A MOMENT FROZEN IN TIME

All our lives we have been inundated with moving images: television, film, social media. We are so inured to the constancy of the motion, color, and sound, that when an image holds still, it causes a momentary catch – the need to register what we are seeing.

It was a moment like that that captured the […]

By |2024-03-04T13:33:45-05:00March 4th, 2024|History, Main Street News|

ANIMAL KINGDOM

Many people are drawn to the Hudson Valley for its booming food culture and variety of farm-to-table restaurants. The region is also home to The Culinary Institute of America, which honed the talents of David Burke, Todd English, Michael Mina, and the late Anthony Bourdain, among other luminaries.

Agriculture has a long history in the region […]

By |2024-03-04T13:31:09-05:00March 4th, 2024|Farm Feature, Main Street News|

SARAH CHASE TALKS REGENERATIVE FARMING AND THE UPCOMING SEASON AT CHASEHOLM FARM

It’s a balmy Friday in the beginning of February. The sun is shining, the air is unseasonably warm, and Sarah Chase is about to milk the small dairy herd at Chaseholm Farm in Pine Plains, NY.

Each cow has a sign above its individual stall with its name on it. Names like “Tuesday” and “Burrata” decorate […]

By |2024-03-05T14:57:11-05:00March 4th, 2024|Farm Feature, Main Street News|

Transatlantic Cow-incidence?

A recent visit to the Dutchess County Historical Society has haunted me. In a good way. I was so impressed with the amount of information there about anything and everything Dutchess County, a reservoir of resources dating back over 100 years, that I haven’t stopped thinking about it. While I was there to write about […]

By |2024-03-04T12:42:34-05:00March 4th, 2024|Featured Artist, Main Street News|

A TOUCHSTONE OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP AND CONVERSATION: TRAVERSE

Horizontal and vertical become
interchangeable allowing the
circle square to be continuous and
unending

Once initiated, the life traveler
journeys in an everland of awareness
Of past, present and future
Traverse p 124 Laurence Carr

I first saw the book Traverse at an exhibition at Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT. The project unravels an embedded trust […]

By |2024-03-04T12:23:38-05:00March 4th, 2024|Featured Artist, Main Street News|
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