Member Spotlights
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January 4, 2020
Matthew Landfield, Caitlyn Barton-Landfield, and their son Benjamin
Member since: 2020 (but affiliated with WKC since 1990)
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Matthew’s favorites are from his years in the Workshop- Twelfth Night in 1991 and Romeo and Juliet in 1992; but we also have a special soft spot for the 2020 Zoom production of Two Gentlemen of Verona
First WKC performance or event: Matthew had the pleasure of performing in the 1990 WKC Shakespeare in the Valley production of As You Like It
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Rufus Wainwright, Trouble in Paradise 
Favorite local walk: The woods behind our house
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Instant Pot congee porridge
Favorite local business or organization: In no particular order: Hillhaven Farm stand, Tay Tea (love the Kamala [Harris] blend), Delhi Paint and Paper, Albatross Farm (love their eggs), Solinsky’s, Good Cheap Food
Favorite yoga pose: Tree pose 
Greatest fear: Swimming in deep water
Living person you most admire: Brian Lehrer from WNYC Radio
Last vacation destination: Letchworth State Park
Greatest extravagance: Folding kayaks!
Currently on your bedside table: The Silk Roads, A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan, and The Baker’s Secret by Stephen Kiernan
Your motto: Do the Thing and you shall have the Power (thanks, grandpa) 
December 21, 2020
Vanessa Van Burek & Co. (Mae, Luc, and Uly too)
Member since: Since before there were members (I actually have no idea)
Favorite WKC performance thus far: The Holmes Brothers (Vanessa), Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2001 (Mae and Uly), all of the Intro and Shakespeare shows (Luc)
First WKC performance or event: Shakespeare 2012 at 3 weeks old (Luc) 
Vanessa’s favorite WKC experiences: The camaraderie of Shakespeare in the Valley both as participant and teacher; the full circle moments of watching my kids do the same things I did as a kid; the showering of love and recognition that my mom [Martha Van Burek] received at her great retirement rumpus.
Mae’s favorite WKC experience: Playing Umbridge in 2019
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Traveling/Adventuring/Photography (Vanessa), Harry Potter (Mae), Ducks (Luc)
Currently on heavy rotation on their playlists: Hamilton soundtrack (Mae), 
Bucket List Family playlist and A Promised Land audiobook (Vanessa)
Favorite local walk: WKC – Irish Hill – Elk Creek – Turnpike – WKC = 7 mile loop 
Their family motto: Be the change you wish to see in the world – Gandhi
December 14, 2020
The Copperwheat Family
Members since: 2010
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Sourdoe!
First WKC performance: Alison opening for The Holmes Brothers
Favorite upstate beverage: Cider from Fly Creek Cider Mill 
Permanent source of inspiration: The strength of our family
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Art!
Favorite local business: WKC of course, and The Tulip and The Rose Cafe
December 7, 2020
Swati Desai and Gary Stephens
Members since: circa 1982
Favorite WKC event: impossible to settle on just one! Here are our top three: Johnny Cunningham’s Irish Xmas; John McCage’s visit and concert with Meredith Monk, Colin Walcott and other local musicians; Horszowski Trio
First WKC performance or event: It was way back. Maybe the first Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Nancy Fales Garrett
Currently on heavy rotation on their playlist: Indian Classical music (Swati) and Charlie Mingus (Gary)
Favorite walk: Up Turnpike Road to the top of the hill behind Tjalling Heyning’s house, and back home on Hanford Road via WKC
Favorite local business or organization: The StoneHouse, The Green Toad Bookstore in Oneonta
Greatest extravagance: Boat trip on Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Favorite holiday: Thanksgiving (editor’s note: the picture says it all 
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Favorite smell: Mock Orange
Coffee or tea: Too much of both 
Pet peeve: People driving fast on dirt roads
Their motto: Be nice
November 30, 2020
Dusanka Miscevic
Member since: 2019, but patron since 1989
Favorite WKC event thus far: Martha’s retirement party. Well done! 🎉
First WKC performance or event: Alexander String Quartet, 1989
