Margie Greve: Summertime Blooms

Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty’s Kingston NY Real Estate office is proud to present art prints of Margie Greve in an exhibition titled Summertime Blooms as part of our "Gallery At Work" series.

Margie Greve is a graduate of Skidmore College and studied printmaking at The Art Student’s League and The School of Visual Arts and patternmaking at The Fashion Institute of Technology. A lifelong fascination with sewing and construction led to a career as an artist in the home sewing industry. Margie has created portraits for Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Crossroads: How the Blues Shaped Rock’n’Roll and Rock Saved the Blues and Americanaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock’n’Roll. She exhibits her work in New

The summer gets rolling in the Catskills and Hudson Valley in June, and there are exciting events of every kind in Greene, Ulster, Columbia, Putnam, Sullivan, Orange, and Dutchess Counties. As fate (luck?) would have it, we featured area history in our monthly newsletter, and there are so many history-related events on the calendar this month. We didn't plan it, but we'll take it! And, of course, with the start of the summer comes the start of all the farmer's markets The Hudson Valley is known for. We've featured just a few here. Looking for the one closest to you? Look for your community on our Hudson Valley and Catskills community information pages - there's a "Farms and Markets" resource for each town. Here's a short list of the many, many

Bringing The Outdoors In, Oil On Canvas, 20" x 36"

Alix Hallman Travis: Fine Art In Oil & Acrylic On Canvas

Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty’s New Paltz NY Real Estate office is proud to present the paintings of Alix Hallman Travis in an exhibition titled Fine Art in Oil & Acrylic on Canvas as part of our "Gallery At Work" series.

The village of Rhinebeck in the scenic Hudson Valley is Alix's home with their Bragg Hollow Studio a few steps off the main street. In the summer, they're often found outside, en plein air, painting those familiar subjects that we all know but have ceased to notice because we see them every day. With their painter’s eye, they are constantly looking for shapes, angles, light effects, and interesting lines that

What is happening this weekend in the Catskills? What is happening this weekend in The Hudson Valley? Other-worldy art, a guided historic mansion tour, a film viewing in an abandoned island castle, sound baths in the forest! April's Upstate events are DIFFERENT - and we love it. Going to be in the area for one of these? Contact one our agents and plan a weekend together! Pick an event, a home we just listed for sale, and send them a text - you'll have fun finding your Hudson Valley/Catskills abode!

Friends In Higher Places

Where: Woodstock, New York

A colorful, otherworldly series of paintings from "Scroll" by Scott Chasse are on display at the Woodstock Artists

As the Local Experts in Upstate Real Estate, we're also the local experts in what's going on and down in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. April 2023 is shaping up nicely! The festival season begins with Tango Dancing, Mac & Cheese, Tattoos, and Coffee & Teas!

 Also up and coming this month: a musical, gallery crawl, orchid show, and a night of vintage music and shopping. Community events are one of the things that make our communities great! If you've got one coming up that we missed, put it in the comments!

Alone: Stories From Edgar Allen Poe

Where: Catskill, NY

Spooky tales should not be relegated to October, neither should great horror writing! This performance by Daniel

So, it's muddy - that's ok, we can dig it! We sat down to come up with some ways to enjoy the mud season we're having, and we found it so much easier than expected. Turns out, we're filthy rich with opportunity! It also turns out that we can come up with more mud puns than anyone can possibly stomach - so, we promise, that was my last. Here are the first 9 things that popped into our head...

#1 - Mud Crafts

We'll start with the obvious activity - mudcraft. Some of our best childhood memories involve mud. These mud-soaked memories have stuck with us, not because we spent a disproportionate amount of time in the mud, but rather because the mud was so fun, it left an impression. These articles offer a

Kevin Palfreyman: Hudson Valley Luminism

Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty’s Catskill NY Real Estate office is proud to present the art of Kevin Palfreyman in an exhibition titled Hudson Valley Luminism as part of our "Gallery At Work" series.

Kevin Palfreyman has a life-long fascination with the outdoors. This grew in the early seventies when he studied language and literature at Fort Lewis College in southwest Colorado, where he was taken with nineteenth century Romantic Poets and their interpretation of nature as a benign and comforting manifestation of the spiritual world. A few years later he married artist Linda Wainwright Palfreyman who introduced him to plein-air painting. Here, he found a home in nature that fostered his

Maple festivals, a Kintsugi class, plant and sips, a brine fermentation workshop, a whimsical night market, and a parade of llamas in bonnets! The Hudson Valley and Catskills have an eclectic array of events on the March calendar. Here are a few hand-picked, of course, by your Upstate Local Experts. 

Bonsai Bar at Industrial Arts Brewing Company

Where: Beacon, NY

Grab friends, grab a drink, and craft a tiny tree! Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss where you'll learn the fundamentals of the art of Bonsai.

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Almost Maine At The Boiceville Inn Dinner Theater

Where: Boiceville, NY

Sooo.... I think it might be time to admit I have a problem. I feel comfortable making this confession because I think it's a problem almost everyone shares with me at the moment. I am just a leeeeettle bit addicted to streaming television. Sigh. Yes, I know, we all have an excuse for our urge to hunker down and watch yet another Adam's Family reboot; for a chunk of time there wasn't all that much else for us to do in our free time (blah, blah, etcetera, etcetera). But I've had my fill of lightly plotted holiday movies and dramas about families who don't like each other - I'm movin' on! I'm going to win The No Netflix Challenge! Haven't heard of it? Not surprising, I just made it up! Here are the rules: 1 - do anything but watch streaming tv 6 days

Let's face it, January can be a bit of a let down if we let it. After the holidays something inside most of us says, "kick back, chill out!" BUT that can make us feel a wee bit bummed out by the end of the month. Instead, let's see January as an opportunity! An opportunity to do it all - see a jazz quartet, go to a ceramics workshop, a leather-working class, and a Dolly Parton western dance party! Check out these wonderful local events and experience something new!

Ladies Basketball

Where: West Point, New York

Games at West Point are a whole experience. The campus and the views are beautiful and the cadets at West Point take their sport so seriously they're almost a spectacle of