Maverick Concert Hall
The Maverick Concert Hall still stands in the isolate woods just north of the drowned towns of the Ashokan Reservoir. Built over a ten year period by poet-philosopher Hervey White, the Maverick opened its...
Monthly Archive: October 2018
Art Trail
Here in the Land of Rip Van Winkle, an art trail begins or ends at everybody’s front door. Innumerable are such trails, and infinite the vistas. After all, to live in this place is...
Red Apple Rest
Red Apple Rest was a famous highway stop along Route 17 in Tuxedo, New York. The cafeteria-style eatery opened in 1931 and for decades did a booming business. Several generations of vacationers regarded this...
The House in the Woods
The Land of Rip Van Winkle is well-supplied with haunted houses. At least one of these places is the subject of a book. At the time of its publication—in 1904—no mention was made of...