During the first season of All in the Family in 1971, its Episode 5 was titled “Judging Books by Covers.” Its story line was a gay one concerning Archie Bunker’s…
Photography by Kitty Sheehan I was with my in-laws at Donny Malone Auctions in Saugerties in the mid-1980s. The Hellers of Lake Hill, NY were well-known—they sold Tiffany and…
Photography by Anne Day Longtime New York City media executive Andy Plesser opened his Lakeville, CT home he shares with his wife, Manhattan radiologist Kathy Plesser, to capture a moment…
Last summer, I went camping in Phoenicia with my six-year-old daughter Penelope and her mother. We’d migrated here from Lake Tahoe after getting divorced and priced out of our housing…
Photography by Arthur Elgort / Philadelphia Orchestra He’s adorable. That was truly my initial thought when I first met Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Is this the most appropriate reaction to being introduced…
Photography by Shannon Greer Fan-girling Ruth Reichl is tricky. With a career that’s bursting at the seams with remarkable accomplishments—from celebrated restaurant critic for The New York Times to serving…
I’m really a happily garrulous, agreeably “C’mon, let’s just do it” kind of guy, but I’m starting to feel like The Mountains’ version of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Last…
Photography by Winona Barton-Ballentine I’ve lived in the Hudson Valley long enough to know that there are two prevailing design aesthetics. The first we’ll call the “general store,” with its…
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…
