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Susan Rodgers/Joe Wheaton Show Opens at Berkshire Museum

Only Stuart Chase, Berkshire Museum's estimable director, could get away with scheduling an opening for a Thursday night (July 1) and draw a crowd like this—a veritable who's who of those who get things done in Berkshire County. Of course, he had plenty of help

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Susan Mikula Show Opens at Ferrin Gallery

Pittsfield grew into the city it once was largely on the strength of the General Electric Corporation, which dominated economic and civic life and shaped the very landscape there.  Now a greatly diminished presence, and fading by the day, it seems, General Electric's industrial sites and their surroundings

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Food

The Making of The Millerton Farmer's Market

It takes more than a handful of sunburned farmers with bushel baskets of just-picked vegetables to make a compelling farmers' market. "It takes fruit, too!" says Jenny Hansell, who oversees the five-year-old Millerton Farmers' Market (Saturdays 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.). She

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Bagels & Art for All at Bard's Hessel Museum

It was an art opening crossed with a kiddush luncheon—the kind of glamorously academic event that often happens at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.  The collectors responsible for At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg hosted the afternoon brunch featuring

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Barrington Stage Gala Honors Mary Ann Quinson

The Barrington Stage Company's annual gala always begins with a fashion parade as guests walk two blocks up North Street from the Mainstage to the party at the gym at St. Joseph's High School. This year, guests were encouraged to wear red and black to match

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AgriCulture: Beware the Downey Mildew Basil Blight

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes:  Just the other day I was looking on the bright side of the rather dry, hot spring we have been having here in Columbia County. At least, I thought, these weather conditions

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Jacob's Pillow: Season Opener a Dance Bonanza

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Becket: In a departure from the past few rainy years, on June 19 sunshine greeted a resplendent crowd gathered for the kick-off of the 78th anniversary of Jacob's Pillow's world-famous dance festival. Guests assembled for cocktails

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Columbia County Garden Party for the AIDS Council

Everyone at the Inaugural Columbia County Garden Party for the AIDS Council of Northestern New York was on a high from the Hudson Pride Parade earlier in the day, and their hearts continued to soar as the approached Forth House, the historic Hudson Valley home of composer Scott Frankel and

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Arts

"At Home/Not at Home" at the Hessel Museum at Bard College

June 26 - December 19 Photo by Letitia Smith While everybody knows that Bard College has a world-class theater designed by the architect Frank Gehry—the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts—few seem to know about Bard's Hessel Museum and Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS)

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Brandt Bolding's "Farm" Celebrates Agriculture at Red Devon Restaurant

Now - August 31 Brandt Bolding, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, spent three years documenting the agricultural life of up-state New York. ”While I recognize their place, I am not seeking to reproduce somewhat standard editorial shots of rural life, or lovely images suitable for coffee table books."  Instead

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Food

Seize-the-Day Strawberry Shortcake

After my our annual strawberry picking at Ioka Valley Farm, our favorite feast is strawberry shortcake — warm, dense biscuits topped with juicy ripe berries and fresh whipped local cream from High Lawn Farm.  I sometimes plan ahead, making biscuits before we pick, then storing them, uncooked, in the freezer on

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Spencertown Academy's Hidden Gardens Tour

Some garden tours are strictly fantasy trips; others are more instructive.   "People need to bring a pad and a pencil and a camera to this tour, because there are so many good ideas," says Madaline Sparks, contributing gardening editor at Real Simple magazine. "There's a

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