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  • by Lynn Woods Galleries tend to come and go, which makes the legacy of Longyear Gallery rather extraordinary:  Its sign has graced Margaretville’s Main Street for nearly 20 years, since 2007. The gallery is located in a rambling wood building that had originally housed a department store back in the 1920s, or maybe even earlier,…

  • By Lynn Woods Louise Kalin’s solo show of prints at Longyear Gallery, entitled “First Impressions, Second Thoughts,” held last November, featured a series of large prints whose bark-like textures and fissures seemed evolved from nature herself. Alternately, they read as palimpsests, fragments of ancient inscriptions worn away by the forces of weather over the eons.…