Jesse DeGroodt

4 weeks ago | mainstreetmag.com | Jesse DeGroodt

Nooooo! A thousand times, no. Not here!Yes, of course, the knee-jerk response to any mention of nuclear power is to scream with the fury of seven tornadoes during an early Sunday-morning earthquake. Everyone has a position, certainly, but how about we set politics to the side and start with a clean slate here, shall we?

1 month ago | mainstreetmag.com | Jesse DeGroodt

An’ here I sit so patientlyWaiting to find out what priceYou have to pay to get out ofGoing through all these things twice– Bob DylanOne might suspect that after decade upon decade spent meandering this fair Earth of ours, even a besotted toadstool might’ve acquired a nugget or two of what passes as wisdom, but then, that’s a hard thing to verify, at least for yours truly, who has never once encountered a tipsy ‘shroom.

2 months ago | mainstreetmag.com | Jesse DeGroodt

For those attracted here by the prurient possibilities suggested by this headline, settle down. Unless something goes completely off the rails, we will not be discussing, reviewing, or analyzing some raucous Thursday night orgy organized and participated in by the neighborhood cauldron of bats, romp of otters, or prickle of porcupines, although I suppose if it’s an orgy you have in mind, you could do worse than to populate it with that trio.

Dec 3, 2024 | mainstreetmag.com | Jesse DeGroodt

However hard times may be pressing down on the hearts and purses of the citizens of Rhinebeck,” observed the December 26, 1931, Rhinebeck Gazette, “there is no evidence of it in the spread of holiday cheer about town.”Like a fair number of us, we had family that were born and grew up in the teeth of the Great Depression, roughly defined as extending from the October, 1929 Wall Street crash to 1939.

Sep 30, 2024 | mainstreetmag.com | Jesse DeGroodt

Here we are, trusty weapon in hand, standing in the tee box of the 12th hole at Quaking Catalpas Country Club, gazing off in some vague direction of where we imagine our destination might be lurking around the corner behind trees so tall they’ve likely been around since the Martin Van Buren administration, a patch of tall fescue, a body of water the size of Lake Erie, and a bunch of rascally white sand dotting the landscape, wondering why we ever chose to take up this nightmarish game in the...