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    September 25, 2025
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    September 27, 2025
    Daytripper: Revisiting Frederic Church’s Hudson Valley Masterpiece
    September 27, 2025
    The Mountaineer: Hollywood Horse Play
    September 27, 2025
    The Ride: Hail, Rail!
    September 27, 2025
    Fur: Who Needs A Doggie Bag Anyway?
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    Daytripper: Revisiting Frederic Church’s Hudson Valley Masterpiece
    September 27, 2025
    The Ride: Hail, Rail!
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    The Weekend: Rosendale’s Fairy Tale
    September 26, 2025
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    September 25, 2025
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    September 26, 2025
    Inc.: Let The Healing Begin
    June 30, 2025
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    January 3, 2025
    The Weather Nut: Dave Hayes’ Sunny Forecast For The Berkshires
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Taylor Schilling, The ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star, Takes It All In From Her Hudson Valley Sanctuary

by Kathleen Gates
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Inn Love

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Robert Hartwell: The Pride Of The Berkshires

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Thirsty: God’s Sake

by Kathleen Gates
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Drive: Convertible Bonds

by Kathleen Gates
August 5, 2024 Exploring

The Racquet: Game, Set, Magic

When you live in any part of the country that gets cold and/or snowy for much of the year, time spent outside, especially in the heat of summer, is always…

August 5, 2024 Essentials

The Rainy Day: Plan ‘B’ Activated

Despite what you may have heard from your local meteorologist, rain can be a boon in summer and having your own backup rain date plan can ensure that, however disrupted…

August 5, 2024 Food + Drink

The City Happy Hour: In NYC, Make It Al Fresco, Please

It used to be that happy hour was synonymous with squeezing into a packed bar for cheap drinks and marathon post-work venting sessions. That classic scene isn’t going anywhere,…

August 4, 2024 Life + Style

From The Editor: Tennis

I’m writing this on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. This same June day has triggered many conflictive thoughts and tough decisions for me over the years…

May 17, 2024 Life + Style

Exclusive: Dorinda Medley Says ‘Yes’ — On Her Terms

Dorinda Medley is on a roll. Yes, in her life and career certainly, but, in this case, I’m referring to Medley’s 90-second articulate, rapid-fire, eye-opening monologue she’s delivering as we…

May 17, 2024 Life + Style

The Pursuit Of Happiness: Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

Here’s a question: What’s more fundamentally American than the pursuit of happiness? I mean, the very phrase is enshrined as an “unalienable right” in our Founding Fathers’ OG document,…

May 17, 2024 Arts

Big Book: Revealing Bob Marley By Poughkeepsie’s Own Kate Simon

“If you wanna dance then you go dance disco. But if it’s something more for the benefit musically, then you gonna listen to the reggae because you have to listen…

May 17, 2024 Life + Style

The Pursuit Of Happiness: Faith

I was living with ghosts. I’d seen therapists, exorcists and shamans, healers and drug dealers, but the thoughts persisted. By then, I was desperate. Raised a Catholic, long since lapsed, I…

May 17, 2024 Life + Style

The Pursuit Of Happiness: Adulting

You can’t deny it. Your driver’s license has the date right. But you look in the mirror and go, “Really? OK, so I’ve aged, but hey, I don’t look bad.…

May 17, 2024 Life + Style

The Pursuit Of Happiness: Cannabis

Heidi Zorn’s happiness stems from a lifetime of helping people pursue their health and healing journeys. “Making people happy all day makes me happy,” Zorn tells me happily. Zorn and…

