This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Dominique DeVito | info@mainstreetmag.com If you’re going to get to know Millbrook, NY, you’re going to get to know The Millbrook Hunt. It’s been a part of the place since 1889, though its formal recognition didn’t come until 1907. Still, that’s over 100 years ago. And if the tradition of foxhunting seems out of place in a fast-paced, technology-driven world, it’s a pleasure and a relief to know that it is as entrenched as ever in the rolling countryside a mere 88 miles from Manhattan. [...]

By Lindsey Clark | info@mainstreetmag.com Millbrook, as we know it today, has strong, deep roots that date all the way back to the 1860s. On what had been the old Isaac Haight farm, the village was laid out by Franklin Merritt in 1865-1869. Merritt had great incentive to develop the land because he knew of the plans about building a railroad line through the area, a railroad brought to the area by George Hunter Brown, whose estate was Millbrook’s namesake. Not only did Merritt create the [...]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com How did you arrive in Millbrook? How did you become metal smiths? Fletcher: I moved here when I was six with my family. I still live on the same property where I was raised, now named Coddington Lane for my parents who put in the road. My father had previously been an estate manager and then opened his own business, a feed store in Clinton Corners. My mother realized early on that I was having trouble in school, and instead encouraged [...]

By John Waldman | john.waldman@qc.cuny.edu John Waldman is a professor of biology at Queens College, NY, with a focus on aquatic conservation biology. Previously, he worked for twenty years at the Hudson River Foundation for Science & Environmental Research. Dr. Waldman has authored more than 100 journal articles, several books, and contributes essays and op-eds to the New York Times, Environment 360, and other publications. His most recent book is “Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and their Great Fish Migrations” and he is currently working on [...]

By Ian Strever | info@mainstreetmag.com It is summer, and I’m sitting in a coffee shop just yards from the Yale University campus, eavesdropping on two families who clearly have their sights set on admission. Two of the girls are wearing Yale sweatshirts and a third sports a Dartmouth hoodie. Their mothers model that incongruous ensemble of athleisure and expensive watches that will probably look ridiculous to them in ten years, and they order the requisite $9 smoothies to complete the motif. They sit down at a [...]