Poughkeepsie. There are both ample parking and other waterfront activities for visitors. The 21-story elevator would carry as many as a doz-en people on a 90-second ride from the waterfront to the Walkway. Long-term plans call for connecting the elevator's access point to the Metro-North railroad station and the Greenway trail.

A 21-Story Lift to The Walkway

The Walkway Over New York's Hudson River

Although some worry about the elevator detracting from the much-touted health benefits of the Walkway, oth-ers point out people benefitting from the major portions of its span. Expect something to be in place next sum-mer. For further information call (845) 834-2867 or visit www.walkway.org.

Aging Conference Draws New AttentionALBANY – There was something very different about this summer’s 16th Annual Aging Concerns Unite Us (ACUU) conference in Albany. This year’s conference attracted the New York State Comptroller’s office, which is looking for ways to handle the coming “age wave” expected to impact governmental budgets in coming years. ACUU attracts hundreds of professionals from all regions of New York State who are devoted to coordinating and providing quality services to Aging New York. Laura Cameron, Executive Director of the New York State Association of Area Agencies on Aging, noted that “as the aging population grows, and costs escalate, the Aging Network will be an invaluable resource for improving care at a lower cost to New York State taxpayers…the need for everyone to work more closely in a cost effective manner so that seniors may age comfortably in their homes reached a crescendo at this year’s conference.” Mark Kissinger, Director of the Long Term Care Division of the NYS Department of Health, told members of the Aging Network in attendance to value themselves. “Know your costs. Not what’s been paid in the past,” he said. “You are the ones who keep people out of nursing homes. Value yourselves and make sure you negotiate with service providers.”

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What Are Illegal Bath Salts, Anyway?NATIONAL - The New York State Department of Health and the Public Health and Health Planning Council have expanded their list of prohibited drugs and chemicals to include dozens of substances used to make synthetic drugs, in an effort to crack down on so-called “bath salts” use. But what are these things? Are kids actually smoking or eating substances normally used for sub-merged relaxation? “The regulations will allow for the first time an owner of an establishment and/or an employee selling syn-thetic drugs to be charged with possession of an illicit substance. Further, to support enforcement, the regu-

lations will increase the criminal penalties for those who violate the rules. Violators will face fines up to $500 and potentially up to 15 days in jail,” read a state-ment from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office this summer. “Bath salts and other synthetic drugs pose a direct, serious threat to public health and safety, and we must do everything we can to remove these harmful sub-stances from sale and distribution in New York.” Bath Salts, the drug, is a generic term for a class of synthetic drug with similar effects to that of cocaine and methamphetamine, looks like legal bath products, and has been packaged with the words, “Not For Human Consumption” as a means of escaping detection. They can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected and have been sold with consumer product labels that make them seem like bath products.


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The Center for Healthy Aging at Northern Dutchess Hospital is helping seniors all across the Hudson Valley kick up their heels and enjoy life by keeping them active and independent. As we celebrate our one-year anniversary, we’re doing so with a new space, a new social worker on our team and new services. These new services include the latest tests for early detection of Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders, counseling services for patients and caregivers and a range of community events. Visit www.health-quest.org/CHA today to learn more.

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GREENE COUNTY – It’s easy to forget the boating side to life in the valley, and that the Hudson River is much more than a scenic backdrop; the Hudson

is a working transport route carrying ships to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, and hosts a tourist industry based on cruising. In Greene County, where marinas have long been a major source of tourist income, much is being pegged on a new county waterfront map targeting boaters and visitors traveling to and around Greene County via the Hudson River, and the Catskill Creek marinas. Highlighting area attractions walkable from waterfront loca-tions, boat launch sites, riverfront restaurants, marinas, popular fishing spots and public parks, the new effort from the Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Depart-ment also provides directions and visitor information. A QR code on the map takes visitors to the region’s mobile website, m.greatnortherncatskills.com. n

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ULSTER COUNTY -- Rock festival legend Michael Lang is hatching plans to establish a permanent facility to host regular and traveling rock festivals at the Winston Farm site in Saugerties, where in 1994 he put on a 25th an-niversary for his 1969 Woodstock Festival drawing a half million people. Lang’s new effort, being worked out with Saugerties town officials and the family which owns the 850 acre site, would draw regular summer rock shows looking for a landing site. It would also set the scene for a possible anniversary concert in seven years marking the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Generation’s big bash. There’s also a possibility of the creation of a more permanent concert facility similar to either the Saratoga Performing Arts Center or Bethel Woods, the latter lo-cated on the site of the original Woodstock Festival. Plans are to have the first big summer concerts hit Winston Farm, located near exit 20 of the New York Thruway, during summer 2013.


The Woodstock Generation Roars Back

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White water splashing over the sides of our raft sent us zooming full speed ahead as our guide, Dave, yelled, "Paddle forward!" We clutched our paddles while try-

ing to keep our balance in the raft, knowing we'd soon be in calmer waters and enjoying every second of the excite-ment. Then as suddenly as the white water appeared, it was behind us. Someone said to look to the right, and staring back at us from the banks of Peru's Urubamba River was a majestic heron. Llamas, goats and cows occasionally wandered along the banks of the river. A few Peruvian Indians tending their animals stared at the twelve of us in two large, grey rubber

rafts with bright orange life preservers—as if we were rather odd to be inflicting this kind of experience on ourselves in-stead of traveling by road. How did we get to raft part of the way to Machu Pic-chu then spend the night at a charming old inn that served hearty home-cooked meals and had an orange tree in the courtyard? We opted for an adventure vacation. And I en-thusiastically recommend such a getaway if you’d like to raft, hike and see awesome scenery, and then have decent food, a hot shower and comfortable accommodations at the end of the day. One advantage of such excursions—for those who

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can't be away for long—is that they're often short trips. I was away for eight days and efficient tour guides enabled me to see more than I had imagined possible. Sobek Mountain Travel in Emeryville, Cali-fornia sponsored this Andean odyssey. It was even an easy vacation to pack for, thanks to the handy list of essentials sent by Sobek, a pioneering adven-ture travel company that has been in business since 1969. According to CEO Kevin Callahan, the majority of Sobek’s clientele are in the their fifties and sixties but they’ll plan itineraries for active travelers regard-less of age. One of the Sobek guides told me how on a trek in Tibet the first person up each morning and ready to depart was a woman in her mid-sixties. Another reputable company organizing trips for the over-fifty market is Walking the World, of Fort Collins, Colorado. Since 1987 they have taken thousands of people to over thir-ty destinations worldwide. Owner Ward Luthi left his desk

job 25 years ago and never looked back. "There are over 118 million people in America today over the age of fifty," said Luthi, a member of the age group. "One of their top three goals in life is to have adventures and there's no reason they can't do this safely and enjoyably." One of Luthi’s personal bucket list ambitions is to ex-perience a top day hike in every one of the fifty states in America. He personally scouts out all itineraries and ser-vices in advance to ensure clients will experience the best trails, authentic restaurants and reliable local guides. In the mid-1980s the average client for adventure travel was a 62 year-old single woman; now there is a diverse cli-entele with many more single men, couples and families seeking such getaways. Baby boomers remaining fit for a greater part of their lifespan want to share adventure trips with their children and grandchildren. These getaways make for ideal family reunions and adventure travel packagers are now seeing multigenerational families as clients. Another trend in the industry: as the economy has shifted and over-seas airline travel has become more problematic, many peo-ple are looking for trips within the borders of the U.S. rather than abroad. Before committing to an excursion, find out what level of activity will be required. "While the adventure travel in-dustry is becoming softer as people are getting softer," says

The Tour du Mont Blanc is one of the most popular long distance walks in Europe. It circles the Mont Blanc Massif

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If You Go…Mountain Travel Sobek (888-831-7526; www.mtsobek.com), 1266 66th Street, Suite 4 Emeryville, CA 94608.Walking the World (970-498-0500; www.walkingtheworld.com). 520 N. Sherwood St., Fort Collins, CO 80521.Elder Travel (845-679-9321; www.eldertrav.com), PO Box 469, Woodstock, NY 12498.

