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The Matchbox Café Strikes the Right Chord in Rhinebeck

If you find yourself heading north on Route 9 just below Rhinebeck and you’re feeling hungry, do yourself a favor and stop at The Matchbox Café. But be warned: don't blink or you will miss the diminutive Café, housed in a little stone cottage, less than a

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38th Annual Chesterwood Antique and Classic Auto Show

On Sunday, May 27, Chesterwood, the 129-acre Glendale, MA home of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of, among other iconic monuments, the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be the setting for the 2012 Chesterwood Antique & Classic Automobile Show. Son of

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6th Annual VIM Dinner at The Old Inn

Fiona Breslin reports from New Marlborough. VIM Berkshires held its 6th annual benefit dinner on Monday, May 21 at The Old Inn on the Green. The dinner raised funds for the local branch of Volunteers in Medicine, an organization of physicians, nurses, dentists, therapists, nutrition counselors, and other health-care

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Trade Secrets: A Beautiful & Bountiful Benefit

Dan Shaw reports from Sharon.Trade Secrets is like a big family reunion where everyone catches up with familiar faces they haven't seen for ages—or at least since the last Trade Secrets. Hundreds came out to shop on May 19 at the 12th annual antique and rare-

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A Whale of a Celebration for Melville and Moby-Dick

In organizing Call Me Melville, a summer-long festival celebrating Herman Melville and the work he’s best known for, Moby-Dick, Megan Whilden has discovered that “a novel about obsession breeds obsession.” For example, there’s the Brooklyn-based band Call Me Ishmael, which has composed 135 songs about

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Raw Art, a Photography Show in Pawling

Marilyn Bethany reports from Pawling.Gallery on the Green was the scene on Saturday, May 19 of the opening of a photography show, Raw Art, formal portraiture of vegetables by Lynn Karlin, a photographer who lives and works in Maine. Karlin's pictures were featured in the The New

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AgriCulture: Making Book

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: From time to time over the past three years, Mark and I have gotten very kind encouragement from readers of our bulletin, the kindest remark being: “You should really write

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Garden View: Chive Talk

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “A Place for Us,” all set in the Rural Intelligence region. She and her husband divide their time between Manhattan and West Stockbridge, MA where she writes — and putters around in her garden. We’re

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Radish Butter and Wordsworth

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas at the Great Barrington Farmers' Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with

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New Documentary Focuses on Photographer Gregory Crewdson

When Gregory Crewdson was 16, he had his first fifteen minutes of fame in the form of a three-minute pop song. Crewdson played guitar in a new wave band called The Speedies, and in 1979 they had a minor hit with the song "Let Me Take Your Photo,

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Empire State of Mind: New York Heritage Weekend Is Here

Frederick Church’s quirky, Persian-inspired homestead, Olana, grandly set atop a hill for the kind of Hudson River Valley view that inspired so many of the painters’ contemporaries (i.e., the Hudson River School), is the ideal starting point for New York Heritage Weekend, May 19 and 20. Established

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Trade Secrets: A Lollapalooza of Antiques and Gardens

Once a year during Trade Secrets Weekend, the Litchfield Hills resemble the pages of an English gardening magazine, which is fitting since many of the pre-revolutionary towns (Cornwall, Kent, Salisbury) were settled by the British. The two-day Trade Secrets extravaganza—an antiques and rare-plant sale on Saturday,

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