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A Redone Ranch House is Finally Ready for its Close-Up

Two years ago, Jack Thomasson,  producer of the TV show “Blog Cabin” on the DIY Network asked Millbrook architect James Crisp to come up with a plan to transform a dreary 1970s ranch house, left, that happened to be in a wonderful location (overlooking the Bethel Arts Center on the

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Arts

Brine Garden in Photographs & Watercolors

August 21 - September 18 Gallery on the Green in Pawling, NY will honor the 20th anniversay of The Brine Garden, a remarkable private garden there, with an exhibition of photographs, some done by the garden's creator Duncan Brine, others by Everett H. Scott, the renowned landscape photographer, who

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Arts

Review: Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion at Jacob’s Pillow

The last of three emerging choreographers given a Pillow Creative Development Residency is on stage this week at Jacob’s Pillow, and from Inventing Pookie Jenkins, the stunning solo he presented at the Pillow gala -- which is also on this week’s program -- it is easy to see why this

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Parties

Hancock Shaker Village's 50th Anniversary Gala

Fifty years ago, a few visionary people saw the "For Sale" sign on the corner of Routes 20 and 41 on the Hancock/Pittsfield border and decided that the old Shaker village might be worth saving. That 1,000 acres could be purchased for $125,000 in the

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A Celebration of Modernism at Stonover Farm

Artists, artisans, art-lovers, craft collectors, and furniture fetishists from the Rural Intelligence region and beyond gathered at The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm on Friday, August 6 for the opening of 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft. Innkeeper and gallery owner Suky Werman (left, with her brother-in-law

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Style

George and Suzy, an Avant Garde Pas de Deux

The on-going ArtBerkshires exploration of the enduring influence of 20th-century modernism on 21st-century architecture, art, and crafts puts a well-deserved spotlight put on the Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio in Lenox.  The first modernist building in New England, the house is only part of the story

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Food

AgriCulture: Our Three Sadder-But-Wiser Sheep

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: We are not in any way experts on animal behavior, by no means, but we have had lots of opportunities these past ten years for keen observation. We are

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Community

Festival Frenzy: A Weekend of Music & Happenings

No matter where you go this weekend—from Wassaic to North Adams, from Norfolk to Annandale-on-Hudson—you will find a one-of-a-kind festival. If it sounds too good to be true, it is because there is no way to take advantage of everything that is going

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Arts

Thomas O'Brien, Author of "American Modern" at Hudson Home

August 14 @ 5 - 7 p.m. If there had never been an Aero, Thomas O'Brien's seminal home design store in Soho, there never would have been a—well, just look around. The hip-yet-accessible, clean-lined-yet-un-rigid, look of today's dominant

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Amy Bedik's Photographs at Germain

Now - September 7 In her black-and-white photographs, Amy Bedik seeks the eternal in both landscapes and in man-made things, often classical sculptures and architecture. Using a simple plastic camera, a piece of technological ephemera whose time has already passed, she captures images that speak of the durable

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Friends of Clermont Raise a Glass for the Cottage Restoration

Carey Maloney and Hermes Mallea are friends indeed to both the Clermont State Historic Site, where Hermes serves on the board, and to Rural Intelligence, where Carey writes his inimitable Wandering Eye blog.  Last Saturday, August 7, on behalf of Clermont, they hosted a benefit cocktail reception at their riverfront

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Ida Wyman Show Opens at Joie de Livre

Joie de Livres a gallery/bookstore in a comfortable space at the back of Salisbury Wines was the scene on Saturday evening, August 7, of the opening of an exhibition of photography by the renowned photojournalist Ida Wyman, 84, who flew east for the occasion from Madison, Wisconsin. Three generations:

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