Brett Barry

Next week, the 25th annual Woodstock Film Festival will draw producers, celebrities and filmgoers to venues in Woodstock, Rosendale, Kingston and Saugerties, for a full schedule of screenings and panel discussions. This year’s showcase features a collection of short films from the Youth Film Lab, a three-week filmmaking bootcamp for area teens.

In the small Catskills town of Jewett, New York, between Hunter and Lexington, is a church that looks like it was plucked from Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains. On March 19th, the parishioners of Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church sold pierogi, borscht, and baked goods as a fundraiser for Ukraine. The surrounding community flocked to its doors in support.