Contributed photo Cheryl Korb’s paintings are a lively and affectionate document of the denizens of her country neighborhood and their surroundings.

Immortalizing the everyday

Cheryl Korb’s depictions of country life come to The River Gallery

NARROWSBURG, NY—The work of Pennsylvania artist Cheryl Korb will be featured at The River Gallery at 8 Main Street from Saturday, July 21 through Friday, August 24, in a show titled “Country Landscapes: My Own Backyard.” There will be an opening reception on Saturday, July 21 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

A self-taught artist from northeastern Pennsylvania, Cheryl Korb still lives on the farm where she was born. After raising a family of three children, she had time to pursue her dream, which was to make paintings inspired by Grandma Moses. She began painting the landscape she knows best: her own back yard.

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‘Order of the Phoenix’ finds brilliance in contemplation of darkness

Mike Newell’s putrid adaptation of “Goblet of Fire” nearly sunk the “Harry Potter” film franchise for its depressing literality and slavish devotion to its source material. It was a blind attempt, in other words, to take a 600-page tome and pare it down to a two-and-a-half hour script using nothing but a pair of gardening shears, to shove in as much of the novel’s happenings without ever really understanding the narrative and emotional complexities involved.

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Editor's pick: It’s Deathly Hallows’ eve in Narrowsburg

Celebrate the newest Potter at Tusten library

WHEN: Friday, July 20, 8:00 p.m.

WHERE: The Tusten-Cochecton branch of the Western Sullivan Public Library, Bridge Street, Narrowsburg, NY.

COST: Free.

CONTACT: 845/252-3360.

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Other stories in this issue:

• There’ll be dancing in the park
• Four days of family fun scheduled for Deerpark festival
• DVO’s La Perichole
• ECM recording artist Anat Fort live on The Settlers Inn deck
• Hot Tuna Electric plugs into ‘Electric City’
• Liberty Free Theatre
• Motorcycle classic
• Local folk and blues talents to play at Neversink museum
• Catskill Puppet Theatre weaves its spell at Seelig
• Quilt camp to be held at PEEC
• Float a raft down our own mighty river
• Bargains liven Honesdale’s sidewalk sale
• The stars will be out in Loch Sheldrake
• A panoply of artistic visions
• A midsummer vacationer’s dream
• An encyclopedia of local wildflowers
• Lyricist Harburg honored in ‘Wizard of Verses’