A video medley of Memorial Day in Pine Plains 2015:

The church BBQ chicken fund-raiser
The Parade (of course)
The opening of a new store in town
People enjoying each other and the Lake.

I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns. And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.

Here is the Memorial Day Parade the year I moved up here full-time in 2000.