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Just before dawn on September 15, 1655, the same day Pieter Stuyvesant would extract the surrender of New Sweden on the Delaware River, more than 500 Indians of various tribes from along the Hudson paddled more than sixty canoes to New Amsterdam in lower Manhattan. They ran through town shrieking and vandalizing, but neither Dutchman nor Indian was harmed until the Indians were about to leave after having met with the city council. Then somebody shot and wounded Hendrick van Dyck with an arrow, and the Dutch militia, under the command of a drunken and incompetent officer, opened fire on the retreating Indians.  Three on each side died in the skirmish. The Indians retaliated.  Over the next few days, attacks on Staten Island and and in New Jersey would take fifty Dutch lives and more than 100 European prisoners. So began "The Peach Tree War," which was followed by two even more violent wars at the settlement of Esopus, in today's Kingston, New York. X/Twitter: @TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast Selected references for this episode (Commission earned for Amazon purchases through the website) Marc B. Fried, The Early History of Kingston & Ulster County, N.Y. D. L. Noorlander, Heaven's Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 Jaap Jacobs, “'Hot Pestilential and Unheard-Of Fevers, Illnesses, and Torments': Days of Fasting and Prayer in New Netherland," New York History, Summer/Fall 2015.

Bonus Cider Chat Live on NY Apple Camp July 28th - 30th at the Ashokan Center in the Hudson River Valley (on the west side of river) is the first ever NY Apple Camp! Elizabeth Ryan of Stone Ridge Orchard who is producing this event catches us up on the scheduled events and talks.   Special Kickoff tour The weekend begins with an optional tour on Friday focusing on the life of Andrew Jackson Downing. The tour goes to the original site of the Downing Nursery and Downing Park. Then a 2 hour lunch with cider  and off to Esopus  - where the Esopus Spitzenberg originated from. Hear about all the great happenings at NY Apple Camp  Find the Schedule of events and presentations at  https://www.hvcenterforfoodartsandag.org/apple-camp-schedule.html#/ Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ny-apple-camp-2023-tickets-657779936497 The Friday tour is optional and there is a request for donations of $30. Mentions in this Cider Chat Live Fermentis: AB-1 (Apple Balance) yeast is one of 3 SafCider Yeasts for your cider! Visit Idaho and taste the ciders! More info at https://nwcider.com/map

Bonus Cider Chat Live on NY Apple Camp July 28th - 30th at the Ashokan Center in the Hudson River Valley (on the west side of river) is the first ever NY Apple Camp! Elizabeth Ryan of Stone Ridge Orchard who is producing this event catches us up on the happenings at camp.  The weekend begins with an optional tour on Friday focusing on the life of Andrew Jackson Downing. The tour goes to the original site of the Downing Nursery and Downing Park. Then a 2 hour lunch with cider  and off to Esopus  - where the Esopus Spitzenberg originated from. Find the Schedule of events and presentations at  https://www.hvcenterforfoodartsandag.org/apple-camp-schedule.html#/ Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ny-apple-camp-2023-tickets-657779936497 The Friday tour is optional and there is a request for donations of $30. Mentions in this Chat Fermentis: AB-1 (Apple Balance) yeast is one of 3 SafCider Yeasts for your cider! Visit Idaho and taste the ciders! More info at https://nwcider.com/map  Special Kickoff tourHear about all the great happenings at NY Apple CampMentions in this Cider Chat Live

Todd Spire is a licensed fly fishing guide and instructor, and is the owner of Esopus Creel, a company devoted to fly fishing in the Catskill Mountains, where he's lived since 2008. Todd's on the board of the local Trout Unlimited chapter, which helps to protect the Esopus Creek, which feeds into the Ashokan reservoir, which provides New York City with about 40% of its drinking water. Todd is a scholar of our local river, the Esopus Creek. Todd discusses Neversink - One Angler's Intense Exploration of a Trout River, by Leonard M. Wright, Jr., and also the beauty and the rhythm of trout fishing in the Catskills, learning through observation and experience, and the futility of trying to control mother nature. After the credits, Todd discusses the relationship of birds over the water to the presence of insects, the relationship between the blooming of flowers and insect hatches, turbidity on the Esopus, and the impact of warm temperatures on our trout fishing, and particularly whether we will be fishing earlier or later in the season as a result of warming temperatures. All consistent with Todd's drive to learn from observation and experience rather than solely from what others have written and from Google.

