This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Carol Ascher | Photos of the Won Dharma Center by Olivia Markonic, all other photos by Carol Ascher or provided by the house of worship. | Featured in the June 2016 Issue Most of us easily recognize our New England countryside by the traditional white or brick Protestant churches that anchor the villages, their white spires often visible from a distance. Yet these days most New England communities are also home to Catholic churches, as well as smaller Protestant denominations that may not be [...]

By Dominique De Vito | Featured in the May 2016 Issue A beautiful day. A light breeze. A hawk soaring overhead, wings outstretched, floating, flying. Who hasn’t wished they could extend their arms and take flight? Well, wishes can – practically – come true right here. How? Paragliding. Yes, paragliders are a presence right here in the upper Hudson Valley! The flyers have flocked here on the wings of a French-born outdoorsman whose journey led him to the foothills of the Taconics in Millerton, NY, [...]

By CB Wismar | Featured in the April 2016 Issue “Just look at this floor! We found it yesterday when we pulled up the old carpet. It goes all the way to the front door.” John Hoffman and Betsy Maury are sharing the latest discoveries as progress continues on the dramatic “make over” of the Scoville Memorial Library, the imposing stone building that has been a centerpiece in central Salisbury for over 120 years. Their enthusiasm is infectious. The result of this process will be, [...]

By Olivia Hansen May | Featured in the March 2016 Issue | All photos courtesy of Millbrook School About a mile off Route 44 in Millbrook is Millbrook School, a co-educational boarding school that is home to 300 adolescent humans – and red pandas, ring-tailed lemurs, golden lion tamarins, and the red wolf. On one side of Millbrook School Road lies the habitat of the human species in the form of dormitories and classrooms, where students live and learn. On the other side is the [...]

By By Allison Guertin Marchese – featured in the Feb. 2016 issue Take this woman. Let’s really start at the beginning and explain, for instance, why men “took wives”. This practice goes way back to ancient Greece and Roman civilizations when a wife was property, basically a dependent of the husband. Taking a wife typically gave men a way of legitimizing their children and finding someone to care for the kids’ needs. Men took wives so they could have someone to cook, clean house, and fulfill [...]