The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York

42:38

Let’s Hang Out With Julia Whitney Barnes

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/10/04

Julia Whitney Barnes has had a busy year: three solo shows, and a few other group shows – the cyanotypist, historian, painter, and writer blends the creative practices of the arts and sciences so fluently that she’s become one of my favorite artists. I...

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33:54

Zaneta and Zoe at Zena

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/09/20

Here at The Jiffy, we're in the throes of Breathless Leaf Peeping Season, and this is when I try to spend as much time in the woods as possible. I've been following a story about the Zena Highwoods in Ulster County, overlapping the towns of Woodstock, ...

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6:34

An Update From The Leaf Watch Desk In The Woods Of...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/09/13

Coming to you from the Leaf Watch Desk in the Woods of the James Cave Instagram Feed to officially kick off this year's Leaf Watch series! Every year, at around this time, I travel into the woods to give you breathless coverage of one of the biggest se...

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17:38

Inside The H-2A With Mary Jo Dudley

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/09/06

In the final episode of this year's CSA (A Content Series on Agriculture), I talk with Mary Jo Dudley to learn about the H-2A visa farmworker program. Last summer, I spent a season at MX Morningstar Farm in Hudson trying to understand how they produce ...

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12:19

Rodney The Lighthouse Tower Master

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/08/30

I took a boat ride out to the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse to catch up with my friend Rodney Russo. Rodney volunteers with the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society to provide history and information to touring visitors. His station is at the top o...

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31:32

Summer At The Movies

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/08/16

Over at The Jiffy Newsletter, I've been working on a series that looks at the culture and industry of the local cinema scene here in the Hudson Valley. I'm calling it "The Jiffy's Summer At The Movies." In part one, I interviewed Mike Burdge and Diana ...

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35:57

Betsy and Brona

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/08/02

It's part two in this year's Jiffy CSA (A Content Series on Agriculture).And we're at Hawthorne Valley farm in Ghent, New York, on a day that experienced an "Emergency Heat Warning" declaration from the National Weather Service.

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24:06

Cow Parade

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/07/19

Every year, cows across the Hudson Valley skip, prance, spin, and leap into grassy pastures for the first time of the season. At Hawthorne Valley in Ghent, New York, this event is a rite of spring. To kick off my annual CSA series (A Content Series on ...

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12:11

Monique 250

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/07/05

Independence Day in America, the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. I spent the morning riverside at Umpachene Falls with my friend Monique Tyndall. Moniqe (Lynx Clan [maternal], Citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band...

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11:31

A Break For Local Summer News

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/06/21

While producing an upcoming series on agriculture, I'm sharing this special episode featuring local news and gossip from the Rough Notes newspaper of the 1800s, available through the New York State Newspapers Archive. I'll be back to normal programming...

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18:29

The Old Ball Game (Re-Jiffy)

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/06/07

While I produce the next batch of new episodes for the feed, I want to re-share a previous episode that's become a listener favorite. It's a trip to the ball field for the season-ender, double-header vintage base ball game between the Kingston Guards a...

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44:25

Betsy Jacks On Legacy And Life After The Hudson River...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/05/24

This is part three of my three-part series on Frederic Church, on the life and legacies of Church, Thomas Cole, and the Hudson River School. Betsy Jacks spent 21 years as executive director of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New Yor...

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42:03

A Visit To Frederic Church's "Glorious Country" With...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/05/10

This is part two of my three-part series on Frederic Church, recorded on the grounds of Olana on the occasion of his 200th birthday. Victoria Johnson spent six years writing "Glorious Country: How The Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America...

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31:03

"Your Friend, Frederic E. Church," According to My...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/04/26

This year marks the 200th birthday of Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter whose mountaintop home, Olana, helped shape how Americans imagined upstate New York. To kick off a three-part series for Frederic Church 200, James starts where Chur...

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47:55

Upstate At Large

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/04/12

In this first episode of season two (!!) I'm taking an overdue look the concept of an "upstate" New York. What is it? Where is it? Can I go to it? And who is it for? We start at Ward's Point, the southernmost point in New York, and look northward, and ...

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16:22

A Postcard From Pinkster Fest (Re-Jiffy)

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/02/15

Send a text The podcast is still on a bit of a hiatus while I produce "Little Pod" (a limited series with Olivia Muenter). I'll be back with new episodes here soon, but in the meantime, I'm re-sharing this episode about Pinkster Festival – a Black cult...

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16:22

A Postcard From Pinkster Fest (Re-Jiffy)

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/02/15

Send a text The podcast is still on a bit of a hiatus while I produce "Little Pod" (a limited series with Olivia Muenter). I'll be back with new episodes here soon, but in the meantime, I'm re-sharing this episode about Pinkster Festival – a Black cultural celebration with Dutch colonial roots – which was revived for the first time in more than 200 years last year. Pinkster began as a Dutch Christian holiday but evolved into a vital gathering for enslaved and free Black New Yorkers in the 18t...

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55:34

Shaker Mother Ann Lee: A 'True Legend'

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/01/18

Send a text Mother Ann Lee is one of the most consequential (and least understood) figures in early American religious history. In just ten years in the colonies, during the chaos of the American Revolution, she helped give rise to a movement that woul...

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55:34

Shaker Mother Ann Lee: A 'True Legend'

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/01/18

Send us a text Mother Ann Lee is one of the most consequential (and least understood) figures in early American religious history. In just ten years in the colonies, during the chaos of the American Revolution, she helped give rise to a movement that would shape communal life, labor, design, music, and belief across America (and even Europe) for generations. This episode of The Jiffy traces Ann Lee's life from industrial Manchester to upstate New York, from persecution and imprisonment to th...

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22:39

To The Clock Tower!!

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York ·

2026/01/04

Send us a text In the first episode of the New Year, we get as close to the concept of time as possible: by climbing into Chatham’s 1872 clock tower with village timekeeper Stephen Piazza. Here are some things we learned: It's very steep to the top and hard to do with a microphone and really large headphones.Don't touch the pendulum.Why heat and cold change a pendulum’s paceHow gravity pulls on the gear train differently from 12 to 6And why a tiny turn smaller than a 64th of an inch can mean ...

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