From the late 19th- to the early 20th-century, passengers could board an Ulster & Delaware train in Kingston and ride straight up through the Catskills, to Oneonta. These days, you can still experience a 4-mile stretch of that track, between Mt. Tremper and Phoenicia, with one small caveat. You have to pedal! Rail Explorers has repurposed a few such stretches of track nationwide, including in Rhode Island, Cooperstown, Las Vegas, and the Catskills. Join us as we pedal a "quad explorer" (the "Cadillac" of the fleet) on a scenic "River Run" tour above the Esopus creek. We'll hear from Catskills division manager Casey Farrell, tour guide Fatima Duque, and Empire State Railway Museum curator Tom Comito. Lots more from Tom in our next episode, so stay tuned! Many thanks to our sponsors: The Mountain Eagle Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway Hanford Mills Museum Briars and Brambles Books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kaatscast/support

Mitch Horowitz is a writer and publisher of many years experience with a lifelong interest in man's search for meaning. The editor-in-chief of Penguin in New York, he is the author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation (Bantam, September 2009). A frequent writer and speaker on metaphysical themes, he has appeared on The History Channel, The Montel Williams Show, Coast to Coast AM, and American Radio Journal. His writing has appeared in Parabola, Esopus, Fortean Times, Science of Mind, and with the Religion News Service. Join Mitch, Jeff and Jeremy for a trip through Occult America!

Philip Warbasse, CEO and Founder at MUSICdise, and Publisher and Recording Artist Tod Lippy, discuss how digital media has disrupted the promotion of music, and why using print + innovation to reach music supervisors is a winning combination. BONUS! Listen to "Good Start" by Tod Lippy at the end of this podcast. Mentioned in Today's Episode: Philip Warbasse: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warbasse MUSICdise: https://www.musicdise.com Tod Lippy: http://www.todlippy.com Tod Lippy Music: https://www.todlippymusic.com Esopus: https://www.esopus.org Good Start video: https://youtu.be/Zx6zkoFQ_jc

For our August episode, Rachel and Sr. Cheryl Rose, HM discuss the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the ways we are asked to slow down and do less to make way for grace. A spiritual director and contemplative, Sr. Cheryl values the solitude the pandemic has brought her, allowing for deeper awareness.Sr. Cheryl Rose is a member of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary in Cleveland, Ohio. She served for 26 years as a high school educator, teaching chemistry, physics, theology, and prayer, as well as holding ministerial roles. She currently provides spiritual direction for individuals and groups, leads retreats, and is engaged in programming focused on spiritual growth and contemplation. Sr. Cheryl has co-led the year-long retreat, JOY: Just One Year, which offers women a one-year immersion in spiritual growth and formation, and she continues to provide virtual retreats during the pandemic.Links:1. Sr. Cheryl mentions the writing of Don Bisson, FMS, a Marist brother, spiritual director, and retreat leader based in Esopus, New York. You can view his essay “Pandemic Reflection: Revolution” here: http://www.donbisson.com/retreats-and-workshops.html2. Barbara Marx Hubbard (d. 2019) was a futurist, spiritual thinker, and author who coined the phrase “Conscious Evolution”. She was part of creating a documentary titled “Humanity Ascending”, available here: https://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/our-story. To learn more about Barbara Marx Hubbard, visit this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/obituaries/barbara-marx-hubbard-dead.html3. To attend a retreat with Sr. Cheryl Rose, please visit the Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center website at www.vmesc.org.#Generative #Generativespirits #COVID #Spirituality #Catholicsisters #contemplation @sistersofhm

Intro - 0:00Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O'Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris SmithPart I, Meet Rich Remsberg  - 01:04Relating to his work with photography, critical mess methods, and archival research.Part II, Working with Documentaries - 36:07Relating to the film, Happy Valley.Outro - 51:43 Planxty Sir Festus Burke Rich Remsberg is an Emmy Award-winning archival producer and visual researcher based in Western Massachusetts and New York City. His credits include John Lewis: Good Trouble, Bobby Kennedy for President, NUTS!, Happy Valley, and the Oscar-nominated A Night at the Garden.He has served on the faculty of the Maine Media Workshops and the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center Field School; was a frequent collaborator with the sampling-based music duo The Books; and has been a contributor to VICE, Esopus, and NPR's online feature The Picture Show. Full Playlist for EP 19VVMC Book ClubVVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative PlaylistVoices from the Vernacular Music Center

