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MATTERS AS MUC H A S

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OF THE UNFOLDING SEASON. SO WE

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LONG AND

DEEP

I N TH E STI LL-S H IVE RY AI R,

AND GO FORTH

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Edible Ideals

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Gin Up

A classic spirit gets back on the map. Story by Peter D. Martin

Farmlife among Friends

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Five food businesses put personal values into their products. Story by Karen Angel

Peekskill: Exploring an Anomaly

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Way Down in the Hole

New York City’s water system gets a makeover—upstate. Story by Leander Schaerlaeckens AT HOME

The Stolen Church of Glenford

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A mystery train wails to the west, while a buoy clangs eerily out east. It’s mid-winter in Kingston. I turn my collar up to the bitter wind, look over my left shoulder and wonder what my crew and I are doing on the wrong side of town. We’re down on the Rondout. The eponymous river at the bottom of the hill creates a modest harbor that empties into the Hudson. In the summertime, the area hums with meandering citizens, lazy explorers looking for a good deal or a mellow afternoon repast. But now it’s colder than a witch’s bosom. Tonight there are hints of snowpocalypse, heavy grooves of winter doldrums. Brunette Wine Bar, Kingston

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NEWBURGH BREWING COMPANY GETS THE “MUNCHIES”

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: RIVERFRONT ANTIQUES & DESIGN CENTER, HUDSON

By Kandy Harris

VICE has a new show called “Munchies,” and if it wasn’t obvious from the name, it’s all about food and beverages. Turns out, Newburgh Brewing Company recently turned up on a recent episode called “Craftwerk,” which VICE filmed back in 2014.

We love taking a road trip to Newburgh to the Newburgh Vintage Emporium, but it’s a bit of a haul from our ’hood. Thankfully, there’s now a closer option in the city of Hudson in the form of the Riverfront Antiques and Design Center.

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THE BENEFITS OF SHOPPING LOCAL

STEP INTO YOUR COMFORT ZONE: WM. FARMER & SONS BOARDING AND BARROOM

By Anthony Foppiano

By Peter Martin

I, like many minimalists, am a very outdoorsy kind of person. The minimalist lifestyle in general lends itself to being very outdoorsy, social, and community oriented. That is what happens when we live a life very focused on the core values of life. By that I mean health/wellness, relationships, and growth/ passion (for more info on this, you can get my book Living Better Small). upstater.com/benefits-shopping-local/

As Hudson continues its rapid transformation into a bona fide tourist destination, husband-and-wife restaurateurs Kirby Farmer and Kristan Keck have had front-row seats. As frequent weekenders prior to the purchase of their home in Germantown in 2008, they’ve watched as old, familiar buildings received sweeping renovations and were reborn as boutiques, galleries, and some of the best restaurants in the area. … When it came time for Kristan and Kirby to scout locations for their first restaurant, Hudson was at the top of the list. The deal was sealed when they found a beautiful 1830s brick building with plenty of charm and room for an inn upstairs. After a top-to-bottom renovation, Wm. Farmer & Sons boarding house and barroom opened last May. upstater.com/step-comfort-zone-wm-farmer-sons-boarding-barroom/ SPRING 2016

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Kirby Salvador is a Chicago native living in New York City and working as an illustrator and project manager. In illustration, “the possibilities are endless,” she says. “I’m inspired by my friends, strangers, pop culture, and movies.” upstater.com/contributors/kirbysalvadore

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Leander Schaerlaeckens is a freelance writer, based in Beacon, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, ESPN The Magazine, and elsewhere. His website is LeanderAlphabet.com, and his Twitter handle is @LeanderAlphabet. upstater.com/contributors/ leanderschaerlaeckens

facebook.com/upstater Liza Donnelly is an award-winning cartoonist and writer for the New York Times, The New Yorker, Forbes, Politico, and Medium. As a public speaker, she travels globally on behalf of freedom of speech and women’s rights, and is a cultural envoy for the U.S. State Department. Donnelly is also the author of 16 books for children and adults and the New York director of the international organization Cartooning for Peace. She divides her time between New York City and Rhinebeck.

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When Jason Cring, a Rhinebeckbased illustrator and graphic artist (and Upstater’s founding art director), isn’t setting type, he’s probably doodling something incoherent in his sketchbook. In addition to his love of infographics, Cring has a fondness for the absurd and an uncanny knack for knowing all the best coffee shops within any given 10-mile radius. upstater.com/contributors/jasoncring

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MARIANNE COURVILLE OWNER, HUDSON WINE MERCHANTS AND THE HUDSON STANDARD HOMETOWN: Westerly, Rhode Island MOVED TO THE HUDSON VALLEY FROM: Brooklyn LIVES IN: Taghanik, by way of Chatham and Hudson FAVORITE THING ABOUT UPSTATE: “The clean air, the local farms, and Hudson, which uniquely combines an upstate and downstate sensibility.” LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT UPSTATE: “Driving! I’m not a big fan of driving and I do a lot of it.” When Marianne Courville and her husband, Michael Albin, became parents in Brooklyn in 2002, they found the clean, open spaces upstate beckoning irresistibly. “We had a kid and didn’t want to live in the city, not least because it’s too expensive,” she says. “We had already gotten a little house up in Chatham, and we found we just never wanted to go back [to New York]. We knew we were meant to be up here, even though we really had no idea what we’d do with ourselves for work. We just took the plunge and then figured out what to do after. It always felt right.” That’s not to say there was no adjustment involved. “At the same time, we’d find ourselves going to Hudson a lot, to get that city feel: ‘Let’s go to the Red Dot … it’s kinda like Brooklyn.’” Over the course of the next few years, Courville weaned herself away from her city gig as a curator for photographer, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Buhl. “When we first moved, I was commuting full-time with a kid. I loved my job—I mean, we created an exhibit at the Guggenheim,” she recalls. “I knew I wouldn’t find anything like that upstate, but the commute was brutal. I started gradually commuting less: four days a week, three, two.” (Buhl undoubtedly missed her. “[Marianne] knew much more than I did,” he told Sotheby’s magazine in 2012. “She was the one doing the legwork. ... She was very instrumental in honing my taste.”)

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Determined to find a creative role upstate, Courville and Albin bought a Warren Street building. In 2004, they opened Hudson Wine Merchants on the first floor and the Marianne Courville Gallery on the third floor. “We just got this idea,” Courville says, “that we wanted to do a wine shop / gallery / tasting bar as a combination, but you can’t do all of those in the same space for legal reasons. So we opened the wine shop on the ground floor and the gallery and tasting bar on the third, and lived on the second floor.” (The gallery has since been renamed the Third Floor, and functions mostly as an events space.) After four years of city life in miniature, the family needed more room and moved 10 miles outside town. But when Courville found herself diving into yet a third business, the Warren Street building’s second floor became kitchen and office space for The Hudson Standard. Having become aware of the West Coast handmade bitters trend, Courville decided that bitters and shrubs—handcrafted cocktail ingredients—were a Hudson Valley natural. “I’ve witnessed the growth of the New York beverage boom firsthand through Hudson Wine Merchants,” she says, “and I got really excited to complement it with our mixers and bitters, which puts us in direct contact with local farms as sources for our ingredients.” Courville is no longer wondering what to do with herself upstate: seven-day workweeks are the rule. To recharge her batteries, though, she’s glad to have open spaces close at hand. “I love long hikes and walks with Percy, our rescue dog,” she says. “It definitely feels like we’re right where we’re supposed to be.”—Anne Pyburn Craig WE E K AT S UI N MNOVATION. M E R 2 0 1 5 N EW CONTE NT EVE RY18

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DEAR ARTHUR WELLESLEY, ST 1 DUKE OF WELLINGTON, Do you mind if we call you Artie?

