This week’s art offerings include events that illuminate mental health struggles, increase artists’ business savvy, and refresh the spirit.
Perry
Perry native Josh Rice creates NYS Puppet Festival
Puppetry is a bizarre, paradoxical art form: in which the artifice of the scene and the construction of the characters is blatant. But at times, puppets can express human frailty and vitality better than we can ourselves. The inaugural New York State Puppet Festival will celebrate the spectacle, craft, and international scope of contemporary puppetry.
Reining in rural sprawl
Lima is at a crossroads, literally and figuratively. The village of approximately 2,100 people got its start as a stop on a well-traveled cross-state road, a section of which is the modern Routes 5 and 20. A village landmark from the era, the American Hotel, still sits at the corner of that corridor and what’s […]






