This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. | info@mainstreetmag.com It’s no mystery that people are attracted to this area for its simplicity and beauty. The desire to live here on a full or part-time basis is driven by the quality of life we believe we can achieve. An unfortunate side effect of this – particularly if you’re a first-time buyer – is increased home prices. When demand increases and supply decreases, prices go up. This basic economic relationship is being played out all over Columbia County, NY. And [...]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com Unless you live in a mobile home or are part of the mobile home industry, few people are aware of the history, economics, and regulations shaping the mobile home real estate market. Main Street’s monthly real estate feature decided to investigate this unfamiliar segment of the residential real estate market. A brief history Trailer to mobile home to manufactured home Out of necessity during the Great Depression of the 1930s many unemployed and impoverished Americans started living in trailers originally designed for traveling [...]

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 [...]