Favorite local beverage: Teas blended by Tay Tea
Favorite walk: Out the door and into wilderness 🌱
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Stamford Friends of Music
Local ingredient always in her fridge: Eggs from my neighbor’s chickens, and maple syrup
Favorite local business or organization: see greatest obsession 🎶 🎶
Favorite film: Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti
Greatest extravagance: Dark chocolate with black truffles from Slovenia
Most overused emoji: 😅
If she had more time, she’d: Study Ancient Greek
Most treasured possession: Buddha statue placed into my hands by the Dalai Lama
Currently on her bedside table: that very Buddha statue
November 23, 2020
Wijnanda Deroo
Member since: 1990
Favorite WKC event: It’s a tie between Sam Reider’s “The Human Hands” and Dakhabrakha
Favorite local beverage: when it’s time for a G&T, Prohibition Distillery. If the occasion calls for beer: Upward Brewing
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Pink Martini
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Photography and art 📸
Favorite local business or organization: Franklin Stage, Hollow, Mountain Brook Inn
Last vacation destination: Offshore Maine, by sailboat and kayak ⛵️
Favorite smell: The ocean and coffee
Currently on her bedside table: “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” by Gertrude Stein, with illustrations by Maira Kalman
November 16, 2020
Scott DeSimon
Member since: 2018
Favorite WKC event: City that Drinks the Mountain Sky is the best thing EVER (I also loved my older son’s acting debut at the Young People’s Theater Arts in 2019) 🎭
First WKC performance or event: crashed the summer food fest a few years back.
Favorite local beverage: Gin ‘n Tonic with Isolation Proof
Currently on heavy rotation on his playlist: Music made by old German men when they were young. Also: The Monkees
Local ingredient always in his fridge: Cowbella Creamery butter (also out on the counter)
Favorite local business or organization: so many, but I’ll pick Hollow and Delhi Paint and Paper
Permanent source of inspiration: friends making things that previously didn’t exist
Favorite yoga pose: “Is it supposed to feel like this?”
Favorite season: baseball ⚾️
Favorite flower: the wild phlox of Delaware County
Favorite smell: woodsmoke on the first frosty night of fall 🔥🍁
Currently on his bedside table: “Woodcutters” by Thomas Bernhard, and a broken maraca
November 9, 2020
David Wawro
Member since: not sure, probably early 1990s
Favorite WKC event: the Annual Barn Tour, organized by Butch Walker
First WKC performance or event: host in the mists of memory
Favorite local beverage: spring water 💦
Currently on heavy rotation on his playlist: Pancrace Royer, “L’Aimable”
Greatest obsession: riding our horses
Local ingredient always in his fridge: Clark’s Dairy Milk 🐄
Idea of perfect happiness: Didn’t know there was such a thing
Living person he most admires: our daughter, Leah
Favorite season: all of them, except mud season
Currently on his bedside table: “Dreamland” by Rosa Rankin-Gee (on my Kindle)
November 2, 2020
Abby Kinsley
Member since: a very long time (Martha knows!)
Favorite WKC event: Queen Ida
Favorite local beverage: the water from my spring
Currently on heavy rotation on her playlist: The Rolling Stones
Favorite walk: The beach at low tide 👣
Favorite local business or organization: Good Cheap Food
Permanent source of inspiration: Clouds ☁️ ☁️ ☁️
Greatest fear: Thunderstorms
Favorite film: A Trip to the Moon
Most overrated virtue: consistency
Quality she most likes in a man: honesty
Quality she most likes in a woman: honesty
Favorite smell: salt air
October 26, 2020
Christine Kovich
Member since: 2018
Favorite WKC event thus far: Jane Bunnett & Maqueque in 2018, but Shakespeare in the Valley is brilliant every year!
First WKC performance or event: It was a kids’ performance, Dan Zanes & Elizabeth Mitchell in 2015. First time I made it out to the WKC.
Currently on heavy rotation on her playlist: Very early U2 and Joy Division. It speaks to the times.
Favorite local business or organization: So many! Heaven On Main Street, Clarks Dairy, Mountain Brook Inn, Putt Putt Van Winkle, Brushland Eating, Catskills Harvest, to name but a few.💕
Permanent source of inspiration: All the creative makers who throw caution to the wind and say “I am just going to do this!”.
