By Lindsey Clark | info@mainstreetmag.com

Millbrook, as we know it today, has strong, deep roots that date all the way back to the 1860s. On what had been the old Isaac Haight farm, the village […]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com

How did you arrive in Millbrook? How did you become metal smiths?

Fletcher: I moved here when I was six with my family. I still live on the same property where […]

By John Waldman | john.waldman@qc.cuny.edu

John Waldman is a professor of biology at Queens College, NY, with a focus on aquatic conservation biology. Previously, he worked for twenty years at the Hudson River Foundation for […]

By Ian Strever | info@mainstreetmag.com

It is summer, and I’m sitting in a coffee shop just yards from the Yale University campus, eavesdropping on two families who clearly have their sights set on admission. Two […]

By Lisa LaMonica | info@mainstreetmag.com

Much of upstate New York was Mohican territory. They also dominated the territory spreading west to Windham, north almost to Lake Champlain, west towards Stockbridge MA, and south – almost […]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com

Main Street spent a morning in the office of Ghent Wood Products and Meltz Lumber in Ghent, NY talking with Marie Meltz who manages the administrative and marketing part […]

By Peter Greenough | info@mainstreetmag.com

In the famous 1967 film The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman is advised by his father’s colleague at his graduation party to listen carefully to the one word he is about to […]

By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com

If you think this is going to be an article to make you feel all warm and glowy on the inside, you can stop reading here. If you’re […]

By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com | Photographs by Joseph Meehan

It’s the era of superheroes and their blockbusters – Black Panther, Wonder Woman, and Justice League to name a few. We know […]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com

Kristin Swati started her e-commerce business www.fawnshoppe.com in Lower Manhattan after leaving a career in finance. The internet-only shopping site offers high quality children’s clothing and toys as well as […]