Rural Intelligence (Page 553)

Real Estate

Formal Foyer

An original Berkshire cottage in Lenox is filled with formal and elegant details that start from the light-filled foyer and continue into every large room in the house. There are seven entrances total, each with a private porch. The house has eight bedrooms, five full and three half bathrooms,

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Real Estate

Gracious Entrance

The foyer in this Clermont home sets the tone for the house with its coral walls that welcome you and highlight the elegant period moldings and wide-board floors. Off the entryway, there's the library with custom built-ins, living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. The four-

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Real Estate

Stellar Staircase

Located in a great neighborhood close to town in Lenox, this contemporary opens to a grand two-story foyer with an eye-catching curved staircase. Just beyond is the den, an expansive living room and formal dining room. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom house has inlaid hardwood floors, and the

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Style

Garden: A Cutting-Edge Technique For A Comely Garden

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Brian Cruey. This week he offers an easy way to keep your garden

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Food

Recipe: Spring Garden Soup

This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in

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Arts

Barrington Stage Opener Takes Audiences To 'The Other Place'

By Jeremy D. Goodwin In Hamlet, when the Danish prince is on full tilt, having just stashed the body of the freshly murdered Polonius behind some stairs, the king furiously demands to know where his (late) advisor is. “In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not

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Parties

Curtains Up For Sharon TriArts' 25th Season

Rachel Louchen reports from Sharon. The TriArts Sharon Playhouse opened its season on Saturday, May 24 with its annual gala and largest fundraising event of the year. The hotly anticipated event always serves as an opening of the summer season but this year, in honor of the 25th season, added

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Style

The Country Living Fair: Highly Curated, Extremely Shoppable

By Andrea Pyros The Country Living Fair is coming to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds for the second year in a row this June 6-8. If you’re looking to replenish your tube sock drawer, keep on driving. This is not the fair for you. But if you’re interested

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Parties

MASS MoCA's Big Day (And Night)

Lisa Green reports from North Adams. It’s not unusual for MASS MoCA to be the Grand Central of the Berkshires’ north county, but on Saturday, May 24, the reason for the extreme hustle bustle was twofold. In the late afternoon, there was the opening and reception for a new

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Food

Copake Ag Center A Big Opportunity For Small Farmers

Jenny Elliott of Tiny Hearts Farm on the "new" 1951 tractor. By Nichole Dupont Pop open any regional real estate guide, and you will notice a cornucopia of old Victorians, rambling farmhouses and beautiful New England vistas. But the real estate that Monet would deem as priceless, in

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Parties

A New Face For An Inspiring Space At Chesterwood

Amy Krzanik reports from Stockbridge. It doesn't take much convincing when you're invited to enjoy a cocktail on the piazza of Daniel Chester French's studio, overlooking the lush gardens of his former summer estate. As Chesterwood celebrated the reopening of French’s refurbished studio

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Food

Haven Cafe and Bakery

"The food is dependably superb"

By Lisa Green