Rural Intelligence (Page 511)

Community

Taking the Muzzle Off: WAM Theatre Invites Change Makers

By Nichole Dupont No matter where we are in the world, the rapid-fire barrage of social media and hard news headlines finds us: Child marriage in Jordan, school girls kidnapped in Nigeria, U.S. women among nation’s poorest, no public laughter in Turkey. The stories range from horrifying

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Parties

Norfolk Artists & Friends Show Exhibits The Town's Talent

Lisa Green reports from Norfolk. The number of artists per capita in Norfolk, CT appears to be inordinately high as evidenced by the Norfolk Artists & Friends Art Show opening and reception on Friday, August 8. Twenty-four professional artists living and working in and around Norfolk presented their work

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Real Estate

Golden Harvest Retreat

This house is a little bit formal, a little bit casual but all shingle-style. A long driveway leads to the 14-acre property located in the Golden Harvest Farm area of Roxbury, which is an area of fine homes set on protected land. The custom-built house has hardwood

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Real Estate

New England Excellence

No expense was spared to build this shingle-style home, which offers one-of-a-kind details like an outdoor kitchen, plank antique pine floors and award-winning gardens. Located in Washington on 11 acres, the house has fantastic views and a great deal of privacy for a property so

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Real Estate

Shingle Chalet

This shingle-style chalet is the perfect country home for its rustic structure, quiet setting and ample space for guests. Located in bucolic Spencertown, it has a living room with a fireplace, large windows offering woodland views and a kitchen that leads to the screened porch or the dining room.

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Real Estate

Laurel Way

Shingle style works so well on many different kinds of houses, but here it looks particularly attractive on a cottage by a lake. Located on Laurel Way in Norfolk, and set back on three private acres, the two-floor house has eight-foot ceilings and wood floors. There is a

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Real Estate

Victorian-Shingle Blend

Victorian in architecture with shingles on top, this Lakeville property combines the two styles for a distinctively unique house. It was built in 1867, but has been blessed with consistent maintenance over the years that has kept the decorative moldings and original paneled doors beautifully intact. Each room is special,

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Real Estate

On The Lake Front

Lake Onota is the setting for this cottage in Pittsfield. The shingle-style home opens to gleaming hardwood floors, bright living spaces and a contemporary floor plan The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house has a dining room with bay window, living room with fireplace, a covered porch, and an office/

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Arts

Drummer Bobby Previte Cooks A New Brew In Hudson

Photo: Michael DiDonna By Jeremy D. GoodwinBobby Previte has long been associated with New York’s once-thriving “Downtown" scene, where avant-jazz excursions and other musical experiments used to happen with regularity at venues like the Knitting Factory. Though that spirit lives on in certain pockets, the ever-

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Community

Historic House Tour Offers Glimpse Of Hillsdale's Past

By Amy Krzanik Interior design tomes are one way of getting a feel for how other people decorate their spaces. And history books offer a glimpse into the past, but sometimes photographs can be sparse. But to be invited into someone's historic home to look around at all

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Arts

Review: "The Visit" at Williamstown Theatre Festival

By Dan Shaw Without baring her famous legs or a single high-step, Chita Rivera razzle-dazzles us in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit. As Claire Zachanassian, the richest women in the world who has returned to the small, down-on-its-luck

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Community

The Rural We: Bella Erder

Bella Erder, and her husband, Mark, were living and working in Hong Kong in 1997 when they bought a vacation home in Norfolk, CT, where they would spend summers and Christmas vacations. Seven years later, they decided that they wanted their sons, Luke and Jake, to be educated in the

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