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10 Things To Love About Kinderhook

By Jamie Larson While the City of Hudson has rapidly re-ascended in stature over the past decade and a half, the town of Kinderhook, New York had been the center of life and less-fashionable culture in Columbia County for generations before that. The town’s rolling farms, forests

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Parties

Words And Wisdom From Columbia County's Own Deborah Roberts and Al Roker

Rachel Louchen reports from Chatham. It was quite appropriate to meet America’s most famous weatherman on the coldest night of the year. As the Polar Vortex knocked temperatures down to eight below, Al Roker and his wife, Deborah Roberts happily greeted residents and signed copies of their new book

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Real Estate

For The Literature Lover

A floor-to-ceiling library will put serious book lovers in literary heaven...and there's even a stairway to access the bookshelves. This 17-acre spread on Tobey Pond in Norfolk is actually two properties: a year-round house and a collection of summer cottages. The main home

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Adult Contemporary

A bibliophile will appreciate this Taghkanic contemporary that has an entire room dedicated to books. The living spaces feature walls of windows and many wood embellishments. Located on a hilltop with panoramic views, there is a great room, kitchen with high-end appliances, gathering room, large screened porch and a

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Real Estate

Open Book

Looking like it could have come out of a novel itself, this house has a library with built-in bookshelves and a fireplace. Originally a circa 1890s structure in Columbia County, it was moved to Stanfordville, perched on a private hilltop and reconstructed to resemble a European-style castle. The

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Real Estate

Room To Read

This Sheffield home library has wall-to-wall built-in bookshelves along with cabinet space. "The Barns" is an architect-designed home fashioned from three historic dairy barns on 17 acres. Now, the house features a great room with a cathedral-ceiling chimney, gourmet kitchen, expansive summer living

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Very Versailles

This Rhinebeck estate was made for readers: the library has walls of bookshelves, a chandelier, and a floor-to-ceiling window. Built in 1779, the property was once one of the barns of the Wildercliff Hudson River Estate and retains period details, displayed in the great room with 20-foot

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Reading Retreat

Lots of bookshelves and places to relax = a perfect library at this Austerlitz residence. The house is surrounded by hills, and light pours into every room of this home. There are three bedrooms, three bathrooms and in the lower level, a separate living area, complete with bedroom and bathroom that&

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Arts

Georgia O’Keeffe Is In The Room At The Rockwell Museum

By Lisa Green Photo by Jack T. Douglas. Courtesy Jack T. Douglas / Colleen Webster. All rights reserved. On Saturday, Feb. 13, visitors to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. will encounter not only "The Four Freedoms" and "Golden Rule," but also Georgia O’Keeffe. In

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Food

Recipe: Marinated Tomatoes

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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Food

At Milk House Chocolates, The Magic Is In The Moo

By Lisa Green Thorncrest Farm, home of Milk House Chocolates in Goshen, Conn. is the Kripalu for cows. It's hushed in the barn — no cranky mooing going on. A fiber diet consists of organic sweet hay. Sleeping conditions are cushy: beds of straw are lined with thick, rubber

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Parties

Columbia Memorial Health's Winter Blast

Jamie Larson reports from Hudson.Club Helsinki was a hot ticket on the cold night of Saturday, Feb. 6. The club sheltered the sixth annual Winter Blast, a fundraiser to support Columbia Memorial Health. This year’s Winter Blast was held in honor of Board of Trustees Chairwoman Mary Gail

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