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Luthi, explaining that some tours ask travelers to walk no more than two miles per day, "I ask clients to stretch a bit." To prepare for a trip he suggests walking five miles per day four days a week. By becoming more active at home, he maintains, people will more fully enjoy the pace of such a getaway.

While learning about the world of adventure travel I was delighted to find an enormously helpful web site whose owner happens to reside in my hometown. Howie Lipson's www.eldertrav.com assists consumers in navigating the plethora of information when planning a suitable excursion. He suggests a first time adventure seeker select a trip with

a variety of activities and a low guest-to-guide ratio. Yellowstone in the U.S. or the Moselle Val-ley in Europe where about 90% of the biking is downhill, are a couple of suggested venues. According to Lipson, who got hooked on ad-venture travel as a teenager when his father took him on an African safari as well as to the Ama-zon and the Galapagos, providers have found that most older travelers seek a varied itinerary. "They want to customize their adventure and be part of a small group with more flexibility," he noted. Those over fifty enjoy combining hiking, biking, wine tasting and a variety of cultural experiences. A word of caution: adventure travel provid-ers strongly suggest taking out trip insurance. If some unforeseen event occurs before the

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9 Mistakes to Avoid When Saving for College ✦ By Terence P. Ward ✦

The little ones aren't so little any-more, but as fast as they've grown, the cost of college al-

ways seems to outpace them. High-er education consistently outpaces inflation, as well: the price of goods has jumped 115% since 1986, ac-cording to InflationData.com, but tuition has risen over 498% in the same period. To keep up with those costs, saving for college should start as early as possible. Chris Drouin, founder of Beyond Wealth Management (beyondwealthman-agement.com), spent over a decade as an admissions coun-selor in the SUNY system and helped curate this list of col-lege savings mistakes to avoid.1. Paying full price. Private schools tend to provide aid on the backs of marginal students. "If you fit into some niche they are trying to fill, or you're going to be the star of the new physics program, it's easy to take $20,000 off the top," in the form of aid, Drouin explains. On the other hand, "the kid who just barely gets accepted will be the one paying that extra twenty grand." Colleges use merit-based aid programs to make sure that they fill all of the special niches they have created in their student body.2 .Forgetting about retirement. "Don't mortgage your retire-ment for education," Drouin says. Most families must save for both at the same time, so it's key to have vehicles for each.3. Being dazzled by price. The best education doesn't nec-essarily cost the most. "New York State has an excellent sys-tem of community colleges," Drouin says, "and I've seen kids transfer from SUNY schools into Harvard and Yale." Instead, focus on the program rather than the name on the letterhead. If Junior is thinking pre-med, can the prospective school guar-antee him a seat in a Ph.D program upon graduation?4. Committing fraud. "It's illegal to manipulate your assets to get financial aid," Drouin explained. Rather, sit down with an adviser and form a strategy to work the system legitimately.5. Giving the kids a free ride. Get your child to find jobs,

and "tax them on their work," Drouin says. He recommends taking 50% off the top of their earnings to put towards college from day one. This invests them literally in the process, and also beefs up the total your fam-ily can pitch in.6. Saving in your child's name. This is a mistake because financial aid formulas will factor in a third of the child's assets, but only about six percent of the parents' money. And,

Drouin says, "the first $50,000 of parental assets isn't count-ed." So keep the savings out of junior's name if possible.7. Assuming a school isn't interested. Most colleges have identified that a certain amount of diversity in the student body is valuable, and will go to great lengths to achieve it. "When their one student from North Dakota was graduating, they sent all their admissions counselors to high schools in the state to find the next North Dakotan student. " Grades are always important — but there are always other factors.8. Choosing the wrong adviser. "You don't want to pick someone who just wants to sell a product," such as a private student loan. (Not all loans are subsidized, and "parent plus" loans leave you on the hook for repayment). Even subsidized loans are debts which cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so considering the student's debt load at graduation is criti-cal. Look for someone who is a member of NACAC, the Na-tional Association of College Admissions Counselors.9. Missing out on scholarships. "A lot of scholarships sit unused for want of applicants," said Drouin. For example, McDonald's has a scholarship for employees, and several more need-based programs for high school students who meet certain criteria. If researching scholarships seems daunting, consider asking a professional for help.

"Applying to college can feel like a reflection of you as a par-ent," Drouin said. "It's important to keep in mind your child's work ethic and potential, and pick the school that will get them the most aid and the highest chances of success." n

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It’s that time again. The kids are headed back to school, and whether it’s college or some other level of aca-deme, you’re buying someone a new computer

this month. Wouldn’t some brass-tacks reality feel great? We’re here to please: Your student is all but certain to have decided the Mac vs. PC issue before you get involved, so the questions you’ll have to contend with come down to how powerful a computer to buy, and of course, your budget. We usually recommend buying the most current, highest-specification equipment available, but the way computers have changed recently, you might be able to cut a few cor-ners. For example, whether you go with a PC or a Mac, more than 4 GB of working memory just isn’t that useful. Macs cost more; honestly, a lot more. With entry-level pric-es of about $1,200, Apple computers cost two to three times their PC equivalents. One way you can lessen the sticker shock is by keeping an eye on Apple’s Certified Refurbished store (http://goo.gl/IdIus). With constantly-changing inventory, shopping there can be an adventure, but the bargains are sub-stantial. One day recently we saw a 15.4” Macbook Pro with an i7 processor and a faster processor than the “retail” model for $1,369. The full-price equivalent? $1,799. And if the word “refurbished” scares you, don’t worry. These computers come directly from Apple, are usually available be-cause of buyers changing their minds rather than because of any kind of problem, have been completely tested and certi-fied by Apple, and carry the same warranty as any new Apple computer! On the PC side the choices are more varied, but you might score an amazing value if you keep your eyes open.

We’ll try to make this simple: If you buy a computer by mail order you’ll probably be getting a Dell. The benefit here is that you’re getting the most recent equipment,

staving off obso-lescence by a few extra months ver-

sus buying a com-puter at a retail store.

At Dell.com, you con-figure your own computer

for quick delivery (http://goo.gl/TCzfv), and the equivalent of the Macintosh we mentioned above costs about $700. Dell has a site for refurbished computers that works a lot like Apple’s, but because the retail price of PCs is so much lower, the deals might not seem as exciting. Walk into your local office supply, discount club, or elec-tronics store and you’ll get similar prices to Dell’s. You might even see Dell computers, but it’s likely that most of what you find will come from Hewlett Packard. This is your best shot at an extreme discount; computers with decent specs from six months ago could cost less than $400, and they’ll do the job for many, if not most users! If all of this leaves you still not sure where to buy that next computer for the student in your life, we’ll complicate things a little bit more. Both Dell and Apple offer bonuses with some purchases; Dell gives you a free Xbox 360 when you buy cer-tain computers, while Apple might throw in an iPod. Whichever way you go, and no matter what you decide on, just remember that some schools make the choice for you—or at least weigh in on the PC vs. Mac decision. If that’s the case wherever your little computer user is, please don’t try to circumvent the advice; obtaining support from your child’s secondary school or university could be much harder if you do. n

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Once, retirement meant moving to warmer climates and trading in work for rounds of golf, often until frailty and advanced age led to a nursing home. Today, for many, that

option has become passé. They made 40 the new 30, they caused a new-paradigm-spawning social revolution, and now baby boomers are retiring differently from their parents.

