Frances Marion Platt

New York

Grantwriter, Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Writer at Woodstock Times

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Storefront art in downtown Saugerties touts National Poetry Month

1 week ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Hey, how’s your 401(k) doing, presuming you’ve got one? Has your nest egg tanked, or are you reluctant even to take a peek at it? With recession looming, it may be instructive right now to give some thought to what philosophies and activities helped people survive harsh economic times in the past.
Well Nice Wine Bar offers cozy food, eclectic wines in Rosendale

1 week ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

If you’ve only just discovered downtown Rosendale in recent years, you might think of the storefront of 407 Main Street simply as the site of the Alternative Baker. If you didn’t linger to consume your comestibles on-site, you might never have noticed that there’s an enormous old wooden bar in the side room. That bar is nearly a century old now, and it’s imbued with local tippling history: As the Well, it was founded circa 1930 by a man named Jack Daley.
The Ridge by Mill House now open in Clintondale

3 weeks ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Mill House Brewing’s expansion to the west side of the Hudson has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here! HV1 got a sneak peek at The Ridge by Mill House during a soft opening event on Thursday, March 20, and we were suitably impressed.
We Did It Boys Studios opens collaborative art space in New Paltz’s Medusa building

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Like the groundhog taking a peek outside its burrow to check on whether it’s really spring yet, artists and makers are finally beginning to emerge from the work-from-home exile imposed by the arrival of COVID five years ago. Turning inward and getting contemplative for a while can be a fruitful way of coming up with fresh ideas and approaches in one’s creative life; but there comes a time when one feels a need to bounce them off one’s peers, to seek input and constructive criticism.
Butterhead Salad Company opens New Paltz location

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Whenever word hits the grapevine that a new eatery is planned for New Paltz, amidst all the happy anticipation one can always count on a few cynics automatically responding, “Oh, it’s probably another pizzeria/coffee bar/Mexican place — we have too many of those already.” And there’s undeniably a historical pattern of copycat businesses cropping up on or near Main Street not too long after a new style of cuisine is introduced and proves popular.
Newbie home chef team dominates 16th annual Local Ingredient Chili Challenge in New Paltz

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Signs of spring are beginning to appear: peepers peeping, salamanders migrating, fuzzy pussywillow buds popping, more days when we can choose a lighter jacket instead of a parka. Folks are looking for excuses to congregate outdoors — maybe even eat lunch on a patio. But on Saturday, March 15, there was still enough of a nip in the air under overcast skies to make a steaming bowl of chili an especially appealing option.
Ukrainian refugee family makes fresh start in Saugerties

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Last fall, HV1 shared the story of a group of volunteers called Plutarch for Refugees who raised funds to sponsor several families who had fled Afghanistan in search of a safe place to resettle, in a rural hamlet located between New Paltz and Lloyd (https://tinyurl.com/4febkdrw). The arrangements were made through Welcome Corps, a project of the US Department of State’s US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).
New Beginnings Farmstead in Marbletown hosts two maple weekends in March

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

If you’re driving 55 miles an hour on Route 209 six miles south of Kingston — on that stretch where cornfields roll away to the west and you’re not quite sure whether you’re in Marbletown yet, or still in Hurley — you might not register that the colorful little sign on the east side of the road that says New Beginnings doesn’t announce a preschool or daycare center.
Highland’s Alons Halal Grill introduces Uzbek cuisine to the Hudson Valley

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

On the list of exotic locales in the tall tales and adventure stories of our childhoods are the names of a scattering of places that, to our surprise as adults, turn out to exist in the real world: Troy, Knossos, Mount Olympus, Tintagel, Avalon, Sherwood Forest, Timbuktu. Amongst these fabled-but-not-fictional locations is Samarkand, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia and today the third-largest city in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Upstate Films unveils plans to restore marquee/façade at Saugerties’ Orpheum

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Just before the snowstorm began on Saturday, February 15, a group of historic preservation enthusiasts gathered at the Orpheum Theatre in Saugerties for a presentation on the next phase in the building’s ongoing renovation. Onstage at the Mark, the recently restored, state-of-the-art theater space upstairs, Upstate Films co-executive director Jason Silverman explained the project now underway to restore the Orpheum’s much-deteriorated marquee and façade to evoke the splendor of its 1939 heyday.