Since its inception in 1997, AboutTown has filled a special role in the Rhinebeck-Red Hook-Hudson area. The first, twelve-page issue that came out in September 1997 talked about this new publication as "a vehicle to help cement community consciousness," and declared that, "whatever the virtues of the global village, the real joys of life are always found close-at-hand." Ten years later, co-founders and co-publishers Gail Jaffe-Bennek and Paul De Angelis still run the paper. In issues that run from thirty-six to forty-four pages, the paper's focus remains doggedly local, while emphatically not provincial. Over the years, local writers from Cynthia Owen Philip to Bernard Greenwald to Clare O'Neill Carr and Esther Kiviat have developed a devoted readership with their perceptive commentaries on interesting and important aspects of the community, while local artists from Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin to Dirk Zimmer and Daniel Baxter have enlivened the publication's pages with witty drawings and imaginative illustrations.

Featuring: Ania Aldrich, Daniel Baxter, Lynn Behrendt, Gail Jaffe-Bennek, Dorothy Crane, Paul De Angelis, Liza Donnelly, Bernard Greenwald, Beverly Kipp, Fiona Lawrence, Mary Anne McLean, Michael Maslin, Daniel Middleton, Cynthia Philip, Vivian Wadlin, Dirk Zimmer

Appearances by: Evelyn Bartin, Hunter Bennek, Rachel Bennek, Sheila Buff, Denis Collet, Kathleen Everett, Cait Johnson, Carol Lee, Mary Leonard, Carla Reuben-Carbone, Frances Sandiford, Rob Schumer, Constance Young

For more about Cara DeVito, the independent documentary filmmaker and creator of Who's AboutTown?, visit www.FilmsOfYou.net.