Gateway and Foothills
On Sunday night I went out in the rain to witness a ritual far older than Easter, or even the
Posts Tagged 'Off the beaten path'
The Foothills
Among the many kinds of walks we take, the walk close to home, along a less traveled path, has much
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
Help find a grave
With more than 11 billion historical records in its online archives, Ancestry.com is often the destination of choice for first-time
Cut that out!
When Woodstock-based photographer Jeffrey Milstein started Paper House Productions 30 years ago this January, there wasn’t really anything comparable on
Navigating the naturalist’s neighborhood
It isn’t easy locating Slabsides, the log cabin built by literary naturalist John Burroughs in 1895. Owned and maintained by
Farmers’ markets
It seems as though nearly every hamlet in southern Ulster now boasts of a farmers’ market. The Gardiner Farmers’ Market
Learning the ropes
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited or depressed,
As the Wheeler turns
“Probably no art has so few masters as that of decoration,” wrote the long-heralded “mother of interior design” Candace Wheeler.
Iron man: Blacksmith Jonathan Nedbor of Alligerville
Jonathan Nedbor learned metalsmithing as a young man, with plans to study the craft in graduate school at Southern Illinois