Compass A&E

It isn’t often that a book of poetry becomes a publishing sensation, but that’s what happened with Edgar Lee Masters and his “Spoon River Anthology” when it came out in 1915.

The Re Institute in North East/Millerton, N.Y., has an ongoing outdoor showing of work by dozens of artist called Together in Isolation. 

“The show is laid out along a path that meanders around a pond and through farm fields, allowing the viewer to explore at their own pace and direction,” according to the Re Institute website.

The D. M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Conn., presents a new show of paintings of female figures by three renowned area artists: Robert Cronin of Falls Village, Conn., Sam Posey of Sharon, Conn., and Robert Andrew Parker of  Cornwall, Conn.

The fourth annual Clay Way Studio Tour of artists who do ceramics and pottery in the Tri-state region will be held  on the weekend of Oct. 17 and 18. 

As always, some artists will show their work in the studios of other artists, so that there will be a total of 15 artists and nine studios in two states. 

This weekend and every weekend until Election Day (Nov. 3), the online ReadIn of “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. Du Bois continues. 

There are excellent orchards nearby where you can pick fruit for yourself or buy it pre-picked. Windy Hill Farm in Great Barrington, Mass., has five varieties of apple on offer now and will make other varieties available (including some heirlooms) as they hit their peak.

Ben Wolff has continued the tradition of exquisite and understated pottery and “horticultureware” that was begun by his father, Guy Wolff. 

In a world where you can’t go to a theater to see films or plays, now there is another option: Drive-ins. The Four Brothers Drive-In Theatre in Amenia, N.Y., was a regional pioneer, and continues to show first-run and classic films.