Issue: April-May 2025
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Losing a place that challenged minds
As Simon’s Rock leaves the Berkshires, town debates future of campus Students cross a bridge as they head toward the library and classroom buildings on the wooded campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Mass. Scott Langley photo By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. On a cold, clear day… read more
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Farm to fashion
N.Y. backs efforts to link fiber producers to bigger markets Mary Jeanne Packer, the founder and co-owner of the Battenkill Fibers mill in Greenwich, NY., checks through some of the yarn the mill makes from locally raised wool. Joan K. Lentini photo By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y. Just as the farm-to-table movement… read more
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Pungent flavor, spicy heat
Laura Ramos and Adam Fronhofer and their son Tiago, 2, hold jars of the garlic powders they produce from organic garlic grown at their Quill Hill Farm in Poultney, Vt. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer POULTNEY, Vt. At the peak of the growing season, Quill Hill Farm’s fields will be… read more
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From Claverack to the frontier
Columbia County native played key roles in early days of Arizona, Alaska Postal Inspector John P. Clum, atop a mule, talks with miners in Nome, Alaska, in 1898. Clum, who grew up in Columbia County, N.Y., ran a newspaper in territorial Arizone before heading north. Photo courtesy of The Tombstone Epitaph By PAUL… read more
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In northern New York, the election that wasn’t
Editorial April 2025 In the great campaign for the special election that wasn’t, voters in New York’s northernmost congressional district might have revealed just how much our politics have been transformed by the arrival of the second Trump presidency. But any new message from the voters remains on ice for… read more
