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Photography by James John Jetel. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. When Nick Spain, founder of design firm Arthur’s, first walked into the kitchen of this historic 1800s country home in Red Hook, New York, he thought: Hodgepodge. Well loved, but well worn. Kinda dark. Funky flow. Short on storage. Incredible views. Low ceilings but historic bones (the Smithsonian-archived house was previously owned by painter Edward Ludlow Mooney). In other words, a spot-on project for a designer who named his firm after his grandparents’ best friend, whose lopsided home was...

Illustration by Shira Inbar On January 5th, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted about the unexpected passing of Quentin Williams, a Democratic member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. “Terrible news today of Q Williams sudden death,” he wrote. “I’m sending every good thought I have to his family and friends today.” Most of the replies to Murphy’s tweet echoed the senator’s sentiments; many commented that it was especially sad to lose someone so young—Williams was just 39 when he died. But some of the commenters seemed determined to take the conversation in an entirely different direction. “Vaccine related?” asked one....

I don’t know that I could sell ice to the Eskimos, but it looks like I can sell old bricks to Riversiders. The 30 unsold bricks from the old Loring Opera House that were in the possession of the Old Riverside Foundation were featured in my column Wednesday. By 10 a.m. that morning, all 30 bricks had sold. “The phone was ringing off the hook this morning,” Dave Stolte, president of the Old Riverside Foundation, told me Wednesday after selling the last brick. “I changed our voicemail: ‘If you’re calling about the bricks, they’re all gone.’ Someone was calling as...

This Rustic Garlic Cheddar Cheese Bread Recipe is an easy rustic bread recipe that can be made into a circle loaf, bread pan loaf or rolls.  It’s made with simple ingredients and is a delicious bread recipe. Prep Time: 1 hour 40 minutes Cook Time: 40 minutes Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes Equipment Dutch Oven Silicone Spatula Parchment Paper Ingredients: 1 ½ cup warm water around 110 degrees F 1 tbsp sugar 1 ½ tbsp active dry yeast 1 cup milk around 110 degrees F 2 large eggs 1 ½ tbsp Salt 6-6 ½ cups All-Purpose Flour 2 cups...

If you asked 10 Americans, “Who was James Dickey?,” my guess is that half would shrug, four would identify him as the author of the novel and movie Deliverance, and the tenth might venture, “Didn’t he read a poem at Jimmy Carter’s inauguration?” or “Wasn’t he our poet laureate back in the 1960s?”  My theoretical estimate would, I think, depress James Dickey, born 100 years ago this February 2, for he wanted above all else to be remembered as a poet. He was the victim of his own success (and excess), having pulled off the neat trick of eclipsing his fame...