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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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Real Estate

Crow Hill

This 42-acre property checks off a lot of boxes: six-bedroom main house, guest house, three-season pond house, one-acre spring-fed pond and a pool. Dubbed Crow Hill, the Spencertown estate begins at the main house, a 1929 stone structure crafted from local stone and wood. The

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Real Estate

Tower Hall

Tower Hall is a stone estate with a corner glass tower on 100 acres in Millbrook. Mindfully sited in the path of the sun, the house offers southerly views over the meadowlands to the hills and beyond to the woodlands. The five-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home has

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Food

A New Bright Spot Opens In North Adams

By Amy Krzanik If you’re looking for a poorly lit watering hole with a handful of blaring TVs, some stale pretzels for snacking and a surly bartender who acts like he’s doing you a favor when he takes your order, you’re really going to hate North Adams’

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Community

The Rural We: Kira Wizner

Kira Wizner, a part-time resident of the Hudson Valley, became the new owner of Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, New York last November. When she and her family, who live in NYC, were looking for a weekend place, the requirement was that it be “quiet and lovely," and they

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Community

Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 1

The West Cornwall Covered Bridge By Jamie Larson Over the years, we’ve crisscrossed the Rural Intelligence region highlighting the best our towns, villages and cities have to offer. But we have to admit that sometimes we wonder if we're missing out on some hidden treasures as we&

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Community

Sit Awhile: The Porch Brings Storytelling To The Spiegeltent

By Robert Burke Warren A single spotlight, a bare stage, a microphone, and a true story. With that simple formula, Red Hook resident Joey Shavelle has created The Porch, a standing-room-only storytelling series coming to Bard’s Spiegeltent in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, on Friday, June 24

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Food

Recipe: Chicken Jambalaya

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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Parties

Close Encounters Shakes Things Up At Gala Concert

Lisa Green reports from Great Barrington. Close Encounters With Music closed out its season with its annual gala concert on Saturday, June 11 at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. This year’s theme was “Music That Shook The World!" and its multi-media approach, complete with vintage film and

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First Columbians Celebrates 100 Years Of Preservation

Jamie Larson reports from Kinderhook. The Columbia County Historical Society’s yearly First Columbians gala is always a stylish and enjoyable happening, but this year took on special significance: it's the organization's centennial, and the historical society has in itself become historic. The storm clouds parted

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Parties

The Wassaic Project Welcomes You To The Jungle

Rachel Louchen reports from Wassaic. There's a good reason The Wassaic Project needs an entire summer to display its main exhibition: because there's so much to see, touch and experience. On Saturday, June 11, preview party guests got a glimpse of what's in store

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Parties

Finding Raven: Berkshire Museum Parties With Leather And Feathers

Amy Krzanik reports from Pittsfield. Once upon a midnight dreary, a Gothic vibe pervaded the normally vivid and cheery Berkshire Museum on Friday, June 10. (The weather was actually mild and it started at 5:30 p.m., not midnight, but I digress…) Guests embraced this year’s “Raven’s

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