Fall is in full swing and October is a busy, busy month for pumpkin carving and costume preparations. A Little Beacon Blog has got you covered with our new Pumpkins & Parades Guide!
You will find a complete listing of events and activities going on this month in Beacon and nearby for all ages including pumpkin carvings, lightings, and parades.
One is never bored in Beacon, thanks to all of the groups that get created by citizens, meeting in easily accessible places like the Library, Quinn's, and the Parks and Recreation Department. Learning about these groups and keeping up with when they meet is a job in and of itself. We're always learning about new ones here at A Little Beacon Blog, and adding them to the Adult Classes Guide when we do.
Jan Dolan, the teacher of the Beacon Thursday Painters Group.
Photo Credit: Jean Noack
One such group is having an exhibition at the Howland Public Library during October, opening on Saturday, October 8 - Beacon's Second Saturday. The Thursday Painters group is a weekly three-hour class for seniors offered by the Beacon Recreation Department and taught by local artist Jan Dolan. Many of the Thursday Painters have been painting for decades, while others, like Jean Noack, are enjoying the process of awakening their hidden talent. "I enjoy the class because it is made up of a nice group of students who are friendly, creative and are willing to help each other," Jean says. "Also, our teacher Jan Dolan of Beacon is a talented artist, and in addition, she is a wonderful teacher." The class has been meeting for over two years and, according to Jean, "The Recreation Director, Mark Price, has been highly supportive." The show at the library this Second Saturday will be the group’s second exhibit, and runs through November 5.
While in the Beacon Thursday Painters class, Jean tapped into her fondness of the Dummy Light, located on Beacon's east end, and created a series. "When I started in this class [Beacon Thursday Painters], I did portraits of each of my three cats. Then, I moved on to do an oil painting of Beacon's Dummy Light. I am a native of Beacon and used to pass it each day as I walked to school from my home on Fishkill Avenue to Forrestal School. I took a photo of my Dummy Light painting and shrunk the image and I hand-made Dummy Light Christmas ornaments and magnets at my kitchen table. For a while there, it was a regular production line as I made them for friends and sold others. Never could I have seen myself in retirement making pin money from my art!"
Painting of the Dummy Light by Jean Noack.
Photo Credit: Jean Noack
Jean's most recent painting of the Dummy Light will be on display at the Beacon Historical Society's "Hats Off to the Beacon Historical Society!" this Second Saturday at Beacon Bath & Bubble, located at 458 Main Street in Beacon, near the Lauren & Riley boutique (who was just featured in the Highlands Current!).
Painting on wood by Jean Noack for the exhibit and upcoming auction for "Hats Off To The Beacon Historical Society" fundraiser for the society's new office to store and display their archives.
The Howland Public Library is presenting an exhibition of work by the Beacon Thursday Painters from October 8th through November 5th. An artists’ reception will be held on Beacon's Second Saturday, October 8th, from 5 to 7pm.
The Howland Public Library is located at 313 Main St., Beacon NY 12508. The Community Room Exhibit Space is open during regular library hours. Please note: The gallery may not be accessible during some library programs. Please consult the library calendar at beaconlibrary.org. Artists interested in exhibiting at the library should contact community@beaconlibrary.org.
Scenic Hudson’s Plans for Beacon’s Long Dock Park
Scenic Hudson, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the Hudson River and the Hudson River Valley of New York State, and owner of the land that is known as Long Dock Park, is presenting their proposal for enhancements to Long Dock Park on Wednesday, October 12 at 7:30 pm. Scenic Hudson is encouraging those who support the enhancements to come to the meeting. The group will be presenting to the City of Beacon Planning Board meeting to make a short statement supporting the newest improvements it wants to make at Long Dock Park. They're outlined below.
The Long Dock Park project proposal includes:
Meeting attendees do not need to speak, but can do so if they wish. Attendance at city meetings does make an impact on the case at hand.
