by Ben Haravitch – The idea of traditional music means different things to different people. Some musicians feel it is their...
Monthly Archives: February 2019

The Homestead Gardener: Defining Homestead Gardening
by Derrick Gentry – What Do You Think You’re Doing? A reader recently asked me what I meant exactly by a homestead garden. I...

Priscilla Popp Paints the Erie Canal
by Wendy Schreiner – Priscilla Popp of Perry, New York had a very interesting summer 2018. She had a mission in mind. A self-taught...

The Monthly Read: Under a Sardinian Sky
by Mary Drake – Let’s take a trip to Italy: A review of Under a Sardinian Sky by Sara Alexander Under a Sardinian Sky by...

The Conscious Crow: Seeing…is knowing…is
For centuries mankind has become a great topic of conversation and study. With every new decade we find a more advanced version of the...

Kade in the Kitchen…with (vegan) Buttermilk Biscuits
by Kade Bentley – You didn’t know vegan biscuits could be this good! Whether you’re plant-based by choice or avoiding...

Simple Sustainability: How to reduce your foodprint
by Sky Trombly – “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” – Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto....

Richmond History: Richmond’s remarkable recluse: Bradly Adams (February 21, 1852-February 9, 1934)
by Joy Lewis – He was a trapper, an expert marksman, a collector of Indian artifacts, an entrepreneur, a loner. From the age of...

Travis: Secret Agent Dog
by Gary Catt – Well, he’s here. He arrived last month. Finally. He’s a fiddle-footed thing, 12 pounds of hyper-kinesis with...

My Woodstock Experience
by Ken Hutton – In the summer of 1969, at the age of 17, I heard from a girl in Lake Placid of a music festival in southern New...