The 🦅 has landed. Pick up your copy today in Jeffersonville, Callicoon, Narrowsburg, and Honesdale. More deliveries throughout Sullivan County this holiday weekend.
It’s here. Mailing out online orders first. Complimentary copies to be distributed mid June throughout the Catskills. Can’t wait? Order a copy and support the magazine. #linkinbio
Upstate peeps! We’re delivering to Rhinebeck, Red Hook, Tivoli, Germantown, Hudson, Athens, Catskill, Saugerties, Kingston, Stone Ridge, and High Falls today! Keep a look out and check our media kit on our website for specific locations.
Anie Stanley was raised in Oneonta, where her love of heritage and utility began. After a bold creative life in New York City as a window dresser and queer film advocate, she returned to the Catskills to make a home. At @smokeybellescatskills , her restored homestead near Narrowsburg, every object tells a story. She collects, preserves, and builds a future that honors the past.
This story appears in Issue No. 1 of Upstate Woman.
Story by @kate_atkinson.co
Photography @randazzoblau
📍Narrowsburg, NY
#upstatewoman #smokeybelles #modernrural #womenwhomake #americanheritage #catskillsliving #homeasarchive #queerhistory #sustainability #oneontany
Ashley Ruprecht once made hats in Brooklyn. Then she moved to the woods, built a farm with her husband, and tapped into something steadier. Now, at @laurelandashfarm , she works the land, boils sap, and focuses on motherhood.
This story appears in Issue No. 13 of @dveightmag
Story by @hollowwalls
Photography @noahkalina
📍Holmes, NY
#upstatewoman #laurelandash #modernrural #womenwhomake #maplesyrupseason #worklifebalance #motherhood
After years in L.A., @sunnydigs followed her instincts north. What began as a seasonal escape became a permanent home in the Catskills, a place where she could raise her kids, heal, and live closer to the ground.
📰 This story appears in Issue No. 9 of DVEIGHT
Story by @mimi.dao.vu
Photo @themichaelmundy
Beauty @moanilee
Hair @michaelthomaslollo
Direction @johnpaultran
📍Catskills, NY
#upstatewoman #catskillsliving #reinvention #modernrural #sunnyruffalo
#AConversationWith In the small town of Hancock, where the Delaware River cuts through the trees and the air smells like wood smoke, #RayTurner lives a life that doesn’t beg for attention. Engineer by trade, craftsman by choice, and fisherman by instinct, he pulled eels from the river for four decades with the same quiet persistence that marks everything he does. Now retired, Turner straddles the line between a life of action and a life of contemplation, with equal parts tradition and reflection.
✍️ @themichaelmundy
📷 @josealvarado
#TheRuralist Tanya Himeji Romer of @woodlandpantry on leaving the city and fashion industry: “I appreciated the industry but I can’t say it was good for my temperament. Leaving was a big and necessary health move—a time to let myself fall apart and then pick up the pieces. I retreated to the middle of nowhere. It was amidst the plants and nature that I began to come back to myself, rediscovering my purpose and joy.”
✍️ @starwix
📷 @pbcrosby
#InPerson As the kids say, paleontology hits different. While you and I might have trouble recalling last week, Dr. #CharlesVanStraeten—who prefers to be called Chuck—studies events that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago. Van Straeten is a paleobotanist at the New York State Museum, and in 2018, he and his team made a remarkable discovery right here in our region: a 385-million-year-old forest, the oldest in the world.
📝 @eddiebrannan
📷 @noahkalina
#Flavor As a culinary historian and interpreter, it is Lavada Nahon’s job to untangle the well-known stories of prosperous Americans whose names are attached to landmarked buildings and historical sights throughout our region, and connect them to the lives of the African Americans whose labor supported their households. She does it through one of the most familiar lenses in her life: food.
📝 @starwix
📷 @adriannainewell
#GimmeShelter “My art and my life, my creativity is all one. It’s my spirituality. It’s my sexuality. It’s all about creating,” says artist #RickyBoscarino, who transformed a basic cabin—handcrafting every inch over the past 35 years—into Luna Parc, a fabulous folly on the northern New Jersey shore of the Delaware river. Ricky found his house in 1988. He took one look at the abandoned hunting cabin and told the realtor this would be where he would spend the rest of his life. While many of us long to build a nest in nature, Ricky also had his artistic ancestry to reckon with: “I grew up in a family of Italian artisans. For many, many generations, we had carpenters and fine woodworkers, masons, seamstresses, brilliant chefs and fun, kooky thinkers, on both sides of my family. Everyone knew how to do something,” he says, “and I guess I’ve taken my heritage to a bit of an extreme.”
📝📷 @barbaradevriesgordon
