Karen Allen has had a high-profile career as both a film actress (start with the Raiders of the Lost Ark franchise, Starman, and Year by the Sea and go from there) and as a stage actor and director with glowing credits from Broadway to Shakespeare & Company to Williamstown Theater Festival to both acting and directing at Berkshire Theatre Group.
In Ireland, “fair play” is a phrase used to describe a job well done. Oigidecht is the Irish word for “hospitality,” and during the Celtic times under Brehon Law, it was mandatory for households to provide some form of hospitality to travelers, even if they were strangers.
For Brandon Morrison – who shared this truth with me as we talked about how he came from growing up in Columbia County to going on tour with the multiple Grammy-award winning artist Sam Smith – it may be wild, but it’s clearly wonderful.
Clambering off a year-long roller coaster of wires and tubes, hope and dread, progress and setbacks, Phil Trowbridge arrived home in Ghent, Columbia County, NY on April 1 with a brand new heart.
If you’ve ever had those “whatever happened to so-and-so from elementary school” moments and wondered how that person was doing or if they ever achieved their Hollywood dreams, well, wonder no more about Julia Finley Mosca who hailed from Pine Plains, NY.
At exactly 12:49pm on January 28, 2026, the call from NASA came in on my cell. From NASA!
In retrospect, it was a fairly straightforward love story. The young man was 14, just coming of age. The object of his affection? A 1931 Model A Ford offered for sale by a local farmer. The price? The princely sum of $50, which in 1959 was real money to a 14-year-old. It didn’t run … […]
Above: Community Rescue Squad’s ambulance, followed by New York State EMS personnel, the Red Knights riders, Moving Honors ambulance, and fly car led the procession down the Taconic Parkway near Chatham. Photo by Richard E. Lindmark.
National events do not happen often in quiet, rural Columbia County. But on June 28 and 29, the […]
Pine Plains, NY, native Troi Cookingham enlisted in the Army in September of 2020. “My uncle served in the Army and passed away in 2015. I knew it was something that I had to do. When I enlisted, I had this surreal, ‘What did I just do?’ type of feeling. However, I felt […]
When Claverack, NY, resident Charles K. Seymour II was a senior in high school, his class rank had dropped significantly from his junior year. Although he was accepted into the College of Basic Studies at Boston University, he was, as he puts it, “definitely not an academician,” and dropped out of school, “much […]