Rural Intelligence (Page 418)

Community

The Rural We: Erica Freudenberger

Erica Freudenberger, a Hudson Valley resident since 2001 and the director of the Red Hook Public Library since 2010, was recently named a Library Journal “Mover and Shaker." She was selected because of her commitment to the profession, her excellent leadership, and her ability to build community through collaboration

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Real Estate

Full Bloom

Highland House in Sharon is outstanding in all respects and that extends to the grounds with mature specimen trees, shrubs, gardens, an orchard, and a formal rose garden. Built in 1920, the house has been totally renovated and is now move-in ready. Rooms include the kitchen with adjoining family room

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Real Estate

Treasure Trove

A tree grows in Spencertown...as so do flowers, rolling lawns, pergola, plantings and many other garden treasures. The rustic country house has extensive landscaping, vegetable gardens, sheds for storage, fenced areas for growing and outdoor rooms to enjoy the sights. Inside has hardwood floors and walls, vaulted ceilings, curved

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Real Estate

Botanical Abode

This Egremont home is covered with flowers of many hues, flourishing vines and lush shrubbery. The five-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom contemporary is the centerpiece of the eight-acre property that includes an apple orchard, rose garden and post-and-beam barn. Inside is bright and sunny with numerous windows that look out to the

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Real Estate

Garden Of Olde

Sitting high above the banks of Stockport Creek, this well-maintained 18th-century home is surrounded by a private garden and mature trees on over two acres. Located just 10 minutes from Hudson, the house was built in 1794 and blends old and new, as seen in the living room with beamed

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Real Estate

Floral Roundup

Surrounded by tapestry and vegetable gardens, pear trees and striking views in Sharon, this unique property is a silo and antique barn conversion. Offering three floors of living space, four bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms, the house places the kitchen is in the original silo so it retains the circular shape,

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Real Estate

Shrub And Stone Estate

This Washington property offers 30 pristine acres (bordering a protected land trust) of flowers, pergola and rolling fields. The 1910 stucco-and-stone estate is formerly a hunting lodge and has been impeccably restored with attention to period details. There are seven bedrooms, eight-and-two-half bathrooms, nine fireplaces, hardwood floors, detailed moldings and

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Style

BerkChique! Is Back

By Marilyn Bethany Berkshires fashion icon Vicki Bonnington will begin planning next year’s BerkChique!, a charity clothing sale she co-chairs with Rebecca Weinman, as soon as this year’s (May 6 - 8 at the former Crane Stationery factory in Dalton, Mass.) wraps. As Bonnington, whose cast-offs last year

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Style

David Pirrotta Brands Pops Up At Privet Lives in New Preston

By Amy Krzanik Some brands are so exclusive that you can only find them in Los Angeles, New York City and… New Preston, Connecticut. No, that’s not a typo. Thanks to Privet House owners Suzanne Cassano and Richard Lambertson’s Privet Lives pop-up shop, launched in July of 2014,

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Community

The Rural We: Rich Volo AKA Trixie Starr

Photo by Chad Weckler. Rich Volo is Hudson, New York’s renaissance man and its resident drag queen, Trixie Starr. Volo juggles an exhaustive list of jobs, gigs and responsibility throughout the city. When it was announced recently that his former organization, The Hudson Pride Foundation, wasn’t going to

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Food

Recipe: Fish Tacos With Creamy Radish And Cabbage Slaw

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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Style

The Wandering Eye: Local Boy Makes Good

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Rokeby In the upper Dutchess/lower Columbia world, “Rokeby" looms large as the river house, more because of its former glory and current lore than the building itself. For the

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