At New Market Elementary School in Sophia, NC, Field Day was much anticipated.   Each grade level competed within itself in all kinds of physical activities: ...

When we first mentioned the idea of opening a business in upstate NY, the very question asked by a local was:    “Are you sure you want to do that?” ‘Why?”...

Sometimes you learn about people in layers. The first time I met Skip was at a book signing in San Francisco.  He was wearing a William Beekman t-shirt and a Beekman...

Some lessons can be taught by occupying Wall Street, but we learned ours by occupying the garden.   When I was a child there was a hierarchy of important...

  I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.   In high school, when first...

In a long-ago published interview (I think it was in an Ebony magazine I was reading in the dentist’s office), I remember Eartha Kitt being quoted as saying: “I...

The Good Earth   I have 60 or more reasons to be optimistic. Given that: 1. I come from a fairly healthy gene pool 2 .I know every secret to healthy aging thus...

One of the most wonderful and awe-inspiring parts of Beekman 1802 is the number of craftsmen and artists who come into the Mercantile to show us their work.  Of...

  Mark Twain wrote: All you need is ignorance and confidence, and the success is sure and when we purchased Beekman Farm in Sharon Springs, NY,  in 2007,...

  On a recent winter drive with a friend, I was marveling at the beauty of the icicles—the long fingers of winter gripping the buildings of Sharon Springs. My...