They don’t want to be so far from their kids. And there’s the weather: global warming is linked to the droughts that

are devastating a large part of the Sunbelt. Some are not re-tiring at all, instead moving on to new careers. Plus, simple economic necessity is causing many seniors to stay put. All of these factors are increasing the Hudson Valley’s geo-graphical appeal.

Plus, seniors in the area have plenty of company. The Hud-son Valley’s population is aging; Columbia County, with 16 percent of its population over age 60, is the oldest county

in the state. The high quality of life and relative affordability compared to Westchester and the New York City metropolitan area is attracting retirees from outside the area. As the ranks of retiring boomers swell—ev-ery day, 10,000 Americans turn 65—the region is responding with more retirement living op-tions. Many of these new retire-ment centers emphasize com-munity. Some are built to green standards, and one planned community includes grounds designated as Community Sup-ported Agriculture (CSA).

From Low-Cost to Luxury, Retirement Living Has Never Looked Better

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The upscale Glassbury Court attracts retirees from Westchester and Rockland Counties.


There’s No Place Like HomeMany seniors are staying in their homes—and their communities. For extra income, some are converting parts of their homes to apartments, or renting out rooms. Oth-ers are organizing networks for support, friendship, and helping others. The first “staying in place” (SIP) network in the mid-Hudson Valley was founded in Wood-stock, with sister organizations sprouting up along the Route 209 corridor and in Kings-ton and Rhinebeck.

Vivi Hlavsa, a Marbletown resident who is a board mem-ber of the Woodstock SIP and founder of Settled and Serving in Place Along the 209 Corridor, says starting and belonging to a group doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. An-nual membership in the 209 group costs just $25; the forty-plus members meet weekly. “Socialization is an important part,” said Hlavsa. So is helping out; when one member of Hlavsa’s group needed to be driven to physical therapy three days a week, several volunteers came to the rescue.

Some service providers offer discounts. Three low-income members don’t pay the annual fee; one is a carpenter who offers his services free of charge. Hlavsa, who was widowed five years ago, said she’s met “a whole new group of people I just love” through the group. She held a communal birthday celebration brunch at her house recently, and says that eight members planned to attend a play in which another member is performing. “It’s like a neighborhood. Nobody’s keeping track. People are eager to help out,” she said.

Some people are retrofitting their homes with features they may need as they age. Bob Lutz and Brian Altman of DBS Remodel in Poughkeepsie became certified through the National Association of Homebuilders as aging in place specialists in 2010.

DBS often blocks in a tub or shower area for clients so that grab bars can be added, said Lutz. The company is quali-fied to install entrance ramps, railings, lever locks instead of knobs in doors, and chair lifts on stairs; it can widen door-ways for wheelchair access and enlarge bathrooms to ac-

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commodate “zero clearance entry” to showers. Dishwash-ers that pull out like a drawer, drop-down cabinets, and replacing carpets with wood floor are other senior-friendly tweaks.

Lutz says many of his clients are healthy people in their 50s and 60s who are planning for these types of accommo-dations in the future. Others suddenly find themselves in a wheelchair and need changes made immediately. The dearth of assisted-living options in the region is spurring demand.

Living the DreamSome empty nesters are moving to one of the upscale re-tirement communities that are beginning to crop up in the Hudson Valley. Glassbury Court, a two-year-old townhouse development located in Cold Spring, is attracting retirees from suburban Westchester and Rockland counties. The de-velopment is targeted at active seniors who “want to spend the rest of their lives having fun,” according to sales director Donna Blais. The average age of new residents is between 60 and 65.

The semi-attached units are priced between $375,000 and $575,000. The 80-acre property includes a fishing lake, dog run and walking trails, an outdoor heated pool, tennis court, putting green, billiards room, theater and large club-house. Monthly fees are $400.

Glassbury Court has tapped into the local arts commu-nity with its “Artful Living” project, in which seven designers took over the interior design of its model home in Garrison, using ceramics, sculpture, paintings, glass work and furni-


ture made by local artists and artisans. Sales Manager Mary Sutton, who said that 45 units have

so far been sold—at full build out, the community will con-sist of 90 units—added that geothermal energy is an option in some of the units. Others have radiant floor heat. All units are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified. “Buyers are happy with the lower utility bills,” she said, adding that they are also pleased with the lower taxes compared to Westchester or Rockland counties.

Residents “want to be in a community,” added Blais. Despite the fall-off in the housing market, she said sales are brisk. “This is the generation that watched their money. Quite a few are selling their homes and paying cash.”

Corporate Attorney Phil Haber and his wife Margot moved to Glassbury Court in June, after selling their family home in Chappaqua. They didn’t want to be too far from their grown children, who live in New York City, and they liked the charm of Cold Spring. The couple loves the ease of living in a townhouse where “the homeowners association takes care of everything. We do a lot of traveling . . . it’s nice to lock up and leave and know everything’s taken care of.” The couple also enjoys their new social life, noting that other residents include at least one retired professor and other interesting people. Plus, the region is an ideal fit for Phil’s new interest in landscape photography. “We love this area. There are endless opportunities,” Phil said.

The Good Life at an Affordable PriceIt isn’t just affluent seniors who can enjoy communal amenities and green living. The Birches at Chambers, 66

rental apartments for low-income seniors located in the Town of Ulster, is a two-story apartment building and four-unit cottage whose stone foundation, gabled porches, flower gardens, patios, and attractively designed public spaces—the walls are hung with framed botanical prints and the muted patterned carpet, curtains, and chairs would seem at home in an upscale hotel—defy the usu-al drab, institutional feel of afford-able housing.

“We’re filling a very critical need,” said developer Steve Aar-on, who has built four affordable

senior housing developments in Ulster County, utilizing tax credits for subsidized housing. Aaron said he’s enabling lo-cal retirees who worked hard all their lives but earned only modest incomes to live well. “It doesn’t have to look like affordable housing,” he said. Indeed, the attractive façade with its gabled entry porches and the landscaped grounds are welcoming.

Available to seniors 62 and over with incomes no more than 60 percent of the median, the one-bedroom units start at $664 a month. Two-bedroom units start at $794 and are sometimes occupied by the renter and a caregiver. Ameni-ties include a fitness center with a trainer available, a movie theater, a crafts room, a library, and a computer room with free internet access. Experts give weekly talks on a number of subjects. Clubs have formed, focused on books, garden-ing, and crafts.

Birches at Chambers is also LEED Platinum certified. It has a solar system which provides thirty percent of the develop-ment’s electricity; solar hot water, super efficient natural gas boilers, and air conditioners designed and rated for energy ef-ficiency. There’s even a hidden garbage and recycling system that utilizes hallway chutes. The development is located near bus stops, enabling residents to shop without a car.

Aaron said some of the units were designed for handicap access, with roll-in showers and grip railings; all of them can be retrofitted to accommodate a wheelchair. "there are also pull cords in each unit, which tenants can use to notify the on-site caretaker and 911 of an emergency, such as a fall. One tenant in a wheelchair who had been living in a

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The diningroom at Camphill Ghent, which is a green facility.


Some seniors are retiring overseas, moti-vated by the lure of exotic culture, low-cost medical care, affordable living, a more re-laxing lifestyle, and in some cases year-

round warm weather. Two and a half years ago, when she was 65, Jill Cotter left her native New York City and moved to Punta Gorda, a fishing community in Belize. She rents an apartment, shops in local markets for fresh produce, gets around by bicycle, and teaches reading in an elementary school as a volunteer. (The town is “volunteer heaven. You can do anything you want,” she said.)

Interested in Mayan culture, which first lured her to the country, Cotter said Belize appealed because English is the official language. The country is also relatively safe (she described the government as “soft core corrupt”). Belize also has close ties to America—many people from Belize work in the states before returning home to retire—and there are a lot of expat Americans; some live on small farms or in spiritual communities, but generally they are integrated with the local community, she said.

