Celebrations

Ah, the summer of 2021. New York State is open! If you planned to get married last year but couldn’t have...

He asked the young woman, named Lola, to dance. He soon felt himself gliding across the floor. “She was a...

The Catskill Christmas Express will take passengers on a wonderous trip through the Catskill Forest to Santa’s Workshop at the...

This holiday season is shaping up to be unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though there may be difficulties aplenty, try...

For me, reading’s been better than ever this year. It’s helped me and many others find a means of accepting,...

With the second wave of Covid-19 still building steam, upcoming holiday celebrations, which generally involve intergenerational, indoor gatherings lasting several...

The arrows of crisis are all pointed up at precipitous angles, as officials and front-line workers scramble back into response...

“Mushrooms galore, much snow in store. No mushrooms at all, no snow will fall.”

There is no pricetag on the outdoors, no substitute for the fresh air or the invigorating smell of snow on...

We’ve compiled a list with all locally sourced products from around the Hudson Valley. Purchase your loved one a wonderful...

Without a recommendation from a trusted friend, it can feel like you’re looking in the Yellow Pages for a place...

Recently a friend asked me: “If you could perform a wedding, what would it be like?” Let me see….

"Much of my work, and certainly my book, won’t really make much sense unless you’ve had some taste of obsessive...

He wanted it to be real, Jack Warren explains, and sometimes it was

Perhaps the future lies in digital narratives, like videogames. I just hope, for the sake of young lives, that they...

The Black Brunswicker by John Everett Millais, 1860. I work as an event planner. My day job often requires I...

The Suitor's Visit, by Gerard Terborch, 1676. There are 405 photographers listed in the Hudson Valley area on popular wedding...

Separate daguerreotypes of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, later collaged as a wedding photo. In an article posted shortly after...

14th century French manuscript image of courtship. Lately the Catskills have become one of the prime areas for destination weddings....

Harper’s Magazine portrait of Pres. Grover Cleveland’s June, 1886 White House wedding. My first memory of planning a wedding might...