EDITOR’S LETTER
byIn this a year with a double number, we present our first double issue, “Visionary Journeys,” combining June’s traditional journeys with July’s hospitality.
June-July 2020
Marsalis, and all that jazz
byWynton Marsalis may be the best jazz musician of his generation, but he’s as down to earth as they come.
WHAT’S TRENDING
by‘Fab’ for Dad This Father’s Day (June 21), why not treat dad to a cutting board or grazing platter that will have him splicing…
Reinventing our year of magical thinking
by2020 was going to be the year of magical thinking. How’s that working for you?
The ‘Passages’ of his life
byNorwalk artist Thomas S. Berntsen finds the center to the labyrinth of his life in his sculptures.
Seniors strong
byAs her travel agency pivots during and post-COVID-19, The Upper Class’ Brooke Lawer draws strength from the senior citizens she serves.
‘Arabian Nights’ in Bridgeport
byPhil Hall travels back in time to P.T. Barnum’s lost, legendary, Orientalist estate – Iranistan.
An appetite for travel
byTravel the world in your kitchen with Naya Traveler’s online recipe book.
Hiking smooth and rocky trails
byA rough start in life gave Carly Fisher the impetus for a career as a food and travel writer, one whose new book centers on the Hudson Valley and the Catskills.
Like grandmother, like granddaughter
byNobody knows the importance of a wise grandmother – or a blowout – quite like Bess Kalb
Healing others – and himself
byAs a top neurosurgeon in the metropolitan area, Ezriel E. Kornel, M.D. has not been on the frontlines of the battle against the coronavirus the way emergency room physicians, epidemiologists and virologists have. But that did not prevent his own brush with COVID-19.
Weaving a good yarn
byThe click-clack of needles is a force for good at The Ethelridge Road Knitting Salon.
Still riding the big one
byIn “Wave Woman,” surfing champion Vicky Heldreich Durand pays tribute to the sport, Hawaii and her mother, surfing champion Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt.
‘Love’ story
byLinda Lavin, theater and TV star, says making records, like her new album “Love Notes,” is “the most creative I know how to be without writing. I use what other people have written to explain how I feel or what I’ve been through or what I hope for.”
Modern beauty in mid-country
byModernism comes to Winding Lane in this exquisitely updated 3,966-square-foot colonial.
Getting her goat (in the best possible way)
byGrowing up in Crestwood, Meagan Frederick wanted to be Snow White and surround herself with woodland creatures. She got her wish, so to speak.
Playing armchair traveler in the time of corona
byAround the world without leaving your armchair – and learning at the same time.
Travel treats for yourself
byWhile you are sheltering in place, here are some travel treats to make being at home all the more fun.
Another day in paradise
byWanderer Barbara Barton Sloane spends time under starry morns and sharp twilights amid the equine and mountainous splendors of Wyoming’s Paradise Ranch.
Cooking with ‘Verve’
byJacquie Lewis, Jules Vertrees and Sarah Laping Garland are three women with verve — Verve Culture, that is.