This Month’s Featured Articles…
Good food, good wine, good friends… there’s no better experience
The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming! Gifts, parties, dinners, family gatherings, and OMG, we need the right wine for all those. But, what to choose? There are so many options, from local vintners with one-of-a-kind specialties to vast world-wide assortments. Enter Dylan Baker at Sharon Package Store, Hillsdale Fine Wine and Spirits manager Wendy Walton, and Tom Morrison of South Egremont Spirit Shoppe with their expert advice. Their unanimous opinion echoes Morrison’s statement, “The first rule of thumb is to drink what you [...]
Stissing Center for Arts & Culture brings local filmmakers to the big screen with Pine Plains Festival of Shorts
On Saturday, November 1, and Sunday, November 2, Stissing Center for Arts & Culture in Pine Plains, NY, will be hosting the inaugural Pine Plains Festival of Shorts, a curated, non-competitive showcase of short films created by filmmakers from Pine Plains and other nearby localities. The festival will serve as a fundraiser to upgrade Stissing Center with professional-grade film screening equipment, ensuring that film can again become a regular part of the center’s programming. Stissing Center is a non-profit arts space located in the heart [...]
Celebrating simple, elevated home cooking with the launch of The King Cookbook
One of autumn’s most anticipated cookbooks, The King Cookbook, by Annie Shi, Clare de Boer, and Jess Shadbolt will be released on November 4. Annie, Clare, and Jess are the women behind New York City’s beloved restaurants King and Jupiter, the newly opened wine bar Lei in Chinatown, and Stissing House in Pine Plains, NY. Annie Shi is co-owner of King and Jupiter, and owner of Lei. Annie leads the beverage programs, translating the kitchens’ seasonal and ingredient-driven philosophies into exceptional wine and cocktail offerings. [...]
Mill Farm is For Sale for $90 Million: History is Being Made in the Hudson Valley
All photography accompanying this article is courtesy of Joel Petra of DDREPS and Bailey Roubos of Drone Hub Media. History is taking place in the heart of Ancramdale, which straddles the southern border of Columbia County in New York. For the first time ever, a 2,150-acre farm, Mill Farm to be precise, is being offered for sale for the historic price of $90 million. The farm includes a pristine and historic Revolutionary Era grist mill, over 10 residential houses, over 15 barns and other [...]
Outdoor sculpture spaces
Art Omi grows contemporary work in former farm fields It would be blasphemy to talk about outdoor sculpture exhibits in this area without including Art Omi in Ghent, NY, where modest to massive contemporary works become part of the landscape, owning hilltops, filling fields, and tucking into hedge-rows of a one-time 120-acre dairy farm. Francis J. Greenberger founded Art Omi as a residency program, on land he purchased after working at one. The park ‘organically grew’ as the art collector placed his own pieces into [...]