Punta Gorda also appealed to her because of its blend of many ethnicities, including East Indians, the Garifuna (people of African descent who migrated from St. Vincent after escaping slavery), Mennonites, and Mayans, who live in 38 outlying villages. The town is located near a barrier reef. “If you like schlepping around in flip flops and shorts and a dirty T-shirt, this is the place for you,” Cotter said.

Cotter said before her move, she took more than half a dozen trips to Punta Gorda, making friends and arranging her volunteer work in the school in advance. She also kept her New York apartment for six months, before letting it go

after she decided she really liked Punta Gorda. However, she doesn’t know if she’ll stay there forever. On the down side, the weather is often muggy and rainy (Cotter relies on ceiling fans rather than AC). And she wishes there were more activities at night. “You do miss the culture,” she said. The food choices are also limited. She returns to New York for a month in the summer, including visits to stay with friends in the mid-Hudson Valley. However, she said if you like growing things, fishing in the ocean, bird watch-ing, and exploring the reef, Belize is great. “You can sail. I need to get a little kayak,” she said.

Other expats (some of whom are retirees) share their stories of living abroad in two websites, http://www.expatinterviews.com/ and http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesome-expat-blogs/.

nursing home recently moved in, able to live on his own. Another tenant is over 100 years old and still drives.

Woodstock Commons, another affordable rental option for seniors is opening soon. It will include three buildings of senior housing. The vaulted ceilings and oversize win-dows of the one-bedroom units create the illusion of larger space, said Guy Kempe at Rural Ulster Preservation Com-pany, which is developing and managing the property.

Echoes of the CommuneIt’s taken Legacy Farm, a cohousing community in Rosen-dale, nearly a decade to get off the ground. That’s not unusu-al for this type of development in New York; the organization had to undergo the lengthy process of registering with and meeting the requirements of the attorney general, accord-ing to member Nancy Shafer. Construction is now planned for a model house this fall, with residences expected to be completed by next summer.

Some are opting for more exotic locales, like Punta Gorda, Belize.

✦ Becoming an Expat ✦


Located on 56 acres, Legacy Farm is designed as a self-sufficient community, in which members share resources, collectively maintain the property, and live sustainably as much as possible. The 37 units will be constructed modu-larly to speed things along. Some of the units will have wide doorways and few or no steps to their entranceways, with a bedroom and bath on the main level. Schafer said while Legacy Farm is multigenerational, there’s been a lot of inter-est from seniors.

Rather than rely on a developer, members of the LLC are designing and maintaining the facility themselves. “We’re experimenting with pods, in which individuals or couples have some private rooms and share a living facility,” said Schafer, who currently resides with her husband in Colum-bia County. “They would be geared towards single people with lower incomes,” she said.

Cost of the condos will range from $150,000 to $400,000, with monthly fees of less than $300. The units will be designed for energy efficiency, and parking will be located away from the housing for a pedestrian-friendly set-ting. Legacy Farm is leasing 10 acres to a CSA farm, from which it plans to get its food. There’s also a four-acre pond in which residents can swim.

The development will include a community house where meals will be served a couple of times a week; members will share the cooking and maintain the building, along with gardening and such routine tasks as mail delivery. Shafer said the community house might also include guest bedrooms, enabling members to live in smaller, efficient spaces.

Columbia County’s “Intentional Community”Camphill Ghent, which opened in January in Columbia

County, is exclusively targeted to seniors age 55 and up and the developmentally disabled. It offers independent living in 31 apartments and townhouses and has an assisted living facility with 29 private rooms. The complex is part of the Camphill movement, which was founded in 1939 and is based on a philosophy of valuing both the individual and his or her in-trinsic value to the community. There are four Camphill villages in Columbia County; this is the first dedicated to seniors.

Twenty percent of the apartments are available for low-income retirees, and 18 of the 29 beds in the assisted liv-ing facility are Medicaid eligible. Amenities include a laundry room, therapy room and large common room with a wood-stove and kitchen; there will be a medical office, with plans for a doctor on site.

Camphill Ghent is also a green facility, certified LEED gold. Residents recycle and also compost, and there are walking trails and bike paths. No TVs are allowed in the public areas. Henry said the staff and their families, including six children, live on site—making the facility multigenerational.

Living Worry-free for the Future For those of us in our 50s and 60s, planning now for a fu-ture in which we might require nursing care might seem like jumping the gun; indeed, this is an option some of us are exploring for our parents. While facilities that provide both independent and assisted care are open to anyone age 62 and older, the population of these places tends to skew to-ward 80. Yet many residents are healthy and active, defying the stereotypes of their age. But as the first wave of baby boomers move into their 70s just a few years from now, this option is likely to become increasingly appealing.

Woodland Pond, a complex featuring drop-dead views of the Shawangunk range and located outside New Paltz, is the Hudson’s Valley first Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), licensed by the state and offering independent liv-ing, assisted living and a nursing facility on site. In addition to the 201 independent-living apartments and 24 cottages, there’s a “memory care” area, where people with mid to late stage dementia live and are treated, and a forty-room nurs-ing facility.

The development, which is currently 75 percent occupied,

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opened three years ago and is one of only 12 CCRCs in the state. CCRCs charge a large up-front entrance fee, ninety per-cent of which is returned when the resident leaves or dies, covering in advance the cost of assisted living or nursing care. Woodland Pond’s entrance fee starts at around $138,000.

Monthly fees includes one meal in the communal dining room each day (three meals in the assisted living facility), biweekly housekeeping, all utilities, van transportation on-site, and access to amenities including an indoor pool, fit-ness center, performing arts center, bistro, pub, creative arts studio, library, computer lab, and barber shop and hair salon. Applicants 62 or older are eligible and must be financially and medically approved. While those who need the care can move directly into the nursing center the cost is $6,000 a month, compared to the $2,500 paid by residents who enter Woodland Pond while healthy.

Resident Kay Rice and her husband picked Woodland Pond because they could live in a private cottage. Both 87 years old, the Rices moved to Woodland Pond from West-

chester County and didn’t think the community aspect was important to them, but they’ve made many friends. “A great many of us came in as soon as it opened, and we’re like a freshman class at college,” Mrs. Rice says. She loves the beauty of the scenery and the local community. “I don’t live with a bunch of old people. We are elderly, but the staff is young and the town is young.”

There are many other housing options in the area offer-ing a continuum of independent living and assisted living op-tions. Sue Doyle, marketing and sales director at Fountains at Millbrook, noted that her facility is “aging out” and soon it would see a new generation of younger residents. Illus-trating the many flexible options available to seniors in the Hudson Valley, she points out that residents can simply pay rent or opt for an all-inclusive plan including services such as meals and housekeeping.

Perhaps more to the point, Doyle says that many of her facility’s residents remain vital, interesting people, including a 79-year-old retired jazz singer! n

“A great many of us came in as soon as it opened, and

we’re like a freshman class at college.”

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B orn in 1940 in Highland Park, NJ, to working-class parents—her father was a toy salesman—Snyder became famous in the early 1970s for her stroke

paintings. Those strokes, applied to canvas in vibrant, often dripping colors, sometimes stacked like notes on a scale, are completely abstract but plaintive with emotion. Tension arises from the pull between oppo-sites: passion and spontaneity versus the spare and deliberate, lyricism versus dissonance, intimacy versus the universal and totemic, order versus rumination and chance occurrence. She moved on to grids and trip-tychs, juxtaposing cool classicism with raw welts and slits built up with thick paint encrusted with paper, fab-ric, cheesecloth, mattress batting, and other common materials. These works referenced the female body, not as dispassionate object, but as inhabited being. In the 1980s, Snyder made dark, moody landscapes and thickly textured field paintings; a single empty rectangle floats in some of the works, which the artist likened to an altar—both a metaphor for her art and literal mag-netic meditative force.

