The Hudson Valley Chronic

It’s a beautiful slice of heaven on Earth, Dutchess County is; a place that seems as if it sprang whole from an artist’s imagination. Unfortunately, it did not. In fact, the beautiful English-style countryside we take for granted today had its beginnings in the greed, trickery, and disdain for human life of a conquering people [...]

The goddesses must have an exquisite sense of irony. The tax assessor’s office in Kingston, N.Y., just happens to be adjacent to the emergency room entrance of our local hospital. The biggest difference between these two institutions is that when I am a patient at the emergency room at Kingston Hospital, I can see a [...]

Let it not be said that Ashley Alexandra Dupre didn’t come clean. In a pair of inevitable interviews recently – one in People magazine and one with the eternal ingénue Diane Sawyer on ABC’s vapid 20/20 “newsmagazine,” the apparently reformed hooker at the center of the Spitzer debacle told her whitewashed, well-rehearsed story. Angling toward [...]

Nora Post is a pleasant, intelligent, soft-but-firm-spoken woman who lives alone with a dog and two cats in a lovely picture-postcard home in one of Kingston’s tidy middle-class neighborhoods. Her tiny plot is surrounded by larger houses and properties, and her relatively modest two-story home makes up for its lack of size by evincing a [...]