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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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When was the last time you saw a healthy giant American chestnut in the wild? Chances are pretty slim, as the once common hardwood tree has been considered functionally extinct for more than seven decades. But decades of genetic engineering work at the...
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...
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, ...
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...
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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