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Passages: A Farewell from Marilyn & Dan
Posted by: Marilyn Bethany
Posted on: Sunday, August 21, 2011
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OH! I am so sad, like the last day of camp, sad. Sad, like losing a favorite earring, sad. Sad, like the end of a great and moving stage performance. Sad because there will never be another chronicle or journal or insightful, all encomposing log/list/lore of the counties we live in. Beautifully sad, because you gave us all of those wonderful things and we will be grateful and move on, as you are doing too. We will miss you. Beth
Thank you for all the joy you brought me these past 3 1/2 year through your wonderful RI e-letter - filled with so much special information and stories about the Berkshires.
RI will sorely be missed - especially, by me
Wishing you all good things in whatever you decide to do next. Hopefully, it will include
some form of RI.
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You have elevated the experience of living in this area by reporting on it.
I’m hoping that a wise backer will step in and help you continue.
I am simply heartsick to hear it. Rural Intelligence has been such a wonderful resource, entertainment, and, most important, vehicle for making me feel more connected to the other wonderful counties that surround our beloved CC. When we first bought our little weekend home, I was desperate to find a sense of community, and your site satisfied much of that need. Thank you for your continued high standards over the past 3 1/2 years. I do hope your good efforts will be transformed into some other wonderful, related project. Meanwhile, all the best to you. Though I do hate to say goodbye.
Sincerely,
Smallpeace
http://smallpeaceblog.wordpress.com/
Rural Intelligence will be missed big time.
I have so enjoyed riding on your coattails….
Many thanks!
It was a great idea, and your execution of it was even better.
The problem from the beginning, I suspect, was to have it be a living, as well as a vocation. Maybe there’ll be some breakthrough in that—- I hope so.
It was a terrific ride for all us readers, and we thank you thank you thank you!
Wishes for whatever you do next; and hopes that maybe we’ll all be together again in cyberspace—-
Since we’ve just moved to the Pioneer Valley, maybe that could be tossed into the mix???? Who knows????
Best of luck, Judith Bruder
I too am so sad but appreciate your fabulous efforts. I currently live in CA and will be returning to the Hudson Valley next summer to live again. You’ve kept me in touch with all the fabulous things I’ve been missing. Can’t thank you enough!!!! I pray, hope, wish that somehow, something happens to allow such relevance to continue!! REally A fabulouS effort. Something I looked forward to and turned friends on to in So Cal!!! MUCH THANKS!!
My Thursdays will not be the same without Rural Intelligence. Will miss all your stories & learning about the new/old places in the area. Good luck & my best to you.
This is so incredibly sad. RI has been a joy to read and my first stop each week for an update of Berkshires happenings. With all of the unwanted and useless information on the world wide web, it is particularly tragic when a great, informative site needs to close its digital doors.
Best of luck in your future endeavors. RI will be greatly missed.
what a loss!! you will be sorely missed!! I wish you both good fortune in whatever comes next…Peter
this website is/was among the most valuable i’ve ever used. you’ve provide truly distinctive content in an easily and friendly form. and, in your own way, you helped knit rural communities, and we who live in them together. have you considered offering your service on a subscription basis? I’d certainly spend $X per month to continue having access to all your great content.
I still turn to this great website for its links to all of the activities happening in our tri-state corner. As summer has turned to fall, and the once-terrific editorial content remains forever as it was at the end of summer, I miss this site more than ever. How many more goings-on in our region we all would have known about if this website were still live? How many more local businesses we could have frequented, charities we could have supported, and just more joys of life in this extraordinarily beautiful and richly-textured region we could have enjoyed? Thank you Dan and Marilyn, for what you put together! Now that you have taken a break, can we persuade you to take it back up? I also, would be happy to pay for the privilege!
Dan, I just attempted to contact you regarding this, but my message was rejected because your mailbox is full. Hopefully it made its or has been saved somewhere.
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From the start, Rural Intelligence was an experiment. Our goal to create an online culture-and-lifestyle magazine that would unite four counties in three states was and remains, as far as we know, unique. We are proud of the work we’ve done and that we’ve succeeded in fostering a sense of community across state and county lines among full- and part-time residents, as well as visitors. We’ve immensely enjoyed chronicling the extraordinary people and places that make our neck of the woods so special.
Now, at the end of our fourth summer, despite a record number of advertisers and a still-growing readership, we remain a tenuous business. So, the time has come for us to step back and get some perspective on the world beyond the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires, and the Litchfield Hills and on Rural Intelligence—what it is and, just possibly, what it could be again someday. We honestly do not know if RI has a future. What we do know, and apologize for, is that we leave behind disappointed contributors, readers, and advertisers (who, if they’ve paid in advance, will receive refunds). For Labor Day weekend, we will refresh the home page one last time with golden oldies. Thereafter, Rural Intelligence will remain online as is, so that anyone can continue to access the hundreds of stories and thousands of photographs in our archive.
It has been our great honor and pleasure to be part of your lives. We’ve given this our all for the past three-and-a-half years. Thank you for making us feel that it’s been worthwhile.
We’ll miss you.
—Marilyn Bethany and Dan Shaw for Rural Intelligence