Some of her works from the 1980s are overtly politi-cal, containing collaged photo images of starving chil-dren or incarcerated women. In the 1990s, her palette lightened and floral- and fruit-inspired gestural forms covered the canvas. A common motif was a singular circular form alluding to ponds, flowers, breasts, open-

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ings, and fruit. Snyder also made narrative paintings whose stories unfold across a scroll-like expanse, scrawled with words and incorporating figures and other imagery sym-bolizing a tumescent female eroticism. The narratives are always secondary to Snyder’s language of paint, whose earthy substance and calibrated balance of forms, colors, and textures reinforce the integrity of the object, a quality reminiscent of Swiss/German painter Paul Klee.

Snyder belonged to the nation’s first wave of feminist artists and was active in feminist issues. But her painting defied pigeonholing as she forged her own path, exploring universal themes in response to her personal experiences and impulses. She was a recipient of a National Endow-ment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974, a Guggenheim Fel-lowship in 1983, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007. She is the subject of several books.

Currently “Dancing With the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010,’’ a survey organized by the Jane Voorhees Zim-merli Art Museum at Rutgers University, is on tour and will open this month in New Mexico. Her work was recently featured in a group exhibition of 1970s artists entitled “Post Movement” at Cristin Tierney, in New York’s Chelsea dis-trict, and a show of her paper pulp paintings will open at the same gallery in October.

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Joan SnyderQ+A

Joan Snyder is at work in her Woodstock studio, dabbing papier-mâché

onto a large canvas. In the spacious white room, which is illuminated

by skylights and adjoins the house she shares with her partner, Maggie

Cammer, the painting sings. Its vivid, white rosettes emerge like soprano

notes from a basso continuum of sweet, dripping purple soaked into the

canvas, with a scrawl of red providing screeching counterpoint. Snyder,

in a loose sleeveless gray T-shirt, stands, looks, and applies the material a

few times before taking a break to speak to her afternoon visitor.

By Lynne Woods


Snyder divides her time between Woodstock and Brook-lyn. Family has lately been a cause for celebration: she and Cammer, a retired acting State Supreme Court justice, were married in June, and in July Snyder’s daughter gave birth to her first grandchild. Life has been good, though not always easy.

What’s the secret of your ability to be endlessly inven-tive and inspired? I don’t have a clue. Every once in a while I say this is it, I’ve done enough. But then I get into the studio and I’m so happy. It’s all still coming.

After attending Douglass College, you earned an MFA at Rutgers University in 1966 and shortly after moved to New York. What got you interested in art?

I took an introductory painting course at Douglass. When I started painting it was like speaking for the first time, because I really felt, even as a young and not very

accomplished painter, I could communicate feelings and ideas I couldn’t do otherwise. Something inside of me for-tunately came out. It was always there in one or another different ways.

What was it like being a woman artist in the late 1960s?[Feminism] was not something anybody was talking about in 1963 when I started to make art. When I went to graduate school, I suddenly realized there were no women teaching in the art department, even though it was a women’s school. We had no role models. When I graduated I started a series of women’s shows at the Douglass College Library called The Mary H. Dana Women’s Artists Series. It’s still going on today. I brought in women artists from New York City; people like Louise Bourgeois, Mary Heilman, Pat Steir…the list is long. I was the curator for about two years. They have now built galleries for those shows. This was a very ground-

"Still", 2011. Oil, acrylic, paper mache, twigs glass beads cheesecloth, silk, burlap, rosebuds on linen, 48" x 63".


breaking thing. It was the first place in the country at the time that exclusively showed women’s art.

How did the feminist movement affect your career?My own career, which started about 1970, had nothing to do with feminism. After eight years of painting, you devel-op a language, which in my case was what was called the stroke paintings. I was a very good painter but I was also very lucky. I made it young as a woman and it had nothing to do with the women’s movement at the time. Two years later, I became involved with the women’s movement and the beginnings of the women’s art movement. I moved to a farm in Pennsylvania with my husband, [photographer Larry Fink]. The recognition was starting to become very difficult for me. I had lots of new people in my life, and I didn’t know who was a friend and who was not. When I moved to the farm I stopped doing the stroke paintings, though a long list of collectors wanted them, and started doing what at the time were outrageous feminist paint-ings. They included Vanishing Theater and Heart On.

It must have taken courage to change your style after you had developed a following.I couldn’t do these stroke paintings anymore because they got kind of easy. I always did okay. I’ve always gone my own way. I’ve gotten criticized for all kinds of stuff—that I

wear my heart on my sleeve, that I write on my paintings and therefore I’m a femi-nist, which is a dirty word. If Cy Twombly or Julian Schnabel write on their work they’re considered poetic and sensitive. It’s belit-tling. But what are you going to do?

Art’s become such a commodity. Does the market present new chal-lenges now? For me it’s always been slow and steady. I’m not involved with what lots of other people do and what collectors are do-ing. I see friends’ shows. I’m involved in a younger generation who haven’t shown yet. One is my assistant, Mira Dancy, who

is my daughter’s age. I’ll look at her work and suddenly see things. She’s a figurative

painter, but her work is very contemporary. My work can be very political, it can be narrative, it can be

feminist, it can be all kinds of things. It makes it more diffi-cult not having a brand. Your life always informs your art. But the work also has a trajectory of its own. There are always formal aspects and not-so-formal aspects that I pay attention to all the time. Maybe it’s over for painting like this, but when I come into the studio this is what I do best and what I love.

How does a painting start?I usually start with lots of little drawings. Or I’m sitting at a concert and get a painting idea. This painting [pointing to the painting on the wall] happened to start in the dentist’s chair. When I have serious dental stuff going on, I start painting in my head. I can’t do anything else except think about my work in a meditative way. It started out with a moon field idea, but I didn’t want to do a moon field. It will be full of dif-ferent kinds of totems and material, it will go beyond a field of moons.

I have piles and piles of notebooks with little sketches and words and colors. I really edit myself carefully before I make a painting. I probably turn down ten ideas before I go with one. I date my sketches, and if I’ve gone back and marked new dates on one with the word “yes” four or five times, I know I want to use it.

"In Bloom", 2012. Oil, acrylic, paper mache on linen, 54" x 66".


Many of your paintings have ‘symphony’ in the title. Is music a big influence?Music is a huge inspiration. I probably learn more from lis-tening to music than from looking at other art. I listen to music the whole time I’m working. For the last few days it’s been Bach and Martha Wainwright. Just the way the painting builds, the sound, the texture, the tone, it’s got ev-erything, the minor and major keys. I pretty much can hear the painting. That’s how I work, listening to the painting.

What art style influenced you the most?My first connection with art was German Expressionism. I went nuts, it totally spoke to me. It’s in my background, which is German and Russian.

You’ve put a lot of materials and found objects in your paintings, including children’s paintings.That’s from when I taught art in Bedford Stuyvesant in a spe-cial program. I collected lots of paintings the children made and put them in a few of the paintings. One is owned by the Museum of Modern Art. It’s called Sweet Cathy’s Song.

I do take from everything and everywhere. A friend bought the plastic grapes at a yard sale and gave them to me. I started putting them in paintings because they were serious and funny at the same time. Blood and humor…’cause they’re plastic grapes.

Your art is about beauty, but it’s also about psychic pain. Could you comment about this? Everything my mother did I did exactly the opposite with my own daughter. My mother was very negative. She had her reasons, but I never got any support. I have surmounted it, though it’s not like you don’t take all that with you; you’re imprinted with that early on. My art is very expressionistic. Part of the imagery comes from the pain I experienced in childhood. It comes out in the paintings.

What was the most challenging time of your life?I left Larry when [my daughter] Molly was six months old. I was a single mother for eight years. It wasn’t easy, raising a child on my own. I met Maggie in 1987 and we’ve been together ever since.

