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Pride starts early in June across the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Berkshires. This episode I talk to Osun Zotique, executive director of OutHudson and the co-grand marshal of Hudson Pride. If you’re following the news, you may have also seen that Osun just announced a historic run for congress to represent the new 19th district. To their knowledge, Osun is the first trans non-binary candidate to run for national office. Learn more at OsunforNY.com.

Osun and I talk about pride in the Hudson Valley, about Hudson (“the P-town of the Hudson Valley”), about LGBTQ contribution to the upstate’s community, economy and culture. Osun also teaches me about “forest bathing” and how this year’s Pride is an opportunity to take that COVID Stickiness and well, dance it out...

Find Pride events mentioned in this episode and many others on the Cidiot.com blog post and follow Cidiot on Instagram.

Thank for listening. And special thank you as well to show sponsors Hudson Valley Kitchen Design Center and Taconic Toastmasters Club.

Photo credit: JD Urban. Provided by OutHudson.

Welcome to Season 6 of Cidiot®!

I'm excited to talk about 700,000 acre-big Catskill Park, "America's First Wilderness," with Ryan Penny, owner of Camp Catskill in Tannersville, NY.

In two parts, we'll cover what drew Ryan to the Catskills, about starting his store in Tannersville, spotting a cidiot, and about Catskill Park, including his four favorite spots "inside the blue line." We also get into Kaaterskill Falls and the controversy of its claim as the tallest waterfall in New York state. We also talk about micro spikes, crampons and how I shouldn’t wear my Stan Smiths into waterfalls. In part two, we cover culture, including the story and connection of Rip Van Winkle. You'll want to wake up for this.

Be sure to check out these links:

• Tannersville: Cidiot Guide to 5 Places To Visit Nearby (on the Cidiot.com blog)
• Camp Catskill store (Use promo code CIDIOT10 for 10% off. For a limited time.)
• Episode 55: Hike Your Own Hike (with Sean of Mountain-Hiking.com)

Cidiot® is a registered trademark, hosted and produced by Mat Zucker. Visit Cidiot.com for more info including sponsorship and partnership opportunities. Original music created by Space Studios.

This episode is about managing stress and the proven science of the great outdoors being good for you. I also talk to Allison Chawla, host of Talk to Allison on Radio Free Rhinecliff as well as a psychotherapist, healer, and coach. We talk about change, giving up what is comfortable, about the artistic hamlet of Rhinecliff, parenting, moving up here from the city, newfound diversity, foraging—and keeping a knife under her bed in fear of the silence.

In other news, Cidiot made the finals for 2022 Chronogrammies Best Regional Podcast, so get ready to vote in April.

Carole Osterink writes The Gossips of Rivertown, a blog that is news and commentary (and takes its name from a novel by a Hudson writer). It’s a must-read for all of us who live here. This episode tune into Carole’s story, how she chooses what to cover, if she considers herself a journalist andtr advise if you want to start a hyperlocal news sources like it in your town.

I hope you have something like it where you live. And I hope it’s written by someone like Carole.

Hyperlocal newspapers & blogs (pls send in more!):

• A Little Beacon Blog (Beacon)
• Croton History & Mysteries (Croton)
• The Daily Catch (Red Hook and Rhinebeck)
• Daily Freeman (Ulster, Green & No. Dutchess Counties)
• The Gardiner Gazette (Gardiner):
• The Gossips of Rivertown (Hudson)
• The Highlands Current (Philipstown, Cold Spring, Garrison)
• The Hudson Valley Pilot (Rhinebeck)
• Hudson Valley One (Ulster County)
• Hudson Valley Post
• IMBY (several counties)
• Kingston Wire (Kingston)
• Mid-Hudson News
• Ossining History on the Run (Ossining)
• Tgazette (Taghkanic)

Plus, Mat is recently interviewed on the Rhinebeck Scoop podcast about Cidiot.

There also are many good visitor and travel blogs to the Hudson Valley but that’s a separate list. Let me know if I should put one together.

Cidiot® is the award-winning podcast about moving to the Hudson Valley. Please rate & review the show at Cidiot.com, join the mailing list, and get in touch about what you like—and what you’d like to hear about. And come visit.

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Sometimes the show takes you to new places, and sometimes the way to get there is the destination. U.S. Route 9 is historic—for much of the portion in New York State, it's The Albany Post Road. Join Cidiot® for a very personal driving tour from Poughkeepsie to Kinderhook with sites, stops and history along the way. Be sure to see the surviving markers, a system developed by Ben Franklin, including the iconic 100-mile marker in Rhinebeck.

Below are some of the places mentioned w/links for more info.

Poughkeepsie to Hyde Park:

• Marist College
• Culinary Institute of America
• FDR Presidential Library and Museum
• Vanderbilt Mansion

Staatsburgh to Rhinebeck:

• River & Post restaurant
• Mills Mansion (Staatsburgh State Historical Site)
• Habitas on Hudson
• Patty’s Pet Palace
• The Beekman Arms
• Le Petit Bistro
• Samuels Sweet Shop
• Oblong Books (book recommendations on Episode 77)
• Rhinebeck Farmer’s Market
• 100 Mile Marker (picture on Cidiot Instagram)
• Northern Dutchess Hospital
• Co. coworking
• Dutchess County Fairgrounds
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

Red Hook:

• Maizeland (Van Ness House)
• Taste Budd’s Cafe
• Annabelle’s Village Bake Shop
• The Corner Counter
• Localvore
• Historic Village Diner (The Halfway Diner)
• The Elmendorph Inn
• Rose Hill Farm
• Greig Farm
• Lasting Joy Brewery

Clermont to Claverack:

• Tousey Winery
• Hearty Roots Community Farm
• Suarez Family Brewery
• Alltown Fresh
• Mx Morningstar Farm

Claverack to Hudson:

• Olana Historic Site
• Visit Hudson NY site
• Wylde Hudson coffee & bar
• MOTO coffee
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