October 19, 2020
Lisa Jacobson
Member since: 2018.
Favorite WKC event thus far: A poetry reading by Hayden Carrouth. It must have been in the early 90s. Everyone in the audience was crying. That’s how moving it was.
First WKC performance or event: That very reading may well have been my first exposure to the WKC.
Currently on heavy rotation on her playlist: I listen to WBGO, a jazz station in Newark, all day long. 🎺
Greatest obsession: Collectively researching how human designed systems are incompatible with planetary systems.
Idea of perfect happiness: The standard of happiness can be quite stressful on humans. Moments of joy are much more obtainable.
Favorite smell: Oil paint in an artist’s studio 🖌
October 12, 2020
Vern & Janette Barnes of Stamford
Members since: it all started with the Stamford Pharmacy in the 1990s.
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Too many to name just one! Colin Hay, who we saw with 11-year-old Patrick; Amos Lee; The Holmes Brothers; Jon Cleary 🎶
First WKC performance or event: Dancing outside to Cuban music.
Currently on heavy rotation on their playlist: The Lumineers and Black Pumas
Favorite local walks: Mt U with Barb and Diamond Notch Falls
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Janette is still writing the same story; Vern’s in search of the perfect golf swing 🏌️♂️
Favorite local business or organization: Shop local, folks!!
Idea of perfect happiness: The entire family together under one roof.
If they had more time, they’d: weed the garden (Janette) and go to the gym (Vern)
Pet peeve: drivers who invite you to proceed when they have the right of way
Most treasured possession: Each other (awww 💕), their family and their skis ⛷⛷
Their motto: Dessert first! 🍨🍫🍪
October 5, 2020
Tabor & Risdon Reed
Members since: 2020
Favorite WKC event thus far: Macbeth, summer 2019!
First WKC performance: Red Baraat
Currently on heavy rotation on Tabor’s playlist: Piano Man by Billy Joel 🎹
Greatest fear: The dark (Risdon)
Favorite holiday: Christmas 🎄 (in unison)
Favorite season: fall (Tabor)
Favorite color: green (Tabor)
Coffee or tea: Tea (Risdon)
Pet peeve: People biting into both Kit Kats at once (Risdon) 🍫🍫
Risdon’s motto: Hakuna Matata
September 28, 2020
Graphic Designer Cindy Dunne
Member since: 1998
Favorite performance: Can’t have just one… Dakhabrakha, LADAMA, Red Baraat, The Campbell Brothers…
Favorite WKC moment: an outdoor performance by The Skatalites in front of a backdrop of Willie Sander’s cows on the pasture at sunset
Permanent source of inspiration: Nature 🍂
Idea of perfect happiness: A dual existence of physical work with plants and animals and metaphysical work of art and poetry
Currently on her bedside table: “The Wisdom of the Beguines, The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement”; Jacques Lusseyran’s autobiography “And There Was Light”
Favorite local organization: Water Farm Forest — their mission to keep working landscapes in the Catskills is a huge part of why this is such a great place to live.
Her Motto: “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.”— Mary Baker Eddy
September 21, 2020
Barb Palmer
Member since: I’ve attended since the beginning, but I can’t remember if I was an official member the entire time.
Favorite WKC performances so far: Chic Gamine, Greg Brown, The Holmes Brothers
First WKC performance: one of the chamber music series.
Favorite upstate beverage: freshly pressed cider. 🍎
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: photographing birds.
Most treasured possession: my grandmother’s quilts. 🧵
Thing that most inspires her: natural surroundings. 🌿
Favorite local businesses: Solinsky’s Meats, Mill Pond Inn, and The Jefferson Historical Society
September 14, 2020
Artist Victor Mullen
Member since: forever.
Favorite WKC performance so far: impossible to narrow down! I’m a blues fan, so it could have been Jack DeJohnette, The Homes Brothers, Junior Wells (Official), or Pinetop Perkins.
First WKC performance: Not sure of the year but Teddy Wilson I think. Teddy died in the mid-80’s, so well before that. That was it! I was sold!
