Tables made from salvaged antique doors have a weather-beaten patina, and lights above the bar rest on a sleigh-like wooden pig carrier from a meatpacking plant.
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE (914-332-7438): antique appraisal day, aromatherapy, Internet weather review, tai chi, Middle Eastern dance, trips to Hudson Valley vineyards with wine tastings and day trips for antiquing in Hudson.
The examples fall a little short: working his way aboard a coasting freighter, though only for a week; flying through bad weather in an antique plane, but only as a passenger.
Also popular are pictures of antique cottages with crooked shingles, weathered brick or board walls and handmade door latches set within verdant gardens, suggesting hardy, simple domesticity in a natural setting.
The exterior has an ornate scalloped fascia and two intricate lathed balconies; atop the roof are an antique farm bell and a skier weather vane.
A report in the Antiques column on Friday about American weather vanes in odd shapes, using information from James D. Julia Auctions, misstated the age of a copper weather vane in the shape of a Cessna airplane being offered by that auction house.
But then a dip in the two-lane road reveals something quite different: a tiny river town that bustles on weekends with tourists roaming antique shops, dining at restaurants and playing, weather permitting, in the Delaware River.
The light filtering through the glass roof has a sepia tint even in the brightest weather, and Robert Capia's eclectic antiques shop at No. 26, specializing in French dolls from 1865 to 1899, sets the historical tone.
Nevertheless, Jane has employed the same approach, technique and framing to capture the details of a vast range of subjects from antiques and churches to occasions and the weather.
In Dutchess County, Palen stores about 50 antique airplanes, operates the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, and every fair-weather late-spring-to-early autumn weekend, stages thrilling and unapologetically corny air shows and mock First World War dogfights.