Meeting details:
Day: Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Beacon Municipal Center - One Municipal Plaza, Beacon, NY
Pictured here for you to see is the winner of the "Where Is This" contest from early September, when we shared the sign on the back of the building holding Hudson Valley Auctioneers. Matt Clifton identified it within an hour of it being posted. Lucky for him, he's a newsletter subscriber, so he got advance notice of the post.
Matt is also a local Apple techie, and can help you with your Mac at Lokimac in the friendliest way. So I was quite pleased when he won, as it meant I'd get to double-duty his meeting: he'd pick up the golden ticket for a BJ's sweet potato pie fresh out of the oven, and I'd get to ask a couple of my own recent Apple questions. Matt is also one half to the food blog Nerds With Knives, so when he says that the BJ's sweet potato pie is amazing, you know the pie is serious. But you already knew that, because BJ's sweet potato pie has been famous around Beacon for 35 years.
Onto the next contest! You all were stumped, so the reveal pictures will be posted with no winner. But, I'd like to give you a bit more information on the location, so wait a few days for that article and all of its delicious pictures. You may want to know a bit more about why a purple dinosaur was in a storefront on Main Street.
If you're a #getoutside type exerciser, you might be freaking out right now as the cool nights and mornings linger into an all-day affair, forcing you to think about your indoor workout plan. Well, you're certainly not alone, but All Sport has got your back with lots of great cardio and muscle toning machines and group classes. What's better than a group challenge class? Going to All Sport with your Buddy! October is Buddy Month, and that means you can bring a pal - for free. If that pal has kids, you can give them an entertaining option in All Sport's Kids Club while you work out!
As we type, parents are clicking back into gear checking out School's Out options, looking for special classes that are offered on Monday holidays to occupy busy little minds and lock in childcare during the workday. All Sport has posted their School's Out dates from now through 2017, making it easy for you to plan!
2016
October 3, 10, 12
November 11, 23, 25
December 23, 26-30
2017
January 2, 16
February 20
April 10-14
May 26
All Sport has a Dedicated Sponsor Page here at A Little Beacon Blog, which means that we get to obsess over all of the great opportunities going on over there, and tell you about it here. Do check out this page because it calls out special classes and causes you don't want to miss, like the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes on October 15, and the Les Mills Launch October 17-22. And hook into All Sport's newsletter to learn of other special classes, like when they combo a cycle and a yoga class!
Hosting the first curated pop-up experience at A Little Beacon Space was slightly more than nerve-wracking, I must admit! Will anyone come? Will the 6-year-olds who had been pining to face paint for two weeks actually last more than an hour to paint faces? The answers were...yes.
With blessings from Your Presence Salon's owner Danielle and her stylist Audrinna (my neighbor), they jumped into this experiment with me, and it was great. Little families came throughout the day, with children getting their faces painted while their siblings got a hair cut. We even had a bonus flat-iron curl for the girls!
Transformations happened. One little girl with very long hair had never had a haircut in her life. That day, she not only got a trim, but she got bangs, and was the cutest ever, all day long, patting and exploring the new feature on her forehead.
Face painting happened too! Silvery, goopy glitter and all. So much so, that I need to order another flat of colors for our next Kitchen Cuts on October 23! With the face painting, we raised $36 for Beacon Elementary Schools. The total included the donated haircut tip cup from Danielle and Audrinna. Thanks, ladies!
Thank you to everyone who came. It was so much fun, we are doing it again! This time, it'll be during the Hocus Pocus Parade on Main Street, aka the children's Halloween Parade on Sunday, October 23rd from 10 am to 4 pm. A Little Beacon Blog will be handing out candy, and will be open for $1 face painting and $16 haircuts for kids. Book online in advance of the day, and you get a discount.
This next pop-up experience is sponsored by Teresa Marra's new Disney travel booking service, "It's All About The Mouse." She knows all of the tricks to book a Disney trip on a budget. Thank you, Teresa, for helping our next pop-up haircut and face paint day happen!
