Artist Lineup 2009

2009 Artist

• James Amore,
  Painting , prints - Warwick
• Marie Cummings
  Mixed Media, Treadwell
• Karen Elkan
  Pastel, watercolor - Catskill
• Helen Fuschetto
  Jewelry, Mt Vision
• David Geer
  Painting - Unadilla
• Kevin Gray
  Photography, Cherry Valley
• Ronda Harrow
  Ceramics - Delhi
• Michelle Howard
  Mixed media/glass – Sherburne
• Doug Jamieson
  Watercolor, etchings - Treadwell
• Brad Kato
  Ceramics – Rhinbeck
• Katrok Woodworks
  Wood, Grahamsville
• Anne Kiehm
  Potter - Milford, NY
• Barbara Mellon Kolb
  Mixed Media, Mosaics - Fleischmanns
• Sabine Krummel
  Watercolor - Binghamton
• Joseph Kurhajec
  Sculpture – Treadwell
• Tracy Lippit
  Fiber art - Trout Creek
• Nicole Naeve
  Candles - NYC
• Carolyn Neidlinger
  Watercolor - Bainbridge
• Kristen Neidlinger
  Jewelry - Bainbridge
• Ouleout Creek Stoneworks
  Stone carvings – Vernon, NJ
• David O’Reilly
  Oil Paintings, Mahopac
• Jackie Paltrow
  Photography, Delhi
• Chris Pettingill
  Ceramics – Afton
• Poetic Lenses
  Photography - Morris
• Michael Price
  Paintings, prints – Bainbridge
• Michael Quattrociocchi
  Wood – Endwell
• Rubies Originals
  Jewelry - S. Kortright
• Paul Sauter
  Potter - Milford, NY
• Maryanne Stow
  Watercolor/mixed media – Oneonta
• Tim Touhey
  Oil paintings - pastel, Stamford
• Daphne Ward
  Jewelry - Sidney
• Scott Ward
  Soy candles – Sidney
• Colin Young
  Photography - NYC

Music Schedule 2009

Music for 2009 includes:


Saturday – August 15th

11:00 am to 11:45 am - Polish Moses

12:15 pm to 1 pm – Familiar Noise - from the Catskill region

1:30 to 2:15 pm - Mike Burgevin Jazz Band - from the Catskill region

2:45 pm to 3:30 - Uncle Rock - folk and mixes in children's music

4:00 pm to 5:00 – Commander Cody -from Saratoga Springs

Sunday – August 16th

12 pm to 12:45 – Pan Handle -from the Catskill region

1:15 pm to 2 pm – Palmer and Sherwood - Ron Palmer was Harry Chapins guitarist on his tours and albums

2:45 pm to 3:30 – Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Mosher’s

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Michael Glabicki - lead singer for the group Rusted Root- had a song in the Disney film Ice Age




Music funded in part by the
O’Connor Foundation

Food 2009

Food Vendors for 2009 include:
- Casa Granita... Italian Ice, Gelato, Cappuccino and Biscotti , Downsville
- Cafe on the Green... Grilled Chicken Wings, Roasted Potatoes Salads and Signature Mixed Green Salads, Delhi
_Lyon's Den Cafe... Mexican delicacies including quasadillas and salads , Gilbertsville
- Midtown Grill ... a local favorite featuring local product, Delhi Winner of the 2008 Pure Catskill Culinary Award.
- White's Pig Roast... BBQ Pulled Pork, Southwest Shrimp & Chicken Wraps, Apple Cobbler Pie, New Berlin
- Slickpott... Chocolate Sauce - Delhi
- Summers End Orchard... Preserved Food, Unadilla
- Tuna III... Sushi and other Japanese delights, Delhi

Literary Arts 2009

Literary Artists in 2009 included:


Saturday – August 15th

10:00 am - Marjorie B. Kellogg, Franklin

11:45 am to 12:15 pm – Carol Stone White, Utica

1 pm to 1:30 pm – Liz Rosenberg, Binghamton

2:15 pm to 2:45 – Literary Student Participants

3:30 pm to 4:00 pm – Literary Artist - Share the Words High School Poetry Winner
Empire State 5th Grad Poet - Julia Dudley Cherry Valley - Springfield

