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Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Housewarming

On Friday, August 6, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation celebrated the opening of its new office building at 800 N. Main Street in Sheffield, MA,  with an open house attended by donors, advisors, fund holders and grantees from Berkshire, Columbia, northeast Dutchess and northwest Litchfield counties. “At Berkshire Taconic, we

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Review: Trey McIntyre Project at Jacob's Pillow

Is it Basque week in the Berkshires? In the same week that Shakespeare & Company unveiled The Taster, a world premiere by Joan Ackermann that involves an ancient Basque play, Trey McIntyre Project waltzes in to Jacob’s Pillow with a new dance steeped in Basque culture. (And there may

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Review: Yin Mei at Jacob's Pillow

Choreographer Yin Mei demands a lot from her audience. Namely patience, and the same kind of concentration she and her dancers bring to their performance at Jacob’s Pillow of City of Paper, her multimedia work addressing her personal and cultural history. Yin is a native of Luoyang, China, a

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ArtBerkshires: A New Creative Collaboration

On Wednesday, August 4, at the Sienna Gallery in Lenox, the women driving ArtBerkshires—Leslie Ferrin, Suky Werman and Sienna Patti (left to right)—held a reception to celebrate 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft, a series of exhibits and programs that links mid-century Modernism to contemporary art and

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Food

The Menschy Milkmen of Ronnybrook Farm Dairy

Twenty years ago, the Osofsky Brothers went back to the future. They started bottling milk at the dairy farm that their parents started in 1941 on hundreds of rolling acres that straddle Pine Plains and Ancramdale (which makes them both Dutchess and Columbia County farmers.)  By 1991, a glass milk

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Community

Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick of Stockbridge are Rural Royalty

They are the real lions of Stockbridge who now purr more than roar. Still, Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick (left) remain the undsiputed king and queen of the Berkshires, and Saturday, August 7, has been declared Fitzpatrick Day by the Selectemen of Stockbridge: The town will dedicate the green space in

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Guido's Fresh Melon Sorbet & Granita

Although commercial honeydew and cantaloupe have become readily available year round in most areas, they don't taste anything like sweet summer melons. (A cantaloupe in the middle of January can taste like, well, crispy water)  This is the prime time for melons when we start seeing Crenshaw, Golden

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Millbrook Author Reads from Debut Novel

Saturday, August 7 @ 11 a.m & 5 p.m. Jenny Nelson, who lives in Millbrook, will read from and sign her debut novel, Georgia's Kitchen, the story of Georgia Gray, the head chef at a trendy New York restaurant who travels to Tuscany to open a trattoria.

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20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft

Now - October 17 Catapult Prototype Table, Rob BristowThe newly formed ArtBerkshires collaboration, a partnership including Ferrin Gallery, Sienna Gallery, and The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm, kicks off this weekend with a series of receptions and events under the umbrella 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft, tracing the influence of

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AgriCulture: The Sensuous Farm, Adults Only

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: I’ve read that one of the most popular uses of the internet is to gain access to pornography. If small farm agriculture is going to compete in the

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Ida Wyman Opening at Joie de Livres

August 7 -  September 25 Ida Wyman, Girl with Curlers, 1949 When Ida Wyman began taking photographs for magazines in the 1940’s, the field was dominated by men. Starting out in the mailroom at Acme Newspictures (later UPI), Wyman soon began getting assignments from Business Week, This Week, Collier’s,

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Community

Rhinebeck Survives Its 15 Minutes of Fame

By Carrie Tuhy You have to love a town that chases after an unemployed secretary of state to get her autograph.  On the afternoon of the Wedding of the Century,  Madeline Albright and Democratic Party bigwig Terry McAuliffe had lunch at Gigi's and the throngs descended on them

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