A romantic stay at the Beekman Arms Inn in Rhinebeck, N.Y. plus ghost stories in the basement
Beekman Arms: A Weekend in Rhinebeck, NY
Tag: Hudson Valley
Tarrying in Tarrytown
The Bashful Adventurer discovers the Tarrytown Music Hall and the Oath Craft Beer Sanctuary in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Beacon beyond DIA
A Visit to Artist Jeffrey Terreson’s New Gallery For those who grew up in Upstate New York at a time when it was thriving, what’s happened in decades since is sometimes disheartening. Failure to thrive in too many places comes…
Boscobel for the Holidays
Planning to stay for a few days at the Hudson House Inn in Cold Spring, the Brawny Sherpa and I stop on a snowy Wednesday at Boscobel, an historic house in nearby Garrison. It’s the perfect time for a visit…
Ghostly Fiction in Sleepy Hollow
Nothing becomes October better than the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Even if you can’t make a performance of story teller Jonathan Kruk as he brings Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow alive, a walk through the graveyard…
Finding the American Revolution in Sleepy Hollow
On a visit to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the Bashful Adventurer finds markers about the American Revolution.
Dining Before the Revolution in North Salem
There’s just something alluring about having dinner in a low-ceilinged dining room with peanut shells on the floor and a fireplace and ancient-looking wooden beams holding everything in place and rippled views from the antique glass windows. That this place—Purdy’s…
Cold Spring, N.Y.: Geo. Washington Drank Here
The Bashful Adventurer gets away to Cold Spring, NY and learns some history about the first president of the United States