Issue: June-July 2025
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Talking tariffs
Local businesses try to find safe passage through fast-changing trade wars John Carr, owner of Adirondack Pub & Brewery in Lake George, is closely watching the effects of new U.S. tariffs, as he relies on imported malt and barley to produce his lagers and ales. Joan K. Lentini photo By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer read more
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Where Dutch and Black history meet
Groups join forces to save long-vacant house near Hudson The house built by the Dutch colonist Jan Van Hoesen in the early 1700s later became the home of the Quaker abolitionist Charles Marriott and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Now two local history groups have joined forces to preserve the structure, which has read more
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The power of flowers
Moira Krum displays some of the dropper bottles of flower essences she uses in her therapy practice. Scott Langley photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer HILLSDALE, N.Y. Moira Krum smiles when asked to explain the philosophy of flower essence therapy. “Plants have been medicine for millennia,” she said. “They’re actually nothing new in terms of read more
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A room of her own — Clark Art Institute honors British artist activists
Exhibit traces British women artists’ role in 20th century social change Dame Laura Knight’s “A Balloon Site, Coventry” (1943) is among the works gathered for the Clark Art Institute’s new exhibit “A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875-1945,” which opens June 13. Imperial War Museums/courtesy of Clark Art Institute By KATE read more
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From the Hudson Valley, a prolific orator
The regularly scheduled 8:30 p.m. broadcast of The Navy Band on Schenectady radio station WGY was pre-empted on Saturday, May 2, 1925 by the 91st birthday celebration of one of New York’s most prolific public speakers. “Chauncey Depew, nonagenarian, will address the audience of WGY, Schenectady, and WJZ, New York, Saturday evening,” The Glens Falls read more
