Real Estate Good Morning A bay window sets off a cozy breakfast space in a two-level ranch located on a quiet road in Craryville. The house features an open living room/dining room/kitchen area which gives it a spacious feel. The home office has separate entrance and there is a family room By Editor
Real Estate The Breakfast Spot Every room in this house is masterfully designed, and the breakfast nooks offers a quiet place to relax with a cup of tea while enjoying the park-like grounds. The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom house has an inviting great room with an eye-catching antique wood-paneled By Editor
Real Estate Morning Views A 1930s farmhouse nestled amongst trees has an updated breakfast nook with western-facing views. Located on 32 acres of privacy in Lenox, the original farmhouse was moved to a new foundation 30 years ago and faces October Mountain. The living room opens to a large dining room with a By Editor
Wellness Fitness From The Field: Hiking at Hilltop Orchards The Rural Intelligence region offers a plethora of fitness and healing modalities, but it can be hard to know which is the one that fits your needs, your body type and your schedule. Enter Paula Boyajian, a yoga instructor certified in Interdisciplinary Yoga and Yoga for the Special Child, who By Editor
Arts BUMP at Basilica Hudson By Lisa Green Try this, and see what happens: Touch a dinosaur skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History. You might not get arrested, but you’d have security all over you faster than you can say Tyrannosaurus rex. So maybe don’t. But next week, at Basilica Hudson, By Editor
Food Grand Cru: A Place For Tasting Craft Beer And Artisanal Cheese All photos courtesy of Grand Cru. By Andrea Pyros Rod Johnson often hears from people who claim not to like beer. His response? “You just haven’t had the right one!" Johnson, along with his wife Alicia Lenhart, is the owner of Grand Cru, a popular hybrid bar and By Editor
Community TEDxHudson To Bring Big Ideas – And Big Names — To Town Photo by Amanda Marsalis. By Greg Cerio The revered chef Alice Waters [in photo, left] has much in common, perhaps surprisingly, with Theodore Roosevelt. For example, they enjoy some of the same regional cuisine. On October 8, 1914, the Boston Globe reported: “Col. Roosevelt likes the soup they make in By Editor
Food Recipe: Summer Oats Twice a month, Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), contributes a thoughtful and heartfelt essay/recipe created exclusively for Rural Intelligence readers. Her first cookbook has achieved top-seller status, By Editor
Parties Hancock Shaker Village Supper Is A Farm-Fresh Experience Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield. It’s one thing for guests at a fundraiser to listen to a trustee talk about finances. But when the cows in the pasture move over to a spot where even they can hear the spiel, you know you have a good pitch. On Saturday, By Editor
Parties Clermont's Evening in Agra Amy Krzanik reports from Germantown. As the sweet smell of incense wafted through the evening air, Friends of Clermont supporters mixed and mingled behind the mansion on August 9, taking in the view as the sun set over the Hudson River. The occasion was the historic site’s benefit, “An By Editor
Community The Rural We: Gina Hyams Gina Hyams moved to the Berkshires from the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Dave, and their then 10-year-old daughter, Annalena, in June of 2005, to to live closer to Dave’s elderly parents, who were in Norfolk, Connecticut. They’d rented sight unseen what turned out By Editor
Community The Rural We: Carole Osterink Carole Osterink's relationship with the city of Hudson is truly a love story. Inspired by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the The Gossips of Rivertown blogger came to Hudson Valley to escape city life and hunker down with her writing. However, things changed when she visited Hudson and immediately become By Editor