We just want to say thanks for the boots. Sure, we get it, you did some other stuff too. You defeated Napoleon, lorded it over Britain’s Treasury before anyone else, and prime-ministered Great Britain, all while wearing wellies, and your statue’s looking great these days (thought you should know). But let’s put history aside: It’s spring in Upstate New York and the only things keeping us from getting trench foot happen to bear your moniker. In the wicked, rainy world beyond our foyers lie slush, mud, and puddles, all of which are waiting to ambush our etiolated extremities much like you ambushed the Persians at Thermopylae (did we get that right?).

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As we well know, wet feet are about as enjoyable as a Mongol invasion (swell job with that, by the way). Your boots, like obdurate armaments, implacably impenetrable, and stave off the inevitable—dare we say it—like a naval blockade. Whether we’re crossing Seventh Avenue, the marsh on our country estates, the Catskills, or even the Alps (that was you too, right?), we know that Wellingtons, or even one of their hipster imitators (sorry, MukLuks), are the only boots for the job, and if they’re good enough for the likes of you, Artie, hey, they’re good enough for us. So thank you, many, many times, for the boots. Oh, and for all the other stuff too.

RUBBER BOOTS THROUGH TIME

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ASHLEY KNOX COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR/ACTIVIST HOMETOWN: Kingston LIVES IN: Port Ewen WORKS IN: Newburgh WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Stay hopeful. Stay positive. Stay optimistic.” Ashley Knox has an easy laugh, but she’s all business when it comes to her passion: helping young people get a strong start on life. Knox is the study-abroad coordinator at Mount Saint Mary College (MSMC) in Newburgh. As an attendee at the 2013 Women & Power Retreat at Omega Institute, she found herself deeply affected by the University of Houston sociology professor, author, and public speaker Brené Brown’s keynote speech. “It really touched my heart, and made me think about what I could be doing here,” she recalls. Following the retreat, Knox began offering free adult workshops in Ulster County on communication, dispute resolution, and parental support for families with youth who were getting off probation. “But I wanted to shift the same paradigm over to young people,” she says. Knox founded Go Beyond Greatness, Inc. (GBG) in November 2014. Through workshops and the organization’s website, Slammin.me, GBG offers training workshops for regional youth in leadership, communication, positive behavior, and personal discipline, all designed to prepare young people to thrive in real-life settings and achieve college and career readiness. As MSMC’s study-abroad coordinator, Knox travels a lot. Last year, she visited the Skema Business School, a top international business school located in Lille, France’s Silicon Valley, where she witnessed “absolutely amazing 21st-century learning”—and became even more determined to make a difference to Hudson Valley youth. This winter, Knox hosted 50 international students for a Hudson Valley sustainable business tour through a partnership between MSMC’s International School of Business; Re>Think Local, a nonprofit collaborative, to which GBG belongs, of businesses, artists, farmers, and nonprofits; and marketing communications firm Courtney Strong Inc. And last September, Knox won funding to bring 10 young women to Omega Institute’s Women & Power Retreat. “They listened to women

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from around the globe who are redefining power talk about what it means to be a woman leader, and to come together with others for the progress and advancement of humanity,” says Knox. “They were inspired to feel ‘I can do this!’ and reminded to keep striving, no matter what.” GBG is already accumulating a string of success stories. One involves a shy young high school student from Guyana. Thanks to GBG, she became active in Middletown High School’s clubs and social life. Now a college student majoring in political science and history, she plans to become an international human rights attorney, and has lined up internships at a pre-law summer institute in Buffalo and elected officials’ offices in Newburgh and Albany. “GBG’s focus on tapping into your leadership, inner talents, and abilities helped her to believe in herself,” says Knox. “She learned to build up her perseverance and practice before real life. I’m very proud of her, because she took full advantage of what’s available.” Knox holds a master’s of professional studies in humanistic and multicultural education and an undergraduate degree in sociology, specializing in Spanish and Black studies, from SUNY New Paltz. While her own parents nurtured her resilient core of self-confidence, she acknowledges that not every young person is so fortunate. “They taught me to strive for excellence and to understand that failure is part of life. It gets you closer to your goals,” she says. “You have to focus on service to others, and tap into yourself as a meaningful contributor. All our life experiences shape us and bring us closer to our next accomplishment.” And for Knox, “next accomplishments” are always in the making. “I’m a woman and I’m a single mother, so when it comes to the art of multitasking, I do it naturally,” she explains. “I don’t even think about it: I make things happen. At the same time, I’m not a one-woman show, and I can’t take all the credit. I’m surrounded by, and supported by, a group of strong mentors with proven track records in business and education. I have a wonderful circle of support.” —Debra Bresnan INNOVATORS. NEW CONTENT EVERY WEEK 22 AT

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The Hudson Valley has long been a magnet for both the socially and the environmentally conscious. In recent years, the farm-to-table movement has focused consumers and producers alike on the environmental and health benefits of local fare. Now a growing number of businesspeople in the area—from farmers to cooks and bakers—are marrying their personal values with their professional lives and serving up social substance along with sustenance. Above: Harvesting garlic at Soul Fire Farms in Grafton. Opposite, from top: Making blondies at Greyston Bakery; Chocolatier Lagusta Yearwood; Vegan blood-orange and chocolate hearts from Lagusta’s Luscious.

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1. GREYSTON BAKERY

Photo courtesy of Lagusta’s Luscious

Internationally famous Buddhist teacher Bernie Glassman—a Brooklyn native—founded Greyston Bakery in Yonkers in 1982 with a mission to fuel personal transformation among the disenfranchised and help bring about community economic renewal in struggling Yonkers. Today, the thriving bakery offers an array of community benefits along with its high-quality baked goods—$15 million worth of which were sold last year alone. “I think our product is absolutely amazing, but our major partnerships have come about through mission work,” says Ariel Hauptman, Greyston’s director of business development. Each year, under its open-hiring program, Greyston enrolls about 100 apprentices with criminal records and other barriers to employment and teaches them to make its signature cookies, brownies, and blondies. About a third of the apprentices graduate to full-time jobs at the bakery, whose main gig is supplying the brownies for several flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Greyston also helps its staff find affordable housing, child care, and opportunities for advancement. One of its success stories is Dion Drew, an ex-convict who has risen from apprentice to assistant supervisor in his seven years at Greyston. “It’s just a blessing,” Drew says. “They gave me the opportunity to grow.”

