This Month’s Featured Articles…
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
By John Torsiello | info@mainstreetmag.com It strikes you as you drive down a entryway at Bard College in Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY. At first impression, it appears an otherworldly building, perhaps a hobbit dwelling from Lord of the Rings, or maybe a forest cottage from the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel… What is it? It’s the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, built over a four-year period and opened in 2003. Unlike a simple hobbit dwelling or cottage, the Center cost a whopping $62 million to [...]
Hudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House
By John Torsiello |info@mainstreetmag.com When one views the renovated Hudson Opera Hall, now formally known as Hudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House in the center of this chic town located along, quite appropriately, the slow rolling Hudson River, it is difficult to imagine the structure was once in a state of serious decay. “The building sat vacant for around 30 years,” explained Executive Director of the Hall for the past 19 years, Gary Schiro, as he stood in the performance room where workers [...]
Boom town – The City of Hudson
By Christine Bates |info@mainstreetmag.com Hudson has always been a city of visionary entrepreneurs from its founding as a safe deep water port for whaling ships in 1783. Originally a small stopping point on the Hudson River called Claverack Landing, it became Hudson when a group of entrepreneurial Quaker businessmen from Nantucket established it as a harbor and the first planned city in America with neatly gridded streets. Hudson thrived and the population swelled as its reputation spread. By the middle of the next century Hudson’s [...]
The Largest Independent Book Store in the Hudson Valley
By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com Dick, do you have a favorite section in your book stores? Definitely the kids’ section with toys and books. It’s more fun and less work. We bought the children’s store building on South Center Street in Millerton in 1994 because our main store on Main Street was getting too crowded. Our childrens’ section accounts for about 20% of our business. […]
BEST. ART. TEACHER. EVER.
By CB Wismar | info@mainstreetmag.com The quote has been credited to two imaginative thinkers: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” Was it H.L. Mencken or George Bernard Shaw who initiated the challenging, ironic, and slightly deprecating thought? Does it really matter? Not only does it not matter, it certainly doesn’t apply when one steps into the quietly creative world of Warren Prindle. Warren is an artist … and he teaches art. He can, he does … and, he teaches, too. […]
