Some real estate agents have remarked, “If clients can’t afford Rhinebeck, they buy in Millerton,” due to the similar character and structure of these two Dutchess County villages, the latter being smaller in scale, size, and population. Over the last ten years, all walkable villages and hamlets with an active center have become more […]
Frances Grace came in from the fields and sat down to talk over her kitchen table at Sweet Flower Farm in Copake one weekday afternoon. Her four-year-old son, Percy, played nearby with a spider he had made out of an egg carton and purple pipe cleaners. Her husband offered us some cookies from Camphill. […]
What’s happened in the last five years
Exactly five years ago, Main Street Magazine looked at the Town of Sharon and its real estate market. Today, we wondered if anything had changed in this New England town. Was traditional Sharon the same place post-COVID? Had Sharon maintained its character and quiet demeanor? Did anything change in […]
There’s a new store in Millerton in the renovated building on Main Street that had been Terni’s for over a hundred years. We talked with Jason Jobson, one of the partners in the endeavor, along with Richard Lambertson and Christophe Pourny, one hot July morning before the store opened for the day.
How did you come […]
The Hudson Valley is orchard land. Ulster County on the west side of the Hudson River is the second largest apple producer in New York and the second biggest apple-growing state in the United States, which is the second biggest producer of apples after China. The Hudson Valley, according to Elizabeth Ryan, owner of Breezy […]
We sat down with Devon Gilroy, the founder of Tivoli Mushroom in Hillsdale, NY, to learn about the mushroom business and how he made the switch from being a chef to a mushroom entrepreneur.
How did you go from being the acclaimed chef at The Corner at Hotel Tivoli to growing mushrooms?
Maybe it started when I […]
Some towns are drive throughs or fly overs. You don’t know exactly where they are, where they begin, or where they end. There’s no center, no bank, no traffic light, no school – sometimes there’s not even a post office.
Milan, NY, is one of those in-between towns on the way to the Taconic Parkway […]
A gradual movement away from fertilized, mown green lawn with a band of spirea hiding foundations towards an intentional, sophisticated approach to residential landscaping is happening all around us. At the same time that sellers are “upgrading” bathrooms and kitchens to increase the value of their home and enjoy the improvements themselves, they are paying […]
Inspired by the popularity of our series on “mystery houses,” Main Street decided to extend the category to mystery businesses whose products, customers, and purposes elude our attention. Dutchess Millwork, in existence for almost 50 years, is our first mystery business and, as with so many mystery houses, change is coming.
What’s in that building […]
The hilly, rocky rural Town of Cornwall and its five Cornwallian hamlets – Cornwall Bridge, Cornwall, West Cornwall, East Cornwall and Cornwall Hollow – are described as quirky, different, bohemian, artistic, intellectual, remote, private, and outdoorsy. East of Kent and Sharon in Litchfield County, Cornwall is lightly populated with only 1,379* residents spread out […]