View from the Top
Esteemed Reader • Striving for an ecology of experiential understanding.
Conversation • Chef and restaurateur Mark Suszczynski talks with Brian Mahoney.
Best of the Mid-Hudson Valley Survey
Fill out our Best Of survey and you could winner dinner for two at the Clove Cafe in High Falls.
Community Notebook
Bulletin Board of the Intriguing, Edifying & Entertaining
Bard Music Festival, World Peace Prayer Festival, Wall St. Playhouse, Woodstock Film Festival Spotlight.

Room for a View
The War on Our Young People
By Lorna Tychostup. The first installment in a two-part series on the history of the juvenile justice system.
Youth View • By Lacey Seidman. A teenage take on the music industry, Napster and selfishness.
Views & News: Short Takes, Updates and Calls to Action
Civil War in Colombia, junking junk mail, US intransigence on the POPs treaty.
Editorial • Fallen Arches by Todd Paul. Taking a cue from the French.

Features
Lonely Sentinels: The Lighthouses of New York
By Will Nixon. A review of Lighthouses of New York, a new book from Hope Farm Press.

Backbone
Frankly Speaking • The Hitchhiker. Frank Crocitto ponders the perils of a free ride.
Lucid Dreaming • The Mind’s Eye. Beth Wilson previews Women Walking with Chairs.
Quarter to Three • Me-You. Interviews with Fly Fishermen, Tree of the Month, Plain Thomas.
Ear Whacks • The Fix Is In. Todd Paul examines a local connection to the Napster controversy.
Planet Waves • Love and Trees. Horoscopes with astral navigator Eric Francis.
Poetica • Poems by Roger Whitson, Lori Diane Flammer and Jeff Garrett.

Whole Living Guide
Edible Plants By Fred Greitzer. The pleasurable (and poisonous) world of foraging.
Whole Living Directory
Products and services for a positive lifestyle.

Parting Shot
Carla Rozman’s Out of Africa?