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Lagusta Yearwood’s artisanal chocolates are vegan, but if you didn’t know, you probably wouldn’t guess. “I wanted to do something in line with my values,” says Yearwood, an animal-rights activist. “But we have a lot of customers who aren’t vegan. We use coconut milk and coconut oil, which are nice and fatty and rich. It’s not like we’re using weird tofu.” She pairs unusual ingredients such as yuzu, shitake, fennel, and peppercorn with dark chocolate—all organic and ethically sourced— creating sweet, sour, earthy, and spicy flavor combinations. The intricately fashioned confectionary presented at Lagusta’s Luscious, Yearwood’s five-year-old shop in New Paltz, also has a distinctly feminist twist. Several offerings are named after groundbreaking female pioneers, including physicist Vandana Shiva. The Furious Vulva is a womanly shaped oval of dark chocolate, pink peppercorn, and pink sea salt. And Lagusta’s activist bonbons and truffles are making their way far beyond what she calls her “world headquarters” in New Paltz. Find them in the Hudson Valley at Outdated Café in Kingston, Echo Boutique in Beacon, Taste at Todd Hill in Poughkeepsie, Tuthilltown Spirits in Gardiner, and Verdigris in Hudson; in Manhattan at Handsome Dan’s and Local Roots NYC at Fulton Stalls Market; in Brooklyn at Riverdel Cheese and Sparrow; or in nine other states and Washington, D.C.

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3. SOUL FIRE FARM Soul Fire Farm is a sustainable, Certified Naturally Grown farm in Grafton that addresses disparities in land ownership and access to produce by offering a training program for aspiring black, indigenous, and Latino farmers, activist retreats, youth agriculture classes, and an inner-city CSA (communitysupported agriculture), which charges on a sliding scale and accepts SNAP benefits. In 2011, husband and wife and co-owners Jonah Vitale-Wolff and Leah Penniman launched Soul Fire on the 72-acre farm where they live with their two young children, growing vegetables, raising poultry, tending fruit orchards, teaching sustainable building methods, and focusing on ending racism and injustice in the food system through the many programs they offer. Penniman, who is African-American, and Vitale-Wolff, who is Italian and Jewish, met at Clark University, and bonded over their shared love of farming and desire to use it as a tool for social good. “Both of us feel our souls really come alive when we get to do this work,” Vitale-Wolff says.

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4. CERTIFIED NATURALLY GROWN There are 740 American and Canadian farms (including Soul Fire Farm) whose produce is Certified Naturally Grown (CNG), a less expensive and less time-consuming alternative to the US Department of Agriculture’s organic certification. Several Hudson Valley farmers who were committed to organic practices but felt that the national program wasn’t a good fit founded CNG in 2002. They hired environmental activist Alice Varon to run the nonprofit organization after learning about her lobbying efforts to label genetically engineered seeds. CNG’s modest yearly dues range from $110 to $200, and its certification process includes an inspection by a local farmer, which makes it a true peer-to-peer system. “I wanted to invest my energy in an organization that would support the people working most closely with the land,” says Varon, who splits her time between Stone Ridge and Brooklyn, where CNG’s office is located.

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From above: Vinegar varieties for purchase at the Our Lady of the Resurrection Monasgtery in Lagrangeville; Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latrourrette shows the fermented fruits of his labor.

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arbara Olsen Pascale is new in town. But that doesn’t mean she’s had any trouble getting up to speed on Hillsdale’s goings-on. In fact, since she and her partner, Joanna Virello, moved last year to the eastern Columbia County village, close to the Massachusetts border, they’ve made numerous friends, joined rock bands, and enjoyed more than their fair share of community dinner parties. “We have stuff to do all the time,” says Pascale, a woodworker and builder, and a former Brooklynite. “If we wanted to be busy every night of the week, we would be.” That’s surprising in an area mostly populated by working farms, but then again, Hillsdale isn’t a typical agrarian community. Hillsdale hamlet (part of the larger town of Hillsdale) sits at an important crossroads in Columbia County, where Route 22 meets Route 23. The hamlet is half an hour’s drive from both Hudson and Millerton, while Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is just 15 minutes away. It’s a 2.5-hour drive on the Taconic between Hillsdale and Midtown Manhattan, but the area’s reasonably priced real estate and beautiful views of both the Catskills and the Berkshires make it well worth the drive. “It’s so stunningly beautiful here,” says Pascale, who even finds the 45-minute morning commute to the Wassaic Metro-North station a sight to behold. “I never get tired of it,” she says. Pascale fell in love with Hillsdale in the same way many visitors do with Hudson Valley locations: She suddenly found the right house at the right price. For Pascale, the love object was a c. 1961 custom ranch

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house, originally built for a beloved local schoolteacher and animal rescuer, located smack in the middle of farm country. “We looked at a few houses,” says Pascale, “and something about this place just called to us. It’s got a lot of mid century details. The architecture is very modern. It’s not a farmhouse. It’s a different thing.” Her initial plan was to gut the ranch house for a studs-out renovation, but her feelings for the house changed after purchasing the property. “It’s become more of a restoration project,” Pascale admits. “The windows—I won’t replace them because they’re so much a part of the house. The landscape comes in—you’re in the landscape. I’m standing in the middle of a field, almost.” Although the ranch rehab is a work-in-progress, it’s not hard to see what drew Pascale in: Mid century modern details include lush custom wood paneling in the living room and signature picture windows, which bathe the room in natural light. In keeping with the mid century theme, Pascale and Virello are fixing up a 1987 Airstream camper as a guest house. Ultimately, for Pascale, Hillsdale’s strongest draw is its vibrant, welcoming community. In the short time she and Virello, a media relations director in New York City, have lived in Hillsdale, they’ve already made many friends in town. And, despite the stereotypes ascribed to country folks, Pascale says, nobody bats an eye at her relationship with Virello. “I get a lot of tradesmen in here,” Pascale, says, referring to her mid renovation house, “and they’re cool with the fact that this lesbian couple has moved in. I just didn’t expect that.” The couple spends time with their new Hillsdale friends hiking, attending dinner parties, and hitting Chaseholm Farm in nearby Pine Plains for Burger Nights, even a barn dance. “I’d never been to a barn dance before, and it was awesome,” says Pascale. “Old hipsters and hippies and local farmers—a really interesting mix of people listening to this bluegrass band. People make more of an effort [here].” u

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JESSICA WICKHAM WOODWORKER HOMETOWN: Manhattan HAS LIVED IN: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Rome, Italy; Jaipur and all over Rajasthan, India; Tokyo and Kamakura, Japan LIVES IN: “The middle of nowhere, outside Middletown” WORKS IN: Beacon Nearly 20 years into her career, Jessica Wickham is still surprised to have found her niche as a fine woodworker. Armed with an anthropology degree, she planned to become a documentary filmmaker, but wound up as a technical writer and got “vacuumed up” into Goldman Sachs. “Before I knew it, I was a VP in Tokyo,” she says. She calls her corporate decade “graduate school.” She explains: “It was an intense, fun work environment, with very smart people working in teams over distances.” As an architect’s daughter who grew up appreciating design, Wickham’s interest in woodworking was heightened in Tokyo when she bought a dining table “with a natural edge.” She explains: “Organic shapes in your home have a stunning impact on people. They create an emotional, elemental reaction. It’s truly humbling to work with natural materials.” Later, Wickham began studying traditional Japanese tools and woodworking as a counterbalance to the stresses of her job. When Goldman Sachs asked her to return to Manhattan after 9/11, she resigned and moved to a nearby Japanese seaside city, Kamakura. There, she lived in an artists’ enclave, studying traditional Japanese joinery methods. “I fell in love with Kamakura,” she says. “It’s an incredibly beautiful place, with two mountains surrounding a little valley that opens onto a waterfront. Everything is located around the axis of one street, with a giant temple at one end and hundreds of historic little wooden houses. It’s a magical, magnetic place.” After five years in Japan, Wickham returned to the US in 2002, rented a workspace in an old factory in Middletown, and began crafting tables. “I discovered woodworking as a way to get a grip on my life, and never imagined making objects for my work,” she admits, “but it’s extremely satisfying. With so many nuances and subtleties, creating a learning environment is part of the joy of it.”

