Our new “Mortgage Lifter Heirloom Tomato Pasta Sauce” does more than taste good. It does good.

  “Why Fly Fishing?”  Choosing Fly Fishing as a sport and lifestyle By JP Ross, JP Ross Fly Rods & Co.   So what makes fly fishing so fabulous? Is it the mystery and romance? Is it the majesty? Is it the sense of honoring a tradition? Or is it because it’s like joining a secret club? It’s all of these things, yet the simplest answer is the best.  Fly fishing is just really fun to do.  It’s calming, helps [...]

4th Annual Garden Party Festival—June 1 & 2, 2013   In addition to the wonderful merchants throughout Sharon Springs, join over 100 local craftspeople, artists, farmers and food purveyors from all over the Mohawk Valley and greater New York State, here’s a list of other events during the weekend to help you plan your trip:   Weekend-long events:   Become a part of our roots. If you’ve already been digging and separating in your own garden, bring your remnants and [...]

Saturday, June 1, 6pm When The American Hotel started hosting the Harvest Feast as part of the first Sharon Springs Harvest Festival, we had no idea it would turn into its own “institution” –which now sells out three consecutive nights each year.  It has become a real focal point of the festival and a true celebration of local agriculture. We thought that the spring Garden Party Festival needed a celebratory dinner, too. Schoharie County has some of the most fertile [...]

    For all of you who love seeing The Fabulous Beekman Boys, we thought we’d point out this little blooper reel.  Feel free to laugh at us any time you need to.      

We’ve lobbied really hard for Garrison Keillor to give up life in Lake Wobegone and move to Sharon Springs, but thus far he has not answered our letters or returned our calls. Sharon Springs has beautiful people and above-average children, too, so on to Plan B. What is a small town village without a small town paper to keep track of what everyone is doing? Leila Durkin, proprietor of The Village Hall Gallery, is now editor of our own little [...]

PolkaSpot would like us to remind you that “lloooooooooong before Faintly”  she was the original world-traveler.  When we launched the PolkaSpotted app for the iPhone last year, we had no idea all the places she’d go and all the people she would meet.   You can check in on her travels at her website (yes, she has her own website) by clicking here She was kind enough to document her recent trip to Hawaii for us all (she’s generous that way).   [...]

  Born and raised in NJ, Jeanne C. Hildenbrand first discovered her love for photography through the lens of a small plastic camera, courtesy of Bazooka Joe and his Bubble Gum comics she’d saved.  She  worked her way through the various instamatic cameras of the mid 1970s and then before making their first trip to Alaska in 1979 she and her husband bought their first 35mm SLR and gave themselves a crash course in how to use it.  They eventually [...]

Last Sunday, we brought Faintly down to the Mercantile so that folks could meet her. We thought you might like to see a few pics from her day as the wee littlest shopgirl…

When we do book signings we are often fortunate to have people bring us gifts of food from their own kitchen.  At a recent stop in Washington, DC, we met Elvira Garnett and her son, John.  They shared a delicious Greek cookie with us and we, in turn, convinced them to share the recipe with you. John is earning a doctorate in International Food History and is the owner of a sweet food cart called Wandering Zorba. (check out their [...]