Awesome project that was made over several years celebrating all of the achievements of a non…read moreprofit volunteer group that hand carved and hand painted all of these beautiful carousel horses. Now that it is finished it is simply a joy to visit and fun for families and kids of all ages to ride and enjoy.

What a fun stop. Hand carved horses on a restored carousel…read moreframe. Only $2 per ride. Helpful and well trained staff. Fully handicapped accessible. Wonderful example of a community project. Over 400 volunteers labored 1800+ hours per horse. Bring the whole family.. Did I forget to say it's air conditioned???

Finally! I'm so excited that I finally got to see a movie here and experience this quirky drive in!…read moreAnd even though it's less quirky than usual- I hear people were NOT allowed to tow their boats in to watch Jaws as in years past, due to Social Distancing of cars- it was still DELIGHTFUL & FUN! The drinks, food, service, staff and vibe were great. They accept/prefer credit cards and allow leashed, well-behaved dogs, even in the Beer Garden. Bathrooms are limited to one person or family group at a time. Masks required when ordering. Hand sanitizer available, and staff was wearing masks CORRECTLY! With such a dearth of fun activities these days, I don't know why they're not sold out every night! Get tickets with the FB page links. It's only 17 miles from Delmar- a beautiful drive less than a half hour. Follow on FB or check the Albany Times Union for movies. There are several each week. My description for those who know these places, is: if the Indian Ladder Brewery and the quirky Strand Theater in Schroon Lake had a baby, it'd be this!

I went here last night for Werewolves Within and loved it. The people up front that check your…read moretickets were so friendly and enthusiastic. We ordered chocolate chip cookies and they bring them to your car during the movie. The dude was so pumped about the cookies that I think I love him. But yeah this place is great. Definitely want to go back. I'm gonna do a little side rant about Yelp reviews here because there's something I don't get. I see a lot of great reviews and then a 4 star review. If everything was awesome just give it a 5. Those 4s add up and I feel like people that use Yelp are always looking for the great reviews. You get a 5 and 4 from two people that love something. Now you have a 4.5 that should have been a 5. Definitely order a cookie.

I was researching things to do in the Berkshires while my classmates and I were vacationing. This…read morepeaked our interest as we're all tech-fascinated people, and my husband was an animation major. It's a free museum visit, but because it's privately run, you have to call them and make special arrangements for them to come and open the museum. The pros: you get a private tour, and hours aren't limited to your usual 9-5. The cons: since it's only run by 2 people, you're really at their mercy when you show up and they may or may not be on there way there still. Admittedly it's nothing fancy, but if you're legitimately into animation, it's a really fun casual tour. They go very old school on some animation techniques. They have a gift shop with some animation trinkets you can buy. For extra money if you have time, you can also create your own animation with them. We opted out of that one. If you're in the area anyway, it's a great place to stop by. Otherwise, I wouldn't go out of your way to travel to the area just for this.

Remember carnival sideshows and the relentless shilling that happens out in front of the midway…read moretent? This is what it feels like to visit AniMagic. The handbill reads, "50% off Make Your Own Animation in our Hands-On Studio," and "$20 workshop includes 2-hr training, materials, and your creation on take-home video (reg. $40). Good for dates! Absolutely not. What we received for $40 instead of a 2-hour, make-your-own-animation workshop was: - a 10-minute tour of all the overpriced optical illusion toys in the dusty gift shop - a 10 minute "free" tour of their "museum," a small room full of sight gags and posters, and an expanding sphere that drops out of nowhere, just barely missing your head. We weren't allowed to linger over the really interesting things - a family tree of all the animators and animation studios in the Berkshires, the actual crab puppets from a food commercial, a technical Oscar - and were instead hustled (pun intended) from one thing to another, with a long, incomprehensible spiel accompanying our visits with long-outdated computer equipment, trompe l'oeil toys, and a mechanical Donald Duck on a high wire. I feared for my eyes during the entire visit. - a bait-and-switch video (really! on VHS!) of claymation (plasticine stop-motion animation), claimed to have been created by the guy's workshop students (we'll get to that in a minute). - 20 minutes of doing exactly what this guy impatiently told us to do, followed by being hustled (again, pun intended) out the front door. In that twenty minute (not two hour!) workshop, we were treated to a machine-gun-fire rapidity of commands by a person who had absolutely no intention of allowing us to make our own animation. We were told to sit at a table in a back workshop and were nonconsensually videotaped as he told us exactly what to do with the plasticine. When the camera was off, he was barking orders at us to make simple stick figures, which were NOTHING like the melting snowmen, dancing flowers, and amazing animals of the teaser video. I felt like I was promised a visit with a unicorn, but when I pulled back the oilcloth tent flap, I was treated to a brief glimpse of a dog with a tree branch secured precariously to its forehead with a necktie. As dreams of a romantic afternoon evaporated in the exact way that my forehead sweat didn't, I noticed his sign, printed in ALL CAPS, which read "THIS IS NOT BURGER KING. YOU DO IT *MY* WAY." No joke, if you have to make a sign to explain to people that they will adhere directly to your totalitarian clay regime, you probably shouldn't be in the business of working with small humans. Any humans. We've both made movies before, and - in the case of my beloved, who's taught classes in animation - brought some measure of competent experience to the table. I had hoped to learn something further about new technology's role in stop-motion animation, and have time to build my character, the backbone of any subject-based creative endeavor. Instead, I was given two minutes to cut legs out of a tube and shove a head onto a trunk with exacting precision, what this guy called "surgery." He had his spiel down pat. When I tried to ask if I could make something else, he said "NO." When I asked if I could make my figure an animal, he said "NO!" He sighed, and growled, and grimaced, and flat-out took our pieces away several times and just built them his damn self. It was as if we weren't there, because every time he noticed we had any selfhood, he seemed supremely annoyed at our very existence. Show's over, folks, keep on moving. The best part of this celluloid turd was when we went back into the main room and were told how to press computer buttons on a 1998 iMac running iMovie 2.0, which apparently required a complex call-and-response system to actuate still photos from a twenty-year-old, 0.5 megapixel webcam in the shape of a giant eye. I prayed that this eye would bear witness to our ordeal. Instead, we were told that we were making different movies (not one, as we at least expected to do), and were told what the movies would be about. We were not allowed to touch the figures more than twice apiece, because we were Doin' It Wrong, so he positioned the figures and told us when to take the pictures and basically used us to fulfill a role he had long before decided needed to be filled with deformed, ugly clay monstrosities. I imagined that a clay horse would run through the set and rescue my poor puppet, or, at the very least, trample it into the earth so it could avoid suffering further. He wouldn't let us do any post-production, forcing us instead to watch as he looped "our" terrible movies, added copyright-infringing music, and tasteless audio effects. We didn't even get a copy - we had to hunt on YouTube for it! When we were led out with a Bye Now after 40 minutes, we knew we'd been had. It's so unfortunate, too, because these people are so very talented (Irena is WAY more talented than he is). Run!!

