What’s Happening This Weekend in the Hudson Valley

While we are expecting some snow this weekend but we may catch a break with the amount and it's supposed to be out of here by Sunday. So, there's still time for you to get out of the house and plenty of cool things to do.

Sunday, January 25: 11-5 The Dutchess Beer Man Show will be at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie and admission is free. See motorcycles, music, atvs, trucks, sports, bar-be-cue and beer! The Bud Winter Carnival is back and every game gets you Bud Bucks and Bud Bucks gets you prizes like a Ski Vacation, a fully catered Big Game party, season passes to Bethel Woods and more! Crunch Fitness presents NY Giant wide receiver Rueben Randle with BG entertainment. You can meet him and have a photo op. Plus, Crunch Fitness and “Another Wrestling Podcast” is proud to present Wrestling Knockout ROSITA. Rosita will be at the Man Show from 11am till 5pm with a special Bikini photo shoot from 12pm till 3pm.  In addition, you can meet wrestlers Tommy Dreamer and Curt Hawkins and the Gotham City Cheerleaders will be on site with a special raffle featuring an Odell Beckham signed jersey. All thanks to Crunch Fitness. The Man Show is brought to you by Dutchess Beer Distributors, proudly distributing Bud and Bud Light locally for over 80 years, and Crunch Fitness.

Deadline January 26: The Sullivan County Visitors Association is holding a Sullivan County Catskills Winter Wonderland Photo Contest! This could be the perfect weekend to take the winning photo. Photos must be taken in Sullivan County anytime between Dec. 1, 2014 and Jan. 26, 2015. Click here for submission details. Good luck!

Sunday, January 25: 1-3. Writers in the Mountains at Pine Hill Community. Writers in the Mountains brings you creative nonfiction reading with light snacks and drinks. Join them for the work of students of Writers in the Mountains Creative Nonfiction class. Hear beautifully crafted lyric essays, memoir, poems and stories -all creative nonfiction. Come for the enchantment, the heartbreak, laughter, delight, surprise of it.

Sunday, January 25: 10-11:30. Make bluebird houses in Cornwall at the Outdoor Discovery Center at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum. Welcome spring with the return of the Eastern Bluebird. Learn about their decline in the 20th century and their resurgence in the last decade. Make a bluebird box to take home. Prepaid registration and prepaid bluebird house order required. For adults with or without children ages five and up. Admission. 845-534-5506 x 204.