Travel Essentials
Amtrak Empire Service between Albany, Hudson or Rhinecliff, NY and Penn Station, NYC
Amtrak 449 Lake Shore Limited between Pittsfield and South Station, Boston
Bonanza Bus Lines between Williamstown, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, MA, or Canaan, CT and Port Authority Bus Terminal, NYC
Mega-bus between Albany and Ridgewood, N.J. and Penn Station, NYC
Metro-North Railroad between Wassaic, Dover Plains, or Poughkeepsie, NY and Harlem (125th Street) or Grand Central Station, NYC
Peter Pan Bus Lines between *Albany, Great Barrington, *Lee, Lenox, *Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Williamstown and Boston South Station and Boston Logan Airport (*greater frequency, better fares)
Weather Underground
The radar is especially useful for tracking snow, sleet and thunderstorms.
Gas Prices
The price of gas at many of the stations in your zip code and those immediately surrounding it.
Historic Homes, Museums & Gardens
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Montgomery Place 434-acre intact Hudson River Valley estate
Athens, NY
Howard Hall Farm a laboratory for restoration training
Austerlitz, NY
Old Austerlitz
Catskill, NY
Cedar Grove home of Hudson River School founder, painter Thomas Cole
Hudson, NY
The American Museum of Firefighting
Hyde Park, NY
Home of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Vanderbilt Mansion relic of the Gilded Age
Germantown, NY
Clermont an early Hudson River estate
Olana home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church
Kent, CT
Sloane Stanley Museum artist’s studio and tool collection
Kinderhook, NY
U. S. President Martin Van Buren house
Lenox, MA
The Mount Edith Wharton’s estate and gardens
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio Cubist paintings in a Modernist house
Ventfort Hall the Gilded Age Museum
Old Chatham, NY
Shaker Museum and Library
Pittsfield, MA
Hancock Shaker Village
Arrowhead home of Herman Melville.
Rhinebeck, NY
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome aircraft and auto museum; air shows
Wilderstein Historic Site elaborate Queen-Anne style house of the Suckleys.
Poughkeepsie, NY
Locust Grove home of Samuel F.B. Morse
Sheffield, MA
Ashley House c. 1735 house; oldest in Berkshire County
Staatsburgh, NY
Mills Mansion house remodeled in Beaux Arts style by McKim, Mead & White
Stockbridge, MA
Chesterwood Estate & Museum home of Lincoln memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French
Mission House 1739 house with Colonial Revival garden
Naumkeag McKim, Mead & White summer cottage and gardens
Williamstown, MA
The Folly at Field Farm Modenist house and sculpture garden
People always talk about making history come alive, and the Cornwall Historical Society is doing just that this weekend with help from the actors Sam Waterston and Blair Brown, who live nearby. They will be reading passionate and sometime histrionic family letters that date from 1826 when a local, white girl, Harriet Gold, married Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee student at the Foreign Mission School in town. The letters trace how Gold’s family who were initially outraged by the marriage but eventually supported it. There will be a reception with the actors after the reading.