Was it a difficult transition moving from being with a man to being with a woman? In answer to your question, being with a woman was very natural, very easy for me. It was something that I was always a little interested in. But I was also madly in love with my hus-band. I left not because I was gay; things just weren’t working. I’ve been with Maggie 25 years. There are highs and lows and everything in between, but it’s really been great. She’s a great partner. She’s my rock. She’s an art lover. She goes to the the-ater all the time, loves movies, and sees more museum shows than I do.

What’s your biggest challenge now?I suffer from a lot of anxiety. I deal with it on a daily basis. I’ve had it since I was a small child. It’s why I try to keep my life simple. It’s why if I have an empty calendar, I’m very happy. When Maggie’s calendar is full, she’s happy. She drags me out. Otherwise, I’d be a complete hermit. Making art is my refuge.

My work can be very political, it can be narrative, it can be feminist, it can be all kinds of things. It makes it more difficult

not having a brand. Your life always informs your art.

"Song Cycle 1 for Molly", 2011. Oil, acrylic, paper mache, silk, twigs, cloth on linen, 48" x 48".


What brought you to Woodstock? Maggie had a cabin in Willow when she and I got together in 1987. I had a house in Eastport, Long Island, but after meeting her I began coming up here. In Willow my studio was in the woods with no water, no insulation, and bats, but I loved the total isolation. However, after carrying water to the studio for 20 years, one day I said to Maggie, ‘we’ve got to find a new house.’ We were looking for three years, but everything with a studio was always a little out of our price range. Then I got the MacArthur fellowship, and the next day this house went on the market. It had a huge garage, which after some renovation became my dream studio. It changed my life.

Do you still enjoy the city?I don’t love the city anymore. It’s too much for me. But our house in Brooklyn is a little like Fire Island: there’s a large koi pond in the backyard and my studio is in the carriage house. But each year I seem to be spending more and more time in Woodstock. I love it—not just the environment and the nature but also our wonderful community of friends.

Do you ever take a break from painting?I might go a month or two without painting, but when I’m painting I do work seven days a week. I work on a painting constantly until it’s done.

What do you do when you’re not painting?I’m in a book club in Woodstock, which is great. We’re reading

the classics, books I’d never read on my own, like Swann’s Way and Anna Karenina. Right now we’re reading Daniel Deronda. I also have a large garden that I work on, and I’ve been writing a play on and off for about eight years. It’s about many things, but mostly about power and the abuse of power. It has two stories: Sabrina Speil-rein was a patient of Carl Jung’s. While she was a patient they had an affair. She became a psy-chiatrist herself but never got any recognition for having influenced both Jung’s and Freud’s work. The second story that runs through the play is more contemporary. It’s about a psychiatrist and her patient who are also having an affair.

Any special activities you and Maggie share?We’ve gone to a lot of yoga workshops. Now we’re both doing Pilates. We have a great teacher and do it two times a week, often together.

We do a bit of traveling. We went to Italy in the fall and Puer-to Rico this past winter.

Is life much different now than when you were younger? The big issue for me was my knees. I got replacements in 2008 and 2009. Before that I was in pain for quite a few years. Paint-ers often have bad knees because we’re on our feet all day.

The thing that’s made me feel most excited these days and a little bit old is that I just became a grandmother. Three weeks ago my daughter, Molly, had a son, Elijah. He’s beautiful and we’re madly in love with him. It’s exciting.

Life sounds good.I’m really grateful for our lives. We’re very lucky. The thing you hope for as you get older is that you stay healthy, that’s the big hope.

What’s that painting you’re looking at on your laptop?It’s a new painting called Tell My Sister based on a song writ-ten by Kate McGarrigle, who was Martha Wainwright’s mother. Martha plans to reproduce the painting on the inside cover of her new CD. She’s coming to my studio tomorrow to see the painting. n

"Spring Eternal", 2012. Oil, acrylic, paper mache on linen, 54" x 66".

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Healer David Robertson believes in the capacity of humans to overcome physical limitations

The Power of The Mind


Some patients go a step farther—especially when modern medicine isn't working—seeking healers who work from an explicitly spiritual viewpoint. While these methods are often controversial in our largely secular society, many people re-port relief from symptoms or outright cures from techniques such as prayer, guided visualization, and laying on of hands.

What most spiritual approaches have in common is lis-tening. Whether the listener is the practitioner or the person seeking healing, whether they're “listening” to the body or to God, there's generally an effort to receive messages through a state of centered awareness. The information they seek may address the causes of health issues, new perspectives on problems, or a recommendation for intervention, without relying on the machinery of a medical technician.

Beth Coons, a social worker who lives in High Falls, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. For over 20 years, she had been dealing with cysts in her breasts; doctors had aspirated over 40 benign cysts, and performed more than 80 mammograms. Beth had grown increasingly weary of the process and the attendant anxiety.

She was studying with Julie Kimma, a now-deceased Dutchess County healer. Coons described Kimma's meth-od as “hands-on healing, but there's a difference between people who do all the work for you and what she did—she taught you how to do it for yourself.”

Like many healers, Kimma believed that every illness has an emotional component; a conscious connection to the body can lead to an awareness of the emotional issues, and work on those issues can accelerate the healing process.

Coons decided to stop traditional treatment and try to heal her breasts using herbs, massage, and other alterna-tive treatments. After a year, she experienced an inverted nipple, saw a doctor who performed a lumpectomy, and re-ceived a cancer diagnosis.

She was devastated, but a series of startling synchronici-ties led her to a prominent surgeon who supplements his medical treatments with sound healing, using the vibrations of Tibetan and crystal bowls, and invites his patients to yogic ceremonies—methods Coons could relate to, having prac-ticed meditation for many years.

“As things progressed, I felt guided every step of the way,” she reports. “It started to feel like an adventure, like I was out in the woods with a stick and a backpack. Every time I became fearful, I got grounded—I imagined a light coming down through the center of my head, filling my body with healing light and love, and I asked for guidance.”

The insight that came to her was that her breasts were tired of being poked and prodded for 20 years. The doctor was recommending a mastectomy, and her breasts want-ed the surgery. But two days before she was scheduled to have the 15-hour procedure, Coons recalls, “I got petrified. I stopped to meditate, and I heard, clear as a bell, 'The cancer is gone.' I thought, Now what do I do? I called Julie, and she said, 'Meditate on your life without breasts, and after you get a feeling of what that's like, meditate on life with breasts.' I meditated for four hours. What came to me was that I would be more joyful without breasts. Otherwise, I'd still have to go down the path of continual testing and worry.”

After the surgery, the pathology report arrived in the mail. Not one cancer cell was found in her breast tissue. A second report corroborated the findings.

“I had some sadness about losing my breasts when the cancer was already gone,” she says. “But I also felt a deep satisfaction and peace. It makes me realize the potential we have.”

She continues to use Kimma's healing methods to deal with health issues.

John Carroll, a healer in West Hurley, speaks intensely and

whaT role Can SPiriTualiTy Play in The healing ProCeSS?

By Violet Snow i

n this era of MRIs and robot surgery, the medical profession recognizes that spiritu-ality can play a role in healing. “The physician may find ways to engage the spiritual beliefs of patients in the healing process” notes an online article from the Univer-sity of Washington School of Medicine. The author recommends taking a “spiritual history” of the patient as well as invoking the aid of a hospital chaplain.


rapidly, his dark eyes glowing with passion for his vocation. He has a fat looseleaf book of testimonials from patients attesting to cures from a wide variety of ailments ranging from chronic colds to cancer. Some of his clients have re-turned from the brink of death.

Carroll describes himself as psychic and clairvoyant, able to sense what a patient needs. “I see what to do,” he explains. “I use imagery, laying on of hands, prayer. I work with the emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical. If we can make those corrections, most of the time the problems reverse.”

