Editor

Food

Elixir: Eat, Heal, Repeat in Great Barrington

By Nichole Dupont “Make your food your medicine and your medicine your food." The concept is an ancient one, but the carrying out of the creed is still one of the greatest challenges in this country. So many bad choices to make. Obesity rates and disease rates indicate that

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Parties

Berkshire Grown Brunchers Talk Food With Ruth Reichl

Lisa Green reports from Sheffield. It’s not as if there’s ever a bad time to enjoy the bounty of the Rural Intelligence region, but the exquisite summer weather of the past weekend seemed particularly felicitous for Berkshire Grown to hold a fundraising brunch. On Sunday, July 12, supporters

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Parties

A Gilded Age Summer Soiree At Wilderstein

Rachel Louchen reports from Rhinebeck. Built in 1852, Wilderstein Historic Site is a Cape Anne-style mansion that, thanks to generous contributors and dedicated staff and volunteers, doesn’t look a day over 50. Those people and more gathered on the extensive lawns on Saturday, July 11th for the Summer Celebration

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Arts

Q & A With Author And Activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate" is the latest work by feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin. Set in 1980s New York City, the novel focuses on Zach Levy, son of Holocaust survivors, who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe.  Conflict ensues

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Real Estate

Stand Out In Stone

Even with its picturesque location on a hill, the stone exterior makes this home really pop. The Red Hook contemporary opens to a sun-drenched foyer with double-height ceiling, then leads to an open floor plan with dining room, gourmet kitchen and living room. There are five bedrooms (one of which

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Real Estate

Hard Rock

Stone and brick, two classic and enduring materials, meet at this home on Copake Lake. The front deck offers front row seats to waterfront and Catskills Mountain views, which can also be enjoyed from the private dock. The main level is an updated, open floorplan living room, dining room and

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Real Estate

English Country Style

Grace Hill Farm is one of the most desirable properties in Millbrook because of the 150 acres of seclusion it offers, and the English-style main house made of stone with a shingle roof. Once featured in Architectural Digest, the three-bedroom main house has large living spaces that are a mix

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Real Estate

Storybook Cottage

Tucked away in West Cornwall on 20 acres of level land, mature trees and a spring-fed pond, this charming stone cottage is on the market for the first time. Built in 1948 and lovingly cared for over the years, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home has high ceilings and wood floors. The

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Community

The Rural We: David Joseph

Actor and singer David Joseph, who is celebrating his 10th season at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, currently can be seen playing five different characters in the company’s Henry V, which is up at the Bernstein Theatre until August 23. The self-proclaimed “Berkshires boy," who was raised in

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Arts

Review: "Oklahoma!" at Bard Summerscape

By Dan Shaw Everything is up to date at Bard Summerscape, where director Daniel Fish has gone as far as he can go in reimagining Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (which opened on Broadway in 1943), transforming it into an edgy, immersive and sexy musical. If you’ve seen Oklahoma!

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Arts

'Dog Down' Pairs Man And Beast For Mutual Benefit

By Amy Krzanik “I’ve always been crazy about dogs, but when I was younger, my parents wouldn’t let me have one and it made me furious," says Candide Jones. “As an adult, I’ve had as many as five dogs at a time, but my veterinarian says

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Food

Recipe: Zucchini And Summer Squash

Twice a month, Berkshire County native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), contributes a thoughtful and heartfelt essay/recipe created exclusively for Rural Intelligence readers. Her first cookbook has achieved top-seller status,

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