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The Joint Chiefs continue a summer-long series of concerts in the Tristate region with a performance in Falls Village, Conn., on Aug. 20. Photo by Chris Little
If the Tristate region can be said to have a “house band,” then that band is probably The Joint Chiefs, a perennially popular quartet featuring Eliot Osborn, Louise Lindenmeyr, George Potts and Diana Herold.
Some of your summer edibles have probably died back by now; take some of their seeds and plant them again for an autumn harvest. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
August is wonderful because it’s the peak of summer but it’s sad because you know that autumn is on its way.
I often wonder why autumn can’t be the same as spring, with that same sense of anticipation I feel as I wait for my seedlings to turn into full-fledged plants.
To get a taste of the wry and delightful wonder of Billy Collins, watch the teaser for his Master Class lessons on writing poetry. Photo from Masterclass
It’s hard to comprehend that boyish and wryly hilarious Billy Collins, the former poet laureate of the United States, is 80 years old.
Inside No. 9 might be the best show you’ve never seen. BBC keeps it going despite its small audience, perhaps because of critical acclaim or pressure from devoted viewers who love that this show does something new and does it brilliantly.
Like many fanatic fly-fishers, I have lots of books on the subject. I buy them. People give them to me. Some are wonderful. Some are outdated. Some are ridiculous.
Portrait and figurative artist Christopher Pouler makes paintings that showcase the human condition, in his charming shed and working studio, which sits atop a hill on his 3.5-acre property. Photo by Anabelle Baum
One of many patches of forest in Lakeville, Conn., featuring a steep hill, is painter Christopher Pouler’s “Little Walden Pond without the pond.”
Three years ago, Pouler and his wife bought the property, which measures 3.5 acres.
Painter-writer-cartoonist Peter Steiner says that painting was difficult during COVID — but writing was easier. Is he serious or kidding? Sometimes it’s hard to tell with him.
‘I’m in my studio every day. I don’t know where else to go,” Robert Andrew Parker (known to his friends as Bob) joked recently one morning.
This charming and talented 94-year-old West Cornwall, Conn., resident is a national treasure — but more endearingly, a local one.
Artist Etienne Delessert grew up in Switzerland but has lived and worked in Lakeville, Conn., since 1985.
He first came to the area in 1968, visiting friends in the Northwest Corner on vacations. He appreciated how easy the trip was by train to this part of the world from his home in New York City.
Maxon Mills in Wassaic, N.Y., was a simple grain elevator in the 1940s, hard up against the train tracks because it was at the center of a livestock auction complex in this rural part of Dutchess County.
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