SEASCAPE – “There’s another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.”
Gordon Parks – 1912-2006-

Aja is up for adoption at the Port Jervis/Deerpark shelter… and I bet that if you adopted her, you could get this lovely painting, too.

By Bob Gaydos
The List of most influential thinkers of the 20th Century begins to take shape with a starting 10. Plus Thomas Merton’s name gets tossed into the mix.

By Michael Kaufman
Why does Warwick deserve kudos for past-due recognition of a problem everyone knew existed?

HIGH HOPES – Growing up on a farm a young boy’s imagination could be endless. Peddle power vs horsepower, no problem. Just what makes that little boy think he’ll move that tractor? Well, he has high hopes, high apple pie in the sky hopes.

By Jeffrey Page
Who was your favorite sportswriter when you were a kid? Who’s your favorite now?

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Recently, we had a day where local merchants encouraged people to spend $25 at a local business. While that may seem like a small gesture, if we all do it, and make a habit of it, we could end the recession in the Wallkill Valley.

Plein air painting done with the Wallkill River School class at Kezia Lain Farm in Westtown on Sunday. Fall foliage and very happy beef cows grazing in the fields. Pastel, 12″x48″ see more of my work or take a class with me at www.WallkillRiverSchool.com

TO AUTUMN – “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;” – John Keats, Sept. 1819

By Jason Poggioli
We have only just begun to see the results of enabling billions of people to broadcast their contributions to the world.