There's no one who shops as single-mindedly at Trade Secrets as Martha Stewart who paused briefly to answer her phone and chat with her one-time garden editor, Margaret Roach (left), the blogger (awaytogarden.com) and author of the memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace There, which begins with Roach resigning from her high-level management job at Martha Stewart Omnimedia to tend to her own garden in Copake Falls, NY. Now in its eleventh year, Trade Secrets feels like a class reunion with the same vendors and shoppers returning every year, happy to see each other at the plant and antiques sale for Women's Support Services, an agency that assists victims of domestic abuse in northwestern Connecticut and nearby Massachusetts and New York.
Serevan chef/owner Serge Madikians with lifestyle guru Carolyne Roehm; Johnnycake Books owner Dan Dwyer with interior designer Matthew Patrick Smyth.
Lion Rock Farm hosts Elaine & Eve La Roche.
Suzanne Cassano of Privet House; Richard Lambertson of Privet House.
NBCUniversal's Pat Fili-Krushel and artist/interior designer Anne G. Fredericks.
Molly Boxer of Berkshire Botanical Garden and custom builder Lou Boxer; Vincent Incongilios and Donna Rafferty
Israel Fitch & Willy Blass of Battle Hill Forge; Kristen Foster of Kristen's Kurtains
Fernanda Kellogg & Kirk Henckels who host the annual Fitch's Corner Horse Trials in Millbrook every summer.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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