This Month’s Featured Articles…
Preserving history – Millerhurst Farm
By Regina Molaro | info@mainstreetmag.com For many of us who are striving to keep pace in today’s frenzied, fast-paced digitally driven lifestyle, it’s difficult to imagine living and working on a family farm that traces its history back hundreds of years. Waking up at dawn, tending to farm chores, and turning in early to ensure a restful night’s sleep are all part of life on the farm. Farmers also put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this labor of love; many bumps and [...]
On Purpose – Creating Meaning in Our Lives
By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com At its core, purpose is connecting and contributing to something larger than self. For each of us, what lends purpose to our lives might vary. There’s no one-size-fits-all for defining what gives each of us purpose. Despite these differences, the benefits of having identified a purpose to our lives are consistent and demonstrable. […]
Olana – Past Perfect
On a hill, high above the Hudson River is Olana – a historic home and 250-acre landscape that boasts majestic views of the Hudson River Valley, Catskill Mountains, and Taconic Range. Built in 1872, the site was once home to landscape painter Frederic Church – a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Its aesthetic was influenced by his travels to the Middle East. […]
Sisyphus Design
By Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com This area abounds with design professionals to help you create a lifestyle through design choices. Main Street writer, philosophy lecturer, and employee engagement consultant Mary B. O’Neill has turned her hand to lifestyle and interior design with the founding of Sisyphus Design, devoted to aspirational cluttered living. Main Street caught up with her for a conversation about her influences and design vision. Tell us about the name of your firm, Sisyphus Design. Where did it come from? The name [...]
Down Memory Lane
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 [...]
