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Berkshire Botanical Garden's 75th Birthday Party

Guests were greeted by actors dressed as birch trees for the Berkshire Botanical Garden's 75th birthday party on Saturday, August 8, in Stockbridge. The hands-on board of trustees had been involved with every aspect of planning the event, creating wonderful wire-and-crystal chandeliers for the tent

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"FARM: Painting, Photography & Sculpture" Opens at Stonover

Suky Werman is blessed with a great eye and generous heart, which is why hundreds of people descended on the Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm for the opening of FARM: Painting, Photography & Sculpture, which Werman had been planning since winter. It features the work of many local artists, including

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Dan's Diary: WTF Lights A Fire Under "The Torch-Bearers"

You might consider The Torch-Bearers at Williamstown Theatre Festival theater-for-theater's sake. The play itself—a 1922 chestnut by George Kelly that has been "adapted" by director Dylan Baker—seems like an excuse for artistic director Nicky Martin to fill the Main Stage with

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The Wandering Eye: The Taconic, Reconsidered

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are princpals in the M (Group). So, there we are cruising along the Taconic headed back to town on a pleasant Sunday evening.  Pondering.  Pensive.  Bored out of my gourd.  What to fix The Eye on next?

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Jeremy Stanton Dreams Of A Locavore Butcher Shop

She's a veterinarian and he's a chef, and to watch them cook dinner together is to marvel at how two people whose work involves such different approaches to knives and animals can be so in sync in the kitchen.  The newlyweds (who were married last September

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A Garden Party at Chesterwood

There is no finer spot for a garden party than Chesterwood, the National Trust Historic Site in Stockbridge, which was the country home and studio of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, DC, and The Minute Man, Concord,

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Pittsfield Gallery Crawl

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: Sunshine heralded the first day of August, illuminating two new exhibitions at Pittsfield galleries. Leslie Ferrin opened two shows of ornately decorated porcelain sculpture. In Human Made Wild,Jason Walker explores the intersection of nature and culture in work that wavers between whimsical and disturbing.

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AgriCulture: Talking Turkey, Part I

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Peter writes: At the risk of sounding like those obnoxious retailers who begin with Christmas promotions before Halloween, I’d like to talk about turkeys. This is largely prompted by our having begun letting our

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Two House Tours with a Focus on History

To get the most out of a historic house tour, it's crucial to use your imagination, to "be there" at every stage in the property's development.  Same building, 100 years later, is never the same, even when it has been preserved in amber as

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Woodstock Nation Lives!

There was a redawning of the Age of Aquarius on Thursday, July 30 in Chatham, as a throng more than 1,000 strong, many wearing tie-dyed tees, poured into town to attend two screenings at the Crandell Theatre of Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's latest film,

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Friends of the Fringe Come Together

The Berkshire Fringe Festival kicked off its fifth season on July 27 with an innovative performance at Bard College at Simon's Rock: five different pieces of theater, film and dance all set to the same six-and-a-half minute electronic soundscape by Peter Wise, one of the

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A Garden Tour that Takes On The Bigger Picture

There are garden tours and then there is this, the Ancram Preservation Group's Working Landscapes 2009, a tour of eight properties that either are working farms or, if no longer actively working, retain a working-farm aesthetic.  Though there are gardens on all of these properties, the plantings

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