Profiles in Conservation

On Solid Ground

February 4, 2021

In a year without parties, Georgina Schaeffer visits with one of the driving forces of the Dutchess Land Conservancy’s events to find that the show will most definitely go on.

The Happy Preservation Warrior

September 10, 2019

It’s a rainy afternoon when I arrive at Rocky Reef Farm to interview Everett Cook. Still, he comes out to greet me. We sit in the well-appointed and comfortable living room. Two dogs stretch out at our feet and dozens of family photos surround us. Cook is tall and slender with a cadence to his speech that alludes to his Southern roots.

Dedicated to Preservation

March 10, 2019

When Eric Roberts began to look for a second home outside of New York City in the early 1990s, he quickly homed in on Millbrook and its surrounding towns in no small part because of the work of the Dutchess Land Conservancy. “[I chose this area] because of the open spaces and the protections already in place to keep the area rural. This was the work of the DLC. I became a supporter and an advocate for their work and mission from those early days until the present.”