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Jacob's Pillow Dances To Its Own Drummer

Jacob's Pillow celebrates every imaginable form of dance in every conceivable way.  The Pillow, as it's called by insiders, is more than an historic performing arts venue in a bucolic setting. It's a multidisciplinary cultural center that during the season pulses with activity from

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The Secret Side of Hunter Bee

Hunter Bee, the antiques store that opened last fall in Millerton selling furniture and folk-art objects that give a country house wit and soul, has a funky and fashionable alter ego.  Co-owner Jonathan Bee, who was a club kid in 1980s New York City, has opened a shop-

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The Other Hyde Park: The Vanderbilt Mansion

Among the great Hudson River country houses, McKim, Mead & White’s Vanderbilt Mansion at Hyde Park is a standout—though not in an entirely amiable way.  True, it is a pure expression of the Beaux Arts style, but it looks uncomfortable here, as if it might feel more at

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Getting It Right the First Time: A House Tour in Canaan, NY

Ever wonder why our Yankee forebears seem to have been incapable of designing a bad house, whereas, nearly everything we build requires remodeling every 20 years?  On Sunday, June 14th, the Canaan (NY) 250 Committee launches its Bisesquicentennial Celebrations with an historic house tour, the town's first in

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A Tea Dance at Wilderstein

By the time Margaret "Daisy" Suckley died in her 100th year in 1991 at Wilderstein, her family's Hudson River home, the place was derelict.  Today it is well on its way to becoming what it had been in its (and Daisy's) prime.   So it

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Sunset Supper and Moonlight Magic at The Clark

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Williamstown:  The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s gala dinner on June 6 had a quasi-Adirondack theme, which referenced Georgia O’Keeffe’s summers at Alfred Stieglitz’s estate on Lake George. The party marked the opening of the exhibition Dove/O’

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"Contained Exuberance" Opens at Berkshire Botanical Garden

The trustees and other passionate supporters of the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge gathered on Saturday June 6 to toast blogger Margaret Roach of A Way To Garden and Bob Hyland of Loomis Creek Nursery, who designed and installed the exhibit "Contained Exuberance," which features 11 different sets

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Inside the WAMC Northeast Public Radio Fund Drive

WAMC really is our radio station. I did not fully comprehend this concept until I went to Albany on Thursday, June 4, to volunteer to answer phones for the fund drive.  While WAMC (90.3 Albany,  WOSR 91. 7 Middletown, WCEL 91.9 Plattsburgh, et al ) does plenty of original

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Food

At Long Last, It's Strawberry Season Again

If you're a regular at the Lenox Farmers's Market or Hudson Farmers' Market, you've already had a taste of summer. For the last couple of weeks, Bonnie and Ron Samascott of Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook have been selling their incredibly juicy and sweet

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Cold Comfort: 8 Fruit Soup Recipes from "Cooking Know-How"

"We refer to ourselves as the hardest working cookbook writers that no one has ever heard of," Mark Scarbrough said a few week ago before he and his life-partner and collaborator, Bruce Weinstein, left on a three-week publicity tour for their 15th book, Cooking Know-How

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Shopping: The Discreet Charm of the Upscale Sale

There are few things in life more gratifying than a bargain.   What else can make us feel this way—so virtuous (think of the savings!), yet so naughty (what a steal!), all at once?  This weekend, there are a couple of upscale sales that are worthy of the attention of

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Arts

Dan's Diary: Berkshire Playwrights Lab Champions New Drama

Although the Berkshires' four leading theater companies—Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival—all produce new plays along with classics and crowd-pleasers, only the Berkshire Playwrights Lab is devoted exclusively to new work by both established and emerging playwrights. To kick off

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