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A New Gilded Age Cottage With A Happy Disposition

It seems like it would be impossible to wake up in a bad mood in this house in Lenox, MA. When the publicity-shy owners called the New York design team of William Diamond and Anthony Baratta to see the house they were building in the Berkshires, Diamond demanded that

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Food

9/11/09: Not Just Another Friday at the Farm

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: Those of you who have spent any social time with us undoubtedly know how large the date of September 11 looms in our life story. We've undoubtedly told you

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Food

Hot Stuff!! Chili Cook-off Seeks Entrants

Attention Tex-Mex lovers and habanera pepper cravers! Does the term ‘hot stuff” describe your chili?  Every time you taste someone else's, do you find yourself thinking, "You call this chili?"  If so, the Hudson Valley Chili Cook-Off could be your opportunity to finally get

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Cedar Heights Orchard in Dutchess County on Open Days Tour

Garden Conservancy Open Days are drawing to a close for the season.  On Saturday, September 13, there is just one in our region, Cedar Heights Orchard, William and Arvia Morris' large property in Rhinebeck, New York. After a major storm twelve years ago, the Morris' created a “wild”

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Community

Historic-Site Hopping: New York's First Heritage Weekend

2009 has been a big year for the Hudson River Valley.   The Quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's discovery of his namesake river has launched a thousand ships and a history feeding frenzy.  Now that we're all in the mood, what better time to introduce a lovely custom

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Decorate Like A Pro: Custom Curtains by Kristen Foster

Interior designers sell taste. They also sell connections. And if you are one of those people who's confident in your taste but don't  know the artisans who can execute your ideas, you should make an appointment with Kristen Foster, a master curtain maker in Falls Village,

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Food

The Pizza Farm Files: Recipes, Part II

Who better to ask how to cook vegetables than the people who grow them? That's why the clever designers at Winterhouse, who conceieved the Pizza Farm, produced these nifty recipe cards, which feature good eats from Farm Girl Farm in Egremont, MA, Good Dogs Farm in Ashley Falls,

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"Jump In!" - An Exhibit Inspired By The Housatonic River

On the Friday night of Labor Day weekend, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in downtown Pittsfield and the Housatonic River Museum hosted the opening of a week-long exhibition called Jump In! The group show included photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture, writing and video inspired by the waters of our

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Dan's Diary: Barrington Stage is the Stepping Stone to Broadway

For songwriters who yearn to hear their songs on a Broadway stage someday, you can't get any luckier than knowing  Bill Finn, the musical theater guru of Barrington Stage Company. For the fourth year in a row, Finn has put together an evening of Songs By Ridiculously Talented

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Food

Agri-Culture: From Hardship to Bounty and Back Again

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: Are we approaching another food watershed?  Did I say, “Food watershed?”  Well, if there is such a thing, I think I have experienced a number of them. And it may be

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Fence Art Show in the Hamlet of Riders Mills

Riders Mills, a tiny hamlet in north-central Columbia County,  is a rarity even here in the country: it is bisected by neither a state nor a county road, making it the most remote and perhaps least spoiled of a trio of small villages (in addition, Rayville and Malden Bridge)

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The Pizza Farm's Legacy: Recipes by Local Farmers

The creators of last weekend's one-day only Pizza Farm wanted to leave behind a permanent legacy so they asked all of the local farmers with whom they worked to provide them with recipes, and the graphic designers behind Pizza Farm produced two-sided, two-color recipe cards

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