This past April, Bobbi Jo Forte, Bonnie Schweppe, and Martin J. Pucino opened WildFlower Café, a vegan burger bar on West Market Street in Red Hook, named by Forte for her love of the late Tom Petty’s Wildflower album.
Barbara Ballinger
Barbara Ballinger is a local whose most recent book is Suddenly Single after 50: The Girlfriends’ Guide to Navigating Loss, Restoring Hope and Rebuilding Your
Life (Rowman and Littlefield Publishing).









