August 2019

Aug 1-31, 2019 / Vol. 22 / No. 28
Some stories covered in the August issue are food and drink, art of business, home and garden, health and wellness, outdoors, community pages, and horoscopes. This month’s issue features are ‘The State of Sex Ed’, ‘Emily Ritz’, and ‘Half a Million Strong’.

Cover Story

Between the Engineer and the Poet

The publication of Rachel Carson’s landmark study of pesticide use, Silent Spring, alone makes September 27, 1962 a momentous day in the modern history of American environmentalism. But a front-page story in that morning’s New York Times portended another development that would profoundly shape the nascent environmental movement: The utility giant Consolidated Edison was planning…

Iconic Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair is Paradise For Lovers of the Handmade

The Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz will transform into a wonderland of creativity, packed with dozens of masterful makers: fiber artists, metal sculptors, woodcrafters, fine artists, jewelers and more for the Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair, which has been happening each Memorial Day and Labor Day for nearly four decades.

A Living River

Too often, people mistakenly accuse the Hudson River—America’s First River, the River That Flows Both Ways—of being dead. It’s a somewhat understandable accusation, given the decades of horrific industrial and urban pollution combined with a fishery that took, took, took, with scant regard for the future. The truth is that thanks to efforts over the…

Just How Good Is Gun Control in New York?

This past weekend was horrific, even by recent American standards. On Saturday in Texas, a gunman drove 10 hours to murder 22 people at an El Paso Walmart in a racist act of domestic terrorism. About 13 hours later, another young, white, disaffected male shot and killed nine people at a busy nightlife district in…

The State Of Sex Education in New York

Only 24 states plus Washington, DC mandate sex education in public schools, according to the Guttmacher Institute: New York is not one of them. Our state does mandate HIV education, but there’s no requirement that what is taught be medically accurate or culturally appropriate.

Esteemed Reader | August 2019

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: The tenor of the public discourse, so rife with vitriol, polemics, and contradictions exerts a continuous draw on attention and the temptation to get swirled into an omnipresent vortex of negativity. In my view, this is the beginning of the kind of mass psychosis that tends to precede violent upheavals…

Editor’s Note: Back from Paradise

In some ways, Grey Fox Music Festival can be seen as an alternative model to our current world—a sweet, self-contained social experiment (punctuated by world-class Bluegrass performances) where we’re all a bit kinder.


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