Chowderfest 2022… A Saratoga Springs Tradition

  For nearly 25 years, the Saturday before the Super Bowl meant Chowderfest to those visiting Saratoga Springs. Saratoga’s Annual Chowderfest is one of the area’s most highly anticipated events of the year, but it will be taking place a little later than normal. Due to COVID, the event will extend into a week-long Saratoga … Read More

Saratoga Springs Victorian Streetwalk Turns 25

It’s the silver anniversary of Saratoga Springs’ holiday kick off extravaganza near Saratoga Arms. This Upstate New York city is transformed into a Victorian Winter Wonderland on December 1, 2011 from 6-10pm. The main street of Broadway is closed to vehicle traffic as thousands of people take to the streets. There are over 50 venues … Read More

SARATOGA ARMS JOINS PRESTIGIOUS INNKEEPING ASSOCIATION

Saratoga Arms, located in downtown Saratoga Springs, NY, was recently honored by admittance into Select Registry, Distinguished Inns of North America, the premier innkeeping association in the United States and Canada. Out of the thousands of inns in North America, only an elite few will be invited to join Select Registry this year. Saratoga Arms … Read More

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One of the perks of spending my winter on Sanibel Island is to partake of the “Forum” at BIG ARTS .  Many interesting speakers on a variety of topics give a thirty-five minute lecture and take questions from an audience that can seat no more than 415 people.  The hottest ticket this past winter was … Read More

I’m Back

I returned to Saratoga Springs last week after a wonderful winter on Sanibel Island.  I drove down in January by way of a fabric mill in South Carolina.  (The sign on the door of the mill advised, “No Loaded Firearms Allowed Inside”.)  I stopped in Atlanta for America’s Mart, where I ordered some wonderful lamps … Read More