This Month’s Featured Articles…

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 [...]

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. […]