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In Middletown, Wickham created work for display in a Brooklyn gallery, built conference tables for the National Audubon Society, and grew her business, despite the recession. In 2009, she established Wickham Solid Wood Studio in Beacon. She now employs three fulltime skilled woodworkers and works intense 11-hour days, six days a week. “Wednesday is my sanity day,” she says. “I go into the city for a Pilates class, socialize with friends, eat good food, go to a museum.” Wickham sources wood by following leads about trees downed by storms and landscaping fells. She acquires about 20 logs a year this way, tracking them on a database, The Log Log. The recovered trees are seasoned for two years, then repurposed into signature pieces. Each log in Wickham’s inventory of 10,000 board feet of local hardwood slabs is sliced to preserve its natural edge, debarked by hand, and stacked and stored to mirror the tree’s original shape. She digs deep to understand her clients’ desires, involving them in wood selection. “I am always going for the wow factor. It’s a function of reality, time, and money,” she says. Wickham uses handmade edging tools from a seventh-generation Japanese blacksmith, with pieces taking up to three months to create and 150 hours to finish. “It takes a lifetime to learn to create with these traditional tools,” she says. “They come very rough. You adapt them to your body, your hands, your size— very different from clicking on Amazon to buy a tool and getting it in the mail. The tools become an extension of your body.” Wickham’s career recently came full circle when she built the tables and counters for Tempura Matsui, a tempura-tasting restaurant on East 39th Street. It’s a traditional space, “tiny, like being in Japan,” she says. “It was a fun, complex job,” she says. “I brought in a lot of people I know to work with me, and sourced all the wood, and I’m fiercely proud of it. When you’re developing skill, you’re forever getting closer. This job represents a culmination of a lot of things for me. It’s nice to create pieces people will know and love, pieces they’ll sit around and enjoy.” —Debra Bresnan

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As Shaft 6B in Wappinger is excavated, blasted rock is loaded into buckets and hauled to the top.

THE SHAFT IS SO DEEP THAT IT’S HARD TO MAKE OUT THE BOTTOM.

A few yellow hardhats bob amid the gray sheen of the shale that has yet to be coated in concrete. It took two years of methodical blasting to delve this far. The big, gaping hole in the ground, some 34 feet in diameter, is called Shaft 6. It’s 675 feet deep, 600 of those feet below sea level, just north of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, on the eastern bank of the Hudson River in the Town of Wappinger. This will be the end point of the new Rondout-West Branch Tunnel, where a bypass is being built to circumvent a section of the Delaware Aqueduct that has been leaking for over 25 years. This massive pipeline carries 1.1 billion gallons of water daily from the Cannonsville, Pepacton, Neversink, and Rondout Reservoirs to the Croton Watershed and into New York City. At 85 miles, it is the world’s longest tunnel, beating out recently constructed water pipelines in Finland and China. It supplies 8.4 million people in the five boroughs and another million north of the city, where dozens of towns tap into the line along the way. Since opening in 1948, the tunnel has done its job admirably— except for two sections. One is beneath Wawarsing in Ulster County, the other below the Town of Newburgh, where the tunnel slips under the river. The aqueduct mostly cuts through shale, except for two places where it passes through more porous and permeable limestone. In those two spots, cracks have emerged, leaking up to 4 percent of the total flow—–15 to 18 million gallons a day, or 360,000 filled bathtubs—or almost double that, depending on volume. “It’s not an insignificant loss,” says Adam Bosch of New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which manages the water supply. “You’re putting all that work into collecting the water and protecting the water, and you don’t want to be losing it through leaks.” Now a vast project more than 20 years in the making is being

The work platform at the bottom of the shaft, showing the excavator that is used to scoop up blasted rock.

undertaken. It’s a public works project of a rare scale, although almost nobody will notice or feel any effects: a DEP repair job that will take until 2023 to complete and cost $1.5 billion, paid for entirely by water bill revenues. It’s the largest, most complex fix made to New York City’s labyrinthine water system of aqueducts since its 1842 origin—a project that calls to mind the ancient Romans, who pioneered the gravitypowered methods the Delaware Aqueduct relies on. “It’s the largest water supply system in the country,” says deputy DEP commissioner Paul Rush. “This project impacts the place where the city gets half of its water. It’s a massive project that’s going on silently.” On the construction site, the scene looks even more archaic, positively Flintstonian. A giant bucket lifts the rubble from the pit through a pulley system, tipping it over the edge and into a horseshoeshaped receptacle. The construction is padded to lessen the noise for residents nearby. All that shale existed in the ground undisturbed for hundreds of millions of years until someone decided to name the buildings above it the Town of Wappinger and, shortly afterwards, blast the rock out. A round of explosions unloosed 10 feet of rock at a time, to be hauled up and donated to public works like Beacon’s Long Dock Park or sold commercially. Once 100 fresh feet were excavated, the walls were coated by a two-story tall, spider-like machine, which rotated and spewed concrete to form a neat cylinder. The shaft is so deep it’s several dozen degrees warmer down there than at its edge, thanks to the machinery, the lack of wind chill, and it’s being over 600 feet closer to the earth’s core. Around the gaping hole, the size and physics of the equipment beggar belief. Rods of rebar, the size of skateboard ramps, have been welded into pre-assembled sheets, bent to fit neatly along the new walls to fortify the concrete. The nuts and bolts being used are as big as dumbbells.

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Across the river, along Route 9W in the Town of Newburgh, near Marlborough, the same thing has happened, except that shaft goes 850 feet down, because it’s being excavated from a bluff. It will have a large chamber at the bottom for a horizontal boring machine and sump pumps. Horizontal drilling will begin sometime in 2017, tunneling 600 feet below the river’s deepest point. The problem all this will address was first spotted in the early 1990s. A Central Hudson employee noticed bubbles along the Hudson’s western bank at low tide. Water was shooting into the river from somewhere below, but it could only be seen from nearby, from a narrow strip of land cut off by train tracks. The water there was found to contain copper sulfate. Only the DEP’s pipeline had used that chemical in that area to clear it of algae, but it hadn’t been used since, so it could only have come from the Delaware Aqueduct. However, in the 1990s, technology hadn’t yet advanced enough to pinpoint the leak’s source, let alone plug a crack while it gushed vital tap water, as deep below ground as skyscrapers are tall. It would take another 20 years to figure out how to get it done. In 2003, a robotic submarine developed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution surveyed the length of the 45-mile tunnel between the Rondout Reservoir and the Croton Watershed, taking 160,000 pictures and gathering data to map the problem. The pictures will allow the DEP to plug the small holes leaking under Wawarsing with a dense grout. But the images also confirmed that the leak by the Hudson wasn’t directly below the spot where water was rushing into the river. The water was actually traveling sideways as well as upward, so the crack was further west and inland from the river.

