Rural Intelligence (Page 398)

Real Estate

20th-Century Cape

Cricket Hill is a 1939 dormered Cape on handsomely landscaped grounds in Norfolk. The 3,044 square feet includes a large, sunny living room with a fireplace, dining room off the renovated eat-in kitchen, first-floor bedroom, two second-floor bedrooms and a guest apartment. There are hardwood floors throughout, except in

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Real Estate

Rustic-Luxe Lodge

This 691-acre lakefront compound in Torrington looks rustic on the outside but it's luxurious and comfortable inside. There are several buildings on the property, including the main lodge which dates back to the early 1900s, a guest house and a barn built in 2007 partially from native hemlock

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Real Estate

Victorian Revamp

Totally renovated in 2009, this Victorian evokes the charm of when it was built in 1890 while being move-in ready. Located in the village of Lakeville — only a minute's walk to Lakeville Lake — its renovations include new wiring, insulation, plumbing, siding and roof. The living and dining rooms

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Real Estate

Modern Country

Surrounded by 18 acres of views and greenery, this West Cornwall home’s stunning modern design stands out from the country backdrop. Every room in the house has notable contemporary details, such as the impressive stone fireplace in the great room and a sleek kitchen. There are five bedrooms, three-and-a-half-bathrooms

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Food

Traghaven Whiskey Pub Brings West Cork To Tivoli

One of the delicious burgers at Traghaven. By Jamie LarsonTraghaven Whiskey Pub & Co. in Tivoli, New York has some magic to it. The pub is transportive, seemingly pulled from another time and place (namely West Cork, Ireland). It’s beautiful in a way pubs can be and the care

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Parties

Take A Bow: Jacob's Pillow Closes Out Festival 2016

Amy Krzanik reports from Becket. You never know what moves you’ll see on the dance floor at a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival after-party. There might be a few couples waltzing around the perimeter or salsa-ing in the center of a crowd of onlookers, there very well could be

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Arts

Oldtone Roots Music Festival Is A Fun New Frolic

Lauren Ambrose and Kip Beacco at 2015's festival By Amy Krzanik As the Duke Ellington song says, “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” and the Oldtone Roots Music Festival does got that swing, and that bluegrass, that old-time country, as well

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Community

The Rural We: David Voorhees

Retired NYU history professor David William Voorhees is the director of both the Jacob Leisler* Institute for the Study of Early New York History and the Jacob Leisler Papers Project, headquartered in Hudson. He’s also managing editor of de Halve Maen (The Half Moon), a quarterly scholarly journal published

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Food

Recipe: Pasta With Cherry Tomato Sauce

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

Weekend Of Wheels At Lime Rock (And A Parade, Too)

Photos courtesy Lime Rock Park. By CB Wismar For some, they are exquisite rolling sculptures – the finest representation of the designer’s art. For others, they’re nothing more than a necessity, like electricity and cable TV. Then there’s the group that just finds them a nuisance — members of

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Parties

The Thrill of the Grill: Eating And Competing At Grillsdale

Lisa Green reports from Hillsdale. Like moths to a flame, a parade of cars veered off Route 22 to the Roeliff-Jansen Park in Hillsdale, NY on Saturday, Aug. 27. Why? Because there were flames a-plenty at the first-ever Grillsdale produced by Shire 935 Productions and sponsored by many local and

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Shaker-Style Summer Soiree

Rachel Louchen reports from New Lebanon. Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon'sGreat Stone Barn was the focal point of the annual benefit dinner, Visualizing the Museum's Future, on Saturday, August 27. This year's benefit honored museum supporters Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry, creators of the off-Broadway

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