From
out of Shadowland, a Shining Light for Ellenville
By M.R. Smith
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One: 1984, a vacant movie house, old-school Art
Deco, in the middle of a southern New York town,
well off the NYC/Albany corridor. Built in the 1920’s,
in what was then the heart of town, this was once
the main source of entertainment in a 50 mile radius,
along with the Norbury Theatre, one street over.
It still showed movies into the 1970’s, when,
like so many smalltown theaters, it was abandoned.
First vaudeville, then the cinema, now dust.
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Two: 35 NYC theatre artists united, creating Cooperative..
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