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The section under the river passing through limestone was lined with steel to retain the integrity of the rock, but that casing hadn’t been extended far enough into the river’s banks. Where it ended, cracks had formed, letting water escape. The only solution was to drill a second tunnel, adjacent to the old one, connect it to the waterline before it hit the unsalvageable problem spot, and cap the old waterway. But that would mean closing down the aqueduct for nearly a decade. How would New York City absorb the loss of 50 to 60 percent of its water supply in the meantime? “Making this happen was seen as a near impossibility,” says Bosch, “because where would you get this water from?” But recent improvements across the water system and a concerted DEP effort to reduce water consumption in the city have made a Delaware Aqueduct shutdown viable. Technological advances have helped cut New York City’s water usage by a third since the late 1970s—from about 1.6 billion gallons per day to 1.1 billion—thanks to more efficient toilets, taps, and showers, and an aggressive DEP campaign to replace old facilities. The DEP worked out that if it modernized and restored the other aqueducts to their historic capacity, and installed filtration systems in Croton and tapped groundwater in Queens, it could compensate for the loss of the Delaware Aqueduct for a short period—not years, but for a while. With a new tunnel dug beside the old one, which would keep running during construction, the flow of water would only need to be interrupted while the extremities were connected. That way, the interruption would only be six to eight months—sometime during 2022 and 2023—with enough water coming from elsewhere to bridge the gap in service.

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A drill rig sets holes in the bedrock inside Shaft 5B in Newburgh when it was at a depth of approximately 700 feet. The holes were then filled with explosive to blast up an additional 10 feet of bedrock from the shaft.

A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY’S WATER SYSTEM New York City’s water has come a long way. It flows 145 miles from its furthest reservoir—Cannonsville, near the Northeastern corner of Pennsylvania—to Staten Island. It’s also expanded from a few wells—at times carrying yellow fever, cholera, and typhoid—to one of the world’s vastest and cleanest water supply systems. The city’s water system was long racing to keep up with the demands of its mushrooming population. The first water shortage was reported in 1774, when the city had just 22,000 inhabitants. The first public well opened near Bowling Green in 1677, with more wells following on street corners. A reservoir was later made at Broadway and White Street and water pumped through hollow logs to distribute it, but with no sewer system, the water was notoriously fetid. A 1789 outbreak of yellow fever, one of several scourges attributed to the foul water supply, killed 2,000 New Yorkers, about six percent of the population. Five more major yellow fever epidemics and four cholera outbreaks followed. Ships traveling to New York carried enough water for the trip back as well, rather than fill up in the city. Regardless of the water’s quality, there wasn’t enough of it. By 1830, with reservoirs built out further and 40 miles of wooden pipes laid, the infrastructure still only served 60,000 of the then 200,000 Manhattanites. In 1842, a dam was built on the Croton River and an aqueduct laid into

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Manhattan, now known as the Old Croton Aqueduct, marking the birth of New York City’s modern water system. Water quality improved, and service hasn’t been interrupted for anything other than maintenance since the Croton Aqueduct opened, but shortages continued until 1890, when a second aqueduct was built from the Croton watershed. Shortages abated but new sources needed to be tapped to stay ahead of population growth. The Catskill aqueduct was opened in 1915, followed by the Delaware aqueduct in 1944, which was eventually extended with the reservoirs that still feed into it today. The city’s expansion of its water system was often controversial. Following political maneuvering in the early 19th century, Columbia and Dutchess counties were bypassed, and the city’s water was sourced entirely from the Hudson River’s western bank. Planners tried to avoid building tunnels underneath the river, but eventually ran out of options and the Catskills had to be tapped. The Catskills line was built in 1915, crossing the river between Storm King and the West Point Military Academy, dipping 1,100 feet below sea level to pass underneath the base of Bear Mountain. The upstate communities whose natural resources would quench the city’s endless thirst never got much of a say in the matter. In Albany, New York City was seen as the engine of the state’s economic progress

“THERE’S A LOT OF MOVING PIECES. EVERYTHING HAS TO HAPPEN IN THE RIGHT ORDER.” But there were more complications. Towns above and along an aqueduct have a right to purchase water from it and tap in, so an alternative water source would also be needed, requiring new linkups between towns and aqueducts, new wells, and interconnections between towns and cities, like Newburgh, with their own reservoirs. “There’s a lot of moving pieces,” says Bosch. “Everything has to happen in the right order.” (At press time, Bosch said the project is months ahead of schedule.) Ironically, on the river’s eastern side there was no water supply to the building site. Houses in the Wappinger hamlet of Chelsea had their own wells. When the water lines were laid to the new shaft, Chelsea was plugged into the water grid—with pipes running up to every house’s front lawn for owners to tap into, should they choose. On the Newburgh side, there was insufficient water for firefighting, so hydrants were installed. Finally, with the many problems solved, the shafts could be dug to serve as the connection points between the new tunnel and the old aqueduct. The new bypass tunnel will be 2.5 miles long, but drop just five feet—to maintain the downward slope from the reservoirs all the way down to New York City, allowing gravity to power it. But that means fitting the new tunnel to the old one has to be exactly right, maintaining the correct slope. (New York has cheap water rates—half that of the most expensive cities, Seattle and Atlanta—because it only

and accommodated without question. The city freely gobbled up whatever water resources it demanded. Farms and other properties were seized and owners weren’t always compensated fairly. Critics say the city didn’t get serious about water conservation until the 1980s, instead, expanding its system rather than building efficiencies into it. Nor was the Hudson River ever seriously considered as an alternative. Rather than make an effort to clean it up and filter its water, the city simply argued that it was too dirty and that it needed the already clean water upstate. Today, the system has a reservoir capacity of 552.5 billion gallons of water, which is typically 85 percent filled. The largest of those reservoirs is the Pepacton, at 140.2 billion gallons. Along the way to the city, the water is disinfected with ultraviolet light, tested for purity at 1,000 different stations, and treated with chlorine; for every million parts of water, one part of fluoride is added. A security force of about 200 officers, once called the Aqueduct Police and now known as the DEP Police, protects the water supply.—Leander Schaerlaeckens

has to pump 5 percent of its water electrically. It also doesn’t have to filter it much. The gravity-powered pressure is so strong that unless a New York City building is over six stories, no water pump is needed to force the water to rise.) The tunnel will be 20 feet in diameter, including a six-foot steel lining—running deep enough into the riverbanks to avoid cracks in the limestone. The remaining 14 feet of water capacity are large enough to run a train through—in fact, a rail line will transport the rock out of the tunnel as it’s being excavated during construction. The tunnel will be so big that, if necessary, it could move all of New York City’s water at once, should other aqueducts need repairs. Amazingly, the rest of the aqueduct system needs nary a touchup. The shale it was tunneled through has proved enduringly reliable. The craftsmanship of this underground network of tunnels leaves today’s engineers stupefied. Except for the lamentable limestone cracks, the system, 175 years old in some parts, is in immaculate shape. A few years from now, the Delaware Aqueduct will be pumped dry for the first time since 1957, touched up, and rerouted. Then water will flow below us again, and the old water system will resume its diligent service to people in the city and upstate, the overwhelming majority of whom will never lay eyes on the technological marvel that puts water in their faucets and showers. u

Catskill Aqueduct was constructed from 1907 to 1916, and runs 92 miles from the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster County to Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers. SPRING 2016

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The Stolen Church of Glenford A New York City family creates a new community outside Woodstock.

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very New Year’s Day for the past 14 years, Mor Pipman and Eric Hurliman have invited friends over for soup. It’s a tradition that began their first year of marriage. “We’d met and married in a whirlwind and then the holidays came,” Pipman remembers. “There was our wedding party, then Thanksgiving and office parties. It was parties, parties, parties—by New Year’s Eve we refused to go out. So we decided to stay home and make a pot of seafood bisque.”