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SPONSORED BY: Parent/Child Yoga Morning at A Little Beacon Space
UPDATE: We have a winner! Jackie O identified it correctly! This is a dinosaur in the back garden of the installation of doors at the Marion Royael Gallery on the west end of Main Street. The reveal article with photos will be posted soon!
UPDATE: A fourth hint has been posted, with a new prize from Get Frosted Cupcakery.
Do you know what this photo is of, and where it was taken? The first person to correctly identify this wins two tickets to tonight's intimate folk concert at BEAHIVE: "A Duo of Duos," featuring the duo of Jon Shain & FJ Ventre, and the duo of Amy Soucy & Sharon Goldman. Once the correct answer is identified, we will post a reveal article that shows the full location of this photo, and more about its location.
Hint #1: A creature in a playful wonderland.
Hint #2: See the guesses in the comments below. Then you have some some exploring of back streets (or a back garden) to do!
Hint #3: Members of BeaconArts who have attended recent meetings this summer, and diligent Second Saturday hunters and gatherers, will know where to find this royal collection of wonder.
Hint #4: If you are in galleries this weekend for Second Saturday, and if you are curious enough to open doors and peek inside, you will find it!
New Prize: TWO cupcakes of choice from the case at Get Frosted Cupcakery!
The winner of this contest will get two tickets to see tonight's intimate performance of scintillating guitar work and vibrant vocal harmonies, with two dynamic musical duos at OPEN HIVE / Music - A Duo of Duos with Jon Shain & FJ Ventre, Amy Soucy & Sharon Goldman at BEAHIVE 291 Main Street starting at 7pm.
Sharon Goldman and Beacon’s own Amy Soucy are a soulful folk duo. This summer, Amy was named the winner of the 2016 Songwriting Competition at the CT Folk Festival and was featured in the Emerging Artists Showcase at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
They’ll share the bill with guitarist Jon Shain and bassist FJ Ventre, coming up from North Carolina. They’ve been playing together, on-and-off, since they met in Massachusetts 35 years ago and have been finalists at the International Blues Challenge.
Tickets are on sale and there are a few left, which you can buy now, but the winner of this contest walks away with two of them!
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On a glorious Sunday afternoon - no rain date needed here! - the annual Spirit of Beacon Day commenced down Main Street, from the river to the mountain. Groups who designed, built, and decorated floats for the day prepared in various locations throughout the city to finally gather for the big moment: Stepping off at 1 pm to begin the march down Main Street, celebrating the spirit that runs through Beacon. Let's put some faces and floats to the names we read about so often, from people who hold events, make things happen, or are involved with projects you participate in:
The Amerscot Highland Pipe Band
Hello, Mayor Casale and city Council members!
Sue Serino
The Beacon Republican Committee
The Beacon Democratic Party
Rhode from the Salvation Army Seniors Program
Throw up your glove for Beacon Girls Softball!
Hello, Ron's Ice Cream! We can wait to see you in the spring, in the yellow ice cream house near Memorial Park!
Pack 3001
Troop 411
Derby car of the Beacon Scout Pack
Go Girl Scouts!
Daisy Troop 10289
The Beacon City School District, with Meredith Heuer and Antony Tseng holding the banner, and Anthony White, William Zoph and Kenya Gadsen marching. Interim Superintendent Ann Marie Quartironi.
The people of Strong Communities Work
Beacon's Head Start Program
Yanarella School of Dance and dancers
The Knights of Columbus
The Church of St. Joachim and St. John
Jeepers Spotted in the Parade! If you have estimates on how many Jeepers were in this Spirit of Beacon Parade, please let us know in the comments! we estimated about 30.
The Beacon High School Band
The Beacon Players - The High School Theatre Company
The Beacon Players' Promotion of the upcoming performance of "grease"!
