1 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: I used to hate public speaking. I used to be 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: very nervous when I performed. I performed a piano, I 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: competed nationally, played tennis, I competing nationally. I used to 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: get very nervous. Now I don't care. Two time cancer survivor, 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: and I think I've learned to be so embarrassed or 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: worried about things that that I am who I am, 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: and this is what I bring to the table. And 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: love me or leave me, Love her or leave her. 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: Lydia Higginson has taken on the challenge of her career 10 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: running a startup business in the Hudson Valley of New York. 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: We'll meet her and one of Public Radio's most accomplished 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: correspondents on this edition of On the Job From Hired 13 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: to Retired, brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. Over 14 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: the past thirty four years, Express Employment Professionals has put 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: millions of people to work in meaning full and fulfilling 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 1: jobs and careers. If you're looking for work or want 17 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: to grow your workforce, go to Express pros dot com. 18 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: Now here's Karen Michelle with Lydia's story. Last name, Lydia 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: Higginson is a presence and for the past year the 20 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: head of Haunt Show at a startup business. We're at 21 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: Duchess Spirits at Harvest Homestead Farm in Pine Plains, New York. 22 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: Pine Planes is a tiny and somewhat remote hamlet in 23 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: New York's Hudson Valley. Lydia Higginson isn't tiny, has bright 24 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: red hair straight to her shoulders and a laser focus. 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: I have a lot of talents. I mean, I think 26 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: a lot of them. I learned when I was very young. 27 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: My father used to have me help um whether he 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: was doing catering before he had his own restaurant, so 29 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: I was very used to the hospitality, welcoming people, greeting them, 30 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: and I thought that was very important. Those skills are 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: very useful no matter what career you're in. And the 32 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: fact that I have a bunch of different talent some 33 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: of the some of them were useful, some of them 34 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: are not so useful. I think, just give me a 35 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: broader understanding of other people and relating to them. And 36 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: sometimes it wasn't so clear how our young talents would 37 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: apply to making a living. Saying playing tennis and classical piano, 38 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: or majoring in French and Spanish in college I had 39 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: no idea. I just I had a passion for languages. 40 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: I love to travel. My my family were big travelers. 41 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: My father was from England, my mother's family was from Wales, 42 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: so I spent a lot of time overseas growing up. 43 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: When I was in college, I spent a semester abroad 44 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: in France, and then I worked at my uncle's pub 45 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: in northern England. My parents had had a several year 46 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: honeymoon when they got married and traveled all around the 47 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: United States and Europe, and they settled New Jersey, but 48 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: they were very good about every year we had some 49 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: big trips, so we were very well exposed, not only 50 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: the United States, WHI drove around the United States, Canada, Mexico, 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: and primarily the UK. But it was just ingrained at me, 52 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: you know, to travel and experience what their cultures had 53 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: to offer, and somehow I thought the Spanish and French 54 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: was going to tie into that. I knew I didn't 55 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: want to be a teacher, but I found that those 56 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: things translated well in tourism because I understand what a 57 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: visitor wants and I understand what people are looking for 58 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: when they're traveling. After graduating from college, in Lydia, started 59 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: working for nonprofits in New Jersey, and after a few years, 60 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: I decided to move up here to be closer to 61 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: my family. And I moved up here without a job, 62 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: and I started out at Berkshire Schools the associate director 63 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: of the Annual Fund, and from that I learned about 64 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: how big the area that Berkshire's and Hudson Valley were 65 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: for tourism. I then had a brief stint at the 66 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: Hudson Valley Guide, which was a tourism guide, and loved tourism. 67 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: That was really my passions start the movie Welcome, Where 68 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: did you come from? Uh, well, we live in Brooklyn, 69 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: but where have a place in Milleritot. She parlayed that 70 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: passion into a gigas director of development but the Samuel 71 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: Morris Historic Site, you know, the guy who came up 72 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: with Morris Code. And then she spent ten years as 73 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: the vice president for Duchess Tourism. Duchess County is less 74 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: than a two hour drive north of New York City 75 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: and is full of farms with the freshest eggs, the 76 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: plumpest poultry, and truly gorgeous produce. And about five years 77 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: ago I saw that this new distillery was opening and 78 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: they were doing a tasting at Arlington Liquor, and I 79 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: went and I met Ariel Schlene, who was the founder 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: and the president, and said to him, you don't know me, 81 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: but you're going to know me. You're going to be 82 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: working with me. And five years later, here I am 83 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: Olidia is the is definitely the face of the place. 