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An Alternative Harvest Festival in Millerton

The miracle of Millerton's gentrification is that it happened without art galleries, which are frequently crucial to a small town's revival. (The Hanback Gallery, formerly of Lenox, opened on South Center Street only this August.)  Nevertheless, Millerton is crawling with artists and collectors so instead of

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Hunt Slonem Sale Preview at Stair Galleries

On Saturday, October 17, antiquarians from near and far descended on Stair Galleries in Hudson (that's Colin Stair, far left, with veteran Hudson antiques dealer Rich Rasso)  for a preview of the season's most eagerly-awaited sale, the Hunt Slonem Collection from Edgewood Terrace.  Slonem, a

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Historic Hudson's Post-Tour Party

All day Saturday, David Hart, President of the Greenport Historical Society, stood outside, seemingly oblivious to the damp and cold, greeting visitors to the 1799 Toll House that he and his group are hoping to restore.  Anyone who drives on 23B has passed it—a mysterious, boarded-up, old stone

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Food

AgriCulture: The Changing Face of Farming

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: “Funny, they don’t look like farmers,” said one of the painters working on the barn across the street, clearly loud enough for me to hear, when we first moved in.

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ArtsWalk Opening: Outsider Art at Basilica Industria

The Dr. Pepper and Pabst Blue Ribbon flowed on Friday, October 9, as ArtsWalk in Hudson got off to a festive start with the gala opening of a one-man show of works from private collections by the outsider artist Earl Swanigan at Basilica Industria .  At least 300 people crammed

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Style

Shopping Plus: Knitter's Nirvana this Weekend in Rhinebeck

Of course, there will be yarn, thousands of skeins of it, and not just wool either.  There will be cashmere, alpaca and other exotic specialty fibers.  There will also be products made from yarn—sweaters, socks—as well as bags of fleece for those who prefer to do their own

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Food

The Other Turkey: Not the Bird, the Country

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are back from Turkey. Well traveled and all-too-well fed, and pleased that the farm came through with only a few small disasters, and in very good order. We

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Food

Last Chance Sandwich: Eggplant and Arugula

To be a locavore is to live on the cutting edge.  The end of the season for harvesting any given vegetable differs depending on where you live, and Amy Cotler, author of the forthcoming The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, has come up with

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Community

Holy Smoke! The Berkshire Hosemen's Calendar

Photographer Sarah Edwards has an eye for hunky guys. Last year, she photographed the Treemen Calendar (which included a picture of her boyfriend, Cord Kenyon, aka Mr. January), which raised $25,000 for the daughter of an arborist named Rafe Kozaka who died in a logging accident in 2008. This

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Historic Hudson's Hidden Gems of Greenport Tour

That's right, Greenport.  It's easy to dismiss this sprawling town, which embraces the city of Hudson on all borders except riverfront.  The part north of the city, anchored by Fairview Avenue, is notable mostly for its strip malls.  But even within this region, a textbook example

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NAMI's Fundraiser at Stonover Farm

Looking more like movie stars than a political power couple, Diane and Deval Patrick stopped by the first dinner dance that the National Alliance of Mental Illness of Berkshire County (NAMIBC) has had since it was founded 25 years ago. The governor spoke eloquently about de-stigmatizing mental illness. "

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BIFF Brings Together Cineastes and Environmentalists

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Great Barrington:How is it that The Triplex cinema managed to fill one of its screening rooms to capacity on Monday, October 5, with an episode of the PBS series NOW that had already aired back in April? Perhaps it’s due to the

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