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The Artwork of Matt Hausmann

We recently had the chance to meet and see some of Matt Haussmann's fine sculptural work over in Oak Hill NY.

Using highly skilled woodworking technique and materials re-destined from past uses, Hausmann crafts neo mechanical electronic circuit board of synapses in woodgrain with a William Gibson vernacular of technological cobbling and futuristic form... it's real cool!

link to Matt's work

Strange and ancient looking stone structures found on artist Jim Sullivan's Schoharie County NY property... are they inspired by Irish stone hut structures, particularly beehive huts or clocháns?  Theunique dry-stone constructions, often found in the southwest of Ireland, including the Dingle Peninsula.  These structures are characterized by their distinctive beehive shape, built using corbelled stone techniques without mortar. They were likely used as monastic cells, shelters, or secular dwellings, with some dating back to the early medieval period.

 

EXCITING NEWS! We're Back!

 Dear loyal and enthusiastic Farmhouse Punk reader, it has recently come to our attention that the 

worldwide plague that has shutdown cultural, social & working life as we've known it is finally over! 

The Newnormal has reverted back to Oldnormal... mostly and it couldn't have come sooner.

Actually truth be told this happened it happened a while ago but since we've been living deep underground in an undisclosed cave like place we just found out.....

Stand by for a renewed FHP blog as we're once again back a'pecin 'da keyboard!

 On an update of a previous post the Flick-Smart estate in Westkill NY is again on the market.

The sellers hope the hipster black paint on the asbestos siding and Birchfield lite wallpaper + Ikeaesque furnishings will lure (fishing pun) a new generation of well heeled neo-homesteaders.

The zany price history's lofty aspirations of windfall profits as the remote work from farmhouse crowd scoured the countryside for suitable lairs...

let's dig in to those numbers!

2001  sold for $53,000 

by 2010 they were ready to cash out and listed it for 

$175,000 but no takers... they had to tough it out for another 

seven years until in  2017  they found some new dreamers with $154,000

now eight years later those folks are ready to hit the road and are offering this 

hip lifestyle lodge for a whopping $799,000 ! 

we say good luck buddies!

Spruced Up near Spruceton- Legendary Lair Revived!

On a recent drive down to Westkill we were happy to see this stately old boardinghouse with deep literary roots revived once again with a new front porch & fresh coat of paint. The legendary location was once home to Art Flick a superb fly fisherman and an ardent conservationist, Mr. Flick was probably best known for his ''Streamside Guide,'' which was first published in 1947. That tiny book is a warm, witty, direct and authoritative guide that cuts through much of the mystery surrounding the art of catching trout on a fly. In later years another chronicler of Catskillian pursuits Paul Smart made his home here. Smart, noted newspaperman and author of the 1994 book, Rock & Woodstock hosted many a fine dinner party here during his tenure in the late 1980's and through the '90's. Tragedy & freaky catastrophe happened upon the houses historic walls on a dark and icy night a few years back

 when a dumptruck lost it's brakes and crashed through the front of the house only to be followed by a second truck coming down the same hill taking out the garage. The house then sat boarded up for several seasons until now when it's been spruced up once again.