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🌱 How Millbrook’s vanished Halcyon Hall earned a spot among America’s ruins.

Also check out The Country Living Fair on the Millbrook Patch calendar

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Millbrook's vanished Halcyon Hall earned a spot among America's ruins.

Also on today's calendar: The Country Living Fair and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 65 and low of 51 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Clouds and sun, temps: high: 71, low: 54.
  • Thursday: Warm with sun and some clouds, with a high of 78 and low of 59 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 13 Grand American Mansions That Were Abandoned and Left to Ruin (discoverwildscience.com) — Millbrook's long-derelict Halcyon Hall, once a grand luxury hotel and later Bennett College's main building, is highlighted among America's most striking abandoned mansions. The piece recalls its decades of decay, costly 2014 demolition, and how its massive size and maintenance needs ultimately doomed the landmark, while comparing it with other forgotten estates across the country.
   

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    Dutchess County Agricultural Society Inc. | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, 6636 US-9, Rhinebeck
    10:00 am

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