This Month’s Featured Articles…
The Taconic State Parkway
The Taconic State Parkway never quite got to where it was going. While some drivers love it and others hate it, at 105.3 miles in length, it is the longest parkway in New York State, we’ll give it that. If there’s anyone here who’s not driven the road, I’m thinking you may want to consider purchasing a lottery ticket tonight, because to have not traveled at least some portion of the TSP – officially designated New York State Route 987G – is nearly impossible when [...]
Driving into Summer
Summer is the ideal time for drive-in movies. After recapping the history of the drive-in movie, Main Street shares news on a local spot in Amenia that offers films, food, and so much more. There are lots of other movie nights in the Hudson Valley region, so grab your calendar and start planning. Car culture An icon of American culture, the automobile, was invented and perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s, but the history of the car is often associated with America [...]
Love, laughter, and the Lasso effect
There can be something mildly satisfying about standing in the check-out line at your go-to grocery store, waiting for Jill, or whoever your favorite checker might be. We can recognize that “self check” might save time and certainly save the grocery management salaries, but waiting (im)patiently in line allows us to listen in on a variety of casual conversations. There are the predictable musings from a nearby couple about whether all the groceries on the list have been collected. There may be the fragment of [...]
Balance Needed as Development Encroaches on the Environment
There’s a truism in life: Once a piece of land is developed, built upon, altered, exploited – feel free to insert whatever verb you think describes the scenario best – it’s gone forever. It can never be reclaimed, returned to the wild. No matter how a person feels about change and its inevitability in the modern world, there is no arguing the above fact. Which compels us here at Main Street Magazine to look at the certainty of progress and the consequences of such advancement [...]
Meadowscapes – Shifting Our Vision of Lawn & Land Care
We have a lot of lawns in our predominantly rural tri-state region. Keeping those plots and rolling acres verdant and orderly has a high cost – not just to our wallets but to the health and diversity of our land and ourselves. However, the lawn-based paradigm of beauty we’ve inherited from past generations is shifting, and Matt Schwaikert of Matt’s Landscaping can help you shift your lawn from monoculture grass and tidy mulched borders to meadows and nature scapes based on diversity and native plantings. [...]
