Stissing Center for Arts and Culture

The next installment of Stissing Center’s Writers &amp; Readers series welcomes author Rachel Greenfield in conversation with Pulitzer Prize–nominated writer Amy Reading about Greenfield’s new biography Rose Knox. The book explores how Knox transformed a small gelatine company into a national brand by blending business savvy, marketing innovation, and the realities of working motherhood in early 20th-century America. Presented in partnership with Oblong Books and the Pine Plains Free Library.

Local Event:  Stissing Center’s Writers & Readers: Rachel Greenfield, ROSE KNOX: How One Woman Mixed Kitchen and 

Dutchess County

Mid Hudson Valley

New York

 Stissing Center’s Writers & Readers: Rachel...

The next installment of Stissing Center’s Writers & Readers series welcomes author Rachel Greenfield in conversation with...

 Stissing Center’s Writers & Readers: Rachel Greenfield, ROSE KNOX: How One Woman Mixed Kitchen and 

Oblong Books [Rhinebeck]

For Ages 13 and up.
The novel's title draws its inspiration from the famous opening lines spoken by the Three Witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this story, the ghost light—a traditional single bulb left burning on a dark theater stage—serves as a supernatural portal. The plot follows a protagonist named Lydia, whose spirit is pulled through the ghost light's portal, transporting her back in time to New York City's Bowery Theatre in the year 1849.

Local Event:  Sarah Combs, WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET: A Ghost Light's Tale 

 Sarah Combs, WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET: A Ghost...

For Ages 13 and up.
The novel's title draws its inspiration from the famous opening lines spoken by the Three Witches in...

 Sarah Combs, WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET: A Ghost Light's Tale 

In conversation with Michelle Murray.
FREE. Registration Requested.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was known to possess a “genius for friendship.” A Jew in Nazi Germany, an exile in Paris and New York, and an uncompromising critic of postwar orthodoxies, she survived and flourished through friendships that were intellectually intense, complicated, and morally demanding. Her tribe of outsiders included thinkers as disparate as Karl Jaspers, Hans Jonas, Mary McCarthy, Gershom Scholem, Heinrich Blücher, and Martin Heidegger.
This book explores how these friendships shaped Arendt’s political thinking. Berkowitz weaves Arendt’s life, thought, and friendships into a powerful meditation on our present moment. In an age of mass loneliness, ideological certainty, and civic breakdown, A World We Share connects democracy not to consensus or moral purity but to our capacity to maintain relationships with others we do not agree with—and cannot fully understand.

Local Event:  Roger Berkowitz, A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World 

 Roger Berkowitz, A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah...

In conversation with Michelle Murray.
FREE. Registration Requested.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was known to possess a “genius...

 Roger Berkowitz, A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World 

In conversation with Akiko Busch.
FREE. Registration Requested.
Bill Allen's work echoes beloved voices from poetry, poets, history and politics and a look at the natural world in an era of climate action, with personal memories and a fervent look into language, love and the ties that bind us to each other. There's humor, humanism, a music of the earth, irreverence, a quest for ethical answers in a world titling off its axis. Poems echo Lowell and Bishop, Pasolini, Philip Levine and Muriel Rukeyser, with their spirits of questioning and grace. Also a visual artist, Bill's work can be seen at <a href="https://www.ekphrases.com.He" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.ekphrases.com.He</a> is the recipient of a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing and has published five previous books of poems. Bill worked at the United Nations in New York in writing and technology communications for many years after teaching at Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts, hoping to bring a poetry of humanism and heart to the poetry canon. He's currently working with a conservation advisory group to explore and inventory Hudson Valley local habitats and climate needs.

Local Event:  Poetry Reading: William Allen, THE BIRTH OF THE ATLANTIC 

 Poetry Reading: William Allen, THE BIRTH OF...

In conversation with Akiko Busch.
FREE. Registration Requested.
Bill Allen's work echoes beloved voices from poetry, poets,...

 Poetry Reading: William Allen, THE BIRTH OF THE ATLANTIC 

Ella

New York City Metropolitan Area

Putnam County

Southeast-Brewster

Litchfield County

Rich Kirby

Hartford Metropolitan Area

New Milford

Connecticut

Westchester County

Jeff Edwards

Peekskill-Cortlandt

Yorktown-Somers

Fairfield County

Hayleigh Evans

Danbury

Brookfield

Ossining-Croton-On-Hudson

Ridgefield

Rockland County

New City

Bethel

Old Dutch Church

Internationally acclaimed Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo returns to Kingston’s historic Old Dutch Church on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at 3 p.m. Praised by Peter Gabriel and Natalie Merchant, Lhamo brings her extraordinary voice and heartfelt message of compassion to an afternoon concert benefiting the One Drop of Kindness Foundation. Following her September 2025 performance at the church, this return engagement offers Hudson Valley audiences a chance to experience music that transcends language and culture while supporting communities in need. Join us at 272 Wall Street, Kingston, for an inspiring afternoon of music and kindness. Tickets are available now through Eventbrite.

Local Event: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert at Kingston's Old Dutch Church

Ulster County

Kingston

Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert...

Internationally acclaimed Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo returns to Kingston’s historic Old Dutch Church on Saturday, November...

Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert at Kingston's Old Dutch Church

Nearby Communities

State Edition

National Edition

Ella, Neighbor

Posting Activity

Stissing Center’s Writers & Readers: Rachel Greenfield, ROSE KNOX: How One Woman Mixed Kitchen and

NOV

8

3:00 PM

Stissing Center for Arts and Culture, 2950 W Church St, Pine Plains, NY

Sarah Combs, WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET: A Ghost Light's Tale

NOV

10

6:00 PM

Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY

Roger Berkowitz, A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World

NOV

12

6:15 PM

Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY

Poetry Reading: William Allen, THE BIRTH OF THE ATLANTIC

NOV

13

6:00 PM

Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY

Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert at Kingston's Old Dutch Church