This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Lisa LaMonica | info@mainstreetmag.com Much of upstate New York was Mohican territory. They also dominated the territory spreading west to Windham, north almost to Lake Champlain, west towards Stockbridge MA, and south – almost to Manhattan. Their stories, and some of the local historians chronicling them, are almost lost to time. […]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com Main Street spent a morning in the office of Ghent Wood Products and Meltz Lumber in Ghent, NY talking with Marie Meltz who manages the administrative and marketing part of the business. […]

By Peter Greenough | info@mainstreetmag.com In the famous 1967 film The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman is advised by his father’s colleague at his graduation party to listen carefully to the one word he is about to say: “Plastics.” […]

By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com If you think this is going to be an article to make you feel all warm and glowy on the inside, you can stop reading here. If you’re open to some self-reflection, moral indignation, and individual action, then read on. After some sobering and disturbing food waste facts and figures, I’ll suggest some simple actions to reduce our own consumer food waste. […]

By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com | Photographs by Joseph Meehan It’s the era of superheroes and their blockbusters – Black Panther, Wonder Woman, and Justice League to name a few. We know they’re imaginary, but what if they were real? What if one lived right in our own town and we didn’t even know it? How cool would that be? […]