Ethan Rutherford's fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Esopus, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories. His first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. His second short story collection is Farthest South. Rutherford teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sojourner Truth, whose birth name was Isabella Baumfree, was born a slave in 1797 in Esopus, New York. Though nearly all of her children were sold as slaves, she escaped to freedom in 1826 with one daughter and lived with a family who paid the money for her freedom. Instead of allowing an unjust system to keep her family apart, she took legal action to regain her small son Peter—an amazing feat for an African-American woman in that day. Knowing she couldn’t raise her children without God’s help, she became a believer in Christ and later changed her name to Sojourner Truth to show that her life was built on the foundation of God’s truth. King Solomon, the writer of Proverbs 14:1, declares, “The wise woman builds her house.” In contrast, one without wisdom “tears hers down.” This building metaphor shows the wisdom God provides to those willing to listen. How does one build a house with wisdom? By saying “only what is helpful for building others up” (Ephesians 4:29; see also 1 Thessalonians 5:11). How does one tear down? Proverbs 14 gives the answer: “A fool’s mouth lashes out with pride” (v. 3). Sojourner had a “secure fortress” (v. 26) in a turbulent time, thanks to the wisdom of God. You may never have to rescue your children from an injustice. But you can build your house on the same foundation Sojourner did—the wisdom of God.

We cover a lot of ground with writer/professor, Ethan Rutherford, soon after the release of his second collection of short fiction, Farthest South, published by A Strange Object. Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Esopus, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories. His first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two children. Photo credit: Lou Russo Photography

In this episode, I speak about my upcoming album titled Songs From The Land & a special ancestral & somatic healing ritual that I'm offering to the public.Through these 10 songs, my body awakened to many things. My relationship to the land & my body being the most profound. They took me through an 11 year journey of decolonizing which, for me, is removing the act of being in dominance over something and, instead, becoming in relationship with something. A journey I have only just begun.This personal experience has inspired me to find a way to honor and produce this album, while weaving the wisdom of what these songs and this land I live on (Esopus territory in what we call Woodstock) has taught me.I've created a special pre-order package for $100 which includes shipping. Each order will get you the signed 12" vinyl, a bundle of hand picked herbs for burning in our ritual, a 2-hour Zoom healing ritual, and a 25% donation to the Center for Native Peoples & the Environment.I am limiting this to 100 packages so that I can afford to produce the album into vinyl and donate $2500 to this center that I very much believe in. Those of you who purchase it will receive the digital files of the songs shortly after, as well as a monthly email with videos from me to prompt you into doing the somatic work in preparation for our ritual, which will be held in October.The ritual will be 2 hours long via Zoom and we will weave the wisdom from our bodies & our ancestors in a collective way to be witnessed, released, and shared.I am so excited for this! To purchase one of the 100 packages, please visit my bandcamp page here.

Join us for part two of our behind-the-scenes tour of "Sustainable Catskills," with stops at the nation's first "passive house" library, an eco-conscious resort on the banks of the Esopus, and an Arkville solar array that implements local art and bluestone into its design. Thanks to Ulster Tourism and The 52-mile Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, following New York State Route 28 through the heart of the Central Catskills. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kaatscast/support

