By Clifford Hart
Photography by dKol Photography
Hard by busy Route 55 in Freedom Plains, about halfway between Poughkeepsie and the Taconic Parkway, sits an unassuming single-story building that you could easily miss. Situated within a small assemblage of other unassuming buildings, it’s reminiscent of a time gone by, when small motels and other minor roadside attractions were sprinkled amid the largely agricultural landscape of central Dutchess County.
Walking inside this narrow building, one continues to be struck with a sense of the past. Not necessarily a way-back-in-history past, but more like a living history before your eyes; one continually in the process of being created—or, more aptly, recreated.
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