Wallkill Valley Land Trust house tour allows for rare stop at Riverby
John Burroughs’ famous roughhewn cabin Slabsides is on the must-see list of many mid-Hudsonites, so we make a point of
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Kids’ Almanac (May 30-June 6)
“You can discover more about a person from an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato
The Sun can save your life
We’ve entered the year’s three-month period of highest-intensity sunlight. Will you embrace it, or hide from it? My book The
What Einstein really thought
A new Einstein biography has just been released. Despite the great man’s justified celebrity, many misconceptions are repeated. Take his
The state of farming in the Hudson Valley
I was back in Texas for a funeral. The cemetery is out on what I call “the old home place,”
A splash in the face
The Nora Ephron film Julie & Julia, which starred Meryl Streep as famed TV chef Julia Child, was partially based
Kids’ Almanac (May 9-16)
…if we all stand together and be a little brave, you never know where we’ll go. – Dean Jones
Saturn at its best
In our culture of publicity and hard-sell, it’s tempting to exaggerate. Even with celestial events, the media often cry wolf.
Kids’ Almanac (May 2-9)
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different? – C. S.
Master the maypole at 23rd annual Beltane
For many people, the mention of May Day instantly brings to mind the image of a ribbon-festooned Maypole. We know