Dana Bixby Architecture Click for listing information Sponsored December 02, 2020 Share this post P.O. Box 556West Stockbridge, MA 01266 (413) 232-7834Danabixby.comDana@danabixby.comFacebookInstagram Share this post Written by Sponsored Style Williamstown Willow Basket Weaver and Teacher Heleny Cook Lets Local Beavers Do the Pruning Heleny Cook spent decades organizing coal miners, running Marion Barry’s summer jobs program, and teaching high school English before she ever picked up a willow switch. She’s made up for lost time. By Jamie Larson • Michaela Carpenter. Photo by Rachel Bock. Style She's Reimagining the Rhinecliff Hotel With Art, Style, and Historic Care, One Room at a Time The business’s new owner Michaela Carpenter is commissioning original work from regional artists for every room, then designing around it—and building a communal gathering space downstairs meant to turn the historic hotel into a home base for local makers. By Jamie Larson • Style Palestine Heirloom Seed Library Fundraiser on Ghent Farm With Designer Neville Wisdom Fashion Show The Jamaica-born, New Haven-based designer premieres "GEORGE" on an outdoor catwalk, with proceeds funding Palestinian seed preservation. By Jamie Larson • Real Estate Clouds: A 2016 Architectural Retreat on 41 Protected Acres, in Lakeville A 65-foot gallery with 20-foot ceilings, nearly 60 feet of western-facing windows, 3 fireplaces, a heated saltwater pool, and a cherry orchard on the approach. By Jamie Larson • Food The Tavern at Liberty Farms Opens in Ghent With Pub Fare Straight from the Fields Farm-raised meats meet pub comforts. By Brian K. Mahoney • Community 40 Haunted Events Across the Region For and Before Halloween From a ski mountain turned haunted warehouse to a masquerade ball at a visionary art sanctuary, here is where to get spooked across the Berkshires, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield counties through October 31. By Jamie Larson • Resource Guide Where Game Day Belonging Meets the Betting Screen Game day has its own rituals and that's food on the table, familiar faces on the couch and a friendly argument over who will win. But phones have changed the experience, bringing live statistics, predictions and sports betting into gatherings that once revolved around the television. The challenge By Christopher Pape Real Estate The Stonewall Estate at Dibble Hill: A Contemporary Barn on 19 Acres, Bordering Conservation Land, in Cornwall A spring-fed pond, a fieldstone fireplace in a 700-square-foot great room, a Wolf and Sub-Zero kitchen, a glass solarium, and an 11.5-acre buildable parcel behind the house—30 minutes to Metro-North. By Jamie Larson • Community Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center Marks Its 20th Anniversary With a Three-Day Forum on Solidarity The Arendt Forum brings George Packer, Rowan Williams, Patrick Deneen, Carol Gilligan, and Zephyr Teachout, among others, to Annandale-on-Hudson to ask “What Are We Fighting For?” By Jamie Larson •
Style Williamstown Willow Basket Weaver and Teacher Heleny Cook Lets Local Beavers Do the Pruning Heleny Cook spent decades organizing coal miners, running Marion Barry’s summer jobs program, and teaching high school English before she ever picked up a willow switch. She’s made up for lost time. By Jamie Larson •
Michaela Carpenter. Photo by Rachel Bock. Style She's Reimagining the Rhinecliff Hotel With Art, Style, and Historic Care, One Room at a Time The business’s new owner Michaela Carpenter is commissioning original work from regional artists for every room, then designing around it—and building a communal gathering space downstairs meant to turn the historic hotel into a home base for local makers. By Jamie Larson •
Style Palestine Heirloom Seed Library Fundraiser on Ghent Farm With Designer Neville Wisdom Fashion Show The Jamaica-born, New Haven-based designer premieres "GEORGE" on an outdoor catwalk, with proceeds funding Palestinian seed preservation. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Clouds: A 2016 Architectural Retreat on 41 Protected Acres, in Lakeville A 65-foot gallery with 20-foot ceilings, nearly 60 feet of western-facing windows, 3 fireplaces, a heated saltwater pool, and a cherry orchard on the approach. By Jamie Larson •
Food The Tavern at Liberty Farms Opens in Ghent With Pub Fare Straight from the Fields Farm-raised meats meet pub comforts. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Community 40 Haunted Events Across the Region For and Before Halloween From a ski mountain turned haunted warehouse to a masquerade ball at a visionary art sanctuary, here is where to get spooked across the Berkshires, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield counties through October 31. By Jamie Larson •
Resource Guide Where Game Day Belonging Meets the Betting Screen Game day has its own rituals and that's food on the table, familiar faces on the couch and a friendly argument over who will win. But phones have changed the experience, bringing live statistics, predictions and sports betting into gatherings that once revolved around the television. The challenge By Christopher Pape
Real Estate The Stonewall Estate at Dibble Hill: A Contemporary Barn on 19 Acres, Bordering Conservation Land, in Cornwall A spring-fed pond, a fieldstone fireplace in a 700-square-foot great room, a Wolf and Sub-Zero kitchen, a glass solarium, and an 11.5-acre buildable parcel behind the house—30 minutes to Metro-North. By Jamie Larson •
Community Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center Marks Its 20th Anniversary With a Three-Day Forum on Solidarity The Arendt Forum brings George Packer, Rowan Williams, Patrick Deneen, Carol Gilligan, and Zephyr Teachout, among others, to Annandale-on-Hudson to ask “What Are We Fighting For?” By Jamie Larson •