Roxbury Arts Group & Bright Hill Press Literary Center’s Cultural Spelling Bee Winners

Sunday – August 16th

11 am to 11:30 am- Literary Artist: Charlotte Zoe Walker, Gilbertville

11:30 am to 12 pm - Literary Artist: Sharon Ruetenik, Delhi

12:45 pm to 1:15 pm – Literary Artist: Ginnah Howard, Gilbertsville

2 pm to 2:40 pm – Literary Artists: Writers in the Mountains
Barbara Apoian, Roxbury
Sharon Cucinotta, Roxbury
Ann Epner, Roxbury
Marlene Gagnon, Roxbury


MARJORIE B. KELLOGG, FRANKLIN, NY - Marjorie B. Kellogg’s most recent novel is Lear’s Daughters (February, 2009), a reworking of her 1980’s duology, the Wave and the Flame and Reign of Fire (1986). She is also the author of a Rumor of Angels‚ (1983) and Harmony (1991). Her fantasy series, The Dragon Quartet, was published by DAW: the Book of Air (November, 2003), the Book of Fire (July 2000), the Book of Water (September 1997) and the Book of Earth (February 1995). Her story, The Hamlet, appeared in the DAW 30th Anniversary Anthology (2002). Her musical, Livin' in the Garden, conceived with songwriter Melanie Hammet, premiered in 1997 at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre. Ms. Kellogg adapted Madeleine L'engle's A Wrinkle in Time for the Children's Theatre in Minneapolis. Ms. Kellogg is editor of a free newspaper, The New Franklin Register. Since 1970, she has worked as a scenic designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in the regional theatre. She is Associate Professor of Theatre at Colgate University.

CAROL STONE WHITE, UTICA, NY - Carol StoneWhite compiled Catskill Peak Experiences: Mountaineering Tales of Endurance, Survival, Exploration and Adventure from the Catskill 3500 Club, and Adirondack Peak Experiences, published by Black Dome Press. With her husband David, she wrote Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons, published by the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK), and they are editors of ADK’s comprehensive guidebook, Catskill Trails, for which they measured 345 miles of trails by surveying wheel. Women with Altitude: Challenging the Adirondack High Peaks in Winter, was published by North Country Books. Ms. Stone White received the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Award in 2007 with polar explorer Ann Bancroft and long-distance cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox; her work was in public policy. With her husband she is a regular and winter member of the Catskill 3500 Club, whose members have climbed the 35 peaks exceeding 3500 feet in the Catskills.

Liz Rosenberg, Binghamton (born Lizbeth Meg Rosenberg, February 3, 1958) is an American poet, novelist, children's book author, and book reviewer. She is currently a professor of English at Binghamton University, and in previous years has taught at Colgate University,Sarah Lawrence College, Hamilton College, Bennington College, and Hollins College. Her children's book reviews appear monthly in The Boston Globe. Her children's books include Adelaide and the Night Train (1989), Window, Mirror, Moon (1990), The Scrap Doll (1991), Monster Mama (1993), Mama Goose: A New Mother Goose (1994), The Carousel (1996), Moonbathing (1996), Grandmother and the Runaway Shadow (1996), Eli and Uncle Dawn (1997), A Big and Little Alphabet (1997), The Silence in the Mountains (1999), Eli's Night Light (2001), On Christmas Eve (2002), We Wanted You (2002), This is the Wind (2008), and I Did it Anyway (2009)

CHARLOTTE ZOE WALKER, GILBERTSVILLE, NY Charlotte Zoe Walker is the editor of two books on John Burroughs published by Syracuse University Press: Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing (2000), and The Art of Seeing Things: Essays by John Burroughs (2001). She also directed the first two “Sharp Eyes” conferences, in honor of John Burroughs, at SUNY Oneonta: “Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing,” and “Sharp Eyes II: Multicultural Approaches to Environmental Writing.” She has also published several essays on women writers and nature, and recently completed a book on that subject, Letting in the Sky: Women Writers and the Book of Nature. She is also a fiction writer, author of Condor and Hummingbird, a novel set in Colombia (published by Alice Walker’s Wild Trees Press, and in the United Kingdom, The Women’s Press), and of many published short stories, including an O. Henry Award winner, and has been a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. She is a professor emerita in the English Department of SUNY Oneonta and was NEH Professor of Humanities at Colgate University in the Spring of 2008.