Favorite walk: right out my door – Gunhouse Hill Road – up the hill, and into paradise!
Greatest obsessions: drawing, painting and playing blues harp with “Say What”, our band.
September 7, 2020
Marianne Neuber
Member since: 2007
Favorite WKC performance so far: Sam Baker
First WKC performance: Karan Casey
Favorite local beverage: Red currant wine 🍷
Local ingredient always in my fridge: Homemade pesto 🌱
On your mantelpiece: Animal skulls
Motto: You have to work hard to feel good.
August 31, 2020
Monica-Lisa Mills
Member since: 2020!
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Pandemic has prevented this 😕
First WKC performance or event: Art silent auction, summer 2019!
Favorite local beverage: Water
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Jake Blount’s Spider Tales
Greatest fear: Three-way split between “They will never find a vaccine” “Trump 2020-2024” and “Death”
Currently on her bedside table: The Religion of the Future, This is Happiness, How to Do Nothing
August 24, 2020
Teacher Don Thomases & librarian Julie Rockefeller 📚
Members since: 2011
First WKC performance or event: Mermer Blakeslee’s Writing Class
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Meredith Monk (unanimously!)
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Bob Dylan, Rough & Rowdy Ways
Favorite local walk: Catskill Scenic Trail
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Hobart Book Village, Festival of Women Writers (Julie)
Local ingredient always in their fridge: Harpersfield Cheese
Favorite local business or organization: The Bull & Garland
Last vacation destination: Whale watching in Baja, Mexico 🐋
Currently on their beside tables: The Yellow House by Sarah Broom (Julie), Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Don)
August 17, 2020
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
Member since: 2006
Favorite WKC performance thus far: The Carolina Chocolate Drops – a life-altering experience.
Currently on heavy playlist rotation: John Doe. Macy Gray. The Mighty Clouds of Joy. Blick Bassy’s enrapturing “1958.” She adds, “this summer, a generous friend sent me Lucinda Williams’ brilliant “Good Souls Better Angels” on vinyl, so that gets a lot of play at top volume. It’s the perfect anthem for our time.”
Favorite local beverage: Staghorn sumac tea from my backyard.
Favorite local business/organization: the 607 CSA has been an essential nutrient and source of joy throughout the pandemic, with home delivery of fantastic produce and prepared foods from our local farm geniuses, including Berry Brook, Greenane, Painted Goat, and RambleBramble.
Idea of perfect happiness: Kyoto. Being there, thinking about it, plotting my return.
Favorite yoga poses: “Gazing at Pond,” “Preparing to Vote,” “Surviving 2020.”
Motto: “Having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” — Andy Warhol
August 10, 2020
Jon Barber
Member since: circa 2005
First WKC performance: A Canadian group from Nova Scotia
Favorite performance: Suzy Boggus
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Golf 🏌🏼
Favorite local business: Stamford Golf Club 🏌🏼
Idea of perfect happiness: Golf 🏌🏼
Greatest extravagance: Playing at Pebble Beach in California (that’s a world famous golf course, duh) 🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼🏌🏼
August 3, 2020
Joan Tubridy
Member since: 1984
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band
Favorite local walk: Monroe Road, from my house to Turnpike Road and back – my morning routine
Living person she most admires: Bernie Sanders
Quality she likes best in a man (or woman): Kindness
Currently on her bedside table: Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell
July 6, 2020
James Hegge
Member since: 2017
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Vieux Farka Touré
First WKC performance or event: Spring Foraging Workshop with Maguerite Uhlmann
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: woodworking
Favorite local business or organization: Good Cheap Food
Permanent source of inspiration: the trees
Idea of perfect happiness: Swimming in my pond
Favorite yoga pose: Crow
Favorite film: The Third Man
Favorite flower: Hellebore
Most overused emoji: clapping hands 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Favorite smell: coffee
Coffee or tea: coffee
Most treasured possession: hand made fishing net, a collaboration between my grandfather and father, after my father was hospitalized for polio.
