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Litchfield Jazz Festival Scholarship Party

The Litchfield Jazz Festival is more than an August weekend of great music on the campus of the bucolic Kent School. It is also the culmination of a four-week camp that offers intensive music education for some 550 students. The camp is a unique opportunity for students interested in

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Style Shopping: Mirror, Mirror

On Saturday, April 23, 441 Gallery, the upstairs exhibition space at TK Home and Garden in Hudson, will host the opening of an exhibition of twenty-eight mostly convex mirrors designed by Cristobal Morales, who lives in Spencertown.  Beautifully crafted and elegant, it takes more than a moment to recognize

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Picture This: Cuba Circa 1890 - 1960

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes’ mother -  ready for Carnival.  Muy Poiret So this was fun…. Last week we went to Cuba to “put on a show!”  Very Little Rascals. Animal prints, plaids, and that great

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Annie Kelly's "Litchfield Style"

Anyone who has ever driven through Litchfield County and been mesmerized by its magnificent 18th- and 19th-century houses (which is to say, anyone who can see), can now satisfy the longing to snoop around inside some of the best of them.  Litchfield Style, by the decorator Annie Kelly with

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Broadway is Bittersweet for Litchfield's Larry Kramer

If you think Larry Kramer's seminal 1985 AIDS play, The Normal Heart (which will open on Broadway on April 27), is strictly a period piece, think again. Yes, it is set 30 years ago, when a mysterious disease is killing gay men, and the panic tearing through the

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At Home with Interior Designer Matthew Patrick Smyth

Like the rooms he designs for his city and country clients, Matthew Patrick Smyth is  easy-going, tailored and unpretentious.  The interior designer, who divides his time between homes in Manhattan, Paris, and Sharon, CT, has built an enviable career by combining his good taste and sense of appropriateness with

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AgriCulture: Sure Signs of Spring on the Farm

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Luckily, the hours of daylight are getting more abundant, because the season of "not enough hours in the day" has exploded upon us. Along with the crocus, aconite,

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Kamilla's Brings Flower Power to Millerton

The brightest and most exuberant spot in Millerton's retail scene is undoubtedly Kamilla's floral boutique on Main Street (next door to Terni's.)  With its chartreusey walls and pots of blooming plants and refrigerator of flowers, it's cheery and uplifiting even on overcast

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Hancock Shaker Village: All This And Ice Cream Too?

They may have had odd views about how to keep the human race going (essentially: leave that messy task to earthbound wretches), but apart from that, the Shakers were an exemplary lot, and not just because of their famously prescient taste and high standards of craftsmanship.   They provided safe haven

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A Surreal Benefit for IS 183 Art School of the Berkshies

The Berkshires prides itself as having a strong creative economy, and there was double-digit creativity on parade at the IS 183 "Anime Hothouse" benefit on Saturday night in Lenox.  It was clear proof once more that beneath the Yankee rectitude the Berkshires is an exciting, slightly eccentic

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AgriCulture: A Japanese Farm & Garden Legacy in Florida

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Like so many of my graying peers, I have part time parent care duties these days.  Fortunately, my father has a girlfriend and two children besides me to take on

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Act III for Ragamont House: Now a B&B and Chic Caterer

Finally, Pete Hathaway has figured out what his landmark mansion on Salisbury's Main Street was destined to be: A party house.  When Rural Intelligence checked in with Hathaway a little more than a year ago— A ‘Step-Down’ House in Salisbury That’s A Cut Above—he was

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