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Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department Texas Hold’em

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The Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, February 22, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located at 35 Grange Hall Road in Stephentown. The doors will open at 5:30 pm and close at 6 pm. Play begins at 6:15 sharp.

No advance registration is required. A donation of $35 per player will be accepted and give the player 6,000 in chip value. Players can make an additional $10 donation at the door for 2,000 extra in chip value. This tournament will pay one place for every 10 players with a minimum of four places and a maximum of 9 places.

A free buffet will be served at the first break, and refreshments will be available.

For more information, please call John Linton at 518-733-0469.

King Lear At Hubbard Hall

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The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall (TCHH) will present Shakespeare’s King Lear, widely regarded as the greatest tragic drama ever written, from February 27 to March 23.

Based on the legend of Leir of Britain, the title character descends into madness after dividing his estate between Goneril and Regan, the two daughters who flatter him, while disinheriting Cordelia, the daughter who truly loves him. The role of Lear has been coveted and played by many of the world’s most accomplished actors, and no less an observer than George Bernard Shaw said, “No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear.”

TCHH Artistic Director John Hadden will perform Lear and co-direct with Ava Roy, who enacts the dual roles of Cordelia and the Fool. Other leading roles will be undertaken by Carmen-Maria Mandley as Goneril, Myka Plunkett as Regan, Gino Costabile as Edmund, Doug Ryan as Gloucester, John Terry as Kent and James Udom as Edgar.

There will be 13 performances of King Lear – February 27 (pay what you will/open rehearsal) at 8 pm, February 28 and March 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 8 pm and March 2, 9, 16 and 23 at 2 pm. Tickets cost $22 for Hubbard Hall members, $25 for non-members and $15 for students and children. Tickets are available at www.hubbardhall.org or by calling 518-677-2495.

Hubbard Hall is located at 25 East Main Street in Cambridge, NY.  For more information on this and all Hubbard Hall programs, or to purchase tickets, register for classes, make a donation and/or become a member or theatre subscriber please visit www.hubbardhall.org or call 518-677-2495.

The Life Of George Holcomb – Charlotte Has A Bad Night With Asthma

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Tuesday, August 10, 1830: This forenoon we mended fence on my Rodgers farm and reaped a few lodged oats.  We drove home the unruly steer to put a larger yoke, and this afternoon we drew in our spring rye.  This afternoon our hired girl Esther Sheldon went with the horse and wagon to Hancock to get her shoes mended, and I had her call to Wm Hadsell store and had  half a pound tea charged, 20 cts.

Tuesday, August 16: We hayed on my Rodgers Farm and finished haying, said Asa Sheldon helped towards his rent, and brother Sylvester helped towards his rent.

Wednesday: Today we finished haying.  Asa Sheldon helped and brother Sylvester, to pay their house rent.  Today, cousin Clarissa Hamlet came to our house on a visit with three children to stay a few days.  They live in Troy.

Saturday: My hired boy Ancil Ingram rode down with me this evening to the pool.  I have been quite unwell today with a pain in my left shoulder, neck and head.

Sunday: I continue unwell and I took a portion phisic of castor oil, soaked myself in hot water, and put drafts on my feet.

Monday: Today I remain unwell but getting better.  This afternoon I rode up to brother Wm and put my horse side his and we went to Platt’s mill and got a load two-inch black oak planks and fetched them to his house, and then I borrowed nine of said plank and took the same team and fetched them home to make a hog pen floor

Tuesday: We plowed and shoveled dirt and leveled the dirt to set a hog pen. I cut and hewed the timbers and laid the floor.  Some rainy and we put up part of a load of potatoes and apples for market.

Wednesday: Today I put a horse side of brother Wm’s into his wagon and we went to Pittsfield with apples and five of potatoes.  I sold them from twenty five cts to forty cts per bushel, and the apples from 33 cts to 40 per bushel. I got in all for the apples and potatoes about three dollars and sixty seven cents.  We got home before night.  Tonight my oldest daughter Charlotte E. was quite unwell with the asthma.  I sat and held her in my lap and rocked her.  She was so stopped up she could not lie down and breathe easy.  Tonight a traveler stays with us, he paid sixteen cts for his supper, lodging and breakfast.

Thursday: This morning I took the single wagon and I and my wife went to Elijah Graves with our daughter Charlotte and he gave medicine. I got a portion of phisic for my self and said doctor gave me a writing to show to the Capt to clear me from military duty if I was called on to training today.

Patricia Jean Sherman

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Stephentown/New Lebanon – On February 5, 2014, Pat Sherman of Stephentown, NY, left the earth she loved so well. Born downstate, daughter of the late Lucille and Maury Medwick, she always knew there must be a place where she could live freely and unpretentiously, and once she found that place, she never left. She was an idealist and a realist who understood that the wilderness where she made her home had to be respected and fought for – she was a fighter through and through. She had little use for the things most people worried about – possessions, luxuries, even conveniences like electricity – but could love a tree to distraction and would go to any lengths to protect the creatures of the woods, many of which she rescued during her many years as a wildlife rehabilitator. It was not unusual for her to call a wild raccoon by name and see it come to her door. Her grandchildren remember how much fun it was to be with her; she had a wicked sense of humor.

In recent years she ran her antique shop in New Lebanon, NY, with the honest warmth, courtesy and cheerfulness she brought to her family, friends and the community that meant so much to her. Pat was too unsentimental to want to hear compliments like these, but those who loved her can’t hold them back now.

She leaves behind her children, Kelly Striefler of New Hampton, Bill Smith, of Stephentown and Kevin Smith of New Lebanon, her sisters, Sue Egen of Tucson, AZ, and Cathy Medwick of Somers, NY, and her grandchildren, Katelyn, Kimberly, Martin and M.J., Freling, Jessica, Candy, Linda, Michelle, William Jr., Jeanie and Kevin Jr.

Friends are invited to gather for refreshments and to celebrate Pat’s life at Smitty’s Pizza and Subs, Route 20, New Lebanon on Saturday, February 22, between 1 and 3 pm.