State of the art, Catskills style

While composing the score for “Sunday In The Park With George,” Stephen Sondheim said it best: “The art of making art is putting it together.”

I spent my week seeking out, and finding, art throughout the Delaware and Hudson Valley. Cruising through the countryside, I found myself stopping by the Genesis Gallery and had a look-see and chat with owner/artist Gloria Bernstein ( www.gbernstein.com ).

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Home-town banking

Dear Manager,

This is to inform you that I will be ending my relationship with your bank. I have had accounts in the building where your branch now resides for over 25 years and I’m 25 years old. My parents opened one for me before I was born.

The bank on Main Street has gone through many incarnations in those 25 years, having different names with many cycles of employees and I’m not sure that the information to prove my long-term allegiance even exists.

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Trees: a legacy and a future

When I was growing up in Honesdale in the 1950s and ‘60s, the borough was known as “The Maple City.” The brick mansion that now houses the Wayne County Public Library, down the block from my girlhood home, was then a home for the elderly called “Seven Maples” after the majestic specimens of sugar maples encircling its grounds. North Main Street was an attractive, tree-lined street with abundant shade trees, mostly maples, providing plentiful greenery in summer and gloriously colored foliage in fall. Throughout the town maples shaded sidewalks, yards and porches, a fact most of us took for granted.

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