Hero of fiction: William Stoner of John Williams’ Stoner
June 29, 2020
Wendy Buerge, the proprietress of Dry Town Tavern
Member since: 2014
Favorite WKC performance thus far: The Holmes Brothers
Currently on heavy rotation on her playlist: Michael Kiwanuka
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Chef Deanna’s Sunday Suppers
Favorite local business or organization: Heart of the Catskills Humane Society
Favorite smell: Cardamom
Permanent source of inspiration: My daughter
Greatest extravagance: My greenhouse
Most overrated virtue: Ambition! I am striving to be a bit more of an underachiever these days.
Favorite flower: Amaranth (Martha Van Burek introduced me to this incredible flower during a West Kortright dinner!)
June 22, 2020
Tod Maitland
Member since: 2017, the first year we arrived in Delaware County.
Favorite WKC performance thus far: All the outdoor concerts. I love outdoor music, dancing, talking to local friends, and a cold Brewery Ommegang Rare Vos Amber Ale. Sarah and I took the rock wall building class and loved it. I’m building a wall now.
Idea of perfect happiness: If East Meredith were on the ocean.
Currently on his bedside table: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. I read it many years ago. With the current state of the world, it struck me as a good time to re-read it.
Favorite flower: Sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻 they say it all, especially when they hang out in groups.
Favorite holiday: Thanksgiving: The 4 F’s: Food, Family, Friends, and Football.
Favorite film: It’s not my favorite film, but a recent film I really connected with was the documentary “The Biggest Little Farm”. If I didn’t make films, farm life would be the life I’d choose.
Favorite walk: Heading out from our house with my GPS, a bottle of water and no particular destination.
June 15, 2020
Clara Clack
Member since: I’ve lost count, more than 15 years? (confirmed: since 1997, to be exact!)
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Shakespeare in the Valley, Flor de Toloache, the Roche sisters, classicals etc.
First WKC performance or event: “Midsummer Nights Dream” at the Delhi school
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Rolf’s Pork Store in Albany
Favorite local business or organization: Buck Hill Farm
Permanent source of inspiration: my husband
Idea of perfect happiness: my husband
Greatest fear: brown recluse spiders
Most overrated virtue: dusting
Quality you most like in a man: gardening
Quality you most like in a woman: organization
Favorite smell: lilacs
June 8, 2020
Nini Ordoubadi of Tay Tea in Delhi
Member since: 2018
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Mohsen Namjoo
First WKC performance: Vieux Farka Touré concert
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Carlos Santana “OYE COMO VA”
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: foraging
Favorite local business or organization: Heart of the Catskills Humane Society
Permanent source of inspiration: Frida Kahlo
Idea of perfect happiness: watching my cats sleeping
Living person you most admire: Jane Goodall
Historical figure you most identify with: Diana Vreeland
Favorite film: La nuit de Varennes
Favorite flower: Rosa Rugosa – it’s an important ingredient in some of my tea blends
Your most overused emoji: 🙄🙄🙄
Coffee or tea: Tea of course!
Your motto: “We drink tea to forget the noise of the world”
June 1, 2020
Sarah Orlinsky-Maitland
Member since: 2017
Favorite WKC performance thus far: DakhaBrakha, Meredith Monk, and J.P. Harris & Chance McCoy were just some of the events that have blown me away. But honestly, I’ve never been disappointed.
Favorite local beverage: Nini’s Tay Tea Azul Tea spiked with KAS Krupnikas on ice
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Wild Women Blues Live
Favorite local walk: Andes Rail Trail
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: Good Cheap Food
Greatest fear: ticks
Favorite smell: spring
Pet peeve: littering
Motto: choose happiness
May 25, 2020
Bella Mirabella
Member: since the very beginning
Favorite WKC performance: Jacky Terrasson, jazz pianist
Fictional Hero: Hamlet
Favorite flower: Hairy mountain mint
Motto: “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” Winston Churchill
Greatest fear: Donald Trump remains in power
Favorite Holiday: Christmas
Permanent source of inspiration: Shakespeare and Nature
On bedside table: The Odd Women, George Gissing
May 18, 2020
Andrea Sanders from Delhi’s The StoneHouse
Member since: sometime after 2007. That’s when I moved up here full time…. My husband Clark has been a member forever.