84 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: Ario Schlene looks more like a slick, hip, dark haired 85 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: New Yorker than a gentleman farmer or distiller. The co 86 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: founder of Duchess, he had been a banker. I never 87 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: wanted not that I never wanted to run Duchess, but 88 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: I'm much more of a developer, a builder. So, you know, 89 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: having built it kind of to this level, um, it 90 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: was then up to me to find someone who could 91 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: then bring you know, those people who could bring that 92 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: that network or that community that they already had themselves. 93 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: And Lydia was certainly that. And you know, she she's 94 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: absolutely the face of Duchess because what you called me, 95 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: then you hired me. I can't recall your retirement plan. Yeah, 96 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: my retirement plan, Yeah, Lydia is my retirement plan. You know. 97 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: Not like I said before, whether Lydia was working here 98 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: or outside of here. She's always been our biggest advocate. 99 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: She's the one that's out there. And you know, I 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: heard you say she knows everybody. She knows everybody. She 101 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: knows everybody. Everybody who knows her to know where is 102 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: to love her. Like you know, I'm I'm a big 103 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: fan of no brainer decisions, and Lydia was probably the 104 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: ultimate no brainer decision. You know. She she likes to 105 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: think that that was her idea. You know that five 106 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: years ago. You know, you don't know me yet, but 107 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: I knew. I knew then, you know, so it just 108 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: took it just needed to set the stage and I 109 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: needed to, really I had to make sure that this 110 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: place was ready for Lydia. You don't sit the other 111 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: way around. After we come back more about Lydia Higginson's 112 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: job change from working for a local government agency to 113 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: private enterprise and Booze. You're listening to independent producer Karen 114 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: Michelle with a profile of one of her unique neighbors 115 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: in the Hudson Valley of New York State. 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I mean, you know, ten years ago 135 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: there were no distilleries in Duchess County, so I wouldn't 136 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: even have conceived of it. I knew I didn't want 137 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: to be at a winery. Winery wasn't my passion but 138 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: Booze is you know, bourbon moonshine brandy, and this distillery 139 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: connects with another of Lydia's many passions history. My parents 140 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: had a seventeen twenty in. My uncle's pub in England 141 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: was over four hundred years old. I grew up in 142 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five year old converted barn, and 143 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: I now live in an eighteen fifties carriage house. So 144 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: by nature, I know appreciate. I also feel very strongly 145 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: about using history. I'm not of the let's just look 146 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: at it and walk by it. Like the fact that 147 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: people can go in our bunkers and do things makes 148 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: me really, really happy. And I think people get a 149 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: real kick out of being in a place and saying, wow, 150 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: I'm hearing a lecture or I'm watching a movie where 151 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: Dutch Schultz was. I mean, we're living that history himself. 152 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: And to kill people. I mean it's not like he 153 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: was a mechannibal or something. I mean he was, Yeah, 154 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: he was a bad guy. But I think people, just 155 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: like you know, the popularity of the um Godfather movies 156 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: and stuff, there is a certain romance to the mobsters 157 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: and the gangsters. But we don't glorify anything he did 158 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: other than making the booze. Dutchess Spirits is a distillery 159 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: with an unusual history. Briefly, during Prohibition, Dutch Schultz and 160 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: his men lived and made moonshine right here. Most visitors 161 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: go on a tour many weekends. They're led by Lydia's wife, 162 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: Cameron Anderson. Um. Here you can see the top of 163 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: one of the bunker's and all the exhaust pipes. Um. 164 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: And here's another bunker right here you can see um. 165 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: You can see how easily it pointed into the environment. 