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Real Estate

Treehouse Dining

There's a one-of-a-kind dining room is inside this real-life treehouse residence in Richmond. Designed by a famous architect, the three-bedroom, four-bathroom treehouse has open common rooms along with cozy spaces that heavily use natural materials such as tree beams and stone. The

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Real Estate

Formal Seating

Every room in this exquisite property in Ghent is spacious and stylish, including the formal dining room with a fireplace and crown moldings. Inside the 4,900 square-foot home is a formal living room, library, family game room, large chef’s eat-in kitchen, office, five bedrooms, and four

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Dinner Party Ready

Soaring ceilings and considerable space make this dining room perfect for large gatherings. In Goshen, a stone exterior encases a post-and-beam open floor plan with hardwood floors and many windows. The house has an open kitchen, sunroom, living room, formal dining room, three bedrooms, four bathrooms and a

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Dining Alcove

Ideally located in an alcove with three sides of windows, this dining room looks out to six acres in Alford. The four-bedroom, five-bathroom Contemporary is finished with high-end materials and handcrafted details. The layout includes a foyer, kitchen, living room, and screened porch. A lower level walks

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Room With A View

The dining room in this Lakeville home is hallmarked by expansive windows offering views and natural sunlight. The 12-room house holds a gourmet chef’s kitchen, breakfast room, butler’s pantry, and living room. Additional spaces include a paneled library, luxurious master suite, and six bedrooms with bathrooms en-

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Great Spectacle

Inspired by Nantucket summer homes, this shingle-style residence offers a dining room that looks out to North Spectacle Lake in Kent. Designed by a renowned architect, the interior has high ceilings, a kitchen that opens to the great room, a mahogany-paneled library, formal main entrance and a mudroom

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Arts

At Hudson Hall, The Mother Of All Operas

R.B. Schlather. Photos by Tobin Del Cuore. By Sharon Smullen“The Mother of Us All” is not your grandma’s opera — unless she's a fan of Gertrude Stein’s words and wit, Virgil Thomson’s modernist music, and Susan B. Anthony’s civil rights and suffrage struggles.

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Food

Recipe: The Ultimate Double Chocolate Chip Cookie

Contributor Lisa Fielding is a private chef and boutique caterer based in Manhattan who weekends in Litchfield County whenever possible. Many of her Manhattan clients are also Litchfield County weekenders, so work brings her to Northwest Connecticut as well. A Los Angeles transplant, Fielding was a former Hollywood film executive

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Parties

Celebration, Renewed Commitment At Berkshires NAACP Dinner

Amy Krzanik reports from Pittsfield. Some people would have you believe that we are living through the worst time in America’s history. The present, however, is best viewed through the lens of the past. Anti-racism activist and writer Tim Wise discussed this topic and others during his keynote

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Community

The Rural We: Nancy Opgaard

Nancy Opgaard may not be the only yoga teacher in the northwest corner of Connecticut, but according to one of her students in Cornwall who contacted us, she is the beloved instructor in their town. Along with teaching yoga, Opgaard is a massage therapist and offers meditation classes. It wasn’

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Food

W. Cornwall Joins The Taste Trail With Pearly's Farmhouse Cafe

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Community

'Il Villaggio Di Millbrook' Explores The Town's Italian Heritage

By Lisa Green There’s often something charming and a little quirky about apocryphal stories that makes us want to believe them. The village of Millbrook, New York has such a story. It’s said that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, someone from Millbrook went to “the

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