Glenham Elementary School's float to the theme "Tastes of Beacon"
Fidelis Care
South Avenue School's float in the theme of "Tastes of Beacon"
Lions Club International, City of Beacon
J. V. Forrestal Elementary, presenting their float for the theme "Tastes of Beacon"
National Honor Society members from Beacon High School
Sargent Elementary School, presenting their float for the parade theme, "Tastes of Beacon"
The Beacon Historical Society
Diane Lapis (who's written A Little Beacon Blog's Postcard Series) from the Beacon Historical Society as The Dummy Light
Rombout Middle School
The American Red Cross
First Presbyterian Church
Pastor Ben of First Presbyterian Church
ARF Beacon (Animal Rescue Foundation)
Maday Lopez Brown, Member of the Kings Alpha Chapter Theta Phi Sigma Christian Sorority Inc.
New Covenant Learning Center
The Beacon Bees (competitive readers organized by the Howland Public Library)
The Beacon Sloop Club
The Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps
The new ambulance vehicle, ready to climb up and down mountainous roads
Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps Supporters
Beacon Fire Department and those from surrounding communities.
Spirit of Beacon Day today! Marchers are lining up, and food vendors are getting into place. It's a beautiful day! Congratulations to the I Am Beacon 5K runners today!
UPDATE: Click here to see the floats from the Spirit of Beacon Day 2016.
On one of fall's first cool, breezy and sunny Saturday afternoons in Beacon, first responders pulled in around the garden on Main Street between Hudson Beach Glass and River Winds Gallery. Police were the first to respond, surrounding the garden with several vehicles, followed by fire trucks and Beacon's ambulance units.
According to people near the garden, a man called for help from within the garden. As responders arrived, they went into a heavily weeded area of the garden and cleared several large stalks as they worked to get to the person on the ground below.
Responders loaded the man onto a stretcher, wearing what looked to be a plastic neck brace, and wheeled him to an ambulance. Shortly thereafter, first responders disbanded after directing traffic as the unfortunate event cleared up. We send the man our best wishes for a speedy recovery, and thank for the first responders for helping!
The 10th season of The Fireball Run, a live-streamed, adventure-based trivia pursuit game involving 40 local teams driving fast or meaty cars in a competition to find the most clues and solve the most puzzles across towns in America, arrives in Beacon on Wednesday from 3 to 6pm on Main Street in front of Hudson Beach Glass. The cars will come down Cross Street and park nearby.
A team representing Dutchess County includes the current Chamber of Commerce President and owner of Freedom Ford, Rick Brownell, and auctioneer Robert Doyle, from AAR Auctions. Look for them in their big black Ford Explorer, with sponsor stickers from IBM, Freedom Ford, AAR Auctions, Central Hudson, BBG+G Advertising, Hudson, Q92 and the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel.
Rick Brownell and Robert Doyle speak to TWC News about the drive.
Photo Credit: Screen grab from clip on TWC News.
This season, the TV show kicked off on September 21, winding through New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, ending on October 1. This Wednesday, September 28, the drivers and crew will arrive in Beacon, NY, stopping in front of Hudson Beach Glass to kick off a three-hour street party. There will be music and entertainment from Bosco & The Storm, street performers, children’s activities, Dutchess Cruiser Car Show, Q92 with Joe Daily & Michelle Taylor and more, according to the Dutchess Tourism website.
Drivers for this eight-day, 2,000-mile, life-sized trivia game and road rally competition are described as "the most distinguished group of highway scofflaws ever gathered in one place," according to the Fireball Run website. "Some are celebrities, some are executives, some may be your neighbors. And it's all for bragging rights, a greater cause and a plastic road sign."
The live action, 26-episode series chronicles an epic quest for America’s underdiscovered places and obscure, historic artifacts, all while aiding in a massive awareness campaign called The Race to Recover America’s Missing Children. In the towns they drive through, teams need to spread hundreds of flyers that feature the missing children they are assigned. The series is streamed live online in the United States, and televised internationally, while educating and entertaining viewers and inspiringoff-the-beaten-path travel. Rick and Robert have already found a special tire behind a secret door panel, according to their Facebook post.
