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dear readers,
c razy year, 2010. Sitting here gazing backward, it’s
tempting to try to make one of those end-of-theyear
Top Ten lists, sorting twelve months into ten
moments, an ultimately unsatisfying enterprise for
any who attempt it. So much crap this year: the oil
spill, Haiti earthquake, the Tea Party phenomenon. And more to come: at
this moment, Republican senators have unanimously signed a letter to the
President, stating that they won’t consider anything—at all—until all folks
are allowed to keep their Bush tax cuts. This while denying unemployment
payouts and talking about raising the Social Security retirement age. The
head-sized dent in my keyboard deepens…
But, aha! There’s also been some good news. Thanks to the tenacity of
informed New Yorkers working the phones, the moratorium (until May
of next year) on hydrofracking passed the state Senate and Assembly with
a solid majority. Regardless of your opinions about hydrofracking—where
deep oil shale formations are fractured by explosion, and billions of gallons
of chemically-laced water injected to harvest natural gas—it has become
increasingly clear that research about its long-term effects require more
independent study. It’s only a temporary stay, but the point is that if you’re
loud enough, your representative might actually hear you. We’ll have
to be especially loud with Governor Cuomo and the Senate/Assembly
this coming May, because the oil companies—and their paid hacks and
flacks—will be screaming.
Want more good news? We’ve got some right here in your hands. One
thing that hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years is how hard it is to be
an independent dairy farmer, where the price the milk industry pays for
milk is LESS than the cost of production. The farmers at Hudson Valley
Fresh decided to buck that trend, and formed a co-op with the idea of
selling high quality milk at its actual real-world price, doing their own
marketing, production, and distribution. Turns out that folks don’t mind
paying a little extra, the business is a success. See our Roll Community
section this month for more.
And we caught a lucky break this month, getting some personal face time
with the irrepressible Wavy Gravy, who has a new documentary coming
out, courtesy of Hudson Valley director/filmmaker Michelle Esrick.
While many of his Merry Prankster/Woodstock 60s peers spun off into
either the straight world or hippie oblivion, Wavy morphed into his nowfamous
clown persona—he had found out early on that cops had a hard
time bashing on a clown, or being seen doing so anyway—and continued
doing good works for others, bringing “positivity” all around the world.
He’ll be at Upstate Films in Woodstock for the screening (12/11, 4 PM).
You want even more? You came to the right place. We’ve expanded our
website to include video of our featured artists. Our listings go to great
lengths to include everyone and everything that’s happening in the area.
And we have some plans for the new year…oh, we’re just getting started
with this Roll thing, folks.
But we are making one big change right off the bat that we need you to
know about. One of the main things we hear from Roll readers is that people
prefer their monthly magazines to come out on the first of the month.
So the next issue of Roll you will see will be on February 1st, 2011. We
will be keeping the online calendar updated in the interim, so bookmark
www.rollmagazine.com, where you can check listings both by town and
by date. (Please note the listing deadline will be January 15.)
We’d like to wish a Very Happy Holiday to you and yours, from all of
us at Roll, and Best Wishes for 2011. We’re gonna definitely make 2011
an improvement on 2010, which really shouldn’t be too hard—with your
help, Dear Reader. See you February 1st!
Cheers,
Ross Rice, editor