Tag: Off the beaten path

Wood frog. (photo by Rich Parisio) On Sunday night I went out in the rain to witness a ritual far ...

View of Near Trapps from the Foothills. (photo by Richard Parisio) Among the many kinds of walks we take, the ...

In his book of short stories Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, neuroscientist David Eagleman imagines three deaths. The first ...

(Photo by Mookie Forcella) With more than 11 billion historical records in its online archives, Ancestry.com is often the destination ...

When Woodstock-based photographer Jeffrey Milstein started Paper House Productions 30 years ago this January, there wasn’t really anything comparable on ...

Photo of Slabsides by Julie O’Connor. It isn’t easy locating Slabsides, the log cabin built by literary naturalist John Burroughs ...

Enjoying the Dubois Farm in Highland. (Photo by Sheila Mannese) It seems as though nearly every hamlet in southern Ulster ...

Declan zooms through the tree canopy at Catamount Aerial Park, a ropes and zipline course set in the trees of ...

Noir Bedroom at the Roxbury. “Probably no art has so few masters as that of decoration,” wrote the long-heralded “mother ...

Blacksmith Jonathan Nedbor Choosing the right tongs to hold the work. Jonathan Nedbor learned metalsmithing as a young man, with ...

KTD Monastery (photo by Dion Ogust) Today, even when we’re at home alone, we’re likely plugged into e-mail and the ...

From the top of the white Shawangunk Conglomerate known locally as Bonticou Crag on a clear day, you can, to ...

Photo of tubers on the Esopus Creek by Mike Spille. It may not be Tom and Huck’s raft on the ...

A walk into Tim Rowan’s studio at the end of a long, rocky driveway, situated deep in the woods above ...

One of the characters who appears in Sweet Violets (see related piece on our Explore Hudson Valley website) is Fred ...

A fine autumn day in the valley is prime time for kayaking and canoeing on the Hudson. Although the weather ...

When Fred J. Johnston started collecting 18th- and early 19th-century furnishings and decorative arts for the eight-room Federal-style house that ...