About

As a Kingston-based writer and co-producer and co-director of the one-hour documentary film Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, I have delved deeply into the history, landscape, working-class culture and thriving art scene of my adopted Hudson River city. It is the latest phase of a decades-long career as a freelance journalist that began in 1993, when I left New York City for Woodstock and two years later, moved to Kingston. My fascination with the urban remnants along the Kingston waterfront led to the development of the film, which received an Excellence in Preservation Award from Friends of Historic Kingston and a Special Citation 2017 Ulster County Executive’s Arts Awards.

I also co-authored Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges, published by Universe, a division of Rizzoli International. A longtime summer resident of the Adirondacks, I have written extensively for Adirondack Life (winning two International Regional Magazine Association awards) and lectured on Prohibition at the Adirondack Museum.

Currently I contribute articles to Chronogram, the Kingston Times, Saugerties Times and Ulster Publishing’s Almanac Weekly and have written as well for Upstater, Upstate House, Hudson Valley Magazine, Roll, Hudson Valley Gallery Guide and Hudson Valley Business. I have interviewed such art-world luminaries as Milton Glaser, Andres Serrano, Yo Yo Ma, Judy Pfaff, Joan Snyder and Mary Frank and reviewed new exhibitions at MASS MoCA, Dia:Beacon and other art-world hotspots. I have also written investigative pieces on environmental issues, renewable energy and economic development. I continue to research urban renewal in the Hudson Valley and have contributed to the blog Newburgh Restoration.

I got my start in publishing as an editor at Redbook, public radio and TV station WNYC (editing the membership magazine) and several travel magazines. For over a decade I wrote a monthly travel column for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine and published articles in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Travel & Leisure, American Demographics and other national and international publications. My corporate clients included American Express, MasterCard and Madrid-based Amadeus. In recent years I have written newsletters, booklets and other promotional material for Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture, Lower Esopus Watershed Project, Ulster County Historian, Kingston Happenings and the Ulster County Quadricentennial Arts Committee.

I hold a B.A. in art history from Barnard College and graduated cum laude. In addition to analyzing and writing about art, I paint and have attended the Art Students League, New York Academy of Art and Woodstock School of Art. Beginning in the mid 2000s I showed my paintings and drawings of streetscapes and industrial sites at regional galleries, including Carrie Haddad, in Hudson, and participated in juried shows at the Woodstock School of Art. More recently I have taken workshops with Catherine Kehoe, Nancy McCarthy, Andrew Wykes, Lucy McGuiness, Jenny Nelson and Stuart Shils and am in the process of making new work.