This Month’s Featured Articles…

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. […]

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 [...]