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Tivoli Makes the Times!

Just when you thought we couldn’t get any groovier - Tivoli farmers Kay Cee Wimbish and Owen O’Conner make the front page of the times style section - check it out! City Slickers Article.  

  

A New Biz Association

Please be sure to join the just-getting-started Tivoli Business Association - we’re meeting for the first time this Weds at 5pm at the Madalin. Hope you can join us - you can check out the agenda here:  TivoliBiz Agenda 3/19 5pm.  

Describing our cool little upstate town is hard - the coolest place in Upstate NY? Bards’ backyard playground? Tivoli the Terrible? Maybe all of the above!

 What Haven’t We Got?

With great upstate dining, Spas, SkinCare, Massage, Fantastic Croissants, Rockin’ bars, A Yarn store and a Bead Shop, A book shop, An Art Galary -and a tattoo parlor - what are we missing? An internet startup? Nah, got that, too! (see PUMP AUDIO). But, best of all, we’ve got Tivoli vibe.  

 

A wonderful piece of a piece From Ferment Magazine - circa 1981 - which is edited by Roy Lisker, PHD  

http://www.fermentmagazine.org/Bio/tivoli.html

 

…One digs back to the 18th century to learn that its founding genius of the village called it Tivoli owing to his assumption that it could become the Utopia of the future. Pierre deLabigarre, (his real name may have been Pierre de Sauvigard ) , an aristocrat fleeing from the French Revolution, had successfully prevailed upon the region’s feudal despot,Robert Livingston to grant him a tract of land on the border of his estate in neighboring Clermont. Robert Livingston, eminent statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, owner of both serfs and slaves, promoter of the first steamboat, and co-negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase, had inherited the estate from his grandfather, who had robbed both the local Algonquins, and his sovereign king, blind. Afterwards he imported German refugees from the Palatinate fleeing the 30 Years War, and reduced them to slavery. Not a nice man, even if he was a Founding Great-grandfather.Be that as it may, Tivoli, New York was inaugurated in 1794 and dedicated to the noble cause of establishing the spirit of Transcendental Idealism on the banks of the Hudson River . Transcendental Idealism need not be Kantian: any form of idealism which aspires to the transcendent can claim to be a transcendental idealism: there is no doubt that a certain latitude in its definition is required to accommodate the theory and practice of M. Pierre deLabigarre. in…