Four months after opening their antiques shop in Millerton, Kent Hunter and Jonathan Bee (left with Moira Kelly) had a cocktail party in their store, HunterBee, to thank their neighbors and customers for their enthusiastic support during difficult times. Many guests said the ebullient fellows had done much to foster a new esprit de corps among the Millerton merchants, and the party's bonhomie suggested that the town embraces entrepreneurs who have community spirit.
M.E. Freeman and Mary O'Brien, who runs the Chaiwalla tea room in Salisbury; Budd Kalb and Millerton dress shop owner Kate Carty.
Ri Kennedy and Susan Mieras
Graphic designer and painter Paula Scher and her husband, the illustrator/graphic designer Seymour Chwast; Wolf & Rita Jakubowski with host Kent Hunter.
Steve Beispel with Dean & Eliska Smiley of Gilmor Glass.
Ina Saltz; It Boy Emeric Harney with Millerton family physician Kristie Schmidt
Brigitte Harney, who runs her family's eponymous tea room down the block, with her across-the-street neighbor, Jan Gilmor, of Gilmor Glass; Bonnie Hundt of the Hylton Hundt Salon with Ann Butler, director of the library and archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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