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The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York

A documentary audio zine about upstate New York, with host James Cave as your bumbling Virgil. So far, The Jiffy has taken you to Pinksterfest in Kinderhook, vintage base ball games in Kingston, the elephant-filled corner office of the Ulster County Clerk, a forest of quaking trees in the Catskills, and up into the clock tower in Chatham – it"s a show about New York"s non-Manhattan regions, forever in search of the Kinderhook Blob.

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55:53

A Guide To The Many Chathams

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/09/14

Send us a text What does it mean to belong to a place? Standing in the famous gazebo at the intersection of multiple boundaries – the village of Chatham, the town of Chatham, and perhaps even the town of Ghent – this question feels especially important. This rural upstate New York community actually comprises numerous Chathams: Old Chatham, North Chatham, East Chatham, Chatham Center, and the village itself. And, of course, Malden Bridge. Through conversations with lifelong residents and rel...

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55:53

A Guide To The Many Chathams

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/09/14

Send a text What does it mean to belong to a place? Standing in the famous gazebo at the intersection of multiple boundaries – the village of Chatham, the town of Chatham, and perhaps even the town of Ghent – this question feels especially important. T...

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8:09

A Break For Some Local News

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/08/31

Send a text While on a holiday break at the Columbia County Fair, I'm sharing this special episode featuring local news stories from the Chatham Courier newspapers of the 1800s, available through the Hudson River Valley Heritage Historical Newspapers A...

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8:09

A Break For Some Local News

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/08/31

Send us a text While on a holiday break at the Columbia County Fair, I'm sharing this special episode featuring local news stories from the Chatham Courier newspapers of the 1800s, available through the Hudson River Valley Heritage Historical Newspapers Archive. I'll be back to normal programming in the next episode. Watch out for the horse thieves! Support the show "The Jiffy Audio Newsletter Podcast" is an audio documentary zine – the official podcast of The Jiffy – exploring the odd histo...

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31:19

The World's Most Ultimate Hudson Valley Picnic Of All...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/08/17

Send a text I finally received my first Listener Question!!! (You can use the link in the show notes above to send in yours.) So when listener Murphy asked how to create "the ultimate Hudson Valley picnic before it's too late," I embarked on a journey ...

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31:19

The World's Most Ultimate Hudson Valley Picnic Of All...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/08/17

Send us a text I finally received my first Listener Question!!! (You can use the link in the show notes above to send in yours.) So when listener Murphy asked how to create "the ultimate Hudson Valley picnic before it's too late," I embarked on a journey through picnicking's rich history and romantic execution. I learn some French, I learn some Basque, it's a worldly experience through time, seasons, and picnic traditions on the podcast today. Matthew White, proprietor of the Hillsdale Genera...

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15:12

A Postcard From Pinkster Fest

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/08/02

Send a text It’s a Jiffy Audio Postcard today from Rothermel Park in Kinderhook, where the Pinkster Festival – a powerful Black cultural celebration with Dutch colonial roots – was revived for the first time in more than 200 years. Pinkster began as a ...

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15:12

A Postcard From Pinkster Fest

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/08/02

Send us a text It’s a Jiffy Audio Postcard today from Rothermel Park in Kinderhook, where the Pinkster Festival – a powerful Black cultural celebration with Dutch colonial roots – was revived for the first time in more than 200 years. Pinkster began as a Dutch Christian holiday but evolved into a vital gathering for enslaved and free Black New Yorkers in the 18th and 19th centuries. This episode follows the festival’s modern-day return, in partnership with the African American Archive of Colu...

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23:48

The Hungry Eye Looks At Ruth Reichl And The Screaming...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/07/19

Send us a text I locked James out of the studio for this one. Because Ruth Reichl – my hero, my origin story, my reason for existing – came to Chatham, New York, to judge the Great Chatham Bake-Off. And I, The Hungry Eye, the anonymous food critic for the podcast, had to be there. In the gazebo. In the humidity. Bearing witness. In this episode, I take you to the center of it all in the village square as 30+ bakers compete for the coveted first place ribbon: There’s a pineapple-pistachio-baco...