Charities supported by this season of Fireball Run include The Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie and Spark Media Project. You'll recognize Spark Media Project from their summer day camp offerings and recent participation in the Beacon Independent Film Festival.
While out cheering on the racers, put on your best smiles for the cameras and show the world how spectacular Dutchess County is! This entertaining series streams in the USA on Amazon Prime, and is televised in foreign markets.
Enjoy a dinner with the drivers afterward at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel (tickets available here). Or stay in Beacon and eat at one of these restaurants, any of which you will probably want to call ahead, to make reservations and guarantee a table.
Photo Credit: Google Maps
The City of Beacon is revisiting its Comprehensive Plan tonight at a special workshop from 7 to 9pm. It is open to the public, and if you can't attend, City Council Member Peggy Ross has provided an email address for those who live and work in Beacon to send suggestions: comprehensiveplan@cityofbeacon.org
The emphasis of tonight's workshop is on updating the city's Comprehensive Plan to reflect changes since the existing plan's adoption in 2007. The revamp will focus on recommendations for the waterfront and train station area. The meeting will be in the Memorial Building at 413 Main Street (Teller Avenue is the cross street).
People are encouraged to send an email with their suggestions to comprehensiveplan@cityofbeacon.org
UPDATE [9/24/16]: Some updates from the meeting were posted on its Facebook event page, and the video from the workshop has been posted.
We have a few exciting pop-up shops in Beacon coming soon...
The popular bake sale, For Goodness Bake, is back for its fourth year next Saturday (September 24th) at the Catalyst Gallery (137 Main Street). This bake will be raising funds for The Beacon Community Kitchen (formerly Beacon Soup Kitchen), which provides lunches, love, and warmth to those in need in the Beacon community. Says Tara Tornello one of the organizers: "The Beacon Community Kitchen volunteers are skilled at turning a few dozen pounds of veggies into a delicious, fulfilling meal. It's pretty cool to see what they can whip up with just a few basic ingredients like farm-fresh tomatoes and eggplant. Our goal is simple: raise funds for the Kitchen to purchase more of these wholesome ingredients as well as new utensils and appliances that will help make food preparation a breeze. Every dollar raised will go directly toward these needs."
The Beacon Community Kitchen transforms .
Photo Credit: Tara Tornello
Over the past four years, For Goodness Bake has raised $8,000 cumulatively for charities such as Green Teens (nearly $3K), Kids R Kids (nearly $3K) and Baby Felix ($1.5K), who was the beneficiary the first year this bake sale was produced. This year, funds will go toward purchasing new appliances (possibly a stove) and groceries for meal preparation at the Beacon Community Kitchen. The bake sale will feature some of the Hudson Valley’s most celebrated amateur and professional bakers and confectioners.
Hudson Valley bakers wait all year for this fundraiser. Tessa Dean calls it her "Christmas" as she prepares cupcakes that will appear on Instagram with the hashtag #beacondessertmafia - before they head for your mouth.
Take a look at this lineup!
Get an early jump start picking up some unique holiday gifts on Saturday, October 8th. The Howland Cultural Center will be hosting the Mid-Hudson Etsy Makers Pop-Up Market. The market will feature 13 artisans of handmade goods from the mid-Hudson Valley area. The market is free and open to the public. Doors will be open from 10 am to 4 pm. And so begins the holiday season!
Join A Little Beacon Blog and Your Presence Salon during the Children's Hocus Pocus Halloween Parade down Main Street for our second Kitchen Cuts, a Pop-Up Kids Hair Cut day with face painting! Hair cuts are $16 the day of at the door, or book ahead online for $12. Face painting is $1 and will have a collection can, with face painting proceeds going to Beacon elementary schools. We collected $36 last time, and we're adding to that to make one donation, hopefully for teachers' art supplies. Book your hair cut online here, or come by the day of! If the kids are still up for it, they will be the ones doing the face paint - and they are really good!
