How Fareed Zakaria, CNN Host, Spends His Sundays<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAfter I put Sofia on a train back to her mother in Rhinebeck, I do something very boring: work on my book.\u201d<\/p>\n Could Papier-M\u00e2ch\u00e9 Be the Perfect Medium for Our Times?<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cElisa Lendvay, 43, who lives and works in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., combines the material with steel, bamboo, rubber and wire mesh to create objects that range from spindly to blobby.\u201d<\/p>\n New York City Transplants and a River Town\u2019s Natives Fight for Its Soul<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhile discussing the attraction of Beacon in a local coffee shop, he gestured to the full house of patrons chatting among themselves and said, \u2018People just want to live in a culture where \u2014 this!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Afropunk, Huichica and More: 8 Music Festivals to Hit This Year<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAttendees are encouraged to take the train (book early) and leave room for exploring Hudson.\u201d<\/p>\n Real Estate for the Afterlife<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMr. Crawford is leaning toward a green burial at the Town Cemetery in Rhinebeck, N.Y., where a natural burial ground opened in 2014 on land that was once part of an estate.\u201d<\/p>\n Is the Hudson Valley Turning Into the Hamptons?<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDestinations on the eastern shore of the Hudson, like Rhinebeck in Dutchess County and Hudson in Columbia County, have long been in the cross hairs of New Yorkers on the hunt for second homes. But now lesser-known areas on the west side of the river, including the Rondout Valley in Ulster County, are entering the fray.\u201d<\/p>\n $850,000 Homes in New York, New Mexico and Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n “Hudson, N.Y. | $865,000 \u2018For Colored Girls\u2019 and \u2018Soft Power\u2019 Will Be Part of Public Theater Season<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIn October, the Public will open the latest of a series of plays written and directed by Richard Nelson exploring life in Rhinebeck, N.Y.\u201d<\/p>\n The Day the Music Burned<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWarner Music Group stores hundreds of thousands of master recordings in Iron Mountain\u2019s Southern California facilities, and nearly all of Sony Music Entertainment\u2019s United States masters holdings \u2014 more than a million recordings \u2014 are reportedly kept in Iron Mountain warehouses in Rosendale, N.Y.\u201d<\/p>\n Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: A Postindustrial City Ready for Its Revival<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cStill, a rough-edged downtown shouldn\u2019t be a stigma, residents insist.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Hudson Valley, a Drive Back in Time<\/a><\/p>\n “The Hudson Valley was \u2014 is \u2014 such a big, brooding, hunkering, muscular landscape. The wilderness was so very wild, and, whether from animals or natives who felt threatened by the Europeans, or the profound cold of the Little Ice Age, it was deeply dangerous. Those newcomers were all but powerless.”<\/p>\n New Yorkers Are Scrambling to Make Dinner Reservations (90 Miles North of the City)<\/a><\/p>\n “‘In Hudson if you walk a few blocks you end up in the water,’ said Brian Tress, who works for Ernst & Young in New York and who owns a house 15 minutes outside of Kingston. Kingston does have a waterfront, but it is ‘a real city,’ he said.”<\/p>\n New York, No Car Needed<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOnce you\u2019ve exhausted Rondout\u2019s many diversions \u2014 including a lot of live music \u2014 walk uptown to the Stockade, another centuries-old district. Vintage and vape shops, book, record, guitar and lifestyle stores abound.\u201d<\/p>\n An Upstate Culture Crawl, Thanks to a $2 Trolley That Drops You Door to Door<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIts craft beer list, though, is refreshingly Hudson Valley, and the long, slender bar with a dozen-plus tap options will satisfy even jaded beer nerds.\u201d<\/p>\n $600,000 Homes in New York, Washington and Connecticut<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOriginally called Glenbrook, it is in the hamlet of Balmville, two miles north of the restaurants, galleries and spas of Newburgh\u2019s renovated waterfront district and across the road from the Powelton Club, a country club established in 1882.\u201d<\/p>\n My Work Life Is Over. What\u2019s Next?<\/a><\/p>\n “What he didn\u2019t expect, he said, was the period of wandering around that followed, as he tried to sort out what he wanted to do. Then Mr. Strong and his wife, Patrice, went to a police community forum in Kingston, N.Y., where they now live.”<\/p>\n But Does it Tell You When a Melon Is Ripe?<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt represents nine years of cultivating, studying, tasting and having Victor Schrager on hand to photograph 125 kinds of melons at her farm in Rhinebeck in the Hudson Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n New York Democrats Balance Impeachment Issue With Local Concerns<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Antonio, I can\u2019t quite say you represent me,\u2019 declared Mr. Plavchan, who wore a red \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 hat and an American flag earring, from the front row of Mr. Delgado\u2019s town hall-style meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n 5 Rural Retreats Worthy of a Detour<\/a><\/p>\n “A couple of Brooklynites escaped to the Catskills in 2017, found a shabby 1962 motor lodge with a central A-frame, converted it into a 10-room hotel and injected some serious style into a one-stoplight town.”<\/p>\n A Cozy, Minimalist Retreat Perched Among the Treetops<\/a><\/p>\n “The Willow Treehouse, named after its hometown, is a six-sided structure with an angular sloping face that resembles a gargantuan snake\u2019s head peeking through the leaves.”<\/p>\n Thanksgiving, When You\u2019ve Got Nowhere Else to Go<\/a><\/p>\n “A home-cooked meal is far from an anomaly at Chiz\u2019s, a nonprofit organization that receives about 2,000 pounds of donated food every week.”<\/p>\n
\nA 1790s neo-Classical-style house with three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms.”<\/p>\n