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23:48

The Hungry Eye Looks At Ruth Reichl And The Screaming...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/07/19

Send a text I locked James out of the studio for this one. Because Ruth Reichl – my hero, my origin story, my reason for existing – came to Chatham, New York, to judge the Great Chatham Bake-Off. And I, The Hungry Eye, the anonymous food critic for the...

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40:01

Summer Reads & Lives Of Trees

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/07/05

Send us a text In this episode, I’m continuing our tour through The Jiffy-Mart – my online bodega and members’ lounge – and this time, we’re stepping through the forest refrigerator straight into the Catskill Mountains. I’m bringing back my series "Tree Minute" to finally learn what I’m looking at out there in the woods. To help, I’ve teamed up with Giovanna D’Angelo, an education forester with the Catskill Forest Association, who graciously agreed to teach me how to tell a yellow birch from ...

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40:01

Summer Reads & Lives Of Trees

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/07/05

Send a text In this episode, I’m continuing our tour through The Jiffy-Mart – my online bodega and members’ lounge – and this time, we’re stepping through the forest refrigerator straight into the Catskill Mountains. I’m bringing back my series "Tree M...

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29:51

The Bodega Cat Room and Beyond

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/06/28

Send a text In this episode, we tour the Jiffy-Mart, the official digital bodega of the James Cave Instagram Feed. Then we dive into a thoughtful exploration of land acknowledgments with Indigenous expert Heather Bruegl, who shares insights on creating...

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29:51

The Bodega Cat Room and Beyond

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/06/28

Send us a text In this episode, we tour the Jiffy-Mart, the official digital bodega of the James Cave Instagram Feed. Then we dive into a thoughtful exploration of land acknowledgments with Indigenous expert Heather Bruegl, who shares insights on creating meaningful statements that honor ancestral lands and their original stewards: Native-land.ca serves as a starting point for researching whose land you're onTribal territories often overlapped, unlike modern state bordersResearch should inclu...

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00:12:47

A Sleep Hike Through Mud Creek

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/05/28

It's Mud Season here, not just at The James Cave Instagram Feed, but across all of the northeast.And for this relaxing Sleep Hike, I thought it would be peaceful to take a restful walk through Mud Creek, in Hudson, New York. Mud Creek is a part of the Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, located on the property of Columbia County Soil & Water Conservation District office.They host a variety of hands-on, inquiry based, environmental education programs, and here, we take a Sleep Hike through

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12:47

A Sleep Hike Through Mud Creek

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/05/28

Send a text It's Mud Season here, not just at The James Cave Instagram Feed, but across all of the northeast. And for this relaxing Sleep Hike, I thought it would be peaceful to take a restful walk through Mud Creek, in Hudson, New York. Mud Creek is a...

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00:25:00

The Jiffy Gets Stuck In The Mud

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/05/17

It’s spring in upstate New York, also known as Mud Season. In this episode, I go searching for the answers to its riddles: why Mud Season exists, what’s really happening down there in the ground, and why the ground breathes more heavily when it's stressed out – just like me.To guide me through it all, I visit Dr. Jane Lucas, a soil ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. We talk about microbial dormancy, stressed-out soil experiments, why New York has such intense mud, and whether

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25:00

The Jiffy Gets Stuck In The Mud

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/05/17

Send a text It’s spring in upstate New York, also known as Mud Season. In this episode, I go searching for the answers to its riddles: why Mud Season exists, what’s really happening down there in the ground, and why the ground breathes more heavily whe...

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26:50

The Jiffy Rediscovers Reading With Tom Grattan &...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/03/23

Send a text This week brought the first official day of spring – but as a confusing and misplaced winter storm batters my windows, I’m bringing you one last cozy episode before we fold up the Cozy Map for good. In this episode, I visit one of my favori...

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00:26:50

The Jiffy Rediscovers Reading With Tom Grattan &...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2025/03/23

This week brought the first official day of spring – but as a confusing and misplaced winter storm batters my windows, I’m bringing you one last cozy episode before we fold up the Cozy Map for good.In this episode, I visit one of my favorite places on earth: Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, NY. I chat with legendary owner Maureen Rodgers, who’s been stocking her shelves with used books since the 1960s, about how she finds books, what makes a book cozy, and how the book barn industry has changed over

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