Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. This observer has been bandaged, injected, medicated, and cuffed (for blood pressure) under the auspices of Columbia Memorial Hospital – but never served hor’s doeuvres or entertained by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Stephanie Monseu, seen at left on her trademark stilts), at least until attending the hospital's Winter Blast Night of Wonder fundraiser on Saturday, February 2, at Helsinki Hudson. The place was packed, and the mood was as nonwaiting room as it could be, with wall-to-wall benefactors, personal and corporate, coming to give a leg up to the lifesaving Hudson institution.
Volunteer Eleanor Shade and Gail Lee: Frank Orlando and Mary Ellen Piero.
Kristen Lugen and Angelo San Diego; Monty Wallace and Chris Gorczynski.
Tate Cozza of Mane Street Hair Styles and Kyung Cozza; Jennifer Beichert, Dara Roberts, and Paul Beichert.
Trustco Bank'sBerkly Young, Marquita Reese, Diane Dratz, and "Hortensia" from Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
Architect Jane Smith, Peggy Anderson, and Slowood Studios furniture designer Jules Anderson; rock goddess Melissa Auf der Maur with daughter River.
Carol Lavender, Jill Salerno, and Bobbi Bush from The Second Show thrift store; John Knott and Michael Schrom
Andrew Sedlock, Jim Brodsky, and John Fondas; Kristen Wogann, Jeff Damia, and Greg Mountain.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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