The soup was delicious. There was also plenty to share, so the next day, January 1st, they invited neighbors over for an impromptu lunch. This was in the East Village in 2002, before gentrification and high-priced lattes, when Pipman and Hurliman were an integral part of the inter-generational, intercultural neighborhood. Pipman, a stone carver and ceramic sculptor, was teaching as well as organizing the local “M’finda Kalunga” community garden. “It was activism along with gardening,” she recalls, “and was all about creating community. We held classes where the neighborhood elders taught the kids gardening. We screened political movies. We celebrated everyone’s festivals—the Chinese harvest festival, Juneteenth, and the Sukkot.”

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This page: Pipman’s art studio inside the old church. Opposite: A volunteer serves up Pipman’s homecooking at a Hudson Valley Sudbury School Music Night.

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The railroad president offered the church building to the congregation “if they could only cart it away.” Amazingly, they did.

Photo by Deborah DeGraffenreid

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they made the former community hall their living quarters with a kitchen from Green Demolitions, a nonprofit that recycles luxury kitchens and bathrooms. The honey-colored solid wood countertops, ornate cabinetry, and shelves laden with canned veggies are reminiscent of the late 19th century. Four-paned windows and wood doors, bought secondhand from the Door Jamb in Shokan, complete the vintage look. A large, modern industrial stove is where Pipman, now a case worker for Hudson Valley Adoption Services, began her home-based business Much Mor Bread. Photo by Roy Gumpel

Their lives changed but the New Year’s soup tradition continued. Hurliman became an RN and they had two children, Ulysses and Zephyr. In 2007, their growing family and a rat infestation on their block sent them upstate looking for a new home, and they discovered an old church for sale outside Woodstock. Originally built in 1865, the former Methodist-Episcopalian church was one of 10 congregations displaced by the building of the Ashokan Reservoir. It came to be known as “the stolen church of Glenford” because, in 1911, parishioners moved the church from the proposed reservoir basin to its current home in Glenford. According to local historian Bob Steuding, the church grounds stood within the boundaries of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, something disgruntled congregants noted when New York City took control. The railroad president offered the church building to the congregation “if they could only cart it away.” Amazingly, they did. It took five days using oxen to move the church to the .9-acre triangle of donated land at Ohayo Mountain’s base. The congregants then built a community hall (damaged and rebuilt after a 1935 fire) to include a kitchen, community meeting space, and Sunday school annex. Over time, the local Methodist community, spread over three campuses, wanted to consolidate and expand. The Glenford property’s limitations became apparent. That’s when the Hurliman-Pipman family stepped in. In the spring of 2008 they set up camp on the land and began remodeling. “Our priority was ecological,” Pipman says. “We weren’t concerned with aesthetics and we didn’t really have a plan.” First,

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Clockwise, from top: Pipman at the entrance of her home, a former church annex; Some of the house’s eclectic furnishings; The kitchen features reclaimed cabinetry and rows of Pipman’s homemade canned goods.

The hall’s drop-ceiling tiles, once removed, revealed an arched twostory ceiling, and new, higher windows infused the new family room with light. The former stage was transformed into an office and laundry room. Now, along the high walls, stained-glass art by Pipman’s sister and windows recycled from her parent’s house alternate with bookshelves; an oversize National Geographic world map hangs on the back wall, and a baby grand piano sits in the corner. The white-tiled bathroom includes an antique sink, clawfoot tub, and bidet, all salvaged from Zaborski’s architectural salvage in Kingston. The Sunday school annex was divided into two bedrooms and more office space, and a mudroom and deck were added. Pipman calls it her “loft in the sticks.” Today, solar panels supply most of the complex’s energy and charge the family’s plug-in hybrid car. Hurlimann has built a large garden over the former church parking lot and planted blueberry and raspberry bushes, grapes, and a fig tree, along with lots of vegetables. A recently built pond will eventually provide fish. A recycled stone walkway leads through newly planted fruit trees to the original church. Although modernized, the former church sanctuary remains true to the original 19th-century design. Low ceilings were removed, exposing the original beams and bell tower, and solar tubes provide natural light. Insulation was added to the walls but the original dark wood carved paneling was refurbished or painstakingly replaced, and Pipman added antique chandeliers and a small centerpiece to the alter. Stained-glass windows, remnants of the building’s rich history, bathe the square

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chapel in blue and green light. Pipman’s small art studio sits above like a choir loft and the space regularly hosts public events—everything from book signings to art installations and musical performances. On the last Friday of every month, the Old Glenford church hosts an intimate house concert. Music Night showcases an eclectic variety of acts, and has become the go-to listening room for local musicians introducing new material and anyone else who wants an affordable, high-quality night out. Performers at previous music nights include Deni Bonet, The Trapps, the Duke McVinnie Band, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones, Robert Burke Warren, and Mark Black. It was conceived by Pipman and local singer Carmen Senski as a benefit for the Hudson Valley Sudbury School—a community Pipman discovered serendipitously. Back in Manhattan, she had volunteered with the original Brooklyn Free School and was intrigued by the alternative-education movement. She knew she wanted to take a similar approach with her own children’s education. “I knew there was a little school up here, but I couldn’t remember the name,” she says. When she found it, only three miles from her house, she knew it was kismet. Her sons both attend the school today. u

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DENNIS CROWLEY FOURSQUARE FOUNDER / SOCCER BARON LIVES IN: New York City and Kingston HUDSON VALLEY RESIDENT SINCE: 2013 WHY THE HUDSON VALLEY? “At a certain point, the city becomes too much.” Dennis Crowley is a master team builder. In 2009, he got some fellow techies together to unleash the GPS-enabled social app Foursquare. Suddenly, Millennials in downtowns all over the world were using the service to “check-in” at various hot spots in order to let their friends know where they were hanging out—and to win bragging rights as to who had been there the most. After 7 billion check-ins, seven years of ups and downs, and last year’s controversial decision to split Foursquare’s gamified elements into a separate app called Swarm, Foursquare is finally turning a healthy profit. Turns out that compiling records of where 55 million people like to go and spend money is of interest to a lot of other companies. “I still meet people on planes who, when I tell them I work at a company called Foursquare, say ‘Oh, yeah, I use that to check in places and I get a badge with a cupcake on it,’ says Crowley. “And I say, ‘Well, that’s one of a thousand things that we do.’ The most interesting thing being that I can predict the number of new iPhones that will be sold next week based on the amount of foot traffic that goes in and out of Apple stores globally. We had that early success with the game element of the app, but that tended to constantly overshadow all the other amazing things we’ve been working on.” Now Crowley is building another team, for a whole different ball game, right here in the Hudson Valley: The Kingston Stockade Football Club. The Stockade FC will take the field at Dietz Stadium in Kingston this May as one the newest members of the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League, which consists of over 70 teams from across the country. It’s a way for Crowley to combine two of his most recently acquired passions: the Hudson Valley and soccer.

