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Queens County Farm
A farm in Queens? What?!?

ok, call me the last to know, but Queens is home to the oldest continuously operating farm in New York state, appropriately called The Queens County Farm! and you can go there! feed the sheep, take a hay ride, buy local eggs, honey and WINE! check out the cows and watch the peacocks sneak peaks of [...]

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Cold Spring, NY
Less than an hour from NYC!

This week we packed up the Traverse with my crew, some girlfriends and the kids and spent an incredible day in small town America.
Nestled in the heart of the Hudson Highlands, Cold Spring is less than an hour from NYC. It is the perfect place for city folk to flirt with 19th Century Americana, [...]

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The Legend of The Leatherman

If you live in Connecticut or Westchester, you may already know of The Leatherman, a 19th century wanderer and vagabond who traveled a 350 mile route by foot appearing in the same town and same villages like clockwork. He wore a 60 pound suit made of leather scraps and this spring his body, buried [...]

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The 21 Club
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Secret Wine Vault

Where did Sammy Davis, Jr and Richard Nixon store their wine? In the secret underground vault at the 21 Club. We were given access to the very very private dining room and wine cellar located behind a secret door one flight below the kitchen.
These days you will pay a mint to rent the private [...]

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Watch It!
The Pasta Special

From ravioli to manicotti, linguine to fettuccine, we delve into the past of my favorite food, plus show you the best places to eat.

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History of Rock & Roll

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Rockin’ Family Road Trip!
Woodstock here we come!

Ok, so once again i have a house full of out of town relatives and being that the hubs can’t get time off of work…what’s a tv host to do? Take ‘em on a ROAD TRIP! I was working on my Rock And Roll Episode so, we loaded 7 of the Senecal/Shea clan into The [...]

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Toni Takes Off!
Cheese ‘n Chocolate

    Ok, this week we had a great day trip…packed up the traverse and headed to Coach Farm where they make amazing artisan goat cheese. The farm manager rene put me to work and i found myself in perhaps the only situation in which one can say “massage the teet” and not [...]

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The Old Dutch Church
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

If you want to see where the headless horseman hung out, then head up to Tarrytown and visit The Old Dutch Church for yourself! built in the 17th century, time has stood still – you can wander the graveyard – and even see the burial ground of the famous Washington irving himself who wrote perhaps [...]

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The Blaze, baby!

There is no cooler halloween to do then to check out The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in Westchester County. 5,000 hand carved pumpkins light up the 19th century landscape at the historic Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-On-Hudson. We have made it a family tradition as evidenced by these photos with which I will one day [...]

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