The many warmings of firewood
There’s nothing like the heat you get from a woodstove. But finding
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Tools everyone should own
These days anyone can go to a mall and come away with a ready-made tool kit with everything you might need in it for under 60 bucks. I would encourage you to refrain from this. Seek out the tools you need individually and the ones that feel right for you. You probably won’t need a 22-ounce straight-claw framing hammer for hanging a picture on the wall, but who knows?
The many virtues of community-based gardening
By trying to eliminate money from the equation, age-old customs of barter, trade and share are brought back to the table, practices that had been mostly forgotten in the glaring haze of rampant consumerism.
My thoughts on marriage
Lately the Catskills have become one of the prime areas for destination weddings. New venues, from renovated barns to golf
Already home
Harry Matthews explains his route from Brooklyn At an opening recently in Woodstock a friend of mine who had