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He began spending time up in the valley when searching for wedding locations two years ago. “We were spending a lot of time in the area, and I thought, ‘I don’t know why we’re not spending ALL of our time up here,” he recalls. “So we bought a place right outside of Kingston. We’re up here weekends, holidays, all of our off time, and if we’re lucky, three days a week. Our ultimate goal is to just live here full time.” Crowley didn’t grow up playing soccer, but started playing it for fun in the city over the last few years. When he discovered the pick-up soccer scene in Kingston this past summer, he saw a wealth of untapped potential. “You’ve got kids who are in college and want to train in the off-season, people who didn’t go to college who are still super talented, and people who finished their college career but still want to play at a high level. There hasn’t been a platform around for all the really great players in the area who didn’t make it to the pro level, or for fans of the game who love to watch.” Crowley always tells high school students and tech conference attendees that if there’s something in the world that they think should exist that currently doesn’t, it’s up to them to go out and build it. “I’ve been saying that to people for years, but it’s been a long time since I went out and actually did that for myself,” he says. “And putting this together isn’t that dissimilar from the early days of Foursquare. It’s super daunting to put something like this together when you look at everything that has to be done, but if you just work on it for an hour every day, then after seven days or 10 days or three months, you’ve done a lot of it.” But will Crowley himself lace up a pair of cleats as a member of the Stockade? “Gosh, no, I’m awful!” he insists. “Even at our own tryouts, I would be laughed off of the field.”—Brian PJ Cronin

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If you’re currently paying $1,000 a month in rent, consider trading your lease for a mortgage on this well-priced, completely updated Victorian. (You could even be paying less than $1,000 a month, depending on the size of your down payment.) This roomy house sits on half an acre of land in the Sullivan County town of Bethel, otherwise known as the home of Woodstock ’69. More recently, Bethel has become renowned for the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, situated on the very same land that once hosted That Concert. The center features a Woodstock Festival museum, indoor and outdoor live musical performances, and plenty of seasonal festivals—just half a mile down the road. The house’s interior is not just big, it also flows beautifully, and includes five bedrooms (count ’em!), which offer a wide range of possibilities, plus a huge kitchen and a large walk-up attic (picture a studio/workspace). Looking for a bargain? Well, this is what one looks like!

It’s not that being a Hudson River ship’s captain in the 18th century was the fanciest of gigs. It’s just that this particular Hudson River ship captain’s home received a complete renovation in 2010, transforming this historic brick townhouse into an elegant home in the city of Hudson. Built in 1750, the house is currently the Hudson Merchant House, a boutique inn located just steps from the Amtrak train station on Hudson’s waterfront. Its location makes it ideal for commuting, but the interior is pure eye candy. It’s got polished wood floors; a brick fireplace in the living room; a fully modernized kitchen with blue jaguar granite countertops and a silver subway tile backsplash; and enough windows to bathe the entire inside with natural light. But the third floor is the cherry on top of the cake, in the form of a huge and completely private loft master bedroom suite. The second floor houses four bedrooms and three baths. Step out the back door and you’re in the midst of a landscaped courtyard featuring a patio that’s perfect for intimate outdoor dining.

Don’t dismiss this five-figure property based on eyeballing it alone. Yes, it’s a small house, with just two bedrooms and one bathroom, but the inside doesn’t feel cramped at all thanks to its high ceilings and large windows. What it does need is some polish and personality. The stone fireplace in the living room provides a solid jumping-off point for the look of the living room, as is the retro country kitchen, which features a basin sink, and those wood floors will gleam once they’re all shined up. Best of all, it sits on 3.6 acres of private land in quiet Sullivan County, within the Catskills region, just two hours drive from New York City. That’s a whole lotta yard to turn into your own mini-homestead—and it’s not far from the Forestburgh Playhouse, to boot!

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Oh, what a dreamy location. Situated at the end of a private road on the southern fringe of the 5,000-acre Awosting Reserve in Ulster County, this custom-built contemporary is literally steps away from Minnewaska State Park and Mohonk Preserve. Basically, if you live here, you’re right in the heart of the Shawangunk Mountains (aka the ’Gunks), with easy access to hiking, climbing, cross-country skiing—the works when it comes to outdoor sports. The scenery inside the house is pretty nice too. Renovated in 2009 by William Johnson Construction, a local firm that specializes in a style that melds natural and rustic with industrial contemporary, this house is an upscale retreat, showcasing the natural beauty that surrounds it. The soaring ceiling and over-sized windows in the great

room bring in the outdoors, along with plenty of light, and house’s open floor plan is perfect for both entertaining and energy efficiency, as it allows the wood-burning stove’s warmth to permeate throughout. This house has got great flow, with the kitchen opening directly into the dining area and main living area, and the attention to detail throughout is sublime. There’s an ample sleeping loft master bedroom plus two privately situated bedrooms at the rear of the house. Built-in bookcases flank the light-filled office/studio. The bathrooms, which have a spalike atmosphere, are a true delight, as is the kitchen, which features soapstone countertops and custom cabinets.

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David King ❚ 518.822.0800 x12

Maple Lawn $525,000

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Tivoli NY • Hudson NY • Catskill NY • Rhinebeck NY R E A L E S TA T E S E C T I O N

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Water Street Farmhouse $370,000

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HOULIHAN LAWRENCE

ESTATE PROPERTY Meticulously maintained Contemporary home with breathtaking views of the Catskill Mountain Range and walls of glass to ﬂood this open concept living masterpiece with light. WEB# PJ1173742 GERMANTOWN | $660,000

ENCHANTING GETAWAY Wide-board wood ﬂoors and stone ﬁreplaces are some of the characteristics of this 1930s renovated home. Southwest-facing stone patio. Over 11 acres of complete privacy. WEB# PJ1288992 BEEKMAN | $575,000

Michael James Tellerday Real Estate Salesperson Mobile: 845.797.6891 MLS#344314

Jill L. Rose Real Estate Salesperson Mobile: 914.204.0124 MLS#347153

VINTAGE HOMESTEAD A beautiful vintage homestead on over 20 rolling acres. Wide-board pine ﬂoors, solid doors and original hardware. A rare 3 owners in 250+ years. Home professionally restored. WEB# PJ1288168 EAST FISHKILL | $519,900 Nicole Porter Associate Real Estate Broker Mobile: 845.797.5300 MLS#347023

CENTER HALL COLONIAL Central location. This charming Colonial offers the best in amenities and style. From custom lighting in every room, tray ceilings, triple French doors to manicured grounds. WEB# PJ1181269 POUGHKEEPSIE CITY | $343,600 Lynn M. Simmons Real Estate Salesperson Mobile: 845.797.5107 MLS#345709

LaGrangeville Brokerage | 1325 Route 55 | 845.473.9770 | HoulihanLawrence.com Local Market Leader. Area’s Largest Global Network. PROVEN AND PROVING IT.

Patricia A. Hinkein Realty

PATRICIA A. HINKEIN REALTY One of a Kind, Chalet style Hudson House, located on a beautifully landscaped double lot with decks & patios offering privacy in the heart of the city of Hudson. Three BR/1.5 baths, high ceilings, CA, wood floors, original windows & usable third floor are just some of the many features of this well cared for home. $495,000

Converted barn with Catskill Mountain views. House features 3 BR/1.5 baths, great room connected to light-filled sun room, family room & den with stove hook up, workshop, CA, deck. Beautifully landscaped grounds. Detached 2 car garage. Private lake privileges. $249,000

Country Cottage on 1.4 acres with Catskill Mountain views. This 2 bedroom home features a spacious LR, FR with fireplace & balcony, 2 car attached garage & updated mechanicals. Located on a scenic country road, only minutes to the hamlet of Germantown.

