The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York

James Cave

A documentary audio zine about upstate New York, with host James Cave as your bumbling Virgil. So far, The Jiffy has taken you to Pinksterfest in Kinderhook, vintage base ball games in Kingston, the elephant-filled corner office of the Ulster County Clerk, a forest of quaking trees in the Catskills, and up into the clock tower in Chatham – it's a show about New York's non-Manhattan regions, forever in search of the Kinderhook Blob.

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The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York

Episodes (33)

Apr 26th "Your Friend, Frederic E. Church," According to My Friend Diane Shewchuk
Apr 12th Upstate At Large
Feb 15th A Postcard From Pinkster Fest (Re-Jiffy)

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York

Apr 26, 2026
31 minutes
28 MB

This year marks the 200th birthday of Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter whose mountaintop home, Olana, helped shape how Americans imagined upstate New York. To kick off a three-part series for Frederic Church 200, James starts where Church did – outside the house itself, on Earth Day, looking out at the same view Church called "the center of the world." Then he drives north to the Albany Institute of History & Art, which holds 72 letters between Church and his close friend, the Albany sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. Curator Diane Shewchuk is...

The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York

"Your Friend, Frederic E. Church," According to My Friend Diane Shewchuk

James Cave

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