Hudson Valley Magazine June 2013

Old-time summer fun is back and better than ever at local fairgrounds, with family amusements, games, rides, and fair food galore.

A people person: 100-year-old Rose Baisley from Garnerville

Miss Independent: 104-year-old Marion Russell Pine from New Paltz

Soul sisters: 103-year-old Mazie W. Johnson and 101-year-old Gladys Covin from Beacon

Miss Independent: 101-year-old Helen Henderson from Germantown

The soloist: 104-year-old Anna Mae Swenson from Rhinebeck

Happy hometown gal: 108-year-old Katharine Dean Cordts from Kingston

In the year 1913, life expectancy in the United States was 50 and 55 years, depending on gender. (Then as now, women live longer than men.) But statistics don’t mean a thing when it comes to these seven Valley residents, each of whom has beaten the odds by living to be at least 100

On January 3, 2013, the Hudson Valley’s Sean Patrick Maloney became the first openly gay congressman from New York State. But he’s been too busy to pay his own pioneering any mind

One of the Hudson Valley’s top medical breakthroughs in 2013