Amy Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy! I'm Amy McPhie Allebest. Today we're going to discuss an essential text from the middle of the 19th Century, the transcript of a speech delivered at a Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. The speech is entitled “Ain't I A Woman,” and it was delivered by the great Abolitionist and Women's Rights activist, Sojourner Truth. But before we dive into the speech, I'd like to introduce my reading partner for this episode, Rayna Clay MacKay. Hi, Rayna! Rayna Hi, Amy!  Amy Rayna is a wife, mom, and Obstetric Anesthesiologist. She married a dreamy Scotsman for much more than his accent and gained two fantastic bonus kids as a result. They added three more kiddos to the mix, including identical twin boys, and A daughter. They also have the best Cavoodle in the world named Hamish!   She's a traveler by nature and has lived in over a dozen cities (thanks to medical training) across the United States. She moved from Massachusetts to Tampa Bay almost three years ago and loves the indoor-outdoor lifestyle of Florida. It's also the midway point between the California family and her husband's family in the UK. She grew up in California and Utah, which shaped her outlook on life in general. As the daughter of a single AA mother in UT, she constantly felt a sense of being other. This permeated her HS, college, and medical school (UofU) experience. While she cherishes the relationships she developed in Utah, the culture didn't mesh, and she finds that the California culture of acceptance (of all genders, religions, people, sexuality, etc.) was more aligned with her values.   Speaking of values, she values her family above all, but also loves pretty things! That includes her obsession with home renovation and decor, kids' birthday parties, and cooking beautiful, delicious food. They try to indulge their love of travel to pretty places as often as possible. She thinks this hails back to her taking a certain scripture to heart as a kiddo, "if there is anything [lovely], of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."   Her other core value is justice and equality. She is a firm believer that differences are what make us great, and they should be applauded and supported. As she's gotten older and wiser, She's found her voice becoming louder championing for the injustices in the medical system, and society as a whole. Her hope is that the future is more glorious with a rainbow of differing people and opinions that are equally acknowledged.   On any given day (outside of the hospital) you will find her hanging with the family, playing the NYT crossword or flipping through HGTV magazine while watching a British crime drama or The Crown. I'm happiest with my core people, and is delighted I get to throw it back to Freshman year with you!   Amy I also like to ask each guest on the podcast what attracted them to the Breaking Down Patriarchy project. Can you talk a little about that? Rayna Amy Thank you so much for being here, Rayna! So before we dig into this text, let's set the stage by talking a bit about Sojourner Truth, and the context in which she lived. Rayna, maybe you can take the first half of her story and I'll take the second half. Biography of Sojourner Truth  Rayna Isabella Baumfree, known as “Belle,” was one of the 10 or 12 children born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree. A man named Charles Hardenbergh bought James and Elizabeth Baumfree from slave traders and kept their family at his estate in a big hilly area called by the Dutch name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swartekill,_New_York (Swartekill), in the town of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esopus,_New_York (Esopus, New York), 95 miles north of New York City. Charles Hardenbergh inherited his father's estate and continued to enslave people as a part of that estate's property.   When Charles Hardenbergh died in 1806,...

This is a beautiful episode, recorded on the day before Winter Solstice about the life-giving qualities of death. The inevitable transformation into the unknown that we all must experience. I spoke with Murphy Robinson & Jamie Waggoner who bring an insightful and unique conversation about death to the episode. We speak about how to die well, what death means to us, and the life force that is present even in death.To work with Muphy & Jamie, or to see their offerings, please visit the following links:Murphy's Website: http://www.mountainsongexpeditions.com/Jamie's Website: https://www.jamiewaggoner.com/Jamie's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jmwaggonerJamie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pythiaofthepines/Current Online Class: http://www.mountainsongexpeditions.com/wayoftheweaver.htmlIn this episode I refer to Episode 17: Using Grief To Transform Your Life w/ Loren Michelle. In that episode, Loren shares about how she changed her life and found a deeper life force and meaning through the grief from the sudden death of her son. I strongly recommend listening after you hear this episode.The episode ends with my song "Black Magick" off of my upcoming album Songs From The Land. It captures the moment in my life when I first moved to Woodstock, NY. I met a Lakota & Cherokee two-Spirit man who gifted me a handful of Barred Owl feathers. I braided the feathers into my hair and this song came through me, all at once, about the sacred mountain (originally home to the Esopus tribe of the Lenape people) I lived and walked on. The song will be available on May 1st, 2021 when the record is released. You can sign up to be notified by email here, if you'd like.BIOSMurphy Robinson is a priestx, wilderness guide, activist, and a student of the sacred hunt. They have been casting circles since they were sixteen years old, and have taught both magic and wilderness skills across the US, and occasionally in Ireland and Sweden. They have pursued special study of spirit journeying, the Norse runes, archery as a magical practice, and meaningful rituals to honor the animals and plants who die to feed us. Their work often serves The Huntress and The Lord of the Dead. As a queer transmasculine priestx, they explore healthy and healing ways to reclaim the sacred masculine. Jamie Waggoner is a priestess whose interests center around folk magic, mythology, oracular traditions, trance and ritual arts, and building sacred communities. She believes that magic is real, present all around us, and a profound tool for justice and transformation. Jamie trained as a priestess with the Sisterhood of Avalon for thirteen years, and now leads independent workshops and rituals across the United States. Jamie lives in Alabama, the ancestral homeland of the Mvskoke (Muscogee) people.

