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 🍴)

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