Everyone has their very own favorite apple orchard in the mountains. Having three kids, we went to so many different venues over the years in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan Counties. Sometimes from New York City, sometimes from here in Columbia County. They all offer their variety of delicious apples and a fun afternoon of conquering the trees, carting the conquests to the check out and then getting to enjoy the room filling aromas and visuals in the various bowls around the house. (Because, like so many others, we always picked far too many apples). We happened upon Golden Harvest in…
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I cherish our agricultural community in Copake, NY—from the sweeping landscapes dotted with cows or crops to the Taconic Hills and Copake Lake. Situated on the New York corner where…
By the time you’ve read this, I’ll have exhausted my friends’ and family’s good will and company when it comes to asparagus, and for that matter, most likely have pushed…
As a former Major League Baseball player, I’m often asked what I remember most about my experiences in professional ball, and my answer’s almost always a shock to those asking.…
Photography by Isaac Jeffreys I don’t know about you, but my early 20s were spent watching MTV and shopping at the mall, among other low-brow pursuits. Unlike Isaac Jeffreys, an…
Growing up in Miami Beach during the 1960s & ’70s, my best friend Susan Whitebrook spent three to four weeks every summer at the tony Concord in the Catskills, where…
The last thing I want to do after I’ve been driving for a couple hours is step indoors and crowd around a table. The perfect road trip break is one…
We’re book people,” says writer and shopkeeper Mark Trecka of Binnacle Books, a tiny treasure of a new and used bookstore in Beacon, NY. “We’re curation-forward’,” he jokes. “There’s no…