SHARON RUETENIK, DELHI, NY - Sharon Ruetenik is the ESL and Writing Center Coordinator at SUNY Delhi. She also serves as an adjunct instructor in English. She has been a member and reader in the Word Thursdays reading series at Bright Hill Literary Center for the past 17 years. Her work has appeared in Phoebe, New Press, Bright Hill Press’s The first and Second Word Thursdays Anthologies, Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond, and in journals. She has been a featured reader at Saratoga Poetry Zone, Hunter Mountain Cultural Festival, Platte Clove Air Exhibit, the Andes Roundtable, and other New York venues. In addition Ruetenik has been awarded writing residencies at Platte Clove and Saltonstall. This summer Bright Hill Press is publishing her chapbook, The Wooden Bowl.

GINNAH HOWARD, GILBERTSVILLE, NY - Ginnah Howard’s work has appeared in Water~Stone Review, Portland Review, Permafrost, Phoebe, Ballyhoo, Out of the Catskills and Beyond, The Second Word Thursdays Anthology, and elsewhere. She has been a member and reader in the Word Thursdays reading series at Bright Hill Literary Center for the past 17 years. Several of her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Work is forthcoming in Natural Bridge, Descant145, KGB Bar Lit, and Eclipse. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, and Saltonstall. Her novel, Night Navigation, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was released this past April.

BARBARA APOIAN, ROXBURY, NY - Barbara Apoian moved from New York City to Roxbury, New York in 1994. She is a Director of Writers in the Mountains, where she chairs the Teachers Committee, teaches the “Critics Corner” workshop and was co-editor of WIM’s publications In our Own Words and Out of our Minds. She has also performed her dramatized readings “Among my Souvenirs” and “People & Places” locally at the Catskill Center, Arkville, the Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta, and at other venues in Annapolis, Maryland, and Somerset, New Jersey. She will be presenting a new performance “Portraits on the Page” in October 2009.

SHARON CUCINOTTA, ROXBURY, NY - Sharon Cucinotta lives in Roxbury and is a member of Writers in the Mountains. She studies poetry with Lee Slominsky and Lynn Domina. Sharon has recently read her sonnets and other poetry at the Andes Roundtable, Adams Antiquarian Center in Hobart and at the Westside YMCA in Manhattan. She is a professional grant writer and has worked as a reporter for Courier-Life publications and Women’s E News and was a feature writer and classical music critic at the Brooklyn Phoenix. She has a double degree in English and Comparative Literature from Brooklyn College where she won the Leonard B. Hecht Poetry Explication Award, and a M.S. in Non-Profit Management from the Milano Graduate School at the New School.

ANN EPNER, ROXBURY, NY - Ann Epner is a founding member of Writers in The Mountains. She has been writing since she could put letters together to form words. Ann has taught creative writing classes and facilitated critical thinking workshops in several contexts, including vocational training programs with refugees and women on public assistance, adult basic literacy classes and as a teacher of English as a second language in Italy and Turkey. Her published work included a monthly column for the New York Business Women's Newspaper as well as the Catskill Guide. She currently works for The Roxbury Arts Group as Program Director.

MARLENE GAGNON, ROXBURY, NY - Born and raised in southern Indiana, Marleen Gagnon has made the Catskill Mountains her home for the last 20 years. She started taking classes from WIM (Writers In The Mountains) about 10 years ago. Through WIM Marleen has expanded her writing from her favorite, historical fiction to include poetry, journalism and memoirs. Her essays have been in Catskill Country Magazine. The Woodstock Times mentioned her poem “Daddy Came Home Today” in the review of the WIM book Out of Our Minds. Her poem “Needle In, Needle Out” was chosen to be in an artist showing at the Arts Society of Kingston in the summer of 2008.


Literary Arts funded in part by Poets & Writers