This Month’s Featured Articles…
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 [...]
Faith Alive
He was born into a time when religions and culture were shifting rapidly, often colliding. Multiple denominations were vying for followers, but church membership was in decline. Rationalism and skepticism was on the rise. Jonathan Lee His name was Jonathan Lee, and as he grew up in Coventry, CT, the “Great Awakening” rose around him. New England churches had lost the fire that once animated them; in those days many practiced a “staid and routine formalism.” People who sought a heart-felt, emotionally-rich experience increasingly looked away [...]
The Railroad’s Lasting Impact
Railroads are, for the most part, an almost forgotten part of life in Dutchess County. Oh sure, we can still hop onto a Metro North train and travel to New York City from stations to the south. But the enormous influence the iron horse once played in the area’s economy and everyday life are only memories, stories and photographs in books. Some individuals strive to keep those memories fresh. John Henry Low (an appropriate if serendipitously bestowed name by his parents) is one of these. [...]