He uses his hands, held several inches from the body, to “adjust energy or break energy blockages.” As instruc-tions come to him, he often makes dietary suggestions or recommends supplements, or he prescribes imagery for patients to use at home to support healing.

“I do spiritual counseling too,” he says. “I teach people how to become more lighthearted, how to choose to live in the present.”

When asked why the techniques work, Carroll replies un-hestitatingly: “It's the grace of God. It's divine intervention.”

When his methods fail to provide a cure, he believes that “sometimes there's a lesson to be learned, or it's their time—sometimes a family will thank me for helping the

Personal experience lead breast cancer survivor Beth Coons to believe in the "potential we all have."

family member before death. People can change, even then, can see the world from a different point of view.”

Although he has performed many healings in hospitals, Carroll says most doctors are often unsupportive of his work. Conversely, he sees nothing wrong in his clients seeking medical diagnosis. “I don't diagnose, I just do my healing work, and people leave without symptoms. I see miracles almost every day. It's humbling, it comes through me; it's not me. Why was I picked? I have no idea.”

“Touch is the first experience we have when we're born,” observes Elizabeth K. Stratton, a Woodstock healer and au-thor of Touching Spirit, an account of her spiritual journey, and Seeds of Light, a book of healing meditations. “There's something elementary about being touched, experiencing the warmth of the mother's hand, the experience of safety and love, compassion and kindness. It has a deep effect, physically and emotionally.” She combines gentle touch with meditation to deliver healing energy to her clients.

Stratton's healing room, like her manner, is serene and or-derly, with Buddhist art on the walls. She practices Tibetan Buddhism, but her healing work is non-denominational.

In 1976, she had a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. She began to notice that her hands became hot when she was around people who were ill or in pain. Someone suggested that she might have healing abilities. When friends came to her with headaches or backaches, she'd place her hands over or near their bodies, and the pain would vanish.

As people with more complex issues came to her, she began to study meditation. “I learned to go into a deep state of relaxation, which was helpful to me as I did the healing work,” she says, “I felt as though I was touching the divine within myself and that God was moving through me, also touching the divine within the other person, that place that already knew how to be well.”

Stratton has developed healing meditations that clients can practice at home, with adaptations for each individual. Many people benefit from meditations designed to be used before and after surgery. “For two weeks beforehand, it al-lows them to rehearse the preparation, see what the surgery will be like, imagine feeling good when they wake up. They stay calm and heal faster.”

She requires that clients consult a physician if they have a se-rious problem. “I can help facilitate the healing process. I never want someone to refuse to go to doctor—it's too dangerous from them and for me too.”

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timonies of healing in Christian Science literature, in some cases medical intervention became unnecessary after treat-ment by a Christian Science practitioner, but others describe consultations with physicians.

“I've had many instantaneous healings,” reports Robert-son, “but sometimes people work on things for years. It depends on how ingrained this mortal sense of being is in the individual.”

When he treats a client, Robertson's sees his task as reinforcing the understanding that the individual is an ex-pression of divine consciousness, dispelling the delusions imposed by the outside world that are considered the root of illness and pain. “I help people see clearly the true self that is beyond the physical and exists right now in perfect harmony with the divine source of all power. So the prac-titioner argues the case, like a lawyer, on behalf of the patient—that they have the power to come out from this dream world, this subjective state of sickness.”

He also prays for his clients, but this form of prayer does not involve a request that God “change Her mind and make my will supersede what God has caused,” cautions Robert-son. “In Christian Science, prayer is really more to realign hu-man thought with the already totally harmonious and spiritual

basis of all existence.” Another aspect of prayer, for both cli-

ent and practitioner, is to still the mind and listen for insight, which may come in the form of words, images, or sensa-tions. If the input comes from a divine source, rather than from the ego, says Christian Science lecturer Mark Swin-ney, the insights will be accompanied by a sense of love.

As in other methods of spiritual heal-ing, Robertson adds, “Many people see gains that go way beyond correction of a physical issue. We're not working on fixing a problem, as the medical world does. Christian Scientists are using healing as an avenue to find out who they really are.” n

It's impossible to predict how many healing sessions it will take to get results. “With one person, lifelong anxiety was gone after one session,” she recalls. “Or it could take months. Some people find that Lyme disease symptoms are gone after several healings.”

“Christian Science is essentially the study of the capac-ity of humans to overcome the physical limitations we're taught to expect,” says David Robertson of Stanfordville, a healer, known as a “practitioner”, in the Christian Science tradition, which emphasizes healing as part of its practice.

Sitting amid the spare white walls and wooden pews of the Christian Science church in Woodstock, Robertson ap-pears cheerful and relaxed as he explains that the limitations we encounter come from heredity, our upbringing, and the environment, but also from what we're told.

“We can go beyond those limits by sensing that we are way more than just a physical being,” he says. “The essen-tial attributes of who we are, what we love and cherish, our hopes for humankind—these are nonphysical, and they are our real identity. The physical world is just a subjective state of consciousness that we all experience differently. Being subjective, it can be changed. Changing our mind about physicality is one thing that leads to healing.”

Radically rearranging beliefs about the nature of reality is not an easy task for most people, although similar world views are found in mystical traditions such as Buddhism and Jewish Kab-balah. Since its founding in the 1860s, Christian Science has elicited skepti-cism from critics as prominent as Mark Twain, and adherents have been blamed for the consequences of not seeking medical attention for themselves or their children. Several years ago, Chris-tian Science dropped its longstanding proscription on medical doctors.

“We believe in the absolute free-dom of individuals to do what they think is best for themselves,” Robert-son declares. Among the many tes-

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Puerto Rican foster children,” he laughs. “My parents owned a brownstone on Stuyvesant Avenue. These kids were being abused by their foster parents so [the kids and I] planned for them to runaway.”

Skerritt sheltered the kids in the backyard, providing them with blankets and food until his mother discovered his plans. “My mother caught me but she never said ‘don’t do it.’ She did say ‘I shouldn’t do it’ but not ‘don’t do it’.”

Skerritt’s mother took the children’s plight seriously, calling the Department of Social Services to report the abuse, result-ing in the children being moved to new homes.

“That was probably my introduction to giving … [to show-ing] concern for other people. I had a very happy childhood myself and it bothered me even as a child to see children who I learned to know didn’t have as comfortable a life as I did and I guess I felt in some ways that they should,” he told me.

His mother, who was born and raised in Hudson, profound-ly influenced him by her drive to help others, including many fellow former Columbia County residents.

“She finished high school here and left Hudson to go to New York City to make a life for herself,” Skerritt recounts. And when other ex-Hudson residents came to the city “my mother would take them in and help them get started with their lives in New York. We had a big house [with] lots of room to put people up.”

Skerritt’s father and many of his 11 brothers and sisters also passed through their home as they started their lives in the city.

B efore Alan Skerritt became known as an outspoken black community leader in Columbia County—and a man who has taken on a number of roles over the years—he helped bring about a revolution in

the state’s mental health system; these are changes that remain today.

Skerritt was part of an elite group who helped usher in community psychiatry in New York State in the 1960s and 70s. “When I first started working in these places as a young person I dreamed that [a change in the mental health sys-tem] like this could happen,” he says.

I sat with Skerritt recently in the living room of his home in Valatie. A reproduction of a famous photograph of great Afri-can-American jazz musicians taken by Art Kane in Harlem in 1958 was prominently displayed on the wall, while hundreds of compact disks and records sat neatly stacked nearby, a marker perhaps for his latest role, that of radio DJ.