No notes! This place is cozy, professional, affordable and the performance of Jesus Christ…read moreSuperstar was professional and brought tears to my eyes multiple times. Worth the visit whether you are taking a date or just looking for something to do on a weekend.

Off-Broadway at its best. Intimate theater in the round with an exceptionally talented vocal and…read moredance cast. Save that trip to NYC.

Wow! What a gem this place is. Was driving from NYC to Adirondacks to ski for the weekend and…read morewanted to get 9 holes in somewhere. Stop at Copake and they said while they hadn't officially opened for the season, but that I could walk the course for free! It's a hilly course, but with really great golden age design. The course fits the property really well, with a good mix of elevation change, dog legs, and some nice blind approaches. Stopped in the Clubhouse bar after the round and had a fantastic meal and chatted with some of the locals. The food was delicious and the service impeccable from the lovely young lady behind the bar. 10/10 recommend and will be back!

Happy hour is a killer deal. $3 craft beers and $4 wines. It can't be beat. Friendly staff too!…read more Lots of golfers and people who are interested in horse racing and betting if that's your thing. I prefer having a good time with the people I'm with.

Very welcoming. Wine good and donuts good. Originally the server was waiting for someone to come…read moreand help us because he spoke no English. He was sweet and kind and started with us and used the translate app on his phone. He had a great personality and we had a good time.

We took a road trip to NY to checkout Hudson Berkshire Wine & Food Festival on a whim when we was…read moreperusing for things to do around New England on Memorial Day weekend. Ticket at the gate was $25 but we got our tickets through Groupon for only $23 for the 2 of us which was a really sweet deal for this particular event from 11am-6pm. There were tons of tasting from wineries, distilleries, breweries, cideries but didn't quite balance well with the paucity of food vendors. Luckily there were food trucks around so you could grab a bite to eat, listen to the live band, go pets some goats at the petting zoo and then go back to for more drink tastings. Overall, Columbia County Fairgrounds is a terrific venue to host this type of event and was worth it for the drinks, entertainment, and free souvenir wine glasses.

Cute if you're in the area - no long train rides but they do little minute long rides and blow the…read morehorn which is fun. Very pretty overlooking the pond out back. The little museum inside the old train station is cute, not a ton to see but it is interesting to learn about the trains in the yard. $5 for adults

This is no museum. It is the seventh gate of hell, reserved for the worst of sinners…read more We went here for the sake of a young child's entertainment but, much like the other children there at the time, his joy and excitement (and maybe even his soul) quickly dissipated. There isn't much to see or do, and the staff is comprised solely of people ages 75 and up. One staff member in particular, a half-man named "Matt", was rude and boring. He had no people skills, and couldn't handle the fact that a TWO-year old couldn't tolerate his awful railroad rantings...but neither could any of the adults on the tour. If you want to piss away a perfectly good $9, then stop by this "museum", or your local Subway for lunch.

Beautiful grounds and the layout of the Museum is wonderful. A very peaceful way to spend the day.read more

Great museum, lovely setting. The only negative is that it's fairly crowded because the exhibit…read morerooms are not large and have a lot of displays. The Rockwell oils are wonderful when you see them in large scale, and the text panels and short bio film give a good sense of how carefully he worked and how he stayed true to his themes of community, inclusion, humor, patriotism. Right now, there are dozens of works by other painters and artists who worked in the same themes, and they are great too. I was on my feet for 4 hours and saw most of the works and took the excellent 30-minute supplemental studio tour. Didn't have time to walk the grounds, which seem lively too.