The time has come to explore the bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich options in Beacon. We're calling it "The Bacon-Egg-and-Cheese-inator" because I've been watching too much Odd Squad, and I view all breakfast sandwiches as a key resource to starting the day on the right foot. Now, you won't find a "best of" here at A Little Beacon Blog, because each can be the best in their own way for their own reasons. But the breakfast sandwich is a very important component of the day, and every element - the type of cheese, bread, packaging and price - can make or break it.
Personally, I make my own breakfast every day. And it consists of buttery scrambled eggs with cheddar melted in, a buttered English muffin with jam (or honey if I run out of jam), and that's it. Anything that veers from this breakfast can send my day in a different direction. Therefore, these breakfast sandwich rundowns are crucial for knowing which one to pick.
The bacon, egg and cheese sandwich standard in Beacon, which all breakfast sandwiches around here are held to. This is served on an English muffin with loads of bacon, cooked in such a way that no one else can quite recreate in their own pans. (Maybe Mr. V's is baking it?) Wrapped in wax paper to catch the drippings of American cheese, then in another layer of tin foil to keep it piping hot - and I mean so piping hot that you need to wait a while before eating this small but powerful sandwich.
Special to This Sandwich: The melted American cheese and a ball of crispy bacon. Melted American hits a spot, not sure why.
Call-ahead-inator: I actually do not use my call-ahead-inator, though most people do phone in their orders. You could eat in Mr. V's, but you have two tables to choose from, and you may need to help someone reach a favorite bags of chips. Mr. V's is a fine source for a bag of chips, a required sandwich accompaniment for many people. I actually walk down to Mr. V's to place my order, then wait and watch their TV or talk to people inside.
Location: 297 Main Street, near Beacon Karate and Royal Crepes
Price: $2.75
Let's take a moment to talk about the price of breakfast sandwiches. When you're ordering a breakfast sandwich, you're either in a rush and just need the food the way you need it, or you're relaxing on a weekend morning, out at breakfast with your friends. The price will probably reflect that, because the restaurant has either invested in their atmosphere, or they want to cook a high volume of food to serve as many hungry customers as possible. Then, and you can debate which is the most important part, is the source of the ingredients. Are they Portlandia-style and from a nice local farm? Or are they from Oscar Mayer? You'll find either one in my fridge at all times; it just depends on what I'm craving.
The new guy in town, Stock Up started serving breakfast recently from their location on Teller Avenue that used to be Copper Roof Deli. Stock Up is also a deli, but they procure their own meat and sprout their own grains in the basement. This sandwich comes on ciabatta bread with egg, cheddar cheese and bacon. If you like extremely salty bacon like I do, then this sandwich will hit the spot. And for those who like ketchup with their eggs, this breakfast sandwich is served with a spicy house blend of ketchup called Mount Beacon Sauce (you could ask for it on the side if you wanted to try it first). Also, if you were craving a bit of fruit, this sandwich comes with a side! This day, I was craving vegetables, so I got to pick the tomato and cucumber salad. Bonus!
Special to This Sandwich: In addition to being delicious overall, the bacon is pretty smokin' good. Also, the side helps make the meal more well-rounded. Sometimes after a breakfast sandwich, you need a little more of something.
Call-ahead-inator: Since Stock Up isn't within walking distance from my house, I would call ahead if I were eating it at the office or at home. But there is plenty of room to dine inside or out.
Location: 29 Teller Avenue, near the monument of George Washington on Wolcott Avenue.
Price: $8
A favorite of many, this compact bagel can surround two eggs and slices of cheese quite snuggly and deliciously. Notice the tin foil wrap, helping to complete and sustain the melt of the cheese. You could possibly skip lunch when you eat this sandwich.
Special to This Sandwich: Well, the bagel of course. And once again, the melted American cheese.
