This July 4th weekend Brendan and I had the enormous pleasure of staying in a beautiful Upstate NY ranch house called Rockcreek Farm in the verdant woods of Coxsackie, New York. I know what you are thinking, great name for a town. Well, one of their main streets is called Climax. Yeah, I'm serious. Anyways, imagine a gorgeous 19th century two-story farmhouse amidst hundreds of acres of rolling...

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