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Community

The Rural We: John Davidson

Photo: Lisa Vollmer Photography Many Rural Intelligence readers are familiar with John Davidson, the singer, actor and television host, but now they can meet him and take a front seat at his performances. As a new resident of Lenox, Mass., he takes center stage at The Gateways Inn lounge in

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Parties

Berkshire Playwrights Gala Enacts A Lively Scene

Jamie Larson reports from Great Barrington. For almost a decade now, the Berkshire Playwrights Lab has been both a sanctuary for artists and an intimate outlet for patrons to support exciting new stage works. At their gala last Friday at the picturesque Wyantenuck Country Club, party-goers were treated to

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Parties

Roe Jan Library Barnstorms For Books

Rachel Louchen reports from Hillsdale. Stacks of books were replaced by fields as far as the eye could see on Saturday, June 18 for the seventh annual Party in the Park for The Roeliff Jansen Community Library. Held in the Harvest Barn at Roe Jan Park directly across the street

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Food

At Nejaime's, The Art Of Wine, And The Wine Of Art

By Lisa Green We’re accustomed to sipping wine while perusing art at a reception. But when the gallery is in the wine store — and there are simultaneously more than 70 fine wines being poured — well, that’s a different type of wine and art happening. On Saturday, June 25,

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Community

Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 2

By Jamie Larson Last week we explored some of our favorite out-of-the-way main streets on the New England side of the RI region. This week we’re over in New York, giving due credit to some less-talked-about town centers in Columbia and Dutchess counties. One

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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

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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

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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

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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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