Eyebrow Colonial on 2.5 acres located in Livingston & in the Red Hook School District. House features an updated kitchen, DR, LR, den & 2 BR/Bath. New Furnace. Metal Roof. Detached garage with workshop area. $139,000

$229,000

19 Church Ave, Germantown, NY (518) 537-4888 www.hinkeinrealty.com • hinkein@gmail.com

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hamlet 2 story. 3BRs, 2 baths, oak floors up & down, vaulted MBR, 2 porches, fenced yard, barn/ garage, park across the street. JUST LISTED. $185,000.

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3 BR, 2 bath 1950s one story w/Craftsman details.

7.69 ACRES

w/dramatic Catskill views. Large pond. Architect designed

retreat w/ wonderful K, vaulted ceilings, walls of glass, stone FPL, many details $465,000.

COFFERED & VAULTED

ceilings, huge dream K, amazing first floor MBR suite, CA, FPL, 3 car garage, 11 acres. Stunning home built w/the best of everything. $599,000.

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DR, FR, office, wood floors, 2 panel doors, 2 car garage, huge lot! Just Listed. $279,000.

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6.1 acres in a quiet area. Heated Inground pool. Open

Light filled. Incredible charm & detail. Wood floors,

Superb outdoor living. $249,000.

w/gardens & huge trees. $219,900.

floor plan w/lots of light. 2 MBR suites. Wood floors.

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in the center of RHBK village. 7 BRs, 5.5 baths, wonderful details w/board floors, 4 bay windows, & pocket doors. Modern K & baths. $769,000.

amazing stairway, DR, office, glassed porch, 1.58 acres

4 HUGE BEDROOMS

make this country home different. 2 full baths, DR, great K, 21 ft. LR. CA, oak floors, huge deck, glassed porch, barn/studio, & 2.7 private acres. $255,000.

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3 private acres. 2500 SF, 4 BR. 3.5 bath Reproduction Saltbox. WB floors in every room, 2 FPLs, 2 MBR suites, 56 ft. deck. $389,500.

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this 4.33 acre building site, is rolling & open, has dramatic views, is BOHA, & is just 1.2 miles from RHBK Village. The perfect spot for your dream home! $310,000.

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30x60 Metal Shop w/Office, 22ft Ceilings, Overhead Door & High Efficiency Furnace. 1 Bedroom Soho Loft Style Apartment w/Open Living/ Dining Area, Transom Windows, Steel beams and Skylight.

Gallery/Studio with 14ft Ceiling, Controlled Lighting. Perfect for Exhibits & Displays.

2,500 sq.ft. Wood Shop w/3 Phase electric, 14ft Ceiling & Versatile Floor Plan. 2,600 Steel Building w/18ft Ceiling, Over Head Doors, Septic and Water.

1.3 Beautifully Landscaped Acres off High Visibility Road Between Red Hook and Rhinebeck. Easy Access to Hudson, Woodstock TSP & NYS Thruway. Maintained with Pride of Ownership!

Asking $749,000

Mondello Upstate Properties LLC

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COPAKE LAKE REALTY Specializing in Southern Columbia County, NY

This 4 BR, 4.5 BA, 3300 sf modern contemporary comes with 17 acres. Views of spring-fed and private Beezy Pond greet you upon entering and are offered throughout the home. The entry level hosts the kitchen with dining space, living room and den with a wood-burning fireplace. Sleeping quarters are located on the top floor. The master en-suite has a private balcony. The master bathroom has double sinks, bath and shower. There are three other bedrooms and two bathrooms on this level. The lower floor has a huge playroom, bonus room and garage access. Stroll down the path to your private dock. Outdoor amenities include patios, dock and outdoor shower. Asking $975,000.

Lindsay LeBrecht , Real Estate Broker

285 Lakeview Road, Craryville (Copake Lake), NY

SPRING 2016

GeorGe T. Whalen real esTaTe • ES TA B LI S H ED 1 9 2 5 •

CLASSIC DUTCHESS COUNTY FARMHOUSE—A charming and unique home featuring original details with recent renovations, tailored for modern living. Beautiful 6.5 acres in Millbrook Hunt Country, surrounded by large estate quality land. Living room w/stone fireplace, spacious dining room, galley kitchen and family room w/slider to deck overlooking rolling views. 2 car barn w/workshop. Splendid country retreat! OFFERED AT $550,000

GEORGE T. WHALEN FABULOUS VILLAGE COLONIAL—Absolutely beautiful colonial on a large Village of Millbrook lot. 4 BRs, including a master suite, 2.5 baths, incredible gourmet kitchen w/breakfast nook and access to covered porch, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, library and sunroom. Lovely stone patio that overlooks the big back yard. Within walking distance of Village shops, restaurants, schools and parks. OFFERED AT $585,000

FULLY FURNISHED MILLBROOK SUMMER RENTAL—Newly renovated home on 4.7 private acres of lawn and woods only minutes from the Village of Millbrook. The 1st floor features a living room w/vaulted ceiling, dining room w/ fireplace, eat-in-kitchen, 2 BRs and a full bath The 2nd floor has a sitting room and a master bedroom/bathroom suite. Screened in porch, two car, detached garage and small storage building. Great location for enjoying all of Millbrook area summer activities and events! Available Memorial Day through Labor Day. OFFERED AT $5,000 PER MONTH

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Cedar Heights Farm RHINEBECK

This idyllic property is the epitome of Hudson Valley charm. An A.J. Downing inspired Victorian farmhouse, 102 bucolic acres with dramatic Catskill Mountain views, 3.5-acre spring-fed lake, 6-stall barn, pastures with multiple run-in sheds, access to local horse trails and 175 apple trees which are part of Cedar Heights Orchard. Minutes to the Village of Rhinebeck, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge and Amtrak. Convenient to Tivoli and Bard’s Fisher Center. Offered at $2,495,000.

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FINDING FUNGI To a mycophile, there is no feeling quite like spotting a fresh fruiting. And it’s a highly practical obsession. “We’re talking about free, delicious food that would cost you $30 a pound at the store,” says Jill Weiss of Staatsburg, walks coordinator for the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA). “And believe me, the oysters or Maitakes that are cultivated are nowhere near as tasty as the ones you find in the woods.” Mushrooms are revealing one wonder after another to the curious, admiring eyes of the mycologically inclined. Their nutritional and medicinal benefits are such that the Maitake [aka “hen-of-the-woods”], for example, rates an entire page on WebMD as a treatment for 10 different medical problems, ranging from weight loss to cancer. And that comprises just one of the rooms of riches in the castle of the Fifth Kingdom. “We know of 1.5 million species, and only 10 percent have scientific names,” says John Michelotti, founder of Catskill Fungi. “So there is a lot we don’t know. What we do know, besides medical properties ranging from antiviral to tumor reduction, gets more amazing all the time. Fungi can be used in place of Styrofoam. Mushroom mycelium cleans the soil and the environment.” Michelotti understates the case. Humble mushrooms, it turns out, exist in a symbiotic relationship with every other life form on the planet by means of their neural network, the mycelia, which crusading mycologist Paul Stamets calls a “biomolecular superhighway.” Possible future applications of this understanding include organic building materials and energy storage. Mushrooms have not only survived a series of mass extinctions, they’re very possibly the hope of the planet’s

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