By Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. | info@mainstreetmag.com
Physical activity and fundraising go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Walks, runs, swims, triathlons, bike rides, and golf events to raise funds for local non-profits can accomplish […]
By John Torsiello | info@mainstreetmag.com
It strikes you as you drive down a entryway at Bard College in Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY. At first impression, it appears an otherworldly building, perhaps a hobbit dwelling from Lord of […]
By John Torsiello |info@mainstreetmag.com
When one views the renovated Hudson Opera Hall, now formally known as Hudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House in the center of this chic town located along, quite […]
By Christine Bates |info@mainstreetmag.com
Hudson has always been a city of visionary entrepreneurs from its founding as a safe deep water port for whaling ships in 1783. Originally a small stopping point on the […]
By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com
Dick, do you have a favorite section in your book stores?Definitely the kids’ section with toys and books. It’s more fun and less work. We bought the children’s store building on […]
By CB Wismar | info@mainstreetmag.com
The quote has been credited to two imaginative thinkers: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” Was it H.L. Mencken or George Bernard Shaw who initiated the challenging, ironic, […]
Kevin and Michael Bacon’s band, The Bacon Brothers, first made it onto my radar when I stumbled across a Youtube video from 2009. Though they had already been performing as a band for […]
By Lindsey Clark | info@mainstreetmag.com
Before the thought of a fire department in Millerton, NY, even came to mind, a bucket brigade and the aid of the townspeople were the two main assets to […]
The tavern has been a part of everyday life in America since the country’s very outset.
Ironically, those supposed teetotallers, the Puritans, are reported to have established the first tavern, then called an “ordinary” […]
By CB Wismar | info@mainstreetmag.com
Some artists use elegant sable brushes to apply their paints. Some artists use high carbon chisels to carefully form stone into sculpture. “Leon” Li uses a razor-sharp, forged two steel, […]