A tall, stately man who sometimes prefaces his wide-ranging statements with “in my opinion,” and skips over hum-drum information with an “etc, etc,” to get to the impor-tant stuff more quickly, Skerritt spent an afternoon recounting his past, present and future.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1937, he grew up with a sense of justice, fair play and a desire to see others succeed. Even as a young boy when he saw injustice he didn’t just decry it, he did something about it. This character attribute has never waivered.

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At 18, newly married and starting a family of his own, Skerritt began working at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. It was a time before medication, modern therapy or enlightened staff.

Skerritt was often the only staff member in a unit with 88 patients and without modern tools had to learn the personal-ity of each patient so he could work with them.

“I didn’t like the working conditions. Most of these hos-pitals were racist. The workers…were mostly white, unedu-cated people working in the state facilities,” he recalls. “You really had to find ways to connect with the patient and most of those (workers) were so stupid the only way they could … was through something I called ‘socko-therapy.’ I refused to take any part in abusing or hitting anyone so I was often given the most lousy assignments you can think of. I looked forward to a day when this would not be the state of mental health services.”

Beginning in the early 1960s a series of events helped make Skerritt’s dream a reality: the federal Community Men-tal Health Act of 1963, which provided funds for the building of community-based mental health facilities, was passed; the long-lasting antipsychotic medication prolixin was invented; and a groundbreaking class action lawsuit in Alabama forced changes in the conditions of mental health facilities.

Skerritt notes that New York resisted the changes, but when a new state commissioner of mental health was hired in 1966, change did come. “The person most responsible for implementing and completing the change of the mental health system in New York was Alan Miller,” he said. Miller would later be the chairman for Camphill Village, a residential program for the developmentally disabled located in Copake.

New changes to the system included decentralizing men-tal health facilities, which would eventually evolve into the county-based system in place today. Another change, the one Skerritt was a major part of, was in the creation of so-called treatment teams.

“We developed and implemented an interdisciplinary model treatment team,” says Skerritt. “Everyone — social workers, psychologists, nurses — all worked together when before they would never even speak to or know one another.”

Skerritt was part of the “mobile training team”, educating staff on the new policies and procedures, going all over the

then 7,000-bed facility. Not everyone on staff was happy with the changes.

“They were told to become a team, which of course they did not like at all and they resisted it. Our job was to go out and make sure that they did adhere to this new system and [we also] identified people who were particularly resistive and destructive and earmarked them for assignments some-where else,” Skerritt recalls.

Skerritt was later picked by Miller to be one of four people in the New York City area to train the thousands of mental health workers in community psychiatric care, from the five boroughs to Long Island. The team soon realized how big the job was and began identifying people in each facility who would be good trainers. Those trainers then went on to train their own staffs.

“We knew we were working ourselves out of a job,” Sker-ritt laughs, “and in five years time the job was done and com-munity psychiatry was there to stay and moving ahead.”

He says that they had also managed to weed out “the bad apples and by bad apple I mean they were very abusive, mean spirited, institutional workers and other staff who had a very negative attitude towards caring for the mentally ill.”

“If look back on my 33 years (with the state) with any sense of pride it was probably those seven years,” he says. “That was system change and that was something.”

He also recalls with pride the paper his team published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which Skerritt was invited to read in 1971 at a national conference in Dallas, Texas. The paper concerned Skerritt’s approach to training staff in com-munity based psychiatric care.

Hands On“I was a hands on trainer; I wouldn’t ask someone else to do what I wouldn’t do,” says Skerritt. “They respected me for that. They thought of anyone representing Albany as some stuffed-shirt idiot telling them what regulations are and wouldn’t know what a patient was if he tripped over one. They thought it was so great that I would get in there and roll my sleeves up.”

In 1980 Skerritt moved north to work in Albany at the Capi-tol District Psychiatric Center.

“I had roots in Hudson because of my grandparents, my

Skerritt believes there are problems here rooted in racism—especially in the educational and penal systems and in opportunities for minorities.

mother, uncles and aunts. I never thought I’d come back,” says Skerritt. “I was a New Yorker, I didn’t want to come up here but I wanted a change, to leave New York.” Skerritt’s children had grown and moved away and he and his wife had separated several years earlier.

Among his many accomplishments at the Albany facility, Skerritt helped form an improv theater group, the Capitol Dis-trict Psychiatric Center Mental Health Players. It does com-munity outreach, breaking down the stigmas associated with mental illness through theater. The group is going strong to-day.

Retiring from the state in 1989, Skerritt, not one to remain idle, became the executive director of the Hearth in Philm-ont, a community-based mental health facility. Skerritt also took on several other roles, including heading up the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and working as an advocate for parents of students in the Hudson City School District through Parents In Partnership.

Of his tenure as president of the Columbia-Greene NAACP, Skerritt says he considers his efforts at revitalizing the organi-

zation unsuccessful. “I thought I would be able to find some men who would take on some responsibility to advocate for people of color, but that wasn’t to be,” he says, ruefully.

Skerritt believes there are problems here rooted in rac-ism—especially in the educational and penal systems and in opportunities for minorities.

“I can’t buy a loaf of bread or a bottle of milk from a black man in Hudson,” he says. “That’s disgraceful.”

He believes that people need to be more aggressive about fighting racism. He feels the same way about environmental issues.

“Confrontation is the only way,” he says. “We have to stop being defensive. It’s time we take this information we have and begin to confront our leaders, our politicians and our cor-porations. Put some fire to their feet.”

Skerritt’s latest endeavor at the public radio station WGXC, as both a council member and radio host of an afternoon jazz show excites him. “It’s wonderful to have a hands-on, com-munity-based radio station. I think it’s great we have some-thing for everybody,” he says, adding, “it’s just a gas for me to get to share the music I love.” n

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How My Glass Became Half-Full with Age— and Wisdom.

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M y mother once told me that Jackie O. said you marry your first husband

for love, your second for money, and your third for companionship. I was never really sure if it was my mother talking or really something the late Mrs. Onasis said… the truth is it didn’t matter. I thought the advice was horrible. Cynical and jaded at best. But that was when I was 20… having not yet met the man who would become my first husband.

Over thirty years have passed and I now look at those words from a very different vantage point. The truth is, as we get older we make different choices and for different reasons than those made in our youth. I absolutely married my first husband for love, whatever that meant at the time. No thought was given to whether we had enough in common, enough money, or whether our dreams for the future were compatible. I was in my early 20s and I was in love… plain and simple. We stayed married for 17 years and had two amazing children, but the truth is we re-ally never were compatible. Not in any meaningful way.

But our life together was good, there was always plenty of money, a beautiful home, private schools, lavish trips etc. etc. It wasn’t Onasis money but we were certainly well-off. After my divorce, however, I found myself really thinking about priorities and the choices we make. How did I want to live the rest of my life. I had a little bit of savings but nothing close to affording me the lifestyle I had. Everyone around me had an opinion. Many women my age and in my situation were taking the Jackie road

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I had spent the last few years reflecting, watching my parents age and their health deteriorate. I watched them spend the majority of their lives collecting things – fur-niture, jewelry, clothes, etc. – and then helped them spend the last few years getting rid of most of it. You literally can’t take it with you in the end. Why then would I want to spend anymore time amassing stuff. Stuff, I decided was not go-ing to be my choice. I wanted to spend the rest of my life living. Companionship was starting to sound better. Finding someone to share with me the things I enjoy –

cooking, traveling, reading, laughing. Someone who was thoughtful and kind and just wanted to be with me. Naïve maybe, but it was my choice.

Sweet DreamsI was lucky enough to find all of that – and actually be in love. And every night before I go to sleep I look at my night-stand and find a fresh glass of cold water. The water he puts there without being asked because he knows I get thirsty in the middle of the night. The water he puts there even when we are fighting. And the other night I looked at that glass as I drifted off and thought to myself that I chose a glass of water. I traded in my stuff for the things that my 55 year old self decided were important to me now. The stuff that you CAN take with you. n

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