The Curiosity of Collage – Vincent Inconiglios

Stepping into Vincent Inconiglios’s light-filled stone barn studio on Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT, reveals multimedia collages, gathered objects, and paintings. His curiosity and passion are infectious. He constantly considers his work and maneuvers pieces of recycled paper, as though he is forming thoughts on paper. Collage is the seed of his practice. […]

By |2024-10-29T11:31:16-04:00October 29th, 2024|Featured Article, Featured Artist|

Connecting Columbia County: A stalled Harlem Valley Rail Trail bridge & its impact on Hillsdale, NY

Recently, community attention has revisited a long-awaited, but undeveloped, project to construct a connecting bridge for the Harlem Valley Rail Trail. With this bridge completed, the rail trail would connect Hillsdale to the approximately 24-mile section of already-built trail and the 1.5 mile section that runs from the Hillsdale Hamlet south towards Copake Falls. The […]

By |2024-09-30T12:16:22-04:00September 30th, 2024|Featured Article|

Shoemaker: Millbrook-Based Paper Artist Linda Filley

Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, and Chanel. For every fabulous shoe out there, there’s an enthusiast eager to slip her foot inside to determine if that magic slipper suits her style.

Renowned aficionados range from the real world’s Imelda Marcos – the Philippines’ former First Lady who amassed a collection of more than 3,000 pairs […]

By |2024-09-30T11:09:45-04:00September 30th, 2024|Featured Article|

Twisted Sisters Coffee House: A coffee-lover’s atmospheric oasis in Hillsdale, NY

One early evening this summer, as I was picking up a pulled pork sandwich and burger to-go from Roe Jan Brewing Company in Hillsdale, NY, I noticed that the adjacent dark blue building – with its yellow accented windows, grape-colored door, and assortment of potted flowers and pastel garden gnomes out front – was open […]

By |2024-09-03T12:06:53-04:00September 3rd, 2024|Featured Article, Food, Restaurant Review|

The Klocke Estate: Magnificent & Magical

I had the pleasure of meeting John Frishkopf and Brett Mattingly, partners in life and business, in 2016 in their early days of exploring the Hudson Valley for a suitable location to start a bona fide brandy distillery. John visited the Hudson-Chatham Winery in Ghent, NY, where we had lots of Baco Noir grapes in […]

By |2024-09-03T11:47:20-04:00September 3rd, 2024|Featured Article|

Internationally Best-Selling Romance Novelist TL Swan’s Career is a Lesson in Perseverance and Authenticity

TL Swan’s career as an independently published romance author began when she found a diary, sitting at the bottom of a moving box that she didn’t recognize, with a pen wedged in between the pages. 

Fourteen years ago, Swan purchased a business with her husband and the two endured great financial hardship as a […]

By |2024-08-06T14:28:17-04:00August 1st, 2024|Author Profiles & Bookish Things, Featured Article|
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