This Month’s Featured Articles…

By CB Wismar  | info@mainstreetmag.com The man with the microphone does not usually speak to large groups. His voice is measured, almost a whisper, at times. What he is saying is heartfelt, and the audience spread in sweeping arcs on the hillside listens intently, not wishing to disturb the moment. “I’m not sure I knew who I was …” This is a dramatic, personal, deeply engaged presentation. Then, suddenly, the moment changes. As if on cue, a great white horse moves from across the round corral [...]

By Allison Guertin Marchese | info@mainstreetmag.com Jim Carroll has spent most of his life creating. Though he says on his website bio that he prefers to be outside playing, his work, which keeps him indoors, includes creating art, designs, illustrations, books, websites, and animations for individuals, not-for-profits, and large corporations. For his efforts, Jim’s uniquely creative art work has been honored by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the New York Book Awards, and The Port Authority of NY-NJ, to name just a [...]

By Allison Guertin Marchese | info@mainstreetmag.com Hillsdale has been a National Historic District since 2009. Yet one of the strangest secrets of Hillsdale’s history is that few facts, names, and general records seem to have been kept, making it very difficult to piece together what really happened back in the beginning. In his History of Hillsdale, New York, printed in Philmont, NY, in 1883, the Hon. John Francis Collins wrote: “The turbulence in Hillsdale for three-fourths of a century after its first settlement by civilized [...]

By Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. info@mainstreetmag.com Sometimes there’s nothing like a good metaphor to illustrate a concept. Plantin’ Seeds uses the germination process to illuminate its mission of educating the wider community about farms, local food, and the importance of sowing seeds and ideas in fertile soil. There are two components to the Plantin’ Seeds organization: plantin’ seeds farm kitchen in Canaan, and Pom’s Cabin Farm in Falls Village, where Plantin’ Seeds was first conceived. Both are instructional venues for educational programs. […]

By Dominique De Vito | info@mainstreetmag.com “You’re not gonna find the cache!” That’s not something you want to say to a police officer as you’re heading out of the woods at dusk, but it’s what made sense to Kathy Gwozdz at the time. She’s a passionate geocacher, and she was just walking out of the woods after finding a “cache” that she was naturally excited about. She was sure that the person coming out of the car was there for the same reason. After all, [...]