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In the latest Hudson Valley Word of Mouth segment, Julia Joern interviews artist Tristan Fitch. He originally discovered the Catskills when he was an actor with the Ensemble Studio Theater, a New York City-based theater that also owned the Lexington House throughout the 1990s. Located in Greene County in the town of Lexington and right on the Schoharie Creek, this historic riverfront hotel was part of a larger property that included an old barn-turned-theater and cabins for artist housing. Along with writers, directors, and other actors, Fitch participated in the theater’s upstate programs, workshops, and plays every summer for close to a decade. Eventually settling in Catskill, Fitch is now a self-taught painter and sculptor. His works are both architectural and abstract, whether it’s a large-scale canvas layered with pigment to create a non-representational landscape, or brightly-colored folly-like geometric wooden objects that playfully exist in nature. His work has been exhibited throughout the Catskills and Hudson Valley, including at Wassaic Project in Wassaic; Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli; LABspace in Hillsdale; Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia; Abeel House in Catskill; Greene County Council on the Arts (now known as CREATE), HiLo, and Kaaterskill Market, all on Main Street in Catskill; and at the Lexington House, which has recently been acquired by new owners and is currently being converted into art and exhibition spaces.

The "WGXC Morning Show" is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. Julia Joern produces the "Hudson Valley Word of Mouth" interview segment every Thursday. And Jack Sencabaugh contributes the "Backtracks in Time" segment about local history. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. At 9 a.m. "The WGXC Daily," with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events, airs. Also tune in for national headlines from the Public News Service on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are also broadcast live here.