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Christmas Arrives Early at the Berkshire Museum

The 106-year-old Berkshire Museum not only preserves paintings, photographs, antiquities, and other artifacts that depict our region's natural and cultural history; it also safeguards the spirit of traditional New England Christmas. The 25th annual Festival of Trees (through January 3) is an antidote to shopping mall

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Style

Chris Lehrecke: A Design Star Shines on Warren Street

Knowing shoppers watch Warren Street with all the urgency that baseball fans bring to the World Series.  Something exciting seems to happen there nearly every day, but no day outshines the recent one when designer Chris Lehrecke opened his eponymous shop.  Lehrecke's work, which normally is available only

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Food

Butternut Squash Risotto Two Ways

Is there any vegetable more plentiful at this time of year than butternut squash? Do you ever wonder why it seems every restaurant in our region has butternut squash soup on the menu?  I am always thinking of new ways to use squash, and a few nights ago I made

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Parties

bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy Opens in Rhinebeck

bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, a new store on Rhinebeck's Montgomery Row, held a gala opening on Saturday, November 7.  The culinarily ambitious, both pros and amateurs, were eager to check out the latest wrinkles in bakeware, cookbooks, electronics, dinnerwear, linens—no matter what ails your kitchen and/or dining

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Parties

Live and Let's Give: A Shopping Party for Charley's Fund

Benjamin & Tracy Seckler, who started Charley's Fund to finance medical research to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, have loyal, generous family and friends who were shopping for a good cause on Friday night at the Live and Let's Give Crafts Fair (through November

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The Junior League's Taste of the Berkshires

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: The women of the Junior League take on serious tasks, promoting volunteerism to improve the lives of others. In Berkshire County, the Junior League confronts tough issues such as literacy, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, domestic violence, and alcoholism. But last Thursday, November 5, the organization

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Food

AgriCulture: One Man's Meat

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: As the days grow shorter, and evening chores must be started earlier before darkness settles in, everything begins to take on a different aura at the farm. Not only are the

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Food

Spirits: At a Recent Tasting, A Local Cider Ruled!

In England, the word "cider" (and, in France, "cidre") describes a carbonated beverage containing alcohol—as little as 3% in France, as much as 8.5% in England (wine is usually between 11% and 14%).   On this side of the Atlantic, a fermented cider is referred

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Food

Berkshire Organics: Fresh Produce Plus, Delivered to Your Door

Fresh-picked, organic vegetables year 'round, from as nearby as the weather will allow, delivered to your door once a week. No, this is not some pie-in-the-sky fantasy; this is Berkshire Organics, a business founded in May 2008 by Aleisha Gibbons, now 30. Gibbons, who grew

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Food

AgriCulture: Can The Family Farm Be Saved?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: After the bone chilling cold of a few weeks ago, we’ve rebounded and had some perfect autumn weather. Some of the fall crops, such as leeks, brussels sprouts and turnips,

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Community

Live & Let's Give: Shopping for A Good Cause

Community art sales are as common in our region as Subaru wagons and chamber-music concerts, so what makes the Live and Let's Give Sale this weekend  at the Lichtensten Center for the Arts different?  Of course, it's for the worthiest cause: Charley's Fund,

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Arts

Norman Rockwell's American Dream: The Auteur Theory

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