TRR photo by Richard A. Ross
Kathy Aleschus, left and Marilyn Rabenhorst perform “Side By Side,” at the 20th annual Hortonville Talent Show held at the Hortonville Presbyterian Church on February 25. The popular show featured 17 acts and raised close to $500 for Sullivan County Habitat for Humanity.

Twenty years of down-home fun

By RICHARD A. ROSS

HORTONVILLE, NY -- For the 20th consecutive year, the Hortonville Talent Show provided its audience with a plethora of diverse acts. This year’s array ranged from a tiny violinist to a veteran opera singer. Opening the show, diminutive Amelia Brooks serenaded all with her violin rendition of “Go Tell Aunt Rhody.” Before the night was over guitarists, singers, Civil War re-enactors, a trumpet player and a veteran virtuoso of the pen had performed for an enthusiastic crowd that included many newcomers brought to the show by word of mouth.

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What's at the Movies
by Ian Pugh

Neil Young concert film a unique look at life and mortality

In watching Jonathan Demme’s “Neil Young: Heart of Gold,” I was reminded of the director’s other great concert film, 1984’s “Stop Making Sense.”

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Celebrating the body

NARROWSBURG, NY—The Delaware Arts Center Gallery at 37 Main Street is hosting an exhibit of sculptures by Cara Grae Meling that will run through March 17.

Says Meling of her work, “My art speaks about the beauty of the form, through both abstraction and representation. I find beauty in the human body: the way it moves, the way it reacts to others, its sexuality and presence; and from this, I derive my inspiration. Oftentimes my pieces are without color, so the viewer focuses on the form, and the form alone.”

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