Do I dare to eat a peach?
You are out hiking in Minnewaska on a hot summer day in late July. The temperature is right about 90
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Clearwater’s Open Boat Day potluck in Kingston on Friday
The 106-foot-long sloop Clearwater has been raising people’s consciousness about the importance of preserving the Hudson River since 1969. A
The Foothills
Among the many kinds of walks we take, the walk close to home, along a less traveled path, has much
The health of healthcare
The movement toward implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act will continue in 2013 as one of the very biggest
Yes, it was amazing
Last Friday, February 15: a date that will remain in history books forever. Before that day began, there’d only been
The many lives of Adolfas Mekas
In his book of short stories Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, neuroscientist David Eagleman imagines three deaths. The first
Rustic without the rust
Charles Petersheim didn’t know a soul in the Catskills when he left New York City post-9/11 and purchased an abandoned
Year’s best look at Mercury
The innermost planet is unique and odd in so many ways that it’s hard to find aspects that aren’t strange.
Poets’ Walk
Poets’ Walk is one of those places in the Hudson Valley that remind us that the Romantic view of nature
TB or not TB
One year, when I was in my early twenties and fresh out of nursing school, my annual TB skin test