For all you upstate New Yorkers…

Tomorrow (from 10 to 2) and Sunday (from 1 to 4) I’ll be hanging out with my dog Amos and signing books at HiHo Home Market and Antique Center in lovely Gardiner, NY. Lot’s of stuff going on in the area this weekend: There’s a Gardiner day festival going on, a big used book sale on Main Street, and the Taste of New Paltz event at the Ulster Fair Grounds nearby. There’s also the Survival of the Shawangunks, an eight-stage triathlon that ends up at the Mohonk Mountain House. Exciting stuff, eh? Heidi, HiHo’s owner and the curator of the many beautiful displays in the various rooms at the shop, has collected a variety of obsolete objects, some of which will be on display at the signing, and some of which will be for sale. I was just over there and saw some mock-camera photo albums and cute address books she is offering up—they’re emblazoned with rotary dials.

Really, what will they think of next?