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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!
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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
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    Inc.: Let The Healing Begin
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    January 3, 2025
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Arts

Taylor Schilling, The ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star, Takes It All In From Her Hudson Valley Sanctuary

by Kathleen Gates
Exploring

Inn Love

by Kathleen Gates
Arts

Robert Hartwell: The Pride Of The Berkshires

by Kathleen Gates
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Thirsty: God’s Sake

by Kathleen Gates
Life + Style

Drive: Convertible Bonds

by Kathleen Gates
April 25, 2023 Life + Style

#BTS: The Carole Radziwill Cover

When the small, all-star crew from The Mountains descended upon Carole Radziwill’s beautiful Catskill, NY home to begin what would prove to be not only a very long day shooting…

April 22, 2023 Life + Style

The Summit: Love

When I was a kid, my parents promised us a puppy and a puppy we got. Hippie was a beautiful Collie, son to a former national champion and a true…

April 22, 2023 Life + Style

Exclusive: Carole Radziwill Is Happy. Deal With It.

Photography by Natalie Chitwood for THE MOUNTAINS The joys (and pitfalls) of surviving a genuinely interesting life—a life precisely like the one the woman I’ve been entranced by for the…

April 21, 2023 Exploring

The Spot: When Did Mohonk Mountain House Get So Great?

You’ll come for the spa and rebook for the fun. For those who may have experienced Mohonk Mountain House in a different era, the newly updated property with its now…

April 21, 2023 Life + Style

The Writer: Love In The Mountains With Bette Midler And Martin Von Haselberg (And Searching For Love–And Catherine Deneuve–In Paris)

Taking the Eurostar for a recent two-month stay in Paris from my four months in London, I was thinking about all those trips I took on Amtrak from Hudson, New…

April 21, 2023 Exploring

Go: Helsinki Lets The Light In

There are several cities around the globe that live on my personal “obsessed list” and, until I landed in it, Helsinki wasn’t one of them. In the spring, I emerged from…

April 21, 2023 Food + Drink

Still Hungry: When Dining Upstate…Table For Four, Please

I don’t like eating out with a crowd. I’m not objecting to being at a celebration, like a gala or a wedding. That’s a completely different vibe. I mean, you start…

April 21, 2023 Home + Design

Dirt: Spring Forward

There’s nothing quite like the scent of the air when you walk out your door on an early spring morning. There’s just something different. The sharpness of winter is gone,…

April 21, 2023 Essentials

The Weekend: Dreaming In Chatham

Saturday 6:45 A.M. Walking the dogs When you live with three dogs, there’s no sleeping in on the weekends. We leash them up and make the short drive to Ooms…

April 21, 2023 Life + Style

Diary: Loving Steve Heller

First time I met him he was sleeping under his truck outside The Joyous Lake in Woodstock. His ex-wife was a waitress there; I was the cashier. She took my…

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    • Interdependence Day People’s Parade in Kinderhook. Our kinda people. 🇺🇸
    • 4th of July People’s Parade in Kinderhook.
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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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