This Month’s Featured Articles…

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. […]

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. […]