Food Recipe: Spicy Tuna Rolls 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 By Editor
Food Popup Tuesday Dinners At Rivertown Lodge Start March 29 By Lisa Green There’s something sort of magical, a little Brigadoon-like, about popup dinners. Whether its Outstanding In The Field,PlaceInvaders or a Dinner in White, they are happenings that are here and gone in a matter of hours. The food may be the centerpiece, but it’s By Editor
Community Meet Your Makerspace: Four New Spots To Learn And Create By Amy Krzanik For a number of years, many folks habitually bemoaned how quickly the younger generations (and the older ones, too) had so fully embraced “the digital age." As they would have you believe, soon no one would be able to sew a button back on, grow an By Editor
Community The Rural We: Matt Tannenbaum Matt Tannenbaum grew up in Mt. Vernon, New York and began his book career in New York City, then later moved to Washington, D.C. But the literature lover found a home in the Berkshires, where he’s been happily running The Bookstore in Lenox for the past 40 years. By Editor
Parties Hudson Children's Book Festival Cocktail Party Amy Krzanik reports from Hudson. Most of us know what it’s like to get lost in a book, having spent many childhood hours escaping into, learning from and being befriended by stories both real and imagined. The large crowd of teachers, authors and community members who gathered in support By Editor
Real Estate Pool Hall Manor This billiards room has a stunning oak bar with seating, giant stone fireplace and lots of room to spread out and shoot pool. The turn-of-the-century-inspired shingle-style Colonial in Litchfield sits on 45 acres with 50-mile views. The 6,000-square-foot estate has 13 By Editor
Real Estate Play Room The billiards room at Sky Hill Farm in Richmond features pristine hardwood floors and thick, exposed beams, and is bathed in sunlight. Expanded and renovated, this 4,500-square-foot farmhouse has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a brand-new kitchen with custom-made cherry cabinetry, dining and living rooms with By Editor
Real Estate Good Game A modernist country retreat in Chatham offers long-range views, park-like grounds, multiple decks and a large, sunny game room. A spacious foyer opens to an open floor plan of dining area with fireplace, chef’s kitchen and a long wall of windows taking in the seemingly endless view. By Editor
Real Estate Rock Hall Rock Hall in Colebrook is a Spanish Mediterranean Revival home designed in 1918 by noted American architect Addison Mizner and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The expansive manor has a third-floor game room, billiards room, wine cellar, tasting room, home theater and gym. Living spaces in By Editor
Real Estate Great Rooms A thoughtful renovation has updated this Greek Revival in Stuyvesant with contemporary elements that include a game room and home theater. Sited on rolling pastures with Catskill and Berkshire views, the home's highlights include the eat-in chef's kitchen, formal living and dining rooms, study, four By Editor
Parties Norman Rockwell Museum Goes Mad For Artist Mac Conner Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield. The hors d’oeuvres alone — ants on a log, deviled eggs and pigs in a blanket — telegraphed that this cocktail party was channeling an earlier era. And, indeed, it was a Mad Men-influenced event at Hotel on North on Wednesday, Mar. 16, when patrons By Editor
Community The Rural We: Ralph Gardner For many years, Ralph Gardner wrote a column, “The Urban Gardner," for the Wall Street Journal. At times, it might have been called “The Rural Gardner," because he also wrote about his life at his country home in Ghent, NY. “I have a sort of Seinfeldian type of By Editor
