Four Great Hikes in the Catkills

Four Great Hikes in the Catskills 1. Slide Mountain (4180’) via Burroughs Range Trail. This is probably the most popular hike in the Catskills, a range of mountains in southern New York which are the...

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Kitchen Furniture | More than Cupboards

Before there were kitchen cupboards there was just kitchen furniture. It was pretty likely that your great-great grandmother stored her dishes in a freestanding hutch, put her fresh baked goods in a pie safe...

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Best New Indie Music Bands For 2010

My taste in music is as old as the Super Bowl. Really, I am that old. Growing up with Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles, and then completing my high...

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Upstate New York, Part 19: Recreation, Hunting Lodging

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Bittersweet Memories

In my hub „Wartime Romance” I wrote about the love triangle between my dad writer and poet Eriks Raisters, his friend poet Andrejs Eglitis and my mom Elvira Grunte. Elvira chose Eriks to be her partner for life and this is a story just about...

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Staircase to Heaven

Death is not the end - just a different dimension. Some people do come back!

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New York Ski Resorts

Lemme ask you a question. Is it New York City or New York? You could say New York CIty or Metropolitan New York, or you could say New York, NY. And all would be correct. I get a lot of questions about hotels...

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A Granddaughter's Snowy Owl (poem)

It is a curious thing that children tend to spot things in Nature well before adults. In this case, it was our granddaughter Clare who noticed a snowy owl high above on the top of a pole in the wintry woods of New York State. Thanks to her, we all became aware of this beautiful creature.

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Upstate New York, Part 5: Major Attractions, Niagara Falls

Upstate New York, Part 5: Major Attractions, Niagara Falls Like most states in the country and other favorable travel destinations, upstate New York is abundant with attractions including the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Catskill Mountains...

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The Best of Friends

It’s hard to know what to say if you wish to write about your best friend who during my childhood was my father and died when I was only ten. Because I lost him so soon some of my memories are brighter and more definite than they might have been...

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