Rural Intelligence (Page 410)

Parties

It Never Gets Old: Jacob's Pillow Gala Welcomes Its New Director

Lisa Green reports from Becket. There is always a certain frisson at the Jacob’s Pillow Opening Gala, but this year, on Saturday, June 18, it was particularly heightened as the festival welcomed its new director, Pamela Tatge. Stepping up to the podium as self-possessed as if she’d been

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Arts

Karen Ziemba’s Star Turn In 'Gypsy' at Sharon Playhouse

By Dan Shaw Mama Rose, the nervy and domineering stage mother, is one of the greatest roles in the American musical theater canon. It’s a part for a woman of a certain age and must be portrayed by a seasoned actress like the Broadway veteran Karen Ziemba, who received

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Community

Speaker Series Brings Economic Issues Home

By Hannah Van Sickle Barrett It seems entirely fitting that whether by happy accident or some kind of market prescience, the American Institute for Economic Research relocated from Cambridge, Mass. to Great Barrington in the 1940s. The independent nonprofit organization was established in 1933 to help ordinary Americans deepen their

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Style

Amble And Admire The View: Kinderhook Garden Stroll

By Lisa Green Kinderhook, New York loves its Dutch ancestry. To quote ourselves, “Kinderhook has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to historical architecture." We’ve previously written about the town’s more famous buildings. But this being garden tour season, Kinderhook wants to introduce visitors to a

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Real Estate

Goose Chase

Goose Chase in Pine Plains is a 72-acre farm with large fields, a 12-stall barn with an office and washrooms, a separate four-stall barn, a two-story bank barn, fenced paddocks, sheds and an outdoor arena. The main living space is a 1750s farmhouse, which was expanded in the 1870s and

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Real Estate

Working Homestead

This property on 518 acres in the Hudson Valley is set on a naturally pristine landscape punctuated with rolling hills, open fields, eight ponds, streams and uninterrupted views of the Catskills. In Taghkanic, the 4,500-square-foot farmhouse has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a great room with open living and dining

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Real Estate

Whiting Ridge

Located on 225 acres in Southfield, Whiting Ridge includes a house built in 1860, a 1740 guest house, a complex of barns, and land with streams and riding trails. The main home boasts a kitchen that takes up an entire wing of the house, three bedroom suites, greeting hall, dining

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Real Estate

Crow Hill

This 42-acre property checks off a lot of boxes: six-bedroom main house, guest house, three-season pond house, one-acre spring-fed pond and a pool. Dubbed Crow Hill, the Spencertown estate begins at the main house, a 1929 stone structure crafted from local stone and wood. The open plan includes a loft

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Real Estate

Tower Hall

Tower Hall is a stone estate with a corner glass tower on 100 acres in Millbrook. Mindfully sited in the path of the sun, the house offers southerly views over the meadowlands to the hills and beyond to the woodlands. The five-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home has a conservatory linked to

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Food

A New Bright Spot Opens In North Adams

By Amy Krzanik If you’re looking for a poorly lit watering hole with a handful of blaring TVs, some stale pretzels for snacking and a surly bartender who acts like he’s doing you a favor when he takes your order, you’re really going to hate North Adams’

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Community

The Rural We: Kira Wizner

Kira Wizner, a part-time resident of the Hudson Valley, became the new owner of Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, New York last November. When she and her family, who live in NYC, were looking for a weekend place, the requirement was that it be “quiet and lovely," and they found

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Community

Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 1

The West Cornwall Covered Bridge By Jamie Larson Over the years, we’ve crisscrossed the Rural Intelligence region highlighting the best our towns, villages and cities have to offer. But we have to admit that sometimes we wonder if we're missing out on some hidden treasures as we&

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