This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Regina Molaro | info@mainstreetmag.com After saying goodbye to winter, we are all eager to embrace the balmier days ahead. With the summer season approaching, it’s an ideal time to go for a country drive. The Clark Institute and MASS MoCA, which are both located in The Berkshires area of Massachusetts, offer extensive collections of art to suit every preference. […]

By John Torsiello | info@mainstreetmag.com Imagine the turn the 20th century. Passengers are lined upon a platform, awaiting the arrival of their train to take them to places far and wide, or perhaps just a jaunt up the line into the Berkshires or west into New York State. That was the scene that took place pretty much every day at historic Canaan Union Depot in Canaan, CT. Well, we all know dramatic changes occurred in rail travel during the past 100 years; the passenger trains eventually [...]

By CB Wismar | info@mainstreetmag.com When Tom and Jacque Schiller took occupancy of their log cabin near Cream Hill Pond, Tom decided to step outside on the porch, just to take a nice, clean breath of air. “It sounded like we were right near a freeway … the traffic noise was unbelievable.” For a kid who grew up in Los Angeles, the sound of the freeway was as ubiquitous as the smog that hangs over the city. As Tom soon realized, however, there is no freeway [...]

By Dominique DeVito | info@mainstreetmag.com I’d been given the heads-up about Pearly’s Farmhouse Café by a West Cornwall insider. “Check it out,” she said, “Everyone is going. The food is great and there’s a real sense of community. Oh,” she added, “and the owner’s story is really interesting.” Great food, community-oriented, and an interesting story? That’s a home run in this writer’s book. On a seasonable, partly sunny Wednesday afternoon in February, I had an appointment to talk to Sean Aylmer, the owner of Pearly’s, at [...]

By Claire Copley | info@mainstreetmag.com Here we are again: trying to avoid the cold and fight off the cabin fever that sets in. The landscape is white, frozen, pretty bleak. We can only dream of gardens and flowers, fruit trees and tomatoes and hydrangea blooms. Our dreams are aided by our beloved winter companions – the seed catalogs that come pouring in at this time of year, containing color, inspiration, and new possibilities. Usually, we toss them by the time Spring arrives but several institutions have [...]