This week, we highlight four segments from our original "Experience the Central Catskills" audio driving guide, for a westward drive from Olive to Andes on NYS Route 28. DEC Natural Resources Supervisor Bill Rudge and an overview of the Catskill Park past and present Historian Diane Galusha on the Ashokan Reservoir and the New York City water supply Fly fishing the Esopus creek with Mark Loete Reminiscences of John Burroughs, with Bill Birns, Steve Koester, and Rolland Smith Thanks to our sponsors, the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, the Emerson Resort & Spa, and listener support! Photo courtesy of Tim Luby. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kaatscast/support

Join Colleen and Talia while they taste three washed rind cheeses - Tallegio, Meadow Creek Grayson, and Alp Blossom alongside Haykin's 2018 Esopus Spitzenberg and 2019 Esopus Spitzenberg.Like the podcast? Have a question or something you want us to try? Email us!Glasses we used - Riedel Extreme Restaurant Rose/Champagne glassFollow Apples to Fromage on Instagram! And come back for another episode soon!Find Colleen and Behind The Rind on InstagramFind Talia and Haykin Family Cider on Instagram(P.S. all of our episodes disappeared so we are slowly re-sharing them. Sorry for any confusion.)

Hang out with Colleen and Talia while they taste Haykin Family Cider's Esopus Spitzenburg 2018 and 2019 vintages alongside these cheeses - Taleggio, Meadow Creek’s Grayson, and Alp Blossom. Glasses we used - SPIEGELAU Beer Classics Beer Tulip RIEDEL EXTREME RESTAURANT ROSÉ/CHAMPAGNECome back for another episode! Email us at info@applestofromage.com Find ColleenFind Talia

Where is the line between Upstate and Downstate NY? Did the Dutch already determine the divide centuries ago? As the Northern part of New Netherland expands out of Rensselaerswyck and Beverwyck, the settlers who went south encountered an isolated tribe and xenophobia on both sides led to the Esopus Wars, a four year long series of blood feuds. The Settlers who went North-West and found Schenectady had relations of a very different kind with the friendly Mohawks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osoa/support

Prologue:This story begins with a chair. During my childhood in my grandparents’ home there was a chair that no one was allowed to sit in. It was made of simple dark stained wood, with a square frame and ladder back… it was conspicuously placed outside of the natural seating arrangement in the room, up against a wall. When visitors would see the lone and peculiar chair, they would ask my grandmother, “What’s with the chair?”. She would enthusiastically reply simply, “Oh, that’s George Washington’s chair.”The legend of the chair the was always vaguely described. The story was that it belonged to an ancestor named Tjerck Beekman who had fought in the American Revolution, and that this chair sat in his house. And apparently George Washington would occasionally visit and sit in this chair. And then through the generations this heirloom passed eventually to my grandmother.As a kid, I always remember thinking “Tjerck Beekman… that’s a weird name, and the chair belonged to a man named Tjerck… Ok. And he fought in the American Revolution… well that’s pretty cool.”After my grandmother died, I began to expand on the genealogy groundwork she’d laid. And I was surprised to find the story behind the ladderback chair was not only probably true, but also part of a larger story of one of the greatest tribulations of loss and disaster during the war for independence.The chair itself was insignificant but considering the destruction that was wrought around this piece of furniture, it’s damn near a miracle that it still exists today.And woven in an out of this disaster is a published account of a romance between a young girl on her birthday and a soldier in the continental army. This lofty romance, together with a 19th century historians’ due diligence, and surviving contemporaneous letters, we can find ourselves present for a story of humanity amid wonton destruction… it’s one of those stories that reminds me at least that despite losing every worldly treasure we might possess… if we still have our loved ones, we still have everything. This is Romance and Revolution.Body:Quote:“One hundred and seven years ago, on the sixteenth of October, a perfect day of Indian-summer, a small village nestling under the Catskill mountains, was startled early in the morning by the cry: The British soldiers are coming!"The Brave Little Maid of the Revolution, by Mary Westbrook, 1884The cry that the British are coming belongs to more people than just Paul Revere. In the fall of 1777, Kingston, New York was a special target for the Royal Army trying to snuff out the American Revolution.Kingston was founded by the Dutch in the early colonial days on the banks of the Hudson river in the shadow of the Catskill mountains. It lays about 90 miles north of New York City. Kingston’s founders bought much of the land from the Esopus Indians… which gave way to a tradition of the city often being called Esopus.During the War for Independence, as New York city was well occupied by the British, Kingston was chosen as the first capital of the fledgling independent State of New York. Besides it being the state’s capital, Kingston was relatively inconsequential to the British war effort. There were no generals or soldiers stationed there, no barracks, no weapon cache. With all the soldiers off to war, it was mostly inhabited by wives, mothers, daughter, elderly, slaves and servants… all holding down the home front. All preparing to reap the fall harvest.So why Kingston? Well… first, it did have a certain symbolic nature to it as the capital of the rebel state. Once New York City was finally abandoned to the British, the State legislature convened in the Kingston Courthouse. There they ratified the State’ first constitution and elected its first Governor, George Clinton. George Washington would often use a particular building in Kingston known as “the senate house” as his headquarters. In that ho

