Photography by Mike Ruiz There’s this thing that Taylor Schilling does when she hears an interesting question or agrees wholeheartedly with something someone is saying that’s quite revealing and refreshing.…
With big hotel chains, you know what to expect and there’s a certain comfort in that. But outside of urban centers, name recognition is harder to come by. In its…
Photography by Danielle Cohen There are entrances, then there are Robert Hartwell entrances. A dozen emojis couldn’t paint the proper picture. Toward the end of what was, in hindsight, the…
When you pull off Route 9 in Hyde Park, NY—home to the Culinary Institute of America and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s historic estate—you probably aren’t expecting to walk into one of…
I finally got around to reading T.C. Boyle’s Worlds End. A satirical, 480-page romp through the early colonial days of the Hudson Valley through the late 1960s chronicling generations of…
Photography by Mike Ruiz exclusively for The Mountains There are many moments amid deep, thoughtful, genuinely substantive discourse with one Elizabeth Perkins—almost always about the perilous state of our nation—in…
When we first moved into the home we’d built in Spencertown 16 years ago, we certainly weren’t coming up here for the food. Having reviewed restaurants in New York City…
Tucked into the rolling hills of Ghent, NY, Liberty Farms is a vibrant, multifaceted property that defies the traditional definition of what most people consider a “farm” to be. Co-owned…
Klocke Estate is quite the hot destination. Set over 160 acres, this “soil-to-glass” distillery in Hudson, NY, has become nothing less than a must-visit. Eat atop the estate’s hill while…
