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Holiday Hit List: All The Gifts That Are Fit To Give

By Amy Krzanik “Artisanal" is a word thrown around quite a bit these days, but in our region it truly means something. It means taking the time to create, bottle and label your scents by hand, as does Hudson’s 2 Note Perfumery. Or, like Goshen’s Milk House

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Arts

Acclaimed Photographer Stephen Shore Celebrates Retrospective

Stephen Shore: Survey (Aperture, 2014) By Robert Burke Warren If you want to know what chutzpah looks like, you should be at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck this Sunday. Acclaimed photographer and longtime Bard faculty member Stephen Shore, celebrating the publication of photo book Stephen Shore: Survey, will talk about his

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Parties

Pleasure Before Business At Tanglewood Business Partners Holiday Gathering

Lisa Green reports from Lenox. There are many benefits to becoming a Tanglewood Business Partner (TBP), not the least of them attending the holiday gathering on Monday, December 1 at Eastover Resort and Retreat. The muddy drive (leftover from the Thanksgiving snowfall) and chilly temps were a far cry from

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Food

Recipe: Caramelized Cabbage Soup

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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Community

The Rural We: Dan McManmon

Dan McManmon enjoyed growing up in the Berkshires but has a newfound appreciation for the area now that he is raising a family of his own. He has been involved with the College Internship Program (which his father, Michael McManmon, founded in 1984) for a good portion of his life,

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Real Estate

Dutch Barn And Studio

Built in the mid-18th century and lovingly updated and transformed over the last 30 years, this New World Dutch barn in Red Hook that once housed cows now has stunning living spaces in a basilica floor plan.  A large studio space and gallery are located within the living areas, so

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Real Estate

Private Renovation

Located on a secluded dead-end road in Claverack, this converted barn features soaring beams, exposed bricks and high ceilings that add a dramatic element to the cozy living rooms. The home is considerably more spacious than the outside appearance lets on, with an eat-in kitchen, huge dining room, living room

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Real Estate

Rustic Conversion

Despite its rustic exterior, this barn was converted into a charming home in the 1970s with intimate living spaces that retain the hand-hewn beams and half-round rafters. Located on a quiet country road in Falls Village, the home has a great room with stairs to a loft, gallery-style kitchen and

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Real Estate

Born From An Apple Barn

This 1940s apple barn has been completely renovated for modern living while still letting the post-and-beam construction and original details shine through. The Richmond home has a deck, patio, inviting great room with a pellet stove and high ceiling, cook's kitchen, two master suites and two additional bedrooms.

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Dairy Barn Beginnings

Located in New Milford, this home was a dairy barn in its former incarnation and is now a wonderful country escape. The family room has a wood stove, the living room a wall of bookcases, the kitchen is light filled and the office displays original stone walls. The three bedrooms

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Crowds Travel To Stair Galleries For Hermes Mallea's 'Escape'

Lisa Green reports from Hudson. It was a perfect antidote to the weekend after the Thanksgiving snowstorm: a booksigning for Hermes Mallea’s second outrageously beautiful book, Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour. On Saturday, November 29, the Stair Galleries enhanced its already magnificently adorned walls (filled with works from

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The re:TREE Exhibit Pops Up In Kinderhook

Amy Krzanik reports from Kinderhook. As has plagued many downtown areas across the region, the loss of trees due to age, disease, salt and severe weather had become a problem in Kinderhook’s business district. Replacing them is costly, but has been no deterrent to the generous residents of this

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