Rural Intelligence (Page 416)

Arts

Cabinet Of Curiosity: What Were The Curators Thinking?

Photos by Karl Rabe, courtesy of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. By Robert Burke Warren If you’re a collector — of anything — we have an exhibit for you. Even if you’re of the “no clutter" camp, it’s hard not to be inquisitive about a “cabinet

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Parties

Kids4Harmony Benefit Strikes A Chord For 400-Plus Supporters

Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield. Kids 4 Harmony, the free after-school music program established by Berkshire Children and Families, has become one of the city’s most beloved causes to champion. In fact, so many supporters wanted to attend the benefit reception and concert on Monday, July 11 at

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Style

Garden Dialogues Explore Synergy Between Designer And Client

Salisbury estate. Photo: Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation. By Lisa Green Thanks to the myriad of house and garden tours and “open days" throughout our region, garden aficionados have fairly frequent access to some magnificent private gardens. There, the artful landscapes self describe the what

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Parties

The Stars Come Out For WAM Theatre

Rachel Louchen reports from Richmond. The forecast may have predicted severe thunderstorms but from the enthusiastic turnout, it was clear that WAM Theatre's benefit cocktail party would have gotten a draw regardless of the weather. Under bright blue skies, Stars in the Orchard returned for a second year

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Real Estate

Raised In A Barn

Originally built 250 years ago, this barn in Claverack was reclaimed and converted into a two-story, open-plan loft-style home in 1995. The second floor holds the great room with soaring pine ceiling, original barn beams, a floor-to-ceiling reclaimed brick fireplace, barnboard wainscoting and wide plank

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Real Estate

Barn Compound

Nestled on a knoll in Canaan bordered by trees and mountain views, this three-residence compound includes a barn conversion, farmhouse and studio-style guest house. The conversion has a large country kitchen with beamed ceiling, a large dining area with a wood stove, home office and a dramatic living

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Real Estate

True Conversion

This barn was converted into a charming country home and moved to its current location in 1972. In Falls Village on a quiet country road, the updated structure retains hand-hewn beams and half-round rafters. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom home has a great room with stairs to a

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Real Estate

Quality Conversion

Located down a long, tree-lined driveway, this country loft in Copake started out as a hand-hewn barn in 1800. Original post and beams and antique hardwood floors are on full display in the 3,000-square-foot house that has newer appliances and modern amenities. The sunny, open-

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Style

Dispatch From The Garden: Color...And Not

The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor

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Community

Berkshire Woodworkers Guild: Beautiful And Built To Last

By Amy Krzanik We’ve all been there. Whether it was the three-drawer dresser in your first apartment that never made it to your second apartment because the front of it ripped right off (true story), or the shirt you wore only once because it completely changed shape, size

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Food

Cantina 229: A Convivial Gathering Space In New Marlborough

By Hannah Van Sickle Barrett Photos courtesy Cantina 229. Cantina 229 — a nod to both the restaurant’s address and the New Marlborough, Mass. telephone exchange — is less about the menu, neither Mexican nor Italian, but rather the owners’ vision for a space that would be a destination, a proverbial

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Community

The Rural We: Pamela Dalton

Hillsdale, New York's Pamela Dalton is a master of the art of Scherenschnitte, a type of paper cutting which was popular in the Pennsylvania Dutch regions of the U.S. in the early 19th century. Each piece is sketched and cut by hand, so no two are exactly

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