Favorite WKC performance thus far: there have been so many, and my memory fails me… one of the best was the second concert of last season, Sona Jobarteh
First WKC performance or event: summer dance 2008
Favorite local walk: across all the fields around our property between Turnpike Road, West Kortright Church Road, and Hanford Road. I can see the WKC!
Permanent source of inspiration: artisans all over the world
Most overrated virtues: tenacity and assertiveness
Favorite season: always the one that I experience at the moment… except for mud season!!
Andrea’s most overused emoji: 😅
May 11, 2020
Deirdre Larkin and Tom Groves
Members since: 1998
Favorite WKC performance thus far: (unanimously) DakhaBrakha
Favorite local beverage: (again, unanimously) our friend Michael’s cider
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: anything by Purcell (Tom), Leonard Cohen Live in London (Deirdre)
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: the plant world (Deirdre), singing opera (Tom)
Greatest fear: Losing his voice (Tom), losing her eyesight (Deirdre)
Most admired living person: (unanimously) the notorious RBG
Motto: “Keep on moving and don’t look back” (Deirdre), per aspera ad astra (Tom)
May 4, 2020
Writer Mermer Blakeslee
Member since: 1999
Favorite WKC performance thus far: DakhaBrakha and Greg Brown (so different I can’t choose)
First WKC performance or event: Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band
Favorite upstate beverage: Three Philosophers beer (Ommegang Brewery)
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: The Iranian singer Rana Farhan and Leonard Cohen
Favorite walk: through my garden and up to the top of the north meadow
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: gardening
Local ingredient that is always in your fridge: salad greens from Berry Brook Farm
April 27, 2020
Kate Marsiglio from Stony Creek Farmstead in Walton.
Member since: 2005
Favorite WKC performance thus far: An acapella singing workshop with the Bumper Jacksons
First WKC performance or event: Shakespeare in the Valley – Love’s Labor Lost
Currently on heavy rotation on her playlist: Anything my two teenagers are listening to. With my daughter – Green Day, Weezer, Led Zeppelin, The Clash; and anything that is electronic/dance music with my son.
Favorite local business or organization: Just too many to choose! Faiga at Good Cheap food, Lucky Dog Farm and Stone and Thistle Farm have been instrumental in helping us start as farmers. Now, after 15 years, I feel like we are witnessing the rebirth of small diverse farms all over the county thanks in no small part to the support of all of the incredible support of our community members!
Greatest extravagance: Swimming in our pond once a day in the Summer.
Quality she likes most in a man: The renaissance quality – He can do just about anything.
Quality she likes most in a woman: Confidence.
Favorite season: Spring! no Summer! no Fall! wait…Winter!!
Favorite smell: The smell of milkweed flowers when they bloom. Better than lilac or rose!
April 20, 2020
Filmmaker Bas Berkhout and web designer Hanne Ghijsen.
Members since: 2020
Favorite WKC performance thus far: Arm-of-the-Sea
First WKC performance or event: We don’t remember! 😭
Favorite local walk: From our house to Heleen Heyning’s
Permanent source of inspiration: Local friends
Idea of perfect happiness: No more emails
Most overrated virtue: Patience
Favorite flower: Tulip
Coffee or tea: Fruity coffee from Africa
April 13, 2020
Jenine Osbon of Peakes Brook Farm.
Member since: 2020
Favorite WKC event thus far: West Kortright Fair
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: The Beach Boys and the Mary Poppins soundtrack
Favorite local walk: Catskill Scenic Trail
Favorite yoga pose: Standing Forward Bend
Favorite color: Indigo
Pet peeve: Putting produce in plastic bags
April 6, 2020
Lenny Davis
Member since: the beginning
Favorite performance: John Cage and Meredith Monk
First WKC performance: Oregon
Favorite local drink: the cabernet franc I’m growing in my vineyard
Greatest obsession outside of WKC: working on a book about how poverty is represented in literature and media
Greatest fear: boredom
Last vacation destination: Sicily
Favorite food: chocolate
