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MAGAZINE Before Before After COMPLIMENTARY | APRIL 2019 MAIN streetMAGAZINE Before Before After Before After Kindred Property Care, LLC. e tri-state area’s premiere landscape contractor Walkways, patios, & stonewalls Weekly lawn maintenance Vista clearing Cobblestone, outdoor kitchens, Lawn installation Land/brush clearing & re-pits (seeding, sod, hydro-seeding) Driveways installed & repaired Heated aprons, walkways, Turf maintenance Tree/shrub planting & terraces Mulch delivered & installed Excavating (860) 397 5267 • [email protected] • www.kindredpropertycare.com 2 MAIN STREET MAGAZINE We’re here to insure your entire world. New name, same great service. We’re consolidating and simplifying. After 35 years of managing the Lofgren, Brad Peck, Hermon Huntley and Hennessy family of insurance agencies, our team thought it was time to put them all under one banner – the Kneller Insurance Agen- cy. 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Whether you are a believer in such things as global warming or not, we can’t deny certain simple truths like the average citizen produces too much waste (on aver- age, 25% of the groceries that you buy will be thrown out); that there is just entirely too much plastic (in general and that is being thrown out); and that our earth, water, and air are being polluted. It may seem like a daunting reality and the task equally daunt- ing with some having uttered the words, “What difference will I really make – I’m CONTENTS just one person?” But imagine this: if the (maybe millions of) people who made that 6 | A IS FOR APPLE … C IS FOR CIDER 35 | TRANSFORMING THE LITCHFIELD same statement were to make one small artist profile COUNTY LANDSCAPE change to help the environment, all of a 9 | FRIENDLY FACES 39 | ENDANGERED SPECIES IN OUR REGION sudden you have millions of people making a difference! 11 | DARK SKIES ABOVE US: 43 | COLUMBIA COUNTY’S QUEEN OF GREEN In this issue Regina shares with you saving the milky way how Earth Day began almost 50 years ago. 47 | THE GIFTED MESSENGER Christine has focused her monthly real es- 15 | NO-BAKE BANANA SPLIT CAKE tate article on ponds, and how they impact 51 | FARMS & THE ENVIRONMENTAL not just the environment but real estate 17 | WATER WORLD IMPACTS OF OUR DIETARY CHOICES values. Christine also changed this month’s real estate 53 | BUILDING THE PERSONAL ENVIRON- entrepreneur feature to focus on dark skies. 21 | THE ORIGINS OF EARTH DAY MENT: THOSE THAN CAN … & DO Do you know that there’s such a thing as light pollution? Well, there is. And Christine 25 | REDUCE, REUSE, AND… 57 | BUSINESS SNAPSHOTS will tell you all about it and how it plays an dutchess land conservancy impact on our environment, as well as on 29 | DRAWDOWN / CLIMATE iii generation tree services humans and animals. Meanwhile Ian urges SMART PROJECT lotus solar us to think a little differently about recy- riverkeeper cling, and that we can do other things such 31 | DOING ALL WE CAN TO PROTECT as reuse and or repurpose. Peter Greenough WHERE WE LIVE: 58 | MONTHLY ADVICE COLUMNS shares some tips for what we can do and you can do these things how we can help preserve our environment and the things in it. Peter Vermilyea on the PUBLISHER, EDITOR, ADVERTISING, WRITING, PHOTOGRAPHY, & OTHER DUTIES other hand brings us back in time to a little Thorunn Kristjansdottir Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Designer. Pom Shillingford Assistant proof-reader. Ashley Kristjansson Director of Advertising. piece of environmental history. Have you Contributing Writers: Betsy Maury | CB Wismar | Christine Bates | Claire Copley | Dominique De Vito | ever wondered where your garbage goes? To Ian Strever | Jessie Sheehan | John Torsiello | Joseph Montebello | Mary B. O’Neill | Regina Molaro find out, you’ll be interested to read Domi- Contributing Photographers: Lazlo Gyorsok & Olivia Markonic nique’s article. And if you want to partake ADVERTISING in an environmental challenge, read Jeanne’s Ashley Kristjansson Call 518 592 1135 or email [email protected] piece on the EcoChallenge that is happen- ing in Millerton, NY, in April. CONTACT There is something that each and every Office Mailing address PO Box 165, Ancramdale, NY 12503 Phone Email Website www.mainstreetmag.com one of us can do. I urge you to make at least one change, preferably more, to help the PRINT, LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, & INSURANCE environment and all of us who live here. Printed by Snyder Printer, Inc. Davis & Trotta Law Offices We are all in this together and we all need a Accounting services by Pattison, Koskey, Howe & Bucci CPAS Kneller Insurance Agency healthy and thriving planet to survive. Main Street Magazine is a monthly publication, coming out on or around the 1st of the month. It is published by Main Street Magazine, LLC. Main Street Magazine is not responsible for advertising errors whereas all ads receive final approval by the advertiser. Advertisers are legally responsible for the content and claims that are – Thorunn Kristjansdottir made in their ads. Main Street Magazine reserves the right to refuse advertising for any reason. The entire contents of Main Street Magazine are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission. All rights reserved. The views expressed in the articles herein reflect the author(s) opinions and are not necessarily the views of the publisher/editor. 4 MAIN STREET MAGAZINE MAIN STREET MAGAZINE 5 artist profile A is for apple … C is for cider By CB Wismar History as prelude Cider was the beverage of choice [email protected] The origination of cider … or for decades throughout the colonies. “cyder” as it was known in pre- Water was often contaminated and “Prohibition was what changed Revolutionary America – is part of otherwise suspect in the settlements, everything.” Tyler Graham, journal- American history … inextricably so cider with the purification of ist, entrepreneur, and cider maker bound to the importing of apple naturally created alcohol made cider seems to be wistful about the chang- trees to the “New World.” Apples a staple. ing tastes and tendencies of the did not naturally occur in the for- As more and more settlements American palate and the critical role ests and valleys of North America, were created up and down the East that reactionary politics play. so it was up to the colonists to bring Coast, more orchards were planted, “When Congress finally passed them along or have them shipped more apples were grown for food the 23rd Amendment and FDR across the Atlantic with the primary – and for cider. When the cider pro- signed it into law, it took months intent of growing the fruit to turn duced on eastern Long Island was to re-purpose brewing and bottling into cider. transported into the fledgling city plants to produce cider. It took There is evidence that a cider of New York, the journey wound its Above, top to weeks for them to make beer.” press was on board the Mayflower way through paths and roads that bottom: Apples. Photo: istockphoto. And, so it was that the national when it set sail from Plymouth, moved through Brooklyn on their com contributor taste for cider – the crisp bever- England, heading to it’s destination way to Manhattan. The collection bratan007. Tyler Graham. Photo age favored from Colonial times at what would be named Plymouth, of these trails were known as The from the Lakeville – shifted to the golden and amber MA. The support for that theory Kings Highway … which tradition Journal. brews that have become as Ameri- is found in the record of using a has been carried forward in the can as Fourth of July picnics, watch- “jack screw” from the passengers naming of Tyler Graham’s dry cider. ing football games with friends, and to repair a broken mast suffered in Friday night at “the local.” a storm early in the passage. The Cider and the Westward Tyler Graham is doing his item would have been carried as a Expansion level best to change all that … or part for a cider press.
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