166 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: Visitors canna walk or chrome depending through the tunnels and 167 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: into the bunkers where the hooch was made and the 168 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: mobsters hit. Though the distillery Slash High Out Slash Farm 169 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: was a big producer, it was in business for less 170 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: than a year. Lydia reads from an account of the 171 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,599 Speaker 1: final rate in October. This is from the local newspaper 172 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: Um after the farm was rated by the FBI. Was 173 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: rated twice and they didn't find anything. The third time 174 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: they came back. They reached the farm at six o'clock, 175 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: finding two stills in operation and in the charge of 176 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: the two men arrested. They seized to two thousand gallons, stills, 177 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: columns and condensers too, high pressure boilers, gallon vats of mash. 178 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: This iteration of the distillery started eighty years after that 179 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: bread and while it's unlikely the activities back then, we're 180 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: of a very social nature. It's now part of Lydia 181 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: Higginson's job to devise and host events, speakeasies, paranormal explorations, 182 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: mom theme movies and on this afternoon. Hi, how are you? 183 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: Are you here for the book signing? Great? If anybody 184 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: would like to have a seat, We're gonna have Debbie 185 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: start in a couple of seconds. There are more than 186 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: two dozen guests milling, buzzing, clearly looking forward to what's it? 187 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 1: Thank you all for coming today. I'm Lydia from Duchess Spirits. 188 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: This is the site of Dutch Schultz's underground bootlegging operation 189 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: during Prohibition. At the end of her talk and after 190 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: she sells some books and you eat a little taste, 191 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 1: will going to take you on a tour and you 192 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: need to go in the bunker with dutchell Is bootlegging operations. 193 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: Later that night there'll be another event again prepped for 194 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: and hosted. All right, we partly cleaned up by Yeah, Lydia. 195 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: So how many hours? Thank you? Friday was fourteen, Today 196 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: will be about fourteen. Tomorrow I'll be ten of taking 197 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: Monday off and I'll be working six hours Tuesday, the 198 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: other day off, and then back to eight and nine 199 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: hour days just Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, than another twelve hours 200 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: next Saturday. That's the hospitality bizin But tonight, yes, I 201 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: came in. I started at nine this morning and I'll 202 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: be here until about one in the morning. So I 203 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: will sleep well tonight at a few hours I get. 204 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: But so you feel um differently motivated because you have 205 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: a stake. No, I did the same kind of hours 206 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: for tourism. I mean I would go from event to 207 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: event plus work my normal work day um to be 208 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: a part of the community and active at other events. 209 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: So you have to have that drive though you have 210 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: to be willing to say, Okay, you know sometimes I'm 211 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: giving up things. Lydia's committed to making Duchess spirits rise again, 212 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: whatever it takes. What would you like to try today? 213 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: You love that. I mean, if I could tell my 214 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: twenty two year old self, you know, to be I'm 215 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: not so afraid of what's out there and just go 216 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: for it and try. I mean, I'm I mean. It 217 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: was a big risk to move up here and leave 218 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: a job that it had for six years in New Jersey, 219 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: to move up here without a job. But I had 220 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: confidence in myself and and and being able to find 221 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: something that would suit me. And it may have taken exact, 222 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: you know, a little while you have to pay the 223 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: bills in the meantime, but each step gave me some 224 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: mother's skill or skill set that helped me get to 225 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: where I am now. I will probably working until I'm eighty. 226 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: Something I gives me meaning, you know, to get up 227 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: and I don't have children, so my legacy will be 228 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: what I did for tourism, what I did for these 229 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: different sites. Um, and that's what gives me my little legacy. Hello, 230 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: how are you good? Are you just getting here? I 231 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: have a lot of friends that work for very big 232 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: corporations and none of them are happy. Yeah, they're making 233 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: good paychecks, but they are not happy. There are times here, 234 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: yes I'm sometimes weed whacking, sometimes I'm scrubbing the floor, 235 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: But in the same token, I'm creating marketing. I'm working 236 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: with partners to create exciting events here and and it's 237 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: all part and parcel of being willing to do anything 238 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: and pitching in and it makes me happy. Now they 239 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: literally just started. They should be in the corner the distillery, 240 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: so they're so. That's Lydia Higginson, CEO of Duchess Spirits 241 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: and Harvest Homestead Farm. I'm producer Karen Michelle in the 242 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: Hudson Valley, New York. 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