by Kristin Kimball | Oct 15, 2019 | August 2010
Honest work at Essex Farm I think of the day the horses arrived as the day the farm came back to life. It was seven years ago, midwinter, and Mark and I had moved here that fall. We weren’t married yet. We were still in that hazy phase of new love—with each other, and...
by Lisa Bramen | Jun 1, 2017 | June 2017
For 169 years the Essex County Fair has celebrated the region’s agricultural heritage. But lately attendance for the five-day extravaganza of fried food, livestock exhibitions, carnival rides and demolition derbies in Westport has wobbled. One explanation—“Farming is...
by Niki Kourofsky | Jun 28, 2012 | August 2012
TRAVELING ALONG THE Champlain Valley or across the northern Adirondacks, there’s no quicker way to stamp “outsider” on your forehead than to saunter up to a screened takeout window and ask for a chili dog. If you’re craving a spicy condiment around these parts, you’d...