This Month’s Featured Articles…
Window On The World
Feeling hungry for some culture? New knowledge? Diverse perspectives across multiple disciplines? Then head to the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, where a veritable smorgasbord awaits. With something to entice even the pickiest culture vulture, there’s enough to sate your appetite without feeling stuffed and exhausted. From paper to posterity Since 1903, this cultural institution housed in a solidly attractive building that confidently says, “I’m a museum” has been living the vision of its founder, Zenas Crane. As the third-generation owner of Crane & Company [...]
Making Heroes of Us All
It was an audacious idea from the very first whisper: create the largest indoor collaborative art project in the world that celebrates the life force of America. Sounds simple enough! The American Mural Project – a collaborative work of art that, when finished, will span 120 feet and be 48 feet high. It will be 10 feet deep in sections, housed in converted mill space in Winsted, CT, and the centerpiece of an educational project that would reach coast-to-coast. Overwhelming. When Ellen Griesedieck, a career [...]
The Design Capital of the Hudson Valley
There are towns tucked within our storied valley, with their quiet regality and pastoral charm, that have come to establish their own unique identity over the last half-century. From food of course, to wine, music, and most recently even beer. Both lifetime locals and entrepreneuring newcomers have worked to mold the characteristics of their hometowns that have come to define their spot on the map. As marked as the great Hudson River itself, towns like Hudson and Woodstock in NY, Stockbridge, MA, and Salisbury, CT, [...]
Adopt-a-Family
While Stacey Moore of Moore & More Printing ate her dinner in front of her computer screen and oversaw a printing job, we talked about Adopt-A-Family, a charity that she has run for almost 25 years. You know the saying, “If you want something done, ask a busy person”? That’s Stacey. Is Moore & More Printing on Dutchess Avenue in Millerton, NY, also the home of Adopt-A -Family? I moved into this space in a former shirt/bedspread/parachute factory when I opened my own business in [...]
Design for Life
Standing on the corner of Routes 22 and 23 in Hillsdale, NY, and looking up at the quintessentially provincial brick colonial – formerly known to nearly every generation of Hillsdale native as the Aubergine – now refurbished and redesigned in a masterfully subtle way by Carrie Herrington in order to house her interior design and retail store C. Herrington Home + Design, it’s difficult not to feel a slight tinge of nostalgia, even if you’ve never seen it before. That is in fact the essence [...]
