Saugerties woman a Kondo-certified consultant in clutter elimination
“With everything that is going on in our world right now, people are overwhelmed, and they’re ready for a simpler way of life with fewer distractions.”
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Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s House Tour provides some grand views
The idea behind Woodstock’s role as a center for artists over the past century plus is pretty much the same as the concept behind the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s annual house tour benefits, which hit their tenth anniversary Saturday, July 14.
Historic house tour highlights Plattekill and its hamlets
Saturday, June 2: Tour-goers will visit simple farmsteads and houses from the Federal period, three-bay side-hall and five-bay center-hall structures. Seven of the town’s most interesting and unusual vernacular structures in a range of period styles dating to the 19th and 20th centuries will be featured, with the Greek Revival aesthetic and the diversity of its expression in the region a recurring theme.
Superior interiors: Designer Showcase Home Tour of Hudson
Saturday-Sunday, May 26-27: This weekend you can go at your own pace on a self-guided tour of the Bronson House and six other architecturally significant Hudson homes, each with a room that showcases the work of a local designer.
Barn Star’s Antiques in Rhinebeck at Dutchess Fairgrounds
Saturday-Sunday, May 26-27: There will be 140 antiques dealers on hand, displaying their wares, including Americana, “High Country” and Mid-century Modern furniture and accessories, fine art, estate jewelry, silver, glassware, primitives, Oriental rugs, garden decorations, marine accessories, books, toys, decorated stoneware and so on.
Front-porch worlds: Pondering our retreat to back yards and patios
The front porch is a place where the private and public realms intermingle, a microcosm of Republican government. Perhaps the decline of the front porch has exacerbated the fracture of community and social isolation.
Is there such a thing as too much zucchini?
The maligned zucchini is the cliched veg of overabundance, spilling out of home gardens in great quantities, big as baseball bats, is the cliched veg of overabundance. You are advised to keep your car locked during zucchini season lest some gardeners get rid of their extras by sneaking a paper bag full of them into your back seat. August 8 is widely celebrated as National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. Gardeners grate their supply into breads, cookies and cakes that mask the zucchini’s texture and taste.
Lee Reich’s new gardening book is another keeper
Reich is highly regarded as a national expert, but even more exciting is the fact that he’s a local! He knows our pain. How can we trust an expert from New Jersey, or worse, someone from California (who is probably just a surfer) with our delicate apple blossoms? We can not.
Farm & Flea Spring Market at Basilica Hudson
Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13: More than 90 farmers, artisans, vintage collectors, chefs and makers of handmade goods converge on Hudson’s sprawling performance space to share handcrafted home goods, all-natural foods, personal wellness products and much more.
Fuel Buyers Coop can save you money
Olaf Meyer brought up what made him feel good this past winter. He was talking at Woodstock’s Meals on Wheels appreciation luncheon May 1 and wanted to share how much he’d saved on fuel by joining the Mid-Hudson Fuel Buyers Coop, whose board he joined after signing up for “windfall” savings just before the start of the 2017-18 heating season last summer.
