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Real Estate

Fit For Summer

Eat dinner, read a book or take a cat nap inside this spacious screened porch. Located on 24 acres in Lee, the five-bedroom, four-and-one-half bathroom home has both formal rooms and casual family spaces. The large living room has a fireplace and the elegant formal dining room is off the

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Real Estate

Summer Nights

In Sharon, sleep under the stars sans mosquitos at this shingle-style house with a screened sleeping porch. Inside, there's a true country kitchen and a soaring great room with dining and sitting areas. The house has five bedrooms, four-and-one-half bathrooms, first-floor laundry room, den, library and a full

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Real Estate

Waterfront Wake-Up

Looking for year-round, private views of New Preston's Lake Waramaug? You'll get that from the fully-insulated sleeping porch that's large and sunny and practically a third bedroom. Built in the 1930s and completely rebuilt, the waterfront cottage has been reimagined for 2016. It offers

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Real Estate

Summertime Is Easy

With an outdoor shower and large screened porch that walks out to the inground gunite swimming pool, you could spend the entire summer outside. Originally built in the 1980s, the Copake home was completely renovated over the past three years, so it's move-in ready. The kitchen, family room,

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Real Estate

Country Views

An Old Chatham country home sits on over five landscaped acres and offers a large screened porch. Surrounded by privacy, the 3,000-square-foot house has an open kitchen with sitting area, formal dining room and a large, welcoming living room with fireplace. There are three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathroom plus

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Food

Recipe: Vegetable Fried Rice

One of our favorite events every summer is The Sylvia Center’s Farm-to-Table dinner, hosted by Great Performances in the fields of Katchkie Farm in Kinderhook, N.Y. The mission of The Sylvia Center is to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands-on learning experiences on

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Community

There Are Options To Packing A Picnic At Tanglewood

Yes, we know that the picnic culture at Tanglewood is one of the great joys of the season, something many of us wait and plan for all year. But if on occasion schlepping all that stuff through the parking lot to the lawn feels like too much, you should know

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Community

The Rural We: Aura Whitman

Locals may know Aura Whitman as the proprietor and chef of the beloved Café Reva, which she ran for 11 years on Pittsfield’s Tyler Street, or from her newer venture, nAtURAlly Catering, whose home base is located inside Berkshire Organics. But now there’s a new place to experience

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Food

Papa's Best Batch: Outstanding Barbecue With A View

By Jamie Larson No matter how long we've covered the RI region there are just some places so beautifully bucolic they render us speechless. Papa’s Best Batch, a smoked meat sandwich trailer in Red Hook, New York is plunked down in such a place. Since your mouth

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Parties

The 2016 SummerScape Gala: The Spirit Of Montgomery Place

Amy Krzanik reports from Red Hook. The evening of Saturday, July 16 was, by turns, exhilarating, hilarious, touching, peaceful and joyous. The 2016 SummerScape Gala, a benefit for Bard College’sFisher Center for the Performing Arts, took advantage of the newest addition to the school’s campus, and held the

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Arts

Cabinet Of Curiosity: What Were The Curators Thinking?

Photos by Karl Rabe, courtesy of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. By Robert Burke Warren If you’re a collector — of anything — we have an exhibit for you. Even if you’re of the “no clutter" camp, it’s hard not to be inquisitive about a  “cabinet

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Parties

Kids4Harmony Benefit Strikes A Chord For 400-Plus Supporters

Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield. Kids 4 Harmony, the free after-school music program established by Berkshire Children and Families, has become one of the city’s most beloved causes to champion. In fact, so many supporters wanted to attend the benefit reception and concert on Monday, July 11 at the

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