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Real Estate

Stellar Staircase

Located in a great neighborhood close to town in Lenox, this contemporary opens to a grand two-story foyer with an eye-catching curved staircase. Just beyond is the den, an expansive living room and formal dining room. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom house has inlaid hardwood floors, and the bright kitchen has granite

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Style

Garden: A Cutting-Edge Technique For A Comely Garden

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. This week he offers an easy way to keep your garden in manicured

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Food

Recipe: Spring Garden Soup

This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in him. The Baker

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Arts

Barrington Stage Opener Takes Audiences To 'The Other Place'

By Jeremy D. Goodwin In Hamlet, when the Danish prince is on full tilt, having just stashed the body of the freshly murdered Polonius behind some stairs, the king furiously demands to know where his (late) advisor is. “In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not

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Parties

Curtains Up For Sharon TriArts' 25th Season

Rachel Louchen reports from Sharon. The TriArts Sharon Playhouse opened its season on Saturday, May 24 with its annual gala and largest fundraising event of the year. The hotly anticipated event always serves as an opening of the summer season but this year, in honor of the 25th season, added

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Style

The Country Living Fair: Highly Curated, Extremely Shoppable

By Andrea Pyros The Country Living Fair is coming to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds for the second year in a row this June 6-8. If you’re looking to replenish your tube sock drawer, keep on driving. This is not the fair for you. But if you’re interested in

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Parties

MASS MoCA's Big Day (And Night)

Lisa Green reports from North Adams. It’s not unusual for MASS MoCA to be the Grand Central of the Berkshires’ north county, but on Saturday, May 24, the reason for the extreme hustle bustle was twofold. In the late afternoon, there was the opening and reception for a new

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Food

Copake Ag Center A Big Opportunity For Small Farmers

Jenny Elliott of Tiny Hearts Farm on the "new" 1951 tractor. By Nichole Dupont Pop open any regional real estate guide, and you will notice a cornucopia of old Victorians, rambling farmhouses and beautiful New England vistas. But the real estate that Monet would deem as priceless, in

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Parties

A New Face For An Inspiring Space At Chesterwood

Amy Krzanik reports from Stockbridge. It doesn't take much convincing when you're invited to enjoy a cocktail on the piazza of Daniel Chester French's studio, overlooking the lush gardens of his former summer estate. As Chesterwood celebrated the reopening of French’s refurbished studio

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Community

The Rural We: Annie Brody

Annie Brody's reasons for living in our region is for the dogs, literally. After adopting a dog in 1999, she saw wide-open spaces in her future, so she left New York City for East Chatham and quickly acclimated to the rural lifestyle. A longtime film buff, she volunteered

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Real Estate

A Dip On Top Of The Hill

Copake is home to a gracious hilltop estate with a gunite pool and hot tub surrounded by green lawn as far as the eye can see (129 acres, to be exact). The huge property allows for a sprawling main house, two guest houses, tennis court, numerous barn and outbuildings, large

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Real Estate

Carved Into A Quarry

A Sheffield property takes advantage of its natural surroundings with a state-of-the-art quarry pool surrounded by the original rock walls. The carriage house style home has a large foyer, gourmet kitchen and open living room and dining room, plus three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms. It's located on a

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