Nonagenarian Channels Dylan in Sculpture, Paintings

By TERESA WINCHESTER
BUTTERNUTS

On Friday, September 20, Marcus Villagran, 92, sat at the kitchen table in a 125-year-old farmhouse in the Town of Butternuts, where he lives with his fellow ceramic artist and partner of 10 years, Elizabeth Nields. He cut a striking figure, wearing a rust-colored fedora over his shock of white hair and an army green woolen overshirt. He was using scissors to slice up apples, gathered from a tree on his property and already peeled and halved. He planned to serve his applesauce at his September 22 opening, held at the Dunderberg Gallery, a renovated hardware store he owns and operates in Gilbertsville.