Rural Intelligence (Page 583)

Food

The Serious Business of Making Ice Cream, Au Naturel

by Jamie Larson Good ice cream, really good ice cream, can be a time machine. On a hot summer day, a lick of that perfect scoop, cold and creamy, rich and smooth, stops time, melts away worries, and becomes that one scoop you’ve enjoyed since childhood. But any time

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Parties

Word Above the Street: WordxWord Rooftop Party

Amy Krzanik reports from Pittsfield. If you were near North Street in Pittsfield on Saturday, August 10 and looked up, up, up, you might’ve caught a glimpse of “The Party of the Summer" atop the Greystone Building. The WordXWord Festival’s sold-out dance party/sunset shindig featured

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Parties

Litchfield Jazz Opening Night Gala

Amy Krzanik reports from Goshen. It was a rainy Friday night on August 9 at the Goshen Fairgrounds as the 18th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival kicked-off with its “Friends of the Festival" Opening Night Gala. But the spirits of the Litchfield Jazz Camp students weren’t dampened at

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Real Estate

Eco-Luxury on the Mountain

Meticulously built in 2004 with all natural, non-toxic materials, this shingled manor house overlooks a valley that includes the property's four-stall horse barn plus caretaker's quarters. Inside the main house, the Arts & Crafts feel is manifested by the woodwork, four stone fireplaces, and

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Real Estate

45-Acre Retreat

Gardens, a meadow, and mountain views surround this Shingle Style estate in the Sheffield countryside. Open, airy and spacious, it has several living areas, five bedrooms and six bathrooms, plus an Adirondack guest cottage by the heated pool (sorry, the dog is not included). Built in 2005, it offers central

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Real Estate

Shingle and Stone

On the Hill in Great Barrington, this turn-of-the-century Shingle Style Dutch Colonial is a four-family home; but with four bedrooms and four bathrooms, it could easily be converted back to a single-family residence. In keeping with the Shingle Style sentiment, it has an impressive stone

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Real Estate

Nantucket in Roxbury

Reminiscent of Nantucket (complete with rock outcroppings), this Shingle Style residence looks quite at home in Connecticut. Nestled among 15 acres, the six-bedroom, eight-bathroom house welcomes you with a great room possessing a 30-foot ceiling and floor-to-ceiling field stone fireplace. The kitchen includes a Wolf

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Quiet Seclusion

Just outside historic Spencertown, this inviting country home bears all the hallmarks of Shingle Style architecture. At 3,300 square feet, it possesses the rambling spaciousness of the New England-influenced design, with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The kitchen is new, and the homes's many windows assure

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Real Estate

Rambling and Rolling

An estate in square footage and acreage, this magnificent Lakeville property maintains the unoramented handsomeness of the Shingle Style. There's the main house, originally built in 1929 (and renovated and enlarged in 2000) with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, and there's the outer accommodations: 400 feet

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Parties

Clermont Mid-Summer Party: It's Good to Have Friends

Dale Stewart reports from Clermont, NY. On Saturday, August 3, on one of the most perfect evenings of the summer, the Friends of Clermont hosted their annual fundraiser on the grounds of the 500-acre Clermont State Historic Site. This year's event was aptly titled "Cocktails at

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Foodies On Parade: Taste of Hudson Valley Bounty Dinner

Scott Baldinger reports from Chatham. "Bring a bib," Berkshire Farm and Table's marketing director Angela Cardinali (pictured here with Nudel's Bjorn Somlo of Lenox), advised this reporter before attending The Taste of Hudson Valley Bounty Dinner at the Columbia County Fairgrounds on Monday, August

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Arts

Where the Wild Things Are: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Live at MASS MoCA

By Robert Burke Warren When Ronen Givony, director of New York City’s Wordless Music Orchestra, saw Beasts of the Southern Wild, a mythic tale of devotion and loss that was nominated for four Academy Awards this year, he knew the majestic, Cajun-inflected, occasionally edgy score belonged onstage, fleshed

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