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    • Interdependence Day People’s Parade in Kinderhook. Our kinda people. 🇺🇸
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    • Yes! It’s finally Spring in the mountains. And how do we celebrate? With our first ever Food Issue. Jam packed with irresistible content and photography lead by our indefatigable EIC, Richard Pérez-Feria! From the smashing cover by photographer extraordinaire,Mike Ruiz to the delicious culinary crawl by our resident food and restaurnt expert, Hal Rubenstein,  this issue is destined to be a real keeper. With the debut of our new healthcare column and interview with the CEO of Columbia Memorial Health - Hudson, NY, Dorothy Urschel to the new traditions at Liberty Farms from gentleman farmer, Mark Cheffo. Read the whole issue and learn about one of the six elevated restaurants at Windham Mountain Club, how to rethink wine pairings with our master wine storyteller, Anthony Giglio .
And learn about Progressive Hedonism from the food-obsessed tastemaker, Amenia’s own, Dana Cowin.
The Mountains truly come alive on every page and on screens with the innovative design of Kathleen Gates.
All this would not be possible without the ongoing support of our loyal advertising partners like: ROLEX / Frank Adams Jewelers Inc, Williams Lumber and Home Centers , Little Greene ,Klocke Estate Distillery , Windham Mountain Club , Columbia Memorial Health - Hudson, NY, California Closets,TimberTech, Antigua & Barbuda , Resorts World Catskills , Mohonk Mountain House ,Compass ,Herrington’s , Wittus - Fire by Design ,Hammertown Barn ,Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association, Greylock Federal Credit Union ,NBT Bank Budget Blinds , Buy In Greene | Invest In Greene and thankfully so many others! Enjoy!! ‘Cause summer is right around the mountaintop…
    • It's C. Cassis weather. 

(Although, if we're being honest, it's always a good time to sip the vermouth-y blackcurrant aperitif—especially at their tasting room in Rhinebeck.)

Co-founder Rachael Petach's Kir Americano is a great way to drink it: "There's so much to be had. There's this beautiful musty, herbaceous, fruity/not fruity flavor that really appeals to me," she told Anthony Giglio (@anthonygiglio) in our Spring 2024 issue. "It's typically layered with so much sugar to make it more palatable, but I love it for the opposite reasons: more herbaceous and more savory."

Read our full feature from the archives at the link in our bio.

Photo by chelsielcraig for @currantcassis
    • According to science, it's always great time to treat yourself to a shopping spree. Or, at least, to wear some clothes that make you feel good.

In our Spring 2024 issue, Contributing Editor Todd Plummer (@eatgaylove) takes you on a dopamine-centric buying trip that includes @la_grotta_ny in Holmes, @rattybooks and @sullivansundries in Jeffersonville, @northbranchcidermill in North Branch, and @blackwalnutcatskills in Callicoon. 

Check out his trip in our Spring 2024 issue—in the archives at the link in our bio.
    • With winter's chill fading and spring very much in the air, it's OK to crave a moment to reconnect with yourself and indulge in some rejuvenation. From immersive meditation studios to the focused art of Pilates, our region has everything you need.

Looking back into the Punch List from last year's Spring issue, here are some of the best spots to recharge, reset, and step into the season feeling renewed.

🧘 Kripalu Center For Yoga & Health, Stockbridge, MA @kripalucenter
😌 Won Dharma Center, Claverack, NY @wondharmacenter
🧘 Ananda Ashram Yoga, Monroe, NY @anandaashram
🧘 Greenhouse Yoga Berkshires, Great Barrington, MA @greenhouseyogaberkshires
🤸 Breathe Studio: Barre & Pilates, Rhinebeck, NY @breathe_rhinebeck
🤸 Pilates Hudson, Hudson, NY @pilateshudson
🧘 Radiance Yoga, Pittsfield, MA @radiance_yoga
🧘 Charym Yoga Studio, Litchfield, CT @charymyoga
😌 The Compassion Center, Catskill, NY
😌 The Source NY, Poughkeepsie, NY
    • Does anybody know if Alan Cumming ever found his Emmy Awards??

As we get closer to the premiere of our Spring 2025 issue, we're looking back at a few of our cover stars from the archives, including our profile on the award-winning king of the traitors' castle.

"When my brother came to visit the first time he said, ‘You bought your childhood,'" @alancummingreally told @kevsessums for our Winter 2023 cover story. "I think he’s right. When you grow up you don’t really appreciate your surroundings and you certainly don’t appreciate how bucolic things are ’til you go away, and you realize it. […] I do love the western Catskills because it doesn’t feel as if I’m going to bump into people and it feels more removed. You walk down the street in Hudson, and you run into someone you might know, and they go, 'Oh, Alan, hi, I was going to send you a script.' The western Catskills feel a little more sleepy. Not sleepy. Gentle. That’s the word: gentle." 

You can find the full issue—all our past issues—at the link in our bio.
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