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Arts

The Aston Magna Festival: As the Masters Intended

By Robert Burke Warren Time travel is possible after all. But instead of spaceships or portals, the musicians of the Aston Magna music festival, at Bard for three Fridays in June and two in July, use period instruments to perform Baroque and Classical works as they were played in the

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Parties

Like the Temperature Outside: Ellsworth Kelly Hits Ninety

Dale Stewart reports from Chatham, NY.On Friday, May 31, one of the hottest days so far this year, intrepid gallery-goers packed shoulder to shoulder into the small Thompson Giroux Gallery on Main Street in Chatham to get a rare peek both at the art and actual person of

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Food

Poached Pear, Caramelized Onion, and Goat Cheese Salad

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to help us make

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Real Estate

Edgehill

Built in 1870 on 23.8 acres in Chatham, Edgehill was once the home of the renowned artist Louis McClellan Potter, who probably would have appreciated the aesthetics of the inground heated swimming pool surrounded by newly created laid stone walls, beautifully landscaped gardens, and a spring-fed pond with

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Real Estate

Sweeping Hilltop Estate

Sitting on close to 50 acres in Kent, this estate offers sweeping countryside views from the edge of the infinity pool, so you won't know where the water ends and the sky begins. The grand shingle-style and stone 7,200-square-foot main residence includes six bedrooms,

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Real Estate

Year-Round Pool

The winter months won't put an end to the summer activity of swimming, as this sprawling executive ranch features an indoor pool for daily swims all year round. Sitting on five private acres on the east side of Hillsdale, the home is convenient to Great Barrington and all

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Real Estate

European-Style Living

A private place to swim adds a lot to the summer season in the Berkshires. Take a look at this Monterey property and its heated inground pool. It's just one lush feature of this sophisticated European-style house, located on more than three acres and completely renovated in

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Real Estate

A Pool With A View

Follow a tree-lined driveway past infinity — an infinity pool, that is. This spectacular shingle-style home in Egremont has four bedrooms and six bathrooms, plus a media room, playroom, and den. The great room is just that, encompassing the living and dining rooms and a gourmet kitchen. And there&

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Real Estate

A Modern Green Home

Seated on more than 13 acres in Hillsdale, this handsomely modernist residence offers the quiet of the country, the health benefits of a lap-friendly inground heated pool, and the up-to-date conveniences of "green" features such as energy-efficient geothermal heating and cooling. The house has

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Style

Garden: Losing Impatiens

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back and front-yard toiler, proffered by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, they ponder the impatiens dilemma. Impatiens are an annual favorite: easy

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Parties

Columbia Land Conservancy's Country Barbecue: Come Rain or Come Shine

Dale Stewart reports from Livingston, NY. The threatening skies and fall-like weather muted the attendance at the Sunday, May 26, Columbia Land Conservancy's Country Barbecue, the 26th annual event at David Rockefeller’s Clum and Patchen Farm. Those who did venture out were rewarded with the sounds

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Arts

Back In The Saddle: Laura Chester Rides Out the Storm of Transition

All photos courtesy of Trafalgar Square BooksBy Nichole DupontLaura Chester does not like to dwell in the past, especially her own. That's why the veteran author and horsewoman decided to write a book about it; to get some of that stuff out. But make no mistake, Riding Barranca,

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