Essex Fells, N.J.: âItâs Very Norman Rockwellâ
With its highly regarded schools, grand old homes and close-knit community, the borough is one of Essex Countyâs most desirable areas.
Feb. 17, 2021
After spending much of her adult life working abroad, then moving to Brooklyn and starting a family, Christina PioCosta-Lahue discovered she
could go home again. Last summer, she moved back to Essex Fells, the tiny northern New Jersey suburb where she grew up.
Ms. PioCosta-Lahue, 42, and her husband, Emmett Williams, 58, who have a toddler son and another child on the way, traded a small apartment in the brownstone they own in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a stucco colonial on 1.26 acres, paying $1.087 million. They had also searched in Montclair, about five miles east, but found comparable houses more expensive and on smaller lots.
An online series from Blue Ridge Music Center features Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder and Grammy Award-winner Rhiannon Giddens in conversation about women in the music industry.
âA Place in the Band: Women in Bluegrass & American Roots Musicâ dropped on Tuesday at the Galax-based music centerâs YouTube channel, with links posted at blueridgemusiccenter.org. Interviews with Giddens, upright bass juggernaut Missy Raines and North Carolina Folk Festival director Amy Grossman launched a 10-part series, according to a news release from the the Blue Ridge Parkway-based venue.
The series, which Blue Ridge Music Center associate program director Marianne Kovatch created, sprang from a 2020 project that honored the 100th anniversary of womenâs suffrage in the United States. The right to vote was just one step on the path toward equality, Kovatch wrote in an email conversation.