Rural Intelligence (Page 429)

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

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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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Community

The Olde Rhinebeck Inn Offers A Two-For-One Innkeeper Deal

Photo courtesy of the Olde Rhinebeck Inn. By Lisa Green When she started reading, Jonna Paolella couldn’t have cared less about Amelia Bedelia or Pippi Longstocking. She was obsessed with Country Inns and Back Roads, by Norman T. Simpson. “I’ve known since age seven that I wanted to

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Real Estate

Statuesque Space

How does an office stand out in a custom-built estate in Stockbridge that's filled with noteworthy rooms? With stately details like tall bookshelves, woodwork and paneling. Built in 1994, the house features a foyer that opens to a two-story great room overlooking a pool. Nearby is

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Real Estate

Antique Office

This 1760 Saltbox has original details like hand-hewn post and beams, plank walls, wood ceilings, original doors and wide-board floors in every room, including the office area. In Norfolk, the home has been preserved but has been updated with a new kitchen and roof, and radiant heat. The

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Real Estate

Work Place

Skip the commute, this Chatham home offers a large office space with built-in bookshelves and a fireplace. The 1850 center-hall Colonial is fully renovated with high ceilings and a brand new kitchen with Sub-Zero, Bosch and Viking appliances. There is a living room, library, formal dining with

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Real Estate

Basement Boardroom

There's a home office and then there's this home boardroom with enough space for a large conference table for meetings. A pristine Colonial in Roxbury has been professionally restored while allowing original details like moldings, wide-board floors and four fireplaces to make a statement. The

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Parties

Kent Historical Society Goes Authentic At A Tea and Musicale

Jamie Larson reports from Kent. The Kent Historical Society’s 19th Century Musicale and Spirited Tea Party on Sunday, April 17 gave today’s high society a taste of the best their cultural predecessors enjoyed in the 1800s. Replicating the time's food, beverage and musical entertainment, the dandy

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Style

Organic By John Patrick Trunk Show Is A Natural At J. Seitz

By Jacque Lynn Schiller Sustainability and transparency are buzzwords often thrown about these days. But for Hudson Valley resident and the namesake behind Organic by John Patrick, fair labor and green awareness shouldn’t be radical ideas but the norm. In fact, he introduced the world’s first certified organic

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Food

Recipe: Lemon Roasted Rainbow Trout

If you’re in the Berkshires and need to meet with someone, in a place where you can get a nice pastry and coffee or a local/organic/homemade meal in a convivial (and wired) setting, where do you go? Very likely, it’ll be one of the two Haven

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Community

The Rural We: Nick Martinelli

Nick Martinelli's career transition from lawyer in Boston to running a Berkshire-based food hub isn't as an unlikely story as is seems. His fondness with the region began as a student at Williams College and he's had a life-long interest in agriculture.

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