This Month’s Featured Articles…

On a hill, high above the Hudson River is Olana – a historic home and 250-acre landscape that boasts majestic views of the Hudson River Valley, Catskill Mountains, and Taconic Range. Built in 1872, the site was once home to landscape painter Frederic Church – a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Its aesthetic was influenced by his travels to the Middle East. […]

By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com This area abounds with design professionals to help you create a lifestyle through design choices. Main Street writer, philosophy lecturer, and employee engagement consultant Mary B. O’Neill has turned her hand to lifestyle and interior design with the founding of Sisyphus Design, devoted to aspirational cluttered living. Main Street caught up with her for a conversation about her influences and design vision. Tell us about the name of your firm, Sisyphus Design. Where did it come from? The name [...]

By Joseph Montebello | info@mainstreetmag.com Seated on a comfortable sofa at Weatherstone, her home in Sharon, CT, clad in simple navy cotton trousers, gingham shirt, flat shoes, her hair in a ponytail, it’s hard to equate this Carolyne Roehm with the one from her former life. Act one: The couple of the decade It was the 1980s, the height of conspicuous consumption. Carolyne and her second husband Henry Kravis were the “It Couple” of the decade. When they wed, GQ pronounced the marriage, along with that [...]

By CB Wismar | info@mainstreetmag.com Full disclosure. It’s not a basement. It’s a “cellar,” but a title is a very important thing, and once found, should not be ignored. So, to our story… Jonathan Grusauskas sits comfortably in the slightly worn sofa that graces The Music Cellar in Millerton, NY. With partners and friends, this is Jonny’s domain – the place where he lives, teaches, composes, records, and dreams. The sofa (one does not sit on it, but in it) is the spectator area, where [...]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com The high energy, detail-oriented, graphic designer, Paula Smith, launched her premium event planning and management business just a year ago at an all female friends kick-off party. Main Street interviewed her in her studio / office in the Shekomeko Valley to find out more about her new business. […]