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Winter Wonderland in Dutchess County

For the record, Pittsburgh is neat. Great architecture, bustling streets downtown and more arts than I had anticipated. Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon Museum, The Other Radio City Music Hall, a public, festive ice rink, many performances. Cordon Bleu school with restaurant. Phipps Botanical Garden has a Frabel exhibit. Trolleys going [...]

Start of holiday festivities with Tree Lightings, Historic Homes, Nutcrackers, Christmas Carol and Sinterklaas

One of the best perks about living in the Hudson Valley is going to the Great Houses along the Hudson in December in seeing them decked out in period holiday splendor. One example, Locust Grove has decorated mansion tours the first three weekends in December, 12 to 4pm. $9 and a wonderful [...]