When you talk about American Fly Fishing, the Catskills is one of the of the first places that comes to mind. It was great to connect with John Kovach and Rob Ceccarini of The Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum at the International Fly Tying Symposium. We had a great conversation about the legendary museum that was founded in 1981 and has names like the Darbee’s, the Dette’s and Lee & Joan Wulff. The Museum & Center is a wonderful place located in a magical part of the country, the Catskills. Home of American dry fly fishing, the Catskills is boasts world famous rivers like the Beaverkill, the Willowemoc, the Neversink and the Esopus creek. Rob shares his expertise on the rivers, best tactics and the insect life. John talks about history of the museum, the current events schedule and how, as a center, everyone is welcome to be involved. Find out more information about the history and the events of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum at: https://cffcm.com Stay in touch with the Fly Fishing Show schedule at: https://flyfishingshow.com/

For this atmospheric instrumental track created for the ESOPUS 25 "Jokes" CD (included in ESOPUS 25, the nonprofit arts publication now in bookstores) The Antlers frontman Peter Silberman took his inspiration from an old classic: A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, "Why the long face?" Silberman talks about his choice in the issue's liner notes: "I love this joke for its simplicity, and fittingly, I wrote a piece that revolves around a single, economical melody [whose] central riff mimicked the phrase ‘Why the long face?’” The track appears on the compilation along with new songs by Lonnie Holley, Katie Von Schleicher, and Joseph Keckler, among others; the CD is introduced in the issue by comedian Demetri Martin.

The second sneak preview from the ESOPUS 25 "JOKES" CD -- included in ESOPUS 25, which is just hitting bookstores -- is a fantastic art-pop track by Alicia Walter, who chose this humorous poem by philosopher Alan Watts as its inspiration: There once was a man who said, “Though it seems that I know that I know, What I’d like to see, Is the I that knows me, When I know that I know that I know.” Walter describes her process on our website: “How could I pick just one joke, when everything tickles me? The 'cosmic joke' seemed to fit me best: life itself is funny -- it’s hilarious! Sometimes we think we 'get' what’s going on, but of course we don’t. We’re always looking, looking, looking for answers everywhere outside ourselves. And we may feel we come closest to figuring it all out when we just stop trying to figure it all out. But of course, we still haven’t figured out a thing! What could be funnier than that?” Get more info about the CD and issue at https://www.esopus.org/contents/view/411

In front of a packed house at Brooklyn’s BookCourt, the celebrated Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (My Struggle) spoke with ESOPUS editor Tod Lippy about “On the Value of LIterature,” his 5,000-word essay that appears in ESOPUS 23. Knausgaard also took questions from the audience about his writing process, and the evening ended with a book-signing.

For its latest audio compilation, ESOPUS invited 11 musical acts -- including Peter Silberman, Joseph Keckler, and Katie Von Scheicher -- to create new songs inspired by a joke of their choice. The CD will appear in ESOPUS 25, which is just now hitting bookstores. The iconic comical query “Why did chicken cross the road?” opens “Why Did the Man Talk to a Horse Off in the Bar?,” created by acclaimed artist and musician Lonnie Holley. This song is a haunting, deeply moving meditation upon mortality, religion, and humankind’s relentless search for meaning through the act of storytelling. Holley recorded it at Figure 8 Recording Studio in Brooklyn several months ago, enlisting the help of musicians Courtney Hartman, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, and Zosha Warpeha.

ESOPUS inaugurated a collaborative series with the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, with a screening and in-person appearance by actress Lisa Kudrow and her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky. In 2005, Kudrow and Michael Patrick King co-created "The Comeback," a penetrating and often brutal satire of reality TV, sitcoms, and show business in general, which aired on HBO for one season (and which was featured, along with an interview with Kudrow and King, in ESOPUS 15: TELEVISION). The program opened with a screening of the series’ first episode, after which Kudrow, who was nominated for an Emmy for her brilliant portrayal of the show’s protagonist, Valerie Cherish, discussed the conception, execution, and untimely demise of the critically lauded series (which was finaly ultimately resurrected by HBO in 2015 for another acclaimed season).

