Entertainment briefs

A history of local knife-making

GRAHAMSVILLE, NY — “A History of the Local Knife Making Industry,” an illustrated talk by Dr. Richard Craft and Harold Buley Jr., will be held on Sunday, November 8 at 2:00 p.m. at the Neversink Town Hall on Route 55. It is co-sponsored by the Time and the Valleys Museum and the Town of Neversink.

Craft, a historian of the local knife industry, will give a talk on the history of knife making in and around the Napanoch area, and the plans for a new Warwarsing Historical Society and Knife Museum. Buley, master cutler with more than 44 years experience in the knife-making business, will be on hand to answer questions and have his knife sharpener available to sharpen knives. Refreshments will be available.

For more information email dsteffens@frontiernet.net or call 845/985-2262, ext. 313.

Virginia Woolf, to the strains of a harpsichord

LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Weekend of Chamber Music will present Lee Hoiby’s “What Is the Light?” for narrator and harpsichord at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 8, at the Catskill Art Society center at 48 Main Street. Judith Pearce narrates the piece with text from the writings of Virginia Woolf, and Kenneth Hamrick performs on harpsichord.

In this work, passages chosen Virginia Woolf’s work by a semi-random process from autobiographical writings, diaries, letters, essays and imaginative fiction contemporaneous with “The Waves,” her most stylistically radical work, are integrated with a suite of interludes for harpsichord, written as reflection, response and evocation. The work was commissioned in 1994 by the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA for Claire Bloom and Brian Zeger.

Admission costs $10 general admission, $8 for CAS members. For more information call 845/436-4227.

Sports for kids at the Y

HONESDALE, PA — The Wayne County YMCA is now accepting registrations for floor hockey for boys and girls (grades K through five), pre-K sports blitz (ages three to five) and pre-K soccer (ages three through five). All programs take place at the YMCA at 105 Park Street.

Floor hockey, on Saturdays, is a skill-based program with practice and scrimmage games. Pre-K soccer, held Wednesdays and Thursdays, is a program involving both parents and children. Pre-K sports blitz, on Saturdays, introduces children to a new sport each week.

Other returning activities and classes for November include karate, sixth- to eighth-grade dances and more. Program registration must be done in person and some registration forms are available for download on the website. For more programs and specific dates and times visit ymcawayne.com or call 570/253-2083.