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MAIN STREET MAGAZINE 3 editor’s note & content COMPLIMENTARY | DECEMBER 2014 DECEMBER 2014 JUST IN TIME FOR THE This holiday season, a stag takes HOLIDAYS MAIN center stage with some simple, yet streetMAGAZINE fi tting, holiday decorations, colors, and symbols. Happy holidays to one H appy holidays to one and all! We here and all! at Main Street Magazine hope that all of our readers, regardless of which holiday that Scene set-up by Lazlo and Christina Gyorsok you’ll be celebrating at this time of year, have a wonderful holiday season! Cover photo by The month of December is always full Lazlo Gyorsok of warmth, happiness, lots of fabulous food, and love – in addition to the craze that seems to overtake most of us starting with the Friday after Thanksgiving and ending right before Christmas. I’m not a huge fan of the craze, because it seems that it’s a free-for-all and we’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off, trying to get everything done at the last minute. But let me ask you this: in those moments, what happens to the quality of life and the spirit of the holiday season? We lose some of that, which is a real shame because those two things in particular are a major part of CONTENTS the holiday spirit. So maybe the wise thing 33 | GREETINGS FROM RWANDA to do is to take the more Zen approach, and 6 | CREATIVE SOLUTIONS hallie scott, artist & educator melissa’s check-in from her african post don’t leave everything until the last minute! (I say with a chuckle). 9 | FRIENDLY FACES 37 | HOLIDAY FARM FINDS: give the gift of local (& support your farmers) This December 11 | START THE YEAR AT SQUARE ONE? In this December issue we bring to you an maintaining a healthy lifestyle 41 | OH CHRISTMAS TREE! assortment of stories – a number of which are directly holiday-related, and a number 13 | FORTY-ONE YEARS LATER 43 | THE MARBLE HOUSE which are not. We always try to mix it up business profi le an insider’s look at unique area properties for you. 47 | CELEBRATIONS At the start of this past autumn, we 17 | CHURCH STREET DELI & PIZZERIA great gastronomy expanded our distribution and coverage area 49 | COPAKE: A HISTORICAL VIEW in Connecticut to include the areas in and 19 | REMEDY FARM around Cornwall and Kent, and so in this tales of a farm groupie 51 | LEO GONZALEZ issue our business feature is that of Kent Greenhouse & Gardens, and our real estate 21 | WELCOME TO KENT 53 | BUSINESS SNAPSHOT article brings you the real estate market in the real estate market in kent, ct country bistro the Town of Kent. It’s quite interesting! Our associated computer solutions Farm Groupie brings you her monthly farm 25 | HELPFUL TIPS FOR FESTIVE EATS best & cavallaro horse leap, llc feature, this time on Remedy Farm, but in 27 | ONE (1) PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE addition she also compiled a two-page fea- the annual audubon christmas bird count 54 | MONTHLY ADVICE COLUMNS ture on some alternative gifts that you might want to consider for some of those hard-to- 31 | THE LEGEND(S) OF SANTA CLAUS 55 | HOROSCOPES & LISTINGS shop-for folks on your list! Mary O’Neill brings you the story of the Christmas bird count that happens every PUBLISHER, EDITOR, ADVERTISING, WRITING, PHOTOGRAPHY & OTHER DUTIES year, and perhaps it is something you’d be Thorunn Kristjansdottir Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Designer interested in partaking in! Take a look at the Ashley Kristjansson and Marq Reynolds Directors of Advertising Contributing Writers: Brandon Kralik | Christine Bates | Claire Copley | John Torsiello | story and if you’d like to volunteer, reach Mary B. O’Neill | Memoree Joelle | Sarah Ellen Rindsberg | Melissa Batchelor Warnke on leave out to the Lakeville-Sharon CBC. Our Lazlo Gyorsok Contributing Photographer writer on leave, Melissa, touches base from Rwanda, while Sarah Ellen tells us a bit of ADVERTISING Ashley Kristjansson and Marq Reynolds Call 518 592 1135 or email [email protected] Copake’s history. John tells us the (soccer) story of Leo Gonzalez, while I bring you a CONTACT short story on the legends of Santa Claus. Offi ce 52 Main Street, Millerton, NY 12546 • Mailing address PO Box 165, Ancramdale, NY 12503 Please enjoy the issue, but above all, have Phone 518 592 1135 • Email [email protected] • Website www.mainstreetmag.com a happy, healthy, joyous, and safe holiday PRINT, LEGAL, ACCOUNTING & INSURANCE season! Happy holidays! Printed by Snyder Printer, Inc. • Legally represented by Davis & Trotta Law Offi ces - Thorunn Kristjansdottir Accounting services by Pattison, Koskey, Howe & Bucci CPAS • Insured by Brad Peck, Inc. 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 fi nal approval by the advertiser. Advertisers are legally responsible for the content and claims that are made in their ads. Main Street Magazine reserves the right to refuse advertising for any reason. 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Millbrook 845.677.0505 · Rhinebeck 845.876.6676 paularedmond.com MAIN STREET MAGAZINE 5 artist profile creative SOLUTIONS HALLIE SCOTT, ARTIST & EDUCATOR By Brandon Kralik [email protected] Returning to the United States has been an eye world is the lack of creativity. Creative problem themes in contemporary art, usually based on ideas opener for me. For decades, since before I studied solving is a skill that is desperately needed across in the residents’ work and we translate that to a Art in college, the importance of, and subsequently every discipline and it is through art that children high school audience. Our Wassaic X Webutuck the quality of, art education in this country has can learn these skills, the process of being creative. projects focus on critical thinking and creative steadily been declining. By the time a child gets to Since I believe that art is an important subject, and problem solving, rather than basic art-making be 10 or 12 they tend to stop drawing and mak- can in fact be the deciding subject in leading our skills. We try to turn the lens outward, getting ing art because they feel like they can’t do it. They society to more creative solutions, I decided to visit students to analyze and interpret the surrounding can’t make it look “right” and can only draw stick with Hallie Scott and learn about her efforts within world, and to introduce new media that they don’t figures.