On May 26, 2015, ESOPUS presented an evening of programming at NYC's The Kitchen related to ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE, the nonprofit's 2015 issue devoted to the intersections between medicine and the arts. Among the event's participants was screenwriter Hampton Fancher ("Blade Runner") who read a 1942 letter, which appears in the issue, from poet/doctor Williams Carlos Williams to a young medical student. Learn more at https://www.esopus.org/news/view/82

On October 24, 2006, The Wrens' Charles Bissell and Kevin Whelan participated in "An Evening with ESOPUS" at NYC performance space The Kitchen. Among the tracks they performed was this version of "The House that Guilt Built" (from their acclaimed LP "The Meadowlands") for which they called upon three audience members to participate.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis wrote a series of three monologues for ESOPUS which were published in our second, third, and fifth issues. Guirgis read the third monologue for an ESOPUS event at MoMA/PS1 on May 11, 2006. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2vs9kpl

Much of the content in the 24th issue of the nonprofit arts annual ESOPUS concerns itself with boundaries—between countries, cultures, languages, genders, and more—and in many cases, with using creativity as a way to breach them. This podcast features editor Tod Lippy's interviews with four contributors to the issue—translator Ann Goldstein, photographer and activist Clayton Patterson, and artists Hayden Dunham and Marco Maggi—and also includes clips from 5 songs from the ESOPUS 24 CD, "Pioneer Sessions," comprising 12 songs created in the recording studio of the Brooklyn nonprofit Pioneer Works. Learn more about the issue at http://www.esopus.org/issues/view/24

Each issue of ESOPUS features an audio CD with brand-new music inspired by a particular theme. For the forthcoming ESOPUS 23 (on newsstands in May), the CD explores the subject of "Close Calls." For it, we invited 13 musical acts to pick a close-call moment from their lives — ranging from near-death experiences to romantic misfires — that they've never been able to shake. For this podcast, ESOPUS editor Tod Lippy talks with four contributors to the CD — Anthony LaMarca (The War on Drugs), Darren Solomon (Science for Girls), Jo Lawry, and The Kickstand Band — about the songs they created and the near-miss moments that inspired them. The ESOPUS 23 "CLOSE CALLS" CD also includes new tracks by Kristin Andreassen, The Big Bright, Gabriel Birnbaum, Dollshot, Coling Gilmore, Lemolo, Trees Take Ease, Grant Widmer, and YC the Cynic. More information about ESOPUS 23 and its CD is available on our website: http://www.esopus.org

Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (Riverhead Books, 2008), How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead Books, 2010) and the e-book Up The Down Volcano (2011). She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series (Mariner Books, 2011) and has contributed to a variety of anthologies. She is featured in The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) and The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011). I Was Told There’d Be Cake was a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. Sloane's debut novel, The Clasp (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), is a comedy of manners about three estranged friends and one famous short story. Sloane has been a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities including New York University and Columbia University’s Publishing Course. In 2013, she taught in Columbia University's MFA program. Sloane's work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Bon Appetit, Playboy, Elle, W, Salon, The New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, The Believer, Smithsonian, The Guardian and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” She was the inaugural columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed "Townies" series. She has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, and is currently a contributing editor at Interview Magazine. In 2011, she wrote a weekly column for The Independent in the UK. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's and Esopus. She also co-authored Read Bottom Up (HarperCollins, 2015), using the pen name, Skye Chatham. Prior to writing full time, Sloane spent twelve years working in book publishing. She currently serves on the board of Housingworks Used Bookstore and is a co-chair of The Young Lions Committee at The New York Public Library. Watch the full reading here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNv5rBYA5N4 For the iTunes podcast, visit: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trini…ege/id1057966315 For more on Sloane Crowsley, visit: www.sloanecrosley.com

