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Real Estate

Shingle Seclusion

Extensive perennial gardens and surrounding stone paths highlight this Stephentown home's distinct shingle-style architecture. On nearly six acres with an in-ground pool, the house has three to four bedrooms and four bathrooms, a large living room with fireplace, media room with a wood stove and kitchen/dining room.

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Style

Designers Share Secrets In The Teahouse At Day Of Design

Robert Couturier Design. When you’re in interior design mode, it helps to be in a place and with people that excite and motivate you. Because really, how inspired do you feel at one of those weekend how-to workshops at the Home Depot? On Saturday, June 13, a Day of

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Community

Clermont's 'Wordscape' Adds Literature To The Landscape

By Amy Krzanik From published poets and writing teachers to elementary school students, a huge range of submissions have come in for Clermont Historic Site’s newest exhibit, Wordscape. Laminated words (poems, quotes and other writings) have been placed along Clermont’s woodland paths, lilac walk and garden for guests

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Food

Recipe: Zucchini And Tomato Pizza

Madeline Delosh, a Columbia County resident, owns Mado Patisserie in Chatham, NY. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she worked with Jean-Georges Vongerichten and was the pastry chef at La Grenouille Restaurant. “I like to reach out to those who love baking and pastries," Madeline says. With her

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Parties

Happy 200th: The Lenox Library Celebrates Its Building

Amy Krzanik reports from Lenox. Around 250 people gathered together at the Lenox Library on Saturday, May 30 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the building in which it’s housed. Built in 1815 as the second Berkshire County Courthouse, the building has been home to the Library since 1874.

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A Sneak Peek At The Leaf Peepers Concert Series

Lisa Green reports from Hillsdale. It wasn’t just standing room only at the Leaf Peepers fundraising concert on Saturday, May 30. It was a stair sitting, loft leaning and barstool perching audience that packed Richard Collens’ home in Hillsdale for a benefit concert to help fund one of Columbia

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Community

Artisans Breathe New Life Into Historic Winsted Mill

Don Wass. Photos by David Archambault. By Lauren Curran Here in the Rural Intelligence region, we are blessedly removed from the land of strip malls. We like our commercial areas to be as artistic as the people and contents inside. And we’re fortunate that New England’s history of

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Parties

It Was Almost Nonstop Partying At the 10th Annual BIFF

Lisa Green reports from Great Barrington. If it seemed like there were more parties than ever at this year’s Berkshire International Film Festival, it may be because there was a decade to celebrate, since the tiny festival that could, did make it to its tenth year. As always, the

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Community

The Rural We: Natalia Zukerman

Natalia Zukerman is a touring singer/songwriter, painter and muralist with strong ties to the Rural Intelligence region. A slide guitar, lap steel and dobro player, she has released six albums since 2001, showcasing her own blend of “rootsy, Americana blues folk." She will be performing with double bassist

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Style

Peonies, The Sequel

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best: one of the master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Brian Cruey. Last time I checked in, I was going on and on about peonies.

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Arts

New Storyhorse Theater Presents Locals' Lives As Docudrama

By Jamie Larson Lyme disease is a thief. The painless, capricious bite of a tiny tick robs the buoyancy from the personal relationship we have with the natural beauty of our region, steals our health and strength, and, in an increasing number of cases, has taken the lives of people

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CLC Country Barbecue Brings Together Food, People And Land

Lisa Green reports from Schodack Landing, NY. “One farmer feeds you and 154 of your friends each day," proclaimed a sign at the Columbia Land Conservancy’s 25th annual Country Barbecue. Reason enough to celebrate the CLC’s extensive and innovative work in support of agriculture in Columbia County

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