John Bradley is a friend, a very thorough and thoughtful guy, and someone who I respect for taking the initiative to form the very first town advisory committee in Claverack. And I like how he approached it - form the committee first, then ask the Town Board if it's OK. We talk cycling, countryside, what climate change really means and why that isn't always about the greenhouse gas debate. And we talk about how this community is dealing with the very rapid change of the past...
21 Oct 2026
Mat Zucker
Mat Zucker is a Claverack neighbor, and creator and host of the Cidiot podcast (Cidiot.com). He's been doing this for a lot longer than I have, but we have a similar interest in how people that live here contribute - in ways ranging from personal to artistic to commercial - so that Claverack and the surrounding county stay lovely and become even better. And in his own words, he's "taking back" the pejorative word Cidiot. We talk podcasts ( check his site for his interview with me!...
4 Sept 2026
David Sokosh
David Sokosh is a Claverackian artist, a photographer who works in older photographic chemistries such as tintype, wet collodion, anc cyanotype. If you don't know what those are, don't sweat it - you'll get the picture (see what I did there?). I ran across his work in a book he called "Things that look like the moon (but are not the moon). He's exhibited in many places, but if you're a local you might have seen his work in the Carrie Haddad gallery on Warren St in Hudson.&nb...
19 Aug 2026
Tom O'Dowd and Tracy Murrin
Tom and Tracy are close neighbors, and I wanted to talk with them because - like me - they are experimenting with how they manage their land to see if we can increase biodiversity. These days that means focusing on habitat for bugs and birds and a variety of plants, which is challenging on land that's been used for single crop agriculture for many years. Old school farming practices worked to eliminate insects, which we know now has downsides. But the conversation got more i...
2 Jul 2026
Brenda Shufelt
Brenda Shufelt was born and raised in Claverack, but left home at a fairly young age for education and career with no particular intention to return. Older, looking toward retirement, and married she found that Columbia County and Claverack were calling her back. There aren't many places like this, are there? We talk about her background and how the things she experienced away from here gave her the self-confidence and drive to not only come home but to find ways to contribute to ...
26 May 2026
Sarah Katan
Sarah Katan and her family are transplants, but in the years since they arrived Sarah has become deply embedded in our community. As an educator Sarah creates programs that connect kids (and adults) to the outdoors, to the history of the area, and - recently - to themselves. Sarah teaches personal storytelling and hosts storytelling events at the Ancram Center for the Arts, and even tells her own stories there. I admit this is a performance art that fascinates me, and I wanted to learn ...
23 Feb 2026
Max Morningstar and Maria Zordan - the MX Morningstar team
Max and Maria own and operate MX Morningstar Farm, in the heart of Claverack on route 9H. Their farm store sells produce from theirs and other local farms, as well as food products from all over the world for those who want a one-stop store for dinner prep. If you're a Claverackian, you know the place. We talk about how Max and Maria came to Claverack, why they're staying, the ins and outs (and economics) of modern 'mid-scale' farming. And we talk about why they love it here...
9 Feb 2026
Vince Pomilio
Vince Pomilio is an artist who was part of the vanguard of NYC-based artists who began moving to the Hudson area in the 1970s. He has a flawless memory for names and events, and tells stories from 1978 to the present about the fascinating characters who have been in and out of the area's transition from sleepy backwater to "destination". I pretty much turned the mics on and let Vince go. This one is a little longer than some other shows, but worth it if you're interest...
27 Jan 2026
Anya Bonanno and Project SCAPE
Anya is leading a project called SCAPE, Stewarding Claverack and Philmont's Environment. This means the built environment (town, farms, history, etc) as well as the natural environment. SCAPE (projectscape.org) ties in nicely with the efforts by our town governments to redraft their comprehensive plan, capturing residents voices and views on what matters most to them. Lots of local residents have been interviewed, but if you check the website or attend one of the two local e...
14 Jan 2026
Bryan Fox and Peggy Gould
Brian and Peggy bought a house here in Claverack 15 years ago, coming up from Queens to the beauty of the countryside. Both having backgrounds in performing arts, they decided more or less on a whim to create an outdoor movie experience for their neighborhood, and the idea took off. Stickles Cinema has grown, but it's still a word-of-mouth neighbor-to-neighbor discovery. The danger of listening to this podcast is that you too will be drawn into this intentional/unintentional...
16 Dec 2025
Jeff Unpacks Election Results
It's only me this week, folks, your host Jeff Kiplinger. I promised to 'unpack' data from the November 4 town and county election to see if we could learn anything about the winners, the losers, and the residents (that's us, and I hope we end up winners). I uncovered, I think, some interesting things that the major parties may not have noticed. By the way, if numbers and analysis make your head spin, you might want to skip ahead to about 8 minutes from the end for a summary.
5 Dec 2025
Katy Cashen
Katy is a long time Claverackian, with a background and a track record of getting stuff done in both local and national government. We talk about what brought her family to the area, to the farm where she still lives, and about her journey into government. She's one of an increasingly rare breed who believe that government's job is to help, rather than to turn everything into a partisan fight. Katy spent 12 years serving Claverack on our Town Board, and we talk about her acc...
11 Nov 2025
Gary Davis
Gary Davis retired from the corporate world several years ago, but by then he and his husband had already bought and renovated an historic house in the Claverack hamlet. Like many of us they fell in love with the area, and what was planned as a weekend getaway soon became their permanent home. Gary quickly integrated with the community, contributing time and experience to help with food insecurity, with town government, and ultimately helped 'resurrect' the Claverack Historical So...
24 Oct 2025
Robert Honeywell
Robert is a candidate for Town Board in this fall's election, so I thought it important to post this interview before we go to the polls. Robert is an interesting guy - part activist, part lawyer, and part actor and theater founder. A lifelong follower of his own head and heart. I had a wide-ranging and fun interview with Robert, and no matter what happens on November 4 I think we'll be seeing a lot of him in Claverack.
8 Oct 2025
Thea Schoep
Thea is the Director of the Claverack Library, and thanks to her leadership and to the contributions of many in the town our library has become an essential part of Claverack. And I do mean essential - part senior center, children and family space, and community center, the Claverack Library serves so many functions that the town doesn't have as stand-alone services. We'll talk about what brought Thea to the library, how the library has changed over two hundred years, and what the...
25 Sept 2025
Intro to the Claverak Podcast
What is this about and why? Who could possibly be interested in what's going on in a small town in upstate New York? The people who live here, that's who.
25 Sept 2025
Peter Hoffman
I talk with Peter Hoffman, a Claverackian who left NYC after running two successaful restaurants for 20 years. Famous as the chef-owner of Savoy in Soho, one of the first "farm to table" restaurants in the city, Peter moved to Claverack to be closer to what he loves - the food, the farmers, the outdoors, the countryside. And as he's become more and more involved with the community, he's taking his ideas to a new arena by running for Claverack Town Board.
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