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile Jon Burlingame talks with Composer Carter Burwell about his work on the film: Carol, Mr. Holmes, Anomalisa, Legend and Hail, Caesar! Carter Burwell has composed the music for more than 80 feature films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Velvet Goldmine, The General’s Daughter, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (BAFTA Nominee for Film Music), Before Night Falls, A Knight’s Tale, The Rookie, Adaptation, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, In Bruges, Burn After Reading, Twilight, Where the Wild Things Are (Golden Globe Nominee for Best Original Score), A Serious Man, The Blind Side, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 & 2, and The Fifth Estate. Burwell most recently wrote the music for the mystery drama MR. HOLMES starring Ian McKellen directed by Bill Condon, the true crime thriller Legend directed by Brian Helgeland opening October 2. Carol marks Burwell’s third collaboration with Todd Haynes having previously worked together on VELVET GOLDMINE and HBO’s mini-series MILDRED PIERCE starring Kate Winslet in which Burwell was nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning for his work in the category of Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score). Other upcoming film projects for Burwell include Charlie Kaufman’s first-stop motion film Anomalisa, the ocean thriller The Finest Hours starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck directed by Craig Gillespie, the Nicole Kidman-Jason Bateman drama The Family Fang, and Hail, Caesar! written and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen. His theater work includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event and the Mabou Mines productions Mother and Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. In 2005 he developed a concert work for text and music titled Theater of the New Ear, presented in New York, London and Los Angeles. The text, by Joel and Ethan Coen and Charlie Kaufman, was performed by a dozen actors including Meryl Streep, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hope Davis, Peter Dinklage, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The music was performed by the 8-member Parabola Ensemble, conducted by Mr. Burwell. Burwell’s dance compositions include the pieces The Return of Lot's Wife, choreographed by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, and RABL, choreographed by Patrice Regnier. He has performed around the world with his own ensembles as well as others, such as The Harmonic Choir. His writing includes the essay "Music at Six: Scoring the News Then and Now," published in the inaugural issue of Esopus magazine in 2003 and reprinted in Harper's Magazine in 2004, and the essay “No Country For Old Music” in the 2013 Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. Burwell has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.

Over the past decade Esopus has held true to its mission to “feature content from all creative disciplines presented in an unmediated format,” and in its most recent issue, the magazine explored the intersection between the world of medicine and the world of art by showcasing work by artists, physicians, poets, phlebotomists, musicians, dentists and nurses, among others. This program brings together Esopus editor Tod Lippy, who will talk about putting together Esopus 22: Medicine, as well as contributors Ian Williams (Bad Doctor) and MK Czerwiec: Comic Nurse (co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto), and Danielle Spencer and Stephanie Adler Yuan, who collaborated on “Critical Conversations,” a paper which offers a depiction of a health-care experience from multiple perspectives. The event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Program in Narrative Medicine and the Penn State University Press.

Each fall, ESOPUS creates a limited-edition artwork for its Premium subscribers. This fall's edition, "Three Types of Reading Ambiguity," is a multidisciplinary collaboration between musician Charles Bissell and contemporary artist Beth Campbell. A layered reflection on the differing meanings of “original” and “copy” in the visual arts and music — and a fascinating glimpse into the creative processes of Bissell and Campbell — it includes a custom-designed audio cassette containing a brand-new track from Bissell's band The Wrens on one side and a sonic interpretation of the song by Campbell on the other, as well as a 17 x 30" archival print of a new drawing by Campbell, a foldout poster of Bissell's lyrics for the song in their original format, and a download key to access music, videos, and other related material. This podcast, featuring interviews with Bissell and Campbell as well as excerpts from both tracks, documents in depth the process behind the edition, from Bissell’s initial conception for the song, written nearly seven years ago, to the final mixing of Campbell’s version in Bissell’s basement studio in late September. To get a copy of the edition by becoming a Premium subscriber to ESOPUS, visit https://secure.esopus.org/store/product/24

This podcast offers a preview of the forthcoming issue of ESOPUS, the nonprofit arts publication based in New York City. It includes three interviews with contributors to ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE: Thomas Juncher Jensen, an interior designer who has designed "the perfect waiting room" based on our subscribers' suggestions; acclaimed contemporary artist Melissa Meyer, who created one of the 6 artists' projects for the issue, and Anne Watts, the founder and lead singer of Baltimore-based band Boister, who contrbuted a track for the issue's included CD, which features songs inspired by bodily organs. The podcast closes with Watts's demo for Boister's song, "Mr. Spleen." ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE will be on newsstands in early May.

Mitch Horowitz is a writer and publisher of many years experience with a lifelong interest in mans search for meaning. The editor-in-chief of Penguin in New York, he is the author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation (Bantam, September 2009).A frequent writer and speaker on metaphysical themes, he has appeared on The History Channel, The Montel Williams Show, Coast to Coast AM, and American Radio Journal. His writing has appeared in Parabola, Esopus, Fortean Times, Science of Mind, and with the Religion News Service.Join Mitch, Jeff and Jeremy for a trip through Occult America!