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The pipe organ in Mountaindale’s new music park, home to this week’s Junk Jam festival.

Editor’s pick: Junk jam

Make your own instruments and your own music, led by a master drummer

Sun., Aug. 7, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in front of the school at 105 Main Street in Mountaindale, NY. Free.

Of all the Sullivan County towns working to bring their hamlets back to life, none is engaged in a more wildly imaginative and eclectic mix of projects than Mountaindale. There’s a sculpture garden populated by recycled farm implements transformed into art, an outdoors fitness equipment station and a mural of an old-fashioned locomotive standing astride disused railroad tracks that haven’t seen a real train for years.

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Home décor stars in three new stores

By TOM KANE

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY—Recently, three new stores have come to this vibrant village, each of which provides a new shopping opportunity for home décor enthusiasts.

The Rustic Cottage on Route 52 is owned by Michael and Colleen Barber. The store specializes in Adirondack rustic furniture and emulates some better-known rustic furniture stores in the Adirondacks, “stores like Ralph Kylloe’s Adirondack Gallery,” according to Michael. “We have antique-inspired rustic furniture and one-of-a-kind furniture items from artisans from around the country.”

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Editor's pick: Art opening

Ceramics by masters of the anagama process

Fri., Aug. 5 through Thu., Aug. 25, at the Delaware Valley Arts Center Gallery, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY. 845/252-7576.

Sculptor Susanne Wibroe-Fost has been working on a dream for 15 years: building her own anagama kiln. This year she realized that dream, and on Wednesday, August 3 the massive kiln, after having been stoked round the clock for about a week, had cooled down enough from its first firing that the ceramics could be taken out to be placed for exhibition at the Delaware Valley Arts Center Gallery.

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