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Updated April 26, 2021
Don’t let the sound of “New York” scare you away. Beacon, New York is only a 3-hour drive from Boston and offers art, history and local eateries.
Anthony is back at Hudson Beach Glass and he is testing his skills at hand-blowing glass. …
trekbible
by Sarah Foster
September 5, 2017
Just north of NYC, the city of Beacon, NY has emerged as an artistic spotlight and travel destination for many. Fun, eclectic, memorable: these are some of the adjectives we would use to describe Beacon. …
CBS 6 News WRGB Albany
by Julia Dunn
Thursday, August 3, 2017
BEACON, NY (WRGB)—Recognize this mountain? It’s the same one on the New York State seal , and looks over the gorgeous Town of Beacon. …
John Gilvey helps make the ornament.
Daily Voice, NY
SOUTHWEST DUTCHESS
Skip Pearlman
Feb 17, 2017 11:30am
There’s something mesmerizing about watching a glass blower work with hot, soft, almost liquid glass.
That’s one of the things that draws people to Beacon’s Hudson Beach Glass – where customers can watch a glass blowing demonstration, and at times can even create their own glass art.
It was 1987 when John and Wendy Gilvey, Michael Benzer and Jennifer Smith founded Hudson Beach Glass, and the foursome…
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VacationIdea Staff
Updated on February 8, 2016
New York’s Hudson Valley is 150 miles of lush nature marked by hundreds of years of history, human endeavors, and breathtaking natural beauty. Home to charming towns like New Paltz, Catskill, Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Troy, Hyde Park, Kingston and many others, the valley has seen battles that formed the nation at Saratoga, artists of the Hudson River School of Painters that defined how the world sees American art, and top chefs graduating from the Culinary Institute of America to provide us with fresh perspectives on food. …
Conde Nast Traveler
by Amy Plitt and Lilit Marcus
January 30, 2015
Hudson Beach Glass
This Main Street stalwart is located inside a gorgeous restored firehouse—but the inside is pretty spectacular too. The right half of the shop features live glass-blowing demonstrations and classes, while…
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CBS This Morning
March 3, 2012
With gas prices rising again, fewer people are willing to travel by car. But Rebecca Jarvis speaks with Peter Greenberg about trips you can make on one with tank of gas. …
By Kavita Mokha
The Wall Street Journal
May 20, 2011
John Gilvey, owner of Hudson Beach Glass, which opened the same year as the museum, said that “Main Street developed because of Dia,” and that visitor …
