The state of farming in the Hudson Valley
I was back in Texas for a funeral. The cemetery is out on what I call “the old home place,” the family farm. My cousin Neil farms it, but it is mostly raw…
Bradford Graves Sculpture Park reopens this Saturday
There is no better backdrop for sculpture than the open air, in this writer’s humble opinion – especially when the works are made of natural materials like stone, as most of the 200…
Hudson River Maritime Museum opens with two new exhibits
The Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout in Kingston has been “providing the portal to history along the Hudson” since 1980. The Museum was founded by a group of steamboat and tugboat…
Music, art & great food at Opus 40 to benefit Hungry for Music
Assemblage art – that arrangement of disparate objects into a unified visual statement – has been around now as an artform for about a century, dating back at least to Picasso’s early cubist…
Tasteful time capsule: Kingston’s Fred J. Johnston Museum
With the arrival of spring’s gentler weather comes the urge to get out and about more. But if you’re a native Northeasterner, you know that in these parts there’s a “fifth season” that…
Fowl is fare at Quattro’s Farm Store in Pleasant Valley
I broke my own rule: If a place is known for a thing, you get the thing. At Schlesinger’s Steak House in New Windsor, you get Schlesinger Steak. They don’t put it in…
Turn up the volumes
Before you bemoan the total disappearance of the small-time bookseller who tends to the printed word and offers full shelves of hardcopy of the same, look around your town, on corners and down…
On the Hudson Valley cheese trail
Do you say “cheese, please”? Let’s be fromage friends. A slice on a sandwich, a cube on a toothpick, a square on a cracker, a whole course – you don’t rind, do you?…
Places to hear great live music in the Hudson Valley
In the opinion of this writer, this moment is in some respects the best time ever in the history of the mid-Hudson Valley music scene, Dylan be damned: more original acts than ever…
Music to your eyes
Nothing makes a university administrator happier than a graduate who goes off to make good in the world and finds his or her way back again years later with a heart full of…
