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 By Editor
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, By Editor
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. By Editor
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 By Editor
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- By Editor
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 By Editor
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 By Editor
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 By Editor
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 By Editor
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 By Editor
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 By Editor
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 By Editor