Call-ahead-inator: Yes. I always get this sandwich when I'm headed to the train, going for a long drive, or getting my hair cut at The Green Room (I eat it while I'm in foils) - even though it's very messy to eat, especially in the car. But that doesn't matter, because messy sandwiches - and burgers - are usually signs of it being good. If I were headed to Beacon Bagel with my family, I would not call ahead, but we would wait next door by playing at Echo.
Location: 466 Main Street, near Echo
Price: $4.86
Not quite the new guy in town anymore, especially after getting featured in Valley Table, Harry's Hot Sandwiches does have a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich! Served on a soft and sweet kaiser roll, a la your favorite New York City bodega, it is very easy to eat. A benefit to this sandwich is that Harry's delivers. You may have seen him whizzing by on his big cart.
Special to This Sandwich: The soft kaiser and melted cheese.
Call-ahead-inator: Yes if I'm on the go, no if I'm with friends or family. Eating in Harry's is very pleasant and can happen at Harry's bar or at tables.
Location: 449 Main Street, near the Beacon Theatre and across the street from Ella's Bellas
Price: $5.95
A staple for many, including several mayors of Beacon, The Yankee Clipper Diner has the simple bacon, egg and cheese sandwich that you seek, and will include ketchup packets for those who can't image ketchup coming from anywhere else. Confession: When dining at an eatery that features house-made ketchup, I have been known to BYOK (bring your own ketchup) when eating with kids because they can't manage ketchup that is ... different. (Related: I also have been known to BYOMS - bring your own maple syrup - because I can't stand corn syrup, and Cracker Barrel just tricks you into thinking you are pouring 100 percent maple syrup because of how they label it. Check it out next time you're in there. I go often, btw, and also shop their gift store for birthday gifts and seasonal decorations.)
Special to This Sandwich: You decide. Maybe the ketchup?
Reader Note 9/18/16: One reader likes asking for sautéed spinach on this sandwich.
Call-ahead-inator: Yes if I'm on the go, no if I'm with friends or family.
Location: 397 Main Street, across the street from Beacon Pantry and the remodeled gas station
Price: $5.95
Beacon Pantry serves only items they have perfected, and they are usually European. Hence this Croque Monsieur, which doesn't immediately come to mind as a breakfast sandwich. It's an inside-out sandwich, in that the Gruyère cheese is melted on the outside. Inside is French ham (not bacon but I made an exception for this article because it's all pork), with the traditional béchamel sauce, which is a white roux and milk blend that is mysteriously very good. It does not have an egg, but its sister the Croque Madame would. Beacon Pantry, however, does not serve the egg version because of how their kitchen is set up.
Special to This Sandwich: The melted and slightly burnt edges of Gruyère cheese are kind of beyond delicious. Plus the salad is a bonus. The salad really completes it as a meal and gives you that "clean eating" feel.
Call-ahead-inator: Dining at Beacon Pantry is so pleasant, that I don't usually use my call-ahead-inator. Plus, they allow for digital workers like me to work on our laptops. So it's like a price of entry to sit on the wi-fi for a bit.
Location: 382 Main Street, Across the Yankee Clipper Diner and next door to the remodeled gas station at the intersection of Fishkill Avenue
Price: $10
PS: All breakfast sandwiches were ordered and consumed for the purposes of this article, for breakfast, lunch, and one for dinner.
PPS: If you run an eatery and serve a breakfast sandwich that was not shown here, then email us at editorial@alittlebeaconblog.com so that we can try it! No purposeful omissions were made in the collection of breakfast sandwiches to try.
Reader Suggestions Since This Was Published: BJ's bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on a biscuit, Beacon Bread Company, and Bob's Mountain Grocery near Mount Beacon.
This article is sponsored by A Little Beacon Blog's Restaurant Guide and Brunch Guide.
Photo Credits: All photos were taken by Katie Hellmuth Martin.
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