is a writer and photographer who travels frequently along the Hudson between an old farmhouse in northwestern Connecticut and New York City. He is the author of a dozen travel guides including Spain For Dummies
and Frommer
s guides to Texas, Cuba, and Peru
as well as art catalogue essays and articles on art and culture.
Rich Beattie
is a freelance writer who lives in New York City. Formerly the Managing Editor of
Travel Holiday Magazine
and Executive Editor of the adventure–travel site GORP.com, he now writes for
Travel & Leisure,
the
New York Times, Four Seasons Hotel Magazine, Boating Magazine,
and
Modern Bride,
among others.
Brian Silverman,
author of
Frommer
s New York City, Frommer
s New York City from $90 a Day,
and
Portable New York City,
has written about travel, food, sports, and music for publications such as
Saveur, Caribbean Travel & Life, Islands, American Way,
the
New Yorker,
and the
New York Times.
He is the author of several books including
Going, Going, Gone: The History, Lore, and Mystique of the Home Run
(HarperCollins), and co–editor of
The Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports
(Viking Books). Brian lives in New York, New York, with his wife and son.