Peter Schickle and friends salute Edgar Allen Poe

I found this clip from the 2006 Christmas concert on my hard drive.

Sonia Malkine, Shady, New York

Sonia Malkine is a neighbor who lives in Shady-- just down the road from my house in Willow. During the 1960's I was living in Bloomingburg, New York, raising three children and a few goats. My lifeline to the larger world was WBAI FM which came in very clearly on our kitchen radio. One of the programs I loved was a weekly show by Sonia Malkine. She would sing and often have folk singer guests from all over the world. She has lived in Woodstock since the 1950s and graces the local scene with her concerts and song. I am working on a documentary about her life-- it began as a Paper Tiger show: Sonia Malkine Reads Anarchist Trading Cards.
Sonia's mother, May Piqueray, was a well-known French anarchist, and I knew that Sonia had known Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, so I showed Sonia a deck of anarchist cards, which I had bought at the Left Bank Book Store in Seattle. Sonia personally knew about half of the anarchists who were on the cards! Since so many young people call themselves anarchists, I thought it would be interesting to look a one woman's involvement with anarchism in the early part of the 20th century.
This clip is a rough beginning of the 28 minute program.

Winter Days

This mammal appeared on our pond two winters ago. We don't know if it is a "Fisher" or a "Marten" but one thing I know is that it ate all the carp in our pond! We had five or six large carp there and by spring there were none left, even though in the past they had weathered very cold winters.

Palestine on the Woodstock Green

The Middle East Crisis Response held a vigil on the Woodstock Green on Friday to commemorate the NAKHBA, which is Arabic for catastrophe and stands for the terror assault by Zionist forces on Palestinian villages in the spring of 1948 that lead to the flight of 700,000 people, the destruction of 531 villages, and made possible the founding of the modern state of Israel..